My 1913 book of guidance for husbands says, “Don’t always assume that it is always your wife who is wrong whenever you have a difference of opinion. After all, you are not infallible.”

If she says she would like to go to the FREE Fordingbridge Camera Club Exhibition Friday 15th and Saturday 16th May 2020 in the Town Hall, she could be right!! This will be a display of Club Members’ work and some from local schools and organisations: Fordingbridge, Ringwood and Sandleheath Beavers, Forres Sandle Manor School and Burgate School are taking part and exhibiting some of their work.
Our website, www.fordingbridgecameraclub.org.uk contains our programme of talks by visiting top photographers and experienced club members. These are coupled with opportunities to show your work on top quality equipment and have it commented on by experienced photographic judges. In addition to our regular meetings, we devote many evenings to those who want, as a group, to set themselves new challenges and then to review the results collectively. We meet at Avonway Community Centre at 7.30pm most Wednesdays. Visitors are always welcome to all our meetings for a small charge.

This winter and spring weather has been hard for gardeners. I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.
Things you learn in life: Mistakes are part of being human; appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless, alas, it’s a fatal mistake, from which, at least, other can then learn.

And a final thought from my 1913 book of advice for husbands – “Don’t take the attitude that wives, like children, should be seen and not heard. No doubt you are a very clever fellow, and it is an education for her to listen to you, but she also may have some views worth mentioning”.
Oh for the Good Old Days!