CORONAVIRUS has sadly forced the postponement of several planned events, including the annual dinner and the Annual General Meeting of Grasmere Village Society, which should have taken place today on March 19 and 26.

FELLOWSHIP's AGM, which should have taken place on Thursday, March 19 has also been postponed until further notice.

KNIT and NAT is also cancelled until further notice.

Please continue to check websites and posters for updates on planned events, which may all be subject to cancellation.

Wordsworth Grasmere, in partnership with Aerial Festival, bring poetry to the people on Stagecoach’s 555 and 599 on Thursday 19 March.

Bus travellers between Windermere and Keswick may be a little surprised when poets Kim Moore and Clare Shaw climb aboard the 555 and 599 buses today.

Kim and Clare will perform their own contemporary work as well as sharing some of Wordsworth’s words with passengers as they journey through the landscape that inspired some of the Lakes’ greatest poetry – and continues to inspire poets today!

Discover poetry with Polly Atkin in the Learning Centre on Thursday, March 19, 19.30.

For further details see www.wordsworth.org.uk.

EARLY YEARS sessions at the Wordsworth Trust are designed to encourage children under 5 to be creative and playful. Each themed morning is a mixture of songs, stories and play-based learning, inspired by William Wordsworth’s poetry and his life at Dove Cottage 200 years ago. Taking place on Thursdays, from March 20, 10:00 - 11:00.

Call 015394 35544 to book.

RAMBLE with friends old and new on the 4th Thursday each month and finish next week with a cuppa at Emma's Dell.

Everyone welcome.

Meet opposite Sam Read's bookshop on Thursday, March 26, 13.30.

ALLAN Bank celebrates Wordsworth's 250th birthday and Canon Rawnsley's centenary with a new art installation by Sarah Jackman (09:00 - 17:00 daily.

Swing into Sing for wellbeing (Wednesday, March 25, 2-3pm). See www.nationaltrust.org.uk/allan-bank-and-grasmere.