PARISH NEWS 65p VERYAN AND RUAN LANIHORNE AUGUST 2015 A glorious day for Veryan’s church fête The sun shone, the people came, there was music, there were stalls of every kind, a raffle, cream teas, venison burgers, games and sideshows... and the day raised an amazing £1465! More photos on page 9 SATURDAY 1 AUGUST Cream teas for Ruan church Glebe House Ruan 2.30-4.30 pm Saturday 15 August COLIN, SUZANNE & CHLOE Veryan PFA Barn Dance Churchtown Farm WELCOME YOU ALL TO Look out for posters!! The New Inn Flower Festival 20 th to 23rd August 10am to 5pm Veryan St Symphorian Church Veryan A festival of flowers interpreting Enjoying an enviable reputation for Cornish Trades and Traditions. a great atmosphere, friendly service All welcome ! All donations to Church funds and delicious home-cooked food 6 pm on Sunday 23rd: parish Evensong DIECI SALFIELD DUO Recital in Veryan church Renaissance duets on classical guitar and 10-course lutar Friday 28 August at 7.30 pm Adults £10, under 16s £5 RESERVATIONS & INFORMATION 10872 501618 RUAN LANIHORNE PARISH CHURCH Patronal festival tel: 01872 501 362 Choral Evensong with Roseland Churches’ Choir Sunday 30 August at 6 pm ALL WELCOME August 2015 page 1 2015 67 th August 2015 page 2 Although they are not cheap to When we lost our beloved Stake winter brassicas and earth IN YOUR buy as plants they can last for dogs, Henry and Clyde, we up sprouts and broccoli that may over 50 years providing single or planted a magnolia stellata, fall over in the winds. GARDEN more than double blooms every they were both stars and I year. speak to them every time I If you have empty space in the this month pass this magnificent shrub. veg bed sow green manures , Planted with roses a peony bed I also think of Henry every fodder radish or mustard to give a can be in flower with both for time I pick runner beans; he natural fertility to the soil for next My time this month will be weeks. And there are really only adored them, but only the season spent not so much in my garden two things to remember for suc- young fresh ones. If I gave but certainly amongst flowers! cess. Firstly they must not be him one that was getting old Clear spent crops so that old For the first time in 30 years we planted too deeply. If you only he spat it. Not good enough leaves don’t encourage pest and are staging a Flower Festival in get leaves and no flowers dig for me or indeed him! disease and look out for red spi- Veryan church. them up in the autumn and plant der mite and greenfly in the [see the feature on page 9 - them nearer the surface. A garden is so many things to greenhouse and caterpillars on Ed.] so many people, friends and your greens. Secondly make sure they have family. Now to more mundane garden- good drainage and feed them Keep mowing and weeding and ing matters. I recently provided before flowering and after. Enough of this sentiment, you find time to spend just appreciat- and arranged flowers for a wed- Simple? have jobs to do! ing what you have achieved this ding in Mevagissey. The pre- season. dominant flowers were peonies In this complete re-design of our Sow next spring’s cabbages , and I have to say I was strug- Finally, I thought I was seeing garden that we are currently un- leaf beet and spring onions gling with the concept as they things. (No, not the floriferous dertaking we have been re- are dreadful flowers to use as hydrangeas in the Churchyard minded of friends and family Pinch out the flowers on cut material. If they are picked that have beautifully defied the many times. If someone gives herbs so they keep producing too early they sit like bullets Grigg hedge cutter!) No, this was you a plant you tend to remem- leaves (or use them in floral and will not open, if they are in Veryan Green. There was Gil- ber it well. arrangements, turgid parsley left too long before use they bert sitting high above the road, flower is superb! open too quickly and depending moving slowly on his shiny trac- I have a holly tree which came on the heat their opening is in tor. The big bucket was tilted on from one of my Dad’s cuttings Harvest garlic, onions and any event erratic. the front, Margery and Desiree and a monkey puzzle that came shallots, dry them keeping the were laughing behind him and from seed from his tree in Sutton best for the Show next month We got away with it and the within that bucket? Yes, yes - a Coldfield. I also have a tree lily displays were superb and it lobster pot! Why? that my mother in law gave to Keep taking out side shoots really made me appreciate this me. As both he and she are no of tomatoes , pick regularly flower. I have several varieties The answer may be seen at the longer with us they are constant and feed. in the garden and the Bride’s Flower Festival……. reminders of both of them and mother said she had never been Pinch out the tips of runner give me great pleasure and make successful growing them. We beans; encourage them now me smile. should be growing more, par- to make pods not new growth. NB ticularly the herbaceous varie- ties, as they love our neutral And now for something completely different… soil. THE PORTLOE PIN-UP CALENDAR! Sheree Philp writes: For those of you who have not heard, our community has Before even selling a calendar we have raised over £2,500 - a come together to produce a male pin-up calendar for 2016 huge thank you to everyone who has given time, money, raffle featuring local lads and our stunning scenery. All proceeds prizes, ideas and encouragement - will go to MIND, the charity which tries to make sure that we truly appreciate it! anyone with a mental health problem gets the support they The calendar should be out in the shops and at various need and the respect they deserve. venues around the Roseland at the beginning of August. We are hoping to maximise on the visitor trade as it would Although everyone is volunteering their time, including our make a lovely memento to take home, and would also be ideal photographer, Helen Gad (of Mad Spaniel Photography) as Christmas gift. And of course for us locals it will be a won- initially we needed to raise funds to cover the printing costs. derful reminder of just how lucky we are, not to mention pro- Thanks to our local businesses which each sponsored a viding a reason to smile on those dark winter days! page, a highly successful quiz night at the Ship Inn plus a This is such a good cause, and it has been a fantastic project very few generous donations, we have far exceeded our for our tiny village, proving to us that although permanent resi- expectations. dent numbers are down, the heart is still there beating strong. If you would like to follow our progress you can find us at www.facebook.com/PortloePinupCalendar August 2015 page 3 camp commander chose to tell I decided that these accounts We have moved on, but I be- Letter from them. must be in my book both to lieve we must remember, I honour those men but also to think, for two reasons. Firstly, Lincoln For the last year I have been offer to my readers a whole for those men and women who researching a book, War on picture, warts and all. gave up their lives and endured VJ Day at seventy Wheels, about the mechanisa- so much for our sake. Those I tion of the Army in WW2. It is A short while ago I came upon have read about weren’t soldiers It was all over; for many it had about the many thousand sol- a piece on television about two been over since 8 May when by choice. Many were store- diers, ATS and civilians who old men, one a former PoW and men or mechanics or clerks. Victory in Europe was declared. worked in the Royal Army Ord- the other one of his guards. We They were caught up in a mael- I remember being in a tiny nance Corps, my father’s Corps, saw them shaking hands and strom; they had been in the church in the Vale of Belvoir in and who were responsible for smiling. The former PoW said wrong place at the wrong time. Leicestershire in May 2005 and giving the army its wheels. As quite simply, ‘you could go on They conducted themselves talking about Victory in Europe part of this I looked hard at the hating until you die, but what is with enormous bravery and dig- in the sermon I preached. After war in the Far East. My re- the point?’ nity. We must never forget the service, when most people searches took me to the archives It made me think hard about them. had left, I asked the churchwar- of the Imperial War Museum whether I should change my den for his memories of VE where I read accounts of the fall mind and, in the interests of The second reason is that it was, Day. and surrender of Singapore and reconciliation, remove the of- as I said earlier, human beings Hong Kong and then the first fending passages.