Rudston Newsletter

Editor - Colin Campbell. Rudston,

Thanks to all the people involved in providing material for the newsletter and to those involved in delivering it. It is also heartening to see that there are a steady flow of sponsors. A big thanks this month to Terence & Beverley Duffield, next months sponsor is The Rudston Bowls Club, cheers from all of us!

Articles / Adverts for the August Newsletter, no later than 22nd August please.

Colin

Obituary We are saddened by the death of a former member Ernie Jackson. Ernie will be missed by many and we send Joan and family our deepest sympathy.

We are having problems with ‘Fairy Rings’ on the bowling green. Apart from a lot of hard work by volunteers the fairy rings are providing somewhat costly to eliminate. To help with finances there will be a

At the home of Pauline and Richard Warters.

THE OLD BUTCHERS SHOP, LONG STREET, RUDSTON.

TICKETS £1.50

Raffle, Bring & Buy, Soft Drinks & Ice-cream available.

Tickets from any Club Member.

Donations to this event will be gratefully received.

Secretary: Pauline Warters,

Lorna and Jeanette Would like to Thank:-

Everyone who supported their Coffee Morning on Tuesday June 30th at 25 Eastgate.

The coffee morning realised the sum of £131.00 for the Rudston Bowls Club.

Congratulations!

Wednesday 15th July 1998. The Kilham Gardening Club had a very enjoyable evening, visiting 5 gardens in Rudston.

I would like to extend my thanks to Peter and Sheila Newhouse, Bob and Shirley Harland, Duncan and Jean Corner and Maureen Hesp for allowing us to look around their wonderful gardens.

I would also like to thank my wife, Margaret for providing the tea and cake.

A collection was taken and the proceeds were donated to the Church Funds, which Mrs Corner has kindly forwarded on. Many thanks to all concerned.

Francis Wilkins, Kilham Gardening Club Committee Member.

Firstly this month, the subject is buses. We have a questionnaire to complete "as soon as possible" from East Riding of Yorkshire Council about rural bus services. They have been allocated £534,000 by the government to spend on "enhancing existing services" or on new routes, and the promotion of them. They have to have their plans in place for the government by 1st October, so we would like to be able to send our contribution by mid - August. If anyone has any ideas on the subject, would you speak to either our chairman (vicar), vice chairman (Mr R.D. Corner), or myself by 14th August please?

The Burton Fleming Community "Little Bus" is the mainstay of the present service, and it is not clear whether money would be available for that, or if someone else would be subsidised for running a new service. We shall ask the question. In the meantime, would you like to see this extended to a daily service, and is Bridlington the only destination? Would there be any call for a Driffield run, or to be more ambitious, Scarborough? Also, in view of the latest Prescott proposals, are there enough workers travelling around the same time morning and teatime for a bus at those times? Anyway, views from the village would be appreciated.

And now for something completely different? Well, not really - they still say we owe them some money for car park rates. In accordance with members’ wishes at the last meeting, your clerk fired off a stronger letter to the Rates department and another one to the Parish Councils liaison officer, because we are still not paying. It was decided that publicity via local paper and radio might help to "shame" the Council into cancelling what to them is a paltry sum (last estimate £192.52). Of course, this is was before we heard that two village worthies would be appearing on television! (Maybe we could have stood behind them with a banner or something).

You will be pleased to learn that, after a thorough inspection, the architect has ruled that the village hall building is "sound" and there is no need for demolition. Indeed, some of the blanked-out windows may be opened up again under some plans. Also the cash required may be available from bodies other than the Lottery.

Most of the "stuff" from E.R.Y.C. at the last meeting seemed to be about highways subjects. The Clerk writes rather than telephones on most things, at least at the first step. However, we were all so frustrated at their apparent ignoring of our numerous letters and calls about the grass cutting in Water Lane and Beckside - or lack of, I should say. Luckily my boss was out that next day, so I GOT SOMETHING DONE! The Highways department was only moved from Driffield to Beverley last October, and the excuse was that Driffield had not passed on the information about those areas. they have now put it on the "regular" list. I also got on to them about the grass verge and footpath from the village to Thorpe Hall caravan site, and then felt a bit silly when I came in from that direction on Friday evening to find it had already been done.

The next scheduled meeting is 2nd September, so more news before then!

P. Crossland (Clerk).

One of the pleasures I recall as a lad was going into the grass fields mushrooming in the mornings and my mother frying them with the bacon for breakfast. I would add that heavy cart horses were in the fields in those days, and usually it was late in August or September when the mushrooms appeared. To grow a few at home in the shed or glasshouse really means the availability of horse manure, from animals that have been well fed, (and not the so-called horse manure that seems nearly all straw). The manure should be made into a stack, well wetted and allowed to rot, the temperature should soon rise and it is normally only a day or so before the middle of the heap becomes too hot to touch. The lot should be turned and restacked to get a uniform rotting, and again turned after a week or so more until a pleasant smelling brown compost of soft straw is made, just damp and, of course, hot. A bed is then made up to about a foot deep (10"-12") (300mm for us youngsters - Ed) and when the temperature drops to 65 degrees F the mushroom spawn is planted, the pieces broken up to the size of a golf ball and covered with about an inch (25mm) of the manure. In a few days the white threads of the mushroom spawn grows out into the manure, it’s then time to cover the top of the bed with an inch of clean soil or peat. This is called "casing" the bed and it’s through this layer the mushrooms grow after a few weeks. Keep the top damp but not too wet and if all goes well a flush of new mushrooms should appear every 14 days or so, as long as the bed of manure keeps the temperature up.

In the old potting shed at Thorpe Hall mushrooms used to be grown in a dark cellar near the old boiler, so the air kept warm.

One important item is the age of the spawn, always make sure it’s fairly new when purchasing, old spawn that has been on the shop shelf for a long time seldom gives a crop. Brick spawn or grain spawn is usually on sale; it’s the age that matters.

Perhaps this year I’ll enjoy a few field mushrooms from the Wolds, who can tell.