Rudston Newsletter

The Brownies of 1st Kilham - Rudston pack were challenged to raise money to provide boxes of personal supplies for young refugees in Africa as part of a national initiative by the Guiding Movement. In order to raise money, Rebecca Wells and Jessica Moorfoot held a book party and coffee morning at Autumn Lodge on the morning of 31st May. They raised £32.60. They would like to thank all those people who supported them.

Rebecca Wells and Jessica Moorfoot.

A barbeque will be held at The Bosville Arms on SATURDAY 6TH AUGUST. There will be a marquee and two live bands and disco. There will be about 300 tickets available. All proceeds go to the Children’s Playground to replace equipment. Ticket prices and further details will be printed in the next newsletter.

Many people will have noticed the cables across the main road near the shop in early June. Along with others in both directions, these were Police speed recording equipment. This was in response to the Parish Council’s latest enquiry regarding a speed limit. It is believed that the Police are in favour and hopefully this latest evidence will enable them to put a strong case to the County Council.

We have been asked by the Borough Council for a name for the Donna Farm development. They gave a choice of five and only a few days to reply! The majority of the members of the Parish Council were contacted and a clear favourite was chosen. (I will say what it was when we know if the Borough Council are going along with it or not!) There was also a recommendation on the numbering, which we didn’t agree with. This will be discussed fully at the meeting on the 29th June, as the whole issue of house numbers on Long Street was to be raised in any case.

Bridlington Free Press will have received a copy of the agenda for 29th June. Following their request, we are obliged to do this before each meeting.

The Village Hall Committee would like to thank the Parish Council for forwarding a cheque for £200 donated by North Wold Lions Club. This amount has been credited to the Heating Fund and we are most grateful. We thank the North Wolds Lions Club for their most generous gift.

We have just been notified that money from E.Y.B.C. has been granted. We shall now be able to give the go-ahead for the installation of the central heating.

Margaret Thompson (Treasurer).

BOWLS CLUB:

Since the theft of the mower on 15th June we are sharing the Playing Field one with the Tennis Club. Please check the settings and use four star petrol. We shall be seeing about a replacement but not before we can improve the security of the garage. The lock and chain unfortunately did not prevent the thief or thieves dismantling the machine to take away. As the machine was not insured (because no insurer would entertain property in such an isolated position) we shall have to consider some form of fund raising. Nevertheless we must carry on and do not forget to check the noticeboard for forthcoming friendly matches.

We welcome Mr. and Mrs. Brand from Thwing, Mr. and Mrs. Mather from Kilham and Mr. Pile of Beswick and hope they all enjoy their bowls.

Pauline Warters –

May I through the newsletter please thank everyone who sent cards, good wishes and expressed concern for me over the past few weeks. Thanks also to the support and help given to Richard, it is much appreciated. I am now at home (23rd June), hopefully to stay. - Pauline Warters.

From Tony Ezard

May and June are the two main months of the breeding season for our local birds and it seems that several species have been very successful. Top of the list for success seems to have been the pied wagtail with young wagtails in good numbers all over the village. I have had reports of virtually all our common garden birds producing broods but no wrens seem to have come to anyone’s notice. There is still time of course for many species to raise second broods and for those who have already raised two broods to produce a third and even a fourth brood. One pair of birds which I am sure will not bother are the hedge sparrows seen valiantly trying to cope with the huge appetite of a young cuckoo and having an enormous struggle to feed a bird several times their own size.

It is interesting to speculate on the reason for small birds having such a good breeding season and one suggestion is that there have been fewer magpies in the area. Although there are a few of these destructive birds around their numbers are much reduced from the levels of the last two or three years. Danger time is not yet over for fledgling birds, apart from the normal infant mortality which occurs and their natural enemies, the domestic cat is the main killer of young birds who have not yet learned to fly properly or to take heed of danger.

Two species of migrant birds have not been reported up to last month’s newsletter and while the spotted flycatcher has now been seen in small numbers there are still no reports of a turtle dove. One bird which has been seen in the area several times is a buzzard which seems to be doing a circuit of the outlying parts of the village. Two birds which are notable have been reported from Bridlington and Driffield respectively are a hoopoe and a rose-coloured starling. It seems that in the case of the latter it is the first record of the species in Yorkshire and it was seen in a town centre garden.

Only one butterfly has been added to this year’s list in recent days, the common blue - a species no longer common and though over forty species of moths have been added to this year’s total tally none of them were unexpected but many are interesting. Two quite large moths are worth mentioning, firstly the poplar hawk which is the largest of the moths we see locally and is the earliest and most common hawk moth to emerge with it’s caterpillars showing a horn on their tail end and feeding on poplar and willow. The second large moth is the puss moth which is grey and very hairy with various white stripes along it’s forewings and which has a caterpillar that when disturbed adopts an extremely threatening posture. One other insect has been reported regularly, the cockchafer beetle or maybug as it is sometimes known. It is a fairly large beetle with an orangey-brown back and has a black and white zigzag stripe down it’s side. The beetle burrows into even hard ground at a tremendous speed where it lays it’s eggs. The resultant grubs take between three to five years to reach maturity and in the meantime feed on the roots of many plants but particularly grasses. The adults feed on the vegetation of deciduous trees and may be almost absent in some years but reach almost pest proportions in others.

Tony Ezard

The Annual General Meeting of the Rudston Playing Field Association was held at the pavilion on Monday 23rd May. In the absence of a secretary, the chairman gave a brief statement of the activities for the year. The year’s financial statement was presented and accepted. Each club gave an account of it’s successes, failures and activities for the previous year. Officers elected were as follows:-

Chairman - Mr. Ezard Secretary - Mr. Warters Treasurer - Mr. Crossley

Committee:-Mr S. Dawson - Mr J. Bell - Mr P. Burgess - Mrs Crossley - Mr B.Corner - Mr S.Harrison - Mr R.Overfield - Mr G.Alderslade - Mr R.D.Corner - Mr D.E.Corner

The chairman thanked all those present and absent for all the regular hard work put in on a voluntary basis which keeps the playing field a credit to the village and a facility matched by few other villages.

We would like to extend a very warm welcome to Stephen and Alison Cope and their family who are moving into Rudston Vicarage on the 26th July. We wish them every blessing in their new life here and look forward with excitement and anticipation to what God has in store for us all. May we have open hearts and minds ready for Him to fill us with His Holy Spirit and guide us in the way He wants us to go.

Monday 4th July - P.C.C. Meeting 7.30 pm at Lady Mary’s

Sat & Sun 16th & 17th July - Open Gardens 1 - 6 pm. Please see separate announcement.

The Women’s Fellowship Outing is on Friday 29th July. For further details contact Joan and Hazel Conner.

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CRICKET NEWS: - Rudston & Kilham C.C.

The season so far has been very mixed, after the first three games in the Bridlington Evening League we were top of the league. We then lost the next three games and are currently mid-table.

In the evening cup matches however it is a different story, we have so far played in six cup matches, lost the first five and won the sixth by ten wickets.

In the East Riding Independent League on a Saturday, once again we have had a mixed start to the season, starting off very badly we have steadily improved and are currently in the top half of the table.

So with half the season still to go, there is still plenty of time to improve our positions in both leagues and hopefully progress further in the remaining cup matches.

Stewart Harrison

@ £2.00 each: 3 Axes, 3 Hedge Slashers, 1 Bill Hook, 2 Pick Axes, 3 Crosscut Saws, 4 Hand Saws, 2 Sythes, 1 Pair Long Handled Shears ( Grass ), 1 Pair edging Shears.

@ £1.00 each: 30 x Glazed Plastic Coated Windows (Frames) approx’ 3ft 8.5 ins high x 16 ins wide

3 Dutch Lights approx’ 4ft 7ins x 2ft 6.5 ins T.SHELDRICK -

A MEMORABLE FLIGHT

No doubt many of you watched the moving D.Day rememberance services and parades etc. on television. Fortunate to be involved in those and to have a bird’s eye view of events from the Lancaster bomber was senior aircraftsmen David Corner, son of Don and Mavis of Eastgate. David is attached to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight based at R.A.F. Coningsby in Lincolnshire where he lives with his wife Lynn and daughters Amy and Chloe.

On this occassion the Lancaster - which is one of only two remaining in air worthy condition - the other being in Canada - took part in fly pasts over Portsmouth and the Normandy Beaches and flew over the Queen at Arromanche. Perhaps the most memorable part of the flight was when the bomber dropped one million poppies on Normandy Veterans gathered on the liner Canberra in the Channel.

Although a member of the ground crew, David and two others were allowed to fly in the Lancaster as part of their duties but perhaps after loading the poppies, which took over five hours and then working twenty two hours non-stop to replace one of the engines which decided at the last minute that it did not want to take part, an operation which normally takes three days, they deserved their memorable flight - an experience they will proudly never forget.

Open Gardens

On Saturday and Sunday 16th & 17th July, Rudston Church Social Committee are organising Open Gardens again. Their gardens will be open both days from 1pm - 6pm.

Tickets ( £2 per adult and 50p for children over 5 ) with a map will be available from the Car Park at Simon and Angela Dawsons and each garden will be marked with a number and balloons.

Refreshments will be served in the Village Hall. We hope and pray it will be a fine day and that everyone enjoys it as much as last time. So many people said how friendly everyone was and how much pleasure the day had given them. We would like to give a big thank you to the garden owners who have so kindly agreed to take part this year. We know you are all working very hard to have everything just so on the day, but please don’t think everywhere has to be weed free or perfect. People just like an opportunity to browse, chat and get ideas for themselves. The gardens open this year are :-

Mr & Mrs D. Conner - Middle Street - Ice Cream Stall and Tombola

Mrs M. Hesp - Middle Street - Cake Stall

Mr & Mrs W. Stephenson - Middle Street

Mr & Mrs T. Duffield - Main Street

Lady Mary - Long Street - Grocery/Produce Stall

Mr & Mrs S. Dawson - Long Street

Mr & Mrs M. Wastling - Long Street

Mr & Mrs L. Moorfoot - Eastgate

Mr & Mrs R. Wells - Eastgate

Mr & Mrs S. Cummins - Eastgate

Mr & Mrs T. Ezard - Eastgate

Mr & Mrs P. Newhouse - Eastgate - Plant Stall

Mr & Mrs F. Wilkins - Marton Lane

Mr & Mrs R. Harland - Marton Lane

Mr & Mrs W. Burgess

Contributions towards the stalls will be gratefully received by the stall holders.

If anyone else would like to have a stall in their garden on the day, please let me know ( Margaret Reed) There will be pictures by Rudston Artists on display and for sale in the Village Hall.

The weekend will end with a Songs of Praise Service in Church at 6.30 pm on Sunday 17th July.

Pineapple Cake

Ingredients:-

12 oz Butter

10 oz Soft Brown Sugar

14 oz S.R. Flour

4 oz Cherries ( Chopped )

24 oz Mixed Fruit

6 Eggs ( Beaten )

4 oz Raisins

1 Tin Crushed Pineapple

Method:

Cream butter, sugar and eggs then stir in the rest of the ingredients. Bake at 175 C for approx’ one and a half hours.

This recipe makes 2 x 2lb + 1lb loaves or a 10 inch cake

It can be eaten 2 days after making as this cake doesn’t improve by being kept in a tin like spice bread.

Shirts that are classy are Boynton born

They fit the Bill and should really be worn

Not thrown on the floor in an untidy heap

While their owner storms off in a fit of pique

It really doesn’t matter what people say

You’ll raise the tone of the Bos some

When others come in with their old scruffy clothes

All you need to do is to turn up your nose

So let us have tidyness, stripes and a tie

A welcome sight to dazzle the eye

But bare chested men with a scowl on their face

Do nothing but lower the tone of the place

Anon