March 2021 Issue 113 Photography by DarrenPhotography by Harbar

RendleshamPARISH MAGAZINE

THE LOST WORLD OF THE HALL ESTATE

RENDLESHAM EASTER EGG HUNT

SNOW BUSINESS! THE DAY THE AMERICANS ARRIVED CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY SCOUTS NEWS

Cover photography by Heather Heelis www...gov.uk MARCH 2021 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE Rendlesham Rendlesham Easter Egg Hunt 2021 PARISH MAGAZINE

Magazine contacts After the huge success of the THIS MONTH... lockdown Easter Egg Hunt last Advertising Editor & Designer year, it’s back again for 2021! Parish Clerk: Heather Heelis Leanda Hoyland-Linch Rendlesham Easter Egg Hunt...... 3 T: 01394 420207 T: 01394 420207 It will be the same format as last year, so keep your eyes open for Parish Council News...... 4 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] Rendlesham the giant eggs, each containing RPC Budget 2021-22...... 5 Admin Officer: a letter. Collect all nine letters, Sarah-Jane Quick The Lost World of The Sudbourne Hall Estate...... 6 find the word and submit your T: 01394 420207 answer to Leanda at: Consumer Corner ...... 9 E: [email protected] [email protected] It’s as easy as that! Egg Hunt Climate Change Strategy ...... 10 Advertising rates Well nearly, as this year we won’t Vicar’s Voice...... 13 Size 1 month 3 months 6 months Annual be giving you clues as to where Beat the lockdown blues, add some fun to Sudoko Challenge ...... 15 1/8 (eighth) Page £13.00 £32.50 £52.00 £78.00 the eggs are, but we can say your daily exercise and win an egg delivered The Day The Americans Arrived...... 16 ¼ (quarter) Page £23.00 £57.50 £92.00 £138.00 that they will all be on walking routes around the village. on Easter Sunday by the Easter Bunny! Rendlesham Revealed...... 19 ½ (half) Page £42.50 £106.25 £170.00 £255.00 The Hunt starts on Friday, 19 On Friday, March 19th, nine eggs will appear in various locations around There’s No Business Like Snow Business!...... 20 Whole Page £78.50 £196.25 £314.00 £470.00 March and the deadline for Rendlesham. Each egg will feature a prominent letter. Make a note or take a photo of all nine letters and re-arrange them to discover the 1st Rendlesham Scout Group ...... 22 entries is Wednesday 31 March. secret word. If you can’t get out to find the Community Copy Shop at the Parish Office For those who are unable to go outside, on Tuesday March 30th, Did You Know?...... 24 eggs around the village then you all nine ‘eggs’ will be hidden within the Parish Council website Woodbridge News...... 26 Service Charges can have a search around the at: www.rendlesham.suffolk.gov.uk A4 b/w 10p website instead: Each winning entrant will receive an egg delivered Other News...... 28 www.rendlesham.suffolk.gov.uk. to their doorstep by the Easter Bunny taking his A3 b/w 20p Police Connect...... 29 The eggs will be hidden lockdown exercise! A4 colour 20p somewhere in amongst the Bin Sense...... 30 A3 colour 35p pages so happy hunting. Fed Up With the Same Old Walks?...... 31 A4 card b/w 10p All winning entries from Deben Community Farm...... 32 A4 card colour 20p Rendlesham will receive a visit from the Easter Bunny on Rendlesham Community Radio...... 35 Binding Easter Sunday, 4 April. A4 plastic/wire spiral Information ...... 39 We’ve heard from reliable with cover & back £2.50 Views expressed in the Rendlesham Parish Newsletter are not necessarily those of the Parish sources that he’ll be departing Council or of other contributing groups. The publication of content in the Rendlesham Parish No cover & back £1.50 from the community centre Newsletter is at the sole discretion of the Parish Council. The Rendlesham Parish Newsletter does A3 plastic/wire spiral (no cover & back) £1.50p at 1pm and his route will be not endorse the accuracy orreliability of any article or advertising within the newsletter. published before he leaves. A3 plastic/wire spiral (no cover & back) £1.50p Happy April Magazine Deadline We’d love to see your photos, Important! Laminating which may even make it into the Send your answer, along Please send articles for submission to: [email protected] with your name, address and Hunting! A4 35p parish magazine! by 15 March 2021. Rendlesham Parish Magazine will be available number of children to the A3 70p Easter Bunny at: online and in hard copy format. PLEASE help everyone [email protected] fe by maintaining Closing date for entries is 6pm, stay sa Wednesday, March 31st 2 metres social distance

RENDLESHAM COMMUNITY RADIO New home for the Rendlesham Community Radio Station On 1 March the contractors will arrive on site at Jubilee Park to start work on the foundations for the new radio studio. Meanwhile the studio is being fitted out off site with heating, air conditioning and electrics, ready for delivery when the groundworks have been completed. There’s still lots to do before the big move in but we’ll keep you posted. 2 3 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 MARCH 2021 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE Parish Council News RPC Budget 2021-22

2021 Parish Council Meetings Parish Office Parish Councillors By now many residents will have received their annual Council Tax demands from East Suffolk Council. East Suffolk have publicly The Easter All Parish Council meetings are currently held via Zoom. Links and Rendlesham Community Centre Mike Stevenson: Chairman stated they expect increases to be low but at the time of writing this Bunny, Teddy agendas are available on the RPC website. Walnut Tree Avenue, Personnel Committee they have not been quantified or confirmed. Rendlesham IP12 2GG Finance & Asset Committee Full Council 10 May, 5 July, 6 September, 1 November Bears Picnic and T: 01394 420207 Ex-officio on all other From the Parish perspective I am pleased as Chairman of the Planning Committee 12 April, 12 July, 11 October E: [email protected] Committees Finance and Asset Committee to confirm that we have done our bit Santa’s Grand to keep to the same figure as we did last year and seek no increase Jubilee Park Committee 8 April, 8 July, 14 October Martyn Redfern: Vice Office opening hours from the parish itself. Tour cheered Finance and Asset Committee 15 April, 15 July, 21 October The office is closed to the Chairman Youth Group Committee 7 April, 7 July, 6 October public until further notice due Planning Committee Considering that 2020/21 began 1 week into ‘Lockdown 1’, I am people and help Finance & Asset Committee proud of the way the Parish Council reviewed its activities and Minutes of Meetings are available on the Parish Council web site: to Covid. to keep the www.rendlesham.suffolk.gov.uk James Carter changed things around as best it could to mitigate the consequences Planning Committee of what we thought (at that time) was a few months of ‘change’. Council and the NEXT PARISH COUNCIL MEETING Personnel Committee The budget earmarked for the Rendlesham show was quickly Jubilee Park Committee re-allocated to allow us to establish other ‘events’ which could be parish in touch. 10 May 2021 Finance & Asset Committee done in a fashion compliant with the new rules. The visits from the Easter Bunny, Teddy Bears Picnic and Santa’s Grand Tour cheered By Zoom at 7.30pm Peter Wyartt people and helped to keep the Council and the parish in touch. 15 minute public session Jubilee Park Committee Finance & Asset Committee The VE day event, whilst in itself different to what had previously By contacting Rendlesham Parish Council you agree your contact details may be Douglas Burness been envisaged, was a success and spawned a totally new venture held and processed for the purpose of correspondence and services we provide. Jubilee Park Committee in the form of Rendlesham Community Radio. That began with We only keep information for as long as necessary. We do not share your Personnel Committee Covid Grants to support connectivity in communities during information with third parties. Speedwatch Lockdown and is now a key element in our plans for going forward. Stevenson Mike Photography by Victoria Proctor The Covid constraints brought both the ‘Good Neighbour Scheme’ 2021 Rendlesham Jubilee Park Committee (GNS) and general good neighbourliness (not least from Zee and Show cancelled Planning Committee all at the Costcutter store) to the fore in the Village. The Parish Youth Group Charity Council was happy to contribute funds and support the GNS in its In line with Government Climate Emergency Group efforts to help those who could not help themselves. As restrictions guidance on preventing the continue the Council will continue to support this organisation with further spread of coronavirus Mike Parry its work. (COVID-19), Rendlesham Jubilee Park Committee Parish Council regret that the Planning Committee Rendlesham Show, due to be SNT Rep held in June, is cancelled. Finance & Asset Committee The date for the 2022 Show is Dave Moore Planning Committee set for June 10th/11th. Going forward we look to build on this in 2021-22. Youth Group Charity We will be using the time to Finance & Asset Committee • We look to host events again as soon as we can but as many will plan an even better 2022 Show! Personnel Committee be aware we have again had to cancel the ‘Rendlesham Show’ in its conventional format. Ali Gibbs • Clearly we all hope to see a return to some semblance of VACANCY normality through the summer and I certainly hope that the Fireworks event will be ‘back to Normal’. • The next year will see investment in the Radio station (not least ADVERTISE YOUR a new facility and infrastructure to host it in Jubilee Park). BUSINESS TO • The Parish Council is looking to invigorate ‘Youth Provision’ OVER 1500 LOCAL with the development of a Youth Strategy with some long term ambitions. We will be looking for support from younger HOMES! residents to get a feel for what we need. • The Parish will be opening discussions about transfer of packages of Land (currently owned and maintained by East Suffolk Council) to our ownership for Community use. If you would like to advertise I hope the actions receive the support of the Parish. The Council FREE DOG BAGS From the Parish Council Delivery in the Rendlesham Parish Magazine, will continue to look for opportunities but please bring forward ideas particularly for the ‘Youth Strategy’. service during lockdown. Phone 01394 420207 and please contact: 01394 420207 we’ll drop them off to you or email: [email protected] Mike Stevenson Chairman Finance and Asset Committee 4 5 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 MARCH 2021 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE The Sudbourne Hall Estate

French than English. He was created a baronet for his services to the artistic heritage of the ‘ancien’ regime was in good supply on France during the German siege of Paris in 1870-1871, and one of the market, and the Marquess acquired exquisite works by among his grandsons became a general in the First World War – a general others Boucher, Poussin and Fragonard as well as elaborate Rococo in the French Army, that is, not the British. furniture and the finest French porcelain. The second thing the pictures tell you is that Sir Richard was As a young man Richard worked as his father’s secretary. When fabulously wealthy and well connected. He was indeed a friend of Richard’s father died in 1870, with no legitimate descendants, the Prince Of Wales who honoured Sudbourne with his presence Richard inherited the whole of his father’s free estate – including at a shoot in November 1879. Twenty four livered gamekeepers the art collection, but excluding the Sudbourne Hall Estate which attended the shoots, as well as a small army of domestic servants to was entailed and passed with the Hertford title to a distant cousin. provide the al fresco luncheon shown in one of the paintings. Sir Richard however had sufficient surplus funds to buy Sudbourne from the Fifth Marquess. Sir Richard also inherited his father’s The third thing about Sir Richard is that he loved art, French art Irish estates, and indeed became an MP in the British Parliament especially. It was Sir Richard’s French widow, honouring the wishes for Lisburn in Ireland. He moved the art collection from Paris to of her late husband, who gave the Wallace Collection to the British London, because of the scare he had experienced in the siege of nation. Who then was Sir Richard – how did he acquire his colossal Paris. If it wasn’t for the Germans at the gates of Paris in 1870, the wealth, his art collection, and the Sudbourne Estate? collection may never have come to these shores. Richard Wallace was in fact the illegitimate son of the Fourth The picnic scene in Decaen’s painting shows Sir Richard Wallace’s Marquess of Hertford. The Hertfords had acquired the Sudbourne son Edmund graciously offering his hand to his mother as she Hall Estate in the mid eighteenth century. By the mid nineteenth The Lost World Of The Sudbourne Hall Estate descends from her carriage. This scene of family harmony was century the estate was about 12,000 acres in extent, and included not to last. Edmund became estranged from his father, and died in If you go into Orford Town Hall, perhaps for one of their Saturday almost the whole of Orford, Sudbourne, Butley, and . markets, you might notice three huge paintings on the walls. They 1887 – three years before his father. Why Sir Richard had bought are scenes of Victorian shooting parties – full of detail and action, The beating heart of the estate was the mansion at Sudbourne Hall, Sudbourne is not clear, but perhaps at the time he had dynastic and people. Who are these people you might wonder? The pictures designed by James Wyatt, approached through the home park along ambitions. Those died with Edmund. Although Edmund himself show local scenes, from Sudbourne. But why was a French artist, avenues of beech trees and horse chestnuts and with an elaborate had four children, Sir Richard left most of his fortune (aside from Alfred Decaen engaged to paint them? And why does one of them Italian garden to the west. As far as the Hertfords were concerned, the art collection) to his own secretary, Sir John Murray Scott. The even have a French title: battue de perdreaux [partridge] dans la comté de however, Subbourne was an ancillary pleasure ground. Their main pattern of inheritance, in defiance of convention, continued with Suffolk. country seat was at Ragley Hall, and their principal residence was in Scott. He became obsessed in later life with Victoria Sackville-West, Paris. They had in effect become hereditary British ambassadors to the scheming gold-digging mother of the more famous Vita. Scott The paintings in Orford Town Hall were in fact commissioned by Paris, as was the case with the Third and Fourth Marquesses. in turn left most of his fortune to Victoria, who dissipated it in a the owner at the time of the Sudbourne Hall Estate, Sir Richard frenzy of riotous living as well as legal fees fending off inheritance Wallace (1818-1890). The paintings tell you the three things about The Fourth Marquess, with an income in today’s values of about claims by Sir John Murray Scott’s outraged family. Sir Richard which define his character and his legacy to future £1m a month, was a knowledgeable and passionate collector of Above: The rear elevation of Sudbourne Hall generations. The first is that he was a Francophile – in fact more French art and artefacts. As a result of the French Revolution, Below: Battue de perdreaux dans la comté de Suffolk, 1880. Oil painting by Alfred-Charles-Ferdinand Decaen The beating heart of the estate was the mansion at Sudbourne Hall, designed by James Wyatt

Top left: Detail from Shooting Luncheon at the Great Wood Sudbourne, 1876 By Alfred-Charles-Ferdinand Decaen on display in Orford Town Hall

Left: The majestic Sudbourne Hall 6 7 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 MARCH 2021 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE Consumer Corner

Decaen’s paintings date from the apogee of Sir Richard’s interest in Above left: Shooting Luncheon at the Great Wood Sudbourne, 1876 Sudbourne in the late 1870s and early 1880s. But in declining health and Above: On Sudbourne Hill, 1874. perhaps disillusioned with Edmund, Sir Richard sold the Sudbourne Oil paintings by Alfred-Charles-Ferdinand Decaen Hall Estate in 1884 to a Manchester banker, Arthur Heywood. Suffolk Trading Standards continue to warn If you think you have provided There is a postscript to Sir Richard’s involvement with Sudbourne The paintings by Decaen were against scams related to the pandemic in the parish church. The east window is dedicated to the memory scammers with your financial details, Beware of Covid-19 Vaccination Beware of these bogus text of the Third Marchioness of Hertford who died in 1856. What’s eventually moved to Orford Town scam emails, we have become messages that state you are contact your bank immediately. curious is that although Sudbourne was a Hertford domain Hall, saved by a grant from the Art aware of two that have been entitled to a grant due to the for 120 years she is the only member of the Hertford family received across the County. current lockdown. commemorated in Sudbourne Church – the rest are in the chapel Fund They purport to be from the of the family’s principal residence at Ragley Hall. So what is Mie- These texts have been sent by NHS, inviting you for your Mie as she was called doing in Sudbourne? The answer is in the (I suspect) intentional reference to Mie-Mie’s circumstances – a criminals who have created vaccination. We can confirm close bond between Mie-Mie and her grandson, Sir Richard. In representation of Mary Magdalene, the prostitute who washed fake websites. The websites that they are bogus and that the his will, the Fourth Marquess specifically mentions Sir Richard’s Jesus’s feet with oil but was also the first person to witness the that the text links to has been links take you to a website that kindness to his mother. What probably brought Mie-Mie and Sir resurrection. created to look similar to the asks for financial details to pay Richard together thoughwas that they both suffered the stigma of government website, with the Arthur Heywood was a short term owner of Sudbourne, forgotten for the vaccine. same branding, layout and font illegitimacy, at a time when bloodlines in humans were as important except as the founder of Sudbourne Cricket Club. In 1904, choices. as in horses. They both had to endure whispered gossip the Heywood sold the estate to one Kenneth Clark. Clark was also Do not click on the link! moment they turned their backs, and the trail of scandal wherever enormously wealthy. The family money was in cotton. One of The NHS will: Do not click on the link! they went. Clark’s ancestors had invented the cotton reel, and Clark & Co Never ask for payment - the If you receive what you think Mie-Mie was the illegitimate daughter of an English aristocrat and thread manufacturers of Paisley became hugely successful. The vaccine is free is a fake message, forward the his Italian lover. Even as a child Mie-Mie was notorious, because best known account of Sudbourne in the early 1900s comes from Never ask for your bank details text message, including the two different English aristocrats claimed paternity. She grew up the first part of the autobiography of his son. The son was another phone number or company with two devoted quarrelling fathers – although (to their credit) she Kenneth Clark, Lord Clark of Civilisation, and the book was called If you get these emails or name, to 7726. It won’t cost inherited fortunes from both of them when they died. As a young “Another Part Of The Wood”. Lord Clark depicts his father as anything similar, please forward you anything and it means your woman she was very glamorous – when George III went mad he incorrigibly idle and bored, only interested in billiards and gambling. it to the National Cyber Security phone provider can investigate apparently expressed a wish for Mie-Mie to become his mistress Over time, the father got bored with Sudbourne and in May 1918 Centre’s Suspicious Email the sender. he undertook a break-up sale. You can still come across copies Reporting Service (SERS) at:- (she didn’t). Report all scams to via Citizens of the sale catalogue in and around Orford. The rump of the [email protected] Advice Consumer Service on The Hertford clan were scandalised when Mie-Mie married the Sudbourne Hall Estate including the mansion house were eventually 0808 223 1133. Third Marquess, and although the marriage endured on paper acquired in the 1930s by Sir Bernard Greenwell, a stockbroker with the Third Marquess and Mie-Mie ended up living separate lives. an eye for a bargain – he apparently paid just £4 an acre for the When Mie-Mie died it fell to Wallace to commemorate her, and he whole of Iken. His son Sir Peter Greenwell demolished the hall did so in Sudbourne Church with a design which includes – with in the early 1950s, and the Italian gardens were abandoned. A way of life - as well as an architectural masterpiece - were wiped out. What probably though brought The paintings by Decaen, now homeless, were eventually moved to Orford Town Hall, saved by a grant from the Art Fund. Reporting anti-social behaviour Mie-Mie and Sir Richard together Acknowledgement: my text on Sir Richard Wallace and the was that they both suffered the Scotts owes much to Jane Allen’s 2008 publication: the Wallace If you are experiencing anti-social behaviour in the village please Connection: the Restoration of Orford Church. The Royal report it in the first instance to the police by phoning 101, ideally as stigma of illegitimacy, at a time Armouries archive has a paper on Decaen’s paintings of it’s occurring or as soon as possible afterwards. when bloodlines in humans were as Sudbourne, which I suspect would unlock much of the detail but The Parish Council would also welcome feedback on incidents of I’ve not been able to access. anti-social behaviour. Please send us date, time and as much detail important as in horses. Mark Fairweather of the incident as possible. Email: [email protected] 8 9 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 MARCH 2021 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE Climate Action Strategy

On 1st March I’ll be the Plan out there for as many You can imagine I was have ensured that the Strategy Land Use is a hot topic in closely woven together. Health We are fortunate presenting the Climate people to see as possible was thrilled that we received no not only sets out the ‘what’ Rendlesham with several sites and other factors can mean that Action Strategy to the Parish needed. It had previously been negative responses at all to but the ‘how’, giving examples ear marked for building on and some people have vulnerabilities, in the village Council. I hope that it will sent out along with the village our circulating of the plan of what the Parish Council of course the future of the the Strategy includes goals to be accepted and integrated Newsletter but now a hard copy within the village, by mail to can do within their powers to ‘gym and theatre’ sites in the make sure vulnerable voices are to have great into all policies and serve two was sent to local businesses, other stakeholders, sharing achieve it. We’ve made sure centre of the village remain heard and represented as part amounts of main purposes. organisations, politicians, on social media or in person. the wording is accessible and uncertain. I think we all realise of a larger goal to ‘protect and institutions and others. I’ve been very loath to talk meaningful, that it is realistic the importance of making support’ them. Firstly it will signal the intention biodiversity which of silver linings in the tragedy and achievable and as a whole sure the right land fulfils the of fast and effective action, This consultation process has There are 5 goals which focus within which we currently live, document encapsulates a vision right purpose. This part of needs to be given an appropriate response to an always been such an important on buildings. These cover but what I will say is that I for Rendlesham we can all be the Strategy covers our aims A plan to tackle the climate and ecological emergency Parish Council owned buildings, emergency situation. Secondly part of the Plan because proud of. for land acquisition so we can the opportunity am pleased the Plan (as it was owner-occupied homes and the strategy contains specific one of the most important protect and enhance our existing Rendlesham then known, it has now been The Strategy has several the private rental sector and to flourish and goals and can act as route map, goals it contains is ‘inclusive green and wild spaces in an Putting our climate at the heart ‘reclassified’ as a Strategy) sections, the first one lists the describe what Rendlesham working through them will engagement with residents’ effort to ‘restore nature to help further improve. wasn’t presented last year. We of decision-making result in meaningful and real- ensuring that ‘changes made are ways the Parish Council could Parish Council can do to ‘ensure received some incredibly useful drawdown carbon pollution’. world efforts to mitigate against sustainable’. Action on Climate put ‘climate at the heart of all homes are well insulated’ and feedback which has lead to We are fortunate in the village climate change and adapt as a change will effect the lives of decision making’. These 6 goals energy efficient. Heather and I pouring over it to have great amounts of village to the inevitable effects everyone and requires maximum describe how the Strategy will with a fine tooth comb to make biodiversity which needs to Adopting a strategy such as this of it; increasing resilience and engagement so it is crucial that be integrated into the Parish sure the Strategy is the best that be given the opportunity to one requires several changes ‘future-proofing’. it has wide-ranging acceptance. Council’s procedures and it can be. It always had to be flourish and further improve. in practice among the Council, On a practical level, for me to given the priority it deserves. I often mention Rendlesham specific to the unique village One of the ways we do this is its staff and volunteers. One ask the Parish Council to adopt Detailed are the ways the Parish being a leader and this is no of Rendlesham but the final by ensuring ‘everyone has access of these is working towards the strategy I have been very Council will be accountable for exception, this strategy shows version has benefitted from to nature’ because the wellbeing becoming ‘zero-waste’ in-house mindful that it doesn’t appear to achieving the goals within the forethought and commitment many more hours of analysis of flora and fauna and our own and utilising the various schemes be something that I want, but Strategy. not seen elsewhere. I spent a and editing. Heather and I physical and mental health are which ensure waste isn’t sent something wanted by everyone. few years campaigning for this to incineration. Setting a good example will be important if from on high, and well, we “Climate change is the can’t wait for ever. What is the WHAT IS A CLIMATE EMERGENCY??defining issue of our WHY DO WE NEED AN ACTION we are to ‘promote community phrase? If you want something The Climate is always changing over centuries and millenia due to natural time – and we are at a sharing and reuse’ too. changes for example in the Sun’s activity defining moment. PLAN IN RENDLESHAM? doing…….. BUT We face a direct In its Fifth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate existential threat.” The transport section of the Change, a group of 1,300 independent scientific experts from countries The strategy was initially due UN Secretary-General Strategy is large with 9 separate all over the world, concluded there’s a more than 95% probability that António Guterres to be presented on Earth Day human activities over the past 50 years have warmed our planet. ‘Every bit of warming matters’ goals with the overarching aims The industrial activities that our modern civilization depends upon have MITIGATION Hans-Otto Portner Co-Chair IPCC 2020, 22nd April, however, the raised atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from 280 parts per million to Climate Change must be tackled Working Group 2 to keep the low levels of air 412 parts per million in the last 150 years. The panel also concluded rapidly and from many angles. pollution we come to expect events of last year prevented there’s a better than 95% probability that human-produced Mitigation is ‘human intervention to reduce meetings, consultation and greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous the sources or enhance the sinks of in the village, maximise the oxide have caused much of the observed increase in Earth’s WHY? green house gases’ (IPCC) While the largest certainly for my part I had temperatures over the past 50 years. So far the increase in temperature is changes must be made by National use of buses, promote and to focus my energy and around 1degrees c. Global warming is Government, banks and other big corporations, encourage the use of bicycles likely to reach 1.5°C between 2030 and 2052 all levels of government must do their bit! ADAPTATION attentions elsewhere. This if it continues to increase at the current rate. Putting into place local mitigation, such as and walking and finally support reducing air pollution levels, has almost As we know Human caused Climate Change is was personally very difficult instantaneous effects, we don’t have happening extremely quickly, one of the reasons it the transition to zero emission HOW? to wait for the trickle down. poses such a threat is that living things do not have time vehicles. Some of these things HELP FOR LOCAL because although the pandemic The burning of fossil fuels is Speed also matters to allow for…. to adapt as they would to natural climate change. This was fairly all consuming, the a main contributor to the increase includes us. Changing some of the ways we live, shifting the Parish Council can do BUSINESSES...... in greenhouse gases. priorities and practices give us the most opportunity to alone - for example, one of the other emergency, to which I continue to thrive as the climate changes around us. During these challenging I often mention The key ways to do this are: most exciting goals in the whole had given my word I would times we want to support give meaningful response At 1.5°C there will be significant changes to our • Accessing information about climate Strategy, in my opinion, is the planet, worse than what we see now at 1°C. change, what we can all do and what Rendlesham local businesses. to a declaration of climate There will be more flooding, fires, droughts, loss of to expect purchase of an electric minibus coral reef, summers with no sea ice in the Arctic • Make decisions on a personal and for community use. Other goals being a leader emergency, hadn’t gone Ocean, increased ocean temperature and acidity, national level with the future in mind Talk to us about how we anywhere either. food insecurity and increased prices, more LEADERSHIP • Reducing any future potential harm require collaboration with other refugees and stunting to economic growth. can help promote you and this is no Rendlesham have a great reputation for being an • Building resilience into our infrastructure Parishes, Local Authorities and Heather Heelis, the Parish Clerk, We must make sure the temperature does active and trail blazing Parish Council. in the Parish Magazine not increase beyond this stage as Having a robust plan built into our policies means we can organisations and exercising exception, this myself and other members predictions for a 2°C rise are continue our great work secure in the knowledge that we with a page of editorial catastrophic and very are doing our very best for our local wildlife and biodiversity the combined strength of a of the Climate Emergency unpredictable. The window is and the wider environment. Climate Action Strategy and to accompany your strategy shows Working Group had spent many small and the changes • Many local authorities have declared a Climate Emergency “Humans have increased atmospheric CO2 needed are large but not put a plan into place,let alone with this level of Neighbourhood Plan in our advertisement forethought and hours adapting the Friends Of concentration by more than a third since the efficiency. Planning responses. It is this The Earth template plan to be Industrial Revolution began. This is the most • We can be a local leader, advising other Contact Sarah-Jane: important long-lived “forcing” of climate Councils and attracting people, business multilayer approach that means commitment not specific for Rendlesham and change.” NASA and investments to the area. the Strategy is effective with admin@rendleshampc. that time couldn’t go to waste. Emissions need to : • As a unique village changing and seen elsewhere. - reduce by 45% by 2030 growing we can make sure it continues some very short term, easily org.uk A fresh burst of energy to push - be at net zero by 2050 to be a wonderful place to live. achievable results and others 10 11 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 MARCH 2021 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE The Vicar’s Voice

that are ambitious and require a contents. However, much of the Who is Veronica? RENDLESHAM’S CLIMATE lot of work into the future. ‘how’ of the Strategy involves existing and budgeted activities As you read this, we are well into the Christian 4 of the 40 goals the Strategy In Latin the name Veronica means: ACTION PLAN GOALS? of the Council, it just gives season of Lent, a time of self-reflection and has in total deal with Power Climate Action the importance “fasting”, giving up something which is difficult and aim to ‘enable and support ‘true image or honest image’. it deserves. As I mentioned in to do without. Those of you who read my the growth and use of green the beginning, a Climate Action Vicar’s Voice column regularly will know that energy and ensure energy is not 1. To ensure that our climate and nature restoration goals are Strategy adopted by the Parish for me, giving up chocolate takes a lot of of Jesus with her veil and subsequently the image of Jesus’ face was front and centre in all decision-making and investments, and wasted.’ As with other areas we Council will put us in a position self discipline and self will!! It doesn’t always imprinted upon it; creating what could be seen as a ‘true’ or ‘honest inclusive engagement with residents ensures that the changes made begin with things under direct are sustainable. where we can influence, work!! image’ both of herself and Jesus as well. control of the Parish Council, 2. To have sufficient resources to invest in the changes needed to restore ‘encourage and support other Whether the story of Veronica actually happened or not, the nature and meet our climate goals. auditing and improving. You During Lent, a variety of churches from varying entities with their contribution meaning behind the story (a strong Lenten lesson) in this single 3. To ensure that the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change are will also see the support of and backgrounds will journey through what is to the fight against the climate properly supported and protected. promotion of renewable energy traditionally called, ‘the stations of the Cross’. The fourteen stations, station. Veronica ignored all the terror, the horror of what was emergency’. We can be an 4. To ensure all homes are well insulated and to eradicate fuel poverty as fast in our media if the Strategy is depicting various stages of the journey of Christ through Jerusalem happening, and simply demonstrated love and compassion. as possible. example to other Parishes who to Calvary, help us each year to reflect upon Jesus’ betrayal, his approved. Don’t panic, they will As we try to follow the way of the Cross this Lent, especially during 5. To reduce air pollution to meet World Health Organisation levels, match European hope to do the same and create remain balanced, wholesome suffering, death and eventual rising. best practice in the use of buses, cycling and walking and promote and support an exponential response we will this time of anxiety and unknown due to the pandemic, let each of zero emission vehicles. and ever improving as you all benefit from. Across these stations we encounter Jesus in different ways. I love us try to imitate the story of Veronica’s encounter with Jesus inS 6. To enable and support growth and use of green energy and ensure energy is have all come to expect from walking the stations, but they are not always easy to reflect on. The our everyday lives. Let us be the true, honest and lasting images of not wasted. our Newsletter, ENews, Social This Strategy has been a labour 4th station is the one I always find hardest, where Jesus meets his what it is to be human, to love one another, as family, friends and 7. To be a zero waste area where all waste is minimised, recycled or reused. Media and Community Radio! of love and conviction for me. mother, who can only stand by and watch what her son is going neighbours, serving one another through the love of God that Jesus 8. To encourage and support other entities with their contribution to the fight Thank You to everyone that has against the climate emergency. It’s a cruel fact of the world that through. She can no longer protect him or keep him safe. As a shows on his way to the Cross. worked on it, made suggestions, mother and grandmother myself, my heart breaks for Mary’s agony. 9. To restore nature to help drawdown carbon pollution from the atmosphere things cost money and there are With love and blessings to you all, and to ensure everyone has access to nature in nearby green spaces. given feedback and kind specific goals in the Strategy But, there is also one of the stations (the 6th), which has always 10. To make our voice heard by the UK government and secure support. Wish me luck! Rev Mandy Xx increased devolution to local level and increase that describe how funds will be fascinated me because the person involved in this station with Jesus, democratic control. raised to carry out a lot of the Victoria Proctor doesn’t actually appear in scripture. But she is the one who is said to have wiped the face of Jesus as he carries his cross. Her name is Veronica.

In Latin the name Veronica means: ‘true image or honest image’. As “Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much” the story goes, Veronica, out of compassion for Him, wipes the face Helen Keller

We can be an example to other Parishes who hope to do the same and create a exponential response we will all benefit from.

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14 15 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 MARCH 2021 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE The day the Americans arrived

When researching the history of RAF Bentwaters I am often reminded of the open sea and had almost until 1958 when the 91st was Below: Typical assortment of cars used by Americans on the base from the as much range as the Super joined at Bentwaters by the 1950s. The rear of a big American Chevrolet or Buick and the much smaller the expression “Two peoples separated by a common language” … a phrase Dumbo. It had proved itself in 92nd (meanwhile the 116th British car (maybe an MG?) plus a German VW Beetle. Parked outside the the Korean War and went on was replaced by the 78th that Service Club where airmen relaxed attributed to the playwright George Bernard Shaw, though Oscar Wilde to operate in Vietnam and with eventually deployed to RAF had said much the same many years previously and Winston Churchill was twenty other national air forces. Woodbridge). A significant Surplus aircraft were sold to amount of infrastructure wrongly attributed it by the Times newspaper no less. civilian operators and though was built by the Americans military operations ended in the to accommodate increasingly Anyone who has spent time in But before the 81st FIW 1970’s many are still flying today. sophisticated and powerful fighter jets and much of the the company of our American arrived on 5th September The 9th Air Rescue Squadron base that you can see today friends will come to realise that 1951, other smaller units had stayed at Bentwaters until came about during this period. at some point neither will have a deployed in the form of, firstly, 14th November 1951 moving clue what each other are talking a detachment of the 1980th to the north of the UK at We can perhaps imagine the about! Politeness on the part of Airways & Air Communications Burtonwood Cheshire, making scene in 1951 when a rural part both us Brits and our trans- Service to prepare for the arrival way for the expanding presence of Suffolk, quietly involved Atlantic allies would prevent of aircraft and squadrons. of the 81st. in farming and village life an outright “excuse me?” but With control handed over by witnessed the arrival of first A Fighter Interceptor Wing a sideways look or a puzzled the RAF on 16th March to the hundreds of American service was usually made up of three face is likely as we struggle to United States Air Force, it was personnel and then thousands! squadrons, but Bentwaters was fathom what was meant. only three and a half months Apart from the building works, far from ready to accept such later that the first aircraft mostly carried out by British Add into that some military a large number of aircraft, so arrived when on the 1st July the contractors, there would be a A view of the Parachute Building which is still at Bentwaters just near the speak and you find yourself it was only the 91st Fighter largest aircraft to be based at constant stream of equipment, We can perhaps imagine the scene in main gate. Classic American car used as a medical vehicle alongside a USAF nodding and hoping the Interceptor Squadron that the airfield landed – the Boing supplies and vehicles. Not just ambulance showings its WWII heritage. The sort of sights Rendlesham locals conversation will move onto arrived on the 26th September SB-29 Superfortress arrived. for the operation of aircraft, 1951 when a rural part of Suffolk, would find on their roads once the Americans arrived in 1951 something more comprehesible. 1951 with twenty North Nicknamed the ‘Super Dumbo’ but to provide living quarters quietly involved in farming and This year we celebrate the American F-86A Sabre fighters. (after the Disney film character) and facilities for the Americans arrival of the United States Air The other two squadrons, this giant of the skies was a to subsist. As much as it village life witnessed the arrival of Force 81st Fighter Interceptor the 92nd and 116th arrived at strategic bomber of the type would have been a shock to Wing to RAF Bentwaters another base, Shepherds Grove first hundreds of American service used in the war against Japan the locals, it would have been in 1951, but the sound of (located between Diss and Bury that had been modified for use an eye opener for Americans personnel and then thousands! American voices would have St Edmunds). It would not be in the air/sea rescue role. With already been familiar to the a range of over 3000 miles locals of Rendlesham. The it could cover vast distances airfield was constructed by an across oceans to help locate Engineer Battalion (Aviation) downed pilots or any aircraft of the US Army in 1943 and that had crashed into the sea. though we do not know for Fitted with an air-droppable sure, it was probably the same lifeboat, once found, the unit that built RAF stranded airman could survive just across the A12. Bentwaters with the help of the SB-29 was not required by the United Above: Boeing SB-29 Superfortress until a rescue ship arrived. States Army Air Force so it demonstrating the dropping of the Operated by C Flight of the was handed over to the RAF lifeboat by parachute. Having located 9th Air Rescue Squadron the Based in the United States Air Force hardened command post for use in World War Two the downed pilot, providing a life- Super Dumbo was joined by on the former Bentwaters airbase. Displays of the history from until 1951, when the war in saving boat to await rescue from a another air rescue aircraft, the 1943 to 1993. Cold war jets and vehicles on show. Korea had caused America and rescue ship was key to survival. Grumman SA-16A Albatross. Plenty of car parking space and suitable for all ages and ideal Britain to expand their military This was a purpose-built air sea all weather visitor attraction with a café and shop offering light commitments. rescue type that could land on refreshments and souvenirs. Opening times 10.00 - 16.00 Opening Easter until end October. Right: Boeing SB-29 Superfortress Admission Prices nicknamed “Super Dumbo” after the Adult £5.00 Child (14 & under) Free Concessions £4.00 This year we celebrate the arrival Disney character. Note the lifeboat Further information for the museum can be found at of the United States Air Force 81st slung underneath. This aircraft served www.bcwm.org.uk in Korea. The museum has no photos Building 134, Bentwaters Parks, Rendlesham, Fighter Interceptor Wing to RAF of the type when located at RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 2TW Bentwaters in 1951 Bentwaters 16 17 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 MARCH 2021 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE Rendlesham Revealed

The strong links formed with America and its citizens Rendlesham Revealed - Community Archaeology Project during WWII would continue and the people of Suffolk Rendlesham Revealed is a Behind the Scenes: Analysing Exploring different themes and in particular those in the Rendlesham area, would community archaeology project Anglo-Saxon Rendlesham – A over ten talks, the specialists come to befriend many in the Air Force and their led by Suffolk County Council new online series bring the archaeology to life Archaeological Service (SCCAS) and tell us even more about SCCAS have organised a free families too. and funded by the National Rendlesham as a place and its online series of talks about Lottery Heritage fund, to connections with the wider the internationally important uncover the hidden archaeology Anglo-Saxon world. used to plentiful food, modern Whether it was dress code Anglo-Saxon royal settlement in the Deben valley in south- conveniences and limitless … jeans and check shirts for at Rendlesham, as part of This series is a partnership east Suffolk. The project will petrol (gasoline). Americans, flat caps and tweed the ‘Rendlesham Revealed’ between two projects: aim to connect the unique jackets for Brits, or food … community archaeology project. ‘Rendlesham Revealed: Anglo- Britain had suffered a great deal stories of the princely burials of burgers, hot dogs and blueberry Saxon Life in South-East from the effects of WWII and and the long-lost Rendlesham is the largest and pie for the Yanks, steak and Suffolk’ funded by the National the rationing of food, clothing, royal settlement at Rendlesham. wealthiest settlement of the kidney pie, fish and chips Lottery Heritage Fund, and petrol, and many other goods 5th to 8th centuries known in and spotted dick pudding for Supported through The ‘Lordship and Landscape in continued (and in some cases and has been identified the Limeys, or cars … huge National Lottery Heritage Fund, East Anglia 400-800CE’ led became stricter) as the country as a royal estate centre. Over Chevrolets, Buicks and Jeeps for there will be a range of by University College London struggled to recover and was the past 12 years, archaeological the U S of A, or Austin Sevens, opportunities for local people to funded by the Leverhulme struck by weather disasters, investigations have generated Rileys or an old bicycle for dear volunteer with the project, by Trust. strikes and financial constraints. a huge amount of information old Blighty the difference was taking part in hands-on It was not until July 1954 that and now is your chance to find there to see. archaeology, events and rationing ended completely, out more! exhibitions. These activities will though some returned in 1956 But the strong links formed during WWII would continue take place in south-east Suffolk For the first time, the specialists during the Suez Crisis. with America and its citizens and the people of Suffolk (and in particular those in the and over the next 4 who have been analysing the Rendlesham area), would come years. Although the Covid-19 archaeological material are to befriend many in the Air pandemic has delayed the start now sharing their cutting-edge Force and their families too. of the archaeological fieldwork research with the public. there is already lots to explore The series called “Behind the If you have any stories to tell on the Suffolk Heritage Explore Scenes: Analysing Anglo-Saxon MELTON of meeting Americans, working website, including family Above: SA-16A Albatross with them, socialising and Rendlesham” is available to amphibious aircraft as used at RAF activities, articles and videos. MOWERS LTD supplying services then contact watch for free at heritage. Right: Anglo-Saxon Bentwaters in 1951 to rescue aircrew the magazine editor Leanda More information, future suffolk.gov.uk/rendlesham Horse and Rider Brooch stranded at sea. The Albatross could so they can be added to the updates on the project and how use runways as well as the open sea. LAWNMOWERS museum archive. to be involved can be found at: heritage.suffolk.gov.uk/ & GARDEN Simon Gladas Sources: ‘Bentwaters & Woodbridge: An illustrated History rendlesham Member of the Bentwaters Aviation MACHINERY of the USAF Twin Base Complex Society and volunteer at the in East Anglia’ by Graham Bentwaters Cold war Museum Haynes. Rendlesham is the TIME TO GET YOUR largest and WINTER SERVICE wealthiest BOOKED NOW settlement of the 5th to 8th SALES | REPAIRS | SPARES | HIRE centuries known 2 Peartree Cottages, Station Road, in England and Melton, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 1PY has been 01394 382983 identified as a www.meltonmowers.co.uk royal estate centre. 18 19 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 MARCH 2021 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE There’s no business like snow business!

We asked and you delivered! Thank you to everyone who shared their stunning snow pics with us on Facebook! We already knew what a creative lot you are but it seems your creativity knows no bounds when it comes to the white stuff!

Above, top row: Above, top row, from left: Mike Stevenson Emma Brightey: ‘Our pup, Buzz, wanted a friend so we built him a snow dog. This is Bobby’, Middle row, from left: Emma Lloyd-Smith: ‘Baby Yoda’. Darren Baker, Sammy Flory, Middle row, from left: Amie Rose. Sarah Jay: ‘Our snowman friend’, Laura Bond: ‘Visiting the snowy horses on Friday Street’, Bottom row from left: Leanne Dodwell. Louisa Hudson: ‘Harry and Hollie enjoying a walk around Rendlesham’, Bottom row, from left: Emma Brightey: ‘Who doesn’t love Steph Bennett, Olaf?’ Lynn and Bob Ellerby, ‘We’ve enjoyed the snow’ Steph Bennett

20 21 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 MARCH 2021 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE 1st Rendlesham Scout Group

Swarm Explorers To keep things interesting they Back in 2019 UK Chief Scout, Bear Grylls was interviewed on Radio 2. He included some challenges to Despite being unable to have take on along the way - to hike was asked what he’d take on an expedition and his answer, I thought, was Scouting meetings with their in fancy dress, to complete the friends other than online due to greatest total miles, to use their quite brilliant: ‘That never-give-up spirit.’ lockdown, two of our Explorers route to draw a picture on their Nell & Will Anders have been activity tracker, to visit the most To me, that sums up everything and videos of their adventures, for donations of prizes (big or making use of their Scouting churches and in recognition of Scout Leaders do as volunteers, hiked, cycled, cooked, camped, small) to help raise funds for the skills to fundraise for the Brain Rob’s career as a Captain in the giving young people the played games, taken part in group. If you would like to offer Tumour Charity in memory of Royal Fleet Auxiliary to find as courage, positivity and resilience online drumming, yoga, escape a prize please email: their father Rob Anders OBE many things related to sailors or to keep going, even in the rooms and much, much more [email protected] who tragically died a few days toughest times which in the last but still had fun, enjoyed sailing as possible. Due to circumstances we have before Christmas aged just 49. year has seemed particularly meeting up and continued At the time of writing those two fundraising pages they have also lost our equipment storage Nell, Will & their fellow relevant. learning skills for life. taking part have walked over raised over £9000, if you would Our leaders & space where we keep the group Explorers decided to challenge 400 miles in total, battled snow, like to make a donation please Since March 2020 all of our Fundraising & Help trailer and all of our camping themselves to hike a marathon, young people ice, mud and floods, visited visit: sections, Beavers, Cubs, Scouts Unfortunately due to and fundraising equipment. 26.2 miles or more over the over 60 churches, found over https://gofund.me/9ebf1bc1 have zoomed & Explorers have changed COVID-19 our usual If anyone is able to offer us course of a week and ask people 150 sailing items and had at or go to www.justgiving.com the ways in which we meet, fundraising events have not a suitable storage space or to sponsor them to complete least 6 very well exercised and search for andersfamily. endlessly and weekly meetings have moved been able to to go ahead in the alternatively some land where the distance. family pets come along for the online, camps at campsites have last 12 months so to help boost we could site some sort of Russell McKee taken photos & journey. So far between their become camps at home, our group funds we are planning a container, shed or similar please videos of their leaders and young people have Easter Raffle and are looking also get on touch. zoomed endlessly, taken photos adventures

22 23 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 MARCH 2021 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE Did you know?

Recycling in 2021 Burglars will look for… If you need to throw away used 1. The overgrown vegetation face coverings or PPE (such as that helps shield the front gloves), dispose of them in your from the roadside, thereby ‘black bag’ waste bin at home or providing useful cover for at work – or a litter bin if you them. are outside. 2. Old and insecure doors and Do not put them in a recycling windows. bin as they cannot be recycled 3. Door and windows which are through conventional recycling left open. facilities. Take them home with 4. An unlocked window next you if there is no litter bin – to a flat roof, with a please do not drop them as litter Knit for Charity handy drainpipe that can be Croutons make a Soup more of a Meal (BBC used to climb up onto it. In addition, although tissues are Good Food) Many charities still want you to Online there are many free made of paper, they are made 5. A poor state of repair of a use up any spare wool to knit knitting pattern associations of very short fibres which are fence. Use up that bread! Heat the over to 180ºC (160ºC items for them to keep people with the items that are needed, fan or Gas 4). Trim the crusts not high enough quality to be 6. An open shed with tools A super simple croutons recipe or animals warm or to sell in and you can download the free recycled. off the slices and then cut into their charity shops (when they patterns at: readily accessible for them to (serves 2) use. cubes. Toss the bread in the oil open again) to raise funds for www.eparenting.co.uk Used sheets of kitchen roll • 2 thick slices bread from a and sprinkle with salt, scatter the work they do. should be placed in your 7. Access through an unlocked large loaf the pieces onto an oven tray ‘black bag’ waste bin, but the gate or the holes in a fence. • 2-3 tbsp rapeseed oil and bake for 8-10 mins or until Use up spare wool to knit items to cardboard tube can go in your • Salt flakes the croutons are browned and recycling bin. crunchy. keep people or animals warm Buying your seeds for 2021 This time of year, the seed There are many online shops catalogues come through and businesses that sell seeds, the letter box with varieties the range of varieties is good of vegetable and flower and they are considerably less seeds. Usually with the glossy expensive. Just do an internet brochures, the prices of some search on ‘seeds to purchase of the seeds look expensive. UK’.

If you need to throw away used face coverings or PPE, such as gloves, dispose of them in your ‘black bag’ waste bin or a litter bin.

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24 25 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 MARCH 2021 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE Woodbridge News

Woodbridge Art Club Woodbridge Library For many of us, wild birds bring such joy – and they get a new lease WOODBRIDGE LIBRARY re-opened in February for SELECT & COLLECT and of life as the days get longer, These pictures of birds were entered reservation-collections only. into one of our weekly painting challenges and we hope they will lift your spirits! Initially the opening hours are 10-4pm Tuesday - Saturday and the team will operate the service from the entrance – with no access into the library. Use the Phone a Friend Service We have started running club sessions for Members on Zoom. Our link below to order books chosen by the team based on the preferences you first Zoom session this year was a demonstration by professional give them (or you may order for yourself via the library’s online catalogue). Artist Christine Lester. You can see some of Christine’s pictures and Arrange a friendly and informal phone call for Any reservations ordered before the Library closed should still be active – and on the Members’ gallery on our website: anyone feeling isolated or struggling during any that are currently showing as available should still be there for you. www.woodbridgeartclub.org.uk. On this occasion Christine gave us lockdown. lots of ideas for getting back into painting after a break – some of us If in doubt give Woodbridge Library a ring on 01394 330855. While they are need a bit of encouragement to pick up our paintbrushes and enjoy not there over the weekend, you can leave a message and they will get back to Our Phone a Friend service offers regular phone calls to anyone who is: you on Monday (where possible). • An older person being creative again, and Christine certainly inspired us to do that! • Isolated www.suffolklibraries.co.uk/coronavirus Further Zoom sessions are planned for the near future and we find • Struggling during lockdown T: 01394 330855 E: [email protected] • Or anyone else who would benefit from a friendly chat and these virtual meetings are great for socialising as well as learning someone to talk to. new things. Facebook: @woodbridgelibrarysuffolk Calls are made by library volunteers and are all DBS and reference Twitter: @woodbridgelib Instagram: woodbridgelibsuff checked. If you are into (or interested in getting into) painting and drawing, You can still download and stream free eBooks, eAudio, magazines, If you or someone you know would like a call, please contact pottery or photography, our website will tell you more about the newspapers, films, documentaries and music. Suffolk Libraries are also running [email protected]. If you are setting this up on behalf Club and how you can join us. events online to enjoy from home at: of someone else, do acquire the person’s permission for us to call. Rosie Evans www.suffolklibraries.co.uk/whats-on and via Suffolk Libraries YouTube channel. The service is based on the Lifeline service which involved library staff making calls to customers during the first lockdown.

Left: Kingfisher by Jean Maxwell Far left: By Judy Mattin

Above: Arboreal Delight by Jane Cochrane Clockwise from top, left: by Jenny Taylor, Gold Finch and Coal Tit by Cathy Taylor and Robin by Jean Taylor www.woodbridgeartclub.org.uk 26 27 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 MARCH 2021 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE Other news

Book lending to library direct for more details. Census 21 is here and help is nearby… at the resume at Suffolk Suffolk Libraries is reassuring Station House at Libraries customers all new library loans 21st March is official census day but we have 9 weeks from applies, there are also additional The survey will be live until have been given an extended measures that can be taken Sunday 7th March. With infections rates now much 1st March to complete and submit the questionnaire based on six-week return date. to enhance the security of an lower in the county, Suffolk information that is true and correct on 21st March. You’ve probably seen how empty property: Libraries reintroduced services COVID-19 safety procedures ANPR works from TV The Office for National Statistics wants as many as possible to fill • all doors, windows, gates etc at library buildings last month. are in place in all libraries. in the census questionnaire online and the Station House has a team programmes or you may even Browsing inside libraries and are locked (not just assumed use a petrol station or car These services are initially of trained Census Support Advisers ready to assist if required. the use of computers remains to be secure) and keys removed park which uses the system to limited to the Select and Collect unavailable for the time being. Every household is receiving a pack from the ONS with a unique • all sheds and outbuildings are keep you safe. Just in case you service and reservations so that The mobile library services household access code to enter on website www.census.gov.uk. secure haven’t, we’ve made a short film people can request and pick up and home library service also Depending on the level of help you might need, there is: to show how ANPR is used. books and other items from • any tools or other items that remains suspended for now. • A help section on the ONS website The video shows the use of their library. These services could be used to force entry ANPR by West Midlands Police returned to most Suffolk As always these plans are • A dedicated ONS contact centre are removed to locate a missing person. To Libraries, however, Newmarket, dependent on any changes in • Guidance in a range of different languages and accessible formats. • any repairs are carried out to watch it, visit: Elmswell and Lakenheath infection rates or government ensure the house is secure • On-the-spot assistance from advisers at the Station House to www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_ libraries will remain closed for guidance. Help us keep our communities safe. guide you through the process. • all valuables are removed YsJMFjiOw&feature=youtu.be the time being due to ongoing If you’re not confident online or do not have a computer, • lights and a radio are left on building/repair work at these learning and tutorials, self ANPR is a vital tool to help smartphone or tablet; or English is not your first language; or you Are you Special? timers, where appropriate libraries. study and attendance at Police policing stay one step ahead just need access to better quality broadband, book a time-slot at the Special Constables are volunteer • if fitted, that the alarm is set of criminals and better protect Customers are advised to check Headquarters. Station House at Campsea Ashe, between 1st March and 2nd May, Police Officers. They have the and neighbours asked to people. 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Evening tutorials will we can’t guarantee availability. • post is cancelled or redirected Chiefs’ Council will only take balancing their busy personal be on either a Wednesday or On your appointment day, remember to have your household a few minutes of your time to lives, family, day jobs and other Thursday evening between 7pm • neighbours, family or friends access code to hand, which is on the letter you receive, and your complete. commitments around police and 9pm. are asked to park on the drive, own laptop, smartphone or tablet if you want to use it instead of duties. They do not get paid but if appropriate Visit: westmidlandspolicepnn. the Station House computers. 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There will be access to WCs and of automatic number plate life from new perspectives and volunteering opportunity, www.suffolk.police.uk/contact- our usual refreshments at the Station House! recognition (ANPR) in Suffolk. upholds the law. A Special is there is an online recruitment us/existing-report-update If you need help with transport, please consider CATS (Coastal someone who is proud to serve event on Monday 1st March ANPR technology is used by Via Crimestoppers: Accessible Transport Services) that runs Connecting Communities their county. at 6pm – to book your place police forces across the UK to Contact the independent sponsored by Suffolk County Council. It is a door-to-door service visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ help detect, deter and disrupt The Special Constabulary charity Crimestoppers 100% running Mon-Sat 7am-7pm, bookable in advance by ringing 01728 suffolk-special-constabulary- criminality, including organised ‘Foundation’ Learning and anonymously on 0800 555 111, 635938 (Mon-Fri 8.30am-4pm). Fares are in line with bus services information-event-tickets crime groups and terrorists. Development Programme has or via their online form: www. and vehicles are wheelchair friendly. You can also book online at The registration plate cameras been created to provide an up Securing empty crimestoppers-uk.org www.suffolkonboard.com/cc. are governed by strict codes to date training delivery for properties Via a Phonecall: If Covid-19 restrictions have not lifted in time, the Station House of practice. They are most individuals who successfully pass In the event of an emergency will be available to provide the same support by telephone in lieu of Houses that seem unoccupied commonly used to alert officers the Suffolk Special Constabulary ALWAYS call 999, or if an physical appointments, until such time as our doors are open again. can draw unwanted attention. to stolen vehicles, vehicles recruitment process. immediate police response is Thank you. COVID has meant that homes involved in crime or to help The training course is held may be empty whilst the locate missing people. The data required. Rosamund Webb, Station House, 07856 810828 over a 14-week period, using occupants are in hospital. Whilst they collect can also be used in But for non-urgent matters, [email protected] a combination of online normal home security advice investigations. try calling 101 instead. 28 29 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 MARCH 2021 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE Bin sense - follow the guidelines Fed-up with the same old walks?

East Suffolk Council is • Don’t force too much waste To help reduce the number of With hundreds of walks to Walking in Suffolk www.walkinginengland.co.uk/suffolk asking households to into a bin as it can stick spoiled bins, the Suffolk Waste download and print, free, it also ensure they’re following the inside, meaning it won’t come Partnership has produced a has books of walks, contact is the website for you! Council’s bin guidelines to out when emptied. new recycling leaflet which is details for all the walking groups help refuse teams provide an • Ensure bins do not contain currently being distributed to in the county and much more. essential service efficiently. any incorrect items, as they all households in East Suffolk. Whether you want to walk on Download the new recycling your own or with a group all the Cllr James Mallinder, cabinet may not be emptied. leaflet at www.eastsuffolk.gov. information is there in one place. member for the Environment, • Ensure the lids on bins are uk/recycling said: ‘With more people closed for collections, John said: ‘Walking in Suffolk spending time at home due otherwise ES Norse won’t be To ensure that household waste (part of a suite of websites at to national restrictions, we’re able to empty it. and recycling collections are www.walkinginengland.co.uk seeing more household waste • Take your bins in as soon prioritised during the current with one site for each county than ever before, putting added as possible after collection as restrictions, ESC and ES Norse in England) has brought all pressure on our refuse teams. they can cause a serious have temporarily suspended the the information together in Unfortunately, we’re also seeing obstruction and block access, bulky waste collection service one place. So, whether you are an increase in bad bin etiquette, particularly when left on – the collection and disposal walking from home, or away on which can not only prevent the public pavements and access of larger items such as fridges, holiday, you will be able to find refuse team from collecting waste ways. washing machines and sofas – a walk suitable for you’. People are but be a nuisance to neighbours until further notice. As part its commitment to With walks from half a mile to and obstruct footpaths. spending the environment, East Suffolk Cllr Mallinder said: ‘We twelve miles plus long, and a more time at ‘Our refuse teams are working Council is also urging people to appreciate suspending this note of suitability for pushchairs extremely hard under very recycle right and waste less. service may cause some and wheelchairs, everyone can With walks from half a mile to twelve miles plus long, difficult circumstances, so it is inconvenience, however it is find a walk to enjoy. home during Cllr Mallinder said: ‘The very important that we all do something we must do to ensure and a note of suitability for pushchairs and wheelchairs, majority of households in East So home or away, check out the these national our bit to help them provide we can continue to deliver our Suffolk are good at recycling, websites and get walking! everyone can find a walk to enjoy. this essential service that we’re essential refuse and recycling restrictions, but as we continue to deal with John Harris all relying on more than ever collections. Suffolk’s Recycling the challenges of climate change www.walkinginengland.co.uk which means and there are some very simple Centres remain open at this time there is still a lot more we need email: john@walkinginengland. guidelines we can all follow to and anyone wishing to dispose to do to ensure we’re recycling co.uk more household do so.’ of unwanted household items the right items. Confusion can can book a slot at their nearest waste is being To help ensure an efficient cause spoiled bins, so we are centre. Alternatively, we would refuse service: determined to help households ask residents to store any large created. • Put bins out by 6am latest on reduce the amount of wrong unwanted items until the bulky collection day. items they put in their recycling waste service resumes.’ • Recycle where possible bins by making sure they through the blue bin. know what can and cannot Is your private waste be recycled. This is important • Present your bin at the removal company a because there is a threshold boundary of your property licensed waste carrier? of how much spoiled waste a Stay connected! where your access meets the truck load can have before it is ‘We would also remind residents public highway or other www.rendleshamcommunityradio.co.uk rejected, so we need to make to be cautious if choosing to agreed collection point. sure we are recycling right. use a private waste removal company and to always check ‘East Suffolk Council declared they are a licensed waste carrier. a climate emergency last year It is important to keep a record and we all have a role to play in of the company or person’s making better decisions for the name taking waste away on sake of our environment. By your behalf. Unfortunately, thinking about how we dispose there are unscrupulous people of our waste and making the who charge for removing right decisions, we all contribute household waste and then fly-tip to a solution. These small it; householders have a ‘duty changes in our behaviour will of care’ to do all they can to make a big difference over time.’ ensure their waste is disposed Visit the Council’s website for of properly.’ more information on what items go into which bin. 30 31 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 MARCH 2021 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE Deben Community Farm

Staying healthy New Arrivals! We had a positive 6 monthly Say hello to Prince (18 months) vet visit from the Ryder and Rollo (6 months), our new Davis practice in January. She additions to the farm. They explained the importance of arrived at the farm just before

Photography by Heather Heelis Photography by not letting any of the animals the snow arrived and are settling become overweight at this in well. time of the year as the spring We’re learning to walk with their grass starts to grow. It’s such a halters going to the paddock in juggling act to keep the animals the mornings with their buckets interested in low calorie foods of breakfast feed, and then so they don’t get bored, without back into their pens in the barn them getting too fat! A bit like overnight. Rollo is still wearing us humans! his rug as he is still tiny, Prince The Christmas trees have and on the other hand has built continue to be a great success as up a good covering of wool they not only keep the animals which keeps him dry and warm. entertained but they are also a We hope to shear them in late natural wormer. The animals spring to prevent overheating had their wormers and annual and flystrike, and we have plans injections on 1 January but it’s to spin the wool. great to use natural products such as the Christmas trees to already ahead of the game. compliment the medication Volunteers needed! routine. If there is anyone out there Undercover hens… The farrier visited the farm on who would like to volunteer The hens are enjoying being 12 January to give the ponies for some ragwort pulling in our undercover in polytunnel and donkeys’ feet a trim, we’re new paddock over the next few #2. We had planned for pleased to say that they are please do get in touch. them to over winter in the all doing fine thanks to daily We welcome regular volunteers polytunnel this year so when the feet picking out and a good to the farm and currently have government ordered all poultry powdering of talc to help keep space for more on the early to be under cover due to the them dry. Any donations of talc morning shifts if anyone is an risk of avian influenza we were would be gratefully received! early riser… 6am-7am weekdays and 7am-8am weekends. Other news The Christmas trees have and We hope to welcome some late spring piglets and lambs… continue to be a great success as they watch this space. not only keep the animals entertained Hopefully the government will relax the restrictions on visiting but they are also a natural wormer the farm on 22 February, until then we are closed to the public but hope to welcome you all back soon! Deben Community Farm E: debencommunityfarm@ gmail.com T: 07732 681125 DID YOU KNOW...... Above, right: Prince and Rollo, the It’s FREE to advertise your job vacancies Alpacas in the Parish Magazine Right: Christmas trees keep the Contact: [email protected] animals entertained and are also a natural wormer. 32 33 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 MARCH 2021 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE Rendlesham Community Radio

New home for Rendlesham Community Radio! RCR goes global! On 1 March the contractors will arrive on site at Jubilee Park to As our listener statistics start work on the foundations for our new home! Meanwhile the continue their upward trend, so studio is being fitted out off-site with heating, air conditioning too is our global reach. and electrics, ready for delivery when the groundworks have been Between Saturday, February 13 completed. and Saturday February 20, we The new studio will feature two fully-equipped presenter’s desks, had in excess of 3500 listeners a separate production desk and a live lounge area to enable us to from the UK, USA, Mexico, Kenya, Austria, Belarus, Ghana, continue to promote local artists and performers. Japan, Sweden, France, Ireland, Serbia, Sudan, Libya, Indonesia, Germany, Canada, Sri Lanka, Macedonia, Costa Rica, Turkey, Brazil, Philippines, Thailand, St Lucia, St Vincent & Italy, Egypt, New Zealand, The Grenadines, Greece, UAE, Bangladesh, Netherlands, and Saudi Arabia. Honduras, Denmark, Portugal, Qatar, Jersey, Spain, Norway, RCR - broadcasting live from Iran, Trinidad & Tobago, Oman, planet Earth!

Tuesday 7 - 9 pm Strange Days with Steve Boyce

34 35 MARCH 2021 RENDLESHAM PARISH MAGAZINE Rendlesham Community Radio

Schedule Monday 9 - 10pm Ambient Music World from Mothership Radio

Tuesday 5 - 6pm Uptown Transmission with Gary James 7 - 9 pm Strange Days with Steve Boyce 9 - 4 am Ambient Music World from Mothership Radio

Wednesday 3 - 4pm Old Friends with Malcolm Clark 5.30 - 8pm Something for the Weekend catch-up Above: Denise Ashcroft-Law, at home in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from where with Leanda Hoyland-Linch she broadcasts her weekly show ‘A Northern Soul’ on Rendlesham Community 8 - 9pm Life of a Pig Skin with Darren cook Radio every Saturday from 6 - 7pm. 9 - 4am Ambient Music World from Mothership Radio Living in a sandpit - RCR’s Saudi connection Thursday ME, Follow a man ….. NEVER unless it means living in a beautiful 7 - 9pm Izaak’s Hours with Izaak de May country; so I did. 9 - 4am Ambient Music World from Mothership Radio Our staff and residents have been vaccinated. Riyadh here I come. Bill came out for a great job opportunity, I Friday came for the opportunity to live abroad ….. a bit further than Spain SafeStay Safely welcoming new care home residents. 5 - 7pm Weekend Starter with Steve Calver and Tom Couchman but a great adventure. 7 - 9pm Dance Sessions with Steve Calver So much has changed in Saudi Arabia in the 18 months since I’ve 9 - 10pm House in Town with Carl Sparrow and Steve Aldous been here. Abaya no need to be worn when out. Women can drive, Come and view our luxury suites 10 - 11pm Tom Couchman DJ Sessions I’ve taken my test so have a licence, but do I really want to? It really 11 - 1am Girl in a Gale with Clarissa Vincent is whacky races out here.

Saturday It gets really cold sometimes, as low as 15deg in the day (I think I need to actually buy a coat or at least a thick jumper). It starts to 8 - 10am Saturday Morning Breakfast with Glenn Knights warm up in March (up into the 30’s) but from June its 40deg + 10-12.30pm Something for the Weekend which is great. Most westerners live on compounds that have lots with Leanda Hoyland-Linch of pools and everywhere is air conditioned, including our houses so 12.30pm Rendlesham Roundup with Heather Heelis it’s not so bad once you get used to it. 3 - 4pm Sporting Matters with Daniel Potter We are so pleased we made the decision to move. Yes, we miss our 4 - 5pm Pop in with Phil Jackson family and friends and miss a bacon butty but we love the way of 5 - 6pm Coming Up Shortley with Victoria Shortley life and hopefully can stay for a few more years. 6 - 7pm A Northern Soul with Denise Ashcroft-Law Denise Ashcroft-Law 7 - 8pm Beauclerk 8 - 9pm House in Town with Carl Sparrow and Steve Aldous Friends and Sponsors Call us to today to find out more and to book a visit 9 - 10pm Uptown Transmission with Gary James In addition to a highly committed team of volunteers, RCR are 10 - 11pm Vintage Club with Julian Marsh proud to be associated with the following organisations who very generously sponsor the project with financial support, equipment, 11 - 4am Girl in a Gale with Clarissa Vincent T: 01728 363 561 W: allonsfieldhouse.care streamed content, technical expertise and their valuable time! Sunday E: [email protected] 10 - 12pm Wayne at the Weekend 12 - 2pm The Sunday Bimble with Peter Osborne and Patrick Lewis Church Farm, Campsea Ashe, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP13 0PX 3 - 4pm Baby Boomers with Malcolm Clark 6 - 8pm Chillout Collection with Tom Couchman Inspected and rated 8 - 4am Ambient Music World from Mothership Radio

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Rendlesham Directory Doctors Surgery 01728 747101

Acer Road Pharmacy 01394 460548 Rendlesham Surgery Post Office, Costcutters 6 Acer Road, IP12 2GA opening hours opening hours District Councillor 01728 746337 Monday 15.30 - 18.30 Monday - Friday 9am - 5.30pm Ray Herring 07885 249218 Tuesday 08.40 - 12.00 Saturday 9am - 12.30pm County Councillor Wednesday 15.30 - 18.30 Sunday Closed Alexander Nicoll 07922 586303 Thursday 08.40 - 12.00 Gas Emergency (0800)111 999 FOXHALL RE-USE SHOP Friday 14.45 - 17.00 Following government lockdown guidelines, the Foxhall re- Woodbridge Safer Neighbourhood Team 01473 613500 use shop will temporarily close until further notice. Acer Road Pharmacy opening hours Foxhall Re-use Shop sells items which have been donated for re- Rendlesham Primary School use across Suffolk’s Recycling Centres. This includes furniture, toys, Tel 01394 460548 Head: Mr Kevin Speirs 01394 462190 bicycles, books, electrical items and more! We check and test all The Roman Catholic items will be in order to re-sell. Monday 08.30 - 13.00 Parish of Woodbridge Eyke CEVC Primary School 14.00 - 18.30 Head: Lucy Fairweather 01394 460328 Why not pop in, and grab yourself a bargain? and Tuesday 08.30 - 13.00 Rendlesham Parish Church The shop is operated by The Benjamin Foundation who work with 14.00 - 17.30 Parish Priest: Revd: Mandy Reynolds 01394 420129 young people, homeless and unemployed across Norfolk and Wednesday 08.30 - 13.00 Fr Edmund Eggleston Suffolk. They work in partnership with Suffolk County Council and 14.00 - 18.30 Farlingaye High School Churches: the FCC Environment to run the shop.www.suffolkrecycling.org.uk/ Thursday 08.30 - 13.00 Head: Dr Sievewright 01394 385720 reduce-your-waste/foxhall-re-use-shop St Thomas of Canterbury, 14.00 - 17.30 Woodbridge Woodbridge Library 01394 446510 Friday: 08.30 - 13.00 St Clare's, Framlingham 14.00 - 17.30 Parish Council Mass times and contact details: Mrs Heelis, Parish Clerk 01394 420207 Wickham Market www.wfrcp.org.uk Police (non-emergency) 101 Medical Centre Faith Baptist Church Tel 01728 747101 Rendlesham Dental Practice 01394 421500 , Woodbridge www.fbcuk.org Rendlesham Day Nursery 01394 420581 Sudoko Challenge Pastor Thompson 07917 854086 answer (01394) 420181 Ryder-Davies & Partners Vets 01394 420964

Post Office (Cost Cutters) 01394 461221

Keep in Touch During the lockdown measures, Rev Mandy Reynolds 01394 420129 & Sudbourne & Tunstall Baptist Church District Citizens Advice Bureau will continue to remain open to Revd Dave Rushbrook 01394 809691 take calls (10 - 2pm Mon, Tues, Rendlesham Children’s Centre Thurs, Fri on 01728 832193) Leader: Carolyn LeMay 01394 462191 and emails on: supervisor@ Rendlesham Community Centre 01394 460005 leistoncab.cabnet.org.uk from Rendlesham Women clients in need. Rendlesham Care Home 01394 461 630 No meetings until Given the winter conditions, further notice we also would like to confirm Maharishi Peace Palace 01394 421136 that we have funds available to

Contact Sue: help families affected by Covid Over 60s Club: 01394 421340 who need support with energy bills or school uniforms for Kay Thomas 01394 460458 Secondary Schools. 38 39 ©All material copyright Rendlesham Parish Council.