PARISH NEWS 65p AND RUAN LANIHORNE APRIL2015

A happy and peaceful Easter to all our readers

Holy Week & Easter services in our three churches

Thursday 2 April Maundy Thursday Veryan 7 pm Eucharist of the Last Supper and Stripping of the Altars

Friday 3 April GOOD FRIDAY Meditation and Veneration of the Cross 10 am Portloe 12 noon Ruan 2 pm Veryan

Sunday 5 April EASTER DAY Pendower beach 6.30 am Sunrise Service

9.30 am Ruanlanihorne Holy Communion (BCP) 10.30 am Portloe Morning Worship 11 am Veryan Sung Eucharist

COLIN, SUZANNE & CHLOE WELCOME YOU ALL TO ADVANCE NOTICE! Beating of Veryan’s Parish Bounds ROGATION SUNDAY 10 MAY The New Inn The day will start with Parish Communion at 8.30 am (Book Veryan of Common Prayer) . Enjoying an enviable reputation for The Veryan Bounders will set off from West Portholland and a great atmosphere, friendly service make their way by various means to Pendower beach. Everyone is invited to assemble at the beach by not later than and delicious home-cooked food 11 am for a short service at which we will be joined by people from Philleigh who will accompany us on the next part of the boundary as far as the main road at the top of Crugsillack Hill. From there we go our separate ways. The Veryan route makes use of public footpaths to avoid walking on the main road, skirting Ruan Highlanes and ending at Beruppa farm where we will enjoy our picnic lunches courtesy of Tim and Liz Lynch. Arrangements are being made to transport people from Beruppa back to Pendower to reunite them with their vehicles. The Bounders will continue the circuit via Hay Corner, Porters, Daddiport Bridge and up the valley to return to West Portholland during the afternoon. In the evening there will be a celebratory barbecue at tel: 01872 501 362 Pengelly Farm, courtesy of Trounce and Annie Guy, from 7.30 pm. All welcome, bring your own food and drink. ACCOMMODATION AVAILABLE Fr Doug

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They last for weeks and seem different method, a hedge seed early variety which takes IN YOUR to me to be the quintessential trimmer, and Gilbert; I bet about 12 weeks to mature. He English summer garden mix. they will be fabulous!! liked peas! GARDEN This year I am also trying Dau- Now is the time to plant As April progresses you can this month cus, the wild carrot which gladioli bulbs. This is an- really start sowing virtually any comes in shades of blue and other flower that fell from veg outdoors. Spinach, carrots, purple with the odd white favour but it is a fabulous cut turnips, radishes, lettuces and flower like the cultivated carrot flower and now comes in so All the gardening books will spring onions, so too summer if left to go to seed. many colours from pastels cabbage and cauliflower. At the tell you that April is the time to and strong reds to lime green fill in gaps in the borders by end of the month I shall put the New herbaceous plants can be and chocolate. Plant a few runner beans in pots to plant sprinkling seeds of hardy happily planted this month; corms every fortnight from annuals liberally. It is a cheap out at the end of May. they are all emerging in those the beginning of April to the way of providing quick colour pots that looked empty in the end of May and you will for the summer months. Just As I have often said, if you are garden centres and will give have a glorious display for unsure about timing for seed rake over a patch of soil, scatter years of colour if planted as weeks and flowers cut just as the seed and watch it emerge planting, which can be very grown and then split to size in the buds show will last a confusing, take time to read the quickly as the days lengthen the autumn. In fact April is the couple of weeks in water. and warm up. Of course you seed packet and follow the in- month when frankly you can The taller varieties may need structions to the letter. I put my then have to watch carefully as plant anything perennial. It’s staking but planted close the weeds come up with them seed packets in a rough not usually too warm, we together as five or six in a monthly filing system, so I and you have to be able to iden- should have April showers to circle one stake in the mid- tify the rogues from the hardy know which seeds to plant in- get stuff established and bar the dle will do the lot. The doors or outdoors and in which annuals. annuals anything can go in corms need to be planted month. That way I don’t forget now. 4-6″and even deeper if your any and I avoid failures by be- The books suggest marking out soil is light to stop them top- little areas where you sow with ing too early or too late. It also Equally the emerging herba- pling over. There are some gives me time to do a second sand so that they are not lost, ceous perennials that are well much shorter hybrids avail- but a much easier way is to put sowing if I do have failures. established in the borders will able now which avoid the the seeds in trays or modules, appreciate a good feed to help topple and rarely need stak- don’t thin them out, just plant I love this time of year, there is them in their massive growing ing. Life just gets easier so much to do, so many seeds them out in early May in task now. Good garden com- doesn’t it? The breeders see clumps when they are about 2 ″ to be planted and shoots are post with some well- rotted a problem with a flower and emerging to tell us summer is tall and they are much easier to manure will give them all a breed out the height. see. Hardy annuals are different on the way. The back drop of boost. gorse in the hedgerows, camel- from the normal bedding in that In the vegetable garden all they can grow in cooler soil, lias and magnolias flowering Don’t forget the roses either. should now be prepared if their hearts out and rhododen- and will withstand lower tem- There are proprietary rose you have been able to get peratures. So hence, the sweet drons and spring flowering foods available but a good onto the soil. I planted out cherries with big fat buds is all peas, larkspur, calendula, corn- handful of blood fish and bone the broad beans last month flower and my favourite, the so encouraging. Every season sprinkled lightly around the and the new potatoes and has its merits but late spring is escholtzia in brilliant orange. roots is all that is required. now look to the next load of my favourite. But there is still the ‘grunt’ veg. The onion seed I put in There are myriad types of work to do. The daffodils are modules in the greenhouse NB small poppies in every colour. going over and we are not last month is coming on well Hardy annuals went out of fash- chopping the leaves off until and this month I shall be ion but seem to be clawing their they are completely yellow are putting sweet corn seed in way back and I think that is a we? And we are definitely not pots to grow on for planting result of the popularity of wild tying them up in string or rub- out at the end of next month flower mixes. Whilst these are ber bands. But if you have together with French beans beautiful and good for the birds time, take off the dead heads to and early leeks. and bees they do not appreciate prevent them making seed and soil that is over fertilised. They to allow all the goodness go I don’t grow peas, I reserve like a poorer soil so do not be back into the bulb. Feed with my plot for veg that are more tempted to put them in well liquid feed particularly if you expensive in the shops but a cultivated and fed borders but are leaving them in pots. garden pea is a very different find a patch that has been ne- taste from even the very glected. Let them flower, go to No doubt you have pruned quick frozen ones. My Dad seed and then chop them down your hydrangeas down to two always put peas in during the ready for next year. strong buds as I mentioned last first week of April and then month. This month you can sowed at two week intervals The parks department in prune down the fuchsias. I had up to the beginning of June. have started sowing these wild to laugh coming out of Church We seemed to do nothing flower mixes along some of the in mid- March. The hydrangeas but pick peas and shell them. road borders. were pruned there by a slightly He always used a wrinkly

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So not very different from the answer, ‘God is Love’. the writings from around Letter from Lincoln the same time from the What fascinated me in the Greek world. discussion about love with- out the Bible was that What is love? Paul ‘s letter to the Corin- The Bible, Shakespeare many people saw love as

thians 13, Shakespeare’s and the literature of the underlying everything. I write this just before Valen- Sonnet 116 and the four ancient Greeks are, to- Whatever Greek meaning tine’s day; you read it at the (or more) words the an- gether with a few odd bits, was taken, romantic love, earliest in Holy Week - two cient Greeks had for the foundation of the Eng- family love, friendship or wonderful examples of the ‘love’. I was shot down: to lish language, they are ‘the love for mankind - char- question “What is Love?”; use an extract from the air w breathe’. I suspect ity, the meaning that St the word ‘love’ has so many Bible would offend some that no one in the Drill Hall Paul used - we seemed to meanings. people and that would de- talking bout ‘what is love’ come back to the same stroy the discussion. We will not have been influ- point that underlies every- Every month I go along to couldn’t agree, so some- enced in their thinking by thing, like, God, really. Lincoln Drill Hall for some- one else introduced the at least one of these thing called the philosophy discussion using only the sources and probably by all May I wish you a very Café, really just a group of Greek words. three. To exclude the Bible happy Easter. people meeting to explore because it might offend is ‘philosophical’ questions like It set me thinking. nonsense. ‘what is love?’, ‘what makes Phil me, me’. On occasions I have I accept that to some peo- As Christians, we believe been asked to introduce the ple the Bible might be di- that the Bible is more; it is discussion and I was working visive, but in one sense, God’s word, or at the very . away at how to introduce the what it is, is just the think- least an account of man’s question ‘what is love?’.I ing of a middle eastern relationship with God. The decided to quote from St people between two and Bible responds to the ques- four millennia ago. tion ‘what is love?’ with

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St Piran’s Cross award The award, presented by the is for long and outstanding service to the church in . Our own Margery Truscott was one of the sixteen recipients this year. Churchwarden David Elliott writes:

“On Sunday 15 March we went out to St Piran’s Church, Perran- zabuloe, to the Cross of St Piran award service as guests of Margery Truscott, a richly deserved recipient of the award. It was a truly wonderful St Piran’s cross occasion to be there, and to see on Penhale Sands, Margery supported by so many Perranzabuloe nieces and nephews and many friends from the parish”

& A message for Margery Many congratulations on this very well- deserved award - sorry we couldn’t be there to see you accept it, Much love, Bill & Alison

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WE DRIVE ON nearest game park, Amboseli. In 1986 Kenyan game parks THE LEFT were in their infancy, on a learning curve. It was delight- We spent an enjoyable few days fully informal, we were wel- staying with Dieter in Bujum- comed by friendly staff who bura, an introduction to what it doubled as guards and di- was to live as an ex-patriot in a rected us to the camping area. black African country which As we arrived we had noticed was not developed. that no substantial wire fence The Government was struggling For the first time also the offi- ‘possessions’ after the First surrounded the Park, simply a to maintain stability in a country cial language was English, World War. line of posts with notices and, where ethnic divisions went though obviously most ordi- But, whatever the reasons, life even more surprisingly, the back hundreds of years, mem- nary people used their local was now made far easier for camp area was simply a bers of each tribe watching the tribal language. us. We were to loop north cleared space with no real others to see that there was Colonialism, by whichever again to visit Kenya, a coun- boundary.. But it was magic. never any advantage, a seem- country, has dictated the way try we could not miss, but had We would wake in the morn- ingly eternal strife likely to crip- of life for the indigenous had to avoid the direct route ing and drive around as we ple any constructive ideas to population, how they speak, through Uganda as, when we wanted. improve everyone’s lot. how they drive, it influences planned, Idi Amin was caus- Amboseli has good roads so We know what it is like in this their cooking and their drink- ing havoc. there is no need for four country when different political ing,, even their social habits. Modern, English speaking wheeled drive, no bumping creeds get in the way of good This happens throughout the Kenya – what luxury! Two from crater to crater. Away to ideas – imagine if you tried to world. days to Nairobi and camp in a the south rose Kilimanjaro, a bring an ‘improvement’ which The French colonised the civilised city, a proper camp- blue, white topped cone with- sparked yet another bout of northern part of Africa, so site, a taxi in to town for out any base. It dominated the genocide. French is the official language shopping and coffees at The skyline, an indistinct mass Five years after we left, the pot no matter what country you are Thorn Tree where the custom- which was there, yet was not boiled over again. A United in and, in several cases, the ers varied from travellers like there, the heat haze obscuring Nations estimate was that franc is currency. us to Nairobi’s elite. the detail, becoming more 20,000 Tutsi were massacred The English colonised the bot- This was our first taste of opaque as the day went on. over three years. tom half so that is the way of sophistication since we By noon it would have gone, We crossed the border into Tan- life. In the centre there is some- crossed into Morocco five to re-appear in the evening as zania on 11 February, 1986, a thing of a mish-mash, Belgian months before. But it couldn’t the day cooled, but at its best day on which our world and German influence mangled last – we had to move on if in the cool morning light. changed. For the first time since still further as Germany was we were to complete our Amboseli is a park set on a leaving Ireland I was driving on forced to surrender its schedule. So we went to the plain with only scrubby bush the correct side of the road.

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glance. was him eating, tearing the When we got to the camp- foliage and berries from the site we met the Wardens trees and stuffing the dew in their huts, and told laden shoots into his mouth them what we had seen. As the light got better we They were there, after all, could see more detail. to guard us. There was Almost certainly a male as consternation. The pros- females are usually in pect of a friendly lion for groups, he had two medium on. A couple of days had to be a neighbour shook them sized tusks and the curling spent on Wilma’s mainte- so that animals are easy to more than us. After gabbled trunk in between, used to nance, to repair the ravages of see, vast herds of impala, conversation and much eye pluck the best leaves from 10,000 miles of rough roads. zebra, wildebeest which rolling one turned to us and the bush. A great wrinkled From here on it would be tar- attract the predators, lions, said, ’Don’t go far from your grey hide, with its absurd mac or good graded gravel, so leopards and cheetahs. Their camper tonight’, then they little tail at the end, a single the old shock absorbers could kills attract the scavengers, disappeared into their hut and dark eye. If he knew we were come off, the suspension the undertakers, who clear we heard bolts being crashed there he took no notice, and checked, new ball joints and a up after them, hyena, dog, across. Ah, well – so much the knowledge that all that tyre fitted. I could almost hear fox and the inevitable vul- for security! was between him and us was her purring!. Tanzania, Zam- tures. We would drive about We made sure our site that a thin sheet of metal encour- bia, Zimbabwe, Malawi and in the day game watching, night was not far from the aged us to silence. South Africa all to come. The returning late afternoon as loo! I awoke with a dig in the He moved slowly towards worst roads were over but the the sun started to sink. ribs. A dim light was just us, still grazing, until he was adventure had still a long time Coming into camp one day creeping into the van, a voice alongside, even nearer. The to run. we came upon a family of in my ear said, ‘Shhh – out amazing thing was that his lions just waking up and the back’. Before settling movement was absolutely Malcolm Craven thinking of supper. down we had pulled back the silent, the only noise from We stopped to watch as the curtain as we felt safe in the his eating. We saw his big male stood with his campsite and might want to shadow pass along the side back to us, his tail swinging see out. We could hear a rus- windows and then he came and a great black mane tling, tearing sound, which we into view at the front. Silent, showing on his shoulders. could not place. We crouched primeval, like a huge grey When all were on their feet, by the back window, doubled ghost he wandered off, leav- with the dignity that only a up, and there it was – a huge ing us catching our breath at cat can manage, they disap- grey mass, an enormous ele- one of the great experiences peared into the bush. They phant, motionless, about of our trip. knew we were there, but thirty feet away. The sound Sadly though we had to push never gave a backward

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VERYAN SPORTS & SOCIAL CLUB . Mevagissey male choir in concert at The club is very pleased to be able to offer news of what's going on. VERYAN PARISH CHURCH Modernisation is in hand; low energy lighting is being Saturday 18 April at 7.30 pm installed in the hall. The Tennis club has planning Tickets £6 on the door approval for a new clubhouse and lights to improve facilities for children and adults. Over the winter the Proceeds to be shared between cricket club has spent a considerable amount of time Veryan and Portloe churches improving the wicket and is in the process of developing the practice area. Anyone interested in sponsoring or advertising at the ground, please contact Matt Dixon 01872 500957. STOP PRESS The Veryan footballers have won through to the Cornwall VERYAN CHURCH FÊTE junior final on Easter Monday at Lux Park, . Change of date The indoor bowls season is coming to an end, the club teams having had successes at County level. Outdoor NOW ON 4 JULY bowls will start after Easter, opening day is the 18th April at 2.00pm and Playbowls days will follow weekly, for More dates for your diaries new members. The VSSC Annual General Meeting is on Tuesday, Monday 18 May 7 pm PORTLOE Blessing of the Sea 14th April at 7.30pm and open to all members. Sunday 14 June RUAN CHURCH Songs of Praise Next members’ quiz night is Sunday 5th April, 8.00pm. Sunday 21 June VERYAN PARISH HALL The Preschool has organised an Easter egg hunt on Easter Midsummer Celebration Monday, 11.00am for children up to 11 years. Sunday 9 August 3 pm VERYAN CHURCH Pets’ service Coffee morning in the Elerkey bar on 15th April at 20-24 August VERYAN CHURCH Flower Festival 10.30am. Monday 14 December VERYAN 7 pm carol service The club Tel No is 01872 501733. Sunday 20 December PORTLOE Christmas celebration Dave Shepperson

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A late addition to the Roseland Veryan Ladies’ Book Club Neighbourhood Development Plan? Annual Book Sale & Coffee Morning Most households will have received a notice which re- ports the completion of the draft plan and its availability Yet again this year Liz and Tim will be for viewing and comment. allowing Beruppa Farm to become While the due date for residents to ‘have their say’ was 26 March, a ‘late entry’ has been suggested which could a second-hand book shop for a morning! have a really positive effect in reducing significantly the volume of vehicular traffic on our local roads and even Donations of cakes are welcome, as are offset to some extent the loss of the local bus service.. good quality books (but any quantity of The plan, amazingly, was originally submitted to Parlia- books in advance, please), by contacting Liz ment in the 1880s, and approved by local parish councils on early in the 20th century, but because of the outbreak of 01872 501689. the Great War was never implemented. We look forward to seeing you there. The plan, briefly, is for “wharves and warehouses at St As usual all the money raised will be used to Just to provide anchorage for vessels, with a railway to fund the education fees and books of the join the main line at St Stephen in Brannel [that would be children we are supporting in Kenya. at Burngullow] passing through the parishes of Philleigh, Ruan, Cornelly, Veryan, Tregony, Cuby, Probus and

Creed with Grampound”. An earlier, 1830s, scheme had Saturday 25 April the railroad starting from Ardevora, but serious silting of 10 am - midday the river required the later revised plan Beruppa Farm In view of the short notice of this amendment only one day has been identified for viewing these plans; they may Ruan Highlanes be inspected by appointment on 1 April. TR2 5JR [the original 1880s plans can be viewed at the Cornwall Record Office, by appointment; reference QSPDR/5]

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‘HISTORICAL purporting to be ‘Cornish’ convict settlement in New I suppose that having read so FICTION’ - a (especially the heroine’s) and South Wales, and although many documents - letters, the insistence of nearly everyone the story seems far-fetched, if diaries, account books and contradiction in terms? in the cast in pronouncing the you read the rules upon which such like - created by real hero’s name ‘ POLE dark’ rather the settlement was dependent people in Cornwall many Over the last few weeks we’ve than putting the stress on the for its government, the fights, years ago, I regard these as seen a range of ‘historical’ second syllable as most of us the punishments and the seg- ’proper’ history: take for in- drama on TV - ‘Wolf Hall’, would. regation of men and women stance the story of the lady ‘Poldark’ and ‘Banished’ - What about this new version? convicts are all too true. who lived at Trewarthenick in and as archivists we’ve Well, we’ve seen a couple of Men and women who trans- the 1830s onwards. Sarah was watched with some interest to episodes, and in spite of the gressed were whipped ‘until a rich heiress, who fell in love see how ‘true to history’ they many sunrises/sunsets with Ross their body be bloody’ and with a penniless soldier (but are. on horseback silhouetted dra- hanging was the punishment the grandson of a duke); after Having read both of Hilary matically against the sky, the for many misdemeanours a secret courtship all was dis- Mantel’s books I have been heaving bosoms and the which might seem petty to us covered, he was sent back to really impressed at the huge ‘smouldering’, at least some of but in the situation in the set- the army in disgrace, but the amount of research she has the accents are more credible tlement could lead to much wedding eventually took done - I’ve read some of the this time around - maybe it more serious crimes if not place, they were happily mar- original documents which she helps having a couple of Cornish stopped. ried for many years, and when used and I could see how actors in the cast? However, there is a serious Sarah, after a major family closely she has adhered to the Winston Graham was primarily omission - all the contempo- quarrel, inherited the house language and the content of a novelist, not an historian, and rary accounts of the arrival of and estate of Trewarthenick, her sources. The TV version although he did visit the Record that first fleet at Botany Bay they spent several years re- was equally impressive and for Office to look at some docu- describe in some detail the storing the house and garden, once we were both keen not to ments relating to mining and people who were already liv- writing letters to each other miss any of the episodes. The banking, Cornwall was chiefly ing there - and subsequently whenever either was away trial of Anne Boleyn was the setting for the fictional ro- the many altercations and from home. What a mercy the pretty much based on the offi- mance, without much reference struggles between the aborigi- telephone hadn’t been in- cial written record made at the to ‘real’ events of the period. nes and the new arrivals for vented! You don’t need to time, and consequently was all Has anyone been watching possession of land and re- invent stories - they are there the more dramatic. ‘Banished’? It wasn’t well re- sources. They haven’t yet to be found. I just need time What about ‘Poldark’? The viewed (more heaving bosoms appeared at all in ‘Banished’! to write it all up! original version years ago was and smouldering) but it is sup- This isn’t history - it’s a story notable for the awful strangu- posed to be based on the history set vaguely in the late 18th CRE lated ‘Mummerset’ accents of the founding of the very first century.

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OPEN ROAD THEATRE COMPANY Veryan Parish Hall MAY FAIR invite you to Saturday 2 May from 2 pm

Dinner Tables will be available @£10 hire for craft/home A satirical chiller for the broad-minded businesses. By Moira Buffini Parish Hall ‘nearly new’ table Refreshments, raffles, games, and schoolchildren VERYAN PARISH HALL will perform a Maypole dance Saturday 25 April 8 pm Tickets Further information: contact Wendy on 501886 available from Veryan & Portloe Stores Or phone Box Office on 01726 879500

“Deliciously macabre and very funny, this is V E DAY ANNIVERSARY an imaginative performance of Moira Buffini’s brilliantly constructed dark comedy. Friday 8 May will be the 70th anniversary of the Five friends gather on a foggy night for a day that saw the end of war in Europe. celebratory dinner party, joined by a sinister Veryan ringers are planning to ring in waiter and a mysterious stranger. commemoration of the event. The carefully planned menu will stun the If you are old enough to remember the celebrations audience as much as the guests - as well the here in our two parishes we would love to hear evening’s events - in this story of secrets, from you so that we can include a short article in lies, class relationships and betrayals”. our May magazine : contact Christine on 501727

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SCHOOL NEWS HAY BARTON

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Daytime LOW tides at CARNE in APRIL Tuesday 7 April 7pm

Sun Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat The rôle of the Magistrate and the Magistrate’s Court Bill Anderson & Carol Heginbotham 1 2 3 4 11.01 11.41 12.17 12.49 All welcome - for more information contact 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Sue Day [501673] 13.18 13.44 14.11 14.41 15.12 15.20 16.38 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 17.49 6.41 8.11 9.29 10.34 11.30 12.22 OLD CORNWALL SOCIETY 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 13.09 13.52 14.31 15.08 15.43 16.22 17.09 Wednesday 8 April 7.30 pm 26 27 28 29 30 GERRANS MEMORIAL HALL 18.08 6.49 8.01 9.14 10.11

THE PASSMORE EDWARDS LEGACY Dean Evans

ALL WELCOME: more information from Peter on Full moon 4 April new moon 18 April 580540 Times are British Summer Time

Veryan Cricket fixtures JOLLY’S DRINKS CORNWALL CRICKET Additional information about forthcoming events can be sent to our church websites for inclusion in the on-line diary: LEAGUE [email protected] Saturday 25th April [email protected] or Division 3 East: St Neot [away] [email protected] Division 6 Central: Falmouth 4 [home] as well as to the editor of ‘Parish News’ at [email protected]

MELINSEY MILL

is a local family business: it’s an interesting mix of working water mill, craft gallery, café and tea room. We serve morning coffee, traditional snacks and light lunches, afternoon teas and Cornish cream teas. We also sell cider, beer and wine. All our cakes, pies and pastries are home-made in the mill kitchen. Melinsey is wheel-chair friendly, and welcomes dogs on leads outside.

We open in April until the end of October: 10 am - 5.30 pm. Closed on Mondays in April, May, June, September and October, but OPEN on bank holidays. Telephone 01872 501049 TR2 5PX

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Round the Churches NEWS Ruan FROM PORTLOE Lanihorne VERYAN Parish church Of considerable concern to the village has been the pro- The church is now open posed development in an area during the day. From com- of land heading towards Veryan’s redundant ments in the Visitors Book, Treviskey. A very well heaters are being adver- our visitors are pleased to attended public meeting, tised on E-Bay and some find the church open as so Both PCCs met in mid- chaired by John Leach, was have already been sold! many churches are not open March and discussed the held on 9 March, resulting in The final grant towards during the week. We are 28% increase in parish con- an overwhelming rejection of the new system has now the scheme. The Parish very fortunate to have a tributions to the diocese. A been received. Council also allotted an hour member of our congrega- Deanery meeting will con- The PCC is now consid- for further discussion prior to tion who is willing to open sider options for enabling ering the purchase of their meeting on 16 March, and close the church each parishes to pay what is ap- cushions for the pews, to before making their response day during the spring and propriate to their present to the Planning Committee. replace the (very) old summer months, come rain, financial situation and to try carpet strips that have come shine. to ensure that they are not Winter soup lunches are now been in use for many charged unfairly. at an end, all of them well years. It is likely that We shall be decorating the supported. Carol’s café will the cost will be in the church for Easter on Satur- Veryan’s Annual Parochial be ‘popping up’ in church region of £12-15 per from Tuesday 7 April, so day 4th April from 10 am Church Meeting will be foot, so the churchwar- there will be plenty of onwards. Donations of held at 7 pm on the church dens are now very busy refreshment in Portloe during flowers and greenery will on Wednesday 15 April. with tape measures and Easter week and afterwards. be welcome. calculators! Roseland Churches’ Choir The Women’s World Day of PLEASE NOTE CHANGE The Vestry Meeting will be OF DATE The choir is available to sing Prayer was held in St Just held in the vestry at 7pm on THE CHURCH F ÊTE WILL at weddings or other services: church on 6 March. As the 14th April, when the NOW BE HELD ON 4 JULY. contact the chairman, Graham always the service was well Churchwardens for the As ever we would be Pauncefort, at attended with all the churches coming year will be elected. deeply grateful for all [email protected] or on on the Roseland represented. offers of help - in organ- 01872 580001, or contact your Do make a note that next year The Annual Meeting will parish priest . ising entertainment, the service, to be prepared by follow, with reports from women in Cuba, will be held sideshows and stalls And why not join the choir - the Treasurer, Churchwar- in Portloe on Friday 4 March dens and the Parish Priest, (that begins now!), set- you don’t have to be able to read music, and we’re always at 2 o’clock. We’ll remind and elections to the Paro- ting up and taking down pleased to see new faces, you nearer the time! chial Church Council. All on the day, and generally especially tenors and altos! parishioners are welcome to taking part. It is our ma- Angela and John Creber attend these meetings. jor fundraising event for recently led one of our the year, so please con- ‘Parish News’ is printed by ‘Quay Side Anglican Informal Worship PF tact the churchwardens Print’ of Truro and distributed by volun- services which included a talk if you can help. teers in our two parishes. and video on the work of Street Pastors in Truro. An Copyright in layout and design is owned Our church websites by Veryan PCC. The copyright in arti- eye-opener. We were all so www.veryanchurch.org.uk pleased to learn more and February 100 Club cles submitted for publication remains www.ruanlanihornechurch.org. with the authors whose permission were really impressed with uk winner should be sought through the editor if the work they do. www.portloechurch.org.uk Wishes to remain reproduction in any medium is contem- plated. Updated regularly, so keep anonymous! Our Open meeting will be MEMBERSHIP If no author is attributed the editor may checking! not be able to reproduce items as it may held on Monday 13 April at DETAILS FROM not be possible to establish the copyright 7 o’clock. SARAH RUNDLE status. Don’t forget to look a the full- 01872 500950 Articles which have already appeared in colour magazine on our church Dates and times of special published form elsewhere must have website authors’ names attached and copyright Easter events are on page 1. clearance. We would prefer not to receive material LOCAL COMMUNITY RADIO STATION that will be or has been sent to other JH The Hub radio station [106.1 & 106.4 FM or on line at publications [e.g the ‘Roseland maga- www.thehubradio.co.uk ] is edicated to all those parishes now zine’, the ‘West Briton’], but please send regarded as part of ‘The Roseland’. Our local contact is an alternative version if you are able! Sally Carter who will be happy to hear about local news and events: [email protected] , landline is 01726 871402.

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MEDITATION GROUP The parishes of CHURCH SERVICES FOR APRIL VERYAN VERYAN and Veryan Ruan Portloe RUAN LANIHORNE Third Thursday in the Priest-in-Charge: Thursday 2 April Maundy Thursday at Veryan month 2.30 pm The Revd Canon Douglas Robins The Vicarage, Veryan TR2 5QA 7 pm Eucharist of the Last Supper and Stripping of the Altars 501650 or 501565 for 01872 501618 Friday 3 April GOOD FRIDAY details VERYAN 2 pm 12 noon 10 am There is a warm welcome (St Symphorian) Meditation and Veneration of the Cross Parish Church for everyone and we can Churchwardens Sunday 5 April EASTER DAY arrange transport if Mr David Elliott 6.30 am SUNRISE SERVICE PENDOWER BEACH needed. Boswague, Tregony [501230] & 11 am Eucharist 9.30 am 10.30 am Veryan parish website Mr Robin Rundle Holy Communion Morning Worship www.veryan.org Trevarthen Cottage Colin Woolcock Veryan Green All local news and [500950] information welcome Hon. Secretary Sunday 12 April LOW SUNDAY Mrs Sarah Rundle 11 am Eucharist 10.30 am Trevarthen Cottage Rev’d Anne Shaw Anglican informal worship Veryan Green] Tony & Gill Webster [500950] Sunday 19 April Easter 3 Magazine Editor Treasurer 11 am Eucharist 9.30 am 10.30 am Mrs Helen Robins Mattins Morning Worship Christine Edwards [501458]

[501727] Organist Sunday 26 April Easter 4 [email protected] Mrs Joyce Goldie [501565] 8.30 am Holy Communion 9.30 am 11 am MATTINS Eucharist Advertisements Envelope Treasurer Mrs Marilyn Veness Pat Raine [501704] Sunday 3 May Easter 5 [501479] 11 am Eucharist 9.30 am 10.30 am [email protected] PORTLOE Holy Communion Morning Worship (All Saints) United Church Distribution coordinators Church Stewards Sarah Rundle and delivery Mrs Carol Sherwood Corfingle House VERYANgalleries team Portloe [501388] It would be helpful if & Mr Trounce Guy Did you Know? contributions for the Pengelly Farm magazine sent by e-mail West Portholland [501471] We have PAINTINGS by artists such as could be sent as a Word Hon. Secretary 2003 document Mrs Jeanne Hitchings William Nash, Robin Leonard, attachment End Cottage, Portloe [501114] Jenny Wheatley and many more! Hon. Treasurer DEADLINES Mrs Joyce Gilbert Plus beautiful Jewellery, It takes several days’ work Porthjulyan Pendower Road ceramics, cards, and bags, to produce the final Veryan magazine copy and disc, [501365] - perfect for gifts. so we need copy usually by 15th of the previous month RUAN LANIHORNE We also paint favourite VIEWS, flowers , for inclusion in the (St Rumon) Parish Church Churchwardens Portraits and MURALS following month’s issue: Mrs Pat Farr for a special present. occasionally printing dead- Lambourne Barn lines, or the editor’s other Ruan Highlanes Come and see us - between the two commitments, require ear- [501599] Mr David Hughes Roundhouses lier delivery of copy to Castle Towers VERYAN GREEN ensure that your magazine Ruan Lanihorne at is produced and delivered [501855] on time. Hon. Secretary Mrs Pat Farr PLEASE CHECK [501599] DEADLINE DATE ON Hon. Treasurer Tues - Sat 10 - 5-30 BACK PAGE - and early Mr s Pat Farr copy is always much [501599] 01872 501469

appreciated!

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The Parishes REGULAR EVENTS April Diary Church Rotas AllStars for ages 7-12 fort-

of Veryan & Ruan nightly in Veryan School 5- Thursday 2 April 6.30 pm [contact school for Readings for April Lanihorne MAUNDY THURSDAY details] Please, if you can’t manage to read on Church Services the day allocated, Brownies meet Mondays in Friday 3 April GOOD FRIDAY exchange with someone term time, Veryan Parish Hall VERYAN Parish Church of 6.15-7.30pm Sunday 5 April EASTER DAY Thursday 2 April Maundy Thursday St Symphorian Exodus 12, 1-4 & 11-14 Country Market every Friday DETAILS OF ALL 1 Corinthians 11, 23-26 in Veryan Parish Hall READERS TO BE CHOSEN ON THE 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 5th Sundays: 10.30-11..30 am EASTER SERVICES ON NIGHT 11 am Parish Eucharist PAGE 1 Parish Council meets on third Friday 3 April Good Friday 4th Sunday 8.30 am Isaiah 52, 13, to end of 53 Holy Communion [BCP] Monday, 7.30 pm, Monday 6th Easter egg hunt at Hebrews 4, 14-16 & 5, 7-9 4th Sunday: 11 am Veryan Parish Hall Sports Club for under 11s, 11 am READERS TO BE CHOSEN ON THE Mattins [BCP] unless Eucharist committee room DAY for special feasts Pre-school: at Sports and Tuesday 7th Veryan WI in

parish hall, 7 pm [page 13] Sunday 5 April EASTER DAY PORTLOE UNITED Social club, Veryan, Mondays Acts 10, 34-43 11.15am-3 pm, Tuesday, 1 Corinthians 15, 1-11 CHURCH Wednesday, Thursday 9.15am- Wednesday 8th Old Cornwall CHURCHWARDENS TO READ All Saints 1.15 pm Society at Gerrans, 7.30 pm [page 13] Sunday 12 April Low Sunday Methodist services 1st, 3rd & 5th Ringing Practice at Veryan :

Acts 4, 32-25 Sundays at 10.30 am 4th Tuesday most months, but ‘Pop-up’ café in Portloe church Ann Craven [731] 2nd Sunday: Service of the Word contact 501203 for up-to-date [page 14] 1 John 1,1 to 2,2 [Anglican] at 10.30 am information Luke Dunstone [713] 4th Sunday: Eucharist Roseland magazine delivery Saturday 11th Sketching and Sunday 19 April Easter 3 at 9.30 am arranged by local coordinator Painting Day at Veryan Parish Acts 3, 12-19 Hall [page 12] Roseland Youth Group meets Christine Edwards [727] RUAN LANIHORNE in Social Club Tuesdays 1 John 3, 1-7 St Rumon Monday 13th PORTLOE Sue Truscott [609] 7-9.30 pm for ages 10-14 CHURCH OPEN MEETING

1st Sunday: School open assembly : 7 pm Sunday 26 April Easter 4 9.30 am Holy Communion [BCP] MATTINS Fridays at 9.15 am in church 3rd Sunday: Tuesday 14th RUAN ANNUAL Wisdom 1, 1-15 Whist drive : every Friday, Jo hn Veness [704] 9.30 am Mattins [BCP] VESTRY 7 pm [page 14] Veryan Parish Hall 7.30 pm 1 Peter 5, 1-11 Tuesday 14th Sports club AGM Marilyn Veness Yoga: every Tuesday 7.30 pm READINGS TO BE PROVIDED CHANGES TO THE USUAL Veryan Parish Hall

TIMES, 10.am-12 noon Wednesday 15th VERYAN PCC Sunday 3 May Easter 5 FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL ANNUAL MEETING 7 pm Acts 8, 26-40 SERVICES WILL BE ZUMBA class: Wednesdays, Blair Jobson [530288] [page 14] ANNOUNCED IN THIS Veryan Parish Hall 7.30 pm 1 John 4, 7-21 [07739 468142] Julia Pound [741] MAGAZINE Saturday 18th Mevagissey choir in Veryan church, 7.30 pm From the Registers [page 14]

If you would like to join our team of Saturday 25th BOOK SALE at readers, please contact Christine [727] BURIAL OF ASHES AT VERYAN, Friday 6 March Beruppa [page 9] Audrey Iris Salter aged 90 & Saturday 25th Play ‘Dinner’ at Veryan Flowers and Brass Stanley Wilfred Edward Salter, BEM aged 88 Veryan Parish hall 8 pm [page 11]

FLOWERS Saturday 2 May MAY FAIR at 11 & 18 April MARRIAGE AT RUAN LANIHORNE Veryan Parish Hall from 2 pm High Altar Mrs B Lumley-Savil Saturday 21 March [page 11] Porch Mrs S Truscott 25 April/2 May Every Friday William John Davis & Kirsty Clelland High Altar Mrs S Fallick 10.30-11.30 am VERYAN

Porch Mrs A Preston MARKET parish hall BRASS - Mrs J Pound

St Rumon’s church CRICKET FIXTURES - SEE Flowers and cleaning PAGE 12

5 April all help welcome! 19 April Mrs Wiegand/Mrs Smith DEADLINE FOR 3 May Mrs Evans/Mrs Farr MAY MAGAZINE Portloe United Church FLOWERS AND CLEANING 15 APRIL see notice board

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