December 2021

WOODBURY NEWS

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DECEMBER 2021 - EDITORIAL With so much press, television and radio coverage directed towards the COP26 summit – the UN Climate Change Conference held recently in Glasgow, with an agenda of uniting the world to tackle climate change – it’s hardly surprising that so many individuals and organisations, even at our local level, have felt motivated to do their bit to raise awareness and take action.

Many congratulations to the children in our villages: Woodbury School pupils who submitted moths to be part of the Moth to Flame installation displayed in Glasgow (moths are a living sign of a healthy ecosystem); Woodbury Salterton pupils, who are constructing playground furniture from ecobricks made from non-recyclable plastic, and to the Deputy Editor and her family who spent many hours of lockdown making ecobricks too.

The Parish Council have agreed a grant of £1,000 to be directed to WildWoodbury, who will implement a number of initiatives locally to help deal with the effects of climate change (see pages 23 and 24). Wild-Woodbury are also organising a series of specialist talks, and Devon Communities Together have already spoken about ways to save energy (page 27).

Norman Cann, our very own weatherman, has highlighted the contrast between the very dry early weeks of October, followed by some torrential rain later in the month. Locally, this sadly led to flooding of cottages in Castle Lane, and also in the lower Otter valley, an area in Budleigh Salterton well-loved by many of our villagers. Maybe we should be more worried than pleased that we have been able to walk around outside in mid-November without having to wear warm outdoor clothing. *

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Please note that the very early closing date for receipt of submissions for the Christmas/New Year edition of Woodbury News is on TUESDAY 7 DECEMBER at 19.00.

Other important dates to note are listed on page 15. Woodbury Surgery will be closed over the festive period and gives advice as to where to seek help if you need it during those times.

The cover photograph by Tom Hurley, shows one of the Green Men greeting you as you enter St Swithun’s church (see the end of Graham Joyce’s sixth article on notable trees on page 31).

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4 ST SWITHUN’S CHURCH, WOODBURY Vicar: Reverend Bill Lemmey 01395 232161 Email: revbillwhitecross@gmail.com Administrator: Jill Dupain dupain@hotmail.co.uk SPECIAL EVENTS Saturday 4 December - Christmas lych gate in St Swithun’s 09.30 - 12.00.

Friday 10 December - Christmas Concert in St Swithun’s, 19.00.

CHURCH SERVICES November 28th - Advent Zoom Family Service at 09.30; for a link to this, please email dupain@hotmail.co.uk.

30th - St Andrew’s Day, Holy Communion at Exton at 09.30.

December 5 December - Advent 2, Holy Communion at St Swithun’s, 11.15.

Evening Worship at Exton, 18.30 12 December - Advent 3, Holy Communion at Exton, 09.30.

Carol Service at St Swithun’s, 18.30.

15 December - Carol Service at Exton, 19.00.

19 December - Advent 4, Carols on the Green, 19.00.

24 December - Christmas Eve, Midnight Mass at St Swithun’s, 23.30.

25 December - Christmas Day, Holy Communion at Exton, 09.30.

Morning Worship at St Swithun’s, 11.15.

26 December - St Stephen Mission Community, Holy Communion at Aylesbeare, 11.15.

Further information will be available on the church noticeboard and in the monthly Digest. To receive this by email please send your email address to st.swithuns.digest@gmail.com.

St Swithun’s special winter lych gate stall will be held on Saturday 4 December in St Swithun’s church from 10.00 until 12.30. The grand raffle will be drawn at 12.00 noon. Raffle tickets are available from members of the PCC or Sue Hudson.

FLOODLIGHTING ST SWITHUN’S CHURCH For your special event, contact Mike Jeans on 01395 232544. Floodlight dedications are displayed on the church noticeboard at the lych gate.

CAROL SINGING AROUND WOODBURY IS BACK! TUESDAY 21 DECEMBER. MEET AT 19.00 ON THE VILLAGE GREEN. All singers welcome.

5 FoSS (FRIENDS OF ST SWITHUN’S) This year FoSS has not been able to hold any indoor events; however we held a successful and enjoyable outdoor cream tea in September. FoSS financed the significant drainage work outside church to alleviate the damp and water damage on the north side, which was completed with voluntary labour. To complete similar projects we need the support of all in the community as members or as guests at one of our concerts.

The next event is the supper concert following the AGM at 19.00 on Saturday 22 January. The concert at 19.30, featuring Bel Canto Choir, Woodbury Whalers and the Woodbury handbell group, will be followed by a casserole supper. This is a ticket-only event limited to 60. Tickets at £10 will be available after Christmas from committee members and Rook Pie. We hope to host a spring concert on Saturday 30 April with Devon Junior choir, but before confirming and organising we will wait to see if we are clear of the Covid-19 virus and are able to seat a full capacity audience.

Pat Browne WOODBURY CHARITY COFFEE MORNINGS Sadly we will be closing at the end of November.

6 WOODBURY GARDEN CLUB It is never easy when, at the last moment, a speaker is ill and cannot come.

Many thanks therefore to members Tricia Willey and Ken Crundwell who stood in at the last moment with Tricia demonstrating Propagating Roses from Cuttings and Ken advising on How to Care for Your Tools.

Tricia’s advice for propagating roses:  Use current growth, a long, strong, healthy stem.  Make your cuttings about 25cms long.  At the bottom cut just below a node, straight across, and ‘damage’ the skin a couple of cms above.  At the top cut just above a node, an angled cut, so that you will know which way up it should be!  Remove all lower leaves.  Insert several cuttings into a deepish pot using peat free compost and horticultural grit.  A large percentage of the cutting should be under the compost.  Water, and don’t let the cuttings dry out as roots will be produced over the winter months.

7 As for caring for tools, Ken demonstrated how to use a carborundum, a stone for sharpening tools. They are abrasive, made from silicon carbide, come in different shapes and sizes and can be used to sharpen most of our garden tools.

Ken also gave advice on how to grow an apple tree from a whip and how to prune it.

The evening finished with a quiz. Tricia is very successful at growing roses from cuttings. Perhaps other members will now become as successful and will have well-sharpened secateurs for pruning!

Joyce Jeans

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8 WOODBURY HISTORY SOCIETY On Thursday 4 November the society was enthralled listening to Dr Todd Gray, the eminent Devon historian, giving us a lecture about the Blackshirts of Devon. This is a subject that has not been written about before in Devon and was a very thought-provoking lecture. Todd has done an enormous amount of research on the subject, investigating archives in various parts of the country as well as the Devon police archives. He has seen copies and original newspapers, not only the local and national ones, but also those published by the Fascist party. He has also talked to others in the county who knew people, sometimes relatives, who had some links with the Blackshirts in Devon.

He told us how Mosley came down to Plymouth and harangued the people there, and in more rural parts of Devon drew a huge amount of support from the farming communities. This was cleverly done, targeting a nonconformist region and suggesting that if the Fascists (and Hitler) came into power they would abolish the tithe rates so that farmers would not have to financially support a church of which they were not members. Mosley was a brilliant speaker and attracted a huge number of young men in Plymouth and other towns in Devon. The newspapers too, at the start of the war, showed support for Fascism until they realised that the new Fascist regime would not be newspaper-friendly if in power, and became vehemently anti-Fascist.

Soon the enthusiasm for the Blackshirts died down generally in Devon, but there were still large pockets of supporters in certain areas. One of these adherents was a farmer from Woodbury, Claude Duvivier, a Belgian-born naturalised Briton who lived at Sanctuary Farm on the borders of Woodbury and Colaton Raleigh.

9 He was an active member of the Fascist movement and became an advocate of Hitler’s anti-semitic policies. Duvivier was imprisoned for a time, but even after the war he never repented of his views.

Todd is a charismatic lecturer and his enthusiasm for his subject and knowledge is quite extraordinary. For his contribution to the study of history in Devon he was given the freedom of the City of Exeter in 2018 as well as receiving an MBE in 2014 for his work. He was born and raised in New England and came to England where he took a history degree in London. He came to Exeter where he studied for his PhD in 1984 and has stayed in the city ever since, becoming a naturalised British citizen in 2006. He has written 48 books on different aspects of Devon history. I don’t think there are many such eminent historians who give so much of their time to visiting History Societies in the county to share their knowledge.

The next meeting of the society will be on Thursday 3 February 2022 at 19.30 in Woodbury village hall, when we will have our AGM followed by a social evening with refreshments.

Gill Selley PUPPY TRAINING AT WOODBURY Congratulations to Ann Shell with Daisy, Kitty Mann with Rosie and Juliette Johnson with Hebe for achieving their Puppy Obedience Certificates and rosettes. They attended six weeks’ basic puppy training followed by a further six weeks’ advanced puppy training.

For information on puppy training at Woodbury, contact Margaret Edwards at edwardsm22@sky.com or ring 01395 233653.

Margaret Edwards SAVE THE DATES Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022.

We are planning celebrations over the four day bank holiday Thursday 2 - Sunday 5 June 2022 We will keep you updated over the coming months.

Chris Lear

10 WOODBURY AND DISTRICT ROYAL BRITISH LEGION The Armistice Day Service on the village green on Thursday 11 November was very well supported by the village and Year 6 from the school. It was good to see so many familiar faces.

11 The children had made a poppy wreath and Kate Vernon had discussed the origins of the building of the Cenotaph with them. They had drawn a beautiful picture, which they had mounted and framed. This was placed on our War Memorial and then later moved into church, where it will stay until the end of the year, so that parents can see it at the Carol Service and the congregation at Christmas services. It will go into the RBL room on the wall with some of the Legion’s other pictures.

Our Remembrance Service on the Sunday afternoon was particularly poignant, commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the forming of the British Legion. Wreaths were laid by the Royal British Legion, the Parish Council, Christ Church, the History Society and the youth groups on a lovely mild sunny afternoon.

Sandra Huish (Chairman) 01395 232696 WOODBURY LIVING ADVENT CALENDAR 2021 LIGHTING UP WOODBURY Our churches, the school, shops, pubs and numerous individual residences throughout Woodbury are lighting up their windows or front gardens to celebrate Advent and the lead-up to the festive season Starting on 1st December and finishing on the 2nd January 2022, this is the fourth year of the Woodbury Living Advent Calendar and promises to be the best year yet!

Buy a trail map for £2.00 from Rook Pie, Salon No. 8 or Woodbury Primary School, and start walking. The map indicates places being lit up each evening, helping you to follow as much of the trail as you please. Funds raised from the sale of maps and other donations will be shared between Woodbury Primary School PTFA and Wild-Woodbury.

Liz Dunne

12 WOODBURY C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL Year 2 The children in Year 2 have been having a super time in their science and history topics. In the first part of the term, they were learning about habitats, and have discovered that our school is a mosaic of different habitats. They particularly enjoyed finding mini-beasts in the micro habitats in our forest school and nature garden.

This half term the class started their history topic on Space with a real ‘wow’ moment, by having a visit from a pop-up planetarium.

Once they had crawled inside, they experienced a star-gazing light show and learnt about the race to space and how Apollo 11 was the first successful mission to land on the moon. They took a journey with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to finally land and walk on the moon. They also learned about star constellations and how at certain times of the year we can see the bright lights of Saturn, Jupiter and Venus in our night skies. It was a mesmerising experience for them all.

Year 4 This term in science, the children have learnt about how food travels through our bodies.

This was kicked off by an interesting experiment that looked at how food is broken down, which had a rather messy end! Within this unit we continued to follow the journey of food through our bodies. The children learnt the role our teeth play in the breakdown of food and the importance of ensuring our teeth are well looked after. We ended the unit looking at what constitutes a balanced diet.

13 We have moved onto our new unit, history, kick-started with a visit from Emperor Claudius. The children tried to persuade him to either invade or not to invade Britain. Despite their best efforts, Claudius did invade Britain! As we are learning, Claudius faced resistance, particularly from Boudicca.

This half term, in maths, the children took a trip to Bristol.

Unfortunately, this didn’t involve them going there themselves. The children applied their knowledge of measurements to convert distance from metres to kilometres and vice versa. We started at Woodbury and used one sheet of toilet paper to represent 1km. On their journey to Bristol, they stopped at Darts Farm, Exeter and finally Bristol. We then planned on visiting Land’s End but we ran out of toilet roll!

Moth to Flame To support the children’s understanding about climate change, the school took part in a Moth to Flame art and author event.

This culminated in a display of the moths made being put together into an installation, which was first displayed in Princesshay in Exeter, and is now currently being displayed in Glasgow at the Botanic Gardens. The installation won the Sustainable First Peoples Award 2021, featured on BBC Spotlight. To find out more see the link https://youtu.be/JbJMRYFgDp0.

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Dodgeball and Handball We have taken part in some sporting challenges, with our older children participating in a dodgeball festival and handball event after school. The children had the opportunity to learn some new skills, whilst playing some other local school teams. They had a fantastic time and it has been great being able to start organising events again after so long.

In preparation for Christmas, we again plan to decorate our Town Lane window as part of the annual Woodbury Living Advent calendar.

We wish you all a very Happy Christmas and we hope that it is a joyful one with family and friends and a time to reflect and look forward to an even more positive 2022.

Gillian Pyle, Head of School WOODBURY TENNIS CLUB Autumn club play has continued with a good number of members attending on Sunday mornings to enjoy social and competitive play.

The winter league matches are underway with the Men’s team victorious in two matches and the Ladies gaining points in their matches.

The club has been in contact with Courtstall (court maintenance) to survey and advise on maintenance. In the spring the lower court will be resurfaced and the top court cleaned and repainted, at a cost of approximately £20,000.

The club will have to survive with its present hut for a few more years!

The AGM will be held on Wednesday 2 February at 19.30 in the Church Rooms, when members will be able to bring forward ideas for celebrating 50 years of court use.

Pat Browne

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When the surgery is closed, please call NHS 111 when you need medical help fast, but if it is a life-threatening emergency, you should call 999.

For example, chest pains, increasing difficulty in breathing, impaired consciousness and any of the signs of a stroke (facial weakness, inability to lift a limb or slurred speech) constitute an emergency.

If you use our E-Consult facility, please note we will respond by the end of the following working day or sooner if we can.

The Team at Woodbury Surgery would like to wish you all a peaceful Christmas and a Happy New Year.

FAMILY CHRISTMAS BINGO SATURDAY 18 DECEMBER. Doors open at 18.30, Eyes down at 19.30 WOODBURY VILLAGE HALL Refreshments and Raffle on the night.

Booking is not essential.

For further information please contact Claire Causley on 07877 232065 or causleyclaire@gmail.com All money raised goes to Exeter Athletic RFC.

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WOODBURY SALTERTON NEWS HOLY TRINITY CHURCH CHRISTMAS EVENTS Church Christmas Bazaar This will be held in the village hall on Saturday 4 December from 10.00 until noon.

Festive Windows Please decorate one of your windows with some Christmas cheer to brighten up the village and raise some money for the church. The cost to enter is £5 and there will be a £10 prize for the best entry. Entry forms from Debbie Jung. If possible, get your entry up by 6 December but later entries will still be welcome.

Church Carol Service Following the success of last year’s outdoor event, the carol service will take place on Sunday 19 December at 16.00 in the churchyard. Should it rain, we will adjourn to the church.

Midnight Mass will start on Christmas Eve at 23.30 and we are delighted that Revd Nigel Mason will be coming back to lead this.

Carol Singing Around The Village Wednesday 22 December. Please meet outside The Digger’s at 18.00. Everyone welcome, including dogs. As usual we will be collecting for The Children’s Society.

BEETLE DRIVE The village hall rang with laughter and chatter on Saturday 13 November when a church beetle drive was held there.

It was the first major church fund-raising event to take place in the hall since before the pandemic and, for many, the first time they had been into the village hall since March 2020, apart from going there to vote. It was good to see lots of young families enjoying the fun.

17 Debbie Jung organised the event and was MC. The top scorer and winner of the prize was Panka, one of our new choristers.

She is pictured with her prize, and her sister Luca, who has also joined our choir.

The evening raised £143 for church funds.

Katharine Wheeler REMEMBRANCE The annual Act of Remembrance on Remembrance Sunday took place at the church lych gate. It was conducted by Graham Gerdes with William Olney playing The Last Post and Reveille. Patrick Bricknell laid the poppy wreath.

A short service followed, led by Debbie Jung (Churchwarden) and church choir members led the singing of the hymns with keyboard accompaniment.

Just over 40 people attended. It was generally agreed that the music added greatly to the solemnity of the occasion — special thanks to William.

THE KERSLAKE TRUST To all those residents of the Parish of Woodbury Salterton who will be 70 and older by Christmas 2021.

This Trust was created on the death of Celia Elizabeth Kerslake on 19 September 1939. Under the terms of her will some shares were left to the Trustees of Woodbury Salterton Church, with the instruction that the income received from them should be distributed among “the old people over 70 belonging to the Parish at Christmas time.”

The Trustees are currently reviewing the list of beneficiaries to arrange this year’s distribution and will be pleased to hear from anyone permanently resident in the Parish who has NOT received a payment in previous years and who considers they now qualify for such a payment.

Last year 44 people benefitted from the Kerslake Trust and many very kindly donated their gift back to the church. If you would also like to have your share of the distribution paid straight into the church funds, please let the trustees know.

Please advise Nigel Dupain on dupain@hotmail.co.uk or by phone 01395 232953 by 15th December 2021.

Nigel Dupain

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EXTON NEWS ST ANDREW’S CHURCH, EXTON CHURCH SERVICES - NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 30 November - 09.30. St Andrew’s Day Service, Holy Communion.

5 December - 18.30, Evening Service.

12 December - 09.30, Holy Communion.

15 December - 19.00, Carol Concert, followed by mulled wine and mince pies in the hall.

25 December - 09.30, Holy Communion.

EXTON CHRISTMAS CAROLS Wednesday 15 December at 19.00 at St Andrew’s Church; come and sing your favourite carols, led by a band of local young (and slightly older) musicians, and enjoy the familiar readings of the Christmas story. This is a lovely service, suitable for all ages, with a retiring collection for The Children’s Society (childrenssociety.org.uk). There’ll be mulled wine and mince pies in the village hall afterwards to get you in the festive spirit.

Liz Williams EXTON HALLOWEEN WALK The day’s rain stopped, a light breeze rustled the autumn leaves, darkness fell. Copper Beech Place was swathed in eerie green light as the intrepid Halloween walkers gathered — up to the spooky Goosefield for sweets, down to the Jacobs’ residence to enjoy goodies for all (including parents!) and on to Sandpiper Drive.

19 Here, with no encouragement needed, children burrowed in a vat of spaghetti for bags of sweets! Then down to Exton Barton’s garage which had been transformed into a scary Halloween cave but with goodies for those who’d made it that far.

Meanwhile, the Puffing Billy had prepared a buffet supper for everyone, and a lucky dip took place before the judging of the Halloween fancy dress competition. Two families won £20 vouchers for a meal at the pub at a later date, while individual winners came away with – yes – you’ve guessed – more sweets!

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Our thanks go to Exton Village Events for organizing the evening, all those who prepared pumpkin lamps along the spooky route, the kind hosts (and ghosts), those who donated sweets and prizes, and finally the weather for staying dry.

We would also like to extend particular thanks to Jane and Chris Oliver.

Those of you who were there on the night will have heard that Jane and Chris, who are long-standing supporters of the event and who were due to be our first hosts of the evening, weren't able to be with us in person due to Covid. However, despite not being able to enjoy the festivities themselves, Jane and Chris still very generously donated copious amounts of sweets, Prosecco, essential supplies, and of course the glow-bands for the event - all of which helped to get the walk off to a great start.

Liz Williams

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The Editorial team will attempt to do this as carefully as possible.

21 THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE GULLIFORD BURIAL GROUND Tuesday 26 October This event marked the end of major work to Gulliford Burial Ground’s main structures, funded by a grant of £64,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Over 40 people attended to celebrate the hard work by a large team of volunteers from both Woodbury and Lympstone who took a year to write the grant application and manage the project through to a successful end.

At the start, Justin Smallwood announced that Lesley Weeks and Jane Moffatt were the winners of the sealed bids for two paintings kindly donated by artists Doug Gilding and Marieangela Williams. The ceremony’s ribbon cutting was performed by Dr Todd Gray MBE, the well-known Devon historian, with words and blessing from Mr Robert Crick of the Sidmouth Unitarian Chapel, accompanied by music from Graham Banks and friends, playing dance tunes from the 16th and 17th century.

The burial ground, located on Meeting Lane in Lympstone, is jointly owned

by Woodbury and Lympstone Parish Councils, supported by The Friends of Gulliford Burial Ground, whose role includes promoting and supporting the burial ground. The site celebrates the stories of the lost chapels, together with the personal stories of the congregation buried there, from Charles Baring, recently mentioned on BBC 1’s Who Do You Think You Are?, to a successful ship-builder / whaler trading off the River Exe. A new book produced by The Friends of Gulliford Burial Ground, Gulliford: A Burial Ground of Stories, is available through Amazon for £10. One of the roles of the Friends of Gulliford Burial Ground is to give free guided tours to groups and schools; for anyone interested contact www.fogbg.org.uk for arrangements.

Angela Coles

22 EXTON GARDEN CLUB In November we welcomed Jeremy Wilson back. He did bring some camellias, but this time he focused on a particular variety of camellia from which tea comes. His talk, The History of Tea, provided many interesting facts about this beverage, second only in popularity to alcohol. Expensive British tea comes from plantations in Cornwall, Devon, Wales and Scotland, whilst the more common varieties come from China, the largest producer.

Kenya and Argentina also have large-scale tea industries which are labour intensive, with the leaves being picked by hand; a worker typically picks 3540 kilos per day, which decreases by about half when dried.

The origins of the drink are uncertain. It is thought that possibly the first to drink it was a Chinese Emperor 5,000 years ago, who, while waiting for some water to boil for the preparation of herbal medicine, imbibed some liquid into which a few tea leaves had fallen. He found it very good!

For ease of transportation, tea was compressed into bricks, and was often used as currency. Called cha in Chinese, and translated into tea by early westerners, the substance was first brought to the Hague in 1606 by the East India Company, and thence to America. Francis Drake was known to have captured ships carrying tea and to have introduced it to the south west. It is possible that the building of Castle Drogo might have been partly funded through the tea trade.

Tea was expensive, such that the nobility kept it locked in caddies.

However, the servants re-used the leaves when the first brew came back from the drawing rooms. Neither were the benefits of tea drinking confined to displaying wealth and hospitality: Samuel Pepys records in his diaries that, because it was made with boiling water, it mitigated the effects of illnesses brought about by contaminated water. This was a most interesting talk.

Our next meeting is on 3 December, when there will be a gardening quiz.

Eileen Pratt

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WOODBURY PARISH COUNCIL Woodbury Parish Office Greenside, Greenway, Woodbury, Devon EX5 1LP. Telephone: 01395 233791. Email: woodburyparishcouncil@gmail.com The Parish Office is open: 09.30 - 12.30, Mon, Tues, Weds and Thurs.

Clerk to the Council: Anne-Marie Bates Woodbury Parish Council would like to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Again this year, we are sponsoring the Christmas Lights and special thanks to Kate Turner for arranging the Parish Office window which will be part of the Light up Woodbury - Living Advent Calendar. Thanks to the organisers and all those taking part.

We would like to introduce Councillor Alan Mills who was co-opted onto the Parish Council at the November Full Council Meeting. In 2019 Alan and his family moved from East Budleigh to Woodbury; he was a local business owner and involved with the Topsham Business Forum. He also volunteered and assisted with the setting up and running of the East Budleigh Community Shop. Now retired, he is looking forward to getting more involved within the local community. We wish Alan all the best in his new role.

Thank you for your warm welcome and to the residents who have popped into the Parish Office. I am looking forward to meeting residents/businesses across the Parish and working with the various community groups and Councillors, and to providing a service to the community. The office is open Monday to Thursday 09.30-12.30, so please pop in and say hello or raise any ideas or concerns that you may have.

Planning Woodbury Parish Council is a consultee for all planning applications within the Parish and applications are considered by members at a Full Council or a Planning Committee meeting. Results can be found on the East Devon website. https://planning.eastdevon.gov.uk/online-applications/.

Climate Change and Boosting Biodiversity At the November Full Council meeting and with COP26 in mind, Woodbury Parish Council agreed that a £1k grant will be given to Wild-Woodbury, so a number of initiatives to help deal with the effects of climate change and to boost biodiversity can be implemented in the Parish. The initiatives are:  Fund the testing of water quality in the streams that run through the Parish at eight different points.  Totally ban the use of glyphosate on Parish council land and use alternative methods to remove weeds. cont’d/...

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growth — improving the resistance to runoff from heavy rainfall and increasing biodiversity.  Fund the microchipping or ringing of any suitable animal released in the Parish from wildlife rescue or rehabilitation centres (if applicable and beneficial for the particular species), which will also supply a camera trap, footprint tubes etc to monitor wildlife present within the area.  Supply a tree to every child at school in the Parish if they can find a suitable place to plant it.

Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) The South West Trading Standards Service have advised that as of 17.00 on 3 November 2021 an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone was declared across Great Britain. This means that all bird keepers in Great Britain (whether they have pet birds, commercial flocks or just a few birds in a backyard) are required by law to take a range of bio-security precautions. For more information please go online and google AIPZ. All our meetings are held in The Church Rooms, Woodbury, and our next Full Council Meetings will be held on Monday 13 December 2021 and then 10 January 2022 starting at 19.30. All residents are welcome to attend.

Anne-Marie Bates WEATHER REPORT October’s total rainfall of 169mm (6.65 inches) was exceptionally high, comparable to that of the very wet May of this year. Particular October features were 124mm over the last two weeks, which were preceded by 13 dry days between 6th and 18th, during which your correspondent was able to celebrate his birthday.

The 20-year average for the month here at Ebford is 96.5mm or 3.8 inches, with wide variations.

Norman Cann

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DEATH We are sorry to report the death of Beryl House on 8 October. She was born Beryl Watts on 6 January 1932, at Merry Farm, Somerset. She had a happy childhood and left grammar school at 15 to work on the farm. She enjoyed amateur dramatics and attended the coronation in 1953. Later that year she met Gerald House at a Harvest Home dance. They married on 27 April 1954 and moved immediately into Woodbourgh Farm in Winscombe, Somerset. First Delia and then Lynne were born. In 1961 they moved to Venmore Farm, Woodbury and in 1962 Richard was born. Delia and Lynne developed a long-standing love of horses and Beryl became a BSJA judge, creating more friends. Venmore was renowned for its hospitality and Beryl was by Gerald’s side in the business. Gerald and Beryl retired to Woodbury Lodge in 1992, and continued to enjoy life with the family, including their five grandchildren. Gerald died on 25 October 2004, the date chosen for Beryl’s funeral at East Budleigh Church. Beryl then moved to Beechcroft.

She kept a very active mind and social life playing bridge, attending the Farm Women’s club, and visiting her sister and husband in France. Beryl took the family skiing to Val d’Isere for her 80th birthday and later to Italy twice. She particularly enjoyed family weddings and getting to know her great-grandchildren.

We send our condolences to the whole family.

THANKS Many thanks to all who took cooking apples from outside Broadway House and raised £47.02 for FORCE. Sally Bull and Liz Ollerenshaw WOODBURY NEWS to your door …

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26 FOUND: A HOME FOR ECOBRICKS I am absolutely delighted to have found a fantastic home for my ecobricks (single-use plastic bottles, stuffed with non-recyclable plastic). Serendipity or what? In last month's Woodbury News I wrote that I was looking for an ecobrick home, and in the very same issue was a report that the children in Woodbury Salterton School were embarking on a programme to build furniture for their school with ecobricks! We soon got together, and the bricks are now safely in the hands of the young researchers at the school who are heavily involved in a project to find out what can be done about reducing plastic waste. As part of their design and technology programme, they are researching ways in which the bricks can be formed into benches, tables and chairs for their school. When the furniture is ready, they are inviting local MP Simon Jupp to try it out, and to publicise their campaign. Future plans include lobbying for kerbside collections of non-recyclable plastic. This is fantastic news — well done Woodbury Salterton School, and here's to your success! Watch this space … and meanwhile read this report from Class Three children at Woodbury Salterton School on the progress so far.

Val Arndt We have been looking at recycling soft plastics (plastics that cannot yet be recycled in our roadside collection), and would love it if you could join us to make some ecobricks. A useful indicator to work out if something is a soft plastic is that, when you scrunch it, it pops back up e.g. crisp packets or yogurt lids.

We are campaigning to get people to make ecobricks instead of throwing their soft plastics away into the bin. Class 3 have collected soft plastics and have been making ecobricks in class which we are collecting to create recycled furniture for our playground.

We have had a zoom call with the local MP, Simon Jupp, who has given us great advice on how to run our campaign. We are hoping to make a change in our community by encouraging others to make ecobricks that can then be donated to our school and used within it to create furniture.

Did you know that ecobricks can be used to make a variety of different things? Perhaps you might make and save some for yourself to make your own project whilst helping the environment.

27 We would love your support with our campaign and would like it if you could spread the word for us around our community of Woodbury Salterton and Woodbury.

Please encourage others to make ecobricks and to either turn them into wonderful creations or to donate them to the school.

The Ethos group are going to make a collection point in front of the school so that you can drop off any ecobricks that you make.

We have already received a number of ecobricks from Val who made them with her friends during lockdown.

We are very grateful to have received these.

Megan, Evie, Luca and Olivia (Class Three) ENERGY SAVING TALK On Saturday 13 November we had a free talk on Energy Saving in Woodbury village hall by Martin Rich of Devon Communities Together.

He spoke about steps we could take to save energy, such as changing light bulbs to LED types and improving the insulation in our homes. He told us that the energy industry is currently in upheaval due to the unexpected increase in wholesale energy cost, and that many smaller energy supply companies are going to the wall. He indicated that if this happens to you, just do nothing; the government will arrange for your energy account to be passed to another supplier, and any positive balance you have built up on your account will be passed to your new supplier. Unfortunately if your account is in deficit you will be asked to settle it.

For some on pension credit or on low income, help is available from your energy supplier under the Warm Home Discount Scheme. Citizens Advice can give advice to those who have difficulty paying their bills. Martin urged those who qualify to ask their energy supplier to place their names on the Priority Service Register for priority support in an emergency. Energy companies can award grants for improving insulation and boiler efficiency to people receiving certain benefits.

Martin also spoke about future changes to the way you heat your house, which may be with ground or air source heat pumps in place of gas or oil.

He concluded by saying that no matter what type of heating one has in the future, it will be imperative to insulate your home as much as possible in order to reduce energy consumption.

David Bowers

28 SULLY MEMORIAL As Sully spent much of his time at school and especially enjoyed his time in the library, we thought that a fitting memorial would be to create an annual award in his name for the most improved reader(s). In partnership with the school, we've decided to present awards for the most improved KS1 and KS2 readers, with both recipients receiving a 'Sully Certificate' as well as getting to choose a book (or books) to be purchased for the new quiet room. Sully stickers that include the child's name will be stuck inside the cover of each book.

The quiet room, where a small number of children can read, listen to music (using headphones) or just relax in a calm environment, is to be called the Sully Snug.

The room will include pictures of Sully and other school pets and will be equipped with bean bags, books, cuddly toys, blankets, CDs, etc.

We would like the children to be able to choose up to £20 worth of books between them, so we are initially looking to raise £100 to cover the first five years. We are also looking to raise another £400 to help equip and maintain the Sully Snug over the next few years. We believe that this will be a valuable resource for the children who attend the primary school over the coming years.

Please help us to create a fitting memorial for a special cat who touched so many hearts in our wonderful village. In doing so you will also be providing the younger children of Woodbury with a resource that will be extremely beneficial to them.

The PTFA have agreed to accept and hold the funds for this project, so if you would like to make a donation, please transfer the money to the account below and reference it Sully.

Account name: Woodbury School PTFA. Sort code: 30-93-14. Account number: 01144009. Reference: Sully. Bank: Lloyds Bank Alternatively, you can put your donation in an envelope marked Sully and drop it in at the school office.

Thank you for your help.

Anna and Paul Crafer

29 COP26 How a world conference drew attention to matters that will affect us all Wildlife campaigner Tony Bennett, of Wild-Woodbury, offers his personal verdict below on the outcome of COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference recently held in Glasgow.

Most of the papers have declared COP26 a failure but that is a massive oversimplification. I have to agree that it is a terrible shame that the final resolution was watered down at the last minute. India was the nation that stuck its head above the parapet first; however it is widely believed that the Americans would have done something similar if India had not. We have to recognise the importance of calling on our own government to do the right thing. At the end of the day they are scared of losing votes or upsetting their financiers. We have to tell them that inaction is going to do them more damage to their electability. The UK government is doing a great deal to stop global warming but it is not enough when we consider the dangers we are facing. They are still licensing new oil fields in the North Sea and a new mine in Cumbria and so it is very hypocritical of them to criticise other nations.

Global Witness found that 503 people with links to fossil fuel interests had been accredited for the climate summit. They are said to lobby for oil and gas industries and they represent more delegates than any individual nation.

Brazil had the most delegates at 479 and the UK had 230. We have to stop people with vested interests from stopping global climate action in order to benefit their own self interest.

So the good news: As Greenpeace have pointed out, it’s a pretty big deal that for first time ever fossil fuel action was written into the final COP decision. Due to the publicity generated by COP26 there is a raised public awareness that climate change is already happening and how destructive it is.

People are beginning to realise that things are not just going to get a bit warmer, and that climate change means more storms, more floods, more disruption, more deaths, and a pretty bleak future not just for future generations but for people who are alive today. cont’d/...

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Until COP26 most people did not realise that rising temperatures will make the tropics uninhabitable and that there will be an inevitable migration to areas that will still be able to support life. People hadn't considered that rising sea levels will mean that whole communities will need to move away from low-lying coastal regions in the UK, and that parts of places like Lympstone and Exton, or communities built on flood plains of rivers, will be under water so often they will have to be abandoned.

The money that has been pledged is going to be needed to counteract the effects of global warming, not to stop it. Climate change has become something we need to deal with, and not plan for, and the recognition of that situation is a good thing.

Woodbury 26/15 will continue its campaign. We have a number of very important speakers who will be presenting information on their specialist fields. We are also working with Woodbury Parish Council who have agreed to some very important initiatives that we will report on in the next issue of Woodbury News.

Tony Bennett Tel: 07971 082384 info@wild-woodbury.org Website: http://www.wild-woodbury.org / Facebook: Wild-Woodbury NOTABLE TREES OF WOODBURY VI The year has swung around again and I’d like to write another festively themed piece for this tree article. As with last Christmas’s mistletoe, I’m stretching the definition of tree a bit, but both of my chosen species are woody plants and both have associations with Christmas (and older pagan festivals).

Holly and ivy are probably too well-known to require description, but in case anyone has any doubt there is a well-established holly that can be seen growing directly behind The Arch bus shelter (and plenty of ivy growing there too). Both plants are native evergreens and common throughout the parish, but holly is not particularly frequent. A few isolated specimens tend to pop up here and there in hedges or in woody margins around the villages.

Denser clumps can often be found within the woodland areas around the edge of the Commons and I can think of a number of sites where paths are hemmed in on each side by dense thickets of holly. The species is dioecious, meaning that specimens are either male or female. This means that the famous red berries are only produced on female plants, such as the one growing behind the bus stop. Oddly, some of the best known cultivated garden varieties are a bit gender-fluid, with Golden King being female and Silver Queen male. Holly can live to a great age (Knighthayes Court near Tiverton has the National Champion, a venerable old hedgerow specimen with a basal diameter of 2.4m), but in my researches for this article I couldn’t find any notably old holly trees within the parish.

31 Possibly there are some older specimens lurking in ancient hedgebanks away from public view, so if anyone knows of any significant examples, then please let me know.

Ivy creeps or climbs wherever it can find a foothold and is found almost everywhere in the parish. It has two leaf types, one being the characteristic five or three lobed leaf, always seen when the plant creeps over the ground or over low banks, and the other an ovate, smooth-margined leaf that is generally produced when it climbs higher above ground. The ground-creeping form never flowers, but the climbing form can produce large bunches of flowers from September to November and then dark berries that last until spring. This late flowering aspect makes the plant especially valuable as a food source for invertebrates when most other plants are dormant and on a sunny winter’s day flowering ivy can hum with insect life. The plant is not a parasite like mistletoe in that it only uses its chosen tree as a climbing frame. However, a really dense covering of ivy can lead to problems, particularly here in the windy West Country. Ivy stems can reach quite a size and I have a disc of ivy stem on my office windowsill, saved when removing ivy from a local tree, that measures nearly 20cm in diameter.

Both the holly and the ivy have associations with this time of year that go back to pre-Christian times, with holly being used in the Roman midwinter festival of Saturnalia. Like mistletoe, the evergreen nature of the plants, flourishing when all other plant life seems dead or dormant, can be seen as a symbol of the resurgence of life after the dark days around the winter solstice. All three are still often woven into Christmas wreaths or garlands.

Holly in particular became favoured around Christmas time, with the well known Christmas carol The Holly and the Ivy being mainly concerned with the Christian symbolism of holly. I can pretty much guarantee that most people reading this will have at least a Christmas card or some Christmas wrapping paper that includes pictures of the red-berried holly, if not a sprig of the plant itself somewhere in the house. On a dark winter’s day there is something very cheering about shiny-leaved holly laden with red berries.

Like the mistletoe, the berries of ivy and holly are mildly poisonous to humans, but ivy was reputed to improve poor quality wine, either by drinking from a goblet carved from ivy wood or by infusing leaves or berries in the drink. On that note I’ll leave you with the cover picture of one of the four Green Men (pre-Christian symbols of regeneration) from St Swithun’s.

He’s definitely the happiest of the four, and is that a bunch of ivy berries behind his left ear?

Have a happy Christmas.

Graham Joyce Email: gmj @dartmoortreesurgeons.co.uk

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Explore nature creatively this winter at Harpford Woods, Sidmouth Clinton Devon Estates’ forestry stewardship in East Devon includes a commitment to provide public access, wherever possible, alongside the production of sustainable timber. Eight new wooden Creative Nature Boxes have been installed in Harpford Woods, an ancient woodland site, near Sidmouth. Each box contains a different creative prompt designed to encourage people to enjoy nature in new ways. These range from calming activities like forest bathing (shinrin-yoku) and meditation, contemplative suggestions such as writing a Haiku poem and thoughts for the future, to child-friendly activities like make a nature bracelet and ways to make a linear walking map.

The Creative Nature Boxes were developed from a successful pilot project Art on the East Devon Way led by the Thelma Hulbert Gallery with East Devon AONB Partnership and Clinton Devon Estates in 2017, where artist Lizzy Humber produced several engaging story jars which were hidden in the woods. These were left out, and during lockdown local people left messages of hope in the story jars, so it will be interesting to see what will come out of people's interactions with this new and more permanent installation.

The boxes encourage community feedback and suggestions and will house further new activities over the coming months, as Double Elephant Print Workshop and the East Devon AONB Partnership continue to work with local schools and community groups through a new lottery grant - Places Called Home - funded by IKEA UK and The National Lottery Community Fund.

Be inspired by the ideas inside each box and have fun looking for them all.

Don't forget to share photos/comments/ideas and tag THG (@thelmahulber gallery). There isn’t a route to follow but the boxes are designed to be easily found from main routes without a map. Harpford Woods is easily accessible from the East Devon Way. Alternatively for a shorter walk, car parking is available in Harpford village or just off the A3052: Google Maps Plus code: PP5H+XW Sidmouth / Ordnance Survey grid ref: SY 1051 9066.

LORP update December 2021 Has LORP made the flooding worse? The flooding in the lower Otter valley this October was a dramatic example of what will increasingly happen as our climate changes. The river rose quickly to levels higher than they have been here in Budleigh for over eight years; levels rose quickly in surrounding valleys too.

33 This flood event was an entirely natural phenomenon and, importantly, was not caused or exacerbated by the LORP works. On this occasion the water took longer to disperse through the trunk drain and out to sea, as there were two flood events in quick succession. Once the project is complete, the current embankment will no longer trap the flood waters behind it and the flood waters will naturally drain more quickly.

The construction plant had not been moved ahead of the flooding, and the contractors therefore undertook an investigation to learn from the event.

They have made improvements to ensure this does not happen again at LORP or any other sites, including reviewing triggers and adopting a fully automated warning system that is linked to river levels.

The outfalls were checked for debris regularly by the site team but remained clear and as soon as the floodwater started to subside the equipment and vehicles were moved. All vehicles had sealed fuel units running biodiesel and were also bunded until it was safe to retrieve them. Most machines could be restarted and driven out of the floodwaters when water levels allowed. South Farm Road was opened and is being regularly swept clear for residents and access to South Farm businesses.

Environment Agency pollution staff closely monitored the site clear-up to ensure that the river had not been adversely affected. The programme of works is being revised following the flooding, recovery and clean-up. Site noticeboards and the website will be kept up-to-date with the latest timetable.

This aerial image shows the trapped water behind the embankment unable to drain away quickly. The LORP will reconnect the floodplain and the river once again so that water in the floodplain after heavy rainfall events (on the western side of the embankment) will have an effective exit.

The Lower Otter Restoration is a very complex project in a very dynamic environment. As the year draws to a close it is amazing to consider how much has been accomplished since last December. In the New Year the project partners look forward to site visits and other planned events to help bring the project to life for local people and facilitate educational visits for students of all ages.

Kate Ponting BEd (Hons), Countryside Learning Officer, 01395 443881, 07917 104250 kate.ponting@clintondevon.com

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CHRISTMAS GREETINGS Colin and Lin Ashby send warmest greetings and good wishes to you and yours, for Christmas and the New Year. We will be making a donation, in lieu of cards, to St Petroc’s sleeping bag appeal for the homeless in Devon and Cornwall.

Sue Bury wishes her friends in and around Woodbury a happy and healthy Christmas. In lieu of sending local cards, she will be donating to ShelterBox. Anna and Paul Crafer wish all our friends and neighbours a Happy Christmas and a healthy 2022. We will be donating to the Sully Snug memorial fund.

Gordon Davis wishes all his friends and neighbours a Merry Christmas and a Peaceful New Year. Instead of sending Christmas cards locally, I will be making a donation to Crisis - 'No-one should be homeless and alone this Christmas'.

Elspeth and John Fisher wish all their friends a very Merry Christmas and all Health and Happiness for 2022. In lieu of sending cards we are giving a donation to Médecins Sans Frontières.

Bob Haddow wishes all his friends and dog walking acquaintances in the village a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. A donation will be made to Friends of Woodbury Surgery in lieu of sending local cards.

Chris Lear and family wish everyone a happy and healthy Christmas and a peaceful New Year. Card donation to FORCE. Phil Dent and Terrie Newman wish all of their neighbours and friends in Woodbury Salterton and beyond the very best for Christmas 2021. We hope that it is filled with everything that means something special to you. We have chosen to send a donation to The Salvation Army, in lieu of sending cards this year. Merry Christmas!

Carolyn and David Keep wish all their friends and neighbours a happy Christmas and healthy New Year. They will be donating to Christian Aid in lieu of cards.

Chris and Alan Quantick wish all of their lovely friends and neighbours in the village a joyful Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year. Also many thanks to those who have kindly helped, or offered to help, whilst they are in the process of renovating their house. A donation will be made to The Exeter Chiefs Foundation which supports local causes.

35 Julie and John Maidment wish all their friends in Woodbury an enjoyable Christmas and a healthy 2022. A donation has been made to Children in Need.

Peter, Bridget and Matthew Williams wish everyone a Merry Christmas and very good health and happiness for the New Year. We will be making a donation to the Hospiscare SOS Appeal and St Petroc’s in lieu of sending local cards.

Ros and Warren Wright wish all their friends and neighbours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year. In lieu of Christmas cards we will be making a donation to ELF (Exeter Leukaemia Fund).

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 30 Nov. St Andrew’s Church, Exton. St Andrew’s Day Service. 09.30.

1 Dec-2 Jan Living Advent Calendar, Woodbury.

3 Dec. Exton Garden Club Quiz.

4 Dec. St Swithun’s special winter lych gate stall. 10.00-12.30.

4 Dec. Woodbury Salterton Church Christmas Bazaar. WSVH. 10.00.

4 Dec. Twinning Association Progressive Supper. WVH. 8 Dec. Woodbury Garden Club Christmas meal, Maltsters, 18.30 for 19.00.

9 Dec. WI Practical Workshop on Weaving. 14.00. WVH. 15 Dec. St Andrew’s Church Christmas Carols. 19.00.

16 Dec. WI Christmas meal. The Maltsters.

17 Dec. Exton Christmas Party at the Puffing Billy.

18 Dec. Family Xmas Bingo. WVH. Doors open 18.30/eyes down 19.30.

19 Dec. WS Carol Service at the church, 16.00.

21 Dec. Carol Singing around Woodbury, 19.00 on the village green.

22 Dec. Carol Singing around Woodbury Salterton, 18.00.

13 Jan. WI Quiz Afternoon, 14.00, WVH. 22 Jan. FoSS AGM and supper concert. St Swithun’s church.

2 Feb. Woodbury Tennis Club AGM. 19.30, Church Rooms.

3 Feb. Woodbury History Society AGM & Social. WVH 19.30.

10 Feb. WI 102nd Birthday Celebration, 14.00, WVH. 22 Feb. Twinning Association AGM. Du Buisson Room, WVH. 19.30.

3 March Woodbury History Society film by Julian Ware. WVH, 19.30.

5 March Hope4Kibera Barn Dance.

5 May Woodbury History Society. WVH, 19.30.

2-5 June Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Village celebrations tbc.

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