BRENTOR
NEWS
May 2015 Issue 427
Produced by The Brentor Community Trust www.brentorvillage.org
Brentor Village Hall
& Playing Field Committee
AGM
8.15pm
Wednesday
17th
of June
We need your support
to maintain this hub of our community.
This is an opportunity to join our active
& friendly group.
Dave Williams (Chair) 810375
NOTE CHANGE OF DATE
Coffee morning
Saturday 2nd May 10.30-12.
Meet up with friends and neighbours.
Enjoy the freshly brewed coffee, homemade
cakes and who can resist the bacon rolls?!
+ Parish Meeting
Sheryl Borroughs
Tavy Youth Group
30 adults and young people enjoyed an afternoon at Cotehele in the Easter holidays. We were fortunate with the weather and the Easter Egg Trail was popular with all the young folk. We explored the gardens and woodland and had a look around the house.
Thank you to Andy and Sarah from CHICKS who so generously gave up Easter Saturday to help us. Our next meeting will be at CHICKS on Saturday 9 May, 7 – 9pm.That evening we have had an invitation to go and see the animals at Stablelights so thank you, in anticipation to Helen and Laurie.
Please note we will be holding our Big Breakfast Praise, to raise money for CHICKS on Sunday 5 July. Please join us to raise money for our local charity.
Sally and Christopher Pancheri 810285.
St Luke’s Hospice Fund Raising – Gardens Open We hope you can join us on Sunday 24
th May anytime
from 11am to 4pm. As you know, four gardens are open at the Rowden end of Brentor with all proceeds donated to St Luke’s Hospice.
As well as the gardens, there are Ploughman’s lunches, tea and cakes and musical entertainment from Barry’s Big Band Sound as well as Gypsy Train. Also there are plant sales at two of the gardens – ice cream’s too if we are lucky with the weather. Garden Entry is £5.00 which is an excellent price to browse four gardens. Sorry No dogs or wheelchair/pushchair access.
This is also the final call for donations of Raffle prizes and a big Thank You to those have contributed already. Also a few more cakes are needed – can you help, if so please give me a ring before 15
th May.
We all look forward to seeing you.
Sue Mott 810037
Farewell to Brentor By the time you read this we should have moved from Brentor Station and be starting the next stage of our lives in Pewsey, Wiltshire.
We want to thank everyone who came to the Village Hall on the 18th, a very special way for us to have the chance to say farewell after twenty years in this wonderful Village. The supper was great, many thanks for producing such a lovely spread. The book of memories we will treasure greatly.
We will be back from time to time and if it happens to be the first Saturday of a month we will be along for bacon rolls and a chat of course.
With our best wishes to you all,
Sue and Eric Rhodes
Lawnmower For Sale
Qualcast 17S Suffolk Punch
petrol cylinder lawnmower and scarifier.
Good condition. £100 ono.
Brian Greenaway 811058
Brentor Commons Violets have put on really good show this year. Along with the wild strawberries they light up the hedges, but only on the sunny side of the road or path. Between Bowden and Liddaton commons they are abundant on the right hand side but almost totally absent from the left.
I have heard the drumming of the great spotted woodpecker close to the old mine workings on the far side of Bowden, but more interestingly the laughing call of the” yaffle” or green woodpecker at Liddaton crossroads. This is a bird that I have not seen or heard for several years. Let’s hope it is here to stay. Listen out for the quite loud and characteristic, almost human sounding, laughing sound in any sparsely wooded area.
Nationally last year was really good for butterflies, so it is nice to see that the hot Easter weather brought out the orange tips, peacock tortoishell and brimstone in profusion again. I was very impressed by a pair of speckled wood butterflies involved in an aerial dogfight just a few feet in front of me. They were spiralling around each other so closely and rapidly that they looked like a floating tennis ball. This carried on for at least a minute.
Chiffchaffs were as usual the first summer visitors to arrive making their presence felt with their chiff-chaff-chiff-chaff song. After more than a week, suddenly the common was alive with a “fall” of willow warblers with perhaps 20 birds singing there delightful cascade of liquid sound, so much the sound of summer.
Barry Albrighton 860445
CHICKS Open Day
Friday 15th
May,
2-6pm
Come along to the CHICKS charity Open Day at their
Moorland Retreat (PL19 0LX). there will be the
opportunity to have a tour of the facilities, a chance to
meet the CHICKS team and to find out more about the
charity.
Family, friends and community groups are more than
welcome to attend.
For more information contact [email protected] or
call
Azita Shamsolahi 01822 811020.
Tor and Tavy WI Since our last update in February we have had exercise in the form of belly dancing. This was a fun evening with the whole group participating. We were taught by Ameera, who teaches dance classes, she showed us how to move and use our stomachs to good effect!!!!! Apparently, belly dancers do not have to be “slim”, in fact the more ample the tummy the better the moves!!!
Easter saw us needle felting polystyrene eggs and decorating them in felt to contrast with the main colour, very effective and amazingly easy.
The Annual Meeting was held on 23rd
of April. A week later, 30
th April, we hosted our annual Four Rivers
Group meeting. The Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir sang in the village church, followed by a delicious supper cooked by the ladies of the Tor and Tavy WI.
Our book group is thriving and at last night’s meeting we chose the books for the next 12 months, a list will be available soon if anyone is interested in joining us. The theatre group will be at the Theatre Royal in May to see “Top Hat” and the visits to Eastcott Vinery and Royal Citadel have now been finalised for early and late June and we have 18 people attending each event.
At the May meeting we will have a former John Lewis Manager as our speaker, June will see a visit from Quicks Cheeses and table origami will be our July meeting.
Anyone wishing to join should ring Trish 810115,
Lucie 810540 or Judi 614198 for more information.
Mary Tavy And Brentor
Community Primary School Our small village school continues to be popular
with our numbers continuing to grow.
Our clubs are up and running; cookery, drama,
gym and dance, cricket and rounders, art,
sewing, singing, ukulele and gardening clubs. We
continue to promote sport at the school and will
be entering a wide variety of competitions in
the local area this term as well as celebrate
National Sports Week in June.
We have some very exciting topics for this
term: Plants and Animals, Invaders and
Settlers and What a Beautiful World. To link in
with our topics, Classes 1M, 2 and 3 will be
visiting RHS Rosemoor and Class 3 will be
holding a Pet Day! There is lots of sowing of
seeds at the moment as the children continue
to grow vegetables, herbs and flowers both at
the allotment and around the school. This
encourages the children to learn and appreciate
where some of their food comes from.
Do feel very welcome to come along to our
Afternoon Tea on Friday 22nd May between
2.00 and 4.00pm at the school. There will be
lots of delicious cakes and other goodies to eat
so put the date in your diary and look out for
the posters advertising the event including
details about tickets. Please ring the school on
01822 810384 for further information.
Nicky Pratten, Headteacher
POWDERMILLS POTTERY
CRAFT SHOP & CREAM TEAS
Come and enjoy a cream tea made from
the best locally sourced products served on
tableware made in the pottery out of
Dartmoor clay!
Potter around the craft shop containing
pieces from over 30 local makers.
Situated 2 miles west of Postbridge on the
B3212, surrounded by beautiful Dartmoor
scenery.
Open 10:30am – 5 pm 7 days a week
PL20 6SP 01822 880263
Joss Hibbs
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STOP PRESS!!! The Jumble Sale on Saturday 25th March achieved takings of £230
The Scramblings at Spriggly Torch”
Brentorians Spring Production, 2015 In March a plot was hatched in the Village Hall to trap a spy! Set against a monochrome background appropriate to a 1940’s time of espionage, “The Scramblings at Spriggly Torch” (by Richard Coleman) was all about multiple convoluted efforts to steal – and steal back - secret plans of a new German fighter plane, all played out in front of capacity audiences.
The actors involved performed with energy and commitment. A coldly efficient Sir Aubrey Fitzwarren, MP was portrayed with presence and force by John Wheeler, whilst Glenys Mason gave an enthusiastic performance as the overly obedient Special Agent Daphne Merrryweather-Pugh.
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Robin Burdfield, in the pivotal role of Sir Henry Gorsefeather-Trout of Spriggly Torch Manor, gave an outstanding performance maintaining pace and energy throughout. His wife Cynthia was played in a feisty style by welcome newcomer Beryl Higgs-Light.
The taciturn and bird-harassed butler Poop (Will Walker-Smith) delighted the audience with his accents and comic timing.
Squadron Leader Darcy Farquar-Digby-Farquar, whose playful antics with the ladies augmented the plot, was performed with style & panache by Brian Wood. Jo Larsen Burnett as Felicity, his somewhat vacant wife, gave a convincing performance and had the audience in fits with her facial expressions and comic timing. Another welcome newcomer, Chris Pullinger, played the boffin Professor Willoughby Sprout in appropriately dead-pan style. Lady Constance Cowpepper-Frill was played with suitable bluster, style and her usual stage presence, by Pat Blower.
Pamela Plunge, inn-keeper at The Feisty Goat (aka Rita Leamington-Spa of the British Secret Service), was Sue Rhodes in a challenging rôle executed with professionalism, dedication and attention to detail. Christopher Pancheri as the Belgian Count Stomhoff-Blitz played the part strongly with focus on comic timing.
Willets the police inspector was Gary Garwood, whose stage presence kept the pace of Act 2 rolling along as the plot unfolded. His sidekick Policewoman Plimsole was played with enthusiasm and abundant energy by Sharon McQuillin.
Mrs Poop, Millicent and Miss Isle, three very different rôles, were all played by Anne Clark with clever characterisation separating the three.
Introduction and continuity between scenes was superbly handled by Joe Kuipers as MC, whilst Liz Hill smoothly managed changes to the simple but effective set - designed by Jo Larsen Burnett, built by Dave Williams and Garry Garwood. Lighting was by Dom Carnell, assisted by Jason Libby who also gave us sounds of the 1940’s. Val Dawes was seen behind a video camera whilst Helen de Carles competently managed ticket sales and front-of-house, assisted by Sarah Walker-Smith.
Congratulations to all involved, and particularly to Producer/Director Judy Baxter, for giving each audience a wonderfully entertaining and memorable evening. A. C. Ritic (details supplied)
Diary Dates Tuesdays 7pm Yoga Jane Osborne 832897
May
Saturday 2cnd 10.30-12.00 Coffee Morning
+Annual Parish Meeting
Sheryl Burroughs
Caroline Sellars
870554
Saturday 9th 7-9pm Tavy Youth Group – meeting at CHICKS Sally &Chris Pancheri 810285
Friday 15th 2-6pm Chicks Open Day Azita Shamsolahi 811020
Thursday 21st 7.30pm Garden Club: "Flower Arranging" a demonstration by Vivienne Thompson
Heather Webster 810004
Friday 22cnd 2-4pm Afternoon Tea at Mary Tavy & Brentor
Community Primary School
Nicky Pratten 810384
Sunday 24th 11am-4pm Gardens Open for St Luke’s Hospice Sue Mott 810037
June
Weds 17th 8.15pm Village Hall & Playing Field Committee AGM Dave Williams 810375
All events in the Village Hall unless otherwise stated
Village Hall Bookings by Helen de Carles 810412 – see www.brentorvillage.org for further details
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Editorial team: Rick Blower 810600 [email protected], Mike Whitfield 810209 [email protected]
John Wheeler 810083 [email protected], Jane Phelpstead 810635 [email protected],
Joe Kuipers 810590 [email protected]
FINAL COPY DATE for June edition, Saturday 23rd
May
Rick Blower 810600 [email protected]
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