Volume 42, No 10 JUNE 2019 50p where sold THE LYMPSTONE HERALD

LYMPSTONIAN WALKING FOR WILDLIFE There are many events in this month’s awareness about the Devon Wildlife Herald to look forward to again from Trust; she intends to walk 91 miles of woodland garden theatre productions, nature reserve this summer in a bid to burial ground tours to the amazing raise much needed funds for this worthy adventures of Mary Truell. Mary (91) charity. Don’t forget to put 3rd August in is hosting at a coffee morning to raise your diaries for this year’s Furry Dance.

Editors: Claire and Rob Hilton - [email protected] | 07739969311 Advertising: Steve Morgan [email protected] | 01395 276020 Copy deadline for the next issue : Wednesday 3rd July, 6pm by email Distribution by Robin and Judith Telfer Tel. 272275 | Copy Editor: P Acca Cover Art: Angela Coles Village website: www.lympstone.org | [email protected] PARISH COUNCIL NEWS

Public Session – A resident expressed overhanging nettles and brambles and his concern of a plant that looked cut them back. It is important to note suspiciously familiar to Japanese that any hedgerows/trees do not have Knotweed growing in the Brook. Any to be cut until the Autumn due to bird resident who has land leading to nesting season. the Brook has a duty to check the The Clerk referred to the damaged door Brook for this invasive plant. If the on the traditional red telephone box at plant is identified, then contact the Trafalgar Road. The door is beyond Environmental Agency immediately to repair and it was agreed to purchase a tackle the removal and safe disposal new one to preserve this British icon. of the plant. Please do not attempt to The Clerk read the Annual CIL Report dispose of it yourself. which was agreed and will be displayed Clerks Report – The Internal Auditor on the notice boards and on the website concluded ‘…the Council’s financial to view. There will also be an upcoming procedures and controls are sound and meeting with EDDC Officers to discuss effective’ and signed off the accounts the way forward to spend the CIL money for 2018/2019. From the 17th June the received regarding the toddler play area accounts will be available for the public and activity trial in Candy’s Field. to view in their entirety. The Chairman Reports from the Chairman, East signed the AGAR Annual Audit 2018/19 Devon District Councillors and Governance Statement and Annual Devon County Councillors – Due to Audit 2018/19 Accounting statements in an incident of someone being locked in preparation for the External Audit. the village public conveniences late one The Clerk read out correspondence evening the fire brigade were called to received from a concerned resident break the lock on the main door. The regarding overhanging nettles. It was door lock is currently undergoing repair. agreed that the Parish Council would Please be aware that should the main start identifying overgrown nettles door on the toilets lock then this is only and brambles that pose a nuisance a one-way lock. You should always be to pedestrians and contact the owner. able to open them from the inside. If a letter from the Parish Council is The Youth Club had been closed on not acted upon then District Cllr Scott some occasions this month due to reminded the Council that DCC have the lack of volunteers to support the enforcement officers to back up the running of the club. If you can help and Parish Council. Please could all volunteer your time on a Friday evening Parishioners check their boundaries for then please contact the Youth Club 2 leader, Mrs Susan Briggs or the Clerk students from the university involved of the Council. in their investigations. All results from County Councillor Scott would their findings will be taken to DCC for like to organise a beach clean-up in future support. The group was agreed Lympstone and continue this for the to be established formally by the Parish next 6 to 12 months. The Parish Council Council. fully supported this initiative. The Public Conveniences – Cllr Ducker County Cllr Trail explained that the suggested that as the lease from EDDC new Toucan crossing on the A376 for has now expired, it is necessary to have the Exe Estuary Trail would be in use by it in writing that the lease continues as the end of June. He explained the delay it is not presently clearly documented. had been due to electric connections. Cllr Atkins explained that the lease District Cllr Ingham had attended was taken on by the Parish Council as EDDC Annual Council meeting on 22nd EDDC were going to decommission the May 19 and had been successfully toilets. The Chair explained that the elected as Chairman. Cllr Ingham toilets needed updating. Cllr Eastley explained he had appointed a new and proposed a site meeting with EDDC independent cabinet to the Council. Officers to discuss the toilets in their Exe Estuary Trail – There were three entirety. This was unanimously agreed. members of the Exe Estuary Trail Group Heritage and Structure – Cllr Rogers present and Mrs Davis updated and reported on Gulliford burial ground. reported on the progress of the group to She explained how time consuming it date. The group are working incredibly was to rebuild the listed wall, but it is hard with DCC and Network Rail to slowly progressing. She also added run the Trail as smoothly as possible that there would be an open day later through the village. They need funding in June for visitors to attend and learn and are currently investigating different more about the historical background of avenues to support their projects. the burial ground. Getting Around – There was also a report from the Getting Around Group Clerk to the Council: where parking in the village was a Lucy Tyrrell c/o Minnows, Longmeadow main concern. They have begun Road, Lympstone EX8 5LF parking surveys and will be monitoring Tel: 07890717081 the use of the roads in and around Email: [email protected] the Parish. They have spoken with Exeter University and will be getting 3 PARISH CHURCH

Annual church B.B.Q. To be held on 16th June 2019 at Highfield, 12 Underhill Close, Lympstone commencing at 12 o’clock by kind permission of Ian and Heather Stratford. Bring your own drink and food to be cooked on the Barbecue. seating provided! Father’s Day special - a free glass of wine for every FATHER attending. Everyone welcome PIANO RECITAL. On Sunday 7th July, at 4:00pm the young Exeter pianist, Nina Leonard-Savicevic, returns to Lympstone for another recital. Nina has already enjoyed much acclaim both nationally and internationally, having won competitions in Europe and the h useit UK. The programme will include music your key to secure storage by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. ENTRY TO THE CONCERT IS FREE with donations going to support Nina’s piano studies at The Royal Northern College of Music. Men’s Breakfast 0830 15th June Toby Woodbury Business Park • Woodbury • Nr Exeter www.house-it.co.uk Carvery. The Rector will be in the Swan on 12th June at noon and in Susannah’s on the CLOCK REPAIRS 18th at noon. Terence C. Matthews, Interior design and layout Horologist consultation Sub groups will shortly be Tel: 01395 273563 established to consider the thoughts and All clocks repaired, including ideas communicated by members and Westminster Chimes, Wall Clocks, village groups in the recent consultation Grandfather & Grandmother Clocks, Dial Clocks, Long Case and Carriage exercise. Clocks. Parish Community worker Adverts Free estimates provided, with house for this post will appear in July. visits. Recruitment of new Rector The 4 churchwardens, Demelza and keep you all in our prayers. Thank you Fiona Upchurch recently met with again. the Archdeacon together with Nigel and Liz Candelant churchwardens from Holy Trinity/ Littleham.This meeting set out FRIENDS OF THE CHURCH LOTTERY the process of drawing up the job specification and representing Our winner of the £25 prize for May is the specific needs of the Mission Anne Billington. Community.The next key date is June Clive Wilson 12th Joint PCC meeting visioning session-if you have views on the vision PRIMARY SCHOOL SUMMER FAYRE of Lympstone church and the mission community do please convey to a PCC Lympstone Primary School are holding member to inform this meeting. their annual Summer Fayre on Thursday Rector’s leaving tea will be at Holy 27th June from 5 – 7 pm at the school. Trinity Exmouth from 3.30pm on 30th All are welcome and the event promises June followed by Songs of Praise. to be a fun family evening with a bar, Sea Sunday is on 14th July at 11:30 on BBQ, raffle and lots of stalls including the slipway with Geoffrey Wrayford.who glitter tattoos, tombola, penalty shoot has crossed the Atlantic on tall ships out and lots more! Entry is free. If you and knows well the reasons why this would like to book a stall please let service has such significance to all who the school know by emailing admin@ go to sea. lympstone-primary.devon.sch.uk, stalls Brian Mather cost £12.50. We look forward to seeing Thank you from the Candelants We lots of you there! would like to say a huge thank you to The PTFA. everyone for their cards, gifts and very kind words, making last weekend’s THANK YOU FROM JENNY MOXOM events and services a very special time for us. We are also deeply grateful to I would like to thank all the lovely people the very generous collection that was in the village who have donated to the taken for us and the fantastic hand- Amish Kunda village in The Gambia. finished stole, which, when appropriate, I have sent the money, timber has I will wear with immense pride and joy. been purchased, and they are making Thank you so very much, they were benches for the school. Thank you too both wonderful surprises. The Mission for the wonderful donations of clothes! community will ALWAYS hold a very Jenny Moxom special place in our hearts. We will both 5 Lympstone Summer Fete

Join us for a traditional village Fete with special commemoration of Cllr Atkins 50yrs service to our village Candys Field/Village Hall • Sunday 7th July 2019 • 2:30pm – 5:30pm Games•Activities•Ice Cream•Music•Choir•Vintage Vehicles•Inflatable Fun•Face Painting•Glitter Tattoos•Drinks & Nibbles FREE CREAM TEA WITH THIS LEAFLET (exchange at village store for your cream tea ticket no later than 1st July) -All Welcome- supporting Hospice Care and Devon Air Ambulance Trust RSVP to confirm attendance to: [email protected] or Lympstone Village Store

LYMPSTONE HISTORY SOCIETY GETTING AROUND GROUP At our AGM in May our chairman Gary The Lympstone Parish Council has McNulty was elected for a further 2 year established a group called the Getting term, and Jenny Moon was elected a Around Group to assess the movements vice-chair. The formalities were followed of vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists etc by an engaging and entertaining series within the Parish of short films from Brian Mather - his In order to obtain factual information on ‘Lympstone Vignettes’ were a new vehicles, the “Getting Around Group” compilation of local films and there will be carrying out a traffic survey on were several ‘oohs’ and ‘aaahs’ as old Tuesday 23rd July on the three roads familiar sites came into view. leading into Lympstone. Anybody We take a summer break now, but interested in participating in this survey will return in the Autumn with a talk in please contact me. neildownes1@ the Methodist Hall on Thursday 19th talktalk.net. September when Tony Venning will be Neil Downes telling us about the Life and Loves of Samuel Pepys. Meanwhile, if you are FREE PHOTO DISPLAY & TOURS going to the Lympstone Fete on 7th July, On Sunday August 11th at 10.30am & we will be opening the archive, which is 2.30pm the Friends of Gulliford Burial located via the door closest to Candy’s Ground are conducting free tours of Field. Do come along and see us in the the burial ground, revealing some of village hall - you may even be able to its hidden stories of the chapels long help us identify some of the unknown demolished, where around 300 people faces in our photographs! would attend Sunday services, to the Mary Turner personal stories of the people buried Secretary, Lympstone History Society. there from Whaler to Turn Broacher and explaining the construction of the tombs THANK YOU & headstones. This year we have new We would like to thank our Glebelands chapters untold and alongside the Postman for finding and returning our free tours held throughout the day is young Grandsons mobile on June 1st. a photographic display entitled “Our This saved him from a very miserable Beautiful East Devon” showing photos day out and a real telling off from his not just of Lympstone but the whole Mum. We do not know his name but are area at a very high standard. We would sure some of the readers will. Thank also like to take this chance to thank you. everyone who filled in our questionnaire. Barry and Mo McWilliams. Angela Coles

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MERLIN HELICOPTER COMES TO LYMPSTONE

On Thursday 9th May, Lympstone pupils of them!” There were also 5 or 7 maps went into a Merlin Helicopter, it was to show them where they are and where about 26 metres long and was a Navy they are going. helicopter from Somerset (England). There were lots of chairs with huge The pupils of the school were excited. seatbelts. They were huge because the Most hadn’t even gone on a helicopter. soldiers wear so much heavy armour. It was a great experience for all of them. The helicopter could hold between 20 Some lined up to sit in the front of the and 30 people. helicopter. One of the pilots showed When it took off lots of kids fell and them what does what. The pupils people could barely stand. said “There are so many buttons and Sammy Bradford (Beech Class) switches, even the pilot doesn’t know all Lympstone Primary School

CHALLENGE FOR DEVON WILDLIFE TRUST - COFFEE MORNING

I am sure you are as concerned To tell a little more about some of these as I am about the desecration and lively Reserves I am having a Coffee/ disappearance of so much of our unique Soft Drinks morning on Thursday 18th wildlife. July at 10:30am in the Social Area of However, all is not lost! Our wonderful our beautiful Church, (which has a Devon Wildlife Trust and other such lovely play corner for children). I would visionary groups have worked with be delighted to see you. Come and tireless dedication for many years to share your wildlife stories or just enjoy protect our precious wildlife and help us a chat or browsing through some books all to enjoy it in its natural habitats. and magazines. To continue this crucial work the Trust Should you wish to sponsor me, urgently needs our help, both financially (NO obligation), please donate and in finding new members. For this via Virgin Money Giving: https:// reason I have set myself the sponsored uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Mary Truell - challenge to visit and explore all 50 or by cheque to Devon Wildlife Trust via of the Nature Reserves managed by Mary Truell at Netherexe, The Strand, Devon Wildlife Trust in our county, Lympstone, EX8 5EY and whilst in the Reserves to clock up For more information do email, truell@ walking 91 miles, to match my age, me.com Tel. 01395 276793 during the 2019 Summer months. Mary Truell 9 10 AWARD FOR PLAYERS’ “EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCTION”

“The whole Company is standing in a semicircle grinning and clapping wildly but silently” Photo by Bill Boaden

The Lympstone Players’ recent Founded in 1899, NODA is a charity that production of Oh What a Lovely War represents amateur theatre. Its patrons has won the 2018 National Operatic are Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the and Dramatic Association District actress, singer and TV presenter Connie Achievement Award. The Award was Fisher. It is a nationwide organisation, presented to the show’s Director, with a membership of 2,500 amateur Harland Walshaw, at the recent theatre groups and 1,000 individual Players AGM by NODA’s Regional enthusiasts throughout the UK. Representative, Joyce Pomeroy, who attended a performance last November. The next Players’ production is Summer In her citation, she said, “This was Madness on 4th, 5th and 6th July. an extraordinary production which compelled the attention of the audience. The Lympstone Players The memory of this evening is one that I am sure will stay with us. I have no hesitation in awarding the District Achievement Award to Lympstone Players for Oh What a Lovely War.”

11 UPCOMING CHANGES TO THE LYMPSTONE SUMMER FETE LYMPSTONE HERALD Candy’s Field 7th July 2:30-5:30pm There will be some subtle changes coming up to the dates for deadlines Please come and join us for an afternoon and publication of the Lympstone Herald of fun in Candy’s Field: to try to make production a little easier for everyone. As a result the following • GLITTER TATTOOS deadline and distribution dates have • ACTIVITY STALLS been set for content for the forthcoming • BOUNCY CASTLE year. • FREE CREAM TEA • ICE CREAM Deadline: Distribution: • LYMPSTONE TRAINING BAND 3rd July 13th/14th July • VINTAGE ENGINES 1st September 7th/8th September • RAFFLE 9th October 19th/20th October • BIRDS OF PREY DISPLAY 6th November 16th/17th November 4th December 14th/15th December With special recognition of Cllr David 8th January 18th/19th January Atkins 50yrs service to the Parish. 5th February 15th/16th February 4th March 14th/15th March Proceeds to Hospicecare and Devon 8th April 18th/19th April Air Ambulance. 13th May 23rd/24th May

10th June 20th/21st June FREE CREAM TEA BY RSVP to vicki. 8th July 18th/19th July [email protected] & BRING THIS VOUCHER ON THE DAY. Please note distribution dates will be the date from which deliveries will Followed by fish and chips at the boat start but actual delivery dates will vary shed @5.30pm £5 cost of which 50p depending on the volunteers involved. will be donated to the charities. Vicki Drinkwater Contributors should keep an eye on the content deadline on the cover each month as things may need to change.

Thanks everyone for your help and understanding. Rob Hilton

12 THE LYMPSTONE CROSSWORD 1 2 3 4 Correct answers received in May from: Frances & Laurence Pearce, Dave Mountain, Shirley 5 6 & Simon Friend, Bex Smith & Nigel, Harriet Yeates, Margaret Turgoose, John Brewer, The 7 Burtons, Gail McKenzie, Jane 8 & Dave Lees, Sue Norman, and Tina Bissett. The winners of the £25 voucher 9 10 for the Redwing in May are Jane 11 and Dave Lees. There will be 12 13 two prizes this month. Good news - it looks as if the crossword may live on with a team of volunteers but we could 14 do with one more so if anyone could manage writing three crosswords a year please let us know.

CLUES ACROSS 1. Regarding code for regret (7) 5 Grapplers. They fight for sport. (9) 8. Germ eaten upset accord (9) 9. Silly lab moo cow has gone flowery (6) 11. Seventeen nuisanse nurses hiding a feeling of listlessness and apathy (5) 12. In garden Teddy Boys caused damaged? (6) 14. Erstwhile bassist now cheesemaker, ex jam sale confused. (4,5) DOWN 2. So up in more sullen and humourless demeanor (6) 3. Board game is a hazard? (4) 4. It could mean gentler treated for increase in size (11) 1 6. Sketelton’s head, beaten, so shrieked (8) 7. Endless stay and little sister make inaction (6) 10. Sound fed up with topless greeting, could buy some physical affection here. (8) 13. Limit. No longer a canvas shelter (6) 13 2018 WORKSPACE AWARDS WINNER “A small, independent practice with national recognition.”

www.hiltonbarnfield.co.uk • 01395 224 829 FALSTAFF IN LOVE with The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

Queen Elizabeth I enjoyed the character The performance will take place as of Falstaff in the Henry IV plays so usual in the Telfers’ wonderful woodland much that she asked Shakespeare for a garden (entrance from Underhill, next comedy showing Falstaff in love. The fat to the car park), and members of the knight chooses to seduce the wives of audience are again invited to bring their two wealthy gentlemen living at Windsor, picnics, chairs or rugs from 5pm, and the because they have control of their play will begin at 6pm. husband’s purses. When the husbands Tickets £10, family £30, U18s/NUS £5 are warned of the plot, Falstaff hides in a from Demelza., laundry basket… 2 Brookfield Cottages, EX8 5ES on Cygnet Theatre’s production of this 272243 or rollicking tale of marriage, fidelity, boxoffice@lympstone-entertainments. trickery and love reaches Lympstone on net Saturday 13th July, after a tour beginning Further details of this production and at the Palace Theatre, Paignton and other Lympstone Entertainments events including some of the finest garden are on our website: theatres in East Devon. https://lympstone-entertainments.net 15 Donate your bike! Ride On is a bike recycling charity in Exeter. We seek to make cycling more accessible. Our work is funded

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Optician & Contact Lens Practitioner 21 High Street, Topsham www.petertoshopticians.co.uk [email protected] 16 LYMPSTONE WI Meeting June 5th Several visitors and one new member • 16th July Summer Supper, Sailing joined us for the June meeting when Club. we were entertained by Basil Strickland • 3rd August, Furry Dance. WI to and Colin Hoskins, two of our local provide coffee, lunch and tea at the beekeepers. Basil fed us many Methodist Hall, volunteers required thought provoking facts including the to provide cakes. This is our main healing power of honey and bees, the fund raising event! essential need for communication and • 18th September Tiverton Canal trip. community spirit among bees also • TAP are organising a coach trip to the value of bees to the economy. We Dartington Hall on 11th July, spaces were able to taste honey and look at are available. the structure of a modern hive. The enthusiasm and passion of beekeepers Friends of Lympstone Surgery is both infectious and informative. A who provide affordable transport to hive is a female preserve and runs on medical appointments are very short of oiled wheels! drivers. Please contact Norma Exelby 01395266116. Some members had attended the Estuary Group meeting. Next meeting will be 3rd July the speaker Janet Williams on Hats Ahead, Orders are being taken for 2020 diaries which will include a demonstration. and calendars. Lympstone WI welcomes new members. Upcoming events: We meet on the first Wednesday of the Lympstone WI celebrates its 100th month in the Methodist Hall at 2.30pm. birthday in 2019, a number of events Further details available on the village have been suggested for the year until website. February 2020, the first being a Garden Party at the home of our President on Terri Scott Saturday 15th June where there will be light refreshment and entertainment. Cake cutting and Prosecco will take place 3.30pm (There will be a marquee!). A Centenary Committee has been formed, it is asking for further ideas to mark our 100th birthday. 17

Lympstone AFC will be holding free summer training sessions throughout the school holidays for a new Under 8’s (current year 2) team for next season. We play in the Exeter Youth League and the aim is fun, fitness and to enjoy football in a safe and encouraging environment.

All our coaches are FA qualified and are DBS checked.

For more information please contact:

Youth Secretary – Kirsty Hodges – 07923 958099

Youth Chairman – Dave Phillips – 07850 881031

Club Chairman George Webster – 07917 37059 www.lympstoneafc.org.uk NIGHTINGALE ANNIVERSARIES stall holders and regular supporters, so book early as enquiries have already It is exactly 200 years since John been received. Keats wrote the Ode to a Nightingale, 95 years since the BBC’s first outside Further Furry Dance details will be in broadcast (a cellist playing a duet the next issue, after the Summer Cream with a nightingale), 80 years since A Teas at Four Winds, Sowden Lane on Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, 5 Sunday 23rd June, from 2:30 to 4:30pm. years since a nightingale was last heard Chris Doak in Devon (not far from Lympstone), and 4 years since Harland Walshaw first LYMPSTONE GARDEN CLUB gave the talk that told the story behind all these events, And a Nightingale Last month was a very sociable one Sang… for Lympstone Garden Club. At the beginning of May we had a very busy Flock to Lympstone Village Hall by coffee morning and plant sale in the 7.30pm on Friday 21st June, and you Methodist Hall – over 100 people came can hear again the historic recordings, along, picked up plants for their gardens see the pictures, thrill to the gruesome and allotments, and also very kindly story of Philomel and Tereus, and donated their own spare plants for sale. marvel at the song of the nightingale. Then on 10 May a coach-load of us All this for only £3 on the door, in aid of headed over to the RHS Malvern the Friends of Lympstone Church. Spring Festival. The weather held, There will be magic abroad in the air. and everyone seemed to have a great Friends of the Church time – encountering Monty Don, Carol Klein and Francis Tophill, and enjoying FURRY DANCE NEWS the splendid show gardens and floral marquee. The coach came back nicely As preparations get underway for this packed with plants and other garden year’s Furry Dance, Saturday 3rd purchases. Thanks go especially to Sue August, we need to advise those wishing Wadhams for organising the day. to secure a pitch at the Pannier Market that the booking details have changed. The next event in our gardening Please contact Adrian and Pauline calendar is the Annual Show on Walters on 07866716478 or email Saturday 17 August in the Village Hall. [email protected]. More details on this in the next Herald. As usual priority will be given to local Gail McKenzie 19 SMALL ADS

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21 WHAT’S ON IN LYMPSTONE

JUNE 11 Happy Hour Tea Party - P. Church 23 Furry Dance Cream Tea 12 Joint PCC Meeting 23 Gulliford Burial Free Tour 13 Annual Cricket Match 27 Primary School Summer Fayre 15 Men’s Breakfast - Parish Church 28 Mobile Library 15 Centenary Garden Party - WI 29-30 South West Beach Rugby 18, 19, 20 Primary School Production 30 Rector’s Leaving Tea 21 Return of the Nightingale

JULY 1 Parish Council 13 Shakespeare in the Garden 3 WI Meeting 13 Falstaff in Love 4,5,6 Lympstone Players 14 Sea Sunday - Parish Church 7 Village Fete 16 Summer Supper - WI 7 Piano Recital - Parish Church 18 DWT/Mary Truell Coffee Morning 11 TAP trip to Dartington Hall

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22 2019 LYMPSTONE ART EXHIBITION Neville Tarbath went to Rachel Elliot. The winner of the secret auction for The Exhibition was opened by Greg the James Tatum Watercolour of the Mason a local Exeter artist who has Estuary, was Marina Calderone and the featured in Sky Arts Programmes. picture voted favourite in the exhibition He presented his insightful views on was Jayne Farliegh’s, “Sunset Estuary”. many of the exhibits which prompted The flower display featuring Lympstone people to take second look following his shore was created by Carol Major. comments. He announced the winners which were as follows. The Alison The exhibition was a great success, in Leadley Brown Cup for the Best Overall total 36 artists exhibited 233 items and went to Sara Lee Fox for her Abstract, we thank all our visitors and buyers for “Half Forgotten Dream” and Highly their support. Recommended Awards went to Sylvia Judith Carter Johnston for her watercolour,” Autumn Dawn “, and to Margot Cornish for CHILDRENS ART COMPETITION Mixed Media Painting , “Dawn Rising – Puffins”. We had 43 entrants and a wonderful The Norman de la Rue Prize winner range of Art from children ages 12 years was Sheila Stone with her Etching, to 21 months. The winners pictures ”Lundy- View from Old Light” with are shown. In the age 11 to 12 the Highly Commended Awards going to winners were 1st Fearne with a collage Warren Keays-Smith for his oil painting, of Lympstone Common, and second “Achnacarry” and to Mary Strouts for Bonnie Purchal with people on a bench her watercolour “Prunus Spinoza- looking at the sunset. In the ages 9 Blackthorn”. The Pat Ferguson Award to 10 the 1st was Mae Millington with for the best abstract went to Karen Peters Tower and 2nd Chloe Marsh Mitchell for her Monotype, “Nocturne”. with her Lobster. In the age 7 to 8 the The award for best 3D Exhibit went 1st was Charlie with his Nature picture to Mai Welton for her Wire and Wood and 2nd Edith with her Cat. The winner Sculpture of Flying Swallows and for age 5 to 6 was Finlay with his Surfer Highly Commended Awards went to and finally our youngest entrant, Lenny Jenny Moon for her collage, ”The with his pink abstract watercolour. Further Islands” and to John Welton This was the first time we had had for his wooden bowl, “An Exploration in a Childrens Competition during the Walnut” . exhibition week. It was very popular and The winner of the raffle for the we will definitely run it again next year. Drawing of Lympstone Waterfront by Judith Carter 23