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Welcome to the April edition We hope you enjoy it. There was going to be a great deal going on in the next month or so but we are sorry to report that most, including the VE Day celebration, have been postponed. The litter picks on Good Friday in Four Elms and Markbeech have been cancelled but at the time of writing the Hever Litter Pick will take place in a “socially isolated” way. The churches have had to cancel their services with great reluctance.

The Hever Festival in the open air theatre will be hoping to get going during the summer but the Chiddingstone Literary Festival has been cancelled.

And then there is that virus...... If anyone ends up being stuck indoors and needs some local help such as shopping please do ring the editors or any of the churchwardens or those people listed on the back page. The Henry VIII, and possibly

some of the other pubs, area offering takeaways (you need to collect). If you haven’t already, now is a good time to sign up for village emails, covering all three villages, on www.hever. LINK org and many of us are now also signed up to Nextdoor Hever. There is also information on the church Three Spires website.

If you are stuck indoors, or need a break when working from home here are some ideas: • Computers - now is the time to learn. • If you are running low we can find you wool for knitting, jigsaws, lend DVDs etc. Just ask. • Do a spring clean or do the weeding • Learn to play bridge on line (BBO and Bridge Club Live) or phone (Fun Bridge) • Telephone an old friend • Write your memoirs • Make some bunting which we can sew together in a long chain round each village once the isolation is over (and use later at all these postponed events). • Or, best of all, write an article for The Link!!!

I am off now to have a Skype drink with a friend (in other words we connect via the cameras on our computers and raise our glasses to one another from the comfort of our splendid isolation). Joanna Wade

1 Rather than embarking on yet another “freestyle” scarf, you can find knitting patterns on the Knit for Peace website.

The charity grew out of projects established in Rwanda and India to bring women from traditionally hostile communities to knit together to FAST andmake clothesEASY for Teddy street children. Bear Pattern The website has knitting and crochet patterns for simple things like toys for refugees or blankets for care homes. You can also sign up for its newsletter.

Easy delicious no knead overnight bread For each 2 lb loaf tin: and spread out the dough into a rough 600g mixed bread flour rectangle, roll up and spread again and (I use 300g strong white, 200g repeat. wholemeal flour and 100g rye flour)

2 tsp salt Then place in the tin and leave to rise. 2 tsp quick yeast After about an hour put a tray in your a couple of handfuls of seeds, I use oven* and turn your oven on to its sunflower hearts, pumpkin seeds and highest setting. As soon as its up to chia seeds (optional) temperature slash the rising dough with 500g (500ml) cold tap water a sharp knife, ideally serrated and pour some water onto the hot tray to create The night before baking put all the flour steam and put the bread in for 25 mins. and seeds, if using, in a large mixing Then turn the oven down, without bowl together with the salt and yeast opening it, to 180 degrees C** for a and add the water. Mix well just to the further 20 mins. Remove from the oven, point when all the flour is incorporated take out of the tin and tap the loaf to Materials: in the sticky dough and you can’t see check it sounds hollow. Leave to cool any dry bits. This takes me less than 5 on a rack. Use the appropriatemins. size Cover of needles the bowl for with the a yarntea towel you choose. The weight of the yarn will determineor clingfilm the size and of leave the inbear. the kitchen. Size 3.75 with*I have double a fan knitting oven and I use the pan Ours is cool overnight, if you have an that came with it that hangs from yarn would be a goodAga I’dmatch. leave the dough in a cooler grooves on either side of the oven. place. Then I put the oven rack on top. With Pins to hold bear together while sewing; a tapestry needleconventional; synthetic ovensstuffing; you can just put the dark coloured yarnThe or nextbuttons morning for eyes, (about nose 10 hours and later)mouth. pan on the oven floor. grease a 2 lb bread tin. Put a little oil on a board and spread it with your **With a conventional oven set to 200 hands. Then with oily hands scoop up degrees C Pattern: the dough. It will just hold together but Bridget Harris be very sticky. Put on the oily board The bear is worked in stocking stitch throughout and is knitted from the feet up, over the top of the head and down the other side to2 the feet again.

Begin with the legs and work two. Cast on 8 stitches and work 16 rows. Break the yarn and leave the stitches on the needle. Cast on another 8 stitches and work another 16 rows.

To work the body, knit across both legs and then work 12 rows.

OPENING ON THE 28th MARCH

We look forward to welcoming all visitors at the end of March for our 2020 season, our Year of Japan.

LITERARY FESTIVAL 2020

In these uncertain times please check our website for the latest information regarding this event.

The Japanese Room has been updated for our Year of Japan. In one of the antique cases we have recreated the look of Denys Eyre Bower’s displays – a fascinating jumble of unique Japanese objects in the style of a ‘cabinet of curiosities’. Denys focused on collecting objects that he found visually interesting and crowded them into cases with few labels. He believed that if an expert visited they would know about the objects anyway and other visitors could just appreciate their beauty. There are also new information panels which explain the story of Denys’ Japanese collection and the history behind the objects. Visit the Japanese Room to discover new treasures from the collection which have been in storage for many years. Details about our Year of Japan and upcoming events can be found on our website, including a demonstration of ikebana (the art of Japanese flower arranging) on the 5th of April and tours of the Japanese Room on the 8th and 26th of April.

Year of Japan Activities

Sunday 5th April - Drop-in demonstration of the Japanese art of Ikebana (flower arranging). Free with admission to the castle. 2pm - 4pm

Wednesday 8th April - Two Japanese Room tours, each half an hour long aimed at a family audience. Free with admission to the castle. First tour at 11.30am and repeated at 2.30pm

Sunday 26th April - Two Japanese Room tours, each half an hour long aimed at an adult audience. Free with admission to the castle. First tour at 1pm and repeated at 3pm

Sunday 3rd May - Drop-in Koinobori making workshop (a traditional carp flag) for the Japanese festival 'Children's Day' 11am - 4pm

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3 The trustees of Hever village the regeneration of the hall in hall would like to express their line with the results of the public appreciation and gratitude consultation which took place in for the very generous and 2018. unexpected bequest of £25,000 from the estate of the late Anne This very welcome gift from Anne’s Simmonds. estate has boosted both our funds and our enthusiasm to forge ahead The gift will enable the committee with this very worthwhile project for to proceed to the stage of seeking the village and local areas. planning permission from the local Gerry Ryan authority to go ahead with Chairman of Trustees

Litter pick on Good Friday Wear sensible clothes and Hever village hall boots and bring gloves. All other equipment (litter pickers, bags, 9am – 12pm bag hoops, high visibility jackets) provided.

4 The red-haired Dean grant him Sondrig. And considering the pains that he hath taken, I do think that “He is of small stature, with red hair, it shalbe very wel bestowed. And in so sober in eating and drinking, and doing I reckyn my self much bound to speaking little”. This is a contemporary your grace for al those that hath takyn description of John Barlow who pain in the kings matter. It shalbe my became Rector of Hever in 1525. daily study to imagine al the ways that John was born in Essex and began I can devise to do them service and his university education at the new pleasure.” Corpus Christi college in Oxford in 1517, the same year that Martin Luther John duly received the Sundridge nailed his 95 theses to the church door living in 1528 and held it until the in Wittenberg. After a few years as a reign of Queen Mary whilst also being fellow of Merton college he arrived in appointed as Dean of the college of Hever, a condition of his appointment Westbury-on- Trym near Bristol. His being a “first fruits” payment to the Channel-hopping continued for a few Pope of £15 (about £15,000 today). more years and he carried messages to George Boleyn who was Ambassador As chaplain to Sir Thomas Boleyn, to France so his parish work would Viscount Rochford, John found himself probably have been carried out by in the midst of a fascinating family. curates whose salaries he would have It was not long before he was at the paid from his own income. centre of Henry VIII’s courtship of Anne and his attempts to divorce Catherine. No one knows what John’s views Henry sent Barlow to Italy in 1527 as were about the break with Rome his personal courier to carry a message but there is evidence that he and his to the envoy sent to Rome to intercede brother William, Bishop of St David’s, with the Pope. The envoy, William both benefitted from Anne Boleyn’s Knight, wrote to Henry from Foglino, patronage as Marchioness of Pembroke about 100 miles north of Rome:“.....a and promoted her cause in return. chaplain of my Lord Rocheforte arrived His star did not wane with Anne’s here with yor Graces letters directed execution, by 1544 he was Dean of unto me, and in the same a minyute for Worcester Cathedral, but it plummeted your dispensation, newli conceived”. to earth when Queen Mary came to the throne in 1553. William was imprisoned, That mission failed and Barlow was recanted his Protestant views and sent on a second perilous mission to was released into exile and John Italy the next year. Whilst the missions disappeared from view - no one knows failed the Boleyns were pleased with how his story ended. John and wrote to Cardinal Wolsey asking him to give him the living at This article comes from research by Tim Sundridge which had become vacant. Treml, if anyone would like a copy of his Wolsey made a mistake and offered booklet, please ask the editors. Tonbridge causing Anne to write Joanna Wade reproachfully:“I do trust your grace do

5 Initially, Florrie seemed to miss her Bobby – pet of the brother, but she had become used to having the house, and us, to month herself and was a bit miffed when For about three years we have had he returned. After a few ‘arguments’ two cats, Bobby and Florrie, named they seem to have settled down and after Carol’s parents. We had always now get on pretty well. thought that Florrie was the feisty, Carol and Doug Bowern adventurous one, so when Bobby went missing recently, on a Sunday evening, we thought it was unusual, but not really worrying, especially as he had eaten some of Carol’s cake!

When he had not returned on Monday we started worrying, even more so when he had not returned by Tuesday, and then Wednesday. Late Wednesday afternoon a lovely neighbour called to say she thought Bobby was high up in one of her oak trees, and, indeed he was. A local tree surgeon managed to entice him down on Thursday morning and this is a picture of him looking a bit bedraggled, after his safe return.

A message from the County Council As County Councillor for Sevenoaks constantly in touch with colleagues at Rural South, I am writing to get KCC’s KCC. I of course do not want anyone to message out that Social Care services fall through the net so I can contact the both for the elderly and the young will right people at County Hall to give ad- do their utmost to cope in this growing vice and help and come to their rescue crisis, looking after those in their care. if necessary. They are quietly confident that they can do so, however they welcome all My email address is Peter.lake@kent. the help that local volunteers can give, gov.uk and my mobile is 0774070 1695. looking especially after the elderly who I am sure we will all get through these are going to have to self isolate in their very difficult times if we stick together own homes. and follow the advice given by Govern- ment and the NHS. As for me, I too will be self isolating but Peter Lake

6 local heroes perilous exercise aimed at taking the Germans by surprise and capturing Lieutenant General Sir Napier Benouville Bridge. They landed Crookenden KCB, DSO, OBE, DL mainly on target but with some serious injury to soldiers who could not see where they were landing in the dark. The bridge was taken in a decisive victory during the bumpy and agonising progress to victory. The bridge was renamed Pegasus Bridge, the shoulder emblem of the Parachute Regiment. It is impossible to avoid recording that one of the Parachute battalions was led by the wonderfully named Lieutenant Colonel Pine-Coffin.

Napier Crookenden’s part in the success was recognised with promotion to Commanding Officer of the 9th (Eastern and Home Counties) Parachute Battalion, leading his Regiment in a famous action at Merville and capturing a massive German gun battery, constructed Napier Crookenden was a career of so much concrete that it was soldier born in 1915, trained at impervious to bombing, which was Sandhurst and commissioned into a great threat to troops landing on the Cheshire Regiment in 1935. Sword Beach. He was in the thick He was 24 when WW2 broke out of bitter fighting during the winter of and in 1943, having volunteered for 1944 called “the Battle of the Bulge”, parachute training, he served as a the last German offensive against Brigade Major in the 6th Airlanding the allied advance towards Germany. Brigade, planning to land soldiers in He then took part in the last great gliders on D Day near key bridges parachute operation of the war, across the River Orne which flows the crossing of the Rhine. He was through Caen, the city at the heart of awarded a DSO (like his father before the Normandy landings. him) and was moved on to Israel to help maintain order during the dying The gliders were duly despatched days of the British mandate. on 6 June 1944 in an audacious and

7 After the war he was Director of poem “Yours” on the wall of the Operations during the Malayan Pegasus café: Emergency. He was made Director of Land/Air Warfare at the Ministry The life that I have of Defence in 1964 and was the Is all that I have last General Officer Commanding- And the life that I have in-Chief of Western Command Is yours. from 1969. He served in Northern Ireland and, as he was very much The love that I have a “soldier’s general”, made a point Of the life that I have of going out on foot patrols on the Is yours and yours and yours. Falls Road. He was knighted in 1970 and retired in 1972. A sleep I shall have A rest I shall have In retirement he and his wife moved Yet death will be but a pause. to Four Elms and he became Colonel of the Cheshire Regiment, For the peace of my years a trustee of the Imperial War In the long green grass Museum, lieutenant of the Tower of Will be yours and yours and yours. London, a notably successful chair of SSAFA (the Soldiers’, Sailors’ The poem was written for his and Airmens’ Families Association), girlfriend Ruth who had died in a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent and - plane crash in Canada but it had a most importantly of all of course - a second purpose as an encrypted Churchwarden at Hever where he message. Marks was head of was very active and much loved. the Code office of the Special He also lectured on military history Operations Executive in Baker and wrote three books. Una Higgs Street (where Anne Greig and Paul remembers a trip to the D Day sites Aronow’s father also worked) and with him. They found Leo Marks’ the poem was used to send coded messages to agents in France, including Violette Szabo.

Napier Crookenden died in 2002 and there are memorial plaques to him in Chester Cathedral, the Tower of London and Hever Church.

8 what I do Hever Castle is an unforgettable experience. Hello, I’m Ailsa Molyneux. I am the Theatre Director at Hever 2020 promises to be another Festival Theatre. exciting year in which we will be celebrating ‘the best that Britain Having studied music at has to offer.’ Shakespeare’s Globe university, my theatre career was on Tour is one of our new partners based firmly and at the end of in the world August they will of opera until be performing I decided I three of the wanted to work Bard’s plays. We more locally, are also working to stop touring with many local and to enjoy artists as well the privilege as historians, of working in a musicians, beautiful place. a vicar, This led to my Harry Potter first job with enthusiasts and Hever Festival magicians. Theatre in the days when the Hever Festival Theatre was a Theatre repertory house combines world- based on the loggia. I have loved class performances and a picture both the Theatre and Hever Castle book Tudor Castle set in beautiful ever since. gardens with stunning views. Whilst many enjoy a lakeside Hever Festival Theatre is 37 years picnic, the restaurant, providing old this Summer. It began as a delicious food, is open throughout rep season, the passion of Ron the Festival. No wonder I don’t Palmer and his family and has want to be anywhere else this grown into a diverse, bustling summer… Festival. Spread over six weeks in the Summer, there are events www.heverfestival.co.uk to suit every taste. Described as Box Office 01732 866114 ‘The West End in the Garden of 23 May – 30 August 2020 England’ a visit to the theatre at

9 Potholes Following recent bad weather and Kent County Council, Highways flooding, we will be prioritising Dept. is responsible for the 10,000 pothole and emergency repairs and km of roads around Kent (not for reports of floods that are a risk to motorways or trunk roads). road users or property for the next 1.64 million people use these few weeks.” roads and almost 1,000,000 vehicles and usage has doubled in the last 25 years. KCC’s Photographic website allows you to report a Competition: problem very easily: ‘Your Eden Valley’ https://www.kent.gov.uk/roads- Open to all, this is a chance to get and-travel/report-a-problem your photograph in Eden Valley

Museum’s 2021 calendar. KCC says: “We are continuing to fix potholes as part of our The photos will be judged at £7.5 million Pothole Blitz. Since the Museum’s 20th anniversary the beginning of the year, we’ve coffee morning on 27th June and fixed over 26,000 potholes in afterwards will be displayed in the response to over 14,000 received museum until the 31st August. fault reports. You can let us know about any potholes via our online The top 12 will be printed in reporting tool, which will help us the 2021 calendar and winners schedule repairs as quickly as will receive a free copy. It’s one possible. submission per person, 8”x6” landscape. Please submit before We aim to make a permanent, the 31st May and include a title quality repair by cutting out a small and location, your name, address section of the road around the and contact details to curator@ hole, clearing out the old material evmt.org.uk and filling it with new tarmac. If a road has lots of potholes we may need to complete a larger patch or resurface the whole section. For emergency potholes, we sometimes make an instant repair by quickly filling the hole. This is to make the road safe straight away whilst we schedule a full permanent repair to prevent potholes from forming in the future. 10 Hever Parish Council by Charlotte Cole, parish clerk

Gatwick The Clerk attended a Bus shelters The Clerk received happy “roundtable” meeting regarding Gatwick news that the refurbished Four Elms bus Northern Runway Project. The current shelter (which was a salmon pink colour consultation is part of the process to previously) with its new green bench bring the emergency runway into use. The and enlarged perspex window is much runway is 2.5km long (the main runway appreciated by users. Watch this space is 3.3km). If brought into regular use, it for new, covered, accessible, magnetic would enable up to 70 movements of noticeboards for all the bus shelters in planes an hour, an increase of 74 million the parish. They are a vast improvement passengers per year. There would not be and no more injured thumbs trying to post in increase in cargo flights. The plans have notices on them. Hoorah to include infrastructure such as improving Christine Thompson resigns The the access from the M23 (Junction 9). The Councillors and Clerk would like to express plans would lead to about 20,000 new jobs huge thanks to Christine Thompson, (8,000 on the airport site). Councillor for Four Elms ward for her many The Consultation document (over a 1000 years of stellar service to the Council and pages) will be out soon and now is the community. In particular, her lead of the time to engage. The Secretary of State is Planning Committee has been key to the expected to make a decision late in 2022. high praise the Council receives from the Hever Parish Council is part of the High District planning authority for considering Weald Councils Aviation Action group and all planning applications with such a the 3 HPC Councillors who attend this logical, thorough and expert approach on your behalf will consider our response and not shying away from contentious carefully http://www.hwcaag.org/ applications or decisions. For more information see Free family fun days www.gatwickairport.com/community 30th July Four Elms recreation ground If you have views on this, please attend (behind school) a parish council meeting, email the 13th August Hever village hall 10am – Clerk ([email protected]) or comment on 2pm. Facebook (Hever Parish Council). More information to follow, bring the kids Licensing The Clerk now receives updates and a picnic for free activities (indoors and electronically from the Licensing Authority outside). (Sevenoaks District Council) on any new Next Parish Council meetings or amended licensing applications in our Tuesday May 5th Four Elms village hall parish and will list these at every Council Meeting / AGM 7.30pm meeting. Thursday 28th May Hever Village hall Four Elms pond Excess aquatic plants Annual Assembly 7.30pm are to be removed from the pond soon, these will have to “rest” on a part of the Any queries please contact the Clerk bank to allow the bugs to crawl back into [email protected] the water, so if the area is a little unsightly for a while, please bear with us. 11 schooltime to create a new food for robot dogs, with a new brand name and catchy news from Hever slogan. Also this week the children have designed their own experiments In a climate of uncertainty and based around the scientific principles change we are doing all we can to of the ‘fair test’ and their understanding keep everyone safe and well. While of the factors needed for healthy plant the school has closed following growth. They spent time discussing government guidelines we will their thoughts regarding the control of continue to care for vulnerable variables, before settling on one which children and those whose parents are they wanted to explore. key workers. Willow Class, over the last two weeks, This week Acorn class has been have written some amazing pieces practising using their phonics sounds for about the book, ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted reading and writing. They are learning Hughes. The children were asked to how to write a short sentence. Acorns explore the language and style of the have been trying so hard with their Iron Man before creating their own reading and parents and carers have descriptions and then writing a prologue been supporting learning at home. In in the style of Hughes. Maths they have been learning about pairs and working out how many pairs We have had another fantastic week of of socks different animals would need! learning in Chestnut class this week. The They are also using numbers in their children have worked hard to complete roleplay and shapes in construction. their biographies on Claude Monet and It has been an extremely muddy few moved onto planning a missing poster, weeks out in the forest! This week based on an accident with a group of children built a rain shelter and huddled explorers in an Avalanche. Inspiration underneath it to drink hot chocolate and for this was seen from a disappearance they created little rafts for the stream. reported in Scotland last week.

Elderberry have been growing cress Last Thursday, our teachers and pupils to conduct an investigation into what had a great time celebrating World Book plants need to grow, deciding what to Day. A lot of fun and exciting activities change in their variables. The children took place. The children were thrilled to have been working hard on their hear the news that Michael Rosen, the multiplication and division skills, using famous children’s author, is coming to arrays and making equal groups through visit us in November! We are all looking sharing. forward to hearing his inspirational words! Elm Class have been deepening their Joanna Stratton understanding of non-fiction explanation Headteacher text, the children worked collaboratively

12 news from Four Elms Class Four’s goal is to raise awareness of accessibility for people with physical Rights respecting disabilities. So far, they have tested Recently, the whole school has been out our school and field environment focusing on raising awareness about to identify how wheelchair accessible disabilities as part of ‘The right to be this is. They will be writing letters to the treated fairly’. local community to raise awareness of the impact of an accessible Class One have created an audio book environment. for those who are visually impaired which was shared with a member of Positive relationships and anti- the local community who is visually bullying programme impaired. They provided feedback and The whole school has signed up to a the children will respond to this before fun five-week programme delivered sharing their audio book with a larger by the West Kent Community Youth audience of visually impaired people. Services Team. The programme When visiting the school, the lady focuses on positive relationships, stated that the children “were lovely empathy and self-esteem, to help the and had great questions” and also children understand the importance of commented that it is wonderful that we kindness and teamwork. are raising awareness of disability as a school. Sport Relief Sport Relief is a fundraising event run Class Two have learnt a great deal by Comic Relief that harnesses the of sign language and have created a power of sport to raise money and video of key phrases and words. They transform lives. In exchange for a have been visiting other local primary donation to the charity, all the children schools to share their learning in the were able to come to school dressed in hope this will also inspire other schools either sporty clothes or as a sports star. to become more inclusive and learn sign language. During the afternoon, the Rights Respecting Ambassadors ran some Class Three have been learning about fun sports activities for each class with hidden disabilities and how our local prizes for the winners, bringing the Waitrose can support people with whole school community together to these. This term they will have a visit get active and have fun. It helped the from a representative from Waitrose children to understand that their own Head Office, to present their ideas school can make a real difference to and, once approved, they will share people’s lives. these ideas with our local Waitrose in Nicole Holt Edenbridge.

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15 news from the pews Eucharists for Sundays and the Easter services, as well as some other Announcing the appointment of Rev spiritual help and guidance including Simon Braid as Priest in Charge how to pray during the crisis. This will be put on the church website and We are delighted to announce Simon’s Facebook page. Do also look out for appointment, a unanimous decision national broadcasts from the Church of by the panel of local PCC members. England. God bless you all.’ Simon and his wife Susie are well known to most of us and Simon brings Four Elms a wealth of experience. Until recently an Rarely (if ever) do we cancel a service. associate Vicar in Hildenborough, he is However, the exceptionally bad weather currently licenced to the Deanery where in February caused our minister, he has helped lead mission and growth Sally Musson to be stopped in her in the Diocesan ‘Called to Grow’. As a flooded tracks somewhere between retired accountant it is also a measure Hildenborough and Four Elms. We of his experience that he is a member thank Sally for making the effort to of the Diocesan Finance Committee. get as far as Bough Beech. Had she arrived at St. Paul’s she would have Simon is a very capable individual witnessed mops and buckets to the who more than satisified the criteria fore attempting to dry out the church. we identified for a new incumbent. His Our problem was minor compared to licensing was to be a big public event others around the country who have but it will now be held privately in the lost possessions and homes to the near future. unprecedented rainfall. Our thoughts and prayers are with these very Simon has added the following unfortunate people. message: ‘Susie and I are delighted to be joining you. But obviously we All of which concentrates our minds on hadn’t expected to be doing so in such the serious problem of climate change. unprecedented circumstances. Despite This has taken a back seat to the the fears, worries and uncertainty Coronavirus outbreak, equally serious, caused by this pandemic, it’s so but the climate change issue is not encouraging to see the communities going away any time soon. We all need pulling together. The church will be to address the way we use resources playing its part and we are putting which contribute to the problem. And together lists of people who need St. Paul’s must address it as well. particular help – especially those who The APCM of the PCC has had to may not have access to the internet be postponed. When it is rearranged - and I will be part of a plan to phone everyone will be welcome, especially any who are isolated to offer a friendly those who are on our Parochial word, prayer and encouragement as Electoral Roll. Membership of the well as whatever help we are able Parochial Electoral Role demonstrates to provide. I’ll be recording short that you are an interested supporter of 16 St. Paul’s Church Four Elms. You may I would like to offer the following:- not regularly worship at the Church but you still love the building and its place Gardening. Now is a very good time in the village. You may even enjoy the to start thinking of the growing season seasonal services and, of course, those ahead. If you are in need of any times which touch your own families. A compost, seeds or other gardening notice board in the Church will provide sundries, I can help deliver these to you with more information. your door in my wonderful little red van! And finally, Leslie Griggs has retired as Hever Horticultural Society are asking a greatly respected Church Warden. their members to sow a few extra Richard Bennett has replaced Les. seeds to make seedlings and plants Thank you Les and thank you Richard. available and we are hoping to do the Christina Hodson annual plant sale by telephone ordering Churchwarden with delivery or a collection point. Hever Last month’s Hever Parish lunch was Knitting. I have lots of surplus wool a time of celebration as we shared and also patterns and needles so if you Ann Cleeve’s birthday. Given current fancy taking up a new skill or indulge advice about gatherings it will be the an old one let me know. There are last for a while. Regrettably the church wonderful tutorials online on YouTube services have stopped but we are or I can photocopy some instructions. putting in place alternatives such as Blanket squares are simple but much online readings and services that can in demand - give it a try! In particular, be followed at home at regular times, why not start knitting for November’s such as morning prayer at 9.30am on Christmas Fair? I can let you have Wednesdays and afternoon prayer at a pattern for knotted Christmas 4.30pm on Thursdays plus a Sunday decorations. service. As we continue through Lent we will also make available the Pets. Should your pet need to see the ‘Caring for God’s creation’ lent course vet, then we can help by collecting readings, prayers and reflections. and taking then for a consultation or Please check the ThreeSpires website treatment. for regular updates and news. Jigsaws. I have a large stash. Mainly Our obvious joy in Rev Simon Braid 1000 pieces or under. All in great being appointed Priest in Charge has condition and am happy to share/ been very timely indeed and Simon deliver. is currently compiling a large list of telephone numbers and details so that Throughout the parish we have a he can stay in touch with us all. considerable number of people who are willing to help out in these difficult We may all find that we have more time times. Please do not worry or become on our hands in the coming weeks and anxious - share any concerns or needs

17 and we will very probably be able to with a surveyor who has a long form help, however large or small. to complete and then await a thick document of items that will need our Keep cheerful. attention. I can’t wait! We are, however, Jane Rosam very aware that the fallen oak needs Churchwarden removing and hopeful this will have Markbeech happened by the time this magazine The constant rain and the onset of goes to print. I am also awaiting Coronavirus made March a rather confirmation of a faculty to install the bleak month but the light came shining new security lighting and cameras. And through with confirmation from the finally, you may have noticed that the Bishop of Simon’s position as our future stone finial on the roof of the church priest. A warm welcome was evident became damaged by either Ciara or from the good sized congregation who Denis (I can’t remember who was the came to hear the news at our service in culprit). Never a dull moment! March. Sadly all our plans for Easter services We have been following the Church of have had to be cancelled. Likewise England Lent course ‘Caring from Gods the Parish Lunch on Tuesday 7th April; Creation’ by reading their excellent Easter Lambing Tea Party at Ockhams booklet, studying the prescribed on 15th April 2-4pm; Church Quiz on passages and coming together for an Saturday 18th April at MBVH have evening of discussion and supper. It been called off thanks to Coronavirus has given us plenty of food for thought restrictions. In the meantime we can all and it is always just so good to share be thinking of new and exciting events time together. for the autumn!

The practical side of a churchwarden’s Stay safe and please do let me or duty is to care for the building and Marielou know if there is anyone in our churchyard and I fear this will be community that needs our help. We will tested as we are about to undergo do what we can! our ‘Quinquennial Inspection’ by Nicki Talbot the Diocese. We spend a morning Churchwarden

Lectionary readings April 2020

Date OT Psalm NT Gospel Sunday 05 Apr Isaiah 50:4-9a 31: 9-16 Philippians 2.5-11 Matthew 26.14- Palm Sunday 27.66 12 Apr Acts 10.34-43 118.1-2,14-24 Colossians 3.1-4 John 20.1-18 Easter Day 19 Apr Acts 2.14a,22-32 16 1 Peter 1.3-9 John 20.19-31 Easter 2 26 Apr Acts 2.14a-36-41 116.1-3,10-17 1 Peter 1.17-23 Luke 24.13-35 Easter 3 03 May Acts 2.42-end 23 1 Peter 2.19-25 John 10.1-10 Easter 4

18 Extract for Easter Day from the Church of England Live Lent booklet

Rest and Restoration Our faith in the risen Jesus gives us Supposing him to be the gardener, hope of a future when creation will Mary said to Jesus, “Sir, if you have be set free in the age to come. But carried him away, tell me where you this hope also strengthens us to live have laid him.” in the world as it is - a world where there is great suffering, a world which Read John 20.11-18 we are called to serve and to sustain.

Reflection Action Genesis 2 begins by describing the What will you take forward from all Seventh Day - the Sabbath, when that you have learned and done God rested from the work of creation. during Lent? But by Genesis 3 we encounter Adam and Eve’s disobediance and How might your prayer, your actions the tragic consequences of human and your giving, change to reflect sin. As Ruth Valerio writes in her your care for God’s creation? conclusion to Saying Yes to Life: Prayer “The rest of the Bible is then the Now let the heavens be joyful, story of how God works to bring And earth her song begin! restoration: to put back to rights The round world keep high triumph, what has gone wrong and bring And all that is therein; about the Sabbath rest that has been Let all things seen and unseen promised.” Their notes of gladness blend, For Christ the Lord hath risen, Adam and Eve turn away from God Our joy that hath no end. in a garden, and it is in a garden that Mary Magdalene first encounters From “The day of resurrection”, John the risen Jesus. For Christians, of Damascus (c. 750), translated by the First Day becomes the new J.M.Neale(1816-66) Sabbath, a day not only of rest but of see www.churchofengland.org/ resurrection and restoration. livelent for more information

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19 gardening

Blunts Brook is a 10 Acre wildlife haven get sown once the bed is cleared and where a plantaholic lives. Alleluia the composted. Put labels in where you sun has got its hat on and on a positive have sown seed. Now is a good time front the beautiful spring flowers came to plant any summer flowering bulbs. early and have lasted longer. We must Also, this month is when I repot all all be behind in the garden, but not to my fuchsias & pelargoniums and get worry, seasons always have a way of most of my cuttings from plants in the catching up. greenhouse and outside. Although most of the pruning had been done in March, Due to my vegetable plot being soggy this month I prune the fig tree, cut and stodgy, I started certain vegetables down the dogwoods and chop back the off in the greenhouse (onions, garlic, penstemon/fuchsias and early flowering broad beans, leek, sprouts) which are shrubs. Remember to continually tie in now screaming “get me in the soil”. I the clematis and honeysuckles, as they put my compost (home produced) on in romp away. November so now it only needs a rake to get a finer tilth where I am directly Roses and shrubs get their annual sowing seed. I don’t put compost feed this month and don’t forget your where carrots and parsnips are to be houseplants. Containers get a top sown. Vegetable seed I would normally dressing of compost and slow release sow directly into the ground at the granules. April is the best month to take beginning of March, but this year it will a look at your lawns and do any re- be the end of March/beginning of April. seeding. Remember to protect anything These are parsnip, radish, spinach, fragile from late frost with fleece. beetroot and lettuce, with carrots at the end of the month. I love this month and the excitement it brings. Our bluebell wood is beginning In February my potatoes took up to come to life and our wildlife has residence in the porch for chitting taken up residence. Our Barn Owl and will be planted out this month. (Snowball) has been in her box since Remember when sowing vegetables/ November and the Tawny Owl is now in salad leaves do fortnightly sowings hers and she is starting to lay. Beautiful to stop it all arriving at the same Mr Kingfisher is once again fishing and time. I start other vegetables in Mrs is sitting. The kestrels are unhappy the greenhouse in late March/April as their box has Snowball in it, but – tomatoes, peppers, cauliflower, we have put up another for them. The cabbage, broccoli etc. then plant out mandarin duck is not settled in yet but end of April/May. has checked out her box.

The beginning of April is when I tackle Happy gardening to you all and a very my herbaceous borders, chopping happy Easter. back, lifting and dividing. Hardy annuals Lorraine Harrington

20 Benefice monthly rainfall in millimeters

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Four Elms 2018 62.7 1.2 44.7 67.2 17.1 38 96 70 2019 28 33 54 12 29.5 111 55 27 58 112 115 114 2020 66 106

Hever 2018 79 36 81 65.5 79 0 36 63 32 41 127.5 81 2019 23 56 45.5 12 24 90 63 28.5 64 119 98 114 2020 77 125

Markbeech 2018 83 40 82 77.25 70.05 1.5 51 68.5 33 47.5 105.5 91.5 2019 39.5 41 59.25 13.25 29 78.5 74.5 38.5 71 133 92.5 138 2020 96.25 140 Hall Bookings Councils Four Elms: Kent County Councillor Village Hall Peter Lake 07740 701695 − Mike Follows 01732 700280 Sevenoaks District: or 07887 950921 Matthew Dickins 07910 328110 Parish Rooms Hever Parish: – John Southworth 01732 700670 Charlotte Cole 01342 322123 Hever [email protected] − Mrs Ryan 01732 864168 Markbeech − Mrs Paige 01342 850328 The Link Team

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If you need help with shopping, prescriptions, posting letters etc please call the editors (see page 21 for numbers) or the churchwardens (see page 19) or call any of the following. We would all be very happy to help.

Laura Palmer – 01732 864257 Jane Hall – 01732 862569 Laura Hands – 07792 167 470 (based in Hever) Beverley Thomas – 07855 968 006 (based in Edenbridge) Toria Corcoran – 07885 491 893 (based in Edenbridge) Andrea Hayto – 07766 503 062 based in Four Elms) Sophie Fraser – 07793 464 705 Amy Hurlstone – 07982 996 642 Emma Short – 07985 047 746 (based in Four Elms) Cheryl Small – 07795 841 178 Caroline Crooks – 07887 505 409

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