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une is always full of promise – the longest day, the stirring of summer thoughts. And, this year, the dusting-down of plans we made last year, but most of which were put aside. JLockdown restrictions are beginning to ease in a way that starts to allow some new freedoms. There is continuing concern, of course, and caution as a consequence. But, for proof that things are creeping back to something like normal, check the Wing Hall calendar on page 7. It’s not so long ago that the Hall was shuttered and silent, for weeks on end. Now it’s opening up to a growing number of events and activities – alongside the critical role of hosting the Vaccination Clinic. There’s no substitute for human contact. Here at What’s On in Wing we’ve done our best to help fill the gap during lockdown, and we’ll continue to get you the news and gossip, albeit on our sometimes erratic schedule. We welcome feedback – it helps us improve, and shape a publication that reflects the community’s needs. And, as always, when you’re looking for help, please turn to the advertisers on these pages first. They’ve been bravely weathering extraordinary conditions, and deserve our support. If you can work out the significance of the pearls and the honeysuckle here, send us an email. First correct answer gets a name-check (get that) in the next issue. No other month in the year begins on the same day as June. Let it never be said that What’s On in Wing does not bring you some extraordinary facts, and some extraordinarily useless ones, too. Stay safe, stay well, Joyce and everyone on the What’s On team.
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One of the big plusses about coming out reinvigorating the church – which was very June services of lockdown is that we can meet up again! humbling. Prayer works then. Date Time Fantastic. But what if you have restricted What we need is to know who would like to • WING HALL OPENS FOR BUSINESS mobility or are housebound? Not really much • PARISH COUNCIL NEWS take part and also, who would be willing to 6 1100• OUR NOT-SO-LOCAL Holy Communion HISTORIAN change, save for more visitors. This is where distribute two or three paper prayer sheets each • GARDENING DIARY • COUNTRY NOTES the benefi ce wide (meaning all eight of our month. With safeguarding in mind, distributors 13 1100 Morning Prayer parishes) Prayer Sheet steps in. This initiative would need a DBS which we would organise. 20 0830Distributed Communion free to every home BCPin Wing. Supported by voluntary donations. simply invites those who are tied to the indoors And for clarity, anybody can have the prayer 1100 People‛s Praise to take part in the prayer life of the church; to sheet if they wish. pray for our communities, our schools, church 27 1100 Holy Communion life both general and particular, plus prayers for On a related note, if you or someone you know ourselves. It will be delivered either online or a would like to chat to Annie, Rev’d Andrew or paper copy and will be written each month by myself, please get in touch. Our contact details Lay Minister Annie, Rev’d Andrew or myself. are in the magazines. Both Andrew and myself are new here and with lockdown, have been I pioneered this idea when I was at Vicar unable to be visible as we would have liked. School and on placement in a sprawling post- war housing estate in Sunderland. I then took With every blessing, it to my fi rst two posts after ordination, both in Rev’d Howard Robson. rural areas. In one village, it was credited with
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The hall continues to be made WHAT’S HAPPENING AT WING HALL available to Jardines Pharmacy for vaccination clinics on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays. This situation may change as the Astrazeneca vaccine may be replaced by or added to the Monday Pfizer vaccine as the lower age Vaccination Clinic Pilates online until Sept21 9.30-10.30am Sarah McLean Barr 07840731258 groups are targeted, but no further LH 8.30-6pm weekdays will be affected. We Rainbows SH restart Sept 21 4.15-5.45pm Carolyn Saunders 688508 thank all our regular users for their understanding and patience whilst Brownies +guides SH restart Sept 21 6-8pm Carolyn Saunders 688508 we try our best to accommodate (except 1st in Badminton Club LH 7-11pm Gary Stevens 07787 957623 month) everyone as best we can. Tuesday Dancing Class (adults) LH restarts 18/5/21 10am-1pm Adrian Marsh 07906988880 Attached is the latest ‘regulars’ 2nd in month Street dance LH restarted Apr21 3.30-6.30pm Kiri FitzGerald 07988 161043 list, all of which are running according to Covid guidelines Badminton LH restart 18/5/21 7.00-11pm Gary Stevens 07787 957623 Parish Council meeting online until 29th June 8-10pm [email protected] We are not currently able to Library 5-7pm offer the large and small halls for ‘one-off’ weekend use until the Wednesday Tots Bop LH 9.30-12noon Rachel Kenning 01525 127474 situation with the vaccines and Zumba online until Sept 21 9.15-10.15am Gabriel Borozescu 07459 488547 the government advice is clarified. Dancing Class (adults) LH restarts 19th May 6.30-10pm Adrian Marsh 07906988880 Thank you to all our patrons for Library 10-12 Noon your patience and understanding Thursday Lace Making SH restarts 20th May 9.30-11.30am Bobbie Long 01296 624179 during this difficult period for Vaccination Clinic Yoga LH restarts 20th May 7.30-8.30 pm Kim O’Hanlon 688693 everyone. LH 8.30-6pm The vaccination clinics will not Friday be using the Village Hall after 3rd Vaccination Clinic Line Dancing LH on hold until Sept 21 9.30am- Adrian Marsh 07906988880 September 2021, when we hope to LH 8.30-6pm 12.30pm resume all normal activities. Saturday Library 10-12 Noon Sunday Wing Singers(term time only) LH – restarts 4.30-6pm Lance Redler 01296 681286 For regular bookings only, September 21 contact Sheila Lambert on Snooker Club David Turner 01296 682870 01296 682795, sjlambert49@ Live meetings for Bingo, Pop-In, Gardening Club, Pilates, Lunch Club, Wing Players and WI are suspended awaiting further gmail.com notice. If you’re a hungry senior-age gambling allotment-tenant, keen on fitness, acting and feminism, watch this space…
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12 to 6pm on The Blooming Great Tea Party is back 19th and 20th June Come to the Village Hall on Wednesday 30th June 2pm - 4pm and help support 15 GARDENS Marie Curie Nurses. 3 ART EXHIBITIONS Bring all your family and friends for a slice LUNCHES AND TEAS of homemade cake (inc.gluten free) and a OTHER ATTRACTIONS cup of tea or coffee for £3. Tickets (including a map) £6 each from There will be books, bric-a-brac and plants Wingrave shop in advance or outside the Church and raffle. over the weekend
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NEWS FROM WING BRANCH WI Campaigns A call to increase awareness Update on our meetings of the subtle signs of ovarian Our campaigns tackle issues Our next meeting is on 17th This month, instead of a cancer: speaker, we had our annual that matter to members. From June, and the talk will be given Resolutions Meeting. For any- equal pay to climate change, Every two hours in the UK by one of our own members, one unfamiliar with the purpose mental health and violence someone dies of ovarian Helena, who will be talking to of WI Resolutions, here is some against women, over the past cancer. Making sure GPs and us about The Dutch Republic. more information: 100 years our members have the public know what to look This meeting is going to be held embraced a diverse set of chal- for will not only ensure the virtually on Zoom, but we are What are WI Resolutions? lenges. The WI has brought early detection and treatment hopeful that our July meeting The Women’s Institute is about real change - and we are of this disease but transform will be held in the Small Hall at democratic and member-led, just getting started. lives today and for generations Wing Village Hall in person. If to come. NFWI calls on WI you would like more informa- and the resolutions process is Resolution for 2020/2021: unique in putting members at members everywhere to help tion then please get in touch! the heart of decisions about This year there were 66,312 increase awareness of the sub- our campaign activity. Every individual selections cast by WI tle signs of ovarian cancer. issue that we campaign on members and the most popu- stems directly from a resolution lar resolution, which received 30,240 selections, was ‘A call put forward by members and President: Maureen Lomas to increase awareness of the adopted at the Annual Meeting. 01296 682915 subtle signs of ovarian cancer’. WI members have a unique op- [email protected] portunity to turn a concern into The NFWI (National Fed- eration of Women’s Institutes) a national campaign every year, Secretary: Pat Jones Board of Trustees has decided backed by the whole of the WI. 01296 682362
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Now that the frost finally seems to have gone And as the weather hopefully warms up, don’t have space for anything, a few little pots (fingers crossed at time of printing), it’s the we will start to crave less hearty and warm- of cress on the windowsill or by the back door perfect time to plant out any fruit, vegetable ing meals, and will opt for salads and lighter would be satisfying too! Let me know what or herb seedlings that you’ve been growing options. This is where it will be handy having you’re growing, whether you have a veg patch indoors or in the greenhouse. Don’t worry if some things that you can cut fresh from the gar- or just grow things wherever you can squeeze you haven’t grown anything though, as you den when you need it, to provide you with some them in. Or maybe you have an allotment. I can buy ready grown seedlings from garden fresh nutritious additions to your meals. It will would love to see some photos, if you want to centres or farm shops, or even places like also save you a bit of money, reduce food waste send them to me. Happy growing and see you in B&M and The Range. if you only cut what you need (no more watery the July issue. bags of lettuce at the bottom of the fridge!), and Or if you want to skip the seedling phase you will also be rewarded with the satisfaction totally and grow something quick that you can of having grown something yourself. sow directly into the ground, you could try radishes and salad leaves, which don’t take up You could even get the family involved, giving much space, they can be grown between other children an area or a pot each to plant something plants in your garden or even in pots. in and look after by themselves. If you really Natasha is a Wing resident, personal trainer, fitness instructor and nutrition coach [email protected] 12 What’s On In Wing June 2021 WING PARK A peaceful Country Retreat for your cat in MOTORS spacious heated farm accommodation. Service, repairs, maintenance, batteries.
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Early man, through inter breeding, hound). Whereas if they were living The evolution of slowly changed the wolf (Canis in wooded areas the dog would Lupus) into many diff erent types need to be shorter and agile with an the Domestic Dog of what we now call domesticated awesome nose (spaniels / hounds). Historians believe that around dogs (Canis Lupus Familiaris). 32,000 years ago the domestic In a wolf pack, the young would Any aggression would have been stay in the den with one adult to dog was recognised as a separate removed from the breeding which, animal to the wolf. It is believed that watch over them whilst the rest of over time, developed dogs that the pack hunt. The kill would be maybe a lone wolf had followed the preferred to be with humans. Not nomadic man in order to gain an brought back to the den to share only did its behaviour change but with the cubs and pack. So this easy meal, and changing loyalty to a also its appearance. new pack. behaviour has been moulded by man Depending on the environment so that the early dogs would retrieve Having this hunter join their group that the humans inhabited, the the kill and bring it back to share had great advantages to man as the dog would be changed to meet the with the new human pack. wolf was a far superior hunter and terrain. For example, hunting in So when your dog chases after his tracker. Along side this, with its open fi elds the dog would have acute hearing, it brought security ball, thats the predatory instinct developed a longer back and long kicking in and when he returns with and protection to its new human Neil Smith is a professional dog legs, with exceptional eyesight in it in his mouth, this is mimicking pack. This new found partnership order to cover the ground as fast trainer, who runs Three Counties returning back to the pack with the Pet Dog Training, based in Wing. changed man’s lifestyle from as possible when hunting (sight nomadic to settler. kill to share.
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its own now. The soft, grey strong enough roots to survive the If you haven’t sown your foliage spreads with dainty winter. Choose a stem and cut sweetcorn yet (you better get blue fl owers. Loved by anything up to 10 cm. Cut just cracking) it can be chitted on bees and butterfl ies it will below a leaf joint and take off all damp kitchen paper. I’ve found fl ower from early summer the lower leaves of the cutting. If this is a much more reliable way to early autumn. After the fi rst the leaves are large (ie hydrangea) to germinate the kernels. Line fl ush of fl owers cut it back hard then cut the remaining leaves in a plastic box with damp kitchen which will encourage more fl owers. half. This stops the plant losing paper and lay out kernels. Cover You can easily make more plants too much water through these with another piece of damp by dividing in Spring or Autumn. remaining leaves. You can dip the kitchen paper and loosely cover cut end in hormone rooting powder the box. Within a few days a If you grow oriental poppies, they before inserting into a pot fi lled small white root will appear. will probably fi nish fl owering by with moist compost. It’s better to When they have all Bearded the end of the month. The plant position the cuttings around the ‘chitted’ you can Iris then tends to look a little messy but edge of the pot and use the end of carefully plant in can be reinvigorated by cutting all a pencil to make a hole ready to cells to grow plants the foliage to the ground. Sprinkle take the cutting. Then cover with a on. Remember a little fertiliser around the plants plastic bag and secure with elastic to harden off and then water well. This should band – thus creating its own little before planting in encourage regrowth and hopefully greenhouse. Place somewhere fi nal position. more fl owers later warm, out of Hopefully the weather is warming Happy in the season. direct sunlight up and we can say goodbye to Gardening! frost. The garden is now gearing Early summer is and within a up for full fl ower power. Bearded a good time to start few weeks you iris will come into fl ower although taking softwood should have sadly just the once in the season. cuttings of plants roots forming Still worth growing a few for you want free and some free structure and interest and the extras of. They can plants. beautiful fl owers. Catmint is a then be potted on Oriental useful groundcover and comes into and will develop poppy
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1 PARISH COUNCIL NEWS Buckinghamshire Council Wing Parish Annual Meeting The Environment Group and the This was held on Tuesday 4th May Police and Crime Commissioner and was very well attended by the for the Thames Valley village community with different groups giving presentations, At the elections for the above on reporting back on the last year, and indicating their future aspirations. Thursday 6th May, the three successful In particular the PC would like to candidates for the Wing Ward were:- thank the young people who Diana Blamires (Conservative) presented on behalf of the Wing Bell Ashley Bond (Conservative) Ringers Peter Cooper (Liberal Democrat) It was heartening to see how many people volunteer in the village and At this time Netta Glover retired as the how much we rely on these good Bucks County Councillor for Wing Ward, people. after 21 years of Service, On behalf of past and current councillors, Recreation Ground Project David Kellner (Chair of the Council) Update presented a card and flowers to Netta to Work on the football pitch continues thank her for all the work and service she with completion due by the end of the has given to Wing and the Community. month. So hopefully the pitch should be ready for the new season. Matthew Barber (Conservative) was elected Police and Crime Commissioner The recreation ground working party for the Thames Valley. are hoping to have a meeting with NHB The group met along with 2 volunteers to discuss some alternative proposals to plant wildflower seed areas around that all stake holders have agreed to. Wing Parish Councillors the village sign, and on the junction of The Bowls Club has just re-opened Stewkley Rd and the High Street. Also at the last elections we said goodbye with a newly levelled green and a self These are pilot schemes to see how to 3 Wing parish Councillors who did not irrigation system that the Parish they perform with plans for further stand for re-election. council help to fund. areas to be planted. The areas are Charlotte Hellgren-Derry marked with small signs, giving John Benson information on how to get involved. Trevor Boyd You don’t have to join the PC in order We would like to thank all of them for their to be part of one of the working service to the Parish Council and a special groups, e.g. the Environment Group, mention to Charlotte who was a councillor and anyone who would like to join will for 14 years. be most welcome. This means there are currently 3 Parish The Environment group is also Councillor vacancies which the Council is planning to replace the bulbs in the able to fill by co-option. If you are village hall planters and the Pump in interested in becoming a Councillor, the next few weeks please email Bewick Green has had its bi-annual cut Photo: ©James Inglis [email protected] or visit back by contractors as part of the A gentle reminder that any overhanging ongoing maintenance plan, to allow the https://www.wingparish.org/your- and encroaching vegetation, hedges, council/who-we-are/become-a- growth of the wildflower meadow areas. trees, weeds etc., that grow over property councillor/ boundaries onto pavements, alleyways For more information and an application and roads do need to be cut back by form. owners where possible, to allow full County and Parish Councils are particularly access. Please do check for any nesting looking for a youthful perspective and the birds before undertaking any cutting back. views of younger people. Bucks Council no longer clear pathways You do not have to be retired! and pavements and the PC has to pay for Anyone over the age of 18 can join any of these type of services.
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OUTwith Gill Jeff ries & ABOUT OS Explorer 192 Streetmap. A June Walk co.uk will enable Park on High Street North, Stewkley, you to print ‣ opposite the church. off a map with Walk down the footpath opposite the footpaths and ‣ church and follow the track downhill. fi eld boundaries. Pass through a gate and along the edge Approx. 4.75 ‣ of a fi eld with the hedge on your right. miles 7.6 km 2 hours Go over a stream and straight across the ‣ next fi eld. Pass through a gate into a fi eld with the ‣ hedge on your left. Walk along the length of the fi eld. At far left corner go over a stile on your left ‣ into the next fi eld and turn right walking Turn left across the fi eld and exit into of 4 fi elds keeping the hedge on your left. along the edge of the fi eld with the hedge ‣ another fi eld. Walk straight across the In the 5th fi eld, half way along the left on your right. middle of this fi eld. ‣ hand hedge, pass through the hedge and Continue into the next fi eld, under some Walk through a gate and round the edge of the continue with the hedge on your right. ‣ pylons, then follow the path right and left. ‣ fi eld keeping the hedge on your left. Continue along the edge of 6 further fi elds The stile is overgrown but the fence is low. In the far corner of the fi eld cross a stile onto ‣ keeping the hedge on your right. Walk down this fi eld and follow the path to ‣ a small road. Pass through a gate onto a track and walk up ‣ the exit in the hedge on the right. Turn left onto Dunton Road, away from ‣ hill towards Stewkley. Walk across the corner of the next fi eld to a ‣ Dunton towards Littlecote. At the top of the track take the footpath ‣ stile. North Farm. In Littlecote, just past the farm on your left. ‣ on your left into another fi eld and continue In the next fi eld take the left hand footpath ‣ Follow the footpath through a gate into a through the fi elds following the markers. ‣ across the fi eld, parallel with the pylons. fi eld. The footpath enters a lane. Continue up the Walk along the edge of the next fi eld Walk across the fi eld keeping close to the ‣ lane to High Street South. ‣ ‣ fence on your left until you reach a stile. Turn left onto the road and continue back to with the hedge on your right. Continue ‣ until a footpath crosses with your path. ‣Cross the stile and walk along the edge the church.
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