SaAprilw–May 2s020 ton Scene FREE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE with all our usual features PLUS Coronavirus: questions answered • myth-busting • local info • help VOLUME 51 ISSUE 1 April –May 2020 contents Sa wirst osf all, tto anyonoe who is nTribu te to ASnn Redcshaw ene 2 reading Sawston Scene for Production team and deadlines 4 Fthe first time, welcome! Readers’ letters 4 We are your award-winning village magazine, produced and Granta Medical Practices 5 n this issue, amid much else, we say farewell to our delivered by volunteers for the Sawston COVID -19 Mutual Aid Group 5 utterly fantastic Pictures Editor, Ann Redshaw. I last fifty years – coincidentally, Corona virus : official advice 7 More than anyone else, she has transformed the way this is our anniversary issue. Corona virus: your questions answered 8 Sawston Scene looks. To our regular readers, thank She’s taken beautiful photos for our covers and Addenbrooke’s hospital 9 you for your support; we’ll sort taught other people how to take them too. She’s Corona virus: myth-busting 10 out those subs forms another time. persuaded many, many Sawston children to pose JHC 11 To those who delivered issues, a massive thank you. beautifully and got permission from their carers for We took advice about how to do it safely from two Age UK 11 them to feature on our pages. She’s been a regular at local scientists, Dr Catherine J. Merrick and Dr Ben Fifty years of SYD 12 village events trying to work out how to make a field Grimshaw, and I am hugely grateful to them for sharing Cambridgeshire Child and Family Centres 14 full of people look interesting. their expertise so generously at a time when everything Sawston Nursery 14 Behind the scenes, she’s converted thousands of was going crazy this week. colour photos into black and white, and learned the Pippins Preschool 15 Editing the magazine has been an upsetting task as black arts of photo editing, right from our first issue Village College 16 report after report listed cancelled events that I knew where she moved a hook out of someone’s head. It was fifty years ago today… 17 had often meant months of preparation. Underneath it She’s also been a wonderful investigative journalist, all I could feel the tremors of everything shifting: Bellbird School 18 delving into village issues and finding out facts from people losing their jobs, businesses losing their Wellcome Genome Campus 18 the people who actually know them – in this, we hope customers, the village in upheaval. I cried, often. Church Institute 19 (once she’s had a break) she will continue. Sawston Scene will do absolutely everything it can to Can flycatchers be spotted? 19 We are hugely grateful to her for all she has done. help this village get back on its feet. But I know that Scouts 20 you, reader, will be doing what you can too. We may be A breath of life 21 thinking that it’s too soon and for now we need to look Nature Notes 22 after ourselves. But… back in January I had a phone call from a reader. “I’ve got a story I want to tell you,” a SERVICES 23 lady said. She told me her name but said she didn’t CORONAVIRUS CHANGES 24 want it printed. “It was my ninetieth birthday so I’d DIRECTORY 26 dyed my hair the brightest pink you ever saw in your Challis Trust 27 life. I’ve never had so much fun or so many kisses! Fun Run 29 “Anyway, I went to buy a lottery ticket at the Spar Village History Society 29 and as I was searching in my bag for some change they Timebank 32 said ‘Don’t worry, it’s paid for.’ There was a man behind me and unbeknownst to me he had paid. I flew out of Royal British Legion 32 the door, but there was nobody in sight. It was one of Libraries 34 the nicest things that’s ever happened to me!” Sawston WI 34 And it’s one of the best phone calls I’ve ever had. Pampisford WI 34 The man who bought that lottery ticket spent just £2, Fond Memories of a Diary Editor 36 and made that lady so happy she wanted to tell the The Diary Editor Goes Digital 36 village. So. No act of kindness is too small. In fact, the District Council report 38 small acts get us into practice for the bigger acts. What will get us through these next months is kindness. Churches 40 Please, please, let’s all try to be kind. Sports Centre 42 Beck Laxton Andy’s Allotment 44 EDITOR Fifty years old 46 April –May 2020 3 cancer ward at collect and Addenbrooke’s where deliver in a safe , Max was treated for a way. Our contact Sawston Scene brain tumour. They are number is 07799 EDITOR Reader s also collecting in 063122. Rachel Beck Laxton anything for the Mckenzie 95 High Street, Sawston, amazing doctors and nurses at Cambridgeshire, CB22 3HJ 01 223 5628 71 Addenbrooke’s that work do hard THREE CHEERS who use [email protected] letters especially at this time! We will A welcome sight for those residents Princess Drive! Irene Gruby SS ADVERTISING John Godwood couldn’t cope for more than a year [email protected] SCENE MEMORIES GRANTA MEDICAL PRACTICES I became involved with Sawston with a young family and career to COPY Scene years ago doing collating by attend to as well. So well done to Dr James Morrow, Managing Partner, 16th March 2020: population the Covid-19 virus is a mild illness which can Yasmin Emerson hand going round andround the you for enduring the last ten years! be safely managed at home with rest, paracetamol and [email protected] table in the room we used at the However, we have stayed as worker CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) UPDATE fluids just like a normal flu-like illness. However, for Free Church. bees for the rest of the first fifty years Unfortunately the number of people affected by the those with significant other medical problems and for PICTURES Chris Glasbey Jean Osborne got me involved. It of the magazine, acting as local coronavirus causing Covid-19 is increasing rapidly and the elderly it can be more serious. 01 223 833700 was a nice group of volunteers and distributors around where we live. this new virus is taking a foothold within our community. With this in mind we have postponed all face-to-face [email protected] we all got on very well. We certainly We have watched the Scene At Granta Medical Practices we have a dedicated GP appointments and some routine nurse appointments. FEATURES got a lot of exercise but it was fun. blossom and grow under a number of Covid emergency team who are meeting daily to discuss This is for both our patients’ safety and the safety of our Marc Kerr I also did some delivering of the editors, notably Jean Osborne (still how we can continue to provide the best possible care staff. Instead we are offering an enhanced telephone [email protected] magazine at one time. I think I only active on the committee – well for our patients. As a practice we are fortunate in having service from clinicians. If you would like to receive a stopped after moving to Stapleford. done, Jean) and yourself (and both multiple sites and a large team of people, including phone call please ring 0300 234 5555 (8am to 6pm, SPORTS Alan Chamley I still enjoy Sawston Scene and Yasmin) over the last decade. those with experience of managing this sort of situation. Monday to Friday) or contact us with non-urgent queries 01 223 836890 I look forward to my copy coming The Sawston Scene is a well This gives us options for delivery of care that are not by email on [email protected]. We will still [email protected] through the door. Long may it established (and award-winning) open to many practices during any epidemic. see patients where it is clinically essential, after we have continue – I know a lot of hard work contributor and resource for the done a remote assessment. We are working hard to make SUBSCRIPTIONS Cheryl Ellis goes into it. Muriel Orchard local community and we are proud UP TO DATE INFORMATION: sure that those who are housebound will continue to 01 223 834853 to be part of its history and delighted At a national level the Public Health England website: receive their medications. [email protected] THE JOY OF COLLATING with its ongoing success. Well done www.gov.uk/government/organisations/public-health-england As a community we can help each other – both by My wife, Jeannette, and I, have been and many congratulations to all and NHS UK website: following the advice given and by helping look after those SALES Jean Osborne involved with the Sawston Scene involved. David and Jeannette Warner www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19 / who may need help within our communities. If you are 01 223 832472 since the very early days but were provide up-to-date information about the national able to volunteer to help out in your immediate area, [email protected] not quite founder members! FORMER EDITOR situation and plans, and health advice. please email your details to [email protected] We were both on the committee It is difficult to comprehend that At Granta we will be keeping our website ACCOUNTS Mike Tapson involved in collating and, in my fifty years have passed since the first www.grantamedicalpractices.co.uk updated regularly to PRACTICAL ADVICE 01 223 500700 case, using Letraset (rub-down dry issue in April 1970.