Bentley Binsted

PARISH MAGAZINE

BENTLEYAND BINSTED APRIL 2019 INSIDE FRONT COVER

Vicar of Bentley, Binsted and Froyle: Yann Dubreuil Holy Cross Vicarage, Binsted, Alton, GU34 4NX Tel: 07777 684533 email: [email protected] Website: www.benbinfro.co.uk

Curate – Christopher Ogilvie Thompson Tel: 07776 178690 email: [email protected]

BeneficeAdministrator – Hannah Dubreuil Tel 01420 23339 [email protected] (Office hours Mon, Weds, Thurs 9am – 2pm)

Media Administrator – Lora Bowden Tel 01420 23339 [email protected] Honorary Assistant Minister – David Perryman, Treetops, Upper Froyle Tel. 520647 [email protected]

Parishes Prayer Chain – Nick Carter – 472861 or [email protected] Pastoral Care Team – Nick Carter – 472861 or [email protected]

Readers – Harold Fish, 6 Bonners Field, Bentley. 22947

Bentley: St Mary’s Churchwardens: Jill Kiely, 11 Broadlands Close, Bentley, GU10 5LE - 22735 Nick Caddick, Tanners, GU10 5NE - 23229

Binsted: Holy Cross Churchwardens Kathy Ogilvie Thompson, Tel No. 01420 23125. Nick Carter, Knox Farmhouse, The Straits, Kingsley GU35 9NS – 472861

Parish Magazine Articles and Advertising: Any copy or advertising enquiries should be sent to Lora Bowden on the 5th of the month, by email ([email protected])

Editor: Rev Yann Dubreuil Designer: Mike Hammerton Treasurer: Steve Fice, 01420 22197 [email protected] Distribution: Bentley – Harold Fish Tel 22947 Binsted – Alan and Anne Shelley Tel 520960 INSIDE FRONT COVER April 2019

INDEX Specialist Services ...... ii-viii Professional Services ...... xi-x Health and Beauty ...... x-xiv Entertaining ...... xiv-xvi Domestic services ...... xvi-xvii Gardening ...... xvii-xix House Building/Maintenance ...... xix-xxiv

BENTLEY VILLAGE SURGERY Dr M Way & Dr A Evers Hole Lane, Bentley, GU10 5LP Tel: 01420 22106 The surgery is open from 8am – 6.30pm Monday – Friday The Dispensary is open from 8.30 – 12.30 and 4.00 – 6.30pm Monday, Tuesday Thursday and Friday, and just 8.30-12.30 on Wednesdays. When the surgery is closed please call 111 You can now register for online appointment booking, please ask at Reception for further details. Repeat Prescriptions can now be ordered via the surgery website: www.bentleysurgery.org.uk

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SELF CATERING in luxury appointed annexe that can Sleep from 2-5 people. Five star – rated by Quality in Tourism/Enjoy England. The Annexe is self contained With all its own facilities plus access to forty acres of Hampshire countryside, outside swimming pool and Tennis court. BED & BREAKFAST is available in the farmhouse which is five star rated by AA and has its own private bathroom with separate sitting room and own entrance.

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Bentley Memorial Hall

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Main hall accommodating up to 100 people and two meeting rooms accommodating up to 60 people each. Main hall and one meeting room can be combined for larger events.

For bookings and enquiries please call the Bentley Community Association Booking's Secretary – details inside the back cover of this magazine.

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B&B Magazine | xiii April 2019 Vicar’s Letter

Dear All

When it comes to Easter eggs, what is your life. Some of you will know what it is like favourite? Or maybe I should say, what was to hold a warm egg, sneaked from under your favourite? A Cadbury’s cream egg or a the hot downy feathers of a hen, sitting in a handful of speckled sugar coated mini eggs? daze of imminent motherhood on her nest. I’m not into chocolate as much as the rest When the egg is near to hatching, the life of my family but I do occasionally really inside it can be heard cheeping. That’s right, like dark chocolate whether as an Easter the chick starts talking to its mother, even egg or bar. I also quite enjoy pinching some before it emerges from the shell. (Just think of my children’s eggs. what it would be like if our children could talk to us before birth – slow down Mum, But where did all this tradition of having stop shouting at that driver overtaking chocolate eggs come from? If you look you…) It is wonderful that the chick and up favourite Bible quotes on the subject hen are having a conversation before it of the Easter story, there isn’t a single one is even born. Amazing - the miracle of referring to eggs of any kind, scrambled, life and cradling that cheeping egg is like hard boiled or chocolate (and neither on holding God’s creation in the palm of your the Easter Bunny!) hand. Yet for as long as most of us can remember, And as I look at the empty shell of a boiled eggs have been an important part of our egg that I have eaten, I can see why early Easter celebrations. The custom goes way Christians compared it to Christ’s tomb. back to the days of early Christianity and That hollowed space, once occupied, is now the egg symbolises the empty tomb of empty because the occupant has come alive Jesus from which He was resurrected. It is and has been released into the world. And thought to have originated with the early just as the chick can communicate before Christians of Mesopotamia and spread it emerges, so Christ spoke to us back then from there to Russia and Siberia through and can also speak to us now. the Orthodox Churches and then into Europe. And in one early tradition, which I I hope you can join us in our Easter find particularly poignant, Easter eggs were services to ponder and celebrate the stained red, in memory of the blood Christ mystery of the Resurrection. shed at His crucifixion. Blessings I quite like the idea of using real eggs, Yann rather than chocolate ones, to represent the resurrection, because they do contain new

1 | B&B Magazine April 2019 Church Registers BINSTED Interment of Ashes 22nd February Victor Mann

FROYLE Funerals 22nd March Harry Lucas

B&B Magazine | 2 April 2019 ST MARY’S CHURCH FROYLE PRESENTS…

‘HERALDRY EXPLAINED’ A Talk By EDWARD HEPPER What does it mean? Why is it important? TH Did you know we have SATURDAY 13 APRIL many varied examples of 6.00 TO 7.30 PM heraldry in our church in St. Mary’s Church Froyle Froyle? Learn more from Edward Hepper.

Edward is a Member of the Wine & Nibbles Provided Heraldry Society. He has been interested in heraldry since his schooldays, during his time at Cambridge and through to the present day. Tickets £10 Call Karen Potter (01420) 520294

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Children’s

Fun & Crafts Bentley Church are offering Crafts & Fun for your children on Saturday 6th April 2pm - 4pm at the Church Hall ALL AGES WELCOME SO PARENTS CAN HAVE FREE TIME!

To book a place for your children call Pippa Blizzard on 07714 239644 or email [email protected]

OPEN DAYS at Alton Abbey GU34 4AP

Saturday & Sunday April 27th & April 28th 12 noon – 5pm Admission £3 Tea and Cake £3 Mosaic demonstration Beautiful Stationery Second-hand books Hadeel Palestinian Fair Trade products for sale Organ/Piano Recitals 3 p.m. both days Friends of Alton Abbey

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5 | B&B Magazine April 2019 EASTER EVENTS IN THE BENEFICE OF BENTLEY, BINSTED AND FROYLE Maundy Thursday – 18th April 6:00pm: Choral Service at Froyle church - a special and powerful sung Eucharist, with choir but with no musical accompaniment, commemorating the last supper and in contemplation of Christ’s agony, death and resurrection th Easter Fun & Crafts – 6 April 2pm 7:30 pm: Passover Supper at the to 4pm at Bentley Church Hall Bentley Memorial Hall - an entertaining Bentley Church are offering crafts and meal at which we explore the Jewish fun for children – all ages are welcome traditions which underlie Christianity – so parents can have free time. To book please sign up if you would like to attend a place call Pippa Blizzard on 07714 239 or help to provide food. Sign-up sheets are 644 or email [email protected] at the back of the churches.

Easter Crafternoons will happen Good Friday – 19th April on each Monday in April – 11:00 am: Good Friday meditation Mondays from 3pm to 5pm at Binsted church – a service of at Bentley Church Hall quiet reflection There will be the usual delicious cakes plus luscious fresh fruit for those of Easter Saturday – 20th April healthy persuasion! 10:00 am: Easter garden making and Monday 1st April – optional origami Easter egg hunt at Froyle church - for the young and the young at heart: come and th Monday 8 & 15 th April – Easter Crafts help us make an Easter garden and hunt for all ages for Easter eggs

th Palm Sunday Messy Church – 14 Easter Day – 21st April April 3.30pm to 5.30pm at Binsted 5:00 am: Sunrise service at Bentley - Fun, crafts, celebration and School church – come and celebrate the sunrise food. All are invited – young and old and Christ’s resurrection! alike, adults, children, teenagers, carers, grandparents. Come 9:30 am: Communion services as friends,families or partners or come at Bentley and Binsted on your own. Children need to bring 11:00 am: Communion service a grown up! at Froyle B&B Magazine | 6 April 2019

ST MARY'S CHURCH, BENTLEY LIVE@5 Our informal, family-friendly service at Bentley Church. On the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month

JOIN US AT 4.30PM ON SUNDAY 7TH APRIL THE CHURCH HALL FOR CHILDREN'S LIGHT SUPPER AND TEA, COFFEE AND CAKE FOR ADULTS.

Come along to this fun and friendly service. There are toys and activities for children at the back of the church and they can make as much noise as they like!

7 | B&B Magazine April 2019 This extract comes courtesy of the April 1989 Parish Magazine and draws on the book ‘I saw Two Englands’, published in 1942 by the travel writer H. V. Morton who lived in Binsted in the 1930’s and early 1940’s.

“Binsted, on a hill about 500 feet above the sea, is typical of the little village in the Hampshire hop-country. It has a fine, late Norman church, and in the churchyard stands the war memorial, in the form of one of the few outdoor crucifixes in England. The church is one of 83 old churches in England dedicated to the Holy Cross. The blacksmith’s forge is still alive in Binsted, and when I wandered there, the smith was shoeing a pony, an act which nowadays has a certain antiquarian charm about it.

A few yards from the forge, a man was wrestling adroitly with long wands of hazel, engaged in one of the oldest crafts in England – hurdling. He was Jim Clements, who looks a youthful 60, but is really 70. He told me that he began life as a shepherd, starting work at five o’clock in the morning and ending at seven in the evening. Then moved from job to job round the calendar.

“In the winter it was thatching, in the spring, lambing; in the summer, sheep-shearing; then came hurdling, making hay-ricks and thatching them; and so on until the hopping”

Making hurdles is a skilful job that requires a lot of practice. They are made of hazel cut before Christmas; and a good hurdler likes to cut his own hazel. A hurdle is made from stout uprights called steeples, between which are woven lighter split lengths of wood called rods. There are generally ten steeples in a hurdle, and a sufficient number of interlaces rods rammed down one on top if the other, to make the job sound. The hurdler works with a mould or frame, which is simply a heavy wooden block, sometimes a tree trunk, in which ten holes have been made to take the ten uprights or steeples.

The stakes are put into the frame with the sharpened ends uppermost, and the hurdler starts his weaving, ramming the rods tightly downward with his feet, layer upon layer. This is an old South of England craft, for in the North and in Scotland hurdles are unknown. A mountain sheep would take them in his stride. As long as records exist, hurdles have been a feature of the English countryside. The Ancient Britons ringed their camps and villages with hurdles, the Saxons used them for every conceivable purpose, and the wattle and daub walls of ancient houses are merely a form of hurdle plastered over to form a solid surface.

“Hurdles cost a shilling each, and I can make 11 a day” said Jim Clements “But that’s taking it easy. A man who sets his mind at it can make 12”.

I left Binsted, glad to have seen that a bit of old England still lives there, and in four miles I came to the market town of Alton.

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THE EASTER BUNNY

Ever wondered how a rabbit become linked with Easter, well from the April 2000 magazine comes the answer!

“The story really goes back to the have no burrow or home (Jesus people don’t think of it as having Easter Hare. A hare is a relative of wandered through the countryside, any religious meaning or history the rabbit, with longer ears, large and he said that he had no home at all. hind feet, and long legs – perfect in this world). And they symbolise for jumping. the new life that comes every You can change that. This year, spring and during Easter. if you see pictures and cards In the early years of Easter with the Easter Bunny on them, celebrations, hares were Nowadays, the once-kingly hare remember the story of the Son of compared with Jesus. They were is usually pictured as a sweet little God who rose from the dead and known for being gentle. They bunny that delivers eggs. Most brings new life”.

9 | B&B Magazine April 2019 THANK YOU We would like to thank everyone for their kindness, love and support since the death of our dear son Simon last November, following his lifetime battle against Cystic Fibrosis and most recently, lung transplant rejection.

It was wonderful to know The retiring collection raised a remarkable that so many of you came £2,000 to be split equally between Simon’s to the Celebration of Life service we held for favourite charities: ‘Cystic Fibrosis Care at Simon in St Mary’s church in Bentley on 18th Frimley Park’ and the ‘Harefield Transplant January. In addition to 400+ people in the Appeal’. A further £3,000 was generously Church and Church Hall on the day, nearly 50 donated on-line to these two charities in friends around the world watched the streamed Simon’s memory. service online. We are so grateful to everyone With our love and thanks, Tony and Libby who made this possible - those who prepared May. the Church & Church Hall for the occasion and also those who helped on the day.

Tea at Three

will happen on each Monday in April There will be the usual delicious cakes plus luscious fresh fruit for those of healthy persuasion! Optional origami on 1st April and Easter crafts suitable for all ages on 8th and 15th April

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School News – Bentley CE Primary

Let your light shine - Gambia 2019 This February half term I was incredibly lucky to be invited to take part in a school exchange visit to The Gambia in Western Africa. This was a self-funded trip where I went as an ambassador for Bentley CE Primary School to work for the Kaira Konko charity for the week.

We have been doing a lot of work over the last support in 2019. Once the children heard about two years to help children at our school to think it they thought it would be great to directly about their own place in the world as ‘global support another school overseas, so the charity citizens’ – an important aim at this time and was selected by the pupils to hold a fundraising something which staff identified children had event. lots of questions about. We found out more about the charity from We first heard about the charity last summer Bentley resident (and Gambian regular when it was nominated by our super governor, volunteer) Trish Slator and Marion Christmas Sara Crane, to be one of the three charities we MBE, one of the original fundraisers, to speak to the pupils at our school and our whole school community was interested to hear more about everyday life for pupils in this very small African country (which is about half the size of Wales!).

All of our pupils were gobsmacked to learn that for the cost of one Hampshire school meal a child in the Gambia could be fed for a whole term – many children went home and emptied piggy banks and asked parents for ‘another pound please’ in order to ensure that they could make a BIG difference for another child who was not as lucky as themselves. We raised a terrific £481.17 for projects to support pupils at the schools and families donated 531 pencils too.

Children and staff have really got behind the Kaira Konko work and we have sent over good quality second hand uniform, pencils, football posts and footballs too. The children thought Reception aged pupil taking responsibility hard about what is important to them and some for watering a banana plant B&B Magazine | 12 School News – Bentley CE Primary

about the children at Bentley CE Primary!

We hope that this is just the start of our links with The Gambia and we have lots of ideas and plans to deepen this new friendship and link our learning together. For me it was a fantastic opportunity to think and learn from schools and educators overseas. We have much we can learn from other countries and people, and we want this work to be a partnership of ideas as we educate our children together.

If you would like to know more about this visit please visit our website to read more. We would be interested to hear your ideas for further partnership work between Bentley and Sitahuma. Let your light shine If you would like to find out more about the even donated additional items as they were so Kaira Konko charity or would like to make a keen to make a difference for their fellow pupils donation to help other schools projects in The in The Gambia. It was interesting that once I Gambia please go to www.kairakonko.com had announced that I would be going to visit the schools at half term there was a realisation Mrs Katy Pinchess, Headteacher that this was ‘real’ and excitement bubbled as our pupils began to see a connection forging between themselves and the other children at school in The Gambia. This was really exciting and even more so when the Gambian students got just as excited to hear about life in the UK and in return they wanted to know more Meeting and working with the enthusiastic pupils in Soma 13 | B&B Magazine April 2019

School News - Binsted CE Primary

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School News - Binsted CE Primary

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Tuesday 2nd April 2019 – As usual in Saturday 11th May 2018 – Our Annual the Bentley memorial Hall Denis Smith Plant Sale in the main Memorial Hall Room at 8pm when we will have our 10am to 12pm annual Spring Show and light-hearted Amendment to item on the 2019 quiz. Classes for the Spring Show are Membership cards - The coach listed on your membership cards and all outing to The Tuppenny Barn Organic entries should be set up by 7.45 please. Smallholding will be on Thursday 27th For your diaries: June 2019. Tuesday 7th May 2019 - As usual in Visitors are welcome to our meetings the Bentley memorial Hall Denis Smith @ £2 on the door Room at 8pm when we will have a talk by Peter Almond entitled “Plants have feelings too!”.

Are you interested in wildlife and reconnecting with nature? Bentley Wildlife Launch Event on 7.30pm Friday 12th April at Bentley Memorial Hall, Denis Smith Room Come and hear illustrated talks on The Story of Froyle Wildlife by Barry Clark and Wildlife Recording in Hampshire by Lizzy Peat from HBIC* followed by Q & A session and discussion to take the Bentley Wildlife Group forward We need a logo! Bring your designs along and you decide which one should be the Bentley Wildlife logo! All entries will be recorded on our Facebook group.

*Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre B&B Magazine | 16 April 2019 WHAT'S ON THIS MONTH? WHAT'S ON THIS MONTH? WHEN? WHAT? WHERE? WHEN? WHAT? WHERE?

Monday 1st April Tea at Three Bentley Church Hall 3pm to 5pm Easter Crafternoon

Origami Monday 15th April Tea at Three Easter Bentley Church Hall

3pm to 5pm Crafternoon

Easter Crafts for all ages Denis Smith Room, TuesdayWHEN? 2nd April Bentley Garden Club Annual WHEN? Bentley Memorial Hall 8pm Spring Show

Saturday 20th April Easter Garden Making and Froyle Church

10am Easter Egg Hunt Saturday 6th April Children's Easter Fun and OPTION 1 Bentley Church Hall OPTION 1 2pm to 4pm Crafts Good for children ages GoodSaturday for children 27th ages April Wickham Institute Spring 3-5 years old. Wickham Institute, 3-5 years old. 7.30pm Supper Binsted Village Hall Monday 8th April Tea at Three Easter

3pm to 5pm Crafternoon Bentley Church Hall

Easter Crafts for all ages Saturday 27th and Alton Abbey Open Days Alton Abbey, GU34 Sunday 28th April 12pm 4AP to 5pm

Friday 12th April U3A Alton Brian Freelands Alton Community

2pm "View from the Wings" Centre Tuesday 30th April Froyle Wildlife talk Froyle Village Hall 7pm 'Farnham Heath, the story so far' Friday 12th April Bentley Wildlife Denis Smith Room, 7.30pm Launch Event Bentley Memorial Hall COMING UP IN MAY...

Saturday 11th May Saturday 13th April Heraldry Explained, A talk by St Mary's Church, Froyle 7pm The GOMAD Quiz Bentley Primary 6pm to 7.30pm Edward Hepper School Saturday 11th May 10am to 12.30pm Plant Sale Treloar's, Holybourne Sunday 14th April Messy Church - fun, crafts, Binsted Primary School, 3.30pm to 5.30pm celebration and food Binsted

Saturday 18th May 2nd Bentley Scout Group Scout Hut, Bentley

2pm Jumble Sale

YOU CAN FIND FURTHER DETAILS ABOUT THESE EVENTS, YOU CAN FIND FURTHER DETAILS ABOUT THESE EVENTS, INCLUDING HOW TO BUY TICKETS IN THE MAGAZINE - ENJOY! INCLUDING HOW TO BUY TICKETS IN THE MAGAZINE - ENJOY! 17 | B&B Magazine April 2019 WHAT'S ON THIS MONTH? WHEN? WHAT? WHERE?

Monday 15th April Tea at Three Easter Bentley Church Hall 3pm to 5pm Crafternoon Easter Crafts for all ages WHEN?

Saturday 20th April Easter Garden Making and Froyle Church 10am Easter Egg Hunt

OPTION 1

GoodSaturday for children 27th ages April Wickham Institute Spring 3-5 years old. Wickham Institute, 7.30pm Supper Binsted Village Hall

Saturday 27th and Alton Abbey Open Days Alton Abbey, GU34 Sunday 28th April 12pm 4AP to 5pm

Tuesday 30th April Froyle Wildlife talk Froyle Village Hall 7pm 'Farnham Heath, the story so far'

COMING UP IN MAY...

Saturday 11th May 7pm The GOMAD Quiz Bentley Primary School Saturday 11th May 10am to 12.30pm Plant Sale Treloar's, Holybourne

Saturday 18th May 2nd Bentley Scout Group Scout Hut, Bentley 2pm Jumble Sale

YOU CAN FIND FURTHER DETAILS ABOUT THESE EVENTS, INCLUDING HOW TO BUY TICKETS IN THE MAGAZINE - ENJOY! B&B Magazine | 18 April 2019 U3A ALTON

Have you ever wondered what happens in “The Prompt Corner” of the stage ? Come and hear Brian Freelands “View from the Wings”, reality theatre, no retakes and maybe just slightly saucy. As usual, at the Community Centre at 2.00pm, on 12th April.

The Tortoise Walk To all Friends of the Gilbert White and the Oates Collections …..and others who might be interested

Following the success of the walk from Selborne to Oriel College, Oxford in 2016, and the return walk in 2017, which raised £32,000 for Gilbert White and the Oates Collections, the Friends have planned a walk from Selborne to Ringmer, in East Sussex. White used to visit his aunt there, and it was she who gave him his tortoise Timothy: the walk is therefore named The Tortoise Walk. (Though we plan to walk a bit faster than Timothy…)

The walk will be of 8 days and take place over the last weekend in April and the first two in May 2019: 26-28 April; 4-6 and 11-12 May. It has been researched and walked by the retired Chairman of the Museum, Rosemary Irwin, who led the two Oriel walks, and who will walk to Ringmer too. It is largely below the South Downs with magnificent scenery.

Starting at the Museum in Selborne the walk passes through Empshot Green, Liss, Durford Wood, Stedham, Midhurst, Heyshot, Sutton, Bury, Amberley, Cootham, Washington, Tottington Manor, Clayton, Ditchling, Street, East Chiltington, and ends at White’s Aunt’s House in Ringmer. Nearly all the walk is off-road and averages 9 miles per day. Each day can be broken earlier for shorter distances, and there are a number of pubs nearby in which to refuel.

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The walk passes many fine churches and Plus £5 per dog per day or houses; walkers will provide their own lunches, £30 for the whole walk. with a suitable break in the walk to enjoy Please e-mail [email protected] if them. Each day either ends at a pub which will you are interested in joining or sponsoring welcome walkers, or with tea provided by the us. You will receive full details of the walk, Friends. The Friends will arrange cars to return including a map and start, break and end walkers from to their own cars each day. points and a booking form. We hope to complete the funding for a “You must know that my master is what sculpture of White seated in the gardens of the they call a naturalist, and much visited by Museum, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of people of that turn, who often put him on White’s birth in 1720. A kind supporter of the whimsical experiments such as feeling my Museum has already donated half the cost. pulse and putting me in a tub of water” Letter The suggested donations for joining the walk of 31 August 1784, supposedly from Timothy will be: (actually Gilbert White) to 21 year old Miss £20 per person per day, or £50 for a 3-day Hester Mulso. weekend, or £100 for the whole walk

BINSTED TENNIS & CROQUET CLUB 2019

For those who are new to the village or indeed to the Parish, and for those who may have forgotten, there is a high quality tennis court at the Binsted Recreation Ground. The court was refurbished in 2018 so it is in great condition. The Binsted Tennis and Croquet Club things to do than play Croquet on the Binsted welcomes new members and from April Recreation Ground looking out over North 1st will be commencing a rolling annual Hampshire on a fine sunny evening. membership ie. You are members for a So a final reminder that the new membership year from the month you join. Annual family year opens from April 1st and you can find membership is only £50 and for just a few out more and download a membership more pounds you can have membership of application form from the website on both the tennis and croquet club. http://e-voice.org.uk/btcc/ For the Croquet section, we plan to have Croquet ‘Open’ evenings on ‘fine weather’ or you can find our contact phone numbers at Fridays 6.30 - 8pm from mid May through the back of this Parish Magazine under Binsted. to the end of August. These will be informal Nial Dunne ‘turn up and play’ and we hope to encourage Chairman, Binsted Tennis and Croquet Club a regular turn out. There are few pleasanter

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WICKHAM INSTITUTE SPRING SUPPER Saturday 27th April 2019 7.30 pm

Why not come and join us -‐‑ for good home made food and pleasant company.

Tickets cost £15 h eac and n ca be booked by calling 01420 23157 or emailing [email protected]

Early Please booking note is that recommended you need as to provide this is a popular your event. own drink.

Our kitchen refurbishment was supported by a grant from the Big Lottery Fund

21 | B&B Magazine April 2019 Froyle Wildlife ‘Farnham Heath, the story so far’ talk 30th April 2019

We welcome Mike Coates from the RSPB to tell us about the birds and wildlife of this restored heathland. Once a gloomy conifer plantation, 100 hectares have been transformed into a beautiful heathland with views across the Weald, abundant with wildlife that includes roe deer, crossbills, nightjars, woodcocks and tree pipits. All welcome, teas and coffees, entrance £3 for non members. Doors open Froyle Village Hall 7pm for talk to start at 7.30pm. For more information see www.froylewildlife.co.uk/news/. Sue Clark JUMBLE SALE 2nd Bentley Scout Group Saturday 18th May 2019 Scout Hut, School Lane, Bentley GU10 5JP Doors open at 2:00pm Entrance Fee 50p Patrons are requested to take any contributions to the

Scout Hut by 12:00 noon on the day

Large item pick-ups available between 8 am and 10 am on the day: Please call Bob on 07769 906745

(Unfortunately, we are no longer able to accept beds, TVs, 3 piece suites or cookers)

White Elephant, Bric-a-Brac, Electrical, Furniture, Books, Toys, Garden/Workshop items and jumble stalls proposed.

Please help support your local Scouts and make this another bumper sale B&B Magazine | 22 April 2019

Binsted Parish Council Snippets

April - National Guitar Month! COSY East Hampshire is an EHDC led scheme set-up to help reduce fuel poverty Did you know that April is national guitar where householders can make their homes month? No, nor did I. I am not quite sure how warmer and more energy efficient whilst that should be celebrated exactly although it saving money. If eligible, residents can kit is apparently recognized in several countries. out their homes with the latest energy-saving April is also National Pet month as well as the improvements with an interest-free loan from month that sees celebrations of International EHDC. EHDC has government funds ready Pillow Fight Day on April 6 and World Health for those looking to install home energy Day on April 7. We also will be celebrating improvements such as insulating your home Easter of course, having a break from the or buying a new boiler that can minimise school routine and hopefully getting out and energy use and reduce carbon emissions. about and enjoying the delights of our rural The loan is issued on a first come first served parish. To that end we are focusing this basis and if you are interested, please register month’s snippets on health and wellbeing, your interest at https://www.easthants.gov.uk/ in particular walking as well as various cosy-east-hampshire. local energy related schemes that could be beneficial to residents and which have been Priority Services Register (PSR) is a free brought to our attention recently. service provided by suppliers and network operators to customers in need. If you register Promoting Energy Efficiency with this service you can get advance notice of planned power cuts, and priority support The council hosted an excellent evening’s talk in an emergency for example. The scheme about improving energy efficiency by Chris caters for people who are pensioners, Chappell from Energy Alton and alternative disabled or chronically sick, vulnerable of heating systems from Doug Johnson, an have children under 5 years old etc. and expert on low carbon technologies such as each energy supplier and network operator biomass, heat pumps, solar thermal and maintains its own register. PV. Keeping home heating bills down is especially challenging where houses aren’t connected to the gas grid, as is the case for a The Footpath & Walking Group third of houses in East Hampshire (compared Since its formation late last year, the Footpath with 15% of homes nationwide). Of course, and Walking group has been meeting switching energy supplies needs forward regularly for walks and monitoring the state planning: waiting until your oil-fired boiler of our many footpaths and rights of way. The breaks down in the middle of winter isn’t the volunteer members, led by Ian Fleming our best approach to researching new heating Footpath Officer, have been familiarising options! To get people to think ahead, Energy themselves with the various pathways, Alton is currently compiling information about clearing paths and steps as well as reporting options for off grid properties. If you would issues such as broken styles, fallen trees or like to be involved in this project, or to receive missing finger posts and waymarkings to their leaflet when it is published, please Hampshire County Rangers so that remedial contact Energy Alton at http://energyalton.org. action can be taken where necessary. To uk/off-gas-on-message-for-2019/. 23 | B&B Magazine April 2019 date more than half the footpaths have been the whole parish. We’re keen for everyone walked and checked and if you are out to contribute ideas, especially if you have and about and spot something that needs knowledge or enthusiasm for a particular attention please get in touch with Cherry sport or activity. To get involved in this project Porter on [email protected]. or learn more about it, you can contact Alison, the Working Group Chair (a.melvin@ Now that the better weather is firmly with binstedparishcouncil.org.uk) or look at the us however, maybe you would like to join in Parish Council Website. with a group walk and indulge in some of the lovely and generally unseen views of the Parish? There is a seven mile Progression Volunteers Walk being led by Ian Fleming on 30th April Last month saw the resignation of Councillor starting off from Gravel Hill car park at 2pm. Ian Salisbury, who has worked tirelessly over Progression Walks have evolved from the several years to further the council’s efforts very successful Walking for Health Scheme and impact particularly in terms of planning (predicated on 3 mile slow/easy walks). and highways. We are very grateful for all the Everyone is welcome. time, commitment and vigour that he brought to his role and wish him all the best for future Walking activities are also gradually ramping endeavours. up ahead of the annual Walking Festival run by Alton Town Council throughout the For those that are not aware, the Parish month of May. As per last year, the walks Council carries out its functions with its main offered vary in length and difficulty, with decision making body of nine volunteer several walks due to start in the Parish (from councillors each serving a four year term and Binsted Recreation Ground or Gravel Hill car subject to annual re-election in April at the park). Further details are provided on the Annual Parish Meeting. The Parish meeting events section of the website and you are is the opportunity for everyone to come and encouraged to come along and try a new hear what the council has been working on walk this year. for the last 12 months and to engage in future plans. Currently we are underrepresented and would love to hear from you if you feel you can Pavilion and Recreation Ground help us in our efforts to better reflect the wider Working Group Parish and its needs. We are missing voices The Pavilion and Recreation Ground Working in our discussions from Blacknest, Rowledge, Group, established by the Council last Holt Pound, Wyck and Isington. Please come Autumn, met in March and will have a further along to our full council meetings and see meeting on 16 April to gather and develop for yourself how we are working towards ideas to expand the current use of the Pavilion making a measurable difference to the quality and improve its recreation facilities. Binsted of life of the community we serve and being is fortunate to have a good playground and responsive to the needs of our community. tennis court, as well as well-supported cricket and football clubs and an excellent network Binsted Parish Council - serving the of footpaths, but there’s definite scope to communities of Binsted, Wyck, Isington, expand the range of activities taking place Bucks Horn Oak, Holt Pound, Frith End, at the Pavilion and to make them better- Blacknest, Bentley station Road and known and more accessible to people across Rowledge. (www.binstedparishcouncil.com)

B&B Magazine | 24 April 2019 Binsted Football Club The U8 Angels

We have two Under 8 teams – the Binsted Angels and the Binsted Devils. This month we focus on the Angels. Their players are: Indy, Olivia, Elliott, Luke, Aidan, Jamie, Sam, Matthew and Leo. They are coached by Scott Newman. Scott has showed amazing commitment, patience and dedication this season and we are very grateful to him for coaching the team (especially as he also must fit in training and playing matches for his own football team.) Thank you also to Sam Newman for doing the team administration and to our team sponsors Amber Pumpkin.

The Angels have welcomed lots of new players this season which has been fantastic, and they have had some great matches but Saturday’s match against Liphook under 8s Tigers saw Binsted Angels’ play their best game yet! An exciting match for both sides as goals were aplenty with the first being scored by Binsted’s newest recruit, Leo Mannion, within the first two minutes. A further goal followed moments later from Binsted player Matthew Hawes and a succession of goals were celebrated by each side. each season. There was however plenty of The game was conducted as a silent match. cheering from the side-lines with all the goals This is an FA initiative which involves minimal that were scored! All in all, a nail-biting event verbal contact from spectators and coaches and a great win for Binsted Angels the whole to allow the players to think for themselves team including the coaches we’re buzzing and play the game in a pressure free after the final whistle! Well done to them all! environment. We have two silent matches

25 | B&B Magazine April 2019 ALTON CARDIAC REHAB ANNUAL CHARITY LECTURE 2019 Dame Margaret Hodge “Called to Account” Wednesday 8th May 2019 - 7pm for 8pm, The Alton Maltings We are delighted to say that Margaret Hodge, who had to cancel her proposed lecture to us last November, has agreed to rebook for Wednesday 8th May.

Dame Margaret, Labour MP for Barking, is best known for her role as Chair of the influential Public Accounts Committee from 2010 to 2015. Televised recordings of her hearings made riveting viewing as she tore strips off the suits who spend our money with such profligacy. She will be talking about her book “Called to Account” – unmissable!

Delicious homemade canapes, plenty of wine and book signing from 7-8pm followed by the lecture from 8-9pm.

Tickets just £25 from Alton Cardiac Rehab 01420 544794 Bentley Memorial Hall 100+Club The winners for March draws of the Bentley Memorial 100+ Club are:

March 2019 1st Prize Bruce & Lizzie Powell 2nd Prize Steve Fice Contact Steve Fice, Chairman Bentley Memorial Hall 01420 22197 3rd Prize Adrian & Linda Job [email protected] Congratulations to the Winners B&B Magazine | 26 April 2019

Farmers Viewpoint

A hedge between keeps friendships green

Image by David Hawgood www.hawgood.co.uk

We recently bought some native whether you’re engaging in hedgelaying hedging plants to ‘gap up’ some and you can widen access points to unsightly holes in our hedges. As we facilitate bigger machinery etc. Most weren’t planting hundreds of metres of farmers these days love their hedges as new hedge we weren’t in the market for important landscape features, wildlife a “stack ‘em high; flog ‘em cheap with corridors and feeders, animal shelters, all guards and canes included” package. secure boundaries etc, etc. We actually made our purchases about two parishes away using a local grower It’s great to see that the local planners and nurseryman friend. are now stipulating that landscaping or hedging around new builds whether Before we get on to what’s ‘on trend’ it be on farms or domestic/industrial in hedging it’s worth setting the scene sites should be of native species. The from a farming perspective. Contrary to standard species recommended are popular belief it’s against the law to grub hawthorn, sometimes blackthorn but up farmland hedges. A certain notorious the suckers from blackthorn aren’t a Kent Farmer was the precursor for favourite where farmers are concerned legislation that eventually protected although they like their sloe gin! The hedges on farmland from 1997. There combination of these two species are some exceptions which relate gives a lovely long sequence of white to the age of a hedge, its location, flowering – blackthorn first followed 27 | B&B Magazine April 2019

by hawthorn throughout April. You’ll find hazel, field maple and spindle (good for wet ground) find their way into the mix as well as dog Benji. are up and coming quirky hedges woods and dog roses. Holly, hornbeam which only leaves the good old Box. and beech all give up food for birds so Unfortunately despite its loveliness from they are often in the mix but as is often a structural and once a year clipping the way, the cost of including some point of view it’s up against some pest species will dictate the final choice! challenges namely Box Blight and Box moth. There are some plant medicines The bare rooted native species, available on line (Top Box and Dipel) provided they haven’t too much leaf are but what about a Box alternative? You probably just about OK to be planted could try Sarcocca or Euonymus 'Green as this magazine hits your door mat. Spire’. But dormant plants are pretty much plug and play in the winter months. I’ll stop here because this looks Leave it too late into the early summer like a takeover bid for the ‘Notes for planting and you’ll need elaborate from my garden’ page. That said, it watering and maintenance regimes. demonstrates how fantastically varied, fast-moving and sexy agriculture is – Our nurseryman friend told us that there are so many career opportunities he still sells a lot of privet despite the it’s almost embarrassing!! ravages of honeyfungus disease; Red Robin which is high maintenance; Leylandii “does the job in the right place” – sorry but I take a lot of convincing on that statement! Laurel and yews are ever popular but please don’t plant this hedging where livestock might get access to it or the clippings. Griselinia Littoralis and Elaeagnus B&B Magazine | 28 April 2019

NOTES FROM MY GARDEN

Plant of the Month - Ribes Sanguineum Alba

I am writing this on 1st of March in Nasturtiums Calendula, Borage, advance of next month’s edition, and Hollyhocks, Evening Primrose all it is a real spring day. The birds are for salads. Day Lily buds, Pinks and singing, the sun is shining and I am Carnations for colour, and Dandelions, tempted to put my winter clothes Cowslips, Red Clover and Honeysuckle away - only tempted, please note. It will can all add to our cooking efforts. probably be snowing tomorrow, but the Now is the time to start sowing hardy flowers are looking good and catkins are plants and biennials. Sweet Peas, showing extra large in the hedgerows. I Parsley, Tomatoes, Celery and lawn feel nature has had a good winter. seed. Plant out Sweet peas if you have Recently I found a list of edible flowers hardened them off first. Plant Gladiolus, so as my love of gardening is closely make up hanging baskets and don’t followed by eating, here is something for forget to put a small pot in the centre you to ponder when making your list of of the basket to help get the water into seed packets to purchase soon. them. Dead head Daffodils, but leave the leaves to dry off. RC

29 | B&B Magazine April 2019 The GOMAD Quiz

Fundraising for the Bentley, Binsted and Froyle trip to Tanzania 2019

Supper, licensed bar, raffle, pudding auction, LOADS OF FUN!

All funds raised will be invested in supporting a HIV clinic lab extension and kids club for young patients, building water tanks and replacing water pipes to secure clean water supplies, supporting the local church, working with schools and running reusable sanitary pad making workshops with young women.

Bentley Primary School Hall Saturday 11th May 7pm start

• Make up a table of 8 for £100

• Join a team and make new friends £12.50 per head

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FEBUARY WEATHER STATISTICS

Temperature

Daytime maximum 20.3ºC (26th) to 1.6ºC (1st) Only 9 days below 10ºC, with 2 days above 20ºC Nightime minimum - 8.1ºC (3rd) to 7.4ºC (21st) 17 nights below 0ºC

Rainfall

Total for month 2.36 inches (60 mm) over 16 days Wettest days 0.75 inches (19 mm) (8th)

Wind

Average wind speed for the month 1.7 mph Dominant wind direction South West Maximum gust 31 mph (8th)

Parish Weatherman

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DOGGER, FISHER, GERMAN BIGH... AND THE KESTREL. When I watch a kestrel, I often think of that brilliant opportunists, and so mature songbirds and moment in Ken Loach’s angry film Kes, when the chicks of larger birds are also in their diet, Billy Casper starts quoting the Shipping Forecast especially when kestrels are feeding their own to his Barnsley schoolteacher, Mr Sugden, before young. I have seen a kestrel catching a young breathlessly describing his training regime with Kes blackbird “on the wing” in springtime, a tactic to a mesmerised class. And when Gerard Manley more typical of the sparrowhawk. Hopkins’s poem The Windhover is recited in an episode of The Simpsons, Bart simply exclaims “Wow”. Because the kestrel was seen primarily as a mouser, it was regarded in the medieval hierarchy of Wow, indeed. The kestrel, colloquially the falconry as good enough only for a knave. The film “windhover”, is our most frequently noticed bird of Kes and the novel on which it is based, A Kestrel prey. You can spot it hovering above motorway verges for a Knave, both give the impression that it is as if suspended, head into wind, a theodolite test relatively straightforward to train the bird. Yet due revealing that the bird can hold its position to within to its very low body weight (8 oz for a female and a centimetre, for 28 seconds. It’s riding the wind, 6oz for a tiercel), finding a kestrel’s optimum flying gliding “on the spot”, perfectly still except for frequent weight is a fine art. The tiercel catches the eye with and subtle adjustments to its aerofoil surfaces. The its blue-grey head and tail, spotted chestnut mantle ability to see ultra-violet light also allows it to trace and black tail bar. The female is a speckled brown, rodent movement from their urine trails. with slightly blunter wingtips. The call is a loud, shrill nuthatch-like kee, kee, kee. Kestrels can still be seen almost everywhere in Britain and Ireland. But they have been overtaken Life is hard work for a hunting bird, which needs by buzzards and sparrow hawks as the most a relative abundance of prey to survive. If the local common birds of prey, their numbers having environment can support birds of prey, it means declined by half since 1970. The loss of rough that the ecosystem is in fair shape. So the sight of pastures and the lack of voles and other small a kestrel, buzzard, red kite or sparrowhawk spells ground prey through intensive agriculture have good news, not bad. Thrilling, too. not helped. Like all birds, kestrels are nonetheless

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Wickham Institute, Binsted - Registered Charity No. 1090864

THE WICKHAM INSTITUTE (VILLAGE HALL), BINSTED www.wickhaminstitute.co.uk

The Wickham Institute 100+ Club As promised, listed below are the lucky winners of the March 2019 draws:

March 1st prize Janet Burton

2nd prize Yvonne Rood

3rd prize Sandie Baker

Details of the April 2019 draw will appear in the next magazine.

Remember each number only costs £12 (£1 per month) and you have three chances to win each month!

50% of the monthly purchase price of each number goes in prizes and 50% to the running costs of The Wickham Institute. The more people that participate in the 100+ club, the more money that is paid out in monthly prizes.

If you would like to participate an application form can be obtained from Andrew Croom-Johnson on 01420 23157 or email a request to Andrew at [email protected]

B&B Magazine | 34 April 2019 Rotas

Bentley Flower Rota Date Altar Chapel

6th March to 18th April Lent

21st April & 28th April Easter

Binsted Flower Rota Date

April 7th LENT

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April 21st EASTER

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Binsted Church Cleaning Rota Cleaning Rota

April 7th Julia Williams and Sue Barclay Brown

April 14th Sue Stephenson and Helen MacDonald

April 21st Kathy Ogilvie Thompson and Gail Sinclair

April 28th Jackie Raine and Esther van Rooyen

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INSIDE BACK COVER BENTLEY BINSTED Website: www.bentleyparishcouncil.co.uk Website: binstedparishcouncil.com The Memorial Hall The Wickham Institute (Bentley Community Association): Chairman: Catherine Hadfield 01420 23146 Chairman: Steve Fice Tel. 01420 22197 Bookings: Ann Mann 01420 22388 Email: [email protected] email: [email protected] www.bentleymemorialhall.org www.wickhaminstitute.co.uk Treasurer: Andrew Croom Johnson - 23157 Badminton Club: Martin Fox 07710 035913 Mark Kemp Gee - 01420 [email protected] County Councillor 563550, email - [email protected]

Garden Club Chairman District Council Andrew Croom-Johnson Tel: 01420 23157 Ken Carter, Brookfield, Station Road, Treasurer Patricia Cardy Tel: 01420 22325 Bentley GU10 5LA Tel. 01420 22576 District Council Email [email protected] Ken Carter, Brookfield, Station Road, Bentley Parish Council GU10 5LA. 01420 22576 Email Chairman: Claire Fargeot [email protected] email - [email protected] Vicechairman: Ian Salisbury Parish Council [email protected] Chairman: Patric Curwen 01420 520060 Clerk: Sue Hodder 01420 520692 (office) Clerk: Lorraine Jeffs, 4 Turnpike Cottages, Upper 07495 261913 (Mobile 9am to 5pm) Mon to Fri Froyle, Alton, Hants, GU34 4JQ Email [email protected] 07795 326539 Deputy Parish Clerk: Karen Ray 01420 520692 Email:[email protected] Email [email protected] Clerk & R.F.O at Bentley Parish Council Website: binstedparishcouncil.com Lorraine Jeffs Tel: 07795326539 Facebook: @BinstedParish 4 Turnpike Cottages, Upper Froyle, Alton, Hants Binsted School GU34 4JQ Headteacher: Sharron Morton 01420 23200 Parish Office Hours Fête and Flower Show Monday to Thursday 9:00 – 14:00 Secretary: Amin Hoque 07808 575090 Bentley School Treasurer: Tim Stratton 07765 791383 Headteacher: Katy Pinchess 01420 525010 Chair: Patricia Cardy 01420 22325 Email: [email protected] Tennis and Croquet Club Chairman: Childcare Nial Dunne 01420 22922 Dottie Tots: Karen 07387 576 307 [email protected] http://e-voice.org.uk/btcc/ Fête Committee Chairman: Hugh Chissell, Greystones, Bentley Growmore Club Secretary: 01420 23117 Reita Fisher 01483 570996 Flower Show Bentley and Binsted Police Police Rural Beat Officer: Jess Hornsby Chairman: Ruth Ross-Thomson 01420 520322 Alton Police 101 Bentley Youth Club Pippa Blizzard Binsted Cricket Club 07714 239644 Chairman: Ron Neil 01420 520980 Phoenix Group: Cathy Smith 01420 520169 Binsted Football Club Bentley Rec Ground Secretary: Tim Winkworth Chair: Richard Davies 01420 23535 [email protected]

Toddler Group: Cheryl Edwards 07530 671 832 Friends of Binsted School (FOBS) @FOBSBinsted 01420 23200 or Over-60s Club: Catherine Leonard, Cedar [email protected] Cottage, Bentley 01420 23506 Chairman: Alice Cowie Joint Parish Organisations 2nd Bentley Scout Group Care Group (car service) General Enquiries: Bookings 01420 23440 [email protected] Secretary: Cathy Smith 01420 520169 Group Scout Leader – Bob Wilson on Girl Guides (at Holybourne) 07769906745 or email [email protected] Lucy Yendell 01420 80560 www.2ndbentleyscouts.org.uk APRIL SERVICES Sunday 7th 8.00am Froyle Holy Communion 9.30am Binsted Holy Communion and APCM 5.00pm Bentley Live@5 (tea at 4.30pm)

Sunday 14th Palm Sunday 9.30am Bentley Morning Worship with Children’s Church and APCM 11.00am Froyle Holy Communion 3.30pm Binsted Messy Church (in school)

Thursday 17th Maundy Thursday 6.00pm Froyle Sung Eucharist 7.30pm Bentley Passover

Friday 18th Good Friday 11.00pm Binsted Good Friday Meditation

Sunday 21st Easter Day 5.30am Bentley Sunrise Service 9.30am Bentley Holy Communion 9.30am Binsted Holy Communion 11.00am Froyle Holy Communion

Sunday 28th 8.00am Binsted Holy Communion 9.30am Bentley Holy Communion with Children’s Church 6.30pm Froyle Evensong

MAY SERVICES Sunday 5th 8.00am Froyle Holy Communion 9.30am Binsted Holy Communion 5.00pm Bentley Live@5 (tea at 4.30pm)

Sunday 12th 9.30am Bentley Morning Worship with Children’s Church 11.00am Froyle Holy Communion 3.30pm Binsted Messy Church (in school)