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Jan 72 min read
Churchyard News
January 2024 St Paternus churchyard has always had trees. Over the years the type and number have changed, but they have always been a...
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spcakeandrakers
Jan 72 min read
The ancient art of scything
July 2023 “You can’t imagine what an effectual remedy it is for every sort of foolishness.” So said Tolstoy in Anna Karenina about a...
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spcakeandrakers
May 16, 20223 min read
Spectacular Starlings
March 2022 Not everyone seems to like starlings – they have a bit of a reputation as the bully boys of the bird feeder, but they are...
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spcakeandrakers
May 16, 20222 min read
Our Living Churchyard
January 2022 The start of a new year seems like a good time to have a look back at how far we’ve come with our project to improve the old...
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spcakeandrakers
May 16, 20221 min read
Rakes and Snakes (well, lizards really but it didn’t scan!)
November 2021 Late September saw the biggest cut and rake of the year in St Paternus churchyard. We had a wonderful number of volunteers...
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spcakeandrakers
Sep 10, 20211 min read
BioBlitzed!
09/2021 We had a great number of people turn up for our Churchyard BioBlitz at the end of August, and amazingly many came back at 7.30 on...
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spcakeandrakers
Aug 21, 20213 min read
Summer Meadow Stars
07/2021 The spring meadow section in the churchyard has now had its first cut of the year, and the summer section is really starting to...
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spcakeandrakers
Jul 2, 20211 min read
Cake & Raker news
05/2021 Late April saw the first cut of the churchyard this year, and while we still have to operate with some restrictions we had a...
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spcakeandrakers
Mar 11, 20212 min read
Owl systems are go!
03/2021 Anyone struggling to sleep in South Petherwin during the early hours will no doubt have heard the familiar twit twoo of our...
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spcakeandrakers
Mar 11, 20212 min read
New Year News
01/2021 As the festive season comes to and end and a new year begins, bringing with it the start of another nationwide lockdown, it would...
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spcakeandrakers
Nov 20, 20202 min read
November News
Raking: The churchyard’s final cut of the year may have happened by the time you read this, but it’s anyone’s guess at the time of...
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spcakeandrakers
Sep 24, 20202 min read
Rakes, stakes, no cakes!
09/2020 September saw both summer and spring meadows at St Paternus being cut by Cormac. This cut is the biggest of the year, so we were...
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spcakeandrakers
Aug 21, 20202 min read
Cake and Raker Round-up (not the chemical kind!)
07/2020 Grass cutting Cormac arrived in June to cut the spring meadow sections of the churchyard, and we have done as much as we can...
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spcakeandrakers
Jun 8, 20202 min read
A look at the rook
01/2020 Some may think that we currently have a parliament of crooks in Westminster, but the churchyard at St Paternus is home to a...
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spcakeandrakers
Jun 7, 20201 min read
The greatest plans.....
05/2020 It will come as no surprise that due to the Covid pandemic our plans for the year have come rather unstuck. Cormac are not...
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spcakeandrakers
Jun 7, 20201 min read
Raking, caking and taking stock
03/2020 South Petherwin Cake & Rakers will soon be getting ready for the first cut of the year at St Paternus churchyard. Last year was...
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spcakeandrakers
Jun 7, 20201 min read
A rewarding evening
11/2019 Back in October we were delighted to be recognised for our work in the churchyard when we were invited to Cormac’s Cornwall...
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spcakeandrakers
Jun 7, 20201 min read
Grass mowers and hoppers
09/2019 One of our main aims when we started this project was to attract grasshoppers back to the silent churchyard (well, silent other...
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spcakeandrakers
Jun 6, 20202 min read
May the 4th be with you!
05/2019 May the 4th is apparently International Star Wars Day (May the 4th be with you!) but it was also the date of our first rake of...
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spcakeandrakers
Jun 6, 20202 min read
Rakes at the ready!
03/2019 2018 was a promising first year for South Petherwin Cake and Rakers. We raked the grass after each cut by Cormac to improve...
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