They Dream of Home is a promenade production which takes place in a number of village sites, thus requiring the audience to walk between scenes. Compared with, for example, when the roads were closed for the first TVCT production in 2000, Parson Terry’s Dinner, the cost has multiplied and the procedure for achieving it hugely complex.
I need to ask for people's co-operation in parking elsewhere (the sight of modern cars will undermine our attempt to transport people's imagination back to the early 1900s) and, if driving, tolerate a short …
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Archives for May 2015
They Dream of Home – Use of Payhembury Roads
WW1 Poetry and Songs Evening
Here We Are Again
As a part of its World War One arts programme, Tale Valley Community Theatre will be mounting a WW1 poetry and songs evening in Payhembury Hall on Saturday 18th July. The poems will be read by individuals and will contain well known favourites such as Albert and the Lion and more serious verse such as Dulce et Decorum est.
There will be a musical hall atmosphere with the audience singing well known songs of the period such as Pack up Your Troubles, My Old Man said Follow the Van and Knees up Mother Brown. This evening is …
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Thanks from Payhembury Relief in Need Fund
This fund was established many years ago when various charities in the village decided to combine into one. The terms require that the Trustees can only use interest to help people out and not touch the capital. Obviously in recent years this has created a shortage of available funds.
It is for this reason that the Trustees would like to thank everyone in the village who has helped raise money for the fund recently. Every year the collection from the Carol Singing goes to the fund, £210 was raised in December, and this year we were delighted …
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Churchmouse – June
Hello Friends
I do hope you are having a good spring; we have been having great fun. After watching all you children having fun on May Day dancing around the Maypole, we thought that we could do the same. So, Parchina and I gathered some friends together and with Dad and Mum’s help we managed to make a great Maypole for ourselves and we spent a ovely afternoon Maypole dancing in the church yard. Oh, we had such fun, but we weren’t as good as the children on May Day; we need Mrs Morris to teach us! We got very tangled in one dance and poor …
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Parish Paper – June 2015 Issue
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Alan’s Nature Notes from April
Hello everyone
Well, what terrific weather we're experiencing! The hot sun has finished our daffodils off, and I'm afraid the tulips may not last long. Still, we can't have everything.
In our garden, we are lucky to have not one, but two pairs of greenfinches feeding on the nuts and seeds. The male is a beautiful bird, like a small green parrot (right)! We're lucky to have the two pairs, because greenfinches are not so common these days, having suffered from a nasty infectious disease. We also have lots of goldies, blue and great tits, plus …
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Yellingham Farm Diary – April
Lambing finished 2 days ago and overall it went well. We ended up turning out 44 sets of twins, 4 sets of triplets and 13 singles. In addition we have 2 bottle fed lambs – Monica is more human than human!
The fun now starts to keep them all alive and give them the best possible chance of survival. The first job will be worming the lambs then this is swiftly followed by their first set of two injections that prevent a series of sheep related illnesses (too technical to list). Then the inevitable sleepless night or two when we wean the lambs …
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Memories of Payhembury Past
“We had everything you could want in a village - shop, post office,saddler, cobbler, cartwright - but we never had a baker. The baker used to come from Broadhembury every day with fresh bread.”
Len Salter, Hillside
Did the Post Office double up as a saddler's in Victorian times? It would seem so.
This is William Harris, Esq whose portrait was …
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Churchmouse – May
Dear Friends, do you like this picture of Parchina? Parchina was dressed up for an Easter parade. We travelled to our cousins’ home on Easter Day after our service at Payhembury, we didn’t want to miss out on the chocolate from Rev Cate. At their house they were having an Easter party and Easter parade and Parchina won first prize. It was great fun and lovely to meet up with our cousins and join in the fun, there were mice form all over the place, some had travelled across many fields but as it was dry they didn’t get stuck in any mud.
The …
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Committee Meeting – April 2015
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