PARISH MAGAZINE St Michael & All Angels

DECEMBER 2020 60P

Covid Trial 6 Christmas Fair 19 Village Diary 6 Horts Society 20 Editorial 7 Life on the Common 21 Church Services 8 Remembrance Day 24 Church Letter 10 Christmas Sale 26 Christmas Services 11 Pub Takeaway Menu 27 Parish Council Update 12 Life on the Farm 28 Recycling News 13 On Crowds by Lizzie Young 30 Give it a Grow 14 Thursley Climate Action 32 History Society 16 WI 34 Village Hall Update 18 Clockhouse News 35

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CHURCH: ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS HELP IN THURSLEY Rachel Young Chaia: Via: Fitness Red Haah Mooe Daid YOUNG .

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PLEASE NOTE EARLY DEADLINE OF TH DECEMBER FOR SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES TO THE JANUARY ISSUE OF THURSLEY PARISH MAGAZINE. EDITOR: Tiia HORWOOD, Thusle House, De House Road, Thusle, Sue GU QD. Tel: E-ail: tiia@hoood.og. ADVERTISING MANAGER: Jae HEPBURN Tel: Eail: hepujae@hotail.o DISTRIBUTION MANAGER: Je GORDON Tel: Eail: godoj@titeet.o

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For many of us Christmas is all about Each of the Advent Candles has a different Bojou, Je appelle Valéie, traditions. The traditions we have as meaning. The first Advent Candle is for all families: coming together, arguing over of Gods people and is the candle of hope. I a a Feh atie speake, ith tutoig epeiee, who makes the best gravy, children playing The second Advent candle is for the Old with the box and the wrapping paper rather Testament prophets who foretold Jesus ho a offe piate lessos. than the actual gift, Grandad falling asleep birth and is the candle of peace. The third in the chair and someone cheating at the Advent candle is for John the Baptist who Whethe ou eed tailoed lessos to ahiee speifi ojeties games. asked us to prepare our hearts to welcome GCSE, AS/A leel, oig to Fae o ou just at to patie ou God, so it is also the candle of love. The It is important to acknowledge that this Feh oe a up of offee, feel fee to otat e. year will be different. As a family, we have final candle is for Mary, the mother of Jesus, who joyfully carried the Saviour, so it had conversations about how different it will be. It is only the second Christmas ever is the candle of joy. Four candles that my children who are now and 9, representing hope, peace, love, and joy. I Please all: will not be with their cousins. The first time am sure you will agree, we need a sprinkling it happened, we were visiting my husbands of hope, peace, love and joy this year! O eail: feisaleie@aol.o family in South Africa, so they were still Perhaps, this year, during Advent, at pm with family. Different is not inferior, each Sunday, we could light a candle in our A ietôt. different is simply different, and this year window as a reminder that God longs to give us his comfort and his joy. might be the time to establish some new traditions. Amidst the challenges that Covid has thrown at all of us, I do hope you will be If comments in the media are to be able to find some of Gods hope, peace, believed, Christmas is in danger of being love, and joy. I would also like to wish you COME AND JOIN cancelled this year. From a Christian all a happy, blessed Christmas and New CHORAL SOCIETY perspective, Christmas cannot be Year. cancelled. The central message of on TUESDAY 10th JANUARY 2017 FOLLOW THE STAR! Christianity is that Christ came as a baby at Christmas representing that God is with us, The star is very much part of the Christmas when rehearsals begin for He is Emmanuel. For to us a child is born, to story, the wisemen followed the star to the us a son is given, and the government will be place where they found Jesus laying in a HAYDN : THE CREATION on his shoulders. And he will be called manger. So, to spread a bit of joy, in what Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, will be a vastly different Christmas for most We meet at 7.30pm in all new Wilfrid Noyce Centre, Crown Court, Go- Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah of us, I would like to encourage everyone to dalming, GU7 1DY. If you enjoy singing and would like to join a pro- 9: This is what we celebrate each year. put a star in their window this year. It can be a flashing light star, a tinsel star, a foil But before we can arrive at the Joy of star, or a glitter star. Once you have put up Christmas day, we must move through the Steve Cruickshank Tree Surgeon your star, you could send a photo to our Fully Insured darkness and waiting of Advent. During this Parishes of Elstead, Thursley, Shackleford time, we seek the comfort of Gods and Peper Harow Facebook page. It would All Tree Work, Hedge Cutting, Fruit Tree Pruning, presence in the darkness. Many of us open be wonderful if we could Stump Grinding, Chipping Service, Mini Digger Hire, a window in our Advent Calendars to count have hundreds of stars Fencing & Landscaping, Seasoned Logs down towards Christmas. The church lighting up our village, counts down in a similar way by lighting an offering a little bit of Advent Candle each Sunday in the run up to Christmas comfort and Mobile: 07768 774398 Christmas to remind us of the presence of joy. [email protected] God.

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RECYCLING NEWS Piano/Keyboard/Organ B Niki Bates Lessons How to have an Eco-friendly, Green Presents Christmas: If we all make just a Buy gifts that are durable. Toys that couple of changes to the way we break easily will just end up in the bin Beginners welcome normally celebrate Christmas this year and cannot be reused by a younger we could be giving a gift to the planet sibling, school or charity. If you are as well as to our friends and family! not sure what someone would like Robert Goldfinch Here are some suggestions. why not give a gift voucher? You can (LGSM & ALCM) buy vouchers for garden centres, Christmas trees A real tree is the best option. Buy a cinema or theatre tickets as well as UK-grown tree with roots that can be for high street stores and bookshops. Call 01252 705151 Another idea is to give membership of planted in your garden or kept in a pot for next year. If you go for a tree an organisation, for example, The [email protected] without roots it can be cut up and Woodland Trust or the RSPB, recycled in your brown garden waste subscription to a magazine or bin or taken to Community sponsorship of an animal like a guide Recycling Centre. I have heard that at or assistance dog. Many charities like some garden centres you can actually Oxfam sell virtual gifts, for example, a goat to help a poor farmer overseas. hire a tree. If you already have an artificial tree don’t replace it as it can Food and Drink be reused year after year. Artificial Try to buy food and drink packaged in trees are difficult to recycle being materials that can be recycled like made of several different kinds of paper, cardboard and glass. One large

materials including plastic. Make sure bottle of beer or lemonade results in ENGLISH TUTOR you have LED lights on your tree as less waste than many smaller ones Dianne Butler these use far less electricity and save and is more economical. Avoid using BA (Hons), PGCE, PGC you money. paper plates, cups and serviettes for

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Please feel free to give me a call or now be bought at many shops Thursley Climate & email to discuss how I can help you, including supermarkets. Cracker Sustainability Action your son or daughter fulfil that potential. making kits are available as well and See ‘Climate Action’ at also on line. You can have fun finding www.thursley-pc.gov.uk 07771 527729 non-plastic toys and gifts to put inside [email protected] which people will actually enjoy.

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Unfortunately The Clockhouse had to I was very concerned that the second close again in line with the second lockdown, with the shorter days, lockdown measures. The Trustees would affect some of our members have continued to contact our mental wellbeing so emailed our MP members and give advice when and Patron, Jeremy Hunt, to ask necessary. Elvina, our activities whether The Clockhouse could be coordinator, communicated with some considered a Support Group. He local schools to support our Harvest kindly forwarded my email to the Festival effort. We are extremely Strategic Manager at Waverley and it grateful for donations from Amesbury was agreed that as long as we only School and St Hilary’s Godalming and invited a limit of 14 regular members several of our supporters. Elvina, with we could proceed. Following a further B Deie Speer the help of our wonderful volunteers Risk Assessment and with very strict Margaret, Wendy, Carol and Poppy, protocols in place we organised 2 made 70 shoe box gift packages groups, socially distanced, to come for Dahlias are native to Mexico their which we distributed either at The Dahlia Mania a 2+ hour session including a 2- national flower and Central America, Clockhouse or by doorstep visits. course lunch cooked by our chef Along with Ford Capris, avocado related to the daisy, chrysanthemum, These were greatly appreciated. This David. Those who came were bathroom suites and kitchen hatches, zinnia and sunflower family- all of which was an excellent opportunity for us to absolutely delighted. This was the first dahlias were popular in the 70s. Like are members of the Asteraceae family, visit our members and ensure that outing for some of them for several they are coping during this difficult most things from the 70s, dahlias fell out its name referring to the appearance of a months. We hope that we can repeat of fashion and were seen as rather vulgar time. this as long as everyone remains well. star with surrounding rays. for a few decades but Im pleased to say One of our trustees has liaised with It seems most Thursley flower growers By the time you read this article we they are now back on gardeners wish Aldro school who are kindly donating will hopefully be reopened but have this year have enjoyed a long dahlia lists, thanks to new varieties. Now a shoe boxes for Christmas hampers decided to limit this to Tuesdays, popular choice for brides including the season , even though its the first week of which again will be distributed. Wednesdays and Thursdays initially. modern royals -they are back bigger, November and weve had our first frost I Our Hairdresser and Foot Clinic can still see huge blooms bobbing in Elvina liaised with the British Legion bolder and blousier than before. and we sold poppies and poppy sessions will continue but all this neighbours gardens as Im walking past. masks, made by Margaret, in aid of depends on the number of people Dahlias are such good doers adding a the Poppy appeal. with the active virus. splash of colour when everything else is fading and flopping but when We welcomed our new manager, As always we continue to look for new Evelyn, who started at The volunteers who may be able to help at temperatures plummet the leaves and Clockhouse on 11th November. reception, serving the meals or remaining blooms can collapse in a sad transporting members by car as at heap. So, over winter care is important to present we have decided that it would ensure we have a colourful display again not be possible for people to be next year. socially distanced on the minibus.

How to prevent Dahlia Failure.... Please visit www.clockhouse.org.uk Lift or Leave? for further information Some gardeners prefer to lift all their dahlias and overwinter inside and others We would like to wish everyone a very prefer to leave them in the ground in situ Happy Christmas and Healthy New Year. every year. ELSTEAD WI I do both! I have lifted the dahlias that allocated for cut flowers this makes sense were growing in pots because I need the - its worth marking them with tags B Bett Moo pots for spring bulbs. If you are following before they die off so you know exactly this method it is important to remove the what and where they are. Once the Report of our Zoom meeting on 5 she had to learn it at school. What soil from the tubers to prevent growth has faded cut back to a few November 2020 sounded like “buy-a-donkey” was rotting. Breaking the rules ! and for centimetres and cover with a thick layer

Twenty-one ladies of the Elstead actually “baie dankie”, thank you speed, I washed the tubers under the tap of mulch, leaf mould, or compost over Afternoon WI held their third virtual very much. She told us of her and patted dry but this is not what is the top to keep them snug for the winter. meeting on Guy Fawkes Day. family’s exploration of South Africa recommended- you are meant to gently Im experimenting with recycled wool There were however no fireworks! when their initial 2-year stay turned remove the soil by hand instead which packaging that Ive been saving, covering It was lovely to see friends and be into 25, and of her fear of takes longer but is a safer option. Cut the the plants and pinned down to keep in able to catch up, even though if we elephants from some over-exciting stem down to a few centimetres and then place. adventures with some very feisty wanted the traditional WI tea and hang the tubers upside down for a couple There’s still lots to do cake we had to make it for large specimens! She treats them of weeks to dry out and allow any with the greatest respect. Her As autumn turns to winter your main jobs ourselves! remaining water to drain from the hollow in the garden are mostly about tidying up secondary school was a Catholic stem. This year I am experimenting by re- The November WI meeting is school and multiracial – something and protecting plants for the colder normally the Annual Meeting when really only found in church weather and getting spring bulbs in place. business takes pride of place, and schools. She had been proud to November is the right time to plants tulip bulbs. the new Committee and President vote in the first multi-racial are agreed. This year however, we elections in S Africa, and to meet • Move delicate plants to the held our Annual Meeting by post. Nelson Mandela at a family greenhouse, wrap any precious pots in Every member received a wedding. Jo Lee thanked her very bubble wrap, reduce the watering. Committee Report, President’s much for a fascinating talk, and we • Use any leftover herb seeds and sow in report, Treasurer’s Report with gently dispersed off to make out pots on a kitchen windowsill or externally examined financial own cups of tea…. greenhouse. statement, a list of Committee • Start sowing early varieties of sweet nominations and a voting slip and Our next Zoom meeting is on 3 December, when Jane Randell will peas for early blooms next year. SAE. Members then voted to • Sow perennials that like a period of cold accept the new Committee, be demonstrating how to make a Christmas Wreath. using the nets from fruit bags and in order to germinate such as reports and financial statement, Eryngiums, Clary sage, Stachys and Hilary Pettman was elected as hanging the upside down dahlias from various hooks in the greenhouse. Once sylvatica. President for another year. • Give your veg bed some goodness by satisfied they are dry, store in sand or So by the time of the meeting the peat or wrap in newspaper in a shallow growing Green manure, it prevents business was all done and dusted, box over the winter in a cool frost free weed growth, improves the soil and so we could enjoy a social time place, like a shed. In the spring they can attracts pollinators. Im sowing Phacelia and then a fascinating talk by the be replanted once the chance of frost has tanacetifolia, which is dug in next new Rector of Elstead, the Rvd disappeared. spring. Of course adding regular animal manure is good too. Hannah Moore. She told us about Keep grounded Finally, remember to look after the birds! growing up in Yorkshire and then We are lucky that we have mild winters South Africa. We were all They are a gardeners best friend -leave and sandy soil in Thursley so I know a lot fascinated by her acquisition of them some water and food and they will of gardeners like to keep their dahlias in afrikaans by osmosis from her thank you by controlling the garden the ground. If you have a dahlia bed friends and neighbours long before pests.

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On this, the last Thursley History Society laughing whilst drawing, as he found his newsletter of the year (and what a peculiar own cartoons very funny, and they were! and remarkable year it has been!) I would With her permission, here is her sketch of like to complete the second part of the him, done around this time. biography of Lutyens, as well as updating you on a previous article. You may Patricia Coles also recalls him and had a remember the article on Russell lovely story to tell about him. “What I can Brockbank, the artist and editor of Punch clearly remember is the village butchers, magazine, who lived in the village during which was attached to Karn’s excellent the 1960’s. That stirred some memories general store. The butcher, whose name from a couple of villagers and due to some was Doug Bowditch, who incidentally had clever detective work, even a lovely letter a glass eye, once told me (whilst cleaning from his daughter, who now lives in my windows) that Russell had offered him Somerset. a lift in his sports car. He took him along the A3 at breakneck speed (those were It transpires that Russ, as he was the days!) and poor old Bowditch was affectionately known, was a mentor to terrified! I think he did this to a few people; another young artist of the time, Salli it was his party trick.”

Tomlinson, who still lives here in Thursley sites. The next step with the tree organisation with aims that support tree/ to this day. She was able to reminisce Russell’s daughter (now in her 70’s) got in about watching him drawing, with his touch, with her own particular thoughts of planting is to plan the layout of the site. hedge planting, b the saplings are all signature cigarette hanging from his her father and Thursley. “This has brought We were hoping to finalise plans for tree/ cell grown and are years old, so have back many happy memories for me of my mouth. However, it was his laugh she hedge planting in November but the a greater chance of survival, c they remembers most of all – he was constantly parents and my life growing up in Thursley. I celebrated my 21st birthday in recent Lockdown has derailed those source the saplings from UK nurseries so the Three Horseshoes, got engaged that plans. We would like to plant before the the risk of imported diseases is evening and married in Thursley church winter, but it will depend on what is eliminated. the following year, 1965. Yes, he was a

speed merchant and drove very fast, often possible. We will need volunteers to with my mother shouting “slow down”! plant these trees and hedges, so please Please could any volunteer tree planters They were very popular in the pub, where let us know if you can help. let me know. We would still welcome he kept his silver tankard behind the bar. further donations towards the tree or My mother, Eileen, was very involved in We have Parish Council approval in hedge planting schemes. If anybody has the village, with the WI and other principle to purchase the tree sapling and organisations. My father’s sole contribution a parcel of land they would like to offer to the village was to judge the art hedging plants from Woodland Trust and please let us know. If you want more competition at the Annual Village Show!” tubes or spirals and supports from information about the Tree and Hedge

Lovely to hear from Salli and Patricia and another supplier so we can proceed when Planting Initiative, please contact: also from Russ’s daughter, and thank you it becomes clearer what is possible. We for allowing us to share your reflections of like the Woodland Trust as a supplier [email protected]. a wonderfully spirited and talented man. A because a they are a reputable perfect segue into another famously talented Thursley resident.

SIR EDWIN LUTYENS AND HIS LATER LIFE AND CAREER VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED TO PLANT TREES In 1885, Edwin was sent to the South Kensington School of Art to study Contact John Swift on the details above if you’d like to be involved. architecture. He did not finish the course Russell Bokak, Salli Toliso as he felt he had learnt all that the school

could teach him, and left after two years. alterations to the main house there. Many THURSLEY CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABILITY ACTION He became an apprentice in the practice of of his more famous houses in the Eo-fiedl Liig – its Eo-logial Ernest George and worked at night on his neighbourhood; Munstead Wood (1896) own designs. It was presumably during a and Tighbourne Court, Witley (1899). visit home to his parents in Thursley that he succeeded in interesting Edmund Gray, In later years of course, Lutyens achieved then living at The Corner, the house great fame, particularly with his designs for opposite his family home, into the Viceroy’s House and other impressive commissioning him for a major extension. government and palatial private buildings in Young Ned, still only nineteen years old, New Delhi and for The Cenotaph in designed a drawing room for The Corner, Whitehall (covered in last month’s article). with two bedrooms above it. Originally, it Only the crypt was completed of what he was two small cottages, built around 1700, considered his finest design, the

Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in one of which had once contained the This article provides an update about the initial planting. This would enable us to village shop. The Gray’s were obviously Liverpool. This crypt is now part of the present cathedral, a magnificent fragment status of the Tree and Hedge Planting purchase up to tree saplings and satisfied with it as, in 1895, Ned was asked to draw up plans for a morning room and a of what might have been. He worked, on Initiative. Planting trees and hedges is hedging saplings plus tubes or spirals and and off, on this dream for fourteen years supports. We would retain the balance of bedroom above to be built on the southern part of the solution to climate change by side of the house, and for four smaller (1929 – 1943) before his death in 1944. He locking up carbon in a long term store funds for replacement of dead saplings or rooms to be added to the western side. died believing that this grandiose Romanesque super-structure, which was to and also increases biodiversity by for future maintenance. We will also be These extensions were grandly described as “two additional wings”. They were duly house the largest organ in the world, would providing habitat for wildlife. Our aim is purchasing copper labels to register the be built when the war had ended. tree species, location for future carbon completed about 1896 and until recently, to plant the right tree or hedge in the apart from a narrow bay being added to the Tragically, it became cost prohibitive and sequestration tracking, and also in some never was. right place by using native species drawing room, there had been no changes suitable for the location, and by choosing cases the donor at their request. to the exterior of the house. Most of us know that the house has recently been Sir Edwin Lutyens walking away from the mixed varieties to provide support for the We have agreement from two local given a lot of sympathetic tender loving crowds at the Cenotaph in 1919. woodland habitat. landowners to plant the trees and care by the recent new owner.

So far we have raised £,59 from hedging on their land. We have Lutyens’ only other building in the actual donations, and we are now planning to discussed and agreed the proposed tree village is what is now known as Prospect and hedge species suitable for their Cottage. It was originally built as a working spend approx. % of these funds on the men’s club, the land and building work costs donated by Captain Rushbrooke of Cosford House. Lutyens designed it seven years after the much grander and more flamboyant nearby Village Institute, and some say it was a reflection of his more simplified style – or perhaps it was just they had very differing briefs!

In Thursley churchyard, not far from the grave of the poet John Freeman (another month, another article!), is a cross designed by Sir Edwin, bearing the names of his parents and his sister Aileen. Nearby is Edwin’s memorial stone to his nephew, Derek Lutyens, who was killed in 1918 whilst serving in the Royal Air Force. Aside from the buildings in Thursley village already described, on the outskirts of the parish Lutyens designed two lakeside boathouses for Whitaker Wright in . In 1901 he built the cottages at Warren Lodge and in 1909 he planned VILLAGE HALL NEWS attedees. Stadig outside ou fot feezig all dop i Ties Suae NYC… B Adrea MaKezie-Beeor doo fo to iutes at a felt Sigig Auld Lag Se at the top of ipotat, ut stage, ithout that oie eause eeoe else is sigig too What’s happening at the Hall … THE GREATEST GIFT olletie sese of efletio ad ad the at hea ho toe deaf I a. Sunday 13th December gatitude. Not this ea, I fea. I suspet ell all e CHRISTMAS FAIR LIVE THEATRE!!! (Covid Compliant) - So uh of hat is odeful i life, fo Sunday 6th December 10-4 pm takig ou up of kidess i slippes ith a real Christmas treat! e, is shaed epeiee. Ad fo e, ael a seui i sight ad ollig ito Due to lockdown, the Christmas Fair Maltings invites you to The the igge the oe oig. I a get ed at .a. has been rescheduled for Sunday 6th Greatest Gift, a re-telling of the original uite teaful the happ kid of teas at December. Don’t miss this chance to story of It’s A Wonderful Life. We will Wele, Tikeha, pett uh a Pehaps I used to thik adl of ods. get ALL your Christmas shopping be putting on two shows, provisionally audiee at a pefoae – fo Ugateful eth. Moa aout the done in one place - who wants to trail one at 3pm and one at 6pm, to a edless lie fo the loo o the poiit of socially distanced, but intimate iea to theate to oets to uskes round the shops at the moment? All i Coet Gade to oug hilde ose to soeoes elo o, sorts of exciting stalls - there will be audience. Book early to avoid disappointment! Tickets from Clea on ooig at the patoie… It akes ifiitel ose, soeoes apit o a something for everyone! aed tue to Wateloo afte a sho. I 07711 183959 or [email protected]. heat sell he a audiee sigs the Stalls include Ellie Conteras with her Natioal Athe, o ises to olletie take it all ak. I at to e jostled, ad fantastic paintings, Snugglemat Studio Join us for a warming 60 minutes of feet i aptuous applause, o gies a suished ad held up ad sloed do with their handmade crafts, From storytelling with Mick Strobel and live siultaeous gasp of appeiatio at a ods. music from accordionist Nigel Angie with Love with her Wildlife Art, fieok displa. Whe I as a hild, the Waterhouse. Ill ee oplai agai that the lad Ned and Sloan with some fantastic huge od that gatheed o dak Jewellery and Simon Hall with his to os ehid e i the iea is ad hill illage gee o Bofie Night Children’s books. 'Welcome to Bedford Falls, welcome talkig to he opaio duig the to small town America, welcome to to ath it eeoiall lit a doze adets I ot ee iteested i Any changes or cancellations will be Farnham Maltings’ winter retelling of fiealls sug though the steets ad athig, o that the loke just i fot is the story of George Bailey, a middle- posted on Thursley Facebook page or flug o siultaeousl es, asolutel eatig ahos. That ight e a lie. I Thursley village hall website. aged clerk discovering the difference o health ad safet ules hatsoee – it he has made to his family, his friends eall, eall dot like ahos. Its a as the hazadous s ade fo and his hometown - with a little help iea, ot a estauat, people. asolute est ight of the ea. Ad as a from Clarence, the apprentice angel teeage losig self i the daig Like Eglish people joiig a ueue ee …' od at the Nottig Hill Caial ade if the dot ko hat thee ueueig fo a geat da out. I sat uiesit fo, I goig to sueeze self ito fials i a ast oo that held oe tha ods, hatee the easo the eist, HOME PRODUCE STALL AT CHRISTMAS FAIR studets, ad it defiitel helped to ad dae ad sig ad hug fieds, see fellos taslatig Aglo Sao ad poal soe stages.

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test some of our group’s semen from THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY last year and they failed miserably. B Joh Guer So, a few strong words were given to the old company and a big loss of sales And so to bed. Well, our gardens At the start of the year we purchased as we buy as a group of around 10 appear to be sleeping in December 12 new lightweight folding tables to farms all with our number of cows or more. even though there will already be replace the heavy boards that activity under the surface. If there is a previously had been used to create Alongside all the routine work of heavy frost or waterlogged conditions the central display at our flower winter we have had a few other bits it is best to stay off lawns and flower shows, so making it much easier and going on such as fly tipping - if it’s not beds completely. The garden will safer to set up the hall for future someone parked in your gateways it’s lay patiently in suspense pending shows. A long-standing mission has rubbish three loads in a week, from more favourable conditions. On fine been accomplished even though, piles of clothes to roofing jobs which days there are still jobs to do even in ironically, we have been unable to use really are bad because all the loose mid-winter and this month is ideal for them this year. Our Accounts for the nails could easily go in a tractor wheel pruning free-standing apple and pear past year reflect this purchase and we or a cow’s foot. Matthew was greeted one morning at 5am whilst pushing the trees to ensure a good cycle of fruiting therefore show an overall deficit this Now that the heifers have our fancy cows in for milking by a tall man who wood. Trees that are not pruned time compared to a useful surplus last new year tags (which work using an had run across the fields from the A3 become less productive and year. Our other expenses were low accelerometer in them) and detect and leaped over the gate into the congested with old branches. Acers, due to inactivity whilst we managed to when they are bulling we will no longer cows. Not sure who was more birches and vines should also be boost our income with the popular have to go out and stand in the cold or frightened, the man or Matthew but pruned now. Continue to cut back sale of home-grown plants in April and wet and watch for bulling cows. We he did reassure Matthew he was ok as faded herbaceous perennials and add May. The audited Accounts are now get notified on our phones who is he was vegetarian (at least we knew them to the compost heap or available to all members and if you bulling and how long for and we can he wouldn’t eat the cows on his way alternatively leave these until spring would like to have a copy or further then decide who and when to serve through) and was lost and looking to so that they can be used as winter information please let us know by them. It will revolutionize our get to Petersfield but could go back homes for insects. During mild, dry emailing: evenings; I won’t have to force myself to the A3. The police were called and spells you can still lift and divide to stay awake until 10pm and I have we had footage of him on CCTV [email protected] even started doing the Christmas those perennials. This will increase running out of the farm and down the stocks, and revive tired or poorly Winter is the time of promise in the shopping (online of course). We always road but they couldn’t find him, the garden because there is so little to do have the semen tested when it arrives only hint we got from the police later flowering clumps. Above all keep on the farm before we start serving, watch on greenhouse heaters and do - or because you can now and then in the day was it could have been a permit yourself the luxury of thinking to make sure it has been transported drugs run gone wrong. not tell mice where you are storing through the various stages well. so. your fruit and vegetables! However, although one of the bulls Toby had to self-isolate as someone last year tested well with the vet, he on his course tested positive for

then didn’t have good conception COVID which was a bit of a downer as th DANGEROUS PARKING AT JUNCTION OF THE STREET & DYE HOUSE ROAD rates and having spoken to everyone he had his 18 birthday in the middle in our consultancy/buying group they of it. Still we squeezed in a meal out If a loal esidets otie a poles i tes of pakig too lose to the too had problems, not always with the after his isolation and before the jutio ithi ould ou epot this dietl to ou otat ete at the tie same bull as us but all from the same second lockdown. o as soo as possile afteads. This a e doe allig the o-eege company. So, it was agreed as a group This month will be filled with the ue of , o allig i a eege ol oth ues ae aailale we would change companies and get a stress test done too. The vet tests winter routine, serving cows and with hous a da, das a eek. Please ilude a ehile details if possile the semen straight away after it has the longer evenings researching more egistatio ues et ad ou otat ete ill the u a eessa thawed but a research company from ways we can be more carbon friendly heks, ad a t to otat the egisteed oe telephoe fist, euestig Edinburgh joins him who then test it on the farm to full fill our milk that the oe the ehile. If the aot otat the egisteed oe, the the again after one hour after thawing contract, help the community and our simulating what it would be like in the overheads so solar panels, recycling a deplo offies to the loatio to deal ith the situatio. and wild flower planting are top of the cow to see if it performance had Waele Boough Poliig Tea deteriorated. All passed, but they did list.

WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THE FARM THIS MONTH? LIFE ON THE COMMON — 88 B Jo Raso B Jaes Giles Where does time go - we are the on the floor or in a straw yard. So, Dear all, The task days do look different with a middle of November already - and the the tyres go in on the passageway It is utterly unbelievable, we are as you Covid update and briefing to start the weather has gone mad. We have had floors and then we take half of the read this six months past the horrific day. Provisions of sanitiser, the issuing rain, that can stop for a while. Wind, heifers and shut them into the of tools is more military in procedure very windy but no real damage to cubicles while the others remained fire on the common. So much has changed in the world in those weeks to ensure there is no swapping of report, and the frosts are great for out to learn how to eat at the silage tools; what you are issued with is killing off the flies. The heating gets clamp. During the day and night, we and months. We came out of the lockdown, the world started to show yours for the day is the mantra, as we put on, there was even a small mutter swap the groups over three times for cannot risk cross contamination, and of perhaps putting the thicker duvet three days. This way everyone has a semblances of returning to a hint of normality. We are though currently in the same applies with gloves. Sadly on the bed, fortunately we held back go at being in overnight. On day four one of the great task traditions had to because it’s gone tropical again (small the tyres are removed (horrible, the second lockdown – something exaggeration there – but it is very mucky job) and hey presto they like back in February we probably couldn’t take back seat – that of providing tea, warm). All these weather changes are going to bed and they can come and go have possibly conceived. coffee, cake and/or biscuits, clearly that comes with a very high risk of not great for the calves, we have had from eating or sleeping as they wish. September, October and November the odd case of pneumonia. Calves All was well and we were so impressed spreading this virus!!! have certainly been busy months out find it very hard to regulate their with our babies, clean and keeping a All that said the joy of being together temperature, it’s winter so we like to nice tidy clamp eating under and over on the reserve. We welcomed the give them a warm cosy bed in a nice the wire. Until all was not well and volunteers back from a period of (at a distance of course) was worth all airy barn, however when it warms up when we arrived one foggy morning a inactivity. Tentatively at first with all the the hassle, it was tangible to see then cools down, they struggle. party had been held and they were on Covid restrictions, social distances, everyone’s pleasure to be back on the Fortunately Harry is on it pretty top of the silage clamp. We think one sanitising - all of that - but it was so common. good to welcome them back in limited quickly and as soon as he notices one had had a sneaky eat of silage from Two large projects got underway in is not eating its temperature is taken, round the side of the clamp and numbers, but back they were. November. Firstly that of improving if it has a snotty nose and is caught the electric wire with her One big lesson learned from the fire access and fire resilience. We hired a breathing heavily then it will get a head and when she pulled back she has been to keep tracks open and three day treatment of antibiotics broke it therefore disconnecting all company to bring a heavy duty and all is well again. power from the rest of the clamp. reducing the fuel load of vegetation. mulching machine to reduce the Fortunately, there wasn’t too much This is something very much to the trackside gorse. This machine is truly It’s November and only a week away damage to the clamp -just tryes forefront of managing the reserve. To impressive. Reducing large volumes of from starting serving, so all the distributed around and some extra be honest it always has been a driver gorse to a fine compost almost. This is heifers and cows are now in full time, silage pulled out and trodden on. in planning and delivering works. a new idea to us on the reserve and this is so everyone is all settled and Years of austerity haven’t helped. only time will tell the long term happy and they will show signs of Budget cuts took their toll on available effectiveness. It is without doubt that bulling well (in season). The cows are funds to manage the site within its true follow up work will be required but the pretty easy to get settled back into needs - this is a political hot potato volume has been reduced and with it the winter routine, they have been in and I won’t dwell - much has been the fuel load which would help a fire at night anyway and then when it has written in the press about this and I spread rapidly and with ease and been wet in the day have come in have to remain neutral as there is speed. This machine came highly early, so no real shocks to the diet. much good going on the world on recommended from a colleague at the Some years when they first come in conservation outside the prying eyes RSPB so the conclusion was let’s try it. during the day the milk yield takes of media sensationalism. The quite a nose dive, but the quality of From the initial results and local the silage is good and they have been volunteers welcomed the return and feedback via Facebook etc it’s all used to having to come in for a bit of as if the hadn’t been absent quickly heading in the right direction and the day. The heifers though have not got back in their stride and began the that’s got to be only good. Other track been housed for several months so catch up battle with excessive gorse improvements and gorse volume this is our chance to get them cubicle and birch scrub. reduction contracts are to be arranged trained too, lying in a single bed, not as the winter progresses.

The second large project is that of first hard frosts end the flight season; tidying up the burned and damaged the common and black darters. boardwalk. A very local company started in the first week of November. The days are now nearing their Initially they removed the old support shortest. The sun stays low in the post stumps and collected as many of winter sky. Morning frosts and mists the screws and nails as physically greet us as we pull back the curtains. possible. They will then continue to However life on the common goes on. remove the very worst of the damaged We will welcome our winter visitors section as the month progresses. A and those residents who chose to consequence of these works is the spend winter with us. Star of the show areas once accessible by the is the Great Grey Shrike, but they are boardwalk will be left totally joined by large flocks of Fieldfares and inaccessible. Areas of deep open Redwings, and our residents such as water and bog will be impassable and Blackbirds, Robins and Finches are we must advise in the strongest terms joined by their cousins from the to avoid trying to get through. continent. One consequence of the fire will be what returns, and will it like The future replacement to the what it finds? Going by the number of boardwalk is as yet still unclear. It is birds using the reserve this autumn clear from talking to many locals and the future is looking very promising. from social media that a replacement Everyone is talking about the numbers structure of some kind is highly of Red Kites this year - numbers I’ve desired, in fact it is that which seeded never seen, once an occasional bird is the very generous amounts of money now very common. Large flocks of raised by the “Preserve our reserve” Crossbills, a very specialised member fund raiser. Whether it will be a like for of the finch family with a beak that like wooden boardwalk or an does what it says on the tin, they can alternative is the question; a wooden seen and heard in the pine trees one would be in keeping but another teasing out the seeds held within the fire in the future would leave us back folds of the cones, that crossed bill at square one, yet fire retardant acting like a lever to open the cones materials are incredibly costly. and extract the goodness within. Answers on a post card as the old adage goes. And finally

It’s a nature reserve so let’s talk nature!! Before I draw this to the last thoughts I must now introduce a new member of The landscape takes on a muted staff to the reserve, Tom Hawkins, who perhaps sombre feel, but with the low started in early November. Tom is sun stunning textures are revealed. currently on a short-term contract until With all the leaves now fallen, the next spring and has come from the skeletal shapes of trees are exposed National trust at Blackdown, just into showing their true and amazing variety West Sussex, so almost a local. If you

To some the sight of dragonflies still come across him do extend a cheery on the wing during November must welcome. I will get him to write a piece seem unusual. There are though a soon. couple of species to be seen until the

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