Volume 11 • Issue No. 5 • AprIl 2021 Your free local community magazine: essential local news, services & information delivered through your door every month ™© with Chelmondiston, Erwarton, Harkstead, Holbrook, InPin Mill, Shotley, StuttonTouch & Woolverstone www.keepingintouchwith.co.uk Harkstead Farmers’ Market Reopens See page 6 It’s Bowling Season! See page 14 2 In Touch online: published by: A WORD FROM THE EDITOR Mansion house publishing (uK) ltd, 20 Wharfedale road, Ipswich Ip1 4Jp One of ‘our’ last home-schooling projects was to write a mini autobiography. We had to include specific features such as ‘an attention-grabbing introduction’, early memories, positive and negative experiences and a closing edITor: sharon Jenkins statement which included reflections on some key events and hopes for the future. All in four paragraphs! T: 01473 400380 Following an hour or so of ‘debate’, I dug out my memory box to help refresh Jack’s memory, and my own. We send editorial copy to: found his first pair of socks, his first shoes, every birthday card he has ever received, his first blond curl (he’s not
[email protected] Readers are invited to submit articles, illustrations and blond anymore), his first toy car… and every family planner or calendar we’ve had since Jack arrived in 2010. photographs for publication. The publishers reserve the right to amend such submissions and cannot accept What struck both of us as we scanned the calendars was how empty 2020 was. All the others were tattered and responsibility for any loss. torn with scrawled notes on every page, arrows from one date to another when football games were rescheduled, AdVerTIsINg birthday parties galore, plans made and cancelled.