What's on in Your Parish Seer Green & Jordans MAGAZINE October 2020

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1 Parish Magazine i one pound g 1 From the Editors The autumn months offer us invitation to discover fairy doors in Excellent opportunities to reflect on all that has Green Wood. happened over the summer before We would like to thank all our we start to make preparations for advertisers for their continued Local Property the winter season. In this edition of support. Most of them are local the magazine we have details of the and often they can provide a local church Harvest Festival which this reference for their services which Knowledge year is supporting One Can Trust. many people find helpful. Thank you There are also images of some of also, to everyone who contributes an 36YEARS YEARS8 11 14 15 YEARS 3 15 YEARS 1 YEARS the scarecrows from the Seer Green YEARS 7 3 2 YEARS 1 YEARS 8 YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS 14 1 20 YEARS article. If you have any news please 5 YEARS YEARS YEARS Gardeners competition which were YEARS email us at editorseergreen@gmail. greatly enjoyed by children and com adults alike. Plus there are more book reviews and an intriguing Sue Puttergill and Andrew Westlake

Next Month's Magazine Please send all contributions for the November issue to: [email protected] by 7 October. Diary dates for the next two or Our team has 164 years of experience three months would be very welcome. in property and an average of 7 years Articles should be 300 words max and photos should be jpeg format, at Ashington Page. preferable 300 dpi. Please note any items submitted may be edited for space, content If you are considering putting your home on the market, or style. call us now and speak to our expert team. Are you a subscriber? Sales 01494 680018 You can buy an annual subscription to this magazine for only £10 a year Lettings 01494 685518 (for 10 issues) and it will be delivered free of charge to your door. Please email: [email protected] with your name, address and Visit our website for an instant phone number and one of our distributors will contact you. ONLINE VALUATION www.ashingtonpage.co.uk Contents 10 Harvest celebration 15 Jolly Cricketers Award 11 Action on the climate 18 Crime reads emergency 22 Historic October 14 Seer Green School 24 Local artists

2 Parish Magazine Parish Magazine 3 Church and Community Organisations Thought for the Month Vicar Jordans Village Hall Office 10.00 - 1.00 During the warm summer mornings we experienced Cassa Messervy 01494 672496 Chris Jenkins | Booking Secretary 01494 875177 back in August, I thoroughly enjoyed heading off Licensed Lay Minister and Prayer Group Jordans Village Lunch Club walking around the local area and in particular the Linda West 01494 673821 Catherine Robinson 01494 873193 walk that was included in the May Parish Magazine. As the berry season began, part of the route Churchwarden and General Enquiries Jordans Village Nursery School Jane Spoerry 01494 677328 Julie Leonard 01494 875603 had hedgerows full of blackberries, and having Janine Dunnell 07525 322955 spotted these earlier in the week, one morning Jordans Meals On Wheels I remembered to take a tub with me to be able to Parochial Church Council Eli Merchant 01494 873471 pick some. Whilst blackberries aren’t a particular Audrey Hardy | Treasurer 01494 672592 Jordans Picture House favourite of mine, I know the children in my support Church Flower Guild Alan Sealy/Box Office 01494 873205 bubble love them so thought they would enjoy them Pam Britton 01494 678466 for pudding that Sunday. Jubilee Hall Magazine Distributors David Howkins 01494 857760 As I was picking them I looked at the berries Jen Lomas 01494 671281 growing on each branch and the difference in how Jenny Scott 01494 674081 Jordans Quaker Meeting House and Centre Alex Wildwood 01494 876594 ripe they were. On each branch some were ready to Children’s & Family Leader and SGKIDS be picked and some were nowhere near. Despite Janna Holder | Family leader 07764 490960 Seer Green Allotments Barry Richardson / Chairman 01494 673407 being in the same place and experiencing the same Scouts | Explorers | Cubs | Beavers conditions, they were all reacting differently and [email protected] Seer Green Baptist Church ripening at a different pace. Andrew McCausland | Minister 01494 677266 Seer Green Brownies and 1st Seer Green This got me thinking about the last 6 months and Rainbows Seer Green Bridge Club how each of us have experienced and reacted Irene Machin | Secretary 01494 676321 Carole Wharrier 07977 423555 differently to the circumstances we have found Eight O’clock Club Seer Green Church of England School ourselves in. This picture of the blackberries Monica Sado 01494 677851 Sandra Park | Head Teacher 01494 676344 reminded me that each one of us is dealing with our changing world in different ways, and that’s ok. Girl Guides Seer Green Gardeners Brenda Orr | District Commissioner 01753 887209 Philip Newton | Chairman 07941 215433 Some may be ready to go ‘out out’, to visit shops and restaurants, to go back to the office, others Jordans and District Rotary Club Seer Green Lunch Club may not be, and that’s ok too. As we continue Gill Roberts 01494 677281 Naomi Arnold | Secretary 01753 663305 to emerge into whatever’s next, the words Paul Jordans Horticultural Society Seer Green Parish Council wrote in his letter to the people in Colossae remind Emma Pegram 01494 874574 Liz Bates | Parish Clerk 01494 874233 us to “clothe yourselves with compassion, Shan Liu 01494 730312 Seer Green Pre school kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” Faith Key 01494 870039 Kirsten Pole | Manager 01494 730060 (Colossians 3:12). Jordans School Seer Green Montessori School May the parable of the blackberries remind us to Hannah Bancroft | Head Teacher 01494 874217 Libby Wilson | Director 01494 672209 be kind and show understanding to one another Jordans Music Club as we navigate this new world together. Seer Green Village Choirs Marion Pell | Chairman 01494 872875 Jane Smith 07759 841205 Janna Holder

4 Parish Magazine Parish Magazine 5 Church Events | News those hard of hearing to hear well. This information is needed to We also need software so that we complete the gift aid claim. It is Church News can move between the ‘live’ service in surprising how often the postcode is the church and pre-recorded videos virtually unreadable. October - Gift Month Why do we need to do this? of prayers, sermons, or interviews. The envelope can then be put in In October we are inviting people The lockdown forced us to move What are the benefits? the green collection box in church to contribute to the Church for the online using a temporary set up, Anyone can access church wherever on a Saturday, or popped through online project. We need to raise which consists of the vicar’s phone, they are and at times that suit our treasurer’s door - 58 Chalfont approximately £6000 to upgrade the her 4G, and a ramshackle set up them. It enables us to broadcast Road. If you need your gift collected church building to be able to stream with tripods and screens. We have baptisms, weddings, and funerals for from your house please ring Cassa services and events online so that seen so many people join us for those unable to attend the service, Messervy, our vicar on 01494 672496 people unable to attend church can services both locally and from all which will be a long term benefit and she can arrange collection. access them. The church does not over the world and they have brought after the Coronavirus pandemic. If you would like to make an online receive any funding and is entirely comfort at a very difficult time, Special services like our November donation please check our website reliant on the generosity of those enabling people to keep connected. remembering service for those who seergreenandjordanscofe.org or who choose to support us. This So now we need a long-term more have died, Remembrance Sunday, speak to our treasurer Audrey Hardy support ensures that the church professional set-up with wifi in and Christmas services which may on 01494 672592. We will have building and a minister are there to the church and proper cameras be affected by the restrictions will be an online ‘Wall of Gratitude’ so if provide services and support for our which link into the sound system to available to everyone to access. It you would prefer your gift to be communities. ensure the sound quality enables also means we can run online coffee anonymous please let us know. mornings, and advice sessions with Thank you for the many ways you people like GP’s to support those who have supported Holy Trinity Church are housebound. There are many in the past and thank you for your possibilities and benefits. consideration of giving a gift for this How can I give? project in October. Gifts of any size would be very All good wishes, gratefully received and you can pop Cassa your gift into the orange envelope in this magazine. Please fill out the form if you are a tax payer as, because the church is a charity, we can claim gift aid from the government. When filling in the orange envelope please write the name of the taxpayer and the house name and/or number very clearly. The church online for a recent wedding

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Church Wardens and Jane Spoerry 01494 677328 General Enquiries Janine Dunnell 07525 322955 www.facebook.com/ 8 HolyTrinitySGJ1 1 8 Parish Magazine 8 Parish Magazine 9 8 z 1 g g z 1 g g z g 1 g 8 1 z g 1 g 8 1 A celebration of harvest Holy Trinity is taking action on the climate emergency This year our church harvest festival You can drop off your donations at Climate change – faith leaders from that people don’t realise it’s there – will look rather different to previous 5 Coats Wicks or Best One donations Pope Francis, to the Muslim Council they just notice the east wind doesn’t years as we are not able to gather points during the week or bring them of Britain, to our own Diocesan whistle through any longer.” together in church to celebrate. to Holy Trinity Church on Saturday Bishop Steven Croft, are talking The church also changed energy However, we want to make sure we 3 October. about it. While melting icecaps and supplier and is looking to replace are able to give thanks for all that we Australian bushfires are far off, even All are welcome to log in to our inefficient lights with energy saving are blessed with and want to be able England’s green and pleasant land Harvest All Age Celebration which LEDs. We’ve been using re-usable to help and support others through is experiencing extreme weather and will be broadcast live on Facebook at crockery rather than disposables, our Harvest collection of food. declining wildlife linked to pollution 10am on Sunday 4 October. and churchyard gardener Dennis has and the warming planet. WE NEED YOUR HELP! built wildlife friendly compost heaps Janna Holder The Oxford Diocese magazine, and log piles to shelter invertebrates We would like to fill the front of ‘Pathways’ calls its summer 2020 and hedgehogs. The liturgy brings in Holy Trinity Church with food to edition “Time to Act on the Climate climate change too. support One Can in their amazing Emergency” and reveals that the work helping families in need. All diocese aims to reduce carbon the goods donated in the village emissions to net zero by 2035 – this week will be brought to Holy ahead of the UK and Bucks County Trinity for Sunday 4 October. Council’s 2050 target. Bishop Olivia Graham of Reading will lead a task force to help churches get up to speed. So what has Holy Trinity been doing to meet the challenge? In August 2019, we undertook an energy audit that provided recommendations ranging from draft proofing to switching energy providers, reprogramming the heating and replacing lighting. But we’re not stopping there – we aim to assess every action Holy Trinity Jane Spoerry, churchwarden, takes in light of its environmental takes up the story: “Cassa and impact in the belief that “allowing I reprogrammed the heating controls God’s love to reshape our relations ourselves. Draft proofing was next with the rest of the natural world is a – PCC member and builder Mark core part of our life of faith.” Webb put in a wooden strip so in keeping with the beautiful old door Nora Bennett

10 Parish Magazine Parish Magazine 11 Charity for October - One Can Trust The Harvest Festival this year To find out more about One Can Trust is supporting One Can, so your go to onecantrust.org.uk During these extraordinary times, donations would be very welcome. the charity has seen demand for Janet Stewart its services rise by 64%. It is now The Street Hero effort will be feeding 370 families including 700 continuing while there continues to children. In August 1,876 bags of be a need, please let me know if you food were distributed by volunteers would like to donate but are unable to those families. to drop off.

The Street Heroes scheme was One Can Urgent Needs Tinned Fruit initiated at the beginning of the Fresh fruit and vegetables Sugar Covid-19 outbreak as donations were especially carrots/broccoli/onions significantly reduced. Fewer people Spices oregano, basil, garlic and bananas were visiting supermarkets where powder, chilli flakes, curry the collection points are usually Jars of Cooking sauces powder, onion powder, salt & well supported. Our village has had Eggs pepper collection points at 5 Coat Wicks Tinned Vegetables eg Washing up & clothes wash and latterly at Best One, throughout mushrooms & green beans products the pandemic and these have been Tinned pies and ham Loo Rolls generously supported. The donations Halal tinned meat Bars of soap are sorted and then taken to the One Nappies newborn and sizes Can warehouse weekly on a Friday Biscuits 5,6 & 7 morning. Jams and Spreads (Marmite & peanut butter) Not homemade Tampons The warehouse is remarkably well The charity for October is One Can organised making it easier for the Trust, a foodbank based in High volunteers there to prepare bags of Wycombe. One Can was started basic items for the recipients. in 2011 when the growing need for GILLAM DÉCOR organised emergency food parcels The most urgent items list changes became evident. every week as the warehouse uses For a quality interior and exterior painting decorating their reserves. The current most and wallpapering service They support vulnerable families and wanted items include toiletries and individuals throughout South Bucks, personal hygiene items as well as • Over 30 years experience • Specialists in domestic work not just High Wycombe. Clients are cans of food. While we’re at the • Exellent references • Full public liability insurance referred by various organisations, time of year when many fruit and doctors, councils, churches and vegetables are abundant, One Can homeless charities, ensuring the are very keen to receive fresh fruit 4 Seer Mead, Seer Green, Beaconsfield, Bucks, HP9 2QL most needy are helped. and vegetables for their families. Tel. 01494 671 952 Mobile 07802 466721

12 Parish Magazine Parish Magazine 13 Village Events | News James: School is a fascinating place Ava: Working at home was fun but to be. You’re learning new things I definitely like working at school with Seer Green CE School everyday whilst having fun. So, after my friends more. such a long break, I’m extremely glad Xavier: It’s very exciting going back to be back at school. Our new academic year started at out on, like meeting new friends and to school because I get to enjoy my the beginning of September and seeing the ones I haven’t seen in Olivia: I’m top of the school now! favourite subjects, such as maths after the disruptions during the last ages. It’s so good to be back in class Wow! I can’t believe it; it feels like just and PE. And it’s not the same as few months, we have been pleased - you have people around you. yesterday I was in Reception! learning by yourself. to welcome everyone back to some William: I am pleased to be back sort of normality. The children have Nate: After many months of being at I am sure we will all have a rewarding at school so we can come together arrived enthusiastically and are eager home, we can finally stretch our legs year. as a class. The class hasn’t been to learn. and have some fun. together for such a long time. As well Mrs Roach - Year 6 teacher Year 6, who are the oldest in school as that, I can learn more and make (aged 10 and 11 years), have written new friends. The Jolly Cricketers – UK’s best dog friendly pub about why they are glad to return to Daisy-Lou: Being back in school Congratulations to school. Here are some excerpts. means I can achieve goals I haven’t The Jolly Cricketers Why we are glad to be back at accomplished before and learn new for being named the school. things, for example, in music, we UK’s ‘Best dog friendly Naomi: I’m really excited because are learning to play the ukulele. The pub’ at the Sawday’s there are so many new things to adventures and excitement we will Pub Awards 2020 learn and memories to make. I’m also have is animating, even with the in conjunction with happy to be back at school because social distancing, washing hands The Telegraph. regularly and the one-way system! there are so many things I’ve missed The awards entry, written by the Sawday’s team, says: “The barrel tipped over outside this red brick country pub is no accident. It’s full of fresh water, with a bowl under the tap ready for thirsty dogs. Inside there are homemade dog biscuits too, with money raised from their sale going to the Search for Dogs Bucks charity. It’s fair to say this place is beyond dog-friendly and will welcome you and your four-legged friends for a pit stop on a Chilterns hike, a long Sunday lunch or a delicious dinner.” Many congratulations to Amanda and Chris.

14 Parish Magazine Parish Magazine 15 Seer Green Allotment Association Spud in a Bucket 2020

We were fortunate that our one and usually meet in early September in only annual event so far this year, the garden of the Jolly Cricketers the allotment Paella Party, had been (thank you Amanda and Chris) to see scheduled for a day when no rain fell. who has grown the most by weight. We are also very fortunate to have the This year in light of the guidelines space to accommodate comfortably on social distancing, the competition the 24 of us who attended. A great was virtual. time was had by all and we felt very Kaye Tilley won the competition and privileged to be able to enjoy the there is a short video online and a list most delicious paella cooked for us of the winners at seergreengardeners. by Heather Sibley. org.uk/blog Now in its sixth year, not even a Apart from this one event, things have Sign up to our mailing list so that global pandemic could stop Spud in been quiet on the allotments though, we can let you know about the next a Bucket which is a firm favourite of with the recent abundant rain, the competition. weeds are growing back to torment us again. It is also the time of year when the village calendar. the allotmenteers are starting to sow leafy crops, such as spring cabbage and It’s a competition for residents of Seer Get involved and shape the future of the society. Why not join the spinach, broad beans and peas for earlier harvests next spring. Onions and Green who grow potatoes in buckets. committee? It's not too onerous and is garlic with maybe radish or turnips may also be sown. Little rest for us down It’s a simple concept – you enter in great fun. If you are interested, please on the allotments! February/ March, and we supply a get in touch at seergreengardeners@ Bronwen Collins seed potato and bucket (both kindly gmail.com donated by Yalden DIY & Garden). You then grow the potato in the Philip Newton bucket through the year, and we all MACHIN & CO Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers · Sole traders and partnerships · Limited companies · Personal tax and VAT · Business strategy · Audit and compliance services · Charities and Pension Funds We provide a friendly and personal service to all our clients Contact: Howard Machin on 01494 671366 or by e-mail to [email protected] 19 Seer Mead, Seer Green, Beaconsfield, Bucks HP9 2QL Registered to carry on audit work in the UK and Ireland by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales A happy gathering

16 Parish Magazine Parish Magazine 17 Crime reads News from Jordans Crime novels are always the best sellers on any Cadbury Fund has been extremely list. I enjoy reading them but don’t like anything generous in supporting the Village too gory. This month I’ve chose three I’ve enjoyed, Hall. Members of the Cadbury family all different in style. visited the village for the centenary and a delegation from the village also The Dry – Jane Harper visited them in Bournville. An atmospheric, riveting detective novel set in the The family asked the trustees to make unforgiving, blistering heat of an Australian drought. a presentation and have now kindly Aaron Falk returns to his hometown for the funeral donated £22,000 to help them move of a friend having been rejected by the community to the design phase of the project. Jordans Village Hall Trust 20 years previously. He finds himself drawn into This means the trustees will be able solving a triple homicide. Jordans Village Hall, behind the to engage an architect and make village shop, is the home of Jordans real progress with the development The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman nursery, the Jolly Quaker, Jordans of the hall. They have shortlisted Picture House and lots of wonderful Yes, it’s Richard from Pointless. 3 practices who will be making Jordans events. It was built as a presentations to the committee in the This is his first novel, set in a retirement village. We temporary structure in 1919 and next couple of weeks. are introduced to the four protagonists who have set there have been plans to rebuild up a club solving unsolved murders. When a brutal it for a while. The trustees are Sue Puttergill killing happens on their own doorstep, the Thursday pleased to announce that the George Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. A smart, compassionate, warm, Crowdfunding for Seer Green Christmas tree lights moving and very funny in places, page turner. Jane Smith and Janna Holder are heading up a Crowdfunding campaign I let you go – Clare Mackintosh on behalf of the Parish Council to A great psychological thriller with some wonderful raise money to support the Seer twists. In a split second, Jenna Gray’s world Green Christmas tree project. The descends into a nightmare. Her only hope of electric lights need to be upgraded moving on is to walk away from everything she and the costs are considerable. The knows to start afresh. Desperate to escape, Jenna original target was generously met moves to a remote cottage but she is haunted by very quickly but the funding is being her fears, her grief and her memories of a cruel extended to cover the next couple of November night that changed her life forever. years. If you want to contribute go to Slowly, Jenna begins to glimpse the potential for crowdfunder.co.uk/seer-green- happiness in her future. But her past is about to christmas-tree#start catch up with her. All donations gratefully received and Janet Stewart the tree will be gorgeous. Kew Gardens

18 Parish Magazine Parish Magazine 19 If you go down to the woods today… Scarecrows 2020 During the summer 4 little fairy doors have arrived in Green Wood, the woods What a great display of scarecrows we’ve had this year. The theme of to the left of the cemetery and war memorial. Why not take a wander and see Inspirational People has really struck home and shown how much people if you can find them. can inspire us.

Janna Holder Congratulations to everyone who has taken part. The winner this year was ‘Bob and Sue’ by Janna Holder. Hot on her heels were the joint second places – ‘Captain Sir Tom’ by Jane and David Smith and ‘ITU Nurse’ by the Gibson Family.

A video of all the scarecrows is available at seergreengardeners.org.uk

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20 Parish Magazine Parish Magazine 21 Historic October On 4 October 1911 the first moving On 10 October 1903 the English staircases were demonstrated on the suffragette Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst London Underground, at Earl’s Court formed The Women’s Social and station to be specific. Famously, Political Union, campaigning for the railway company hired a one- women’s suffrage in Great Britain. legged man to ride up and down the By 1909 the WSPU had branches escalators on their first day to show all over the country. It published a how safe these mechanical terrors newspaper called ‘Votes for Women’ could be. Nonetheless, during the that sold 20,000 copies each week. first week, nine dresses were torn, The Suffragettes motto was ‘Deeds one finger pinched, and a lame Not Words’. passenger fell from his crutches. It wasn’t until 1928 that equal The escalators were only licensed voting rights were granted to men On 26 October 1863 eleven The removal of two draft rules, for one month by the Board of Trade, and women. As a result of the London football clubs and schools’ the first which allowed for the who would review them again – and Equal Franchise Act both men representatives met to agree on running with the ball in hand and quite evidently decided they were a and women could vote at the age common rules for playing football. the second, obstructing such a run spiffing idea. The two escalators were of 21. For centuries before the first meeting by hacking (kicking an opponent so successful that between 1911 and of the Football Association in in the shins), tripping and holding, 1915, 22 machines were installed on The Freemasons’ Tavern on Great ultimately led to the formation of the the London Underground system. Queen Street London, there were no Rugby Football Union in 1871. universally accepted rules for playing Andrew Westlake football. KDL PLUMBING & HEATING

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22 Parish Magazine Parish Magazine 23 Local artists: Heather Rootes and Jenny Collyer She paints in oils, which is her Both Heather and Jenny have favourite medium, and also acrylics exhibited at Bucks Art Weeks in Continuing our series about local and oil pastels. Subject matters 2016 and 2017, and they also held artists, this month we introduce include landscapes, flowers and an exhibition at the Methodist Church Heather Rootes and Jenny Collyer animals. in Old Amersham in 2018, which they who are close friends and often say they may do again in 2021. exhibit their work together. Fliss Coombs Heather lives in Jordans and Jenny lives in Chalfont St Giles, although she lived in Seer Green in her teens and early twenties. You can see an example of Heather’s work as she designed two of the delightful collage panels in Holy Trinity Church, representing earth and air. She has attended many Bucks Adult Learning courses and Summer Schools over the past few years.

Jenny originally studied design and Heather’s preferred media are illustration at college in her teens. pastels and coloured pencils which After a career working in London, she she uses to produce detailed animal is now retired and is able to pursue portraits. She also enjoys botanical her enjoyment of painting. She painting with a particular interest in attends weekly oil painting classes fruits and vegetables, and working with Bucks Adult Learning and is also with mosaics which she says is very a member of the Beechwood Artists intricate but a challenging alternative group, exhibiting twice a year at their to painting. spring and autumn exhibitions.

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