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Those ‘lazy hazy days of summer’ seem to be taking a long time to arrive this year. However much we know we need the rain, when clouds threaten, we worry about all those carefully planned summer festivities. This issue of the Link is full of village and school events that will fill our diaries.

As we enjoy everything on offer in the months ahead, let’s not forget to thank God for all those who work hard to enable all aspects of our life together to flourish – and of course pray for fine weather! 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]

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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. FREE entry for members of the Young Archaeologists’ Club.

August 11th - Family Friendly Buddhist Arts and Activity Day, 11am – 4pm. A day of family activities themed around the Castle’s Buddhist Collection. Join us to learn more about Buddhist art and culture, try some family-friendly yoga and meditation, explore the grounds with a mindfulness walk, taste traditional matcha tea, and enjoy some creative crafts. Adults £10, Children (5-13) £5, Families (2+2) £25, under 5’s free entry.

For more information about our other forthcoming events, including FOREST SCHOOL, please visit our website www.chiddingstonecastle.org.uk

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5 Medicine Past and Present - a personal view everything, and this has dispelled a lot of the mystique of medicine which gave doctors in the past an aura of almost supernatural power in holding the key of life and death. I remember when I qualified as a doctor in 1954 as a callow youth of 24 I became aware that ordinary mortals regarded one as different and therefore entitled to an unwarranted degree of respect! Little did they know the depth of one’s ignorance and their vulnerability. Maybe the thoughts of a retired doctor looking at the present scene This respect, and even deference, may be of some interest in our could evoke in the doctor a feeling of rapidly changing daily lives? I was a invincibility, but such is the complexity GP in Edenbridge from 1957-1992, of our human frame that there is an finally retiring in 2000. ever present danger of doing more harm than good, and this keeps the I started studying medicine in 1948 doctor’s cockiness in check! when we were just emerging from the privations of the last War. So my life Perhaps it would be interesting to list and medical career have spanned the some of changes in medicine from most momentous period of change those far off days to the present (not in ever in our understanding of illness any order of importance). and the treatment of disease from 1. The European Working Time the pre-antibiotic era to the gene Directive. (EWTD) therapy of today. There have been so This limits the many changes to life generally and hours a doctor can work to 48 hours politically that the NHS has had to a week. This compares with over adapt continuously to medical progress 100 hours a week in my early days and our patients’ expectations. The and for most of my career. This old adage that “doctor knows best” shorter working day accounts for the is long gone as patients often know huge change in night and weekend more about their illness than the doctor working, and in the continuity of from searching the Internet! Indeed the care which we older folks felt was Internet has enabled us all to become the hallmark of good practice and vastly more knowledgeable about of the satisfaction we and our

6 patients derived from this old style number of beds because over the practice. It has also destroyed the years management has sought team working in hospitals which to limit expenditure by reducing was so important in supporting and the bed stock. These shortages educating young doctors at the in manpower are aggravated by most vulnerable period of their lives. many doctors seeking to retire early Perhaps Brexit may free the NHS and by the inadequate numbers from this damaging constraint. seeking to train as doctors or opting to specialise in general practice. 2. Longevity The average life span The recent government initiative to today is 79 for men and 82 for recruit 20,000 extra staff to support women (they were always the GPs will further dilute the personal tougher breed!). Since 1900 our relationship between the doctor and life expectancy has more than his patients which my generation doubled. Of course the longer we valued so highly. live the more medical problems we develop and the more complex 5. Litigation In my generation, on the is the treatment and the possible whole, patients trusted their doctors interaction of the drugs taken. The to do their best in caring for them, recent levelling off of our increasing at the same time recognising that life expectancy is giving cause medicine is an inexact science and for anxiety that we may at last that there is risk in every action be reaching the limit. In fact it is and treatment. Provided the doctor becoming increasingly difficult to die was perceived to have done his and a feeling arises that if we die it best, he might be forgiven for errors must be someone’s fault! which might even lead to death. Today that forgiving attitude has 3. Computerisation The advent of completely gone and patients are the computer has been a great very ready to sue if the outcome overall benefit in medical care does not meet their expectation. enabling accurate transferable The result is a wariness on the part record keeping, ready access to of the patient, and vast sums being information about drug side effects spent by the doctors and hospitals and interactions and many other in defending themselves from an benefits. increasingly litigious public.

4. Manpower shortages Overall there Despite the above medicine remains are over 100,000 unfilled vacancies a great profession, full of challenges, in the NHS. This leads to stress endless fascination and sometimes and low morale as inadequate great rewards, but inevitably sadness staff try to meet the demands of and loss at times. an increasing number of patients. Andrew Russell This is aggravated by inadequate

7 Four Elms Fete The Fete may have grown in size but the ethos stays the same. A village fete Saturday 13 July 2019 1pm with traditional attractions where there It’s that time of the year again!! The is something for everyone to enjoy. This Four Elms Village Fete in the Church includes family races, family dog show, Meadows. Much planning goes into classic cars, a flypast, the wonderful the yearly event and we thank Montreal Willerby Maze, Beer tent, Tea tent, BBQ Estate for the use of their lovely meadow and a whole lot more. next to the Church. Please come and enjoy the afternoon. Now in its 66th year, we marvel at how It’s free entry if you arrive on foot, which “the village” has managed to keep the we hope everyone from the village is event going for so long. It was started at able to do. Look out for the free delivery the time of the Coronation in 1953 in the of the Fete Programme throughout Four vicarage garden, by kind permission of Elms village during the week preceding the Reverend Penn, vicar of St. Paul’s. the Fete.

8 balancelotts

Lotte Andrews – what I do Hever Parish I qualified as a yoga teacher in lunch Rishikesh, India. Since then, I have set Thursday 11 July up balancelotts Yoga Studio in Hever. I 12 for 12.30 Hever Village Hall. am not only a yoga teacher but also a private chef and potter. All welcome to lunch – My main belief is that if we fuel our delicious home made soup, bodies with the right components to aid bread and cheese, cake etc. creating balance in our lives whether The company is good too! its through diet or lifestyle, then we can enable ourselves to function to the best Do join us if you can! of our ability.

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Sessions at balancelotts vary from strong Vinyasa flows to stretchy Hatha classes giving you the correct mix to harmonise the body; setting up balance in our bodies will give us balance in our lives.

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9 10 The Hev er Residents Association SCARECROW COMPETITION is back! Make a Scarecrow over the

summer. Put it outside your house and be in for a chance to

win the HRA trophy!

See posters around the village

for more information.

FOUR ELMS VILLAGE FETE

WANTED please for the Church Stalls If you have any bric-a-brac either deliver to the Fete on the morning or call 01732 700247

Also needed please, cakes for tea tent,

Jams and Preserves for Produce Stall, Bottles for Bottle tombola

Thank you – look forward to seeing you

Dear Paul

this isn’t exactly the same as last month as I have deleted the word

books – they aren’t having a book stall this year

11 Doug Bowern, Chair of the Hever It was an excellent show despite Rose and Horticultural Society with the bad weather over the previous Sue Theobald, winner of the Astor days. Jane Tolfree, Show Secretary Rose Bowl, for the best exhibit said “the roses shown for perfume of roses, and the Woollett Family were lovely and what a shame the Challenge Cup, for the most points perfume cannot be bottled. The awarded for all the flower classes at judges commented on the high the Rose Show on 15 June. standard of entries - well done to all the exhibitors.”

Markbeech Men’s Breakfast Group On 6th July at 8.30 am at Markbeech village hall with a talk from Capt Dane Handley entitled ‘Aircraft Technology, What next for pilots?’ If you would like to come along call Rudy Porter on 01342 851449

12 Hever village hall of materials consumed (about £350) was mainly met by the “We all think the Hall generous donation by Waitrose, looks GREAT”...was of £323, raised by the green the totally unsolicited message checkout tokens – contributed attached to the payment for our by the community. So sceptics regular weekly booking – The beware, what started as a simple Table Tennis Group*. Chairman’s request for a ‘refresh’ culminated into a massive spring It was ample reward for the effort clean joint redecoration effort, by put in over the weekend of the a united Committee and Friends. 17/20 May by the Hall’s management committee, their partners and friends, (including those who dropped by to cheer us on with homemade goodies), to redecorate the hall. Led professionally by ‘Quality Decor’, they toiled unstintingly for 3+days Just think what the same to produce the fresh look to our team can do in our future hall beloved hall, pictured above. regeneration project to benefit the whole local community!. Vast quantities of paint, undercoat, top coat, tea and Come to our Annual General coffee were consumed in the Meeting on Wednesday 26 June magnificent effort, framing freshly to find out ! washed and ironed curtains – all by the same team, on and off the *The Table Tennis Group meets premises. most Tuesday afternoons - contact Jean Slade 01342-850302 Topping this herculean task came the news that the cost

13 the barn owl there may be considerable year-to-year variation in breeding performance. The most commonly heard owl is the “toowhit-twoo” call of the tawny owl, Four to seven white eggs are laid sometimes known as Brown Owl, the at intervals of two to three days. woodwind of all bird songs. Not so Incubation lasts 30-31 days but the often heard is the “screech” of our female begins with the first egg. Young most loved owl, the barn owl. With hatch at two to three-day intervals and heart-shaped face, buff back and wings are at different stages: the youngest and white underparts, the barn owl is may die if food is short. The young a distinctive and beautiful countryside birds fly at 55-60 days. bird. The broad, softly feathered wings, specially adapted for silent flight, A Barn Owl will typically eat 3-4 prey spanning nearly three feet, enable items a night. During the breeding the bird to fly slowly over grassland season, a pair of Barn Owls will (ideally) searching for prey. find this amount for each owlet as well. This works out to almost 4,000 prey Owls have a distinctive round or heart items a year to feed a pair and their shaped facial disc which acts as a offspring! sound reflector helping the bird to hear the rustlings of small animals in long Unlike Tawny Owls, Barn Owls are not grass. Hunting becomes difficult in wet territorial and hunt over a large range. weather as their soft feathers easily When breeding they can fly up to about become water logged. And the sound 2km from the nest site but in winter this of rain can interfere with their hearing. increases to up to 8km.

The Barn Owl’s diet consists mainly of Barn owls tend to use traditional small mammals which are swallowed nesting sites in barns and outbuildings whole. But as they cannot digest fur and sometimes holes in trees. The loss and bone it is regurgitated in the form of such sites has contributed to their of a pellet. Analysis of pellets indicates decline in the 20th century but the that Short-tailed Field Voles comprise provision of artificial nest boxes has about 75% of the diet with other small helped them recover. mammals including bank voles, shrews and mice making up the remaining We are involved in a local project, 25%. building and erecting wooden boxes, designed specifically to suit barn owls, Breeding can occur in most months erecting them on trees near good of the year and two or even three hunting habitat, which have so far been broods may be reared. Clutch size successful in supporting nesting barn and breeding success depends on the owls. availability of main prey species, so Peter & Lynne Flower

14 schooltime progress children make during their time here. Students at Hever love learning the language, through songs, news from Hever games and roleplays. We are currently celebrating our inaugural Year 6 I am immensely proud of our Year 6 trip to Seville which consolidated children. They had their SAT tests in the children’s learning. The children May and they all worked incredibly designed tourist information hard, showing all the skills they have leaflets about the history of Seville. learnt; their determination, enthusiasm They researched the major sites, and attitude was excellent. Well done the Alcázar Palace, Christopher Year 6 and get ready for your busy Columbus’ tomb, the Bullring, last half term at Hever including your amongst others and then took it in end of term production ‘OLIVER’ turns to act as guides for the group. which will be performed at Hever They practised their Spanish, Castle! We will be bidding them particularly when greeting locals and farewell with a graduation worship shopping in the market. and a social leavers’ celebration. Children also wrote adventurous We must not forget our Key Stage newspaper articles about the Dancing 1 children who have been involved Horses of Andalucía in Jerez and in their Phonics revision and Year 2 had some fun at the beach in Cádiz. SATs. They have worked hard and Our students were thrilled to visit the have been set to flourish in these Flamenco Museum, before watching tests. Results will be shared later this a spectacular show and then learning term. For the first time at Hever, there some dance steps. We are fortunate are 30 nursery and day-care children to have a fluent Spanish speaking transitioning to reception class at the teacher in the school, (the wonderful end of this term and I wish them a Mrs Tyrrell) and she is inspiring happy move. the children and our community to understand the importance and value I would like to take this opportunity of language. to congratulate the children for all Joanna Stratton their achievements and thank all parents for their continuous support. news from Four Elms I am grateful to staff and governors for their commitment so generously End of term offered to the school. I am delighted It’s hard to believe we are that Hever continues to maintain approaching the end of the school such high standards and has enjoyed year and the children have just a another successful year. few more weeks of school left. But what busy weeks they are! Between Spanish is now taught from KS1 now and the end of term we have to Year 6 and we are proud of the lots to look forward to including the

15 Four Elms Village fete, Sports Day, and even managed to see the Queen a Concert, the Year 6 trip to the (yes, really, she was visiting a replica Isle of Wight and the Year 4 trip to Sainsbury’s store for retailer’s 150th the Natural History museum for a anniversary)! ‘Dinosnores’ overnight adventure, our annual pupil awards and the Leavers’ Sporting news play and assembly. Our sports clubs have continued to be busy with regular practices as Celebrating diversity well as competitions against other This term we started a new Rights local primary schools. The teams Respecting campaign to raise always work hard and prove that grit awareness about diversity and the and determination really is the key to right to be treated fairly. By the end success. of the campaign, the children will understand that we are all different This term we have had excellent and will be able to talk about success with two new teams: differences within the school and gymnastics and rugby. We entered understand the terms ‘discrimination’ two gymnastics teams into a and ‘stereotypes’. As part of this competition and our Class Three initiative, the children will wear odd, team have been invited to the finals! wacky socks as a symbol of diversity. Our tag rugby team won three out of Dragons and rainforest adventures five matches in a tournament recently Class Two have created their own and narrowly missed out on winning dragons and these will be collated the others. Their ability to work as a into a book which will be published team and their sportsmanship means for our school library as well as they are a real credit to our school. the Eden Centre. Class Four wrote Well done everyone! rainforest adventure stories with Class Nicole Holt Two children as their main characters. They then shared their stories with each other during reading buddy sessions.

Leavers’ play Traditionally, Class Four (years 5 and 6) put on an annual end of year production. This year, the children are performing ‘The Lion King’. For inspiration, Class Four were lucky enough to travel to London to watch ‘The Lion King’ at the Lyceum, took part in a Disney dance workshop

16 Hever Parish Council Sevenoaks Council with Action with Communities in Rural Kent The next meeting of the Parish • is currently working on a project Council is on Tuesday 16th July to support village shops. Anyone in Hever Village Hall at 7.30. The interested in free support should planning sub-committee meets visit the website: kentruralre- beforehand at 7pm. All welcome. And tailers.co.uk here are a few pieces of news: News from the station: there Neverworld Festival at Wilderness were 42,948 passenger journeys Farm was granted a premises • • from/ to Hever Station last year. licence in June. The festival, which Following the disruption of runs from 1-4 August, is subject Summer 2018 the rail companies to noise and other restrictions have set up a passenger benefit following submissions from locals fund with £15 million to spend and those living very near to and £30,000 has been allocated the site are again being offered to Hever Station. If you have any discounted tickets. ideas for Hever - more seating, another shelter etc - please The Secretary of State has contact the clerk or the Hever appointed a planning inspector to • Residents Association by 30 July. carry out an independent exami-

nation of the Sevenoaks Local Charlotte Cole Plan. This is a routine step in the Clerk and Financial Officer progress of the plan which can be Hever Parish Council monitored via www.sevenoaks. 01732 865547 gov.uk/localplanexamination [email protected] www.hever.org Facebook/Heverparishcouncil

17 As one moves up the list, the scale, Sevenoaks council news though not necessarily the importance, A little over a year ago, I started penning of the issues they consider increases. this column to explain what I was up For example, County Councillors handle to on your behalf. Since then we’ve some expensive and often tricky issues covered festivals and events, ensuring such as adult social care, children’s we get the right houses in the right services, education and the safety places with the right infrastructure, of our roads. The District is perhaps fly-tipping, community awards, the more locally focussed with its remit planning process, rubbish and recycling, covering areas like rubbish and recycling the District Council’s budget, as well as collection, planning, licensing taxis, and setting out some of the challenges we overseeing food hygiene standards. The face in the year ahead. Parish meanwhile manages some of the most visible things, such as the upkeep However out ‘on the knocker’ it’s not of our bus stops, the mowing of verges, uncommon for people to ask who and the building of the new playground councillors are and what they do. A in Four Elms, whilst also performing an perfectly reasonable question, and invaluable role as extra eyes and ears all the more so when we’re asking for for the first two authorities. your support in an election! In short, your councillors are local people, Together we work as a team to volunteering their time and knowledge to represent our area and your interests, make our patch even better. We use the striving to ensure your money is spent same roads, the same facilities and pay to the benefit of those we are elected the same taxes as you. During evenings to serve: you, your friends and your and weekends we meet with residents, neighbours. As I’ve said before, whilst businesses, charities and government I would never claim it is perfect, the agencies to bring together anyone who services local government provides on can make a difference to the area. our behalf – at County, at District, and at Parish level – are in many respects Hever Parish Council is the most local of the marks of, for want of a better term, a our councils, covering the three villages civilised society. in the United Benefice. Sevenoaks District Council’s area is a little larger, As ever, please do not hesitate to get stretching from Swanley in the north to in touch if there’s anything with which I Cowden and our villages in the south, might be able to assist. by way of Sevenoaks, Westerham, Edenbridge and their environs. Matthew Dickins Meanwhile Kent County Council takes District Councillor for Cowden & Hever in, yes, you guessed it, the county. By Sevenoaks District Council, Argyle the way, none of these are related to the Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 1HG Parochial Church Council, which is an e [email protected] altogether different thing! m. 07910 328 110

18 Bore Place Summer Holiday Club Day long drop off club (9am - 4pm) Morning sessions 9.30 – 12 noon for suitable for children 6-11, children aged 3-6, £18 per child £35 per child Tiny Tots Farmyard Crafting and Survival Adventure Baking Wednesday 31st July, for children Tuesday 13th August, Little ones can •to explore the Bore Place estate. •enjoy a morning of making jammy thumb- Take on the bush craft challenge print cookies and some cow-themed – can you survive without the craft, before heading outside to meet the trappings of modern life? real cows! Bore Place Bake Off Pizza from Scratch Thursday 1st August, for children Thursday 15th August, Children will •to explore the Bore Place estate. •explore the market garden to harvest Enjoy a field to fork day visiting some vegetables for pizza toppings and the market garden to harvest then return to the kitchen to learn how to vegetables, and then using them in make bread for the pizza bases. the kitchen to make a yummy pizza Teddy Bears Picnic for lunch. Tuesday 20th August, Younger children Get Crafty •will have a wonderful morning exploring Friday 2nd August, for children the produce in the vegetable garden to •to explore the Bore Place estate. make a picnic for themselves and their Make seed bombs, natural paint and teddies! muddy faces with materials found Morning sessions 9.30 – 12 noon for around the woodland! children aged 6 - 11, £18 per child Way of the Woodsman Summer Crafts Tuesday 6th August, for children Wednesday 14th August, Enjoy •to explore the Bore Place estate, •some crafting with nature! Messy and and use what they find to make creative play will allow you to make mud artists’ charcoal and a wooden gargoyles, natural paint and paintbrushes mallet! as well as clay nature impressions. A Really Wild Day Den Building and Campfire Fun Wednesday 7th August, for Wednesday 21st August, Get your •children to explore the wildlife that •kids away from their screens and into the make’s Bore Place its home. Make great outdoors! Enjoy a morning of den a sightings notebook, check the trail building and campfire making, finishing cameras and be inspired to continue off with hot chocolate and marshmallows. caring for wildlife. Small Mammals For more information please contact Thursday 8th August, for children Bore Place, Bore Place Road, •to explore the Bore Place estate, Chiddingstone, Kent, TN8 7AR where they will be able to check trail 01732 463255 cameras, practice field craft and www.boreplace.org search for the elusive brown hare.

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21 Services July & August 2019 Services rota

Day Date Time Church Service Sidesmen Readers Intercessions Chalice July

Trinity 3 07 Jul 08.00 Four Elms Holy Communion (BCP) Leslie Griggs 09.15 Markbeech Sung Eucharist Liz Kaberry Fiona Irens & Flora Nedelcu Jill Linden Vasile Nedelcu 11.00 Hever Parish Communion Jan Tolfree & Elly Heard Jane Rosam & Robin Rouse Marion Purll Jane Rosam Trinity 4 14 Jul 09.15 Markbeech Sung Eucharist Carol Bowern Pennie Scott & Janey Cooper Liz Kaberry Liz Kaberry 11.00 Four Elms Pet Service 18.00 Hever Evensong (SR) Andrew Izod & Pat Evemy Elly Heard & Andrew Izod 20 Jul TBA Hever Wedding Zeta Moniz & Dave Andrews Trinity 5 21 Jul 9.15 Markbeech Family Service Wilkinson family Elsie Bain Alexander Irens Jane Rosam 11.00 Hever Parish Communion Lisa & Will Cowell Jane Rosam & Will Cowell Elly Heard 18.00 Four Elms Evening Prayer Gill Lambert Barbara Jackson 27 Jul 14.30 Markbeech Matt & Sophie – Blessing Trinity 6 28 Jul 11.00 Four Elms Parish Communion John & Mary Proctor Mary Proctor & John Hodson Elly Heard August

Trinity 7 04 Aug 11.00 Markbeech Benefice Sung Eucharist Ricky Calvocoressi James Calvocoressi & Carol Bowern Nick Irens Duncan West

Trinity 8 11 Aug 11.00 Hever Benefice Communion Pat Evemy & Elly Heard Andrew Izod & Jan Tolfree Marion Purll Elly Heard 11.Aug 12.30 Markbeech Baptism – Archie Wadham Trinity 9 18.Aug 11.00 Four Elms Benefice Communion John & Christina Hodson John & Christina Hodson Marion Purll 14.30 Hever Baptism – Lily Honey Briggs Trinity 10 25 Aug 11.00 Hever Benefice Communion Robin Rouse & Jan Tolfree Daryl Roxburgh & Robin Rouse Ana Roxburgh Jane Rosam 31 Aug Markbeech Wedding – Will Southgate & Natasha Gibson From the register Lectionary readings July/ August 2019 Baptisms Weddings 01 June 25-May Brendan Smith & Alicia Chaineaud Hever Date OT Psalm NT Gospel Sunday Eleanor & Gregory Reddaway 07-Jun Joanna Hardy & Andrew Newman Markbeech 08-Jun Rorie Devine & Loana Wuzel Hever Isaiah 66: 10-14 66:1-8 Galatians 6: 7-16 Luke 10: 1-11, 16-20 Trinity 3 Four Elms 07.Jul 15-Jun Maisie Sutton & Matthew Poulson Markbeech 14 Jul Deuteronomy 30: 9-14 25: 1-10 Colossians1:1-14 Luke 10:25-37 Trinity 4 Churchwardens 21 Jul Genesis 18: 1-10a 15 Colossians1:15-28 Luke 10: 38-end Trinity 5 Hever Jane Rosam 07766 763124 28 Jul Genesis 18: 20-32 138 Colossians 2:6-15 Luke 11: 1-13 Trinity 6 F 04 Aug Ecclesiastes 1: 2,12- 49: 1-12 Colossians 3:1-11 Luke 12: 13-21 Trinity 7 our Elms Leslie Griggs 01732 700428 14;2: 18-23 Gill Lambert 01732 862976 11 Aug Genesis 15: 1-6 33: 12-end Hebrews 11: 1-3 & Luke 12: 32-40 Trinity 8 Markbeech Nicki Talbot 01342 850526 8-16 Marielou Linklater 01342 850579 18 Aug Jeremiah 23: 23-29 82 Hebrews 11: 29- Luke 12: 49-56 Trinity 9 12:2 Priest in Charge Rev. Wendy Izod (01342) 850738, [email protected] 25 Aug Isaiah 58: 9b-end 103: 1-8 Hebrews 12: 18-end Luke 13: 10-17 Trinity 10 Benefice website: Threespires. wordpress. com

22 23 Gardening from Warren but easy to get wrong, and often the main problem is under watering. If Top tips for gardening in July. you spray an area of planting for one This month is all about maintaining minute and move on, the water is your blooms, nurturing your fruit unlikely to have gone deeper than a plants, and providing your garden with few millimetres into the soil, so won’t the care it needs to prevent damage have penetrated anywhere near the and drying out during the warmer roots. months. You need to water like a rain cloud. Pest problems One way to test this is to put a jam jar July often brings with it an infestation in among the plants you’re watering of aphids, especially if it’s wet and and stop when there’s about 2cm of warm. Squash those that you see water in the jar. That’s likely to take or use a weak detergent spray or about 10-20 minutes on each area, biological control such as nematodes which is understandably daunting. It’s to tackle them. one of the reasons why leaky hose Build up diversity in the garden by systems, which deliver water to the growing a variety of plants that will soil via a porous hose and operate at attract beneficial insects and other the turn of a tap, are so appealing. wildlife, to create a healthy balance between pests and predators. Feed the birds Competition for food among birds Thin-out your fruits can be intense, with so many young During peak gardening season, the fledglings on the scene so remember favourable conditions for plant growth to top up your bird and wildlife mean that fruit trees can abundantly feeders and water containers. The over-produce. Large quantities of warmer weather means that July is heavy fruits such as apples, pears an especially important month to and plums on the branches can often tend to nature and keep your garden result in a final crop of disappointingly abuzz with birds, bees and other small fruits. This is due to the high wildlife. Birds in particular relish in demand put on the tree’s resources gardeners’ efforts, using bird baths to and the limited sunlight penetrating both hydrate and cool down through its heavy branches. July is prime bathing in the water. time to thin out your dense crops by removing any excess or damaged If you need extra help in your fruits from the plant, enabling it to garden: develop a more evenly ripe crop of Warren and Janine – Hands on fruits. Horticulture www.handsonhorticulture.com Water, water, water [email protected] This is something that’s easy to do, 07800 824554

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Woodlea Craft & Design PRESENT PARADISE Pottery, silk flowers, beautiful lamps, baskets, jewellery, stylish wrought iron, unusual toys, provencal soaps. MARK BEECH NURSERY SCHOOL The choice is enormous including Open Monday – Wednesday – Thursday – Friday many articles featured in glossy mornings 9 a.m. – 12.15 p.m. in the Village Hall magazines, yet tucked away in one and Monday and Wednesday afternoons till 3 p.m. of the prettiest parts of rural Kent. Lunch Club available each day to 1.30 p.m. Do come to see and browse. A warm caring environment for children 2-5 years FOUR ELMS with a beautiful outside play area. EDENBRIDGE, KENT Vouchers accepted. Musical Bumps on Friday mornings 01732 700279

Do come and see us. To arrange a visit please contact: OPEN FRIDAY & SATURDAY 10am-5pm Mrs R Jordan (Manager) 07952 823852 SUNDAY 2pm-5pm Mrs A Roberts-Cleeve 01342 850403

Now taking bookings for 2020 July/August diary

29 June Bulk refuse freighter – 8am FE village hall then 9.30am Hever bottle bank 29 June Four Elms CC home match against Shipbourne (1sts) 1.30pm 30 June Four Elms CC home match against Dormansland 2pm 30 June Eden Valley Museum WWI exhibition ends 30 June Chiddingstone Castle’s Vintage Fair 11- 4.30pm 30 June Edenbridge Music & Arts Jazz at Saxby’s Mead 12.30 – 4pm 30 June Outdoor production Much Ado about Nothing Bishopscourt, Rochester tickets from [email protected] 3pm 3 July Eden Valley Museum Hop picking exhibition opens 4 July PCC meeting at Saxby’s Mead 7.30pm 7 July Chiddingstone Castle Object Handling session 11.30 – 3.30 pm 7 July Village Lunch at School Cottage, Markbeech 12.30 7 July Falconhurst CC home match against Stonewall Park 1.30pm 11 July Hever Parish lunch, Hever Village Hall. 12 for 12.30 13 July Eden Valley Museum coffee morning to celebrate new exhibition 10-1pm 13 July Falconhurst CC home match against New Beacon ‘96 1.30pm 13 July Eden Valley Museum guided walk of Edenbrdge 6.30 pm 13 July Four Elms Fete 21 July Falconhurst CC home match against Bidborough 1.30pm 23 July Parish Lunch Markbeech Village Hall 12.30 28 July Falconhurst CC home match against South Nutfield 1.30pm 31 July Bore Place Summer Holiday Club – Survival Adventure 9 – 4pm 1 Aug Bore Place Summer Holiday Club – Bore Place Bake Off 9 – 4pm 2 Aug Bore Place Summer Holiday Club – Get Crafty 9 – 4pm 4 Aug Falconhurst CC home match against Grannies 1.30pm 6 Aug Bore Place Summer Holiday Club – Way of the Woodsman 9 – 4pm 7 Aug Bore Place Summer Holiday Club – A Really Wild Day 9 – 4pm 8 Aug Bore Place Summer Holiday Club – Small Mammals 9 - 4pm 10 Aug Eden Valley Museum guided walk of Edenbridge 6.30 pm 11 Aug Chiddingstone Castle Buddhist Arts and activity Day 11- 4pm 13 Aug Bore Place Summer Holiday Club-Tiny Tots Crafting and Baking 9.30 – 12 pm 11 Aug Falconhurst CC home match against Linden Park 2nds 1.30pm 14 Aug Bore Place Summer Holiday Club – Summer Crafts 9.30 – 12pm 15 Aug Bore Place Summer Holiday Club – Pizza from Scratch 9.30 – 12pm 17 Aug Falconhurst CC home match against Chelsfield Park 1.30pm 17 Augt Hever Hort summer show, Hever Village Hall, 2pm 20 Aug Bore Place Summer Holiday Club – Teddy Bears Picnic 9.30 – 12pm 21 Aug Bore Place Summer Holiday Club – Den Building + Campfire Fun 9.30 – 12pm 7 Sept Hever Barn Dance 7 and 8 Sept How Green Nursery open day 9am – 5pm 14 Sept Ladies Breakfast, MB Village Hall, 9am 14 Sept Eden Valley Museum guided walk of Edenbrdge 2.30pm 21 Sept Bulk refuse freighter 8am FE village hall then 9.30am Hever bottle bank 28 and 29 September Hever Castle Triathlon 14 Nov Ladies Breakfast, MB Village Hall, 9am