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Wednesday 19 March 9.30 am Redgrave Art Club Redgrave Activities Centre 10.00 am Day Centre Rickinghall Village Hall 12 noon Wives Club Members Anniversary Lunch 2.15 pm Forget-me-not-Club Farnish House

Thursday 20 March 9.30 am RABBATS Rickinghall Village Hall 7.30 pm Crafty Corner Parkview Chapel Friday 21 March 9.15 am Rickinghall Ramblers. Tel : 01379 897398 Rickinghall Village Hall 8.00 pm Dance Classes Botesdale Village Hall Saturday 22 March 8.00 pm Rickinghall Country Music Club Rickinghall Village Hall

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Tuesday 25 March 9.30 am Yoga. Booking essential on 01379 890955 Rickinghall Village Hall 12 noon Redgrave Luncheon Club. Ring 898615 on 24th for vacancies Activities Centre 6.00 pm Zumba Rickinghall Village Hall 7.15 pm Yoga & Relaxation Botesdale Village Hall 7.30 pm Julie’s Aerobics Rickinghall Village Hall Wednesday 26 March 9.30 am Redgrave Art Club Redgrave Activities Centre 10.00 am Day Centre Rickinghall Village Hall 7.30 pm Heritage Circle Rickinghall Village Hall

Thursday 27 March 9.30 am RABBATS Rickinghall Village Hall 7.30 pm Redgrave Village Garden Club Activities Centre

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Botesdale Post Office is Remember your “Mum in a million” closing and Rickinghall Post This month, while many celebrate Mother’s Office is opening Day, there will be a group of people spending this special day without their mum and we have Many readers will be aware that Iain commissioned a special book of memories from and Pat Smith of Botesdale Post Office which people may draw comfort by expressing are retiring and they will serve their how they feel or sharing prayers, poems, last customers on Saturday 22nd thoughts and inspirational sayings. March. Sue and Mick of Rickinghall Newsagents will be opening Rickinghall Post Office within their store on Monday 24 March. Anyone who has been bereaved of their mum can contribute to the They will continue to sell and deliver newspapers as at present. book, and children and young people are also encouraged. The pages will be kept for many years and will be a testament to the We wish Iain and Pat a very happy retirement after nearly fifteen understanding and acceptance that comes with the passing of years at Botesdale Post Office. They will be missed, especially by seasons. You do not have to be profound! You may wish to the local dogs who could always be assured of a treat when they include your thoughts and feelings about your mother's death as visited the Post Office with their owners. well as any special memories you have of her life. Share how she Sue, Mick and their staff look forward to welcoming you to made you feel and the special things she did for you. Just to say Rickinghall Post Office. Ed you are remembering someone special is enough. There will be a Mother’s Day book of memories in Rosedale Funeral Home at Rosedale House, 63 Victoria Road, Diss.

We have also purchased a limited number of beautiful “Mum in a Community Bus Million” rose bushes from Peter Beales Roses for families to take Your Community Bus is available away and plant in memory of their mum. If you would like to for you to use for all your needs - receive a rose, please contact us on 01379 640810 to reserve one as shopping, appointments, e.g. with numbers are limited. the doctor, dentist, hospital. In fact, even to go and see your favourite The roses and the book of memories will be available in the week aunt. prior to Mother’s Day for those wishing to contribute. Our Funeral Homes are open 9am-5pm every week day. Door to door service. Any help you need. Wheelchairs no problem. And in the days surrounding Mother’s Day, remember it’s OK to grieve for your mum in your own way. Many people grieve Please contact Gordon Lawrence on 01379 897109. outwardly, through tears and expressed emotions, while others (24/7 Ansaphone). grieve inwardly and keep the hurt they feel to themselves. If talking or writing about the situation makes you feel better, then you should express yourself but remember that in the early days of a loss, you Quatrefoil aren't obligated to anyone to tell them how you feel. There is no Quatrefoil, a group dedicated to publishing local right way to grieve. history, has now published 6 books and will Rosedale is pleased to be supporting a special service of publish 3 more in the next two months. Remembrance on Mothering Sunday at Green Acres Woodland A Walk Through Botesdale Burials – Colney, near Norwich. The service will begin at 11am and sold out but will be re -printed as soon as the next book is published. will be held in the Woodland Hall. Izzy Ryder, a civil celebrant will deliver the service and it is free to attend and open to all. All the books are available through Diana Advance booking is advisable on 01603 811556 or Maywhort (tel. 01379 898785 or Jean Sheehan www.greenacreswoodlandburials.co.uk/colney (tel. 01379 890237).

A Suffolk Boy in East Anglia, A Walk Through Rickinghall, Brome Community Recycling Centre Reflections on Redgrave, and Victorian and Edwardian Rectors of Winter Opening Hours Rickinghall are all available from Hilltop Hardware and Pet Food to end March 2014 Store priced at £5 each.

Monday to Saturday (closed Wednesdays) - The Redgrave book is also available at Redgrave Community Shop. 9 am to 4 pm / Sundays - 10 am to 4 pm Bank Holidays - 10 am to 2 pm St. Mary's Church, Rickinghall Inferior (£3) and the Samuel Speare and Rectors’ books (£5) are available from Rickinghall Church.

Mr Packer's History Donations from some of the books will be given either to Rickinghall Inferior Church or The Churches Conservation Trust Mr Packer was trying to get his Year 7 history class to and Round Tower Churches Society. understand how the Indians must have felt when they first encountered the Spanish Conquistadores. If you would like more information on Quatrefoil please look at the new web site www.quatrefoil.org.uk. 'How would you feel,' Mr Packer asked, 'if someone showed up on your doorstep who looked very different, Rickinghall Antique & Collectors Fair spoke a strange language and wore unusual clothes? St Mary’s Church, Rickinghall, Fabric Fundraisers will not be Wouldn't you be a little afraid?' holding the Antique & Collectors Fair on May Bank Holiday 'Nope,' Dennis answered, 'I'd just reckon it was my Monday this year due to the low take-up by prospective stallholders. sister's new boyfriend.'

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Fox and Hounds Last month I wrote about The Knoll at Redgrave. One of the public were tenants of various wealthy landlords. These include Sir houses I mentioned was The Fox and Hounds. It is said to be a hall Edward Kerrison, Lord Henniker, Lodg Digby and Lord Ashburton, house dating to the early part of the 16th century with a chimney amongst others. Queen Victoria’s Secretary of State for War is even stack added in the early 17th century. This chimney had three involved as a Trustee of Sir Edward Kerison deceased. Benjamin hearths. One of the downstairs hearths has the remains of a wall Disraeli, the Prime Minister (Lord Beaconsfield) is even mentioned painting above it. An architectural historian believes this to be dated in an abstract when Adnams Brewery sold the property as part of a to around 1620 and there is a fireplace on the first floor in stone of a much larger transaction. late Tudor style. An Award of Enfranchisement was made in 1897 which meant the The house is now called Fox Cottage and the owner, Andrew owner of the property paid George Holt Wilson of Redgrave Hall Dickson, kindly loaned me the deeds to the house, which give a £87 14s 5d for the property to become freehold instead of copyhold. great deal of information. Many of the earlier deeds are admissions From this date the owner no longer had to go to the Manor Court for and surrenders to the Lord of the Manor. This means the property permission to sell or inherit. was copyhold of the Manor of Redgrave with Botesdale and The last publican was Fred Foulser. He purchased from Adnams in Gislingham. The copyholders had to get permission from the Lord 1907 and is described as a retired Innkeeper. The property is at a Manor Court and pay a fee to him if the property changed hands, described as a dwellinghouse, formerly a fully licenced public house even when a person died and left it to a member of his family or it known as The Fox and Hounds. By this time it also contained a club was mortgaged. This custom dates back to the medieval period. room and a grocers shop. Fred was described as an innkeeper of the The first document is dated 1735 and signed by Gregory Kemp, a Fox and Hounds in Kelly’s Directory of 1904, and shopkeeper in wheelwright, when he obtained a mortgage on the property. 1912. He purchased the property for £180 and obtained a mortgage Gregory made his will in 1738 and left the house to his wife, Sarah from the Loyal St Botolph’s Lodge of the Independent Order of Kemp. Sarah later married her son-in-law, Dandy Pleasants, a Oddfellows Number 4000 Manchester Unity Friendly Society. yeoman. She left the house to Dandy in her will of 1757, and he The property was sold to Dr Wheeler of Hinderclay in 1910, whose probably continued to live in it until he sold it in 1771. executors sold it to Alfred Arnold, Dealer, in 1912. By 1919 the The first mention of the property in the deeds referring to The Fox is property was described as two cottages when it was mortgaged to not until 1888. This mentions “ all that messuage tenement or public the bank. house formerly called or known by the sign of the ‘Fox’ and now After a few other owners, Lady Stephana Rose Benson eventually let called or known by the name or sign of the ‘Fox and Hounds’ with the property to Sam and Rose Flatman in 1952, after purchasing the the detached washouse and other outbuildings, yard, ten pin ground, property in 1938 when she lived at Tudor Lodge, virtually next door. pump and small garden barn and stable thereunto belonging. And They purchased it from her in 1954. An insurance policy of this also all that piece or parcel of pasture land to the said messuage or date shows that part of the roof was tiled and part thatched. Rose public house belonging and now also occupied therewith containing Flatman’s daughters lived in the cottages from the late 1960s. At by survey one acre one roods (sic) and seven perches are the same this time the two cottages were known as Dunroamin and The more or less as the said messuage or Public House land and Gables. premises are situate lying and being in Redgrave in the County of Suffolk and are formerly in the occupation of Sibery Holt his assigns The present owner, who had already purchased the Dunroamin or under tenants and are now in the tenure or occupation of Alfred cottage, purchased The Gables on the death of Rose Flatman’s Pearce.” daughter, Eva Brown. The property has now been made into one house again, with as many original features retained as possible. Although The Fox was mentioned as early as 1814 in the churchwardens’ accounts the publicans of the Nineteenth Century

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Candle Street Kiln Farm Lane runs south of Rickinghall Superior church. It ends at Summer Lane which itself ends as a footpath leading to Briar Lane. However before it was closed at the time of the enclosure awards in 1819 Summer Lane used to be a track leading to Allwood Green along the boundary between Rickinghall Inferior and Rickinghall Superior. The last part of this lane widened into a drift and it appears that it was at one time part of Allwood Green. The lane is recorded in a Court Roll from 1337 as ‘Somerwey’. (1)

The houses situated near the Church on either side of Kiln Farm Lane form the hamlet of Candle Street which now consists of four houses and the farmhouse with two converted barns. It is said that there was once a candle making business in the area which is why it is called Candle Street. The name Canler Street is on the 1819 enclosure map. Canle is an old word for candle. However it is possible that in the medieval period there was land somewhere here which was rented out by the church to pay for church candles, hence the name. In the early 20 th century Candle Street was always considered part of Water Lane. Until recently the cottages were Candle Street owned by Falcons Hall and were tied cottages, the tenants all although Charley may have died from arsenic poisoning. Arsenic working for Falcons Hall Farm. was found in a discarded bottle, used for removing fly on sheep, in The first cottage on the left, the south side, is now called 1 & 2 Kiln the next field. (2) Farm Cottages it was formerly divided into two but has recently Brick Kiln Farm now called Kiln Farm House is a 17 th century been restored and is now one. It appears to date from the 17 th timber framed house which was extended in the 18 th century. In century. Until recently none of the cottages along the lane had 1839 it was owned by John Mills who at that time was leasing names or numbers. They did not need to as everyone knew where Facon’s Hall Farm. The tenant farmer was George Porter and by people lived. 1844 William Porter his son was the tenant. In a sales catalogue for The thatched cottages on the south side are now known as 3 & 4 1918 it had a corn barn, bullock shed, granary, cart horse stable, Kiln Farm Cottages. According to the listings this is a mid 16 th bullock yard, cattle yard, horse yard. The two barns which probably century house which was extended in the 17 th century. It was cased date from the 18 th century were converted into houses in the 1990s. in Fletton bricks in the 19 th century. In the early 20 th century George They are now called September Barn and Summer Barn. Salter’s family lived in number 4. In 1926 the Rush family moved Further along Summer Lane beside a small wood there was a to number 3 and lived there until the early 1960s when Mr and Mrs medieval thatched cottage. In the early 20 th century this was lived in Sharman moved there and have lived there ever since. by Spencer Bailey, a stockman on the farm, then by his son Freddy The first cottage on the right (north side) is called Kiln Cottage. It is Bailey who was the shepherd. The house became dilapidated and a thatched mid 17 th century cottage. A 1918 sales document says it was burnt down to demolish it in the 1960s. The wood was once the had 3 bedrooms, 2 sitting rooms and a kitchen. It was apparently, a garden belonging to the cottage but was planted with trees after the beer house or pub at one time but there seems to be no record of this. cottage was demolished. Richard Cook who died in the First World War and whose name is The brick kiln after which the farm is named was situated next to the on the War Memorial lived here. wood beside the track which leads off to the right and runs between The next house on the right is Cherry Tree House. According to the Summer Lane and Briar Lane. It is not certain when this brick works listings it is a timber framed house which was built about 1600. first started making bricks but in 1839 it was being run by George When it was sold in 1918 it was divided into two. It was a Porter. In the 1930s there were still large piles of bricks beside the smallholding of 2 acres 2 rods and appears to have been the only track but it appears that it had not been producing bricks for many cottage which was not a tied cottage. years before that time.

The footpath to the side of Cherry Tree House leads across the bypass and is the end of Water Lane. On the opposite side of the (1) SROI HA 240/2508/673 (2) Bury and Norwich Post August 1865 footpath there was a house, now demolished, in which Robert Silver lived in 1839. In 18 th century this was owned by William Houchin. These articles about Rickinghall are now collected in a book called In 1865 Richard and Sophie Silver were accused of murdering two ‘A Walk Through Rickinghall’. It is one of Quatrefoil’s publications of their sons James and Charley. At an inquest held at The Bell they all of which can be bought from Ash House, Rickinghall or from were both acquitted. James probably died from fungi poisoning Hilltop Hardware in Botesdale. (See Page 23 in this magazine).

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“In Your Garden” with Ian Shilling of Tripp Batt Country Store of Stanton

Rickinghall Annual “In Your Garden” with Tripp Batt Country Store, Stanton

Jumble Sale A mild winter has meant an earlier start to mowing this year, The first Saturday of February and it’s important to check one or two things on petrol saw the annual and very machines. Fuel left over from the previous season may have popular Jumble Sale at gone stale and can make starting difficult. If this is the case and Rickinghall Village Hall, with the mower won’t start, try replacing with fresh fuel. Always crowds queuing to get the best check your oil level before trying to start a mower, and top up bargains when the doors if necessary. Also consider a complete oil change if this hasn’t opened at 2pm. The queue 20 minutes before the been done for a year or more, and only use oil recommended doors opened We had exceptional support for garden machinery (SAE 30 or 10-40) Replacing a spark from our many volunteer plug can also be a cheap remedy to a starting problem. After helpers, to all of whom we are most grateful. Our customers found the engine, the second most important part is the blade, and some real bargains, and the £755 profit made was a substantial these usually benefit from being sharpened, to give a better contribution to village hall funds. To all who gave items for sale, to finish and a quicker cut. Clear the lawn of any winter debris all who bought them, to those who took part in the raffle and before cutting and set the blades higher than normal. A contributed in other ways, and again to all our helpers, thank you. recycling tip – use old engine oil to protect the blades of Bob Clark, Chairman spades and prongs of forks after each use. on behalf of the Hall Management Committee Continue preparing vegetable seed beds. Some seeds can be sown under protection such as Peas, Brassicas, Broad Beans and Carrots. To help reduce carrot fly attack, sow in the early evening, and if possible alongside members of the onion family, as the smell from onions masks the smell of the carrots which attracts the carrot fly. It’s also time to shelter your soil and emerging crops, use clear polythene cloches or a fleece membrane which allows water and light through, but protects young plants against frost. This is about the latest time for Advertise here. Suggested donation of £2 per insert per transplanting fruit bushes, or any other deciduous plants for month. Tel : 01379 890109 that matter.

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I welcome feedback, do get in touch. Nyall Davies 01379 897 067 Bill Cordeaux Tel: 898286 The Bible says, “By faith the people crossed the Red Sea.” I wonder how many of you did the Garden Birdwatch? It was a great idea It is a statement that used to puzzle me. What happened was that and, as a national survey for birds, it Moses had brought the people out of slavery in Egypt. Pharoah and was a really useful way of gathering the Egyptian forces pursued them and were seen approaching as the statistics for the individual bird. Red Sea loomed up in front. The people became very frightened and said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you As an individual bird record it have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to depended on which of the two days you us in bringing us out of Egypt?” It hardly shows faith. did it. What kind of garden you have, what time of day it was, what the We then have the story of the parting of the Red Sea with a strong weather was like, did you have bird east wind which caused the water to appear like a wall on each side. feeders, were they full or empty? I sat Imagine yourself on the shore. The Egyptian forces behind ready to in our “sun room” for an hour on the kill you, a wall of water on each side ready to drown you and Moses Sunday afternoon. It was raining. My saying, “Over we go.” count was very poor. You had to Some would look at the water on each side in fear wondering how record the highest number of individual long it would hold back. It might even occur to them that, as a result birds you saw at one time, not the Mick’s Sparrow Hawk of their faithlessness, God might be about to drown them. There overall total for that bird over the hour. Very sensible, you may would be others hurrying to get across before the water returned. have been counting the same bird over and over again! Don’t be That mass of water would appear extremely disconcerting. Some disappointed if, like me, you fared badly. It was a national average would be exhibiting extreme fear. Some would have their hands and, unlike me, it might have been a fine day in the early morning, either side of their faces shielding them so that they cannot see the with full feeders in your garden (and which had been full for several water on each side. There would be anger as the people in front days). Many like me may have had unusually low counts when weren’t going fast enough. Some would fall and others fall over others had unusually high. Were there cats around, or next door, did them. There would be others yelling taunts at the Egyptians and anyone have a visit from a Sparrow Hawk, has your neighbour got joyfully anticipating their fate. It could well be a picture of life as lots of feeders? Obviously there will be much variation in the we live it on earth. To even enter the path through the waters each counts, but, all in all, it was to be the National Average and the total had to exhibit some level of faith. picture gives a good idea of the population of garden birds in the whole country, and can be compared with previous years to note the It has to be true that they all walked through exhibiting completely overall picture for individual garden birds. different levels and characteristics of their faith but they were all equally saved. They were not saved by the amount of their faith nor Now I wonder what your recording was for, if any, Thrushes, Song its excellence but by the free gift of the one in whom they put their or Mistle, in our area? I was very excited to see and hear the Mistle faith. Thrush on 1st January. It has a high note, a beautiful song delivered from the top of a tree. Its song travels a long way and it is difficult If the crossing of the Red Sea gives a miniature picture of our lives to locate the singer, but I saw him, high in the tree silhouetted with the slings and arrows of fortune and the stress and strains of against the sky. He is also called the Storm Cock as he is believed daily living it also gives us a picture as we approach the end of life. to predict bad weather. These birds can be seen better in the Some will go into it with fear, others will go in with blinkered eyes winter months when there are no leaves on the trees, and possibly and others might appear fearless. Those that come through will do near a clump of mistletoe. It was not until 4th February I saw and so because of their faith. It won’t matter how firm it is or how heard a Song Thrush, singing lower down in a fruit tree. It is still a fearful they are or what they have done or not done but that they lovely song but higher than its relative the Blackbird. These two made that step, as the people did on the edge of the waters and sightings were, for me, very exciting as I had not heard or seen simply went for it. That step for you and me is that of putting our either Thrush for nearly a year. trust in Jesus Christ and his death on the cross. Birds of interest that have occurred in our garden : a pair of Coal Tits, their size between Blue and Great Tits but with a white line Café Church down the back of their heads and two white bars on their wings. Also, at last, a pair of Greenfinches - a welcome return after a tragic Passover Meal on Thursday 17th April decline due to trypanosoma infection.

A Roast Lamb meal with a meaning Watch carefully for Tits feeding on leafless bushes, they are seen pecking for minute insects or their eggs - far too small for us to see. Sundays at 10.30 am This is how they survive the cold winter months. at Redgrave Activities Centre All are very welcome Skylarks are, once again, singing over our neighbouring fields. If

you have been fortunate on rural walks you may have seen flocks of Contact Nyall Davies, tel : 01379 897067 twenty or thirty of them.

You will receive this copy of the magazine in March (I am writing this in early February). Who will see and hear our first migrating Humour Warbler, the Chiff Chaff, calling from a high bush or tree to give a Those with a sense of fun and who can laugh, especially at welcome to an early spring? themselves, are generally happier. And now, finally, we have a superb picture of a Sparrow Hawk taken by Mick Randall, our local newsagent, in his back garden. Laughing at yourself implies a sound sense of security with Thank you Mick. a reduced tendency to worry, which in turn contributes to If any of you have an original photograph please email it to me on happiness. [email protected]

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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY NEWS FROM THE FRIENDS OF BOTESDALE HEALTH CENTRE

Jumble Sale & Book Fair The Annual General Meeting of The Friends will be held at Rickinghall Village Hall Botesdale Health Centre on MONDAY 14 APRIL AT 7.30 pm.

April 5th 2pm We hope you will all come along to bid farewell to Mrs Pauline Entrance 20p Button on her retirement as Chairman of The Friends of Botesdale Health Centre. To raise funds for disadvantaged children of Nepal. There will be drinks and nibbles available and a chance to

Please contact Pieternella 01379 890955 if you can help on meet the Committee. the day, or have items to donate. RICKINGHALL MODEL RAILWAY SHOW RAHOF SPRING COFFEE MORNING with Diss & District Model Railway Society

“MEET MIRANDA”

On Tuesday 8th April

At Redgrave Activities Centre 10.30 am to 12 noon

Admission £1

Relax with chat, delicious coffee and cakes SATURDAY 3rd MAY

Cake Stall and Bumper Draw RICKINGHALL VILLAGE HALL 10am – 4pm Do come along and chat to Miranda McCoy, recently appointed Community Fundraiser at St Nicholas Hospice Care, Bury St Eleven layouts in popular scales Edmunds. She would love to met you and answer any queries. Trade Support / Specialist Societies

Admission £4, accompanied children £1

Raffle with prizes from our traders and societies

Refreshments available

ANNUAL Proceeds in aid of Rickinghall Village Hall Charity Number1031063 FISH ‘N’ CHIP QUIZ NIGHT Enquiries to 07930 188472 Carol’s Coffee Morning will be held on

AT PARKVIEW CHAPEL Thursday 12 June from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm at TH Caradale, The Common, Rickinghall, in aid of SATURDAY 12 APRIL St Nicholas Hospice Care at . QUIZ STARTS AT 7.00PM TEAMS OF NO MORE THAN 6 Stalls include : £5 PER PERSON Carol’s Cakes, Plants, Books, Bric-a-Brac, (£4 IF SAUSAGES/VEGGIE PREFERRED) Nearly New, Body Shop products, Phoenix Cards, Raffle and Tombola BOOKING ESSENTIAL Entrance : £1.00. For further information and to book tickets please call Kev Gladwell on 01379 898924 Enquiries to Carol on 01379 898029.

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A the time of writing the country is struggling with flooding and high winds. Fortunately, we Bank Account Scam have got off relatively lightly here in East There have been recent phone scams to two Anglia, but although the morning of Coffee on residents of Botesdale. The caller claims to be the Corner may not have brought us floods, it from ‘Security at the Bank’. They tell them was certainly rather grim. As a result we that a sum of money had been taken from were rather a select little bunch ... the few who their bank cards and asked for the long 16 braved the weather. There were, however, digit number on the front of the card. They some new faces which is such a delight, then ask for the 3 digit security number on the especially as some of the new visitors were back of the card. They then give the victim a under the age of three! And they arrived with smiles ... what more telephone number to ring to confirm they are from the bank’s could we ask for?! security department. The victim then dials the number given and it is answered by the alleged security. The scammer has not closed the The charity we were supporting was TWAM ... Tools with a line and it is still open for them to reply. Mission, which is based near Ipswich. Its members refurbish all manner of tools to send out to help businesses in places such as Never give your card details to any such caller and never dial a Kenya and Uganda. The kindness you show never fails to amaze number without hearing the 'Dialling Tone'. After a reasonable me and we will now be able to donate £100 to that charity, which I time, when the line is clear, telephone the number on the back of the am sure will be gratefully received, especially at the current time card and speak to the actual card security department and when many brilliant charities are competing for funds. then explain what has happened. Peter H Beck The next Coffee on the Corner will be on Tuesday 11th March, again from 9am to 12 noon. At the present time there is some confusion over co-ordinated efforts to help those who have had to Crime Trends evacuate their homes and businesses due to the terrible weather On-going crime trends across the county are currently heating oil conditions. We would like to support those people, but need to thefts (advice in the February edition of this magazine), and research a suitable charity or organisation that will be able to help catalytic converter thefts. them. Please look out for our adverts nearer the time and come Owners of vehicles with a high ground clearance, which are often along to enjoy tea, coffee, sausage rolls, home made cakes and targeted for their catalytic converters, are being reminded of the plenty of chat! following crime prevention tips :

If you feel you would like to know more about the coffee shop or • Keep private vehicles in a well-secured garage where possible, any of the happenings at Parkview, please call me on 01379 and if no garage is available, in a well-lit public place 890423. Sue Allen • Park vehicles in such a way as to make access to the catalytic converter difficult, or parallel with another vehicle if you own one Interested in growing your own • Keep commercial vehicles in a locked building or compound fruit, veg and flowers? • Use alarms, lighting and CCTV to deter thieves

Why not join the Mill Lane Allotment There has recently been a Catalytic Converter marking event at Association? Barley Green Garage in Stradbroke whereby 21 vehicles had their We regularly have whole and half plots converter marked. We aim to carry out some more events in the available to rent.

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OR BY CALLING THE ASSOCIATION SECRETARY Local Contact Details

ON 07882 165351 For Neighbourhood Watch contact your local Co-ordinator, or else in Botesdale and Rickinghall Peter Beck on 01379 890495, Mother Knows Best - Eventually (email : [email protected]), and in Redgrave John Robinson on 01379 890683. One day, young Sarah was watching her mother prepare sirloin of beef for the oven. She cut off the ends, Contact Details; North Team, The Lodge, Castleton Way, Eye. wrapped it in string, seasoned it and set it in the roasting Tel No – 101. Email – [email protected] dish. Non emergency calls and enquiries to the Police, please ring 101. Sarah politely asked her mum why she cut off the ends of Emergency calls—Fire, Police, Ambulance, dial 999. the meat. Mum replied, after some thought, that it was the way that her mother had done it. That night grandma came to dinner and Sarah and her Changes to the 2013 Telephone List mother asked why she had cut the end off of the meat Page S3 RAHOF. Please replace contact details with : before cooking. After some thought grandma replied, she Chairman : June Shepherd. Tel : 01379 898450 Secretary: Marion Wilby. Tel : 01379 898818 cooked the meat the way her mother had done it. Treasurer and Tickets: June Hart. Now great-grandma was quite old and lived in a residential Tel : 01379 897180 nursing home, so Sarah, her mum and grandma went to visit her and again asked the very same question. St Botolph & District Bowls Club Great-grandma looked at them a bit surprised and said, Please replace Mrs Maycock’s details with : Mrs Maureen Costello. Tel : 897251 'So it would fit in the roasting dish, of course.'

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Readings for Parish Church Sunday Services - MARCH Date 1st reading 2nd Reading 2nd March 2 Peter 1 : 16-end Matthew 17 : 1-9 9th March Romans 5 : 12-19 Matthew 4 : 1-11 16th March Romans 4 : 1-5, 13-17 John 3 : 1-17 23rd March Romans 5 : 1-11 John 4 : 5-42 30th March 1 Sam 1 : 20-end Luke 2 : 33-35

Rotas Chapel of Ease Redgrave Rickinghall Sidesman Lector Sidesman Lector Sidesman Lector 2nd March Mrs Hilliard Miss Young Mr Robinson All Saints All Mrs Foster Mrs Bennett Together 5th March* Tba Tba 9th March Mrs Cordeaux Dr Cordeaux Mr & Mrs Rixon Mr & Mrs Rixon 16th March Mrs Davies Mr Davies Mrs Self Mrs Whitehead 23rd March Mr Robinson Mr McGrath Mrs Sheehan Rector 30th March Mrs Culley Mrs Shepherd Mr Lamb Mrs Lamb * Ash Wednesday Flowers 2nd March Mrs Moss Mrs Stimson 9th March Mrs Moss LENT 16th March Mrs Whiteside LENT 23rd March Mrs Whiteside LENT 30th March Mrs Canning LENT

The Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich A request for help Treasuring Christianity in Suffolk Dear Friend 100 Years 100 Treasures Like every household your parish church needs to keep up with the A glossy, full-colour book to celebrate cost of living. While we are as careful as possible with our funds, our magnificent churches and their expenses like heating, insurance, clergy and many other day-to-day treasures is now available to mark the costs mount up. We receive some money from funeral and wedding centenary of our Diocese of St fees and also from fundraising during the year, but the vast majority Edmundsbury and Ipswich. comes from regular church members giving faithfully each week through their weekly envelopes or standing orders. Our Diocese was formed in March 1914 from parts of the dioceses of Norwich I would like to thank all who on a regular basis support the work and Ely; the parish church of St James, and ministry of the church, it is very much appreciated. There may, Bury St Edmunds became our Cathedral. however, be some who live in our communities who would like to consider making a regular donation to support the work and The 120-page book 100 Years, 100 Treasures: A Celebration of ministry of the church here in this parish. If you are able to do this Suffolk Churches , costs just £5 a copy and is part of the 2014 please can you contact our Treasurer, Mr. Rob Rixon, Calkewood, Centenary celebrations that start in earnest in March when the Calkewood Lane, Rickinghall IP22 1NB Tel 01359 253492. Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Justin Welby, visits Bury St Edmunds. If you are a tax payer please can I encourage you to Gift Aid your donation. This allows all charities to claim the basic rate of tax on The book features ‘treasure’ from every period represented in the your donation. Again our Treasurer will help explain how you can diocese from the Anglo Saxons and Normans through to the Middle do this. Ages and on to the Victorians – in fact right up to the present day. The concept of pilgrims and visitors touring parishes to discover Thank you for reading this and if you have any further questions these remarkable treasures ties in neatly with the Centenary theme please do not hesitate to get in touch with me. of ‘Pilgrims in Time’. They are of special significance to the With best wishes to you and your family churches which nominated them. Revd Chris Norburn Generous sponsorship means that the book will retail for only £5; The Rectory, Bury Road, Rickinghall Tel 01379 898685 the normal retail price would otherwise have been significantly more. If you buy the book through your parish rep, then your STOP PRESS ...... Church is able to retain £2 of the cost price of £5. Please contact the Revd Chris Norburn on 01379 898 685 for details and to place your order(s). BEFORE PILATE An oratorio by Peter Creswell with the Redgrave Singers My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. Saturday 12th April at 6.30 pm He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less All Saints Church, Redgrave competition there. Entry by donation Indira Gandhi More information in April magazine

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Susan Whymark Funeral Service Ltd Independent & Family Run

• Funerals arranged by trained, experienced staff, in a friendly environment or in the comfort of your own home • Free transport for visits to registrars, our Chapel and other related appointments • Bereavement support group – open to all in need

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Tyres / Exhausts / Batteries Susan Whymark Funeral Service is independent of any large All car and light commercial servicing corporation and truly owned and run by the Whymark Family

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Parkview Chapel—

Sundays Weekly at 10.00 am Communion 11.00 am All Age Worship

Between these two services, from 10.30 to 11 am, tea and coffee will be served

Tuesday 11th March 9 am to 12 noon ‘Coffee on the Corner’

Thursday 6th & 20th March 2.00 pm Ladies Meeting (Praise Hour)

Saturday 8th March 7.00 pm Carpet Bowls Evening, see ad on Page 5

Thursday 20th March 7.30 pm Crafty Corner - time for those pastimes that you don’t ever have time for. Bring your craft projects and spend an evening working at it in company.

Saturday 12th April 8.30 am Men’s Breakfast

Saturday 12th April 7.00 pm Quiz Night, see ad on Page 33

Regular Activities Parkview Youth Activities—some of these activities do not take place during school holidays.

Weekly home groups on Tuesday and Wednesday http://www.parkviewchapel.co.uk Phone 01379 898924 or 783216 for more details.

PARKVIEW YOUTH some of these activities do not take place during school holidays.

JUNIOR CHURCH JUNIOR FRIDAY CLUB School Years Reception - 11 School Years Reception - 6 Sundays 10.30 am - 11.30 am Fridays 6.00 pm - 7.00 pm

PYP SENIOR FRIDAY CLUB School Years 9 - 13 School Years 7 – 11 Sundays 7.00 pm - 8.30 pm Fridays 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm

CROSSTRAX For further information check out the School Years 6 - 8 website Mondays 7.00 pm - 8.15 pm www.parkviewchapel.co.uk or call Kev Gladwell on 01379 898924

Botesdale Methodist Church

Sunday Services at 10.30 am unless otherwise indicated. Sunday Club is at 10.30 am. All children are welcome to join the Club’s activities.

2nd March Rev Edna Buggey

9th March Mr Steve Aspinall

16th March Mrs Sonia Mann

23rd March Rev Steve Oliver CHURCH ANNIVERSARY

30th March Mrs Sue Goodwin UNITED SERVICE, St Mary’s, Rickinghall

Friday 7th March 2.00 pm. Women’s World Day of Prayer. Refreshments afterwards. Botesdale Methodist Church.

Bible Study Acts of the Apostles Alternate Mondays at 10.00 am

Christian Forum Tuesday 4th March at 7.30 pm. Rev Edna Buggey. ‘A Celebration of Cathedrals’.

Wives Group Wednesday 19th March Members 58th Anniversary Lunch, 12 noon for 12.30 pm

Café Church - Christianity explained Sundays at 10.30 am at Redgrave Activities Centre All are very welcome

Contact Nyall Davies, tel : 01379 897067

Passover Meal on Thursday 17th April - A Roast Lamb meal with a meaning

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All Saints St. Botolph’s St. Mary’s Redgrave Botesdale Rickinghall

2nd March ‘14 Sunday Next Before Lent 9th March ‘14 1st Sunday of Lent 8:15 St. Botolph’s, Botesdale BCP Communion 8:15 St. Botolph’s, Botesdale BCP Communion 10:30 All Saints, Redgrave 10:30 St. Mary’s, Rickinghall CW Communion All Saints Altogether with the children and young people start- An interactive service for people of all ing in Rickinghall Rectory, Bury Road for ages starting with coffee “Story Tellers”

3.00pm St. Mary’s , Rickinghall Evening Prayer

16th March ’14 2nd Sunday of Lent 23rd March ‘14 3rd Sunday of Lent 8:15 All Saints, Redgrave BCP Communion 8:15 St. Mary’s, Rickinghall BCP Communion 10.30 St Mary’s, Rickinghall 10:30 All Saints, Redgrave CW Communion Worship Together 10.30 Messy Church in Botesdale An informal and interactive service for Village Hall starting with “Coffee & people of all ages Cake” & followed by crafts, songs, stories and fun for all ages.

30th March ‘14 Mothering Sunday 6th April ‘14 5th Sunday of Lent 8.15 All Saints, Redgrave BCP Communion 8.15 St. Botolph’s, Botesdale BCP Communion 10.30 St Mary’s, Rickinghall Worship Together 10:30 All Saints, Redgrave All Saints Altogether 6.30pm St Mary’s, Rickinghall Evening Prayer

Also this month: Ash Wednesday 5th March Communion 7.30 pm St Mary’s, Rickinghall

Tue. 4th March 10—12noon Thurs 13th March 7.15pm “Open House” at All Saints “Spearhead” A time of worship and For coffee, cakes and chat prayer for revival here in this area.

Wed. 5th March. 10.00am Thur. 6th March 7.15pm Albert Close Holy Communion The Rectory, Rickinghall Thur. 20th March. 9.45am Tues. 18th March 7.15pm Farnish House Holy Communion All Saints, Redgrave These services are open to every- A time of prayer for the work of one, and follow the order of BCP the church in the community. (Book of Common Prayer)

“Together in these villages we offer Christ’s healing grace through our worship and service.” For more information; Revd Chris Norburn 01379 898685

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