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I really hope you like the new layout and improved print quality. Please let me know what you think. The costs are slightly higher—but hopefully you will prefer the A5 booklet style. Sponsors are continuing to support our newsletter and I am confident that advertisements will continue to help with the printing costs. The new format will also save about two hours per issue of sorting and stapling.

THANK YOU! The newsletter could not survive without solid support from sponsors and the delivery team—who I must once again thank for their efforts.

The Rudston web site is still growing & recently we had a new guestbook entry from a gentleman in Germany who had found the site because his forename is Rudston.. Happy Christmas.

Colin

Please remember to save your used postage stamps over Christmas. They can be left with Mrs Gilbank 7 Kilham Road OR Mrs Harper 1 Council Bungalows. Proceeds go to RNLI.

Thank You
The Gatenby family of Littlethorpe would like to say how much they appreciate all the help given and kindness shown at the time of the fire on the farm.
We are very grateful to you all.

Childrens Society boxes
The Autumn opening of the boxes yielded £131 for the Childrens Society. Many
thanks to the boxholders.
Chris Gatenby

In response to Erics’ sudden illness. We have been overwhelmed with all of the get well cards and good wishes, telephone calls and verbal enquiries, also offers of practical help. We both thank you from the bottom of our hearts. A special thank you too, must go to the Bowls Club members for their encouragement and support. They never fail if a member falls ill.

What a privillage to live in such a caring village.

Our Thanks and God Bless You All.

Eric and Doreen Turner

White Cottage

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The Annual Dinner Dance takes place on the 5th December at Ellie Mae’s in Bridlington. Each member to take a gift to the value of £1. Transport to be arranged.

The Christmas party takes place on the 12th December at 7.30 pm. Venue: Margaret Reed’s, Leader Joan Jackson, Vote of Thanks Mollie Gatenby, Hostesses Margaret Reed and Alison Cope.

The proposed design for the Millennium window is still going through the long process of official approval - a process, which has become longer since it started on its journey at the beginning of the year. However we hope that permission for installation is now within sight. Thank you to everyone for
your patience.

The total raised is now just over £5,000, which is getting closer to our target of £6,750. Contributions are most welcome from families, businesses and organisations and are to be recorded in a book. We hope this will be of interest in the future.A leaflet is available at the back of the church and can be returned to the
Vicarage, Shop or the Bosville Arms.
Chris Gatenby

December 5th at Rudston Village Hall. Eyes down at 7.30pm. Everyone welcome - all pork prizes.

Admission £1.50 including 2 ticket books.

Santa will visit Rudston on Wednesday 13th December after calling at Grindale (5.30) and Boynton.

Listen and look out for Santa and be ready to tell him what you would like for Christmas.

Monday 18th December at Bridlington Spa.

Starting at 7.15pm. Please phone Mike & June - 420237 if you would like a seat on the coach which we have arranged to pick up at each bus stop and at Doug Clarks’ corner, 6.15pm.

Usual return at 10pm. Everyone welcome– let’s fill the coach!

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This is easy, economical, doesn't mind being kept waiting and produces minimal washing up. What more could you ask! It is worth buying good butcher's sausages for this dish.
Oil for frying
1lb sausages
1onion, peeled and chopped
4 sticks celery, washed and chopped
4 oz mushrooms, wiped and chopped
1 green pepper, prepared and cut into squares
1 cooking apple, peeled and sliced
8oz potato, peeled and cubed
1 tin plum tomatoes
1/4 pint dry cider

Fry or grill the sausages until lightly browned, put to one side.
Heat some oil in a large saucepan or deep frying pan and fry the onion until
soft but not browned, add the celery, peppers and mushrooms, fry for a few
minutes more, drain off excess oil, if there is any in the pan and then add
the rest of the ingredients including the sausages, bring to the boil and
then reduce the heat to a simmer
Cook for about 30 minutes
Serve this in soup bowls with knife, fork and spoon. It is a complete meal and needs nothing more, although some crusty bread is a nice accompaniment.

If you make a forcemeat type stuffing with a breadcrumb base for your Christmas turkey make the breadcrumbs now, weigh out the correct amount, add the suet, seasonings etc and then freeze. Take from the freezer on Christmas Eve and add the eggs just before stuffing the bird on Christmas Day.
Make enough breadcrumbs for the bread sauce at the same time and freeze them.
Bacon wrapped sausages can be prepared in advance and frozen too - it is one more little job out of the way.
Chris Gatenby

Regarding speeding on the main road—one suggestion at the last Parish Council meeting was to investigate the possibility of siting and funding our own High Visibility Speed Boards. The answer from East Riding of Yorkshire Council, while again stressing that they have no funds available in the current financial year, is that the cost would be about £2000. From this, it would seem they don’t really want us to do it! Of course the Parish Council couldn’t spend that sort of money without special provision in the Precept. That, in turn, would mean a small increase on each resident’s council tax. The matter will be discussed at the meeting on 6th December, but members might appreciate guidance from the village on this one. Indeed, has the Parish Council got something of a "bee in it’s bonnet" about this speeding business, as has been suggested? Should it just let it go for the moment, and politely approach E.R.Y.C. again next year? Still on the subject, I see that a National Traffic Census taken last year at 92 sites shows only 26% of cars exceeded a 40 mph. limit, but 45% HGV’s and over 50% of motorcycles. No comment!

On the same night as the Parish Council meeting (6th December), there is a public meeting at Bridlington Town Hall organised by the Police Authority. They want to know "how crime and disorder affects quality of life". (Discuss!) There will also be a presentation on the work of the Crown Prosecution Service. A member of Rudston PC will attend that instead of our own meeting.

You will have seen in November’s East Riding News about proposals for gritting this winter. Only the B1253 is on the schedule for Rudston again unfortunately, but we can make use of the odd sand box they provide, in extreme conditions. Incidentally, it was interesting to read elsewhere that the authorities are not actually LEGALLY obliged to do the gritting at all. What a mess we would be in if they did none! (We’d just buy snow chains! And vehicles wouldn’t get so rusty. Ed)

Amongst the bits and pieces of correspondence I have had to deal with between meetings, was an urgent request from E.R.Y.C. to identify local areas of flooding. After consultation within the village, I gave them a couple of places within the village, but highlighted the area at the bottom of Binsdale Hill. That is not within the parish, of course and should have been brought up by Boynton, but regular travellers to Bridlington will appreciate the thought! Let’s hope it leads to something being done. However, as a member pointed out, we shouldn’t forget that these have been exceptional conditions. In fact, if you’ll forgive me, I was moved to verse one wet lunch-time:

After that, I’d better leave you for another year! So, on behalf of the Parish Council, a Happy Christmas and Best Wishes for the New Year to everyone. P. Crossland,

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Gardening must be the oldest profession, if the story of Adam & Eve is to be believed. In Rudyard Kipling’s poem "The Glory of the Garden" verse eight begins "Oh, Adam was a gardener", this wonderful poem is the only one I learned & remember from my school days in Hull and at the "High" school at Rudston. I especially like verse four "And some can pot begonias, and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows"!! East Riding, as most of us know, is a prime agricultural county, our farmers are among the best in the world, and we are also one of the leading commercial glasshouse areas of the U.K. Traditionally, the horticultural concerns in our area were the old private estate gardens, examples were at Thorpe Hall, Warter Priory and other great houses, and the original market garden area was at Cottingham, England’s largest village. The Municipal Parks were at Hull and Bridlington and still are the only ones in the area. The glasshouse industry in a semi-circle round Hull, produces vast quantities of cucumbers, tomatoes and salad crops and has close links with growers in the Netherlands. Home gardening has never been more popular, millions of pounds are spent each year in the U.K. by the public. The TV and radio programmes have done a lot to popularise gardening and local horticulture societies in the towns & villages seem to be growing: The shows held each year are evidence of this. East Yorkshire has, over the years, produced some very famous horticulturalists; William Kent the real father of English landscape, was born at Bridlington in 1685 and is credited by all authorities as a genius of design. The better known Lancelot Brown ("Capability Brown") followed and copied Kent. William Blakey, born at Hessle, became the curator of the world famous RHS gardens at Wisley and was himself a plant breeder: he retired to Hessle and is buried there. Frank Jordan VMH, born at Burton Pidsea, once head gardener at Warter Priory, was also the country’s top fruit expert & judge. The RHS held a special dinner in London for him on his 90th birthday. A famous landscape firm "Pulhams of London" planned and constructed the Wisley alpine garden in the early 1900’s, it too had Hull connections, Frank Keeley, a parks official from Hull was a raiser of chrysanthenums, the old variety Ferensway Pink was one he produced, he was one of the finest gardeners I had the pleasure of working with as an apprentice. Harry Clarke of Sherburn was I’m told the man who laid out the original golf course at Ganton. And so we go on to name the famous gardening family of Puddles of Scampton. Also one of the most skilled men I ever had the pleasure of being trained by, James Sheppard, head gardener at Thorpe Hall, Rudston, a true gentleman and real horticulturalist.

Gardening usually goes into a quiet period this month. It is in January that the work starts up again, especially in the glasshouse, with a few seeds being sown: Lettuce, lobelia, and early celery was always started when a heated glasshouse was available. For the grape grower, pruning in December is advisable as the sap tends to rise early in the new year. Side growths are cut back to two dormant buds and the leading shoot on the rod cut back at least by two thirds. A thorough cleaning of the internal roof bars and the glass was an annual job in the old estate gardens, digging on vacant plots was an outdoor job so that any winter weather could act on the soil structure making it easier to work the land down in spring for sowing & planting. In most of our own gardens it’s rest time, after all it’s festive season and Christmas is a time of peace and goodwill, so let’s be ready for the ‘big push’ next month. In the old estate gardens as Christmas Day approached, it was a time of quiet & the whole atmosphere in those walled gardens was magical, an experience not to be forgotten, so on that note I will end by wishing you all a happy and peaceful time and good luck in the garden next year.

Coffee/tea & Mince Pies will be served & orange juice & biscuits for the

children. There will be a raffle.

Tickets: £1 for Adults, Children Free.

The money raised will go towards the Village Hall Fund.

Please come and join us. Tickets available from any member of the Craft Group, or at the door on the evening.

Who was Jethro Tull? By Dick Robimson

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The reappearance, in spring, of water voles on the Gypsey Race near the village hall was an unexpected sight, since they have been in decline nationally for the last decade. They also bred successfully producing three young and all five could be seen together for several weeks in the summer. The two adults can still be seen in the same place but whether the young ones have survived and dispersed is not known.

Badgers must have had a prolific breeding season but their numbers have been severely hit by the number of road casualties. More than twenty individuals have been reported in the immediate area, with most suffering their fate on the stretch of road between the village and Binsdale hill. After an adult was found dead in early summer a whole series of cubs followed in succession over the next few weeks and reports of live sightings have lessened considerably.

As well as the normal occurrence of roe deer there have been reliable reports of both sika and muntjac deer locally, the latter being about as big as a medium sized dog but with their secretive habits they are difficult to see. In spring there were young rabbits everywhere but their numbers have been severely checked by the ongoing presence of myxomatosis.

Many of the summer migrant birds have been in smaller numbers than in previous years with only one turtle dove reported and species like the spotted flycatcher and some members of the warbler family being confined to only a few sightings. Grey partridges are scarce but there has been an increase in yellowhammers and skylarks, possibly due to set-aside farming. Barn owls have again bred and their numbers seem to be on the increase as do those of the kingfisher which has been a regular sight for a number of people. Among the more unusual birds have been the red kites, wing tagged and released in Yorkshire, which appeared in spring and were tracked by a wildlife organisation using detection equipment. An osprey visited on its migration northwards and later in the year a common crane made a brief appearance. During a spell of north-easterly winds in early autumn there was a migration of honey buzzards and at one time four could be seen in the air together over Rudston. At the same time common sandpipers, dunlin and greenshanks were recorded on their return migration.

Spring and early summer produced unfavourable weather for insects, but in late July and for much of August numbers of individuals captured in a light trap were much higher than for the last few years. Six new species have been added to the area list of moths including the lime hawk moth, the tissue and the pine beauty. A couple of comma butterflies were recorded in spring having overwintered but none were seen during the summer. One brimstone and one migrant clouded yellow were seen, the clouded yellow in September. A few years ago painted lady butterflies had an exceptional migration but very few have been reported this year. Most other species produced rather fewer numbers than usual and due to the spring weather orange tips were scarce. An autumn fungus foray by a specialist group recorded over 100 species of fungi several of which were previously unidentified locally. As always please keep reports coming even if you think they are of no importance.

Dec 3 Pat Stephenson Shirley Harland

Dec 3 Advent – Mrs E Robinson & Mrs S Harland

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STEPHEN

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Monday to Friday, not on Bank Holidays

The new MediBus service to Bridlington & Scarborough Hospitals from

Parishes in the Driffield area.

The easy to use bus to hospital from your front door. All you have to do is phone the day before.

We’ll pick you up & take you to the hospital. You’ll get there for morning clinic & leave early afternoon (earlier if everyone is aboard).

To & from Bridlington & Scarborough Hospitals from your front door. Patients, visitors or you can use it for shopping trips, doctors visits etc. if there are seats available—so it is always worth ringing the day before you wish to go.

Concessionary travel passes can be used on the MediBus.

At weekends & the evenings the bus is available for hire—it can take 8 passengers or 7 + 1 wheelchair. EYRC will train a driver—MediBus is classed as a Taxi, not a minibus. This is OUR bus—Use it or Lose it!

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Was held this year at the Ransdale Hotel, Bridlington. The meal was excellent and everyone appeared to enjoy a very affable afternoon. Many thanks to our members & their friends , totalling 62 who supported this event & to everyone who helped in any way.

It was reported to those present that Eric Turner is recovering from his illness and is pottering about, but has been told that it will be 2/3 months to be back to normal. (We are sorry his long awaited trip to New Zealand has to be cancelled but hope he will make it in the future.)

Bill Brand is still in Bridlington Hospital and will remain there for some time and will then be transferred to a nursing home. Our best wishes to Bill.

Is still proving popular & thanks to everyone who supports this winter activity.

If you intend to enter the competitions, Driffield & District Bowls Association and East Yorkshire please let me know before 1st February, with fees.

Nafferton Bowls Club have sent their Tournament Entry forms also:

Whistle Stop Sun. 13th May: Cooks Cup Sat. 2nd June, Whistle Stop 24th June, Sandy Powell Trophy 27th August, Floodlit Triples starts 1st September, Floodlit Whistle Stop 2nd September. Further information please contact me.

P.S. At the Annual general Meeting of the Driffield & District Bowls Association, it was decided that the suggestion for a Triples League/Fours League to run separately or together was rejected and the league will continue as usual.

On behalf of the residents of Rudston, many thanks for your generous support and we wish you a prosperous 2001.

I used to live in Rudston and I still visit a friend once a month and she saves me the village newsletter. I was really interested in the piece about the farmshop, especially about the help and support from the locals, so why don’t these people give the same help and support to their own Village Shop? I know it has never had the support it deserves from the locals and one day they they will find themselves without it. Like the village I moved to. I really miss the shop as do my friends and neighbours. So come on Rudston people, help your village shop by giving them your support. You know the saying "USE IT OR LOSE IT." It will surely happen one day.

Thank You

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(An article printed in a local paper on 27th October).

Farmers around Driffield are being urged not to leave mud on the roads—as it causes a dangerous hazard. Tractors often deposit huge chunks of mud on country lanes around the town after leaving fields.

"Some of our roads could easily be turned into mud baths, making them extremely dangerous to other road users," said Miss Dorothy Fairburn, Regional Director for the Country Landowners Association in Yorkshire.

"We have had the most appalling autumn with tremendous rainfall and it is even more important than ever for farmers to ensure that any debris deposited on the highway as a result of their activities is removed quickly and efficiently. "Our members do have to carry out their work, often in dreadful weather conditions, but do have a legal responsibility to ensure that the highway is kept clear of mud and debris."

Hedge cuttings which blow on the roads also cause problems.

Miss Fairburn said: "Under the Highways Act 1980, local highway authorities can cleanse public roads of farm related debris and then send the bill for the work to the farmer responsible. The farm business could also be prosecuted."

The public roads are a vital communications link for farmers and it is as much in their interests that the highways are kept free from obstruction and are safe for road users."

Sitting cross-legged on the pavement cradling his guitar, Greg wondered, not for the first time, what was he doing there. Christmas shoppers did not easily throw their cash his way—they were either "spent up" or thought they were going to be.

Not that Greg was a beggar, or even poor, he just liked playing his guitar (which he had learned to do properly) and trying to sing. But an upturned cap to receive reward was somehow "expected" wasn’t it? He hadn’t entirely given up the idea of finding a job either, being only 23. University educated , if not for long! Well, "reading literature" sounded alright, but "specialist subject "Jeffrey Archer" seemed to take the shine off somehow!

The shoppers numbers dwindled as the dismal afternoon darkened owards evening. Perhaps just another "Times they are a-changin’ ", he thought, before packing up for the day.

Suddenly, Greg became aware of a red-cloaked figure in front of him. Still, Santa Clauses at this time of year weren’t unusual! This one spoke with a mysteriously compelling sincere authority, however, which could not be ignored. Everything became hazy in his mind, and in fact, as he gave all his attention to the voice. When it told him to come, he found himself floating above the streets, guitar in hand, following his "Santa" as he led him via the Land of Green Ginger to the Land of Nod. (At least he was still in east Yorkshire!)

Feeling like something between an awe-struck Dickens character and a tripped-out sixties Beatle, Greg was taken around the world on a "magical mystery tour" visiting children of all nations, at home, in hospital, on war-torn streets. At each destination a short story and a couple of tunes on the guitar brought a ray of hope in many little forlorn face that night.

Back home next morning, Greg’s girl-friend wasn’t surprised to hear him describe a most vivid and fantastic dream. (She’d heard him from the next room!) She was pleasantly surprised though, when he announced that he thought they ought to get married and start a family.

After all, if he was to be a children’s entertainer and write books for them, he could do with a bit of first-hand experience!

P. Crossland

From the residents of Southside Lane to Bill Ward for his efforts in keeping the grass verges looking so neat.

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HOUSE TO RENT
House available to rent, unfurnished, in Rudston village
Small modern house, two bedrooms, central heating, double glazing, car
parking space, carpets etc, curtains, gas cooker
Please contact the agents
Cranswicks
Tel 01262 672110

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