Lezant Parish Magazine Issue 104 August/September 2018
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LEZANT PARISH MAGAZINE ISSUE 104 AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2018 EDITOR: ROB PETCH TEL 01579 370151 ADVERTISING & ACCOUNTS JILL PRICE TEL 01579 370835 Front cover: A coin showing the head of Augustus Caesar. The Romans gave us our cal- endar. September isn’t named after Septimus, but after the number seven, as originally there were ten months in the Roman year. The months are all named after gods, lead- ers, festivals, and numbers. We can also thank the Romans and the like for things like double-acting hydraulic pumps, mass production, flush toilets, stop-cocks, pipes and standardisation… the knowledge of which was largely lost in our last Dark Ages. Editorial First of all, a big ‘Thank-you’ to Jill for taking over for last month’s edition! This enabled my wife and me to take a camping break in the low season. We’ll mostly ‘lie low’ during the school-holiday months when the roads are packed and campsite fees (and the prices of pasties) rocket to take advantage of the captive audience. The A30 and A38 are not to be recommended on hot Fridays and Saturdays either, in the high season. Speaking of hot days, Sue Barnes’ rainfall figures for last month (see below) tell a tale. As I write this, we’ve only just had the merest sprinkling of rain in July - it probably evaporated before it trickled to the base of the rain-gauge. Apologies to the sun-lovers amongst you, but I do hope for a proper soaking to do our parched landscape good. It must be costing local farmers a small fortune to buy in feed, when normally we would be seeing a decent crop of grass. It doesn’t help that the threat of cheap meat imports from America, produced to lower welfare standards than in the UK, combined with Donald Trump’s thinly veiled arm-twisting about the UK needing to accept these in return for a post-Brexit trade deal in other areas, must loom like a dark cloud for our livestock producers. Expressing this last view may bring me criticism for being ‘political’ but that’s ‘editor’s prerogative’ for you! RAINFALL FIGURES FOR June 2018 2018 : NIL yes NIL: the first dry month since 1996 2017: 102 mm (4 inches) Rainfall measured at Trekenner by Sue Barnes. Don’t forget to leave water out for our wildlife! A SPECIAL REQUEST FROM A PARISHIONER As you may be aware, a new farm shop named is being completed on fields adjacent to the A388, between Landue Bridge and Landue Milll. The owners applied to open a Post Office there but were turned down. Anne from Trekenner has suggested that if anyone else feels as she does, that a Post Office would be an asset to the parish and helpful to the many elderly people here, they might wish to contact Scott Mann, the MP for North Cornwall, to see if he can apply any influence to bear to get the decision reversed. Don’t forget he was a ‘postie’ himself before becoming an MP. Contact him using your name and address. Post a letter to: Office of Scott Mann MP, 10 Market House Arcade, Fore Street, Bodmin, PL31 2JA. 2 3 TREBULLETT METHODIST CHURCH We held our Annual Strawberry Tea on 24th June on a lovely sunny day, although a trifle warm. Between 65 and 70 people came along to enjoy delicious strawberries and cream and, of course, the usual wonderful array of home made cakes. It was a very good afternoon and we welcomed several who had- n’t been to one of our events before as well as those who usually come along to support us. Lots of friendly chat and good company. At the end of July we enjoyed Tabitha’s Blooming Great Tea Party for Marie Curie and also our annual Summer Sunday Lunch. Reports on these will be in the October maga- zine. Once again we will have a stall at the Lezant Horticultural Show on 11th August. Please stop by to have a chat with Sheila and Richard. There will be plenty for you to see and do and all will be welcome to join in. Our quarterly charity coffee and cake morning on 1st September will be in aid of Val’s Malignant Melanoma Research Fund, a charity set up by Ply- mouth Hospital Charity Fund. Val Bugden-Cawsey was a great friend to this parish while she lived at Little Comfort with her husband, Terry, and we missed her when she moved to Launceston. While in Lezant Parish, she was a Parish Councillor, a church warden at St Briochus, a member and one time President of Lezant WI and a founder with Ruth Burden and Veryan Milne Home of the Lezant Lunch Club. As you will remember, on 1st July there was a very successful walk “Val Walks Tall” for funds to help Derriford’s research into the particular type of mela- noma that Val has and threatens her life. So, we feel it fitting that we try and raise funds for the new charity whose aim is to find a cure for this awful type of cancer. Please come along and support us. (See our advert on Page 8) Also in September, we are organising an event to mark 3 centenaries – the end of World War 1, the passing of the Representation of the People’s Act which gave women over the age of 30 the right to vote and the founding of the RAF with its predecessor the Royal Flying Corps. The proposed programme is: • Friday 7th September 7.30pm Trebullett Chapel “Old Time Songs” with Sheila and Richard. • Saturday 8th September Opening of Exhibition. Refreshments available. • Sunday 9th September 11am Special Celebration Service with Revd Jo Smart. The programme won’t be finalised until after this issue has gone to print but there will be notices on all the parish notice-boards with the final programme. We hope that you will come to, and enjoy, the Sing-along and the exhibition. Any memorabilia you are willing to lend us for the exhibition (we promise we will take very good care of it) would be greatly appreciated. Please see the separate box on Page 19. 4 LEZANT PARISH CHURCH On the surface July seems to have been a quiet time for Lezant Church but work is qui- etly being done on arrangements for the Fizz & Fun evening on 8th September at East Penrest (see details in Magazine) and also for a service of commemoration to mark the end of the First World War. It is intended that this will be a village event involving Trekenner School and the wider community, especially those who have a direct link with the men who gave their lives during the conflict and also those who have a con- nection with the Armed Forces. In the Church, the scaffolding has now come down from the East window and all the iron bars have been replaced, to stop the erosion of the stonework. Further work is planned for more of the windows in the next few weeks. The clock continues to prove mischievous and perhaps due to extreme heat, gave up striking altogether in early July. All is now back in working order and we are hopeful that it will keep in time and strike on time. There is obviously more to automation than meets the eye! August is traditionally a time when the Church has a stall at the Horticultural Show and this year we are appealing for bric-a-brac for the stall. Everything must be portable and of good quality so that (hopefully) very little is left over to be disposed of. It can either be brought on the day, or contact Veryan on 01566 774825 if it needs to be left before the Show. Volunteers to run the stall would also be very welcome. Lezant Church was dedicated to St. Briochus on 25th September 1259, and this is the time we hold our annual Gift Day. On Saturday 22nd September the Church will be open from 10.00 until 4.00 p.m. to receive your gifts. Light refreshments will also be available during this time. As always, the Church relies on the generosity of the wider community to be able to maintain its pattern of worship and provide spiritual support to those in need. During this time of austerity in Church finances generally and the reorganisation of the Deanery, it is especially important that Lezant Church continues to ‘pay its way’ and keep its life and work going. Progress so far: The committee now has a website set up where you can view the ongoing de- velopment of the Neighbourhood Development Plan. At present, the site is still under final de- velopment but if you view it and follow the links, you’ll be able to see all the minutes and survey results to date. The address of the site, if you want to enter it directly into your browser’s ad- dress bar, is: https://sites.google.com/site/lezantparishndp/home Alternatively, you can search for it by typing Lezant NDP into the search box of your favourite search engine or address bar. No hard-and –fast rules here as each web browser (Safari, Inter- net Explorer, Edge, Opera, Chrome, Firefox etc.) will work in a slightly different way. Andrew Hudson. 5 ADVERTISEMENTS, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS We always try to keep some space for your announcements and adverts! Business, For Sale and Wanted advertisements can be placed in this magazine. For sale and wanted adverts can be sent to the editor via email, to: [email protected] Or post them in to:- Rob Petch, Trekenner House, Trekenner PL15 9PH with your name and con- tact details inside..