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Dear Readers,

I am delighted to have handed over the role of Editor of the

Whitstone Whistler to Mr Mike Sutton. I believe Mike will con-tinue to take the Whistler forward with a fresh outlook and a

new enthusiasm. I have enjoyed my time as Editor greatly,

and I am delighted that I will continue to assist the Whistler by remaining on the Committee. I hope you will continue to en-

joy, and indeed contribute to the Whistler, and I would urge

you to use it to communicate your events, news and articles of interest.

Dan Cock

The Whitstone Whistler November 2009 Page 3

Welcome !

Welcome to the November Issue of the Whistler!

Yes, your Whistler has a new editor and I hope I will be able to live up to

the standard set by Dan, thanks for

your encouraging words and all your hard work over the past years Dan.

I’m glad you’re staying on the committee and will be available to

give me the advice I will, no doubt,

need! Many of you will not know me, but

fortunately Pat managed to capture

me for one of her Big Interviews (p4). There is a complete roundup of

all the news from our village

organisations in Group News (p12) and of course the usual great

contributions from Ean, ‘Brief

Encounters’, is delightfully observed. The diary dates appear throughout

the magazine but I have tried to summarise them in a new way with

the calendar in the centre pages

(p20), why not pull it out and stick it on your fridge? , let me know what

you think of the idea. I hope you

enjoy reading this month’s issue. P l e a s e l e t me h ave you r

comments...good or bad, I would like

to hear from you.

Mike Sutton, Editor

Our cover picture this

month is by Amber Sobey

The Big Interview 4

Community News 5

Mrs Trewhitless 9

Birdwatching 10

Group News 12

Diary 20

Whippersnappers 27

Councillor Report 31

Breakfast at Brooks

32

Brief Encounters 33

Yogacise 36

Inside this issue:


The Big Interview

This month Pat talks to Mike Sutton By Pat Nasmyth

Mike was brought up in the beautiful town of Malvern in the

County of Hereford & Worcestershire, which nestles in the Mal-

vern Hills.

After attending The Chase School he was awarded an apprentice-

ship at The College of Electronics, achieving a National Diploma which led to his career with National Air Traffic Services as a Sys-

tems Engineer, taking him to many areas of the country includ-

ing Birdlip in the Cotswolds, the Isle of Wight (where he met his wife Irene), Davidstow, Gatwick and Hamble. This service pro-

vided Air Traffic Control at all the major airports in the country.

Mike & Irene came to Whitstone as part of their retirement plan

and to be near their four children and five grandchildren who were all brought up in Cornwall and now live in the Wadebridge

area. Caravanning is also part of the plan, so far their travels

have included trips to many places round England and South Wales, next stop is possibly Scotland, walking and exploring are

always included in their trips.

Mike's main hobby is commercial photography (for publication);

he has also been a keen ‘Allotmenteer’, growing vegetables.

Now happily settled in the village Mike is a keen participator in

village "happenings" e.g. Co-ordinator for the Speed Watch team and recently accepted the position of Editor of The Whistler.

Mike & Irene have enjoyed many holidays abroad; unfortunately a visit to Egypt proved a little disappointing, they were unable to

enter the Pyramid at Giza as Prince Charles was there first!

However they did visit the tombs successfully.


Community News New Street Lighting Will Save Money

By Mike Sutton

You may have noticed that new street lighting has been

installed in the village. This is

part of Cornwall Council’s ‘Invest to Save’ initiative and,

according to the Council’s Pro-

ject Manager, James Lants-bery, will save £54m over the

next 25 years as well as re-

ducing the Council’s carbon emissions by 60% to meet the

UK targets by 2050.

The new low energy lights are being fitted to the existing

poles as the contractors go around on their planned main-

tenance tasks and the North

Cornwall villages are among the first to be installed follow-

ing a successful trial at Crack-

ington Haven. They emit a white light which

is easier to see by, and can be individually controlled re-

motely for different light levels

and on/off times. The lights also have the ability to auto-

matically report when they are

faulty which should mean a faster repair response. The

lights were lit continually, even

during daylight, for quite a while after installation. I am

told that this is a normal part of the process because the

contractors have to provide

information to the Council be-fore the lights can be con-

trolled and the information is

only available when a batch of lights has been replaced.

We will be given the opportu-

nity to influence how the light-ing is programmed in the area,

and in about 6 months time,

the Council will consult with each community, probably

through the Parish Councils, to agree the lighting levels and

when they will be lit. The


A new operator, Western Greyhound, has taken over the bus

services that serve the village, resulting in a new timetable. The

times of the 576 service buses stopping in Whitstone are given below. Please be aware that there can be a long delay at

Callington for buses to/from the Plymouth direction until

8th November.

Recycling Day Has Changed

You should have received a leaflet through your door

giving the new schedule for collection of recycling rub-

bish. This is just a reminder that the collection day is now fort-nightly on a MONDAY, the same day as normal rubbish is col-

lected (this is still being collected weekly). The first day for the new schedule is:

MONDAY 2nd NOVEMBER.

Your recycling round is MONDAY Blue Zone starting at 7:00am

Council can set up a variety of lighting in the village for a

short period so that we can see

the effect before deciding on the final arrangement. The

Whistler will keep you informed of this process nearer the time.

James Lantsbery has kindly

provided The Whistler with a copy of the answers to some

Frequently Asked Questions

(FAQs) which will shortly be published on the Cornwall

Counci l website http://

www.cornwall.gov.uk/ . In the meantime, if you would like a

copy just contact me. The Whistler, as always, will be

pleased to hear from you if you

have any comments about the street lighting.

If you need to report a faulty street light you can do so by ringing the Council

on 0300 1234 222 or email [email protected] giving the light reference number which is attached to the pole (yellow figures on a

black background e.g. A100) and the location (town and road).


New Bus Timetable

C= Change at Launceston Sch= Schooldays only SSV= Runs on all Saturdays and Mon-Fri during school holidays



Trebuttuns!

Trebuttuns: a Cornish - sounding anagram of butternuts, and per-

haps an appropriate name for Whitstonian variations on the but-ternut theme. Many thanks to Pat Nasmyth and Ruby Naile for

passing on lovely recipes to try out. They all sound delicious and

(importantly for me), gloriously uncomplicated. Ruby suggests that cooked (steamed, boiled or microwaved)

chunks of squash can be tossed in butter with chopped herbs from

the garden – parsley, chervil, basil or marjoram, then served with a cheese or tomato sauce to make a vegetable side dish or meal

on its own. Her ”cream baked squash” involves mashing the cooked chunks and combining with sour cream, some finely

chopped onion and seasoning to taste. I think I might try it using

natural yoghourt and chives. One of Pat’s ideas is to coat the chunks of squash in olive oil, roll

them in flour, add at least 4 crushed cloves of garlic and then bake

them in a medium oven until soft inside, but with a “crunchy-yum” outside. Her soup sounds good too: you should puree the cooked

flesh of the squash and add onion, coconut milk, black pepper, salt

and chilli (fresh or powdered, I guess,) to taste. Whizz it up to-gether in the processor before reheating. A nicely seasonal salad

recipe from Pat is to steam the peeled squash and then add it to baby spinach leaves, diced beetroot, feta cheese, couscous, chick

peas and a tangy dressing.

I can’t wait to start trying these out. At this time of year, cour-gettes and marrows could replace the butternuts in all of these

recipes, so long as your garden marrows are looking more hopeful

than those in the Trewhitless garden!

Next time, I must tell you about the impossible-to-fail chocolate

cake… Mrs T apologises that the wrong article was published in the last issue: it's not just her kitchen that's disorganised!

Mrs Trewhitless Notes from the Whitsend Kitchen


Birdwatching By Keith & Fran Slade

It all started when we attended an evening class on Ornithology

in 1976 and I never realised what a fascinating hobby it would

become. It began by identifying the birds by reference to pho-tos taken by the tutor and then discussing the individual bird’s

habitat and lifestyle.

It soon became obvious that birds were in a

particular location primarily for the food they were feeding on and the breeding habitat.

We were taken on various field trips to iden-

tify birds in their environment and began to realise that spotting them was a bit more dif-

ficult than seeing photos displayed in a classroom. However

with some practice and a great deal of help it seemed that there was always at least one major feature on every species that

gave it away. This ranged from col-our on the body, colour of leg or bill,

how they flew or sang. This was all

summed up as the ‘jiz’ of a bird.

We joined the Bristol Ornithological

Club which had over 700

m e m b e r s

and later I was on the

committee and became Treasurer.

We have always kept records of the

birds we have identified and to date we have seen 308 different species in the

field in the UK. We are not ‘twitchers’

as we prefer just to go at our own pace and see the birds for ourselves. Twitchers incidentally are those birders who, having

‘To date we

have seen 32

species, some

of which are quite regular

visitors’

Illustrations courtesy of RSPB

Siskin

Red Kite


heard there is a rare bird in a particu-lar location, will travel, sometimes a

great distance, to tick that bird on

their list.

We moved to Whitstone 3 years ago and we have been pleasantly sur-

prised at the number of different spe-

cies seen in and from our garden in Paradise Park. To date we have seen

32 species, some of which are quite

regular visitors. There is a good flock of Siskins that visit our nut and seed feeders

on a daily basis together with the regular

Greenfinch, Chaffinch and Tit families. The occasional visitor is the Great Spotted Wood-

pecker and to our absolute delight on 9 June last year we had a Red Kite fly low over the

garden being chased by a crow. It is great

fun to see a young bird sitting on our patio waiting for his mother to feed him or to see

all the different species feeding alongside

each other. It is like having our own aviary

outside the window.

We enjoy visiting the local cliffs together with

the Marshes and Maer Lake at Bude where once

again a good range of birds can be seen. Birds such as Golden Plover, Water Rail, Little

Egret and Grasshopper Warbler to name some of the more unusual species.

This is a short summary of one of our hobbies which we hope may encourage you to take up

and get the enjoyment we have experienced.

I am sure there are many readers who have their own par-ticular hobby or pastime, so why not share it with all of us?

Write to the Editor, I will be pleased to hear from you. (Ed.)

Little Egret

Golden Plover

Water Rail

Grasshopper Warbler


St Anne's Hall

A big "Thank You" to the Carnival Committee, the members of the Coffee Morning, and the members of the Monday Whist Drive for

their very kind donations to the Hall funds. We hope to buy some

outdoor benches so you can enjoy sitting outside (when we get the appropriate weather for sitting outside). Maybe next year we will

have the promised barbeque summer.

Eagle eyed readers of the "Whistler" will have noticed that the

100th anniversary of the opening of the Hall was not 2009 at all but 2010. The foundation stone was laid on 09/09/1909 but the Hall

was not opened until 1910. There will be an event in September

next year. Details nearer the time.

St Anne's Church

Candlelit Supper

There will be a 3 Course Candlelit Supper on Saturday 14th Novem-

ber at 6.30pm for 7.00pm. Tickets will cost £8.50. To book your tickets contact Ann Weeks (341417), Ruby Edgcombe (341309), or

Kate Collins (341598) by Wednesday 11th November. Bring your own bottle of wine if you wish.

Group News News from the village organisations


Sunday Services for November, all these services are at 11.00am

Nov 1st Mr M Parsons Nov 8th Local arrangement or Worship Leaders

Nov 15th Mrs S Griffin Nov 22nd Mr R Down

Nov 29th At North Tamerton, Rev John Henry (Sacrament)

Harvest Festival

The Chapel was beautifully decorated for our harvest celebrations. The Sunday School children had arranged tractors, trailers and bal-

ers in one window depicting the harvest of the field. Smile Club

children also displayed pictures they had coloured about the Par-able of the Sower. Our Sunday morning worship was led by Mr Roy

Sambles who in his eloquent easy listening style portrayed how each fruit and vegetable is different but an important part of our

harvest display, as children and adults we too are all different but

important to God.

He did point out that we had nothing in our display to portray light

and salt for cleansing but this was rectified before the evening ser-vice! In his evening address, using the Parable of the Sower, he

focused on the different types of soil and what needed to happen to

them to be made into good soil. With the aid of a hoe, viskie, five pronged fork and rake he verbally portrayed us as types of soil.

Did we need constant hoeing to get rid of the weeds that kept

growing? Did we have huge stones and boulders that needed dig-ging out of our lives? Did we need to be completely turned over?

Did we need to be raked and levelled? All thought provoking im-ages that portrayed the true message of that parable. We thank

him for sharing his gift of speaking God's word with us and sharing

his good productive soil with us.

Celebrations continued on Monday with a service led by Revd.

Margaret Oxenham, it was good to welcome her back as it was seven years since she had been in our circuit. She spoke about

Methodist Chapel


potential and what has to be planted before it can grow, develop and bear seeds of its own. How amazing that a sunflower seed

can grow from such a small seed into a record breaking 23ft tall

flowering plant. What seeds has God planted in us? Have we grown to our full potential?

Our evening concluded with a Harvest Supper where 43 people sat

down to locally produced ham, beef and salads followed by fruit

tarts or pies if that is what you prefer to call them. Some produce was then distributed around the village and the remainder sold.

The money will be allocated to charities at the church Council

meeting on October 30th.

Coffee Club

The Tuesday Coffee Club continues to meet on alternate Tuesdays the next one being November 10th in the Methodist Sunday School

from 10.00 - 12.00. Since the beginning of the Autumn Term we

have been delighted to welcome the older children from the Pri-mary School who now come along and join us from 10.30 - 11.00.

This is a real opportunity for everyone to mingle and get to know a

few new faces! The children invited us to their school harvest fes-tival which we thoroughly enjoyed, a lovely link within our commu-

nity. Everyone is welcome to come along and join us for coffee or

tea and a chat.

Smile Club

Smile Club is now meeting fortnightly rather than monthly. They

will not meet on October 28th as it is half term so the next Smile

Club will be on Nov 11th then Nov 25th. It is for children 5 and over to come along, play games and get involved in some creative

activity with a moralistic theme. There are different youth provid-

ers getting involved for each session at the moment but hopefully there will be more continuity if a Youth Worker is appointed within

the Holsworthy Circuit. Any information is available from Pam Col-

will 341279.


Whitstone Cancer Research

Committee Meeting

The meeting was kindly hosted by Helen Chubb, our secretary, and

13 members attended. Our dedicated chairperson Angela Edg-combe, had only come home from hospital the previous day. Ar-

thur Morris, our Treasurer, reported that we had a successful Gar-den Party at Whitstone Head School which raised £1,164.61. Our

Soup and Sweet Lunch in the Village hall raised £542.88. Food

provided for the Parish Plan presentation raised £542.00 and the 3 day tin collection at Morrisons raised a staggering £2030.45. A

total of £4,279.94 has been raised already this year.

The next event was discussed and it was decided that by popular demand we would ask Veronica Jones if her Minstrel choir and Mini

Minstrels could entertain us all again in the village hall on Saturday

November 28th at 7.00pm.

Minstrel Concert

Whitstone Cancer Research UK Committee is holding a Minstrel Choir and Mini Minstrel Concert at Whitstone Village Hall on Satur-

day 28t November at 7.00pm. Tickets on the door will cost£5,

which includes supper. This concert is back by popular demand as the previous two have been enjoyed by everyone from 9 to 90 who

has attended. Please invite your friends to join us.

Quiz Results

Produced by Whitstone Badminton Club

Many thanks to all who purchased the quiz and returned their an-swer sheets, congratulations to the overall winners who were Ju-

dith Taylor and Derek Orchard who received the £10 prize, and

kindly donated it to the Whitstone Cancer Research UK Committee.

Angela Orchard

The answers to the quiz appear on the next page……….


Whitstone Property Names Old Money

1.Thorne 11.Bob

2.September Lodge 12.Penny Farthing

3.Elms 13.Tanner

4.Springfield 14.Florin

5.Foxhole 15.Quid

6.Luckham 16.Pound

7.Sunnyside 17.Guinea

8.Northmoor 18 Half a Crown

9.Orchard Heights 19 Crown

10.Elton Cottages

Proverbs

20.Penny wise pound foolish

21.Too many cooks spoil the broth

22.A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

23.Every dog has its day

24.People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones

25.A rolling stone gathers no moss

26.Many hands make light work

27.You look after the pennies and the pounds will look

after themselves

28.A stitch in time saves nine

29.Two new moons in May, no straw or hay

Counties General

30.Devon 40. 7

31.Shropshire 41.A scented resin used in perfume

32.Yorkshire 42.Margaret Mitchell

33.Cumbria 43.Present day Turkey

34.Somerset 44.Ghost of Christmas Present

35.Cambridgeshire 45.Monaco

36.Worcester 46.Crazy Horse

37.Suffolk 47.Chile & Ecuador

38.Kent 48.Golden Hind

39.Cornwall 49.Mushrooms

50. 1/9th


Whitstone C.P. School

As you may have seen in a previous edition of the Whistler, we are, as a school, focusing our main fund-raising efforts over the next few

months on collecting enough money to be able to provide a shelter

box from the Cornwall-based Shelter Box Trust.

Recently, some of the pupils, supervised by members of the staff, held an over-night camp under canvas as the first fund-raising

event for our shelter box appeal. It was a great night and thor-

oughly enjoyed by everyone who took part in it. Over £60 was raised. The children and I would like to thank everyone who helped

to make the night under the stars such a successful start to our

campaign.

We would also like to offer our sincere thanks to the Methodist

Church who are going to donate part of the proceeds from the sale of produce at its harvest supper to our appeal.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank the schools Par-

ents, Teachers and Friends Association for its efforts to raise money

to support the work of the school. It’s fund-raising so far this term the autumn fayre, a coffee afternoon and fancy dress disco - means

that, amongst other things, the swimming sessions can continue to

be subsidized, educational visits that enrich the curriculum can be contemplated and other support given to broaden and deepen the

curriculum.

At Whitstone, we promote the notion that the school is a caring

community. The children are fortunate that they are also part of a

wider community that is supportive, compassionate and generous.

Paul Woolner


Whitstone Post Office is holding two special "Late Night Openings" to help customers get their Christmas post done in time and avoid

the rush. These will be on Thursday 3rd December and Thursday

17th December when the Post Office Will stay open until 7pm. This is your chance to avoid the rush and support your local Post

Office. Don’t forget we have a wide range of stationery and enve-lopes, and we always have plenty of FREE used cardboard boxes,

feel free to ask for some airmail stickers and Customs labels for

your international packets to help save time.

Last Posting Dates 2009

Non-UK Surface Mail

Tue 24th Nov: Western Europe; France, Germany, Spain etc.

Tue 10th Nov: Eastern Europe and Cyprus, Greece, Iceland, Malta and Turkey

(The last surface posting dates for all other destinations has passed)

Airmail

Fri 4th Dec: South & Central America, Caribbean, Africa,

Middle East, Far East, Asia, New Zealand and Australia

Thu 10th Dec: Japan, USA, Canada and Eastern Europe

Fri 11th Dec: Western Europe

UK

Fri 18th Dec: Inland Second Class

Mon 21st Dec: Inland First Class

Whitstone Post Office






Whitstone Community Speed Watch

The Whitstone Community Speed watch volunteers conducted two traffic speed monitoring sessions on 14th October as part of the

‘Day of Action’ organised by PC Gary Luxton, the Bude Rural Beat

Manager. You may have seen the recent articles in the Cornish Guardian and the item on the BBC Cornwall News website.

The plan was to get as many teams of volunteers as possible in-

volved on the same day, and the teams from Widemouth Bay,

Kilkhampton, Wainhouse Corner and Whitstone were all out moni-toring the speed of traffic in their areas. On the day we had the

benefit of the attendance of PCSO Lester Marland our local Police

Community Support Officer. The teams monitored a total of 117 vehicles breaking the speed limit by at least 5mph during the total

of 3 hours. The highest speed recorded by any team on the day

was 45mph by a vehicle in Whitstone.

Speed Watch involves members of the local community, and aims to engage and educate drivers rather than give fines and court ap-

pearances to offenders. First time offenders receive a letter giving

education and warnings about the dangers of speeding. Re-offenders get a second warning letter hand-delivered by a

neighbourhood beat officer and a driver improvement course is

offered. If this is not effective, offenders may be given fixed pen-alty notices or summoned to court.

Every year the police organise a number of public meetings under the Partners And Community Together (PACT) initiative. At these

meetings the communities are asked to identify the problems that

they regard as high priority. Speeding vehicles always comes out high on the list and this is why PC Gary Watts (Bude) has champi-

oned the Community Speed Watch Programme which is now being adopted throughout the Devon & Cornwall area. Whitstone was in

at the start of the process having been part of the pilot scheme

which started in January last year.


Some previously unpublished pictures of the carnival to remind

you of the summer!

Whitstone Carnival

2009


Photo’s courtesy of

Dawn Bewes



T h e W h i t s t o n e

Beyond the School Gate

In their Literacy lessons, pupils

in Class 3 have been looking at persuasive writing. The focus of

their writing has been the ad-vantages of buying food that is

produced locally. Dan Cock

kindly agreed to be interviewed by the children about his aim of

stocking as many locally pro-

duced foods as he can in his shop. Dan said that he is always

seeking opportunities to increase

the number of items that can be sourced locally; it’s good for the

environment, it’s good for local businesses and it means

that customers know

where the food they are buying comes from.

Some of the goods on sale in the shop are obtained

from producers operating

in the parish (pork, ham, sausages and bacon from

the Cornish Farmhouse Ba-

con Company and eggs from Pennymill Farm) and

from neighbouring villages (breads and cakes from Hillcrest

Bakery in Week St. Mary, jams

and preserves from Judies Kitchen in Camelford, smoked

fish and meats from Tregida Smokehouse in Warbstow and

meringues and puddings from

Sargies Cornish Kitchen in Kilk-hampton). Sourcing and buying

of food locally not only contrib-utes to reducing our carbon

footprints, it also plays a vital

part in supporting and maintain-ing the viability of local commu-

nities. Recently, pupils had the

opportunity to visit two busi-nesses that supply the village

shop - Bradleys Dairy at Shelton

Farm near Delabole and Sargies Cornish Kitchen in

Kilkhampton.

We were warmly welcomed to

Shelton Farm by Mr and Mrs

Bradley and shown how the milk gets from the cow to the carton.

Bradleys Dairy


First, we were shown some of the nearly 400 cows that are

milked twice a day. Next, we

saw the parlour where the cows are milked. Then we followed

the milk from the bulk tank to the plant where the milk is pas-

teurized, put into cartons, la-

belled and loaded on to lorries for dispatch to outlets across the

region. From the bottling plant,

we were taken to the pens where the calves are housed.

About twenty minutes before we

arrived, a calf had been born and we were lucky enough to be

able to watch the cow suckling its calf for the first time. We left

Shelton Farm fully aware of the

process that puts cartons of milk on our breakfast tables.

From the Bradleys dairy, we

travelled to Sargies Cornish Kitchen.

Sargies is a small, family-run

business that produces hot pud-dings and desserts. Sargies

owner, Dave Sargent, also bakes

bread and provides catering for different functions and occa-

sions. During the visit, Dave made some bread while explain-

ing that he tries to source his

ingredients as locally as he can and that they are free from pre-

servatives and artificial addi-tives. Dave’s good reputation

relies on his products being of a

consistently high quality; and if his sticky chocolate pudding is

anything to go by, Dave can cer-

tainly make a delicious pudding. In class, pupils wrote articles

about the advantages of produc-

ing and buying food locally. These articles became part of

the Cornwall Council stand at the Saving the Planet exhibition

- organized by the churches in

Bude that belong to the Chris-tians Together in Bude and

Stratton and Transition Bude -

held at Bude Methodist Church and Hall. There were many local

and national organizations ex-

hibiting at the event as well as some organizations whose work

extends to countries abroad.

In addition to the children’s arti-cles, members of the schools

Adventure Ecology after-school club produced an interactive dis-

play - Join the Wave and Save

the Planet- which offered practi-cal suggestions about how we

could reduce the amount of wa-

ter we use, often wastefully, and was also part of the Cornwall

Council stand.

The members of the Adventure Ecology Club have also been

working closely with Dan to pro-

At Sargies

I like the hats...I think they should be

school uniform! Ed.


duce a design which will include the clubs logo - that will appear

on a long-life carrier bag. Look

out for more about this project in the next issue of the Whistler

Shelter Box Appeal

As you may have read in a pre-vious edition of the Whistler, we

are aiming to raise enough

money to allow the Shelter Box Trust, a Cornish charity that

sends emergency aid to people

that have been made suddenly homeless, to provide a shelter

box. A shelter box costs £490. This is a lot of money, but we

have committed ourselves to

try and raise this amount. Our first shelter box fund-raising

event was a night under can-

vas.

On the last Friday morning of

September, with the help of some parents, we put up tents

amongst the trees in the area

behind Class 1 in preparation for the evening. Campers

started to arrive at six o’clock. We were soon engaged in a

search of the playground for the

answers to a treasure hunt quiz. Following the treasure

hunt, as the daylight

quickly diminished, it was time to get ready for bed.

Before turning in, we had a

supper of hot chocolate and cakes, which had been kindly

supplied by parents. Finally,

there was a thorough cleaning of teeth and then heads down.

Mr Woolner, Mrs Dyer, Miss

Windsor and Mr Lawrence kept vigil until we had persuaded

them that tent flaps had been zipped up for the last time and

we had gone to sleep.

Emerging not long after the dawn had arrived, we

were ready for our breakfast of

eggs and bacon. We would like to thank Mrs Fowler for the

eggs and Mr Cock for the ba-

con. For this, our first, fund-raising event, we collected over

£60, and with other donations

our total at this point was nearly £80. It was a great start

to our appeal. (Until the end of term, pupils in

Year 6 are organizing a coppers

collection. So, if you have any pennies and tuppences weigh-

ing down purses or wearing

holes in pockets, they would be gratefully received to help us

achieve our goal. So far, we

have unburdened you of just over 7kg of coins.)

Night camp


Harvest Celebration

Staff and pupils were delighted

to see such a good turnout at our harvest assembly. We were

especially pleased to see in the audience many of the friends

we have made over the past

few weeks at the coffee morn-ings held in the Methodist Sun-

day School room every other

Tuesday. There was a varied collection of

produce on display, including

some crumbles that pupils in Classes 2 and 3 had baked.

(We would like to thank every-one who donated ingredients.)

Pupils in the Foundation Stage

and Key Stage 1 charmed the audience by performing an old

favourite of harvest assemblies

Cauliflowers Fluffy. Pupils in Class 2 offered an amusing ren-

dering of another traditional

song, Old MacDonald in Cor-nish. Years 5 and 6 performed

a play - inspired by the Jewish

festival of Sukkot which was about the many people in the

world who suffer from poverty, hunger and homelessness. Our

scenario highlighted the plight

of a refugee family. In the midst of relative plenty,

we were reminded that there

are others in the world that are not as fortunate as us. The as-

sembly ended with a rousing

rendering of Harvest Song.

After a short interval, the pro-duce was sold and raised an

amount of over £123, which

was added to our shelter box appeal fund. At the end of the

half-term, the fund stands at £223.

The Epicures of Class 1

It’s well-known that pupils in

Class 1 enjoy their food and drink.

Already this half-term as part of

their food topic, they have been making and, of course, sam-

pling - fruit juices, vegetable

kebabs and pumpkin soup. Pity their poor, exhausted taste

buds!

Kebab?

Harvest Assembly


New Houses at Whitstone

I met with the housing officer,

Philippa Mayland, to discuss and agree a lettings plan for the

new houses at St Anne’s Whit-

stone. As District Councillor I had set the occupation restric-

tions within the planning

(section 106). It was easier to have tight local allocations on

the houses if all the homes

were built through the s106 lo-cal needs, rather than have

some inside and some unre-stricted. As we have a real

need for local affordable homes then this was the route I pro-

gressed.

It was therefore very straight-

forward to agree a lettings plan, which helped our local commu-

nity, because the restrictions

were put in place on all the homes at the time of planning.

The agreement therefore goes

as follows:- Firstly the only people eligible

for these homes must have a tie with Whitstone or the sur-

rounding (touching) parishes.

Those from Whitstone with an equivalent Silver or Gold hous-

ing need will be considered

first. Then those from the sur-rounding parishes with a Silver

or Gold banding will be consid-

ered next. Then those with a Bronze from Whitstone followed

by those from the surrounding parishes with a Bronze housing

banding.

I have also asked for (and

amazingly it has been allowed)

to have an under occupation of 2 persons. This means a couple

will be allowed to live in a two

bedroom property depending on need and availability. I con-

sider that only allowing full oc-

cupation stops young families from ever getting one of these

homes and did not offer a sus-tainable future for our commu-

nity.

Contd…...

Cornwall Councillor Report

By Phil Tucker

“Firstly the only people

eligible for these

homes must have a tie with Whitstone or the

surrounding (touching)

parishes.”


Register Now

These homes will be ready for

occupation sometime in Febru-ary. If you would like to be con-

sidered for one of these you must be registered with Corn-

wall Homechoice. If you are

not registered or are registered with Homefinder only then you

will NOT be eligible. Please reg-

ister now. If you have any problems completing or regis-

tering then please call me or

the council. It is vital that you act now if you would like to be

considered for one of these new

homes. To register call 0300

1234 100 for a form. On any issue, if the usual ave-

nues are not working for you,

please contact me. Cllr Phil Tucker 01288 341617

([email protected])

“It is vital that you act

now if you would like to

be considered for one of these new homes. “

Breakfast at Brooks

By Pat Nasmyth

'Twas a Thursday morning, one hundred

hungry people queued, in relays, outside the Restaurant at Brooks Nursery & Gar-

den Centre.

Group by group we were seated and very soon served a delicious,

substantial meal. It was accompanied by much hilarity, sausages

were swapped for bacon, toast passed to the extra hungry, eggs consumed before requests had a chance to arise. Tea and coffee

completed the meal, so ended a very pleasant outing.

The event was organised by Mr Alan Mill, on 1st October, to raise

funds for The League of Friends at Stratton Hospital. The "feast"

was kindly donated by the Brooks family and draw prizes were do-nated by the Trustees of The League of Friends. A total of £705

was raised. What an innovative way to raise funds. Well Done Alan & the Brooks family.

P.S. I won a bottle of Gin!


Brief EncountersBrief EncountersBrief EncountersBrief Encounters By Ean Lawrence

A smoky, autumnal mist veiled the Usk valley. Stillness conspired

with the mist to dupe gullible senses. What sounds were audible

seemed distant, baffled by the mist. The mist dispersed, imper-ceptibly absorbed into the suns layer of warmth. The only evi-

dence of its previous presence was the quicksilver beads scattered over the cropped grass.

Its over twenty-five years ago that I last visited the Roman amphi-theatre at Caerleon. Caerleon, where the Second Augustan Legion

in Britain had its permanent base, was once in Monmouthshire but

now - having been re-located without moving an inch - is in Gwent. As well as the amphitheatre, there are also impressive re-

mains of the fortress baths, barracks and walls.

The legionaries posted to the camp on the northern side of the Usk

would have sought diversion from their duties and the damp cli-mate in the entertainments on offer in the amphitheatre. Once, a

riot of colours would have assaulted their eyes. Now the dominant

colour is green: except for the odd relic of well-preserved masonry here and there, every surface is covered with a layer of soft, green

turf; where once the spectators would have sat and cheered, gi-

ant, plump cushions now surround the bowling-green smoothness of the oval arena that would have been the focus of attention

nearly two millennia ago. Apart from the early shift of rabbits per-

forming their part in the endless task of keeping the grass at the regulation length, I was alone; but within a short time of my arri-

val my solitary reveries were broken by the arrival of others.

The first to arrive was a young couple a man and a woman who,

by their accents, were Dutch. They were dressed in matching white T-shirts and black shorts; the sort of shorts that serious cy-

clists wear (there is a presumption that all Netherlanders must be

serious cyclists). These tandem-riding Hollanders seemed bewil-dered, as if they had found themselves at the amphitheatre unin-

tentionally, that they had found themselves by accident on some


ancient Roman cycleway.

The young woman sat on the edge of the pit. She cast a dull eye

over the monument. Then she lay back and took solace in the rays of a sun that still had memories of summer in them. Her

companion seemed annoyed by her lack of interest. He spoke a few words to her. The words were unintelligible to me, both be-

cause of the language in which they were uttered and the distance

that separated us. The tone in which they were delivered, how-ever, was unmistakable, conveying disappointment and irritation

on his part. He received no word of response from her, not even a

gesture of acknowledgement. He ambled around the circumfer-ence of the amphitheatre, occasionally shooting in her direction

scowls as black as his shorts. She continued in her role of Sleep-

ing Beauty, seemingly unmindful of her partner’s mood, and un-heeding of the plan he may have been hatching to bring her back

under his supposed subjugation. When he reached her after com-pleting his circuit of the amphitheatre, he tried to awaken his

Sleeping Beauty with a kiss. Unlike in the fairy tale, this produced

no response. He rummaged in his rucksack. He slowly withdrew from it what looked like a banana skin. He proceeded to use what

was indeed a banana skin in the manner of a scourge, lashing, al-

beit gently - and with a revealing caution - his companions stom-ach. She seemed to suffer no pain, slowly raising herself into a

sitting position. She was resigned to not being allowed to bask in

the sun unmolested by a banana-skin-wielding maniac. With an expression of bemusement on her face, she led the way out of the

site. Her partner, a consort’s couple of paces behind his fairy

queen, sheepishly returned the banana-skin flagum to his ruck-sack.

Within a few minutes of the Dutch couple’s departure, another per-

son entered the site: a tall, elegant woman in - to be as gallant as

possible while maintaining an acquaintance with the truth - the fading bloom of late middle age. Her accent revealed her to be

Italian. My lack of familiarity with the regional accents of Italy

prevents me from saying whether or not she hailed from the Eter-nal City, but it was amusing to think of her as a modern Roman on

some sort of misguided ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ quest for an-

cient ancestors. She was equipped with two cameras, which hung ostentatiously from her neck like shrunken Cyclopean heads. She

was further burdened by an aluminium box. She later revealed this


box to contain lenses of various sizes. After an exploratory tour of the amphitheatre, she stood on the edge of the pit.

She shaded her eyes from the sun by placing one of her hands, like the peak of a cap, across her brow. Her other hand toyed with the

loose end of the belt that encircled her waist. She leant forward with a pensive expression: perhaps she was imagining a gruesome

gladiatorial contest being fought out down in the arena, and was

eagerly awaiting the opportunity to exercise a thumb as an indica-tion of imperial clemency or condemnation. Deciding that the vic-

tim would live to fight another day, she raised one of the cameras

suspended from her neck and looked through the viewfinder. She deliberated over each shot with an artistic pretension. Eventually,

after taking two or three snaps, and making an equal number of

abortive attempts to expose frames of the strip of celluloid, she lost interest and left the site without a backward glance.

And so I was again left in sole possession of the amphitheatre; sole

human possession of the stage that is: for at this point a succeed-

ing shift of rabbits clocked on and started to nibble and nibble and nibble, indifferent to me and to history.

Friday is film night in Bude

Films are shown at the Parkhouse Centre Ergue-Gaberic Way, Bude EX23 8LD

Doors open 7.00 pm — Screening starts 7.30 pm

(unless otherwise stated)

Admission: £4.00 - Tickets are available from Bude TIC, Ark Angel Bookshop Bude, on the door, Or buy on line via the Cornish

Riviera Box Office at www.crbo.co.uk (NB. NO Booking Fee!)

Friday 13th Nov, Gran Torino (15)

Friday 18thDec, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (PG)

The Bude Community Cinema (BCC) are celebrating their first

birthday and holding their AGM on Thursday 19th November (a

members-only event) when they will be presenting the film Star Trek. There is a special offer available where membership will cost

only £4 (the normal entrance fee) instead of £10.


Soon after moving to Whitstone I met Pat Nasmyth, little did I

know that I would be stretching and rolling around the Assembly Hall at the Primary School on Wednesday evenings. Now, just over

a year later I am still enjoying our Yogacise sessions and feeling

better for it. We meet weekly during term time and have an extra session during the long summer break.

Pat trained as a Keep Fit Teacher in Hampshire during the 1960’s and as a Yoga Instructor in Birmingham in the 1980’s, together

called Yogacise.

Yogacise basically is a series of gentle stretch exercises. It is the

one form of exercise that is kind to your muscles and does not leave you gasping for breath. Each exercise massages and tones a

specific area of the body and it helps you to relax. Yogacise is a

discipline that will bring well being and fitness to everyone, whether you are aged 18 or 80.

It is a great way to meet other like minded friends and tone at the

same time. There is always room for more, so why not come and join us.

Yogacise By Irene Sutton


Bude Folk Club By Lucy Burrow

Well, It’s been a long summer of festivals, steam engines, hospitals

and birthday celebrations for us this year, hope you have all had a wonderful summer and managed to find some sunshine amongst

those nasty rain clouds that seem to plague us in this country from

June to September! The winter months could see us busy with music too… there’s lots

to do and lots in the pipeline……..just watch this space!

Firstly, Mixed Doubles…… this is a fun thing that we think may be of benefit to us all, a lesson in working with somebody completely

new…..possibly, and maybe having a go at something completely different! All names have gone into the hat and picked out in pairs.

The pairs will then have until the Christmas Party on December

20th to prepare something for our entertainment at the party…..it can be sensible, silly, whatever, that is up to you. I for one am

really looking forward to it!

Forthcoming Folk Club dates:

Sun 1st Nov—Folk Club—Falcon Hotel, Bude 8pm Sun 15th Nov—Folk Club—Falcon Hotel, Bude 8pm

SPECIAL GUEST NIGHT JACKIE OATES

Admission £5 (£4 members)

Sun 29th Nov—Folk Club—Falcon Hotel, Bude 8pm Sun 13th Dec—Folk Club—Falcon Hotel, Bude 8pm

Sun 20th Dec—Folk Club—Falcon Hotel, Bude 8pm

FOLK CLUB CHRISTMAS PARTY MIXED DOUBLES ENTERTAINMENT

Sun 3rd Jan 2010 - Wassail evening, Falcon Hotel, Bude 8 pm

MUMMERS, MUSIC AND DANCING. Friday 22nd Jan— Festival Fund Raiser Evening

Falcon Hotel, Bude 8 pm Sun 31st Jan—Folk Club— Falcon Hotel, Bude 8pm

Sun 14th Feb—Folk Club— —Falcon Hotel, Bude 8pm

SONGS OF LOVE AND PASSION Sun 28th Feb—Folk Club—Falcon Hotel, Bude 8pm

Sun 14th Mar—Folk Club—Falcon Hotel, Bude 8pm

Sun 28th Mar—Folk Club—Falcon Hotel, Bude 8pm Sun 11th Apr—Folk Club—Falcon Hotel, Bude 8pm Sun 18th Apr—Folk Club—Falcon Hotel, Bude 8pm


Brian’s Bull Takes The Biscuit!

These are a couple of the un-published pictures of Brian Martyn

and his bull which he entered in a competition organised by Pen-

bode Vets, Holsworthy recently. You can see that he loves his bis-cuits……..I mean the bull of course!

Is it a Custard Cream? Or maybe a Chocolate Bourbon? What do you think? Ed.

AND FINALLY…..


Useful Telephone Numbers

Cornwall Enquiries 0300 1234 100 Council

Dentists Emergency 0870 242 1242 Oasis, Bude 01288 355 355

Endsleigh, Holsworthy 01409 259330

Morwenna, Bude 01288 352340 DK Lawrence, Stratton 01288 356579

Surgeries NHS Direct 0845 4647

Holsworthy Doctors 01409 253692

Stratton Medical Centre 01288 352133

Hospitals Barnstaple 01271 322577

Plymouth 0845 155 8155 Stratton 01288 287 700

Truro 01872 250000

Libraries Bude 0300 1234 111

Holsworthy 01409 253514 Mobile 0300 1234 111

Police Bude 01288 357502 Dev & Corn, Exeter 08452 777444

Utilities Electricity 0800 365 900 Emergency Gas 0800 111 999

Water 0800 169 1144


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