TheNo.18 Spring 2012 aven RThe quarterly magazine for the whole of Rainow

G Village News

G Social Events

G Parish Council News

G Clubs & Societies

G School & Church

YOUR VILLAGE NEEDS

CanYOU you Help?

Community Speed Watch Community Pride Competition

Are you concerned about speeding? The Parish Council has applied for the Community Volunteers are needed to help set up a Pride Competition this year (Best Kept Village). Community Speed Watch scheme in our area. But we need lots of HELP! With preliminary judging taking place from Mid-April, volunteers are urgently needed. Can you HELP with: Co-ordinating, keeping public areas tidy, weeding, planting and litter picking etc? TIME Limited? Don’t worry, we will work around whatever you can offer. Please contact the Clerk on Tel: 01625 850532 or email: [email protected]

The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

The Speed Watch initiative involves volunteers giving Have you any ideas for up some of their spare time each week at a time that celebrating the Queen’s is convenient to them. Volunteers, who must be over Diamond Jubilee? 18, are trained to use a speed gun to monitor the Are you already involved speed of traffic. in planning a celebration? Motorists who are driving at an excessive speed are The council has applied sent a warning letter and told that if they are clocked for funding to support speeding again they could be fined £60 and face some community activity. three points on their licence. The SID (Speed This, if granted, will not Indicating Device) has been deployed in several be a large amount but locations along the B5470 recently and feedback from may help. There is a the police shows that many drivers are significantly proposal, (only a proposal exceeding the ACPO limit (35 mph in the 30 mph at this stage) coming from the community, that we zone), we are awaiting the police response to this. have an event on Sunday 3rd June, previous to the If you would like to volunteer for community Speed Tuesday Jubilee Day, at the school. A bring your own Watch please contact the Clerk on 01625 850532 or lunch gathering for the community at the school email [email protected] preceded by a short service at the church.

Parish Map Replacement Treasurer Needed for the Institute

Rainow Parish path maps are still available costing This is an urgent appeal for a Treasurer to join the only £1. They are a great guide to footpaths and other Institute Management Committee. This Committee, public rights of way with six circular walks for you to made up of volunteers from the village, is responsible enjoy. Please contact Cllr. Richard Balment if you for the financing, running and upkeep of the Village would like a copy. Institute which is a vital part of our village. The Institute We have now used up most of the stock of maps and cannot continue to run without an elected Treasurer, in any case they are becoming and this post is now vacant. No accountancy or book- a little out of date; a new version keeping experience is necessary, and the outgoing will not be cheap but we are Treasurer has kept the accounts in excellent order and keen to have a replacement in can help the new person make a smooth and easy time for sale in 2013. We are transition into the role, which normally requires a few trying to find the best way to hours work per month. If you, or a member of your replace the existing map with family are part of one of the village groups that uses something more modern and the Institute please consider volunteering for this role. the Parish Plan Implementation The Committee really does need some help to keep Group has been asked to find arish Council News the Institute running! To find out more, please contact the most practical way of Katherine Beswick, Committee Chairperson on meeting this need. 01625 573809 or [email protected]

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Meet the Councillors Welcome to Name: CAROLE HARVEY Time on Council: First year Born: Prestbury, December 1945 Home: Millers Meadow for 37 years Family: Husband John, The son David, daughter in law Laylah. Grandchildren: Isla aven 5, Otis 3, Jasper 1, living R in Cambridge. Daughter Do you run a business from Rainow? Sarah, who has lived in he Raven has been proud to carry advertisements Dubai for the past 6 years. for many local businesses over the past four years. Occupation: Previously The next issue of the Raven (due out at the end of worked as an Air Hostess, T June) will have a major feature on businesses which then sales representative. Now work from home during have their base in Rainow. If you run anything from the week on my telemarketing business, and at the home or a site here we’d like to hear from you. We want weekend I thoroughly enjoy working at Lakeland in to describe our local enterprises and the people who run Handforth – selling and demonstrating their fantastic them and we aim to spread the word about the services products. Secretary of Rainow PTA for 3 years. or products those enterprises provide. Just speak to any Member of Rainow WI, recently retiring from the committee. of the editors or email us at: [email protected] to let us know what you do. Hobbies and interests: cooking, travelling, gardening, reading, modelling for Rainow NSPCC, and eating out. A Raven Community Walk he Raven has become noted for its rural walks. From the second issue we have featured walks on Your Parish Councillors Tour many local paths and now have a team of enthusiastic walkers to pioneer new routes and ring the changes on old favourites. At the last editorial team Ken Butler (Chairman) 433168 meeting the idea of a Raven Community Walk surfaced. [email protected] What we have in mind is a totally new walk, perhaps on Alan Taylor (Vice Chairman) 575544 land not normally open to the public, which we could [email protected] publicise in the magazine and invite readers to join us on a set date. Richard Balment 573625 [email protected] If you think this is a good idea and have any thoughts on Alan Brett 576108 where, when and how such a walk could be organised [email protected] we’d like to hear from you in person or through our email John Cantrell 422107 - [email protected] [email protected] Editorial Team for this issue: Geoff Cooper 574878 [email protected] Ian Brammer Sheila Brammer Bob Langstaff Louise Leigh Sue Frith 573802 Jane Mellings Raph Murray [email protected] Andrew Renshaw Carole Harvey 573576 Design by Mel Wilcox (01625 576182) [email protected] Vivienne Law 575201 [email protected] Future Meetings and Mary Marsh 573508 Dates for your diary [email protected] 17th April 2012 – Parish Council Meeting 8.00 pm Pat Mellish 574523 [email protected] 15th May 2012 – Annual General Meeting 8.00 pm Andrew Renshaw 574977 19th June 2012 – Parish Council Meeting 8.00 pm [email protected] Civic Service – Sunday 30th September 2012 Clerk: Sarah Giller 850532 [email protected] All members of the public are welcome

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Broadband update – to BT or not BT by Raph Murray for the Rainow Broadband Action Group

ibre optic-based broadband with a possible 40 Mbps download speed is due to be available in the core part of the village by 31st March. As BT’s Baked Fpreviously published dates for availability of fibre optic-based broadband were changed just before the due date it’s not certain whether it will be available on schedule, however they appear to be more confident this time. As other internet service providers such as TalkTalk will also be providing Chicken Breasts fibre optic broadband it will be important to check out which provider will best ecipe of the Month with meet your needs. Unfortunately, it appears that some of the more outlying R Chutney & Mustard parts of the village are not currently scheduled for an upgrade to fibre optic- based broadband, ie it appears that the premises in the postcode Serves 6 areas listed in the following table will continue to be either a ‘not spot’ - an This is one of those extremely easy dishes area where you can't get broadband services (at all, or at a reasonable cost) which taste very good! or a ‘slow spot’- an area where you can only get a broadband service with a Ingredients download speed of less than 2 Mbps. 6 chicken breasts SK11 0AT SK10 5RU SK10 5TY SK10 5UU SK10 5TQ 6 tbsp mango chutney SK10 5BZ SK10 5RR SK11 0AN SK11 0AW SK10 5XL 3 tbsp grainy mustard (Moutarde de SK11 0AP SK11 0AD SK11 0AA SK10 5TE SK10 5TL Meaux) SK10 5DA SK10 5TN SK10 5TF SK10 5TA SK10 5UR SK10 5XP SK10 5AX SK10 5US SK10 5TJ SK10 5TX 6 tbsp olive oil SK10 5TH SK10 5TD

Method You can check whether you can get superfast fibre optic based broadband 1. Mix the chutney, mustard and oil by visiting the following website: www.productsandservices.bt.com/. This website will also enable you to register your interest in receiving together and smear this mixture over the superfast broadband when it becomes available. chicken breasts in an ovenproof dish. In response to the problem of lack of access to Superfast Broadband, East Do this several hours in advance and keep Cheshire Council are working to find out from BT Openreach and other the dish, covered, in the fridge. An hour internet providers why certain parts of the exchange and cabinets do not before cooking, take the dish out of the have fibre optic enabled broadband and to determine what evidence of fridge and leave in room temperature. demand they need from a community to enable them to provide an ‘infill’ upgrade. As it is likely to take several months to get a response from these 2. Bake in a hot oven, 400F/200C/Gas providers it is important for those who are unable to get fibre optic broadband Mark 6, for 25 minutes – stab a chicken to register their interest on the connecting Cheshire website: breast and check that the juices which run www.connectingcheshire.org.uk. This will provide East Cheshire Council from it are clear, to see if it is cooked with evidence of broadband demand hot spots and enable the Council to encourage the internet service providers to provide an infill upgrade. If you through. This cooking time is right for the add your postcode to the form it also helps locate the exact cabinets that average sized chicken breast. If you think need the infill upgrades. the mixture is getting rather too brown for your liking, put a piece of foil over the top. Best served with a green vegetable, such as steamed broccoli or stir-fried cabbage, and Rainow Church Fete 2012 mashed potatoes. Saturday 14th July Scarecrow Fortnight 5 (7th to 22nd July) This year’s theme will be: Lulu’s Luscious “Rainow Olympics” C O N F E C T I O N S Any queries – telephone John Cantrell on 01625 422107 William Warrington on Celebration Cakes & Biscuits for all Occasions 01625 422579 N Pam Armitt on 01625 573433 Weddings Birthdays N Anniversaries Telephone : 01625 572377

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Take a Voyage Readers’ Letters Rainow’s Gardens he last issue of the Raven contained an article on Jenkin round , Chapel in which we invited readers ellto knownput forward local thoughtsscholar nother Garden Safari is planned for 26th May when on how the chapel got its name. W . a variety of local gardens will be open from 12.00 to TJane Laughton came back to us with the definitive answer A5.00 pm for everyone to see. Jane Warren is organising the event again and the proceeds will go to Rainow Church. To Roy Leigh and the editors, Last year’s event attracted visitors from a wide area and In the winter 2011 issue of The Raven you asked Jane is hoping more gardens will be open this year to build for ideas about the name Jenkin Chapel. Hopefully the on the success of the 2011 event. If you are willing to open following notes will be helpful. your garden on this date please contact Jane on 01625 574918 or [email protected] The accepted explanation is that the chapel was named Tea and cakes will be available at several gardens and from Jankynscros, first recorded in an Eyre Roll (court plants will be for sale. Any contributions of plants suitable roll) of the justiciar of Chester in 1364 but in existence for sale will be very welcome. Tickets priced at £2.50 will be long before. The name means ‘Jankin’s, Jenkin’s cross’, available from Jane or at open gardens. A map of the Safari from the Middle English personal name, Jenkin, Janekin, Gardens will be outside Rainow Church. If you are a keen diminutive of John, and cros, late Old English, Middle photographer why not send a photo of the most attractive English, ‘a cross’. garden or garden feature to the Raven? If we get some Jankynscros was probably one of the round-shafted crosses good results we may be able to show the pictures in one of erected in east Cheshire and elsewhere in the Peak from the the next two issues. late ninth century onwards. These crosses were especially numerous in the Macclesfield area and were usually found, not in churchyards as in Derbyshire, but in isolated positions on open moorland. They often occupied prominent locations - beside trackways, at crossroads and at boundaries. Cleulow Cross in Wincle, for example, stood at the head of a valley close to the boundary with Sutton Downes, at the crossing of the Congleton-Buxton and Macclesfield-Wincle roads. Their precise purpose remains unclear but it has been suggested that they may have acted as guides to travellers.

Jenkin Chapel stands at the hub of a ne and trackway twork of lanes s, some of them of very ancient. T Saltersfor he names d, Old Gate (‘old way’) N (suggestive of a Roman r ick and The Street oad) indicate that an im portant trading route had long traverse d the locality, perhaps from the Bronze Age. An im posing stone cros the site of Jenkin Chapel would have been a nos at or near landmark table , much appreciated by early travellers. I probably no t was t until the twelfth or thirteenth centur the cross became known as J y that ankynscros. Jank common name and the identity of the individualyn was thus a immo rtalised will, sadly, alway s remain a mystery. Jankynscr os has disappeared and its fate remains unknown . Possibly it was moved to a new site One of the gardens three cros . Two of the s shafts now standing in Maccles included in last year’s Park, for e field’s West xample, had been used as gatepo Garden Safari Farm in Sutton sts at Ridge ; their original location is unreco Alternatively, it may have been destr rded. crosses were f oyed. Parts of two ound amongst rubble in a field near The Monyash in Derbyshire in 1 983. Jankynscros may also Ꮳ Robin Hood await discovery. Walkers, please keep your eyes o Food Served: pen! Mon - Sat 12 - 2.30pm and 5.30 - 8.30pm Jane Laughton Sun - 12 - 4pm Ꮳ Tues Night - Pie & a Pint £8.50 Ꮳ Thurs Night - Curry & Drink £7.50 Ꮳ Real Cask Ales Ꮳ 4 En Suite B&B Rooms Ꮳ A Warm Welcome We are always pleased to hear from our readers with any views or comments about the magazine T e l : 01625 574060 www.robinhoodrainow.co.uk or events in the village. Email: [email protected]

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Keeping an eye on Rainow! by Ian Brammer

n Rainow we like to think we are I realised very quickly pretty law-abiding and that our how much time is needed Icommunity is peaceful and far just to keep up-to-date away from the riots and arson of and how laws and the big cities. Unfortunately, we can policing methods are be the target of the criminally constantly changing. minded few to be found anywhere in the land. So we do need Typically he has to police help from time to time and most of us like the security spend at least one full of knowing that someone not far away can be contacted for day every five weeks on help. Rainow is lucky in having someone who is trained and training to update his experienced in dealing with threats to our community; that knowledge and skills. someone is Dave Jackson who has the responsibility of Like his colleagues, he looking after us. Dave has had fifteen years in the police force now has access to and has worked in Poynton, Wilmslow and Macclesfield so he information wherever is no novice and the experience he has built up is just what is he is and can make needed to be the police presence in our area. He has a big instant checks patch to look after – Disley, Pott Shrigley and Kettleshulme as whenever he has to. Nevertheless, time is the well as Rainow – but his knowledge of the area and of the key resource and clearly in this time of austerity making the people who live in it stand him in good stead when anything best possible use of Dave’s time is paramount. In Cheshire out of the ordinary happens and priorities have to be decided. this has meant the introduction of policies focusing on Quite a lot of Dave’s time is spent picking up intelligence and making sure the level of response to incidents is paying attention to what he calls “under the radar” information proportionate to the need and taking a commonsense – who has been seen in an area, where are vehicles regularly approach. Does a relatively trivial offence really need to go parked, who has heard something out of the ordinary and before the court? What does the victim of an offence really where. The key is observing patterns in events and actions want – recompense for damage, an apology? Is it better to and drawing the correct conclusions from them - the sort of persuade an elderly driver who has become a danger to knowledge that the “local Bobby” needs. himself and others to give up his licence or just fine him for a Most of us probably have a belief that effective local policing minor offence? The approach is designed to be less means having someone in uniform walking round the village bureaucratic and less rule-bound than in the past – and more and being seen every day. That might have been the way to directly related to what we want our police to do. do things effectively fifty years ago but life today is very Dave’s message to us in Rainow is straightforward. Don’t different. Not only have costs risen dramatically but criminals make life easy for criminals by leaving your property or car are better equipped with vehicles and sophisticated unlocked. Currently, organised thieves are after Land Rovers communications equipment and the range of criminal so these need special security; any valuable scrap metal is offences extends well beyond what can be seen on the street also a current target for opportunist thieves. If you see some- corner. Our lives are more complicated and the laws of the thing which raises your suspicions because it is outside the country have grown in number and complexity, too. There are usual pattern of events – tell the police about it. Dave isn’t on more organisations which have direct calls on police time – duty 24 hours a day but there is always someone to respond NHS and Social Services, for example. Efficient communica- and you can leave messages for him on his voice mail tions and extensive knowledge are essential. Talking to Dave, (0845 4586371).

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Savio House Developments and Partnership with KRIV volunteers

by Raph Murray

or many people in Rainow, Savio House is the large www.savioinformation.com and include making use of the country house that they can glimpse through the trees extensive grounds and parkland to provide a wider range of when they walk from Oakenbank Lane across the fields outdoor activities for youths such as orienteering, camping and to Ingersley Vale. They may also know that for more a low ropes course. Savio House also aims to refurbish more of F the existing buildings, provide more volunteering opportunities, than 100 years it was home to several generations of the Gaskell family and was known as Ingersley Hall. Over the extend links with the local community, eg St Gregory’s Church, years the Gaskell family extended the house, added a coach and is also intending to host a number of events in the house and stables and several large barns and outhouses. Bollington Festival 2014. However, the development that has During this time, the Gaskells also cultivated a large walled the potential to have the greatest impact on the local garden producing fresh food for the family and staff. The community is the proposed community restoration of the walled house was later sold by the Gaskell family and in the 1950’s garden. This is completely overgrown and largely untouched was taken over by the Salesians of Don Bosco - a Roman since cultivation ceased about 90 years ago. A bid for Catholic Religious Order working for youth in more than 130 development work on this project has been submitted to the countries across the world. Over the years the hall and Heritage Lottery Fund and if successful this will enable adjoining buildings have been converted to provide residential preparation of plans for the restoration and conversion of the accommodation and conference facilities enabling its use as garden buildings as a garden and countryside education and a Retreat, Conference and Activities Centre, mainly for youth training centre. The actual building of this ‘Ingersley Centre’ groups from around the country. Today it is known as Savio would be dependent on a second bid to the Heritage Lottery House and is a community formed mainly of young adults on Fund and if approved would be leased for community use by a gap year. As well as providing good food, comfortable Bollington Initiative Trust from the Salesians of Don Bosco. The accommodation and a full activities programme, Savio’s core KRIV countryside volunteers are carrying out ground clearance values of respect, understanding, affection and humour and safety work to paths and the new group of KRIV (spelling out ruah – the Arabic and Hebrew word for spirit) community gardeners are digging over the ground ahead of combined with Savio’s vision of being a place for people to initial planting of vegetables and herbs this spring. This work will belong, to learn, to relax and to find meaning in their lives, bring the garden back into use and enable people to enjoy and ensure that visitors’ spiritual needs are also catered for. once again benefit from growing food in this garden. The extent of the landscaping and vegetable growing efforts should be For the past few years it has also provided a base for the KRIV evident this summer and to allow the wider community to see (Kerridge Ridge and Ingersley Vale) volunteers to carry out their the progress being made it is planned to have a Savio Garden countryside conservation and improvement work. More recently, Open Day on Saturday 11th August. As well as fund-raising under the leadership of Fr David O’Malley, the Salesians at from the sale of garden produce, with an opportunity to ‘pick or Savio House have developed further ambitious plans. Details of dig your own’, open day visitors will be able to get involved in these plans are available on the Savio website: an historical and archaeological investigation of the garden.

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Hunt that Easter Bunny! by Michelle French

s far as I know Rainow Pre- There will be refreshments, a cake stall, School has held an annual BBQ, locally brewed beer on sale and sponsored Bunny Hunt for many many stalls for everyone to enjoy. Ayears but it has only been for the Children will have lots of room to run past five years (I truly cannot about and have fun and they will also believe that this year will be our 6th) have face-painting, a sweet stall and that we have been fortunate enough to the golden carrot lucky dip! This year hold it at the idyllic location of Snipe the event will take place on Easter House Farm, Lamaload Road, Rainow. Sunday 8th April 2-4pm. Tickets cost This event has become our pre-school's £2 per person (every child taking part yearly biggest fundraiser. Over the past will receive a certificate and an Easter six years the event has developed into egg). Tickets must be bought in a wonderful family event, with friends advance from Michelle French: and grandparents happy to share in the [email protected] or fun! The walk is about 1 mile and gives 01625 575958. you some of the best views of the lovely Crowd walking up to the walk starting countryside surrounding our village. point from last year

Rainow models star in stunning show! ainow NSPCC’s Fashion Show at the Hunting Lodge, Adlington Hall on 14th RMarch was once again a great success, with fashions from Arabella and support from Clarins. Organised by Sue Frith, the event raised over £1500 for the NSPCC. Future events include an Open Wardrobe Day on April 17th at Cesterbridge House and a Strawberry Sparkle Lunch on 4th July at 24 Manchester Road, Tytherington.

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Out School of HarropRainow Fold Farm Mark Bertinshaw, Headteacher by Tel: 01625 560085

ere at Rainow School, we are continuing to develop a strong Somewhere very special... school to school link with Mutiume A Quintessentially English Experience, HPrimary School in Kenya. Delightful Award Winning Mr Norris, our school deputy 5 Star Guest Farmhouse and headteacher and I were able to visit Self-catering Cottage Accommodation Mutiume recently, largely through set in 20 acres with breathtaking funding from the British Council. We were delighted to see the sign views over the Cheshire Plain. opposite on the outside of the school We offer ’Cupcakes Galore’ - grounds. That Rainow raven certainly hands on cookery courses as well as a covers some miles! As part of the link ‘Cornucopia of Canapés’ - we have initiated a special weekly award hands on Canapé courses along with which will be presented to a pupil who has shown exceptional friendship and Cookery Demonstrations with Lunch or kindness to others. The Rainow-Mutiume Dinner using the finest local ingredients award is given out at both schools every led by our own Cordon Bleu trained Chef. Monday. Day & Residential Art Courses Mr Norris and I were able to take lots with our Resident Professional Artist. of work and questions from our children Gift Vouchers available and Corporate and to share with the Mutiume pupils and we are greatly looking forward to a Group Bookings welcome. return visit in June from Moses and www.harropfoldfarm.co.uk Regina, two Kenyan teachers from Mutiume, to further develop the www.michaelmooreart.co.uk partnership. www.leahspantry.co.uk We celebrated World Book Day recently. This is always a special day in schools where we put aside the usual curriculum. The children and staff came to school dressed as characters from their favourite books. They ranged from characters in traditional fairy stories, through into modern fiction and finally into real people from various autobiographies. An excellent day was enjoyed by all and I know that some staff members were very pleased that their car did not break down on the way to work on that particular day! The pupils in class one and two greatly enjoyed a recent trip to Beeston Castle to support their topic work. They were able to climb the ramparts, take part in a knight treasure hunt and finally design and make their own shield. This is part of our programme of educational visits to enrich the children’s curriculum and YOUR LOCAL SERVICE we are also looking forward to residential trips to York and London for the junior pupils.

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More News from the Lamp and Candle Hello again. couldn’t they’d get lost in the lanes and fields and we’d be sued and we’d have to have lights outside the pub and build I must say I am not best a Ladies toilet and couldn’t we at least play our home games pleased with the rather cack- at the Institute? But she was not for hearing any of this and handed attempt by the ladies I had to shut up as she was holding the poker at the time. of the village to have a poke around the “Lamp & Candle”. I am now able to reassure the anonymous writer and her The whole episode has had a twelve sisters that we have kept a note of all the plans we bad effect on my missus. All made to welcome them into our little hostelry and they may that talk about ‘private dining wish to ask us again, say in twenty years’ time. At least the rooms” and “fig and rocket letter from a “ladies-only” group proves my contention that salad” has given her ideas far anti-male attitudes are endemic in the village. I rest my case. above her appointed place as the landlady of the last bastion The idea of what to do next came to me a few days later. of proper male companionship in the county. After closing on the Friday night I informed the missus that Ever since we received the letter from the so-called ‘ladies of I would bow to her wishes and agree to open up the “Lamp the village’ my other half keeps on at me about bringing the & Candle” to the outside world and that I had telephoned “Lamp” into the twentieth century and doing more for what Cheshire Life to ask them if they were interested in doing an she now likes to call ‘our clientele’ instead of the regulars. The article on a pub that had been lost for a hundred years and women of the Rainow WI have clearly turned her head and more. I didn’t say how the person on the other end of the line have a lot to answer for! had almost choked on his fancy coffee when I told him this, nor did I mention the money he offered. I just said that I had Anyway, the upshot of much bickering was her suggestion agreed to ring them on the following day with details of how that we have a ‘serious talk’, which is to say I got a serious the reporter and the photographer could find us. My little talking to. “Things have to change” she said, “there’s only so stratagem worked, as this news quite unnerved the missus much satisfaction a woman can get from polishing brass, who went very quiet for a while before asking me, in a very laying fresh sawdust and teeming twelve kinds of beer from a quiet voice, not to make the call. Some time later I asked her barrel to a jug – I want something different.” I could see she why she had changed her mind and she confessed that she was getting upset so I tried to calm her down by reminding had acted in haste but offered no further advice. For my her that it would soon be our wedding anniversary and she part, I think she probably didn’t like the idea of some ‘lady’ could look forward to our annual visit to the Shrove Tuesday from Rainow or Prestbury, dripping with jewellery and with picnic at Greenbooth, but she was not for being consoled and her nails painted at forty quid a time usurping her role as started calling me a cheapskate and an old skinflint. I Ladies’ Champion at the Michaelmas bottle-kicking protested of course, but to no avail. “I want to go somewhere championships. expensive!” she demanded. So I took her to the garage. And that’s when the trouble started. She didn’t speak to me for Not to be outdone, though, she insisted on a Quiz Night, three weeks and when it clicked that I wasn’t really suffering though just with the regulars. We managed to scrape two from that, she took to throwing things at me which made me teams together and give them fancy names like they do in the think that something was wrong. Eventually I relented and Macclesfield League (“The Candle Snuffers” and “The Lamp asked her what she would like to do for her ‘clientele’. “Well”, Blighters”). A trusted regular from Round Meadow agreed to she said, replacing the fire tongs, “for a start, the Robin find and ask the questions, and Mrs Kenyon put on a supper Hood has started a Quiz Team, and they’re doing very well. of rabbit pie and creamed nettles. We made the best of it, Why can’t we try that?” So I made some discreet enquiries but when our star player, Jasper from the Snug, answered his in the village and what I heard made my old hair stand on first question and said that a Royal Enfield was where the end! The Macclesfield Quiz League is based on pub teams Queen kept her chickens I knew we were in for a long night. visiting each other and having a quiz and a bit of a supper So the Lamp and Candle remains alone and unsung in its afterwards. The thought of twenty seven pub teams and all quiet corner for a while yet, though it will take some time for their retinue crawling over the Lamp & Candle was all this business to blow over. Nor is all fair in the shippon appalling, no matter what it did for the sales of Kerridge between me and the missus. Things have improved a bit, but End Pale. I still keep out of her way a lot. I swear that if I bought her a I related all this to the missus, telling her that all the teams Praying Mantis it would be the wrong denomination. would want to come in cars and when they found they Anyway, have a pleasant Easter. The Landlord.

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A Christmas Present from Adolf! by John Cantrell

V1 Heinkel 111

Photo © Roby 30 août 2004 Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-343-0694-21 / Schödl (e) / CC-BY-SA

The depression in the foreground shows where the V1 fell – still visible nearly seventy years later.

he date was 24th December 1944 and my late grand- The answer to this mystery came by chance in 2005. One parents, John and Harriet Cantrell had just finished morning a chap called Pat Cunningham came to see me after Teating breakfast at Clough House Farm. Suddenly hearing of a crash site at Crooked Yard Farm/Clough House they heard a strange noise and looking through the Farm. After I told him of the events of 1944 we walked up to the window east over Macclesfield Forest they saw what they bomb crater that still remains in the field by the stream today. later described as an aircraft on fire coming towards them He left promising to find out more. Weeks went by and then one but the next moment it crashed. The house was hit by a evening at about 9 pm, Pat was back with a story to tell. shock wave and everything went very quiet. As it was only Pat’s story begins in the winter of 1944. The Germans were beginning to come light my grandfather waited until about losing the war; British and American bombers were destroying 7.30 am before going to see what had happened. Walking German cities but because of British Spitfires few German up the lane to his neighbours, the Barnes Family at bombers dared fly to Britain. The German response was to build Crooked Yard Farm, he saw for the first time the damage a pilotless aircraft called the V1 flying bomb. The V1s were not that had been done to the farm house. Luckily no one had ready to be launched until June 1944, about the same time as D been hurt and in the field on the other side of the stream a Day, the invasion of France by the Allies. As the Allies advanced, large crater had appeared. Police Officers and an Army the Germans lost great areas of the French coast where the V1 Unit arrived from Macclesfield and told everyone to move launch sites were, so the V1 could not be launched. As the war away from the area as there could be an unexploded continued these weapons could no longer be used against the bomb! In the days and weeks that followed there was British mainland because of their limited range. much talk about flying bombs (Doodlebugs) but because of war time censorship people were asked not to talk of During the autumn of 1944 the Germans began planning one what had happened and the crash site was forgotten. last big offensive; it was later called the Battle of the Bulge. Part of the plan was to attack the northern cities of England and to do As a boy, as I was growing up I would read war time stories and this the Germans formed an elite squadron of Heinkel 111 saw pictures of V1 Flying Bombs and read accounts of the V1s bombers (within Kampfgeschwader 53 – the famous Condor which had been launched from France and landed in London, Legion) modified to carry and launch V1 flying bombs. On the a distance of no more than 150 miles; after reading other books morning of 24th December 1944, forty-five Heinkel bombers I found this was about the maximum range. These weapons crossed the Dutch coast and forty miles off the east coast, were very simple as the Germans calculated the distance to between Skegness and Mablethorpe, they launched the V1’s. target and put the amount of fuel to reach the target. When the Half fell within twenty miles of Manchester, the furthest reaching fuel was used up then the weapon fell from the sky and Didsbury; others fell at Buxton, Macclesfied and Henbury. It was exploded. So how could our V1 be so far north hundreds of one of these which made it as far as Crooked Yard Farm. miles from France? So the mystery was solved at last!

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PhenologicalWhat Asynchrony can mean for you! here is something fundamentally fascinating about the incredible transformation undertaken by the natural world in spring. Trees come into leaf, insects emerge, birds Tseek out mates and nest sites and our native mammals prepare to nurture this year’s offspring.

Spring means different things to different people but one thing is climate change and how to adapt becoming certain – the very nature of spring is changing. We know our conservation practices to reflect this. this thanks to the fascinating science of phenology, the study of the Your own records can contribute to a snapshot of phenological timing of regularly occurring natural phenomena. In the UK we are change that will help researchers glean valuable information about very fortunate to have a wonderful tradition of amateur naturalists changes to our wildlife habitats. Join nearly 50,000 other people keeping detailed records of natural history and meterological across the country and enter your own springtime observations on observations which means we have a depth of valuable historical the Woodland Trust’s Nature’s Calendar website, part of the UK information with which to compare our contemporary data. Phenology Network: www.naturescalendar.org.uk/register. In 2000 the Woodland Trust and the Centre for Ecology & Some signs of Spring to watch out for: Hydrology joined forces to promote phenology to a far wider and - Hawthorn buds: some of the earliest leaves to burst larger audience. Members of the public were asked to record the - Spring flowers: primroses, cowslips, wood anemone, daffodils earliest dates they observed a selection of common species like - Pussy willow and catkins the 7-spot ladybird. Some fascinating and unexpected early - Ponds massed with frogspawn records were noted across the country. Over the last 10 years a - Bumble bees emerging from hibernation detailed picture has been built up of phenological recordings (in all - Overwintered butterflies, ladybirds and lacewings taking flight seasons) in the UK and how this could relate to climate change - - Nesting birds. Feathered opportunists like mallard may take a fantastic example of how citizen science can make an important advantage of mild conditions as early as January. contribution to the wider field of scientific research. - Returning migrants like swallows, house martins, pied flycatchers In recent years additional scientific investigations have revealed and redstarts. some worrying trends. Some species are able to adjust to changes Whether you are recording your observations or not, the longer, in conditions much more quickly and efficiently than others. In lighter, warmer days of spring are a great excuse to get outside in response to patterns of milder spring weather many insects are the midst of these amazing seasonal changes. It’s a wonderful active and breeding earlier in the season, they are even able to time for children to connect with the natural world and help them speed up the timing of their life cycles to exploit favourable to make sense of their own place in nature. conditions. Creatures like birds are unable to adapt so swiftly. No matter how the timing of our seasonal events alter, let’s hope Caterpillars that feed on tree leaves are emerging several weeks spring will always awaken our senses with fresh floral scents, a earlier, before the woodland birds that rely on them hatch their host of vibrant colours and a cacophony of birdsong. young. In upland areas birds like the Golden Plover are now unable to nest soon enough to exploit the new earlier timing of the For lots of seasonal activities for children and families in this area emergence of leatherjackets (crane fly larvae) that their young check out the local RSPB Wildlife Explorer website: depend on. One thing is obvious, the clearer the picture of trends www.macclesfieldrspb.org.uk. like this, the better we will understand how our wildlife responds to by Tina Hanak (Gr oup Leader, Macclesfield RSPB Wildlife Explorers)

Nature Notes February and the first week in March although in 2010, after the Seasonal extremely cold winter, none were seen until 14th March. The earliest appearance occurred in 1998 on St Valentine’s Day, the day when it is traditionally believed birds begin their yearly courtship rituals. About three weeks after the first frogs arrive, frogspawn appears, then, during the last week of March the adult frogs abruptly leave the ponds and ditches and disappear into the undergrowth. Insects like the White Bottomed Bumble Bee and the Peacock Butterfly are sometimes also seen in early March if the temperatures are mild. Deciduous woodland is at its most colourful in April and May as much of the ground flora has adapted to the absence of shade from the trees by growing rapidly by Rachel Hunter and producing flowers and seeds before the tree leaves have expanded. Lesser Celandine, Bluebell, Wood Anemone, Wild pring is usually regarded as starting at the time of the spring Garlic or Ramsons and Pignut often carpet the ground and then equinox on 21st March but plants and animals seem to disappear until the following year while others like Violets, Red have a much more flexible view about the arrival of spring. Campion, Greater Stitchwort, Wood Speedwell and the Yellow SThe appearance of frogs in ponds is my personal indicator Pimpernel and Archangel can be found in smaller numbers but that spring has begun. They usually appear between 28th keep their leaves until winter arrives.

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A Hidden Gem by David Ketley hether you travel by car or follow the walk in this issue of the Raven, there is a treat Win store just beyond Rainow’s boundary. In a beautiful remote valley with the sound of the curlew and the scent of bluebells filling the air is the Dunge Valley Gardens. Started in 1983 by its present owners David and Elizabeth Ketley, it has been expanded every year and now has one of the best collections of Rhododendrons in the North of England. David's Trekking in the Himalayas in the past has given the gardens an informal feel with the planting blending into the surrounding rolling Pennine Hills with not a straight line in sight. Although the gardens are at 1,000 feet we grow a number of plants thought to be tender like the Chilean Fire Tree; Embothrium coccineum with its red orange flowers in the summer. Desfontainia spinosa looking like a holly, this develops exotic orange-yellow tubular flowers, the exquisitely scented Rhododendron 'Loderi King George' with its sugar pink flowers the size of a football and many other shrubs, trees, climbers and perennials blending in to give a feel of a Himalayan Valley. The highlights at the moment are a Dunge Valley special, our double flowering Hellebores with an extensive stock of Rhododendrons, Azaleas, trees, shrubs and perennials. The gardens have now matured so from April onwards until the end of June they offer the visitor a wonderful day out with a kaleidoscope of colour and perfume in a lovely valley setting. No car parking fees, just £4.00 entry fee refunded with £12.00 of plant sales. Unfortunately, the Tea Room is now closed but picnic facilities are available so all are welcome to bring their own refreshments. The gardens are open Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun and Bank Holiday Mondays from 10-30 am until 5-00 pm. The gardens have a special opening for Charity every Wednesday in May from 2.00 pm until dusk. Charities supported are RSPB, Red Cross, RNLI, Air Ambulance and Kinder Mountain Rescue. www.dungevalley.co.uk for more information

pring at last! I’m sure that we have all felt that uplift to our to identify, if only spirits that the first warm days bring, but what else does because of its Spring Sprung spring mean to you? Is it the opportunity to spend more time distinctive “chiff - is in the garden, or to tune into “Springwatch” on TV? For me, chaff-chiff-chiff- by David Catlow S chaff” song. It can it’s the increased activity amongst our local birds and the arrival of the summer migrants that makes me get out and about often be heard whilst walking through any of the local woods and much more: many of the familiar birds from the winter are now can be seen flitting about the trees and bushes looking for insects. nesting and blue tits and great tits, which only a few weeks ago Swallows, house martins and swifts, although superficially similar, were showing their acrobatic skills on feeders in our gardens, can are not difficult to tell apart. House martins are the ones that fly now be seen hurrying to and fro carrying caterpillars in their beaks around our houses and nest under the eaves. They have distinctive for their growing chicks. Other winter birds, such as brambling, white rumps and an overall blue-black and white appearance, and siskin, redwing and fieldfare, have long since migrated back to their have quite short tail streamers. Swallows have very long tail Summer breeding grounds, in Scandinavia or Europe, where streamers and are more birds of open pasture land, where they can conditions are more favourable for them. often be seen flying very low over the grass, chasing insects. Close Migration is one of nature’s least understood and most incredible up, they have dark red chins and foreheads and beautiful dark blue feats, but we are slowly finding out more and more about where backs. Swifts are the last of the migrants to arrive and are mainly birds migrate to and from, using the latest high-tech methods to brown, with very long, thin, curved wings. They are built for pure track their movements. Precisely how they navigate is still a thing of speed and rarely touch ground, as they have extreme difficulty mystery and wonder, though. Humans have a job finding the getting airborne again, spending virtually their whole lives in the air. nearest supermarket, never mind finding the same nesting site On a warm evening in June they can be seen, and heard, flying 5,000 miles away, flying across oceans and deserts to get there! around the church tower, making loud screeching sounds as they The migrants that we see here in Rainow each year come mainly twist and turn at phenomenal speed. They are, sadly, becoming from sub-Saharan Africa: house martins, swallows, swifts and a less common in this country, it is thought because of loss of suitable family of small birds called warblers, many of which can be nesting sites. They need roof spaces that are more open for them extremely difficult to differentiate. The chiff-chaff is to crawl into (they can barely walk), but as we modernise old probably the easiest of buildings, so we close these sites to them. these warblers We are very fortunate, living in Rainow, in that we are surrounded by open countryside, which gives us plenty of opportunity to see a wide variety of birdlife – at least 60 species. A walk alongside local streams will often reveal several water-side birds: herons, dippers, pied and grey wagtails and even the occasional kingfisher have all been seen around there. Buzzards are becoming a common sight, here as across much of the country, and can often be seen soaring high up, scanning the fields for food. They have a distinctive shallow V-shape profile and are much larger than the common crows and rooks. All you need to be able to identify most of these birds is a simple bird book; a pair of binoculars can also be helpful and will often reveal unexpected details of plumage. So why not get those boots out and head off on any of the many paths shown on the Parish Footpath map and see how many birds you can see this spring?

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Raven Book Reviews More choices from some of Rainow’s book club members Clare Allan Poppy Shakespeare

This debut novel by Clare Allan, is essentially a satire on mental health services, depicting the blurred, often invisible, boundary between sanity and madness. With echoes of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and unavoidable parallels to the Care in the Community policies of the late 1990s, we hear through the voice of the narrator, “N”, the daily goings on within the Dorothy Fish – a day hospital for mental health patients. Herself a patient, “N” knows everything about the inner workings of the hospital and nothing about the out- side world, where street maps befuddle her and society frightens her. With an enviable lightness of touch, “N” portrays in her slangy and emotionally thwarted voice, the hopeless and moving predicament of herself and her fellow patients who she calls “dribblers”, whose sole motivation appears to be to remain in the claustrophobic, yet safe, Dorothy Fish. Here the “dribblers” spend their days trading cigarettes for pills at a dribbler-run market, comparing their psychiatric assessments and arguing over the literary roots of a suicide note. Then along comes the eponymous Poppy Shakespeare, an apparently sane single mother, who wants only to win her own release. However, herein lies the dilemma: in order to prove her sanity, she must first enlist the services of a solicitor who will only take on her case if she can gain access to the near Orwellian MAD (Ministry for the Advancement of the Deranged) law purse. To do this, she must first prove her madness. In a line straight from “Catch 22”, her solicitor explains, "You have to declare yourself mentally ill in order to prove you're not mentally ill, but there you are." So begins the alternately farcical and hellish journey of Poppy and “N”, as they seek to effect Poppy’s freedom from the seemingly impenetrable psychiatric system which determines the fate of all “dribblers”. “N” is Poppy’s tutor in proving her madness and as might be expected, does her job a little too well. Whilst evidently a critique on the bureaucracies and failures of a mental health system, “Poppy Shakespeare” is also an irreverent, humorous and moving insight into the lives damaged and shaped by this system and how we are all just a hair’s breadth away from its power and control.

Roddy Doyle A Star Called Henry

Born in the slums, raised on the streets, caught up in the fight for a free Ireland at the age of fourteen, Henry Smart is, indisputably, a survivor. A Star Called Henry describes the first twenty years of Henry's adventure- filled life. Saturated with politics, this novel is an unrelenting tumult of events recounted with tremendous verbal intensity. Born into the tortuous misery of the tuberculosis-ridden Dublin slums in 1902, Henry Smart “glowed guaranteed life”, however beyond this there is little miraculous about his life. The first part of the novel describes his attempts to survive on the streets, accompanied by his beloved younger brother, Victor. Handsome and heedless, Henry is profoundly aware of his power over women from a young age and this forms one of his many survival tactics. Henry is forced to skip childhood; he is on his own almost from the beginning. By the age of 14, he has been swept into the violence of the Irish war for independence. My own knowledge of this period of history was woefully limited, informed by the romanticism of poets like W. B. Yeats. When I asked an Irish friend for a potted history, he responded “blame the British for everything”; however there is a predominant sense of the fragmentation of belief and an absence of any unified cause in Doyle’s narrative. In many respects, "A Star Called Henry" belongs to the literature of the harshness of Irish life, its bitterness, the savagery of its poverty and the consequent extremity of its desires. Henry Smart himself does not seem to be impassioned by any particular cause other than survival. As he tells a group of young recruits, "There's killing and getting caught and there's killing and not getting caught. And there's killing the fellas who are paid to catch you." The force and stylistic originality of Doyle’s trajectory through Irish history and the unapologetic way Henry Smart tells his tough story leaves the reader breathless and half in love with his unique brand of Irish machismo. This first instalment of Henry Smart’s life (there are two other books in the trilogy) ends with him leaving behind Ireland, his teacher, lover and wife and their daughter, Saoirse (Irish for Freedom), to begin a new life. As he describes the world he is leaving “it needed blood to survive and it wasn’t getting mine. I’d supplied it with plenty.” What will happen to Henry Smart? – I for one feel compelled to find out.

Stef Penney The Tenderness of Wolves

If you are looking for a fast-paced, plot-driven mystery story with historical interest and graphic topographical descriptions thrown in then you could do worse than this. Set in 1867 in a tiny isolated settlement in the Northern Territory, the tale begins with the brutal murder of a local man and the subsequent search for his killer. A young local man has recently disappeared, leading to the obvious conclusion that he is the murderer, however his feisty mother, Mrs Ross, does not believe so and determines to prove his innocence. One by one, the searchers set out from Dove River following the tracks across a desolate landscape - home only to wild animals, madmen, and fugitives - variously seeking a murderer, a son, two sisters missing for seventeen years, and a forgotten Native American culture before the snows settle and cover the tracks of the past for good. The complex plot unfolds slowly and dramatically, always overlaid by the cold, pitiless pace of Winter and the poetic depiction of the landscape, which forms the vital essence of this novel. In addition to the core plot there is an intricate array of subplots, involving several characters who never achieve the depth required to become memorable or substantial. The narrative was made more complex by using a mixture of first and third person narratives, a device which appeared stilted at times but did provide the overview of events necessary to illuminating the unravelling details of the plot. Although engaging and pleasant enough, there was never anything to deeply care about and the ending does not provide any satisfactory resolutions about the only characters who did evoke any affection or substance – Mrs Ross and her son.

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Ruminations on Ruminants – and Others by The Countryside Group

ince the last comment on farming trends a few heavy increases, these commodities being partially or Ravings ago, the outlook for farming has improved completely based on oil prices. But the farming joke that ‘You somewhat. The unstable international financial don’t count your own labour or you’d be bankrupt’ still has situation has contributed to a welcome increase in quite a degree of truth. Another maxim occasionally heard, Soutput prices but needless to say, a corresponding ‘Farm as though you’ll live forever, live as though you’ll die increase in input prices. tomorrow’ is wise advice for those on the swings and round- abouts that have always characterised farming. Milk prices, always very dynamic, are on a mildly upward Legislative changes unperceived by the public have their trend. Based on January league-table prices, dairies were effect. A few examples follow. A full 50% of pig-farmers have offering a range of prices between 27.32 and 31.49 pence per disappeared in the last few years due to our gold-plating of litre. Some dairies are in financial difficulty and some 257 welfare rules. Desirable though this may be, other countries farmers ceased milk production in the year Feb 2011-12. enjoy a competitive advantage having not done so. Similarly, However monthly deliveries to dairies increased over the the mandatory introduction by the EU of enhanced cages for same year from 1,096 to 1,119 million litres. Butter and cream laying hens introduced at the beginning of the year has been prices were markedly down but cheese stable. implemented only in the UK, other countries simply flouting Prices for the Holstein or Friesian dairy cross calves are the rules without consequence. The banning of strychnine, £200-300 now so the sad situation where these calves were widely used for mole control has resulted in many more moles shot on farms as valueless is hopefully a thing of the past. surviving to block field drains, their mole-hills causing earth to The great revulsion felt by farmers to this could not change get into into hay, giving Listeria to animals which eat it. Other the reality of the situation. The long-term trend to higher- methods of control are much more expensive and time- yielding cows such as the Holstein seems now to be consuming. reversing; a move to more dual-purpose breeds is starting to The Schmallenberg virus has been in the news lately but is happen. This should make dairy cross meat better quality and not yet a threat in our area. Let us hope it will proceed like result in an improvement over the ‘white water’ Holstein milk, Blue-tongue, a disease which was widely feared but albeit with lower yield. A thought occurs that a return to thankfully never materialised to any great extent – so far. non-homogenised milk could even be possible, the suspicion that supermarkets sell homogenised milk to disguise a low With the UK now down to 60% self-sufficiency, the demands cream content may be rather too cynical…… of conservation against food production are becoming more important. Many pressure groups now exist, each with its own Sheep and lamb prices, which are of course of great interest issues and agendas. Whatever merit their causes may have, to most Rainow farmers, have been generally good and was it they all detract from production. With this decline in self- not for the increased cost of replacement stock and all the sufficiency we are becoming more reliant on imports from other farming inputs, the outlook would be brighter than for markets where adherence to good production practice is, shall many years. It could even come to pass that increasing prices we say, less well observed. The ‘Single Farm Payment’, an being obtained for wool might one day cover the shearing and EU payment to farmers based on their land area, is effectively transport costs! a food-subsidy, as all it achieves is to allow large buyers to The important ‘3Fs’ – feed, fuel and fertilizer have all seen force producer’s prices lower, thus setting market prices.

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New Year Resolutions Beavers for the Brownies go to by Brown Owl, Susan Norman Ball he New Year programme started slightly later than usual due to a family the Tbereavement but we have made up for it since. by Karen Roberts Most New Year resolutions usually involve some kind of commitment to fitness and health so we started our term with some ‘Healthy Body’ challenges chosen fter the Christmas break, the by the Brownies from their Brownie Adventure books which work towards their Beavers came back with lots of annual Brownie Adventure and Healthy Heart badges. The Brownies were energy and ready to prepare for challenged to fit the main organs of the body in the right places, look at how their annual pantomime. This much fruit and vegetables they ate and the exercise they took in one week. A They even had a chance to listen to their hearts with Kirsten’s stethoscope. year’s performance was to be ‘Cinderella’. With only a few weeks to One of our eldest Brownies, Megan Evans, gave an informative talk on Asthma practice, our budding actors and to the Brownie Pack as part of the Healthy Heart badge. actresses had to work hard to be We held a winter skating themed evening with an Olympic quiz and Monika ready for the night. We were fortunate passed on her experiences of figure skating to the Brownies followed by each this year to have enough girls to take on the roles of Cinderella, the Step Six designing their own ice dance costumes now proudly displayed in the hall. Mother, and the Fairy Godmother In February, we started our Craft badge with heart shaped woven valentines (all adults helpers breathed a huge baskets decorated with jewels and filled with chocolates. Later they designed sigh of relief, as this meant we didn’t their own bedrooms with samples of wallpaper, paint charts, furniture and fabric have to take parts as in previous etc. The badge will be completed with a final craft for Mothers Day. For Shrove years). The parts of the Ugly Sisters Tuesday we held a meeting at Tiny Adventures making pancakes which went were, of course, taken by two of the down a treat with the Brownies as well as having a change of scenery. boys who really took to their roles. The Beavers had a lot of fun and the To celebrate Thinking Day, 22nd February, we looked at the meaning, learnt adults had a lot of laughs; if only we more about Brownies in New Zealand and started our World Issues badge had captured on film all those bits that playing New Zealand games and learning about Fair Trade products. The didn’t quite go right the first time Brownies watched a Fairtrade DVD and tasted various products as well as around. Prior to the actual made posters. The eldest Brownies wrote a letter to Tesco requesting a visit to performance, there were the usual ‘will discuss Fairtrade products and a tour which I am pleased to say have been it be alright on the night’ nerves from accepted - more about our trip to Tesco in the next report. the organisers but, of course, there was no need to worry. The pantomime On 1st March we learnt about the story of St David, played games and was funny, the individual discussed the reasons and effects of war for their World Issues performances were excellent, the badge followed by making impressive 3D Welsh Dragons and costumes were stunning and most a short play involving the dragon. importantly the children enjoyed Our two regular parent helps, Monika and Kirsten are settling in themselves, as can be seen in the well and full of enthusiasm which has been a bonus for the picture of Cinderella, Prince Charming Brownies as well as me. Not to forget the commitment and the Ugly Sisters at the ball. Well put in by all the parents on our parent rota. Anyone who done to all those that took part. wants to know more about joining Brownies cancontact me Not many weeks have passed since on 01260 223793 (Work) or 01260 223695 (Home). the pantomime, but in that time the Brown Owl, Beavers have started work on some Susan Norman more badges, as well as having a Games evening. They have been learning to tie knots and laces, learning the flags of the British Commonwealth, and starting work towards their Hobby badge and Promise Challenge badge. The weeks in the lead up to Easter will also be busy, with the completion of some of the badge work and a craft session planned. Hopefully, in the weeks that follow, the weather will improve and we may be able to get outside next term.

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Banqueting with the Cubs! Spring by Akela Sue Grimes with the Scouts by The Leaders nother Half Term has flown past! Looking back, our Christmas Aactivities included a party with magic show, with the Scouts learning some tricks, and a craft evening when the Scouts made brilliant crackers in a large variety of sizes. This term’s activities so far have included badge work; First Aid (stage one), Forester and Entertainer and Circus Skills. We always enjoy games and despite the weather we have been outside with a wide game and incident hike (very cold!) A highlight has been Pancake Day. The Scouts did tin can cooking – using inverted cans as stoves to cook the pancakes! This was quite a e started the term with an evening of various challenges to test the challenge but very enjoyable! Cubs’ skills and knowledge. There was a big challenge two weeks later We have been preparing for camp, when we cooked a complete Chinese Banquet with some eight different W learning to make gadgets (such as dishes all cooked from scratch. Each Six cooked one or two dishes and methods of holding cooking pots over then we all sat down to the Banquet complete with Fortune cookies and the camp fire) and knots and splices. chopsticks. It was delicious. We plan to attend the District Camp We learnt all about the Charity Shelter Box from one of the cubs fathers, Chris jointly with Cubs. Forthcoming events Warham, who is a volunteer with them. Within the box there is everything a include bike maintenance followed by family might need in the event of a disaster and they can be sent anywhere in mountain biking in Macclesfield Forest. the World. The Cubs enjoyed pitching the tent inside the Institute. The following We have held an Executive Committee week we had two members of Buxton Mountain Rescue Team showing us how meeting (with Beavers and Cubs). This to tie various knots; not sure if I would like to rely on any of their knots if I were is an opportunity for forward planning being rescued though!! Outings this term include an evening bowling at Lyme and for parents to hear details of the Green and visiting Pizza Express where the Cubs were shown how to make running of the sections and to make their own pizza and put various toppings on; they enjoyed this evening very suggestions. We are planning a much. Community Project in conjunction with We entered a team of six in the District Handicraft Competition, where we won the Parish Council and in connection the model making section with a hot air balloon and came away with a Cup. with scouting Community Week (which has replaced Bob-a-Job week). This will Although we don’t get outside quite so much in the Winter we have had a Wide include practical help and maintenance Game in the dark involving glo-lights and are planning trips to Buxton Opera within the village. House for a Science Night, a trip to Manchester Science Museum (we are doing the Scientist Badge) and watching an Ice Hockey Match at Altrincham. As always, many thanks to all parents, carers and other adults who make our Congratulations to Michelle on completing her training and becoming an official group possible! Cub Leader. Thanks to all the parents who help and support us each week. TAKEAWAY NOW OPEN in Rainow Fish, Chips and Mushy Peas All just £6.50 Available Mon - Sat 12 - 2:30pm and 5:30 - 8:30pm Only from The Robin Hood

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OpenBollington Gardens Festival Weekend 16th and 17th June (11am – 5pm) Things you may not know about Rainow! G Coal was mined out of the east side of Kerridge. One of the mines was known as the California drift mine after the nickname of one of the Vare family that had taken part in the Gold Rush of 1849.The name was shortened to Cali and the Saturday, 16th June – Driving tour stretch of the Dean that runs along the foot of Kerridge is known locally as Cali Brook. A pretty drive to gardens just out of Bollington G Rainow pubs seem to have been always changing their names. Sunday, 17th June – Walking tour The Highwayman was previously the Blacksmiths Arms, whilst Refreshments/Plants/ArtA circular walk taking for in sale the at gardens some gardens on the on wayboth the Sign of the Dog became the Dog and Partridge before routes (see garden entry map for details) ending its life as the Setter Dog. Cost: £5 per adult for each day or £7.50 for both days. G In 1801 Rainow had a population of over 1,800 but by 1921 Waulkmill Gardens only: £5 per family the figure had dropped to just over 1,000 (today it is about Proceeds in aid of Bollington Festival 2014 1,250) To buy garden entry maps: Helen – 01625 576844 G Ingersley Vale Mill, built in 1809, had the second largest Carol – 075000 11115 waterwheel in the country (56 feet in diameter). Only the Maps can also be purchased in advance or on the day from Laxey wheel on the Isle of Man was bigger. any of the gardens. Phone Helen or Carol for details. Bollington Festival is a not-for-profit organisation which is run entirely by volunteers. Company Name & Registered Office: BollingtonCompany Festival,1No.: 04819935 Park Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 6SR G A railway line from Prestbury to Buxton through Rainow was projected by The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway in 1891. WI to show G Rainow has 76 km of footpaths — nearly 50 miles, and 4% of Rainow “Lost” Film the total length of footpaths in East Cheshire. by Mary Meecham

ainow WI members and visitors are looking forward once more to a programme of varied talks and demonstrations. RVisitors are always welcome to WI meetings, at 7.30 pm on the second Monday in the month, especially in April, which is an Open Meeting. The speaker that evening will be Graham Update Royle on the subject of “Bees”. You are asked to bring an ancient recipe or remedy containing honey. In May, when the resolutions for the National meeting are voted on, the formal hilst Silk Opera continues in its drive to become a meeting will be followed by a Rainow film shown by Bob valued and valuable part of Macclesfield's cultural life, Langstaff. this new opera company continues to draw chorus and W Those who aren’t familiar with the Zodiac will welcome the June production members from our village. meeting. In July local expert Sue Town will display antiques and This edition of the Raven should be hitting your doormat just collectibles; some will be for sale and Sue will comment on after a two night staging of Haydn's rarely performed Il Mondo items brought in. The Eden Project in Cornwall is the subject in della Luna (the World on the Moon) which Director Nick Smith September, and in October Kevin Dranfield will talk about Mining hopes will eclipse even the success of Tosca staged back in in the Goyt Valley – fantastic local interest. In August the WI has November. “If you didn't see this Tosca, you missed a treat” an evening out, business is done at the AGM in November and said the Manchester Evening News of the two night telling of December is the Christmas Party. Puccini's tragic tale. As well as the monthly meetings, the WI has a book club, darts If you've yet to sample a Silk Opera performance then book group, quilting evenings and “ladies who lunch”; also we have tickets now for Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance on keen gardeners who keep the Trinity Gardens tidy and bakers Friday 6th, Saturday 7th or Sunday 8th July. Silk Opera are who stock the Fête Stall. There are County and Group activities delighted to have been invited back to the Gawsworth Hall to join in, including the Macclesfield Area Show, and an open-air festival where The Mikado was so warmly received interesting programme of Outings – here, there and (almost) last summer. Expect another stylish and unusual production everywhere. Members are pleased to find that all this is with professional soloists drawn from across the North West. attracting a lot of new members, who are all extremely welcome. For ticketing and venue details visit www.silkopera.com

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Rainow Pre-school meets at the Institute large numbers of parasites spread every weekday morning from 9.15 am- through bodily organs such as the lungs, 12.15 pm for children aged 21/2 - 5. liver and heart. Symptoms include These children are being put at risk by fatigue, loss of appetite, weight loss, the filthy messes left by dogs on the high temperature, coughing, breathing grass near the Institute and along the difficulties, stomach pain, headaches, road. One of the risks, toxocariasis, is skin rashes, swollen lymph glands, fits, briefly detailed below. blurred or cloudy vision, red and painful Toxocariasis is an infection caused by eye. roundworm parasites, spread from Advances in treatment mean that animals to humans via faeces. The blindness is now a rare complication of worms live in the digestive system of toxocariasis but in some cases, laser dogs, producing eggs, which when treatment is required to kill parasites in released contaminate wherever dropped. the eye. Accidental ingestion of these eggs may Those people who think it acceptable he Parish Council frequently cause toxocariasis usually affecting to leave dog mess are likely to be the receives complaints about dog children between one and four years old. ones who do not take their mess. Recently several have been However, all ages can be infected. responsibilities T Children at play are naturally more likely received about the situation near the seriously and Robin Hood. Nearby families with to come into contact with the eggs. Flies whose dogs are children are very concerned about the that feed on faeces can spread Toxocara likely to be infected. health hazards associated with this. The eggs to surfaces or foods. Young Leaving dog mess in picture shows two items of dog mess children who put contaminated objects in any public place incredibly within a metre of the bin their mouths or eat dirt are at risk. can incur a fine provided to dispose of it. A further Approximately 50% of puppies and 20% of £1,000. inspection revealed 24 such items in the of adult dogs are infected. space of 40 metres from the Institute There are actually three types of path towards the Robin Hood. toxocariasis but symptoms appear when Richly deserved.

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Walk 13 : Pym Chair Car Park to Charles Head & back High Flowers and Fields Map: Rainow Parish Paths and/or OS 1: 25,000 OL 24 The White Peak Distance: 5 miles (8 Km) Time : Allow 3 hours Ascent: 400m Going: Good paths: some road walking Start/Finish: Pym Chair Car Park SJ 995 768

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his walk is a little bit longer than through the iron gate but now turn Tusual but it’s worth the effort to see south and level on footpath 9 through a remote part of the parish and also fields before descending to Summer to visit the wonderful Dunge Valley Close Farm (some previous residents Gardens (just outside the parish but are buried at Jenkin Chapel along with who cares!) But pick the right day: the people from Saltersford Hall, The Blue gardens are open only on specified Boar at Rainow and one from The days in April, May and June. See the Spinners Arms at Hadfield - article in this issue or their website: www.wishfulthinking.org.uk/genuki/ www.dungevalley.co.uk). CHS/ Saltersford/MIs.html#top). From Pym Chair car park head back to If the weather is fine this is a good the cross roads and turn right down place to stop and have a rest and a bit the hill towards Jenkin Chapel but after to eat and drink and to admire the view about 500m of steep descent turn right up to the ridge and Windgather rocks at footpath 10 and head north along or along the valley. Here too, you can the parish boundary until (still on the decide to cut a corner and continue same path) you pass into Kettleshulme along footpath 9 back to the road up to parish and continue on Ke25 until Jenkin Chapel and back to the car reaching Dunge Valley Gardens by a park at the top of the hill or to bear Along the track fr steeply up and away from the farm on om Charles Head small gate. Drop down into the . gardens and over the footbridge and if footpath 14 to Bank Lane. When you taking a tour of the gardens pay your reach Bank Lane turn left and follow it entry fee and enjoy the rhododendrons steeply down (this is the Corkscrew and azaleas. Otherwise follow the described in the last issue of the signs through the yard and out along Raven) until reaching the road and the track until it reaches the road. returning up the hill to the car park at Here turn left along the field boundary Pym Chair. and then right and after a short way Both routes take you past Jenkin turn left again onto Ke20. Down to Chapel. There has been a lot of debate Ke14 where you turn right to Near Carr about the origin of the name in the Farm. pages of the Raven, but never mind At the farm turn left downhill and a the history just have a good look round lovely steep descent to Todd Brook on the building and its graveyard (how KE16. This forms the boundary many of the stones listed in the between the two parishes so now you website above can you find?) The are back on home turf on footpath 95 Chapel is a wonderful building at a which climbs up to Charles Head farm remote cross roads and has a very – a listed building (www.britishlisted- good entry on Wikipedia (http://en. Approaching Jenkin Chapel buildings.co.uk/en-58023-charles- wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkin_ Chapel, head-house-rainow) of some interest. _Saltersford) but see Jane Laughton’s This is a meeting of a number of foot- article in this issue of the Raven for the FP* refers to footpath paths but after having a look at the definitive origin of the name!. numbers on Rainow Parish Paths Map house turn back down the path and by Plodder 20

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trail, cafe and pottery painting at the 'Potty Sheep' ceramic Sheep' 'Potty the at painting pottery and cafe trail,

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Axel Sheffer's Axel from April April from The Gruffalo The

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Judith Kerr's Kerr's Judith The Tiger Who Came to T to Came Who Tiger The ea the 8th and 9th 9th and 8th the April but specific details, including other dates other including details, specific but April

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penguins a fish or two. It is also home to many small small many to home also is It two. or fish a penguins activity will be held at the Education Room at the Park Lane Park the at Room Education the at held be will activity

an opportunity to talk to the zookeepers and throw the throw and zookeepers the to talk to opportunity an story and history of silk manufacture in Macclesfield. This craft This Macclesfield. in manufacture silk of history and story

Blackbrook there is a fantastic penguin enclosure, with with enclosure, penguin fantastic a is there Blackbrook Museums in town are spread across three sites, telling the telling sites, three across spread are town in Museums

flamingos, spoonbills and amazing scarlet ibises. ibises. scarlet amazing and spoonbills flamingos, Also at Also pre-booked on 01625 612045 and costs £6 per child. The Silk The child. per £6 costs and 612045 01625 on pre-booked

for over 300 species of birds and animals including including animals and birds of species 300 over for mobile making) for children aged 6 - 12 . . 12 - 6 aged children for making) mobile The activity must be must activity The

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orienteering. Details of all ranger events can be found at: found be can events ranger all of Details orienteering.

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1 am and 3 pm Rangers will be on hand to explain to hand on be will Rangers pm 3 and am 1 1 between

8 – 16 miles 16 – Alice in Wonderland at Tatton Park Park Tatton at Wonderland in Alice

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7 – 12 miles 12 – Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre Centre Discovery Bank Jodrell

cost cost per person (every child taking part will receive a a receive will part taking child (every person per £2

become the biggest fundraiser of the Pre-School year. Tickets year. Pre-School the of fundraiser biggest the become

also suitable for wheelchair users. wheelchair for suitable also farm yard. This event seems to get better each year and has and year each better get to seems event This yard. farm

or for the less energetic, hire an electric bike! The trail is trail The bike! electric an hire energetic, less the for or followed by cakes, BBQ, local ale, stalls and games in the in games and stalls ale, local BBQ, cakes, by followed

and lit to make the trail even more accessible. Walk, cycle Walk, accessible. more even trail the make to lit and comprising walk and 'hunt' over a mile or so of the farm fields, farm the of so or mile a over 'hunt' and walk comprising

a number of the original tunnels were repaired, resurfaced repaired, were tunnels original the of number a Farm on Berristall Lane. Lane. Berristall on Farm A wonderful fun family event event family fun wonderful A

disused railway between Buxton and Bakewell. Last year year Last Bakewell. and Buxton between railway disused Hunt will take place at the idyllic location of Snipe House Snipe of location idyllic the at place take will Hunt

heritage can all be enjoyed along this 8.5 mile stretch of of stretch mile 8.5 this along enjoyed be all can heritage For the 6th consecutive year the Rainow Pre-School Bunny Pre-School Rainow the year consecutive 6th the For

– 0 miles 0 – Fabulous scenery, interesting wildlife and industrial industrial and wildlife interesting scenery, Fabulous April 8th, 2 – 4pm 4pm – 2 8th, April

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What’s On in Rainow and Bollington APRIL 2012 1 until Sundays 2 - 4 pm In the Gallery – Creative Art Group Bollington Arts Centre 6 May and during events Ann Ford’s students show their work 6 10.00 am Meditation Service Rainow Church 8.30 pm Kerridge Cross Service 8 10.00 am Family Communion Rainow Church 3.00 pm Holy Communion Jenkin & Forest Chapel 8 2 - 4 pm Bunny Hunt Snipe House Farm Tickets £2 from Michelle French 01625 575958 or [email protected] 16 7.30 pm Rainow WI - Bees and Honey Rainow Institute – Graham Royle. Open meeting – all welcome 17 2 - 4.30 pm and Rainow NSPCC Open Wardrobe Day Cesterbridge House 6.30 - 8 pm Contact Sheila Brammer 01625 426059 Rainow 17 7.30 pm Mothers Union – Talk Rainow Church Centre – “Fruit of the Vine” – Mrs Jean Shelmerdine 21 8.00 pm Jazz at the Arts Centre Bollington Arts Centre – Dave Mott’s Jazz Classics with Suzanne Tickets £9. Tel: 01625 574410 28 8.00 pm Bollington Chamber Concerts Bollington Arts Centre – The Rhodes Piano Trio Tickets £14/£7. Tel: 01625 560355 or 575287 MAY 2012 5 7.30 pm From Gilbert & Sullivan to Glyndebourne Bollington Arts Centre – Sue Gorton accompanied by Russell Lomas s On Tickets £8 from 01625 575287 9 7.30 pm Rainow 5 Hill Race Rainow Institute – Entries (£4) at the Institute from 6.30 pm Minimum age 16 12 2.00 pm Bollington Three Peaks Fell Race Bollington Brewery Registration £5. 1.00 pm at Bollington Brewery 12 7.00 pm Pilgrim’s Way – Three piece Band Bollington Arts Centre Tickets £8. Tel: 01625 576844 or 573413 14 7.30 pm Rainow WI – Resolutions Rainow Institute followed by the Rainow Film with Bob Langstaff 15 Mothers Union Outing 19 7.30 pm Music from Chethams - string quartets Bollington Arts Centre Tickets £5, students free. Tel: 01625 560355 or 575287 26 12 - 5.30 pm Garden Safari Throughout in Aid of RainowBrownies Church at Tatton Rainow Village Visit open gardens in Rainow Contact Jane Warren 01625 574918 JUNE 2012 2 8.00 pm Jazz at the Arts Centre Bollington Arts Centre – Amy Roberts All-stars Tickets £9. Tel:01625 574410 11 8.00 pm Rainow WI Rainow Institute – Amblings along the Zodiac – Lily Hardebeck-Becker 16/17 Daily Open Gardens, Bollington Throughout Bollington Day 1 is a driving tour to out of the way gardens, Day 2 is walking to central gardens. £5 19 7.30 pm Mothers Union Rainow Church Centre

– Meet the Virtual Babies

– Brenda Watson & Connie Pemberton – a demonstration ᒇ We have made this list as comprehensive as space permits & it is necessarily a selection of the events we know about. If you have anything planned that you would like us to list in the next issue, please call 01625 426059.

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