CRICKET

After a few years in hibernation the village's cricket team has reformed and has initially arranged eight friendly fixtures for the forthcoming season. These are either weekend games or, more commonly, matches in the early evening during the week. Anyone interested in playing for the team should contact John Goss-Custard 277007 or Tony Priest 266580 for further details. Both occasional and more frequent players welcome. 

 Tony Priest                                          2                                      

 Mothers` Union

 Our May meeting will be on Tuesday, May 8th.at 2.45 in the Vestry Room of Lympstone Church. Jan Wrayford will lead the meeting and members will hear a tape of a talk by Marigold Seager Berry, M.U. representative to the U.N. Arrangements will be made concerning the Toddlers` Tea Party in July and the Village Cream Tea in August. Tea and biscuits will follow. Please let me know if you need transport.

  Sybil Bextor -274150  

 LYMPSTONE HISTORIC HOUSES GROUP 

May we remind old Friends of LHHG, and inform new ones, of the talk by Dr Jo Cox, entitled Discovering Devon Houses at 7.30pm on Wednesday 18th April in the Village Hall Function Room. 

We are fortunate to have as our first speaker in what we hope will become a regular series of talks someone who combines the academic and the practical in her approach to the interpretation and conservation of historic buildings. A former field worker for the listed building re-survey of Devon and Cornwall, Jo Cox is currently a partner in Keystone Historic Building Consultants.  Her specialist fields include 19th century urban and rural buildings, including structures designed by engineers; churches; stained glass; vernacular buildings and the history of traditional building materials. Dr Cox is a committee member of the Devon Building Group, a founder member of the Devon Nineteenth Century Churches Project, a member of Ancient Monuments Society, SPAB, the Vernacular Architecture Group, the Victorian Society and the Exeter Cathedral Fabric Advisory Committee.

 John Eaton-Terry

  1st Lympstone Sea Scouts - troop news

 One hundred years of Scouting is being celebrated in Lympstone with a project to trace as many ex-members of the group as possible.

If you know of anyone, or are a past member of the group, please contact either George Stone on 01395 268844 or Pete Hardy on 01395 270157.

 The Scouts are currently preparing for the new season and hope to offer a full programme of sailing and canoeing plus our annual raft race.

 We have started an Explorer section for older Scouts open to any young person 14 and a half to 18. A full programme of activities is being planned with all members encouraged to participate in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme.

 Interested in joining or helping the largest youth movement in the world? Contact Mike Hales on 01395 270623. 

 Mike Hales, Scout Leader

THE LYMPSTONE SOCIETY

The first item in the Society’s new programme for 2007-8 will be a visit to the historic house and garden, SAND, on the Sidmouth to Honiton road, on WEDNESDAY 9th MAY.  Tickets for this have to be bought in advance as numbers are limited, and are now on sale at the Post Office – until April 21 only.  There will be a conducted tour (by the owners) of the house and the adjacent medieval hall house, and tea is included in the ticket price of £7.50. Travel will be by car and lifts can be arranged. Please see the posters around the village, or for further information please contact Julie Horwood, on 227044.

 Julie Horwood