PARISH MAGAZINE
BENTLEYAND BINSTED JUNE 2019 INSIDE FRONT COVER
Vicar of Bentley, Binsted and Froyle: Yann Dubreuil Holy Cross Vicarage, Binsted, Alton, GU34 4NX Tel: 07777 684533 email: [email protected] Website: www.benbinfro.co.uk
Assistant Priest – Christopher Ogilvie Thompson Tel: 07776 178690 email: [email protected]
BeneficeAdministrator – Hannah Dubreuil Tel 01420 23339 [email protected] (Office hours Mon, Weds, Thurs 9am – 2pm)
Media Administrator – Lora Bowden Tel 01420 23339 [email protected] Honorary Assistant Minister – David Perryman, Treetops, Upper Froyle Tel. 520647 [email protected]
Parishes Prayer Chain – Nick Carter – 472861 or [email protected] Pastoral Care Team – Nick Carter – 472861 or [email protected]
Readers – Harold Fish, 6 Bonners Field, Bentley. 22947
Bentley: St Mary’s Churchwardens: Jill Kiely, 11 Broadlands Close, Bentley, GU10 5LE - 22735 Nick Caddick, Tanners, GU10 5NE - 23229
Binsted: Holy Cross Churchwardens Kathy Ogilvie Thompson, Mill Court, GU34 4JF Tel No. 01420 23125. Stella Croom-Johnson, 4 Foresters Cottages GU34 4PS – 23157
Parish Magazine Articles and Advertising: Any copy or advertising enquiries should be sent to Lora Bowden on the 5th of the month, by email ([email protected])
Editor: Rev Yann Dubreuil Designer: Mike Hammerton Treasurer: Steve Fice, 01420 22197 [email protected] Distribution: Bentley – Harold Fish Tel 22947 Binsted – Alan and Anne Shelley Tel 520960 INSIDE FRONT COVER June 2019
INDEX Specialist Services ...... ii-viii Professional Services ...... xi-x Health and Beauty ...... x-xiv Entertaining ...... xiv-xvi Domestic services ...... xvi-xvii Gardening ...... xvii-xix House Building/Maintenance ...... xix-xxiv
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For bookings and enquiries please call the Bentley Community Association Booking's Secretary – details inside the back cover of this magazine.
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Froyle Baby and Toddler Group Froyle Baby and ToddlerThursdays, Group 9:45am -11:45am (during term times) Thursdays, 9:45am -11:45amFroyle Village Hall (during term times) Froyle VillageAll babies Hall and toddlers welcome with carers - only £2 per family. Froyle Baby and Toddler Group All babies and toddlersCome welcome and join with us carers for crafts, - songs, stories and only £2 lots per and family. lots of toys in a lovely, relaxed setting. Come and join us for crafts, songs, storiesThursdays, and 9:45am -11:45am lots and lots of toysFroyle in a lovely, Baby relaxed setting.and Toddler(during term Group times) FroyleDifferent Village themes Hall Froyle Baby and Toddlereach week; Group Thursdays, 9:45amincluding -11:45am colours, Different (duringthemes term times)counting, boats, birds and Thursdays,Alleach babies week; 9:45am and toddlerssuperheroes! -11:45am welcome with carers - including (duringcolours,Froyle Village term Halltimes) counting, boats, birds and only £2 per family. superheroes! All babiesComeFroyle and toddlers and joinVillage welcome us for with Hallcrafts, carers songs, - stories and lots andonly lots£2 per of family.toys in a lovely, relaxed setting. All babiesCome and and join toddlers us for crafts, welcome songs, stories with and carers - lots and lots onlyof toys £2 in a perlovely, family. relaxed setting. Come and join us for crafts, songs, stories and Different themes lots and lots of toys in a lovely, relaxed setting.each week; Different themes including colours, each week; counting, boats, birds and including colours, counting, boats, birds and superheroes! P.S. There’s also tea and cake!superheroes!Different themes each week; including colours, P.S. There’s also tea and cake! counting, boats, birds and superheroes! B&B Magazine | xiii
P.S. There’s also tea and cake! P.S. There’s also tea and cake!
P.S. There’s also tea and cake! June 2019 Vicar’s Letter
Dear All
What is the point of prayer, if God doesn’t put things Pain was written as an intellectual Christian response right? It’s hard to answer, especially if one is not used to the problem of suffering. 20 years later, Lewis’ to praying. And especially hard when cries for God response to pain is said to have moved from head to to listen are tossed around so casually in conversation heart as he wrote A Grief Observed – a collection of and as exclamations, in the form of ‘for God’s sake’ reflections following the death of his wife. and similar expressions. Another question is how, where and when we should So this month, because our churches are planning pray (or is that 3 questions?!). Those of us who some special time for prayers during June, I want to regularly attend church on Sundays pray as a matter examine the meaning of prayer and how to make of course during those services, but many pray in prayer more accessible for us all. Let’s start first of the quiet of their home, while some pray walking all with a simple definition – prayer is a means of in the open air, experiencing the wonders of God’s communicating with God. It is a process that allows creation. The truth is that we can pray anywhere. In us to talk directly to Him and also to listen to Him. my experience, little and often is best – as the great We all use so many forms of communication in our Pentecostal Preacher Smith Wigglesworth said: “I lives now, from Facebook to Instagram, emails and never pray for more than fifteen minutes, but I never texts and sometimes we don’t think very carefully go more than fifteen minutes without praying”. about what we are saying in these immediate forms of expressing our thoughts and then realise in retrospect The churches in our Benefice are open every day that we should have been more circumspect. But in and everyone is welcome to use them for peaceful prayer, we can say anything we like, because it will all contemplation at any time, but during the first nine be heard and none of it will be judged. days of June we are creating a special time and place for prayer in all three churches. But, the sceptics will say, what is the point if it doesn’t get the desired result? It’s hard for a generation that In our Benefice, we are calling this The Bentley, is used to paying its money and getting answers, to Binsted and Froyle Week of Prayer which will run realise that prayer may not work that way. Just as a from lunchtime 2nd June to lunchtime 9th June. good friend will listen to our impassioned accounts Bentley Church Hall will be open 24 hours a day, of wrongs done to us or a psychiatrist will allow us seven days a week during this time. All three churches to explore our innermost thoughts without judging are creating imaginative prayer stations and there us or telling us explicitly what we should do, so God will be stations in each church. Everyone is warmly is primarily listening to us. Of course, it is quite welcome to come and sit, think and pray. You don’t normal when we or our loved ones are ill to pray for have to attend a regular service, although you’ll be a cure, but if that doesn’t happen, does it mean that very welcome if you do. So if you don’t usually pray our prayers have gone unanswered? It may be that or even normally come to church, please pay us a visit. our prayers are answered, but not in the way we want. You may just find yourself feeling that you have been And it may be that it is best to pray for God’s will to heard and leave with an inner sense of peace. be done and for us to have the forbearance to come Blessings to terms with what may happen. The tension between intellectual and emotional responses to the problem Yann and the Benefice Team of evil can be seen in CS Lewis’ work. The Problem of
1 | B&B Magazine June 2019 Church Registers BENTLEY Baptism 5th May Robin Green BINSTED Wedding 4th May Zahra Roberts and Adetunji Awani
The Benefice of Bentley, Binsted and Froyle invite senior residents The Benefice of to a Bentley, Binsted and Summer Froyle Tea Party invite at Wednesdaysenior residents Mill Court to a Near Upper Froyle 3rd July GU344JF Summer Tea Party 3-5pm at Wednesday Mill Court Near Upper Froyle 3rd July RSVP GU344JF Jane Dalton 01420 520278 The Benefice of or Bentley, Binsted and 3-5pm Nick Carter 01420 472861 Froyle RSVP invite Jane Dalton Transport can be arranged senior residents if needed 01420 520278 to a or Summer Nick Carter Tea Party 01420 472861 at Wednesday Mill Court Transport can be arranged Near Upper Froyle if needed 3rd July GU344JF B&B Magazine | 2 3-5pm
RSVP Jane Dalton 01420 520278 or Nick Carter 01420 472861
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A Week of Prayer
Time to be inspired.
Time to pray in peace.
Time to be heard.
Time to listen.
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Benefice of Bentley, Binsted and Froyle Week of Prayer Sunday 2nd June midday to Sunday 9th June midday
WHY DO WE HAVE OUR WEEK OF PRAYER NOW? In the Christian Calendar we celebrate Jesus Christ’s resurrection on Easter Day. This was followed by 40 days during which Jesus appeared to approximately 500 people, after which he ascended to heaven. We now celebrate this as Ascension Day (Thursday 30th May 2019).
This is followed by a period of nine days Above and below - examples of prayer stations before Pentecost Sunday (9th June 2019). Pentecost Sunday is when God sent His Holy Spirit upon the Apostles WHAT IS THE WEEK OF PRAYER? and other followers of Jesus. The Week of Prayer is a time for A novena is an ancient Christian tradition peace and private prayer. Bentley of devotional praying, consisting of private or public prayers repeated for Church Hall is open 24 hours a day, nine successive days. with someone present at all times. There are a number of prayer The Archbishops have over the past few stations and interactive activities to years called people to pray during the help people experience a time of time between Ascension Day and personal calm and prayer. There are Pentecost Sunday. This has become our also prayer stations in Binsted and Novena and is a time of prayer and Froyle churches. All the prayer reflection. This Week of Prayer has now reached over 1 million Christians from 65 stations are created by the home different denominations and traditions in groups within our Church community over 114 countries around the world. and are imaginative and beautiful.
We warmly invite you to come along to one of the churches during this week. You can just turn up at any time. The children from Bentley and Binsted schools will be visiting the prayer stations in their local churches with their class teachers.
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You are invited to join us on
from 3.30pm to 5.30pm
IN BINSTED SCHOOL HALL, BINSTED VILLAGE
Fun, crafts, celebration & Food! All are invited - young & old alike, adults, children, teenagers, carers, grandparents, come as friends, families or partners, or come on your own. Everyone is welcome.
If you are a child, you need to bring an adult with you!
Entrance is free Messy Team Co-ordinator: Nick Carter 01420 472 861
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ANNUAL PARISH PICNIC
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LOVE IN A BOX 2019
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You are warmly invited to Binsted’s Marquee and Pet Church Service
On Sunday 7th July at 11am In the marquee at Binsted Recreation ground
All humans and pets are welcome to this all age service with hymns, songs, and a blessing for your pets. Refreshments will be served following the service
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School News – Bentley CE Primary
It may well be that primary school science for many of us included such things as playing with iron filings and magnets, sowing seeds and the Friday afternoon ‘Nature Walk’.
These are all very important parts of choices about what to use, for example, understanding the world around us, for the wheels on a battery driven car.
and continue to be a part of the primary Another class is looking at the animals that You are warmly invited to Binsted’s curriculum, but a visit to a science lesson live on the island of Madagascar, learning in 2019 would have many more elements about ways in which species adapt to Marquee and Pet Church Service to it. their environments and ecological niches. ‘Being Scientific’ is now a key part of the This sort of work inevitably brings in ideas science curriculum, which encourages about conservation and protecting our children to ask questions and devise ways fragile world, and it is good to see that the On Sunday 7th July at 11am to try out ideas. They design experiments, next generation takes seriously matters with guidance, and have to think critically such as pollution due to plastic packaging In the marquee at Binsted Recreation about the results they get – working in just and use of fossil fuels. Children have the way that scientists do. been enthusiastic about practical steps, ground such as reducing and recycling waste, We cover a wide range of scientific separating waste in the dining room and themes. Just this term, we have children writing to large companies to share their finding out about plants, including how thoughts about how the world they inherit All humans and pets are welcome to this seeds are dispersed and germinate in should be looked after right now. various different species. This includes all age service with hymns, songs, and devising tests to find out if seeds really do All these, alongside the traditional work need soil, for example. Much of the work on circuits, forces and all the other things a blessing for your pets. on plants is backed up by our wonderful we associate with ‘traditional science’ Refreshments will be served following the team of volunteer gardeners, who help the help children to understand the world in children in Year 1 growing all manner of which they live, and through an integrated service vegetables which are then sold to families, approach to primary learning, they have generating a modest income for further opportunities to apply the knowledge they work. accumulate in solving problems.
Another year group is investigating A great example of this was our recent materials, finding out which are the ‘Engineering Challenge’. Across the best for various uses. The knowledge school, classes found out about the they gain will then enable them to make many different types of engineering, from
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computer to civil engineering, and some of the children had the opportunity to talk to ‘real live’ engineers to find out about their work. The main challenge was to design a solution to an everyday problem. We enjoyed a huge range of imaginative ideas, from time travel space portals, mechanical spaghetti forks and automatic cat-grooming robots right through to voice-activated, treat dispensing dog- training collars and self-tightening shoe laces.
The winning entry was a super invention – a non-tipping cup holder, designed by Eryka in Year 3. We were particularly impressed with how she took two existing Image: Eryka's winning design concepts and merged them to make a truly innovative device – well done Eryka!
These experiences, starting with ‘pure’ science, and then finding applications and other links, helps to develop thinkers, innovators and problem-solvers of the future.
It is very humbling to be a part of their journeys…
Paul Goddard, Science Lead
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School News - Binsted CE Primary
News from Oak Class (Year R/1 Binsted CE Primary School) In Oak Class, we have been very busy as per usual. We have learning about the history of toys, in particular the toys of our parents and grandparents. With this in mind, families have been raiding their attics to find items from their childhood. We had a lot of fun looking at the toys from the past and even getting to play with some of them (our favourite was a dolls house from the 1980s). We were even fortunate enough to have a special visit from a grandparent who gave us a demonstration of his working steam engine.
With spring here, we are now exploring how plants grow and nurturing caterpillars which we are hoping to see turn into butterflies very soon.
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Wickham Institute, Binsted - Registered Charity No. 1090864
THE WICKHAM INSTITUTE (VILLAGE HALL), BINSTED www.wickhaminstitute.co.uk
The Wickham Institute 100+ Club As promised, listed below are the lucky winners of the May 2019 draws:
May 1st prize Stella Croom-Johnson
2nd prize Mark Weldon
3rd prize Kathy Ogilvie Thompson
Details of the June 2019 draw will appear in the next magazine.
Remember each number only costs £12 (£1 per month) and you have three chances to win each month!
50% of the monthly purchase price of each number goes in prizes and 50% to the running costs of The Wickham Institute. The more people that participate in the 100+ club, the more money that is paid out in monthly prizes.
If you would like to participate an application form can be obtained from Andrew Croom-Johnson on 01420 23157 or email a request to Andrew at [email protected].
REMINDER TO CURRENT PARTICIPANTS: Many ticket holders will need to renew their subscriptions in June if they pay annually by cheque, and should hopefully have received details in the post by the time you read this article. Please return the renewal form promptly so that you can be entered into the draw made at the beginning of July.
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Binsted Fete, Flower, Photography and Dog Show 1-4pm Saturday 6th July 2019 Join us for a ‘Mythical’ Day of Family Fun, Games, Competitions and good old Binsted Community Spirit.
So, get growing those flowers and vegetables. Start the brewing, knitting, get the dog groomed and take those marvellous photos.
Find us on www.Facebook.com/BinstedFete for a downloadable copy of the full schedule including description of Cups and Trophies, plus entry form. There will also be printed copies available in the Church, School, and other locations around the parish.
Section A: Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers and Plants 1. Vegetables, 4 kinds on a tray 24” x 18” for colour. the Gwyther Cup 25. Sweet peas, vase of 9 stems, mixed 2. Vegetables, 3 kinds of salad vegetables colours. for the Blacknest Cup 26. Roses, 3 stems large headed type. 3. Soft fruit, a dish of 18 of 3 kinds 27. Roses, 3 stems spray or cluster flowered 4. Gooseberries, dish of 10. (Floribunda). 5. Rhubarb, 3 sticks 28. Roses, 1 stem of a scented rose 6. Peas, dish of 5 pods. (condition is not important) 7. Broad beans, dish of 5 pods. 29. Dahlias, 1 stem 8. Runner beans, dish of 5 pods. 30. Dahlias, vase of 5, one or more varieties. 9. French beans, dish of 6 pods. 31. Flower grown from a bulb, 1 stem 10. Carrots, bunch of 5. 32. Flowering shrub 11. Beetroot, 3 roots leaves trimmed and tied 33. Annuals, vase of 5 stems with raffia 34. Flowering perennials, 3 or more kinds, 12. Potatoes, dish of 5 any kind 9 stems. 13. Cabbage, 2 heads. 35. Perennial, 1 stem for the Hampden Cup 14. Lettuce, 2 heads. 36. One flowering houseplant (must have 15. Onions, 2 been in owners possession for at least 16. Tomatoes, dish of 3, 6 months) 17. Tomatoes, dish of 5, small fruited variety 37. One foliage houseplant (must have 18. Cucumbers, 2 been in owners possession for at 19. Courgettes, 3 with or without flowers least 6 months) 20. Herbs, bunch of 3 kinds, 9 stems 38. Fuchsia, 6 heads 21. Any vegetable not mentioned above. 39. Hosta, 5 leaves, cut and presented 22. Children’s class: any exhibit from classes in a vase 1 to 21 grown and staged by someone 40. Children’s class: any exhibit from aged 16 or under. 23. Novelty class: Ugliest Vegetable classes 24 to 39 grown and staged 24. Sweet peas, vase of 9 stems of one by someone 16 or under.
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Section B: Flower Arrangements This section includes flowers which you can buy rather than grow 41. An arrangement depicting the theme 43. Miniature arrangement depicting the using flowers, foliage and accessories. theme ‘Mythical’. No bigger than 10x10cm No bigger than 60 x60 cm any height. any height and any container. 42. A Posy you would give to a loved one. 44. Children’s class: any arrangement of Any colours or materials. No bigger than garden flowers by someone 16 or under. 40x40cms any height. To be displayed in water. Section C: Domestic Produce for the Holcroft Cup JARS 45. Jar of strawberry jam 49. Jar of jelly 46. Jar of any other fruit jam 50. Jar of curd 47. Jar of marmalade 48. Jar of chutney (not pickle)
BAKES 51. A Victoria sponge 56. 6 Biscuits (of any variety) 52. Lemon sponge 57. 6 Pieces of fudge 53. Decorated cake with a “Mythical” theme 58. A fruit tart: no soggy bottom please! (only decoration judged) 59. 6 cheese scones 54. 6 decorated cupcakes with a “Mythical” 60. A loaf of bread theme (only decoration judged) 55. Family fruit cake
PRODUCE 61. 6 eggs arranged in a basket 63. 1 Bottle of homebrewed Kraft beer 62. 1 Bottle of homebrewed alcoholic drink of 64. 1 Bottle homemade soft drink (opened your choice (opened and stoppered) and stoppered)
Section D: Arts and Crafts for the Chalcroft Cup 65. Any hand-knitted or crocheted item 68. A piece of jewellery 66. An item of needlecraft 69. An item of any other handicraft 67. A homemade greeting card
Section E: Children’s Competition for the Hampden Junior Cup Children are welcome to enter any class they like, but these are just for kids, so step away Mum and Dad! Under 5 years 70. A vegetable model of an animal 72. Painted Rock on the theme ‘Mythical’ 71. A Duplo model of a ‘Mythical’ creature Remember: no names on rocks 71. An A4 painting of a ‘Mythical Monster’ please! 19 | B&B Magazine June 2019
5 to 7 years 73. A vegetable model of an animal 75. Painted Rock on the theme ‘Mythical’ 74. A Lego model of a mythical creature Remember: no names on rocks please! 74. A Miniature garden 75. 25 Things in a match box
8 to 11 years 74. A vegetable model of an animal 75. Painted Rock on the theme ‘Mythical’ 75. A Lego model of a mythical creature Remember: no names on rocks please! 76. A Miniature garden 75. 35 Things in a match box
12 to 15 years 76. A Lego model of a mythical creature 77. Painted Rock on the theme ‘Mythical’ 77. A headdress on the theme ‘Mythical’ Remember: no names on rocks please! 75. 45 Things in a match box
Section F: Photographs This section is open to all age groups and will be judged accordingly. P1: Generations P5: Sport P2: Best of Binsted P6: From Dusk till’ Dawn P3: Mythical P7: Most liked P4: Selfie
Section G: Family Dog Show D1: Best puppy D2: Best Bitch D8: Child handler 7 years and below D3: Best Dog D9: Child handler 8+ D4: Best Rescue D10: Waggyist tail D5: Best Veteran (split into two groups) D11: Fancy dress (dog) handler optional! 7 years to 10 // 11 onwards Theme celebrities D6: Best local dog D12: Best catcher D7: Best in show (1st/2nd winners of above D13: Egg and spoon race ( with dog) classes )
All entries are to be delivered to the marquee on the Rec on Thursday 4th June between 6pm and 8pm.
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For one night only, The Binsted Fete Team brings you….
7pm – 11.30pm in the Main Marquee on Binsted Recreational Ground & in the Pavilion
Licensed Bar Food Pub Quiz Kids Movie Night Wide Games on the Rec DJ and Dancing
Look out for Tickets on Sale Soon!
21 | B&B Magazine June 2019 WHAT'S ON THIS MONTH?
WHEN? WHAT? WHERE?
WHEN?
OPTION 1
COMING UP IN JULY!
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BENTLEY CALENDAR 2019
By popular demand, the Bentley Calendar is back! There were so many fantastic entries in the photographic section of the Bentley Flower Show last year that we have decided to run a photography competition again at this year’s Flower Show on 20 July. The best 12 photographs will be included in the Bentley calendar which will be sold for charity later in the year.
There will be six categories: Bentley in Bloom, Bentley Pets, Bentley Landscapes, Bentley Folk, Bentley Wildlife and (for children only) My Bentley.
So get snapping and don’t forget to enter online (at www.bentleyflowershow.org.uk) or by signing up at the Memorial Hall on Wednesday 17 July between 6.00-8.00pm. Please ensure your name and contact details are on the back of the photographs when you enter them.
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ST. MARY’S CHURCH
FROYLE WELCOMES ALL TO OUR ANNUAL…
‘TEAS ON TUESDAYS’ BENTLEY CALENDAR 2019
By popular demand, the Bentley Calendar is back! There were so many fantastic entries in Tea, scones cream & jam served every Tuesday afternoon in June th the photographic section of the Bentley Flower (starting Tuesday 4 June) Show last year that we have decided to run a photography competition again at this year’s 2.30 - 4.30 pm Flower Show on 20 July. The best 12 St. Mary’s Church photographs will be included in the Bentley Upper Froyle calendar which will be sold for charity later in the year. All are welcome, young, old and everyone in between RELAX & ENJOY A SUMMER’S AFTERNOON IN FROYLE There will be six categories: Bentley in Bloom, Bentley Pets, Bentley Landscapes, Bentley Folk, APRIL WEATHER STATISTICS Bentley Wildlife and (for children only) My Bentley. Temperature Daytime maximum 26.4ºC (21st) to 7.7ºC (4th) So get snapping and don’t forget to enter 4 days below 10ºC, and 6 days above 20ºC online (at www.bentleyflowershow.org.uk) or Nightime minimum - 5.3ºC (14th) to 7.6ºC (8th) by signing up at the Memorial Hall on 10 nights below 0ºC Wednesday 17 July between 6.00-8.00pm. Please ensure your name and contact details Rainfall are on the back of the photographs when you Total for month 0.8 inches (20.2 mm) over 11 days enter them. Wettest days 0.35 inches (9.0 mm) (4th)
Wind
Average wind speed for the month 1.4 mph Dominant wind direction East North East Maximum gust 30 mph (27th) Parish Weatherman B&B Magazine | 24 June 2019
BENTLEY FETE AND FLOWER SHOW
Saturday 20th J u l y f r o m 2 p m Bentley Rec
Followed by Party in the Park in the evening with a live band!
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BENTLEY FLOWER SHOW 2019
Bentley Flower Show had a record-breaking number of entries in 2018. Enter the show this year and help to make 2019 the most successful flower show ever. Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, there’ll be a class for you. Look out for the flower show schedule at Bentley Stores, Bentley School and The Star or check online at www.bentleyflowershow.org.uk For gardeners, it can be as simple as one stem of your favourite rose or as elaborate as a bowl of flowers from your July garden. Fashionable dahlias have a new class of their own this year. If you grow your own vegetables, how about entering a display of produce from your garden or allotment? And for the master chefs in Bentley, how about entering some artisan bread, one of the cake classes or bringing a pot of your favourite pickle? For children aged 3-11 there are eight craft classes and they can also enter the popular photograph competition.
So come and join us at the Bentley Flower Show on 20 July. You can enter online, or come and sign up at the Memorial Hall on Wednesday 17 July between 6.00-8.00pm.
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June 2019
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Attained the age of eighteen years and PARISH COUNCILLOR VACANCY NOTICE NOTICE VACANCY COUNCILLOR PARISH consideration, you must be meet with the following criteria And And meet onewith of the following below:
Have workedHave in Bentley for at least 12 months in Bentley withinor 3 miles of the parish for at least the future, why not join the Reside Hall at 7:30pm. To eligible for be If interested you are in your local community and would like to help improve and protect it for Have occupiedHave as owner or tenant, You must be free to attend 10 parish meeting in the Memorial For more details and information on how to apply, please contact the Clerk on: 07795326539 or email to [email protected]
27 | B&B Magazine June 2019 A BENTLEY CHILDHOOD – Part 2
Continuing the reflections of Amy Elliott who was brought up in Perrylands in the 1870’s and 1880’s and taken from the Parish magazine of May 1999
“I was the third of our family, with an At Christmas and on Easter Sunday we all older sister and two brothers. My parents went to dinner with my father’s parents, had little idea how children should be who lived two miles away. Our conveyance fed and I know we had too much meat, was a huge wagonette, two seated in front bacon and cheese, never any milk, but and four at the back, with many rugs and water with meals (beer for father). We a huge umbrella. May 24th was Queen had no fresh fruit on the table and not Victoria’s birthday and she always reviewed much stewed fruit, and very few milk her Army at Aldershot on this day. We puddings, except when really ill, when drove the 10 miles or so from Bentley to mother made arrowroot and also excellent this Review in our wagonette. The roads beef tea. In the large garden we grew every were very dusty – no tarmac then. The sort of currant, cherries, gooseberries etc. Review was a magnificent sight, with and we would help ourselves to these in mounted Lancers. moderation. A few miles from Farnham I remember Our daily life was monotonous but we seeing the very first motor car running on were contented. When I was three and a the roads. It was a queer-looking object, half we had our first governess. My elder its speed four miles per hour, and it was brother went to boarding school and I preceded by a man waving a red flag. He was taught with my sister Edith. Our also had to lead horses past, as they were mornings were spent in the warm nursery; terrified of the weird thing.” in the afternoons we went for walks. Sundays made a change from our ordinary We had no servant troubles – there was routine and were kept very strictly in the always a resident maid, and a daily help old-fashioned way of rest and worship. from the wife of one of my father’s farm My father was a Churchwarden for 28 labourers. She received one shilling per day. years and we saw the restoration of the It was a coveted job, as my parents were interior of Bentley Church and the box good and kind employers. Once a fortnight pews replaced. One of the box pews used another woman came to do the laundry. to be allotted to each family – they were There was a scullery with two huge coppers square and when tiny we stood on the for firewood and a large room for mangling seats. Ours had a hat box, into which we and ironing. I ironed handkerchiefs as soon put my father’s silk hat. On the long winter as I could life the heavy irons” evenings we sang hymns at home, with To be continued father playing the harmonium; our resident maid joined us for this.
B&B Magazine | 28 June 2019 Binsted Football Club U10’s
We are coming to the end of our football This is my third season playing for season and what a great season it has Binsted football club and I have really been! enjoyed it! We have players from Binsted, Bentley and Alton so it is a The highlight was winning the cup final brilliant way to make new friends. Our for our division. coaches this season have been Bobby Cowan and Nick Williams, they have got Our coaches Bobby Cowan and Nick the team through a hard but successful Williams have been amazing. season. Then at the end of the season we went to a cup final at Hart leisure We got sponsored by Herrington centre it was a thrilling, hard and exiting Carmichael mid season and got a very match and all of the training paid off in warm waterproof jacket and a bright a stunning 4-0 victory. Our team have orange sweatshirt which we love. all stuck together throughout the tongue We have really got to know each other twisting season and after all of it we in the team and I feel we have made have finally been promoted to Division 5! friends for life. What an amazing season it has been!
By Charlie Quinnell Written by Harry Shaylor
For more information about Binsted Football club please see our website www.binstedfc.com or email [email protected] 29 | B&B Magazine June 2019 “LET NATURE SING”- CELEBRATION OR LAMENT? This 2.5 minute download has taken the RSPB sound recording team 3 years to put together, what with “noises off“ of various kinds, and the editing process to exploit each bird’s song to the full. The team would struggle out of their tents before the dawn chorus started up, to capture individual birdsong before the hubbub of everyday life kicked in. Reading Gilbert White’s letters from 250 years ago and then taking a walk around local fields certainly indicates how much birdsong we have lost, and how much is still disappearing. A lot of it “on our watch”. is unmistakeable and is almost always heard before you spot it. So people who tell you that all they ever The turtle dove is a prime example, down by 98% but see in the garden are pigeons and magpies are talking once a commonplace in the south, and celebrated by rubbish. Start with the easy ones, where you can put Henry Purcell in his music. The Maltese still shoot names to songs, like the robin, great tit, blackbird them as they migrate north across the Mediterranean. and song thrush, then when you hear something a bit The skylark, joyfully saluted by Vaughan Williams different you can eliminate those you already know. in one of the nation’s favourite pieces, The Lark Rather like listening to familiar voices banging on in , is down by over 50% in 30 years. I wonder Ascending the pub. when you last heard or saw one high over a hillside? As for Handel’s glorious organ recitation, The Cuckoo and the Nightingale, (pictured), both these migrant birds are in serious trouble for a variety of reasons.
Our gardens may not quite manage the full range from the deep boom of the bittern to the haunting diversity of the nightingale, - the “Diva” of birdsong-but they really are one of the best places to listen for birds these days, especially if you have room for a few trees and shrubs, -not forgetting the water and birdfeeders. Listening out for them alerts us to many birds to which we might otherwise remain oblivious. Hidden deep in the foliage as it often is, a bird is frequently The more bird sounds you can learn, the more you will heard before you see it-if indeed you see it at all. start to notice. And your first nightingale-time and Warblers are a good example of this challenge, but place never forgotten. All very therapeutic, too- but they are restless and patience will often be rewarded never time wasting , of course! HP by spotting movement. The same is true of a bird like the nuthatch, whose relentless and quite strident call
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Farmers Viewpoint
Silage or Haylage or Hay? © Copyright Jonathan Billinger
The cattle round and about the parish are trailers then taken to a clamp and all within looking well having had a good winter i.e. about 24 hours, haylage making takes a bit mild weather and good quality food being longer i.e. around three days. Haylage is readily available. At the time of writing these wilted longer (but not as long as hay) before notes the grass had slowed its growth as the being baled and wrapped very tightly in weather went back to a more normal pattern plastic film so that anaerobic fermentation for the time of year i.e. much cooler than at takes place producing lactic acid that Easter and with a few heavy showers (more preserves the grass are required please?). June is the month in as a palatable winter feed. which haylage will be made for feeding to cattle in the winter months. Haylage is the happy medium cattle food, it’s not so dry as hay nor as ‘wet’ as silage – Whilst dairy farmers make grass silage and hay can give cattle a pot-bellied appearance they can take anything between two and and silage can result in rather a lot of liquid five silage cuts from the same grass field(s) coming from a cow’s backend. Haylage during the summer months, most beef cattle ‘binds not blows’ – I quote the words of farmers will make just a single cut of haylage a lady farmer of the parish! in a year. The haylage grass receives relatively low levels of inputs e.g. fertilizer Sheep-shearing traditionally takes place and is cut in the middle of the month, this month, if we’re heading for another hot possibly sooner if there is no significant summer the relief won’t come a moment rainfall. Unlike silage which is cut, tedded too soon for the woolly residents of the (spread about to aid the wilt), rowed up and parish. The potatoes round and about will be then transferred via a forage harvester into sprayed with blight control products as much 31 | B&B Magazine June 2019 as every 10 days but only if the weather is strips to get established with all sorts of damp. The arable crops will receive various weird and wonderful plants like sunflowers; fungicide treatments to keep their leaves niger seeds; trefoils; daisies etc. popping up clear of any disease to maximise the area of along the edges of fields. These strips help leaf available to photosynthesize and thus sustain game birds but they are also planted feed the grains forming in the ear of each with pollinators and winter feeding of small plant. It’s also the time for conservation farmland/hedgerow birds in mind.
Waymarks
As I write this, the Alton Walking Festival has already got underway and I have just completed the Binsted Parish Loop, with a group of 15 in sunny but chilly conditions. This country is so fortunate to have a network This loop walk starts at Gravel Hill car park of accessible rights of way which enable us and takes in the Arboretum, Bentley station, Redcap Copse, Isington, Isington Mill, Froyle Mill, Binsted village, Holy Cross Church, Wyck, Wyck lakes, The Straits, Straits Inclosure, Frith End, Alice Holt Forest, Rowledge and Holt Pound. Not quite a complete circuit of the parish but a nice circular route, although quite tiring in places, especially the long trudge northwards through Alice Holt.
all to get out into our beautiful countryside. We had a visit over Easter from our grand- daughter, Lilya, who lives in south west Cork in the Republic of Ireland. There are no rights of way in Ireland and Lilya was amazed when I started walking across a field at one point, not realising that I was following a footpath. Part of me was saddened by the realisation that such a lovely country as Ireland is bereft of an Several of the walkers said how delighted they accessible footpath network, but I also rejoiced were with the landscapes within the parish in our own local and national network. Let`s all and also with the many historic buildings they make as much use of it as possible! Ian passed. Having walked the paths which make up this loop walk many times in the past, often in grey, rainy and cold conditions, it was lovely to revel in the sunshine which made views across the countryside simply stunning. B&B Magazine | 32 June 2019
NOTES FROM MY GARDEN
Plant of the month: any deutzia but look out for the new pink one: Deutzia x rosea Yuki Cherry
Here we go again with the weather still • Sow biennials, pin back blackberries not back to normal. We have been and wall trained fruit and cut back threatened with a Spanish plume, young growth on the apple trees. whatever that is, and today I read that we • Plant up hanging baskets but ensure, may have frost tonight, but the gardens though, to keep them compact. still keep doing what they always do – with us trying to keep up! • Tall irises can be divided as soon as they have stopped flowering. Dig You are going to be busy this month so up the whole clump and replant the there is a list to get you going. young rhizomes on the surface of the • Keep on pruning all the early flowered soil cutting back the new leaves to stop shrubs once they stop flowering and wind rock. deadhead the bulbs and give them all • To renew the strawberry beds choose a dose of food to encourage next years a few strong looking runners and flowering. peg down into small pots around the • Get the trenches prepared for summer parent to root before cutting to grow crops especially Sweet peas and Beans. on in preparation for planting out in the autumn. • Sow turnips, peas, calendula and beetroot soon and stop the broad • Thin seedlings as they grow to avoid beans before the black fly get at them. overcrowding. They are good to eat if you get there • Cut out any flowers that have appeared before they are attacked. on the rhubarb, give them a feed and feed the roses while you are at it. RC 33 | B&B Magazine June 2019 BENTLEY GARDEN CLUB
There will be no formal meeting in the Bentley Memorial Hall during June, July and August, with our next monthly Tuesday evening meeting with a talk on the 3rd September.
However: Thursday 27th June 2019 – Trip to Tuppenny Barn The coach outing to The Tuppenny Barn Organic will leave the Bentley Memorial Hall at 10.30 am. The cost will be £18 to include a Tour and a Cream Tea.
Please contact Trish Cardy ([email protected]) as soon as possible if you wish to come.
Saturday July 20th 2019 – Bentley Fete As usual we shall be running a plant stall at this year’s Fete. If you can spare a quarter of an hour or so to help run the stall the Committee would be very grateful. Please let any of the Committee know in advance, or just turn up on the afternoon. It will allow Committee members to at least look round the fete.
Tuesday August 6th 2019 - Whispers visit An evening visit to this National Garden Scheme member in Crookham Village. We will be leaving from the Bentley Memorial Hall at 5.30. The cost will be £6 per person. Please let Trish Cardy know ([email protected]) if you wish to come.
U3A ALTON If you are new to the area, or are recently retired, the U3A offers a way of meeting new people. In excess of 40 groups offer a wide selection of recreational and leisure activities including maths, French, music appreciation, painting and dance, as well as outings, concerts and even a holiday. Come to the REGISTRATION DAY on August 9th to learn more, or if you are already a Member join up for another year. More information is available from the Web site, and the Blue Book which will be available from July. B&B Magazine | 34 June 2019
BENTLEY GARDEN CLUB
INVITATION TO ALL
Thursday 27th June 2019 – Trip to Tuppenny Barn
(www.tuppennybarn.co.uk)
We are arranging a coach outing to The Tuppenny Barn Organic Centre. Tuppenny Barn is a UK registered charity. They cultivate and harvest organic produce, using this to create learning experiences for all ages and to promote the benefits of growing, cooking and eating healthy food. Please come and see for yourself this beautifully managed “Barn” and the field surrounding it, growing so much in a small space. The Director and founder Maggie Haynes will lead us on a tour, with a cream tea afterwards. When reaching the area, we will first go to nearby Emsworth for coffee / lunch, maybe even a wander. It is an interesting town with lots of places to eat. Then on to the Tuppenny Barn in the afternoon. With good weather it should be a lovely day out. For more information about them, please visit their website above. +++ The coach will leave the Bentley Memorial Hall at 10.30 am and the cost will be £18 per person which will include the Tour and Cream Tea.
Please contact Trish Cardy ([email protected]) as soon as possible if you wish to come or for more information.
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BENTLEY MEMORIAL HALL ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 7.30pm Tuesday 25th June 2019
Do come along and join us at the meeting and support the Committee who keep the Memorial Hall going. We would really like to hear your views. Drinks and light refreshments will be served following the meeting.
BIG BENTLEY BIKE RIDE & BBQ
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The Jenkyn Place Bridge
n 2nd February 1900 Thomas Eggar 25th July last year, an overheight hay lorry Osold Jenkyn Place to Thomas Goode ploughed into the bridge, which my wife Cunninghame who immediately set to had crossed only minutes before, and 117 work to create new “pleasure gardens”, years of Bentley history was resting on the which included a bridge over Hole Lane to top of his lorry cab. his land to the east of Hole Lane. Jenkyn Place was then sold again in 1912, after the death in 1911 of Mr Cunninghame, to George Sanderson, the then manager of the White Star Line, who was said to be at Jenkyn Place when he heard the news of the Titanic on 15th April 1912, and who was also the sole passenger on the Titanic on its
firstIt is fairvoyage to assume – from thereforeBelfast to thatSouthampton. the Jenkyn Place Bridge would have been built
Mr Cunninghame, so somewhere around in the first year or two of the ownership of listing and highway requirements have passing under it was the horse and cart. madeMinor the difficulties replacement due to of the the Grade bridge II a The1901- bridge when was the builtonly atsignificant a lower height traffic than slow process. However a local chartered it was before it was destroyed last year. The building consultancy are working hard with original bridge is believed to have rested on the top of the Jenkyn Place Garden Wall, from manufactures with the insurance and is believed to have been increased in companyme and are as currently we I write. fine Copious tuning timetenders and height to the 17ft which it has been for the attention is being spent to ensure that such last 75 years or so, just before the last war. an important village asset is returned to its At such a height it was a similar height to former glory. the minimum requirement for a motorway bridge, and did not require a low bridge sign. We very much hope and are confident that the bridge will be fully replaced this year – 37 | B&B Magazine fingers crossed. Simon Bladon June 2019
B&B Magazine | 38 June 2019 Rotas
Bentley Flower Rota Date Altar Chapel
2, 9 June Judy Hallett Liz Mace
16, 23 June Marilyn Greenway Pauline Gillan
30 June, 7 July Sue Chissell Jo Ranger
Binsted Flower Rota Date
June 2nd Rose Carter Wedding 1st Rose
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INSIDE BACK COVER BENTLEY BINSTED Website: www.bentleyparishcouncil.co.uk Website: binstedparishcouncil.com The Memorial Hall The Wickham Institute (Bentley Community Association): Chairman: Catherine Hadfield 01420 23146 Chairman: Steve Fice Tel. 01420 22197 Bookings: Ann Mann 01420 22388 Email: [email protected] email: [email protected] www.bentleymemorialhall.org www.wickhaminstitute.co.uk Treasurer: Andrew Croom Johnson - 23157 Badminton Club: Martin Fox 07710 035913 Mark Kemp Gee - 01420 [email protected] County Councillor 563550, email - [email protected]
Garden Club Chairman District Council Andrew Croom-Johnson Tel: 01420 23157 Ken Carter, Brookfield, Station Road, Treasurer Patricia Cardy Tel: 01420 22325 Bentley GU10 5LA Tel. 01420 22576 District Council Email [email protected] Ken Carter, Brookfield, Station Road, Bentley Parish Council GU10 5LA. 01420 22576 Email Chairman: Claire Fargeot [email protected] email - [email protected] Vicechairman: Ian Salisbury Parish Council [email protected] Chairman: Patric Curwen 01420 520060 Clerk: Sue Hodder 01420 520692 (office) Clerk: Lorraine Jeffs, 4 Turnpike Cottages, Upper 07495 261913 (Mobile 9am to 5pm) Mon to Fri Froyle, Alton, Hants, GU34 4JQ Email [email protected] 07795 326539 Deputy Parish Clerk: Karen Ray 01420 520692 Email:[email protected] Email [email protected] Clerk & R.F.O at Bentley Parish Council Website: binstedparishcouncil.com Lorraine Jeffs Tel: 07795326539 Facebook: @BinstedParish 4 Turnpike Cottages, Upper Froyle, Alton, Hants Binsted School GU34 4JQ Headteacher: Sharron Morton 01420 23200 Parish Office Hours Fête and Flower Show Monday to Thursday 9:00 – 14:00 Secretary: Amin Hoque 07808 575090 Bentley School Treasurer: Tim Stratton 07765 791383 Headteacher: Katy Pinchess 01420 525010 Chair: Patricia Cardy 01420 22325 Email: [email protected] Tennis and Croquet Club Chairman: Childcare Nial Dunne 01420 22922 Dottie Tots: Karen 07387 576 307 [email protected] http://e-voice.org.uk/btcc/ Fête Committee Chairman: Hugh Chissell, Greystones, Bentley Growmore Club Secretary: 01420 23117 Reita Fisher 01483 570996 Flower Show Bentley and Binsted Police Police Rural Beat Officer: Jess Hornsby Chairman: Ruth Ross-Thomson 01420 520322 Alton Police 101 Bentley Youth Club Pippa Blizzard Binsted Cricket Club 07714 239644 Chairman: Ron Neil 01420 520980 Phoenix Group: Cathy Smith 01420 520169 Binsted Football Club Bentley Rec Ground Secretary: Tim Winkworth Chair: Richard Davies 01420 23535 [email protected]
Toddler Group: Cheryl Edwards 07530 671 832 Friends of Binsted School (FOBS) @FOBSBinsted 01420 23200 or Over-60s Club: Catherine Leonard, Cedar [email protected] Cottage, Bentley 01420 23506 Chairman: Alice Cowie Joint Parish Organisations 2nd Bentley Scout Group Care Group (car service) General Enquiries: Bookings 01420 23440 [email protected] Secretary: Cathy Smith 01420 520169 Group Scout Leader – Bob Wilson on Girl Guides (at Holybourne) 07769906745 or email [email protected] Lucy Yendell 01420 80560 www.2ndbentleyscouts.org.uk JUNE SERVICES Sunday 2nd 8.00am Froyle Holy Communion 9.30am Binsted Holy Communion 5.00pm Bentley Live@5 (tea at 4.30pm)
Sunday 9th 9.30am Bentley Morning Worship with Children’s Church 11.00am Froyle Holy Communion 3.30pm Binsted Messy Church (in school)
Sunday 16th 9.30am Binsted Morning Worship 11.00am Froyle Holy Communion 5.00pm Bentley Live@5 Father’s Day Service (tea served at 4.30pm) Sunday 23rd 8.00am Binsted Holy Communion 9.30am Bentley Holy Communion with Children’s Church 6.30pm Froyle Evensong
Sunday 30th 11.00am Binsted Joint Benefice Service
JULY SERVICES Sunday 7th 8.00am Froyle Holy Communion 11.00am Binsted Marquee and Pet Service