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77 Leiston - A hidden gem 77 Meet Adele Sellears 77 Memoir: End of Empire, part 3 77 And much, much more!

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3 Welcome to the August issue Well Summer is here! School is out! And I am going to be devouring loads of ice creams if I can … the picture on the cover is just too tempting isn’t it?

Our competition this month is perfect for the time of year! Those lovely people at Gate Farm Toys have kindly donated a garden sized Jenga tower, fantastic for entertaining the kids outside or for seeing how powerful the punch you’re serving at your barbeque is! The questions run along the bottom of the pages as usual and you can find all the answers (as well as lots of other goodies) on their website www.outdoor-play.co.uk.

Tel: 01394 412160 Published by: Seaglass Collective Ltd. Greenacres Mill Lane Alderton Woodbridge IP12 3DB Send your news to: Gemma Thompson editor@roundaboutsuffolk.co.uk To advertise contact: Abi Gagen on 07949 560487 or adverts@roundaboutsuffolk.co.uk www.roundaboutsuffolk.co.uk Please note the deadline for the next issue is 12th August

We also have a SECOND competition this month – this time on the NEW Roundabout website, www.roundaboutsuffolk.co.uk. This website allows you to publicise your event or add your business to our free local directory, or even to read previous articles if you missed a copy. To celebrate Snape Proms have kindly donated tickets to ‘Gilad Atzmon and Strings’ on Wednesday 26 August, 7.30pm – a tribute to Charlie Parker, and a blend of classics by Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter and Hoagy Carmichael.

This issue is packed full of features again, you can find out more about Leiston, learn about the speakers club that organised the Speaker-thon I was involved in this month (see if you can spot me amongst all the speakers!) and find out how to help Save our Suffolks! We also introduce an ethical financial advisor who donates to charity and the talented Adele Sellears, a designer living and working in the heart of Rendlesham. I’d like to say a special thank you to all our contributors … if you want to be featured also please feel free to get in touch!

We are expanding again! This month sees us increasing the print run and stretching down into Ipswich! In these new areas Roundabout is available at a variety of cafés, hotels, gym lobbies, anywhere you might have to sit and wait, however copies are going fast in a lot of places so please feel free to subscribe and we’ll send it straight to your door every month. Subscription is a measly £8 for a whole year, just to cover the cost of posting it to you!

On a serious note I must apologise to Norman Sanders, the author of the wonderful memoir we’re serialising, the front cover has wrongly been describing this as fiction – it isn’t, it all really happened. Keep reading, he has a lot more stories to tell.

4 Adele Designs

By: Gemma Thompson

Filling the little white spaces in life with colour What a fantastic way to start the day - surrounded by bright optimistic colours in a light, neat studio!

This was how my day started when I was lucky enough to visit Suffolk artist Adele Sellears in her sunny Rendlesham home.

I was introduced to Adele’s work through a friend that designed her website and as soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to share it with you all, her stylish, cheerful designs seem inspired by the 50s and 60s; decades where everything was possible and a million new futures were in bud.

Her aim is to fill the little white spaces in everybody’s life, and she does this by providing a range of products. If you don’t have wall space enough for one of her vibrant prints you can make the washing up less of a chore with a funky tea towel

or even bring a splash of contemporary cool to a Jane Austen novel with her bookmarks!

Not being an artist myself I am always fascinated by how they get their inspiration so this was one of the first things I asked her, she told me that her parents are artistic and in the 60’s owned a ladies fashion shop named Adele’s, she told me that growing up in the family shops, unpacking new products and pulling these gorgeous dresses with flowers, patterns and colours everywhere somehow managed to seep into her soul and now it’s all just a part of her. She says “I think that growing up in the 60’s and 70’s gave me a huge inspiration for everything colourful and bold. It was a time of great change and innovation.”

Designs inspired by the 50s and 60s; decades where everything was possible and a million new futures were in bud.

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However I also found that she was also incredibly inspired by her experiences at Art College and later at the Colchester Institute of Design where she finally found her vocation and began weaving her inspirations into designs informed by symmetry and the repetition of images. And that now inspiration comes as often from the gifts of nature as from finds in antique shops and all are translated in such a way as to preserve our heritage but more importantly to share and celebrate our lives.

When I was visiting her I also found out that this artistic talent has been passed to her two daughters, Heidi who is 22 makes beautiful brooches with a vintage feel whilst Emma who is only 19, recycles old bead necklaces, buttons and lace ribbons in modern funky necklaces.

At the moment her designs are only available on her website but she has so many ideas and plans that I wouldn’t be surprised if in a year or two we see her designs on cushion covers in Habitat or T-shirts from Top Shop! You can keep up with her creativity by following her blog at www.adeleadeledesign.blogspot.com I advise you to head online now to www.adeledesign.com and treat yourself to something, who knows, in 20 years it could be as collectible as Pucci!

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9 A Fresh Look at Leiston

By: Abi Gagen

Our roving reporter stays close to home for a change!

This article was inspired by disappointment and frustration at a comment about my hometown of Leiston, a comment I took personally. Looking again can give you a clearer view about how you should present your words. So with no further ado, I present a piece of many drafts!

When looking up and down the main crossroads in Leiston, at first you’ll see what you need to get by, but with a second look you find many individual businesses to help fill your need for a culture kick.

Take Simply Delicious; this one of the stores I have seen maintain a high presence within the Leiston is a town which is often passed by the town. It satisfies your need to keep healthy but many who are venturing to the various coastal also creates this great exploration within food. towns. However, just because a town only has a Their service shows vast knowledge of their few lines in a tourist book, it doesn’t mean there products, great character and is nothing there to discover. importantly supports local Leiston is a supporting town in Discover those hidden traders. The Flower Company our Suffolk coast; it provides gems beneath the all three tiers of the education industrial soot which make (or Geater’s Florist) is another system, along with youth Leiston what it is in 2009. company which has stood the test of time. They provide projects, a sense of community quality arrangements along and a workforce which plays its with a variety of plants from their nursery on the part in upholding the local economy. outskirts of Leiston. Lady Dye’s is a hair salon on the High street which has created luscious locks It has also become famed throughout the world for years and is still always up to date on style. A as the home of the Summerhill School founded new addition to our town which has brightened in the 1920s. This school was once unique, as the High Street is Fab’N’Glam, tempting us with here children are not required to attend classes, the latest trends as well as supplying classic and discipline is given by student self-government styles. And not forgetting the new ‘old’ place to meetings. Now it is the foundation that has be – Gracies. A re-creation of an American diner; inspired a large “free school” movement. serving up tasty local food at excellent prices.

A town’s history can create a stable backbone, Of course, a success story which has seen Leiston a backbone which enables a town to become surging into the media spotlight recently is the stronger and flourish into something special. triumph of Leiston Football Club. After four In my town, we have such a backbone; an qualifying rounds and against all odds they entrepreneurial figure who enabled us to become reached the first round of the FA Cup. We were known for excellent service throughout the world. all awash with pride because of the boys put us So many thanks to Mr Garrett for an introduction back on the map. As Carl Chenery, Leiston FC’s but let’s look closer and discover those hidden manager commented “It’s brilliant for everyone in gems beneath the industrial soot which make the town.” It is something that will join Mr. Garrett Leiston what it is in 2009. in the history books, hopefully along with more successes of every flavour!

If I wished for you to go away with one thing after reading this, it would be a few words of advice – whenever you venture some place new, leave everyone else’s judgments behind and experience everything for yourself.

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10 GRAND HENHAM STEAM RALLY The origins of the rally go back to 1973 when a Mr Len Murray, who ran an agricultural bygones museum at his farm in Sotterly, near Southwold, decided to stage a steam rally. This proved a great success but his venue at Sotterly proved to be unsuitable and the following year the event moved to Brampton. In 1975 it finally moved to Henham Park, with the kind permission of the 4th Earl of Stradbroke, and became the Grand Henham Steam Rally.

There will be over a thousand vintage vehicles, working steam demonstrations plus: • History of Speedway display • Suffolk Quoits Display • Ken Fox Wall of Death • Live music from the Ipswich Hospital Band (Sunday) Omega Jazz Band (Saturday).

• Working crafts.

That same year Mr Murray was also involved with the founding of the new Southwold (Sole Bay) Lions Club and they became one of the main beneficiaries of the rally along with the Wangford Community Council and the Parochial Church Councils of Wangford cum Henham, Sotherton and Uggeshall. These three organisations are still the main beneficiaries and are also responsible for organizing the event together with a hard working team of rally enthusiasts.

Now in its 36th year, and still enjoying the benefits of being staged in the lovely Henham Park, the event has grown to become one of the major rallies in the region attracting some 18,000 people. Since its inception it is estimated that the rally has been responsible for raising over £1 million for charity by a combination of the profits from the event itself and through the participation of the many charities who use the rally to raise funds.

This year the rally takes place on the 19th and 20th September from 10am to 6pm.

Main events will include a pageant looking at ‘Road haulage through the ages’ from the horse and cart right up to the latest juggernauts. In addition to the parades of steam engines and other vintage vehicles for which this event has become synonymous other attractions include: • Lowestoft Dog Display Team • Heavy and light horse displays including the History of the Stagecoach • Southwold & Reydon Corps of Drums and the Urban Allstars Majorettes (Sunday only).

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Vintage and modern fairground and avenues of trade, craft and food stalls and licensed bar.

Henham Park is near Southwold at the junction of A12 & A145.

It promises to be a great day out for the whole family and at a very reasonable price with admission charges £7 on Saturday and £8 on Sunday. Children under 14 are free and there is free parking. You can even save money by booking in advance at www.henhamsteamrally.com

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13 Essential IFA

By: Gemma Thompson

The Ethical Financial Advisor Meeting an Independent Financial Advisor, in the middle of a recession brought on by foolish investing, well this won’t be much fun I thought. I suppose I suffered from the same misconceptions and cynicism that most of us do now – at best it’s a necessary evil to sort out my financial life, at worst this guy could rip me off!

So it was with some trepidation that I set off to meet Peter Herd of Essential IFA for the first time, and it was with some relief that I discovered there is such a thing as an ethical IFA. Peter Herd worked as a senior business financial planning manager for 15 years in London before his father’s death prompted him to reassess his life.

He didn’t want his vast experience in personal and business financial planning to go to waste so decided it was time to set up his own business.

But there’s more – when I said he was ethical, I meant it – he donates 20% of the company’s turnover to charity! When his father became ill with cancer and subsequently died, he became aware of how much cancer services rely on charitable support. “I was very close to my dad as was my sister. We were shocked at how much care for cancer patients is reliant on charity,” he said. It follows that Peter’s charity of choice is Cancer Campaign in Suffolk, however they will donate to a charity of your choice if you wish. He aims to raise a staggering £40,000 this year!

Customer care is another important aspect of his work, as he tries to combat the perception that those working in finance are greedy and unethical. He explained to me that now that he is independent he can make sure that people have the right solution tailored to their individual needs, on a range of essentials including savings and investments, pensions, life insurance, critical illness and income protection and more.

And he is able to operate either on the basis of commission from products or a fee based service, to suit the individual client. Personally I was pleased that our initial meeting was free and I didn’t feel as if I was ‘on the clock’ whilst Peter carried out his assessment of my financial needs. In fact the only down side of the whole meeting was the pang of guilt I felt realising that if anything had happened to me before this meeting, I may well have caused those I love most horrible financial difficulties. I am a single mum with a 9 year old daughter – what would have happened to her?

He said “As an Independent Financial Adviser I provide good advice but also get you the cheapest premiums possible in the marketplace for protection policies. As for the charity I believe that this is a revolutionary idea within financial services and our motto is that we help you while helping others.” He reminded me to review any solution that has been put in place on a regular basis as things change over the years. It is good to check whether plans like pensions and savings are on track to meet their objectives, so he strongly recommended an annual review. By this point I had been enjoying chatting to this funny, likeable guy so much that I’d changed my point of view completely ... meet Peter for a coffee for an hour this time next year? Yes that’ll be fun!

If you want to reach Peter you can call on 01473 743556, or 07957 119112, Email: peterherd@essentialifa.com

He tries to combat the perception that those working in finance are greedy and unethical.

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16 End of Empire

By: 2401580 Norman Sanders Cpl (Retd.)

The Insanity of it All Whereas Woofer Moe simply was, Ticktock very definitely did. Ticktock was energy in action, energy devoid of control. He was the bane of authority during his brief spell in Uniform. But though his tenure was fleeting his reputation lived long! Ticktock brightened up our jaded lives for what must be remembered as a rare moment of sanity amongst the lunacy.

Ticktock remained at Bridgnorth throughout our eight weeks, brightening the otherwise boring routine as we were introduced into the mysteries of our impending duties. He was still there when we left, though due for immediate return to Civvy Street. He maintained his insanity throughout, but the denouement coincided with the Arrival of the AOC in the August of that year.

Ticktock decided his presence in the Air Force was to be of short duration. No doubt he did his best at call-up to render himself unworthy of uniform, but military medical men are notorious for their lack of sympathy, and he was classified suitable for defending King and Empire. Thus he arrived, first at Padgate for kitting out, then to Bridgnorth for getting knocked into shape. It was during that week in Padgate that Ticktock laid his plans. It was a masterpiece of deception, the envy of his colleagues. It took ice cool nerve and stamina; one false move and the game would have been very seriously up.

The AOC (or Air Officer Commanding) inspected each RAF camp within his command once a year. The Arrival was announced weeks ahead allowing for extensive preparations. Indeed, the RAF year more or less revolved around it. There was feverish activity until the Great Day arrived.

Every square inch of wood was scraped until the interiors shone like marble. The grass was painted green, and lorry loads of plants were brought in.

The coal in the bunker was finely levelled and painted white. (Had coal been naturally white it would have been painted black, such being the contrary nature of the Official Mind.)

Ticktock’s game was something many had contemplated, few had attempted and less had won. Ticktock’s game was Madness. There was no doubt in any officer’s mind that Ticktock was utterly insane. He couldn’t carry out the requirements of the K.Rs and A.C.Is. What more proof do you want? He couldn’t stand to attention when commanded. Or stand at ease either. When the rest of us had got fell in, Ticktock got fell out. He never appeared fully rigged though he’d been issued full uniform – including a rifle! The RAF had a long-winded procedure to categorise anyone insane, so rifles were issued to each airman on the Monday of week three. They could have denied him bullets, easy enough as there were very few bullets left, and all we officially sane airmen had were six throughout our entire military career. But the frantic paperwork initiated to render him officially mad had not reached completion by that particular Thursday afternoon, so Ticktock received his allocation of six bullets, causing his comrades to shudder.

But the piece de resistance was the cookhouse.

Suddenly we had menus! Whereas the rest of the year the cookhouse meals were enshrouded in mystery, they were now subjects of crystal clarity encapsulated in clear text displayed on printed sheets of cardboard adorning the clean tables together with the annual flower arrangements and bottles of Red and Brown sauce decorated with bows.

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It was an incongruous sight that met the gaze of the AOC as he made his annual Entrance in the cookhouse – at least incongruous to us.

Presumably all cookhouses within his domain were accoutred thus during Inspection, giving him a consistent view of canteens under his command, if not an accurate one.

Normally it was this that was the centrepiece of the annual charade, but not this time. This time it was Ticktock who stole the show. Two thousand airmen and their betters were there, and none

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17 of them sixty years later will have forgotten it.

The Station Commander had made it quite clear; in no way was Ticktock to show himself.

Strict orders went out from Station HQ to all men to maintain a watchful eye on Ticktock and keep him Out of Sight. But Ticktock was born of cunning rare amongst men, and somehow evaded our combined vigilance. The result was spectacular.

Be it explained that when marching with a rifle, the rifle is held in the left hand supported by the left shoulder. The forearm is kept in a horizontal position with the upper arm vertical, the rifle then resulting in an angle of some 45 degrees.

The cap must be worn. Rifle without cap is a Punishable Offence according to KRs and ACIs. (The number of Germans who survived the war because our lot couldn’t find their caps in the heat of battle cannot be negligible.)

But most important, the salute is different.

Ordinary saluting is well known to everyone.

Not so if carrying a rifle, instead, the right arm is brought horizontally across the body, fingertips just touching the rifle. The reason for this difference is lost in the mists of time, but there it stands.

Imagine it; the hot summer of 1948, the AOC arrived in the back seat of an open limousine, flanked by his entourage, to a reception at the camp gates, magnificent in conception and meticulous in planning. The Spitfire just inside the gates freshly painted. Flags flew proudly.

The station band played a rousing march. The main square lined by Smart Airmen in best blue, rifles gleaming, brasses burnished, the Station Commander stood, similarly flanked by his own supporting cast, smile of welcome on lips. And the sun shining on it all with a benevolence that surely warmed the Commander’s heart, eager as it must have been for promotion at the hands of the arriving guest. It was a tableau worthy of MGM, the culmination of weeks of dedicated preparations by a camp of loyal airmen.

Everything thought of. Nothing left to chance. Well almost nothing.

He appeared at the opposite corner of the main square, giving him maximum effect and time to execute his manoeuvre. He marched (or meandered), capless, (loaded?) rifle over right shoulder, saluting God and the birds of the air with his left hand raised to his left eye, the inanest of expressions suffusing his young face.

He danced across the diagonal, straight for the open limousine. Confronted by Messerschmitts they would have acted with alacrity, but confronted by Ticktock their powers of decision deserted them, The Royal Air Force was simply paralysed.

The whole military structure is based on the concept that orders will be obeyed, however idiotic. But everyone knew that this concept stopped at Ticktock. No orders were forthcoming, and there was no one actually in charge despite the considerable assemblage of ring pieces. The Commander could hardly be expected to depart from his act of welcoming his guest in order to bark the necessary command – whatever that might have been. And no one of lower rank dare interrupt the act. Thus Ticktock was allowed to complete his mission, his expression of total innocence, angelic countenance raised to the gods, as he demonstrated his total lunacy in front of the great man who had honoured RAF Bridgnorth that day with his presence.

They accelerated the paperwork removing him from the system.

Then, at the dying strains of the march, Ticktock made his entrance. His positioning was masterful.

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19 A Toast to Talking

By: Keith Herod

You can learn the art of public speaking What is the best compliment you have ever received? What made you feel so good that you couldn’t stop smiling for a week afterwards? For me it happened on a grey October evening way back in 1996. I was a candidate in a by-election for a seat on the Suffolk County Council. After a hard fought campaign the result was announced – I had won by 17 votes. From my smile you could have thought I had won by 17 thousand votes. Imagine, all those people putting their faith in me! I was floating on air.

It also improved my ability to ‘think on my feet’.

During the topics sessions a subject is given to the speaker 10 seconds before they are due to speak.

They then have to construct a mini-speech that lasts for two minutes. Which was useful not only in the Council Chamber, but at work too, where I could put my point across during meetings succinctly and clearly.

The club has developed my skills in organising and chairing a meeting, and how to give feedback constructively without being critical and leaving the recipients feeling good The smile lasted about themselves.

Photographs courtesy Jen O’Neill

The smile lasted until my first council meeting a week later, when I made until I made my my maiden speech. My post speech maiden speech I’m not on the Council any more. feedback was kindly delivered but Despite my impeccable expenses it put my feet firmly back on the record (I can’t recall making any claims) my ground. “Had I thought of taking some speech electorate decided that I should “spend more time coaching?” The message was unambiguous – my with my family”. I am however still a member of speech wasn’t very good. My messenger went on Ipswich Electrifiers. I wouldn’t claim that I’m a to suggest that I join Ipswich Electrifiers Speakers’ good speaker – but I’m no longer a bad one!

Club, a member of Toastmasters International.

So it was that I joined Ipswich Electrifiers. In an encouraging and friendly environment I learned the art of speech making and much more.

Working through a series of ten speeches I learned how a speech is organised, how to use my body movements to emphasise a point, how to vary my voice, where to insert pauses, the use of humour and how to give a speech power and impact.

Keith Herod is the President of Ipswich Electrifiers Speakers’ Club. If you want more information he can be contacted at president@ipswichelectrifiers. org.uk or telephone 01473 327 625. The Clubs’ website is www.ipswichelectrifiers.org.uk

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20 Suffolk Punch Horses at Hollesley Bay

By: Chris Miller

We urge you to get involved and Save Our Suffolks!

Go to www.suffolkpunchtrust/org Empire. Then, when it was subsequently owned by a forerunner of the GLC, unemployed men from London were housed in tied cottages and given a plot of land on the Hollesley Bay estate.

They worked with the horses and earned a living through market gardening.

There are still horsemen around, many now in their vintage years, who farmed the land entirely with horses – and not just any old horse – but the Suffolk Punch. They can recall a way of life which disappeared almost entirely within their generation, an important part of our rural heritage – it helped make us what we are today.

For over 200 years, the Suffolk Punch helped East Anglian farmers on the land. However, by the early 1950s, tractors had become more available and more efficient and so had almost totally replaced them. Now redundant, our native horses dwindled in number. By the 1960s the Icon of our County, was in danger of disappearing. However, there were still a few owners who kept the breed alive and HM Prison at Hollesley Bay was one of them with their Colony Stud of Suffolk Punches.

There is a long history of Suffolk Punches in the Hollesley area. They were used by the Colonial Agricultural College at Hollesley Bay (est.1896) for young gentlemen to study farming before they set off for a ‘colonial’ life overseas in the British

In 1938, the Prison Services established a Young Offenders’ Institution and thence the Open Prison. HM Prison Hollesley Bay maintained an agricultural estate of some 1400 acres and inmates worked with Suffolk Punches to grow farm produce. But early in this millennium, the Prison Services announced that the agricultural estate and the Colony Stud of Suffolk Punch horses would be sold. It is the oldest and largest working stud of Suffolk Punch horses in the world, regarded as an essential gene pool for the survival of this rare breed. There are only around 400 pure bred registered Suffolk Punches worldwide and they are in the ‘critical’ category of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust watchlist. We had to save them so The Suffolk Punch Trust, a registered charity and environmental body, was formed in 2002. Its first aim was to buy the Colony Stud to stop its dispersal, continue the breeding to increase foal numbers and make it accessible to the public.

We launched an appeal in 2004 and raised £700,000 enabling us to buy 27 Suffolk Punch horses, buildings, vehicles, harness and around 200 acres of land at Sink Farm, the home of

Suffolk Punches are in the ‘critical’ category of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust watch list.

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the Colony Stud at Hollesley Bay. Since then, the Trust’s annual running costs of £100,000 have been met from a variety of sources including stud fees, public appearances, pre-booked group visits, open days, donations from the public, grant giving charitable trusts and public bodies. As well as support from over 1000 ‘Friends of the Trust;’ and continuous fund raising.

The Trust is working to integrate visitor access alongside educational and work skills programmes designed for schoolchildren and disadvantaged and vulnerable groups. Additionally, training courses and community service programmes will be structured to help the rehabilitation of inmates from HMP Hollesley Bay. This landmark project has come a long way in a short time and took a major step forward when a 2008 fund raising appeal meant construction started on a purpose-built Learning and Heritage Visitor Centre which will open officially in Spring 2010. Then visitors to the Suffolk Punch Trust will be able to gaze upon the 30 or so Suffolk Punch stallions, mares and foals at the Suffolk Punch Trust.

Over £1.8 million has been raised to date – a phenomenal amount in just a few short years, however an estimated £1m is still needed to help secure the future of this breed for many generations to come as the Suffolk Punch Trust continues to improve the visitor experience and educational programmes – as well as look after the six foals born at the Colony Stud this year!

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6th – 30th August: A Winter’s Tale, Rendlesham Forest Gates open 6pm for picnic; performances start at 7pm. For tickets call 01473 288886 or go to www.redrosechain.com 8th – 9th August, 10 to 4.30pm: Model Railway Exhibition Southwold Saint Felix School, Halesworth Road (A1095)

8th August, 9.30 to 4pm: Bombs & Beasties, Orford A guided walk from Orford Quay. Booking Essential call 01394 450900 8th – 9th August, 11 to 4.30pm: Sutton Hoo through the Ages www.eventplan.co.uk/SuttonHoo09.htm 12th – 15th August: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jimmy’s Farm, Ipswich 6pm for BBQ & Bar; performances start at 8pm. (Saturday Matinee 1pm BBQ, 3pm performance) Call 08444 938 088 or www.jimmysfarm.com 20th August: ‘The Lady Legends Show’ Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe In aid of the NSPCC’s Child’s Voice Appeal. Show starts at 7.30pm. Tickets for this show are £12.50 per ticket, call 01394 282126.

30th – 31st August, 12.30 to 4.30pm Bawdsey Radar Transmitter Block Open Day Inc the Magic Ear Exhibition for more info go to www.bawdseyradar.org.uk Varying Dates. Suffolk Coastal Health Walks.

Varying in ease and location as well as dates, there is a walk for everyone!

For more info call Jennie Pink on 01728 604340 or go to www.suffolkcoastal.gov.uk/yourfreetime/steppingout

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