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THE MAGAZINE FOR PENN & TYLERS GREEN OCT/NOV 2020 OUR 200TH EDITION! ● Woodland Autumn Around ● & Much More... Photos the Corner... ● Schools & Sports News ● Your Letters & ● Around The Villages ● GP Surgery Update Village Voice October/November 2020 under two thousand pounds was raised for charitable causes. Sadly, the Village Show, due to take place on the same day, was cancelled. WELCOME... This was the one year when perhaps some of us ...to the October /November 2020 edition of spent more time in the garden and had hoped to Village Voice... showcase the fruits of our labour! Next years event is scheduled for 26 June 2021 Dear VV Readers, Readers will see that there are several appeals Welcome to the 200th edition of Village Voice. in this edition. The P&TGRS are looking for Over the past more than 34 years of production, volunteers (see page 4) Emma Byrne is Village Voice has evolved and changed, and so appealing for filled shoeboxes for 'Operation too has Village life. Edition 1, was 24 pages Christmas Child' (see page 21) and on P15 there long - this edition is 64 pages! The diversity of are details of how VV readers can nominate a content in VV is achieved by the inclusion of a neighbour for a 'Neighbour of the Year Award' wide range of news items, information and Our next edition of VV is our Christmas updates from many contributors edition (December 2020 and January 2021) and Of course, the past 6 months have been we invite your contributions. The deadline for exceptionally unusual, with the rhythm and flow copy is the first week in November. We look of Village life being compromised to a very forward to hearing from you. In the meantime, great extent. Living in such beautiful stay safe and well. Cathy O'Leary, VV Editor surroundings and having experienced some fine weather during the six months, has at least been compensation for the inconveniences and stress Regulars... of being locked down. Newspaper reports suggest that a larger than usual proportion of 04 Around the Villages people who live in more built up towns, and 13 Church News cities are looking to move to more rural settings. 17 Woodland & Green Spaces There have been reports that being connected to 18 Schools News nature is beneficial for our mental health, and 22 Sports News certainly walking around the village and woods 31 Noticeboard during the summer has been an uplifting 32 Clubs & Societies experience. Our cover picture captures a 37 Fields in King's Wood dragonfly resting on a blackberry bush in Penn 55 Index of Advertisers woods towards the end of September. For a map 56 Village Contacts of walks in Penn Woods go to http://www. pennhouse.org.uk/walks In this edition of VV, we report the ways in In This Issue... which the various clubs and societies are 10 Update from Your GP Practice adapting to meet the ever changing 26 Village Care Open Gardens requirements regards socialisation and 29 Parnell's EV Electric Dreams distancing, and we are able to report on the 30 Excelsior: Village Memories Keith Hawes Open Gardens which took place on 13th 38 Rayners (Penn School) Update September (just before a revised lockdown measure limiting gatherings of over 6 people was put in place!) It was a beautiful day as the In The Insert... Cover Photograph: photographs on Pages 26 and 27 show, and just • Village Voice: Our 200th Edition www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 3 Village Voice October/November 2020 under two thousand pounds was raised for charitable causes. Sadly, the Village Show, due to take place on the same day, was cancelled. WELCOME... This was the one year when perhaps some of us ...to the October /November 2020 edition of spent more time in the garden and had hoped to Village Voice... showcase the fruits of our labour! Next years event is scheduled for 26 June 2021 Dear VV Readers, Readers will see that there are several appeals Welcome to the 200th edition of Village Voice. in this edition. The P&TGRS are looking for Over the past more than 34 years of production, volunteers (see page 4) Emma Byrne is Village Voice has evolved and changed, and so appealing for filled shoeboxes for 'Operation too has Village life. Edition 1, was 24 pages Christmas Child' (see page 21) and on P15 there long - this edition is 64 pages! The diversity of are details of how VV readers can nominate a content in VV is achieved by the inclusion of a neighbour for a 'Neighbour of the Year Award' wide range of news items, information and Our next edition of VV is our Christmas updates from many contributors edition (December 2020 and January 2021) and Of course, the past 6 months have been we invite your contributions. The deadline for exceptionally unusual, with the rhythm and flow copy is the first week in November. We look of Village life being compromised to a very forward to hearing from you. In the meantime, great extent. Living in such beautiful stay safe and well. Cathy O'Leary, VV Editor surroundings and having experienced some fine weather during the six months, has at least been compensation for the inconveniences and stress Regulars... of being locked down. Newspaper reports suggest that a larger than usual proportion of 04 Around the Villages people who live in more built up towns, and 13 Church News cities are looking to move to more rural settings. 17 Woodland & Green Spaces There have been reports that being connected to 18 Schools News nature is beneficial for our mental health, and 22 Sports News certainly walking around the village and woods 31 Noticeboard during the summer has been an uplifting 32 Clubs & Societies experience. Our cover picture captures a 37 Fields in King's Wood dragonfly resting on a blackberry bush in Penn 55 Index of Advertisers woods towards the end of September. For a map 56 Village Contacts of walks in Penn Woods go to http://www. pennhouse.org.uk/walks In this edition of VV, we report the ways in In This Issue... which the various clubs and societies are 10 Update from Your GP Practice adapting to meet the ever changing 26 Village Care Open Gardens requirements regards socialisation and 29 Parnell's EV Electric Dreams distancing, and we are able to report on the 30 Excelsior: Village Memories Keith Hawes Open Gardens which took place on 13th 38 Rayners (Penn School) Update September (just before a revised lockdown measure limiting gatherings of over 6 people was put in place!) It was a beautiful day as the In The Insert... Cover Photograph: photographs on Pages 26 and 27 show, and just • Village Voice: Our 200th Edition www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 3 Village Voice October/November 2020 Village Voice October/November 2020 mothballing for the moment, until needed again. produce our annual accounts. Could you, or Commonwood and revellers enjoying Madalyn Roker, 07774 834615 someone you know, help with this? themselves, which isn’t the problem. It’s the Even if you don’t feel you have the specific mess they leave, tables, chairs, bottles, broken AROUND skills outlined above, but are just keen to join glass, picnic debris as well as smouldering THE VILLAGES TheDo P&TG You LoveResidents Living Society do in too. P&TG? us, enthusiasm is welcomed too. We would love bonfires. With the recent hot weather we have We are a friendly team of 12 (who would like to to hear from you - and would invite contact had fires that required assistance from the fire P&TG Together increase our numbers to 14 or 16). We all live from anyone who would like to know a little brigade. P&TG Together was formed in March with over across both villages, and we all enjoy working more – you can attend one of our meetings (via We would like to ask everyone for your 200 residents offering to help each other during to ensure that the village is open and appealing Zoom) or just meet us for a coffee. support and to encourage you, if you feel able, the lockdown imposed by the Government. to all. Perhaps during the recent lockdown, you Please contact Madalyn Roker on 07774 and are visiting the woods, to remind these Once lockdown eased, we were less needed spent more time locally and developed an 834615 or [email protected] for visitors to clear up after themselves? Take home for shopping and errands but found that One increased appreciation of where you live as you more information. all their rubbish and leave the woods as they Can in Wycombe was finding a sharp uptake in went for a walk or checked your social media would like to find them? The Countryside Code people needing additional support in the form of feeds. It could be you don't know anything or gives some sensible advice that we would like food donations. Our area co-ordinators, Emma much about the P&TG Residents Society and P&TGRS and P&TG Together everyone to consider: B, Gill M, Ian F, Beth P, Catherine M, Kate V what we do. Dear- An Residents Update and VV readers, • Respect other people and Madalyn R rallied around and we held 4 The P&TG Residents Society manages Unbelievably it has been 6 months since the • Consider the local community and other monthly food bank donation drives across the Common Wood, runs the Village Pre School, is Covid19 lockdown started, and Penn & Tylers people enjoying the outdoors village, with donations being collected at street invited by planners to review and comment on Green Together was created.