During May at Lyminge Library

Mark Thomas, who has recently moved to Lyminge, will exhibit a collection of his paintings for the first time in the Library.


Tuesday 1 May
Lyminge Historical Society

The Historical Society welcomes visitors to attend the monthly talks starting at 7.45pm in the Methodist Church Hall, which take place on the first Tuesday in the month. April’s talk will be given by Joan Kent on “The Days of Rabbit Stew”.


Lord Whisky Sanctuary Fund
Saturday 5 May
BOOT AND SPRING FAYRE

12noon – 3.30pm
Cars £7.00/Vans £10.00 – plenty of parking
Telephone 862622
Live music * Martin’s Mini Zoo * Huskie Sledge Team
Mary Woodman School of Dance
Stalls * Sideshows * Raffles * Tombolas
Hot and Cold Refreshments * Ice Creams
Admission by Donation


Tuesday 15 May
Etchinghill W.I.

Our next meeting will start at 2.30pm, when we will be discussing the Resolutions to be put before the Cardiff I.G.M.


Tuesday 15 May
Etchinghill Village Hall

Don’t forget to join us for cheese and wine at our AGM from 7.30pm –9.00pm. We look forward to seeing all Villagers and those interested in the Hall. Our cosy Hall is an excellent venue for Christmas parties and other small groups to hold meetings/sessions. ‘Phone 862172 or 862501.


Wednesday 16 May
Lyminge W.I.

The May meeting will be an informative talk on W.I, Resolutions and a light-hearted quiz. 7.30pm at the Methodist Church Hall.


Wednesday 16 May
Rhodes Minnis Circle

May is the month we have our AGM. After the business part of the evening members will enjoy a fish and chip supper. If any member would like a supper, but has not put their name on the list at the April meeting, please ‘phone 862281 to book.


Rhodes Minnis Village Hall

Are you looking for a hall in which to hold practice sessions, private party/function or meeting? Rhodes Minnis Village Hall has the capacity to take parties of up to 100 and has kitchen facilities if required at no extra cost.

A £25.00 returnable deposit is payable in advance. Electricity will be charged at 10p per unit. Regular hirers will be given a special reduced rate. For further details contact Mick or Dorothy Athow (booking secretaries) on 862616.


ST. MARY & ST. ETHELBURGA, LYMINGE

Rector: Rev. Peter Ashman tel no. 862432
SERVICE TIMES

Thu 3rd May
9.30am Holy Communion
Sat 5th May
2.00pm WOW WORKSHOP
Sun 6th May Easter 4
8.00am Holy Communion
10.30am WOW Service (World of Worship)
Thu 10th May
9.30am Holy Communion
Sun 13th May Easter 5
8.00am Holy Communion
10.30am Holy Communion
Thu 17th May
9.30am Holy Communion 
Sun 20th May Easter 6
10.30am Holy Communion
Thu 24th May ASCENSION DAY 
9.30am Holy Communion
Sun 27th May Easter 7
10.30am Holy Communion
6.30pm Sunday Silence
Thu 31st May 
9.30am Holy Communion
Sun 3rd June PENTECOST
8.00am Holy Communion
10.30am WOW Service (World of Worship)
SUN 3rd JUNE Open Air Service on Tayne Field
(LYMINGE CHRISTIANS TOGETHER) 3.00pm


CHRISTIAN AID WEEK
13 – 19 MAY 2001

Christian aid Week this year is a celebration of making a difference and focuses on people in Uganda, Brazil and Bangladesh.
Your contribution may seem like a drop in the ocean, but every little helps!


LYMINGE CHURCH CHOIR

Do you enjoy music? Do you have a good sense of humour? Lyminge Church Choir is looking for new members, young or old (even if you think you can’t sing or think you are no good at music!)
Choir practices are on Fridays, 7.15 – 8.15pm (term-time only). Please contact either Ruth Goodsell on 863976 or the Church Office on 862345.


Lyminge Handbells Ring True

The Lyminge Handbells group have started to get used to the new sound and feel of the re-furbished bells and look forward to the first public performance at Lyminge Day on the 12th of May. We shall be seen at other local events during the summer and are willing to attend private functions for a small fee. So if you would like to hear the sound of our super, newly refurbished bells at a special celebration or family event, just give us a ‘ring’. Please let us know some weeks in advance if you can and we will do our best to come along. Evenings and weekends only please. We also hope to recruit more ringers this year to make it easier for us to attend all the events we are asked to play at. If you would like to book the ringers, or want to have a go yourself just call either Ro Edmond on 863201 or Stuart Hunnisett on 862530 for details.


St Mary & St Ethelburga, Lyminge – Children’s Workshop

All children are welcome (adults too!) to our afternoon workshops, held on the Saturday preceding the first Sunday of the month. For more information, contact Vanessa Ashman at the Rectory, on 862432.

For your diary: Our next Children’s Workshop will be on Saturday 2nd June.


ST MARY & ST RADIGUND, POSTLING

Sun 6th May 6.30pm Evensong
Sun 20th May 8.00am Holy Communion
Sun 27th May 9.30am Family Service


ST OSWALD, PADDLESWORTH

Sun 13th May 11.00am Holy Communion
Sun 20th May 6.30pm Evensong
Thu 24th May ASCENSION DAY
8.00pm Holy Communion


Lyminge Methodist Church

A warm welcome to any who wish to share our family worship at 11.00am each Sunday.
Challengers for young people every Sunday 11.00am.
June 3 Village Pentecost celebration on Tayne Field
For Baptisms, Weddings or Funerals, please contactthe Minister, the Rev. Colin Telfer tel: 278525.
Every Monday afternoon, 2.30pm -3.30pm Women's Fellowship takes place in the Methodist Church Parlour.
Hall/rooms available for hire through Christina Guyett on 863049.



Advance Dates For the Diary


Saturday 3 June

Lympne Place Annual Summer Fete

From 1.00pm at Lympne Village Hall and Playing Fields (please note new venue). Please come and join us for our annual traditional fete. Lyminge Handbell Ringers, live music, games, side-shows, stalls, displays, dance, cream-teas, Punch and Judy. Come and join us for lots of fun!


Thursday 23 August

Rude Mechanical Theatre Company

In
“Twelfth Night”
Performing on their colourful pageant wagon
More details in future Newsletters


Lyminge Pre-School Playgroup

A safe and welcoming place for your child to make friends, play, learn and make a smooth transition to school. Supervised by trained and experienced staff. Sessions weekdays during term time at Lyminge Village Hall, 9.00am to 12 noon, (or to 1.00pm – additional hour is optional and packed lunch should be provided). Standard session is £5.50 – extended session £7.00. Children may start from 2½ years old.

The Playgroup is a member of the Pre-school Learning Alliance and meets standards set by KCC Social Services and OFSTED. The recent, excellent OFSTED report stated, “..In this thriving Playgroup the children are making good progress towards the Early Learning Goals. There is a strong partnership with parents and carers which contributed positively to the children’s good progress”. Further information from Lynn Hussey on 862831.


Lyminge Babies and Toddlers

We meet every Tuesday during school term time at the Methodist Church Hall, Church Road, Lyminge. Come along any time between 9.30am and 11.30am.

ALL BABIES, TODDLERS AND CARERS WELCOME FOR PLAY AND COFFEE

£1.20 a session (1st session free)


Become a Health Action Link Reporter

Have YOU any comments on your treatment from the NHS – complimentary or not? If the answer’s “Yes”, please contact the South East Kent Community Health Council, which is the guardian of your interests in the NHS. We want to hear about your experiences – GOOD news as well as bad. We will take action on all the stories we are told. To become a Health Action Link Reporter, telephone 851127 or call at the CHC offices at 5 Town Walk, Folkestone, Kent CT20 2LD. There are registration forms in Lyminge Library.

Notices
 

Appeal for Information

1. From Adrian Westwood, Hawksdene, the Street, Hastingleigh, Kent. TN25 5HU
Mr. Westwood is seeking British Resistance Fighters. Are you, or do you know of someone who was, a former member of the Home Guard Auxiliary Units, Special Duties Section or XII Corps Observation Unit? He is researching a book on Kent’s Secret Army, the resistance movement set up in July 1940 to counter the expected German invasion following the Fall of France and the Dunkirk Evacuation. Winston Churchill ordered a Secret Army (known officially in Kent as XII Corps Observation Unity) to be formed comprising men who knew the Kent hills, forests and marshes, such as farmers, farm workers, market gardeners, landowners, foresters, gamekeepers, poachers, policemen and shepherds. 
Secret underground bunkers, observations posts and wireless stations were built along the north Down, on Romney Marsh and in the Weald ready for the mend to disappear into. Their suicidal role was to ambush German patrols, sabotage railway lines, roads and bridges, assassinate German officers and destroy supply depots and airfields – anything to slow the German advance.
Mr. Westwood would like to hear from anyone with information on the men and women involved and the underground bases. Please call him on 01233 750563 or write to the address given.

2. From Mr. H.M. Whitehead ex. 46 Recce Regiment
Just prior to going to North Africa in 1942 to serve with the British 1st Army, Mr. Whitehead’s Regiment was stationed in and around Lyminge. His own Squadron was based at Westenhanger Racecourse, so they knew the area well. Mr. Whitehead wonders if any of our ‘senior’ residents living in the area at that time would remember them. He enclosed a photocopy of the first Race meeting they held in Austria post war, and it may be of interest to note the names of the second, third, fourth and fifth races on the Race Card, so called in memory of their pleasant stay in our area. The Race Card has been placed in the Library for anyone interested. Mr. Whitehead can be contacted on 01843 595730 or written to at 2 Vale Court, Ramsgate, Kent. CT11 9JR.

A Request from the Salvation Army “bin” Collector

There has been an “incident” in the bin and if there are too many such incidents then we could have it removed. Please use it only for the purpose intended.


For Sale

Knee-hole desk, Yew with green leather top, repro-duction. £50.00

Complete set Encyclopaedia Britannica, c 1978, excellent condition, beautifully bound. £25.00

6 foot tall artificial Christmas tree, very good quality. £20.00. Telephone: 863633.


Thanks

EVA, widow of the late JOHN HUTCHINSON, wishes to thank most sincerely, everyone who sent her messages of condolence and made donations to the Stroke Association in memory of John.

Special thanks to Jim and Tricia Smith and Bob and Olive Webb for their help and sympathetic support; also to Chittendens, Undertakers, for the sympathetic and understanding way they dealt with her and to Gill Mack for her words of comfort at this sad time.


Patchwork Workshop

The next workshop will be on Saturday 19 May from 10.00am – 4.00pm – please check with Liz for the location. We will be making a bag for our cutting boards and rules and other sewing bits and bobs – but the bag could equally be used as a large shopping bag or beach bag. Suitable material will include remnants of light-weight curtaining. Even if you have never done patchwork before, you are welcome to join us. All you need is a sewing machine. We will also be discussing the next stage in our “Round Robin” – and if you wanted to join in with this it would not be too late. For more information, please ring Liz on 863197.


Age Concern, Elham Rural

Volunteer needed – Urgently!

We need a volunteer to help with vegetable preparation on Mondays and/or Thursdays between 9.00am and 10.15am. Two of our most valuable volunteers have had to retire through ill health and we need to replace them. We do have an electric potato peeler!

Please contact Sheila Woods on 862364.


Friends of Age Concern, Elham Rural

To help with the constant problem of funding our minibus, we launched a “Friends of Age Concern Elham Rural” on 1sst April. Anybody who is interested in supporting this project, please contact Sheila Woods at the Day Centre on 862364. Thank you.

Bus Passes
Concessionary bus passes are being issued at the Day Centre on Tuesday 29th May to Friday 1st June between 2.30pm and 4.30pm.


Thanks

Many thanks for all the loving support and prayers during my husband’s long illness. Gerald passed away on March 24th at the ‘Hospice on the Hill’, where he received such wonderful care.

A special thank you to Dr. Koria, Dr. Michaels and staff of Lyminge Surgery for all their help and support during the past 18 months, and recently the home visits from the McMillan Nurse, who was so supportive.

Daphne Marsh, Christian, Sheryl and little Kaelum miss Gerald very much.

Rhodes Minnis Cat Sanctuary

Rhodes Minnis Cat Sanctuary will hold its 27th Household Pet Cat Show at the Westgate Hall, Canterbury on Sunday 27th May.

The Sanctuary re-home over 500 cats last year, almost all to people in the East Kent area and are hoping very much that some of those more confident felines will be shown for the first time this year. It is a happy-go-lucky show and with over 50 classes almost every cat wins lots of prizes. Entries have been declining since the hey-day of these shows at Folkestone in the early 90’s and it is essential to their survival that there is a worthwhile number of cats entered for the Judges and the Public to see.

Cats must be docile and good tempered and not mind being in their pens for the day and being handled by the Judges. Lots of household moggies are more interesting and with better temperaments that the pure-bred cats who feature at the but shows.

The Show is one of the Sanctuary’s two major fund-raising events in the year, the other is the Open Day at Seathwaite, which will be on the 22nd July. All profits from the show and the open day go to help the Sanctuary in its work of finding new homes for abandoned cats, or cats whose owners cannot look after them any more.

Schedules and entry forms can be obtained from Pam Cassie, Tracey, Sandra or Claire Jell at Seathwaite (862243), who will give advice on every aspect of the Show. The closing date for entries is 14th May.

Reports

Lyminge Senior Citizens’ Club

The Senior Citizens’ Club enjoyed its first outing of the year on March 28th. After a drive through Deal and Dover, we stopped for tea at the Pavilion on the East Cliff. On the following Wednesday, one of our members found out who were the weakest links after organising a quiz afternoon. Very enjoyable! D. Bain.


Etchinghill W.I.

At our meeting on the 17th April the members were given a very interesting talk, with beautiful slides, by Joanna Westgate. We went on a journey from sunrise to sunset, discovering the many varied aspects of Dungeness. Joanna, a local wildflower nursery owner, had stepped in at the last moment, as our original speaker was ill. The competition was won by Dorothy Andrews.


Lyminge W.I.

Our April meeting took the form of a craft demonstration on rubber stamping given by Mrs. Ann Martin of Sittingbourne. This meeting was thoroughly enjoyed by our members and visitors, who found the examples Mrs. Martin demonstrated quite fascinating. Our arts and craft group is going well and meets every Wednesday in Lindsay’s Larder. Needless to say, rubber stamping will be tested at this venue soon. 

New members and visitors are always welcome. If you would like further details, please ring Lyn Callander on 862799.


Sibton Park Cricket Club 100 Club Winners for April

Ms. E. Edwards - £25, F. White - £10, M. O’Sullivan - £5.


Report on the Gardeners’ Society
Spring Show held on 7th April
Despite the very wet and cold spring, the gardeners of Lyminge (and Newington) produced an amazing display of flowers for their annual spring show. The day was a great success and enjoyed by the many people who came along in the afternoon to admire the displays and enjoy the tea and cakes.

Gardening Column

Lyminge Gardeners’ Society

Tuesday 22 May

Members will be visiting the Pine Gardens at St. Margaret’s Bay. The 6-acre garden includes many inter-esting features and stunning views towards the White Cliffs. The cost of the visit will be £1.60 per head and refreshments will be available in the tea rooms. Meet at the Library Car Park for 6.15pm or at the gardens for 7.00pm. Non-members will be most welcome to come along. The members will now be visiting Summerfield Nurseries, Wingham in June, as the visit to Bridge Nurseries had to be cancelled. Details in next month’s Newsletter.


GardeningTips for May

At the time of writing, gardeners are still battling against very wet ground, strong, cold winds, night frosts and wintry showers, but hope springs eternal, and maybe worm, dry weather will eventually arrive. Try and keep weeds under control now, before they can get established. Apply weed and feed to lawns later in the month. Plant up pots and baskets and harden off as the weather warms up. Continue to sow bedding plants and to harden off developed annuals and perennials in the green house. Put supports around tall perennials whilst still in early growth, this they will be hidden as the plants develop.

Freshlook Gardens

Tel/Fax: 844680
Mobile: 07866091633

Regular lawn-mowing service available. General gardening work undertaken. Good quality seasoned logs available from October. For free quotation please ring/fax Geoffrey Hogben.


S. Wiles, Gardener

Telephone 862442

General tidying and small jobs undertaken, hedge trimming, rough grass cut.

Mowers, shears and hedge trimmers serviced, sharpened and set. Collection in the village FREE.


MTS Contractors

Garden Maintenance and Small Building Works

From….Grass cutting up to 1½ acres. Hedge and brush cutting. “One-offs” or on a permanent basis – weekly fortnightly etc.

To……. Paths, pergolas, fencing, turfing and patios. Repairs undertaken.

Account customers welcomed

FREEFONE (0800) 0836469