News from the Parish Hall
Advice from Your Neighbourhood Police – July
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Payhembury Provisions News – July
There are many tasks which go on behind the scenes in the shop, from entering reams of data on the computer to paying the bills, date checking the stock, fetching the frozen food from Exeter, ordering and sourcing products, cleaning and tidying, watering the plants, keeping the storeroom organised and hauling the deliveries up there each week. We are very grateful to everyone who helps with these and the countless other jobs, as well as to all those who have become masters of the electronic till.
Your help has enabled us to make donations this …
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Paul’s Nature Notes May/June 2020
We have watched spellbound as the wrens garnered up countless small insects and spiders for their young, working along the banks of the stream and on the bridge in late afternoon. Then we were treated to the sight of six babies fledging and they have stayed around in a group foraging. Did you know that it is only the female which sings?
Last year I mentioned a tiny trial wildflower patch sown with seed-balls. This did quite well except that this year the Ox-eye Daisies had really taken over and had to be thinned out. I elongated the strip by …
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Yellingham Farm – June
All is still very well at Yellingham and I must admit that the now somewhat “established” rules and cleaning schedules introduced into the household at the beginning of lockdown many months ago are still in place and operating quite well…..although Edward still needs the odd reminder that his responsibility to clean one out of a total of 18 rooms is really not too much to ask !
As far as the B and B is concerned, there is still no confirmed date or concrete guidance on when we will open and in what form. How the devil breakfast will work, I …
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A Quiz for July
The Quiz can be found on page 8 of the Parish Paper, please click http://www.payhembury.org.uk/images/2020-07-Parish-Paper.pdf. …
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Tale Millers CC – June News
Apologies, readers, for the radio silence – Cricket hasn’t really been up there at the top of the agenda over recent months, not a clue why. We are in the process of preparing the pitch for some training sessions and hopefully by early July a few of us will be able to gather and reacquaint ourselves with long forgotten skills - some of us will need a very good memory.
Of course, we had a good spell of weather whilst we couldn’t play, so no doubt our release onto the field of play will coincide with thunderous showers! We still very much hope …
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Parish Paper – July 2020
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Reverend David’s July Message
Rectory Notes—July 2020 – ‘Rock and wind’
For the first time in an age, I stepped with delight out of the car last week onto Dartmoor soil. In each place we’ve lived in Devon, I have found a ‘spiritual landscape home’ – here it’s up at Hembury Fort. But Dartmoor remains my home-of-homes.
The springy turf sunk familiarly under my boots, and the granite stones in the path were like old friends, as I walked unhurriedly between tors. Just five minutes’ drive beyond the ice-creams of Haytor Rocks, and the space was my own. A lightness of spirit …
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