I'd Rather Be In Deeping August 2021 by zerosix design

ISSUE 074 / AUGUST 2021

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FEATURE

The Wood Yard

Great Walking Tours

Welcome

l-r Maureen Chambers Jean Reedman Crawford, Pam Byrd, Brenda Hurl, Brenda Gotteliere, Chris Warren, Keith Warren.

‘If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs’ ...so said Rudyard Kipling. In all the craziness that the last 18 months has presented to us, Pam Byrd and the Grapevine crew have definitely kept theirs. Every week they have delivered a package to the regulars from The Vine Wednesday Morning coffee morning – something freshly baked to eat, a newsletter and a quiz – and when this magazine was only printed in small numbers, one of those as well! And all to make sure that everyone felt cared about at a time when it was easy to feel out of the loop. The Group will be meeting at The Green School on Wednesday mornings until the time feels right to head back to the Vine, and there are some days out to look forward to later on in the year. A resounding three cheers for Pam and the crew (pictured above). Judy Stevens 3

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Found in Deeping

Five great walking tours

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Following a visit by Ofsted HMI (Her Majesty’s Inspector) in Jan 2020 when the Deepings School was set 13 targets, a monitoring visit took place recently and reduced the number to just two areas of focus. The report noted that, ‘Leaders are determined to improve the school and have not allowed the COVID-19 pandemic to detract from their main purpose of providing a good quality of education and promoting pupils’ safety and well-being.’ Head Teacher Richard Lord commented, ‘The fact that this is based not only on the inspector’s first-hand experience of our school but also on over 200 responses from parents and carers, means that we are particularly pleased with the high level of whole community satisfaction this year. The focus areas will be addressed in our 2021/22 school development plan and we anticipate a further full inspection in the 2021/22 academic year.’

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It is a truth, widely acknowledged, that our senses are at their sharpest in childhood. And early memories, of quite specific sights or sounds, often remain our whole life through. One is peculiar to the place where we lived in the Market Place. All along one side of our garden was an old red brick wall and next door was ‘Hares’ wood yard’, and the sounds, which I loved, and which to this day are a happy recollection, were those of the hammering, the whistling and even singing, of the men who worked there and who were busy building poultry houses, gates, ladders and all things wooden for their customers. Even the scent of all the fresh wood wafted over the wall. The sounds were so cheerful that they could make a child playing in the garden next door want to sing too. So, who were ‘the Hares’ and how did their wood yard come into being? Well, there had been Hares in Market Deeping since at least the beginning of the 19th century. The grandfather of the founder of the joinery business was Daniel Hare, who was a shoemaker. His son, William, was a man of many parts which included, at different times, being postman, coal merchant, and agent for the Midland Railway Company! William had eight children and one of these was son Ernest, born in 1878, in Church Street, Market Deeping. Ernest had only the basic, elementary education which was first offered to all the country’s children in the Foster Education Act of 1870. This meant seven or eight years of schooling beginning at the age of five. Ernest attended the Endowed School, for boys, in Church Street. The education may have been elementary, focusing on the three Rs, Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic, but it turned out generations of young people who were literate, numerate and whose handwriting competence would put many people today to shame. Moreover, if you could count, could weigh and measure then you also had some of the most crucial requirements necessary for setting up any kind of independent business.

They made their home in Skegness where their three sons were born between 1903 and 1908. In 1911, however, the family returned to Market Deeping and they set up home in the Market Place (where Double & Megson are today). Ernest launched his own joinery business and he advertised it with the model of a five-barred gate displayed in his front window. At first he may have used his garden for a workshop, to which there was access through the archway at the side of the house. (This was enclosed in the 1980s and now is the indoor entrance to Double & Megson’s). However, the firm was doing well and room was needed for expansion. By a stroke of good fortune, and just two doors away, a larger piece of land appeared on the market and Ernest bought it. This was then the property where Ernest and his three, now grown up, sons established their joinery workshop and wood yard and built up such a successful business that their workforce, to borrow a line from the song, could “whistle” and even sing “while they worked” – to my delight as a child on the other side of the wall! By the 1950s, when I was hearing them, the firm was employing more than 50 men. Ernest’s ambitions had not stopped at his joinery business, however. It’s easy to forget it now but until the 1930s at least there were very few cars on the roads; owning a car was for the relatively well off, so some form of public transport was essential in order to be able to visit even the nearest towns. Before WWI much transport was still dependent on the horse but, after the end of that war, by 1919, motor-driven buses started to appear. Ernest saw that the Deepings needed a bus service to local towns and in 1920 he

When Ernest left school he was apprenticed to a local carpenter and joiner but early on he must have had the first stirrings of ambition, for he moved away to work in Skegness – perhaps living by the sea engendered in him ideas of freedom and expansion, of a time when he might be able to be his own boss. However that may be, he at any rate stayed in Skegness for more than ten years but made a brief visit back to his home town to marry, in October 1901, a not-quite-local girl, Harriet Smith from Newborough. continued >

FEATURE bought five buses and set up the Primrose Bus Company. They ran a service to Peterborough and Bourne and also summer excursions to the seaside. When not in use the buses were parked in the Market Place and a petrol pump and tank were installed in the archway that led from the Market Place to the joinery workshop and wood yard (now the archway beside Dominos). However, Ernest’s foray into the transport business was destined to be short-lived for, in just a few years, it became a very competitive business with profits squeezed very low. The last straw was when one of his buses was stopped by a constable and was found to be overloaded. Brought to court the company was found guilty; Ernest was fined £1 and his son, Ted, who was driving, was fined 10s (50 pence in today’s coinage!) Shortly after this, in 1925, the buses were sold and Ernest decided it was best to concentrate on the business that he and his sons were skilled and truly masters of, and that trade served them all, and the Deepings, well for the rest of their working lives.

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, therefore, the senior Hares, Ernest and Harriet, lived in their house on the Market Place, and the joinery workshop and wood yard was just two doors away (where the shops behind Dominos now are). Their three sons, Frank, Ted and Sid, eventually married and moved, though not far away. As Ernest became older his sons gradually took over the running of the firm, each one being in charge of a different branch of the business. In the first decades of the twentieth century, and up into the 1950s, the Market Place was the central hub of Market Deeping: all the services and many of the businesses were there, from Police Station to Chemist, the doctor (whose surgery was part of his house, on the corner of Stamford Road), Post Office, pubs that offered accommodation, butcher’s (where the butcher even did his own slaughtering on the premises) draper’s shop, sweet shop and Tea Room. The properties were all family homes 18

Seaside outing with the Primrose Bus Co. 1920 as well – everyone knew everyone and a strong sense of community prevailed. This was certainly reflected in the way the Hare family lived their lives. Ernest, for example, took a very active interest in wider village affairs: he was on the Parish Council for a number of years, and likewise on committees representing organisations such as the Boys’ School, the British Legion, the Bowls Club and the Social Club. Moreover, when Ernest died, in 1954, his Will revealed that he had been an employer who valued the long service and loyalty of the men who worked for him. All his long-serving workmen had been remembered: foreman Bert Tunnicliffe received a lump sum of £50 as well as £1 for each year of his service, and this legacy, £1 for each year of service, was accorded to eight others of his employees, namely, George Branch, “Tucker” Burton, George Holland, Alfred Camm, Kenneth Briscoe, Sidney Clare, Dennis McShane and Butch Hare. The business was left to Ernest’s three sons in equal shares and it continued to prosper throughout the 1950s and until 1963 when the brothers decided to retire, and the land was sold. The shops behind Dominos, Pound Stretcher, the Co-op Petrol Station and the car park now occupy what was Hares’ joinery workshop and wood yard. Perhaps if you stand there late at night and close your eyes you may still hear a ghostly hammering, or whistling or singing of some old melody of an earlier era coming through the darkness. Frank, the oldest son, and Ted, the second, lived their whole lives in the Deepings – Ted was living at 9 Godsey Lane when he died in 1979; Frank was living at Maxey House, Deeping Gate, when he died in 1994; while Sid, who had lived for many years in Stamford Road, moved to Brackley in Northamptonshire in his last years and he died there in 1991. Thus for more than 40 years, from 1920 to 1963, the Hares had been major employers in the Deepings and long after that they remained committed and loyal supporters of the village. Footnote: The full name of the oldest son of Ernest and Harriet Hare was, John William Frank b.1903; the second son was George Edward Cecil b.1905 and the youngest, Sidney Smith Hare b.1908. As far as I know they were always known locally as Frank, Ted and Sid. (With thanks to Joy Baxter for her notes from the archives on the Hare family.)

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owned or ridden a bike). Sid Hare did have one and, like my grandfather he had a season ticket for the stand at The Posh’s home ground (where, ironically, you could sit!) Thus, it became the custom for Mr Newton to get a lift to the London Road football ground every Saturday afternoon of the football season.

The Hare brothers were supporters of the most prominent of our area’s football teams, namely Peterborough’s ‘The Posh’. It is in connection with this interest that I retain my only personal memories of them. This was because my grandfather, Arthur Newton, was a supporter of The Posh too. He had been the next-door neighbour of the Hare family, and, on the other side, of their wood yard, for 40 years, and the family were long-standing patrons of his sweetshop (and of The Imperial Café until it closed in 1947). Some of the family would come into the sweetshop regularly, once a week at least, and there would be an exchange of local news and, always, some talk of the current state of play with The Posh and an analysis of their position in the League tables. At that time the Peterborough team were in the fourth division, but always hoping to be promoted to the third. The fortunes of the team were thus a subject of common interest between my grandfather and the Hares, and, more than that they performed a material and kindly service to him, for the Newtons never had a car (I don’t even think my grandfather had ever

When I was about eleven or twelve, sometime in the mid 1950s, I became a keen supporter of The Posh too and indeed the holder of a season ticket on the stand, whereby, thanks to the Hares we got a lift to the game on Saturdays. This also happened to be a year when The Posh did quite well in the qualifying rounds of the FA cup and so it was that I found myself, the only child, and only girl, in a railway carriage full of Deeping fans of The Posh, some Hare brothers and my grandfather, on our way to Swindon where ‘our’ team were to play Swindon Town. A great event of course, and yet I have to confess that my brightest recollections of that day, more than 60 years ago now, are not of the match itself, but in fact of the train journey from Peterborough to Swindon. This was because to me the journey itself was a highlight of the day. The compartment was crowded. The men, all of my father’s or grandfather’s generation, were in high spirits and ready to enjoy everything. There was nothing coarse or raucous about it; there was simply much good-humoured laughter and joking and chat. That, in fact, is my chief memory of the day of the match between The Posh and Swindon Town – and just one other thing: I learnt that the flask of tea that my grandfather always had with him to the football matches contained not only tea but a shot of rum! I do not remember the result of the football match. Are there any of the older generation in any of the Deepings who have any memories of this era of ‘The Posh’? Or who also travelled to Swindon on that day long ago...?

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Emily Bowers - an Artist in Residence Make this world a better place if you can.’ This may be a refrain from a Diana Ross single but for Emily Bowers it is her raison d’être. Concerned about the natural world for as long as she can remember, Emily was raised in the countryside in Weston near Spalding. She has fond memories of childhood summers cycling round country roads to visit horses in fields, finding frogs in the dyke with her Dad and taking a ride in her Grandad’s combine harvester. Having studied art in several forms, from photography to fine art and textiles, Emily has jobbed her way through various roles in both film making and photography locally. It was working with conservation and environmental photographer, Toby Smith, where

the link between her love of the natural world and her skills as an artist and photographer came into sharp relief. Emily regards her surroundings with an eye, noticing natural compositions that will a drawing or painting where the light atmosphere and she captures movement and with playful mark making.

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Her work is driven by emotive responses and a love of storytelling, whether a fictional exploration or reinterpreting a kernel of knowledge that has piqued her interest. Whilst Emily draws upon her keen observations, her imagination frees her to step out from the world and examine its progress, exploring

other perspectives, so that her work hooks us in with its narrative. Emily’s hands-on experience allowed her to bypass a degree, enrolling at the Anglia Ruskin School of Art in Cambridge to do an MA in Children’s Book illustration to further develop her storytelling skills, completing her course as the pandemic set in. During the enforced isolation of lockdown, the need for connection was identified by local arts organisation, Peterborough Presents, and was one of the services which came to the fore over the last few months. Emily was engaged to work with residents selected by agencies in the Peterborough area as being particularly vulnerable during the lockdown. As part of the ‘Mint’

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project’ they were given a care package which included a creative activity sheet, notebook, a bar of mint chocolate and a mint plant to nurture. Emily then contacted the recipients and, using the recollections, memories, tips and hints inspired by the gift, she illustrated a booklet for the residents that they gifted to friends, family and the wider community, enabling participants to reach out and build connections. The beneficial link between creativity, nature and mental well-being has never been so significant as now when communities are feeling the impact of the pandemic, and the award winning Deeping Lakes are an ideal inspiration. When Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust highlighted misuse of the nature reserve during lockdown, Art Pop-Up was engaged to put together a project working with local residents to creatively appreciate and understand the beauty of the Lakes with free art workshops, walks and talks. And who better to champion this project than Emily Bowers? Emily is relishing the opportunity to demonstrate the artistic benefits of the Lakes and this precious jewel in the crown of the Deepings while maintaining the sanctity that it offers. Says Emily, ‘Nature’s beauty is endless and full of shapes, colour palettes, movement and clever designs. I hope to be able to use my work as a platform to help protect the Deeping Lakes and continue educating and raising awareness of the issues we face here through visual storytelling.’ The Scheme has been jointly funded by SKDC, DSJ United Charities, The Deeping Lions, The Rotary Club of Deepings, Deepings Youth Club and The Deepings Library.

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Right on trend with this cool necklace from Riverside Beads available as a kit from their shop on the High Street. The kit contains an assortment of acrylic and clay beads and metal spacers. This funky necklace is perfect for beginners to jewellery making to learn to make. The perfect summer project! Just £5.00. https://riversidebeads.co.uk/ product/summer-necklace-beadkit-makes-1/ Ideal for the garden this summer £119 from Market Deeping Antiques New interiors store the Hare on the Green (see pg 32) are big on naturals for the home - as well as stocking a range of soya candles and reed diffusers from English manufacturer, Heaven Scent.

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Summertime liqueurs from The Cigar Box in the Market Place. Great kept in the fridge and served ice cold on their own or also superb in cocktails

Small Bouquets and bunches of locally cut flowers including Stocks and Sunflowers are available at the Market Gate Deli in Market Deeping. Perfect for bringing a bit of summer into your house!

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A bespoke, handmade, wall-to-wall humidor is home to a classic collection of Cuban cigars. Complimenting this is a matching cabinet stocked with an array of unusual spirits including whiskies from around the world, brandies, rums and liqueurs. Specially selected botanical gins and vodkas add to this fascinating range which suits every pocket. This lovely little shop is the place to go for that special something or a tantalising treat.

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We now also have a great selection of fresh fruit and veg from Dan another local supplier we have joined up with. It’s great to have fresh seasonal fruit and veg. With ice creams, slush, a great selection of kids sweets, and Grasmere products you are well prepared for the summer holidays.

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One of the benefits of living in a rural area is that there is easy access to a number of farm shops where produce can be purchased directly from where it is grown. Very often the shopkeeper is also the farmer, as is the case of Judith Jacobs at Moor Farm. This gives the consumer confidence in the product and a real understanding of where produce comes from and how it is farmed. It is often assumed that because of the freshness and the quality of the produce there must be a commensurate difference in price from the supermarket where goods are bulk purchased and sold on to the public. It was Jack Cohen, the founder of Tesco who coined the phrase ‘pile ’em high, sell ’em cheap’. As the shopper, that is you and me, has become more conscious of the detrimental effect of flying foods into the country from the other side of the world to give us out-of-season tomatoes and strawberries, so we have become more discerning in where we shop. But the question still remains: does the quality and provenance of the goods from the farm shop result in higher prices? Chef Laura Darrington of Big Bird Catering supplied the menus for a family of four for their main meals over a seven day period. Saturday Brunch Bacon & mushroom ciabatta 2 slices of ciabatta rubbed over with garlic and drizzled with rape seed oil and grilled in a pan Mushrooms fried with garlic finished with parsley and crisp bacon.

Sunday Lunch Classic roast chicken, roast potatoes, creamed cabbage and bacon, glazed carrots, big fat yorkies (they’re not just for beef!) Whole chicken rub with salt & pepper, rapeseed oil. Pork fat roasties. Monday Dinner Using the chicken carcass make chicken stock, pulling all meat from the bones. Add Thai paste to make fragrant broth. Cut vegetables into sticks; small carrots, mange tout, red onion. Stick of fresh ginger, chilli, lime leaves and noodles. Tuesday Dinner Jacket potatoes cheese and bacon. Crispy bacon. Mash potatoes with butter and mustard pack it back in skin, add bacon and cheese on top and melt. Wednesday Dinner Homemade beef burger and cajun spiced oven roasted potato wedges.

Thursday Dinner Pan fried pork chop, sage mash, green beans and fried onions. Creamy sage and apple sauce. Friday Dinner Haddock fishcakes, mashed peas, new potatoes with butter and fresh mint. Agi Chapman and I then embarked on a shopping spree – some items, such as the noodles and Thai paste, salt & pepper and rapeseed oil (from the UK) we assumed were in the store cupboard – we plumped for Tesco Finest to maintain a consistency in terms of quality. Unlike Moor Farm at Tesco we did find that we were encouraged to buy a number of items as they were packaged together – causing unnecessary waste. Also we couldn’t put a price on the ambiance or the sheer joy of watching sheep graze in the fields and the wild flowers growing on the banks, and the opportunity to have a wholesome cooked meal in the café or even just a coffee and home baked cake. But for all the obvious benefits, we paid just £1.00 more for shopping at Moor Farm Shop! 29

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‘Forest School – does your child go to one? Yes – they absolutely love it!’ says Hannah Pattison A typical conversation I hear more and more frequently in parent circles these days! So what is forest school and why are they increasing in popularity? Awareness has been growing for a while now, around the importance of little ones spending ample time in natural spaces, guided by people that are ecoliterate. It’s important for a whole host of reasons – from our children’s development and well-being to the very future of Earth itself as they learn to love and care for the wild. By getting children outdoors weekly throughout the seasons, whatever the weather, Forest school offers a balance of child-led play with guided activities for learning ‘bushcraft’ type skills, such as fire making and using real tools. The result is deep learning on every level – cooperation, resilience, creativity, problem solving, independence and more. At the end of the day our children are little ‘earthlings’ not ‘classroomings’. And it doesn’t have to be in a forest (something we are a little in short supply of around Deeping). Any natural setting with enough scope for free play can make a great Forest school setting. As long as there’s enough environmental features for movement – like ditches, stumps and mossy mounds and enough ‘loose parts’ such as stones, sticks and soil to go around the group of children, then you have a winning combination. The result is that more and more Forest school providers are popping up around the country, as a philosophy which started in

Scandinavia firmly embeds itself here. And now we have our very own fully accredited Forest school leaders with their own setting, which they are at the beginning of re-wilding, here in Deeping. Liz and Alison explain: ‘At Our Forest Garden we pride ourselves on being true to the original ethos of Forest School which is to promote self-esteem, independence and confidence. For nearly ten years now, we have been leading Forest School in local schools and we constantly observe how it benefits children of all ages (and even the adults too!). The key to its success is that the children are able take on some of the responsibility of caring for themselves whilst they play and explore on or near trees, nettles and thorns (navigating risk). The children are also guided in how to use real tools, as well as learn how to light fires and make their own food from foraged ingredients (very much like childhoods of days gone by).

‘What is vital is that we leaders have an understanding of how each child learns, and what each child is interested in. This, combined with the changing seasons, the natural environment and a basic toolkit, means creativity, imagination and natural curiosity is brought alive. Once this unlocking happens each child begins to be more in charge of themselves and their learning, becoming more confident and independent in all areas of their life. Being able to facilitate this is the most rewarding part of our work and is our main aim at Our Forest Garden.’ The Deepings Home education group have been the first to try out the new site, meeting there weekly for the past few months. A typical session involves exploration of the site, noticing details in nature that have changed since the previous week (the baby robins in the nest one week!). This is followed by free mixedage play with their friends as well as the offer of a planned activity which is based on observations of the children’s interests. For example, whittling sticks with knives to create reusable grass whistles based on the observation of the children’s fascination with the hundreds of different types of grass seeds on site. Not forgetting snack time with food found on site – adding elderflowers to their water was a hit with my daughter, as was using the composting toilet for the first time! Watch out for Our Forest Garden’s programme of activities planned for September onwards on their Facebook page and website. And if you’d like to get involved in the Deepings Home learning community do message Hannah or Zoe or find their Facebook group. 31

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As we all embrace the necessity to reduce our impact on the environment it is not just in the garden that we are facing up to a different and more planet friendly approach. Homes are becoming more eco-friendly too and that is evident in the kind of materials that are popular for carpets, furniture and window treatments. Says Emily Jellis, Made By Beck Interiors Advisor at Creative Touch Interiors, ‘We see an increasing demand for natural fabrics, textures and colours. They give a classic and timeless appeal and complement the functionality and simplicity ethos of popular interior trends such as Scandinavian, Japandi and Hygge styling.’ This is a view endorsed by Beck Johnson of Made by Beck who says, ‘Over the past 18 months we have all been spending more time at home. People have been busy decorating and renovating inside, as well as creating new spaces, by extending their homes into their gardens. To seamlessly combine the two spaces, bringing the outdoors in, there has been an explosion of botanical and natural fabrics.’

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Richard Barsby of Wicker World, has noticed a resurgence in popularity in rattan and cane furniture for inside the home ‘I put this down to the desire to be more eco-friendly and natural products like this are coming to the fore.’ Choosing natural flooring from firms like Alternative Flooring, stocked in Deeping by Crowland Carpets, allows you to welcome a world of monsoon-grown grasses, Goan These wicker tables, found by Kate Redhead of Paint the Town Red beaches and coconut husks into have been upcycled and given a new lease of eco-friendly life! your home. Making an architectural statement, while helping the planet by using renewable materials, is a winning combination that is becoming increasingly popular.

Cane and Rattan need the rainforests and jungles to grow as it is a creeper that wraps itself around trees and other vegetation. It encourages the communities that harvest this material to preserve the rainforest in which they are found. Cane and Rattan can be fully grown and harvested within two years; compare that to 20-30 years of some hardwoods and you can see why rattan is one of the most sustainable materials to use in furniture manufacturing.

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BIRDS

I was a Teenage Twitcher by William Bowell

twitcher

NOUN 1 A person or thing that twitches. 2 British informal A birdwatcher whose main aim is to collect sightings of rare birds. Oxford Dictionary I remember my first. It was on Sunday 8th June 2003. I was 16 and a Black Lark from the grassy steppes of Central Asia was our quarry. My father and I were picked up by fellow father and son team, Trev and Dan Williams and four hours later we were with hundreds of others at the remote South Stack, Anglesey on the west Welsh coast.

But just because I’m not a ‘proper’ twitcher, doesn’t mean I don’t aspire to be one. I have travelled to Shetland, Scotland, Outer Hebrides, Wales, Kent, Cornwall and Scilly numerous times in my quest to add to my pitiful list. Sometimes these are for weekends but sometimes just the day. It’s exhausting but exhilarating. Of course there have been failures. They are painful. I dare not tell you about the day I travelled with my friend Josh to the Isles of Scilly, some 30 miles off the Cornish coast for a Wilson’s Snipe which had travelled all the way from America. We had travelled all the way from Deeping and the four short hours the Scillonian allowed us on St Mary’s just wasn’t long enough to see this second for Britain. I did, however, add Upland Sandpiper (also from the US) and Olive-backed Pipit (from Asia) to my British list whilst on the island. So all was not lost for me but Josh wasn’t very talkative on the drive home. But then there was the Snowy Owl, also in Cornwall. It had spent all winter in a particular spot. My good friend ‘Pinky’ and I decided to spend the weekend down there in the hope of seeing and photographing it. Cheaper than going to Arctic Canada we thought. We set off at silly o’clock and arrived on site to no sign. And no sign on the Sunday either. But guess what- it was back on the Monday when we were back at work!

Last year, I was the second person to see Britain’s 5th Tennessee Warbler in Shetland- mega thrill.

This dumpy lark, with its black colouring with greyish fringed feathers on the back and its pale bill was considered a first for Britain at the time and worthy of a 6am start. Thankfully the bird was there, despite it going missing in the afternoon the previous day. We enjoyed fantastic views of it feeding among burnt heather. Of course, we didn’t know at the time but it ended up being the last day it was seen. My first long-distance twitch. A success. The thrill of seeing rare birds in Britain was well and truly established.

That particular itch was scratched only this summer when I happened to be in Shetland when one was found. Prior to that Pinky and I indeed travelled to Canada to enjoy photographing them in the snow-– an unforgettable experience. The real joy of rare birds for me, though, is finding them yourself. Nothing can beat the feeling, the raised heartbeat, of clapping eyes on a rare waif for the first time, knowing you are the first person to see it. I travel to Shetland every autumn in search of such experiences. Three years ago we struck gold when we found the holy grail of all ‘rares’ – Siberian Rubythroat.

My obsession with birds and the natural world has been lifelong. My mother talks of me pointing out ladybirds from the pushchair and some of my earliest memories are of watching the birds on my grandparents’ bird table. My interest continued during school, when it definitely wasn’t considered ‘cool’ and grew even more as I met more and more like-minded people. I am by no means a ‘proper’ twitcher. To be a proper twitcher you need money, an understanding boss and understanding spouse (or no spouse!) in order to drop everything and anything to go anywhere in Britain to see any new bird for their list. 36

Olive-backed Pipit, a rare bird from Asia; have seen two in Scilly for the first time whilst missing my intended quary, I have seen this species on a few occasions since. I am yet to see Wilson’s Snipe.

Similar to our Robin, Siberian Rubythroats have occurred on just a handful of occasions in Britain, having got lost from Asia. The males have a fabulous ruby throat and white eye stripe but otherwise they are quite dull. So the female or juvenile we found wouldn’t excite the average person. The thrill of finding this mega rare was immense though; I can’t describe it. The highlight of the trip. The highlight of the year.... probably. I confess, dear reader, this love of twitching has largely been replaced. I waxed lyrical earlier, in other editions of this wonderful magazine, of how I have found a

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renewed love of local birding. And in truth that’s fuelled by finding my own birds – locally or nationally rare or just plain interesting to me only. I don’t care! I love local birding.

Mega rare vagrant from South America, Elegant Tern

So what did I do two weekends ago, gang? I visited Deeping Lakes of course... okay; I headed to Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire for a Blackbrowed Albatross, a pelagic species of the southern hemisphere. It’s been in the North Sea, lost, for several years and last year I missed it at the same site by 24 hours- so a score needed settling! Plus it’s a childhood dream species, after reading and seeing photos of a different individual that spent 20 years visiting a Gannet colony in Shetland. So this weekend just gone, reader, I promise I visited Deeping Lakes. Well I did... but then I travelled to Anglesey to see an Elegant Tern. With less than a dozen records in Britain, this South American seabird (from the Pacific Ocean no less!) has, in the last 20 years, started breeding in Europe in small numbers. I remember in the early 2000s seeing fab photos of this magnificent Tern on the south coast and have wanted to see one ever since!

And so I’m sure you can see how I’ve come full circle. Impressive, considering I actually started this article and dropped it half a year ago. Back in 2003 though, I ticked and ran. This time round, I was once again with my father and we enjoyed the site, the weather, ambience and the presence of an exceptionally lost vagrant to our shores. And this time, we enjoyed it for hours and hours. And more importantly, after the year we have had with COVID, etc I enjoyed it with my hero – my father! I was a teenage twitcher. But now I’m....

Will works at Grasmere Farm in Deeping St James (with a butcher’s and deli in Market Gate, Market Deeping) but in his spare time enjoys wildlife watching locally and across the country. He is also a keen photographer. Many of his images can be found at http://justwildimages.blogspot.co.uk/ and photo cards can be found for sale at Market Gate Deli in Market Deeping.

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Where is Your Mind?

What a silly question! Obviously, your mind is in your brain says Ray Pawlett Or is it! Have you ever had a ‘gut reaction’ or enjoyed music that ‘comes from the heart’, fallen in love or had butterflies in your stomach? OK, the brain may be the central processor in the middle of all thought – but these thoughts and emotions certainly feel like they come from your body. The ancient Taoists thought about this a lot and came up with an idea that we actually have three brains – the head, the heart and the gut. Your head is supposed to observe and manage the rest of the body. The gut brain is for your instincts and your heart brain is where your true self resides. If you remember the last time you had an intuition that something was going to happen, you will probably remember feeling it in your belly. Maybe you remember listening to a piece of music and feeling like the music was singing to your heart? It’s not an intellectual thing – you just feel it in your heart. When your head brain relaxes it allows the heart and

gut brain to work, then we are working at our optimum levels. The trouble is that the head brain is like an over controlling boss. It is always telling the other brains what to do.

Here’s the interesting bit. According to modern research, if you want to improve the condition of your vagus nerve, some of the best ways to do it are slow and mindful breathing with a movement and stretching.

Have you ever had a boss like that? So busy telling you what to do that they never listen to you. You just give up in the end and let them get on with it – but you are not happy!

That sounds a lot like Tai Chi to me! Indeed, the disciplines of Tai Chi, Qigong and meditation are all scientifically proven to increase vagal tone and thereby increase your sense of well-being by reducing stress. Having a Shiatsu treatment is like re-booting your nervous system.

Modern science is catching up with the Taoists. We have an important nerve called the vagus nerve that goes from our guts to our brains and connects our internal organs to our nervous system. The communication is two-way. This means that if our guts are feeling stressed that the message goes back to the brain and we feel stressed, and vice versa. The condition of this nerve system is deteriorated by many aspects of modern living such as stress, poor posture, the wrong food and other contributing factors.

The language of modern science and ancient Taoism may be very different but here we have a very clear example of ancient meeting modern and coming up with the same result. If you would like to learn more about healing, Shiatsu, Taoism, Tai Chi, meditation or any forms of stress reduction, please contact me via email ray@ki-ways.co.uk or give me a ring on 07413 620344

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Five great walking tours

Trinity Hall Kings Lynn

For many of us, Kings Lynn is just one of the places that we hurry on past as we head to the coast. But last year the regulations imposed as a result of the pandemic meant that it was necessary to explore some of those places that normally we disregard. For me, Kings Lynn was one of those places and what a treat it turned out to be! We met our knowledgeable tour guide in the Saturday Market Place and she took us on a tour of the historic part of the town, covering 900 years of history including the waterfront, the Minster and hidden courtyards as well as the pictured magnificent Trinity Hall, finishing at the Tuesday Market Place. Walks take place every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday at 2pm from May to October. Prices are £5 for adults and under-16s are free. A new addition is a walk enticingly called ‘Smugglers, sailors and merchant adventurers’. Tickets are available from the Tourist Information Office, Saturday Market Place, 01553 774297 or visit https://www.kingslynntownguides.co.uk/

Peterborough Cathedral I have been on tours around Peterborough Cathedral many times and each time I go I find out yet another kernel of information that I had overlooked on the previous visits. In truth, a guide brings the Cathedral to life, invoking the spirit of Old Scarlett, the Tudor gravedigger, the tragic and tumultuous lives of two Queens: Katherine of Aragon, whose tomb remains, and Mary Queen of Scots who was re-interred in a magnificent tomb at Westminster Abbey by her son, James I. They tell of fire and destruction, The Crossing Tower ceiling, fearing a tower colapse as had happened of evolution and rebuilding, and in so doing at Ely, the Monks rebuilt the central tower in the late 14th century in they help us to better understand this corner the decorated style. of England we call home. The ground level highlights tour takes one hour and is £5. Booking by email is recommended. More information https://www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/ highlightstour.aspx 40

Boston Jane Keightley brings bundles of enthusiasm and knowledge to the history tours that she gives of the ancient port and market town of Boston. At 10.30 on Wednesday mornings Jane can be found outside of Fydell House where the tour of about an hour and a half (£5 per person) begins. Fydell House was said by Nikolaus Pevsner to be ‘undoubtedly the grandest house in the town’. It was built in the 1700s and harbours a walled garden laid out in the Georgian style. Sometimes at the end of the tour, lunch or a cream tea can be enjoyed there. On Sundays there is a longer (three-hour) tour for the more intrepid, venturing out to the Hussey Tower and past Doughty Quay, over the Town Bridge and past the Stump, down Wormgate and the Sluice Bridge. Lunch can be taken at the Lock Cafe then return past the Centenary Chapel, through the park and town to Horncastle Road and back to the Market Place. £10 each (lunch not included) Email keightley1@aol.com or phone 07717267265 https://www.facebook.com/Bostonhistorytours

Stamford Ruth and Rachel are the brains behind Stamford Sights and Secrets Tours and your friendly, funny guides when you visit Stamford. They run regular guided walking tours of this stunning historic town, bringing the past to life for all ages.

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Their local history tour runs on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at 11.00am starting at Stamford Arts Centre and takes you on a 90-minute stroll around beautiful, unspoilt Stamford where participants see the sights, discover the secrets and meet the faces behind the façade. During this guided walk, you’ll discover Stamford’s cobbled streets, its gorgeous Georgian buildings and hear all sorts of tales of the great and not so good of this ancient town – its people and their stories that make a place interesting! Prices for this tour are £9 for adults and £8 for concessions. Bookings can be made at Stamford Arts Centre or pay your guide on the day (card payments are preferred).

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Deeping Lakes Join local artist Emily Bowers for a relaxed walk at Deeping Lakes on the final day of her residency. Emily will be taking us on a tour to show us the spots that inspired her as well as telling us about some of the stories she has learnt about the reserve. It will be a chance to see some of Emily’s sketchbook work first hand and experience the reserve through an artist’s eye. Emily will also be demonstrating a couple of her observational drawing techniques so please feel free to bring along a notebook and pencil/pen in case you want to join in! She hopes you will leave feeling relaxed and more connected to the place that is Deeping Lakes. We won’t be doing the whole circular route, just going to certain parts. Sunday 29th Aug. Meet at the Car Park. All invited . 1hr long

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Also on offer are special themed tours, from the life of William Cecil, first Lord Burghley, to Christmas tours with mulled wine. Private tours are also offered. Visit their website at stamfordsightsandsecretstours.com or call 07534 308928 for IRBID 1.4 Ad July21.indd more information.

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Paintings by Jean Allen, Desmond Avery and Jackie Shaw A show of colourful work in a variety of painted media with a wide range of imagery from 3 experienced Lincolnshire artists. Wednesday 18 August 15 September Willoughby Memorial Trust Gallery Moreley’s Lane, Corby Glen, NG33 4NL. 12 – 5 pm. Tuesday – Sunday ADMISSION FREE

Dogs Fun Dog Show - Deeping St Nicholas Church All about dogs – fun dog show. Saturday 14th August, 2021 10.30am Registration First Dog Class starts in the main ring @11.00am. Show rosettes for 1st 2nd and 3rd places. With Best in Show and Reserved Best in Show to compete for. Various side stalls and other attractions, along with refreshments served inside the Church. It’s time to have some fun! Everyone is welcome. All proceeds to Deeping St Nicholas Church

Oddfellows Diary Dates Sunday 15th August 12.30 pm Sunday Lunch at the newly refurbished Bourne Corn Exchange. Book with Andrew 07729519122.

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what’s on

Artist in Residence at the Deeping Lakes this August - meet Emily Bowers Tues 3rd Artist Talk 7-8.00pm Priory Church Hall Garden (and hall) Sat 7th - 14th - 21st Family Art Workshop 10.00amnoon Deepings Library Sat 17th Adults’ Art Workshop 10.30-noon Deepings Library Sun 22nd Community Art Workshop 2.30-4.30pm Deeping Lakes

Thurs 26th Youth Group Workshop/Walk 7.00-8.30pm Deeping Lakes Sat 28th Community art workshop and grand unveiling! See the work produced by Emily and the Deepings’ community 11.003.00pm Deepings’ Library Sun 29th Artist -led walk (open to all) 3.00-4.00pm Deeping Lakes

Stop Press! Due to demand an extra farm walk has been added to the popular calendar at Vine House Farm - a bird lover and photographers paradise! Weds 4th August Book www.vinehousefarm.co.uk/farm-walks

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