FOR THE COMMUNITY OF HUSBANDS BOSWORTH EST. 1996 BOSWORTH BUGLE ISSUE 271 MARCH 2019 VOLUNTEERS DAZED BY FIND ly-tipping is literally a blot on the landscape and, as we’ve noted Fin the past, Bosworth is not immune to this blight. On a number of occasions in the past Mill Lane, especially, has found favour with the socially irresponsible who don’t feel the need to take their scrap or redundant rubbish to the tip. So, it wasn’t too much of a surprise when the Millennium Woodland work party turned up to carry out maintenance at the community woodland last month to find a van-load of waste and packaging dumped in the car parking area. Certainly, on the face of it this particular deposit was a lot less obnoxious than the rotting food waste, presumably from a failed freezer, that had been dumped a while back... This waste was dry and there was a lot of cardboard and packaging so it was a simple job to build a bonfire to dispose of it. That was until it suddenly became evident that the contents of the sealed packages, thought to be simple garden waste, were in fact a little more suspicious - the residue of a cannabis factory. Not your usual rubbish! In this instance the police felt that there was insufficient evidence to pursue the matter further and it was left to the woodland volunteers to arrange disposal. So, as you go about your business, especially in more remote areas, please keep an eye out for any suspicious activity. If you come across any criminal activity in progress don’t attempt to intervene but phone the police on 999 as soon as it is possible. OPEN PLAN ROAD CLOSURE he Neighbourhood Plan Advisory Committee will be hosting an Open Event in the he length of Honeypot Lane will be TVillage Hall on Saturday, March 2nd 10.30am to 1.30pm to showcase the emerging Tclosed for one day on Thursday, March Plan. The event aims to introduce residents to the Plan as it passes to the next stage in the 14th to enable Leicestershire Highways to consultation process and examination by Harborough District Council, prior to external safely carry out patching works. Essential examination. access will be maintained at all times and Residents will be able to scrutinise the many elements of the Plan and discuss the detail temporary parking restrictions will be in with the plan-makers and consultants. place. Diverted traffic will be directed via This is our own blueprint for the future social, economic and physical development of our Church Street, Church Lane and Mowsley parish - COME ALONG AND HAVE YOUR SAY! Road. THE 5 PRICES CHALLENGE ur own Mike and Sylvia Price, family Omembers and friends are undertaking the National 3 Peaks Challenge in June, raising funds for three charities close to their hearts. The Challenge is to climb the highest peaks in mainland Britain; Scafell Pike in England, Ben Nevis in Scotland and Snowdon in Wales, all within a 24 hour period, including travelling between each! Mike and Sylvia are tackling the Challenge in aid of The Brain Tumour Charity, whilst Catherine and Beth are raising funds for Luna Animal Rescue and Steve for Help Musicians UK. Every penny raised will go to the chosen charities. Donations can be made directly to Mike or Sylvia at 3 Highcroft or by BACS to: HSBC 40-32-04 71718142 S Price (reference your donation with your name). THE BUGLE TEAM BUGLE POSTBAG Editor: BOSWORTH IN FOCUS Melvyn Forman From Marc Rowley, Cherry Tree Close 10 Church Lane Tel: 880281 A TASTE OF BOSWORTH WILD ABOUT BOSWORTH Saturday, June 8th ! Save the date as this is going to be our biggest party yet in aid of Email: [email protected] French Onion Soup Common Frog - Rana Temporaria our supported charity - Action for Children. Fancy dress 90s style, with a little bling Treasurer & Advertising: Porters at the Parisian ‘Les Halles’ market Spring is in the air and male frogs are turning bling, it’s gonna be dope - boo ya! Ralph Horton would keep out the raw winter cold by greyish-blue; growing spiny pads on their 18 Highcroft Tel: 880526 From Bob Hutchings, Editor - Hexagon newsletter drinking vast mugs of this traditional soup. thumbs and hopping to a local pond. The pads, Contacts: It appears that for some time now many of our readers have not been receiving email Ingredients (Serves 4) called nuptial pads, are used to grab and hold Mike & Sylvia Price versions of the Hexagon magazine, probably due to my old email address having been 500g onions lady frogs. The males arrive first and form 3 Highcroft Tel: 880902 corrupted. My new address is: [email protected] or you can text me on 75g unsalted butter choirs that sing (croak) and, generally, it’s the Jo Horton 07811201269, or ring me at home on 880131. Thank you. 2 pints chicken stock male that sings the loudest and longest that 18 Highcroft. Tel: 880526 ½ level teaspoon salt wins the lady. Though, he still has to wrestle Frances Smith 25g plain flour for his prize! 10 Butt Lane Tel: 880225 4 slices French bread sliced thickly (1.5 cm) There’s little romance in their love-making. POLICE FILE Penny Mattock 100g Gruyere cheese The male grabs the female and remains clasped Frogspawn on Millennium Wood pond 9 Fernie Court Tel: 881140 Method to her body until spawning takes place. He fertilises the eggs as she releases them from her Heather O’Connor Peel and thinly slice onions. Melt 25g butter body. In biology, this mating behaviour is called amplexus, which is Latin for ‘embrace’. A number of vehicle related incidents have been reported across the county recently. 16 Fernie Court Tel: 880165 in a large pan and add onions. Cover and cook After 10 to 14 days, depending on water temperature, the spawn hatch into tadpoles. Two or Many have involved overnight tool thefts from works vans and house burglaries where Postal Subscription & distribution: over a low heat for 15mins, until the onions are three days later, they swim free and begin their metamorphosis into adult frogs. They begin life the keys to high-value vehicles parked on the driveway have been taken, resulting in Melvyn Forman Tel: 880281 soft and transparent. Remove lid and continue as herbivores and don’t become fully carnivorous until their back legs develop. the vehicle immediately being driven away by the thieves. Email: [email protected] frying the onions, stirring occasionally, until In nature, the number of offspring a species produces is an indication of the survival rate to If at all possible, remove your tools from the van when you have arrived home for the they are golden brown. Stir in the stock and adulthood. For a population to remain constant, each breeding adult needs to be replaced by a evening and when you are at a job and not working near your van, lock all doors and www.husbandsbosworth.info salt. Replace lid and simmer for 30 mins. In a youngster. Frogs lay between one to four thousand eggs. So, an individual’s chances aren’t good! consider an alarm that will be activated with interference. small basin, mix the flour with ¼ pint of water, If they all reached adulthood, we’d be knee-deep in frogs; a plague of biblical proportions... For car key burglaries, consider hiding keys before going to bed at night or take them COPY DEADLINE th until thoroughly blended. Add to the soup and Over the following 10 to 14 weeks, as they develop, the tadpoles are food for virtually all upstairs with you. A burglar alarm is extremely helpful in deterring a burglar, but do 15 OF THE MONTH PRECEDING PUBLICATION stir, returning to the boil and simmer for 2-3 pond life and, occasionally, each other when food is scarce. As adults, they suffer predation make sure that you set the alarm whenever you leave the house unattended and when you minutes until thickened, then remove from heat. by gulls, crows, water birds, all carnivorous mammals and snakes, and not forgetting, in go to bed, as not doing this could affect any claims that you have to make if someone Butter both sides of the French bread, grate the some parts of the world, humans! Extremely lucky ones survive for eight or so years; living unlawfully enters your home, causes damage or steals property. POLICE FILE cheese and sprinkle half over the bread. Bake a solitary life and hibernating through the coldest months. Mike Chanter You can find helpful and useful information on the police website: www.leics.police. IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION ON ANY the bread on a baking tray in a preheated oven uk in relation to: SCOUTING NEWS CRIMINAL ACTIVITY CALL MARKET at 180°C until crisp and the cheese has melted. st *Reporting a Crime BEAVERS Nine 1 Kilworth Beavers had a great time at the beginning of February at the HARBOROUGH POLICE on 101 Arrange the bread in individual bowls and pour Beaver Fun Day at Ullesthorpe Campsite, where we joined 140 Beavers from across the *Vehicle-related incidents, reporting road traffic collisions and dangerous driving, over the hot onion soup. Serve the remaining abandoned, untaxed and stolen vehicles District and enjoyed learning to be Wildlife Explorers. The week before, we took an icy Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinator grated cheese in a separate bowl. cold torch walk to Millennium Wood, saw the first snowdrops and daffodils and discovered *Antisocial behaviour, including fly tipping, noise nuisance and dog fouling Stephen Bilbie Jackie Kerr *Animal problems including reporting stray dogs and animals left on private land the fairy village! Then we enjoyed hot chocolate.