1. society
2. unrest and war

Yaxley Messenger
November 2014
Get fit and have fun with Lagabag
Morris!
Musicians
Ladies
Dancers
Men
Come and Join Us
Lagabag Morris dance in the Cotswold tradition and are a “mixed” side,
which means that we have both male and female dancers. We dance at
a variety of events and venues throughout the summer months,
including village fetes, folk festivals and of course pubs. We also go on
occasional trips further afield including Normandy.
We will be holding a beginners' session on Monday 24 November at
Claydon Village Hall, from 8pm to 10pm, and we would love to see
some new faces.
You don't have to have any morris dancing
experience, so come along and give it a go!
Contact Charles Croydon 01473 214116 or Pauline Smith
at [email protected] or on 01379 783016 for details,
or find us at www.lagabagmorris.org.uk.
Events and Notices
Halloween Party
Saturday 1st November
6.30 to 9.30
Yaxley Village Hall
Fancy Dress Competition—Adults and Children
Pumpkin Carving Competition (bring them with you)
Mummy competition
Disco and games
Entrance £4
Family Ticket (4 plus) £12
Soup Lunch
Saturday 6th December
12.00 noon to 2.00 p.m.
Yaxley Village Hall
Offers of soups and mince pies will be appreciated
All proceeds to the village church
A big
THANK YOU
To all who helped and all who came to the Macmillan coffee
morning at Ashton Cottage
We raised £400 which has been given in to the charity
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Events & Notices
Thank you
to everyone who helped or came to the Yaxley Harvest Supper.
A profit of £190 was raised. This has been divided between the
Yaxley Community Council and the Church Council.
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Clubs and Societies
The Art Club
Meets in the Village Hall on Tuesdays 10.00am-12 noon.
All abilities are welcome, £2.50. Come and create something artistic.
November 4th, 11th, 18th & 25th
More details: Lloyd Smith 783016.
The Garden Club
Meets on Thursday November 6th at 7.30 pm in the Village Hall
“Garden Bugs and Beasties” by Gary Alderton
Visitors welcome: £2.50 to include light refreshments.
More details:
Pauline Smith 783016.
The Four Seasons Ladies’ Group
Meets on Tuesday 18th November at 7.30pm in the Village Hall
“The Millennium Tower, Bury St Edmunds Cathedral” by Harry Parsons
Visitors welcome: £3.00 to include tea/coffee/biscuits
More details: Val Mowles 788035.
The Yaxley Needlework and Craft Group
Meets in the Village Hall alternate Wednesdays at 2.00pm.
November 5th & 19th
Share skills, complete projects - with tea and chat £2.50
Do come along and join us.
More details: Celia Tel 788754 or email: [email protected]
The Yaxley and Mellis Reading Group
Supported by Eye Library in securing books
Meets for a couple of hours in the afternoon, monthly, to discuss a mutually
agreed book.
More details: Marie Needham: 07904 121215 or Pauline Smith: 783016.
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Notices
The Parish Council
The next meeting is on December 10th
in the Village Hall at 7.30 p.m.
The agenda/notices are on the Parish Noticeboard five days
prior to the meeting
The Parish Clerk may be contacted by phone on 01379 783203 or 07958 623897
between 9.00 am and 7.00pm from Monday to Friday and on Saturday from 9.00am to
1.00pm. Please leave a voicemail message if there is no reply and the Clerk will return
your call as soon as possible.
Contact may also be made by email:[email protected]
or by letter to: Philip Freeman, 2 Mellis Road, Thrandeston, Diss, IP21 4BU
If there is an emergency then please phone 07958 623897
Your Parish Councillors are: Keith Pawsey (Chair), Julian Moore (Vice Chair), Chris
Aldous, David Burn, John Hawes, Ian Luff, Sarah Sano, Andy Watts and Charlie Wright.
Website: http://yaxley.onesuffolk.net
AREOPAGUS
the next meeting to be held at The White Horse, Stoke Ash
on Thursday 20th November
7.00pm for 7.30pm with refreshments at 8.30pm approx.
“David
Livingstone—How great was he as a Man and a
Missionary?”
Speaker Mr Kit Brinkley
price £7 per capita to include refreshments
Advance booking essential
contact Brian Richardson: Coldham House, Coldham Lane, Gislingham,
Suffolk IP23 8JA or Tel: 01379 783696 or Mob: 07798 882535
or email [email protected].
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St. Mary’s Church
South Hartismere Benefice
November Newsletter
Reconciliation and Peace
During the past few months, the churches around the Benefice have been
commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.
St Mary’s Church, Mellis, held a special Songs of Tribute with hymns and
readings on the theme of remembrance, and the Mellisian singers sang
some songs from that era.
On 4th August at 10.00pm All Saints Church, Thorndon, held an hour-long
‘Lights Out Vigil’ as we lit candles and remembered those who, 100 years
ago, were on the very brink of war.
Last month, All Saints Church, Stoke Ash, held an exhibition of flower
arrangements, photographs and personal memorabilia to commemorate
the centenary of the start of the First World War. The week-end
culminated in a Songs of Tribute service in which we lit a commemorative
candle, remembered those who died in the war, those whose lives were
torn apart by injury and loss, and those who returned bearing the
physical and mental scars of war.
On Sunday 9th November, there will be various Acts of Remembrance in
our communities, and on Tuesday 11th November there will be special
memorial services and events in Mellis and Stoke Ash. During this time of
remembrance, as our thoughts turn to conflicts past and present, we
think also of healing and reconciliation.
When Coventry was so badly blitzed in World War 2, the medieval
cathedral was one of the buildings that were destroyed. Just a shell
remained, full of smoking ruins. The Dean walked into the ruins the next
day, looked around and said 'Father, forgive'. In the rubble somebody
found three of the medieval roof nails, and tied them into the shape of a
cross. Later, in an act of retaliation, we went on to blitz Dresden. It was a
horrible episode in our history, but after the war Coventry and Dresden
pledged to help each other rebuild their respective cities and their lives it’s a relationship which continues to this day.
Conflict is a natural part of human nature, but sometimes it can take over
and cause unnecessary hurt and suffering. This is not just true of war, but
can happen in communities, families and churches. With this in mind I will
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St. Mary’s Church
be holding the first of a series of Services of Healing and
Reconciliation – a gentle and reflective time to bring to God past hurts
that have been done to us, or that we may have done to others, and to
find peace. This service will be held on Sunday 25th January, 2015 at
All Saints Church, Thorndon, at 6pm, but these services will move
around the different villages throughout the year.
Back to November! - as we remember and honour those who have lost
their lives as a result of war, let us also continue to strive for peace in
our world; and as we turn from remembrance to celebration, let us look
forward to Christmas, when we celebrate the coming of Jesus, the Prince
of Peace, who can transform a broken and troubled world .
With every blessing,
Julia
Reverend Julia Lall
Yaxley Worship
Sunday 2nd Nov 10.30 a.m.— CW Parish Communion
Sunday 9th Nov 10.30 a.m.— Morning Worship & Act of
Remembrance
Sunday 16th Nov 3.00 p.m.— Benefice Memorial Service
(followed by tea in the Village Hall)
Sunday 23rd Nov 10.30 a.m.—Morning Worship
in Yaxley Church, with a warm welcome to all.
The 10.30 Club
For the time being this has joined with Gislingham Café Church on
the 3rd Sunday at Gislingham Village Hall, where there is
breakfast, and stories and activities for all.
On the other three Sundays families are warmly welcomed at our
services, and there is a baby and toddler area with books and toys.
Refreshments are served afterwards, and they’re always delicious!
Contact us:
Revd. Julia Lall
01379 678064
email: [email protected]
Churchwardens: Mr Julian Moore 788140; Mrs Joan Lockwood 871479.
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The Cherry Tree
To All the Community
As the time draws near to the end of sleepless nights
dreaming of boxes with teeth and being bound by miles of
parcel tape, the fog begins to thin. As you may guess, we
are the family coming back into your village and having the
pleasure of taking back the reins of your Public House. The
team consists of, Kevin (dad), Sharon (mum), Torran (Son),
Alexander (Son) and Valentino (Son). There is a fourth
sibling who you will see from time to time being chauffeured
around by her support team, called Charlott (No ‘e’ please).
Lastly there is also a dog named Bailey, who sadly doesn’t
like postman!!
We first purchased the Yaxley Cherry Tree when it was
closed, boarded and mostly full of water rather than
Alcoholic beverages. We had to make a decision to move on
due to family illness, but both Kevin and I never really got
over that decision. When our son found the advert on the
internet that Thursday night it had to have been fate! Kevin
made the call and during the conversation Andy recognised
his voice. We arranged for a visit, and when we went back
in it felt like we had come home.
One of the first things (being a woman) I had to comment on
to my husband was that it was worth paying all that money
for ‘Wilton’ carpet after all!! Mmm….. Nikki said to me that
she felt that they had been looking after the pub for us. We
got on as though we had never been apart. Sadly, when we
left we were not in the front running because there had been
earlier interest by other parties. We left the pub excited but
calm. We got about half way home when Andy rang and told
us the other parties had pulled out. OMG as my boys would
say. We thanked Andy and sat in silence all the way home
until we read the email. Now that is all in the past and we
are all looking toward to the future.
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788050
[email protected]
We would like members of the community to tell us what
they want from us to ensure we have the best information
available, to enable us to provide the service you need which
will ensure the Yaxley Cherry Tree continues to grow from
strength to strength.
We would like you all to come and introduce yourselves to us
so we can make more friends.
I will leave you with a couple of my favourite quotes:
“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
― W.C. Fields
“There comes a time in every woman's life when the only
thing that helps is a glass of Champagne.”
― Bette Davis
Kevin, Sharon, Torran, Alexander & Valentino
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Halloween Party—31st October
Live Music from Backstreet—1st November
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John’s Local History
A Scary Tale for Halloween.
(Not to be read if concerned by the Ebola news.)
When I set about writing this article, the Ebola virus was causing extreme
concern. Not only around the area of Africa where the outbreak was believed to
have started, but as far away as America where a man had been undergoing
delayed treatment. A few weeks ago a British nurse working in the affected area
of Africa was diagnosed as suffering from the Ebola infection. He had been flown
back to the U.K. under the strictest quarantine conditions currently available to
the one hospital that could safely carry out experimental treatment without, in
theory, causing a risk to the doctors and nurses providing the round-the-clock
medical care. Fortunately, the man recovered from the infection, although at the
time of writing, the death of a man in America has been reported and the
condition of his two care nurses remains uncertain.
Something as small as bacteria or the even smaller virus has been the root of
fear since medieval times, and no doubt even further back in history. Of course,
no one actually knew of their existence until the discovery by Anthony van
Leeuwenhoek with the aid of his microscope in 1674.
The earliest widely reported and most prolific health scare in our history is most
likely the plague known as the ‘Black Death’ (bubonic plague) which resulted in
the premature death of over half the known World’s population. My original
thoughts when developing my interest in history some years ago were thinking of
how our own local villagers would have coped with the overwhelming fear, then
panic.
However, there’s no point looking back into the past with modern thoughts and
experiences. In our developed Northern Hemisphere there are few untreatable
epidemics in comparison to the Third World’s numerous contagious diseases, the
Ebola scare being the most recent. Medieval Yaxley would have been no different
in my mind to modern day Africa. I have agricultural lifestyle records that in part
go back as far as A.D.220. Prior to the famously recorded Black Death, which
was virulent in the mid fourteenth century, there had been more than twenty
other recorded major plague events since the time of the Roman occupation of
Britain. Plague may have been a loose term for anything from influenza to
typhoid and cholera, to name a few diseases with no ‘off the shelf’ ancient
remedies.
The Black Death spread from the Far East, carried by rats on trading ships which,
after docking at England’s ports, not only unloaded exotic spices but countless
rodents with their own cargo of infectious fleas. The plague didn’t spread at the
pace a modern day contagious disease can spread. There were obviously no
steam trains or aeroplanes, so the fastest mode of human travel would have been
purely horse power. The plague was passed on by a bite from a rat flea or by
contact with bodily fluid from an infected human, such as sneezing for example.
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It took many months for the plague to reach our part of Suffolk; news of its
approach probably giving little advance warning because it would have been by
word of mouth, maybe accompanied with the previously-mentioned sneeze or
an unwashed handshake?
How would Yaxley’s villagers have reacted to the news? “Run for your lives,
the plague is coming!”? Or perhaps possibly with less urgency than may be
first imagined.
Let’s look at health care during 1349 in Yaxley - ah, what health care? Starting
with childbirth: many women died during or shortly after that event. Over half
the children born, subsequently died in their first few years of life from
illnesses against which today’s young children are routinely inoculated, such as
diphtheria, whooping cough and scarlet fever. Even if you survived into adult
life and started work, blood poisoning was a regular occurrence because
antibiotics had not been invented.
Just interrupting this tale for a moment, I have a report of a Yaxley farmer,
Daniel Thrip, dying within three days of piercing an item of leather supported
across his knee with an awl (to make it easier to stitch with needle and
thread). The awl also penetrated his knee; as a result, he lies buried in an
area to the left of the church footpath.
Anyway, back to gruesome death. Anyone had their appendix out? I’m not so
sure that was even treatable in Yaxley during 1349. There are all manner of
illnesses, broken bones, even impacted wisdom teeth, that we now take for
granted as being readily treatable and cured – oh, and I almost forgot,
smallpox was as common around Yaxley as that modern childhood nightmare,
chickenpox. Difference being, you survive that irritating itch and the urge to
scratch that is a part of the chickenpox ritual.
Ah yes, “The plague is coming”, as I was thinking and writing a paragraph
back. Old medieval Yaxley villagers probably just thought, “Oh no, not another
bl**dy incurable illness on the way.” Although the plague took over two years
to spread throughout Britain, the actual time that people were becoming
infected and dying from the symptoms in each individual village was extremely
rapid. A medieval village such as Yaxley would have experienced a gradual
rise in fatalities during the first few weeks before the full impact took effect,
wiping out over half the inhabitants in less than a month before gradually
subsiding away during the following weeks. If over half the inhabitants died,
then let’s say 40% survived. Did they avoid contact with other villagers or
maybe escape the bite of a rat’s fleas? I think there must have been a natural
immunity acquired by some villagers, after all ‘The Plague’ was a periodic
visitor to our village during the previous thousand years.
I know for a fact that people survived close contact with infected family
members, because I’m sitting here typing this story. My umpteenth great
grandmother and great aunt both survived the plague in Walsham Le Willows
………. However, their husbands both died!
John Hawes
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Suffolk Police (non-emergency)
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Sheila’s Field Orchard
Too many Apples?
Bring us 55 Kg. of your good clean apples and we will
convert them into your personal apple juice.
We give you back 5 litres of pasteurized juice in a plastic
lined box with a tap - which lasts at least 12 months
Bring your surplus apples (any quantity over 55Kg.)
to:Nigel & Ann
School House, Old Ipswich Road, Yaxley, IP23 8BX.
Next to Yaxley Village Hall
01379 783 594, or Nigel’s mobile 07817 944 589
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Wed
Thurs
2
CW Parish
Communion
Sun
1
Halloween Party
at Village Hall
Cherry Tree Music
“Backstreet”
Sat
8
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Benefice
Memorial Service
Fri
November 2014 Calendar
Tues
7
15
23
Morning Worship
Mon
6
Garden Club
22
30
4
Art Club
21
29
9
Morning Worship
& Act of
Remembrance
20
28
3
5
Needlework &
Craft Group
11
Art Club
19
Needlework &
Craft Group
27
14
10
18
Art Club
4 Seasons Ladies
Group
26
13
17
25
Art Club
12
24
20