October 2015 - Hambleden Valley Churches

HAMBLEDEN VALLEY
Group Magazine
December 2013
Hambleden VALLEY
Oct 2015
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Serving the Communities of
Fawley
Fingest
Hambleden with Frieth and Skirmett
Medmenham
Turville
In This Issue
Group Letter
1
Group Notes and News
4
Hambleden11
Calendar14
Sunday Services
15
Frieth25
Turville26
From the Registers
26
Classified Advertisements
28
Church and Village Activities
and Contacts
30
Weekday Services
Holy Communion:
Turville: Wednesday 10.15 a.m., with
Ministry of Healing on 4th Wednesday
Holy Days (except Weds), see Calendar.
Cover: Autumn in the Valley © Sue Genfilli This page: Autumn Leaves
Morning Prayer:
Hambleden (Lady Chapel): Friday
9 a.m. (except in August)
Fawley: 1st Monday 9.45 a.m.
Emergencies:
If you are unable to contact the Group
Priests, please get in touch with your
churchwarden.
All contributions are welcome, to the
editor, Nigel Snell.
Telephone: 01491 571687
editor@hambleden-valley-churches.org.uk
4 The Stables, The Manor, Hambleden,
RG9 6SE
Please keep articles within 350 words.
Copy deadline is 15th of the month.
Printed by Higgs and Co., Henley.
Tel. 01491 419429
GROUP LETTER
What a warm, inviting description!
In our churches across the Hambleden
Valley our desire is to build community
with God at the centre and this month
we have a number of special services
and events where everyone is welcome
to do just that. If you have pets (or even
if you don’t) then come with them to our
community of animal lovers on the Green
at Turville for the Animal Blessing service
on Saturday 3rd October, 3pm.
If you love sport (or armchair sport!) the
Frieth Group Service on Sunday 18th
October, 9.50am will begin with the
blessing and cheering on of the runners in
the Frieth Hilly.
And if you would like to respond to Jesus’
invitation to ‘come away with me… to a
quiet place’ then we would be delighted to
welcome you to our one day Group Retreat
at Northend Village Hall, Saturday 10th
October 10-4pm.
Or come to one of our regular services, as
we gather together to explore the joy of
belonging, the delight of being known and
loved by God, the opportunity to give and
grow as we build community with Jesus at
the centre. We look forward to seeing you!
October 2015 Group Letter
I wonder how you
would
describe
community.
A
group of people
who share the
same postcode? A
gathering of friends
and
neighbours?
As I travel around
the
Hambleden
Valley
I meet people who are building community
in many ways: in schools, in homes, dogwalking, cycling and much more.
Recently in Turville we were visited by a
wonderful community of people from a Deaf
Church in London. The community
communicated by watching each other’s
lips, signing to each other; I was fascinated
to learn that some of our visitors belonged
to a deaf choir and would regularly sing
in church by signing the words of the
songs. The warmth and joy of this small
community communicated itself without
words.
Writer and pastor John Ortberg describes
community in the following way: ‘To
experience community is to know the joy
of belonging, the delight of being known
and loved, the opportunity for giving and
growing, the safety of finding a true home.’
God bless, Sue Morton
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GROUP NOTES AND NEWS
You will be assured of a very warm welcome
and if you’d like to invite someone who
might enjoy it - please do.
If you need directions or would like ask
about the evening please email sue.brice@
btconnect.com or call 01494 882084
Sue Brice
Licensed Lay Minister
www.hambleden-valley-churches.org.uk
Monday 14h September
Here we are, almost a month into retirement
although it feels more like ‘retiring’ if I’m
honest. We have so many memories of the
Hambleden Valley and the pattern of life
we enjoyed for 6 brief years is very much
with us.
We’re still reeling from the love and
generosity shown to us at our farewell
service in Turville Church. Our huge thanks
to everyone who sent us on our way with
wonderful presents including an olive tree
(by our front door), two stunning paintings
(pride of place in our new home), a banner
from Church Mice and to top it all, the most
amazingly extravagant cheque from you all.
Thank you so very much.
We would love to return your generosity
if and when you are coming this
way.
We’re wired up with internet,
mobile phone signal and a land line –
01747 858931.
Sarah has gone swimming this morning
and I have a Table Tennis session this
afternoon and my first ukulele lesson
tomorrow evening! There is also the
prospect of a cappuccino at the top of Gold
Hill. Impressed?
September is a time of new beginnings for the
Hambleden Valley and for us too. The
Shaftesbury Team have just welcomed a
new Rector, Rev Helen Dawes and family,
and we look forward to hearing news of your
own appointment process. I am joining a
surplice(!) of retired vicars in Shaftesbury
Kindle a flame of Sacred Love
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exciting new time of informal
fellowship, praise and worship.
The third Thursday evening of each month
7.30 p.m in the barn at Mousells in Fingest.
There will be time for Scripture, for worship,
time to pray, to sing and time to have
refreshments and share fellowship too.
I have been inspired by the wonderful
words of Charles Wesley’s hymn ‘O Thou
who camest from above’ and Luke 24:32.
So the theme for the evening will be around
kindling the flame of sacred love within
us, especially when we come together in
worship. The words of the hymn talk of
letting the flame burn for the glory of Jesus,
“with inextinguishable blaze and trembling
to its source return, in humble prayer and
fervent praise”.
This is my prayer for our evening together.
“Didn’t our hearts burn within us as He
talked with us on the road and explained
the Scriptures to us.” (Luke 24:32)(NLT)
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and for the next few months will have the
unfamiliar and enjoyable experience of
sitting with Sarah in church!
With love and thanks.
Jeremy and Sarah
signed copies of his book The End of
Empire for sale with the profits going to the
RBL. The sale of tickets to the talk plus the
donations from Martin Bell’s book raised
almost £1000 for the RBL.
The next event in the RBL calendar
will be the Annual Dinner on Friday 9th
October. This will be in the Hambleden
Village Hall. Pre-dinner drinks will be
available from 7.30pm with the dinner
scheduled to start at 8pm. The cost is
£20 per person. Tickets can be booked
with Teresa Russ at Bacres Lodge,
Hambleden,
Henley-on-Thames,
RG9
6RY. She can also be contacted at teresa.
russ53@hotmail.co.uk or on 01491 571451.
Cheques should be made payable to
Hambleden and District RBL. There will
be a raffle on the night and any donations
as prizes would be gratefully received
by Teresa.
The
branch’s
Remembrance
Service
Royal British Legion
Members of the Hambleden RBL and
supporters from around the valley
enjoyed a very spirited and lively talk
on 4th September from Martin Bell and
Alfred Waller who gave a 2 sided view
of their National Service in the Suffolk
Regiment during the Cyprus Emergency:
Martin was a Lance Corporal whereas
Alfred was a junior Officer. They both
gave vivid descriptions of their experiences
ranging from operating vehicle checkpoints,
which included turning back a government
minister, to searching monasteries and
tracking down a mysterious missing
grandfather clock! Martin kindly donated
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Spaces available on The Church Mice
trip to Salisbury Cathedral. Saturday
October 10th.
This year’s Church Mice Sunday school coach
trip is to Salisbury Cathedral. Their education
team have set up a great day for us including
some stone rubbing, a child friendly tour of
the cathedral and a look around their famous
Magna Carta exhibition. The trip is funded
and open to all local children so why not come
along and have some fun? We would love
you to join us!
For further information or to book a place
please email saraharman@hotmail.co.uk or
tel 01491639211.
at St Mary’s church Fawley will take
November.
place
on
Sunday
8th
Members are requested to parade outside
the church at 10.40am. Members will
be led into the church by the Turville,
Medmenham and Hambleden standards.
Refreshments will be served after the
service. The house to house collections in
support of the Poppy Appeal are taking
place from 24th October to 7th November.
Collection boxes will be available in local pubs
and the village shop.
The Branch’s Annual General Meeting will
be held in the Hambleden Village Hall at
7.30pm on Wednesday 18th November.
Suggestions for agenda items should be
forwarded to Gillian Loveridge on 01491
638895 or at mail@dandgloveridge.plus.
com. Cheese and wine will be served.
The evening will be rounded off with
a presentation from the Army Presentation
Team.
Ray Jones
Hambleden Valley Garden Club
After meeting for lunch at the Golden Ball,
members visited the garden at Crockmore
House, Fawley. Julia Kirkham welcomed
the group describing her connection
with Christopher Bradley Hole, who
designed the garden, and with Orchard
Dene Nursery, and then her own studies
and qualification as a garden designer. Blue
skies, sunshine and a gently stirring breeze
enhanced the spectacle from the terrace of this
extensive and massed planting of grasses and
perennials, and it was a delight to wander and
admire the plants in the large beds, intersected
with paths, and the rest of the garden, and
then to enjoy a delicious tea.
In October we shall be visiting the Wittington
Estate (SAS) at Medmenham and the winter
programme will begin with a talk by Timothy
Walker on Plants, Borders and Gardens.
For enquiries please ring 01491 638691. Lizzie Arnott
Quiz
It’s that time of the year, folks – the annual
Village Hall Quiz, again hosted by the
incomparable, inscrutable, incorruptible
Ken Cugnoni, and again prizes will be
bounteous and the food delicious!
The evening to keep free is Friday,
December
4. Tickets will be available
in November from Hambleden Stores,
but folks wishing to avoid disappointment
by booking a table early need merely
contact me.
Chris Whitehead 01491-577067
There’s more to Wycombe than John
Lewis!
Until a few months ago, like many of us, I
knew very little about the Council to which
we all pay thousands each year by way of
Council Tax in the hope that our bins are
emptied weekly! However, since becoming
a Councillor I have begun to realise what
an enterprising organisation our district
council is. Several large projects have been
developed on Council land, and under
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Henley store), and a coach station that will
be a hub for coaches to London, Heathrow
and all points north. These projects will be
completed in January-March 2016.
Already opened is the international
standard athletics track and field arena at
Little Marlow. This development includes
an innovative conversion of the original
agricultural barn, utilising converted ships
containers as changing rooms, slotted into
the shed. It was recently shortlisted for Best
Conversion and Best Accessible Building
Awards. Last year nearly £20m was spent
on these projects.
Another development of which you may
be aware is the large Next superstore on
Cressex Island, just past John Lewis and
Asda. Another large national retailer will
soon be established on the adjoining plot
– a ‘catch’ for Wycombe as we compete
with Watford and Reading for such
establishments.
The above projects (and others) have
all been funded by Wycombe District
Council, using its accumulated reserves.
It is essential that the Council develops its
assets to generate income streams as grants
from central Government will cease within
the next few years, and the Council will have
to be completely self-funding. At the same
time, it will have to continue to satisfy the ever
increasing demands and expectations on
its services while maintaining a low Council
Tax. Squaring the circle!
If you would like to discuss this, or indeed
anything else to do with Council activities,
you can always meet me at the covered
market held on the second Saturday of
each month in Hambleden Village Hall.
Chris Whitehead, District Councillor
Squirrel to see this. It comes from America in the
part that has a similar climate to ours and vast
forests of deciduous trees, so consequently when
the Victorians introduced it here it went into
overdrive, out competing and out breeding our
native Red Squirrel which was more adapted to
the northern conifer. It also brought in Squirrel
pox which kills the reds but to which the greys
are immune so our land was wide open for
them and they made the most of it. How many
of us have seen a Red Squirrel? Yet 150 years
ago they were everywhere. The only hope is to
encourage the return of the Pine Martin which
prefers eating Greys to Reds. The Greys are larger
and less agile and so easier to catch. I would love
to have Pine Martins back in our woods though
it might worry the keepers. However Martins
specialize in eating mammals so they wouldn’t
bother too much about Pheasants.
Then what of the Muntjac? That small deer from
S.E.Asia. Since being brought here at the turn
of the century they have spread throughout the
south of England adding to the damage that our
native deer already do. We need a top predator
like the European Lynx. This was here until
the middle ages and so is part of our wildlife.
It would reduce the masses of deer naturally.
It is ridiculous that our top predator now is an
animal as small as the Fox. Like the Beaver
being brought back to our rivers the Lynx would
ecologically change our woodlands for the better.
They do not attack humans and are so secretive
that they would probably never be seen.
There are many other stupid introductions,
Mink for instance from America which have
devastated our populations of Water Voles. Then
there is the American Signal Crayfish which has
been let loose in our rivers and by bringing
in disease has virtually wiped out our white
clawed Crayfish. Sadly the American variety has
already been found in our Brook. Thankfully we
have as yet not got the Racoon that charming
American with a face rather like a badger and
which is taking over Germany and parts of
northern France,no doubt it won’t be long before
some idiot lets one escape and we will have
them here.
Come Back All is Forgiven
There is nothing worse, conservation wise, than
introducing a foreign animal or plant into our
ecosystem. You have only to look at the Grey
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We have got the White Tailed Eagle back in
Scotland and the Red Kite here so lets hope that
the Beaver comes back successfully and dare I
say it perhaps even the Wolf at least in the wilds
of Scotland.
Nigel Snell
18th October in the Village Hall. A great
initiative from Diane and Amy in the
Stores. It is competitive. You bake at home
and entries to the competition should be
dropped off at the village hall between
11am and noon. Judging starts at 12.30.
The hall opens to the public at 2pm when
tea, coffee and bake off cakes will be on
sale raising money to help the final push
to reach the funds needed for the rewiring
project. The categories in the competition
are available with an entry form by visiting
Hambleden Stores. The entry forms must
be returned to the Stores no later than 11th
October.
On Sunday Sept 6th church teas were
wonderfully augmented by a concert
held on the south lawn in front of church
under blue skies and warm sunshine.
Wind players from Reading Symphony
HAMBLEDEN Verging on….
The parish church is closed until Advent
(29th November). You are invited to attend
Sunday services in other Group churches.
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On a warm late-summer evening our
bell ringers rang for Her Majesty the
Queen on the day she became our
longest reigning monarch.
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The Great Hambleden ‘Bake Off’ Sunday
Continued on page 18
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CALENDAR FOR OCTOBER 2015
Thurs 1
Fri 2
Sat 3
Sun 4
Mon 5
Tues 6
Wed 7
Fri 9
Sat 10
Sun 11
Tues 13
Wed 14
Thurs 15
Fri 16
Sun 18
Tues 20
Wed 21
Fri 23
Sun 25
Tues 27
Wed 28
Fri 30
Sun 1
Mon 2
Tues 3
Wed 4
Thurs 5
Fri 6
Sun 8
Mon 9
Tues 10
Wed 11
Fri 13
2.30pm, Tea afternoon, URC, Pheasants Hill.
7.30pm, Frieth Fellowship.
9am, Morning Prayer, Hambleden (Lady Chapel).
8pm, Turville PCC.
3pm, Animal Blessing, Turville Village Green.
Trinity 18. Valley Services:
10am, Valley Communion, URC, Pheasants Hill.
11.30am-3.30pm, Frieth Natural History Society Open Day, Village Hall, Frieth.
6pm, Oasis, Fingest
9.45am, Fawley Fellowship, Round Hill House, Fawley.
3-4.30pm, Hambleden Valley Churches Tea Club, Parmoor.
10.15am, Eucharist, Turville.
6pm, Prayers for the vacancy, Fingest.
9am, Morning Prayer, URC, Pheasants Hill.
2-3pm, Barney’s Toddler Group, Frieth Village Hall.
10am-4pm, Group Retreat Day, Northend Village Hall.
Trinity 19. Hambleden church closed for rewiring.
Harvest Festivals 11am, Fawley and Medmenham.
3-4.30pm, Hambleden Valley Churches Tea Club, Parmoor.
10.30am, Silent Reflections, Fingest.
10.15am, Eucharist, Turville.
6pm, Prayers for the vacancy, Fingest.
7.30pm, New Informal Worship, Mousells, Fingest.
9am, Morning Prayer,URC, Pheasants Hill.
Trinity 20. Valley Service:
9.50am, Blessing of Frieth Hilly race followed by 10.10am, Valley Choral Eucharist, Frieth.
3-4.30pm, Hambleden Valley Churches Tea Club, Parmoor.
10.15am, Eucharist with prayers for healing, Turville.
6pm, Prayers for the vacancy, Fingest.
9am, Morning Prayer, URC, Pheasants Hill.
Trinity 21. End of British Summer Time.
3-4.30pm, Hambleden Valley Churches Tea Club, Parmoor.
10.15am, Eucharist, Turville.
6pm, Prayers for the vacancy, Fingest.
9am, Morning Prayer, URC, Pheasants Hill.
CALENDAR FOR NOVEMBER 2015
All Saints. Valley Services:
10am, Valley Choral Eucharist, Turville.
6pm, Oasis, Fingest.
7.30pm, All Soul’s Service to remember the departed, Turville.
10.30am, Silent Reflections, Fingest.
3-4.30pm, Hambleden Valley Churches Tea Club, Parmoor.
10.15am, Eucharist, Turville.
6pm, Prayers for the vacancy, Fingest.
2.30pm, Tea afternoon, URC, Pheasants Hill.
7.30pm, Frieth Fellowship.
9am, Morning Prayer, URC, Pheasants Hill.
Remembrance Sunday. Valley Services:
8am, BCP Holy Communion, Frieth.
9am, Remembrance Sunday Prayers, Fingest and Frieth.
10.40am, Royal British Legion Service of Remembrance, Fawley.
7pm, Prayers for Peace, Mousells.
3-4.30pm, Hambleden Valley Churches Tea Club, Parmoor.
10.15am, Eucharist, Turville.
6pm, Prayers for the vacancy, Fingest.
9am, Morning Prayer, URC, Pheasants Hill.
2-3pm, Barney’s Toddler Group, Frieth Village Hall.
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Sunday Services This Month
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Men’s day at church teas August Bank
Holiday Monday. Thank you to everyone
who played a part in this event which
took place on a miserably wet day.
Nonetheless, teas made £590, the car
washers and barbecue made £1043. Wine
sales were high. A very kind benefactor
doubled it. We added another two £5,000
red bricks to the thermometer which is
gradually climbing as you will see. There
is a problem with what to do with 37 leftbehind china plates. Please, please collect
them in the next few weeks. Then on a
date to be decided we will have a Greek
evening at which the china plates will
feature in a noisy climax.
……………………….
The evening of wit and whimsy was a huge
success, ranging from the highest quality
musical performances by Hambleden
youngsters, to roars of laughter from a welloiled packed hall intent on enjoying a local
entertainment evening. The first wit and
whimsy was a challenge for the organiser
Gwyneth Ashcroft. The outrageous
success she made of this one will make it
difficult to get tickets for the next. Those will
be bought as fast as Glasto tickets by those
who attended this one. Altogether a great
Hambleden community event.
……………………….
The daring rewiring project. Report 10.
Work started quietly last month. Tom
Flynn, head of his family firm of electricians
who specialise in rewiring historic churches
Continued from page 11
Orchestra treated us to a fine musical
selection of works of Haydn, Farkas,
Gounod. It was a magical and memorable
concert, into which walked a number of
earnest sombre-faced ambulators each
with a regulation ski pole, who paused, sat,
took tea, listened, and later resumed their
journey smiling.
……………………….
Good news. Your verger has been
given exclusive access to 240 new and
hitherto unseen Hambleden Christmas
cards called ‘Christmas at Hambleden’, by the
outstanding artist Judith Fletcher. They are
stunningly good and artistically like no other
previous Christmas cards of the church. These
may be seen on the church notice board and
bought at Pheasants Coombe House, Pheasants
Hill. When you send these cards you will
receive phone calls from the lucky recipients
asking where they can be bought. First
come first served……. All sales donated to
the rewiring appeal due to the generosity of
the artist.
……………………….
Great news….the return of Imperial
College London’s choir. The leaders
of this choir have asked if they can
return to give a Christmas concert in church.
This will be a free-to-attend concert, in
appreciation of all that so many people have
done to help the Rewiring Appeal, also to thank
so many donors for their contributions. Date is
Saturday December 5th
Sat 10th Oct.
10am-3pm
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every one an absolute star. It all started as
a fund raising event for Hambleden church
but quickly gained momentum and success
as a great social gathering for the whole
valley, with a superb quality of acts which
surprised many of the over 100 guests. The
applause and shouts for more rang long
and loud.
Gwyneth Ashcroft got us going with
a poem written just for the event
followed by 2 keyboard pieces by Jaz
Presho. Our youngest performer (9) Eve
Burton sang a solo in front of her biggest
audience ever and then Charles Hussey
played all 6 parts of his Hiawatha tale –
hilarious. Our first guitar duo, popstars
Connor Garnet & Ollie Davie, wowed us
with their latest hits, including a new release,
followed by councillor Chris Whitehead
who had us rolling in the aisles with his
chocolate cake dittie. A lovely cockney
rendition by Jo McConville and then the
secret detective, Amanda Sharkey, looking
for our verger’s wellies laughed our way to
the interval. Generous raffle prizes from the
Dog & Badger, Stag & Huntsman, Luxters,
Presho Pilates and Danesfield House were
sold at the break and the second half started
with an outrageously funny, anciently
equipped Chinese gun boat duo of Kate
and Charles Hussey. Christine, with too
many to mention bar dreamcoated Evelyn,
Hambleden Harmony brought us to the wit
of Nigel Snell. Young Rafe soothed us with
his superb jazz saxophone, Alan humorously
recounted a 1st time for him – some time
ago, and then a quite standing ovations
worth of Tom Ellis on classical guitar –
unbelievable performance. Jo Flower’s
progress poem brought us powerfully to
earth and the finale with Mae Bethnal and
half of her Imperial College Chamber choir
brought the house down – sensational.
£1282 was gathered but we are still talking
about the invaluable experience we all had.
What a fantastic community we share here
in our valley. Thank you to Yvonne, Allela,
Margaret and Mardi - canape makers, Jude,
undertook what he called preliminaries.
The appeal has now passed £200,000
and there are still some events which will
help us towards the £250,000 needed for
completion of all intentions, particularly the
redecoration of the church interior.
On November 7th there is the exciting
prospect of the Pop-Up restaurant in the
Village Hall. There will be a three course
gourmet dinner, with cocktails on arrival
and coffee and petit fours. There will be an
auction with some very attractive auction
lots as well as a silent auction. It will be run
by Wild Seasoning - google to see more
about them. Full details of this special
prestigious evening from jillyholland@
gmail.com
In December there is a prospect of a
Susie Pringle cashmere sale - date to be
announced.
Nearer to Christmas and perhaps
when the Christmas tree is lit, there
are murmurings of a Village Square
hot-mulled-wine-fest possibly with mistletoe
on sale (if we can find some) and hot mince
pies.
……………………….
Christingle: because of the sad departure of
Emma West, we are in need of a volunteer
who would make a small team to meet in
the Village Hall to create the christingle
oranges topped with a candle. Could you
do this? If so, please call 571324.
WIT & WHIMSEY in our Hambleden
Village Hall
What a fantastic 17 star evening! Seventeen
performances involving 35 people and
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Nick, Richard & Tom with the bar, Pat for
the keyboard, Sharon on tickets, Jamie &
Jules for hall prepping and Gray Joliffe for
a jolly poster! Great fun and super night
out.
Everyone calls it a winter bourne
The shop is run by lovely Diane
Who gives dogs a free biscuit, my dog is
a fan!
You can stop for a coffee and have a chat
Because Hambleden people are friendly
like that
The Stag and Huntsman is the local pub
If you’re an Agassi, join the tennis club
Roddy Baird and the bell-ringers, no,
they’re not a group
They are our campanology troop
They climb up a ladder to ring the bells
A mathematician’s harmony creates the
swells
In villager’s hearts in reaction to the peal
So loud on occasions they hear it in Brazil
So many things filmed here, let me see
Agatha Christie and Nanny McPhee
Midsummer Murders, 101 Dalmatians
Ms Wit & Mr Whimsey
It’s only a 40 minute drive from Heathrow
It’s in the Chilterns, don’t you know?
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With rabbits and muntjac but alas no
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Yet sometimes you’ll have no electricity
there
Mobile coverage unlike the cricket
Is so minimal it’s a sticky wicket
The chalk stream dries up so often we
mourn
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And many more dramatizations
Every Monday Fran has a pilates class
To realign your spine and firm up your arse
Christine, the organist, runs the church choir
Join the WI if you so desire
Each month there’s MOT – Men On Tuesdays
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And we’re celebrating today because here’s the
crunch
We wanted to bring everyone together
And to raise money, just a bit, no pressure
To redecorate our church, it’s large for a village
And we’d rather not have to stoop and pillage
In your purses and wallets, when we hope that
your hearts
Will want to give generously to help kick start
Alan Armstrong, our verger’s, wonderful plans
To keep this church running in our beautiful land.
busy agenda. Nikky Mainds read the Minutes
of the July meeting, which seemed a long
time ago. Since then there have been the visit
to Waddesdon, the visits to Lacey’s Farm and
the Magistrate’s Court at Wycombe. August
has been a holiday month, and now we look
forward to our busy month ahead. We have
the Centenary Party on the 16th September
at the Sports Pavilion, when we will have a
celebration tea with a tree planting ceremony
to commemorate the 100 years since the W.I.
was inaugurated. This will start at 3pm. Then on
the 22nd we have a Bridge Drive in the Village
Hall to raise funds. We still have a few tables
vacant, and these can be booked by telephoning
Liz Jarvis on 01491 412111. Stuart Lodge has
announced that there is to be a special Craft
exhibition in Wycombe in 2016 to raise funds
for ACWW and members were asked to plan
to make something special which will first be
exhibited then sent abroad. This is not until
2016, so plenty of time to think and prepare!
Lois Howden gave an amusing account of her
day at Buckingham Palace garden party which
she enjoyed enormously, and managed to speak
to Sophie, Duchess of Wessex.
Written especially for Wit & Whimsey by Liane
Carter (good friend of Gwyneth’s). Liane is on
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Hambleden WI September Meeting
Frances Emmett welcomed members and
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Molly Carter is organising a digital phone
workshop so that members can improve their
skills, and there will be three sessions at £7.50
each time. Starting at the end of October.
Margaret has organised a special Christmas
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the coach will hold 33, and we have 20 names
already, members who wish to go and were not
at the meeting should contact her on 01491
575670. Althorp will be specially decorated, and
it is a very special afternoon.
Jo Martin then introduced Kamran Ian who
represented SERV, Service by Emergency Rider
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job as an airline pilot, and become a volunteer
motorcycle rider for the charity. They deliver
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collection was taken from members for SERV
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Sarah Williams for his inspiring presentation,
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FRIETH
Quarter Peal Celebration.
can see from our group photograph that most
of us look quite normal.
Pete Wiltshire
From Hambleden Parish Council
Been wondering what all the bell ringing
has been about recently? It was to mark
the 600th anniversary of the St Mary’s
tenor bell; this half ton of bronze has been
sounding over the Hambleden Valley since
the battle of Agincourt.
To mark the occasion, we rang a quarter
peal. This involves 1260 changes in a set
progression. For an inexperienced band
like us it was not easy, but we’ve been
practicing hard since January and on
Saturday 5 September we finally did it. The
band members were:
Sandy Doggart - tenor
Dan Riddoch - bell 5 – conducting
Barbara Oldham – bell 4 –tower captain
Gay Doggart – bell 3
Helen Riddoch – bell 2
Pete Wiltshire – treble.
Others have filled in during the year from
time to time:
Linda Green, James Oldham, Karen
Dimascio, Brian Helweg Larsen, Ben
Allen, Maureen Cleary, Sheila Bruce (High
Wycombe), and Charles Botting (High
Wycombe), Colin Blaney (from Australia),
John Walton (Wooburn).
For the anoraks: our quarter was completed in
44 minutes and it consisted of eleven extents
of Bob Doubles.
If you think that you also might like to join the
600 year old fraternity of Hambleden ringers ,
come along to our open day on January 16th,
(yes, that’s January!) between 2 to 3pm. You
A meeting was held on Monday 20th July
with the Environment Agency regarding
fencing of the Hamble Brook. The meeting
was very well attended by local residents, all
concerned about the plans, which involves
fences being put on each side of the Brook
for the majority of the length, due to the
poor water quality and the need to achieve
“good” status by 2027. Full minutes of the
meeting can be found here: http://www.
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FRIETH
Frieth Fete – August Bank Holiday
Monday
The weather was inclement, but this did
not dampen our spirits!It is always lovely to
take part in such a happy annual event – it
is an opportunity to meet with the community.
The Church stall raised £200 from the sale
of jams, guess the number of packets of
sweets, plants, soaps and an open garden
with a raffle.
Many thanks go to Ginny and Alan Druce for
opening their garden to the public and
holding a raffle, ably helped by Val and
David Hussey, and Judy Hunt who helped
run the stall in the Village Hall.
Maybe the sun will shine next year!!
Jane Wheeler
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TURVILLE
TURVILLE
Farewell
On the 19th Aug. Wednesday morning service
we took a group photo and gave farewell gifts
to Sarah & Jeremy vowing never to forget each
other. It seems that there is a Wednesday service
in their new church, too, and, no doubt, Sarah
will be roped in to make the coffee so she’ll soon
feel at home. We will all think of one another. It
was a sad but also a happy time laughter and
tears go together don’t they?
P. Harper
From The Registers
Holy Baptism
Aug 23
Sophie Veda Mary Turner
Sept 13 Corey Stiles
Frieth
Hambleden
Holy Matrimony
Sept 19 Katie Osborn-Jones
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Hambleden
Rest in Peace
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Weddings, birthdays, Commemorations.
Nigel Snell a craft member of the
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Telephone 01491 571687 or e-mail
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Opening Hours Monday - Sunday
Lunch :
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Dinner:
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Afternoon Tea:
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CHURCH AND VILLAGE ACTIVITIES AND CONTACTS
Hambleden Valley Group of Churches
Frieth (St John the Evangelist )
Group Rector: Vacancy
Churchwarden: Judy Hunt,
01494 882227, ajh.claypit1@btinternet.com
Curate: The Revd Sue Morton, 07808
517347, suemorton131@gmail.com
Village Hall Bookings: Angela Detsiny
01494 881176 friethvillagehall@gmail.com
Licensed Lay Ministers: Sue Brice, 01494
882084, sue.brice@btconnect.com;
Jenny Roughan, 01494 456242,
jenny.roughan@hotmail.co.uk,
John Kimberley 01491 413155
lordkimberley@gmail.com
Uniformed organisations: Lesley Ansell
01494 882665 (after 4 pm)
Director of Music and Choir:
Christine Wells BEM, 01491 571588,
c@wells.vnworks.net
Rainbows and Brownies: ,
Mrs Lesley Ansell, Rainbows now meet on
Mondays from 5pm - 6pm
friethrainbows@hotmail.co.uk 01494 882665
Miss Katherine Gomme now runs Brownies
Brownies now meet on Mondays from 6pm
- 7.30pm
friethbrownies@hotmail.com 07545549910
Group Treasurer: David Napier, 01491
574230, david_napier@btopenworld.com
Frieth Natural History Society:
Alan Gudge 01494 881464
Parish Visitor: Jenny North, 01494 881580,
north@frieth.entadsl.com
Frieth Village Society: Caroline Walker
01494 882333
Group Administrator: Penny McLeish,
01491 571288, penny_mcleish@hotmail.com
Frieth Pre-School:
www.friethpreschool.co.uk Monday to
Wednesday 8.30-3.30 and Thursday
and Friday 8.30-12.30. Kirstin Chaplin or
Donna Watkins 07928 186738
frieth-preschool@outlook.com
Baptisms: Vicky Hollier 01491 638760
vickyhollier@aol.com
Tea Club: St. Katharine’s, Parmoor,
Tuesdays, 3 - 4.30pm
Sue Brice, 01494 882084, sue.brice@dsl.pipex.
com or Gillian Loveridge, 01491 638895,
mail@dandgloveridge.plus.com
Hambleden (St Mary the Virgin)
Churchwarden:
Michael Tebbot, 01494 882261,
m.tebbot@gmtw.co.uk
Website:
www.hambleden-valley-churches.org.uk
Verger:
Alan Armstrong, 01491 571324,
alan@eurolibraries.com
Fawley (St Mary the Virgin)
Bell Ringing: Fri 7.45pm practice, Barbara
Oldham 01491 571452,
barbara@EasySaveAndEarn.co.uk
Churchwarden: David Napier,
01491 574230,
david_napier@btopenworld.com
Village Hall Bookings: Jamie Baker
01491 410669, www.hambledenvillagehall.org
Village Hall Bookings:
Margaret Hope,
0776 8426625
Women’s Institute:
President Frances Emmett
01491 881600
Pilates: Mondays 11 – 12 Fran Presho
07951 019594
Fingest (St Bartholomew)
Bridge Club: Fridays 1.30 – 4.30
Frances Cugnoni 01491 576409
Churchwardens:
Brian Barnes, 01494 882613,
brian@navdac.freeserve.co.uk
Hambleden Social and Sports Club:
Open daily from 8 pm Pat Eldridge
01491 576067
Jill Dean, 01491 638678, jill.dean50@sky.com
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Tennis Club: Jenny Sanderson
01491 575883 jennysanderson@talktalk.net
Turville (St Mary the Virgin)
Churchwarden: Anne Jones, 01491
639344,
annejones.tur@btopenworld.com
Tennis Coaching: Kate Borthwick
07980565636
Bell Ringing: Mon 8pm practice,
Linda Green, 01491 638650
Royal British Legion: PGillian Loveridge
(Secretary) 01491 638895 or Jonathan Mason
(Membership) 01491 578571
Yoga: Monday 7pm-8.30pm
Debbie Flavell 01491 414403
debby@debbyflavell.com
Indoor Market: Hambleden, 2nd Saturday in
Month (except January)
Circle Dance Thursday 7pm – 8.30pm
Debby Flavell 01491 414403
debby@debbyflavell.com
Sunday School: Sara Harman
01491 639211
Turville Northend
Village Hall Bookings: Susie Phillips
Parish Council Contacts
Hambleden: Parish Clerk Lorna Coldwell
01494 528443 clerk@hambleden.org.uk
www.hambleden.org.uk
Medmenham: Parish Clerk Carole Burslem
01494 449215 mpc.clerk@gmail.com
Medmenham (St Peter and St Paul)
Churchwardens: Dennis Harwood,
01628 810143,
dennis.harwood411@btinternet.com
Angela Magee 01628 484043
angela.magee@yahoo.co.uk
Turville: Parish Clerk Deirdre Hansen
01494 562254 turvillepc@tiscali.co.uk
Fawley: Parish Clerk Mrs. M Hope 01491
411783
Village Hall Bookings: Emma Tentori
07759 014396
Uniformed organisations: Group Scout
Leader Christine Hockley 01628 472244
Meetings on Fridays: Beavers: 5.15-6.15pm,
Cubs: 6.30-8pm, Scouts 8-10pm
Medmenham Matters: Jo Baxter, 01491
573901, medmenhammatters@yahoo.co.uk
Magazine details
Editor: Nigel Snell, 01491 571687
editor@hambleden-valley-churches.org.uk
or nigel@redbird.org.uk
New subscriptions: Penny McLeish
01491 571288, penny_mcleish@hotmail.com
Advertising Manager: David Napier,
01491 574230, david_napier@btopenworld.
com
Pheasants Hill (United Reformed
Church)
Pre-School Playgroup:
(Thurs 9.15-11.45am)
Fran Keene, 01491 638208
Parents and Toddlers:
(Wed 10-11.30am)
Katie Deakin, 01491 578796
Distributors:
Fawley: Hilary Beck-Burridge, 01491 413171;
Fingest: Brian Barnes, 01494 882613;
Frieth: Tony Parkins, 01494 882170;
Hambleden: Samantha Webb, 01491 414418;
Medmenham: Jim Tilbury, 01628 487135;
Mill End: Robert Spicer, 01491 577747;
Northend: Susie Phillips, 01491639584;
Elizabeth Arnott, 01491 638337,
Cayla Twemlow, 01491 638591;
Pheasants Hill: Kate Hussey, 01491 576913;
Skirmett: Bessie Webb, 01491 638574;
Southend: Margaret Drage, 01491 638384;
Turville: Rosie Rosier, 01491 638329;
Woodend: Helen Balkwell, 01628 471403.
Skirmett
Village Hall Bookings: Susan Walker
01491 638690 www.skirmettvillagehall.org
Pilates: Mon and Weds 11.15am – 12.15 pm
Julia Farey 07747 825 830
Hambleden Valley Garden Club: Meetings
Oct-Mar on first Tuesday each month at Skirmett
Village Hall 7.30. Contact Celia Warren 01491
638691 or Susan Walker 01491 638690.
Postal Distributor: Caroline Cook, 01491
571214.
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