FULMER NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2017 – Issue 62
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FULMER NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2017 – Issue 62 www.fulmervillage.org LIST OF ADVERTISERS Chiropody, Adriana Rozek 01753 652754 Hamptons Estate Agents, Gerrards Cross 01753 886464 Hibiscus 01753 664166 South Bucks Physio, Wexham 01753 664114 Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens 01753 523744 We are very grateful to our advertisers, many of whom have been supporting the Newsletter for a number of years. Please remember to tell any of the advertisers that you have seen their advert here. The advertising income with a contribution from the Parish Council helps us fund the Newsletter and secure its future. If anyone would like to advertise in a future issue, please contact Susie Simkins on 662537 [email protected] INTRODUCTION Welcome to the 62nd issue of the Fulmer Newsletter, and for those of you reading this edition for the first time, we also have a second newsletter every June. We hope the content informs and also entertains our readers and as we are so often told, the Newsletter is an important means of communication in our Parish and if anyone would like to write an article, for a future issue, that would be very welcome. There is also our village website – www.fulmervillage.org.uk and the Nextdoor app – both offering different ways of finding out what is going on locally. Another important part of the workings of Fulmer are the Parish Council meetings, held each month (not August) where at the start there is a public quarter of an hour for anyone to come and air a concern or seek information. The dates and minutes of the meetings are on the website. Our thanks, as usual, go to our contributors, loyal advertisers and the helpers who assist with delivering this newsletter to you. Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Susie & Ronnie Simkins, Editors LIST OF DUTIES IN FULMER PARISH Michael Saxby Chairman – report on county & district policies ([email protected]) 01753 662020 Parm Khanghura Deputy Chairman - Planning matters/finance group [email protected] 01753 662179 Ronnie Lamb FSCA Executive Committee/finance group ([email protected]) 01753 662662 Susie Simkins Newsletter editor/Gazetteer/press liaison/Fun Day ([email protected]) 01753 662537 Francesca Fulmer Village Website/St. James’ Fulmer Hall-Drinkwater ([email protected]) 01753 662295 Christine Owen Pinewood Studios liaison, Fulmer Infant School rep ([email protected]) Peter Kelly Parish Clerk, Finance Group, Council Administration FSCA; Notice Board; Allotments; ([email protected]) O T H E R S Richard Marshall BKV, Fulmer Conservation Volunteers [email protected] Barbara Zoltowoska Fulmer Village Hall Chairman [email protected] District Councillor Malcolm Bradford [email protected] County Councillor Roger Reed – ([email protected]) Brian Weild Neighbourhood Watch; Police Liaison; Community Liaison - [email protected] Karen Nelms Village Hall Lettings Secretary 07498 0412953 The Infant School, Fulmer Sports’ & Community Association, Fulmer Conservation Volunteers and other activities continue to be successful because of the dedication of all those concerned. Planning violations are still causing upsets. Highways & Footways’ maintenance are still resitricted by budget cuts at County level although there has been some progress. Thank you for all support received - Michael Saxby PERSONALIA Deaths – Burials – Ashes – we send sympathy to the families of: Susan Fitch who died on 28 July. Her funeral took place at St James, Fulmer on 11 August. Susan was a former Chairman of the Fulmer Branch of the RNLI. Barbara Poulton who died on 21 September. A Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Barbara was held on 11 October. Barbara and her husband Kenneth worshipped at Fulmer for many years. Her Ashes will be buried with Kenneth in Fulmer Churchyard. Beryl Mitchell-Gears who died on 29 July. A Celebration for the life of Beryl was held at Greenacres Chiltern Burial Park, Jordans, on 22 August. Beryl worshipped with Mitch in Fulmer for many years. Elizabeth Jane Griffin who died on 17 October. A Service to celebrate the life of Jane was held at St James, Fulmer on 8 November Derek Millis who died on 6 November. The funeral was held on 29 November at St James Fulmer. Births – Baptisms – we congratulate Wilbur Wilson, son of Helena Kirsten & Christopher James Wilson of Acton, West London, was christened on 13 August. Georgina Stevens, daughter of Tina & Alan and sister of Jo of Billet Lane, Iver Heath, was christened on 3 September. Luna Daphne Chitty born on 24 September to Louise (nee Simkins) and Tom Chitty. Luna is the first grandchild for Susie & Ronnie Simkins Marriages – we congratulate Nicolette Fiddian and Thomas Blyth of Wallingford, on 4 August; Nicolette is the daughter of Tricia and Alan Fiddian. Holly Hanscott and Christopher Dubber of Wexham, on 26 August. Angelina Manna Cheng and Michael Peter Matthews of Chalfont St. Peter, on 9 September. Are you ready for winter? 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The Network aims to reduce the number of people in fuel poverty and improve health and wellbeing. The Network provides a free helpline, community outreach and training of front-line staff to help spot and alleviate fuel poverty. The council areas covered by this service are: • Aylesbury Vale District Council • Buckinghamshire County Council • Cherwell District Council • Chiltern District Council • Oxfordshire County Council • South Bucks District Council • South Oxfordshire District Council • Vale of White Horse District Council • West Oxfordshire District Council • Wycombe District Council 2. National Energy Foundation Responsible for operating the Affordable Warmth Network, the National Energy Foundation (NEF) is an independent, national charity which has been at the forefront of improving the use of energy in buildings for more than 25 years. The Foundation aims to give individuals, organisations, communities and government the knowledge, support and inspiration they need to understand and improve the use of energy in buildings. RONNIE & ROSIE – A Tribute ‘The Old Order Changeth, Yielding Place to the New’ When the poet, Alfred, Lord Tennyson was penning these lines, it would have been impossible for him to have had the village of Fulmer and its community in mind. Yet, as an observation it is timeless as it is the lot of humankind to live a lifespan of varying lengths in which most of us would hope to make a contribution to the wellbeing of the community in which fate has decreed that we should live. It is part fulfillment of our duty towards our neighboUr. In this respect our Fulmer community has been especially blessed by the highly active presence over the past 41 years of Ronnie & Rosie Lamb of Stoke Common Road. In the course of that time there can be few Fulmerites whose lives have not been touched and enriched by some act of kindness, which they have bestowed, together or individually, on one or more of us. I have witnessed myself over those years the love of Fulmer they generated between them and to give substance to that love, they have taken on roles in almost every corner of our Parish. Soon after they came to live in Dunrobin in 1976, the County was drawing up plans to extract more gravel, fitting into a National Plan to further the building of roads and housing for which there was a pressing need. This Plan included pretty well the whole of the Pickeridge Farm Estate. As Chairman of the Fulmer Parish Council I asked Ronnie to study the proposal, which abutted onto the property he had just acquired and then report to the Council on the possible problems which we might be able to avert through consultation. These included preventing heavy site vehicles passing through the village, protection of designated footpaths and wildlife, water courses and the introduction of noxious materials, methane gas, drainage, later checking the overall levels of toxic materials for industrial and domestic waste in the course of infilling after the ‘dig’ had been completed. This report was so masterly that I cannot think at this stage of any problem, once foreseen, which we were unable to avoid in our negotiations with the County authorities. This gave Ronnie an early insight into the sort of issues that a small Parish Council has to face and, as a result, I had little difficulty in persuading him to seek nomination to the Council. In that capacity he was very helpful in furthering the 18 year campaign that the Council were involved in to bring Main Drainage into Fulmer Village; drawing up the Constitution of the new Sports & Community Association and so on. He, with Rosie, took on the Fulmer Christmas parties which always proved highly entertaining for all attending, especially if one was in good voice for the Carols; he was very active with the Fulmer Conservation Group whose work has been a significant factor in our many successes in the Best Kept Village Competitions.