THE September 2017 LEE

For , Lee Common, Hunts Green, Kings Ash and Swan Bottom From the Editor Superfast BB: By Peter Archer fter the Newsletter’s summer arriving slowly break in August it will come as By Colin Sully and Simon Morris, A no surprise to find that we have The Lee Parish Council a bumper issue for September. This month we have a centre spread in colour, recalling the Flower Show and the Fête which are always summer highlights of life in The Lee. Last month’s Cryptic-Lee puzzle drew many responses from our readers, including Jacqui Burnett, Trish Swain, Simon Moule, Trevor Pearce, David Peace, John Ford, Carol Addison and others... the July mysteries have been well and truly solved. Turn to the letters on page 2 and to this month’s challenge on page 26 to find all the answers. For many years Trish Swain has been a valuable member of the Editorial Team, however she and Jon have now moved ou may have noticed some from The Lee and she has decided to step road-works over the summer down from the team. In recent years she Y in Ballinger. Surprise, has organised the monthly distribution of surprise, it appears to be the start of Sales & Lettings the Newsletter to all our homes. From all Superfast Broadband arriving for 64 High Street of us a very big ‘thank you’ and best customers of the Lee Common wishes for your move... we are pleased telephone exchange! HP16 0AN however to see that she continues to be a Improvements in actual service are Tel: 01494 890990 contributor of articles to the Newsletter. still some months away and this work Next month’s editor is Colin Sully. is in any case only part of the overall email: [email protected] Please send material to him by email to solution, but Openreach has now www.jeremyswan.co.uk [email protected] or installed ducting to the site of what hard copy to Fairleigh, Swan Bottom by will become a new Fibre broadband 12 th September. hub in Ballinger. They have also run 2 3 another duct across the road to a suitable Cryptic-Lee (July 2017) ago (presumably to support the brick/ mains electricity supply, thereby To the Editor clay mining/firing on Kiln Hill) enabling Fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) Since my mother (Joan Worsfold Here’s a current photo of the back for Ballinger residents connected to the from Park Cottage) and I read about of Firgrove Cottage. Cromar Lee Common exchange. my father’s map in the July Simon Moule Once the Lee Common exchange Kiln Hill has been through its upgrade (now Newsletter, we have been racking our Carpets Ltd scheduled for 2017/18), the new brains about the meaning of A.A.D. cabinet has been installed and Fibre and the three horseshoes. We has been fed through and connected, obviously knew at the time my father then that should deliver Superfast made the map but have forgotten CARPETS , V INYL AND Broadband to all of Lee Common, since. Mum thought that there had WOOD F LOORING Ballinger and The Lee green areas, been a pub near the plantation and so during the first half of 2018. it was to prove. SUPPLIED AND F ITTED Not all good news! Anyway, if there’s anything I Getting suitable power to a cabinet don’t already know about the village I is one of the problems in introducing usually ask Trevor Pearce, so I did at the flower show. He and Linda told FTTC in rural areas (as well as 9-11 S TATION A PPROACH justifying the overall expense for a me that A.A.D. stands for Anti- GREAT M ISSENDEN dispersed community). These problems Aircraft Detection. Opposite the are yet to be solved for the 100 or so Swain’s house at Swan Bottom there Macmillan 01494 862125 premises served by the cabinet at the top is still, I believe, some evidence of a of Red Lion Hill (basically everyone on shelter for the searchlight used or near Lane from Kings Ash in WWII. That would make sense coffee morning all the way through Swan Bottom to seeing as the headquarters for the By Trish Swain ). A solution for these Home Guard was at Kingswood mid-morning cup of tea or customers has still to be proposed… and House led by Sir Bernard Docker. coffee is always welcome, the financed! More on this next month. There was indeed a pub near the A more so if it is enjoyed with plantation. It was called the Three friends, and, even better, if you’re part Horseshoes and is now Firgrove Cottage, of the World’s Biggest Coffee Your letters where the Glanfields used to live. Morning, raising funds for Macmillan To the Editor If you haven’t already been Cancer Relief! Our family would like to express our informed of this information I hope all Pippa Hart and Trish Swain thanks for all in The Lee community this has been of interest. cordially invite you to join them at and elsewhere who attended and Carol Addison Furzefield Farm, Furzefield Lane, Lee

supported our coffee morning in aid of Lee Common Gate, HP16 9NR, at any time between funds for treatment for Freyja, our 9:00 am and 12:00 noon on Friday 29 th cousin and niece, who is suffering To the Editor: September. from a rare form of cancer. I think the Three Horseshoes relate to You will be especially welcome if The total raised stands at just under you are new to the village... and feel £2,300 and we are very grateful for a pub which used to be on the site of people’s kindness and generosity. Firgrove Cottage on Kiln Hill. free to bring a friend as well. Charlotte, Emma, Robert, When we bought the house from There will be cards, preserves and Penny and David Burgess John Glanfield, he mentioned that cakes for sale, as well as a raffle. So The Lee there had been a pub there many years please join us for a cuppa..... 4 5 and low overhanging branches before Oxford Street traffic The site contains sections on: * the AONB Review Group The Lee Parish they become a nuisance. We thank you The Parish Council has given much * Colne Valley Regional Park in anticipation for helping to keep this consideration to this matter over recent * Schedule 17 Consent approvals parish a lovely place for all. years and, following more recent Council news * CoPA Consents on Noisy Works Drop-in parish surgeries discussions with the school, we are By Liz van Hullen, Parish Clerk * Community / Business Funding circulating with this Newsletter a We held the last of our pilot * HS2 Contacts. Hedge maintenance Drop-in surgeries on Saturday 1 st consultation document. The proposal to he warm, wet weather we have The website can be found at July at the Parish Hall. It became be considered is whether white-lining enjoyed over the summer www.councilshs2information.org. clear from all the sessions that we the edges of sections of Oxford Street doesn’t come without a penalty. Residents should note however that T ran that the issues of most in the vicinity of Princes Lane and Lee Our hedges are sprouting like mad and by the time the detailed designs for HS2 Common School is an appropriate way it seems a good time to remind all our importance to our residents include: get to formal Schedule 17 planning of improving the parking and vehicle parishioners of their hedge-cutting • Road surfaces application stage, there will in fact be overcrowding problems. responsibilities. • HS2 little opportunity to change them. The A single white line would be Whatever the size of your plot and • Broadband Parish Council will be looking for painted along sections of Oxford whether it borders a roadside, a • School buses opportunities to engage with the recently Street, next to the bus stop, the fire pavement or a rural public footpath, • Planning applications announced main contractors (see pages 8 responsibility lies with the owner to • Fly-tipping hydrant, on the bend and opposite the and 9) on local design elements over the keep it cut back. • Preserving the local pubs junction with Princes Lane, in order to next 12 months. Please keep an eye on your hedges • A village archive. remind drivers of the Highway Code’s For all Parish Council matters with consideration for walkers and road Going forward we will hold two or restrictions. The exact sections to be please contact the Clerk at users alike. Cut back annual growth three of these useful events each year, white-lined would be determined by [email protected] dates to be published in due course. Bucks CC following this consultation. We look forward to the opportunity to Responses to the consultation discuss issues with you. should be sent to The Clerk by the cut-off date of 30 th September. There Playground maintenance will also be an opportunity to KINGSHILL We are delighted to now have a comment in person at the Parish CARS FOR ALL OCCASIONS core group of volunteers who tackle Council meeting on 12 th September. some of the more urgent jobs needed

to keep the children’s play area in full HS2 planning information Chiltern and South Bucks District working order. It is not too late to join Everything you’d wish a country CHILTERNS Councils have put together a website of - if you can spare half a day every pub to be; great beer, cosy current local HS2 planning information. couple of months to join this group inviting bar and a restaurant please contact Colin Sully at serving great food. All with a AIRPORTS [email protected] warm welcome and service only New gates a family-run pub can offer. We have responded to the request for new gates at the allotment / Wednesdays: Market Menu playground area to prevent children Thursdays: Steak Night and pets from running directly out Fridays: Fish & Fizz onto Cherry Tree Lane / Oxford 01494 868699 Street. A couple of new gates have Swan Lane, The Lee HP16 9NU 01494 837239 Email: [email protected] been installed by our volunteers. [email protected] 6 7 The group also concluded that Fort group there were four broad options to be What’s in a considered: 1. a re-furbishment / re-build weighs options similar to the present fort name? By The Lee fort working group 2. a new bespoke structure By Peter Archer, Chairman, The Arts s reported in the July edition Society Ballinger incorporating the key features Service with a personal touch of the Newsletter, The Lee or the past 19 years Ballinger listed above and the site Hand picked designer frames A Parish Council has set up a topography in the design Decorative Fine Arts Society has Contact Lens Specialist small working-group and asked it to 3. replace with a stand-alone fort F been holding monthly meetings bring forward a medium/long-term structure in Ballinger Village Memorial Hall. At Retinal Scanning plan for the fort area of the playground 4. replace with something each meeting we have a top quality Family Friendly in Oxford Street. The need for a completely different e.g. a lecturer who gives us an interesting and, Feel free to walk in at any time review is prompted by the continuing skate-board park or a zip-wire often, fascinating lecture on an (our late night opening is on slow deterioration of the existing fort. increasingly wide range of subjects. Wednesdays) or contact us at: Our society is affiliated to the National Association of Decorative and Chiltern Opticians Ltd. Fine Arts Society - or was, as it has 75 High Street Great Missenden now changed its name to The Arts Bucks HP16 0AL Society. In common with most of the 01494 868496 other individual societies, we have also [email protected] changed our name. We are now to be www.chilternopticians.com known as The Arts Society Ballinger, but, other than a name change, we will Examples of bespoke fort (above) continue to be just the same as before! The remit for the group includes and stand-alone (below) We meet on the last Thursday in the consideration of: month for 10 months of the year. We do • alternative options for not meet in August and December. Our removal / replacement / meetings take place in the evening at refurbishment of the fort 8:00 pm, although members arrive from • approximate costings of these 7:30 onwards and can enjoy a pre- lecture tea or coffee. alternatives th • possible sources of external Our new programme starts on 28 funding and / or fund-raising September when we are looking • a plan to consult with the local forward to a lecture on ‘Henry Moore: a community. Revolution in British Sculpture’. This The group had its first meeting in The group is now working on each lecture is well timed as we also have a July and, in beginning to formulate a of the above options and will invite Society outing to Henry Moore’s studio view as to what might sensibly be done, wider consultation on some detailed and gardens in early October. concluded that ideally all of the key designs in due course. Meanwhile, if Our society is still able to recruit features of the current fort should be anyone has any ideas or expertise in some new members so, if any of our included in whatever replaces it i.e. a this area, or would like to join the readers would like to join, please either mound, a slide, tunnel(s), a cave (hiding working group, please contact the contact me at: [email protected] place), a platform deck (overlooking) Parish Clerk, Liz van Hullen, at or our membership secretary Susanne and a seating area. [email protected] Baker at: [email protected] 8 9 costs of the project could be twice the HS2: rolling on Government’s current estimate. By Colin Sully However, it later emerged that hings have been fairly quiet this was to some extent at least ‘fake locally on the HS2 front since news’. This work was actually July. There is a limited amount prepared at the request of T petitioners / lobbyists and the DfT of ‘enabling work’ taking place, including some species habitat had in fact not commissioned any assessment and more borehole work from Mr Byng. sampling. That’s not to say that The official line from DfT and significant enabling work hasn’t HS2 Ltd as we go to press is that the started elsewhere, in particular at … and that’s just the start! project “ remains on time and on budget” . A further announcement made Euston/Camden, in Hillingdon, near The Bill for Phase 2a (from by the Minister in July was that the the M25 and in Birmingham. There Birmingham to Crewe) was also Government has produced an updated have also been plenty of HS2 introduced to Parliament in July and, nd business case, which “ shows that, announcements since our last report. assuming it gets through 2 Reading including the wider economic benefits, in the autumn, a period of petitioning Contracts awarded… the full HS2 network will create £2.30 for those affected will then follow Firstly, the four main contractor of benefit for every £1 spent.” (sound familiar?) groups to construct the tunnels, This is all in stark contrast to the The route for Phase 2b – the bridges and earthworks for Phase 1 views of other economists. The annual were announced in July and contracts remainder of the route to Manchester report of the Infrastructure and Projects were duly signed in August. and Leeds – has also been announced Authority, which is part of the Cabinet The contracts are two-stage, with and a further Bill is being prepared, Office, has rated HS2 as amber/red for the contractors spending the first 16 following which there will yet another a fifth consecutive year, defining months working collaboratively with period of petitioning. ‘amber/red’ as: “ Successful delivery of HS2 Ltd on the detailed design before HS2 Ltd’s target is to receive the project is in doubt, with major risks construction begins “around 2018/19”. Royal Assent for the Bill for Phase 2b or issues apparent in a number of key It is understood that there is a break- by October 2022. areas. Urgent action is needed to clause between the two stages. Spinning the news address these problems and/or assess Importantly and perhaps Of course, over the summer, there whether resolution is feasible.” disappointedly for us, different joint- has also been continuing comment on venture (JV) contractors have been Cultural weakness appointed for the Chilterns tunnel and the costs of the project, its value-for- Finally, another report from the for the surface works to the north of money and the culture in HS2 Ltd. National Audit Office has taken HS2 the tunnel: In July, the Independent newspaper Ltd to task for continued “... weakness Chiltern Tunnels and Colne Valley (and others including our local in its management and culture”. It Viaduct (C1) – Align JV (Bouygues paper) reported that the Department transpires that HS2 Ltd gave staff Travaux Publics, VolkerFitzpatrick, Sir for Transport (DfT) had commissioned nearly £2m more in redundancy Robert McAlpine) Mr Michael Byng to produce an payments in 2016/17 than it was North Portal Chiltern Tunnels independent cost review of the whole allowed to by the civil service to Brackley (C2) – CEK JV project. He had earlier published a framework – despite twice receiving (Carillion Construction Ltd, Eiffage detailed report questioning the cost of direct written instructions from the Genie Civil SA, Kier Infrastructure and the section from Euston to Old Oak DfT not to offer such generous terms. Overseas Ltd) Common and suggested the overall Sad, isn’t it? 10 11 ‘Midsomer Murders’ has benefitted the club. How so? No bodies on the Bridge too far? pitch or old scores being settled with a By Kathryn Dickinson et al bat (that is a plot in the pipeline, his hand recently presented us surely?) but instead, a very generous with another interesting donation from Life President, Liz bidding challenge: T Stewart-Liberty. Location fees from the ♠ 10 9 6 recent filming on the green have been ♥ 8 6 4 allocated to various organisations and ♦ K J 6 the cricket club is a fortunate ♣ J 7 5 2 beneficiary. This windfall will be put to ♠ A 7 4 ♠ Q 5 2 good use, planting new oak trees ♥ J 5 ♥ K 3 around the ground, to replace the much ♦ A 3 ♦ Q 10 9 8 4 mourned oak tree which had to be ♣ 10 9 8 6 4 3 ♣ A K Q removed last year. The name of the ♠ K J 8 3 club is also going to be painted round ♥ The Lee maidens (ladies) the new clock. A Q 10 9 7 2 Henry Quinn - a maiden century! ♦ If you are passing, and you see a 7 5 2 for The Lee Ladies. Not to be outdone, game in progress, do stop by and enjoy ♣ - decision was made to merge with the Boakes family have three playing a quintessential English scene; you will Dealer: East Hill Cricket Club, who members too! Congratulations must go be made very welcome. Vulnerability: None were experiencing similar problems. to Ed Boakes who has become the Home games are now split between Club’s leading wicket taker (in the era How do you think the bidding the two clubs meaning that games no of internet records since 2006). went… and what contract was… or The Dog House longer have to be cancelled and All in all, The Lee is truly a family was not made? results are improving now that the club with something for everyone. See page 34. DOG G ROOMING P ARLOUR teams are gelling. Henry Quinn, who started his A notable achievement for Club cricketing career as a Colt around All dogs large and small Captain and former Colts coach, Mark 2006 and coached by Mark Channer, Contact Lynda on 01494 867149 Cricket news Channer, aka “Sparky”, was a scored his maiden century for The Lee magnificent score of 94 in mid-July against Winchmore Hill on 5 th [email protected] against Little Marlow, topping his from The Lee August. Many congratulations to him: City and Guilds qualified. previous high score in the 60s. An By Trish Swain may the run-fest continue. Fully insured. ike the team, players amazing feat and much deserved for a The Lee Ladies, organised by from The Lee have recently club stalwart. Caroline Boakes, were invited to their L suffered some highs and lows. The Colts have performed well this first soft ball tournament in Chesham Fortunately for us, there can only be season, but a special mention must go in early July and, since then, they have one batting collapse in an innings (for to the U8s who made the semi-finals played at two further events. each team). Sadly, for The Lee Sunday of their league in their first ever A fun Twenty20 match was team, it came against arch rivals, tournament. hosted by on Friday Ballinger Waggoners. Still there’s The club now has five playing 14 th July, when The Lee ground was always next year! members of the Harris family, with being used by the Flower Show, and Due to player availability issues representation in the senior teams, U8 they also hosted The Lee Sunday for the Saturday second XI, a and U10 teams and Rachel is playing game that weekend. 12 13 made the grade and found that TIM SIMMONS IS Flower show points mean silverware. THE VERMINATOR Here is a list: Pest control services pays the price Best in Show Trophy Judy Whymark By Jonathan Batten Open Classes Cup Katherine Hersee he summer started on th Cottager Cup Colin Treadaway WASPS ALL Saturday 15 July, the day we GLIS-GLIS INSECTS had all been looking forward William Holland Cup Fred Harrison SQUIRREL FOXES T RATS RABBITS Maurice Holland Cup Ian Campbell to, but unfortunately there was a MICE AND mistake in the order that had been Douglas Lapham Trophy Katherine Hersee MOLES ANTS put in for the weather! Davie Bowl Katherine Hersee As we opened our eyes on the morning of The Lee Flower Show, we William Arthur Rose Cup Janet Joyner FAST FRIENDLY SERVICE were greeted with some drizzle, which LOW PRICES - HIGH QUALITY then persisted, and turned heavier at Pot Cup Annie Standley various times during the morning, Elsie Matthews Cup Rachel Rolfe 07734649305 tending to put a bit of a damper on the The Darvell Cup Anne Button proceedings. The Lee WI Cup Anne Button So, despite an increase in the Evelyn Stewart-Liberty Anne Button WE WILL ALSO PROOF YOUR number of entries compared to last Cup HOUSE/PREMISES TO STOP THEM William Baxter Cup Janet Chilton year and more stalls and side shows, COMING BACK Egg Trophy Anne Kenyon the number of people who came to the and Jilly show was down by about 17% having Carleton-Smith the consequent knock-on effect on Audley Humphreys Anastasia our finances. Handicraft Trophy Kershaw Gill and John Chudley Tilda Crespin But heh, let’s not dwell on the Cup sordid monetary details, as it was a The Cecil Beaton Stewart Dennis great day enjoyed by all who ventured Hart Shutter Magic Stewart Dennis out and participated. Tim Hilder Award Edward Harris Well done to all of you who put in Glanfield Award Jenny Rolfe such a wonderful array of exhibits to Eric Hobbs Award Lottie Lewis fill the tent with a blaze of colour and Morley Cup Millie Merifield smell to assault the senses for the President's Cup Jack Izzard enjoyment of all. The exhibits are the HOLIDAY HOME TO LET Susan Cowdy Award Jemma Thomson IN SPAIN core of the show and a testament to the GAUCIN - ANDALUCIA enthusiasm of the exhibitors for Ladies Race 35+ Claire Robertson 3 Bedroom property with pool friendly competition. Well done to those who Visitors Cup (Veg, Fruit, Jennifer Capper in the hilltop white village of Gaucin. Flowers) and Julie Ogley Stunning views of Mediterranean, exhibited and sold your work in the Visitors Cup (Floral Art) Sue Keane Gibraltar and Moroccan Hills. art tent. Well done to those who Visitors Cup (Cookery) Claire Barrett- Ring now for availability entered the dog show and the races, Mold Tel. 01494 837602 children and adults alike. Well done Doggie Bag Jug Sam www.casa-mirador.com to all the brilliant cup winners who Diploma for Excellence Annie Standley in Horticulture 14 15 Well done to the dogs, sheep, we hope to see a good number more variety and goats, ducks, geese, rabbits, mice, of you. flavour of Pippa Hart bees and the alpacas. Amusingly, although we had less our lovely Photography Well done to all those who were people, those that were there drank homemade still standing at the dance, an integral more tea and ate more cake, so the tea cakes - part of the whole day and so vital to tent did better than last year… especially the well-being of the show. the generous Thank you to all those who Cream teas at the show portions on contributed so much by helping: on By Kelly Stone offer! the side shows and stalls, in the road ver the years, the cream teas One lady directing traffic, at the gate, in the tea at The Lee Flower Show have mentioned tent, in the beer tent, playing in the grown and grown. As such, she had the O best cup of tea she had ever tasted! band, making the judges lunches, we have become a well-oiled machine donating raffle prizes, setting up the thanks to everyone who donates their The glorious flower arrangements, PA system, moving the tables and time, cakes and scones. Everyone, kindly donated and supplied by Chris chairs, erecting the gazebos, without exception, plays their part in Field and The Shop @ The Lee, were Natural & Informal organising the dance, being on the providing the quintessential afternoon raffled and won by Mike Moran and a Black &White committee... cream tea like none other. Mr Cook from Risborough. The cakes Portraits And especially thank you to all of Our hard work was rewarded with and raffle helped us raise you who came to the show and the lovely comments raving at how approximately £1,500. 01494 837340 dance to have a good time – next year colourful the tea tent was and the The most innovative and www.pippahart.com decorated cake was donated by Yvonne Haggart who made not one but two ‘Unicorn cakes’ (see photo SHORT-TERM below)! Once again, thank you to our RENTALS wonderful cream teas team – you all From £295 per week (all inclusive) know who you are! 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Tel: 01494 837798 e-mail: [email protected] 16 17 Conversations THE with the Revd LEE SUMMER 2017 David Burgess No. 14: the Prodigal Son In a series of articles for The Lee Newsletter, the Reverend David Burgess is interviewed by Tony Brignull, an old friend and lifelong Buddhist. This month they discuss the parable of the Prodigal Son. Tony Brignull: All of Jesus’s parables have multiple layers of meaning, David, but the story of the D.B. Calmness, peace of mind, clarity prodigal son seems to have more than of thought, warmth of heart, kindness, most. Will you first describe the most sympathy for others, uncluttered literal of them? energy, love, spontaneous gratitude… David Burgess: Certainly. A young all the qualities of being at one with his man is living with his father and his (and our) father. brother. He asks his dad for his T.B. He forgets them? inheritance, goes to another country, D.B. He takes them to himself, he spends it all living it up and, when he’s thinks he owns them, that he’s self- broke, he has to earn a living tending sufficient, that he’s god-almighty. He pigs, eating what they eat. He returns becomes a self-important bobby- home, begs forgiveness, is pardoned dazzler. These are the harlots the and his father celebrates. Not so the parable says he lives with. brother, who is jealous. T.B. Then he comes down to earth with T.B. It sounds like the résumé of a a bump. Hollywood blockbuster. What do you D.B. He lacks the resources to renew take it’s inner meaning to be? What himself. Spiritually, he’s running on would the disciples have made of it? empty, he’s starving. Whereas once he D.B. It’s primarily about the kingdom ate living bread – the true teaching – at of heaven. his father’s table, now he’s reduced to T.B. Where is heaven in this parable? empty husks; the grain, the seed, has D.B. It’s the father’s house. The young gone. man turns his back on it and leaves home. T.B. He decides to go home and seek T.B. What is the inheritance he wastes? forgiveness. D.B. The same as for all of us: access to D.B. ‘ Home’ means, of course, his the eternal presence of the father, God. true home, the kingdom of heaven. He T.B. And what, precisely, is it that he knows he has to get back to it. spends on riotous living? (Continued on Page 21) 18 19

20 21 T.B. Interestingly, Sufis call this stage brother must begin to work again, this of the journey homesickness. And here time as a mature human being who’s we come to one of the most moving learnt his lesson. lines in the bible, “But when he was T.B. But he’s not punished. yet a long way off his father saw him”. D.B. No, God is not punitive, but the D.B. It’s so very beautiful, so very son is probably told he’d better not do true, because it’s what all fathers and it again. mothers do, we never stop looking for T.B. Thank you, David. our children. Jesus is saying that God is likewise looking after us, always waiting for our homecoming. We imagine him gazing constantly from a Services for high place for a puff of dust on the horizon, which then, to his great joy, September he makes out to be his son. St John the Baptist T.B. His father puts a cloak on him, rd 3 8:00 am HC Revd D Burgess gives him a ring, kills the fatted calf. Old Church D.B. The cloak is a symbol for 10:00 am AA Revd D Burgess renewal. The ring for commitment – th 10 10:00 am PC Revd D Burgess marriage – to the Christian life. The th 17 10:00 am Matins: Lay-led feast is an image throughout the New th 24 10:00 am PC Minister tbc Testament for the kingdom of heaven. T.B. Yes, renewal! Jesus repeats it HC Holy Communion (said) three times, “My son – your brother – PC Parish Communion (sung) was dead and now he is alive again”. AA All-age service The elder brother, however, feels hard done by…. Contacts: Vicar: Revd David D.B. Understandably, it seems an Burgess (837315). Licensed Lay injustice to him: while his younger Minister: Mr Tony Eccleston (07777 brother’s been wasting the family 640386) Churchwardens : Roderick Neal fortune, he’s been working in the (837264) and Trevor Pearce (837601). fields – in other words, working Verger: Bill Pearce (785191). patiently, persistently and under Treasurer: David Stephenson (867617). instruction, at eliminating all barriers in himself to the kingdom of heaven. This is the essence of religious training in all traditions. T.B. In another parable, the workers in the vineyard, the father reassures him that forgiveness, even at the last, gives the penitent full access to heaven, and to the same joy which the elder brother’s had all along. D.B. True. But something precious has been frittered away. The younger 22 23 Methodist Church There is another added dimension Next, all the people who helped set up rd to the concert this year – 2017 sees the in the morning, and then stayed all day! 3 10:00am AA Joint service at St John the Baptist centenary of the installation (though Claire and Chris Wise, Kelly th 10 3:00 pm HC Revd Nigel Wright not the construction) of the organ at Stone, Yvonne, Peter & Harry th 17 3:00 pm HC Revd Anne Ellis The Lee, so the concert will be also be Haggart, Tim & Judy Hart, Pippa Hart th 24 3:00 pm Harvest Festival celebrating that particular anniversary. (who went home to get the things I’d Service at Coffee, tea and cake will be served forgotten!) June Woodhouse and Winchmore Hill during the interval. Malcolm Weir (for his help with As with last year’s recital, the electricity – a vital role) Pat Mitchell, We welcome Revd Nigel Wright concert itself is given free of charge, and Elaine Harvey (who have been as he commences his ministry in the though donations would be very such stalwarts) Jane Brown, Annie st offer a huge range of walks planned Amersham Circuit on the 1 welcome. The PCC have kindly Standley, Sally Knowles, Jane Marsh for all levels and abilities. September. agreed that donations from the concert and all the other ladies who We have over 50 events lined up We continue with our Coffee should go towards a fund recently set volunteered to help. nd this time, a mixture of hikes, guided Mornings on Saturday 2 September up to enable Freyja Christiansen, Most of all, my thanks to Mary tours and special events right across the 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon. All welcome. David and Penny Burgess’ six-year Stewart-Liberty for letting us take over Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural old Australian niece, to receive her kitchen virtually all day. Beauty. Most walks require booking, St. Mary’s, Ballinger treatment for a very rare form of which can be done online. More walks rd 3 9:30 am Holy Communion cancer – one of only forty or so cases are added each day. ever reported. The Chiltern More information is available at We would like to place on record www.visitchilterns.co.uk/walkingfest Organ our sincere thanks to the PCC of The walking festival Lee for suggesting and agreeing that From the Chiltern Conservation Board J Brown Funeral Services Ltd donations should be given to the concert rab some comfy walking Freyja Fund. shoes and get ready to explore 67 Woodside Road, Amersham, HP6 6AA at St John the a host of locations, landscapes G 01494 727474 (24hours) and lifestyles during the second Baptist church Church fête teas Chilterns Walking Festival. An independent family run business By Wendy Robertson The autumn festival takes place with over 20 years experience to By Revd David Burgess th th he church fête teas were a big from Saturday 16 September to ensure peace of mind. n Saturday 9 September St st John the Baptist is holding a success again, certainly helped Sunday 1 October and The Chilterns All denominations Conservation Board is delighted to concert starting at 3:00pm. by the weather. At the tea tent Civil and humanist services O T Martin Paxton, a local organist, gave we made a profit of £957, more than HOUSE TO LET FOR HOLIDAYS Private chapels of rest us a recital last year and this time he we’ve ever taken. is returning with a group of fellow- IN SOUTH OF FRANCE Pre-paid funeral plans The result however was all due to a musicians from all across group of hard-working individuals. So, New 3 bedroom house on small château Off street client parking and good Buckinghamshire. forgive me, but I am going to thank development with communal pool in disabled access Six members of the them publicly. quiet Languedoc village. Sleeps 6. Contact Jason Brown Buckinghamshire Organists Association First of all, many, many thanks to 5 minutes walk to shops, café, etc. will be performing at this concert. A Near Mediterranean beaches, on 01494 727474 the amazing ladies who make our [email protected] variety of classical music – and lighter mountains, lakes, caves, markets. fabulous cakes, some of them were pieces – will be included with or just pop in for a cup of tea going on holiday, but still helped out. For details and availability call 837596 composers ranging from Bach to Binge. or email [email protected] 24 25 They were given a flavour of competing As usual I have been out and about 3. As you would expect, not Chiltern internationally by Olympic stars and an regularly with Transport for Bucks everyone finds everything useful or understanding of the challenges ahead. deciding which roads to repair next. interesting. As one reader put it: “ I Bucks New University celebrated They finally recognise that the road don’t find news about groups to which Ridges th its 125 Anniversary in the State network in this Division is a one-off in I have no connection useful or Rooms, Speaker's House this week and, terms of few main roads but many rural particularly interesting - obviously my news at a surprisingly select gathering, I roads with little substructure, many of interests are not going to be the same By Patricia Birchley, Chairman of learnt a lot about the history of High which are hectic in the rush hour. I have as those of other people” . Bucks County Council Wycombe Technical and Arts School, attended most of the parish council Many things that were mentioned ix weeks into my term as which opened in 1891 and finally meetings in the last cycle and met and unprompted by some as specific Chairman has reinforced my received university status in 2007. discussed matters of concern including ‘dislikes’ were also mentioned S appreciation of the talents and A couple of days later I was invited to planning issues with local business, unprompted as specific ‘likes’ by ingenuity of people all across Bucks. Parents Day at Pipers Corner School, at speeding and school transport. others. In other words we have to This weekend I attended the Bucks which Aled Jones was a hilarious guest Please let me know if I can talk to accept that we can’t please all the and Milton Keynes School Games speaker as he regaled the parents with officers at County Hall on your behalf. people all the time! Level 3 festival at Stoke Mandeville entirely different anecdotes from those You can contact me on 0771 470 4017 4. Having said that, there are some Stadium. 1,500 finalists were treated to he illustrated for the girls. Having or at [email protected] issues about the current content and an Olympic style opening ceremony completed a really impressive afternoon balance - and some suggestions for with displays of gymnastics and dancing laced with singing and dancing from the developments - that we need to by talented young athletes, the whole girls, he left complete with driver on a You said it... consider further: more on these next ethos being respect for fellow Harley Davidson to get to Leeds Castle By the Newsletter editorial team month. Meanwhile, we hope you for his next engagement. competitors and determination to win. ur thanks to all those readers enjoyed this month’s colour! Milton Keynes Ethnic Arts Fair (over 60 in total) who gave a flavour of India, complete with a completed our survey on the typical multi-decorated bus with Quetta O Newsletter, the Forum and the number plates and masses of music and website. We will publish a more a long yarn about coffee being a great conduit for bringing people of all faiths detailed report next month, but here together through dialogue. However the are some early conclusions. annual reception at RAF High 1. There is a high level of Wycombe probably topped the bill in satisfaction with the general content of the Newsletter, Forum and website, terms of a thrill. The RAF band and no suggestion that we should marched in playing the Dambusters March on a peerless summer evening, make any radical changes. One reader Garden Design | Driveways with a Hurricane fly past to the strains captured the key point that the main Patios & Paving | Brickwork of ‘The Day Thou Gavest Lord Has thing they liked about the Newsletter Fencing & Decking

is “ that there is one”. Ended’. Rob Woods, the Commanding Turfing & Planting | Groundworks Dog Photography, Working Dogs, Officer, told me on a later occasion that 2. The other BIG positive feedback Concrete Works Game Shoots, Pets it had required a lot of preparation to from readers of the Newsletter is that Footings & Underpinning Action and Portrait get the plane in on cue! it is local: local news about events and Excavations & Roadways ______Finally, I am invited by the activities of local interest, with local Chrissi Ratcliffe LRPS Buckinghamshire Rifles to the annual writers. Our decision, a year or so Tel: 01494 258632 07719 731507 / 01494 837452 camp visit at Beckingham Training Camp back, not to go down the route of Mob: 07788 939395 [email protected] (Lincolnshire), where the Lord Lieutenant ‘syndicated’ articles was clearly the [email protected] www.chrissibellphotography.co.uk says we may get to fire live ammunition. right one. 26 27 with a certain nostalgia but gratitude. Cryptic-Lee: 2 As time goes by However, as a kind of solace, I have By Phil Harrison and Colin Sully By Reina Free discovered the beauty of tall grass and the flowering of weeds: some are s the Editor and letter pages started writing my story for the this really beautiful. have reported, the cryptic map issue of the Newsletter in the last Our Siamese cat, Theo, loves challenges presented in July week of July. I write because I like A I hunting for mice but rarely catches any, certainly set the village brains alight. writing and most days when I write, I which pleases me. We can now confidently report that think about all kinds of things and write So there we are, in this extremely the letters ‘AAD’ marked on the map them down. I have done this for many overwhelming confusing world. Just opposite the Old Swan do NOT stand years and still write with a pen. stop for just a moment, for the little for the ‘American Academy of Computers etc., I do not understand at things, which are in fact the big things. Dermatology’ ( Ed: so much for all. I think there are hidden dangers in Say a small prayer from the heart; it can Wikipedia!) them. In earlier times, people did not help more than we realise. Many readers have explained that rely on pressing buttons but sat alone The so-called cleverness of man is they in fact stand for ‘Anti-Aircraft and thought and pondered. often just foolishness. Wisdom has Defence’, as it seems there was a I love the things of nature, the sheer variety, the endless beauty. People say, almost died. I could say so much more search-light battery in a field behind 2) A hangman’s noose and a sheep about what is going on in the world and Kingswood House during the Second - a little farther up Ballinger Road “but I am too busy, too many things to do!” But there is enough time for the the government, but I am too old to World War. The three horseshoes really speak my mind. But now I try to shown at the top of Kiln Hill has also TV, computer or the mobile phone. So I stop and look and, as I drive down keep ‘the unity of the spirit and the been solved… a part of Firgrove bond of peace’. Cottage was once a pub of that name. Rocky Lane, I notice the flower called All this may indeed be true, but it ‘Fire in the Wood’ already fading. This is much less entertaining than the usually happens at the end of September. The oak tree at the bottom of the barley Pilates ‘fake news’ that “the owner once had a @HOME field is changing colour. I am aware of a three-legged horse” (anonymous)! Here are two more cryptic map certain subdued stillness. Are the ‘FLEXIBLE TO THE CORE’ challenges for you to consider: seasons changing? It could well be. 1) The name ‘Robert Snooks’ and Never before have I seen such large 1 to 1 Pilates… in the comfort and what appears to be a highwayman flocks of goldfinches, lovely little convenience of your own home colourful birds, dancing when flying up between Sly Corner and Lower Mat Pilates for all abilities Bassibones Farm and down. Sadly, for years now, I have Improves posture, flexibility, core strength, not seen any green finches and only a muscle tone and sports performance few yellowhammers. Individuals [or small groups of up to 4] Mike Lake I used to be quite a passionate Qualified Mat Pilates Instructor

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[email protected] plausible… and the most entertaining! mowed the grass and cut the hedge www.karensabsolutepilates.co.uk 28 29 from Trish Swain who has carried out Newsletter this role for many years. Our thanks Dinner… with go to Trish for this and best wishes to distribution her and her family on their move to conversation! Chartridge. By the Editorial Team P.P.S. Elizabeth Browning has By the Newsletter Editorial Team n many ways the distribution of the also handed over her Lee Gate round e are pleased to confirm Newsletter is quite straight- to the Jordans family: our thanks to that this year’s Newsletter forward. They arrive each month Dinner will take place on I them all. W st from the printer at our ‘primary the evening of Friday 1 December in hub’ (now Barnaby Usborne’s house) the now ‘acoustically dampened’ where they are counted into delivery Pet of the Parish Hall. round bundles and taken in batches to We will be celebrating 16 years of the ‘secondary hubs’, who in turn ferry the Newsletter in its current format. them on to the 20 or more delivery month No. 17 Invitations to the dinner will be persons spread around The Lee parish, When the delivery system was By Phoenix sent out shortly to all those who have Ballinger and Potter Row. They in turn originally set up, the rounds were contributed to the success of the make their local deliveries, with extra agreed with the delivery persons and Newsletter in 2017. copies being put in the Shop, the they were then pretty much left to get Please hold the date and make sure school, the local pubs and the church... on with it. In rain and snow – and you respond quickly when you get and some sent by post to ‘friends-of- occasionally sunshine – they trod the your invite. The-Lee’: 420 copies in total. byways and made sure the news got through each month. We are extremely grateful for the service they provide. Years pass… with some rounds being handed on to new persons, some being merged, others being split-up and added-to… and we realised we had pretty much lost track of exactly who was delivering the Newsletter and Great Missenden where they were going. All we knew was that person X got 28 copies each A warm, friendly sheltered house for month and took them somewhere! y hobbies are: the elderly in the picturesque centre of We are therefore delighted to - taking my owners for the village. walks three times a day report that we have recently taken M Come and take a look and see for yourself - trips to Coombe Hill or Marlow stock of all this and created a new and have a chat with Carol Lauder Ross. ‘master-list’. Not only do we now for ice creams know where the 420 copies should be - getting treats from the post man. Tel: 01494 865026 or going… but we also know who is I also enjoy meeting other dogs email for a brochure: supposed to get them there! and comparing notes on how to train [email protected] our owners As we said “We are extremely Find out more on our website: [If you have a pet you would like grateful for the service the distributors www.abbeyfield.com continue to provide”. featured in the Newsletter, just send a P.S. Barnaby takes over the photo and a few details to the Editor - Abbeyfield is a charity and a primary role in our distribution chain see page 1.] not for profit organisation 30 31 company for pantos. After the first History first night on Monday, on Tuesday morning you would plot the moves for hand No. 12 the next week’s play. Afternoon off to learn lines, then, in the evening, the The memoirs of an actor in current week’s play. Wednesday the 1950s morning rehearse Act 1, hopefully By having learnt it, afternoon off, evening started work in the theatre in performance (Wednesday or Thursday 1951 as an unpaid, trainee a matinee). Thursday Act 2, Friday I assistant stage manager. In those Act 3, Saturday morning run the whole days that was quite a common way in. play, afternoon matinee, evening There were drama schools but they performance. Eight performances a were not considered essential. You did week and learn and rehearse a new all the menial jobs, went round local elderly parts, a juvenile lead and a play. Monday 2:30pm Dress shops trying to borrow furniture or juvenile girl, and a juvenile character Rehearsal, evening, first performance, props - vases, pictures etc - swept the man, which I eventually became, who Tuesday start all over again. stage, moved the scenery and played the non-glamorous non- Inevitably standards were not the hopefully played small parts, which, romantic other parts. highest and the scenery may have again hopefully, would with luck lead At Croydon we did a play a week wobbled, but in difficult times the tour round the provinces of a West to bigger parts. for, as I recall thirty nine weeks - the theatre did well and these were still the End success which could be for three local amateurs did a couple of post war days of austerity - rationing months. Different town every week productions a year and the famous didn’t end until 1955 around the time and different theatrical digs. Some Cyril Fletcher brought his own when ITV began and people slowly were wonderful - you kept your digs turned into couch potatoes with the list very close to your chest - and consequent closure of countless others could be awful: “What night theatres. As they say, you learnt your would you like your bath? Come to me craft. You may have picked up some for the plug and bring it back after!” cheap tricks but you learnt your craft. Pre-inflation, prices ranged from There were dozens and dozens of £2 per week (probably chorus girls This initial work was at the well- theatres in the country then, three in sharing two or three to a room) to 5 known little Q Theatre, by Kew Croydon, the Grand a beautiful guineas per week full board and Bridge and after some months I was Victorian building with stalls, two given £3 a week. Another few months circles and a gallery, a variety theatre MARTIN THE MILKMAN and I moved to the Grand Theatre, and the Davis which took big touring Croydon - both buildings sadly long Refrigerated delivery of fresh shows. Around London other rep since pulled down - where I was, I milk, dairy produce, bread, theatres were Bromley, Leatherhead, think, paid £4 a week. Hornchurch, Stratford, Palmers Green, eggs, fruit juices and more. The Grand housed a weekly Watford, Amersham, High Wycombe To place an order call repertory company which comprised a and Hayes. 01442 833944 leading man and a leading lady, a Touring was big in those days, you character man and a character lady PHONES M ANNED 4 PM – 6 PM might be fortunate and get a part in a who played the middle aged and ANSWERPHONE AT OTHER TIMES 32 33 wonderful, with own sitting room and from a timber pallet and hazel fire going all day. branches; it’s real hold-your-breath Making food An actor’s prime job was to be stuff watching such a stunning bird heard and you learnt to project your only twenty feet away. recycling voice to be heard at the back of the gallery without appearing, to people in the stalls, to be shouting. A skill which simpler has all but disappeared amongst the From Council young, a) because they don’t have the n a move to make food waste recycling even easier, plastic basic practical experience and b) In the foliage at the water’s edge a The next courses will be: bags can now be used by perhaps because their horizon is the grass snake often lurks; no doubt I Photography on September 14th householders to line their kitchen screen, small or big. Hence perhaps eyeing up a tasty meal in the form of 10am - 1pm. Cost £58 the lack of clarity of diction on the caddy for the weekly collection. an unsuspecting frog or maybe even a Floral Workshops on box? That and a fashion for mumbling. recently fledged small bird as it These include freezer and sandwich As I am beginning to sound like a bags, supermarket carriers, pedal bin September 19th and December 12th bathes. On one occasion; as the grumpy old man, I’ll stop now. thermometer soared it was seen to liners and the bags that salad, bread New workshops will be added in If you have a story to contribute to and cereal are bought in. glide through the water; tongue tasting September. Further information at: the History First Hand series please Previously, compostable bags the air, we estimated the length to be www.studioportobello.co.uk contact Anthea Hartley on 837372 or three feet, this was confirmed a few were the only type of bag allowed in or phone Charlotte Reynolds on [email protected] weeks later, when a case off skin was food recycling. However, we have found, and when measured it was a been working with the operators of or 07976 675884 metre in length. the plant and they are now able to Pond predators It seems we also have a night-time accept other kinds of bags too. The By Donald Stone visitor as well, in the shape of a bags are all separated from the food Mervyn’s ast summer a male Sparrow Tawny Owl judging by the feathers when it is delivered to the plant, and Carpet & Upholstery Hawk regularly visited our I’ve found at the pool side. the food waste is then processed, Cleaning Services L ponds, affording excellent creating renewable electricity. At the views as it drank and bathed, the main end of the process the digested food Independent carpet cleaning reason for its visits as it would spend Roving supper waste gets spread to land as a specialist with over 30 years up to twenty minutes washing and By Tony Lea nutrition-rich fertiliser. experience. preening. This summer presumably the he Roving Supper will be The local District Councils, same bird has returned and I’m more th held on Saturday 18 working with Buckinghamshire CARPETS. UPHOLSTERY. prepared, having built a small screen T November commencing at County Council, made this move after RUGS. HARD FLOOR. 7:30pm in the Parish Hall. The cost receiving feedback from residents CARPET PROTECTION. will be £22.50 per head to include all saying that having to buy FULLY INSURED. food and drinks. compostable bags was a barrier which Friendly and reliable service. The most important need is for tended to prevent them recycling their Most work by recommendation. hosts for the main course and if you food waste. Using plastic bags and Environmentally friendly have not done this before please newspaper should encourage greater cleaning materials. consider it this year. We also need participation of the weekly food For a no obligation quote ’phone people to provide canapés, desserts waste collection. 01525 371724 or 07975 847027 and raffle prizes. Please contact Pat Full information can be found at Email: [email protected] Lea on 837237. www.chiltern.gov.uk/foodwaste 34 35 Friday 29 th . World’s Biggest Coffee Morning . See page 3. Launch of new The Newsletter he Lee Newsletter is published 10 times a year and distributed free to The fastest way to let everyone in the Coming soon Chiltern Arts st all households in the parish… and Parish know about an event you are Sunday 1 October. Chiltern Arts T a little beyond. The views expressed in it arranging is to publish it right here in Festival launch event. See page 35. Festival th are not necessarily those of the Editor. the Newsletter. Contact the editor by Thursday 5 October. The Lee Walking th By Chiltern Arts We welcome original letters and the 12 of the previous month (see Group. On the Green at 9:30 am. th hiltern Arts is a new initiative articles of general interest and relevance contact details on page 1). Saturday 7 October. Coffee Morning to bring music, literature and at Lee Common Methodist Church. to The Lee. Copy should be sent to th art to the towns and villages in Tuesday 10 October. Ballinger C [email protected] or, if September and around the . on paper, to the Editor of the month (see Evening WI. ‘A Korean Wedding’ th nd The first Chiltern Arts Festival will page 1) by the 12 of each month. Saturday 2 . Coffee Morning at Lee with Sandra Hurst at 8:00 pm. rd th th run from 3 to 11 February 2018. Common Methodist Church. Saturday 14 October. The Lee Old Letters should ideally run to no more rd Churches, stately homes and outdoor Sunday 3 . Cream Tea at The Old Church Quiz. Full details next month. than 200 words and articles to no more Church. 3:00 - 5:00 pm spaces across the region will be than 700 words; material may be edited rd Tickets from Pam Garner (837501). Sunday 3 . Thanksgiving Service in Thursday 26 th October. The Arts transformed into concert and arts and may appear on the village website www.thelee.org.uk unless consent is memory of John Hul l at St. Mary’s, Society Ballinger. Sir John Soane. venues, as a varied programme specifically withheld. Anonymous at 3:00 pm. Ballinger Hall at 8:00pm. Guests £8. unfolds in beautiful surroundings. Full th th contributions are not accepted. Thursday 7 . The Lee Walking Group . Sunday 5 November. Bonfire night. details at https://chilternarts.com th To advertise or place an insert, please Meet on The Lee Green at 9:30 am. Saturday 11 November. Christmas This autumn, between September th contact Paul Apicella on 837377 by the Saturday 9 . Organist Martin Food and Gift market at The Shop. and December 2017, Chiltern Arts th th 12 of the previous month. Paxton. Afternoon concert at St John Tuesday 14 November. The Lee ‘launch events’ will also take place. If you have photographs for the Baptist. See page 22. Parish Council Meeting at the Parish The nearest of these will be on Sunday th st publication please contact Jonathan Tuesday 12 . The Lee Parish Hall 7:30 pm. 1 October, 8:00 pm at St Mary’s th Batten on 837450 or email Council Meeting at the Parish Hall Tuesday 14 November. Ballinger Church, Amersham. [email protected]. 7:30 pm. See page 4. Evening WI. ‘Straitjackets, Corsets and th For queries regarding distribution Tuesday 12 . Ballinger Evening WI. Cribs’ with Colin Oakes at 8:00 pm. th contact Barnaby Usborne on 837382. ‘The History of Buttons’ with Rupert Saturday 18 November. Roving Matthews at 8:00 pm. Other members of the Editorial team: th Supper . See page 32. Thursday 28 . The Arts Society st Peter Archer, Richard Dickinson, Friday 1 December. Newsletter Phil Harrison, Jen Ogley, Viv Robins, Ballinger. Henry Moore A Annual Dinner . See page 29. Revolution in British Sculpture. Adam Speller and Colin Sully. Ballinger Hall at 8:00 pm. Guests £8. Printed by Strongs: 01442 878592. THE L EE WAY – Y OUR Bridge too far? To book the Parish Hall VILLAGE S UPPORT T EAM The bidding at our table went: or Scout Hut

E S W N ’phone Anne Barnett on 837796 If you have difficulty getting to your Soprano Carolyn Sampson, 1 ♦ 1 ♥ 2 ♣ Pass doctor or the hospital, doing your (pictured above) with Joseph Rates 9 am - 1 pm 6 pm - shopping or would like a home visit and 2 ♦ Pass 3 ♣ Pass 2 pm - 6 pm midnight a friendly chat, then please ring: Middleton on piano will perform a 4 ♣ Pass 5 ♣ Pass selection from their album, ‘Fleurs’. Mon - Fri £30 or £10/hr £45 or £10/hr 01494 837177 ♥ Tickets from £10.00 to £25.00, Sat/Sun £12/hr £70 After 4 lead by North, West only Bank Holiday £12/hr £70 Mon - Fri: 10 am - 4 pm. Sat: 10 am - available at www.chilternarts.com or 12 noon. Please give us reasonable notice made 8 tricks… but consoled themselves Car park only £10 of your requirement to help us organise it. that N - S could have made 4 ♥! call 07943 875640. Crockery/cutlery £15 (hire outside the hall)