What a glorious month we’ve had, long sunny days which have enabled the farmers to complete their harvest and for the children to be out playing and enjoying their holidays. The poor gardens and grass verges are desperate for rain, they look so baked and jaded. As I write this it is raining a little . Once again as soon as we get a lengthy period without rain we are threatened with water restrictions, stand pipes etc. so we must all take care with our water and not waste it.

The children’s holidays will soon be over, some will be starting school for the first time. others moving to the secondary school in Bridlington, happy schooldays to you all.

The last newsletter evoked strong feelings from the village children, perhaps as they feel so strongly they will help to prevent vandalism at the playground and elsewhere. If you see anyone misbehaving please report by letter to any Parish Councillor or to your parents or to the newsletter . With your help we may be able to beat the vandals. I am well aware of all the good things you have done in the past, be it helping at the playing field, playground or raising money. Everyone has worked hard including you to make a safe place for the children to play, let’s all try and keep it that way. Thank you to the children writing the letter and putting their viewpoint across, I only wish you’d signed it as I’ve found out that a signature carries much more clout!

Please keep your articles coming in and help us to make it an interesting read for people who aren’t as mobile as they’d like to be. Spread your news through the newsletter.

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This months Newsletter kindly sponsored by the Bowls Club.

The first craft class of the new season will be on Monday October 2nd from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm in the Village Hall.

Old and new members will be very welcome. Please come and join us bringing any new ideas you may have. A proposed outing to a craft occasion will be discussed at the first meeting.

Gill Battams would like to thank friends and neighbours for the cards and flowers received after her brief stay in hospital. Also special thanks to Brenda Dawson for all her help and to Carrie Stephenson who pops in everyday.

Gill Battams

I hope everyone has enjoyed the very hot weather we have had but just a warning, if you are out in the back garden please make sure the front door is locked and the windows that are out of sight are shut. The opportunist thief is always looking for just a chance for easy pickings. Thank you for all the reports this month, if you see anything you know is not quite as it should be let me know please then I can see if anything needs to be done.

Julia Overfield

A lot of teenagers, parents and children were very upset and angry to read what was in the last newsletter. It seems to stereotype all the teenagers and children as being vandals and uncaring idiots. We would just like to state some facts which proves that we are not all hooligans. Every teenager and child has done very positive things for the village eg. Raising money for the R.S.P.C.A. a number of times, doing numerous fundraising events and sponsored things for Boynton School, creating the Christmas atmosphere by helping to produce a pantomime. Joining in the sponsored walk which raised money for the new playground (are we going to do that and then vandalise it - no!)

Preparing the ground for the tennis courts to be sown. Litter picking in the Village Hall area and Gypsey Race.

We feel people have no right what so ever to just assume it must be someone from the village who is vandalising things. Most people who are teenagers have younger brothers or sisters or relatives that play there. So stop being so negative by criticizing all the time and give us credit for all the good things that have been achieved.

From insulted teenagers and children of Rudston.

from Tony Ezard

The telephone rang a couple of weeks ago and a voice on the other end said I’ve got a big frog in my pond and it’s eating all my goldfish! A little puzzled I enquired as to how big the goldfish were and was told that they were about three inches long. Frogs are not known for eating three inch long goldfish and I must confess to being a little sceptical about this report and the telephone call ended. About half an hour later the phone rang again and the same voice said "the frog has just caught another goldfish and was hopping across the lawn with it in it’s mouth". "Have you caught it?" I enquired and was informed that he had done better than that and had shot it with an air gun and was bringing it in for me to see. The frog duly arrived ( in a size ten shoe box which it filled from one end to the other ) complete with two very neat pellet holes through it and the remains of the goldfish inside it. The creature was duly measured and from the tip of it’s nose to the claws on it’s feet it was a massive ten inches long. It’s coloration was green but it had a broad yellow stripe running from the tip of it’s nose the full length of it’s back to the rear end and a pair of thighs which looked as if they belonged to a heavyweight boxer. Investigation has shown that it was and edible or European marsh frog which somebody has probably had as a pet and has released into the wild but it certainly shows how dangerous introducing foreign species can be. I was also told that this was one of two that had been in his pond and that the other one was bigger and has since disappeared - - - it must have run out of goldfish.

Another strange story concerning a frog and a beetle has recently come to light but until I have done more investigation I will say no more. To complete the current status of our frogs and toads, many have started to move to their overwintering areas and several have become road casualties in the process.

A signal that summer is drawing to a close is the departure of the swifts. All but a few stragglers departed suddenly on the evening of the 14th August and at almost the same time came the first of the migrant common and green sandpipers returning from their more northerly breeding grounds.

The other bird to be seen recently after a summer absence is the kingfisher, but I fear he will struggle to survive with water levels as they are. A report that there were a number of gulls round the newly dug fish ponds at Thorpe was only partially correct for as well as three species of gull there were several common terns busily diving into the ponds fishing to their hearts content - - and without a licence too.

Some of you may have seen a report on the TV about immigrant moths and dragonflies from the continent. A good many of these have arrived in the district including the rare camberwell beauty butterfly and a Scandinavian moth called the great brocade. Other butterflies to be seen recently for the first time this year have been the wall and small copper and more unusual moths have been recorded including the bordered beauty, peacock moth and gold spot, all recorded for the first time and a giant wood wasp in the middle of the month was not only the first for the year but was earlier than normal.

3rd 9.30 am Holy Communion

10th 11.00 am Mattins

17th 9.30 am Holy Communion

9.30 am Sunday School ( in the Old School )

24th 6.30 pm Evensong

Welcomers Coffee

3rd Mollie Gatenby June Sellars

10th Joan Conner

17th Shirley Harland Mollie Gatenby

24th Margaret Reed

Flower Rota Cleaning Rota

3rd Mrs Mitchell Mr & Mrs Wastling

10th Mrs J Batty Mr & Mrs M Sellers

17th Mrs J Batty Mr & Mrs M Sellers

24th Mrs E Harrison Mr & Mrs T Turner

4th Phillip Crossland Stephen Cope

18th Maurice Batty Margaret Reed

Wednesdays - Morning Prayer at 9.00 am

Holy Communion at 10.30 am

Evening Prayer at 6.00 pm

Saturdays - Before a 1st or 3rd Sunday : Morning Prayer at 8.30 am

Holy Communion at 9.00 am

Evening Prayer at 6.00 pm

- Before a 2nd or 4th Sunday : Morning Prayer at 9.00 am

Evening Prayer at 6.00 pm

Holy Communion at 6.30 pm

Please check the notice-board for last-minute alterations.

This year, the main Harvest Festival service takes place on Friday October 6th at 7.00 pm; our visiting preacher is the Revd James Booth. At Harvest Mattins on October 8th (11 am) the preacher will be the Vicar.

Stephen will be away September 11th - 14th and then on half-power until September 19th.

Many thanks to all who support this - Rudston and Boynton raised £133.

Meets on September 19th at Connie Stephenson’s, when the speaker will be Maurice Cocker.

No sooner do I complain about standards of life, then we get burgled! And ever since then I have been trying to listen to myself telling myself what I ought to do, as a good Christian. I ought to be able to forgive them. I ought not to care about what has been taken. I ought not to want to see them punished. I can’t manage it, however.

Forgiveness might come in time - I hope it does - and although I don’t care too much about what went missing of mine, I care deeply that they took things of sentimental value to Alison, and ( to be honest ) I care even more deeply that they broke Rebekah’s jewellery box. She’s only five. And as for punishment . . . Well, we ought to try to correct them, of course, if they were ever convicted. But punishment ought to be left to God.

If I believe in life after death ( which I do ), then I ought also to believe that these thieves will appear before God’s judgement seat. And it will be then up to him to deal with them as he sees fit, just as it will be up to him to deal with murderers, rapists, extortionists, vandals and all sorts of other wonderful people. Let him sort out what’s best for them, not me.

And as a last thought, don’t forget that our legal system is ( rightly ) based on the idea that you’re innocent until you’ve been proved guilty. When children are murdered, as they were last month, obviously people get angry. But to attack those accused before they have been found guilty is wrong. They might not have done it. That’s why there are courts in the first place!

So as time goes on, I pray that I might learn to forgive, and that I might learn not to want to give ‘my’ burglars a severe beating-up. To answer wrong with wrong is never a long-term solution -ask the Bosnians.

Stephen

From Julie Lockwood:-

I have put my name to this letter just to show the person who makes anonymous telephone calls to the authorities that at least I have the GUTS to say who I am.

It is obviously of some great interest to this person that I have a boyfriend who occasionally stays at my home. This was of such great interest that they maliciously telephoned the housing department hoping I dare say to cause trouble. I was subjected to making my own private life public and supplying information.

This has caused a great deal of unnecessary distress to me and I wish the person or persons concerned to know precisely how much.

I love this little village and never in my wildest dreams expected this sort of treatment. I hope the party or parties concerned are very happy with themselves.

The outing on August 1st was a very tranquil evening spent cruising down the canal from Frodingham Bridge to Hempholme Lock where a lovely supper was enjoyed on board the boat.

The next meeting on September 5th in the Village Hall at 7.15 pm is to be an Open Night to promote the W.I. Do come along and find out what the W.I. is all about and try your hand at Dreamy Dragon Pottery. There will be a raffle and supper. The competition is a pretty cup and saucer.

The next meeting is on September 19th at the home of Connie Stephenson when Maurice Cocker will talk about his visit to China. Leader Kath Algar, vote of thanks Alison Cope, Hostesses Connie Stephenson and Alison Cope. New members welcome.

Many thanks to all of you who have expressed sympathy and offered help after the break-in, and especially to Margaret Reed, Joan Jackson, Kath Algar and Duncan Corner who put the house back to rights. We have since learned from the police that a car reported as being suspicious in Rudston on Sunday 30th July was stopped in Chesterfield for an unrelated offence, and two men are now helping police with their enquiries. So, many thanks to Barbara Burgess for her vigilance!

Alison Cope

The big news this month is the planning application by Kelt U.K. for a gas exploration site at Pits Plantation. Termed a "Country Matter", these detailed and comprehensive plans came via the Borough Council in the usual way giving 21 days for any Parish Council observations. There were none. Here is a brief run-down of main points and answers given:

1) Access to the site is from Burton Agnes Road (Balk) at the point where a "lay-by" was made a while ago. The access would be made to County Council Highway specifications and a road constructed along the field-side to a gated and fenced main site.

2) The main site should be almost hidden from the village but a 150 ft high drilling mast would be needed for a period 0f 6-8 weeks.

3) Flaring would be day-time only over a short term with the flare-point in a small pit with earth surround. (This would be situated behind the trees anyway).

4) The noise from this short-term activity was measured at the nearest residence at 52 decibels. Drilling was even less. Noise over-all would be minimal was the conclusion after extensive tests including night-time.

5) Site traffic would be routed via Denby cross-roads and Kilham Road to save coming through the main part of the village.

6) Great attention has been paid to environmental, archaeological and historical issues.

The whole project depends on what they find - if there is nothing it would be all over in three months. Anyone is welcome to look at the plans - please contact Chairman or Clerk.

Now the rest of the news, but I don’t know what the Free Press reporter will have centred on, after last week’s meeting of course.

The Parish Council is most grateful and records it’s thanks to North Wolds Lions for their donation of £100. It will go towards the renovation of the War Memorial, which it is hoped, will be undertaken later this year.

After the report last month of the Car Park Rates refund, I realised we had received too much! It didn’t take the Borough Council long to realise the same thing though, and we now have a portion to re-pay.

The children’s playground position becomes more and more legally complicated, now involving something that older residents may remember - the Beaumont Trust. It was resolved to carry on, however, and not to be put off by recent vandalism. As time in which to claim grants is getting short, a Special Meeting of the Parish Council may be called at any time.

Otherwise, the next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, 27th September.

Phillip Crossland ( Clerk )

Bowls Club News

BOWLS CLUB FINAL will be on Sunday 3rd September at 2 pm. Members and NON MEMBERS are invited to come and join us and support the finalists. Afternoon tea will be served and everyone is welcome to stay. Members are requested to bring the usual refreshments.

Team ‘A’ 1st Division 54 Pts Won 8 Lost 14 8th Position Last year - 8th

Team ‘B’ 3rd Division 79 Pts Won 13 Lost 8 2nd Position Last year - Joint 4th

Team ‘C’ 4th Division 46 Pts Won 7 Lost 15 11th Position Last year - 14th

The ‘B’team will move up to the 2nd Division in 1996. Well done.

Please note: Driffield Association played 3 divisions in 1994 and increased the number to 4 divisions in 1995.

CAPTAIN’S DAY on Sunday 24th September at 2 pm will be a Domino Match. Please bring the usual refreshments. It will be appreciated if all names are entered before 17th September. Entrance fee 50p, will be used as prize money.

WEDNESDAY LEAGUE FINAL will take place on Wednesday 6th September at Leven East Street. There will be a draw for Rudston players who have taken part in this league. If for any reason you cannot play contact the next person on the list to take your place. Please take a contribution towards afternoon tea. 1.30 for 2 pm start.

Congratulations to Jean Corner who has reached the semi-finals of the East Yorkshire Borough Council Ladies Knockout Competition. To be played on 17th September. The finals are to be played on the same day. Good luck Jean.

NON MEMBERS are invited during September to try their hands at bowling. Bowling equipment will be provided but flat soled shoes are essential. Contact me if you are interested.

Secretary Rudston Bowls Club: Pauline Warters

The Old Butchers Shop, Tel - 420410

22nd August 1995

These will soon be delivered to every home. I would very much appreciate it if you will please post the completed form back to the Town Hall in the prepaid envelope as soon as possible.

Thank you.

Pauline Warters.

12 ozs mixed dried fruit

8 ozs dark soft brown sugar

4 ozs margarine

1/4 pt water

2 eggs

8 ozs SR Flour

1 tsp mixed spice

Method:-

Put the dried fruit, sugar, margarine and water into a saucepan, simmer covered for 20 minutes. Then allow to cool.

Add the eggs, beaten, the flour and spice, sifted & mix well.

Pour the mixture into a greased and lined 7 inch square cake tin.

Bake for 1 and a half hours gas mark 3 - 325 degrees F / 165 degrees C.

Thanks to Chris Gatenby for this recipe and other items which will appear in later issues.