The Local Magazine for Hollesley, Boyton, Alderton, Shingle Street and Capel December 2017 Village Voices 1-20 December Vv 19/11/2017 10:25 Page 2
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Village Voices 1-20 December_vv 19/11/2017 10:25 Page 1 The local magazine for Hollesley, Boyton, Alderton, Shingle Street and Capel December 2017 Village Voices 1-20 December_vv 19/11/2017 10:25 Page 2 Dates for your December diary Sat 2 9.30 – 12 Rainbow Café, Bawdsey VH Sat 2 10.30 – 12 Boyton Coffee Morning, Boyton VH - Christmas Sales Sat 9 12noon - 3pm Shottisham Christmas Festive Fayre Trust Hall - lunch Sat 9 3 pm Memories Service, Boyton Church Sun 10 10 – 12.30 Santa's Grotto and Coffee Morning, Alderton VH Wed 13 7.30 pm Hollesley Gardening Club Christmas Social/Quiz 10/16/17 11 – 1 Christmas Wreath Workshop, Sutton Hoo Sat 16 9.30 - 12 Hollesley Community Café, Hollesley VH Sat 16 2 - 4 Hollesley School Christmas Fayre Sat 16 2 – 4 Bawdsey Christmas Market, Bawdsey VH Sun 17 1.30 – 2.30 Out of the Case, Sutton Hoo Sun 17 2.30-sundown Winter Solstice, Sutton Hoo Thurs 21 7.30 Bawdsey Jazz Society, Bawdsey Village Hall Regular Events Day Time Activity Where Who Monday 7.30pm Pilates Sutton Heath Sandy 410530 Tuesday 9.30am Tai Chi Ali 411717 Tuesday 2nd and 4th Hollesley Bay Day Club 10-3pm Alan 420092 Tuesday 2pm Welcome Club Hollesley VH Marian C 411262 Tuesday 7-9pm Indoor Bowls Hol lesley VH June 411172 Wednesday 9.50&11am Pilates Sandy 410530 Wednesday 2-4pm Indoor Bowls Hollesley VH June 411172 Wednesday 7.30pm Pilates Sutton Heath Sandy 410530 Wednesday 6.30-8.30 Just42 Youth Club Hollesley VH Michael 412052 Thursday 10.00-11.00 Zumba Hollesley VH 07917145300 Thursday After school EVNU All Saints’ Ruth 412052 Thursday Judo Club Julie 410483 Thursday Week 2 7.30pm Hollesley WI Hollesley Gerry 411376 Thursday Week 3 7.30pm Jazz Society Bawdsey VH Tony 410353 Friday 9.30-11.00 Yoga Hollesley VH Cathie 01728 747001 Friday 10-30-12.30 Coffee morning Boyton VH Isobel 411409 Friday 11.00am Coffee morning Shepherd & Dog Friday 7.15pm Whist Drive Boyton VH Les 411642 Sunday (last) 8pm Charity Quiz Shepherd & Dog Please email [email protected] with updates to this information. Page 2 December 2017 www.villagevoices.org.uk Village Voices 1-20 December_vv 19/11/2017 10:25 Page 3 From the editor Runners up in Christmas cover art competition: Sam Claxton and Poppy Moore ‘At Christmas, all roads lead home.’ Marjorie Holmes We would like to express thanks to all our advertisers without whose support we would not be able to continue. Thanks also to all our contributors throughout the year - please note early copy date for the January issue is: Sunday 3 December. We extend grateful thanks to our team of loyal distributors, led by Laurie Forsyth, who faithfully deliver a magazine to your door each month. This month’s cover was designed by Harvey Downing, a Yr 6 pupil at Hollesley Primary School. Our thanks go to all the children who entered the competition. The Village Voices team send sincere Season’s Greetings to you all. Cheryl Gray Please note that the opinions expressed in this magazine do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the editorial team. Editorial copy: Cheryl, Advertising Nick, Diane Gerry Bathe [email protected] [email protected] Copy on paper to: 1 Rectory Road, Laurie Forsyth, 11A, Parsons Hill, Hollesley, IP12 3JS Hollesley, IP12 3RB Tel: 01394 411376 Tel: 01394 411727 www.villagevoices.org.uk Page 3 December 2017 Village Voices 1-20 December_vv 19/11/2017 10:25 Page 4 A Suffolk Wartime Christmas - Pop’s Café In 1944 I lived in Castle Street Woodbridge at a time when Christian hope of peace was impossible to imagine. Of course all families were on food coupons from those ration books! Reduced food in the larder was never a problem for me, I was young slim and fit on brown bread and 2oz of butter. Contributed Pop’s Cafe, Woodbridge 1944 - Terry as 10 year old in the doorway Woodbridge town was, and still is, mystical, when the winds from River and Tidemill push the morning mist up into the town. Pytches Road - Melton Hill - oh, I must stop now before I fill your magazine with stories still so very vivid in my 10 year, never-to-grow-old head. I like to return to Woodbridge, to drink in once again, my wartime fearless happiness and to live in a time warp with the ghosts of my family, who sit and wait for me near Pop’s Café. Christmas time in 1944 came alive with happy home activities: preparing colourful paper chains stuck together with a mixture of flour, water and a touch of fear from the expected invasion along the Suffolk coastline. Christmas cakes, steamed suet puddings and a few silver sixpences thrown in for your teeth to suddenly find! We had family visiting from London so I was required to sleep on the floor in the sitting room between two arm chairs on Christmas Eve. My dutiful dad tucked me up saying, See you in the morning son. I dropped off to sleep very quickly with the thought ringing in my head: What will Father Christmas bring me in the morning! Page 4 December 2017 www.villagevoices.org.uk Village Voices 1-20 December_vv 19/11/2017 10:25 Page 5 I woke soon again at around 10 pm - the light was still on and my father in his bleached long white linen coat, was still at the table struggling with his Pop’s Café accounts. Not wanting to disappoint him, I kept quiet but at the same time I looked up the side of one armchair at my unwrapped presents - Christmas wrapping paper was not available - nor did we have any oranges or bananas. One Rupert Bear annual, a wooden home-made locomotive and a sailing boat. Had I been in my bedroom upstairs these presents would have been put in a plain pillowcase hanging on the bed knob, out of sight. Of course at the age of ten I already knew who Father Christmas really was! Contributed Put that light out! - Terry Basson Our Christmas dinner consisted of a large roasted chicken especially reared and fattened for the occasion. Chicken in 1944 was only eaten at special times! My father, being the head of household claimed one of the prized legs and my eldest brother the other. We below stairs, were served with only white breast meat, not considered the best cuts, how fashions change! On Christmas Day the meal was set out on our large table and after thanks- giving was spoken, suddenly the whole of the paper-chain decoration on the ceiling started to become unglued and cascaded over the table amongst hoots of laughter! The paper-chain glue had failed - the water and flour mixture, perhaps because of that ingredient of fear! . As darkness fell on Christmas Day and the condensation iced up once again on the inside of our single-glazed windows, the embers of our coal fire were slowly dying. We all decided to go outside - wrapped in our muffled, high-collar, winter coats and my sister’s knitted scarves! In the fading light we heard, once again, the drone of those B17 Boeing Flying Fortress engines, bringing back the young surviving American aircrews so far from home: landing back at Debach Airfield after a bombing run over Germany, in temperatures below freezing and camp huts cold and damp. Like me, I bet those young airmen will never forget how, back in 1944 , they spent their Christmas during a World Still at War. 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Many thanks to all who made it happen: Beattie from Mortiers farms for the use of the field and the tractor; the team who collected the fire wood and hauled it on to the trailer; Caesar for his time and skills with the tractor and trailer; Andy, Sofia and George for lighting the fire and managing the firework display. Thank you to everyone who donated cash to buy the fireworks and to Keith and John, who checked on the progress of the fire the next day - and the next! And of course, to John Carpmael everyone who came George keeping the fire under control along and shared their good cheer, toffee apples, cheesy pizza slices, Boyton Parish Council invite sausage rolls, flapjack, wine and beer you to a Christmas gathering and more. Mulled wine, mince pies and live music with the female trio Ali Crawford For The Love of Bob Boyton PC At our last meeting on 7 November, Boyton Parish Council co-opted Tina Fletcher and Malcolm Lane as parish councillors. We now have a full complement of Saturday 16 December 6.30pm councillors and are Boyton Village Hall delighted to welcome them on board.