APRIL 2015 Tatsfield Parish Magazine The Tatsfield Panotmime – please see pages 34 and 41 Please see page 13 for the contents list of this magazine www.tatsfield.org.uk £1 – one copy FREE to each household SEPTEMBER 2014 3 4 5 6 Beechwood Riding School JCG Hillboxes Farm, Marden Park BUILDERS Woldingham, CR3 7JD Brickwork Specialists Tel 01883 342266 Email: [email protected] All aspects of www.beechwoodridingschool.co.uk brickwork undertaken Beechwood is situated in the beautiful Surrey Hills in the Patios,block paving, North Downs. All our horses and ponies used in the retaining walls school have been carefully chosen for their suitable decorative brickwork and much more temperament to achieve a happy, harmonious relationship between horse and rider resulting in every Reasonable rates rider reaching their own personal goal. Adults and References available children from 4 years old welcome. Clean tidy worker • Separate Children and Adult Groups Call: Jamie on • Private and semi-private lessons • Pony Parties 07921 219287 • Corporate Days • Hacks • Pony Days email: [email protected]. uk • and lots more RB Interiors Interior Decorating Together with all types of maintenance and flooring inc, wood, laminate, carpet, vinyl & tiling. Fully insured Tatsfield Based References Available Rob - 07870 528254 01959 541109 Email: [email protected] 7 Telephone 01959 577010 A W Carpentry & general building services Alan Waite • Interior & Exterior Carpentry • Kitchens/Bathrooms fitted • Renovations/ Alterations • Guttering & Fascia • City & Guilds qualified • Free estimates Mobile 07984 810966 8 9 lingerie Kim and Jane provide a complete bra fitting service and can help with all your lingerie needs! We stock a variety of quality lingerie to suit every price range. BEAUTIFUL LINGERIE RANGES Entre Nous is owned and run by Tatsfield girls and you’ll be assured of a warm welcome. Opening times Mon –Sat 10.a.m – 5.00p.m 01959 563975 22a Market Square, Westerham, Kent TN16 2AT Art Classes Private Lessons Commissions Watercolour, Oil Pastel, Pencil 10 11 12 APRIL 2015 CONTENTS Advertisers’ Index 68 Letters 16 Aladdin 34 Little Acorns 24 Annual Meeting 30 Monkey Puzzle 55 Art event 48 Music 26 Barn Theatre 60 Nature notes 62 Bletchingly bowls 54 Night sky 59 Bridleway 58 Not So Young 64 Church teas 40 Orpheus Evening 31 Churchyard 65 Police 27 Composting 22 Puzzle page 67 Contacts 14 Ramblers 66 Council Reports 18 School 33,51 Dance 60, 64 Shopping at Linda’s 40 Debater 57 St Mary’s Matters 44 Editorial 15 Tatty Knitters 65 Election Hustings 36,43 TPFA 100 66 Event calendar 46 Trees 50 Fairtrade 25 Vern d’Anjou 38 Football 63 Village Spring Clean 29 Gardening 61 Website 39 Horti Show 35,37 Westerham bounds 53 Horticultural Society 23 WW1 49 In Bloom 28 13 Produced for the Village by the Parish Magazine Committee under the authority of Tatsfield Church. Managing Editor • Gerald South (577598) Treasurer • Madie Langford (577114) Distribution Manager • Terry Cartwright (577749) Advertising Manager • Maureen Perrin (577679) email: [email protected] Production Team Hazel Cartwright • Tom Chorley • Jenny Lewis • Ian Mitchell Sule Morley • Christine Stainer • Carole Swetenham • Margaret Watson CHURCH CONTACTS ST MARY’S CHURCH, Church Lane, Tatsfield Anglican • Team Vicar: Revd Louise Ellis (577289) email: [email protected] The Rectory, Ricketts Hill Road, Tatsfield, TN16 2NA Hon. Curate - Revd Dr Gerald South (577598) Wardens • Mary Smith (577661) and David Eden-Riley (07973 255256) COUNCIL CONTACTS Parish Council - Parish Clerk • Mrs Ana Hughes, 102a Sunningvale Avenue, Biggin Hill, TN16 3TT (701820) Chairman • Mrs Sue Smale, 21 Paynesfield Road, Tatsfield, TN16 2AT (577660) Parish Council website www.surreycommunity.info/tatsfield • email [email protected] Tandridge District Councillor • Bob David, The Briars, Ninehams Road, Tatsfield TN16 2AN (577357) Surrey County Councillor • David Hodge, 30 Harestone Valley Road, Caterham CR3 6HD (01883 337881) OTHER CONTACTS St. Mary’s Church Hall - Bookings • Sheila Cook (577443) Village Hall - Bookings Secretary • Helena Garcia ([email protected]) (07983 011028) W.I. Hall - Bookings • Sheila Cook (577443) Parish Room - Bookings • Ana Hughes (701820) Tatsfield Primary School - Head • Kevin Bellinger (577356) Tatsfield Village Club - (577330) Furze Corner Sports Pavilion - Bookings (07533 033325) Doctors • Stock Hill Surgery (580011) • Westerham Surgery (564949) Surrey Police - (101) Tatsfield Helpline - (577524) • Pet Register - Val Moore (574810) Village Website www.tatsfield.org.uk MAGAZINE CONTRIBUTIONS We welcome contributions from village organisations and individual residents but reserve all editorial rights. Copy date for the Magazine is 16th of the preceding month. Ideally contributions should be sent as a Word attachment to an email to: [email protected], Alternatively they may left at Linda’s Stores or posted to: TatsfieldPMag, Clouds, Ricketts Hill, Tatsfield, Westerham, TN16 2NB. Enquiries concerning Advertising or loose Inserts should be made to our Advertising Manager Maureen Perrin (Tel: 577679 Email: [email protected]) Small Ads These are only accepted from Tatsfield or Titsey residents (No Trade) and are free (Max 10 words plus phone number.) We will include them in the next issue space permitting. Calendar Dates Our rolling Calendar usually covers 6 weeks from publication so please give us your dates in good time. If you don’t want your event to clash with others why not check with us early. Ideas/Opinions/Articles We are always looking for items of interest - have a word with the Editor. Correspondence We welcome letters commenting on items in previous issues or on anything else. Advertisements We take no responsibility for the goods and services advertised in the Magazine. 14 EDITORIAL Tatsfield continues to live up to its reputation for friendliness and concern for others. A brief letter in this magazine gives a fine example of help offered at a time of need by an anonymous person who clearly inconvenienced themselves for the sake of another. Equally worthy of note is that the recipient has gone to the trouble of using this magazine as a way of thanking this unknown ‘good neighbour’. We thank you both. It is acts such as these that make a community and give it its sense of identity and values: we are fortunate that our village provides many examples of good neighbourliness and concern for others. We might ask whether such attitudes should extend into the ways in which we use our votes on 7th May? To hear some comments from those seeking our vote, it would seem that they assume we will support the candidate or party who offer us personally the most affluent sounding standard of living. But surely many of the electorate have a wider view of the situation than that and are concerned for the wellbeing of others apart from themselves, wanting to cast their vote in the interests of the common good. In Tatsfield we will we voting for a new District Councillor and Parish Council who, over the next four years, will make important decisions about the future of our village. We hope there will be a good number of candidates: nominations must be in by 9th April, so there is still time for you to be nominated or to encourage someone else you feel may be right for this. We will also be voting for our MP and as you will see elsewhere in this magazine there are several occasions when we have a chance to hear them speak, including in Tatsfield on 22nd April. Some controversy was aroused a few weeks ago when the bishops of the Church of England published their thoughts on attitudes and priorities as we consider the coming election. Perhaps bishops are seen by some as irrelevant and remote from everyday life. However in previous years they will all have worked in local parishes of a very diverse nature and between them, they have a wealth of experience of how life is, on the ground, for the people of our country. Their comments do not tell us who to vote for but rather challenge us to think about the nature of the society we want to create: from that we have the, far from easy, task of deciding which policies may best bring this about. Between now and then we have Good Friday and Easter. Their meaning and message include hope and of great good emerging from apparent evil. In our troubled world that is surely an essential vision for us and the politicians who represent us. Elsewhere in this magazine you will see the local opportunities to engage with the Holy Week and Easter story. We wish you all a very happy Easter. Gerald South 15 LETTERS Dear Editor, Yes it is me again nagging your readers to please make sure they have registered to vote and are ready to go up to the Village Hall and cast their vote, our hard won democratic right. Reading through the last Village Appraisal there is no doubt that those who responded had very positive views about our local environment, our green belt of protection against over development, and yet surely there is also a need for balanced housing for young and old alike. Can we be certain that those standing for election are clear about what we want for Tatsfield? There was also strong support for a war memorial in the village, but when the Parish Council issued an appeal for volunteers to come forward for a project, there was a very poor response. Maybe a new Parish Council should take a stronger lead on this important subject; it is not too late for Tatsfielders to come forward and make this an election topic? Despite several attempts at redesigning the village centre we still have problems with parking and speeding traffic. The reports by our Speedwatch team indicate irresponsible driving is an ongoing problem; it is a miracle that we have not had more serious accidents.