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February 2021, Issue 266 News, views and issues from: Chapel Amble, Pieces of Pendoggett, St Kew, St Kew Highway, Trelill, Tregellist, Trequite, Eight Trewethern Email: [email protected] A starling deciding what to have for lunch! Photograph kindly supplied by David Balmford Your free guide to news and events within and around St Kew Parish A view of the allotments at St Kew Highway Welcome to Pieces of Eight We are a free independent community magazine, published ten times a year (not January and August) covering local news, views and events in the St Kew parish area. Volunteers produce, edit and distribute the magazine to every household in the area, and to all the local churches, shops and pubs. We do hope you enjoy reading it. We would love to hear from our readers - articles, letters, suggestions and other contributions are always welcome. Please see our contact details below. There is also an on-line edition hosted by the Parish Council which can be found at www.stkewparish.org.uk (We are very grateful to the Parish Council for allowing us to use their website). EDITORIAL our local businesses and charities like the Food- bank. Goodbye 2020. You will not be fondly remembered by anyone, anywhere. A big ‘thank you’ is due to all our distributors. Their safety and well-being is very important to us and we To be honest 2021 isn’t looking much better at the felt it only right to let them decide if they still wanted moment with an indefinite lockdown, high hospitali- to continue to deliver the magazine during the cur- sation and death rates, and a struggling economy. rent lockdown. Every one said ‘yes’ and we are At least there are now a few reasons to be cheerful extremely grateful to you all, thank you. This means - vaccination is ramping up, and we seem to be that unless things change for the worse, Pieces of better at it than most other countries; the acrimoni- Eight will be available in print in the coming months ous and divisive 4 year Brexit debate, whichever as well as online on the Parish Council website. side you were on, is finally over and done with and the USA is about to reset to ‘sensible’ after (to be As for us - our new year resolution was to finally charitable) a chaotic 4 years. start the redecorating we’ve been talking about for several years. 2 weeks in and we have completed Having got that out of the way, the editorial team do the entrance hall and a very small room…. But as it wish everyone the very best for 2021 and hope that looks like we won’t get our vaccine dose until April you get through the next few months relatively we should have plenty of locked-down time to do the unscathed. As a community I’m sure we will all do rest of the house. our part by helping each other and by supporting Mike Contacting the Editorial Team Copy date for the March issue is: Friday 12th February The Editorial Team are: Philippa Harkness - Children's page & History Please could all contributors send us copy Steve Liddiard - Advertising Manager & Treasurer or advertisements as soon as possible, and David Penhale - Events & Poet in Residence before the copy deadline. If your article or Nicky Pickard - Main editor who puts the advert is going to be late it would be very helpful magazine together, assisted by husband Mike. if you could let us know in advance. We can be contacted by email at Many thanks! [email protected]. Please use this address for ALL correspondence, the in-box is checked regularly. Alternatively you can phone Nicky’s mo- Note to Readers bile - 07813 603776. Leave a message if you can’t When responding to an advertisement, please get through and she will phone you back. Advertisers mention that you saw it in Pieces of Eight. This should contact Steve, our Advertising Manager via shows our advertisers that the magazine is the the above email address, putting ‘Advertisement’ in place to reach local customers. the subject line. Steve can provide information on advertising costs, space availability, formats, etc. The magazine does not accept any responsibili- ty for any issues arising from advertisements. Views expressed in this publication are those of its contributors and do not necessarily reflect PoE is printed for us by Parish Magazine Printing, those of the Publishers (the management com- Northmoor, Whitstone, Holsworthy, Devon, EX22 6TD. www.parishmagazineprinting.com, 01288 341617. mittee) who reserve the right to refuse or alter any material supplied. 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After taking our particulars we the vaccine itself and what its effect on us might be. were given the vaccine. Didn’t feel a thing. The And second - being able to find a parking spot needle was so thin you could hardly see it. knowing what a nightmare parking at Bodmin Hos- pital can be. For this reason we set off early. We were then escorted to a waiting room where we had to wait 15 minutes, those minutes timed by an As we drove into the Hospital grounds we were egg timer set to ring a bell when your time was up. stopped by one of the many volunteers. There were about ten of us at a time sitting patiently waiting for our eggs to go off. The lovely fellow in “Are you here for the vaccine?“ he asked. charge of us was rushing about trying to identify whose egg was ringing. I nodded struggling into my mask. He was grinning I’m sure; I could tell by his eyes. I wound down the “Was that your egg ringing, Missis?” He should window. have been on stage. We were in stitches laughing. “OK!” He said. “Follow the road round. You’ll be As we drove home we thought how lucky we and all directed to a parking spot.” those people in there were. Thank you NHS. All those nurses and doctors endlessly administering There ahead of us was another fellow waving us in. the vaccine and all those volunteers directing the This second fellow was wearing, as they all were, a parking and the people inside helping the elderly on day-glow vest. This one read Lostwithiel Rotary crutches and in wheelchairs - just there to help. Club. He asked us the time of our appointments having fitted us into a parking spot. We were early, Whoever set it up should get a knighthood or an so we were asked to stay in our car until five min- OBE, which we all had who were there that day utes before our appointment time, which we did. (Over Bloody Eighties!) We then waited under an awning at the treatment Betty Balmford centre which gave some protection from the weath- St. Kew Community Gardens when the plants were small and I am proud to say Association that not a single butterfly got in, although I have found a slug or two in the sprout tops! Not a problem, as long as you wash the leaves thoroughly. The View from the Allotments….. and actual- ly very little has changed since the last article I Leeks are on the menu almost daily and we have a wrote a couple of months ago. slightly later planting ready to lift, while the last patch are just starting to come along a bit and The only positive thing is that I finally got manure should be ready by March/April. I’m trying to re- spread over all the empty patches, so that when the member one of my mother’s recipes with slices of weather warms up and we are ready to put some ham, leeks and a cheese sauce, baked in the oven. seeds in the greenhouse to start off, we shall be If anyone has a simple recipe along these lines, I’d able to rotavate the ground relatively quickly.