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Pied Wagtail
Characteristics
The pied wagtail is a long-tailed small bird, unmistakable with its bold black, grey and white plumage. The male's summer plumage has a white forehead, cheeks and belly; jet-black crown, nape, throat, breast, back, flanks, tail and wings, but the tail has white outer feathers and the wings have white wing bars and white edges. The non-breeding male's winter plumage is greyer.
The female is mostly dark grey but the crown, throat, breast, rump and tail are black. Juveniles are brownish-grey and often tinged with yellow.
Habitat
Pied Wagtails can be found across the UK and are usually found near water in most habitats, even town centres. They gather together in large roosts, often assembling in trees or on roofs. They can also be seen in open places including fields, farmyards, parks, and meadows.
Behaviour
Pied Wagtails can be distinguished by their constant tail wagging. When they are not standing and frantically wagging their tails up and down they can be seen flying over lawns or car parks in search of food. When in flight, the Pied Wagtail utters a high-pitched "chissick" sound.
Pied Wagtails generally feed on insects that it finds when searching lawns, fields and verges. They build their nest in holes in walls, buildings, or old nests of larger birds, using grass and mosses to construct the small cup-shaped nest. The eggs are smooth, pale grey with dark grey spots, and about 20 mm by 15 mm. The male and female take turns incubating the eggs, and both adults feed the young.
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Our four self catering cottages near Minsmere in Suffolk are situated in a secluded wooded setting on the owner's 70 acre farm in rural Suffolk, a few miles from the glorious Heritage Coastline. Each Cottage sleeps four adults (plus baby) and are set in fully landscaped grounds with mature trees and orchards, and has access to an on-site swimming pool and a childrens play barn (Moo Play Farm). An ideal setting for that Suffolk Cottage Holiday near Minsmere, Southwold and the Norfolk Broads.
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BODYWISE FITNESS CENTRE in Bungay is now in its 7th year, and Bodywise can literally be said to be going from strength to strength. In fact over a thousand local people regularly use the gym and membership continues to rise unabated.
With so many advantages to maintaining fitness - not least flexibility; lowering cholesterol! blood pressure/anxiety; improving posture and general life expectancy, it is not surprising that new beginners look for a gym that can offer patient advice and good all round care.
James Paterson is a fully qualified gym instructor and first aider. All new members fill in a medical questionnaire and undertake a short taster session on some of the basic equipment. This allows for an individual training programme to be devised that will cater exclusively for that new member.
Most importantly all members receive permanent on-going supervision to ensure they are achieving the maximum enjoyment and results. Friendly and approachable staff are always on hand seven days a week.
James really takes your fitness seriously, which is particularly encouraging for those members only just starting out, or those with any special needs. In fact the gym is able to cater for many disabled clients, designing a programme specifically for individual needs. Personal attention is paramount.
Fitness awareness, like the Atkins diet, is a very popular phenomenon yet James is a dedicated, long term professional who imparts his thorough expertise by giving customers prolonged fitness that should be the key to a new happy, healthy lifestyle.
Most gym enthusiasts will already know of Bodywise’s excellent variety of equipment. Along with all the customary treadmills; rowers; step machines; Swiss balls and so on, the gym has a notable selection of free weights and resistance machines. New equipment includes cross trainers and seated rowers plus an ab-machine.
The huge, ex-warehouse has been skilfully designed with over 45 variable work stations set in a bright modern environment: fully carpeted and wall mirrored and with tasteful showers and locker rooms. There is even a professional vertical sunbed offering fast tanning at just £1 for three minutes.
James is also a qualified personal fitness trainer and can offer the ultimate one to one session for anyone who has a mission to achieve that peak performance.
Bodywise is of course open to both male and females of any age (over 16). Potential new members are warmly invited to come along and view the facilities. There is easy parking in the extensive car park. From there on it is up to you, with a little professional guidance, to take on the challenge of getting the best out of yourself. It makes perfect sense and perfect bodies too. What more incentive could there be?
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Fans of BBC Springwatch will have seen the fantastic wildlife and beautiful surroundings of Pensthorpe Nature Reserve & Gardens, near Fakenham, in North Norfolk. This summer the wildlife haven is holding a series of guided evening walks which offer visitors a unique opportunity to experience the natural wonders of the reserve in the company of Pensthorpe experts.
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The Topical Budget newsreel here presents a novelty 'story' that would appear to have no greater purpose than to enable audiences to ogle the 'brighter Blackpool beauties' in their knitted swimming costumes. There's quite a lot of sliding and diving, but mercifully little bombing or petting to worry the lifeguard. (Robin Baker)
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Heatwave continues – so try to stay cool
NHS Suffolk would like to advise people once more of how to take care in the heat.
Today the Department of Health has announced that the heatwave temperature has been reached in one or more regions, raising the situation to alert level 3.
This temperature level is triggered by the Met Office as soon as the risk is 60% or above for threshold temperatures being reached in one or more regions – on at least two consecutive days and the intervening night.
However, the Met Office states that for the East of England, “most of this area [is] very unlikely to meet heatwave criteria, but the west and south of the region bordering the Midlands and London are still at risk. Further east the risk is less than 50%.”
The heat can affect anyone, but some people run a greater risk of serious harm. These include older people, babies and young children, and people with a serious chronic condition, particularly breathing or heart problems – so looking out for other people is important at this time.
Dr David Kanka, deputy director of public health at NHS Suffolk said: “In terms of advice to stay cool as the high temperatures continue, mostly it’s a matter of common sense. Listen to your local weather forecast, and plan ahead to reduce the risk of ill health from the heat. Also, keep out of the heat – avoid going out in the hottest part of the day (11am – 3pm) and if you must go out, stay in the shade.
“Wear a hat and light, loose fitting clothes, preferably cotton. And if you’ll be outside for some time – think ahead – and take plenty of water with you.”
Other tips for staying cool:
- A loose, cotton, damp cloth or scarf on the back of the neck, or spraying or splashing your face and the back of your neck with cold water several times a day can help keep you cool.
- Stay inside, in the coolest rooms in your home, as much as possible.
- Reduce heat from sunlight coming through the windows. External shading, e.g. shutters, is best. Metal blinds and dark curtains may absorb heat and make the room warmer – it is best to use pale curtains or reflective material.
- Keep windows closed while the room is cooler than it is outside. Open them when the temperature inside rises, and at night for ventilation.
- If you are worried about security, at least open windows on the first floor and above.
- Indoor and outdoor plants will help keep your home cool due to evaporation and the shading from trees and bushes.
- Take cool showers or baths.
- Drink regularly even if you do not feel thirsty – water or fruit juice are best.
- Try to avoid alcohol, tea and coffee. They make dehydration worse.
- Eat as you normally would. Try to eat more cold food, particularly salads and fruit, which contain water.
Seek advice if you have any concerns:
- Contact your doctor, a pharmacist or NHS Direct if you are worried about your health during a heatwave, especially if you are taking medication, if you feel unwell or have any unusual symptoms.
- Watch for cramp in your arms, legs or stomach, feelings of mild confusion, weakness or problems sleeping.
- If you have these symptoms, rest for several hours, keep cool and drink water or fruit juice. Seek medical advice if they get worse or don’t go away.
The Met Office www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/heathealth/print.html
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William Shakespeare
Performed by the
RoughCast Theatre Company
July 2009
What happens when a bunch of shipwrecked mariners wash up on an island peopled by the indolent rich who spend their time in love intrigues? The cat is very much put among the pigeons and the old love order is turned upside down. But the lovers must watch out, there are pranksters about!
Twelfth Night is a play about love and self love, about who we are and what we are about. Following their successful tour of King Lear, RoughCast Theatre Company return with an outside production of this Shakespeare favourite featuring those much loved characters Malvolio, Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
The play is set loosely in the early 1980s, a time of New Romantics and the beginnings of modern Goths. In contrast to today, it was a time of excess. Greed was good. And we find people in this play who have wealth enough to do little more than spend their time navel gazing about themselves and the state of their emotions. We also find people who, though not wealthy themselves, are social hangers-on who have nothing better to do than play tricks on others. It is very much the world of the Hoorahs. But into this self-contained world come people with real emotions and bring it back down to Earth.
All performances begin at 7.30pm and tickets are £8 and £6 concessions unless stated otherwise.
July 3rd - The Ship Inn, Dunwich
No tickets required, collection after performance. Pub serves food tel 01728 648219
July 4th - Wingfield Barns
Tickets £8 and £4 under 18s
Box Office 01379 384505 or enquiries@wingfieldbarns.com or www.wingfieldbarns.com
Bring folding chairs/blankets/picnics. Bar.
Lee Miller exhibition also on, combined ticket available
July 5th - The Moathouse Garden, Framlingham
Box office 01728 724649 or visit www.artsframlingham.org
Bring folding chairs/rugs/picnics
July 10th - The Low House Garden, Laxfield
No tickets required, collection after performance. Pub serves food
July 11th - Debenham Festival (The Primary School)
Performance starts at 3pm
Tickets available from The Spiral Gallery, 46, High St., Debenham or tel 01379 586745
July 12th - The Cornwallis Arms, Brome
Performance starts at 4pm
Box Office 01379 586745
July 16th - Dragon Hall Courtyard, Norwich
Box office 01603 663922
July 18th - The Swan garden, Hoxne
Box office 01379 586745. Pub serves food.
www.roughcast.co.uk
When asked to do something, how often do we exclaim ‘I haven’t got time’! More important, how often is it true? What we really mean is there are other things we would rather do instead or consider more important.
There are many definitions of the word time but the one that most affects our lives is; -- ‘A quantity measured by angle through which the earth turns on its axis’. At the same time it circles the sun to give us our seasons as well as the days and consequently Greenwich Mean Time by which our clocks and watches are set. No matter what our station in life, we are all obliged to fit our lifestyle into the perpetual progression of time.
Right up to the First World War it was only the well off that were able to afford clocks and pocket watches but people found their own ways of knowing what time it was. Those working outside and in the fields knew when the trains going by were due and even when they couldn’t see them they could hear them. Generally trains ran to schedule in those days.
Many Schools had a large bell in a purpose built tower above the building that was rung before lessons began to hurry the children on their way. In almost every town and village people were aware of the time on Sunday mornings when the Church bells were peeled for half an hour before the Morning Service was due to start. Some also had Church clocks that chimed every quarter of an hour. Unfortunately if the wind was blowing strongly from the wrong direction they couldn’t be heard.
To us human beings time is relative to our three score years and ten, whereas to some creatures, like butterflies, it’s only a matter of hours. When we are told to take time out to concentrate on or do something in particular, it really has no influence at all on time and actually means we are just re-adjusting our routine. No matter how long it takes us to do so, time continues to pass without our having any affect on its progression and it can never be saved or retrieved. It’s gone forever!
TRAFFIC AND TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FESTIVAL
Latitude Festival takes place for the fourth year at Henham Park from the 16th July. Latitude is a performing arts festival in one of the UK's most incredible settings on the sunrise coast. Organisers Festival Republic are keen to encourage festival goers to respect the local environment and local residents and have put in place public transport options to encourage everyone to leave their cars at home: -
Travelling to the festival
Getting to Latitude Festival couldn't be easier with a convenient network of coaches, trains and shuttle buses to get right into the heart of the festival.
With transport to the festival the biggest contributor to CO2 emissions, public transport options are essential to lightening the festival's environmental load. Not only that, it will also help to reduce congestion in the car parks and on the surrounding roads.
BY BIKE & FOOT
Travelling to Latitude Festival by bike is of course the most environmentally friendly way of getting there. There will be bike racks available onsite for cyclists at Green Gate 1A on the A145. Day ticket holders arriving by bike should use Green Gate 1A to get onto site nearest to the day ticket holder entrance.
National Express East Anglia has advised that there is only limited space available on trains for the conveyance of cycles. Visitors travelling by train to the festival are therefore requested to avoid taking cycles.
There is no pedestrian access to the festival site, the roads around the site are not suitable for pedestrians - please use the local buses provided, or the Halesworth Shuttle bus. See further information on our website www.latitudefestival.com
COACH SERVICES
We have joined up with Anglian Bus, See Coaches and National Express to offer a variety of convenient and good value public transport options.
Ecotravel Fact: Travelling in a full coach is the greenest form of motor transport with each journey generating less than 10% of CO2 per person than those who travel alone by car. (1)
More details of the above coach services are available on our website www.latitudefestival.com
TRAIN TRAVEL
Travelling by train to the Latitude Festival has never been easier. This year, we have teamed up with National Express East Anglia and Anglian Bus to offer a combined bus and rail ticket. You will have a pre-booked ticket from London Liverpool Street to Ipswich and then pick up the shuttle bus to Henham Park, operated by Anglian Bus.
A special range of fares is on offer starting at a competitive £38.00 from London. Other reduced rate fares are available from your nearest major NXEA station. Customers are advised to avoid travelling via Halesworth station as capacity and frequency is very limited. A special website has been created at http://www.nationalexpresseastanglia.com/latitude
National Express East Anglia has agreed to honour train tickets to and from Halesworth on Ipswich trains if Halesworth trains are too busy.
For further information on rail services or to book tickets call 08456 007245 (National Express East Anglia) or 08457 484950 (National Rail Enquiries) or visit www.nationalexpresseastanglia.com
Ecotravel Fact: Travelling by train emits three and half times less CO2 than travelling alone by car. (2)
SHUTTLE BUSES
Shuttle buses run by Anglian Bus will leave regularly from both Ipswich and Halesworth train stations and will travel straight through the gates into site to the festival bus station. The shuttle buses run regularly, the operation should be smooth and hassle free and there will be enough shuttle buses to meet the demand. Full info can be found at www.latitudebuses.co.uk
LOCAL BUS SERVICES
Anglian Bus are running a special bus from Southwold to the Latitude Festival bus station via Wangford, Reydon and Blythburgh in the morning and early afternoon returning between 23.10 and 23.50 each night. Please see www.latitudefestival.com for the full timetable.
CAR TRAVEL
Henham Park, the site of Latitude Festival, is between the A12 and A145 north of Blythburgh in Suffolk. From the A12 and from the A145 follow the Festival signs. Please note that clearway orders are in place on the A12 and A145 which means that you can't stop on the public highway and the police will be enforcing this. Please don't stop but follow the signage straight into the car parks.
Tickets will be checked inside the site and not on the gates with the A12 and A145. Please travel straight into site where you will be able drop passengers off, find out answers to any questions you might have about the festival and exit back onto the main roads.
Ecotravel Tip: If you must bring your car, please consider transporting as many people as possible and travelling at off peak times. This reduces congestion considerably and for every extra person in your car you drastically reduce the amount of CO2 emissions per person. Having four people in a car actually brings the CO2 per person down to less than on a train! (3)
Peak traffic flows are likely on the afternoon of Thursday 16th July and on the morning of Friday 17th July and then late evening on Sunday 19th July and before noon on Monday 20th July.
Weekend and day car parking is separate to the campsites in adjacent or nearby fields. Parking is included in the price of your ticket. No sleeping, camping or fires are allowed in the car parks.
All drop offs and pick ups are via Green Gate 1A on the A145 including by taxi. You can enter the site, drop off and exit the site via Green Gate 1 back onto the A145. For safety reasons, please do not drop passengers off on the main roads, there are no pavements - you can drop them off safely and easily well inside the site. There is no pedestrian entry from the gates on the A12 and the A145 into site so if you are dropping someone off or picking them up, you need to use the drop off / pick up point inside the site.
The routes to the festival will be well signposted and have been publicised via promotional literature, the internet and in written information sent out with all tickets to the event.
Those travelling from the south on the A12 will be directed straight into site from the A12.
Those travelling from the Lowestoft direction on the A12 and day ticket holders will be directed straight into site from the A145 via Middle Barn Lane which connects the A12 and the A145
Those travelling south on the A145 from the Beccles direction will be directed straight into site from the A145.
Lift Share
If you have to come by car because the bus and train just won't work for you, please try and fill up all the seats in your car. It really does make a difference to congestion and emissions.
One way to do this is to register for Liftshare and either offer a seat or request a ride on our Latitude Liftshare site. Visit www.liftshare.com.event/2 to register. There is also a link on the Latitude Festival website.
There are almost 900 people registered on Liftshare for Latitude. If just a third of them matched lifts, that's a potential saving of almost 24 tonnes of CO2. (4) We would like this to at least reach this target so please register for Liftshare and offer a seat in your car, helping to reduce carbon emissions.
Ecotravel Fact: If every car coming to Latitude Festival had 4 people in it, there could be almost 3000 fewer cars and a reduction in CO2 emissions of almost 240 tonne! (5)
Day ticket holders / public transport
Day ticket holders wishing to travel to site using public transport rather than by lift-sharing or by car are advised to plan their return journey after the main entertainment finishes in advance as there are no train services from Halesworth or Ipswich at that time of night and therefore the shuttle bus will not run at that time. Anglian is running a late night coach to London. Taxi services have been invited to come to site to pick up at this time however it is advisable to book in advance. Taxi companies will be sent maps of the site and should be told to enter site via Green Gate 1A on the A145 for pick-ups for day ticket holders at the onsite taxi rank.
There is also a day ticket holder campsite onsite for day ticket holders that cannot travel home that night and wish to stay overnight instead and travel home the following morning. Facilities are limited but there is no charge for the use of this campsite.
FURTHER INFORMATION ON LATITUDE FESTIVAL
Press Enquiries - PRESS COUNSEL 0207 792 9400
Festival Information - www.latitudefestival.com
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Jazz On A Summer’s Afternoon
So please bring your picnic to Harleston Magpies Hockey Club at Weybread (IP21 5UF) and be entertained by the foot-tapping and high quality Dixieland jazz of ‘Suffolk’s favourite stompers’ at this event being organised by Harleston Lions, Scouts and Hockey Club on Sunday 5 July 2009. Gates open at 3.00pm (licensed bar) with the live musical entertainment commencing at 4.30pm.
Since their formation in 1989 the Dixie Jazz Bandits have performed to growing acclaim. Please come to hear the band recapturing the irrepressible sounds of the New Orleans and Chicago immortals with the added attraction of Mary Lou Lambert on vocals. Their music is fun, it SWINGS and is to everyone’s ears. A most enjoyable afternoon is assured. You will be very welcome. Please come despite the weather as the event will be held in a big marquee.
For tickets - £10 adults (accompanied Under 18’s free) - please phone Mike Withinshaw on 01379 852002. 
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Norfolk’s big skies and wide open spaces put the county firmly on the map as a walker’s dream cottage holiday destination – with routes covering coast, country, fen and forest there’s no better way to discover the region than on foot.
Now a new guide makes it easy to plan refreshment stops along the way. The Norwich and Norfolk branch of the Campaign For Real Ale has just published a ‘Real Ale Walks in Norfolk’ book, which documents the history of local pubs and the ales they serve.
Several years in the making, the book also includes many interesting facets of local history and landmarks, along with extensive notes about the pub buildings, their history and ranges of beers.
Copies are available by mail order, price £6.95 including postage and packing – send cheques made payable to N & N CAMRA to Pub Walks Guide, C/O 16 Grove Avenue, Norwich, NR1 2QD.
For further inspiration on walks with pubs along the way, log on to www.norwichcamra.org.uk where you will find maps and guides created from the CAMRA branch’s database. The first is for pubs on or near the rivers of the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads, while a second covers the railway routes of the Bittern Line (Norwich to Cromer/Sheringham), North Norfolk Railway (Sheringham to Holt) and the Bure Valley Railway (Wroxham to Aylsham), plus the Marriotts Way cycle route.
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