It's the Magnificent Month of May with spectacular dawn choruses and next Monday the stallions will be released on the forest for the annual breeding season. Scott Bailey's team of 5 completed the Isle of Wight Ultra Challenge and calling budding chefs for the Big Careys Cook Off. Plus usual events update...

Happy May Day! Lots of May happenings including the Gardeners World Spring Fair this weekend, Witch/Craft at St Barbe, taking over the whole of the Montagu Arms Hotel for your wedding, and much more.

Dementia and Awareness - an update on the state of play and a look ahead to Dementia Action Week 18-24 May. A mention for Linden House specialist dementia care home, also for Dogstival and the Great New Forest Marque breakfast at Balmer Lawn Hotel tomorrow. And more as usual!

The Earth, Everywhere and Here - Earth Day is an annual event on 22 April to demonstrate support for our planet and the natural world around us, and that includes of course the unique landscape of the New Forest. Also the upcoming Gardeners World Spring Fair at Beaulieu, and other upcoming events.

Settling In To Spring: with the busy-ness of Easter Weekend over and further catastrophe in the Middle East at least temporarily averted, our heads should be a little less full and our diaries a little less hectic, allowing time to enjoy the simple pleasures of spring.

Happy New Forest Easter - sent on Thursday as it's Easter Weekend - from Jane and also from Scott Bailey Solicitors, and the teams at Careys Manor Hotel & SenSpa, Oakhaven Hospice and the Balmer Lawn Hotel. Read the newsletter for their news!

Springing Forward to Summertime, clocks go forward this Sunday. The New Forest Business Show is back, New Forest Escapes are house hunting, the Summer Spectacular will include jousting, and Lymington Town Sailing Club invites us all to its Open Weekend. Plus much more - read on

Heralding Huge Happenings - there are some really big events coming to Lymington over the next few months, and this week's spotlight is on two of them - Lymington Seafood Festival and Solent Music Festival. Plus much more ...

Happy Mothers Day, celebrating mothers everywhere and everywhen. This week's newsletter includes Mother's Day at Balmer Lawn Hotel, Spring Cleaning your legal affairs with Scott Bailey, news of this year's Dogstival, and much more including World Book Day at Durlston School.

Awakening All Around: this week's newsletter includes more about the welcome arrival of spring, including the wonderful song of the blackbird. Then a feature about Mother's Day at the Montagu Arms, and some rather different upcoming events.