Silverleigh PARISHES MAGAZINE June/July 2020 40p Annual subscription £4 1 [[[[[ Bickleigh Castle A stunning 14th Century Castle where dreams come true… Beautiful, historic, intimate and truly romantic… the perfect exclusive and secluded venue for your wedding, birthday party or any other celebration or occasion Licensed for Civil Ceremonies Self-arranged or use our experienced team Blessing Services and Renewal of Vows in the Sixth Century Chapel Wonderful landscaped gardens riverside setting Bed and Breakfast Accommodation Bickleigh, Near Tiverton EX16 8RP Tel: 01884 855363 www.bickleighcastle.com Email: [email protected] 2 Contact details of magazine team is shown towards the back Deadline for the August 2020 edition is Sunday 19 July 2020 Please send material for inclusion to the editor at [email protected] The magazine will be distributed for Sunday 2 August Paying subscriptions: By cash or cheque (payable to ‘St Mary’s Church, Silverton’) to either your distributor or Gina Bush. Please make sure you say who you are and what you’re paying for. By BACS NatWest Tiverton, sort code 602127, Account No 54577993 Code: mag sub/year of sub/your name From the Editor As I write this we are entering Week 9 of lockdown and I do feel like we are turning a corner, being able to meet a friend for a walk is a great step forward for me! Bird song and nature is really amazing with a woodpecker on the bird table of the first time and a deer wandering around in the field nearby. We are very lucky living here and I have met some really wonderful and interesting people, so at least some good has come out of this terrible time. Hopefully this will be our last electronic edition and we will be back to printed copies. Thanks to Warren Radmore for his beautiful front cover photograph. Jill Shaw Where to go and what to do 6 From the Churches 19 In and around the villages 27 Health and Wellbeing 32 Index of Advertisers 53 Useful phone numbers 54 3 If you know anyone who would like to receive a copy of the magazine by email, until we go back to it being printed, please ask them to contact Maggie Smith on [email protected] Mission Community Parish Administrator for Silverton, Butterleigh, Bickleigh and Cadeleigh 07380 247766 4 The Numbers You May Need FORCE Cancer Nursing Team: 01392 406151 Psychological and emotional support: 01392 406168/ 406169. Silverton’s AED defibrillator is situated on the wall outside the Spar shop. If you call for an ambulance they may ask you to try and get hold of it. If you are with the casualty alone and you cannot alert a neighbour or passerby to get it to you the following people have agreed to bring it to you if they are available. Please store these numbers in your phone in case of an emergency or print this list off and keep it near your phone. Every minute counts. Mary Tindall– Jenna Clements Nikki Bailey Trish Jones Robertson 07763751626 07779609121 07792453231 07730650523 Karen Goldby Kathy Blick Richard Harper David Wright 07769256097 or 07754452191 or 07922175800 07980550602 860559 860565 Please note that the above people are not trained medics but will have had some training on the use of a defibrillator. They will get this potential piece of life saving kit to you and help you within their limits. 5 Poetry Group We were a very fledgling group when we suddenly ceased to meet, so it has been heartening that so many of us have decided to continue electronically, while Room4You is closed. Rather than meeting to read poetry, members of the group are emailing me a monthly poem and I'm then circulating our 'compilation' to those who wish to participate . They are a wonderfully eclectic and cheering mix, from classical favourites to humorous pieces written by some of us. We will resume as a physical group in due course, but in the meantime this is a good, virtual alternative. So as not to contravene any copyright, I offer you a few Silverton-penned haiku, below. Simone Stanbrook-Byrne 881513 She eats raw garlic. Fab social-distancing tool And anti-viral! A Morrisons slot - Not so easy to get one. Should have tried sooner. Team-day boats set sail. Simon's secretary submerged. Aqueous mayhem. Balmy Roadford Day. Wild nautical happenings Bendy mast fall down. St Mary’s Silverton Flower Club Just to confirm that there will not be any Flower Club meetings until further notice owing to Covid 19. We do hope that everyone continues to keep safe and well during these difficult times and trust that we will be able to resume our enjoyable evenings in the not too distant future. Keep arranging those flowers! Julie Knowles For any further information about Silverton Flower Club please contact Sally Sleep on 860678 or e-mail sallysleep1@hotmail,co.uk 6 Silverton & Exe Valley Seniors Events & activities for the plus Due to ongoing Government travel and social distancing restrictions all Club activities continue to be suspended. Consequently, given a lead-in time of at least two months for coach outings, advance bookings made for outings in July and August are to be refunded. It is hoped to resume Club activities as soon as prevailing circumstances permit, perhaps in the Autumn? Should social distancing restrictions continue beyond September, the Committee is considering whether it might be possible to re-run the 2020 outings’ programme next year. In this event ALL remaining advance outings bookings for 2020 will be refunded and memberships fees to be carried over to 2021. Martin Clough Club Secretary 38 Hederman Close Silverton EX5 4HW 01392 860971 [email protected] Silverton Short Mat Bowls Club On the 6th March the committee took the decision to postpone the our annual charity event which was due to take on 21st March because of the coronavirus pandemic; little did we realise that our bowls club activities would be still suspended as we enter the month of June. It has been a long time since we have all met together for a game of bowls and no doubt we will all be a bit rusty once we are allowed to resume our sport. When the government states that sports can take place again, we will notify all our members individually that we are recommencing our activities. Until then I send greetings and best wishes to all our members in the hope that they are all well and that we will soon be able to meet again at our usual time of 7.30 pm on Tuesday and Friday evenings at Silverton Community Hall. If anyone would like to know more about the bowls club please call the club secretary, Marian Endacott on 01392 860200. 7 ‘Silent’ 999 Calls If you call 999 but are unable to speak to the operator, say because doing so would alert an offender to your presence and put you in further danger, then there is a protocol the emergency services follow to deal with so-called ‘silent calls.’ When you dial 999, you are automatically connected to a BT operator. The operator will ask you which service you require – and may ask you to confirm your location to ensure you are connected to the correct service in the correct region. If you dial 999 and do not speak, the BT operator may ask you to cough or tap the handset to let the operator know you are still there, and if any sound can be heard, then the call is immediately connected to the police. If nothing can be heard, the BT operator will play a recorded message which will prompt the caller to press ‘55’ on their telephone keypad if emergency assistance is still required. If a ‘55’ press is detected, the call is immediately connected to the police. If the call is made from a landline telephone, BT is able to identify the address, if the call was made from a mobile phone, then they may use telemetry from telephone masts to get an indication of where in the UK the call may have been made. Once the call is connected to the police, the BT operator passes the police operator the details of the call. The police operator then takes the following steps: 1. Attempts to call the number back, a minimum of three attempts. 2. Researches the number on police systems. Plots the geographic data on the police mapping system. 3. Conducts additional research on names and. 4. Sends a text message (if a mobile phone) notifying the owner of the phone that a 999 has been received, with instructions to call again if necessary. It may be that the results of the police operator’s research, combined with a ‘55’ detection or a disturbance heard on the line, warrant further attention. 8 The police operator will refer their incident log for subscriber checks to be carried out (mobile phone only) or transfer their incident log for a police officer to attend the home address (landline only.) It goes without saying that silent calls take up a significant amount of the police’s time investigating, which is why it is important to dispel the myth that simply dialling and saying nothing will result in a police response. It is much more likely a police response will be received if you are able to make a noise, tap on the handset, or press ‘55’ when prompted. This will let us know you are in danger. If the call was made accidentally, please assist the police by answering our return calls or by responding to our text message.