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Luppitt Packet
Highway Faults - online: http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/transportroads/roads/road_maintenance.htm Alternatively, telephone 0845 155 1004 and give the fault information or email <[email protected]>
Police - non urgent - 101
USEFUL PHONE NUMBERS
LUPPITT
Parish Council: Chairman, Gavin Brake 892767
Clerk: Mrs Tracy Bell 01823 681138
Village Hall: Chairman: Brian Pulman 891324
Secretary: Mary Joyce 891328
Commoners: Secretary : Gavin Brake 892767
Footpaths : Kathy Crabb : 891662
Luppitt Wives: Mrs Jean Hooper: 892969
Youth Club: Julia Crabb: 01404 891192
PCC secretary: Wendy Watson 891959
Vicar: Rev Rik Peckham - 01404 891243
Church Administrator: Mrs Karen Davies 890121 (9:30 to 10:30 am)
Churchwardens: Brian Pulman 891324
John Arbuthnott 891032
Mothers Union: Olive Clapp MBE 891386
Captain of Bellringers: Pearl Pulman 891324
Cricket Club: S Berry 891268
Luncheon Club: Jean Hooper 892969
Hartridge Buddhist Monastery: 891251
OTHER USEFUL NUMBERS
Honiton Police: 08452 777444 Crimestoppers:: 0800 555111 Blackdown Practice: Dunkeswell 891861 Blackdown Support Group: (Hemyock) 01823 681036 Honiton Medical Centre : 548544 Honiton Hospital: 540540 Dev.Air Ambulance: 01392 466666 TRIP: 46529: community transport C.A.B.: 44213 Honiton Library: 41212 E. Devon District Council: 01395 516551
To get in touch with your MP - Write: Neil Parish MP House of Commons London SW1A 0AA
Telephone: 0207 219 7172
email: [email protected]
Local Constituency Agent: Lucille Baker 01395 233503 [email protected]
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WELCOME TO OUR NEW FEATURE – PARISH PEOPLE From April onwards, to enhance the role of the Packet as the voice of the Luppitt people, each month we will be featuring a profile of someone who lives in the Parish. They could be new arrivals, topical locals, long standing Parish families, or just plain interesting locals! This month, we are focusing on the new Packet Treasurer, Katie Hollyer (see page 19), who is also a relatively new arrival, and Amian Fry, who has taken on the role of ‘meeter and greeter’ for new people moving into the Parish. We hope you enjoy getting to know a bit more about your Parish neighbours. We have subjects lined up for May and June issues, but after that, we need suggestions from you as to who you would like to see profiled in the magazine. All suggestions to Lindsey Dalgety… Christine Ryder. Email - <[email protected]> (My contact details are in the back of the Packet—LAD) A hearty congratulations to Adam Crabb and Claire Fyfe on the birth of their daughter, Lilly Autumn Crabb. She was born on February 8th. Congratulations to the whole family. Good grief - I was basking in the sun this morning and now it is hailing. Must be nearly April. Have a good month—Lindsey Dalgety
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LUPPITT PARISH COUNCIL
Clerks abridged minutes for a meeting of Luppitt Parish Council held in the Village Hall on Tuesday 4 th March 2014 at 8pm.
Applications (For comment, support or objection) 14/0269/FUL Huggins Cottage – replacement general purpose agricultural building COMMENTS: The parish council strongly support this application as they supported the last application. This is a sensible proposal for a replacement agricultural building, the current building is dangerous and needs replacing. This building is in keeping with our living working landscape. Appeals 12/2531/LBC Pulmans – Retention of PV panels – appeal allowed APP/U1105/A/13/2207905 Change of use of former hunting lodge and store to dwelling Land West Of Mohuns Ottery Beacon - The appeal will proceed by an Informal Hearing and not written representations as previously notified. The hearing has been arranged to take place on Tuesday 25 March 2014 and will commence at 10.00 am in the Sidmouth Town Council Offices, Woolcombe House, Woolcombe Lane, Sidmouth EX10 9BB.You are invited to attend and if you wish to speak you should let the Inspector know at the start of the Hearing. The Inspector currently appointed to determine the appeal is J. Tempest. HIGHWAYS AND TRAFFIC Parish Highways programme – all easement maps have been annotated, these will be retained for future use and copied to Highways as part of the Parishes together programme. Works completed by AJ Tucker : Resurface pull offs on Hartridge road Littletown to council houses - blocked culvert. Whitehall farm to Rough - connect ditches End Hill to Sharcombe - cut back tarmac and reinstate drainage channel. Shelves to Shelf - cut off tarmac and reinstate drainage channel Saunders Lane - dig out ditches. Jacks House - end gulley ditch needs digging out Greenway Lane - ditch easements School Lane - pipe Top end of Gulley Lane. Work outstanding with AJ Tucker (will be completed as soon as weather allows) : Bottom of Budkins Hill - pipe is blocked under the road and needs cleaning out. Ditch to be cleaned Council Houses to Mill. Halsdon to Whitehall - gratings to unblock.
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Clean out pipes at the Mill. Cole Hill to Messhayes - create concrete haunch down side. Barn Cross to Wick - attend to culvert under road. Vinicombes Field to Pennythorne to Blind lane – pipe into field Coombeshead Lane - pipe to unblock. Below Snooks Farm - ditch needs attention. Parishes Together – Funding application submitted for lengthsman pilot scheme Items to report to DCC Highways: Double bends to Luppitt Common Cross, Ford Cottages to Ford Bridge, Beacon to Shaugh to Dumpdon Hill and Langford Bridge. Barn conversion at Shaugh Farm, there is water coming down fields and goes from 12” pipe into 6” pipe on the barn side of the ménage, this water then runs down the road and erodes the tarmac away, this needs correcting – it is understood that this property is managed by Stags. Piped ditches needing jetting - needs doing from Council Houses to Mill going down hill on the left, the parish council will get the ditch alongside cleaned out in the next few weeks. Pipe outside Gulley Lane Farm under road is blocked. Footbridge over ford at Greenlands Farm is rotten and very dangerous, it has partly collapsed. This at least needs to be removed if not replaced, as there is a 20ft drop to one side of it into a torrent of fast flowing water. There is road subsidence of Combeshead lane. ENVIRONMENT/COMMUNITY FACILITIES Community policing report – no crimes QUESTIONS FROM THE PUBLIC (The meeting to be closed before questions from the public). Dates for next meetings – 8pm Tuesday 1st April 2014 Luppitt Village Hall 8pm Tuesday 8th April 2014 Luppitt Village Hall (APM) 8pm Tuesday 6th May 2014 Luppitt Village Hall (AGM) 8pm Tuesday 3rd June 2014 Luppitt Village Hall 8pm Tuesday 1st July 2014 Luppitt Village Hall 8pm Tuesday 5th August 2014 Luppitt Village Hall 8pm Tuesday 2nd September 2014 Luppitt Village Hall
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& MILKSHAKE BAR ~
~ PAINTING PARTIES OR
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Telephone 01404 42106
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LUPPITT OVER 60'S LUNCHEON CLUB.
Tea & Coffee Raffle £4.50
Jean Hooper Tel - 01404 892 969
Thursday 10th April 2014
Glass of Sherry
Roast Pork Roast Potatoes
Seasonal Vegetables
Sherry Trifle
Dates for your Diary
13th April – Family Egg-straveganza Event, Village
Hall 3pm
16th April – Easter Bingo, Village Hall 7.30pm
4th May – Sunday stroll, Village Hall 2pm
8th June – Family Bike Ride, Village Hall leaving
2pm
5th July – Summer Madness, Village Hall 6.30pm
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MARK SIGGERS
Electrician / Handy-man
“No job too small”
01404 861807 07973 532402
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Honiton Mobile Library arrive depart
April 23rd Village Hall 12.30 1pm May 21st Village Hall 12.30 1pm NOTE—Mobile library now visits once every 4 weeks.
Will Writing Fortnight 12 th -23rd May In aid of Hospiscare A great opportunity to make or update your Will and support your local hospice. Hospiscare is your local hospice charity caring for the people and their families in our community who are affected by terminal illness. We are only one quarter NHS funded so rely on the generosity of local people making gifts to us in their Wills to continue helping local people make the most of life. Having a professionally written Will is the best way to ensure that you can protect those you love and remember the causes you care about. 30 Devon solicitors are supporting Hospiscare’s Will Writing Fortnight and will write or update your Will for free so you can make a donation to Hospiscare instead. This opportunity is open to everyone. Simply choose a participating solicitor and make an appointment. Your most local solicitors include Honiton Beviss & Beckingsale Emily Dushynsky, 01404 548050 Everys Ruth Godfrey, 01404 4343 For further information please phone Elizabeth on 01392 688020 or go to www.hospiscare.co.uk for the full list.
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GARDEN JOTTINGS by D.Street
On their way home they paused a moment under the great
oak at the top of the Home Field, and looked back. The whole south
burned with stars… as if the wind reached up and fanned them …
Large Sirius flashed; vast Orion strode the sky, lording the heavens
with his sword… (from “Bevis” again, but spelled right this time. The
Great Oak reminds me of the Great Beech near Stoneacre, toppled by
the recent gale, and now by great effort set upright again.)
These days the night sky is no longer overpoweringly present as
once. There is so much artificial light, so many things to see on the
ground, the brilliance and regularity of the heavens are not
noticeable. Places like Stonehenge were designed to observe the
winter solstice, and mark the time when the sun stopped getting
lower, but started rising each noon. Once the sun started to rise,
people felt sure spring and warmth and life would return.
And this last week the sun has certainly been getting higher in
the sky and doing its job. The ground is warming up, the soil microbes
are getting back into action again. Everywhere small green shoots are
springing up. And now is the time you can think about splitting up
and propagating any favourite border plants you would like more of.
So it was just the right time for Alan Tofts to bring along a large
pot-bound Agapanthus, and we discussed the best way to split it up
into several parts. The Agapanthus had been kept dry all winter, and
the compost had shrunk. So tipped upside down, it was soon
persuaded to fall out of its tub.
After breaking up the crown into pieces, each with at least one
shoot and some roots, you can paint the raw cut surfaces with a Heal-
and-Seal pruning compound to try to keep out infection. Breaking up
the crown is often easier said than done. Actually Alan’s Agapanthus
was so tough he ended up using a chain saw to divide it. Easier and
quicker, he said, than the traditional back to back spades or forks.
The pieces should be potted up in moist compost, kept warm as
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Easter Bingo For all the Family
Doors Open 7.00
Eyes Down 7.30
Wednesday 16th April
Look forward to seeing you
possible, and not watered for a few days. The latest news is that
four of the young Agapanthus plants are showing signs of active life.
Autumn flowers are better propagated like this in the spring,
rather than when the soil is cold and wet, and light is low. Spring
and summer flowering plants are best split up just after flowering,
when the plant is thinking about growing new roots and shoots for
the next year's blooms.
And finally to round off on a useless snippet. Did you know
the English word “plant” comes from a Latin word planta (= shoot,
sprout)? And, perhaps topically, you thought the word “clan” comes
from an ancient gaelic word, now lost in the Scotch mists of time.
However “clan” is simply our Latin word planta again, borrowed and
mispronounced, because gaelic speakers in those days couldn’t say
“p”. So they used “c” instead. Rather like saying “firty-free”. Must
have been us Sassenachs who taught them “p”.
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RINGERS OUTING
The Ringers Outing will be on
10th May, 2014
Leaving Mountstephens at 8.30am prompt
Ringing at 4 towers, 3 still to be arranged.
Lunch, tea and Ringing at Kingsbridge, South Devon.
Please come and join us and enjoy a great day.
Names to Pearl - 891324
EVERYONE WELCOME
The Event: Wildside activity days for 8-12 year-olds
Dates: 14 - 15 Apr ‘14 Location: Near Hemyock
Two days of active games and outdoor challenges including archery, a "treasure hunt", woodcraft, tracking, stealth games, den-building, fire-lighting and toasting marshmallows! Please wear Wellies and bring packed lunch.
10am - 4pm
Cost: £25 per day or £40 for 2 days. Booking essential.
Location: Seville's Croft, Hemyock, EX15 3QX
For more information: Contact Richard and Alison Whiteside, 01823 680931
Walk level C. Suitable for children age 8+. Toilet
Wildside Experience
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News From Upottery Pre-School
In February the children enjoyed a visit from PSCO Phil Anning who
brought some uniforms for the children to try on, and his van which
everyone loved looking around! Also in February the children enjoyed
making and eating pancakes and playing outside in the early spring
sunshine. Building work for our new outdoor play area is due to take
place over the Easter holidays and the children are very excited about
coming back in the summer term to explore their new playground! The
book of the month for March is 'Elmer and Wilber' which is very
popular with everyone.
Lastly, thank you to everyone who supported our Pamper Evening at the
beginning of March, we had a fun evening and the money raised will go
towards new equipment for the preschool.
Claire
LUPPITT WIVES GROUP
Our next meeting will be on Thursday 17th April 2014 at Mrs Pearl Pulman's Oakdel at 8pm. The speaker will be Mr Dave Retter, Honiton Town Crier & Mace- Bearer.
Our Skittles Evening is on Saturday 26th April 2014 at the Village Hall at 8pm. Please let me know if you are coming Jean Hooper 892969.
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Market, Part 1: strawberries and eggs
At last. Sunny days, blue skies, warm winds. It’s been a long time
since we had such conditions; maybe last September? Yes, the dying warmth
of the last days of summer, long shafts of sunlight trickling through the
leaves of the apple trees, the apples shining orange-gold. Remember it? No.
It wasn’t like that; no sun, no blue skies, not many apples. Not many
strawberries either. Strawberries....
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The next table was loaded with vegetables and fruit. In the middle
were small punnets of little strawberries. They were about grape size, not
the overblown giant tasteless ones found in cheapo shops. These looked
wonderful, somehow more natural, like ours used to be.
A girl of about ten was in charge. She waited expectantly for me to
speak. “Hello, how much are the strawberries please?” “They’re a pound,
but these” –she pointed – “are two pounds - they’re twice as many.” “I see.
I’ll just have a small one please.” She asked me which one I would like, but
they all seemed the same. She really was very confident, very businesslike.
She was polite and spoke quietly and pleasantly, and I felt that she would be
able to deal firmly with any kind of difficult customer. She reached to the
end of the table for a brown paper bag. It was just about the right size, and
she put the punnet in it delicately and precisely. Then folded the end down
with the punnet the right way up, a neat little package. Perfect. As she was
finishing, a woman in her sixties bustled up next to her.
“Oh, not those bags for those. I’ve told you before. Use the other
bags for the strawberries. I did tell you. Why don’t you listen? Use the big
bags.” She was very overbearing, and seemed to be in a bad mood. The girl
had been doing just fine, but now she was crushed. Humiliated. Her brave
little flame had been extinguished, in front of her customer. I gave a
reassuring smile in her direction but her eyes were downcast. She didn’t see
me and she shrank away. Poor kid. Well done, Granny.
Granny looked at me, waiting. “I think I’ll have some other things, let
me just have a look.” Another customer had come up next to me, so I asked
if she was in a hurry, but, no, she wasn’t, she just wanted some potatoes.
“You carry on.” There were lots of different vegetables and some fruit, just
small quantities. And eggs, in half-dozen cartons. Eggs of all different
colours, including some pale blue ones. Of course, duck eggs, just the colour
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of the ones we used to get. Duck-egg blue! Any boy who’d made an Airfix
Spitfire knew all about duck-egg blue. It was the under-surface colour of
Spitfires in the Battle of Britain. Duck-egg blue paint in tiny tins, costing 10d,
the colour was to match the sunny blue skies of 1940. Of course, you
needed different colours for the upper surfaces, dark green and dark earth.
You only used a little of the paint on your model, but when you wanted it
again, perhaps for an Airfix Hurricane, the paint had dried up into hard little
cakes. So you had to buy them again – another half crown.
“Oh, I see you have some duck eggs,” I pointed. “No, those aren’t
ducks,” (and here, bear with me, because I’m making this up) “they’re from
Yorkshire brindled fan-tails, and these, these are Hungarian trousered
smoothies, and these are...” she went on, identifying each sort. I’d never
heard of any of them, but all the different coloured eggs looked most
attractive. She pointed at some white insipid ordinary-looking eggs. “These
are the duck eggs.” They didn’t look like duck eggs to me. But what do I
know? Duck eggs I’m used to are the proper Spitfire colour.
“I was just a little surprised you have duck eggs. We used to get duck
eggs from a friend, hers were all light blue. Her ducks aren’t laying these
days, so I keep my eyes open for them. But I think I’ll have half a dozen of
those please,” pointing to some light brown eggs with darker brown
speckles. I didn’t care whether the chickens had trousers or fan tails, I just
liked the colours of the shells. “Those aren’t duck eggs.” “No, I know.” “But I
thought you wanted duck eggs.” I was beginning to think that this situation
was getting out of control, so I would try to explain. “No, I don’t want duck
eggs. I was just interested to see that you actually did have duck eggs,
although what I thought were duck eggs turned out not to be. Now I just
want ordinary eggs from chickens, not ducks.” That should clear it up, I
thought. But Granny was finding this situation difficult, “So you don’t want
the duck eggs then?”
I was starting to wish that I’d never seen the blue eggs, duck or not. I
pointed out my preferred non-duck eggs again and she selected a bag. I
hoped the bag would be the approved size, not too small, not too big.
“What do you do with your duck eggs?” It was my neighbour who just
wanted potatoes. I looked at her. What do I do with my duck eggs? Oh, no.
Here we go again...
(To be continued) DS
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Amian Fry back on the Packet team ….. Long standing member of the Luppitt community, Amian Fry, is to take on the role of visiting and welcoming new residents to the Parish – and delivering their first copy of The Packet! It is a role that Amian herself created 28 years ago, when she started The Packet. Before she moved to Luppitt in 1978, Amian had moved around the country, and abroad, with alarming frequency! She started adult life in London, training at the St James Secretarial College from where she should have taken a job with a London based Government Department, but she opted for a role in Bedfordshire, working in an Official Secret Act classified role at the Cranfield Institute. Cranfield was heavily involved in military aeronautical development, with one project being the design of the Harrier Jump Jet. Then she met and married Sandhurst graduate John Fry, after which she found herself constantly on the move, with husband John, who rose to the rank of Senior Captain, being posted backwards and forwards between England and Germany. ‘There was one period in our lives when we moved once every year for 10 years!’ Amian recalls. When John left the Army, the family settled first in Exeter where Amian and John’s two children, Simon and Helen, were at school. But Helen was progressively becoming a talented and ambitious dressage rider, and Amian and John started exploring the idea of a country home where they could keep horses for Helen, and for Amian who was herself an accomplished horsewoman. They looked at Hillend Farm in the early stages of their search, and loved it….but it was going to Auction which didn’t suit their plans, so they did not pursue it. In 1978, Hillend Farm came back on the market and this time, they wasted no time in securing it as the Fry family home. John and Amian progressively became involved with the village, with John becoming a Parish Councillor and Chairman of the Village Hall committee at a critical time in its re-development. Being so closely involved in the life of the village, Amian felt there was so much going
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on in the community, and so many opportunities for people to get together, it needed some sort of information system that would tell everyone what was happening, encourage people to take part, and to share news and views. And so….the Packet was born in the back kitchen of Hillend Farm, with reams of paper from the County Council, an elderly typewriter on which Amian produced all the copy, lots of glue and scissors to ‘cut and paste’ editorial into pages as they did in the newspaper industry at that time, and a second hand photocopier which broke down frequently but always somehow managed to churn out enough copies to distribute every month. Amian and her volunteers – Joan, Kathy, Julia, Jean, Naomi and Diana – distributed The Packet and when they heard there was someone new in the village, Amian would deliver the magazine and take some time welcoming the new residents and encouraging them to take part in village life. Amian gave up the role of Editor of The Packet in the year 2000. But now she is rejoining the team to take back her role of meeting and greeting new residents and delivering their first copy of The Packet – and there could be no one better qualified to deliver that first copy than it’s first editor!
Amian Fry
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CUSTOM WOODWORKING,
CARPENTRY & JOINERY
TRADITIONAL AND CAD/CNC DESIGN AND
CONSTRUCTION.
YOUR DESIRES IN WOOD REALISED.
FROM BOOKSHELVES TO BOOKCASES. FROM WINDOWS TO
WARDROBES AND FROM TRINKET BOXES TO BESPOKE FURNITURE.
WHEN THE JOB REQUIRES JUST THAT LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA CARE
AND ATTENTION CALL:-
PETE WHITE
01404 892869
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Introducing our new Treasurer……
From the March issue, you will know that 33 year old Katie Hollyer has taken up the role of Treasurer for the Packet. Katie is a relative newcomer to the Parish having moved here from London in 2012. Katie and Australian husband Mark, who is a professional chef, fell in love with the rich landscape and wide open spaces of Devon after holidaying in the area. When Mark and Katie were first married, they lived in the South of France where they ran a successful restaurant, but returned to London when Katie found she was expecting her son, Louis, now 3, as Katie wanted to spend lots of quality time with her son – something that would have been almost impossible with the hugely demanding life of a restauranteur. Daughter Ivy followed 18 months later, and the family decided it was time to get away from the City to the open spaces and more relaxed lifestyle of Devon. They found their ideal Devon home at Smithenhayes Farm, on the Eastern fringe of the Parish, where Katie loves nothing more than walking in their field and watching their two toddlers playing in the stream.
The family have quickly made friends in the Parish, which Katie believes has a really friendly family environment and a strong community spirit.
Katie has a busy life, helping Mark run his freelance chef business, overseeing the conversion of a barn which will become an up market holiday cottage, and dealing with two very lively toddlers, so how is she going to find time to be our Treasurer? Well the answer lies in Karie’s Mum and Dad, who also moved to Smithenhayes. While Katie looks after the Packet books, Mum will be babysitting and Dad, when he is not travelling the world in his role as a professional motorsports photographer, will be helping decorate the new holiday cottage! So a big welcome to Katie and her family.
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LUPPITT FLOWER SHOW 16th August 2014.
Advance notice. The classes will include the following:
Vegetables: Potatoes, red and fancy. Runner beans. French beans. Peas. Mangetout peas. Onions. Beetroot. Carrots. Tomatoes—on the vine, Beefsteak. Courgettes. Herbs.
Flowers: Annuals. Perennials. Pansies. Sweet peas. Gladiolus. Foliage plant.
Men only: Bottle of wine. Photo of Devon in winter. Both to be made in 2014.
Homecraft: Apricot jam. Chutney. Sewing—Evening bag. Knitting - Gloves.
Children: Longest runner bean. Sue and Joan
Technical takedowns � Crown reductions/ crown lifting � Pruning and dead wooding � Tree planting � Hedge trimming / hedge laying � Garden maintenance � Emergency work / 24 hour callout
� NPTC qualified Woodchip Mulch for sale
For free quotations and professional advice Please contact Paul Durman: Tel: 01823 353302 Mob: 07815 146343 E-mail: [email protected]
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Mr David Pering of Lord Wandsworth College, Hampshire
will give an
Organ Concert of Light Music at St Mary’s Church, Luppitt
VESTRY & ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETINGS
The Vestry and Annual Parochial Church Meetings will take place on Wednesday, 23 April 2014 at 7:45 pm in the Village Hall. The Vestry Meeting will elect two Churchwardens: you are entitled to attend this part of the meeting and vote if you
are either on the Church Electoral Roll, or are resident in the parish and on the register of local government electors. The Annual Parochial Church Meeting will then follow immediately, which any person may attend, but at which only those on
the Church Electoral Roll may vote.
Wendy Watson, PCC Secretary
Do you have a favourite recipe? If so, Luppitt Church would like to hear from you.
We are putting together a Luppitt Recipe Book and these will
be for sale (to raise much-needed funds for St Mary's) later this year.
Please send your recipes to Ann Arbuthnott at the Old School House or email [email protected]
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Sunday 13th
April 3pm
Village Hall
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F or all the F am ilyF or all the F am ilyF or all the F am ilyF or all the F am ily
Bonnet competition, Games
Afternoon Tea and
Refreshments available
Come and join in the fun
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Sunday 6 April 9:30 am BCP Holy Communion
Sunday 13 April 11:00 am Palm Sunday Family Service
Good Friday 18 April 12:30 pm Raising the Cross on Hartridge
Sunday 20 April 11:00 am Easter Day Family Communion
Sunday 4 May 9:30 am BCP Holy Communion
Sunday 27 April 11:00 am Family Service
Other Services in the Mission Community
St Andrew’s Broadhembury
St Nicholas’ Dunkeswell
St James the Greater Sheldon
St Mary the Virgin Upottery
Sunday 6 April
9:30 am BCP Holy Communion
11:00 am CW Holy Communion
9:30 am Family Service
11:00 am Matins
Sunday 13 April
9:30 am Blessing of the Palms
11:00am Blessing of the Palms
9:30 am Blessing of the Palms
11:00 am Blessing of the Palms
Thursday 17 April
7:30 pm Mission Community Maundy Thursday Service
Friday 18 April
9:30 am Family Service
11:00 am Wolford Chapel
Sunday 20 April
11:00 am Easter Communion
9:30 am Easter Communion
9:30 am Easter Communion
8:00 am Easter Communion 11:00 am Easter Communion
every Wednesday
9:00 am Morning Prayer
Sunday 4 May
9:30 am BCP Holy Communion
11:00 am CW Holy Communion
9:30 am Family Service
11:00 am Matins
Sunday 27 April
9:30 am BCP Morning Prayer
11:00 am Morning Worship
9:30 am BCP Holy Communion
11:00 am CW Holy Communion
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Church cleaning and flower rota
5 April Christine Page-Turner & Olive Clapp
12 April Shirley Crabb & Beryl Hardwick
19 April Jean Gardiner & Joy Tofts Easter decorations - all
26 April Ann Arbuthnott & Lesley Rogan
3 May Carole Thorne, Jean Hooper, Wendy Clapp & Pearl Pulman
Please remember, no flowers during Lent: Easter decorations can be placed in the church on Saturday, 19 April.
If you would like to help with church cleaning or flower arranging, please contact Pearl Pulman on 891324
All Mothers’ Union members are joined together by a worldwide network of prayer. Every day, throughout the day, members somewhere are praying for other members linked to them. We call this the Wave of Prayer. Devon members are linked with those in parts of Nigeria, South Sudan, Temotu and Vanuatu in the Pacific, and Madagascar off the coast of East Africa. From the 10th to 14th April, we shall be praying especially for the lives and work of members in countries very different from our own. We are changing our meeting day from Thursday to Monday 14th April, to coincide with this, when we shall learn a little more about our sisters in Christ, and pray for them using the prayers especially prepared by our Diocesan President. This meeting will take place at Hedgend Barton, Monkton.
Jean Jones
Please remember …
The church is open every day for private prayer
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Dear All
Happy Easter to you! May you know the joy and peace of this most holy Eastertide. Amen.
There are so many different things happening during this month:
numerous church services during Lent; the fellowship of the Emmaus Course will be completed; then the Maundy Thursday and Good Friday celebrations, culminating in the service of light in each parish on Easter Sunday Morning, celebrating the new dawn of faith and hope, revealed in the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. With the Easter shout “Alleluia, Christ is Risen” we will greet each other, and we will hear the response “He is risen indeed, Alleluia!” and so we go to our respective churches to share the festivities with a celebration of Holy Communion, and sometimes more!
At home there will be the giving and sharing of Easter Eggs, maybe an Easter Egg hunt for the children (and for the not so young!) – and a special Sunday lunch shared with the family. So Easter will end. Or does it?
Every Sunday is an opportunity to share the Easter joy of the resurrection: we come together to share in Jesus’ special sacrifice of Himself, so that we might know the love of God by the forgiveness of our sins – so that we might share in His resurrection, and discover the new life that awaits us in the faith, with the love we can and should be sharing with each other, every day.
So, every day can be a celebration of what God has done for us through Jesus Christ. I personally give thanks every moment, for the sacrifice Jesus made for me on the cross, and I rejoice in the promise of the resurrection, made real through the Easter story. I pray that you too may know His love, His joy, His peace, active in your life as we remember His sacrifice for us all on the cross, and the promise fulfilled in His resurrection to new life on Easter Day.
Have a Happy Easter on April 20th, and every day after!
Rik the Vic
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Blackdown Hills Transition Group : Building local resilience . Fracking in the South West A film ‘Dash for Gas’ by Marco Jackson was shown recently in Honiton high-lighting concerns about fracking plans for areas of Somerset. Admitedly against rather than for, the film nevertheless questioned whether the advan-tages in terms of energy production were outweighed by the significant cost to the environment, individual, community and animal health. The Blackdowns cover some of the area the Government has designated as possible for pro-ducers to apply for licences. Areas of Somerset and Dorset are more affected that Devon. To date no licenses have been applied for in Devon though the area in the far east of East Devon has been identified as geologically having potential for shale gas exploration. The nearest test drilling site is the Mendip Hills hence the concerns of some people in Somerset. The stakes rose substantially before Christmas with the Government releas-ing a regulatory charter with the claim that shale gas production could meet our energy needs for the next 25 years. There is a provision that if new gas is discovered "local communities" via local councils could receive financial bene-fits of £100,000 for every well that is fracked as part of exploration and 1% of revenues if things prove to be commercially viable. Should we be concerned? Fracking releases shale or coal methane gas stored in underground rock by drilling boreholes and injecting sand, water and a mixture of unpublicised chemicals under several thousand pounds of pressure to break up fissures in the strata. Similar processes to fracking have been used by oil and coal com-panies for decades but not on the scale envisaged now. A reasonable well may produce gas for a few years then the rate of extraction reduces considerably, rendering it unprofitable to operate. The well is then abandoned and the process repeated closeby. As individuals we do not claim to have expertise of the science surrounding fracking.However the Transition Movement is concerned about impacts on the environment of extracting more and more fossil fuel and the need for us all to consider more seriously alternative renewable energy as a way of combating the effects of man made climate change. Below is a list of some of the costs to the environment highlighted in the film We think there needs to be a wider more public debate of the issues. • Huge increase in traffic volumes in rural areas including large lorries and tankers. • Millions of gallons of water used in the fracking process, drain on local resource and problems of dealing with contaminated water.
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• The concrete liners for the well have a poor safety record, often failing after a number of years and leaking contaminants up into the water table. • Local people will not benefit from drilling operations as specialist workers required are imported. • Landowners do not own mineral rights on their land. Examples elsewhere of landowners forced to agree drilling on their land with no direct benefit and posible future contamination issues. • Methane and Radon gases leak to the atmosphere during drilling opera-tions • Helath problems reported elsewhere (USA and Australia) as a result of contamination of air and water purity. Where there are a great number of householders and farms that rely upon their own water boreholes and springs sets up potential health risks, both now and for the future. • Possible effect on seismic activity as in Blackpool and Morecambe Bay. • The negative impact of industrialising rural landscapes as a large number of drilling sites will needed in each geographical area Weakened geological structure leading to future subsidence problems You can view the film on the internet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Toi2s05Exg However each fracking scheme is a matter for local decision making, and planning applications. Local communities have the power to decide whether to allow fracking on their doorstep. Have you discussed it in your parish, dis-trict and county council? The next meeting of the Transition Group will held on Thurs April 10th at Stentwood Farm Dunkerswell EX14 4RW at 7.30pm. It will also be the AGM. If you fancy meeting others with a concern for local resilience to meet the challenges of climate change and energy depletion come along and join in. Contact us via the website www.blackdownhillstransition.org. Jim Rogan and Neil Arnold , Blackdown Hills Transition Group
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April 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th
Social Club, Village Hall, 8pm
April 11th, 17th, 25th
Friday Market, Village Hall, 11am-1pm. NOTE - April 4th cancelled. April 17th is a Thursday
April 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th
Bowls, Village Hall, 7.30pm
April 1st Parish Council Meeting, Village Hall, 8pm
April 4th-6th Auction, Village Hall. Friday 4th - viewing. Saturday and Sunday 5th and 6th - auction
April 10th Luncheon Club, Village Hall, 12.30pm
April 11th Honiton YFC Disco, Village Hall, 9pm-1am
April 13th Easter Egg-straveganza, Village Hall, 3pm
April 12th Private Party, Village hall, Daytime.
April 16th Meeting, Village hall, 10am-4pm
April 16th Easter Bingo, Village hall, Eyes dawn 7.30pm
April 26th Wives Group Skittles, Village Hall,8pm
Luppitt Packet is printed by A Dimond & Co. Honiton
CONTENTS
Church Services . . . . . .............................. 24 Luncheon Club ......................................... 5 Mobile Library Times. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7 Luppitt Wives Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Garden Jottings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 12 Parish Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 What’s On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 21-23
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