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News for the villages of Colsterworth, Woolsthorpe, Stainby, Gunby, North Witham and LobthorpeEdited by Trefor Williams 21B Woolsthorpe Road NG33 5NT 01476 860 936 [email protected]
Issue 432 December 2010
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Make sure you fully enjoy the festive season by taking a few simple precautions.Remember to lock all windows and doors and give the impression that your home is occupied. Much
as the Christmas tree, presents wrapped and decorations look pretty it’s also very inviting to the opportunist burglar.
Close curtains, leave lights on and turn the radio on.Ensure your vehicle is locked and the keys are kept in a safe place. If you have a garage, use it. but if not, try to
park in a well-lit and open place. Most importantly, don’t leave valuables on view – tuck them away out of sight.Have you got your valuables security marked? I can supply you with an UV marker pen and log chart FREE of
Charge. And don’t forget to mark all of those expensive electronic presents after Christmas.Taking a few days break? Entrust a neighbour to pick up your post and open/close the curtains and switch on
the lights if they’re not on timer.Whatever your plans, wishing you a very Happy, safe and secure Christmas and New Year.
Helen Bill, Village Co-ordinator, [email protected] 01476 861399
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Parish CouncilAt the meeting held on 2nd Novem-
ber the Chairman commented on the lack of lighting at the northern A1 bridge junction. The relevant Agency has previously refused to light the junc-tion but the parish clerk is to contact them again.Parish Plan
The amended version of the new par-ish plan was presented and is available for public consultation and scrutiny (see the page 1 information panel)Emergency Plan
The draft plan was presented for dis-cussion. Colsterworth’s Flood Wardens are to be parishioner Jane Kennedy and Councillor Paul Cox. The chairman thanked Councillor Greenwood for her hard work in compiling the draft Plan. Clerk’s Report
Allotment inspections took place on 10th October. Most were in good con-dition and very productive.
Vehicle Activated speed signs for Colsterworth are to be installed by LCC Highways before the end of this finan-cial year. A date from Highways is still awaited for the resurfacing of theB676, Stainby Road
The yew trees at Old Post Lane ceme-tery will be trimmed and tidied this year.
It was agreed to investigate acquir-ing equipment to enable winter gritting to be undertaken locally because LCC Highways is only prepared to treat se-lected main roads (great news! - see the announcement on page 3. ed).Council membership
Councillor L Cook has tendered his resignation.Planning mattersReceived Ms S Farnsworth for a car port extension to Springfield House, Great North Road, Colsterworth; Central Net-
works for HV interconnection – backup feed on land between Saw mill and Brook House Sewstern Road Gunby.Refused Dr David Carrington (1953) Ltd for demolition of outbuildings and extension to existing outbuilding to create a dwelling, formation of three parking spaces and creation of new pedestrian access in boundary wall on land to the rear of 39/41 High Street Colsterworth.Appeal Approved Mrs Helen Broad-hurst of David Wilson Homes for erec-tion of five dwellings and associated in-frastructure on land at former industrial estate, Colsterworth.
Come along and see a new adapta-
tion of Beauty and the Beast from our friends at Northumberland Theatre Company in Colsterworth Village Hall on Friday 21st January. A beautiful girl, a father on his uppers, an enchanted castle, a mad gallop through the forest, a deserted rose garden, a promise unkept, a classic tale, a love story.
What more could you want in the middle of a long winter? This is a story you’ve always known, but you’ll feel you were hearing it for the first time. It’s funny, it’s sad, it’s exciting. It will warm your heart and send shivers up your spine, whether
Why travel miles when there’s live professional theatre
on your doorstep? Aimed at children from age eight upwards, and with tick-
ets from just £4 for children and only £18 for a family of four, it’s a performance not to be missed.
Brighten up your village with spring bulbs!
As you walk around the villages you may well have thought to yourself
that it would be nice to see spring flow-ers in a particular spot.
Well now is your chance to make it happen. We have a few hundred daf-fodil bulbs that require planting on verges and entrances to the villages. If you would like to help please contact me.
John HannamParish Clerk 861888
ColsterworthSports & Social ClubChristmas and New Year Opening
24th 6pm to midnight25th 11am to 1pm and 8pm to 10pm26th Noon until late27th 7.30pm until late28th Closed29th 8pm until late30th 8pm to 11pm31st 7pm until late1st Jan 4pm to 10pm
Membership fees now due. The charges areAdults £5, Juniors £2.50, Seniors £1.50
you are young or old. Look out too for information about Newton Players’ forth-coming show The Robin Hood Files in next month’s In Touch..
Geoffrey Smith
Phoebe, Peter and family would like to express their sincere thanks
for all the cards, letters, flowers and donations received following the recent loss of Geoffrey. Marie Curie Cancer Care confirmed a total sum of £276.50 and £224 was raised for Gifts Hospice after the Memorial Service.
Youth Club
Please note the last two meetings of 2010 will be held at the Social
Club on Wednesday 1st December and Wednesday 15th December. Then we hope to re-open on Tuesday 11th Janu-ary and to continue every fortnight.
We’re looking for more members to attend – you’re guaranteed a good wel-come.
Unfortunately, Aoife and Jim, two of the management team, are leaving the village and we’d like to thank them for their efforts and wish them well in their new home.
So we need more volunteers to work
on a rota system to keep the club run-ning because we’re down to just five team members. If you are interested in helping out please contact me on 860570.
Many thanks. Alan Wood.
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Taekwon-do in Colsterworth is still going well but, due to
the downturn, things are a bit quieter.
It’s a good few years since I asked Mr Anderson to move the club to Colster-worth as a way of doing something for my community even though we are of-ten asked to train in other villages.
We are a non-profit club and do not get paid for the hours we put into in-structing students in Martial Arts, so we’re grateful for all the support we get.
On the 11th December Charlie Stew-art and John Penfold will be taking their black belts and the rest of Andersons TKD School will be grading in the first week of December. So good luck to them all.
If you fancy joining us, over 7’s, more adults and a few females please, I’m out-numbered! Contact Dave Anderson at: [email protected] or ring 07590 020 541 Cheers
Charlie Patte
Book Club
At our 15th November meeting we discussed “ Travels with Charlie”
which was well received.For December we chose from our list
of suggestions “One Day” by Nick Horn-by which, apparently, doesn’t exist! So we will discuss anything we have read at our next meeting on 20th December when we will meet at 7.30 for 8 for a meal at The White Lion.
17th January is our first meeting of the new year and we will continue to be at the White Lion on the third Monday each month.
Kath Miners
Casio electronic keyboard, CTK-611. Excellent condition, instruction manual. Multi track, tones and rhythms. £35. Tel 861131Round dining table, 42in. Shabby chic, cream/pine. Good condition. £20. Tel 861131Sony compact HiFi Stereo System with separate cabinet and two speakers. £60 ono. Tel 860815Hostess Trolley, wood finish. £45ono. Tel 860815Men’s bicycle frame, aluminum. Gears included, needs two new tyres. £45ono. Tel 86081510in Black TV with remote. £10. Tel 860815Tailor’s dummy, adjustable body. £30ono Tel 860815Worn-out reindeer with nasty cold. Free to good stable. Call Greenland 1234 and ask for the Duty Elf.Submissions for Buy-N-Sell must be from households under Colsterworth & District Parish Council. You must have authority to offer (eg it’s yours or a family mem-ber has asked you to offer it). You must be in a private capacity (you’re not a trader, whether as a business, hobby or sideline) and give your name, and contact details. Acceptance is at the editor’s discretion.
Here’s to a non-slip winter
Remember last winter how the ice and snow just would not clear from
our villages’ roads?LCC Highways only grits those roads
that are considered essential routes. Although we have asked LCC for ad-ditional grit bins to supplement those located at strategic positions around the villages (for use by parishioners to grit their roads – but not personal driveways!), we now have our own equipment.
The Parish Council has bought a grit spreader that can be towed by either a tractor or a 4x4 fitted with a towbar. It will be used when there is a risk of prolonged ice and snow to treat some of the village roads that LCC do not grit. In addition, a portable hand cart spreader has been purchased for use by volunteers to grit some footpaths.
Thanks go to local farmer Bill Scorror who has offered to store the equip-ment and salt.
No-one can predict what this win-ter will throw at us, but at least we will now have some equipment and salt supplies of our own and not have to rely totally on LCC Highways. Clearly there will be a cost to this but the Par-ish Council considers this to be money well spent.
at Colsterworth Sports & Social ClubFriday 10th December
Eyes Down 7.30pmWendy and all the staff look
forward to seeing you there -everyone’s wlecome!.
Christmas Charity Bingo
Police and crime
During October, computer equip-ment and gold coins were stolen
from a house in Meadow Close, Col-sterworth after a conservatory window was smashed. A bicycle was taken from a Colsterworth High Street Shed and there were two thefts of batteries and electric fencing units from Bridgend in one day. Dieisel fuel was taken from barns on Old Post Lane and a High Street house undergoing renovation lost copper piping. Someone took two pairs of sunglasses from an unsecured car in the High Street and the David Wilson Homes site sufferd the loss of building materials twice in the month. If you have information please contact us on 0300 111 3000, call the Neighbour-hood Policing Team on 01476 860222 or our mobiles.
There have been an increase of thefts from motor vehicles around the area, so please make sure that all valuables are removed from vehicles or hidden from view and vehicles are kept locked and secure.
Now that darker nights are here, please keep your homes secure by lock-ing all doors and windows and leaving a light on if you go out.
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Why do we Prune? That was the question we were asked by our
speaker Debbie Traynor, a horticultural-ist from Swayfield. To increase the life of a plant, to look at the shape the plant wants to be or to open the plant up are all good reasons. But the main rule of thumb is to eradicate the four D’s — Dead, Dying, Damaged or Diseased.
And when to Prune? The answer was at the beginning and end of the grow-ing season depending on the plant: af-ter frosts for tender shrubs, in the grow-ing season for lavender, apple, pear, peach, cherry, magnolia and olive - al-ways remembering to dead head flow-ers to produce a flourish of new blooms.
We were then split into groups and handed unruly rose bushes or branches of trees to prune which produced a lot of discussion and amusement.
Rona Allinson gave a much deserved vote of thanks and Peter and Tracey made the much needed refreshments.
Members and guests gathered at The White Lion recently to cele-
brate the 93rd anniversary of the found-ing of the Institute, not for a Christmas lunch as the editor had published in last month’s In Touch (sorry! ed). We were welcomed by our President, Mary Cow-ley before we tucked into a selection of dishes. Perhaps we could take Trefor’s faux pas and switch to a Christmas menu for a change. Easier for the chef, and I remember it being like that when I joined many moons ago. Something to think about for next year?
There was no pressing business to discuss other than the arrangements for decorating the Christmas tree in the parish church, but as yet we have no agreed-date when we can do it, from the PCC.
Following the meal, the President’s traditional raffle was won by Rosie Bo-longaro, who went on to thank the Sec-retary for organising the lunch.
Back to business for next meeting and a reminder for members to bring along their voting slips for the proposed resolutions at the National Federation AGM 2011(which were printed in the WI Life November edition). Also, payment is required for County newsletters if you ordered one and not already coughed up).
Finally if you have made any decora-tions for the Christmas tree and not able to get to the church for the decorating, please bring them along to the next meeting - which is on December 9th at 2pm in the Village Hall. Please note, this
is the SECOND Thursday of the month, a change from the third Thursday for one month only.
Our speaker will be James Drury on Writing a Will - they do say that it is an amusing talk! The competition is a Christmas tree bauble. (that’s handy). Usually we have festive fare at refresh-ment time thanks to the committee (fingers crossed that they will come up trumps again). Visitors are most wel-come to join us for the afternoon.
Dot Williams
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From the editor
The traditional message is, of course, a Merry Christmas And A
Happy New Year to All Our Readers.So there you are, that’s tradition dealt
with. But there’s more. Picture a snow-covered landscape, villagers gloved, scarved and just able to see out through the slits in the balaclavas. One or two are trudging up a hill clutching an en-velope or a scrap of paper while others are striding out through the villages with small bundles of documents under their arms. These dedicated souls are the In Touch contributors, advertisers and distributors risking everything to make sure your newsletter has informa-tion, costs the parish nothing and hits doormats. My thanks and compliments of the season go to them all.Finally, I’d like to refer you to paragraph one!
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go on to say that “if cooked and dried it is safe” but most of us would not wish to test this!
This is the time of year when many birds flock together for communal advantage. Locally the most spectacular is the starling.Numbers may have dropped but still they gather - smaller groups swoop and wheel to join in one, dancing, syn-chronised flight. As sunset approaches they drop in a freckled black ribbon to the trees. There follows a build up of twitters and calls, the ‘murmuration’, of starlings which stops suddenly. The birds left on the outside will keep the others warm for the night.
Rooks, like Iapwings and gulls, feed in winter flocks but may also come together in pairs for aerial displays in what seems to be an early courtship.
To look for in DecemberFlocks of migratory birds like the
fieldfares making purposeful journeys along hedges for berries and apples. Robins; the popular robin has been a symbol of Christmas ever since Victori-an postmen, known as robins because of their red waistcoats, brought the Yuletide mail. Notice that their friendly attitude to us is not extended to their own kind as they aggressively defend their own territory. This is one of the reasons that they sing when other birds are silent. The ‘tame’ bird you admired last summer may not be the same one back again in Spring since the females migrate south after the breeding season. At the same time, continental birds winter in England, usually in woods where these paler birds can sometimes be found. Ivy in flower and fruit; the best place to find invertebrates and a haven for birds too.
I look forward to your records and observations by my new e-mail, [email protected], by telephone on 860465 or at 61 Woolsthorpe Road.
Jane Ostler
which appear in May. When the Tree For Life Group wanted seed to grow
these trees they could find none in our parishes. Someone else has planted these in a gap in the hedge and this is the
first year that fruit has been noted. It is good to see this native tree which had many traditional uses. Its hard yel-low wood was used for skewers, pegs, knitting needles and, as the name sug-gests, spindles.
Some of the golden maple leaves bore the red swellings of nail galls. The cause of these is a mite, a spider-like creatures less than 0.1mm long. It embeds itself into a pouch which it has stimulated the leaf to produce and here it survives, protected from the el-ements, feeding by sucking up juices from plant cells.
The ivy climbing the ash tree was supporting invertebrate life in a more obvious way. Hundreds of honey bees were feeding on its abundant flowers, their buzzing attracting the attention of someone delivering the In Touch magazine! A search for bumble bees out late in the year discovered a queen bee that is a cuckoo in the red-tailed bees nest. This is a particularly inter-esting find since they are described as only colonising first broods early in the year.
Other insect reports have been of those causing galls, like the fluffy red Robin’s pincushion on roses and the marble galls on oak. Witches broom on silver birch is, however, caused by a fungus.
The White Saddle Fungus found last month is one of the False Morels. Its cap is white and saddle shaped and the fat white stem is deeply grooved with a rubbery texture. True Morels include those good to eat. This False Morel by contrast contains helvellic acid which early books describe as having “a strong dissolving action on the red corpuscles of the blood.”. They
At the beginning of November, the autumn colour of leaves was still
spectacular. On Old Post Lane the red leaves of spindle were backed by a blaze of gold from a mature maple tree. Both were set off by the dark green leaves of ivy climbing up the bare branches of a tall ash.
The spindle fruits are shocking pink and split to reveal clashing orange seeds. Their colours are in marked contrast to the modest green flowers
The Flower of the Month competition was won by Ros with a nerine and Rona second with a rose. David handed out the Sutton Seed catalogues - orders to be in by next meeting please - and Gillian is still selling her A-Z of Vegeta-ble Quiz sheets. The results will be an-nounced at next meeting, the AGM on 13th December at 7.30pm in the Village Hall
At the AGM we will also have a Christ-mas demonstration, sherry and mince pies and a Free Xmas Raffle. We would like everybody who attends to bring along a raffle prize wrapped in Christ-mas paper
Don’t forget that before that we will hold our Christmas Luncheon at The White Lion on Sunday 12th December from 12.30pm.
Before the November meeting end-ed, Sue Scott from the Red Cross gave us a few words on the Open Garden Scheme because they are looking for new gardens to visit. If you are will-ing to participate as an individual or a group please contact Sue 01476 563614 for more details.
Joanna Smith
ColsterworthSports & Social ClubDecember Events17th Christmas Bingo 7.30pm18th Children’s Party 7-9pm24th Karaoke & Christmas Prize Draw26th Games NightNew Year’s Eve Disco and BuffetNew Year’s Day Nintendo Wii Party
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COLSTERWORTH METHODIST CHURCH
Tel 860 046
Mondays 9am-3pm Pre-School Methodist Hall 5.30-7pm Brownies Village Hall except 2nd wk 7.30pm-9.30pm Music And Drama Village HallTuesdays 9am-3pm Pre-School Methodist Hall (fortnightly) 7pm-9pm Youth Group Sports and Social Club 7.30pm-9.30pm Music And Drama Village HallWednesdays 9am-3pm Pre-School Methodist Hall 10am-1.30pm Open Door Methodist Church 6.45-8pm Anderson’s Taekwondoo Village Hall School (adults continue until 8.30pm) during Term 5.30pm-6.30pm Beavers Village HallThursdays 9am-3pm Pre-School Methodist Hall 6pm-7.30pm Girl Guides Primary School 6.30pm-7.30pm Beavers Village Hall 7pm-8.30pm Cubs Village HallFridays 9am-3pm Pre-School Methodist Hall 7.30pm-9.30pm Weekly Bingo Sports & Social ClubSaturdays 10-12noon Football Coaching Sports Field
Wed 1st 7.30pm Youth Club Sports and Social ClubSat 4th 2-4pm St John’s Christmas Bazaar Village HallTue 7th 7.25pm Parish Council Meeting Village HallWed 8th 10am Open Door Methodist ChurchThu 9th 7.30pm Christmas Bingo North Witham Village HallFri 10th 7.30pm Co-op Charity Bingo Sports and Social ClubSun 12th 12.30pm Garden Club Christmas Lunch White LionMon 13th 7.30pm Garden Club AGM Village Hall Wed 15th 7.30pm Youth Club Sports and Social ClubThu 18th 12.30pm WI Christmas Lunch White LionMon 20th 7.30pm Book Club and supper White LionWed 22nd from 11am Open Door’s 21st Birthday Methodist ChurchWed 22nd 6.30pm Young Musicians Christmas Concert St John’s Parish ChurchFri 24th 6pm Carols by Candlelight Methodist Church
Every Week
PARISH CHURCH of St John the BaptistColsterworth
The Villages’ Diary for December 2010
Copy for the January 2011 issue of In Touch must arrive by noon on Saturday 18th December 2010.
E-mail contributions to [email protected] are preferred (call 860936 and check they’ve arrived) and clear typescript suitable for scanning is second best. If there is something you’d like to include but have no access to mechanical or electronic devices, manuscript can be taken.
Please ensure that you put your contact details on any submission. Send or deliver any hardcopy to Trefor Williams at 21B Woolsthorpe Road NG33 5NT (Tel 860 936).
Don’t forget to add the dates of future meeting to your copy if you want them to appear in the Villages’ Diary.
In Touch 21st November 2010
Sunday School10.30am in the Hall during school term time. All children welcome.
December 2010 Preacher FlowersSun 5th 10.30am Morning Worship David Wiltshire Marjorie HarrisSun 12th 10.30am Morning Worship Rob Shaw Margaret RussellSun 19th 6pm Sunday School Nativity PlaySun 24th 6pm Christmas Eve Carols by CandlelightSun 26th 10am Group Service at Skillington
Open DoorEvery second and fourth Wednesday of the month in the Church from 10am to 1.30pm. Simply call in for friendship, morning coffee, takeaways, light lunches and charity shop.
But Wednesday 22snd is our 21st Birthday from 11am with Christmas Lunch at noon. Tickets £5 from Helen Scorrer, 860126 by 14th December.
Minister Rev Lesley Taylor, 18 Bowbridge Lane, Bottesford NG13 0AQ 01476 564 191Lay Minister Ian Collinson, c/o Colsterworth Methodist Church, 07814 712702 and 01159 892 064There’s a warm welcome to all our services and events.
Priest -in-charge Rev Eric Lomax (861 959) [email protected]
Church Wardens Peter Smith (860 218) Simon Jowitt (07903 390 151)
Verger Denis Adams (860 460)
PCC Secretary Sarah Thomson (860 901)
Sun 5th 11am Sung Eucharist Wed 15th 11am Said EucharistWed 8th 11am Said Eucharist Sun 19th 11am Sung EucharistSun 12th 11am Sung Eucharist Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve at 11.30pm
Sun 2nd Jan 11am Sung Eucharist
December 2010
The Christmas Bazaar is Saturday 4th December from 2pm to 4pm in the Village Hall. The school choir is to open the event (so get there early!) and there are refreshments. Do come and browse – there will be something for everyone.Christmas Tree Decorating The church will be open Friday 10th 6-7pm and Saturday 11th 9.30-11am for arangers. If the times are not convenient, you can arrange an alternative with Sarah Thomson (860901).Christmas Concert in church on Wednesday 22nd December. Julia Kerby and her student musicians are to entertain us and there will be mince pies and mulled wine.
Forward DiaryBeauty and the Beast at the Village Hall on Friday 21st January
The Village DirectoryOrganisation Contact TelephoneAnti-Social Behaviour Reporting 08001 830279
Ballroom Dancing Bett Pope 01476 861032
Beavers Dave Sewell 07964 841 720
Bell Ringers Pandy Pearce 01476 860357
Bowling Club Doreen Crowden 01476 860902
Brownies Ruth Hollis 01476 860463
Colsterworth Festival of Performing Arts Julia Kerby 01476 860329
Council, Colsterworth and District Parish John Hannam 01476 861888
Council, Lincolnshire County Council 01522 552222
Council, South Kesteven District 01476 406080
Councillor, Lincolnshire County Council Roy Chapman 01476 566266
Councillor, SKDC Isaac Newton Ward Bob Adams 01476 530329
Councillor, SKDC Morkery Ward Margery Radley 01476 565081
Cubs Dave Sewell 07964 841 720
Doctor's Surgery, Back Lane Colsterworth 01476 860243
Doctors' Surgery, Market Place Corby Glen 01476 550056
Doctor's Surgery, St John's Close Corby Glen 01476 550251
Floodline 08459 88188
Football and Coaching Rachel Jones 01476 860364
Football Manager Kev Wallace 01476 861448
Gardeners & Allotment Holders Joanna Smith 01476 860218
Gas emergencies 0800 111999
Guides Lesley Shutie 01476 860129
Highways, Lincolnshire County Council 01522 782070
Ingle Charity Correspondent Margaret Winn 01476 860404
Jolly Babies Jane Harris 01476 585212
Little Legs Nursery Sarah Moore 01476 860053
Neighbourhood Watch Colsterworth Helen Bill 01476 861399
Newton's Players Hazel Taylor 01476 860 605
Non-emergency Police 0300 111 0300
Police Office, Back Lane, Colsterworth 01476 860262
Police Station, Grantham 01476 402222
Police, Community Beat Manager PC Julia Higgins 07939 887 565
Post Office, Colsterworth Shirely and George 01476 860262
School, Colsterworth C of E Primary 01476 860569
School, Colsterworth PTFA Tamzin Keenleyside 01476 861398
South Witham Children’s Centre 01476 860460
Sports and Social Club Rose Wood 01476 860487
Taekwondo Dave Anderson 07590 020541
Village Archive Group Margaret Winn 01476 860404
Village Hall, Colsterworth Eileen Lewendon 01476 860459
Village Hall, North Witham (bookings) Magaret Bellamy 01476 861159
White Lion, Colsterworth Madeleine Smith 01476 861466
Women’s Institute Dot Williams 01476 860741
Woolsthorpe Manor Margaret Winn 01476 862821