The 100 Club Draw

Apologies. For some reason we think due to the early December deadline for the January issue, we don't believe that the January 2023 winners were published. A full list of the whole year's winners is published elsewhere.

January 2023

1st Prize - £50 - Sean Taylor.

2nd Prize - £40 - Duncan Tomlinson.

3rd Prize - £30 - Gillian Antosiewicz.

4th Prize - £20 - Jack Allen.

If you want to buy a ticket for the next round of ten draws starting next May then please contact me direct at bobpaine2002@hotmail.com or call me on 01296 680483 and we will organise it. Thank you!

Phrases that need to be cut from our language...

Cut From…..might encourage another Merchant of Venice moment

Swanning along…. Most swans may look serene but they are grumpy and their little feet are probably doing overtime.

Out for a Duck…. What sort of duck? And why is it out?

Boys will be boys…until they decide otherwise

Fight the Good Fight…..advocating violence

Don’t throw pearls to swine…..Defra would have a fit.

Don’t cry over spilt milk….the Lactose intolerant are not complaining if the milk gets spilt.

Toast always falls butter-side down …..vegetarian version required, and would need testing too, margarine may have different aerodynamics

Only fools and horses work…..tell that to Bod

Hi everyone!

As we enter the second half of 2023’s first term, spring seems to finally be in the air and we definitely have a spring in our steps here at nursery. We like to get outside as much as possible with the children, but this has been a little ‘challenging’ with all the bad weather, so it will be so nice to get them out for lots of lovely fresh air again and for them to experience all the new life popping up around us.

One way we will be doing that going forward is by taking the children to help us grow lots of lovely fruits and vegetables as we tentatively start off our new kitchen garden. It’s definitely still in it’s infancy (with only garlic planted so far!) but we hope to be adding lots more so the children can get outside and get green fingered.

This will be a fantastic learning opportunity for all the children. Not only will it help them with their understanding of the world around them, the environment and where their food comes from, but it can encompass all the seven areas of learning from literacy when reading and writing the tags for the plants, to early maths skills when counting the seeds and offer wonder activities for their physical and personal/social development.

And hopefully it will get those little taste buds exploring lots of different flavours, textures and tastes.

Early maths skills is something that is very important in the EYFS and it is something we like to weave into our routine and activities at every opportunity, but this term we have used numbers as our first topic of the term. We like our children to have a solid understanding of numbers and be able to recognise, match and sort.

To help with this the children have been using numbers in all sorts of different and wonderful ways, even seeing how many sticky spaghetti hoops they could pick up on a chopstick, counting them and then comparing how many they had to their peers!

And only a few got eaten!!

from everyone here at Cublington Nursery x

Cublington Nursery offers flexible sessional care for 2,3 and 4 year olds. Funded and non funded places are available. For more information or to book a visit please visit our website www.cublington nursery.co.uk

Ridings cottage

Dear Crier

Another brilliant read, thank you.

I share your views on the planning app. A compromise is required and hopefully, without too much persuasion, the planning department would wish the development to be in character with the village. The appearance of and the number permitted are visually acceptable as the new houses in Swanbourne.

I was involved in roofing cottage style houses with second hand peg tiles and by packing the battens on odd rafters, created undulations in the levels. The interior was designed and built in a similar vein. All modern energy saving systems produced homes that conformed yet looked old. The developer should be able to achieve a good return by building fewer larger units.

As you say the property cannot be listed so this seems the only route to take.

I have tried to find Ridings Way in old documents without success but I did find that the Biggs family came to Cublington when Christopher Biggs from Great Horwood married Elizabeth Gates in 1735. You probably know this!

I can provide a copy of Benjamin Biggs will in 1840 should you wish.

Kind regards

Graham Banfield Wingfield Farm.

11th March 2023: Trees to be planted in North Field in memory of the late Queen Elizabeth II

Orchard Ground Association has received a grant of £1,869.00 from The Tree Council to buy 35 trees to mark and celebrate the life and reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II. Trees include seven red oaks to mark seven decades of her reign and nine scots pines to mark the nine decades of her life. The scots pines being a reminder of Cublington's links with Queen Victoria whose scots pine trees can be seen off Reeds Lane; these were given by her in 1897 to mark her diamond jubilee. Queen Elizabeth II was Queen Victoria’s great great granddaughter. Other trees to be planted include English Oak, Hornbeam, Field Maple, Crab Apple, Hawthorn and Bird Cherry, all of which will help to give some height to the copse and woodland areas on North Field.

A joint Cublington Parish Council and Orchard Ground tree planting morning is planned for Saturday 11th March meeting in the Biggs Pavilion from 9.30am to 12.00 midday. Activity groups and clubs in Cublington will be invited to plant a tree. There will be opportunities for village families to plant trees and also for grandparents and their grandchildren too. To enable as many families, grandparents and grandchildren to take part as possible, trees can be planted before 11th March including during the February half term week. Please let Martyn Waters know if as a family, or as a grandparent along with your grandchildren, you would like to plant one of these trees: martyn.waters@icloud.com M: 07973754356.