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Cover photo: Male Swollen-thighed Beetle, near Boat Cove Lane, by Sandra Shaw parish news page 22—24 church contacts inside back page

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Welcome to the issue

The churches have been doing their best to cater for people who can’t visit the mysterious This issue of the View will be world wide web. available online—click on the cover picture on the home But if you have page at mountsbayub.com access to a then you could send the link computer and feel to distant friends who might this would be an enjoy reading it. ideal time to learn to do more on it, here’s a good offer from Jane and Jay THANK YOU to Chapman, who ran a course in everyone who Ludgvan 2 years ago. said how much ‘We are pleased to say that we they appreciated can offer remote digital skills receiving the April telephone support. Between View. And to those thoughtful 9am and 5pm, we will be people who have wondered how to available to answer calls and pay for their copy and/or the cost help with IT related questions of postage—thank you! When you as best we can. Call 01872 are able to return to church, please 243557 or 243534.’ just put the money due in the Sunday collection, or in the money Local volunteers might be able box in your church (you don’t need to help too. Please make an to put it in a labelled envelope) and initial enquiry to Margaret by a great feat of creative Stevens 719090. accounting, we will sort it out!

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A letter from the Rector, place. Jesus Canon Nigel Marns wanted us to return to the Wild Cornwall’ is the title of a core, the book we were given when we first basic, the came to Cornwall, which describes most the quiet, unspoilt, off the beaten authentic track, authentic parts of Cornwall. expressions of our faith. To Go Wild! is the thing of the moment. My son Robert is writing In this season a Wild Camping guide to the of pause, with the churches shut, Cornish Celtic Way pilgrimage all the furniture of our faith has route, giving suggestions of good been stripped away, we have had places to camp in woods, by to go back to the basics of our streams or in hidden valleys along faith. I am delighted to know of the route. Some people have many of you at home joining at taken to wild swimming— 10am and 5pm in daily prayer. We swimming in the sea all the year have come to understand and round with no wetsuit. renew our dependency on God for our life and health; and we value Jesus himself went ‘wild’ when he and see anew what is most castigated the religious authorities essential in our lives. of his day for not understanding the essence of God’s message, and One of the joys of this past Lent laying burdensome rules and season has been reading together regulations on peoples’ backs the excellent booklet Live Lent: rather than setting them free to Care for God’s Creation. Whilst serve God. Jesus went ‘wild’ and reading it one day, I was upset the tables of the Temple prompted to go outside and moneychangers who had turned marvel at the sun, our source of the House of Prayer into a market light and heat; and on another day 5

to go and listen to the wild birds all them know we are praying for around us. Many people have them every day, and I received a commented to me that they can very appreciative reply. now properly hear the birdsong, see If you would like to do this too their beautiful varied plumage, and you can reach their online have proper comments box regard for the by going to the wildlife and Contacts page natural world all of the around us. The Marazion Creation too is Surgery having a time of website, and rest from clicking on humankind’s ‘send your ceaseless activity comments and and remorseless suggestions’. pummelling, as the air quality in You can say thank you, and if you cities has massively improved. like, mention which church you are I’m sure you enjoy going wild for from. Or send a letter or card to: the NHS on Thursday evenings at Marazion Surgery, Gwallon Lane, 8pm, banging saucepans, blowing Marazion, TR17 0HW. whistles, whooping and clapping. I In the month of May, as the Spring would like to urge you to go further comes and wild birds sing and the this month. To go wild and wild flowers burst into full bloom BOMBARD THE NHS WITH around us, go wild! Appreciate the LOVE— specifically those working world around you, and bombard in our surgery at Marazion. I the NHS with love. emailed the surgery last week, just God Bless, praising their care, thanking them for being there for us and letting Nigel

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Strolling along a remote Only after its path in Alberta, I voluntary spotted a porcupine, departure did foraging for wild lupin, we discover that cinquefoil and dandelion and the it was already inner layers of bark on the trees. fully grown and probably now Sylvia Grant, Falmouth searching for a good square meal. Mary Thorniley, Perranuthnoe Rounding a bend on a sandy track in the Masai I was racing my dinghy in the bay Mara wilderness of when we were visited by a small Kenya, we came across a group of dolphins. A pair small, hand-painted sign approached my boat saying, ‘Elephants have and started to propel priority at this crossing.’ We didn’t me along at a argue. Michael Leach, Ludgvan tremendous speed. Just when I thought I I woke up on the would be tipped in, Tengboche Plateau to the pair left me and went to give see the rising sun turn another competitor a push! Jane Everest pink. Also on Goodhead, Marazion that trip, I travelled by elephant through the I once found a badger in the garden Chitwan Forest and was very trying to unroll a hedgehog. fortunate to see a rhino mother Disturbed, the badger ran off and, and baby wallowing in a mud wearing gloves, I started to pick up pool. Mary Yellop, Ludgvan the hedgehog, whereupon it let out an enormous We rescued this Malayan mouse scream and puffed deer, which we found trussed and itself up to twice its ready for someone’s cooking pot. size. Derek Brown, As it was so tiny, we bottle-fed it. Perran Downs 7

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Bishop Philip’s Easter message

Easter has, of course, of course – that we passed. But this should be materialistic message from Bishop and acquisitive. Philip is not date- Rather he meant that limited—because we the Christian faith can be Easter people takes the physical, all year round. material world very seriously. Indeed it Easter is the high takes the human body point of the Christian very seriously. And year, the great moment we see that nowhere of joyful celebration of more clearly than in the resurrection of Jesus Christ Jesus Christ, crucified for us. from the dead – and yet when our minds are tinged with fear of Jesus’ arrest and trial and crucifixion sickness and death it seems quite a were unavoidably physical things. mental leap to get to that point Jesus sweated blood on his knees in of joyful celebration. Gethsemane. His betrayer kissed him. He was spat upon, But Easter has more to say to this blindfolded, flogged and scourged, present crisis than we might think. his head crowned with a mocking The Christian faith takes the body circlet of thorns. He was crucified with all its strengths and its and drew his last breath in agony. weaknesses very seriously. The dead weight of his body was Archbishop William Temple, who laid in the tomb. was Archbishop of Canterbury through much of the Second Jesus entered fully into our World War, once said that physicality: hence Temple’s words. Christianity ‘is the most avowedly It explains, too, why the Christian materialist of all the great Church was at the very forefront of religions’. developing hospitals and hospices: our much-valued NHS stands in that What he meant by that was not – 9

great tradition. Jesus entered fully And that’s what we need to hold into our physicality: so there is on to in this crisis. Our world is nothing about this current crisis being shaken by it. Our lives may that is strange to him. He does not well be shaken by it. But the float above it in some disembodied Kingdom of God stands firm, that way. He entered Kingdom which fully into our is brought into humanity so he being through understands fully the cross and what we are going resurrection of through. Jesus Christ. So whatever the challenges of this But of course the story does not time may be, let us be humbly stop there. The cross is not the confident citizens of the Kingdom, end. It is only the gateway to holding out to a hurting world the something better – but something hope that only Jesus Christ can no less material. When Jesus rises bring. And, in these sad times, may from the dead he does so bodily: he strengthen us all for that task. he eats fish with his disciples; Bishop Philip Thomas can touch his hands and his side. The physical is fully redeemed.

The wildlife pictures scattered about this issue have been generously supplied by members of Perranuthnoe Camera Club and the View’s own photographer, Roger Hamlin.

Mallard Duckling by Paul Hayward

services in May

If we are still unable to hold services in church during May, readers with access to the internet will find recorded services as follows at www.mountsbayub.com. Those without access to the internet will receive service booklets by post. Date Clergy Gospel Other readings

3 May Canon Nigel John 10:1-10 1 Peter 2:19-end Acts 2: 42-end 10 May Fr Jeff John 14:1-14 1 Peter 2:2-10 Acts 7:55-end 17 May Revd Linda John 14: 1 Peter 3:13-end 15-21 Acts 17:22-31

21 May Canon Nigel Luke 24: 44-end Acts 1:1-11 Ascension Day Ephesians 1:15-end

24 May Fr Jeff John 17:1-11 1 Peter 4:12-14, ,5:6- 11 Acts 1:6-14 31 May Revd Linda John 20: Acts 2:1-21 Pentecost 19-23 1 Corinthians 12:3-13

Daily Prayer at home 10-10.30 am and 5-5.30pm

Bumble Bee on Buddleia, by Anne Lawry

interview with..

Until November 2019, Julian Branscombe was working as a Nature Conservationist in the Orkney Islands. Now he lives in St Just and is Programme Manager for the Penwith Landscape Partnership (PLP). Julian at work ‘What makes West Penwith so special,’ he says, ‘is the amazing concentration of ancient field hedges. In fact, this is the oldest landscape in the world which is still used for the original purpose for which man made it 3500 years ago—small fields for crops and grazing, bounded by Cornish hedges. That’s why it’s so important to look after it, and enable people to appreciate it.’

PLP, of which the Cornwall Wildlife Trust is one of many partners, was set up 2 years ago, with £3m of funding, mainly from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. ‘Our four areas of activity comprise farming, archaeology, wildlife and footpaths. We harness the time and enthusiasm of volunteers, and make the necessary equipment available.

‘We work closely with farmers and horticultural businesses, to help them work sustainably, efficiently and with maximum benefit to the landscape. For example, when farmers are re-seeding their grazing land, we encourage them, by means of grants, to put in herbal leys, rather than the more usual rye grass and clover. The advantage is that a herbal meadow is more lush, it won’t shrivel up in time of drought. And as well as making good grazing for cattle, the flowers will attract bees—which are so important for pollination— other insects, butterflies and birds. This, in turn, makes West Penwith an even more enjoyable place to live, or to visit. Agriculture and tourism are the main drivers of the economy here.’

..Penwith Landscape Partnership

Julian is loving discovering all the wildlife in his new location. ‘The mild southerly climate means there is such a wealth of insects and small birds in the flower-rich corridors created by the hedges. And then there is the open heathland on the downs, home to adders, warblers, emerald tiger beetles, and solitary bees in the sandy banks. It’s amazing to think that this habitat hasn’t changed for millennia, and the species I am noticing were what the people of the Bronze Age also saw.’

Normally, PLP would be organising all sorts of events to encourage people to come and learn about this varied and important landscape of West Penwith. But for now, they are inviting people to share photographs of what they can discover just a few steps outside their homes: lichens on tree Photo: Cornwall Historic Environment Record © trunks, different kinds of slugs under stones, or ‘the flower of the week’ as indicated on PLP’s social media.

‘May 15th,’ says Julian, ‘is designated World Endangered Species Day. We are suggesting that on 15 or 16 May, people might like to make a record of all the interesting plants and animals they can see from their doorstep. We are hoping to receive lists of species spotted in gardens, roadside verges, beaches a short walk from home. This Bioblitz, as we’re calling it, will be compiled as a scientific record, and sent to Cornwall’s wildlife record centre. Please do ask your readers to think about taking part.’ Julian was talking on the phone to Margaret Stevens www.penwithlandscape.com Butterfly Identification Workshop 10-5 on Friday 26 June, if possible

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A Sonnet For The Unseen by priest and poet Malcolm Guite So much goes unseen and stays unsaid, So much that carers keep within their hearts: The children who get parents out of bed, Already tired before their school day starts; The neighbours who keep giving up their time, To add a daily round of extra care; Veronicas* who cleanse the sweat and grime, *Saint Veronica: And those whose gift is simply being there; According to tradition, The patient partners lifting up a cross Veronica was moved To bear the burden their belovèd bears, with compassion when Who ease each other through the pain and loss she saw Jesus carrying his And feel that no one sees, and no one cares. cross to Golgotha and But there is One to hear, to feel, to see gave him her veil so that he might wipe his And He will say 'ye did it unto me'. forehead.

‘Zoom’ has taken on a new and nerve-racking meaning, as some of us have learnt a new way of working together. Palm Sunday Bible reading, and the Art Project lead the Zoom way.

signs of the times

It would seem that many important moments in the Bible occur in the wilderness: a place of isolation, of coming face to face with a reckoning, separation, doubt, reassurance, growth and change. In the Exodus story of the Israelites—miraculously freed from Egypt, only to wander in the wilderness for forty years, dependent on God’s provision for their very survival, yet still rebellious and doubting—we see how much there is to learn when we go, whether willingly or not, into a wilderness. John the Baptist spent most of his adult life in the wilderness, living off the land, as he taught and baptised the crowds who came to him, and prepared the way for the Messiah. And after John had baptised him, Jesus went straight away into the wilderness. For 40 days he experienced a very testing time, as God prepared him for his ministry on earth. In Isaiah 43v19 we read: I am about to Between Friday and Sunday, do a new thing; now it springs forth, do is Saturday. you not perceive it? I will make a way Between death and in the wilderness and rivers in the resurrection, desert. is mourning. For many of us, this time of enforced Between uncertainty and isolation will be our wilderness—a place certainty, is faith. that feels sparse and lonely. We too can Between pain and celebration, use it to pray, to meditate, to listen and is hope. to grow. May the risen Lord lead each Between loneliness and of us into the desert of our heart and community is love. speak to us there in his Spirit, and show Lord, for those in the midst of uncertainty, pain and loneliness, us the mercy in his Father’s face. grant them faith, hope and AH love. Amen. Prayer by Graeme McMeekin of Tearfund

15 a nature walk in May...... quite close to home

The dunnock is sometimes referred to as a hedge sparrow, although it isn’t a sparrow at all: the identifying differences are its reddish legs, and narrow shiny beak. It has a high pitched song, and feeds on the ground, usually near to a hedge or bush.

You’ll find the the heron on the marsh or foreshore. With a tall, slim, elegant, grey body, and a pale striped head and black plume, the heron stands—often with one leg raised ready to take the next silent step—waiting for an unsuspecting fish or frog snack to come along.

The bullfinch must be one of this country’s prettiest birds. Slightly larger than a chaffinch and dumpier, it might be seen in a hedge. It has a glossy black head, truly red front, and white rump which is what you see as it disappears. The bullfinch is a very shy bird, with little in the way of song, whose favourite food is blossom buds—which doesn’t endear it to fruit growers. Ann Hamlin

Half the world’s population of bluebells bloom in the UK. When spring sunshine floods the woodland floor, bluebells emerge from underground to make the most of the light before the tree canopy becomes too dense. The nodding bell-shaped flowers form clusters on bending stems to create a lightly-scented, violet-blue carpet. Bluebells enjoy damp, coastal conditions, and so

16flourish in fields above Cornish beaches. a nature walk in May...... quite close to home

In shades of pink ranging from soft marshmallow to cerise, the spherical heads of Armeria Maritime—commonly called ‘sea pink’ and ‘cliff clover’ but usually known as ‘thrift’ - rise from round cushions of grassy leaves to cover cliffs and sand dunes in spring and early summer. Thrift also provides nectar for many insects, and according to folklore, you’ll never be short of money if it grows in your garden, so it’s a good choice if you have sandy, well-drained soil.

Dark Green Fritillary might seem a surprising name for this tangerine-coloured butterfly: it is the underside of its wings which are dark green. Common throughout coastal areas of Scotland, Wales and Cornwall, dark green fritillaries can often be seen flying at high speed from one floral food station to another – thistles are among their favourite sources of nectar. They are frequent visitors to flower-rich fields and sunny hillsides.

When hundreds of male silver-studded blue butterflies flicker and flutter against a sunny spring sky, it is as though Nature has just emptied a box of confetti. They also bring flashes of blue and silver to fields of orange, yellow and red bird’s foot trefoil – the flowers are an important food source for them, along with gorse and heathers. Females are pale brown and so less easy to identify, but like the males, they have distinctive metallic spots on their hind wings. Silver-studded blues are nationally rare, but they are abundant in the dunes on Cornwall’s north coast. Liz Norbury

Photos: Birds: Roger Hamlin; Flowers and butterflies: Liz Norbury. Bullfinch by RSPB 17

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Lent is long past, but our year of This month we ask you to Action for Climate Change goes on. consider: Educating myself And perhaps this month’s pledge is about the science and timely, as we’ve all been into home impacts of climate change education lately.

Some of the impacts are:

The primary cause of climate change The ice is melting, raising sea- is greenhouse gas emissions from levels, causing coastal erosion. human-made sources such as cars The weather is wreaking havoc— and power plants. These emissions the number of climate-related include carbon dioxide, which has disasters has tripled since 1980. reached a concentration level in our Natural habitats and their species atmosphere that the Earth hasn’t are being disrupted. seen for more than 400,000 years. Industries which depend on Greenhouse gases act like a blanket, natural resources—such as trapping the sun’s warmth near the agriculture, fishing, tourism—are earth’s surface, and affecting the vulnerable. planet’s climate system. There will be increased risks of failures in critical systems, including water resources, food production and distribution, energy and transportation, public health, trade, and national security. Driving 2,397 miles or consuming two months-worth of electricity, melts 3 square metres of Arctic ice. An average American melts 50 square metres a year! 19

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Doris and Hans are a from Pam and John Dibb Smith Swiss couple who, for 20 We have been here at Penstraze years, used to tow their for a year now and we miss you caravan to Kenneggy all. Like everyone else, we can’t Cove campsite. Now in go out at the moment and our their 80’s, they sent this message hair is looking quite wild! to Revd Linda: We just listened and watched your Good Friday Danny Hunkin service and were deeply is a Worship and Arts impressed. The meaning, then to Pastor in Phoenix, see a place we know, to hear your Arizona, who hopes to walk the voices, to be able to follow in the Cornish Celtic Way in September. English Bible. We just say: Thank He wrote to Canon Nigel: you, thank you so much! I will commit to praying along with you during your 5 prayer( 9am in Phoenix)-5:30 until this Sue Hall writes about the taming of her wild garden in Suffolk: is over. First, I put up a greenhouse. Then, clearing the pond was a massive task, but beneath a thicket of ground elder, bindweed and an invasive sedge, I found some lovely plants. I broke up the concrete pond surround with a jack hammer, then weeded through tons of soil, to fill it all in. This spring, I’ve been able to begin planting. The left side behind the trellis now has apple trees and will be left as long grass and wildflowers, with a small wildlife pond.

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The church’s ‘bug buddy’ system which Nigel and the other clergy put into operation has been working well, especially in linking isolated people together for regular friendly telephone chats.

The White Hart posted this message on Facebook: We are closed, but our phone line will remain open, if there is anything we can do, please ask and don't be afraid to call, we will be around for any support we can give. The illuminated cross Tel: 740175 on the church tower NextDoor Ludgvan, a neighbourhood and Adam playing the website, has been busy offering an exchange bagpipes on Easter Day of requests and solutions.

The veg stall in the layby on the A30 below Crowlas is open as usual on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

We are grateful to the second– and holiday- home owners who have left their houses unoccupied during this time when all West Cornwall’s resources are over-stretched. We Lily Royle’s entry in the would love to see them back in use soon! Fisher’s Easter Card And a big thank you to the clergy for looking competition after our spiritual needs, and to the Royle Team for recording all the verses of the hymns for online services,

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Still here! And We extend our sympathy to looking forward Father Jeff and his family who to re-opening the are mourning the loss of Jeff’s Heritage Centre mother, who died a peaceful, and resuming all age-related death in hospital, our regular events. on 13 April, aged 91.

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Easter cross outside All Saints Marazion Surgery is open from 8am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday. They want to emphasise that if you have any medical concerns you should contact them—they are open! There has been a drop in the number of people using the surgery, which is a cause of concern.

We don’t know when restrictions will start to be lifted, but shops which have Regular phone calls have remained open are Cobble Corner (8— been made to members of the All Saints church family, 2), Trevenner Stores (7.30—6), and of and the Chapel are doing course the Pharmacy (9—1, and the same. 2—5.30, Monday to Friday, and 9—12.30 on Saturday). Thank you to the Marazion Covid Support staff of these businesses for keeping going Group has its own for us all. Facebook page, and this phone number 339282 Baker Tom is at Marazion Community manned from 8am to 8pm. Centre on Fridays 11—12.30.

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Suz Dodds was up to A big thank you to Jo and Neil and their team see the sunrise over at Goldsithney Stores for all the extra Goldsithney on Easter deliveries. And for providing a foodbank Sunday collection point in the shop. If you can’t get to The Peppercorn Café the shop to drop some greatly needed items has continued to offer into the box, why not ask Jo to put some in homemade meals and for you, and add the cost to your weekly bill? cakes, to be ordered in A round of applause to Jo Stokes, Nigel advance, for collection Hodder, and the 30 volunteers who set up the or local delivery. Call Goldsithney ‘flu buddy’ scheme, delivering Suzi and Mike’s home 650 cards to households, offering help with number 719689. They anything needed, or just a chat. ‘The biggest have also given the response,’ says Jo, ‘was just to say thank you exterior of the café a for the peace of mind this brought.’ To help, facelift, ready to or request help, call Nigel 07576 828305 or welcome us back! Jo 07866 830357.

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plant-life crossword Across 2 A tree for churchyards and longbows 3 New Zealand black pine 4 Sub-tropical tree with blue- purple flowers Down 1 Lucky Scottish flowering shrub 5 Velvety-skinned fruit 6 The shape and skin of this fruit once gave it the name

‘Alligator Pear’

avocado 6. apricot 5. jacaranda 1. heather 2. yew 3. matai 4. 4. matai 3. yew 2. heather 1.

Parish records There have been no baptisms, weddings or funerals between mid-March and mid-April.

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A five-year old child of my acquaintance has been home- schooling himself. After learning about bees and pollen, he picked a few flowers and swirled them around in a bowl of water. Later, he was overheard on the phone to a friend saying, ‘I’m struggling to make honey.’

Bees can do what boys can’t. Perhaps that’s the thing about the wild: we can wonder at it, study it, harness it, abuse it, wreck it, and occasionally tame it. (In Saint-Exupéry’s children’s story Le Petit Prince, the fox warns the little prince: You are responsible forever for what you have tamed—a word to the wise as we care for the environment.)

But ultimately, the wild remains bigger and stronger than us. We mow the lawn, and 24 hours later, the daisies are back. Locusts can devastate East Africa. We look out to sea, and the vastness of it overwhelms us.

The wild is wonderful and scary, and puts us firmly in our place. And although Nature is not God, it invites us to understand God better—not to put him in a building and kid ourselves we’ve tamed him—but to respect him as awesomely bigger and stronger, more fearsome and at the same time very much more generous and loving, than us.

Who knows which of us will be able to leave our homes by June. But the View is going bravely on with an ‘inviting’ issue. We haven’t zoomed into a planning meeting yet, but if you have anything to say about invitations, please get in touch. And stay well.

Margaret Stevens [email protected] 01736 719090

view MOUNT’S BAY MAGAZINE Editorial Team: the View next month Liz Norbury (Ludgvan) the ‘inviting’ issue Ann Hamlin (Marazion) Ed Oates (Perranuthnoe) copy by 19 May, please Carrie Baker (St Hilary)

church contacts

Rector: Assistant Curate: Canon Nigel Marns (Sunday, Thursday, Friday) The Rectory Ludgvan Revd Linda Garthwaite 01736 740784 07592 612740 [email protected] [email protected]

Team Vicar: Parish Administrator: (Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Mrs Sandra Seymour Thursday) Parish Office; 01736 741067 Fr Jeff Risbridger [email protected] The Vicarage, 7A North Road Murley Hall, Ludgvan Goldsithney TR20 9JY Office open from 10-12, Tues—Friday. 01736 602862 / 07711 019590 Please call to enquire about baptisms, [email protected] weddings and funerals; home visits; and Penzance Foodbank vouchers.

Churchwardens Ludgvan Churchwarden Marazion Mr Steve Clothier 741395 Mrs Julia Greig 710577 Maureen Edwards 740411

Churchwarden Perranuthnoe Churchwardens St Hilary Mrs Dee Holland 710781 Mrs Mena Calfe 763311 Mrs Sheila Baker 850389

Halls for hire Murley Hall, Ludgvan Val Lawrey 01736 763008 Church Hall, Marazion Margaret Miners 01736 711089 Church Room, Perranuthnoe Alison Green 01736 711397 Old Schoolroom, St Hilary Jenny Dunstan 01736 762601

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robin, Anne Lawry; angelic seagull, Sandra Shaw; black swan, Carol Speller; Enys Gardens, Tony Seymour; four others, Roger Hamlin

Peony, from the Art Project