Its here.... JP's 70th birthday. How do you quantify a life served in the world of DIY (since he came up to help gramps in 1978). Lets try (all figures are approximate as he will now try and work out the exact figures to prove me wrong); 11894 days worked 1 day off sick 2 late reports 594700 people served 1976 times he has been asked for 'Four candles' 47576 times the words 'Life of the Ocean Waves' sung 35000 bottles and cans picked up on the way to work 600 times he has sneaked off to play for Pollington CC on a Saturday afternoon. 2300 funerals arranged and conducted 12 tonnes of nails weighed 10000 gallons of paraffin poured...... I could go on. Happy Birthday Mr P! (In he walks at 8.55am for just another day of DIY heaven)

Snaith Heritage Day is with us again THIS Saturday. With a circus theme its good to see the art of the clown isn't lost as he rehearses on the church roof.. Opened with a Ukulele orchestra at 10am events run through the day and include circus skills, Anna's School of dance, Morris Dancers, street organ, treasure hunt, Brewery tours and much more. Pick up a programme at the Priory and enjoy the day!

We thought it might be time to let you all know what we are doing with the roof. As a Grade II listed building has to go through all the hoops. We have been waiting 45 weeks for consent to start work which finally arrived yesterday. While this is all great it will still be a slow process as some of the timbers were erected in Jacobean times (around 1600). Those same timbers are probably much older. The room retains an original lath and plaster ceiling and fireplace. The project will be retaining most of those timbers and will therefore will take time. Correspondingly the scaffolding will remain in situ until all these processes are completed. We know access to the corner, both road and path is difficult, but we have to make sure you are safe during this work. A gantry scaffold will be going around the mock tudor building (off floor level) to allow us to do small repairs to that roof and check timbers on the second floor. That should only take a week, or so.

Pollingtons annual funday with a Jurasic twist. Become a giant T-Rex for the day and take part in our T-Rex obstacle course. Fancy dress welcome. Best dressed Dinosaur gets a free ticket to Doncaster Wildlife Park. Full bar, Proseco bar and tent, music, 20ft Dart Board, boucy castles, vintage mowers and tractors and much more! For car boot and non-food/drink stalls please message via FB, or email mark@puntons.co.uk for further details.

Chaos in government as Boris has put his foot in it again forcing a re-write of the latest Conservative mantra. Apparently with all the austerity cuts the cabinet ended up with a budget Ikea table. With the weight of Tory bank balances it collapsed forcing Mrs May to demand a 'stronger table in government'. Boris misheard thinking she wanted a 'strong and stable government'. Oh Boris, messed up the referendum, now the election! Jezza stepped up with his carpentry skills and knocked up a beautiful cabinet piece. Won't be long Mr C.

Arkwright's is open today 10am to 3pm. If you fancy a bit of northern banter a fork handle and f f f f f f f free plant ...... pop on down. Remember the sunflower competition is open so come and grab the best specimens - who knows, you and the family could be heading to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park with free tickets to the competition winners!

We open this years Sunflower Competition today. It appears word got out that we are using the 'Kong' variety this year. With the prize being an adult and two kids ticket to Yorkshire Wildlife Park old 'Mr King Kong' thought as it had his name on it he gets an automatic entry. Kids only Mr Kong. What a tantrum...! Kong F1 variety can reach over 14ft in height. Give the kids (and adults) a challenge this year. £1 per entry. Good luck! Don't forget on Tuesday at 7pm at Snaith Primary School Hall we have the public meeting for Snaith & Cowick Growing Together. See the Events page on this site, or the Facebook page for more details.

This, for many of us is our home. For the most of it we love it, its where we grow, our kids learn and grow and where we create new memories everyday. A new group has set-up to imporve the areas ecology and amenity value through a number of projects and tasks defined by you. We need your ideas and enthusiasm to really put Snaith & Cowick on the map. A public meeting will be held on Tuesday 2nd May, 7pm at Snaith Primary School. You don't have to be green fingered, just want to improve your local community for us and future generations.

Few..... that was a close one! Not only had we forgot Monty Don was coming up, the Celebrity website we booked him on only went and double booked 'The Don'. Don Corleone (aka Marlon Brando off of The Godfather fame) had some strong words for Mr Punton, but as they both have a very dry wit they seemed to hit it off (without mentioning 'hit' obviously). Think we'll just book Titchmarsh and Dimmock again next year!

Oh my goodness, spring has come around that fast I forgot we had booked the legend (just below Titchmarsh and Thrower) of the gardening world... Monty 'The' Don. I was just having a little break in the upstairs kitchen and in he walked. Apparently he had got held up on a live shoot of Gardeners World this morning, but driven straight up. I apologised and asked if we could re-arrange for next week. He seemed quite happy, bought some 'buy 3 get one free compost', a box of herbs and Mr Punton sharpened his spade.... off he went on his merry way......

That's blown Christmas then. County Council forgot to send Father Christmas a memo about the new 'One Way system'. Once Rudolph goes thats it, no turning back.... it might take him a little while to get re-organised but I am sure he will get tonight's work done!

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The Christmas rush is well under way this year. Boris and Brian were the first ones in this morning. Tried sneaking the shops supply of slug and snail pellets under their festive hats. Mr Punton was far too quick for them and politely asked them to leave as he waved one of the display salt cellars at them....

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