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VILLAGE VOICE BRINKLEY..BURROUGH GREEN..CARLTON..WESTLEY WATERLESS MARCH 2011

QUIZ NIGHT BRINKLEY FETE It is time once again to plan the Brinkley Fete which this year is returning to its regular venue at Brinkley BRINKLEY MEMORIAL Hall. HALL Please put this date in your diaries SUNDAY 3rd July, 2011 th FRIDAY 11 MARCH 7.30pm. We are holding our first BRINKLEY VILLAGE FETE Teams of 6 or fewer. MEETING on Come along and join with others if you don’t have TUESDAY 8th MARCH enough people for a team. at The Red Lion pub in Brinkley at 8.00 pm

£8 including Shepherd’s pie supper Please come along and help the team with planning and Bar new ideas for fundraising - we always need volunteers Tickets on the door. and offers of help on the day. If you would like to help but cannot make the meeting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ please call either Jim Brewin on 01638 507941 or RADFIELD HUNDRED GROUP Louise Beamish on 01638 507133. st Monday 21 March ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 7.45 in Brinkley Memorial Hall BOOK SALE & COFFEE MORNING Julietta Mayer from Ely Beads giving a talk and at demonstration on beads BURROUGH GREEN New members always welcome. For more information SCHOOL call Doris on 01638 507717 FRIDAY 11th MARCH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From 10.00 am in the new school hall. BINGO

Come and join the PTA for a book sale and coffee Brinkley Memorial Hall morning on Friday 11th March. You can also get to see On some of the new school from the inside! The sale and SATURDAY 5th MARCH coffee morning will be held in the new school hall, and

will begin at approx 10am, after school assembly. EYES DOWN at 8PM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bring your own wine / snacks. CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL PREVIEW EVENING Teas / Coffees available

Cash prizes and Raffle th WEDNESDAY 9 MARCH In aid of Burrough Green Playgroup. SWYNFORD PADDOCKS HOTEL

Six Mile Bottom EVERYONE WELCOME. From 7pm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Famous names from the Racing world will be there. SCRABBLE & MAHJONG

We meet on MONDAYS 14th and 28th March at Tickets £10 pre-booked on 01638 570234 7.30pm in the Community Room at Sheriff’s Court in £15 on the night. Burrough Green. Do come along and join in with one of the games. Beginners and experienced players are IN AID OF BURROUGH GREEN CRICKET CLUB equally welcome!

£2 including refreshments. Trish 01638 507495 http://burroughgreencc.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/2011- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cheltenham-preview1.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

VILLAGE WEBSITES MONTHLY REPORT FOR CHEVELEY/DULLINGHAM www.brinkleyvillage.co.uk www.burroughgreen.com BEAT JANUARY 2011 Do have a look at the websites which contain lots of Hello everyone from Andy and Mags information about the villages and also have links to Welcome to the monthly report for January 2011 for archive material. The Village Voice newsletter is our area. available on both sites for the current month and We have had 21 crimes reported over the month from several previous issues. in and around our villages. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ They were as follows:- Want to get out more? Dullingham: 2 reports Can’t find a reliable babysitter? Stetchworth: 2 reports I’m seventeen, experienced with children of all ages, Burrough Green: Shed burglary. Lawn mower and I’ve been CRB checked and I’m always available! garden equipment stolen. Call Joanna on 01638 507700 (Brinkley) Brinkley: Shed burglary. Weston Colville Road ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chainsaw stolen. BRINKLEY MEMORIAL HALL Brinkley/Six Mile Bottom: Shed burglary Cowell Farm If you wish to hire the hall, please contact two chainsaws stolen. Susie Shuter on 01638 508729 Upend and Woodditton: 4 burglaries from sheds. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1 theft of 1000 litres heating oil stolen from tank. CATHOLIC SERVICES Cheveley, Ashley & Kirtling: 4 reports NEWMARKET & KIRTLING. Newmarket : 5 Reports Mass Times From the house to house enquiries that Mags has Saturday 6.30pm Newmarket been conducting in regards to the shed burglaries. A Sunday 9.00am Kirtling suspicious Blue Saloon car was seen in Woodditton. 10.30am Newmarket The registration number was not seen. Holy Days 9.00am Newmarket If you see anything that looks unusual in our villages 12noon Kirtling for example strange vehicles, people knocking on 7.30pm Newmarket doors selling, flyers through your doors asking for Our Lady with St. Etheldreda, Exeter Road, scrap metal. The Police need to know. Newmarket The items taken from the shed burglaries would need Our Lady & St Philip Neri, Kirtling a van or small truck to transport them. If you see Main Address: 14 Exeter Road, Newmarket, CB8 8LT. something happening that looks suspicious call the Telephone: 01638 662492 Police. Let us check it out to establish if it is Email: [email protected] legitimate or not. Brinkley contact, John Conti 01638 508304 Look after your neighbours if they are going on ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ holiday keep an eye on their houses talk to each KATY’S BABYSITTING other. Katy Ensch – Aged 15 Anything strange happening at the property and you 01223 291947 (Carlton) know your neighbours are not in call the Police. I have passed a babysitting course and a first aid This is our community we need to work together to course for young children. help each other. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PC1608 Andy Martin PCSO 7306 Mags Harvey MOBILE LIBRARY The Mobile Library will be at Brinkley Memorial Hall If anyone has seen anything regarding these crimes On the 4th Wednesday of each month between 3.15- please call in on the Police Non- Emergency number 4.30pm. 23rd March 2011. 0345 456 456 4. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Next South Neighbourhood Panel Meeting RECYCLING scheduled to be held at Kirtling village hall on Brown sack dates for March are Thursdays 10th & Wednesday 30th March 2011 has been 24th. CANCELLED ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DATE FOR YOUR DIARY FOR SALE On Sunday May 22nd Anne & Mike at Cricketfield

Cottage, Brinkley are hosting a Cheese & Wine Party 'Tag-Along Bike' for sale, silver steel frame in from 12 noon. Tickets will be £7.50 and all proceeds very good condition; hardly been used. Asking will go to Brinkley Church. price of £55.00. If interested please ring 01223 Please make a note in your diary now to come along 290225 and ask to speak to Sally or Eddy and support this lovely fund raising event. (Carlton). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE ELIZABETH MARCH CHARITY, BRINKLEY RAF WRATTING COMMON This is a local charity to support young people, I have been collecting photographs and history of students and apprentices in Brinkley. Their needs RAF Wratting Common for many years now and could be for books, tools, tuition, travelling expenses, wonder if anyone has any old photographs which I educational trips, etc. The Trustees have the funds could borrow to copy. Anything of when the airfield to provide up to £200 for individuals to help them to was operational during the war years 1943 to 1945 achieve something special this year. would be appreciated, but of special interest too The project should have an educational benefit or would be any photographs or history of the hundreds assist the applicant in gaining skills to help them to of displaced people liberated from the war camps get a job. They must be aged 18 or under on 31 across Europe who were accommodated at RAF December 2011 and live in the parish of Brinkley to Wratting Common until the early 1950's. qualify. They would need to set out how they intend to Suzanne Langford. Tel 01223 290353. use the funds and afterwards will be asked to write a ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ report for the Trustees to demonstrate that the NATIONAL CENSUS funds were used for that purpose. Help tomorrow take shape Any applicant for a grant should apply in writing to On 27 March, the census will take a snapshot of Mrs N Dixon, Secretary to the Trustees, Blackbirds, society in England and Wales. So any day now a Weston Colville Road, Brinkley CB8 0SG by the end of questionnaire will arrive in the post asking you about April 2011 stating how much sponsorship they would your household and all the people living there. If it need and what they would spend it on. The Trustees has already arrived keep it safe. Your household is will consider all applications and let the successful one of around 25 million in England and Wales taking applicant know of their decision by the end of July. part. The 2011 Census is all about numbers. It asks All information will be treated as confidential. about work, health, national identity, citizenship, ethnic background, education, second homes, language, Elizabeth March of Fulbourn died on 28 March 1722. religion, whether you are married and so on. This During her lifetime she conveyed a house and farm at information helps the Office for National Statistics Oakington for the foundation of schools in the (ONS) to produce population estimates. parishes of Fulbourn, Haddenham, Fen Ditton, Histon, Why should this matter to you? Like all local and Brinkley. The original deeds were lost but mention authorities in England and Wales, South of the gift was made in her will of 26 March 1722 Cambridgeshire District Council relies on census which stated that approximately £70 per annum was population estimates to feed into the government to be equally divided between the 5 schools. A tablet funding your communities need for public services. was put up in 1722 in her memory in St Mary’s Church, How much it gets is related to how many people the Brinkley by Roger Pepys of Impington, one of her census says live in your area – so if the census can’t executors. Subsequently the fund was divided up into account for everyone, it could lose out. Even if the five trust funds (one for each parish), with their own census were to end up just a few households short, it Trustees established. could make a very real difference to people’s lives.

As there is no longer a school in Brinkley, the charity You can complete your 2011 Census online (you’ll need gives money annually for a book prize at Burrough the internet access code on the front of your Green School to be awarded to a Brinkley child. The questionnaire to log in), or complete the questionnaire charity also makes annual donations to the Guides and by hand and post it back in the pre-paid envelope. Brownies. The current Trustees of the Foundation of Everything you tell the census is confidential. It will Elizabeth March in Brinkley are Lt Col John Kaye, Mrs only be used to help build an accurate picture of the Niki Dixon, Mrs Briony Gimson, and Mrs Anne Hoole. population so that public sector organisations and See: http://www.parish-council.com/Brinkley/ other users can plan their services and activities over ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ the next ten years. Your questionnaire is turned into numbers by ONS and is not shared with any other local or national government department. HORSE FOR LOAN/PART LOAN For more information visit www.census.gov.uk Lovely friendly Welsh D 13yr gelding for full or part Thank you for taking part. loan, mainly used for hacking but has done other ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ activities. NOT NOVICE ride so needs a confident DATE FOR YOUR DIARY experienced ADULT to ride him as he can be The local annual fund raising event for the RNLI - excitable. Prefer to be kept at current yard nr Gt Trad Jazz For The Lifeboats With Jazz Incorporated Bradley. Sadly I have not got the time for him due to – will be held on Saturday 6th August at The Old my new baby. Rectory Carlton. Make a note in your diary now. Call for details 01638 507504 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TRADING STANDARDS What is the Help Scheme? Digital Television Switchover – When, what, how? A Help Scheme is available if you are 75 or over, have lived in a care home for over six months, get certain On 30th March, the BBC 2 analogue channel will be disability benefits or are registered blind or partially switched off in Cambridgeshire, followed by the sighted. If you are eligible you should have received a remaining analogue channels on 13th April. From then letter from the Scheme, but if you are in any doubt, on, if you aren’t set up to receive digital, you won’t be contact the scheme on 0800 4085900 or visit able to watch your television. www.helpscheme.co.uk. This can be a worrying prospect, and at ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cambridgeshire County Council’s Trading Standards NEW HIGHWAY FAULT REPORTING SYSTEM TO Service we want to ensure that you know where to go KEEP THE CUSTOMER AT THE WHEEL for advice. Cambridgeshire County Council has introduced a new How will it affect me? interactive on-line reporting system for highway If you have Sky TV, Freesat from Sky, Freesat or problems which will ensure the person reporting a Virgin Media you don’t need to do anything (but note, fault is kept fully up to speed with its repair. additional TVs in the house may be affected). The Highways Reporting Project allows people to: If you have Freeview, BT Vision or Top Up TV you will • Report a fault using a web-based need to re-tune your television 5 times in 2011. mapping system to ensure the exact location Guidance on re-tuning can be found on Digital UK’s is identified and notified to repair teams website (below). Alternatively you can pay a trader to • Check on-line to see if the fault has re-tune it each time. already been reported • Let the customer go on-line to check If you currently have five channels or fewer, you have progress on repair work three options: • Does away with the need for the public to use other reporting systems such as Option 1: get a digital box. If you get a good analogue ‘fixmystreet’ which will save staff time and picture through your aerial now, you could purchase a free up resources for road repair work Freeview set top box. Other options are satellite • In addition people will still be able to services ‘Freesat from Sky’ or ‘Freesat’. Once report faults by telephone on 0345 045 5212 purchased, these do not have a monthly fee. For even Other benefits include: more channels, consider a monthly subscription • Better information and service from Sky, BT Vision or Top Up TV. Your communication for customers existing TV should work fine with any of these, • Time saving for county council staff provided it has an aerial or Scart socket. through reduced numbers of e- Only Freeview requires an aerial, and in most cases, if mail/telephone calls, freeing them up for your current analogue picture is OK, your aerial should other tasks such as programming repair work work fine with Freeview. If you do need a new aerial, • More accurate fault reporting which contact the Registered Digital Installers Licensing will help reduce repair times Body on 01353 644040 or visit www.rdi-lb.tv for a list The online service is available at of registered installers. www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/transport/highwaysfault

Option 2: buy a new Freeview recorder with twin County Council Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member tuners. This will receive digital television, acting as a for Highways and Access, Councillor Mac McGuire, digital box, and is also a recorder, allowing you to said: “This new Highways Reporting system has watch one channel while recording another. After the streamlined the way in which our customers can switchover, if you don’t have a digital recorder, you report a fault on the highway network and keep will only be able to record the channel you are themselves fully informed on the progress being made watching. to repair or rectify the problem. It’s another example of the County Council’s commitment to putting the Option 3: buy a new television that has a built in customer first and keeping them at the heart of digital tuner. Look for - everything we do in Cambridgeshire.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Where can I go for advice? ARTICLES FOR APRIL VILLAGE VOICE You can contact Digital UK on 08456 50 50 50 for To [email protected] advice or visit their website www.digitaluk.co.uk. If you have a hearing or speech impediment, contact the By March 20th at the very latest please! textphone service on 0845 2340380. 01638 507495 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DISTRICT COUNCIL NOTES – FEBRUARY 2011 include everyone, everywhere – and that's why Changes to concessionary bus passes everyone has to take part. From 1 April 2011 Cambridgeshire County Council will By doing the census, you will be able to help shape the take on the responsibility for providing concessionary kind of communities and services you and the people bus passes for eligible residents throughout around you need. Cambridgeshire. Residents who already have a bus pass will not be During March 2011, you will get a 2011 Census affected until their current passes expire. Residents questionnaire in the post for you and other members who will become eligible from April onwards will need of your household to complete. For the first time, to apply to the County Council. Details of how to do you’ll be able to do the census online. Or you can fill it this will be given as soon as they are available on the in by hand and post it back. County Council's website by following this link: Christine Bryant (01223 811767) and Robert Stevens http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/transport/around/ (01223 811643) buspasses/concessions/default.htm. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DISABLED CHILDREN’S ACCESS TO CHILDCARE Existing concessionary bus pass holders' information (DCATCH) will be transferred to the county council in order to The Cambridgeshire County Council Disabled continue the service. The data will be used only for Children’s Access to Childcare (DCATCH) project is the purpose of continuing the concessionary bus pass aimed at supporting parents/carers of disabled scheme. All data will remain confidential. children in accessing suitable childcare; giving them Proposed Bus Subsidy Cuts the chance of returning to employment and/or There has been media coverage recently about training. It is part of the Cambridgeshire Childcare proposed bus subsidy cuts over the next four years. Information Service (CIS). We should like to point out that these cuts are being The aim of DCATCH is to highlight that “a child with proposed by Cambridgeshire County Council, who pay a disability and his/her family should have access to these, and not East Cambridgeshire District Council. the full range of childcare options that are open to Subsidy cuts are not proposed for the 10, 11 and 12 other families” Sure Start, 2005 services serving Bottisham and Lode, since these are no longer subsidised, but they are being proposed for “A lack of information about the childcare services the routes 16, 17, 19, 46, 47, 901 to 905 variously that are available, and confusion about the quality and serving Brinkley, Burrough Green, Six Mile Bottom and potential benefits of using childcare, continue to Westley Waterless. create barriers for some parents”. Department for However, the District Council has proposed axing the children, schools and families, Dec 2009. grants it has previously made to the Dial-A-Ride community transport services to our villages. These The aim of the project is to work closely with cuts have already been opposed by us. parents, childcare providers and professionals, embedding the principles of DCATCH; ensuring Why taking part in the census is important to you inclusion into early years and childcare settings for Every ten years since 1801 a census has been carried all. A referral service to parents shows where to go out to find out more about the people who live in for support and guidance with their childcare options England and Wales, and about the makeup of local via the Childcare Brokerage Service. neighbourhoods. The Office for National Statistics Once a family is identified we can then, through the (ONS) will carry out the next census on 27 March CIS Childcare Brokerage Service, enquire about 2011. suitable childcare. This will include information on Like all local authorities in England and Wales, East provision of childcare from providers, funding options, Cambridgeshire District Council relies on census costs, specialist care and specialist facilities, if population statistics to identify local needs for public required by the provider. services. The DCATCH project provides a service to families, Government uses census population estimates to work which is free of charge and completely impartial. out how much money to give each local authority to spend on public services. Local authorities use them If you would like further information on DCATCH to work out what kind of services they need to then please ring 0845 04 54 014 and ask for Denis provide for people – schools, hospitals, childcare, Green or send an email to community care, transport and more. [email protected] Funding for these services is directly related to how Alternatively check our website many and what kind of people the census shows live in www.familiesandchildcare.org.uk and click on the our area. So even if the census were to end up just a DCATCH link. few households short, it could make a very real ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ different to people's lives. The census needs to NEWS FROM LINTON VILLAGE COLLEGE VILLAGE SHOP IN BURROUGH GREEN On Tuesday 1 February, Linton Village College I miss having a village shop and would like to know if converted to Academy Status. We were one of two there is anyone who is willing to help me to get one secondary schools in Cambridgeshire to do so off the ground. I have a workshop in my garden and I (Comberton Village College was the other) and our am centrally located in the village. I would need help early adoption of the status is a consequence of the converting it (as cheaply and as tastefully as possible) fact that the Secretary of State for Education and also someone to work part-time in a paid capacity. invited only outstanding schools to take this However, if someone has a more suitable space opportunity in the first round of conversions. The available please let me know. opportunity to convert has now been offered to other schools and we envisage that a large number of I aim to source local produce and to stock all those secondaries in South Cambridgeshire will take it. items that we often run out of in the evening or at the weekend. I have experience of running a business Our conversion follows extensive consultation with but am looking for help and support from local people staff, parents, the student council and who want to be involved in helping our local community. representatives of trade union and professional I believe that this small shop could also be a associations. The Governors did not take this decision community hub for information and help. lightly. They did, however, conclude that it was in the Please email me to let me know whether you support interests of our students and our local community to the idea or not. I would also like to hear from you if convert. Academy Status means that we now receive you have any suggestions or would like to help. My our funding directly from central government and can email is [email protected] then make decisions about which services to buy into. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We can look for best-value and services that are DULLINGHAM FLOWER CLUB tailored to our specific needs. As a foundation school Thursday 10th March 2011 we already did that to some extent: we purchased 8.00pm grounds maintenance and admissions management The Taylor Hall, Dullingham from the local authority, for example. But now the A Demonstration By Gill Tarry amount of flexibility has increased. Another attractive feature of Academy Status is the Entitled flexibility we now have around delivering the national ‘Leaving Winter Behind’ curriculum. There may be aspects of the curriculum Members £3 Non-members £4 changes presented in the recent ‘White Paper’, for Refreshments - Raffle - Accessories example, that we do not wish to pursue. As an Contact Lesley Bird 07786817154 Academy we have the freedom to decide what is best ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ for our learners. It’s a freedom that independent THE KETTLEFIELDS QUIZ will be taking place on schools have always enjoyed. Friday 25 March 2011. As always, we expect it to However, in real terms and as far as our students and be a really popular evening and everyone is welcome. parents are concerned, little will perceptibly change: Doors will open at 7.00pm for a prompt 7.30pm start. our name remains ‘Linton Village College’ and our Tickets are £10 per head, which includes a hot values and ambitions go unaltered. We still seek to evening meal with dessert, and teams should consist provide the best possible education that we can for of no more than 6 people – if you want to come but our students and to serve the needs of our community don’t have a team, then please let us know and we will in the way that our founder, Henry Morris, intended. try and join you up with others. There will be a bar,

which will be open from 7.30pm and a raffle during Additionally we are pledged to support another school the evening. in its development now that we are an Academy, so 2011 twist – the first 10 teams to send in their the status will enable us to further our supportive application forms together with full payment will get partnership with Taverham School in Norfolk as it to submit a question which will be asked during the continues to make its own leaps forward. evening – it could be the advantage that you need! Caroline Derbyshire

Principal Booking forms are available from the Ellesmere ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Centre, directly from school, or email on DATE FOR YOUR DIARY [email protected]. Forms should be returned The next Ellesmere Arts production will be together with payment in order to secure your place. 'Are you being served?'

on 19th, 20th and 21st May at the Ellesmere Centre. There are limited places available and this event is

always sold out quickly so please get in early! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MARCH SERVICES Colour can be so enthralling can’t it? Recently, in Ely for a day conference I escaped in the lunch hour and Sunday 6th March Sunday next before Lent made my way to a tiny little shop dedicated solely to 8.00am Holy Communion Burrough Green knitting. Regular readers of this letter will remember 9.00am Holy Communion Carlton my attempts at knitting my baby grandson a jumper 10.30am Morning Prayer Dullingham and yes, dear reader, on the second attempt I 10.30am Family Worship Westley Waterless actually finished the jumper which now can be seen Exodus 24:12-end 2 Peter 1:16-end adorning the deliciously sturdy little body of the said grandchild. But the colours inside the knitting shop! th WEDNESDAY 9 MARCH ASH WEDNESDAY Blues and greys and beautiful woody browns, deep red 10.30am HOLY COMMUNION with and burnt orange, leafy greens and richly decadent IMPOSITION OF ASHES purple, wool with flecks in it, wool shimmering with at DULLINGHAM hues of many different colours, beautiful, delicate BISHOP STEPHEN Celebrating wool, soft to the touch, skeins of chunky, earthy wool that whispered of moor and mountain --- I could go Daniel 9:3-6, 17-19. 1 Timothy 6:6-19 on.

Such a variety of beautiful wool ready to be woven Sunday 13th March Lent 1 into something wonderful, ready to be knitted, stitch 9.00am Holy Communion Brinkley by stitch into a much loved jumper or comfy cardigan. 11.00am Family Communion Dullingham It set me thinking about the colours in our lives, Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7 Romans 5:12-19 sometimes glowing with life, energy and hope, Sunday 20th March 2nd Sunday of Lent sometimes more muted, the greys and browns of 9.00am Family Communion Westley Waterless winter woven in with red and gold, sometimes flecked 10.30am Family Worship Burrough Green with sorrow, sometimes shot through with joy. Genesis 12: 1-4a Romans 4:1-5, 13-17

Like the cycle of the seasons the colour in our lives

will ebb and flow, ever changing, for that is the Sunday 27th March 3rd Sunday of Lent nature of life. As the writer of Ecclesiastes wrote so 9.00am Family Communion Stetchworth movingly ‘For everything there is a season, and a time 10.15am Family Worship Dullingham for every matter under heaven’. Whatever season we 11.15am Family Worship Brinkley Exodus 17:1-7 Romans 5:1-11 find ourselves in God goes with us, his loving faithfulness, woven through the created order, will +++++++++ sustain us. Dear Friends, Love and prayers I’d like to say that spring was finally here, but as I Pauline write it is still absolutely freezing! Never mind! The [email protected] 01638 508990 snowdrops are glorious, the later bulbs growing taller everyday and I saw some daffodils in flower We welcome into our church family Morgan Langlands yesterday, a sign of spring if ever there were one. baptised on February 20th at Burrough Green. The hens have started to lay again too, so we are eating copious quantities of deliciously yellow eggs, Out thoughts and prayers are with the families of: scrambled, boiled and poached. Penny Taylor whose funeral was held at Dullingham on th February 7 . I do think the seasons are a wonderful gift to us, a Nellie Taylor whose funeral was held at Brinkley on th cyclical story of birth, growth and flowering, dying February 14 . and regeneration, told with beauty and pathos May they rest in peace. through the ever changing vista of the natural world. Nothing in the created order ever stands still. Even in Annual Parochial Church Meeting Dates the depths of winter when day after grey day saps In the Church our energy, there is change and movement; an almost Burrough Green 29th March 8pm imperceptible shift in the quality of the light, fragile Carlton 4th April 7pm sunshine on a bare field revealing tiny green shoots, Dullingham 5th April 7pm (Clare Farm Barn) the ever changing colours of earth and sky. And of Stetchworth 11th April 7.30pm course this time of year we await with bated breath Brinkley 12th April 6.30pm for the world around us to explode with life and Everyone on the respective Electoral Role is invited to colour in the riotous dance of spring. attend. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ELLESMERE GARDEN CLUB 7th September Talk - 'Crossbills, a Breckland Garden’ At the AGM this month the committee was with Yvonne Leonard EC. unanimously re-elected after no further nominations 5th October Talk - 'Wildflower Gardening' with were received. We were delighted to welcome two Linda Gascoigne. 8pm EC. new members on the night and hope that you will 2nd November Practical Session - Christmas Crafts. spread the word and invite your friends to join us too. 8pm EC. 7th December Christmas Party at The Three On 2nd March we welcome once again Peter Jackson, Blackbirds, Woodditton. from Scotsdales Garden Centre, who will give a talk on 2012 Vegetables. We’ll have the chance to ask him lots of 11th January Talk - 'Planting for Design, Form & questions, so do come along to the Ellesmere Centre Colour' with Hillary Thomas. 8pm EC. for 8pm and get a head start on planning your entries 1st February AGM 8pm EC. for the summer show! If you want to know more about the Garden Club just In April there’s a special event for members only get in touch with Sandie on 01638 507542. Visitors because space is limited. On both 6th and 13th there always welcome! will be practical sessions of willow weaving with ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Suzanna Longley. These must be booked and paid for THE BULL – BURROUGH GREEN in advance - £10 for the materials and tuition. Those Dear All, who went to Suzanna’s session last year will remember As most of you are aware The Bull at Burrough Green what fun it was, and what a sense of achievement in has a new Landlord and Landlady in Dave and Alva. We taking home those obelisks! You will have the chance would very much like to thank Mark and Sandie who to weave something different this time, further were previously running The Bull for their kindness details next month. and support during the change-over. Alva and I previously ran The Crown at Burwell for 5 We’re pleased that this month we can give you the years and prior to that we managed a pub in schedule of the coming year’s events, with just a Gravesend, Kent for 2 years. We would also like to couple of small details to add later on. You will see say a very big thank you to everyone who has popped that we have moved our indoor meetings to the first in and welcomed us to The Bull along with the Darts Wednesday of each month where possible to avoid and Crib Teams and members of the Car Club which clashes with other events in the area. We hope you’ll will all be here along with the Fish & Chips Night enjoy the visits and socials as well as talks throughout every Thursday and the great Sunday Roast. the year; so put the dates in your diaries now. See you all in The Bull Ellesmere Garden Club Programme 2011/2012 Dave & Alva ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ nd 2 March Talk - 'Vegetable growing' with Peter BURROUGH GREEN FETE, Jackson. 8pm Ellesmere Centre (EC). SUNDAY JUNE 12th 2011 th 6 & 13th April Practical – Willow Weaving with Suzanna Longley (members only). Book & pay in Thank you so much to all of you who responded to the advance. £10 for materials and tuition. 7.30 EC. request for ideas for fund raising this year. 4th May Visit - Docwra's Manor Garden. Shepreth. There were several suggestions and after much Leave EC 6.20pm. £5 per person followed by visit to deliberation it has been decided to share 25% of the local pub. proceeds between The Reading Room, The th 14 May Spring Plant and Bulb Sale 10am-Noon EC. Archive Club and the Play Group in Burrough Green. nd 22 May Visit - Peckover House, Wisbech. Car (75% goes to Burrough Green Church). Apologies to share. Leave EC 1.30pm - £3.90 or free NT members. those whose suggestions will not be supported this th 8 June Visit to Pavilion House, Station Rd, time, however, they will be kept as ideas for the Dullingham & Dullingham Church. 7pm £5 to inc future. refreshments. In aid of National Gardens Scheme. th 6 July Summer BBQ at Judith & Phil's. Yew The next meeting is Monday 7th March, 8 pm at House, Stetchworth High St.. 7.30pm. The Hall, (home of Lucy and Peter Talbot, 01638 th 9 July Visit - Hampton Court Flower Show. Coach 507060). Please do come and help with the planning at EC 9a.m. £TBA . and enjoy a glass of wine! th 17 July ANNUAL FLOWER & CRAFT SHOW with ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ellesmere Fun Day, inc. Plant sale, Dog show, & many other attractions. Opens 1pm to public. EC August No meeting NEWS FROM THE ELLESMERE CENTRE Tech Support: Can you tell me what the password was? Valentine’s Disco The staff and trustees would like Customer: Five dots. to thank all those that helped to make this a great …………… evening and a very successful fundraiser. Customer: I can't print. Every time I try, it says . . . 'CAN'T FIND PRINTER'. I even lifted the printer Salsa Classes restart on Friday 4th March at 7.30pm. and placed it in front of the monitor, but the These will be a slightly different style of Salsa from computer still says it can't find it!!! last term so don’t worry if it is your first time. …………… Yoga is starting on the 28th Feb on Monday evenings Customer: My keyboard is not working anymore. 6-7pm with Chrissie Bond. Tech Support: Are you sure your keyboard is plugged For more information call Chrissie 01638 720108 or into the computer? 07802 784904 Customer: No. I can't get behind the computer. Tech Support: Pick up your keyboard and take ten Line Dancing is now running on Tuesday evenings 6.30- steps backwards. 7.30pm. New members welcome at any time. Customer: Okay. Tech Support: Did the keyboard come with you? Royal Wedding - We will be holding a party Customer: Yes. for all ages to come along and enjoy tea and a Tech Support: That means the keyboard is not sing along at 5pm on Friday 29th April. More plugged in. Is there another keyboard? details to follow next month. Customer: Yes, there's another one here. Wait a moment please...... Ah, that one does work. Are you planning your summer fete? The Centre now Thanks. has a year planner in the foyer on which you can write ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ your forthcoming village events. This will hopefully THE RED LION avoid clashes. Please call the office with your dates Brinkley and we will enter them for you.

Coffee Shop. We will be opening the newly refurbished Gredley room at the beginning of March. This will be open (during office opening times) for anyone to sit and enjoy a hot drink and a piece of home made cake and meet with friends. WHAT’S ON IN MARCH Books,CD’s and DVD’s (no videos please) We would love your unwanted books, cd’s and dvd’s at the Wednesday 2nd – QUIZ NIGHT Centre. Please leave with a member of staff. These will be for sale in the foyer for a small price. Saturday 5th - ANNUAL ‘TROPHY’ POOL Tel 01638 508212 TOURNAMENT. £2 entry Email [email protected] First Prize £50 Or visit us at www.ellesmerecentre.org.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Saturday 19th – CLASSIC ROCK& BLUES BAND TECHNICAL PROBLEMS WITH COMPUTERS ‘JACK’ from 9pm.

Customer: I have a huge problem! My friend has Watch out for our Easter weekend Beer Festival, placed a screen saver on my computer . . . but, Farmers Market and Egg Hunts – Details next every time I move my mouse, it disappears. month. …………….. Tech Support: How may I help you? Lost Property - Since December 2010 we have Customer: I'm writing my first email. collected four jackets and a hat. If you are the Tech Support: OK, and what seems to be the owner of one of these then please come and collect it problem? or we will take them all to a Charity shop at the end Customer: Well, I have the letter 'a' in the address, of March! but how do I get the little circle around it. …………… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Customer: I can't get on the internet. Tech Support: Are you absolutely sure you used the correct password? Customer: Yes, I'm sure. I saw my co-worker do it.

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