December 2020

3 Buckden Roundabout December 2020 Buckden Roundabout Team Editors - Articles & Events Ian Carter and Alec MacAndrew Email: editor@buckdenroundabout.info 33 Beaufort Drive, Buckden, PE19 5YU 07515 737636 Webmaster Alec MacAndrew Email: webmaster@buckdenroundabout.info Proofreading and editorial assistance Wendy Trattner Advertisements and Payments Fiona Shirley Email: adverts@buckdenroundabout.info Distribution Co - ordinators Wendy Thelwall, Lesley MacAndrew, Patricia Ford Contact this email for info: Email: distribution@buckdenroundabout.info Front Cover The cover this month shows the fabulous Christmas lights outside a Buckden house last Christmas and was taken by Alec MacAndrew. As ever, we are very grateful. We are looking for more paintings of any kind that we could use as a front cover. We can photograph them if you only have original artwork. We are also keen to get images (photos or paintings) of the village and surrounding areas in prepara- tion for future issues. Please note that images should ideally be in portrait format and should be a minimum of 2400 x 1700 pixels. More is better! All advertisements and non - advertising material are printed in good faith. Neither the Buckden Roundabout nor the Buck- den Parish Council can accept any responsibility for the con- tent of the advertisements, the services provided by the ad- vertisers or any statements made in the advertisements or non - advertising material. No part of this publication may be reproduced or stored with- out the express permission of the Editor of the Buckden Roundabout. THE DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ALL MATERIAL FOR THE JANUARY EDITION IS NO LATER THAN 4.30 pm ON SATURDAY 5TH DECEMBER . HOWEVER, SPACE IS ALLOCATED ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED, BASIS. IT IS REGRETTED THAT ANY CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE INCLUDED. December Production Dates Production dates for the January Edition of the Roundabout are as follows: Copy deadline: Saturday 5 December Proof Reading Monday 7 December Copy to Printers Tuesday 8 December Distribution Thursday 17 December Contents Buckden Parish Council 4 County Councillor 5 Village News 6, 7 Church News inc. Christmas services 8 - 11 Footsteps 12 For your diary 13 FOBT 14 Buckden Wildlife 15 Village News inc. District Councillor 16 School & Pre - School 17 Advertisements & Classifieds 18 - 24 November 2020 As I write this, we are one week into the second lockdown in England; by the time you read it, we should be only a few days away from coming out of it. Fingers crossed that the case figures persuade the government to end the lockdown as planned. During the first lockdown, your Roundabout team did not feel able to continue to distribute printed copies of the Roundabout (although we continued to produce on - line editions through the lockdown). On this occasion, in consulta- tion with our volunteer distributors, to whom we are very grateful, we decided to continue with the printed magazines. This month, we continue with our quarterly wildlife feature written by resident expert Mark Ward. This month ’ s article is all about the amazing varieties of fungi that we can see in our village, particularly at this time of year. Mark ’ s piece is on page 15. Buckden Towers is a Tudor period building, with an amazing history. The Friends of Buckden Towers is a voluntary group that supports the Buckden Towers Estate and they report on page 14 this month. A note to our contributors and distributors to remember that our production dates are rather earlier than usual in Decem- ber (5th December) as we aim to distribute the January edi- tion before Christmas. We wish all our readers a merry, peaceful and safe Christmas, and hope that 2021 will be a much better year. Please remember to visit the Roundabout website. As well as every edition from 2013 onwards available to see, there are often articles there that we could not fit into the print edition, as well as information that arrives during the month: www.buckdenroundabout.info This month ’ s editor - Alec MacAndrew Editor ’ s Page