THE September 2020 LEE For , Lee Common, Hunts Green, Kings Ash and Swan Bottom From the Editor Your Letters By Phil Harrison Does anyone in The Lee s “Interesting times” the cliché of the moment? Something people own a tame magpie? say when they don’t know To the Editor I th whether to laugh or cry, scream or On 19 July my friend Piers was shout or just open the wine? dead-heading the roses on my Certainly the times are unprecedented pergola. Suddenly a magpie flew on and, no doubt, hindsight will show to his shoulder. Startled, he shrugged, how wrong everyone in authority and the bird flew off on to the nearby was. Whatever we think, we should step ladder. When Piers came up to remember that it is highly unlikely the terrace to join me for tea, the any action was taken with anything magpie came too. In due course he other than best intentions at a time of flew up on to the table and drank limited information, great uncertainty from both our teacups. and fear. This month, we continue to record thoughts, views and experiences of the community. We have a delightful tale of Fred, the magpie. As would be expected in a rural community, nature is never far away, and a new initiative is featured on page 16. There are two very different articles of entrepreneurial flair within the villages; both are well worth a read if you are thinking of doing something yourself. The article from Lee Common School makes for a very stimulating read and gives great hope for the future of our young villagers. Hastily we put the lid back on the The editor for October is Peter biscuit tin! Archer. Please send your contributions Two nights later I was sitting at my by 12th September by email to desk in the window of the music room, [email protected] window open a little and light on. The 2 magpie flew in and landed on the keyboard of my laptop. Interested, he Fred, the pecked away for some time. Then he flew on to my files and pecked them; then onto my books. He then dropped magpie, his on to the desk and had a go at my mobile. Living alone, I have the backstory slovenly habit of eating supper at my By James Metcalfe desk. He jumped on to the rim of the y brother Lyle and his plate and obligingly cleaned up some girlfriend Mati hand-reared grains of rice. M Fred, the magpie, after he was abandoned when he fell out of a tree and injured himself as a very young chick towards the end of April. They named him Fred after the host on the TV program ‘First Dates’ – because we all like him. We think the nest was attacked by other birds and he was caught up in the carnage. He was in a bad way, but with a lot of TLC and a bit of patience he soon started to recover. Initially, Fred was spoon fed. He was very young and very stubborn, and it took a lot of persuading to get him taking food!

I grew up with a tame parrot and am happy with birds. The magpie was giving me such come-hither looks I gently stroked his back feathers (this was a wild bird), which caress he accepted graciously. After about 10 minutes during which he had thoroughly inspected me and everything on my desk he flew neatly out of the slightly open window. The next evening, he popped in again and stole a paperclip. (Did anybody say Rossini?) I realise this is hard to believe but, luckily, I have some snaps to prove it. Diana Morley The Lee Still small but getting more confident 3 which aren’t his and hides them in the most random places including in people’s shoes, pockets etc. He made us all laugh very much.

Postscript By James Just a final closure to the Fred story, within a fortnight he turned up alive and well. I’ve let Diana Morley know too. He’s been rehoused with a local bird specialist in and I did a video call with him yesterday. Turns out Fred is female, so has been renamed ‘Lucky’. Anyway, someone responded to my local posters I put up and let me know who had her. Fred (or Lucky as we should now Lyle and Fred friendship starting call her), looked very happy and was causing mischief as usual!

Fred actually lived in a motor home for about six weeks as a very young chick to keep him warm / fed / Pippa Hart and safe. He was very messy! After he was about two months old Photography he was moved outside and given a few safe roosting places for night time. He spent his days initially flying and exploring between two or three houses and gardens. He then started to fly further afield, becoming a popular attraction at the Cock and Rabbit, entertaining clientele and owners there and causing mischief on the village green. He would almost always come back to roost in the evening, so we’re obviously worried something may Natural & Informal have happened to him. He’s been Black &White missing now for roughly a week (as at 4th August). Portraits He has a very funny and 01494 837340 mischievous nature, he takes things www.pippahart.com 4 Bridge too far? By Liz Ford et al ith neither side vulnerable, the question on this hand was how far do N-S want to bid? W ♠ 5 4 ♥ A K 5 3 ♦ Q 9 4 2 ♣ J 10 6 ♠ 7 5 3 ♠ A 2 ♥ Q J 4 2 ♥ 10 7 6 ♦ 10 8 6 3 ♦ A 7 5 ♣ 8 2 ♣ A K 7 5 3 ♠ K Q J 10 9 8 and greeting cards, although my first ♥ 9 8 product line was bookmarks, but after ♦ K J selling 200, they went out of stock! ♣ Q 9 4 Part of the reason I started this

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Check-out what The Lee was doing 20 years ago in 2000; who had a September Hog Roast and where in September the BBC filmed their ‘Free TV licences for over-75s advert’ at: www.thelee.org.uk/millenium-diary/ 6 much longer than I’d hoped, I started My lockdown to make the most of it. I try to go outside whenever possible. I had a full virtual school timetable to get thoughts through, and even after the holidays By Henry Thornton-Izzard started, I have been ‘encouraged’ to have to say that my time in continue my GCSE work. I’ve read lockdown has shown me a lot. the whole ‘Gone’ series of teen I Although, quite honestly, at first, novels – dystopian in flavour, and I didn’t think that this could ever be which feel strangely relevant. I’ve seen as a good thing. Think about it. been given chores – but I’m paid for An entire race of 7.8 billion, forced to them – by my parents, both of whom shield in their homes from an are working hard from home. And invisible but lethal, looming threat. I’ve taken on The Lee Shop Sunday It’s the stuff that legendary, but paper round. I haven’t been able to outlandish, sci-fi novels are made of. see my grandparents though – and However, about five months in Zoom is not the same. and we are starting to make the most It could have been a colossal of things. Although we’re apart, waste of time, but I’ve tried to make we’re still connected – through the the most of it. I’ve realised though power of the internet! Every day we that I might enjoy reading dystopian see more videos of people coming stories, but as it turns out, they’re not together, while still a few feet apart, as much fun to live in. to brighten up our days, and put smiles on faces. People are turning to hobbies to pass the time: reading, Barking back writing, cooking, baking, making, filming, exercising, dancing, singing, acting, creating and so – a tale much more. In our house we even By Tarquin started an allotment. ou may remember me. I was The way I see it, Lockdown has in the online newsletter back been a test for us all. First, to see how Y in May. In case you missed we can work together and follow that (how could you have done that? rules to keep each other safe. Second, All my hard work sharing my story to prove and remind us that we are all and you didn’t read it. Really?) you one race, something we see writ large can still read it at www.thelee.org.uk/ with the BLM protests and marches. the-lee-newsletter/ And finally, to show us that we can Let me introduce myself again. adapt to any situation. The main thing Even though I say it I am a handsome I take from this is that we can all son of a bitch. Well I would be make something of nothing. because you see my mother is a dog For me, as a 15 year old, I and so am I. I am an energetic hound originally saw the lockdown as boring named Tarquin. I live with my carers. and a long period of waiting for life to Mind you they think they are my go back to normal. But when I Mum and Dad as they are always realised that it was going to take saying such things as “Fetch for 7 Daddy” or “Come to Mummy”. I when nature calls and I do try not to know they aren’t my Mum and Dad, do it in the middle of the path but not but I play along because they feed me, all my cousins are as considerate. I am give me a nice warm bed to sleep on, very concerned about this because I open doors for me and take me out... know that my poo can cause blindness and it makes them feel good. in people, particularly children, with something called toxocariasis. There are so many more small people walking in the woods as the weather is hot and sunny. Please either move it off the paths with a stick or bag it and bin it at home. Sometimes on my walks I see bright and colourful flowers, lots of vivid colours. I have even noticed some very strange coloured objects high up in the bushes and hedgerows. Very puzzling, until I heard one of my carers comment that some people In the four months since my last are collecting the poo in bright bags appearance on these pages it seems to and then throwing them into the me that life has settled down into a bushes. Not very nice. I like to think routine of sorts. Lots and lots of daily that they have just hung it there to walks as different members of the family use me as an excuse to escape from each other. Whilst I am talking about these walks it does seem that the two-legged creatures are falling into bad habits. In the old days they used to clean up after I had done my business; now they just don’t seem to bother. Not my fault

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Cricket Club The ground has been maintained By Jon Swain by enthusiastic volunteers and looks as he pandemic has a widespread lovely as ever. impact on many aspects of our We are already heading into the last T lives, and the life of our village. few matches of the season; the leagues Slowly, we are starting to feel our way have not operated in the normal way, back towards activities we enjoyed but we have overcome the practical and, I suggest, took for granted. difficulties to try to keep playing. Cricket is just one of these, and fortunately, following the ECB guidelines, cricket has resumed at The Lee. Most importantly, junior cricket, as those teams are transient, but vital to the memories of those involved, and 12 When later Finzi’s sons asked me A man of letters to edit a collection of his letters, I was By Diana McVeagh at first dubious. Been there, done that, hen did you last receive a was my reaction. Then I began handwritten letter from a thinking. Finzi, as an independent W close friend? An envelope composer, lived in an isolated country that you could glance at and think, village (though not The Lee). He “Oh how nice, that’s from so and so”, numbered among his friends the as you recognised the writing. Over composers Vaughan Williams, Arthur the last four weeks, I’ve had only one Bliss, Howard Ferguson, Herbert letter, and one postcard. It’s not that I Howells, Edmund Rubbra, the poet am short of friends – my email inbox Edmund Blunden and many scholars has been flatteringly full. But it has and artists; he nourished his made me focus on the extraordinary relationships with long thoughtful contrast between my current life, and letters. He held strong opinionated my current work. views, not just on music, and exchanged ideas and principles with his friends. An autograph letter has something special about it: I touch the paper that the writer’s hand had touched. Letters are direct and immediate: the nerves and arteries of friendship. They give an insight into the heart and mind of the writer. Life leaps up from the paper, the past no longer, for an instant, the past. To read first-hand accounts of events, as they were happening, allows one almost to share them. Perseverance pays off So, I put the idea of an edition up to Boydell, and they accepted it. But, they said, kindly wanting to save me the terrifying task of obtaining copyright permissions, just use Finzi’s own letters, not those incoming. Daunted but determined, I insisted, and serendipity landed in my When Gerald Finzi’s widow asked lap an indefatigable researcher who me to write his biography, I was ferreted out relations and descendants immediately cheered by the number of of the, now mostly dead, extant letters. Finzi kept his friends’ correspondents. Every one of them letters, and they kept his. These has given permission, shown warm formed the backbone of my Gerald interest, and become part of the Finzi: his Life and Music which enterprise. There is something Boydell published in 2005. piquant and special, living in The Lee 13 during lockdown, in being in touch woodhenge found near and with over 150 Finzi friends. in the path of HS2, they seemed to be So, this book is not just about linked in time and space. Finzi; it is a group portrait of like- All those years ago people walked minded friends. And it covers a paths similar to the ones we walk period of great change in English today, and they celebrated the winter history, in the arts, in politics, in solstice at the Wendover Henge. It peace and in wartime, all recorded as must have been a special place. A it happened. Today as I open my place of people coming together and of cluttered inbox, I wonder if I am one the hope of the coming of spring and of the last generation privileged to longer days. edit such a superb collection of Now the henge is nothing but autograph letters. stains in the ground and probably part

of a larger prehistoric landscape waiting to be buried by HS2, that monument to speed but not hope. Comets and Can we learn from these ancient people with their respect of nature, the earth and skies? Will we learn from henges them or carry on in our destructive By Johanna Free ways? As I look at the comet through he Comet Neowise was my binoculars, I wonder how history discovered by NASA in March will judge our world when it returns. T this year and by July it was possible to see it below the 'Big Dipper' close to the horizon. It was J Brown Funeral Services 5,000 years ago that it last passed the 67 Woodside Road, , HP6 6AA earth and will not be seen again for 01494 727474 (24 hours) another 4,000-5,000 years. This started me thinking about the A truly independent family funeral directors people who lived in this area all those years ago. Could they see the comet in Bespoke and traditional services the dark skies and were they afraid? Private chapels of rest As I held the flint scraper I found Pre-paid funeral plans earlier in a field and thought of the Off street client parking Home visits

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As I hope I have said in the past there are so many unsung heroes who deserve this more than I and there are a few who I dread to lose – so much so that I have said if he/she goes I'm going too. One of those was Mark Harrison. For the past 11 years (and more) your Saturday and Sunday Newspapers have been delivered to an area covering Hey Jude; Yes It Is; Martha my dear; The Lee, Lee Common, Hunts Green, Lovely Rita; Yesterday; No Reply; Swan Bottom and Kings Ash by Mark She’s Leaving Home; Don’t Ask Me Harrison. Often doing it by bike in all Why; She’s a Woman; Do You Want to weathers Mark hardly had a day off Know a Secret; What Goes On; The other than to do his charity bike rides Word; Girl; Not a Second Time; and walks. Mark’s reliability and Misery; I Feel Fine; I’ve Got a commitment with his quiet Feeling; I’m down; I’m So Tired; I’m determination to get your papers to you Only Sleeping; Help!; It’s All Too through thick and thin have been Much; I Need You; If I Needed greatly valued by all of us. Someone; Your Mother Should Know; I am very sorry to report that Come Together; The Long and Mark will shortly be leaving the village Winding Road; All Together Now; for pastures new. We wish him all the Honey Don’t; You Can’t Do That; best for whatever the future holds for Every Little Thing; You Won’t See Me; him. Mark has definitely been one of I Should Have Known Better; With a the unsung heroes who have kept the Little Help from My Friends; Drive My shop going over the years and we will Car; Act Naturally; When I Get Home; miss him massively. Wait; Slow Down; What You’re Doing; The Covid crisis has really We Can Work It Out; Don’t Bother shaken up the whole of the volunteer 15 list and it feels as if it will be quite a We would love more people to join while before we return to a the Trust (minimum £10 per person semblance of normality. p.a.) to help support this marvellous In the meantime, the shop 12th century jewel of a Grade 1 listed continues to be staffed by a mix of building, hidden in the heart of our oldies and newbies, many of whom are village. The Trust was formed by the going more than the extra mile, not village to restore and maintain the Old only behind the counter but quietly in Church when it was in danger of being the background. I want them to know allowed to fall into dereliction by the that neither I nor our customers take 1970s. It has thrived ever since, them for granted. holding high-class events and boosting On a still more positive note, the cultural health of our community. September will see a gradual facelift of You don’t have to be a church- the whole of the inside of the shop and going Christian to be a member we are also planning to replace some (‘Friend’) of the Trust. All are of our chiller and freezer units with welcome. It is the building and its more energy efficient, quieter, more upkeep that are at the heart of our aesthetically pleasing units. involvement. We look forward to welcoming you as soon as we can resume our programme of events. The Lee Old All at the Old Church Trust wish you, your families, and all in your Church Trust lives, good health. By Jon Swain, Chair of the Trustees e were able to hold the postponed AGM, on 16th W August, via Zoom, and sufficient members participated to KINGSHILL ensure that the requirements of the CARS FOR ALL OCCASIONS AGM were fulfilled. The transition to ‘Charitable Incorporated Organisation’ is proving more complex than we had initially appreciated, and it is a sad fact Chilterns that banks and building societies now regard charities applying to open accounts with the deepest suspicion of being money laundering vehicles, and Airports so put in place labyrinthine processes to put off all but the most dedicated and persistent Treasurers… all that has now been achieved and we need all London existing friends of the Trust to renew their membership using the new form which is available from Ruth Fowler ([email protected]) or Jilly 01494 868699 Carleton-Smith (01494 837205). Email: [email protected] 16 We anticipate that the service will Services in last about 30/35 minutes. Gerald will take the service. September everal local churches provide St Mary’s Ballinger online services; for example, St With the advent of hotter weather, we have been hosting socially Mary’s Wendover has a service S distanced coffee mornings every two each Sunday at 11:00 am on Zoom. weeks in the garden at St Mary’s. Not Details can be found at https:// surprisingly these have proved very stmaryswendover.org/ St Peter and St popular although numbers are limited Paul, Great Missenden stream a given the space available combined service on Facebook each Sunday at with government restrictions. 8:00 am, 10:00 am and 6:00 pm. The church itself is also open for Details can be found at https:// private prayer and reflection and we www.missendenchurch.org.uk/ hope that services will resume again before too long. In the St John the Baptist, The Lee meantime, some have been recorded in We are always available via the garden and can be viewed on the [email protected] with messages St Peter and St Paul website. Finally, if you know of anyone for any of the churches being passed who is alone and who would welcome on to the appropriate person. the opportunity to meet in the garden Contacts: Parish Administrator: for coffee please contact Anne or Joanne Evans (07811 094416). Maggi. Contact details on page 32 in Churchwardens: Trevor Pearce (01494 the directory of local contacts. 837601) and Mike Sherratt (07597 158269). Verger: Bill Pearce (01494 785191). Treasurer: David Stephenson (01494 867617). Nature-Lee By Judy and Tim Hart ith the support of the The Lee Old Church Chiltern Conservation The next service will be on Sunday Board, the Woodland Trust, th W 6 September at 8:00 am. and hopefully some local volunteers, we are embarking on a tree planting scheme this autumn on our land at Lee Common Methodist Swan Bottom. It is our intention to hold a service at The plan is to plant almost Lee Common Methodist Church on th 500 metres of mixed species hedging and Sunday 6 September next at 10:00 am. two hectares of locally sourced saplings A risk assessment has been carried and scrub species. A further two hectares out and the service will be in of paddocks will be set aside accordance with government for natural succession to take place. guidelines, therefore, masks will have The aim of this work is to extend to be worn. As numbers will be the woodland habitat that is adjacent limited, we would ask you to contact to the site and create a mosaic of trees, Marian or Gerald Tomkins on 837479 scrub and open ground to if you wish to come. promote biodiversity. 17 An additional benefit of the project will be capturing and storing carbon. The site will be monitored by ecologists for birds, plants (including fungi) and butterflies as the new habitat develops, and by using time Cherries and Chairs project. This is a lapse photography. five-year scheme that aims to create, restore, manage and connect habitats across the Central Chilterns project area. The project’s objectives are to improve existing wildlife sites, create more and bigger sites, improve connectivity between sites and increase species presence, range and abundance. Another aim of the project is to inspire people to become stewards of their local heritage. If you would like to volunteer to help with planting there will be a working party in the last week of November 2020, facilitated by the The hope is that species such Chiltern Rangers. as whitethroats, purple emperors, short To register your interest in this -tailed voles, knapweed and ladies’ please contact Judy Hart on bedstraw will recolonise the area. The pre-existing mature trees will be fitted with specially designed boxes to encourage barn owls and kestrels to breed in the area. 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9-11 Station Approach Great Missenden 01494 862125 18 [email protected] or 837328. limited to three specified consecutive And put the date in your diary! days’ consumption each week and prohibited from working longer hours on those days. Services deemed essential (e.g. hospitals, supermarkets and newspaper printing presses) were exempt. Television companies were required to cease broadcasting at 10:30 pm during the crisis to conserve electricity. This restriction was dropped after a general election was called. The three-day week restrictions were lifted on 7th March 1974, the same month the oil crisis ended. Working from home was not an option as the internet did not exist, computers in the home were for the The Chiltern Conservation Board future, mobile phones had not been are keen to hear from nearby developed. Basically, it was just not landowners who are interested in possible to work if you weren’t in the doing similar habitat creation to office or factory. maximise the potential for wildlife There were three TV channels at recovery in the local area.. the time with BBC1, BBC2 and ITV. For more information please C4 did not make an appearance until see www.chilternsaonb.org/projects/ 1982 and Sky came along in 1990. CCC.html Radio was similarly restricted to the BBC and just a very small number of independent radio stations. In my day There was no email, no social By Phil Harrison media to spread news, gossip, vitriol or ill-informed opinions; no uring one of our daily walks WhatsApp or Zoom to communicate my daughter asked “How on. You either used a phone, wrote a would things have been in D letter or went down to the pub for a your day if Covid had struck then? gossip and rant. What would have been done to In view of this, I think the way protect everyone?” Covid would have been handled is This set me thinking about the probably to have followed the herd dramatic changes that have taken place immunity concept with a significant resulting in a completely different death rate alongside it. response today to what would have Maybe you disagree, have a been the response in the early 1970s. different point of view or a different The only example of the world as we decade to have a theory about. If you knew it being changed was the three-day do, please share your thoughts and week in 1974. theories with the Newsletter at From 1st January 1974, [email protected] commercial users of electricity were 19 lease a small section of the field A fresh behind the school. We are indebted to the Stewart-Liberty family for start allowing us to use the land which will make a huge difference to the children By Claire Gresswell, of Lee Common School for years to Head Teacher, Lee Common School come. So, the hedges are being hat was one busy summer trimmed, the secret gate has been holiday! It’s taken a lot of uncovered and the fences are going up. T detergent, paint, sticker remover, elbow grease and a whole A nurturing space heap of positive energy but we’ve Rest assured, this beautiful patch done it; our little school is of land will remain just that; a transformed. Thanks to the magic beautiful green space in which we can touch and the very persuasive powers nurture our children in nature. In this of one Mrs Pippa Hart, a veritable space, they will attend Forest School, army of staff, governors, parents and they will have science lessons, they villagers swept, dusted, mopped, will grow plants and flowers, they will painted, mended and jet-washed the find bugs and they will marvel at the school back to life in one of the wonder of their natural surroundings. hottest summers I’ve ever known. I They may build dens, or make am so grateful; our children truly sculptures, they may play games and deserve a school to be proud of and run free, they may sit quietly and our staff deserve a pleasant and breathe deeply, but above all they will professional place to work. I can’t wait for the opportunity to invite all our volunteers back into the school so that we can say a proper and heartfelt thank you. In the meantime, improvements continue and not just to our premises. Teaching staff have reviewed and adapted the curriculum so that we can promote positive learning behaviours, building on a child’s innate curiosity and promoting independence in action and thought. We are working hard to enrich the curriculum with the reintroduction of Forest School, specialist sports coaching and whole- class music tuition and we will continue to seek further opportunities to inspire our children with trips, visits and talks from experts. If you have skills or knowledge you would like to share with our pupils, please do come and see us. We are especially grateful and excited to have received agreement to 20 learn to look after the flora and fauna that shares our site. There will be no Bonfires plastic toys, no permanent structures, There have been a number of no play-frames and no litter, simply complaints over the summer about the sight and sound of our smallest neighbours’ bonfires. Here are some residents learning about the world in notes from a briefing given by an which they live. I just hope the cows Environmental Health Officer. won’t mind! • There is no law saying that The coronavirus pandemic bonfires are illegal; unless there continues to drive our decision- are local by-laws (there are none making and limit our choices, locally). colouring everyone’s lives in different • However, the Environmental ways. However, I am delighted to be Protection Act 1990 makes starting the new term with a clean and provision for the Local Authority tidy school site, a dedicated and (in our case enthusiastic team of staff and Council) to serve notice to abate a governors and a supportive body of statutory nuisance from bonfire parents. Above all I am grateful again smoke where they know or have for the friendship and support of the reason to believe that a nuisance village community. This truly feels exists or is likely to exist. like a fresh start and I for one can’t • For a notice to be issued, it is wait to see what this next chapter at necessary to show that the Lee Common School will bring. nuisance is ‘substantial’. • A bonfire more than once a month could be considered a statutory nuisance if there was copious The Lee Parish smoke which was causing you to shut windows. Council news • Just the fact that you have to go By Hayley Farrelly, Clerk indoors and cannot enjoy your garden is enough, but it would Parish Council accounts have to be quite regular for it to be he annual accounting and considered a statutory nuisance. governance statements together • Once every few months would T with the Internal Audit reports probably not be considered a for The Lee Parish Council for nuisance. 2019/20 are available on The Lee In most cases, it is really a matter website at https://www.thelee.org.uk/ of consideration for others. Telling finance-governance/ or from the Clerk. your neighbours what you are Governance and accounting planning is the right thing to do, if for documents have also now been sent no other reason than it gives them for External Audit and a ‘Notice of time to get their washing in and close Public Rights’ has been posted on their windows. notice boards and on the website Parish Council meeting Electors can question the The next parish council meeting appointed auditor on the accounts or will be on Tuesday 8th September at make an objection: full details are 7:30 pm. It will be held online using available in the Notice. 21 ‘Gotomeeting’. Anyone wishing to The term ‘high hedges’ is defined attend is welcome to do so, but should by the Anti-Social Behaviour Act first contact the Parish Clerk at 2003. Here is a summary of what [email protected] or telephone constitutes a high hedge under the law: 07704 909324. • The hedge is more than two metres tall (measured from ground level) • A hedge is defined as a line of two High hedges or more trees or shrubs • The hedge is formed wholly or predominantly of evergreens or and tall trees semi-evergreen trees or shrubs. Extracted from Buckinghamshire Making a complaint Council website Residents are encouraged to uckinghamshire residents often resolve any dispute civilly between contact the council about the themselves: the council will usually B effects of their neighbour’s only get involved if it can be proven trees and hedges on their property, that there has been a dialogue between asking, “What can they do?” Here is a the parties. summary of the answer. The first step is to approach your neighbours and try to settle the matter amicably. Keep a copy of any letters to demonstrate you have tried. If this does not work, you can contact a Ironing service

Reliable, flexible ironing service is available. On your premises or collect and High hedges legislation deliver. The high hedges legislation applies Competitive rates. to a row of two or more evergreen References on request. trees planted as a hedge, which is over Some light housekeeping may two metres high and acts as a barrier to also be considered. light. The legislation provides for If interested please phone: those who feel that a neighbour's 01494 - 816115 hedge is hindering the reasonable enjoyment of their property. 22 mediation service to try to resolve the matter. Mediation Bucks provides a Bucks Council free service to residents living in the By Tricia Birchley area www.mediationbucks.org.uk. If the above steps are unsuccessful t the first meeting the new on and the hedge meets the definition of a th high hedge, then a complaint can be A Wednesday 15 July I called made by completing the form for better communication between obtainable at www.southbucks.gov.uk/ HS2, the contractors, the Council and highhedges. local councillors. Your councillors There is a fee to make a complaint. have been working hard to hold HS2 For further information see the leaflet to account and whilst it has at times ‘High hedges: complaining to the been challenging, we are beginning to council’ also at the same website. build up trust and keep ahead of Buckinghamshire Council will disruption especially on local roads. investigate and consider both sides’ However, we do need to be kept cases and make a decision. They will informed of strategic discussions and then reject the complaint or issue a will continue to work tenaciously on notice for the work to be undertaken your behalf. by the owner. Tall trees There is currently no restriction on the height to which trees may be allowed to grow. Technically your neighbour only has a duty to ensure that their trees are safe. The owner of a Prior to the first meeting of property cannot be forced to prune a Chesham and Villages Community tree that is not unsafe. Board on 14th July, we held a Village If you have concerns regarding a Forum to ensure that the views and tree, ask your neighbour how they needs of the rural community are at intend to maintain it and discuss with the heart of what we do. We also them any issues that you may have. made sure that the parishes benefitted You may be able to cut the from Covid funding from the overhanging branches back to your Council. Following a request from boundary, but this may not necessarily The Lee Parish Council, we were able create the desired effect. to underwrite the bumper issue of The Before you or your neighbour Lee Newsletter in August. undertakes works to any trees it is The Community Board will focus essential to check whether the trees are on protecting the environment, covered by a Tree Preservation Order improving communication with HS2, (TPO), or located within a looking at new ways of bringing Conservation Area; if so, then consent/ investment and jobs to Chesham and prior written notice must be sought/ the hilltop villages. The latest Public given. It is also often advisable to Health report shows a high level of include some informed opinion in isolation and we are very pleased that these discussions by consulting an this is something the Parish Council is approved tree contractor or consultant. keen to address. 23 Sandra Nuseibeh commented in the August issue about the speed of traffic and general safety of Rocky Lane and Chesham Lane. By the time the newsletter went to print, a meeting had been held between Transport for Bucks and the Parish Council. Both Heads of Highways and Freight at Buckingham Council joined the meeting, and the problems were discussed on-site with the Parish The proposed design for the ventilation shaft Council. We are all keen to make the headhouse at road as safe as possible and new Announcing the proposed design, legislation will shortly give local for Chalfont St Peter, the contractors communities more say on speed limits said: “Taking its inspiration from the of 20 mph and 30 mph, which is to be style of local barns and other welcomed. I have written to Wendover agricultural buildings, the headhouse councillors about Rocky Lane and is designed to fit into the surrounding await their reply. landscape”. Please let me know of any concerns It was therefore a bit of a surprise that you have which you would like to then find that the design proposal me to raise with Council Officers. for the Amersham headhouse is You can reach me by email at radically different (see next page). The Patricia.Birchley@buckinghamshire. gov.uk Mervyn’s Carpet & Upholstery HS2 update Cleaning Services By Cllr Colin Sully, The Lee Parish Council Independent carpet cleaning hree HS2 developments to specialist with over 30 years report this month, that will each experience. T have important implications for our local area. CARPETS. UPHOLSTERY. Ventilation Shaft design RUGS. HARD FLOOR. Images of what the ventilation CARPET PROTECTION. shaft buildings for HS2 will look like FULLY INSURED. in Buckinghamshire have been Friendly and reliable service. released by the contactors Align JV. Most work by recommendation. The Chalfont St Peter shaft Environmentally friendly headhouse is the first of five structures cleaning materials. that will provide ventilation and For a no obligation quote ’phone emergency access to the Chiltern tunnel 01525 371724 or 07975 847027 (the others are at , Amersham, and Great Email: [email protected] Missenden (near ‘Annie Baileys’). 24 Schedule 17 submissions Before HS2 contractors begin the major construction works, they are required to get a sign-off approval from the local planning authority under what is known as ‘Schedule 17’ of the HS2 Act. Buckinghamshire Council were Chalfont St Peter headhouse expecting to receive Schedule 17 submissions in August for: • Chalfont St Peter vent shaft (see above) • Widening Bottom House Farm Lane (for access) • Wendover Dean viaduct • Chilterns North portal (traffic routes) Amersham headhouse A recent judgment in the High Amersham design is now out for public Court on the issue of Schedule 17 consultation, until 29th September. To submissions has ruled in favour of the let HS2 know what you think: visit local planning authority (Hillingdon https://tinyurl.com/y4yxq6pz Borough Council) and against HS2 Ltd. This judgment appears to require Traffic surveys HS2 Ltd to be much clearer in their As part of the preparation works for Schedule 17 submissions as to how HS2, automatic traffic counters have they will mitigate local impacts than finally been installed at six locations in the immediate area. These counters will had been previously assumed by HS2 monitor the traffic movements on the Ltd and their contractors. A413 and on hilltop lanes, so that the impact of any traffic changes can be measured once the main works begin. Forum Freda The six locations are at: reda is rested after her • Rignall Road, Great Missenden summer break but has • Aylesbury Road, Great F returned to a full postbag. This Missenden month she is focusing on email • A413, Great Missenden bypass notifications from the Forum – how to • Potter Row, Great Missenden get them and how to stop them. • Village Road, Ballinger • Lane, Chartridge Dear Forum Freda, If I post a Collectively, these counters will message on the forum, how many give a good indication of changes in people will receive email notifications? traffic flow on the A413 and on the Dear User, Currently just under 350 local hill-top lanes. people receive email notifications for The exact locations can be seen on new topics. Of those, 220 also receive The Lee website at: https:// email notifications for each reply. www.thelee.org.uk/2020/08/06/hs2- When posting a reply, it may feel as traffic-monitoring-equipment/ though you are just responding to the 25 person who started the topic, but in fact notifications of all new topics you are replying to over 200 people! without notifications of all the replies; you can always subscribe Dear Forum Freda, I can’t figure out to replies for individual topics in how to set my subscriptions to receive which you are interested without email notifications. feeling that you have to have Dear User, To set your subscriptions notifications for all replies all of you need to: the time. • log in to Forum 2020 with your • Because the forum is divided into email address/user id and categories, you can set Individual password Subscriptions to receive • click on Subscriptions in the blue notifications of new topics only menu for those categories in which you • make your selection – we are interested. For example, you recommend that initially you might subscribe to Shop at The subscribe to receive emails for all Lee, Parish Council, HS2 etc. but New Topics which is the same not subscribe to Wanted and For level as the old forum. Sale, Lost and Found etc. Step by step illustrated instructions for setting subscriptions can be found Full instructions for how to amend in the online User Guide at https:// your email notification subscriptions can www.thelee.org.uk/user-guide-to-the- be found at https://www.thelee.org.uk/ lee-forum-2020/, as can an overview subscription-settings/ of the different subscription levels.

Dear Forum Freda, I find that sometimes I get email notifications for Quality Building & replies to posts, without ever having seen a notification of the original post. Renovation Projects Dear User, Unfortunately the text in Based locally, PVE Construction are some of the posts falls foul of the rather opaque spam filters applied by well known for providing high the different email hosting systems. quality work throughout the BT seem to have particularly strict Chilterns and surrounding areas. filters, but you can avoid the problem by setting the forum up as a Safe We specialise in both residential and Sender which will ensure that you commercial projects offering a wide receive all our mails. range of services from individual home improvements to complete Dear Forum Freda, I enjoy receiving new build management. notifications of village news, but some days it just feels like too many mails. Call us on 07771 863880 or visit us Dear User, There are two ways in at www.pveconstruction.co.uk which you can reduce the volume of email notifications whilst still keeping in touch: • Subscribe to New Topics rather

than All Posts to just get Professional Reliable Trusted 26 Dear Forum Freda, I give up! I used talk, request them to email or text you to enjoy receiving your emails, but I by logging into the web-based service. just feel bombarded with notifications When calling – they will never ask of things which are of little or no for payment, passwords, PINs, bank interest. How can I stop them? account details or make you download Dear User, I’m sorry you haven’t anything. They also won’t come and enjoyed receiving mails from me. It’s knock on your door. easy – although not obvious – how to They will email, providing you unsubscribe. The trick is to choose with a unique reference number which Individual Subscriptions rather than you then type into their web address New Topics or All Posts, and then not https://contact-tracing.phe.gov.uk specify any categories for which you when you open it up. Don’t click on wish to receive notifications. You can any links provided in messages. find some notes on this at https:// More information than we can www.thelee.org.uk/removing-all- print here is available from Bucks subscriptions/ Council. Go to the Community support I hope you still log in to the forum hub and type Test and Trace into the from time to time to see what’s going search bar. A fully comprehensive on, even if you don’t welcome the article will appear. emails. If you think you are a victim of fraud, report it to Action Fraud Don’t forget that answers to these immediately at Action Fraud or call and other questions can be found on 0300 123 2040. the Common Problems page of the Obviously, the above details are website at https://www.thelee.org.uk/ useful to all who use computers. common-problems/. If you need some Those of us in regular touch with our specific advice, please email most elderly neighbours and relatives [email protected] giving details of perhaps could advise them about their the problem. need to be careful if they receive ‘Test and Trace’ phone calls. As stated, above, NHS will only call people from Beware ‘Test 0300 013 5000. and Trace’ scammers Are you being By Erica Cheetham e are advised by Bucks served? Council that sadly some From Connected Counties W residents in the area are f you are unable to get a being targeted by fraudulent groups Broadband download speed of using ‘Test and Trace’ as cover in I 10mbps and an upload speed of their attempts to steal money and 1mbps, then you now have the right to personal details. Advice from NHS request an upgraded connection under Test and Trace is that contact tracers the ‘Universal Service Obligation’, will only phone you from the number with a subsidy of up to £3,400 0300 013 5000. If you don’t wish to available for eligible premises. 27

Great Missenden Supported Living

The scheme is being run by BT and A warm, friendly, house for the is being overseen by Ofcom. Your elderly, in the picturesque centre of home or business could be eligible if it: the village. • has no access to existing decent broadband and Come and take a look to see for • will not be covered by a public yourself and have a chat with broadband scheme in the next Carol Lauder-Ross (Manager) 12 months. Tel: 01494 865026 Further details are available or email for a brochure at: https://www.bt.com/broadband/USO [email protected] Rural Gigabit Vouchers Find out more on our website The Rural Gigabit Voucher www.abbeyfield.com Scheme also continues to be available to help rural premises to improve their internet connectivity. The vouchers can be used by small Shop at The Lee businesses and the local communities to contribute to the installation cost of a gigabit-capable connection. Rural businesses can claim up to £3,500 against the cost of connection either individually, or as part of a group project, whilst residents can receive a voucher worth £1,500 as part of a group project. These vouchers offer a direct opportunity to access funding for For all your daily needs gigabit-capable broadband upgrades for communities which are currently A community shop, financed and not planned to receive this upgrade. It run by the village; the shop lies at should be noted that these schemes the heart of the parish. may still require further funding from Current opening hours the local community, but this would (subject to change): be made clear by the supplier before Mondays to Fridays: 8.00 a.m. until 4.00 p.m. Weekends: 8.00 a.m. until 12:00 noon. any contract was agreed. For more information, go to: Tel: 01494 837195 https://gigabitvoucher.culture.gov.uk/ [email protected] 28 From The Lee Phishing and archives spearing… Some family connections with The Lee stretch over many generations. Here’s and spoofing! a family from 1926 that had four From the NCSC (a part of GCHQ) generations all living in The Lee at the yber criminals love phishing. same time. Unfortunately, this is not a Hollands galore… C harmless riverbank pursuit. his photograph (taken by Mrs When criminals go phishing, you are M.F. Chittenden of the the fish and the bait is usually T Photographic Studio, Broad contained in a scam email or text Street, Chesham) shows four message. [Spear phishing is an attack generations, of the Holland family… targeted at a specific individual, all called William! organisation or business, as opposed The three adults were engaged in to more general phishing]. 1926 on the Lee Manor Estate as farm The criminal’s goal is to convince bailiff, head gardener and electrician. you to click on the links within their William Holland (senior) had at that scam email or text message, or to give time 48 years of service on the estate. away sensitive information (such as bank details). These messages may look like the real thing but are malicious. Have you spotted something? A suspicious message might be from a company you don’t normally receive communications from, or someone you do not know, or even someone you think you know but has come from a different email address. You may just have a hunch. If you are suspicious, you should report it, by forwarding it to the Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS): [email protected] Your report of a phishing email will help us to act quickly, protecting many more people from [If you have an interesting story, being affected. photo or article about village history, If you continue to have problems, do let us know and we will be happy to then please contact us again so we can share it with our readers: Ed.] investigate it further. 29 … and finally spoofing National Cyber Spoofing happens when someone sends an email to you that appears to Security Centre be from a person or organisation that you know, but actually isn’t. If you suspect spoofing, check the email’s header to see if the email address is one that you recognise. You can also often find hints in the content of the email that it might be spoofed. Further help at www.ncsc.gov.uk. If in doubt… report it!

Bridge too far? t our table, N raised to 3♠, based on Losing Trick Count A (LTC) and S, checking on Cybercrime vulnerability and again taking You should not however report a account of LTC, raised to 4♠. With a suspected crime to the NCSC. If you ♣ lead from West, N-S can only think you may have been a victim of make eight tricks. fraud or cybercrime, you should report this to Action Fraud either at TIM SIMMONS IS www.actionfraud.police.uk or by calling 0300 123 2020. THE VERMINATOR Always use protection Pest control services There are a number of ways you can protect yourself from attacks like this and the NCSC has published WASPS ALL plenty of advice which will help you GLIS-GLIS INSECTS to stay secure online. SQUIRREL FOXES RATS MICE RABBITS Please visit www.ncsc.gov.uk for MOLES AND ANTS more information.

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The fastest way to let everyone in the Parish know about an event you are Cancelled arranging is to publish it right here in Ballinger Horticultural Society will the Newsletter. Contact the Editor by not be holding any meetings until next the 12th of the previous month (see year. Please check website for all up to contact details on page 1). date details ballingerhort.co.uk Ballinger Christmas Fair scheduled for 14th November has been cancelled. September Thursday 3rd September. The Arts Society Ballinger. Deceiving The Eye Coming Soon – Trompe L’oeil Painting. Lecturer: Thursday 1stOctober. The Arts Society Sian Walters. Online. Ballinger. As if by Magic: The Secret Friday 4th September. Lee Common of Turner’s water colour. Lecturer: School Association Coffee Morning. Nicola Moorby. Online. Venue tbc. Thursday 15th October. The Arts Sunday 6th September. Lee Common Society Ballinger. The Black Death. Methodist Church Service. 10:00 am. Lecturer: Imogen Corrigan. Online. Thursday 5th November. The Arts Society Ballinger. In Search of SHORT-TERM Lookadiya Kasperova: Musical Adventures in Russia. Lecturer: RENTALS Graham Griffiths. Online. Tuesday 10th November. The Lee From £295 per week (all inclusive) Parish Council Meeting. 7:30 pm. At Self-catering holiday the Parish Hall or online: tbc. Thursday 19th November. The Arts or temporary accommodation Society Ballinger. Unfolding the Art at Lee Common of Georgia O’Keefe. Lecturer: Deborah Jenner. Online. Moving house? Completion dates don’t coincide? House sale falls through? Builders outstaying their welcome? Directory of Expecting Visitors? Need extra accommodation? local contacts

Self-contained Period Property: Ballinger Horticultural Society sleeps four guests Chairperson: Katherine Hersee 07801 948650 Tel: 01494 837798 [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Membership Secretary: [email protected] 31 Ballinger War Memorial Hall Bookings: Jane Ogden, 837379 The Newsletter Ballinger Evening WI he Lee Newsletter is published 10 Contact: Frankie Little, 837659 [email protected] times a year and distributed free to Lee Common C of E School T all households in the parish… and School office, 837267 a little beyond. The views expressed in it [email protected] are not necessarily those of the Editor. Lee Common Methodist Church We welcome letters and articles of Marian Tomkins, 837479 interest and relevance to The Lee. Lee Common Scouts Copy should be sent to the Editor of Scout Leader Thomas Brockett: the month (see page 1) by the 12th of 837294 or [email protected] the month before publication. Shop at The Lee Letters should ideally run to no more Symeon Economou, 837195 than 200 words and articles to no more [email protected] than 700 words; material may be edited St John the Baptist Church and may appear on the village website See centre pages. www.thelee.org.uk unless consent is St Mary’s Ballinger specifically withheld. Anonymous Contact: Anne Ellis, 837247 contributions are not accepted. [email protected] To advertise or place an insert, Tennis Court @ Parish Hall please contact Paul Apicella on 837377 Bookings: Judy Morgan 837787 by the 12th of the previous month. The Arts Society Ballinger If you have photographs for Chair, Lesley Wickham, 865480 publication please contact Jonathan [email protected] The Lee Cricket Club Batten on 837450 or email www.theleecc.org.uk [email protected]. Secretary, Mike Harris For queries regarding distribution 07788 345555 contact Barnaby Usborne on 837382. The Lee Flower Show Other members of the Editorial Chairman, Jonathan Batten, 837450 team: Peter Archer, Zoe Berkeley, The Lee Newsletter Ruth Fowler, Phil Harrison, Liz [email protected] Macann, Jen Ogley, Adam Speller and The Lee Old Church Trust Colin Sully. Secretary: Pam Garner 837501 Printed by Orbit Press: 778053. The Lee Parish Council Clerk: Hayley Farrelly, 07704 909324 [email protected] To book the Parish Hall www.thelee.org.uk/pc or Scout Hut Allotments: Alison Weir, 837529 ’phone Anne Barnett on 837796 The Lee Parish Hall Committee Bookings: Anne Barnett, 837796 Rates 9 am - 1 pm 6 pm - Chairman: Tony Lea, 837237 2 pm - 6 pm midnight The LeeWay Mon - Fri £30 or £10/hr £45 or £10/hr Contact: 07845 029500 Sat/Sun £12/hr £70 Vocal Lees (village choir) Bank Holiday £12/hr £70 Car park only £10 Jeannette Batten, 837450 Crockery/cutlery £15 (hire outside the hall) Sales & Lettings 64 High Street Great Missenden Buckinghamshire HP16 0AN Tel: 01494 890990 email: [email protected] www.jeremyswan.co.uk