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JANUARY 2021 ISSUE 403
CHARDSTOCK PARISH COUNCIL NEWS
chardstockpc@gmail.com www.chardstockpc.org.uk
Parish Council meeting, 16th December 2020
Full minutes can be seen on the website.
THE GEORGE INN Back in October 2020, more than 750 of you signed
our petition to request that The George be re-registered as an Asset of
Community Value. This was dispatched to EDDC along with a 30-page
presentation showing the importance of the pub to the community. At the
time we believed that we had a good chance of influencing the decision.
However, early in November we received a response from EDDC saying
there had been some ‘confusion’, as the decision had been made not to renew
the registration in a report dated 25 August (which they had somehow
neglected to share with us). We therefore resolved to make a formal
complaint, and later in November a four-page letter was sent to EDDC
outlining the rather shoddy way our application had been processed. We
pointed out that we had assumed that re-registration was merely a formality,
that we had not been informed this was not the case, and that we had not been
advised that the goalposts had been moved in the intervening five years. We
mentioned the lack of timely responses to the various emails sent by our
parish clerk, and we took issue with the misleading ‘evidence’ provided by
the solicitor engaged by the pub’s owners – including that there were ‘at least
15 other sites within only 3 miles of the Property which are open and trading’
and that The George offers nothing ‘in particular which is not readily
available in many other local establishments’. (A prize will be available to the
first person who comes up with the names of 15 pubs within 3 miles of The
George!)
On 18 December we received a lengthy response from EDDC, admitting that
they had been lax in their communications (for which they tendered their
apologies) and acknowledging that ‘there is certainly some scope for the
council to improve the application process and what, if any, clarification it
can provide to nominees in the case of renewal applications.’ What they have
not done, however, is overturn their decision; they merely point out that we
can apply again in 18 months’ time. Given the current status of the empty
building, and feeling that a petition of 750+ signatures gives us a clear
mandate to pursue our complaint further, we responded just before Christmas
with a request that our complaint be progressed to the next stage. We will not
let the matter rest simply with EDDC if we do not get a more positive
response and will be discussing at our next meeting the best way forward. If
any parishioner has any legal expertise in this area and think they might be
able to assist, we would be glad to hear from them.
Next meeting: Wednesday 13th January 2021 at 7.30 pm
Avian influenza (bird flu): Latest situation
New housing measures came into force in England, Scotland and Wales on
14th December.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/avaian-influenza-bird-flu-national-
prevention-zone-declared
The Chief Veterinary Officers for England, Scotland and Wales have agreed
to bring in new measures to help protect poultry and captive birds, following
a number of cases of avian influenza in both wild and captive birds in the UK.
Government Chief Veterinary Officers are encouraging bird keepers to
prepare for new housing measures, including taking steps to safeguard animal
welfare, consult their vet and where necessary put up additional housing.
Whether you keep just a few birds as pets or thousands, from 14th December
onwards you will be legally required to keep your birds indoors, or take
appropriate steps to keep them separate from wild birds. We have not taken
this decision lightly, but it is the best way to protect your birds from this
highly infectious disease.
Poultry and captive bird keepers are advised to be vigilant for any signs of
disease in their birds and any wild birds, and seek prompt advice from their
vet if they have any concerns. They can help prevent avian flu by maintaining
good biosecurity on their premises, including:
- housing or netting all poultry and captive birds
- cleansing and disinfecting clothing, footwear, equipment and vehicles
before and after contact with poultry and captive birds – if practical, use
disposable protective clothing
- reducing the movement of people, vehicles or equipment to and from
areas where poultry and captive birds are kept, to minimise
contamination from manure, slurry and other products, and using
effective vermin control
AVIAN INFLUENZA cont’d …
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- thoroughly cleaning and disinfecting housing at the end of a production
cycle
- keeping fresh disinfectant at the right concentration at all points where
people should use it, such as farm entrances and before entering poultry
and captive bird housing or enclosures
- minimising direct and indirect contact between poultry and captive birds
and wild birds, including making sure all feed and water is not accessible
to wild birds.
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Register your birds
We encourage all keepers to register their birds with us so we can contact
you quickly if there is a disease outbreak in your area and you need to take
action.
If you have more than 50 birds, you are legally required to register your flock
within one month of their arrival at your premises. If you have less than 50
birds, including pet birds, you are still strongly encouraged to register.
Go to GOV.UK Poultry for more information.
Poultry and captive bird keepers and members of the public should report
dead wild birds to the Defra helpline on 03459 33 55 77 (option 7), and
keepers should report suspicion of disease to APHA on 03000 200 301.
Keepers should familiarise themselves with our avian flu advice.
Public Health England advise the risk to public health from the H5N8 and
H5N2 strains of bird flu is very low.
The Food Standards Agency has said that on the basis of the current
scientific evidence, avian influenza poses a very low food safety risk for UK
customers. Properly cooked poultry and poultry products, including eggs, are
safe to eat.
Nicola Pearce – Trading Standards Officer
email nicola.pearce@devon.gov.uk 01392 383000
JANUARY BARGAIN
TREADMILL – FREE IF YOU CAN TAKE IT AWAY
HEBB Industries Treadmill – folding – electronic – good working order.
Very heavy (with wheels to assist moving) – would need to be on ground
floor level.
Has given years of trouble-free use but we would like to free up the space.
For more details: contact Shirley 01460 221684
NEWS FROM THE STORES
Happy New Year to you all. We want to say thank you for your custom
over the Christmas season and during the last challenging year for us all.
We look forward to your continued support in 2021. January is typically
a “resolutions” month, so how about making one to “buy local” and visit
us often during the year. You’ll always have a warm welcome!
As we find ourselves in tier 3 and all that that entails, we want to assure
you we will continue to serve you as best we can. We understand at times
there will be queues and be assured we do our best to keep these to a
minimum whilst maintaining the necessary Covid-secure social
distancing within the shop and we want to thank you for your patience.
You may not have noticed the latest price increase Royal Mail put
through on 1st January; they’re quite ranging outside of the headline 9p
on 1st class so please ask for details. We’re always more than happy to
advise on the best way to send your letters and parcels.
Don’t forget we can process all your shopping returns as long as they
have a Royal Mail or Parcelforce label – we can also process returns with
‘QR’ codes (typically Amazon but becoming more widely used by other
companies) – just print the square code or bring in your phone and we
print the label for you.
Thank you all for your continued custom as always.
Mike & Tina
01460 221214 chardstockstores@gmail.com fb:chardstock stores
POPPY APPEAL
This year the Poppy Appeal collection was a little different. We were
unable to do door- to-door collections and the pub was closed. The
school and village stores were our two collection points. A very big
“Thank you” to everyone who supported the collection in the village.
The school collected £98.45 and the stores £424.49. Amazing!
It is unlikely that door-to-door collections will happen again, but if
anyone feels they would like a poppy delivered to their home next year
please contact me, Greta 01460 220209.
The Rector Writes….
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside still waters;
He restores my soul. Psalm 23
Happy New Year!
At the beginning of January and for the following weeks of the Church year,
we celebrate Epiphany.
The dictionary describes an ‘epiphany’ as:
“A sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential
meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or
commonplace occurrence or experience.”
The birth of a small baby over 2000 years ago was, on the face of it, just a
normal life event for a young family in the Middle-East. Yet wise men
travelled hundreds of miles to bring valuable gifts and to simply see this
child. The appearance of a bright star led them to Bethlehem and told them
that something momentous was happening – an epiphany!
As we say goodbye to the anxieties of 2020, so many of us are looking for
signs of something new and more encouraging than last year. That may
come in the form of a vaccine, or the relaxation of rules and regulations
which will allow people to function economically and in safety, or in some
other new way.
What is clear is that the catastrophic spread of Covid-19 was for many a
kind of ‘epiphany’. Most of us have had to consider our lifestyles, our
attitudes to consumption, to travel, to the health and well-being of others,
our response to our elected leaders and indeed to our own beliefs and
spiritual well-being.
As we begin 2021 the virus is still high on our list of concerns, as is Brexit
and so much more: yet perhaps our epiphany moment might be to use the
well-known Serenity Prayer as the basis of our spiritual life each day!
God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
The Rector writes cont’d …
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Our prayer for 2021 is for a real sense of God’s presence in the lives of each
person.
May this be a good year for you - full of well-being in body, mind and spirit –
and may God truly bless you.
With thoughts and prayers
Clive Sedgewick
CHARDSTOCK CHURCH SERVICES
Sunday, 10th January 10.00 am Morning Worship
Sunday, 24th January 10.00 am Holy Communion
Axminster and Lyme Cancer Support has launched a new recipe book
Restaurants and Chefs in Lyme Regis and Axminster have donated some of
their best recipes to support this local charity. Due to the Covid lockdown
restrictions, Axminster and Lyme Cancer Support had to cancel all planned
in-person fund raising events for 2020. It has now published a cookbook with
a difference - Recipes with Love.
Recipes with Love has 39 recipes split into two sections: Savoury and Sweet.
Each one has some notes on the origin of the recipe or additional information
and simple to follow guides with refreshing and clear photography.
The book is available to buy online at
axminsterandlymecancersupport.co.uk/product-category/shop
or at: Archway Bookshop, Serendip Bookshop, Felicity’s Farm Shop, Millers
Farm Shop and Dalwood Post Office.
Garth Renovation Ltd
All aspects of building work
and property maintenance
Chardstock
Rob: 07967 010 367
robgarth2411@gmail.com
NATURE IN JANUARY
All living organisms have to
face up to the problem of
changes in temperature. Even
in the tropics there can be
significant variation and the
hot deserts often experience
near freezing conditions overnight. Here in the temperate zone the problem
is obvious but the solutions nature finds are fascinatingly varied. Humans,
native to tropical Africa, have conquered difficult conditions by creating
our own micro-environment round us in the form of clothing and central
heating.
That is not an option for the wildlife in our gardens and countryside. A few
species cash in on our ingenuity by only living in our houses; house mice,
some spiders and some bat species are examples. Other species,
particularly birds and butterflies, solve the problem by flying off to
somewhere warmer. Birds of all sizes migrate from the smallest warblers
to the storks and cranes. Migration is an extraordinary phenomenon which
merits far more space than we have here but some routes and patterns of
migration seem to have been followed for tens of thousands of years.
Some animals and most plants resolve the challenge by shutting down.
Trees lose their leaves and stop growing until the start of spring. Many
flowering plants die back and store their energy in bulbs, rhizomes and
corms. Others are annuals and only live for less than a year relying on their
dormant seeds to keep the species going next year. Most reptiles become
torpid in the winter cold as do hedgehogs, dormice and bats.
Finally there are those intrepid sorts that keep going throughout. Hardy
plants and larger mammals can cope but it is surprising that some of the
smallest animals and birds are active all year. Wrens are feeding constantly
in the limited daylight, often huddling together in large clusters overnight
and shrews never slow down driven by the need to eat all the time to keep
going.
So many different solutions to a common problem but, in their own way,
each of them seems to work.
Edward Wells e.wells125@btinternet.comCourtesy of Chardstock Historical Record Group A true Chardstock winter tale as recorded in Pulman’s Weekly News: 1708 - JOANNA CRIPPEN One of Chardstock’s most famous tales is the amazing survival of Joanna Crippen, who was trapped beneath a snowdrift for several days and kept alive by eating her own clothes. Joanna, a spinner, was returning from Chard Market with some of her neighbours on the evening of 24th January 1708. She was not feeling well and as the snow began to fall heavily she became parted from the others. She sought shelter at a cottage on the way, but was refused help and struggled on to catch up with her companions. As she became weaker she was forced to take shelter under a hedge until eventually a man passed by. He helped her a little way along the road until she collapsed again, and the man made off, apparently without showing any concern for her fate. The snow soon covered the woman and the man never reported the incident and so she remained beneath the drift for several days. A search for her was started after a woman in the village had had a dream that she was buried in a certain spot beneath a hedge. The next day she and several friends went to the spot and prodded the snow, about four feet deep, with sticks. Soon a faint voice was heard: “For God’s sake don’t kill me” and minutes later Joanna Crippen was freed from the snow. She was found weak and half naked as she’d eaten much of her upper garments. She said she’d been very warm and had slept most of the time. One of her legs was not quite covered with snow and was frost bitten, but she recovered in a short time and for the rest of her life was regarded as a living wonder. Extract from a book called "THE CHURCH IN AN AGE OF DANGER" “Richard Luce, the vicar of Chardstock, expressed the boredom and frustration that many parish clergy must have felt when he complained to a parishioner that if the members of his congregation ‘did hear him all the daies of their lives they should not be a fart the better for his preaching’. Luce threw a Bible on the ground, ‘trampled on it & then swoare severall oathes that he would burne all the bookes he had in his study’”. Richard Luce was the Vicar of Chardstock from 1661 to 1669.
FOOD BANKS Another huge “Thank you” to the amazing people of Chardstock who have donated in both a monetary sense, as well as in kind, to the Axminster Food Bank. And “Thank you” to Tina and Mike for organising just what is needed. The generosity has touched us all deeply and particularly when considering the unprecedented rigours of this most peculiar year. The spirit of this is about kindness and good intentions throughout the year. Which brings me to Trill Farm who, as a small family-run business have given magnanimously to the Food Bank with big and open hearts. And, like us all, are hoping for a kinder and better future world where we consider others before self. Trill Farm loaded up my car with beautifully fresh organic vegetables. Here’s an extract from their December newsletter, please note the final sentence. “OUR COMMUNITY In addition to the extras available from us over Christmas week, there will be an opportunity to donate a small amount to help get food to people experiencing food poverty in our area. We will match the donations ourselves along with donating produce to our local food bank (which we have been doing since June). It has been a strange year, but it has really hit people who were already suffering financially before Covid and we want to do as much as we can to even out the inequalities in our local community. Next year we will be looking into working more with local organisations and to offer cheaper veg bags for those on a lower income. This will take a bit of work in terms of the administration involved but we hope to get this up and running by next summer. If anyone has any links to local groups who are working on this, please let us know as it would be good to link up with existing groups.” If you are local to this area I would thoroughly recommend supporting Trill Farm Garden through buying into their veg bag schemes - which are utterly delicious and nutritious and definitely last our family much longer than one week. They also have lots of tasty ‘add ons’. But, more than this, they are also really nice people who actually care. Contact: Trill Farm Garden, Musbury, Axminster. EX13 8TU ashley@trillfarm.co.uk 01297631113 07526313889
FOOD BANKS cont’d …
Another great outlet that has supported us with sumptuous donations
following their in-house raffle is: The Tytherleigh Farm Shop who sell
fantastic delicacies which are mostly locally sourced. My car was positively
jammed with food and I can’t thank them enough. They can be contacted on
01460 221639 www.farmshoptytherleigh.co.uk
And the kindness doesn’t stop with Christmas, as January and the ensuing
months will be even harder with more job losses mounting for so many.
THANK YOU ALL! WISHING EVERYONE A HAPPY AND
BETTER NEW YEAR!
POSITIVELY- I CAN SENSE THE ROARING TWENTIES JUST ON
THE HORIZON... x Angela Huskisson
MOBILE LIBRARY
Please note that from 1st January, 2021 the mobile library will be at Green
Lane from 2.30 pm until 3.10 pm. The stop at Kit Bridge remains
unchanged (2.00 pm to 2.20 pm.) Visits are scheduled for the following
Tuesdays -
12th January, 9th February, 9th March, 6th April, 4th May, 1st & 29th
June, 27th July, 24th August, 21st September, 19th October, 16th
November, 14th December.
NEWS ABOUT THE NEWSLETTER
I was hopeful that this edition of the Newsletter would contain good news
about the re-opening of the Community Hall and the resumption of all sorts
of village activities. Unfortunately this hasn’t happened but, fingers crossed,
with the arrival of the Pfizer and Oxford vaccines, there may be better news
soon. Please keep sending me any interesting articles that you would like to
share.
Items for February’s Newsletter should reach me by Wednesday, 20th
January. Email: shirleyfletch50@hotmail.com 01460 221684
Items in longhand can be left at the Post Office or direct to Mrs. Shirley
Fletcher, “Greenbanks”, Chard Street, Chardstock EX13 7BT
Newsletter printed by Axminster Printing Co. Ltd. 01297 32266
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Chardstock Stores
& Post Office
A small store with a big range
Fresh Bread daily (excl. Sundays)
Milk straight from the farm
Pies & Pasties • Fresh Fruit & Veg
Dairy & Cold Meats
Household & Groceries
Newspapers & Magazines
Plants & Compost • Fuel & Kindling
Post Office
Free Cashpoint • Banking
Currency • Gift Cards
Mobile Top-ups • Stamps
Opening Hours
Monday to Friday 8:30 to 17:00
Saturday 8:30 to 13:00
Sunday 9:00 to 12:00
Mike & Tina
☎ 01460 221214
chardstockstores@gmail.com
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and outbuildings
including Listed Buildings Available from
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Fully Insured & Post Office
Price £6.50
Design & planning enquiries:
zoe@cornerstonedesignandbuild.co.uk If you are self-isolating or cannot
07825 210 681 get to the shop, a home delivery
Building work enquiries: can be arranged by contacting us
pete@cornerstonedesignandbuild.co.uk as shown below.
07786 267 115 E-mail: chrg@btinternet.com
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Gentle treatment of the whole
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headaches, neck and back
pain, upper & lower limbs.
Also for ba bi e s a n d c h i l dr e n
of any age, for a wide range
of symptoms.
Tel: 01460 220854
Mobile: 07773 122832
www.elizabethclaytoncranial.co.uk
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Bowen technique Therapist
Gentle • Effective • Hands-on therapy
Beacon Hill Cottage, near Chardstock
Axminster EX13 7LB
Tel: 07939 135 123
sueurquhartbowen@gmail.com
www.sueurquhartbowen.com
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