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For all the kids that survived the 1940’s, 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s Perhaps a point or two to ponder! First we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank whilst they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn’t get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on out tummies, in baby cribs covered with brightly coloured lead-based paints. We had no childproof (or senior proof come to that) lids on our medicine bottles, door or cabinets and when we rode our….... This piece was originally printed in the “Milland” by-monthly Magazine to whom we are very grateful. To read the whole amusing & thought provoking article, why not have a look at the SENIORS PAGE to be found in our LOCAL LINKS section. And talking of the “good old days” of yesteryear, if you know any more such anecdotes/comments give us a call or send it in. |
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PARADOX TIMES or STOP & THINK FOR A FEW MINUTES! When you are feeling that Life is all to much of a RUSH these days, poor a glass of wine or a good cup of tea if that’s what you would prefer and look at the Notice Board page for inspiration! |
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The Rogate-Rake Village Website |
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Midhurst & Petworth Neighbourhood Specialist Team Monthly Bulletin Policing our Neighbourhood link |
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£5 for 12 issues is outstanding value in this day & age AND it’s all put together printed, then delivered each month by a loyal band of volunteers & all under the guidance of a dedicated team including:- Editors in Chief: Elizabeth Brown. Bracken Wood. Rake Hanger, Hillbrow, Liss. Hants. GU33 7NP. Telephone: 893112. or Email: rakehanger2@aol.com Terry Bell. Exchange House. Rogate. Petersfield. GU31 5HQ. Tel: 01730 821381 or Email: Kathleen.bell@tesco.Net. Treasurer: Ian Merry. Fyning Twitten. Fyning Lane, Rogate. Petersfield. GU31 5DJ. Distribution: Rosemary White 01730 ~ 821368 & Harriet Heslop 01730 ~ 821311. Advertising: Gillian Davis. Tetherdown. Fyning Lane, Rogate. Petersfield. GU31 5DJ. Telephone: 01730 ~ 821083. Email: Gillian@gdavis88.wanadoo.co.uk. |
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ROGATE'S NEW RAP PLAYGROUND “THE” new “IN” place to be & be seen! Click Here Read the Press Realise |
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Grand Opening of Youth Clubs Newly Decorated Club-room judged a Great Success & Enjoyed by All |
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WOODS NEW OWNER REPLIES to the “Fyning Terwick & Borden Wood Residents Assoc” Acting Chairman, Mairi Rennie. Dear Ian Here at last is my response to Mairi. I have had little time to write lately as my husband has broken his leg rather badly and has been in hospital having it pinned and plated and is non-weight-bearing for 10 weeks!! Many thanks as always Gillie Tuite
Dear Mairi Thanks for your email about the woods and I see that you have sent it to the village website. I hope the following does not sound too heavy, but I am sure you will understand this has to be said right from the start so that there are no further misunderstandings.
This land is private land and it is our intention to continue to coppice and manage the woodland and close it for our own use from time to time. I would stress that there are absolutely no public rights of way at all across the top of the woods and there never have been and never will be; but there is a sign-posted public footpath which runs along the boundary to the north and a public bridleway to the west. The two tracks across the middle are private tracks and there will continue to be jumps (or "barricades"?!!). If this is in anyway offensive to anyone, then I would suggest they walk elsewhere or stick to the public footpaths. It would, in any case be advisable to use the public footpath to avoid being mown down by horses, dogs or teenagers on bikes!! If the jumps do continue to be moved then I will fence the land and that will be the end of it.
I am astonished that the hearsay regarding Bohunt Manor could have anything to do with the sale of the former Dangstein Estate or to do with the FTBWRA. Dangstein was split and sold to five or six different purchasers who could not all have come with warnings! All of the new owners of the various properties at Dangstein are charming, friendly and their interests lie in conservation, renovation and repair. So far they seem to have been greeted with distrust and negativity. I personally am delighted that new life is to be breathed into the old estate after many years of neglect. It is not for us to decide what they do with their properties any more than they would expect to decide what we all do with ours.
I fully appreciate that as we get older we find it harder to adapt to change, but isn't it time to put petty disputes behind us and get on with our lives, protecting our own properties and respecting other people's land? Isn't it better to get on with our neighbours and welcome new families into our community? Perhaps a more constructive approach to change in the community in the future would avoid unpleasant and extremely costly disputes. I have followed the Terwick woodland saga and was pleased to see it had been settled when to my utter amazement, a village green application had been made for an area which blatantly includes the land belonging to the Devlin’s at Woodliving!! When will it end? I was astounded when I heard that my woods were offered to the community as a gift and rejected yet you are still engaged in a very lengthy battle trying to deny the family at “Woodliving” their private woodland garden, a small part of the woods virtually opposite mine!!
I hope that this answers any queries you and your organisation may have had, and if anyone else has any further questions, perhaps they would contact me direct rather than speculate at meetings! My personal feeling is that bringing the community together would be much better achieved by a single legitimate, local organisation rather than by splinter groups, which as far as I have seen, clearly divide the community. I am sorry that I seem to be disagreeing with you on several points, but I feel strongly that the past should be put firmly behind us, those who keep interfering with other people's land should stop immediately and put their efforts into much more positive deeds which will help the community rather than alienate!!
We can't make the 4th July, sadly, but perhaps we might see you at the Rogate Fete, if my husband can walk by then as he has broken his leg!!
Many thanks, Gillie Tuite.
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And so it rubbles on! “Fyning Terwick & Borden Wood Residents Association” Acting Chairman, Mairi Rennie. Dear Ian, I would be grateful if you would put this letter on the village website. Thanks, Mairi
Dear Gillie Tuite, I have been away for a few days hence the long delay in replying to you. I look forward to meeting you at the Fete. I sympathize with your husband as I broke my leg last September and found the immobility very frustrating. Like you I am going to be direct. I felt I had to answer your first e-mail that appeared on the village website and felt my answer was conciliatory. I expected that to be the end of the matter. I did not expect you to continue the argument with a further rather angry website e-mail. I think it is so unfair that I feel I must reply. However, this is my last word. This sort of tit-for-tat diminishes us both. Oh dear...you see us/me as old stick-in-the-muds, resenting newcomers, jumping to conclusions, interfering, victimizing a family and generally causing discord. With this mind-set you scold and threaten us/me about your pathways but at the same time counsel tolerance and peaceful co-existence. Your pathways have been particularly enjoyed by older less mobile locals. It is not generally known the woods have been sold, and coming across the jumps, someone might have thought vandals were at work and arranged for the jumps to be removed as a public benefit. Would it be possible to make ways round the jumps for walkers and put up notices to explain the situation? Local walkers are not unreasonable people. This would surely be better than fencing the woodland which would be expensive for you and cause the sort of resentment that might precipitate a call for the pathways to be designated under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. We do not live in the nineteenth century and landowners, like everyone else, have to pay regard to planning regulations, and observe the various protections for wildlife, trees, hedges, commons and pathways. You have a right to check my planning applications and serve protection orders on me if I threaten wildlife or the environment and vice-versa. That is not interference, but democracy. We have always welcomed newcomers, and I and FTBWRA participated fully in the Newcomers' Party. However, newcomers must also be sensitive to the community they are joining. The mysterious Zandercrest has close connections with the Songolo Trust that caused such great upset in Liphook and featured for weeks on the Liphook Community website. Perhaps lessons have been learned. The mention of Bohunt Manor should have made it clear that the purchasers of the individual properties were in no way implicated and are welcome. It would be wonderful if conservation was to be a priority. Like you, I consider the Dangstein estate needs proper management, but you will say that is none of my business. don't follow your logic in connecting the offering of a large tract of woodland to the community (never made directly to us) with the Terwick Woodland issue. We are not interested in acquiring land; we simply want to use land has been public land from time immemorial. The offer was never made to the community anyway, so I think it was probably only a whim. Do you really believe that we are spiteful enough to prevent a family fencing their garden? I realise that I/we are the demons of the dinner party circuit, and as the wine flows, the rumour-mongering goes further than any speculation at meetings. We have deliberately avoided more public discussion, and so have perhaps lost the PR initiative. That is, as it is. We applied to have Terwick Woodland registered as a Village Green in March 2008; it has taken more than a year for WSCC to process the application. We also asked the Village Playing Field Trustees if they would consider registration, but they felt their charitable status was protection enough and we agreed. Fyning Rec was of course registered by the Parish Council in 1971. The registration would have been a way of resolving the matter at no expense to the community, but the Parish Council refused to help. This was long before there was any question of selling any land. There is much more to the case than you have been led to believe, and like you, I would be grateful if you would contact me direct if you have any further questions about FTBWRA and our activities. The first objective of our constitution is 'To promote friendship and community spirit' in our rather scattered area. This is something quite different from the aims of a Parish Council. I do hope the two of us can set an example of reason and neighbourliness, despite our differences. Yours sincerely, Mairi Rennie. Acting Chairman, FTBWRA. |
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Rogate School “Dig for Victory” Wartime FETE Sat 4th July 2.00pm-4.00pm Lots of traditional stalls and fun activities for the whole family including Beer Tent, Tea Rooms, BBQ, Raffle, Tombola, Hoopla, Lucky Dip, Cake Stall, Bric-a-brac, Books, Toys, Plants, Sweets, Pony rides, Bouncy Castle, Break the Code, Find the Enemy, Assault Course, Soldier Biscuits, Face and Nail Art, Sand Art …. Join us in celebrating wartime spirit and the 65th Anniversary of D Day |
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LOSS OF PRIVACY COULD BE A REAL ISSUE HERE! Mobile Phone Directory to launch an article by Dominic Laurie from the BBC’s “Working Lunch” A company will begin offering a directory service from next week that allows people to find the mobile phone numbers of people they don't know. Run by 118 800, it will cost £1 and use databases of numbers it said are freely available for purchase and in the public domain. Anyone searching for a number can type the name and location of the person into the 118800 website. It claims to have some 15m numbers in its database. Privacy campaigners have been angered by the system despite it getting the all-clear from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The ICO ruled that the system did comply with current law and was little different from companies who use such contact lists for cold calling. It said that opting out of the service should be made easy for those not wanting their details to be used in the directory. Privacy concerns……………………. to read the full story AND find out how to get your number removed go to “IN THE NEWS 2” page |