Catfield News November 2019
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Issue 191 Catfield News November 2019 Canada Geese arriving - Picture by Judith Gardiner NOVEMBER 2019 DATES AT A GLANCE Sundays Church Services Page 10 Mondays Indoor Cycling 6.15pm & 7.15pm - Village Hall Page 22 (Vibes Health & Fitness) Thursdays Indoor Cycling 9.30am, 6.15pm & 7.15pm - Page 22 Village Hall (Vibes Health & Fitness) Friday 1st Catfield Gardeners’ Club - The Crown Inn Page 4 Friday 1st Trick and Treat Night - The Crown Inn Page 19 Wednesday 6th Parish Council Meeting - Village Hall Page 12 Friday 8th May’s Shopper Bus - Norwich Page 3 Sunday 10th LAST DAY FOR DECEMBER ITEMS Tuesday 12h Catfield Stitchers Page 4 Friday 22nd May’s Shopper Bus - Gt. Yarmouth Page 3 Monday 25th Parkinson’s Group Meeting - The Crown Inn Page 3 Tuesday 26th Catfield Stitchers Page 4 Wednesday 27th Catfield Crafters Page 5 Wednesday 27th Mobile Library - Lea Road, Thorn Road & Page 4 Village Hall Saturday 30th Christmas Fayre - Village Hall Page 19 2 MAY’S SHOPPER BUS DATES FOR NOVEMBER 2019 Come and enjoy an inexpensive day out Friday 8th November - Norwich Friday 22nd November - Gt. Yarmouth Both at usual price £5pp We will be doing another "coach survey" for somewhere Christmassy to visit (other than Gt. Yarmouth) for our last trip of this year, which is on 20th December. Contact Pat Letten on 01692 652399 for further details Remembrance Day Poppies Catfield Stores and Post Office and the Crown Inn will have donation boxes and poppies “New” Parkinson’s Group at The Crown Inn, The Street, Catfield NR29 5AA Monday 25th November at 7.30pm This group is for anyone who has or is living with Parkinson’s Disease and open to family and friends. Our aim is to meet up on a regular monthly basis with the hope that through the group we can provide a place to meet, invite speakers and generally find out what help is available if so required. A warm welcome awaits so please do come along and join us. Please call Dave Easton on 07817 998771 for more information. 3 MOBILE LIBRARY www.libraries.norfolk.gov.uk Route enquiries call 01692 402482 The mobile library will be visiting the village on Wednesday 30th October Wednesday 27th November Stopping at: Lea Road 9.45am - 10.00am Thorn Road 10.05am - 10.20am Village Hall 10.25am - 10.40am Catfield Stitching Group Catfield Village Hall. Tuesday 12th & Tuesday 26th November 2019 2pm - 4pm For more information please contact Pat Reid 01692 582978 or Brenda Hackney 01692 678128 £3.00 per session. Tea, Coffee & Biscuits included. *** There will be no Catfield Stitching Group in December CATFIELD GARDENERS’ CLUB The next meeting will be on 6th November in the Catfield Crown. when Jean will be giving a flower arranging demonstration. We hope that we can then arrange a date for the Christmas lunch and also decide on a date for the pantomime in January 2020. All welcome. For further information please contact either Jean on 01692 6707679 or Pam on 0169 2580751 4 All meetings take place once a month on the fourth Wednesday from 1– 4 p.m. in Catfield village hall, at each session members make two projects - all materials and tools are supplied though if anyone has a favourite pair of tweezers/scissors feel free to bring them along; it is advisable to mark them in some way to avoid mislaying them. Members pay £3.00 at each session, which includes tea and biscuits. The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 27th November if you have any questions regarding the club please contact, Gill on 01692 631592 who will be only too pleased to answer them for you, if she can! Butterfly Café For the present time the Butterfly Café will no longer be meeting at the Village Hall. The situation will be reviewed in the new year. Monday Swimming Group There are still vacancies available in the swimming club on Mondays 9 till10am. Contact no 01692580751 Pam Thursday Swimming Group Sylvia is looking for two swimmers to join our group Thursday nights, 6 till 7. If you are interested and want to know more about us just ring Sylvia on 01692 583151 or mobile 07470655799 Colour Pictures for the December Magazine Cover Do you have a festive picture that would look good on the cover of the December Catfield News? If so, please email it to [email protected] 5 6 Catfield Voluntary Car Scheme. Firstly can I thank those who offered their services for the scheme and those wanting to use it. Sadly the numbers interested make it impossible at the present time to go ahead with the service. It would be necessary for us to find a funding source and for the low numbers we had interested it would not be a viable service at this time. But this does not mean that we may well revisit the idea in the future. Once again thanks to those who showed an interest. Ludham and Stalham Green Surgeries Notices Ludham and Stalham Green Surgeries will be closed for essential staff training between 12.45-2.15pm on Friday 8th November. Sunshine Café Are you living with Dementia? Or care for someone with Dementia? We invite you to attend the Sunshine Café. Held at Stalham Green Surgery, Yarmouth Road, Stalham, NR12 9PS between 2-4pm on Thursday 14th November & Thursday 12th December Activities will include quizzes, art, guest speakers – tea, coffee, cake and a chat! Are you a veteran? There are around 2.6 million veterans in the UK. When servicemen and women leave the armed forces, their healthcare is the responsibility of the NHS. It's highly important for continuing healthcare that your GP practice is aware that you have served. Telling your GP practice about your veteran status will trigger the transfer of your full medical documentation from the Ministry of Defence (MoD), and enable you to benefit from veteran-specific services. 7 NATURE NOTES for November by J. & C. Winter is the best time to listen out for the sound of foxes due to their three to six-day mating period occurring during this season. Their mating call can be described most accurately as a ‘howl’ or ‘scream,’ so this noise won’t be one you have to strain your ears for. Commonly found in wooded areas, among the extensive list of locations that foxes inhabit, including cliff sides and high mountains, the evident determination of survival for this creature is reflected in the intensity of the sound heard on a woodland walk when calling for their mate. Grey squirrels have one of two mating seasons between December to February and therefore they are an intriguing animal to look out for this Christmas period. These woodland creatures are noisy all year round, from a ‘kut, kut, kut’ sound warning of danger, to a gleeful whine and chatter their voices will be distinctive and heard by all. With habitats mostly in woodland areas, most specifically hardwood forests with nut trees due to their diet including fruits, seeds and tree nuts, these scurrying animals are most common to hear and see during a woodland family stroll. Our largest freshwater predatory fish, the pike has spawned wonderful and sometimes chilling legends – including tales of monsters that eat pet dogs and bite swimmers. The largest ever caught in Britain weighed about 46lb though a huge head of a pike was found in Loch Etterick in Scotland – and was estimated to have come from a fish weighing over 80lb.This time of year sees spawning of a different kind as the mighty fish gather in the shallows of lakes to lay and fertilise eggs. Several males will often pursue a much bigger female, each vying to get close enough to shed milt (sperm) over the newly laid eggs. Look out for sudden and dramatic splashing and thrashing around. If you keep still and the water is clear, you may even glimpse these cortege of long, green torpedo fish. Anyone who walks in the countryside will know the skylark’s song – an uplifting and seemingly endless fizzing song that cascades over moors, arable fields and coastal marshes. Far less well known is the delicate fluting song of its close relative the woodlark – its Latin name Lullula describes the song perfectly. Similar in looks to the skylark, the woodlark is more fond of the heaths of southern and eastern England and is particularly visible in February and March so late winter/early spring is the best time to set out on a mission to hear their song. Look for its deeply undulating flight – and, of course, listen for the fabulous song. One Liner; Don’t let pursuit of the perfect be the enemy of finding the good. 8 It has been an absolute delight to join the team at Catfield Primary this term as its new Head of School. What an exciting half term we have had! All our classes have been hard at work investigating our whole school topic of “Through the Doorway”. The Early Years class has been busy exploring the village looking for signs of autumn and returned with conkers, acorns and leaves of many colours. Our Year 1 and 2 pupils went exploring the village to look at everyone’s front doors. They even made their own maps of the adventure. They also visited Gressenhall Museum where they learned all about life in the past in Norfolk. This including going to school in Victorian times and finding out how to do the cleaning, cooking and washing 150 years ago. The oldest children in the school took a trip to The Maize Maze at North Walsham to help them learn about the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.