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Parish Paper – November 2016 Issue
Alan’s Nature Notes from September
Hi folks
It's been a fairly quiet time in the garden recently. The young tits and finches are visiting the feeders, with the chaffinches clearing up underneath, on the ground.
We're getting regular visits from two magpies, which I don't like very much. This is unusual, because there are not many of them in Payhembury. We're also seeing the lovely green woodpecker at times, feeding on ants in the lawns.
This year has not been kind to the butterflies. Too much rain at the wrong times. I've only seen a few red admirals, peacocks and …
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Churchmouse – October
Hello friends, I hope you have all settled back into school and it has been great to see lots of new children in church. Reception do look tiny and their little legs swing in the pews. Parchina and I have thought that they have been very good and are learning to sit still very quickly. We mice find it ever so hard to sit still, perhaps that’s because we have tails, um!
Poor Grandad mouse is having to sit very still at the moment, he has broken his leg and cut his tail… You see he was out in the fields having his usual morning walk, when he …
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Minutes from Payhembury Provisions Annual Members’ Meeting 2016
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Churchmouse – September
Hello friends
This is not from Parchie and Parchina but from Catherina and Costos, their cousins, who live in Cyprus.It is very hot here and we mice have to stay inside our nests until it is evening or we have to get up early in the monring when it is cooler.
We saw Rev Cate and her husband today. Parchie sent us a message that they were coming here on holiday. they were walking on the beach in the cool of the evening.
We mice live on the edge of the beach; there are no cats to chase us but 2 big dogs - we can usually run faster than them. …
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Alan’s Nature Notes From August
Hello again
It is Thursday, August 18th, and the weather has truly broken today, from scorching sunshine to miserable greyness! Still, there are a few more birds about on the feeders -- blue and great tits, chaffinches and goldfinches. I’m afraid we’ve had a fatality -- a young jackdaw. It looked a bit sorry for itself yesterday, and has expired during the night --very sad!
Many of you will know there is a lovely buddleia by the stream. There have been lots of butterflies on it recently -- I saw peacocks, red admirals, small tortoiseshells …
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News From Payhembury Provisions – September
Phew, what a scorcher! I'm writing this on one of the hottest days this year so I've been thinking about icecream and I thought you might like to know a bit more about the local company, Otter Valley Dairy which supplies our shop.
They are based at Aplins Farm which is just the other side of Honiton on the A30. They are very much a family business with three generations involved in running the dairy farm and making ice-cream using only milk from their own herd of Holsteins. All the ice-cream is made in small batches with natural flavourings …
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New Hours at Honiton Minor Injuries Unit
The closing time at Honiton MIU is now:
8pm every day instead of 10pm
The reduction in hours has been caused by staffing difficulties, and the situation is due to be reviewed in the Autumn. …
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Doris Ellis 1916 – 2016
Doris Mary Ellis
August 15, 1916 - August 17, 2016
“The heart has gone out of our small community at Lower Cheriton”
Doris Ellis, who lived all her life at Cheriton Farm, and who celebrated her 100th birthday on August 15, sadly died just two days later in hospital following a fall at home. Fiercely independent, Doris, who never married, continued to live alone at the family farm after the deaths of her farmer brothers, John and Cyril, offering a warm welcome and hospitality to her many visitors and neighbourly helpers.
“She was a …
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FOPs Annual General Meeting 2016
This year we have raised over £2000 with the help and support of all the parents. The committee’s job is an easy one because we have you, so thank you from us all.
We are losing Sue Holmes and Lisa Weeks from our committee this year, they have both been amazing supporters of FOPs and the school over many years. They have been gifted an apple tree to remember the school and all the special times they’ve had with us.
On Thursday 15th September at 3:45pm in school, we will have our AGM and elect a new committee. Come and have your say. There …
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