Letters To The Editor

Hi

I'd like to ask those people who walk their dogs along the back of the village green, bag their dog's poo and proceed to throw it into a convenient hedge - why? Please explain to me the point to this as I'm not too quick on the uptake and don't see the logic. Who or what are you helping apart from yourselves?

Maybe you like seeing those hedges decorated with bags and think you are contributing to the splendour of our village, or maybe you believe in fairies and think this an appropriate gift (you'll notice they haven't accepted). Either way you're wrong and now have permission to carry those bags another 200 metres to a convenient bin as I'm sure this is what you've wanted to do all along.

Another dog owner
Name supplied

I wonder if there are any descendants of William King (born 1834, Swavesey) and Sarah Prior (born 1837, Swavesey) still living in the Swavesey area. William and Sarah were my Great Grandparents, they were married in the Parish Church Swavesey in 1857. My Grandfather was John Prior King (born 1866), he left Swavesey to work in Hartlepool and married Mary Hird Muir in 1893 in West Hartlepool. I would love to hear from anyone with any information.

Joyce Mitchelson (nee King)
Email: joyce.mitchelson@tiscali.co.uk

William & Sarah had seven children -
Sarah Mary King; Born 1863 -- Moulton, Suffolk
William King; Born 1865 -- Moulton, Suffolk
John King; Born 1867 -- Moulton, Suffolk
Charles King; Born 1869 -- Westley, Cambridge
Ernest King; Born 1872 -- Swavesey, Cambridgeshire
Jane King; Born 1877 -- Swavesey, Cambridgeshire
Harriett King; Born 1879 -- Swavesey, Cambridgeshire 

Information found on a website at :- http://www.porpoisehead.net/gedview/family.php?famid=F177

Summer's here!

How can you tell?     I hear you ask.
Well as soon as we have a warm sunny day, I have to endure the pyromaniac in Whitton Close, lighting up his bonfire and stinking out the neighbourhood. Why does this always happen whenever we have a sunny day? This is the time I enjoy relaxing in my garden with my family, instead of shutting all the doors and windows and sweltering inside. Why do you need to do this, when we all have wheelie bins for recycling green waste? Do you like your washing and house stinking of smoke? But most important of all, please spare a thought for those of us who suffer from hay fever and asthma brought on by your smoke.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE STOP IT.

And if you still have to light your stinking bonfires, then please do it on a cold winters day when none of us are outside.

A fed up local resident.
Name and address supplied Ed