Morning. Claremont Road shuts at eight tonight, the roads committee sits tomorrow, and Natalija's foxes are fine. Also: Kingston parkrun may be finished, the rooftop bar is closing, and the Festival is three Saturdays away.
Natalija had three to five all summer and none for weeks. Almost certainly nothing happened to them. What happened is September. Cubs are born mid-March, the adults stop feeding them in July, and October is when the family breaks up, males first. Bristol has tracked its foxes since 1977 and finds three-quarters of male cubs gone by their second year. On top of that, the sun set at 9.11pm in mid-July and 7.37pm on Saturday. The same fox on the same round is now doing it after you have gone in.
A sick or injured fox: Wildlife Aid, Leatherhead, 01372 360404, 9am to 9pm daily. They say “Surrey and the surrounding areas”, and Kingston is not Surrey, so ring and ask.
A dead one you think was poisoned: the Wildlife Incident Investigation Scheme, freephone 0800 321 600. The only body that does the post-mortem. Nobody publishes this number.
Claremont Road shuts at 8pm tonight, Maple to Victoria, until 5am, for resurfacing. On Saturday I said the dates were unambiguous. They are not: the roadworks list says the last night is Thursday, the resurfacing schedule says Wednesday. Assume three nights and be pleased if it is.
Victoria Road still shuts at the Brighton Road junction, round the clock, 14 to 21 September. Ewell Road stays on signals to 28 October, Ditton Road to January.
Trains, two weekends running. This Saturday and Sunday the Hampton Court and Guildford-via-Cobham services start from Surbiton, with buses from Clapham Junction. The weekend after, 19 and 20 September, is the bigger one: Berrylands and New Malden are closed, Hampton Court services are suspended, and on the Sunday the Dorking trains do not run at all. Berrylands itself is still “late September” and still no date. For the record: it opened on 16 October 1933, the housing developers paid nine-tenths of the cost to make the estate look commutable, and until this month it was one of the last stations round London still standing on timber.
Kingston parkrun may be on borrowed time. Thames Water wants to take up to 75 million litres a day from the Thames above Teddington Weir and pipe it away, with treated water from Mogden going back in through a new tunnel. The works run through Burnell Avenue Open Space, where the run starts. The council's words: “It is extremely likely that Kingston Parkrun will have to stop for good.” Thames Water's: “Our expectation is that the event will be able to continue, although a temporary route diversion may be required.” Both quotes are from Kingston Nub News on Thursday. Five hundred runners a week and 25 volunteers, a fair few of them from this side of the river. The application to government is next year.
The Surbiton Festival is Saturday 26 September, 10 to 4, across St Andrew's Square, Claremont Gardens, Victoria Road and the station forecourt. Music in the gardens, a marketplace on Victoria Road, street food, Punch and Judy, and a parade. The organisers have not put a time on the parade yet. I will when they do.
Sonny's, the rooftop bar on Kingston's Riverside Walk, trades for the last time on Sunday 20 September. Fourteen months after it opened. The building has been sold and the upper floors are being redeveloped. Owner Sam Berry, to Nub News: “this isn't the end of Sonny's.” No word yet on where it goes.
Kingston has a football club again. Kingston FC, founded this year by Adam Smith, played its first ever league game on Saturday, at step nine against Woodmansterne Hyde at the Hawker Centre. Smith picked the squad on “commitment over ability”. I do not have the score. If you were there, reply and tell me.
Two things on tomorrow's committee agenda I did not fit in on Saturday. £2,800 to the Town Centre Partnership for a Surbiton Christmas event on 3 December. And the results of the speed survey, along with the experimental closure of Tolworth Close at the Broadway end, both come back to the committee on 3 November. If Tolworth Close matters to you, that is the date.
Surbiton Neighbourhood Committee, 7.30pm, Glenmore House on The Crescent. The first half hour is public questions from any resident of the borough, no notice needed. It is the committee that owns the roads. If you have a question about the works above, that is the room and tomorrow is the night.
Also open: Rose Restaurant at 41 Tolworth Broadway has applied for a new premises licence. Representations to 20 September.
Today. A free singalong at the cornerHOUSE, 2pm, song sheets and refreshments provided, and they say it suits carers and the people they care for. · A jazz jam at the Elm Tree on Victoria Road, listed for 7.30pm, free.
Tuesday. Silver Threads, the over-60s social at St George's in Tolworth, 11am, tea and cake. · Meet the Police drop-in at Surbiton Library, 2pm. · A guided riverside walk from Queen's Promenade to Canbury Gardens, 5pm, £6 to the mayor's charity. · Gerry Colvin Band at the cornerHOUSE from 7.30, £18. · And the committee, above.
Wednesday. Rewilding day at Tolworth Court Farm Fields, 10am, free. · Emma Burton, meet the artist, cornerHOUSE, 7pm, free. Her exhibition runs Wednesday mornings through September. · Quiz at the City Arms, 7pm.
Thursday. The community pantry at Surbiton Library, 2 to 5, cupboard essentials while stocks last, donations by card.
Friday. Yu-Gi-Oh tournament at the library, 4 to 7, free, over-fives. · Soul, funk and northern soul at Alcheme on Brighton Road, 7.30pm, free entry.
Saturday is the big one and I gave you the four of them on Saturday: Meet the Neighbours, the Seething fete, St Matthew's open day, and the quartet at St Andrew's Church on Maple Road. Sunday, junior parkrun at Alexandra Rec, 9am.
Welcome to Raphael on Victoria Avenue, who wants events and festivals, and to a new reader in the middle of Berrylands. You are both in the right place this week.
Back tomorrow.
Mike
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