May 2015 BBoxfordo • Edxward stoRne • Griotovn • Leittler Wa ldinNgfield •e Newwton Grs een Vol 15 No5 BOXFORD TORNADO CYCLING SPORTIVE 2015 On a beautiful sunny Sunday morning in April 500 cyclists set out on cakes, drinks and a barbecue making it one of the biggest social either a 60 miles or a 40 mile tour of our beautiful Suffolk Countryside. occasions in the village. A proportion of the funds raised by the event are This was the start of the Boxford Bike Clubs 2015 ‘Boxford Tornado donated to the Boxford community Council for the benefit of all the Cycling Sportive’. organisations in the three villages of Boxford Edwardstone and Groton. The Boxford Bike Club is one of our fastest growing local organisations A most generous gesture from this great band of sporting folk. May they All types of cyclists of any ability are welcome to join Boxford Bike go from strength to strength. Club. Whether your idea of cycling is a relaxing road ride around the local lanes and trails or the adrenalin rush of downhill mountain biking - Boxford Bike Club is for you! The club is affiliated to British Cycling (the national governing body for EddBie Keonchx, Kil n RCottagie,v Stoene rStre etN, Boxfeordw CO10s 5NR cycle sport in England) and abides by their codes of conduct in relation Telephone: 01787 211507 to equal opportunities and child protection. This affiliation also includes third party liability insurance for the club and it’s members, while taking e.mail: [email protected] part in club activities. The ‘Boxford Tornado Cycling Sportive’ has been running for three years now and this year within two weeks of announcing the event it Final date for reserved copy for the June Issue is: was a sell out. It is an incredible feat of organisation, planning the routes, organising marshals, signing riders up and the feeding of the 500 with May 15th at noon Delivered Free to every home in Boxford, Groton, Edwardstone, Newton, Little Waldingfield, White Street Green and Milden and is available to residents in Assington, Leavenheath, Gt Waldingfield, Polstead, Stoke by Nayland, Nayland, Kersey, and parents of children at Boxford School. but in the process of turning his car round he also got stuck in the mud IF YOU GO DOWN TO THE WOODS TODAY!! It was decided that Michael Norman and John should make their way back to Daking Avenue on foot so that Michael could collect his car and drive John to Assington to collect the tractor. The tractor turned out to be a very a 'big one' with a SatNav on the roof which cost £8000. Several low branches had to be removed from the access track and because the access was so narrow and with many overhanging branches that could have damaged the SatNav equipment both cars had to be towed onto the A1071 covered in mud together with four very wet and relieved men. On the 28th of March Charlie Smith, Michael Norman and Vic Rice went to Primrose Wood, Boxford, in Charlie's pick up loaded with slabs and tools to install Fred's (Fred Leeder’s) rake near his grave. The grave is situated in one of Freds old fields near the woods. The job was finished in just over an hour during which time it had rained heavily. The team climbed into the pickup to get out of the rain and to make their way home. Whilst manouvering in order to turn the pick up round they The woodland voluntary working team, would like to thank all those got dangerously close to the river Box and as the track had turned into a involved in the operation especially Mr Richard Brooks for the loan of skid pan they very nearly went into the river were firmly stuck. the tractor. John Simpson, a friend of the team was contacted to help get them out Now that the rake is in position it is hoped to name the area ‘Fred's’ or with his tractor had access to a tractor but unfortunately it turned out it ‘Tinkers Corner’ (it seems that Fred was also known by many as Tinker) had a puncture. John agreed to come to see if he could help in his 4x4 It is also hoped that a small sign will be erected to tell his story. Any of estate. Parking well away from where the pick up was stuck he took one his' Kids' interested in doing this in memory of him ? look at the situation and said, “ we are going to need a big tractor to get Vic Rice you out of there.” Editors Note. If you had told me this was the outline for a Last of the He contacted a friend of his, Mr Brooks of Assington, who said he could Summer Wine script I would have believed you. Congratulations to you borrow his tractor so John decided to drive over to Assington to collect it chaps for all the work you do on behalf of the village Friday, 12 June 8.00, £15 THE JOHN EAST PROJECT John East on Hammond and vocals with a very impressive lineup will make this a gig to remember. The gig is sponsored by John East with the profits going to Edwardstone Church. John East hammond organ -vocals Mark Fletcher drums Steve Pearce bass Carl Orr guitar Scott Bayliss trumpet -flugel- piano AFrNidT aLyA 1W M QaUyI N8T.0E0T £16 Dave Lewis tenor sax A student at both Edinburgh University and Berklee College of Friday 19 June 7.45pm £10 to £17 Music in Boston, guitarist Ant Law is a gifted and versatile musician. Ant Law guitar Michael Chillingworth reeds Sam Leak Clare Teal at The New Wolsey Theatre piano Tom Farmer bass James Maddren drums Tickets are available from the New Wolsey Theatre. Clare Teal vocals and compere, Jason Rebello piano, Simon Little bass, Matt Skelton drums Friday, 8 May 8.00, Ticket £16 Fleece Jazz are proud to present Clare Teal and her band as JIM HART TRIO • CLOUD MAKERS part of the Ipswich Jazz Festival. Jim's special skills, energy and creativity make him one of the Clare performs jazz standards, including music by her heroes, brightest stars on the UK and European jazz scene. Jim Hart Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day and Peggy Lee as well as more vibraphone Michael Janisch bass James Maddren drums contemporary covers and original material. Beautiful melodies, fabulous arrangements and all interspersed with Clare's warm Friday, 22 May, 8.00, Ticket £20 and witty story telling. A night of wonderful music to open the BARB JUNGR + SIMON WALLACE Ipswich Jazz Festival. Multi-award winning Clare is backed by a superb trio led by THIS WHEEL'S ON FIRE Jason Rebello. Barb's passionate and earthy singing style owes a debt to the You will experience a dazzling evening of exquisite melodies northern soul, jazz and opera that informed her early years. sung by one of the UK's greatest interpreters of song Barb Jungr vocals Simon Wallace piano For musicians, there will be information about a master class by this superb band, to be held before the gig: the link contains Friday, 5 June 8.00, £15 information about the Ipswich Jazz Festival as we acquire it. WILLBUTTERWORTH More Clare Teal at The New Wolsey Theatre A brilliant evening is guaranteed as this creative and prodigiously talented modern jazz pianist and his stellar band To buy tickets for any gig, obtain further information or add your name pay us another visit. Will Butterworth piano Seb Pipe alto sax to the mailing list please telephone the BOX OFFICE: Nick Pini bass Chris Nicholls drums 01787 211865 All cheques (with S.A.E. please) to: Jazz at the Fleece, 18 The Causeway, Boxford, Suffolk CO10 5JR THE APRIL LETTER FROM REV JUDITH THIS MONTH’S GOOD READ BY JO MARCHANT Nora Webster By Colm Toibin Dear Friends It is 1969 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Blessed are the poor...? How to navigate shark- infested waters! the home of Colm Toibin’s childhood and the As I write this, the election campaigns are in full swing and the economy setting for Nora Webster. Nothing much is is top of the agenda. It can all get a bit bolfoggling, especially for happening here, except for the shattering someone like me, with numbers and statistics being bandied to and fro, early death of a popular school teacher. His Each party claims that theirs is the only way in which the country can name is Maurice Webster and he has left flourish and that people will find themselves better off. behind a grieving wife and four children. In As someone said recently at one of our church annual meetings, many of the North there are the distant drums of us might be surprised to know that there are people in these five villages Protestants and Catholics, and the arrival of who struggle to make ends meet. Looking from the outside, we see that British soldiers to keep the peace. Students people have homes and gardens, usually a car or cars to get around. All are demonstrating in Dublin. The Americans is apparently well. But of course poverty, worrying about money and how are sending a rocket into space. Nora is to pay the next bill, is not something we readily talk about with our barely aware of any of it, frozen in grief. friends and neighbours. There can often, wrongly, be a sense of shame or This then is a study of how Nora struggles guilt in admitting to these things.