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11 June
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).
When we arrived safely Because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.
Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wider seas
Where storms will show your mastery;
Where losing sight of land, We shall find the stars.
We ask You to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push into the future In strength, courage, hope, and love.
Attributed to Sir Francis Drake,
16th Century
GRACE OF THE MONTH
O Lord, the merciful and good,
Bless and sanctify our food.
Grant they to us may wholesome be, And make us thankful unto thee.
POEM OF THE MONTH
Deep in the study Of eugenics
We find that fabled
Fowl, the Phoenix.
The wisest bird As ever was,
Rejecting other
Mas and Pas,
It lays one egg, Not ten or twelve,
And when it’s hatched it,
Out pops itself.
Ogden Nash
THOUGHT OF THE MONTH
Children have clearly reached
a critical stage of their
development when they stop asking where they came from
and refuse to tell you where
they are going.
5 June 2017
June Diary
Page
Thur 1st 7.45pm Women’s Institute 21
Fri 2nd St. Erasmus 14
Sun 4th Coldharbour Band at Leith Hill Place 16
Thur 8th General Election day
Sun 11th 2-5pm WI Teas on the Green 21
Mon 12th Wellbeing day at Leith Hill Place 16
Sun 18th Fathers’ Day at Leith Hill Place 16
Thur 22nd 12 noon Midsummer Lunch in Reading Room 8
Sat
12.30-5.30pm Brockham Open Gardens 20
24th 4pm Organ recital in St Michael’s 21
Wed 28th 2-4pm Drop-in teas at Hamilton Room 11
Fri 30th 7.30pm Friends of St Mary’s wine-tasting 9
FROM THE REGISTERS
FUNERALS AND BURIALS 27th April Norman Douglas Fries, formerly of Newdigate, who died on 8th March, aged 76. Service in St Michael’s, followed by burial in the
Burial Ground.
BURIAL OF ASHES 20th May Ethel Maude (Gill) Long who died on
13th October 2016 aged 97,
formerly of Ridge Close, Betchworth
BAPTISMS 14th May Amber Grace Watkins, St Michael’s
Amber Grace Watkins
with parents
6 June 2017
PASTORAL LETTER
Extract from Archbishops’ Pastoral Letter to Parishes and Chaplaincies of the
Church of England, for the General Election
“Our Christian heritage, our current choices and our obligations to future generations
and to God’s world will all play a shaping role. If our shared British values are to
carry the weight of where we now stand and the challenges ahead of us, they must
have at their core cohesion, courage and stability.
Cohesion is what holds us together. The United Kingdom, when at its best, has been
represented by a sense not only of living for ourselves, but by a deeper concern for
the weak, poor and marginalised, and for the common good. At home that includes education for all, the need for urgent and serious solutions to our housing challenges,
the importance of creating communities as well as buildings, and a confident and
flourishing health service that gives support to all - especially the vulnerable - not
least at the beginning and end of life. Abroad it is seen in many ways, including the 0.7% Aid commitment, properly applied in imaginative ways, standing up for those
suffering persecution on grounds of faith, and our current leading on campaigns
against slavery, trafficking, and sexual violence in conflicts.
Courage, which includes aspiration, competition and ambition, should guide us into
trading agreements that, if they are effective and just, will also reduce the drivers for
mass movements of peoples. We must affirm our capacity to be an outward looking
and generous country, with distinctive contributions to peacebuilding, development, the environment and welcoming the stranger in need. Our economic and financial
systems at home and abroad should aim to be engines of innovation, not simply
traders for their own account. The need for a just economy is clear, but there is also
the relatively new and influential area of ‘just finance’, and there are dangers of an economy over-reliant on debt, which risks crushing those who take on too much.
Courage also demands a radical approach to education, so that the historic failures of
technical training and the over-emphasis on purely academic subjects are rebalanced,
growing productivity and tackling with vigour the exclusion of the poorest groups from future economic life.
Stability, an ancient and Benedictine virtue, is about living well with change. Stable
communities will be skilled in reconciliation, resilient in setbacks and diligent in sustainability, particularly in relation to the environment. They will be ones in which
we can be collectively a nation of ‘glad and generous hearts’. To our concern for
housing, health and education as foundations for a good society, we add marriage,
the family and the household as foundational communities, which should be nurtured and supported as such, not just for the benefit of their members, but as a blessing for
the whole of society”.
23 June 2017
SUDOKUS
First a medium one. Solution on page 25
And now a trickier one. Solution next month
Solution
on p. 25
BRIDGE
South to lead in a NT
contract. How can
N/S make all 6 tricks?
NORTH
♠ 3
♥ K J 5
WEST ♦ A Q EAST ♠ J 8 ♣ - ♠ Q
♥ 10 8 6 ♥ Q 4 2
♦ K SOUTH ♦ J 6
♣ - ♠ K 9 ♣ - ♥ A 3
♦ 3 2
♣ -
8 2 1 9
7
5 7
2 5
6 7 5 3
3 9
9 8 4
1 8 2 4 3
3 6 1
1
4 2 1
5 1 3
2
4 1 8 9
2 9 5
4 9 6
5 7
4 2 3
Some interesting anagrams
Presbyterian – Best in prayer
Astronomer – Moon starer
Desperation – A rope ends it
The eyes – They see
George Bush – He bugs
Gore
The Morse Code – Here
come dots
Dormitory – Dirty room
Slot machines – Cash lost in
me
Animosity – Is no amity
Election results – Lies; Let’s
recount
Snooze alarms – Alas! No
more Z’s
A decimal point – I’m a dot
in place
The earthquakes – That queer shake
Eleven plus two – Twelve
plus one
22 June 2017
CROSSWORD Solution on page 25
ACROSS 8 Laban complained he had not been allowed to kiss them when Jacob fled with his family (Genesis 31:28) (13) 9 In favour of (3) 10 ‘The child’s father and mother — at what was said about him’ (Luke 2:33) (9) 11 Swagger (Psalm 12:8) (5) 13 ‘Terrors — him on every side and dog his every step’ (Job 18:11) (7) 16 Bay bits (anag.) (7) 19 Preach, address an audience, speak in public (5) 22 Holy Communion (9) 24 ‘On their way to — out the land, Joshua instructed them, “Go and make a survey of the land”’ (Joshua 18:8) (3) 25 Joseph advised Pharaoh to appoint these to administer his grain storage plan (Genesis 41:34) (13)
DOWN 1 ‘Assyria’s pride will be brought down and — sceptre will pass away’ (Zechariah 10:11) (6) 2 ‘And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in — with God and men’ (Luke 2:52) (6) 3 The descendants of Esau (Genesis 36:9) (8) 4 The components of the crown that Jesus was made to wear before his crucifixion (John 19:2) (6) 5 Colour of cloth which was to cover holy objects in the tabernacle when moving camp (Numbers 4:6–12) (4) 6 One of the gold articles plundered from the Midianites and offered to the Lord by the Israelite army ‘to make atonement’ (Numbers 31:50) (6)
7 ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set — — ’ (Jeremiah 31:29) (2,4) 12 Ate (anag.) (3) 14 ‘We ourselves... groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our — as sons’ (Romans 8:23) (8) 15 Abram’s nephew (Genesis 14:12) (3) 16 Rupture (Job 30:14) (6) 17 ‘Yet to all who received him... he gave the right to — children of God’ (John 1:12) (6) 18 ‘I... asked him the true meaning of all — . — he told me and gave me the interpretation of these things’ (Daniel 7:16) (4,2) 20 Military units (Exodus 14:20) (6) 21 ‘Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to — her to public disgrace’ (Matthew 1:19) (6) 23 Diva (anag.) (4)
7 June 2017
UPPER MOLE GROUP SERVICE ON 30TH APRIL
The new Archdeacon of Reigate, the Venerable Moira Astin, celebrated the inclusion
of Brockham and Leigh in the ministry of the Upper Mole Group (UMG) at this joyful service (the UMG now consisting of Brockham, Leigh, Sidlow, Charlwood,
Betchworth and Buckland).
Jonathan Willans greeted and welcomed the congregation of around 120 from the six churches. All the clergy from each
parish played a part in this special Holy Communion service
which included readers and a renewal of a covenant to work
more closely with the other churches and villages and to offer support to one another. The Archdeacon made the account of
the Road to Emmaus come alive in her address, reminding us
that we are all on a journey of faith, and it is not always easy,
but with God’s help we can continue and cross new horizons.
The musicality of the occasion was greatly appreciated, hymns sung lustily, the choir
rendering C.V. Stanford’s anthem “O for a closer walk with God” conducted by
Carol who also as cantor led the congregation in the Peruvian Gloria. During the taking of communion a wind trio played and the choir sang the Agnus Dei. The
Archdeacon thanked all the contributors and gave Melvin Hughes a special mention
for playing the organ so skilfully.
After the service we repaired to the church hall to
partake in the cutting of a special cake made by Jo
Oliphant. The cake had the six churches on it with the
river Mole running through it, ending up at Gatwick! The Archdeacon likes cake!
All in all it was a very happy occasion.
The picture above right shows (as well as the cake) Revd Sue Weakley, Venerable
Moira Astin (Archdeacon of Reigate), Revd Jonathan Willans, and Revd Canon
Carol Coslett. The other picture shows the massed choirs of the extended Upper
Mole Group after the service. Margaret Taylor
(Footnote… It has taken many years for Brockham and Leigh to decide to join, as it
was discussed when I was a churchwarden in Stephen Bailey’s incumbency... over 20 years ago!)
8 June 2017
WINE TASTING BY CARPE VINUM
In this year of Brexit, discover and enjoy the delights of the wines of this country
in aid of THE FRIENDS OF ST MARY’S
at 7.30 PM ON FRIDAY 30TH JUNE at Glebe House,
Rectory Lane, Buckland, followed by a light supper.
Entrance: £15 for Friends; £20 for guests; supper £7.
Anyone who reads the Council minutes will be aware that Council has, for some
time, been asking Surrey County Council (“SCC”) Highways to address the unacceptable condition of the road surface of the A25 through Buckland. When
Council last met (8th May), C.Cllr Helyn Clack gave her assurance that SCC
Highways officers are aware of the deterioration in the road surface of the A25, (as is
she), and recognise that this section of highway needs maintenance.
So, for now, if you spot a pothole, a blocked gully, drainage problems (e.g. standing
water), damaged ironwork (e.g. manhole cover) obscured or defective traffic signs or
a section of damaged road surface, please submit a report to Surrey Highways. If you are submitting a report of a pothole you can submit a photograph. If you are
able, (safely), to measure the depth of the pothole at 40mm or more, please state this
as this threshold will trigger a quicker response under the terms of the highways
contract.
If you have internet access visit www.surreycc.gov.uk, click the “Report It” tab and
select an appropriate option to make your report. If you do not have access to the
internet or prefer to use a telephone, call the Surrey Highways Team on 0300 200 1003.
Once again another opportunity to visit some beautiful gardens in Brockham, thanks to the generous support of the garden owners. Coffee, tea and cakes will be served in
the Church Hall. BBQ outside the Church Hall. Please come and join us and help us
make it a fifth successful year.
Programmes are available before the day at Nisa and The Hair Studio on Brockham
Green and on the day from the Gazebo outside the Church on Brockham Green.
£7 per adult. Under 12’s free. Organised by Christ Church, Brockham.
If you are able to help out for an hour on the day, or make
a cake, please contact Sally Holland on 844347 or [email protected]. Many thanks.
DORKING MUSEUM IN JUNE
Our summer exhibition, “Time Gentlemen Please! The story of Dorking pubs”,
plots their growth from earliest 13th century records to a 19th century peak and
subsequent decline. The town’s hostelries also provided theatre, sports and games (including cock-fighting!), offices for civic duties and for tradespeople. Maps plot
their locations, with old images of how they looked in their heyday, and modern
photos showing how they look now. There are also a pub sign drawing competition
for children, old pub games to try, other pub memorabilia and a new book about Dorking pubs.
Museum Guided Walks and Tours are available for group bookings by
appointment and regular Open Days for individuals. 90-minute walks of Historic Dorking or Town Centre Pub sites (£3 pp) or the Deepdene Trail (£4 pp), or 45-
minute tours of the South Street Caves (£6 pp). See Museum website for details,
group bookings or Open Days (next Deepdene Trail 11th June, Dorking Pubs 24th
June, Caves 24th June).
Dorking Museum, 62 West Street, Dorking RH4 1BS. Open Thursday, Friday,
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.
A woman was talking to her surgeon in the recovery room in hospital. She said:
‘During the operation, it felt as if I had left my body and was talking to God.’ ‘That’s unusual,’ said the surgeon. ‘What did God say?’
'He told me not to worry, the operation was a success, and I had another 47 years to
live,’ the woman replied. Before she left the hospital, the woman had a face lift, dyed and changed her hair style, and lost two stone in weight. Unfortunately, on the
way home she was knocked down and killed by a bus. On meeting God, she said: ‘I
thought you told me I had another 47 years to live.’
‘Sorry about that,’ replied God. ‘I did not recognise you.’
DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
On Thursday 22nd June we are holding our annual Midsummer Lunch. This will be
in the Buckland Reading Room at 12 noon. We look forward to seeing all our ‘old’
friends and hopefully we might be able to welcome some new faces. This article does not get into the Betchworth magazine so if there is anyone from Betchworth
who has not been before we would love to see you. At the lunch we can work out
dates for the start of ‘winter’ lunches and which Charities you would like our money
to go to. Because of your generosity we have £150 to spend. Liz, Mary and Carol all look forward to meeting our regular customers and some new faces.
… are excited to be hosting a fun hour of Circus Skills coaching for the young residents of
Betchworth & Buckland. Juggling, plate spinning, feather balancing and lots more circus fun with a
professional circus skills coach from Shooting Stars. The event is on Sunday 2nd July from 2.30pm – 3.30pm on
Goulburn Green, Betchworth and is suitable for children aged 3 – 10 (Children must be accompanied by an adult)
Tickets £5.00 per child. Limited availability, so please book in advance. contact Cat Martin ([email protected]: 07710 498 591).
Why not stay on Goulburn Green and join in the Betchworth & Buckland Society Summer BBQ at 4pm? See details below.
19 June 2017
LOCAL GARDEN OPEN FOR CHARITY
THE OLD CROFT, SOUTH HOLMWOOD
(as described in the NGS Yellow Book) on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd July
Remarkable 5-acre garden with many diverse areas of exquisite natural beauty,
giving a sense of peace and tranquillity. Stunning vistas including lake, bridge, pond
fed by natural stream running over rocky weirs, bog gardens, roses, perennial borders, elevated viewing hide, tropical bamboo maze, curved pergola of rambling
roses, unique topiary buttress hedge, many specimen trees and shrubs. Visitors return
again and again. The garden is about 2 miles south of Dorking on the A24. Full
directional signs from A24, Mill Road and Blackbrook Road will be in place. Situated in the heart of Holmwood Common, there is free parking on the common
with a lovely 600 yard woodland walk to the garden.
For the disabled and the elderly please ring 01306 888224 to arrange for direct access.
This is a garden to explore slowly, discovering its peace and serenity as it reveals the
beauty of God’s amazing creation. It should help to restore your soul.
The garden is open under the auspices of the National Garden Scheme with proceeds
to them and St Catherine’s Hospice. Admission £5.00 (All entrance money goes to
the NGS), children free. Homemade teas (Money to St Catherine’s Hospice), open from 2 - 6pm each day.
busiest term of the year. Year 6 SATs tests are over and our year 6 are getting ready to transfer to
their secondary schools and we are looking forward to welcoming 58 new reception
pupils at our Betchworth and Brockham sites.
Year 6 will be embarking on their residential trip, spending five adventure filled days at a PGL centre
at Windmill Hill near Hailsham in Sussex. On their way they will visit
Battle Abbey. Once at Windmill Hill 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. We finish this month with our two Sports Days,
one for the Infant children and one for the Juniors. We try to have a mixture of sporting activities that appeal to all
children whether they are sporty or not.
This is also a busy time for our hardworking team of parent volunteers
who belong to FONDS (Friends of
North Downs). They work tirelessly
throughout the year to raise funds to provide the children with those special
‘extras’ that can’t be funded
from our delegated budget. Their current project remains funding the updating of the
interactive screens in each of our classrooms.
FONDS have also been supporting us with the development of our school allotment. North Downs has been
fortunate enough to have been allocated an allotment near our
Brockham site – and we are very grateful too for the offer of financial assistance from Brockham
Horticultural Society and Betchworth Parish Council, which will allow us to purchase some necessary items to
garden the allotment. Our aim is to give the children, at all our sites, an opportunity to grow vegetables and
fruit. They will visit the allotment, assist with planting, caring and harvesting etc. and will then plan and
prepare healthy meals with the produce.
Jane Douglass, Headteacher North Downs Primary School
17 June 2017
♠ ♥ BUCKLAND BRIDGE CLUB ♦ ♣
Recent winners are as follows:
27th April: N/S: Jocelyn Morley & Vanessa Sadler
E/W: Lucinda Lewis & Alison Hynes
4th May: N/S: Dirk & Inger Laan
E/W: Douglas & Roberta Rounthwaite 11th May: N/S: Bruce Paul & Helena Pollock
E/W: Margaret Wells & Carole Lister
18th May: N/S: Gloria Whitwell & Richard Wheen
E/W: Liz Woodhouse & Hetty Fisher
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 block access to Dungates Lane or to
houses in the area.
For those interested, there is now a bridge club in the Reading Room on Tuesday
afternoons, also at 2.15pm. This is intended for those who want more practice or
who feel they are not yet quite up to the standard of the Thursday Club. For further
information 842082.
Richard Wheen
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise
enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power. – Charles Caleb
Colton
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Nathan
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
- James Garfield
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded
couples, they sometimes live apart. - Saki (H.H. Munro 1870 -1916)
Oh Lord, grant that we may not despise our rulers; and grant, oh Lord, that they may
not act so we can’t help it. - Lyman Beecher (18th century American preacher)
16 June 2017
SING YOURSELF WELL
Singing is good for you! We picked up an interesting piece from an old copy of
Reader’s Digest recently which said that singing in the shower or in the bath may be
a great way to start the day, but those who sing in a group get the most benefit. A survey carried out by a university professor reported that singing improved people’s
mood and quality of life. He even pointed out that singing helped some participants’
mental and physical health problems. The physiological benefits of singing have
been studied by a Dr Maria Sandgren of Stockholm university. Results show that singing releases oxytocin, a hormone that indicates a sense of bonding and security.
In an earlier study, Dr Sandgren found that amateur singers were happier after a
singing lesson.
So, are you ready? Altogether now.....!
[This is not an advertisement for the Buckland & Betchworth Choral Society, though
it could well be. In fact I suppose it now is.]
LEITH HILL PLACE
The exhibition of antique Wedgwood china is generating great interest.
The collection displays an amazing variety of ceramics made by the
company over the years, and contains some unusual items such as an 18th century oval painting box and a replica of the Slave Emancipation
medallion seal, made in 1962 after the 1787 original.
We are very fortunate that the present Lady Wedgwood has lent us a large part of the original collection in memory of her husband, Sir Martin Wedgwood, grandson of Sir
Ralph, and we have the opportunity to see it again in the room where it was originally
displayed. The exhibition continues until the end of October and entry is free to
members and included in the entrance price for non-members.
Other events in June include the Coldharbour Village Band performing on Sunday
4th June; a Wellbeing Day on Monday 12th June; and Fathers’ Day on Sunday 18th
June (children bring their dads for free). From 20th June until the end of August, Artist in Residence, Louise Scillitoe-Brown, will create a rolling programme of
experiential spaces in the Drawing Room and run associated workshops. Louise
makes structures from reclaimed building materials that hold pockets of physical
colour and projected zones of reflected coloured light. (www.louisesb.com). More details of these and other events can be found on the Leith Hill Place website:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/leith-hill-place
13 June 2017
BETCHWORTH & BUCKLAND TINY TOTS TODDLER GROUP
Tuesdays 10am – 12 noon
Summer term continuing through to 25th July
All are welcome. We have a different craft activity every week, a baby corner, ride on area, yummy and healthy snacks, and we finish with story and songs.
Find us at: The Reading Room, Old Road, Buckland, RH3
7DY. Queries? Contact Debbie Jones 841005 or 07701 347351.
St RICHARD of CHICESTER
(16th June)
St Richard of Chichester, who lived
from 1197 to 1253, is patron saint of the English county of Sussex. In 1244 he was elected Bishop of Chichester
but King Henry III wanted someone else as bishop and he ordered that no one should feed or house Richard. So
Richard lived with a friend who was a parish priest and visited his entire diocese on foot for two years until the
king relented.
Richard is widely remembered today for the prayer he is supposed to have said as he was dying. The prayer was
adapted for the song ‘Day by Day’ in the musical Godspell and it is in this form that most people know it today:
Dear Lord, of thee three things I pray:
To see thee more clearly, Love thee more dearly, Follow thee more nearly,
Day by Day.
SOUNDS STRANGE
There are still quite a few people called Richard today but some saints’ names
sound very strange to our modern ears - how many of these names are saints’ names and how many of them are
2nd June: Erasmus (d. c. 300) – a good saint for when you’re all at sea
If you like messing about in boats, you’ll have heard of St Elmo’s Fire,
the light sometimes seen on mastheads of boats after storms at sea. St
Elmo is another name for St Erasmus, a fourth century Syrian bishop
who was not afraid of violent storms. Legend has it that one day when Erasmus was preaching outside, a thunderbolt hit the ground right
beside him. That might have distracted many people, but not Erasmus –
he just kept on preaching. His courage won him the respect of sailors, who also had
to brave the elements of nature in their daily work.
But when Erasmus was made the patron saint of sailors, it led to a curious confusion.
His emblem became the windlass, a kind of hoist used by many sailors at sea. So far
so good, but many medieval Christians, seeing the windlass emblem, assumed it was some sort of torture instrument. They knew that Erasmus had died in the persecution
of Diocletian, and concluded that a windlass had been used to hoist out his intestines
(which it hadn’t). But no matter - Erasmus was still adopted by another set of
suffering people. Not only did sailors remember the thunderbolt, and look to him, but soon, anyone with gut ache as well!
THE MAGAZINE 50 YEARS AGO
There is little of interest in the Parish Magazine of June 1967, other than noting that
in those days the number of services at St Mary’s alternated between three and four per Sunday. There is, however, a nice little poem in the attached Diocesan leaflet:
‘On Sundays, whether wet or fine, /My church I always visit;/ So when at last I’m
carried in, /The Lord won’t say “Who Is It?” ’
A couple of hints and tips from the same leaflet: “If the elastic webbing at the waists
of children’s corduroy shorts perishes, knit in matching wool a band of k 1 p 1 (if
possible knitting up a stitch from each furrow and ridge of the cord). Knit the welt
on four needles, adjusting the length to the child’s requirements. Knit two inches more than required and turn over to make a hem. Insert garter elastic. The shorts
will then last much longer.” All clear? “For an economical and ever-handy first aid
kit use a cleaned and dried screw-topped glass jar. Bandages, scissors, plaster etc are
then kept dust free and one may see at a glance where everything is.”
15 June 2017
JUNE GARDEN NOTES
With such a dry start to the growing season, thoughts are turning to ways to
minimise the effects on gardening of a possible long-term warmer climate. In spite of many benefits, less rainfall can cause problems. Here are a few suggestions to
make conditions easier:
If possible, plant trees, shrubs and perennials in the autumn. The ground is still warm, and in most cases you will never need to water as winter will do the job for
you. Roots will become established quickly, and will thrive at the first signs of a
warm spring. Plants will usually take longer to become established in a dry
spring, and will need regular watering to keep them healthy. Whenever you plant, use mycorrhizal fungi to encourage strong root growth.
Use plants which have a better drought resistance. Lavender will grow in the poorest of soils – just give them a sunny spot. Most shrubs and perennials will
put up with dry conditions when they are mature enough to cope. Geraniums and
gazania are among the best bedding plants for a dry season.
Mulch soils to improve soil texture, encourage worms and improve water
retention. Use your own garden compost or cover with composted bark.
Make good use of water butts, and add water-retaining gel to pots and hanging
baskets.
Water in the early morning or in the evening to minimise evaporation. Try not to let plants dry out completely: many parched soils will simply let water run
through, rather than soak up into the plant.
David Hogg, Buckland Nurseries
A quick-thinking, elderly, retired vicar was driving his car well over the speed limit,
when he noticed a blue flashing light behind him. He pulled over and looked sheepishly at the police officer who said, “If you can give me a good reason why you
were speeding I’ll let you off with a caution.” The vicar replied, “Years ago my wife
ran off with a policeman and I thought for one awful moment you were bringing her
back.” The policeman left. * * * * * * * * * * *
A young curate, who always seemed to be in a hurry, was late in taking his 8-year-old son to school. In the rush, he made a turn at a red light when he should have
stopped. “Oh dear,” he said to his son, “I should have stopped there, but I made a
mistake.” The boy replied, “Don’t worry daddy, you'll be OK. The police car right