2022 10 Wickham Skeith Newsletter

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Wickham Skeith Newsletter

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October 2022 Feb2022

All in the Village Hall unless otherwise stated.

Friday 30th September Macmillan Coffee morning 10-12 in Village Hall

October 2022

Saturday 1st Annual Village Garage Sales from 9am

Saturday 8th Crafternoon 2-4pm

Saturday 8th Country Dance evening with bring-and-share buffet 7pm

Monday 10th Village Hall Committee at 8pm All Welcome

Tuesday 11th Bounty of Autumn (Hilltops) at 7.45pm

Wednesday 12th Lunch Club at 12.00 for 12.30 Advance Bookings Please

Friday 14th Dessert evening 7pm

Wed 19th

“Orlando Whistlecraft: A Victorian Suffolk Weather Prophet" 7.45 pm

Thursday 20th Mobile Library 2 x stops at 9.45 & 10.05

Saturday 22nd Bar Night at the Village Hall

Tuesday 25th Gardening Club Adrian Bloom to speak 7.30pm

Saturday 29th Books & jigsaw sale 10am @ Highbanks, 1 Broadway

November 2022

Monday 7th Parish Council 7.30 pm All Welcome

Thursday 17th Mobile Library 2 x stops at 9.45 & 10.05

Saturday 19th Christmas Pudding Stir-up 10am

Saturday 26th Village Quiz 7.30pm

M M I T T E E N E W

At the last committee meeting there was a consensus of those present that a 'card reader' would be a good investment for the Village Hall as it worked well at the Music on the Green event. It will be purchased as soon as possible. The Music on the Green was a very successful afternoon from all sorts of views-lots of people came, it was very social, the music was varied and well performed and a profit was made for the Village Hall. Thank you to everybody who contributed in any way. It was felt that this could be repeated next year and should be an outdoor event.

Future events

Garage Sales around the village on Saturday 1st October. At least 24 sites around the locality. Bacon rolls, tea, coffee and maps in the village hall. (Thanks to Romaine and Jeanne)

Saturday 8th October Country Dance with caller. A 7pm start with a pot luck supperbring something along which can be shared as a finger buffet please-thus only £3 per person entry; £1 per child. The bar will be open

Saturday 22nd October bar night-no food-board games, puzzles and challenges. And socializing!

Saturday 26th November our annual challenge from Nigel for the Village Quiz. Team, or individual, entries to him before the date please. Start at 7:30pm with a cold collation provided for a meal at the halfway stage. £7.50 per person.

30th December Plum Pudding Walk 27th January Burns' Night Supper

And a Potential Future event: Italian Night 18th February

There are ongoing maintenance works planned for the front porch, guttering and woodwork around the building.

During Lockdown our monthly electricity charges were £30 per month-they had been £80 previous to that. They are now £155 per calendar month which is a steep rise-as we have all noticed with our home bills. Unfortunately, this means that, from January 2023, the cost of hiring the hall will rise to £10 per hour for those outside the village and £7.50 per hour for villagers.

The next meeting will be on 10th October at 8pm in the Village Hall. Jenny Elphick will chair.

Lunch Club

Our September Lunch Club cooks did a great job. Graham Hayne cooked pulled pork with the most amazing Hasselback potatoes and cauliflower cheese. Thanks to Kevin Knights for kindly donating the potatoes. Margaret Jones Evans prepared us a truly colourful summer pudding with cream. After a cup of tea or coffee and the usual raffle prize draw everyone went home happy and replete.

Thanks to all those who made this occasion a success. Next club is on 12th October at 12.00. The cost is £4.

If you wish to book a place, please contact Jenny Elphick by Friday 9th September by phone 01449 766885 or mobile 07745416091 or email at jenny.elphick@sim.org

Hilltop Women’s Group

Our September meeting, hosted by Liz and Peter Davidson, was very successful. Their presentation, on the theme of “Who do you think you are?” took us through the processes involved in finding out information about family history.

An excellent introduction, using their own family examples to show how to be your own personal detective, gleaning so much information from one certificate to lead you onward, utilising all manner of records and documents to take you back in time. Thank you both so much.

Our October meeting on Tuesday 11th at 7.45 in the village hall, will be a souper! evening!

Sampling the Bounty Of Autumn, with seasonal tastes and their corresponding recipes Inspiration too from creative sources.

Come along for a taste of the season, a mix of ideas, and a warm, social, local event. First timers welcome!

Visitors £3.00. Details from Margaret Knights, Sue Merriam or any other committee member.

History Group

Orlando Whistlecraft was a remarkable local character who lived in Thwaite in the 19th century. He wrote regular articles for local papers with his weather predictions & published many books & almanacs on meteorology throughout his long life.

Kevin Pulford at Suffolk Archives has been researching his life & will be giving a talk entitled “Orlando Whistlecraft – A Victorian Suffolk Weather Prophet" as well as bringing a number of items for us to see. We are hoping that people from Thwaite & Stoke Ash will be joining us.

All are welcome so do join us in the Village Hall at 7.45pm on Wed 19 Oct. Entry Fee £3, including tea/coffee and biscuits.

Contact: Pete Davidson 07951 020998 or pjdavidson42@gmail.com

Gardening Club

On October 25th we welcome Adrian Bloom - gardener, author and nurseryman. Adrian is also a past presenter on Gardeners World and has been awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour by the RHS.

Starting from an empty meadow in 1967 Adrian and his wife began creating their garden and now, more than 50 years later, Foggy Bottom is a world renowned 6-acre garden full of colour and year-round interest and part of the larger 17-acre Bressingham gardens in Norfolk.

Adrian will tell us some of the story of how the garden ‘grew on him’ and why he believes that the devil is in the detail.

The meeting will be held at Wickham Skeith village hall and start at 7.30pm. As usual all are welcome - non-member fee is £3 for the evening. Tea/coffee included.

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Recent winning numbers: Aug – 38, 19. Sep – 6, 9, 15.

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The MacMillan coffee morning will be in the village hall from 10-12 on Friday 30th September.

Please come along for a hot drink, cake and raffle to support this amazing and vital charity. Bring and buy too. All contributions, edible or monetary are most welcome.

Phone Sue , 766222 for details.

If you can’t make it, just pop your donation in an envelope in the letterbox of Sue Merriam or Margaret Knights. We will wait a week or so before sending the full amount to the charity. Thank you.

‘Crafternoon’ Saturday 8th October 2-4pm

Whatever your art or craft bring along your current project.

Share skills, ideas, tips and techniques. Inspire and be inspired in the company of other creative people. If you have an ‘arty’ or ‘crafty’ friend then bring them too.

Surplus art/craft items & books to sell? Bring them for the bring and buy table.

Entry: £2.00 per person (inc. tea/coffee/biscuits).

Book Sale Fund Raiser for St Andrew’s Church

29th October 10am will be the last book sale for this year.

We don’t know what Covid will bring this winter so the book sales will stop after the October one until the weather gets warmer. Do come to buy books and jigsaws, jam and chutney at Highbanks, 1, Broadway. Phone 01449 767121 with queries.

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P A R I S H C O U N C

MINUTES of the PARISH COUNCIL MEETING held MONDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER 2022 at the Village Hall, Wickham Skeith.

Present: Cllrs T Thorogood (Chair), K Knights, M Appleby. County Cllr: A. Stringer. District Cllr: R Warboys. Also present: 4 members of the public. Apologies received from R Palmer, J Keable, T Rowe. Clerk: H Roberts.

1. 05/09/22: Chairman’s Welcome.

2. 05/09/22: a). To receive members’ Declarations of Interest on Agenda items. None received. b). To consider requests for dispensations. None received.

3. 05/09/22: The minutes of the meeting of the Council held 11 July 2022 were not yet available.

4. 05/09/22: Village Forum. The condition of the Grimmer was raised with a request that work be undertaken to remove some of the overgrowth of weed. It was agreed this would be planned within the wider Green work party plan. Councillor Warboys suggested contacting MSDC Environmental Officer for advice.

A resident had raised the issue of Himalayan Balsam along the river Dove and had offered to clear some of this for the landowners. This invitation was accepted by Councillors.

Cllr Appleby informed the meeting that she had followed up reports from the last Village Forum into lack of signs and poor visibility of signs at a number of locations. The Highways Authority responded and have agreed to resolve the lack of signs concerning no bridleway access around Church Meadows. They did not feel action need to be taken re No Through Road sign into Daisy Green Lane.

5. 05/09/22: To receive reports from County and District Councillors, Police, Parish Clerk and Parish Councillors.

5.1 05/09/22: SCC: Cllr Stringer’s report. Cllr Stringer sent his report to the council, and a copy is available on the parish council website. In particular Councillor Stringer drew attention to local initiatives to provide warm spaces during the coming winter and that support would be available to Village Halls to offer events as Warm Rooms. People were advised to contact the County Council if facing difficulties due to energy costs.

5.2 05/09/22: MSDC: Cllr Warboys’ report was received. A copy is available on the Council’s website. Cllr Warboys reminded the Parish Council that his Locality Budget was open for new bids.

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5.3 and 5.4 05/09/22: Parish Clerk’s report (including Police report). The Clerk was unavailable to present his final report. The meeting noted the outstanding actions to be undertaken by the new clerk. No Police report was available but it was noted that a break-in had taken place in the village in the period.

6 05/09/22: Correspondence Received. None received

7 05/09/22 Finance. No financial matters available to discuss.

8. 05/09/22:

Planning Matters:

8.1 05/09/22 MSDC Planning Consultation Request - DC/22/03870 – RES Detailed Planning Application has been submitted in respect of the 2019 OPP for the two houses next to 1 Grange Road. It was agreed that the Parish Council should respond reiterating its pervious comments about the placing of the garages to provide buffers between the new houses and neighbouring properties.

8.2.05/09/22 Notification of Planning Appeal - AP/22/00023 It was noted that the applicant re The Orchard site had appealed the decision by District Council to reject the application.

8.3 05/09/22 Application. No: DC/22/03417 It was noted that the District Council had given permission for the removal of trees, hedge and shrub in the garden of 124-126 The Green against Parish Council’s response.

9. 05/09/22: Matters for next agenda.

Village Green Working Party, Emergency Plan, Locality Budget and CIL funds

10. 05/09/22: Staff Matters

A local candidate had been appointed to the position of Clerk and Finance Officer. He was unable to be present at the meeting. It was agreed to commence his employment from 1 October 2022. It was agreed that he should take up the opportunity for training for his new role.

11. 05/09/22: Next Meeting: Monday, 7th November 2022, 7.30pm, in the Village Hall.

R E W ’ S C H U R C H ~

Church of England, Wickham Skeith

Facebook: @bactonbenefice

Rector: The Revd Carl Melville, The Rectory, Bacton, IP14 4LJ 01449 781650, email: carlmelville@hotmail.com

Wardens: Liz Davidson 766622 and Margaret Jones-Evans 767121

Services in October 2022

All services at 9.30am in church unless otherwise stated

2nd Oct All Age Communion

9th Oct Café Church

16th Oct Holy Communion

23rd Oct Morning Prayer

30th Oct 10.30am Benefice Communion & Confirmation Service at Old Newton Forotherbeneficeservices,pleaseviewourFacebookpage.

Weekly Email and News – if you’d like to sign up to receive our weekly news email, please contact the Rector.

Confirmation Service – on Sunday 30th October we welcome Bishop Mike who will be Confirming our candidates. The service will be at 10.30am in St Mary’s Old Newton followed by a bring and share lunch in the Methodist Chapel Hall.

Sponsored Ride and Stride – thanks to all who supported the Ride and Stride in September, particularly to Pete Davidson who cycled and all those who helped welcome visiting cyclists to St Andrew’s..

Harvest – thanks to everyone who made the church look beautiful for Harvest and to everyone who donated tins of food for the Stowmarket Foodbank or money to help our BOB foodbank support people in need locally.

DEC appeal for Pakistan - there is a bowl on the bookcase at the back of church if you would like to donate towards this appeal.

Advance notice that our Remembrance service will be in church at 10.45am as usual. At Christmas we will have Carols on the Green again at 6.30pm on December 17th and our Christmas Eve ‘Midnight’ service will, like last year, be at 9pm in order for Revd Carl to lead it.

Spuds and Sparklers – on November 5th Revd Carl will hold a firework evening event in the Rectory Garden, 5-7pm, tickets will be available soon.

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Fundraising for St Andrew’s Church

7pm on Friday 14th October – A Dessert Evening

Do come to the Village Hall to taste all the desserts that we have on offer. It’ll cost you £10 but you’ll be able to try all the desserts and the recipes will be provided free. There will be a raffle too. Tickets will be available from Margaret 767121, Liz 766622 and Mary 767897. All 01449. Or you can pay on the door. - DO Come!

10am Saturday 19th November – the Christmas Pudding Stir-up

This is becoming an annual event and will be in the Village Hall from 10am. Father Christmas will direct the silver band, playing Christmas music and the stirrers as we mix a special WI recipe Christmas pudding for you to buy and cook at home. Refreshments will be available while you watch. If you can’t be there, we have a delivery service – just phone 01449 767121 and Margaret will deliver to your door.

Thank you to all of you for your support for the church

Liz Davidson and Margaret Jones-Evans.

Rector’s Ramblings

The past month has been rather emotional. Our nation lost its beautiful Queen. They say, ‘you don’t know what you’ve lost ‘til it’s gone.’ This is so true! It seems that a huge void has been left. Our Queen had a presence about her that even those who had never met her have experienced a huge sense of loss. I have never seen such an outpouring of corporate grief. She was an inspiration to so many and was able to bring people together to work for the cause of justice and peace. She gave a stability to our lives through good times and through bad. But what amazed me most about her was her faith. She truly trusted in the love and grace of God.

She once told her Chaplain, ‘how I wish the Lord would come back in my life time.’ Her chaplain asked her why. She replied, ‘I should so love to lay my crown at His feet.’ Queen Elizabeth’s life and death reminds us that one day we will all be called to lay our own crowns at the feet of Jesus the King – no matter our background or status – and we will be one family under God. With that in mind, our thoughts turn to King Charles III as he steps up to the role that God is calling him to. He will now become the focus of our nation’s identity, work and spiritual life. For that he needs our constant prayers, that he may lead us in the ways of Christ – of peace, justice and love. God save the King!

Wickham Skeith Parish Council

The Parish Council is delighted to announce the appointment of our new Parish Clerk, Mark Eggleton, who will start on 1st October 2022. Mark has lived in the village for ten years. He can be contacted via the parish clerk email: wickhamskeithpc@hotmail.com

St Andrew’s Church Flower & Cleaning Rota

Oct 2nd Mrs E Davidson & Mrs J Willoughby

Oct 9th & 16th Mr & Mrs I Hempstead

Oct 23rd & 30th Miss R Elsden & Mrs J Keable

Fundraising for St Andrew’s Church

We were very sorry to have to cancel Lord John Gardiner’s talk on Friday 9th September and disappoint so many people but you will now understand why he had duties in Westminster that day. We shall reorganise the talk.

All bookings of the Village Hall and its equipment should go to:

Gill Colchester Telephone 01379 788040 or Mobile 07850 641233 Email. gillyano@live.co.uk

Hourly rate: £8.00 The rate is per hour or part thereof. Minimum booking period 2 hrs. Day rate (24-hour period): £85.00. 25% reduction in rate for Wickham Skeith residents and Wickham Skeith village groups and organisations. Official bodies (e.g., elections): £200.00 per day. A 30 minute "warming up" period will be allowed in cold weather conditions.

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The Suffolk Mobile Library van stops in the lay-by outside the chalet bungalows, from 9.45 to 10am. Then outside Haymead House in The Street from 10.05 to 10.20.

Next visits – 20th October and 17th November 2022.

Business Adverts

Adverts are £5.00 per month, £25 for 6 months and £50 for one year.

Cash or cheque (payable to “Wickham Skeith Village Hall”) to Melinda Appleby at Haymead House, The Street, in advance of the advert being placed please.

GISLINGHAM PLAYGROUP *****

We provide a safe, warm, friendly and caring setting for children aged 2-5 years, in a brand new purpose-built building on the same site as Gislingham CEVCP School, with whom we work closely to provide an excellent education.

The Playgroup is following government guidelines so please check with us for opening arrangements.

Please visit our website www.gislinghamplaygroup.com or phone us on 01379 788934

GRAHAM MOORE ELECTRICAL LTD

Blacksmiths Cottage, Silver Street, Old Newton IP14 4HF

For all your electrical needs

For a friendly and efficient service Call Graham on Tel: 01449 616946 Mobile: 07867 560357

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TREE SERVICES AND GROUNDS MAINTENANCE

BASED IN WORTHAM, WE ARE DEDICATED TO THE PROVISION OF EXCELLENCE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR CRAFT. ALL OF OUR STAFF ARE FULLY TRAINED AND INSURED, RELIABLE AND PROFESSIONAL. ALL WORK IS CARRIED OUT RESPECTFULLY AND TO THE HIGHEST STANDARD

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STOCK UP YOUR FREEZER FOR BARBEQUE SEASON WITH FREE RANGE, HIGH WELFARE, WICKHAM SKEITH

SLOW REARED MEAT!

Traditional Suffolk Sausages £8.60 kg - packs of 8 , Sausage Meat G/F) £8.60kg

GOURMET SAUSAGES all 90% meat content £9.40kg - packs of 8 Stokes caramelised Red onion marmalade & Mature Cheddar, Port & Stilton, Pork & Apple, Lincolnshire, Spicy Chorizo, Moroccan Spiced Apricot, Cumberland Chipolatas (G/F)

COME AND TRY BEFORE YOU BUY, NOW SELLING AT MELLIS FARMERS MARKET ON THE FIRST SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH, 9am til noon

PORK BURGERS, SPARE RIBS

BACK BACON UNSMOKED in 8 rasher packs £16.50kg SUFFOLK ALE & BLACK TREACLE SLOW CURED BACK BACON £19.87kg SMOKED STREAKY BACON £14.50 kg

Leg of pork boneless rolled and scored for perfect crackling £10kg Belly pork Joints and Belly Slices £8kg, Pork Mince £8.60 kg, Tenderloin £9.60kg,

ORGANIC GRASS FED FREE RANGE HALF LAMB BOXES 4-5kg Fresh Frozen Vacuum packed and labelled £15kg

HOGGITT & MUTTON Ideal for slower cooking LEG, SHOULDER, CHOPS & TENDERLOIN £15k MINCE £10kg BONELESS CUBED FOR STEWING/CURRY £16kg

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This newsletter is produced by Wickham Skeith Village Hall Committee

Village Website

For information about Wickham Skeith, the Parish Council, and updates on events, visit the village website at https://wickhamskeith.suffolk.cloud/

And finally...

Please send all your village news and adverts for next month’s newsletter to: melinda.appleby@mypostoffice.co.uk or call 01449 766879

By 25th October 2022

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