Roundabout 2009 09 September

Issue 44

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September 2009

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Inside this month 77 Get fit with Louise Nightingale 77 Norman’s memoir continues 77 Networking in Suffolk

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Welcome to the September issue Back to school, the words every child and teenager loves to hate!

But this month one happy winner could be going back to school with a brand new printer on their desk at home to make homework a breeze! Our competition prize this month is a printer donated

by Ink Express on Grimwade Street Ipswich, where ink costs you less. This could be a great prize for a student, or indeed for any of us! 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 at giveaway prices!) on their website www.inkxp.co.uk We’ve sharpened our pencils too and packed this issue full of features again from Networking in Suffolk to the effect of Picasso’s art, not forgetting our feature on the lovely Louise Nightingale … if you want to be featured too please feel free to get in touch!

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I am very pleased with the features again this month and would like to thank not only our contributors but also our readers that are kind enough to write in and let us know their views, Norman’s memoirs are proving popular and I was thrilled to meet so many people that have tried The Swan in Alderton after our feature in the July Issue, and even happier that they all loved the food there as much as I do!

However I know copies are going fast in a lot of places, we do our best to refill but to be sure you get your copy please subscribe and we’ll send it straight to your door every month. Subscription is only £8 for an entire year, just to cover the cost of posting it to you!

I also received information from The Suffolk Punch Trust, telling us they had record numbers to their Open Day after featuring in this magazine last month, with an estimated 4500-5000 people. Philip Ryder-Davies, chairman of the Suffolk Punch Trust, said ‘we had a splendid day, the atmosphere was just lovely and so many of our visitors made a point of saying how they had enjoyed their visit. We still have a lot of work to do before we open to the general public next Spring, more volunteers are welcome to come and help us, but a day like today and the support we have received makes it all worthwhile.’

If you did miss out though there are other events coming up soon including a Barn Dance towards the end of the month. See the What’s On page for details or visit www.suffolkpunchtrust.org

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Pablo Picasso

By: Anthony T. Rush

The Truth his ‘Lies’ showed me ‘Anybody can paint like Rafael but it has taken me a lifetime to paint like a child’ Not my words but those of Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruiz y Picasso or, more commonly, Pablo Picasso.

Picasso had a disturbed childhood which was to reflect in his future works. He had known trauma and had seen poverty all around him. His sister Conchita died of diphtheria in 1895. He watched his mother give birth to his brother during an earthquake. And later he came to understand and abhor war.

By the time he was about 5 yrs old he had picked up a pencil, and had drawn something that impressed his artist father who had seen the perception of accuracy in his scribblings. The sails in Picasso’s mind had caught the professional trade winds that were to provide him with a livelihood later on and to give his works an international patina.

His artistic licence created and interpreted: 1,228 sculptures, 1,885 paintings, 2,880 ceramics, 1,200 drawings, plus rugs, tapestries, writings, ideas and even films. Not to mention the rough sketches and plans discarded and thrown away

before fame acknowledged his gift. In total, he left about 50,000 works. More of his paintings have been stolen than any other artist either living or dead. But, like many before me, I neither knew nor cared for Picasso’s style.

Picasso believed that ‘Art is a lie that makes us realise the Truth’. Five years ago I realised that truth. I was in a museum in Barcelona, not far from where Picasso had started to study his craft and, incidentally, where my own grandfather had been imprisoned in the 1930’s. I stood and stared at his sculptural tribute to Guernica and suddenly it seemed like I was looking through an inverse telescope back down seventy years. And I saw through Picasso’s eyes the horror of war that would be confirmed by the corpses that would come out of the Holocaust.

His Guernica sculpture shows the twisted bodies and warped limbs of the tortured dead. It was made of rough-hewn pieces of wood and crudely fashioned with a chair-leg, a door lintel, a charred ember from a roof you can almost still smell it smouldering, coupled with twisted pieces of metal showing shards of jagged edges from the exit path of a bullet or two and, as I looked, I tasted the savagery of war. I felt a knife in my breast as it rent my soul and for one vicarious moment I shed more than a tear as I was transported back to Guernica.

The Spanish Civil War had been pitting families, friends and neighbours against each other for almost a year when Guernica became the world’s first undefended city to be bombed from the air. The bombing took place on Monday 26th of April 1937. Mondays were traditionally market days in Spain then and although it is still not known if the market took place that day the Basque government reported 1,654 people killed by the Stuka dive-bombers. These planes were fitted with large sirens. Sirens that served no military purpose. They were there solely to instil terror and panic.

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Paul Klee 1879 - 1940 What Picasso had accomplished with his painting of Guernica, which I later saw, was to put on canvas the sound of war and the tears of little children. These small arrows of truth pierced my heart and took me back to another world, one of innocence and joy, and I saw the little children in Guernica playing hopscotch, mothers hurrying home to start the next meal and old men on park benches. And I heard their silent screams from 70 years ago. Picasso was called a coward for not bearing arms in conflicts throughout his lifetime.

He was 33 when the First World War broke out, 55 when the Spanish Civil War started in 1936

and 58 when the Second World War began.

But if the pen is mightier than the sword then the artist’s brush and palette give a mighty defense to the people of Guernica. This painting has trumpeted its own condemnation of war down the years and is now recognised as an international icon for peace. A tapestry copy is displayed on the wall of the United Nations’ building, Having let him speak to me and listened to his painting of Guernica nourish my soul I now understand what the world has for so long rejected in not abolishing war.

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I hate gyms! Even though I’ve worked in them for a lot of my adult life I still don’t enjoy working out in them. I think it stems back to being bad at sport when I was younger, stood out there on the school field in those nasty gym knickers and always being the last to be picked! When I got older and started going to gyms I often found them intimidating and always felt that in order to fit in there I needed to look like Jane Fonda in her workout videos!

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GRAND HENHAM STEAM RALLY A grand day out for all the family!

Summer holidays are over and you may think that you have finally escaped the cries of ‘I’m bored’ and ‘what can we do?’ But around comes the weekend and once again you are called to action.

Last year I joined in the family tradition of attending the Henham Steam Rally for the first time, I was a little hesitant thinking there might not be much for my then 8 year old daughter to do – my sister has a son so I could see why they always enjoyed it so much. However my love of vintage cars urged me to selfishness and we all bundled in the car and drove on up the A12.

My fears proved unfounded, we had one of the best days out we have ever had. There were tons of things for my daughter to enjoy, she fell in love with the vintage organ grinders, challenged herself (and me!) sliding down an ENORMOUS

slide and was impressed by her cousin’s certificate for flying a model plane. She was also enthralled by the chainsaw sculpting along with the rest of us and marvelled at the steam trains puffing around.

We all loved the vintage funfair, of course the traditional rides such as the carousel were wonderful and I went on a Ferris wheel for the first time, but the little vintage amusement arcade really was the cherry on the cake, we spent ages in there popping our loose change into machines that issued us with lollipops or our fortunes in return!

The whole fair is also a stream of inspiration for my sister, she’s an artist and has taken hundreds of photographs at Henham over the years which she then digitally manipulates to create stunning artworks.

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This year it’s back again, as it has been for over 35 years now, each year raising money for charity along with providing an excellent day out. In fact over a million pounds has been raised for charity in the past and with its popularity increasing year on year this figure is set to keep rising.

2009 promises to be another great year for the Grand Henham Stream Rally with a line-up of entertainment that will ensure a great day out for the whole family.

Main events will include a pageant looking at Road Haulage through the Ages from the horse and cart, through steam power, the internal combustion engine and right up to the latest articulated lorries. There will also be a presentation showing Speedway’s glory days

in East Anglia. This will feature speedway bikes from the 1920’s and 30’s right up to the present day including bikes and equipment used by the legendary Billy Sanders. Not forgetting the heavy and light horse displays including the History of the Stagecoach, Lowestoft Dog Display Team and the ever popular Ken Fox Wall of Death.

For the very young there will be performances by ‘Professor Jingles’ ‘with his Punch & Judy show and fun and magical entertainment from ‘Andy the Clown’ There will be over a thousand vintage vehicles on display on the rally ground including Showman’s & Traction Engines, Steam Rollers & Wagons, Fairground Organs, Veteran, Vintage & Classic Cars, Commercial Vehicles & Motor Cycles, Tractors, Military Vehicles and Stationary Engines. Amongst these there will be many working steam demonstrations Two craft marquees with working craft demonstrations and a large model engineering exhibition. This will include a ‘ride-on’ miniature railway, model boat display and model aircraft flying display.

On the Band Stand the Ipswich Hospital Band will be performing on Sunday, returning by popular demand, with the Omega Jazz Band on Saturday making their first appearance at the rally. The large vintage and modern Fairground and Bandstand provide other types of entertainment and there are always avenues of trade stalls, a variety of food stalls and a large licensed bar to sustain you throughout the day.

‘What can we do?’ Go to Henham Steam Rally – There’s so much to see and do for ALL the family!

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End of Empire Old Les of the Bent Specs My association with Corporal Leslie Richmond or ‘Old Les of the Bent Specs’ lasted throughout our air force careers, and it is to my almost eternal regret that we lost contact not long afterwards, (though we are now, thanks to the magic of Friends Reunited, reunited). Old Les of the Bent Specs wasn’t old, but he was slightly short of sight. He was from Middlesborough, and claimed he spoke flawless English. He sang in amateur opera and played a mean game of tennis. And it is this latter that will occupy us for the next few minutes. He could easily occupy several chapters, but I’ll content myself with an attempt at describing a tennis match that took place in July of 1949 at RAF Cardington, a game that it is my duty to record because the annuls of sport would be incomplete without it.

It was one of the semifinals of the 1949 RAF Cardington tennis championship knockout. Old Les of the Bent Specs had disposed of some minor contenders, but now drew a proper Tennis Player, a young Flight Lieutenant of impeccable manners and appearance. He was attired in white; the white shirt, white ironed shorts, regulation white socks folded down to the one regulation matchbox in height, white tennis shoes with white laces. He had well groomed hair and was ruggedly handsome. Obviously until recently a Spitfire pilot and some sort of RAF champion.

He had with him a stunning lady from a class of womanhood way above our station; an elegant vision the like of which we only dreamed of.

Nothing like her in the NAAFI.

and shoes. Each was blue issue. And the former were not rolled down. Instead they rose to meet his shorts, exposing a gap of bare Northumbrian calf. Les’s glasses were of the old-fashioned wire framed type, clamped tightly to ears and nose.

His hair just wasn’t groomed at all. He had ungroomable hair. It hung down over a cranium stuffed with brain in a sort of 360 degree fringe, the front part of which hindered his efforts to see. Even to Les’s near and dear he presented a shocking apparition. To the Flight Lieutenant and his lady it was a sight beyond belief. There was no way this apparition could play a game of tennis.

What was the Air Force coming to? Heigh ho, let’s get on with it.

What happened that beautiful sunny evening is not based on fact. It is fact. No writer of fiction could have invented it, and no publisher would have thought it credible enough for publication.

It actually happened.

Les arrived at the Cardington Centre Court accompanied by fifty or so supporters; a motley crew.

Les’s concession to appropriate attire consisted of removing his tie, shirt collar and then his trousers.

We had all been issued three pairs of black knee-reaching shorts for purposes of gymnastics and sports, though I don’t think they had been intended for tennis. For tennis you had to supply your own, and national custom decreed that they should be white. No one ever played tennis in those days in anything else - except Old Les of the Bent Specs. And then there were the socks

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The good lady stood at one end of the court while Les’s supporters stood at the other, she smiling wanly, we cheering unrestrainedly while a game of tennis, unprecedented and unrepeatable took place. The Flight Lieutenant was a good player.

He took control of the centre and played with confidence sending balls in all directions.

Old Les of the Bent Specs was not the tallest, and didn’t have the reach that some tennis players have, in fact a less promising looking tennis player never set foot on a court. Unimpaired, his eyesight carried just beyond the net. He had never seen the opposite baseline from his own at any time in his tennis career. While most players start their moves based on the actions of their opponents, Les couldn’t see any action most of the time. He very often didn’t move until the ball was well on its way. But he possessed an unbelievable acceleration. This was necessary in view of his lack of vision, and was Les’s secret weapon. His acceleration meant that he could reach tennis balls that an inexperienced opponent could never have expected. He could almost move faster than the ball, and could get from one corner to the other along the back of the court during the trajectory of his opponent’s forehand drive, from standing start to return strike to sudden stop.

combination of dynamics and crowd psychology.

I think everyone felt sorry for the loser. Although the officer class was our deadly enemy, we were still sportsmen deep down, and there wasn’t a man amongst us who wouldn’t have tried to offer a modicum of solace to the lady, had it been possible. This was all sixty years ago, at which time some of the aspects of that game were unique. However, much has happened since, and the game of tennis has suffered body blows that make this particular game a harmless and very fond memory.

Old Les of the Bent Specs went on to Liverpool University, studied ram jets and disappeared into the Canadian aircraft industry. I think ram jets just about sums up Les’s style of playing tennis and maybe explains his later success in life.

He would oscillate along the baseline, body bent over like Groucho Marx, face screwed up in the evening sun, hair darting in all directions, sweat pouring off, dust exploding from under accelerating gym shoes. Time and again a ball would come back from the most impossible position and beat the Flight Lieutenant by its sheer unexpectedness. The game simply didn’t last long enough for the poor chap to learn how to cope. At every stroke there was a hearty cheer. It wasn’t really cricket, and our behaviour certainly wouldn’t have been accepted in any civilised tennis club. But there was no referee and no guardian of etiquette present. The Flight Lieutenant was ultimately beaten by a

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Networking in Suffolk I first really learnt the power of networking when I was working out in the Middle East a few years ago, it all started for me when the only criticism of my work during my first appraisal was that I didn’t just go and have coffee with people enough!

Coming from the English middle management culture of work by email (you have to have proof of everything you do so you may as well just email in the first place!) to the Kuwaiti system of ‘wosta’ was a wonderful eye-opener. According to the Kuwaiti’s unwritten law, the more they like you the more they will do for you. When I thought about it I realised that they were right and that this was in fact a natural and universal law, and in fact a law that operated just as strongly here in the UK albeit more quietly.

Coming back to work in the UK and starting my own business was exhilarating but isolating and it wasn’t long before I started to miss the stimulation, education and feeling of community that I had known in Kuwait. So I started networking!

There are many places to network in Suffolk and groups that cater for all different types of business and personalities. However one thing I have been pleased to find across the board is that the others in the room view it as an opportunity to build relationships, not as an opportunity to sell. I had been worried that I would be surrounded by people desperately trying to fund their next Ferrari from my meagre pockets, but thankfully that 80s attitude has gone and I was very glad to find that Suffolk’s business people are warm, friendly and laid-back even though everyone that I have met cares about their business and integrity passionately.

If you want to start or expand your networking, start by taking a look at what you need as well as what you offer. Remember to ask others questions and listen to their answers, make them your focus, people always feel more comfortable with people that are genuinely interested in them and their businesses.

There are plenty of events to attend, but whichever you choose there is likely to be too many people there for you to talk to everybody.

Often you can only to talk to 3 or 4 in depth, and a one off encounter like this doesn’t build a relationship. So I recommend attending the same groups regularly and of course follow up the contact! I’d advise starting this process by email or mail as it allows the other person to respond at their convenience. Suggest meeting up for a coffee soon to discuss your respective businesses. You can also build a closer relationship with people you have met through networking events by connecting with them through social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter.

So don’t be shy, Suffolk’s business community is a warm and welcoming place, come and have a coffee with us!

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Where to go Here is a fairly comprehensive list of places to network in Suffolk along with contact details of organisers BNI is the world’s largest networking organisation and has 4 separate chapters in Ipswich, meetings are held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings or on Friday lunchtimes.

Contact Danny Davey on 07939 877384 Refer-On also offer several meeting times and places throughout the area each week, contact pauljohnstone@uwclub.net for more details Coastal Net is based on the ‘Food miles’ theory that business grown organically and locally can compete with the best that the larger national organisations have to offer. Contact via their website www.coastalnet.co.uk People Buy People Business Club is a new networking event held fortnightly at Glasswells, Ipswich from 7.15am -9am.Next meeting is the 3rd September, contact the Boleyn Events Team on 01473 722723 to find out more.

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Business Over Breakfast Meet at 7am every other week at the Loch Fyne Restaurant in Ipswich for more information go to www.bobclubs.com or email bobclubs100@gmail.com

Friends in Business hold monthly meetings on the first Wednesday of every month from 10am to 12 noon.

Contact Su Butcher through their website www.friendsinbusinessuk.ning.com Orwell Bridge MADASEAR meets monthly for breakfast from 7.15am to 8.30am at Suffolk Food Hall. For more information email chris@ mercatus-marketing.co.uk Suffolk Chamber of Commerce have a variety of events, on September the 15th they are offering a New Members Seminar, for more information contact Dick Calvesbert on 01473 694807 or dick@suffolkchamber. co.uk WiRE or Women in Rural Enterprise meet in Woodbridge and Bury St Edmunds monthly.

For information on the Bury meetings contact Alex Parr alexparr@lineone.net.

For the Woodbridge meetings contact teresa.r@ntlworld.com Athena is a networking group for women only; their Ipswich Group meets every second Wednesday of the month at various venues, find out more from www.theathenanetwork.com Women On Top third Tuesday of every month 12 noon till 3pm, at Belstead Brook Hotel. ipswich@women-on-top.com

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Comedy 6 September Jokers Comedy Club, Manor Ballroom Ipswich www.jokerscomedyclub.co.uk

Theatre 10 September – 3 October IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE The New Wolsey Theatre and Avalon presents the World première stage adaptation of the film. For more information call the Box Office on 01473 295900 or go to www.wolseytheatre.co.uk

Heritage & Historical Events 6 September Bentwaters Cold War Museum Open day Building 134, Bentwaters Parks, Rendlesham, Woodbridge Suffolk IP12 2TW www.bcwm.org.uk 12 September Felixstowe Town Hall Open Day: Recently refurbished town hall open to the public. Undercliff Road West, Felixstowe

Arts, Crafts & Fashion 26 September Vintage Fair, Market Hill Woodbridge 10 – 23 September Art Exhibition showing a variety of work inspired by the East Anglian landscape The Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings, Nr Aldeburgh

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24 September Cake & Catwalk Focus on Fashion for Woodbridge. Local boutiques and shops all together for one evening, informal fashion show,

12 September Broomhill Pool Open Day: Broomhill Pool is a 1938 Modernist lido, closed since 2002. Fundraising has commenced to return the pool to its former glory, open for viewing only.

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12 September Sutton Hoo Open Day: This is one of Britain’s most important archaeological sites, visit it today for free! Booking Essential

13 September The Mansion Open Day: Wherstead Park, The Street, Wherstead, Ipswich IP9 2BJ

12 – 13 September Suffolk Punch Heavy Horse Museum Open Day: Heritage Open Day: Housed on the first floor of the historic Shire Hall, this museum tells the story of the Suffolk Punch horse and the life of a horseman. Shire Hall, Market Hill, Woodbridge

13 September Freston Tower Open Day: Six-storey Tudor folly that looks out over the river Orwell. Built in 1578 by an Ipswich merchant, Thomas Gooding, Freston Park, Freston, Ipswich IP9 1AD

12 – 13 September Saxtead Mill Open Day: Late 18th century post mill, complete with all of its working parts. Saxtead Green, Saxtead, Framlingham IP13 9QQ 13 September Yacht Club Open Day: Tours of the historical aspects of a Victorian yacht club from 1843 and its Royal connections. Royal Harwich Yacht Club, Marina Road, Woolverstone, Ipswich IP9 1AT 13 September Georgian Extravaganza Open Day: A free day full of Georgian fun! Explore the beautiful Christchurch Mansion and discover more about life during the long Eighteenth Century.

26 September Orford Museum Open Day: Heritage Open Day: An Actor will play the roles of several local historical characters! Orford Castle, Orford, Woodbridge

Nature, Health and the great Outdoors!

6 September Suffolk Horse Society Spectacular Easton Farm Park www.suffolkpunchtrust.org 9 September Walk with the Warden at Dunwich Heath. 2hr guided walk exploring and learning about the site and its amazing flora and fauna. 10am - 12pm. £5. National Trust. Tel:Beverley Cook, 01582 500920

Send your answers to: Roundabout competition, Greenacres, Mill Lane, Alderton, Woodbridge IP12 3DB or email them to editor@roundaboutsuffolk.co.uk to arrive by 25th September 2009. All the correct entries received will be put into a hat and the winner will be drawn on 28th September 2009

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What’s on...

12 September Bombs and Beasties, A guided Walk. Meet at Orford Quay at 9.30am – 4pm Booking Essential, for more info call on 01394 450900 19 September Conservation in Action Bird Ringing Mornings: See conservation in action by spending up to an hour with volunteers from the Landguard Bird Observatory. Orford Ness National Nature Reserve, Orford Quay, Orford 26 September Great East Swim A one mile open water mass participation swim taking place in the picturesque Alton Water, near Ipswich. The event is open to swimmers of all levels as long as you can swim a mile!

Go to www.greatswim.org for more info.

Kids Stuff 19 September THREE PIGS This porcine show will send magic tingling up the spines of your piglets, recommended for ages 4+ For more information call the Box Office on 01473 295900 or go to www.wolseytheatre.co.uk

26 September GIRAFFES CAN’T DANCE Based on the best-selling children’s book everyone is invited to the ‘Jungle Dance’! Recommend for ages 4 – 7.

For more information call the Box Office on 01473 295900 or go to www.wolseytheatre.co.uk

Music, Festivals Food & Drink 12 – 13 September Harvest at Jimmy’s Featuring Jose Gonzalez, Badly Drawn Boy, Gennaro Contaldo, Anjum Anand, Seth Lakeman, James Martin & many more 12 – 13 September Ipswich RESPECT Festival 2009 - Ipswich’s biggest community festival!

There will be live music all day, workshops, stalls and much more.

University Campus Suffolk, Waterfront Building, Ipswich 25 September Harvest Supper and Barn Dance Suffolk Punch Trust Colony Stud, Hollesley Bay www.suffolkpunchtrust.org 26 September – 4 October Aldeburgh food and drink festival, Snape Maltings

Rendlesham

A Sure Start Children’s Centre

Autumn Programme News Our autumn programme of activities for children 0-5 years and their families is now available.

Call in or phone the children’s centre to get your copy.

Read on for a taster of our Tuesday groups...

From 9:15am once a month, we have a Suffolk Coastal District Council, healthy walks leader coming to help us enjoy a gentle ‘buggy’ walk around Rendlesham. Buggy’s are not essential, enjoy a walk and meet some new friends.

Toys, Books and Tea 9:30am - 11:30am. Our toy library will be available to borrow a toy and if you have a SCC library card you will be able to take out books from our new children’s library.

Starting on Tuesday 17 September we have a FREE 6 week cycling course with Pink Sky cycling just for mums. Learn to ride a cycle and have some fun.

On Tuesday September 18 our next Infant Massage class will be starting from 10am - 11:30am.

Please call now to book your place. Especially for babies 0 - 1 years old and their parent / caregiver. Infant massage supports comfort and bonding between parent and child, enhancing a loving relationship through nurturing touch.

Between 1pm - 3pm we have Toddlers. This is a fun activity group for under 5’s and their families. Lots of toys and a secure outdoor area to investigate and enjoy.

All our services and sessions are FREE to children 0-5 years and their families.

Call in or telephone us to get your copy and find out more details. We look forward to meeting you.

Rendlesham Children’s Centre, Sycamore Drive, Rendlesham. Tel: (01394) 462191.

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