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A SPECIAL THANK YOU: A very special thanks to the Fire Brigade for turning up at the fete, and to those that were on standby for first aid.
DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME: My mother was so careful with everything. She had the same comb for about fifty years and used to save elastic bands dropped by the postman. “Don’t lay bricks with that butter” she would say. It was her post-war frugality that made me the careless, slapdash person I am today. I just lay back and think the good Lord will provide. My mum was a widow, but she managed very well. She sometimes cried on my school cookery days because her budget wouldn’t always allow for anything she saw as extravagant. I’m sure everyone who did school cookery will have had to make cheese and potato pie and Chelsea buns. “Look at the state of my home” my mother would say as I re-enacted school cookery hot cross buns at the kitchen table “They are only threepence each to buy” she would say, “and dear God just look at my kitchen”. There was nowhere warm enough in our house to set anything to prove. I’m glad though to have benefited from a prudent mother, because it makes everything I have today seem very special, and I know I would be able to draw my horns in if necessary. Budging up to one end of the bath while my mum poured a kettle full of boiling water in the other end was one such memory. My homemade bread to this day has never been up to much. There were seven stages to school bread making if I remember rightly, creaming, sponging, kneading, rising, shaping, proving and baking, and my mum seemed to get a headache for everyone practised at home!
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Hide AdBINGO AT THE BOWLS CLUB: There is Bingo in Iden Bowls Club on Friday 10th August. Doors open at 6.30pm, eyes down at 7pm. Everyone is welcome
THE PUB QUIZ: There is a quiz at ‘The Bell’, on Wednesday 15th August at 7.30pm. It’s a fun night out and everyone is welcome.
RYE AND DISTRICT COUNTRY SHOW: If you want a great day out for the family, do visit Elm Tree Farm Icklesham [TN36 4BH] On Saturday August 18th from 10am-4pm. There is a horse show, dog show, live acts, classic cars, food and drink, children’s games, craft and produce stalls, ‘Country Living’ tent, local business and trade stands, and not forgetting the live sky dive from the ‘Tigers Army Parachute Display Team’. £5 entry Free for Children under 16 free. Visit www.stmichaelshospice.com/ryeshow for more information.
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION: There is a Service of Holy Communion at Iden Parish church on Sunday, at 9.30a.m. This is a family service and all are welcome.
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Hide AdLITTLE BOY BLUE WEATHER: The weather has been glorious hasn’t it? A special treat, as we sometimes despair of England when it rains cats and dogs. Sunday’s rain was very welcome for the poor plants. I always think of that line from ‘Little Boy Blue’ when I see Iden’s golden wheat stubble on a blistering day. “He’s under a haystack fast asleep” is apt, when the air is very hot and very still and very soporific. What else can a person do on such days but grab forty winks!
CONTACT ME: If anyone has anything to add to the Village Voice, please ring Gill Griffin [telephone 01797 280311]