April 1995

We are celebrating our 1st birthday, yes, it’s a year since I took over the newsletter, with Robin Woods helping me by typing up the layout ready for printing - I hope you’ve all enjoyed our first year’s efforts.

If there is anything different that you would like to see in the monthly newsletter or something that you think would be of interest to other readers, then please let me know. It is after all the Village Newsletter, I’m only the person who takes the articles in and puts them into some kind of order, with Robin’s invaluable help.

Now please believe me, I am not anti-dogs, I was a dog owner myself for many years but could I please ask you not to exercise your dogs on the kiddies playground, its not very nice or very healthy either, the younger children love playing on the playground, I know my grandchildren do.

Thanks for the £10 donation I had given for the newsletter, it is greatly appreciated. The lady wishes to remain anonymous.

It is with great sadness that I have to report the deaths of Mrs Dorothy Sellars of Thwing Road and Mr George Wilson who until recently lived on Long Street. Our deepest sympathies to their families and friends.

Please keep all your articles coming in for the newsletter, we’d like to hear how the "keep fit" classes are progressing, any news of the children’s playground and anything else that is going on in the village.

All articles for the May newsletter by no later than April 22nd please to:

Barbara Lingard,

It is currently costing £18 per issue to produce the newsletter and in spite of donations received finances are in a steady decline. It would be a great help if any business people living locally or any clubs, organisations or private individuals would consider sponsoring one issue per year either publicly or anonymously. I am sure that you would not like to see the newsletter die through lack of funds, so please consider what you could do to help.

Thank you

Tony Ezard ( Treasurer)

Add Garlic Salt to Scrambled Eggs

Try serving beetroot hot with orange sauce

Everyone is welcome to hear our choir combine with the Harthill Singers in this popular work on Sunday April 9th at 6.30 pm. The Women’s Fellowship will be attending as their first meeting of the year.

All are welcome to this event at Lady Mary’s on Thursday April 6th between 12.00 and 2.00. Tickets from Mrs Algar, Tel: 420318

will be on display on Easter Day and Easter Monday between 12.00 and 6.00, and on Easter Tuesday between 10.00 and 4.00; tea and biscuits are on sale.

will be singing in church on Whit Sunday evening ( 4th June ) - book the date now !

Many of you will have read about the ridiculous church advertising campaign which deliberately doesn’t use the symbol of the cross. How silly! The one sign which is recognised (almost) world-wide, and it’s not used .....

Just as silly as the idea of having Easter without Good Friday. We all like having a party, I’m sure, and Easter is one of those things worth celebrating; but we have to take the rough with the smooth, and we have to have Good Friday and the cross as well. I’m trying this year to encourage everyone to take Holy Week seriously, and to concentrate on our sins, and how Jesus died for our sins; for if we can remember that he took our sins to the cross, then we can celebrate all that bit harder at Easter, when we recognise that death has power neither over Jesus nor over us - providing we confess our sins to God in the first place!

When we get there (and not before!), Happy Easter!

Stephen

W.I. NEWS

The Coffee Evening held on March 7th was well attended and £100.40p was raised. After expenses were paid the sum of £85.40p was sent to Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Three teams competed in the first round of the Federation Quiz. Mrs B.Burgess captained the winning team which will go forward to the next round.

The next meeting is on April 4th when there will be a talk on Finger Printing at New Scotland Yard.

The first meeting of the Women’s Fellowship will be on April 9th ( Palm Sunday ) at 6.30 pm in Rudston Church. The church choir will give a performance of the Crucifixion.

The Playing Field ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will be held in the Sport’s Pavilion at 7.00 pm on WEDNESDAY 3RD MAY 1995. Everyone welcome. All inhabitants of the village aged 18 and over are eligible to vote on any matters which arise.

Richard Warters ( Hon. Secretary Playing Field )

There will be a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING for outdoor bowls on MONDAY 5th April in the Village Hall at 7.30 pm. May I please remind you that the Annual Subscription of £10 per person will be due. Prospective new members are invited to attend this meeting.

If you are not able to come to the meeting will you please contact me before 21st April on the following matters:

Are you willing to help on the Grass Cutting Rota? ( Many hands make light work remember). Will you help on the Pavilion Cleaning Rota?

All members will be entered in the appropriate club competitions, the Ladies, the Open Singles and the Pairs unless I hear otherwise.

Will you be playing in the Philip Proctor Memorial Cup Triples? To be played on around nine Sundays in the bowling season. Husband and wife teams are permitted plus one player to be drawn from the single entrants.

LEAGUE GAMES. The Driffield Association League Matches start on 9th May to 27th July, to be played on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We are entering three teams again and need at least 30 players to cover for illness, holidays etc. If you cannot play all the time, will you please consider being a substitute occasionally?

WEDNESDAY LEAGUE GAMES start on 17th May until 6th September excluding Driffield Show week. We have entered one team and a list of around 12 players will be appreciated.

21ST APRIL is the latest date I would like this information please. This enables me to have everything ready for the start of the bowling season.

BOWLS DOMINO MATCH on Sunday 30th April will be the first club competition ( weather permitting ) at 2.00 pm. Players are kindly asked to bring the usual refreshments for afternoon tea. Entry fee is 50p and will be used as cash prizes. 36 members, at least, are required so please come.

New players may like to join in this competition as it will enable them to meet a lot of our members and it is a fun game. It is an ideal opportunity to start.

Pamela Brand is recovering from her operation and wishes to thank everyone for their good wishes.

Did Jim Warters lend you his measure last season? He has not used it yet - and it’s lost!

INDOOR BOWLS Congratulations to Philip Crossland who won the Norma Collis Memorial Cup and to Ernie Booth, the runner up who won the N. & J. Dawson Shield. Thanks to Norah for presenting the shield. It was a very close league competition this year and it was not until the last night games that the winner became apparent. Well done Jean and Duncan Corner for winning the Stevenson Cup - Congratulations.

To Hazel Conner and Jean Kitching we send our thanks, for holding the rest of us up. They were happy to be presented with the Egg Cups this year.

DRIFFIELD TIMES FLAT GREEN COMPETITION Mixed Pairs Knockout Competition. Entry fee £3 per pair. Prize money totals £250. Entry to me not later than 21st April please.

VILLAGERS and their friends are always welcome on the playing field. Some very pleasant afternoons and evenings can be spent watching a bowls, cricket or tennis match in the summer. Even cups of tea are available at times. It is your field so why not use it.

Pauline Warters - Secretary

I have had nothing reported to me at all this month. It is the first time since Neighbourhood Watch has been set up that nothing has been reported. Is it that nothing has happened or that I have not been told about it? As I have said before I make a register of all that happens in Rudston but unless I am told of the things that need to go on the register I can’t do anything about it. Once again I feel I must say, Neighbourhood Watch will NOT work in Rudston if you don’t make it work. It is all about communications, if you see anything, hear anything that is not quite as it should be please LET ME KNOW. You will not be wasting my time, I need all the help I can get. Please help me make Rudston a crime free village.

Julia Overfield

From Tony Ezard

Bird migration is underway. As yet it doesn’t include any of the birds we regard as our normal summer migrants but have you noticed for instance that song thrushes have increased in numbers lately? Many, but not all, prefer to leave us in winter and head further south and west returning in spring. It has been shown by ringing that a large proportion of our local birds overwinter in the southern part of Ireland. A close relative of the song thrush, the redwing, travels much greater distances from Scandinavia and further north, stopping off with us for a few weeks during the late autumn to eat mainly berries before continuing it’s journey south. On it’s return journey the species very often overflies us but recently one has been reported locally breaking it’s journey to feed here.

Linnets have also made a reappearance after spending the winter probably frequenting rough grassland near the coast.

Two birds however stand out for this month. The first was a report of a crane on the 10th March between Rudston and Burton Fleming. No confirmation was achieved of this sighting but the same species was reported two days later in Holderness, so this may have been a bird blown off course and trying to find it’s way back to the continent. The second was a black redstart seen close to the village on the 20th March. This species has not been reported in the area for about 15 years but is an unmistakeable bird in that it is about the size of a robin, jet black with a white wing patch and a bright rufous red tail. It is a true migrant preferring rocky hillsides and cliffs further north for it’s breeding sites.

During the mild spell earlier in the month frogs suddenly became active and noisy. On the 11th March they could be heard calling from ponds and sure enough the next day the first record was received of frog spawn, about a week earlier than normal for our area. Down my own garden their instinct has been a panic dive-dive-dive as I have approached their spawning pond but quite comically on the morning of the 20th after a hard frost their efforts to dive resulted in nothing more than a series of rather undignified belly flops onto a layer of ice covering the pond. On the same evening as the frog chorus was heard several newts were out and about but it is still too early for them to start breeding.

The mild spell also brought out an upsurge in insect activity with bumble bees foraging, an increase in numbers and species of moths and the first butterfly of the year, a small tortoiseshell on the 13th. Ladybirds have appeared in significant numbers and a queen wasp was seen buzzing about.

Very soon there will be enormous activity so please keep your eyes open and your reports coming in.

Tony Ezard.

By the time you have read this I should have details regarding Parish Council Elections which will be held on 4th May. As soon as posters are to hand, they will be displayed in the village. I understand we will have two or three vacancies this year, if anyone is interested. Nomination papers are available for the Parish Council Elections and anyone requiring a paper should contact Phillip Crossland as soon as possible on 01377 257695. Nominations close at 12.00 noon on Tuesday 4th April so there isn’t a lot of time.

The good news this month is that we have at least been granted a speed limit for High Street. There will be a 40 mph limit between the village nameplate signs - the one on Springdale side will be moved nearer the village. When first applied for, nearly five years ago, the intention was a 30 mph limit, but after two surveys and countless letters, it seems we are lucky to get one at all. Anyway, time will tell if it makes any difference to the "speed merchants".

There was no response to last month’s offer from Yorkshire Community Health Council, so there will be no meeting about that.

Village car parking problems were discussed at the last meeting. So much depends on individuals concerned, of course, but one interesting idea was raised, which I have written to the County Council About. It isn’t yellow lines, which no-one particularly wants to see in the village. If the County Council come up with anything I will report again.

Of wider interest is the news that Sewerby Hall is being transformed into the "Museum of East Yorkshire". The Museum’s Officer is working on an East Yorkshire History display for next year, but in the meantime is doing Village History Exhibitions. The first village to be featured is naturally enough, Sewerby, but if anyone would like to propose another village ( Rudston? ) for later they should contact him. He is - Mr. Adams, Sewerby Hall, Church Lane, Sewerby, Bridlington, YO15 1EA. Tel: 677874.

Phillip Crossland ( Clerk ).

For more than a year now British Telecom have been operating a Light User Scheme. This benefits customers who make fewer than £12.69 of calls each quarter. This is the cost of calls only - not including the line rental. For every 10p that your call bill falls below this , BT gives a rebate of 11.8p, with a maximum rebate of £14.66 against your line rental.

For further details of the scheme call BT free on 150.

Don’t throw cold tea away! Use it for cooking prunes or other dried fruit. Use it to water your pot plants, Clematis in particular likes tea, the tea leaves keep the roots cool.

Did you know it’s better to add herbs and seasoning for the last 10 minutes of cooking time only ?

Mashed bananas with icing sugar and ground almonds make a delicious sponge filling.

Try stuffing dates with almond paste as a Christmas or party special.

Add grated orange rind or lemon juice to treacle tart - it gives it a nice tang.

A preservative to keep flowers fresh and extend their life. You can make your own preservative solution by dissolving half a tablespoon of sugar to one teaspoon of bleach in a pint of water.

This was taken from a bunch of flowers I had sent for Mother’s Day - Barbara