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JANUARY 2016 Tatsfield Parish Magazine The Nativity Tableau at St Mary’s Constructed by Sauro Gabelli following the Italian custom Please see page 15 for the contents list of this magazine www.tatsfield.org.uk £1 – one copy FREE to each household Material for the next magazine should be sent to [email protected] by 16th of this month SEPTEMBER 2014 3 4 DAVID ALEXANDER ELECTRICAL SERVICES 01959 542581 M 07710 262867 5 6 Beechwood Riding School JCG Hillboxes Farm, Marden Park BUILDERS Woldingham, CR3 7JD Brickwork Specialists Tel 01883 342266 Email: [email protected] All aspects of www.beechwoodridingschool.co.uk brickwork undertaken Beechwood is situated in the beautiful Surrey Hills in the Patios,block paving, North Downs. All our horses and ponies used in the retaining walls school have been carefully chosen for their suitable decorative brickwork and much more temperament to achieve a happy, harmonious relationship between horse and rider resulting in every Reasonable rates rider reaching their own personal goal. Adults and References available children from 4 years old welcome. Clean tidy worker • Separate Children and Adult Groups Call: Jamie on • Private and semi-private lessons • Pony Parties 07921 219287 • Corporate Days • Hacks • Pony Days email: [email protected]. uk • and lots more 7 Telephone A W Carpentry 01959 577010 & general building services Alan Waite • Interior & Exterior Carpentry • Kitchens/Bathrooms fitted • Renovations/ Alterations • Guttering & Fascia • City & Guilds qualified • Free estimates Mobile 07984 810966 8 Village Hall, Tatsfield BREAKFAST CLUB Monday to Friday ~7.15 am to 8.45 am for 2 to 11 year olds (includes walking school children to Tatsfield School) PRE-SCHOOL Monday, Tuesday & Thursday 9.00 am to 3.00 pm Wednesday & Friday 9.00 am to 12.00 pm Two years to school age have fun and learn through play Individual attention with a broad curriculum in a caring, fun and supportive environment Funding for 3 & 4 year olds and some 2 year olds For more information see our website www.littleacornstatsfield.co.uk To register your interest contact Julie Barlow on 541103 Registered Charity No. 1024480 Pre-school Learning Alliance Member 9 Art Classes Private Lessons Commissions Watercolour, Oil Pastel, Pencil 10 11 12 13 Produced for the Village by the Parish Magazine Committee under the authority of Tatsfield Church. Managing Editor • Gerald South (577598) Treasurer • Madie Langford (577114) Distribution Manager • Terry Cartwright (577749) Advertising Manager • Maureen Perrin (577679) email: [email protected] Production Team Hazel Cartwright • Tom Chorley • Jenny Lewis • Ian Mitchell Sule Morley • Christine Stainer • Carole Swetenham • Margaret Watson CHURCH CONTACTS ST MARY’S CHURCH, Church Lane, Tatsfield Anglican • Team Vicar: vacant. Please use contacts below. The Rectory, Ricketts Hill Road, Tatsfield, TN16 2NA Assistant Priest - Revd Dr Gerald South (577598) Warden • Mary Smith (577661) COUNCIL CONTACTS Parish Council - Parish Clerk • Mrs Ana Hughes, 102a Sunningvale Avenue, Biggin Hill, TN16 3TT (701820) Chairman • Ian Mitchell, Greenway Cottage, Greenway, Tatsfield, TN16 2BT (577376) Parish Council website www.surreycommunity.info/tatsfield • email [email protected] Tandridge District Councillor • Martin Allen, 38 Paynesfield Road, Tatsfield TN16 2BG (577201) Surrey County Councillor • David Hodge, 30 Harestone Valley Road, Caterham CR3 6HD (01883 337881) OTHER CONTACTS St. Mary’s Church Hall - Bookings • Sheila Cook (577443) Village Hall - Bookings Secretary • Helena Garcia ([email protected]) (07983 011028) W.I. Hall - Bookings • Sheila Cook (577443) Parish Room - Bookings • Ana Hughes (701820) Tatsfield Primary School - Head • Kevin Bellinger (577356) Tatsfield Village Club - (577330) Furze Corner Sports Pavilion - Bookings (07533 033325) Doctors • Stock Hill Surgery (580011) • Westerham Surgery (564949) Surrey Police - (101) Tatsfield Helpline - (577679) • Pet Register - Val Moore (574810) Village Website www.tatsfield.org.uk MAGAZINE CONTRIBUTIONS We welcome contributions from village organisations and individual residents but reserve all editorial rights. Copy date for the Magazine is 16th of the preceding month. Ideally contributions should be sent as a Word attachment to an email to: [email protected], alternatively they may left at Linda’s Stores or posted to: TatsfieldPMag, Clouds, Ricketts Hill, Tatsfield, Westerham, TN16 2NB. Enquiries concerning Advertising or loose Inserts should be made to our Advertising Manager Maureen Perrin (Tel: 577679 Email: [email protected]) Small Ads These are only accepted from Tatsfield or Titsey residents (No Trade) and are free (Max 10 words plus phone number.) We will include them in the next issue space permitting. Calendar Dates Our rolling Calendar usually covers 6 weeks from publication so please give us your dates in good time. If you don’t want your event to clash with others why not check with us early. Ideas/Opinions/Articles We are always looking for items of interest - have a word with the Editor. Correspondence We welcome letters commenting on items in previous issues or on anything else. Advertisements We take no responsibility for the goods and services advertised in the Magazine. 14 CONTENTS Art 24, 29 Not So Young 38 Babysitter 40 Police 33 Bird register 16, 46 Poppies 59 Carol singalong 56 Quiz 25 Cat flap 48 Ramblers 63 Contacts 15 Robes 64 Council Reports 17 Rotary Sports 59 Cubs 43 School 36 Dance 37 Sheep 37 Ducks 37 Shelter 34 Event calendar 44 Shopping at Linda’s 39 Fair trade 32, 67 Singers 30 For sale 59 St Mary’s 49 Gardening 53 TACG 20 Getting old 31 Tatty Knitters 60 Horticultural Society 40 Theatre 62, 67 In Bloom 41 Tony Erbes 21 Letters 16 TPFA 100 54 Little Acorns 34 Vern 42 Malawi 26 Weight management 38 Martial Arts 66 Westerham Fine Arts 48 Nature notes 54 WI 60 Night sky 58 WW1 61 15 LETTERS Dear Editor, Just a note of grateful thanks to the villagers who helped when I fell and broke my knee cap on December 3rd and for the many offers of help and support upon my return home. Margaret Bishop Dear Editor, We received a phone call from some friends who wanted to pay us a very welcome but unexpected visit the following day. Wanting to organise some flowers at very short notice I went to 'Lesley's Flowers' in Westmore Road. Lesley produced a beautiful table display at short notice which was delivered out of hours in the evening and produced within our budget. We can thoroughly recommend her and will definitely use her services again. Many thanks to her, as the display was very much appreciated. Sheila Cook Dear Editor, We have had a very lovely life living here in the village, it’s been brilliant but last week we moved on to pastures new. It was a bit of a rush as we exchanged on Thursday afternoon and completed the next day. A lovely new family have moved into our/their home, 2 Flowerdale, Manor Road. We wish them all the very best in their new home and please do say hello to them if your passing by. Simon, Estelle, Amy and Ollie Holliday Reminder Your completed 2015 Tatsfield Bird Register would now be gratefully received by Nigel Shaw. Please send to [email protected]. Alternatively, drop it into ‘Linda’s Stores’ or to ‘Primrose Ridge’, Greenway. The 2016 register may be found in the centre pages of this magazine. Please remove it in due course and complete it as the year goes by. 16 TATSFIELD PARISH COUNCIL We hope your Christmas was enjoyable and that 2016 will meet all your hopes and expectations! Thanks to Kenny Thurgood’s lifting ability and Ian Longley’s lighting skills we finally had a sturdy Christmas tree (sought out by Jon Allbutt) in time for the carol service outside the Ship. Our thanks go to David Bishop for organising what has now become a regular event and to Helena for representing the Parish Council at short notice! Once we’ve found our feet in the New Year, the Parish Council will need to decide if we should plant a permanent Christmas tree in the centre of the village, or if we should continue buying one each year. Over the next few weeks we will also be responding to Tandridge District Council’s consultation on the Local Plan – the document that decides what can be built where over the next few years. At our December meeting we set up a small working group to go through the plan. We’ll be looking in particular at what the draft says about where new housing should go, how much there should be, what the effect on Tatsfield will be and at our hopes for the future of the village. Our District Councillor, Martin Allen, has more to say on one of the next pages. One major proposal in the deep south of the parish has been turned down by Tandridge. That’s the application to build a parcel distribution centre on the site of the Moorhouse Tile Works on the A25. There were several hundred objections, voicing much concern about the potential traffic generation on the A25 both in Oxted and Limpsfield as well as on the narrow stretches of that road across the border in Westerham and Brasted. The question now is what alternative proposal is likely to come forward for this brown-field site. Up in the village centre, we learned last month that it would cost more than £12,000 to put a decent surface on the footpath along the Approach Road between Westmore Green and the Scout Hut. Nevertheless, we were told that the County Council was working towards doing the work in the spring. You may also have noticed that we have put up a number of new waste bins over the past few weeks so there’s even less excuse for litter and dog mess to be left to spoil our environment.