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Your Letters from the Editor THE September 2021 LEE For The Lee, Lee Common, Hunts Green, Kings Ash and Swan Bottom Please send your letters, articles and From the Editor photographs for the October edition to her at [email protected] by By Phil Harrison the 12th September. fter a short break in August the Newsletter returns full of A optimism and stories of reawakening, with the Parish Hall, Your letters LeeWay and Re-engage just three Lee Common Methodist examples. Weddings and christenings are happening with joy and laughter and Church closes guests galore again. Our congratulations To the Editor to Clare Curling and Flip Constable on 182 years ago, the world was a totally their very village wedding and different place... as was Lee Common. celebration (photos next month), to Dedicated villagers working in the Lizzie Benwell’s son, Nick, on his fields collected flints to build the marriage to Emma and to Chris Nevill’s Methodist Church in which to worship daughter, Chloe, on her marriage to and to give thanks to God. Ryan Gould (photos on page 16). There is a new off-road cycle tour for the more adventurous to try before the really wet muddy paths of winter are upon us (pages 22/23). The second instalment of The Lee Flower Show article from the 1992 centenary brochure reminds us of this special village event so that we look forward to it for next year. The Newsletter team has booked the Parish Hall for the evening of Friday 3rd December for the traditional Newsletter Dinner on the assumption that Covid Through the years harvests have circumstances will be favourable at that been celebrated, children have been time. If you have made a contribution to baptised (and educated in the Sunday the Newsletter over the past 12 School), marriages have taken place, months ‘Hold the Date!’ More detail in and, at the end of life, people have October’s edition. gathered together for funerals. Next month we welcome a new Within the chapel’s walls editor to the team, Mary Godfrey. many have found peace, spirituality 2 and friendship, but sadly, the time has every year of sorting the garden shed, come to close the doors as the which in practice meant taking Methodist Conference (the governing everything out and putting it back body of the Methodist Church) now again ready for next year. After some require a minimum of 12 members. bargaining, she always gave me half-a The Church closed on 31st August. -crown, which I suppose was quite If you had a choice, how would you generous as it would be worth around like the building to be used? Please let £12.50 today. us know by putting a note in the Come to think about it, she often Church’s letter box or emailing appeared quite grumpy and now I [email protected] know why! Marian Tompkins Tony Rigby For Lee Common Methodist Church Expat. of The Lee Scouts in the community Midsomer seen from afar To the Editor To the Editor In response to Enzo D’Alessandro’s I thoroughly enjoyed your newsletter plea for suggestions as to how Scouts about The Lee and Midsomer Murders could get more involved with the as I enjoy the series. I’m late coming community, Liz Macann has suggested to it and I can’t remember if I first saw the revival of ‘Bob a Job’. it on PBS or on BBC America. This does seem an excellent idea, Now with everything available on however it is important to note that some streaming service or another I’m Cubs and Scouts did not profit catching up. I just saw ‘Death in a personally from their labours as all Chocolate Box’ and was very curious income went to a nominated charity. about that building on the Green. I When I was involved in the 1950s looked online and found the Wikipedia in Beaconsfield, every year we raised article on camera obscura. I was funds for Doctor Barnardo’s. We had surprised to find out we have a couple our regular round of ‘victims’, on of camera obscura buildings here in the whom we would hone our nascent United States. negotiating skills via demands for So, I know their function for above inflation remuneration. projecting an image, as a pinhole On my route I had Enid Blyton’s camera, as an aid in drawing & house – she gave me the same job painting, and even for eclipse viewing. I understand the use of tents and portable camera obscura for these purposes, but why would anyone make The LeeWay – Your a permanent building like this? Village Support Team There’s only so many times you can If you have difficulty getting to your draw or paint the same scenery, even doctor or the hospital, doing your with the change of seasons. So why shopping or would like a home visit and build a permanent structure? To spy on a friendly chat, then please ring: the neighbours (when they know they’re 07845 029500 being spied on)? As a guard station? Mon - Fri: 10 am - 4 pm. Sat: 10 am - 12 Entertainment for bored people? noon. Please give us reasonable notice of I would definitely not like a your requirement to help us organise it. Detective Inspector Barnaby and his 3 sergeant in my village as deaths often seem to multiply whenever they are investigating. Parish Hall Ileana Dominguez-Urban USA events LeeWay back in business To the Editor Call us… if you are unable to get to an appointment at a hospital, the doctors or dentists. Call us…if perhaps you need a bit of company. Call us… if you have broken an arm and need ironing done Restrictions have eased so we are By Tony Lea available again. We cannot act as ith the lifting of restrictions th carers but will help in any way we can. on 19 July, the Parish Hall Call us on 07845 029500 Mon-Fri happily welcomed back its W st 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Sat 10:00 am to first children’s party on the 21 July. 12 noon. The Lee Common School ‘Swallows’ Ann Ash had their leavers’ party in the hall. It Lee Common was a joy to hear the laughter and happy shouts of the children using the The Lee 2022 ‘countryfile’ calendar To the Editor This is a last call for photographs of The Lee and its surrounds for next Cromar year’s village calendar. We have been sent some lovely Carpets Ltd photos during the year but we need more of the villages and their fauna and flora please. If you are out and about and can catch the essence of the Carpets, Vinyl and countryside in summer please do so and send them in. Wood Flooring If you have been taking photos Supplied and Fitted over the year but not yet sent them in please do so by 18th September. Please send your contributions to me at [email protected] These calendars will be on sale in 9-11 Station Approach the village shop, so that’s some Great Missenden Christmas presents solved! 01494 862125 Jane Marsh Lee Clump 4 bouncy castle and water slide that been out of bounds for summer afternoon. They even had the only bookings. We are also repairing the sunny week in July to add to their fun! cracked and broken concrete surrounds Children’s birthday parties and at the base of the fencing on the tennis christening parties are starting to fill court later in the summer. the diary. Steve Moody’s upholstery Later this year classes have been running very Looking to the autumn we plan to successfully since the restrictions were hold the Bonfire and Fireworks on 5th lifted and he now holds three to four November in the paddock off Cherry classes a week in the hall. We are very Tree Lane. We would very much fortunate to have such a regular and appreciate any help we can get on the reliable booking during term time. morning to set up the field and serve The Parish Council hope to start food and drinks in the evening plus holding their meetings at the hall in taking things down the next morning. September, so a degree of normality Also, we would like to have an idea seems to have finally returned to our how people feel about staging the Roving booking calendar! Tennis court Supper on Saturday 20th November. The bookings continue to be steady as we average attendance in recent years has have secured a sound base of ‘Out of been around 110. We would propose to Parish’ players who played during the continue the evening in the same first lockdown and are happy to have format with drinks and canapes in the found such an idyllic court to play on. Parish Hall, main course in various We have our village regulars too. houses around the villages in groups of Generally, there are 15-20 eight and then return to the Parish Hall bookings a week during the summer for dessert and drinks. We would like to months. In May 2020 we had a record know if people feel there should be a number of 60 bookings in a week restriction in numbers. We would also when tennis was just about the only like all attendees to be double vaccinated. activity available during the easing of Please let us have your views in restrictions in the first lockdown. We order that we can proceed or not by haven’t returned to that number but phone to Pat Lea on 837237 or then use of the court was free! We continue to carry out email [email protected] improvements and repairs at the hall and grounds.
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