The TARA Stay-Home Pub Quiz
This is John.
John won the TARA Stay-Home Pub Quiz on Friday by scoring 14 out of 20.
John won a toilet roll and a bag of flour for his efforts.
John was thrilled.
Can you beat John?
The TARA Stay-Home Pub Quiz using the same questions John answered will be repeated Wednesday 29 April at 07:30 PM Join via Zoom here: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74881212743 – don’t be late. Be better than John.
It’s a 40 minute virtual pub quiz just for fun. Pit your wits against your neighbours on 20 general-ish knowledge questions with a local bent to them. How well do you know your neighbourhood? Let’s find out…
Help and support during the coronavirus crisis
TARA residents are working together to help out during the coronavirus crisis (for more information, see this flyer we distributed around the neighbourhood on 20 March 2020).
Please get in touch:
- If you need help because you are self-isolating or ill. For example, help with shopping, prescriptions, errands (all subject to restrictions!), or just want to chat with someone on the phone (no restrictions!)
- Or if you want to help provide support to other people
You can:
- Email tara@tradescant.net
- Call or text or WhatsApp TARA on 07311 605 858
Still reeling from another great ceilidh
50 wayward plants successfully bedded in
We’re adopting homeless plants from Hampton Court flower show
TARA is thrilled to be one of the community groups selected to help re-home plants from this year’s RHS Hampton Court flower show.
Big thanks to the House of Wayward Plants which is the Official Reuse Partner for the RHS and has helped millions of plants to get a new life after being used at Chelsea, Hampton Court etc.
We don’t yet know what we’re getting or how many of them, but that’s part of the excitement.
We’re picking the plants up on Saturday morning (13 July 2019) at 9am and expect to be planting them by 10:30am or so. If you want to pitch in and help, come and find us – we’ll base ourselves at the ‘pocket park’ on Tradescant Road near St Stephen’s Terrace. Bring a garden fork if you have one.
The plants are for use in the pocket parks, build-outs and planters in our streets, so if you have one near to you that you think merits attention in the form of fresh planting, feel free to come along and bag some plants for it.
Andrew
PS: There was an interview with House of Wayward Plants on the BBC’s flower show coverage last Friday. You can still catch it on the BBC iPlayer for another few weeks (interview starts at 50:30): https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0006ny8/hampton-court-palace-garden-festival-2019-episode-4
Yes, people got wet but TARA’s street party 2019 was no washout
Say what you like about the people round here but they do know how to throw a street party.
A groaning buffet table, silly games, sunshine, music, samba, drag and a high-pitched waterbomb fight between residents and outsiders (or ‘guests’ as they are sometimes called) are the key ingredients for success, we feel.
For videos of the action, see this post on Facebook.
Loads of people contributed by organising, setting up, clearing up, bringing food and drink or even just by turning up (eventually). But special thanks are due to Heidi for organising the games, Bhavini for her microphone skills, Mick for putting together a sound system for us, and — of course — to Mike for making it all happen at all.
Roll out the barrels…
Save the date: Hallowe’en Ceilidh – Saturday 26 October 2019
Diary date: Saturday 22 June 2019 for our annual street party
Put the date in your diary now: Saturday 22 June 2019 for our annual street party on the north tine of Tradescant Road which will be closed to traffic.
As ever, it will be a fabulous afternoon of food and drink, fun and games.
The fun starts at midday and goes on until 4pm (officially).
Just bring food and drink to share.
See you there!
Keep abreast of things through the event page on Facebook.