Wednesday 11th January 2012
Exercise Snow Storm pre-meeting, Blyth Hotel at 7 pm. Exercise Snow Storm will take on a scenario of Southwold and Reydon being completely cut off to reference to snow and flooding for five days. It will ask of the community – are you really prepared in the event of this situation, eg do you have torches, mobile phones, tinned food, perhaps £20 of tinned breakfast sitting on your shelf? Warm clothes? Do you know who to call for help? (Call first the Blue light Emergency Services through the normal channels, then for a quick local response if required, the Southwold and Reydon Community Emergency Group (tel: 07796 402519 or 07972 571384).) There are 15 members on the ground in our community. We want more members. Please come along to the pre-exercise meeting and give your support. Exercise Snow Storm will work with young people like the Southwold Scouts, who are founder members of this exercise to gain life experience. For more details call Simon Tobin, CEG Chairman (tel: 07796 402519).
Saturday 21st January 2012
British Red Cross – an afternoon of 1930s, 40s & 50s music and songs. You are invited to join us at 2.30 pm in the Cardinal Newman R C Hall, Manor Park Road, Southwold for this special trip down memory lane with musicians Company D (Debbie and Dellon). Tea or mulled wine, cake and raffle will complete the afternoon for just £8 in aid for our branch of the British Red Cross. Tickets available from Daddy Long-Legs, 84 High Street, Southwold. Come as you are or dress in period.
Sunday 22nd January to Saturday 28th January 2012
The Reydon and Southwold Pantomime Group present ‘Jack and Jill’ at St Edmund’s Hall, Southwold, 2 pm on Sunday, 22nd January, 7.15 pm on Tuesday, 24th January, 7.15 pm on Wednesday, 25th January, 7.15 pm on Thursday, 26th January, 7.15 pm on Friday, 27th January, and 2 pm and 7.15 pm on Saturday, 28th January. Tickets cost £7 for adults and £3 for children, and are available from 13th December at Daddy Long-Legs, 84 High Street, Southwold.
Friday 27th January 2012
Darts Competition, Help for Heroes at the Southwold Conservative Club, in conjunction with Tobin Plant, start 7 pm. All welcome. Great event even if you do not play.
Until Tuesday 31st January 2012
Exhibition of work by Jacky Linney (textiles), Irena Sibrijns (plates and vessels) and Elaine Nason (pictures) in the upstairs gallery of CRAFTCO, 40a High St, Southwold, Suffolk IP18 6AE, tel: 01502 723211, web: www.craftco.co.uk.
Friday 3rd February 2012
Exercise Snow Storm, Southwold Scouts Hut, 7 for 7.30 pm start (see entry for 11th January).
Friday 17th February 2012
Suffolk Pensioners’ Association, Southwold and Reydon Branch. A trip to see ‘Puss in Boots’ at the Riverside Theatre, Woodbridge on Friday, 17th February 2012 at 2.30 pm. Tickets: £12 each, available from the United Reformed Church Hall on Tuesday, 17th January between 10.30 am and 11.30 am.
Coach leaves 1 pm. Pick-up points:
(1) Southwold Kings Head
(2) Crick Court
(3) Barbrook’s Stores
(4) The Firs, Jermyns Road
(5) The Drive, Halesworth Road.
Blyth Valley Community Radio news
Blyth Valley Community Radio wishes you all a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and prosperous new year. We are now in the process of expanding into Halesworth and Beccles areas. Look on our new websites to see how you can help and find out more – for Halesworth, log onto www.hwcr.co.uk, and for Beccles, www.wvcr.co.uk – we’ll need new presenters and behind the scenes volunteers to help run these stations as well as our own. If you love radio and are looking for a new hobby, why not join us? There’ll be training. Come and join in and enjoy it.
On Blyth Valley Community Radio, you may like to request a dedication or have your charity event publicised – do get in touch and we offer very competitive business rates for advertising as well. Contact us at studio@bvcr.co.uk or phone 01502 723900 for the Bunker and 01502 722727 at the Casino. Get in touch as well if you would like to find out more about volunteering.
January 2012 programme schedule for Blyth Valley Community Radio on 105.0 FM
Monday
7 am–9 am: The Breakfast Show
9 am–10.30 am: Bill’s Monday Morning Music Mix
10.30 am–12 noon: Rod’s Records
12 pm–2.30 pm: Sylvie’s Magazine Show (interviews, birthdays, dedications local stories etc), sponsored by Howells and Jolley Chemists
2.30 pm–3 pm: Big Band Show with Muriel
3 pm–4 pm: Classical Music Hour
4 pm–6 pm: Drive Time with Fox
Tuesday
7 am–9 am: The Breakfast Show
9 am–11 am: The Tuesday Show with Lee and friends
11 am–2 pm: Listen to the 40s with the Muffin Man
2 pm–3 pm: Keith with the news and current affairs
2.30 pm–3 pm: Poetry Plus with Oonagh (fortnightly)
3 pm–4 pm: Jazz music
4 pm–7 pm: Denise and Chrissie (fortnightly)
Wednesday
7 am–9 am: The Breakfast Show, sponsored by CS Gas
9 am–11 am: Music with Fox
11 am–12 noon: Sunny Side Up with Twig
12 pm–1 pm: The Wednesday Supplement with Sylvie (music and chat; the Southwold and Reydon Society second week of the month)
1 pm–4 pm: Country Music with Bill, sponsored by The Observatory Opticians
4 pm–6 pm: Sue’s Sandwich, sponsored by The Red Lion
Thursday
7 am–9 am: The Breakfast Show
9 am–11 am: Sunny Side Up with Twig
11 am–1 pm: Music with DJ Baz
1 pm– 2.30 pm: Dave and Twig’s Talking Minds
2.30 pm–4 pm: Classics with Stan and Muriel
4 pm–6.30 pm: Drive Time with Deno and Wolfie
Friday
7 am–9 am: The Breakfast Show
9 am–11 am: Music and Chat with Nick
11 am–12 noon: Easy Listening with Malcolm, sponsored by Jenny Jones Estate Agents
12 pm–2 pm: Malcolm’s Bits and Pieces
2 pm–3.15 pm: Twig’s Sunny Side Up
3.15 pm–4.30 pm: Salsa with Winston and Fiona
4.30 pm–6.30 pm: Drive Time with Rosy and Elora
Saturday
9 am–11 am: The 60s with DJ Baz and DJ Craig, sponsored by Daddy Long Legs
11 am–1 pm: 70s and 80s with Nick
1 pm–3 pm: Malcolm’s Music Mix
3 pm–5 pm: Country Music with Colin R
5 pm–6 pm: Music and Chat with Lawrence
Sunday
9 am–12 noon: The Sunday Request Show with Bill
12 pm–3 pm: Sunday Music with Colin
3 pm–6 pm: Malcolm’s Penny Arcade (music and information, including a variety of stories, rhyme and variety shows).
National and local news and weather on the hour.
Local What’s On Diary throughout the day.
Southwold Library: what’s on this month
Craft and Chat Evening
Wednesday, 4th January, 6.30 pm. Bring your unfinished knitting/sewing/craft or start a new project while having a pleasant talk and refreshments.
Southwold Library Reading Group
Thursday, 5th January, 6.30 pm. Discussing Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson.
Lowestoft and Waveney Alzheimer’s Society Support Group
Wednesday, 11th January, 10.30 am–11.30 am, Southwold Library. Access information and meet people affected by dementia over a cup of tea in an informal setting. For more information, contact Paul or Alison (e-mail: alzheimers.lowestoft@btconnect.com or tel: 01502 514712).
Wellbeing drop in for over 60s
Thursday, 12th January 10 am–1 pm. Come and get information, advice and guidance on things we can all do to enhance wellbeing and ways we can help ourselves and others. Join us and share your interests and experiences as well as learn from others. So, whether you would like to come and talk one to one or connect with others over a cup of tea please join us, everyone is welcome. For more info, contact Syreeta or Joe from Mind (tel: 01493 842129) or ring Southwold Library (tel: 01502 722519).
Craft and Chat Evening
Wednesday, 25th January, 6.30 pm. Bring your unfinished knitting/sewing/craft or start a new project while having a pleasant talk and refreshments.
Southwold Library Reading Group
Thursday, 26th January, 6.30 pm. Discussing A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve.
Time-out events for adults
Every Tuesday, 2 pm–3.30 pm:
• 3rd January – Jigsaw Club.
• 10th January – Craft and Chat: bring your unfinished knitting/sewing/craft or start a new project while having a pleasant talk.
• 17th January – Crossword and Jigsaw Club. Come and ask for help with clues or solve new crosswords together. Plus the ongoing jigsaw.
• 24th January – board games and banter.
Every Sunday
• Baby Bounce and Tot Rock 10.30 am–11 am. Music, rhymes, singing and dancing for babies and toddlers.
• Storytime 11.30 am–12.15 pm. Stories, crafts and colouring for seven year olds and under.
• Children’s Fun Group 12.15 pm–1 pm. Crafts, games, puzzles and fun for seven to twelve year olds.
• Internet lessons 1 pm–3.30 pm. Open to anyone. Come and have one-to-one training on any aspect of the Internet, from complete beginner to those who want to know about a particular website or e-mail. Half an hour at a time, but as many lessons as you would like. To book a slot, ring 01502 722519.
Charlotte Clark, Library Manager, Southwold Library
Southwold Museum and Historical Society
Winter Lecture Season 2011/12
‘MOST SECRET: The Hidden History of Orford Ness’ – Tuesday, 17th January 2012 at 2.30 pm in the Methodist Hall, East Green Southwold. Entrance is £3 at the door. Lectures are open to members and visitors alike. All are welcome.
For the first Winter Lecture of the New Year, we welcome Paddy Heazell, a Cambridge history graduate and retired headmaster who became a volunteer on Orford Ness the year the National Trust opened it to the general public in 1995.
For 80 years, from 1913 to 1993, Orford Ness was a totally secret place, where military trials and tests were to contribute to the successful outcome of both World Wars and the Cold War. The men (and women) who served on this bleak and remote experimental station were largely unsung heroes. Invariably requiring high skills, extreme patience and outright bravery (several lost their lives), they have been unrecognised. There is (as yet) no memorial to the boffins of Orford. Much of their work was routine, the development of weapons and scientific research on defence systems. Some was dramatically important, notably the first researches on aircraft detection RDF – what we now call radar; likewise tests on British nuclear weapons. Some proved costly flops. And throughout these fascinating people undertook their assignments with enthusiasm and a real sense of fun.
The Trust published Paddy’s definitive history, MOST SECRET – The Hidden History of Orford Ness, in 2010. His talk must necessarily cover only in outline the remarkable story of this atmospheric place: his book, which will be available for purchase after his talk, will reveal much more. What, for example, was the real explanation for the Americans abandoning the costly Cobra Mist radar station in 1973?
We are always on the look out for suitable topics for future lectures and, if you have a subject that you feel would be of interest, please contact Hilary Huckstep (tel: 01502 724840). We have a laptop computer and projector which can be used to put your talk together – we look forward to hearing from you.
The Southwold Museum and Historical Society is a thriving society with over 400 members. If you would like to join or for any further information, please contact Hilary Huckstep (tel: 01502 724840). The Museum closed at the end of October, but we always welcome items of local interest for the collection – please telephone 01502 726097 (answerphone available) or contact us via the Museum website at www.southwoldmuseum.org.
Southwold Classical Music Society
The first meeting of 2012 will be on Tuesday, January 10th at 7.30 pm in St Edmund’s Hall, Southwold. The programme will feature two widely different composers. To begin, Roger Toke will play music by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, showing he wrote more than just the ‘Ritual Fire Dance 1’. After the interval, Miriam Bennett will explore the works of Scarlatti, with examples of his vocal pieces and sonatas written for many instruments other than the harpsichord.
Visitors are always welcome. Admission is £2, which includes refreshments. For further information, please contact Pauline Alderman on 01502 675660.
Southwold WEA
‘Some Classics of French Cinema’
The Southwold branch of the WEA is holding a course of eight weekly sessions entitled ‘Some Classics of French Cinema’, commencing on Wednesday, 18th January 2012 from 2.30 pm–4.30 pm in the Methodist Church Hall, East Green. (Half term 15th February 2012.) As our tutor, we will be welcoming back Jo Statham, whom many will remember from her previous enjoyable courses. Each week, we’ll investigate a classic from a different genre of French film from the 1940s to the 1980s. Included will be drama, fantasy, comedy, the ‘crime caper’ and the New Wave. The course will be illustrated by numerous film excerpts.
The fee will be £45.60. Means-tested benefit – free. The first session may be treated as a ‘taster session’ free of charge.
All are welcome. Details can be obtained from the Branch Secretary, Margaret Thomas (tel: 01502 724402, e-mail: mcethomas@aol.com).
British Red Cross
An afternoon of 1930s, 40s and 50s music and songs
You are invited to join us on Saturday, 21st January at 2.30 pm in the Cardinal Newman R C Hall, Manor Park Road, Southwold for this special trip down memory lane with musicians COMPANY D (Debbie and Dellon).
Tea or mulled wine, cake and raffle will complete the afternoon for just £8 in aid for our branch of the British Red Cross.
Tickets available from Daddy Long-Legs, 84 High Street Southwold.
Come as you are or dress in period.
There is a real need for more volunteers in our therapeutic care service to provide hand-care and massage for those who are unable to care for themselves. Ruth Eagling, Therapeutic Care Co-ordinator, is keen to help support new volunteers, as money, from the weekly coffee mornings, is available for training. The Home from Hospital Scheme is also short of volunteers who are trained and supported by the James Paget Hospital. They provide care which includes the administration of eyedrops following cataract operations, Lucentis care for those with macular degeneration and regular changing of TED socks. Please phone 01502 724973 for more information.
Reydon Art Group
The Spring Term commences on Wednesday, 4th January at Reydon Village Hall at 11 am. The term is 12 weeks long for a fee of £24. The first topic is Animals. These classes are mainly untutored. For further details, ring Lesley Fisher on 01502 724638.
Southwold Theatre Group
New programme for 2012
The Southwold Theatre Group has an extensive list of events for the coming year. There are tickets reserved for all the Royal Philharmonic concerts, which start in February and go on to November. The European Chamber Orchestra is visiting in March and Lesley Garrett performs with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in May.
For those who prefer the spoken word, 2012 is the bicentenary of Charles Dickens. To mark the event, we will be visiting the Norwich Playhouse in February, for an evening with Simon Callow reading from his own work on Charles Dickens. Then in May, there is a version of Shakespeare’s ‘The Winter’s Tale’ at Norwich Theatre Royal, performed by the Propeller Company.
Ballet fans have a feast of events. There will be a traditional performance of ‘Giselle’ in February at Ipswich, and Matthew Bourne’s new production of ‘Nutcracker’ can be seen in Norwich at the end of March. Then in June, the Northern Ballet Theatre comes to Norwich with an exciting new show called ‘I got Rhythm’, which includes singing as well as dancing to George Gershwin’s music.
For musical fans, there are seats booked for ‘Oliver,’ for a new date in July. (The original one clashed with the Olympic Torch relay in the area.)
If you would like to join us at these events, which have coach travel to the venues included in the arrangements, contact Christine Obern for details (tel: 01502 723437).
Suffolk Wildlife Trust, Southwold Group
Our next meeting will be on Thursday, 12th January, when Matt Gooch, Warden of Suffolk Wildlife Trust Reserve at Oulton Marshes near Lowestoft, will talk about ‘The Suffolk Broads’. This will be in St Edmund’s Hall, Southwold at 7.30 pm. Entrance: £2, including refreshments. There will be a raffle and a bring-and-buy stall. Everyone will be welcome.
The Loft Youth Centre
The churches of the Sole Bay Team Ministry are in the process of establishing a new youth centre for Southwold, Reydon and the surrounding area, to be known as the Loft. We are delighted that the trustees of the Southwold Millennium Foundation have agreed that it can be in the loft space of the Stella Peskett Millennium Hall in Southwold. We are holding a Vision Day between 11 am and 1 pm on Saturday, 21st January at the Loft. Anybody interested is welcome to come along.
We hope to be able to share our vision for the Loft and our plans for regular events, to hear from interested parties and increase awareness amongst young people.
For any further information, or to ask any questions about the Loft, please call Keith Meldrum on 01502 723221.
