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3 Welcome to the June issue Thanks for picking up Roundabout – We’re ‘under new Management!’ Yes Errol has been doing a wonderful job for the last few years and has earned more time to himself! So who are we? We are sisters Gemma Thompson and Emma Aldous, I am a world-traveller now re-settled in Suffolk with my 9 year old daughter and working as a business coach. Emma is a graphic designer who has lived in Suffolk all her life and also creates digital art. We are also proud to introduce Abi Gagen who will be in charge of the advertising department. We plan to pack in even more articles to Roundabout and we hope you’ll find it inspiring, informative and amusing. We will continue to focus on promoting the best of Suffolk talent and making it easy for our readers to get great service while supporting Suffolk businesses.
Tel: 01394 41210 Published by: Seaglass Collective Ltd, Greenacres, Mill Lane Alderton, Woodbridge IP12 3DB editor@seaglassmagazine.co.uk www.seaglassmagazine.co.uk Please note the deadline for the July issue is 3rd June
We are also expanding the area covered by Roundabout Magazine, this month we have increased the print run and are distributing the magazine from Aldeburgh to Bawdsey as well as the existing area, this means there is a larger What’s on section (so big it’s had to be moved to the back of the magazine) for your enjoyment as well. We plan to keep expanding bit by bit so look out for more news on that in the future! We are absolutely thrilled to announce that this month we have a competition with a fabulous prize. Just answer a few (not-so!) simple questions and you could nab yourself one of two pairs of tickets worth £52 to see “Aimard: Collage – Montage” 7.30pm, Saturday 13th June at this year’s Aldeburgh Festival! A BIG thank you to the organizers for donating these. Please get in touch with us – this magazine is for YOU, so let us know what you like and what you want more of! You can connect with us through our website www.seaglassmagazine.co.uk or find our page on facebook!
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A | Pierre-Laurent Aimard B | John Woolrich C | Benjamin Britten
6 Freedom and art
By: Alison Malcolm
It’s always good to be in the right place at the right time when something really special happens. Last year I was lucky enough to be part of the snowball of events that led to the publication of a great little art book called ‘Freedom and Art.’ 74 artists from 27 countries around the world contributed, and now 51 of these artists are exhibiting together in Mount Beacon, New York, USA. All the proceeds from the book and exhibition will go to Amnesty International to help raise awareness of the plight of Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest in Burma for the last 19 years. It started 18 months or so ago when a German business man, Daniel Brueckner, was in the process of forming Artmesh and having seen some of my paintings on the Saatchi website, approached me to join. Artmesh is an online artist’s forum, a social media website that allows artists to network via forums and groups, similar to the way users interact on the social mega-site Facebook. Shortly afterwards I joined the Mirca group, which was created within Artmesh, and it’s this group of people who have come together to produce not only the art book but also to set up an exhibition of paintings from the book to promote Human
Rights. In addition to the current exhibition in New York, a touring exhibition visiting South Africa, Vilnius, London, Toronto and Krakow is planned. The book ‘Freedom and Art’ is many things, for me it’s quite an eye opener, as of course it should be, and it’s a beautiful handbag-sized book with 74 wonderful and interesting pieces of art from all around the globe. Each page has the artist’s work, their photo and a short quote about what freedom means to them. My personal experience of freedom is amazingly privileged, especially when I compare it to entries like Inaya Hodeib’s from Beirut, Lebanon who has lived through 5 wars, or Mark Eryk from Hollywood, USA who paints from his wheelchair. The artwork I’ve contributed to the book has been bought by a couple living in Felixstowe; it’s a painting called ‘Rare Blue Day’ and was painted from an image that lodged itself in my head while driving home to Suffolk. I’d been exhibiting in Manchester and was enjoying the freedom of being on my own when I saw the most incredible early morning blue sky over the Peak District. Images like that stay with me, often appearing later on canvas in an emotional response to what I’ve seen. I paint colourful, contemporary, semiabstract landscapes using oils, a bold palette and a painting knife. Our publishing company, based in California, was persuaded by the Mirca Group to donate a copy of our ‘Freedom and Art’ book to each artist involved to ‘set free’ on International Book Day. We all left a copy somewhere for it to be picked up, read and passed along when it was finished with. I set my book free at Woodbridge Art Group and it would be interesting to hear where it is now… The current Mirca Group project is to produce an art book for Greenpeace, so who knows where this snowball will end up? Hopefully it’ll bring the
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plight of Aung San Suu Kyi to the attention of a few more people, and raise some money for both Amnesty International and Greenpeace. And of course, on a more personal level, it’s very special to have the chance to work with artists from all over the world. You can read more about Aung San Suu Kyi and her long house arrest in Burma on http://www.
amnestyusa.org/ and if you click the shop section on this site, our book ‘Freedom and Art’ is on the front page. Alison Malcolm is an artist based in Trimley St Martin, some of her work can be seen at www. alisonmalcolm.com and she can be contacted on alisonmalcolm@realemail.co.uk
A | BBC Radio 4 B | Classic fm C | BBC Radio 3
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A | Singing lesson B | River Walk C | Maths lecture
10 Crumbs
By: Gemma Thompson & Abi Gagen
Have you been wondering what happened to good service? Well at last its hideaway can be revealed ... Crumb’s in Saxmundham! As soon as you open the door step inside you enter a place filled with a warm and friendly ambience. This new coffee shop in Saxmundham opened just over 5 months ago selling a wonderful selection of fresh food including baguettes and Panini’s made to order and delicious ice-cream. Drinks wise Crumbs caters exceptionally well for the coffee lovers with authentic ‘Caffe Milano’ coffee. A rich smooth brew that makes a wonderful Espresso but is also excellent in cappuccinos, lattes as well as their innovative and visually stunning speciality lattes (I had vanilla and I was hooked!). Tea lovers aren’t neglected either, as they also house a wide selection of teas and fruit teas. But as mother of two herself, Crumbs owner Siobhan also knows the importance of children being able to enjoy something tasty and healthy, so she offers pure fruit juice slushies which contain no E numbers but loads of flavour and fun! And if none of that takes your fancy you can always take your pick of creamy delicious milkshakes.
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Although Crumbs is a new addition it has not gone unnoticed. It’s already become the rave of Saxmundham and surrounding villages and has started a trend where anybody visiting soon calls by again bringing a friend. But the real joy of Crumbs is the atmosphere. Siobhan Mulligan, creator of this friendly and intimate cafe, immediately becomes someone who enters your life not just to satisfy your need for a tasty nutritious lunch but also to fill your need for a sense of family and community. Within the 5 short months she has been open she has got to know all her customers; she knows the food they like, she knows their names and she often learns their hopes, dreams and disappointments too. She has a heart as big as the Suffolk sky and a love of life that will brighten your day. Siobhan has been working in catering for over 20 years, in fact she even worked in the first Prêt e Manger, and her experience means she knows how to create new flavours while keeping her eye on good value.
5: What instrument will Elizabeth Kenny be playing on Sunday 21st June 2009?
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We can honestly say we’ll be back, and taking lots of our friends there – one at a time though – so we have more excuses to visit! Crumbs can be found at: 28 Chantry Road, Saxmundham, IP17 1DJ. Next to Samkin’s Garage
A | Harp B | Lute C | Piano
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14 A Successful Self-Image
By: Dr Gillian Plummer
Interview? Important meeting? Returning to work? Bored of your current look? Every morning we have to make decisions on what to wear – which top, which suit, which shoes. Many of us already feel there are not enough hours in the day without the burdensome daily decision of ‘what to wear’. However, knowing how to convey the right image at the right time can make all the difference to your personal and career success.
The importance of image
Your appearance and behaviour speak volumes about who you are, your professionalism, credibility, intelligence, and level of sophistication. Being seen as credible, capable, confident involves projecting a successful self-image. Never underestimate the power of appearance - a staggering fifteen seconds is all it takes to form a first impression and those vital first few seconds can make or break your chances of success. No matter how much you rail against such judgements, the reality is that they happen all the time. In this very visual world, we are all influenced by what we see, including prospective employers.
In the world of work
In order to boost your confidence and make an impact, you need to be well dressed and well presented in the context of the job and industry you are in, or are considering. Today’s world of dress codes is confusing and complex and for that all important interview, you need to research in advance what you will wear. What code of dress is most appropriate: formal business, relaxed business, smart casual, tidy casual?
Helpful tips
Increasing your awareness
When you need to project authority choose from your deepest or brightest colours, and aim for the maximum contrast of colours. Those in the public eye who wish to project authority use sharp combinations such as black and white. Many other combinations will achieve the same effect, without appearing severe. To create approachability use lighter and softer shades, or choose more colour rather than neutral combinations. Aim for minimum contrast when combining colours.
To sell yourself successfully you need to feel confident in yourself. The circle of success demonstrates that if you feel good on the outside, you will feel good on the inside, i.e. more confident in your abilities. Success is all about confidence, in both personal and professional situations.
Colour contributes strongly to the impression others form of us. The colours you choose to wear will reveal a great deal about you – your ability to decide what’s appropriate; your creativity; your ability to co-ordinate; your sense of what’s right for each situation. Also some colours will overwhelm you, while you’ll overpower others. The best colours for you will be those that work with your individual colouring: skin, hair and eyes. A colour analysis would help to identify your personal colour pattern.
Non-verbal signals are more powerful than words. Research has shown that around 93% of the factors that influence our opinions of others are unspoken, and only 7% are based on the actual words we say.
An awareness of the impact of your clothes, and the colours you choose to wear, can help you in your daily task of creating a rapport, building relationships, influencing others.
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15 You need also to take a look at how well your clothes fit your body shape and proportions and to consider how to emphasise your good points.
techniques for a natural look, better buying decisions. All making for much easier clothes shopping.
It is perfectly possible to dress to look a size smaller, a size larger, a few inches taller or a few inches shorter with clever use of line and design. Creating vertical emphasis e.g. stripes, seams, v-necks, will draw the eye up and down, tending to make you appear taller and slimmer. Horizontal emphasis will draw the eye across the body, so either use this at your slimmest points or to emphasise width, for example at the shoulders. Keep accessories in proportion with your body. A small bag or briefcase on a large frame could make you appear larger than you actually are and vice versa.
By learning what works and why, you will save money on expensive clothing mistakes that hang unworn in the wardrobe. A sound investment!
Gillian Plummer (PhD) ‘Gravitas … growing people’ First Impression Corporate Business trained image consultant Email: gillian plummer@btinternet.com
Focal points, to which the eye is drawn automatically, can make you memorable to an interviewer – a colourful tie, good watch, or an attractive piece of jewellery will do the trick. However, avoid distractions, such a dangling earrings, or too bright a tie. The cartoon tie although technically a focal point may not create a professional image!
How an image consultation can help you?
The ability to manage your image is a positive communication skill and something you can easily learn, for both personal and career success. Whether you want to fit in or stand out from the crowd, boost your confidence or maximise your career prospects, professional objective life-long advice on the image you project really can help. Consultants take into account your lifestyle, personality, working environment and job role as well as your physical characteristics. A well trained image consultant will analyse the characteristics that make up your colour pattern and help you apply them to your clothing choices. They will provide you with a life long understanding of what will fit you and what suits you, based on your body shape and proportion. No matter how much you like something of how fashionable it is, if it just isn’t you, you won’t wear it very much. Help will be given on creating a wearable wardrobe, professional make-up
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A | Orford B | Aldeburgh C | Iken D | Blytheburgh
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By: 2401580 Norman Sanders Cpl (Retd.)
Part one: And if it moves salute it... Disclaimer. These events took place at the end of the 1940s at a time when there were two quite different RAF’s. There were the gallant men and women who performed so gloriously during the war but there was another RAF, one that was filled with ‘National Servicemen’. These events belong entirely to the latter, and lesser, RAF, and I want to make it quite clear at the outset that no criticism of the former, the proper, RAF is intended. Although we shared the same camps, ate at the same cookhouses and wore similar uniforms, there the similarity ended. In the lesser RAF there were no Spitfires, not for us the bright blue sky above. Ours was just to salute the uniforms that marched proudly past.
worthy efforts. It will not escape the attention of the discerning reader that the events about to be revealed coincided with this unfortunate dismemberment. Before I joined the RAF we had an empire, when I left we hadn’t and it had been my duty to protect it. I must therefore accept full responsibility for its decline and fall, and this is my story.
Mr. Churchill vowed never to preside over the dismemberment of the British Empire. However, not everyone had his influence over affairs, for some the Empire simply fell apart despite all their
“The most miserable airman who ever wore the King’s uniform,” added the Groupy wearily.
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“You’re a miserable airman, what are you?” the Group Captain demanded. “A miserable airman, sir”, I replied, politely. I wasn’t really, but I didn’t want to add to my adversary’s obvious misery.
“Thank you very much, sir,” I replied, sincerely.
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17 “Don’t thank me Corporal. I tried my best, God knows”. The Group Captain looked to Heaven as if for confirmation, an aura of saintliness suffusing his aged countenance, his hair as white as snow.
be demobilised, and God help Civvy Street,” continued the Groupy, a trifle vindictively, though understandably so. “And from tomorrow there’s going to be a new spirit in this camp.”
“I expect he does sir,” I said, trying to ameliorate his obvious agony.
Redfern groaned inwardly, and my conscience became heavy. It suddenly seemed unfair of me to leave him and our hundreds of colleagues to the tender mercy of the Air Force, though my demob date had been the sole light at the end of the tunnel for so long.
The Group Captain pulled himself together and delivered what was probably the last major speech of his career, for I heard he died shortly afterwards I sincerely hope that I didn’t hasten his demise. “Corporal Sanders, I have been in the Royal Air Force ever since it began in 1918,” he began, giving it its full name, not the monosyllabic abbreviation we National Servicemen used. “Ever since this magnificent service started,” he repeated. “During that time I have had thousands of airmen through my hands, and I have helped every single one of them to a successful career. You are my one and only failure.” “Yes sir, thank you very much sir.” I mean, he had certainly tried, it wasn’t his fault. But as RAF law didn’t allow one actually to communicate between ranks I was quite unable to convey the fact that I was actually sympathetic. Anyway, sympathy was an emotion, and emotions didn’t enter into the scheme of things; they aren’t catered for in King’s Regulations and Air Council Instructions (KRs & ACIs). “Don’t thank me Corporal. You can thank yourself for the miserable failure you’ve been these last two years. This failure of yours has been branded in your Pay and Release book, for all the world to see hereafter. Every time anyone wishes to see evidence of your National Service they will see exactly what a failure you have been. You are, and always will be, an Official Failure. But the Sanders Saga is over now, thank God. Corporal Redfern.” He turned to the third person standing in the Group Captain’s office. “Sir,” said John. He smartened ever so slightly. “Corporal Redfern, this is Corporal Sanders’ last day in the Royal Air Force. Tomorrow he will
“There’s going to be an all-round smarteningup. More discipline. A brisker step on parade. Esprit de corps. Pride of service. D’ye get me Corporal Redfern?” “Yes sir,” Corporal Redfern got him, though he couldn’t imagine it. He had arrived at RAF Cardington well after the rot had set in. Indeed, just in time to witness the Tragic Affair of the Barrage Balloon Unit’s first appearance and Old Blind Leslie’s Tennis Match. The idea of Mick Symonds stepping briskly, having sold his boot laces to finance his NAAFI supper, was a novel one, while the circumstances surrounding Woofer Moe’s Bedspace were not exactly imbued with any Notion of Pride. The details of these events will be revealed in due course. Have patience Gentle Reader. But they were well known to Redfern already. “You will be Right Guide and Marker on tomorrow morning’s Parade. This will be Corporal Sanders’ last ever Parade, so he will bear the responsibility for getting the entire Wing down to the parade ground.” We saluted, turned smartly around, collided and stumble-marched out of the office. And that’s how it ended. Not with a whimper but a bang. But it didn’t start off that way. Two years earlier I had been dead keen. So keen, in fact, that I got early call-up, which lost me my highly treasured tickets to the 1948 Olympic Games, and the sight of Emil Zatopek writhing his way around the ten thousand metres. And I would have stayed dead keen too, why didn’t I? All will be revealed in future dispatches...
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19 Book review
By: Amanda Davidson
The New Aldeburgh Anthology Compiled by Ariane Bankes & Jonathan Reekie The New Aldeburgh Anthology takes its inspiration from Ronald Blythe’s classic Aldeburgh Anthology of 1972, which summoned the spirit of Aldeburgh and the Suffolk coast in words and images that resonate still, and has proved enduringly popular. This new volume brings the story up to date and distils the very essence of the place just at the point when its identity might seem diluted by the accelerating pace of change. Mixing young voices with old; those of writers, musicians, poets and artists; of historians, naturalists, architects, ecologists and local people; the new Anthology is a fascinating book. It contains some classic articles from the original, new commissions, the best of Festival programme books since 1972, these along with the many photographs and illustrations have created a book that can be read cover to cover or dipped into as the reader wishes. Divided into eight sections – opening with the sea and moving through Aldeburgh, its Festival and the lives of its inhabitants into the surrounding landscape – they are fairly loose groupings as some subjects crop up in more than one section. The very first piece, originally published in 1939, looks at flooding and coastal erosion. It continues with the poem On Sizewell Beach, followed by an essay on the seafood of East Anglia and is an eclectic and interesting collection of pieces. The compilers say they followed their own interests and inclinations in making their choices, on the premise that if they enjoyed an essay, memoir, image or poem, then their readers might, too. This one certainly did. Aldeburgh itself is next: James Cable, ex-coxswain of the Aldeburgh Lifeboat describes rescues at sea and the loss of the lifeboat; Jon Canter writes about childhood holidays in Aldeburgh; and Benjaimin Britten’s draft speech on accepting the “Freedom of the Borough of Aldeburgh” is also included. Accounts of the lives and occupations
of poets, smugglers, artists and musicians follow. The section on Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, the Aldeburgh Festival and its legacy brings together such gems as Janet Baker on working with Britten, an explanation of how pieces were selected for the Britten-Pears Art Collection and Susan Hill’s account of her discovery of Britten’s music. It provides a real insight into Britten and the Festival. Visitors to the area have included Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins and Joyce Grenfell – the next section includes accounts of their visits, giving an understanding of what drew them and the impressions it made upon them. It finishes up with a look at the landscape, with Ronald Blythe’s pieces on Blythburgh and “Akenfield”, a piece on Snape and a poem on Iken. Recipes using food from the field, river, heath and sea are followed by verse about Orford, the Ness and the Orford Merman. A summary of the music and tradition of the first sixty Aldeburgh Festivals brings it to a close. As Ronald Blythe himself says in the foreword of the Anthology’, “….this second Aldeburgh Anthology has the dual quality of being both an absorbing read and an important addition to our understanding of the arts – and music in particular – during the late twentieth century.” 32 b/w & 20 colour illus.; 376pp, 978 1 84383 439 7, £35.00, April 2009, Boydell Press in association with Aldeburgh Music Available from your local bookseller, if you have difficulty ordering call Boydell & Brewer direct on: 01394 610600
A | Piano B | Cello C | Oboe
20 Adventures in aromatherapy About me and aromatherapy
I have been interested in the power of essential oils for many years and during stressful periods in my life have used aromatherapy and massage to help relax and heal myself. I was so impressed by the results that I decided this was the field I wanted to work in. I embarked on a Diploma in Holistic Aromatherapy at the Tisserand Institute in London, which changed my life. Since then I have become qualified in Reflexology, Hot Stone Massage, Indian Head Massage and ‘No Hands’ Massage and I regularly treat conditions such as chronic back pain, insomnia, stress, depression, fertility problems and bereavement.
What actually is aromatherapy?
People often ask me what aromatherapy is. We’ve all heard of it, we all know about lavender being calming and tea tree being great for cuts but when it comes to the nitty gritty, most people admit they don’t have the foggiest. Put simply it is the use of natural oils, extracted from aromatic plants and flowers, to affect mood or health. The connection between our sense of smell and the brain is the key to how it works, by influencing our state of mind and counteracting stress. When we inhale an essential oil the odour molecules cause the brain to release hormones. This is why some oils make us instantly relaxed or perked up. Each essential oil has many medicinal properties: some are anti-inflammatory, German Chamomile & Yarrow; some antibacterial, Tea tree & Lavender and some are digestive, Cardamon & Angelica. I work with over 50 essential oils that between tham have a vast range of healing potential. No wonder that essential oils have been used since the time of Ancient Civilisations! My mum recently had a sore throat and we had spoken about gargling with tea tree oil to help nip it in the bud. However she didn’t want to bother me by calling late in the evening to ask how many drops and she poured 15 drops into a glass of
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water, gargled, then swallowed the solution. As Tea tree oil tastes very nasty, and can be toxic if taken internally, she would have been very wise to have made that call and asked me!
Why use natural products?
Before I studied aromatherapy, I used to buy shampoos and moisturisers without checking the ingredients thoroughly, in any case I didn’t know what half the ingredients were. It wasn’t until I was pregnant that I started to become more aware of what I using and how it might affect me and my developing child. By then I was a qualified aromatherapist, so I had a much better understanding of the effects of the chemicals in the products and so made my own blends of anti stretch mark oils with frankincense and calming neroli blends to stay relaxed. Then I started hand blending products for my clients and realized that there were very few products for mums, mums-to-be and babies on the market that were totally natural. Even a lot of the ones that say they are natural seem to contain really dangerous additives – parabens for example, which are chemical preservatives that can seep into the blood stream. They have an oestrogenic effect on the uterus so can be harmful to your baby if you’re pregnant and may cause breast cancer. I decided it was time I did something about it so I created my own range of lotions and potions for mums to be, mums and babies who want totally natural, chemical free products. And so my Earthmama range was born and, just like a healthy baby, it continues to grow! Alona Cannell is an aromatherapist and reflexologist based in Woodbridge. She has her own practice Alonatherapy where she uniquely combines aromatherapy treatments with reflexology and hot stone massage. She also has her own range of handblended aromatherapy products – the Earthmama range, visit www.alonatherapy.com
9: The work of which composer(s) will be performed during Intimate Letters as part of the 2009 Aldeburgh Festival?
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Send your answers to: Rounabout competition, Greenacres, Mill Lane, Alderton, Woodbridge IP12 3DB to arrive by 9th June 2009. All the correct entries received will be put into a hat and two lucky winners will be drawn on 10th June 2009
22 What’s on... If you have a listing you’d like to appear here email it to us at: editor@seaglassmagazine.co.uk or visit our website and add it there! 27th May–13th June: Pulse Fringe Festival, Ipswich What else can you do for a fiver? www.pulsefringe.com Weekends in June: Suffolk Open Studios Suffolk artists invite you to visit them in their studios. www.suffolkopenstudios.co.uk 30th–31st May: Woodbridge Folk Festival www.onesuffolk.co.uk/SuffolkFolkFestival 5th June 7:30: Charity Quiz Night, Woodbridge Community Hall In Aid of Suffolk Family Carers, £5. For more details call Caroline on 07775 620226 6th–21st June: Treasures of the Past, Sutton Hoo A beautiful exhibition of textile art. www.nationaltrust.org.uk 12th June 7.30pm: Songs, Sonnets and Strawberries £3, inc. refreshments. Tickets available from St. Mary’s Church Shop on Market Hill, or telephone 01394 383000 booking essential! 12th June, 7.30pm: Supper Concert, Woodbridge ZHL String at Woodbridge School. Tickets: £20; table for ten £180, includes dinner and a welcome drink. Box Office 01394 615015 12th–28th June: Aldeburgh Festival A carefully selected programme of exquisite music, poetry and performance. www.aldeburgh.co.uk 13th June: Fair on the Square, Woodbridge Market Hill & Shire Hall www.wvcm.blogspot.com 13th June, 2–4 pm: Music in the Park, Woodbridge Elmhurst Park The Suffolk Concert Band. www.hearingcarecentre.co.uk./news/events 13th–14th June 2–6pm: Hidden Gardens Gardeners in the villages of Grundisburgh, Burgh and Culpho open their back gardens to visitors for charity. Admission £4.50 from Grundisburgh Green. Teas, cakes and plants will be on sale. 13th–14th June: Suffolk Game and Country Fair, Glemham Hall A two day event showing all aspects of country life including clay pigeon shooting, gun dog competitions, terrier show & racing, field archery, falconry, vintage machinery, vintage cars, stick show, bygones, craft marquees. 14th June, 1–5pm: Halesworth Carnival Grand Carnival Procession, Duck Race, Main ring attractions, games, stalls, BBQ.
14th June: White House Farm, Hasketon Guided walks, natural therapies, craft stalls, wonderful wood sculptures, an inspiring turf labyrinth, and children’s activities. www.sinfieldtrust.org 21st June: Midsummer Celebrations, Dunwich Heath Come and enjoy the summer sunshine and have a cream tea whilst watching the Barley Brigg Morris dancers. www.nationaltrust.org.uk 22nd–27th June: Hat amnesty, St Elizabeth Hospice shop Do you have any hats you don’t want anymore or are you looking for a hat for a wedding or Newmarket ladies day? Take your unwanted hats to your local shop. 26th June–5th July: Arts Framlingham Summer Festival Includes a photography exhibition, “Walking Art Gallery”, concerts, a literary evening, and much more. www.artsframlingham.org 27th June, 11am–4pm: Suffolk Punch Wagon Rides 11am to 4pm from Woodbridge Railway Station. 27th June: Ladies Driving Challenge, Rendlesham In aid of the Cats Protection League. www.cats.org.uk/newsandevents/challenge_driving.asp 27th June: 60s Charity Dance, Woodbridge In aid of Disability Advice Service, Woodbridge Football Club. Call 01394 387070 27th June–12th July: Ip-Art, Ipswich Dance, visual arts, poetry, music, theatre, literature, opera, cinema… there will be something to suit you! www.ip-art.com 5th July: Heveningham Hall Country Fair Something for everyone from a jousting display to children’s entertainments. Come and join us! www.countryfair.co.uk
Other Events:
Have a boule in Woodbridge. The new piste on Kingston Field is now open to all. Come and play in the Suffolk Coastal Petanque League on Sunday mornings. League co-ordinator: Simon Fletcher, email: imogenlewiskira@sky.com Lazy Daisy (Woodbridge) is pleased to announce that the Lazy Daisy Baby Class Programme is coming to your area. Classes will run on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at Woodbridge Community Centre commencing on 3rd June 2009. Contact Amiee on 0845 465 0925 or email woodbridge@lazydaisybirthing.co.uk www.lazydaisybirthing.co.uk
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