9th May 2024 • The HERALD • Page 13 v SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES v • 9 Ground Floor Rooms • Disabled Access • O Road Parking • Large, peaceful rear garden • Local Facilities less than a 5 minute walk • Ideally situated just o the A326 on the edge of the New Forest Ian & Cathy Lee Beaulieu Road, Dibden Purlieu. SO45 4PT 023 8084 6073 www.ashdenehouse.co.uk cathy@ashdenehouse.co.uk Ashdene Guest House Quality Bed and Breakfast Accommodation on the Edge of the New Forest in Dibden Purlieu In commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of D-Day a beacon will be lit at Copythorne Parish Hall on Thursday 6th June at 9.15pm joining hundreds of other beacons due to be lit across the country. e Parish Hall will be open from 7.30pm; where there will be exhibitions, music and refreshments. e event has been organised by Copythorne Parish Council, Copythorne Parish Hall Committee, Copythorne and District Royal British Legion and Copythorne History Society. Lighting the Beacon for 80th Anniversary of D-Day in Copythorne the way. We also had some help from the lovely Sue at the Waterside Scrapstore, who donated a big bag of yarn scraps as well as creating the foliage for the panel. e panel is now ready to be shipped o to France, via the ferry from Poole, to be displayed in Notre Dame de Carentan Church, Normandy from 28th May to 1st September, where the whole village will be decorated as a woolly homage to the events of that time. e plan is to then go on tour in the UK before also heading over to the USA for display at Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum in New Jersey. Fully Woolly are now collecting knitted and crochet poppies for the shop windows in Hythe to help commemorate the anniversary this June. Any size and shape, red with black centres, green leaves optional. Patterns are available at e Herald and Fully Woolly. is year marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, when on 6th June 1944, during the long summer which followed, soldiers from the world over came to ght in Normandy to defeat Nazism and to re-establish Freedom. To mark the occasion, a collection of knitters and crocheters from around the world have come together to recreate the events in the form of woolly panels. 80 panels to be exact. e Longest Yarn represents 80 years and 80 days of battles in Normandy, as well as telling the story of the D-Day landings on 6th June 1944. Each meter long panel tells the story of that day, based around photographs, reference books and local historians, as well as the 1962 lm, e Longest Day, which stars a host of actors like John Wayne, Sean Connery and Henry THE LONGEST YARN AT FULLY WOOLLY by Claire Proud Fonda. Hythe’s very own Fully Woolly volunteered to help back in June 2023 and were allocated panel number 10, which depicts a very pretty French resistance lady (played by Irina Demick in the movie), distracting the German soldiers at a border crossing from bayoneting a hay cart which is hiding two allied soldiers. Weddings and Christmas soon got in the way, but eventually mum (Sue Proud) and I started to plan for our panel. We decided to begin with the horse as this established how big the characters needed to be. We found a pattern for a horse and Mum got to work. Unfortunately Mum then headed o to Spain for 2 months so we made sure she had plenty of wool and a pattern for a basic soldier that she could adapt. She then worked on the 3 soldiers, the pretty French lady and the farmer, as well as the guard hut, barrier and sand bags. I got to work on the hay cart and hay, the base for the panel and the bike. We spoke each week on Skype and compared makes, coming up with more ideas along The finished yarn panel
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