Page 40 • The HERALD • 8th October 2026 v F @heraldpublishing v OUT & ABOUT Second Chance Animal Rescue are holding a TABLE TOP SALE on Saturday 7th November 10am–12noon at Totton and Eling Community Centre Tables to Rent £5 each Phone Liz on: 023 80865071 Visit the Haunted Barn for a Frightfully Fun Time at the Farm from Longdown Activity Farm ere’ll be a chill in the air at the farm during the menacing month of October. As Halloween draws near, we invite you to experience a frightfully fun time at Longdown Activity Farm. Enter the Haunted Barn at your peril from Saturday 24th October through to Sunday 1st November. Look out for the grimacing ghouls, scary skeletons, and wicked witches that dwell among the cobwebstrewn hay bales and blackened timbers of the dreaded Haunted Barn. Don’t miss a hauntingly good opportunity to get up close (or not so close, if you prefer!) to some creeeepy creatures like spiders, millipedes, and cockroaches on the spooky day itself: Saturday 31st October with e Creature Teachers, who will be lurking on the farm that day! If you’re looking for magical enchantment, visit the farm on Wednesday 28th October to see a singing princess and if you want to scream with laughter, make sure to visit on Thursday 29th October when Crazy M will be making mischief with silly spells and madcap capers! A er all the scary stu , calm down with our friendly farm animals. Join in when you want to with a full schedule of farm activities lasting all day, which includes bottle-feeding kid goats and calves, small animal handling in the Animal Encounter Barn, and feeding the ducks. ere’s lots of playtime fun too with ride-on tractors, the sandpit, mud kitchen and diggers, Little Farmers Play Yard, go-karts, the outdoor allinclusive play area, trampolines, and the Pitchfork and Putt crazy golf*. Don’t forget to stop o at the Farm Shop as you leave for a treasure trove of local goodies, and, of course, your Halloween pumpkin. Longdown Activity Farm and the Farm Shop will be open daily, as usual, for the whole of half- term. ere is no extra charge for the Halloween event. *Small extra charge for the crazy golf Visit the Haunted Barn for a frightfully fun time at Longdown Activity Farm Looking For Friendship And Fun In Retirement? Join Hythe & District Ladies Probus Club! A welcoming social group for semi-retired and retired ladies run by the members, for the members. ey hold monthly meetings on the last Friday of the month at 10.15am with co ee, club news and an interesting guest speaker followed by a two course lunch. Extra events include theatre visits, lunches out and more! ey would love to welcome new members. For more information contact: ehytheanddistrictprobus@ outlook.com Dorset Cricket Society e Dorset Cricket Society commences its 24th Season on Thursday 8th October, at the Christchurch Social Club, Hurn Bridge, BH23 6DY. Meetings begin at 1.45pm and tend to nish between 3.30pm and 4pm allowing time to return home before dark! From their humble beginnings in 2002 with just seven members, they are now very nearly a hundred strong having had new members join from across the New Forest and Hampshire. Annual membership is just £10 and the weekly ‘match fee’ is £5 (£7 for non members), carers pay nothing. Upcoming speakers: 8th October: Dave Merrington (Ex football manager, including Southampton), 15th October: Jeremy Lonsdale, (Author, statistician), 22nd October: Tom Hicks (Cricketer, Dorset CCC) and 29th October: Simon Wilde (Author, cricket correspondent e Times). ROMSEY COUNTRY MARKET Romsey Country Markets will take place at Braish eld Village Hall on Saturday 24th October from 10.30am to 12.30pm. At e Corn Exchange on Saturday 7th November from 8.30am to 3pm. At Romsey Town Hall Fridays 9th and 23rd October 10.30am to 12.30pm. eir producers love to cook, cra and grow just for you, so please go along for a great range of home produced items such as seasonal fruit and vegetables, cakes, preserves, plants and artisan cra s. For more information visit: www. facebook.com/romseycountrymarket
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