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TEL/FAX: 01732 461943 The Bull Pen, Wickhurst Manor Farm, Wickhurst Road, Sevenoaks Weald, Kent TN14 6LY Welcome to the September Link

I have just been on holiday to a lovely rural area in the foothills of the South Downs north and slightly west of Chichester near the village of Compton. All the villages have parish magazines which I have enjoyed reading and learning from.

So came the idea for a regular pet of the month photograph ... and here is our donkey Mr Tumble photographed by co-editor

Bridget Harris. Mr Tumble is sad because his friend LINK Pingu has just died and we are looking for a new companion for him ...we are sure we will find one with the help of the RSPCA and local donkey networks who are out looking.

If you would like to feature your pet in future editions please send a photo and a caption explaining why your pet is “pet of the month” to [email protected]

Finally, if you are a distributor of the Link (or a new volunteer) or would like to come along to give us your views and ideas please come to a tea party in Hever Church at 4pm in Sunday 13 October. Best wishes Joanna Wade

1 Alfresco dining... As the glorious summer draws to a close I realise how very lucky we are to have so many good places to eat outdoors. In Four Elms the busy cafe in the Chartwell Barns has a terrace with a good outlook towards the North Downs and Markbeech’s Kentish Horse has a splendid garden with a playground and spectacular views south.

Hever has several places: the Greyhound and Henry VIII both have excellent outdoor eating spaces and the Castle has a number of cafes to choose from plus liberal ice cream outlets.

The new kid on the block is the Castle Golf Club which has a lovely new outdoor area by the restaurant - when I was there the fountain was playing and baby moorhens were swimming around the large pond within feet of the table. Seize the moment! Joanna Wade

The Hever Residents Association SCARECROW COMPETITION The closing date for Scarecrow entries has changed to 8th September Voting starts on 12th September Winners will be announced at the Scarecrow Party on Sunday 29th September at Hever Village Hall See hever.org/hra for more information

2 what I do especially at weekends so it is always a good idea to pre-book. Lucy Gibb of Relyon and Edenbridge Town Band Locals may have noticed our new building on the corner of Station Approach. After a 6 month relocation Relyon Cars has been in Edenbridge whilst our old office was knocked for over 50 years, starting at the down and re-built, we moved back in home of an Edenbridge resident who May and are delighted with our new realised the need for a taxi service home and receive many compliments in the area. Spencer and I bought from our customers. Relyon six years ago and last year we celebrated it’s 50th anniversary! Spencer and I are both from Since then we have replaced all the Edenbridge and still call it home, vehicles on the fleet which now range so having our business here is from cars with extra legroom to eight wonderful. I am also the secretary seater minibuses with large boot of the Edenbridge Town Band. I play space, ideal for airport transfers and the cornet and have been in the group bookings. band since I was four! My father is the Musical Director and my mother, With Relyon being the only taxi firm sister, brother and three nieces and in Edenbridge and limited public two nephews are all members. I do transport, we realise the importance hope that our eight year old triplets of taxis and pride ourselves on Callum, Oscar and Maisie may one offering a great service. We currently day join me in the band! Or maybe have nine drivers who between them they’ll follow their Dad who played have over 30 years experience within football and now plays cricket for the company. We can get very busy, Edenbridge Cricket Club...... Lloyds Bank closure nearest Lloyds’ branches will be in Oxted and East Grinstead.

There will be a mobile bank in this area, details of which will come closer to the closure date. Typically these vehicles seem to visit once or twice a week for an hour or two at a time. It will also be possible to use the Post Lloyds Bank has announced that the Office to deposit cash and cheques Edenbridge branch will be closed on and to withdraw money using a debit 9 December this year. After that the card.

3 EDEN VALLEY MUSEUM

Photo: Copyright Martin Crowther A talk by Martin Crowther

Hopping down in Kent

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Hop picking at Larkins Farm Once again there is an opportunity for everyone to join in the traditional hop picking at Chantlers Hop Garden at Larkins Farm on Tuesday 10 September from 11am to 1pm.These hand picked hops go into our Green Hop Best ale. Wear old clothes which you don’t mind getting stained. Machine picking dates are 12th to 14th September 8.30 am to 3pm with lunch provided. Call Larkins Brewery on 01892 870328 for more details or directions

COUNTRY AND FOOD FAIR – SEPTEMBER 8th

Join us in our beautiful grounds for a fun-filled day of traditional country activities and shopping from a wide range of stalls. New this year we have Joe’s Bows Archery and Chicken Races for those of you with feathered friends that would like a family trip out. (Chickens must be in a handheld cage and owners are responsible for their birds at all times.) Admission: £6 adults; £2 children (5-13); Under 5’s FREE; £15 Family Ticket (2+2)

PROGRAMME 2019 Arena 11.15 Side saddle riding display by the Side Saddle Association 12.00 Working Dogs with Barry Blink 12.30 Display by The Old Surrey, Burstow & West Kent Hunt 1.15 Chicken race FREE entry 1.30 Dog show - £3 entry fee per class; Rosettes to 4th place Class 1: Puppy Appeal (6 months to 1 year old) Class 2: Waggiest Tail Class 3: Golden Oldie (veteran dogs 8 years +) Class 4: Young Handler (handler under 9 years old) Class 5: Best in Show – winners of all classes 3.30 Terrier Racing FREE entry – Large and small dogs class 4.15 Family Giant Wool Sack Race

Lake Have a go at fishing with the Edenbridge Angling Society – all equipment provided

The Orangery Archery with Joe’s Bows Country Sports - £3 for 6 arrows

Marquee There will be the following Cookery Pop-up Workshops in the marquee during the day 11.15 Veg Art – Farm to Fork 12.15 Rainbow Fruit Cups 1.15 Veggie Sugar Paste Craft 2.15 Veg Art – Farm to Fork 3.15 Rainbow Fruit Cups

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5 profile: Ann Greig

Street irregulars” or the “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare”.

It was top secret work and she cannot remember how she was recruited but she loved it and was part of an operation sending secret agents into occupied Norway via Scotland to help the Norwegian resistance and, as Ann puts it, “to sort out the Germans”. Ann Ann Grieg was brought up in a enabled a network of radio operators large house in Portman Square, a in Norway and by 1945 there were 64 prestigious London address just operators spread throughout sending behind Selfridges. They had eight back vital information to the Allies. servants, including a butler and After the war Ann went to Norway to footmen, and led the grand life that help clear up and was delighted to her father’s career, as a successful meet some of the agents who she property developer, had earned him. had known so well on the airwaves. Queen Mary was a regular visitor, She still remembers quite a bit of the hazard being that if she liked Norwegian. a particular piece of furniture the convention was that she had to be When staying at St Margaret’s Bay given it! near Dover where the family had a holiday home Ann met her future But then tragedy struck. When Ann husband, Dennis Greig, who had been was only 13 the Second World War invalided out out of the Airforce with broke out and both her naval brothers TB. They were married in 1948 and were killed and her mother died of started life together farming above the cancer. Her father was to die soon white cliffs. However, family duty soon after of a heart attack. ended that way of life. Dennis came from the family which ran the David In 1944, aged 18 and alone in the Greig supermarket chain (founded world Ann decided she need a job by Dennis’s grandfather in 1870) and as she did not want to lead the life although he had chosen not to go of a lady who lunched and so she into to the family business, he was wandered down Baker Street and fell forced to pack up farming and work into a job with the Special Operations there when his elder brother died Executive, also known as the “Baker unexpectedly.

6 Board. The Greigs hosted many fundraising events at the farm and even had a special swimming pool built to make it accessible to disabled people. Sadly Dennis had a skiing accident from which he never fully recovered and he died in 2004.

Ann had five children and now has countless The Greigs moved to a farm on Five grandchildren and great Fields Lane in Four Elms in 1953 to grandchildren. She loves Four Elms be near London and Ann has been and has been a great benefactor there ever since. When Greigs was of the Church and the Fete. At 92 sold to Key supermarkets which Ann is still a force of nature, full of became Somerfield the Greigs started enthusiasm and energy, she says a chicken farm and ran that for her role was always to support her many years. They were also heavily husband and work behind the scenes involved in the early years of the to enable him and bring up the family. Cheshire Homes. They knew Leonard What a partnership it must have been. Cheshire well and Dennis was on the aircraft noise (Source: https://www.gatwickairport. com/futureplans) The campaigning group Gatwick Obviously Not (www. Taken together these proposals gatwickobviouslynot.org) has would increase flights using the issued this report..... airport by about 40% and passenger Gatwick has just confirmed that they numbers by over 80% with inevitable wish to: consequences for noise, emissions Use new technology to build and congestion, while retaining the • capacity and resilience on the main possibility of a new third runway too. runway; Given the environmental concerns for Bring the existing standby runway the Planet, so powerfully stated by • into routine use, for departure only, Greta Thunberg, we think they’re in alongside the main runway by the Cloud-Cuckoo land. White elephant mid-2020s; anyone? Recommend that planning policy • continues to safeguard land for an “Sweden’s departure lounges are additional runway. looking less crowded as more 7 Swedes are deciding to take the train through inadequate infrastructure. rather than fly. Passenger numbers at Swedish airports have dropped “Over the past few years Gatwick 8% so far this year. The fall-off Airport has continually under coincides with the rise of Sweden’s invested in the local amenities and latest buzzword: “flygskam”, or flight social infrastructure that would be shame.” required to support a project of this (Source: https://www.weforum. size and scale. We cannot support org/agenda/2019/06/sweden-has- expansion of the Airport without a invented-a-word-to-encourage- comprehensive investment in the people-not-to-fly-and-it-s-working/) local area which would ease pressure on the over-stretched road and rail However, no one is complacent. systems serving the airport. Gatwick means business. GON recently met with the newish At a time of increasing concern Independent Aircraft Noise about the environmental impact of Commission, ICCAN, in Penshurst. global aviation growth, the proposed It’s not the new Regulator which expansion plans would see a marked this spoilt industry so desperately increase in carbon emissions, with needs but a group looking to ‘take clearer environmental consequences control of the noise agenda’. It was for us all. We should not be looking a constructive meeting and we look at unchecked expansion at our local forward to their plans taking real airports but seeking managed growth effect. that is proportionate to our other national priorities.” MPs have formed a ‘co-ordination group’, Chaired by Tom Tugendhat Sir Paul Beresford MP, MBE MP and this is an extract from Member of Parliament for Mole Valley their statement: Crispin Blunt MP, “Gatwick has grown significantly Member of Parliament for Reigate over the past decade. It has offered The Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, greater numbers of flights to more Member of Parliament for Tunbridge destinations and created jobs in the Wells process. However, the benefits of Gillian Keegan MP, growth have not been well distributed Member of Parliament for Chichester with the local community. The Rt Hon Sir Nicholas Soames MP, Member of Parliament for Mid Sussex More people are impacted by Tom Tugendhat MP, Gatwick’s noise operations than Member of Parliament for Tonbridge 10 years ago, both close to the and Malling airport and many miles away under flightpaths, creating health issues for local residents and congestion

8 Hever Parish Council Continuing with a transport theme the Please continue to tell us your concerns, latest Gatwick plan set out on page 7 we have been delighted to see more of will be considered at the next Council you at the meetings, please keep coming. meeting and also at the next HWCAAG The dates are on the website hever.org, meeting, of which the Council is a Facebook and the four noticeboards member. (at Hever station, Hever parish field, Markbeech centre and the Four Elms bus We are happy to report that we have shelter). passed another year with a clean bill of LATEST NEWS: health from the Govt. appointed external The Four Elms bus shelter that was auditors (PKF Littlejohn) of our accounts • damaged last year by a vehicle will be and management. We start planning for replaced in August with an improved the 2020 – 2021 (yes, really!) budget at version – complete with bench and the next meeting – do you have a view on community noticeboard. what the Council should spend money We have won grants from Kent County on? • Council towards the total refurbishment of the eastbound bus shelter in Four Bulk refuse freighter Saturday 21st Elms (with new bench and new September Four Elms VILLAGE HALL noticeboard) and the one in Markbeech 8 – 9.15am, then Markbeech village hall too. 9.30 – 10.45am. It cannot take Electrical With Hever Residents Association, we Appliances/ Metal / Hard Core / Large • have reported to GTR on how to spend Amounts of Garden Waste / Large Panes the £30,000 allocated to Hever station of Glass / Oil or Paint. This includes (see the full report http://hever.org/hpc- items like fluorescent tubes, TVs & hra-report-on-how-to-spend-30000-at- computer monitors, batteries, oil tins and hever-station). Thanks to everyone for filters, paint and paint tins and chemical their ideas, we asked for the following containers. These items must be taken to (in order of preference); your nearest Household Waste Recycling 1. Canopy over the ticket machine Centre. Compostable garden waste 2. Landscaping of the platforms (weed cannot be accepted either. removal, native species planting and maintenance) Please DO NOT arrive early or leave 3. Refurbishment of the existing items on site, thank you.This is a service passenger shelters provided by Sevenoaks District Council 4. Artwork on the platforms to reflect the and funded by Hever Parish Council. historic nature of the village Charlotte Cole 5. Additional seating on London bound Parish Clerk platform [email protected]

9 new money come our way earlier this Sevenoaks council news year, with passengers setting priorities on how to spend the £60k. Shelters and Change, particularly improvements, canopies at Hever took first place in the can sometimes pass one by. So from list of your requests, closely followed by visual improvements and seating. And time to time it’s worth reflecting on it is no surprise the priority at Cowden where things once were. was parking. These I have echoed and endorsed with Southern. Cowden and Hever Stations are a good example. Both are witnessing Covering Cowden’s parking problems record use – nearly a hundred thousand requires more attention than column passengers each year. And over half a inches allow but this funding is a rare million in Edenbridge. It may not always chance to look again at this issue. So feel like it but that growth has coincided I have urged Southern to match the with enhancements. scale of this opportunity with a suitably ambitious proposal, and offered to lead In recent years we’ve received additional a steering group to deliver a scheme. carriages, gained trains, and secured Let’s hope they rise to this challenge. the introduction of ticket machines and live departure boards. In the meantime, as ever, please do not hesitate to get in touch if there’s We might be on the right track but there anything with which I might be able to is further to go. Punctuality, reliability assist. and capacity continue to top the list; replacement bus improvements, and Matthew Dickins that elusive electrification too. However District Councillor for Cowden & Hever there is no doubt our rail service is Sevenoaks District Council, Argyle a draw for villagers as well as those Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 1HG further afield. e [email protected] m. It was therefore welcome to see some 07910 328 110

Markbeech Men’s Breakfast Group

The next Men’s Breakfast will take place on Saturday 7 September at Markbeech Village Hall 8.30 am and the talk will be give by the Revd Simon Braid and titled ‘Who do you think you are? A family search’.

10 Hever footpaths Some Ramblers groups, for example, have given money to have gates Hever Parish Council have considered installed to replace existing authorised in recent years, in response to stiles in memory of one of their residents’ and walkers’ requests, members, and put a plaque up on the how to promote and enhance the gate. The maintenance of the gate experience of walkers by having dog would still remain the responsibility of and user friendly pathways with clear the landowner/tenant. access and signposting. This supports a positive, healthy, active lifestyle and The installation costs vary between local tourism. We have worked with about £150 to £250 depending on local landowners, tourist attractions, the location, ease of access and the walking groups and the Kent County terrain. Council public rights of way officer. Hever Parish Council wish to Landowners are responsible for encourage landowners to consider maintaining stiles and gates in a safe replacing any unsuitable stiles with condition and to the required standard more durable, accessible ones and of repair in accordance with Section costs incurred could be requested via 146 of the Highways Act 1980. our grant application process. Please contact [email protected] with any Kent County Council are obliged to queries. contribute a minimum of 25% towards the reasonable cost of maintenance. The next dates of full council meetings This contribution has traditionally been are as below, should you wish to through the provision of the materials attend. Please note that any grant necessary for repairs. applications or items for the agenda need to be submitted to the Clerk To assist in reducing the burden two weeks before a meeting for due on landowners the County Council consideration by the members. is willing to provide a self-closing gate (cost price £130.00) for the Tuesday 17th September 7.30pm landowners’ installation. Due to Markbeech village hall the additional costs KCC ask for Thursday 21st November 7.30pm a minimum contribution of £30.00 Hever village hall towards the cost of the gate and administration. The gates provided http://hever.org/parish-council/hever- are of a very high quality, constructed parish-council-community-support- from galvanised steel, and have an grants expected life of approximately three https://www.kent.gov.uk/waste- times longer than a stile. planning-and-land/public-rights-of- Responsibility for the maintenance way/report-a-problem-on-a-right-of- of the gate will remain with the way landowner.

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13 ring which are all free. There is a small Four Elms Fete charge for external groups.

Since 1953 there has been a celebration We have been fortunate, although hard in Four Elms, started by the Vicar work has helped, to run an excess of originally for Queen Elizabeth’s revenue over cost. Our Committee Coronation. distributes this excess to support those Now, in 2019, here is a reflection on this that help us and deserving causes. year’s Four Elms Village Fete after the Records show that we have helped 66th successful year. Edenbridge hospital, local charitable and emergency services, the school The Committee (Fete) are responsible and church and many other good for the infrastructure and services that causes. This year we are supporting: allow the Fete to continue year on RAF Benevolent Fund (BBMF flypast) year. We have a not-for-profit policy, • ReBuild (car parking squad) our objective being to provide a fun, • Edenbridge Bonfire (stage and affordable community event.. • sounds) Lewis Project (live music) There are essential annual costs • Girl Guides such as insurance, first aid, toilets, • Four Elms Village Hall entertainments and so forth and also • we investment in marquees, tables and Over the years we have received equipment for ongoing operations. so much hidden help that has gone We have also, over the years, gratefully unnoticed or unrecognised. This year received gifts, for example from the we established an “Unsung Hero” Parish Council which supplied storage award that recognises those individuals facilities for our equipment. that support the fete year in year out, setting up, pulling down, putting away, Since about 2003 the operation of the fixing broken things, and generally infrastructure is separate from the fete making us ready for the best Fete in attractions (stalls and so forth). Typically the area. This year the recipients of the the School and Church run their own award are John Pearce and Richard stalls and retain any profit, for example Bennett with a donation to the Charities the ever popular dog show is a Church of their choice, an Animal Rescue attraction. centre and the Kent Air Ambulance.

The Fete itself runs car parking, bar, I hope you find this report useful and Willerby maze, and groups such as, will be looking forward to the 2020 fete this year, pony and miniature train rides on Saturday the 11th July. and welly wanging. We supply a free If you want to get involved, run a fete programme which carries paid stall or to suggest something new, advertising. please just drop me a line or look us up on Facebook. Other stalls are welcome but the Stuart Young Committee keeps it a traditional village Treasurer fete with stalls or attractions that [email protected] demonstrate local skills, support groups 01732 700 043 or Charities and games in the main

14 news from the pews we all breathed a sigh of relief when the weather was perfect for the Fete. Thanks to many people’s help and generosity the Let’s hope the Summer is not quite over Church Stalls were able to see a profit yet, even though for some, holidays will of £4094. St. Paul’s Church thanks The soon become just a memory! As Autumn Four Elms Village Fete Committee for all approaches and new school term begins, its hard work enabling us to generate this the song Autumn Days springs to mind magnificent sum. – it begins ‘Autumn days, when the grass is jewelled’ - are you ready for the What better way to follow the Fete than slight evening chills, the colour changes, the Pet Service in the church garden? A the different foods and most of all, the large number attended bringing their pets abundance of Autumn? It is the time of along to be blessed by the Rev. Wendy year when Harvest and Remembrance and Simon. St Paul’s continues to offer are not far away – and what’s more its different times services during the there is plenty to fill our time as the days month although the most popular time shorten, the annual Hever Barn Dance, remains our 11am Parish and Benefice the Scarecrow competition - and we have Communions. Harvest Suppers to look forward to! That song has a chorus – During the high summer it reminds us So I mustn’t forget that harvest is never far away. In our No, I mustn’t forget rural communities we thank God for our To say a great big thank you abundance of good gifts and pray that our I mustn’t forget. farmers have a productive harvest. Our Harvest Festival service is on Sunday 29 I’m ready for Autumn, are you? Are you September at 11am. Please join us and ready for that ‘great big thank you’ to God bring harvest gifts. Four Elms Primary who in his providence provides for our School have their Harvest Service during every need – and even if there are fewer the week before and we can certainly say, cauliflowers this year there is much else “All Good Gifts Around Us”. Whilst on for which we must be thankful. Harvest, Four Elms Village Harvest Supper Rev’d Wendy Izod will be on Friday 27th September in the Village Hall at 7.15pm. If you are able to Four Elms help on this evening it would be very much The vagaries of the summer weather never appreciated. See the notice on page 4. fail to delight and surprise us! The Village Christina Hodson Fete always concentrates our minds on Churchwarden the meteorological aspects of July and

St. Paul’s Church, Four Elms

Ǥ Ͳͳ͹͵ʹ͹ͲͲʹͶ͹ 15 Hever Markbeech September begins with the annual barn Summer has been whizzing by so fast. dance at Hever Village Hall on Saturday There’s been all sort of lovely activities, 7th at 7pm. Tickets (no booking fee) are the Village Summer Lunch in Clare £16 and £8 for children over five from Denison-Pender’s beautiful garden, a bookitbee.com/hever and this includes a blissful afternoon of jazz and picnics in bbq and homemade puddings (jellies for the Irens’ garden and some very well children), the dance complete with caller attended services at Holy Trinity. The and good company. There will be a cash family services on the third Sunday of bar - Larkin’s plus other guest beers, the month, are going from strength to cider, lager, gin and Prosecco. The raffle strength with the addition of a projector has some great prizes - do come along. and screen brought by Simon Braid, so we are freed from looking down into As ever the Parish lunch is served on our hymn books and can experiment the second Thursday of the month, 12 with new music easily. Susie Braid has September at 12 for 12.30 in the Hall. All been leading us on the guitar as well as welcome, if you would like a lift please providing some fascinating projects for ring me on 07766 763124. the children while adults drink coffee and chat. The following Saturday, 14th, is the national Ride and Stride. A team of bell And we are not neglecting traditional ringers will be riding round the local elements of the service and a traditional churches in aid of St Peter’s and Kent hymn so there really is something for Churches. If we haven’t already asked everyone. you and you feel able to sponsor us, please email me ([email protected]) One less pleasant happening in July was - or join us for all or part of the ride - or an attempted break in of the church. walk! - I have some sponsor forms. Someone picked the big old lock which is apparently very easy to do, but Then we look to the start of October and fortunately our new Chubb lock foiled the harvest festival on 6th - please bring them although it did get out of alignment any non-perishable foods to donate at needing a locksmith. But no harm done. the service and join us for some very good harvest hymns supported by a Falconhurst garden will be open for the choir from the school - and refreshments National Garden Scheme on September afterwards. This will be the last major 1st and the proceeds from the teas will festival at which Rev Wendy officiates be going to Holy Trinity, so please come - her final service will be Evensong and support Nicki and Charles Talbot on Sunday 30th November - all very and see this lovely garden before autumn welcome and please put the date in your comes. diary. Jane Rosam Schedules can go slightly awry in July Churchwarden and August with people away, but in

16 September we will be back on schedule with our monthly parish lunch on September 24th in the village hall 12.30 for 1.00pm. As ever do try and think of someone you could bring to the lunch who might like to get out for some good food and company. If you can, please let us know that you are coming, but if you just turn up you’ll still be very welcome! Email [email protected] or ring or text 07860 436668.

And on October 4th we have our Harvest Supper again in the village The Friends of St hall. We’re planning a delicious meal but also have a treat in store with the Peter’s Church Hever brilliant singing of Bryony Purdue. need you... She will be giving us a programme The Friends of St Peter’s Church, of jazz classics between courses. Do Hever is in its infancy - unlike the book early as we expect this to be Church itself which is now almost a very popular event. Again email or 900 years old. Our object is to ring me as above. raise funds for the upkeep and Marielou Linklater conservation of this Church which is part of our heritage. Churchwarden The Friends are now looking for a new secretary to join the friendly, active committee and help us with this aim. There are two meetings per year and the AGM. Your role would include setting the agenda, taking minutes for the meeting, following up action points and being the point of contact for members of the Friends. Would you be able to help us? contact Mandy YarnoldPlease on 01342 850028 for more details

17 Services September 2019 Services rota

Day Date Time Church Service Sidesmen Readers Intercessions Chalice Trinity 11 01 Sep 08.00 Four Elms Holy Communion (BCP) Richard Bennett Leslie Griggs 09.15 Markbeech Eucharist PLUS Baptism Liz Kaberry Roger & Lynnie Hopkins Jill Linden Liz Kaberry 11.00 Hever Parish Communion Lisa & Will Cowell 07 Sep 14.00 Hever Wedding Caroline Seely & James Will Cowell & Jane Rosam Ana Roxburgh Ellie Heard Faulkner Trinity 12 08 Sep 09.15 Markbeech Sung Eucharist Janey Cooper 10.30 Four Elms Cafe Church Church wardens Flora Nedelcu & Liz Kaberry Ann Bellamy Vasile Nedelcu 18.00 Hever Evensong Ellie Heard & Andrew Izod Children Andrew Izod & Jane Rosam Trinity 13 15 Sep 09.15 Markbeech Family Service Irens family 11.00 Hever Parish Communion Plus Baptisms Andrew Izod & Robin Rouse Kitty West Henry Wilkinson x2 Robin Rouse & Ellie Heard Ellie Heard Jane Rosam 21Sep 14.00 Four Elms Wedding Karen Puxty & Matthew Braiden Trinity 14 22 Sep 11.00 Four Elms Parish Communion Plus Baptism Christina & John Hodson Christina & John Hodson Marion Purll Gill Lambert Trinity 15 29 Sep 11.00 Four Elms Harvest Festival Gill Lambert & Leslie Griggs

Gill Lambert & Pat Fletcher Ellie Heard Ellie Heard

Lectionary readings September 2019

Date OT Psalm NT Gospel Sunday 01 Sep Proverb 25: 6-7 112 Hebrews13:1-8, Luke 14: 1, Trinity 11 15-16 7-14 Churchwardens 08 Sep Deuteronomy 30: 1 Philemon 1: 1-21 Luke 14: 25-33 Trinity 12 15-end Hever Jane Rosam 07766 763124 15 Sep Exodus 32: 7-14 51: 1-11 1 Timothy 1: 12-17 Luke 15: 1-10 Trinity 13 Four Elms Leslie Griggs 01732 700428 22 Sep Amos 8: 4-7 113 1 Timothy 2: 1-7 Luke 16: 1-13 Trinity 14 Christina Hodson 01732 700247 29 Sep Deuteronomy: 26 1-11 100 Philippians 4:4-9 John 6: 25-35 Harvest Festival Markbeech Nicki Talbot 01342 850526 Marielou Linklater 01342 850579

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18 19 Gardening from How Green

Agastache – also known as My goodness how this year has giant Hyssop, a fabulous plant with flown!It only seems like yesterday aromatic foliage, long flowering season when we were embroiled with the and attracts bees and insects. Be Chelsea Flower Show, working around careful as a number of varieties are the clock without enough hours in not hardy. We offer the following that the day! We now find ourselves in are more reliable. ‘Blue Fortune’, ‘After September and worryingly spiralling Eight’, ‘Black Adder’ & a great new towards Christmas! variety called ‘Blue Boa’. Anemone japonica – Japanese September can be a fantastic month in Anemone are great for late season the gardening calendar. If the weather colour. Our best sellers are ‘Honorine behaves and we get an Indian Summer Jobert’, ‘September Charm’ and it can be a lovely and productive time. ‘Dainty Swan’. The sunshine can still have enough Ornamental Grasses – A huge range strength to allow us to sit and enjoy including front, mid and back of the and it’s also one of the best times to border plants. Used in conjunction plant for the following season. There with flowering perennials they offer are also plenty of plants that give late movement, height, transparency and season colour and interest that can go add interest throughout the Winter through until November and beyond. months. We recommend Miscanthus Here are some ideas for plants that will ‘Ferner Osten’, Panicum ‘Squaw’, enhance a garden in September: Pennisteum ‘Karley Rose’. Rudbeckias – a broad genus that includes low growing, mid and tall September is a great month for flowering varieties. Our pick of the best planting perennials and shrubs. The at the nursery are deamii, ‘Summerina ground is warm and hopefully some Orange’ & a fab tall variety called moisture in the ground after Autumn ‘Prairie Glow’! rain. This in turn leads to good root Salvias – again, a huge range with growth making the plant strong and some stunning late flowering varieties. sturdy ready for the Winter months. We love ‘Amistad’ a tall majestic plant Come and see for yourself at our final brooding purple flowers with black public open weekend of 2019 – our calyx – also looking forward to a brand last hoorah for the gardening season new variety of Amistad with magenta and the nursery will be rammed to the flowers called ‘Amante’! gunnels with lots of new & desirable Asters (now reclassified as plants! There will also be delicious Symphiotrichon) – common name home-made tea and cake served up Michaelmas Daises give lasting colour the surrounds of the nursery garden. from shades of pink, purple, blue & Open September 7th & 8th from 9am- white. Our pick of the bunch are ‘Little 5pm both days. Carlow’, ‘Monch’ and ‘Beth Chatto’ Simon Sutcliffe

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 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 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

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1 Sept Falconhurst CC home match against Cowden 1.30pm 7 Sept Men’s Breakfast, Markbeech Village Hall 8.30am 7 Sept Hever Barn Dance, Hever Village Hall 7 and 8 Sept How Green Nursery open day 9am – 5pm 8 Sept Scarecrow Competition entry deadline 10 Sept Hop picking by hand, Larkins Brewery 11 – 1pm 12 – 14 Sept Machine hop picking at Larkins Brewery 8.30 am - 3pm 12 Sept Hever Parish lunch, Village Hall, 12 for 12.30 14 Sept Ladies Breakfast, MB Village Hall, 9am 14 Sept Eden Valley Museum guided walk of Edenbridge 2.30 pm 15 Sept Falconhurst CC home match against Withyham 1pm 17 Sept Hever Parish Council meeting, Markbeech village hall 7.30pm 20 Sept Hopping in Kent talk Eden Valley Museum 7.30 pm 21 Sept Bulk refuse freighter 8am FE village hall then 9.30am Hever bottle bank 21 Sept Falconhurst CC home match against Fordcombe 1pm 24 Sept Markbeech Village Lunch, MB village hall 12.30pm 27 Sept Four Elms Harvest Supper Four Elms Village Hall 7.15 pm 29 Sept Falconhurst CC home match against Penshurst Park 1pm 29 Sept Scarecrow Party, Hever Village Hall 28 and 29 Sept Hever Castle Triathlon 4 Oct Markbeech Harvest Cabaret Supper 10 Oct Hever Parish Lunch, Village Hall, 12 for 12.30 22 Oct Markbeech Village Lunch MB village hall 12.30pm 1 Nov Film Club, Paddington 2, Hever Castle Golf Club, from 7pm 14 Nov Ladies Breakfast, MB Village Hall, 9am 14 Nov Hever Christmas Fair, Guthrie Pavilion Hever Castle 14 Nov Hever Parish Lunch, Village Hall, 12 for 12.30 21 Nov Hever Parish Council meeting, Hever Village Hall 7.30pm 22 Nov Tom Tugendhat MP surgery Eden Centre 3.15pm 23 Nov Markbeech Christmas Bazaar 12 noon – 3pm 26 Nov Markbeech Village Lunch MB village hall 12.30pm 30 Nov Rev Wendy Izod celebration and farewell service 20 Dec St Peter’s Hever Carol Supper 25 Jan Grand Hever Quiz