Friday's Hadleigh Breakfast Briefing
By Derek Davis
11th Jun 2021 | Local News
Friday's Fascinating Flower Facts
While the poppy is usually associated with November, and Remembrance, it actually flowers now, as our wonderful pictures from a peninsula farmer's field shows so vividly. Poppies grew so readily on battlegrounds due to the concrete left behind but as the lime disappeared into the soil, so the poppies faded away.Morphine is created from the milky latex in the seed head of the opium poppy and due to the opiate traces that can be found in poppy seeds, and because of the potential for the seeds to be used to grow opium poppies, they are banned as a food ingredient in China, Taiwan and Singapore. These trace amounts of opiate also mean that eating even a small amount of food containing poppy seed can lead to a false positive on drugs tests. In the 19th century, British horticulturalists who were incentivised by the booming opium trade attempted to establish an opium poppy crop in the UK. Unfortunately for them, it was eaten by a plague of hares that felt no pain.
Today's Hadleigh sunrise: 04:35
Today's Hadleigh sunset: 21:14
Weather:
A dry day ahead, with variable cloud cover and some sunshine. Feeling warm or very warm in more prolonged sunshine. Sometimes breezy. Maximum Temperature 25c, low of 15c.
Orwell Bridge:
Open
Joke of the day:
A blind man walks into the bakery and asks for eight poppy seed breads. While the baker gathers them for him, he asks: are you expecting any visitors? No, replies the blind man. But I'm going on holiday, and they have such lovely stories written on them.
Hadleigh Market
- 00-14.00
Gulf Garage and Londis Shop, Lady Lane:
Monday: 06:00 - 22:00
Tuesday: 06:00 - 22:00Wednesday: 06:00 - 21:00
Thursday: 06:00 - 22:00Friday: 06:00 - 22:00
Saturday: 06:00 - 22:00Sunday: 07:00 - 21:00
(Free home testing kits)
Pharmacies:
Mill Lane: 08:00 - 18:30Boots: 09:00 – 17:30
Supermarket opening times:
Morrisons – 07:00 – 22:00
Spar – 06:00 – 23:00Co-op - 07:00 – 22:00
Post Office opening times
Hadleigh:
Monday - Saturday: 09:00-17:00Sunday: Closed
Bildeston:
Monday - Saturday: 07:00-18:30Sunday: 09:00-12:00
Polstead:
Monday - Friday: 09:00-13:00Saturday:09:00-12:30
Sunday: Closed Boxford:Monday - Friday: 08:30-17:30
Saturday: 08:30-12:30Sunday: Closed
Citizens Advice Bureau phone advice for patients at Hadleigh, Boxford and Bildeston surgeries
- 00 - 15.00
Wednesday: 07586741250
Thursday: 07379202164Babergh's Home But Not Alone helpline: Freephone 0800 876 6926
Doctors:
Hadleigh Health centre
- 00am - 6.30pm
Boxford Mill Surgery
- 00am - 1pm
Link to online booking system for both, here...
Contact: 01473 822 961Call 111 out of hours.
Bus timetable:
Library is open for Select & Collect and reservations only.
Opening times
Monday ClosedTuesday 0900 - 1700
Wednesday 0900 - 1700Thursday 0900 - 1800
Friday 0900 - 1700Saturday 0930 - 1700
Sunday 1000 - 1600Out-of-hours book return available
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