2013 06 237

PUBLISHED JUNE 2013

ESTABLISHED 1993

ISSUE 237

YOUR FREE MAGAZINE BRINGING YOU LOCAL NEWS AND INFORMATION Delivered by hand each month to Seal, Kemsing, Otford, Shoreham, Seal Chart, Noahs Ark, Underriver, Godden Green, Ightham, Fawke Common, Plaxtol, Borough Green, Wrotham.

Published by Highland Printers • Unit 1, Church Farm, Church Street, • Seal • Kent TN15 0AT • Tel: 01732 762131 • Fax: 01732 763501 Mobile: 07850 806771 • Editor & Publisher: Julian Gilchrist • email: highlandprinters@aol.com

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Sunday Roast is a true feast at The Bull in Wrotham. Perfect for Fathers’ Day or a Sunday lunch with the family. Served from 12 noon until 8pm. Children are welcome!

Always 4 options of roast (beef, pork, lamb and chicken). Locally sourced quality meat from H&J Glovers and Harvel House Farm.

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FORTHCOMING ROAD CLOSURE - BITCHETT GREEN ROAD, SEAL, SEVENOAKS - 30TH JULY 2013

(Temporary Road Closure – Bitchett Green Road, Seal, Sevenoaks – from 30th July 2013 “An An It will be necessary to close Bitchett interesting Green Road, Seal, Sevenoaks from curriculum 30th July 2013 for up to 1 day. ensures that pupils The road will be closed from Pond enjoy Lane to Stone Street Road. There school and will be no access for through traffic their at this location. learning” The alternative route is via west Ofsted along Stone Street Road, then 2011 South along Pond Lane.

The closure is to enable replacement of damaged verge markers and the works are to be carried out by Enterprise working with Kent County Council.

Kay Lilley B.Ost.(Hons.) B.A.(Hons.) at the Diamond Shard Practice

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By the time you are reading this I am probably already pedalling my way back to blighty. I'm cycling along with 2 of my friends; our very own hero fund raiser Maggie Fox and another newbie like myself, Jane McFarlane.

On the 27th May I travelled with over 300 like-minded fundraisers from London to Paris

by Eurostar. We are cycling back to London via some of the WWI and WWII battlefields in the Somme, arriving back in London 2nd June. Amongst our riders there are several veterans from Afghanistan as well as serial H4H fundraisers. I’m trying to raise over £4000.00 so please do check out my charity page and donate. http://www.bmycharity. com/carolinenimmo2013 Upon my return I will show some photos and give you a full feedback of what I hope to be a wonderful

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SEAL OVER 60’s

The Over 60’s meeting was held on May 11th in Seal Village Hall starting at 2.30pm.

Several members were off sick so all best wishes go to them hoping they will soon be in good health again. We then welcomed new members. A clipboard went round for names for the July outing to Eastbourne.

Our speaker was unable to come so we had a Quiz, made us use our brain and caused much laughter. The representatives of the Lions Club came and gave out containers for medical information and next of kin etc. To be put in and then kept in fridge for Medico to find in an emergency. Tea & Raffle followed.

Next meeting June 8th will be on Birds by Ray Harbour.

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Kemsing Heritage Centre Association On Friday 7th June David Williams will be giving a talk on "Oldbury Hillfort and its trackways" at 7.30pm in St Edith Hall. All welcome.

Members free Visitors ÂŁ2.50 On Sunday 23rd June there will be a "Reptile and Orchid Walk ".

Meet at the village car park at 2.00pm Cost ÂŁ2.00, children free.

The Centre is open on Monday afternoons from 2.00pm - 4.30pm and on the first Saturday in the month from 10am -12noon For further details please contact Erica Cole on 01732 761772 or email: info@kemsingheritage centre.org.uk

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IGHTHAM & DISTRICT GARDENERS CLUB

At Ightham Village Hall Wednesday, 26th JUNE 2013 - 7.30pm “FROM IT TO NATIONAL TRUST�

A TALK BY PIPPA COULTHARD Visitors very welcome.

For further information contact Phil Barlass - 01732 883505 or Dee Samways - 0779 900 2129

Saturday June 29th

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KEMSING COMMUNITY CHOIR

The choir (after an intense period of preparation!), will be giving it’s long awaited first performance this year on Saturday 22nd June 2013 at 7pm in St. Mary’s Church, Kemsing. No tickets required and free admission with a retiring collection in aid of Church funds. Paid for interval refreshments will be provided by the Church fund raising team. Come and join us for an evening of entertainment with songs from the shows and some audience participation. Don’t miss it!

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SEVENOAKS CAMERA CLUB Annual Exhibition

At Sevenoaks Library from Weds 3rd Sat 13th July with the formal opening on 4th July at 6.00pm

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Sevenoaks Indoor Bowls Centre and Social Club

Invite you to come and try out our Bowls Centre. - What’s on offer?

L & N PLATFORMS A free bowls session to get you AERIAL ACCESS interested in playing bowls AERIAL ACCESS and joining in the many social events that are held throughout the year. And if the bowling bug Lee Roebuck 07932 236914 gets you a further month of free bowling……………

Nicky Francis 07801 531432 Coaching sessions are also held usually on a Sunday morning.

EMAIL: LNPLATFORMS@TISCALI.CO.UK Age is not a barrier all ages is welcome.

Youth groups are more than welcomed. Telephone the centre on 01732 451889 to arrange your session.We are looking forward to seeing you. http://www.sevenoaksindoorbowls.co.uk

L & N PLATFORMS

"St Lawrence Cricket Club” whose picturesque ground is in Bitchet Green, would welcome new members for the coming season. The Club plays in the Kent County Village League.

Whatever your age or ability, please contact Club Membership secretary Richard Smith 01732 764078 or e-mail rsmith@savills.com or Club captain Tom Cobb on 01959 525428

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PLAXTOL LOCAL HISTORY GROUP MAY 2013 MEETING Instead of the anticipated talk on Eltham Palace, our speaker Mr. D.H.Williams gave a talk on Old London. The wide ranging talk covered the period from the Roman occupation to the Great Fire of London with many illustrations and several points of interest. He brought with him two helmets from his collection of armour, one called a morion that would have rendered the wearer completely deaf and almost blind on the battlefield.

At our AGM, Rosemary Foster stepped down as chairman and Haydn Puleston Jones was elected to succeed her. Rosemary was warmly thanked for being an outstanding Chairman for the last 14 years. Under her leadership, the History Group carried out a remarkable number of major projects, including transcribing and publishing all the available Plaxtol Censuses and historic Parish Registers and researching and publishing several booklets on village history – Rosemary’s previous experience in publishing was particularly invaluable in this context. She leaves the Group in very good shape, with high membership and attendance at meetings and healthy finances. Rosemary will be very much missed as Chairman, but we are delighted that she has agreed to stay on as CHARLES ZOEPHEL a Committee member. Her encouragement and enthusiasm for projects, combined with her natural charm and good humour, RHS Certificate Hadlow College Trained have greatly contributed to the success of the History Group. V.Dussek WEEDING EDGING MOWING Our next meeting after the summer PLANTING PRUNING break will be on Tuesday10th September at 8pm when Tony Singleton will talk on 01732 810551 The Wealden Cloth Industry.

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The next lecture is on 20th June 2013 at 1.45pm - "Pavilions of Pleasure" Steven Desmond explores the design of summer houses and other buildings in Georgian landscape gardens.

For details and/or information about membership, please contact Yvonne Stewart on 01732 457852 or email knoledfas@gmail.com

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The Church of St Peter & St Paul, Seal Vicar:

Revd. Anne Le Bas 01732 762955 priest@sealpeterandpaul.com Church Website www.sealpeterandpaul.com

Worship during June 2013 2nd 10 am Holy Communion 6.30 pm “Open Space” Compline 9th 10 am Holy Communion 6.30 pm Evensong (said with hymns) 16th 10 am All Age Worship and Baptism 11.15am Cake, produce, craft and plant sale in Church 6.30 pm Breathing Space Holy Communion 23rd 10 am All Age Communion 6.30 pm Evensong (said with hymns) 30th THE FEAST OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL 10 am Patronal Festival Holy Communion 4 pm Strawberry tea in the vicarage garden (£5 adults, £2.50 children) 6.30pm Evensong (said with hymns) Every Week: Weds at 10am Holy Communion (BCP) The church is normally open during the day – please drop in to enjoy the peace and quiet! Children are welcome at all services. Sunday School usually meets on 1st & 2nd Sundays in term time, and there are other activities on offer during the month also. Please ask for details. The choir rehearses on Wednesdays in term time (7pm Juniors, 7.30pm Adults)

Vicar Rev. James Oakley 01732 762556 Parish Office: Margaret Robarts 01732 761351 www.kemsingwithwoodlands.org The Parish Office (in the Church Hall) is open 10-12 Mondays, 10-5 Thursdays. Messages can be left on the answerphone at other times (01732 761351).

SERVICES IN JUNE EVERY SUNDAY 8.00am Communion in Traditional Language 2nd, 9th, 16th & 23rd.

8.00am Matins - 30th 9.15am Sung Communion (followed by coffee) 2nd, 9th, 16th & 23rd.

10.00am Combined Holy Communion - 30th 10.30am All Age Worship - 2nd 10.30am Morning Service (coffee served beforehand) - 9th, 16th & 23rd.

BCP Evensong (2nd, 16th & 23rd) in Church 6.30pm Songs of Praise (9th) in the Church Hall Evening Praise (23rd) in the Church Hall Families Families are welcome at all services; the 10.30 service is an all-age service on the first Sunday each month; other Sundays we have children’s groups. We have books and soft toys at the back of church for younger children.

ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH, OTFORD Vicar: Revd. Richard Worssam 01959 523185 Church Office: 01959 523185 or at st.bartholomews@otford.net Open weekday mornings 10.30 a.m.-12.30 p.m.

Website: www.stbartholomews.co.uk First Steps: For parents and carers of pre-school children.

9.30-11.30am on alternate Wednesdays during term time.

Contact: Najen Harris, 01959 522813 or Hazel Terry, 01959 523047 for details.

Young People: Sunday Club (Sundays at 10.00 a.m.)

Juniors (3-7s) - Middles (8-11s) - Seniors (12-14) YPF every Sunday in Church Centre, 6.30 pm - see website for details Sunday in Month 8am FIRST Common Worship Holy Communion SECOND Common Worship Holy Communion THIRD Common Worship Holy Communion FOURTH Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion FIFTH Common Worship Holy Communion

Fen Pond Road, Ightham 8.00 am (1st & 3rd Sun.)

Parish Communion:

10.00 am (except 1st Sun.)

Family Communion:

10.00 am (on 1 Sun.) st

6.00 pm (each Sun.)

Holy Communion:

10.00 am (each Wed.)

SUNDAY SCHOOL meets at 10.00am on Sundays in the church room. (Jeremy Barker 781054) A WARM WELCOME is extended to everyone at all services. The church has wheelchair and pram access, and a Loop System to assist those with hearing aids.

There are modern lavatory facilities.

FAMILIES are particularly welcome. For children who are unable to settle in church, books and toys are available in the ground-floor tower room from which the service can still be followed through our modern sound system. A creche facility is also available.

THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST LUKE, SEVENOAKS 30 Eardley Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 1XT

Vicar: The Reverend Mark Griffin - 01732 452462 Assistant Curate: The Reverend Anne Bourne - 07512 734224 Churchwardens: Timothy Pearce - 01732 465110 Michael Curry - 01732 455569 Parish Office: Ruth Morris - 01732 743045 (10am2pm weekdays) Church Website: Sunday Worship:

Holy Communion Morning Worship

No Evening Service Evensong No Evening Service No Evening Service

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Regular Church Services at St Peter’s Ightham:

Evensong:

Morning Worship

6.30pm Evensong

DURING THE WEEK also see the weekly news sheet Wednesdays 9.30am Holy Communion Mon-Sat 5.00 pm Evening Prayer

St Peter’s Church, BCP Holy Communion:

10.00am Church Family Worship Holy Communion

www.stlukes-sevenoaks.org.uk 8am Holy Communion (BCP) 10.15am Parish Eucharist (1st Sunday in the month Family Service) 6.30pm Compline - as announced

Junior Church meets in St Luke’s Hall at 10.15am and joins the regular congregation later in the service. A Crèche provides for babies and toddlers in the Parish Room.

Thursdays: 11am Holy Communion, followed by coffee Morning Prayer is normally said daily in church at 9.15am on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.

Other Activities at St Luke’s: Mondays: Tiny Ones Together Service for babies and toddlers at 10.15am in the Parish Room in term time.

There are small toys to enjoy as well as a story, prayers and a sing-along. Refreshments are served.

Tuesdays: Julian Group meets in Church at 2pm on Tuesdays - Christian Meditation according to Julian of Norwich.

Wednesdays: Lunchtime Recitals at 12.30pm for 30 minutes - admission free – tea and coffee served – bring your own sandwiches Thursdays – last in the month – St Luke’s Fellowship meets at 2.00pm in the Parish Room. Further details from the Parish Office – 01732 743045 or the website.

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There are a range of services to suit everyone: Family Service Holy Communion Praise Service Wholeness & Healing Our Choir & Worship Band are regularly involved Activities for all ages First Steps (parents & pre-school children) Junior (10-12 years) & Senior (13+) Youth Clubs Women’s Hour Men’s Breakfast Bible & Housefellowships Prayer Meeting Alpha Courses Please check specific details We are a happy welcoming Church worshipping God together and seeking to share His love with others

Please ring for more details Minister: Rev. Kath Pawlett 01959 522196 www.otfordmethodistchurch.org.uk

The Social Circle

Though the weather forecast was not promising, nevertheless we spent a pleasant afternoon in the Japanese Garden of Jack Wheeler in the sunshine.

After a long spell with everything dormant acers, pines, small rhodedendrons, primroses, wood anenomes and various features gave us many interesting views of the garden. Both Jack and his wife, Doris, made us very welcome and served tea and biscuits for us on their patio to round off a very enjoyable visit.

Our next planned garden visit is to Great Comp at St Mary's Platt on June 12th. For more information please email thesocialcircle@hotmail.co.uk

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SOUTH EAST OPEN STUDIOS

7-23 June 2013 Open Studios will be here next month, so look out for the free guide, with the familiar paint tube logo, at libraries, book shops, council offices, some schools and local village venues; in addition there will be hand outs on individual days at places like the Station and the Stag.

Local artists in Seal will be showing a variety of arts and crafts from furniture making to jewellery to printmaking & painting. In Zambra Way you will find Debbie Farquharson and in Church Farm Anna Linley and Jennifer Kent.

At the Etching Studio, Chart Farm, Seal Chart, there will be Lawrence Jenkins, Alison Brown, Heather Haythornthwaite, Mike Lancaster, Anita McEwen and Colin Obray; further down the yard Tim Constable and Pat Savage are in units 6 & 7, and in unit 8 Hazel McNair & Carol Chin. Check the guide for individual opening times. We look forward to seeing you!

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SHIPBOURNE FARMERS MARKET : JUNE

With the recent drawn out cold winter and spring finally behind us this should be the month when everything really starts to grow.

With sun up at 4 am and setting at 10pm growers and producers are at full stretch and the fruits of their labours is now be in glorious evidence at the market. So make sure you make the most of all this wonderful bounty and fill your basket with the very best the county has to offer!

For growers one of the biggest indicators of our late spring was the delayed start to the asparagus season. Asparagus is now in full spate but the season will be shorter than normal so don’t miss out on one of the joys of our climate – sweet tender spears of asparagus picked and cooked the very same day. Try it traditionally steamed with melted butter or if the weather gives us some warm June days, griddle the spears on the barbecue brushed with olive oil until tender then scattered with shavings of a sharp hard cheese such as Lord of the Hundreds. Other veg to look out for are crisp radishes, spring onions, spinach, and of course NEW POTATOES. And if the weather is right there may be early cucumbers, runner beans and courgettes, alongside all kinds of salad leaves now in season. It’s also the ideal time to plant out ‘ready to plant’ herbs and summer bedding plants.

The long days and the warmth also herald the start of the great English soft fruit season with STRAWBERRIES in abundance. Try some of the finer flavoured varieties rather than the more robust berries grown to withstand the rigours of the supermarket supply chain that may not have the same flavour. Ditto the finest local CHERRIES (Kentish cherries are justifiably world famous), gooseberries and, just possibly, the earliest raspberries. A favourite way to serve raspberries, cherries and strawberries is to crush them slightly, sprinkle with a little Kentish cherry brandy or Italian vin santo and sugar then leave to macerate for an hour. Serve spooned over vanilla ice cream. (see the recipe below for amounts) Annabelle’s SPRING LAMB will be available towards the end of the month and a boned out shoulder or leg is perfect on the barbecue or simply roasted and served with baby new potatoes and minted broad beans and peas.

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Anna will be showing her Silver Jewellery Aim to plan a wonderfully labour free picnic and Jennifer her Drawings if your visit to the market coincides with You can find them at Unit 2, Church a sunny weekend. Fill your basket with one of Jo’s pâtés or Scotch egg, add a loaf of Farm, Church Street, Seal, TN15 0AT on Rusbridge’s bread baked that day, Wendy’s Friday 7th, Saturday 8th, Sunday 9th June chutney, a bag of Gary’s cherries and maybe and Thursday 13th, Friday 14th, a punnet of strawberries and you are all set.

Saturday 15th, Sunday 16th June Marinated summer fruit with vanilla ice and Thursday 20th, Friday 21st, cream Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd June (This recipe is taken from The Busy Mum’s from 11.00am - 6.00pm Vegetarian Cookbook by Mary Gwynne published by Simon & Schuster £20) Basically summer berries soaked in booze. An instant completely marvelous way to finish a summer supper outside in the garden. You are using fortified wines here so it should not be Mob: Tel: consumed by small children or drivers – you 07966 01732 have been warned! Try Pedro Jimenez sherry, 740736 669250 which is supremely dark, rich and fragrant, or locally made Cherry Brandy from Kent.

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For more local food stories, market news and recipe ideas visit Mary Gwynne’s blog at www.trufflehound.wordpress.com. Mary will be doing a cookery demonstration on preparing an easy summer picnic with recipes taken from her two Busy Mum’s Cookbooks at the Wealden Times MidSummer Fair on the 7th June in Rolvenden, Kent. For details go to http://www.wealdentimes.co.uk/events/ midsummer/2013/index.asp

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Blues at the Anchor! There is nothing quite like live music to lift the mood and bring people together...so come and join us - always a warm welcome!

Wednesday 5 June 9pm - Willie & The Bandits, West Country edgy, updated blues with this brilliant band (they recently toured with Deep Purple) Wednesday 12 June 9pm - Steelyard Blues - with a strong female vocalist and funky blues band Wednesday 19 June 9pm - The Little Devils trio, gutsy, rocky blues with female vocalist likened to Dana Fuchs Saturday 22 June 3 - 5pm - A special afternoon of blues with Steve Morrison and Alan Glen (ex-Yardbirds) playing their sublime blues to celebrate the beginning of the Sevenoaks Summer Festival.

All free at the Blues with Bottle Club, The Anchor, London Road, Sevenoaks TN13 1AS (01732 454898) And a special event this month - this will be the final Blues with Bottle Club at this venue: Wednesday 26 June 8pm - Doug Revell Memorial Benefit Concert presents The Spikedrivers, with Ben Tyzack, Constance Redgrave and Maurice McElroy. This is one of the most innovative and exciting blues bands around, with a very special sound. With influences from West Coast US, deep south US and Ireland.. http:// www.spikedrivers.co.uk/ Dorton House, RLSB, Wildernesse Avenue, Seal, Sevenoaks TN15 0EB, tickets ÂŁ10 from box office 01732 450175 or http://www.stagsevenoaks.co.uk/ or ÂŁ12 on door. Proceeds to Royal London Society for Blind People. This event is part of the Sevenoaks Summer Festival.

Chevening School Fair in the gardens of Chevening House, by kind permission of the Board of Trustees

A date for your diary! On Sunday 7th July the Chevening School Fair will be held in the gardens of Chevening House from 2.00pm until 5.00pm.

The Gardens will once again fill with local families and friends coming together to enjoy a fun and affordable day out whilst raising money for Chevening Primary School and is run by the Chevening Parent Teacher Association At this year’s summer fair there will be a selection of stalls celebrating local trades and associations. There will be a good mix of classic summer fete activities like the coconut shy and hook-a-duck. This is a family event with plenty of attractions for all the family including children's rides and lots of refreshments.

We are pleased to announce there will be a dog show this year run by the Labrador rescue. Please come along and register your dog between 2pm - 3pm and the dog show will start promptly at 3.30pm. Please note dogs must be kept on a lead whilst in the grounds.

Tickets are available on the gate and car parking is free. ÂŁ2, Concessions 50p - pay on entry

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If you put a yellow ribbon on your dog it tells other dog owners that the dog needs space when out. It may be a number of reasons: Pup in Training, Very Nervous, Old and Grumpy. Recovering from an Operation, Blind or deaf, In season or just unwell.If you see a dog with a yellow ribbon please give them space. This will go a long way to keeping your dog happy and not to feel intimidated resulting maybe in a fight.

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Introducing The Pog Blog

I’ve been writing here for a while now, about my cycling escapades and (when the weather has been bad / I’ve been lazy) about my cat. Unbelievably though, I’ve run out of things to say about both.

Instead, Julian, the lovely publisher here, has said that I can take random extracts from my blog each month and hopefully entertain you that way.

There is nothing I find more annoying though, than reading someone’s blog and knowing nothing about them, so to give you a little context, I live with Norman, my cat, in a teeny tiny house I refer to as Pog Towers. In the week I work in London doing things I won’t bore you with, and at the weekends I (very occasionally) cycle, sew and do the usual family and friends things. Whatever I do, elements of daftness seem to follow me. It’s that sort of thing I’ll be posting here. And if you want to read more you can find my blog at: http://thepogblog.wordpress.com/ I often post a ‘Lessons of the Week’. These are things that have happened to me that others may learn from (like the fact that matching one Mini Egg for one grape as your dinner does not make a balanced diet.

It’s just a recipe for feeling a bit sick) or can just laugh at. Like this one: It can be quite amusing when the man from Orange calls you up with ‘amazing offers’ and you decide to play along. This one went something like: Him: How many of you are there in your house?

Me: Me and Norman.

Him: Does Norman have a mobile?

Me: No, he doesn’t.

Him: Well we could offer Norman a really good deal on a handset due to your custom.

Me: You could?

Him: Yes we could offer him <I can’t remember the details>.

Me: I don’t think Norman really wants a mobile thank you.

Him: He won’t get a better deal anywhere else.

Me: I’m sure he won’t. It’s just he’s missing the required opposable thumbs to make full use of the offer.

Him: Sorry?

Me: Norman is my cat.

Him: (wistfully) We could earn a lot of money if we could teach cats to use

mobiles.

Credit where credit is due. That was quite a good response.

So there you go. Try it next time you get a random call – it’s certainly better than my usual ‘thanks but no thanks’!

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Come and try this simple yet fascinating game for free. Bowls provided, just wear flat soled shoes. All ages welcome.

Phone Brian 01959 522969 or Jill 01732 454677 for details.

Fun Salsa 123 - Learn to Salsa dance

Beginners welcome. No partner needed. Meet new friends.

Monday nights from 8pm in Dunton Green Village Hall email: funsalsa@live.com tel: 01732 742291

TO BOOK SEAL VILLAGE HALL PLEASE CALL - 01959 522545 BABY & TODDLER MUSIC CLASSES WITH MUSICAL BUMPS Friendly, fun and educational classes at local venues in St Mary's Platt and Sevenoaks. Enjoy gentle music making with your baby, and lively fun sessions with your toddler.

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St LAWRENCE VILLAGE HALL

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Beavers and Cubs - SEAL Village Beavers age 6 – 8 Cubs age 8 – 10

Ring Nicky Harvey 01732 457118 or 07919075470

PILATES CLASSES

Friendly, relaxed classes in Sevenoaks. Beginners welcome.

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SEVENOAKS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE Are you looking for new friends and something different? We are a club for the more mature amongst us. Our activities consist of Ten Pin Bowling at Tunbridge Wells once a week, canasta which we play on a regular basis, Whist Drives, Scrabble - a couple of sessions per month, Darts, Dining Out and Theatre visits. If you are interested in anything and haven't played for a long time we can refresh or teach you. There are also monthly Rambles. We are a very lively group and are still looking for new members. Why don't you come along to one of our meetings on the first Thursday of every month at 7.30pm at the Community Centre, Otford Road. If you are interested call Angela Heron on 01732 351529 or Mo Haslam on 01732 761903

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SHORT MAT BOWLS CLUB meets every Thursday in Seal Village Hall at 1.30pm - 4.30pm & 6.00pm - 9.30pm.

New members welcome - No experience required MUSIC SESSIONS FOR THE UNDER 5’s SKIPS Pre-School (Adjacent Ightham Primary School in Oldbury Lane) invite you to join our under 5’s Pipsqueaks music sessions every Wednesday term time between 9.15-11am. Bookings taken on a first come first served basis. For further information and to book a place please contact Sue on 01732 882869

KEMSING PAVILION SQUASH COURT

The Pavilion Squash Court is available for hire. Tokens to operate the court lights are available from Richlands Stores in Dynes Road and Best One Supermarket, West End, Kemsing. The cost of tokens is £6 for 45 minutes play. Court bookings can be made on the booking sheets inside the Pavilion. Full changing and shower facilities. For further information contact pavilion on 762865

KEMSING SHORT MAT BOWLS CLUB

Short Mat bowls is played at the Sir Mark Collet Pavilion Tuesday 2-5.00pm Wednesday 7-10.00pm Thursday 2 - 4.00pm Come and join us - all ages there's no limit! You will be very welcome. We would especially like to see new members on a Wednesday evening. For information telephone Ros Hitchings 01959 523635 (or simply come along.)

OTFORD BRIDGE CLUB : WE HAVE MOVED The Club has now moved its Friday Evening Duplicate Bridge Sessions to new premises at the Sir Mark Collett Pavilion, Heaverham Road, Kemsing. Visitors or new members are always welcome. If you are interested to come along to the Club, or wish to learn to play Bridge, please ring Jim Garlinge on 01892 870260.

LINDA'S LINEDANCE CLASSES at Bat and Ball Community Centre Every Monday Intermediate/Improvers 7pm to 8pm. Beginners 7.30pm to 8.30pm. Contact Linda for further details on 01732 870116

UNDERRIVER VILLAGE HALL Cosy village hall standing in its own grounds. Stage area, separate small meeting room. Large and well equipped fitted kitchen. Seated catering capacity for a maximum of 80 persons. Ideal for most events. For further information please call: 01732 833930 or email: helen@underriver.com

4th Sevenoaks (St John's) Scout Group Beavers Wed 5.15 - 6.30pm Cubs 6.45 - 8.00pm Scouts Fri 7.30 - 9.15pm - Extensive secure grounds and facilities.

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THE SEVENOAKS ARCHERY CLUB Invite applications from experienced Archers and beginners. Coaching arranged. Enquiries to: Mike Davies (Membership Secretary) 01732 762266 email: mdknolepark62@gmail.com

SEVENOAKS BADMINTON CLUB Every Friday 8pm - 10pm. 4 Courts. Friendly, sociable and matches. No Beginners. Feather Shuttles. The New School at Westheath. info@sevenoaksbadminton.co.uk www.sevenoaksbadminton.co.uk

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Hola Amigos Spanish Club invites all Spanish speaking children to join. Sessions take place in Seal Primary School, Seal every Saturday from 10.00am to 11.30 am. For more information see SpanishinSevenoaks. blogger.co.uk or contact us on SpanishinSevenoaks@gmail.com' SEAL TIDDLERS Come and join us every Thursday during school term times 9.30am 11.30am Seal Church Hall, Church Road, Seal. We are a local group catering for children aged 0-4 years, together with their carers - Mums, Dads, Childminders, Nannies, Grandparents etc., We provide an exciting range of activities and refreshments, tea, coffee and squash.

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The Pre-Raphaelites in Sevenoaks

Part Two In the last edition of the Advertiser, we looked at the visit to Sevenoaks by the famous Pre-Raphaelite painters Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Holman Hunt.

There was a sequel to all this Sevenoaks activity at the end of the decade. We have already seen that Sir John Millais (as he became later) knew all about his friends‘ trip to Sevenoaks, although it is not clear whether he too visited them there at the time. But in 1863, after he had married Ruskin‘s former wife Effie Grey, Millais wanted a proper setting for his painting ‘St Agnes Eve‘ for which - says the old Tate catalogue - ‘Effie modelled the heroine Madeline, who undresses in the moonlight, watched secretly by her lover Porphyro‘. They stayed together in Sevenoaks throughout that December at ‘a wayside hostelry’. As Lord Sackville confirms in his recent book ‘Inheritance‘, this scene was painted in the King‘s Bedroom at Knole, then ‘a large house tenanted only by a caretaker’, as Millais’ daughter later described it. Here again the weather took its toll. She goes on, ‘a death-like stillness pervaded the apartment. - a silence that might be felt at the midnight hour when the moonlight was streaming in through the window and no fire was burning on the hearth. And yet that was the time when the picture must be painted - that and a few hours later - otherwise the exact direction of the moonbeams falling on the figure could not be caught.

No wonder, then, that my father, though by no means a nervous man, was sensible of a high state of tension while sitting at his work for three nights in succession among such weird and comfortless surroundings. My mother, for it was she who sat for the figure, was similarly affected, while her discomfort during those weary hours may readily be imagined. Think of the slender garments in which the figure is draped, the bodice unlaced, the room unheated; and this in the depth of winter! No wonder that she was accustomed to speak of it afterwards as the severest task she ever undertook’. But the picture was a great success, and later found its way into the Royal Collection, although it has had to be rescued from the Tate reserve for this exhibition.

Other echoes of the PRB trip to Knole Park also followed as late as 1881, when Rossetti’s sister Christina (poet and painter herself) came back to Sevenoaks. As our earlier article in the December 2012 Advertiser explained, she wanted a house where her sick brother could come to convalesce in the country. After looking at several, including one she liked, now identified as The Grey House in Church Street, Seal, next door to the vicarage, she wrote to her brother on 22 July 1881: ‘Knole Park is not open to visitors in carriages, only to pedestrians - but one may drive through Wildernesse Park, and pretty it is … and there is a quiet, pretty village named Seal. I wonder whether you recollect any of this?’ and she then sent him details of the house. But alas Rossetti did not like the idea of living next door to the vicar and never returned to Seal.

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