Yaxley Gazette March 2022

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welcomemarch contents forward yaxley hub money matters Welcome to the March issue of the Yaxley Gazette. March is the month of new beginnings, farmers are busy spring 5 Yaxley Broadway Bowls Club 22 Mobile phones sowing and the new gardening year is under way. Spring is here! It is also World Down Syndrome Day on the 21st March, more details 5 Yaxley Library time out can be found on page 5. Whatever awaits you in March - and the rest of the year - be kind 5 Yaxley Flower Club 23 Puzzles to yourselves and others, do the things that make you and others happy and enjoy life. 5 Lakeside Healthcare stay safe Take care, until next time. 5 World Downs Syndrome 24 Save on your energy bills \"The air is like a butterfly Day With frail blue wings. handy numbers 7 Community Car Scheme The happy earth looks at the sky 8 Yaxley Parish Council 28-31 Handy Numbers And sings.\" 9 The Pride of Fenland - Joyce Kilmer, Spring 11 Yaxley WI 11 Folksworth Art Club 11 Church News fir for life 13 Lakeside Health Care young gazette 14 Back to Sport at William De Yaxley 14 Peter Borrow at Yaxley Infant School 15 Chinese New Year at Little Acorns village farm 17 March, the month of hope recipes 19 Apricot & apple strudel gazette garden 21 Big in Japan Contact us ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS march features IN YAXLEY GAZETTE 23 Beauty Buys T: 01733 757342 FROM JUST 25 Otter Hunting E: [email protected] £20PM www.yaxleygazette.co.uk Distribution: Adrian Kisby. T: 07592 833464 PUBLIC DEFIBRILLATORS NEXT ISSUE DEADLINE: 7 MARCH Claypole Funeral Directors, Main Street PE7 3LZ Co-op, Bentley Avenue PE7 3ZT With thanks to design Duck & Drake Main Street Yaxley PE7 3LY james Wheeler-unsplash for workflow Farcet Club, 1 Cross St, Farcet PE7 3DE this month's front cover. Farcet Post Office, Main Street PE7 3DB Useful Contacts [email protected] Farcet Primary School, St Mary’s Street PE7 3AR Fen View Museum, Peterborough Rd, Farcet PE7 3AZ 18 Ferndale Yaxley PE7 3ZW Churches Holme Village Hall, Short Drove Holme PE7 3PA St Peter’s Church Lakeside Healthcare, Landsdowne Road PE7 3JL Rev Sarah Hare - [email protected] 01733 248690 / 07498230858 Locks and Shades, 39 Mere View Industrial Estate , Yaxley PE7 3HS Laura Ashley [email protected] 07939 449 255 Yaxley Methodist Chapel - Main Street Rev Vivienne Smith Printers, 90A Peterborough Road, Farcet PE7 3BN [email protected] / 01733 259 631 Queens Park Pavillion (not 24hr defibrillator), Daimler Ave, Yaxley PE7 3AU Defibs 07534 195 326 Rec Pavilion, Middleton's Road, Yaxley PE7 3LR [email protected] The Farmers, Broadway, Yaxley, PE7 3NT The Old Cemetery, Farcet PE7 3AY Le Fleur District Council - Huntingdon DC 01480 388 388 The Royal British Legion, 210 Broadway, Peterborough PE7 3NR Boutique Doctors (Yaxley) 01733 240 478 Yaxley Fire Station, Main Street, Yaxley Foodbank [email protected] 07579 825 798 Library (Yaxley) 0345 0455 225 PE7 3LB Parish Council (Yaxley) 01733 241 958 Pet Nutrition Adviser 01733 753 055 The Yaxley Gazette is sourced and published David Sanders LCGI MinstLM independently by local people and is not on the back of any large organisation or Yaxley based orist Police (non emergency no.) 101 society. Views and opinions written in this magazine may not necessarily reflect those Weddings Occasions Yaxley & Farcet Covid Support Network 01733 794 513 of the publisher. The Yaxley Gazette cannot Funerals Seasonal Corporate be held responsible for unsolicited material. Peterborough City Hospital 01733 678 000 All artwork and design is the copyright of its Deliveries Available respective owner. Reproduction of any part NHS Direct call (or visit www.111.nhs.uk) 111 of this publication is strictly prohibited unless 07821 558346 prior permission is given by the publishers. Anglian Water 0345 791 9155 www.le eurboutique.co.uk Station Bridge Vets 01733 615 447 le eurboutiqueonline North Hunts Community Car Scheme 07795 542 084 COVID-19 compliant Yaxley Gazette | March 2022 | T: 01733 757342 | E: [email protected] | www.yaxleygazette.co.uk 3

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yaxleyhub YAXLEY BROADWAY BOWLS CLUB YAXLEY LIBRARY THE FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT… Support your local library Let me introduce you to our youngest member Events in Yaxley Library EngAge in the Afternoon is back. (currently), his name is Charlie, and he is 10 years old. We are pleased to announce Wednesday 9th March 2 – 3pm (pictured) that we can now welcome back Join Christina from Heyes Farm in I had the pleasure of talking to him recently, (with thanks to his our regular groups! Please be Norman Cross on an interesting grandparents for being hosts, and his dad for being, well, a patient Dad!). aware that we are still limiting the talk about keeping Alpacas. He said he was a bit nervous, so I gave him a nice ‘softball’ first question and numbers of attendees, to ensure Advance booking is required as asked about his favourite computer game…well suffice to say that did the we keep all our customers and staff spaces are limited, please collect trick, he wasn’t nervous anymore because it was 15 minutes before I asked safe. Unless ticketed, spaces for your ticket from Yaxley Library. my next question, and in that time he’d answered most of the personal events will be on a first come first This is a free event ( Donations questions I had, without me needing to ask them. served basis. Welcome ) So here goes, Charlie is a Fortnite and Minecraft Xbox gamer, who has a mean ‘moonwalk,’ and can sing along to Beatles songs (who would guess Children’s Events Friends of Yaxley Library that!). He loves a burger (particularly the sort made by that fast food Storytime – Friday’s 10.30 – The Friends of Yaxley Library are place whose name begins with an M), when he is allowed, he actually 11.00am - 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th a friendly and welcoming group remembered the last time he’d eaten one (a not too subtle hint that it was March of people who love to support time for another visit). In year 6 of school, this is his last year before joining Rhymetime – Tuesday’s 10.30 – their local library. We are currently the ‘big kids’ this September, does that bother him? Not at all (apart from 11.00am – 1st, 8th, 15th,22nd, 29th looking for new members! the potential for extra homework), he is confident his older sister (yr11) will March Do you care about your library? “have my back “. Lego Club – Every Saturday 10 – Do you use the library regularly? So, what about his future, well, at the moment his ambition is to be a ‘you- 11am – 50p per child Would you like to help organise tuber’, slight issue currently is that his access to said site is under a parental Adult Events and run events? Like the idea of lock, due to a previous misdemeanour. But undeterred he will continue to These are free events donations meeting new, like minded people find his path. welcome. from all walks of life? So, the question I really came to ask, why play bowls? His answer, though Scrabble – Every Monday from If yes then please contact not at all surprising, was delivered in a different way to all his previous chat, 2pm friendsofyaxleylibrary@hotmail. he knew this was going to be asked, and he was ready with a considered Mahjong – Tuesday’s 2 – 3pm – 1st, co.uk or look on our website for answer..“it’s a family legacy, all my family play bowls, and I’ll be making 15th, 29th March, 12th, 26th April more information. We are looking sure my kids play when that time comes” (probably the only silence of our Rummikub – Tuesday’s 2-3pm – forward to hearing from you! entire time together as very proud Dad and Grandparents just nodded in 8th, 22nd March, 5th, 19th April approval). As our time came to an end the talk was about his imminent monthly Dementia Group allowance and how he was going to spend it on yet more Transformer and We are looking to set up a small group for Dementia sufferers and their Lego ‘boy toys.’ carer’s in Yaxley Library. The session would be for 1.5 hrs, very informal So, I will end this piece with my Optimus Prime message (not ‘to all and we would offer refreshments, an activity and invite other support mankind'), but to you parents, grandparents etc. out there, bowls is a groups who could interact with the carers and answer any queries wonderful way for all generations of your family to enjoy some outdoor fun, they may have. If you are interested in attending this group or for more and perhaps put down roots for your own family legacy. So why not come information please contact [email protected] along at try it out. For more info call Mike 07368 914 353, or visit www.yaxleybowls.co.uk YAXLEY FLOWER CLUB New Bus Passes & Renewals Is your Bus Pass due to expire soon? It can be renewed online up to six Jennie Richardson demonstrators and speakers we weeks before it expires. have invited to join us in 2022. If you or you know someone who needs help doing this, we can assist Chairperson them at the library – they may need to book an appointment. For more We meet on the third Thursday information please contact us on Tel: 0345 045 5225, E-mail your.library@ If nothing else the past two each month at 7.30pm, Yaxley cambridgeshire.gov.uk or pop into Yaxley Library. years have made us realise the British Legion Club, 210 importance of interaction with Broadway, Yaxley, Peterborough Library Information other people and taking advantage PE7 3NR. See our Facebook page We always welcome new library members and it’s free to join – just bring of opportunities to stimulate our for details of meetings. ID with your name and address. It only takes a few minutes to get your minds. new library card. Events are planned, some local to Monday 3pm – 7pm We were looking forward to our club and some further afield Tuesday 9.30am – 5.00pm celebrating our Pearl anniversary within the Kings Lynn Area Group Wednesday Closed in 2020 and although we were of NAFAS which is an educational Thursday 9.30am – 5.00pm denied the opportunity to party, charity, with membership spread Friday 9.30am – 1.30pm we are hoping to mark the over 21 Areas of the country, Saturday 9.30am – 1.30pm occasion this year. In March we will some of whom offer educational You are now able to reserve books from our Spine Partners Peterborough hold our AGM and then start the opportunities through leisure and Suffolk for a charge of £2 per book. To reserve an Adult book from a new programme of events with an classes and a recognised and library within Cambridgeshire the charge is 50p. exciting demonstration in April. validated certificate course. They Renew/request books: 0345 045 5225 offer qualified Area and National As always Items can be returned to any open library in Cambridgeshire or Yaxley Flower Club was formed Demonstrators, speakers and Peterborough. in 1990 and has changed very judges; also training to become a little since the early days when Demonstrator, speaker or judge. /thelibrarypresents www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/libraries meetings were held at Yaxley Junior School. We certainly have the same enthusiasm for Fun, Friendship and Flowers and we are excited about the mix of 5 Yaxley Gazette | March 2022 | T: 01733 757342 | E: [email protected] | www.yaxleygazette.co.uk 5

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yaxleyhub COMMUNITY CAR SCHEME The car scheme takes passengers and those that may have other For more details please call North who have difficulty using public mobility or health related issues Hunts Community Car Scheme on transport. Usually this is to and can usually be accommodated. 07795 542084 from hospitals, doctors, care The subsidised cost to the homes, social events, opticians, passenger is only 30p per mile with podiatry, shopping, hairdressers a £3.00 min charge. Registration and other appropriate journeys. is free. Destinations covered include The scheme is run entirely by Stamford, Peterborough, volunteers and with over 200 Huntingdon and Cambridge and registered users, they urgently further afield if appropriate. need more volunteer drivers to Passengers would often be taken keep up with current and future to their relevant clinic and not just demand. Hours can be arranged to the main hospital entrance or car suit from just a few hours a week. park and the driver would wait for Drivers receive a tax free mileage them before returning. allowance. People that require wheelchairs The Great Fen is an ambitious scheme to restore the lost wetland 03/02/2022 15:38:05 around Holme Fen and Woodwalton Fen nature reserves. Check out www.greatfen.org.uk to find out all about this exciting project. 7 The Great Fen Heritage Group are volunteers who meet regularly at the Ramsey Heights Countryside Centre (or online). We are interested in all aspects of the rich Fenland heritage, from archaeology and architecture to historical events and local people’s stories. The changing Fenland landscape, its wildlife, and its place in the lives of local communities, is a theme running through all our activities. We like to collect and share material about life in the Great Fen area in previous decades and centuries. We do this through group projects, individual research, and occasional visits to places of interest. We welcome contributions from anyone with information or an interest in the local heritage. If you would like to find out more or give us a try, simply contact the Great Fen team on 01487 815524 or [email protected] The Great Fen is an ambitious scheme to restore the lost wetland around Holme Fen and Woodwalton Fen nature reserves. Check out www.greatfen.org.uk to find out all about this exciting project. [LGGRA-2269] New Horizons advertorials Jan 2022 - Gazette - outlines.indd 1 7 YYaaxxlleeyyGGaazzeettttee || MMaarrcchh 2022 | T: 01733 757342 | E: [email protected] | www.yaxleygazette.co.uk

yaxleyhub YAXLEY PARISH COUNCIL Parish Council Elections HelenTaylor,ParishClerk, Annual Parish Meeting Yaxley Parish Council This will be held at 6.30pm Parish Council Elections elector for the parish from the day of you will need to arrange to vote by on 8th March 2022 at Queens Have you ever considered becoming your nomination onwards. post or proxy. The deadline to register Park Hall, Daimler Avenue, a Parish Councillor? The next (b) You have occupied as owner or to vote in the May election is midnight Yaxley. The purpose of this scheduled election for Yaxley is 5th tenant any land or other premises in on Thursday 14 April 2022. meeting is to update you May 2022. Existing Councillors may the parish during the whole of the If you are unable to vote in person you on what we, as your Parish put themselves forward for re-election twelve months before the day of your can apply to vote by post or appoint Council, have been up to along with anyone else who wishes nomination and the day of election. a proxy to vote on your behalf. If you in the past 12 months, it to stand and meets the criteria below. (c) Your main or only place of work wish to apply for a postal vote, then the also gives residents an If there are more candidates than during the 12 months prior to the day Elections Team at the District council opportunity to ask questions vacant seats, then the election will of your nomination and the day of must receive your application by 5pm, about the services provided be contested, and a poll will be held. election has been in the parish. Tuesday 19 April 2022. If you wish to by the Parish Council, or to If the number of candidates is the (d) You have lived in the parish area appoint a proxy to vote on your behalf, raise any other matters that same or less as there are seats on the during the whole of the 12 months the deadline for applications is 5pm fall within their authority. Council, the nominated candidates before the day of your nomination Tuesday 26 April 2022. Middle Ground Repair Café automatically become Councillors and the day of election. For more information about registering We are pleased to report that without a contest. They will hold office Nomination forms can be obtained to vote, or about postal or proxy voting, the repair café will open its for four years. from the Elections Team of the District please visit contact the Elections Team doors again on 6th March Council and must be delivered by at the District Council or view their 2022, 1pm to 3pm in the To stand for election, a candidate hand to the office of Huntingdonshire dedicated webpages at https://www. Pavilion, Middleton’s Road must submit a nomination paper District Council in Huntingdon huntingdonshire.gov.uk/elections/ Recreation Ground. We will with a proposer and a seconder (PE28 3TN) on any working day how-to-vote/ not be able to take any walk- to the Returning Officer at between Monday 28th March and in repairs so all items will Huntingdonshire District Council. To Tuesday 5th April 2022, pre booked YAXLEY COMMUNITY LITTER PICKERS need to be prebooked and be able to stand, you must be at least appointments are recommended. For We thank all those who have recently this can be done by emailing 18 years old and be a British Citizen, further information please contact taken part in the February litter pick [email protected]. an eligible Commonwealth citizen, or [email protected]. weekend, your actions make such a Please include details of the a citizen of any member state of the positive impact on the area we live. If damaged item so we can European Community and meet one Registering to Vote at the Elections you are solo litter picking or out with match you with the most of the following four qualifications: You must be on the Register of a group, we can help by providing suitable repairer. (a) You are, and will continue to be, Electors to vote in an election and if bags, litter pickers, high viz waistcoats registered as a local government you are away on the day of the poll, and we can arrange for the bags to be collected. Our office is open 9.30am – 3.30pm, Mon – Fri. Postal address: Yaxley Parish Council, 50 Main Street, Yaxley PE7 3LU Call: 01733 241 958 Email: [email protected] or for venue bookings, email: [email protected] Yaxley Parish Council yaxleyparish.org.uk Arrange your FREE no obligation valuation today OUTSTANDING VALUE Estate Agent Google rated Agent “Excellent service! Incredibly helpful and responsive. Would definitely recommend” m.m feb–2021 WISH GRANTED THERE IS NO BETTER TIME TO MOVE EXCELLENT SERVICE • HIGHLY COMPETITIVE • EXPERIENCED AGENTS t: 01733 639101 e: [email protected] www.wish2sell.co.uk WISH2SELL, Broadway, Yaxley, Peterborough Dual Commission Warning: If currently in contract with another agent please check before instructing another agent to avoid multipe commission fees. 8 Yaxley Gazette | March 2022 | T: 01733 757342 | E: [email protected] | www.yaxleygazette.co.uk

yaxleyhub THE PRIDE OF FENLAND Come on you good people of Yaxley! The Fen Tiger is flying proudly with people the response has been across the region and around the fantastic. It’s clear that people are world, symbolising the history and proud of the Fens and want a flag to character of Fenland people. share their pride.” The flag is the creation of James The symbol of the Fens is the Fen We are working with just two Bowman, an Ely-based writer and Tiger. This designation derives from Yaxley volunteer drivers at the historian with a passion for flags the sometimes-violent opposition of moment and struggling to get and the Fens. He designed the flag the local population to the drainage our vulnerable passengers to in 2016 and started to promote it schemes of the 17th century. The important appointments. across the region the following year. term is used in the names of clubs Smaller villages like Holme have three drivers working for us and James says: “I saw that there was an and associations, and for the people Farcet has two. Let us beat that Yaxley. increasing interest in county and of the region. The design of the flag regional flags across the UK. Having features a heraldic tiger placed in a Please call 07795 542084 to find out more. lived in the Fens for 25 years, I felt central field of yellow, representing North Hunts Community Car Scheme strongly that it has its own identity, agricultural prosperity. The blue Contact Roger Hewish (NHCCS) 07954 725075 and therefore that it should have its outer fields represent the region’s own flag. Since I shared my design natural and manmade waterways. For your free Fen Tiger car sticker and more information find Fenland Flag on Facebook or Twitter. • ANDY CYCLES & SELF-STORAGE ANDY CYCLES ANDY SELF-STORAGE • Cycles bought & sold • Units available from £15 pw • Repairs • Personal, furniture, commercial, • Maintenance & servicing office or document storage. Family run business of former GB stage race mechanic with ANDY OFFICES 35 years’ experience. • Offices of all sizes available to rent, from £60pw T: 01733 247 555 www.andyselfstorage.co.uk www.andycycles.co.uk Holme Road, Yaxley PE7 3NA 9 Yaxley Gazette | March 2022 | T: 01733 757342 | E: [email protected] | www.yaxleygazette.co.uk 9

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yaxleyhub YAXLEY WI Folksworth Art Club Folksworth Art Club is a each other if necessary. Pauline Brown friendly group which meets in It is the dream of many a small Folksworth Village Hall every You may have seen some of our child to live in a castle, well for our Thursday between 12.30 pm work in the corridors of Lakeside January speaker Sylvia this came true. and 4.30 pm. We paint, draw, Healthcare (was Yaxley Group Unfortunately, this was not in the and socialise in a relaxed Practice) over the past years. way most would dream of as she was atmosphere, and use all sorts Members have also exhibited deported from Jersey to Germany as a of mediums - watercolour, oils, paintings at other venues in and small child in World War 2. wThe castle acrylics, pastels, etc, helping around the area. was old & cold but conditions although considerably basic were better than During lockdown, a number of Janet Darke: Lets go canoeing many of the P O W camps. Everyone people have picked up paints/ made the best of the situation and tried pencils and acquired a new For more information to live life as normally as possible, the hobby, or re-ignited an existing contact Cherry Hadley children even had a school albeit with one, finding it greatly beneficial limited resources. to their health and wellbeing. (01733 244258) Sylvia gave a most interesting talk and or Andy Goodfellow brought along some mementoes from If you have an interest in her internment including some very painting, come along, and see (07507 304 326). artistic cards & paintings which proves what we are doing. You would be how amazing the human spirit is in Sketch of trees by Janet Darke very welcome to join us, whether adapting to any situation. you are just a beginner or a more Our speaker for 10th March is Alicia experienced artist. Sherring who will talk about the latest kitchen gadget called Thermomix. ST PETER'S CHURCH Our meeting is between 2-4 (doors open 1.30) at our venue of Queens Pavilion, Daimler Avenue, Yaxley. Visitors are very welcome HOLME WI Dear Friends up with friends and to book a holiday. I have gone I was talking to someone this week who told me back to the cinema and have eaten in a restaurant Alison McGuinness, President that all our spring flowers are coming out a month for the first time in 2 years. We are all at very different We kicked off the first meeting of 2022 early due to climate change. I was a bit shocked to stages with these things and there is no right or with Jon Crisp from Amey Recycling. hear this, but as I look around at the beginning of wrong. Jon is the education officer for Amey February, I have seen rows of snowdrops in bloom, For us as a church here in Yaxley, we are enjoying Recycling and is based at their depot in daffodils poking their heads up and I am onto my using the new facilities in the church after a year of Waterbeach. He gave a very insightful second bunch of daffodils which always cheer me building work. We are enjoying opening up some of talk about recycling, why it is important up. Daffodils are such cheery flowers and so easy the groups that were stopped for a long time and to to recycle as much as we can and how to arrange which is a big bonus to me as I was share simple things together such as refreshments it is all processed once it reaches it’s definitely not created to be a flower arranger and after our morning service. final destination. Once all the recycling am in awe of our flower fairies at church who do an In March we move into Lent – Ash Wednesday is has been collected and dropped at amazing job. the 2nd of March. For Christians Lent is a time of Waterbeach, a large machine (it is huge) I love spring as I have no doubt told you in previous preparation for what lies ahead, for the hope that sorts all the items into paper, card, tins, years of writing this at this time of year. I love we have through the life, death, and resurrection cans, plastics etc. They move along a spring flowers, to me a sign of hope as the world of Jesus. Join us for a Lent course based on the film large conveyor belt and sensors detect comes to life after winter. The colours that appear Mary Poppins (contact me) or for Mothering Sunday what the item is, and a puff of air pushes in the hedgerows and around us. I was recently (27th March). Our services continue at 10.30am and it off the conveyor belt and into the listening to the radio and one of the presenters 4.30pm and you are always welcome to any of these. correct holding bin for that item, so items asked the question – what is your word for 2022? The Bible says much on hope, but I leave you with are constantly being whisked off in all As I was thinking about this, I realised that my word this verse from Romans 15:13 – May the God of hope directions. From there they are squashed, was hope for this year. After the last 2 years, I feel fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that processed and baled into 1 ton bales hopeful. I know that Covid has not gone away, and you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy ready to go to wherever they are needed. our area seems to continue to have Covid levels Spirit. Garden and food waste is held in large above the national average. I do feel hope in my May you know hope around and within you. containers and heated to 60° where all the own plans and have felt able to plan to go and meet Every blessing Rev Sarah bacteria then gets to work decomposing it and breaking it down, within 8 weeks YAXLEY METHODIST CHAPEL it has turned into compost. We were given challenges to complete making Be assured of a warm welcome at our Chapel opposite Keepsakes. We hold family friendly services every sure we know what can be recycled Sunday starting at 10.30. and what can go into our garden bins. Busy Bees is an enormous success on Fridays. Under 1-year olds bring their parents, Grandparents etc. along Much to our surprise, we found out that to have fun and meet new friends. biodegradable and compostable bags Last month our own little Princess, Alice, was baptised in the Chapel. The Service was well attended and led and wrappers cannot go into the garden beautifully by our Minister, Rev. Vivienne. waste, they take longer to compost If you are unable to join us at the Chapel, the Methodist Circuit hold Services on Facebook Sunday to than 8 weeks and so get trapped in the Thursday and you can join in at any time. machinery at the depot. The biggest If you would like to contact us about Christenings, Weddings or Funerals or you would just like to talk to us surprise was how long some items, such you can contact us on the above or if you do not have internet access, we have a post box on the Chapel wall. as nappies, take to decompose in landfill. We look forward to seeing you soon. It was an educational evening with a fun YAXLEY METHODIST CHAPEL Main Street (Opposite Keepsakes) film to watch at the end. Minister: Rev'd Vivienne Smith MA 01733259631 07854575336 [email protected] [email protected] FB @Yaxleymc FB @PeterboroughMethodistcircuit Anyone wishing to contact us please email [email protected] 11 Yaxley Gazette | March 2022 | T: 01733 757342 | E: [email protected] | www.yaxleygazette.co.uk 11

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fitforlife World Down Syndrome Day 21st March 2022 Staffing update Dr Alison Graham said:- “I remember the moment it What is World Down Syndrome backed by the United Nations since The practice team bid a fond became clear that a prescribing Day? 2012. farewell to Julia Pritchett, our Pharmacist would not only be It has been spearheaded by Down P.A to Practice Manager & Senior a valuable member of the team World Down Syndrome Day Syndrome International, which has Leadership Team, who left us at Yaxley but would take a lot (WDSD) , 21 March, is a global linked up with national charities for sunny Florida at the end of of work away from the doctors. awareness day which has been across the world to develop activities November 2021. We are very I knew Arvind from her role at officially observed by the United and events to raise awareness grateful for all her help and Rowlands our in-house pharmacy Nations since 2012. and support for those living with support over the past two and a and mentored her through her Down syndrome. It also highlights half years and we wish her all the prescribing course. She was keen The date for WDSD being the 21st the facts of what it’s like to have best on her sunny adventure. to make the leap to this new day of the 3rd month, was selected Down syndrome, and how those We are very excited to welcome role in Primary care and the rest to signify the uniqueness of the with Down syndrome have, and Jo Ellis into our practice team in as they say is history. Even the triplication (trisomy) of the 21st continue to play, a vital role in our January 2022 in a Management Partners who were less convinced chromosome which causes Down communities. Support role. than I realised quickly that she was syndrome. The date itself has been selected for A big congratulations to Arvind indispensable. ‘Is she off today? very clever reasons; it is held on the You can really tell when she’s not World Down Syndrome Day 21st day of the 3rd month, which is on her here already!’…...it was only week (also known as WDSD) is a global a hat-tip to the uniqueness of the promotion to 2! awareness initiative that has been triplication of the 21st chromosome the Group Lead Arvind has been hard working, which leads to Down syndrome. Pharmacist role! utterly professional, keen to The team said innovate and will take all that Let’s get people talking about WDSD a bittersweet expertise with her in her new on 21 March 2021! How? By wearing farewell to role, which thank fully remains #LotsOfSocks! Arvind on within Lakeside. She understands …wear our official #LotsOfSocks Friday 21st perfectly how to maximise the socks, other brightly coloured socks, January 2021. benefits of a Pharmacy Team to long socks, printed socks, 1 sock Arvind has been at Yaxley for improve quality and efficiency, even 3 socks for 3 chromosomes. If six and a half years. She was our introduce standardisation, you do not normally wear socks, then first Prescribing Pharmacist and educate, reduce prescribing costs wear them. And why stop at socks? one of the very few Pharmacists and streamline all aspects of Wear our #LotsOfSocks t-shirts, in the Primary Care at that time. prescribing in a practice. WDSD t-shirts and other brightly We all feel very fortunate and We wish her well and although she coloured clothing. privileged to have worked with is already missed, we are certain such an outstanding professional, her positive influence will benefit For more information please visit who most certainly has been a Lakeside in the future.” https://www.worlddownsyndromeday.org/about-wdsd trailblazer for her profession. We wish her all the best in her new ventures. No Smoking Day 2022 9th March 2022 If you smoke, quitting will improve your health 1. Reduce the likelihood of life-threatening of complications from respiratory infections, and wellbeing, help protect the health of those complications from COVID-19. Smoking damages especially in children. It also increases the risk around you, and reduce your need to use the your lungs, and your heart, which can put you at of heart attacks, strokes and cancer. During this NHS. greater risk of life-threatening complications if time, when we are spending most of our time It’s never too late to quit. From the moment you you get COVID-19. at home, it’s important to protect others from quit your body starts to repair itself. 2. Reduce your risk of other diseases caused by tobacco smoke. Why quit? smoking such as cancer, diabetes, heart attack, If you’re trying to quit, you don’t have to go it emphysema, bronchitis and stroke. Quitting will Want to quit smoking? alone Help available at www.nhs.uk/better- improve your health, and help protect the NHS. health/quit-smoking 3. Stopping smoking allows your body to repair Contact the Healthy Peterborough service on Protect others from the secondhand smoke www. itself – after 8 hours oxygen levels return to 01733 894540, or national freephone todayistheday.co.uk/protecting-others/ normal, after 2 days, your lungs start clearing out 0800 376 56 55. If you do not feel able to quit right now, there are smoking debris, after 3 days breathing becomes other steps you can take. easier and within weeks, your heart attack risk Did you know that you're up to four times There are always health and financial benefits to begins to drop. more likely to quit successfully with their quitting smoking, but quitting now will help you: 4. Protect the health of others. Exposure to second-hand smoke also increases the risk expert help and advice? 13 Yaxley Gazette | March 2022 | T: 01733 757342 | E: [email protected] | www.yaxleygazette.co.uk 13

younggazette Peter Borrow and Reading Trees in school Back to Sport activity – Bounce. Jess has been YAXLEY INFANT SCHOOL We are also delighted to announce delivering four taster sessions a new governor, Sue Aylett. Many WILLIAM DE YAXLEY to each class and we hope to be Last month we had a visit from parents of children with additional running a Bounce after school club Peterborough United FC. As part of needs will know Sue as a Specialist The children have made a fantastic in the summer term. Adam’s Class their initiative to reach out to schools Teacher for Cambridgeshire. She has start to 2022. They have missed so thoughts on Bounce: Bobby delivered an assembly and also worked closely with the school many sporting options during covid, · It is fun. brought with him“Peter Borrow” for several years. We are so pleased so it has been really refreshing to · It helps you exercise. Peterborough United’s Mascot. The that a fellow educational professional get back to coaching team sports. · I like it because it keeps you fit and children loved seeing Peter and with extensive experience has joined We are currently working on touch healthy. they showed him his dance moves. our Governing Body. rugby. This has gone down a storm · I like Bounce because it keeps you Initially, Peter was only visiting If you are a prospective parent and and the children are loving it. I busy and healthy. our Year 2 pupils however he was would like to find out more about have seen some brilliant results · It is good because I enjoyed it. spotted in the playground and our school, please contact the school and I am really hoping that we · I like it and I do not like it because, ended up visiting all the children. on (01733) 240198 or email office@ get to get to play rugby in some after you have done it, I feel as Parents were also sent links to claim yaxley.cambs.sch.uk . You can find school tournaments in the coming though I’ve no energy left: it has all free tickets for the forthcoming out more information via our website months. While we are on the subject been used up. home matches. It was so nice to be www.yaxley.cambs.sch.uk. We look of tournaments, we are hoping to · I like it and I do not like it because able to have visitors and to see the forward to hearing from you soon. take part in our first tournament it is tiring but I like it because I have children’s faces in school � The YIS Team x in over 2 years! It will be a year 5/6 not been on a trampoline for a If you are a prospective parent and girls football tournament played while. Last month we also re-introduced would like to find out more about in the first week of March. Moving · I like to do Bounce because it is a our Yaxley Infant School“Reading our school, please contact the forward we should start seeing a lot new thing to do. Tree”. Mrs Morton used her creative school on (01733) 240198 or email more involvement in tournaments · I like Bounce because it refreshes skills to put up a new display in the [email protected] . You for children as well as mixed events. your brain and helps you forget main hall. Children are encouraged can find out more information via I am also really looking forward to about bad stuff. to read at home and gain stickers our website www.yaxley.cambs. planning and organising Sports Day · I like to do Bounce because you on their bookmarks, once they sch.uk. We look forward to hearing for everyone again in the summer can learn new skills. have 10 stickers, they get their from you soon. term. It promises to be a really · I like it because, at home, I do not picture on the reading tree. When exciting year for sport at William get to go on a trampoline. they have finished their bookmark, de Yaxley and one I'm enjoying so they receive a prize of a book and much. Mr Seb Hayes (sports coach) a voucher to our PTFA“Rainbow We have used some of the sports Book Shop”which opens every premium funding to introduce month. Previously, this has been very the children to a new fitness successful in motivating readers. 14 YaYxalexyleGyaGzaeztteette| Ja| nMuaarrcyh22002222| |TT: :0011773333775577334422| |EE: :ininfofo@@yyaaxxleleyyggaazzeettete.c.coo.u.ukk| |wwwwww.y.yaaxxleleyyggaazzeettete.c.coo.u.ukk

younggazette Fun in the Fen! GREAT FEN March is an exciting time in the Great Zachary managed to find the silver Chinese New Year Fen as we welcome spring and the lining to the darkest of clouds cast abundant wildlife that comes with by Covid. LITTLE ACORNS DAY NURSERY & MONTESSORI SCHOOL it. We’ll be on the lookout for boxing Thursday 17th March, 7.00 - hares, sky dancing harriers, flocks of 8.30pm. £6 Wildlife Trust BCN ALittle Acorns Day Nursery and imagination to build aeroplanes with finches, blossoming wildflowers and members, £8 non-members. Montessori School crates and chairs, pretend to sell ice the busy bees, butterflies and beetles Signs of Spring – A Guided Walk We have enjoyed celebrating Chinese creams to their friends in the summer readying for the new season. Both Join us for a tour around the New Year by exploring with chop house as well as lots of running Little Bugs and Wildlife Watch return Dragonfly Trail at New Decoy, sticks, getting messy with rice and around the playground. in March too, so bring your children a fascinating location being noodles, and trying Chinese food. The along for fun in the Fen! Remember transformed for wildlife between children have enjoyed taking part We are now taking bookings for our nature reserves are free and open the National Nature Reserves of in craft activities, making Chinese September 2022; Please email or to explore any time. We look forward Woodwalton Fen and Holme Fen. lanterns and Chinese dragons and call the nursery for any enquiries to seeing you soon! Saturday 19th March, 10.30am tigers. using enquiries@littleacorns- www.greatfen.org.uk - 12.00pm. £4 Wildlife Trust BCN The children have enjoyed exploring daynursery.co.uk or 01733 members, £6 non-members, Free outside; they have been using their 244000. UPCOMING EVENTS: for National Lottery players to say #ThanksToYou. Quiz Fundraiser Great Fen Little Bugs Introduction to Amphibians - A fun and sociable morning of Wildlife Training Workshop HOLME PRESCHOOL exploration and discovery for pre- Join Helen and Terry Moore school children. at the Ramsey Heights nature The pre-school had a busy term in the extend our gratitude to everyone Fridays in term-time, 10.30am – reserve to learn about our 7 native run up to Christmas, with a focus on in the local community who helped 12.00pm, from Friday 4th March. £5 amphibians, their life history winter, changes in the environment and supported us. The money will Wildlife Trust BCN members, £7 non- and habitats, surveying and and the weather. The term ended with be used to purchase an iPad to members. monitoring. a virtual Christmas production due to provide a wider range of learning Great Fen Wildlife Watch – Leap Into Saturday 2nd April, 3.00 - 9.30pm. the restrictions in place last year. possibilities and outcomes and to Spring £35 Wildlife Trust BCN members, This term we held a pub quiz and revamp our learning areas. Wildlife Watch is here for Primary-age £40 non-members, £20 students. raffle, to which we had a wonderful The Pre-school is looking ahead kids that love exploring and learning Please remember that pre- turn out. We would like to thank the to September for enrolments. about our wonderful wild world. booking is essential, and all Addison Arms, Glatton for hosting and For more information or to Each session has a different theme, events will need to be booked all the local businesses that donated arrange a visit please contact activities to try and crafts to make. online. Please visit www. raffle prizes. manager Laura Carter or find us Saturday 12th March, 10.00am wildlifebcn.org/events or We raised an amazing £361 for the on Facebook. - 12.30pm. £5 Wildlife Trust BCN call 01487 710420 for more preschool for which we would like to members, £7.50 non-members. information. Thank you for An Evening with Mike Dilger – My supporting the Wildlife Trust Wild Lockdown (Now Online!) BCN as we work for a Wilder Featuring clips from The One Show, Future across our counties. ecologist, presenter and writer, Mike Dilger, reveals how he and his son Chvilodaucccachreeeprtsed DAY NURSERY & MONTESSORI SCHOOL  FREE hours pre-school education; , and -year-olds funded places  Established for years  FREE Montessori education  Freshly home-cooked meals  months to years Open Mon–Fri, am– pm | Call us to arrange a visit b Broadway, Yaxley PE NT | www.li tleacorns-daynurse y.co.uk 15 Yaxley Gazette | March 2022 | T: 01733 757342 | E: [email protected] | www.yaxleygazette.co.uk 15

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villagefarm By Lisa Leigh Martin March, the month of hope For the Romans, March was the very first month of the year, and with the spring“equinox”, it does feel like a new beginning. March represents the middle of the school year, and though this year we planted our first field of malting air, and helpful, microscopic‘wee beasties’. And I’ve is the end of the first quarter of the calendar year, barley back on 9th February, and many farmers with previously mentioned it all removes carbon from the but for the Romans – who first named the month better, kinder land started earlier than that. This atmosphere. after Mars, their god of war – March was the very could mean a longer growing season and higher first month of the year, and with the spring“equinox” yields and profits, or we could of course see a repeat Anyway, enough of the halo polishing. March is also (the day in March when we have exactly 12 hours of of spring 2018, the Beast from the East, the‘spring a great time to be buying lovely leeks, kale, spinach, daylight and 12 hours of night, literally“equal night”), that never was’where icy winds battered these spring onions, swede, and cauliflower so do look for it does feel like a new beginning. parts, and snow fell well into April. But let’s not think those and support British farmers at the same time! about that. Planting time (you may call it‘sowing And rhubarb too; don’t forget that! February 2021 brought several degrees of frost time’; we often term the process‘drilling’) is always on successive days but this February (and in fact a time of hope. We can only hope for favourable I popped in to Kemp’s Fruit & Veg in Yaxley last week all winter) there was barely a morning where we weather this year, and the farmers’gamble seems and they have an array of local produce, so do drop needed to scrape ice off the windscreen. It’s been to be getting more risky each year as our weather in when you can and feel the extra warm fuzzy feels incredibly mild, and the crops in the fields have becomes more fierce. from supporting a good local business and keeping continued to grow, denied their winter slumber. your money in the community. Our journey to be more sustainable, following the March is typically the month of spring sowing, practices of‘regenerative farming’have helped us So here’s to a kind year for our farmers, for all of you combat these extreme weather events, reducing as you work your allotments, and to everyone of us, our risk. Our healthier soils hold more water, keeping buying local, British produce which (did you know?) the winter rains from robbing the soil’s nutrients is among the most sustainable in the world. Have a and whisking them off to the North Sea. Winter great March! cover cops (grown as gardeners would term a“green manure”) keep the soil alive between commercially- grown crops, maintaining soil structure and shielding the ground from extremes of temperature, from frost and high winds. Our‘zero tillage’system (we abandoned the plough last century) improves soil structure, leaving the ground undisturbed allowing channels in the soil produced by earthworms, and previous crops to remain open as conduits for water, 17 Yaxley Gazette | March 2022 | T: 01733 757342 | E: [email protected] | www.yaxleygazette.co.uk 17

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