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Parish Paper – September 2016 Issue
Alan’s Nature Notes from July
Hello there
My highlight of the past month was a visit to Dartmoor, with the Butterfly Society, to hopefully see some rare butterflies. Dartmoor is a good place to see high brown and dark green fritillaries. These are species which I've only seen in books! However, we did see quite a few of both on Dartmoor. In fact, we came across two high browns making love! The photographers amongst us couldn't tear themselves away. What a picture! We didn't see many birds, which was disappointing.
This is a relatively quiet time for birds. They have …
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Yellingham Farm Diary – July
I buy in beautiful Angus Cross calves at three weeks old from a local dairy farmer and over the next couple of years they graze contentedly at Yellingham Farm. No rush, I just let them come on naturally.
Three of my bullocks were looking stunning and I knew that the time was fast approaching when they needed to be ‘moved’ on. One was to be slaughtered and the meat sold locally, and to my guests who always love taking home some delicious beef. The other two are destined for Exeter market to be sold as ‘stores’.
I can’t say I enjoy taking them …
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Payhembury Provisions – “Our Shop”
Two articles from the August Parish Paper show how well thought of our shop is and how well it is doing:
Payhembury Shop
When the current shop was being planned, some people in the Parish gave unsecured loans to help get it started. Our loan was returned to us recently as the shop is now financially secure and thriving. It is a wonderful Payhembury facility and I would like to pay tribute to all those who have in some way helped it become so successful.
When our community pulls together, making use of the huge variety of skills and …
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News From Payhembury Provisions – August
Thank you to everyone who joined us at our 5th birthday party. It was lovely to see so many people of all ages enjoying a chat, a laugh and a lavish cream tea with cake. As you may know, Payhembury Provisions has now repaid all the loans, commercial and private, that were needed five years ago when we first started and we hope that with help from all our wonderful volunteers, customers and share-holders the shop will continue to prosper for many years to come.
On October 6th we will be holding our annual members’ meeting. This is traditionally …
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Miss Paulina Mary Trott
It is with sadness we report the passing of Miss Paulina Mary Trott who was born on the 19th of April 1931 when her parents had a small farm in Lower Cheriton. Known as Polly for most of her life, she lived on her own following the death of her Mum and Dad, many years ago. Polly was an animal lover, and her other great love was her garden.
Unfortunately she suffered poor health for some years but she fought hard to maintain her beautiful garden. Paulina was cremated at Exeter Crematorium on the 22nd of June 2016 and her ashes scattered in the …
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Churchmouse – August
Hello Friends
Time for me to tell you about some of the happenings for us mice. When the weather is fine we like to go out into the field with our field mouse cousins, you can see them in the picture.
We like to run up and down the pieces of wheat and barley and sway on them. We have to be careful we get out of the way before the combines come and harvest or else we would be minced mice! It’s great fun though and we do like going outside to play with our friends in the fields. We tell them about all that goes on in church and they tell us …
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Parish Paper – August 2016 Issue
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Yellingham Farm Diary – June
I rang the shearer and asked him to give me a date when he could come and shear. As usual, I got a swift reply and an even swifter date. “How about tomorrow afternoon?”
There is no way you can say no as you never know when you might see them again and given the forecast looked good as well, I said yes immediately and then worried about cancelling my planned activities for the next day.
We got the sheep in early, as there was a dampness in the air and you can’t shear wet sheep. It was a noisy affair as the ewes have still got their lambs at …
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