Welcome to Hemyock, Anonymous Saturday, April 26 2025 @ 08:18 am UTC
The last two meetings - October and November had slightly different formats from our usual meetings. October had apples, a jigsaw, and homemade cake. November had a quiz on sweets and parkin.
Hemyock Under 11’s 1 Cullompton Under 11’s 3
For me, 'Silent Night' is perhaps the most evocative of all the Christmas Carols. There are others of course, but they are mostly 'busy' carols, echoing the world as it runs helter skelter through the festive season. And those bright and busy carols are the ones that we will have heard a hundred times in shops and in the media in the run up to Christmas Day - along with the Christmas songs that today's children often confuse with carols. I like 'Silent Night' because it grounds us - it brings us back to the truth of what Christmas Day is all about.
A reminder that it is not too late to order a copy of "The Pilgrim's Guide To Devon's Churches", a book outlining the Church of England churches in Devon, all 627 of them. It is due to be published in late October. It will cost £7.99. St Mary's will be having a supply available on publication, and if you would like to reserve a copy (or two or three) then please contact the PCC secretary.
Good and Bad Morning For Hemyock Under 9's
Under 9s Cup - Hemyock 8 - 0 Twyford Rangers
The parish church of St Mary's was filled when the village joined together to commemorate Remembrance Sunday. Led by the church choir and uniformed youth groups and villagers walked from the Parish Hall to the church where the service was conducted by Reader David Palmer.
Hemyock Under 11’s 13 Feniton Wasps Under 11’s 1
Free roaming dogs are thought to be to blame for the increasing amounts of faeces being found on the village sports complex, especially the football pitch. This represents a health hazard to players and referees are ordering that a clean sweep of the pitch be made before play can commence. Owners are asked to keep their dogs on leads whilst in the area and clean up the mess.
Hemyock has always enjoyed a low crime rate, but of late the number of acts of vandalism and anti-social behaviour are on the increase. Rather cloudy with patchy outbreaks of rain. Turning brighter later.
A rather gloomy start with widespread cloud bringing persistent rain through the morning. More settled later, with rain turning light, patchy and more showery, though remaining rather cloudy. Some late afternoon sunshine possible in the far southwest. Light winds. Maximum temperature 16 °C.
Any lingering patchy rain will soon clear leaving a dry, though rather cloudy night. Turning chilly, with fairly widespread fog forming across the region. Minimum temperature 6 °C.
Fog clears through the morning leaving a widely dry and fine day. Warmer than Saturday with plenty of sunny spells, and temperatures widely above the late-April average. Maximum temperature 20 °C.
High pressure extending from the southwest brings plenty of fine and settled weather. Early morning fog, but plenty of sunshine by day. Increasingly warm with temperatures well above average.
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Sourced from the Met Office