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April 2021

Salcombe ~ Malborough ~ South Huish

Parish Directory

Vicar: The Revd. Daniel French The Vicarage, Devon Road, Salcombe, TQ8 8HJ 842853 [email protected]

Assistant Priest: Father Stephen Ball 859006 [email protected] (Special Responsibility for Malborough)

Assistant Priest: Revd. Christian Hill [email protected] 562693

Parish Administrator: Debbie Plummer Office 842626 [email protected]

Church Wardens: Salcombe: Suzy Andrews 842704 Malborough: Sandra Price 562214 Galmpton/Hope Cove: Bruce Williams 561621 St Peters: Judy Bayley 842126 Organists: Salcombe/South Huish: Trevor Becker 07410 186962 [email protected] Malborough: Hilary Hudson 550004 [email protected]

Parish News ‘The Three in One’ Editor: Ann Merritt 854069 [email protected]

Cover Photo: ‘Daffodils at Malborough Church’ by Bobbie Dunne

This magazine can be read and downloaded from the Parish website: www.dailywithgod.co.uk

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Editorial

Happy Easter - Christ is Risen!

“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” 1 Corinthians 15.55

I probably have written on this before so forgive me if this is repetition for readers. Maybe I am turning into a “broken record” vicar who has different versions of the same sermon every week? That wouldn’t be without pedigree. The Apostle John in his infirmity was forever repeating to his disciples the singular line, “God is love and those who live in love live in God and God lives in them.” (1 John 4.2). They apparently carted him away to his deathbed with him exclaiming this with his last breath. You can imagine onlookers sniggering that old fool was going a bit bonkers in his finality.

People will say that Easter this year will be muted, slimmed down, downgraded. Whatever that means in practice it cannot change or dampen the cosmic reality of our proclamation, that Christ IS Risen.

My bugbear in the last year is that in the pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns we are in danger of selling away this perspective and becoming once more what the author of Hebrews said of humanity, slaves to the fear of death (Hebrews 2.15). This was how empires like Rome (and many contemporary authoritarian states like, for example, the Chinese Communist

Party) control and coerce. It is easy to manipulate a population when the fear and prevention of death becomes the overwhelming and disproportionate motivation.

I try to do this spiritual practice in my head every morning before watching or reading the news - I imagine a newsreader beginning their programme with “Our top story today, Jesus Christ is Risen. Death is conquered, sin forgiven.” The more I have done this the more it cements itself into my identity. It probably makes me really obstinate and annoyingly self-convinced, too. According to the Christian Faith this news is humanity’s “top story” every single day since AD 33. Everything else, world wars, pandemics, recessions all pale into insignificance to this. Every day is Easter, or to quote St Augustine, “We are an Easter people, and Alleluia is our song”. I even annoy people on Christmas Day by saying “Happy Easter”.

Of course, this is not to belittle death, dying, mourning, loss. Neither is it to trivialise medical care and technological advancements. Pastoral care and a sense progress are at the heart of two thousand years of Christianity. When pandemics hit Rome the well-to-do citizens ran for the hills while the Christians remained and cared for the sick often at the expense of their own lives. Monks and clergy were at the forefront of building hospitals and researching medicines. This courage in the face of death gave Christians a certain positive notoriety and inspired many to take the plunge of baptism. Romans had never seen anything like it. It seemed as if a new world was being presented and heaven was touching earth.

With blessings for a happy Easter

Father Daniel

Holy Week/Easter services

in the Parish of Malborough, Salcombe and South Huish

Palm Sunday (28th March) All Saints, Malborough 10am Holy Trinity, Salcombe 10am Holy Trinity, Galmpton 10am All Parish service on Zoom 6pm

Monday (29th March) Said Eucharist at Salcombe 10am Tuesday (30th March) Said Eucharist at Salcombe 10am Wednesday (31st March) Said Eucharist at Malborough 10am Maundy Thursday (1st April) All Saints, Malborough 6pm Good Friday (2nd April) Holy Trinity, Salcombe 3pm Saturday (3rd April) Short Vigil Blessing of the Paschal Candles at Salcombe 8pm NB Apologies but there will be no beach service this year.

Easter Sunday (4th April) All Saints, Malborough 10am Holy Trinity, Salcombe 10am Holy Trinity, Salcombe 11am Holy Trinity, Galmpton 10am All Parish Easter service on Zoom 6pm

Zoom link for 6pm Sunday services from 29th March https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85311340282 (Meeting ID: 853 1134 0282)

Church services in the Parish of Malborough, Salcombe and South Huish In April…

(For Holy Week see other page) Easter Sunday 4th April All Saints, Malborough 10am Short said Eucharist Holy Trinity, Salcombe 10am Short said Eucharist Holy Trinity, Salcombe 11am Short said Eucharist Holy Trinity, Galmpton 10am Short said Eucharist All Parish Easter service on Zoom 6pm

Sundays 11th, 18th and 25th All Saints, Malborough 10am Short said Eucharist Holy Trinity, Salcombe 10am Short said Eucharist Holy Trinity, Galmpton 10am Short said Eucharist All Parish Sunday service on Zoom 6pm

Wednesdays in April All Saints, Malborough 10am Short said Eucharist

Fridays in April Holy Trinity, Salcombe 10am Short said Eucharist

Link for 6pm Zoom services:

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85311340282

Meeting ID: 853 1134 0282

All services to be live-streamed and available on Holy Trinity Salcombe Facebook Page and www.dailywithgod.co.uk

Salcombe Life Contacts

Aircrew Association Gordon McCormack 843240 Bonfire Hill Allotment Assoc. Myra Harvey 842781 Cancer Research UK Francis Cannon 844081 Cliff House Trust Tania Thompson 844704 Friends of Salcombe Library Diana Patton 842105 Men’s Breakfast Group Martyn Rest 07870 743723 National Trust S. Hams Centre Joan Johnstone 857014 Redfern Health Centre Medical Staff 842284 Salcombe Art Club Naomi Ainsley 830794 Salc. Community Gospel Choir Nola Baylis 842877 Salcombe Flower Club Joan Parkes 842387 Salcombe History Society Ken Prowse 714266 Salcombe Information Centre Debs, Lindy, Sharon 843927 Salcombe Lifeboats Fundraisers Simon Linsley 714073 Salcombe Maritime Museum Roger Barrett 854108 Salcombe Minibus Tim Mattocks 842140 Salcombe Over 60s Day Centre Carol Jones 843316 Salcombe Players & Panto People Christine Bonner 843243 Salcombe Pre-school Louise Dawson 842874 Salcombe Primary School Andy Pugsley 842842 Salcombe Probus Colin Whiteside 714465 Salcombe Town Regatta Debbie Hainey 844329 Salcombe Rotary Club John Edwards 561434 Salcombe Women’s Institute Janis Fice 844560 Salcombe Yacht Club Jules McColl 842593 Sea Anglers Liz Lidstone 842088 South Hams Society Lynne Bentley 07989 795859 Swimming Pool Association Diane Tobin 843525

From the Benefice Registers

Funerals

Brian Parkinson Thursday 11th March 2021 Funeral at Holy Trinity, Salcombe

Ann Kidd Strachan Friday 12th March 2021 Funeral at Holy Trinity, Salcombe

“May they rest in peace and rise in glory”

2021

Communication

‘The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.’ George Bernard Shaw.

One definition of communication is the act of transmitting news or knowledge. It is a science, essential in any organisation as it engenders a communal spirit and draws the members together. At this time of lockdown it has become even more important if we are to assist those who feel forgotten or isolated.

Our churches should be the experts in this field, their whole existence is to help spread the ‘Good News’. What do we have to do to make the aspiration a reality? Communication can be by word of mouth, by the written word or by means of information technology, each modality has its advantages and its drawbacks.

The spoken word is made more difficult by the present social distancing, especially as a number of us are becoming hard of hearing and our in-built ‘predictive text’ can lead to some surprising misunderstandings. The telephone and Zoom are there but are transient, leaving no trace to help recollection.

The written word is great but has to be distributed, difficult in lockdown. It can be transmitted on the internet, in messages or on apps like Facebook. Information technology, Zoom, the Web, is easy for those who know how to use it, but for many it is still a closed book.

As a Single Parish our churches might give serious consideration to what is to be done to make communication really work in this rural community. Starting with: what do they wish to communicate? Some suggestions

might be: Services, their times, which mode, and locations; Minutes of the PPC; Contacts for emergencies; Plans for individual churches. It is most important that the information is accurate, up to date and complete. For instance recent elections have used the Salcombe church as a polling station - is this going to be the case in May?

The presence of the Foodbank in the porch gives an opportunity to make the church porch an information centre. A weekly published sheet about things that matter could be out on all the notice boards in town, with copies left in the porch for people to take as reminders: Service times and locations Vaccination information PPC plans under discussion Contacts for; Pastoral Committee Prayer List Magazine contribution Parish Office and Clergy Emergency numbers for church building or churchyard Family problems.

The current communication is very confusing, this morning I watched a live transmission of the Friday communion service from Malborough at 10.am only to be told that the same personnel were leading a service at the same time in Salcombe. We can do better: How about the weekly newssheet being displayed on notice boards around the town. Copies in the porches of all the parish churches free reminders to be taken home The same notices to be given out at all services Again the same notices to be on Facebook There, we have covered the spoken word, the written word and IT, it is somewhere to start.

Charles Rowse

St George’s Day 23rd April

St George is a highly celebrated saint in both the Western and Eastern Christian churches, and a large number of Patronages of Saint George exist throughout the world.

Saint George is the patron saint of England. His red cross on a white background forms the national flag, and features within the Union Flag of the United Kingdom. It is also recalled in the ensign of the Royal Navy. By the 14th century, the saint had been declared both the patron saint and the protector of the royal family.

The George Cross for gallantry In 1940 King George VI inaugurated the George Cross for 'acts of the greatest heroism or of the most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme danger'. The award is usually awarded to civilians. Saint George slaying the dragon is depicted on the silver cross.

English recruitment poster from World War I, featuring Saint George and the Dragon.

CHURCH CONTACTS

The Parish of Malborough, Salcombe and South Huish

All Saints Malborough, Holy Trinity Salcombe, Holy Trinity Galmpton, and St Clements Hope Cove

PPC Secretary Debbie Plummer 842626 Deanery Synod Representatives Jane Brannan 561531 Fiona Stidston 561723 Suzy Andrews 842704 PPC Treasurers Trevor & Pauline Rendle 561674 Gift Aid & Weekly Envelopes The Benefice Office 842626 Electoral Roll Secretary Caroline Broad 842991 Friends of Holy Trinity Charles Rowse 843941 Parish News Editor Ann Merritt 854069 Proofreader Nikki Turton 842847 Typist Nola Baylis 842877 Distributer Sue Flynn 842244

Malborough Baptist Church Church Administrator Hywel Jones 561700 Family Worship on Sundays 10.30am Communion on first Sunday

Catholic Church Priest Fr. Andrzej Jablonski 852670 Mass 5pm Saturday, Salcombe 10.15am Sunday, Kingsbridge

Methodist Church Worship 10.30am Sundays at Kingsbridge, 6pm at Hope Cove Kingsbridge Rachel Mitchell 852073 Hope Cove Sue Morgan 560237

Bell Tower Captains Galmpton Dominic Beer 07895 068936 Salcombe Mike Wrigley 07973 894748 Malborough John Cole 561831

MALBOROUGH CHURCH

Here we are with hopes of better weather and the prospect of some lockdown measures being lifted. Who would have thought 12 months later we were still talking about lockdown!!

Worship has continued in our church each Sunday at 9.00 a.m. and 10.00 a.m. on Wednesday. It is encouraging now to see more people attending but if you are still unable to, both services are normally either livestreamed or recorded and shown later on Facebook or our website.

This will change with effect from Palm Sunday – 28th March as there will be a short 10.00 a.m. service and on Easter Day the service will be 10.00 a.m. There can, of course, be no singing but there will be music to accompany the service. Easter Day is the last Sunday Fr Stephen will be with us and we wish him well for the future. He will be sadly missed at Malborough – he has been a stalwart to us over the past 10 years and is greatly respected by our congregation. A list of the Easter Services is shown below:-

Palm Sunday:- 10.00 a.m. Short Said Eucharist at Malborough 6.00 p.m. Parish Zoom service Maundy Thursday: 6.00 p.m. Maundy Thursday service (no washing of feet) at Malborough Good Friday: 3.00 p.m. at Salcombe Easter Day:- 10.00 a.m. Short Said Eucharist at Malborough 6.00 p.m. Parish Zoom service

I will keep you updated on the Weekly message with regards to services in April – we are hoping they will be able to resume at 10.00 a.m. but final details are yet to be confirmed.

The Weekly Updates are continuing and flourishing. A big thank you must go to Fr Stephen for producing the service each week and to Margaret Harvey for her wonderful prayers. It is lovely to think we can keep people together in these troubling times.

Gill Rogers is continuing to improve following her eye operation and has asked me to say heartfelt thanks to everyone who has sent cards, been in touch and helped her in any way. She is truly grateful and is now returning to church.

Flower arrangers have become very short in numbers and Patricia Handley has asked me to put out a plea – she is desperately looking for volunteer flower arrangers for the windows of the church. If anyone feels they can help in this respect, please give her a call on 01548 562240 and she will explain what is required. On the subject of flowers, in view of the restrictions in place at present, there will be no specific arrangement of lilies in memory of loved ones this year as it is difficult to be able to collect names and also collect money from people.

No further news at this time – keep an eye on any notices when we have further information. At this stage we are unable to commit to any functions etc., but hopefully this will change in the not too distant future.

Take care and stay safe - Margaret Ellis

Malborough Baptist Church

Hopefully, with the brighter skies appearing over the horizon, there is also the promise that the pandemic is coming to an end.

The recent lockdown has had a more marked effect upon our fellowship than the one we endured for most of last year. Fortunately, our faith has been stronger than our eyesight, and though we have been physically far apart, our trust in the Lord has been strengthened. Thanks to our local church Facebook, we have managed to keep in touch with most of our members, exchanging thoughts and prayers in a way which has developed our unity more then we might have expected.

Though none of us has contracted the virus, several of our members have had other health problems. The most general effect has been a sense of loneliness and loss of wider conversation. Sharing eye-contact with several other friends is a more personal way of communicating our feelings and our prayers. We are shortly to have a meeting of the deacons where we will be discussing plans for at least one service in the chapel during Easter week. No doubt we will also be touching upon lessons learned during the lockdown.

We are confident that we shall soon be back in harness, hopefully enriched by our experiences, and pondering the insights gained during the long quarantine.

Denis King

Malborough with South Huish C of E (VC) Primary School

“The roots to grow, the wings to fly. All within the love of God”

We were delighted to welcome all of our children back into School, and with the warmer weather they have been enjoying being outside in the playground and up in the woods. It was lovely to see so many happy smiling faces all very excited about seeing their friends and their teachers after 8 weeks of remote learning! The children have settled well into school life and their learning.

We are delighted to say that we have received confirmation that we have passed our Green Flag award for Eco Schools. The children have worked very hard over home learning, and our 'Eco themed' approach to some of our topics has meant that despite Covid-19 we have still managed to gather enough evidence through our teaching and learning to achieve our flag.

Before Christmas, as part of their Egyptians unit of work, Class 3 mummified tomatoes. They carried out step by step instructions using salt to replace the Natron the Egyptians used. After nearly three months, they unravelled their mummies and found the tomatoes were still red, they hadn’t rotted or started to decompose and the only difference observed was a slight smell and wrinkly skin.

The Reception children enjoyed looking for bugs and building dens this week. They took a close look at the bug hotel and collected some sticks and leaves to make the hotel warm for all the bugs. Year 6 have been learning about the food made by the Ancient Greeks. They have been reading recipes in their reading lessons and were keen to try them out for themselves. They even had a go at following a recipe to make some 'Honey spiced biscuits' based on an Ancient Greek recipe.

Last week the children spent the morning making cards and posies. The PTFA had set up a Mother’s Day pop up shop where the children could go

and choose a gift for their mothers. It was then gift wrapped for the children to take home at the end of the day along with their posies and cards. We also celebrated in the playground a very special Mothering Sunday Service. It was lovely to have Trevor Becker, Father Daniel, Christian, Jasen, Oscar, Jonny and Becky join us, and the children told the story behind Mothering Sunday, read out some of the messages for their mothers in the cards they had made, and we sang All Things Bright and Beautiful and He has the Whole World in his Hands. It was wonderful, and Father Daniel finished with a prayer.

We shall be supporting Red Nose Day, with the school dressing up as a ‘Super Hero”.

Our Easter service will take place in the playground at 2pm on the 1st April. We return back to school on the 19th April.

We send you all our very best wishes for a safe and happy Easter.

Jane Greaves – Chair and Foundation Governor for The South Hams Federation

CHURCH FLOWERS Well, here we go again, another month has gone by and still not a lot has changed! There has been no point in typing up a flower rota for 2021 as there have been no services taking place in the church. We (Pam Smout, Edna Davis and myself) did actually do a few flowers in the church for ‘Mothering Sunday’ as Daniel felt that it would make it look a bit more cheerful for people who might pop in to light a candle in memory of their mothers or even to say a prayer for the mothers that they would not be allowed to visit.

We are also going to do a few flowers for Easter – just the Altar, Porch and Rails, and I have already asked for volunteers as by the time that you read this it will probably be Easter! We will, of course, have some lilies in memory of loved ones and I should be able to buy them locally as Michael Darke would not deliver just a small amount all the way from Newton Abbot. I don’t blame them as they must have suffered badly with no flowers ordered and so many weddings cancelled. Hopefully, things will get back to normal later this year and some of you will be eager to help make some beautiful arrangements in the church.

Maybe next month things will have changed quite a bit, so I will have some better news and we will be able to look forward to future festivals in the church. Stay safe and keep well. Ann Woodhatch

I hope you enjoyed the quiz in the last 2 editions. As mentioned last time, the MoT was due in early March and, unfortunately, the bus failed! Some of you may recall my previous descriptions of things that can go wrong when vehicles are laid up. Well, despite me blasting the bus up Aveton Gifford hill a few times to blow the “cobwebs” from the exhaust and its sensors, the NOx (oxides of nitrogen) sensor has stopped working, resulting in a warning light indicating that exhaust emissions may not be as clean as they could be! The mechanics at KB Auto have been working on the problem for several days and doing tests to make sure that the fault codes, stored in the engine management system, really are the result of sensor failure and not something else, because the sensors are not exactly cheap and we don’t want to replace it unnecessarily. A new sensor is now on back-order from Peugeot because there is a problem with getting parts from the manufacturer. There is a suggestion that Brexit is to blame but I think it more likely that there is a big demand for sensors because of many vehicles not being used. Then again, I’m sure that Covid can’t be helping with manufacturing & shipping. Hopefully things will be resolved soon.

It doesn’t seem like a year ago, but we held the last AGM by means of emailing out an agenda and exchanges of lots of emails over several days to “discuss” topics and make decisions. Doing it that way was very time consuming and it is now the norm to hold AGMs using Zoom, so we will do it that way this year. The “virtual” meeting will be held at 2.30pm on Friday 23rd April. Unfortunately, Zoom doesn’t accommodate the usual sharing of tea, biscuits & cake, so participants will have to provide their own and risk spilling drink over their screen & dropping crumbs down the keyboard! It has been a pretty quiet year operationally so the focus will be on approving the accounts, re-election of trustees, changes needed because some volunteers are no longer available, and how/when we restart operations.

Take Care,

Tim Mattocks, 842140 or 07970 374666

SALCOMBE & MALBOROUGH FLOWER CLUB

Hello to all members and readers of the ‘Three In One’. Our chairman, Sandra, would like to wish you all a very ‘Happy Easter’.

We can now look forward to lovely Spring flowers and foliage so that we can try our hands at arranging delightful and decorative arrangements. We are all looking forward to hopefully meeting up, in the ‘not too distant’ future, and I will keep you informed as to when that will be.

In the meantime, please stay safe and well. Shelia Cashmore

Magnificent Magnolias at Overbeck’s

Magnolia cambellii planted at Overbeck’s in 1901, a species first collected in the Himalayas in 1849

Salcombe Town Council

Cliff House · Cliff Road · Salcombe South Devon · TQ8 8JQ Telephone/Facsimile: (01548) 842282 Town Clerk: Gill Claydon

Salcombe Neighbourhood Plan Modification Proposal Consultation

Salcombe Town Council (‘STC’) propose to modify the ‘Made’ Salcombe Neighbourhood Development Plan (‘the Plan’). The modification relates solely to policy SALC H3 Principal Residence requirement for new housing, and replaces the requirement for a planning condition, S106 agreement or other legal agreement, with a requirement for a S106 agreement only.

The modification is required as STC consider that a S106 agreement will give greater security that any properties subject to the Principal Residence obligation will maintain that obligation when such properties are sold. STC consider that the difficulties in monitoring a planning condition for a Principal Residence obligation would prove to be insurmountable in the long term and will inevitably lead to such properties being sold and the Principal Residence obligation being lost. STC do not consider that the proposed modification will have any impact on the intentions of the Plan and in fact provide additional security to enable the Plan to deliver on its requirement for more local housing and less second homes. STC voted unanimously to approve the modification at a full council meeting on 22 July 2020. STC is consulting on the Modification Proposal which will commence at 09.00 on Friday 19 March 2021 and must end at 6.00pm on Friday 30 April 2021.

Your views can be sent electronically to STC Lead on Planning (Mike Fice) at [email protected] or in paper format to 21 Buckley Street, Salcombe, TQ8 8DD and must be received by 6.00pm on Friday 30 April 2021. The Modification Consultation Statement is available on the STC website under the Neighbourhood Plan section within Your Town Council Neighbourhood Development Plan - Salcombe Town Council Cllr Mike Fice Lead on Planning Salcombe Town Council March 2021

Salcombe WI

With Spring now definitely here, and with the continuing success of the vaccine programme, we are confident that restrictions will shortly be eased allowing us to finally embark on our programme of speakers and events.

New members are always very welcome, having been unable to socialise for so many months this could be a good time to resolve to join us. We meet on the third Tuesday of the month at Salcombe Rugby Club.

We would love to hear from you by email [email protected], or contact our Chairman directly at [email protected], tel: 01548 844560.

Carole Calvert

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The effort from our community, from individuals, local businesses, churches, community groups, supporting us to support our community has been humbling. We have received so much support in terms of volunteers, donations of food and money, people giving their time to talk to those who need some social interaction, cooking Christmas lunch and delivering it to those on their own on Christmas day, donations of presents for Christmas meant that every child and every adult we support had a gift to open on Christmas Day. That alone is quite an achievement and it took a lot of elves to make that happen. We delivered over 430 Christmas hampers and presents to all our clients between 21st December – 24th December to make sure everyone had a happy day! In January, Kingsbridge Area Foodbank was nominated by our community for a South Hams District Council ‘COVID Heroes’ award, in the ‘organisation’ category, which we actually won! This is clear recognition of the frontline work that we are undertaking to help the most vulnerable in our community. We have been supporting families with home-schooling during this third lockdown providing additional lunch items in food parcels as well as providing reconditioned laptops and printers to families in need of these. We have been able to do this with the generous support from ActionWest, who have offered their labour free of charge. We have been in communication with Devon County Council regarding the Holiday Activities and Food Programme. We submitted an expression of interest and a completed application for this funding. So, we hope to be able to coordinate a range of activities with local groups and businesses for school children and their families during the Easter, Summer, and half- term holidays in June and October, and the Christmas holidays. We will continue to provide additional food to families during these periods to help them feed their children lunch time meals during the holidays. We continue to meet the needs of the most vulnerable in our community and we couldn’t do this without the incredible support we get from our community, both in terms of volunteers and donations, not forgetting the additional funding we receive from charitable trusts and foundations. The trustees thank you most kindly for your continued support of our vital work. Sasha, Trustee, Kingsbridge Foodbank

THURLESTONE GOLF & TENNIS CLUB

Take advantage of our 50% entrance fee offer continuing throughout April Enjoy our reopened golf course and tennis courts Potential new members, golf and tennis players will be sure of a warm welcome.

For full details contact us by email or phone [email protected] Phone no 01548 560405

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