PARISH NEWS 65p VERYAN AND RUAN LANIHORNE JULY 2013 What’s the problem? JULY EVENTS Saturday 13 July VERYAN CHURCH FÊTE In aid of church heating fund [see page 5 ] Thursday 18 July CREAM TEAS at Rosevallon farm. Tregony TR2 5TS [1 mile down Cuby Close] In aid of Parkinsons Research What are Daniel and Imogen saying to Fr Doug? See page 6 Saturday 27 July VERYAN CARNIVAL DAY [see page 7 ] COLIN, SUZANNE & CHLOE WELCOME YOU ALL TO Tuesday 30 July The New Inn ORLANDO JOPLING CONCERT AT RUAN CHURCH Veryan In aid of windows restoration [see page 5 ] Friday 2 August CAR TREASURE HUNT [see page 7 ] Enjoying an enviable reputation for a great atmosphere, friendly service Our church websites And delicious home-cooked food www.veryanchurch.org.uk tel: 01872 501 362 www.ruanlanihornechurch.org.uk www.portloechurch.org.uk ACCOMMODATION AVAILABLE July 2013 page 1 Elerkey Guest House Veryan, Truro, Cornwall TR2 5QA Tel. 01872 501261 [email protected] www.elerkey.co.uk AA**** Rated En-suite Bed & Breakfast Accommodation With Reasonable Rates Art Gallery & Gift Shop Made in Cornwall Handcrafted Jewellery Also A Fantastic Selection of Gifts for Every Occasion Original Paintings & Fine Art Giclee Prints By Artist Harvey Graver Commissions Taken Out of hours viewing available call in or telephone anytime July 2013 page 2 working of the ground may be disturbing the earth works for IN YOUR the old castle. It was therefore agreed that the field would be GARDEN sown with low input grasses, (i.e. they need no chemical fertilisers or control), which this consisted of three varieties of fescues and crested dog tail and this would also encourage Now this month is a tale about some natural regeneration of the ‘Battle of the Acres’. Or annual meadow grass. more clearly Nine Acres v Four Therefore the first conse- Acres. Well this is not about in quence is no disturbance to your garden but one garden the castle earth works and specifically. Joyce is quite second consequence, the en- properly very proud of her gar- couragement of an open den and works hard in it despite sward of grasses attracting young buntings and that is are the wrong sort to cut back. the other calls on her time. invertebrates like grasshop- what Mr Harrison is supply- Penstemons and perennial wall Only the other day she was pers. ing in abundance. flowers don’t like it but most buying compost, rushing off to The third consequence is that It follows that he used to herbaceous plants do. play bowls and was sure she the habitat is then perfect for produce wheat and now he Cut lavender back as soon as it would ’meet herself coming the cirl bunting. Now the un- breeds grasshoppers. That’s has finished flowering; if you back.’ fortunate fourth consequence diversification for you! But leave it until spring and we On a well-earned Sunday after- is that not only does the cirl cirl buntings are not keen have a mild winter you may noon off she came over to me bunting turn up but so too the travellers and only move cut off the flowering stems. in the pub and firmly suggested sow thistle, which has ample about 2km between their Clematis that flower before the that I might like to write about room to multiply. In every breeding and wintering areas end of June need cutting back a problem that was troubling year previously it has been (obviously brighter than your now and so too all plants that her in the garden. Not snails or possible to apply an appropri- average swallow!) so it is have flowered now. Try a few pigeons but thistles. ‘Coming ate approved control for the vital that these feeding areas clematis cuttings. up all over the place’ she said, thistles to prevent flowering are close to each other. Take soft tip cuttings of shrubs ‘from Nine Acres!’ but the very cold spring made The stewardship schemes and flowers. Take a cutting Now rather than taking this at this impossible, allowing the that have encouraged the about 4 " long; remove the face value I thought a little in- thistles to thrive and so they grassland protection meant lower leaves and insert, with vestigation was called for and I took time to die and what will that by 2003 those 118 pairs or without rooting powder, immediately collared Mr Harri- be forever known as ‘the fifth had increased to 700 pairs into a small pot, around the son and said what’s this about consequence’ is that they saw and by 2009, 862 pairs. edge. Nobody knows why your thistles in Nine Acres Joyce’s garden as the perfect More information can be round the edge works better drifting into Four Acres? setting in which to deposit found at www.rspb.org.uk . than in the middle. (I am so impressed with the their offspring. Of course there is another Look out for bugs in the green- simplicity of Cornish field consequence which another house, and tomato and cucum- names! I have just renamed one I did a little research on the farmer noticed locally and ber disorders. of mine in modern vernacular cirl bunting which was once that is the increase in spar- Sow beetroot for baby beets in ‘5.408 hectares’!). widespread throughout south- row hawks which consider autumn, so too carrots . Tur- Of course the answer I received ern England. It is apparently the cirl bunting a delicacy. nips are also quick to mature if was not as simple as Mr Harri- not now considered to be a Oh dear, the food chain is sown this month. son leaving his field fallow and finch but looks like one (bird perplexing. Sow lettuces ; try mizuna, pep- untended. His thistles were families are almost as compli- pery and delicious! ‘special’, (his would be!) a cated as plant families!) but is With profuse apologies to natural consequence of a very closely related to the yellow the Editor for straying off And the resolution to the complicated scheme. Read on hammer and until recently my subject somewhat here Battle of the Acres? Hope for a Joyce, this puts thistles and Mr could only be found in south are the jobs for July in your better spring in 2014 and Harrison’s husbandry in per- Devon where coastal farming garden: meantime go halves on a spective, though may not re- practice allowed its survival. donkey! duce your weeding! The dramatic decline in num- Irises are fabulous plants bers was due to habitat loss with little or no pests or dis- Note from the editor: Until September 2011, Nine resulting in there being only ease. Cut off the old flower In Cornwall we call sow Acres was an arable field. This 118 pairs in 1989. spike lift the clump and di- thistles ’milky disles’ - and meant lots of ploughing, tilling, During the winter, cirl bun- vide or cut up the rhizomes the ‘castle’ has always been seeding and harvesting with the ting forage in weedy stubble to create new plants. called ‘the Ring-a-rounds’ - necessary heavy modern fields. In summer they nest in Cut back perennials that it’s either the National Trust machinery. Therefore it was hedges and forage in the said have flowered, they may do or the Ordnance Survey that discussed with English Heritage unimproved grassland for it all over again. Just watch has glorified an Iron Age and Natural England that at the invertebrates. Grasshoppers that leaves are still appearing earthwork into a ‘castle’! top of Nine Acres this constant are the best food for the at the base, if not then they July 2013 page 3 From the Vicarage Fortunately we had If anyone would like to be They both have a wealth of arranged for the new prepared for Confirmation experience and are very Bishop of St Germans to please let me know. down-to-earth when talk- Parishes are being urged to preach at the Harvest ing about spiritual matters. ‘do church differently’. How- Evening Service. It has This autumn there will be a Although it would be good ever, sometimes when we try now been agreed by the series of sessions entitled if people could attend each we find that people prefer PCC and the Bishops that ‘Living to the full – explor- session it will not be what ‘we belong to do’. Bishop Chris will carry ing spiritualities’ on seven mandatory. out the Confirmations as successive Wednesdays at You may have noticed in last part of a Harvest Eucharist Portloe Church, commenc- Come when you can. The month’s Parish News that it at 6 pm on 6 October. This ing 16 October. sessions are open to any- was announced that there will also give the Rose- Each session will start at one, regardless of which would be a confirmation land Churches’ Choir the 7.30 pm and will last about church you attend. There service with a difference opportunity to sing a an hour and a half. I will will be more details in due during a School Collective Eucharist setting. host all but one of the course. Worship. The PCC was sessions and will introduce supportive; the school staff Bishop Tim will still visit speakers who will bring May you realise how much thought it was a good idea. and take part in the School their own insights on life. God blesses you, But the potential candidates Collective Worship on I will be assisted by the and their families were not Fr Doug. Friday, 27 September at Revd Sisters Ann Marie convinced.