Welcome to Hemyock, Anonymous Tuesday, March 04 2025 @ 10:21 am UTC
Another year has raced past on the hemyock.org website. I thought I would report progress, especially as I am enormously proud of having kept a log of the number of users all year. Last year’s report is on this link
The Blackdown Hills AONB has commissioned Dr David Allen to produce reports on the biodiversity of six Blackdown Hills parishes including Hemyock. These will include distribution maps showing areas of important habitat or notable species and ideas for nature conservation action that the local community might like to pursue.
Members of Hemyock WI will be cooking a delicious two course lunch on Saturday March 13th in the Forbes lounge of the Parish Hall. The main course will be sausages and creamy mash followed by a selection of home made desserts and coffee or tea. The cost will be £5.00 a head and everyone is welcome. This will be ticket only so we know how many people we are catering for and the tickets will be on sale from members and from the post office.
A new year and the WI is celebrating its 5th birthday. We are a very friendly group and have a new programme which is stimulating and interesting. Each month we have a speaker and two competitions which are just a bit of fun, We don't take them too seriously and it is quite easy to enter as most things we already have in the home. We ask our guest speaker to judge the competition and points are awarded to everyone who enters. A small prize is awarded at the end of each year.
Happy New Year from your Parish Council.
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Devon County Councillor Ray Radford judged this years Christmas Decoration competition in Hemyock and found it a difficult decision to come to a final winner as there were some outstanding displays which really enhanced the whole village.
“Overall it was a good effort by all who had taken part, from decorating a tree, a couple of lights in a window, a lit reindeer, etc, no matter how small, it all went towards giving the village a Christmas feel. Hemyock is a good Community to be part of, well done everybody.”
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For around 23 years John Bimson has lovingly cared for the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Hemyock. To mark his retirement a painting of his house by Brian Doble was presented by Deputy Warden David Bawler at a recent service. Speaking on behalf of the church Mrs Mary Beal, Warden, thanked John for his voluntary dedication and hard work, particularly as he is a member of another church. Dry and settled with plenty of sunshine developing today.
Early frost and local freezing fog patches will clear during the morning to leave a fine day across the region with a good deal of sunshine. Patchy low cloud affecting parts of the south coast and Scilly Isles though. Maximum temperature 13 °C.
Remaining dry through the evening and overnight. There will be clear periods allowing a frost to return, though some low cloud and fog is also likely to form by dawn. Minimum temperature -4 °C.
Another quiet day is on the cards weather wise, with low cloud, frost and fog soon clearing to leave lots of sunshine. A gentle breeze, but feeling pleasant again. Maximum temperature 15 °C.
Dry and sunny at first on Thursday, but clouding over with some showers developing later. Further showery rain during Friday. Skies brightening again on Saturday. Often breezy, but noticeably milder.
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Sourced from the Met Office