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TEL/FAX: 01732 461943 The Bull Pen, Wickhurst Manor Farm, Wickhurst Road, Sevenoaks Weald, Kent TN14 6LY Welcome to the April Link from the Hever Rose and Horticultural Society.

Last November the Hever Hort held a committee meeting to finalise the schedule and programme of activities for 2019. One of our committee members brought a photograph, taken in her garden, of a daffodil in full bloom! This shows the dilemma we face every year, should we change the dates of our shows to reflect changes in climate, or stick to the same date, usually around the beginning of April? Looking back over recent years, we have tended to stick to the same date and trusted that there will still be enough daffodils and tulips to mount a good show. We seem to have done pretty well and will be keeping our fingers crossed for our show this year, which is on 6 April.

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are classes covering other flowers and shrubs, flower arrangements, children’s, and domestic exhibits, the latter including lemon and whisky marmalade. If you would like to LINK enter, the closing date is Wednesday 3 April, you can find the full schedule in the Hort section of www.hever.org. Added to the exhibits are the refreshments of home made cakes and tea, so we have an irresistible combination and if you have a bit of spare time between 2 and 4pm, we would love to see you.

After the Spring Show the next event is the Plant Sale, on Saturday, 11th May. This is a combination of bought in plants and those grown and donated by members of the Society.

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1 news from the pews It is good to see a vibrant band of boys (all boys in Inspire!). While telling the Throughout the Easter season congregation of their activities and work there will be so much happening in during the morning, which concentrated our parishes and I look forward to on the disciples’ fear of the storm on the welcoming you whenever you can join Sea of Galilee, it was inspiring to hear the us. There will be informal occasions, as boys relate what may concern them. Not well as normal services. Why not join us surprisingly some said moving to a new for an Easter Egg Hunt on Easter Eve, school. This is quite relevant since they and be ready for an early start at 6am on had just heard which will be their new Easter morning - quite an experience! schools in September. We wish them all This year we will welcome the sunrise well and success. at Four Elms before going on to enjoy breakfast together. As the sun’s rays We move into Lent which is a time of brighten the eastern sky, we shall greet reflection. And what better way to assist the dawn with the words “Christ is Risen. us than the Benefice Lent Courses held Alleluia!” - surely a reminder that a new at Elly’s house on Saturday mornings. story is beginning – a story of love and Looking forward to Easter, St. Paul’s transformation. More details in this issue welcomes everyone to our Sunrise of the Link. Service on Easter morning followed by breakfast. Our AGM will take place in the After Easter, beginning in May, we shall Parish Rooms on Tuesday 30th April at be joined for 3 months by Rev’d Simon 7pm where everyone is welcome. Braid. He will be researching what rural The planned Family Quiz Evening for ministry means in our Benefice – in Inspire & Café Church on Saturday particular, how we work together and 6th April has, unfortunately, had to be how we foster mission and growth. He postponed. will be immersing himself in the ministry Christina Hodson and life of our three parishes, and will look forward to getting to know people Hever here and hearing all they have to say. We welcomed the Rural Dean to St Please join me to offer him a warm Peter’s for choral evensong in March and welcome at services from 5th May she enjoyed meeting the congregation for onwards. I wish you a very happy and tea and sherry afterwards. We are very blessed Easter. grateful to the singers from throughout Rev’d Wendy Izod Benefice who came along to make up the choir (if you sing even a little bit and Four Elms would be prepared to join the choir for Together with our traditional services of the occasional service or wedding during Evening Prayer and 8am communion, the year please do let me know). The we celebrated Café Church (March 10th) Pebble Dash was a great success and and Inspire who joined in the later part will be repeated next year. of Parish Communion on 24th February.

2 Lent began with the Ash Wednesday You will need reasonably substantial service and the Lent discussion group, shoes, but the path is not too muddy. which Christina mentions in the Four In Holy week there will be 6.30pm service Elms News, has its last meeting on 6 at Markbeech on Monday (Compline) and April. In addition to the usual services Thursday (Maundy Thursday Eucharist). there is a Holy Week Compline on Our Easter Day service is also a family Tuesday 16th April and noon devotions service as it falls on the third Sunday on Good Friday. Hever will host a family of the month, but will have a bit more Easter Egg hunt (plus more pebbles) at regular content than a usual family 10.30 on the Saturday before Easter and service. a Family Communion on Easter Sunday at 11am. Everyone is very welcome. The new initiative that we are working on at Holy Trinity is to set up a friends Don’t forget the Hever Parish lunch in the group. If you haven’t been contacted by Hall from 12 onwards on Thursday 11 Clare Denison-Pender or anyone on the April. committee and would like to be involved Jane Rosam please get in touch. We are planning Churchwarden parties and events through the year and hope people will be happy to make a Markbeech donation in return. Despite our false summer in February, we are back to wild winds and heavy The parish lunches in Markbeech village showers so that Spring is still not really hall are now monthly and happening on with us. Nevertheless we are planning for the fourth Tuesday of each month. This Easter. This year it is Markbeech’s turn time on April 23rd, 12.30 for 1.00pm. to host the Palm Sunday service with All are very welcome and we hope to donkey procession. We suggest you park greet young and old. If you can, please as usual, near the church, and walk down let us know that you are coming. Email the church walk towards Falconhurst. [email protected] or ring or text 07860 We will meet up with Claire Longley and 436668. her donkey, at the top of the drive at Falconhurst at 10.45 before we all walk Marielou Linklater up again together, following the donkey. Churchwarden

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Following a hugely successful and we are fundraising to erect a new 150th season in 2018 which saw one of a similar style. We hold many our first eleven narrowly miss out social events during the season and on the Kent County Village League BBQ smoke can often be seen at the Division One title and the second pavilion during the summer. eleven on promotion to division five by a few points. So if you are interested in cricket, as a player of any age or ability, or would Four Elms Cricket Club are keenly like to join us as a social member, looking forward to the new season, please come along, enjoy the evening which commences on Saturday 13th sun with a cold drink, and appreciate April. Our winter nets are running on the wonderful views and atmosphere. Saturday afternoons at Judd School, Tonbridge from 4.30 to 6.00pm until For more details see our website 6th April. Once the season arrives, www.fourelmscricketclub.co.uk. practice and social evenings will be on Friday nights at the Four Elms April fixtures ground from 6pm. Sat 13th April - Linden Park (Home) Sat 20th April - Felbridge & Sunnyside Our wicket and ground are the envy (Home) of many and the pavilion holds a Sun 21st April - TBA (Home) special place in our hearts. However, Sat 27th April - Penshurst Park (Home) it is reaching the end of its useful life Sun 28th April - Waggoners CC (Home)

5 News from the Parish Council FOUR ELMS VILLAGE HALL. The parish council is organizing litter picks The League of Friends wish to establish in Markbeech and Four Elms on Saturday a hall cleaning rota of say five people morning 20 April, details to be announced. per fortnight to clean the hall. The more The next Parish Council meetings are volunteers we have, the fewer times on Tuesday 7th May which is the Annual you have to appear on the rota!! General Meeting at 7.30pm in Hever village hall and then the Annual Parish The volunteers from the LOF have Assembly (doors open 6pm with speakers done a magnificent job of rescuing from 7.30pm) on Thursday 23rd May at the rear garden from the jungle that it Four Elms village hall. The Assembly will had become. It has now been levelled include a presentation from English Rural and cleared and will shortly be tilled. Housing Association on local affordable We will need further people who would housing, everyone is very welcome to be willing to join us one weekend early attend. April to ‘litter pick’ large stones, broken

crockery and glass ready for the ground Finally, it is ELECTION YEAR – don’t forget to be grass seeded. to check that you are registered to vote in the District and Parish council elections Over 90 people signed the petition to taking place in 2 May! https://www. yourvotematters.co.uk/ And to vote! save the Village Hall…… we now need your help so please step forward !! Charlotte Cole Clerk and Please contact Financial Officer Mike Follows on Hever Parish 01732 700280 Council (answerphone), mobile 07887 950921 or email helen.follows@ btinternet.com with your offers of help.

6 every year Tina would create an amazing Tina Jobson float for Dormansland carnival. One year painting Trevor’s tractor the colour of a Tina, the much-loved landlady of the fairground ride – by hand! Kentish Horse died suddenly on 31 January at the early age of 63. Over Her hard work and traditional menu 200 people attended her funeral at have once again turned the Kentish Markbeech on 1 March and her children Horse into a thriving community pub. and husband, Trevor, put together the It presented different challenges to following eulogy: The Old House at Home due to the “Trevor and Tina met while in the same sheer scale of the building and all-day class at Holy Trinity School in Crawley, opening, but this did not deter Tina, she when they were 12 years old. When they relished the challenge and, as we all were 15, and had both already left home know, was never one to shy from hard to go to work, Trevor one day spotted graft! The common thread between both Tina walking in the town wearing only pubs was Tina’s caring approach to the one shoe, holding the other broken shoe staff, making them feel part of the family in her hand and he persuaded his friend – there was always time for a chat and who was driving to stop and give her a cup of tea and she even managed to lift home. They courted off and on for find time and took pleasure in caring for their teenage years until one day Tina animals or housesitting, to help others. said “we either get married or I’m off to Belgium”, so in 1977 they married in Trevor and the family would like to Warnham Church, and lived in Horsham. thank you for all of your support Tina, working in Mr Doughnut – the start during this difficult time. We have been of her catering career! overwhelmed by the amount of cards, flowers and offers of help we have They moved to Ashdown Forest in 1978 received.” where Kerry and Gary were born. Tina ran her own outside catering company and ran a pub kitchen. They had 23 wonderful years on the forest, Tina insisting on having ponies, dogs, cats and various other animals!

In 2000, they took on The Old House at Home in Dormansland and had 11 busy, fun years and made many good friends. Turning the pub into a vibrant business, driven by Tina’s fantastic, home-cooked pub menu and large portions! If Trevor ever put the food prices up, she would go out and buy bigger plates! Her creative flair didn’t stop in the kitchen,

7 good advice awareness and knowledge of your local area, the issues affecting daily lives and community. The local Citizens Advice What I do...Christine Thompson works offices for Hever parish are at Edenbridge as a volunteer advisor for one day a week & Westerham Citizens Advice located in at Citizens Advice. Edenbridge and Sevenoaks Bureau in Sevenoaks. Citizens Advice is an association of over 300 individually funded charitable Advice can be accessed online via organisations giving free, confidential and the website, by phoning 0300 422888 impartial advice on a range of subjects for Edenbridge or 03003309001 for including benefits, work, debt, consumer Sevenoaks or by ’Drop- in’. Before issues, family and housing, law and court dropping in it is best to check the website proceedings, immigration and health. or phone for opening hours etc. Citizens Advice also campaigns on the Christine Thompson issues affecting clients, eg Universal Credit, and the high cost of interest on Citizens Advice Edenbridge & credit cards. Westerham – volunteering as an adviser Citizens Advice Edenbridge & Westerham, The first 200 offices opened in 1939. which is based at the Eden Centre They were set up to meet the need of the in Edenbridge, has opportunities for civilian population in wartime. In 1999 the volunteers to train as advisers. Advisers website www.citizensadvice.org.uk was are at the heart of delivering our service, first launched providing 24 hour access helping our clients with a wide range to advice. It is worth having a look at of problems, including benefits, debt, the website, to access it use the above employment and housing issues, helping address and tap the ‘England’ part of the them to make informed decisions website. The website is updated on a about how to deal with their problems regular basis. or negotiating on their behalf, drafting letters, making phone calls or appropriate Volunteering opportunities include giving referrals. advice to clients, fundraising, admin, media, trusteeship and more. It is not If you are interested in finding out more necessary to have specific experience about volunteering, please telephone Jill or qualifications to volunteer. Training Eyre, our Chief Officer, on 03000 420773, and information are provided to enable or email [email protected]. You volunteers to carry out their roles. Through can also visit our local website www. courses you are given a chance to citizensadvice.org.uk/local/edenbridge- develop skills in communication, problem and-westerham or www.citizensadvice. solving and analysis. org.uk

Citizens Advice makes a positive Citizens Advice Edenbridge & Westerham difference to people’s lives, both for the actively welcomes disabled volunteers clients and the volunteers. You feel valued and volunteers with physical and mental working as part of a team. It gives an health conditions. 8 Four Elms playground reopens (all made from 100% recycled materials), four swings (cradle and flat seat), climbing John Hodson, Chair of the Parish Council, frame and a slide and also a football goal. cut the ribbon and declared the new Do visit with your children and grand playground open to all. The playground, children to enjoy this transformation. Much in the parish field behind the school and credit is due to Charlotte Cole our Parish long overdue for modernisation, now Clerk who fundraised for and project offers something for children from toddler managed it all, and to Willerbys who did to teens. There are 3D sensory mirrors, a the groundworks as a donation to the role play area, benches and picnic tables village.

CHIDDINGSTONE CASTLE LITERARY FESTIVAL 2019 This increasingly popular event has expanded to four days – Saturday 4th May to Tuesday 7th May.

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The talks, performances and workshops are set in the historic house and grounds and have been carefully curated to ensure that there is something for everyone. The programme this year includes Anna Pasternak, Sabrina Ghayour, Joanne Harris, Giles and Mary (Gogglebox), Oz Clarke, Giles Milton, Tracy Borman, Guy Parker Rees, Pericles Theatre Company, Aardman animations and many, many more. To see the full programme and the online box office please go to our website – www. chiddingstonecastle.org.uk/literaryfestival. Tickets are available online from 1st March but you can pre-register by following the link.

9 country life crocuses and hellebores? What is certain is that the sun sets everything into motion. Establishing a particular ‘Bring me sunshine in your smile, bring date for the season is not really the me laughter all the while’. Spring is point, but rather what to do to enjoy here! Well, not quite. Or is it? it while it lasts. And yet, at all seasons we should be aware of what the whole I am back to write to you about spring. cycle of life involves. But what is spring? When does it start? The short answer would be: a season We had a warm winter – getting that starts with the summer equinox in warmer every year, fewer frosty March. And yet… nights, longer and drier summers. The climate is changing, and those As a child I was told that spring was changes are affecting nature directly; I the flower’s season. We still excitedly can’t help thinking how insects, birds expect the spring flowers to arrive in and mammals will cope when the our garden, although through gardening combination of light, temperature and we stretch the blooming of flowers for water does not follow the usual spring as long as possible throughout the year. pattern. Bees may be drawn to early So, in one way I was told the right thing. activity due to rising temperatures, but will they survive a late frost? Where will Yet, as I was growing up I understood migratory birds find delicious grubs to that spring is not only about flowers. feed the next generation if insects are All forms of life, including flowers, have emerging much earlier in the season? a distinct purpose: reproduction and, through it, eternity. In this regard a We must enjoy the coming season and plant’s success depends in many ways delight ourselves with the colourful on insects, birds and mammals. Plants sight of our gardens, but we must keep and animals both depend very much on a careful eye and helping hand out for light and temperature. others. On this little planet we are all linked, in one way or another. So, spring to me is the fantastic combination of warm days, a colourful Have a great time throughout this garden, the noise of busy bees and wonderful season. the excited flights of birds preparing Ana Claudia. nests, singing to attract partners for the season. But to a farmer Spring is all about lambing and calving.

Well, if spring has so much to show and to give, when does it start? In March when the daffodils are already making space for the coming of tulips and primroses, or much earlier when snowdrops are in full bloom alongside

10 Markbeech Men’s Breakfast Group

On 6 April at 8.30 am at Markbeech village hall Bryan Walters will give a talk on the Armada

If you would like to come along call Rudy Porter on 01342 851449

Experienced adult volunteers required to help re-decorate Hever Village Hall to tide us over until our major refurbishment. 18 & 19 May 10am onwards, any time you can spare will be appreciated.

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11 a potted history Industrial Section included a prize for ‘Darning of stockings or socks’ for The Hever Rose and Horticultural women and girls over 14 years of age Society: On 6th August 1901, a small and ‘Best washed, starched and ironed group of local inhabitants sat down to shirt, collar and cotton dress’ for women establish the ‘Hever Cottage Gardening over 20. Records after 1914 are sadly Society’, and 118 years later, with a missing and there does not seem to have couple of name changes, it is still going. been any activity during the twenties Its stated objective was to promote and thirties, although there was a West cottage gardening in Hever and that Kent garden competition and an estate ‘a minimum annual subscription* of garden competition initiated by Lady sixpence be paid in advance by all Violet Astor. members’. The first President was the Rev. Latham Browne, vicar of St. Peter’s Minute books from 1948 show that from 1890 to 1920. A flower show was the Society had reformed to become held on the 29th August with each class the Hever Horticultural Society with winner receiving a prize of three shillings, Lady Astor as President. Committee worth about £13 today! The show was meetings were held in the Henry VIII considered a great success with a total and in 1949 a large summer show was of 50 entries and for the 1902 show Mr held in the grounds of Hever Castle with Meade Waldo offered an additional children’s sports prize of £1 shared between the best cultivated gardens. The Meade Waldos owned Hever Castle from 1750 to 1903, although they lived in Stonewall Park and let the property TH to a series of tenant farmers. E BRIDGE S CENTRE The schedule for the summer WE ARE LOOKING show of 1914 still exists, so we FO can conclude that the Society R VOLUNTEERS! continued successfully until then. BRIDGES is in need of volunteers 1 or 2 shifts a month, and it is a fun….it way would to meet be for The show that year was held on people and make friends whilst engaging with

others in the community! Interested? Wednesday, August 12th, eight days after Britain declared war Then please contact the Centre Manager on 01732 868186 or 07900 890 159 for a chat. on Germany. There were a total of 51 separate classes, divided Find out more about The BRIDGES Centre at into vegetable, flowers, fruit, www.bridgescentre.org best cultivated gardens and an ‘Industrial Section’. Many of the fruit, vegetable and flower classes would be recognisable in our own shows but some clearly belong to that earlier period. For example, the

12 and sideshows. There were 86 classes including one open only to local WI branches, including a prize of 2/6 for the best jam sandwich. Hever Castle continued to be the venue until 1955, when shows were held in the Hever School field. In 1974 Lord Astor sponsored a garden competition and in 1979 he suggested the Society hold a rose show in conjunction with the South East England Rose Society. This was held in the Castle Pavilion and the following year the Society held its own show in Hever Village Hall, where shows have been held since. From 1979 the Society became what it is today, the Hever Rose and Horticultural Society. The Society is always seeking new members so why not help it keep going for another 118 years. Please contact me on 01342 851307 if you would like to join. The programme of events for 2019 is on www.hever.org. If anyone has information relating to the early years of the Society, please get in touch. Doug Bowern Chair

Cottage gardens were in vogue in* 1901 as exponents such as Gertrude Jekyll and the Arts and Crafts movement had rejected the more formal gardening of the Victorian era. The watercolourist Helen Allingham, painted many romantic cottage gardens in front of thatched cottages, full of hollyhocks, daisies, sweet william and also vegetables in the Eden Valley.

13 schooltime season of Lent. The children made a Lenten promise and are aiming to do at least one thing from the following news from Hever areas: Pray – Fast – Give – Care for Creation. A group of pupils have been Hever School has been working extra hard to create Lentern enthusiastically and creatively artwork. The Cross Art was displayed delivering Buster’s Book Club! The during our Ash Wednesday service as scheme is a fantastic way to generate a catalyst for prayer and reflection. excitement about reading with our Joanna Stratton pupils actively encouraging each other to read as much as possible. Oak Class won the Buster Book Club news from Four Elms Sevenoaks District Spring Challenge and two students have been invited to A love of books Leeds Castle to a photo call to share Rather than World Book Day, their success stories and pick up Four Elms celebrated World Book prizes for our school! Fortnight! The focus was on exploring texts from other cultures and For World Book Day this year, every emphasising the World aspect of the year group enjoyed a visit from the event. The experience culminated acclaimed storyteller/author, Chris in the pupils writing their own story Connaughton. Chris is no stranger to based on a text from another culture, Hever, having been invited back by and becoming storytellers to share popular demand! We were delighted this with others. to read his latest books, copies of which have been signed for all of the The fortnight celebrating reading, children. Chris mesmerised all with his writing and storytelling was kick- dynamic performances. started with a visit by a published author. We welcomed Stephen Davies The children have been busy who has published a variety of books writing their own short stories, in- for children and young adults, many of spired by BBC Radio 2’s 500 words which reflect his experiences of living competition. Judges and authors in Burkina Faso. Stephen shared his Charlie Higson and Frank Cottrell- most popular stories with the pupils Boyce and author and illustrator and then set them on their writing Elys Dolan shared tips, answered journey with a workshop for each questions and attempted to write a class. whole 500 Words story in a single Live Lesson to Hever students. We also held many exciting events from a reading flash mob (when the We have been inspiring our pupils music plays, drop everything and get to learn, pray and ‘give it up’ for the reading!), bargain book sale, book

14 fair, World Book Day character dress Hever Litter Pick up and fashion show (complete with We are planning another Easter Hever catwalk and Silly Billy as compere), community litter pick on the morning book swap, and story swap where of Good Friday 19th April from 9.00am teachers shared their favourite stories to 12.00 noon. Please come along to with pupils. assist. We will meet at the Hever Village Hall from 9.00am for a briefing and to Red Nose day collect bags, long handled pickers and On Red Nose day, children wore high viz vests. However if you can only red to raise money for Comic Relief offer an hour please turn up at the Hall and support children in poverty. The any time during the morning or just pop children learnt about the charity in in for a coffee! class and our Rights Respecting Ambassadors ran a special assembly We will have to work on the roads and on what Comic Relief does. After lanes around the parish but if you have school, there were games in the youngsters with you or would prefer not playground including sponge the to pick on the roads then let us know teacher, red nose dunking and a hula and we can assign you to a footpath. hooping competition, as well as a Please bring your own thick gloves and cake sale. strong footwear is recommended and the warning triangle from your car if you Sports have one. To celebrate the recent successes of the Football, Netball There is no need to register beforehand and Cross Country but to help teams, a disco was Speaker give an idea held at school on of numbers please call John a Friday night with meetings of Roundhill on music, dancing, 07720 882356 games, nibbles U3A or email john@ and mocktails. ingenpartners. The teams are (University of the Third Age, though co.uk. Also let him now back to not academic) held on the last Tuesday every month 2-4pm at know of any roads training as usual, or footpaths of and we will be Crockham Hill Village Hall. Anyone retired is welcome. particular concern holding a netball to you. If anyone tournament for 30 April - The Wonderful Wildlife of has an open backed parents and Edenbridge - Mike Reed vehicle or trailer that teachers to raise they are willing to use money for the 28 May - A Lifetime in Aviation - to transport rubbish PTA. Peter Griffiths bags on the day then Nicole Holt please let John know.

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17 Services in April 2019 Services rota

Day Date Time Church Service Sidesmen Readers Intercessions Chalice Lent 5 Passion 03 Apr Hever Morning Prayer Sunday 04 Apr 16.30 Hever Evening Prayer 07 Apr 9.15 Markbeech Sung Eucharist Ricky Calvocoressi 11.00 Hever Parish Communion & Andrew Izod & Pat Evemy Fiona Irens & Liz Kaberry Jill Linden Vaile Nedelcu Baptism Elly Heard 10 Apr 9.30 Hever Morning Prayer 11 Apr 16.30 Hever Evening Prayer Palm Sunday 14 Apr 08.00 Four Elms Holy Communion (BCP) Gillian Lambert & Leslie Griggs 10.45 Markbeech Procession& Benefice Service Carol Bowern Pennie Scott & Janey Cooper Nick Irens Nick Irens 14 Apr 13.30 Four Elms Baptism – Oscar Ord Palm Sunday 15 Apr 18.30 Markbeech Compline Church wardens Holy Week 16 Apr 18.30 Hever Compline Church warden 17 Apr 9.30 Hever Morning Prayer 17 Apr 18.30 Four Elms Compline Gillian Lambert & Leslie Griggs 18 Apr 16.30 Hever Evening Prayer Maundy Thurs. 18 Apr 18.30 Markbeech Maundy Thurs. Eucharist 19 Apr 12 noon Hever Devotions Good Friday 20 Apr 11.00 Hever Baptism – William Lawrence (Seely) 21 Apr 06.00 Four Elms Sunrise Service John & Christina Hodson Easter Day 09.15 Markbeech Easter Family Service Liz Kaberry Flora Nedelcu & Henry Wilkinson Nicki Talbot Liz Kaberry 11.00 Hever Family Communion Lisa & Will Cowell Jane Rosam & Andrew Izod Elly Heard Jane Rosam 24 Apr 09.30 Hever Morning Prayer 25 Apr 16.30 Hever Evening Prayer Easter 2 28 Apr 08.00 Hever Holy Communion (BCP) Ian Yarnold Ian Yarnold 11.00 Four Elms Parish Communion John & Mary Proctor Mary Proctor & Gillian Lambert Marion Purll Cynthia Mead

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18 19 Exotic visitors addressing the possible risks associated When Una Higgs spotted a mob of with such species becoming established. parakeets on her bird feeders we feared Ring-necked parakeets, like all birds living a Hitchcockian invasion of the birds. The in the wild in the UK, are protected by south London parks are already full of law. The species can be controlled under their tropical colour - is Hever next, with licence in England, but only in isolated the worry that their rapidly expanding cases where the birds pose a serious numbers deprive our native birds such as threat to conservation of a native species, starlings and nuthatches of the best nest are causing serious damage to crops, or holes? for air safety purposes.

Well, according to the RSPB we should So we should appreciate the marvellous not fear - this area is not their ideal ability of these birds, native to a broad belt habitat and the charity do not support a of arid tropical countryside stretching from cull although any expansion should be west Africa across lowland India south of monitored. The government is obliged the Himalayas, to survive our cold winters to ensure that non-native species do and bring some winter colour to our trees. not adversely affect native wildlife and An immigrant worth tolerating, if not has developed a policy framework for welcoming - for now(??!!)

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26 March Markbeech Parish Lunch, village hall, 12.30pm 26 March U3A talk Passports, Assassins, Traitors and Spies Crockham Village Hall 2pm 29 March Eden Valley Museum Talk: Brass Instrument manufacture Rickards Hall 7.30pm 3 April closing date for Hever Hort entries 6 April Family Quiz Evening Four Elms Village Hall CANCELLED 6 April Hever Hort Spring Show, Hever Village Hall, 2pm 11 April Hever parish lunch, Hever Village Hall 12 noon 13 and 14 April How Green Nursery public open day 9am - 5pm 14 April Palm Sunday service with donkey procession, Falconhurst 10.45am. 19 April (Good Friday) Hever Litter Pick 20 April (Easter Saturday) Markbeech and Four Elms Litter Pick 20 April Easter Egg hunt, St Peter’s Hever, 10.30am 21 April Easter Day sevices Four Elms Cricket Club match 23 April Markbeech village lunch, village hall 12.30pm 26 April EVM talk on Iron Age and Roman coin hoards, Rickards Hall 7.30pm 30 April U3A talk on wildlife in Edenbridge, Crockham Hall Village Hall 2pm Four Elms PCC AGM, Parish Rooms, 7pm 4 - 7 May Chiddingstone Castle Literary Festival 7 May Parish Council meeting, Hever Village Hall 7.30pm 11 May Hort plant sale, Hever Village Hall 23 May Hever Parish Assembly, Four Elms Village Hall 7.30pm