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WELTON HEALTH CENTRE
Telephone number for Welton Health Centre is:- 0844 477 3072
WELTON
HEALTH CENTRE
Firstly, an apology to anyone who has experienced difficulties contacting the surgery by telephone this
month. We had an intermittent fault on our system which we hope has now been rectified, resulting in calls failing on occasions
and patients unable to leave messages in the usual way. As a reminder it is possible to email repeat prescription requests
to us using the Practice website proforma via www.weltonsurgery.co.uk as an alternative to telephone ordering.
During
the month of January we had sixty two patients failing to cancel pre-booked appointments and were advised of twenty one failed
hospital attendances. As always, please let us know, when possible, if you are unable to keep an appointment so that it may
be offered to others.
Sallie Stead
WELTON AND DISTRICT PATIENTS AND DOCTORS ASSOCIATION
The PDA quiz was not
as well supported as in previous years but after paying out the prize money; a small profit was made for the funds. A copy
of the answers is available on the Health Centre notice board for anyone who is interested. The prize winners were from:
1st Nettleham, 2nd North Hykeham, 3rd Washingborough and a runner-up prize went to Dunholme.
The date for the Spring
Lunch is April 30th with tickets priced at £4.50 each. These will be available from mid March from Welton Health Centre
Dispensary, Spar Shop Dunholme, Olive Sharland or Roy Minnitt tel 01673 860980.
Looking ahead, the Autumn Fayre is to
be held on Saturday 9th October. More details in future magazines but book the date now in your diary!
On a more serious
note, some drivers who give up their time voluntarily to take patients to appointments at the Health Centre are finding it
increasingly difficult to park in the Health Centre car park. The disabled bay is in no way for the exclusive use of the PDA
but it is for the exclusive use of disabled persons. On three separate occasions in the past week alone, drivers have observed
vehicles being driven into the bay and the occupants going straight to the Co-op then returning with their shopping and driving
away. As the patients being transported at the time were unable to work other than a short distance, this inconsiderate action
had the potential of making the patient late for their appointment. I would therefore ask that drivers are a little more considerate
when parking in this area.
To raise funds for the Transport Scheme, a telescope has been donated for sale. This is a
Tasco 302058 with Dx60mm and F x 700mm- coated optics and full size tripod. Accessories include 1.5 erecting eye piece and
a 3 x Barlow lens. A valuation given by the London Camera Exchange was in the region of £40. If anyone is interested
in making an offer please contact me on 01673 863570.
Finally, contrary to some recent rumour, the PDA Transport Scheme
is alive and well and still operating as usual.
Janet Goddard
LIVES FIRST
RESPONDERSLINCON 10K This year I will once again be taking part in the Lincoln 10K (not to win it) to raise
fins for the Welton & Dunholme First Responders. This year will be a little different as I will not be running as
an active responder; by the time of the race I shall be retired from the scheme but I shall still be supporting a good cause. So
if anyone would like to sponsor me, just pop round to the bungalow or stop me when you see me jogging round the villages.
I will gladly take your sponsorship for a good cause. P.S. I am retiring from being an active responder because I will
be collection my "Old Age Pension" by the time of the run. Keith Johnson, 47 Honeyholes Lane, Dunholme
WELTON LIBRARY NEWS—
Community Information
File
As well as the Village
Diary which we are currently running from the library for you to diarise all forthcoming local events, we are introducing
a Community Information File. If you would like to include your organisation, charity or group in the file, which will be
on public display please let us have up to date details (preferably A4 size).
We hope this information
will be especially useful for people new to the area or those looking for a new activity or a way of making new friends.
Library Opening Times:
Monday
2pm-5pm;
Tuesday 10am-6pm;
Wednesday Closed;
Thursday 10am-6pm;
Friday 2pm-5pm;
Saturday 10am-1pm
Tel. 01522 782010 www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/libraries
MONKS WOOD, ASHING
LANE, DUNHOLME, TREE PLANTING EVENTS: DECEMBER 2009 WITH NETTLEHAM WOODLAND TRUST
In
February and March 2009, Nettleham Woodland Trust (NWT) organized tree planting events at the new Monks Wood in Ashing Lane,
Dunholme.
In one month, 10,000 new trees and shrubs were planted with the help of schools, college students, youth groups
and the local communities. This was a great success and the evidence of the new woodland is now very apparent. Also, we were
delighted to win the Community & Group Category in the 2009 Lincolnshire Environmental Awards in early June and to receive
our Award from Dr. David Bellamy. The next phase in the creation of this 14½ hectare (35 acre) woodland, which is part
of Ashing Lane Nature Reserve, will take place during National Tree Week this coming December. A further 6,000 trees and shrubs
will be planted.
MONDAY 30th NOVEMBER to FRIDAY 4th DECEMBER from 10am to 4pm. Members of NWT will be on site every day
and we invite schools, colleges and youth groups to come and help to plant the trees. Please put this in your school or youth
group diary for 2009-10.
SATURDAY 5th DECEMBER 2009 between 11am and 12 noon. NWT will participate in "TREE O'CLOCK"
at Monks Wood. This is a Guinness Book of World Records attempt to plant the most number of trees in one hour in multiple
locations, which is being organised by BBC Breathing Places. We invite families and individuals to come and take part in this
special event. (please arrive by 10.30am at the latest and bring a spade).
SUNDAY 6th DECEMBER 2009, 10am to 4pm. Our
last community tree planting day. If you would like to arrange for pupils from your school, college, or youth group to participate
in tree planting during the week of 30th November to 4th December, or in the Tree O'Clock event, please contact the Secretary
through information@nettlehamwoodlandtrust.co.uk for further information. FACILITIES: Marshalls will show you where to park.
Portaloo on site. Hot and cold drinks will be available. Please wear warm clothing, gloves and boots, as the site is very
muddy. Please bring a spade if possible. At the weekend, there will be walking from the car parking areas to the tree planting
site - about half a mile. Please note these events are not suitable for wheelchairs.
.For an information pack with full details of the Challenge, please send name and address to the Secretary, Nettleham
Woodland Trust, 18 Beech Avenue, Nettleham, Lincoln, LN2 2PP. Email: slmendel@tiscali.co.uk NETTLEHAM
WOODLAND TRUST CONTACT DETAILS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Susie
Mendel, Secretary,
Nettleham Woodland TrustRegistered Charity Number 111985418 Beech Avenue, Nettleham LN2 2PP. Tel: 01522-751283Email: slmendel@tiscali.co.uk David Cotten Chair Email: dmc206cc@yahoo.comRod Newborough Woodland Advisor Email: rod.newborough@live.co.uk
HELP THE AGED
The recent
cold weather has undoubtedly hit older people the hardest. Last year in the East Midlands, 1,800 people died due to cold related conditions, the majority of them people over the
age of 75. It is about time the Government came up with a fuel poverty strategy that works. Help the Aged points to one in
three pensioner households now living in fuel poverty.
That
means a third of all pensioner households are spending more than 10 per cent of their income on heating alone. In the meantime
Help the Aged is encouraging older people to find out today if they are entitled to benefits, free insulation and a Government
grant for heating improvements. Even if people have made an unsuccessful claim in the past, changing circumstances may mean
they are now eligible for money and energy saving help that can make a huge difference to paying the bills and keeping warm.
Help the Aged has produced a guide: 3 Steps to a Warmer Winter which is available by calling 0800 089 0800.
Jean Cross, Regional Development Officer Lincolnshire
WETON LIBRARY
WELTON LIBRARY
A belated Happy New Year to you all from the staff at Welton library.
As you read this we will be fast approaching our 1st Anniversary in our new library. Days spent in the temporary mobile
library are now just distant memories. (Thank goodness.) We would like to thank you all for making our first year such an
enjoyable success.
This year we will be re-introducing a Community Events Diary, so you can record all your forthcoming activities and
plan ahead to avoid other events. We will also be starting a
Community File to store information on local societies and organisations, so if you are involved with any of these
please let us have your details so we can help promote local groups.
Even if you have given up on all the others it’s still not to late to keep your New Year’s Resolution to
visit your local library.
Welton Library Opening Times:
Monday 2pm-5pm;
Tuesday 10am-6pm;
Wednesday Closed;
Thursday 10am-6pm;
Friday 2pm-5pm;
Saturday 10am-1pm.
CONTACT: Marianne Shaw, Communications Officer, Lincolnshire County Council - Tel: 01522 553939, Mobile:
07786 171320
(email: marianne.shaw@lincolnshire.gov.uk)
RAINFALL REPORT
In the first 8 days of 2010we had 10mms of moisture precipitated in
the form of snow, thereafter much of the further 43mms fell as rain some of which quickly became ice to give a Jan total of
53mms.
Conditions like this meant we started the ‘fill dyke' month with dry soil surfaces until such times
as thaw takes over and makes what otherwise could have been a very sticky end of month.
John Voase 01673 860640
NATURE NOTES
The
weather has again been forecast wrongly and the pundits who did forecast wrongly were in line for huge handouts, I wonder
what they would get if ever they got it right. They do tend to mock the old sayings but there appears to be quite an element
of truth in particularly this year, i write this on the 11th of August and that means we have another week and a half of un
summery weather, it remains to be seen who is right… them or the old wives.What use are they? Why is it that every July and / or August is ruined by them being everywhere?These are FAQ's (frequently asked questions), in the two
months of the year when we should be enjoying a bit of warm, but you cannot have your windows open, or the doors ajar because
of the invasions of firstly the little thrips, and secondly the shiny tiny pollen beetles.I can say that the thrips do have a little bit of use, as in dampish years, the cereal
crops do suffer from various moulds and mildews, and it would appear that these are the food for these tiny irritating blighters,
who end up in all sorts of funny places, in your drawers, in your drawers, (no, I did mean to write it twice), and sometimes
when you are wearing them. In the picture frames between the glass and the picture, where they die and leave a small stain
which cannot be removed, in all your books and behind the wallpaper, when the paper has slightly lifted in the corners. Inside
your DVD and CD covers, so that when you play them without wiping them off first, they look like they are on a merry-go-round.
They collect in spiders webs, and even the spiders don't want them as their nutritional value is nil. All sorts of nooks
and crannies, you can rest assured that there will be a thrips or two, hiding. Somehow they must survive from year to year,
I would think as eggs. Imagine the size of the eggs, and how many do they lay? To hatch out next year and start the cycle
all over again. The farmers start their harvesting of the oil seed rape firstly which disturbs clouds of the little perishers,
now what is the difference between standing oil seed rape and cut oil seed rape which is left to ripen? Can the itchy little
insects determine when the oil seed rape is cut and dying? I don't know, all I know is we seem to have an awful lot of
the cereal crops grown very near to residential areas, and as there are very few of us that have sealed air conditioned housing,
we suffer for living in the country. There is nothing that I have seen that eats the thrips, except us or the cat or dog that
needs a supply of food on a plate, which the thrips land on, and we the unsuspecting, devour as we are hungry. I saw a small
two to three year old child, licking a super multi coloured iced lolly, and there was a bright orange/yellow stripe on the
lolly which was covered with the little black insects that seem to be attracted to anything white or brightly coloured, I
leave you to image where the thrips went as the child was totally unaware and unperturbed by their presence. I offered to
brush some thrips of a young ladies' yellow summer top, but my offer was refused, ah well!The pollen beetles are totally useless on the other hand but they do not invade
the picture frames they just seem to spend all their day climbing up the windows then getting to the top, drop down and climb
up again. It's a wonder that Gordon Brown has not found a method of utilising this source of power for some purpose or
other. Imagine on the Labour Party's next manifesto, “The lights in this hall have been provided by the activities
of 57 Zillion pollen beetles, harnessed by the DEFRA scientists, to benefit you! They do appear as regular as the thrips,
and are housed within the husks of the developing cereal crops, they munch a tremendous amount of pollen, they do not pollinate
as the bees do, they just eat, their mate and their offspring eats as well, so when they are disturbed, they move into the
gardens and start munching the pollen in all of our cultivated flowers. I counted twelve inside the calyx of a sweet pea flower,
they had not bothered to walk around to find access to the pollen they ate small holes and to get at the stamens which bears
the pollen, the pollen had been stripped. On closer examination all the sweet peas were the same, some had one or two beetles,
some had more, the flowers were full of holes, and hardly any had produced pods with my next years seed in for saving. Of
course you can try jumping on these beetles from a great height, and they just get up shake their heads as the wing cases
are so hard that they survive. I do not recommend trying to crack them with nut crackers, as you will go mad and they will
still be there. Or sitting there with a hammer might be a punishment for some hideous crime perpetrated by one of the grandchildren,
now that's a good idea.!!! Whatever we do you can guarantee that this time next year when harvest starts, we will get
it all again and there'snowt we can do about
it.
All the bestJohn Smallwood
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