Lockdown Special Welcome to the June Edition 6 Weeks Ago We Postponed the Delivery Men, Shop Staff Etc
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HALLMARK The Lacey Green and Loosley Row Magazine Issue 254 June 2020 £3.00 where sold separately Lockdown Special Welcome to the June edition 6 weeks ago we postponed the delivery men, shop staff etc. May edition as no one knew what was happening and how it The overall community response would turn out. We still don’t has been great and a know, but we have to get on Coronavirus Action Group was with life. The first pages of the quickly formed to support those magazine are normally filled in need (see page 9). Credit also with What’s On. Unsurprisingly to Risborough Town Council for that has all changed.Everything setting up Risborough Basket, a is off! . In the longer term the home delivery service covering Horts Soc are still hoping that nearly all the shops in their autumn show can go Risborough (see page 7) you ahead in early September (see can even have your dry cleaning page 36) delivered! The service also includes Timpsons Meats who We are very lucky to live in this have a new advert on page 8. area. Practically all of us have Please note that the Chiltern gardens to escape from the We also had the opportunity to Society have decided that our house and family, and a celebrate VE Day. Loosley Row windmill will stay closed for the fabulous range of walks for our made a special effort and had a whole of 2020. exercise. I feel great sorrow for great time (see page 11). The those cooped up in an inner-city picture of many national flags Our new delivery manager has flat with nowhere to escape. reminds us that it was not just settled into the job and our British people fighting and magazines are being delivered The standout achievement of suffering, but people from most efficiently. However we lockdown has been the Canada to Poland to Nepal to are short of one person to do a tremendous effort and sacrifice New Zealand. Let us remember delivery on Main Rd (you don’t made by the NHS staff and them all and not take a jingoistic have to live on Main Road). carers, despite the continued inward-looking view. Please contact me if you can floundering of the government help. and the Health Department. In line with the government rules, the Village Hall has been I have just changed to a new We have an article on page 20 closed since the beginning of DTP package, so please forgive about how the Loosley Row lockdown. Unfortunately this any layout issues. It will all be sewing circle have helped means that we have had no smooth next time! combat the PPE shortage. We income, whilst the regular bills should also not forget other still roll in. The committee is Mike Piercy people who continue working keeping an eye on the building even if this puts them into risky and are checking that no Editor situations - milkmen, posties, problems arise. Chiltern Cottage, Hambye Fortunately, my camera was at Close, Lacey Green May 1st hand and I had just enough time to photograph the lawn covered The meteorologists said that we in white and had the presence will have a day of sunshine and of mind to photograph some showers and the possibility of pellets in the palm of my hand. I hailstorms. The Croquet Season ran indoors and called my wife was just about to start but our ‘Quickly, come and see the beautiful Lawns were closed. It hailstorm!’ As she arrived the is a game you play in all sun came out and I was left weathers and so as the sun trying to explain a most unlikely came out so did the hoops and event. mallets in the garden to get in some practice. Suddenly the sky blackened, and the noise of hail Ronnie Lewin and the force of the hailstones was spectacular. 22 3 Village Hall St John÷s Speen Helping Hospices FACE MASKS - £5 each Village Hall AGM Car Park Resurfacing We held the Village Hall AGM as Church These masks are made-up of three You will remember we are ‘Loosley Row Open Gardens’ layers. Two of closely woven cotton usual in April. The Booking endeavouring to raise £40k to Saturday 20th June 2020 11am-5pm plus a liner. Fully machine Secretary reported that 15 local add to a similar amount in the In aid of the ‘Thames Valley Air Ambulance’ washable. groups are using the hall Village Hall accounts to pay for As our Church is They are constructed as an envelope so an regularly. We have a few week car park re-surfacing which will temporarily closed, due to Due to lockdownand social distancing rules day slots available – Monday weareunable tof ullyopenourgardens to thepublic. additional filter can be inserted but removed benefit all users, but particularly before washing. morning, Tuesday and Thursday the infirm and disabled. the Covid-19 virus, there is However we will be holding asmall plant sale at each afternoons. There is a waiting list not much to report other garden venue hoping to raise some funds. There are two designs, but the body of the We werehoping to open10gardens including mask is exactly the same. for evenings. In 2019 we had 29 Over recent months, we made than that we are in commercial bookings, an several applications to charities St Johns School garden on theday. Type 1 with ties increase on the year before. communica�on with one including Wycombe District Please visit LoosleyRow Type 2 with elastic loops to go around the ears. 2020 is looking very similar. Council and the National Lottery another and amongst the on your daily exercise, lookingout for The elastic is 6” or 7” or 8”. Men tend to go for Children’s parties are back, jelly Fund. These institutions don’t wider community. Sadly a posters and signage guiding you to plant sales. the8”. and ice cream is making a make instant decisions but await We look forwardtoseeing you ‘at a distance’! number of planned events We also have a selection of masks for children return! a collection of applications to For further information contact enable them to make choices on have had to be cancelled / Sarah Halliday at [email protected]. 100% of funds raised will go to the four We are very fortunate that we eligibility, and then allocate postponed but hopefully hospices supported by SHH - Rennie Grove, are still able to offer the weekly funds. South Bucks, Florence Nightingale and Helen coffee morning at no charge and some may be reinstated House the youth club at a greatly As reported at our March once we are all in a safer To order please contact - reduced rate. We continue to meeting, WDC were due to be posi�on. [email protected] Please include a loan tables and chairs to other amalgamated with other Bucks contact telephone number in your email. local organisations and both the councils to make a unitary We have a large database church, school and pre-school authority and they chose to and everyone included have used our facilities when allocate their fund before doing they have needed more room at so. We received an offer of £7K, there receives a copy of the no charge. This all helps to make half now and the other half later. Pewsheet by email on a the Village Hall a welcome and Then Covid 19 struck and weekly basis, with updates central point for the community priorities inevitably changed, but as a whole. we are still due the first on the up to date situa�on instalment and understand that as and when received. If Parking, as we are aware, is a the Council will make anyone would like to be village issue. The hall are very allowances for delays in projects. happy for the car park to be Alongside our institutional included, please contact used but PLEASE check first, as fundraising efforts, villagers have Rev Tony Bundock or one priority must be given to the hall generously made donations of the Churchwardens (see users that have booked and paid which have been much for the use of the car park. appreciated. p34). Whatever way we look at the The Oxford Diocese also situation we still need to source stream services online at a large amount of money to 10:00am each Sunday Hall Lettings complete work on the car park morning. If you would like and our efforts to do so must It being three years since the continue. If we are in a position to listen and watch this last rent review, the to identify more funding then service log into the Committee recommended lockdown would be a good time following website: that an increase in line with to get started on the work, there RPI of approximately 5% on being no hall users to oxford.Anglican.org/ hiring rates should be inconvenience! livestream. The service implemented from 1st April for lasts for about 35/40 commercial users and in Meantime, the Government has Autumn 2020 for village offered a grant to cover potential minutes. organisations. This expenses through loss of income recommendation was during lockdown and until social Pat Rushmere approved by all present. meeting places can be reopened. We shall be applying for this grant. 4 5 St John÷s School Loosley Row in Lockdown I have nothing but praise for Pupils have written letters to “No one is useless in this world how the staff, pupils and parents vulnerable adults in our who lightens the burdens of have managed to engage with community, and the school has another” Charles Dickens.