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Bishop Hugh Nelson was consecrated at a masked service in the Chapel at Lambeth Palace, broadcast live on Facebook. Seen here with his family, during the service, and outside afterwards. Welcome to , Bishop Hugh!

Revd Kirsten and Mr Jamie Richards made it to the altar in July - VJ Day in Marazion— surprise visit from former curate, Revd Dom with Hannah and baby Karenza, in August— the joy of re-opening at Ludgvan Church was expressed with flowers by June Thompson

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Cover photo: by Annie Bungeroth www.anniebungeroth.com Rector: Assistant Curate: Canon Nigel Marns (Sunday, Thursday, Friday) Annie is a professional photographer based in St Hilary The Rectory Ludgvan Revd Linda Garthwaite 01736 740784 Sunday services page 12-13 07592 612740 [email protected] [email protected] parish news page 22—24 church contacts inside back page

the view is published by the churches of the Team Vicar: Parish Administrator: Mount’s Bay United Benefice for the parishes of St (Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Mrs Sandra Seymour Hilary, Ludgvan, Marazion and Perranuthnoe. Thursday) Parish Office; 01736 741067 If you wish to subscribe and have the view delivered to your home Fr Jeff Risbridger [email protected] every month, please contact the editor. The Vicarage, 7A North Road Murley Hall, Ludgvan Goldsithney TR20 9JY Office open from 10-12, Tues—Friday. Editor: Margaret Stevens 01736 602862 / 07711 019590 Please call to enquire about baptisms, [email protected] 01736 719090 [email protected] weddings and funerals; home visits; and Advertising: Julia Greig 01736 710577 Foodbank vouchers. Benefice Website: www.mountsbayub.com Facebook: mountsbayunitedbenefice Churchwardens Ludgvan Churchwarden Marazion Benefice QR code Printers: Sarum Graphics www.sarumgraphics.co.uk Mr Steve Clothier 741395 Mrs Julia Greig 710577 Maureen Edwards 740411

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‘That’s given me food for thought.’ It’s a common enough

expression, and an interesting idea, that thought needs feeding—as if family and pets and the world’s hungry welcome to the FOOD issue weren’t enough! But what do we feed thought on? your memorable When I was about 13, on holiday in the Cotswolds, I meals wandered into the church at Painswick (the one with 99 yew trees in the churchyard) and purchased a card printed with these words from St Paul’s letter to the Philippians—at the time, it was the poetry of them I loved. p7 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

It makes sense to feed our minds on good things, not least because what p9 goes in dictates what comes out. Our 5 year old granddaughter is at that food bank news fun stage of absorbing new words and phrases all the time. After I had made a rather un-pc comment to her while she helped me wash up, she P16 new -17 found an appropriate occasion to repeat it on all the remaining days of project at her visit: ‘A lady’s work is never done, is it, Granny?’ Trenow

What is absorbed into our thinking is what we have to offer. St Paul also wrote: Let the word of God dwell in you richly. food and drink made here To feed our thoughts in the most nourishing way, we may need to have a bit of a clear out first. October’s theme is ‘de-cluttering’. What have you either lost or found, as a result of some de-cluttering? Do let us know. P10-11 An Irish Grace Margaret Stevens [email protected] 01736 719090 Bless, O Lord, this food we are about to eat; and we pray You, view MOUNT’S BAY MAGAZINE O God, that it may be good for our body and soul; Editorial Team: the View in October and if there be any poor creature hungry or thirsty walking Liz Norbury (Ludgvan) The ‘de-cluttering’ issue Ann Hamlin (Marazion) along the road, send them into us that we can share the food Ed Oates (Perranuthnoe) copy by 15 September, please with them, just as You share your gifts with all of us. Carrie Baker (St Hilary) 30 3

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We commend into God’s care The Stores Trevelyan Farm Shop Cecil Brian Carnell, known as Brian, aged 80, of Lower Quarter, Ludgvan,who died on 29 May, and whose funeral service took place at Ludgvan Parish Church, on the A394 at Perran Cross Goldsithney followed by interment at Ludgvan Cemetery on 25 June 2020 Fresh fruit and vegetables 01736 710539 Ann Walding, aged 74, of Marazion,who died on 13 June, and whose funeral many grown locally Monday – Saturday Sunday service took place at Marazion Parish Church, followed by interment in Marazion Local meat and dairy products, 7.30am—6.30pm 8am — 4pm Cemetery on 26 June 2020 West Country cheeses Janice Angela Paget, aged 89, formerly of Marazion, who died on 11 June, Newspaper and grocery delivery and whose funeral service took place in Marazion Parish Church Crusty bread 7 days a week followed by cremation at Downs on 24 June, 2020 Specialist groceries and Pasties and bread baked daily wonderful chocolate Meat from Vivian Olds Anthony William Pyke, known as Tony, aged 49, of Goldsithney, Local eggs and produce who died on 23 June, and whose cremation service took place at Treswithian Downs on 7 July 2020. Open every day All the Cornish gins

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For many, life was reduced to a Communion with you, and it has Gill and John Wigham from Leeds, who hope soon to grim reality of being confined to our been a great privilege to once be moving to Mount’s Bay permanently, would like to homes, listening to the coronavirus again offer the bread of life, the say how much they have appreciated joining in our death toll every day, watching TV Holy Communion, to those who online services, helping them to feel they are already part of the community here. at night and relying on deliveries of have returned. Fr Jeff and I have food. This way of life witnessed many very soon palled. moving scenes as people have been able After a while many of us to receive Holy discovered that we need Communion once much more ‘life’ than the more. As Jesus said ‘we apocalyptic atomised cannot live on bread scenario forced upon us. alone', we need the We need much greater real, spiritual food and a collective sustenance than that. That is why I spiritual life, a Christian was absolutely determined to get all [email protected] community, to sustain us too. Real the churches open again for worship food for our onward journey. on the earliest possible date. From 1700 until now Marazion Hotel offers lovely rooms and I pray that all your families have With my wife Penny, Fr Jeff and great food and drink to local residents and kept well through this gruelling Gary and Churchwardens working visitors in its perfect location. time. I look forward to very hard, ploughing through acres worshipping and celebrating with We look forward to welcoming you to the of ever-changing legislation, we all of you again in the coming Marazion Hotel very soon! 01736 710334 were able to realise this objective months, and having the and all our Churches returned to opportunity to share stories, worship on 4 July. We have held a struggles and laughter too: to Communion Service every Sunday come together once again as a holy in each of our four churches for the community under God and fed by past two months. God. Through the wilderness of God Bless, Nigel lockdown, I fasted from Holy

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your view in view in Perranuthnoe and Goldsithney 1973. Barrie the cooked rations. Since our church buildings re-opened for private proposed to me Balancing trays of prayer in June and services of worship in July, a in an Indian potatoes and small group of volunteers has generously given restaurant in containers of boiled up time to supervise the church and complete a memorable meal Shrewsbury. It pork and relevant visitor data in case any ‘test and trace’ was a complete vegetables, we situation should arise. These volunteers have also shock, but happy ever after—even tried to make our way back. Too cleaned the church, produced floral displays, and though I did have to pay the bill! soon, food was flying everywhere. Every Thursday sanitised the building after use. Many thanks to Dee Holland, Goldsithney Below, our messmates were seated (current guidelines all of them for this invaluable work. at table, knives and forks at the permitting) At a Filipino wedding in Borneo, As the church has only been open on Sundays ready. ‘Sorry, guys,’ we said, ‘your 10.30 - 12.00 to demonstrate the generosity of and Thursdays, a midweek Holy Communion lunch is with the mermaids.’ It was Drop-in for coffee in the bride’s father, the head of each Service has been offered at 10am each Thursday, the memorable meal that never the Church Room buffalo slaughtered for the but sadly, given the number of occasions where was. Michael Leach, Ludgvan wedding feast was impaled on a no one has attended, this does not appear to spike, for the admiration of the I was 11, with my family in Venice, have been meeting a need in our community. It wedding guests. Unfortunately, the at one of those canal-side has therefore been discontinued. resulting decay in the tropical heat restaurants covered by a vine, with We are very much hoping to start our weekly made this a particularly memorable red-checked table cloths. The menu ‘drop-in for coffee’ on Thursday mornings, from meal. was in Italian so I had no idea what 27 August. It will be lovely to see everyone who Mary Thorniley, Perranuthnoe to choose. As my father grew values the chance of a chat in a friendly group— impatient, I put my finger on a line Aboard the frigate, there was no suitably distanced of course. and said ‘I’ll have that.’ Too late, I canteen. A messmate and I warm pittas filled with was told I’d ordered octopus. I Take-away 5-8pm prepared the food for our mess, waited apprehensively but cheered Friday: Outside St Piran’s homemade hot falafels, taking it up various ladders to be up when the waiter brought what Hall Goldsithney hummus, salads, cooked in the galley on the upper looked like a plate of chips. Deep Saturday: Marazion dressings; or with deck. The weather was worsening Community Centre fried tentacles— marinated chunks of into a mighty storm; the ship was delicious! Or contact us to have a chicken breast; vegetarian, pitching and rolling in the heavy delicious Middle Eastern vegan and chicken Carrie Baker, lafafacatering.co.uk seas. At midday, we climbed to the meal delivered to your door Lowertown tagines rain-lashed upper deck to collect il polpo fritto 24 9

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Rabbits are not keen on chard – which is just The day came which we had all been as well, as it is one of the crops growing in a praying and longing for: we opened the new market garden in a spectacular setting church and welcomed all to come in - to above Trenow Cove, between Marazion and look round, pray, or join us in worship. Perranuthoe. The three-quarter acre plot, At our Sunday services, we have missed where camomile, borage and marigolds singing together, but have enjoyed live flourish alongside carrots, courgettes and 25 September 6-8pm music and some solos from Penny, Julia and French beans, has attracted not just the local Revd Annie Henry Chris from the Chapel, plus recorded choirs. bunny population, but also butterflies, bees Holland will be Having the church open for a few hours and slow worms. launching her new twice a week has been much appreciated by ‘We have all manner of creatures here,’ says book of paintings and many. Thanks to all who help by ‘church Mark Charlton, who manages the garden. poetry, called Back to sitting’ and welcoming visitors. the Garden, in the ‘The presence of flowers among vegetables is Our treasurer has been grateful to those church. The exhibition a thing of beauty, and insects love them.’ The who were able to get their weekly offerings will run until 5 flowers and herbs have also been chosen for to her while the church was closed. If you October. All Saints their usefulness to humans: nearly all of them have been saving the offering until you are edible. ‘I’ve always been interested in the Church will be open all could bring it, it would be a great help now. relationship between people and plants, and day every day while Eva is also waiting to send off the moneys more broadly, how we can live in a simpler way.’ the exhibition is on. raised for the Lent Appeal, when everyone has had a chance to hand theirs in. Mark studied for an MSc in ethnobotany, and gained practical experience through the organisation World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms At 8am on 15 August, a commemoration (WWOOF). When he was offered the opportunity to set up a market service was held at the War Memorial, to garden, it was, he says, a dream come true – but also a challenge. ‘The mark VJ Day and the end of the war in field had been used for growing cauliflower and potatoes for 25 years, Japan. and the soil was dead. I had to use fertiliser before I could plant anything. It was such a lovely surprise, one Sunday in I now make compost tea – nettle and comfrey - which we feed to the August, to see Revd Dom, Hannah and plants. The more you look after the soil, and feed it, the better produce beautiful baby Karenza, who joined our you get.’ Communion service while having a short holiday nearby. The garden is certified as ‘organic in conversion’ by the Soil Association,

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We are delighted to be making plans for and Mark uses a ‘no-dig’ system. ‘Some people say turning the soil is meetings and social occasions again. The almost as bad as using pesticides, as you’re destroying what you don’t Sewing Group is resuming. And we hope the know is there. I just rake the compost into the soil, and then plant.’ Teddy Bears will bring their human companions to a picnic in the Rectory Garden The market garden is part of the wider Trenow Fields project, which is on 6 September. All Government guidelines taking shape on a 20-acre site rented from the National Trust. Farm 3 September 2pm will be observed. manager Philip Kadner explains: ‘Our main aims are to grow herbs for the Sewing Group, Hall wellbeing and cosmetic market, and also grain and pulses –such as lentil If you would like to, please bring your excess and buckwheat – for drying. This first year, it’s all about finding what 5 September 11am garden produce for others to buy, when the plants will thrive here. Marriage of Richard church is open on Thursdays and Sundays. Sergeant and Julia ‘This used to be a smallholding for a family who had lived here for many There is an item on page 14 about a study Harvard group starting in October, meeting on Zoom. generations. It would have had everything the family needed, including 6 September 1pm or joining in by phone. Please let Will or the grain crops to make bread. That’s why having a market garden here fits in Teddy Bears Picnic in Rector know if you would like to give this a beautifully. But we need to make it financially possible, in the world we the Rectory Garden try, as you will need an invitation to access it. live in now. You can’t barter with the village blacksmith anymore.’ When Mark took on the market garden, the plan was to focus on selling in view in St Hilary to high-end restaurants. ‘What we’re doing is considered niche, so it attracts a high price. We can’t afford to Since the churches re-opened, the number of people supply farm shops. But I came here just regularly attending St Hilary has been the largest seen in before lockdown, and restaurants were recent years and, on some Sundays, in the benefice. This has closed, and although they have re-opened, greatly encouraged us all - especially those supervising the they have less capacity than before. I don’t church on Wednesdays and Sundays and those who have want things rotting in the fields, so we’ve been cleaning and sanitising it ready for services. Thank you been working with charities which help feed to all who have given their time so generously. local, low-income families. We can’t just sell This year’s St Hilary Pilgrimage for the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary to hipster restaurants – we want to feed was just absorbed into our usual Sunday morning Eucharist. However, on communities as well as tourists. I now want Sunday 15th August 2021, the new Bishop of St Germans, The Rt Revd to find funding – maybe from the National Hugh Nelson, has kindly agreed to preside and preach at a special United Lottery – so that we can do that.’ Benefice service at 11am at St Hilary. Put the date in your diary now! Mark was talking to Liz Norbury 22 11

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Sunday 6 September Summer Harvest Pie from The Copper Spoon St Hilary Marazion Ludgvan Perranuthnoe

1 large onion finely sliced 9.45 Holy 11.15 Holy 500g Cornish new potatoes sliced Communion Communion 500g carrots sliced 250g broccoli or cauliflower in florets 1 cob of sweet corn 1 tablesp. finely chopped chives 4.00 Holy 4.00 Holy 1 tablespoon vegetable stock Communion Communion 300g Cornish yarg diced with Baptism In a large pan gently fry the onion in 1 pack of filo pastry 25ml of the oil with nutmeg, salt and 200ml Cornish double cream pepper for 10 mins. Cornish sea salt Psalm 90. Hebrews 4. Matthew 19. Add in the potatoes and carrots, A pinch of white pepper sweat with the onions; then barely 16-30 12-17 12-13 Scrape of nutmeg cover them with water from a 50mls Cornish rapeseed oil recently boiled kettle and add the Online services each Sunday can be found at www.mountsbayub.com stock. Cook the veg until tender and steam speciality coffee, home made cakes the broccoli or cauliflower. When the Sunday 13 September seasonal, local vegetarian food vegetables are cooked and the stock to eat in or take away has reduced, add in the sweet corn. St Hilary Marazion Ludgvan Perranuthnoe Brush a large pie dish with oil and season with salt and pepper. Layer 5 sheets of filo pastry in the dish,

9.30 Holy 10.00 Holy seasoning each layer. Sprinkle half of the cheese into the pie. Communion Communion Drain the vegetables, retaining the stock, and add to the pie; then

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Wednesdays at 10am Holy Communion Audrey writes: 11 August 2020 NGOs are doing what they can, from sweeping up glass to handing at All Saints Marazion and St Hilary The faces of our friends are etched out food. Mount’s Bay Christian Climate Action with deep sadness but lurking Thursdays at 10am Holy Communion beneath is anger and frustration. The resignation of the government at Ludgvan is not really a cause for Stephanie, a young celebration as, without There will be no midweek Communion colleague, was major changes to the Services at Perranuthnoe in September bleeding from facial whole political process, injuries received as learning together it is likely any new she was driving near government will suffer the blast, making her Every month from October onwards Ludgvan the same problems as way through the Church will be running a Home Group on Zoom. the previous one. death and carnage on William Morris has gladly agreed to host it. The Meanwhile, we will see the streets. ‘room’ will be open from 6pm, the session will last many weeks of from 6.30—7.30 and afterwards we can chat over ‘Our flat is Audrey preparing food for wrangling with little the homeless coffee (sorry, you will have to provide your own). unhabitable,’ said an ability to take important Those without a computer can also join in via their telephone. older couple from our church. and much needed decisions. Their goods were stolen, and they Meanwhile the number of cases of If you would like to take part, please contact William Morris on don’t want to return. [email protected] or ring 740634 and he will send you the link for the Covid19 more than doubled in the Habib, a fellow Rotarian of first meeting on 7 October. If you haven’t used Zoom before, William will last week and the death toll Colin’s, is currently in ITU in a help you get started. You are also very welcome to contact Canon Nigel continues to climb. coma battling for his life after at [email protected] and 740784. Please pray for: sustaining head injuries. The theme of the Home Group meetings and the those who have lost their homes Meanwhile the clean up goes Autumn Study Series will be ‘Encounters with Jesus’, and loved ones; on. Outside of the port area, looking at people Jesus met in the Gospel of John. medical personnel; nearly all the work is being done people who are in places of by volunteers with almost no responsibility; official coordination. Churches, Perranuthnoe Home Group Watch this space in the October issue! the Church as it seeks to comfort other faith groups and multiple the distressed and broken hearted.

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Colin and Audrey Gibson, serving with CMS in Beirut From the forbidden fruit in Genesis to the marriage supper of the Lamb in and linked with the parishes of Ludgvan and Revelation, the Bible is full of food. There are feasts, there are famines. Perranuthnoe, write: ‘We believe it is the right time to And there is our daily bread. end our service with LSESD and anticipate leaving later What must it have been like to be at that hastily assembled Passover meal, this year. Many talented Lebanese could take our before the Hebrews fled from Egypt? The excitement, the strangeness, and places and with jobs in short supply, we think it an the uncertainty of where their next meal was coming from... appropriate time to move on. Apart from our plans to return to the UK for visits, we do not know what will come next. We do not want to retire .. which turned out to be flakes of manna on the ground and just yet so are happily exploring various options. We value your prayers.’ quail raining on them. Day after day, manna and quail—free food, but just imagine plucking all those little birds! viewfinder Joseph was sold back into slavery in Egypt where, guided by God into good housekeeping, he was able to save first the Egyptians and then his own family from starvation during a 7-year famine.

The prophet Elijah was waited on by ravens. Then he begged her last loaf from the poor widow of Zarephath, whose hospitality was rewarded by hamburger couscous moussaka ceviche miraculously constant refills of her flour barrel and oil jar. John The Baptist wasn’t one for fine dining, but on a diet of honey and locusts, he challenged many of his contemporaries to repent and prepare to meet the promised Messiah…

..who turned up one day, in the familiar form of his cousin Jesus from Nazareth. And this Jesus, who enjoyed a wedding with good wine, and nasi goreng goulash bulgogi haggis stretched a picnic lunch into a satisfying meal for thousands, shared his last Match the food to the country Passover supper with his closest friends… Japan—Greece—Italy— ...and instituted a simple meal of bread and wine, Scotland—Hungary—Indonesia— by which his followers still remember and receive Algeria—USA—Korea—Ecuador him today. And then, after barbecuing some fish

lasagne sushi on the beach, he left to prepare a great welcome,

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locally produced food and drink

On our doorstep in Longrock sits an award-winning If you love the colour and flavours of Cornish distillery, Pocketful of Stones, making Middle Eastern food, you’ll be ‘handcrafted spirits - distilled with delighted to know there is a supplier passion’. pocketfulofstones.co.uk based in St Hilary. ‘The great thing paints a vibrant picture of a company about Middle Eastern food’, says who combine experience of working Lindsay, who runs Lafafa Catering, ‘is in hospitality in Durban, Belfast, that it is easy to satisfy meat and fish eaters, vegetarians and vegans alike.’ Budapest and Greece, then meeting Lindsay loves to cater for weddings and large parties, but also offers a home up in before West Cornwall delivery service. She has a mobile kitchen to take to events such as festivals, and beckoned. Inspired by the wildness of the in the past few months this has become a great landscape, the flora and climate, they new takeaway outlet for the Goldsithney area have produced a range of spirits, from (Fridays 5-8 outside St Piran’s Hall) and in their original Caspyn Cornish Dry Gin, to Ansom Damson Gin, a Marazion (Saturdays 5-8 at the Community Morveren Absinthe inspired by the legend of the Mermaid of Centre). Why not give yourself a treat in and many more. You can visit the distillery for a tour to see September—the menu is always available on the operation for yourself, and sample a taste. They have an on-line shop and Lafafa's facebook page. lafafacatering.co.uk the website provides a list of stockists, including many local outlets.

When you want to celebrate a also based in birthday or anniversary with a cake Longrock, sells shaped like a tractor or a snooker ‘Extremely Fresh Real Cornish Crab!’ table, Spiderman or St Michael’s Fishing out of Harbour the Mount, Kenneggy Cakes is the place Rowse family have been trading for over to go. Tamsyn Stevens trained in 50 years: working the fishing grounds off bakery, cake decorating and patisserie the coast of West Penwith. The catch is at Cornwall College and worked at caught in a sustainable and ethical way, the Sail Loft on the Mount before setting up her own and logged giving traceable details of fishing vessels and catch dates. business. Tamsyn loves the artistic challenge of creating therealcornishcrabcompany.co.uk describes their fishing fleet, methods of almost anything in cake form, and the satisfaction of catching, the handpicking and selection of their produce and much more. playing her part in customers’ special occasions. She uses Suppliers to both local and international outlets they have an on-line shop and high-quality ingredients, mostly locally sourced. Contact you can get up-to-date news on facebook. Tamsyn on 01736 761945 or via her Facebook page. 16 17