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Saturday, 17th May, 6.45/7pm @ Reydon Sports & Community Centre
We are planning to carry out carriageway repairs along Mount Pleasant, Princess Road and Moyse Avenue, Reydon.
The works are programmed to take place between 8am and 6pm on Wednesday, 9th April, Thursday, 10th April and Friday, 11th April. During this time, the road will be closed to ensure the safety of highway users and our operatives.
For the duration of the closure, traffic will be diverted via Covert Road, Coxes Lane and vice versa.
To enable us to carry works out as planned, we ask that local road users please move their vehicles from the area highlighted by ‘no parking’ cones.
As we plan roadworks in advance, we schedule extra days to allow for bad weather or other delays beyond our control. If we need to make major changes to our work dates, we will update the information signs on site and our social media channels accordingly.
A plan showing the diversion route for these works can be downloaded by clicking here. When we close the road and put a diversion in place, the route needs to be accessible to vehicles of all shapes and sizes. We make our diversions as clear as possible by placing appropriate signing along the route. The latest updates on our works can be found on the One.Network website.
There may be times that essential emergency works are required to take place on the highway network without advanced notice – you can follow Suffolk Highways on Facebook for the latest emergency roadwork updates.
If you have any queries on the above, please contact us on 0345 606 6171.
Suffolk Highways
The March Community Quiz was held on 21st March, with Nick Humphry as quizmaster. As always, a lively evening ensued, with plenty of discussion, laughter and banter!
Winners were ‘If Onlys’ with 116 points; in second place, ‘Who are we?’ with 114 points; and in third place, ’Threes Company’ with 108 points.
Together with proceeds from the raffle, the evening raised a generous £325. This will be donated to the Reydon and Southwold Pantomime Group, who greatly entertained audiences with their recent and very entertaining version of Aladdin. This wonderful group entertains, gives members young and old the opportunity to perform, and raises money for local charities too. We wish them well for their next production.
A huge thanks as always to our loyal quizzers for their generosity, participation and support, to hosts Sole Bay Bowls Club and raffle helpers. Thanks also to Southwold Press for providing paper for the quizzes.
The next quiz will be on Friday, 18th April (Good Friday) and this will be the last of the season. There is sometimes space for another team, so do contact me if you are interested in joining us at ahumphry@talktalk.net.
Barn owls and red kites
The Blyth Valley and Southwold Group of the Suffolk Wildlife Trust welcomed Simon Dudhill from the Hawk and Owl Trust to talk about his work with barn owls and red kites. Simon has worked for many years with owls and other raptors, monitoring their progress, and building nest boxes suitable for each type of bird. Owls don’t build their own nests, but rely largely on outbuildings and trees. The reduction of these habitats has meant that now 80% of barn owls use large oblong or triangular boxes, which you may well have seen. If a barn owl chick falls out of its box, it is in grave danger as its parents do not look for it or try to feed it. However, it is sometimes possible to foster a found chick by placing it in another carefully selected nest box. Simon and his colleagues monitor over 800 boxes in an area radiating out from Peterborough. They are licenced to check and ring the birds, and, happily, this species is now generally secure.
The second part of the talk was about red kites. Spain has asked the RSPB for help with its declining red kite population. Northamptonshire is highly populated with kites, and it is here that Simon, as part of a team, is finding chicks to help with this project. The scheme has been running for three years now and, so far, 96 chicks have settled into their new homes. The process is done with great care. Forestry England supplies experienced and licenced climbers who can bring chicks down to the ground. There is always one chick left in the nest, and the same nest is not revisited for three years. They are carefully and fully health-checked, ringed, and fitted with GPS trackers before their journey to their new habitat. They are now breeding successfully with local birds and rearing their young.
The photography was beautiful, and it was a fascinating and enjoyable evening.
Our next meeting is back at the Southwold Arts Centre IP18 6JP on Thursday, 10th April at 7.30 pm. There will be a short AGM followed by a film, The River Gipping, featuring Paul Heiney. There will be refreshments and a raffle. Admission free.
Contact us at swtblythvalley@gmail.com.
Penny Mansfield
Friday, 25th April, 7pm @ Reydon Village Hall
£5 per person.
Teams of up to six.
Bring your own snacks and drink.
Raffle!
Soft drinks, sweets and crisps available to buy.
Book your tickets with Charlotte at Southwold Library (tel: 07715 388916; e-mail: frogclock@hotmail.com). All funds towards the RVH Golden Anniversary Appeal Fund to repair, renovate and refit the Hall.
Friday, 28th March, 6.30pm – Eyes Down 7pm @ Reydon Village Hall
£5 per person.
Bring your own refreshments or purchase soft drinks/snacks.
Prizes! Raffle!
Book your tickets with Charlotte at Southwold Library (tel: 07715 388916; e-mail: frogclock@hotmail.com). All funds towards the RVH Golden Anniversary Appeal Fund to repair, renovate and refit the Hall.
Friday, 21st March and 25th April, 9am–12.30pm @ Reydon Village Hall
• Tea/coffee and toast (pastries when available) 9–11am.
• Soup and bread (plus takeaway soup – bring your own container)11am–12.30pm.
Reydon Village Hall Management Committee in conjunction with Reydon & Southwold Community Fridge & Pantry.
Wednesday, 19th March, 6.30pm @ Reydon Village Hall
Already well reviewed in The Sunday Times and The Financial Times, Simon Scarrow will be talking about his writing and his new book, A Death in Berlin, featuring CI Horst Schenke fighting crime against the backdrop of wartime Berlin.
He is a Sunday Times No 1 bestselling author with several million copies of his books sold worldwide. After a childhood spent travelling the world, he pursued his great love of history as a teacher, before becoming a full-time writer. His books – which have sold six million copies – include two earlier WW2 Berlin thrillers featuring CI Schenke, Blackout, which was a Richard & Judy Book Club Pick and a Sunday Times bestseller, and Dead of Night, which was a Top 10 bestseller – alongside his bestselling Eagles of the Empire series set in the Roman Empire featuring centurions Macro and Cato.
Simon is also the author of a quartet of novels about the lives of the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon Bonaparte, Young Bloods, The Generals, Fire and Sword, and The Fields of Death; a novel about the 1565 Siege of Malta, Sword & Scimitar; Hearts of Stone, set in Greece during the Second World War; and Playing with Death, a contemporary thriller written with Lee Francis. He also wrote the novels Arena and Invader with T J Andrews.
Tickets – £6, with free glass of wine/juice – available from Southwold Library (tel: 01502 722519; or online: www.ticketsource.co.uk/suffolklibraries).
Book now and enter our draw for a free copy of A Death in Berlin (which Simon will sign for you at the event).
