By just some of the many, many stable kids she taught.

For the last 30 years, Alison ran the Walberswick stables. She loved and cared for the continual stream of horses and ponies, donkeys and sheep, goats and cats, which populated the stables. And every holiday, a gang of children would arrive in the mornings to be taught by Alison how to care for these precious ponies, how to ride, and then given the space to play.
Some of her stables kids have written down their feelings about her - and a description of the heaven in which they think she is now.

She liked her chair in the tack room. That was her best place.
She sometimes wore her slippers at work. That was cool.
She always told us we were really good at riding: even when we weren't.
I know she was a bit ill, but she told lots of jokes and she laughed a lot so she can't have been that ill can she?
She could carry a big bale of hay - she was the strongest person I ever met.  And she was never scared - not even of mice or spiders or grown-ups.
What I'll miss most about her was, when I was naughty, Alison took out her teeth to scare me.

I think she'd like to go to a Horsey Heaven where there are lots of children - she loves children. She was always really nice to us.
In Alison's heaven there will be lots of old biscuits and cheese crackers - that's what she liked.
And Guinness the lamb that died, he will be in heaven with her.
And as soon as her dog Megan dies, Alison will be waiting for her. Alison will like that. I think she's missing Megan already.
And she'll see her horse Phyllis there. Phyllis was quite old and she didn't run about too much and Phyllis's lungs were bad too and maybe that's why they loved each other so much.
In heaven she won't need her oxygen.
She will be with Phyllis and Tara and Rosie and Wanda and Rory and Robin - and it will look like the stables - and she'll be sitting in her stripy rocking chair shouting out "YOU LUMMOX!"

Kindly submitted by Emma Freud

August 2007 will mark the centenary of the birth*, in Walberswick, of documentary film maker Humphrey Jennings. He was born in our house, known at the time as 'Gazebo' (then latterly as 'Mill House'), before moving to 'Marshway' in Leverets' Lane.
His father, Frank Jennings, was the architect of many of the houses built in the village during the early 1900s.
Humphrey made his reputation during WW II, when he directed a number of documentaries predominately concerning the Home Front. His two most famous films are 'Listen to Britain' (1942) and 'Fires Were Started' (1943): the latter being nominated for an Oscar.
Humphrey Jennings died accidentally in 1950 at the young age of 43**. Had he lived, he would have undoubtedly gone on to make a major contribution to mainstream cinema. Film director Lindsay Anderson described him as, 'the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced'.
His work has been celebrated at film festivals around the world and now there are plans to bring home his work to Walberswick, with a film festival held in the Village Hall over the weekend of 5/ 6 May 2007. The organizing team are James Darkins, Julia Reisz and Richard Scott. We'd love to hear from anyone with memories of the Jennings family, or who has bright ideas about how best to celebrate the centenary.

James Darkins, Te Awahou Tel: 01502 722110

(* 19 August 1907. ** 24 September 1950 - in Greece, while preparing for a film for the European Economic Commission.

For more details see: http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/453623/index.html
Ed)

Have you ever wanted to go to Norwich for the day and lost heart when you thought about the long drive and the hassle of finding a parking space? Well, help is at hand!
The Trustees of The Walberswick Common Lands Charity have agreed to allocate some of the car park profits to fund a monthly bus service to Norwich for a trial period of six months.
It will be a sixteen-passenger mini-bus, leaving the village at 9.30 a.m., setting us down at "John Lewis" (Bonds) and collecting us at 2 p.m. for the return journey.
At present we are awaiting confirmation from Waylands Bus Company for the first trip to be on Thursday, 18^th May.
Due to the limited space, it has been suggested that a £1 booking fee be charged for advance reservations. This will, hopefully, avoid any disappointment on the day.
To make a reservation please 'phone either:

Jane Kirkeby: 723079, or Sheila Diverall: 724422