Page 42 • The HERALD • 2nd April 2026 v SAY YOU SAW IT IN THE HERALD v OUT & ABOUT Car Boot and Boat Jumble Sale Hythe Marina Association along with Marina Developments Ltd are holding a Car Boot and Boat Jumble Sale on Saturday 11th April from 10am to 2pm, at Hythe Marina. e sale will take place along the front of the Marina adjacent to Southampton Water, via Shamrock Way. Stalls are available at £5 each per car and £8 each for vans/trailers. No need to pre-book, pay on entry, cash is king! ere will be a number of attractions, live music, food and drinks along with RNLI Souvenirs and life jacket checks. Proceeds of the event will go to charity. Unique Retail Pop Up Sale Unique Retail will be back at Hythe Library’s Narnia Room on Tuesday 7th April from 10am – 1.30pm for another pop up shop. Go along and browse a wonderful selection of handmade gifts, fabrics, and haberdashery, perfect for cra lovers and gi seekers alike. ey look forward to seeing you there! FAMILY HISTORY GROUP A small group of passionate Family historians, who love helping those who are interested in tracing their family history meet on the first Tuesday of each month at 7.30pm in the back room at Soul Café, North Road, Dibden Purlieu, SO45 4PG. ey are a mixture of those who have been researching for years and those who are new to the fascinating world of family history. ere is so much more information now to be obtained online, not all of it being subscription based. If you are interested, please go along to one of their meetings. You will be made most welcome. If you would like more information email: colinjanhayter@ gmail.com e next meeting will be on Tuesday 7th April. New Forest/Waterside U3A New Forest/Waterside U3A members meetings are held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, at St Andrew’s Hall in Dibden Purlieu, starting at 2pm. Meetings nish at around 3.30pm, but everyone is invited to stay for tea and biscuits if they wish. At the beginning of March, they had a presentation from the “troubleshooters” team from Southern Water. is was not only entertaining, but highly informative too, and made no excuses for Southern Water’s poor performance on several fronts over the last two decades. On Tuesday 7th April, writer Bobbie Darbyshire, will be giving a talk entitled ‘A Beginning, A Muddle, and An End’. On 21st April, Judy eobald will give her talk ‘Life and other problems’; subtitled ‘30 odd years in the media’ and on 5th May, Fran Sandham will be telling us about her solo treks in distant lands. Later in the year, there will be a farm trip, involving cheese. Also a workshop in August for members interested in developing their inner artist. Special interest groups meet regularly, including skittles, embroidery, and gardening. ere are lunch dates, which are o en fully booked on the day they’re announced. e Boules group started up again in early March, when there were just a couple of days tempting them to think that winter was over. Maybe the weather will have made its mind up by the time you’re reading this! e history group meets every month, and for the next few sessions, they shall be hearing about Kings and Queens, randomly chosen by individual members. For more information visit the New Forest/Waterside u3a Facebook, anyone who is interested in joining this friendly U3A group is welcome to go along to a meeting, or to contact the secretary if they’d like to chat rst. Please email: u3a. nfwsecretary@outlook.com A Bunch of Amateurs What do you do with a famous, but fading Hollywood actor pestering you for work who you want to get o your hands? You send him to England of course to play King Lear at Stratford. With his morale boosted, Je erson Steel arrives in the UK only to nd he is not being taken to Stratford-onAvon to play alongside the likes of Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench, but to a sleepy Su olk village where the Stratford Players, a local amateur theatre company, are trying to save their little theatre. Je erson’s reaction is, to say the least, rather extreme but his arrival is just the beginning of an hilarious collision between two di erent acting worlds providing terri c humour and plenty of twists and turns. Great fun all round. A Bunch of Amateurs, written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman, has proved to be a real audience pleaser, and the New Forest Players are delighted to include it in their repertoire. It is being staged at the Ballard Performing Arts Centre in New Milton, 8th–11th April, curtain up 7.30pm. Tickets are available via: www. newforestplayers.com or call: 07503 202478.
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