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Parish Paper – January 2022
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Parish Paper – December 2021
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Payhembury Provisions News – January 2022
4 January 2022 By
As some of you will know David, our chairman, took a tumble before Christmas in the line of duty - plugging in some Christmas lights above the chiller - and gave his head a whack, enough to put him in hospital for a week or so. He’s okay, but I’m sure you will all join me in wishing him a speedy full recovery (post Christmas update he’s home and recovering well).
The shop has functioned without him at there helm but only because we are entirely volunteer run and therefore there are systems in place to cover holidays and accidents such as this. …
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Reverend David’s January 2022 Message – Guiding Light
4 January 2022 By
“Hang on, folks – please!” It’s the Wise Men. “You’ve packed us away with your tinsel and crib, and we haven’t even got to Bethlehem yet! Caspar – how long does the SatNav say?” “Just recalculating, Melchior… here it comes, 3 months – that’s on Camel Setting”. “See what I mean, you good people of the future? You hurtle into the Christmas Sales like there’s no tomorrow and barrel into 2022, leaving us for dust (well, desert sand). S-l-o-w d-o-w-n! We didn’t get to our famed place in the Christmas story by rushing. No, we s-l-o-w-e-d, we looked …
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Paul’s Nature Notes November-December 2021
4 January 2022 By
There is much talk these days about rewilding, but this word appears to mean different things to different people. Whilst I cannot compete with what has happened in West Sussex, one of their ideas is to let hedgerows grow not necessarily taller but thicker, and this seems like a great idea. I am certainly not going to introduce pigs, cattle or deer, neither am I going to embrace the idea of not cutting our lawn. Who wants a lawn full of daisies and dandelions, however good they may be for insects. No, I am going to continue concentrating on …
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SAVE A LIFE
12 December 2021 By
RESUSCITATION REFRESHER/TRAINING
Suitable for those wanting to brush up their skills and for first timers:
Monday 31st January 2022, 7.30 pm
Parish Hall
Contact Tim Cox 07340543447
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Payhembury Provisions News – December 2021
28 November 2021 By
Hello. I have been passed the pen of Payhembury Provisions by Mary our long standing ‘field correspondent’ and firstly I must thank her for all her words over the last few years and hope that myself and the other new journos (we are taking it in turns) live up to her Pulitzer Prize winning standards to tell you what is happening here in the shop.
Talking of Pullets (see what I did there?) as this goes to press we are a mere five and a bit weeks to Christmas and that means we are only four weeks away from the fresh free range bronze and barn …
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Paul’s Nature Notes October-November 2021
28 November 2021 By
By mid-November our trees were putting on a stunning autumn colour display, but what a crazy time this is – our daffodils are already emerging. I am busy collecting up all the fallen leaves – garden gold I call them because once they have rotted down by this time next year they will have produced the best ever compost.
This time last year I was busy building my bug mansion. It has not worked! On the other hand, various stacks of rotting logs around the garden have provided an excellent habitat for insects and have already attracted many …
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The Disappearing Ram!
28 November 2021 By
By the time you read this my rams will have completed their work and will be back grazing on their own until next autumn. Last week, as I was putting them back in the field opposite the farm it jogged my memory about an event which took place a couple of years back. I had a couple of eccentric friends who wanted to borrow my Jacob ram for their ewes. I’m not keen on lending my rams out so instead they brought their sheep to Yellingham. The day dawned and the sheep arrived and given there was only a few I decided to put them near to the house in …
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Reverend David’s December 2021 Message – Light Wins
28 November 2021 By
The steaming Christmas pudding is placed ceremoniously on your dinner table. The brandy is sloshed over it (an extra one for luck). The lights are flicked off. A match is struck – and in the darkness the pudding flames dance with beautiful blue light.
The last day of last December, and I’m on Hembury Fort to bid farewell in the closing daylight to an extraordinary year. A surprise snow-shower sweeps in. The light turns momentarily magical and mysterious, vivid brightness battling the dark clouds.
December is a battleground. Light and dark – …
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