Volume 43, No 1 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 50p where sold THE LYMPSTONE HERALD

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Editors: Claire and Rob Hilton - [email protected] | 07739969311 Advertising: Steve Morgan [email protected] | 01395 276020 Copy deadline for the next issue : Sunday 9th October, 6pm by email Distribution by Robin and Judith Telfer Tel. 272275 | Copy Editor: P Acca Cover Art: Sue Paterson Village website: www.lympstone.org | [email protected] PARISH COUNCIL NEWS

The Chairman announced the gigabit per second. resignation of Cllr Angela Connelly- Jurassic Fibre will conduct interviews Cole and asked members of the and hold a public consultation to public to consider volunteering for the discuss ideas in more detail. For Parish Council. We currently have more information please visit: www. five vacancies, anyone interested lympstone.org or contact Jurassic Fibre can contact any Parish Councillor or directly on 01392 314455, enquiries@ the Clerk for further information. It is jurassic-fibre.com or www.jurassic- a great opportunity to become more fibre.com involved with your Parish and to make a Guest speaker Mr Twamley, EDDC real difference in your community. NP Officer – Mr Twamley spoke about Public Session – A resident asked Lympstone’s Neighbourhood Plan where the sign to Exeter had gone from (LNP). He explained that there was the bottom of Burgmann’s Hill. He felt no obligation to review the plan but this could divert a lot of traffic out of it is healthy to review the plan after the village sooner rather than always five years of it being implemented. driving through the village. The Chair He added that there were three types added that it was a good point and of modification for a plan: 1) basic would check with Highways. changes/minor modifications 2) material Cllr Atkins announced that the DAAT modification which do not change the had awarded the village a certificate of plan and 3) material modification which thanks for the money raised from the do change the plan (and would require village fete back in July. He reminded a referendum). He advised that he felt everyone that 9-15 September Lympstone had a basic structure in was National Air Ambulance Week. place with good steering policies and Additionally, if anyone is interested only minor tweaks and changes would in finding out more about becoming be necessary. He added that EDDC a volunteer for DAAT, please contact were not concerned with LNP, so time Cara at [email protected] was not of the essence, but it was a Presentation from Jurassic Fibre positive move to refresh it. A review Broadband – JFL was founded to would last for four years and show due build a fibre to the premise network care and diligence in the community. across 350,000 premises of Devon, Clerks Report – The Clerk read Somerset and Dorset. Full fibre offers correspondence received regarding far more reliable, consistent and faster dogs fouling in the Parish. It is paramount connections – with speeds of up to 1 that we all do our bit to keep our village 2 as clean and healthy as possible. added that the Local Plan should take Linda Lyons spoke about the upcoming five years to rewrite and he was keen village event on the 22nd September for the Local Plan to be tweaked quickly at the Village Hall. It will be an event regarding climate change that needed where all village groups, clubs and immediately tackling. societies would be present to share County Cllr Scott explained that once and celebrate what they do and your an order from DCC had been written, opportunity to come along, find out more anyone who wished to appeal against and join in! She especially welcomed a decision must submit a new letter newcomers to the Parish to come and expressing views. Previous submitted get involved. Linda would also like letters and evidence were closed. Cllr ideas on how money raised from the Scott added that alongside the NHS in community hub could be spent towards Devon, the County Council is asking more community events. the public to share their views through Reports from the Chairman, East an online survey which can be found Devon District Councillors and at the following link – https://www. Devon County Councillors – surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BetterDevon or The Chairman reported that the fallen visit Lympstone website to find out more wall at Gulliford Burial ground had now information. been rebuilt and was completed. She Matters raised by Councillors – added that Gulliford burial ground had Cllr Hill reported the findings of the two very successful open days over Traffic survey held during the summer. the summer and FOGBG were working These can be found on the Lympstone very hard to promote this ancient website. The Chairman gave a huge burial ground and raise awareness of thank you to all members of the Getting the beauty and historic value of this Around Group for all their hard work area. She also added that the public and the many volunteers that helped toilets had received a deep clean over throughout the surveys and gathering the summer and the PC was now the important data to use as evidence considering the next steps and future for future actions. improvements. Clerk to the Council: District Cllr Ingham added that he Lucy Tyrrell c/o Minnows, Longmeadow believed the LNP did need minor Road, Lympstone EX8 5LF changes and upgrading. Having Tel: 07890717081 something done now would protect Email: [email protected] the Parish for a further two years. He 3 PARISH CHURCH

Sea Sunday 2019 Ideal weather blessed our annual Sea Sunday Service on the slipway on 14 July. Thanks again are due to the Harbour Board for permission; the Sailing Club for their generous hospitality; and the indefatigable Training Band for their music. A collection of £266 was shared between the Mission to Seafarers and the RNLI. Geoffrey Wrayford

Happy Hour tea Party You are invited to a Happy Hour Tea Party In Lympstone Parish Church on Tuesday 10 September at 3.00 pm. For more h useit details, please call Demelza (272243) your key to secure storage Harvest Thanksgiving Service On 29th September we celebrate God’s goodness to us in providing us with the fruits of His creation at our Harvest Thanksgiving Service. We celebrate with a Family Eucharist with Woodbury Business Park • Woodbury • Nr Exeter www.house-it.co.uk choir, organ and worship band. Please bring gifts to help restock Exmouth Community Larder. Monetary gifts are CLOCK REPAIRS also welcome and these will be for the Terence C. Matthews, Open Door Centre, Exmouth. Horologist Annual Christian Aid Rainbow Fair Tel: 01395 273563 Free Admission. Saturday 28 September All clocks repaired, including 10am-12.30pm Glenorchy Church, Westminster Chimes, Wall Clocks, Exmouth We appeal for donations of Grandfather & Grandmother Clocks, Dial Clocks, Long Case and Carriage BLUEish items of household goods, Clocks. cakes, books, CDs, clothes and DVDs Free estimates provided, with house for the Lympstone stall. Please leave at visits. back of church in the south aisle pew. 4 For more information please speak to We hid some Treasure in Lympstone Peter Watsham and the main prize was found by Recruitment of new Rector On 11 Ange (ex Globe Inn) buried near the September we submit the names of estuary...... a driftwood piece of art two persons to represent Lympstone ‘Proud to be Different’ by Angela Coles. Church on the interview panel. If Also hidden was a donated Voucher you have experience of interviewing for Susannah’s Cafe, which was won and a desire to be considered for this by Pauline, Jackson Meadow, and Mr. important role please notify either of the Dunn won the Child’s prize. church wardens Jeff Russell or Philip In our Lucky Birthday game - Ted White. Norton, Underhill, won the Voucher Recruitment of Parish Community Family Ticket for World of Countrylife. Worker Thank you to businesses who donated Now advertised through The Net, The prizes for our games and to all of you Link,The Diocesan website and Open who took part. Doors Frances Longhurst, Trustee Church Interior design and layout Following consultation with community FRIENDS OF THE CHURCH groups and church members earlier in MONTHLY LOTTERY DRAW the year sub groups will commence in October. Our lucky winner in July was John Diary Dates Bennett, whose £25 maybe by now be • Saturday 14th September Nigel long spent.- but a fresh £25 goes to Candelent’s ordination . Faith Strickland - our winner for August. • Saturday 14th September Historic Churches Ride and Stride CURRY LUNCH! Tick-Tock for young children restarts on Friday mornings. Here is advance notice that this year Brian Mather ‘The Curry Lunch’ will be on Sunday 3 November. No ifs or buts! Organised by the Friends of the Church FURRY DANCE PRIZE WINNERS! - this is always a sell out and tickets will go on sale early in October - pease see First of all, many thanks to everyone posters which will be going up then. who supported our Exmouth & Clive Wilson Lympstone Hospiscare stall on Furry Dance Day...... you raised £100 for our Charity. 5 Adrian Walters, Travel Counsellor Your personal Travel Expert

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6 THE VILLAGE HALL - STATUTORY Further information about the proposals CONSULTATION and the steps necessary to implement them are on the Village Hall website The Lympstone Herald for July 2019 (www.lympstonevillagehall.co.uk). included (p9) an article about the plans Clive Wilson (secretary, Village Hall of the charity trustees of the village hall Management Committee) (who form the Village Hall Management [email protected]; 01395 Committee) to set up a new charitable 264753; Orchard Cottage, Longmeadow body to manage the hall. This would Road, Lympstone, EX8 5LE replace the current charity, which dates back to 1930. Unlike the existing charity, HARBOUR CRANING the new body would be incorporated - a Charitable Incorporated Organisation The annual craning of boats from the (CIO). The article referred to the reasons brook to the Harbour hardstanding is for the trustees’ decision, and the steps planned to take place on Monday 14th that would be needed to implement it. October 2019 from 6:30am. As this is Further information was placed on the a potentially hazardous operation, all village hall website, and comments or public access to the Harbour will be questions were invited. denied during this operation, which is usually finished by midday. For more Before the hall’s land and premises can information nearer the time please be transferred from the existing charity browse www.lympstoneharbour.org.uk to the CIO, the trustees are required by charity law to give formal public notice A mobile crane will be arriving early of that intent, inviting representations that morning, so those who park on its within a specified time; and to take any route along The Strand & Burgmann’s such representations into consideration. Hill, and the route to the Harbour by The trustees accordingly give notice the Swan Inn are asked for their co- that, as part of their plans to establish operation in allowing it clear passage. a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, Richard Crisp they intend that the Lympstone Village Hall land and premises should be transferred to the proposed new CIO, when established; and that any representations about this proposal should be made to the secretary (address details below) by Monday 14 October 2019. 7

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www.wilkinsongrant.co.uk CAN YOU SPARE AN HOUR ON Tony Venning will be telling us all OCTOBER 12TH? about Samuel Pepys in his illustrated talk entitled ‘Pepys, his life and times’ Twice a year we spend an hour or so at 7.30pm. We hope to see you in the tidying the lower part of the railway Methodist Hall. Entry is £4 (£3.50 for embankment gardens on Station Hill. If members), and our lifetime membership you would like to help, please come to is a mere £10. the station at 10 am on Saturday 12th Mary Turner October, with simple gardening tools Secretary, Lympstone History Society. and a willing pair of hands – no climbing involved. LYMPSTONE PRE SCHOOL

Earlier that morning the flowers on the Lympstone Preschool would like to station platform, watered and maintained thank our amazing team of volunteers all summer by village volunteers, will and helpers for the delivery of our new be replaced with a winter display. This pergola and grassing in our ‘phase 2 community effort helps make the whole development’ in our nature garden! station area attractive for villagers and This area has developed over the last visitors alike. few months and will continue to do so Tony Day - more shade was needed and thanks Friends of Lympstone Village Station to the skills of Rob from Marley & 268653 Sons Carpentry and Andy Beech with support of Malcolm and Linda Lyon and LYMPSTONE HISTORY SOCIETY gardening skills of Brett Millman BGS Gardening Services and Andrew Love Quite a few of you came along to the of Trinity Plant Services we now have a committee room during the village fete lovely area where the children can have in July to see our display, and helped us lunch and enjoy a bit of shade during to identify some of the unknown faces their outside play. in our photographic archive - thank you. We have thousands of photographs in As a charity preschool we really rely our historical archive and, unfortunately, on our volunteers and helpers and many of them are undated and feature everything they do to support us is unnamed villagers, so your help in appreciated beyond words. Thank you!! identifying them is invaluable. Vicki Drinkwater

Our autumn programme commences on Thursday 19th September when 9 LYMPSTONE WI 100 items to the Community Larder (current total 52) plus a possible September Meeting purchase for the Village Community Heather welcomed a number of visitor in the form of a bench or defibrillator and a new member. for the top end of the village. There is a DVD of our Centenary Garden Party Christine Meakin, our speaker, told of available from Suki. an unusual upbringing with devoted adoptive parents, and published a Unfortunately a member recently book dedicated to their memory. She suffered a stroke, she is recovering well achieved a good education, married and looks forward to visitors. and raised a family; Christine amused us with her childhood fantasies of who Rubbish (biscuit and crisp wrappers) and what her birth mother might have collection for the Air Ambulance has been! been ongoing, crisp wrappers are no longer required. The Furry Dance lunches and cake sale, also the summer supper were a The Garden Club thanked anyone great success. participating in the Annual Show and circulated their programme for the next There is plenty in the diary: year. Speaker Audition Day. • 18th September: Tiverton Canal There will be a litter pick at 2.30 on 11th trip. September from The Swan. • 22nd September: Living in Lympstone event. Next meeting will be 2nd October, • 2nd November: Autumn Soup and entitled Dementia Friendly? Pud/Cake Sale. • 3rd December: Carol Service at Lympstone WI welcomes new members. Exeter Cathedral. We meet on the first Wednesday of the month in the Methodist Hall at 2.30. Heather Stratford, our President, Further details available on the village flagged up that she will be stepping website. down next April and called for any Terri Scott prospective candidates to be in touch. The Centenary Committee have a number of events in the pipeline. The planting of 100 bulbs, the donation of 10 LYMPSTONE TENNIS CLUB NEWS join at a cost of £15 to existing junior members and new under 8’s and £22 We’re a friendly club, catering for all for new members age 8+. Racquets standards of players with two well will be provided for you but please wear maintained courts located alongside the trainers! Find out more by contacting village hall. Members can use the courts Jenni; [email protected] for general play, join in regular club sessions, club tournaments, adult/junior LIVING IN LYMPSTONE coaching, cardio tennis or represent the Sunday 22nd September club in local league matches. This year In the Village Hall we entered a mixed, men’s and two ladies’ teams into the local league with This event is open to all who live in the the men and the Ladies B finishing top village and is free to attend. Many of of their division. A great achievement for the groups, clubs and societies in the our club! Village will be showcasing what they do. You can also take part in many activities Come along to meet us at the Living in and there will be live entertainment. Lympstone event or look at our website The Family session will be from 4pm – for further details www.lympstonetc. 5.45pm co.uk/ • Free refreshments (tea/coffee biscuits/cakes) Juniors: Thank you to everyone who • Free ice creams for children under participated in our junior summer 16 programme. Tom Kinch, the new Junior • Free tennis session on tennis courts Coach, presented certificates to all the • Sailing dinghy in car park players and a mini trophy to the most improved in each class. These were The adult sessions will be from 6pm – won by Edward Mullen, Hollie Young, 8pm Sebastian King and Arabella Upchurch. • Free wine or soft drink Hollie Young was singled out as the • Further drinks may be bought at the overall most improved player out of all bar the groups and was presented with the • Free tennis sessions on tennis Jackie Clarke Memorial Cup. courts • Sailing dinghy in car park The Junior Autumn programme starts on Saturday September 14th. New Full details on www.lympstone.org Juniors welcome! Please come along to the courts between 9.00-11.00 to 11 2018 WORKSPACE AWARDS WINNER “A small, independent practice with national recognition.”

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Set by Tenzing CLUES DOWN 1. When the Royal Navy snuck into an era, it led ACROSS to diversity (5). 2. Secret Gaelic limbo will get you higher (5). 2. It’s a small column, you cabbage (3). 4. Different plane required to reach this country 3. Confused in amount and made this out of a (5). molehill (8). 5. First lady - take a break to get to the top (7). 6. Within fir, stone pine is original (5). 8. Drunk dope in exit, went on excursion (10). 7. see 8D 10. Something in the Northern dialect sent me to 8. (and 7D) Pioneering climber can pull apart any a climax (6). mild hurdle (6, 7). 11. Concealed as centaurs, up they went (6). 9. The porter speaks in befuddled phrase (6). 13. Michelangelo masterpiece seen, admired 12. Tyranasaur lost the X-Factor, took potassium, avidly (5). and went for a long walk (4).

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13 AN EVENING WITHOUT JAKE THACKRAY but with FAKE THACKRAY (John Watterson) and the real PAUL DOWNES “I would like more buggers to do my songs,” said Jake Thackray, sometimes known as Yorkshire’s answer to Noel Coward. “It would save me going out of the house.”

Well, another bugger is doing them now (a little late for Jake, who died in 2002). Fake Thackray, a one-man tribute act in the person of John Watterson, performs these much-loved Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens than with Noel songs in a way that has Coward or Flanders and Swan. Brassens was his received the acclaim of greatest hero, and Jake translated some of his songs Jake’s family and friends. into English, such as Brother Gorilla, which was banned for a while in France. When Jake appeared One of his friends was with Georges Brassens at the Sherman Theatre, the Lympstone singer- Cardiff, he called it the pinnacle of everything he had songwriter Paul Downes, achieved. and it is Paul who has set up this performance in Jake’s own songs are literate, satirical and funny, Lympstone on Saturday, comic stories with a point, or tales of rural Yorkshire. 5th October at the Village He reached a large television audience with his weekly Hall. Paul will also be appearances on The Braden Beat, The Frost Report performing on the bill. and Esther Rantzen’s That’s Life in the 60s and 70s, and became hugely popular. Jake actually had a lot more in common with John Watterson is a talented guitarist and singer who French singers like has been performing these wonderful songs – Sister 14 Josephine, Country Bus, Isabella, Little Christine Skelmersdale of Broadleigh Black Foal, Bantam Cock,, Lah-Di-Dah, Gardens. Christine is a real expert on The Hair of the Widow of Bridlington bulbs and this should be a fascinating and many others from the catalogue, and informative talk in the Village including some previously unpublished Hall Function Room on Tuesday 17 – at festivals, concerts and clubs all September at 7.30pm. £3 on the door, round the country. Don’t miss him at no membership required. Lympstone Entertainments’ first show of the new season at 7:30pm on 5th Other highlights for the coming year October. include talks on scented plants and Tickets £12.50 from Demelza, 2 gardening in small spaces, and our big Brookfield Cottages, The Strand or Spring talk on the afternoon of Saturday boxoffice@lympstone-entertainments. 7 March 2020 is ‘A Modern Herbal – net easy to grow and process herbs for wellbeing’ with the gardener, writer and “We can’t have Jake back, but this is television presenter Alys Folwer. Tickets the next best thing – a real tribute.” Mike for this are already selling – they are Harding £8 in advance, and if you’re interested “It’s marvellous that Jake Thackray’s don't leave it too late to book. Contact treasured songs ride again. They are in Suki on 01395 269989 or email suki. safe hands.” Ralph McTell [email protected] More Lympstone Entertainments information on their website: Our new events leaflet for 2019-20 is https://lympstone-entertainments.net hot off the press. Pick up a lovely purple Harland Walshaw copy (with Alys Folwer on the cover) at any of our events, outside the village LYMPSTONE GARDEN CLUB hall and at various other local outlets Huge thanks to everyone that entered, – and also look online on the Garden helped at and came to our Annual Club page of the village website www. Show in August. The village hall looked lympstone.org wonderful, the tearoom was brimming, the brass band played and everyone News from the Garden Club is sent out seemed to be having a good time. regularly by email – if we don't have your details and you’d like to be kept up to As we move into autumn our new date with what’s coming up then please season of events is getting underway send your name and email address to with our first talk this month on [email protected] ‘Creative Gardening with Bulbs’ by Gail McKenzie 15 Donate your bike! Ride On is a bike recycling charity in Exeter. We seek to make cycling more accessible. Our work is funded through donated bikes that we refurbish and get back on the road. 600 bikes were refurbished in 2018 and we need your help to beat that this year.

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[email protected] 16 T.A.P. AUTUMN EVENTS PROGRAMME 2019 LYMPSTONE T.A.P. (THIRD AGE PROJECT) AUTUMN 2019 Meetings are held every two weeks at 2.30 p.m. on in the Methodist Church Hall

27th September “GET TOGETHER” Tea, Quiz and Gossip.

11th October “THE GREYHOUND TRUST” Mr Brian Mather

25th October “LIFE IN SHOW BUSINESS” Mrs Vivien Jones

8th November “THE NIGHTINGALE” Mr Harland Walshaw

22nd November “MY ISRAELI HOLIDAY” Ms Caroline Hall

6th December “LYMPSTONE NURSERIES Mr Peter Salter DEVELOPMENT”

13th December CHRISTMAS LUNCH Venue to be decided.

New Members are always welcome to our meetings. The Hall opens at 2.15pm. Diana Budgen - 01395 278152 - [email protected]

LYMPSTONE ART GROUP

The Art Group is hosting a talk, £3 for guests. Everyone welcome. It is CHASING ICE by Naomi Hart, who is only £10 a year to join Lympstone Art the artist in residence for the Leverhulme Group and this will give you free entry Trust in Svalbard. She will present her to our talks and Exhibition. If you are views of ice science - coal mining and interested in joining contact me judith_ climate science- in the high arctic with [email protected] or just come along illustrations from her sketchbooks and to our talk and you can join then and photos from field research in Svalbard pick up a programme for the year. Norway. Her talk will be held at 7.30pm Judith Carter in the Methodist Hall, Chapel Road on Tuesday 1st October. Entry is free to members of Lympstone Art Group and 17 LUCKY FOR LYMPSTONE

Luckily for all, Lympstone Film Society committee watch (or part watch) many is about to launch its 13th Season, films before making their selection. on Friday 13th September, with a film These are films which don’t always by Ralph Fiennes about the dramatic reach the public cinemas, and over defection to the West of the legendary the past 13 years the selectors have Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev unearthed many other gems with which in 1962. they have entertained the audience. This will be followed in October by Variety is the spice of films, and the another true story, an Australian comedy coming season has variety and spice. about a 64 metre Radio Telescope on It also has some outstanding film stars, a sheep farm in New South Wales at many of them English. Ralph Fiennes the time of the Apollo Moon Walk. The features in both our first and our last selection committee have discovered film, Rachel Weisz also appears twice, this little gem, which was made in 2000, Sally Hawkins, virtually unrecognisable, and are showing it as part of the 50th is extraordinary as a quirky Canadian anniversary celebrations of the moon folk artist, and Olivia Coleman won landing. an Oscar for her Queen Anne in The Each year, the members of the Favourite. Sam Neill, who plays the 18 Director of the Observatory in The Dish, month is the place to be in the autumn is a New Zealander, born in Northern and winter months. Ireland. Membership is only £20 annually, which Watching films at a cinema (or admits you to 8 Friday evening films, 3 Lympstone Village Hall transformed Sunday afternoon Classics (selected into a cinema) is very different from and introduced by Martin Fisher), and watching a television or computer the AGM film chosen by members’ screen in solitary confinement. Laughter votes. is infectious, and so is tension, and Come to the first film, The White Crow, suspense, and relief. These films were on Friday 13th September, and join on made to be shown on a big screen, the door. Non-members can choose in front of an audience, and enjoyed individual films at £5 each. together. Harland Walshaw A good night out is the aim of the Film Society, which opens a popular bar LYMPSTONE FOLK HAVE MOVED in the Function Room from 6.45pm. There is a first half of short films and Lympstone’s monthly folk nights will advertisements for village events at resume on Wednesday September 7.30, followed by an interval with ice 25th, but in The Loft at The Redwing. creams (and the bar again). This is film- This follows a very successful folk going as it used to be. No wonder we evening at The Loft in July – when have so many members. The village a large and enthusiastic audience hall on the second Friday of every enjoyed a variety of entertainment from fellow villagers and folk from further afield. We will be glad to be joined at The Redwing by friends old or new on the fourth Wednesday of every month, from 8.30 pm. If you want to sing, play or perform, anything acoustic is in order, or please just come along and listen. Our move from the Saddlers is by mutual agreement and we are grateful to Tim and Chantell for hosting us for the past two years. Tony Day 268653

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DISCLAIMER This news letter is compiled from emails sent to the editors by numerous people and very little of the information is checked before publishing which is done in good faith. Rob and Claire Hilton, Editors 21 COFFEE MORNING FOR DEVON paintings; display of philosophical WILDLIFE TRUST sayings by sages, ancient and modern underscored by a large carbon footprint A very sincere thank you to all those kind surmounted by floral decorations; a people who supported our July coffee wood turned bowl created from a fallen morning in aid of Devon Wildlife Trust. cedar gave a feel of the outdoors as This was held in our lovely church and did beautiful flower arrangements a spirit of good cheer dominated the from hedgerow and garden, not to morning. mention the home-made bug ‘hotels’ for homeless insects! The charming To counteract a little of the doom and wire sculpture of an avocet surrounded gloom which surrounds the misuse of by floats and feathers representing our our planet, the morning’s theme aimed great river helped by lovely paintings to boost awareness of, and gratitude by very young Lympstonians, the fish for, the work DWT and other trusts have with a lovely watercolour of the Mary been doing, and hope to continue to do Rose and an essential contribution of in restoring and protecting our unique a compost leachate to remind that it is natural environment. Upon greater the soil where it all begins. One vital human reconnection with Nature display remains, showing the facts, depends the wellbeing of both. the figures, photographs, pamphlets of Nature Reserves managed by Devon Lympstonians are never short of Wildlife Trust, the scientific research, imagination and talent, nor do they vets and zoological experts, flooding shirk doing the unsung, unseen chores and farming, reclamation of land behind the scenes. Many thanks to them over-fertilised and such enormous - dispensers of copious cups of coffee responsibility, information of where to plus washing up; moving hundreds find help of further involvement in the of chairs; moving display screens; work - this carefully selected material organising the most generously given was most attractively set out. raffle prizes and selling tickets; cooking delicious buns, biscuits and cakes; and So many kind, generous friends and all those jobs I fail to mention. visitors lending unselfish support, some I may have failed to mention but my Now too for those very special gratitude is immense. Devon Wildlife displays: meticulously researched and Trust were delighted and grateful to presented poems each one in relation receive your donation of £666! Thank to a particular wild creature; cards you. of botanically accurate wild flowers; Mary Truell 22 WHAT’S ON IN LYMPSTONE

SEPTEMBER 3 Parish Council 17 Creative Gardening with Bulbs 4 WI Meeting 18 Tiverton Canal Trip - WI 10 Happy Hour Tea Party 19 Pepys, His Life and Times 12-15 Land and Water Open Studio 20 Mobile Library 13 Film Society - The White Crow 22 Living in Lympstone 14 Tennis Club Juniors Morning 25 Lympstone Folk - Redwing 14 Exmouth Beach Clean 27 Get Together - TAP 19-22 Land and Water Open Studio 29 Harvest Thanksgiving 14 Ride and Stride - Parish Church

OCTOBER 1 Chasing Ice - Art Group 11 The Greyhound Trust - TAP 2 WI Meeting 12 Station Tidy Up 5 An Evening Without Jake Thackray 14 Harbour Craning Out - LFHA 7 Parish Council 25 Life In Show Business - TAP

NOVEMBER 2 Autumn Soup and Pud/Cake Sale 6 WI Meeting 3 Curry Lunch 8 The Nightingale - TAP 4 Parish Council 22 My Israeli Holiday - TAP

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