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Brownies: Lucy Gardner [email protected] 01954 211107
Cambridgeshire County Council: www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk 01223 717111
Community Association:
Anne Jones [email protected] 01954 211417
Community Car Scheme:
Marian Gibbens 01954 211709
Hazel Swindells [email protected] 01954 212998
Lizzie Coe 01954 211838 Gill Stott 01954 210952
Community Primary School: Headteacher: Ruth French [email protected] 01954 210070
Caretaker: Alison Berkeley [email protected] 01954 211591
County Councillor: Stephen Frost [email protected] 01954 211444
Cricket Club : Chris Fuller [email protected] 01954 211226
Doctors’ Surgeries:
Surgery/Dispensary 58 Green End, Comberton 01223 262500/262399
Bourn Surgery 25 Alms Hill, Bourn 01954 719313
Surgery/Dispensary 58 Green End, 01223 262500/262399
Child & Family Nurses: 01954 282830
District Councillor: Grenville Chamberlain [email protected] 01954 210040
Dragon Fencing Club: Alan West [email protected] 01954 712764
Evangelical Church: [email protected]
Co-Ministers: Steve & Kate Gaze 01954 211900/212556
Secretary: Enid Instone-Brewer 01954 210009
Football Club:
Steve Chamberlain [email protected] 07834 525856
General:
Community Education Office: 01223 264721
Ashcroft veterinary surgery: 169 St Neots Rd 01954 210250
Cambridge Water Co (supply): 01223 403000
Anglian water (sewerage): 08457 145145
Eastern electricity: 0800 7 838 838
Gas Emergency: 0800 111 999
Guides:
Janet Hayman [email protected]
Hardwick Happenings: Ed Peter Cornwell Howard Baker [email protected]
Hardwick Facebook admin Nicola Ellender [email protected] 01954 211 421
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Member of Parliament: Heidi Allen [email protected] 01954 211044
Mother and Toddler: Rebecca Pentney [email protected] 07775508217
Mums and Tums [email protected]
Netball Club: Alison Beresford [email protected]
Parish Council: [email protected]
Chair: Steve Rose [email protected] 01954 211257
Vice Chairman: Jim Stewart [email protected] 01854 212141
Tejinder Bhachu [email protected] 01954 212313
Chris Cracknell [email protected] 01954 211055
Tony Gill [email protected] 01954 211108
Jane Humphries [email protected] 01954 211822
Pauline Joslin [email protected] 01954 212395
Roger Worland [email protected] 01954 211218
Parish Clerk: Gail Stoehr [email protected] 01954 210241
Pre School: Sharon Griffiths [email protected] 01954 212823
PTA Lizzie Bennett [email protected] 01954 211949
Rainbows: Emily Li Alice Tinkler [email protected] 01954 488624
St. Mary’s Parish Church:
Priest in charge: Revd Alison Myers [email protected] 01954 212815
Churchwardens : Thelma Westbury [email protected] 01954 210321
and Chris Ford [email protected] 01954 211841
Treasurer: Clare Bigg [email protected] 01954 211673
PCC Secretary: Michaela McNeill [email protected]
Scouts: Jane Humphries [email protected] 01954 211822
South Cambridgeshire District Council: wwwscambs.gov.uk
Road repair: 03450 455212
Street light failure: 0 800 253529
Sports and Social Club:
www.hardwicksportsandsocialclub.co.uk
Secretary: Fred Rason [email protected] 01954 210110
Pavilion Bookings Contact Fred for hire forms and terms
Manager/Steward Jerry Burford
Three fifteen club:
Sharon Turner [email protected] 07787910490
Webmaster Robert Cassey [email protected]
WI: Anne Jones [email protected] 01954 211417
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Hardwick Happenings
December 2015/January
2016
Printed by Victoire Press
for the Parish Council and the people of Hardwick.
The Hardwick Happenings Team
Editors: Peter Cornwell and Howard Baker
Distribution: Marian Gibbens
Village content: Yvonne Sawyer
Village calendar: Anne Jones
Cover design by Ben Ince and Jacob Myers
Technical adviser: Robert Cassey
Proof reader: Sue Cornwell
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Editorial
There was a time when the Hardwick Happen-
ings paid for itself. Income equalled expenditure and
the resulting happiness suited all. Today this is far
from the case; last year recorded a massive loss, par-
ticularly during the period when it was impossible to
find someone to take on the advertising .There will
need to be changes. The magazine cannot continue
to leach thousands of pounds.
The advertising rates have remained the same
for a long time and the editors and the Parish Council
will deal with the inevitable price increases which
must follow. There will also have to be other changes
which will enable HH to get back on the straight and
narrow. We welcome your ideas!
Great to have a response to the query about the
refugee crisis. Thanks to Helen Baker for that. (See
P.14) Good news also from Grenville Chamberlain
about the eyesore. His letter is on P. 9
It’s a shame that none of the youth of the vil-
lage responded to the chance to earn twenty quid by
writing about Hardwick in the future. Perhaps the
prize money was not tempting enough! Eeee when I
were a lad we’d av relocated Stonehange for twenty
quid.
Peter
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Contents
Article about Heidi Allen by Howard 8
Article from NHS 14
Cambridge fire and rescue 48
Caldecote coffee mornings 27
Car sharing Sheila Stephenson 19
Comberton arts 54
Crossword 46
December /January in the garden Carole Oakes 26
Diary from St Mary’s 16
From couch to 5K 25
From Heidi Allen MP 12
Hardwick Village plan Photos wanted 7
History trivia Howard Baker 47
Letter from Grenville Chamberlain 9
Nativity outside 60
Norman Coulson remembered Thelma Westbury 59
Police contact point 19
Recipe Beef Bourgignon Carole Oakes 41
Recipe bacon twists Carole Oakes 63
Social Club fair 34
Short story Alan West 20
Tribute to Ken Basham 36
Village diary 32
Village people Howard interviews Anne J 31
WI report Anne Jones 23
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Hardwick Village Plan – Photographs
Wanted
Do you have a keen eye for a good picture?
Do you have a view about the highs and lows of Village Life
or a vision for the future of Hardwick?
We would like to feature photographs from past and present Hardwick
residents for use on the website, and in printed publications.
We are seeking photographs, in the following three categories:
Highs – some aspect of our village or community that we can be
proud of;
Lows – an eyesore or other issue in our village that should be ad-
dressed;
Future Perfect – a photographic illustration of a facility or feature
that a vibrant village like Hardwick might aspire to have in
2025. These photographs might be of a facility or community
activity in another village – possibly nearby or far away.
Photographs should be submitted by email to contrib-
[email protected] or as competition entries to competi-
[email protected]. The deadline for receipt of competition entries
is the 15th January. Competition entries will be judged in three age
groups, under 12, under 18 and adults. Names of the winning photog-
raphers will be published in the February edition of Hardwick Happen-
ings. Photographs will be featured on the Village plan website and in
future publications, reports, etc.
Further details of the competition and the rules are available on the vil-
lage plan website www.hardwickplan.uk.
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“I Can Sit On My Hands No Longer.”
As many of you will be aware our newly-elected M.P. Heidi
Allen made her maiden speech in the House of Commons re-
cently. There is a convention about maiden speeches, that they
should be short, uncontroversial and should praise the new
M.P’s predecessor and new constituency. Ms Allen fulfilled
three of those requirements; the one she missed out on was un-controversial. She praised Andrew Lansley and spoke of ‘the economic
miracle which is South Cambridgeshire’ before saying ‘I can
sit on my hands no longer’ on the subject of the government’s
proposed cuts in tax credits. She does not believe that tax
credits should be used to supplement low wages and thinks
that a debate on the future of tax credits needs to be had. She
became politically involved, she informed the House as a re-
sult of the Tottenham riots of 2011. ‘I chose a party,’ she said.
‘I chose the blue party because true Conservatives have com-
passion running through their veins. They are the party of
working people because work means pride.’ ‘Though I am
immensely proud of the government’, she said, ‘I cannot sup-
port its single-minded determination to create a budget sur-
plus’ and Ms Allen went on to accuse her party of being naive
about the lives of some of our people. She became an M.P, she
added, to stand up for the vulnerable, and in a final flourish
added that the government should not see changing their plans
as a sign of weakness because pulling the country out of debt
should not mean plunging vulnerable people into it.
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Historically there have always been two types of Con-
servative,
The One Nation type and the neo-liberals and they disagreed
over the amount to which inequality should be reduced, toler-
ated or even encouraged, Ms Allen clearly belongs to the first
group but even though they would not go as far as calling
themselves the party of working people.
It must have required great courage of her part to speak
out against her own party and to represent the people who are
struggling to support their families in the current economic
climate.
As her constituents we should be proud of her.
Howard Baker.
(Read Heidi’s account on page 12, Ed)
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Dear Editor, Very many thanks to the many Hardwick residents who have written in support of our efforts to improve the entrance to our village by getting rid of the fire damaged building on St Neots Road. Many of you have written to say how much you detest having to pass this structure and you would like it removed. I am very pleased to be able to report that the Planning Enforcement Team at South Cambridgeshire District Council has now written to the present owners at the start of a process which could ultimately lead to the issuing of Section 215 Legal Notice which will demand improve-ment. It will not result in an immediate change as the necessary warn-ings must be given but we are on a path I desperately hope will lead to the removal of this eyesore which has remained in this derelict state for far too long. Grenville Chamberlain
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From MP Heidi Allen
Well, October was an interesting month!
If you are not an active news reader, listener or watcher, you may not
know that I made my official maiden speech in Parliament on 20th Octo-
ber. Although I had spoken in the Chamber on many occasions since my
election in May, I had not so far made a “formal” speech. A local parish
publication is not the place to be political so I won’t spend too long talking
about its content – but suffice to say I failed miserably to follow the con-
ventions of a maiden speech! Short, yes…. polite, I hope so…but uncon-
troversial, no!
In brief, I challenged the Government’s approach to tax credit reform, re-
questing that the pace be slowed down and the impact reconsidered. If
you’d like to read the full text, you can do so here…..
http://www.heidisouthcambs.co.uk/news/heidis-maiden-speech
I would like to say thank you for the overwhelming support I received
from South Cambridgeshire constituents. I was literally inundated with
emails, letters, tweets and phone calls.
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It was a challenging time for me with my party, so I am so grateful for
your backing. The most pleasing result is that the Chancellor agreed to
look at mitigating the effects of the reforms and we will hear his plans
in the Autumn statement.
We have had a lot of what we call “sitting Fridays” in Westminster,
which means my time in the constituency was restricted in October.
However, I was delighted to help open Cottenham’s new £640 000
sports pavilion, alongside three-time Paralympic medallist Dan West.
This was such a successful community project. It was great to see local
builders, engineers and residents come together to deliver a valuable
asset for the community. Well done team Cottenham and thank you for
the early morning champers!
Later in the month, I met with representatives of the student bodies of
Homerton and Girton colleges to discuss the new student finance pro-
posals. It became very clear to me how the way Government com-
municates change can really make or break the implementation of a
policy. Students were concerned about the thought of having more
debt as maintenance grants are changed to loans, despite the fact that
they would be unlikely to have to pay it back. But it shows we must
never forget how people “feel” – it’s not just about black and white
policy.
On the same day I met with a group of Junior Doctors from Ad-
denbrooke’s hospital in light of the proposed changes to contracts. As I
listened to the variety of specialisms and careers they were engaged in,
it was a useful reminder for me that the word “Junior” is so mislead-
ing. These doctors will have up to 10 years of clinical experience un-
der their belts and are an essential part of our NHS. It is vital any new
contract is fit for purpose so I will continue working with them to en-
sure their voices are heard.
As always, you can contact me by [email protected] Tel
01954 212707 Twitter @HeidiAllen75/ My next surgery is 11 Decem-
ber please contact my office for an appointment
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Dear Editor, Refugee Crisis Cambridge Calais Refugee Action Group is one of many groups across the UK working to help those living in the camp at Calais. Their website states: Our aim is to raise awareness of the situation and to provide practical help to the refugees by fundraising and organising donations of cloth-ing and other items. They are currently fundraising to support convoys to Calais in order to help out at the refugee camp there. Although many people have been generous and donated clothes, the current priority is to sort and distribute the backlog of donations and improve the camp. Members of the group will be going there again on November 28th. There is an urgent need for generators as there is no electricity for most people on the site, so they will be spending money they have raised on buying these. You can find out more, get fundraising ideas and make a donation via just-giving at: http://cambridgecalaisrefugeeaction.org.uk/ If you can, please help the group to provide this desperately-needed support. Helen Baker xxxxxxxxxxxxx
From NHS Cambs and Peterborough CCG
Stay well this winter
In the past year as many of one in four residents in Cambridgeshire visited A&E when they could have used an alternative service or looked after themselves at home. Each visit to A&E costs the local NHS £87, and that’s before any treatment is given. When you look at the figures, this costs the local NHS over £4million a year. In turn this is the equivalent cost of 677 hip replacements, or 287 liver transplants or 115 more dementia nurses.
Using A&E when you don’t need to can also have a knock-on effect to the rest of the hospital, as busy A&E departments resulted in 500 cancelled operations and procedures because a bed was no longer available, and longer waiting and referral times.
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But you can help
Stay healthy – get a flu vaccination if you are eligible
Look after others – check on elderly friends, relatives and
neighbours especially in spells of cold weather, help them to keep warm and have the medication they might need
Be prepared – get your prescriptions in early before the
holidays and see your pharmacist or GP for any issues you might be putting off
Choose the right service – your local pharmacy can pro-vide confidential, expert advice and treatment for a range of common illnesses and complaints, without having to wait for a GP appointment.
For help with finding local NHS services visit http://www.cambsandpeterboroughchoosewell.co.uk/
Facebook post: Using A&E when you don’t need to costs the local NHS over £4million a year; that’s £87 per person, per visit. There are lots of other NHS services you can use instead. Visit http://www.cambsandpeterboroughchoosewell.co.uk/ for more information.
Tweets: The local NHS @cambspboroccg found 1 in 4 people visited A&E when they could have used another service. Find the right service at www.cambsandpeterboroughchoosewell.co.uk
Each trip to A&E costs the NHS £87. @cambspboroccg is encouraging residents to choose the right NHS ser-vice www.cambsandpeterboroughchoosewell.co.uk
CCG Communications Team Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group [email protected]
T: 01223 725317
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Caldecote, Dry Drayton and Hard-
wick Community
Car Share Scheme
If you need a lift for medical, dental
or social purposes such as shopping
please ring one of the Car Share
Scheme corodinators who names
and numbers are given on the inside
cover of this magazine. Please try to
give 48 hours notice and if you
need to leave an ansafone message
on one operator’s phone line.
All the drivers are volunteers
and are only paid enough to cover
their petrol costs (£3.50 to Comber-
ton or Bourn and 30p per mile to all
other destinations, payable to the
driver.
As a result of recent publicity
in this magazine several new driv-
ers have offered their services. We
are very grateful to them but still
need more, To volunteer please
contact me by phone or e-mail.
We are most grateful to Fiona
Loveridge for contacting Hardwick
Parish Cuncil and Hardwick Sports
and Social Club to ask for funding
on our behalf. Both organisations
responded positively and we thank
them for their kind help.
We wish all our financial sup-
ports, coordinators, driver and pas-
sengers a Happy Christmas and
New Year.
Sheila Stephenson,
Tel: 01954 210638
e-mail:[email protected]
Police Contact Point
The Police Contact point at Morri-
sons will be operating at the times
shown on the following dates:
Thursday 12th November – 10am
to Midday
Saturday 28th Nov– 2pm to 4pm
Thursday 10th Dec– 4pm to 6pm
Monday 21st Dec – 10am to Mid-
day
If you wish an officer to contact
you, please leave your name and
details on the cards supplied and
put into the Police letter box below
the cards.
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Jack’s Last Stand
A story by Alan West
The timbers creaked as we pitched and rolled. Outside the sun would be starting
to rise over the horizon and the canvas broken out to fill with fresh gusts of salty
air. Inside it was hot and airless. The smell of powder and salt water mingled with
the stale odour of sleeping bodies. The last of the candles flickered as the watch-
men moved past on their way to the far end of the gun deck. Jack, the ship’s boy,
was carrying water for the cook and slipped on the wet planks as he made his way
across the gun deck. It was his first year at sea and he had a lot to learn.
Moments later the call came for all hands on deck and the hammocks groaned as
men rolled to their feet and stowed away the hammocks between the cannons.
Men rushed to prepare for the day, moving nimbly between the guns and ducking
under the beams whilst stepping over the nets of cannon shot. In minutes all was
ready and the ships company was on deck to see what was to be expected of them
this day. Jack followed the men up to the main deck and stood on tiptoe to see
what was happening.
The sun was casting long shadows over the deck as the men gathered beneath the
main mast. Land couldn’t be seen by the naked eye and the sea seemed particular-
ly empty. Our raid on Valparaiso had been so easy that we felt God may now be
with us after our troubled times of late. I will admit that being loaded with gold in
unknown Spanish waters did give me cause to worry for our safety but The Black
Rose was a good, sturdy ship with a wise captain.
The captain stepped up to address us from the quarter deck; the long, angry red
scar on his cheek clearly visible to all as a reminder of how dangerous our lives
were. The company was hushed as he praised us for our bravery and reminded us
of the rewards our work would bestow upon us on our return home. He then
pointed to the still weeping scar from his sword wound at Valparaiso and said,
‘This is my badge of honour for leading such stout hearted and trusty men. Men
that will stand alongside me and fight like the devil himself. We will defeat our
enemy and win our rewards by the sweat of our labours and God will be on our
side.’
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The whole body of men cheered in agreement and chanted the captain’s name.
He put up his hand to signal silence and told us of some good intelligence he
had been given in Peru. A certain ship had left port a few days before our arri-
val and was heading to Panama loaded with gold and silver. He said we were
to give chase and every man was to look to his duty until we had made our
ground and captured the prize. A gold chain was offered to the first man to set
sight on her and call the ship to battle stations. Again the men cheered and
then turned with new energy to their work spurred on by the captain’s words.
Sixteen-year-old John Drake was the first to spot the ship. She was about nine
miles off and the captain ordered ropes and old sails to be tied over the edge
and to drag in the water. This slowed us down in our chase and all efforts
were made to make us look slow and without sail. At dusk the Spanish galleon
came near and hailed us to identify ourselves in the name of the King of
Spain. Our captain’s reply was swift and sure. ‘Get ready, my lucky bucca-
neers,’ he shouted. ‘Run up the skull and cross bones, break out the cutlasses
and get your pistols ready.’
The ships closed and the captain fired a warning broadside from the deck can-
non. My job was to watch out for Jack and he was to be my runner to collect
powder for my section of cannons. He looked on from the gun deck. Not many
merchant ships have the heart for a fight against a well armed pirate ship, es-
pecially when they see its The Black Rose. Would the warning shot be
enough?
‘Our Captain is a ruthless man,’ I said to Jack. ‘Most would rather give up
their cargo in exchange for sparing their lives than take him on!’
Within minutes the ship was a hive of activity. Sails were hauled into place
and The Black Rose was swung round to head straight for the Spanish ship
that was heading homewards, loaded with goods and plenty of Spanish gold. I
tied my scarf around my head to stop the sweat from running into my eyes
from the heat of the gun deck once we started to fire our broadsides. Would
this Spanish ship fight or surrender?
They chose to fight, thinking us a small and slow ship. Our captain fired a
cannon blast, which destroyed the Spanish mizzenmast and the ropes and old
sails were hauled in to make us more manoeuvrable. Our longer range can-
nons roared into action.
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Jack was too young to fight. His job was to get the grappling hooks ready for
boarding, then go below to run the gunpowder to the cannons. This was a time
of great danger but also of great excitement. What would the next hour bring?
Just then a huge explosion ripped through the gun deck at the bow of the ship.
The two ships came into close quarters and the order was given to fire our can-
nons. The roar of the guns, the smoke and stench of gunpowder filled the low-
er decks with the sounds and sights of hell. The restraining ropes flew about
the deck as they strained to halt the recoil of the cannon fire. Men, stripped to
the waist, worked in teams to fire volley after volley at the Spanish ship. As
the two came side by side the grappling hooks were thrown to pull the vessels
together.
The fight was on and up on deck the pirates let forth their blood curdling war
cry as they swarmed across to the Spanish ship. Cutlasses clashed, pistols
thundered as the smell of gunpowder filled the air. Still some of the cannons
roared at one another and as I turned I saw Jack running with the powder rolls
towards me. Then just in front of him a Spanish cannon ball tore through the
ship’s side tearing splinters the size of a mans arm and scattering them at speed
across the gun deck. The ball went through the ship leaving an exit hole the
size of a coach and horses in the side of The Black Rose.
As the smoke cleared I looked for Jack, but for him the outcome of the fight
was decided. The explosion had blown him across the gun deck and he, like
the cannon ball, had exited the battle through the hole in the side of the ship.
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Thanks to Alan West, former Headteacher of Hardwick
Community Primary School for submitting this story.
We welcome contributions of original writing for this
feature. Ed
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Hardwick WI is an active and friendly W.I. whose members enjoy a
variety of activities alongside our monthly meetings.
2015/2016 Programme:
16th December Christmas Carols/Festive Fare
20th January Social
17th February ‘What colour & style should I wear?’ – Luanne Hill
16th March Annual General Meeting & Elections
Our other activities over the next few months include dining out
club, darts team, a trip to the panto. If the above interests you,
please come along and give us a try.
We meet on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 7.45pm in the
community room at Hardwick School or contact Anne on 01954
211417H
HARDWICK W.I. - OCTOBER MEETING
During our October meeting we were pleased to welcome Ed Turner
who gave an interesting illustrated talk on ‘Trials and Tribulations
of Research in a Tropical Rainforest’. It was obvious how passionate
he is about his work as a research scientist.We have been busy
fundraising…We held a Produce Stall outside ‘Pippin’s’, our communi-
ty café on a Saturday early in the month, donations included plants,
fruit and vegetables, cakes etc. A pleasing amount was sold. We are
now putting together a Christmas hamper to raffle at the village
Christmas Bazaar.It is now tradition for the WI to decorate a win-
dow in the Harvest Festival at St Mary’s Church. Members donat-
ed items to be included, the perishable ones were then donated to
Milton Hospice and the non-perishable ones to Cambridge Food
Bank.
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ADVANCED NOTICE
EASTER SATURDAY
26th MARCH 2016
A group of former couch potatoes will run 10k from Great St
Mary’s in Cambridge to St Mary’s in Hardwick. They will be
accompanied by other, fitter runners and a group of walkers to
encourage them. All will be seeking sponsorship. We shall all
finish up in the garden by the portacabin behind the Church for
a soup lunch.
Walkers will set off from Great St. Mary’s at ten am.
Runners will set off at eleven am.
We need:
Other runners and walkers to join us
Stewards
Soupmakers
Sponsors
(If you are new to running, check with your GP first, then use highly recommended ‘NHS couch to 5k’ programme.)
All proceeds will go to the new Church Community
Hall fund.
Ali Marcus and Peter Cornwell
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Caldecote Village Hall Coffee Morning Dates
Held in Caldecote Village Hall from 9.15am – 11.30am on the dates listed below.
Have a cup of tea or coffee with some homemade cake and make a do-
nation to the following charities. Fri 4 December 2015 East Anglian Children's Hospice Fri 8 January 2016 Jimmy’s Night Shelter Fri 5 February 2016 Little Bundles (local baby charity) Fri 4 March 2016 Guide Dogs for the Blind Fri 1 April 2016 Caldecote Cubs and Scouts Fri 6 May 2016 Friends of Caldecote Church Fri 3 June 2016 Lisa Kent Memorial Trust (African Educational charity) Fri 1 July 2016 Caldecote & Hardwick Community
Car Scheme
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Regular weekly events in Hardwick
Day Venue Activity Time
Mon St Mary’s Crafty Bs 7.15pm – 9pm
Community Room Brownies 6.15pm – 7.30pm
Tues Scout & Guide Hut Rainbows 5.00_5 30 pm
Guides TBC
Wed St Mary’s New Mums & Tums 11am – 12.30pm
HSSC Friendship Club 2pm – 5pm
Fri Community Room Toddler Group 1.45pm – 3pm
Community Room Youth Club Alternate week
8pm – 9.45pm
Sun Hardwick Primary Evangelical Church 10.30am _12 00
St Mary’s Church Communion & SunClub
9.30am
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VILLAGE PEOPLE 2
ANNE JONES
(Interviewed by Howard Baker)
I have often noticed that in any community there is a small number of people
who do things – join organisations, serve on committees, attend meetings,
knock on doors, volunteer for jobs that no one else wants. By that definition
Anne Jones is one of Hardwick’s foremost doers.
One of Anne’s earliest ambitions was to be a teacher. Born in Ponty-
pridd and encouraged by her parents to fulfil her ambition, she trained as a
Home Economics teacher at Worcester College of Education and taught at
Newbridge, Gwent and then at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, before moving to
Cambridgeshire in 1983 when her husband Jeff (also one of Hardwick’s doers)
obtained a research post at Cambridge University. Anne’s first teaching job
in this region was at Ely, a post that she left after a year when she became
pregnant.
For the next eight years she was a full-time mother to their two children,
Helen, born in 1984 and Richard, born in 1987. During this time she estab-
lished a small catering business from home called the ‘Welsh Kitchen’. It was
in her role as a mother that she became involved for the first time in organisa-
tions in the village and more often than not, joined the committee – Mothers
and Toddlers, Playgroup, P.T.A. when her children were at Hardwick Primary
School, where she also became a school governor.
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In 1991 she took a part-time teaching post in Food Technology at Comb-
erton Village College, from where she has recently retired. She became Head of
Department, Assistant Head of Year and Head of Year whilst at CVC. She re-
members many of her students with affection and they often come up to her in
the street to tell her what they are doing now.
Anne joined Hardwick Women’s Institute in 1984, where she has been
President several times. She has served on the Parish Council, is President of the
Community Association and helped with establishing the doctors’ run, for which
she is still a volunteer driver. She helped to establish and organises Pippins, the
community café and is an active member of St Mary’s Church. Currently, she is
organising an Auction of Promises to help raise funds for the proposed Commu-
nity Hall to be built on the site of the present-day portakabin.
Anne is hardly likely to find retirement boring; she and Jeff recently be-
came grandparents for the first time – young Rhys made his first Happenings
appearance in the last issue (see Page 52).
Anne tells me that a friend of hers asked recently if her aim was to see
how many times she could see her name in Hardwick Happenings. A quick piece
of research shows that she was mentioned seven times in the last edition. Is that
surprising considering the number of activities she is involved in? And let’s not
forget that when the Happenings was in danger of folding completely, it was
Anne who called people together to discuss ways of saving it.
Jeff has also retired from his job as manager of the University Farm. At
the end of this interview they took me to their garage where Jeff is engaged in
repainting the village sign. Like Anne, he is involved in lots of work behind the
scenes for the benefit of the village. And not everything they do gets a mention
in the Happenings.
Anne loves living in Hardwick and despite having strong roots in her native
Wales, says that she and Jeff have no plans of ever repatriating
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We have a list of suggested interviews for the future. But who would
you like to hear about? Is there a special person living near you, or with
you? Ed
hardwickhappenings@gmail .com
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Christmas Fair Monday 7th December – 7pm Hardwick Sports & Social Club Proceeds in aid of Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust going to NCCU (Neuro Critical Care Unit) NCCU is a 23 bed intensive care unit specialising in neurolog-ical trauma care. They give 24 hour care until a patient is ready to be moved onto a ward. Alison Landels and Shirley Bidgood have chosen the above charity this year for their Christmas Fair. I spent a long spell in Addenbrooke’s following a fall where I fractured my skull. The first help I received was the most critical as without it things could have been very different and at that time no-body knew if I would come through it. I don’t remember much as I was in a coma but received es-sential one to one care for quite a while. When I finally woke up, I was unable to do anything. I then went on to two further head/brain injury wards and finally the rehabilitation ward. This is where I had to learn to walk, talk and generally start to live again. I won’t say it was easy as it was very hard work but the physiotherapists, speech therapists and occu-pational therapists were all brilliant and so I gradually start-ed to improve. Not everything has fully returned, but I am now able to get by and live life as best I can. Please come along to this event as all the money raised from the raffle, cake stall and wine tombola will go towards the NCCU. If anyone would like to donate a bottle of wine for the tombola, please call at 32 Ashmead Drive. Thank you for your support. Liz Coe
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KEN BASHAM – extracts from the eulogy given by Caroline Chivers After leaving school at 14, Ken started work at the Royal Gardens in Sandring-
ham which fostered his lifelong love of gardening. Hazel particularly remem-
bers the carnations he loved to grow. In 1950, aged 18 Ken left Sandringham to
complete his National Service, spending 18 months in Hong Kong which he of-
ten used to talk about and where he returned with Hazel on two separate occa-
sions for holidays. By the time he returned from National Service their relation-
ship had changed and having written to each other regularly during this time,
soon they were a couple going out, they got engaged and were married at San-
dringham in 1956. Ken continued to work at Sandringham, now as Fruit Farm
foreman, at the same time going to night school and attending courses in Agri-
culture. He then moved to Wisbech Horticultural College to teach and gain fur-
ther experience .
After Wisbech Ken, Hazel and Karen moved to North Walsham in Norfolk to the
Cubitts estate where he took up the position of Arable and Fruit manager until he
finally moved away from his beloved Norfolk in August 1974 taking on the role
of Farm Manager at Chivers Farms responsible for what was then known as the
Hardwick Group of farms.
As with many estates in the Eastern Counties the farming landscape changed
dramatically during the 70’s and 80’s and by the mid 1980’s all the livestock had
gone although unusually we were still farming over 150 acres of top fruit. And
then in 1988 I came back to home to join the family business and although my
father was still very much running the estate, by then aged 67 he was looking to
take life a little easier. So I began to work with Ken.....who might have been
forgiven for wanting to give this young and inexperienced 24 year old a slightly
wide berth. Not a bit of it! I had so many ideas, so many things I wanted to do
or change. And he was up for it! He was an understated but excellent teacher
and to be honest he probably didn’t realise how much wisdom he was imparting
and I certainly didn’t realise until many years later just how much I was learning.
Between the years 1986 and 1996 we had a scheme of taking on an annual man-
agement student who he mentored and trained during their time on the farm.
Despite our differences in age and life experience Ken and I worked well togeth-
er and I soon came to appreciate why my father valued Ken so highly. He had
an amazing combination of qualities, he was traditional and old school on the
one hand, and he set high standards which he expected to be met by those around
him, but he combined this with a constant desire to learn and improve, relishing
new challenges and never simply doing something because ‘that’s the way we’ve
always done it’
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And if all this is sounding admirable but just a bit dull, please never forget that
Ken was a great person to work with not just because of these qualities but
because he was good company and good fun to be with. Farming for him was
a serious business but it didn’t have to be done with a serious face. He had a
very dry wit and well developed sense of humour. And more than anything
this is what people have remembered as we’ve been reminiscing over the last
couple of weeks since he died. As Phil Scott reminded me, this is the man
who when presented with a garden bench bearing two bikini clad girls at his
retirement party was heard to say – once he had recovered from the shock –
that the bench he could take or leave but he’d be happy to keep the girls!! So
yes Ken loved a joke!
You won’t be surprised to hear that Ken found retirement hard. Farming had
been his life, all his life and seeing someone else in charge of what he consid-
ered to be his land was tough. His interest never waned though and for years
after he retired he was still attending farming meetings and farm visits both
locally and with a group of retired colleagues in Thetford. This he was doing
right up until a few months before he died.
But of course Ken found plenty of other things to occupy his time. His garden
became increasingly important, always immaculate but post retirement it be-
came a real feature at Redbrick. He and Hazel grew flowers, fruit, vegetables,
greenhouse crops and to complement this he became very involved in Hard-
wick Gardening club, showing his produce at the local village show and bring-
ing home prizes galore. He loved being a part of the local community, taking
an interest in the lives of his neighbours. He always had time – catching up
with Billy’s sons next door, chatting to Magic over the garden fence and I re-
member just how kind and essential was his and Hazels care for the Attwoods
during their final years.
He also developed a really keen interest in family and local history and be-
came a member of the Hardwick history group and the Cambridge History so-
ciety. I remember him telling me one day, with some pride, that he’d discov-
ered that an erstwhile member of the Basham clan had been deported to Aus-
tralia for some insignificant misdemeanour!
But I think what shone through to me, as his retirement progressed was the
very real pleasure and enjoyment he found in having the opportunity to spend
time with his family. Now his farming days were over, Ken was really able to
have the benefit of family life and in 2000 he couldn’t have been happier when
Karen married Terry here at St Mary’s and they set up home together just
down the road in Main St.
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He loved having them just up the road – I suppose quite similar to the early
days in Sandringham when several generations of his and Hazel’s family all
lived in a close knit community. Latterly they also shared holidays together,
chiefly masterminded by Ken but I know enjoyed by all four of them and this
summer despite his obvious downturn in health they still managed to have a
great family holiday together in Devon.
So now it is time for us to say a final good bye to a husband, father and spe-
cial friend who will be missed so very much. It is testament to him that so
many of you are here at St Marys today. I know all our thoughts and prayers
are with Hazel, Karen and Terry as they come to terms with a new and very
different life.
One final thought occurs to me, that farming although not unique, is one of
very few professions where one can really make a lasting visible difference to
the world in which we all live. As you leave the church today and drive
through Hardwick you will be aware of maturing woodland breaking the
landscape and adding a backdrop to the arable land in this part of South Cam-
bridgeshire. Much of this was Ken’s handiwork and I think a wonderful and
tangible legacy to land he loved and farmed.
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Would you welcome the opportunity of meeting new people
over lunch?
Have you felt the need to get out a bit more, and do you prefer spending time in small-
er groups rather than larger social events?
Then Home Lunch Club-Hardwick is the place for
you!
Home Lunch Club-Hardwick is based in a family home in the village.
It is a small friendly and welcoming group currently catering
for up to 8 lunch guests at a time, held twice a month on
Thursdays between 12:30 to 2:30. It includes a two course
home cooked lunch followed by tea or coffee and lots of chat-
ter. Guests are asked to make a donation of £4.50 each to cov-
er the cost of food and insurance.
Next lunch dates
5 and 19 November 2015
3 and 17 December 2015
For more information or to book a place or transport please contact
Jane Johannessen, Care Network, Phone: 01954 211919
Jane would be pleased to hear from anyone who may be interested in starting up
their own Home Lunch Club.
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HARDWICK FRIENDSHIP CLUB
EVERY WEDNESDAY
2pm - 5pm
ENTRY £1.00 INCLUDING REFRESHMENTS
A RAFFLE HELD ONCE A MONTH
WE HAVE OUTINGS AND GUEST SPEAKERS
NEW MEMBERS MADE WELCOME
MEETINGS HELD AT
THE SOCIAL CLUB PAVILION
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Beef Bourguignon
Recipe tried and tested by Carole Oakes
This is a great dish to cook on a Saturday when you are at home dipping in and
out of household tasks etc. It can then be eaten with friends on Saturday evening
or warmed through for Sunday lunch!
Ingredients – Serves 4
140g/5 oz streaky bacon – cut into 2.5cm/1-in pieces
8 small onions – skinned and cut into halves
600g/1.3 lbs lean stewing steak – cut into 5cm/2-in cubes
3 level tbsp plain flour
2 large carrots – peeled and cut into quarters
3 tbsp brandy – optional
2 cloves garlic – peeled and chopped
1 x bouquet garni Chopped parsley to serve
450 ml red Burgundy wine 150ml boiling water
300g mushrooms – washed and cut into quarters
1 tbsp tomato puree 3 tbsp olive oil
Method
Preheat the oven to 170c/gas mark 3.
Dry fry the bacon in a flameproof casserole until it is lightly browned. Set aside.
Add the onions and cook until they are lightly browned, adding a little olive oil if
needed. Set the onions aside.
Put the 3tbsp of plain flour into a small plastic bag and toss the pieces of meat,
ensuring all pieces are covered. Add these to the casserole with 1tbsp oil and
cook, stirring frequently, for 5 minutes. Return the onions to the casserole, add
the carrots, pour over the brandy and ignite it. Leave until the flames die down.
Add the bacon, garlic, bouquet garni, boiling water and the wine. Mix together
well, bring to a gentle boil, season to your taste, cover and cook in the oven for
1½ hours.
Towards the end of this cooking time cook the mushrooms in a pan with a little
butter/oil for 5 minutes and then add to the casserole. Stir thoroughly and return
to the oven for a further hour.
Garnish with the chopped parsley and serve with plenty of seasonal vegetables.
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1st Hardwick Rainbows
Now running with new
leaders
Rainbows have fun! Be-
ing a Rainbow is all about making friends, trying
new things and having lots of fun. They get their
hands dirty with arts and crafts, cooking and
playing games so if you're aged 5-7 years and like
those things come and join us.
We meet during term time on Tuesday after-
noons in the scout hut from 5-6pm.
For more information please contact Alice and
Emily at [email protected]
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Village voices
Readers are invited to submit
articles, poems, LETTERS,
photos, stories and opinion.
CUT OFF DATE FOR THE NEXT
EDITION :12th JANUARY
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We are a friendly group of parents who meet on Fridays in school term time; 1.45pm–3.00pm on a drop-in basis. Your first visit is free, then the session cost is £2 to cover room rental and insurance. The aim of the group is to give children aged 0–4 years and their par-ents or carers an opportunity to play, chat and meet local people in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. A typical session is: 1.45 Arrive and sign in Record drink and tick to say you’ve paid Free play, sometimes including: • Baby area • Craft table • Building blocks • Bouncy Castle • Larger ‘Little Tikes’ toys: vehicles, slide, kitchen • Train set, cars, action playsets 2.30 Snack time ‘Everyone who can’ helps to clear the tables and prepare drinks of water or squash for the children, tea or coffee for the adults and biscuits for everyone! 2.50 Tidy-up time We appreciate any help with tidying up the toys and refreshments you can give, dependent obviously on the needs of your little one(s)! 3.00 Home time If you have any questions please email [email protected]
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Across
2. Roman winter festival (10) 6. An impressive scene (8) 7. One of Jesus' three gifts (olibanum) (12) 8. Saint Nicholas' country of birth (6) 9. Vaclav from Bohemia (4,4,9) 10. They banned Christmas between 1659-81 (8) 11. Traditionally hung outside doors around Christmas time (6) 12. Two of Santa's reindeer (think extreme weather) (6,3,7) 13. Number of maids-a-milking (5) Down
1. Mulled cider (good health!) (7) 3. 22 December (6,8) 4. Germanic winter festival (4) 5. Viscum album (9)
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History Trivia
Santa Claus
When my parents told me that Santa Claus would be coming from the
North Pole and bringing presents, and that we had to shout up the chim-
ney and tell him what we wanted, they could not have known (because
they did not have access to the internet) that the name Santa Claus was
derived from the word Sinterklaas which is a Dutch dialect word for Saint
Nicholas, a fourth century priest and bishop in Myra, the site of the mod-
ern day town of Derne in Turkey. This kindly priest was in the habit of
giving presents to people, usually by putting them in their shoes.
The story of Saint Nicholas has undergone many changes over the
centuries and every country in which he is celebrated has its own interpre-
tation of it. He now seems to live at the North Pole, has a sleigh, pulled
by eight reindeer, has an army of elves to help him, and even – more re-
cently – has acquired a wife.
Another figure appeared, whom we now know as Father Christmas,
who has been combined with Santa Claus in modern thinking in many
countries, and has his origins partly in the pagan god Odin, who was be-
lieved to have led a hunt through the sky, riding on a magic horse at the
winter solstice, punishing the wicked and rewarding the good with gifts.
In Anglo-Saxon England in pre-Christian days, December 25th was the
beginning of the year, Yuletide, the festival celebrated across Northern
Europe at that time. (Incidentally, the Swedish word for Christmas is Yul.)
These days we can celebrate the birth of Christ, the practice of
giving presents, or the tradition of eating and drinking. In many cases, a
mixture of all three.
Howard Baker.
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DECEMBER BULLETIN FROM CAMBRIDGESHIRE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE IT is the time of year when we’re enjoying a tip-ple with friends, cooking heaps of delicious food and decking the halls.
The fire service has these mes-sages to make sure your festive cheer doesn’t go up in smoke:
Kitchens are a fire hotspot, so take care while cooking festive fancies. Never leave cooking unat-tended and turn off appliances when not in use.
Switch off fairy lights and un-plug them before you go to bed or leave the house. Make sure they confirm to the British Standard and never overload plug sockets.
Be careful when drinking alco-hol while smoking or cooking.
Finally, make sure you have a working smoke alarm which is cor-rectly fitted and works. And NEV-ER take the batteries out to power presents! To find out if you are eligible for a free home fire safety check, call 0800 917 99 94. Find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @cambsfrs. Contact: 01480 444500, wwww.cambsfire.gov.uk
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HARDWICK NEW MUMS & TUMS GROUP A group especially for parents-to-be and parents /carers of babies up to the age of begin mobile..
We meet every Wednesday 11 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.
Venue : In the port-a-cabin behind St Mary's Church, Main Street, Hardwick, Cambs. CB22 7QT.
Come and have a chat with other parents & share experiences
A chance to catch up with friends and make new ones
Baby play mats, seats & toys provided
Changing facilities Drinks & biscuits - donations welcome For further information please do not hesitate to us contact us. Leaders Stella ;Tel: 01954 210049 / Mob. 07903229296 Email: [email protected] Jo ; Tel 01954 213167 / Mob 07752870320 Email [email protected]
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Marquees for hire
We can pitch, strike and deliver the marquees to you if needed. Pitching; £40 per marquee per event. Delivery from £35
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Girlguiding in Hard-In Hardwick there are opportunities to be-long to any section of GirlGuiding. If you want any more information about any aspect of GirlGuiding, please contact :
Jane Muncey tel 01954 210570, email [email protected] or contact our County office at; [email protected]
Rainbows
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Norman Coulson Remembered
It was with great sadness that we learnt of his sudden death a
few weeks ago.He will be remembered as one of the founding
members of the Hardwick Gardening Club, which was started
over 34 years ago, and he and Denise played an active part, up
until the club closed in October 2013.
Norman was an enthusiastic gardener, supplying fruit,flowers,
and vegetables for the club's annual fund raising stall, and en-
tering and winning with his many exhibits in the annual show.
He opened his garden to the club on numerous ocassions, and
it was always imaculate and the envy of many of us.He was
always willing to offer help, and to pass on his extensive
knowledge of gardening matters
He gave a number of talks to the garden club over the years,
illustrated by beautiful slides he had taken himself.One partic-
ularly comes to mind, of his trip through Canada that he and
Denise took some years ago,
He also audited a number of the village club accounts, and as
treasurer of the church and Garden club at various times,l was
very grateful for the help he gave me.
Norman was a gentleman in the true sense of the word, and he
will be very much missed by his friends and fellow members
of the Hardwick Gardening Club.
Thelma Westbury
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Village Calendar
If you are planning a village event, try to avoid a clash with an al-
ready organised event and let me know details as soon as possible so
that I can include it in the village calendar which you will see in the
middle pages of the Hardwick Happenings. An advertisement for the
event needs to be sent to the editor at
The village calendar is then sent monthly to Robert Cassey
(webmaster) to be included on the Hardwick Website and Nicola El-
lender (administrator) to be included on the Hardwick Facebook. In
so doing, we hope to get the information to as many people in the
village as we can. Anne Jones
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Bacon Twists Recipe tried and tested by Carole Oakes
This one is for the children, who will all love making these during the school
holidays (younger children may need some help with the kneading).
Ingredients – makes 12
450g/1 lb strong white flour
6g/¼ oz sachet easy-bake yeast
½ tsp salt
400ml/14 fl oz hand-hot water
12 rashers streaky bacon
1 egg - beaten
Method
Put the flour, yeast and salt in a bowl, stir together. Add a little of the water
and mix with a knife. Add the remaining water and use your hands to pull the
mixture together, to make a sticky dough.
Turn the dough on to a well floured surface and knead it for 5 minutes or
until the dough is smooth and stretchy (younger children may need some
help with this).
Divide into 12 pieces and roll each piece into the shape of a sausage.
Lay each bacon rasher on a chopping board and run a knife down its length,
to stretch it. Wind a rasher of bacon round each dough ‘sausage’, being care-
ful not to wind too tightly otherwise the dough will not ‘prove’ (rise) proper-
ly.
Brush the ‘sausages’ with the beaten egg and arrange them on a lightly oiled
baking sheet. Leave somewhere warm for approximately 30 minutes, until
they have doubled in size. Heat the oven to 200c/gas 6 and cook the
‘sausages’ for 20-25 minutes, until cooked and nicely browned.
These are totally delicious to eat whilst still warm, on their own, dipped in a
soft boiled egg, with soup, with a cheese and herb dip, you decide!
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