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Village Activities Hire of Rooms (All held in the chapel) Penpoll Methodist Church WI: 2nd Monday in the month Meetings, functions, parties etc 2.00pm: Cynthia Young 865433 contact Bridget 862662 Coffee Spot: 1st Friday in the month, 10.00—11.30 am Mobile Library Coffee, cakes, preserves etc Saturdays—fortnightly Lunch Club: one Wednesday Penpoll Bridge: 14.20 to 14.35 each month, dates vary. Con- Point Green: 14.40 to 15.10 tact Betty 863902 / Bridget Home Library Service 862662 Angela Spurgin, Library ROCKs—Right On Church 0800 032 2345 (freephone) for Kids: every Sunday enquiryexpress@.gov.uk Village 10.30—11.30 am in the school Bus Service rooms Sept—June School days only YOGA —alternate Thurs Trolver Penpoll 7.30pm Contact Diane 863989 8.35 am 8.36 am 4.01 pm 4.02 pm www.truronian.co.uk View Parish Office 01872-273453 Opening Hours Monday 9.30 am—12.30 pm Corlink Wednesday 1.30 pm—4.30 pm Taxi service to nearest Friday 9.30 am—12.30 pm appropriate bus route At other times please leave a Tel: 0845 8505556

The Village Magazine for Point & Penpoll message — 863333. POINT QUAY ASSOCIATION: From Penpoll Methodist Church Billy Trebilcock 864415 Kerbside Recycling www.pointquay.org.uk Alternate Tuesdays Issue No 19 • Cans, paper, cardboard, foil RESTRONGUET CREEK (13 December) SOCIETY: Antony Lane 870123 Christmas 2005

• Light Garden Waste (20 December) Village View Editors

Ewan McClymont 862624 Website Tez Smith 865413 www.penpollchapel.ukonline.co.uk Gerald Nicholls 862875

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12 grandparents resent the amount they Message from... feel they are expected to spend on chil- November, Remembrance, dren who already have their own ver- Advent, December, Christmas, help! sion of Toys’R’Us within their bedroom Own up. When the first person mentions walls. Christmas isn’t your first response a feel- So why don’t we, this year, do ing of dread? Whether you’ve got to something different? Let’s cut the prepare a meal which, on a normal day, amount of money we spend on pre- would probably feed the whole road, sents that will soon be out of fashion, ALMOND’S while at the same time exuding an air of soon be far from ‘cool’ or ‘wicked’ or Maintenance MOBILE NEWSAGENTS bonhomie to the disparate strands of whatever the latest word is, and buy a Repairs TEL. 01872 870477 goat or a can of worms or something Renovations your family, or you’ve got to struggle Extensions across half the country to be with people else that the charities such as Christian NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES with whom you’ve nothing in common Aid are suggesting. Let’s enable a fam- DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR ily in a Third World country to have WE PROVIDE A FRIENDLY AND but a shared surname, wouldn’t you EFFICIENT SERVICE—WHATEVER THE really much rather be at home doing some clean water to drink. Let’s invite WEATHER, 364 DAYS OF THE YEAR something normal and un-seasonal? Or the awkward aunt to a meal more fre- Tel: TRURO 862361 quently than just the once a year on ST. DAY 820695 PLEASE CALL TO DISCUSS YOUR you would if the entire Western world REQUIREMENTS hadn’t conspired to suggest that the only Christmas Day, and get to know her a way to celebrate the Christian message bit better, we might find she’s not so that the greatest person ever born was bad after all. born into poverty, is through conspicu- And then let us listen to the ous consumption of worldly goods with song of the angels, let’s go to Bethle- our nearest and dearest. hem with the shepherds, let’s kneel in The Victorians had a lot of good awe and wonder like the Wise Men, ideas but creating the foundation of the let’s go to Penpoll Methodist Church and see this thing which has come to ALL ASPECTS OF modern festival was not one of them. It BESPOKE JOINERY was Prince Albert who introduced many pass. There are several services for such an opportunity, and then keep it ******** new customs into a day that before then Finest Fish from local in-shore fishing up all through 2006. See you there! boats, daily from Fish Market. WINDOWS, DOORS & STAIRCASES had probably been more religious than festive. Charles Dickens did much to We provide a friendly and reliable door ANY TYPE OF FLOORING FITTED Have a really blessed, different to door service to Point & Penpoll once ALL HOME IMPROVEMENTS disseminate the idea of what a proper INCLUDING KITCHENS AND Christmas – Glory to the new- a week on Friday afternoons, carrying Christmas should be with the miserly a large selection of the finest sea- BATHROOMS Scrooge in A Christmas Carol finally born King. foods: cod fillet, white crab meat, ALSO MAINTENANCE plaice, scallops, lemon sole, turbot, AND RENOVATION seeing the error of his ways to join in the monkfish, haddock, smoked haddock, 15 YEARS EXPERIENCE fun. We’ve come a long way from the Love and blessings, the list goes on and on … coin tossed by him to a passing errand Or if you’re passing, why not pop in to FREE ESTIMATES our new fish shop at - CONTACT LASSE boy so that the Cratchitt family could have a goose for dinner. Today the pres- Islington Wharf, Penryn HOME: 01872 520631 Tel: David - 01326 378478 MOB: 07773313662 sure to buy expensive gifts for people, Reverend Margaret Barnes who lack nothing, is so intense that even

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Village View page 4 Penpol/ll response 8 1 Move hither the entire as- Carols with the WI 5 ACE / Book of Remembrance 9 sembly of you who are stead- 9 In a distant place located in a Point Quay Association 5 Carol Quiz 10 fast in your belief feeding receptacle for live- Resident Focus 6-7 Adverts 11 2 Listen, the celestial messen- stock Pilgrimage / B*olders 7 Local Information 12 gers are vocalising 10 Jovial Yuletide desired for 3 Nocturnal timespan of unbro- the second person singular WHAT’S ON AT PENPOLL METHODIST CHURCH ken silence or plural by us December 4 Adorn the interior passage- 11 The primal Christmas Fri 2nd Christmas Coffee Stop 10:00 - 11:30 am ways 12 An emotion of delight infus- Wed 7th Lunch Club 12 noon 5 At 12 o'clock on a clement ing and inspiring the planet Thurs 15th Christmas Concert 7:30 pm followed by supper for every- night it arrived and its creatures one 6 Small principality in Judea 13 Omnipotent supreme beings Sun 18th Carol Service 10:30 am east of Jerusalem who elicits ecstatic respite to Sun 18th Nativity 6:00 pm 7 During the nocturnal obser- distinguished males Sat 24th Midnight Communion 11:30 pm. Revd. Margaret Barnes vation of collected wool bear- Sun 25th Sectional Service at Feock 10:00 am. Revd. Margaret ers by their caregivers Answers will be posted on the Barnes January 8 The first person nominative Boat House door after New Wed 11th Lunch Club 12 noon Year! plural of a triumvirate of far Sun 22nd Chapel Anniversary 10:30 am Revd. D.W. Nicholson of eastern heads of state Submitted by Shirley Still followed by lunch at Crantock Bay Hotel February Fri 3rd Coffee Stop 10:00 - 11:30 am David Vowles Wed 8th Lunch Club 12 noon March ROCKS Interior and Exterior Fri 3rd Coffee Stop 10:00 - 11:30 am Wed 8th Lunch Club 12 noon Painting and Decorating Sun 26th Mothering Sunday 10:30 am taken by Mrs Christine Rob- erts of St. Agnes Right On Church for The Old Counthouse Kids Creegbrawse Dates for inclusion in the Easter issue should be with the editors by the middle of March. St Day Continues through Winter! Cornwall Join us every Sunday TR16 5QF 10:30—11:30 am at the Chapel Tel 01209 822575

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10 3 announce that Ewan McClymont, Changes at Penny's husband has volunteered. Aid Conservation Through Education There should be a very useful link there! Village View Every other year, Jill de Saus- dilapidated with earth floors and holes Maybe we have not completely lost marez and Anne Nicholls run a coffee in the roof. As one of the originators of Penny! Many, many thanks Ewan. morning at Jill's home, Point House, in ACE helps, in particular, by Village View for Christmas 1998, along Thank you to everybody for aid of a national and/or local charity. providing free exercise books and pen- with Elizabeth Schofield and Lorraine your contributions over the years, and This year Aid Conservation Through cils for every infant child; building new Michell, I should like to acknowledge the for your encouragement and help. Good Education [ACE] deservedly received a classrooms, stores and latrine blocks; hard work of several people since then. luck to Village View - and come on to all much welcomed £700 as a result of supporting teacher training costs for a First of all Elizabeth and Lorraine in the the budding authors in Penpoll and their hard work, the labours of their number of teachers; and working with early launching days before Elizabeth Point! Your articles, thoughts and ideas many helpers and the generosity of the other organisations to provide clean moved to . are needed! village residents and friends. water tanks. Almost uniquely, everything By the following Christmas Keep up your good work Ge- ACE is a small charity based in is voluntary, there are virtually no ad- Penny McClymont had joined us and I rald, Tez and Ewan and happy article Cornwall. It supports a small number of ministrative costs charged to the charity was delighted that by 2001 she had hunting for 2006 onwards. communities in south Uganda with and the funds are passed directly to the taken over the publishing side from my whom it maintains direct personal rela- individual schools Even visits to the very early amateurish computer efforts. Margaret McFarlane tions. People live a hand communities are self-financed by the Penny developed a more interesting lay to mouth existence and many children individuals concerned. out and introduced photography which PS The new editors would like to thank have no parents because of the AIDS ACE can be contacted at greatly enhanced what I believe has Margaret and Penny for their phenome- epidemic. Provision of everything fre- Chynoey, Newmill, , TR20 become quite a popular local publica- nal contribution to bringing Village View quently falls to, often elderly, relatives. 8XW. £10 finances one year’s educa- tion. I am sorry we have to lose you together over the seasons and for in- Although primary education is free, tional stationary for one child; £90 the Penny but understand your dilemma struction in how to achieve this ! there are often more than 200 children cost of one year’s part-time teacher with your new Church commitments. in a class with one teacher and no training and £3,500 will build a new Gerald joined us in 2002 when teaching materials. Classrooms can be classroom. Elizabeth moved and we introduced the Harvest publication having decided that we could afford three publications a Book of Remembrance year and a coloured cover - with a bit of financial help from advertisements! Our Book of Remembrance is of local history we would like full names Tez Smith has now taken over up and running. The first eight entries and dates, the names of immediate fam- from Penny and also lives in Chycoose have been made and another three are ily members (parents, children, grand- Parc. Welcome Tez and thank you for in the pipeline. If you wish to have a children) and places of residence within being so willing to fill the breach. Your relative or friend "remembered" please the village and please, if you have one, Harvest publication was great. I guess get in touch with Christopher Kingston a good photograph which will be re- computer skills are child's play to a sci- on 862662. There is no set format. Each turned when it has been scanned into entist! The Nativity plastic envelope will take a sheet of A4 the record. After seven years and the first Sunday 18 December and you can use both sides and fill them Christopher will gladly print out Christmas brain wave I also have de- 6.00 pm @ the Chapel with a potted biography and anecdotes the entries and provide you with a copy cided it is time to give up. We need and other personal recollections. for checking. There is no charge! some more new blood. I'm delighted to However as a potential source 4 9 strong" (dirty pool, dung pit). Dr Lander Penpol or cites Oliver Padel's Cornish Place- Womens Point Quay Name Elements as one of his sources, Penpoll but Padel's long article about "pol" lists Institute Association some 80 places containing this syllable, In the midst of Autumn rains In response to Dr Lander’s and only 7 of them have the double-l. and dark evenings the WI are looking The AGM, including election of article in the Harvest issue of Village While researching my books of walks I forward to a colourful Spring. Fentogol- committee members, took place on De- view on the spelling of a certain hamlet, have come across Penpolls at Mawnan lan Daffodil Farm have developed a new cember 1st. Tim Robins stood down as local resident and historian Bob Acton and , but also Penpol Creek at jonquil type daffodil called "Penpol", Chairman but will still serve on the com- responds….. and several Penpols at . which we just could not resist. So Sally mittee. Ewen Abram-Moore was ap- Dr Lander admits that "our" Penpol(l) acquired a large bagful of bulbs, which pointed to the position of Chairman, Dr Lander's article in the last had its William de Penpol in 1275, but have been planted in a number of our whilst John Fox and Billy Trebilcock issue of "Village View" makes a pretty doesn't mention Robert de Penpol, who gardens as well as outside the Chapel retained the positions of Treasurer and convincing case for the spelling lived at S t Veep in 1327. and around "Sheana's" board by the Secretary respectively. "Penpoll", but he overlooks a few points The history of the Cornish Lan- postbox. So let's hope for, if not quite a Issues discussed at the AGM which might favour the opposite conclu- guage is complex and confusing, a sub- host of golden daffodils, at least a spot included the proposed slipway exten- sion. ject of sometimes heated controversy or two of cheerful colour in 2006. sion. In light of the mixed views on the "By 1571 ," he says, "and for among the experts. Craig Weatherhill, in Of course, we have not forgot- project, a vote was requested which almost the next 400 years the spelling Cornish Place Names and Language, ten Christmas, and to get everyone into was strongly carried in favour of the was universally 'Penpoll'." But Baptista distinguishes between Old, Middle and the festive spirit we shall be carol sing- extension going ahead. Revised plans Boazio's map of the Fal Estuary (1597) Late forms; "poll", he states, is the Late ing round the Creek on Monday 19 th for the slipway extension were recently has "Penpoel Cove"; Thomas Martyn's Cornish spelling and "pol" is the version December. We gather at 6p.m. at the submitted to Carrick County Council. 1748 map has "Penpoll", but his greatly in Old and Middle Cornish. But those Boatyard and as usual welcome extra Visit the council website to view the new improved version of 1784 has "Penpol", few people who could write in the days voices, particularly tenors and basses, wooden design and submit your as does the Admiralty Chart produced when Cornish was the normal spoken and if anyone can provide a musical thoughts, positive or otherwise on the during the 1880s. In Life by the Fal, my language are unlikely to have had any accompaniment that would be great. development of the Quay. late wife Viv reproduced a West Briton notion of "correct spelling". Across the Carol sheets are provided so don't for- article headed "Penpol and Point Re- border in England, for example, no seri- get your torches or lanterns; the actual gatta and Carnival"; it dates from 1922. ous attempt to standardise spelling was route will be printed on posters nearer Ten years later, two events celebrating made until the mid-18 th century, when the time and we plan to finish at Penlee the installation of electric lighting in the Samuel Johnson compiled his diction- for hot punch and mince pies. chapel were advertised; in January ary, and even after that valiant effort Non singers turn off your ra- 1932 the venue was "Penpoll Wesleyan many people continued to write words dios and televisions, listen out for the Chapel", in March it was "Penpol according to how they sounded in their joyful sound of carollers and contribute Wesleyan Chapel"! own dialect. If that were still the case to our charity of the year, which is The "Penpoll," Dr Lander claims, here, the true "locals” would probably Penpoll and Point Chapel. "more accurately reflects the Cornish write "Pmpool" ! We look forward to seeing you Language." But R. Morton Nance's Cor- all and wish everyone: nish dictionary gives only "poll', with Bob Acton many examples such as "pol- "A very Happy Christmas." goth" (goose pond) and "pol

8 5 Resident Focus Sarah, Tez and Archie Smith Point about twelve months ago at- B*olders! Visitors to Point for over twenty years, tracted, like so many, by the charms of Cornwall as well as the challenge of a Toby and Vicky Claridge the Smith family left behind the flatlands The inaugural club session of B*olders of Cambridgeshire and became resi- new position. took place in November, to rave reviews After Addenbrookes, Sue took a break Originally from Bristol, the Claridges dents of ‘the estate’ (Chycoose Parc) in from a brace of eight year old partici- from nursing and spent twelve months moved into Trenant, just off the Green, Autumn 2004. Archie, now 6, revels in pants (see below)… travelling through Africa before complet- in April this year. In fact they got in- the watery-ways of Cornish life in- ing an intensive cookery training pro- volved in village life from day one, arriv- between fun-filled days at Devoran “Boulders is a club for people age 8 too ing on the day of the car boot sale and school where the staff and children have gramme and working with Stephen Mar- 14. It is held at penpole Methodist quick, one of the most highly regarded immediately taking up a pitch! been incredibly welcoming. Sarah joined chapel. On Friday the 4 th of November chefs in Bristol. the Dermatology Department at RCH as the children of point and penpole met up Toby and Vicky have three children – With friends in Bristol, Sue also sang in Consultant in July 2004 having trained for the first ever Boulders. We played Fergus aged 11, Hester 9 and Christian a local classic covers band, "Ad Hoc". in London and Cambridge. Tez com- snooker, table tennis, table football, guy 6. Having sailed in the past from Tangi- muted between metropolis and styx for She is a keen sailor and obtained her fawks making, giant jenga and hide and ers to Malta and around the Bay of Bis- Day Skipper’s (Theoretical) Certificate nine years while working for a Japanese seek. On the 20 th of November we cay, it is fair to say that the family are earlier this year. She keeps her culinary pharmaceutical company. played basketball. On the 2 nd of Decem- keen sailors - this was one of the main hand in by preparing cakes for a local Archie’s favourite thing about village life ber we went to ships and castles. We attractions of moving to Cornwall. As for beach cafe and Christmas cakes and — being collected from school in a boat will try to go to as many places as we Point, they literally fell in love with the puddings for private local sale. then throwing himself off the Quay (at can! Feel free to come along!” place after discovering it whilst going high tide). through job interviews (Toby is a solici- Niamh McClymont and Morwenna Fox. tor and Vicki a GP). Pilgrimage to the “Apart from the stunning location and Holy Land of In addition to these events, January 6 th the friendly welcome, the best bit about sees a post-Xmas chill-out session at the village has to be the fact you can Isreal/Palestine Penpoll Chapel where snooker, table see the stars (no street lights), the tennis etc. can be enjoyed. Also in the sound of the curlews and, oh, the ability New Year a five-a-side football team will to take a boat to the pub” said Toby. We hear lots of references to this very be started so dig out and polish those special country - politically as well as in footy boots now! Vicki and Toby Claridge seeking re- the name of religion. At some time over For further information, contact Bryher freshment….. the next four weeks we will hear the Hole on 01872 864599 shepherds say, "Let's go to Bethle- hem." And I say the same thing to you, Sue Webber 'let's go to Bethlehem' and to Jerusalem Sue is a member of the Cardiac Cathe- and Nazareth and other places. If you would come too. If you are not certain, ter Laboratory team in the Cardiac Unit have been before, come again, it will be and wish to know more, please contact of the Royal Cornwall Hospital. She a fresh experience. If you've never one of us AND/OR come to a meeting trained and qualified at Addenbrookes been before, then do come. Thursday January 12 th 2006 at 7.30 Hospital, Cambridge and, latterly, she Revd Barbara Heseltine and I p.m. in Feock Parish Church. was the Sister of a similar unit at the are going again (28 th April to 7 th May Barbara Heseltine 01872 870039 Bristol Royal Infirmary. She moved to 2006) and we would be thrilled if you Margaret Barnes 01872 863320

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