Happy New Year to you all, this week's first newsletter of the year includes a photographic reminder of the wonderful Christmas and New Year weather we enjoyed at the close of 2025, features the Montagu Arms and Balmer Lawn Hotels, then switches to the host of interesting upcoming events which have been added to the Events Calendar.

This week it's all about O Christmas Tree, and the brilliant new Oakhaven Hospice 'Treecycle', with volunteers to collect your trees after the festive season, and take them for recycling. New Forest Escapes is sponsoring this initiative, too.

This week's theme, for Advent, is Finding Tranquillity - with special features about the new spa offerings at Balmer Lawn Hotel and SenSpa Careys Manor.

Unsurprisingly, this week's newsletter is primarily about Christmas matters - lots of upcoming events and reports on recent ones! Enjoy!

As the Christmas Season kicks off in earnest, this week's newsletter is essentially all about Christmas events and especially in Lymington the Christmas Tree Festival, and the Christmas Lights Switch On. Plus lots more events and activities coming up... 

This week's newsletter includes news and results from Strictly Lymington which took place last Saturday at Lymington Community Centre, and a focus on upcoming local Christmas events with the Christmas Tree Festival starting next Thursday and the Christmas Lights Switch On, set for next Friday evening.

This week's newsletter includes a special plea for more support for Lymington Community Centre, plus news of promotions from Scott Bailey Solicitors, and a round up of Christmas events at the Montagu Arms in Beaulieu.

November is a month for remembering. Starting with All Saints and All Souls, to Remembrance Sunday and the 11th day of the 11th month, to Sing Faure's Requiem and Light up a Life. Also a great opportunity to learn about the Menopause, later this month with The Arches Physiotherapy. Plus the usual round up of upcoming events. 

This week's Weekly What's On is firstly about Halloween which seems this year to have captured multiple imaginations. Then there's news of poppy displays and singing for Remembrance, and diary dates for key community Christmas events, and much more!

The clocks go back this weekend and with them a change to the pattern of our days. It's also October half term and the Folklore and Phantoms trail at Beaulieu sounds suitably ghoulish! Plus other fun sounding half term events and activities running through the whole week.