Bridestowe & Sourton Extra Community News and Events July 2020 Edition 218 The Joint Neighbourhood Plan: Moving The GREAT Bridestowe Community towards the home straight Cookbook! As Covid-19 has knocked us all sideways and The Bridestowe and Sourton with our usual planned fundraising events Neighbourhood Plan working unable to go ahead.. FoBS are looking at a group are delighted that the NEW fundraising initiative where everyone plan has now reached (not just the children!) in the community can Regulation 16. At this stage get INVOLVED! WDBC consult for a six week period, with other statutory Friends of Bridestowe School (FoBS) are bodies to determine if the plan meets all the calling on Children / Parents / Carers / Government regulations, known as the ‘Basic Teachers / community groups / businesses / Conditions.’ LOCAL RESIDENTS to simply share a recipe! Also during this period, 28th June-10th August It’s that easy! 2020, people who live, work or carry on We all have a family favourite when it comes business in the neighbourhood area can to mealtimes - It might be Granny’s fish pie or submit comments. (For those who would like Daddy’s fajitas... so what’s yours? to do so, full details are on the Public Notice To get involved is really straight forward: on page 3.) 1 recipe per person What happens next? The submitted email your recipe / child’s recipe to: Neighbourhood Plan will undergo a formal [email protected] examination by an independent Planning Ideally typed out & including name (age if Expert appointed by West Devon Council and you wish to disclose / more so for children!) if it successfully passes this rigorous scrutiny If you wish to send Photos / drawings of the will be subject to a local referendum of all recipe please upload as a pdf/jpg doc. within adult residents in the two parishes. the same email If a majority of those who vote say yes to the Please SHARE with family / friends / Plan, it becomes part of planning law. This neighbours! The rest is down to us at FoBS to means that all proposals for new create our GREAT 2020 Bridestowe developments in Bridestowe or Sourton Cookbook... oh and for you lovely folks to parishes will be required by law to comply purchase! Closing date: 17th July 2020 with the Neighbourhood Plan, which will have the same legal authority as the Local Authority Plan. Sourton Roundup page 10 It has taken a number of years to reach this stage but the potential benefits to the parishes of having a ‘made’ neighbourhood plan are substantial, giving greater control over future development, ensuring it reflects Movie Watch pages 22-23 the priorities of those who live in the area. Contents after Dad got back from the pub. After dinner Bridestowe PC news page 6 Dad did penance for being late by washing up Howard Barkell pages 7-8 and earned a snooze in the armchair. Word puzzle page 9 The afternoons dragged by as we looked forward to the new Top 20 on the radio at Sourton Round up page 10 7.00. The new Top 20 set the tone for the week Bridestowe Village Hall page 11 to come, which song would be No.1? It was so New advertisers page 13 important we would try and record the songs Fairtrade Group page 15 off of the radio with a microphone and a Riverside Stores page 16 cassette recorder. The rest of the afternoon Recycling centre page 17 was spent just hanging around with friends at various hanging out spots around the village; History in the making page 19 the bus stop, the playing field, and a hill, News from Lydford Gorge page 26 which we referred to as up-on- hill. Eventually The last laugh page 36 one of us got a car and then we might drive to another village where everything was also shut but we could hang around a different bus stop or playing field. Once we had left school and started work The Vicar writes... Sundays took on a different hue, not so much Lockdown has been a strange experience in a day of boredom but a day of rest when you many ways but it has had its plus side. It has set your own agenda. A day of refreshing. reminded me of Sundays when I was growing Lockdown has felt a bit like that, we’ve realised up. Sundays were to me, the most boring day how fast life has become and how much we of the week. Nothing opened, there was no have needed to slow down and rest. Sunday football or cricket, nobody went I liked the suggestion of the French Archbishop anywhere, nothing. On top of that the Éric de Moulins-Beaufort who said the recent prospect of going back to school on Monday pandemic shutdown had shown both the morning hung like a black cloud over the planet and its people needed “a real day of whole day. Not that lockdown has been Sunday rest” and suggested France designate particularly boring but the fact that everything one Sunday a month as a locked-down day. has been closed and there has been very little He said the 10 weeks of “suspended time” had traffic, well in the first few weeks anyway. made people realise how modern life had led Sundays were a day of rest, the seventh day. to “the constant acceleration of time”. Everyone who could had the day off, Sunday “Many have heard the birds again and have mornings were for lie-ins and being lazy. As been able to observe the arrival of spring like kids we were reluctantly marched off to church never before in their lifetime.” Admitting it was in the morning, as if the day wasn’t boring probably “a waking dream”, he suggested a enough we had to endure an hour of sitting monthly “real Sunday rest … for people, but without speaking except to drone a few also for cities (and) the Earth.” unintelligible psalms and utter the odd Amen. Great idea but suspect ‘money’ will get in the At least we met up with a few folk at church, way of it being taken seriously. the older ones would say ‘My aren’t you Adrian Brook growing’, or ‘Aren’t you like your father’, and most embarrassing of all ‘Have you started Lunar cycle for courting yet?’ Usually there were a couple of July mates and some girls to walk home with as New moon 20th compensation. First quarter 27th Dad would pop down the pub for a pint before Full moon 5th Sunday dinner, under strict orders to be ‘back Last quarter 13th by one’ We made an attempt at doing a bit of school homework before laying the table ready for dinner which was usually about 1.30 BaSE Page 2 BaSE Page 3 Okehampton Library BaSE deliverer needed for Station Road. Update 18/6/20 Is there someone who would be prepared to deliver the 16 copies of BaSE up Station Road? I Starting w/c22nd June for two weeks, we will be will drop the bundle off to you. Many thanks to offering a limited book delivery service in Ray Rattenbury for his past efforts and we Okehampton - we’re aiming this really at people hope he and Mary will be very happy in their who, for various reasons, might struggle to get to new home in Okehampton. us even when we start reopening, so if you or Please contact me if you could take on the anyone you know might benefit from this, task. If a volunteer doesn’t come forward I will message or email us, or phone us on 01837 just leave extra copies at Riverside Stores. 52805 next week when staff will be in the library. 01837 861157 From w/c 6th July, we’ll be running a ‘Choose and ——————————— Collect’ service, where you will be able to contact Postponement us as above either to ask for specific books The planned clean up day at St Bridget’s on the (search the library catalogue and filter to 18th July arranged by FOSB has been Okehampton library) or for a selection of books, which we will then arrange for you to collect cancelled. Further dates will be organised once from the library at a specific time. conditions change. A little while after this we hope to be able to welcome you back into the library for both books For sale and PC use, with social distancing measures in 2 seater settee, 2 armchairs, 5 place - this of course will depend on government months old. guidelines so please look out for more info Colour: light brown/ mushroom nearer the time. Offers. Please message us, or call us next week for more 07544 392 590 information, we look forward to seeing you all soon! Contact details: email:[email protected] .uk Please look out for details of our revised service and opening times on our Facebook page. (See a colour image of the furniture in BaSE online via Bridestowe’s website. AY) BaSE Page 4 Bridestowe Parish Council Mr P.J. Daniels. Clerk to the Council 4 Trescote Way Bridestowe Okehampton Devon EX20 4QB Tel: 01837 861244 Email: [email protected] BY-ELECTION FOR COUNCILLOR Date of notice: 17th June 2020 A by-election to fill a vacancy on Bridestowe Parish Council will be held if within 14 days of the date of this Notice (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day and Bank Holidays) ten electors from the Parish give notice in writing to the Returning Officer requiring that such an election be held.