Martlesham Heath Aviation Society


MARTLESHAM Heath Avia- tion Society next monthly meet- ing will be on Friday 6th January 2017 at 7.30 pm, when Nik Coleman presents: “Plane Res- urrection” - taking us into the cockpits of the world’s greatest restored warbirds. Nik Coleman is the Director of the Series of the same name - now being shown throughout the World, and being released in the UK shortly. He talks frankly about the making of the first of the six


episodes, the people, the planes and heartache of the loss of the P51 “Janie”, star of the very first show. This all takes place at the


Main Hall, Martlesham Heath Community Centre, Felixstowe Road, Martlesham Heath, IP12 4PB. Members £3, non-mem- bers welcomed at £4. Pay at the door on arrival. For more infor- mation see: www.mhas.org.uk or call Howard on 01473 274300.


Woodbridge Camera Club


CHRISTMAS AT DEBEN ROTARY


THE festive season at the Rotary Club of Woodbridge Deben got off to a rousing start on Decem- ber 1st, when the club held its annual Carol Concert and Sup- per at Woodbridge School. A capacity crowd were magnifi- cently entertained by the Wood- bridge School Chamber Choir and Martlesham Brass Band,and enthusiastically joined in the carol singing. Final figures are not available at the time of going to press but the event raised a significant sum of money, which will enable the club to go on sup- porting a range of local, national


THE Community Hall in Wood- bridge was filled with members and guests of the Woodbridge Horticultural Society for the talk on December 8th, to hear Jim Buttress of The Great Allotment Challenge talk about his 25 year involvement with The Royal Parks in London. Over the course of his career


EIGHTEEN members entered our Open PDI competition on November 15th with a total of 49 images. Four of the entries were awarded a maximum score of 10 by the judge Frank Blyth - “Golden Lion Tamarin” and “Nine, Ten a Big Fat Hen”, both by Richard Ford, “Over the Moon” by Sue Garrod and “Rainy Day Ladybird” by Trev- or Boyd. Congratulations to those three members and thanks to Frank for coming out on a rainy night and giving us the benefit of his expertise.


2017 Programme. January


17th - Practical evening: “Could have done better”. Howto avoid the disappointment of photo- graphs not living up to expecta- tions. Members will be asked to bring along a photograph that has not worked as they had hoped. It will be assessed by a panel of other members. Guests welcome. Members £2, guests £5. At the meeting room, Wood- bridge Quay Church, 7.30pm. For more information please


visit www.woodbridgecamera- club.co.uk


the Royal Parks have moved from being state run in the 1970’s through the use of contract ser- vices to today where a Charitable Trust has been created to fund and run the Parks for the benefit of the public. The creation of Friends Groups to support the use of the facilities has in some cases rein- troduced apprentice schemes to encourage new entrants to horti- culture. He guided the audience through


the challenges and pleasures of managing the great parks of Lon- don, which together total over 1,000 acres of green space in our capital city. The aim of the indi- vidual park managers is to pro- vide colour from January to December every year though in Green Park the focus is on trees and in Brompton cemetery wild


and international charities. By the time you read this we


will also have done our tours of Martlesham Heath with Santa’s sleigh and, as always, we thank the public for their support. There will be no Memory


Cafe in December due to the holiday period. The next session will be at Woodbridge Football Club on Wednesday 25th Janu- ary at 10.30am. If you would like any more information about the Memory Cafe or about Rotary in general, please contact Rotarian Martin Kenyon on 01394 386933.


Woodbridge Horticultural Society


flowers are more appropriate. Jim explained how the parks produce many of their own plants. For example, they grow 100,000 pel- argoniums every year using large pots to allow them to bed out plants which are in flower. The park staff supervises the cleaning of the lakes and ponds as well as managing wild fowl, which include pelicans and black swans. Jim explained not all his ideas


were successful; the failures included bizzy lizzys with downy mildew and dog toilets which remained unused. The successes included winter fairs, pop con- certs and providing a backdrop for many important state ceremo- nies. He encouraged members to visit, in particular, the less well known Isabella Plantation in Richmond Park and his own favourite St James’s Park. The next meeting is a talk by


Sarah Cook and Jim Marshall on January 12th “Horticultural Snip- pets and Gardeners’ Questions.” (Bring your questions for Sarah and Jim to answer) Competition - Prize for best


question. Woodbridge Cruising Club


STRICTLY Come Dancing came to Woodbridge Cruising Club in late November when Malcolm Halter and his partner Rita introduced members and guests to the intricacies of Argentinian Tango. There were no judges but the event was rated a ten, ten, ten success by the 50 odd audience who turned up. Malcolm and Rita gave a brief introduction and demonstration of four different tangos before getting everyone onto the floor for a lesson. Some of the inter- pretation could be described as loose, but it was all enthusiastic and couples strutted on until late. Malcolm and Rita kept an eye on the proceedings and pointed the more wayward back in the right direction. It’s clearly a pastime which needs a degree of dedication and they confessed to dancing twice a week. Appar- ently, there are several tango dancing schools in Suffolk so if the initial enthusiasm is main- tained their numbers could well be swelled in the coming months. A steaming casserole of Argentinian beef followed by


Spanish ‘biscots’ and coffee gave sustenance to the dancers midway through the evening and the bar helped slake the inevitable thirsts. This was a new event for the club but proved to be a fun diversion for the winter months when sailing is only for the most hardy. Earlier in the month David


Card revealed secrets of being a navigator in the cold war years. Illustrated with some fascinating photographs and copious anec- dotes David plotted a course around the world from the back seat of an RAF ‘V’ bomber car- rying reserves of fuel to replen- ish the fighter planes which were ‘escorting’ the Russian bear on the frontline. Mid-air re-fuel- ling requires accurate navigation and manoeuvring as many of the photos testified. David briefly explained some of the differ- ences between navigation in the air and at sea and answered a flood of questions from the audi- ence before receiving a vote of thanks from Freeman Lynn and an enthusiastic round of applause.


The annual AGM passed ‘nem


con’ with only minor changes to the committee and the Treasurer reported a healthy balance sheet. After a busy year the activities of the sub-committees were report- ed to the members and then the Commodore presented various awards. The Caroline Gam- mage Cup for services to the club was awarded jointly to George Gooden and Sonia Pol- lock on their retirement as Trust- ees and John Gravatt and Marion Barnes were elected to replace them. The Cruising Cup was


awarded to Tony Holford and Rachel Kemsley in Kentish Plo- ver and The Tony Buttall Shield to Norman and Sheila Craig. Gillian Bush received the Woo- brugge Shield for the best log of a foreign cruise for her report on a trip to Belgium and Holland. The meeting concluded with an open discussion which centred on matters of procedure but there was no ‘Palace Coup’ and the Commodore was launched into another year at the helm. www.woodbridgecruising-


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