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inside eykeSUMMER 2014

Will Pooley – Our Man in Sierra Leone DAVEMACFARLANE'S BUSHMASTER ADVENTUREMaria's low-calorie tasty treat TONY MATHER –PAINTING WITH A CAMERAWill Eyke lose its ashtrees? A report by Tree Warden Judy Clements

Meet theMarlands(they’re post-man Terry’s inlaws!)

And Meetthe Bees! Sandy Sutch’sapiary open day

And ofcourse...The Fun of the2014 Fete

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The 2014 fete was held on July 20th, with theBrigginshaws once again being generousenough to allow the use of their lovelygarden. The early monsoon that hadthreatened briefly to wash everything away,from the hamster game to the teddy tombolaand the Pimm’s stall, miraculously stoppedjust as the fete was about to begin, and agood two hours or more of fine, dry weatherallowed a very lively and enjoyable event totake place before the rain set in again. The fete raised a grand total of £1,733.06, to

be split equally between the church and thevillage hall, and thanks are due to all whohelped make it such a success. This year, your editor was for the first time

accorded the rare honour of being allowed tojoin Messrs Macfarlane and Shaw on theburger stall. Awed at finding myself underthe tutelage of two such grizzled veterans ofthe charcoal and the grill, I followed theirevery barked instruction with alacrity,grateful only for the chance to learn at thefeet of the masters. And indeed, all was going wonderfully until

over-confidence or a hint of inattention creptin, and I committed the cardinal sin ofserving up with a flourish a delicious bun,complete with cheese, ketchup and friedonions, but lacking the (some would argueessential) element of a burger inside it. Thecustomer concerned, strange to relate, wasso busy chatting that she had eaten two-thirds of it before she actually realised there

was anything wrong. She may remainanonymous in order to spare her blushes,but I fear that I will have to endure somemonths, if not years, of ribbing about mysuper-veggie-burger (guaranteed absolutelymeat-free). This issue also has pictures of another

fundraising event held recently, SandySutch’s ‘Meet the Bees’ morning, which alsoattracted a good crowd and plenty ofinterest. In addition we have an important and

rather alarming article on ash diebackdisease, a tale of a python at Bentwaters, aninterview with renowned local photographerTony Mather and a fair few other thingsbesides. Many thanks to those people who have sent

in contributions – please do keep themcoming. I know I always say this, but InsideEyke really is a publication by thecommunity, for the community, and we’realways delighted to receive anything thatyou think might beof interest to thevillage. Next issuewill be out aroundthe end of October orbeginning ofNovember, by whichtime this sultrysummer will be afast-fading memory.So let’s enjoy the sunwhile we can...� Tim

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with ‘King of Diamonds’printed on the front. He wasone of a handful of whitepeople in the area who are afterdiamonds and in the process of‘getting very rich or very poor’ ashe put it. We stayed in N’Jalihun at a

Shepherd’s Hospice clinic thenext night then travelled toMopala on the coast a few hoursaway. Mopala’s best links to theoutside world are by sea, it’s acouple of hours by boat toFreetown. That is not especially

remote by Sierra Leonean standards but thevillage of 400 has barely been touched by themodern world. The houses are all mud-sandand palm thatch, the water is from one

communal well and of course there is noelectricity. Every adult male is a fishermanand every woman a fisherman’s wife.”Now just about half way through his stay,

there have been other wonderfuldescriptions of his day-to-day life, includinghow to pass your driving test, and dealingwith the very complicated and mysteriousworkings of the local authorities. On a more sobering note, recently he has

learned from those who experienced it, thehorrors suffered in the civil war.Above all, though, he finds the people there

friendly, funny and hospitable, and is settlinginto his work, which is to provide home-based palliative care, generally for cancerand Aids sufferers, a facility which would beabsent were it not for the hospice. �Jackie Pooley

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Spiced Chicken Maria Hassan

Ingredients Serves 4150g tomato puree2 tsp cayenne pepper2 tsp garlic salt1 tbsp dried mixed herbsFreshly ground black pepper1 egg white60g wholemeal roll4 skinless chicken breasts cut into 12 piecesLow calorie cooking spraySmall handful of chopped parsley to garnishLemon wedges to serve

Method Preheat your oven to 220c/fan 200/gas 7 andline a baking sheet with non-stick bakingparchment.

Mix the tomato puree, cayenne pepper, garlicsalt and mixed herbs in a large bowl andseason with black pepper. Whisk the eggwhite in a clean glass bowl until stiff peaksform, then fold into the tomato pureemixture.Whizz the torn roll in a food processor untilyou have fine crumbs, then transfer to aplate.Dip the chicken into the egg mixture thenroll in the breadcrumbs to coat evenly.Arrange the pieces in a single layer on theprepared baking sheet. Spray with lowcalorie cooking spray and bake for 25-30minutes or until cooked through. Scatter with the parsley and serve withlemon.

Readers of All Saints News may remembersome traveller’s tales from Will Pooley, whenhe backpacked around India, Indonesia andAustralia several years ago. Since then, hehas trained as a nurse, and earlier this yearleft England for a six-month volunteeringstint in a hospice – the only one in thecountry‚ in Freetown, the capital of SierraLeone. The country emerged from a decadeof civil war in 2002, with the help of Britainand a large UN peacekeeping mission, andwhile progress is being made, poverty andunemployment are still major challenges.His entertaining e-mails vividly illustrate a

very different way of life, where goats andchickens outnumber people, where theaverage age is probably about 10 years, andwhere there is no mains water, limitedelectricity, and the only tarmac is what littlethe British forces left. His first couple of weeks there were spent

as the guest of the hospice director, Gabriel,in the largest and most comfortable house inthe area ‚but still with electricity for only acouple of hours in the evening, supplied by agenerator.Now in his own accommodation, he

initially resisted having a house-help, but itwas a wise move to accept in the end, ashousehold tasks are epically time-consuming: laundry by hand, cooking over afire one pot at a time, ironing with hot coals.At the end of April, he accompanied Gabriel

up-country to attend village meetings onhealth and development issues, which also,inexplicably, involved attending a politicalrally. “Our first night was spent in a largevillage a few hours away. We reached theplace at lunchtime where we attended apolitical rally for the All People’s Congress (Ithink). Gabriel is from the area originally andhas some family connections to the localchiefs so we had the privilege of attending

the bigwigs’ lunch prior to themain rally. After pushingthrough a crowd outside thehouse we were usheredinside by police with AKs.The host, rich andinfluential thanks todiamonds, had his houseboys serve us cans of ice-cold, European lager. Thedeputy leader of the APCwas there, apparently thesecond most powerfulpolitician in the country. Later, outon a nearby football pitch, the speechesbegan. They were dull, largelyincomprehensible to me and over four hourslong. The only entertainment came from the‘devils’. These devils were an assortment of

costumed characters; one a haystack, onewearing a cloak adorned with painted landsnail shells, another with an apron coveredin small mirrors and a couple in ladies’frocks, all with wooden face masks. Thedevils danced wildly to drums and gourdshakers and drew quite a crowd. Periodicallythe devils barged their way through the ringof APC supporters watching the speeches.The noisy invasion halted the speech, whichcould only resume once one of thepoliticians stumped up some cash. Once thiswas passed to a minder of one the devils(each devil had its own minder seeminglycharged with reining in its mischievousness)the devils erupted in more frenzied dancingand cantered away. As the only white face inthe crowd the devils singled me out forharassment. In order to escape from undertheir hay and frock skirts I had to give themsmall change. It was all in good humour,everyone seemed delighted at my presenceand I chatted to many.That night we slept in the house of one of

the politicians who lived in a nearby town. Inthe morning I met a neighbour, a man fromArkansas wearing a cowboy hat and a T-shirt

Tales from SierraLeone

So, it's that time of year again when we say goodbye to all the year 6 children, wishing them goodluck at 'big school', and of course get ready for the summer holidays. Unlike the teachers (whocontrary to popular belief still work during the school holidays) Diane and I have a full 6 weeksoff. Yee haar! Woo hoo! Hell yeah! I think you get the message :-) This time round I thought it wouldbe nice to try a low-fat chicken dish. This recipe is from Slimming World; for those of you who don'tknow already I am a consultant and like to try new recipes and this is one of my favourites.

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taught himself to use the computer andphotographic software to dramatise hisphotos. An example of this is themanipulated addition of tears to a child’sface to maximise a photo’s impact, or theenhanced detail of the ‘chain behind a bargerudder’ that stands at Snape Maltings.Tony’s photos cover a broad range, from

Woodbridge in Bloom scenery, andnewsworthy subjects in the WoodbridgeSociety magazine, to more specific designsubjects. He refers to his preferred style as‘abstract’. “I like the detail rather than thewhole picture’ he says. He recently won a prize for a set of photos

taken in a Cornish tin mine. Each picture is ofa detailed element of the workings of animage taken from the original, larger photoof the whole. “A bland picture can oftencontain a great photo within.” He also lovesphotographing the wrecks still to be found inSuffolk waters, as well as classic boatsstanding on the marina in Ipswich awaitingrefurbishment. “The weathered lines andbarnacled textures of boats particularly

appeal to me,” he says. He claims that “there is potentially a good

photograph within a metre of wherever youstand,” and says a varied exhibition can becreated from an afternoon in the garden. Hisrange of photos certainly bear this out and asa member of the Ipswich and DistrictPhotographic Society, he has recentlyexhibited his work in the Ipswich Town Hall,and has also won many awards. These days, far from the darkroom of the

past, he uses a digital camera and, aided bycomputer technology to achieve his artisticresults, is able to reproduce images oncanvas, often for sale in local galleries andexhibitions, or featured in some of hisinterior projects.Now both fully retired Tony and Pauline

appreciate the natural delights and featuresthat East Anglia has to offer. Tony’s futureplan however is to revive his painting skills,now with the benefit of the well seasoned‘photographic eye’, for colour, compositionand subject matter. Watch this space! �Janna McKendrick

Painting by camera

f you are lucky enough to own a 2014Woodbridge in Bloom calendar, you willalready be familiar with the talents of

Tony Mather. Tony has captured the beautyof the town month by month in his photos.Not only is he now the official Woodbridge inBloom photographer, but the WoodbridgeSociety have also requested his skills as theirphotographer for features in themembership magazine.As a commercial interior and architectural

designer, Tony spent 45 years working allover Western Europe specialising in theleisure industry, creating interiors for hotels,clubs, pubs, restaurants and bars, not tomention an ‘extreme sports’ theme park inTenerife.Tony and his wife Pauline moved to Eyke

from Kent in 2000, finding in their newly-built house the perfect combination oftraditional Suffolk design and modernconvenience. Although the move to Suffolkwas part of a retirement plan, Tony’s love forhis profession coupled with the demand forhis work meant a continued stream of

projects, both locally (the ‘Alex’ in Felixstoweand the ‘Quayside’ restaurant in Ipswichmarina) and further afield in Spain, where aonce-shelved night club project in Madridreared its head some six years later, in 2005,with a programme of ‘upmost urgency’! Nowa top night spot for locals and tourists alike.Photography was an integral part of Tony’s

professional life by way of recordingcompleted projects. As an art student in thesixties he had found himself developingother students’ photos as a means of accessto the Royal College of Art, and in thatcapacity drew the attention of Sir HughCasson, head of the College at the time, whopromised unconditional entry for the year tocome, but choosing to pursue paidemployment at that stage rather thanimpecunious studenthood, Tony found hisdesign career blossomed.Since Tony has been in Eyke, and after years

of having a team of design staff to do hiswork whilst he travelled Europe to secureand procure design contracts, he has focusedincreasingly on his photographic skills and

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On Saturday 17th June there was a ‘Meet thebees’ coffee morning at Reeves Hall in Eyke.On a beautiful sunny morning almost 60

people met the bees, caught up with fellowvillagers and enjoyed coffee, biscuits andcake in the garden.Experienced beekeepers were on hand to

explain the goings-on inside the two glasssided observation hives that had pride of

place amongst a range of bee objects. Theyshared information and answered the manyquestions that were raised on the dayregarding the life of bees. There was also atouch table with bee related exhibits, honeyfor sale, cake stall and book stall.The morning raised £302.60 for All Saints

Church Eyke. �Sandy Sutch, Beekeeper and Treasurer toEyke Church

MEET THE BEES

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EYKE FETE 2014

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espite being international jewelthieves on the run from the other sideof the county [Editor’s Note – see

‘Editor’s Letter’ in the last issue!], we decidedwe should introduce ourselves. On the lastday of January we moved into The Tithe Barnin White Woman’s Lane, from the village ofCombs which is between Needham Marketand Stowmarket. We decided we needed todownsize as age had started to take its toll,the family had their own homes and we hadfar too much land to cope with, plus a 12-foot-wide stream and three-quarters of amile of hedge that needed regular cutting.My husband Bill, having been a farmer all hislife, was used to hard work, and I helped outin the garden of course, but we knew we hadto find a smaller property which would beeasier to cope with and would give us thefreedom to enjoy other pursuits.

Our daughter Catherine and son-in-lawTerry persuaded us to move nearer to themand our grandchildren in Melton, and as ourother daughter Lynne lives in Felixstowe,Eyke seemed an ideal village in which tosettle. Sadly, since the day we moved into ournew home Bill has been very ill, and insteadof exploring the beautiful countryside, river

and forest we have spent many hours atIpswich Hospital. The diagnosis came as agreat shock, especially as we had left themajority of our friends behind, and have notyet had time to make new ones by joining inthings in the village, but we are lookingforward to attending and supporting thevillage fete. Hopefully, though the outlookdoes not seem rosy, things will gradually geteasier, and we shall be able to explore newhorizons and get to know people in thevillage before too long. Bill is a Suffolk boy, born on his father’s

farm at Earl Stonham near Stowmarket, andfrom a very small boy he worked on the farmwith their Suffolk Punches. From the age ofsix he drove wagons carting sugar beet,turnips and carrots back from the fields, andas he was so small the villagers used to say itlooked as though the horse was on its own –Bill could hardly be seen! In the schoolholidays he was allotted the tasks of horsehoeing, harrowing, rolling and ploughing,added to which there were eggs to collect,cattle and pigs to feed and cows to milk.There was not much time for play in thosedays; youngsters today would probably notbe impressed if they could not go and meettheir friends and join in all the clubs andsports available to them, but had to workinstead just for the love of it. After National Service in the RAF, he

returned home and was devastated to findthe horses gone and more tractors installedin their place. He vowed that when he had afarm of his own he would buy a SuffolkPunch, and this he did. As soon as theopportunity arose he bought a young colt –the first of many – and so we started our liveswith Suffolks. In 1979 Ousden Victor was ourfirst stallion, eventually joined by Susannah,our first mare, an enormous gentle horsewho bred us several foals. We owned otherSuffolks and bred other foals, and Bill spentmany hours schooling and training them towork on the land. We then took them toworking events held for charity, every year :

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taking a pair to work at Wantisden’s ‘Power ofthe Past’ weekend. Bill also took our horses toOtley College’s Open Days for many years,and ran weekly ‘Heavy Horse Courses’ at thecollege attended by people from all over thecountry and abroad. One mare, ColonyCandy, has a special place in our hearts: Billused her to drive our daughter Catherine andher bridesmaids to the church at Willishamon her wedding day, and she also tookCatherine and Terry away from the churchafterwards in our 1850 farm wagon – most ofyou will know Terry as your village postman!As you may imagine, it was a great wrench tohave to part with Whatton Falcon, our lastSuffolk, in order to move to Eyke, but withBill’s health deteriorating we knew wecouldn’t keep him. We made sure he went toa good home where he will be worked withanother Suffolk his own age. It was hard to leave our previous home

after so many years, but since moving toEyke we have met some lovely people whohave been most helpful in various ways. I

must mention our new neighbours here inWhite Woman’s Lane, particularly Paulineand Tony, Jane, and Stella and Alistair. Theyhave been so friendly and welcoming, and wedo appreciate the kindness they have shownus. And I must not forget Nathan; we aregrateful for his help and friendly advice aswell as his time. Of course it was a pleasureto encounter John and Fiona living so close,as we have known them for many yearsthrough our shared love of Suffolk Punchesand membership of the Suffolk HorseSociety. Strangely, we recently purchased abeautiful portrait of John and Fiona’s EykeSamphire at a SHS art exhibition, littleguessing that we were soon going to be livingin the same lane. We still have some four-legged friends, albeit somewhat smaller thanheavy horses – four dogs which we exercisearound the village lanes, giving us theopportunity to admire other people’s horses.We hope to be in a position soon to be able tojoin in some village and church activities,and to pop into the Elephant and Castle for ameal. Meanwhile, we shall look forward tothe fete, and if Jean asks, to providing herwith a cake... �Patricia Marland

A New Beginning

Meet theMarlands

DLeft: Will with Terry and Colony Candy. Top left: Bill atthe 2004 Suffolk Show with Humbug and top rightwith their 1850 farm wagonBottom right: Bill and Humbug harrowing. Bottom RightPatricia with Humbug and Candy

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So when you are roaming around Eyke takea look at the Ash trees and should one givecause for concern you can email me onjudy.m.clements@hotmail.co.uk Because a ‚‘post ash’ Suffolk will be a tragic

event I hope to begin a replantingprogramme in the autumn by raising youngnative trees from seed and eventuallyplanting them among hedgerows and in thecountryside. If any of you are eager to helpour trees it would be great if you could startplanting acorns, sweet chestnuts, sycamoreetc. during the late autumn because Suffolkwill need all the help it can get. �

In my capacity as tree warden for Eyke Iattended an informative seminar atRendham Village Hall on May 10th. The maintopic for discussion was the serious problemof Ash Dieback disease or Chalara Fraxinea.The disease is thought to have been

introduced to Europe in 1992, when the firstcases were found in Poland, and may haveoriginated from Asia, possibly Japan. It wassubsequently discovered across Europein1994, and was first detected in maturetrees in the UK in October 2012. By March2013 it was estimated that 155,000 saplingswere already infected. It is suspected thatthe first infected trees were saplings sentfrom the Netherlands to a nursery inBuckinghamshire. We are now two yearsfurther down the line and the enormousscale of the problem is becoming abundantly clear. Chalara is causing massive stress-related

tree death, with Norfolk, Suffolk and Kentbeing the main hot spots. The diseaseoriginates from the spores of the fungusHymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus whichgrows during the summer on Ash petioles(the stalk that is attached to the leaf blade)amongst leaf litter. The spores are borne onthe wind, allowing rapid spread. Spore production occurs in the leaf litter

between June and September. Leafsymptoms begin within two months ofinfection, when they start to curl and droop.During August to October black dieback willoccur. (Not to be confused with the normalblack winter buds.) Young trees cansuccumb within one growing season whilemature trees will often resist for some time.The disease eventually invades the pith ofthe tree, which is usually fatal. There are estimated to be 1.6 billion Ash

trees in the UK, making it the country’s third

most commonly recorded tree. When weconsider that Denmark has lost 60-90% ofits ash trees it does not bode well forSuffolk. At this point in time there aremore ash trees alive than there were elmsprior to Dutch Elm disease. It is expectedthat by 2018 around 75% of our ash treeswill be infected. These are some of the signs to look for.

(Don’t forget that ash trees are usually thelast to flush in the spring so slow growthdoes not necessarily mean infection.) • Blackened leaves (may look like frostdamage.)• Veins in the leaves turn brown. • Tips of the shoots become black andshrivelled.• Dark lesions, often diamond-shaped, onthe trunk around base of dead shoots.• In mature trees dieback in twigs andbranches in the crown, sometimes bushygrowth where new shoots appear furtherdown. • When the fungus has entered inner partsof the pith an ochre/lime green colour isseen on the trunk.Hopefully the illustrations will give you abetter idea of what you are looking at.

Ash DiebackBy Judy Clements

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On arrival at the HQ I went to theoperational control desk, to find a lot of pilotsin the vicinity, pleased to see me, offeringcoffee (I should have smelt a rat!). I was notthe only Brit there, as there was also a guyfrom the Dept. of the Environment. It seemedlike they had lost their python.Apparently the bushmaster is a very

dangerous snake, and doesn’t make a nicepet, so they decided to get a python instead(the rumour was they brought it in in aPhantom jet). Unfortunately, it had a habit ofescaping and hiding up somewhere warm,and on this occasion the probability was thatit was either the telephone equipmentcabinet or the heating duct – hence me andthe DoE guy.It was decided I would go first, and I was

assured that I had little to worry about as,with luck, it might be asleep. Trust me, I havenever opened a telephone equipmentcabinet with so much care in all of my life.On first looks there was nothing, but then theidiot pilot who was conducting the searchsuggested I took off further equipmentcovers just in case their python had gone inthere! In the interests of Anglo/Americanrelationships, I told him to look himself, orwords to that effect. Fortunately for me, theirpet was not there, but was found by my newfriend, the very brave DoE man, although healso declined any American request tohandle the little darling.In the end we were all happy. The 78th were

happy as they had their python back, mynew DoE mate was happy he had stoppedshaking, and I was happy that the bloodypython was not curled up in my telephonecabinet! The Americans kindly offered us acoffee after our sojourns, which we bothrefused, deciding a stiff drink wouldprobably hit the spot better. That was the endof that call-out, and a young telephoneengineer, went off to the next call, wiser tothe differences between bushmasters andpythons, shaking slightly and hoping thenext call was to be just a broken phone! �

As I’m sure many of you know, I have had alifetime career in telecomms, and back inthe 70s I was a fresh-faced BT telephoneengineer. At this time I was assigned as oneof the resident maintenance engineers onBentwaters and Woodbridge bases. Thewhole USAF infrastructure of TacticalFighter Wings, organisation and culture hada huge influence on the way in which weoperated as telephone engineers, and inkeeping the massive telecommunicationsystems working across the bases andensuring they dove-tailed into the USA andUSAF European Theatre. Now, a short whileago, I was sitting in our local hostelrychatting when conversation drifted onto thepast, when RAF Bentwaters was still anoperational station, and the Americanmilitary was a very large part of local life.Before you know it your Inside Eyke editorknow it had been persuaded into settingdown some of my memories. One story that comes to mind, was I was

told to report to the 78th Fighter SquadronHQ at Woodbridge base. The 78th Squadronwas a fighter squadron and was the only onestationed at Woodbridge Base; they flewPhantom 4D jets. The squadron was knownas the ‘Bushmasters’ and all of the pilotswore a badge on their flying suits whichdepicted a huge snake ready to strike at itsenemy. At that time, I did not realise that abushmaster was an actual snake!Off I drove down to the squadron HQ,

which was located not far from theoperational runway. I was slightlyconcerned, as a on a normal call I wouldhave been given the circuit number of thesystem that had a fault on it, and needed myattention to get it fixed. Never mind, I wasgetting used to vague information when ona call to the USAF.

Snake on a planeBy Dave Macfarlane

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