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LYMPSTONE PRE-SCHOOL
Is delighted to announce that its new outdoor area cover has now been completed. The outdoor cover will improve the playground area for the children at Pre-School for years to come, and we would like to thank all those involved in making this happen.
Suzie Creighton
FURRY DANCE ANNUAL CREAM TEA
Blue skies and sunshine, a stunning estuary view and a really good traditional cream tea. This all awaits you at this year's Furry Dance Cream Tea on Sunday 7 June from 2.30 till 4.30. Come along and help raise funds for the village Furry Dance festivities, while you relax in Graham Wills lovely garden at Four Winds, Sowden Lane. We look forward to seeing you.
B Norris
MARY, MARY....
quite contrary how does your garden grow? Absolutely beautifully now that Sheila Parker tends it, in fact, it is sooo beautiful she is going to open it to the public on Friday 19th June from 7 pm to 9.30pm, you can meander through the garden with a glass of wine for £3.50 or on Saturday 20th for morning coffee 10.30am to 12.30 or afternoon tea, 2.30pm to 5pm for £2 entrance. The garden is being opened in aid of Hospiscare, so not only can you admire this young and evolving garden with ponds, insect hotel, stumpery and babbling stream you will be raising funds for a very worthy cause. Hope to see you there....
Lesley Weeks
SALE AT THE MILL
At the Mill - Bargain curtain materials, Cream Teas and Stalls. On Tuesday June 9th. 10 a.m to 5 p.m. In aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.
David Goddard
FRIENDS OF LYMPSTONE PARISH CHURCH
The winners of the April lottery were Mr. and Mrs. Ted Norton of Underhill with ticket No. 0112.
Joyce Malster
ORIENTEERING IN LYMPSTONE
Devon Orienteering Club will be organising an orienteering event for beginners in Lympstone on 6th June. Subject to obtaining the permission, we will meet at the Lympstone Harbour (meeting point will be confirmed mid-May - www.devonorienteering.co.uk). Turn up any time between 10am and 12.30pm.
You will be given one hour to walk or run in the village and find as many controls as possible using a detailed map. Coaching available. £1 per participant. Contact: Olivier Boucher (01395 270816).
ORIENTEERING
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GARDEN CLUB
With summer fast approaching, it's not too soon to announce the date
of our unmissable Flower and Vegetable Show. Saturday, 23rd August (bank
holiday weekend) is the date you need to reserve in your diary.
It will be the 63rd year the show has been held, and it seems as
popular as ever. If you haven't yet managed to pay a visit to this
event, please come along and see what you have been missing.
Handicrafts, home cooking and visual arts all feature as well as
produce from the garden and allotment.
In June's Herald we will tell
you about some of the classes in the schedule so you can start
getting ready. Judges will be in the village in July to decide on prize winners
for best allotment, front garden, business and licensed premises and also the
best flower baskets/tubs. You have been warned!
Viv Day
LYMPSTONE ART GROUP
Lympstone Art Group are pleased to be holding an Art Exhibition at the Lympstone Village Hall. Sunday May 24th to Sunday 31st. Open 10am to 5pm daily, (4pm last day). Admission 75p children free.
Chris Norris
WI
Jo Cotton (President) opened the meeting by thanking the members who had helped at the recent Spring Group meeting. Tony Beard, from Radio Devon, had proved a most popular speaker and letters from other Institutes within the Group confirmed that it had been a very happy and successful afternoon.
There
is only one Resolution to go forward to the National AGM next month and that is
"SOS for honey bees”. Honey bees play a vital role in the pollination of food
crops and in our environment. In view of the concerns about the accelerating
decline in the UK honey bee population, this meeting urges HM Government to
increase funding for research into bee health. There has been much
information in the media recently about the bees' plight and in WI Life, which
helped us to agree unanimously that we should support this Resolution.
Our own Drama Group then entertained us with "The Night Mail" by W H Auden and Mollie Slate gave a comprehensive, and at times funny, report on the recent Spring Council meeting.
Gloria McCarthy (Treasurer) ran through our finances and gave us ample notice of the need for a new Treasurer later this year. Diana Budgen (Social Secretary) announced a number of interesting trips. The next main social event is our 90th birthday supper on Weds. 15 July when the dress code is "Ascot Style".
A Committee meeting will take place at Rose Cottage on Weds. 27th May at 2.15 pm. and at our WI meeting on 3 June (2.30 pm at Village Hall) Mr Bernard Lockett will give us "An appreciation of Gilbert & Sullivan".
Diana de la Rue
DO SOMETHING TASTY HOSPISCARE WEEK, 6 – 13 JUNE
We’d love it if you could hold an afternoon Tea at Three and help make a difference for people in Devon. It’s easy – bake (or buy!) a cake and make tea for your friends and family and charge them a few pounds to enjoy. Whether you raise £10 or £200 every penny will be helping us to support people in Devon with a terminal illness.
Contact Tracey Skinner for a fundraising pack on 01392 688052, t.skinner@hospiscare.co.uk
Susie Healey
LYMPSTONE PLAYERS PRODUCTION OF J. B. PRIESTLEY’S ‘WHEN WE ARE MARRIED’ APRIL 2009
How can a village of just eighteen hundred souls produce such a professional production?
At the opening, striking visual clues of costumes, set, posturing and body language quickly coalesced with the scintillating ensemble acting and convincing northern accents – drawing us, laughing and wondering - into Yorkshire circa 1908.
This satirical comedy was about jumped-up mill bosses holding court over lesser mortals (& wives) – until the unmasking began. Were they truly married? Mary Blair’s poised return to directing set the production alight – coaxing and polishing until it peaked in the three performances.
Every player caught the heart of their character – delighting in bouncing off each other. The crafty mill bosses, played by Harland Walshaw, Clive Wilson & Tony Gray fooled us into thinking that ordered injustice would prevail – until they were shoved headlong into ridicule by a Chapel organist, played by a cool Tim Jupp. Two of their wives, persuasively played by Shirley Wilkes & Bobby Brunt, made us cringe for the acquiescent stricture of those times – while who would want the tongue-lashing meted out by a convincing Grace Packman. Mary Truell’s outrageous acerbic performance as cook went hand-in-hand with Jenny Gray’s cleverly belligerent maid. And would drunken photographer, Ben Redding, fall over? We wondered. Heather Redding’s brassy portrayal of the lover could easily have adorned Corry. Players with shorter parts excelled – Barrie Bissett as the confused reporter, Lucy McCance as the uncomfortable daughter and Paul Hickson’s pompous vicar. And behind the scenes the army of volunteers lifted everything up.
Dogged commitment and camaraderie? … or something in Lympstone’s water?
Pete Simpson
THE MOTHERS' UNION
Instead of our usual meeting in June we shall be attending and helping at Joyce Laney's Tea Party on Tuesday, 9th June from 3 - 4.30 p.m. at The Methodist Schoolroom in aid of Malawi. Please see posters for full details. We have a special interest in this project as Mrs. Laney was enrolled into The Mothers' Union in Malawi during her first visit there. We look forward to having up to date news from the branch there when she returns from her next visit this summer.
Joyce Perry