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7 4 2 Grundisburgh and District R The E B SPRING M 2018 U N FREE E U S S I Serving ASHBOCKING . THE BEALINGS . BOULGE . BREDFIELD . BURGH . CHARSFIELD . CLOPTON . CULPHO DALLINGHOO .NDEBACH . GRUNDISBURGH . HewsASKETON . OTLEY . PLAYFORD . SWILLAND . TUDDENHAM . WITNESHAM award winning flower meadows, woodland, ancient Eco Luxury on trees and ponds. Secret Meadows is an our doorstep extension of this ethos he village of Hasketon holds the – the accommodation Tkey on how to combine allows people to stay environmental activities with luxury at the wildlife site in a glamping facilities in the award low impact way while winning ‘Secret Meadows’. encouraging guest interaction with the Set up in 2012 to fund the outdoors and giving conservation work at White House them an appreciation Farm Wildlife site, Secret Meadow of the environment. has already won Suffolk’s ‘Creating the Greenest County’ award for Continued on page 11 Greenest Micro Business in 2015, and in 2017 was in the top three for the ‘Visit England Glamping Provider of card support Above: Grundisburgh Football Club players (in the Year’ award, as well as receiving blue) in action against Coplestonians. recognition in a number of national An update on GFC’s current season so far is newspapers. Most recently, on 8 included on page 18. February at Bury St Edmunds A players’ reunion is being held on Saturday 21 Cathedral, Charlotte Daniel and her April from 2pm to celebrate 20 years since the club ‘did the treble’ - winning the SIL Senior Division, Suffolk Senior Cup and SIL Ko Cup. GFC is still the only club to achieve this feat. All those who played under manager Steve Potts between 1994/95 to 2004/05 are welcome . Carrie and Rupert Herries visited East Anglian Children’s Hospice in Ipswich. They handed over £500 raised from the sale of their Hallo Christmas cards, thanks to Williams Stores, Grange Farm Shop and Woodbridge Charity Card shop Charlotte Daniel and Ross Troup at the selling the cards for no profit, making a award ceremony in Bury St Edmunds. total of £1500 over three years. Really In rehearsal for the Grundisburgh Symphony impressed by what they saw, the Herries Orchestra’s concert on Sunday 4 March. See eight colleagues were delighted to are determined to do even better this year. page 5 for full details. discover they have won in the Sustainable Tourism category for the Norfolk and Suffolk Tourism Awards. An invitation from The News’ team ...... The Sinfield Nature Conversation ... to join us at our annual general meeting on Friday 23 March Trust was established as a charity in in Grundisburgh Parish Room (opposite Forge Stores) starting at 1994 with the main objective of 7.30pm. We’d like to offer you a glass or two of wine and to hear advancing the conservation of wildlife your views and your suggestions - and even offers of help in and wild places to benefit the public, producing the paper! the site covers 115 acres of wild- News Diary MARCH Thursday 22 Saturday 5 Contact 735352 Craft Group GrPR 9.30am St Mary’s Grundisburgh Thursday 1 Contact 735517 Coffee Morning GrPR Nostalgic Slides of 10.30am Contact 735775 JULY Grundisburgh Rosie and Thursday 22 Clare from Williams Shop Retreat Day for Easter Led Saturday 5 Thursday 5 Grundisburgh WI BCR by Revd Fred Woods Otley Plant Sale Morning Otley & Mystery Tour Outing 7.30pm Contact 735838 Hall 10am-4pm Contact District Gardening Club Otley Grundisburgh WI Contact 890264 VH 10.30am Contact 890563 735838 Saturday 3 St Mary’s Grundisburgh Friday 23 Saturday 12 Saturday 14 Coffee Morning GrPR Grundisburgh News AGM Village Quiz Tuddenham VH Charsfield Flower Show 10.30am Contact 735775 GrPR 7.30pm Contact 738886 7pm Contact 785682 Charsfield Village Hall 2pm Contact Saturday 3 Monday 14 [email protected] Eve Appeal Easter Tea Party APRIL ‘Over the Garden Wall’ - Coffee Morning Burgh Gardening Stories Otley & Grundisburgh Village Show School Room 10am Contact Tuesday 3 District Gardening Club GrPF 12.30-5pm Contact 735554 Baby Cafe GrPR 9am Contact OtleyVH 7.30pm Contact 738997 735183 890056 Saturday 3 Thursday 19 TADPOLES “One More Thursday 5 Thursday 24 Wateraid Talk by Sue Night Variety Show” Quick Suppers Demonstrator Craft Group GrPR 9.30am Brenham Hasketon WI Tuddenham VH 7.30pm Jane Sago Grundisburgh WI Contact 735517 Hasketon Victory Hall Contact 785682/785400 BCR 7.30pm Contact 735838 7.15pm Contact 735579 SOLD OUT! Saturday 7 JUNE Saturday 28 Sunday 4 St Mary’s Grundisburgh St Mary’s Grundisburgh Grundisburgh Symphony Coffee Morning GrPR Saturday 2 Church Fete GrVG 1pm Orchestra Spring Concert 10.30am Contact 735775 St Mary’s Coffee Morning Contact 738066 Burgh House Barn 3pm Monday 9 GrPR 10.30am Contact Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 Tickets Olde Forge Stores or Propagation - Cuttings and 735775 Grundisburgh Art Club 738944 Seeds Otley & District Saturday 2 Exhibition in St Mary’s Monday 5 Gardening Club OtleyVH Bredfield Church Fete The Church Sat 1pm - 4pm Sun Easy Gardening - Low 7.30pm Contact 890056 Old Rectory Bredfield 2pm 10am - 5pm Contact 738265 Maintenance Gardens Otley Tuesday 10 Contact 07770 406222 & District Gardening Club Gardening for Wildlife Talk Thursday 7 Otley VH 7.30pm Contact by Mike Powell Evans Garden Party Grundisburgh 890563 Tuddenhham WI Tuddenham WI 2.30pm Contact 735838 Key to abbreviations: PBE - pre-booking essential Tuesday 6 VH 7.30pm Contact 785368 for details P/VH - Parish/Village Hall Baby Cafe GrPR 9am Thursday 12 Saturday 9 PR - Parish Room Contact 735183 Craft Group GrPR 9.30am Day Trip to Pensthorpe PF - Playing Field Contact 735517 Saturday 10 Natural Park Otley & District VG - Village Green Mother’s Day Special Saturday 14 Gardening Club Leave Otley Pav - Pavilion Events Otley Hall 2pm - Car Boot/Table Top Sale VH 9.15am Contact 890563 BCR - Baptist Chapel Room 4.30pm To book contact Bredfield Village Hall 12noon Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 Gr - Grundisburgh 890264 - 4pm To book a space contact Hidden Gardens of All codes are 01473 unless [email protected] Sunday 11 Grundisburgh, Burgh & given otherwise. Annual Litter Pick Saturday 14 Culpho Programmes on GrVG Brief details of events with Grundisburgh Walking Group Soup & Sweet Luncheon 2pm - 6pm Contact 735228 date, name of event, venue, Meet at GrVG 2pm Contact Tuddenham VH 12 noon Saturday 9 time and contact phone 738219 Contact 785454 or 785682 Village Fete Poplar Farm number should be sent by Tuesday 13 Thursday 19 Tuddenham 2pm Contact 2 May for the next issue to Diary of a Norfolk Parson Resolutions Meeting Bring 785454 Ingrid McIvor, 21 Thomas Talk by Sheila Harrison and Share Supper Hasketon Thursday 14 Friday 15 Walls’ Close Grundisburgh Tuddenham VH 7.30pm WI Hasketon Victory Hall Saturday 16 IP13 6XB, or Contact 785368 7.15pm Contact 735579 Murder at Mole End GADS [email protected]. Please Thursday 15 Friday 27 GrVH 7.30pm Details later indicate if tickets must be Cooking Various FOGS Ceilidh Grundisburgh Saturday 23 bought in advance. Demonstration by Eunice School 7pm PBE Tickets from Open Garden Lark’s Hill The diary was introduced to Mayhew Hasketon WI School Office Clopton Road Tuddenham promote planned events and Hasketon Victory Hall 7.15pm 1.30pm Contact 785248 to help organisers avoid Contact 735579 MAY Saturday 23 clashes of future events. Tuesday 20 Playford Fete Playford Hall Details can be sent up to a Country Houses in East Thursday 3 2pm - 5pm Contact 624556 year ahead for inclusion for Fuchsia Society Grundisburgh Anglia Gr Local History Saturday 23 the website diary. Society Talk by Ben Cowell WI BCR 7.30pm Contact 735838 Duck Race 1st Grundisburgh GrPR 7.45pm Contact 738195 Scout Group GrVG 4pm 2 What’s On Otley Hall events on the chapel car park. On Easter Sunday we have a tley Hall is holding a Family Service at 10.45am, Ospecial event for preceded by bacon butties and Mother’s Day on Saturday 10 hot cross buns from 10.15am. March. Between 2 and Everybody is welcome as we 4.30pm guests will be treated think about how the to a unique tour of Otley Hall resurrection of Jesus is Gardens in the company of relevant to us. Head Gardener Simon Nickson. He will explain the Our Seekers group now fascinating history and White peacocks in front of Otley Hall. comprises primary age planting of the gardens and children and meets from 6.30 their development over the by aiming to find better ways to 8.00pm on Mondays during centuries. to prevent and earlier diagnose Bredfield Church term time. We have a varied programme of games, The tour will be followed by a cancer in women. Burgh Fete Schoolroom is next to Burgh competitions and craft, with delicious afternoon tea in the s the sun comes out and important lessons from the Great Hall and Linenfold church. Eily Buffone 01473 735554 Athe temperatures rise, we Bible. There is also a cut price Parlour. In front of roaring log can look forward to a tuck shop. It is free to join - fires the tour guide will regale Car boots and wonderful summer in 2018 just turn up on the nigh t. visitors with stories of the and how better to start it than hall's famous and often Our Ladies’ and Men’s groups table tops with the biggest and best are now combined and meet at surprising previous residents. garden fete for miles. The cost is £19 per person. redfield Village Hall is 2.30pm for an hour on the Braising funds for a Bredfield Church Fete on first Wednesday afternoon of There will be a Retreat Day conservatory extension.