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June 2020 June Issue No. 56 No. Issue www.abbotskerswell.org.uk 1 Not being able to hold the anticipated street party and despite social distancing it didn’t stop villagers entering into the sprit of the day! With costumes, flags, afternoon tea and tipples not forgetting the vintage vehicles! Massive thanks go out to DJ Dave Peters for bringing us all such uplifting music and enabling our 3pm toast. A fitting tribute to our lost heroes. More photos on pages 14 & 15 2 www.abbotskerswell.org.uk Dear reader Next deadline for July/Aug 2020 issue Many of us are still in a lock-down or semi-lockdown situation, Advertisements and Articles– June 15th depending on various factors and we hope you are all managing Next delivery date – 4th/5st July and if necessary with the help of our band of volunteers. We wish them all a huge Thank You for everything they are doing. The AbbTalk Association Committee: When we clap for our NHS heroes on Thursday evenings we also Ann Allen Editor ([email protected]) do so for all the other unsung heroes in our community. Zoe Truman Secretary ([email protected] ) As our wonderful photos show, despite not being able to Lynn Howard Treasurer ([email protected]) attend our village 75th VE Day anniversary street party certainly Andrew Rose Abbotskerswell Cricket Club Representative didn’t stop us from celebrating the day and honouring those who ([email protected]) gave their lives for us back then. Thanks to John Whitehead for John Whitehead Picture Editor ([email protected]) these lovely pics and a special Thank You to our own DJ Dave Peters who enabled us all to hear appropriate music for the occasion as Richard Whiffin Church Representative ([email protected]) we raised a toast and a cheer on the day! We also thank Dave for the music at the Thursday clap for the NHS. Sadly, as you’ll see on page 26, our Annual Garden Show has WHERE IS IT? had to be cancelled. Just as we go to print it has been decided Did you find April’s photo at Prospect Cottage Slade Lane? that to keep spirits up and give us something to focus on there will be a Scarecrow Competition with the theme of SUPER HEROES. Particularly relevant in these times. Watch out for posters. Entry forms will be available from Model Stores so get busy! We hope that by the next issue of AbbTalk we might be able to start planning ahead for when we can all start returning to what will be our new normal and once again meeting with our friends and families. Stay safe. Ann Allen, AbbTalk Editor [email protected] / 01626 330965 www.abbotskerswell.org.uk Thank you to the following people for our lovely cover photos: Top row Left Ness O’Hara 24.04; Right Vernon Stunt 26.04; Any ideas on this one? Taken by our photographer, 2nd Row Left Vernon Stunt 24.04; Middle Alan Reddish; Right Ness O’Hara 24.04; Bottom Left Vernon Stunt 28.04; Wild John Whitehead. If you think you know of a hidden gem Orchid and Stile Vernon Stunt 26.04; Early Morning Mandie please send your photo to John and we’ll try and include it. Redfern 29.04; Magnolia at Rose Bank John Whitehead 25.03 [email protected] Answer in July/Aug AbbTalk Huge thank you to everyone who has sent photos and articles. It’s been a tight squeeze this month with so much lovely Monthly Rainfall Totals content but please keep them coming and I’ll always do my mm ins best to include them. January 136 5.35 February 270 10.63 March 78 3.08 April has stopped the procession of wet months and if it hadn’t been for the last 3 days of the month, it would have been one CORONOVIRUS (COVID19) — REMEMBER of the driest months I have ever recorded. Even without those 3 THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO CAN HELP days April only reached a total of 42mm or 1.65ins which is just We should all follow the national advice about what to do over half the average for the month. In fact the last day and not do and the village emergency planning team is on produced half of that figure. Good for farmers and gardens standby to help in any way it can. If you have any worries though as watering was becoming a chore even though we have plenty of time to do it! please contact: Gillie Byrom (Priory) 01626 335359 07894 831441 Annual Rainfall Statistics kindly supplied by David Munden Simon Crawshaw 01626 333214 07516 500183 Kevin Farrelly 01626 354956 07917 354340 Julie Kniveton 01626 337623 07958 637641 Dave McNee 01626 352601 07931 215435 Keep up to date with the latest Covid19 advice at: David Munden 01626 356080 07980 253363 https://www.devon.gov.uk/coronavirus-advice-in-devon/ Sue Collingsworth 01626 361982 07720 116187 https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus A reminder that Abbotskerswell Volunteer Phone Buddies Devon County Council news: are regularly calling those who are on their own or https://www.devonnewscentre.info/ vulnerable just to check that they are OK and all their needs are catered for, as well as to chat and natter. This is a vital For walkers the latest info on Dartmoor access: service in the community to keep us all sane in these hard https://www.dartmoor.gov.uk/about-us/how-we-work/ times. Please call Liz Clowes on 01626 332092 coronavirus-update or email [email protected] with names, Also why not join the Spotted Abbotskerswell addresses and telephone numbers of those Facebook group needing help once you have permission to do so. Check out the parish website: ww.abbotskerswell.org.uk www.abbotskerswell.org.uk 3 St Mary’s Church Priest: Rev Michael Wilkie Parish Office: The Parish Office Church End Road Kingskerswell TQ12 5LD Tel: 01803 873006 Office Hours: M-F 10:00am – 2:30pm E-mail: [email protected] Church Wardens Pam Wakeham Tel: 07526 470080 Richard Whiffin Tel: 01626 365626 Please note our website: www.abbotskerswellchurch.org.uk Pastoral letter June 2020 Christians ask God to bless the crops and give a good harvest. It is worth keeping in mind this important religious It is now June which means that we are now approaching the observance at this time of year when we are planting and half-way point of the year. Well at least we can say that this planning ahead. But this idea doesn’t have to be limited to first half of 2020 was memorable. If we look out of our gardens and fields. A good spiritual exercise would be to windows it is interesting to reflect that whatever troubles also use this moment to think over how we can plant seeds and traumas we might be going through in the human world, and plan ahead in our lives as well. Crops don’t just happen nature carries on regardless. Many of us will have read the on their own, there always has be preparatory work. news stories showing how the natural world has benefited from us humans being in lock-down. There are a number of It could be that as we are thinking over what plants are conclusions we could draw from that, but what is certain is growing in the spiritual gardens of our lives, we might begin that each day is getting us closer to high summer. On the to suspect that maybe there are a few too many weeds or daily walks with my dogs in the lanes near the vicarage, it is even thistles! Well now is the time to do something about a real joy to see how everything is growing and flowering. it. This is the season to plan ahead. It’s time to work out People are planting and tending to their gardens, both for what preparatory work needs to be done and how we are flowers and food. And many farms have already cut their going to work and grow towards producing some sort of first grass for hay making. It has been a particularly good harvest that God might approve of. Spring and it bodes well for the summer. So just as people plant seeds and feed the young plants that We are very blessed to live where we do and it is important emerge, we need to think about what seeds we are going to to look up at the world around us sometimes, especially at plant in ourselves. My advice would be that the most this difficult time. This can sometimes help us not to get so important things that feed our spiritual growth are acts of mired down in the worries and stresses of dealing with the compassion and caring for others. To grow closer to God, pandemic we forget that nothing lasts forever. We still need and to bring in a good harvest, our roots have to be deeply to plan ahead for the future and make plans. This is after all embedded in God’s compassion and love – and by what farming and gardening are all about. At the time of definition love and compassion have to involve other writing we are at the point before Ascension when we people. It’s all about how we treat others. observe Rogation– the traditional time of the year when Vincent-van-Gogh – The Harvest – 1888 detail 4 www.abbotskerswell.org.uk What practical steps do we need to take then? Well the first Sunday Lunch one would be to decide what it is you want to grow.