Advertisers

Assington Mill have been supporters of the CSCA for a number of years. They offer a number of very exciting courses and have a very interesting old property which includes a nature reserve. Go on line to www.assington-mill.com to find out more or telephone Anne Holden 01787 229955

Adnams have supported us since I wrote my first article about Brewing in East Anglia in 2011. The article chronicled the history of Adnams and also Greene King. Their wine experts have been regular contributors to the Magazine and I hope will do so again in the future. In the past they have advertised their Hadleigh Store at 73/75 High Street, Hadleigh IP7 5DY, where I negotiated a 10% discount for Members. However this does need Members to make more use of the store than has been the case up to now. If you do not use it I fear the discount will be lost. The store Manager is Helen and she has a list of Members.

Bates Wells & Braithwaite have supported us from when we first took advertisers to defray the cost of the magazine. They continue to act for me.

Churchill Bros. I wrote an article about their success last year and they manufactured our hand-made kitchen on budget, and on time, and their workmanship is outstanding. Clare, their principal designer, is a pleasure to work with.

Mansfield 4X4 were introduced by one of our Committee members for whom they have done work and he strongly recommends them.

NFU continue to be my insurers for my house and contents and I can highly recommend them.

Savills have supported us from the very beginning and hardly need an introduction!

The Pheasant have become a regular supporter and their reputation as a place to eat remains undiminished.

Whites Farm Besides willow weaving, Angus and Sally Scobie have an excellent indoor pool that can be reserved for your personal use in half hour slots. There is also their “children’s nursery” and in June you can buy beautiful peonies, and apples and apple juice in the autumn until they run out!

Editor

I want to find someone to take over this role from me. Finding people to write articles and then producing the Magazine is hugely rewarding and interesting. I hope someone will offer to take over this work from me, as I have done it since 2006, and a change is needed. I will soon run out of ideas as to how to keep it interesting!

Future articles

Are you a budding writer? Why not try your hand at writing an

article. I need contributors and you will find it hugely rewarding seeing your efforts in print! Anything from 1,500 to 2,000 words with pictures if possible. Just contact me with your ideas.

Email

The majority of Members now have email and it is the easiest way to communicate over such items as “Garden Visits” and when the Chairman or committee need to contact the membership over matters such as planning. However a large number of you have changed your email addresses and not updated me with your new address. If you have not received an email from me in 2017, you are one of those, as I emailed all Members about the Dedham Vale on 20th January, and a large number came back. In the past I have written letters but the numbers are now getting too great, so please email me and I can pick up your changed address mark@markpadawson.co.uk

Annual General Meeting

The AGM will be held on Thursday 4th May 2017 and as usual

will be at Ferriers Barn, Bures. Drinks will be served from 19.30 and the meeting will commence at 20.00 when Mark Mitchels will talk about East Anglian characters. Mark was, for many years, a teacher of History and English at Woodbridge School and has always believed that telling a good story leads to an audience, be it scholars (or members of the Colne-Stour Countryside Association), listening and remembering what was said! The talk will be followed by the AGM.

Summer Party

An invitation to the Summer Party is enclosed with the Magazine

but in case you lose it, it will be held at Stanley Hall, Pebmarsh, CO9 2LY, by kind invitation of Christopher and Christie Stewart- Smith, on Thursday 6th July 2017 from 18.30 to 20.30.

AGM and Garden Party Replies

Since 2012 it has been possible to accept both these events by using the link on the website. This considerably reduces my work in keeping lists of attendees, as it is done for me by the system. Go to the website www.colnestour.org and go to Events sign up. DO NOT TELL ME IF YOU ARE NOT COMING. If you wish to reply by hand then post your letter or post card to me at Black Swan House, 4 Benton Street, Hadleigh. IP7 5AT

AGM Minutes

The Minutes of the 2016 AGM will be circulated at this year’s

meeting. We no longer list those Members who attended any AGM.

Proof Reader

Once again I am most grateful to Rory O’Brien for proof reading

the Magazine and correcting grammar, spelling and punctuation. Rory has now been doing this for a good many years and gone are the complaints about grammar and punctuation!

Mark Dawson