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July/August 2019 In this issue: • Medicine past and present • Yoga – creating balance • It’s scarecrow time again! • Hort winners • News from around LINK and about Parish magazine of Four Elms, Hever and Markbeech £1 All Types of Interior & Exterior PAINTING & DECORATING Ray Meades (Speldhurst) 01892 863548 Also General Household Repairs & Maintenance Fully Insured XÄÄtËá VâÑvt~xá Delicious homemade cupcakes using local free range eggs and organic ingredients wherever possible. Our cakes are freshly baked to order ensuring that they taste as good M & M WALKER as they look! We cater for all occasions: birthdays, weddings, corporate events or just because . 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The church is firmly at the heart of our communities, and I look forward to many a happy meeting under a clear blue summer sky! Summer is also a time for moving on. For many of LINK the pupils at our schools, it is not just the end of an academic year. It is a time when some must say good- bye and prepare to move to pastures new. We all wish them well as they look ahead to a future full of possibilities. As the holidays beckon, I hope we can all take time to relax, sit back, and I hope, enjoy some lazy hazy days. Happy holidays! Rev Wendy Izod 1 news from the pews eat and meet your neighbours (not necessary to do all three!). Children Hever love the dancing and the jelly! Tickets We were delighted to have raised over are on sale now through bookitbee. £350 for Christian aid with our “Big com/Hever or you can contact me for brekkie”. The total was considerably more information and tickets on 07766 boosted by commuters who gave 763124 generously when we held “Big Brekkie Jane Rosam 2” at the station. They were surprised Churchwarden and pleased to encounter a 7am cup of coffee and pastry. And Mandy Yarnold Four Elms and I were surprised and pleased that June 2019. The words “Thank God” are we managed to get up that early - we often banded about for things which respect those of you who do it every seem to have worked well for us with day..... little real thought of the true meaning. June 6 1944 is a date for which we We are also delighted to report the can genuinely say “Thank God”. D Day bell ringers won their Call Changes is one of the most significant dates class in the Tonbridge District Striking in European history. An exceptional Contest. We ring for many services combined Task Force left for the and weddings and are very grateful to invasion and the freeing of Europe from Steph Rueff for all her work training the the appalling Nazi tyranny. I am certain new ringers. Steph works at Bore Place we all said a prayer of thanks for the which this year is benefitting from the success of the D Day landings and Rochester Diocese poverty and hope remembered in our prayers the many appeal for its work with disadvantaged servicemen and women and civilians people. who lost their lives for our freedom. Thank God for such bravery by so many The parish lunches in the beautifully for future generations who have lived in redecorated village hall continue to be “European” peace since 1945. popular and we would love to welcome new faces. If you would like to join St. Paul’s Four Elms had its usual 8am us and need a lift do let me know on service for the early birds. We also had 07766 763124. The next lunch is on Parish Communion combined with Thursday 11 July at 12 for 12.30. Inspire and followed by the Rogation Sunday walk, beating the bounds, And finally - the barn dance! The annual this year in Four Elms ably organised barn dance is on Saturday evening by Peter Titchmarsh. A delicious tea 7 September, starting at 7pm. The followed in Margaret Bates’ garden. Roundhouse Folk (featuring our own Thank you Margaret. Angela Purll) call and play for the dances and there is a barbecue, Larkins We also celebrated the baptism of beer and - for the first time - a gin and two children, Gregory and Eleanor. We prosecco bar! Do come along to dance, welcome both of them into our family at 2 St. Paul’s. Café Church was attended jazz lunches and garden openings. by the Reverends Wendy and Simon, All of which are integral to both village which concentrated on Pentecost. We and church life. All of which display our had a full Parish Rooms and plenty of happy moods of love and joy and prayer. activities relating to Pentecost thanks We are so very blessed to live in this to excellent activities by Caroline beautiful place! and Simon and thanks to Susie for accompanying us on her guitar for a Back to the business of Holy Trinity: last new song. month we experimented with a projector rather than service sheets in our well July is the month of our most important attended family service. We learnt why fundraiser – the village fete. Do please they are hung from the ceiling rather support the Church Stalls where you than sat on the floor – you need to be 7 can, either with bottles, cakes etc. or foot tall if you are at the back to read it! equally as necessary, help on the day. Many hands make light work!!! Marielou and I attended the Christina Hodson Archdeacon’s Visitation in Christ Churchwarden Church Tunbridge Wells to pledge our alliegance as Churchwardens for the Markbeech coming year. We had a very jolly Parish Aah! We’re singing my favourite hymn lunch stretching our quiche and frittata again which the Markbeech choir love to supplies somewhat – next time we will sing at this time of year: bake more! And finally our beloved ‘The summer days are come again; church clock has been serviced! Once more the glad earth yields Her golden wealth of ripening grain, Dates for your diary: Sunday 30th And breath of clover fields, June Edenbridge Music & Arts Jazz And deepening shade of summer at Saxby’s Mead; Thursday 4th July woods, 7.30pm PCC meeting at Saxby’s Mead; And glow of summer air, Sunday 7th 12.30pm Village Lunch at And winging thoughts, and happy School Cottage; 21st 9.15 am Family moods Service; 23rd 12.30pm Parish Lunch Of love and joy and prayer.’ MBVH. Nicki Talbot We are now in the midst of weddings, Churchwarden cricket festivals, folk festivals, garden United benefice of Hever, Four Elms & Markbeech Rev. Wendy Izod (01342) 850738, [email protected] Benefice website: Threespires. wordpress. com Community website: www.hever.org 3 Four Elms Village Hall concrete to form a new disabled ramp and access path into the new garden, following several weeks of hard work The volunteers from the League of forming the necessary shuttering and Friends have completed the levelling carrying out the necessary preparation and seeding of the ‘cleared’ hall main work. garden with help from local farmer Chris Jones. An amazing transformation The trustees still need volunteers to when you consider the ‘jungle’ that form a hall cleaning rota, please phone covered the area for years. I am sure it or email me offers of help on the will prove an asset in years to come. number below. Mike Follows Saturday 4th.May saw thirteen people Chair of Trustees. arrive before 8am to ‘barrow’ and lay 01732 700280 Hever Rose and Horticultural Society FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SUMMER SHOW HEVER VILLAGE HALL SATURDAY 17 AUGUST, 2 - 4.30PM This is the main event in the Hever Hort calendar, refreshments, beautiful floral displays, vegetables (including the longest bean!), art and crafts and photographs ...... so do come along! If you would like to enter, you can find details in the Hort section of the website www.hever.org or please call Mrs Jan Tolfree, Show Secretary 01342 850206 4 Jane goes hopping mad correction In case you were wondering who wrote last month’s article “Jane goes hopping mad” - it was Jane Higgs, Hever resident and former curator of the Eden Valley museum. Apologies for not including her name at the end. July 7th - Object handling session. 11.30am – 3.30pm Join us to celebrate the CBA Festival of Archaeology 2019 by handling some real Ancient Egyptian objects from the Castle’s collection with our curator Naomi, together with the consultant curator of the Hall of Egypt at the Houston Museum of Natural Science USA, Tom Hardwick. The drop in will be held in the Activity Room, included in with the normal admission.
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