July 2012
What a lousy month! It’s hard to know where to begin. Well I suppose the rather depressing new signboards on the Link Road roundabout are a good place. I know that sponsorship is a useful source of income for Dacorum Council but do we local residents really want to be reminded of funeral directors everytime we drive to work? I’m sure J. Worley Funeral Directors do a fine job but in a village where we only recently lost our chairman, the timing could have been better.

At least the incessant rain didn’t put a damper on the Jubilee celebrations. Our social secretary Annette Harrison must be blessed with a sixth sense, for it was she who came up with the idea of staging the event at the Marchmont Arms. Back in April we were all looking ahead to a warm sunny day. But not Annette! Perhaps she could see those leaden skies when she persuaded the Marchmont manager give us his conservatory as a standby. And how we needed it. The rain didn’t stop. It was good to see so many faces, young and old, familiar and not so familar come together in a show of community spirit which only someone like the Queen can bring out. There was one family no one recognised. It turned out they were from Warners End and had seen one of our flyers! Annette didn’t have the heart to tell them it was residents only. They had a great time.