2013 07 238

PUBLISHED JULY 2013

ESTABLISHED 1993

ISSUE 238

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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“An An interesting curriculum ensures that pupils enjoy school and their learning” Ofsted 2011

Borough Green Junior Football Club are looking for players of all ages - but in particular for our Under 10s teams next season (school year 5 as of Sept 2013) where we have two teams entered into the Crowborough League. We train on Tuesday evenings on the Wrotham School 3G Floodlit pitch, and have Level 1 & 2 FA Qualified coaches - Please contact the club via email - secretaryBGJFC@btinternet.com - visit our website - www.boroughgreenjuniorfc.co.uk or contact Peter Donovan on 07956 381 071for a chat, more information and to organise a taster session.

Otford Methodist Church would like to invite you to their classic and interesting Car Show in the Church Hall car park ( next to the Otford library) on Saturday 6th July between 4pm and 7pm Entrance is free and refreshments will be supplied.

For more information call Derek Baxter on 01959523687

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The June meeting of the Seal Over 60's took place in Seal Village Hall on the 8th.

Several members unable to come but we welcomed back Ann Butcher who has been unwell. We had a return visit of Mr Beckam who entertained us with the birds who live or visit Rye Harbour. We all enjoyed this and will look forward to seeing him again.

The outing to Eastbourne will be our July meeting. Leaving Seal at 10.00am on the 13th. The August meeting will be in Pam Whites garden, in the Village Hall if wet.

That is the 10th at 2.30pm. Tea and Raffle ended the afternoon.

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Big Battlefield Bike Ride 2013 for Help for Heroes Last week I was privileged to take part in this Bike Ride. All the cyclists taking part met up in a Parisian hotel and spent the first evening getting to know each other and hearing talks from Help for Heroes founders Bryn and Emma Parry, as well as triple paralympic cycling silver medallist JonAlan Butterworth and partner Helen Scott - also a paralympian. The ride was officially started in the heart of Paris at Les Invalides, one of the first ever military hospitals dating back to the 17th Century and the Duchess of Cornwall was there to see us off with a royal wave.

The 300 riders included a team from USA and Canada although the vast majority were British. Around 50 were former or current service personnel who had been injured in the line of duty. Some were able bodied military men and women or had family serving. Others, like me, were just there to help raise much needed funds for Help for Heroes.

Each day we visited places of interest from either WWI or WWII including a number of War Cemeteries. At each point of rememberence, different riders laid a wreath and our Pedalling Padre, Father Roger Dawson would say some simple yet powerful words.

Thiepval Memorial was especially moving

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at St Clere

Sevenoaks Shakespeare Society will once again be treading the boards - or rather the grass with an open air production of the Bard's sparkling comedy of wit and romance, deception and dastardly plots, in the stunning grounds of the St Clere estate at Heaverham near Kemsing.

The play runs from July 4th to 7th and 10-13th. (7.30pm except for Sunday July 7th which is a 2.30pm matinee) There will be a special charity gala performance in aid of Breast Cancer Care on 6th July with pre-performance music and refreshments from at 5pm.

Tickets are £12 in advance, £15 on the door. £5 for under 17s. School party concessions

available. Tickets for the charity gala performance are £35, or £25 concessions.

Please wear suitable clothing for all weather and bring low-backed chairs. A bar and food

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The White Rock, Music & Beer Festival Underriver on Saturday 20th July 1pm-9pm & Sunday 21st July 12.30 - 6.00pm

Promoting Local Breweries With Guest Beers And Barbecue See pub website for more details.

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Marie Curie is dedicated to caring for those with terminal cancer and other illnesses.

They provide free care to around 31,000 people each year, both in their own homes and in Marie Curie Hospices across the UK, along with support for their families.

As there is no Government funding, a network of local Marie Curie fundraising groups across the country has been set up to support this work, but until very recently, no such group existed in Sevenoaks and the surrounding area. This has now changed. Our new group is dedicated to raising money by organizing collections, arranging fundraising activities and events and receiving donations on Marie Curie’s behalf. Annually, we will be taking part in the Great Daffodil Appeal, hosting Blooming Great Tea Parties, managing collection tins and street collections, and organizing as many enjoyable and fun local events as we can.

We have an active and enthusiastic committee but are always keen to attract helpers. If you would like to learn more, lend a hand with any of our activities or have fundraising ideas you’d like to share, please contact either: Carole Howlett (Chair) at carolehowlett@btinternet.com or Linda Redman (Secretary) at lindax36@hotmail.co.uk We look forward to hearing from you.

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The Church of St Peter & St Paul, Seal Revd. Anne Le Bas 01732 762955 priest@sealpeterandpaul.com Church Website www.sealpeterandpaul.com

Vicar Rev. James Oakley 01732 762556 Parish Office: Margaret Robarts 01732 761351 www.kemsingwithwoodlands.org

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Worship during July 2013 7th 10 am Holy Communion 4.30 Messy Church in the Hall 6.30 pm “Open Space” Compline 14th 10 am Holy Communion 6.30 pm Evensong (said with hymns) 21st 10 am All Age Worship and Baptism 6.30 pm Breathing Space Holy Communion 28th 10 am All Age Communion 6.30 pm Evensong (said with hymns) Every Week: Wednesdays 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) SPONSORED WALK AROUND BEWL WATER. Saturday July 6th More information and sponsor forms in church or on the website.

MESSY CHURCH July 7th 4 -5.30pm in the church hall.

Crafts, story and tea. Free.

KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOURS Thursday July 4.

Planning meeting for the fete in the hall 7.30pm.

St Peter’s Church,

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 JULY EVERY SUNDAY 8.00 am Communion in Traditional Language 9.15 am

Sung Communion (followed by coffee)

10.30 am Morning Service (coffee served beforehand) 6.30 pm

BCP Evensong 7th, 21st in Church Tough Questions 14th in the Church Hall Evening Praise 28th 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.

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

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

8.00 am (1st & 3rd Sun.)

Parish Communion:

10.00 am (except 1st Sun.)

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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

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Morning Worship

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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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Otford Methodist Church

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on the High Street near the library

We welcome you to our Worship and Activities

Sunday

10.30am Worship Coffee to follow Also Junior Church & Creche

6.30pm

Evening Worship

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

Sun Sun Sun

8:00 am

All-age Family Service with Baptisms 9:45 am 14 Family Communion (CW) 9:45 am 21 Joint Patronal Service at St Margaret’s 11:15 am 28 Celebration Holy Communion (return of bells) 9:45 am

AUGUST 2013 Sun 4 Holy Communion (BCP) All-age Family Service EVERY WEEK Tuesdays Morning Prayer

8:00 am 9:45 am

8:30 am

All ages are warmly welcomed to our services.

For additional information: Vicar: Revd. Carol Kitchener Reader: Gretel Wakeham Church warden: Ron Drury

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The Pog Blog – Pog tries yoga

I’ve always been a bit of a stress bunny, so last month I thought I’d help myself and went on a Mindfulness and Meditation workshop.

It turns out that I’m pretty rubbish when it comes to meditation. What I am worse at though, is knowing when to be quiet.

After the first meditation, the teacher asked how we felt it had gone. Everyone looked at their shoes. I felt bad for the teacher because she was so lovely and clearly wanted some sort of participation.

So I informed the class that I got distracted by the purple pandas that had appeared behind my closed eyelids. Top Tip: When asked how mediation has gone, that’s probably not the information that you’re being asked for.

On the second meditation all I could think about was the fact that the biscuits in the tea break had contained both raisins and chocolate chips. In the same biscuit.

What kind of person would do that? The two things are good in individual biscuits, but put them in the same one and your mouth just can’t work out where it’s at.

Happily, I thought about it before sharing this with the group and finally managed to keep my mouth shut.

Anyway, not to be beaten, I decided to try a slight variation on the workshop and tried a Mindfulness, Meditation and Yoga class.

The good news is that there were no purple pandas this time. In fact, I got quite into the meditation. The yoga though, that was a different matter. I liked the names of the poses‌the dog, happy cat, angry cat‌.but then we did one where you stand on one leg with the foot of the other leg on the inner thigh of your balancing leg. Then you’re supposed to lift your arms in the air.

As I fell over sideways it was suggested that I just try the leg part and hang on to the wall. I was the only one in the class who had to cling to plaster to stay vertical.

Despite that, I really enjoyed it – and am

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now going to weekly classes. I’ve not quite got the hang of it yet – I forget to breathe while I’m trying to get into the right poses, I’ve discovered that it is possible to fall over while kneeling, and I think I need to take an anatomy class after having issues when told to ‘release my sacrum’. It turns out that is entirely different to a scrotum, which was what had confused me. At this point though, things can only improve so I’ll keep trying!

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HOSPICES OF HOPE

Saturday 6th July Summer Quiz Night Take on another challenge with our Quiz Master whilst enjoying a light summer’s evening supper.

Hospices of Hope Tea Room, High Street, Otford TN14 5PG. Tickets are priced at £12 per person – 7.00pm wendy@hospicesofhope.co.uk Saturday 6th July Debbie Perolls performs live, featuring Special Guests!

It will undoubtedly be her best concert yet! She will be performing alongside top London session musicians and a variety of special guests performing songs loved by all. All profits raised will go towards the new building of a Hospice in Bucharest.

Bennett Memorial Diocesan School, Tunbridge Wells, TN4 9SH at 7.30pm Tickets are priced at £10 per person (£5 for under 12’s), which also includes delicious homemade cakes and soft drinks. wendy@hospicesofhope.co.uk Wednesday 31 July Rock and Roll with Old Boy Network Sing and dance the night away with music from the sixties!

Memorial Hall, Wilmington, Kent DA2 7BP 7.30pm Bring your own drink to accompany your freshly cooked hot dog. ÂŁ12.50 per ticket available from Wendy or Marion 01959 525110 wendy@ hospicesofhope.co.uk Saturday 7 September Abba to Ave Maria!

Ottovoci & Friends will be performing an evening of light-hearted entertainment St Bart’s Church Hall, High Street, Otford, Kent – 7.30pm Tickets £12, are available from Wendy in the Hospices of Hope Office at 11 High Street (above the tea room) 01959 525110 or wendy@hospicesofhope. co.uk and include light refreshments in the interval.

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John Rutter is coming to Sevenoaks.

Saturday 21st September 2013

John Rutter, one of the world’s most important living composers. is coming to Sevenoaks at the invitation of the Friends of St Mary’s Church Sundridge for a Sing Day. John Rutter is well known to the singing community, most members of choirs would have sung a number of his works including his arrangements of well know pieces and particularly his Gloria, Mass of the Children and Requiem which are widely performed by professional and amateur choirs around the world. The Sing Day will give singers of all standards, from occasional singers to regular choir members the wonderful opportunity to spend time being conducted by John Rutter.

The day will consist of singing a wide variety of music, sacred and secular, traditional and recently composed, some of the pieces will be well known to even the occasional singer, some less well known even to regular choristers.

The purpose is to inspire and give pleasure to everyone involved and John Rutter has more than enough talent to ensure that each and every singer achieves the most from the day. Everyone will undoubtedly benefit from the experience, they will be better informed and probably a better singer. The Sing Day will be held in St Nicholas Church Sevenoaks, with registration from 10.00am and the day will finish at 5.00pm.

The cost for the day is £20.00, including tea or coffee at the lunch and afternoon breaks and the music for the day. Places or further enquires via e-mail to singdaysevenoaks@hotmail.co.uk John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and received his first musical education as a chorister at Highgate School going on to study music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he both wrote his first published compositions and conducted his first recording while still a student.

His compositional career has embraced both large and small-scale choral works, orchestral and instrumental pieces, a piano concerto, two children’s operas, music for television, and specialist writing for such groups as the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble and the King’s Singers.

His larger choral works, Gloria (1974), Requiem (1985), Magnificat (1990), Psalmfest (1993) and Mass of the Children (2003) have been performed many times in Britain, North America, and a growing number of other countries.

He co-edited four volumes in the Carols for Choirs series with Sir David Willcocks, and, more recently, has edited the first two volumes in the new Oxford Choral Classics series, Opera Choruses (1995) and European Sacred Music (1996).

From 1975 to 1979 he was Director of Music at Clare College, whose choir he directed in a number of broadcasts and recordings. After giving up the Clare post to allow more time for composition, he formed the Cambridge Singers as a professional chamber choir primarily dedicated to recording, and he now divides his time between composition and conducting.

He has guest-conducted or lectured at many concert halls, universities, churches, music festivals, and conferences in Europe, Africa, North and Central America and Australasia and in 1980 he was made an honorary Fellow of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, and in 1988 a Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians.

In 1996 the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred a Lambeth Doctorate of Music upon him in recognition of his contribution to church music.

John Rutter was honoured in the 2007 Queen’s New Year Honours List, being awarded a CBE for services to music.

Richard Dunckley Friends of St Mary’s Church, Sundridge richarddunckley@hotmail.com

The Pre-Raphaelites in Sevenoaks - Part Two

In the May 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

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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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SHIPBOURNE FARMER’S MARKET

This weather just can’t carry on !!. This time last year we wrote ‘Hopefully by the time you are reading this you are basking in the summer heat and the cold and rain we had in June is just a distant memory !’ No change there then !!! (Apart from the fact the average temperature for the first 6 months this year is even colder and has slowed down spring and the start of summer even more). However we are now seeing a complete mixture of spring and summer produce. In June you could buy rhubarb, strawberries and raspberries together with broad beans and peas !!!

The weather (together with the economic climate) has had a major impact on market this year. Overall numbers are down by over 10% vs. 2012 (which was 7% down from 2011) and the average spend is also down. The miserable weather gets customers out of the habit of doing their weekly shop at the market.

HOWEVER !! July will bring more summer fruit, beans and peas, salads and courgettes.

Because of the longer and slower growing season the flavours and textures will be better and far exceed anything you get at the supermarket!.

Summer leaves such as spinach, watercress and varieties of lettuces can be used in salads, sandwiches and with grilled and barbecued meats and fish. And don’t forget to use lots of lovely summer herbs which are all at their very best now. Cherries will be late this year but again will be worth waiting for with taste far better the fluffy versions imported from other continents. Flavour is also key when selecting strawberries take the opportunity to taste a selection before you buy. Once again you’ll soon realize the supermarkets just can’t compete!

Crab is one of the season’s great treats – serve a ready dressed crab with buttered new potatoes, crisp lettuce such as Cos or little gem and a large dollop of the best mayonnaise (made with local free-range eggs and cold pressed rapeseed oil).

Salmon, mackerel and spanking fresh sardines

are all excellent at this time of year and cook well on the barbecue (their natural oils stop the flesh drying out). Towards the end of the month Annabelle will have spring lamb. Try a slightly more fatty cut such as shoulder which cooks well cubed for kebabs whilst a whole butterflied leg is another bbq champion ideal for serving at a large summer party. Locally reared beef and pork will be at its most succulent as animals benefit from the lush grass.

Here’s the perfect recipe to round off a summer party in the garden.

Lavender panna cotta with raspberries and blueberries One of the best uses I’ve found for flower sugars is in creamy desserts such as this panna cotta.

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Serves 6 : Preparation time 15 minutes: Chilling time At least 3 hours or overnight • 300ml double cream • 300ml full cream milk • 50g lavender sugar (* see recipe below) • 2 sheets gelatine or 2 tsp powdered gelatine • 450g fresh raspberries, washed 1 Line six ramekins with cling film and place on a tray. Heat the cream and milk together with the lavender sugar in a pan until just reaching simmering point. Remove from the heat.

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3 Pour the mixture into the lined ramekins, leave to cool then transfer to the fridge to chill.

Leave for at least 3 hours until set or overnight.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS Sevenoaks Outdoor Bowling Club @ Hollybush Close

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.

Call 01732 882779 or see www.musicalbumps.com for more information.

St LAWRENCE VILLAGE HALL

Church Road, Stone Street Village. - Attractive, well maintained traditional village hall, with well equipped kitchen, central heating and parking, Facilities for the disabled. Reasonable rates. Please call 01732 761282. See website: www.stlvh.org.uk

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.

Please contact Sharon Snowdon 01732 300527 for moreinformation.

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

HIRE BOROUGH GREEN VILLAGE HALL

Booking Secretary: Margaret Vick 01732 884101

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.

Contact Contact Paul Davis GSL 01732 763755

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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AT UNDERRIVER VILLAGE HALL on Monday Evening 7.30pm & 8.30pm and Tuesday mornings at 9.30am. For more information please call Zoe on 01732 771747 / 07950 494335

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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IGHTHAM VILLAGE HALL, Sevenoaks Road, Ightham TN15 9HA This large modern hall has disabled access, a large car park and a committee room. It has a Badminton Court, Stage, Gas Heating, Modern Kitchen with Fridge and Oven. Block bookings by negotiation. Special rates for Childrens Parties, Suitable for Weddings, Parties, Aerobics and Fund Raising for Charities.

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SPONSORED COBNUT PLAT SAFARI Sunday July 21st 12.00pm – 5.00pm

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Raising funds for the Cobnuts Restoration Project

www.motecobnutsproject.blogspot.com

Join us for an afternoon of walking or cycling around the beautiful cobnut orchards (plats) of TN15 and TN11 – Ightham, Stone Street, Plaxtol, Platt, Crouch, Roughway vist as many or as few as you like and finish with tea and cakes from 5.00pm at Ivy Hatch.

Entries £5.00 each ( Under 10’s free) For information contact Gillian Jones, 4 Broadhoath, Stone Street Sevenoals, Kent TN15OLX

01732 761466

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Caroles Hair Studio

A REGULAR SERVICE IN THIS AREA

14 Park Lane Kemsing TN15 6NU

WINDOW CLEANER

01732 762513

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Tuesday to Saturdays Perms £35.00

P.V.C. FASCIA, GUTTER CLEANING PATIO CLEANING ‘Established 1971’

MOBILE FOOT HEALTH PRACTITIONER Home Visits - Foot Health Checks Friendly Service • Fully Qualified & Insured Foot Care for Diabetics Soft & Hard Corn Reduction Verruca Treatment • Nail Care Callus Reduction

PAM ELLISON 01732 742341 or 07960 727 546

DOG WALKING PET FEEDING, HOUSE CHECKS Going away? Busy Worklife?

Running low on favours from neighbours & friends?

Free Estimates

07973 370851

01622 728575

3 Thorndyke Road, Wrotham, Sevenoaks, Kent TN15 7BG

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SEAL VILLAGE FETE There are stalls available for the

References available

Seal Village Fete on 21st September

Call Chris on 01732 763585 for further information

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