Cople News March 2023

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Editor’s Notes

The magazine is struggling to retain its advertisers. We’re afraid therefore there may be a time when we have to restrict the Notices we insert in order to keep the number of pages and therefore the printing costs down. Or we may lose the magazine all together, which we don’t think anyone wants.

On a brighter note, there are a few ’Keep the Date’ posters in the magazine regarding the Coronation Celebrations on 8th May; the Cople Sale Trail on 10th June , as well as one for the Cople Proms on 2nd September. There’s nothing like being prepared.

Charlie Porter has included his edited obituary for Malcolm Smith instead of his ‘Down on The Farm’ article, but I’m sure his very eagerly anticipated serial will return next month.

The March meeting of Tuesday Club on 14th March is a talk given by Princess Diana’s Royal Protection Officer, Colin Hill. Should be very interesting. All Welcome, talk starts at 7.30pm in the Village Hall. Non members £3.50 entry fee.

Due to the need to keep the number of pages low, we have been unable to report the Minutes of the January Parish Council Meeting. These may be found on the Parish Council website coplepc.gov.uk. We hope to be able to report them in the March edition. Should you wish to attend the next Parish Council meeting it is on Monday 20th March 2023 at 7.30pm in the Village Hall. Please contact Anne, Parish Council Clerk, by e-mail clerk@cople-pc.gov.uk should you wish to raise any matters.

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Libby & Linda

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Letter from the Vicar

Dear Friends,

I always enjoy the arrival of the month of March and the season of Spring! It has been much hinted at with the flowering snowdrops and the emerging daffodils, but it has finally arrived. And for Christian’s, March is typically a month of journeying through Lent, towards Palm Sunday and the dramatic events of Holy Week and Easter.

The 4th Sunday of Lent, the halfway point, is Mothering Sunday, or more commonly known nowadays as Mother’s Day. It’s a day when we give thanks to God for our mothers, and often treat them to dinner! But in the church, it holds a slightly different meaning. Mothering Sunday was a feast day in the middle of Lent, a day’s break from fasting. Some years ago, it was the day that people would journey home to their ‘mother’ church. The church that they were baptised in, or that held a special significance. Often those who worked in the service of the big estates, either as maids or working the land, were given the day off to travel to their mother church, and often would see their families as well. Often gifts were exchanged, and a celebration would be held on what was a rare day off for people in the past.

Before the days of car ownership and mobile phones, family gatherings like this were rare and so were duly celebrated! Life now is very different, but in many ways, we still observe a similar tradition, with many people making an effort to spend special time with their family. Of course, it isn’t always an easy day for everyone, for many it can be sad day of remembering someone who has died, and for others it can be painful when relationships have not been very healthy. In church, we always pray for those for whom the day is difficult one. Ultimately in the broadest terms it’s a day where we show our love and appreciation for those who have cared for, nurtured us and loved us during our lives.

We often mark Mothering Sunday with a special service and give flowers out those who attend. This year it falls on the 19th March and there are services across the Benefice. At All Saints Cople, there will be an 11.00am family service with some of our young musicians playing during the service. We would be delighted to welcome you along!

With every blessing, Lynne

Plans are underway to celebrate King Charles III’s Coronation

On Bank Holiday Monday 8th May from 2.00pm

Events will take place at the Sports and Social Club and playing field.

There will be live music, BBQ, bouncy castle and a music quiz.

In the evening there will be a live band at The Five Bells from 7.00pm

More details and more detailed programme inthenext editionof Cople News

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Malcolm Smith Obituary—Charlie Porter

Malcolm was born in Silsoe, where his father Richard was stockman on the County Council farm. Malcolm loved his time in Silsoe and was learning all about farming & developing a love for sheep. One of his favourite memories from this time was about when his father was preparing his pedigree Ryeland rams for showing. To help the rams to get used to being around people, Malc’s dad would regularly bring his rams on their halters into the house at lunch times & tie them up to the legs of the kitchen table. Quite what his mother Edith thought about we can only imagine.

When Malc, was 14 his father took on a new job at Milton Ernest as pigman for Ibbet and Mckay, who were to become Bedfordia Farms. The family all now moved into Village farm, Milton Ernest.

Malc went to Harold school till he left at 15. But this was time enough for him to become friends with 13-year-old Valerie Riseley. The friendship developed as they spent time at the local youth club playing table tennis, & Val supporting Malc in his cross country running, at which he excelled.

They got engaged & were married at Oakley Church on 28th March 1959, he was 19 & Val 17. Malc’s first job was for Bedfordia Farms, where he used to work on the land alongside the bosses son, Clifton Ibbet, & a lifelong friendship developed. However, in 1962 he saw a job advertised by my father, Ralph, at Wood End. He decided to go for it, taking note of his father’s words, ”Look at his hedges & ditches boy, if they’re not in good order don’t take the job”. Well, they must have been alright because he took the job & was to remain here till he retired 1n 2004.

He & pregnant Val, along with their two children Graham & Angela, moved into Water End, in the Autumn of 1962. Soon after Val moved back to live with Malc’s parents for 6 weeks, for the arrival & early days of their second daughter, Christine.

It was then that the winter of 62/63 kicked in & Malc’s only form of transport to get to work in Cople was a little moped. But he was not deterred, & every day he made the journey there & back to Milton Ernest in the most awful weather conditions imaginable. He used to recall that when he got back to Milton Ernest at night time, he used to STAND his ex-army Great Coat in-front of the fire to thaw out !

When Val moved back to Cople with baby Christine, it was to be to No 18 Northill Road, where in 1965 their family was completed when little Richard was born. Being an excellent footballer & cricketer, his sporting prowess was soon put to use in the Village. His footballing career was curtailed because of a broken leg, but he carried on playing cricket until he was in his 50s. He was initially a regular first team player, & then went on to captain the second team for many years. His one regret was that he never scored a century. He once got to 98, & then, much to his fury, the village umpire, Ted Hull, abandoned play because of bad light.

Those of us here connected with farming, especially me, will know of Malcolm’s many exceptional skills on the farm, & these were written about in last month’s magazine. As time moved on, Malc had great pride in watching his children grow up & excel in their chosen careers. Sadly, this was not to be the case for Richard who was just starting out to keep on the family tradition of working on the land. He tragically lost his life in a farm accident at the age of 16. This shook the family to the core, but they pulled together & managed to come through this saddest of times. Malc & Val had always been great supporters of the village church, & the Revd Christopher Hewitson was able to give them tremendous spiritual & emotional help at this difficult time.

Eighteen months after this loss, the opportunity arose for Malc & Val to move to the cottage at Wood End & was where they were to spend the rest of their married lives.

Apart from working hard, Malcolm also now threw himself into helping to build the Sports & Social Club. The camaraderie of his fellow workers like the Minneys, Gregorys, Newberrys, Hallidays & Heggies, the learning of new skills & the satisfaction of giving something back to the village was a great comfort to him. Back on the farm, these newly learned building skills were to prove to be very beneficial when we started to convert old redundant buildings into units & stables. Initially he wasn’t too sure about the arrival of livery horses onto the farm, but he quickly realised that it was nice to have new people & animals on the farm. The horses soon got to know him as the man with a pocket full of Polos, & the owners knew him as the one who would always pull their legs in his own, possibly fairly politically incorrect, manner!

We had many laughs together, usually involving his false teeth, his pipe, or often both. On one occasion he had just got a new set of false teeth because his pipe had worn an enormous groove in the old set. As I was passing the farm workshop, I heard this curious grinding noise coming out. On peering inside I saw Malc, rusty file in hand, setting about his brand-new teeth that were clamped in the oily old farm vice. When I enquired whatever he was doing, he replied that he didn’t like these blooming new teeth because his pipe kept on falling out, so he was making a groove in them for his pipe to slot into, just like in the old set!

With the family now all married, he was thrilled when he became a grandfather, 7 times over & 8 times a great grandfather.

Away from family & farm, Malcolm had many other skills & pastimes. In the countryside he loved shooting & was an excellent shot, he was a dab hand at rabbit snaring & ferreting which provided many meals for family & village friends. He also used to go on several local shoots where he was a highly valued & respected beater. Although not a pub man, he loved pub sports, & excelled at Skittles, Dominoes, Cribbage & Darts, competing at many clubs & pubs across the county. See over.

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In his retirement, Malcolm reverted to a skill that he had excelled in at school, carpentry. This came as quite a surprise to me because when we did woodworking jobs on the farm, he was very much the farmer carpenter, basically using a 2-pound hammer & a 6 inch nail! It all began when Graham bought home some wood off cuts from work to use as logs. Malcolm thought that this was a terrible waste & came up with a design to make these blocks into flower tubs. These proved very popular as gifts & so he developed a workshop & expanded his range. Before long this included flower tubs, bird boxes, model tractors, owl boxes &, most impressively, even dovecotes.

Malcolm also developed his garden into a real wildlife haven, attracting an amazing array of wildlife. Apart from scores of normal garden birds, his other visitors included Deer, Foxes, Badgers, Snakes, Hares & Rabbits & even on one occasion, an otter. I think that one of his favourite wildlife sightings was when he & Val saw a baby deer & a leveret preening one another in the garden. Our resident Mallards soon discovered that Malcolm’s patio was a good place to visit for a snack, & if he didn’t put any food out for them, they simply pecked on his patio doors till he did. On one famous occasion when there was no food out, a brood of 12 ducklings, on finding the house door open, simply walked in, went straight through the kitchen & into the sitting room, quacked at him as he sat in his chair, & walked out onto the patio to wait for their snack!

Sadly, 7 years ago Malc was diagnosed with Lung Cancer. But due to a very early diagnosis & amazing treatment by the wonderful team at Papworth Hospital, he had 5 years of good health. Sadly, it returned 2 years ago, & life wasn’t so easy for him then, but he carried on stoically, as he always did.

Then, over the last couple of months his body had simply had enough, & he had to have a spell back in Papworth, but he managed to get strong enough to be able to return to Wood End. It is thanks to Papworth, Sue Ryder, his Carers, District Nurses & of course his lovely family, that he was able to spend his last few weeks in this life in the home that he loved.

Easter Lilies

If you would like to purchase an Easter Lily, in memory of a loved one, at a price of £4.00

Please contact June Thomas 01234 831705.

They will be displayed on the altar and window sills in the church.

Blunham Community Cinema Village Hall, Blunham MK44 3NN

We present on Friday 31st March 2023 ‘Phantom of the Open’ (Cert PG starring Mark Rylance, Sally Hawkins and Jake Davies. Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, manages to gain entry to the 1976 British Open Golf Championship qualification round despite being a complete novice.

Doors open 7pm , film starts promptly at 7.30pm. Adults £5.00 Confectionary and drinks available.

For tickets or any further information contact Margot 01767 640938 or 07783 046020.

Blunham and District Gardening Club.

Blunham Village Hall, MK44 3NN.

Tuesday 7th March 2023 from 7.30pm

The speaker will be Kerry Barehead taking about ‘ Roses do’s and don’t’. Visitors are welcome.

For further information contact Brenda Leaf 01767 640623.

Cople Sports Football Club

Now into their 7th season, Cople Sports FC have found themselves in the region's top division which promises to bring some of the best teams in the county to the mighty Cople Arena. Matches start at 10.30am on Sundays and support is always appreciated.

Upcoming fixtures include: -

26.02 Kings XI FC (H)

05.03 Priory Park Eagles (H)

19.03 Kempston Rovers (A)

26.03 Denham Raptors (H)

David Hughes

Tel: 01234 838669 (Home) or 07973 148927 (Mobile)

Mobile Library News—March 2023

The mobile library is visiting the village fortnightly on a Wednesday. It will call at: -

All Saints Road 10.00 - 10.20am; Water End—10.25 - 10.40am and The Five Bells—10.45 -11.05am.

The dates for March are 1st and 15th

Knit and Stitch

Come and meet your friends in the Five Bells on alternate Fridays from 10.00am until 12.00noon.

The dates for March are 3rd & 17th

Bring your knitting, crochet, embroidery or just bring along yourself to chat & enjoy coffee & cake.

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COPLE TUESDAY CLUB

On Tuesday 14th February we listened so a sometimes unsettling talk by Suzanne from the Teenage Cancer Trust. She informed us that the usual adult Cancer ward situation is not right for teenagers (nor is the babies ward). They benefit from rooms decorated as they may have at home and from get-together spaces. There are now 28 Teenage Cancer Trust Wards in NHS Trust hospitals in the UK. Our nearest one being Addenbrookes which opened in 2012.

During the pandemic the Teenage Cancer Trust lost 1/2 of their funding, that is £6m; however, support for their patients continued digitally throughout.

The funds raised by the ‘Bring & Buy’ sale will be sent to The Teenage Trust. This raised £300 for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

The next meeting is on 14th March when Colin Hill, a retired Royal Protection Officer will tell us all about ‘Dancing with Diana.’

All are Welcome, non-members £3.50. Talk starts at 7.30pm in Cople Village Hall. Eithne

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• Gutter and facia cleaning and repair.

• Chimney and brickwork repointing and repair.

• Any other ladder related work.

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FOODBANK COLLECTION

Dear Cople Residents, We are doing another Foodbank Collection on Saturday 4th March 2023 . Please put any items of food on your doorstep or in clear sight so when the volunteers drive/walk by they can see your donation.

We will be collecting between 09.30 and 11.00am.

Items requested by the Foodbank are as follows:UHT Milk. Long Life Fruit Juice, Long Life Sponge Puddings, Cupa-Soup, Tinned Tuna, 1kg Bags of Rice, Jars of Pasts Sauce, Tinned Rice Pudding, Tinned Fruit, Tinned Carrots, Tinned Soups, 250g tins of Ham/Chicken.

If your items seem to have been missed on the day, please call Louise on 07738 999273.

All contributions are gratefully appreciated.

Mother’s Union

In January, around 23 members from the Northern Cluster area attended an Epiphany Service in Northill Church. Our MU Chaplin Jane gave the talk and we enjoyed fellowship over refreshments in Northill Church Hall.

At our meeting in February, members brought along their favourite book or poem and we listened to some serious and lighthearted readings. Pat was thanked for hosting us and providing our refreshments.

Next month we shall be meeting on Friday 24th March at 2.00pm in St Andrew’s Church, Biggleswade. This is the Lady Day Service, a festival of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. At this Cluster event, each group or branch will bring their banner/

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Prayer—Mothering Sunday

Thank you Lord, for our mothers. We remember today their loving care, and their ceaseless love for us.

May we show them by our gifts, our words and our actions that we love them and care about them too.

BIG THANK YOU

Val, Graham, Angela & Christine would like to Thank everyone who came to Malcolm’s funeral on the 1st February. What a wonderful send off he had.

We would like to say a special Thank You to Charlie & Carolyn, Richard & Maureen, Carers and many more. To our Vicar Lynne, who had an unknown problem to be solved.

It’s now up to us as a family to pick ourselves up with the love & prayers we keep receiving through this sad time.

We will let you know how much was raised for the chosen charities in due course.

Best wishes

Val & family.

Cople Church monthly Coffee mornings 2023 (4th Saturday of the month)

Come and enjoy meeting friends in the beautiful surroundings of Cople Church.

Please make a note in your diaries of the following dates. A different group/committee will run the coffee morning each month. All Welcome.

25th March - 10.30am—12.00noon Sunday School helpers/ young mums

22nd April - 10.30am - 12.00noon Lunch Club committee

27th May- 10.30am—12.00noon Knit and Stitch Group

10th June 10.00am - 2.00pm Sale Trail and mini fete with refreshments (NOTE - this is in place of the coffee morning on the 4th Saturday)

22nd July - 10.30am - 12.00noon Tuesday Club

August - no coffee morning due to holiday

23rd September - 10.30am—12.00noon The Friends of Cople Church

28th October - 10.30am 12.00noon Mothers' Union

25th November - 10.30am 12.00noon Cople PCC

Village Litter Pick

Saturday

Millennium Wood update

By the time you read this the volunteer group will have completed their winter tasks of cutting down some of the smaller or overcrowded trees and creating some more dead hedging for wildlife. Just in case you are wondering: the contractors will, next winter, take out the tree stumps that we have left, as it is much easier for us to saw down the saplings at waist height rather than close to the ground.

I would like to say a big Thank You to all of the volunteers for their time, effort and enthusiasm. We are only a small team, but it is surprising what a few people can achieve in a couple of hours, including time for a chat and coffee break - you have to get your priorities right! More volunteers are always welcome though.

The wood is already full of bird song and activity: I have seen several blue tits staking their claim on the bird boxes so spring is just round the corner. Many thanks to those of you who donated snowdrops from their gardens last winter and I hope that you have had the opportunity to take a walk through the wood to see them flower. If any of you would like to donate some more this year or plant them in memory of a loved one, just send me a quick email.

During the last volunteer session as we were processing the cut branches into dead hedging, I wondered if we could be more creative. If you have an interest in land art and have some ideas, please get in touch.

Enjoy the birdsong and sunshine!

Marie marie@cmjdg.com

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If you are looking for a space to host a regular class or group event, please do get in touch to discuss your requirements.

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Cople Village Trust

Working Group for Cople PlaygroundMonday 28th November 2022

This is a summary of the meeting, the full minutes can be found at the following address: - https://tinyurl.com/copletrust281122

• Marie Hinkley welcomed people to the meeting and introduced the attending members of the Cople Village Trust and Catherine Bayliss (Chairperson of the CVT) explained the function of the Trust and gave details of its funding and outgoings included the statement that any upgrade of the playground could not be financed by the Trust and would have to be resourced from grants.

• Marie outlined the purpose of a play area, and a Power Point slide was shown covering the aspects of safety that require consideration. Marie also provided a summary of feedback to a survey carried out earlier in the year.

• An outline of the requirements sent to contractors was given to the meeting. Despite sending our requirements to 7 companies, only 3 responded with plans as follows: -

Timotay; Wicksteed; HAGS

Marie explained that we are not obliged to take the plans as presented but can request alterations. Whilst we can retain some of the existing equipment this could inhibit aspects of the new design.

• Attendees were given the opportunity to view all the plans, followed by a count of hands as follows: -

Timotay - 3 votes; Wicksteed - 2 votes; HAGS - 15 votes

In light of the feedback given, the Trust will return to HAGS with suggested amendments and confirmation on the surface being used.

Marie managed attendees’ expectations by pointing out: -

a) It is unlikely any major developments will happen in the next 18 months.

b) It is necessary to apply for grants and two possible sources of funding are Rural Funding and Belway Homes based in Milton Keynes.

Residents, who would like to take part in the working party that will take the plan forward, are very welcome to contact any of the trustees of the Village Trust.

My contact details are as follows:Jane Barnard 01234 838004 or JaneB2014@hotmail.com

Gardening March 2023

The sudden dramatic changes in temperature are making life a little tricky for gardeners at the moment although it is heartening to see the first signs of spring daring to reveal themselves; forsythias, in some gardens at least, going into flower, primroses illuminating the gloom and for some lucky people, aconites (Eranthis hyemalis) are glistening like scattered jewels.

Related to buttercups these enchanting, waxy, though highly toxic flowers, provide much to gladden your eye. Of course, the real harbinger of warmer, brighter times is of course the daffodil and their annual blitzkrieg upon our senses is imminent. Forgot to plant any? Ready grown options are available and work their wonder in exactly the same way and I urge any of you struggling with the state of the world currently to treat yourself to a couple and place in locations where you will see them most frequently. The easiest way I know of planting some sunshine!

Last month’s just for fun question asked, your next-door neighbour cuts a shrub their side so that in time, the material growing on your side will wither and die leaving you to have to get rid of the material. Are you legally within your rights to throw the debris back over the fence? In short, the answer is ‘no’. Although a resident is permitted to cut material that overhangs their boundary, throwing the cut material back over the fence is absolutely not what the law instructs us to do. The responsible and law abiding citizen is, supposed to offer the debris to the owners of the host plant and if they do not wish to accept it, the responsibility of disposal lies with the person who cut it. In my experience, simply throwing clippings over a boundary is universally disliked and a very easy way of souring relations, even if the problem was created by the neighbours in the first place.

This month’s just for fun question is, which one of these is the common name of a plant: Stink Horn, Stinking Bishop, Stinking Iris. And what, if anything, are the remaining two? Answer next month!

For all those that have asked, the answers to this year’s Christmas Quiz are as follows: -

1. Which plant takes its name from the Italian phrase for beautiful women? Belladonna.

2. Which grain is used to make semolina? Wheat.

3. Which plant, widespread in Britain, if touched causes a serious chemical reaction which makes skin hypersensitive to ultraviolet light? Giant Hogweed.

4. Which kings lived at Kew Palace at Kew Gardens? George II & George III.

5. Which garden plant in the17th century was exchanged as a form of currency? Tulips in The Netherlands.

6. What is the art of cutting shrubs into ornamental shapes called? Topiary.

7. Soil can be acidic, alkaline or what? Neutral.

8. Where is the biggest tree in the world, giant sequoia, found? California, USA.

9. What fruit hit, or more likely fell, near Isaac Newton and helped him develop the law of gravity? Apple.

10. I am a woody stemmed plant, usually branched near the base and lacking a single trunk.... what am I? A shrub.

11. On which continent did broccoli originate? Europe.

12. What herb beginning with ‘A’ has soothing properties? Aloe Vera.

13. Roughly, how many varieties of avocado are there? 5, 50, 500 or 5,000? 500.

14. For how long can seeds remain dormant? Months, a few days, years or one season? Years.

15. How long does it take to produce asparagus the first time you plant it? 2 to 3 Years.

If you have any similar words of wisdom, as always, please send them to me and I will include them in future articles.

All correspondence can be emailed to lawndocgardens@aol.com or posted to: - Lawn Doctor Garden Services, 14 Sand Lane, Northill, SG18 9AD. As usual, please contact me with any gardening queries or tasks you may have.

Tree Care, Planting, Weeding, Hedge Trimming, Turfing, Jungle Clearing, Landscaping, Lawn Improvement, Patio/Drive Pressure Washing/ Weedkilling, Holiday Watering etc., etc.

Knit & Stitch

Contact: Hazel Shreeves

Tel: 01234 838817

Mothers Union

Contact: Jill Ebbs

Tel: 01234 838659

Cople Village Trust

Chair: Catherine Bayliss

Tel: 01234 838704

Cople Sports & Social Club

Chair: David Hughes

Tel: 01234 838669

Tuesday Club

Contact: Joy Duthie

Tel: 01234 838407

Cople Carpet Bowls Club

Contact: Pauline Baynes

Tel: 01234 838102

Cople Web Site

Contact: Ian Whiting

Tel: 01234 838347

Email: ian@cople.org.uk

Web Site: www.cople.org.uk

Village Agent

Wendy Worgan

Tel:0800 039 1234

Mobile: 07717 269440

wendyw@bedsrcc.org.uk

Cople Parish Council

Clerk: Anne Pape

Tel: 01234 376645

clerk@cople-pc.gov.uk

https://cople-pc.gov.uk/

All Saints Church

The current contact details for Cople Church are as follows:Tel: 01234 974722. email: cmwvicar@gmail.com

Churchwardens

June Thomas Julie Scherrer

34 Grange Lane 26 Grange Way

Cople, Beds Willington, Beds

MK44 3TT MK44 3QW

Tel: 01234 831705 Tel: 01234 838623

juneshanahan748@btinternet.com julie@scherrer.co.uk

villagehallenquiries@cople.org.uk or phone 07967 830790

Website: www.cople.org.uk/village hall