A touch of nostalgia does no harm, especially when it shows a gentler face of life in Britain today.
On Saturday, July 13, at 2.30pm, the Benhill Allotment and Horticultural Association holds its summer show at the Strawberry Lodge Conference Centre near Carshalton College.
See a display of vegetables grown to perfection and flowers that impress more than the pictures on a seed packet will ever do. Wonder at trestle tables groaning with jams, jellies, cakes and home handicrafts.
Admission is free. There's nothing to spend except maybe for a home-made cake and tea and hopefully a raffle for helping terminally ill children. But you will go home on that Saturday afternoon believing that gardeners (and cake makers) make the world a better place.
MAX PEARL, Longford Gardens, Sutton
July 12, 2002 11:30
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