THE BRIDGE December 2020

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1 The Benefice of Parishes

Services for December 2020

NB Thursdays throughout December from Thursday 3rd to 17th +31st

St Bartholomew Celtic Eucharist at 10am and Bradoc. Taize Evensong at 6pm

Sunday, 6 [ Advent 2]

Boconnoc Matins 9.45am Bradoc Choral evensong 6pm St Bartholomew Eucharist 11.00am St Brevita, Eucharist 9.30am BCP Holy Communion 9.30am Family Eucharist 11.00am

Sunday,13 [ Advent 3]

Boconnoc Matins 9.45am Bradoc Carols & Celtic Eucharist 11.15am St Bartholomew Eucharist 11am St Bartholomew Lostwithiel Town Carols 3pm St Brevita, Lanlivery Carol service 6pm St Veep Christingle & Nativity 11am

Tuesday,15

St Winnow Family Carol service 6pm Wednesday,16

Boconnoc Nine Lessons & Carols 7pm

Sunday, 20 (Advent 4]

Boconnoc Holy Communion 9.30am

Bradoc Carols with Bradock Heights,,Maryland 6 pm St Bartholomew Morning Prayer 11.00am St Brevita, Lanlivery Morning Prayer 9.30am St Veep Family Eucharist 11.00am St Winnow Christingle & Family Communion 11.00am

Thursday,24 Christmas Eve

Boconnoc Christmas Eucharist (BCP) 10pm Bradoc Eucharist-The Midnight Mass 11.15pm St Barts & St Winnow Crib & Christingle 5.30pm

2 Friday,25 Christmas Day

St Bartholomew Family Christmas Eucharist 9.30am St Brevita, Lanlivery Worship at the crib 9.30am St Veep The Christmas Eucharist 11am

Sunday,27 (The First Sunday of Christmas)

Bradoc United Benefice Eucharist of Christmas 10.30am

The Revd Paul Beynon(Rector) 01208 592765

Revd Sheila Bawden(Associate Priest) 871344

Catherine Murphy -Church Office 01208 872232 [email protected]

RIP. We pray for God's love and peace on Steven Carne - William Charles Ray Hick - Vivien de Lancy Boucher Year's mind for December: Edith Hilary Woolcock - Christine Parsons - Anne Gregory -

Brinley John Edwards - Bethan Charles - William John Haley -

John Charles Rowe - Nicola Jane Dawson - Anne Botterill -

Margaret Edith Anne Boger - David McCarraher - John Robert Foot - Katie Heard - Geoffrey Leonard Tomlinson - David Horton Tolson Francis

Santas on the Run goes Freestyle! Children’s Hospice South West’s (CHSW) annual Santas on the Run event is back but not as you know it! Tak- ing place over the weekend of the 11-13 December, supporters will be able to choose their distance, route and their festive dress.

CHSW’s festive fundraiser usually takes place at Eden each year but the local children’s charity has taken the decision to hold it virtually this Christmas due to the pandemic. Kiley Pearce, Events Fundraiser from CHSW, said: “This year, Santas on the Run is going freestyle! Whilst we can’t all come together at Eden, together we can still spread some joy and laughter and we’d encourage everyone to go crackers with their festive

fundraising! Whether you twinkle in tinsel or rock it like Rudolph, you can get creative with your costume and complete a distance of your choice, your way.”

CHSW’s Santas on the Run has taken place at Eden since 2015 and before that was held in town centre. Over the years it’s seen thousands of people join together raising vital funds for CHSW and it’s Little Harbour children’s hospice in St Austell.

Together with community partner Whirlwind Sports, CHSW is asking this year’s participants to raise

sponsorship or make a donation to enable the charity to continue to provide care for children and families when they need it most, whether that be in the hospice, at home, or virtually.

Kiley continued: “Over the weekend of 11-13 December we will have a warm-up for people to join online each day as well as lots of prizes including for the best-dressed family, child and dog! Individuals who raise £15 or more will also receive a medal. It’s undoubtedly been a challenging year and we would encourage people to get involved however they like this Christmas but most importantly help us raise money to continue supporting local children living with life-limiting conditions and their families.”

Registration is free! Simply register your interest at www.chsw.org.uk/santas and join the charity’s event on Facebook by searching ‘Santas on the Run – goes freestyle’

3 From the Rector’s desk,

If like me you simply can’t believe that its December already, and Christmas is but a few short weeks away, then imagine what the shepherds must have thought when the angels told them God’s Son had been born in a stable and that his mission was to bring peace on earth and goodwill to everyone! Unbelievable - right?! The angelic message is even more unbelievable when we consider that the region into which Jesus was born and grew up in was deeply divided, politically oppressive, religiously intolerant, socially polarised, culturally confused and generally devoid of peace and goodwill to anyone! For those who remember the Brexit episode this probably sounds all too familiar! As for healing a fractured Palestine in the middle of the first century goes,– it is probably easier for President Elect Biden to unite the divided states of America! Perhaps Henry Wadsworth Longfellow felt the despair that we all feel when we see peoples of the world divided, entrenched, and polarised, prompting him to write-

‘And in despair I bowed my head, ‘’There is no peace on earth,’’ I said, ‘’for hate is strong, and mocks the song of peace on earth, good will to men’’

Longfellow’s despondency notwithstanding, the angelic herald deliver their incredible and incredulous message of hope and optimism to the wide eyed and disbelieving shepherds, who despite their better judgement make a visit to the stable – and discover things to be exactly as they were told! Peace on earth and goodwill to all peoples might have sounded as much of a utopian pipedream to those first recipients of the Christmas message as it does to us today, that is until we remember that their lives were transformed by their encounter with the transcendent God who lay in the manger! It is this astonishing possibility that changes everything and makes the impossible possible. It is what happens to Longfellow as he suddenly launches from despair into hope as he concludes his ode-

‘’Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: ‘’God is not dead, nor doth he sleep! The wrong shall fail, the right prevail, with peace on earth, good will to men’

The hope that all peoples of the world might find peace, end warfare, cease their acts of terror and aggression and show goodwill to each other is enshrined in the message of the angels, and will live on for as long as people celebrate Christmas itself. But if we are to find peace on earth, then our loyalties will have to transcend our race, our tribe, our class and our partisan perspectives; only then might the dream that eluded Martin Luther King Jr become a reality for all of us. And so, may the joy of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, the worship of the wise men and the peace of the Christ child be yours, this Christmas.

Revd. Paul

4 The Nature of Hope. Reflections on Advent and Christmas 2020 by Canon John One of the church’s themes in Advent is ‘hope’. This year, in the midst of a nerve-wracking election in the USA, Britain’s Brexit withdrawal farragoes, the climate change crisis and a lethal Coronavirus pandemic and before the new ‘lockdown’ I foolishly offered to preach on ‘hope’ at the Advent Sunday benefice service on the 29th November. Of course, the preacher has to base his or her sermon on experience or it is a hollow exercise; so every sermon invokes some self-examination. Also there is the need to separate hope from optimism. The theologian Anthony Kelly puts it neatly, ‘hope begins where optimism reaches the end of its tether’. Therefore I had to ask myself, why, at this most stressful and demanding period in human history when I am not optimistic I still have hope? Hope is a very personal and elusive quality. For me it was electrifying during the highest point of vitriol, and lowest point of love and respect in the American election to read the words of the young New York congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who wrote, ‘Hope is not something you have, hope is something you can create with your own actions.’ Yes! I thought I have hope that the USA will come through because there are people like her working for the poor in the Bronx and throughout America creating hope through change. And thank God the majority of voters chose hope rather than fear. Then conversations with my grandchildren about climate change strangely give me hope for the future because they have all taken action to do something about it. They represent a powerful movement mitigating the disturbing effects of global warming. As a result of the actions of our young people around the world, climate and the importance of a Green New Deal are coming to the top of the global agenda: perhaps just in time! For Britain the Brexit debate has been settled but one of the saddest aspects has been the vilification or demonisation of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers; those without hope in their own countries. Across Europe we see immigration policies driven by fear rather than compassion; fear driving out the possibility of a peaceful future as the subtlety and fragility of human existence is lost behind labels. In this issue Mary Trevelyan writes movingly about her experiences working as a nurse in a Greek island refugee camp. By her actions among the hopeless Mary has created hope for them and for me because she cares to the point where she put her own life on the line. Which is precisely what God did when he came to live among us as a vulnerable baby, who within months of being born was himself a refugee. In that first Christmas hope was given to us by God’s creative action in the Christ child. That hope is still given to us and renewed in us every year despite the risks and sadness of life. It is in the true experience of Christmas that we restock our hope. Enjoy, hope, act!

5 St Bartholomew’s Church News December 2020

It has been difficult trying to write these articles this last few months as you can imagine. We have to remember though, that there are thousands of people who have many more worries than having to keep up to date with what to write in a local magazine. Many people are puzzled as to why the whole country has to shut down when locally we have lower ‘R’ numbers than elsewhere, but the problem is national so we have to treat it nationally. Hopefully we will be out of Lockdown this month.

Our annual Christmas Tree Festival will take place though with Covid restrictions, which we would ask that you all to adhere to. Letters have been returned so we know how many trees there will be. Hopefully you will have been told whether your tree will be inside or outside so the ornaments will be suitable. The trees will be ready for decoration between 10 – 4.00 on Saturday 5th and Monday 7th, and 1.00 – 4.00 on Sunday 6th. Unfortunately we won’t be able to have a formal opening but we will be ready for visitors from Tuesday 8th. There will be stewards on hand to regulate numbers and explain the layout and the Covid measures that are in operation. Opening hours will have to be restricted to 12.00 – 4.00 giving our volunteers 2 hour sessions to manage, but in the event of no volunteers being available, the church will have to be closed. We hope that there will be people willing to step forward and cover odd hours to help out. The Thursday Celtic Eucharists will be continuing at 10.00 with the first in the month for health and wellbeing. Sunday 6th is our Family Eucharist with Rev’d Sheila. Sunday 13th is Eucharist with a Baptism and Sunday 20th is Morning Prayer with our Worship Leader, Linda Beynon. Our Christingle Service is going to be outdoors this time with fingers crossed and a prayer that the weather will be kind. It will take place on Thursday 24th at 5.30. The Midnight Mass will start at 11.30 though we will have to be careful about numbers.

Food Share continues between 9.15 – 9.45, Mon – Fri. It is given out from the South Porch of the church, with a donation of £1.00. Please bring a bag.

We hope you all have as healthy and peaceful a Christmas as is possible in these troubled times. God Bless.

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From the Methodist Minister

Dear Friends,

Christmas is not cancelled!

Do you have a favourite Christmas film or TV programme that you love to watch each year? In our house it is a tradition to always watch Elf with our children and grandchildren, and who can forget the vicar of Dibley and all those Christmas dinners? Another favourite of ours is the Good life Christmas special when Margot sends back her entire delivery because her Christmas tree is an inch too short! Faced with the prospect of having none of the luxury food and drink items she felt were needed she cancelled all her Christmas plans and said those unforgettable lines “Christmas has not been delivered” This year there is much talk in the media about Christmas being cancelled but of course this is not true. The way that we celebrate Christmas this year may be different, we pray that our churches may be open and we will be able to sing carols and listen to the familiar story, and that we can be together with our loved ones, but even if we cannot the reality of Christmas still exists.

The message of hope at Christmas shines forth brightly in the darkness of the world. It is the good news that God cares for the world He made and sent His Son to show His love for us. This Christmas the world needs a message of hope more than ever. I do pray that the current restrictions may be over and that we can all be together with our families. If Christmas has to be different this year maybe we can use the time to reflect on the real meaning of Christmas and the difference it can make in our lives. I would like to encourage you all to read again the first 2 chapters of Luke, and be thrilled again by the wonder of the first Christmas. Watch a carol service on television and sing your heart out even if no one can hear, maybe especially because no one can hear! Remember we are never alone God our loving heavenly Father cares for us and is always with us. God Bless You All This Advent Season.

Stephen Caddick

7 In a Mediterranean Refugee Camp - a report from nurse Mary Trevelyan of St Veep Having spent the last month on the Greek island of Samos working as a nurse with a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) providing medical care to the thousands of refugees living there, I have never been more aware of the immense privilege I have to hold a British passport. Spending time with patients and working closely with the community translators who lived in the camp it was so apparent that the only thing that separated us was my luck in having been born in a country that is not ravaged by conflict. There are so many stories I could share from the people I met; the pregnant woman who had travelled alone from Cameroon to escape the violent conflict there, the elderly Syrian lady struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, the unaccompanied Syrian boys who hung around our clinic every day to try and get some love and attention. One that stands out the most, though, is the Ghanaian man who had fled his home in fear of his life because he was gay. He showed me the scars from the attempts his neighbours had made to kill him, and told me he had been in the camp for almost three years, his asylum claims continually denied. He was out of money and had taken to looking for food in the bins in town. He said his hope was all gone. COVID 19 has severely affected the refugee community in Samos. NGOs that provide vital services have been heavily restricted from going into the camp, while the refugees are restricted from leaving. The conditions inside the camp are appalling. A friend of mine told me that he rarely slept because of the rats that kept coming back to his tent, and in the clinic we regularly treated patients with scabies, bed bug bites and impetigo - an infectious skin disease that runs rampant in the camp where hygiene facilities are so poor. Many of the children living there are malnourished and none are able to go to school. While I was there a huge fire ravaged the camp, destroying the makeshift homes of hundreds of refugees and taking the few possessions they had left with it. In conditions like this being able to get out even to go for a walk is so important for peoples’ mental health, especially as so many have experienced so much trauma; yet the camp residents are locked up like prisoners, only allowed out in tiny numbers, and often face abuse from the police. As Christians we are called to serve the poor and most vulnerable among us, and welcome the stranger. But we can’t all travel overseas to volunteer, so how can we help? We can use our positions of privilege to speak up for those who are marginalised, we can write to our MPs, donate to charities that support refugees and challenge the damaging rhetoric that dehumanises them.

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Refugee by Malcolm Guite

We think of him as safe beneath the steeple,

Or cosy in a crib beside the font,

But he is with a million displaced people

On the long road of weariness and want.

For even as we sing our final carol

His family is up and on that road,

Fleeing the wrath of someone else's quarrel,

Glancing behind and shouldering their load.

Whilst Herod rages still from his dark tower

Christ clings to Mary, fingers tightly curled,

The lambs are slaughtered by the men of power,

And death squads spread their curse across the world.

But every Herod dies, and comes alone

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Take that, Covid!

Nobody ran risks; everybody maintained social distancing; masks were worn; there was no central focus to attract a crowd. (Even the raffle was drawn separately.) And for two nights at Hallowe’en, Lerryn was lit up – physically, socially and emotionally – as individuals and family groups wandered informally around the green enjoying a display of pumpkins mounted in collaboration between the WI, the shop and the school. Adults and children had worked on their pumpkins at home, presenting them individually at the hall in advance of the event and receiving a long-lasting LED night-light in return for their entrance fee. The number and quality of the entries took us all by surprise. The variety was amazing. There were of course lots of traditional pumpkin faces, ranging in expression from chirpy to murderous, but we also saw: an immaculately carved cobweb, complete with spider; a really horrific white face, all the orange skin peeled away, with nails sticking out of it; and a ’Trumpkin’, complete with orange face, ‘shouty’ expression, golden autumn leaves for hair and two pudgy little hands. (He survived till Saturday night, appropriately, and then went off to become useful by providing nourishment for birds.) Everybody agreed that this should become an annual event, and no doubt it will. But it did something very special this year, bringing light and fun into a very dark time and demonstrating that we can still find ways to do such things if we take care and follow the rules.

Lerryn School and Nursery

Due to the Covid pandemic both our Harvest Festival and Remembrance Service have been online, and fundraising opportunities throughout 2020 have been very limited. So, with a reduced fundraising capacity we have created a new online shop which we have pleasure in sharing with you. All products have been designed by the pupils. To see and buy these unique products go to: https://lsafundraiser.org.uk Why not also find us on Facebook.

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My first year in Lerryn ……. It was suggested to me by someone who can be most persuasive that it might be of interest to relate something of my first year here, so, diffidently and with some reluctance, here goes.

I arrived at Redlake in August 2019, moving into a house which had been empty for some months following the death of the owner. It had previously been a bed and breakfast business which meant that it was in good order inside and out. The only aspects of decoration needing attention inside the house were (and remain still to be addressed) some red and blue walls downstairs and the rose patterned wallpaper in my bedroom which I think too girly. Can I say that these days? The garden needed a lot of clearing work which I was happy to do, and gradually it became more open and less cluttered. Water from a borehole was something I had not met before and I had visions of a bucket on a rope until the reality proved more sophisticated. Sewage disposal is by a bio-digester installation, a very mini system essentially like the works beside the river at Lostwithiel. While Redlake is not actually in the village of Lerryn I quickly decided that it was close enough to regard myself as being part of it and have spent the time here confirming what a very special place it is. I feel privileged seemingly to have been accepted. I have not come across anywhere like it in all my travels and would not want to be anywhere else. So what is there about the place which is so different? You could start with the river perhaps with its ever changing moods and aspects from the muddy deep channel at low water to the need to wade along the road to Ethy Woods at high water springs. Shorts and Crocs sandals best for negotiating this. I have seen the River Lerryn tidal bore at mid flood tide and know it exists, but have yet to find anyone who believes me. It was suggested at the shop that I should take more water with it! To be able to walk almost anywhere with- out let or hindrance is a real joy and an endless source of pleasure for my dog Jack and me. The history and the timeless quality of the landscape are a real presence which can be keenly sensed. Walking in the woods I am struck by the relative paucity of fallen trees lying on the ground - there are some, sure, but not as many as one might expect. How long does it take for a fallen tree to decompose and become part of the forest floor I wonder? No place is complete without its community and I have here found this to be something previously outside my experience. The ready acceptance and warmth of all the people I have met, many of whom I should like to consider friends, have been as much unexpected as appreciated and I now feel part of the place. Jack has many friends. There is much humour in evidence and one time I was talking about going home after the morning walk to a welcome dish of porridge, and the observation was made that the other person didn’t know what awaited him, but more probably it would be tongue and cold shoulder. In another conversation about age, it was decided that maturity was when you realised that another large whiskey would not be a good idea. From there it was decided that senility was when you forgot all you learned from maturity. A more controversial suggestion I heard was that men are weak but women are crafty! I should not close without paying tribute to Nick and Michelle and all at the shop. All through Lockdown One they stayed open and were like a rock around which the life of the village flowed. They tell me they do not anticipate doing anything different now and I am sure I speak for the whole place in saying how much we appreciate them. May we all stay safe. Paul, Treview

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The National Trust ranger team for South East is responsible for the management of Ethy Parkland and woods. With the bulk of our remit being coastal areas, our small team of 3 feel lucky to have the beauty and diversity of the ancient woodland under our care. I might be biased, but firmly believe some of the most beautiful mature trees in the area reside along the Creekside path.

Some of you might have met our conservation grazers in the wood pasture, the Dartmoor ponies. These guys help us manage vegetation levels so that scrub does not dominate the sward. The southern slopes of Ethy wood would have historically been grazed, so it’s great to be able to reinstate this ancient means of management and continue the project that started in 2011. Work is ongoing to gradually fell and remove the remaining Douglas Fir so as to increase the wood pasture area. In recent years we have milled the extracted timber and used it across the property, notably in the construction of compost loo’s at our campsite in .

Ethy is home to several nationally and internationally rare species of lichen. Veteran trees and standing deadwood in the parkland and wood pasture provide a nationally scarce and incredibly valuable habitat for these, and countless other species of invertebrates and mammals.

We have recently been working with Back from the Brink, a nationwide conservation project. They identified the valley area as significant for ancient and veteran trees and we were happy to support their work in monitoring bat numbers (predominantly barbastelle, Bechstein’s and noctule bats) and carry out invertebrate surveys. We hope to continue this work next year and look forward to receiving the results.

This autumn we have begun a programme of work to combat Ash Dieback, a tree disease caused by an airborne fungus. The spread of the disease will sadly see the demise of a significant number of our native Ash trees nationwide.

Unfortunately, this will mean a significant impact on some areas at Ethy, notably the plantation at Lerryn View. We are in the process of deciding the best ways to manage this threat and will endeavour to keep the community informed as we go forward. However we get there our goal will be to reinstate a diverse resilient woodland.

For any queries or additional information about work at Ethy and across the wider South East Cornwall property, please contact us at [email protected]

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CHRISTMAS A Big Thank You - GREETINGS

I wish to thank everyone who so kindly sent me cards, gifts and Paul and Rosemary Weatherhogg flowers for my 90th Birthday. Wish all their friends in the Lerryn area I had a very memorable day. a Very Merry Christmas

Thank you to all, and a Happy and

Healthy New Year

Margaret Hoskin (Lerryn)

A lot of the traditional ways of launching the festive season will not be happening this year. The Players cannot put on a panto in the Hall; the lovely, lively food and crafts fairs likewise are simply not possible. Nor is it possible to sing carols in the Hall. BUT we might be able to sing them out of doors on the green. We would have to arrange for social distancing, but we still have refreshments and our usual posh hamper raffle. Under the rules in force at the start of the current lockdown, we would also be able to sing, though we’d need to wear our masks and it will be a event than usual. We cannot make a full commitment to this until we get advice from the government at the end of lockdown, but the proposed date is Monday 21st December. As soon as we know what’s safe and legal, there will be information on the noticeboards, around the village and on the website. Please keep an eye open for posters and share the news with friends and neighbours.

Whatever happens, Happy Christmas from the Hall Committee, and a very much better 2021!

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16 ANN’S GALLERY CHOUGHS 15 Fore Street, Lostwithiel Choughscraftyupcycling

Tel 01208 872828 32 Fore Street, Lostwithiel It is so good to be open once again.

A special thank you to Sandra for stepping up to the plate. We are opening 10.00 – 4.00 ********************************* Monday – Saturday New in this month will be :- As well as having a shop full of crafts and furniture we are pleased to say that we stock A range of handbags - two wonderful furniture paints. fun socks for the ladies New Dunoon Mugs and the Annie Sloan Chalk Paint popular giant tea cup. Cornish Milk Mineral Paint Many new ranges of greetings cards. Please call in Do come in and check us out to learn more about these beautiful paints.

Opening times may have to be a bit fluid for now, Vicki 07801 953446 and Lita 07967 323903 So check the signs in the window www.choughscraftyupcycling.co.uk

Lerryn River Stores - open 7 days a week We stock logs, coal, kindling. Christmas gifts in stock. Baker Toms delivered daily as well as Blake’s bread and yummy cakes. Fresh fruit and veg delivered 6 days a week. We are also taking orders for home delivery as well special orders for Christmas Tel: 01208 368725

A message from Lostwithiel Surgery

We have now received the trivalen vaccines for the over 65 years age group (but not the "unders" at risk or the new cohort of 50s to 64s yet); the quadrivalent will not be sent to us until we have completed the over 65s. We ran two clinics on Saturday 14th November when appointments were pre-bookable.

Other clinics will be available soon.

17 18 19 Every Christmas

Every Christmas we retell this simple story Of the birth of our Saviour.

We retell and treasure it because it is both Mysterious and yet profound.

Our own lifetimes, measured in many Christmases Are too short to comprehend its full meaning.

Every Christmas we retell and in-dwell this story Because each year our faith falters and our power to love weakens.

The telling and in-dwelling renews our stock of hope and wonder so that, despite life’s sadnesses, we learn to sing again with joy.

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