LAWSHALL December 2016 www.lawshallvillagehall.co.uk This magazine is published by Lawshall Village Hall Management Committee. We reserve the right to edit, shorten or refuse any item submitted for publication and cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of any claims made by advertisers. Copy deadline for January 2017 magazine 6pm 17th December - earlier welcome! Copy should be emailed to the editor, Jenna Kitchen at [email protected] Telephone 01284 830022 or delivered to Country Lodge, Lambs Lane, Lawshall (first house on the left, across the crossroads when going from direction of village hall) To place and advertisement in this magazine please contact John Payne at [email protected] or at Vista, Bury Road, Lawshall Telephone 01284 830466 Black and White Adverts Quarter page £6 per issue Half page £10 per issue Full page £20 per issue Back cover £30 per issue Buy 12 months advertising in advance & receive a 10% discount. Wanted / For Sale board - £2 per entry Lost or Found items - Free of charge Congratulations and Celebrations - Free of charge Check out our website at http://www.lawshallvillagehall.co.uk To discuss anything about the website please contact Jenna Kitchen on 01284 830022 or Dave Henderson on 01284 828156 2 Editorial: Just one month to the winter solstice and a grey and driz- zly day with leaves gathering to mush in the gutters—typical Novem- ber. There are some activities in Lawshall in the run up to Christmas and some of the regular clubs may take a break over the holidays— perhaps consider joining in when they are running. A big thank you to all those who have contributed to this magazine this year, regu- lars and occasionals. I could not do it without you. I also want to thank Alex Ford who for the last 3 years has taken each individual page that I sent him and crafted them together into the booklet that you get. He has now stepped down from that and I have had to learn a new way of doing it called “Publisher”. So please forgive me if the boxes are misaligned or anything else does not look as good as before— this is my first edition done in this way. Please keep your stories and ideas coming in and tell your friends and neighbours if you find it useful—I hear that some copies are simply binned. Do let me know what you want to see in here and have a Happy Christmas. Jenna, Editor. Carol singing around Lawshall will take place on Sunday 18th December. Meeting at the Village Hall at 5 pm. We will try to get to as many houses as we can. Finishing up at the Swan for mulled wine & mince pies for all singers. Games & refreshments for the children . Father Christmas will be with us. Please come along & join in the fun. This year the money raised will be split between the church & Lawshall pre–school. Sally Mapston 5 What’s On 19 School News 7 VH News, Lottery 21 Women’s Institute 9 PC report October 23 VH booking, Free Church Oil Club Services, Art in the Woods 11 Neighbourhood Plan 25 A Christmas Message 13 Bird Notes 27 From the Archives 15 Regular Activities, Cycling 29 Stanningfield Christmas 17 Community Woodlands 31 AED machines in Lawshall 18 Melford Practice, Jobs 33 Travel—Lake Como 3 The Swan Inn Lawshall www.swaninnlawshall.com Tel 01284 828477 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Lawshall Swan inn. Throughout December the joker raffle is back with cash prizes. Raffle tickets given out between 6 and 7pm during opening hours and 5- 6pm on Fridays. Raffle drawn every Sunday at 7pm. See pub for t.c's The Christmas raffle will also be running throughout December - the draw will be on Christmas Eve. Christmas quiz, Sunday 18th December get a team together £2 per person in- cludes mince pies at half time. Wear your best/ worst Christmas jumper. Lawshall village choir singers are back, on the 18th December starting at Vil- lage Hall at 5pm and finishing at the pub. Join in the singing and fun Christmas games. Raising money for All saints church and Lawshall preschool. Father Christ- mas will also be joining us. The Benefice choir will be joining for us for another evening of beautiful carol singing in the bar on Monday 20th December. Christmas day drinks in the bar—open 12 — 2pm Wishing everyone, peace, love and joy this Christmas. Laura and Lawrence 4 What’s On in Lawshall in December 2016 Sat & Sun 3rd & 4th Christmas Tree and Crib Festival, with tea and cakes, cake stall and bric-a-brac stall – donations for both welcome. Sunday 4th Christmas Carols at 4pm at All Saints Church, Lawshall Tuesday 6th Carols, Coffee & Mincepies, Lawshall Free Church 10.30am Tuesday 13th Parish Council Meeting - 7.30pm in Village Hall, All Welcome. Second Tuesday of every month Wednesday 14th Women’s Institute Meeting 7.30pm in Village Hall regularly on the second Wednesday of every Month Sunday 18th Carols by Candlelight, Lawshall Free Church 4pm Sunday 18th Carol Singing around the village: meet at VH at 5pm Sunday 31st Woodland Morning 9.30-12.30 plus tea and cakes! Bus Services: The bus company are reinstating the mid morning service to Bury St. Edmunds on Fridays. This should start on Friday 25th November. Also a re- minder that there is a later bus on Saturday at 5.30. USE IT OR LOSE IT. Recycling Update: New Information Glass : recycle at a glass bank—you can leave metal caps on! Plastic bottles and tops—wash, squash and put tops back on THINGS TO AVOID: Textiles / Clothes : no longer accepted in BLUE recycling bin; use textile bank Disposable Nappies must be placed in BLACK rubbish bin Small Stuff: eg bottle tops and shredded paper - nothing less than 4cm, (approximately 2 1/2 inches). Roll aluminium foil into tennis ball size. Putting the wrong thing in your recycling bin can spoil a whole lorry load of re- cycling; be dangerous and unpleasant for those sorting it; and wastes money. Future Dates: 2017 Monday 9th January Village Hall Management Committee 7.30pm 5 Hartest Farmers’ Market Institute on Hartest Green First Saturday of the Month 10:00 am – 12:30 pm Local Seasonal Produce Homemade Refreshments For information or to book a table (only £8) please email [email protected] or call Judy on 01284 830551 or Annie on 01284 830363 6 LAWSHALL VILLAGE HALL – open for you www.lawshallvillagehall.co.uk Have you visited our Website? You can download a copy of R&A. It is regularly updated with the latest issue, often before the paper copy is out, the photos are in colour! You can follow the some of the links. New for 2017 Lawshall has a wealth of delightful gardens as well as some that could do with a little care and attention, so I am looking to start up a Lawshall Gardeners’ Club in the new year. This would be a club where gardeners of all levels can get to- gether to swap ideas, plants, seeds and to help each other out with advice and manual assistance where required. It won’t matter if you are brand new to gar- dening or have a wealth of experience. We will arrange guest speakers to visit us, plan trips to visit gardens or exhibitions and possibly even hold an open gar- dens day in the village to raise funds for the club and for nominated charities. If you have an interest in getting involved in the running of such a club, please give me a call and we will meet for a chat. The club would meet in the village hall perhaps 3 or 4 times a year or possibly more if enough interest is shown. So if you have an interest in gardening, would like help to get started or even just want to pass on knowledge to help others, why not give it a try. 1st meeting will be arranged for early March so Watch this space for more details. Keep supporting your village hall by attending some of the other clubs available or by hiring it out for functions. We need your help to stay open. Have a lovely Christmas and a prosperous 2017. David Henderson - Chairman, Village Hall Management Committee Monthly Village Hall Draw Results – November Prize Winners: First Prize £50 – 51 J Lumley; Second Prize £20 – 251 D Newman; Third Prize £10 – 295 Mr & Mrs Aldred; Fourth Prize £10 – 262 Ursula Matheson; Fifth Prize £10 – 116 Mrs S Jones If you would like to support your Village Hall lottery please contact John Chap- pell on 01284 830530 or download the form from the village hall website. The December draw (from November subs) will include the £100 bonus prize. 7 GREENLINE TRAVEL Tel: 07754 298690 Email: [email protected] 24 hour 7 days a week service to & from airports, ports and local area. Price for up to 4 persons with lug- gage from or to Lawshall: Stansted Gatwick Heathrow All Sea Ports Luton London City Tel: 07754 298690 Friendly, reliable and fully licensed 6 seater car. Thank you for your custom HAIR BY GEORGIA Kevin Seggie Mobile Hairdresser Available Daytime or evenings Competitive prices Contact Mobile 07741000208 Home 01284 735414 8 Parish Council Report www.lawshall.suffolk.gov.uk November 2016 Summer Fair: A suggestion has been put forward from the Council- lors that they would like to organise a Fair next year on Walcher's meadow to raise funds for the village organisations.