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furniture specialists
for kitchens, bedrooms
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01502 723550



TERESA WYTHE
Painter
and illustrator
with a Southwold Theme
07982844528

Estate
agents

01502
722065

SUFFOLK
MUSIC TUITION

Victor Scott- Teacher,
Organist, Accompanist,
Choirtrainer

The
Angel Inn,
Wangford

Good home cooking
in a comfortable atmosphere
www.angelinnwangford.co.uk



Painter
& Decorator

07747186972

A
service for the
second home owner

05600
750239
07971 030007

Building
contractors,
decorators, plumbers

01502
723636


in Reydon,
Sleeps 7, set in a
large mature
woodland garden
with
full size trampoline,
ample parking & excellent
Adnams pub at end of lane.
visit our website
RESIDENTIAL
LETTINGS
& MANAGEMENT


Holiday
accommodation

01502
722717

Coastal
Property
Services

Bespoke
services for the
2nd home owner
Cleaning, laundry,
welcome packs,
maintenance, gardening
Call Jayne 07932 636699
or Tracy 07932 244171
or
click here to emaill


Professional
mobile locksmith.
24
Hours. No call-out fee.
Guaranteed work.
Fully insured.
Local reliable friendly service.
Tel. Chris on 0782 567 9595
or 01986 872337
Click
here to email

Southwold
Voluntary Help Centre
01502
724549

Award-winning
dining pub
Queen's Head
at Bramfield


SoleBay
Travel
07726 559743
8 seat private hire
Local,distance & airports
Reasonable rates. Licensed.
www.solebaytravel.co.uk


Grace
Cottage

self-catering holiday
cottage,sleeps 4
www.southwoldcottage.com

DAWN
PRETTY

Portrait and landscape
artist. Tuition in
small groups
SUFFOLK
COASTAL
COTTAGES

Personally managed
holiday homes in
East Suffolk

Southwold
Art Circle


FAMILY
HOLIDAYS

Self-catering
for 6
in Southwold at
25 Stradbroke Road


KEY
CHANGE
The
appeal to raise funds
to refurbish the west end
of St Peter's Westleton


Friends
of East Suffolk
Performing Arts

Southwold
Museum
9-11 Victoria Street
01502 726097

LEISTON
PRESS
FOR ALL YOUR PRINTING
REQUIREMENTS
GLENN
BARNES
01728 833003


Directory
of East Anglian
businesses


Internet
mag for
young people on the
East Coast
edited by
Jack Howson

A
large directory of
resources for Suffolk
residents and visitors

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Fitted
furniture specialists
for kitchens, bedrooms
and studies
01502 723550



TERESA WYTHE
Painter
and illustrator
with a Southwold Theme
07982844528

Estate
agents

01502
722065

SUFFOLK
MUSIC TUITION

Victor Scott- Teacher,
Organist, Accompanist,
Choirtrainer

The
Angel Inn,
Wangford

Good home cooking
in a comfortable atmosphere
www.angelinnwangford.co.uk



Painter
& Decorator

07747186972

A
service for the
second home owner

05600
750239
07971 030007

Building
contractors,
decorators, plumbers

01502
723636


in Reydon,
Sleeps 7, set in a
large mature
woodland garden
with
full size trampoline,
ample parking & excellent
Adnams pub at end of lane.
visit our website
RESIDENTIAL
LETTINGS
& MANAGEMENT


Holiday
accommodation

01502
722717

Coastal
Property
Services

Bespoke
services for the
2nd home owner
Cleaning, laundry,
welcome packs,
maintenance, gardening
Call Jayne 07932 636699
or Tracy 07932 244171
or
click here to emaill


Professional
mobile locksmith.
24
Hours. No call-out fee.
Guaranteed work.
Fully insured.
Local reliable friendly service.
Tel. Chris on 0782 567 9595
or 01986 872337
Click
here to email

Southwold
Voluntary Help Centre
01502
724549

Award-winning
dining pub
Queen's Head
at Bramfield


SoleBay
Travel
07726 559743
8 seat private hire
Local,distance & airports
Reasonable rates. Licensed.
www.solebaytravel.co.uk


Grace
Cottage

self-catering holiday
cottage,sleeps 4
www.southwoldcottage.com

DAWN
PRETTY

Portrait and landscape
artist. Tuition in
small groups
SUFFOLK
COASTAL
COTTAGES

Personally managed
holiday homes in
East Suffolk

Southwold
Art Circle


FAMILY
HOLIDAYS

Self-catering
for 6
in Southwold at
25 Stradbroke Road


KEY
CHANGE
The
appeal to raise funds
to refurbish the west end
of St Peter's Westleton


Friends
of East Suffolk
Performing Arts

Southwold
Museum
9-11 Victoria Street
01502 726097

LEISTON
PRESS
FOR ALL YOUR PRINTING
REQUIREMENTS
GLENN
BARNES
01728 833003


Directory
of East Anglian
businesses


Internet
mag for
young people on the
East Coast
edited by
Jack Howson

A
large directory of
resources for Suffolk
residents and visitors

Your
local Suffolk
Directory
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Fitted
furniture specialists
for kitchens, bedrooms
and studies
01502 723550



TERESA WYTHE
Painter
and illustrator
with a Southwold Theme
07982844528

Estate
agents

01502
722065

SUFFOLK
MUSIC TUITION

Victor Scott- Teacher,
Organist, Accompanist,
Choirtrainer

The
Angel Inn,
Wangford

Good home cooking
in a comfortable atmosphere
www.angelinnwangford.co.uk



Painter
& Decorator

07747186972

A
service for the
second home owner

05600
750239
07971 030007

Building
contractors,
decorators, plumbers

01502
723636


in Reydon,
Sleeps 7, set in a
large mature
woodland garden
with
full size trampoline,
ample parking & excellent
Adnams pub at end of lane.
visit our website
RESIDENTIAL
LETTINGS
& MANAGEMENT


Holiday
accommodation

01502
722717

Coastal
Property
Services

Bespoke
services for the
2nd home owner
Cleaning, laundry,
welcome packs,
maintenance, gardening
Call Jayne 07932 636699
or Tracy 07932 244171
or
click here to emaill


Professional
mobile locksmith.
24
Hours. No call-out fee.
Guaranteed work.
Fully insured.
Local reliable friendly service.
Tel. Chris on 0782 567 9595
or 01986 872337
Click
here to email

Southwold
Voluntary Help Centre
01502
724549

Award-winning
dining pub
Queen's Head
at Bramfield


SoleBay
Travel
07726 559743
8 seat private hire
Local,distance & airports
Reasonable rates. Licensed.
www.solebaytravel.co.uk


Grace
Cottage

self-catering holiday
cottage,sleeps 4
www.southwoldcottage.com

DAWN
PRETTY

Portrait and landscape
artist. Tuition in
small groups
SUFFOLK
COASTAL
COTTAGES

Personally managed
holiday homes in
East Suffolk

Southwold
Art Circle


FAMILY
HOLIDAYS

Self-catering
for 6
in Southwold at
25 Stradbroke Road


KEY
CHANGE
The
appeal to raise funds
to refurbish the west end
of St Peter's Westleton


Friends
of East Suffolk
Performing Arts

Southwold
Museum
9-11 Victoria Street
01502 726097

LEISTON
PRESS
FOR ALL YOUR PRINTING
REQUIREMENTS
GLENN
BARNES
01728 833003


Directory
of East Anglian
businesses


Internet
mag for
young people on the
East Coast
edited by
Jack Howson

A
large directory of
resources for Suffolk
residents and visitors

Your
local Suffolk
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May
2009
FEATURES
HOW
WELL DO YOU KNOW SOUTHWOLD?
The Southwold Town Council Quiz
your chance to win £20 and a William
Godell commemorative mug
The Town Council is organizing this quiz about Southwold
as part of its commemoration of the 500th anniversary
of William Godell’s bequest to the town of land
including the Common, the marshes and so on.
Please write your numbered answers
on a sheet of paper adding your name, address and telephone
number and heading your entry "Godell Competition".
Your entry must be addressed to the Clerk of the Council,
Town Hall, Market Place, Southwold IP18 6EF and arrive
by 31st May 2009. Answer papers can be posted through
the Town Hall letterbox.
The winning entry will receive a prize of
£20 and a commemorative mug. If there is more than
one person who answers all the questions correctly, all
correct entries will be put into a draw.
The Quiz
1. Where is the Casino?
2. Where can you see the rudder of a famous beach yawl,
The Bittern?
3. How many cannon are on display in Southwold?
4. List the locations of the cannon.
5. Where can you see three children riding on an eagle?
6. Where can you see three children riding on a dolphin?
7. How many Greens are there in Southwold (excluding the
Common)?
8. What are the names of the Greens?
9. Where is there a plaque commemorating the Great Fire
of Southwold?
10. Where are Wake’s Cottages?
11. Where can you see a bassinette and two solleretes?
12. Where can you see a representation of two men in a
boat?
13. There are two places in Southwold where the Town Motto
is in public view. Where are they?
14. What is the Motto?

This is the latest in a series of articles
on stellar and tidal phenomena written especially for
the Organ by astrophysicist, Prof. Michael Rowan-Robinson
The
launch of PLANCK and HERSCHEL
Some time this month, hopefully around May
16th, the European Space Agency will launch two space
missions which have been under construction since 1993,
and thought about for many years before that.
PLANCK-Explorer will map the cosmic microwave
background radiation, the relic of the hot early stages
of the Big Bang, with exquisite detail, and will determine
cosmological parameters with unprecedented accuracy. The
small ripples in the background tell us the nature of
the matter in the universe and allow us to measure the
amount of ordinary and dark matter, and of the mysterious
dark energy that is causing the expansion of the universe
to accelerate. We can also determine the age of the universe
and how fast it is expanding today.
HERSCHEL is a far infrared and submillimetre
observatory and is the largest space telescope ever launched,
with a mirror diameter of 3.5 metres. Herschel will be
able to study the physics and chemistry of stars in the
process of formation from clouds of gas and dust, and
will detect galaxies undergoing huge bursts of star-formation
in the early universe. It can map debris disks around
nearby stars that are evolving into planetary systems,
and comets and asteroids in the Kuiper belt on the edge
of the Solar System.
Planck and Herschel will be launched together,
sitting one above the other in the nose-cone of an Ariane
5 rocket, from French Guiana. They will travel to the
L2 Sun-Earth Lagrange point (I’ll explain this in
a later article) about a million miles from earth and
orbit there, far from the warming effect of the earth.
Their instruments are kept cool by mechanical coolers
for Planck and, in the case of Herschel, by a tank of
liquid helium.
I’ve been involved with both missions
since their inception and was a co-proposer on each back
in 1993. Because the European Space Agency had funding
difficulties each mission ran into problems at different
times. In 1997 I organised a letter to the Space Agency
from leading European physicists including Nobel laureates
and luminaries like Stephen Hawking, to persuade them
not to cancel it. For Herschel I was Chair of the Scientific
Organising Committee for a conference later in the same
year to demonstrate community support for the mission.
So it will be a great relief to see them safely launched.
It will then be very exciting to see the data come in
from the two missions and to work with my colleagues at
Imperial, and in Europe and the US, to make sense of them.
And with the wonders of the internet and broad-band I
can do much of this sitting at my desk in Southwold.
Stars’n Tides now has an email
address for you to send comments and queries: starsntides@southwoldorgan.com
Past Stars’n Tides articles can be found at http://astro.ic.ac.uk/~mrr/starsntides/
It's
the WINE TALKING
by
Leslie J. Brinton of 'In the Pink' 01986 872579
Despite the wealth of wines available to us in
Southwold – referred to in this journal last
month – I hope you will still find rich rewards
in the selections available also from mailing list merchants,
many of whom deliver to Southwold for free.
I have previously referred to Yapp in the West Country,
who this year celebrate 40 years in the business; they
started at the time, in fact, that founder Robin, no stranger
to Southwold, was a dentist.
As far as I know, Robin is happily settled in France now,
but the family firm still carries on: they are members
of the Bunch, a small group of independent and innovative
wine merchants which includes Adnams, but has just lost
East Anglians Lay and Wheeler, who have been swallowed
up by Majestic.
A big feature of good merchants is the
annual, often collectable, bumper wine list that they
publish. Usually clearly a labour of love, they are dwindling
in number nowadays, but Yapps carry on and the latest
is a joy: illustrated by John Burningham and with articles
that are a mixture of the up to date and the archival
(for example, the 1976 piece by Elizabeth David on Beaumes
de Venise is unmissable).
Really, this book is essential for the wine buff and you
should give them a ring (01747 860423) for your copy:
you are in for a treat and, if you are minded to then
place an order, your pleasure will be doubled.
Leslie J Brinton
It is estimated that nearly 40% of wild
plants in the UK are of conservation concern. Urbanisation,
modern farming techniques and pollution have all had a
dramatic effect on our plants. To highlight the issue,
eight new First-Class stamps depicting rare and endangered
plants will be issued on Tuesday 19th May. This is the
third in the series ‘Action for Species’,
following on the two previous years’ Birds and Insects.
It is unlikely that you’ll see any of the plants
featured in this set of stamps locally. For example, the
Floating Water Plantain, although slowly spreading eastwards
across the UK, will take a very long time to get to us
from its natural habitat in the lakes of Snowdonia. Given
its reliance upon the canal network to assist its passage,
it’s highly unlikely to crop up in our local lakes.
The likelihood of it making an appearance locally however
is greater than that of the Lady’s Slipper Orchid
cropping up in your local field. There is a single specimen
left in the UK and that’s in West Yorkshire.
You may wish to kid yourself that you have a specimen
of the Allium featured on one of the stamps in your garden.
It is, however, unlikely to be Allium sphaerocephalon
(the Round-headed Leek), which was only discovered in
1847 in Bristol.
Those of you who took refuge in Malta to avoid the Southwold
winter may recognise Sea Knotgrass, but, if you decided
to try and bring some home and cultivate it here, you
are on a hiding to nothing. Its UK range starts and ends
in the most southerly part of the UK – and it’s
vulnerable to exceptional tides. Marsh Saxifrage sounds
as if it may be happy to set up home locally. However,
it seems to prefer the northern Pennines and north-east
Scotland.
Also in the series are Dwarf Milkwort, Upright Spurge,
Downy Woundwort, Plymouth Pear and Deptford Pink, all
of which sound as if they may be playing at Latitude this
year as well as being rare plants.
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Royal Botanic
Gardens at Kew and to recognise Kew’s conservation
work, a miniature sheet of four stamps will be issued
depicting aspects of the Gardens. This sheet has two First-Class
stamps and two 90p stamps.
So, following the men of the Industrial Revolution and
the bloodthirsty Tudors, May at last brings some colour
to our stamps.
Guy Mitchell, Spots
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