Your free magazine — please take one MYLOR MAGAZINE January 2015 Serving the whole community Mylor Magazine [email protected] Published by: Mylor Community Publications Group Trustees: Chris Perkins (Chairman) David Eastburn (Membership) John Symons (Parish Council) Revd Jeffrey James (secretary) Editor: Michael Jeans-Jakobsson 01326 374767 Community contact: Val Jeans-Jakobsson 01326 374767 Photography: Geoff Adams 01326 374197 Treasurer: Andy Goodman 01326 373530 Editorial Team: Judy Menage (PCC) Roger Deeming Wendy Fowler Terry Chapman Penelope Bryan Printing: Leaflet Express 01872 865744 Publication date is nominally the 1st of the month Deadline date for copy is now 10th of previous month Advertising in Mylor Magazine Rates - per issue : Colour: Full A5 page £45, Half page £25. B/W: Full page £20, Half page £12, Quarter page £8. E-mail: [email protected] for further details Cover: Winter sunshine on Mylor Creek iPhone photograph by Michael Jeans-Jakobsson 2 A Very Happy New Year to all our readers Contents 4 Vicar’s letter 16 Trefusis Singers Concert 5 Church notes 17 Creative Writing 6 Church news 20 Flower Club 6 Chapel news 23 Health and Fitness - New Year 8 Parish Council meeting 26 Centre Spread - Kennal River 12 WI to be reborn? 30 Wildwatch - The Outdoors 12 Xmas Lights Switch-on 33 Local History - From PC Minutes 12 Post Office move 38 On the water 13 History Group lecture 41 Farming Notes 13 Churchyard Group 46 More about - Maureen Powell 14 Book Group Review 49 Crossword 14 Tina May concert 51 Cartoon 16 Mylor Movies 51 Crossword solution Editorial: Once again, we were entered for the National Magazine awards this year. Having come 41st last year, I am pleased to say that we were 29th out of 600 this year. Going up! Editor Village Diary January 2015 February 5 Sch Spring term begins 2 PH 7.15 Parish Council 5 FVC 7.15 Parish Council - p8 7 TH CL 10-12 Coffee Morning 12 OS GC 7.30 - p13 9 OS GC 7.30 - p13 17 TH 10—12 FSM CM - p5 16-23 Sch Half term 24 TH 7.30 History Group - p13 25 TH MM ‘What we did on our holiday’ 28 TH 7.30 MM - p16 March 25 TH MM ‘Mr Turner’ 27 Sch Spring term ends Key: AS: All Saints Church, Con: concert, CL: Christmas Lights, CM: coffee morning, FVC: Flushing Vlge Club, FSM: Friends of StM, FC: Flower Club, GC: Garden Club, LC: Lunch Club, MC: Methodist Chapel, MM: Mylor Movies, MS: Mylor Sessions, MYH: Mylor Yacht Harbour, OS: Ord Statter pavilion, PF: Playing Fields, PH: Parish Hall, Sch: Mylor School, StM: St Mylor Church, TH: Tremayne Hall, TL: TDFAS lecture, Mylor Theatre, Truro College. 3 Vicar’s letter ~ Revd Jeffrey James “Did you have a good Christmas?” “It’s been very good so far.” This looks like one of those slightly odd conversations where the two people are not quite on the same wavelength. The one asks about something that’s been and gone the other replies about something that hasn’t finished yet. That’s what it can be like with Christmas. For many people, Christmas is a special day; sometimes fraught with tensions, sometimes full of joy and often with a bit of both. But it is only one day so that on Boxing Day, with either a sigh of relief or a twinge of regret, we can get on with ordinary life and go to the sales or the local sporting fixture. For the church, Christmas Day is the beginning of twelve days of celebration and there are still echoes of this in common traditions like keeping up decorations until Twelfth Night. In the course of those twelve days we give ourselves time to allow the images of the Christmas story to dwell in our minds, recognising that there’s a lot to take in. We wonder about the way God comes among us through the collaboration of Mary, an ordinary young woman with no special standing. We ponder why the good news of God being with us comes first to a group of scruffy itinerant workers - the shepherds. You might have thought something so important would have been announced to powerful people with the privileges of education, wealth and status, but that isn’t God’s way. Similarly you might have thought that God’s son would be born in a place that’s warm, safe and secure not in the backyard of the village inn, but that’s not God’s way either. There’s something quite deep about these simple signs and the twelve days of Christmas give us the space to think about the way Mary (and Joseph), the shepherds and the place of Jesus’ birth, tell us about the way God’s work is done in unlikely places with the active collaboration of ordinary people. There were some high status people involved in the story, the magi or wise men, but they don’t make their entrance until the Christmas season is over. We’ll be talking about them and what they tell us about the God we meet in Jesus on Epiphany Sunday (4 January), so why not come and join us at the parish church and fill out the missing part of the Christmas story. 4 Parish of St Mylor: Regular Services St Mylor with All Saints, Mylor Bridge www.stmylor.org.uk Sundays 8am Holy Communion* St Mylor 10.30am Parish Eucharist St Mylor 5pm Evening Prayer* All Saints *these services use the 1662 Book of Common Prayer Wednesdays 10am Holy Communion All Saints For feast day services and other occasions, see church notice boards Enquiries about baptisms, weddings or funerals should be made to Revd Jeff James on 01326 374408 or at [email protected] The Churchwarden, Judy Menage, can be contacted on 01326 259909 or at [email protected] Friends of St Mylor Church Registered charity number 1129030 COFFEE MORNING Tremayne Hall Saturday 17 January 10 am until 12 Noon Raising Funds for St Mylor and All Saints Churches 5 Church and Chapel News Chapel News: December was busy for us with the children helping to decorate the Chapel for the celebrations using greenery, candles, lights, nativity scenes and the Christmas tree. They all helped to organise and lead the Christingle Service. Michael played the organ once again. Sam, Lillie, Ellie and Laura sang and played their recorders. A play about the 'True Meaning Of Christmas' was performed by Cara, Ellie and Laura. Every child in the Chapel then received their Christingle and processed whilst singing ‘Away in a Manger’. A truly magical start to Christmas. At the time of going to press we are looking forward to our candlelit Christmas Eve Service, more details to follow. Work is still under way in our kitchen area and it is gradually taking shape. See posters and the next magazine for fund raising dates and activities to come. We would like to wish everyone a happy, healthy New Year and we look forward to welcoming you at any of our services starting at 10.30 every Sunday morning. Vyv Curnow Church News: Amid the hustle and bustle leading up to Christmas, twenty of us studied Stephen Cottrell’s fascinating book ‘Walking backwards to Christmas’ as an Advent course, led by Jeff, our Parish priest. This evoked a range of responses as we read the accounts of the various personae involved in the Christmas story, starting with Anna at Candlemas, working backwards to the annunciation and the beginning of Mary’s story, then further back to Isaiah and finally Moses. I think it is fair to say that none of us will ever approach Christmas in quite the same way. The writer, who is Bishop of Chelmsford, has delved deep into the sort of details which both touched the reader and brought a sense of wonderfully grounded reality to the Christmas story. We also brought the Christmas story of hope to the children at Mylor School, in our December visit with ‘Open the Book’. These visits are a welcome opportunity to bring bible stories to life. We never have less than half a dozen children involved in the actual performance, all costumed, and some now with speaking parts. Our all age worship service on the last Sunday of the month, started in March 2014 on a year’s trial. This month it is on 25th. It continues to grow in popularity and we hope that the March meeting of the PCC will confirm this as a regular part of our monthly worship. Prior to the service we have our breakfast club at 9 am in Café Mylor. If you are on Facebook, why not visit ‘St Mylor Church’, where details of all our recent activities are displayed. Judy Menage 6 7 Community News and Views Parish Council Meeting: held at Flushing Village Club on 1 December. The poor standard of workmanship in some of the new housing on Bells Hill has been followed up by Sarah Newton MP and by the Parish Clerk. During the Police Report, concern was expressed by Councillor Whiteley about the unacceptable response time to the 101 non-emergency number. There was general concern over the lack of visible police presence within the parish; a comprehensive answer was given by the PCO - staffing has been reduced and operational methods changed, but they hope to see improvements. It is hoped to re-mark the disabled parking space in the Leats Car Park. The Parish Council has objected to several recent planning applications, in several cases unanimously. We expressed concern to the Mylor Ward Councillor, Tony Martin, that both he and Cornwall Council have then consequently approved these plans.