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Passionfruit Theatre Co is a voluntary organisation which is committed to its work in building close links with the community.

A new skincare range from the Body Shop has been clinically proven to give firmer-feeling skin from the first day of usage.

A spokesperson from the Mayo Fire Service said that Bonfire Night was “very quiet”, with the fire brigade called out to two minor bonfire incidents — one in Westport and one in Castlebar, both of which were easily dealt with.

Gardai in Galway have dismissed reports that they are hunting for an arsonist suspected of deliberately setting fire to hundreds of acres of gorse in Connemara over the past few days.

The current spate of gorse fires that have led to the fire service having to tackle a number of major blazes over the past number of weeks continued last weekend.

The Flora Women’s Mini Marathon, the hugely popular 10k event which attracts over 40,000 participants every year and helps raise millions for charity, is calling on Westmeath ladies to register for the 2010 event.

Keane’s Garden Centre, Kilcolgan is kicking off the growing season with great special offers on fruit trees. Apple is the most popular fruit tree for the Irish gardener but our climate is suitable for many other types of fruit tree.

The colour blue is, in my opinion, a very classy colour adding a sharpness to any garden setting. It conjures up images on the one hand of Mediterranean holidays, azure skies and seas, while on the other hand reflects the ‘moody blues’. It is in effect a very versatile colour. Mix with it minor shades of blue such as lavenders and mauves and you have a very calming setting, which is of course something that we all strive for in our ‘fast lane’ lives.

Summer just wouldn’t be the same without strawberries. There’s nothing quite like this sweet, succulent fruit, whether you eat it with cream, with ice cream, out of a punnet in front of Wimbledon on the telly, or—best of all—just as they’re picked, with the warmth of a sunny afternoon suffusing the flesh. And quite apart from the flavour, the sweet, almost honeyed fragrance of freshly picked strawberries is unbeatable: a bowl of fruit on a kitchen table will scent the whole room.

There can be fewer more pleasant places to be on a crisp, bright autumn day than a beech wood. The sunlight seems to sparkle and fizz as it falls through the lightening canopy on to leaves the colour of burnished copper, which contrast perfectly with the tree trunks’ smooth, tactile grey bark. It’s almost the epitome of autumn. In spring, too, there’s hardly any tree, except perhaps the silver birch, that has such vibrant, sparkling, thoroughly spring-like leaves. Gilbert White, the eighteenth-century English clergyman and naturalist, described it in The Natural History of Selborne as ‘the most lovely of all forest trees, whether we consider its smooth rind or bark, its glossy foliage, or graceful pendulous boughs’.