June 2016

FRIENDS IN DEED

Our annual training event was held in the Village Hall on 11 April. An excellent First Aid Course

was delivered by a team from the British Red Cross. As well as a comprehensive run through on

all the basics, it included practical CPR and defibrillator training. There is an very good smart

phone app (First Aid by British Red Cross) which is well worth having as a ‘just in case’ – and it is

free!

Reminder! Friends in Deed will be running their Bottle Stall at the Village Fair. Please bring donations of bottles

of all shapes and sizes (but in-date for 2nd July, please!) to Jane Scott, 9 Bishops Way, 811468, as soon as pos-

sible. Cut-off date for donations Friday 24th June.

The Summer Tea Party will be held on 10th August so put the date in your diaries now. Full details will follow

nearer the time and transport will be available.

And don’t forget, the Drop-in Café is held on the second Wednesday of each month in the Living Stones Room in

St Mary’s Church, 1430 to 1600. Homemade cakes, tea and coffee - all welcome!

For help or information contact:

Coordinator: Jane Scott 07810 006598 Requests for transport: Andy Scott 07914 669967.

Leave a message and include your contact details http://www.buckdenroundabout.info/friends-in-deed

BUCKDEN WI

At the May meeting members were entertained with a very enlightening presentation on

Japan by Dr. Steve Jones. Stunning photographs of Japanese gardens high-lighted the

links between nature and the culture of Japan. In a country with a high density of popula-

tion in cities and towns and where the majority of people live in flats or very small houses,

it was amazing how gardens were created in the smallest of spaces.

In June 7th Nick Sly will be telling members "All about Alpacas" and the competition will be

for a picture of a cute animal.

Buckden Friends

We had a super group holiday in Torquay. It's so easy to just get on a coach, in the village and go, leaving the

organisation to Brian and me. We feel privileged to enable villagers to have a lovely, friendly, break.

There are still some spaces on our holiday to Potters on 7th-11th November. Contact me if you are interested.

As part of the Buckden Festival we are organising a Fashion Show in St. Mary's Church on Friday 1st July starting

at 7.30. Tickets £6 include a drink to enjoy as we indulge in some retail therapy. I am sure you are going to join

our Festival Carnival Parade. Prizes for the most brightly dressed. Lets bring Rio Carnival to Buckden. Meet at

Buckden Towers at 11.45 on Saturday 2nd July, or line the route.

Info from Pat King 01480811020, 07981727603 patking@writeme.com

Spotted Flycatchers - do you have this increasingly rare bird breeding in

your garden?

Spotted Flycatchers are attractive little migrant birds which are summer visitors to UK

village gardens and churchyards. Although they breed with us, they spend ten months of

the year travelling between here and their wintering grounds in Southern Africa. This is

an increasingly dangerous journey for them, and sadly they are in deep decline. Wide-

spread losses amounted to a 50% decline during 1995-2010, continuing an 88% decline

since 1970.

Only some fifty pairs remain breeding in Cambridgeshire, so it's now quite a rare bird, but most rural villages still

have a pair or two. The Cambridge Bird Club is running a survey this year to find and monitor nesting pairs, and

it's almost certain that there will be additional pairs in our villages of which they are

not aware.

Do you have flycatchers in your garden?

Please let the Bird Club know by sending an

email to

spofl@cambridgebirdclub.org.uk

with any information you have, including

records of single birds between now and September.