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THE

MYLOR MAGAZINE

DECEMBER, 2011

Celebrating

1600

Years

AD 411-2011

St Mylor landed hereabouts in 411 AD, so giving us his name

A magazine for Church and Community

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The Mylor Magazine mylormagazine@hotmail.co.uk

Published by: The PCC of

St Mylor and All Saints

Editor: Revd. Roger Nicholls 01326 374408

Production & Design: Malcolm Clark 07930648156

Community & Advertising: Val Jeans-Jakobsson 01326 374767

Photography: Geoff Adams 01326 374197

Treasurer: Roger Deeming

Proofing & PCC: Judy Menage

Printing: Good Impressions, Redruth 01209 314451

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E-mail: mylormagazine@hotmail.co.uk for further details

Deadline dates for Copy for 2011/12

January December 17th

February January 14th

Parish of St Mylor with the Mission Church of

All Saints Church Mylor Bridge

Services for December, 2011

Sundays 8am Holy Communion, 1662, St Mylor 9am Holy Communion, CW, All Saints

10.30am Parish Eucharist, St Mylor 4pm BCP Evening Prayer, All Saints

Tuesdays and Fridays 9am Morning Prayer, All Saints, Mylor Bridge

Wednesdays Holy Communion, 10 am, St Mylor — 11 am, All Saints

Christmas Services Sunday 4th: 4pm Evensong at the Parish Church of St Mylor to celebrate with all who keep our churches beautiful and enable our worship. No Evensong at All Saints. Sunday 18th: A service of Readings & Carols for Christmas: 6pm at All Saints, Bells Hill — with seasonal refreshments: this is a Friends of St Mylor Churches event. (No Evensong at All Saints). Saturday 24th Traditional Christingle Children’s Service with candles

4pm in the Parish Church, 11.30pm at the Parish Church, Mylor Churchtown, ‘Midnight Mass’ a candle-lit service of Holy Communion with carols to welcome the Christ child. Sunday 25th 8.00am BCP Holy Communion at St Mylor:

10.30am: Carols & Communion (CW) at All Saints, Bells Hill; A Sunday Special with children in mind. No service at St Mylor. Saturday 31st Watch Night Service at 11.30pm with Holy Communion at All Saints Bells Hill. Holy Communion to see in the New Year followed by mulled wine.

Cover photo: (Photo: Geoff Adams)

Christmas lights 2010

Writing a column for a daily newspaper must be a tough challenge, responding to today’s news for tomorrow’s paper which, they used to say before we got polystyrene, would wrap the next day’s fish & chips. It feels almost as hard writing something current about the Christmas season six weeks before the day itself. But here goes.

As I write, the papers are full of worries about the Euro Zone – those European countries which share a common currency and a common set of headaches. Indeed, we all seem to be facing painful financial stringency. For many, Christmas will be a less generous time this year.

Bishop Bill used to say – Jesus loved the little, the lost, the last and the least. And Giles Fraser, one-time Canon of St Paul’s cathedral, said last week: the right use of money is the number one moral issue in the Bible. A recent paper from the Archbishops’ Council, put together in response to the Occupy London demonstrators who have been such a headache to the Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s, amplifies this judgement:

The overwhelming message of both the Old and New Testament is that a society is judged by its treatment of the most vulnerable, that their condition is threatened by greed and the rapacious pursuit of wealth, and that the possession of great wealth is spiritually risky.

I wonder if that city of tents will still be there at Christmas with its challenge to the financiers, asking if theirs is the only way capitalism can be done, a way the Occupy London campers would characterise as a way of greed and injustice.

And they get a degree of support from an unexpected source: you may have come across the survey of workers in the City of London who were asked, “Do you believe there is too big a gap between rich and poor” and 75% of the financiers agreed! I have preached before on the fact that countries with the greatest gap between rich and poor also have the highest rates of society’s ills, of homelessness, of violent crime – and so on.

All these thoughts come together in the first chapters of Luke’s Gospel. Of course, it is to Luke above all that we look for many of the details of the Christmas story, with his account of the visit of the angel to Mary and hers to her cousin Elizabeth, of the birth in the Bethlehem inn and the worship of the shepherds, poorest of the poor, ‘last and least’ indeed, yet first in the queue.

And it is Luke who gives us in the first chapter of his Gospel the Magnificat, the Song of Mary, that hymns the justice and righteousness of God:

He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts. He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and has sent the rich away empty.

Wonderful radical words which look forward to the mission of our Lord Jesus Christ even as they sum up all that the Old Testament has to say about the treatment of the ‘last and the least’, the most vulnerable in our society. Let first Isaiah stand for all:

Cease to do evil; learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.

Have a blessed Christmas.

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Vicar’s letter—

Reg. Charity No. 1129030

CHRISTMAS MARKET

SATURDAY 3rd December 2011

9.30—12 Noon

Tremayne Hall, Mylor Bridge

Stalls include, Gifts, Grocery, Cakes, Preserves, China, Glass, Plants, Tombola & Raffle

Diary Dates 3 Christmas Market (TH 9:30-12) 5 Christmas Light Switch-on (7:00) Mylor Flower Club (OS 7:30) Christmas Supper Party & demo Mrs Lesley Blay

(ticket only) 6 Princess Royal visits Flushing 9 Playing Fields Committee (TH 7:30) Bingo Night 10 The Mylor Singers (TH 7:00) Christmas Colours and Buffet: Tickets £5 on the

door. Proceeds to the Phoenix Stroke Appeal 11 Carols in the Barn at Porloe Farm (5:00) 12 Mylor Garden Club (OS 7:30) Cornwall through the seasons David Chapman 14 Senior Citizens' Christmas Party at Penryn College Mylor Movies (TH 7:30) Jane Eyre 20 Christmas Lunch Club (TH 12:00) January 3 Lunch Club start again 9 Mylor Garden Club (OS 7:30) Gardeners' Question Time 28 MLHG (TH 7:00) Tales of 350 years of local MPs Sarah Newton MP Key TH: Tremayne Hall, OS: Ord-Statter Pavilion School Diary Dates 6 Father Christmas visit – playing fields 7 Christmas Lunch – whole school event (party clothes) for pupils and staff 9 Christmas Fayre 12-14 Christmas Plays 15 Last day of term January 3 School closed – Inset day 4 Return to school – beginning of Spring term 13 Eden Project trip – whole school event

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Community News and Views

Irene Champion celebrated her 101st birthday on 20th November. Congratulations! Carols in the Barn at Porloe Farm will be on Sunday December 11th at 5pm in aid of the NSPCC. The cost will be £5 for adults, children free. This will include mulled wine, sausage rolls, mince pies etc. Sarita Perkins Mylor Flower Club: At the November meeting, members enjoyed demonstrations by not just one, but four demonstrators who visited the Club from Camborne & Redruth Flower Club. The title was Seasons Greetings and their arrangements ranged from late Summer through Autumn to Winter, culminating in the Pantomime, a tall arrangement in four parts completed by two of the Demonstrators together. Anna Cruise The Mylor Singers will be presenting their Christmas Concert, now titled "Christmas Colours", in the Tremayne Hall on Saturday, 10th. December, when a buffet supper will be served at 7.00p.m. and the concert, with audience participation, will commence at 7.30p.m. A raffle will also be held. The proceeds are for The Phoenix Stroke Appeal at Treliske Hospital. There will also be a raffle, so please, make a date in your diary for that evening when the singers will look forward to seeing you there and to hearing your vocal participation which will include Christmas carols. Tickets are £5.00, available at the door. We look forward very much to seeing you there. The Mylor Singers would like even more new members to join their very happy choir. They rehearse on a Tuesday evening, 7.30p.m. in the Methodist Church School Room and if you are interested in joining and having an excellent singing lesson every week, please contact Gill Stevenson on 01326 373736 You will be very warmly welcomed. Irene Gardiner St. Mylor Churchyard Restoration Group: The group meets on Wednesdays at 10 am in the Churchyard. In the past 2 years we have cleared huge areas of brambles giving access to many graves and memorials that were previously inaccessible. We also have a small team of “lay-weeders” who visit the Churchyard when it suits them and they are responsible for a certain number of graves/memorials that the restoration team has weeded and tidied up. This team maintains these graves and will occasionally put a small vase of flowers on the grave when an anniversary occurs. The group works within the guidelines of Cornwall’s Living Churchyard Project. The ethos behind this is to provide habitats for flora and fauna and to protect some of the rare wild flowers, etc, that are found in our Churchyard. We also can often help visitors locate specific family graves and help with family trees. This can be truly rewarding. We are all volunteers and our payment is the satisfaction derived from the pleasure of working in a very special and wonderful environment. We have recently had a lovely cast iron garden seat donated to us. It has been fully restored with the exception of the wooden slats that would normally be fixed to the back and seat. We are in need of 12 pieces of hard wood, either teak or Iroka, to fully restore the bench. We will need 11 pieces of 12” x ¾” x 48¼” and 1 piece 2” x ¾” x 48¼” . One length of each piece would require its edges to be rounded. If you think you can help we would be thrilled to hear from you. If you are interested in joining the team or helping in any other way please call 01326 376782. Helen Fletcher

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Mylor Movies: Jane Eyre comes to the silver screen (again! this is at least the tenth English-language version) on December 14th. Cary Fukunaga directs, in his first big budget film. Of course there are splendid UK locations (Haddon Hall, Derbyshire). The ubiquitous Judi Dench plays Mrs Fairfax but even she is acted off screen by the revelatory Mia Wasikowska as the eponymous Jane and Michael Fassbender as Mr Rochester. Simon McBurney (Mr Brocklehurst) and Sally Hawkins (Mrs Reed) are also in there somewhere. A definitive Jane Eyre for all ages, and with the multitude of other screen versions to compete with, that's quite a claim. According to the not always reliable Wikipedia, there may be no less than 20 film versions of Jane Eyre, including 8 silents. Of the 20 they list, 10 are English-language. Foreign language versions include Hindi, Spanish & Telugu. In past versions, Mr Rochester has been played by Orson Welles, George C Scott and William Hurt, while the Janes include Joan Fontaine, Susannah York and Charlotte Gainsborough. Dropping the Pilot: David Eastburn has relinquished his role as “helmsman” of this august publication. Under his guidance it has increased in volume and has embraced colour (the electronic version at any rate). On the one hand it’s a hard act to follow, but on the other he has left everything shipshape with only the merest nudge on the tiller necessary. At least, that’s what he told me! Don’t expect any radical changes, though you may detect my interest in events and activities on the waterside. I shall be working with the Magazine until the spring, when Michael Jeans-Jakobsson will assume his position as the rightful heir. In the meantime, can I urge you to contribute? I’d particularly welcome material which reflects the agricultural and horticultural side of the area, and something about wildlife, especially the birds we see. We have a variety of habitats and some guidance would be appreciated. I can’t promise to use your every word, but it would be good to hear from more people. Malcolm Clark Mylor Garden Club: The final meeting for this year of Mylor Garden Club will be on Monday 12th December, held, as usual, at the Ord Statter Pavilion at 7.30. David Chapman the wildlife photographer, who as many will know has written a number of books, will give an illustrated talk on Cornwall through the Seasons. We have asked him to include ideas for plants which encourage wildlife to our gardens. At that meeting our usual coffee and biscuits will be replaced by Christmas refreshments. Our January meeting will be on Monday 9th and will be in the form of a Gardeners' Question Time. Please start thinking of some questions for our expert panel. Maggie Farley Mylor Book Group review: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (discussed on 25 October 2011) This seemingly simple story focuses on the dreams of Santiago, a shepherd boy, who sets forth on an exotic journey that leads him from his native hills in Andalusia to Tangiers and then into the Egyptian desert where he meets the alchemist. The story contains a message for the reader — listen to your heart and follow your dreams. There were varied reactions from the group, ranging from disappointment over the ending to irritation at the repetition of ideas. Most of us enjoyed what was an easy read and agreed that the story contained many thought provoking ideas.

Dorinda Charnaud

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Mylor Sessions: Friday, November 25 saw the first gig of Mylor Sessions in the intimate venue of Mylor’s Tremayne Hall with The Deadly Gentlemen, an American “epic folk & bluegrass band” led by Greg Liszt, the amazing banjo player from Bruce Springsteen’s Sessions Band. Mylor Sessions is a new venture run by a group of Mylor music-lovers and is dedicated to delivering an eclectic mix of music, comedy and the arts in an intimate environment with all profits going to local charities and projects. The organisers say support to get Mylor Sessions off the ground is essential to the future success of the venture. ‘Our aim is to bring talented artists to Mylor who might usually be expected to be playing much larger venues,’ said the Mylor Sessions team. ‘We need support to put on great entertainment and want to see as many people coming to watch the shows as possible.’ For more information about Mylor Sessions and the forthcoming shows please visit www.mylorsessions.co.uk The Kenwin Barton Gilbert and Sullivan Singers have recently finished a very successful season of performances of the famous ‘Pirates of Penzance’. With only a keyboard and an enthusiastic company of singers plus a few token accessories such as hats, flags and piratical implements, audiences all over Cornwall have been transported to the pirates’ lair as well as a ruined Cornish chapel by moonlight where the Major General faces his fears. As always we, the G&S singers have managed to infect our audiences with the love and enthusiasm that we have for the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan. Church and village halls have rung to the laughter and applause. After a nominal charge to cover our expenses, we have enabled ten different organisations to raise money for their own funds, ranging from church roof to Cancer Research. At each venue we extend an invitation – do come and join us! We always welcome new members to our group and consider ourselves to be a warm, friendly and easily accessible crowd. We meet on a Wednesday evening from 7 to 9pm at Truro Prep School to rehearse during the winter and spring, ready to perform from May to October, with breaks for school holidays and half terms. We have now left the pirates behind and are off to fairyland with another masterpiece – ‘Iolanthe’. This time we have fairies and members of parliament – such fun! So what or who are we looking for? Anyone who enjoys singing and is prepared to give their time and energies to produce a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s wonderful work which will thoroughly entertain audiences however big or small, anywhere in Cornwall. We would particularly welcome men, young ones and those who are young at heart! If you are reading this and thinking, yes, that could be for me! Get in touch with us – Please! Contact Carolyn Hendra 07834 585239 (mob) or Val Banks 01208 78648

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YOU ARE INVITED TO

The Cockwells team invite

the residents of Mylor to join them for a festive glass of mulled wine and a mince pie at the yard on

9th December 4 – 6 pm

Come and meet all the staff and see the changes at the yard over the last year. There is also an opportunity to see one of our classically designed Cockwells 37 motor launches in construction. If you have any marine related questions or ideas you would like to chat over with us, do come and join us on the 9th

Tel 01326 374441

www.mylorcreekboatyard.co.uk

Mylor Christmas Lights. It’s that time of year again when our traditional and much admired Christmas illuminations in our village magically appear in our streets. But this magic is the result of a lot of effort by a dedicated team of volunteers who work all through the year raising the funds and inventing, buying and maintaining all the kit, and navigating the cause through the maze of legal requirements. The most rewarding part of this voluntary work is to receive the heartfelt appreciation from our supporters both local and from afar, often accompanied by generous financial donations, and the organising Committee are very gratified by this ongoing enthusiasm. It maybe of interest that we are now in the 24th anniversary of public Christmas Lights first appearing in Mylor Bridge. The Lights Committee have once again organised the popular Switch-On event for the evening of Monday 5th December. This year our Guest of Honour is our respected local resident, Jack James, who has kindly agreed to switch-on the Christmas Tree lights. The evening programme starts at 6:15 pm when Father Christmas will be outside Mylor Newsagents to welcome children and distribute gifts. At about 7:00 pm Father Christmas will board his musical Santa Sleigh which will then accompany the Guest of Honour in procession down Passage Hill to the Lemon Arms car park while the street illuminations are progressively switched on as the sleigh passes. The Christmas Tree Switch-On ceremony in the car park will start at about 7:15 pm, followed immediately by our traditional Carol Service led by Revd Roger Nicholls, with accompaniment from ‘Pendennis Brass’ band and the ‘Nankersey Male Voice Choir’, and contributions from the children of Mylor School. Finally everyone is welcome at the Tremayne Hall for free tea and mince pies, and for the drawing of the Grand Christmas Draw. Mylor Bridge residents should be aware that the village streets will be officially closed to vehicular traffic from 6:30 pm until 8:00 pm on the 5th December 2011. Also, by police enforcement, street traders will not be allowed to operate within the village during the Switch-On evening. Tony Deacon Pan Pan. The recent Finding Sanctuary report has caused much consternation in the Carrick Roads. In particular the proposed designation of the Fal Reference Zone (a reference Marine Conservation Zone or rMCZ) between St. Just and St. Mawes has the potential to seriously disrupt the activities of recreational sailors. It will also have an impact on the Port of Falmouth. St Mawes Bank is already protected within a Special area of Conservation. The Cornish and National Wildlife Trusts are objecting to why the Defra Minister, Richard Benyon, has delayed the MCZ designation process; they want all 127 sites protected now. The process is far from over and the Wildlife Trusts are attempting to rush designation even before Defra has seen the Social Economic Assessments for the sites. Finding Sanctuary claims to have been a stakeholder-led project, but it is clear that many of the obvious stakeholders in the Fal area were not invited onto the Cornwall Working Group . This resulted in many organisations being denied information and the opportunity to make their points felt. This also meant their expertise to find common ground was lost. We are all conservationists, but the Wildlife Trusts are trying to interfere with the due process with no regard for the social economic assessments to be presented. These assessments are part and parcel of the whole process and are yet to be submitted to Defra. The Wildlife trusts seem to be intentionally disregarding the impact on jobs, recreation and future versatility of the Port of Falmouth in particular. The MCZ process is not over. If you are a member of any of the Wildlife Trusts in the country please write to them to express your disquiet at the way they are attempting

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to rush the process before assessments have been studied by Defra. The local trust's address is: Cornwall Wildlife Trust, Five Acres, Allet, Truro TR4 9DJ.

Steve Nicholls, chairman, Port of Falmouth Sailing Association Traveller’s Tales. Africa is always exciting but our journey this year was very special. We never go with a tour, always planning our days and doings around the birds, animals and places we want to see. We had never been to East Africa before and so Tanzania and Kenya were our chosen places this time. The three weeks we were away exceeded our wildest expectations. You can only put yourself in the way of seeing things, and travel with that hope, but we saw everything, from the biggest to the smallest, from the beautiful to the bizarre. We saw the brutality of the wild as well as its caring and tenderness, its wonder and lambent beauty. There are really no words to sum up seeing four thousand Wildebeest throw themselves over the rocky banks of the Mara River and swim for dear life to the other side, crocodiles after them in the river and lion waiting on the other side to take a few to feed their cubs. There is no vocabulary to tell of the sight of a replete python up a tree or the care shown to its young from a mother elephant or a Black Backed Jackal. And how do you tell of the majesty of a male lion or the feline haughtiness of the cheetah , the explosion of colour in a bird or butterfly, or the icing-sugar pink of flamingos topping the islands of volcanic lakes? For us, biologist as we are, it was, and remains, unforgettable. For us, believers as we are, it was a reminder of our small yet sometimes dangerous presence in the world together with the mind-blowing complexity of creation. We were indeed privileged to have been able to go. We met some lovely people, people who were committed to Africa and to its natural history. We met fellow travellers and one pair in particular who surprised us by telling us that they had had a wedding blessing here at St Mylor this year. A bit of “small world” on a vast continent of wilderness and colour, movement and serenity. We spent most of our time under canvass in up-market tents which were pitched in the wilderness camps with no fences and where wild animals walked freely—wild dogs, antelope, elephant, hyena and lion. There was something humbling about being in it like that, vulnerable and of no consequence to those animals and birds getting on with their lives. They ignored the tents and their living contents! Barbara and I will be giving a talk and showing some photos of this visit. We hope to do it sometime in the New Year. We hope that many of you will be able to be present, so watch for the adverts and come along to enjoy a little of the great treat we had during our time there. Dorrit Smith News from the Parish Council Following the resignation of David Jenkin, a local election was held to fill the vacancy. As a result Sam Heard was elected as a Parish Councillor. HRH The Princess Royal will be visiting Flushing on December 6th to formally open the affordable housing estate. This is the second time this year that Her Royal Highness has visited the parish, the first occasion was the opening of the Yacht Club’s new club house at Mylor Dockyard. Discussions continue into obtaining a suitable site for affordable housing at Mylor. The site currently under discussion is at Bells Hill. Officers from Devon and Cornwall

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Housing Association have met with the Parish Council at various times during the year. Plans are still however at a very early stage and there will be much more consultation in the coming year. The Parish Council has continued efforts to obtain more parking in Flushing and to have double yellow lines put down, both in Flushing and leading down to Mylor Dockyard. There are also plans to put an additional bus stop above Tregew Farm. Cornwall Council have announced that after initially filling grit bins, it will take no further part in either re-filling or replacing the bins. The Parish Council will therefore be taking over this responsibility. Therefore if anyone has any queries or requests about the bins, could they please contact the Chairman or Clerk. It also looked as if the public toilets would have to be taken over by the Parish Council or closed, as Cornwall Council indicated that it would not be continuing to maintain the three in Mylor and Flushing. However following a judgment by the courts, Cornwall Council has said it will be postponing any decision about the future of the toilets until the end of 2012. The hunt for an allotment site goes on, the Clerk would be very glad to hear from anyone with any ideas about this, or any other matters that the Parish Council could assist with.

Tremayne Hall Roof raised! On Saturday, November 19th, the Tremayne Hall all but experienced a whirlwind. Over 140 people turned up to witness the London Philharmonic Skiffle Orchestra! Not many really knew what to expect but no-one appeared disappointed. From the moment Martyn, Mike, Ian and Ron walked onto the stage the audience was taken onto another planet. We certainly were not sitting in the middle of Mylor Bridge any more but were transported into a world of music of every genre, comedy and ridicule. Silly costumes dominated the stage whist 4 men performed musical wonders using a variety of strange instruments – a watering can, w.c. pan, a dog, a saw and even a talking Bagpipe –as well as many other strange concoctions. Two members of the audience were invited onto the stage and encouraged to join in a number. Richard Martin was given the opportunity to dress up and to join in a Calypso based on the answers he had given to one or two personal questions and Sally Wilding showed everyone what a whizz kid she was with the spoons and washboard. All good clean fun. What is very obvious is that the LPSO is a group of exceptionally talented musicians who can turn their musical attributes to suit the audience. Sometimes sailing a little close to the wind, they knew exactly how far to take their jokes and silly behavior, continually keeping the audience toe tapping, laughing and clapping their hands. Most of us left the hall with aching sides and sore hands. The evening was arranged by the St Mylor Churchyard Restoration Group, with the hope of raising further funds to continue their work in the Churchyard. Pasties were served during the interval and an exceptionally well supported raffle was drawn. A wine bar was set up and proved to be very successful as many of the audience were able to place interval drinks orders in true theatre tradition. A group of volunteers cooked the pasties, which had been donated by a local Pasty company. Sponsorship and great support from both the local area and businesses helped to make the evening a huge success. With many of the audience requesting a return visit – watch this space! Helen Fletcher, photo by Jane Martin

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Remembrance Sunday: A packed St.Mylor church observed the 2 minute silence during the Remembrance Sunday service, when we remembered those who gave their tomorrow for our today. The Ganges Association was particularly well represented on this the 90th anniversary of the founding of the British Legion Poppy Appeal, with four standard bearers representing the Solent Division, the Cornish Division and the National Ganges Association. We were also delighted to welcome Mylor Brownies with their standard. Following the service, during which the names of all those killed in both world wars, military and civil, were read by Alastair Adams, wreaths were laid the the St.Mylor war memorial on behalf of the Parish Council, the Dunkirk Association, and the Mylor Brownies. Wreaths were then laid at the Ganges Memorial by representatives of the visiting divisions. It was a day when medals were worn with pride, military ceremonial carried out with precision, and those of us watching were again reminded of a debt we can never repay.

Judy Menage Flushing & Mylor Pilot Gig Club held their first regatta for Junior members during half term (pictured here). At the end of 2010, the club was awarded a grant of £10,000 from Sport England towards Junior equipment and this has led to many more younger rowers joining the club. The end of the summer season was celebrated with a series of fun races in the club’s flashboat, skiff and gig. On November 7th, the club also found out that they had been granted Planning Permission to build a new shed to house their gigs. New storage facilities are desperately needed to protect the clubs boats and equipment which are currently left exposed to the elements. It is hoped that the funds can now be raised to carry out the building construction as soon as possible. Contact juniors@fmpgc.org or newcomers@fmpgc.org if you’d like to try rowing this winter. Celia Fraser

Welcome return: November saw the opening of the Waterside Restaurant at Flushing Quay. It specialises in fresh local fish and shellfish, and great views! Paul Arrow has been joined by John ‘JB’ Ball and Vincent Bethermin to provide fresh local food and wines and excellent service in an idyllic setting. Paul, John and Vincent aim to support local businesses and fisheries, presenting customers with freshly landed fish and local produce. Paul and JB are pictured here. The Playing Fields Committee are holding a bingo night for the Playing Fields Fund on the 9th of December at the Tremayne Hall (open 7pm to start 7:30pm). There are money prizes, a raffle and refreshments. In addition there will be a £50 prize for the lucky last bingo ball to be called on the night. Ball numbers for this will be sold on the night and are also available at the newsagents and the shop. All profits will go towards the ongoing refurbishment of Mylor Playing Fields. Haylee Mooney

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Christmas Lunch

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12 - 2 pm Tuesday 20 December

Including: Bell ringing

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Cottages available throughout the year: open fires, dogs welcome.

Telephone: 01326 375972

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Ring Chris Perkins in confidence on 01326 378742

or write/email to:

Porloe, Mylor, Falmouth, TR11 5UD

Email chris@porloe.com

Photos: Geoff Adams

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On the Water ~ Malcolm Clark

Amatasi Over in Devoran on the 12th of October, James Wharram, catamaran designer and builder, launched his latest boat, the 27 foot Amatasi. The design won Classic Boat's 2010 competition for an Eco Fishing Boat. The brief was for an under 10m boat that would not need a license for fishing under sail or oar. She's a fairly distinctive boat, the hull lines are derived from the fishing canoe hulls of Samoa and similar canoes in the Society islands all of which have very shallow draft and are easy to row and beach. Amatasi is pictured here in Mylor Harbour where she will stay for the winter to allow testing to take place.

Alf Smythers Chris Ranger’s company, Cornish Native Oysters, was named Best Fish and Seafood Producer for 2012 in the Good Produce Guide 2012 published this November. Ranger owns and sails the Alf Smythers, which is operated as an oyster dredger on the Fal. Ranger is pictured here with a copy of the guide. Alf Smythers was one of the very last boats built of wood specifically for oyster dredging on the River Fal. She is a 26ft gaffer, Pitch Pine on Elm and Oak, and

was built by Alf Smythers and Peter Mayes between 1966-71. Begun at their boatyard in Penryn, she was finished at Cowlands Creek after Alf's death, and began dredging in 1976. In summer 2008 Ranger and friends stripped her right back to replace the deck and beams and totally rebuilt her at what was then Tregartreath Boatyard. Look out for Alf and Ranger at work dredging from 9am to 3pm each weekday, 9am to 1pm on Saturdays. Now Ranger has caught your oyster, you need to do something with it. This recipe is generously provided by Arty Williams (Cornwall Life Awards ‘Chef of the Year 2010’) of the Cove, Maenporth: Falmouth Bay Oysters grilled with Bacon and Worcestershire sauce | serves 1

6 Falmouth Bay Oysters (per person) 3 rashers of bacon Worcestershire Sauce Freshly Cracked Black Pepper 1 oyster knife

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First shuck the oysters. You could get this done for you wherever you buy your oysters, but freshly opened oysters only have a shelf life of 2 to 3 hours. Place the closed oyster flat side up and the round edge towards the palm of your hand. Have a thick cloth between your palm and the oyster for safety. Place the knife into the back corner of the oyster unhinging the top from the base. When the knife pierces the oyster, scrape across the top flat edge of the inside of the oyster to remove the meat from the shell. Remove the top of the shell. Gently remove the oyster from the base of the shell by scraping the oyster knife in and around the meat. The oyster will now be loose and sitting in half of the shell. Place the oysters, in their shells, on a flat grilling tray. Remove excess fat from the bacon rashers & finely slice. Place the bacon on top of the oysters and lightly drizzle with Worcestershire Sauce. Grill until the bacon is cooked and the oyster is warmed through. Serve immediately. To serve your oysters naturally, simply open, squeeze fresh lime juice & sprinkle with freshly cracked black pepper. Enjoy straight away...

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Our wide selection of vegetables, fruit and salad are refreshed daily. We bake on the premises organic bread as well as baguettes, croissants, bacon bites, sausage rolls, pasties and a variety of savouries and sweet things. Vicky’s artisan bread. We have an extensive and varied wine collection. We try to source products made locally and have a varied selection of goods from chutneys to curries and cream to cheese with jams, marmalade, sauces and cakes. We will attempt (usually successfully) to procure any items that we don’t have.

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More About ~ Noel John Ashton, 1932-2011

Mylor people may remember Noel who died aged 78 on 28 October 2011 in Cambridge, New York (USA). Born 22 December, 1932 in Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, Noel was the son of the late John Philip Stephens Ashton and Mabel Beatrice Gray Ashton. Noel attended Falmouth Grammar School and St Luke’s College in Exeter. His national service was in the RAF in Wales and Southampton. Noel taught at Penryn School and then became headmaster of Carnkie C.P. School and at St Gluvias C.P. School, Ponsanooth. Following his retirement, Noel taught part-time at both St. Agnes and Treleigh schools. He trained as an organist at Truro Cathedral before following in his father and grandfather’s footsteps as organist and choirmaster at St Mylor Parish Church. For 30 years he directed the Nankersey Male Voice Choir based in Flushing. He was active in a number of groups in Cornwall, including performing as an actor/member of the St. Mylor Players. In August 1986, his life took a new direction when he met an American on a Fulbright Teaching Exchange, who came to live next door. Caroline quickly became the love of his life and they married in Truro in 1987 and moved to the United States. Noel began a new life many miles from Cornwall, but his roots went deep and everyone who knew him learned to appreciate his stories of growing up during the war. He recalled the terrible day when a bomb dropped on their garden and another on the soccer pitch. He remembered experiences in the service, in teaching, in the organ loft, directing choirs, and accompanying school pageants and performances. He was also a good cook, specialising in ginger fairings and Cornish pasties! Noel lived a full life in Cambridge (USA). He was a member of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, serving on the vestry and as warden, lay reader and chalice bearer. He did a great deal of substitute teaching and volunteering at Cambridge Central, especially in the two libraries. Music continued to play a large role; he played the organ and piano in many area churches. For a time he accompanied two different local community choirs and many musical events in the area. In his spare time, Noel loved travelling, gardening, walking, making music, cooking and reading – always wanting to learn something new. He had a wonderful sense of humour, was articulate, generous, kind, full of wisdom and is described as a “proper Brit”! Noel is survived by Caroline his wife of 24 years and numerous family members. If you knew Noel and would like to learn more please contact his cousin, Ruth Andrew. Tony and Ruth have kindly allowed us to use part of his eulogy from America for this article.

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St Mylor Parish Church and All Saints Mission Church, Mylor Bridge

www.stmylor.org.uk

Priest-in-Charge: The Revd Roger Nicholls (01326 374408)

The Vicarage, 17 Olivey Place, Mylor Bridge, Cornwall, TR11 5RX

Lay Reader: Dorrit Smith (01326 374361)

Churchwarden:

Judy Menage (01326 259909; email:judymenage@gmail.com)

Parish Church Clerk: Pauline Bryant

PCC Secretary: John Clark (01872 865974)

Organist: Sid Bryant (01326 316864)

This Parish Magazine is published by St Mylor Church on the last Sunday of the month.

Editor: The Priest-in-Charge.

Contributions to: mylormagazine@hotmail.co.uk as in line text or Microsoft Office Word, rich text files (rtf) or jpg attachments please.

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The Parish Magazine is available from St Mylor Church, All Saints Church,

Mylor Bridge Post Office, Mylor Newsagents and The Methodist Chapel.

And now online and in full colour at:

http://www.any-village.com/UK/England/Cornwall/Mylor-Bridge/parishmagazines.aspx

Printing and Binding: Good Impressions, Redruth (01209 314451)

Some High Days and Holy Days in December: 24 Christmas Eve

25 Christmas Day 26 Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr 27 John, Apostle and Evangelist

28 The Holy Innocents 29 Thomas Becket

ACROSS: 1, Depend. 4, Canopy. 7, Beak. 8, Irritate. 9, Zedekiah. 13, Ate. 16, Job’s comforter. 17, NAE. 19, Lang Syne. 24, Blockade. 25, Five. 26, Enigma. 27, Drench.

DOWN: 1, Debt. 2, Peaceable. 3, Drink. 4, Curia. 5, Nuts. 6, Put it. 10, Excel. 11, Is man. 12, Hoofs. 13, Attention. 14, Ezra. 15, Ijon. 18, Aslan. 20, Abana. 21, Greed. 22, GCMG. 23, Leah

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