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TILTING AT WINDMILLS
The Lympstone Players will present an evening of poetry & prose, on Saturday, 3rd May in the Village Hall, celebrating Miguel de Cervantes’ famous novel Don Quixote. There will be readings from authors inspired by the Knight of the Doleful Countenance, ranging from John Keats to Lewis Carroll. The second half consists of Ralph Rochester’s epic tribute, Beautiful & Original Verses Addressed to Don Quixote de la Mancha. The evening will include a Tapas meal prepared by Food with Flair. Tickets, as ever, from the Post Office at £10, to include supper.
LYMPSTONE@PLAY
Lympstone@ Play have organised a fundraising quiz on Thursday 24th April at 9pm at the Saddlers Arms. Everyone is very welcome and all money raised will go towards the upkeep, insurance and RoSPa safety checks. If you have children or grandchildren who use the play area and would like to help keep it running smoothly please come along and support us.
Jane Moffatt
Lympstone
Tennis Club
Registration for junior coaching is from 9 am on 26 April and sessions will run
for 10 weeks. Membership forms can be completed in advance or on the day. These
sessions have become increasingly popular and places are limited because of the
number of children we can safely accommodate on the courts at any one time.
Jill Dixon
Friends of Lympstone Parish Church
The winner of the Lottery for March was Mrs. Ann Keene of Underhill Close with ticket number 3366.
The new Lottery year will start in April but tickets are still available from the Post Office, or Joyce Malster. (277077)
Joyce Malster
Yoga in Lympstone Fully qualified BWY teacher Tuesday evening, 7-8.30 pm, Thursday morning, 10-11.30 pm £5, In the Youth Hut Call Christelle, 01395 271798
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Lympstone
Garden Club News
Our Coffee Morning will be held in the newly renovated Methodist Hall on Saturday the 10th May at 10.30 am.
Everyone in the village is invited to join us for this very social event with amazing bargain plant stalls, books, memorabilia as well as delicious home-made cakes.
Many of us are now busy sewing seeds and potting up for growing on in the garden or greenhouse. If you have any plants (flowers, vegetables, herbs and cuttings) that are surplus to your requirements please bring them along to this event. We look forward to warmly welcoming you.
Shirley Wilkes
WI
There were many smiles and much laughter at this month's meeting when Mrs Norma Huxtable, a farmer's wife and holiday landlady, came with her hilarious tales. During her 40 years of observation of life on Exmoor few people had apparently escaped her dry wit and humour. The old pig van being her only means of transport meant she needed to carry a heavy perfume to cover strong aromas! The true tale of dead sheep being driven in disguise thro' Birmingham was especially funny, and so it went on. She was thanked by Mrs Joyce Perry.
Jenepher Allen and some of the Composting Team came to receive a £200 cheque from the WI as a result of our winning an Environmental Bursary from Taylors of Harrogate. 100 trees have been planted by the Woodland Trust in our name at Watkins Wood, Woodleigh, as the other part of our award.
Members may borrow the History of Lympstone WI (1919-2007), produced by Diana de la Rue, and pass it on to the next name on the list. Mrs Robbie Eyre has made a very stylish black and white hat from recycled materials for our entry in the next Group meeting competition.
Members are reminded of the following events:
Mon. 14 April - drama rehearsal at Connie Hawes' house
Thurs. 10 April - Estuary Group meeting 2 pm at Clyst St Mary Village Hall
Thurs. 17 April - Spring Council meeting at the Great Hall, Exeter
Weds. 23 April - visit to Dartmouth Naval College
Thurs. 24 April - 10.30 at 21 Highcliffe Close: coffee morning with Bring & Buy to meet Daphne Gilbert and raise funds for a power pack for a wheelchair.
Our next meeting (Resolutions) is on Weds. 7 May.
Diana de la Rue
Parish Church
We often hear that the Church of England is in decline and recently that there are more attending Catholic services than C of E. In Lympstone we seem to be kicking the trend. Could it be the donkey effect? Palm Sunday saw a procession through the village from Londis to the church at 9 o’clock in the morning with a donkey at the head. A good few turned out to see the fun and many came to the following service. So much so that the attendance was 47% higher than the corresponding service last year!
Good Friday there was the usual service in which Christ’s passion is acted out. Not quite on the scale as the BBC series but more ‘audience participation.’ This too saw an increase in attendance by a more modest 10%. The Easter Day service is always well attended and there was no special reason for a 27% increase. I should point out too that last year’s attendance was not especially low.
Some of this must be down to the new consideration of children. There is a corner set aside with activities for young children. New bags for children to take to their place, they are, of course, ‘pew bags.’ So remember to ask and collect one to use during the service. The really important news is that, once police checks have been carried out on the adult leaders, the school have kindly agreed to allow the leaders to take children to use one of the classrooms during part of the 9.30 am. Sunday Service. The church is becoming more family friendly and this may really be the reason attendances are up. Perhaps you could give us a try.
All the usual events are on this month, Family service at 4 pm on the second Sunday of the month and coffee morning on the fifth Tuesday from 10 until noon. See the notice board in church or under the railway arch.
Finally the Annual Meeting of the church is on Wednesday 16th April at 7 30 in the church room.
Brian Mather
Lympstone Pre-School
Come and join us for a
fundraising wine-tasting in the Village Hall Function Room on Friday 6th June at
8. Geoff Bowen from the Pebblebed Winery at Ebford will be here to direct our
tasting of several of his recent white and rosé wines. Tickets cost £7.50 each
and are available now from Demelza
Henderson on 263116 or from the Lympstone Post Office. All profits from the
evening will go towards buying essential equipment for the Pre-School.
The Pre-School would like to thank Lympstone Garden Club for their kind
donation to buy pots and seeds, and the children are looking forward to a
visit from them during the summer.
Suzie Creighton
The Parish Plan what & why
(Part 1)
I am sorry but of necessity this involves some jargon and politic speak! Please stay with me and I will try to explain why we are doing it, what we are trying to do, and (most importantly) how we are going to execute it.
East Devon District Council (EDDC) are required by central government to put together a Local Development Framework (LDF). This will document how the District (and hence our Parish) will develop over the next 20+ years and will take the place of the East Devon Local Plan (a key document in Planning). Our input and effect on the LDF will be greatly enhanced by the existence of an approved Parish Plan - it would be a document that, having been approved, EDDC could not ignore. Within the context of the LDF, the Plan will also consider very closely the possible stipulation by EDDC of an additional 300 houses in Lympstone. Without this careful and documented investigation our voice in approval or condemnation will not be heard. Additionally it is a target of the Parish Council to acquire "Quality Status" (which would entitle the Parish to additional funding and greater independent control), a prerequisite of Quality Status is an approved Parish Plan. For these two reasons the Parish Council voted to formulate a Parish Plan. I hope that this answers the "Why".
What is the Parish Plan? Simply put, it is a statement of what we as a Parish want to do over the next 20 years. It would be a statement of how we, as a community, would wish to see Lympstone Parish develop over the next 20+ years, incorporating housing and business development, amenities, culture, environment, facilities and infrastructure. It also needs to incorporate and address the challenges placed on us by Local and Central Government requirements. The Plan also needs to examine the ramifications of these aspirations and their feasibility. It would be a cornerstone for any Parish organisation seeking funding from external sources - The National Lottery for example - in explaining their case. It would therefore be a working document for the Parish and be subject to periodic review. Phew! Some big words and some big challenges but I hope it answers the "What".
Part 2 – HOW will be published in next moth’s Herald
Cllr Rob Longhurst
Lympstone History Society
Our AGM this year is on 30th April at 7.30 in the Function Room. After the brief formal business there will be a talk on "Old Maps of Lympstone" with a chance to see various 19th century maps, including the first OS 1:2500 map of 1883, and the computerised version of the 1839 Tithe Map. Free admission; refreshments available.
Joyce Malster