Whistler Oct 11 - Whitstone Village · 2nd Mr Keith Slade 3rd Mrs Lin French ... Sunday School room and Heidi Jarrett for the face painting, and of course all who helped with the

Whitstone Whistler October2011 Page 1

Whistler� e Whitstone

� e community magazine of Whitstone Free to each household

Issue 42- October 2011

Produce Show

Results and Photo’s

Whitstone Whistler October 2011Page 2

The Whitstone WhistlerThe community magazine for Whitstone

The Whistler CommitteeChairman: Brian Martyn 01288 341376Secretary: Maggie Stanbury 01288 341332Treasurer/Advertising: Richard Horn 01288 341482Editor: Mike Sutton 01288 341687Publishing: Phil Tucker 01288 341617Delivery Co-ordinator: Pat Nasmyth 01288 341469Committee member: Daniel Cock 01288 341114

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Inside This Issue

Community News...................3

Councillor’s Report...............17

Nature Notes.......................18

Diary................................20

Mrs Trewhitless....................23

Whippersnappers..............27

Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness..29

‘A giant with the grace of Apollo and the strength of Hercules’....31

And fi nally. . . ..................36

Useful Numbers...................39

The cover picture this month is of some of the fl ower entries at the Produce Show. Full results on p4.

Community News

I have had several requests to pass on a big thank you to Pearl & her team for organising the Produce Show, which I am very happy to do and I’m sure I speak for everybody. Thanks to all involved for your efforts to ensure the continuation of the event for another year.

Also many thanks to Dan for giving us another tricky Treasure Hunt.I didn’t see any scarecrow!

Ed.

Whitstone Produce Show


Flowers & plants, judged by Mrs Christine Axford.

A fl ower exhibit in a jug1st Mrs Ann Uglow2nd Mrs Pearl Hopper3rd Mrs Helen Chubb

A fl ower exhibit to depict ‘Harvest Time’1st Mrs Pearl Hopper2nd Mrs Ann Uglow3rd Mrs Helen Chubb

A wild fl ower arrangement1st Mrs Heather Beesley2nd Mrs Pearl Hopper3rd Mrs Fran Slade

A fl owering plant1st Mrs Fran Slade2nd Mrs Kyla Cock3rd Mrs Carolyn Martin

A foliage plant1st Mrs Fran Slade2nd Mrs pearl Hopper

A single rose1st & 2nd Mrs Fran Slade3rd Mrs Heather Beesley

3 Dahlias1st Mrs Della Dowdle

3 Pansies1st & 2nd Mrs Fran Slade

A fl owering tub1st & 2nd Mrs Fran Slade

Cookery, judged by Mrs Joyce Orchard.

A spiced apple cake 1st Mrs Carolyn Medland2nd Mrs Ann Uglow3rd Mrs Pearl Hopper

3 saffron buns1st Mrs Ann Uglow2nd & 3rd Mrs Christine Nancekivell

A quiche1st Mrs Charlotte Hopper2nd Mrs Kyla Cock3rd Mrs Pearl Hopper

A jam fi lled sponge1st Mrs Charlotte Hopper2nd Mrs Carolyn Martin3rd Daniel Woodward

A loaf of wholemeal bread1st Mrs Fran Slade

3 meat patties1st Mrs Charlotte Hopper2nd Daniel Woodward3rd Mrs Ann Uglow

A pot of home made jam1st Mrs Della Dowdle2nd & 3rdMrs Laura Moorman

A pot of marmalade1st Daniel Woodward2nd Mrs Linda Cole

A pot of homemade chutney1st Mrs Ann Uglow2nd Mrs Linda Cole3rd Mrs Kyla Cock

Results


A bottle of homemade wine1st & 2nd Mrs Liz Uglow

Handicraft & Photo’s, judged by Mrs Ingrid Bray.

Tapestry or cross stitch1st Mrs Pat Nasmyth2nd & 3rd Mrs Tina Heale

A hand knitted article1st Mrs Pat Nasmyth2nd & 3rd Mrs Fran Slade

Handmade card1st Mrs Pat Nasmyth2nd & 3rd Mrs Fran Slade

Photo entitled ‘Harvest’1st Daniel Woodward2nd Mrs Liz Uglow3rd Mrs Carolyn Martin

Photo entitled ‘The good, the bad & the ugly’1st Mr Simon Beesley2nd Mr Keith Slade3rd Mrs Lin French

A wedding photo1st Mrs Kyla Cock2nd Mr Simon Beesley3rd Mrs Kyla Cock

Eggs, fruit & vegetables, judged by Mr Courtney Drew.

3 Hens eggs 1st Mrs Carolyn Martin2nd & 3rd Daniel Woodward

3 Potatoes1st Mrs Della Dowdle2nd Mr Nick Furse3rd Mrs Della Dowdle

3 Carrots1st Mr Nick Furse2nd Mrs Angela Orchard3rd Mr Nick Furse

3 Onions1st Mr Nick Furse2nd Daniel Woodward3rd Mr Nick Furse

1 Cabbage1st & 2nd Mrs Laura Moorman

4 Runner Beans1st Daniel Woodward2nd & 3rd Mrs Laura Moorman

3 Beetroot1st Mr Nick Furse2nd Mrs Laura Moorman3rd Daniel Woodward

3 Cooking Apples1st Mrs Angela Orchard2nd Mrs Heather Beesley3rd Mrs Pearl Hopper

A cluster of blackberries1st Mrs Pearl Hopper2nd Abbie French3rd Emily Medland 4 Tomatoes1st & 2nd Mrs Laura Moorman

3 Pears1st Mrs Pearl Hopper


A basket of home grown vegetables1st Mrs Angela Orchard2nd Mr Gary Pearce & Mrs Karen Armstrong

An unusual gadget1st & 2nd Mt Tom Collins3rd Mrs Pat Nasmyth

Children’s classes, judged by Mrs Ingrid Bray.

A decorated wooden spoon1st & 2nd Zac Cock

An Autumn collage1st Alex Ceasar-Giles

A drawing of a prehistoric animal1st Kian Cock

A vegetable animal1st Eliana Heale

An Autumn poem1st Abbie French

Ladies Cup – Most points- Won by Mrs Fran Slade

Men’s Cup – Most points – Won by Daniel Woodward

W I Rose Bowl – Most points in the handicraft – Won by Mrs Pat Nasmyth


A selection of theprize-winning entries

Many more photo’s on the Village Website at:

www.whitstonevillage.com/carnival.htm


‘Found Missing’ the new album from Black Galleon

North Cornwall’s Celtic Folk Rock band, Black Galleon are about to release their second album, ‘Found Missing’ on the 15th October 2011. The band who previously released ‘Driftwood is Broken’ in 2009 have been recording the new album locally in Whitstone.

‘Found Missing’ is a collection of traditional songs and new songs written and arranged by the band. Once again they have used their song writing skills to produce songs about the environment in which they live. One of the fi rst songs the band had written for the album was a song called ‘Pool of Dreams’. A few months later, by coincidence, the Bude Sea Pool funding crisis raised its head again and the song was taken as the campaign song.In addition, ‘Found Missing’ has been a collaboration of guest artists putting their particular skill

onto the recordings. Guests include, Lucy-Jane, violin, Amy Sharpe on fi ddle and Hurdy-gurdy and Lady K with additional vocals. “It has been an exciting time recording with different guests and very interesting to see how different people work in the studio”, said Iain Armstrong, Black Galleon’s rhythm guitarist and singer.

Once again the band has produced the album with virtually no outside assistance. Using the latest recording and production technology, and Iain’s previous experience in the music industry working for Apple Corps Ltd, the band has produced the album to a high professional standard.

Black Galleon have teamed up with The Friends of Bude Sea Pool (FOBSP) and are staging a concert to aid funds for the sea pool and to launch the new album. The concert is to take place in the Marquee at Adventure International, Belle-Vue, Bude on Saturday 15th October.

Black Galleon, Yann Fanet & Iain Armstrong


Black Galleon will be supported by Jenny Bishop, an accomplished singer/songwriter from West Cornwall. Jenny has supported artists such as Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention), Ralph McTell, Midge Ure (Ultravox, Band Aid), Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze) and the Los Pacaminos. More details about Jenny can be found at www.JennyBishopMusic.com

The Concert for the sea pool takes place on Saturday 15th October at Adventure International. Tickets are available from Seventh Wave Gallery, Belle Vue, Bude or from the band at www.BlackGalleonMusic.co.uk priced at £5 or £3 for FOBSP members. The album will also be available on the evening with a percentage of the profi t going to the sea pool fund. ‘Found Missing’ is priced at £8 and is also available from the bands website – www.BlackGalleonMusic.co.uk or as a download album from http://blackgalleonmusic.bandcamp.com/ from the 15th October 2011.

Afternoon Tea Event

We would like to thank all of our customers and friends who attended our recent afternoon tea event at Whitstone Stores.

We are delighted to have raised £160.00

This money will be divided between Whitstone carnival funds and the “cots for tots” appeal.

And the winners of the Prize draw were:

Hilary LittlewoodCindy OrchardReef HarrisonGeoff Davey

The winner of the premier points draw was Wendy Furze.

Our thanks again for all of your kind support and generous donations.We would also like to thank Whitstone Methodist Chapel for the use of the Sunday School room and Heidi Jarrett for the face painting, and of course all who helped with the food and the days activities. Dan & Kyla


Cllr Andrew Adamson ChairmanCllr John Barrett Vice ChairmanCllr Mervyn CollinsCllr Carolyn MedlandCllr John MillCllr Nick Furse 01288 341111Cllr Richard Horn 01288 341482 Lucy Woods Clerk

As reported previously the Parish Council do not meet in August, but it was back to business as usual in September and we were pleased to see a number of parishioners attend our meeting. During the open forum we were given an introduction to ideas being discussed in relation to community projects for Whitstone’s younger residents. Also of note was a discussion to identify any benefi ts in processing more of our business and correspondence electronically. Whilst it was decided that the necessary investment in technology and equipment would not provide a tangible benefi t to running a council serving a parish the size of Whitstone, we are pleased that the village website is now hosting a virtual version of the Parish Notice Board.

The next Parish Council meeting, will be held at 8.15pm on Wednesday 12th October 2011 at St Anne’s Parish Hall, Whitstone. The agenda will be displayed ahead of the meeting on the Parish notice board, opposite the shop. If you would like to contact the Parish Council please use the drop-box in the village stores, this box is checked regularly before the agenda is prepared for Parish Council meetings.

L Woods, Parish Clerk

Whitstone Parish Council

Tish Lakes Abseil Adventure

Tish informs us that her abseil for charity which was featured in last month’s ‘Whistler’ has raised more than £900 so far and still has a week to run. Proceeds are in aid of Cornwall Air Ambulance and Exercise for Mobility. You still have time to make a donation if you wish. Contact Tish Lake on 01288 341017.


Whitstone Residents Association

Meeting 20th September 2011

First let me thank everybody who attended our meeting on Tuesday, and it was great to see in particular some of the youth of Whitstone and I would like to thank them for their support in the project ‘Injustice’. Before I go on to tell everybody about the meeting, I would like to thank Mr Bracey for giving us the opportunity of using his land for the youth, it is extremely generous of him and I hope that we are able to do him ‘Justice’ and we can make him proud of the fact that he loaned us the land for the time being. T h e main concern for some of you was the land and what w o u l d happen if Mr Bracey sold the land and that it is a prime building plot and as such, is worth a lot of money. I tried to explain that the point of this meeting was to ascertain what all the village wanted, and whether they saw a need for a place for the youth to be able to kick a ball, hang out, and for a general place that they could ‘chill out’ without the need to make a nuisance of themselves by hanging around the village with nothing to do. It was suggested that a questionnaire be set up with questions that would bring out from villagers their concerns. Whether they saw a need for such a venue? Whether they would give their help and support for it? To name just a few of the questions that have already been suggested to me. At the moment I am in the process of compiling the questionnaire, so if anybody would like to suggest any questions that they would like to see in it I will be most grateful for your input. Please either phone me on 01288 341097 or email me on [email protected]. Cllr Tucker very kindly offered to print it for free, which is extremely generous of him and which we are only too happy to accept. Richard Horn also generously offered to deliver it with the Whistler, and I for one am overjoyed at the support that this project is already achieving.

I go back to the issue of the land. It is our intention to ask Mr Bracey if he would consider selling the land to the village and that the WRA together with the village, try and raise funding to buy it at a true marketable price, as I do not know what that may be, the fi rst thing is to get the land valued with Mr Bracey’s consent. I do not see this as ‘a walk in the park’ but I do see that it something that is worthwhile fi ghting for. As the youth pointed out, there is nothing for them or any young person of their age in the village. Richard Horn mentioned that the school had offered the facility of their fi eld if it was run by a regulated Youth Club but I have since heard from Maggie Stanbury that unfortunately, when the head of the school asked the relevant bodies if they could do this, they were turned down. So


this is no longer an option, which now makes it even more important that we try to achieve somewhere for the youth to go.

One important question was asked by Lisa Parker and that was ‘who was going to be in charge of this project’ and my reply to that was most defi nitely, ‘the village’. This project is for all of us to get together to give to the ‘children’ of Whitstone somewhere for them to ‘play’ and that it is important that the whole village is involved in its embodiment and construction.

Patti BennettActing SecretaryWhitstone Residents Association

Bude Rural Neighbourhood Beat

Bude Police would like to make the community aware that there is a current scam letter being posted to resident’s home addresses in the Bude area. The letter is from a male called Mr Huo Pong, Business Relations Manager for Hung Kai Finance Company Limited in Hong Kong. The letter is alleging that a family member has passed away leaving $10.5 US Dollars for claiming. Please do not attempt to make any contact with Mr Huo Pong on the details provided in the letter and appropriately dispose of the letter. If you have any concerns about this or a similar scam please call into Bude Police Station or contact Bude Neighbourhood Team on 01288 357502.

Whitstone CP School PTFA Recycled Fashion Show

Friday 14th October 2011 6:00pmat St Anne’s Parish Hall

The children will be modelling their own outfi ts created from recycled materials. Please come along and join us.

Refreshments available

£1 on the door Children free of charge


Methodist Chapel

Methodist Chapel ServicesServices at 11.00am unless stated otherwise.

Sunday Oct 2nd Barry BryneSunday Oct 9th Harvest festival David Cole & 6.30pm David ColeMonday Oct 10th 7.30pm Service followed by Harvest SupperSunday Oct 16th Pete Shepherd (sacrament)Sunday Oct 23rd Courtney DrewSunday Oct 30th Circuit Service (Venue not yet confi rmed)Sunday Nov 6th Cedric Parish

We celebrate our Harvest Festival on Sunday Oct 9th. Services at 11.00am and 6.30pm led by David Cole.

Monday 10th Oct Service at 7.30pm followed by our Harvest Supper. Members please remember to bring your own plate, bowl, mug knife fork and spoon please as this saves a lot of washing up afterwards!! Please feel welcome to join us.

Sept 25th was recognised as Come (back) to Church Week we could not extend an invitation to everyone on that date as we joined with North Tamerton for their Harvest Celebrations but maybe if you used to go to a place of worship or you have never been to a place of worship then Harvest would be a good time to think about it because until you do we cannot truly sing ‘All is safely gathered in!’A warm welcome awaits you.

Smile Club is Back!

1st and 3rd Wednesday in the monthWhitstone Sunday School rooms

6.00 - 7.30pm

All 5 years upwards welcome. There are lots of different events planned for this term so we look forward to seeing you all on the 5th and 19th October, for some fun and games!!

If any one has a hobby or an item to share with the children of interest please give Pam a ring on 341 279.


Whitstone Pastoral Care Team“LOVE AND CARE IN THE COMMUNITY”

If you are lonely, or just need a listening ear or help in any way, or you know of someone who may benefi t from a visit, Just call John on 341 146 or Pam on 341 279.Be assured of our confi dentiality and discretion!

Whitstone Methodist Bible Study Group

CELL GROUP - Meets fortnightly at Godfrey and Linda Cole - “Highbre Crest”.7.30 - 9.30pm Tuesday 11th and 25th October.Anyone welcome to join us to share and study with friendly like minded folks.Contact: Linda 01288 341002.

Members of Whitstone Cell Group were joined by family and friends for an evening walk around the beautiful gardens at Wick Farm Cookbury. There was such a variety of garden layouts, from formal cottage style borders to lake side plants, open meadow land which was interspersed with cultivated beds attracting many butterfl ies and insects.

The conversations ranged from names of plants, to suitability of positioning plants to how much hard work it must take to keep these copious gardens so well maintained! We were blessed with a dry, if not hot evening which culminated in a bring and share supper in the dining room of the farmhouse. Upstairs has been converted into a gallery which was open for us to admire all the artists who have exhibited their talents there. A thoroughly enjoyable evening for everyone where we all marvelled at the beauty of nature surrounding us and how so many people use their talents


St. Anne’s Church

Services at St. Anne’s Church

Sun Oct 2nd 11:15am Harvest Festival Revd. Rob Dickenson

Sun Oct 9th 6:30pm Evening Service Revd. Harold Tucker

Sun Oct 23rd 11:15am Holy Communion Revd. Rob Dickenson

Sun Oct 30th 11:15am Morning Prayer Revd. Harold Tucker

Sun Nov 6th 11:15am Holy Communion Revd. Rob Dickenson

and exhibit them so that others may enjoy them too. We are extend out gratitude to the owners as there was no charge to attend but we all made donations which they we going to donate to a charity of their choice. We thoroughly recommend Wick Farm as a place to visit, of course you won’t have as many laughs as we did, unless you invite us to come with you!!

Harvest Festival & Supper

Monday October 3rd 7:00pm

St Anne’s Parish Hall


Plants For Sale

11 St Anne’s Close, Whitstone

Winter pansy

Hosta

Aubrietia

Chrysanthemum

Geranium

Camellia

Climbing Rose

Call in or ring Trevor Tucker on 01288 341679

Proceeds in aid of

Cancer Research UK / Children’s Hospice South West

The Coffee Morning held last month was in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support and raised £45. Thank you to all who contributed.

Pat Nasmyth


Councillor’s Report By Cllr. Phil Tucker

One of the benefi ts of being a Councillor is the opportunity to visit, have a cup of tea and talk to retired residents about their careers, families and pre-retirement life. I don’t think it is really a requirement of being a councillor but for me it is a chance to also understand what problems are being encountered. People have lived such interesting lives, they have been through the highs and lows of life and have enjoyed moments of great joy and sorrow including a roadie for The Beatles, a person working for a London Borough Council during the war, a person who worked as a designer for the Bristol Aircraft Company and a chap who spent his whole life as a miner working in the most appalling conditions. Throughout these discussions though there were themes: that pensions were worth less each year and bought less; That fuel and electricity costs seem to be spiralling out of reach; That some parts of the home were getting more diffi cult to access; That less time was being spent in the company of others. Do any of these apply to you? My experience tells me that most will apply or rather that as we get older each apply more. There are people highly trained to address each of these issues. As the days reduce in length I want to take the opportunity to remind, especially the older readers, that it is important to keep warm this winter. There are many schemes which can help with fuel cost. There are specialists who can keep your home accessible; it could be as simple as a step outside the back door or a small ramp or indeed a stair lift or walk-in shower. At the council we have some superb people who will advise on all the issues experienced above. They are paid to do so and you have contributed to these schemes in your tax and now is the time for you to enjoy your retirement.Please give me a call.

I am here to help my electorate. If you have a problem then, if I can’t help, I bet I know someone who can. Please call me. 01288 341617 or email [email protected]


Nature NotesBy Fran Slade

We have a large white fl owering Buddleia bush in the garden, but this year the fl owers seemed to be out before the butterfl ies arrived, but at the end of the month when the fl owers were over, the butterfl ies came.

As I have said previously we have numerous birds in our garden on the various feeders, but one rather shocked us for we were working in the offi ce overlooking the garden when we heard a loud thump on the window, and when Keith looked outside he saw a very dazed Sparrow hawk on the ground stunned, but then it shook itself and fl ew away. It was obviously after the young Greenfi nches who were so intent on feeding they obviously did not realise that a predator was after them. During the next week or so the number of feeding birds dropped dramatically as the Sparrow hawk came on several occasions, but now once again it is almost back to normal with plenty of birds arriving to feed, and thankfully no Sparrow hawk.

August is a rather quiet month for bird song as most of the young have now fl edged, there is no need for the breeding birds to keep guard over a territory, and there is ample food for their young to feed on. At the end of the month the non-breeding birds will be leaving our country to fl y south to their winter quarters, this will include the adult Cuckoos who have left their young to be brought up by host families, the Cuckoo will lay it’s eggs in the nest of the same species of bird that it was itself fl edged in and the eggs will be identical to the host bird, but of course larger. The young Cuckoo will have to fi nd its own way south in the autumn. The Swifts will also leave our shores early for they are one of the last migrants to arrive, and one of the fi rst to leave again.

We often walk on the Bude Marshes and have seen a couple of Little Egrets together, but quite recently we were surprised to see four together on the river near the bridge adjacent to the rugby pitch, so that was very interesting.

We have noticed that many trees have a large number of brown crispy leaves, obviously a sign that there has not been enough rain for the trees to retain them, so it looks like there will be an early leaf fall this year.


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Mrs TrewhitlessNotes from the Whitsend Kitchen

Thighs matters!

On one hand it is somewhat demoralizing at times that my friends seem to be everything that I am not in the kitchen; confi dent, organized, effi cient, imaginative and all the rest. On the other hand, it is an added bonus to come away from an enjoyable visit to a dear friend, laden with ideas to improve my own cuisine and kitchen management. So it was after a wonderful few days in France this summer, visiting the jazz café where Shirley weekly caters for up to 80 diners and jazz enthusiasts – yes, you’ll remember my mentioning her to you about a year ago. She continues to do a wonderful job, not attempting to cook in a French way, but producing meals, which she would make back here in her home county of Cornwall, and which are proving to be very popular in her part of Normandy.

We were able to enjoy Chicken thighs with chestnut stuffi ngthis summer, which I decided I must try out. I attempted to buy the requisite chestnuts on the way home from the ferry, with no success, but managed to obtain them – guess where – from our very own village shop. Is there anything they don’t stock there! Here’s the recipe, for which I used those wonderfully tasty and good value chicken thighs we can also buy locally. Remember that Shirley cooked this one up for 80 people, so how easily you could do this one for the family, as I have done.

Chicken thighs with chestnut stuffi ng:Ingredients for 4 people4 boned chicken thighs (1 per person is quite suffi cient with its stuffi ng)


For the stuffi ng:½ oz butter1 small onion, fi nely chopped2 rashers streaky bacon (I used our local smoked bacon)Chestnuts, fi nely chopped – I used 2 packs of chestnuts bought locally – Shirley uses a tin of chestnuts, or for this amount, 4oz frozen chestnuts 1 to 2ozs of fresh brown breadcrumbs1 tbsp chopped fresh parsleySalt and black pepper1 egg yolk

Preheat the oven to 190°CTo make the stuffi ng:Melt the butter in the pan, then add the bacon and onion, cooking them until the bacon is crisp and the onion soft. Add the chestnuts and cook for a further 5 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat. Add the breadcrumbs, parsley and seasoning (to taste) and bind the mixture together with the egg yolk.

Roll up each chicken thigh around a quarter of the stuffi ng and place in a roasting tin. They should be ready to eat after 25minutes or so, the chicken cooked through and lightly browned.

Shirley served hers with fl uffy potatoes mashed together with celeriac (delicious), whilst I did roasted potatoes with garlic and rosemary, still making use of those garden herbs. I followed Shirley’s idea of adding a teaspoon of cranberry jelly to my chicken stock gravy, which worked well.

While jotting down the method for the above recipe, I took another from Shirley’s notebook, which looked good, though I haven’t yet tried it out – under the heading of Chicken thighs normande.

Ingredients for 4 people:8 chicken thighs (with the bone)3 leeks, trimmed and thinly sliced4 rashers of rindless lean back bacon, diced 2 cloves garlic, crushed12 fl ozs dry cider½ tsp chopped fresh thymesalt and black pepper4 fl ozs crème fraîche


Preheat the oven to 190°C. Put the leeks, bacon and garlic into a roasting tin. Pour in the cider and place the chicken thighs on top. Sprinkle with thyme and the seasoning. Roast in the oven for 20 to 25 minutes, until the chicken is tender and cooked through. Remove the chicken, bacon and vegetables from the pan and keep them warm. Spoon off any excess fat from the roasting tin and then boil up the remaining cooking juices on the hob, until they are reduced by roughly a half. Stir in the crème fraîche and heat gently. Pour some sauce on to each of the plates, arrange the bacon, vegetables and the chicken thighs on top and serve hot, with whatever you choose.It sounds good to me. Do let me know how it works out, if you try it out before I do.

I guess I’m not surprised that those barbecue ideas did not come fl ooding in from you folks, though I did cook outside on one (probably the only) really warm day and used an idea for kebabs from another brilliant cook-friend in France – Geneviève. She grilled pieces of duck, fresh apricots and small onions together on skewers: a surprisingly good combination. If we get another nice enough day, I think I shall try the same again, but substituting the duck pieces with cubes of chicken thigh meat.

In the meantime, dear readers, enjoy whatever sunshine comes your way, and happy cooking from Mrs Trewhitless!


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Dancing Flamingos and the Big Screen

Flamingo dancing? How odd, we thought, how intriguing. Over the years, a wide variety of animals have found their way into school– some of them with a sound educational purpose underpinning their presence – but never dancing fl amingos. We know that fl amingos are graceful birds and, with their long legs and sinuous necks, can appear quite balletic in their movements, but we hadn’t associated them with dancing, certainly not in a school context. Then someone remembered the classic 1940 Disney feature-length animated fi lm Fantasia in which there was a troop of dancing fl amingos trying to persuade one of its members who had a fondness for playing with a yo-yo to join in the ‘dull’ routines. Of course, they would be rather old now and possibly a little stiff in their joints, but perhaps they were – if you’ll forgive the expression - game old birds and were still treading the theatrical boards trading on their faded celebrity. As it turned out, we had misheard, and it wasn’t fl amingo dancing but fl amenco dancing. It should be pointed out that we wish in no way to disparage fl amenco dancing by a humorous comparison with dancing fl amingos. It was just one of those amusing confusions that happens sometimes and makes life a little less dreary than it might otherwise be.


Sound Waves South West Music and Music Therapy Trust has sponsored many performers to go into schools and widen children’s experience of different musical styles and cultures. In the past we have welcomed to the school Graffi ti Classics (a quartet of string players with musical tastes that range from classical to jazz), a Chinese duo that played traditional Chinese instruments and a clarinet ensemble. The most recent visitors were young performers from Spain that played and danced in the fl amenco style. There are many different styles in the fl amenco genre of music and dance, which has its origins in the Andalusia region of Spain, but there are four main facets common to this passionate and seductive art form: cante (singing), toque (guitar playing) baile (dancing) and palmas (handclapping creating a hypnotic rhythmical layout). As well as a drum, one of the musicians played a percussion box called a cajon, which could be struck to sound like a bass drum or a snare drum.

The peculiar tone of the singer’s voice was unfamiliar to us, although we had little diffi culty in determining by the timbre of it whether the song was melancholic or plaintive or was one expressing joy and happiness. The dancer performed a number of dances that also conveyed happiness and sadness, twisting, turning and twirling with a swirl and a sweep of her dress and an amazing rhythmical tapping of shoe-shod feet. When volunteers from the audience were called for, many hands shot up as if spring mechanisms had been released, the children eager to take an active role in the proceedings, learning dance moves, hand-clapping and taking a turn to play the cajon.

Although everyone was sad when the session came to an end, faces were, nevertheless, wreathed in smiles as pupils left the hall. And so yet another group of marvellous performers had been introduced to us by Sound Waves South West.

Friday 23rd September saw the launch of what we think will be a popular institution at Whitstone – the FilmClub.

Film Club is a government-funded education charity which aims to make a wide range of fi lms available to young people that challenge, educate, amaze and inspire. With


access to the FilmClub’s website, children will be able to register as online members and post reviews of the fi lms they have seen, fi nd out what fi lms are scheduled to be shown, enter competitions and see behind the scenes to fi nd out what goes into the making of a fi lm. Sometimes a fi lm will be exhibited that all the children, from the youngest to the oldest in the school, can watch; on other occasions it might a fi lm just for the younger cineastes or just the older ones. If the attendance at the fi rst meeting of the club is anything to go by, FilmClub should be a popular after-school activity

‘The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’

Brian’s Apples‘To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,

And fi ll all fruit with ripeness to the core’

The picture shows a 2 metre tall tree well loaded just like you see in the catalogue. The variety is Hockins Green, it doesn’t mind a windy corner and was fi rst bred for use in Callington about 100 years ago. It’s a cooker and will keep well until Christmas. Readers might not realise that there are over 4000 varieties of apples, some very good, others not worth mentioning. How many do we see in the shops these days! Brian Martyn

Daniel’s Honey‘For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.’

The bees have been busy this year as well. Daniel Woodward reports a good harvest and has started a new business ‘Tamar Honey’. Good luck Daniel.Ed.


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‘A giant with the grace of Apolloand the strength of Hercules’

By Ean Lawrence

From the high ground to the north of the city, I looked south to a point on the river. At this stage in its life it was making unavoidable preparations for its admission into the oblivion of the Bristol Channel. An object of man’s ingenuity that links communities on the east and west banks of the river was highlighted by a shaft of sunlight that pierced the layer of cloud and made the structure that bestrides the river look like a model or a child’s toy.

One of the ways to approach the prey is to stalk it on foot through the inner-city district to the south of the city centre that forms one the city’s parishes. As the hunter on the trail of this beast of the river passes through a mixture of Victorian buildings and later developments in the estuarine fl atlands, tantalizing glimpses of the quarry fl ashes upon the eye through a gap in a terrace, or over the roof of a once-grand Victorian public house, or in the refl ection from a blacked-out window of a derelict industrial unit, looming larger with each step taken towards it. Then, rounding the corner of a street landmarked by a mini-mart that serves both the community and the visitors to it as one of its orientation points, there it is. Although I’ve been expecting it to appear at any moment, its sudden appearance in my fi eld of vision still comes as a bit of a shock. There it stands starkly before me. The whole of it as I saw it from the ridge way to the north but now magnifi ed to gargantuan proportions by the proximity resulting from thirty or so minutes’ steady walking. Towering over me is the Newport Transporter Bridge, like a cousin of the Eiffel or Blackpool towers, but a relation to which only whispered reference is made within the family.

A transporter bridge is essentially an aerial ferry carrying vehicles and foot passengers on a gondola suspended from a travelling cradle that runs along a boom high above the fl uctuating level of a river. The advantage of such a structure is that it allows unhindered access upstream of the bridge while avoiding the diffi culty, impracticality and expense of either tunnels or high-level bridges. The period from 1893 to 1911 saw the building of several transporter bridges. The fi rst to be opened was in 1893 at Portugalete in Spain.

The fate of two men came together in the construction of the transporter bridge at Newport. R. H. Haynes was Newport’s borough engineer at the time of the discussions about the provision of a new crossing of the wide


and fast-fl owing River Usk. Haynes had heard of the work of the French engineer Ferdinand Arnodin, in particular that of his aerial ferry. Arnodin was born in 1845 and lived in Chateau Neuf sur Loire. In 1872 he set up his own business with the view of reviving suspension bridge construction in France. Arnodin was one of the pioneers of the innovation of spirally wound cables from which the main span was hung. With a reputation as an expert on suspension bridges and of being at the forefront of technological developments, Arnodin was approached about a transbordeur for Newport.

Arnodin was engaged by the burgesses of Newport as a recognized specialist in the fi eld, Parliamentary approval was obtained, he and Haynes were appointed joint engineers of the project, detailed design was undertaken and the bridge was opened on the 12th September 1906. Arnodin designed another seven bridges, the Newport Transporter Bridge being the last of his designs to be realized. In total, there were sixteen transporter bridges built world-wide, three in the UK; eight remain standing, including those at Warrington, Middlesbrough and Newport.

The recent August bank holiday was one of those occasions when the public is allowed to cross the bridge along the walkway on the high-level boom linking the four lattice-work towers. I’ve made the crossing on the gondola a couple of times since the bridge was re-opened following a major refurbishment in the early nineties but this was the fi rst time making the crossing on the elevated walkway, 177 feet above the grey waters of the river.

Taking a couple of deep lungfuls of the air that had passed over the Bristol Channel from the direction of Weston-super-Mare, I prepared myself for the climb to the walkway. The ascent of the nearly 300 steps, arranged in ten steep fl ights on one of the legs of the bridge, was accomplished without


any delay or inconvenience. Reaching the top of the last fl ight, I stepped - cautiously I have to confess - onto the platform of the south tower on the western bank of the river. It was the fi rst time in such circumstances that I had felt slightly queasy; usually, I am unaffected by what is a not an unreasonable feeling of anxiousness provoked by being so high up on a structure that is more empty space that substance. It was, however, a short-lived discomfort as, with another couple of restorative lungfuls of air, my attention was attracted to the view from the vertiginous position above the ebbing tide.

In the time since I had arrived at the bridge and stepped onto the platform, the change in the atmospheric conditions meant that the panoramic views were not obscured by cloud or rendered indistinct by haze. To the northwest is the line of hills that form a natural bulwark between the city and the surrounding valleys; to the southwest the Millennium Stadium, standing shoulder to shoulder with the River Taff, confi dently raises its head above Cardiff’s skyline; and to the southeast could be seen Weston’s grand pier, like a bony fi nger pointing to the passing ghost of a paddle-steamer. As I walked along the walkway, I looked towards the city-centre, tracing an air-drawn line along the meanders of the Usk. I could clearly see the three bridges that lay between the transporter bridge and the present incarnation of the fi rst, medieval, bridge by the ruins of the city’s Norman castle that had appeared during the 105 years since the completion of the structure on which I was standing.

At the approximate mid-point of the crossing, I paused to watch the gondola pass below me as it conveyed its load of passengers from the west bank to the east bank of the river. From the slightly different perspective of the south tower on the eastern bank, I took a last look at the view before descending the tower’s fl ights of steps. While waiting for the departure of the gondola to return to the west bank, I took a look at the two 35hp electric motors (the original ones) that provide the power to turn the drum around which is wound the cable that pulls the moving frame from which the gondola is suspended. The importance of the Newport Transporter Bridge as a rare and noteworthy structure was recognized by Grade I listed building status being conferred upon it following its refurbishment. It is a legacy from the transitional period between the Victorian and the modern industrial eras that is worthy of celebration and deserving of admiration for being a remarkable technological achievement that is, in Alderman Canning’s poetical effusion, ‘a giant, with the grace of Apollo and the strength of Hercules’.


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A dastardly crime was committed at the recent Whitstone Village Stores Afternoon Tea!

A man was seen putting cream onto a

scone before the jam! A photograph was obtained, however the perpetrator managed to consume the evidence before bystanders could intervene. One onlooker was heard to say “It was there one minute and gone the next, I couldn’t believe it! I thought he looked shifty when he came in, I don’t think he even had a ticket!”

The above artist’s impression has been issued of the perpetrator and the public are warned to approach him with caution!

Seriously though - All the food was great, especially the cream teas. Thanks Dan & Kyla and helpers.Ed

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Friday is fi lm night in Bude

Films are shown at the Parkhouse CentreErgue-Gaberic Way, Bude EX23 8LDDoors open 6.30 pm — Screening starts 7.30pm (unless otherwise stated)

Fri 14th October - Young Hearts Run Free(Cert 12A)

Described by the Daily Telegraph’s Sukhdev Sandhu as “An honest, likeable coming-of-age drama of romance and teenage angst set in the north of England in 1974.”

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 Offi ce at www.crbo.co.uk (NB. No Booking Fee!)

Bude Folk ClubThe Falcon Hotel, Bude

Sun 2nd October – Club Night, 7:00pm - Admission free

Sun 16th October - Club Night, 7:00pm - Admission free

Sun 30th October - Club Night, 7:00pm - Hallowe’en Theme

Club Nights - All welcome, singers, musicians, story tellers etc. free entry, collection for club funds

John’s Chip Van

Just a reminder for visitors and locals that the chip van is in Whitstone every Saturday evening. Paradise Park 5:15 - 6:30pm St Anne’s Close 6:45 - 7:00pm


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