March 2023

WOODBURY NEWS

As I write, it is almost impossible to avoid hearing about the horrors of the earthquakes that have so recently devastated huge swathes of Turkey and Syria. The press, radio, television and social media recount stories of suffering in harrowing detail in both words and pictures. When Rev Bill Lemmey asked if he could write something for Woodbury News about the earthquakes, I welcomed his suggestion, and his article is on page 23, What Are We Going To Do Now? The courage and heroism of the rescuers, the medical personnel and the charitable organisations, who are working tirelessly in situ to do what they can, must be applauded. World leaders are sending financial and practical support, but perhaps the best we can personally do is to put our hands in our pockets and donate much needed funds. It is indeed too easy to think that the news is so awful, we can’t bear to watch or read it.

According to the radio, overnight in Turkey on 13/14 February temperatures plummeted to -7C. Pretty chilly under canvas, especially if next day you were going to work in the temporary field hospitals. Our moans about feeling cold and having to turn down the heating in our homes sound a bit pathetic. We do, of course, remain grateful to our local volunteers who were prepared to provide warm spaces in our villages for those feeling cold – even though there was little demand for this service, which has now been put on hold. Reading this month’s edition of Woodbury News, there are many opportunities for service to the local community supporting charitable events, becoming a school governor, helping to get our churchyards in tiptop condition or planting a few trees, for example. Read on, and you will find the relevant requests.

On a more cheerful note, on page 21 you will find the initial arrangements listed for how our villages plan to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III. As usual, our grateful thanks are extended to all those behind-the-scenes volunteers who are beavering away to ensure that this occasion is celebrated here in our corner of Devon in style.

The cover photo shows the enthusiastic and talented footballers from Woodbury Primary School.

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CHURCH SERVICES

26 February - Lent 1, Café Service at St Swithun’s, 10.30.

5 March - Lent 2, Holy Communion at St Swithun’s, 11.15. Evening Worship at Exton, 18.00.

12 March - Lent 3, Holy Communion at Exton, 09.30. Holy Communion at St Swithun’s, 11.15.

19 March - Lent 4, Mothering Sunday, Morning Worship at Exton, 09.30. Mothering Sunday Service at St Swithun’s, 11.15.

26 March - Lent 5, Evensong at St Swithun’s, 18.30.

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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.

CHURCH ALTAR FLOWERS - MARCH

5, 12, 19, 26 March - Lent (no flowers).

Easter Lilies Please add your name to the list in church if you wish to purchase a lily in memory of a loved one.

Please note, we will decorate church for Easter on Saturday 8 April.

Barbara Hill

WOODBURY HISTORY SOCIETY

2 MARCH, 19.30, WOODBURY VILLAGE HALL

A talk by Kate Ponting, Countryside Learning Officer and Charlotte Hodgson, Archivist of Clinton Devon Estates on The Lower Otter Restoration Project

All very welcome, members free, visitors £4 at the door.

COMBINED CHOIR EVENSONG

The church choirs of St Peter’s Church, Budleigh Salterton, and St Swithun’s Church, Woodbury, joined together in a festival style Evensong on Sunday 12 February.

The service was held in St Peter’s Church, and the choir was directed by Stephen Tanner, director of music and organist at St Peter’s. The two choirs provided 39 voices, and produced a superb sound, enhanced by the excellent organ accompaniment from David Davies. The music programme was put together and the event organised by Stephen Tanner and Colin Ashby, director of music and organist at St Swithun’s. The choir opened the service with Pitoni’s Cantate Domino, followed by the Versicles and Responses by William Smith. Psalm 148 was followed by Stanford’s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis. The anthem was John Ireland’s Greater Love and the organ voluntary at the end was William Harris’s Flourish for an Occasion. It was a joy to sing in a large choir and it is hoped that it will become an annual event. The next event for St Swithun’s choir will be The Cross of Christ, which will be sung in St Swithun’s on Palm Sunday, 2 April at 18.30.

Sue Hudson

FoSS (FRIENDS OF ST SWITHUN’S)

The FoSS AGM was held on 21 January. There have been three concerts and a cream tea during the year, with membership subscriptions over £400 having been added to FoSS funds. The present committee was willing to stand and was unanimously elected.

The AGM was followed by a concert. The Woodbury Whalers, under the leadership of Mike Jeans and Henry Freeman, started the proceedings giving another performance of favourite sea shanties, with a couple of recent additions. Woodbury Handbells, set up with the tables arranged on stage, gave us four new tunes starting with Country Garden. The Bel Canto choir was next on stage under director Robin Lennox, who gave a helpful introduction to each item. The performance of the choir was outstanding with an excellent variety of music enabling the choir to show their versatility, interspersing serious with humorous music.

Everyone then found a seat at a table for a chicken casserole, prepared by Elspeth Fisher and her team, accompanied by a glass of mulled wine. Over £300 was raised for FoSS funds. The next concert will be held on Saturday 29 April in church from 19.00. This will feature Bel Canto Choir with Catherine Luke as soloist. We will have as guests Devon County Junior Choir under the direction of Andrew Downton. Andrew, an organ scholar, will also play the organ and will make it sing! As there will be many children in the choir, this an excellent opportunity for youngsters in the village to see and hear quality music from other children. Tickets £10 adult, £2 school-age children. Tickets from Pat Browne, the committee or Rook Pie, and available on the door. Pat Browne

WOODBURY CRAFT GROUP

We will be meeting at 10.00-13.00 at Christ Church on Wednesdays 1, 15 and 29 March; 26 April; 10 and 24 May. All welcome. Trish Sussex

FNF FRIDAY NIGHT FLIX

24 FEBRUARY, 24 MARCH

Doors open at 19.00, film 19.30

WOODBURY VILLAGE HALL

Details of films are on the village hall noticeboard

WOODBURY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION AGM

TUESDAY 28 FEBRUARY, 19.30

WOODBURY CHURCH ROOMS

Guest speaker: District Councillor Geoff Jung. Contact Jan Owen on jmowenteacher@aol.com.

WOODBURY HISTORY SOCIETY

Woodbury History Society held its AGM on 2 February in Woodbury village hall.

Professor Nick Burgess took the chair and welcomed the attending members. In his Annual Report he said that among the gloom and despondency of the past three years there is positive and cheerful news to report. The society has been very active during the last twelve months with four interesting talks, and an exciting programme already planned by the Meetings Secretary for the coming year. It will include an exhibition in the summer based on materials from the society’s extensive archives.

Membership is enthusiastic and supportive and we elected a full committee of ten including Chairman, Treasurer and Archivist as detailed in the Society’s Constitution. A Society Secretary and a Meetings & Events Secretary were also appointed. Nick explained that after 10 years in the post of Chair he wished to step down but would continue in the very short term until someone comes forward to take over.

Roger Stokes resigned as a full-time member of the committee, remaining as a co-opted member to concentrate solely on the Society’s website. The rest of the committee were re-elected and were joined by a new member, Jim Champion, who is helping Chris Sheppard to revise the existing Churchyard, Cemetery and Christchurch burial records and plans.

The Chairman thanked all the committee members for everything they do at different times and in a variety of ways to make the society what it is, a high quality and valuable asset to the parish. He said their expertise and experience combine to provide a team of which we can all be proud.

David Bowers, the treasurer, reported a healthy bank balance for 2022, with a paid-up membership of 65. Last year’s talks were very well attended by members with an increased number of visitors paying at the door. At the time of the AGM, 40 members had paid up for this coming year with numbers still growing.

Giving the Archivist’s report, Adrian Christopher invited members to let him or Gillian Selley know if they wished to visit the archives at any time.

Adrian also drew attention to the exhibition Woodbury Beneath Our Feet, to be held on Saturday 24 June in Woodbury village hall. This will be based on the late Nigel Tucker’s large collection of finds discovered while metal detecting around Woodbury.

At the conclusion of the business part of the evening everyone was invited to partake of the excellent buffet and a glass of wine laid out at the back of the hall. In addition, there was the opportunity to experience A Taste of History, by sampling some of the following recipes from the past prepared by Joyce Peachey:

 Frumenty A thick boiled grain (wheat) dish, flavoured with spices, sugar and fruit with origins in medieval times. Referenced in Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge.

 Empire Christmas Pudding Made from a 1928 recipe promoting ingredients collected from different parts of the then British Empire.

 Marchpane biscuits These sweetmeats, made from ground almonds and sugar flavoured with rosewater, were very popular in Elizabethan banquets.

 Maids of honour tarts Lemon-flavoured curd pastries that were reputedly enjoyed by Henry VIII.

 Woolton pie From a recipe devised by the head chef of the Savoy Hotel during WW2 and named after Lord Woolton, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. This vegetable pie topped with a cheesy potato pastry fell out of favour with the British public as soon as rationing ended.

 Coronation chicken A recipe devised to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 had a bit of a revival for her platinum jubilee last year, consisting of cold chicken pieces in a sweetened curry-flavoured mayonnaise and yoghurt dressing. The next diary date to note is a talk on The Lower Otter Restoration Project, on 2 March at 19.30 in Woodbury village hall.

Joyce Peachey, Meetings Secretary

Photo by Sophie Steele

HOPE 4 KIBERA

Breaking the Cycle of Poverty through Education

hope4kibera.org.uk

BARN DANCE YEE-HA!

Charity Number 1189029

Don’t miss out on the Hope4Kibera Barn Dance on Saturday 4 March in Woodbury village hall. Please come and celebrate another active and successful year of H4K, featuring the popular Spinach For Norman band and caller. Tickets @ £12.50 each include a ploughman’s supper. There will be a bar (cash or card) and a raffle. Email: treasurer@hope4kibera.org.uk for tickets. It will be a fun evening and a great way to make a big difference. See you there!

All the funds raised go directly to our partners running the school we support in Kibera. Every £20 puts one of our students from the slum through a full week of school: teaching, board & lodging all included.

H4K AUTUMN QUIZ

The quiz was well supported and we enjoyed Richard Workman's wide range of quirky questions. There were also happy winners of some superb raffle prizes. During the interval, we had a brief update on the progress being made in the school in Kibera and a lovely video message from Kibera to all our supporters. After all expenses, an excellent £812.85 was raised.

GRANTS TO KIBERA

Thanks to all this great support, on 18 January 2023, we were able to send out the full budget request of £8,398 to cover the costs of the first term this year. This included £1,350 to provide a new set of school uniforms for the students as they enter their final year. The school is expanding with new classrooms and a laboratory building. The lives of children, who previously had no hope, are being transformed, thanks to your generosity. Join the journey at <hope4kibera.org.uk>

Charlie Collins, Chair H4K

WOODBURY AND DISTRICT ROYAL BRITISH LEGION OPEN EVENT

To raise awareness of the charity RV-ONE and to showcase the Royal British Legion in Devon and beyond.

SATURDAY 25 FEBRUARY, 12.00 - 15.00

THE WHITE HART, WOODBURY All welcome.

WOODBURY LIVING ADVENT CALENDAR

Well done Woodbury! First, we would like to thank Liz Dunne and her team of willing volunteers who made the 2022 Woodbury Living Advent Calendar (WLAC) such an enjoyable village event, while also raising much needed funds for two local good causes.

It was always the intention for new custodians to come forward each year to take on the organisation and planning of this community project in order to keep reaching out to as many people as possible and to embrace new ideas. WLAC 2023 will be a chance to celebrate its sixth anniversary and we, Ruth Bagwell and Jules Hester, are delighted to take over the reins from Liz and her team. We will be using Woodbury News, Facebook and Instagram to make announcements over the coming months as we start planning behind the scenes. It also means that we have the privilege of choosing two local charities to benefit from our community fundraising event. These will be announced in due course but, rest assured, they will be close to our collective hearts. Whether you are new to the village or new to the event, we hope to meet in September with anyone interested in designing a window, when we’ll gather together to discuss the finer details. So, lots to look forward to and we are excited to reveal that Woodbury Church Rooms are already booked for a finale on 24 December! Watch this space… With many thanks in advance for your continued support.

Jules Hester and Ruth Bagwell

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MAYTREE PRESCHOOL

Maytree Preschool had a successful fundraiser event at the village hall last month to raise funds for Woodbury’s much loved village preschool. The fundraising team, made up of three dynamic mums whose children have attended the preschool, organised a disco and party games for just over 30 toddlers. The theme for the disco was A Celebration of Lights. It was held late afternoon in January when it was nearly dark, to accentuate the fairy lights and colourful up-lighting in the hall (provided generously by local lighting company Socialights). Homemade cup-cakes, glorious doughnuts and sticky chocolate loaf were the order of the day in the tea, coffee and hot chocolate corner, where parents were encouraged to give further donations. Excited two, three and four-yearolds entered the hall full of energy, keen to run around in their princess party dresses and fancy dress costumes. At first the children played with pastel coloured balloons that were strewn around the hall. Then they danced to a selection of songs including, of course, Disney’s Frozen blockbuster Let it Go. After much dancing, the final act was dedicated to classic party games such as What’s the time Mr Wolf, before the children trotted happily home with party bags including a glow-in-the-dark disco bracelet. The event itself was enjoyed in equal measure by the children, parents and organisers, and Maytree is delighted to reveal that on the night we raised an impressive £300! As the community is aware, Maytree is a not-for-profit charity and we rely heavily on the generosity of the local community. The current economic climate is an ongoing challenge for us and our hard-working staff. If anyone reading this would like to donate to Maytree, we are looking to match-fund the £300 raised on the night, so any donation big or small would be gratefully received. Please email chairperson@maytreepreschool.com if you would like to help us achieve our goal and bring our total raised this term to £600. Monies raised would go towards essential day-to-day running costs of our village preschool. With thanks.

Katherine Levy, Chair of Maytree Preschool

WOODBURY AND DISTRICT ROYAL BRITISH LEGION

19/20 March marks the 20th anniversary of the commencement of the Iraq War.

The branch Open Event on 25 February is to showcase the ongoing work and support the Royal British Legion gives to military personnel and their dependants. Woodbury branch is very involved with raising funds through the Poppy Appeal.

Our open event is also about helping the community through the Charity RV-ONE. Please support your local branch or we’ll lose it.

Sandra Huish (Chairman)

WOODBURY TENNIS CLUB

The Club AGM was held in the Church Rooms on Wednesday 1 February when a good discussion took place on hut improvements. It was decided by an almost unanimous vote that the existing hut would be demolished by voluntary labour and a new purpose-built hut be placed on the existing foundations. This would take place in the autumn.

The subscriptions for 2023 will be adult £75 (£70 if paid early), family £150 (£140 if paid early), £50 daytime (£45 if paid early), junior £15. As last year, we will field two Men’s teams, a Ladies team and a mixed team in the summer local leagues.

The junior coaching programme with John Wingate and Christine Sheward will resume at the start of the summer term on Wednesday 19 April for youngsters from 5 to 16 years in separate groups! £5 per session anyone wishing to join please contact Christine (christinesheward58@gmail.com).

Garry and Christine Sheward were awarded commended certificates for Devon LTA volunteer of the year at the county AGM on 8 February.

Club sessions continue to operate 10.00 Sunday and 10.00 Tuesday (ladies). All enquiries on tennis matters should be addressed to Pat Browne (ruthandpatb@aol.com). Pat Browne

WOODBURY NEWS CLOSING DATES

20 MARCH. 17 APRIL. 15 MAY. 19 JUNE.

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WOODBURY C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL

Chestnut Class have been lucky enough to have local textile artist, Karen Fanzo, join them in their art lesson. Mrs Fanzo taught the children how to create patterns for their designs, attach these to their material choices and sew them onto their background piece. The children have designed their own piece in groups, inspired by artist Faith Ringgold. The children showed great determination, especially when it came to threading the needle! The final results are fantastic, and we can see we have many potential textile artists in the making.

Beech Class have been busy reading Whatever Next by Jill Murphy. They have been dressing up as astronauts and zooming off into space. They have also been practising their writing skills by sending messages to aliens!

The children have also been having great fun at Forest School each week. They have learnt to move safely around the fire and roast their own marshmallows. They have also been making little dens for fairies and, when the weather has been very cold, discovering how interesting ice is. They have been learning lots of maths outside as well, finding out that you can make shapes out of different natural materials, and practising their counting skills.

As part of their history topic Crime and Punishment of the Last 1,000 Years, Ash Class had the pleasure of visiting Bodmin Jail. Even the adults were mesmerised by how intimidating, fascinating and remarkable was the technology that merged with the remains of a Georgian/Victorian prison. The Dark Walk was exhilarating, combined with squeals and gasps from everyone as they were taken through the crimes committed by a few prisoners - the youngest being an eleven-year-old boy whose sentence was 10 days for stealing a stick of celery! cont’d/...

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The winding passages littered with artefacts, Harry Potter-esque rotating images of prisoners, interactive punishments and great photo opportunities to punish both children and teachers in the stocks, made the trip good fun. I do wonder what their live museum may include when we bring the topic to a close before Easter.

Sporting Update

Some of our Years 4, 5 and 6 football players have had the opportunity to play football against different teams this half term. A team are currently competing in the Exeter Partnership Football League. Despite the cold temperatures, the children have been in great spirits and Mr Bevan-Smith has commented that he has seen some wonderful interplay and a great team spirit.

We have also taken part in the biggest footballing event of the school calendar, the Exeter City Football Utilita Kids Cup. Thirty teams from across Devon took part. It was a great opportunity for Woodbury to showcase their talents and they did just that winning the group stages undefeated, boasting the most goals scored (12), the least conceded (0) and taking the top spot of all thirty teams. However, in the knockout stages, we came unstuck against a plucky Wynstream who scored two lucky goals late on to knock us out of the cup. Nevertheless, all participants did themselves, their teammates and the school proud. Well done to all players and to Mr Norton and Mr Bevan-Smith for organising and accompanying them.

Would you like to be a governor?

We are looking for school governors from the community. Do you have some time to spare? Serve as a school governor a great opportunity to give something back through our fantastic Church of England schools. You don’t need lots of experience and you don’t need to be a parent. All we ask is that you value Church of England education, share our passion for making our schools the best they can be, and have the commitment and skills needed to be a governor.

As a governor, you’ll get the opportunity to make a positive difference to the educational experiences and outcomes of children and young people. There is nothing more satisfying, and the Diocese of Exeter will support you every step of the way.

To indicate your interest in becoming a governor, please complete our expression of interest form on our website https://exeter.anglican.org/ schools/be-a-governor/ and email beagovernor@exeter.anglican.org and we’ll be in touch. If you prefer, you can speak to the education team on 01392 294 950.

Gillian Pyle (Head of School)

WOODBURY WOMEN’S INSTITUTE

On Thursday 9 February, Woodbury WI met to celebrate our 103rd birthday and to hear a fascinating talk from one of our favourite speakers, Chris Woodward. Chris had helped us to celebrate our 100th birthday in 2020, which turned out to be our last face-to-face meeting for more than 18 months, as the pandemic struck the following month. Lin Ashby, president, opened the meeting by welcoming 24 members and four guests, wished them all a happy birthday and introduced Chris, whose topic was Facts, Myths & Legends of Dartmoor. Chris began the talk with a geology lesson: he told us how Great Britain had been formed from one super continent millions of years ago and, by using diagrams of rock formations (that we now recognise as the granite tors of Dartmoor), he showed how individual areas of Britain had evolved geologically. He told us about the minerals and ores contained within granite, how they are extracted and what they are used for. cont’d/...

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Having described the geography and geology of Dartmoor, Chris talked about facts and then told tales about Dartmoor, passed from generation to generation by locals living in the area. He explained how the mires, tors and valleys have inspired hundreds of years of legends about ghosts, strange beasts and tragic deaths. Evidence of many myths and legends can be seen to this day - the gravestone of a girl called Mary who died after being abandoned, the finger-post marking a hanging site and a memorial in Widecombe church. Two famous authors used well-known legends on which to base their stories: R D Blackmore based Lorna Doone on one such legend, relocating it from Dartmoor to Exmoor, and Conan Doyle used the legend of the Devil Dogs for The Hound Of the Baskervilles, Grimpen Mire being a local mire that the author knew, and the names of the characters people he knew too.

Chris ended his talk on a happier note - at Widecombe Fair with the tale of Uncle Tom Cobley, members joining in the singing. Sue Bury gave the vote of thanks.

After tea and birthday cake, a few business matters included supporting the NFWI Resolution on On-line Gambling Awareness. Courses, walks and trips were advertised, a letter from former member Pauline Wratten was shared, the quiz team were congratulated for coming joint fourth out of 16 teams in the DFWI competition, and Sue Bury invited quizzers to take part in a fund-raising Rotary quiz, taking place in the village hall on Friday 31 March.

The next WI meeting on 9 March will be about Beekeeping, and visitors are welcome.

Lin Milsom-Ashby

WOODBURY SALTERTON NEWS

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH

Children’s Film Night

Another of the popular film nights for children was held at the end of January. Children came into church with excitement, wearing their pyjamas or onesies and clutching duvets and pillows, and settled down to watch Madagascar. Debbie Jung and Jill Dupain sold popcorn, soft drinks, sweets and hot chocolate. £140 was raised for church funds.

March Coffee Morning

It is encouraging that more people than usual attended the February coffee morning. The March event is on the 4th, as always the first Saturday in the month, in church from 09.30 until 10.30. Bacon butties will be served with the coffee.

MONTHLY CRAFT AFTERNOONS

These take place in the village hall on the last Wednesday of each month, from 13.00 until 16.00. These are proving a popular social event when anyone can bring their craft work and sit and chat to friends and enjoy tea, coffee and cake. If you would just like the company but don’t do a craft you are still welcome to join us for a chat. The March event will be on Wednesday 29th.

VILLAGE LUNCHES AT THE DIGGER’S REST

With the reopening of The Digger’s under new managers Simon and Nikki, we have been able to resume our monthly village lunches. The date is always the second Wednesday in the month and we meet at 12.00. The March meal will be on the 8th a chance to meet up with friends in the village and have a good chat. Anyone interested in joining us please contact Nikki at The Digger’s to book a place. All are welcome.

Katharine Wheeler

HOSPISCARE

COFFEE AND CAKE MORNINGS

FIRST TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH

WOODBURY CHURCH ROOMS

10.00 - 12.00. All very welcome.

WOODBURY GARDEN CLUB

TUESDAY 14 MARCH, 19.15 for 19.30

WOODBURY VILLAGE HALL

Speaker, Rob Hutch, of Hutch House Plants, Exeter, will be talking about keeping house plants and also bringing a large selection for sale. Visitors welcome - £3.

MARCH SERVICES FOR ST ANDREW’S CHURCH, EXTON

Sunday 6 March - Evening Prayer, Revd Roz Harrison, 18.00.

12 March - Holy Communion, Revd Bill Lemmey, 09.30.

19 March - Lay-led service, 09.30.

PREPARING FOR EASTER IN EXTON

Good Friday (7 April)

The annual Easter Egg Hunt will be held in the Goosefield, from 10.30 until 12.00. Coffee and hot cross buns will be served and everyone, no matter how young or old, is very welcome. Keep your fingers crossed for the same glorious weather we enjoyed last time!

The week before Easter

Let’s keep the tradition going of decorating gates, drives, windowsills, trees, doors, etc. with Spring/Easter themed displays. Easter gardens, flowers, eggs, rabbits – all are welcome! (There were even Easter dinosaurs last year). Whilst a visit from the Exton Easter Bunny, delivering chocolate eggs to each participating household cannot always be guaranteed, this lovely tradition makes people smile, cheers up a potentially lonely dog-walker, and helps unleash some of that latent creativity in Exton residents. If you’ve not tried before, why not make 2023 your Easter Decoration Year? Liz Williams

EXTON GARDEN CLUB

The speaker at our February meeting was Ben Candlin from Exmouth who gave us an interesting talk on Adventurous Plants. This covered unusual perennials and tropical plants which it is possible for us to include in our gardens. Ben is also a working gardener and had some excellent photos, showing how it is possible to have a good display. Many of these plants are evergreen with few flowers, but there is plenty of colour and interesting shapes which give a sculptural effect. One of the gardens had a lovely backdrop of these plants with some hardy flowering perennials in the front to provide colour. There are of course the ones we already have in our gardens, such as the cannas and banana plants, which have good colour and impressive leaves. Ben suggested introducing one or two of these or a castor oil plant (Fatsia Japonica) and Arisaema from bulbs to give a bit of extra interest and shape. He had several books on growing tropical plants, the earliest by William Robertson published in the 1800s. Ben brought a selection of plants, some of which I’m sure will be seen in Exton gardens. The next meeting will be the AGM on 3 March and the following meeting is brought forward to 31 March due to the April date being on Good Friday. Ben Carlson will be talking about pelargoniums.

Eileen Pratt

WOODBURY PARISH CELEBRATIONS FOR KING CHARLES III CORONATION

SATURDAY 6 AND SUNDAY 7 MAY

Plans to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III across the parish are well underway and we are now able to share more detail of the weekend celebrations. Further details will follow, so please look out for updates in Woodbury News and on posters and Facebook.

Saturday 6 May Afternoon Woodbury 15.00 to 17.00

Woodbury village green - Afternoon tea in the marquee. Afternoon tea £6 and optional glass of fizz £1 to toast our new King.

Saturday 6 May Evening Woodbury from 19.00 onwards

Woodbury village green – An evening of music (performed by All Jazzed Up), dancing & firework finale. Maltsters bar available in the marquee. BBQ £5 (vegetarian and coeliac options available). Hog Roast £6.50.

Sunday 7 May Morning Woodbury 10.30

Woodbury village green marquee - Combined Church Service White Cross Community and Christ Church. All welcome.

Sunday 7 May Afternoon Exton from 13.00

Goosefield arrival from 13.00.

14.00 to 15.00 - Professor Bumble to entertain. Children’s fancy dress with prizes.

15.30 – Children’s afternoon tea party – food and drink provided for children.

17.00 onwards - Jazz trio and welcome drink provided. BBQ run by the Puffing Billy, and bar run by the Goosefield Committee.

Woodbury 7 May from 15.00

Village Green Street Party from 15.00 onwards. BYO food. Squash provided, tea/coffee for sale. Royal theme fancy dress (optional). Some tables/chairs available but bring picnic blanket just in case. The Maltsters and White Hart open for beverages and toilets. If weather bad, this will be held in the marquee.

Woodbury Salterton

Details of Saturday and Sunday celebrations to follow.

ROUNDANDABOUT DEATH

Maureen Wright (16 June 1940 - 28 January 2023.

We are sorry to report the death of Maureen Wright on 28 January. We send commiserations to Alan and their family. Maureen’s funeral is due to take place as we go to press; a full obituary will be included next month.

WELCOME

Welcome to Natalie Bell-Moyse of Willow Hair and Wellbeing, formerly Salon No. 8. We wish her every success.

MX5 OWNERS CLUB

The photo below taken on 5 February on a lovely sunny Sunday morning shows some cars of members of the MX5 owners club from Torbay to Taunton. We would just like to say a big thankyou to Lee and Luke at the White Hart for providing us with a fab breakfast, before we set off for an open-topped drive around East Devon. The guys made us feel very welcome and are keen to provide a service to our community. Judging by their willingness to open especially for us, I would like to encourage you all to use their facilities. Please give them a try; you will not be disappointed.

Nita Goffron

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO NOW?

The idea for this article comes from a most thought-provoking piece on Thought For The Day, broadcast on Tuesday 7 February at 07.50 on Radio 4. If it’s still available, do listen to it. However, I am going to summarise it now for those who can’t. It was given by Rabbi Laura Naomi JannerKlausner only a couple of days after the terrible news of the earthquakes in both Turkey and Syria. She said: ‘[following the] earthquakes the death toll is still rising (then about 4,000 dead). It has happened to lands still traumatised, one of them still shaking from years of war … [Our] world leaders have rightly pledged to send support. As I watched the news from the safety of my home, I alternated between imagining how horrendous it is, and turning away to retreat. As I did I was reminded of a client of mine who is a coach working with those affected by natural disaster, who told me that humans can live with the facts of natural and other disasters because generally we just don’t believe they will happen to us.’

‘This can lead to two responses,’ she said: ‘On the one hand

it can be a good thing to build a retreat like this – a coping mechanism to distance ourselves from natural disaster. On the other hand, it can allow us to be excused from sustaining a vital empathy to respond to distant disasters or catastrophes such as these earthquakes.’

She then referred to the Hebrew Bible: ‘Elijah also retreats when he feels under threat (by hiding in a cave). God’s response is to say “Why are you there? Ge[t] out!” (spoken in a cockney accent). So Elijah stands outside the cave and experiences the extremes of climate: earthquakes, avalanches, tornadoes and fire - cataclysmic sights and sounds.’

Significantly the Rabbi says: ‘In the aftermath of an earthquake, every so often rescuers stand in complete silence - just listening. They are trying to hear any sound of life obscured by noise of moving rubble. Elijah also experienced silence after the earthquake and after having felt the presence of God. But that wasn’t enough. Most important is what happened next: Elijah was commanded to act! Not just to listen or hide in a cave!

So the quiet voice of God asked him: “So, Elijah, what are you going to do now?” The story of Elijah is helpful when we are forced to deal with so much noise and pressure in our own life. Like Elijah, we need to move out of the safety of our own caves. Rabbi Janner-Klausner asked us to imagine ourselves along with the earthquake rescuers listening intently. Can we allow ourselves to hear even the slightest still small voice? She concluded by asking ‘So, what are we going to do now?’

In the Christian tradition, we can reply “Amen”. But this means (probably) “So be it”. So be “what”? In response, I repeat her final question: ‘What are we going to do now?’

Rev Bill Lemmey (with a lot of Rabbinical help!)

From Peter Payne

Can I say how much I enjoyed reading Gill Selley's article in the last edition of Woodbury News entitled Globe Hill. Like all of Gill’s articles, it was well researched, relevant and very entertaining. Gill has been a regular contributor to Woodbury News for a number of years now and I congratulate and thank her.

From Chris Quantick

We've been catching the 09.30 'T' bus into Exeter since it came into service late last year. The same bus does a circular route and leaves again at 11.00 and 13.00. It’s a Dartline bus that is very prompt. So far the driver has been the same charming young man called Ross, who is very considerate and a very good driver. It goes via Topsham and sometimes, for a change, we alight there. It gets into town at around 10.10 and the return 'T' buses leave from outside NEXT at 10.20; 12.20 and 13.50. If you wish to stay in town longer there are buses, going via Greendale, leaving the bus station until the last one at 17.35.

You could in fact, if the times suit you better, catch the 'T' bus to Topsham, alight there and catch another to Exmouth and do the same in reverse or catch the '58' bus back but would need to make sure you get the correct connection times.

I really cannot fault this service (except I’d like it to have later times back) and recommend everyone to try it. It really is a case of use it or lose it.

From David Whitton

I share Ken Perry's frustration with the slow progress of the Neighbourhood Plan.

On its website, the Government says "Neighbourhood Planning is a new way for communities to have a say in the future of the places where they live and work. It gives you the power to produce a plan with real legal weight that directs development in your local area."

I invite those responsible for producing the Plan to let the community know:

 The governance arrangements for the production of the Neighbourhood Plan

 An update on the status of the Plan

 The programme with key milestone dates for completing and publishing the Plan

 Steps that are being taken to ensure programme compliance and the earliest possible Plan publication date.

DEVON CPRE’S ANNUAL BEST CHURCHYARD COMPETITION

The Devon branch of the countryside charity, Campaign to Protect Rural England, is once again on the lookout for award-worthy churchyards across the county. Since Devon CPRE launched its Best Churchyard Competition six years ago, the charity has come across inspiring stories of communities pulling together to make the most of the green spaces around their churches and chapels.

Is the green space around your local church a welcoming sanctuary for people and wildlife? What has your community done to make your churchyard a place for people of all ages, regardless of their faith or mobility? Have you taken steps to increase biodiversity in your churchyard? What innovations have you used to encourage people to use and enjoy the churchyard, or to help people to find graves in pursuit of historical or family research? Whatever your community has done to help your churchyard thrive, Devon CPRE wants to hear from you. The deadline for entries is 31 March 2023. The winning churchyard receives a cheque for £200 and a sustainable oak plaque to display with pride. The results will be announced in September. To enter, visit: www.cpredevon. org.uk/competitions/devons-best-churchyard-competition/

WOODBURY TWINNING ASSOCIATION

Wine Tasting Evening

Join us for a fun quiz testing your knowledge of wines! Try a variety of different wines with accompanying nibbles. 25 MARCH IN THE CHURCH ROOMS

STARTING AT 19.30

Members: £15 Guests: £18.

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CENTENARY OF THE TEA BUNGALOW (information sourced from the Dupain family)

In 1913 James Marley went to Canada with his wife, Cecil Mary. Their daughter, Constance, was born in 1915 on Cortes Island, off Vancouver Island. The family returned to England after WWI and bought a plot of land from Sunnyhaye Fruit Farm in Sanctuary Lane, near the junction with the B3180 across Woodbury Common. The area was open fields on which they built a Boulton and Paul wooden bungalow in 1920. They ran a chicken farm there but in 1923 visiting friends remarked on the quality of the cream tea and inspired Cecil Marley to start selling teas.

The standard tea initially included two scones and a selection of sponge cakes, which were served on a two-tier cake-stand with doilies. Strawberries from the Fruit Farm and local Devonshire clotted cream were essential elements; jam was initially home-made blackberry jelly but later changed to strawberry and the butter pats were handmade. Leaf tea was always used; in later years young waitresses had to be taught to use a tea strainer. The only fuels were solid fuel for the Aga, bottled gas and paraffin until the late 50s. Cooking had to be fresh every day and if there was unexpected demand, extra scones had to be hastily baked. Orders were not written down but delivered to the kitchen from memory; the aim was a personal service, even though over 200 people might be served in an afternoon at peak times. The first tearoom was in the spare bedroom of the bungalow, seating 15 people.

A full cream tea cost one shilling (5p). To accommodate more visitors, a wing was soon built at right angles to the bungalow for 30 customers. A further extension increased the capacity to 70 with a further 30 able to sit in the garden. In the early days there was a separate room at the back for chauffeurs, reached by a back path, but most customers still arrived by pony and trap, bicycle or on foot. The tea rooms were coloured yellow and brown, as was the china. The knives were bone handled and all the washing up was by hand, of course. Staff were brought from Woodbury in Stamp’s taxi. The Union Flag was flown when the tea garden was open. Fears that WWII would stop customers coming because of petrol and food rationing proved wrong. Scotch pancakes were served as a substitute for scones and proved so popular that they remained on the menu thereafter. When supplies were low, the basic offer was a boiled egg tea, using eggs from Sunnyhaye Farm. The WWII air raid shelter came in useful for keeping perishable items cool and is still visited occasionally by school groups. Polish airmen based at Exeter airport were frequent customers during WWII and dipped the wings of their fighter aeroplanes when flying over. Douglas Bader was one famous visitor amongst the many service personnel. The ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn was another, brought by her grandparents who lived in Exmouth. Some regular visitors donated trees and shrubs for the garden and seats in memory of loved ones.

Constance Dupain took over the business when her mother died in 1955 and her family moved into the Tea Bungalow but of course she had long been involved in helping, joining officially when she left Exmouth Grammar School. Constance was a keen hockey player and represented Devon. Just after WWII, Constance married John Dupain and their home was a wooden bungalow next door to the Tea Bungalow. Their sons, Nigel and Simon, were born there.

In 1985 Constance retired and closed the Tea Bungalow business. Cream was then £1.40 per pound, in contrast to one shilling and six pence (7½p) when she started serving teas. In the final year, a cream tea cost £1.40 and a plain tea was £1.00. Constance continued to live in the bungalow until she went into care, a year before she died in 2001. A tribute to her stressed the high standards and politeness that were hallmarks of the business. In 2011 the courtesy, attention and good value that she offered to all visitors were recalled in an article entitled Bring back proper Devon cream teas. The Tea Bungalow is now the home of Hannah Dupain and her family.

Carolyn Keep

RSPB AYLESBEARE COMMON

The heavy rains before Christmas have been pleasingly absent in the last couple of months, giving way to dry and sometimes frosty weather. And snow – we spent a Wednesday morning in January working while it was snowing all over us, using chainsaws and hand tools. They were character-building conditions, and we were joined by brand new volunteers who returned the following week undeterred.

The drier conditions make our winter scrub work a little easier all round: less muddy clothing to dry out at the end of the day, easier underfoot without the need for wellies, easier to drive around the reserves. In wet weather we’d soon ruin many of our tracks so we avoid those that are saturated, muddy or steep. Excess rain and mechanical disturbance (as well as footfall and mountain bikes) all contribute to erosion. Also a prolonged dry spell provides us with a window to do some swaling. This intervention is only possible in winter, outside the breeding season, and when the vegetation is dry enough to burn. Some years we’ll have no such window of dry weather, with the right sort of wind, or perhaps our work schedule or resources don’t accommodate it.

Swaling is the controlled burning of standing heathland vegetation. Sometimes, we have bonfires to dispose of our cut scrub, but swaling involves setting light to the ground vegetation instead. In lowland heathland management, we burn small areas at a time, perhaps 20m by 20m.

If done correctly, in ideal conditions, it may look dramatic but the moving line of fire is slow. We begin the fire downwind so that it burns slowly and well, against the wind, and we mow fire breaks around the area. When the wind is too gusty or fast it may be too risky, so we can’t do it. But if there’s no breeze at all, it can be hard to get it going. The idea is that the vegetation above ground is burned out and we create the equivalent of a scrape, with less soil disturbance. Often we’ll choose areas where tractor or bulldozer work would be tricky, because swaling is a great solution there. In the spring, the area recovers with green shoots from the gorse and heather, as well as creating space for seedlings to germinate. It’s an immediately destructive intervention, as many of our management tools are, but in the following five to ten years, it provides valuable pioneer habitat within the landscape. We can use swaling to open up areas and regenerate them in ways we wouldn’t otherwise be able to. Sometimes our grazing animals can do this, but if it’s too dense they simply don’t bother going in.

As with all our winter scrub work on the heaths, we dot about; we don’t just hit one big area. We are always aiming to create that useful buzzword in conservation land management – a mosaic. Within a lowland heathland site, that habitat mosaic looks like a mix of different age structures, with a percentage of bare ground, ideally relatively small in scale because many of our specialist species (eg the silver studded blue butterfly, adders, invertebrates of all sorts) will not easily roam and colonise new areas far apart.

At the beginning of the year we began a new Countryside Stewardship agreement, and we have started work for this, including some scrub clearance in the less-visited St Mary in the Willows and also Manor Common. We have undertaken an agreement with the land owner to manage Manor Common and one of the first stages of this will involve fencing it so that we can start to increase the grazing with native breeds of cows and ponies (Dartmoors and Exmoors). Grazing is probably the single most valuable intervention we have in managing heathland for wildlife. We can only throw so much petrol and diesel at it, with our chainsaws and tractors. We’ve talked about it before, but heathland is a landscape of the pastoral economy, which itself is now defunct on much common land like ours. So we must strive to emulate its workings because within southern England especially, it has come to be relied upon almost exclusively by so many specialist species such as Dartford warbler and nightjar.

Fiona Daggett, Warden

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THE WOODLAND TRUST - YONDER OAK WOOD

Local a cappella singers are lifting their voices with reworked folk songs – ‘tree shanties’ - to celebrate the creation of a new wood in East Devon. The Woodland Trust hosted the first mass planting at its new Yonder Oak Wood near the Exe Estuary to the sound of music as hundreds of people came together to plant 13,000 trees.

The tree planting is the first step in the charity’s mission to create a new haven for wildlife, and they invited local people to join this mammoth task at free planting events in February.

The SongFishers, a group of troubadours from Lympstone, have been inspired to adapt traditional folk songs to include the new wood and serenaded tree planters during the plantings.

The new wood, which was named last year in a public vote, sits in a hidden valley just two miles south of Woodbury. It features fragments of woodland that the Trust have already cleared of invasive laurel; and stately veteran oak trees, once part of hedgerows, dot the landscape like living legends. The Trust’s vision for the site includes new woods, open glades and wood pasture, all of which will create a rich mosaic of habitats.

Woodland Trust site manager Paul Allen, said: ‘Creating a new wooded landscape that will host wildlife way beyond our lifetimes and be resilient to the changing climate is no mean feat. The mass tree planting is the first step in what will be a decades-long journey to bring wildlife back to this site.

Trees are a great natural solution to the climate crisis, soaking up CO2 and delivering oxygen, and it’s great to see so many people wanting to step up and join this effort.’

Over 400 students from local primary schools in Exmouth, Lympstone, Woodbury and Exeter have been getting really involved in the project. Lessons in school to gear them up for tree planting kicked off in December, and now these budding tree activists have headed to Yonder Oak Wood.

The Trust’s engagement and communications officer, Rachel Harries, has been cleaning her stock of spades in preparation, and said:

‘Planting 13,000 trees is an epic task but we’re finding that so many people are wanting to get involved in this project right from the very beginning –there’s a real sense of community coming together about it. With nature in crisis and climate change affecting cont’d./...

THE WOODLAND TRUST - YONDER OAK WOOD cont’d/...

both people and wildlife, planting trees is a way we can make a difference right on our doorstep. In a very short time, we expect to see more birds and butterflies, like willow warblers and spotted flycatchers – as well as butterflies such as the dingy skipper and ringlets.

Imagine how exciting it will be, in five or ten years’ time to come back and say, I planted this wood.’

Yonder Oak Wood is one of the charity’s first sites to shift away from the use of plastic as part of its pioneering work to find alternatives to protecting young trees. The Woodland Trust acquired the 54 hectares of land in East Devon in March, as an ambitious new woodland creation project, thanks to an incredible response to a public appeal which raised £650,000. Further generous support came from Lloyds Bank, and through the Government’s Landfill Communities Fund, Biffa Award provided an amazing grant of £750,000.

RAINFALL REPORT FOR JANUARY

The total amount of rain here at Ebford, including a very small snowfall, was 107mm (4.2 inches) all arriving on the first 18 days, particularly during the 24 hour periods of 7th, 14th and 16th. This was in fact the wettest January in the last seven years at Ebford and 29% more than the recent 12-year average of 8.3mm (3.3 ins).

As a gardener, I am now hoping for a mild and relatively dry February, as a prelude to a pleasant spring.

Norman Cann

POSTSCRIPT - THE MOBILE LIBRARY IN WOODBURY

Until now we have had monthly visits in the village from our mobile library van, but now, because we are such avid readers in Woodbury, we have been rewarded with an extra visit each month! The usual Friday visits for the next few months will be on:

17 March. 14 April. 12 May. 9 June. 7 July.

4 August. 1 & 29 September. 24 November. The van stops near The Arch bus stop on the opposite side to the garage from 14.00 to 15.30.

In addition, the van will now stop at the same place at 15.10 on the following Tuesdays:

28 February. 28 March. 25 April. 23 May and dates to be announced later.

There is a wide choice of books available, and our friendly librarian Mike is always willing to help. You can contact the Devon Libraries Service at info@librariesunlimited.org.uk or by phone at 0345 1551001 for more information.

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS

24 Feb. FNF Friday Night Flix. 19.00 for 19.30. WVH.

25 Feb. RBL Open Event, White Hart, 12.00-15.00.

28 Feb. Mobile Library. The Arch bus stop. 15.10.

28 Feb. Woodbury Residents Association AGM. 19.30, Church Rooms.

1 March Woodbury Craft Group. 10.00-13.00, Christ Church.

2 March Woodbury History Society LORP. 19.30, WVH.

3 March Exton Garden Club AGM.

4 March H4K Barn Dance, 19.30, WVH.

7 March Hospiscare Coffee and Cake, 10.00-12.00, Church Rooms.

8 March Village Lunch, Digger’s Rest, 12.00.

9 March Woodbury WI. Beekeeping. 14.00, WVH.

14 March Woodbury Garden Club House Plants. WVH, 19.15 for 19.30.

15 March Woodbury Craft Group. 10.00-13.00, Christ Church.

17 March Mobile Library. The Arch bus stop. 14.00-15.30.

24 March FNF Friday Night Flix. 19.00 for 19.30. WVH.

25 March Twinning Association Wine Tasting. 19.30, Church Rooms.

28 March Mobile Library. The Arch bus stop. 15.10.

29 March Woodbury Craft Group. 10.00-13.00, Christ Church.

29 March Craft afternoon, 13.00-16.00, WSVH.

31 March Exton Garden Club Pelargoniums.

31 March Rotary Club Quiz Night. WVH. 18.30 for 19.00.

7 April Easter Egg Hunt, Goosefield, Exton, 10.30.

13 April Woodbury WI. Glass making and design. 14.00, WVH.

14 April Mobile Library. The Arch bus stop. 14.00-15.30.

19 April Start of junior tennis coaching programme (see page 13).

25 April Mobile Library. The Arch bus stop. 15.10.

26 April Woodbury Craft Group. 10.00-13.00, Christ Church.

28 April FNF Friday Night Flix. 19.00 for 19.30. WVH.

29 April FoSS Spring Concert. 19.00 in St Swithun’s Church.

4 May Woodbury History Society talk by Robert Hesketh on Curiosities to be found in Devon Churches. 19.30, WVH.

6&7 May Two days of celebration for coronation of King Charles III (page 21).

10 May Woodbury Craft Group. 10.00-13.00, Christ Church.

11 May Woodbury WI. 14.00, WVH.

12 May Mobile Library. The Arch bus stop. 14.00-15.30.

23 May Mobile Library. The Arch bus stop. 15.10.

24 May Woodbury Craft Group. 10.00-13.00, Christ Church.

26 May FNF Friday Night Flix. 19.00 for 19.30. WVH.

9 June Mobile Library. The Arch bus stop. 14.00-15.30.

24 June History Society Exhibition, WVH.

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