HILLINGDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Presents “Soiree Francaise” Conductor – Peter J Williams Saturday 29th November at 7.30pm All Saints Church, Ryefield Avenue, Hillingdon Berlioz – Le Carnaval Romain Ravel – Suite Mother Goose Berlioz – Les Nuits d’Ete (Soloist Sylvie Bedouelle – Mezzo Soprano) Saint-Saens – Danse Macabre Franck – Symphony in D Minor Tickets £10, with concessions and children’s reductions Tel 01895 674223 or Pro Music International Ltd – 01895 677944 www.hillingdonphil.ik.com

The annual WEA Lecture Supper evening at Ickenham Village Hall is almost upon us again.  This popular local event takes place on Sat 6^th December starting at 6.30pm.

We start with the WEA AGM, which is conducted as quickly as possible!  Then the bar is opened and a cold buffet supper is served, allowing guests to enjoy the company of friends old and new.  Once we have ‘wined and dined’ the evening reaches its climax with our guest speaker’s lecture.  We are pleased to announce that this year’s speaker will be Mike Watts, who is a popular local National Trust lecturer as well as a guide at the Chelsea Physic Garden.

Mike’s illustrated lecture is on ‘Plant medicines from your Doctor’.  About 25% of orthodox medicines originate from plants.  Mike will explain the importance of plants as ‘Pharmaceutical Factories’ with examples of many plants and the conventional medicines in which they are used.  He will also describe how the search for new medicines continues from the gardens of England across the world to the tropical rainforest.

Tickets, at £8 each including supper, may be obtained from Caroline Field (01923 824922) or Brian Rose (01895 230948).  

 

Receipt is acknowledged, with grateful thanks, for donations towards the cost of ICN, from: Anon of Clovelly Avenue, Anon via Alan Noad, Mrs Byrne of Burnham Avenue, John Echlin of Hayes, in memory of his parents who lived in Ickenham for many years.

Copy for the December edition of ICN should be with the team by 12 noon on 13^th November.  Please remember there is no January issue of ICN, so if you want to publicise any events taking place early in the New Year, tell us about them too.

 

CHRISTMAS IS COMING – AND ICKENHAM IS THE PLACE TO BE!   Make an early start on all those preparations Note these dates in your diary: Sat 15th November – URC Christmas Fayre Sat 29th November – Cancer Research UK Christmas Market Sun 30th November – Glebe School Christmas Fayre Fri 5th December – Festive Community Evening Fri 5th / Sat 6th December – St Giles’ Christmas Festival   More details pages 1, 4 and 6