USEFUL CONTACTS HORHAM & ATHELINGTON PARISH COUNCIL: Tel: 01379 384625 REDLINGFIELD PARISH MEETING: Tel: 01379 678835 Athelington, Horham Web: www.redlingfield.suffolk.gov.uk Email: [email protected] MID SUFFOLK DISTRICT COUNCIL: Tel: 01449 724500 & Redlingfield News Web: www.midsuffolk.gov.uk Email: [email protected] (0845 606 6067 & [email protected] for some services) SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL: Tel: 0845 606 6067 Web: www.suffolk.gov.uk Email: [email protected] DISTRICT COUNCILLOR: Elizabeth Gibson-Harries Tel: 01379 384680 Email: [email protected] COUNTY COUNCILLOR: Guy McGregor Tel: 01379 668434 Email: [email protected] MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT: Sir Michael Lord MP Tel: 01728 685148 Web: www.centralsuffolk.co.uk Email: [email protected] House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA POLICE: Our Community Police Officer is PC Tim Green. Our Police Community Support Officer is Steven Long. Tel: 01284 774100 (ask for them by name). Email: [email protected] Website: www.onesuffolk.co.uk/SaferSuffolk/MidSuffolkNorth/ Eye Police Station: Tel: 01284 774640 Non emergency calls: Tel: 01473 613500 In an emergency dial 999. You should dial 999 when life is threatened or people are injured, or if there is a crime in progress or an immediate police response is necessary. It is better to be safe than sorry. REPORTING A PROBLEM: You can report problems relating to: abandoned vehicles; damage to street signs, litter bins; dogs; drainage; fly tipping; litter; noise; odour; rat or mice infestations; refuse collection; and smoke, fumes or dust; online using the onesuffolk website (www.onesuffolk.co.uk/reportaproblem). This is a partnership involving the police and councils. HORHAM NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH: Hav Wilkins Tel:01379 384625 REDLINGFIELD NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH: Chris Gibbons Tel:01379 678169 NHS DIRECT: A 24-hour confidential telephone service. You can ring for nurse advice if you are feeling ill and unsure about what to do or for health information on particular conditions. Call 0845 4647 or visit www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk Suffolk County Council’s HOUSEHOLD WASTE RECYCLING CENTRE at Brome: Opening times - 1 November to 31 January, 8am to 4pm; 1 February to 31 March, 8am to 5pm; 1 April to 30 September, 8am to 6pm; 1 October to 31 October, 8am to 5pm. Spring 2009 Issue no. 5

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Then its our Cheese & STALL AT GATE No job too small pages for your news and views. Wine and before you know it it’s BBQ Friendly reliable service Making the magazine any bigger time. We are also moving forward guaranteed would cause problems – I’m not sure with bigger projects and in this issue we could force the staples through. there’s more news on our push for Please call My wife will soon be taking a look affordable housing. Chris on: at the books and it looks as if we’re at Hope to see you at the Cheese & least breaking even – ink and paper is Wine and other village events. 07984 110496 surprisingly expensive though. Mike Ager For larger orders please 01728 669607 You can receive your Athelington, Horham & Redlingfield News electronically if you prefer. Simply email [email protected] with your call 01379 678318 Email: [email protected] name and address (so you don’t get a paper version as well) and when the next issue is published we’ll email it to you as a pdf. Or you can find the pdfs of current and previous issues at www.redlingfield.suffolk.gov.uk If you would like to advertise or contribute to the magazine or have an R COLE event or organisation you would like featured contact: Evelyn Adey on [email protected] or 01728 628428 at Ivy House Barn, Southolt Road, Athelington, IP21 5EL; or Mike Ager on [email protected] PLUMBING or 01379 678835 at Hidcote Lodge, Mill Road, Redlingfield, IP23 7QU. We aim to produce four seasonal issues a year, coming out at the Find out how one of the end of February, May, August and November. Contributions or Cambridge Health & Weight information needs to be with us by the 14th of that month at the SERVICES latest to be included in that issue. Plan programmes, with its The next issue - Summer 2009 - is due to be published at the end of unique onetoone support May. 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This Free local estimates disclaimer is inserted purely for legal/technical reasons and can in no way 07766 407213 be construed as implying criticism of any supplier of goods or services. 36 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 1 features & news The regulars and rare  he first newsletter of the year more in sight, but a large black outline gets under way with a mention of a crow loomed through the thick Tof my old friend, the barn owl. branches and I swung the gun up. I We have such regular sightings in the was about to pull the trigger as it Rookery Lane area that we must cleared the hedge, but the penny surely be able to claim a resident now. dropped just in time as a marsh harrier However, this winter is not perfect for sailed over my head. It seemed huge at their breeding prospects. such close quarters, and I would have 5adbadSfW >aY5ST[`:a^[VSke IWVV[`Ye The British Trust for Ornithology blown it to smithereens. (BTO) warns that barn owl breeding is Mostly migratory, the wintering IWS^eaebWU[S^[eW[`:aYDaSefeXadgbfa#*"bWab^Wa`e[fWadfZWkUS`TWVW^[hWdWV more successful after warmer, drier population here is very small, winters. Hardly what we are (thankfully not even smaller), and E_S^^WdXg`Uf[a`daa_ShS[^ST^Wi[fZ][fUZW`XadfZWe_S^^WdXg`Uf[a` experiencing this year! from colonising reed beds it has The poor performance after a bad spread inland over winter wheat and $WKHOLQJWRQ +DOO  +RUKDP  (\H  6XIIRON  ,3 (- winter may be due to a reduction in rape fields. Not all birds or prey are ZZZDWKHOLQJWRQKDOOFRXNSHWHU#DWKHOLQJWRQKDOOFRXN small mammal prey, and at worse, lack swift fliers, and harriers, to suit their of condition may cause them to style of hunting, are masters of flying suspend breeding for a year. Let’s slowly. Minute inspection of the hope it is not as bad as that. ground is possible at such slow speeds, and this, coupled with keen Cowhams Servicing & Repairs OUT with my gun on pigeon patrol on hearing, helps to locate their prey. I ar th C for all makes the 6 December, I came close to a suspect this was the same bird that I C& major embarrassment. Two or three have seen twice before, in the vicinity Commercial New & Old pigeons came over my shoulder under of Munter’s muckpad on the Southolt a hedge and I spun round to see if any road, and has colouring somewhat VOSA MOT Testing Station more were coming. No, there were no darker than most marsh harriers. petrol, diesel class 4 & 7. LENT: The season of Lent is when the days lengthen and our understanding of the CAR & VAN SALES Christian Faith deepens as we approach Holy Week and Easter Sunday. As we trust vehicles sourced if we don’t have them in stock that the brighter, warmer weather will cheer us, so our celebration of Easter and the news of Jesus’ Resurrection will increase our happiness and our awareness that Insurance Repairs, 24hr Recovery, Car Valeting. nothing is stronger than the love of God shown in His Son, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. It is as fellow-members of the church that I invite you not only to attend Brakes, Exhausts, Clutches, Tyres & Batteries. the services, but also to take note of our responsibilities for the upkeep and maintenance of the church buildings, and for the costs of the full-time ministry that I Air Conditioning exercise in the four parishes of this benefice, with many of you helping and Service & Repair The Garage Fressingfield supporting me. Please come to your parish’s Annual Church Meeting (watch out for Tel: 01379 388 999 the notice) and read the reports that will follow from the meeting. Accident & Body With all good wishes, David Streeter Repair Centre. www.cowhams.co.uk 2 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 35 features & news sights RECENTLY, the national news on TV has been featuring the cull of grey squirrels in Scotland in order to improve the chances for the struggling red squirrel. Apart from the fact that greys will get to my walnut tree before I do, I used to have a live-and-let-live approach before they were elevated to Public Enemy No.1. We were walking in the Lake District in November, and managed a good close-up view of a pair of very friendly red squirrels south of Wastwater in Eskdale, the first time I can remember seeing John Glover, who works at Wash Farm, gets the full attention of his one. family of gundogs and pets for this photo by his partner, Angie. WATCHING the antics of a stoat on bolder. As I went to let the dogs out, the lawn has been a regular he was doing a quick 20-yard dash entertainment these winter early across the horse pond on the ice. mornings. Dashing about at high Quite a surprise. Hopefully, the end of speed, he’s been rubbing his belly in winter will soon stop that little game. the frost or snow and leaping around Wash Farm Wildlife like a spring lamb. Today, he got even Trevor Edwards

34 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 3 features & news A grapevine on wheels hen I meet my neighbours, tranquil open spaces can be a delight; the conversation often they can also be isolating. In an Wdevelops along the lines of inspired attempt to overcome the ‘what used to be where’. Gone are the problems of rural isolation, the Rural days when every village had its shop Coffee Caravan Information Project or post office. With their (a voluntary organisation) has passing, perhaps we have lost created a mobile solution in more than just the goods and the form of a well-equipped services they supplied: they caravan. Our aim is to take also acted as that unofficial the project to rural news agency – the local communities, equipped with ‘grapevine’. coffee, tea and homemade Knowing what’s going on in cakes, and all sorts of our own communities isn’t always information about organisations and easy, especially if access to transport the services they offer. is limited, or you live in one of If we don’t have the information you Suffolk’s very scattered parishes. Our want, or the solution to a problem, we will try to find it out for you and point you in the right direction. Of course, not everyone will be in search of information or advice. If you’ve just moved into the area, you might like to know who your neighbours are. Even if you’ve lived there a while, there may be new people you haven’t had the chance to meet. A break for coffee and a chat could be just what you need. The Coffee Caravan returns to Redlingfield in April. It will be visiting on Tuesdays: April 21, 10am-noon; May 19, 2pm-4pm; June 16, 10am-noon; July 21, 2pm-4pm; August 18, 10am-noon; September 15, 2pm-4pm; and October 20, STACK FIRE: Agricultural contractor 10am-noon. Nick Hambling stands in front of the Ann Osborn (Project Co-ordinator) smouldering ruins after a blaze 01379 855338 destroyed 500 tonnes of barley and coffee.caravan@ btinternet.com, wheat straw in Horham in December. www.ruralcoffeecaravan.org.uk

4 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 33 features & news EASTERN ...and indoors in winter e have had a very good LANDSCAPES response to the social coffee Wmornings in Redlingfield EST 1995 over the winter. The average attendance each month has been just over twenty. The meetings were on the first Wednesday of each month from LANDSCAPE October 2008 through to March 2009. DESIGN The coffee mornings have been ends the winter season with another hosted in different village homes and free raffle. we have appreciated the generosity of We have enjoyed visits from Age CONSTRUCTION the hosts on these occasions. Concern and Ann Osborn from the Tea, coffee and biscuits have been Coffee Caravan. The Coffee Caravan PATIOS & PATHS available and the constant chatter returns monthly to the village green suggested that everyone enjoyed the from April 2009 when, hopefully, occasions. Donations made at many people from the village will join FENCING & DECKING meetings have been used to supply together for tea, coffee and cakes. coffee, biscuits etc. and a donation has Village coffee mornings will begin TURFING & SEEDING also been made to the Coffee Caravan. again in the autumn. See What’s On For the December meeting we for March coffee morning and Coffee enjoyed sherry, mince pies and a free Caravan dates. Pictured is the January raffle. At other times we have had a coffee morning at Midge & Chris TREE & book swap and the March meeting Gibbons. Jacqueline Love ROYAL BRITISH LEGION: Since my last notes the Stradbroke & District Branch of the Royal British Legion has been active. In December we held HEDGE CARE our annual Christmas carol service followed by a very enjoyable Christmas lunch attended by our 30 members and guests at Laxfield FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL village hall. In January the branch was well represented at the annual STEPHEN MATTHEWS Suffolk County Conference of the RBL at Needham Market community centre. Our chaplain Rev David Streeter conducted the pre conference service. Ian Bushnell from Horham carried the branch standard and branch secretary Jeremy Higgins – the 01379 871252 branch delegate – was returned as county vice-president. Two new branch officers have been elected – Ted Booth from Laxfield is the new president and John Graham of Brundish is now branch vice-chairman. The branch still needs a treasurer – any offers! Arrangements are being made for the annual branch dinner at Stradbroke 07771 675262 community centre at midday on March 20. Finally a belated happy new year to everybody. Michael Burton, Branch Chairman 32 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 5 features & news    Clear up for the kids (   ) *! ll of the members of the New respect for other people, then please    Reeding Woods Steering Group clear up after your dogs and take the  !   "# Aare really pleased with the resultant litter home with you. results of their labours, and feel that On April 25 at 4.30pm we are $" %   they have achieved their ambition in holding our spring meeting and AGM &'(         establishing a community woodland. at Redlingfield Wood and the Red    This is a community project owned Feather Club. %% % ) %   by all the inhabitants of Denham, David Mitchell will chair a brief 00" %%% )% Horham and Athelington. We have meeting before we set off for a guided   !"  laboured to build fences, hang gates, tour of his established wood. Experts 1 ( %% ) 2 #!$  %!$ &'! $ and plant trees, and now the work is in woodland management, wood craft 3(4  22 ) &2 nearly completed and we must sit back and local wild life will be on hand to and wait for the trees to grow. answer any questions as we walk  0    5 6%5 Many of you have enjoyed the around. pleasure of walking round this small Following the walk we will adjourn but perfectly formed leisure spot. to the Red Feather Club, where the bar It is a peaceful oasis on a bright will be open and light refreshments sunny day. It is a small nature reserve will be available. There will be a for those looking for bugs and photographic display of the progress butterflies, beetles and buttercups and made at Pound Lane Wood over the a safe haven for those with small last year. children and dogs. Those two do not There is always room for new really mix unless we use this members on our steering group, so call community area responsibly and now the secretary on 01379 668179 if you consideration must be our watch word. would like to join us. So if you enjoy this haven, and have Michael Reeves Your LOCAL Taxi Service RALLY ROUND: Horham Bygones Country Rally looks as if it is going to be bigger and better than ever this year. The event - on 4 & 6 seat vehicles Saturday June 13 2009 from 10am until 5pm - was hoping to attract more than 100 historic tractors for the first time this year but Any length of journey early entries mean organisers are setting their sights on up to 150. The tractors will join historic military vehicles, cars and motorcycles as well as working horses and mules. As well as being a big draw for anyone who wants to see old farm machines Best value for airports and horses in action it is also big fun day for all the family as there will also be fairground rides for smaller children and a car boot sale among other attractions. The Rally is on Horham & Athelington Recreation Field. There will be free parking with a 01379 669370 dedicated disabled parking area. Contact for rally information: Gary Woodrow 01379 740496. Contact for car boot only (all pitches must be pre-booked): Ron Chambers 07795 264233 01728 685583. Visit www.horhambygones.co.uk/ for more information. 6 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 31 features & news

• Funerals arranged by trained experienced staff in our friendly Office & Chapel of Rest located at office environment or in the The Old Stables, Chestnut Farm comfort of your own home Langton Green, Eye • Free transport for visits to Suffolk, IP23 7HL registrars, our Chapel and other related appointments Independent of Any Large Corporation and Truly Owned • Bereavement support group And Run by The Whymark Family Open to all in need Tenor Olonga returns 24 Hour Telephone Number 01379 871168 ast April more than 500 people Zimbabwe’s government, led by www.susanwhymark.co.uk email [email protected] attended the Taming The Tiger Robert Mugabe. This led to a warrant Levent at Athelington Hall, which issued in Zimbabwe for Olonga’s was put on by local churches, arrest on charges of treason (which primarily to hear the amazing story of carries the death penalty in Tony Anthony. Also appearing that Zimbabwe) and forced him to retire night was former Zimbabwean from international cricket and cricketer Henry Olonga, who sang and temporarily go into hiding. gave a couple of insights into his life. He has a superb voice and “… is an People enjoyed his performance so emerging tenor who has long much we have asked him back to learn participated in arts festivals … more of his life and music. Olonga has recently completed Henry made his international recording a full contemporary pop cricket debut in 1995, becoming the album with one of the UK’s top youngest person to play for producers, Robbie Bronnimann”. Zimbabwe. He helped Zimbabwe to On Saturday May 16 he will be its first ever Test victory in that game. appearing in the marquee at A right arm fast bowler, Olonga was Athelington Hall again. You can learn the first black cricketer to play for more about his story and hear more of Zimbabwe. his wonderful voice. He achieved international Tickets for the evening are £3.50 recognition (along with team mate and available from Andrew Andy Flower) in 2003 by wearing a Fairweather of Horham Baptist black armband in a Cricket World Cup Church who can be contacted on match to protest against the policies of 07731 134151.

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She was born in the Caribbean Tel:01728 627939 or and was able to explain to us the many changes and influences on the www.brickkilnfarmbandb.com music of the area through a range of songs, music and even a little dance. February found us in the middle of London with more tales of Brick Kiln Farm housemaids’ cupboards. Deborah Preston has spoken to us before, so we Worlingworth Road knew we were in for a good evening. This time we heard about the many problems Athelington and amusing situations found running the staff, cleaning and décor of a major city IP21 5EP hotel. The numbers of rooms, cleaning staff and laundry was staggering. Far from being a housemaid the job is a major logistics and management post. Members have also been enjoying themselves playing darts. Officially we play in the W.I. league but none of us take it too seriously and really enjoy a night out and throwing a few arrows. The April meeting will be back in the village hall with Gilly Bursall’s card painting workshop. So if you fancy a good evening out, which promises to be both informative as well as enjoyable, do come along as a guest (it’s only £2.50 a meeting) and see what we get up to (see What’s On pages). Terri Andrews 8 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 29 features & news SPURLING & REMBLANCE jumble’ NEWS IN BRIEF MOTOR ENGINEERS INSPIRATIONAL ART CLASSES: very beautiful little bird – the Sylvia Philpot is offering a range of art goldfinch. classes in Denham including: one- MOT TEST CENTRE Larn – To teach as in: “That’ll larn day workshops on skill-set topics yer.” ("Toolbox" series); "Masterstrokes" *Service and repairs to all cars, light commercial and 4x4's* Lijah – Most farm workers used to when students can compare and wear them. It was a strap fastened just contrast the work of various Masters *Specialists in vehicle diagnostics* below the knee. I remember asking and discover their techniques; *Free local collection and delivery * Courtesy car available* one of the men who worked on the landscape, portraiture, still-life and same farm as my father what a lijah abstract painting. Four-weekly *Prompt attention assured * Competitive rates* was for. “Thas to stop rats and things courses offer one to one tutoring runnin’ up yer legs” was the reply. classes. For further information ring (01379)384689 01379 871377 or e-mail Long Melford – This was a long [email protected] leather purse. Open 8:00 am -5:30pm Mon-Fri, 8:00am -12 noon Saturdays FLOWER FESTIVAL: St Andrew’s Barley Hall, Laxfield Road, Stradbroke. IP21 5NQ Maggoty – Another word which means something very different in Church, Redlingfield, will hold a flower Located on the B111 7 - 1¾ mile outside Stradbroke, towards Laxfield  Suffolk. It can translate as fastidious. festival on Saturday, Sunday and So, “She was tew maggoty to walk Monday, May 23, 24, 25, 10am-6pm. Suggestions for a theme will be most along that muddy path.” welcome – tell Chris Stanford or Mardle – A word which is used as David Streeter what you have in mind. much in Norfolk as in Suffolk. It ENABLING INDEPENDENCE means to gossip. WALKING FESTIVAL: The South AT HOME Marster – The word was of course and Heart of Suffolk Walking Festival used to address the boss – but it can is being held from Saturday, May 9 to Monday, May 25. More than 60 mean very good. “He made a marster guided walks are on offer, in a variety Allied Homecare offers you the right level of care job a bildin’ that stack.” of locations, to suit all tastes and and support so you can enjoy a more active Not a mucher – The opposite of capabilities. Some are country marster. “That drawing o yours int a rambles, others are medieval independent life at home including:- mucher.” meanders through our villages and Mavis (or mavish) – A thrush. towns and many of them include •nHousework, laundry, meal preparation Mawther – Despite its sound it means stops for lunch or afternoon tea. a young woman. “I reckon I’ll ask that Information and leaflets are available •nPersonal care little owd mawther to walk out with from tourist information centres, from •nAssisted bathing me.” This could lead to – mawthering [email protected] or at – cuddling and fussing over a male by www.southandheartofsuffolk.org.uk. •nLive-in care a female. Local walks include a walk in the Well I’d better finish now afore I git Hoxne area on Sunday, May 10, a •n24-hour support muddled (tired out) and mazy (dizzy). circular tour of Stradbroke and a Fair ye well tergether. gentle ramble from Occold to Eye and Telephone 01449 744080 Brian Ager back – both on Sunday, May 24. 28 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 9 features & news   NEWS IN BRIEF  D H GRAND OPEN DAY: In addition to the Affordable P   normal attractions on Sunday, May 17, at ’ve had a very good response to my the Red Feather Club there will be article in the last magazine about military vehicles, trade stands, exhibits Ihow we might want Redlingfield to Property Maintenance from other aviation societies and a develop in the future, the idea of refreshment stand. Several overseas creating a Parish Plan and the whole visitors will be attending (including issue of affordable housing. Painting, Decorating, Tiling veterans and their families ). A flyover by A lot of people want to see B17 “Sally B” over the runway is also something happening, as long as it’s Interior & Exterior being planned but will depend upon the right thing! And people definitely weather conditions and aircraft want to have more control over Fully Insured, Free Estimate serviceability. Please note that the club planning and the future of the village will not be open on Saturday, May 16. but remain to be convinced about how David Herwynen BENEFITS ADVICE: Mid Suffolk Citizens much notice Mid Suffolk and the Advice Bureau has launched a new County Council will take of any Parish scheme to help people check their Plan we produce. 07979 720 975 - 01379 388 708 eligibility for benefits and assist them with People have also said that they claims. The Benefit and Income believe that we do need more Maximisation Project will also help with affordable housing in the village, applications to charities and advise provided it’s the right kind, that it’s in people on how to maximise their income. keeping with the village and that it Freshly baked home produce The service is free and will be available really is for local people and it remains to community groups and organisations affordable in to the future. Sweet and Savoury goods for all the by invitation or to individuals at the To address these issues and get all of family bureau in Stownarket. Mid Suffolk CAB us together to discuss these important has also launched its own website matters we have organised a meeting In Eye every Friday www.midsuffolkcab.org.uk. on April 8 at Horham & Athelington (outside the Handyman on the marketplace)

CHARITY RUN: Peter Tomato, basil & goats cheese tart Fisk dressed as Santa Bacon & onion quiche on his annual run Sausage rolls through Horham on his tractor. During the three- Cornish pasties hour delivery run he Mocha banana choc-chip muffins posted presents given Orders taken Double choc-chip muffins by friends and family to Amy Weiss Cherry & almond scones households in the area A variety of delicious cakes for a donation. He raised Tel: 01379 871226 more than £430 for East Just a brief selection from our Anglia’s Children’s wide range of Tasty food Hospices (EACH). Spend your time at Tasty Thymes

10 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 27 features & news features & news NEWS IN BRIEF LIBERTY BELLE: Following the Liberty Belle tour of 13th housing DANCING AROUND: On Combat Wing bases Don Community Centre, starting at 8pm. Wednesday, May 1, Hoxon Hundred’s Brooks and Keith Vincent We would like everyone, who can, to Cotswold dance side will be at Fair (organisers of the tour) visited come to this first public meeting, we Green Diss at dawn to dance. They the Red Feather Club. They are will organise transport for anyone who are also dancing at Fressingfield Fair pictured in Brad’s Bar with needs a lift – call me on 01379 678835. on Saturday, May 3, and on Sunday, Frank Sherman. The 95th BG We will have special guests from May 4, go on their annual mystery Heritage Association’s latest Suffolk Acre, a charity that helps tour. They will be dancing somewhere restoration project is to re- in Suffolk. create a 96 ft building at the villages like ours create Parish Plans, as well as people from Mid Suffolk BEREAVEMENT FRIENDSHIP AND rear of the existing two huts. It SUPPORT GROUP: The group, which is planned to be completed for the Grand Open Day in May 2009. Grants have been Council and a housing association that specialises in building affordable was set up for those who have suffered received from Mid Suffolk District Council and Suffolk County Council towards the a loss and just need someone to talk to costs of the project. A “Buy a Brick” scheme has also been very successful. houses in small rural villages, to in a similar situation, meet once a explain what’s involved in creating month at the Volunteer Centre in Eye. affordable housing and answer any The meetings are very informal, there is questions we have. A small group of experienced no counselling and members can talk They will explain the process to us, about their experience of bereavement local carers are able to accept what their role is, what we need to do. a few new clients who are in among others who understand. The Later the same evening, during the Volunteer Centre can also sometimes need of help to cope in their agm, we will elect the parish chair, provide extra practical help for those own homes. We are concerned treasurer and village committee. Our struggling to maintain their home or to help clients preserve their local PC Tim Green will report on garden or need a volunteer driver, for dignity, self respect and crime in the area over the last 12 instance. The meetings cost £1 to cover independence. months and our local councillors, the hire of the room and tea and coffee Telephone: 01379 384680 Elizabeth Gibson-Harries and Guy is provided. Transport can be provided McGregor should also be in at no extra cost. For more information attendance. Janet Norman-Philips please call 01379 871168. EDUCATIONAL GRANTS: The Eye Grammar School Fund is a Trust fund set up by the Charity Commissioners in 1977 to provide grants of money to young people and educational organisations in the locality. The capital for the Fund came from the proceeds of the sale of the Eye Grammar School building. The Trustees meet quarterly to consider applications and award grants. Applications must come from individuals or organisations serving people under 25 years of age who live in the parishes of Eye, Athelington, Bedfield or Horham. The special grants are intended to cover expenses not provided for by the Local Education Authority. These might include the cost of purchasing books, clothing, tools and instruments, course fees for educational purposes, or in preparation to enter a trade or occupation. If you would like to apply for a grant, you can obtain an application form by writing to Louise Bernard; Clerk to the Trustees, Eye Grammar School Fund; 2 Lowgate Street, Eye, Suffolk, IP23 7 AS or telephone 01379870787. Alternatively, if you attend the primary or secondary school in Eye you can obtain an application form at St Peter and St Paul Primary School, or Hartismere High School. 26 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 11 features & news churches

CHURCH OF ENGLAND Big challenges facing ALL SAINTS, Stradbroke, Church St; ST ANDREW, REDLINGFIELD, Church Road; ST PETER, ATHELINGTON; ST MARY, HORHAM, The Street. Rev David Streeter, The Rectory, Doctors Lane, he Fairtrade movement is facing the price you pay, compared to what Stradbroke, IP21 5HU, Tel: 01379 384869. Email: [email protected] Information on church services is available at www.onesuffolk.co.uk/RedlingfieldPC/Church/ challenging times. Since the the supermarket paid for the goods, is Tmajor supermarkets have going in part to pay the supermarket’s SERVICES (Holy Communion unless stated otherwise): established their own brand fairtrade running costs, and the remainder adds Mar 1 Horham, 9am, Athelington, 10am. food ranges, sales at Traidcraft have in to their profits and is eventually Stradbroke, Thursdays in Lent, Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 & Apr 2, 10am (with short sermon). levelled out. passed on to their 8 Redlingfield, Benefice Communion, 10am. The success of fairtrade shareholders. 15 Horham, 9am, Athelington, 10am. via the supermarket has When you buy fairtrade 22 Mothering Sunday, Redlingfield 10am, Horham, Family Service, 11.15am. Worlingworth, Confirmation and Holy Communion with Bishop Nigel, 3.30pm. been good for the producers products direct from a 29 Horham, 9am, Stradbroke (with hymns & sermon), 10am. that Traidcraft and others fairtrade organisation, or via have worked with over the a fairtrader, the price you pay Apr 5 Holy Week, Palm Sunday, Athelington, 10am, Horham, Family Service, 11.15am 9 Maundy Thursday, Stradbroke, 7.30pm. last 30 years. However, it is – which may be higher than 10 Good Friday, Stradbroke, Readings on The Passion, 2-3pm, Horham, not such good news for the the supermarket – is going Evensong, 7.30pm. next generation of artisans back to the fairtrade 12 Easter Sunday, Stradbroke, 8am & 11.15am, Horham, 9am, Redlingfield, 10am, and farmers who hope to organisation, and funds the Athelington, Evensong, 6.30pm. work on a fairtrade basis. This is development of fairtrade. 19 Stradbroke, Benefice Communion, 10am with Bishop Paul Richardson. because, when you buy fairtrade from There is also story in progress over 26 Stradbroke, 8am, Redlingfield, Morning Prayer, 10am, Horham, Morning Prayer, supermarkets, the 40 per cent extra in fairtrade cotton and the fairtrade mark. 11.15am. May 3 Horham, 9am, Athelington, 10am. 10 Athelington, Benefice Communion, 10am. FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT: The theme of this year’s fairtrade fortnight 17 Redlingfield, 10am, Horham, Evensong, 6.30pm. (February -March 8) celebrations is ‘Go Bananas’ – as we promote the fact 24 Stradbroke, 8am, Horham, Morning Prayer, 11.15am, Redlingfield, Festival that one in every four bananas consumed in the UK is Evensong, 6pm. now from a Fairtrade supplier. To stimulate demand 31 Horham, 9am, Stradbroke (with hymns & sermon), 10am. further the Fairtrade Foundation are looking to set a Women’s World Day Of Prayer, Friday, March 6, at 2pm at Stradbroke Baptist Church. “In world record for Fairtrade Banana eating – starting Friday Christ There Are Many Members, Yet One Body”, A Service prepared by Christian Women of March 6 at noon until Saturday March 7 at noon. Two Papua New Guinea. All are most welcome to this Service. events are taking place locally where you can come along and eat a free banana and add your name to the ‘I ate one’ Forthcoming Services and events in the Worlingworth Benefice: pledge form – we may even, with your permission, take a photo of you eating it! The first Sun, Mar 8: 10.30am: A Guest Service at Monk Soham Church. Guest speaker is Roger event is the Fairtrade, Books and Bananas Bonanza at Gislingham Village Hall – 10am- Wells who will speak on Ministry in our Prisons. 4pm on Saturday, March 7. You need to come between 10am-12noon to take part in the Sun, Mar 22: Mothering Sunday, 10.30am: Benefice Mothering Sunday Service at Bedfield banana record. The second event is on Framlingham Market also on March 7 9am-1pm, Church; 3.30pm: Deanery Confirmation at Worlingworth Church when we welcome Bishop where we shall be having our first fairtrade stall of the year, and munching more bananas Nigel Stock to our Benefice. (we are also at Fram Market on Saturday, March 28). I am running sessions with 1st Eye Wed, Mar 25: Ash Wednesday. 7.30pm: Holy Communion at Worlingworth Church. Beavers on Fairtrade and Global Development during fairtrade fornight, and I have also Sun, April 5: 10.30am: Palm Sunday Service at Tannington Church. been invited to work with Diss Junior School during their Enterprise weeks. I think it could Good Friday, Apr 10: Both at Worlingworth Church - 10am Stations of the Cross. A be quite a challenge, but it’s good to do new things, to get to help children understand Service for all ages, followed by Hot Cross buns and coffee. 7.30pm The Benefice Choir about Global markets, and how fairtrade puts producers at the heart of business, instead will give a performance of ‘Olivet to Calvary’ by J H Maunder and following that, a short (5 of exploiting people for greater profits. The Eye Church shop is still open on Fridays minute) Cantata ‘ Jesus - Remember me’ by Bernard Butler. 11am-1pm during March. Sue Watson 01379 384558 Bank Holiday weekend, May 2-4: A Flower Festival in Worlingworth Church. 12 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 25 information, farmers markets & churches features & news

PLANNING: DENIED: Poplar Hall Farm, Benningham Green, Occold: Proposal to build agricultural workers dwelling and garage. TO BE DECIDED: Meadow Land to south of farm NEWS IN BRIEF drive Athelington Hall, Horham Road, Athelington: Proposal to use land for six holiday Fairtrade ALE AND DANCE: Hoxon Hundred lodges with ancillary construction of approach drive, hard standing and drainage plant. Agrocel, the organic cotton producing invite you to its Cotswold Ale and INFORMATION CENTRES: co-operative in India (and Traidcraft workshop on Saturday, March 7. EYE SERVICE CENTRE: 6 Cross Street, Eye, IP23 7AB. Open: Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm. A producer from its formation 27 years partnership between Suffolk County Council and Mid Suffolk District Council. From 3.30pm to 5.30pm Mike ago) have done very well from their Barclay will teach dances from the HARLESTON COMMUNITY INFORMATION CENTRE: 8 Exchange Street, Harleston. Open: Mon-Fri, 9.30am-3.30pm; Sat, 10am-1pm. Offers information covering this area. connection to Marks & Spencer, with Cotswold tradition of Stanton their fairtrade organic cotton reaching Harcourt. From 7.30pm to 11ish there FARMERS’ MARKETS ETC: STOWMARKET, Marketplace, first Fri of the month, 9.30am-1pm. a whole new audience. However, is the Cotswold Ale including beer and RICKINGHALL VILLAGE HALL, second Sat of the month, 9am-1pm. STRADBROKE BUSINESS & feast. The event is at Roydon ENTERPRISE COLLEGE, first Sat of the month, term time only, 9am-1pm. DISS, Marketplace, although these clothes carry the fairtrade mark, because the cotton is Community Centre near Diss. It is second Sat of the month, 9am-1pm. EYE COUNTRY MARKET: The Town Hall Wed, 10am-11am. £2.50 for the workshop including tea fairly traded, that is no guarantee that MOST HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCH, High Road, Diss. Parish Priest - Father Simon and biscuits and £8 for the Ale Blakesley, Waveney House, 7 Fair Green, Diss, IP22 4BQ. Tel: 01379 642914. Moblie: the seamstresses and cotton processors including beer and feast. Contact 07946 390060. Email: HolyTrinityDiss@ aol.com Web: www.holytrinitydiss.piczo.com are also working under fairtrade Ron Ross 01379 643563. SUNDAY MASS:9.30am (sung); 10.30am at Quidenham (sung); 11.30am; 6pm. conditions. INVITATION TO VIEW: Through this Holydays: 8am at Quidenham; 10am; 8pm. You, the consumer, can still only get scheme, privately-owned historic WEEKDAY MASS:Mon 10am; Tues 8am; Wed 10am; Fri 10am; Sat 10am. Morning Prayer that assurance from buying your houses and gardens in East Anglia 20 minutes before Mass on weekdays. clothes direct from a Fairtrade are open by appointment to the SATURDAYS: Rosary prayed 9.40am. Confessions 10.30am -10.45am or at call. organisation or via shops selling public. A majority of the properties are OCCOLD BAPTIST CHURCH, The Street, Occold. Church Secretary: Paul Harvey (01379 brands such as Namaste, Gossypium in Suffolk and many are in Mid 678764) Email: [email protected] Deacon: Phillip Leeder (01379 678962). and Hug. The mark in this case has Suffolk. The brochure for 2009 is Friends & Neighbours: Pauline Harvey (01379 678764). acted as a bit of a shield, showing good available from 01284 827087 or SUNDAYS: Services are at 10.45am and 6pm. The evening service is followed by work, but not the whole story – the www.invitationtoview.co.uk. To book a refreshments and a chat. Every first Sun after the evening service at 7pm there is commodity is fairly traded, but what visit call the Mercury Theatre on supper and you are very welcome to join us. 01206 573948 or book on-line at about all the other services and inputs THURSDAYS: Bible study with opportunity for discussion. The meeting is also an important www.mercurytheatre.co.uk. Local time to pray for the village and surrounding area, national and international events, for that go into making your clothes? properties taking part include: Linden the sick and those in need, and for one another at 7.30pm. On the last Thurs of each Now the economic times are tough, House, Eye; The Abbey, Eye; Yaxley month Occold Baptists join with Diss Baptist Church, Denmark Hill, Diss, at 7:30pm. and there may be some of you having Hall; Wingfield College; Bedfield Second Thurs at Rishangles Baptist Church at 7.30pm. to review your spending behaviour – Hall; and Crow’s Hall, Debenham. WEDNESDAYS: Friends & Neighbours - for ladies, second Wed of each month at can I encourage you to do as much WINGFIELD BARNS: Wingfield 7.30pm. A guest demonstrates a craft or speaks about their work or travels. good with the money you spend as you Barns reopens on April 3 with a HORHAM BAPTIST CHURCH, Chapel Lane. Secretary, John Ladbrook, Potash Farm, Fingal can – you may be spending less but programme of exhibitions, music and Street, Worlingworth, IP13 7PD. Tel: 01728 628670. Web: www.horhambaptistchurch.org can do so more wisely and do more theatre throughout the spring, Wheelchair access & space, hearing aid loop. overall good. summer and autumn. Watch for the MAIN MEETINGS: Sunday: 10.45am - morning worship and Sunday school, family service If things are tough here in the UK – new brochure early in March which second Sunday in month, communion quarterly. 2pm - afternoon worship, communion think what the result will be for will be available in post offices and first Sunday in month. producers, workers and their families shops in the area. Or go to the FOR UNDER 18S: crèche (0-3); Sunday school (3-15); Megamix (5-11); Horhamania Wingfield Barns website (11-16+); Brownies; Holiday Club (3-11); Familytime (all ages); youth house groups. in the developing nations. www.wingfieldbarns.com and sign up LOCAL OUTREACH & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES: Horhamania (11-16+); Brownies; Holiday Club Sue Watson (01379 384558) to be a Friend and have the material (3-11); parents & toddlers; Female Focus; seniors’ meals. Eye Church Fairtrade Shop sent to you. 24 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 13 columns & in memoriam groups, clubs & advice Your Community Police Officer reports AGE CONCERN - REDLINGFIELD REPRESENTATIVE: Jacqueline Love, Western Barn, Abbotts Meadow, Redlingfield. Tel: 01379 678805. Email: [email protected] Age Concern NOW that the nights are drawing out and we are heading towards spring, website http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/ please remember to secure garden equipment and sheds after use. This is SUFFOLK ANIMAL RESCUE, 5 Cherry Tree Lane, Debenham, Suffolk, IP14 6QT. Has rescued the time of year that thefts of lawn mowers and garden tools often increase. cats, dogs, rabbits and other small animals seeking new homes.Tel: 01728 860937. Shed alarms can be purchased from your local Police station to help Email: [email protected] Web: www.suffolkanimalrescue.org improve security. We have also seen an increase in the theft of diesel fuel SUFFOLK FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY - STRADBROKE & EYE GROUP: The group is for people from trucks parked up overnight, please be vigilant in regard to this type of crime. researching their family history. The local group meets at Stradbroke Community Centre on Since my last report there have been no crimes in the area, which is pleasing to note. the last Tuesday of the month. You don’t need to be a member to go to meetings, which start at 7.30pm (entry £2). Tel: 01728 860551. Email: [email protected] A property photographing scheme has been introduced, which allows householders to Web: www.suffolkfhs.co.uk have items of value in their homes photographed and recorded on a compact disc. The THE EYE & DISTRICT MEMBERS GROUP OF THE SUFFOLK WILDLIFE TRUST: The group work to raise scheme is run by the Mid Suffolk Crime Prevention Panel and details are available from funds and promote awareness of the Suffolk Wildlife Trust in Eye and surrounds. Regular the Crime Reduction Officer on 01473 383410. monthly evening meetings are at Mellis Village Hall. Tel: Tim Craven, 01379 668383. Web: The Police have a Community Intelligence Hotline where information can be left www.suffolkwildlife.co.uk/ regarding local offences. The number is 01284 774029. You can leave your details or be HOXON HUNDRED: Morris dancers and musicians practice on Wednesdays through autumn anonymous, but please help us to make your community even safer. and winter at St Edmund’s Hall, Hoxne at 7.30pm. Tel: Ron Ross, 01379 643563. I would like to remind all of you who have yet to sign up to Police Direct of the value of Email [email protected] Web: www.hoxonhundred.co.uk doing so. Sign up and you will receive either an email or text message informing you of DENHAM VILLAGE HALL: Charges for hiring the hall range from £35 for all-day hires by non- residents to £7 for residents’ children’s parties. Electricity, which includes most of the heating, any incidents in your area. To register for free call 01473 613997. is extra, paid by a 50p and £1 slot meter in the kitchen. Bookings can be made with Tina I wish you all a safe and pleasant spring. Chenery (01379 870797). Hall management committee chairman: Mr D. Reynolds (668797); Pc Tim Green, Mid Suffolk North Safer Neighbourhood Team secretary: Rose McMahon (870346). VOLUNTEER CENTRE MID-SUFFOLK: There are usually up to 550 volunteering opportunities on ROBERT DAVY passed away on Thursday January offer within 200 voluntary organisations in Mid Suffolk. These include driving community 15 2009: Robert was born at Grove Farm, Athelington, vehicles, gardening, conservation, shopping, visiting and befriending, helping in the offices of in July 1929 where he lived all his life except for a few voluntary organisations and getting involved in community projects. The Centre at 5 Poplar Hill, Stowmarket, IP14 2AS, is open Mon to Fri 9am-2pm. Tel: 01449 612486. Email: years at nearby Grove Cottage. He was the third [email protected] Web www.do-it.org.uk or www.optua.org.uk generation of the Davy family to live and farm at Grove EYE & DISTRICT VOLUNTEER CENTRE: You can get practical help or volunteer at 20 Broad Farm. Robert has a twin brother John, sister Sheila in Street, Eye, IP23 7AF. Open: Mon 10.30am-12.30pm & 1.30pm-3.30pm; Wed 10.30am- America and sister Betty, who passed away in America. 12.30pm; Fri 10.30am-3.30pm. Tel: 01379 871200. Robert married Doreen in 1951 and they were together CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX: Web: www.citizensadvice.org.uk/ and www.adviceguide.org.uk until she passed away in June 2003. They had three DISS, THETFORD & DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU: children, Nigel, Angela and Mark. He has five DISS: Shelfanger Road, Diss, Norfolk, IP22 4EH Tel: 01379 651333 (Diss); 01842 764860 grandchildren. Robert took great pleasure in crop - welfare rights and money advice Thetford. Fax: 01379 640530 & 01842 750986. Email: [email protected] Open: 10am-3pm Mon (drop in & telephone advice); husbandry and tending the animals on the farm which 10am-3pm Tues (telephone advice only); 10am-3pm Wed (drop in & telephone advice) & he did with great care. He loved harvest time, and 4pm-6pm (appointments & telephone advice); 10am-3pm Thurs & Fri (drop in & probably gathered in well over forty harvests during his telephone advice). Other Services at Diss: Lunchtime Tues local solicitors - by lifetime. He always had a great affection for dogs, and appointment only. By appointment Independent Financial Adviser. his constant companion for many years after Doreen HARLESTON: Information Centre, 8 Exchange Street. Open: 10am-noon Wed & Fri. passed away was his dog, Timber. Robert never liked EYE: Customer Services Direct, Cross Street. Open: 10am-noon Thurs. being away from Grove Farm for long and his deepest MID-SUFFOLK CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU: wish was that he could stay there until he died. He was able to do this with the help of STOWMARKET: 5 Milton Road South, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 1EZ. Tel: 01449 676060 & 01449 676280. Fax: 01449 675634 - ring before faxing. Open: 9.30am-3.30pm Mon; family, carers and very good friends and he spent only two days in hospital before he 9.30am-3.30pm Tues; 9.30am-3.30pm Wed for telephone advice only; 9.30am-6.30pm died. He will be sadly missed. Robert and Doreen are pictured above. Thurs; 9.30am-12.30pm Fri. 14 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 23 groups & clubs etc columns & news

HORHAM & ATHELINGTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL (opposite the church): Membership is £10 for a family living at one address, (2 adults and children up to 16 years), £5 for a single adult, £3 Your District Your County for a junior 16/18 years (age must be proven). Membership fees run from Jan 1-Dec 31. Councillor reports Councillor reports Membership forms are available from the bar staff, or Angela Wilkins on 01379 384625. WE still await the decision of NOW that the worst of the Community Centre club nights and opening hours: Wed, Fri, and Sat, 8pm-11pm (admission may be restricted when a private function is being held). Further information on membership the Boundary Commission winter is over (we hope) we or events from Angela Wilkins. Hall bookings can only be made via Karen Alderton on 01379 with regard to the future are starting to put right 384754. Chairman - Margaret Streeter, The Rectory, Doctors Lane, Stradbroke, 01379 governance of Suffolk. some of the damage. 384363. Personal Licence Holder - Rod Tyrrell, 01379 388285. County Council elections will This has been the most HORHAM OLD SCHOOL AND SOCIAL CLUB (next to the church): Membership is £5 per year, and take place in June and we may not know severe winter for 20 years. Many of our the Club is open from 8pm till late on Tues and Fri. Chairman - Keith Hawes, Meadow Farm, the minister’s decision until July. It is an minor roads are little more than cart Athelington, Eye, IP21 5EJ. Tel: 01728 628608. Secretary - Margaret Streeter, The Rectory, unsettling situation for county and district, tracks with very little depth of Doctors Lane, Stradbroke, IP21 5HU. Hall Bookings - Pip Florance, Tel: 01379 384370, but we remain focused on the essentials – construction Laburnum Cottage, The Street, Horham, IP21 5DX. Personal License Holder - Keith Hawes. providing service as normal. There has been almost 60 days of REDLINGFIELD & OCCOLD WOMEN’S INSTITUTE: Meetings in Occold Primary School on the first I remind you that there is money frost since mid November along with Wed of every month except January when they are on the second Wed. Tel: President snow and flooding and high water Caroline Miller, 01379 678871. Information on meetings on What’s On pages of this available from the Communities fund for magazine and at www.onesuffolk.co.uk/RedlingfieldPC/WomensInstitiute/ ideas to benefit villages. Do take tables. The result has been the NEW REEDING WOODS GROUP, POUND LANE WOOD, Redlingfield Road, Horham: join a working advantage of this. We are also asked to breakdown of the surface and crazing party, or become a “ Friend” by calling Mike Reeves on 01379 668179. This is community check the roads after the harsh winter for of the carriageway. woodland, held in trust for all the villagers of Denham, Horham and Athelington. serious damage. Let me know if you can The number of reported potholes has HAPPY CIRCLE CLUB: Meets 2nd and 4th Thurs each month at the Horham Community Centre. identify them in the villages. increased fourfold. Suffolk County 2pm-4.30pm in summer and 1.30-4pm in winter. Members play scrabble and card games. Mid Suffolk has done all it can to hold Council has put on extra gangs to deal They have a birthday tea in May and go out for lunch twice a year. Tel: Violet Allum, 01379 down the council tax for this year. It gets with the urgent cases. 388107. increasingly difficult when there are so Once the full extent of the problem 95TH BOMB GROUP HERITAGE ASSOCIATION/RED FEATHER CLUB: Horham Airfield, IP21 5DG many calls on resources and so much we has been assessed then Suffolk CC will (see what’s on for open days & events). Annual membership £5. Tel: Frank Sherman, would like to do, but the Government has prioritise the work but dangerous 01379 678471 Email: [email protected] Web: www.95thbg-horham.com decreased our allocation on a sliding scale potholes will be repaired as soon as 95TH BOMB GROUP HOSPITAL MUSEUM, Shingle Hill, Denham, IP21 5EU. Open May -Oct on the last Sunday in the month, 10am-5pm or by appointment. Tel: 01379 870514. Email: and our income has been hit by the possible. [email protected] Web: www.hexpek.co.uk/95thbghm/index.htm financial climate. We have not lost any In the meantime please report ROYAL BRITISH LEGION - STRADBROKE AND DISTRICT RBL BRANCH: The branch meet at The money from investments in foreign banks. potholes (giving as much detail as Kings Head, Laxfield (Low House), starting 11.30am on the first Thursday of each month for I’m looking forward to the better weather possible) to Customer Service Direct a meeting with speaker and lunch afterwards. Tel: Hon Sec Jeremy Higgins, 01379 384300. – so important to our rural community and (CSD) on 08456 066067 or call in at the EYE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION WOMEN’S SECTION: The branch meet at Tacon Close Community a chance to get out and take part in the CSD office at the Cross Street Car Park Room in Eye for social events, with guest speakers and to raise funds on the third Monday in events planned for village life. in Eye. Feb, April, June, Aug, Oct and Dec at 7.15pm. All women welcome. Tel: The Secretary, Mrs C Elizabeth Gibson-Harries, Guy McGregor, County Councillor, Elliott, 01379 644981. District Councillor, 01379 384680 Hoxne & Eye Division, 01379 668434 ROYAL AIR FORCES ASSOCIATION - DISS AND DISTRICT RAFA BRANCH: The branch meet on the first Monday of the month at the Grasmere Club in Diss. Tel: membership secretary, Gordon CHURCH GRANT: The Church Council of St Johns Church in Denham have Johnson, 01379 642101. Tel: secretary, Brian Ager, 01379 640337. Email: [email protected] Web: www.onesuffolk.co.uk/DissandDistrictRAFA successfully applied for a grant of £199,000, from English Heritage and the Lottery THE EYE GRAMMAR SCHOOL FUND: This trust fund provides grants to young people and Fund towards, the estimated total cost of £262,000 for repairs to the Church. English educational organisations serving those under 25 who live in Eye, Athelington, Bedfield and Heritage believes that historically this Church is worth saving. It is hoped other grant Horham. Special grants are available to cover expenses not met by the local education providing trusts will help to make up the difference but villagers will have to contribute authority. For an application form write to: Mrs L Bernard, Clerk to the Eye Grammar School a few thousand pounds. Fund-raising activities will include selling notelets and Fund, 2 Lowgate Street, Eye, Suffolk IP23 7AS, or telephone 01379 870787. Christmas cards illustrating the Church and churchyard in the varying seasons. 22 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 15 what’s on transport & libraries

MONDAYS Monday February 23-Sunday March 8 SCHEDULED BUS SERVICES (HORHAM): Ballroom dancing: St Edmund’s Hall, Fairtrade Fortnight. See story. MONDAYS TO SATURDAYS: Bus Service 482 operated by Simonds Monday-Friday Hoxne, 7.30pm-9.30pm (for adults). WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 Horham Church 7.22 10.02 12.07 14.07 17.07 Sandra Hartley, 01728 723887. Redlingfield & Occold WI: Occold Diss Bus Station 7.55 10.35 12.40 14.40 17.37 TUESDAYS School, 7.45pm. Mr Stephen James - Diss Bus Station 9.20 11.25 13.25 14.45 16.25 17.55 Improver line dance class: Coronation Inheritance Tax, Planning Retirement, Horham Church 9.53 11.58 13.58 15.18 16.58 18.28 Hall, Wilby. 9.30am–11.30am. Rose, Long Term Care etc. Stradbroke Church 9.57 12.03 14.03 15.23 17.02 18.32 01379 870346. Coffee morning: Woodvale, Redlingfield FRIDAYS: Fareline Bus & Coach’s 475 Wingfield-Stradbroke-Hoxne-Diss service leaves Live folk music: Queen’s Head, 10am-noon. See story. Horham from opposite the church at 9.52am arriving at Diss Bus Station at 10.32am. Stradbroke, 1pm-7pm. 01379 384384. Saturday, March 7 The return bus leaves Diss Bus Station at 1pm arriving at Horham at 1.35pm. Belly dancing: Horham Community Hoxon Hundred Cotswold Ale. See Full timetable in bus shelter opposite church. Visit www.suffolkonboard.com Centre, 7.45pm-9pm. Pip Florance, 01379 story. or phone 0845 6066067. Traveline transport info 0871 2002233 or ww.traveline.info 384370, Margaret Streeter, 01379 384363. IGH UFFOLK OMMUNITY RANSPORT EDLINGFIELD SUNDAY, MARCH 8 H S C T (R ): There are once-a-week return minibus Bingo: Thorndon Village Hall, 7.30pm Redlingfield Litter Picking from 10am. services from Redlingfield to Diss and Stowmarket. every other Tues. All usual bingo features, DISS-FRIDAYS: The Worlingworth-Bedfield-Redlingfield-Eye-Diss service picks up from accumulating jackpot & refreshments. THURSDAY, MARCH 19 The Knoll at 9.42am arriving at Diss Bus Station at 10.07am. It returns from Diss Bus Brenda Hunt, 01379 678178. Film Night: Red Feather Club - film show Station at 12.20pm arriving at Redlingfield at 12.45pm. on rural life in Suffolk. £3 for members, £4 WEDNESDAYS STOWMARKET-THURSDAYS: The Redlingfield-Worlingworth-Debenham-Stowmarket service Improver/intermediate line dance class: for non-members. Start 7.30 pm. leaves from The Knoll at 8.55am arriving at Stowmarket Market Place, Argos Store, at Wortham Community Centre. 7.30pm– Easy Virtue: Stradbroke Cinema, 10am. It leaves Stowmarket at 1.10pm arriving in Redlingfield at 2.15pm. For more 9.30pm. Rose, 01379 870346. Stradbroke Community Centre, 7pm for information visit www.travelineeastanglia.co.uk/community.html 7.30 pm. Bar will be open - ice creams in THURSDAYS DIAL-A-RIDE MINIBUS (ATHELINGTON, HORHAM & REDLINGFIELD): The Borderhoppa, which has a Happy Circle Club: Horham Community the interval. Entrance £5.50. capacity of one to 16 people and offers disabled access, serves a large area approximately Centre, 2nd & 4th Thurs at 2pm-4.30pm Saturday, March 21 centred on Diss. The service is available Mon to Fri from 8.30am to 5pm and bookings are (summer) & 1.30-4pm (winter). Concert Evening: Traditional Music, taken Mon to Fri from 8.30am to 3.30pm 48 hours in advance. You are advised of fares at the FRIDAYS Song, Stepdance & Jig Doll with Roy time of booking. Tel: 01379 854800. Email: [email protected] Bingo: Stradbroke Community Centre, Hubbard & Friends, Syleham Village Hall, SUFFOLKCARSHARE.COM: This scheme is run by Suffolk ACRE (Action with Communities in Wilby Road, 2nd Friday monthly. 7.30pm. doors open 6.30pm start 8pm. Tickets £5. Rural England) in partnership with the county council and chamber of commerce. It gives Mary Ellis 01379 384642. No tickets on door. Doreen, 01379 people the chance to offer or seek lifts on www.SuffolkCarShare.com Bereavement Support Group: Eye 644960. KICKSTART: Kickstart is a moped loan scheme that could help you get a job or training place Volunteer Centre, start 3pm - Feb 6, Mar Film Show: Films of East Anglia from the by loaning you a moped to get from your home to work or college, and home again. The 6, Apr 3, May 1, May 29, June 26, July 24, past, including: towns, countryside, scheme is run by Suffolfk ACRE. Tel: 01473 242500, email [email protected] or Aug 21, Sept 18, Oct 16, Nov 13, Dec 11 farming, theatre & local history. Horham visit /www.suffolkacre.org.uk/main.php/transport/kickstart & Jan 8, 2010. Community Centre, bar opens 7.30pm, LIBRARIES: Suffolk residents may join both Suffolk and Norfolk public libraries. FRIDAYS/SUNDAYS films start 8pm. Entrance £3.50/ EYE: Buckshorn Lane, Eye, IP23 7AZ. Tel: 01379 870515. Open: Tues 9.30am-1pm; Traditional music: Worlingworth Swan, concessions £2.50. Wed 9.30pm-1pm & 2pm-5.30pm; Thurs 2pm-5.30pm; Fri 9.30am-1pm & 2pm-7pm; 2nd Friday evening of the month in TUESDAY, MARCH 24 Sat 9.30am-1pm; Sun 10am-3pm. summer. Sunday lunchtimes in autumn & Eye & Stradbroke Family History STRADBROKE: Court House, Queens Street, Stradbroke, IP21 5HG. Tel: 01379 384768. winter. 01728 628267. Group: Stradbroke Community Centre, Open: Tues 2.30pm-5pm & 5.30pm-7.30pm; Thurs 10am-1pm & 2.30pm-5pm; SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS 7.30pm. Richard Cobbold’s Wortham: A Fri 2.30pm-5pm; Sat 10am-12.30pm; Sunday 10am-3pm. Victorian Village. £2. 01728 860551. Open days: 95th Bomb Group Heritage DISS: Church Street, Diss, IP22 4DD. Tel: 01379 642609. Open: Mon 9am-5pm; Tues Association/Red Feather Club is open on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 9am-1pm; Wed 9am-7.30pm; Thurs 9am-5pm; Fri 9am-7.30pm; Sat 9am-1pm. the last weekend of the month May- Redlingfield & Occold WI: Occold MOBILE LIBRARY (HORHAM & REDLINGFIELD): The Mobile Library visits Redlingfield and October (inclusive). 10am-4pm. Village Hall, 7.45pm. Mrs Gilly Bursnoll - Horham on alternate Thursdays (March 5 & 19; April 2 & 16 & 30; May 14 & 28; June 11 SUNDAYS Card Painting Workshop. & 25). It stops at The Knoll, Redlingfield, 11.40am-11.50am and Horham Church, noon- 95th Bomb Group Hospital Museum: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8 12.10pm. To contact the mobile library, phone 07736 007604. Alternatively, you can Open May-October on the last Sunday in Redlingfield Village Meeting agm: telephone the office between 9am and noon, Mon-Fri, on 07872 676698 or email the month. 10am-5pm or by appointment. Horham Community Centre, 8pm. [email protected] 16 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 21 horham & athelington parish council/redlingfield village meeting what’s on

HORHAM: FISH ‘N’ CHIPS & MORE: The monthly Fish ‘n’ Chip nights at the Community SATURDAY, APRIL 18 SUNDAY, JUNE 14 Centre have been a huge success. Hav, our resident chef cooks up a mouth-watering supper Redlingfield Cheese & Wine: Horham & Horham Bygones Road Run. of cod, plaice or haddock and golden chips cooked to perfection and perhaps washed down Athelington Community Centre from 8pm. TUESDAY, JUNE 16 with a pint of sparkling ale served at the bar. If you would like to enjoy a plate of Hav’s fish TUESDAY, APRIL 21 Coffee Caravan: Redlingfield 10am-noon. and chips you can sign up for this treat at the village Post Office or Community Centre. Coffee Caravan: Redlingfield 10am-noon. TUESDAY, JUNE 23 REMINDER: A reminder to Community Council members that membership fees for 2009 are THURSDAY, APRIL 23 Eye & Stradbroke Family History Group: now due. Renewal forms/details available from me or at the bar during opening hours Quantam of Solace: Stradbroke Cinema, Stradbroke Community Centre, 7.30pm. Wednesday, Friday & Saturday from 8pm. Stradbroke Community Centre, 7pm for “They’re Not There!”: Using Census KEEP AN EYE ON THE ROADS: Either on foot or in the car it would be wise to keep a close 7.30 pm. Bar will be open - ice creams in Indexes. £2. Julie Kersey, 01728 860551. eye on the road or footway surface you are travelling on as the recent very cold spell has the interval. Entrance £5.50. WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 played havoc on them. Although we are not out of the woods yet weather wise I am sure SATURDAY APRIL 25 many parish councils including Horham of which I am the clerk would like to hear reports of Redlingfield & Occold WI: An outside New Reeding Woods Group: Spring event. Details to be arranged. this damage in order that they can relay requests of repairs to Suffolk County Council meeting and AGM at Redlingfield Wood Highways. A special warning to cyclists is wise as a small pot hole could result in serious WEDNESDAY, JULY 8 and the Red Feather Club from 4.30pm. Redlingfield Doorstep Green Tidy Up: injury or worse Angela Wilkins - Clerk 01379 384625 01379 668179. See story. REDLINGFIELD: MANY THANKS: A raffle at Sue and Steve Toll’s pre-Christmas mulled from 6pm. TUESDAY, APRIL 28 wine get-together raised £103 for Redlingfield’s Doorstep Green. Also thanks to all those TUESDAY, JULY 21 involved in the winter coffee mornings: Jacqueline & David Love for organising them; and Redlingfield & Occold WI - Spring Coffee Caravan: Redlingfield 2pm-4pm. Group Meeting: Gislingham Village Hall. Edith & Eddie Coe, Pat Kelly, Jan & Neville Butcher, Chris & Midge Gibbons, Chris & Midge TUESDAY, JULY 28 Gibbons and Lind Hudson, for hosting events. Karen Kenny - Let’s Save the Planet. Eye & Stradbroke Family History Group: Eye & Stradbroke Family History CHEESE & WINE: Remember to nab your tickets for the village cheese & wine on Saturday Group: Stradbroke Community Centre, Stradbroke Community Centre, 7.30pm. April 18. Contact a committee member. 7.30pm. Cunning Folk to Quacks: Wills & Probate Inventories for Local & PLANNING: The planning application to build an agricultural workers’ house at Poplar Hall Medicine Over 500 Years. £2. Julie Family Historians. £2. 01728 860551. Farm, Benningham Green, Occold, was refused despite support from both Redlingfield and Kersey, 01728 860551. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5 Occold parish councils. However, it is likely that they will reapply for permission. Redlingfield & Occold WI: Occold Village REDLINGFIELD PARISH COUNCIL/REDLINGFIELD VILLAGE MEETING: chairman, Mike WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 Hall, 7.45pm. Mrs Angela Pratt. DNA and Ager, Hidcote Lodge, Mill Road, Redlingfield, IP23 7QU. 01379 678835. Members: minutes Redlingfield & Occold WI: Occold Village Hall, 7.45pm. WI Resolutions. all that! secretary - Pat Kelly; treasurer - Jeanette Brierley; committee members - Andrew Abbott, SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 Graham Abbott, Katie Abbott, Allan Chapman, Susan Chapman, Edith Coe, Chris Gibbons, SATURDAY, MAY 9-MONDAY, MAY 25 South and Heart of Suffolk: See story. Diss and District branch of RAFA - Andrew Howlett, Russell Kerry, Manday Miller, Janet Norman-Philips, Stephen Toll & Sue Salute to the RAF: Flixton near Bungay. Toll. Email: [email protected] Web: www.redlingfield.suffolk.gov.uk FRIDAY, MAY 15 Film to be arranged: Stradbroke Cinema, TUESDAY, AUGUST18 WINTER’S HERE! POETRY CORNER Stradbroke Community Centre. Coffee Caravan: Redlingfield 10am-noon. SUNDAY, MAY 17 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 She comes after the shortest day, her The hardest of all months for all to live Redlingfield & Occold WI: Occold Village grasp will literally take your breath through, Grand Open Day: 95th Bomb Group Heritage Association/Red Feather Club Hall, 7.45pm. Mrs Linda Sexton - A brief away, Man at this time of year loves the light History of the Suffolk Landscape. To see it wisp and curl before your of a fire, 10am-5 pm. See story. TUESDAY, MAY 19 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 eyes, For the golds, rich red oranges, the fire Coffee Caravan: Redlingfield 2pm-4pm. As her cold hard gaze will turn tree brings, Coffee Caravan: Redlingfield 2pm-4pm. TUESDAY, MAY 26 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 branches a cold hard white, Reminds us of warmer days to come. Eye & Stradbroke Family History Eye & Stradbroke Family History Group: All before it encased in a frost hard But her hardest grasp will be broken by Group: Stradbroke Community Centre, Stradbroke Community Centre, 7.30pm. glaze to glisten and shine. the smallest of all things, 7.30pm. All About Tithes, Before & After Invisible Women. £2. 01728 860551. For no warmth here in her icy glare, A small delicate flower, all wait and look the Commutation Act. £2. 01728 860551. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7 Just a hard cold bleakness, for the snowdrop! WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3 Redlingfield & Occold WI: Occold And barren coldness for the unwary to The great tit sings on his pump, Redlingfield & Occold WI: WI outing. To School, 7.45pm. Mr Malcolm Crowe - stray, Sticky buds of the horse chestnut tree, be arranged. Wooden Toys and Games. As the sun has no warmth never And the sun reaching for the yardarm . SATURDAY, JUNE 13 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 reaching the yardarm. Manday Miller Horham Bygones Rally: See story. Redlingfield Harvest Supper. 20 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 17 feature Memories of village life dward (Ted) Harvey of Oak Farm he was coming home on the school bus in Horham has been telling me when it stopped at the level crossing by Eabout some of his memories. Horham station; suddenly an enemy Ted is the youngest of nine children. fighter plane came fast ‘out of nowhere’ He has four sisters and four brothers. and machine-gunned the station. Ted As Jeanne Hawes told me for the last and his friends were very shaken; it all issue, Ted’s eldest brother, Victor, was happened very quickly and left them called up in the last war. Victor served speechless. in India and Burma. Ted also has many happy memories of The campaign in Burma was his childhood. The big fields we see particularly brutal, Victor was today were divided into many fields and imprisoned by the Japanese and put to pastures by high, thick hedges and there swill. When it was time to kill a pig the work on the Burma-Thailand railway. were many big oak trees for cattle to slaughterer who went from farm to farm Conditions were appalling and he died shelter under. Some trunks were as came and killed it on the farm. There in a POW camp. His memorial is in the much as three or four feet across and was no stun gun and Ted says it was war cemetery in Thailand must have been hundreds of years old. very cruel. Ted’s brother, Jack, was called up They remained until the government In the very hard winter of 1947 Ted later during the war. His first posting decided that it would be more efficient remembers gangs of men clearing the was to Italy where his job was driving a to have larger fields. Grants were given roads with hand shovels. It was very colonel. Later he was sent to the Far to farmers to enable them to create large hard work and had to be repeated East and was engaged in freeing and fields and so the trees were felled. When caught, Ted’s mother gave him a because the winter was so long that year. helping POWs. Ted told me that Jack Ted and his friends did not like school hiding and sent him to bed. There have been a lot of changes, never talked about this experience and very much and occasionally truanted. Ted saw a Flying Fortress take off and some gains, some losses. had come back from the war a much Instead of getting the bus they hid then crash on to Green Farm in Ted Harvey was talking to quieter and more serious man. around Pound Lane until it had gone and Redlingfield. All the airmen on board Evelyn Adey Ted was attending Stradbroke primary then made their way across the fields to were killed but miraculously no one on school during the war. On one occasion the air base. There they went into the the ground was hurt. hangars and the American One of the Americans was a friend of airmen showed them the planes. Ted’s older sister, Elsie, and he often The airmen then took them to the brought presents to the family. The canteen and gave them huge Americans also gave Christmas parties meals. Later the boys hid until for the children. Ted mostly remembers they saw the school bus return. the wonderful and very plentiful teas they were given; as with most boys Pictures: Top right: Horham Street taken food was a big issue, particularly in from the church tower before 1934 and wartime when much of our food was inset a picture from the 50s of Athelington Road. Left: A young Ted boring and rationed. and Victor in his uniform. Right: family Most families kept a pig and leftovers photo of Evelyn, Ted and Arthur. from the American base were made into horham & athelington parish council/redlingfield village meeting what’s on

HORHAM: FISH ‘N’ CHIPS & MORE: The monthly Fish ‘n’ Chip nights at the Community SATURDAY, APRIL 18 SUNDAY, JUNE 14 Centre have been a huge success. Hav, our resident chef cooks up a mouth-watering supper Redlingfield Cheese & Wine: Horham & Horham Bygones Road Run. of cod, plaice or haddock and golden chips cooked to perfection and perhaps washed down Athelington Community Centre from 8pm. TUESDAY, JUNE 16 with a pint of sparkling ale served at the bar. If you would like to enjoy a plate of Hav’s fish TUESDAY, APRIL 21 Coffee Caravan: Redlingfield 10am-noon. and chips you can sign up for this treat at the village Post Office or Community Centre. Coffee Caravan: Redlingfield 10am-noon. TUESDAY, JUNE 23 REMINDER: A reminder to Community Council members that membership fees for 2009 are THURSDAY, APRIL 23 Eye & Stradbroke Family History Group: now due. Renewal forms/details available from me or at the bar during opening hours Quantam of Solace: Stradbroke Cinema, Stradbroke Community Centre, 7.30pm. Wednesday, Friday & Saturday from 8pm. Stradbroke Community Centre, 7pm for “They’re Not There!”: Using Census KEEP AN EYE ON THE ROADS: Either on foot or in the car it would be wise to keep a close 7.30 pm. Bar will be open - ice creams in Indexes. £2. Julie Kersey, 01728 860551. eye on the road or footway surface you are travelling on as the recent very cold spell has the interval. Entrance £5.50. WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 played havoc on them. Although we are not out of the woods yet weather wise I am sure SATURDAY APRIL 25 many parish councils including Horham of which I am the clerk would like to hear reports of Redlingfield & Occold WI: An outside New Reeding Woods Group: Spring event. Details to be arranged. this damage in order that they can relay requests of repairs to Suffolk County Council meeting and AGM at Redlingfield Wood Highways. A special warning to cyclists is wise as a small pot hole could result in serious WEDNESDAY, JULY 8 and the Red Feather Club from 4.30pm. Redlingfield Doorstep Green Tidy Up: injury or worse Angela Wilkins - Clerk 01379 384625 01379 668179. See story. REDLINGFIELD: MANY THANKS: A raffle at Sue and Steve Toll’s pre-Christmas mulled from 6pm. TUESDAY, APRIL 28 wine get-together raised £103 for Redlingfield’s Doorstep Green. Also thanks to all those TUESDAY, JULY 21 involved in the winter coffee mornings: Jacqueline & David Love for organising them; and Redlingfield & Occold WI - Spring Coffee Caravan: Redlingfield 2pm-4pm. Group Meeting: Gislingham Village Hall. Edith & Eddie Coe, Pat Kelly, Jan & Neville Butcher, Chris & Midge Gibbons, Chris & Midge TUESDAY, JULY 28 Gibbons and Lind Hudson, for hosting events. Karen Kenny - Let’s Save the Planet. Eye & Stradbroke Family History Group: Eye & Stradbroke Family History CHEESE & WINE: Remember to nab your tickets for the village cheese & wine on Saturday Group: Stradbroke Community Centre, Stradbroke Community Centre, 7.30pm. April 18. Contact a committee member. 7.30pm. Cunning Folk to Quacks: Wills & Probate Inventories for Local & PLANNING: The planning application to build an agricultural workers’ house at Poplar Hall Medicine Over 500 Years. £2. Julie Family Historians. £2. 01728 860551. Farm, Benningham Green, Occold, was refused despite support from both Redlingfield and Kersey, 01728 860551. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5 Occold parish councils. However, it is likely that they will reapply for permission. Redlingfield & Occold WI: Occold Village REDLINGFIELD PARISH COUNCIL/REDLINGFIELD VILLAGE MEETING: chairman, Mike WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 Hall, 7.45pm. Mrs Angela Pratt. DNA and Ager, Hidcote Lodge, Mill Road, Redlingfield, IP23 7QU. 01379 678835. Members: minutes Redlingfield & Occold WI: Occold Village Hall, 7.45pm. WI Resolutions. all that! secretary - Pat Kelly; treasurer - Jeanette Brierley; committee members - Andrew Abbott, SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 Graham Abbott, Katie Abbott, Allan Chapman, Susan Chapman, Edith Coe, Chris Gibbons, SATURDAY, MAY 9-MONDAY, MAY 25 South and Heart of Suffolk: See story. Diss and District branch of RAFA - Andrew Howlett, Russell Kerry, Manday Miller, Janet Norman-Philips, Stephen Toll & Sue Salute to the RAF: Flixton near Bungay. Toll. Email: [email protected] Web: www.redlingfield.suffolk.gov.uk FRIDAY, MAY 15 Film to be arranged: Stradbroke Cinema, TUESDAY, AUGUST18 WINTER’S HERE! POETRY CORNER Stradbroke Community Centre. Coffee Caravan: Redlingfield 10am-noon. SUNDAY, MAY 17 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 She comes after the shortest day, her The hardest of all months for all to live Redlingfield & Occold WI: Occold Village grasp will literally take your breath through, Grand Open Day: 95th Bomb Group Heritage Association/Red Feather Club Hall, 7.45pm. Mrs Linda Sexton - A brief away, Man at this time of year loves the light History of the Suffolk Landscape. To see it wisp and curl before your of a fire, 10am-5 pm. See story. TUESDAY, MAY 19 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 eyes, For the golds, rich red oranges, the fire Coffee Caravan: Redlingfield 2pm-4pm. As her cold hard gaze will turn tree brings, Coffee Caravan: Redlingfield 2pm-4pm. TUESDAY, MAY 26 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 branches a cold hard white, Reminds us of warmer days to come. Eye & Stradbroke Family History Eye & Stradbroke Family History Group: All before it encased in a frost hard But her hardest grasp will be broken by Group: Stradbroke Community Centre, Stradbroke Community Centre, 7.30pm. glaze to glisten and shine. the smallest of all things, 7.30pm. All About Tithes, Before & After Invisible Women. £2. 01728 860551. For no warmth here in her icy glare, A small delicate flower, all wait and look the Commutation Act. £2. 01728 860551. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7 Just a hard cold bleakness, for the snowdrop! WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3 Redlingfield & Occold WI: Occold And barren coldness for the unwary to The great tit sings on his pump, Redlingfield & Occold WI: WI outing. To School, 7.45pm. Mr Malcolm Crowe - stray, Sticky buds of the horse chestnut tree, be arranged. Wooden Toys and Games. As the sun has no warmth never And the sun reaching for the yardarm . SATURDAY, JUNE 13 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 reaching the yardarm. Manday Miller Horham Bygones Rally: See story. Redlingfield Harvest Supper. 20 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 17 what’s on transport & libraries

MONDAYS Monday February 23-Sunday March 8 SCHEDULED BUS SERVICES (HORHAM): Ballroom dancing: St Edmund’s Hall, Fairtrade Fortnight. See story. MONDAYS TO SATURDAYS: Bus Service 482 operated by Simonds Monday-Friday Hoxne, 7.30pm-9.30pm (for adults). WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 Horham Church 7.22 10.02 12.07 14.07 17.07 Sandra Hartley, 01728 723887. Redlingfield & Occold WI: Occold Diss Bus Station 7.55 10.35 12.40 14.40 17.37 TUESDAYS School, 7.45pm. Mr Stephen James - Diss Bus Station 9.20 11.25 13.25 14.45 16.25 17.55 Improver line dance class: Coronation Inheritance Tax, Planning Retirement, Horham Church 9.53 11.58 13.58 15.18 16.58 18.28 Hall, Wilby. 9.30am–11.30am. Rose, Long Term Care etc. Stradbroke Church 9.57 12.03 14.03 15.23 17.02 18.32 01379 870346. Coffee morning: Woodvale, Redlingfield FRIDAYS: Fareline Bus & Coach’s 475 Wingfield-Stradbroke-Hoxne-Diss service leaves Live folk music: Queen’s Head, 10am-noon. See story. Horham from opposite the church at 9.52am arriving at Diss Bus Station at 10.32am. Stradbroke, 1pm-7pm. 01379 384384. Saturday, March 7 The return bus leaves Diss Bus Station at 1pm arriving at Horham at 1.35pm. Belly dancing: Horham Community Hoxon Hundred Cotswold Ale. See Full timetable in bus shelter opposite church. Visit www.suffolkonboard.com Centre, 7.45pm-9pm. Pip Florance, 01379 story. or phone 0845 6066067. Traveline transport info 0871 2002233 or ww.traveline.info 384370, Margaret Streeter, 01379 384363. IGH UFFOLK OMMUNITY RANSPORT EDLINGFIELD SUNDAY, MARCH 8 H S C T (R ): There are once-a-week return minibus Bingo: Thorndon Village Hall, 7.30pm Redlingfield Litter Picking from 10am. services from Redlingfield to Diss and Stowmarket. every other Tues. All usual bingo features, DISS-FRIDAYS: The Worlingworth-Bedfield-Redlingfield-Eye-Diss service picks up from accumulating jackpot & refreshments. THURSDAY, MARCH 19 The Knoll at 9.42am arriving at Diss Bus Station at 10.07am. It returns from Diss Bus Brenda Hunt, 01379 678178. Film Night: Red Feather Club - film show Station at 12.20pm arriving at Redlingfield at 12.45pm. on rural life in Suffolk. £3 for members, £4 WEDNESDAYS STOWMARKET-THURSDAYS: The Redlingfield-Worlingworth-Debenham-Stowmarket service Improver/intermediate line dance class: for non-members. Start 7.30 pm. leaves from The Knoll at 8.55am arriving at Stowmarket Market Place, Argos Store, at Wortham Community Centre. 7.30pm– Easy Virtue: Stradbroke Cinema, 10am. It leaves Stowmarket at 1.10pm arriving in Redlingfield at 2.15pm. For more 9.30pm. Rose, 01379 870346. Stradbroke Community Centre, 7pm for information visit www.travelineeastanglia.co.uk/community.html 7.30 pm. Bar will be open - ice creams in THURSDAYS DIAL-A-RIDE MINIBUS (ATHELINGTON, HORHAM & REDLINGFIELD): The Borderhoppa, which has a Happy Circle Club: Horham Community the interval. Entrance £5.50. capacity of one to 16 people and offers disabled access, serves a large area approximately Centre, 2nd & 4th Thurs at 2pm-4.30pm Saturday, March 21 centred on Diss. The service is available Mon to Fri from 8.30am to 5pm and bookings are (summer) & 1.30-4pm (winter). Concert Evening: Traditional Music, taken Mon to Fri from 8.30am to 3.30pm 48 hours in advance. You are advised of fares at the FRIDAYS Song, Stepdance & Jig Doll with Roy time of booking. Tel: 01379 854800. Email: [email protected] Bingo: Stradbroke Community Centre, Hubbard & Friends, Syleham Village Hall, SUFFOLKCARSHARE.COM: This scheme is run by Suffolk ACRE (Action with Communities in Wilby Road, 2nd Friday monthly. 7.30pm. doors open 6.30pm start 8pm. Tickets £5. Rural England) in partnership with the county council and chamber of commerce. It gives Mary Ellis 01379 384642. No tickets on door. Doreen, 01379 people the chance to offer or seek lifts on www.SuffolkCarShare.com Bereavement Support Group: Eye 644960. KICKSTART: Kickstart is a moped loan scheme that could help you get a job or training place Volunteer Centre, start 3pm - Feb 6, Mar Film Show: Films of East Anglia from the by loaning you a moped to get from your home to work or college, and home again. The 6, Apr 3, May 1, May 29, June 26, July 24, past, including: towns, countryside, scheme is run by Suffolfk ACRE. Tel: 01473 242500, email [email protected] or Aug 21, Sept 18, Oct 16, Nov 13, Dec 11 farming, theatre & local history. Horham visit /www.suffolkacre.org.uk/main.php/transport/kickstart & Jan 8, 2010. Community Centre, bar opens 7.30pm, LIBRARIES: Suffolk residents may join both Suffolk and Norfolk public libraries. FRIDAYS/SUNDAYS films start 8pm. Entrance £3.50/ EYE: Buckshorn Lane, Eye, IP23 7AZ. Tel: 01379 870515. Open: Tues 9.30am-1pm; Traditional music: Worlingworth Swan, concessions £2.50. Wed 9.30pm-1pm & 2pm-5.30pm; Thurs 2pm-5.30pm; Fri 9.30am-1pm & 2pm-7pm; 2nd Friday evening of the month in TUESDAY, MARCH 24 Sat 9.30am-1pm; Sun 10am-3pm. summer. Sunday lunchtimes in autumn & Eye & Stradbroke Family History STRADBROKE: Court House, Queens Street, Stradbroke, IP21 5HG. Tel: 01379 384768. winter. 01728 628267. Group: Stradbroke Community Centre, Open: Tues 2.30pm-5pm & 5.30pm-7.30pm; Thurs 10am-1pm & 2.30pm-5pm; SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS 7.30pm. Richard Cobbold’s Wortham: A Fri 2.30pm-5pm; Sat 10am-12.30pm; Sunday 10am-3pm. Victorian Village. £2. 01728 860551. Open days: 95th Bomb Group Heritage DISS: Church Street, Diss, IP22 4DD. Tel: 01379 642609. Open: Mon 9am-5pm; Tues Association/Red Feather Club is open on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 9am-1pm; Wed 9am-7.30pm; Thurs 9am-5pm; Fri 9am-7.30pm; Sat 9am-1pm. the last weekend of the month May- Redlingfield & Occold WI: Occold MOBILE LIBRARY (HORHAM & REDLINGFIELD): The Mobile Library visits Redlingfield and October (inclusive). 10am-4pm. Village Hall, 7.45pm. Mrs Gilly Bursnoll - Horham on alternate Thursdays (March 5 & 19; April 2 & 16 & 30; May 14 & 28; June 11 SUNDAYS Card Painting Workshop. & 25). It stops at The Knoll, Redlingfield, 11.40am-11.50am and Horham Church, noon- 95th Bomb Group Hospital Museum: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8 12.10pm. To contact the mobile library, phone 07736 007604. Alternatively, you can Open May-October on the last Sunday in Redlingfield Village Meeting agm: telephone the office between 9am and noon, Mon-Fri, on 07872 676698 or email the month. 10am-5pm or by appointment. Horham Community Centre, 8pm. [email protected] 16 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 21 groups & clubs etc columns & news

HORHAM & ATHELINGTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL (opposite the church): Membership is £10 for a family living at one address, (2 adults and children up to 16 years), £5 for a single adult, £3 Your District Your County for a junior 16/18 years (age must be proven). Membership fees run from Jan 1-Dec 31. Councillor reports Councillor reports Membership forms are available from the bar staff, or Angela Wilkins on 01379 384625. WE still await the decision of NOW that the worst of the Community Centre club nights and opening hours: Wed, Fri, and Sat, 8pm-11pm (admission may be restricted when a private function is being held). Further information on membership the Boundary Commission winter is over (we hope) we or events from Angela Wilkins. Hall bookings can only be made via Karen Alderton on 01379 with regard to the future are starting to put right 384754. Chairman - Margaret Streeter, The Rectory, Doctors Lane, Stradbroke, 01379 governance of Suffolk. some of the damage. 384363. Personal Licence Holder - Rod Tyrrell, 01379 388285. County Council elections will This has been the most HORHAM OLD SCHOOL AND SOCIAL CLUB (next to the church): Membership is £5 per year, and take place in June and we may not know severe winter for 20 years. Many of our the Club is open from 8pm till late on Tues and Fri. Chairman - Keith Hawes, Meadow Farm, the minister’s decision until July. It is an minor roads are little more than cart Athelington, Eye, IP21 5EJ. Tel: 01728 628608. Secretary - Margaret Streeter, The Rectory, unsettling situation for county and district, tracks with very little depth of Doctors Lane, Stradbroke, IP21 5HU. Hall Bookings - Pip Florance, Tel: 01379 384370, but we remain focused on the essentials – construction Laburnum Cottage, The Street, Horham, IP21 5DX. Personal License Holder - Keith Hawes. providing service as normal. There has been almost 60 days of REDLINGFIELD & OCCOLD WOMEN’S INSTITUTE: Meetings in Occold Primary School on the first I remind you that there is money frost since mid November along with Wed of every month except January when they are on the second Wed. Tel: President snow and flooding and high water Caroline Miller, 01379 678871. Information on meetings on What’s On pages of this available from the Communities fund for magazine and at www.onesuffolk.co.uk/RedlingfieldPC/WomensInstitiute/ ideas to benefit villages. Do take tables. The result has been the NEW REEDING WOODS GROUP, POUND LANE WOOD, Redlingfield Road, Horham: join a working advantage of this. We are also asked to breakdown of the surface and crazing party, or become a “ Friend” by calling Mike Reeves on 01379 668179. This is community check the roads after the harsh winter for of the carriageway. woodland, held in trust for all the villagers of Denham, Horham and Athelington. serious damage. Let me know if you can The number of reported potholes has HAPPY CIRCLE CLUB: Meets 2nd and 4th Thurs each month at the Horham Community Centre. identify them in the villages. increased fourfold. Suffolk County 2pm-4.30pm in summer and 1.30-4pm in winter. Members play scrabble and card games. Mid Suffolk has done all it can to hold Council has put on extra gangs to deal They have a birthday tea in May and go out for lunch twice a year. Tel: Violet Allum, 01379 down the council tax for this year. It gets with the urgent cases. 388107. increasingly difficult when there are so Once the full extent of the problem 95TH BOMB GROUP HERITAGE ASSOCIATION/RED FEATHER CLUB: Horham Airfield, IP21 5DG many calls on resources and so much we has been assessed then Suffolk CC will (see what’s on for open days & events). Annual membership £5. Tel: Frank Sherman, would like to do, but the Government has prioritise the work but dangerous 01379 678471 Email: [email protected] Web: www.95thbg-horham.com decreased our allocation on a sliding scale potholes will be repaired as soon as 95TH BOMB GROUP HOSPITAL MUSEUM, Shingle Hill, Denham, IP21 5EU. Open May -Oct on the last Sunday in the month, 10am-5pm or by appointment. Tel: 01379 870514. Email: and our income has been hit by the possible. [email protected] Web: www.hexpek.co.uk/95thbghm/index.htm financial climate. We have not lost any In the meantime please report ROYAL BRITISH LEGION - STRADBROKE AND DISTRICT RBL BRANCH: The branch meet at The money from investments in foreign banks. potholes (giving as much detail as Kings Head, Laxfield (Low House), starting 11.30am on the first Thursday of each month for I’m looking forward to the better weather possible) to Customer Service Direct a meeting with speaker and lunch afterwards. Tel: Hon Sec Jeremy Higgins, 01379 384300. – so important to our rural community and (CSD) on 08456 066067 or call in at the EYE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION WOMEN’S SECTION: The branch meet at Tacon Close Community a chance to get out and take part in the CSD office at the Cross Street Car Park Room in Eye for social events, with guest speakers and to raise funds on the third Monday in events planned for village life. in Eye. Feb, April, June, Aug, Oct and Dec at 7.15pm. All women welcome. Tel: The Secretary, Mrs C Elizabeth Gibson-Harries, Guy McGregor, County Councillor, Elliott, 01379 644981. District Councillor, 01379 384680 Hoxne & Eye Division, 01379 668434 ROYAL AIR FORCES ASSOCIATION - DISS AND DISTRICT RAFA BRANCH: The branch meet on the first Monday of the month at the Grasmere Club in Diss. Tel: membership secretary, Gordon CHURCH GRANT: The Church Council of St Johns Church in Denham have Johnson, 01379 642101. Tel: secretary, Brian Ager, 01379 640337. Email: [email protected] Web: www.onesuffolk.co.uk/DissandDistrictRAFA successfully applied for a grant of £199,000, from English Heritage and the Lottery THE EYE GRAMMAR SCHOOL FUND: This trust fund provides grants to young people and Fund towards, the estimated total cost of £262,000 for repairs to the Church. English educational organisations serving those under 25 who live in Eye, Athelington, Bedfield and Heritage believes that historically this Church is worth saving. It is hoped other grant Horham. Special grants are available to cover expenses not met by the local education providing trusts will help to make up the difference but villagers will have to contribute authority. For an application form write to: Mrs L Bernard, Clerk to the Eye Grammar School a few thousand pounds. Fund-raising activities will include selling notelets and Fund, 2 Lowgate Street, Eye, Suffolk IP23 7AS, or telephone 01379 870787. Christmas cards illustrating the Church and churchyard in the varying seasons. 22 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 15 columns & in memoriam groups, clubs & advice Your Community Police Officer reports AGE CONCERN - REDLINGFIELD REPRESENTATIVE: Jacqueline Love, Western Barn, Abbotts Meadow, Redlingfield. Tel: 01379 678805. Email: [email protected] Age Concern NOW that the nights are drawing out and we are heading towards spring, website http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/ please remember to secure garden equipment and sheds after use. This is SUFFOLK ANIMAL RESCUE, 5 Cherry Tree Lane, Debenham, Suffolk, IP14 6QT. Has rescued the time of year that thefts of lawn mowers and garden tools often increase. cats, dogs, rabbits and other small animals seeking new homes.Tel: 01728 860937. Shed alarms can be purchased from your local Police station to help Email: [email protected] Web: www.suffolkanimalrescue.org improve security. We have also seen an increase in the theft of diesel fuel SUFFOLK FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY - STRADBROKE & EYE GROUP: The group is for people from trucks parked up overnight, please be vigilant in regard to this type of crime. researching their family history. The local group meets at Stradbroke Community Centre on Since my last report there have been no crimes in the area, which is pleasing to note. the last Tuesday of the month. You don’t need to be a member to go to meetings, which start at 7.30pm (entry £2). Tel: 01728 860551. Email: [email protected] A property photographing scheme has been introduced, which allows householders to Web: www.suffolkfhs.co.uk have items of value in their homes photographed and recorded on a compact disc. The THE EYE & DISTRICT MEMBERS GROUP OF THE SUFFOLK WILDLIFE TRUST: The group work to raise scheme is run by the Mid Suffolk Crime Prevention Panel and details are available from funds and promote awareness of the Suffolk Wildlife Trust in Eye and surrounds. Regular the Crime Reduction Officer on 01473 383410. monthly evening meetings are at Mellis Village Hall. Tel: Tim Craven, 01379 668383. Web: The Police have a Community Intelligence Hotline where information can be left www.suffolkwildlife.co.uk/ regarding local offences. The number is 01284 774029. You can leave your details or be HOXON HUNDRED: Morris dancers and musicians practice on Wednesdays through autumn anonymous, but please help us to make your community even safer. and winter at St Edmund’s Hall, Hoxne at 7.30pm. Tel: Ron Ross, 01379 643563. I would like to remind all of you who have yet to sign up to Police Direct of the value of Email [email protected] Web: www.hoxonhundred.co.uk doing so. Sign up and you will receive either an email or text message informing you of DENHAM VILLAGE HALL: Charges for hiring the hall range from £35 for all-day hires by non- residents to £7 for residents’ children’s parties. Electricity, which includes most of the heating, any incidents in your area. To register for free call 01473 613997. is extra, paid by a 50p and £1 slot meter in the kitchen. Bookings can be made with Tina I wish you all a safe and pleasant spring. Chenery (01379 870797). Hall management committee chairman: Mr D. Reynolds (668797); Pc Tim Green, Mid Suffolk North Safer Neighbourhood Team secretary: Rose McMahon (870346). VOLUNTEER CENTRE MID-SUFFOLK: There are usually up to 550 volunteering opportunities on ROBERT DAVY passed away on Thursday January offer within 200 voluntary organisations in Mid Suffolk. These include driving community 15 2009: Robert was born at Grove Farm, Athelington, vehicles, gardening, conservation, shopping, visiting and befriending, helping in the offices of in July 1929 where he lived all his life except for a few voluntary organisations and getting involved in community projects. The Centre at 5 Poplar Hill, Stowmarket, IP14 2AS, is open Mon to Fri 9am-2pm. Tel: 01449 612486. Email: years at nearby Grove Cottage. He was the third [email protected] Web www.do-it.org.uk or www.optua.org.uk generation of the Davy family to live and farm at Grove EYE & DISTRICT VOLUNTEER CENTRE: You can get practical help or volunteer at 20 Broad Farm. Robert has a twin brother John, sister Sheila in Street, Eye, IP23 7AF. Open: Mon 10.30am-12.30pm & 1.30pm-3.30pm; Wed 10.30am- America and sister Betty, who passed away in America. 12.30pm; Fri 10.30am-3.30pm. Tel: 01379 871200. Robert married Doreen in 1951 and they were together CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX: Web: www.citizensadvice.org.uk/ and www.adviceguide.org.uk until she passed away in June 2003. They had three DISS, THETFORD & DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU: children, Nigel, Angela and Mark. He has five DISS: Shelfanger Road, Diss, Norfolk, IP22 4EH Tel: 01379 651333 (Diss); 01842 764860 grandchildren. Robert took great pleasure in crop - welfare rights and money advice Thetford. Fax: 01379 640530 & 01842 750986. Email: [email protected] Open: 10am-3pm Mon (drop in & telephone advice); husbandry and tending the animals on the farm which 10am-3pm Tues (telephone advice only); 10am-3pm Wed (drop in & telephone advice) & he did with great care. He loved harvest time, and 4pm-6pm (appointments & telephone advice); 10am-3pm Thurs & Fri (drop in & probably gathered in well over forty harvests during his telephone advice). Other Services at Diss: Lunchtime Tues local solicitors - by lifetime. He always had a great affection for dogs, and appointment only. By appointment Independent Financial Adviser. his constant companion for many years after Doreen HARLESTON: Information Centre, 8 Exchange Street. Open: 10am-noon Wed & Fri. passed away was his dog, Timber. Robert never liked EYE: Customer Services Direct, Cross Street. Open: 10am-noon Thurs. being away from Grove Farm for long and his deepest MID-SUFFOLK CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU: wish was that he could stay there until he died. He was able to do this with the help of STOWMARKET: 5 Milton Road South, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 1EZ. Tel: 01449 676060 & 01449 676280. Fax: 01449 675634 - ring before faxing. Open: 9.30am-3.30pm Mon; family, carers and very good friends and he spent only two days in hospital before he 9.30am-3.30pm Tues; 9.30am-3.30pm Wed for telephone advice only; 9.30am-6.30pm died. He will be sadly missed. Robert and Doreen are pictured above. Thurs; 9.30am-12.30pm Fri. 14 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 23 information, farmers markets & churches features & news

PLANNING: DENIED: Poplar Hall Farm, Benningham Green, Occold: Proposal to build agricultural workers dwelling and garage. TO BE DECIDED: Meadow Land to south of farm NEWS IN BRIEF drive Athelington Hall, Horham Road, Athelington: Proposal to use land for six holiday Fairtrade ALE AND DANCE: Hoxon Hundred lodges with ancillary construction of approach drive, hard standing and drainage plant. Agrocel, the organic cotton producing invite you to its Cotswold Ale and INFORMATION CENTRES: co-operative in India (and Traidcraft workshop on Saturday, March 7. EYE SERVICE CENTRE: 6 Cross Street, Eye, IP23 7AB. Open: Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm. A producer from its formation 27 years partnership between Suffolk County Council and Mid Suffolk District Council. From 3.30pm to 5.30pm Mike ago) have done very well from their Barclay will teach dances from the HARLESTON COMMUNITY INFORMATION CENTRE: 8 Exchange Street, Harleston. Open: Mon-Fri, 9.30am-3.30pm; Sat, 10am-1pm. Offers information covering this area. connection to Marks & Spencer, with Cotswold tradition of Stanton their fairtrade organic cotton reaching Harcourt. From 7.30pm to 11ish there FARMERS’ MARKETS ETC: STOWMARKET, Marketplace, first Fri of the month, 9.30am-1pm. a whole new audience. However, is the Cotswold Ale including beer and RICKINGHALL VILLAGE HALL, second Sat of the month, 9am-1pm. STRADBROKE BUSINESS & feast. The event is at Roydon ENTERPRISE COLLEGE, first Sat of the month, term time only, 9am-1pm. DISS, Marketplace, although these clothes carry the fairtrade mark, because the cotton is Community Centre near Diss. It is second Sat of the month, 9am-1pm. EYE COUNTRY MARKET: The Town Hall Wed, 10am-11am. £2.50 for the workshop including tea fairly traded, that is no guarantee that MOST HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCH, High Road, Diss. Parish Priest - Father Simon and biscuits and £8 for the Ale Blakesley, Waveney House, 7 Fair Green, Diss, IP22 4BQ. Tel: 01379 642914. Moblie: the seamstresses and cotton processors including beer and feast. Contact 07946 390060. Email: HolyTrinityDiss@ aol.com Web: www.holytrinitydiss.piczo.com are also working under fairtrade Ron Ross 01379 643563. SUNDAY MASS:9.30am (sung); 10.30am at Quidenham (sung); 11.30am; 6pm. conditions. INVITATION TO VIEW: Through this Holydays: 8am at Quidenham; 10am; 8pm. You, the consumer, can still only get scheme, privately-owned historic WEEKDAY MASS:Mon 10am; Tues 8am; Wed 10am; Fri 10am; Sat 10am. Morning Prayer that assurance from buying your houses and gardens in East Anglia 20 minutes before Mass on weekdays. clothes direct from a Fairtrade are open by appointment to the SATURDAYS: Rosary prayed 9.40am. Confessions 10.30am -10.45am or at call. organisation or via shops selling public. A majority of the properties are OCCOLD BAPTIST CHURCH, The Street, Occold. Church Secretary: Paul Harvey (01379 brands such as Namaste, Gossypium in Suffolk and many are in Mid 678764) Email: [email protected] Deacon: Phillip Leeder (01379 678962). and Hug. The mark in this case has Suffolk. The brochure for 2009 is Friends & Neighbours: Pauline Harvey (01379 678764). acted as a bit of a shield, showing good available from 01284 827087 or SUNDAYS: Services are at 10.45am and 6pm. The evening service is followed by work, but not the whole story – the www.invitationtoview.co.uk. To book a refreshments and a chat. Every first Sun after the evening service at 7pm there is commodity is fairly traded, but what visit call the Mercury Theatre on supper and you are very welcome to join us. 01206 573948 or book on-line at about all the other services and inputs THURSDAYS: Bible study with opportunity for discussion. The meeting is also an important www.mercurytheatre.co.uk. Local time to pray for the village and surrounding area, national and international events, for that go into making your clothes? properties taking part include: Linden the sick and those in need, and for one another at 7.30pm. On the last Thurs of each Now the economic times are tough, House, Eye; The Abbey, Eye; Yaxley month Occold Baptists join with Diss Baptist Church, Denmark Hill, Diss, at 7:30pm. and there may be some of you having Hall; Wingfield College; Bedfield Second Thurs at Rishangles Baptist Church at 7.30pm. to review your spending behaviour – Hall; and Crow’s Hall, Debenham. WEDNESDAYS: Friends & Neighbours - for ladies, second Wed of each month at can I encourage you to do as much WINGFIELD BARNS: Wingfield 7.30pm. A guest demonstrates a craft or speaks about their work or travels. good with the money you spend as you Barns reopens on April 3 with a HORHAM BAPTIST CHURCH, Chapel Lane. Secretary, John Ladbrook, Potash Farm, Fingal can – you may be spending less but programme of exhibitions, music and Street, Worlingworth, IP13 7PD. Tel: 01728 628670. Web: www.horhambaptistchurch.org can do so more wisely and do more theatre throughout the spring, Wheelchair access & space, hearing aid loop. overall good. summer and autumn. Watch for the MAIN MEETINGS: Sunday: 10.45am - morning worship and Sunday school, family service If things are tough here in the UK – new brochure early in March which second Sunday in month, communion quarterly. 2pm - afternoon worship, communion think what the result will be for will be available in post offices and first Sunday in month. producers, workers and their families shops in the area. Or go to the FOR UNDER 18S: crèche (0-3); Sunday school (3-15); Megamix (5-11); Horhamania Wingfield Barns website (11-16+); Brownies; Holiday Club (3-11); Familytime (all ages); youth house groups. in the developing nations. www.wingfieldbarns.com and sign up LOCAL OUTREACH & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES: Horhamania (11-16+); Brownies; Holiday Club Sue Watson (01379 384558) to be a Friend and have the material (3-11); parents & toddlers; Female Focus; seniors’ meals. Eye Church Fairtrade Shop sent to you. 24 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 13 features & news churches

CHURCH OF ENGLAND Big challenges facing ALL SAINTS, Stradbroke, Church St; ST ANDREW, REDLINGFIELD, Church Road; ST PETER, ATHELINGTON; ST MARY, HORHAM, The Street. Rev David Streeter, The Rectory, Doctors Lane, he Fairtrade movement is facing the price you pay, compared to what Stradbroke, IP21 5HU, Tel: 01379 384869. Email: [email protected] Information on church services is available at www.onesuffolk.co.uk/RedlingfieldPC/Church/ challenging times. Since the the supermarket paid for the goods, is Tmajor supermarkets have going in part to pay the supermarket’s SERVICES (Holy Communion unless stated otherwise): established their own brand fairtrade running costs, and the remainder adds Mar 1 Horham, 9am, Athelington, 10am. food ranges, sales at Traidcraft have in to their profits and is eventually Stradbroke, Thursdays in Lent, Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 & Apr 2, 10am (with short sermon). levelled out. passed on to their 8 Redlingfield, Benefice Communion, 10am. The success of fairtrade shareholders. 15 Horham, 9am, Athelington, 10am. via the supermarket has When you buy fairtrade 22 Mothering Sunday, Redlingfield 10am, Horham, Family Service, 11.15am. Worlingworth, Confirmation and Holy Communion with Bishop Nigel, 3.30pm. been good for the producers products direct from a 29 Horham, 9am, Stradbroke (with hymns & sermon), 10am. that Traidcraft and others fairtrade organisation, or via have worked with over the a fairtrader, the price you pay Apr 5 Holy Week, Palm Sunday, Athelington, 10am, Horham, Family Service, 11.15am 9 Maundy Thursday, Stradbroke, 7.30pm. last 30 years. However, it is – which may be higher than 10 Good Friday, Stradbroke, Readings on The Passion, 2-3pm, Horham, not such good news for the the supermarket – is going Evensong, 7.30pm. next generation of artisans back to the fairtrade 12 Easter Sunday, Stradbroke, 8am & 11.15am, Horham, 9am, Redlingfield, 10am, and farmers who hope to organisation, and funds the Athelington, Evensong, 6.30pm. work on a fairtrade basis. This is development of fairtrade. 19 Stradbroke, Benefice Communion, 10am with Bishop Paul Richardson. because, when you buy fairtrade from There is also story in progress over 26 Stradbroke, 8am, Redlingfield, Morning Prayer, 10am, Horham, Morning Prayer, supermarkets, the 40 per cent extra in fairtrade cotton and the fairtrade mark. 11.15am. May 3 Horham, 9am, Athelington, 10am. 10 Athelington, Benefice Communion, 10am. FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT: The theme of this year’s fairtrade fortnight 17 Redlingfield, 10am, Horham, Evensong, 6.30pm. (February -March 8) celebrations is ‘Go Bananas’ – as we promote the fact 24 Stradbroke, 8am, Horham, Morning Prayer, 11.15am, Redlingfield, Festival that one in every four bananas consumed in the UK is Evensong, 6pm. now from a Fairtrade supplier. To stimulate demand 31 Horham, 9am, Stradbroke (with hymns & sermon), 10am. further the Fairtrade Foundation are looking to set a Women’s World Day Of Prayer, Friday, March 6, at 2pm at Stradbroke Baptist Church. “In world record for Fairtrade Banana eating – starting Friday Christ There Are Many Members, Yet One Body”, A Service prepared by Christian Women of March 6 at noon until Saturday March 7 at noon. Two Papua New Guinea. All are most welcome to this Service. events are taking place locally where you can come along and eat a free banana and add your name to the ‘I ate one’ Forthcoming Services and events in the Worlingworth Benefice: pledge form – we may even, with your permission, take a photo of you eating it! The first Sun, Mar 8: 10.30am: A Guest Service at Monk Soham Church. Guest speaker is Roger event is the Fairtrade, Books and Bananas Bonanza at Gislingham Village Hall – 10am- Wells who will speak on Ministry in our Prisons. 4pm on Saturday, March 7. You need to come between 10am-12noon to take part in the Sun, Mar 22: Mothering Sunday, 10.30am: Benefice Mothering Sunday Service at Bedfield banana record. The second event is on Framlingham Market also on March 7 9am-1pm, Church; 3.30pm: Deanery Confirmation at Worlingworth Church when we welcome Bishop where we shall be having our first fairtrade stall of the year, and munching more bananas Nigel Stock to our Benefice. (we are also at Fram Market on Saturday, March 28). I am running sessions with 1st Eye Wed, Mar 25: Ash Wednesday. 7.30pm: Holy Communion at Worlingworth Church. Beavers on Fairtrade and Global Development during fairtrade fornight, and I have also Sun, April 5: 10.30am: Palm Sunday Service at Tannington Church. been invited to work with Diss Junior School during their Enterprise weeks. I think it could Good Friday, Apr 10: Both at Worlingworth Church - 10am Stations of the Cross. A be quite a challenge, but it’s good to do new things, to get to help children understand Service for all ages, followed by Hot Cross buns and coffee. 7.30pm The Benefice Choir about Global markets, and how fairtrade puts producers at the heart of business, instead will give a performance of ‘Olivet to Calvary’ by J H Maunder and following that, a short (5 of exploiting people for greater profits. The Eye Church shop is still open on Fridays minute) Cantata ‘ Jesus - Remember me’ by Bernard Butler. 11am-1pm during March. Sue Watson 01379 384558 Bank Holiday weekend, May 2-4: A Flower Festival in Worlingworth Church. 12 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 25 features & news features & news NEWS IN BRIEF LIBERTY BELLE: Following the Liberty Belle tour of 13th housing DANCING AROUND: On Combat Wing bases Don Community Centre, starting at 8pm. Wednesday, May 1, Hoxon Hundred’s Brooks and Keith Vincent We would like everyone, who can, to Cotswold dance side will be at Fair (organisers of the tour) visited come to this first public meeting, we Green Diss at dawn to dance. They the Red Feather Club. They are will organise transport for anyone who are also dancing at Fressingfield Fair pictured in Brad’s Bar with needs a lift – call me on 01379 678835. on Saturday, May 3, and on Sunday, Frank Sherman. The 95th BG We will have special guests from May 4, go on their annual mystery Heritage Association’s latest Suffolk Acre, a charity that helps tour. They will be dancing somewhere restoration project is to re- in Suffolk. create a 96 ft building at the villages like ours create Parish Plans, as well as people from Mid Suffolk BEREAVEMENT FRIENDSHIP AND rear of the existing two huts. It SUPPORT GROUP: The group, which is planned to be completed for the Grand Open Day in May 2009. Grants have been Council and a housing association that specialises in building affordable was set up for those who have suffered received from Mid Suffolk District Council and Suffolk County Council towards the a loss and just need someone to talk to costs of the project. A “Buy a Brick” scheme has also been very successful. houses in small rural villages, to in a similar situation, meet once a explain what’s involved in creating month at the Volunteer Centre in Eye. affordable housing and answer any The meetings are very informal, there is questions we have. A small group of experienced no counselling and members can talk They will explain the process to us, about their experience of bereavement local carers are able to accept what their role is, what we need to do. a few new clients who are in among others who understand. The Later the same evening, during the Volunteer Centre can also sometimes need of help to cope in their agm, we will elect the parish chair, provide extra practical help for those own homes. We are concerned treasurer and village committee. Our struggling to maintain their home or to help clients preserve their local PC Tim Green will report on garden or need a volunteer driver, for dignity, self respect and crime in the area over the last 12 instance. The meetings cost £1 to cover independence. months and our local councillors, the hire of the room and tea and coffee Telephone: 01379 384680 Elizabeth Gibson-Harries and Guy is provided. Transport can be provided McGregor should also be in at no extra cost. For more information attendance. Janet Norman-Philips please call 01379 871168. EDUCATIONAL GRANTS: The Eye Grammar School Fund is a Trust fund set up by the Charity Commissioners in 1977 to provide grants of money to young people and educational organisations in the locality. The capital for the Fund came from the proceeds of the sale of the Eye Grammar School building. The Trustees meet quarterly to consider applications and award grants. Applications must come from individuals or organisations serving people under 25 years of age who live in the parishes of Eye, Athelington, Bedfield or Horham. The special grants are intended to cover expenses not provided for by the Local Education Authority. These might include the cost of purchasing books, clothing, tools and instruments, course fees for educational purposes, or in preparation to enter a trade or occupation. If you would like to apply for a grant, you can obtain an application form by writing to Louise Bernard; Clerk to the Trustees, Eye Grammar School Fund; 2 Lowgate Street, Eye, Suffolk, IP23 7 AS or telephone 01379870787. Alternatively, if you attend the primary or secondary school in Eye you can obtain an application form at St Peter and St Paul Primary School, or Hartismere High School. 26 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 11 features & news   NEWS IN BRIEF  D H GRAND OPEN DAY: In addition to the Affordable P   normal attractions on Sunday, May 17, at ’ve had a very good response to my the Red Feather Club there will be article in the last magazine about military vehicles, trade stands, exhibits Ihow we might want Redlingfield to Property Maintenance from other aviation societies and a develop in the future, the idea of refreshment stand. Several overseas creating a Parish Plan and the whole visitors will be attending (including issue of affordable housing. Painting, Decorating, Tiling veterans and their families ). A flyover by A lot of people want to see B17 “Sally B” over the runway is also something happening, as long as it’s Interior & Exterior being planned but will depend upon the right thing! And people definitely weather conditions and aircraft want to have more control over Fully Insured, Free Estimate serviceability. Please note that the club planning and the future of the village will not be open on Saturday, May 16. but remain to be convinced about how David Herwynen BENEFITS ADVICE: Mid Suffolk Citizens much notice Mid Suffolk and the Advice Bureau has launched a new County Council will take of any Parish scheme to help people check their Plan we produce. 07979 720 975 - 01379 388 708 eligibility for benefits and assist them with People have also said that they claims. The Benefit and Income believe that we do need more Maximisation Project will also help with affordable housing in the village, applications to charities and advise provided it’s the right kind, that it’s in people on how to maximise their income. keeping with the village and that it Freshly baked home produce The service is free and will be available really is for local people and it remains to community groups and organisations affordable in to the future. Sweet and Savoury goods for all the by invitation or to individuals at the To address these issues and get all of family bureau in Stownarket. Mid Suffolk CAB us together to discuss these important has also launched its own website matters we have organised a meeting In Eye every Friday www.midsuffolkcab.org.uk. on April 8 at Horham & Athelington (outside the Handyman on the marketplace)

CHARITY RUN: Peter Tomato, basil & goats cheese tart Fisk dressed as Santa Bacon & onion quiche on his annual run Sausage rolls through Horham on his tractor. During the three- Cornish pasties hour delivery run he Mocha banana choc-chip muffins posted presents given Orders taken Double choc-chip muffins by friends and family to Amy Weiss Cherry & almond scones households in the area A variety of delicious cakes for a donation. He raised Tel: 01379 871226 more than £430 for East Just a brief selection from our Anglia’s Children’s wide range of Tasty food Hospices (EACH). Spend your time at Tasty Thymes

10 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 27 features & news SPURLING & REMBLANCE jumble’ NEWS IN BRIEF MOTOR ENGINEERS INSPIRATIONAL ART CLASSES: very beautiful little bird – the Sylvia Philpot is offering a range of art goldfinch. classes in Denham including: one- MOT TEST CENTRE Larn – To teach as in: “That’ll larn day workshops on skill-set topics yer.” ("Toolbox" series); "Masterstrokes" *Service and repairs to all cars, light commercial and 4x4's* Lijah – Most farm workers used to when students can compare and wear them. It was a strap fastened just contrast the work of various Masters *Specialists in vehicle diagnostics* below the knee. I remember asking and discover their techniques; *Free local collection and delivery * Courtesy car available* one of the men who worked on the landscape, portraiture, still-life and same farm as my father what a lijah abstract painting. Four-weekly *Prompt attention assured * Competitive rates* was for. “Thas to stop rats and things courses offer one to one tutoring runnin’ up yer legs” was the reply. classes. For further information ring (01379)384689 01379 871377 or e-mail Long Melford – This was a long [email protected] leather purse. Open 8:00 am -5:30pm Mon-Fri, 8:00am -12 noon Saturdays FLOWER FESTIVAL: St Andrew’s Barley Hall, Laxfield Road, Stradbroke. IP21 5NQ Maggoty – Another word which means something very different in Church, Redlingfield, will hold a flower Located on the B111 7 - 1¾ mile outside Stradbroke, towards Laxfield  Suffolk. It can translate as fastidious. festival on Saturday, Sunday and So, “She was tew maggoty to walk Monday, May 23, 24, 25, 10am-6pm. Suggestions for a theme will be most along that muddy path.” welcome – tell Chris Stanford or Mardle – A word which is used as David Streeter what you have in mind. much in Norfolk as in Suffolk. It ENABLING INDEPENDENCE means to gossip. WALKING FESTIVAL: The South AT HOME Marster – The word was of course and Heart of Suffolk Walking Festival used to address the boss – but it can is being held from Saturday, May 9 to Monday, May 25. More than 60 mean very good. “He made a marster guided walks are on offer, in a variety Allied Homecare offers you the right level of care job a bildin’ that stack.” of locations, to suit all tastes and and support so you can enjoy a more active Not a mucher – The opposite of capabilities. Some are country marster. “That drawing o yours int a rambles, others are medieval independent life at home including:- mucher.” meanders through our villages and Mavis (or mavish) – A thrush. towns and many of them include •nHousework, laundry, meal preparation Mawther – Despite its sound it means stops for lunch or afternoon tea. a young woman. “I reckon I’ll ask that Information and leaflets are available •nPersonal care little owd mawther to walk out with from tourist information centres, from •nAssisted bathing me.” This could lead to – mawthering [email protected] or at – cuddling and fussing over a male by www.southandheartofsuffolk.org.uk. •nLive-in care a female. Local walks include a walk in the Well I’d better finish now afore I git Hoxne area on Sunday, May 10, a •n24-hour support muddled (tired out) and mazy (dizzy). circular tour of Stradbroke and a Fair ye well tergether. gentle ramble from Occold to Eye and Telephone 01449 744080 Brian Ager back – both on Sunday, May 24. 28 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 9 features & news BRICKKILNFARMB&B Just ask for ‘a point of WARM HOSPITALITY s I wrote this in early February my dickshernary. I’ve only got up to WHOLESOME FARMHOUSE FARE the snow was falling, or as we J, which involves a lot of pain. Awould say in Suffolk “that Jammock – To beat to a pulp. ENJOY PEACE & TRANQUILITY All Requirements & Budgets snew”. And of course we do not say Jink – Sprain. You would say “I COMFORTABLE, WELL-EQUIPPED Catered For - showed – we say “shew”. And no true hooly jinked my ankle when I fell ROOMS Parties Suffolk man will say he mowed a over that owd dorg”. Weddings - Special Events field – the word is “mew”. Jip – A pain. “That tooth give me jip, OPTION TO BOOK This, I am told by Suffolk friends, so I got the dentist to pull’t owt.” But QUALIFIED THERAPIST FOR Corporate Hospitality is the proper way of pronouncing the to people involved in fishing jip can HOLISTIC TREATMENTS & SAUNA Wholesale Prepared Foods past tense of words ending in ow. No mean something quite different, one says the wind blowed. Of course though no more pleasant – to gut a We Use Only Premium Quality Produce not – it blew. herring. So we get ... – Local & Organic Where Available To Discuss Your Requirements Call One usage which has often Jipper – A gutted herring. Marie puzzled furreners to our Jumble – Used to mean a drink Worlingworth Suffolk IP13 7HX county is when someone uses of ale and stout mixed, though I the word imitate to mean make bet you’d get a bemused look if Tel; 07789684434 a poor attempt at something. you asked for “a point o’jumble www.thyme4food.co.uk For example: “He imitate to plees” in a pub now. sing.” You might say of me: “He Kidger – A travelling trader who Therapies may be booked imitate to write about Suffolk.” buys and sells farm produce. independently. For more information But I had better continue with King Harry – A name for that on therapies contact Linda on 01728 627939 or log on to REDLINGFIELD & OCCOLD WOMEN’S INSTITUTE: We started the www.holistictherapiesnaturesway.co.uk year in the sunny Caribbean – transported there by the music and For more information on B&B songs of Shirley Bignall and partner. She was born in the Caribbean Tel:01728 627939 or and was able to explain to us the many changes and influences on the www.brickkilnfarmbandb.com music of the area through a range of songs, music and even a little dance. February found us in the middle of London with more tales of Brick Kiln Farm housemaids’ cupboards. Deborah Preston has spoken to us before, so we Worlingworth Road knew we were in for a good evening. This time we heard about the many problems Athelington and amusing situations found running the staff, cleaning and décor of a major city IP21 5EP hotel. The numbers of rooms, cleaning staff and laundry was staggering. Far from being a housemaid the job is a major logistics and management post. Members have also been enjoying themselves playing darts. Officially we play in the W.I. league but none of us take it too seriously and really enjoy a night out and throwing a few arrows. The April meeting will be back in the village hall with Gilly Bursall’s card painting workshop. So if you fancy a good evening out, which promises to be both informative as well as enjoyable, do come along as a guest (it’s only £2.50 a meeting) and see what we get up to (see What’s On pages). Terri Andrews 8 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 29 features & news

• Funerals arranged by trained experienced staff in our friendly Office & Chapel of Rest located at office environment or in the The Old Stables, Chestnut Farm comfort of your own home Langton Green, Eye • Free transport for visits to Suffolk, IP23 7HL registrars, our Chapel and other related appointments Independent of Any Large Corporation and Truly Owned • Bereavement support group And Run by The Whymark Family Open to all in need Tenor Olonga returns 24 Hour Telephone Number 01379 871168 ast April more than 500 people Zimbabwe’s government, led by www.susanwhymark.co.uk email [email protected] attended the Taming The Tiger Robert Mugabe. This led to a warrant Levent at Athelington Hall, which issued in Zimbabwe for Olonga’s was put on by local churches, arrest on charges of treason (which primarily to hear the amazing story of carries the death penalty in Tony Anthony. Also appearing that Zimbabwe) and forced him to retire night was former Zimbabwean from international cricket and cricketer Henry Olonga, who sang and temporarily go into hiding. gave a couple of insights into his life. He has a superb voice and “… is an People enjoyed his performance so emerging tenor who has long much we have asked him back to learn participated in arts festivals … more of his life and music. Olonga has recently completed Henry made his international recording a full contemporary pop cricket debut in 1995, becoming the album with one of the UK’s top youngest person to play for producers, Robbie Bronnimann”. Zimbabwe. He helped Zimbabwe to On Saturday May 16 he will be its first ever Test victory in that game. appearing in the marquee at A right arm fast bowler, Olonga was Athelington Hall again. You can learn the first black cricketer to play for more about his story and hear more of Zimbabwe. his wonderful voice. He achieved international Tickets for the evening are £3.50 recognition (along with team mate and available from Andrew Andy Flower) in 2003 by wearing a Fairweather of Horham Baptist black armband in a Cricket World Cup Church who can be contacted on match to protest against the policies of 07731 134151.

30 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 7 features & news    Clear up for the kids (   ) *! ll of the members of the New respect for other people, then please    Reeding Woods Steering Group clear up after your dogs and take the  !   "# Aare really pleased with the resultant litter home with you. results of their labours, and feel that On April 25 at 4.30pm we are $" %   they have achieved their ambition in holding our spring meeting and AGM &'(         establishing a community woodland. at Redlingfield Wood and the Red    This is a community project owned Feather Club. %% % ) %   by all the inhabitants of Denham, David Mitchell will chair a brief 00" %%% )% Horham and Athelington. We have meeting before we set off for a guided   !"  laboured to build fences, hang gates, tour of his established wood. Experts 1 ( %% ) 2 #!$  %!$ &'! $ and plant trees, and now the work is in woodland management, wood craft 3(4  22 ) &2 nearly completed and we must sit back and local wild life will be on hand to and wait for the trees to grow. answer any questions as we walk  0    5 6%5 Many of you have enjoyed the around. pleasure of walking round this small Following the walk we will adjourn but perfectly formed leisure spot. to the Red Feather Club, where the bar It is a peaceful oasis on a bright will be open and light refreshments sunny day. It is a small nature reserve will be available. There will be a for those looking for bugs and photographic display of the progress butterflies, beetles and buttercups and made at Pound Lane Wood over the a safe haven for those with small last year. children and dogs. Those two do not There is always room for new really mix unless we use this members on our steering group, so call community area responsibly and now the secretary on 01379 668179 if you consideration must be our watch word. would like to join us. So if you enjoy this haven, and have Michael Reeves Your LOCAL Taxi Service RALLY ROUND: Horham Bygones Country Rally looks as if it is going to be bigger and better than ever this year. The event - on 4 & 6 seat vehicles Saturday June 13 2009 from 10am until 5pm - was hoping to attract more than 100 historic tractors for the first time this year but Any length of journey early entries mean organisers are setting their sights on up to 150. The tractors will join historic military vehicles, cars and motorcycles as well as working horses and mules. As well as being a big draw for anyone who wants to see old farm machines Best value for airports and horses in action it is also big fun day for all the family as there will also be fairground rides for smaller children and a car boot sale among other attractions. The Rally is on Horham & Athelington Recreation Field. There will be free parking with a 01379 669370 dedicated disabled parking area. Contact for rally information: Gary Woodrow 01379 740496. Contact for car boot only (all pitches must be pre-booked): Ron Chambers 07795 264233 01728 685583. Visit www.horhambygones.co.uk/ for more information. 6 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 31 features & news EASTERN ...and indoors in winter e have had a very good LANDSCAPES response to the social coffee Wmornings in Redlingfield EST 1995 over the winter. The average attendance each month has been just over twenty. The meetings were on the first Wednesday of each month from LANDSCAPE October 2008 through to March 2009. DESIGN The coffee mornings have been ends the winter season with another hosted in different village homes and free raffle. we have appreciated the generosity of We have enjoyed visits from Age CONSTRUCTION the hosts on these occasions. Concern and Ann Osborn from the Tea, coffee and biscuits have been Coffee Caravan. The Coffee Caravan PATIOS & PATHS available and the constant chatter returns monthly to the village green suggested that everyone enjoyed the from April 2009 when, hopefully, occasions. Donations made at many people from the village will join FENCING & DECKING meetings have been used to supply together for tea, coffee and cakes. coffee, biscuits etc. and a donation has Village coffee mornings will begin TURFING & SEEDING also been made to the Coffee Caravan. again in the autumn. See What’s On For the December meeting we for March coffee morning and Coffee enjoyed sherry, mince pies and a free Caravan dates. Pictured is the January raffle. At other times we have had a coffee morning at Midge & Chris TREE & book swap and the March meeting Gibbons. Jacqueline Love ROYAL BRITISH LEGION: Since my last notes the Stradbroke & District Branch of the Royal British Legion has been active. In December we held HEDGE CARE our annual Christmas carol service followed by a very enjoyable Christmas lunch attended by our 30 members and guests at Laxfield FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL village hall. In January the branch was well represented at the annual STEPHEN MATTHEWS Suffolk County Conference of the RBL at Needham Market community centre. Our chaplain Rev David Streeter conducted the pre conference service. Ian Bushnell from Horham carried the branch standard and branch secretary Jeremy Higgins – the 01379 871252 branch delegate – was returned as county vice-president. Two new branch officers have been elected – Ted Booth from Laxfield is the new president and John Graham of Brundish is now branch vice-chairman. The branch still needs a treasurer – any offers! Arrangements are being made for the annual branch dinner at Stradbroke 07771 675262 community centre at midday on March 20. Finally a belated happy new year to everybody. Michael Burton, Branch Chairman 32 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 5 features & news A grapevine on wheels hen I meet my neighbours, tranquil open spaces can be a delight; the conversation often they can also be isolating. In an Wdevelops along the lines of inspired attempt to overcome the ‘what used to be where’. Gone are the problems of rural isolation, the Rural days when every village had its shop Coffee Caravan Information Project or post office. With their (a voluntary organisation) has passing, perhaps we have lost created a mobile solution in more than just the goods and the form of a well-equipped services they supplied: they caravan. Our aim is to take also acted as that unofficial the project to rural news agency – the local communities, equipped with ‘grapevine’. coffee, tea and homemade Knowing what’s going on in cakes, and all sorts of our own communities isn’t always information about organisations and easy, especially if access to transport the services they offer. is limited, or you live in one of If we don’t have the information you Suffolk’s very scattered parishes. Our want, or the solution to a problem, we will try to find it out for you and point you in the right direction. Of course, not everyone will be in search of information or advice. If you’ve just moved into the area, you might like to know who your neighbours are. Even if you’ve lived there a while, there may be new people you haven’t had the chance to meet. A break for coffee and a chat could be just what you need. The Coffee Caravan returns to Redlingfield in April. It will be visiting on Tuesdays: April 21, 10am-noon; May 19, 2pm-4pm; June 16, 10am-noon; July 21, 2pm-4pm; August 18, 10am-noon; September 15, 2pm-4pm; and October 20, STACK FIRE: Agricultural contractor 10am-noon. Nick Hambling stands in front of the Ann Osborn (Project Co-ordinator) smouldering ruins after a blaze 01379 855338 destroyed 500 tonnes of barley and coffee.caravan@ btinternet.com, wheat straw in Horham in December. www.ruralcoffeecaravan.org.uk

4 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 33 features & news sights RECENTLY, the national news on TV has been featuring the cull of grey squirrels in Scotland in order to improve the chances for the struggling red squirrel. Apart from the fact that greys will get to my walnut tree before I do, I used to have a live-and-let-live approach before they were elevated to Public Enemy No.1. We were walking in the Lake District in November, and managed a good close-up view of a pair of very friendly red squirrels south of Wastwater in Eskdale, the first time I can remember seeing John Glover, who works at Wash Farm, gets the full attention of his one. family of gundogs and pets for this photo by his partner, Angie. WATCHING the antics of a stoat on bolder. As I went to let the dogs out, the lawn has been a regular he was doing a quick 20-yard dash entertainment these winter early across the horse pond on the ice. mornings. Dashing about at high Quite a surprise. Hopefully, the end of speed, he’s been rubbing his belly in winter will soon stop that little game. the frost or snow and leaping around Wash Farm Wildlife like a spring lamb. Today, he got even Trevor Edwards

34 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 3 features & news The regulars and rare  he first newsletter of the year more in sight, but a large black outline gets under way with a mention of a crow loomed through the thick Tof my old friend, the barn owl. branches and I swung the gun up. I We have such regular sightings in the was about to pull the trigger as it Rookery Lane area that we must cleared the hedge, but the penny surely be able to claim a resident now. dropped just in time as a marsh harrier However, this winter is not perfect for sailed over my head. It seemed huge at their breeding prospects. such close quarters, and I would have 5adbadSfW >aY5ST[`:a^[VSke IWVV[`Ye The British Trust for Ornithology blown it to smithereens. (BTO) warns that barn owl breeding is Mostly migratory, the wintering IWS^eaebWU[S^[eW[`:aYDaSefeXadgbfa#*"bWab^Wa`e[fWadfZWkUS`TWVW^[hWdWV more successful after warmer, drier population here is very small, winters. Hardly what we are (thankfully not even smaller), and E_S^^WdXg`Uf[a`daa_ShS[^ST^Wi[fZ][fUZW`XadfZWe_S^^WdXg`Uf[a` experiencing this year! from colonising reed beds it has The poor performance after a bad spread inland over winter wheat and $WKHOLQJWRQ +DOO  +RUKDP  (\H  6XIIRON  ,3 (- winter may be due to a reduction in rape fields. Not all birds or prey are ZZZDWKHOLQJWRQKDOOFRXNSHWHU#DWKHOLQJWRQKDOOFRXN small mammal prey, and at worse, lack swift fliers, and harriers, to suit their of condition may cause them to style of hunting, are masters of flying suspend breeding for a year. Let’s slowly. Minute inspection of the hope it is not as bad as that. ground is possible at such slow speeds, and this, coupled with keen Cowhams Servicing & Repairs OUT with my gun on pigeon patrol on hearing, helps to locate their prey. I ar th C for all makes the 6 December, I came close to a suspect this was the same bird that I C& major embarrassment. 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It is as fellow-members of the church that I invite you not only to attend Brakes, Exhausts, Clutches, Tyres & Batteries. the services, but also to take note of our responsibilities for the upkeep and maintenance of the church buildings, and for the costs of the full-time ministry that I Air Conditioning exercise in the four parishes of this benefice, with many of you helping and Service & Repair The Garage Fressingfield supporting me. Please come to your parish’s Annual Church Meeting (watch out for Tel: 01379 388 999 the notice) and read the reports that will follow from the meeting. Accident & Body With all good wishes, David Streeter Repair Centre. www.cowhams.co.uk 2 Spring 2009 Spring 2009 35 CJ’Z PLASTERING introduction FRESH FREE nce again many thanks to all As the days lengthen we’re going to RANGE EGGS All types of Plastering, Artex who make the production and be busy in our villages with big events & Coving undertaken Odistribution of your village such as the Horham Bygones Country Poplar Hall Farm Free Quotes magazine possible. Rally. In Redlingfield, we’ll soon be Fully Qualified & Insured We’re getting more news from more welcoming back the Coffee Caravan, Occold Road No mess local organisations and even more after a winter break filled by a very Residential & Commercial adverts. We’ll probably have to stop successful succession of coffee Redlingfield properties taking new ads soon as we need the mornings. Then its our Cheese & STALL AT GATE No job too small pages for your news and views. Wine and before you know it it’s BBQ Friendly reliable service Making the magazine any bigger time. We are also moving forward guaranteed would cause problems – I’m not sure with bigger projects and in this issue we could force the staples through. there’s more news on our push for Please call My wife will soon be taking a look affordable housing. Chris on: at the books and it looks as if we’re at Hope to see you at the Cheese & least breaking even – ink and paper is Wine and other village events. 07984 110496 surprisingly expensive though. Mike Ager For larger orders please 01728 669607 You can receive your Athelington, Horham & Redlingfield News electronically if you prefer. Simply email [email protected] with your call 01379 678318 Email: [email protected] name and address (so you don’t get a paper version as well) and when the next issue is published we’ll email it to you as a pdf. 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MY Group, Fen Lane Farm, Watton Rd. Larling, Norfolk NR16 2AJ Tel: 01953 497177 Fax: 01953 497160 Email: [email protected] Web: www.mygroupea.co.uk MY Group is a trading name of MY Boiler Services Ltd USEFUL CONTACTS HORHAM & ATHELINGTON PARISH COUNCIL: Tel: 01379 384625 REDLINGFIELD PARISH MEETING: Tel: 01379 678835 Athelington, Horham Web: www.redlingfield.suffolk.gov.uk Email: [email protected] MID SUFFOLK DISTRICT COUNCIL: Tel: 01449 724500 & Redlingfield News Web: www.midsuffolk.gov.uk Email: [email protected] (0845 606 6067 & [email protected] for some services) SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL: Tel: 0845 606 6067 Web: www.suffolk.gov.uk Email: [email protected] DISTRICT COUNCILLOR: Elizabeth Gibson-Harries Tel: 01379 384680 Email: [email protected] COUNTY COUNCILLOR: Guy McGregor Tel: 01379 668434 Email: [email protected] MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT: Sir Michael Lord MP Tel: 01728 685148 Web: www.centralsuffolk.co.uk Email: [email protected] House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA POLICE: Our Community Police Officer is PC Tim Green. Our Police Community Support Officer is Steven Long. Tel: 01284 774100 (ask for them by name). Email: [email protected] Website: www.onesuffolk.co.uk/SaferSuffolk/MidSuffolkNorth/ Eye Police Station: Tel: 01284 774640 Non emergency calls: Tel: 01473 613500 In an emergency dial 999. You should dial 999 when life is threatened or people are injured, or if there is a crime in progress or an immediate police response is necessary. It is better to be safe than sorry. REPORTING A PROBLEM: You can report problems relating to: abandoned vehicles; damage to street signs, litter bins; dogs; drainage; fly tipping; litter; noise; odour; rat or mice infestations; refuse collection; and smoke, fumes or dust; online using the onesuffolk website (www.onesuffolk.co.uk/reportaproblem). This is a partnership involving the police and councils. HORHAM NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH: Hav Wilkins Tel:01379 384625 REDLINGFIELD NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH: Chris Gibbons Tel:01379 678169 NHS DIRECT: A 24-hour confidential telephone service. You can ring for nurse advice if you are feeling ill and unsure about what to do or for health information on particular conditions. Call 0845 4647 or visit www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk Suffolk County Council’s HOUSEHOLD WASTE RECYCLING CENTRE at Brome: Opening times - 1 November to 31 January, 8am to 4pm; 1 February to 31 March, 8am to 5pm; 1 April to 30 September, 8am to 6pm; 1 October to 31 October, 8am to 5pm. Spring 2009 Issue no. 5