Club Corner Wendover Horticultural Society
The Wendover Horticultural Society’s monthly meeting at St Anne's Hall, Aylesbury Road, is on Thursday 4 November at 2.30pm. We are delighted that Sandy Primrose, a biologist and passionate gardener, has agreed to speak. His subject is to be “A tale of two poppies”, specifically the role of opium poppies and field poppies in medicine and in war. He is well-known, his interesting talks have been enjoyed by many of us. Visitors welcome, admission £3.00. Neville Morton
Wendover Choral Society in Concert
Fauré, Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Tavener and Dupré Saturday, 4 December, 7.30pm, St Mary’s Church, Wendover
Memorial Centre, HP16 9AE, at 7.45pm, admission £5. In 'Dancersend, cradle of nature conservation, and how it has grown up,' Mick will celebrate the birth of the reserve eighty years ago, thanks to the generosity of the Rothschilds, and its influence on the evolution of conservation over the years since those early days.
more information and to register your interest in joining. We would love to see you. Geoff Lodge
Wendover Singers
The Wendover Singers are back “raising the rafters” again and have begun rehearsing at the John Colet’s newly refurbished smaller theatre. They look forward to many more For younger supporters, the Nature Tots rehearsals and getting back to normal as soon sessions for pre-school children will run at as possible. College Lake in the mornings of 16 and 18 November and must be booked early on The Wendover Singers are currently returning bbowt.org.uk/events. The reserve, shop and to rehearsals in a phased order: cafe are open every day except Mondays from 1. Members who are happy to return but not exceeding 50% of the capacity of the 10am. Parking is free and a small donation is theatre. requested for the upkeep of the site. 2. Members who would like to return a little later and still not exceeding half the hall’s Thursday 18 November brings the launch of capacity. a new Trust initiative called Team Wilder. This 3. New members from our ever-growing is BBOWT's vision for community involvement waiting list. We are considering when in the spirit of the times aiming at more and whether we can go to 75% capacity, nature everywhere. You can tune into the however, we will follow the Government’s online launch by searching 'BBOWT Team and the school’s Covid rules at all times. Wilder' and getting a free link. Please have a
In the western world, in centuries past, it was common practice to mark the end of a time of plague with a mass of thanksgiving to God and to commemorate those who had died. It is in this spirit, that Wendover Choral Society look and see if you would like to get active for We are very excited that the Wendover marks a return to concert-giving after two nature round Wendover! Singers (Wendover’s Community Choir) is at years’ silence enforced by the pandemic. richardbirch60@yahoo.com last singing together again and that we are seeing our original singers return. The choir will perform Fauré’s exquisite and Wendover u3a haunting Requiem which he composed for Founded in 1982, u3a is a UK-wide movement A big thank you to all members and many his own father and, which we hope will allow of locally-run interest groups that provide a others, who have helped with the return and listeners to reflect and process our shared wide range of opportunities to come together made this possible. experience and sense of loss of the last two to learn for fun. Members explore new ideas, years. skills and activities together. Throughout Find out more about Wendover Singers at By way of contrast is the joy, celebration and the country there are 1,057 u3as with over www.wendoversingers.com or email us at hope of the coming of Christ, as expressed in 450,000 members. There is one in Wendover. info@wendoversingers.com. Sue Thornton three very different choral pieces by Berlioz Membership of Wendover u3a costs £15 per – L’Adieu des Bergers; Saint-Saëns – Choeur: year and is open to everyone who is no longer Hold the Front Page……..Rain Stops Oratorio de Noel; Tavener – God is With Us in full-time work. Wendover u3a is now back World War Three! and Dupré - Variations sur un Noel for organ. in action after a period of restricted activity The Annual Battle between the Wendover due to Covid. Warriors, Widgets and Wanderers, is known in This feast of music is conducted by Peter the club as WWW3 or World War 3. Play came Bassano and features three young soloists We have a main meeting in St Mary’s Church to a soggy halt at half time, after a morning of from the Royal Academy of music and at 10.00 am on the first Wednesday of each playing in torrential rain! Following our lunch renowned organist, Tim Byram-Wigfield, month where we would normally have a time cup of tea, the thought of another two or speaker and time for a coffee and chat to three hours of relentless rain did not appeal. formerly of St George’s Chapel, Windsor. other members. As well as the main meeting The decision was made to invoke an Armistice We look forward to welcoming you. See there are over 60 different groups which meet until the Spring, when hostilities will resume. throughout the month at a range of locations, advert page 4. Wendover Choral Committee sometimes in a church hall, sometimes in a Fortunately the weather changed completely member’s home depending on the numbers on the following day for the final match of BBOWT Chilterns Group Programme in the group. The groups range from Art the outdoor season between the Chairman’s As frost and wind remove the leaves, we can Appreciation to Gardening to Table Tennis. and Captain’s teams, which was played in see our beautiful Chiltern trees with new There is a group for everybody. beautiful sunshine, such are the vagaries of clarity on any of our reserves but particularly our English weather! The outcome was a win at Dancersend. This reserve will be the To find out more search the Wendover u3a for the Chairman. topic for a talk by the warden, Mick Jones, website. This has information on future on Tuesday 16 November at Gt Missenden activities and links where you can register for That evening, after a lovely meal, the trophies 12
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