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The Bradley Bugle October 2016 Issue 207

Remains Of The Summer!

Trafalgar Day – 21st October

Coffee and a Cuppa!

A enjoyable cuppa and chat was had by those who went to the Coffee Caravan last month, even the weather did its bit with a glorious sunny day!

Village Bonfire

SaturdayNov. 5th

Village QuizSaturdayNov. 19th

In this month's BugleVillage Diary Page 2

Village Notices & Lottery From Page 3

Church Services Page 5

Articles From Page 6

Reflections On Summer – Estate UpdateSlimming WorldHealthwatch UpdatePowercut – New 105 Number

Village DiaryAll events take place in the Village Hall unless otherwise stated.

Coming up Soon …

Trailer Days – Saturdays 15th, 22nd & 29th October – By the Recreation GroundGet rid of your garden rubbish and help build another big bonfire!

Weekly Events

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING

Lively, light exercise and fun!Contact Ella Hollins on 710340

Mondays 2 – 4pm

FLEXIBLE FRIENDS Gentle stretching exercises, restarted 6th Sept. (Term-time only) Contact Jacquie on 783354

Tuesdays10:30am – 12 noon

ART CLASS Great Bradley Art Classes take place in the Village Hall.New Members are always welcome. If you would like to come along for a free taster session then please contactAnne Pigden 783175 or Pat Spires 783269 for details.

Tuesdays 2 – 4pmResumed on 27th Sept.

PILATES Contact Helen Axon mob: 07843 097671 Tuesdays 7:30 – 8:30pm

WEA 2016 After the Summer break our next course will start on October 12th,,titled 'Battle skies over East Anglia'. New members are very welcome to come along for a free taster week. Contact Peter Smith for more info 783278.

Wednesdays at 10:15am(Details p.3)

MOBILE LIBRARY Evergreen Lane 12:10 – 12:35pm (Rt 18 – Stp E)http://suffolklibraries.co.uk/community-services/mobile-libraries

Wednesday 12th October (Every 4 weeks)

AFTERNOON CLUB All welcome, all ages, all interests. Come and meet neighbours for tea, cake, loads of news, views and lots of laughter. Contact Gill Dunn on 783362.

Thursday 13th October

SLIMMING WORLD New group starting 20th October, please contact Magalie 07453 469366.

Thursday 7.30pm, details p.8.

BLUE BIN ONLY Fridays 14th & 28th September

BLACK & BROWN BINS Fridays 7th & 21st September

Further Ahead …

Great Bradley Village Bonfire Saturday 5th November. Details to follow next month.

Parish Council Meetings 16th November. 7:30pm

Village Hall Quiz 19th November. Details to follow soon.

Further Afield …

THURLOW WI Come and join us at our meeting for a talk on Neal's Yard Health and Beauty products. Visitors always welcome. Contact Arline (783132) or Karen (783022) for more details.

Tuesday 11th October 7.30pm at Thurlow Village Hall.

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Local News & Notices

Great Bradley Village Hall Lottery DrawWith just one more draw to go before the new Village Hall Lottery Year, the Hall Committee really appreciate thesupport the village gives to the Hall by way of entering the Lottery. It would of course be nice if there was aguarantee of winning, but at least everyone who wins the top prize gets back more than their original stake,which is probably a better return than putting your money in the Post Office!

This year, the Lottery has provided the grand sum of £496 towards maintaining our Village Hall, which isfantastic, thanks to you. My target last year was to raise £500, so we nearly did it but not quite. Is it beyondGreat Bradley to manage to raise £600 this year? ? All it would need would be another 18 names to enter - andof course then the Prize Fund would be bigger, and more little envelopes of cash would slide through theletterboxes of the village!

In the Draw made in the Hall on September 13th, the following lucky winners were :

1st Prize £18.00 – No. 68 - Duncan Andrews, Pond House

2nd Prize £10.00 – No. 37 - Pauline Black c/o Spring Barn

3rd Prize £10.00 – No. 9 - Gill Brown, Balsham

4th Prize £5.00 – No. 12 - Stephen Steward, Hall Road

5th Prize £5.00 – No. 40 - Margaret Ryder, The Hall

George Hendry looks forward with much anticipation to receiving your entries for the next Lottery Year starting inNovember!

Promoter - George Hendry, Rose Cottage, Gt Bradley, Newmarket, CB8 9LQ. Tel: 01440 783415.

Registered with St Edmundsbury Borough Council as a Small Society Lottery for the Gambling Act 2005,Registration Number SL3204.

WEA - October 2016Our next term commences on October 12th at 10am at the Village Hall. It comprises 7 sessions with a cost of£50 which includes tea/coffee and biscuits.

The title is ’Battle skies over East Anglia 1939/1945’ we will be learning about how communities sufferedfrom air raids, British Defence and retaliation, powerful human stories and British air power and much more.

Our first week acts as a taster for a cost of £5 which is refundable if you elect to stay for the course.

We do hope you will join us and listen and enjoy our tutor Ian McLachlan who we have had with us in Bradleybefore and enjoyed very much.

For more information please contact me Peter Smith on 01440 783278.

Thurlow WIThis month we were delighted to discuss the Thurlow Fayre success and announced that wetook £1480 in total, a fantastic result.

Dawn and Helen have entered a WI competition for which they wrote an article on the setting up a WI in 1916and then one in 2026.

Phyllis brought in her patchwork quilts which everyone admired.



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After this a discussion took place on the many crafts that we all make and we are thinking of holding our ownexhibition.

3 members attended a Christmas patchwork workshop in Sturmer and 3 members will enter the Jigsawchallenge in October.

Secretary Helen Bennett gave notice of all events coming up and raffle winners were Janice, Margaret, Helen B,Denise, Iris, Anne, June and Dawn.

Next month we will have a guest from Neals Yard Remedies who will also be giving some hand massages. Allare welcome on Tuesday 11th October at 7.30pm in Thurlow Village Hall.

Warm regards, Iris

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GREAT BRADLEY VILLAGE HALL

The Village Hall is available to hire for

Children partiesSpecial events

MeetingsSocial events

Wedding Receptions

Tables and chairs are available to hire for outside events.

We have an active social calender with groups including Scottishdancing, Pilates, Art classes, Afternoon club, WEA, Flexible

friends. All welcome.

You can help raise funds for the village hall by signing up to theVillage Lottery or internet purchasing via Easy Fundraiser.

http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/greatbradleyvh

For more information contact

Village Hall booking secretary 01440 783943

Help Wanted!Can you spare half an hour 6 times a year to deliver CB8 magazines in our village?

2 people required. Thank you

Please telephone Antonia Kiddy 783102.


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Forthcoming Events

St. Mary's Church, Great BradleyMonth Church Cleaning Flowers

October Ken & Sue Ireland Sally Hendry

November Geoffrey & Arline Vollam Gill Dunn

Church Services – October 20162 October 9:30 am Holy Communion Little Bradley9 October 11 am Holy Communion Great Bradley16 October 10 am Benefice service Little Wratting23 October 9:30 am Holy Communion Little Thurlow30 October 10 am Benefice Service Kedington6 November 11 am Holy Communion Little Bradley

See Benefice News for details of services at other churches in the Benefice.

Harvest festival 2016Many thanks to everyone who helped to decorate the church so beautifullyfor the Harvest Festival Service last month, and to Great Bradley Estatefor supplying the sheaves of corn and other produce. A large number ofgrocery items were collected at the service and these were gratefullyreceived by the Haverhill Food Bank.

Save the dateThere will be a coffee morning in aid of charity and church funds on Saturday 3rd December inthe Village Hall.



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Articles, Information & Advertising

Reflections On Summer And Looking Forward To 2017!October is upon us and work for the new farming year – Harvest 2017 – has already begun. But let’s reflect onHarvest 2016 too!

Weather so far in 2016After a mild winter, it was a cool, wet and prolonged Spring which held the crops back, particularly the OilseedRape and the Sugar Beet.

Although June was wet (approximately 91mm of rain, much of it in the second half), the Summer has been good.Both July and August were dry and sunny, providing almost perfect harvest conditions. Rainfall in August wasonly 37mm against a ten-year average of 81mm. As at the end of September, this year we have hadapproximately 420mm and, subject to the vagaries of the autumn and winter, we should be on for a belowaverage total for 2016. Another sign that the very wet years of the early 2000s are behind us.

Harvest 2016It was the second worst year for Oilseed Rape since we begangrowing it in 1974. This was caused by a combination of the coolSpring and wet June together with an ongoing battle with a pestcalled the flea beetle. We are no longer allowed to attack the fleabeetle with certain sprays as they may harm bees. Therefore, weneed to rely on a very cold winter to decimate the flea beetlepopulation. We are due such a winter!

However, Wheat performed well with our Milling Wheat (grown forWarburtons) being of excellent quality. The Spring crops – barleyand beans - defied the early cool conditions to come good as aresult of the wonderful July and August weather. At the time ofwriting, we are now harvesting the Sugar Beet which suffered fromthe cool Spring after being drilled in March. However, the sunnyconditions of the last three months should have resulted in very highlevels of sugar content, the opposite of last year’s abysmal levels.

Harvest 2017The Oilseed Rape was drilled in mid-August and largely looks well.This was deliberately earlier than usual, not least to fool the fleabeetle! We are currently drilling the Winter Wheat which will all beof the milling type in 2017 including a new variety called Illustrious.Let’s hope it lives up to its name! Conditions are excellent – goodseedbeds are fundamental if you want good crops as all gardenersknow! Work is also in progress cultivating fields destined to bedrilled with Spring crops – it is essential to do this before the land becomes too wet and it means that we areable to drill these fields as soon as conditions allow in the Spring without damaging the soil structure.

Conservations Strategy/Countryside Stewardship We are now completing implementation of our new Conservation Strategy which incorporates membership ofthe new Countryside Stewardship (Higher Tier) Scheme. Various small fields have just been drilled with NectarFlower Mix including two by the river. In May we drilled Nectar Flower Mix on Horse Pasture which is a fieldnear College Wood - the result was a wonderful array of wild flowers in August. We have also just drilled threeareas of Autumn Bumblebird Mix which should provide food for birds in February/March after the supply of seed



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in the Spring drilled Wild Bird Seed Mixes has been exhausted.

In November, we will also be planting some 600 metres of hedgerow – one completely new hedgerow and somesubstantial gapping up of others.

The RiverAs you may recall, last autumn we installed about 60 woody debris deflectors along the River to improve itsecology. This appears to have been successful and the experts from the Environment Agency are certainlypleased!

In a few weeks’ time we will be planting approximately 120 trees along the riverbank including black poplar,alder, oak and field maple.

Hedgerow MaintenanceYou will have seen that we have done some hedgerow maintenance work in mid-September. However, most ofthe hedgerow maintenance will take place in February so that the hedgerow berries can be used by the birdsover the winter. We have to undertake some work in September because it becomes too wet to drive on certainfields in February.

Some people asked for the hedges on either side of the permissive footpath (running down from the RecreationGround) to be cut earlier in the Summer. However, we are only allowed to cut hedges between 1st September to28th February. This is for the benefit of wildlife.

Tours in 2017 – Dates for the DiarySome early dates for next year’s diary!

The Bluebell Walk is planned for Saturday, 29th April.

The Farm and Woodland Tour is planned for Saturday, 3rd June.

In addition, some of you may be interested to come on the Tours which we undertake at Broxted (the old RAFStradishall airfield) which encompasses the Solar Farm, extensive grassland and livestock grazing, woodlandand many special wildlife/conservation features. The dates for these Tours next year are:

Saturday, 6th May

Saturday, 8th July

Saturday, 9th September

More details will be given closer to the time – I hope to see some of you on the Tours!

Charles Ryder

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From muffin top to French Fancy….“I promise you, you won’t be hungry….” My colleague smiled at me as she opened the door

of my first experience of Slimming World…

It all started on Wednesday 6th January 2016, 30 weeks ago when mycolleague led me to my first ever group session with Slimming World atNewmarket. I was instantly at home, thanks to a warm, brightenvironment, a lot of smiling people and us the nervous group… thenewbies…the ones who had enough of our sight after Christmas. Thatday there were over 90 people in the room, all motivated to lose theChristmas-built flab’. I have to be honest, like you I was dubious…I listento the consultant briefing and all I could think is: how many of this? Howmuch of that? How many calories can I have? The simplicity of the planwas just too good to be true – NO SCALE except for two things eachday!! Are you kidding me? And I will lose weight? My consultant turnedaround and smile: “yes you will on average 2.5 lbs a week…I promiseyou, you won’t be hungry…” Here they go again… those magic words!After returned from my maternity leave, I still had 4 stones to shift. Onmy first week of Food Optimising, I lost a whopping 7.5lbs, plan is easyto follow, pack your fridge content with colourful fruit and veg’! There isan abundance of recipes available in the very well-thought magazine or

on the website or in the various branded recipe books; but members also exchange their home-made recipes ortips on their group Facebook page, a private group where you can get additional support for those challengingdays. If I say on plan, you can eat English breakfast, curry, SW chips…you will think that I have lost it?? BUT Yesyou can eat curry and lose weight and if you haven’t got time to cook Iceland has the exclusivity with Slimmingworld ready meals! My secret weapons: eggs and Quark! Those key ingredients are packed in proteins; they aredelicious and fill me up for longer! I had lost a total of 4 stones and 12lbs and I have never been much happierwith what I see in the mirror.

So what have you got to lose, except weight?

I promise you, you will never be hungry again!

Join me every Thursdays from Thursday 20th October at 7.30pm for your private weighing and group therapy at8pm (1 hour max.) at Great Bradley Village Hall, The Street, Great Bradley, Newmarket, CB8 9LQ.

Healthwatch Suffolk - Calls For Your Stories Of Care In The CountyHealthwatch Suffolk has the power to shape, influence and improve local NHS and social care services in thecounty. It is independent from the NHS and social care, which means you can be honest when sharing yourviews.

It has launched a new campaign called “#NHSSelfieStars” for obtaining feedback from people about their use oflocal health and social care services. It wants to celebrate what is good about services and highlight wherethings could be better.

The state of the current health and care economy means that it has never been more important to share yourviews about local services; even if you don’t think it will make a difference. The watchdog hopes that thiscampaign will encourage people to share their stories so that it can help health and social care professionalsunderstand the views and experiences of people using their services and feed them into ongoing plans tochange the way your services are delivered.

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your experiences. All of the stories will be added to the growing volume of data the watchdog has alreadygathered from local people and used to hold services to account. You can share your selfie and story withHealthwatch Suffolk on Instagram (use #NHSSelfieStars) or by email to [email protected].

It is always possible to share your experiences anonymously with Healthwatch Suffolk. You can visitwww.healthwatchsuffolk.co.uk/services, where it is possible to rate and review your experience within any healthor social care service in the county. Alternatively, please call 01449 703949 to speak with a member of theHealthwatch team.

UK Power Networks: 105 national numberWhat Is 105? 105 is a new three-digit number that people can call to report or get informationabout power cuts.

You can also call 105 with any welfare concerns related to a power cut, or if youare worried about the safety of over or underground electricity cables orsubstations.

105 is free of charge and will put you through to your electricity network operator. You can call 105 from mostlandlines and mobile phones.

It will be launched in September 2016 and will be available to people in England, Scotland and Wales.

The www.powercut105.com website will be live for launch, providing people with more information andsignposting them to their network operator.

Why Is It Being Introduced? A lot of people don’t know who to call to report or get updates about power cuts, with many wrongly calling theenergy supply companies they pay their bills to.

105 aims to solve this problem, providing people with an easy-to-remember number that will put them straightthrough to their local electricity network operator.

This is particularly important when there is bad weather as severe storms can cause major disruption toelectricity supply into homes and businesses.

105 is just one of the ways you can contact your network operator. They can still be contacted directly by phoneon their 0800 number or via their website – and most can be reached through social media too.

Who Is Behind 105? 105 is jointly funded by electricity network operators.

Electricity network operators are the companies that manage and maintain the underground cables, overheadlines and substations that bring electricity into homes and businesses.

There are several electricity network operators. The larger ones each cover a different region within GreatBritain. Wherever you live, 105 will put you through to the right network operator.



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Suffolk Philharmonic To Give Remembrance Day ConcertA Tribute To The Fallen – A Celebration Of FreedomSuffolk Philharmonic Orchestra will be playing a special programme of much-loved classics at Ipswich Corn Exchange on Remembrance Sunday. Theconcert, entitled “A Tribute to the Fallen – A Celebration of Freedom” has beenorganised with the help of the Royal British Legion and will be attended by theMayor of Ipswich and leading figures from the County.

Leslie Olive, conductor of the Suffolk Philharmonic, said “The concert paystribute to the fallen and looks to celebrate our continued freedom which theirsacrifice achieved.”

Music includes two short pieces often associated with acts of remembrance –Barber’s “Adagio for Strings”, voted “the saddest piece of classical music” byBBC Radio 4 listeners, and the concert opens with “Fanfare For The CommonMan” by Aaron Copland.

Violinist Benjamin Baker makes a welcome return to play with the SuffolkPhilharmonic Orchestra the ever popular Violin Concerto by Max Bruch. Ben’s performance is guaranteed to‘wow’ the audience, as it did last year when he played with the Suffolk Philharmonic at The Apex in Bury StEdmunds.

After the interval, the Suffolk Philharmonic will play the famous “New World” Symphony by Dvorak, a piece fullof excitement and hope for a bright future – and familiar to many listeners nationwide for a famous Hovistelevision advert.

There will be a retiring collection in aid of the Royal British Legion.

Companies and individuals who are interested in supporting the concert, for example by sponsoring players orby paying the ticket price for (ex) military service personnel, can contact Mrs Wietske Hendriksen, Head ofProjects of the Suffolk Philharmonic, for further information on [email protected].

Tickets for the concert are on sale from the Corn Exchange now at: www.ipswichregent.co.uk or by phoning thebox office on 01473 433100. Ticket prices range between £11 and £36 with concessions for those in full-timeeducation.

FUTURE EDITIONS OF THE BUGLE!Please tell us your news or send an article or photograph – We’ll be delighted to hear from you!

We are also looking to extend the range of articles and information we publish so if you have any ideas for thingsto cover or are willing to put together something for inclusion, please let us know.

In order that your Bugle reaches you early in the month all copy must be received in good time.

N.B. Deadline for the next issue is the 15th of the month.

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John Barnett – Advertising 783903 [email protected] thank our advertisers who help to fund this village newsletter

Please note: The advertisements in this magazine are accepted in good faith but are not personalrecommendations of the editorial team.



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