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October 2011

This month’s feature Mothing

Village Voices WalkSutton Heath and Sutton Hoo

Hedgehog Street

October 2011 page 2 www.villagevoices.org.uk

October diary

Regular events

Mondays Yoga, 7.30pm, Hollesley Village Hall Elly Lloyd 412053

Mothers’ Union, 1.30pm, Bawdsey Village Hall Pat Fleetwood 410409

Tuesdays Welcome Club, 2pm Marian Collins 411262

Hollesley Bay Day Centre Audrey Shelcott 411776

Mobile Library

Wednesdays Edward Bear Club, 1.30pm Stella Moore 411749

Badminton, 8pm Chris Andrews 411126

Thursdays Judo Club Julie Jolliffe 410483

Mobile Police Station, 8.45–9.45am

Women’s Institute, 7.30pm Gina Forsyth 411727

Sundays Sunday Shape Up, 10–11am, Hollesley Village Hall Beck Williams 07956 622330

Table Tennis, 4–5pm, Boyton Village Hall Andrew Cassey 411720

Dates for your diary

Saturday 1st Oct Boyton Community Group Meeting Clock House 9.30-11Boyton Coffee morning 10.30-12 noonFairtrade Open Day Dranrab Hollesley 10am-4pm

Sunday 2nd Oct Suffolk Wildlife Trust working party, 9.30am

Saturday 8th Oct Clothing sale in aid of Village Fete 10-12 Hollesley Village HallApple Day Training Session 11am Apple Day 2–5pm Boyton Village Hall

Friday 14th Oct Harvest Supper Sutton Memorial Hall

Sunday 16th Oct Piano Recital Hollesley Church 7pm

Wednesday 26th Oct Messy church

Saturday 29th Oct Harvest Supper Butley

Sunday 30th Oct Charity Quiz Hollesley Shepherd & Dog 8pm

To have your event listed here, please contactDebbie Pipe on 01394 411976 or email [email protected]

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from the editorDear friends

Shortly before going to print with this edition of Village Voices, we learned the very sad news that Mike Adams had died. Mike was a driving force in getting Village Voices started and was still playing a central role in the run-ning of our magazine last month.

Of course, Mike’s involvement in the life of our community extended well beyond his work with this magazine and next month we hope to carry a full tribute to his life. We send our condo-lences to all of Mike’s family.

It goes without saying that Mike’s loss is keenly felt by all members of our small Village Voices team and we would be grateful to anyone who wished to volunteer to join us in our work of producing this monthly newsletter. We are currently trying to re-organise the work within the team to ensure we can keep Village Voices running.

Our feature this month is about the study of moths, Nick Mason tells us about these creatures and the varieties that we can see in our local area. Laurie Forsyth also reports on local wildlife, telling us about the initiative to maintain All Saints Churchyard in a more wildlife friendly way (page 36).

A number of successful events took place in our area last month, including Boyton Fete and Hollesley Flower Festival, as well as the Fit Villages Rounders Competition. These are reported in our magazine this month, along with information on some forthcoming events.

We hope you enjoy this edition of Village Voices.

Rob Claxton

Editor Helen Macleod, Colyton,The Street, Hollesley, IP12 3QUtel 01394 411232email [email protected]

Advertising Helen Macleodtel 01394 411232email [email protected]

Diary Debbie Pipetel 01394 411976email [email protected]

Copy deadline for the November issue of Village Voices is 10th October.

Cover Photo: Eyed Hawk-moth, Nick Mason

Please note that the opinions expressed in this magazine do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the editorial team.


Mothinga fascinating pastime

I suppose those of us who go mothing are called moth-ers. But that’s mothers as in moffas,

not muvvas (although there are some female ones). Isn’t the English language wonderful! When it comes to the names of moths then our language does us well again – Setaceous Hebrew Character, Lunar Yellow Underwing, Dark Spinach, Angle Shades and Merveille du Jour – oh no sorry that’s French. Wonderful names mostly given in a bygone era and often by amateurs.

So what is the interest in finding moths and how do you do it? Most mothing is done at night using light traps – these can be either mercury UV or actinic – the UV is far brighter and attracts

more moths, the actinic is the bluish light used in insectocutors and the like which tends to attract more of the Geometrids and Pyralids which tend to be smaller. As for the why – well as a naturalist one often wants to know what is around and there are over 2000 species in Britain to get to see. The moths are recorded and submitted to

the county recorder and over the years a good idea on how they are doing can be gauged and changes in populations can be a very good monitor of the health of the environment as a whole. The same is true of butterflies (close insect relatives) but there are far more species of moth.

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Like butterflies all moths feed by sucking in juices by their proboscis, a long tube that curls up but can reach some distance. Mostly they eat the nectar from flowers and will act as pollinators, picking up pollen and taking it to another flower, when they do. They will also take juices from over-mature fruits and will take in nutrients from liquids. Basically they are out at night doing what butterflies do in the day. Having said that they are not all nocturnal and I am sure we have all seen day-fliers such as Cinnabar, Silver-Y and even the beautiful Hummingbird Hawkmoth which often arrives in Britain in late summer.

What sort of moths do we get here? Well all sorts, really. For a start we are in the middle of many types of habitat. We have pinewood, broadleaf woodland, heathland, grazing marshes, saltmarsh and shingle beaches. All

You may not associate the beautiful shingle areas at Shingle Street with moths but many species can be found there.

of them can have their own species that are only found in that habitat. There are several heathland species that you will not easily find elsewhere – the Lunar Yellow Underwing, The Fox moth, The Emperor – our largest species, and Pempelia palumbella (just so you have a

Latin name – only the larger macro-moths have English names).

On the roadside of Lower Hollesley Common there are some wild dog rose bushes that are not really heathland but we did not clear them when taking back the vegetation to prevent deer incidents, because they contain a rare plume moth, Cnaemidophorus rhododactyla, very scarce in Britain.

You may not associate the beautiful shingle areas at Shingle Street with moths but many species can be found there. These include rare Red Data Book species (threatened) such as Ethmia bipunctella, another micro, and some wainscots. The Feathered Brindle is one of my favourites appearing, as an adult, in September and has larvae that feed on Sea Campion and grasses.

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Another facet of mothing is the fact that they migrate. They may not be intending to cross the Channel and end up in Suffolk but that’s what they do sometimes. At this time of year, if the air is warm they will rise up on that hot air and travel with it. Many types of insect do this and you may remember the Blue Tongue outbreak of 2007. At the height of the outbreak, the migrant midge that brought the disease travelled with the Willow Emerald Damselfly – a rarity that I told you about in Village Voices. Other migrants are more common, including the Silver-Y, Large Yellow Underwing and the exciting Hummingbird Hawkmoth.

This year saw one of the sunniest and driest springs ever recorded. How has it affected the great diversity of moths in Suffolk? Only time will tell, but on a much larger scale, climate change is already producing change in our Suffolk moth population and the plants they all depend on. It is an exciting time to be a moth-er!

October is here, and you can expect to see the following moths in your garden: The Sallow, Flounced Rustic, Mallow, Feathered Ranunculus, Beaded Chestnut, Autumnal Rustic and Spruce Carpet.

Nick Mason


2011 was a special year at Boyton fete as the presentation of the Village of the Year prize to Boyton took place at the event. Prizes were presented by Joan Sennington, chairman of SCDC, and our MP Thérèse Coffey. You might have also spotted Michael Maloney our local TV actor.

We were lucky with the weather again; it rained the following day! There was a great rush when the gate was opened to the well stocked White Elephant and the Chutney stall. After that there were numerous games to play, all to the music of Micky McBurnie. The Booze Barrow was popular again with draw announcements made between musical

items. It seemed a lot easier this year to Smash a Plate and there was a moun-tain of pieces to clear up at the end. Considerable skills were also needed to estimate the weight of a pumpkin, to do up nuts and bolts, to shoot and kill a rat!

The event raised well over £2000 for the church and village hall and thanks must again go to all those who put so much effort into making Boyton fete another success. A special thank you to Finlay Motors who sponsored the Draw.

Fred Stentiford

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Hi once again, it has been quite a busy month with three incidents. On 16 August at 1615, called to the river Deben where a distressed person was believed to have left the Tide Mill at Woodbridge and was heading down river. The Air Sea Rescue Sea King helicopter and the Harwich ILB were called and eventually the person was located near Green Point, just south of Ramsholt. He was brought to Ramsholt Quay and handed over to us and was later detained by the Police.

On 28 August at 1630 called to the mouth of the river Ore at Shingle Street

Send a shoe box full of small items that they miss when stationed abroad. Fill a shoe box or donate whatever you can. Suggestions below:

Toiletries (no aerosols), tissues, shower gel, toothpaste and brushes, razors, shampoo, roll-on deodorants, Paracetamol, small bottles of drink (Fruit shoot etc.), coffee, drinking chocolate, tea bags, small tins Baked Beans, spaghetti, tuna, noodles, Oxo

cubes, Baby Bell cheeses, crisps, jelly blocks (to chew), sweets, chewing gum, Tic Tac, cereal bars. No chocolate please!

If you would like a pattern to knit a hat, contact me on 411754. Please give your gifts to me or any WI member by the end of October.

Thank you very much for your support.Rosemary Busby

From Shingle Street Coastguard

where a yacht was aground. The vol-unteer rescue boat was in the area and managed to tow the yacht off at 2015.

On 3 September at 1830, called to the river Deben midway between Bawdsey Ferry and Ramsholt where a vessel with five persons on board was aground on the mud. Shingle Street coastguard Richard Clarke decided to launch his boat, Will Laud and was able to tow the vessel off and returned it to Felixstowe Ferry.

Until next time, safe passage.Roy Clark

Help our Troops in Afghanistan


The weather was mixed for Hollesley Flower Festival and Boyton Fete – with the fete enjoying rather more in the way of sunshine and warmth. Both, however, were very successful events and I want to say a huge thank you to all who organised, supported and vis-ited both events. The atmosphere was friendly and welcoming and there was something for everyone. The choice of ‘Composers and their Music’ for the Flower Festival gave the arrang-ers almost infinite scope and this was reflected in the variety and ingenuity of the displays. The wind was a little chilly but the decision to serve re-freshments through the newly reo-pened west door of Hollesley Church was a huge success and did justice to the quality of the refreshments.

What was both inspiring and humbling at both events – and in our village life in general – is the wealth and variety of talent which was evident. Not only was this shown in the displays at the flower festival but in the choice and preparation of refreshments, the bak-ing of cakes, the nurture of plants and vegetables, bell-ringing, the making of jams & chutneys, posters, music, painting...so many people give of their time and talents in so many ways.

The whole impression was one of abundance – an abundance of talent and an abundance of flowers, pro-duce, things to eat, things to admire

and enjoy. Even the white elephant and bookstall were overflowing with interesting and exciting things. And generosity – so many people gave unstintingly of their time, their goods, their effort and their money.

Now that the days are getting notice-ably shorter – and often chillier! – it is all too easy to feel that we have to be more sparing with our resources, to tighten our belts especially in this time of economic cutbacks. We are urged to conserve energy, to switch off lights and use less water, to try to slow down climate change. Other circumstances beyond our control may mean that we have to make radi-cal changes to our way of life, which is never easy. Harvest time, though, can be a reminder that there are many things that we can give thanks for and enjoy; that the beauty of creation and

From our Team VicarRev’d Ruth Hatchett

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Wednesday12 noon Sutton–Holy Communion

1.30pm Hollesley Church–Edward Bear Club, 0-5yrs and their carer(s)

Thursday 9amBoyton Church–Morning Prayer

Friday 8 amHollesley Church–Morning Prayer

2nd Wednesday1.30pm Colyton, Hollesley–Prayer Group

1st Thursday2.30pm Glebe House, Hollesley–Evensong

3rd Thursday10.30am Glebe House–Holy Communion

Ministers: RH Ruth Hatchett – Team Vicar LC Lydia Calvesbert – Reader PF Pat Fleetwood – Lay Elder JF Judy Foulger – Lay Elder

Church Contacts

Team Vicar:Ruth Hatchett, 01394 412052 [email protected]

Hollesley Churchwardens:Fred Stentiford, 01394 411469Pat Shannon, 01394 411214

Boyton Churchwardens:Malcolm Fleetwood, 01394 410409Isobel Lilley, 01394 411409

Hollesley Tower Captain:Alan McBurnie, 01394 411999

Weekday Services

relationships with those around us are by far the most valuable things.

At the end of each day, every one of us can find at least one thing to be thankful for. The old instruction to ‘count your blessings’ may sound a bit corny and even unsympathetic, but in a world which sometimes seems to

Day Boyton Hollesley Other PlacesSunday2nd October

8.00 RHHoly Communion

9.30 RHHoly Communion & Baptism

9.30 Sutton11.00 Alderton, Bromeswell3.00pm Bawdsey6.30pm Shottisham

Sunday9th October

11.00 PF/JFMorning Praise

9.30 RHFamily Communion5.00pm Harvest Songs of Praise at Coltec

8.00 Alderton9.30 Bromeswell11.00 Bawdsey, Ramsholt, Shottisham6.30pm Sutton

Sunday16th October


9.30 LCMorning Praise

8.00, 9.30 Alderton9.30 Bromeswell11.00 Sutton

Sunday23rd October


8.00 Alderton9.30 Shottisham11.00 Bawdsey, Bromeswell, Ramsholt

Sunday30th October

11.00 Harvest Thanksgiving and Holy Communion for theDeben 8 group of parishes at Boyton

6.00pm United Evening Service for All Saints at Orford

revel in negativity, it’s not a bad idea.Wishing you many blessings


Harvest Songsof Praise

5pm Sunday 9th Octoberat Coltec Garage,

The Street, Hollesley

by kind permission ofRichard & Selena

Songs, hymns, readings on the theme of harvest, followed by

tea & cakes

All welcome


The following recipe is from Friends of the Earth Cookbook by Veronica Sekules. It was published in 1980 and was ahead of it’s time in having lots of good fruit and vegetable recipes.

ChaffCombe apple pudding Serves 4

3 cooking apples, peeled, cored and gratedThe zest and juice of 1 orange2 oz Demerara sugar, 1 oz Caster sugar2 oz butter5 oz oat flakes

Melt the butter in a saucepan and add 2 oz of the Demerara sugar. Stir for a couple of minutes then add the oat flakes. When well mixed take off the heat and allow to cool, stirring occa-sionally to keep the mixture loose.Heat the oven to 190°C (Gas Mark 5). Mix the grated apple orange juice and zest and caster sugar and put into an oven proof dish. Spread the oat mixture on top and put into the oven, cooking for approximately 30 minutes or until the oats have browned on top.

For the first time I’ve successfully grown peppers (capsicum) and they are delicious in this recipe from Nigel Slater.

peperoni alla piemontese

Allow one red or yellow pepper per person.

Heat the oven to 180°C (Gas Mark 4). Slice the peppers in half lengthways, discarding the seeds and core. Halve small tomatoes and fill the pepper halves. Add a couple of slices of garlic and some basil leaves, tucked under the tomaoes. Season with salt and pepper. Put the peppers in an oven proof dish and ensure they are level. Pour Extra Virgin olive oil in to each pepper, until half filled. Bake for approximately 30 minutes or until the peppers have sof-tened. Serve with lots of good crusty bread to mop up the juices.

Other ingredients can be added if you wish – anchovies, olives or courgettes etc. They are good served hot or cold.

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Pauline Austerfield


Hedgehog StreetHedgehogs are as useful as secateurs to gardeners, but they are in steep de-cline, and not just because of the road casualties. Death by strimmer (check long grass before cutting) or your Guy Fawkes bonfire (search the pile before setting fire to it), are other causes of hedgehog mortality. Slug pellets can also kill hedgehogs – and birds – that eat the dead slugs.

On wet nights, snails and slugs slide from their daytime damp hiding places in our Parson’s Hill garden and tuck into the flowers and shrubs. Now and then, we go on Snail Patrol, but it doesn’t have much effect. One wet August night we saw a hedgehog in our front garden. Nothing finds snails and slugs like a hungry hedgehog, so we are delighted one is dropping by to help out.

However, our problems are not over. The hedgehog visits our front gar-den only, because a side gate with a ground-clearance space of just one inch bars access to the much larger back garden. For all its tasty snails and slugs, as far as the hedgehog is con-cerned it could be on the moon.

Sadly, gardens have become increas-ingly inaccessible to hedgehogs. Brick walls and solid plank fencing have created gardens that are secure, private, and useless to an animal that wanders around at night, squeezing through

a hole in a fence, and ambling from garden to garden doing good work, or looking for a mate.

As part of a national campaign called Hedgehog Street, it would be great if you and your neighbours created links to help your local hedgehogs move freely between your gardens, from front to back, and from your garden to the one next door. They need a hole just 6 inches high, and the same width. It’s easy and simple. A volunteer has kindly offered to do the work for you to a professional standard, and several people have already volunteered to act as hedgehog reps. in their roads.

Please contact Helen Macleod or my-self if you want to help the hedgehogs – and gardens – in our villages. Tip for the autumn: leave a big pile of leaves in a sheltered corner of your garden for them to hibernate in.

Laurie Forsyth 01394 411727Helen Macleod 01394 411232


We would like to introduce ourselves as the new school reporters.

Hi my name is Shannon, and I am 10 years old. Before the summer holidays I found out that I was going to be one of the new school reporters for the new school year and I’m really pleased that I got the job I wanted. I live in Hollesley with my family, and my ambition is to be an author. One of my favourite outings with the school was on the first day back after the summer holidays last year when a few people including me went on a school trip with Mrs Wright to the Suffolk Punch Trust to meet Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman. Another favourite visit was before the summer holidays the dance and drama club went to see the Royal Ballet at the 0

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Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet play and I really enjoyed it! So I’ve had lots of opportunities and now I can write about them too.

Hi I’m Abby and I am one of the new school reporters. I am 10 years old and I want to be an author when I grow up. I really wanted to do this job because I thought it might be useful for when I’m older and I am so glad I got it. I was so lucky because on the 23rd of July, just after we broke up from school, I went to the triathlon in Hollesley where

some of the prison guards swam then cycled back then ran! It was good to be there because I could do my first report on it. The first lady to cross the line was Claire McGinley and she was a senior prison officer. She had been training for a couple of months and her worst bit was running and best was cycling. The first man, Pete Donnelly, did it in 53 minutes and was an army diving standards officer. After the race everyone went to the Shepherd and Dog to celebrate who won. Then there was a raffle and the prize was tickets to go to Pleasurewood Hills. The lady who won got a massive trophy and she had her photo taken. They gave the money they raised to charity and this year it was The Friends of Hollesley School – so we thank them very much.

Introducing our new reporters

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Boyton Community GroupSeptember Meeting

There were about a dozen of us at our last meeting, including people from Alderton, Bawdsey, Boyton, Capel St Andrew and Hollesley. There was lively discussion of our various on-going projects.

The Bulk Oil Scheme is continuing to prove very popular and we have estab-lished a cooperative link with a similar scheme being run in Alderton. By the time this edition of Village Voices ap-pears, we will just have completed the September order. The next order will probably be timed for the end of No-vember rather than December, in order to avoid the usual price hike that tends to occur over the Christmas holiday period. The precise details will appear in the next issue of Village Voices.

Our next event is the Apple Day which will take place on Saturday 8th Octo-ber at Boyton Village Hall. There will be equipment available to allow you to press your apples and to bottle the resulting apple juice – or to dry your apples. If you want to you can come along for a training session in using the equipment, or just turn up and have your apples pressed or dried for you. If you want to come to the train-ing session, it will begin at 11am. Places are limited to 15. Otherwise you can simply turn up with your apples between 2pm and 5pm at the Village Hall. Again, everyone is welcome and the event is free.

We had our own stall at the Boyton Fete: as well as asking people to guess the weight of the pumpkin, there was the opportunity to talk about the Com-munity Group’s activities with a wide cross section of the visitors. And at the Fete there was the presentation of the Suffolk Coastal Village of the Year award by the Chair of Suffolk Coastal District Council, Joan Sennington with our local MP Thérèse Coffey looking on. The trophy and cheque were ac-cepted by Gary Lowe (the Community Group Chair), Fred Stentiford (the Chair of Boyton Parish Council) and Ruth Hatchett (our Vicar and Chair of Boyton Parochial Church Council) – in recognition of the fact that this has been a real team effort by the whole village.

The next meeting is set for Saturday 1st October from 9.30 to 11am at Clock House in Boyton. Everyone is very welcome – we hope to see you there!

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On a particularly lovely September Sunday Hollesley WI once again donned their pinnies, and sallied forth to serve lunches and teas – this time for a completely new venture – Suffolk Coastal Inter Village Rounders Tournament.

We had no idea what we were in for and with the weather having been predicted to be bad, spirits were not exactly high. The day, however, proved to be terrific fun for all who took part in this new venture, created as part of Suffolk Sport’s Fit Vil-lages initiative. Held on Hollesley playing fields, six teams took part in a knock out tournament which resulted in a triumph for Bawdsey who carried off the trophy, beat-ing Otley in the final. When Hollesley went out in the first round we were all rooting for Bawdsey.

Despite initial reservations, Hollesley WI members who participated in the catering had to admit they enjoyed themselves and would do it again. Although we did not make a huge profit it all helps to swell our funds.

With autumn upon us and Summer (such as it was) a dim and distant memory, we are now looking towards more indoor activi-ties. A push for collecting useful items, as well as knitting hats for our troops in Af-ghanistan was requested by our President, Rosemary Busby, at our last meeting.

It was also announced that this year’s Christmas meal would be in the Village Hall (our growing numbers making the pub impractical) using the services of outside caterers. Rosemary’s garden party in July

had raised over £200 and this would help fund the cost of the meal.

Looking back on events over the summer, highlights included the trip to the Olym-pic Park at Stratford; Clarence House – a remarkably cheap day out on National Express Coaches at only £6.83 per head! – and Move Over Mrs Markham – side-splitting funny.

Our speaker for the evening was Jane Sago whose talk ‘Love Food Hate Waste’ demonstrated how any leftovers can, with a little effort, be transformed into another delicious meal. The proof of the pudding is in the tasting and there wasn’t much left of Jane’s dishes when we had all dipped in for a sample.

Forthcoming in the run up to Christmas: Calendar Girls; shopping trip to Norwich; whist and scrabble lunch and carol serv-ices, to name but a few. Plenty to choose from.

Julie Kitson

Hollesley WI

Blue Badge Car Parking inWoodbridge, Felixstowe and Wickham Market

It is proposed to make a charge for all car parking by Blue Badge holders. If this affects you and you wish to make your views known, please contact Dr Carolyn Barnes at Suffolk Coastal District Council by Friday 10th October.


Welcome Club Mystery Tour

It was not a lovely sunny early Septem-ber morning when we set off on our ‘Mystery Tour’, but at least the forecast rain and high winds were missing and we intended to enjoy ourselves!

For a change Essex was our destina-tion. We drove through ‘Constable Country’, through the Stour valley and Dedham and then to the Tiptree Visitor Centre where we enjoyed a drink in the Tea Room, the museum depicting the history of the Wilkin family business, a jam factory set up on that site in 1885,

and still going strong, and of course the chance to go into the gift shop to buy some of their preserves or other desir-able souvenirs from our visit.

Our next stop was the New Times Cot-tage Carvery, where we enjoyed a roast lunch with all the trimmings! Then it was time to head back to Hollesley. I would like to thank all those from Hol-lesley and surrounding villages, who joined the Welcome Club members, to help us fill the coach and make this outing viable. Marian Collins

Hollesley Allotment and Gardens Association

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October 13th 6pm visit to Swanns Nursery

This is a change of date from 27th October.If you would like to go please contact Jane Stearn 411194 to arrange transport.

Members can also collect their seed catalogues from Jane by arrangement.

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Harvest Fair at Foxburrow Farm

A celebration of all the colours and flavours of harvest is to be held this autumn in Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s wonderful old farmyard and orchard at Foxburrow Farm, Melton. Featuring ‘old skills for new times’, the event will include demonstrations of ap-ple pressing and pressing for rape oil. There will be preserves, plants and local produce on sale, a seed swap, and practical ideas for green living from local Transition Town groups

Do you have a mystery apple tree in your garden? Bring the fruit along and an expert will be happy to help iden-tify it. Learn about the huge range of English apples. Why not buy a few of a variety you haven’t come across before to try, or an unusual tree to plant at home?

Children can try their hand at the long-est peel competition, and won’t be able to resist the apple bobbing and apple skittles. Other activities for youngsters include the orchard trail, apple tasting, vegetable monsters and apple prints – all free.

Home-made refreshments will be on sale throughout the day. At 3.30pm everyone can follow the procession to the orchard to sing the traditional wassailing song to the apple trees and make a good loud noise to ensure a bountiful crop next year.

The event on Sunday 9th October will run from 11am-4pm. Admission will be £3 for adults and £2 for children, and there is plenty of free parking. Sorry, no dogs.

Half-term Activities With the Suffolk Wildlife Trust at Foxburrow Farm, Melton, near Woodbridge

Tuesday 25th October10.30am-12.30pm‘Sticks, Stones & Animal Bones’Family Afternoon. Children £3.50, Adults £1.50

Thursday 27th October 6pm-8pmWillow Lantern Workshop & Proces-sionFamily Event. Children £3.50,Adults £1.50

Friday 28th October10.30-12.30 or 2pm-4pm Film Flurry screening & craft activi-ties. For age 6 and above. £2.50 per person

Booking essential. Please phone 01394 380113 or email [email protected]


1. Start from the Sutton Heath picnic site car-park, on the bend of the B1083 (TM 305476). Take the sandy ‘byway’ leading from near the entrance towards Sutton village and continue on this to a cross-roads of tracks (about ½ a mile). Turn right here and follow this track – past some farm buildings – to its junction with a tarmac drive. Turn right here and then left along the verge of the B1083, for about 300 yards. Cross the road and go through the gateposts topped by stone dogs and down the tarmac drive all the way to Cliff Farm.

2. Bear right past the farm and fol-low this lane to Methersgate. Turn left along the front of Methersgate Hall and at the end turn right to find a small wooden gate in the picket fence. Go through this then turn right, past the garage, onto the track. Head north, keeping the hedge on your left. Go through a metal gate and carry on. We heard skylarks singing above a field carpeted with scarlet poppies to our left along here in early summer.

3. Pass through a belt of trees and cross two tarmac drives. At a bridleway sign continue into the field, heading just right of the church tower across the river, to the corner of Deben Wood. Follow the path round the edge of the

wood. At the far side of the field, turn left down the sandy track, still keeping trees to your right, ignoring the track going right. A buzzard was hunting here. Continue along the field edge, following the bridleway signs and as the land drops down to the river, look out for a small path diving through the trees to your right and down some steep steps.

4. Follow this path along the riverbank until it emerges from the trees at a footpath sign. Turn right to leave the river wall here and cross an open area heading towards a collection of small buildings. Bear left round the pumping station compound and continue along the path, between gardens and up to a lane.

5. To continue the walk, bear right to take the sandy lane up to the top of the hill to reach the corner of the Sutton Hoo burial mound field. Turn left at the top onto a sandy track, to its crossing with a path marked by a National Trust signpost. Access to the Visitor Centre, café, etc (01394 389714) – a short walk to the left here – is free to mem-bers; others will be charged an entry fee. However there is a free Walkers’ WC to the left of the Exhibition Hall

Village Voices Walk

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entrance and all the paths included in this walk are Rights of Way, open to everyone at all times.

6. The walk heads straight on, crossing a farm track, to the right of a row of pine trees and some paddocks. Where the track goes left, carry straight on a grass path to emerge at the junction of the Hollesley Road (going past the army base) and the B1083 (to Sut-ton village). Cross the road here with caution and walk along the verge of the Hollesley Road, remaining on the

triangle between the two roads. After about 150 yards, turn right at a bri-dleway signpost, heading diagonally across the field.

7. Cross through the hedge near its end (at another bridleway post) and continue in the same direction along a hedgerow marked by more bridleway signs. At a pair of large metal gates, turn right onto a sandy track which takes you back to your starting point in the car park.

Val DudleyChecked by Debbie Pipe and Pauline Austerfield


Suffolk Punch Trustan update on our new garden

The garden has got a little overgrown during the summer holidays, but children from Kyson School have been harvesting potatoes, carrots and cour-gettes, which have all grown well – the pumpkins will be huge by Halloween!

The children are going to prepare a display of their vegetables for the Harvest Festival which will be held at the Trust on October 2nd from 10.30am until 5pm. There will be many other activities and displays.

The non-crop areas of the garden will be sprayed in the autumn to control in-vasive weeds, and sown with grass. We will then mark out the design of the

garden, and work will start in earnest. Will you join our band of volunteers? It is moderately hard work, but healthy and very worth-while!

Please come along – you will be very welcome. The telephone number of the Suffolk Punch Trust is 01394 411327.

Margaret Wyllie


Your Letters - keep writing , we love to hear your views and stories

Dear Editor,

Each year my contacts in the clothing business give me clothing samples to sell off, and the money I take goes to the Village Fete. Last year I took over £600.

I have just received approximately 30 big bags of mens, ladies and kids cloth-ing. All very good, top-quality, high street branded clothing.

Casual jackets selling at up to £90 now £10. Hooded sweats and sweat shirts selling at up to £45 now £5. Shirts sell-ing up to £20 now £5. Printed tee shirts now 3 for £5.

I have taken the Village Hall for Satur-day morning the 8th of October 10am to 12am. Come and get the best bar-gains ever and stock up for Christmas, money spent will be going towards next year’s Village Fete.

Stewart Austerfield. Hollesley Village Fete

Dear Editor, I was intrigued to read the recent edi-tion of Village Voices, as someone who was bred, born and grew up in the village before migrating to Ipswich to undertake my general nurse training in the late 70’s. My dad, Neville Andrews, showed me the article. He is the brother of Derek Andrews, one of my many uncles! Uncle Derek referred to the cottage on the corner of Duck Corner. Well this was indeed the home of my Nana (on my mum’s side of the family), known as Nana Calver, who was the sister of Doris and Kay Lennard. The latter played the organ at Hollesley church, and would often be seen riding around the village on her ‘bedstead’ of a bicy-cle! My sister, Lynda (Lyn) and I would spend many happy days at Nana Calver’s, often walking there after school to wait for mum. I remember on more than one occasion being scared of ‘Dunkley’ who lived in the cottage opposite, and who would often be seen standing at his gate, passing the time of day with folk and being part of the village community. Everyone knew Dunkley. I remember some years later delivering meals on wheels to him in his cottage.


The article referred to the council houses that were built on the corner, opposite Nana’s cottage. As a family we moved to No. 4 Duck Corner when I was about 9 or 10, I think. The previ-ous occupier was Mrs Mudd (Nora), who moved to the new bungalows which were being built in Moorlands. It was from Duck Corner that I migrat-ed to the big town of Ipswich, but some 40 years later have come back ‘home’ albeit living in Norwich, but still sup-porting Ipswich Town! Keep up the good work with Village Voices – a really good read. Nigel Andrews

Film Of SudbourneHatchment Project

4th november 20116 for 6.30 in sudbourne village hall

wine and Canapés

Sudbourne PCC will be showing the film that Veronica Worrall made chart-ing the progress of the Hatchment Res-toration Project on Friday 4th November in Sudbourne Village Hall.

The film is only 30 minutes long but gives a good feel for everything that went on during the year ending with the service taken by the Right Rever-end Nigel Stock, Bishop of St Ed-mundsbury and Ipswich.

Everyone is very welcome so if you were unable to come to any of the lec-tures and still haven’t seen the hatch-ments, please come and have a glass of wine and see what you have missed.

tiCkets are £5 whiCh inCludes wine and Canapés.

Please send a cheque – made out to Sudbourne PCC – to:

Mrs A Bettinson, Bailiff’s House, Sudbourne, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 2BN

email: [email protected]: 01394 450863.


On Saturday September 10th three of us joined our MP Thérèse Coffey in a seven mile walk from Snape to Thorpeness in support of this worthwhile charity. It was part of a coastal path walk by teams of walk-ers covering most of the country.

There are still 884 million peo-ple in the world who don’t have access to safe water and 2.6 billion who have no adequate sanitation. Thérèse said ‘When com-munities do not have clean water the

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burden falls to women and children who have to walk miles each day to collect water.’

Helen Macleod

Thérèse Coffey, Helen Macleod, Patti Mulcahy and Julia Grantstarting from Snape Bridge

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Winners for recent 200 Club draws are as follows:

July 1. Mike Whitby, 2. Di Barnard,3. Geoff Clement, 4. Denis Driver.

August 1. Maggie Ross, 2. Peter Scopes, 3. Gill Whiffin, 4. Peggy Balls

September 1. Fred Stentiford, 2. Phil-lipa Hamlyn, 3. Nigel Bond, 4. Robert Harris.

You can view a list of all winners at tinyurl.com/hollesleywinners.

Fred Stentiford

200 Club Winners


What a result – just under £1100 from the Flower Festival at Hollesley Church at the end of August. It was a back breaking set-up for some of us, unused to activity. There were a few moans and groans, but everyone put their best foot forward and produced a thing of beauty. A HUGE thank you to every-one – well done.

It was not just the flower arrangers who did well. Jill and Ray worked in the ‘new kitchen’ serving lunches and other feel good foods and drinks – and did we need them – yes we did!

The weather blew – it nearly took the ‘tent’ away and whistled in the church door. It rained, making those outside scurry inside to eat and drink. The temperature steadily dropped as the weekend went on…where was the promised sunshine and heat from the weathermen?

Perhaps the visitors knew best and had planned indoor excursions – thank you to all who came, looked, ate, drank and deposited money.

So what did we get out of it? A great deal of pleasure, a sense of satisfac-tion for what we had all managed to achieve, not forgetting the laughter, the chat, for Ruth – always being there to meet and greet, besides arranging a ringing, flower arranging vicar – a sense of comradeship, a job well done.

Thank you, one and all. PS The next Flower Festival is in 2013. Just a little warning. Hope you can make it.

Jane Harper

Flower Festival Success

Some of the wonderful arrangementsat the Flower Festival

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Hollesley Recreation Ground hosted the first Inter-Village Rounders Tourna-ment on Sunday which saw six villages from Suffolk Coastal go head to head in a bid to secure local bragging rights.

The event was organised by Suffolk Sport, the County Sports Partnership for Suf-folk and Rounders England as part of the Fit Villages initiative.

As well as Hollesley, the home side, teams were represented by the villages of Bawdsey, Otley, Chars-field, Middleton, Orford and

Gedgrave with games being keenly contested in beautiful conditions. The eventual winners were Bawdsey who narrowly defeated Otley in the final.

For further information on the Fit Villag-es Project, please call 01394 444289 or visit www.suffolksport.com/fitvillages.

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Di and Tony Barnard celebrated Tony’s 75th birthday, Di’s 70th and 45 years of marriage at Hollesley Village Hall on 10th Septem-ber.

Family of all ages joined with long-standing friends and many others from the village. Members of the family played in the band and others prepared the delicious food.

Congratulations to John Cooper who celebrated his 80th birthday with many friends at his home in Hollesley on Septem-ber 10th.

80th Birthday celebration

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traditional harvest supper

A Harvest Supper for the benefit of Village Hall Fundswill be held on

Saturday 29th October

in the Village Hall in Butley,which is shared by the neighbouring villages of Chillesford, Capel and Wantisden. This traditional feast will feature local pate, ham, game pie and home-made chutneys and apple pie. There will be a

wine and soft drinks bar.

Tickets are now on sale from Di Beattie (01394 450111) or any committee member at £15 to include a glass of wine on arrival

and after supper entertainment.

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Greetings from the Mission at Boyton. October is our anniver-sary month (19th October 1929) – our eighty years of faithful wit-ness to a largely “unknown God”.

Sunday by Sunday our God is faithfully preached and witnessed to at the mission.

Our God is faithful, loving, holy, full of compassion and understanding. “Cast your cares on Him for He cares for you.” (1st Peter 5:7). We can then learn to put our trust and hope in God.

We thank our God for all those who have over the years kept our Mission ‘open’ and prayerfully witnessing “unto our prayer answering God”.

Our preachers for October are:

2nd ‘c’ Steve Dart (Hollesley)9th Cecil Gill (Ipswich)16th Roy Kemp (Ipswich)23rd Sam Potter (Bury)30th Johnathan Sullivan (Saxted Mill)

The services are at 3pm followed by a fellowship tea. All are welcome. Every blessing to you all.

Steve and Lynda Dart6 Melton Road, Hollesley

01394 411876


In the May issue of Village Voices, we reported that Hollesley Parochial Church Council has agreed that routine weekly management in All Saints churchyard will aim to make it more hospitable to wildlife. Boxes designed for spotted flycatchers and bats, ingen-ious hedgehog hibernation boxes and homes for wild bees have since been constructed at HMP & YOI Hollesley Bay, and are now in the churchyard.

Meanwhile, selected areas of the churchyard have been allowed to grow tall and luxuriant, whilst others have been strimmed short as usual. This is Year One – and a bit of an experiment.

We know that Hollesley churchyard has acidic soil similar to the local heaths, and this means that in spring, we won’t have the riot of colour that makes woodlands (and churchyards) so beautiful in the claylands on the other side of the A12. All Saints has a rich wild flora – over 50 flower species and a dozen grasses – but it looks its best in late summer.

Springtime brought sheets of blue bird’s-eye speedwell, and also ground ivy, which has deep violet flowers – a magnet to foraging bumblebees and their furry look-alikes, the bee flies. Summer unveiled bird’s-foot trefoil,

Wildlife in All Saints churchyard


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wild clary, cranesbills, lady’s bedstraw, musk thistle, mallow and oxeye daisy: if only we had more of the handsome, tall oxeyes!

Very many insects need these plants, whilst shrews, voles and mice live unseen beneath them amidst the swaying tall grasses. And then, at last, knapweed burst into flower, with

purple heads full of nectar to attract butterflies, hoverflies, bumblebees, honeybees and lots of other insects that are so important as pollinators in our gardens and farmland. Early in August, the wild areas were cut, the hay left ly-ing for a week to ensure seeds dropped, and then they were raked. Roll on Year Two!

Laurie Forsyth

Haymaking in All Saints churchyard


Notes from Hollesley Parish Council meeting,Thursday 1st September

PC Andy Warne reported that there had been one crime in the village and two absconds from the prison. The mobile police van will be in the village on 20th October 8.45-9.45am. He informed the Council that 700 more troops with their families will move to Rock Bar-racks in the near future. He reminded residents to lock doors and windows as there has been a spate of burglaries in Bromeswell. Farmers are advised to secure land in case of arrival of evicted Travellers from Dale Farm in Essex. Speeding by vehicles on the road at Sutton Heath is being monitored.

Highways Department Safety Engi-neers propose to make the Bromeswell junction safer by forming a T junc-tion where the Hollesley road joins the B1083 at a cost of £72,000. A mini roundabout was considered to be too expensive. The work is estimated to be completed by March. Councillors felt further discussion should take place to consider alternative solutions.

Oak Hill Street lights, owned by the Home Office, are to be upgraded and the Parish Council may adopt the eight lights by agreement.

Hollesley village sign: a researcher has requested details of the sign and its his-tory. The Parish Council asks if anyone can remember who made the sign and

when it was erected. Please contact the Clerk 411032 or Chairman 411707 if you can help.

Welcome Club has requested financial help with insurance costs. The Parish Council will give £100 in appreciation of the valuable work done by the club.

Financial Report: an emergency repair was made to burst pipes at the pavilion.

Oak hill Recreation Ground: £14,237 of play equipment consisting of a Basket Ball hoop, Super Nova, and a Cantilever swing will be ordered and put in place soon.

Water supply for the allotments: further discussion is needed with allot-ment holders to decide whether a bore-hole should be made, or existing water supply diverted. It is hoped grants may be available to help with this project.

Emergency Planning: the former Emergency Planning Officer is no longer in the area. A new Officer is needed to prepare the village for any unexpected emergency. If you would be interested in helping the Council in this way, please contact the Clerk 411032 or the Chairman 411707 for further information.

Helen Macleod

The full minutes of this Hollesley Par-ish Council meeting will be placed on the noticeboard outside the Village Stores after the next meeting on Thurs-day 6th October.


Local ContactsHollesley Village Hall Bookings Christine Gillespie 411562

Boyton Village Hall Bookings Kay Lane 410361

Hollesley School Lynne Wright (Headteacher) 411616

Welcome Club Marian Collins 411262

Hollesley Womens Institute Gina Forsyth 411727

Mothers Union Pat Fleetwood 410409

Hollesley Players Sharon Culley 01728 688446

Whist Drives Jill Cocksedge 411108

Hollesley Bowls Club Roy Winchester 411564

Indoor Bowls Nigel Smith 411549

Alderton Surgery 411641

Hollesley Badminton Club Chris Andrews 411126

Junior Soccer Keith Banthorp 01473 737474

Judo Club Julie Jolliffe 410483

1st Sutton Brownies Sonja Patterson 420576

Hollesley Pre-school Terrie Cornwell-Dunnett 410492

Suffolk Link Bus Sadie 0845 604 1802

Gardening Club Secretary Jane Stearn 411194

Hollesley Parish Council Dennis Driver (Chairman) 411707

Noelle Gore (Clerk) 411032

Boyton Parish Council Fred Stentiford (Chairman) 411469

Nicola Cassy (Clerk) 411720

County Councillor Andrew Reid 07545 423799

District Councillor Jane Marson 07771 608376

Hollesley Bay Day Centre Audrey Shelcott 411776

Community Police Officer PC Andy Warne 01473 613500

Hollesley Commons Nick Mason 411150

Community Car Service Janet Gardiner 01473 630866

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