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The Parish Magazine for £1 STOCKBRIDGE LONGSTOCK & LECKFORD April 2021 Colour The Parishes of Stockbridge, Longstock and Leckford in the Mid-Test Benefice Rector: The Rev’d Philip Bowden Phone no. 01264 810810 [email protected] Website: http://www.2day.ws/stockbridge All Enquiries, including enquiries about Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals: Please contact our Rector, see details above This Magazine: 11 issues a year: (£8 if paid in advance, £1 per copy) Editors: Frances Candler 811776, Jennifer Kidd 811179 Distribution: Sylvia Shepard 810603 ; Advertisements: [email protected] May copy deadline: 15 April 2021 email: [email protected] St Peter’s Stockbridge St Mary’s Longstock St Nicholas’ Leckford Churchwarden Churchwarden Churchwarden Vacant Madeleine Hedley 810284 Dawn Williams 810724 Hon Secretary Hon Secretary Hon Secretary Rev’d Philip Bowden 810810 Richard Robinson 810388 Micki Nadal 810567 Hon Treasurer Hon Treasurer Hon Treasurer Barbara North 810732 Madeleine Hedley 810284 David Barnes 810516 Beavers New JAM Stockbridge Music Frances Waghorn 01962 776048 Lyn Woods 350846 Tim Lowden 810601 Bell ringers (Longstock) or Pauline Webster 810827 Stockbridge Parish Council Chris Reynell 810569 Organist and Choir Mistress Alex Lawrence(Chair)07789 433133 Bell ringers (Stockbridge) Dawn Williams 810724 Clerk: Belinda Baker 07770 406607 Micki Nadal 810567 Pastoral Visitors [email protected] Brownies (meet in Chilbolton) Vacancy www.stockbridgeparishcouncil.org.uk Julie Shone 01962 761269 RBL (Houghton branch) Stockbridge Pharmacy 810624 Church Mouse Books David Williams (Chair) 811072 Stockbridge Police Station Briar Philips 810838 Iain Bell (Sec) 811636 (Non emergencies) 101 Cub Scouts Angela McMeekin:Poppies 810236 Stockbridge Primary School Mo Collins 01256 895534 Scouts (incorporating Stockbridge Pre-School) HCC County Councillor Mark Lovell 07786 435847 Emma Jefferies (Head) 810550 Cllr Andrew Gibson 861087 Scout Group Explorers Stockbridge Rec Ground Kent Hill Scout Hall Andrea Zanchi 07747 720735 Greg Willcox (Chair) 07768 266288 Leigh Dance 811074 Louise Henderson 07436 899054 Paul Barker(Sec) 01794 389131 Leckford Parish Council St Thomas More Church Stockbridge Surgery 810524 Dawn Williams 810724 Father Mark Hogan 01962 852804Out of hours urgent treatment or advice Longstock Garden Club Stockbridge Church Flowers Sec Hants Doctors On Call freephone 111 Peter Moore 07881573493 Angela McMeekin 810236 Stockbridge Town Hall [email protected] Stockbridge Community Cinema Kim Candler (Chair) 811776 Longstock Mayflies Paul Kidd 811179 On-line bookings Liz Howard 07870 612127 Stockbridge Community Market www.stockbridgetownhall.co.uk Longstock Parish Council Carol Preston 07925 287870 or phone 01264 513299 Chair: Sophie Walters 07740 443460Stockbridge Court Leet Test Valley School Clerk: Mark Flewitt 810752 Guy Boney (Lord of the Manor) Mrs T Wilden (Head) 810555 Longstock Village Hall 810614 Trout ’n About Selina Musters 810459 Diana Tym (Bailiff) 810363 Anne Stables 07734 715081 Longstock & Leckford WI Stockbridge Dramatic Society TVBC Councillor Sue Hill 811779 Mark Frank 810562 Cllr Tony Ward 01794 389649 Neighbour Care 0845 0943713 Stockbridge Football Club Unity Transport Calls cost 7p/min + network charge. Glenn Curtis (Chair) 07585 112523 (Joyrides Shopping Bus) Greg Willcox(Hon Sec)07768 266288 01264 356808 Email: [email protected] 2 From the Rector Happy Easter You may well be reading this in Holy Week. Happy Easter! At the beginning of April there is Good News in the life of the Church. Not only are we celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ once more, also here in the MidTest benefice we have reopened the churches for public worship. Distinct from 2020’s on-line Easter celebration, this year we are able to worship together in church. As you would expect, strict procedures will be in place to protect public health in church. In particular it will be necessary to make a booking if you want to come to church on Easter Sunday – please contact one of your local churchwardens for more details, and of course, hand sanitiser and masks and distanced seating will be required. The national public health situation gives us cause for hope, as the rollout of vaccinations continues at pace and prevalence of the virus continues to decline. It seems appropriate, as we celebrate Easter, to have such a cause for hope. However, we would do well to reflect on Jesus’ followers’ reaction to the news of the resurrection. At first, they were confused and unsure – some were disbelieving and others responded by hiding indoors in fear. Our response to the good news on public health should be equally cautious. This Easter, there is Good News. This Easter we have reason for hope. This Easter we can look forward to new future and a changed world. Yet we need to recognise the cost that has been paid for this Good News, the pain and suffering that that has brought it about, and the need to ensure that it is Good News for all people. Happy Easter. The Rev’d Philip Bowden Contents Alexander ‘Sandy’ Burnfield 27 Recipe: Sticky Ginger and Almond cake 17 Church News 29,30,31 Registration for Postal Voting 14 Colin ‘Corky’ Taylor 28 Rev Francis Chadwick 28 Editorial 4 Stockbridge Music Artists Fund 11 From The Rector 3 Stockbridge Parish Council 7 In memory of Gerald Lambert 25 Stockbridge Practice 14 Jamaica - The Island in the Sun (Part Three) 12,13,14 Stock-U 9 James ‘Max’ Maxwell 28 Stock-U Solution 17 Letters - Bamboos, Privy in a hedge response 17 Sunday Services 31 National Trust Update 19 Sumer is Icumen In, Lhude Sing Cuccu 20,21 Notes from a Bookseller 9 Test Valley School - Land Based Rural Studies 21 Peregrines are Back 21 The Accidental Immigrant 15 Potting Shed Cuttings for April 23 The Willows, Longstock 11 Prayers for April 31 Cover Photo: The Willows, Longstock (Paul Kidd) Creativity has been the salvation of many during lockdown. Our footers this month reflect on the blessing of creativity 3 From the Editorial Team Longstock Garden Club One year on from the first lockdown, it would be For April, the Garden beyond wonderful if this magazine proved to be the Club have two more last to be produced and read during the current full Zoom lectures to look lockdown. We wait with bated breath to see if this forward to: is the case; as editors, lockdown has compelled us Tuesday 13 April 2021 (and our brilliant contributors) to dig ever deeper for Katherine Crouch, winner of BBC Gardener of material to entertain and inform our readers. the Decade in 2008 When we discovered Jean Jacques Rousseau’s The Hardy Exotic Garden reference to the ‘world of reality having its limits, with the world of imagination being boundless’, we Tuesday 20 April 2021 were prompted to reflect on the myriad ways in Andrew Oldham, garden writer, blogger, eco- which so many have used their imaginations to journalist, disabled gardener at Life on Pig Row. escape the limitations of lockdown. While ‘the Creating and Planting A Cottage normal’ in our lives has been on hold, many of us, Garden though not all, will have had time to develop and grow our interests in art, cookery, reading, writing As an introduction to Longstock Garden Club and music, and to pursue more hands on projects these Zoom talks are free. Details from like gardening and decorating. Many of us will now [email protected] have a greater understanding and practical experience of IT, and all of us, even those working hardest to keep us all safe, will have spent time Test Villages U3A in contemplation, re-evaluating what is important to us. Wednesday 7 April 2pm Tom Morath As we move on we hope that the best of our new talents and discoveries will stay with us. Our footers 'It's a good day for flying a kite' may help inspire you further. Zoom link sent in advance to all U3A members Frances Candler and Jennifer Kidd To join please email [email protected] 01264 811776 and 01264 811179 Stockbridge Wherwell History Community Market Group Every Thursday morning 8pm, Friday 16 April in Stockbridge Town Hall Clock Making David Poole Returning when we can! Zoom meeting. Free admission to members. For non-members, the admission fee is £4 per event. To make a booking, please email [email protected] Stockbridge Community Cinema Copy for Magazine Copy date for the May Magazine: Look out for information on our expected re- 15 April 2021 opening in May by visiting our website Please send emails to: [email protected] www.stockbridgecinema.org.uk or phone Frances Candler on 01264 811776 or Jennifer Kidd on 01264 811179 The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision . 4 Terstan Garden, Stockbridge Town Hall Longstock Events will be open for the National Gardens Scheme Weekly (from w/c 12 April) Sunday 18th April Thurs am Stockbridge Community Market 2.00-5.00pm Fri am Moo Music Please check arrangements and book/pay April online at NGS.org.uk Apr 13-14 Wild Bazaar Plants for sale, plenty of parking space, Apr 17-18 Antiques and Curios Apr 17-18 Hawkmoor Books live music Apr 19-21 Jennifer Gay All takings go to the NGS medical charities Apr 24-25 South Central Makers Apr 27-28 Wild Bazaar Apr 29-30 Cocoon Walnut Wood Available in recently cut down logs. Diameters from 12” HELP! to 30”. Suitable for Volunteers required to work in pairs to whittling, carving, clean St Peter’s Church garden furniture or on a rota basis. burning. No charge but collect central Please contact Catherine Williams on Stockbridge. 01264811069 Tel: Colenso 810154 Email: [email protected] See page 29 for more details ALPACA KNITWEAR by Jennifergay Stockbridge Town Hall April 19 - 21 WE’RE BACK!! Re-opening on April 12 at 10 AM And then regularly from Tuesday to Saturday 10AM - 4PM SPECIAL EVENT on April 17: Claire Fuller, acclaimed Winchester- based novelist, will be signing her brand new book UNSETTLED GROUND at The Bookmark from 2-4 pm (under Covid-safe conditions) Just published, and long-listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction PS You can still email us with your order requests and we will do our best to fulfil them.