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Websites: Church: www.stmarythevirginbuckland.net; Village: www.bucklandsurrey.net
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BUCKLAND READING ROOM ACTIVITIES
01372 802602 842302 842302 248909
07701 347351 842082 842082 842082 843297 844267
Monday 1 - 4pm Art Group David Burrells 4.15 - 5.15pm Rainbows Jane Stewart 5.30 - 7pm Brownies Jane Stewart 1st/3rd Mons 10am - 12 noon U3A Singing Meike Laurenson Tuesday 10am - 12 noon Tiny Tots Toddlers Debbie Jones 2 - 5.15pm Tues. Bridge Club Richard Wheen Wednesday 10am - 12.30pm Bridge Class Richard Wheen Thursday 2 - 5.45pm Thur. Bridge Club Richard Wheen 7 - 8.30pm Yoga Tilly Mitchell 2nd Saturday 1.30 - 5.30pm Sugar Guild Karen Hoad
OTHER VILLAGE CONTACTS
Carole Evans David Sayce Mandy Creasey Tamlynne Chapman Pam Patch Derek Holgate Jane Siegle Jean Cooke Ianthe Cox Sheena Boyce Emma Gallagher Margaret Miller Catriona Martin Jane Stewart Jane Douglass Dr Jim Docking Tim Howe John Maud Liz Vahey Julian Steed Sheila Dyer Margaret Miller
Arts Society, Betchworth Bell Ringers (practice Friday evenings) Betchworth & Buckland Children’s Nursery Betchworth & Buckland Society (secretary) Betchworth Operatic & Dramatic Society British Legion Brockham Green Horticultural Society Brockham Surgery/Chemist Buckland & Betchworth Choral Soc. (secretary) Buckland Parochial Charity (clerk) Buckland Parish Council (clerk) Buckland Village Shop Children’s Society Family Activities for Betchworth & Buckland Girl Guides contact North Downs Primary School One World Group Reading Room - Chairman - Treasurer - Secretary Reigate Pilgrims Cricket Club St. Catherine’s Hospice Surrey Police - non-urgent Women’s Institute
01372 452563 242776 843610
842291 844138
842654 844496 843259/842175
245161 843105
448023 845999
842098 07710 498591
842302 843211 843260 843529 843530 221444 842220 842046
101 842098
To book the Reading Room, email [email protected] (preferred) or phone Stella Cantor on 843335
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SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN, BUCKLAND
Rector Interregnum
Priest in Retirement
The Revd. Canon David Eaton, Two Way House, Wheelers Lane, Brockham RH3 7LA (843915). Email: [email protected]
Church- wardens
David Sayce, 48 Park Lane East, Reigate RH2 8HR (242776) (+ Bell Captain). Email: [email protected] Mrs Elizabeth Vahey, 126 Sandcross Lane, Reigate RH2 8HG (221444) (+ electoral register). Email: [email protected]
Parish Admin. Christine Deards, Reading Room, Buckland (845935). Email: [email protected]
Hon. Treasurer
Barbara Thomas, Little Perrow, Old Road, Buckland RH3 7DY (841058). Email: [email protected]
Hon. Sec. Mrs Rosey Davy. Email: [email protected]
Organist Melvin Hughes, Ashcroft, 10 Ridgegate Close, Reigate RH2 0HT (241355). Email: [email protected]
Safeguarding Officer
Sally Sayce, 48 Park Lane East, Reigate RH2 8HR (242776). Email: [email protected]
Junior Church Reps
Amy Jago (07971 085134). Email: [email protected]. And Sarah Munro (07771 427378). Email: [email protected]
Magazine - Editor
Richard Wheen, The Grange, Rectory Lane, Buckland RH3 7BH (842082). Email: [email protected]
- Finance Bernard Hawkins, 57 Middle Street, Brockham RH3 7JT (843153). Email: [email protected]
- Advertising Karen Munroe, Broome Perrow, Old Road, Buckland RH3 7DY (845298). Email: [email protected]
Church Rotas
Brasses: Sue Haynes (842613). Flowers: Jean Cooke (245161). Other: Philip Haynes (842613)
Churchyard Rose Beds
Carol Leeds, Flat 1, 4 Hardwicke Road, Reigate RH2 9AG (247399). Email: [email protected]
Friends of St. Mary’s
Roger Daniell, Chairman. Richard Wheen, secretary; details as above 23
HISTORICAL NOTES
Buckland (then Bochelant) was mentioned in the Domesday Book as a village of 35 households, a church and a watermill. These days it is a picturesque village covering 1362 acres, with a total population of around 580 in 240 households. It straddles the A25 and the Guildford to Redhill Railway. The parish registers date back to 1560, and the first recorded vicar to 1308. The present church is thought to have been built in 1380, and was extensively refurbished in 1860. The church has six bells, still regularly rung, and an unusual wooden spire. Some of the windows date from the 14th and 15th centuries. The window nearest the font suffered heavy damage from an enemy bomb in 1941. The glass was then removed and lost, until the 600 separate pieces were rediscovered in the Rectory cellar 52 years later, wrapped in newspaper. The window was restored in 1994, though part of it now forms the light-box at the West end of the church. Buckland is in the Diocese of Southwark (Bishop: The Rt. Revd. Christopher Chessun) and the Area of Croydon (Area Bishop: The Rt. Revd. Jonathan Clark).
Articles for the July 2018 issue must, please, be with the editor by Sunday 10th June. Please send editable versions of articles: we cannot accept PDFs, JPGs etc. If possible, please send graphics in black and white or grayscale. The editor reserves the right to shorten or omit articles submitted for publication or, where appropriate, to publish them the following month. No acknowledgement of items for the magazine will be sent (unless submitted by e-mail). Editorial Views expressed in this magazine are those of the contributor and are not necessarily shared by the editor or other church staff. Contact details This magazine is published by St. Mary’s Church and contains personal data such as names and contact details which may be of use to readers of the magazine. In agreeing to the publication of their personal data in the magazine, such persons also consent to this information being posted on the Church’s website, www.stmarythevirginbuckland.net. Please let the editor know if any of the information on the inside front cover or the back of the magazine is wrong or needs to be updated, or if you do not want any of your contact details to be given in the magazine. Also, if there are any other village contacts who would like to appear on the back page or elsewhere in the magazine, please send details to the editor.
10 June
June 2018. Issue No. 1107
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Date Flowers Reader/Lesson Time Sidesman/Procession
3rd June
Liz Lockhart Mure
Simon Thomas 2 Corinthians 4: 5-12
9.30 Simon Thomas Keith Billington, Tricia Hawke & Liz Vahey
10th June
Pat Evans 2 Corinthians 4: 13-5.1
9.30 Rosey Davy Pat Evans, Catherine & Antonio Breakenridge
17th June
D or S Sayce 2 Corinthians 5: 6-17 Liz Vahey Mark 4: 26-34
8 10.30
David or Sally Sayce Liz Vahey
Ann Adams
24th June
Philip Haynes 2 Corinthians 6: 1-13
9.30 Philip Haynes Sue Haynes, David & Sally Sayce
MOWING How often should you cut your grass? That depends on how much you want to help the bees. It seems that the ideal ‘gap’ is two weeks. This helps improve the habitat for the pollinating plants that need bees to survive. Cutting the grass more often than every 14 days destroys dandelions and clo-ver and other plants which the insects need for pollen. Two weeks is ideal – it gives time for the grass to attract a greater diversity of insects. The number of bee species and the abun-dance of lawn flowers were up to 2.5 times higher when home owners mowed lawns every two weeks compared to once a week. Don’t be a martyr, though – as three-weekly cuts are also not recommended. The high grass then makes it more difficult for bees and other insects to access flowers.
From Parish Pump
It’ll be interesting to see if anyone has the nerve to claim them.
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Parish Letter - May 2018 I am a rubbish church warden. I’m never sure what colour of altar front should be in place, I struggle to remember any creeds and for goodness sake don’t ask me why we don’t have flowers during advent when commercially the festival seems to begin in August. I doubt that my parents ever considered that a Scottish presbyterian upbringing would not be the best preparation for such a role. However, what I do know is the importance of our village church to the community. The churches of St Mary’s and St Michael's both undertook surveys as part of our process of seeking a new rector and what came across very strongly from both sets of results is how valued they are and what a central place they have in the life of the village. Reading them has been very encouraging and we intend to publish more on this later. I love the fact that the parish church can play a supporting role for many of the key events in people’s lives. We get to know couples who are to be married in our church, we welcome them back for the baptism of their children and we celebrate and mourn the lives of family members who have died. We also know that St Michael’s has another secret life when it is open during the day. Muddy boots and paws adorn our green carpet leading up to the altar, comments are left in our visitors book and the children’s corner shows evidence that it is not as we left it on a Sunday. Occasionally we bump into these visitors, learn a bit of their lives and concerns and can remember them in our prayers. In addition to our often unseen visitors we also have a whole team of people who clean the church, lock it up, hoist appropriate flags and create beautiful flower arrangements and without them the church could not continue to do everything it does. But as we approach another wonderful flower festival in St Michael’s we can look back to four years ago and remember those we no longer have with us and those who are no longer physically fit enough to help. Our faithful band of people who keep the church going from week to week is a sadly diminishing and ageing band. However, from the responses to the survey we know how important the church is and although people, by their own confession may not attend, it still remains at the heart of the village and will no doubt be there for many centuries to come.
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Date St. Mary’s Buckland
St. Michael’s Betchworth
3rd June 9.30 Parish Communion 10.45 11
Sunday Club †
Parish Communion *
10th June 9.30 Iona Parish Communion
8 11
HC (BCP) Matins
17th June 8 10.30
HC (BCP) Family Service
5pm Choral Evensong
24th June 9.30 Parish Communion
8 11
Holy Communion Parish Communion *
† Sunday Club in the Hamilton Room
* Coffee and soft drinks served in church after these services. Even if you are
just visiting, do please join us for a convivial get-together.
ADULT CONFIRMATION I have received enquiries about Adult Confirmation and I am looking to bring together a small group with a view to attending a Confirmation Service in October and preparing together as a group during late August and September.
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Continued from previous page St Mary’s has established a Friends of St Mary’s group that is solely concerned with the fabric of the church, and the PCC of St Michael’s has agreed to establish a similar group for our church. More information will follow but we will be looking for someone who would be willing to help establish and chair this group so any offers or suggestions of suitable candidates would be most welcome. An interregnum is always a challenging time in the life of the church and in addition we are welcoming Bernard Hawkins as the new church warden in St Michael’s who will no doubt tackle the challenge with his usual good humour and eminent common sense. We would really welcome yours prayers and support because as I confessed - I am a rubbish church warden.
Linda Slater, Church Warden, St Michael’s
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SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS ON EARLIER PAGES
This month’s medium SUDOKU Last month’s harder SUDOKU
BRIDGE
Play a ♦ to the Ace and take the ♣ finesse. Cash the other ♣ honour, discarding ♦Q. Ruff a ♦ and play a trump to ♥A. North’s remaining ♥ is good for the 6th trick
CROSSWORD
ACROSS: 1, Wickedness. 7, Harpist. 8, Teach. 10, Side. 11, Impostor. 13, Encamp. 15, Saddle. 17, Ignorant. 18, Tent. 21, Grass. 22, Olivier. 23, Wrongdoers. DOWN: 1, World. 2, Crib. 3, Entomb. 4, National. 5, Started. 6, Whispering. 9, Harvesters. 12, Imprison. 14, Centaur. 16, Unload. 19, Evils, 20, Give.
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8 7 6 4 2 5 1 9 3
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Make a date
Meeting with our new enthusiastic young curate, I asked if I could have a church service when I eventually die. “Of course,” he said, grabbing his diary. “What day do you want?”
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I haven’t the heart to tell Noah that I think he’s got the plans upside down.
PRAYER OF THE MONTH
My dearest Lord, Be Thou a bright flame before me,
Be Thou a guiding star above me, Be Thou a smooth path beneath me, Be Thou a kindly shepherd behind me,
Today and evermore.
A prayer of St Columba
GRACE OF THE MONTH
Give me a good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; But when and how that something comes I leave to thee, who knowest best.
POEM OF THE MONTH
I find it difficult to enthuse Over the current news. Just when you think that at least the outlook is so black that it can get no blacker, it worsens, And that is why I do not like the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going right for so many of the wrong persons.
Ogden Nash
THOUGHT OF THE MONTH
Government expert: one who complicates simple things.
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THE FRIENDS OF
ST. MARY’S
If you have not yet joined the Friends, and would like to do so, or would like more information, please see the literature in the church or contact one of the officers (eg Richard Wheen, Secretary, 842082, [email protected]). The annual subscription is £15 for one person, £30 for a household. The object of the Friends is to help maintain the fabric and structure of St. Mary’s, an important focal point at the centre of Buckland and a listed building with 1,000 years of history.
Confirmation represents a time of exploration about what we believe as well as a mature renewal of promises made on our behalf when we were baptised as a children. But this includes also those who have not been baptised, when Baptism and Confirmation can take place together. It is not easy to sort out in our own minds just what we believe and why we believe it. Confirmation is an opportunity to explore faith further and whilst I can’t promise everything will or can be crystal clear it is my hope that some light will shine! If you would like to be part of an Adult Group do please contact me. David
Canon David Eaton, 843915: [email protected]
FROM THE REGISTERS BAPTISMS: We welcome into the church: 20th May Hallie Charlotte Pearce, St Michaels 27th May Ada Porter, St Mary’s WEDDINGS: We send our congratulations to: 12th May Amanda Cartwright & Martin Kemp, St Michael’s FUNERALS: We send our condolences to the family and friends of those who have died: 23rd May David Hill, who died on 7th May, aged 81, formerly of the Stream, Buckland
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June Diary
Page
Sun 3rd 2-5pm WI Teas on Betchworth Green 13
Mon 4th St. Petroc 11
Thur 21st 7.15 for 7.30 Floral demonstration 12
23rd
12.30-5.30 Brockham Open Gardens 14 Sat
2-5pm B&B Nursery 25th Anniversary garden party 9,13
Wed 27th 2-4pm St Michael’s drop-in 7
f r i e n d s
Of ST MARY’S BucklAnd
Buckland Village Gardens Open Day Sunday 22nd July 2018, 1pm to 5pm
We are again organising a Village Garden Open day on 22nd July 2018, thanks to a number of generous volunteers who have offered to open their gardens to the public. About 8 private gardens will be open for your enjoyment for a one-off ticket price of £5, payable on entry to your first garden. Details of each garden and a map will be provided, together with a ‘Garden Pass ticket’ for entry to all the gardens. All visitors will receive a map of the locations, and a brief description of each garden. Five gardens are around the village centre, with others on our attractive lanes up towards the North Downs—Rectory Lane, Lawrence Lane and Cliftons Lane. We have several gardens opening for the first time, so there will definitely be something new to see. A listing of the gardens will appear in the July Parish Magazine. Refreshments will be provided in the Reading Room, provided by the PCC. If you are able to donate a home-made cake, please contact Jean Cooke on 245161. All funds raised will help to maintain the church building and grounds in good condition for the community.
Duncan Ferns
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CROSSWORD Solution on page 21
Across 1 Evil (Genesis 6:5) (10) 7 Musician called for by Elisha when he met the kings of Israel, Judah and Edom (2 Kings 3:15) (7) 8 The request that led to the institution of the Lord’s Prayer: ‘Lord, — us to pray’ (Luke 11:1) (5) 10 ‘We are hard pressed on every—’(2 Corinthians 4:8) (4) 11 Fraud (2 Corinthians 6:8) (8) 13 ‘His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and — around my tent’ (Job 19:12) (6) 15 Where Rachel hid Laban’s household gods when he searched his daughter’s tent (Genesis 31:34) (6) 17 ‘Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be—’ (1 Corinthians 12:1) (8) 18 Nomadic dwelling(Genesis 26:25) (4) 21 ‘As for man, his days are like—, he flourishes like a flower of the field’ (Psalm 103:15) (5)
22 Or I live (anag.) (7) 23 Those guilty of 1 Across (Romans13:4) (10) Down 1 ‘God so loved the — that he gave his one and only Son’ (John 3:16) (5) 2 ‘Away in a manger, no — for a bed’ (4) 3 Mob ten (anag.) (6) 4 ‘Each — group made its own gods in several towns where they settled’ (2 Kings 17:29) (8) 5 Began (Luke 9:46) (7) 6 Speaking very softly (John 7:32) (10)
9 Workers Ruth joined when she arrived in Bethlehem with her mother-in-law Naomi (Ruth 2:3) (10) 12 Put in jail (Acts 22:19) (8) 14 Ace turn (anag.) (7) 16 Discharge (Acts 21:3) (6) 19 ‘All these—come from inside and make a man “unclean”’ (Mark 7:23) (5) 20 ‘Let us rejoice and be glad and — him glory!’ (Revelation 19:7) (4)
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SUDOKUS
First a tricky one. Solution on page 21
Now an even trickier one. Solution next month
BRIDGE
North to lead and N/S to make all 6 tricks in a ♥ contract. How?
NORTH ♠ - ♥ A WEST ♦ 5 4 3 EAST ♠ K ♣ A Q ♠ J ♥ K ♥ J ♦ K 10 SOUTH ♦ J 9 ♣ K 10 ♠ Q ♣ J 9 ♥ 5 4 ♦ A Q ♣ 3
Solution
on p. 21
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Good diet It seems that overweight folk who are given diet coaching by the NHS are losing on average more than half a stone each. The programme includes overweight patients being sent for classes on diet, cooking and keeping fit, costing about £435 per head over a period of nine months. The NHS has found that the measures will pay for themselves, by preventing thousands of cases of diabetes. Bread It takes a year to produce a loaf of bread, from field to fork. Yet in the UK we throw away 24 million slices of it, every day, ie more than half a loaf of bread per person every month. A recent survey by Love Food Hate Waste has also found that, among 18 to 34-year-olds, 69 per cent throw bread away every week. The campaign is urging people to slice and freeze their bread when they get it home, so that it can last for several months.
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ST MICHAEL’S AFTERNOON DROP-IN TEAS 2pm – 4pm on the fourth Wednesday each month at the Hamilton Room, Church Street, Betchworth.
The St Michael’s Drop-In Teas have now been running for six years, providing a social meeting place for anyone in the villages on the appropriate afternoon. We provide tea, biscuits and cake, and a welcoming venue to meet new friends and catch up with many of the busy people in the village. We have a growing connection with Broome Park and have welcomed many residents, brought by minibus, and their families and friends. We welcome all ages and have a few items to amuse the young, and not so young.
Visitors have come from far and wide, visiting the Church to look for memorials, visiting the village where relations have lived, walkers and cyclists, and those just dropping in while passing. Thanks to donations during 2017 we were able to support local and national charities, including Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, McMillan Cancer Support Services, Safe Passage UK, who help unaccompanied children and young people access safe and legal passages to reach their family members in the UK, as well as supporting the work of Street Pastors in Redhill, Reigate and Horley town centres. I would like to thank the helpers who enable this to take place, Anne, June, Linda, Carol, Liz and Brenda, and John, Everett and Alice, who are essential in the setting up and clearing away each month. We will miss Gordon Forrest too, who regularly helped during our afternoon sessions. This is very much a team effort. Our dates for the rest of 2018 are: 23rd May, 27th June, 25th July, 22nd August, 26th September, 24th October, and our seventh Christmas Party on 28th November.
All are welcome to come at any time during the afternoon. If you would like transport, please contact Margaret Miller on 842098.
Come when you can and go when you must: a welcome awaits you.
FAREWELL By the time you read this we will be in our new home in South Devon.
We would like to say thank you to everyone in Buckland who helped to make our 36 years here such a wonderful time. It is sad to leave but we are looking forward to our new adventure by the sea.
Thank you to all those who contributed to the most generous leaving gift. We look forward to choosing something that will remind us of our happy time in Buckland.
With our very best wishes, James and Gaynor.
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BUCKLAND PARISH COUNCIL UPDATE Grass cutting of the verges alongside the A25 Announcements from Surrey County Council (“SCC”) over the last few years usually include a reference to the authority being “short of funds”. When SCC advised Mole Valley District Council (MVDC), last summer, that the money it was prepared to pay MVDC to cut the grass verges was to be reduced by a third for the 2018 growing season, MVDC handed back responsibility for the verges to SCC. SCC contractors recently completed the first rural cut and are only scheduled to cut the verges alongside the A25 once more during 2018. The SCC Highways team is asking Surrey residents to report any highway where visibility is impaired by vegetation to allow the highways officers to visit and, if necessary, to arrange an additional visit to fulfil SCC’s responsibility to keep road users safe. As the pavements alongside the A25 form part of the SCC Highway – if you find the overhanging vegetation makes it difficult please submit a report. Submit reports via the SCC website [visit www.surreycc.gov.uk and click the Report it tab] or call 0300 200 1003 and do keep SCC Cllr Helyn Clack updated following her recent invitation i.e. “I am happy to help directly if you email me at [email protected]”.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) With effect from 25th May 2018, new data protection legislation came into effect. When the Parish Council met (14th May 2018) updates to policies and procedures were adopted, copies of which can be downloaded from the village website. The website has been upgraded and the privacy notice published on the website has been revised to reflect the requirements of the new legislation. The Parish Council’s computer software has been updated to ensure any personal information held on the parish council laptop (and any data backups preformed) are encrypted. When you contact the Parish Council you will, in future, receive a reply to which a copy of the privacy notice will be attached and need to respond to any questions
asked in that reply before your initial email can be “processed”. Hopefully it will not take too long for us all to become familiar with the new Data Protection regime.
Sheena Boyce, Clerk, bucklandpc@
sheenaboyce.co.uk
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Vocal Coaching and Theory Contact Dawn Tolley Mob: 07969 755 797
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MUSIC IN DORKING 2nd at 12.00, lunchtime recital at St Martin’s church, free, 01306 884229 2nd at 6.00, English song at Leith Hill Place, £28, 0344 249 1895 5th 12th 19th 26th at 8.30, Watermill Jazz at Betchworth Park golf club, £19-20, 07415 815784 8th at 7.30, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Dorking Halls, £15.50-30.50, 01306 881717 9th at 3.00, Ladybirds choir at United Reformed Church Hall, £7.50, 01737 843662 9th at 7.30, Brockham Choral Society at St Paul’s church, £12, 01306 881821 10th at 4.00, ballet screening at Dorking Halls, £17.50, 01306 881717 12th at 7.15, ballet screening at Dorking Halls, £18, 01306 881717 16th at 6.00, songs by Vaughan Williams at Leith Hill Place, £12.50, 0344 249 1895 16th at 7.00, Dorking Choral Society at St Paul’s church, £12, 07847 477052 18th at 1.30 & 7.30, ballet screening at Dorking Halls, £18, 01306 881717 21st at 6.30, opera screening at Dorking Halls, £18.50, 01306 881717 23rd at 7.30, Dorking Philharmonia at St Martin’s church, £12, 01306 730640 30th, Capel Choral Society at Capel Memorial Hall This is a good month for choral music and songs. Dorking Choral Society will be
holding its summer concert, entitled A Fancy of Folk & Jazz. The choir will be singing a variety of folk songs by Vaughan Williams, Cecilia McDowall and others, together with Bob Chilcott’s A Little Jazz Mass and a selection of classic jazz songs. Brockham Choral Society invites you to Tea at the Ritz, where you can bring a picnic and be entertained with songs ranging from 1914 to the sixties.
Capel Choral Society’s concert is entitled Some Enchanted Evening, and it will feature a selection of music from the stage and church, plus the traditional buffet supper. The Ladybirds choir, conducted by Helena Twentyman, presents a summer concert entitled A Beautiful Day. There will be music from Oklahoma! and from Andrew Lloyd Webber, plus other favourite songs. Leith Hill Place, the home of Ralph Vaughan Williams, is the venue for two song recitals. The first focuses on English song at the time of the first world war, including music by William Denis Browne who was killed in the Gallipoli campaign. The second includes songs by Vaughan Williams and his friends. The Dorking Philharmonia has a programme of gorgeous late-romantic music: Wagner’s Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde, Chausson’s Poème for violin and orchestra, and Tchaikovsky’s sixth symphony, the Pathétique. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will also be playing in Dorking – their programme begins with Brahms’ Tragic overture, followed by Mendelssohn’s tuneful violin concerto, and finishes with Dvořák’s dark and powerful seventh symphony. The lunchtime recital at St Martin’s will be given by pianist Constance Leung who received the award for ‘Most Promising Pianist’ at the Godalming Music Festival.
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KNITTED CHRISTMAS TREE PROJECT On Monday 26th March a trio of Betchworth ladies travelled to St. Mary’s Rye to deliver all the 700 knitted squares that made up our wonderful Christmas Tree last year. It was our third attempt to get there as the first two arranged dates were blighted with heavy snow falls, but we got there in the end. The ladies from St. Mary’s, Rye will be making our squares into blankets to go out to Syria. Photographs of the completed blankets will be sent to us but we were told that it will take a few months to make them all! So watch this space for more photographs. The charity we are supporting is called Samara's Aid. Please look it up and you will see the amazing things that this charity does. http://www.samarasaidappeal.org/ Some of you are aware that we are knitting scarves for our next Christmas Tree project. Ros Rokison will be sending them out to Eastern Europe, this time for the elderly. If you would like to knit a scarf for us, that would be wonderful. It can be any wool but if you could stick to autumn colours with a bit of variation this would be great. It can be plain knitting, rib, a pattern, or whatever takes your fancy, however stocking stitch (one row plain, one row purl) doesn’t really work as the sides tend to roll in. The scarf should be approx. 12 inches wide and a metre long. We would like you to put tassels at each end as it is hoped that it will be the tassels that are most on display when we put the tree together! (see mag for details). Ros has bought some wool so if you would like to knit and would like some wool please let me know and I will get some to you. Anyone who would like to be involved but doesn’t knit could purchase some wool and we will get it to our amazing team of knitters! (It should be double knitting wool or Aran).
Many thanks, Pam Armitage, 832806
GET ON YOUR BIKE! It seems that cycling is great for keeping old age at bay, and it also rejuvenates the immune system. A recent study has found that cyclists do better at preserving their muscle mass and strength with age, while maintaining stable levels of body fat and cholesterol. The study was done at the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing at the University of Birmingham.
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NORTH DOWNS PRIMARY SCHOOL
We are now well into our busiest term of the year. Year 6 SATs tests are over and our year 6 are getting ready to transfer to their secondary schools in September. We are looking forward to welcoming 60 new pupils at our Betchworth and Brockham sites. Year 6 will be spending five adventure filled days at a PGL centre at Windmill Hill, near Hailsham in Sussex, where they will take part in a host of different activities, including abseiling, climbing, zip-wire, trapeze and archery. The evenings will be filled with quizzes, discos and sporting challenges - not a moment to spare and a fitting end to their time at primary school. Year 3 have a camp night to look forward to, with Year 5 taking a trip to Hampton Court Palace. We finish this month with our two Sports Days, one for the Infant children and one for the Juniors. We have a mixture of sporting activities that
appeal to all children, sporty or not. This is also a busy time at our school allotment where we’ve been busy planting many vegetables from kale to beetroot and from rocket to runner beans. We have a wonderful team who
are helping us with our Healthy Eating project
with the goal of achieving the Surrey Healthy School Gold Award. Now that we have finally had some drier weather we have been making the most of our outdoor learning activities, using our wonderful new outdoor classroom at our Brockham site. We are very aware of how lucky we are to have such a wonderful learning environment and strive to provide as many memorable learning experiences for the children as possible.
Jane Douglass, Headteacher, North Downs Primary School
Be the best you can be, every day
BETCHWORTH & BUCKLAND CHILDREN’S NURSERY
The Nursery was 25 years old last October, and to celebrate this anniversary we will be holding a summer celebration on Saturday 23rd June 2018 at The Nursery and, weather providing, on the school field. If you were part of our Nursery group as a parent, child or com-mittee member in the years since 1992, or were part of the amazing team that helped
to build our new building back in 2002 we would be so pleased to see you. So
many families have passed through our doors it would be impossible to invite individual people, but if you have been part of our success and have a free hour or so to enjoy after-noon tea, a glass of Pimms and listen to a Jazz Band, then
please come along. It would be absolutely lovely to see lots of familiar faces!
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FABB (Family Activities for Betchworth & Buckland) Circus Entertainment Sunday July 1st
Following the success of last Year’s Circus Skills Coaching, we are
excited to be hosting a similar event this year for the young residents of Betchworth & Buckland
Juggling, stilts, balancing tricks, diablos and lots more
circus fun with a professional circus skills coach
2.30pm – 3.30pm, Buckland Green
Tickets £5.00 per child
Suitable for children aged 3 – 10
(Children must be accompanied by an adult)
Limited availability, so please book in advance Contact Cat Martin ([email protected] or 07710 498 591)
Why not stay and join in the Betchworth & Buckland
Society Summer BBQ at 4pm To purchase bbq tickets contact Fiona Brindley 841005 or
The Betchworth and Buckland Society For the protection and conservation of the quality of life in Betchworth & Buckland
Booking essential as entrance by ticket only Members £10 (non-members £15) Children 5-12 half price
To purchase tickets contact Fiona Brindley 841005 or [email protected]
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♠ ♥ BUCKLAND BRIDGE CLUB ♦ ♣
Recent winners are as follows: 26th April: N/S: Vanessa Sadler & Jocelyn Morley E/W: Margaret Drury & Annick Wilcox 3rd May: N/S: Richards Pocock & Wheen E/W: Mike Foss & Kris Nasta 10th May: N/S: Vanessa Sadler & Jocelyn Morley E/W: Keith & Cilla Willey 17th May: N/S: Vanessa Sadler & Jocelyn Morley E/W: Julie Kamieniecka & Judith Riiser Congratulations to all concerned. We play duplicate bridge in the Reading Room each Thursday and start at 2.15pm, but please arrive and sit down no later than 2.05pm. For the Club website (with recent results), visit bridgewebs.com/Buckland
Please do not park in front of the village shop or at the bus stop, nor block access to Dungates Lane or to houses in the area.
Richard Wheen
DORKING MUSEUM IN JUNE
Family Activity – ‘Celebrate Dorking’: Make some beautiful bunting to reflect what you love about Dorking to hang in the Museum alongside the colourful #WeAreDorking “Community Quilt” from the Dorking Nursery School. Drop in between 10.30 a.m. and 3.00 p.m., Thursday 31st May or Friday 1st June. Celebrating Refugee Week: 21st-23rd June: an interactive art display, “There's no place like home”, by artist Sophia Cowx and Dorking Refugee Support Group. Even add your own creative responses. Also a short film and a leaflet giving the historical background to Dorking’s connections with refugees. Saturday 23rd June, outside the Museum, in Dorking's first Eye-to-Eye Experiment, visitors can find out “Where has the Human Connection Gone?”. ‘Dorking 1918’: WW1 centenary exhibition focusing on the end of the war: how the news was received and celebrated, how the dead were commemorated, and the long-term impact on the community. Includes biographies of nearly 1000 local casualties. Museum guided walks and tours are open for group bookings and Open Days. See website for details and advance booking. June Open Days: • 16th June, Town Centre Pub Walk, 6pm; • 17th June, The Deepdene Trail, 2pm; • 30th June, South Street Caves Tours, 10am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm. Dorking Museum is open Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 10am-4pm. 01306 876591.
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CHRISTIAN AID Christian Aid has been working around the clock to help those who have fled Myanmar to the camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, to prepare for the coming cyclone and monsoon season. Flooding, landslides and cyclones are expected which will destroy many of the temporary shelters set up since the mass movement of people started when violence escalated in Myanmar last August. Since then, about 687,000 people have crossed the border into Bangladesh. Together with its local partners, Christian Aid is training community camps to upgrade their fragile tents, and has started to distribute 15,500 shelter and tool kits. Christian Aid has identified areas likely to be affected by flooding and landslides so they can relocate people to safer ground. An overhaul of existing latrines and water points is underway to help prevent a major outbreak of waterborne diseases. Ram Kishan, Christian Aid’s Regional Emergency Manager South Asia, said: “People have lived through hell to get to the safety of the camps in Cox’s Bazar. Conditions are cramped and life is already very difficult. Now thousands are going to be hit with further heartache unless we can help them in time.” Christian Aid has been helping all communities displaced by the fighting in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, and displaced Rohingya Muslims and Hindus who have crossed the country’s border into Bangladesh. To donate to the Rohingya Crisis Appeal, visit www.christianaid.org.uk/emergencies
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Saint Petroc – the founder of Padstow, 4th June
If you are going to Cornwall this summer in search of peace and quiet, Petroc is the saint for you. Especially if you find Padstow a bit too crowded for your liking! He would have sympathised. This 6th century abbot is Cornwall’s most famous saint. Petroc set sail from South Wales, landed at Haylemouth, and founded a monastery at Lanwethinoc – now called Padstow, after him (Petroc’s Stow). Padstow must have been popular even in those days, because about 30 years later Petroc, in search of some peace and quiet, moved on to build another monastery at Little Petherick (Nanceventon). Here he must have decided to try some 6th century equivalent of ‘Fresh Expressions’, because he engaged with his local community by building a mill and a chapel. In time, Petroc began feeling crowded again. So he tramped off to the remote wilds of Bodmin Moor, where he lived as a hermit – until some 12 monks turned up to join him. Firmly, Petroc kept them all housed in a monastery on a hilltop, while he en-joyed his private space in a cell by the river. But even here Petroc was not alone. One day a terrified stag came rushing through the woods, pursued by the hunt. Petroc flung open the door of his cell, and the pant-ing animal took refuge. When the huntsmen arrived on the scene, they did not dare to argue with the famous holy man, and went their way. The stag’s gratitude made him tame, and Petroc would come to be portrayed with a stag as his special emblem. Petroc was buried in the monastery in Padstow but in c.1000 his shrine and relics, including his staff and bell, were translated to Bodmin. Here they have stayed ever since, except for a short, unplanned trip to Brittany in 1177, when they were stolen and carted off by a naughty Canon of the Church. Henry II intervened, and every-thing but a rib of Petroc was eventually returned.
THE MAGAZINE 50 YEARS AGO
Sadly, there do not seem to have been be any Magazines for the period from May till
December 1968. So this column will close down for the time being.
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JEAN PLASKETT - FLORAL DEMONSTRATION - 21ST
JUNE
Brockham Flower Club are excited to welcome members and visitors to this special demonstration evening. Jean is the President of Sussex Area of NAFAS and a renowned demonstrator of great repute. She is a fantastic flower arranger of both traditional and contemporary design and is always an amusing raconteur.
Brockham School Hall 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start
Visitor entry fee £8 Please contact Catriona Martin for further details about the evening or for information about joining Brockham Flower Club ([email protected] 07710 498 591).
JUNE GARDEN NOTES
With the final risk of late frosts now gone, you can now plant with confidence without an ear for a warning weather forecast. In spite of the erratic spring we endured this year, most plants have produced a good early flurry of growth. We have found some evergreens, such as pittosporum, have suffered. The damage done to the roots by the freezing March temperatures is often not visible until the foliage browns off a couple of months later. Perennials suffer far less in cold conditions – it is often soggy soil which rots them. Many gardeners have problems with keeping delphiniums, verbena and even the tougher agapanthus during wet winters. Rhododendrons and azaleas have produced a spectacular display this year – they preferred the wet spring! Take care if you keep them in pots, as they prefer a shady position. Acers also need shade; the leaves will often scorch in full sun, especially if unprotected on a south-facing heat-generating patio. In the vegetable patch, crops will be growing well. Keep up a regime of feeding, watering, pest control – and harvesting. Top up with extra plants as gaps appear. Many gardeners grow courgettes on composter areas with great success. They are so easy and grow like triffids. Lawns are lush at present. Mower settings should be moved higher as summer approaches, to help prevent scorching and scalping grass. Use a spot weeder for individual weeds. Reseed any bare patches – or lay turf for an instant effect in larger areas. Apart from newly repaired areas, avoid hosing as this will tend to make the lawn more reliant on constant care. There are plenty of other plants that are more deserving of your time for watering!
David Hogg, Buckland Nurseries
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BROCKHAM GREEN HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY After a very cold and wet Spring our gardens are now producing the growth and colour we had all hoped for. The weather improves in June so there are lots to keep on top of. Plants start to flourish but so do the weeds. Lawns won’t be growing so fast now as the weather starts to get warmer and drier. This is the time to plant your patio containers with half hardy annuals and tender perennials. Plant them now as the danger of frost has passed. Regular watering and feeding will give you a wonderful display throughout the summer.
W.I. TEAS ON THE GREEN AT BETCHWORTH
Sunday 3rd June, 2-5pm Cream Teas, Cakes, sausage rolls
and tea/coffee
Tombola and other stalls
WINDRUSH EXHIBITION - A TRIBUTE TO THE MIGRANTS
This month (June) marks 70 years since the Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks carrying hundreds of migrants from the Caribbean. The British Library opens its special Windrush Exhibition this month (1st June to 21st October). Key exhibits in the Windrush Exhibition include ER Braithwaite’s original typescript of To Sir, With Love, the autobiographical novel that became a film starring Sidney Poitier.