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£1 when sold July/August 2018 ;EEG7: 499/500 REMEMBER: This issue covers July AND August NEWS AND VIEWS FROM LODE WITH LONGMEADOW LODE 2 STAR www.lode.org.ukLODE 3 STAR Issue No: 499/500 EDITORIAL July/August 2018 WHAT’S WHERE WHAT’S ON WHEN As everyone will now be aware, our raised to Liz while sharing stories and IN LODE STAR LC Lode Chapel, LSC Lode Social Club, BBL British Legion Club Editor has sadly died on Friday 8 June FH Fassage Hall, BVC Bottisham Village College anecdotes about how she had touched 3. Editorial and today (Tuesday 26 June) we lives and benefited others. 4. Lode Parish Council July celebrated her life with a service at When Liz picked up the baton as Editor of 5. British Legion Club 1 St James’ Pop-Up Cafe (p13) St James’ Church in Lode. Lode Star in 2007 it was evident from the 6. Swift Situation 4 Lode WI 7.30pm LC (p13) Our small church was packed to start that she would enjoy the challenge. 7 Cambridge Open Studio weekend (p25) overflowing with people who came to say She was always full ideas and if there 7. Elizabeth Mitchell Safari Dinner (p23) 9. Bottisham Gardening Club goodbye to a very dear friend and to wasn’t enough material to fill a final 9 LPC 7.30pm FH (p5) celebrate Elizabeth Mitchell’s generosity column I didn’t have to worry as she would Burwell Windmill & Museum 10 Poppy Workshop for Men (p29) of spirit, resilience, courage and zest for find something from deep within her 10. Mum, Dad—I’m Bored! 11 Bottisham Social Club meeting (p5) life. 11. Wicken Fen & Anglesey Abbey 13 Walk for Health 10am Surgery (p17) experience, or her computer, or her arm 12. Jane Newberry 14 Cambridge Open Studio weekend (p25) The obituary on page 7 gives only a twisting, that fitted the space and the Quy Fete 2pm The Orchard (p13) snapshot of Liz’s presence in Lode, and mood exactly—although on many 13. Lode WI occasion it wouldn’t arrive to the very last St James’ Pop-Up Cafe Junior Prime Brass 3.00pm SB (p24) the next piece from David Ward puts into 15 Village BBQ 12.30pm (p15) words what we all feel. minute and I was afraid we would lose our Quy Fete turn at the printers. In her last days she 18 Gardening Club Summer Outing (p9 A Scottish piper in full Highland dress 14. Swaffham Bulbeck School was still extracting promises from people 19 Mothers Union 2.30pm LC (p32) had piped the coffin into the church, and Lode Star deliverers 21 Cambridge Open Studio weekend (p25) that they would write something for Lode after the very moving and poignant 15 Red 2Green; Village BBQ 24 Winter Lights tickets go on sale (p12) Star (please keep those promises!) service, while the family went to the 16. Unprofitable Questions 25 Walk for Health 10am Surgery (p17) Lode Star will continue, of course, and 17 Bottisham Patients’ Group 26 Bottisham Patients Group mtg (p17) cemetery for the burial, the congregation was invited to follow the piper’s tune to until another editor comes forward I will Lode Charity 28 Cambridge Open Studio weekend (p25) hold the fort with the help of the dedicated 18. Lode Village Fete 29 St James’ Pop-Up Cafe (p13) the Fassage Hall where refreshments were available. regular and occasional contributors who 20. Geoffrey de Mandeville come up trumps every month.. August The hot and sunny weather encouraged 21 Public Transport Matters Lode Star takes its summer break now 23. Lode Tennis Club 1 Lode WI 7.30pm LC (p13) everyone to stay and reminisce with 5 Tennis Club Open Day (p23) family, friends, and colleagues. until the September issue for which I will Macmillan Coffee Morning 10 Walk for Health 10am Surgery (p17) need contributions by 14 August please. 24. 1st Bottisham Scouts Prosecco (a staple tipple at many of the 12 St James’ Pop-Up Cafe (p13) Mitchell’s parties) meant a glass could be Susan Swannell Junior Prime Brass 22 Walk for Health 10am Surgery (p17) 25. Cambridge Open Studios 26 St James’ Pop-Up Cafe (p13) The purpose of LODE STAR is to serve the WHOLE parish by circulating information 26 BVC News 28 Gardening Club mtg (p9) free to every household in LODE and LONGMEADOW eleven times a yea r 27. RENEW 28. Sudoku solution Please could all items for inclusion in the combined ‘It Starts with You’ WEEKLY EVENTS 29. Calling all Men! Thursday Anglesey Abbey Health Walks 10.00am SEPTEMBER 2018 edition of Lode Star reach Bottisham Library Association https://www.walkingforhealth.org.uk/ Susan Swannell (address below or [email protected] ) by 30. Army Cadets Force content/lode-bottisham TUESDAY 14 AUGUST 2018 (earlier if possible) 32. Mothers Union Wednesday Coffee Morning, 10.30am, LC ǢǕǝǕǝǒǕǢ: Ǒǣ ǙǞ ǠǢǕǦǙǟǥǣ ǩǕǑǢǣ, 33. Village Freecycle Little Lode Monkeys, from 9.30am, Thursdays in ǤǘǕǢǕ ǧǟǞ’Ǥ ǒǕ Ǒ ǣǕǠǑǢǑǤǕ ǑǥǗǥǣǤ ǙǣǣǥǕ Neighbourhood Watch term time, LC F:@LittleLodeMonkeys 34. Thinking Allowed EDITOR: ................................................................................................................... VACANCY 35. St James’ Church Red 2Green Café at BVC Tues & Thurs 11am-2pm DISTRIBUTOR: ............ IAN FAULKNER , 28 FAIRHAVEN CLOSE, CB25 9HG 811963 36. Outside Information TREASURER: .............. JEFF KEMPSTER , 19 ABBEY LANE, LODE CB25 9EP 812194 ADVERTISING & PRODUCTION: .. SUSAN SWANNELL , 5 ABBEY LANE, LODE 811584 COVER DRAWING: ...........................................................................ROBERT GOOD, LODE ON THE ADVERT PAGES PRINTERS: ................................ BURWELL COMMUNITY PRINT CENTRE 01638 613102 About Barbecues ......... Q OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN LODE STAR ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE EDITORS Sudoku ........................ BB NOR DO THE EDITORS ACCEPT ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR CLAIMS MADE IN ADVERTISEMENTS LODE 2 STAR LODE 3 STAR Lode Parish Council News Ground Charity, and this land is held Bottisham & District Branch of by Fields in Trust. It would therefore The Royal British Legion remain in perpetuity for the benefit of New Parish Councillor buildings on such land are only allowed the parish. It could also perhaps be We started our June meeting by in exceptional circumstances. registered as a Village Green. Bearing Following the disaffiliation of the social welcoming Tom Fitzgerald as a new We would be grateful to hear about the in mind the cost implications, we club from The Royal British Legion Parish Councillor. Tom and his family history of this horse paddock, which has agreed to meet with Trustees of the (TRBL), the social club is changing its have recently moved to Fairhaven not been open to visitors or villagers in Lode With Longmeadow Village Trust identity to The Bottisham Close. We still have a vacancy for a the past. It has been referred to as an who might be able to assist with funds. Community, Sports and Social Club Councillor. Please contact the Parish old orchard. We went on to discuss improvements Ltd . Clerk or any Councillor if you are Waste Incinerator at Waterbeach that might be possible in the future, At the same time, The Bottisham and interested. District Branch of The Royal British Concern was expressed about the such as extending the south end of the Legion is unchanged and will remain Planning Application Refused probable building of a waste incinerator Fassage Hall to regain the space lost with the support of those who wish to District Councillor Alan Sharp at the Amey Cespa site in Waterbeach. to extra storage, and adding a small continue to be members of the local reported that the Planning Application It will be about five miles away from car park nearer the hall. Branch of TRBL . by the National Trust for a temporary most houses in the parish, but only two We are looking into acquiring some catering facility in the paddock near miles from those off Lug Fen Droveway. small goals that can be used during the If you are a member of the Legion and the Mill had been turned down by the The prevailing wind is more in the holidays by teenagers. intend to continue your membership, District Council. This was because Stretham and Wicken Direction, though. Residents are always welcome to then this is an invite for you to come along to the next Branch meeting on the land is within the Cambridge Ironically, the County Council recently propose things for the future. Green Belt, which extends up to the passed a motion about their trying to Wednesday 11 July in the Poppy Cemetery gardens of the houses in Lode Road, eliminate single-use plastics, yet this lounge at the Social Club at 8.00pm. Abbey Lane and Mill Road and would be a major constituent of the A pergola is to be put behind the bench Without the support and involvement includes all of the Abbey Gardens, waste that would be burnt. Plastic is just inside to cemetery for climbing of its members in the Branch Visitors Centre and Car Park. Any made from oil, and oil-burning power plants. organisation, then the Branch, like stations were closed down several years Parish Allotments many in the country, will not be able to ago. continue and will fold. LODE PARISH COUNCIL There are three plots now available for Road Furniture residents to use on our allotments. As a current member you will be CHAIRMAN It is hoped that signage for the B1102 Please contact the Parish Clerk if you welcome to come along to our next Robert Stevens ........ C.811643 and the shared use path to Quy will are interested. meeting and show your support for the 51 Northfields continuation of this Branch. appear soon. The County Council has Cricket Ian Faulkner ............