Distributed free to all households in Mabe Burnthouse & the surrounding area Issue 52 - Aug/Sept 2018

A community newsletter funded by Mabe Youth and Community Project and Mabe Parish Council to provide news, share views and publicise events. Printed by Booths Print, Penryn. Works to the MYCP Play Area over Inside: the summer News, p.1-6 After what seems a very long, very convoluted process we are finally able to say that the work to re-equip the play area using funding from the S106 development pot will finally start at the end of July with drainage works to the carpark which hope to rectify the peren - Diary & What’s nial problem of surface water flooding. On, p.7-10 The current play area will be closed just after the Vil - lage Fete at the beginning of September and the equipment removed and replaced with a new commu - nity designed play area including a St Eval play boat & Trenance Trawler activity centre; Birds Nest Swing; a set of Nature Towers including crawl through tunnels Articles, p.10-16 and port windows; stepping logs; springer animals; footprint, island life, river crossing & animal underfoot graphics and an activity area containing Pull Up bars, Step Up platforms, Parallel bars and an Abdominal Ex - erciser Bench – if you’re feeling energetic! Cont. p.2

Artist’s impression of how the new play park should look Cont. from front page.... Whilst we hope that none of this work will cause issues to regular hall users, there will be disruptions to the carpark and to those living on the roads immediately in and out of the site. We all apologise now for this, but we will try to get a reasonable works management plan in place so as little disrup - tion as possible will be caused. Lisa Clements, Parish Clerk Gylly Beach Fun for Mabe’s Early Years and Key Stage 1 Children! Children from our nursery joined Classes 1 and 2 for a wonderful day out at the beach. The sun shone brightly for us and it Above & below: Children from Mabe Pri - mary School showing off their sandcas - proved to a fabulous opportunity tles on Gylly for everyone to mix. A delight from the outset, the children were a pleasure to take out and certainly represented the school beautifully. One of our mums commented that they "were a joy to be around and we should be very proud of them!" Throughout the day, we built sandcastles, played beach games, made skecthes, created collages, collected treasures and generally had great fun. I would like to say an enormous thank you to all of the fantastic parents and staff who helped us to have such a brilliant time. Mrs Pearce 2 New Inn sign and history just said Tavern Noweth (Cornish for New Inn). Does anyone re - Whilst visiting the New Inn for an member this sign? Are there any editorial meeting to discuss the photographs? content of this edition of Mabe Matters, we were delighted to We’ve been trying to find out a see the plans for the proposed little of the history of the New much needed alterations to the Inn and was wondering if any - interior of the building. body has any relevant informa - tion. However we were dismayed to hear that the pub sign was going Apparently a part of the building to be replaced. After talking to is medieval and it is reputed to the Landlord he agreed that if we be the site of a monk’s hospital. could restore the old sign he It would have been an ideal stop - would continue to use it. We felt ping place for pilgrims on their that the sign symbolised the way to St Michael’s Mount and granite heritage of Mabe as it the other monastic houses in shows a steam crane in a granite . quarry. According to a previous landlord, We have now discovered that this one of the bedrooms is reputed sign was installed in 1990. Before to be haunted by an old alady this there was a rather small sign who wore a wig and was deemed which projected from one of the to be as nutty as a fruit cake! upstairs bedroom windows which Liz Dunstan

Ex-Mabe School pupils at this year’s Penryn School Prom L-R: Dylan Caulkin, William Millington, Jonah Frost, Floss Harrison, Maya Simmons, Emily Williams, Lily Cockwell, Finn Hellier, Aiden Pellow 3 A taste of wildlife conserva - on the smallholding, but also to tion in Mabe stop this species getting into the river where it would quickly Last month Cornwall Wildlife spread to other areas including Trust and South West Lakes Trust Argal drinking water reservoir. jointly led a taster day to give The site is a haven for wildlife people a chance to get involved with a brilliant variety of plant in wildlife conservation volun - and invertebrate life as well as teering. Cornwall Wildlife Trust nesting harvest mice, making it a works on South West Water’s very special place to work and ‘Upstream Thinking’ project giving the group extra motivation around the Argal and College to remove the invasive species. Reservoirs, where they support farmers to enhance wildlife habi - After meeting at Argal café, a tats and keep the rivers clean. healthy mix of regular and first- Hands-on conservation is an es - time volunteers took a short walk sential part of this project and to the smallholding, armed only this is all thanks to a team of reg - with sun cream and enthusiasm! ular volunteers. The Himalayan Balsam pulled up easily from the damp soil, and The task for the day was to re - great teamwork meant that a move Himalayan Balsam, an inva - huge pile appeared very quickly. sive and non-native species, from Several volunteers took on the a smallholding in Mabe. The job of jumping on the pile to plant has pretty pink flowers, but crush the plants and stop them looks are deceiving as it can re-rooting. quickly shade out native plants. The job was crucial not only for Lunchtime was a good chance to protecting the diversity of plants step back and admire the impact of a morning’s hard work. A sur -

Volunteers worked hard to rid the site of Himalayan Balsam 4 prise delivery of lemon cake from “Just a Thought” … the landowner made it even sweeter…thanks Debbie! Watching an England football team in the world cup has always The team achieved a huge been a bit of a nail-biter, (except amount of work that day, and a perhaps for those of us who re - follow-up visit has removed all member 1966 when England remaining visible plants. Thank were world champions!). you to everyone who came along, it would not have hap - But this year at the start of the pened without you. competition it has felt different. As I write this in the last week of The Falmouth Reservoirs volun - June, England have played only teer group meets on Thursdays two games so far and have won (fortnightly in summer, weekly in them both, which is good. But winter) at various sites in the the really great thing is what Mabe and Penryn area, from everyone is saying – things like 10am to 3.30pm. Practical tasks “they play for each other” and are varied and include scrub “Win or lose, they are playing clearance, tree planting, hedge brilliantly”… repairs, invasive species clear - ance, fence and boundary main - And I’ve been thinking, “what if tenance and much more. Only we all lived like a team that plays hand tools are used and these for each other; if winning or los - are provided, along with tea and ing was not as important as how biscuits! we live? The group is always keen to hear England might go on to win the from new members and experi - world cup or they might lose. ence is not necessary. To get in - But, the memory of seeing them volved in or just to find out more, play how they have played so far contact Beth Cross on has warmed my heart, and for me [email protected] or they are champions all the way. 07872 194812. Rev Steve For more information about the 300 Club winners Upstream Thinking project, visit: The results for the 300 cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/ club draw are: upstreamthinking 1st Prize £50: Ed and to read about Himalayan Balsam check out: Perrera cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/ 2nd Prize £30: Laurence Ashe species/himalayan-balsam 3rd Prize £10: Ann Hellings 5 Parish Council News volved, such as MYCP and the WI, but we are still keen to hear from Land behind Coronation Cot - anyone else who would like to tages take part or help. We were disappointed to dis - We are currently planning to fol - cover that planning application low the usual morning church PA17/05495 has gone to appeal, service at St Laudus with a gath - although we have not yet been ering in the village centre and a informed of the time or location parade to the WI Hall, where of the hearing. there will be a short act of re - Any comments submitted to membrance, competitions, dis - will be passed plays and refreshments. onto the Planning Inspectorate, Plans are also afoot to clear and but you can make further repre - plant the land next to the WI Hall, sentations by writing to them di - and to turn it into a memorial rectly at: garden. Tim Marsh from https://acp.planningin Trenoweth Quarry has very kindly spectorate.gov.uk agreed to provide a new granite using this reference: memorial commemorating those APP/D0840/W/18/3193359 from Mabe who gave their lives The developer, South West in the two World Wars, and there Strategic Developments, has a will also be a new concrete ramp number of planning applications installed to enable easy access to in the South West, including the the garden. so-called ‘Garden Town’ proposal A working party is planned for for 10,000 homes in Somerset, so Sunday 9 September at 2pm to they are likely to make a very ro - finish clearing and planting the bust case in favour of their plans. garden – please come along and More info: www.falmouth - help to make this a lovely new packet. space in Mabe. co.uk/news/15544895.Plans _for_new_housing_devel- Parish Mailing List opment_in_Mabe_rejected_by_Co If you would like to sign up to re - rnwall_Council/ ceive a monthly email with the minutes and agenda of parish Remembrance Day 2018 council meetings, or if you would Remembrance Day plans are pro - like any more information on the gressing well. Members of the events above please email the Parish Council have met with a Parish Clerk at number of local groups and or - [email protected] ganisations who wish to be in - Cllr. Tessa Kingsley 6 Please send details of events happening within Mabe civic parish in Oct/Nov to [email protected] by 15 Sept 2018. Venue details: • Mabe Community Hall, Cunningham Park (375938 or [email protected] ) • Mabe Community Primary School, Cunningham Park (secretary, 372662) • Mabe Parish Church (St Laudus), Church Road, towards Higher Spargo (administrator, Pauline Cheshire, 340425) • Mabe WI Hall, Antron Hill (bookings, 372477) Weekly Events Mon Short Mat Bowls Club ,Community Hall, 2-4pm. Contact Keith Bryant, 373102. Cardio Box/Fitcamp Class , WI Hall, 6.15- 7.15pm. Contact Ali or Carmela, 07988 140745. Mabe Keep Fit Club ,WI Hall, 7.30pm. Open Water Swimming, Kernow Adven - ture Park, 6-8pm. Contact, 07817 662 962 Tues Age Concern Luncheon Club ,Community Hall, 12.30-2pm. Contact Community Hall (11.30-12.30pm), 377475. Slimming World , Community Hall, 3.30, 5.30 & 7.30pm. Con - tact Pam Mundy, 01209 204743 or 07503 945600. Nature Playgroup, Chyan Community Field, 10am-12pm term time. Contact Alice, 07576 748450. Wed Short Mat Bowls League (winter only) , Community Hall, 2- 4pm. Contact Keith Bryant, 373102 Daisy’s Yoga , Chyan Cultural Centre, 6-7pm. Contact Daisy, 07837 879876 Thurs Kernow Huffa Puffas , a support, exercise and social group for people with COPD and their carers, 10am-12pm, Community Hall. Contact Trish, 375238 or Frances, 712047. Carpet Bowls Club ,Community Hall, 2-4pm. Contact Arthur Searle, 377088. Brownies ,Community Hall, 6.15-8pm. Contact Jackie Williams, 372863. Aikido , Japanese martial art, beginners welcome, 7-9pm, Mabe School. Contact Jamie Matthews, 375336. Fri Short Mat Bowls Club ,Community Hall, 2-4pm. Contact Keith, 373102. Sun Trenoweth Methodist Church , Community Hall, 10.45am- 12pm. Contact Margaret Bryant, 373102. Mabe Parish Church (St Laudus) ,with St Michael’s Church, Ponsanooth – please see the Diary for the times of services. Aerial Yoga Jam, Chyan Cultural Centre, 11am-12pm. Contact Naomi, [email protected]. 7 (All six-digit phone numbers are 01326 unless specified) Mabe Diary

August 2018 St Laudus Church, Mabe Thurs 9 – Parish Council meet - ing , WI Hall, 7.30pm. Agenda available on the Parish Notice Board and website (www.mabeparish.co.uk). Open to August the public. Contact Lisa Clements, 5th - 10.45am, Morning Worship – 07964 735219, joining with the Trenoweth [email protected] Methodist congregation at Mabe Community Centre Wed 15 - Dementia UK Cornwall Sun 12th - 9.30 am - Sung Holy Cream Tea , 3-4.30pm, Glenderry, Communion with hymns and a Antron Hill. See What’s On . sermon Wed 15 - Christmas Down Under Sun 19th - 9.30am – Holy Com - munion (Traditional Book of Com - BBQ , from 4.30pm, The New Inn. mon Prayer) Quiet service, short See What’s On. address, no hymns Sat 18 - Craft Fayre, 10am-1pm, Sun 26th - 9.30am – Said Holy Community Hall. Communion. With hymns, short address and prayers for healing September 2018 September Sat 1 - Village Fete, Sun 2nd - 9.30am – HARVEST FES - Community Hall TIVAL. Morning Worship with friends from Trenoweth Methodist Thurs 13 – Parish Council meet - congregation ing , WI Hall, 7.30pm. Details as Sun 9th - 9.30 am - Sung Holy for August. Communion with hymns and a Mon 17 - Mabe Garden Club - sermon Talk from Peter Auger: Preparing Sun 16th - 9.30am – Special serv - for Spring colour , 7pm, Commu - ice for St Laudus Day and dedica - nity Hall. tion of new altar frontals Thurs 27 - Cornwall Astronomy Sun 23rd - 9.30am – Said Holy Society , 8pm, WI Hall. Contact Communion with hymns, short ad - Simon Dunkley, 564046. See dress and prayers for healing What’s On. Sun 30th - 7.30pm ‘Sacred Space’ Fri 28 - Macmillan Coffee Morn - – an oasis of calm with quiet ing , 10am-12pm, Community music, one or two short readings, Hall. See What’s On . some poetry, space to think/pray, candles...

8 (All six-digit phone numbers are 01326 unless specified) What’s On

Please make a place in your diary for our Dementia UK Afternoon Tea on the 15th August this year. It will be held at Glenderry (opposite the shop) in Antron Hill.

you and your friends and family can enjoy a chilled glass of wine We have been supporting Dementia or a cold beer in the newly land - UK in Mabe for the last 6 years. In scaped garden. All proceeds from Cornwall we have a specialist Admi - the BBQ will go towards Mabe ral Nurse at Treliske who supports Christmas Lights. inpatients with dementia. If more money could be raised there would On Thursday 27th September, Bent be an Admiral Nursing Team in the Nielsen of the Cornwall Astronomy community who could support the Society will give a talk entitled, “ Two whole family in their own home. Danish Astronomers ”. Mabe WI Hall, Antron Hill, 7.30pm for Mabe Christmas Lights will be 8.00pm,refreshments available. hosting a summer 'Christmas Down Under' BBQ on Wednes - Mabe Short Mat Bowls Club will be day 15th August from 4:30pm at holding their annual Macmillan Cof - The New Inn. fee Morning in the Community Hall on Friday 28th September 2018 Dig out your Hawaiian shirts and from 10am until 12noon. tinsel, flip flops and Christmas Please make a note of this date in hats as we hold an Aussie BBQ your diary and we look with a Christmas theme for Fal - forward to making a con - mouth Week 2018. There will be tribution for this worthy lawn games for the children while cause. 9 Mabe Gets Two New Chairs! that Mabe remains separate from Penryn and Falmouth and main - Two of Mabe’s most influential tains the feeling of a ‘village’. In - organisations have both elected evitable future housing needs to new chairs this year. Mabe Mat - be built in the right place and for ters asked a few questions to get those who were born or live in to know them better. the Parish. Peter Tisdale, new chair of the Parish Council, is also Chair of Governors at Mabe School hav - ing been a governor and a parish councillor for 23 years. Originally from Cookham, near Windsor, Peter’s mother’s family comes from Mullion and . Peter worked for 10 years at the Min - istry of Defence in London, then for 12 years building and testing Rally and Race cars in Slough, gaining a UK F1 Licence and an International Rally licence. Peter and his wife of 41 years, Kathy, moved to Cornwall in 1989, working at Blowing House The new Chair of Mabe Parish Council, Garage and running a model Peter Tisdale making business and shop until He also believes in balancing the retirement. They have lived in number of students within the Longdowns for almost 30 years. Parish. He fears that Mabe could They had 2 daughters born in end up with more students than Cornwall who attended Mabe Pri - full time residents. mary School, where Peter helped Peter remains a champion of teach pupils to sail and received local bespoke businesses, espe - the ‘Unsung Heroes Award’. cially those involved with quarry - Peter likes fast cars, trains and ing and working with stone. He jets. He also enjoys walking, explains that “These are dying swimming and drinking the odd arts “ which should be “encour - pint of Real Ale. He dislikes peo - aged to continue and take on ple who try to ‘pull the wool over fresh talent to pass on to future my eyes’. generations.” Peter was honoured to be elected Peter is concerned that Mabe has chair and his priority is to ensure become a rat run for people trav - 10 elling between Falmouth/Penryn and . The council has worked tirelessly over the last decade to solve the traffic prob - lems and at last a traffic calming project is in sight, although it may not deter those that con - sider the village a short cut. Peter sees the Parish Council as the ‘mouthpiece’ of the Parish residents when dealing with Cornwall Council. It can be a challenge to balance the needs The new Chair of the MYCP, Chris Cole of the Parish and its residents and his wife Izzy against the effect of various proj - about the traffic in Mabe and the ects. Sometimes councillors have effect on the parish of the Uni - to make decisions they might in - versity’s expansion. dividually find uncomfortable to Chris stood as chair of the MYCP benefit parishioners with a differ - because he believes MYCP needs ent point of view. It also manages younger people to volunteer and the maintenance of Parish roads, get involved to ensure a long fu - footpaths and street lights. ture for the charity. Mabe’s won - Peter would like to see the traffic derful facilities are thanks to all calming measures completed and the hard work that everyone a War Memorial in the Remem - within MYCP does. He believes brance garden by the village hall. that the role of the MYCP is to Generosity of certain parish resi - provide a place in the village for dents means the Remembrance all residents to try different activ - Garden will become a reality, fit - ities and to bring the community tingly in the 100th Anniversary together as a whole. year of Armistice Day. Chris would like to see more new Chris Cole, the new chair of faces using the hall and getting MYCP is also a Parish Councillor involved in meetings to support and has lived in Mabe for about 4 and maintain the amenities in the years with his wife Isobel. He village. He is looking forward to works in for Magnet as a working with Charlotte Bailey in kitchen designer. setting up the new youth forum while maintaining the wonderful He enjoys tending to his various relationships with all the other animals, hiking, canoeing and groups that currently support the being outside. Chris is concerned hall. 11 Interesting talks at Cornwall dition 10 photometric alert tar - Astronomy Society gets from the GAIA mission. The images are then forwarded to the We had two very interesting talks University of Kent CAPS where recently, writes Robert Beeman. they are processed to show any The first in April was given by Dr outbursting stars, once found, Dirk Froebrich of the University these can be monitored and sub - of Kent entitled “HOY-CAPS Citi - jected to further investigation. zen Science”. HOY-CAPS is short - The images do not need to be of hand for “Hunting for young “publishing quality” because all outbursting stars with the Centre that is being sought is whether for Astrophysics”. there is a change from one The project requires participating month to the next in a particular amateur astronomers to image target area, ie has a star ap - specific target areas of the night peared that was not present the sky at regular intervals, perhaps previous month or has there once a month but more fre - been a change in brightness in quently if something of interest is an existing star. found. This works because given What will be required is precision the weather we experience, when setting up to image the se - somewhere in the UK there is lected target area as the Univer - bound to be an astronomer who sity processing software uses has a clear sky!! In other words known stars in the target area to the more people who sign up the fix the positions of interest that larger the capture potential be - appear on the image. comes. A number of our members are considering becoming involved in this project which enables am - ateur and professional as - tronomers to engage in a common project. The second talk was given in May by Anita Heward of the “TWIN - KLE PROJECT”.

An image centred on KH15D (V* V582 Twinkle is a small, low-cost mis - Mon), a well known variable star sion that will use spectroscopy to At the moment there are 9 tar - decode the light from hundreds gets for the winter months and 8 of extrasolar planets (exoplanets). for the summer. There are in ad - Twinkle will be able to reveal, of 12 the first time, the chemical com - altered the atmosphere through position, weather and history of time; this is likely to happen on worlds orbiting distant stars. The other planets too. Twinkle satellite is being built in Gases present in a planet’s at - the UK and will be launched into mosphere hold clues to whether a low-Earth orbit within the next it formed in its current orbit or 2 to 3 years, using a platform de - whether it has migrated due to signed by Surrey Satellite Tech - collisions, tidal forces or the nology Ltd and instrumentation gravitational influence of other led by University College London planets. The make-up, evolution, (UCL). chemistry and physical processes Twinkle will analyse starlight fil - driving an exoplanet’s atmos - tered through the halo of atmos - phere are strongly affected by phere surrounding the planet as the distance from its parent star. it passes in front of its star. Mole - By measuring the visible light re - cules absorb and emit specific flected by an exoplanet and the wavelengths, embedding a infrared heat that it emits, Twin - unique pattern of lines within kle will work out the planet’s en - from the electromagnetic spec - ergy balance, its temperature and trum. Twinkle will pick out these whether clouds are present or characteristic spectral ‘finger - absent in the atmosphere. For prints’ and deduce which gases very large planets orbiting very are present. bright stars, Twinkle will even be Very precise measurements have able to obtain two-dimensional to be taken to identify the maps of temperature and clouds. change in the spectrum between With repeated observations over when the exoplanet is in transit the lifetime of the mission, this and when it is elsewhere in its will tell us about climate and orbit. The progress made in weather on those planets. gathering exoplanet data is The team behind Twinkle is rela - amazing when you take into ac - tively small consisting of a team count that the first exoplanet of 16 people, each with a scien - wasn’t discovered until 1995. tific background. Significantly, A planet’s atmosphere can tell the Twinkle team put a lot of the story of its history and evolu - time an effort into outreach, es - tion. Impacts and volcanic activity pecially with young people and can significantly alter the gases may be inspiring many of the that will be found, and whether next generation of scientists, par - features like clouds will form. On ticularly Astrophysicists. our planet, life has significantly Mabe Burnthouse Village (MYCP) 13 Garden delights lowed by a trip to the ‘bar and by Sue Mitchell spa’ - in reality nothing more than a large, deep plastic dish Our back garden, though far filled with water and stones from perfect, provides daily placed to ensure a safe departure magic moments that lift the soul for visiting wildlife. A straggly and feed the spirit. cotoneaster alongside the crin - Standing at the back door and odendron has two benefits each putting mental blinkers on to year - first the flowers, so popular avoid the areas that need atten - with bees and other insects, and tion, we are able to zone in on later the berries appreciated by sure and certain pleasures. A birds. large nepeta assures us that bees By happy are still making the most of the chance a nectar its flowers have provided dog rose has for months on end. Scanning appeared right, we can see other bees dis - and wound Cotoneaster has bright appearing into the bells dripping itself red berries from penstemons, more enjoying through the hawthorn at the the open geranium flowers which hedge’s top, intertwining with a have been prolific this year, and wild honeysuckle and soon to be yet more barging their way into joined by a climbing white rose snapdragons still flowering as, for and a clematis armandii which is once, deadheading has not been determinedly making its way in overlooked. Meanwhile, a less their direction via the co - common red-tailed bumble bee toneaster and crinodendron. Na - is cheekily sunning itself on some ture plays some wonderful tricks warm wood and butterflies and at times achieves levels of spreadeagle themselves on fenc - perfection hard for human hands ing, walls and plants to absorb to match. the heat and rest awhile. The garden is a constant yet ever In the shady, wilder area under - changing source of pleasure, for - neath the crinodendron where giving us our horticultural inepti - snowdrops, bluebells and various tude and many mistakes and bulbs are hibernating we can delivering us a space where we watch blackbirds, sparrows, can sit and rest, forage for food wrens, robins and dunnocks for - (in the fruit and vegetable patch), age in the undergrowth beneath flit from plant to plant (to dead - the birdfeeder. At certain times head) and return to the house of the day, it is ‘sparrow central’ richer for the time spent in our at the feeding station often fol - imperfect but cherished nirvana. 14 Race Night a runaway success! Thank you to everyone who came and supported the Mabe Christ - mas Lights Race Night on the 29th June. It was a huge success and raised a massive £264 towards Christ - mas lights, which is the most we have ever raised for this type of event so an extra thank you to The New Inn for providing such a welcoming and wonderful atmos - phere. Above: Linsey Shears and Karen Philips from the Mabe Lights Committee

The New Inn was busy with Race Night attendees Donations needed at Flicka summer and the proceeds will help cover the costs of our ex - We still need items for our up - pensive, ongoing vet - coming online auction - can you erinary care bills. help by donating something or Please email us on of - do you know a business who [email protected] if might? We are looking for gift you can help or you items, vouchers, spa days, art - can drop off or post your dona - work, jewellery, hampers or any - tions to our sanctuary (The Flicka thing that would make an Foundation, Trenoweth Lane, attractive auction lot! Mabe Burnthouse, Penryn, TR10 The auction will take place this 9JB). 15 Could you give some hens a 6 to 8 weeks. Since the team was happy home? set up in April 2016 it has found homes across West and North Hen keeping is on the rise and Cornwall for 4,500 hens. it’s not difficult to see why. Ex- bats in particular make wonderful Once you have kept ex-bats you pets and are great company, will never want to be without each with their own distinct per - them. sonalities. Seeing a hen fresh out of her cage enjoying the sunshine, scratching for bugs and slugs and dust bathing is one of life’s pure joys. Although they may be looking a little tatty at first, after a pedicure and a few days of fresh air they will start to grow their new feathers and become real characters. The added extra The British Hen Welfare Trust re- is that you will be provided with homes hens, both free range and free range eggs for breakfast! caged, that would otherwise go If you would like to re-home to slaughter at 72 weeks old. some hens please contact The local team, based in , www.bhwt.org.uk or 01884 holds re-homings roughly every 860084.

Mabe Matters is published by Mabe Youth and Community Project, Cunningham Park, Mabe Burnthouse, Cornwall, TR10 9HB. Editorial Team: Liz Dunstan, Jackie Frost, Liz Westhead, Candia Cox (illustrations), Amanda Wills (editor). Distribution co-ordination: Liz Dunstan. Deadline for next issue: 15 Sept 2018. Please send your events, news, notices, letters etc to the address above or to [email protected] . 16