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AUTUMN 2020 Edition 34
Better times ahead?
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Autumn2020 Les Nouvelles 3 Feature articles Welcome in this issue: to the September P 16 Food Issue of Les Nouvelles intolerance In these strange times it is important to Of your own or avoid holding out a hostage to fortune. other people’s food? Therefore I won’t say “it looks like this coronavirus scare is now all over” for, as sure as night follows day, the time between writing this article and P 24 Landes distributing this magazine will see a boatload of unaware virus Interiors carriers arriving for a weekend break, and then it’s back to square Exciting future for an old shop one. Meanwhile, having lost Liberation Day, the Parish lost out to Coronavirus yet again with the cancellation of the Gorey Fete.
But let’s not be too depressing, we have plenty of uplifting news in this edition of Les Nouvelles as well, and also on this page a reminder of how spectacular this Parish can look during the season of the Agapanthus. Not only that, but after a major delay in distributing the last issue, we are back on schedule with this one. There are changes afoot in the most distant area of St Martin as you will find in the Parish News section where, in response to concern about disturbing, if not frightening off, indigenous wildlife, dogs will no longer be welcome visitors. Within these pages we hear P 28 Clos Le about two new cafés opening, one on Gorey and the other at St Catherine, as well as a progress report on the new houses at Clos Le Troquer. Also new to the Parish, is Landes Troquer nearly Interiors, next to the Church in what was the old Crown Stores. We mentioned its opening complete in the last issue and we have published an extensive interview with the business owners, Manon and Jonathan Jones. Moving in soon The contribution from our Rector, Rev Jonny Scott, welcomes the reopening of the Parish Church. I write this not as a member of the congregation but as someone delighted to see the building once more being used for the reason it was built. It always struck me as lunacy that we were allowed to cram into pubs and sing rugby songs in loud voices while standing close to everyone, but relatively few people spaced at a distance all facing the same way and singing hymns was not allowed. Still, ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die and, of course, enjoy reading this issue. Hamish Marett-Crosby P40 St Martin Music Society The show must go on
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From the Connétable
Challenging Times As I sit here to write on this perfect summer’s day, bright blue sky and the sun streaming into the office, it is easy to forget, for a few moments, what a turmoil the world is in as we live through this pandemic. The last few months have been a challenge for everyone. I would like to thank the Parish Since March we team who have worked above and beyond to ensure that the Parish has have all become o been run smoothly and that anyone who has needed help has been ‘‘ familiar with phrases assisted. I am extremely grateful to all our Honorary Officers who have put such as ‘lockdown’, in so many hours in these difficult times to keep us safe. ‘self-isolation’, ‘working
I would also like to thank M&S who donate the Presiding Officer, often the Bailiff, who has remotely’. I have now leftover food to the Parish, this is collected three managed the meetings seamlessly, and has
attended so many times a week and taken to the Methodist Hall, steered us through long, sometimes very long, b where Judy Egré who initiated the project in agendas. Scrutiny Meetings, response to the approach from M&S, ably assisted ‘‘ Life continues in the Parish Office and it was Public Hearings and by the most amazing group of volunteers, sort the wonderful, finally, to be able to open our doors food and distribute to those in need and charities; States Assemblies via to the public. The building projects are well they are also ably supported and assisted by advanced, and details are to be found in an Microsoft Teams. Reverend Nico Hilmy Jones. To Stephen Forrester, article by Simon Matthews. The Parish Depot is l Managing Director of Sandpiper and M&S, the scheduled to be complete early August and after Chef de Police and keen cyclist. Centenier Board and local staff of M&S as well as the years of having lain dormant and in disrepair. The Alan Philips, Vingtenier Michael Stevens and I
wonderful volunteer team at the Methodist Village Tearoom extension will be complete by followed the cyclists in the Police Car, a a Church. David and Ann Marett and many others, the end of August. transporting the all-important Branchage you all have my sincere thanks. Jacqui Almeida, The Branchage was different to all previous measuring pole. It was suggested, jokingly I Youth Worker with the Maufant Youth Project years and on a splendid summer afternoon in hope, that next time I should be extremely deserves a special mention as she supports four early July, for reasons of social distancing, the environmentally friendly and ride a horse. families with the donated food. St. Martin’s Food Roads Committee, our Rector Jonny Scott and Bank operates from St. Martin’s Methodist Hall our Chef de Police cycled around the Parish on Best wishes; keep three times a week, from 1pm until 2pm. their e-bikes. I was due to cycle but, having seen My sincere and grateful thanks to Stephen the route which seemed to encompass every hill well and keep safe Forrester, Managing Director of Sandpiper and in the Parish, I swapped with Peter Searle, our Karen M&S, as well as the Board and local staff of M&S and, of course, the wonderful volunteer team at the Methodist Church. Since March we have all become familiar with phrases such as ‘lockdown’, ‘self-isolation’, ‘working remotely’. I have now attended so many Scrutiny Meetings, Public Hearings and States Assemblies via Microsoft Teams. However good the w technology is, and I must say it has been very good, thanks to the hard work of the States Greffe and Scrutiny Officers, it can become very isolating. In a debate it is so useful to see other people’s reactions and
to read their facial signs and not just hear a voice. Jersey was the first o Commonwealth jurisdiction to achieve a virtual h Parliament. It is quite a challenge to conduct Virtual meetings with 49 States members, the StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:20 Page 6
August 2020 Islanders at HIGH / MODERATE RISK Autumn/autumn2016 Les Nouvelles 5 ACTIVITY RISK GUIDANCE
Currently the level of COVID-19 activity in Jersey is low. This means that the chance of coming into contact with COVID-19 during any activity remains low, although some activities are considered higher risk than others.
HIGHER RISK ACTIVITIES LOWER RISK ACTIVITIES
• Activities with people you • Activities done on your own do not live with are higher or with people you live with risk. The larger the number are lower risk. If you are going of different people you to spend time with people encounter and spend time you do not live with, the with the higher the risk. smaller the number of people, the lower the risk.
• Activities where you may • Activities where you can be less able to follow physical follow physical distancing distancing guidance are guidelines are lower risk. If higher risk. This becomes you cannot follow physical higher risk still if the time distancing guidance, the risk spent not following physical is lowered if the time spent not distancing guidance is physically distancing is limited longer than 15 minutes. to less than 15 minutes.
• Activities that are indoors • Activities that are outdoors are higher risk. are lower risk.
• Activities where you will have • Activities where you will not to touch surfaces or items have to touch surfaces or that people you do not live items that people you do not with have also touched, are live with have also touched, higher risk. This risk is lowered are lower risk. Following good when you follow good hand hand hygiene guidance, hygiene guidance such as such as washing your hands washing your hands frequently frequently with soap and with soap and water for water for 20 seconds, or using 20 seconds or using hand hand sanitiser (with 60-70% sanitiser (with 60-70% alcohol alcohol content) further content). lowers risk.
• Not wearing a face mask • Wearing a face mask increases risk, especially reduces risk, especially when when you cannot follow you cannot follow physical physical distancing. distancing.
• Activities associated with increased production of • Activities associated with less respiratory droplets, such as respiratory droplet production, singing, shouting, coughing such as normal speech, are or breathing heavily are lower risk. higher risk, when done amongst a group of people.
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Autumn 2020 Les Nouvelles 7 Steve Luce: Community Planning for The was a subject ‘‘I focused on when I Future - whatever it spoke recently in
the States might bring Assembly. The debate was an
early Island Plan discussion and It’s always a tricky job to write for our parish magazine I proudly told other States because the article has to be submitted weeks before ‘‘ it’s distributed, but this time it proved particularly Members about our recent challenging because, for all of us, it’s been a year when parish developments, and how assumptions of the near future, or predictions ahead, are almost impossible. As I type, there are reports of we hoped to progress record numbers contracting the Covid19 virus in the
USA, Brazil and South Africa Below: and Spain has just returned The Barn between the Public Hall and the rectory to the “red list”. – new community rooms on the way Regardless of the answers, I know that St Martin is preparing for the future, whatever it throws at us. Here we will, by the time you read this, have just completed the extension to the wonderful tearoom on the Village Green. Also and with luck we will be fitting out the final unit (in the Old School) for the doctor’s surgery that we all wanted so much to have and we will also be close to welcoming 20 families to their wonderful new homes in Clos Le Troquer. Finally, we will have just reoccupied our newly renovated Parish Depot at the top of St Catherine’s Hill. All these projects are “forward looking” and setting us up for the years to come; they are vital components for the St. Martin community of the future. Community was a subject I focused on when I spoke recently in the States CONTINUED LLEONARD’SEONARD’S EELECTRICS LECTRICS L LIMITEDIMITED Domestic and Commercial • New Installations • Rewires
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CONTINUED Below: Assembly. The debate was an early Island Plan More to come? discussion and I proudly told other States Members about our recent parish developments, and how we hoped to progress. It is clear to me that, if we are to continue to develop our community facilities even further, we will need to continue to build more in St Martin. I know there will be parishioners who might be shocked at my statement, but (if we are clever), then we can provide yet more in a way that we hardly notice. Choosing the right sites will be crucial, but we can, I know, deliver more housing for our older parishioners as well as providing more “first time buyer” homes. It will not happen quickly, but we need to start consulting soon. One facility that we definitely will be delivering sometime in the near future will be some new (and much needed) community rooms in the barn at The Rectory (that is the building between The Hall financially but if we remain vigilant, sensible, and careful then I am sure we and The Rectory). Plans have been drawn up for some time, and I am can continue to stay safe. Please be assured that, despite Covid, we are told we hope to start the work early next year. The idea will be to continuing in St Martin to plan for better years to come. replicate, and add to, the Public Hall facilities, and have even more meeting areas for people and associations. With that work completed, I Finally, do not hesitate to contact think we will then truly be able to say that we have a genuine heart to me if there is anything I can do. St Martin, par excellence. The last months of 2020 will be challenging for our Parish community and it is going to be stressful emotionally, physically, and Steve
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Autumn 2020 Les Nouvelles 9 PARISHNEWS Public Hall in Splendour The flower displays on the Public Hall continue to look splendid. Originally planted to flower in a patriotic red, white Now, a moment to grovel. While and blue for the Liberation weekend, they compiling the last issue I obviously continued looking fantastic up to the time was not listening properly when told of writing (end of July) to gain good marks who had planted the Public Hall in the Parish in Bloom competition (see flowers. I heard, therefore wrote, Page 22). The flowers were tended by Kay “Colette” rather than Paulette de la Laverty and Judy Eden but planted by Haye. What can I do other than grovel in public? Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Paulette de la Haye. Culpa. Labyrinthine setting Whatever your views on the labyrinth laid out in the lower cemetery at the Parish Church might have been, it has proved an inspired example of making an eye-catching centre to the whole area. From its start as a bit of a muddy mess, the area has now matured into a colourful setting featuring the central labyrinth. And why does it look so good? Bob Fosse, please step forward to take a bow. StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:20 Page 11
10 Les Nouvelles Autumn 2020 PARISHNEWS Welcome to Swearing Right: Centenier Gordon Jones, Constable Karen Shenton Stone, Teresa Roland and Chef de The Seahorse in Police Peter Searle at Gorey On Friday 17th July Teresa Rolland was sworn in as a When I was much younger, I knew a Vingtenier for the vingtaine of lady reaching the end of her life who Above: Sustenance for two or four legged thirsty walkers Fief de la Reine. told me she had always relied on one Below: Madeleine Maddison special prayer: “Please God give me sea.” She is too self-effacing; it is much more. It is the dream, No stranger to the Honorary Police, good timing”. And that story brings me made real, of a refugee from the finance industry who wanted Teresa has been a Constable’s Officer neatly to Madeleine Maddison who to reconnect with the community by buying and selling locally. for 18 years. She has also manged to Examples of this eclectic mix include Haithwaite Ceramics, combine that with international decided to create a very personal coffee beautiful glazed vases and pots, locally made from clay success in her chosen sport, shooting. bar in Gorey: The opening date was collected from Grouville Bay at low tide which, samples of a Tessa has represented the Island in planned for 25th March, coinciding range that Madeleine said, she was excited to stock. They join Shooting and has also had the honour neatly with the start of lockdown. the charming, if not quirky limited stock of Jimbob Art ‘Bear in Pants’ biscuit tins and tea trays as well as other goodies that But there is a happy ending; the Seahorse come and go. Coffee Bar opened as lockdown eased and can But, without lessening their charm, the Seahorse may have Another be found at the bottom of the hill down to these distractions but the essence of the place is obviously Gorey harbour on the right. It is now welcoming food and drink, specifically the coffee itself a Central American customers to its eclectic selection of cakes (by blend of an Espresso,not to mention some very special Social Deborah’s Cakes and Cupcakes), patisserie and smoothies with lumps; fruit, granola and almond flake toppings fresh baguettes, or mean you’ll need a spoon. These were Casualty sausage rolls, scotch eggs, described to me as “not so much smoothies as and pork pies fresh daily ‘Spoonies’” Try the Seahorse Blue (yes, it’s The destruction of the from Hackett’s. Featured purple) with blueberries, banana, mango and annual calendar has as a welcoming milk or The Gorey Sunrise with mango, banana, continued with the loss, distraction is a selection strawberries and fresh orange juice. this year, of the Gorey of craft objets d’art So, if you want somewhere privately Fete. The big losers of designed, made, or opened with a friendly welcome, good coffee, course are the local sourced from Madeleine’s obviously not part of a chain then Gorey charities, but we can get wide circle of friends. In beckons. over it by enjoying the her words, the Seahorse The emphasis of the Seahorse will be very delights of the “is a small funky coffee much on the coffee to take away with restaurants and cafes shop at the bottom of something to eat with it. This could be a slice around the harbour. It the hill in Gorey Harbour, of cake, a Hackett’s speciality or even a certainly will not be such selling hot/cold drinks made-up baguette filled with whatever is a crush (see Picture) and snacks to take by the available, not a range of premade sandwiches. Madeleine hopes to stay open all the year round so you can eschew the few seats that are available Goodbye and take your goodies down to the harbour wall to and enjoy the freshness of the food wither in the Angeline glow of – we hope – a warm autumn or even a hot coffee to keep you Picot going though winter. Opening hours are from It was sad to have to say 9.30 until 4.30. At “goodbye” Angeline weekends, the Seahorse Picot, who retired on opens at 9.00. the 30th June. Angeline StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:20 Page 12
Autumn 2020 Les Nouvelles 11 g A Thankyou Letter to The Parish Judy Mantle is recuperating after cancer and, living by herself, has been kept going through lockdown by her family and a host of others who rallied around. She sent a thank you letter to Les Nouvelles asking for it to be published. Space and distinction of serving as a judge at the Olympics for Pistol Shooting. requirements meant it had to be edited down so all those With Teresa stepping up to vingtenier, there are now three who one way or another have been there for Judy when vacancies for Constable’s Office in the Parish, and anyone needed, should be aware of the depth of her gratitude. (Ed.) interested should contact the Chef de Police for more details. You can either Email: [email protected] or Tel: 853951. Although feeling positive now, like Personal enquiries are welcome between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. on a most people, I have faced many challenges in my life. However, I have Wednesday evening at St Martin's Public Hall. been fortunate as, more often than not, when things have been difficult, there have been people there to support me. In March, Peter Canham at the Public Hall rang offering help during the lock down, I was confined to my flat as I was very vulnerable, having been diagnosed the year before with stage four breast cancer which had metastasized into my bones and lungs. All along, all those at the Public Hall have been there for me. In June I received another call, this time offering deliveries of food from the food bank, to which Marks and Spencer were donating out of date, but perfectly edible, food. Since then the wonderful ever-cheerful team from the Methodist Church have been keeping me well supplied with food and I blame them for my weight gain. I hope you will not mind if I add more thanks here particularly to all the staff at the Oncology Department who have been amazing. Thanks also to Jersey Cancer Relief, Friends of Jersey Oncology and Macmillan Jersey. I also thank my three brilliant children and my three little granddaughters for their constant presence and love. Some years ago, my son Alexander taught me the value of technology. Thanks to him I now have a laptop, a tablet and can use Skype, Face Time and Zoom. Thank you to my brilliant daughters, Eleanor, my faithful grocery shopper and inspiration in Jersey, and Katherine, my amazing daughter (in Germany) had worked for who is also my role model, and, of course, to all the friends whose love and humour have sustained me throughout this time. the Parish for eight years, and what she did not know was not Meet worth knowing. We will all miss the team her wealth of at the Parish Office (L-R) Janine Milner knowledge, her (Parish Secretary work ethic, her abundance of common sense and Peter Canham her great sense of humour. We wish Angeline a (Parish Executive Officer) wonderful, happy and healthy retirement with her Caroline Troy Assistant Parish/ husband Michael. Executive Secretar StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:21 Page 13
12 Les Nouvelles Autumn 2020 Unwelcome Visitors to the Les Écréhous Our Connétable, Karen Shenton Stone, is asking the States to ban dogs from Les Écréhous and Les Minquiers. Les Écréhous is the eastern reef that is part of this Parish, Les Minquiers are seen regularly by anyone on a boat to St Malo as the ferry skirts its limits.
Constable Karen Below: explained the ban is Visitors from a bygone age Tree planting needed to bring further Bottom: protections to the A very welcome visitor basks in the sun. Photograph courtesy of Seafaris wildlife on the reef, Cache demoiselles including the local tern and seal populations. She said that Les Écréhous enjoys global recognition for its history and biodiversity, and, as a Ramsar Site and OSPAR Marine Protected Area, it is critical that the States ensure that it is afforded the protection it needs to maintain this standing. “It is clear that we can go further than what is currently in place.” Part of the problem lies with the increasing number of visitors to the reef and what they bring along as part of their day out. She explained: “I am therefore seeking a ban on the opportunity to bring dogs and other domestic animals onto the Island’s two reefs – Les Écréhous and Les Minquiers – in order to help minimise the negative impact that non-native animals may have on the native local wildlife.” The Constable feels that by adopting this proposition, the States Assembly can send a simple and clear message to visitors, from wherever they come from, that the native wildlife must be respected. “I would also hope to improve conduct on the reefs while we await a new Wildlife Law.” She said. Currently, the Island’s rabies legislation prevents French visitors bringing dogs ashore and while existing guidelines ‘strongly discourage’ locals from taking their dogs to the reef, it is not covered by any law. There is a disparity in guidance, and this is an opportunity for the States to make it consistent. StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:21 Page 14
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PICK Three Arches Thought ‘N’ A Little Shop in an Iconic Spot for this issue Do you remember the fishing tackle shop about a Something MIX third of the way along the harbour arm at St Catherine? For about 20 years it was the ‘Morning Watch Tackle Shop’. Well as we all realised as we to ponder passed the sad looking arches, it is no more; however, Of course, you may want the good news is that Jersey Seafaris took on the lease to continue working from for the property at the end of February this year. home - but think it
Jersey Seafaris have been running RIB trips around the Channel through: If a job can Islands since 2011. Their most popular trips include, Les Ecrehous, Les easily be done from Minquiers and trips over to France (resuming when the borders open). home, then it could also This new venture (The 3 Arches) has a be outsourced off island dual role, it has a small shop selling merchandise, fishing tackle, hot and cold and completed by drinks, ciabattas and other snack options. There is also a booking office for the boat cheaper labour trips, which gives them a real-life, rather than a virtual visibility, and also encourages customers a chance to come down to meet someone face to face when planning a trip. “We describe Satisdiction Above: Business partners ourselves as a “a little shop in an iconic spot,” said director Stef Stevens. (Husband & Wife) Stef & Stef told Les Nouvelles that they had been on the hunt for - ‘The action of Richard Stevens in the 3 premises for quite some time. “A site at St Catherine’s made most Arches: Service with A ’ Smile sense as 80% of our boat trips depart from the slipway. After saying enough. Top: A little shop in an observing that the tackle shop wasn’t opening regularly, we iconic spot approached the lease holder and started discussions with Ports of I came across the word Below: Stef Stevens runs the Office and takes boat Jersey. Fortunately, we were able to come to agreement with all “satisdiction” recently and the bookings parties.” main reason I have not seen it With the coronavirus pandemic hitting mid-March, before is that it was exceedingly they were able to devote time to getting the “The 3 rare, if not obsolete. The only Arches” ready for the summer; it became a lockdown examples given in the OED were project. As the picture shows, quite a bit of work was from the 17th century. It means the needed. Stef Stevens has been instrumental in setting action of saying enough and, by up the business, sorting out the advertising, marketing, and implication, knowing when to stop. supply lines with local businesses Having been a States JJ Fox Trading (Coffee), Seymour reporter-commentator on and off Hotels (Ciabattas), Mange Tout for over 20 years, it would have (Brownies) and Lab 6 been a great word to have had at (Merchandise). my call over that time, especially in relation to - (no names no pack-drill). I was stuck in the commentary box having to intone under my breath what was known as the journalist’s prayer or beatitude. “Blessed are those who have nothing to say and can resist the temptation to say it.”
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16 Les Nouvelles Autumn 2020 PICK Food Intolerance Old Dogs ‘N’ Here’s a question for quinoa lovers, or could it be a bone of contention? Is being a foodie a genuine and Old Tricks search for quality, or is it more of a public I read in early July that new research statement of privileged lifestyle? Do you shows that dogs in their early stages MIX are ageing faster than we thought, and surreptitiously peer into other people’s shopping a four-year-old dog is equivalent to a trolleys in order to enjoy a 52-year-old human. It is not as simple as good sneer at their food the traditional approach of one choices? calendar year times seven. People have the freedom to choose what I have come across plenty of dogs in my life, they want to eat. Discourage them, if you many of them four or over. Watching them are a professional finger-wagger, but resist run around for hours at speed while on a the temptation to look down on them walk with their 50-year-old, at least, owners simply because they don’t want to pay leads me to the obvious conclusion: No one over the odds for a hand reared organic has told the canine world about this vegetable, of a type once reserved for invaluable research. cattle, but now this week’s super food. But wait a moment, I hear you cry, surely Jersey has become gastronomically aware; that is true, and despite what the French think, In Britain and the Islands we have now developed a strong food culture. But, as I read in a national paper, you would have to be particularly blinkered and self-centred, within some over-precious (if not pretentious) peer group, to think that we’re all bouncing along happily on organic kale drizzled with equally organic extra virgin olive oil. There remain many parts of Britain where, through the vagaries of geography or economics, access to fairly straightforward fresh food is a challenge for we live in an era of abundance, unhappily placed alongside food banks. People happily pay £20 for a chicken, going on ad nauseam about its provenance, while on the other hand, many struggle to feed their families; there is something terribly wrong about patronising people on low incomes while saying they must buy organic chicken. Branchage The fashionable cult of food intolerance has come to mean intolerance of other people’s choices which has been encouraged by outrage at excessive packaging. This quickly What a difference a day makes morphed into all manner of sanctimonious claptrap about pre-prepared vegetables and endless diatribes on laziness in the kitchen. It is the worst kind of curtain twitching, old-fashioned middle-class suburbia brought up to date by the privileged few, food intolerance indeed. In general, I would guess that most people will not change their habits by being lectured or laughed at. Their reaction is to sneer back and laugh at the very concept of cauliflower purée, foam, edible flowers on top of a helping of fish - which would make a fish finger look large - served on a roof slate - and costing £50, as well as anything cooked sous vide. These attitudes preface an extended class conflict, and the growth of politics of jealousy. It would be a sign of a real cultural shift if we could get away from this trend for excessive display of epicureanism, and focus on a simpler, less snooty appreciation of culinary skills and flavours of honest food. Remember, a Bain Marie is the same as a bowl of hot water. And finally: Who woke up one morning and decided, not only that cauliflower purée smeared across a roof slate, but also cauliflower dust, would make the world a better place? StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:21 Page 18
17 AutumnAutumn2020 2020 LesLes NouvellesNouvelles 17 Rebranding Money Not Well Spent An organisation that spends money, often a great deal, on rebranding should think long and carefully before signing off a rebranding project. Think of disasters in recent memory with British Airways, the Post Office and many more. Money thrown down the drain. We are not immune here in Jersey. It was once decided, for the best of reasons, to rebrand the Jersey Zoo as Durrell. Road signs changed, buses suddenly had new destinations, signage at the zoo was altered and regular complaints were registered at organisations, not least BBC Jersey, when they did not follow the new nomenclature. Meanwhile, In the real world, everyone called it the Zoo, for that is what it was. Passengers would board a bus showing Durrell as the destination and ask if it was going to the zoo. Eventually the clock was turned back, all the signs were changed, the expenditure was written off and now I catch the bus home which shows Jersey Zoo as its destination. The public tend to see it, and say it, as it is. So how long for this latest carbuncle whereby the Turn your back States – that conglomeration of people and custom, and a legislative body that runs the Island - has been transformed into the “Government of Jersey”. The idea, for a second presumably, is to separate the Council of Ministers and What is it about dogs? The moment you the new team of senior civil servants to create their own agenda and so disassociate themselves from the source have them spruced up, they go out of of their authority, and for whom ultimately they work, the the way to make sure you have wasted States Assembly. your time and/or money. Meanwhile we all still refer to our government as the States. No matter how often we are corrected, those who created this unnecessary brand will remind us, and the media, that they are the “Government of Jersey”. The public knows better. They might sit down and quote un-named government spokesmen to give some credence to their missives, but the soi disant “Government of Jersey” is a chimera. We are “run” if that is the word, by Les Etats de Jersey, aka the States.
ORIGINAL REBRAND FINAL Above: A well-remembered mistake – wasted money Below: Embarrassingly wrong – wasted money
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18 Les Nouvelles Autumn 2020 At the time of writing we have had to remain closed for some time now. But having had to shut MaufantYouth Project the centre, we decided that if you could not come to us we would have to come to you, and so we PICK It should come as no surprise to any of us to hear that the have seen you at home in your estates enjoying last few months have been very difficult for the Maufant the fresh air. ‘N’ Youth Project. But as we hear from the principal youth We are, and will be, out and about 6 days a worker at the project, Jackie Almeida, she and her team have week and we will remain that way to offer our been making a virtue out of a necessity and have left their support in a different kind of way. locked down premises. Thy went looking for their friends We hope you enjoyed children’s day as much as MIX we did. We have heard stories of a successful egg who would normally come to use their facilities and join in their activities. Jackie sent hunt that stretched all the way from Maufant Village to Five Oaks. us this update in late July. Acknowledgement and Thanks The Maufant Youth Project has worked very closely with the Parish of St Martin and we would like to say a huge thank you to the community for welcoming us. So to M&S, the Methodist Church and their volunteers and to all the families of the Parish of St Martin, can I say that we have come together as a community and that has made a huge difference to so many. Thank you for your support.
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Below: Special maintenance team, Kay Laverty (L) and Parish Judy Eden (R) in Bloom Despite the pandemic, the Parish in Bloom team has managed to fill planters and tubs around the parish with red white and blue flowers to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation. Parish in Bloom stalwart Kay Laverty gives us an overview of the planning and work that goes into us saying “oh that looks nice”, as we drive past.
At the beginning of May, the flowers and the troughs for the boat were delivered to Kay’s garden where they were planted and then Paul the Parish foreman took them down to put on the boat at Gorey Pier. Then all the individual planters were filled. The time we were allowed for lockdown exercise was used to deadhead and maintain all the flowers and it was soon looking bright and cheerful. Paulette De la Haye grew the flowers for the Public Hall at home before starting them off in the baskets there. Thereafter, Kay Laverty and Judy Eden have maintained them during the summer. They were then entered into the RJH&AS competition for the best floral Parish Hall. Although we never expect to win as our Public Hall cannot compete with the beauty of the granite Parish Halls; we do, however, usually get a high mark for the quality and condition of our flowers. Thus, we were awarded 86/100 for our efforts, so coming nicely in the middle of the 10 Parishes who entered. Many people would be surprised at how many planters and areas in the parish are maintained by the ‘In Bloom’ team. We planted spring bulbs and flowers around the Millennium cross at Archirondel and it looked lovely this spring. Also, there was the large circular planter at the bottom of Mont des Landes as well as the two tubs and the fountain at Les Arches. Nor of course should we forget the triangular area close to the Crab Shack restaurant at the top of the Salvation Army field which belongs to the parish and also the three planters at the top of Devon Gardens. Unfortunately, the two planters at the bottom of the hill leading to the Pier belong to the States and they as well as the seafront planters have not been done this year because of Covid19. We did not feel we could ask the businesses in the Parish to support us financially this year because the pandemic meant they had to close, but we are grateful to Ransoms Garden Centre and Sir David Kirch for their continued support. Parish in Bloom really could do with some new members so, if you are at all interested in helping, even if it is only to look after one planter, please contact Kay Laverty on 853041 or her mobile. 07797 769 536. StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:22 Page 24
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It only needs a quick look round Landes Interiors to convince anyone that this is a serious operation. So, it was not long, therefore, before I realised that this was no Landes hobby business, but a continuation of the successful story of Manon running an interior design business from her studio at home in St Interiors Martin. Looking back, she had experienced a variety of jobs which were very much design New Life in the oriented, including window dressing at Voisin’s department store and graphic designer for the States of Jersey. Leaving school, she Centre of the Parish qualified with a degree in spatial design from the École Boulle, a college of fine arts and crafts combined with applied arts, in Paris. Her degree course concentrated on applied arts including spatial Well it finally happened. After a gap long design and interior architecture. enough to fire up the local rumour That was a culmination of many years of fascination with design, coupled with a desire to make a career out of that interest. “As a machine of the “I know it’s true because …” little girl I was permanently drawing, making things and moving furniture in my bedroom, I could upholster a stool or paint a little variety, the building that had housed the piece of furniture before my teens” she said, when talking about her village shop, in its most recent South Brittany childhood in Vannes. With that level of training and hands-on experience, it is hardly reincarnation as Chequers, has been surprising to learn Manon has always been a hands-on practitioner. rejuvenated and has now Her husband Jonathan recalls having to go away on a business trip for a couple of days only to return to find the hall and staircase of recently reopened as his house totally redecorated. After three years in Paris, Manon came to Jersey to find a job for Landes Interiors. Hamish the summer and save a bit to pay back a student loan. Well, how Marett-Crosby went to often have we heard a variation on that story? Anyway, Manon is still here and the longest job she had was for eight years at the see Jonathan and Jersey Pottery using her sense of colour and art to design patterns for that company’s products. It was here she met Jonathan Jones. Manon Jones, the new Together she and Jonathan, now her husband, bought a house in leaseholders. St Martin and she said that all her studies suddenly coalesced in what she could now concentrate on and achieve. Not only did she have an ongoing project in their own house to develop her skills, but also she had a proper studio in an out-building where she started the business, at first with many of the couple’s friends, who realised her potential, who could come for advice on products and/or design. Jonathan has left, after 33 years, the family business where he ran the ceramic and gift retail section of the
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Below: Manon Jones Left: Jonathan Jones
Above: The ideas for a new room are discussed with the client and assembled on a mood board (L) then the proposed design Above: is presented for final acceptance.
resources; therefore, they have picked suppliers who treat the world and its people with respect: “Our carefully selected design pieces are full of character, made from quality material that age beautifully.” Jonathan explained they had a nine-year lease which gave them time to establish a good customer base in the show room, and keep the goods circulating, with fresh ideas and lines always being on display. “That’s the only way,” said Manon. ”A show room can look stale very quickly and a stale showroom can imply a lack of fresh thinking Jersey Pottery since 1987, specialising in import, export, and by those who run it.” product development. He has a strong eye for unusual The reality is, I was told, is that each house and family are keen to pieces to contribute to Landes Interiors, as well as many hold on to the unique pieces and collectables they have gathered years’ experience of getting goods to and from Jersey. “It over the years. Focussing on these items, therefore, is the key to was a tremendous background to have for this business”, he achieving great interiors, and Manon aims to maximise the full said. “It gave me a great understanding of commercial potential of your home introducing matching and bespoke designs logistics and customer services.” and natural palettes The company already had a stable but slowly expanding For his part, Jonathan’s experience in dealing with clients at every customer base, and so the ability to be somewhere easy to level has taught him the necessity of prioritising customers’ find, slap in the middle of the Parish, was too good to miss. satisfaction. He is conditioned, therefore, to do whatever is necessary “We give advice in our showroom free-of-charge,” said to find your special piece for your interior, dealing with all the Manon. “However, any detailed inspection of what is needed logistics of bringing it back to Jersey safely delivered to your door. which would require a visit and perhaps even some plans “We have both reached a stage in life where we are happy, relaxed and a suggested colour palette will be charged at an hourly and doing what we enjoy,” said Jonathan. “And the greatest joy is to rate or a fixed proposal, depending on the project.” The have customers coming back to tell us how much pleasure they are finished suggestion for a room or a series of rooms, for getting from the way we have mixed our ideas with their own example, will be put onto Manon’s computer and then possessions and family history that their houses so often contain. displayed to the client in full colour and with a 3D effect. “If That is the real reward, for we then know necessary, I will communicate closely with the architect we have got it absolutely right.” and/or project manager when required, and then we handle all liaison with both suppliers and specialist trades,” she added. There is no pressure to buy in the shop and many interested (or maybe simply curious) passers-by are already popping in just to wander round and look at the goods on display, all of which are for sale, and for immediate delivery. I was assured by both that it was the right time to make the move to having their own retail and display facility. “But when I say right time, I didn’t expect lockdown to be announced for the weekend that we were planning to open,” Jonathan said. On the other hand, the delay also gave time to concentrate on the company web site – www.landesinteriors.com - so as to make sure all the arrangements for selling goods they both have chosen, from trade fairs all around Europe, over the past few years. Both Manon and Jonathan assured me that they go out of their way to work with an ecological ethos and natural StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:23 Page 27
26 Les Nouvelles Autumn 2020 Parish PROPERTY UPDATE Simon Matthews of HLG Associates
The Parish continues to press-on with the undertaking of several projects on their property and estate. These are all at various stages of delivery, with some nearing completion and others in planning. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has meant a delay to some of those Top: Parish Depot as of 28 July Above:The Barn … Space to be put to good use projects on-site as the builders have adapted their Above middle:Village tearoom extension, as of 28 July construction methods to incorporate safe methods Below: Simon Matthews of HLG Associates finishes are on, and the buildings internal finishes and building of working (physical distancing, maximum two services installations are progressing. The design of the operatives on site at any one time, etc.). foundations had to be modified during the planning stage in order to ‘bridge’ over an existing manhole, but this has all been At the Parish Depot and Store, the builders Bamboo Construction are completed without worry. When finished in August 2020, the doing a fine job of undertaking the rebuilding works. The roof is now extension will give Kerry and Chelsea some much-needed food completed, the external walls all rendered, and new windows and preparation and storage space, enabling them to re-organise the doors all installed. Inside, the new washing and sanitary facilities are all kitchen and food storage arrangements. This is essential to ensure progressing. Final decorations have commenced, and continued compliance with the latest standards as well as the new water supply is in (removing the ensuring that the Tearoom continues to serve the most-amazing need for using the old borehole supply). fayre to its customers in the future. The project is due to complete in a few Elsewhere, the Parish is also progressing with some works at weeks and will give the Parish a renewed the Parish Church. The Vestry is to be remodelled a little in order to facility. This will ensure that the Parish can provide more space for Church activities, whilst feasibility and revert to using the store again for the plans for the Church’s heating system are being assessed. The purpose of which it was intended. The boiler room is in a poor state of repair, with water ingress and transformation from the old to the new is damp problems. The Parish is working with the Church Rectory to quite striking. The Parish staff that identify whether it is more effective to replace the existing roof use the new facility will really (thereby continuing with the oil-fired heating system), or appreciate the instead adopt a greener, more-efficient heating enhancements that will system (using electric, for example). make working there much Finally, the Parish continues to explore two more pleasurable. additional projects located closer to the Public Hall. Meanwhile, at The The first is looking at what potential uses may be Village Tearoom, the found for the Rectory Barn, and a feasibility study much-needed exploring the options, cost implications and extension to the potential funding is underway. On the Village Green, kitchen is also the Parish is also looking at where it may create a progressing children’s play area. The details and proposals for these towards projects will be shared with parishioners in due course. completion. The All of this good work demonstrates the commitment walls and roof the Parish has to invest in its facilities and property, thus structure are ensuring the Parish continues to provide excellent facilities completed, the roof for its staff and parishioners.
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28 Les Nouvelles Autumn 2020 Affordable-homes Project Weeks of rain over the change of year, followed closely by the great lockdown; it has not been an easy time for the construction of the new houses at Clos Le Troquer. But, despite everything, we are nearly there and for those waiting for their new homes and trying to keep their patience before moving into them, the wait is nearly over. With luck this should be the last of the interim reports, as former Constable Michel le Troquer, ex Honorary Secretary to, now Chairman of, the St Martin Housing Association brings us up to date.
Looking back on my saved emails I note it’s a year to the day that, as Chairman of the St Martin Housing Association, I sat at my desk at home preparing an article on the new affordable-homes project being undertaken by the Association for inclusion in that forthcoming edition of Les Nouvelles. Who could have imagined this time last year what was likely to happen in the 12 months that were to follow, that we would have one of the wettest winters on record only to be followed by the terrible pandemic that has changed the way we all live. As can be seen when passing the building site, much progress has been made, but what is never seen is the amount of work that has gone on behind the scenes. As I explained in that article, the builders had managed to start work before their planned commencement date, and it was fortunate that the foundations for the homes were laid prior to the arrival of the wet weather. Regular site meetings were held and as the Decisions had to be taken on the way forward and when the Government then autumn moved into winter one knew you always had to take a announced that some development projects could continue, if the builders full set of waterproofs for them. Even the experienced Hacquoil were able to comply with strict working practices, Hacquoil & Cook produced a & Cook team, our chosen contractors who are experienced in thorough Covid-19 Work Procedure Plan. working in all weathers, found the prolonged wet weather over Their application to continue work was granted, and work resumed on the 5 months difficult. It was “a challenge” resulting in much 1st May, but with many restrictions and conditions in place. The new practices rescheduling of their work programmes, such as the laying of included restricted numbers of tradesmen allowed on site working together, drains, of roofing work and of the outside rendering and somewhat difficult when you have builders, painters, plasters, electricians, painting. The contractors hoped they would be able to make up plumbers and fitters, to name just a few. Readers will be aware of the types of some of the lost time as spring approached. conditions imposed because they too will have either been trying to reopen for Sadly of course, we all know what happened next. All own businesses, or were affected, as customers, of those businesses. construction sites on the Island were closed down by the Although many site visits had taken place to discuss issues as the work Government on the 3rd April due to the Covid-19 pandemic. progressed through the winter and into spring, two formal on-site meetings had StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:23 Page 30
Autumn 2020 Les Nouvelles 29 also been held monthly from the start of the work. Representatives from Association members to hand over keys to the new parishioners. Hacquoil & Cook, our architects, of the mains services and an of course the Derek and Terry have both undertaken so much work behind the Housing Association had attended (remembering our wellies and waterproofs of scenes and I thank them for their total commitment on this course.) but these had stopped during the total lock-down. Once the Licence project. had been approved and work recommenced, those meetings took place as a The Court issue is likely to be the same for the new Zoom meeting, a first for me, but now another accepted way of homeowners as we are advised that only members of the Legal communicating for far more people than ever before. Meeting ID Practices or Conveyancers are allowed in the Royal Court because numbers, and even more passwords, but a lesson from my IT of the Covid-19 restrictions. Yes, and therefore yet another teacher, (my daughter) gave me another string to my bow. Resolution needing to be passed by the Housing Association I think back many years ago, back in the 1970s, when my wife members to allow Power of Attorney to take place. and I were purchasing our first home. Sunday afternoon drives to look for homes and then once having decided, having the escorted Who said it was going to tour of the house by the Estate Agent. Once agreed to buying, re-visiting the area at weekends and in the evenings, looking over be easy? walls, excitedly imagining what we might do with the house and garden once we moved in. The couples who will occupy the new Clos have been unable to visit or even walk around the complex. Issues beyond our control but everyone has been very understanding in these extraordinary times and escorted tours, under strict distancing guidelines, are due to take place in August. Sadly, we cannot feature the completed project for this edition of Les Nouvelles, with photographs of people excitedly moving into their new homes, but hope this update is of interest. There is still much to do, and the tarmac roadway is due to be laid this coming week. The contractors have advised us a completion date of the 8th October 2020, and we hope that our parish residents will be in their new homes by the end of that month. Sadly, it is likely that I will not be able to be in the Royal Court with our honorary secretary Mr Derek Ferguson, treasurer Mr Terry Jehan and
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After a work colleague informed him that he was going to work in Jersey to learn English, he decided to go with Obituaries him, arriving in March 1961. His Produced for Les Nouvelles by Colin Renouf first job was as a commis waiter at the L’Horizon Hotel. Quickly rising through the management chain, Giacomo Giacomo Pini became very well known for his high standards and precision to Giacomo’s favourite offer the best service to relaxation, golf, at customers. His career included which he excelled working at the Hotel de L’Europe (while also managing its very well-regarded restaurant Pedro’s) the Woodville Hotel, the Grouville Bay Hotel and later the Mermaid Hotel. It was while visiting Government House with other Italian nationals that he met his future wife Jean who was working at Government House at the accounts. Their successful business ran time. They married in October 1965. until they retired in 1997. In January 1984 Giacomo fulfilled his Having played tennis when he first dream of running his own business came to Jersey, Giacomo was then when he and his wife Jean became the introduced to golf by a colleague. He proprietors of the Mont Orgueil joined the Royal Jersey Golf Club, and golf Restaurant. He actually bought the became his passion. He played regularly business by chance, having gone down and even managed a handicap in single to Gorey Pier for an appointment. figures, alongside a “hole in one” in Giacomo was too early and with time to November 1986. The Mont Orgueil kill popped into the Mont Orgueil Restaurant would often enter a team in the Restaurant and a fortuitous discussion Pro-Am held at the Royal Jersey Golf Club, led to him buying the business. even winning the competition one year. The husband and wife team worked Giacomo served as a committee Giacomo Pini was the former hard to develop the restaurant, with member for three years at the club and Giacomo front of house and Jean perhaps by no surprise was appointed the proprietor of the Mont Orgueil working the afternoon shift and Restaurant. He was born in Lodi in Italy in 1943 and was the fourth of five children, with one sister and three brothers. His first job was in a tailor’s shop in Lodi, then in a café bar and from there he went to Switzerland and at only thirteen years old, started his training in the catering business.
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role of “house” with responsibilities in the restaurant. During that time Giacomo donated the “Pini Trophy” to Betty Irene Fauvel the club, with the specific intention to give something back to the club, and it Betty Irene Fauvel (nee Luce) was born in St John on 26th was to be awarded as encouragement for a junior member. This year the Pini September 1930. Her father was farmer and Jurat Francis Trophy was presented on the 14th June. Luce. Her mother Irene (nee Le Couteur) was a housewife The unsociable hours that sit alongside catering professions meant who also involved herself in parochial duties. that he was often the only dad at daytime events such as dancing, and Betty was educated at Jersey College for Girls between 1937 and 1948. She always there to support his family. herself taught throughout her working life. It was shortly after starting her Giacomo passed away at Villa career as a newly qualified teacher in 1951 at St Peter’s Parish School that she Beaumont Care Home on 16 April 2020. met, and eventually married St Martinais Hugh Fauvel, who had also recently He is survived by Jean, their two qualified to teach. Although Betty never actually lived in St Martin, she was a daughters Luisa and Emma, and long-standing member of St Martin’s Church. Hugh and Betty’s wedding was grandchildren Laurent, Chloe and at St Martin’s Church on 10 April 1958 by the parish rector, the Reverend Nadine. Edward Lempriere. Outside of work, Betty sold poppies on behalf of the Royal British Legion. She enjoyed sudoku and crosswords, and she also loved playing in schools and concerts. Along with Hugh, she also regularly travelled across France. A postscript Betty passed away died on 23 February 2019. Hugh survived her for a further 13 months before he too passed away. They are survived by their by HM-C daughter Louise and granddaughter Isabella. The picture shows all three together in St Martin’s Church. Giacomo Pini was one of the well-known and successful members of the Italian Community whose members came to Jersey, during the late 1950s, 1960s, even into the 1970s. As a group they were an essential element that bought professionalism, knowledge and masses of personality to a very traditional (if not austerity ridden) Above: Betty Fauvel, her daughter Louise, and granddaughter Isabella, taken in St Martin's Church. hospitality industry. Jersey benefited hugely from Giacomo’s generation for he and his compatriots laid the foundations of the Island’s reputation as a fine dining destination. StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:24 Page 35
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j’avais eune mangnifique chance dé m’y r’mettre dé bouon tchoeu. J’en crains qué personne n’ai voudra lé lièthe mais nous n’sait jamais. P’têt’e un jour nos Eune èfants ou p’tits èfants lus d’mand’rons: “Jé n’sait tchi qui faisait lé bouonhomme marchi?” (En Angliais – what made him ‘tick’?) Ma tâche n’est pas tout à fait finis mais pas trop lien achteu. J’sommes présqué là! Il a ieu hardi d’êpreuves pour bein des piéches diff’thente durand l’embarrement, mais j’avons veut tout pliein dé bouonne choses étout: un grands réspé et admithâtion pour touos les nosses et docteurs dans l’NHS. Et pas seulement ieux, mais touos les gens tchi souonnent dé nous, les cheins tchi ramassent nos tés, les cheins sus les ambulances, la police, les pôcemainnes et les pompyis. Coronavirus ou pas, ils vie? avaient tous à faithe lus d’ver. J’avons ouï beins des Et bein, bouonnes gens, nos v’chîn érmèrciements et un atmosphéthe bein chaleureux quatre mais (au temps qué j’sis à parmi mot’e société. Parmi les cheins vière assez, ils ont veut des parallèles auvec les temps dé écrithe) dans l’êpoque du Covid-19. l’Ôtchupâtion. Les égl’yises ont ‘té freunmées, mais Tchi qu’éthait jamais imaginé, au j’avions dêcou’ert, si j’ai n’lé savièmment dévant, qué l’églyise ch’est les gens; pas les bâtisses. Et même Nouvel An, un monde tel qué l’Intérnet est v’nue à notre aide d’eune faichon j’avions veut dé ches jours? Au tout mérveilleuse. c’menchement, au mais d’Mars, Malgré tchi s’enva êt’e nécessaithe dé nos r’mettre en route aussi vite qué possiblye, j’ai craît j’étièmment Ann, ma femme, et mé qu’j’avons tous éspethé qué j’pouvons ertcheîndre à Cambridge, ou’est qué j’tais d’aver touos les bénéfices qué j’avions veut et dé né r’tchais pas dans nos habitudes mains pliaîsantes et un mais dé traitement. Déjà là, tout honorabl’ye. Quand j’écoutes les nouvelles, achteu ’té changi et i’ fallait rester qué les choses érc’menche, j’mé d’mande si lé enfreunmés pour lé pus du temps ‘nouviau normale’ nén sétha p’tête pon si diff’thent qué lé ‘vière normale’, auvec touos ses d’fauts. dans not’ p’tite appartement, sinon J’éspthéthe qué j’sis mêprîns. pour ma p’tite marche à l’hôpita David Marett Addenbrookes, châque matîn, et eune autre p’tite prom’nade, pour eune heuthe ou d’même, à nos donner un mio d’exèrcice ou à faithe tchique boutiqu’sie. I’ fallait sé nouôri auprés tout.
Mais bein vite, malgré qué j’né pouvèmment pas faithe les p’tits trajets qué j’avièmment penser d’faithe, j’tait tout à fait un pliaisi dé vais tout si trantchil’e et la natuthe pus vif qué jamais. Les ouaisieaux chantaient à tue tête, la vèrduthe ‘tait mangnifique partout et, au bord d’un cité comme j’étions, j’rencontrîmes tout sorte dé lapins, êtchutheux, canards et ouaiseaux dé toutes espêces. Même l’air sans les vapeurs d’avions au ciel et les vétuthes parmi les routes, sembliait d’être tant pus puthe. Ch’tait merveilleux. À la ‘maison’ j’m’ermîns à êcrithes tchiques mémouaithes dé ma vie, dé mais jannes jours jusqu’au présent, auvec eune mâsse dé photos mêlangis dédans, eunes rare opportunité d’érconsidéther les êvénements d’eune vie assez bein avanchie par achteu! J’avais c’menchi à l’êcrithe i’ y a eune bouonne pause dévant, mais comme bein d’aut’e choses, j’ai n’l’avais fini. Achteu StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:24 Page 36
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But soon, even though we were not able to make some of the trips we had originally planned, it was a real pleasure to see everything so quiet and nature taking on such vibrant form. Birds sang at the top of A different their voices, the green shoots were magnificent all around, and, on the edge of a city though we were, we would meet rabbits, squirrels, ducks and birds of every kind. Even the air, without aeroplane’s vapour trails in the sky and vehicle fumes below, seemed so much purer. It was wonderful. Back ‘home’ in our lodgings, I got down to writing a life? few reminiscences from my life, from my young days Well, good folks, here we are four to the present along with a mass of photographs, a months (at the time of writing) into great opportunity to reflect on a life, fairly well advanced by now. I had started writing it quite a while the Covid-19 era. Who would have ago, but like a lot of other things, it remained possibly imagined, at the New Year, unfinished. Here was a wonderful opportunity to get on with it. I very much doubt that anyone will ever a world such as that we have seen in look at it. Perhaps one day our children or these days? At the start, back in grandchildren will ask themselves: “I wonder what made the old man tick?” Even now my task is not quite March, my wife, Ann, and I were in finished, but we are nearly there. Cambridge, where I was having a There have been many struggles for a lot of people month of radio therapy treatment. during the ‘lock-down’, but we have also seen a great many good things: great respect and admiration for Already by then, everything had the nurses and doctors of the NHS. And not only they changed and we had to ‘lock-down’ but the many who look after us in other ways, the dustmen, the ambulance people, the police, post and in our little apartment, with only fire men and women. Coronavirus or not, they my daily walk across to continued doing their duty. We have heard many Addenbrooke’s Hospital each words of gratitude and a warm, generous atmosphere in society. Among those old enough to remember, morning plus a short walk, for an they have seen parallels with the days of the hour or so, for exercise and a little Occupation. Our churches have been closed but we have discovered, if we did not know it before, that the essential shopping. We had to eat church is its people, not just the buildings. Even the after all. internet has come to our aid in a most marvellous way. Though we need to get going again as soon as possible, I think we have all hoped to retain the best of the things we have seen and not to fall back into ways, less pleasant and honourable. When I listen to the news, however, now that things are getting back under way, I ask myself if the ‘new-normal’ might not be so different from the ‘old-normal’. I hope I’m mistaken. David Marett
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My grandfather was Jurat George Philip Billot, OBE, later Senator but banking was his profession. Together with my Keeping in touch grandmother he returned to Jersey on his retirement in 1939, just prior to the Occupation. My father’s career was mainly with the Canadian Pacific Steamships, but he was also in the Royal Naval Reserve and thus had been called up to serve in the Royal Navy in August the same year. The last letter my grandfather received from his son for nearly five years was on Friday June 28th, 1940; he replied when immediately, as did my grandmother who wrote to my mother. He later recorded that the Post Office returned it to him with the note ‘no postal service’. Five years were to pass until Sunday May 6th, 1945 when he started a 16-page letter at his home in Grouville possible to his son at his out-of-date Weybridge address. At the time of writing my he did not know my father’s current address or have any idea as to his naval career. He used A Father writes to his son after five thin lined paper from a ledger book and had enough navy ink to fill his fountain pen. As a former bank manager, years of German occupation he had a supply of ledgers, account books and sealing wax. He was meticulous in noting letters received and Mary Billot has produced a detailed account of sent at this crucial time. He wrote how he kept himself occupied. In September her family’s efforts to keep in touch as the war 1943 he became the Hon. Treasurer of the Home for Infirm & Aged Women in Regent Road (now Glanville) as the ended and the relief at the time when previous treasurer had been deported. He was also communication once again became possible elected a member of the Management Committee of the Jersey Savings Bank and a Commissioner of Appeal for after Liberation. This article is distilled from Income Tax. one produced in greater detail for the Channel On Tuesday May 8th, his diary records ‘The great day’ (VE Day) and a day Island Family History Society later he wrote in that diary that he posted three letters to be sent by airmail. These were sent from Gorey Post Office, registered, and he sealed the letters Left: using black sealing wax. He put a specimen of each issue Cmdr Godfray of German Occupation Jersey stamps on each envelope. Philip Billot, DSO One was to his son, one to Jack Schilling, a close family Top right: friend in Weybridge, and one, for the record, to himself. Jurat George Philip Mrs Jack Schilling was one of my two godmothers. Billot, OBE Above: ON Friday May 11th he recorded that the bus Ramsgate Harbour service had resumed so he caught the 9.15am bus and an important naval returned on the 12.40pm bus. The seventh issue of Red base in the war Cross parcels was made that afternoon. ‘A beautiful day which I have thoroughly enjoyed’ – this was quite an effusion from a usually reticent and formal man. StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:24 Page 38
On the following day he records “Great celebrations in Jersey today. Landing of troops and a Proclamation read in the Square. Temperature 84ºF’. He always made notes about the weather, being the son of a St Martin farmer. The wwww.vljfireplaces.co.uk following day (Thanksgiving Day) He wrote another 6-page letter to my father, continuing the letter started on May 6th. He used a blue stamp issued in 1940 to commemorate 1840 (Victoria) to 1940 (George VI) with a value of 2½d. On May 14th he received a message via Mrs Abrahams (Verona Stores on ‘Rue des Sablons’) from Mr Marshall (a neighbour) that a letter had come from my father. It was from his son and it appeared FiFirepllace, SSt oove & that he knew about Force 135, but the Admiralty would not let him Rangege Cooker Specialissts volunteer given his role as Port Control Officer in Ramsgate harbour. He replied to my father telling him of the receipt of his letter. My From design to insttallation we o erer a comprehensivve perrsonsonal Father also reassured his son that ‘we have managed very well as service tailor made to our customerrs’s’ individual reqquirements supported byby an experienced, dedicated team of HETASTAS regards finance & have not run into debt. As regards food we are well registered engineerrs.s. off now’. This refers to the fact that he was cut off from his UK savings for five years and so he wished to reassure my father on the state of his finances and did not need a filial loan. Tuesday May 15th TeTelephone: 01534 483921 • Email: inffo@vljfiro@vljfireplaces.co.uk He dated a field postcard May 15th which was franked 16 My 45. ‘This New showroom: La Rue d’Olive, St. Mary, JE3 3BJ will be the first communication you will receive. There are others in course of post but held up for the time being. We are all well …We have not yet realized the boon of freedom. All our needs are now supplied so do not worry on our a/c. Come as soon as you can’. The next day he went to town on the bus to set about meeting Navy personnel in the Island to find out whether my father could find Absolute Pest Control Limited passage home. My grandfather was being over-optimistic as the Admiralty did not INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT grant my father leave until later in the summer. On July 23rd he received a letter from my father telling him that he would arrive on INSURED COMPETITIVE PRICES July 31st. ‘Godfray had a glorious time here, bathed twice & revelled in the sunshine’, he recorded later. DISCREET, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE The telephone was in use again on May 31st. And regular contact with the UK was now well established and some of the postal backlog Gulls and pigeons nests removed, was being cleared up, for example, on October 3rd, he received bird spikes and netting installed delivery of his National Geographic magazines for 1940. He updated Moles, rodents, rabbits, wasps, ants his accounts regularly once the post resumed from England, so that and insects promptly dealt with he was ready for the inevitable letter from the Inland Revenue asking Assistance with overstocking or him about his UK income for the five years from June troublesome creatures 1940 to May 1945. So, normal service was being Special secure rodent bait stations resumed. Left: Poison free options available A Gun boat of the type based at Annual contracts Ramsgate “A Spitfire of the Sea” Trained Licensed Technicians M 07797 748288 M 07797 829885 www.pestcontoljersey.co.uk StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:24 Page 39 Pro38 Les NouvellestectingAutumn2020 the high h risk. BETTER TOGETHER.
By Becky Sherrington, Head of Policyy,, Shielding
Life has changed enormously for Islanders since the It’s likely that wwe may see an increase in cases, first positive cases of COVID-19 reached our shores which could s ee some measures brought back, earlier this year. For those who are at high risk of especially to pprotect Islanders who are at high serious illness from COVID-19 the impact on daily risk. If introducing cing new measures, we will need to life was most severe. It’s been these islanders who act quickly, an nd will announce any reintroduction have seen family and friends’ lives begin to return to island-wide vi a press briefings, the local media and a new normal, l while hil they h continue i to lilimit i activities i i i on govv..jje. and balance the risk of exposure to infection with I was recently y contacted by an Islander who had the negative wellbeing impacts that prolonged social been shielding g for six months and had begun isolation may have on mental health, mobility and to enjoy a retu urn to activities outside the home general fitness. and socialising g with others. She shared how a At the time of writing, the Island is in Level 1 of the recent experieence had made her feel that some Safe Exit Framework and the level of COVID-19 of activities sh he was newly enjoying were likely activity is low. Islanders at high risk are no longer to be at a grea ater risk, due to others not following required to shield, instead we encourage them to the basic guid dance. I know that there has been a consider the level of risk associated with various feeling of norm mality for many islanders, with the activities and make a risk-informed decision based introduction oof relaxations during Level 2 and on their individual circumstances, including a return Level 1, but I want to ask all Islanders to continue to to the workplace. Employees and employers are play their part t, not just to protect themselves and encouraged to discuss how those at high risk might their loved on nes, but also to continue to protect resume work confidently, recognising that this group the members of our Island who are at high risk. are most in need of additional protection measures. Please give each ach other space and stay 1 metre or more apart, ut tilise hand sanitiser, which is readily As an Island community, we have a shared available at the he entrance to shops and other responsibility to protect each other from a spread venues, socialiselise in smaller groups and wear a face of COVID-19. The public health measures and covering in public ublic places. physical distancing guidelines that we introduced early in our response to the pandemic, continue Looking forwa ard, we are finalising plans to be to be fundamental to keeping our Island safe, and winter ready y.. ThisT will include providing a flu it’s island-wide adherence to these measures that vaccination to o more Islanders than ever before, reduces the risk of exposure to infections for high which will be oo ered during autumn, before we risk Islanders, allowing them to return to a level of receive the CO OVID-19 vaccine. normality. May I take thi s opportunity to thank everyone for We’re looking at how we continue to protect the the way they have supported Islanders at high risk freedoms we regained since April through our Safe and let’s cont tinue to protect each other! Exit Framework as we go into the winter months. TToo find out moremo ore, go to govv..je/shielding StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:24 Page 40
Autumn 2020 Les Nouvelles 39 Research and ending Modern Slavery. The St Martin’s resolutions highlight concerns of members and are always very pertinent if not ahead of their time; the process is one member one vote. The WI really showed its metal during both wars but particularly WW2. There is a wonderful book by Julie Summers called ‘Jambusters’ which illustrates very clearly how important the WI was in helping to win the war. Locally we have done some things while As everyone realises, the pages mentioned in the last magazine, we have smaller in scale have made a difference to local (for St Martin’s) been noticeably quiet. We hope, lives. Years ago, a group of us were outside BHS past few months for any fingers crossed, that we may restart in (yes that long ago) giving away cotton bags and society or group, whose September. asking the public to use them instead of plastic. So perhaps this is the time to tell you a little Our Government is talking about it now. The WI members meet regularly, about this wonderful organisation. It was started Board wrote to Jersey Post and from that came must have been strangely in Canada in 1897 by the splendidly named the Christmas stamp amnesty. We campaigned Adelaide Hoodless who realised that women to keep the toilets opposite the Hospital from quiet. The St Martin WI is and children on the Prairies were dying of becoming unisex, some things are better kept ignorance about hygiene and nutrition; and so separate. We wanted an Island-wide Bowel no exception, so Anne this great movement was born. Screening Programme, in the event one started Pasturel takes the In the UK it began in Llanfairpwll, Wales in but only for those who had turned 60. The lifts in 1915, where it is still strong, and branches the car parks used to stop at 10pm, not much opportunity to fill in the (institutes) were established throughout use if you are attending a theatrical
background on a national England. Scotland and Northern Ireland have performance of any kind, they now stop at similar but different organisations. The Jersey 11pm. scale. As we can gather from Federation was formed in 1949 and, like all The WI is online, with Facebook and Twitter her article, there is much organisations, its fortunes have fluctuated. Today and My WI and because of recent events has national membership in England Wales and the taken to using Zoom for all sorts of talks and
more to the WI than “Jam Islands stands at about 220,000. events. We are non religious, non political and as ” It has always been, and still is a campaigning inclusive as we can be. We have talks, events, and Jerusalem . organisation, and has been partly responsible workshops and competitions, plus much more. I for initiating the Keep Britain Tidy campaign hope on reading the above it will be apparent The year 2020 will be one which will live long after a resolution was passed at an Annual that far from being stuck in the past we are in the memory. St Martin’s WI last met in National Meeting (ANM) concerning litter in the ahead of the game. March for our AGM and I am delighted to say countryside; it was also a partner in setting up Further info from Anne Tel 730409 email the same Officers and Committee are still in the Fairtrade organisation. [email protected] place. It is with some sadness I report the When resolutions are passed at our ANMs, death of our member Anne Ayliffe who which are usually attended by about 5000 Top: Always a force in supporting charity Below: Out in force for the centenary of women’s passed away in June. I am told she was sitting members. If appropriate the resolution begins on her patio watching the sun come up suffrage ‘This meeting urges HM Government to’. Bottom: St Martin’s WI, meeting in the best places by Gorey Castle and just slipped away. Over the years resolutions have included, Apart from our Food Waste, Excess Packaging, Organ Donation,
wonderful daily Care not Custody, Overfishing our Seas, the NHS. The resolutions for 2020 include Stem Cell
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From Jersey Hospice to the Blind Society, the SMMS has St Martin's raised, through the performing arts, over £145,731 since its inception and thanks to a great local community effort, led recently by Roberta Rainbow as the Chair, SMMS has enjoyed a renaissance and raised over £22,600 in the last Musical three years alone, with two shows at the St Martin’s Public Hall and, the most recent, at the Jersey Art Centre. From the clue given in the introduction, readers will Society have realised that last year marked the 45th anniversary of the St Martin’s Musical Society (SMMS). In its anniversary year, the SMMS moved to the Jersey Arts Centre to stage one of its best shows yet, Hollywood Musicals, a tour de force of music and song from Hollywood’s golden era, from The Sound of Music and South Pacific to Annie Get A Home Your Gun and West Side Story. A total of £9,500.00 was raised for the charities Brighter Futures and The Lady Taverners. After a fantastic year we moved on to 2020 which Grown produced not only a very disappointing first six months, but the second six months will not be without its own problems. Having had to cancel the free afternoon tea cabaret at the St Martin's Public Hall in March and a Musical planned new variety show for October, everything has been put back a year and (with a happy ending) that show will take place in October 2021. However, the Society is really hoping to put on a 'best of' show called 'Unlocked - The St Martin’s Musical The Show Must Go On', which, if it can go ahead, will be at the Jersey Art Centre Society (SMMS), a local around the 8th to 10th October, all being well, but of course, this cannot be amateur cabaret club with guaranteed at the time of writing. We have a much shorter rehearsal period and, if we can a long legacy of raising perform, some content may have to be shortened or cut completely at the last money for local charities. minute depending on any spike or Founded in 1974 by Mrs re-occurrence of COVID-19 on the island. So, keep your fingers and toes crossed (and Sophie de la Mare, SMMS obviously well sanitised) and, with luck and a following wind we will be in full song later performed a yearly Cabaret this year. So, due to this, we are all still keen to at the Jersey Opera House plough ahead and refresh the “good ole” favourites in song, dance and of course, until the 2000s, when the comedy, with the aim that any profits to go annual show moved to ever back to the Jersey Art Centre this year. Our chosen charity has been moved (with the smaller venues due to rising show) to 2021 and is The Jersey Cheshire Homes and we have already raised funds for costs and closure seemed them this year following a sponsored run, by the Rainbow family (mainly Beth who ran likely. Roberta Rainbow, 100 miles) in total 190 miles were ran by 4 of us in 6 days. An impressive total of £1,720.00 Chairperson St Martin's has been (including charity fund matching Musical Society looks back of £700 from Rossborough Insurance). All of our fund-raising and events could on a successful 2019, and not be put on without the continued support of the St Martin’s Community, the forward with some Public Hall and its’ staff whose support over the years always astounds us and inspires us trepidation to the next six to keep going as a Society. The free cabaret and afternoon tea last year left us feeling so months. fulfilled and humbled by the re-action and tears of joy and reflection that we will StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:24 Page 42
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endeavour to do another as soon as we are allowed. COVID-19 Unwelcome has a lot to answer for. So please keep an eye out for our posters Visitors or listen to the radio and come and An attempted take-over of your support us in October house by Asian Hornets is if you can. If this something that happens to other doesn’t ‘float your boat’, maybe extend people: You read about the event , your community spirit then get on with your life, but by arranging to pick sometimes it comes rather close up and drop off some to home. Karen White tells the of the older folk to and from the Art story of some very unwelcome Centre as parking in visitors. town can be a daunting experience; One day during lock down can seem very we will love to much like another, especially when visitors welcome you back. are few and far between. As restrictions began to fade away, we were keen to welcome friends into our garden but some who came were not friends. We were none too pleased to find some unwanted and uninvited visitors – Asian Hornets no less - making free with our, unwitting, hospitality. At first only two or three had invited themselves into the house. Quite alarming as their sting can pack a hefty punch but worse was to come! Closer examination revealed a nest in the roof space, accessed by a tiny gap and there were hundreds buzzing around ready to make good use of their ”Next Door Deli”, in this instance, five bee hives full of their favourite snack, honey bees. The good friends in the Beekeepers Association/ Jersey Asian Hornet Group (Bob Tomkinset leading the charge) were at the house before you could say ‘two shakes of a bee’s knee’ and the nest was swiftly dispatched. Fortunately, it was a ‘primary nest’, being the first laid by a hibernating queen last winter. The next stage would be new queens setting up mega nests which can reach several feet high and can accommodate many thousands of hornets. St Martin was the first landfall when they first started arriving from France around 2014 and unfortunately, they are now in Jersey for good, but with the help of members of the public their numbers can be kept under some control. At the time of writing (early July) 14 nests have been discovered this year, significantly less than last year, possibly due to lockdown when the intervention of the Jersey Asian Hornet Group has been limited, and this has given these pests a great opportunity to spread and multiply. Why are they such a danger, I hear you ask? Apart from packing a really nasty, and sometimes dangerous sting, they are attacking native wildlife. Bumble bees and indigenous hornets have no defence, they can destroy hundreds of insects in a few hours. In Asia, other species have learnt to gather round these predators, beating their wings furiously and creating a heat that suffocates the Asian Hornets as they attack. Some guests are always welcome to visit. These are definitely not. Please look out for them.
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44 Les Nouvelles Autumn 2020 St Martin Church Back in March – when the pandemic was just beginning to take its grip on our Western Lessons consciousness – the great spiritual writer, Richard Rohr, reflected that what was about to unfold from the would be “one of the most profoundly teachable moments of our time”. Pandemic This is so true. There has been a great deal to learn from we could be the church, even if we could not gather as the experiences of the last six months, and, if we take we normally did. Ref Jonny Scott, these lessons to heart, they could transform the way But now we can gather again, although in altered Rector St Martin’s we live out our lives in the world. circumstances, and there are opportunities to adapt and Church As I listen to the Parish, I hear time and again a innovate in the midst of uncertainty. With that in mind, newfound appreciation of some of the simple things in September sees the launch of a new pattern of worship life, things rediscovered when the usual and ministry at St. Martin’s Parish Church. routines are abandoned or laid down. The Sunday worship now starts with a peaceful service of peace of hearing Spring around the Parish Holy Communion at the earlier time of 8am; an without the traffic in the streets and skies. The opportunity to meet with God in the stillness and quiet surprising joy of going slow, finding gentler of the early morning. ways of being and doing. The delight in Our main Sunday service is now at 9.30am to allow an communal opportunities to show gratitude overlap between congregations and build fellowship and and support for others in our community familiarity across the Church community. This earlier time which reminds us of our shared opens up more space for unstructured Sunday time responsibilities. spent relaxing, seeing friends and family or simply just But there have been bitter lessons too. The ‘being without doing’; something we need to protect in a sudden grip of loneliness and feeling cut off culture that prizes productivity at the expense of peace. from the world without our usual activities, And from October, there will be a new 7.30pm service especially when we live alone. The anxiety of on the first Sunday of every month. This is an opportunity shifting goalposts and changing advice, and a for stillness, reflection and calm in God’s presence; a world that no longer feels safe. The grief of spiritual ‘deep breath’ before the working week begins loss whether that is the loss of a sense of again. stability, a relationship, or even our loved ones, Our weekly Healing Service will resume at 10.30am on especially when mourning Wednesday mornings from September; a place to bring together is not possible. Above left: pain, anxiety or sadness to be prayerfully heard and held As a church, we have tried our The church door, in a safe and supportive environment. This group has best to learn from these open and grown in strength and depth over the last year, and many lessons, even the bitter ones. welcoming once who come find a sense of wholeness and peace in the The church building may more gentle worship and the friendly atmosphere. have been closed, but the Left: These are just some of the ways in which we are church family was actively The Parish learning as a church from the lessons of this pandemic. I praying, telephoning, Church, on a sunny spring hope and pray that when you feel called to be in the volunteering, shopping, day, beautiful presence of God, you may find some of God’s peace in delivering and praying but empty your church. some more. We learnt that StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:24 Page 46
Autumn 2020 Les Nouvelles 45 Gouray Church Service Information: Perseverance and just carrying on Revd. Jeff Wattley from Gouray Church These last few months have helped us to sort out what really matters most to We are currently holding a service each Sunday at us. We have got rid of the rubbish; 10.30am and also sending out a ‘Home Service’ by literally, as we have taken things to the email or post to all who wish to participate from tip, and also metaphorically, as we have their own homes. decided there is some things in our diaries that can To receive the ‘Home Service’ each week please go so we have more time for the things that matter. contact For me, it is family time that matters most. Family Jeff Wattley by email at [email protected] quizzes each week on Zoom; occasional ‘remote or by phone on 853255 dinner parties’ where we cook and eat the same food Gouray Church is open for private prayer from even though hundreds of miles apart and seeing one 2.00pm to 6.00pm Monday to another on screen. And now, since the borders Friday and re-opened, real precious re-unions with our children 11.00-3.00pm on and grandchildren. Now that is literally priceless. Saturdays Jesus spoke about the most precious things in two short parables that Top: Somewhere worth might have been written for Jersey. The first went like this: “ The searching kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man Right: Beyond Price found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.” You will remember the astonishing treasure in a thousand would have dug up by two men in Grouville in 2012? 70,000 Celtic and Roman a pearl. So, they literally cost a coins and more besides. fortune and were only owned by royalty and the super-rich. What many people don’t realise is that Richard and Reg were So, when our merchant in the parable found a pearl of great price, he looking for that treasure for over 30 years. They were allowed to dig the knew it held eyewatering value. So much so that he sold all he owned field only once a year, just after the field was harvested, and most years in order to buy that pearl of great price. And Jesus said that the they found nothing. But they persevered. Year after year they kept on Kingdom of God is like that: it is a thing of immeasurable value. It is searching. They never gave up. And eventually their efforts were worth seeking until you find it. It is worth giving up anything that gets rewarded with treasure beyond measure. Jesus said the Kingdom of in the way in order to grasp hold of it. Heaven is like that. It is worth giving up everything else in pursuit of And here is the most amazing thing. If you truly seek, you will find it. the greatest thing: the thing that matters most: peace with God; all It will take perseverance. You may have to let go of other things as you your sins forgiven and a sure and certain hope of everlasting great joy pursue this ‘pearl of great price’. But when you find it, you discover that it and blessing. already has your name on it. It has already been bought and paid for at The second parable Jesus told also has a strong Jersey connection. great expense by Jesus himself. It is both the most precious thing…and Jesus told of a merchant who was looking for fine pearls. When he it is a free gift. Now that has got to be worth searching for. found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it. Pearls, of course, come from oysters and tons of oysters And a good place to start looking is in come from Jersey: some 50 million of them grown over 80 acres of the best oyster beds in Europe. your local Church. Now in Jesus’s day pearls were so rare that they could be worth more than diamonds. The skill of cultivating pearls had not been discovered so the only pearls were found in wild oysters and only one StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:24 Page 47
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Using the lockdown to good effect, David Marett brings us up to date The last time I wrote this column, we were rejoicing with thanks for our past and planning for a new and active future. That leaves the present and, oh, what a present it has been. Closed church buildings and no communal worship. A complete halt? Well not really. If ever we needed to be reminded that ‘church’ is not about buildings but about the people and their relationship with their God, here it was. As a Methodist Circuit, we were very lucky that our ministers were ready and willing to exploit their ‘digital skills’ to produce some wonderful acts of worship online.
Not only did they ensure that the spiritual needs of their congregations were met as fully as ever, courtesy of YouTube, but Above middle: A well-earned, socially spaced rest during a cleaning operation with the skills of our acting Superintendent Minister, the Rev’d Danny Wheadon, these were to reach a very high standard of presentation. The services have been very warmly received not only at home but much further afield too. As with other churches and faith groups, many are thinking that these are not just a temporary substitute but a very welcome extra outreach for the future. We could not quite forget our buildings however, and when ‘lock-down’ relaxed sufficiently we were able to commission work on our adjoining Cottage, where we have now welcomed new tenants. At the same time, much needed redecoration of the Chapel and Hall could be undertaken without causing any inconvenience. We were all ready to go but not just yet; meetings and other fellowships continued through the newfound wonders of Zoom. John Wesley had a favourite ‘arrow-prayer’: “Lord, let me not live to with three teams on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, when food can be be useless.” Perhaps this is an inspiration for us to express to Parish distributed to a handful of house-bound recipients, a few young families officials our hope that we might perhaps help our community in and anyone who cares to come from the local community. We usually have some practical way. Fortuitously, they had just received a kind inquiry anything from six to twelve crates left over at the end which are delivered from a local retail outlet (M&S) asking if there might be any way of to organisations such as the Shelter and Sanctuary Trusts – vastly preferable distributing surplus food left over at the end of the day to anyone to binning it all. who might appreciate it. A team of volunteers had already been And now we plan to re-open the Chapel for Sunday worship from the mobilised by the Parish, and we were delighted to join in by end of July, under strict risk assessment and social distancing disciplines. providing a suitable Hall as a Food Bank centre. And NO singing of hymns – a real penance for all Methodists. Nevertheless, After some logistical conundrums had been solved, we ended we have a great deal to be thankful for. StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:24 Page 48
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Left: Father Johnpromise Umeozuru Catholic Church Below left: Father Johnpromise at his ordination He studied for another 10 years at the seminary in Nigeria and, needing more time to make sure of his vocation, he was pleased to be accepted at Cardiff University to study a Welcome master’s degree in business administration. This led to a job in London as deputy manager in a residential care home and the opportunity to experience life, socialize and spend to Father time travelling. Convinced of his vocation, a friend in the Diocese of Portsmouth suggested he should speak to Bishop Philip. This led to another 2 years of study at St John’s Seminary Johnpromise Wonersh in Guildford and on 20th of July 2019, he was ordained a priest with his father, mother, and sister in the congregation. From his arrival last year, he has brought a touch of Umeozuru African sunshine to Jersey. His lively personality has been well received by parishioners. His first year of priesthood has been Pat Guegan introduces a new arrival particularly challenging as first he had to learn to drive. During this period, he was never short of chauffeurs to help him perform his priestly duties. We were delighted to celebrate recently with Coming to such a small island with a close-knit community gave him, as he says, a welcome that has been warm and friendly with everyone being very Father Johnpromise Umeozuru the 1st Anniversary accepting. of his Priestly Ordination. Father Johnpromise has A keen member of the Fitness First Gym, lockdown drove him to turn to joined the Catholic Parish in Jersey as an Assistant other ways to use up all that excess energy. He has been running and walking to help him explore our beautiful Island and I have challenged him Priest. He was born and raised in Nigeria and it to take part in the De La Salle Round the Island Walk next year, was the example of his Parish Priest that led him As we slowly return to normal, we look forward to getting to know him better and working together for the good of our community. In the short to believe he had a vocation to the priesthood. time we have known him he has clearly demonstrated that he is certainly a Having convinced his parents to allow him to very ‘joyful’ priest. study at the Minor Seminary for 6 years to Happy Anniversary Canon David Mahy complete his Secondary Education, which added David Mahy, the former Catholic Dean of Jersey celebrated the an extra financial burden to the family, but Diamond Jubilee of his Ordination during ‘lockdown’ in Portsmouth. The picture illustrates, as an example, how Covid 19 has impinged on enabled him to achieve his dream of becoming a so many joyful occasions. Thus, Canon David’s anniversary party priest and a joyful one at that. became a limited outdoor event, as luck would have it, in the rain and the table graced with champagne as well as anti-bacterial material.
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Right: Jocelyne Renaud flanked by her Husband Jean (L) Jocelyne and Gerald le Cocq (R) Renaud Looking back on a short but wonderful association Sometimes we get so wrapped up in our own little (sometimes locked down) world that we fail to see the larger picture. As, for example, the chairman of the St Martin Jumelage Association, Gerald Le Cocq, reminds us, there were plans for every month featuring at least one social event. This could have been a Quiz Night, Sunday Lunches and Barbecue at his house, visiting France for Twinning Games, 25th Jumelage Anniversary Celebrations in Jersey and France, a two day school visit to St Martin`s Above left: (L-R) Gerald Le Cocq, Jean-Christian Cusson, Jean Renaud and Jocelyne School by Montmartin primary students and campers (sitting). Behind, the tapestry surrounding the room shows the scale of her achievement Above:The story of the Tapestry visit by students to Rozel Camping Park. A very full Below: Much careful unfolding and fixing to the display boards programme but all cancelled except for maybe an Autumn Lunch. There was however sad news from France when it was learnt that we had lost a great friend in Jocelyne Renaud.
Jocelyne Renaud was a lovely, friendly lady who mixed well with the community. For example, when our Jumelage made a visit to Bayeux Jean and Jocelyne showed us around the tapestry. But of course we could not have had a better guide for Jocelyne for telling history using embroidery as the medium was part of her life. It was she who designed and supervised the creation of the Rollo Tapestry which the Jumelage Association helped in exhibiting here in Jersey. influence on our law, our way of government and of course, as in the The tapestry tells of the founding of Normandy as the power base parish churches as well as chapel at La Hougue Bie, as part of our of Northern France and the machinations of the first Norman/Viking landscape. Without the Normans, Jersey would have become a quite leader Rollo towards the end of the 9th Century. In a sense it tells the different place story of the events that led to Jersey becoming a part of Normandy The exhibition was a triumphant success. Staged in St Helier’s Town and thus establishing the Island’s own character. Hall, over 600 people viewed it during its 3 day showing and according The tapestry of Rollo tells the story of this Viking adventurer and it to Gerald le Cocq visitors came from a wide range of countries is a notable achievement by the group, who consciously took the including South Africa, Germany, Madeira, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, production process of the Bayeux tapestry as its model, to tell the France, Ireland, China, Guernsey and Alderney.. story, not of one battle, but a whole life. But Jocelyne suffered recently from autoimmune disease and it was It was thanks to the cunning, skill, and ferocity of the earlier this year that we heard from Jean-Christian of Montmartin the Viking/Norman adventurers that Normandy became the power sad news from that Jocelyne had passed away. controlling the mouth of the Seine, the fledgling Kingdom of France’s Jocelyne’s drive, her knowledge and enthusiasm for her project Northern door, and pushed the Bretons back in effect onto the showed how the Jumelage association can recreate the essence of Armorican peninsula. The exhibition showed that story and one of the fraternity between Jersey and its (modern) Norman neighbours. Listen results of that success was that the Island became part of the new to the story of Rollo and you can hear echoes of our Norman heritage larger Normandy and that Norman Heritage still exercises a powerful as brought to life by a good friend. StMartin-Autumn-2020-Q3 2.qxp_Layout 1 11/09/2020 15:25 Page 57
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Wednesday, 5.45 pm to 7.45pm Thursday 23rd July and the Parish rate remained the Please could we ask Parishioners to observe the sanitizing and social distancing requests on arrival. Should we experience a Covid -19 ‘spike’ same at 1.28 for 2020. in the Autumn, we still have an Emergency Liaison Officer on hand to All Rates Demands have now been sent out either electronically or by post and co-ordinate support for Parishioners (tel 07797 728074). payment is now required. A surcharge of 10% will be added for any late payments after Friday 30th New Staff in the Parish Office October 2020. No reminders will be sent prior There have been some changes in the staffing at the office- we are to this date. Should you be experiencing any now a team of three: financial difficulty with this payment please contact the Parish. Janine Milner Right: Parish Secretary Parish Peter Canham Secretary Janine Parish Executive Officer Milner Parish Glass Caroline Troy Collections Assistant Parish/Executive Secretary We have received a request from our waste contractors, Germbusters, for Parishioners assistance with the monthly kerbside collection of glass. Please consider the weight of your glass bins when putting them out for collection. This is in respect of Germbusters health & safety concerns for their staff. The lifting of these bins is causing issues. Ideally the use of wheelie bins for glass would be appropriate as these can be Subject to COVID – 19 restrictions, mechanically lifted into the trucks. Should you be replacing your glass bin in the near future please could you consider The first Visite du Branchage took place on Tuesday this option. 7th July by a ‘reduced’ team from the Parish due to Below: Parish exercise Autumn Calendar As these are still uncertain times, current social distancing restrictions. and keep fit group we are unable to confirm any Autumn events at the time of The team set off on electric bikes going to press. As and when restrictions are lifted and more on a sunny afternoon to complete events are planned we will update our Parish website: the Visite. Thank you to all www.parish.gov.je/stmartin Parishioners for the overall tidiness / of the hedge rows, footpaths, trees Christmas/New Year Opening Hours and gardens. The second Visite will be on Thursday 10th September. The Parish office will close at 1pm on Thursday 24th December and re-open at 8.45am on Monday 4th January 2021.
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21st century human beings responded with technology and, in particular, the office was dismembered and reassembled by linking dwellings with the office computer and trying to And Finally carry on as before. Many people have quickly adapted to working from home and video conferencing for much of the working day, staying in touch at the press of a button. “The Office is dead”, has been the cry. But that is a gross oversimplification. The office is not dead, but perhaps it needs Death reinventing. Business got through the lockdown by concentrating purely on output; a short-term measure and one to fit the times. It has been argued that what needs to be done now is to find some way of combining modern technology with office culture and so tap into the benefits that flow by acknowledging that humans are social animals. Real life has a of the office large canvas of nuanced behaviour that enables successful businesses to be more innovative, y thus finding new ways to progress. For example, collaborative and creative work is more difficult at home. Whether it is the chance encounter or a planned meeting, the energy that comes from getting together and greatly thinking together to create something new, is harder to replicate at a distance on a computer screen. The younger and the newer employees will be the greatest losers in exaggerated home working. Those of us over a certain age who have been working from home will have been using, as a prop, individual relationships built over years Life without modern of contact. We have seen their body language, their expressions , got to know our fellow workers and managers, and so trust has been built. The young and the new have to learn communication technology how to navigate an unspoken protocol learnt through the filter of repeated interactions. It is is difficult to imagine but, the way of learning to recognise those (perhaps minor but still important) role models which will emerge. as a race, humans have In essence physical and social interaction is the key to a good workplace and therefore the success of a business. During an extended lockdown, businesses say they have been been managing quite well finding it harder to check employees are well and coping. Have the new employees for many thousands of understood not only what to do, but why? The importance of interchanges away from the desk, at the coffee machine, the canteen, the quick stroll with friends round town in the lunch years. London was break, act as a seed bed for new and changing ideas, a process of importance which cannot effectively locked down in be exaggerated. Finally, every business has its own culture, its own ethos, a concept perhaps now under the seventeenth century threat, for it could be argued that if all people work from home, the culture of a business will during manifestations of disappear. Offices are creative spaces, thus moving back into them is important to many people for the congregation of employees and management helps to promote the plague a business identity, fostered in sustainable working places. The office becomes the studio producing fresh collaborative thinking from which emerges a type of brand identity and, even in multinational companies, that brand becomes adapted to local influences; the different locations are proud of their differences. Corporate life is about adaptability and flexibility, people’s working patterns. Office occupation and configurations should evolve in a loosely structured and responsive environment so that change can flourish. This creative process cannot be pegged to the ground or caged in employees’ gardens.
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