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Kernick Curtains TRESMEER VILLAGE SHOP Bespoke Curtain Making Opening 7th May 7.30am till 6pm Cash only until set up for card machine All Styles of Heading Milk, papers, meats, fruit n veg, teas, coffees, fresh Including Eyelet, Goblet & Pinch Pleat food, pasties And lots more Roman Blinds Made Big Breakfast in the Hall from 8am Your Own Fabric or Choose From Our Selection Thought for the month God gave you two ears and one mouth, Telephone 01566 785756 Fax 01566 785775 so that you can listen twice as much as you talk. PAGE 42 PAGE 3 An ancient oak often has a hollow trunk, its centre eaten away by fungi such as the LANEAST CHURCH GRAND EXHIBITION "Poor Man's Beefteak". The hollow provides a roosting place for owls in daytime, and a home for colonies of bats, which hibernate there in the winter, protected from the & CRAFT FAIR WEEK-END cold. After its death, an oak tree continues to support life. More than 200 varieties of fungi 21st & 22nd MAY 2011 live on the decaying wood, which is also eaten by woodlice and other insects. They Visit our beautiful Church and enjoy the flower displays break down the oak tree's nutrients, which return to the earth, to feed new oak trees. and local made exhibits Just of A395 Wayside Cross in Tresmeer Churchyard Craft Fair 21st May 2011 11am—4pm Latin cross with similar cross in relief on both sides seen by Ellis in St Nicholas's churchyard near the wall of the chancel. He considered that Crafts include Wood Turning, Hand made soaps, it was the cross mentioned by Blight as being near the old Parsonage house in Penpoll, Laneast, in 1858. Lake, agreeing with Blight, remarks Textiles, Local Art, Photographs, that it was removed in 1866 and Langdon saw it in Laneast churchyard Preserves, Cards, in 1886, but on revisiting the churchyard in 1890 found it gone. Baird and much more. suggests that the cross was first found at Penpoll in Laneast, then taken to the old Parsonage there (now pulled down). It was then moved to the churchyard and finally taken to its present site on a Serving Lunch vicar's grave in Tresmeer churchyard. It protrudes 0.4m in height from & Cream Teas the head of an unnamed grave, close to the East end of Tresmeer church. Tagged With Medieval Data Source English Heritage FREE ADMISSION County Council (Unitary) Cornwall Council Parish Tresmeer Parliamentary Constituency North Cornwall 22nd MAY at 11am Sunday Church Service Grid Reference SN234234 (223368, 87486) And blessing of Wall Hanging fol- WGS84 Coordinates 50.6596, -4.49937 lowed by Nearest Postcode PL15 8QT Teas & Biscuits The nearest postcode is an aid to location, and does not necessarily reflect the actual address of the monument. Most scheduled monu- ments are not occupied buildings and have no postal address or post- To book a Stall contact Vicky on code of their own. In rural and coastal areas, the nearest geocodable 01566 880103 postal address may be several miles away. Find more at www.ancientmonuments.info PAGE 4 PAGE 41 Life in an Oak Tree Few places support such a variety of life as an English oak tree. Its soft leaves rot CJT quickly in autumn, forming rich leafmould for insects and earthworms. The oak's Small Mini Digger with Driver open canopy allows plenty of light to reach the ground, so that many other plants, Compact Machine including primroses, violets, bluebells and ferns, can grow here. The tree itself is Fits in most gardens home to many birds, small mammals, insects, mosses, lichens and fungi. No Job Too Small Writing around 300 BC, the Greek botanical writer, Theophrastus, declared, "The oak bears more things beside its fruit than any other tree." He noticed several different types of gall - a small growth formed when a female wasp lays an egg in the central vein of a growing leaf. The newly hatched larvae secrete a chemical which causes the leaves to mutate, forming the galls - protective homes for the growing insects. The largest are pinkish-white "oak apples", which can grow as big as golf balls. There are also smaller currant-galls, marble-galls, and spangle-galls. The oak supports at least 350 varieties of insect - more than any other tree. Those living in the bark attract birds, such as great-spotted woodpeckers, to feed. Phone Craig Tratt 07825868328 Caterpillars of moths and butterflies eat the leaves. Most damaging is the Oak Leaf- Roller Moth, whose grub rolls over a leaf so that it can pupate within it. In some years, there are so many caterpillars that they can strip every leaf from the tree. Yet the sturdy oak usually survives, with only a small decrease in its annual growth. Know your Parish Councillors Oak Tree From July to August, the canopy of oak trees in southern England hosts colonies of Chair: Mr. Peter Turner the rare Purple Emperor Butterfly, a spectacular creature whose colorful wings can Tel: 01566 781808 have a span of 84mm. Here the butterflies live on a diet of sticky honeydew, secreted E.mail: : [email protected] by aphids on the oak leaves. The acorns which fall to the ground in autumn provide another important food source, Mr. Graham Martin for wood pigeons, rooks, squirrels and mice. These birds and small mammals in turn Tel: 01566 781497 attract birds of prey, including buzzards, sparrow hawks and owls, which hunt in the Mrs.