26 1 The Pickwick Inn & Oliver’s Restaurant “Award-Winning Freehouse” ST. PETROC NEWS Burgois, , near , PL27 7QQ Tel: 01841 540361 www.pickwickinn.co.uk Dine in our sea view restaurant or stay in one of nine luxury bedrooms all with sweeping, uninterrupted views across the Camel Estuary over to Rock and Padstow. Enjoy local catches and cuts, from fine dining to traditional pub favourites. Beer garden and large well-lit car park. “A Dickens of a Pub”

Award-winning Farmshop and Butchery selling home-reared, free-range beef, pork and lamb. A large selection of home-grown veg, cheeses, gin, beer, spirits. Or visit our new delicatessen selling freshly made salads, meal pots, artisan bakery goods and much more. PADSTOW FARM SHOP, TRETHILLICK FARM, PADSTOW PL28 8HJ padstow farmshop.co.uk [email protected] 01841 533060

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FROM THE REGISTERS: PARISH DIRECTORY

The Church of . Padstow and Trevone ( www.padstowparishchurch.org.uk) FUNERALS - “Go on your journey, Christian Souls” Part of The Petroc Benefice: Padstow, Trevone, St Merryn, St Issey and St Petroc Minor, Little Petherick nd June 2 Cyril Charles (John) Luscombe (90) Glynn Valley th Rector: Benefice in Transition June 24 Brenda Mary Oldham (87) Padstow Cemetery Curate: The Revd Fiona Giorla Tel: 01841 532956 Email: [email protected]

Hon Assistant Priests: The Revd Canon Michael Fisher Tel: 01841 521544/07970865049 Email: [email protected] The Revd Diane Powell Tel. 07484 192781 Email: [email protected] The Revd Katie Kirby Tel: 01208 369963/07745434266 Email: [email protected]

We urgently need volunteers to clean the brass in church at For all enquiries contact the Benefice Office. Email: [email protected] or St. Petroc’s for September. If you could spare just 1 hour a week then Tel: Padstow 01841 534898 Office hours: Tuesday - Friday 9.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. Benefice Administrator Mrs Sue Norfolk 01841 534898 please contact the Administrator in the benefice office (01841 Church Wardens Mrs Sue Norfolk 01841 532902 532898). Many thanks Mrs Janet Dawe Mrs Sue Hollingsworth 01841 520788 Mr Chris Newman 01841 521955 COPY DEADLINE FOR THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE PCC Secretary Mrs Janine Ogborne 01841 532369 OF “ST. PETROC NEWS” is AUGUST 15 th PCC Treasurer Mr Tim Bishop 01841 533972 Organist Jamie Constance Items to Editorial contacts: Peter & Pam Finlay Hall bookings Benefice office 01841 534898 [email protected] or [email protected] Electoral Roll Officer Mrs Betty Tucker 01841 532889 Gift Aid Officer Mr Martin Saunders 01841 520080 Tel: 01841 532100 Captain Bell Tower Mrs Barbara Flanagan 01841 532696 Distribution: Janet Dawe [email protected] Parish Safeguarding Officer Mr Patrick Atkinson 01841 534858 Tel: 07790 333443 The Methodist Church. Padstow and Trevone Advertising: Geoff Spear [email protected] Supt. Minister The Revd. Alistair Sharp, “Bru Allen” Bodieve Road 01208 814989 Stewards Mr Wayne Sellwood 01841 534735 [deadline for approved advertising copy is the 12th monthly] Yvonne Cherry 01208 812223

Organist Position vacant

The Roman Catholic Church BENEFICE OFFICE — Office hours: Tuesday to Friday 9.00 a.m. until 1.00 p.m. Parish Priest Fr. Ciaran McGuiness, St. Mary’s Parish Centre, St. Mary’s Road, PL31 1NF Contact details: Administrator: Mrs Sue Norfolk 01208 72833 Sister Sister Deidre, 13 Fair Street, St. Columb Major TR9 6RL 01637 880084 Postal address: Benefice Office, Church Rooms, Church Street, Padstow. PL28 8BG. South Camel Christians Together Secretary Mrs Cathy Gwinell 01841 540636 Email: [email protected] Landline: 01841 534898. Out of hours number (for urgent enquiries only ) 01841 532902 The Magazine Team Editors Pam & Peter Finlay 20 Duke Street Padstow PL28 8AB 01841 532100 [email protected] or [email protected] Advertisements Mr Geoff Spear, Enquiries by mail to : stpetrocnews@bnternet.com Distribution Janet Dawe 3, Soldon Close, Padstow PL28 8FS 01841 532121 2 23

Extra-Ordinary Time?

The world today is an extraordinary place. Everything that we took for granted, everything that we thought of as ‘normal’ seems to have changed. Before On Thursday 11 th June at 18.01hrs Padstow coronavirus most of our lives were probably quite ‘ordinary’, in a good way. Lifeboat launched to assist with multiple persons Busy with our own daily and weekly routines and the general rush of living, cut off by the tide at Trebarwith Strand. Port Isaac Inshore Lifeboat and a without much time for quiet thoughts or for trying out new things. How three Rescue Helicopter had been requested by the Coastguard teams at the scene. months can change us. Many are gardening more and enjoying nature, and An injured person had required assistance and with the incoming tide the fast becoming ‘experts’ in medical science and the ‘R’ number. Some of us are casualty and rescue party had become cut off and required extraction. The using the internet in ways we had never heard of before. But many face losing Rescue Helicopter recovered the casualty and transferred them to hospital and jobs or businesses and are very fearful of what the future holds for them. our Lifeboat stood by while Port Isaac Inshore Lifeboat recovered the others to safety. The ’Spirit of Padstow’ returned to station at Trevose Head at 20.20hrs.

Our relationships with family and friends have had to change too. Those, like Our Lifeboat Station is still closed to visitors until further notice. This is to keep me, who live alone have had three months without being close to another everyone safe and maintain our ability to respond to critical incidents and human being. Very strange. On the other extreme those who live in family uphold our objectives of ‘Saving Lives at Sea’. Our Cox and Mechanic are still households have spent three months in the continuous company of each other, working at the station maintaining the Lifeboat in readiness for any operational and I’m sure that can bring its own pressures! need.

Given the current COVID-19 outbreak, the RNLI is urging everyone to take extra Through all of this, our church seasons and services (though not in church) care if going in the sea for exercise or recreation, and to follow the clear remain reassuringly constant. It is perhaps ironic that within the Church of Government instructions: Stay alert, Control the virus and Save lives. England we are entering a season known as “Ordinary Time”. Ordinary from ‘ordinal’, as it is numbered by weeks after Trinity, not because it is insignificant If you visit the Padstow Tesco we have a Water/Beach Safety or boring! It’s an important season, when we thank God for the wonders of information table near the tills, please pick up any leaflets or nature – something many of us have been doing as we seek God in our daily Lifeboat colouring sheets for children when you are lives outside of church. It is also the season when we look again at the life and shopping. ministry of Jesus, learning to follow his example and his teaching in our own lives, and rejoicing in the love of God revealed to us in Jesus. Currently all fundraising events are cancelled until further notice. The impact on Padstow’s and the RNLI’s fundraising is significant. It is envisaged that all RNLI shops will remain closed until after the Just before St Petroc’s was locked the children had painted a picture of a summer period. stormy sea and an anchor, for those who would be coming into the church. In the midst of so much uncertainty it is good to be reminded that we do have an We hope that as soon as life returns to normal we can increase our fundraising anchor – an anchor that will “hold in the storms of life” as the hymn says, events to minimise the impact of the restrictions. “grounded firm and deep in the Saviour’s love”. Brian Wood Revd Fiona Fundraising Secretary 22 3 HOME COMMUNIONS: In these unprecedented times, whilst we cannot for the time being visit to carry out home communions we are still available to talk and keep in touch with you by phone if you wish. Or if you know of someone who would like to receive a call just to chat

please contact: Revd Fiona Giorla on 01841 532956 or Canon Michael Fisher 01841 521544. This is a very important part of our St. Petroc’s & St. Saviour’s Church ministry so don’t be afraid to ask. ********** MORNING PRAYER: Revd Fiona is now conducting Morning prayer FREEMAN SAILS The Sail Loft

• Sail making and repairs Unit 1, South Quay using Zoom, on a Wednesday morning at 9.00 am. If you would like to Padstow, Cornwall, PL28 8BL • Canvas work join her please email [email protected] Fiona will then send you the

- boat covers 01841 534 827 link to join the service. - outdoor furniture covers www.freemansails.co.uk • Shade sails [email protected] ********** SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP:

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Online video services: BLINDS ~ SHUTTERS Roller - Vertical - Venetian - Intu www.churchofengland.org Roman - Pleated - Velux - Wood Venetian www.trurodiocese.org.uk Full Measuring & Fitting Service Tel: 07754 489102 www.theblindco.info www.trurocathedral.org

M C Haulage www.kerdh.co.uk for readings, prayers & reflections. Haulage Contractor (Aggregates) Facebook pages: Small Loads (Truck) up to 1.1/2 Ton United Benefice of Padstow, St Merryn St Issey Large Loads (Lorry) up to 11.1/2 Tons St Columb Minor & St. Colan Parish Churches Plus Mini Digger and Dumper Hire United Benefice of West Kerrier

Contact: Martin Masters Wednesday Morning Prayer 9.00am by Zoom Tel: 01841 532813 Or Mob: 0797 0661021 Email Revd Fiona for link [email protected]

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CHURCH & CHRUCH ROOM ACTIVITIES: The following activities have been cancelled until further notice; Friday Fun Club, JAM Club, Holy Dusters, Bible Study group, Quilters, Creative Textiles, Karate, Parent and Toddler Group, Keep on your feet, Yoga. COMPUTER HELP & TUITION ********** Are you struggling with the Internet & emails? Can’t fathom how to set out a document? BENEFICE OFFICE: Sue Norfolk the administrator is running the office Need help with files and folders? from home as much as she can to comply with Government and I have been teaching people computer use for the last 12 years Church of England rules in this unprecedented time. Her hours are Contact Peter Finlay on 01841-532100 or 07535-260349 the same, also email: [email protected] to speak to Sue please contact her on her mobile in office hours on 07816 250053. TANYA’S MOBILE FOOT CLINIC S.A.C D.I.P F.H.P.T F.H.P.P Please try and avoid contacting her outside of her hours unless it is an Diabetic foot check available. emergency. Do you have Corns, Callus, Verruca, Painful Feet,

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MAGAZINE DISTRIBUTION: Due to the restrictions that are in place during this difficult time, the magazine can only be sent out by email. Rachel Hore Delicious Cakes & Bakes Catering If you know of someone who has the magazine who doesn’t have Weddings, Birthdays, Christenings, Funeral Teas etc. email, please contact Sue at the office who will endeavour to print off Home-made cakes to order, Home produced Preserves & Chutneys a copy and post it out, or if you are able to print off a copy and pop it Call us today to discuss your requirements through their letterbox. We hope the situation improves in the not TEL. 01841540438 / 07721725216 [email protected] too distant future. Traditional Home Baking 5* Hygiene Rating

20 5 JAM Club - Darcey's Fundraising ! People need people. People will always need people. Hi, everyone! We do hope you are all keeping well and safe!!! JAM Club is People need people, As girlfriends still here and we've been keeping in contact during the “lockdown”! Our dear Darcey has embarked on some amazing fundraising – I do SO hope you To walk to As boyfriends will be able to support her! This is her statement on her fundraising page, To talk to From Bombay with Just Giving: To cry and rely on, To Ostend, https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/darcey-carthew People will always need people. People will always need people- “The coronavirus pandemic has hit CLIC Sargent hard but they will continue To love and to miss To have friendly fights with to fight tirelessly for young cancer patients throughout this crisis ... however, To hug and to kiss, they need your support now more than ever! And share tasty bites with, It’s useful to have other people. My name is Darcey Carthew and I am a 10 year old girl. After watching a pro- It’s useful to have other people. To whom to moan gramme about a young girl who had battled cancer and chemotherapy for People live in families around 5 years, it inspired me to donate my hair to the Little Princess Trust. If you’re all alone, My hair will be used to make wigs for children!!! In the process, I would like It’s so hard to share Gangs, posses and packs, to raise money for CLIC Sargent! I am hoping to raise at least £550 before the When no one is there. It seems we need company start of the summer holidays, which is when I will have my hair cut! No do- nation is too small and every little would mean SO much”. There’s not much to do Before we relax, When there’s no one but you. (All donations online please, through the Just Giving website above and So stop making enemies People will always need people. MANY thanks for your support! – Pat Jenks) And let’s face the facts,

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19 6 Whilst there are no services being conducted in our churches, the R.J.Bray & Son clergy will still continue to observe Saints and important dates in the Independent Family Funeral Directors Liturgical year. Chapel of Repose July/August Calendar of important church dates, which can still be Egloshayle Road, Wadebridge, Cornwall, PL27 6AD celebrated in your own homes and will be included on the Sunday let- Telephone: 01208 812626 ter. Email: [email protected] www.rjbray.co.uk Golden Charter Funeral Plans Available ********** JULY Friday 3 rd THOMAS THE APOSTLE HIGMAN WINDOWS LIMITED ______Sunday 5 th FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Proper 9) Installers & Suppliers of uPVC Double Glazed Windows & Doors Saturday 11 th Benedict of Nursia Abbot c560 The Workshop Westways Sunday 12 th FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Proper 10) Lane Tel: 01637 879343 Tuesday 14 th John Keble, priest 1866 th Fax: 01637 879342 Wednesday 15 Swithun, Bishop c862 Cornwall TR8 4QB Email: [email protected] Thursday 16 th Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 Sunday 19 th SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Proper 11)

Wednesday 22 nd MARY MAGDALENE th Saturday 25 JAMES THE APOSTLE Sunday 26 th SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Proper 12)

Tuesday 28 th Samson of Dol, Bishop, Hermit of Padstow th GAS SHACK your one stop shop for all your LPG bottled gas and Wednesday 29 Mary, Martha and Lazarus, Companions of our Lord camping gas requirements, also regulators, BBQs, flame towers, blow th Thursday 30 William Wilberforce heaters, servicing, sales, hire and events. Free delivery. Friday 31 st Ignatius of Loyola, 1566 Deliveries 24 hrs - 07968 257884 Gas shack shop / office - 01841 532390 AUGUST Unit 7D, Trecerus Industrial Estate, Padstow PL28 8RW nd Sunday 2 EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Proper 13) th Wednesday 5 Oswald, Martyr, 642 PADSTOW MUSEUM is now open at THE STATION HOUSE th Thursday 6 TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD alongside Padstow Town Council Offices. th ce Friday 7 John Mason Neale, priest 1866 noti Dazzling new displays of 'Old Friends'rthe andr previously unseen objects th til fu ite Saturday 8 Dominic, priest 1221 the like of which hasd unotn been seeneb Sbefore in Padstow. th ose W ry Cl seum Sunday 9 NINTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Proper 14) Open MondaySor to Saturdaya M Novemberu to March 11am till 3 pm th es vi Monday 10 Lawrence, Deacon of Rome, Martyr, 258 Closed on Christmasquiri Day and Boxing Day and during January th En Tuesday 11 Clare of Assisi, 1253 also on May 1st (May Day) unless it falls on a Sund ay then 2nd

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th Thursday 13 Jeremy Taylor, Bishop, 1667 th CORNISH FARM FRESH TURKEYS FROM BANBURY’S Friday 14 Maximillian Kolbe, Martyr 1941 What better way to celebrate with the family thanith w a Saturday 15 th THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY stunning Cornish turkey at the center of the table? Sunday 16 th TENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Proper 15) We've spent a lifetime perfecting our turkeys since we first raised half a Thursday 20 th Bernard, Abbott and teacher, 1153 dozen birds for family and friends over fifty years ago. Sunday 23 rd ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Proper 16) Please order online direct from the farm: www.banburysturkeys.co.uk th Where you can also find your nearest stockist Monday 24 BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE th For any other help: 01841 540336 Thursday 27 Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo 387 or from your local stockist: Padstow Farm Shop, Trethillick Farm, Friday 28 th Augustine of Hippo, Bishop and Teacher, 430 Padstow PL28 8HJ. 01841 533060 Saturday 29 th Beheading of John the Baptist Sunday 30 th TWELTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (Proper 17) Monday 31 st Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, 651

TREVONE BAY, PADSTOW. Telephone: 01841 520318

Available for Parties, Functions, Dinners, Buffets, Barbecues & Fetes PLEASE RING FOR A QUOTE - OPEN ALL THE YEAR Fine Ales & Good Food can be enjoyed Lunchtime & eningsEv In line with Government guidance (at the time of printing) St Petroc’s

Churchwardens and PCC are working on our risk assessment to enable throughout the Year – Superb Views the church to open for private prayer only. We are hoping that we will

be able to do this by the end of June and we are aiming for a few hours on two days a week to start with. Updates will be published on

Time Served Carpenter the Benefice Facebook page and included in the Weekly News

EST 25 YEARS sheet. If you need any information regarding this, please get in touch

48, Boyd Avenue, Padstow, PL28 8HD with either Janet Dawe or Sue Norfolk (Churchwardens). Tele: Mobile 07773575669 Home: (01841) 532241

Trevone: St Saviour’s Trevone in keeping with Government guidance, Padstow Sea Sand Ltd is opening twice a week but only for private prayer. The local church Aggregates, Sand, Topsoil & Cement community in Trevone has been notified that they have conducted an 4” & 6” blocks assessment and have decided to open on Sundays and Wednesdays Decorative stones from 0900 to 1300. Access will be through the front door as normal, (Plumb slate, Pebbles, Golden Flint, Moon Stone) which will be unlocked but kept shut. The back door will be unlocked Plant hire. Tipper Hire. Mini Digger Hire. Bulk Haulage for exit. Attendees are reminded to fully observe guidance on social 01637 861648 0789140173 distancing. Gloves and hand sanitiser have been made available. [email protected]

17 8 Roman Catholic Parish of St Mary & St Petroc Bodmin Friends of Padstow United Football Club Parish Priest Fr.Ciaran McGuiness 01208 72833 The Winner of our June Members draw was - Padstow Catholic Community at St Petroc’s Church John Saxon F/45 Isolation and beyond To become a “Friend” of Padstow United Football Club please phone Richard Buscombe on 01841 532103 / 07866946731 Our isolation has not prevented our Church leaders from inundating us with Email [email protected] - Facebook or Twitter @Padstowboy letters and documents, all well intentioned no doubt; r ecently most of these missives have been very mundane, no longer about spirituality, but how to You do not have to like football to become a “Friend”. The main object is to clean the church in time of pandemic. Which kind of sanitizers gloves, masks help our young people enjoy a sport that keeps them occupied so any to have ready for the opening of churches for private prayer. Nature abhors a donation is very much appreciated by everyone at the club. vacuum and church leaders hate to be left out of even minuscule details. We sailed through Pentecost in isolation. It was almost inevitable that the Pope compared us to the Apostles and Mary waiting for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Pentecost reminded us that we are not alone and that there is a whole living world beyond our locked doors; Padstow and Jerusalem. ornish Food and Drink - Simply delicious! We are (at time of writing) about to open our churches for quiet and private Tel: 01841 529176 prayer. This is spiritually speaking a time of coming up for air. How well will Email : [email protected] we come out of our church deprived isolation? No one can tell. Already life is A fresh, bright, locally owned shop in the heart of the village, supplying an getting back to normal. We are moving about more and more. extensive range of Cornish / Local produce all the year round. Orders taken daily for fresh, Meat, Bakery & Fruit and Veg. Our small church school of Saint Mary’s has remained open throughout, true , A warm and friendly service from Madeleine and Kathryn awaits you, for all with a diminished number of pupils. The efforts of the teachers and all school your grocery top up requirements at reasonable prices, staff have been amazing. Maybe it brings out the best in us all. In our curtailed newspapers and locally handmade gifts and presents . worship we grope at working with social media for the sharing of the Christian message. We have reacted differently to this living in isolation. We have grieved at the passing of loved ones. We are witnessing the goodness of others. New heroes have been brought to our attention. In the last weeks we have realised that there are idols in our life and history that must fall. There is always a new beginning. We open our churches for quiet and private prayer. We anticipate the calm and comfort of it. As we pray in church we remember our ancestors who came to this same church for solace in time of war, plague and famine. Not to forget times of personal sorrow. We are one with them. Fr Ciaran

16 9 Padstow Flower Club

We have been keeping in touch by e-mail. Members are being creative with their flowers and we are sharing photos of the results. We have also sent in

photos of ourselves taking tea in our own gardens as a strange substitute for With mid-summer behind us we are still living with the restrictions of lockdown our annual Club Garden Party. with no plans to open the House or the Grounds and Tearoom for the foreseeable future. The safety of the staff and our visitors is upmost in our Our July meeting is scheduled to be a workshop - an arrangement in a vase thoughts and it is impossible to adhere to all the guidelines required to open using garden flowers. This is designed to help us to become familiar with the safely, especially with the social distancing currently required. So, like many old-fashioned, environmentally friendly method of arranging flowers historic houses and gardens we shall wait it out patiently and hope that 2021 will without oasis. The date of the meeting is 20 July. If it takes place as be pandemic free and we shall be back to happy times. We have already normal, it will be in the St. Johns Hall at the Methodist Chapel in Barrys accepted a lot of reservations for tours. Lane., starting at 2.15 p.m. If restrictions are still in place, we will be sending out guidance so that members can once again do their arrangement at We are missing everyone, this great house is far too quiet! But, it has given Peter home. and Elisabeth time to enjoy their lovely home throughout the summer, something they have never been able to do for all the years they have been As usual, there will not be any meeting in August. The next meeting after married, without constantly having to think ‘are the cushions plumped in the that is scheduled for Monday 21 September when our demonstrator will be Morning Room, have we left it tidy’ and more importantly ‘have we moved the Charlotte Dawe on the subject of Flowers for the Fall. ashtrays!’ Any enquiries to Ann Harris – Phone: 533513 Elisabeth is still working her way though the archives and finding all manner of or e-mail [email protected] precious things. The Dining Room table is still heavy with the weight of photograph albums, incredible letters and books. Two 18 th century topographical drawings by Edmund Prideaux, which up until now we didn’t know existed, have been a special find. He was a great artist and his picture albums and diaries of his Grand Tour are real treasures. His father, Humphrey Prideaux, was Dean of Norwich so Edmund travelled extensively drawing several great houses in England which are still used for reference today. PADSTOW DENTAL PRACTICE Skipper Cottage

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