LOCAL HISTORY ARTICLE
The Ashbourne Family Saga continues in the chimes online, in which and following the ball at the residence of General and Lady Fitzmayor, Annabell receives a number of potential suitors at the house in Western-under-Penyard. Will she choose one of them?  
See The Chimes Online at http:/www.thechimes.org.uk and select info, Extras & Blogs, then historical blog. 
Dorian Osborne

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LINTON AND DISTRICT HISTORY SOCIETY - PROGRAMME
8th May 2024 Jonquil Dodd: The most divisive President? Abraham Lincoln and Presidential Election of 1860
5th June 2024 Founders’ Lecture: Simon Draper: Place-Names in the Gloucestershire
and Herefordshire landscape. (Given in memory of Lee Hines)
3rd July 2024 John Powell: Quakers in Ross
7th August 2024 Chris Lathan: Isaac Newton: Scientist, Theologian, Magician and Crime Fighter?
4th September 2024 Heather Hurley: Green Lanes
2nd October 2024 Ray Wilson: The Industrial Heritage of the Forest of Dean
6th November 2024 Philip Bowen: The Decline of the Aristocracy and the Country House
4th December 2024 Gillian White: The Hugely Huggable History of the Teddy Bear
For further information please contact Ernst Zillekens, ldhschair@gmail.com

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SPRING!
We have just had the Spring Equinox, the first day of spring, and it appears to me that we have had spring for a long time already this year. After such a mild (but wet) winter, nature has taken off early, early for what we are used to. Global warming in action? Snowdrops, daffodils, primroses and birds singing love songs to each other, it is all taking off. It is wonderful to observe. I think then of what my father would say after a spell of good weather (he was a farmer) ‘we shall pay for it later’. And that’s the point, what will global warming do to our and nature’s futures?
I am not going to speculate on this vast issue, but I will enjoy what we have whilst at the same time play my part to help prevent extreme changes to our climate. Nature carries on as it sees fit; bumble bees have been about; lambs are in their fields with the ewes grazing the new shoots of grass and people have been mowing lawns. But it is all so early. Enjoy your spring but also consider ours and our children’s futures.
Peter Lockwood