THURSLEY PARISH MAGAZINE St Michael & All Angels
APRIL 2021 60P
Elstead Food Bank 8 Village Hall News 20 Editorial 9 Edmund Haviland 22 Church Services 10 Life on the Farm 24 Church Letter 11 Easter Church Services 27 Parish Council Update 12 Sugar & Bakes 28 Annual Assembly 13 Lizzie Young 30 Give it a Grow 14 Eco-Friendly Living 32 Horts Society 16 Clockhouse News 34 Preserve our Reserve 17 National Garden Scheme 35 Margeret Woods 18 Elstead WI 36
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NEED HELP? Help in Thursley is available to anyone living in the parish of Thursley.
WHAT HELP IS AVAILABLE? Transport to Doctors, Dentists and Hospital appointments, Shops, Post Office, Hairdresser, collecting prescriptions, your pet to the Vet, etc.
HOW IT WORKS Phone 07538 201 276 and leave a message. The Duty Officer will listen to all messages at least once a day Mondays to Fridays and seek an appropriate volunteer to help you. The Duty Officer will contact you to discuss your request and then contact you again to give you the name of the volunteer who will help you. Please ensure you give us a few days’ notice.
2 3 4 5 VILLAGE ORGANISATIONS AND LOCAL DIRECTORY
CHURCH: ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS HELP IN THURSLEY 07538 301276
Vicar: Chairman: Revd Hannah Moore 01252 705941 David YOUNG 01428 607716. [email protected] [email protected] Treasurer: Associate Minister: Peter HUNTER 01252 702360 Revd Delia Orme 01252 702217 [email protected] [email protected] THURSLEY CLUB Churchwardens: Secretary: Joyce HALL 01252 703386 Hilary BARR 01252 703301 [email protected] THURSLEY CRCKET CLUB Chairman: Dene MILLS 01252 703067 Lee SMALLBONE [email protected] [email protected] Secretary: Vacant Secretary: Alex MEEARS Treasurer: [email protected] Michael THATCHER 01428 606670 THURSLEY PARISH COUNCIL Safeguarding Officer: www.thursley-pc.gov.uk Sheridan HUMPHREYS 07966 578607 Council Clerk: Elaine FELTON 01252 703201 Organist: The Barrows, Seale Road, Elstead GU8 6LF. Robbie GOLDFINCH 01252 705151 [email protected]
Chairman: Church Cleaning: James MENDELSSOHN 07941 507753 Sallie ROLES 01252 706820 Bears Barn, Dye House Road, Thursley
Surrey GU8 6QD Church Flowers: [email protected] Anne WAKELEY 01252 702320 Vice Chairman: Churchyard Working Party: John SWIFT 01428 685120 Mike ROBERTS 01252 702932 [email protected]
Councillors: Children’s Church: Michelle DE VRIES 07590 893497 Carolyn LANE 01252 702192 [email protected] Helen FLAVELL 07941060663 PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL [email protected] Nina ALLEN 01252 703643 Peter HUNTER 01252 702165
Rosie DALE-HARRIS 01252 702585 [email protected] John LUFF 01483 422132 Susanne HUNTER 01252 702165 [email protected] Marion O’BRIEN 01252 702235 Richard OWEN 01428 607741 [email protected]
6 PARISH FOOTPATH WARDENS SURREY FIRE & RESCUE SERVICE Contact Elaine Felton 01252 703201 Ben ALEXANDER 07964 391882 [email protected] COMMUNITY RECYCLER Nicki BATES 01252 702671 BUTTERFLIES NURSERY [email protected] D ELLUL & M DHILLON 07827 786005
THE THREE HORSESHOES THURSLEY NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE Reserve Warden: www.threehorseshoesthursley.com 01252 703900
James GILES 01428 685675 [email protected] THURSLEY VILLAGE HALL www.thursleyvillagehall.co.uk THURSLEY HISTORY SOCIETY [email protected] Chairman: Anthony Langdale 01428 682808 Village Hall Chairman: [email protected] Clea BEECHEY 01252 703913 [email protected] Secretary: Jackie RICKENBERG 07941 433103 Village Hall Secretary: [email protected] Dene MILLS 01252 703067
Treasurer: [email protected]
Richard BATES 01252 702671 Village Hall Manager: Archivist: Isobel MURPHY 01252 706929 Tim WALSH 01252 703172 (mob) 07826 521954
THURSLEY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY [email protected]. Secretary: COUNCILLORS Pat CLAKE 01252 706869 [email protected] Surrey County: David HARMER 01428 606921 HANKLEY COMMON MILITARY ACTIVITY Wyanston, Tower Road, Hindhead, 24 Hour Ops Room 01420 483405 Surrey GU26 6ST NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH [email protected]
Jackie MALTON 07885 147304 Waverley Borough: [email protected] Jenny ELSE 01252 702036
PARISH MAGAZINE [email protected] Editor: David ELSE 01252 702036 [email protected] Tricia HORWOOD 01252 705171 [email protected] LOCAL MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT Advertising: Rt Hon Jeremy HUNT 01428 609416 Jane HEPBURN 07768 421935 [email protected] [email protected] DOCTORS Distribution: Springfield Surgery 01252 703122 Jenny GORDON 07796 254361 Witley Surgery 01428 682218 [email protected]
Milford Crossroads Surgery 01483 414461 POLICE 101 Hurst Farm Surgery 01483 415885 www.surrey.police.uk/ro/report/
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ELSTEAD FOOD BANK
Elstead Food Bank which covers Thursley, Shackleford and Milford was set up by volunteers at the beginning of the first lockdown. A year of Covid and the inevitable financial problems has caused real difficulties for a significant number of people and as a result is well used. They would welcome help from Thursley in collecting food or financial donations. So a group of us would like to start a regular collection in the village. Their preference is for packets of food eg cereals, pasta, rice and much more, household items such as loo rolls, washing powder, cleaning things and toiletries eg soap, shower gel, toothpaste, and shampoo etc.
We are placing a collection box outside both the Three Horseshoes and in the Church porch and we will empty the boxes regularly.
For more help or information please ring Marion O’Brien 01252 702235 or Susanna Hunter 01252 702165
We do hope Thursley as a community will be able to help us with this.
Marion O’Brien, Hilary Barr, Nina Allen & Susanne Hunter
COVID-19 VACCINATIONS
Help in Thursley’s team of volunteers are standing by to help anyone in need of transport to attend a vaccination appointment. The volunteers are all insured, have DBS certification and will follow agreed COVID-19 policy and guidance procedures.
If you are in need of transport please call the Duty Officer on 07538 201276 and leave a message and you will be called back once the Duty Officer has the name of the volunteer who will drive you.
APRIL
CHURCH CLEANING (Please contact Sallie Roles if you can help)
Dene MILLS Sheridan HUMPHREYS Rosie DALE-HARRIS
CHURCH FLOWERS (Please contact Anne Wakeley if you can help)
4th EASTER 18th Sally PAGET-BROWN 25th Sally PAGET-BROWN
8 Editorial By Tricia Horwood
Firstly I’d like to thank Jane Hepburn for The Parish Council will be holding their our colourful magazine this month, as Annual Parish Assembly via zoom at the she has managed to attract some new end of the month, and would love as advertisers. We are very grateful to them, many of you as possible to join in (see both old and new, as their revenue p13). Before the pandemic I would have enables the magazine to continue and run a mile rather than use some new grow. Most of them are local and have video technology, but now I don’t know experienced a difficult trading year so I do how I’d have survived without it and I hope you will support them whenever you think many of us, both old and young, feel can. the same.
Many of you will know that Edmund In case you’re wondering why I’ve Haviland died suddenly last October, not featured Margaret Woods on the front long after moving to Salisbury. He played cover, she was a long-term resident of a large role in Thursley life for almost 30 Thursley village and a renowned author years and his family are hoping to and poet, and Jackie Rickenberg writes all celebrate his life with the village later in about her interesting life. And if you’re in the year when restrictions are lifted (see need of some comfort baking I can highly p22). recommend Camilla’s ‘Maids of Honour’ this month. Other interesting articles I’m sure we are all looking forward to the include David Streeter’s on the issues of forthcoming relaxation of the lockdown biodiversity, Jo Ranson on her farming rules and the opportunity of meeting up life, Debbie Spencer’s encouragement to again with friends and neighbours. ‘Give it a Grow’ and Lizzie Young on Several local activities are still postponed transcribing her mum’s memoirs and for later in the year, but the Horts Society cross-generational discussions. are keeping all fingers crossed that their plant sale can go ahead as scheduled on Enjoy the magazine and have a 1st May outside the village hall. wonderful Easter!
PLEASE NOTE DEADLINE OF 14TH APRIL 2021 FOR SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES TO THE MAY 2021 ISSUE OF THURSLEY PARISH MAGAZINE. EDITOR: Tricia HORWOOD, Thursley House, Dye House Road, Thursley, Surrey GU8 6QD. Tel: 01252 705171 E-mail: [email protected]. ADVERTISING MANAGER: Jane HEPBURN Tel: 07768 421935 Email: [email protected] DISTRIBUTION MANAGER: Jenny GORDON Tel: 07796 254361 Email: [email protected] COVER: Painting of Margaret Woods by Thomas B Yates (photo by Sean Edwards)
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9 APRIL SERVICES FOR THE PARISHES OF ELSTEAD, THURSLEY, SHACKLEFORD & PEPER HAROW
We are hoping to have a gradual return to our church buildings. Here is a list of what we are planning. Of course, this is subject to government guidelines and any local outbreaks which may mean we need to stay online. Please check our website to book your place and check the service is still running, and we will endeavour to keep you up to date there on www.parishesofetsph.org.uk .
Thursday 1st 1-2pm Easter Garden with Families Maunday Thursday 7.00pm Evening Service (Elstead & zoom)
Friday 2nd 10.00am Service of the Word Good Friday (St James’ Churchyard, Elstead) 2.00pm Musical Reflections (Thursley) 2.00pm Final Hour (Peper Harow)
SUNDAY 4th 9.15am Communion (Shackleford) Easter Day 10.00am Communion & Egg Hunt (Elstead & zoom) 10.30am Communion (Thursley)
SUNDAY 11th 8.00am BCP Communion (Estead) Easter 2 10.30am Family Service (Elstead & zoom)
SUNDAY 18th 9.30am CW Communion (Thursley) Easter 3 6.00pm Evening Service on zoom
SUNDAY 25th 8.00am BCP Communion (Elstead) Rogation Sunday 9.30am Rogation Service Communion (Peper Harow) 10.00am Service of the Word (Elstead & zoom)
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10 THE EMPTY TOMB - EASTER By Revd Hannah Moore I wonder if it is the same in your sun will rise in the morning offering house...do you shake the bottle to get warmth and a new day which has the last drop of sauce or mayonnaise numerous opportunities. We can out only to discover that it is forget to see the signs of new life completely empty? Or do you hold the around us in the spring flowers and Nutella jar up to the light to see if the pleasure this can bring. We can there is really anything left to scrape lose sight of the expectation and out, only to discover it too is empty? opportunity to return to a “new Realising something is empty can lead normal” with the vaccine roll out. to feelings of disappointment and I am sure we will be able to identify despair. with the grieving women at the tomb. Feelings of emptiness can be found Many of us have experienced grief in other aspects of our lives. It can be over the past year. That grief could be found in broken relationships leaving the result of losing someone you love, us feeling isolated and lonely. It can or losing financial security or we might also be found in mundane routines, even be grieving the loss of time. The which leave us questioning the time we should have spent celebrating meaning and purpose of life. Many of life events with our family and friends. us will have experienced that “stuck in Perhaps that loss has left a feeling of a rut feeling” during the various emptiness inside you. The disciples at lockdowns over the past year. the tomb on the first Easter morning had an emptiness inside them. They It does not seem that emptiness is probably felt let down by Jesus and something which should be his teaching because it all seemed to celebrated, but this is in fact what have ended on a Roman cross. But Christians celebrate on Easter Sunday. the empty tomb was actually full of We celebrate and rejoice in the empty promise. Jesus had risen from the tomb. “On the first day of the week, dead. The tomb was empty, because very early in the morning, the women he was alive. took the spices they had prepared and My faith and belief in Jesus as the went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but resurrected Christ will not refill the when they entered, they did not find empty Nutella jar. The hope it gives me fills a sense of deep longing which the body of the Lord Jesus.” Initially, as the women looked into the tomb, is present in each one of us. St Augustine said, “my heart grows and found it empty, they were restless until I find rest in you.” In terrified, and felt desperate. They were frightened that someone had other words, we might feel empty, not quite full or satisfied until we draw stolen Jesus’s body. But they had no nearer to God. Which is why Christians need to be afraid. After all, Jesus had spoken of his resurrection, saying that rejoice in the promise of the empty tomb and what it represents. It “the Son of Man must be handed over represents hope, fulfilment and an to be crucified and on the third day he will rise again”. In their despair at understanding of the height, depth, and width of God’s love for each of us. finding the tomb empty they had forgotten what Jesus had told them. I hope that you will be able to rejoice
In our own despair we too can forget in the empty tomb and if you would about hope. We can forget that the like to explore questions of faith, please contact me. 11
PARISH COUNCIL UPDATE By James Mendelssohn (Chair)
Although we are hoping to resume physical Parish Council meetings in July, unfortunately the Annual Parish Assembly on Thursday 29 April at 7.00 pm will be held by Zoom. Nevertheless, we hope to make this an interesting and engaging event and we very much hope that as many as possible will be able to participate. Full details are shown opposite.
We keep behind Natural England to try and ensure that their plans to begin The combination of the lockdown, the restoration of Hammer Pond in people exercising locally and a September remain on track. Their number of building projects happening Project Manager now provides an in the village simultaneously, has led update each month, and although to a perfect parking storm in the some of the outstanding issues appear village over recent months. Thursley to be taking longer to resolve than we was not alone in facing such a would like, Natural England remain problem. confident that they are on schedule.
Taken with the wet weather that has Talking about the Common, we are left the Recreation Ground very soft working closely with a different team and muddy, it was clear that at Natural England, through the something had to be done that Preserve Our Reserve Committee, to somehow reconciled the often diverse progress the restoration of the board but always understandable views of walks that were destroyed in the fire different groups within the village. last year. A separate update is provided elsewhere in this magazine. After much debate, and with advice from the Police and very welcome The Hindhead Tunnel has been financial support from Surrey County subject to frequent overnight closures Council that was organised by David in recent weeks, and we anticipate Harmer, many of you will have noticed these continuing for some time to the recent addition of a row of posts come. Having agreed a sensible parallel with the road which restrict the system of signage and diversions with parking to two rows, allowing the Highways England some time ago remainder of the Recreation Ground to (which worked very well at the outset), be used as a safe play area – which, of it is deeply frustrating that their course, was the intention of the donor contractors now appear to have when the field was donated to the slipped into their old ways in terms of village before World War II. We not following the agreed protocols. believe that this represents an And our messages of complaint to appropriate solution. Highways England go largely ignored. Only so much can be blamed on 12 COVID and remote working, so we will specific to report at this stage, Helen now be trying a different avenue with Flavell is working extremely hard to try Highways England to try and protect and progress matters, and we the residents of Bowlhead Green from certainly appreciate the support that unwelcome HGVs arriving in the she is receiving from our Waverley middle of the hamlet in the dead of Ward Councillor, Jenny Else. night! The April Parish Council meeting will The vexed question of the misuse of take place on Tuesday 6 April at 7.00 BOATs was a topic of further pm. discussion. Although there is nothing
ANNUAL PARISH ASSEMBLY 2021
The Annual Parish Assembly will be held on Thursday 29 April at 7.00 pm
The Annual Assembly provides a forum for the Parish Council to report on their activities over the last 12 months, and to outline their plans for the year ahead. This year, it will be held via Zoom, and the log-in details are given below:
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If you would prefer this information to be emailed to you so that you can simply click on the link to join the meeting, please email
There will be an opportunity for public questions which can either be raised at the meeting, or submitted in advance to
If any member of the Parish is not familiar with Zoom, or would like help accessing the meeting, please contact James Mendelssohn on 07941 507753.
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By Debbie Spencer
Unpredictable, changeable, hesitant easily done by bringing them outside April. during the day for a week or so but tucking them back up indoors at night. Looking at the Met office records, April temperatures can fluctuate Spuds in tubs anywhere between -15.4 C (1917 in The Swift and Rocket potatoes, which Dumfriesshire) and 29.4 C (1949 in were the first early varieties I chitted London) and last year in 2020 we last month, have now been planted in were lucky enough to have the large black tubs. I use tubs because sunniest April on record. So in April potatoes take up too much space in gardeners have to be prepared for all my veg garden and I find it easier weathers; frost, ice, monsoon rains or when the time comes to harvest them heatwaves! by turning the pot upside down - no
Every surface in the greenhouse, cold frame and my kitchen window sill is completely full of seed trays bursting with seedlings of lettuce, rocket, beans, peas, tomatoes, sunflowers and numerous annual flowers - all poised ready for the first sign that the frosts for the year are over and then they can be planted outdoors. Since March I have been covering up the veg garden with cloches and insulation (recycled wool from used packaging) so that the soil is warmed to give the young plants the best start. Before planting outside, all the seedlings will need ‘hardening off’ so they don’t wither and die of shock-
14 chance of missing any stragglers this way! Drainage holes have been made in the bottom of the pot and then a good layer of compost (about 10cm) before laying 2 or 3 chitted potatoes on top and then covered by with another similar layer of compost and well watered in. As the green shoots emerge, I will keep covering them until the pot is filled to the top. Placed in a nice sunny position, they will need little attention and I can get on with other garden matters.
Rocket blasts off! Last month I sowed rocket and ‘all year round’ lettuce seeds in the greenhouse in recycled mushroom trays (with drainage holes) and will keep checking the weather conditions before I decide to plant outside under Don’t forget - only a few Courgettes the cloches. I will sow more of the I prefer to grow a couple of varieties of same seeds directly in the soil in a courgette to keep it interesting, like couple of weeks to give continuous the yellow Golden Zucchini and Black crops, sowing half rows work well for Beauty, picking them small to prevent me so I get a steady crop over the a glut of marrows. They germinate next few weeks. Tip: use transparent easily so it’s tempting to cram in lots of fruit containers as lids for the seed plants but they need about a metre trays (mushroom containers) to create space between them. The denser you moisture and warmth - remove once plant, the lower the yield and the you have the first signs of green. likelihood of disease or a hidden Beans means greens courgette turning into a huge marrow - I think green beans are my favourite so tricky to know what to do with veggies to grow, they are so reliable them! Tip: when growing courgettes/ and easy. This year I have chosen 3 cucumber/squash from seed place the varieties, Dwarf green Sprite , Purple seed on its side to prevent water rotting. Teepee and Polestar runner beans- this gives us plenty of variety and Tomatoes to sow continuity from July through to Sept/ I started sowing tomato seeds last October. April is a good time to setup month in seed trays on the windowsill the bean poles and as soon as the and these were perfect conditions as temperature is warm enough you are they germinated within a few days. immediately ready to plant them Once the seedlings develop the outside at the base of the supports. second set of leaves (the ‘true’ leaves) Tip: when planting bean seeds in a pot they can be potted on into their own place a couple to each pot towards small individual pots. In about a the edges of the pot - they germinate month’s time once they are strong better there. enough they will be repotted again into a much larger pot, their final 15 resting home in the greenhouse for the indoor varieties - this year I’m growing the ever-reliable Moneymaker and Gardener’s Delight. Once there’s no chance of frost I will plant outside the yellow cherry Sungold and Tumbler as they did so well in pots and in the veg bed last year. Tip: when transplanting it’s important to lift gently by the leaf, not the stem to prevent damage.
In April you can sow lots of root vegetables directly into prepared beds - beetroot (Bolthardy seems the most reliable), carrots (Autumn King, Early Nantes) and of course spinach and beans too.
Finally, however unpredictable April is.....’April Showers bring May flowers’.
THURSLEY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY By John Gunner
Our committee members are determined However, before then we are hoping for to run our annual Plant Sale on 1st May if a group visit to Ramster Garden on 20th it is at all possible within the current rules May. Freedom in the merry month of and regulations. It will be necessary to June will enable us to judge gardens in hold this outside of the Village Hall and the same way that we did as part of we are working towards that potential earlier Summer Shows. That is pencilled outcome so please make a diary note and in for 23rd of the month followed, the look out for further news on this subject. next day, by members' afternoon tea at In the meantime, if you have plants in the cricket pavilion. This is our road map pots that are surplus to your gardening to normality which is long overdue. needs please do let us know as we will be happy to recycle them through our Sale.
If you are holding a trophy won at our 2019 Flower Shows (yes, it was that long ago) please keep polishing them as we hope it will not be too long before we can compete for them once again. Our target is the Autumn Show on 4th September.
16 PRESERVE OUR RESERVE UPDATE By James Mendelssohn & Pat Murphy (Co-Chairs)
As far as funding is concerned, in addition to the fantastic £50,000 raised by the Preserve Our Reserve Appeal, we are confident of securing additional support from NE’s own resources. We are also looking to raise funds from Waverley Borough Council possibly Surrey County Council too.
The exact amounts, and the timing of the funds being made available, should become clearer over the next 2-3 months, and we are hopeful that some work will be able to start over the With Spring emerging, the Preserve Our Summer. NE are clearly very mindful of Reserve Advisory Committee would like the need to balance the needs of the to provide an update to all our wildlife and ecosystem on the Common, supporters on the progress that has with the practical issues of not working been made for the redevelopment of in a naturally boggy area in the middle of the boardwalk area. a wet winter, hence the hope that we Natural England (NE) have now can start while the weather is still provided some really positive proposals reasonably good. to replace most of the old boardwalk with a combination of replacement, The final plans, the funding hardwood boardwalks and a number of arrangements, and the scheduling of the raised path sections using local sand and works should become clearer relatively stone. We have now reviewed these soon, but at this stage we just wanted to proposals and made a number of provide you with a brief update – and comments of detail, particularly about reassure you that significant progress is access points, which NE are now being made to restore, and indeed considering. enhance, the former boardwalk area.
The proposals have been broken down Thank you for your continuing support into seven, potentially standalone and encouragement as we continue to sections so that, depending on the levels work with Natural England to deliver a of funding that are allocated, work long-term and sustainable solution for could begin in the coming months on at the Thursley National Nature Reserve. least some of the sections, even if there are not sufficient funds initially to complete the whole project.
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Mrs Margaret L Woods By Jackie Rickenberg (taken from the History Society’s Archives)
who could reduce her to tears of emotion Following on from the piece last month whilst reading his works aloud in her on children’s author Monica Edwards, presence and Matthew Arnold, who had there is a very pleasing connection with been a pupil of her father’s at Rugby. In this month’s subject, Margaret Woods. April 1928 she was to record a BBC radio She was - in her latter years - a long term interview entitled “A girl’s memories of Thursley resident, and was a renowned Tennyson”. Although best known as a author and poet, but in a strange quirk of poet, her novels also earned the respect fate, she lived all her days in Thursley, in of critics. Vine Cottage, also the home today, of Monica’s son, Sean. Margaret lived here Her marriage at age twenty-four to Henry for twenty-five years, and Vine Cottage G Woods, Fellow and Bursar of Trinity was her last home. Her Times obituary College, Oxford, was happy and she was called her “one of the most distinguished devoted to their three sons born in the women writers of her day” and she 1880’s. However, happiness in her family moved in the most eminent intellectual life could not offset Daisy’s dislike of circles of the Late Victorian epoch. Her Oxford society, although there were presence in the village, would certainly exceptions when the artist William have lent it an air of distinction. Rothenstein and poet Laurence Binyon became devoted friends. But she Margaret came from a highly academic denigrated Oxford life on the whole as family. She was born Margaret Louisa “that circle of Purgatory”! No surprise Bradley, although called Daisy by those then that in the summer of 1897 her close to her, and she was the third of husband announced his sudden seven children of the Reverend George resignation as President of Trinity College, Granville Bradley and his wife Marian. At and he moved eventually on to an the time of her birth in 1855, he was a appointment in 1904 as Master of the master at Rugby; when she was three, he Temple which took them to the imposing became Headmaster of Marlborough Master’s House, built by Wren, just off College; when she was fifteen, Master of Fleet St, London. This enabled Daisy to University College, Oxford; and when she flourish and become a central figure in was twenty-six, Dean of Westminster. the literary scene of that time. However, One of her two brothers, Arthur G the death of her husband in 1915 ended Bradley, wrote numerous works of history this productive and gratifying period of and travel, and all four of her sisters her life. In reduced circumstances, due to published fiction and poetry. A high the financial irresponsibility of a much- achieving family, if ever there was one! indulged son, she stayed with relatives
After being home educated, Daisy’s early and friends for some years before settling work owed much to her admiration of in Thursley. two family friends, Lord Alfred Tennyson,
18 Vine Cottage was then owned by Mr Allen poetry or fiction. Her final essay, on the from Elstead and let to Mr and Mrs Oxford of her girlhood, appeared in 1941, Harbutt, and it was from them that Daisy and she passed away at the age of ninety rented rooms. With her charm and the in 1945. In the 1930’s whilst living at Vine beauty of her delicate features still Cottage, the artist Thomas B Yates RBA apparent, she had no trouble in making lived almost next door in The Lodge. He friends with her neighbours. She fully painted a most beautiful portrait of her participated in village life, attending (cover) and it was accepted for, and hung church, sharing in the work of the in, the 1936 exhibition of The Royal Women’s Institute and during the war, helped in the village-run canteen. She was Academy of Arts. A fitting testimony of an well looked after by Mrs Harbutt and admirable woman and yet another Daisy left her an annuity of £26, which famous “Thursleyite”. Note the church in must have been well earned, as a the background. grandson was to report that he doubted Daisy could have even boiled an egg! Her To the Forgotten Dead strengths lay elsewhere and he By Margaret L. Woods remembers her in her seventies flawlessly To the forgotten dead, reciting poetry in the most beautifully Come, let us drink in silence ere we part. resonant voice. To every fervent yet resolvèd heart During Daisy’s early days at Vine Cottage, That brought its tameless passion and its she would walk the three quarters of a tears, mile to catch the bus to Godalming – less Renunciation and laborious years, if good weather permitted a short cut To lay the deep foundations of our race, across the fields – and from there she To rear its mighty ramparts overhead could take a train to London and And light its pinnacles with golden grace. sometimes onward to Oxford. This meant she could keep up with her literary To the unhonoured dead. connections and maintain lifelong To the forgotten dead, friendships. However, a crippling injury in Whose dauntless hands were stretched 1934 greatly curtailed her mobility. After to grasp the rein alighting from the bus in Thursley at the Of Fate and hurl into the void again Red Lion pub (now Bridle Cottage), she was knocked down by a motorcyclist and Her thunder-hoofèd horses, rushing suffered a broken leg. This meant she had blind to forego the London meetings of the Earthward along the courses of the wind. Royal Society of Literature, on which she Among the stars, along the wind in vain served on the Academic Committee, and Their souls were scattered and their many other professional engagements. blood was shed, And nothing, nothing of them doth As her physical energy waned, and her remain. eyesight began to fail, research became To the thrice-perished dead. almost impossible and Daisy published no
19 VILLAGE HALL NEWS By Andrea Mackenzie-Beevor
New Roof! nutshell, is to enable the two parts of We are sure you have noticed the the Hall to be used separately at the gleaming new roof on the Hall, the same time, so that the Nursery can third and final phase of which was keep going every weekday AND the completed during lockdown. Not only North Hall can be used by other was the whole roof retiled, it was also people at the same time; to improve insulated for the first time, so we are the kitchen area so that in the week hoping this will make a big difference both “sides” of the Hall (Nursery and to the energy bills and to the comfort North) can use their own separated of the Hall. Huge thanks to Russell side of kitchen, while at other times Worcester and his team from R&R the kitchen can be used as a much Roofing, who did a fabulous job, and bigger and more usable whole space; who we highly recommend. and too add another shed’s worth of outside storage space. We will need to New Windows! fundraise hard to bring these plans to We have just finished replacing most fruition, so your support and of the Hall’s windows with new double encouragement will be needed now glazed panels (main Hall) and more than ever. Please let us know if secondary glazing (North Hall). With you have any comments or ideas to help on the ground from David help us - all input gratefully received Beechey, who remade one of the as always. enormous windows at the front which was too rotten to reglaze, we think you Plans are on the Village Hall website. will agree that Met Therm Windows of http://thursleyvillagehall.co.uk Liss have done a great job for us. Butterflies Nursery has already FUTURE EVENTS noticed the difference in heat retention, so hopefully those energy Sunday 27th June 2021 3pm bills will be even lower now. Blithe Spirit, by Black Box Productions If the Covid roadmap dates stay on Thanks must go to The National track, what better way to celebrate the Lottery, ACRE and Garfield Weston for first weekend of freedom than this over £30,000 of funding they outdoor production of Noel Coward’s generously donated. Also a big thanks classic comedy from Black Box, who to all of you who have supported us at brought us their rollicking version of our fundraising events and with your The 39 Steps in 2019? This will take generous donations. None of this place in the garden, come rain or would have been possible without you! shine (unless there’s an actual Future plans hurricane!), so come prepared with As mentioned in our parish magazine sunscreen and/or a rain hat! There will updates, our plans to update the be some tables and chairs, but you layout of the Hall are now with are welcome to bring rugs and Waverley Borough Council awaiting cushions to sit on if you prefer. Tickets planning consent - fingers crossed! are £11 for adults and £8 for kids/ The aim of the alterations, in a students, available on a first come, first served basis from Clea on 01252 20
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We are hoping to get funding for the next stage of work to the village hall (see future plans on opposite page).
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703913 or 07711 183959 or from last year, and the Village Hall [email protected]. We will also be selling Committee is planning an evening do afternoon tea (cup of tea, small on the Saturday with entertainment, sandwich and cake) for £5 per person, singalongs and food lovingly prepared as well as Pimm’s to celebrate our by our village team! freedom! Book early to avoid disappointment … Sunday 28th November 2021 Abigail’s Party, by Black Box 13th/14th November 2021 Productions Belated 75th Anniversary VE Day Exhibition and Evening Do Saturday 4th December 2021 Please save the dates! The History Thursley Christmas Fair Society is putting on their fantastic VE Day exhibition, postponed by Covid
21 EDMUND HAVILAND 1928—2020
From Edmund’s neighbours and The children, as we do, recall his friends at the Old Parsonage adoration of Jane and his total devotion to her. That and his endless We adored him. capacity to be interested in things
Almost 30 years ago, through our and to share his experiences. And open front door, we watched Edmund how smartly dressed he always was. The little things… and Jane bound down the lane to welcome us to the village. Waking up When the children were very young, early in our new house, we drew the we remember him romping about on curtains and saw a tall man, in a long all fours, pretending to be an animal, black cape striding over the stone before reading them their story. One style to the church. Vivid and timeless of those joyous parental memories memories… when you can stand back, watch and listen … We were fortunate to be so We were due to visit Edmund in close to someone who loved and Salisbury on the Friday of the week understood children. he died. In all the years we were neighbours, he never failed to be The children themselves, now in their interested in everything we got up to, 20s, remember discussing his work in everyone and everything around as Chaplain at Brixton prison; tasting him – and to make us smile and freshly picked fruit from Hill Farm and laugh. We were often touched by his talking about his years in South insights. Africa; a gift of a packet of Scottie
Before the children were born, we dog shortbread biscuits; helping him discovered how much we had in catalogue his library… They all common with him. The same college, remember him at village and family at the same university (although 30 events over the years, including all their 21sts. odd years apart), the same wonder at the beauty of the Christmas eve carol When the Old Parsonage turned 600, service. A more than healthy interest we invited friends to compose a in cars – although it would be some limerick. Edmund wrote: time before we discovered that his interest in engines was such that he There’s a fine Surrey village known as had once hoped to train as a London Thursley bus driver (apparently London buses Whose buildings we number as, have - or perhaps had - quite unique gear boxes)! Later he shared his firstly, delight in beautiful motor cars with St Michael’s to pray in, our grown son… Discussing the Good houses to stay in details of an air crash, the victims of And, thirdly, the Shoes when we’re which are buried in the churchyard, thirsty. we glimpsed the passion for flying of his RAF days, well before he came to We miss him. Thursley. The Old Parsonage
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EDMUND HAVILAND BY HIS ‘CHILDREN’
Most of you will know by now that our father, Edmund, died suddenly last October. He had been apparently very well and was enjoying his new phase of life in Salisbury. We had been to the garden centre two days before he died, and the same day he had proudly planted some tulips and attended an online course at the local theological college on zoom. Although it was a great shock, we are so grateful for Dad’s long life, his health, humour and wide variety of interests. We had a necessarily small funeral due to covid restrictions, and were glad that many friends could watch the live stream from the cathedral.
Thursley was an important part of Dad’s life so we look forward to being able to mark his passing, and celebrate his life with you at some point. Since the latest announcements from government, we have decided that this would be best to do later in the year, in warmer weather and when we do not have to be so worried about numbers. In the meantime, we would like to express our gratitude for all the kind letters and cards we have received.
With thanks and best wishes from us all.
Margaret, Angela, Jane and Andrew
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WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THE FARM THIS MONTH? By Jo Ranson
You have guessed it, the weather - I part of the one-way system to find wish it would make its mind up, cold that the council shut the road to fill then warm (some here have even had in a pothole. This did not go down well shorts out!!), rain then no rain, and as as we had no notice of a road closure for the wind our poor plastic cow which one of the workers assured us (Daisy) has spent more time down than all residents would know about - if we up this month. Job planning is yet had done we would have changed our again tricky. days. Also there was no signage until the last moment, so one tractor and A few dry days were predicted (for at trailer then struggled to find least a couple of hours on one weather somewhere to turn around to get out. app anyway) so we booked up for the When you are told they wouldn’t be lagoon to be emptied. Our contractor long and you find them sat drinking is pretty good, and a week’s notice was tea still with the road shut it meant set up for all; the digger arrived that the one way system didn’t work ready followed by three tractors and for a while. All in all, due to time trailers and Nick would use our one wastage, it probably cost us another too. We then tried to run a one-way £300 for the job to be done because system, for two reasons. One, so they couldn’t inform us of a road tractors and trailers don’t have to closure, and they filled it in badly, keep waiting for each other to pass in surprise, surprise. the right place and it is hoped that residents work it out too and we can The next day or two went swimmingly all flow in and out of the village nice until a mishap occurred on the last and easy. Until you reach the last day when a trailer overturned on the
24 road. Fortunately no one was hurt -the contractor team were brilliant and got it under control and the trailer righted. Some of them helped with directing traffic around the problem. It was fairly horrendous how many passers-by couldn’t listen or understand simple instructions from us to slow down and pass when told to - one cyclist was almost a goner because he thought he knew better. Again a few dry days were predicted early in the following week (please don’t ever ask Nick about weather forecasts as you will regret it), so the it has ben piled up out of the way and muck spreader had been booked to we can then turn it with the JCB start spreading it all on the maize every so often to get it to rot down ground and Nick had got the plough all quicker and use perhaps in the up together to start getting it buried. Autumn. The sooner you get it ploughed in the better after spreading - one is to get The in-calf heifers went out to grass the best of the nutrients and two it this week. We try to get them out cuts down on the smell for you. around now anyway, but they had to as we had run out of silage for them. But We also got the baby heifers mucked the grass has been growing and we out again, but this won’t be rotted have gone for the drier paddocks enough to go on the ground just yet so because of the April showers which
25 26 seem to be happening in March, so their way out. Unfortunately it’s not a they don’t poach them before we even case of please swallow this and move start the grazing season. on. Each one is stopped in the crush and using a long tube with a plunger it The dairy cows are now going out in is put down their throat and not all the evening for a little while, because are obliging, but I promise it doesn’t there is so much grass ahead of them, hurt them. Between Matthew, Toby, not quite enough to go out full time and Harry they got all 300 done in one and that rain isn’t helping. but if they afternoon and certainly slept well don’t eat the grass at the right height that night. then we don’t get the best quality from it. We measure the grass every We have had to do a lot of fencing week (not with a ruler) but with a around the fields this year - so many plate meter which measures it in kg of posts have rotted off and for the last dry matter per hectare (Kg/DM/Ha). two or three years we have moved to Ideally we like to let the cows in at chestnut posts. These seem to be so around 2800 (Kg/DM/Ha) and eat it much better than processed down to 1500 Kg/DM/Ha but some production-made posts which have paddocks are at 3200 Kg/DM/Ha - it been treated. So hopefully we will might not sound much but the quality get better use from these. in the grass is lost and when it is too long more gets trampled and wasted. Nick and I have been preparing areas When I was at school I never thought of ground for our wildflower planting, I would use my maths and science so and one area we thought would look much! great was a wide untidy piece of land as you exit the village towards the The 18-month-old beef cattle have A3, so after a bit of chain sawing, been sold and will go to their new raking and gathering we had it all in a home in about 10 days which again will lovely bonfire and going well. We work out perfectly as silage stocks checked it regularly throughout the for them are low; although there is day to make sure that the fire kept still plenty of kale around it takes going, but between around 5pm and time to get it all fenced off and, in 7pm someone must have called the some areas, it is just too soggy even fire brigade because when the boys for us. The kale that is left behind is went to check on it again it was out not a problem as it will be ploughed in with huge pools of water everywhere. creating organic matter in the soil - It was only small by then and so we something sandy soil needs and removed the last remaining pieces of something Nick and I have been wood to burn and put it on the other working hard to get right. The more bonfire we had going at home. organic matter we can get in the soil However, all is now planted, and the better as it holds nutrients and fingers crossed our wildflower therefore less fertiliser is used and mixture grows well. the less likely we get run off. The kale also didn’t grow to huge lengths It’s going to be a busy month with this year so it won’t need to be maize ground preparations, getting topped first but can go straight in. baby calves out, and our new solar panels will be starting to arrive. It was also the 6-monthly time of year that the cows have their vitamin bolus, so after afternoon milking each one was given their vitamin tablet on
27 SUGAR & BAKES By Camilla Daubeney
Regional Bakes soft but crispy, savoury but sweet tart Surrey’s Maids of Honour (that was originally made with curd
As a nation we absolutely love pastries, cheese) after the Maids of Honour who cakes and baked goods, and have a served in the Royal Household in the strong tradition of home baking that 1600’s. connects us with family, regional There are various accounts of the tart’s heritage and a wider social history. We origins but the most common is that bake/buy and devour a cake for every Henry VIII is believed to have come occasion and throughout history we across Anne Boleyn and her Maids of have proudly created very distinctive Honour eating the tarts from a silver baked goods that capture the character, tray, and tasting one himself he was so and showcase the local produce of enamoured with its melt in the mouth every region within the UK, some consistency that he confiscated the examples of which are: recipe and kept it locked in a box, and
Manchester - Eccles Cake the poor Maid of Honour whose recipe Derbyshire - Bakewell Tart it was found herself swiftly imprisoned Cumbria - Sticky Toffee Pudding in the Palace and ordered to make the Chelsea - The Chelsea Bun tarts solely for the King and his household ! Wales - Welsh Cake Wiltshire - Lardy Cake Whatever the true origin, the recipe Kent - Gypsy Tart then reappears in the 1700’s and later Dorset - Apple Cake on the tarts (also known as Richmond East Sussex - Arctic Roll Tarts) were the ‘Tarte du Jour’ of what Oxfordshire - Banbury Cake became a famous and fashionable Shropshire - Shrewsbury Cake Richmond bakery set up in the 1900’s, Lancashire - Chorley Cake and the gentry of the day travelled from Cumbria - Kendal Mint Cake far and wide to enjoy tea and coffee West Yorkshire - Parkin Cake with their Maids of Honour delicacies. Scotland - Dundee Cakes, Shortbread, There is still a bakery on the premises Oat Cakes today and it sits around the corner from Northern Ireland - Porter Cake a little street called Maids of Honour Devon and Cornwall - Scones Row. Surrey - Maids of Honour Tarts
Of these, and pertinent to Thursley's location, is Surrey’s claim to fame in the baking world, namely the Maids of Honour Tart, originating in Richmond Palace.
It is thought that Henry VIII may have been responsible for naming the dainty, 28
Maids of Honour
Makes 18 Tarts
Ingredients 1 Jus-Roll Puff Pastry Block 500g 300g full fat soft cheese Zest of 3 lemons 3 eggs, lightly beaten 3 heaped tablespoons of ground almonds 150g caster sugar 3/4 tsp ground nutmeg 6. Remove your filled tins from Lemon Curd the fridge and put half a teaspoon of lemon curd into the Method bottom of each one and then 1. Heat the oven to 200°C, fan pour in the filling until it is about 180°C, gas 6. 1mm below the top - do not let them overflow. 2. Take the pastry block out of the fridge roughly 20 minutes 7. Bake immediately for roughly before you begin. 23 minutes until the tops are golden and firm. Leave to cool in 3. Roll the pastry as thin an you the trays then remove the tarts can, ideally 2mm. Using a circular and dust them with icing sugar cookie cutter that is bigger than and then enjoy ! the individual rounds in your cupcake tins, cut out 18 circles PS. Traditionally these are made and press them into your tins with curd cheese and without the making sure they come right up lemon curd, but I have adapted to the top at the edges. the recipe to make it more user friendly and hopefully still as 4. Put the filled tins into the delicious ! If you don’t have any fridge whilst you make the filling. lemon curd, you could substitute
it with Redcurrant Jelly. 5. Whisk together all the ingredients (excluding the lemon (Editor’s Note: I was given some curd) until very well mixed (it will to taste and I can highly be quite liquid). recommend them - light,
lemony and absolutely delicious!)
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MY MUM’S MEMOIRS By Lizzie Young
I was familiar with my Mother’s lovely round handwriting, and I knew a lot of the names, and places she wrote about. But, oh my goodness, the stories, particularly those from her early childhood and adolescence, were a wonderful revelation, and they totally brought her to life for me as someone other than my lovely Mum. I’m so glad she wrote them down. We’ve always been close, but now, at the respective ages of 80 and 52, I feel like I understand her more.
And I realise that my children are the same with me as I was with my own mother. It sometimes feels like they imagine I was cryogenically frozen until the day they were born. That I One of the most diverting and special was never a girl, or a young woman, or things I’ve done in the last long 12 single at all. Just their mum. months has been to type up my Lockdown and an unusual degree of Mum’s memoirs. She started proximity has thrown up several huge scribbling in an exercise book during issues for discussion around the the first lockdown, and I offered to dinner table in the last twelve months: transcribe it for her so that we could last summer the unlawful killing of make copies for the whole family. She George Floyd and the subsequent duly handed over volume one last wave of BLM protests created a big summer, which covers the background ‘teachable moment’ for all of us. of her family before her birth, and the Where once family learning felt one- early part of her life. This first way – as parents, we taught shoelaces, notebook ends in August 1967, with and letters and the rules of cricket – her and my father staring, enthralled, now it is entirely two-way traffic. at their new born firstborn, my big Young people receive their news in sister Katharine, who they had just entirely different ways, and their brought home from the hospital. perspectives, opinions and
30 experiences can feel extraordinarily Disagreeing is fine. And, of course, different. it’s okay to feel strongly about things. But what I’ve actually seen, heard and This Springtime, in just the last few read is a lot of angry discourse, and weeks, the awful disappearance and entrenched opinion. A lot of transmit murder of Sarah Everard has opened and not much receive. It seems to me another dialogue with our daughters that we have to keep working hard at about their lives that has felt sobering, understanding each other. Talk, and hugely important. Their stories debate, disagree, by all means (all of are very different from mine. Politics, these being amongst my favourite Brexit, Megxit, gender politics, the hobbies!), but, surely, always do it with mental health crisis, climate change, kindness, manners, respect and the pandemic itself…there must be as tolerance. long a list as there has ever been of existential, seminal, divisive stuff going So if your kids sit down with you, I’d on in the world, and really, properly say: listen to what they see, and hear, listening to my young people (albeit and feel with as little judgement and because they’ve been stuck here, their impatience as you can possibly lives stalled, with just me and their manage (you might all be brilliant at Dad for company) has been this already, in which case I’m just illuminating. I think it may well stand preaching to myself!). all of us in good stead. And if you are privileged enough to I read, in the wake of the whole Harry still have parents, grandparents, aunts and Megan Oprah Winfrey interview, or uncles, I’d say: ask all the that as a nation our support or questions, listen to the stories, pore denigration has been broadly an age over the photographs, and do it all thing – if you were over 40, apparently while you still can. My husband, who you were inclined to see what they did lost his father to dementia twenty as a distasteful betrayal of Queen and years ago, still frequently has cause to country, whilst the under 40s mainly lament something he doesn’t know, felt huge sympathy for the couple. because he didn’t ask, about his That’s interesting to me, as is what it adored Dad’s life. It makes me pick up suggests about the two faction’s the ‘phone to my own father, and ask relative views about duty, and family, him leading questions… Tomorrow is and the media, to name but a few of promised to no one, and one day it the many issues. And the gap in will be too late. understanding between generations But if we all do that, then I think we that it suggests exists is disturbing. might all learn something worth
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ECO-FRIENDLY LIVING – IT’S ECO-LOGICAL By David Streeter
Last month John Swift wrote about the been stimulated in particular by the planting of a new hedge on publication three years ago of Wilding, Blackhanger Farm as part of our the popular story of Isabella Tree’s Thursley Tree and Hedge Planting and Charlie Burrell’s experiment in Initiative. As well as contributing to the free-range grazing together with targets to reduce, sequester and store leaving nature to itself on their 3,500 carbon, Surrey’s New Trees Strategy acre Knepp estate on the Weald Clay emphasises the importance that trees of West Sussex which, among other and woods play in maintaining and things, led to extraordinary increases enhancing biodiversity. It’s long been in Purple Emperors, Turtle Doves and known that different species of trees Nightingales. and shrubs support different numbers Have you noticed that there is a of insects and other invertebrates. problem when trying to appreciate the Sixty years ago the leading magnitude of the significant losses entomologist Professor Sir Richard that our wildlife has suffered in recent Southwood, later to become vice- years? Young people have no chancellor of Oxford, wrote a paper memory of what things were like when that listed the number of species of their parents and grandparents were insects (moths, bugs and beetles) that their age so they aren’t so aware of had been recorded as associated with environmental changes as older different trees. Oak led the list with generations. Two examples come to almost 300 species whilst it was my own mind. Back in the 1960’s I significant that non-native trees like was an avid listener of a BBC Home sycamore and chestnut contributed Service programme called Nature very few, mostly less than ten. The Parliament. On one occasion there trees and shrubs in the new was a discussion on what was the Blackhanger hedge have been commonest British bird to which carefully chosen to reflect this ranking. listeners were invited to contribute. The actual answer was the chaffinch in Biodiversity is much in the news at the winter and the willow warbler in moment given additional prominence summer, but many listeners were by David Attenborough’s programmes unconvinced being certain that the highlighting the serious losses that answer was the starling because of have occurred in recent years and the the huge flocks that were such a emphasis being given to the current common experience. I don’t think that buzz-word of ‘rewilding’. This last has I have seen a starling since we arrived
32 two years ago and I never see more crops benefitting from bee pollination than a single pair of chaffinches on the the economic significance of feeders. As for the willow warbler bumblebees has increased. At the being the most abundant summer bird same time the abundance of nearly all in this part of the world! The second of our twenty-five species has example is quite different. When did declined, some to the point of you last have to regularly wash the extinction. Part of this decline is down flies off your windscreen with the to the reduction in flower-rich wipers? All this is an example of what meadows. Planting bee friendly plants the boffins call ‘generational amnesia’ is an easy and effective way of but is important because it could lead encouraging bees and most garden to an under-estimation of the true centres now indicate appropriate scale of environmental change and species on their labels and the hinder the urgent need for establishment of a patch of flower-rich conservation action. grassland in place of a manicured lawn is also becoming increasingly To return to our hedgerows, with popular. In many parts of the agricultural land covering more than countryside the only surviving more than 73% of the UK, hedges are example of a flower-rich meadow is a particularly important feature of the the churchyard, especially where a landscape providing important wildlife Victorian church was planted in one of habitat as well as acting as corridors the village meadows. Sean Edwards’ linking other habitats such as detailed survey of our own much older woodland. For instance, 36 species of churchyard reveals a total of almost birds nest commonly in hedges and a 150 plants in the grassland further 21 less commonly which surrounding the gravestones. together represent more than a quarter of all British breeding species. Living as we do in the most wooded Around 250 species of our flowering county in Britain it is easy to forget plants are regularly found in that we are part of almost the least hedgerows together with 18 species of forested country in Europe (after butterflies, about a third of the total. Iceland and the Netherlands and equal As well as our own efforts, there is with Ireland). This highlights the much happening in Surrey in importance of the government’s target hedgerow conservation. The Surrey of 30,000 ha of new woodland in Wildlife Trust has recently been England by 2025 and Surrey’s New awarded a major grant by the Heritage Trees Strategy to facilitate the planting Lottery Fund to support an ambitious of 1.2 million trees by 2030, a four-year project ‘Preserving Surrey’s commitment that we are continuing to Hedgerow Heritage’. support.
There’s a great deal of advice and If you want more information about encouragement in the media on how this subject, please contact either: we can contribute to increasing and supporting wildlife. One of the most [email protected] significant areas of concern is the or marked decline in insect pollinators, [email protected]. particularly bees. With the loss of honeybees to the Varroa jacobsoni mite and with over 40 major European
33 CLOCKHOUSE NEWS By Rachel Bray
We hope you are all keeping well and seated in either ones or pairs, if they have managed to keep your spirits up are in the same ‘Bubble’, and all during this third lockdown. As you tables will be 2 metres apart. We will may be aware The Clockhouse has have our wonderful volunteers on been closed since just before reception to greet people and to serve Christmas but we have been keeping the meal. Sadly members will not be in touch with our members and able to circulate as they would volunteers both by phone as well as normally do and there is a one way some doorstep visits to ensure that system. Our first sessions will be on they have sufficient food and offering Wednesday 10th March and hopefully advice if required. Most if not all have we will gradually increase the number now had at least one Covid of sessions per week depending on vaccination at least 3 weeks ago. the demand. We are aiming to cover 3 days a week eventually. Following lengthy discussions and an up to date Risk Assessment The Board Our Foot Clinic has continued on of Trustees have decided that it is Thursdays. Please contact Freja now safe to restart our Support Group 07946 663126. sessions which were so successful last Our Hairdresser Karen will be back year. th from 13 April Please contact 07789 We are inviting a maximum of 14 806953 people for a 2+ hour session with activities run by Elvina and a 2 course Bag2School collections , previously lunch freshly prepared by our chef known as Phil the Bag, have restarted David. There will be a morning and so if you are thinking about a Spring afternoon session in order to welcome Clean and wish to declutter we will as many people as we can while accept clean clothes, linen, towels, limiting the numbers to maintain the curtains, bags, belts, pairs of shoes in social distancing. The response from blacks bags. Again please call before our members and volunteers has delivering the bags to arrange a been amazing. They are so grateful suitable time to drop them off. for the opportunity to ‘meet’ their friends albeit at a distance. 100 club tickets are now on sale £15 per ticket.4 draws each year-Spring, Evelyn, our manager, has been Summer, Autumn and Winter. Every working hard towards making The draw will have at least a £50 prize, Clockhouse as Covid safe as possible plus two seasonal or additional cash to ensure that we are following the prizes. Government Guidelines and to keep people safe. As before everyone Volunteering is very rewarding and entering the building must wear a we would welcome some new face mask, hand sanitise on entry and volunteers to help on reception, have their temperature checked. If it serving meals, transporting members, is above 38 degrees they will be as well as doing doorstep visits to our advised to return home, isolate and members. Please contact Evelyn on seek medical advice if they feel 01483 420668 or email unwell. Their details will be logged for [email protected] if Track and Trace. People will be you are interested.
34 35 ELSTEAD AFTERNOON WI By Betty Moxon
Report on our March 2021 Meeting
Some 25 members joined together for a Zoom meeting and thoroughly enjoyed a talk on the Ghosts of Hampton Court Palace. However before our speaker joined us we were able to have some social time and to discuss WI business. We welcomed Sylvia Casben back after her bad fall just before the last meeting, and celebrated a number of birthdays and anniversaries. President Hilary After a short time in breakout rooms, Pettman showed us a little video she we met Sarah Slater, a guide at had made of “receiving” a certificate Hampton Court Palace, dressed in her celebrating our centenary, and the Victorian mourning dress to tell us little film of the Chair of Surrey about the many historic ghosts of Federation “giving” it to her. Lockdown Hampton Court palace. After George makes actors of us all! III moved out the Palace was divided into many apartments and many This year for the first time WIs were people lived there some of whom given discretion to decide how much reported strange sightings, including subscription they should charge from Lady Olive Baden Powell and the proportion of the subscription that Princess Frederica of Hanover who stayed with the WI (which is just under saw the “grey lady” bending over a 50%) The Committee had thought baby’s cradle. Interestingly the Grey long and hard about this and had Lady is supposed to be Dame Sibyl reluctantly decided that we could not Penn who had been a nurse to afford to reduce the subscription this generations of Tudor children. Queen year. Speakers were ever more Catherine Howard too is said to haunt expensive, and as we were not a gallery to plead for her life with meeting in person there was no Henry VIII. In normal times Sarah opportunity for other fundraising. The leads popular ghost tours in the 2020 subscription had been extended Palace which sounded very tempting. by 3 months to April. Our priority was Jo Lee thanked her for a fabulous talk to give members the best experience that had us all enthralled! we could, so the subs that are due in April would be the full £44, but we Our next meeting is on 1 April, when would look again in future years. we will hear all about the Chelsea Flower Show (sigh) from Paul Patton. We hope that as lockdown restrictions If you would like to join us, for the ended small groups would be able to meeting (or the year) please email meet up in gardens for tea and chat – [email protected] possibly by the latter part of May. We also thought that later in the summer we could all meet outside, but we would wait and see. 36 Beaconhill Cleaners Est 1968
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