Local Lynx No.131 - April/May 2020

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WHAT’S ON HOLT LIBRARY Holt has „Open Library‟ meaning you can access the library between 8am and 7pm Monday to Friday and 10 - 4 Saturday and Sunday. To use this service, you need to sign up to open access at any library during staffed times. For further information about events and to book please call 01263 712202. Weekly Events Tuesdays: Bounce and Rhyme 10.30 - 11am Under 5s and families Tuesdays: Family History Drop in (check with staff) 10am - 12noon Wednesdays: Craft and Chatter 10am - 12noon (Open Library access) Wednesdays and Fridays: Computer help 10am - 12noon Booking essential Wednesdays: Board Games Afternoons 2.30 - 5.30pm Thursday 16 April: „My Norfolk, My Holt‟ 11am David Harris Fridays: Just a Cuppa 10.30am - 12pm Fridays: Family Crafternoon 3.30 - 5pm Friday 3 April: Evening Crime Book Club 5.30 - 6.30pm Friday 24 April: Creative Writing Group 10am - 12noon Friday: (once a month) Police Drop in - check dates with staff - 10.30 - 12 noon Special Events in April Holt community read throughout April Our Big Read for 2020 is inspired by the BBC 100 novels that shaped the world and we have chosen 3 very different books for you to try - Golden Child, The Game of Thrones and The Northern Lights. Throughout April we‟ll be asking our readers to tell us about a novel that has changed their lives. If you have a story to tell, talk to library staff or email libraries.iconnect @norfolk.gov.uk. Reading Dogs at Holt Library Tuesday 7th April 10.30 - 11.30am. Come and listen to some stories, make some simple crafts and meet Reading Dog Daisy. Ages 3+ but younger siblings welcome. Children must be accompanied by an adult. For further info ring 01263 712202. 10 Kiddycook at Holt Library Wednesday 15th April 10.30 - 12 noon Join us for some hands on fun with food and make some delicious recipes to take home and share. When booking your place, please let a member of staff know if children have any allergies or dietary requirements. Tel: 01263 712 202 For children aged 4-11 years. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Booking essential. Helen McDermott at Holt Library Thursday 23rd April 11am - 12 noon A talk by Helen McDermott, radio and television presenter, best known for her work at Anglia Television. Booking essential. Tickets £3 payable on booking. Refreshments provided. A Holt Library Friends event. Rivers of Norfolk Thursday 30th April 11am - 12 noon In 2017, Norfolk-based artist Tor Falcon began a new and ambitious series of drawings documenting the rivers of Norfolk. These drawings formed the basis of a very successful exhibition in the Norwich Castle Museum. Tor Falcon will be giving a talk about her work at Holt Library. Tickets £3, includes refreshments. Advance booking is advisable. Join the Holt Library Friends The Holt Library Friends help fundraise for the library and also organise events as well as help maintain the library garden. If you have a few hours to spare each month and would like to find out more get in touch with the library to find out the date of the next meeting. Volunteers needed Could you… make hot drinks and talk to people at our just a cuppa group? Help with after school activities and Bounce and Rhyme? Spare some time to help tidy up the library garden? Develop ideas for events held at the library as a Library Friend and promote the library and its services within the local community? Please contact the library on 01263 712202. FARMING UPDATE JANUARY – FEBRUARY 2020 Drain and gain Travelling through Britain, particularly on foot or by bicycle, it‟s easy to appreciate the beauty of the many rivers and streams that meander their way through the countryside. Writers and painters have expended thousands of hours trying to capture the sense of tranquillity, from being near such waterways, in their work. Funny, then, that the word „ditch‟ does not tend to conjure the same feelings of peaceful splendour. It‟s a shame! There is a lot to like about ditches: they harbour amphibians, invertebrates, small mammals and occasionally birds like the snipe, as well as being great places for ferns and wildflowers to flourish. So, where does the water they carry come from? Some of it is simply surface run-off that has found its way to the ditch but what people might not know is,
eneath many arable fields in the UK, there is a subterranean network of pipes carrying water from the soil and into ditches. These pipes, typically around 80mm in diameter and situated about 2-3 feet below the surface, are perforated, thus allowing water to flow in to the pipe from the surrounding soil. The pipes have a gentle gradient so once water has percolated in, it then runs off to the exit, or “outfall”, of the pipe and into a ditch. This allows the soil to maintain enough moisture to keep plants thriving but not so much that it becomes waterlogged. It‟s a relatively simple idea that has been used in the UK since at least the bronze-age, when settlers in the Fens realised the benefits that systems of ditches could bring and latterly drains made of stone and brush wood. Much later in 1845, Thomas Scragg invented a system for extruding clay drainage „tiles‟ which vastly improved the effectiveness of the drains, at which point the UK underwent periods of extensive drainage up to the present day. The increase in productiveness from a correctly drained field can be huge and the highly damaging effects of soil run-off and water-logging are vastly reduced but even so, water coming through the drainage system carries residual phosphates and nitrates into watercourses. In order to mitigate this, nutrients can be „trapped‟ in shallow ponds, situated along the ditch network, where water plants can extract them as the water slows, leaving the water purer long before it reaches the main tributaries of the rivers. One such silt trap has just been dug next to Saxlingham Church. It looks a bit crude at the moment but I am sure that over the coming years it will become a thriving habitat for many of the ditch-dwelling flora and fauna that bring beauty to the countryside. Who says ditch water is dull?! Jonathan Darby Albanwise Farm Manager accounts etc, and even to persuade people to withdraw or transfer money by masquerading as police, HMRC or bank or other officials. Hopefully many of you will already subscribe to the Norfolk County Council‟s excellent Trading Standards Consumer Scam, News and Information web site, which you can access at norfolkcc@public.govdelivery.com. This is a free service with regular and up to date warnings on both scams and product recalls etc. However a recent scam attempt in one of our villages, which sought to prey on people who may be more vulnerable following a death in the family, is so offensive that it is worth describing in some detail. A villager whose wife had sadly died in early December received a telephone call in early January purporting to be from a stock broker in the USA. The caller expressed sympathy for the loss of his wife, and went on to say that he had heard that she had held shares in a company for which the broker had another client who was anxious to buy. The purchase had to be confidential as his client was making a take-over bid. The local villager had no knowledge of the shares, and he had no certificates for the shares, but he thought that there was a possibility that the broker might be correct as both he and his wife had previously held a third party managed share portfolio. Thus when he was asked for his e-mail so that the broker could send him a non-disclosure agreement to protect his client‟s confidentiality he provided this. The non-disclosure agreement looked very professional and was so all-embracing that he was not supposed to tell SCAMS BEWARE Most readers of the Lynx will be familiar with some of the many ways in which criminals try to defraud or scam them into paying money for goods and services which may not be needed or they either do not receive or which are of inferior quality. They will also be aware of the many ways that scammers try to get access to personal details of bank 11
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