Hilltop News

October & November 2014 Fete wash-out? Not in the Hilltops… ast year, the August Bank Holiday Churches Fete enjoyed warm sunshine. LThis year the best part of an inch of rain fell during the setting up and running of the Fete. But was the spirit of the Hilltop Villagers dampened? Not one bit. In a typical show of community pluck, willing helpers erected marquees, gazebos and tents to cover the books and bric-a-brac, barbeque and ice cream. Only the plant stall welcomed the deluge. And the Band played on! How the stall-holders worked hard and, in an equally spirited show of support, more visitors than could have been expected showed up and raised more welcome funds for our churches. The Horticultural Society Annual Show, in early September, displayed another remarkable variety and quality of cut flowers, fruit and vegetables; plus arts and crafts, photography and cookery. Congratulations to our Cricket Club, whose Saturday team won the Division 2 League Hardly weather for ice cream at the title in convincing style. Churches Fete! Full reports inside… Also in this issue… • Celebrations in the Collins family • Uma plans a World Challenge Front cover How good to see the • Pippa offers a pathway to the cap and fantail back Christian Faith on our landmark windmill. Thanks to Plus our regular features… the caring owners, the In his Nature Notes Chris Brown observes a new sails will be fitted heron soon. See our special feature inside… Curvaceous Cook serves up a lasagne with an Italian flavour …plus all the news from our Churches, School, Clubs, Councils and Societies.

Hilltop News 3 The Super Sucker is also to visit the road in investigation into the situation. The council THE PARISH COUNCIL November and there will be a further road THE COUNTY COUNCIL will submit an Improvement Plan for As usual, the Parish Council did not meet closure around this time to repair the area n Thursday 11 Children’s Safeguarding to Ofsted in the of road between The Black Horse and Long September the next two months. in August, but we have all still been Mayling, plus a few other areas. County Council O The County Council wishes to apologise to busy behind the scenes and have a wide Many other small areas of work celebrated its 125th parents whose children had not received have been/are in the progress of being Anniversary by inviting variety of projects and matters to attend their bus pass for the new term prior to the completed throughout the Parish, so local dignitaries to to over the coming months, including (but start of school and is investigating why the hopefully we will enjoy a slightly less a small ceremony in contractor, Amey, did not reassure parents not limited to) Rights of Way matters, bumpy/tyre-puncturing winter than before! Aylesbury. The council that their children could board the buses on littering problems, planning and highway has played a prominent the first day of term. issues and involvement in several wider New initiatives role in the life of the county and over and Two wider initiatives I would like to draw above its statutory duties promotes inward At present I am lobbying the Rt Hon consultations in the County… your attention to: investment and business opportunities, Jeremy Hunt and the Department of Highways Child Exploitation – (launched 1/9/14) aims supports the Bucks Show and seeks to Health over aspects of the new Care Bill One of our major issues is still the flooding to help identify cases of abuse. include the parishes in local affairs. which disproportionately affect the Home at Sandpit Hill, which we are keen to Counties where large numbers of people For more information on the campaign and Between April 2012 and April 2015 the have resolved before the worst of the fund their own care in older age. If anyone what to do if you are concerned about a council will have spent £90 million on weather comes. Following discussions with has visited Chesham Leys, the superb new young person, visit www.ruwise2it.co.uk improving our roads and a number of the relevant landowners, the option of nursing home in Chesham, which opened Door Step Crime – I have a number of Hilltop roads have been resurfaced or reinstating the nearby ditch was deemed its doors in August, you will know that leaflets on how to be wise to Rogue patched during that time. Since the damage insufficient and therefore investigations the cost of care is rising significantly. We Traders, and would be happy to provide caused by heavy rain last spring, a great are ongoing for repair/improvement of are asking Government to recognise the them to anyone who would like them, deal of much needed drainage work has the existing borehole. In the meantime, problem in order to protect council tax either paper copy or electronically. been carried out and I sincerely hope that the Super Sucker is booked to revisit in payers in the county from higher charges. Should you have suspicions about any many fewer roads will flood this winter. The November, in order to keep the drains doorstep sellers, first shut the door! Chesham Rural Local Area Forum currently Autumn is a great time of change for our relatively clear until work on the borehole Then contact Trading Standards on www. has a budget of £12,000 for rural projects young people, moving up to a new school, can commence. buckinghamshire.gov.uk/tradingstandards such as improving road safety, walking to university or college and into work. Many Another major area of concern is the road 0845 4040506. school and verge improvements and the people who are educated in Bucks go surface in The Vale. After a week’s closure parishes are being asked to claim their on to have very successful careers both of the road in August, I know that I for one, If looking for a reliable tradesman, you can share for suitable works. internationally and here, and we hope that on returning from holiday, was somewhat use the Buy with Confidence Website: in future more will return to live in the bemused as to what had improved! On www.buywithconfidence.gov.uk, 0845 Ofsted recently rated Children’s Services county. I wish you all every future happiness further investigation, I was informed that 4040506. in Buckinghamshire as inadequate. Its and success. the gullies/soakaways were cleared and report is taken very seriously at County a full assessment of the road carried out. Hayley Lewis, Clerk to the Council Hall, but the unprecedented demand for Please let me know if I can speak to officers 758843 [email protected] services between 2012/13 and 2013/14 - for on your behalf at County Hall. example a 70% increase in referrals to children’s social care and an increase in Cllr Tricia Birchley, Cabinet Member for Your councillors are: the number of young people coming into Health & Wellbeing, Chiltern Ridges John Allen, Chairman: 758095 care - was matched by significant difficulty Division, 01296 621138 Nigel Blomfield, 758314 in recruiting permanent experienced social [email protected] Chris Brown, 758890 workers, and as a result we have a large Philip Matthews, 758205 contingent of agency staff. A member-led John Minting, 758206 Task & Finish Group was set up last February Francis Sanger, 758767 and has already undertaken an in-depth Judith Joseph: 758702

4 Hilltop News Hilltop News 5 the new library that was stocked with new HAWRIDGE & books and re-catalogued at the end of the CHOLESBURY C OF E last school year. SCHOOL Reception and Key Stage 1 children have, following a government initiative, started The new school year has started with new to be provided with free school meals. These are beginning with a packed lunch, joiners throughout the school years and a but a full hot meal will be provided as soon whole new intake to the reception class, as the chosen catering supplier can start Windmills. These new children seem to and it is hoped that this hot food offer will have settled in well to their new class and then be extended to Key Stage 2 children at a small cost. teacher, as have all the other classes. Revd Burgess is taking a weekly morning ver the summer many children service for the children, as well as all completed the Summer Reading or the other services and work he does for OScrap Book Challenges introduced the school, and the invitation has been through the local libraries and nationwide. extended to parents and family members. Their work is to be displayed in the school School closed an hour early on Friday and the children congratulated in assembly. 12 September to give the children the Whilst the children were reading, the opportunity to watch The Tour of Britain school staff were busy setting up for the cycle race as it came through Chesham and new curriculum and also putting the final Ashley Green. It was clear the children who touches to a new school website. As the watched this event thoroughly enjoyed the children are introduced to their new topics spectacle. for the new school year, parents have also Dates for the diary have also started to had the opportunity to visit their child’s be set. All classes are going to have a cake class to hear about the topics that are to sale at some point in the year; school photos be covered and to be shown how they can have been lined up as well as a World War help. Following its success last year, parents 1 day, Children in Need, an NSPCC numbers of Key Stage 1 children have again been day and all the Christmas events, including invited to share a book with their child the Christmas Bazaar on Saturday 6 on Friday mornings and the children have December, to which you are all welcome. started to bring home reading books from

6 Hilltop News Hilltop News 7 Our Meeting on Friday 5 December will Local History be about Wooden Boat Building in Tring CHOLESBURY-CUM-ST NEIGHBOURHOOD Group with Jeremy Bates, who is himself a boat LEONARDS W.I. WATCH builder! he afternoon visit to Ashridge House he recent Our talks programmes All meetings are at St Leonards Parish in August was enjoyed by members, Neighbourhood kick off on Friday 3 Hall and start at 8.15 sharp with the Hall family and friends. Tony Evers, an Policing Update open from 8pm: just £4 on the night. T T October when it’s a case excellent guide, took us on a tour of the noted that burglary Membership is great value at just £10 of Life and Death in a house and, after tea and cake, there was offenders often use tools for adults and free for those 16 years and just enough time to take a quick look at the to force entry to the rear of a property, Roman Villa. Not so much a “who done under. There are eight evening meetings, extensive gardens. The photograph shows using an implement which they have found normally on the first Friday of the month, it” but more “an everyday story of country us looking down the impressive 224ft deep nearby. It is important to secure your plus a newsletter, other member events and folk” in Bucks (rather than Borsetshire) and well, which is below the Chapel. garden tools so that they cannot be used access to our archive of photographs and for this purpose. Thefts of number plates will be narrated by Dr Jill Eyers, who is a other material documenting the history of have occurred from vehicles where drivers Chiltern-based Director of Archaeology. the houses, people and events in the had parked in isolated areas whilst visiting Hilltop Villages. You don’t have to be a n Friday 7 November a fascinating the district. For very little money, you can history buff to enjoy our talks: they are as personality will be the subject of purchase security screws online which can much an enjoyable social event. So if you our talk: The Life and Loves of be fitted to your vehicle. O are new to the area or have just not got Walter Rothschild. We are delighted to There have been instances of what is around to attending, why not come along have one of our regular local experts on termed ‘anti-social driving’. Attention to a meeting? this renowned family, who always draws seeking and unsafe driving compromises a large and appreciative audience, Wendy Chris Brown (758890) road safety and the police have made Austin to talk about this eccentric and most e-mail [email protected] seizures of ‘souped-up’ cars. Should you interesting character. witness such driving try to record the registration and contact the police about it as, even retrospectively, notices can be issued which will result in the car being taken away. Shirley Blomfield (758314)

The Annual Meeting is on 20 October and our programme gives the competition this time as ‘Mince pies – the first of the season!’ We look forward to enjoying the entries with our tea and coffee. The following month, Colin Lomas is coming to talk about ‘Angels in Art’, with slide illustrations. This will be on Monday 17 November. Please look out for the posters which go up on the village notice-boards and Carol Henry can tell you more about our meetings (758435).

8 Hilltop News Hilltop News 9 88.67 in five games, Sam Richardson with HAWRIDGE & an average of 86 and Andy Halliday 82 in CHOLESBURY two innings. CRICKET CLUB Amongst the bowlers, top wicket- taker was Rifai again, with 25 wickets Well, we have at an average of 11.2. Not far behind, with 23 wickets in just 9 games, was the done it! H&CCC has evergreen Richard Vasey, who had one of won the Mid Bucks his best seasons in years. Not only did he Division 2 - unbeaten perform well for the club, he also took 8 in 2014. The team, wickets in two games for Bucks Over 60’s! Other notable performers included Digger ably led by Neil Reading, who got better as the season Jones, won 14 of the progressed, taking 14 wickets in 7 matches, 18 league matches Ben Drane, with an impressive 5 for 15 against Downley and Alex Neal with 5 for outright on the field, 25 against Freith. were awarded one walkover, and had A couple of cameos were worth noting three games washed out by the weather. from our younger players, who played an This was an astonishing performance, important part in the success achieved this year. Harry Sargent scored a very impressive League Winners: Top L to R: John Noakes (umpire), Matt Rutt, Mohammed Rifai, Sam Richardson, given that this was largely the same team 58 not out against Lacey Green, when the James Cath, Richard Vasey. that scraped a promotion in 2013, having team was struggling. At just 15, he has Bottom L to R: Steve Drane, Digger Reading, Sean Robertson, Neil Jones, Gareth Thomas, Andy finished third in Division 3. There is no great potential as an all-rounder. Charlie Halliday, Charlie Barker. doubt that this achievement has been Barker, who has also made great strides, had the distinction of taking a hat-trick as well as taking some excellent catches and [email protected] or send him the result of a tremendous team spirit, so against Potten End. stumpings. A welcome addition has been a text at 07740 189090 to secure tickets. congratulations to all. So, lots to look forward to in 2015 in young Jack Filer, who showed his wonderful All news, photos and more can be talent with the bat. found on the club website, which is here were many great performances Division 1. The big challenge for the team will be to get a nucleus of 8 or 9 regular hawridgeandcholesbury.hitscricket.com. to note from the season, with our Colts The club also has a Facebook page. star batsman Mohammed Rifai players, around which to build a strong With the main league season behind T team identity, and also to give the captain Brian Ralphs leading the way, but very ably supported us, colts evenings continue to be as well by many others in the team. A case in point an easier ride in selection each week. As it attended as ever, by colts and their parents: was in the last game against Holmer Green, was, 26 different players participated in one a wonderful sight for those who may drive when Rifai failed, scoring only 4 runs at or more games. by on a Thursday evening. The culmination the top of the innings. In stepped James Sunday Friendly Team of the season is the annual Family Fun Day Cath, who returned to league cricket in The Sunday Team had a storming second and Colts Awards on 20 September, to be the middle of the season after a number of half of the season. A loss to the strong reported next time. years playing only Sunday cricket, to score a London Kensington team in early July has very valuable 59. been followed by eight wins on the trot. Dates for the Diary To demonstrate the confidence that has Of the team, James Cath has batted 3 October: Seniors Presentation Night built up in the team, the batting averages well, and with his steady bowling has been in the Pavilion tell an interesting story. After failing in his central to the team’s success. Over this 6 December: End of Season Dinner last innings, Rifai’s average dropped below period James has taken 15 wickets and and Dance 100 for the first time in the season, with scored 290 runs, including one century. 15 January: Annual General Meeting an aggregate 1,144 runs in 14 innings! Not Digger Reading has also excelled. Simon Members wishing to attend the Dinner and Steve White made a welcome return far behind was James Cath, who averaged Lister had a number of memorable knocks, Dance should contact Sam Richardson at after injury

10 Hilltop News Hilltop News 11 display in the school, especially of later CHOLESBURY cum flowering plants such as dahlias. ST LEONARDS The Art and Craft section was very well HORTICULTURAL supported with some interesting entries, particularly in the section ‘Something New SOCIETY for Something Old’. It is good to see such a wide variety of different crafts competing, It was no surprise to those of us who particularly from younger members of the had visited Brian and Diana Mills’ garden community. It has been our aim in recent in July, that Brian was awarded the RHS years to open this section to as many different crafts as possible and it appears Banksian medal at the Annual Show on as though we are succeeding. The judge Saturday 6 September. The medal is complimented us on the high standard of awarded to the person who wins most exhibits. prize money in the Horticultural classes. This year we added a class to commemorate the start of WW1 in the he garden, which is described as being Photography Class. Contributors and visitors ‘in development’, provided a lot of seemed to appreciate this quiet tribute. Tinterest, moving seamlessly from the There were some beautiful poppy pictures more formal areas around the house to a with an imaginative backlight scene of a Domestically it is always interesting to to truly appreciate the variety and scale of meadow. There were some secluded private wild poppy field, by Andy Harris, winning see the variation that a ‘standard’ recipe some of the best autumn trees. areas and the mix of old roses, clematis and first prize. cottage garden plants suited the site. I was can produce. The most controversial class Date for your diary: AGM and Quiz particularly envious of the vegetables which was the fruit pies. Two were over the Cottage Pie Supper Friday 14 November, had escaped the attentions of all the bugs prescribed size limit but none met the WI 7.30pm at Cholesbury Village Hall. and predators that mine had fallen prey to classification of a fruit pie: having a pastry Subscriptions are now due so if you did this year. lid but no pastry base. not renew at the show please send a cheque Several other exhibitors at the show had In the garden, I have been waking up to made payable to ‘Cholesbury Horticultural experienced similar problems, although autumnal misty mornings which enhance Society’ – £2.00 per person for the year no one else had suffered from sheep the changing colours. There is new growth – to Diana Garner, Montana, Shire Lane, predation! Apart from the usual problems, on many of the plants that were radically Cholesbury HP23 6NA. Apart from access to the early warm spring meant that for many pruned after the last mild winter. As plants our many events, it entitles you to a 10% crops were over. There was still a good die back consider a mulch to suppress next discount at Chessmount Nursery in Chesham. year’s weeds. I have used bark chippings Happy Gardening, Sarah Tricks supplied by a local tree surgeon. There is debate about whether you need to let them ‘fester’ for a few months as the rotting process will use nitrogen from the soil that might otherwise be feeding your plants. I have tried both with similar results. Anything that reduces the need for weeding over the summer is good, but do not apply any mulch until the ground is moist as it will not only blanket the weeds but also act as moisture barrier. It is also a good time of year to visit arboretums to enjoy the autumn colour. Not many of us have gardens big enough

12 Hilltop News Hilltop News 13 Good Neighbours Group However, we always welcome hearing from anyone who has either a 4x4 car or Pub Lunch Club has winter tyres fitted who would like to The Pub Lunch Club meets at lunchtimes join the team which helps those stranded (12.30pm) at the Black Horse on the second at home who need urgent supplies, attend Wednesday of each month. It is open to doctors/ hospital appointments or collect anyone living in, or connected with the prescriptions, etc, when our roads and lanes Hilltop Villages. Maybe you work from are treacherous. Please contact us if you home or are retired so are around in the would like to help or know more. middle of the day and fancy a break and Chris Brown, Good Neighbours Group a chat over a meal. It also provides an 01494 758890 opportunity for those who might otherwise [email protected] not find it easy to get to local social events. If a lift is needed this can be arranged. On offer is a two-course meal, plus tea or coffee for just £9. The next few dates for your diary are: Wednesday 8 October, 12 November and 10th December. Booking needs to be made in advance by telephone 01494 758890 Hilltop Village Severe Weather Car Scheme We have always had a great bunch of volunteers for this scheme, which will kick off again during December (a full update will be in next Hilltop News).

14 Hilltop News Hilltop News 15 Fete defies the rain

Bank Holiday Monday on Cholesbury Fortunately, the Ellesborough Band had Common: it rained morning, noon and already asked for a marquee because, in constructed stall with Ben Lewis, the chef, original red bodywork. Adam and Hayley previous years, the bandsmen and women night. It was the day of the Churches’ Fete. under a Gazebo and a second smaller tent Popple had filled it with balloons and we in smart uniforms had got too hot! They to shelter Hayley as she served. Eat your later learnt there were 103. Many helpers came to move tables, erect fitted snugly in a large white marquee heart out MacDonalds! The cakes stall had a wonderful games equipment and hammer posts for and played throughout the afternoon. Children’s activities were curtailed this homemade selection and was also stocked Unfortunately, the weather prevented fencing. Vintage cars arrived, the barbeque year. The rain was a threat to the toys and with John and Di Garner’s honey. The dogs guests from sitting outside to enjoy the were undeterred by the rain in the Dog was lit and ice creams set up. For a long Andrew and Maggie Carruthers made a band. The teas continued busily in the strategic withdrawal to sell from their Temptation section. time the hosepipe was not brought to the Village Hall and raised over £600. garage. Children also missed the Bouncy It was a Fete to remember. The takings ‘Ducks in Water’ game – was it needed? The tents proved to be a creative Castle, which was withdrawn for safety were in excess of £3,200, which was less innovation for some stalls. The Bric-a-Brac reasons. It was good, however, to see that than last year but reflected the number of his called for new thinking. We could was housed in a black tent for the first face painting survived. Children were also generous people who attended and defied have cancelled the Fete, or just the time and gave an enticing impression busy winning coconuts, bowling and bottle the rain. Most of all, we will remember the Band, or reduced the Fete to Cream T of Aladdin’s Cave, helping to raise £136. racing. wonderful and spontaneous community Teas only. None of these notions suited a Paul Bettison, our Book Seller, sold over There was a most impressive display spirit that brought so many helpers to lift Hilltop event because there are so many £150 worth of books and found room in of Rolls and Jaguars across the road. the day and achieve so much. Thank you all helpful people who rally round with his marquee for Rebecca Walton, who The owners, who are friends of Graham very much. spontaneous community spirit. The need has taken over Caroline’s Coin Collage. Swallow, were unable to enjoy the picnic And did you notice - despite the rain it was to cover the stalls to shelter from the Rebecca’s takings, £83.14, were a record they had planned but we are most grateful wasn’t muddy? rain. Tents, gazebos and marquees arrived high and the winning estimate was from for their attendance. On the site proper with willing owners, who set to work and John Farmer Maria Thornton. The barbeque was a well- was a classic 1934 Austin 7 Ruby with its created aTent City.

16 Hilltop News Hilltop News 17 Celebrations for the Collins family

The Collins family from Buckland Common (Barry, Heather, daughter Laura and son Nick) are all artistic and have featured in previous issues of Hilltop News. They also exhibit regularly at the annual Bucks Open Studios art event. ick Collins is a professional sculptor. He joined the Guild of Aviation NArtists earlier this year and submitted a 47cm high bronze resin model of a British pilot at the annual exhibition. He called the piece ‘One of the Few’. Nick says he was “pleasantly surprised” to get Nick Collins with his Award a phone call saying that he had won the Arthur Gibson Award for the best first-time entry. Not to be outdone, Barry, who has been a member of the Guild for many years, had a painting of Concorde flying to the moon accepted for display at the exhibition. More celebrations were enjoyed by the Collins family when Jack Collins (Barry’s uncle) received his telegram from The Queen on 14 August. Jack was born in ‘The Barry Collins and his ‘Concorde’ Cottage’ near the school at Hawridge 100 years ago, one of Connie Brown’s elder brothers and one of seven siblings. The family later moved to Chiltern Cottages. Jack joined the army as soon as he left school and was part of the British Expeditionary Force in Europe. He was rescued from Dunkirk and served as a full time soldier in the tank regiment. After leaving the army Jack married a girl from London and worked on the railways and later as a bus conductor. Jack still lives in London with his only daughter.

Jack Collins in his army days

18 Hilltop News Hilltop News 19 Streams of Life Hearing, Listening, Doing ...a course introducing a balanced approach to Christian Faith and Practice, led by Revd Pippa Soundy

s Christians, we each have our own by the Reverend Bibles, building one another up, not being experience of faith, but rarely David Burgess judgemental about each other. We know Ahave we encountered the whole we should do these things, but sometimes breadth of our Christian heritage. During we don’t. Sometimes our convictions don’t the 2000 years of its existence, the Church run that far. has discovered several distinct pathways, or Let’s be honest. God knows us inside out, streams, seen in the life of Jesus on earth and most of the time we know ourselves and together, providing a balanced model pretty well too. Most of the time, self- for all believers. You are warmly invited to deception is something we consciously do join this eight-week course, introducing rather than something that just happens six historic streams of the Christian life, to us. The challenge is to get all of that out complete with an opportunity to try them A temptation within churches is to think of the way: it’s called hypocrisy and God out for yourself! that any problems within them are doesn’t like it. But if we do meet that challenge and Week 1 – six streams of life; an overview someone else’s fault. Not so: when we do seek to do away with all that holds us back Week 2 – a life of prayer this we run into the problem that from God, if we seek to express our faith Week 3 – a life of virtue G. K. Chesterton succinctly described: in our lives with conviction rather than just Week 4 – a spiritual life “The answer to the question ‘What is assuming any lack of faith is someone else’s Week 5 – a compassionate life fault, then we’re well on the way to being Week 6 – a Biblical life wrong with the church?’ is ‘I am’”. the people God wants us to be. Week 7 – an integrated life he root of this temptation is that we Week 8 – reviewing our experience of the distort who we are. Take a very basic six streams Texample from health research. Those If you would like to come, please contact of us who have a weight problem know Janet Whittow (01296 624568) or Revd David that our body image is sometimes different Burgess (01494 837315) – Thursdays 2.30- from the reality. We think we’re fine, and 4pm, weekly from 16 October to 4 December that we look fine, when really we’re not at ‘Concord’, Kings Ash, HP16 9NP (the home and we don’t. of Allan and Janet Whittow). All of us can and do distort our own spiritual image as well, and it’s often because we hear about our faith without listening to what we hear. The apostle James wrote that hearing God’s word and not doing anything about it is like looking in a mirror and then forgetting what you see. We all do that, and when we don’t listen we don’t do what we should with our faith either. If we claim to be Christians there are things we should just do and ways in which we should just behave – prayer, reading our

20 Hilltop News Hilltop News 21

FOUR-PARISHES SERVICES - OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER 2014

St John the Baptist St Leonard’s St Laurence St Mary’s DATE DAY THE LEE ST LEONARDS CHOLESBURY HAWRIDGE

8.00 am Holy Communion Parish communion 5 Oct Trinity 16 11.00 am 9.30 am Holy Communion 9.30 am Family Service 11.00 am Harvest Festival with Sunday School

Parish Communion 12 Oct Trinity 17 10.00 am 6.00 pm Parish Communion 10.00 am Matins 9.30 am Holy Communion with Sunday School

All Age Worship at Shared Service at Shared Service at Shared Parish 19 Oct Trinity 18 10.00 am Lee Common - - 10.00 am Hawridge Hawridge Communion Methodist Chapel

26 Oct Trinity 19 10.00 am Parish Communion 9.00 am Breakfast Service 9.00 am Giving Service 11.00 am Parish Communion

8.00 am Holy Communion Parish Communion 9.30 am Family Service 2 Nov 4th before Advent 11.00 am 9.30 am Holy Communion 10.00 am Matins with Sunday School 3.00 pm All Souls
Service

Remembrance Remembrance Holy Communion 9 Nov Remembrance Day 10.00 am 10.45 am 10.45 am Remembrance Service 9.30 am Service Service w. Remembrance

Shared Service at Shared Parish Shared Service at 16 Nov 2nd before Advent 10.00 am Family Service - 11.00 am - Cholesbury Communion Cholesbury

23 Nov Sunday before Advent 10.00 am Parish Communion 9.00 am Breakfast Service 9.00 am Quiet Communion 11.00 am Parish Communion

Joint Four-Parish Joint Service at The Joint Service at The 30 Nov Advent Sunday 10.00 am - - Joint Service at The Lee - Communion Lee Lee

VICAR AND RECTOR ASSOCIATE PRIEST CHURCHWARDENS Cholesbury Revd. David Burgess Revd. Pippa Soundy The Lee John Farmer The Vicarage, The Lee Church Room Tel: Trevor Pearce 01494 758715 Great Missenden 01494 757048 01494 837601 [email protected] Bucks [email protected] [email protected] HP16 9LZ Hawridge 01494 837315 PARISH SECRETARY Rod Neal Joan Walton [email protected] Peggy Sear 01494 837264 01494 758332 07724115200 [email protected] [email protected] Elizabeth Tomlin St Leonards 01494 758214 Ann Horn 01494 758250 [email protected]

22 Hilltop News Hilltop News 23 This is our first mention of Christmas this Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong and the sound year because we are preparing for our of the lark translated into the ethereal, Shoe Box Sunday when we invite you to atmospheric music of Ralph Vaughan fill a Shoe Box with Christmas Gifts. Boxes Williams’ The Lark Ascending. This was ST LEONARDS will be available in Church from early followed by a short Communion Service. Holy Baptism October and you can choose gifts suitable We do thank our flower arrangers 3 August 2014 - Chloe Sofia Hartley-Hodge for different ages and either boy or girl who gave so willingly their time and (please include £1.50 transport cost). You imagination, producing displays featuring 3 August 2014 - Benjamin Edward Denis Hartley-Hodge are invited to bring your filled boxes to genuine and replica items, Union Jacks and church on Sunday 26 October at 9am and poppies. In a recent edition of the Bucks share a Family Service appropriate for the Examiner you may have seen Ann Horn’s occasion. Alternatively, leave them in the display, including an embroidered kneeler church before Sunday. The presents will made for St Leonards Church. be collected by Rotary International and shipped to Eastern Europe for children and The Churches Fete was special this year! – families in good time for Christmas. CHOLESBURY but not for all the best reasons. It rained n August the from before dawn until after dark and On Saturday 25 October, we will visit Four Parish required new thinking and fast action. Christchurch Cathedral in Oxford. We are IService was held The provisional total takings are over joining with the other Churches in the at Cholesbury and £3,200, which is remarkable considering Hilltop Benefice to visit our mother church. our Guest Speaker the weather. Hawridge and Cholesbury The cathedral is, in fact, the chapel of was Dave Worrall churches will divide the proceeds equally. Christchurch College which is a beautiful, from the Chiltern Thank you to all who worked so hard on traditional Oxford college. The visit includes Food Bank. Dave, from St Mary’s Church the stalls - because even under shelter other college buildings and we will see the in Chesham, first set up the Bank after it was a demanding day. A fuller report Treasury, Upper Library and Picture gallery. meeting someone from the Trussell Trust appears elsewhere in Hilltop News. The tour starts at 3pm and we shall be Ann Horn’s embroidered kneeler and he decided to commit himself to served tea in the Great Hall. The day closes Matthew Smith, from Little Kimble visited work for the charity. The Trussell Trust with Choral Evensong, finishing in time to to inspect Cholesbury’s single Bell as he is has developed a good understanding of catch the coach home at 7 pm. The cost is Annual Fete - The committee is yet to revising the standard work ‘Church Bells of people’s needs and is able to provide the £6 for tea and the coach will cost about meet but, as most of you are aware, the Buckinghamshire’. Our bell is not dated and right support for different circumstances. £12, depending on numbers. Please contact shared proceeds form a much valued and there is no maker’s badge but it does have Families with children, couples or single John Farmer (758715) or your church essential amount for our two churches and the inscription COM AND PRAYE, which people will now have their own customised warden for further details. is currently the largest fund-raiser of the was a clue to Matthew. The script used food box. The Chiltern Food Bank has year. We would like to thank everyone who is similar to the work of Robert Oldfield become a centre for social support where supported us in every way. from Hertford who was working in Herts, a chat over coffee is invaluable. Our HAWRIDGE Beds and Bucks probably as an itinerant Newsletter representative – Janet congregation contributed food and bell founder. Yes, in those days the master avid Burgess and Hopkinson has very kindly agreed to work toiletries and the church looked like a founder would build a furnace equipped Pippa Soundy in tandem with Elizabeth Tomlin. Elizabeth Harvest Festival - except that everything with a good draft on site and bell metals Dled the World will continue to help provide information was pre-packed. The collection of £181 would be melted into a bell. Matthew War 1 Centenary Service for inclusion in her report. was given to the Food Bank. The Food Bin explained that our bell was probably made on 20 July. This was a is still available in the back of the Church Newcomers to the village – If you are new in 1620 as there is a similar bell in Drayton three Parish Service which is generally (but not always!) open to the Parish and would like to get to know Beauchamp dated 1621. Cholesbury was, with contributions from to receive donations and the contents are people, we would be very happy to make of course, part of Drayton parish at one both Cholesbury and St taken regularly to The Chiltern Food Bank, some introductions! David, Pippa and the time. Other similar bells are in Ivinghoe and Leonards. John Allen represented the Parish currently at St Mary’s church room Churchwardens look forward to hearing Whitchurch. Council, reading a poignant extract from in Chesham. from you.

24 Hilltop News Hilltop News 25 Visit to Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford – come and enjoy them with us! Another film Richard Baddon, aided by their ‘runner’, Our visit on 25 October promises to be a will be shown on Thursday 11 December – Sam Pemberton. There’s no doubt that a great social occasion. John Farmer advises and two more early in the New Year. number of people left with produce they that a £6 deposit is now due to reserve your never knew they wanted! seat on the coach. Hawridge applicants Harvest Festival – Marking the end of a Our thanks to all of you who helped in should give this to Elizabeth Tomlin at the wonderful summer and a great harvest, so many ways – flower arranging, cooking, earliest opportunity. the church was filled with flowers, produce serving and clearing - to make it once Why not make this a family outing over and people at our Family Harvest Service on again a very special village evening half-term and hear all about the College’s Sunday 14 September. connection with Alice in Wonderland and Marrows (in abundance!), jams, Harry Potter? The visit will include tea, a chutneys, fruit, vegetables and flowers tour of the cathedral and Choral Evensong. created a really rural atmosphere as We will be leaving Oxford in the early everyone arrived; with corn spilling gently evening. Please ring 758214 (evenings) for Hartley family baptism over from a hessian sack on the altar step. further details. More than 70 people, including small The Breakfast Service is up and running children, came for the supper in the Village again after our August break. We would Hall which followed the Service. There love to see you on Sunday 26 October and was, as usual, a fantastic spread enjoyed by Sunday 23 November. The bacon butties young and old alike, with very little left at ST LEONARDS (and a little bit of quiet thought) should the end of the evening! t was a great pleasure to welcome hopefully set you up for the rest of the Everyone contributed generously to back the Hartley family to St weekend – whatever age you are! the auction of produce at the end of Leonards when Claire and I Our gold and white Altar Frontal is near supper, which was conducted speedily Charlotte Hartley- completion – the Lamb Pattee having been and amusingly by Michael Joseph and Hodge brought Chloe expertly restored and re-applied to a new (aged two) and Frontal. We are currently lowering the Benji (just four curtain rod behind the altar so that the months) to be baptised full window can be seen, and replacing on Sunday 3 August. Pippa led a simple it with a new deep cream damask curtain. but meaningful service as Chloe and Benji Together with light cleaning of some of the were received into the Church. The children monuments in the church, we will truly be were wonderfully supported by family, sparkling for the Christmas season! godparents and friends – in fact they only just all got in! Chloe was so obviously Care in the villages - This important work impressed with the occasion that she with some of the more elderly residents Baptised herself for a second time! in the villages is beginning to spread and we will be holding a meeting in the Tea Parties – As always, these are held on Autumn for an exchange of ideas. If you the fourth Wednesday of each month and are interested in coming to hear what we look forward to seeing everyone again this project involves, you would be most on 22 October and 26 November. welcome. It’s always fun to see new faces and to catch up on everyone’s news. Come and Film evenings - Our winter film evenings taste Ann Horn’s award winning sponge are about to start again! Gavin and Gill cake and Sue Hetherington’s award are again organising these – starting with winning scones! Transport is always four short films on Thursday 13 November. available – just ring Anne Lake (01296 As before, coffee, tea, biscuits and chat 620169) or Anne Butterworth (758700). are offered from 7.30pm. The films will last from 8 – 9.30pm and we hope you will

26 Hilltop News Hilltop News 27 seating, for John’s talk. At that time of the soon but we need more photographs. Most The Bury. We also plan to cover the New HAWRIDGE & evening the bees were docile and John was will need to be in landscape format and all Zealand Pygmy Weed, which is now CHOLESBURY able to extract the honey without threat to need to be Commons related. Please send proliferating by the road edge, to prevent COMMONS those of us who are allergic to bee stings! them to me at the e-mail address below as it being spread further as the volunteers With willing helpers Katie Branfield and soon as possible. remove the sweetgrass. If there are PRESERVATION Brian Mills, John demonstrated procedures, sufficient volunteers, we may also be able SOCIETY which, with almost 50 years of experience, Hilltop Conservation Group to do some work on the dewpond but we he accomplished with ease, but which We held our first Conservation Group need to be careful not to cross contaminate AGM actually require considerable skill. We session at Pallett’s Pond on 21 September from one pond to the other. We are again This year’s AGM will be held on Tuesday were all surprised to find just how when, with the help of some Chiltern investigating chemical control of the NZPW 18th November at 8pm at Cholesbury heavy the honey is, and holding a frame Society Conservation Volunteers, we and expect to use a digger to clear about a Village Hall. After the formal part of the containing the honey whilst wielding a continued to clear more of the sweetgrass quarter of the dewpond, as recommended meeting our speaker will be John Catton sharp knife to remove the wax from the from the side of the pond nearest to by pond expert Rod D’Ayala. of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust. John frame certainly looked tricky. Never again kept honeybees for many years but now will I complain about the price of honey. It Other sessions gives talks on behalf of BBCT. He will help us is worth every penny! You are most welcome to join in! If you are coming for the first time please get in touch by distinguish the various bees that we might Added bonuses of the evening were that e-mail to [email protected]. The group is very friendly and see on the Commons and will discuss the we were able to view Di and John’s lovely instruction will be given in the use of tools if need be. Sessions start at 9.30am and last until causes of the decline in bee populations and garden, to enjoy the wine and nibbles, 12.30pm but you can come for as long as you like. Supervised children are also welcome. what we can do to help reduce the decline. which they provided, and to buy some of Refreshments are served at 11am. their Montana honey at a reduced price. Events Altogether, it was a delightful evening Date Location Activity Our walks and talks about different aspects and we do thank them for their very Oct 5th Yard at Hawridge Farm Cut up and distribute wood of the Commons have proved very popular kind hospitality and a very enjoyable and over the years and we are keen to try to instructive demonstration. Oct 19th Behind Rose and Crown pub Clear paths have more of them when we can. Our Nov 2nd Beside Post Office Cottages Cut back blackthorn. Bonfire recent moth trapping, pond-dipping and Website Nov 16th Tankards Dene, Hawridge Vale Clear path to top of Stoney Lane. Bonfire honey production demonstration were The website has been very well received well attended, informative and fun. We and we have had a great many favourable Nov 30th Shire Lane Cut down saplings and cut back blackthorn. are currently considering other topics of reactions to it, including Janet Hopkinson’s: Bonfire interest for future events, including a bug ‘Please pass huge congratulations to Dec 14th Bottom ride below Clear up felled wood. hunt (no not head-lice!) on the Commons everyone involved in the new website – it is Shepherds Cottage and building a bug hotel for children; a absolutely fantastic – very user-friendly and talk on non-native butterflies; another bat the photography is sublime – can hardly identification walk; fungi; farmland birds; believe it is photos taken by locals rather Owls Apparently this has been a good year for birds of prey; and deer. However, we would than ‘library’ photos.’ We recently had a visit from three members breeding barn owls and tawnies and little welcome any suggestions that you would Some lovely new images of the moths of Bucks Owl and Raptor Group. Dave owls are certainly active around Hawridge. find interesting. Please contact me with and pond creatures found on our Commons Short, who talked to us about barn owls your ideas. have now been added to the website so do and who installed our boxes, has been ill Cards have a (another) look! It is a real tribute and Norman Shepherd is now in charge Our new series of 16 Wildflower cards are Mechanics of honey collection to all of the talented people who have of installing and monitoring boxes in selling well. They make lovely gifts and, On the Friday evening of the August Bank helped put it together and a celebration our area. He now has the list of people as they are blank inside, are appropriate Holiday weekend, John and Di Garner of the rich and varied environment in interested in purchasing owl boxes and we for any occasion. They are £1.25 each (£20 hosted a demonstration of how to set up which we are privileged to live www. hope that they might soon install more. a set) and are available from Sue Phillips hives, the equipment required and the hawridgeandcholesburycommons.org During their visit, they inspected our owl (757252). various processes involved in collecting boxes near Cholesbury Village Hall but both Lindsay Griffin honey. Despite the threatening showers, we Calendar Photos were inhabited by stock doves this time. [email protected] were well protected under a marquee, with We hope to start work on the 2015 calendar

28 Hilltop News Hilltop News 29 30 Hilltop News Hilltop News 31 HILLTOP NEWS nature notes association between a tapeworm, a fish and the best evidence of the variety of wild a heron evolved! animals encountered by man comes from the flint tools developed, with different I am sure many of us have experienced the shapes for each task or specific animal. Roaming in the Chiltern Gloaming reaction of friends and relatives who, when From this we know there were brown visiting here for the first time, express how bears, beavers, wild boars, deer, otters, pine surprised they are at the remoteness of the martins and, familiar to us, badgers. Hilltop Villages. Much of this feeling comes A few weeks ago we had a less than usual visitor, as twilight (aka gloaming) fell, roaming It is generally agreed that farming from the scattered plantations of beech arrived around here between 6-4,000 in our garden - a grey heron. It was a juvenile, distinguished by its hunchback profile and woods, which these days have replaced years ago with wild cattle and horses stubby grey bill, contrasted with the adroit stance and blood-orange rapier of the adult the ancient oak woodlands which once being domesticated soon after. This was covered nearly all of the Chilterns. Today bird. When not flying overhead, we most frequently view herons at the water’s edge, the start of the gradual retreat of the there are just small vestiges of these once riverbank, canal tow-path, through reeds or in open water, standing statuesque. second wave of wild animals, most of magnificent forests that were progressively which had probably disappeared from but very gradually cleared over several these hills some 3-2,000 years ago. Climate ith no pond nearby, British Isles, the heron is thousand years. But what might be change has always played a role, whether remaining motionless effectively the top of the food considered remote today is nothing man or naturally driven and both will Wand allowing the prey chain. However, there is one compared to the remoteness of these hills continue alongside other impacts by man come to within reach was not bizarre example of the heron being in past millennia. to influence our landscape, habitats and an option. Instead, this taken advantage of. Some of the most The earliest humans appeared around wildlife. Enjoy roaming in the Chilterns youngster contented reliable foods of the heron are small 400,000 years ago and there has been gloaming while you can! itself with scouting freshwater fish such as the stickleback. evidence, from stone axes found, which for food in the long Sticklebacks forage for much of their food indicates they were roaming across the That’s all this time: comments and questions grass and beneath shrubs. from the detritus that falls to the bottom of Chilterns. This was a time when the truly as always to [email protected] Several minutes passed while rivers. Within this muck are nutritious items prehistoric wild animals roamed southern or 758890. it stalked its hidden prey. such as small insects and eggs which have Britain, like woolly rhinoceros, mammoths, I’ve never had the opportunity to been deposited in large quantities. cave bears, and the giant Irish elk. observe a heron at close quarters. The way The fish will indiscriminately consume However, several glaciations have this bird moved had remarkable similarities these and unwittingly swallow eggs of dramatically changed the Chiltern to that of a chameleon. It is interesting tapeworms, many of which are parasitic landscape and the forests first appeared how these two very different animals have on fish, but in some cases subsequently around 12,000 years ago. They were adopted a similar approach to finding food. need to parasitize birds. In one case originally pinewoods, replaced 8,000 Given that their chosen meal is fast-moving, the chosen bird is a heron. Having been years ago by birch woods (as the climate they have developed a similar strategy ingested by the stickleback the tapeworm continued to warm) and eventually mixed which maximises their chances of success. hatches and grows in the stomach of the elm oak and beech woodland from 7,000 Slow, very slow, deliberate movements fish. Once it reaches a certain size it needs years ago. This was a true ‘wildwood’, are interposed with a jerky swaying of the more sustenance than is available from the a habitat we cannot find in the British whole body, aimed at concealing that a fish. Perhaps it induces the fish to behave Isles today, but would not have been too predator is hunting down its next meal. differently by making it feed from near dissimilar to that still found in the remotest Once in position their final movement, be the surface of the water and in so doing parts of Canada and New Zealand. By it with a stiletto bill, or an elastic sticky the stickleback becomes susceptible to this time the giant mammals such as wild tongue, is lightning fast. In the case of the being caught by the heron. Once inside ox, arctic fox, bison, wild horse, wolf and heron the wilderness in our garden would the heron the tapeworm attaches itself to wolverine were already in decline, very rare provide rich pickings, including mice, voles, the wall of the digestive tract of the bird, or already absent from these parts. beetles, frogs and toads. Eventually it grows rapidly and produces eggs which To understand what large mammals ended its roaming as dusk fell and flew off are subsequently excreted by the bird, fall were around in these primordial forests, languidly. into water and sink into the detritus. It is good references are fossil bones and later There are few animals that can be worth contemplating how this complicated the tools developed by humans. Some of considered predators of herons. In the

32 Hilltop News Hilltop News 33 34 Hilltop News Hilltop News 35 TOWN FARM ART SHOW IN Little bears CHEDDINGTON pre-school Twelve artists are showing paintings, From September 2014, Little Bears textiles, ceramics, glass, stone carving, Pre-School is opening its doors to woodcraft and jewellery. Also to be 2-year-olds. enjoyed: mulled wine, mince pies and After a chance to get to know each Christmas cake! other at a home visit, young children One weekend only: Friday 28 to Sunday will be given the opportunity to come Uma’s World Challenge 30 November: 10am – 5pm. and play in the same safe, fun and caring environment the older little 6 Town Farm, Cheddington, Near Tring, bears in the community have been In the summer of 2015, Uma Bartlett from LU7 0TT. www.townfarmartshow. enjoying for years. Buckland Common embarks on a three- blogspot.com Contact Claire Cox on info@ week expedition to Rajasthan in India. This Please park in High Street – not in littlebearspreschool.org.uk and come World Challenge involves a six-day trek in Town Farm. in for a visit. We’re sure your child will the remote mountains of the Ratham Pass Free entry. Donations for refreshments want to stay and play. – where tigers roam! – and voluntary work in aid of Rennie Grove Hospice Care. in an orphanage in Jaipur. ma is just sixteen and has just started her A-Levels at Tring School. UThe school has arranged this World Challenge expedition and the group will endeavour to learn valuable life skills, leadership, communication and team work. Uma visited the region last year and says “I was moved by what I saw there and want to give something back by assisting in aid work. I am grateful that my school has given me this opportunity”. Uma needs to raise £3,545 before she departs and has already started to do so through various fund-raising events. She is also willing to offer her services locally, with household jobs that anyone in the Hilltop Villages may have, to earn more towards the expedition. Any donations may be made through Uma’s personal World Challenge web page through the link: www.myworldchallenge. com/make-a-contribution.asp?femid= 905010&ch=mJM362

36 Hilltop News Hilltop News 37 Paul Kemp is currently building new sails for the mill, also to the original design. Windmill getting back Once fitted, the mill will appear in all its glory: as it did around a century ago. The original mill was built in 1863 by the Norwich Wind and Mill Company and to full sail came with a steam engine and chimney, which was pulled down in 1884. Originally a smock mill, the weather boarding soon rotted and the whole structure was re-built as the tower mill we see today. It remained a working flour mill until the First World War, when it was converted into a home The cap fits! and occupied by the novelist Gilbert Cannan. After several owners the mill was adopted the mill in the 1920s – well-known left unoccupied and the sails were lost in a celebrities like David Jason and the Goodies gale. The mill was rescued from dereliction flocked to the mill for David’s legendary in the 1960s by the engineer Don Saunders, parties. who installed dummy sails and fantail. Today, under the loving care of the The mill was later occupied by Sir David Wrights, the Cholesbury Windmill is a Hatch (later BBC supremo) who turned welcoming and charming home, with Up she goes… it into a desirable residence. In echoes the circular rooms of the tower enjoying of the Bloomsbury Set – stars from the enviable views over the beautiful hilltop On 30 July, the restored cap, fantail and world of art, literature and theatre, who countryside. fan stage – all seven and a half tons of it – was painstakingly hoisted onto the tower of the Cholesbury Windmill. This was the critical stage of an 18 month project undertaken by the caring owners Nearly there… Andy and Ruth Wright. he Wrights, who bought this historic decided to go further and reinstate the fan landmark two years ago, knew they stage and fantail as well as the new sails”. Thad work to do when bits of the sails Over the last year, the cap framing has started landing on their driveway. Seeking been extensively repaired, the copper replacement sails, they contacted renowned cladding covered with an impervious millwrights Vincent Pargeter and Paul membrane (to stop water ingress) and the Kemp from Essex who, after inspecting the curb (on which the cap revolves) has been windmill, suggested that the best thing completely overhauled. to do was to remove the cap and re-assess The latest part of work saw the fantail the repairs. The cap was in a very bad state and fan stage (the platform at the rear of and certainly would not have been able to cap to provide access to the fantail) fitted support the extra weight of new timber sails. to the cap. This fantail has been built to As Andy says, “This created the exciting the original Victorian design: its purpose opportunity to restore the exterior of the is to turn the cap to keep the sails facing windmill as it was in Victorian times, so we into the wind and only spins when the wind changes direction.

38 Hilltop News Hilltop News 39 CURVACEOUS COOK Ida’s ragu I have just spent another happy day cooking alongside an Italian friend who ran the kitchen at her family campsite where our whole Italian dream started. This time we made lasagne Umbrian-style, based on a ragu, and then our own pasta. The pasta recipe was pretty normal, but the ragu quite different to my usual make. I thought this might be a good moment to share it with you ready for making into a lasagne in the run up to Christmas. Her recipe states for six, but would do lots more in my opinion! To 1kg of lean minced meat - she used 30% pork, 70 % beef: but all beef is fine. 1 roughly chopped onion 2 chopped carrots 2 chopped celery stalks Blitz these with a wand blender until almost smooth. Gently fry the vegetable puree in a little olive oil then, when dry, add the meat and turn up the heat a bit. Fry together until dry then throw in a good glass of white wine and let it evaporate. Pour in 750ml tomato (suggest tinned whole tomatoes, zapped, as the best tomatoes go into those tins) but you could also use passata. Add 1 good tbs tomato puree, a cup of water and a good spoonful of salt. That’s it. Leave to bubble gently for at least two hours. Check for seasoning. To make into lasagne, make a béchamel sauce using 80g butter, 80g flour, 1 litre of milk and half a freshly grated nutmeg. Butter a large dish. Put a thin layer of the ragu in the dish, then layer with pasta, ragu, béchamel and a good handful of grated parmesan. The trick here is to put on only thin layers of the sauces: the Italians consider too much meat to be “heavy”. On the top have a final thin layer of ragu and béchamel mixed together and then parmesan, and pop into the oven for about 30 minutes until bubbling. If you use ready-to-use dry lasagne you will have to cook for longer, but I don’t think it would work with this recipe as you need lots of sauce to prevent it being very dry. Lulu Stephen: [email protected]

40 Hilltop News Hilltop News 41 Hilltop News We welcome all news, letters and articles which are of general interest and relevance to the Hilltop Villages. Material for inclusion in the December/January edition should be sent to Graham Lincoln or Anne Butterworth (Church Matters) by 9 November latest. Please note that photos sent online must be at least 2500 x 1750 pixels in size.

Editor Graham Lincoln 758449 [email protected] Co-ordinator/Church Matters Anne Butterworth 758700 [email protected] Advertising Ann Horn 758250 [email protected] Design & Production Michael Spark 758882 [email protected] Distribution Rosemary Pearce 758334 Printer Strongs, Berkhamsted 01442 878592 [email protected]

Hilltop News is entirely non-profit making and is funded by advertising.

Taylors Tools LTD 43-45 Hempstead Road, Kings Langley,Herts, WD4 8BS 01923 268355 www.taylorstools.co.uk [email protected] 42 Hilltop News