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Vale Magazine 3 THANKS a million for all of your kind messages DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL welcoming our first post lockdown magazine back into your homes and businesses. It’s great to be with you again. TARMAC It’s also wonderful to see so many of the area’s businesses up and running again. Together we are & stone driveways LYNNE driving carefully towards a brave new world and POWELL that heavy lockdown feels like a lifetime ago (for Editor most of us, and touch wood). Staying on home turf for so long did have its bright spots, including more time to spend with in-house loved ones and to do those things we are usually too busy for. It was also a nice boon for wildlife, as Harry Green MBE notes in his feature. In fact, says Rob Hemming in his article, at times it felt like we’d !# ! # "" # wound back to the 1960s, but we really don’t #" # "! "! want to go back there, sayeth Rob. #!" I have been having great fun helping to judge " #"#"# ! # #! ! another Evesham Festival of Words lockdown !"#"!#! ! "# challenge, which relaunched our 2016 Plant a ! "! "" #!"!#"# ! New Word competition as Create a Word. The winner was Keren Dibbens-Wyatt, from Call us today to arrange a FREE no-obligation Tunbridge Wells, who could use his word to measure and quote - 01386 422411 describe how he felt: Bepuddled - rendered liquid inside by strong emotions. Glumster - the bringer of bad news - got second place and Chair Sue Ablett had even more glad tidings to bring to Mickleton’s Elizabeth Jennings. Husband Doug came fifth and equal eighth. Congratulations, too, to Sedgeberrow’s Sue Morris, in third place with Blendsday - when each Do you live near day is hard to distinguish from another. You can see all of the top ten on www.eveshamfestivalofwords.org. a noisy road welcome OR FIND YOUR WINDOWS DRAFTY? LYNNE POWELL It’s time to consider the benefits of Secondary Glazing... REDUCE COLIN COOKE NOISE BY UP TO
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Vale Magazine 5 inside information... COVER IMAGE 10 THE GOOD OLD DAZE: It felt like we were whizzed back in time when the lockdown kept us on No looking home turf, says Rob Hemming, who urges us to ditch back, says our those rose-tinted glasses. 1950s vintage car cover, but NATURE WINDS UP THE VOLUME: The hiatus in we’ve got a 14 good dose of air and road traffic was heaven for wildlife and for nostalgia too once we had time to stand, stare, listen and enjoy. this month. Harry Green MBE reports. 20 20 A CLAP ON THE BACK: We put one of our REGULARS frontline NHS heroes On the Spot. Paramedic Joann 14 Haskins explains why she loves her job and why your Vale Weather ...... 9 weekly doorstep applause meant such a lot. Hemming’s Way...... 10 Bird of Month...... 14 28 GIVE US A QUICHE LORRAINE: Alan Coxon Vale Magazine Quiz ...... 17 celebrates the super flan that enchanted a Duke and Soccermouth ...... 18 Sudoku...... 20 helps readers hit the spot too. Runic Ron...... 27 Food & Eating Out ...... 27 32 SUMMER SAUNTER: Join us on a lovely stroll from Win a Meal for Two ...... 29 the pretty village of Ilmington. Camera/smartphone recommended. Jobs ...... 30 Vale Walk ...... 32 PLUM LINES: We dive into the world of fruit, and the rich wildlife it feeds, Vale Leisuretime ...... 34 40 Win a Music Voucher ...... 37 after a juicy prompt from readers. Thinkers’ Corner ...... 38 Vale Vox Pop ...... 45 45 COVID-19 & GENERATION 20: Students tell James Noble how the Business & Professional ...... 48 pandemic shaping their plans and their future. Pershore Notebook ...... 50 Vale Gardening ...... 52 HOE’S THAT: A reader’s mega hollyhock and Andy gets to grip with climate Vale Motoring...... 57 53 Directory ...... 60 change in the garden.
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Vale Magazine 9 HEMMING’S WAY Self contained community EVERYBODY is finding 2020 a surreal the danger recedes. Good manners and time during the Covid-19 pandemic. kind acts are everywhere. Such buzz terms as ‘lockdown’, ‘social Before lockdown started easing, with the distancing’ and ‘PPE’ have entered our minimum of car use, no planes in the sky lexicon. We have girded ourselves to a and little industrial noise, the gentle stark reality of inconvenience and semi- atmosphere in country societies has been incarceration. reminiscent of the pre-1960s, a time well The restrictions on freedom of choice within living memory, when it was and movement are anathema in modern perfectly possible to live out your entire Britain but just about everyone is life without leaving your village. complying with the commonsense There was no need for cathedral-sized necessity of doing what is necessary until calorie temples or space-age shopping malls. In Badsey, for example, where I grew up, practically every component of couple of grocers/newsagents/sweet life was catered for until the modern age shops, three pubs and even a fish ‘n’ chip saw travel opportunities and outlook shop. expand. On top of these just about every service As far as food and supplies were was to hand. Besides the church, there concerned we had a couple of butchers, a was a school, a garage, a post office, two baker (no candlestick maker), a dairy, a banks, a blacksmith, a police station, an Carpentry WORD SEARCH & General WIN £25! Building Four of our advertisers are hidden in this word search below. Simply write them down and send your entry by FRIDAY14th AUGUST 2020 to The Vale Magazine, Vale Park, Evesham, WR11 1GS or email [email protected] Names may appear in any direction. First correct entry out of the bag wins. Good Luck!
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Vale Magazine 12 The whole STL pantomime was only scrapped in 1994! Yet there are still plenty who recall this bucolic self-sustainability with rose-tinted nostalgia and, in fairness it does have a certain Ealing Studios charm. As for me, growing up in a country village through the late fifties and sixties, many aspects were exciting but I became well aware of the narrow-mindedness an insular community engenders. Despite the fact that many see it as a kind of golden era, where kids could play all day in safety, where we ate home-cooked fresh food, where there was full bright lipstick and stilettos were scorned as employment and the only background tarty and boys with a little too much spirit noise was from bird song, barnyard were labelled borstal fodder. animals and train whistles... for many There were few workers rights, not people it was hell. much cash, rotten teeth, rampant The ointment was full of flies: class ignorance, bigotry, corporal punishment, oppression, snobbery, poverty, cruelty and capital punishment and racism plus Scarlet bullying; constant injustice to the weak, Fever, Whooping cough, Diphtheria, the educationally disadvantaged, dyslexics, Rickets, and Hitler. women, homosexuals and oddballs. Ahh, we was poor but we was ’appy. Sexual relationships were a minefield of Rubbish. moralistic opprobrium. Girls who wore ROB HEMMING
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Vale Magazine 13 BIRD OF THE MONTH SONG THRUSH Lockdown birds and other thoughts
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Vale Magazine 20 Your work is challenging at the best of times. How tough is it during the Covid- 19 pandemic, particularly in the first weeks? When the coronavirus first started it was a little overwhelming and very bizarre. We all had to start working in a very different way to what we were used to. We didn't really know much about the virus and the situation was continually changing. One of the main differences was the PPE (personal protective equipment) that we had to wear to every patient. Goggles, mask, gloves and an apron can be very hot and uncomfortable and our patients can find it all a bit daunting. But it is there to protect them as well as us. It is also very difficult explaining to patients that family members are not allowed to come with them into hospital, which can be upsetting for all involved. Throughout the continuing pandemic, WMAS has always provided us with the correct PPE. We have never run short and we are continually being advised which level PPE to wear to each incident.
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When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eyes, Out to the clear, born-singing rills My bird-like spirit flies.
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We start in the beautiful village of Ilmington, which is just a short drive from Mickleton. Flying high Park considerately on the roadside and head for Front Street, which runs Do take time to enjoy the lovely village, and church, through the centre of the village. of Ilmington, as well as this delightful walk. Walk past the Red Lion Inn on your right and then turn right along Valanders Lane. At the end of the road follow the path straight on. Turn left past the church on your right and follow the path to the right, heading up to the road. Turn left here and, when you reach the junction, turn right, following the signs towards Ebrington and Chipping Campden. You’ll pass two garages and Campden Cottage on your left. 1 Leave the road here and hop over an old stone stile on your left. Follow the narrow path (with a stone wall close to your left) straight on through the trees and up to the end of a narrow lane near some houses.
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Turn right here and head up along the At the junction, turn right and tramp Press on until you reach a road. Turn wide path. Before you reach the large along the narrow drive towards right and carefully follow the road. You’ll metal gate in front of you, look for, and impressive Foxcote House (an early pass a couple of properties before you follow, a sign down through two small 18th century mansion). reach a stone wall with two gates set gates on your right. 2 Turn right and follow the drive down back on your right. Turn left and continue close to the and then up past a stone house on your At the end of the wall, 5 turn right fence and trees on your left as you right. 4 Turn right through the gate and and follow the wide track past two tall climb. You’ll head up through a large follow the well defined path up through masts. Head through the gate in front of metal gate and before long you'll be at another gate. you and continue along this well-defined the top of the hill. 3 Continue straight Head along this path and, at a junction, path. on and follow the wide track downhill. take the right path through the trees. You’ll soon reach the point at the top of the hill where you walked earlier. 3 Turn left here and proceed downhill as you re-trace your steps back into Ilmington and the end of the walk.
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Vale Magazine 33 Cotswoldvale & leisuretime magazine Sport, fun and community - just what the doctor ordered A local legend would surely be beaming along with today’s golfers if he could see what a vision his 19th century dream has become. The Broadway Golf Club Dr Charles Standring founded in 1895 is celebrating its 125th anniversary plus a big bounce-back from the Covid-19 lockdown and it’s hardly ever looked as good. New members are being heartily welcomed to the beautiful course, which also boasts some spectacular views, topped by the glorious vista from the 5th tee, down over Broadway and over to the Malverns. RA EB TI Broadway doctor Charles, also renowned for his L N boundless energy and community engagement, was E G just 29 when he founded the Golf Club. He also C Dr Charles Standring on the tee at Broadway c.1896 reorganised Broadway Cricket Club, formed the B 125 r b Football Club and became Secretary of the Tennis o The good doctor would surely approve that the Club a Years lu Club. d is a vibrant golfing community hub, run by the members w f C Initially located on Deans Meadow (between Broadway ay Gol for the members. and the current Broadway Cricket Club), the Golf Club was one Players’ ages range from 97 (take a bow Ken Marshall) to seven- of only a couple of courses in the county in those pioneering times. year-old Olivia Evis, who has just joined the very strong junior section. The Club moved four times before, in 1911, it settled on what is The longest serving member is David Harrell, who joined 63 years now called “the bottom nine” of the existing course, which was ago. “It isn’t just a joy to play the course, it’s also an absolute pleasure increased to 18 holes in 1962. to be a member of such a friendly and inclusive club. The course was further enhanced over the years, from the advice “That chimes perfectly with Dr Standring’s community ethos and of leading golf architects, most notably Dr McKenzie, of Augusta we like to think he’s smiling down at us as we successfully drive off National fame, in 1929 and James Braid, the designer of more than now into a post-pandemic era,” says David. 200 courses including Gleneagles and Carnoustie, in 1938. LYNNE POWELL
The 5th hole with spectacular views over Broadway to the Malvern Hills and beyond.
Competitive young players Ken Marshall, Olivia Evis and David Harrell.
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Vale Magazine 39 A juicy sting in the tale WRITER Rob Hemming’s lighthearted articles with bite always get readers buzzing. But a teeny bit of last month’s Plum Crazy left a handful of you feeling as wicked as a wasp. Everyone praised his wit and wisdom as he wended his way through yesteryear, when the Vale was wreathed in plum blossom, bemoaning the fact that the sheer volume of the old plum industry no longer exists. However, the comment that now “you would be hard pressed to find a single plum tree for miles”, and his fretting that the Yellow Egg was on the way out, stung volunteers who work heavens hards on nurturing and protecting the Vale Landscape Heritage Trust’s (VLHT) 70 acre historic Hipton Hill plum orchard, which includes some very much alive and kicking specimens Welcome to Hipton Hill 70 acre historic plum orchard of the aforementioned Eggs. So was VLHT Manager Gary Farmer was a really nice piece, but the Yellow Egg becoming delightfully more common lately). mortally offended? He laughs. “Not at all. It hasn’t been consigned to history and there Currently it has more than 320 acres, are quite a few patches of plum orchards still ranging from grassland and woods to in the Vale. orchards, including its main plum spot “Nothing like it was, of course. Some of Hipton Hill, near Lenchwick. our older Evesham residents remember Acquired in 2007, in the nick of time as walking out of the town for the whole day one section of old trees had already been under plum blossom.” completely cleared, this is a tasty slice of a The VLHT’s primary drive is to buy past and a rich resource for today’s pockets of land to protect our heritage, threatened insects and bird life. thereby also creating crucial wildlife havens Planted between 1940 and 1950, the teeming with all sorts, from the tiniest cricket original trees are on their last legs but, with a Cowslips at Hipton Hill to bank voles, otters and birds (Red Kites are lot of TLC, they are still producing and new
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Vale Magazine 41 The pretty little Grizzled Skipper VLHT Manager Gary Farmer. BUILDING & LANDSCAPING SUPPLIES looks like a moth, but is a pretty • Top Soil • Bark rare butterfly in these parts. Hipton alone usually has thousands of Greater Butterfly Orchids (done for, this • Slabs • Sleepers... “The VHLT has 320 acres across the Vale, year, by a wet winter, prolonged drought • Fencing • Walling • Aggregates mostly funded by Severn Waste Services’ and then a hard frost in the spring), and • Soil Improver • Mushroom Compost Landfill Communities Fund grants. But • Electrical supplies Common Spotted and Pyramidal Orchids, • Plumbing supplies Buckle Street they’re tiny little oases in a swathe of maize. Honeybourne whose cerise pink flowers glow in the • Decorating supplies Evesham “The Heart of England Forest recently grassland. • Timber ...or just WR11 8QE a fuse or light bulb! purchased 400 acres, which partly wraps It’s a heavenly setting for former Redditch COME AND SEE US! 01386 833001 round Hipton Hill. So that means that our spring factory worker Gary, who made the ...... tiny stepping stone of 70 acres is now part of www.fairviewtrading.co.uk giant leap to become a Solihull park warden a bigger picture. and then a local nature reserve office before “It shows why it’s so important to purchase joining the VLHT seven years ago. land, not just for wildlife value but for its Wife Nicki, who has been furloughed from Please historical and social worth.” her role as National Trust resident gardener Eager volunteers, who get stuck into all sorts of allotted tasks every Wednesday (join DON’T them by emailing [email protected]), enjoy the exercise, learning new skills and Please don’t fail, to mention being up close to a heritage treasure chest. “THE VALE” As well as the wildlife, which includes that when responding to adverts rare Noble Chafer Beetle and another in your favourite magazine... county rarity - the tiny but beautiful (even though it doesn’t sound it) Grizzled Skipper Cotswold & butterfly, there are glorious wildflower
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Recent months have been unprecedented, not that any of ELIZABETH PHILLIPS: us need reminding of that. Covid-19 has affected everyone Soon-to-be Falmouth Uni somehow, from our elderly through to children home English with Creative Writing schooling and all in between, including our young people poised to embark on a journey towards work. student from Evesham, Further education students have been presented with currently on a gap year. some strange circumstances, courtesy of the pandemic. So “I’m fortunate enough to be far they’ve had to switch to lectures via conference calls, going to a university that is dissertations completed at home and even virtual taking students' safety very graduation ceremonies, to name but a few changes. Longer-term, placement and graduate job opportunities seriously, so I feel I’ll be as safe will be – and, indeed, already have been – affected, as the there as I am at home. economy wobbles into an uncertain future. “I’m nervous that I’m paying I’m heading into my third and final year of university and I the same price for a potentially was interested to see how the crisis has impacted fellow less thorough education, but I’m keeping an open mind. students at different stages of their further education foray. I asked five friends whether Covid-19 had changed their “Weirdly, being cooped up with my family for so long has education or career plans; if the impact on campus life and made me think I’ll miss them even more when I go to learning would put them off going to university. I’d assumed lockdown would have the opposite university; how lockdown has been effect! for them and, given the current uncertanty, their fears and hopes for “I would like to think that the pandemic will result in the the future. government’s reassessment of priorities, and learning to put JAMES NOBLE: Evesham student people’s health and wellbeing above profit. But I don't hold studying Sports Journalism at the out much hope.” University of Sunderland.
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Vale Magazine 49 VAL’S PERSHORE NOTEBOOK MORE shops are now open, including Avon Meadows has suffered this last few a toilet for use on the moon by astronauts hairdressers and barbers, much to the relief months. First floods, then the breeding to, It’ll replace the bags taped to buttocks of most men I know with hair. Most days season and finally Covid have meant no currently used. And we think we’ve got have seen a queue of men outside my local maintenance work has been possible, problems! barbers. Surely by now there must be although the various warblers don’t seem to On a similar note, I wonder if there is a enough cut hair to satisfy any wig makers have been too worried judging by the lamppost paint designed to withstand the around! singing that’s been going on in the now very onslaught of dog pee as so many are Heard a young man on his phone whilst dense reeds. obviously rusting close to the base and at the running his hand through his cropped curls Currently we are left with two cygnets point of impact, which can prove expensive saying “I feel beautiful now”! both going through the ugly duckling stage, when they require replacing. Next cause for celebration is of course, the together with several batches of mallard opening of our pubs, which in Pershore chicks, all of whom love duck pellets and CUP OF JOY seems to have happened in quite a civilised manage to get covered in green duckweed In a previous life I had a teashop, Carleton fashion. whilst eating them. House, in Bridge Street and was mentioned These last few months have probably been in a “teashopaholics” book produced in the the first time ever that Pershore has had no LOO ALERT 1999 Tea Shop Walks in Worcestershire. access to a pub, bearing in mind that, Whilst chatting in the supermarket queue I was greeted recently by a couple centuries ago, fresh water wasn’t fit to drink was told by a lady, who used to work in the shopping in Pershore who apparently were and ale was the replacement – or that’s the Fine Fare originally located at the corner of regular customers and who asked when was excuse apparently! Pershore’s Broad Street and High Street, I going to re-open. It’s nice to be missed, Interesting to note that Government is that she remembers going down a cellar but it was all rather a long time ago! investigating creating jobs for those now with tombstones lining the wall. Please do continue supporting local traders unemployed by funding nature/green sites Investigations are ongoing to locate the and enjoy meeting friends once again in our normally maintained by volunteers to entrance to this cellar and I’ll report back! pubs and restaurants, which have been attempt to repair some of the damage Moving on to a slightly different era, I read greatly missed. Take care and stay safe. created by no work having been possible that NASA has issued the Lunar Loo VAL WOOD during the pandemic. Challenge to the global community to design
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