Five months into the new year already and a lot has happened and equally a lot has stayed the same!
Some of the happening things are on the shop suppliers list. It’s an ever changing world out there and we have to go with the flow at times and at others we make changes based on feedback from customers. To that end we have recently swapped our bread supplier to Ryders of Dawlish - not quite so close as the previous bakers but their bread is distributed by J&R Foods who come to the village regularly and were able to deliver Ryders bread …
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Payhembury Provisions – May 2024
Our Wonderful Hedgerows
Our countryside decline in wildlife, particularly following a government-led initiative to remove many hedgerows in the 1960’s and then the increased level of ‘chemical farming’ during the 1970’s, is now a well-known fact. No longer do we see plovers or turtle doves in our fields. Cirl buntings, corn buntings, yellow hammers and partridge are rare in our hedgerows. The corncrakes and quails are long gone, and this decline is not limited to birds. There are fewer hares and the loss of smaller mammals such as the shrew, field mouse and dormouse, …
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Payhembury Paper – April 2024
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Payhembury Parish Paper – March 2024
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Paul’s Nature Notes February-March 2024
In January I wrote of my childhood wintertime memories listening to the haunting calls of curlews echoing for miles across the marsh after dark. My abiding springtime memories from that time are the call of lapwing, surely one of the harbingers of spring. It is now yet another endangered red-listed species and one I seldom see these days yet alone hear. These birds have become another casualty of changing farm practices, land use, human disturbance and the indiscriminate use of DDT which had a catastrophic adverse impact on birdlife in the …
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The Best Time of Year – Lambing at Yellingham
Most people have a vision of lambing as a springtime activity with long green grass waving in the warm breeze with little lambs jumping for joy….nice but add in a bit of wet weather, mastitis, lameness, rejected lambs and we’re nearly there. That sounds so pessimistic but actually we sheep farmers do work so hard for this truly wonderful time of year.
One of the highlights of my year is when local schools visit the farm during lambing. We lamb in March. In fact, with the 2 breeds of sheep that we keep, the beautiful coloured Jacob and the …
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JOHN SOMERS
It is with great sadness that we learnt that our stalwart Umpire and one of our “originals” , John Somers, had passed away peacefully. Its not my place to offer an obituary but on behalf of the club I hope I can offer an affectionate reflection on John’s contribution to our little club. As an academic and playwright associated with the University of Exeter, John spent many years enjoying his cricket with their staff “Erratics” team and it was our good fortune that our fledgling club needed an umpire just as his playing career wound down. …
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Tale Millers Cricket Club – Fixture List 2024
Tale Millers Cricket Club - Fixture List 2024
Date/Time
Event
Overs
Location
Wed 10 Apr 5:00PM
Cricket Ground Force
n/a
Tuck Mill
Wed 17 Apr 5:00PM
Cricket Ground Force/ Pre – Season Training
20
Tuck Mill
Wed 24 Apr 6:00PM
TMCC vs Clyst Hydon CC
20
(A) Clyst Hydon
Wed 1 May 6:00PM
TMCC vs Broadclyst Pins CC
20
(A) Killerton
Fri 3 May 6:00PM
TMCC vs Branscombe Ravens
20
(A) Branscombe
Wed 8 May 6:00PM
TMCC vs Sunsets CC
20
(A) Coaver Club
Sun 12 May 1:00PM
TMCC vs Roche CC- …
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Cricket Club
It seems mighty strange having just walked across a bog purporting to be a cricket field but in theory we should be limbering up for our first game of the season later in April away at Clyst Hydon, not our longest journey but Tale Lane isn’t always the easiest route to traverse!
Our First home game is in the Voneus Village Knock Out Cup, our only attempt at 40 Over cricket this summer, at home to the Cornish giants from Roche. Our approach could be likened to England's less successful attempts at Bazball but on the positive side we have …
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Reverend David’s March Notes – Pandemic aftershocks
“I have found it harder to go out since the pandemic,” someone said to me just a few days ago. They are not alone in this experience. Whilst for many the pandemic is fully past and life much as it was before, for others this is not the case.
We vividly remember this month four years ago, when our lives were turned upside down overnight as we were plunged into lockdown. Questions cascaded – ‘How do we do our job?... do the shopping?... see our families?’ A weird world of face-masks and lockdown rules enveloped us. More serious were the tragic …
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