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Parish magazine of Four Elms, Hever and the benefice the

News from around around from News

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Seale – a long life in in life long a – Seale

Ken and Mavis Mavis and Ken

• Paynter

• Carols galore Carols • Remembering Cecil Cecil Remembering

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• In this issue: this In Four Elms Farm Wealden Interiors Livery Bespoke Carpentry and Cabinet Making • 60x20m floodlit outdoor arena – 36x45m indoor arena • Solarium/hot/cold washdown Made to Measure: • Car and lorry parking Kitchens and Dressing Rooms • 12’x12’ monarch boxes/rubber matting Wardrobes, Shoe Cupboards and Drawers automatic drinkers Built in Shelving and Boxing • Club room with oven/microwave/dishwasher Wine Racks and Display Cabinets • Rug washing on site • Post and rail fencing PLUS: Staff living on site – exercise – qualified Construction and Fitting of Flat Packed Furniture • trainer • Off road hacking 100 private acres Trustworthy, Tidy and Reliable, Fairly Priced • Dressage training with international riders and judges LOCAL REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST • Jumping and polework clinics Unaffiliated dressage competitions To Maximise Your Space • Four Elms Farm Livery Contact: Pootings Road Michael Paynter Four Elms Tel: 07711 129983 TN8 6PH Email: [email protected] Mobile 07771 634995 or 07730 038747 Welcome to the December Link

One of the great pleasures of the peaceful Christmas break is long winter walks, there are so many around the parish. One of my favourites is the walk down the hill behind Markbeech Church, past Hole Cottage and on to station. The OS map app takes all the confusion (and some may say fun) out of finding new routes. I have noticed masses of interesting fungi around this year, I suppose the damp has made it a good year, I think the one below is the False Deathcap but it may be the real thing, it is hard to tell.

If you want to stay indoors, here is an easy recipe for mincemeat, good for pies, crumbles and cakes. You don’t need to cook it, just mix the ingredients and put in sterilised

jars: Soak 250g of raisins and 375g of currants in 100ml of brandy for an hour or so. Then mix in the zest of a lemon LINK and the juice of half, half a teaspoon of ground nutmeg, 250g shredded suet, a large grated bramley apple, 250g dark brown sugar and 85g of chopped mixed peel.

The misunderstood mushroom These rather elegant mushrooms have appeared in the fields margins over the last month. Their distinctive feature is that they are not what they seem......

Known as the false death cap, or Citron Amanita, it is a basidiomycotic mushroom, one of many in the genus Amanita. It grows in silicate soil in the summer and autumn months. It bears a pale yellow or sometimes white cap, with white stem, ring and volva. The top looks a bit like a cappuccino. Though it is not poisonous, its similarity to the lethal death cap (Amanita phalloides) means that it is unwise to use it in cooking. Also it doesn’t taste of anything much.

The Link team wishes you all a very happy Christmas and new year. Joanna Wade 1 The film at the Hever Castle Golf club village screen starts at 8pm and doors open at 7pm film club for the pre-show meal and bar – with ice cream and popcorn in the interval. Friday 10 January Tickets are a suggested donation of £3 The Wife for the film or £12 to include the meal. Glenn Close won a Golden Globe for You can book with Bridget Harris on her role as a supportive wife who begins 01732 700986 or bcharris@btinternet. to question her life choices when she com or buy tickets at the door. However travels to Stockholm with her narcissistic please pre-book your meal by the husband (Jonathan Pryce) who is about Wednesday morning before the show if to receive the Nobel prize for literature. you would like to eat.

Hever Family Christmas Carols Saturday 14 December 4 pm at the Henry Mulled wine and mince pies Christmas songs and Carols at St Peters Church at 5pm

You are warmly invited to join us for the annual

in the Pub at the Kentish Horse, Markbeech on Sunday 22nd December at 5:00pm The carols will be followed by mince pies

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COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS With some Christmas shopping now completed at our Christmas Fair it is time to concentrate on the decorating and food preparation. With that in mind why not sign up to one of the following events being held at the castle this December…

Christmas Wreath Making & Cookery Event Wednesday 11th December 10am – 2pm Enfleur Flower School will guide you through making a luxurious Christmas wreath, followed by Alive with Flavour’s interactive Christmas canape making demo. Then enjoy a festive lunch prepared by Jo Banks. Tickets are £68 per person, plus a booking fee. To book please contact [email protected]

Children’s Christmas Cookery Event Tuesday 17th & Thursday 19th December 10am – 3.30pm Alive with Flavour are offering a chance for the children to improve their cookery skills under the expert guidance of Jo Banks, whilst having fun with their friends. Then they can take home their festive breads, savoury snacks and sweets to share with all the family. Suitable for children aged 8 – 13. Tickets are £52 per person, plus a booking fee. To book please contact [email protected]

WISHING YOU ALL A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS

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3 U3A is a charity, it stands for Village Hall 2-4pm with speakers on a University of the Third Age, an wide range of subjects or look at our International organisation. comprehensive, easy to use website edenbridgeu3a.co.uk for full details. Edenbridge U3A for retired people was set up in 2013 and has over 200 From January to June it is £10 to members around 60 groups covering join then sign up to as many groups everything from art, books, gardening, as you can fit in, they are a great history, languages, to walking and opportunity to learn and meet people. wine appreciation. 28 January ‘A Scotland Yard To join come along to our monthly last Detective’s Anecdotal Stories of Tuesday meetings in Major Crimes’

FOREST ROW R.N.L.I. CHOIR

CHRISTMAS CONCERTS 2019

Freshfield Hall, Forest Row

Saturday 7th December 7.30pm

Tickets: £10.00 tel: 01342 324196

Apron Bar and Coffee House

Chequer Mead Theatre, East Grinstead

Friday 13th December Lunchtime

tel: 01342 302000

Trinity Methodist Church, East Grinstead

Saturday 14th December 2.30pm

Tickets: £6.00 tel: 01342 324196

4 butler. He was also the driver and he Ken and Mavis Seale and Mavis would regularly drive up to Tillypronie, the family’s estate in Ken and Mavis Seale have lived in Scotland, with the silver plate in the Hever a long time. He was born at boot - a must for sociable summer Pigdown farm in the 20s and she came holidays. One dinner celebrated the from Beckenham at the end of WW2 to EEC and a hand-drawn menu survives. work for what she calls “Kent War Ag”. This involved farm work although she was deemed too small to do milking.

Ken was the third generation to work for the Castle farm. His grandfather had been a carter and his father the foreman. Sadly father was badly affected by malaria caught serving near Basra in WWI and died in his 60s. He was a keen bell ringer but Ken was put off by long waits outside the church as a child AND he didn’t like the noise - so he stayed well away.

Mavis was unhappy at first as some of the girls were “a bit wild”, but she enjoyed pruning apple trees and cycling up to to bale hay. Then one day she met Ken at the station and ro- mance blossomed. He was working on the Castle farm and hadn’t been called up because he had failed the medical. Also, as the last one left on the farm the Astors may have pulled strings to keep him. During the war they ploughed up the golf course to grow wheat and he served in the Civil Defence.

Then he got bronchitis and was sent inside to help the butler - and the regular Astor family refrain “ask Ken - he’ll see to it!” was coined. The butler retired and the next one left soon after when he turned out to be rather too fond of a tipple - so Ken became

5 the castle where they were served lunch, a commercial arrangement with the railway.

When the Astors sold Hever in the early 80s they made sure that the Seales were housed for life on the estate - a final gesture of thanks to a couple who had served them so well. Joanna Wade

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Dad was born in 1930, in Colombo, The village of Markbeech; the Sri Lanka (or Ceylon as he would church; the Falconhurst Cricket Club; always continue to call it), and he was the Royal British Legion; endless in many ways a classic son of the “old gatherings in the Village Hall and all Empire”. He spent the first six years the other aspects of local community, of his life in Ceylon, living near Kandy, were in many ways what defined Dad. where his father Pen, a former Cavalry officer, worked as a tea-taster. He played his first game of cricket for Falconhurst in 1941 and took a keen Dad retained many vivid memories interest in the Club long after he hung of his childhood in the Indian up his boots. He was Chairman of subcontinent. These included the local branch of the Royal British memories of trips to far away Kashmir, Legion for some 25 years and was a where his mother Cicely’s family had Churchwarden and Treasurer of the a large carpet factory; as well as church for a similar length of time. memories of the times he would ride And Rookery Cottage, into which in front of his mother on horseback to Mum and Dad moved in 1965 (having see elephants washed in the nearby married in 1961) was a happy family river - led along the path by a pair of home, always buzzing with visitors tame cheetahs that used to sleep at or committee meetings of one sort or the end of his parents’ bed! other.

He was very proud of his family After Wellington College, he attended heritage. The Paynters were in fact the nearby Royal Military Cornish, from Boskenna Academy at Sandhurst, near Land’s End, and following in his father’s although his grandfather footsteps. He went on had left Cornwall and to enjoy a rewarding life settled in Somerset as a young Officer in before Dad was born, the Kings 3rd Hussars you’d never have cavalry regiment and as known it. Dad wore his an airborne specialist Cornish middle names with the North Somerset of Pendarves and de Yeomanry. Dad was Camborne as badges of proud, yet modest, about Cornish pride. his military career, but his Parachute wings, and 7 tie, and his Regimental swords said kitchen, often as head chef, doubtless enough. The Army gave him huge to appease Mum given the regularity joy and many lifelong friends. Not to that he would invite people to supper mention countless stories! without much consultation! He would slave for hours producing canapes, and starters in particular. And he loved making the most of anything he could find in the cupboard!

At the heart of everything, was Dad’s love of good company. He loved having family and friends around him, and it was genuinely impossible to be in his company at home without him offering you something. He was lucky to be able to live life to the full for the vast majority of his years. And when walking became more difficult he never really complained. “I am just pretending”, he used to say. In life, Dad’s glass was always half full. Never half empty.

He will be much missed - but we will Dad was a very proud member of The never forget him! He enriched the lives Vintners Company, which he joined of all of us and was a loving and loyal in 1957, and he served as Master of husband to Fiona for 58 years. that livery company in 1993/4. He never missed an opportunity to enjoy Addendum: Fiona Paynter and the the rather fine lunches and dinners family would like to thank the local that were a happy adjunct to Court community sincerely for the many business and the many charitable kind words and warm wishes received causes that were part of his life as a in the weeks since Cecil’s death. Vintner.

And in addition to his love of wine, how Dad loved his food! Michael and I were brought up with the regular wartime refrain “waste not want not, pick it up and eat it”. And that’s exactly what Dad did. He loved fine food but he wasn’t at all fussy! In his retirement years he moved into the

8 what I do Gilly‘s husband if you’ve popped in on When Gilly Southworth first opened a Sunday morning. Or perhaps you’ve the doors of her beautiful gift shop, come across one of their three sons who Woodlea Craft & Design in March have been commandeered to change 1988, she would’ve been amazed to lightbulbs in the window! It’s always think that 31 years later she would be been a team effort with Gilly’s vision at preparing for another festive season. the heart of it.

Woodlea Craft & Design is a charming In the early days Gilly was one of the gift shop in the heart of Four Elms. It is first to support the burgeoning Emma a mini Emporium which is packed from Bridgewater business. This year there floor-to-ceiling with the most desirable are several new winter designs available, of gifts imaginable. Gilly has always Emma Bridgewater is something we are stocked an array of beautiful things known for, says Gilly “we have collectors covering all price points to appeal to from all over the world contact us in their a broad clientele. She hopes that at search for sought-after designs.” Christmas time her customers will find something for everyone on their list. And so, the shop is all decked out for Christmas. Do call in when you’re It is a testament to Gilly’s tenacity passing, there will be a warm welcome that her little shop continues to serve waiting for you. The air will be scented lovely things to her loyal customers. with the beautiful seasonal fragrances The last 30 odd years have brought of St.Eval candles...bay and rosemary, their challenges, most notably Gilly orange and cinnamon...and you never has survived and recovered from a know, you might just find that elusive brain tumour. Over the years her family, perfect gift, right here on your doorstep. friends and neighbours have rallied to support her and the shop. In fact Woodlea Craft & Design is open Gilly says she couldn’t have continued Tuesday to Sunday during December without “the girls,” a brilliant stream of and Friday, Saturday and Sunday for helpers who have assisted in the shop. the rest of the year The current crop include Sarah, Poppy, Honor, Grace and Denise.

Sarah came along in 2008 and is still happily helping with window layouts and merchandising when she’s not styling magazine covers for Country Living! Denise has also been particularly helpful, she says the shop has a calming aura!

There are of course “the boys” too! you may well have been served by John,

9 council news recycle. Well, perhaps not! However a handy video has been created to It’s beginning to look a lot like help explain what can go in your clear Christmas, or so goes the festive sack and what to do with the rest. Do classic. That certainly holds true in our take a look at www.sevenoaks.gov.uk/ shops and high streets. And it does festivewaste. here too, with the Hever Christmas Fair last month, Markbeech Bazaar up All importantly, none of us want food next, and Cowden Christmas Fayre festering a fortnight, so everyone will following hot on its heels. It’s also the continue to receive our unique-in- case at the District Council. Kent weekly rubbish and recycling collection, though your collection First is a long-standing and much- day may change – keep an eye out in loved festive gesture of goodwill: free the Winter 2019 edition of InShape, parking in the Council’s car parks arriving soon, for the dates. and on-street on the weekends of 14/15th and 21st/22nd December, And finally, come Twelfth Night, what meaning there’s no charge to park in to do with your tree? The Council , Sevenoaks or . provides an easy way of disposing of your Christmas tree free of charge from The Christmas cheer needn’t end with the kerbside, regardless of whether shopping locally. Consider grabbing you subscribe to their popular garden a bite to eat somewhere new. We’ve waste collection service. It should save got some truly fantastic places to eat you a trip to the tip – not to mention in the District. But some are better the hassle of removing all those than others. And when going out with needles from your car. Again, more friends and family, it’s worth taking information will be in the forthcoming a moment to check the hygiene InShape. rating of your destination of choice. Review websites tell you about taste, We may well see one another at one of presentation and service but they can’t the carol services or other events but if tell you about the areas behind the not, may I take this opportunity to wish scenes, where the Council’s inspectors you a very happy Christmas? As ever, go – whether the place adheres to do get in touch if there’s anything with national standards of food hygiene, which I might be able to assist. condition of facilities and management. That’s why it’s important to check Matthew Dickins those things using the Food Standards District Councillor for Cowden & Hever Agency website, app or sticker. Council, Argyle Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 1HG Come Christmas Day, I’m conscious e. [email protected] one of the most heated debates m. 07910 328 110 surrounds what you can and cannot

10 pet of the month I had the operation in July but sadly I got an infection and I had to have Coco by Susanne Smith, another expensive operation to remove Rectory Lane a plate. I now have to rest for four weeks which I really can’t do as I am still young and full of beans. I am so My name was Granola but I am now very happy with my new family, even called Coco. I am 14 months old, I though I have been through lots of think. One minute I was with my mum surgery and pain. I still visit my friends and then I am living on the streets of at Last Chance and they do dressings Wales trying to fend for my little self. I and x-rays to help with the cost of this ended up in the dog pound with lots of all. friends. The whisper was that we would be “put to sleep”, the others told me it I will have to have one more operation was not a good thing. to remove the other plate at some point and my owners are looking to find a Luckily a van came and took a whole way to raise £1000 so that we don’t load of us to an animal rescue charity in have to ask for any more help from Edenbridge called Last Chance. They Last Chance. They are having a Jumble were very nice to me and gave me a Sale in Hever Village Hall on Sat 30th thing called a chip, but not the kind you November from 12 - 3, please come if eat. I liked it there but I was very lonely you can. at night. A lovely family adopted me but sadly their daughter was allergic to my I hope to see you around Hever. You fur so I had to go back to Last Chance. will know me because I have a bandage on my leg. Please remember there are After some time I found my forever lots of dogs just like me at Last Chance home. I am very happy again but I had looking for a nice loving home. another HUGE hurdle to get through. Whoof Whoof It seems that when I was really young I suffered a trauma and this left a large mass under my elbow. It meant that the inside bone of my leg stopped growing but the outside still grew. I now have a really wonky leg, which is probably what put some people off adopting me. The lovely vet at Last Chance found a dog bone doctor who could fix my leg with plates, if it was not done asap I would have trouble walking and a lot of pain as I grew older.

11 schooltime feel they could ‘magpie’ and use in their writing. They have also been studying news from Hever improper fractions in great detail in maths and simplifying them in order to convert November already!? them to mixed numbers. It has definitely started to feel like winter at Hever School. The leaves are falling, Children have also learnt about how students are completing many reading plastic waste travels into the world’s and academic tasks around pumpkins oceans. More specifically they have been and apples, and students are dressing in looking at our accountability as residents many more layers, (even thermals during of an inland town, and whether we are as Forest School). culpable as those who live near the coast. The children have tracked the journey of In the lead up to Remembrance Day, plastic from Hever to the sea, working Hever School sold poppies and raised hard to identify rivers and describe this money towards the Poppy Appeal. The journey using the 8 points of a compass. school took part in a Remembrance Our Eco – School Ambassadors (Charlie, service at the war memorial at St Peter’s Tobi, Ava and Mia) have been presenting Church and were impeccable during the the ideas of Chestnut class this week at two minute silence. The sound of a lone their meeting at Sevenoaks School. Our bugler, (from Edenbridge Town Band) class initiatives to support our journey played the Last Post, surely one of the towards gaining Eco-School accreditation most distinctive sounds in the world, are now identified as: Using plastics charged with the memory of generations positively in the school• environment of the fallen. It was then followed by few including the production of eco-bricks moments of silent prayer and by the Growing fruit and vegetables to sounding of Reveille, the first call of the become• more self-sufficient and promote day, to signify man’s rebirth into eternal healthy eating. Saving water by life. educating the younger• students of Hever to turn off the taps. With their business The service was led beautifully by brains activated… Chestnut class have Reverend Wendy Izod and Year 6 seen an opportunity. They are planning a children. Prior to the service, the Christmas gift shop to help turn recycling Year 6 children studied the origins into positive and desirable Christmas of Remembrance Day and created gifts. stunningly-heartfelt poems in honour of those who have died for their country in Reception children visited the Bridges the First World War and all wars since. Centre Dandelion Cafe in Edenbridge for an Inter-generation creative workshop Year 5 students are working hard with with older adults. The enthusiasm and their reading and comprehension in creativity of the Acorns brought joy to class, using their journals to capture the session and really encouraged the the moments from their books that they older adults to have a go and join in.

12 The children have also been very engaged and Class Four raised a fantastic £482.45 during their time in the Forest, climbing, for Macmillan Cancer Support. We were so building dens and learning how to make a proud of the children for the commitment fire. they showed to ensuring this was a Joanna Stratton successful event and thank you to all who Head Teacher came along to drink coffee and eat delicious homemade cakes. news from Four Elms We will remember them Class 4 have been learning more about the Diversity history of WW2. The children focused on Following on from our Diversity Project last the many characters of the war: land girl, year, we have launched a campaign to raise evacuee, nurse, soldier. They wrote their awareness of the right to be treated fairly, own poetry trying to imagine spending a day particularly for those who have a physical in the shoes of our characters. The poems disability. were performed at a private poetry reading This month ‘Just Different’ visited our for parents. school. One of the presenters, Helen, has Charlton Athletic Community Trust cerebral palsy and she used her computer Classes 3 and 4 have signed up to a system to communicate with us. She told us six-week health programme provided by about the disability and celebrated the fact Charlton Athletic Community Trust. The that she could still do lots of things, just in a “Joy of Moving” initiative is a national different way. It was a great start to raising programme which aims to get children awareness of a range of disabilities. active and promote healthy lifestyles. The Great fires and bonfire parades aim of the programme is to increase the Class 2 took part in a Great Fire of London levels of physical activity, promote nutritional drama workshop. It gave the children a education and build awareness of the fantastic start to their new experience where importance of a healthy diet and active they will be creating a news broadcast, lifestyle amongst children. The programme reporting on the fire. content has been developed by nutritional, We were also proud to take part in the educational and sporting experts in line with Edenbridge Bonfire parade with our Lion the recommendations in the Government’s King theme, complete with papier mache Eat Well Plate and its learning outcomes are Pride Rock. We were delighted to come in line with the National Curriculum for PSHE third in the Junior Cup! and Science. Come to school in your PJs! Sporting news Onesies abounded on Children in Need day Despite the shorter days, wet weather and on Friday 15th November. To raise money boggy conditions on our pitches, our cross for the charity, the whole school, teachers country, football, netball and tag rugby included, came to school in their pyjamas, teams continue to put in the effort to train dressing gowns, onesies and slippers. and compete in regular matches. You may remember that our oldest children Nicole Holt recently held a Macmillan Coffee afternoon. The pounds and pence have been counted

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15 news from the pews Four Elms, along with the rest of the Four Elms village thank her for her unstinting Four Elms devotion to the Church, its people and Celebrating the glorious season of the village as a whole. We wish Wendy Autumn, St. Paul’s Four Elms’ theme and Andrew every happiness and wonder for its October “Songs of Praise” how they will fill their days. was appropriately Autumn. Biblical Christina Hodson readings and poetry combined with Churchwarden music and favourite hymns which, of Hever course, featured some Harvest hymns. As November ends with Wendy’s Angela and Wendy put together a lovely departure (all welcome to her final service collection of words and music for us all at St Peter’s on Saturday 30th at 4pm), to enjoy. It was particularly nice to have we look to the future. December brings Matthew Laycock, accompanying us on the General Election which unfortunately the trombone. A family affair. Thank you clashes with the parish lunch (I was Angela for performing “Autumn” from surprised that Boris was so thoughtless) Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” so beautifully. so we have brought it forward to The Remembrance Service at the War Wednesday 11 December, please put a Memorial was well attended. Each year note in your diary and come along. the poignancy of the lives lost in our small communities never fails to move all who As usual the Hever Carol Supper will attend. It was a pleasure to welcome all follow the Nine Lessons and Carols which our friends from the Benefice during the is on Friday 20 December at 7pm, please service. ring Elly Heard (T: 865564) if you would like to come, it is a lovely occasion with Christmas beckons. We celebrate the good food and excellent company and all birth of Christ and enjoy the festivities. are very welcome. However, Christmas is not always the happiest of times for everybody. There All our Advent and Christmas services are many who are lonely, sad and hungry. are being covered by a range of local Perhaps we should all bear this in mind priests, culminating in the arrival of the and try to make Christmas less about Archdeacon to take midnight communion overwhelming consumption and more at 23.30 on Christmas Eve. We hope that about looking out for our neighbour. Wendy and Andrew will meanwhile be Notwithstanding, we hope we shall have enjoying a very well-deserved rest. a full church enjoying carols and readings, The family Christmas Eve Crib Service is accompanied by the Edenbridge Town at 4pm on Christmas Eve, also taken by Band on Sunday 22 December at 3pm. the Archdeacon, and do not forget the (Mulled wine and mince pies to follow). Village Carols on 14 December at 4.30, Family Communion will be at St. Paul’s on with mulled wine and mince pies in the Christmas Morning at 11am Henry VIII beforehand.

The end of November sees the departure Finally, we were saddened by the death of Wendy as Priest in Charge. St. Paul’s of our former Churchwarden and parish 16 stalwart Pat Humphreys at the end of will be drinks and nibbles for all in the November and the Link will be printing an Village Hall so please do come and join obituary in January. us there.

I wish you all a happy and peaceful Markbeech does like to sing! The next Christmas on behalf of St Peter’s opportunity to exercise the vocal chords Jane Rosam in December – as heartily as you like Churchwarden and aided by a glass of mulled wine Markbeech very kindly provided by Trevor in The Life without Wendy begins! I can’t tell Kentish Horse – will be on Sunday 22nd you how sad we will be not to be seeing December at 5pm. It’s a great village Wendy in our church with her smiling, event with guest conductors, Steve calm face leading our worship. We have Thompson and Chris St Pierre. been blessed to enjoy her ministry these past years, as a Reader, as a support Christmas Day! Lucky us – Simon Braid Priest and as our Parish Priest. We hope has offered to come and celebrate that Wendy and Andrew will now enjoy a Christmas Day with us. Our service will very happy retirement. be at the normal time: 9.15am. Please bring your noisiest stocking present/best Advent begins once more. A period of hat. The church will look beautiful and waiting until the joy of Christmas Day; a all those wonderful Christmas hymns to busy period of choir practises preparing sing. I can’t wait! for our lovely Carol Service on 15th December at 6pm led by Revd Simon Sadly there seems no time in December Braid. We have a splendid choir that to hold a Parish Lunch so we have seems to grow and grow and Charles has decided to postpone December’s lunch found some really wonderful music for us and hold a special ‘New Year’ Lunch to sing. It is a fact that choral singing is on Tuesday 7th January at 12.30pm good for you! It focuses the mind; is joyful; in Markbeech Village Hall. Everyone is good exercise and sociable. If you would welcome. like to come and join us let me know! Nicki Talbot Singing also makes you very hungry and Churchwarden thirsty! Following the Carol Service there

17 Services December 2019 Services rota

Date Time Church Service Sidesmen Readers Intercessions Chalice 01 Dec 08.00 Four Elms Holy Communion BCP Richard Bennett Gill Lambert Gill Lambert 01 Dec 09.15 Markbeech Sung Eucharist Liz Kaberry Nick Irens & Lynnie Hopkins Nicki Talbot Nick Irens 01 Dec 11.00 Hever Parish Communion Ana & Daryl Roxburgh Jane Rosam & Daryl Roxburgh Ana Roxburgh Jane Rosam 04 Dec 09.30 Hever Morning Prayer 05 Dec 16.30 Hever Evening Prayer 08 Dec 09.15 Markbeech Benefice Communion Janey Cooper Flora Nedelcu & Liz Kaberry Ann Bellamy Vasile Nedelcu 08 Dec 11.00 Four Elms Café Christingle Christina Hodson & Stephen Short Elly Heard & Robin Rouse 08 Dec 16.00 Hever Evensong Elly Heard & Robin Rouse 11 Dec 9.30 Hever Morning Prayer 12 Dec 16.30 Hever Evening Prayer 14 Dec 17.00 Hever Village Carols with mulled wine in the pub beforehand 15 Dec 11.00 Hever Benefice Communion Lisa & Will Cowell Jane Rosam & Will Cowell Marion Purll Jane Rosam 15 Dec 18.00 Markbeech Carols in the church plus drinks Liz Kaberry 18 Dec 09.30 Hever Morning Prayer 19 Dec 16.30 Hever Evening Prayer 20 Dec 19.00 Hever Nine Lessons & Carols, Carol Lisa & Will Cowell Elly Heard Supper 22 Dec 11.00 Hever Benefice Communion Elly Heard & Robin Rouse Daryl Roxburgh & Robin Rouse Ana Roxburgh Jane Rosam 22 Dec 15.00 Four Elms Carols in the church& town band 22 Dec 17.00 Markbeech Pub Carols 24 Dec 16.00 Hever Crib Service Ana & Daryl Roxburgh 24 Dec 23.30 Hever Midnight Communion Lisa & Will Cowell Will & Lisa Cowell Elly Heard Jane Rosam 25 Dec 09.15 Markbeech Christmas Family Sung Eucharist Ricky Calvocoressi Nicki Talbot & Marielou Linklater Flora Nedelcu Vasile Nedelcu 25 Dec 11.00 Four Elms Family Communion John & Christina Hodson John & Christina Hodson Marion Purll Gill Lambert 29 Dec 11.00 Hever Benefice Communion Elly Heard & Robin Rouse Jane Rosam & Robin Rouse Elly Heard Elly Heard

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Date OT Psalm NT Gospel Sunday Hever Jane Rosam 07766 763124 01 Dec Isaiah 2:1-5 122 Romans 13:11-end Matthew Advent 1 24:36-44 Four Elms Leslie Griggs 01732 700428 Christina Hodson 01732 700247 08 Dec Isaiah 72: 1-7,18-19 Romans 15:4-13 Matthew 3:1-12 Advent 2 11:1-10 Markbeech Nicki Talbot 01342 850526 15 Dec Isaiah 35:1-10 146:4-10 James 5:7-10 Matthew 11:2-11 Advent 3 Marielou Linklater 01342 850579 22 Dec Isaiah 80:1-8,18-20 Romans 1:1-7 Matthew Advent 4 7:10-16 1:18-end 24 Dec 2 Samuel 89:2,19-27 Acts 13:16-26 Luke 1:67-79 Christmas Eve 7:1-5,8-11,16 25 Dec Isaiah 9:2-7 96 Titus 2:11-14 Luke 2:1-14 Christmas Day 29 Dec Isaiah 63:7-9 148 Hebrews 2:10-end Matthew Christmas 1 Benefice website: Threespires. wordpress. com 2:13-end

18 19 gardening news Finally, water little and often as most of from Willerby Landscapes these winter flowering house plants have their origins in dry areas around the world, Many of us will go out and buy a so are quite used to thriving on neglect. houseplant or two over the festive period Once the season is over, let the plant dry eg. a Poinsettia or a Christmas cactus out slowly for a month or so then if you (Schlumbergia) so we asked our head have the will, it is quite easy with a cut gardener, Des Smith, what do we need to down, feed and water, to grow it on again do to keep them looking their best. for next year.

Buy from a good source Chilli Plant “The first and most important thing is to I am regularly asked if you can overwinter purchase your plant from a good source, Chili and the simple answer is yes! a nursery or garden centre where it has Take off any remaining fruit and all the not been in contact with frost and has leaves. You want to leave the chilli plant been watered correctly. bare so that it just has its original “Y” shape. Replenishing the potting mix helps Secondly, check the plant through for as a new mix delivers fresh nutrients and damage or pests and fungal rots, there is removes any bad insects that might be no point taking on a hospital case. present.

Thirdly, on getting the plant home, don’t Look for available spots to store your rush to put it in its desired position straight Chilli plants either in a warm conservatory, away. Gradually get it accustomed to basement or spare room. The indoor your centrally heated dark and dry home. temperature for hibernating chilli peppers is between 15 to 20 degrees centigrade Remember, where it has been grown and never below 10 degrees. Water it has had the best of everything, good your chilli plants when the soil gets dry light, perfect stable temperature and the and put them back outside when the right amount of moisture. Start by giving temperatures consistently stays above the plant as much light as possible, as a 10 degrees centigrade and the threat of sudden lack of light will cause leaf and frost has passed and with careful plant flower drop. A draft proof window sill is husbandry you should be enjoying the ideal, then bring the plant into the room at “heat” in the summer.” night if you close the curtains.

20 Benefice monthly rainfall in millimeters

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Four Elms 2018 62.7 1.2 44.7 67.2 17.1 38 96 70 2019 28 33 54 12 29.5 111 55 27 58 112 Hever 2018 79 36 81 65.5 79 0 36 63 32 41 127.5 81 2019 23 56 45.5 12 24 90 63 28.5 64 119 Markbeech 2018 83 40 82 77.25 70.05 1.5 51 68.5 33 47.5 105.5 91.5 2019 39.5 41 59.25 13.25 29 78.5 74.5 38.5 71 133

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NATIONAL TRUST BUILDING CONTRACTORS Established in 1955 * Chartwell the house is open from Members of the National Federation of Builders the family home of Sir Winston 10 March to 4 November, Wed−Sun Churchill, near Westerham plus Bank Holidays, also Tues in July and August. Listed Buildings, Conversions, QUEBEC HOUSE The gardens, shop, restaurant, Westerham, a charming village studio and exhibition are open every Extensions, Maintenance house, the childhood home day from 10 March 2012 except of General Wolfe Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. & Repairs Car park open everyday for EMMETTS GARDEN countryside walks except the Garden at the top of the Weald, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. W SMITHERS & SONS LTD near Ide Hill Old Mill Yard Telephone: 01342 850559 * Quebec House open Wed to Sun, Cowden Fax: 01342 850981 10 March to 4 November plus Bank All welcome visitors from Edenbridge Email: [email protected] Holidays. Kent TN8 7JJ Website: www.wsmithersandsons.co.uk near and far and are * Emmetts Garden open Sat –Wed, OPEN MARCH TO NOVEMBER 2012 10 March to 4 November plus Bank Holidays and Good Friday.

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FLEXIBILITY With a choice of short term or longer term arrangements and the ability to move to larger suites within the building as your business grows, the Hever Business Centre offers the perfect flexible workspace solution. • All inclusive monthly rent • Fast broadband availability • Plenty of private parking A SELECTION OF INDIVIDUAL • Suites for 1 – 6 persons OFFICE SUITES • Security alarm • London Bridge (direct) 42mins Available to rent on simple flexible • Flexible tenancies tenancy agreements. • Conference/meeting room facilities • No VAT Approached by an attractive private drive, the Hever Business Centre is SIMPLICITY a distinctive and handsome detached The Hever Business Centre suites are available building providing office suites with on simple flexible tenancy agreements for plenty of private parking. between 6 and 36 months, with no long term Formerly Hever Station, the centre commitments. The monthly rental fee is fully inclusive of rent, electricity, heating and all now offers bright workspaces with communal overheads. Business rates are architectural features typical of the payable directly to Sevenoaks District Council Victorian railway era. as each suite will be separately assessed, providing most occupiers with the benefit of maximum small business rates relief. TO FIND OUT MORE

Please contact David Robinson of Karrison Property KARRISON 01959 563800 or email [email protected] P ROPERTY

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26 Nov Markbeech Village Lunch MB Village Hall 12.30pm 27 Nov Film, Five Seasons, the gardens of Piet Oudolf Hever Golf Club 7.30pm 27 Nov Hever Hort AGM, Hever Village Hall 8pm 28 Nov Christmas Wreath Making at Bore Place 10am - 2pm 30 Nov Jumble sale for Coco pet of the month, Hever Village Hall 12-3pm 30 Nov Rev Wendy Izod celebration and farewell service 4pm 7 Dec Men’s and Ladies’ Breakfast, MB Village Hall TBA 11 Dec Christmas wreath making, Chiddingstone Castle 10am- 2pm 11 Dec Hever Parish Lunch, Hever Village Hall 12 for 12.30 12 Dec General election 14 Dec Christmas Artisan Chocolate making at Bore Place 10am – 4pm 14 Dec Village carols, St Peter’s Hever 5pm 15 Dec Markbeech Carol service 6pm 17 and 19 Dec Children’s Christmas cookery, Chiddingstone Castle 10am – 3.30pm 20 Dec St Peter’s Hever Nine Lessons and Carols 7pm 20 Dec Hever Carol Supper, Hever Village hall 8.15pm 22 Dec Carols at St Paul’s, Four Elms 3pm 22 Dec Carols at the pub, Kentish Horse, Markbeech 5pm 24 Dec Crib service, St Peter’s Hever 4pm 24 Dec Midnight Mass, Hever 11.30pm 26 Dec Boxing Day Meet, Chiddingstone Castle 11 am 7 Jan New Year Lunch, Markbeech Village Hall 12.30pm 9 Jan Hever parish lunch, Hever Village Hall 12 for 12.30 10 Jan Film Club, The Wife, Hever Castle Golf Club 7pm 21 Jan Hever Parish Council meeting, Markbeech Village Hall 7pm 25 Jan Organic Vegan cookery course at Bore Place 10am - 4pm 25 Jan Grand Hever Quiz Hever Castle 28 Jan ‘A Scotland Yard Detective’s Anecdotal Stories of Major Crimes’ U3A talk Crockham Hill Village Hall 2 - 4pm 7 Feb Film Club, Letter to Brezhnev, Hever Castle Golf Club 7pm 17 Mar Hever Parish Council meeting, Hever Village Hall 7.30pm