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Military Wives Choir Concert
As I am sure you are all aware, The Friends are proudly presenting a concert in St John’s Church by the Military Wives Choir from Plymouth. The Military Wives is a huge success story after their initial start by Gareth Malone and there are now 83 choirs worldwide – fantastic! We are starting off with a bar and hog roast being served in the churchyard from 6pm. We have a young and up-coming star, Johan Alderfeld, playing the piano before the concert and during the interval. The concert starts at 7.30pm and there will be an interval of one hour when more food and drink may be consumed! After another…
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Photographs of the Church
Sarah Shorthouse is on the look-out for good photos, old & new, of St Johns to use on the forthcoming Church page on Village Voices!
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Art Auction next Saturday
Dear All, Please could you pass this on through your mailing lists. We need as many folks as possible to hear about it and support our event. It is an invite to next saturdays Fundraising Art Auction in the Jubilee Hall, Chagford doors open 7.30pm As you will know Proper Job has been at the centre of a lengthy planning battle with the Dartmoor National Park about the uses and appearance of the resource centre. The result has been that we are now having to construct an agricultural style barn over our existing cabins, housing textiles and books ,as well as removing cabins from site and thickening hedgerow planting. In an attempt…
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Maypole Dancing – Join in!
Dear Friends, We would love you to join in the Maypole dancing this year – culminating on North Bovey Fair Day, Saturday 19th July from 2pm. We plan to have regular light-hearted workshops on Saturday mornings from early June onwards. We will run through all the dances we plan to perform at the Fair (for both children and adults) at each session. If you would like to take part this year please ensure you can attend all workshops and obviously Fair Day itself. If you would like to take part in some way but not to dance at the Fair please do still come and ‘have a go‘ but please let us…
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Swifts
A posting from Rob Irving ”Good to see the Swifts back in North Bovey this week. They are long distance migrants, May to July and come to us from South Africa where they winter (not a bad idea!). Pairs stay together throughout their lives and the young often return with parents to check for new housing adjacent their birthplaces. Can be seen on summer evenings and have screaming parties flying together low over rooftops. Not unlike human offspring really!” Regards Rob
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Just Because it's Beautiful
As there is more to life than announcements I thought I’d share a link to this treasure: LINK
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Open Arts Forum
A group of villagers convened in the Parish Hall on Monday, 28th April with the idea of becoming OAFs!! Let us explain further……. The idea is to explore various aspects of the arts and literature in a considered and enjoyable way. It is proposed that we meet once a month and each session will have a pre-declared topic for discussion, to which you will be expected to respond by bringing with you a piece of literary work. This could be in the form of an extended quotation from a book or play, a song or a piece of music, a photograph, a painting, a piece of embroidery etc. This may…
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Oil theft!
Thank you for your continued support of the Devon and Cornwall Police Community Messaging System. Please phone us with any information on 101 or e-mail general.enquiries@devonandcornwall.pnn.police.uk. This message relates to Crime No. JA/14/352. Sometime between Tuesday 8th April and Tuesday 22nd April 2014 approximately 500 litres of heating oil has been stolen from a tank located in a rear garden belonging to a property in The Village area of North Bovey. Would residents with this type of heating please check their tanks on a regular basis regarding their fuel levels. Review your security. Report any suspicious activity or vehicles you may see in your area promptly to the Police. If you…
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Loyal subjects of St George
and we’ll make an exception to our not so distant cousins. Yes it is St George’s day England’s finest Patron Saint, the 23rd of April. Now George didn’t die on a funny shaped cross to become our patron saint that wouldn’t have cut it. Nor would have banishing snakes, or creating hills (this was St David’s minor miracle that so impressed the Welsh), in order to grab the affection and admiration of the English George had to slay a Dragon! And so to celebrate this fine Gentleman’s life and career the Ring of Bells, the self styled quintessentially English Pub in the heart of the self anointed premier English chocolate…
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First Cuckoo?
Rob Irving writes ”On the 16th April I saw a cuckoo up at Nattadon Common, just South of Chagford and today, 22nd April, heard my first up at Olde Yarde, just off Easdon Down. On returning to Nattadon this afternoon, Sonia and I both saw and heard one again. It’s a delight that these birds have returned from Tropical Africa and the recent spell of excellent weather has helped them travel. Be interested to see if anybody has a sound or sighting ahead of these dates this year?”