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Green bags are collected on Tuesdays of the summer of promise A Cole, T. Photo: Police non-urgent calls 101 same week as brown bins. To subscribe please April / contact TVBC on 368000. Sophie Walters, Chair to the Parish Council writes Neighbourcare Andover 336 020, 339 899 May 2021 Foil is collected at Chilbolton’s West Down car Surgery 810 524 Are we really getting towards the end of this pandemic? It park & at Andover Garden Centre. Helpline for Carers (Freephone) 0800 032 3456 almost feels like tempting fate by being optimistic, trying to see a Plastic pots are no longer recycled there. Hants County Council information 0300 555 1375 positive way forward. I am so proud of this village, the sense of Glass recycling. The farm shop now hosts a community, the selfless helpers who work so hard behind the glass recycling bin in its car park. Test Valley Borough Council 368 000 scenes, the willingness to step up without hesitation, the genuine Glass, clothing and foil recycling bins are Citizens’ Advice Bureau 0344 411 1306 avalable at Chilbolton Down car park, and at compassion that runs through the whole village. Longstockings Andover Wyevale Garden Centre. To call anonymously with information This Newsletter is about crime: Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 published by Longstock please never change, really never change. Parish Council and delivered I am very mindful that this horrid illness has struck right at the There is a collecting box for clean TRANSPORT free to every household in plastic milk bottle tops in the Stagecoach Stockbridge to Winchester Longstock. heart of our village. We will mourn the loss of our neighbours who church lychgate, and a separate one buses number 68 0345 121 0190 have died, gone but certainly never to be forgotten. for batteries. Please don’t put either Anyone else may subscribe in plastic bags. Batteries can also be Cango buses to Romsey have been replaced with at £10 a year by contacting Stay aware of your neighbours, some may be very scared about disposed of in supermarkets & should shared taxis to your door .Register on longstockparishcouncil18 going out and frightened of the relaxing of rules. If anyone knows 01962 846 786 not go in dustbins. @gmail.com. of someone who is struggling please contact your patch co- Traveline for countrywide travel info The batteries (small, not car!) will be taken for ordinator or call me on 07740443460. Also don’t forget that the safe disposal; and clean plastic milk bottle tops 0871200 2233 with the HDPE symbol will be recycled to raise Dial-a-Ride (Joyrides Stockbridge). Minibus to Henry Smith Fund is here to help out if anyone needs a financial funds for the Gift of Sight’s research into macular Andover. Register on 356 808 helping hand. degeneration. NO OTHER TYPES This runs through Longstock on Wednesdays at There is a tangible, wonderful feeling of Spring, springing into OF TOPS PLEASE as these are the only 9.30, returning at noon, for £5 return, or £3 for ones accepted now, and PLEASE don’t put bus pass holders. For more information, ring life. Birds singing, buds bursting and the lighter evenings. It really batteries in with bottle tops.The consequences John Musters 810 459 or Dane Oliver 810 does fill us all full of hope of reaching that light at the end of an are DIRE! 839. exceedingly long tunnel. Slowly, slowly we will return to a more normal life.

The deadline for newsletter submissions is Friday 14th May if you’d like to submit any news or comment, or offer to help! [email protected] Page 2 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 The Longstock Newsletter Page 2 Parish Council Report “Village Litter-Pick”. More details will follow in Longstock Village Fête 2021 due course, but in the meantime the PC would like by Mark Flewitt, Parish Clerk It’s too early to say if we can safely hold a fête this to thank the various residents who voluntarily pick year, but we have set aside Saturday 4th September Parish Council (PC) Meetings Ð The PC has up rubbish during their daily walks. These selfless as the day - just in case. So for the moment, please continued to run its regular meetings on a virtual efforts are very much appreciated. put the date in your diary and we’ll announce more basis via Zoom. All residents are very welcome to Cemetery Ð The PC is aware that some as we go into summer. join and view the virtual PC meetings. Information is maintenance work will be needed on some of the John Musters, Chairman Fête Committee provided on the village noticeboards and on the PC graves and will organise a working party once website. The current Government authorisation for Covid-19 regulations allow. Newsletter editors wanted! remote meetings expires on 7th May, and the PC is Barn Cottage Ð Following many representations seeking guidance on how to proceed. from local residents about the situation at Barn The Newsletter editorial team is looking for help PC Finance Ð Subject to the timely receipt of the Cottage, the PC has contacted TVBC and asked the with text compiling/layout. This is a fun job that £792 VAT Refund claim submitted to HMRC in Planning Enforcement Officer to review compliance helps to maintain the village community. January, the PC finances are on schedule to end the with the conditions of the planning permissions, Do get in touch with us at current financial year on budget. with particular reference to the re-instatement of the [email protected] The PC has agreed to make a £250 donation towards hedgerow along the road, and the removal of the mounds of earth at the rear of the property. It has the £10k fund-raising appeal of the Friends of Parish Councillors: Stockbridge School for additional outside equipment been noted that the front hedge was designated as an for the children at Stockbridge Primary. “important hedgerow” in the 1989 documentation Chairman: Sophie Walters Neighbourhood Plan (NHP) Ð the Steering Group that formalised the Longstock Conservation Area. [email protected] 07740 443 460 are working on re-starting the NHP community Freedom of Information Request (FoIR) and engagement process, which was suspended in 2020 Subject Access Request (SAR) Ð In December Councillors: due to the Covid-19 crisis. More information will 2020 and January 2021 the PC received an FoIR and David Burnfield, [email protected] follow in due course. a SAR, which have been dealt with in line with the 810 529 relevant legislation and guidance. John Eastwood [email protected] Longstock Parish Council Website ÐThe PC 07880 644 977 website at www.longstockparishcouncil.co.uk Contract Renewals Ð The PC has approved the Angie Filippa, [email protected] includes past and current Parish Council renewal for a further year of the mowing contract 07817 576 346 documentation and other useful information. for the Cemetery, Recreation Ground and grass Ivan Gibson, [email protected] 810 002 Potholes and Highways Ð the PC continues to verges; and has also agreed the renewal of the Charles Grieve, [email protected] report potholes and other road defects to HCC Clerk’s annual contract. 810 580 Highways, and to monitor that the repair work is Selina Musters, [email protected] Recent Expenditure 810 459 satisfactorily carried out. SSE - Streetlighting Electricity Supply £63.94 Clerk Mark Flewitt Test Valley School (TVS) Ð The new Head Teacher, Sarsen Press Ð newsletter printing £300.87 Toni Wilden, joined the Feb PC meeting to highlight [email protected] 810 752 the new focus on TVS’s differential characteristics Plan-ET - NHP Consultants £468.00 Colin McIntyre, [email protected] as a small rural school. TVS will introduce new IG Ð Cemetery and Playground mowing £500.00 District Councillors: technical awards for land-based studies in close co- Friends of Stockbridge School Ð PTA Appeal Ian Jeffrey, [email protected] operation with Sparsholt College, and will develop £250.00 01794 388872 its animal and agricultural areas. TVS is also seeking MF Ð Clerk’s Annual payment + expenses Alison Johnston, [email protected] local engagement with farmers, gamekeepers and £1,378.67 01794 517939 Tony Ward, [email protected] landowners. HMRC Ð Clerk’s income tax £800.00 Recreation Ground Ð A group of volunteers has 01794 389649 carried out works to repair and replace some items of Recent Planning Applications County Councillor: equipment. The Rec remains open and well used by Ð 1 Church Cottages Ð Replacement windows Andrew Gibson, [email protected] local families, within the latest government Ð PC Support 01264 861138 guidelines, including social distancing, hand Ð Longstock Mill Ð Remedial works Ð PC Support sanitising etc. Ð Highfield Ð Tree works Ð PC Support Footpaths/Rights of Way/Lengthsman ÐThe PC Ð 1 Crossroads Cottages Ð Weatherproof Outside continues to monitor the conditions and signage of wall Ð PC Support all the Public Rights of Way within the village. The work-sharing agreement for the Lengthsman with Ð Highcroft Ð Replace external coal store with neighbouring villages has been renewed for a further covered wood store Ð PC Support year. Traffic Speed on the Bunny Ð The initial HCC Parish Council response to the PC’s request to reduce the speed Meeting Dates limit to 30 mph across the whole length of the Bunny Monday 12th April Ð at 7.00 pm has been negative, but the PC will continue to lobby Monday 10th May - at 7.00 pm (to be confirmed) for this change. These meetings will be held as virtual Village Litter-Pick Ð Once the Covid-19 regulations meetings via Zoom. All residents are welcome allow, the PC intends to organise a community to view and contribute Page 3 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 The Longstock Newsletter Page 3 Parish Council Report “Village Litter-Pick”. More details will follow in Longstock Village Fête 2021 due course, but in the meantime the PC would like by Mark Flewitt, Parish Clerk It’s too early to say if we can safely hold a fête this to thank the various residents who voluntarily pick year, but we have set aside Saturday 4th September Parish Council (PC) Meetings Ð The PC has up rubbish during their daily walks. These selfless as the day - just in case. So for the moment, please continued to run its regular meetings on a virtual efforts are very much appreciated. put the date in your diary and we’ll announce more basis via Zoom. All residents are very welcome to Cemetery Ð The PC is aware that some as we go into summer. join and view the virtual PC meetings. Information is maintenance work will be needed on some of the John Musters, Chairman Fête Committee provided on the village noticeboards and on the PC graves and will organise a working party once website. The current Government authorisation for Covid-19 regulations allow. Newsletter editors wanted! remote meetings expires on 7th May, and the PC is Barn Cottage Ð Following many representations seeking guidance on how to proceed. from local residents about the situation at Barn The Newsletter editorial team is looking for help PC Finance Ð Subject to the timely receipt of the Cottage, the PC has contacted TVBC and asked the with text compiling/layout. This is a fun job that £792 VAT Refund claim submitted to HMRC in Planning Enforcement Officer to review compliance helps to maintain the village community. January, the PC finances are on schedule to end the with the conditions of the planning permissions, Do get in touch with us at current financial year on budget. with particular reference to the re-instatement of the [email protected] The PC has agreed to make a £250 donation towards hedgerow along the road, and the removal of the mounds of earth at the rear of the property. It has the £10k fund-raising appeal of the Friends of Parish Councillors: Stockbridge School for additional outside equipment been noted that the front hedge was designated as an for the children at Stockbridge Primary. “important hedgerow” in the 1989 documentation Chairman: Sophie Walters Neighbourhood Plan (NHP) Ð the Steering Group that formalised the Longstock Conservation Area. [email protected] 07740 443 460 are working on re-starting the NHP community Freedom of Information Request (FoIR) and engagement process, which was suspended in 2020 Subject Access Request (SAR) Ð In December Councillors: due to the Covid-19 crisis. More information will 2020 and January 2021 the PC received an FoIR and David Burnfield, [email protected] follow in due course. a SAR, which have been dealt with in line with the 810 529 relevant legislation and guidance. John Eastwood [email protected] Longstock Parish Council Website ÐThe PC 07880 644 977 website at www.longstockparishcouncil.co.uk Contract Renewals Ð The PC has approved the Angie Filippa, [email protected] includes past and current Parish Council renewal for a further year of the mowing contract 07817 576 346 documentation and other useful information. for the Cemetery, Recreation Ground and grass Ivan Gibson, [email protected] 810 002 Potholes and Highways Ð the PC continues to verges; and has also agreed the renewal of the Charles Grieve, [email protected] report potholes and other road defects to HCC Clerk’s annual contract. 810 580 Highways, and to monitor that the repair work is Selina Musters, [email protected] Recent Expenditure 810 459 satisfactorily carried out. SSE - Streetlighting Electricity Supply £63.94 Clerk Mark Flewitt Test Valley School (TVS) Ð The new Head Teacher, Sarsen Press Ð newsletter printing £300.87 Toni Wilden, joined the Feb PC meeting to highlight [email protected] 810 752 the new focus on TVS’s differential characteristics Plan-ET - NHP Consultants £468.00 Colin McIntyre, [email protected] as a small rural school. TVS will introduce new IG Ð Cemetery and Playground mowing £500.00 District Councillors: technical awards for land-based studies in close co- Friends of Stockbridge School Ð PTA Appeal Ian Jeffrey, [email protected] operation with Sparsholt College, and will develop £250.00 01794 388872 its animal and agricultural areas. TVS is also seeking MF Ð Clerk’s Annual payment + expenses Alison Johnston, [email protected] local engagement with farmers, gamekeepers and £1,378.67 01794 517939 Tony Ward, [email protected] landowners. HMRC Ð Clerk’s income tax £800.00 Recreation Ground Ð A group of volunteers has 01794 389649 carried out works to repair and replace some items of Recent Planning Applications County Councillor: equipment. The Rec remains open and well used by Ð 1 Church Cottages Ð Replacement windows Andrew Gibson, [email protected] local families, within the latest government Ð PC Support 01264 861138 guidelines, including social distancing, hand Ð Longstock Mill Ð Remedial works Ð PC Support sanitising etc. Ð Highfield Ð Tree works Ð PC Support Footpaths/Rights of Way/Lengthsman ÐThe PC Ð 1 Crossroads Cottages Ð Weatherproof Outside continues to monitor the conditions and signage of wall Ð PC Support all the Public Rights of Way within the village. The work-sharing agreement for the Lengthsman with Ð Highcroft Ð Replace external coal store with neighbouring villages has been renewed for a further covered wood store Ð PC Support year. Traffic Speed on the Bunny Ð The initial HCC Parish Council response to the PC’s request to reduce the speed Meeting Dates limit to 30 mph across the whole length of the Bunny Monday 12th April Ð at 7.00 pm has been negative, but the PC will continue to lobby Monday 10th May - at 7.00 pm (to be confirmed) for this change. These meetings will be held as virtual Village Litter-Pick Ð Once the Covid-19 regulations meetings via Zoom. All residents are welcome allow, the PC intends to organise a community to view and contribute Page 4 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 The Longstock Newsletter Page 4 £52 per year payable to the village, with the College Village Hall Centenary paying for lighting (metered) and fuel for the stoves. By John Musters, Chairman, But in May 1943 there was a dispute with the CEO, Village Hall Management who had arbitrarily halved the rent. Minutes of a Committee hall committee special meeting say that the CEO attended the meeting and “adopted a threatening This spring marks the centenary of a village hall on the present site. In early 1921, Mrs Beddington of tone”, refused to compromise and even suggested Longstock House obtained a wooden hut from an compulsory requisition. The management stuck to its army camp occupied in the Great War and gave it to guns and, after further discussion (in which the CEO the village as a Parish Hall. The hut, shown here in “was hardly on his best behaviour”!), a compromise a photo taken by the late Alf Amey, was placed was agreed of £36 p.a. but only “as a concession to opposite the Methodist Chapel and opened by Mrs patriotism”. Beddington who said at the opening ceremony in The wooden hall continued in use for another May 1921: “I hope it will be a place of interest, forty years but, by the mid-1980s, it was clear that it entertainment and a meeting place for us all. I’ve would need either a major refurbishment or a re- heard village halls are not all Temples of Peace, but I build. An architect’s survey was commissioned and want ours to be a model of kindly feeling and a true at a general meeting in May 1986 the result of the home of good fellowship”. survey led to a majority voting in favour of re-build. A fund-raising subcommittee was set up under A sub-committee of the Parish Council was formed to manage matters connected with the hall. Marjorie Andrews’s chairmanship, with Colonel At the first meeting of the committee the Peter Ralph as the driving force behind the fund- membership subscription for both the Men’s and raising activities. Women’s Clubs (minimum age 15) was agreed at 5/- Through extraordinary efforts by the (25p) a year, with opening hours of 6pm to10pm. subcommittee, by the end of 1990 sufficient funds An extension to midnight would be allowed for had been raised to start work. The old hall was dances, although all ‘juveniles’ had to be out by demolished and in March 1991 Longstock resident 10pm! The committee also agreed the charges for and former Managing Director of the Leckford dances, whist drives, club meetings etc (all different) Estate, Maurice Jones, laid the foundation stone of and decided that no political meetings of any kind the new hall in his capacity as Chairman of should be held. Hampshire County Council. On 2nd November the new hall was formally opened by our own Dr Gareth At the start of the Second World War the hall was let to Portsmouth Municipal Collage as a school for Evans. evacuated children aged 14 to 16, billeted in We can all take immense pride in the ‘new’ surrounding villages. The hall committee agreed hall that is 30 years old this year and looks good for rent with the County Education Officer (CEO) of many decades to come.

feed merchants, garden centres, farmers, game Land Based Rural Studies keepers, nature conservationists. Test Valley School are excited to We are also really grateful to the Test Valley announce our new level 2 Technical Borough Council who have just awarded us a £1000 award in Land Based Rural studies. grant towards improving our animal area. Animal This is an option that is taken care is part of the rural studies course and we applied alongside and is equivalent to for the grant to enable us to buy new sheds for our GCSEs. It covers animal and chickens, extend the concrete plinth for the goat, agricultural knowledge with links improve the fencing around the pond and some to the local community and businesses in that field items for food and water dispensing. and can help students to pursue animal and In the Easter holidays we are holding 2 volunteer agricultural careers. This course sits well within our days on the 14th and 15th of April for friends of the small, rural high achieving school offer and offers an school to come in and work on preparing the rural exciting insight to rural careers. studies area, and also to prepare beds around the The course requires pupils to take part in local school site. We would love for local businesses to community projects which could be conservation get involved with these days, either to volunteer with planting trees in the nature reserve, planting in some time or by donating items that we can use, the local village, generally thinking about the local such as hanging baskets, robust bedding plants e.g. area and what could be done to help improve it for Geraniums and Impatiens, canes, seeds, summer everyone. bulbs, compost, manure for the roses and slow We are looking to further build up a network of release fertiliser. If you are able to help in any way, individuals who want to work with us on helping us please use the following links to a Microsoft Form. teach the students about this industry and how they We will contact you to confirm times and may influence the future. These employers could be where to go on the day. https://forms.office.com/r/q0HPxUC7Am Page 5 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 The Longstock Newsletter Page 5 £52 per year payable to the village, with the College Village Hall Centenary paying for lighting (metered) and fuel for the stoves. By John Musters, Chairman, But in May 1943 there was a dispute with the CEO, Village Hall Management who had arbitrarily halved the rent. Minutes of a Committee hall committee special meeting say that the CEO attended the meeting and “adopted a threatening This spring marks the centenary of a village hall on the present site. In early 1921, Mrs Beddington of tone”, refused to compromise and even suggested Longstock House obtained a wooden hut from an compulsory requisition. The management stuck to its army camp occupied in the Great War and gave it to guns and, after further discussion (in which the CEO the village as a Parish Hall. The hut, shown here in “was hardly on his best behaviour”!), a compromise a photo taken by the late Alf Amey, was placed was agreed of £36 p.a. but only “as a concession to opposite the Methodist Chapel and opened by Mrs patriotism”. Beddington who said at the opening ceremony in The wooden hall continued in use for another May 1921: “I hope it will be a place of interest, forty years but, by the mid-1980s, it was clear that it entertainment and a meeting place for us all. I’ve would need either a major refurbishment or a re- heard village halls are not all Temples of Peace, but I build. An architect’s survey was commissioned and want ours to be a model of kindly feeling and a true at a general meeting in May 1986 the result of the home of good fellowship”. survey led to a majority voting in favour of re-build. A fund-raising subcommittee was set up under A sub-committee of the Parish Council was formed to manage matters connected with the hall. Marjorie Andrews’s chairmanship, with Colonel At the first meeting of the committee the Peter Ralph as the driving force behind the fund- membership subscription for both the Men’s and raising activities. Women’s Clubs (minimum age 15) was agreed at 5/- Through extraordinary efforts by the (25p) a year, with opening hours of 6pm to10pm. subcommittee, by the end of 1990 sufficient funds An extension to midnight would be allowed for had been raised to start work. The old hall was dances, although all ‘juveniles’ had to be out by demolished and in March 1991 Longstock resident 10pm! The committee also agreed the charges for and former Managing Director of the Leckford dances, whist drives, club meetings etc (all different) Estate, Maurice Jones, laid the foundation stone of and decided that no political meetings of any kind the new hall in his capacity as Chairman of should be held. Hampshire County Council. On 2nd November the new hall was formally opened by our own Dr Gareth At the start of the Second World War the hall was let to Portsmouth Municipal Collage as a school for Evans. evacuated children aged 14 to 16, billeted in We can all take immense pride in the ‘new’ surrounding villages. The hall committee agreed hall that is 30 years old this year and looks good for rent with the County Education Officer (CEO) of many decades to come. feed merchants, garden centres, farmers, game Land Based Rural Studies keepers, nature conservationists. Test Valley School are excited to We are also really grateful to the Test Valley announce our new level 2 Technical Borough Council who have just awarded us a £1000 award in Land Based Rural studies. grant towards improving our animal area. Animal This is an option that is taken care is part of the rural studies course and we applied alongside and is equivalent to for the grant to enable us to buy new sheds for our GCSEs. It covers animal and chickens, extend the concrete plinth for the goat, agricultural knowledge with links improve the fencing around the pond and some to the local community and businesses in that field items for food and water dispensing. and can help students to pursue animal and In the Easter holidays we are holding 2 volunteer agricultural careers. This course sits well within our days on the 14th and 15th of April for friends of the small, rural high achieving school offer and offers an school to come in and work on preparing the rural exciting insight to rural careers. studies area, and also to prepare beds around the The course requires pupils to take part in local school site. We would love for local businesses to community projects which could be conservation get involved with these days, either to volunteer with planting trees in the nature reserve, planting in some time or by donating items that we can use, the local village, generally thinking about the local such as hanging baskets, robust bedding plants e.g. area and what could be done to help improve it for Geraniums and Impatiens, canes, seeds, summer everyone. bulbs, compost, manure for the roses and slow We are looking to further build up a network of release fertiliser. If you are able to help in any way, individuals who want to work with us on helping us please use the following links to a Microsoft Form. teach the students about this industry and how they We will contact you to confirm times and may influence the future. These employers could be where to go on the day. https://forms.office.com/r/q0HPxUC7Am Page 6 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 The Longstock Newsletter Page 6 their screens. Pupils rode their bikes, went on dog walks, played boardgames and made homemade pizzas. Staff went for runs, did some DIY and played the ukulele. In subsequent weeks, our Year 11s did a By Sarah Botwright, Business Manager, Test Valley School dance session, and each week we look forward to hearing about all the things pupils have done in their This half term we have had a successful launch of wellbeing hour. our Test valley to Tokyo Challenge. The aim is for members of our school community at Test Valley to To build the skills of our year 7 pupils, we’re run, walk, swim or cycle the 9659km from working with the charity Stormbreak, which aids Stockbridge to Tokyo in time for the start of the young people’s personal development, with the opening ceremony of the re-arranged Olympic strapline “When the storm rages we teach children to Games on 23 July. The school is doing this to raise find shelter, create light, calm and change through money for Helpful Hounds this is the fantastic movement.” Stormbreak’s core values centre on the charity that has provided us with our wellbeing dog development of resilience, self-worth, relationships, Hope (pictures attached). Helpful hounds is a charity self-care, hope and optimism. Before returning to that purchases, trains and places assistance and school, our year 7s took part in a Stormbreak session therapy dogs with schools and families. Since Hope during their tutor time and we had an online joined Test Valley School she has been making a assembly to see how the charity might help them huge impact on pupils and adults. We are keen to both academically and emotionally. repay the charity’s investment in us in order for On 24th February we held an online live event for them to continue to provide training for Hope and to our Year 9s’ Futures Day to help pupils decide their provide other assistance and therapy dogs for those GCSE options. Here, pupils took part in a who need them. During half term and the 3 weeks programme called ‘Fast Tomato’, designed to help since, pupils and staff have run, walked or cycled a young people broaden their horizons and consider a total of 7238km towards our 9659km target Ð this is spectrum of career and education options. Pupils an amazing distance to cover in just 4 weeks. In take a short psychometric questionnaire to gauge addition we have already raised £530, just over our their interests, attitudes and motivations and are then original target of £500. If anyone would like to presented with personalised career and further donate to this wonderful charity our JustGiving page education suggestions. This was followed by talks is fundraising for Helpful Hounds Assistance Dogs about their options, talks by subject leaders in Maths, (justgiving.com). English and Science about core subject career opportunities and an Andover College broadcast On 5th February we held our first weekly wellbeing hour this term, when staff and pupils were about apprenticeships and how they work. Pupils and encouraged to get out and do something away from parents were thrilled with all the information to help guide their GCSE choices.

We are on the Test Way, midway between Stockbridge and Romsey in the picturesque village of Horsebridge. We are ideally suited for groups of ramblers or cyclists with a pre booking service available. We are a Free House specialising in ﬁne ales, wines and home-cooked locally-sourced food. Choice of freshly cooked roasts every Sunday. We are open throughout the day from 9.30 am and will not close before 10pm, or later if we have customers. Food served between 9.30 am until 8pm, and later if pre-booked. We have 30 covers inside and 32 seats available in our garden to the rear. We are conscious of the Covid regulations providing table service, sanitiser and safe seating. Inside 2 Households can sit together, outside 2 households or a maximum of 6 people from multiple households to each table. We are allowing more than 2 drinks to each customer.

HORSEBRIDGE ROAD, HORSEBRIDGE, SO20 6PU Telephone: 01794 388644 Johnofgaunt.co.uk Page 7 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 The Longstock Newsletter Page 7 their screens. Pupils rode their bikes, went on dog walks, played boardgames and made homemade pizzas. Staff went for runs, did some DIY and played the ukulele. In subsequent weeks, our Year 11s did a By Sarah Botwright, Business Manager, Test Valley School dance session, and each week we look forward to hearing about all the things pupils have done in their This half term we have had a successful launch of wellbeing hour. our Test valley to Tokyo Challenge. The aim is for members of our school community at Test Valley to To build the skills of our year 7 pupils, we’re run, walk, swim or cycle the 9659km from working with the charity Stormbreak, which aids Stockbridge to Tokyo in time for the start of the young people’s personal development, with the opening ceremony of the re-arranged Olympic strapline “When the storm rages we teach children to Games on 23 July. The school is doing this to raise find shelter, create light, calm and change through money for Helpful Hounds this is the fantastic movement.” Stormbreak’s core values centre on the charity that has provided us with our wellbeing dog development of resilience, self-worth, relationships, Hope (pictures attached). Helpful hounds is a charity self-care, hope and optimism. Before returning to that purchases, trains and places assistance and school, our year 7s took part in a Stormbreak session therapy dogs with schools and families. Since Hope during their tutor time and we had an online joined Test Valley School she has been making a assembly to see how the charity might help them huge impact on pupils and adults. We are keen to both academically and emotionally. repay the charity’s investment in us in order for On 24th February we held an online live event for them to continue to provide training for Hope and to our Year 9s’ Futures Day to help pupils decide their provide other assistance and therapy dogs for those GCSE options. Here, pupils took part in a who need them. During half term and the 3 weeks programme called ‘Fast Tomato’, designed to help since, pupils and staff have run, walked or cycled a young people broaden their horizons and consider a total of 7238km towards our 9659km target Ð this is spectrum of career and education options. Pupils an amazing distance to cover in just 4 weeks. In take a short psychometric questionnaire to gauge addition we have already raised £530, just over our their interests, attitudes and motivations and are then original target of £500. If anyone would like to presented with personalised career and further donate to this wonderful charity our JustGiving page education suggestions. This was followed by talks is fundraising for Helpful Hounds Assistance Dogs about their options, talks by subject leaders in Maths, (justgiving.com). English and Science about core subject career opportunities and an Andover College broadcast On 5th February we held our first weekly wellbeing hour this term, when staff and pupils were about apprenticeships and how they work. Pupils and encouraged to get out and do something away from parents were thrilled with all the information to help guide their GCSE choices.

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The final costs of rebuilding the section of Forthcoming Services at St. Mary’s (subject to lockdown lifting) Church News collapsed churchyard retaining wall came in at just under £16,000. This was less than first anticipated, Details of other services in the Benefice from Church Warden: Maddie Hedley on 810284 partially due to the fact that we had new copings made from concrete, to match the existing, rather Maddie Hedley writes than using stone. Sincere thanks from Philip, the We are still in lockdown and church services are PCC and me are given to all in the community who taking place courtesy of zoom. The exception was donated to the wall fund Ð not forgetting the fund the funeral service for Colin Taylor, which took raising ‘bring your own picnic’ and sale of hampers. place on 2 March. An array of daffodils by the In total donations came to £8,000, including help Allotment Society decorated the church. Numbers from ‘The Friends of St Mary’. A fantastic were restricted to 30, but it was moving to see many contribution. The Church of England Cathedrals and villagers and friends walking behind the hearse as Churches Conservation Fund contributed £2,500 and this journeyed from number 3 Hillside to the we have now also applied for further funds from the Lychgate. Many others lined the road. A wonderful Hampshire and Islands Historic Churches Trust. symbol of the love and respect shown to Colin, a much loved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. After the service, Colin was buried in R C Church of St. Thomas More Longstock Cemetery. The Allotment Society are Behind Rosalind Hill House, Stockbridge High Street preparing a wild flower garden in Colin’s memory. A fitting tribute to a man who loved his family, Mass usually celebrated at 09.00 each Sunday - Currently please contact loved to grow vegetables and was always happy to Father Mark Hogan, Parish Priest Tel: 01962 852804 help others. If you would like to make a donation to Condolences the Intensive Care Unit at Winchester Hospital, Annual Parochial Church Meeting. This please visit meeting will take place on Tuesday, 18 May 2021 at https://colin-thomas-taylor.muchloved.com/ St Mary’s Church starting at 7.00pm. For those on Morag Duncan her to travel to Australia, Israel and America as The Mothering Sunday service was over ‘zoom’ the Church Electoral Roll, the revision notice will be well as making many trips to see her family in but there was a ‘live’, ‘Covid safe’ Palm Sunday displayed at the Church from 5 April with the May 1926 Ð February 2021 Scotland. She also thoroughly enjoyed her service for the parishes of Leckford, Longstock and revised Electoral Roll on display from 3 May. If weekends in London, with Notting Hill Carnival Stockbridge in St Peter’s Church Stockbridge. anyone would like to go on the Church Electoral being a memorable highlight. Roll, please contact Beth Oliver (810839) or myself Morag was born on the Island of South Uist in Sadly we cannot have the usual Good Friday walk, the Outer Hebrides in 1926, the eldest of four Morag was a fiercely independent woman, but there will be an opportunity for a small number (810284) and we will send the form for completion reflected by the fact that she lived alone until her and return. children. Her first language was Gaelic, and the to gather at the Churchyard for readings and music and culture of the island remained important final illness. She was excellent company, read reflections. We can move around the Churchyard The Annual Meeting will elect 2 Church Wardens to her all her life. extensively and had a very dry wit which was and we will be socially distanced. This event will and PCC members. In addition the meeting receives present right until the end. Her sense of adventure the Annual Report and Accounts for the year 2020. After finishing her schooling at Fort William she start at 11.00am Good Friday morning in St went on to read Classics at Glasgow University and was captured when Ann and Jane took her to Uist There will be a Ministry update from the Vicar, th Mary’s Churchyard. Please phone or email if you then into teaching. for her 90 birthday and her nephew took her for a wish to attend. Rev’d Philip Bowden. This year we are hoping for Her first teaching job, a baptism of fire, was in spin around her childhood haunts on his quad bike. There will be a service in St Mary’s for Easter suggestions for fund raising and for ways of She commented that she must be mad as she set supporting the community. All are welcome, the Gorbals (an area of Glasgow) to a class of school Day, Sunday 4 April at 10.00am. This All Age leavers. Ever resourceful, she abandoned the off, and we thought so too. Service with a short Communion will be taken by although only Electoral Roll members can vote for The death of her husband at an early age meant PCC members and approve the Annual Report. curriculum and focused on life skills. She was richly Rev’d Pete Steele. Due to the Coronavirus rewarded in nylons and anything else available to that her unconditional love and support for her restrictions, please book a place if you wish to If anyone has any questions, please let me know children was paramount. She operated an open (810284) or email [email protected]. them on the black market. She moved on to teach attend. St Mary’s can take 40 Ð 48 people, depending Latin to girls attending a convent in Edinburgh Ð a door policy at Charity and all their friends were on how many families and singles attend. Please ring If you would like a word with the vicar, or be put radical change without fringe benefits. welcome. She could always make them laugh, was Maddie on 01264 810284 or email on his mailing list, please contact Rev’d Philip always interested, never judgmental, always had a [email protected] to book your place. Thank Bowden Ð 810810 or email [email protected] She met her future husband Jimmy when collecting specimens for the Art Department at bottle of Sauvignon chilling and plenty of food on you to Boo Milne and her wonderful team of flower the table. arrangers, already planning the Easter decorations. Funerals at Longstock Edinburgh Botanical Gardens. After being 2 March 2021: The funeral service for the late recommended to Spedan Lewis by the Head of Kew She spent her life Wall Update. I am delighted to say that the work Colin Thomas Taylor took place at 1.00pm at St Gardens, who would come to Longstock for fishing, enjoying the company of on the wall is complete and new grass will be sown Jimmy Duncan was offered the job of Director of young people and loved both at the roadside and in the churchyard. The wall Mary’s Church, Longstock, with the burial at Longstock Cemetery. Gardening and moved to Longstock in 1957. He and spending time with her collapsed over the Easter weekend 2020 (see Morag lived at The Grange, while Oakferns was three grandchildren attached photo). It was a mess! Colin Avery, 18 March 2021: The funeral service for the late Mrs Andrea Woodfine took place at 11.30am on 18 built for them, and there they raised their three Georgia, Finlay and Daniel. stonemason, has done a grand job. He was able to fix children Neil, Ann and Jane. Morag loved Longstock She was always very proud the new coping stones to the wall at the end of March at St Mary’s Church, Longstock. Mrs Woodfine was formerly of Fernhill House Care but remained a Hebridean at heart. of their achievements but February 2021. Thanks go also to Aly Cox for most perhaps most of all she of the clearing and cleaning and for the new coping Home, Fernhill Heath, Worcester. She died Friday After Jimmy’s death in 1972 she returned to 19th February 2021 aged 73 years. Her son is Mr teaching at St Benedict’s Convent until her believed they were stones. We wish Aly good luck with his family’s “thoroughly decent people”. move to North Devon Ð the churches in this area will Peter Woodfine of Longstock. retirement at 70, moving first to Charity Farm miss his help and skill in so many things. House, then to Middle Cottage. This then allowed Page 10 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 The Longstock Newsletter Page 10 to set up the Family Consultancy at Andover great surprise, the following year it turned up in the Alexander ‘Sandy’ Hospital. Eventually he was appointed Consultant in Colin (Corky) Taylor soil when he was digging the garden! Burnfield Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and was elected a December 1947 - January 2021 Over the years, Mandy and I each had 3 children. 1944 Ð 2021 Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Dad loved spending time with his grandchildren, Meanwhile he became involved with the MS by Diane Evans from when they were tiny babies. He would make up Sandy was born at Winchester Society. He wrote an article about his own It is with broken hearts that we had to say goodbye clues for Easter Egg Hunts, teach them to garden and Hospital, and was the oldest of the experience of MS which was published in the British to my Dad, who died on 30th January after help them ride their bikes. When they were older, five Burnfield children. His Father ‘Alister’ had Medical Journal. This led to many things, including contracting COVID-19. Mum and Dad would take them away on holidays come down from Scotland in the 1900s with his the setting up of patients’ groups in both Winchester Colin was born on 19th December 1947 at 9 most years which they all really enjoyed. Dad was family to live and work at Hazeldown Farm, and his and Andover (he was still President of both more Southside Cottages, in his grandmother’s house. He also very proud to become a great granddad when mother, Joan, came from Bossington Farm near than 40 years later). He was asked to give lectures to was the second son of Jack and Ivy Taylor (née Mark, his first grandson, married Lucy who has a Houghton. national groups and a prestigious Memorial Lecture Hardy), a younger brother to Edwin, and an older daughter Sofia and then little Esme was born in June. The five siblings had a happy childhood growing at Queen’s University Belfast. He helped to set up brother to Wendy, who was born 2 years later. The children have countless happy memories of up on the farm, playing in the barns and helping out and he Chaired “Persons with MS International” Colin’s father was in the army, which meant the their Grandad. When Rosy was six, she learnt about when they could with their extended family - Uncles which is part of the MS International Federation. He family lived in Bridgewater and Germany for a the Great Fire of London at school one day. When Bunt and Bob and all the farm workers. attended conferences in Ireland, Canada, Australia, while, before returning to Longstock, living for a her Grandad picked her up, as he often did, she Sandy was sent to school at Marsh Court. He was India, and Austria, among others, and went on a six- short time with his Auntie Rose at Yew Tree asked him if he was really old, “Yes”, he replied. fascinated with this unusual building, though he week lecture tour of New Zealand. Cottage, then moving to 2, Hillside Cottages, where “Were you in the Great Fire of London then?” “Oh didn’t realise at the time how special it was. He was He also wrote a book. “Multiple Sclerosis: A my Nan lived until her death in 2003. yes”. When she asked him lots of questions, he a day-dreamer, and the Head Master would quote Personal Exploration” which was mostly composed Colin attended Stockbridge School until the provided very convincing answers, so for many ‘Behold the dreamer cometh’. Later he went to in the old Showman’s caravan in our garden. It was Secondary School opened in 1960. He would always years she was sure her Grandad had been alive in the school at Taunton. published in 1984, has been reprinted several times say he was the first one through the gates, but I can’t Great Fire! Morgan and Ryan mentioned how much He soon realised that he wasn’t cut out to be a and has been translated into German and Serbo- see that happening somehow. He left school the day they enjoyed the holiday they had with Nanny and farmer. He managed to crash his grandfather’s Croat! Later he also wrote “MS: Need to Know” for before his 15th birthday, to take an apprenticeship as Grandad in August 2020, when they visited the Eden combine harvester, and also had to drive a tractor out young people. a fitter at Kings Builders in Abbots Ann. However, Project. Morgan remembers his Grandad picking up of a field which had caught fire. He decided to Sandy’s main contribution has been to enable this was delayed because of the freezing winter of a fallen sprig and pocketing it to grow at home. become a doctor instead. people with this disabling and distressing disease to 1962, so he helped the local baker and made sure My Dad was a lovely man with a wicked sense of In 1963 he started his studies at The London ‘have a voice’ - to express their feelings and to people got their bread and other groceries delivered humour and always a twinkle in his eye. He would Hospital (it’s now the Royal London). A year later decide for themselves in what ways they need to be in the bad weather. Being a young man, he decided often burst into song (making up his own words) just he met me (Penny), newly arrived, at the ‘Fresher’s helped. He felt that MS affects the whole family and to leave his apprenticeship after a short time to make because he could. He would chat to everyone and Hop’. We married in 1967 - Sandy graduated in not just the person with the illness. Prior to his more money in Coombe’s timber yard in Andover. was happy to help people out if they needed him. 1968 and Penny a year later. We enjoyed living in intervention help was often of a purely practical In 1966 Colin met the love of his life, Margaret When the primary school lost their caretaker, my dad Whitechapel - it was very different from our nature and people with MS were not encouraged to Alderman, the younger sister of Mick who was and mum jumped at the opportunity to give back to respective childhoods. Our first home was a tiny play an active part in the administration of the MS seeing Colin’s sister, Wendy. Colin and Margaret the school he had once attended, and they made that semi-basement flat in a tenement block near to the Society. married in December 1969 and had their wedding school shine with next to no effort. Morgan and hospital - it cost £4.00 a week. Our family was changing too. His health improved reception at Longstock Village Hall. After Mandy’s Rosy would often stay behind to ‘help out’, and Once we had qualified, we needed to escape from after the move to Longstock and in 1980 we were birth in 1970, they moved into 3, Hillside Cottages, would say that if they needed to find their Grandad, London and to live near Longstock. We both got able to foster, and then adopt our two daughters next door to Colin’s Mum and Dad, and I came all they had to do was stand still, listen and then medical jobs at Winchester Hospital. However, it Clare and Sarah. They have brought us much love along in 1972. We had a happy life. It was important follow the trail of his singing until they found him. soon became apparent that Sandy wasn’t well, and and joy Ð as well as 5 grandchildren and 3 great- to both Dad and Mum to have family holidays and I can’t believe that he won’t be in the allotment he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. There was grandchildren - and both of them have been actively they would save all year so we could have a week this year but thank you for the wildlife garden in his no treatment. He took a short break and then began involved with our MS work. away in a caravan. I have very happy memories of memory. He would be so touched by it. We would to undertake post-graduate qualifications in Sandy retired from the NHS in the mid 1990s, but our family holidays. like to thank everyone who has been so kind and Psychiatry. This had always interested him and had he continued to work mainly in a voluntary capacity. Dad had 3 Loves in his life - his wife, his family supportive to us. The cards, flowers, food and care been his intention when he went to Medical School. He helped to set up The Corn Loft at Windover and gardening. We would always have a lovely we as a family have been shown is truly lovely. We He was given various appointments in the ‘Wessex Farm, a therapeutic arts centre - he became a Trustee vegetable patch. One year after our holiday dad really are so grateful. Thank you. Area’, whilst studying for further exams and he was of the MS Trust - and he was an advisor and a noticed his wedding ring was missing and was very Longstock has lost two lovely men this year with one the group who set up a forward-looking unit for Trustee of Fair Ways Foundation, a provider of upset, assuming he had lost it on holiday. To his Colin and Sandy, let’s not lose any more! young people at Knowle Hospital, Fareham. Later he mental health services for young people, based in worked in Portsmouth for a couple of years. But, Southampton. He only retired as a trustee of Fair Thank You sadly, his health was deteriorating further, and it Ways in December 2020. (continued) Above all he enjoyed being with his family and friends in Longstock, where he lived Margaret Taylor and her family would like to thank affected his walking and eyesight. It seemed a good He enjoyed writing, taking photographs (some everyone for their support and kindness since Colin time to go back home. were shown on South Today) and enjoying himself nearly all of his life. Many will remember him out riding on his grey mare, Sonorada, with Sarah Johns, contracted Covid and passed away. Thank you all for Lower Manor Farm had been standing empty for a with his dogs and horses. He was proud of his your cards, flowers and unexpected gifts. while and was in danger of becoming derelict, so the Scottish heritage and recently discovered several who was a great help to him in later years. Your kindness and donations to the Winchester family had kindly let us use it as a bolt-hole when blood relatives through research into his DNA. Sandy will be remembered for his quirky sense of I.C.U. have been very much appreciated. we had time off. In 1975 we moved in permanently He continued to be ‘a dreamer’. He read widely humour, ‘a twinkle in the eye’ and his commitment and changed the name to Terstan as it was no longer about psychology, philosophy and spirituality, and at to making this world a better place. We intend to Because of the virus, we could only have 30 a separate working farm. Terstan is the Anglo-Saxon the end of his life he became a fully qualified Druid. have a celebration of his life when circumstances people in the church for Colin’s funeral, but it was name for the River Test. Sandy was offered part- He had a considerable following for his writings on allow. Sandy’s Blog is still available on aleksan.blog lovely to see so many people along the roadside time work in Winchester and Andover. He was Facebook and his Blog Ð he enjoyed stirring up a and there is an internet Tribute Page at paying their respects. advisor to the Andover Crisis Centre and he helped lively debate. (continues overleaf) sandyburnfield.muchloved.com. We feel very lucky to live in such a caring village. Page 11 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 The Longstock Newsletter Page 11 to set up the Family Consultancy at Andover great surprise, the following year it turned up in the Alexander ‘Sandy’ Hospital. Eventually he was appointed Consultant in Colin (Corky) Taylor soil when he was digging the garden! Burnfield Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and was elected a December 1947 - January 2021 Over the years, Mandy and I each had 3 children. 1944 Ð 2021 Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Dad loved spending time with his grandchildren, Meanwhile he became involved with the MS by Diane Evans from when they were tiny babies. He would make up Sandy was born at Winchester Society. He wrote an article about his own It is with broken hearts that we had to say goodbye clues for Easter Egg Hunts, teach them to garden and Hospital, and was the oldest of the experience of MS which was published in the British to my Dad, who died on 30th January after help them ride their bikes. When they were older, five Burnfield children. His Father ‘Alister’ had Medical Journal. This led to many things, including contracting COVID-19. Mum and Dad would take them away on holidays come down from Scotland in the 1900s with his the setting up of patients’ groups in both Winchester Colin was born on 19th December 1947 at 9 most years which they all really enjoyed. Dad was family to live and work at Hazeldown Farm, and his and Andover (he was still President of both more Southside Cottages, in his grandmother’s house. He also very proud to become a great granddad when mother, Joan, came from Bossington Farm near than 40 years later). He was asked to give lectures to was the second son of Jack and Ivy Taylor (née Mark, his first grandson, married Lucy who has a Houghton. national groups and a prestigious Memorial Lecture Hardy), a younger brother to Edwin, and an older daughter Sofia and then little Esme was born in June. The five siblings had a happy childhood growing at Queen’s University Belfast. He helped to set up brother to Wendy, who was born 2 years later. The children have countless happy memories of up on the farm, playing in the barns and helping out and he Chaired “Persons with MS International” Colin’s father was in the army, which meant the their Grandad. When Rosy was six, she learnt about when they could with their extended family - Uncles which is part of the MS International Federation. He family lived in Bridgewater and Germany for a the Great Fire of London at school one day. When Bunt and Bob and all the farm workers. attended conferences in Ireland, Canada, Australia, while, before returning to Longstock, living for a her Grandad picked her up, as he often did, she Sandy was sent to school at Marsh Court. He was India, and Austria, among others, and went on a six- short time with his Auntie Rose at Yew Tree asked him if he was really old, “Yes”, he replied. fascinated with this unusual building, though he week lecture tour of New Zealand. Cottage, then moving to 2, Hillside Cottages, where “Were you in the Great Fire of London then?” “Oh didn’t realise at the time how special it was. He was He also wrote a book. “Multiple Sclerosis: A my Nan lived until her death in 2003. yes”. When she asked him lots of questions, he a day-dreamer, and the Head Master would quote Personal Exploration” which was mostly composed Colin attended Stockbridge School until the provided very convincing answers, so for many ‘Behold the dreamer cometh’. Later he went to in the old Showman’s caravan in our garden. It was Secondary School opened in 1960. He would always years she was sure her Grandad had been alive in the school at Taunton. published in 1984, has been reprinted several times say he was the first one through the gates, but I can’t Great Fire! Morgan and Ryan mentioned how much He soon realised that he wasn’t cut out to be a and has been translated into German and Serbo- see that happening somehow. He left school the day they enjoyed the holiday they had with Nanny and farmer. He managed to crash his grandfather’s Croat! Later he also wrote “MS: Need to Know” for before his 15th birthday, to take an apprenticeship as Grandad in August 2020, when they visited the Eden combine harvester, and also had to drive a tractor out young people. a fitter at Kings Builders in Abbots Ann. However, Project. Morgan remembers his Grandad picking up of a field which had caught fire. He decided to Sandy’s main contribution has been to enable this was delayed because of the freezing winter of a fallen sprig and pocketing it to grow at home. become a doctor instead. people with this disabling and distressing disease to 1962, so he helped the local baker and made sure My Dad was a lovely man with a wicked sense of In 1963 he started his studies at The London ‘have a voice’ - to express their feelings and to people got their bread and other groceries delivered humour and always a twinkle in his eye. He would Hospital (it’s now the Royal London). A year later decide for themselves in what ways they need to be in the bad weather. Being a young man, he decided often burst into song (making up his own words) just he met me (Penny), newly arrived, at the ‘Fresher’s helped. He felt that MS affects the whole family and to leave his apprenticeship after a short time to make because he could. He would chat to everyone and Hop’. We married in 1967 - Sandy graduated in not just the person with the illness. Prior to his more money in Coombe’s timber yard in Andover. was happy to help people out if they needed him. 1968 and Penny a year later. We enjoyed living in intervention help was often of a purely practical In 1966 Colin met the love of his life, Margaret When the primary school lost their caretaker, my dad Whitechapel - it was very different from our nature and people with MS were not encouraged to Alderman, the younger sister of Mick who was and mum jumped at the opportunity to give back to respective childhoods. Our first home was a tiny play an active part in the administration of the MS seeing Colin’s sister, Wendy. Colin and Margaret the school he had once attended, and they made that semi-basement flat in a tenement block near to the Society. married in December 1969 and had their wedding school shine with next to no effort. Morgan and hospital - it cost £4.00 a week. Our family was changing too. His health improved reception at Longstock Village Hall. After Mandy’s Rosy would often stay behind to ‘help out’, and Once we had qualified, we needed to escape from after the move to Longstock and in 1980 we were birth in 1970, they moved into 3, Hillside Cottages, would say that if they needed to find their Grandad, London and to live near Longstock. We both got able to foster, and then adopt our two daughters next door to Colin’s Mum and Dad, and I came all they had to do was stand still, listen and then medical jobs at Winchester Hospital. However, it Clare and Sarah. They have brought us much love along in 1972. We had a happy life. It was important follow the trail of his singing until they found him. soon became apparent that Sandy wasn’t well, and and joy Ð as well as 5 grandchildren and 3 great- to both Dad and Mum to have family holidays and I can’t believe that he won’t be in the allotment he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. There was grandchildren - and both of them have been actively they would save all year so we could have a week this year but thank you for the wildlife garden in his no treatment. He took a short break and then began involved with our MS work. away in a caravan. I have very happy memories of memory. He would be so touched by it. We would to undertake post-graduate qualifications in Sandy retired from the NHS in the mid 1990s, but our family holidays. like to thank everyone who has been so kind and Psychiatry. This had always interested him and had he continued to work mainly in a voluntary capacity. Dad had 3 Loves in his life - his wife, his family supportive to us. The cards, flowers, food and care been his intention when he went to Medical School. He helped to set up The Corn Loft at Windover and gardening. We would always have a lovely we as a family have been shown is truly lovely. We He was given various appointments in the ‘Wessex Farm, a therapeutic arts centre - he became a Trustee vegetable patch. One year after our holiday dad really are so grateful. Thank you. Area’, whilst studying for further exams and he was of the MS Trust - and he was an advisor and a noticed his wedding ring was missing and was very Longstock has lost two lovely men this year with one the group who set up a forward-looking unit for Trustee of Fair Ways Foundation, a provider of upset, assuming he had lost it on holiday. To his Colin and Sandy, let’s not lose any more! young people at Knowle Hospital, Fareham. Later he mental health services for young people, based in worked in Portsmouth for a couple of years. But, Southampton. He only retired as a trustee of Fair Thank You sadly, his health was deteriorating further, and it Ways in December 2020. (continued) Above all he enjoyed being with his family and friends in Longstock, where he lived Margaret Taylor and her family would like to thank affected his walking and eyesight. It seemed a good He enjoyed writing, taking photographs (some everyone for their support and kindness since Colin time to go back home. were shown on South Today) and enjoying himself nearly all of his life. Many will remember him out riding on his grey mare, Sonorada, with Sarah Johns, contracted Covid and passed away. Thank you all for Lower Manor Farm had been standing empty for a with his dogs and horses. He was proud of his your cards, flowers and unexpected gifts. while and was in danger of becoming derelict, so the Scottish heritage and recently discovered several who was a great help to him in later years. Your kindness and donations to the Winchester family had kindly let us use it as a bolt-hole when blood relatives through research into his DNA. Sandy will be remembered for his quirky sense of I.C.U. have been very much appreciated. we had time off. In 1975 we moved in permanently He continued to be ‘a dreamer’. He read widely humour, ‘a twinkle in the eye’ and his commitment and changed the name to Terstan as it was no longer about psychology, philosophy and spirituality, and at to making this world a better place. We intend to Because of the virus, we could only have 30 a separate working farm. Terstan is the Anglo-Saxon the end of his life he became a fully qualified Druid. have a celebration of his life when circumstances people in the church for Colin’s funeral, but it was name for the River Test. Sandy was offered part- He had a considerable following for his writings on allow. Sandy’s Blog is still available on aleksan.blog lovely to see so many people along the roadside time work in Winchester and Andover. He was Facebook and his Blog Ð he enjoyed stirring up a and there is an internet Tribute Page at paying their respects. advisor to the Andover Crisis Centre and he helped lively debate. (continues overleaf) sandyburnfield.muchloved.com. We feel very lucky to live in such a caring village. Page 12 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 The Longstock Newsletter Page 12 Longstock Garden Club May means you’ll have plenty of flowers to count. Allotment and Veg Plot Diary An unashamed appeal to raise The flower counts submitted are then analysed for money for our artists Peter Moore writes the whole nation. Lawns rich in flowering daisies, by Micki Nadal by Tim Lowden While many Gardening Clubs have closed in the clover and Bird’s- foot-trefoil provide a huge Well, here we are, approaching the end of pandemic, Covid-19 has presented us with the source of nectar for honeybees. Reducing the lockdown in the busiest sowing and planting months The pandemic has been a cruel moment opportunity to hear lecturers from all around the number of times you mow your lawn each year and of the year. Anything you miss in April can usually for many people, not least for our artists and their world and therefore, where our booked speakers mowing areas at different heights can increase the be sown in May, but a weekly sowing schedule is audiences. To brighten your days leading up to the have offered the Zoom option, we have grasped our diversity of plants in your lawn, making it a haven invaluable, as is a flexible planting plan, to take into easing of restrictions at the end of June, and to put opportunity. for wildlife. Monty Don and the BBC Gardener’s account spacing needs and seed and plant failures. some welcome funds into our artists’ pockets, we have put together an exclusive series of three filmed This year we offered our members two Zoom World Programme got involved in this project last If you are heading to the garden centre or buying talks a month from November to the end of April. year and did a second count in July. They will be concerts by some of our past performers, for you to plug or small plants online, be sure to confirm which view. Spread over three dates in April and May, our In normal times we usually have one talk a month involved again this year; the two counts will take plants will need immediate potting on and/or frost and our speakers live no more than 50 miles from place end of May and the end of July. For more video series comes from these top artists: Roger protection. If you are sowing and growing your own Owens (piano), Corran String Quartet (Royal Longstock. Now we are having speakers from across information visit www.plantlife.org.uk plants, with frosts still possible until the end of May, the UK, Ireland and also from the Netherlands. Academy of Music), and David Owen Norris (1828 Let your lawns flower this May and help out the then tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, aubergines, pak Broadwood Concert Grand Piano). These concerts Tuesday 13th April 2021 with Katherine Crouch honeybees! choi, courgettes, marrows, leeks, runner and French will be exclusive to Stockbridge Music subscribers. BBC Gardener of the Decade 2008 “The Hardy TOP TIP. If you have any old seeds, it is worth beans, beans for drying and summer squashes are Exotic Garden”. best sown under glass in April. Add herb garden The livelihoods of freelance artists have been testing for viability before wasting time and decimated by the pandemic. With this series, we aim Tuesday 20th April 2021 with Andrew Oldham compost. Drop the seeds into a glass of water, and staples of marjoram, oregano, summer and winter savory to this list and the work seems formidable. to offer the artists up to 30% of their usual fee in Disabled gardener, writer & blogger “Creating & any that rise to the surface are now useless. Those exchange for an exclusive film of a recent concert. Planting a Cottage Garden”. that are heavy enough to sink should still be viable. If the soil is warm enough (6¡ - 8¡C), vegetables You get to see and hear some fabulous music in your In the summer we plan on visiting two local such as brassicas, peas, beetroots, carrots, parsnips, own home, whilst knowing that you are helping gardens and hiring a coach to travel to gardens National Gardens Scheme Ð Terstan swedes and spring onions can safely be sown outside musicians to weather the storm. in May; melons, sweetcorn, Florence fennel, lemon further afield. Terstan Garden will be open for the National We have set a target to raise £1,500 to underwrite Hopefully, we will be back in the village Hall in grass and basil should still be sown under glass. Gardens Scheme Sunday 18th April, 2.00-5.00. Melon, courgette, marrow and cucumber seeds are this series of concerts. Stockbridge Music has October on the second Tuesday of every month for Please check arrangements and book/pay online primed the Stockbridge Music Artists’ Fund with our Autumn/Winter programme 2021-22. I have best sown pointed end down to prevent rotting, at NGS.org.uk. whilst for runner beans, look for the little scar. Both over £250 to get us started. The committee felt it booked five of Hampshire’s top Horticulturists. unwise to go ahead without first raising these funds, Plants for sale, plenty of parking space, live the root and shoot form from this scar, but planting As an introduction to Longstock Garden Club this at the bottom gives the root a good start for so in effect we are asking you to subscribe to the these two Zoom talks will be free. For details please music. All takings go to the NGS medical series in advance for a suggested minimum donation, email [email protected]. charities. strong, straight growth. Plant out onions, lettuce and a final batch of broad beans in April and leeks, covering the three concerts, of £45 per household. Brussels sprouts, cabbages and runner beans in May. Your subscription will allow you to view the The weather dictates everything. If May is warm, films for a set period, details of which will be consider planting tomatoes, courgettes and pumpkins available nearer the time. We hope you will be outside, provided they have been hardened off first. thrilled with this opportunity to support these All brassicas need a firm base to make solid, good wonderful artists, all from the safety and comfort of quality hearts so don’t dig over and loosen the soil your own home without having to brave the before planting; simply hoe off any weeds and stamp elements, viruses, or any other nasties out there! down too soft soil. In April, continue earthing up Thank you in advance for your generous support. No Mow May - Every Flower Counts first early potatoes and plant second earlies and main We are hoping to start these concerts in early April, Sue Parish writes crop, the latter in the second half of the month; and would be grateful for your subscriptions by the end of March. As soon as we hit our target of One of the easiest ways to increase the value of earthing up should continue throughout May. your garden to wildlife is to stop mowing your lawn Don’t forget that good quality crops need regular £1,500, we will let you know that we are under so frequently. You might consider daisies, buttercups feeding; container grown fruit trees need a liquid starters’ orders, and the above artists will be and dandelions to be weeds but they are nectar and feed every couple of weeks from April and soft fruit performing for you in your homes. Click the link pollen rich plants sought out by honey bees, bushes benefit from a high potash fertiliser. below to join in: https://www.stockbridgemusic.uk/ hoverflies and other increasingly declining pollinator Nutrients in growing bags will last a few weeks, but spring-series. insects. Why not help our environment this year, cut the more you plant in them, the quicker they will We look forward to receiving your donations to down on your use of fossil fuels, reduce noise need feeding. Remember how different nutrients set the wheels in motion, ‘seeing’ you online and - pollution and increase the nectar and pollen benefit plants in different ways. Whilst nitrogen-rich with a favourable wind Ð in person later in the year. production for pollinating insect - don’t mow your mixes, such as pelleted chicken manure, do promote "I urge all of us who value the contribution that lawn as often - let it grow a little longer. seed and fruit growth, they are primarily used for Stockbridge Music makes to cultural life in the In 2019 Plantlife introduced their Every Flower healthy leaf growth; potassium rich mixes such as Test Valley to donate what you can to this Counts campaign Ð a citizen science project to count tomato feed (or banana skins!) promote fruit growth worthy cause." Guy Boney QC, Chair of the number of flowers in a square metre of your lawn and phosphorus, essential in converting solar energy. Stockbridge Music to determine its value to wildlife. One square metre They also promote strong, stress-free plants with of lawn left to flower can supply enough nectar to good root growth, encouraging the production of sustain 3.8 honeybees per day. Plantlife’s Every sugars, starches and oil and can be found in such Flower Counts takes place on the last weekend in brands as Miracle-Gro. Alternatively, choose a good May, leaving your lawn unmown for at least two all-purpose feed such as organic fish, blood and weeks beforehand or preferably the whole month of bone, or Growmore. Page 13 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 The Longstock Newsletter Page 13 Longstock Garden Club May means you’ll have plenty of flowers to count. Allotment and Veg Plot Diary An unashamed appeal to raise The flower counts submitted are then analysed for money for our artists Peter Moore writes the whole nation. Lawns rich in flowering daisies, by Micki Nadal by Tim Lowden While many Gardening Clubs have closed in the clover and Bird’s- foot-trefoil provide a huge Well, here we are, approaching the end of pandemic, Covid-19 has presented us with the source of nectar for honeybees. Reducing the lockdown in the busiest sowing and planting months The pandemic has been a cruel moment opportunity to hear lecturers from all around the number of times you mow your lawn each year and of the year. Anything you miss in April can usually for many people, not least for our artists and their world and therefore, where our booked speakers mowing areas at different heights can increase the be sown in May, but a weekly sowing schedule is audiences. To brighten your days leading up to the have offered the Zoom option, we have grasped our diversity of plants in your lawn, making it a haven invaluable, as is a flexible planting plan, to take into easing of restrictions at the end of June, and to put opportunity. for wildlife. Monty Don and the BBC Gardener’s account spacing needs and seed and plant failures. some welcome funds into our artists’ pockets, we have put together an exclusive series of three filmed This year we offered our members two Zoom World Programme got involved in this project last If you are heading to the garden centre or buying talks a month from November to the end of April. year and did a second count in July. They will be concerts by some of our past performers, for you to plug or small plants online, be sure to confirm which view. Spread over three dates in April and May, our In normal times we usually have one talk a month involved again this year; the two counts will take plants will need immediate potting on and/or frost and our speakers live no more than 50 miles from place end of May and the end of July. For more video series comes from these top artists: Roger protection. If you are sowing and growing your own Owens (piano), Corran String Quartet (Royal Longstock. Now we are having speakers from across information visit www.plantlife.org.uk plants, with frosts still possible until the end of May, the UK, Ireland and also from the Netherlands. Academy of Music), and David Owen Norris (1828 Let your lawns flower this May and help out the then tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, aubergines, pak Broadwood Concert Grand Piano). These concerts Tuesday 13th April 2021 with Katherine Crouch honeybees! choi, courgettes, marrows, leeks, runner and French will be exclusive to Stockbridge Music subscribers. BBC Gardener of the Decade 2008 “The Hardy TOP TIP. If you have any old seeds, it is worth beans, beans for drying and summer squashes are Exotic Garden”. best sown under glass in April. Add herb garden The livelihoods of freelance artists have been testing for viability before wasting time and decimated by the pandemic. With this series, we aim Tuesday 20th April 2021 with Andrew Oldham compost. Drop the seeds into a glass of water, and staples of marjoram, oregano, summer and winter savory to this list and the work seems formidable. to offer the artists up to 30% of their usual fee in Disabled gardener, writer & blogger “Creating & any that rise to the surface are now useless. Those exchange for an exclusive film of a recent concert. Planting a Cottage Garden”. that are heavy enough to sink should still be viable. If the soil is warm enough (6¡ - 8¡C), vegetables You get to see and hear some fabulous music in your In the summer we plan on visiting two local such as brassicas, peas, beetroots, carrots, parsnips, own home, whilst knowing that you are helping gardens and hiring a coach to travel to gardens National Gardens Scheme Ð Terstan swedes and spring onions can safely be sown outside musicians to weather the storm. in May; melons, sweetcorn, Florence fennel, lemon further afield. Terstan Garden will be open for the National We have set a target to raise £1,500 to underwrite Hopefully, we will be back in the village Hall in grass and basil should still be sown under glass. Gardens Scheme Sunday 18th April, 2.00-5.00. Melon, courgette, marrow and cucumber seeds are this series of concerts. Stockbridge Music has October on the second Tuesday of every month for Please check arrangements and book/pay online primed the Stockbridge Music Artists’ Fund with our Autumn/Winter programme 2021-22. I have best sown pointed end down to prevent rotting, at NGS.org.uk. whilst for runner beans, look for the little scar. Both over £250 to get us started. The committee felt it booked five of Hampshire’s top Horticulturists. unwise to go ahead without first raising these funds, Plants for sale, plenty of parking space, live the root and shoot form from this scar, but planting As an introduction to Longstock Garden Club this at the bottom gives the root a good start for so in effect we are asking you to subscribe to the these two Zoom talks will be free. For details please music. All takings go to the NGS medical series in advance for a suggested minimum donation, email [email protected]. charities. strong, straight growth. Plant out onions, lettuce and a final batch of broad beans in April and leeks, covering the three concerts, of £45 per household. Brussels sprouts, cabbages and runner beans in May. Your subscription will allow you to view the The weather dictates everything. If May is warm, films for a set period, details of which will be consider planting tomatoes, courgettes and pumpkins available nearer the time. We hope you will be outside, provided they have been hardened off first. thrilled with this opportunity to support these All brassicas need a firm base to make solid, good wonderful artists, all from the safety and comfort of quality hearts so don’t dig over and loosen the soil your own home without having to brave the before planting; simply hoe off any weeds and stamp elements, viruses, or any other nasties out there! down too soft soil. In April, continue earthing up Thank you in advance for your generous support. No Mow May - Every Flower Counts first early potatoes and plant second earlies and main We are hoping to start these concerts in early April, Sue Parish writes crop, the latter in the second half of the month; and would be grateful for your subscriptions by the end of March. As soon as we hit our target of One of the easiest ways to increase the value of earthing up should continue throughout May. your garden to wildlife is to stop mowing your lawn Don’t forget that good quality crops need regular £1,500, we will let you know that we are under so frequently. You might consider daisies, buttercups feeding; container grown fruit trees need a liquid starters’ orders, and the above artists will be and dandelions to be weeds but they are nectar and feed every couple of weeks from April and soft fruit performing for you in your homes. Click the link pollen rich plants sought out by honey bees, bushes benefit from a high potash fertiliser. below to join in: https://www.stockbridgemusic.uk/ hoverflies and other increasingly declining pollinator Nutrients in growing bags will last a few weeks, but spring-series. insects. Why not help our environment this year, cut the more you plant in them, the quicker they will We look forward to receiving your donations to down on your use of fossil fuels, reduce noise need feeding. Remember how different nutrients set the wheels in motion, ‘seeing’ you online and - pollution and increase the nectar and pollen benefit plants in different ways. Whilst nitrogen-rich with a favourable wind Ð in person later in the year. production for pollinating insect - don’t mow your mixes, such as pelleted chicken manure, do promote "I urge all of us who value the contribution that lawn as often - let it grow a little longer. seed and fruit growth, they are primarily used for Stockbridge Music makes to cultural life in the In 2019 Plantlife introduced their Every Flower healthy leaf growth; potassium rich mixes such as Test Valley to donate what you can to this Counts campaign Ð a citizen science project to count tomato feed (or banana skins!) promote fruit growth worthy cause." Guy Boney QC, Chair of the number of flowers in a square metre of your lawn and phosphorus, essential in converting solar energy. Stockbridge Music to determine its value to wildlife. One square metre They also promote strong, stress-free plants with of lawn left to flower can supply enough nectar to good root growth, encouraging the production of sustain 3.8 honeybees per day. Plantlife’s Every sugars, starches and oil and can be found in such Flower Counts takes place on the last weekend in brands as Miracle-Gro. Alternatively, choose a good May, leaving your lawn unmown for at least two all-purpose feed such as organic fish, blood and weeks beforehand or preferably the whole month of bone, or Growmore. Page 14 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 The Longstock Newsletter Page 14 Nightingales & Turtle doves: There is an interesting “re wilding” project Stockbridge Practice Patient News e-Consult: eConsult enables patients to contact the our returning summer visitors being managed at Knepp Castle Estate in West COVID vaccination programme: The programme Surgery electronically via our website; https:// by Carrie Ross Sussex, which has 3,500 acres of farmland (about continues apace. 92% of our 2,561 patients aged 65 www.stockbridgesurgery.co.uk/ to ask questions any 6 square miles). Here an ancient and sick looking or over have received their first vaccination. We are time day or night which the surgery staff pick up and Nightingale (luscinia 500-year-old oak tree began a remarkable turn megarhunchos). What has currently booking patients by sending a text message action during working hours. Due to our concern for around and rethink of farming practice. One of the safety of patients who fall ill over a weekend, happened to create an 80% decline the winners was their nightingale population, with a link for you to book your appointment. The in nightingale migration to the link will advise that vaccinations take place at the leaving messages asking for assistance, we have going from no breeding birds in 2001 to 27 pairs taken the decision to switch off eConsult on a Friday UK? After all, only 100 years ago in 2012. There has been another breeding bird Holiday Inn. There is a free taxi service available. If nightingales were present in seemingly huge winner at Knepp Castle …. the turtledove, where you are able to donate to the fund to support this free from 18:30 until Monday 08:00. If you are unwell at sustainable numbers. Indeed, so routinely heard in in 2017 16 singing males were recorded after provision please go to: www.gofund.me/ebe2d35c If the weekend, please contact 111 (either by phone or 1939, Vera Lynn sang of them ... possibly disturbing none had been seen for decades. They believe the you are aged 65 or over and have not had your first online at 111.nhs.uk). This will ensure you get the the sleep of residents in Berkeley Square. use of wild pigs to churn up the ground, allowing COVID vaccination please contact us. care you need as quickly as possible. I can remember the very first time I ever heard for seeds to flourish as the ground is disturbed, COVID Vaccination Queries: We have now Carers: If you are a carer you can have this recorded one, singing at full throttle into the night, less than providing some of the plants the doves need, has on your medical records. Go to our website 20 years ago We were at the farthest bridge at the contributed to the success. contacted patients aged 16-64 years with an underlying health condition about their first www.stockbridgesurgery.co.uk and you can request end of the Bunny. If you look over that bridge, on an update to your personal details. the south side there is still a dense shrubby area Turtle dove (streptopilia vaccinations. Please be aware that the current advice down on the Test Way, seemingly just the ideal spot orientalis). We have heard the is that the majority of patients with asthma will not Recruitment: Dr Gibbons has stepped down as a for a nightingale nest. It was a warm evening early in soft, hypnotic “turr turr” call fall into this group (see our website for more details). Partner in the practice, and now works 3 days a week May. The males arrive first, in early April. from turtle doves in two local Telephones: Some patients have experienced longer as a dermatology specialist in Winchester and Many poets have waxed lyrical about the male areas ... the bottom car park waits than usual due to the increased volume of Andover Hospital. He will continue working at song from these relatively small birds. John Keats just over the hill of Stockbridge Down as well as queries we have experienced. Following helpful Stockbridge one day a week helping the urgent care who died 200 years ago this year wrote; the Test Way beside Stockbridge Marsh, but that patient feedback, we have changed our system so team. We are currently advertising for a working “that you light winged Dryad of the trees; In was 10 years or more ago. I expect many of you callers are now notified which number they are in salaried GP to take over Dr Gibbons’ sessions. still hear them locally, I really hope so. Let's some melodious plot; Of beechen green and the queue. If you need to telephone the surgery with Website [email protected]. We try shadows numberless; Singest of summer with full attempt to make some sense of the issues of the complexity of this decline.Firstly, the loss of the a query or for routine appointments please call to keep our website updated, so please consult the throated ease” between 10.30am-12.45pm or after 2pm. This website first if you have a general query. If you have Their song is full of flutes, whistling crescendos required food from specific plants and seeds on which they and their young feed. It is ensures we can prioritise calls from patients with any feedback please let us know. and trills delivered at up to 90 decibels, with over urgent medical needs when our lines open. 200 “riffs” being the different combination of notes thought that the myriad changes in farming the male can deliver. His song can last for hours. methods have contributed hugely to a decline And it’s truly beautiful. which is now believed to be almost irreversible. The females follow the male migration, a few Combine harvesters gather in crops so efficiently weeks later. They also fly at night to avoid that very little spillage happens, weeds are predation, travelling all the way from Southern eradicated. Efficient for feeding humans, but not Africa, the Gambia and Senegal. The hopeful male so good for some of our birds. Are we perhaps too attempts to attract the female by his singing, but she tidy? can be a bit choosy, only dropping down if she hears Turtle doves arrive in late April, needing to really impressive trills, and will also then need to fatten up after their arduous 4000-mile flight. check the suitability of his chosen nest site. She They need knot grass (related to dock), common leaves the following day if not too impressed. He fumitory (a weed of waste ground, found on Listed & Historic Damp Proofing Longstock surgery is closed disturbed soil) and red fescue seeds, which flower stops singing once nesting has commenced, so any Properties due to Covid-19, late summer singing you may hear could be a lonely- and seed in summer and early autumn. The birds Structural hearted bachelor! may eat other hard-to-metabolise grains they find, Pest Control Waterproofing please contact the Winchester surgery What exactly makes the perfect area to breed? A but larger grains can damage their crop, which good amount of wild dense cover is the first can make the birds more susceptible to the disease Lime Plastering & Timber Treatment & necessity, where a nest can be hidden deep in trichomonas gallinae (canker). Repointing Fire Retardant shrubbery. Untidy is perfect. Good areas are deep In spring and autumn, the continuing practice thick blackthorn hedgerows, with brambles and of shooting and trapping of all migrant birds in nettles or grasses growing, which can create a nice the Mediterranean areas continues, despite low “cave” for the fledglings to feed on ground widespread attempts to inform and educate. insects in safety. The nest is located low down just a Flying in huge flocks gave a certain safety of foot above the ground, and is made of dead leaves, numbers, which no longer happens as the decline then lined with grasses. The female incubates the continues. eggs, the male assists with feeding the young and at All in all, there are so many issues, it requires the fledging stage. The adults fly south in late July or considerable thought and cooperation to make August. meaningful progress. Hopefully some of the new There are around probably less than 6,000 government initiatives of payments to farmers for breeding pairs in the south east of the UK. In Kent, projects to rewild their farms will prove of value. Lodge Hill with MOD land has significant numbers. Page 15 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 The Longstock Newsletter Page 15 Nightingales & Turtle doves: There is an interesting “re wilding” project Stockbridge Practice Patient News e-Consult: eConsult enables patients to contact the our returning summer visitors being managed at Knepp Castle Estate in West COVID vaccination programme: The programme Surgery electronically via our website; https:// by Carrie Ross Sussex, which has 3,500 acres of farmland (about continues apace. 92% of our 2,561 patients aged 65 www.stockbridgesurgery.co.uk/ to ask questions any 6 square miles). Here an ancient and sick looking or over have received their first vaccination. We are time day or night which the surgery staff pick up and Nightingale (luscinia 500-year-old oak tree began a remarkable turn megarhunchos). What has currently booking patients by sending a text message action during working hours. Due to our concern for around and rethink of farming practice. One of the safety of patients who fall ill over a weekend, happened to create an 80% decline the winners was their nightingale population, with a link for you to book your appointment. The in nightingale migration to the link will advise that vaccinations take place at the leaving messages asking for assistance, we have going from no breeding birds in 2001 to 27 pairs taken the decision to switch off eConsult on a Friday UK? After all, only 100 years ago in 2012. There has been another breeding bird Holiday Inn. There is a free taxi service available. If nightingales were present in seemingly huge winner at Knepp Castle …. the turtledove, where you are able to donate to the fund to support this free from 18:30 until Monday 08:00. If you are unwell at sustainable numbers. Indeed, so routinely heard in in 2017 16 singing males were recorded after provision please go to: www.gofund.me/ebe2d35c If the weekend, please contact 111 (either by phone or 1939, Vera Lynn sang of them ... possibly disturbing none had been seen for decades. They believe the you are aged 65 or over and have not had your first online at 111.nhs.uk). This will ensure you get the the sleep of residents in Berkeley Square. use of wild pigs to churn up the ground, allowing COVID vaccination please contact us. care you need as quickly as possible. I can remember the very first time I ever heard for seeds to flourish as the ground is disturbed, COVID Vaccination Queries: We have now Carers: If you are a carer you can have this recorded one, singing at full throttle into the night, less than providing some of the plants the doves need, has on your medical records. Go to our website 20 years ago We were at the farthest bridge at the contributed to the success. contacted patients aged 16-64 years with an underlying health condition about their first www.stockbridgesurgery.co.uk and you can request end of the Bunny. If you look over that bridge, on an update to your personal details. the south side there is still a dense shrubby area Turtle dove (streptopilia vaccinations. Please be aware that the current advice down on the Test Way, seemingly just the ideal spot orientalis). We have heard the is that the majority of patients with asthma will not Recruitment: Dr Gibbons has stepped down as a for a nightingale nest. It was a warm evening early in soft, hypnotic “turr turr” call fall into this group (see our website for more details). Partner in the practice, and now works 3 days a week May. The males arrive first, in early April. from turtle doves in two local Telephones: Some patients have experienced longer as a dermatology specialist in Winchester and Many poets have waxed lyrical about the male areas ... the bottom car park waits than usual due to the increased volume of Andover Hospital. He will continue working at song from these relatively small birds. John Keats just over the hill of Stockbridge Down as well as queries we have experienced. Following helpful Stockbridge one day a week helping the urgent care who died 200 years ago this year wrote; the Test Way beside Stockbridge Marsh, but that patient feedback, we have changed our system so team. We are currently advertising for a working “that you light winged Dryad of the trees; In was 10 years or more ago. I expect many of you callers are now notified which number they are in salaried GP to take over Dr Gibbons’ sessions. still hear them locally, I really hope so. Let's some melodious plot; Of beechen green and the queue. If you need to telephone the surgery with Website [email protected]. We try shadows numberless; Singest of summer with full attempt to make some sense of the issues of the complexity of this decline.Firstly, the loss of the a query or for routine appointments please call to keep our website updated, so please consult the throated ease” between 10.30am-12.45pm or after 2pm. This website first if you have a general query. If you have Their song is full of flutes, whistling crescendos required food from specific plants and seeds on which they and their young feed. It is ensures we can prioritise calls from patients with any feedback please let us know. and trills delivered at up to 90 decibels, with over urgent medical needs when our lines open. 200 “riffs” being the different combination of notes thought that the myriad changes in farming the male can deliver. His song can last for hours. methods have contributed hugely to a decline And it’s truly beautiful. which is now believed to be almost irreversible. The females follow the male migration, a few Combine harvesters gather in crops so efficiently weeks later. They also fly at night to avoid that very little spillage happens, weeds are predation, travelling all the way from Southern eradicated. Efficient for feeding humans, but not Africa, the Gambia and Senegal. The hopeful male so good for some of our birds. Are we perhaps too attempts to attract the female by his singing, but she tidy? can be a bit choosy, only dropping down if she hears Turtle doves arrive in late April, needing to really impressive trills, and will also then need to fatten up after their arduous 4000-mile flight. check the suitability of his chosen nest site. She They need knot grass (related to dock), common leaves the following day if not too impressed. He fumitory (a weed of waste ground, found on Listed & Historic Damp Proofing Longstock surgery is closed disturbed soil) and red fescue seeds, which flower stops singing once nesting has commenced, so any Properties due to Covid-19, late summer singing you may hear could be a lonely- and seed in summer and early autumn. The birds Structural hearted bachelor! may eat other hard-to-metabolise grains they find, Pest Control Waterproofing please contact the Winchester surgery What exactly makes the perfect area to breed? A but larger grains can damage their crop, which good amount of wild dense cover is the first can make the birds more susceptible to the disease Lime Plastering & Timber Treatment & necessity, where a nest can be hidden deep in trichomonas gallinae (canker). Repointing Fire Retardant shrubbery. Untidy is perfect. Good areas are deep In spring and autumn, the continuing practice thick blackthorn hedgerows, with brambles and of shooting and trapping of all migrant birds in nettles or grasses growing, which can create a nice the Mediterranean areas continues, despite low “cave” for the fledglings to feed on ground widespread attempts to inform and educate. insects in safety. The nest is located low down just a Flying in huge flocks gave a certain safety of foot above the ground, and is made of dead leaves, numbers, which no longer happens as the decline then lined with grasses. The female incubates the continues. eggs, the male assists with feeding the young and at All in all, there are so many issues, it requires the fledging stage. The adults fly south in late July or considerable thought and cooperation to make August. meaningful progress. Hopefully some of the new There are around probably less than 6,000 government initiatives of payments to farmers for breeding pairs in the south east of the UK. In Kent, projects to rewild their farms will prove of value. Lodge Hill with MOD land has significant numbers. Page 16 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 The Longstock Newsletter Page 16 was no problem. We formed a committee with three College, so she had great skills to offer and Charlie activities, finishing with an evening where we ate elected officers and invited parent members to our Parish also helped. In the years that followed, a what had been grown and baked by Mayflies. Longstock termly meetings to determine the forthcoming term major period of responsibility as chairperson was It has ‘been a wonderful ride’. We have heard of Tadpoles and programme. We produced termly documented held by Rachel McMaster, who has been an absolute parents complaining they’ve had to plan their family Mayflies minutes that were circulated to all parents after they bastion of support for many years thus enabling holidays in order to go back to places because their By Dane Oliver had given their written consent for their child to take continuity. Malcolm her husband also gave many Mayfly had so enjoyed their experiences and outings part, following the documented Operational hours and indeed years of support. He even became a with the group. Beth and I have enjoyed the rare Procedures that were reviewed annually. All quite qualified cycling instructor so that he was able to thrill of having the attendance of children whose In the mid-1990s it became clear that Tadpoles different from how we had started out! take Mayflies groups cycling. In the latter years, parents had once been Tadpoles or even Mayflies. had run its course for a little while. Children in the One of the conditions of insurance and Youth shorter periods of chairmanship were held by Joanna As I left the organisation in 2016 I wished that time village had grown to an age when they had outgrown organisation membership was that we had to list any Oliver-Hawkins and Diane Evans. Ian Tranham was had moved more slowly. I miss them all! the type of activity that had been appropriate for adventure pursuits and confirm that we would abide also a constant source of reliable support in outdoors their age and they began to look further afield for by our approved and documented Operational activities. their teenage leisure activities. There were too few Procedures. The leader for any session had to be Throughout the years, we have followed the children of the right ages in the village, so we took a approved by the Disclosure and Barring Service annual pattern of activities described in recent bit of a rest! (DBS) and was responsible for ensuring that no editions of the Newsletter. The summer programme After a little while, new residents moved into adults had unsupervised access to any child unless provided the widest range. As you can see from the Longstock and the children who were already here they held valid DBS approval. In order to ensure pictures everyone had the opportunity to start grew to an age when they were looking for more adequate staffing of sessions, we therefore had to camping in the Highfield garden, learn to use map challenging activities. We met again as a group of make parent participation in sessions a condition of a and compass for orienteering, and experience the parents and decided to restart. In order to ensure child attending. This meant that the parents of any beautiful Brecon Beacons where all children were sufficient numbers, we extended membership a little Mayfly child had to agree to helping staff out at least able to enjoy the mountains and to have go at caving wider to include Leckford and Stockbridge. Young one session per term. It also meant that, as society Ð if they wanted! Residential weekends were also people were asked, and they chose the new name of changed its expectations, we had to ensure standards held at the Tile Barn campsite in the New Forest and Mayflies. We ordered Tee shirts with ‘Mayflies’ and documented procedures that protected leaders at the Foxlease centre in Lyndhurst. As times printed across the chest and these were worn with from unfair prosecutions of negligence. changed we included the upkeep of a half plot on the great pride. I saw one primary school teacher Despite these challenges, we had a small list of Longstock Allotments in our annual programme of wearing one only last week! DBS competent leaders, one of whom we ensured It is surprising just how quickly life can change. was always on duty to lead any Mayfly session. In When Mayflies got under way in the new this respect we were helped by Stockbridge Primary millennium it was clear that society had developed School, who undertook the DBS administration very different expectations with regard to how procedures for our leaders. Without their help we voluntary groups could be run, with a clear could not have managed the financial outlay. With expectation that there would be an accountable their help, we were able to process applications as structure to any group offering a facility to young volunteers for whom there were no charges. Mrs people. I realised that I had a duty of care towards Horne also printed off for me the annual Operational both the young people and to the adults who offered Procedures for which I did pay! One consequence of their services for no payment. Initially I approached the youth organisation membership was that we had the Reverend Graham Trasler to see if Mayflies to agree to at least one inspection by association could operate under the auspices of St Mary’s church staff. This was good for leader morale as we always insurance. After long exchanges with the church had excellent reviews! Another advantage was that insurers it became clear that we needed to review our we were entitled to two sessions a year that were led structure, and as a result, we became affiliated to the by association instructors. This enabled us to Hampshire and IoW Youth organisation and experience specialist sessions on how to acquire produced the necessary documented Operational circus skills Ð something outside of our own list of Procedures that enabled us to be insured by one of competences! I remember Charlie Murphy getting the leading national insurers for our type of very excited when riding a unicycle but being unable activities. For many years, Graham served to get off! voluntarily as the Mayflies Child Protection Officer As one can see, these arrangements were very until I took over when he retired. different from the more relaxed system of running Apart from documented Operational Procedures, the old Tadpoles. Mayflies required more structured we had to list any ‘adventurous activities’ that may leadership and in this respect we have been very be undertaken in any particular year as well as the lucky. The first person to take on the role of qualifications of any leader of those activities. Chairperson was Sue Parish. At the time she had a Fortunately, at the time I was the Hampshire child at the Primary School where she also helped to Inspector for Adventure Education with design their environmental area. At the time, Sue responsibility for 1000 schools, so sorting that out was teaching A-level botany at Peter Symonds Page 17 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 The Longstock Newsletter Page 17 was no problem. We formed a committee with three College, so she had great skills to offer and Charlie activities, finishing with an evening where we ate elected officers and invited parent members to our Parish also helped. In the years that followed, a what had been grown and baked by Mayflies. Longstock termly meetings to determine the forthcoming term major period of responsibility as chairperson was It has ‘been a wonderful ride’. We have heard of Tadpoles and programme. We produced termly documented held by Rachel McMaster, who has been an absolute parents complaining they’ve had to plan their family Mayflies minutes that were circulated to all parents after they bastion of support for many years thus enabling holidays in order to go back to places because their By Dane Oliver had given their written consent for their child to take continuity. Malcolm her husband also gave many Mayfly had so enjoyed their experiences and outings part, following the documented Operational hours and indeed years of support. He even became a with the group. Beth and I have enjoyed the rare Procedures that were reviewed annually. All quite qualified cycling instructor so that he was able to thrill of having the attendance of children whose In the mid-1990s it became clear that Tadpoles different from how we had started out! take Mayflies groups cycling. In the latter years, parents had once been Tadpoles or even Mayflies. had run its course for a little while. Children in the One of the conditions of insurance and Youth shorter periods of chairmanship were held by Joanna As I left the organisation in 2016 I wished that time village had grown to an age when they had outgrown organisation membership was that we had to list any Oliver-Hawkins and Diane Evans. Ian Tranham was had moved more slowly. I miss them all! the type of activity that had been appropriate for adventure pursuits and confirm that we would abide also a constant source of reliable support in outdoors their age and they began to look further afield for by our approved and documented Operational activities. their teenage leisure activities. There were too few Procedures. The leader for any session had to be Throughout the years, we have followed the children of the right ages in the village, so we took a approved by the Disclosure and Barring Service annual pattern of activities described in recent bit of a rest! (DBS) and was responsible for ensuring that no editions of the Newsletter. The summer programme After a little while, new residents moved into adults had unsupervised access to any child unless provided the widest range. As you can see from the Longstock and the children who were already here they held valid DBS approval. In order to ensure pictures everyone had the opportunity to start grew to an age when they were looking for more adequate staffing of sessions, we therefore had to camping in the Highfield garden, learn to use map challenging activities. We met again as a group of make parent participation in sessions a condition of a and compass for orienteering, and experience the parents and decided to restart. In order to ensure child attending. This meant that the parents of any beautiful Brecon Beacons where all children were sufficient numbers, we extended membership a little Mayfly child had to agree to helping staff out at least able to enjoy the mountains and to have go at caving wider to include Leckford and Stockbridge. Young one session per term. It also meant that, as society Ð if they wanted! Residential weekends were also people were asked, and they chose the new name of changed its expectations, we had to ensure standards held at the Tile Barn campsite in the New Forest and Mayflies. We ordered Tee shirts with ‘Mayflies’ and documented procedures that protected leaders at the Foxlease centre in Lyndhurst. As times printed across the chest and these were worn with from unfair prosecutions of negligence. changed we included the upkeep of a half plot on the great pride. I saw one primary school teacher Despite these challenges, we had a small list of Longstock Allotments in our annual programme of wearing one only last week! DBS competent leaders, one of whom we ensured It is surprising just how quickly life can change. was always on duty to lead any Mayfly session. In When Mayflies got under way in the new this respect we were helped by Stockbridge Primary millennium it was clear that society had developed School, who undertook the DBS administration very different expectations with regard to how procedures for our leaders. Without their help we voluntary groups could be run, with a clear could not have managed the financial outlay. With expectation that there would be an accountable their help, we were able to process applications as structure to any group offering a facility to young volunteers for whom there were no charges. Mrs people. I realised that I had a duty of care towards Horne also printed off for me the annual Operational both the young people and to the adults who offered Procedures for which I did pay! One consequence of their services for no payment. Initially I approached the youth organisation membership was that we had the Reverend Graham Trasler to see if Mayflies to agree to at least one inspection by association could operate under the auspices of St Mary’s church staff. This was good for leader morale as we always insurance. After long exchanges with the church had excellent reviews! Another advantage was that insurers it became clear that we needed to review our we were entitled to two sessions a year that were led structure, and as a result, we became affiliated to the by association instructors. This enabled us to Hampshire and IoW Youth organisation and experience specialist sessions on how to acquire produced the necessary documented Operational circus skills Ð something outside of our own list of Procedures that enabled us to be insured by one of competences! I remember Charlie Murphy getting the leading national insurers for our type of very excited when riding a unicycle but being unable activities. For many years, Graham served to get off! voluntarily as the Mayflies Child Protection Officer As one can see, these arrangements were very until I took over when he retired. different from the more relaxed system of running Apart from documented Operational Procedures, the old Tadpoles. Mayflies required more structured we had to list any ‘adventurous activities’ that may leadership and in this respect we have been very be undertaken in any particular year as well as the lucky. The first person to take on the role of qualifications of any leader of those activities. Chairperson was Sue Parish. At the time she had a Fortunately, at the time I was the Hampshire child at the Primary School where she also helped to Inspector for Adventure Education with design their environmental area. At the time, Sue responsibility for 1000 schools, so sorting that out was teaching A-level botany at Peter Symonds Page 18 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 The Longstock Newsletter Page 18 We welcome to Jack’s Plot Thank you, Leckford Estate Steven and Kat Brown with their boys, Thomas (7) and William (3). Sue Parish writes, They have come all the way from Many thanks to all the Waitrose Partners at Leckford Farm Shop and Longstock Park Nursery. Stockbridge, so already have plenty of friends here! The Farm shop was a life saver to my husband and Meanwhile Jane Fenn-Smith has moved from me during the first Lockdown as we'd never done Jack’s Plot to further up the village, and has turned our food shopping on-line, we failed to get any The Cart Shed into a beautiful home. delivery slot for months. No, we did not starve, we We welcome Andrea and Laurence to Lily had, in fact, a far better service from Leckford Farm Lodge, which they have built next to Langtry House, shop. I'd ring in the morning and my order would be but have actually named after Laurence’s mother delivered that same afternoon by a cheerful Partner; Lily, hence the spelling! They have moved from a it was always good to see someone having spent so house they had built at Monxton, but plan that this is long indoors! their very last move. Their labradoodle Pepper, The shop has always specialised in local and gift seems to approve. Andrea works at The Countess of foods so initially household basics were not Brecknock Hospice, and Laurence runs his joinery available but now there is a good mix of essentials business in Weyhill. and luxury items and l love the new bakery range. Welcome to Gill and Kevin Bird and their two Also, it was always worth asking if there was grown-up daughters Kate and Abbie. Gill and Kevin something that I was missing that I used to get from have moved from Hertfordshire to Mulberry Lodge the larger Waitrose stores. I craved instant coffee for (formerly Elm Down). a few months and soon after asking it is now stocked in their Essentials selection. We wish you happiness in your new homes! Through the spring and summer, the nursery kept me topped up with compost, seeds and plants, Although the WI isn’t yet in fact all l needed for the garden and my allotment. meeting in person, many of its After walks around the village a coffee and cake in activities continue on Zoom or by the Cherry Tree Café, an outdoor pop-up that opened in the entrance to the park, was always a treat. telephone, all without leaving home. Now we are in Lockdown 3 the farm shop and The book club meets monthly, there’s a weekly nursery are still my go-to shops, though I walk there afternoon chat, and we have had two speakers on now as part of my daily exercise. I always wondered Zoom, ‘Who the Hell is Arthur?’ about a how people used to live in a village and rarely travel genealogical trail, and Geoff and Liz Cox with far from home. I now live that life. We are very ‘Tales of Tegfield’, their care home in Winchester. lucky to have such a shop so close that fulfils just There are more lined up, ‘In Grandpa’s about all our needs from food to compost, greetings Footsteps to China’ and ‘Writing’s not a Proper Job’ cards to Leckford Sparkling wine as well as some with the actual way to hold each meeting to be lovely cosmetics. Now also, somewhere to recycle decided as circumstances allow, and soon it’ll be my empty bottles too! possible to meet in gardens again. Thank you, Leckford Estate and all the Partners If you’d like to know more about this friendly who keep Longstock a wonderful place to live. local group, do ring Sue Hill on 811779, or Selina Musters on 810459.

Leek, Olive & Roll out the puff pastry to an oblong measuring Goats Cheese Tart approximately 18cm x 28cm. by Anne Roberts Prick with a fork and bake in a hot oven 200℃ to a golden brown. 125g puff pastry Slice the leeks, wash and shake dry, then sauté with the chopped garlic and some fresh thyme 2 leeks leaves. Scatter this mixture over the pastry base. 2 cloves garlic Crumble the goat’s cheese over the leeks. 250g goat’s cheese Remove the olive stones and place olives on the 100g olives tart. Fresh thyme Beat the egg and cream together with a little salt 1 large egg and black pepper then pour onto the tart. 50ml double cream Finish with the grated Parmesan. 75g grated Parmesan Bake for 20-25 minutes at 200℃ or until the egg and cream mix has set. Page 19 The Longstock Newsletter Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 Issue No 252 Apr / May 2021 The Longstock Newsletter Page 19 We welcome to Jack’s Plot Thank you, Leckford Estate Steven and Kat Brown with their boys, Thomas (7) and William (3). Sue Parish writes, They have come all the way from Many thanks to all the Waitrose Partners at Leckford Farm Shop and Longstock Park Nursery. Stockbridge, so already have plenty of friends here! The Farm shop was a life saver to my husband and Meanwhile Jane Fenn-Smith has moved from me during the first Lockdown as we'd never done Jack’s Plot to further up the village, and has turned our food shopping on-line, we failed to get any The Cart Shed into a beautiful home. delivery slot for months. No, we did not starve, we We welcome Andrea and Laurence to Lily had, in fact, a far better service from Leckford Farm Lodge, which they have built next to Langtry House, shop. I'd ring in the morning and my order would be but have actually named after Laurence’s mother delivered that same afternoon by a cheerful Partner; Lily, hence the spelling! They have moved from a it was always good to see someone having spent so house they had built at Monxton, but plan that this is long indoors! their very last move. Their labradoodle Pepper, The shop has always specialised in local and gift seems to approve. Andrea works at The Countess of foods so initially household basics were not Brecknock Hospice, and Laurence runs his joinery available but now there is a good mix of essentials business in Weyhill. and luxury items and l love the new bakery range. Welcome to Gill and Kevin Bird and their two Also, it was always worth asking if there was grown-up daughters Kate and Abbie. Gill and Kevin something that I was missing that I used to get from have moved from Hertfordshire to Mulberry Lodge the larger Waitrose stores. I craved instant coffee for (formerly Elm Down). a few months and soon after asking it is now stocked in their Essentials selection. We wish you happiness in your new homes! Through the spring and summer, the nursery kept me topped up with compost, seeds and plants, Although the WI isn’t yet in fact all l needed for the garden and my allotment. meeting in person, many of its After walks around the village a coffee and cake in activities continue on Zoom or by the Cherry Tree Café, an outdoor pop-up that opened in the entrance to the park, was always a treat. telephone, all without leaving home. Now we are in Lockdown 3 the farm shop and The book club meets monthly, there’s a weekly nursery are still my go-to shops, though I walk there afternoon chat, and we have had two speakers on now as part of my daily exercise. I always wondered Zoom, ‘Who the Hell is Arthur?’ about a how people used to live in a village and rarely travel genealogical trail, and Geoff and Liz Cox with far from home. I now live that life. We are very ‘Tales of Tegfield’, their care home in Winchester. lucky to have such a shop so close that fulfils just There are more lined up, ‘In Grandpa’s about all our needs from food to compost, greetings Footsteps to China’ and ‘Writing’s not a Proper Job’ cards to Leckford Sparkling wine as well as some with the actual way to hold each meeting to be lovely cosmetics. Now also, somewhere to recycle decided as circumstances allow, and soon it’ll be my empty bottles too! possible to meet in gardens again. Thank you, Leckford Estate and all the Partners If you’d like to know more about this friendly who keep Longstock a wonderful place to live. local group, do ring Sue Hill on 811779, or Selina Musters on 810459.

Thank you to our VILLAGE DIRECTORY in April 2021 deliverers for this issue: Church Warden 810 284 Veronica Ayers Peter Bramley Rev’d Philip Bowden, Rector 810 810 Charles Grieve Canon Paul Townsend (RC) 01962 852 804 Angie Filippa Community Sports Hall TV School 810 555 Geoff Merritt Boo Milne Garden Club 810 794, 810 432 John & Selina Musters Mayflies Youth Club (8-16s)(Liz Howard) Dane and Beth Oliver 07870 612 127 Gary Oliver Neighbour Care Scheme for Nigel Rugman Thank you also to everyone contributing or Stockbridge/Longstock/Houghton 0845 0943 713 checking articles & news. Parish Council Clerk 810 752 Please contact the Parish Clerk, on 810752, or Pilates at Leckford 810 549 e-mail [email protected] if Scouts Stockbridge (Mo Collins) 01256 895 534 you’d like to help with the newsletter in any way, and by Friday 14th May if you’d like to submit Village Hall, Badminton/Bowls 810 459 an article or announcement, give us some news, W.I. 810 603 or place an advert. EMERGENCY or USEFUL CONTACTS DUSTBIN COLLECTION Environment Agency Black Fri 9th, Fri 23rd April Incident Hotline 0800 807 060 bins Fri 7th, Fri 21st May Hampshire Fire & Rescue 02380 644 000 Brown Fri 2nd, Fri 16th, Fri 30th April Floodline 0345 988 1188 bins Fri 14th, Fri 28th May Southern Electric 105 Southern Water 0330 303 0368 Green bags are collected on Tuesdays of the Police non-urgent calls 101 same week as brown bins. To subscribe please April / contact TVBC on 368000. Neighbourcare Andover 336 020, 339 899 May 2021 Foil is collected at Chilbolton’s West Down car Surgery 810 524 park & at Andover Garden Centre. Helpline for Carers (Freephone) 0800 032 3456 Plastic pots are no longer recycled there. Glass recycling. The farm shop now hosts a Hants County Council information 0300 555 1375 glass recycling bin in its car park. Test Valley Borough Council 368 000 Glass, clothing and foil recycling bins are Citizens’ Advice Bureau 0344 411 1306 avalable at Chilbolton Down car park, and at Andover Wyevale Garden Centre. To call anonymously with information This Newsletter is about crime: Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 published by Longstock Parish Council and delivered There is a collecting box for clean TRANSPORT free to every household in plastic milk bottle tops in the Stagecoach Stockbridge to Winchester Longstock. church lychgate, and a separate one buses number 68 0345 121 0190 for batteries. Please don’t put either Anyone else may subscribe in plastic bags. Batteries can also be Cango buses to Romsey have been replaced with at £10 a year by contacting disposed of in supermarkets & should shared taxis to your door .Register on longstockparishcouncil18 not go in dustbins. 01962 846 786 @gmail.com. The batteries (small, not car!) will be taken for Traveline for countrywide travel info safe disposal; and clean plastic milk bottle tops 0871200 2233 with the HDPE symbol will be recycled to raise Dial-a-Ride (Joyrides Stockbridge). Minibus to funds for the Gift of Sight’s research into macular Andover. Register on 356 808 degeneration. NO OTHER TYPES This runs through Longstock on Wednesdays at OF TOPS PLEASE as these are the only 9.30, returning at noon, for £5 return, or £3 for ones accepted now, and PLEASE don’t put bus pass holders. For more information, ring batteries in with bottle tops.The consequences John Musters 810 459 or Dane Oliver 810 are DIRE! 839.

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