MOUNT &MOUNT & WARLEGGAN LIFEWARLEGGAN LIFE

NOVEMBER / DECEMBER Number 97

2016 Non-Parishioners 50p

WARLEGGAN JUBILEE HALL PRESENTS A

CARN TO COVE EVENT

Gareth Lee & Annie Baylis

A slick contemporary folk duo who have a modern approach to creating a classic sound. They present an intimate evening of live music per-

forming tracks from their debut EP ‘A Little Light’ and follow-up record ‘Future Writer’.

FRIDAY 11TH NOVEMBER 7.30PM Tickets : Liz : 01208 821 551 £8 full £6 Child / Concession £22 family (4)

WARLEGGAN is the fourth novel in Winston Graham's sweeping Poldark series. Set in 1792, Ross plunges into a highly speculative mining venture which threatens not only his family's financial security but also his turbulent marriage to Demelza. And of course we have Ross’s arch enemy George Warleggan one of a new class of in-dustrialists and bankers. It is said that Graham saw the name Warleggan on a sign post and considered it to have the right resonance to depict George’s character. Graham was born in Manchester in June 1908. His fa-ther, Albert Grime, was a prosperous tea importer and

grocer. When he was 17 years old, Winston moved to Perranporth where he lived for more than 30 years. He had wanted to be a writer from an early age and, following the death of his father, he was supported by his mother while he wrote novels at home in longhand and attempted to get them published. In September 1939, Graham married Jean Williamson, having first met her in 1926 when she was 13 years old. She often was known to help Graham with ideas for his books, and the character of Demelza, in his Poldark series, was based on her. Graham's daughter said, “Father was the author but my mother helped with the details because she was very observant. She saw everything and remembered it all." Jean died in 1992. He lived in Perranporth from 1925 until 1959, and briefly in the south of France during 1960, finally settling in East Sussex. In 1983, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Graham died on 10 July 2003 in London at the age of 95. Graham's first novel The House with the Stained Glass Windows was published in 1934. His first Poldark novel Ross Poldark was published in 1945 and was succeeded by a series of eleven further titles, the last of which was Bella Poldark, published in 2002. Graham was also an accom-plished author of suspense novels and, during the course of his life, wrote thirty-two novels (in addition to the twelve Poldark books). The first seven Poldark novels were adapted as a BBC television series broadcast in the UK between 1975 and 1977, which garnered audiences of about 14 million viewers. The current series have again brought the name “Warleggan” to the fore. Considering the size of our parish and population we do seem to receive well above our fair share of spotlight attention and visitors from near and far. One visitor to the Church, as evidenced by the Visitors’ Book, was Winston Graham himself with his wife Jean and friends from Sussex on 10th June 1982.

The Poldark novels

Below extract of Church Visitor Book 1982 recording Winston Graham’s visit on 10th June.

HISTORY GROUP The next meeting is on WEDNESDAY 23rd November 7.30pm at the Jubi-lee Hall. Martin Eddy (Geologist) will be speaking on “The Building Stone, Rock & Minerals of Southern Bodmin Moor. NO DECEMBER meeting. NEW YEAR’S WALK—MONDAY 2ND JANUARY—to be confirmed please keep an eye on the notice board in December for information.

1945 - Ross Poldark

1946 - Demelza

1950 - Jeremy Poldark

1953 - Warleggan

1973 - The Black Moon

1976 - The Four Swans 1977 - The Angry Tide

1981 - The Stranger from the Sea

1983 - Poldark's Cornwall (non- fiction) 1982 - The Miller's Dance

1984 - The Loving Cup

1990 - The Twisted Sword

2002 - Bella Poldark

WARLEGGAN YOUNG FARMERS’ CLUB DONATE £4,350 TO GOOD CAUSES

At their AGM in October Kath Strang from Ley was elected as the new President to take over from Mary Penter in what will be the Club’s 70th anniversary year. Other officers elected included: Joint Chairman – Mike Champion and Denzel Alford; Secretary—Chloe Olver; Treasurer—Tilly Scott; Club Leaders – Jenny Olver and Tony Blanchard. For a Club of 39 members their achievements during the past year have been great gaining overall 5th place in the competitions at the Royal Cornwall Show and also 5th in the County Rally. Amidst all the fun en-joyed during the year members undertake some serious fund raising and at the AGM donated £2,500 to Cornwall Air Ambulance, £1,500 to-wards the cost of the defibrillator being installed in the former kiosk at Mount and £350 of smaller donations. Well done!

RECYCLING FRIDAYS

11th November

25th November

9th December

23rd December

GARDEN WASTE FRIDAYS

4th November

18th November

2nd December

16th December

Upcoming YFC events 5th November bonfire and fireworks at the London Inn, BBQ, Jacket Potatoes and Face painting run by Warleggan YFC. All pro-ceeds to chosen charities. Please invite all fiends and family! 16th December County carol service to get tickets send a self-addressed stamped envelope with the number of tickets required to County office.

The chosen charities for the coming year are:

MOUNT EDGCUMBE HOSPICE & PENTREATH – CORNWALL MENTAL

HEALTH

MOUNT 1881

MOUNT 2011

WEEKLY VIEWS FROM THE FIELD “life, red in tooth & claw”

There may be nothing finer than the smell of damp leaves on an Au-tumn morning walk, with a faithful furry friend at your side. (We refer to our dogs, but feel free to be creative with hairy walking companions, we rule out no species) After a busy spring lambing, slipping seamlessly into long days and late nights in the garden, lots of summer fruit picking, and the never ending surprise jobs that present themselves to farmers, Sep-tember can be a welcome relief. Chance to draw breath, reflect on the years successes, put the blunders, mistakes and failures behind us, make plans for next year. Our ram is starting to pace the fence line in anticipation of being reunit-ed with his flock of girlfriends. Last year we thought he was going to eat his way through a hedge in order to start the breeding season, and he looks equally enthusiastic this year. There has already been some flirting going on from either side of the stock netting. Sheep contraception in the form of a good fence topped with barbed wire, the original barrier method. Unfortunately for our woolly Lothario, we will try to restrain his amorous intentions until the end of October. One of our favourite outings in the farming calender occured this week: Piglet Shopping. Our local Piglet Store is a farm near Lerryn. We roll up with the trailer and park near the pen. The group of pigs, which includes mums, babies, and even a couple of retired grannies, are given some food. Then it's up to us to jump in and choose our new porkers. A firm grasp around the back legs is essential, and a quick exit with a wrig-gling, squeaking piglet. This is repeated till we have completed our pur-chases. It really is the pinnacle of all supermarket self-checkout experi-ences. Next time you're in Morissons wrestling your shopping into your bag-for-life, just be glad it's not a piglet.

MOUNT CHAPEL The Harvest Festival weekend was indeed glorious and well supported; the chapel was filled with Autumn flowers and produce including a har-vest loaf on which sat a field mouse to complete the picture. All services were well attended and the Monday saw brisk bidding at the Auction conducted by Robert Jory (many thanks to Rob for his auctioneering skills) the resultant monies raised going to much needed chapel funds. Forthcoming dates for your diaries :- 3rd December Christmas Fayre (held in the Chapel) with the usual cake stall/ pasties/ tea / coffee for sale. A time for purchasing those Christmas gifts! Christmas service 18th December at 11.00am—preacher Mrs Anita Nicholson. First Sunday of each month—Messy Church. See notice board. NB : No Christmas Day service at the Chapel but you are welcome to join in the 9.30am service at St Bartholomew’s for Holy Communion.

MACMILLAN CAKE STALL £76 was raised at the recent cake stall at Village Greens. Thanks to all who contributed.

MESSAGE OF THANKS FROM CLAIRE PENTER … (You may remember back in June Mary was asking for sponsorship for her daughter-in-law Claire who was swimming across Lake Windermere for Cancer Research) “To everyone who so kindly sponsored my swim …

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR GENEROSITY I’m sad to tell you that poor Anna (Claire’s friend) passed away on Sun-day night—finally free from the constant fight that has been her life for the last 3½ years. Your money will help her husband, Dan, in his desire to stay in their family home, and in making sure their 3 children contin-ue to live life as he and Anna wanted. We raised a total of £850, the majority of which will go to them. The rest to Cancer Research in the hope that new treatments will allow more people to survive this terrible disease. With love to you all and thanks. Claire X”

PRE-CHRISTMAS PARISH LUNCH

WEDNESDAY

23rd NOVEMBER 12.30PM

JUBILEE HALL, MOUNT

FANTASTIC VALUE AT £6

BOOK NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT! Gill : 01208 821494

CHURCH NEWS The final sum raised from the Garden Party / Band Concert was £716, ra-ther surprising considering the change of venue because of the weather. Thank you to everyone who supported the event. Thank you also to all who came to the Harvest Songs of Praise and to the auction the following day. Your generosity allowed us to send £202 to the Friends of Mwanhala & Urambo in Tanzania for their work in hospitals and schools. A recent published list of ancient buildings considered at risk included Warleggan Church. We are hoping that this will have a favourable impact on our application for grants. Our first application failed, though we were tantalisingly near the top of the list! On Thursday 10th November at St Cleer Church at 7.30pm there is the li-censing of the Revd Becca Bell as Priest in Charge of St Cleer, St Neot and Warleggan. This represents a re-grouping of parishes by the Diocese in or-der to solve its man / woman-power problems. Philip of course remains as Curate in Charge of St Neot and Warleggan. On Saturday 26th November 10am till noon we will be holding our Advent Bazaar in the Jubilee Hall. Anything saleable—or edible—will be most gratefully received; plus the usual stalls, raffle, etc. and pasties. It is our turn to host the United Parish Carol Service and it will take place on Tuesday 13th December at 7pm followed by mincepies, etc. at Chykest hosted by the Young Farmers. On Christmas Eve there will be a Candlelight Service of Carols followed by mulled wine and mincepies at Chykest. All welcome. Pat Interestingly, a few weeks ago at the beginning of October, at a Morning Prayer, we had a visit from a retired clergyman and his wife from Sefton, Liverpool who were on holiday staying at Trevorder. I absorbed useless pieces of information and after the service we were chatting and he went on to say that, as far as he was aware all churches whose patron saint is St Bartholomew are built 13o N of E. He must have seen me look at him somewhat quizzically, as he whipped out his mobile phone and brought up a compass on the screen. Guess what? St Bartholomew’s Warleggan sits 13o N of E!! My mission in life is to check this out whenever I happen across a St Bartholomew’s church. Gill

DEFIBRILLATOR UPDATE Following the successful dedicated fund raising on behalf of the parish by Sarah Cox and Warleggan YFC the defibrillator has been ordered. Look out for posters regarding the installation in the kiosk and training sessions. We are most grateful to Sarah and the YFC for their efforts.

St Neot and Cardinham

Pre-School • Independent committee run pre-school • Rated ‘good’ by Ofsted • Full and half day sessions available Fully funded 15 hrs/week offered to 2 (subject to personal circumstance) 3 & 4 year olds • Spaces available in both St Neot and Cardinham • Recently awarded level 5 nippers nutrition Tel: St Neot 01579 326 862 OR Cardinham 07464 779 697 sam.stneotcardinhampreschool@gmail.com

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ST BARTHOLOMEW CHURCH SERVICES

NOV 6th

9.30 am

Holy Communion Revd Philip Biggs

13th 3.00 pm Evening Prayer

20th 9.30 am Holy Communion

Revd Philip Biggs

27th 3.00 pm Evening Prayer

DEC 4th

9.30 am Holy Communion Revd Philip Biggs

11th 3.00 pm Evening Prayer

13th 7.00 pm UNITED PARISH CAROL SERVICE

18th 9.30 am Holy Communion

Revd Philip Biggs CHRISTMAS EVE

6.30pm CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT

CHRISTMAS DAY 9.30 am Holy Communion Revd Philip Biggs

Ground Maintenance Services

Hedging & Fencing ◊ Stone Walling ◊ Hedge Laying

Decking & Patios ◊ Ground Clearance

Greg 07887 877103/01208 821687 Dave 07779 096331 / 01208 821318

Matthew Keast Plumbing and Heating

All aspects of plumbing and heating undertaken

Gas, Oil, LPG Central Heating, Bathrooms,

Servicing, Certification New Builds, Renovations

Tel: 01208 821364 Mob: 07957 727183

JOHN DORAN FUNERAL SERVICE

Established 1985

John has over 29 years of experience as an Independent funeral director

offering you personal attention day and night John Doran Funeral Service will work with you to ensure the

funeral of your loved one is tailored to your wishes offering you advice and support in a professional yet friendly

and caring manner ( John anytime on: 01208 821186 or 07778 371169.

Bridge Meadow, Pantersbridge, Mount, Bodmin, PL30 4DP) Golden Leaves prepaid funeral plans are available

call John to discuss.

GARMENT ALTERATIONS FOR ANY OCCASION

Wedding Dresses a speciality

Kathryn Jewels

01726 824361 or 07583 190 173

Fitting, etc. at your home at a mutually convenient time

Come rain or shine, Village Greens is open every Friday from 9am til 2pm in the hall at Mount.

We offer a wide range of local produce, including fruit, vegetables, eggs and meat.

Store cupboard essentials, cards, books and baked goods are also available.

The cafe serves home cooked breakfasts, light lunches and hot drinks. Further details, including any alterations to opening hours are posted on

the Warleggan website www.warleggan.net

DIARY OF REGULAR EVENTS

SUNDAY Table Tennis 10.30am

Warleggan Young Farmers’ Club

Weekly Meeting 7.30pm

TUESDAY Pilates Mixed Ability Class 12-1.00pm

Table Tennis 7.00pm

History Group 7.30pm 4th Wednes-day (unless otherwise stated)

FRIDAY – WEEKLY Village Greens Friday Shop 9.00am – 2pm

SPECIAL EVENTS

WEDNESDAY 23rd November

History Group Minerals of Southern Bodmin

Moor—Martin Eddy 12.30pm £6 / Head

BOOKING ESSENTIAL 821 494 FRIDAY 11th NOVEMBER 7.30pm Carn to Cove event

PARISH MEETING CHAIR Pat Phillipps 821 638

ST NEOT / CARDINHAM PRE-SCHOOL sam.stneotcardinhampreschool@g

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WARLEGGAN JUBILEE HALL DIARY OF REGULAR EVENTS

SUNDAY Table Tennis 10.30am

MONDAY Warleggan Young Farmers’ Club

Weekly Meeting 7.30pm

TUESDAY Pilates Mixed Ability Class 12-1.00pm

Table Tennis 7.00pm

WEDNESDAY History Group 7.30pm 4th Wednes-day (unless otherwise stated)

FRIDAY – WEEKLY Village Greens Friday Shop 9.00am – 2pm

SPECIAL EVENTS

WEDNESDAY 23rd November

History Group Minerals of Southern Bodmin

Moor—Martin Eddy PARISH PRE–CHRISTMAS LUNCH

WEDNESDAY 23rd NOVEMBER

12.30pm £6 / Head

BOOKING ESSENTIAL 821 494 FRIDAY 11th NOVEMBER 7.30pm Carn to Cove event USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS PARISH MEETING CHAIR Pat Phillipps 821 638

ST NEOT / CARDINHAM PRE-SCHOOL sam.stneotcardinhampreschool@gmail.com

READING ROOM CHAIR Rob Jory 01208 77569

TEDS & TOTS (Baby Group) (as above)

JUBILEE HALL CHAIR Gill Keast 821 494 TREASURER Jasmina Goodair 821 223 BOOKINGS Henry Jory 821 127 OR www.warleggan.net

CHAPEL STEWARDS Shirley Jory 821 360 Pauline Worth 821 371

CHURCH WARDENS Pat Phillipps 821 638 Gill Keast 821 494

WARLEGGAN YFC SECRETARY Chloe Olver chloeolver@live.co.uk

DEVON & CORNWALL CONSTAB-ULARLY Non Emergency No 101 Yasmine Dingle is our new PCSO

CORNWALL COUNCILLOR Derris Watson 01579 347632 derris.watson@btinternet.com

MOUNT & WARLEGGAN LIFE Gill Keast 01208 821 494 OR gillikeast@aol.com

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