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All of Devon!<br />
Keeping an eye on the flock<br />
There’s great news in this l<strong>and</strong>mark<br />
issue of <strong>Devonshire</strong> magazine.<br />
‘DOG POWER’<br />
Taking photos at Yellingham Farm recently,<br />
a place with many dogs in residence, it<br />
struck home just how much our four<br />
legged friends manage to fit into our<br />
human world, neatly emphasised by<br />
Janetʼs sheep dogs making themselves<br />
useful, taking it upon themselves to<br />
round up some errant sheep. When<br />
you consider all the different jobs they<br />
undertake for us, itʼs quite staggering,<br />
drugs detection, guiding, tracking,<br />
guarding, rescue, health diagnosis,<br />
modelling, acting (yes -let us not forget<br />
the immortal ʻLassieʼ), the list goes on<br />
<strong>and</strong> on. Of course, theyʼre also our nicest<br />
companions, always happy to share our<br />
pork scratchings down the pub!<br />
DEVONSHIRE<br />
LARGEST CIRCULATION DEVON GLOSSY, OVER 20,000 MAGAZINES ACROSS 870 OUTLETS FEB & MAR <strong>16</strong> FREE<br />
Most significantly, we’ll no longer produce 2 regional versions<br />
of <strong>Devonshire</strong> magazine, instead there will be just a single,<br />
mass circulation issue covering ALL of Devon, available<br />
at over 870 high quality outlets, making this magazine the<br />
largest circulation Devon glossy bar none. For those in North<br />
Devon, there are also new outlets in Barnstaple <strong>and</strong> Bideford.<br />
‘Fluffy’ - by Nigel Jones<br />
Pony pictured on Dartmoor<br />
just up from Dartmeet<br />
DISCLAIMER The publishers of this magazine are<br />
not responsible for any costs, loss or damage suffered<br />
by any person, persons, or company as a result of any<br />
advertisement or article in this magazine. Adverts are<br />
accepted on the underst<strong>and</strong>ing that descriptions of<br />
goods <strong>and</strong> services are fair <strong>and</strong> accurate. All artwork<br />
is accepted on the strict condition that permission has<br />
been given by the owner for use in this publication. The<br />
opinions <strong>and</strong> comments expressed are purely those of the<br />
originators. We do not endorse any products or services<br />
advertised within this magazine. Whilst every effort is<br />
made to ensure that information is correct, the publishers<br />
take no responsibility for any errors or omissions. Any<br />
person or persons undertaking the circular walk featured<br />
within this publication does so entirely at their own risk.<br />
If you take children or dogs on the walk, they will require<br />
supervision. We strongly advise that prior to travelling to<br />
any of the events listed in our What's On sections, that<br />
you call the event organisers to check that the event is<br />
running at the times <strong>and</strong> dates specified.<br />
COPYRIGHT All material within this magazine are<br />
subject to copyright. Excepting adverts, all images<br />
within the magazine are copyright to N.Jones unless<br />
otherwise specified.<br />
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content coming into the magazine over 20<strong>16</strong>.<br />
If you regularly read the magazine, you’ll<br />
know countryside, history, wildlife <strong>and</strong> events<br />
are key areas where we focus our content.<br />
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In this issue, John Fisher looks into the<br />
lives of two famous women who lived several<br />
doors apart at Exmouth - Lady Nelson <strong>and</strong><br />
Lady Byron. I take you on a photographic<br />
excursion to Thurlestone <strong>and</strong> Burgh Isl<strong>and</strong>,<br />
with Thurlestone Hotel being featured in our<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>ch is a busy time for barn owls<br />
by Hanneke Coates<br />
Staycation. We also explore Devon’s Green<br />
Man, a pagan symbol that repeatedly can be<br />
found in churches across Devon, brought to<br />
you by writer Ian Parsons. And Janet East<br />
from Yellingham Farm talks about Daisy<br />
<strong>and</strong> her new arrival Henry. As ever, our<br />
extensive events calendar is brought to you<br />
by the HubCast network of websites that now<br />
operate across every region of Devon.<br />
After all the rain <strong>and</strong> mud of January, it’s<br />
wonderful to contemplate the onset of Spring.<br />
Scouring through old seed catalogues,<br />
checking through fishing tackle, greasing<br />
chains, etc, all stuff that can be done whilst<br />
waiting for the green explosion of April <strong>and</strong><br />
May. We’re so lucky to live in Devon, it’s all<br />
here on our doorstep, beautiful coastlines<br />
<strong>and</strong> countryside. Let <strong>Devonshire</strong> magazine<br />
help you discover the hidden gems lurking<br />
amongst the 2,500+ square miles!<br />
Nigel Jones (Editor)<br />
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ISSUE 33<br />
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DEVONSHIRE<br />
4. Editor's Letter<br />
The latest from the Editor.<br />
9. Letterbox<br />
Regional news snippets.<br />
10. What's On<br />
Sourced from HubCast.<br />
20. Great Night Out<br />
Enjoy great food & live music.<br />
23. Overnight Stay<br />
Magdalen Chapter, Exeter.<br />
24. A Love of Chocolate<br />
Gill Coates from Chocolate Amour.<br />
25. Food & Drink<br />
The pick of Devon's finest.<br />
29. Food Review<br />
The Jack in the Green, Exeter.<br />
30. Art Exhibitions<br />
Art events from HubCast.<br />
34. At the Capstan bars<br />
Artist Minnie Agnes Cohen.<br />
37. Nelson's Column<br />
By <strong>Devonshire</strong>'s John Fisher.<br />
38. My Devon Wedding<br />
Great ideas for your special day.<br />
43. Fashion & Beauty<br />
Great places to indulge yourself.<br />
47. But here's the thing...<br />
More expounding by John Fisher.<br />
50. Staycation<br />
The Thurlestone Hotel.<br />
62. Name the Church<br />
Our competition with a twist.<br />
64. House & Home<br />
From old reservoir to a home.<br />
70. Bespoke Makers<br />
Devon based furniture makers.<br />
73. Book Worm<br />
Latest book reviews by Helen Jones.<br />
79. Ello Darlin<br />
Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart.<br />
80. Yellingham Farm<br />
'No... not the L<strong>and</strong>rover'.<br />
84. Equine Learning<br />
Equine care - Natalie Bucklar.<br />
85. The Old Vet'nary<br />
'End of an era' - K.Watson.<br />
86. Famous Residents<br />
The Beacon, Exmouth, by J. Fisher.<br />
92. Life Matters<br />
'Balloon' bereavement charity.<br />
96. The Green Man<br />
By writer Ian Parsons.<br />
98. Financial Planning<br />
With IFA Helen Mulvaney.<br />
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Letterbox<br />
YOUR NEWS TO THE EDITOR - LETTERBOX@DEVONSHIREMAGAZINE.CO.UK<br />
Michael Wignall gets underway at Gidleigh Park<br />
Gidleigh Park celebrated on Friday<br />
22 January, as a new era got<br />
underway with Michael Wignall’s<br />
first service at the iconic Devon hotel.<br />
Guests were welcomed with a chilled<br />
glass of Champagne <strong>and</strong> sat down to<br />
enjoy Michael’s br<strong>and</strong> new 10 course<br />
tasting menu, including dishes<br />
such as ʻOctopus pressé, Portl<strong>and</strong><br />
crab, smoked scallop roe emulsion,<br />
ginger <strong>and</strong> seaweed, radish <strong>and</strong><br />
basil’, <strong>and</strong> ʻFresh ricotta lightly<br />
smoked, watercress, chargrilled<br />
ʻhen of the wood’, nasturtium <strong>and</strong><br />
celeriac’. Supported by his new<br />
brigade in the kitchen, including<br />
eight chefs who have travelled to<br />
Devon with Michael to continue<br />
working alongside him, Gidleigh<br />
Park’s new Executive Head Chef.<br />
Simon Lloyd<br />
Visit Dartmoor is celebrating an<br />
exciting, successful year!<br />
We are an independent business<br />
partner (<strong>and</strong> also Tourism Delivery<br />
Partner) to Dartmoor National Park<br />
Authority <strong>and</strong> we LOVE our job<br />
of supporting <strong>and</strong> promoting a<br />
huge range of accommodation,<br />
activity <strong>and</strong> food providers! We<br />
host Business Showcase Days,<br />
networking events, <strong>and</strong> free training<br />
courses at some of the best hotels<br />
<strong>and</strong> venues on Dartmoor, <strong>and</strong> very<br />
Michael Wignall comments, “After<br />
months of planning, I’m delighted<br />
to have delivered our first service<br />
here at Gidleigh Park. Describing<br />
his own food as ʻmodern, technical<br />
<strong>and</strong> meaningful’, Michael has<br />
amassed an impressive list of<br />
awards <strong>and</strong> accolades during his<br />
career, including two Michelin<br />
stars <strong>and</strong> five AA Rosettes at his<br />
previous restaurant, The Latymer.<br />
All guests dining at Gidleigh Park<br />
for lunch before 24 <strong>Mar</strong>ch 20<strong>16</strong>,<br />
will be welcomed with a chilled<br />
glass of Champagne to celebrate<br />
Michael’s arrival.<br />
For further information or to book<br />
visit www.gidleigh.co.uk or call<br />
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Jenny How<br />
much enjoy visiting our advertising<br />
partners at their businesses.<br />
Our 20<strong>16</strong> Visit Dartmoor Destination<br />
Guide has gone to Tourist<br />
Information Centres all over the UK,<br />
<strong>and</strong> is available by post or online.<br />
Showcasing what Dartmoor has to<br />
offer as a world class destination,<br />
the guide will soon be joined locally<br />
by a Delicious Dartmoor Food Trail<br />
<strong>and</strong> Map leaflet.<br />
Our Active Dartmoor Magazine is the<br />
perfect publication to demonstrate<br />
the wide diversity of activities that<br />
can be enjoyed all over the moor.<br />
We cover everything from extreme<br />
sports, to the best picnicking spots<br />
for a family in this high quality biannual<br />
magazine.<br />
We are so proud to have joined<br />
forces with <strong>Devonshire</strong> Magazine<br />
<strong>and</strong> their HubCast website network<br />
- what a fantastic resource for event<br />
organisers, who only need to upload<br />
details once <strong>and</strong> know it will be<br />
spread far <strong>and</strong> wide for them! Have<br />
a look at our Dartmoor Hub website.<br />
Editor - great to have Jenny <strong>and</strong><br />
Simon at Visit Dartmoor onboard<br />
<strong>and</strong> taking over the DartmoorHub.<br />
co.uk website, yet another<br />
broadcasting channel for event<br />
promoters - everyone benefits!<br />
Hilary’s <strong>Mar</strong>athon<br />
Acupuncture awareness week in<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>ch is related to sport <strong>and</strong> how<br />
acupuncture can help recovery from<br />
injury sustained in exercise. How<br />
appropriate that Hilary Sharp, an<br />
acupuncturist practising in East Devon<br />
is well ....jogging, with a lot of walking<br />
at the London <strong>Mar</strong>athon in April 20<strong>16</strong>.<br />
Hilary is running for Brain Research<br />
as in 1989 she had a subarachnoid<br />
haemorrhage. Surgery resolved the<br />
problem, but left her with major daily<br />
headaches. It was acupuncture that<br />
resolved the headaches <strong>and</strong> allowed<br />
her to continue her life generally pain<br />
free. Hilary is offering treatment<br />
during acupuncture awareness week<br />
(7-13th <strong>Mar</strong>ch) @ £25 per treatment,<br />
donating the week’s income to: Brain<br />
Research via virginmoneygiving/Hilary<br />
Sharp. Hilary has clinics in Axminster<br />
Honiton & Charmouth, see page 92.<br />
Also on 2nd April, Charmouth Soup<br />
& a Pud £5 - Kids eat for FREE all<br />
proceed going to Brain Research.<br />
Jack Jones<br />
Get Microchipped<br />
The Dogs Trust Ilfracombe wish to<br />
remind all dog owners that the deadline<br />
for microchipping dogs is the 6th of<br />
April. Also, it’s required that all contact<br />
details on the microchip are up to date.<br />
DEVONSHIRE outlets<br />
now in Barnstaple<br />
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The great news is that <strong>Devonshire</strong><br />
magazine is now available at outlets<br />
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Get your events seen by a massive<br />
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Total number of organisations registered<br />
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2157 South Devon<br />
0874 Mid Devon<br />
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for under 5s, Kingsbridge<br />
Library, Ilbert Road,<br />
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LENTSHERD<br />
09 <strong>Feb</strong> - Lentsherd<br />
(pronounced ‘Lanshard’)<br />
is an old Clovelly Shrove<br />
Tuesday custom, Clovelly,<br />
Estate Office, Clovelly,<br />
4.30pm to 6.30pm.<br />
FAMILY WORKSHOP<br />
13 <strong>Feb</strong> - A family workshop<br />
aimed at ages 8 to 12 years<br />
creating your own story<br />
book, Thelma Hulbert Gallery,<br />
Elmfield House, Honiton,<br />
11.00am to 1.00pm.<br />
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11.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
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<strong>Feb</strong>ruary & <strong>Mar</strong>ch 20<strong>16</strong><br />
SUPER FUN HALF TERM<br />
13 <strong>Feb</strong> to 21 <strong>Feb</strong> - 20<strong>16</strong>:<br />
year of Super Sea Heroes<br />
at Living Coasts with a<br />
variety of activities, Living<br />
Coasts, Torquay Harbourside,<br />
Torquay.<br />
MEDIEVAL BEAST TRAIL<br />
13 <strong>Feb</strong> to 21 <strong>Feb</strong> - Track<br />
down the medieval beasties<br />
hidden around the estate<br />
walks, Buckl<strong>and</strong> Abbey,<br />
Yelverton, 10.30am to 4.30pm.<br />
Ruth Molins,<br />
Exeter Symphoney<br />
Orcchestra<br />
ROLLER DISCO<br />
27 <strong>Feb</strong> - The Revolution<br />
Skate team return for<br />
their monthly roller disco,<br />
Hannahs at Seale-Hayne,<br />
Howton Lane, Newton Abbot,<br />
3.30pm to 9.30pm.<br />
FIND THE CLOVELLY<br />
EASTER CHICKS<br />
19 <strong>Mar</strong> to 28 <strong>Mar</strong> - Children<br />
receive a village map on<br />
entry on which to mark the<br />
location <strong>and</strong> number, Clovelly,<br />
Estate Office, Clovelly,<br />
10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
BABBACOMBE MODEL<br />
VILLAGE EASTER EGG<br />
TRAIL<br />
19 <strong>Mar</strong> to 10 Apr - A<br />
chocolate treat for all<br />
successful young explorers,<br />
Babbacombe Model<br />
Village, Hampton Avenue,<br />
Babbacombe, 10.00am to<br />
4.00pm.<br />
EASTER FAMILY FUN AT<br />
KNIGHTSHAYES<br />
24 <strong>Mar</strong> to 10 Apr -<br />
Seasonal trail: explore<br />
the garden, Knightshayes<br />
NT, Knightshayes, Tiverton,<br />
10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
CHILDREN'S EASTER FUN<br />
AT KNIGHTSHAYES<br />
25 <strong>Mar</strong> to 28 <strong>Mar</strong> -<br />
Cadbury Easter egg fun at<br />
Knightshayes, Knightshayes<br />
NT, Knightshayes, Tiverton,<br />
10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
EASTER EGG HUNT AT<br />
ARLINGTON COURT<br />
25 <strong>Mar</strong> to 28 <strong>Mar</strong> - Enjoy<br />
our Cadbury sponsored trail<br />
with a chocolate egg prize,<br />
Arlington Court, Arlington,<br />
Barnstaple, 11.00am to<br />
4.00pm.<br />
CADBURY EASTER EGG<br />
HUNT<br />
25 <strong>Mar</strong> to 28 <strong>Mar</strong> - Follow<br />
the trail through the garden<br />
to find the clues to claim<br />
your bunny, Castle Drogo,<br />
Castle Drogo, Drewsteignton,<br />
10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
CADBURY EASTER EGG<br />
HUNT<br />
25 <strong>Mar</strong> to 10 Apr - Discover<br />
hidden treasures <strong>and</strong> then<br />
claim your prize, Buckl<strong>and</strong><br />
Abbey, Yelverton, 11.00am<br />
to 4.00pm.<br />
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EASTER FUN & CADBURY<br />
EASTER EGG HUNT<br />
25 <strong>Mar</strong> to 10 Apr - Host of<br />
exciting activities around<br />
the garden, Coleton Fishacre,<br />
Brownstone Road, Kingswear,<br />
10.30am to 4.00pm.<br />
CADBURY EASTER EGG<br />
HUNT<br />
26 <strong>Mar</strong> to 10 Apr - Hunt<br />
down all the clues to win a<br />
Cadbury chocolate Egghead,<br />
A la Ronde, Summer Lane,<br />
Exmouth, 10.30am to 5.30pm.<br />
JACK AND THE<br />
BEANSTALK<br />
29 <strong>Mar</strong> - A new show for<br />
primary school children, their<br />
teachers, carers & families,<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>ine Theatre, Church<br />
Street, Lyme Regis, 3.00pm.<br />
DEAR CEDRIC TRAIL<br />
29 <strong>Mar</strong> to 10 Apr - Follow<br />
the trail around the garden to<br />
find Cedric Drewe’s postcard<br />
<strong>and</strong> stamps, Castle Drogo,<br />
Castle Drogo, Drewsteignton,<br />
11.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
Choirs<br />
PLYMOUTH AREA POLICE<br />
CHOIR<br />
04 <strong>Mar</strong> - Friday evening with<br />
the Police Choir, contact for<br />
details, Totnes Rotary Club,<br />
Totnes, 7.30pm.<br />
MALE VOICE CHOIR<br />
CONCERT<br />
12 <strong>Mar</strong> - Tamar Valley Male<br />
Choir, Bicton Overseas Agri<br />
Trust, St Peters Church,<br />
Budleigh Salterton, 7.00pm<br />
to 9.30pm.<br />
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What's On: <strong>Feb</strong> & <strong>Mar</strong> <strong>16</strong><br />
SOUTH WEST CHAMBER<br />
CHOIR<br />
19 <strong>Mar</strong> - Saturday evening<br />
concert at the Abbey directed<br />
by Stephen Trahair, Buckfast<br />
Abbey, Buckfast Abbey,<br />
Buckfastleigh.<br />
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS<br />
CHOIR<br />
23 <strong>Mar</strong> - Wednesday<br />
evening concert. John<br />
Rutter: Requiem, Sir Joshua<br />
Reynolds Choir, Ridgway<br />
Methodist Church, Plympton,<br />
7.30pm.<br />
Classical<br />
Music<br />
LUNCHTIME CONCERT/<br />
RECITAL<br />
10 <strong>Feb</strong> - Tim Othen - piano,<br />
Glenorchy United Reformed<br />
Church, Exeter Road,<br />
Exmouth, 12.30am to 1.15pm.<br />
THE PEGASUS TRIO -<br />
ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY<br />
12 <strong>Feb</strong> - An evening of<br />
classical music for violin,<br />
voice <strong>and</strong> piano, Pegasus<br />
Trio, Glenorchy URC, Exmouth,<br />
7.30pm to 10.00pm.<br />
SIDMOUTH MUSIC:<br />
CAVALERI QUARTET<br />
13 <strong>Feb</strong> - Sidmouth Music:<br />
Cavaleri Quartet: Quartets<br />
by Webern, Szymanowski,<br />
Beethoven, Sidmouth Music,<br />
Manor Pavilion Theatre,<br />
Sidmouth, 3.00pm to 5.00pm.<br />
ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY<br />
14 <strong>Feb</strong> - An evening of<br />
classical music for violin,<br />
voice <strong>and</strong> piano, Pegasus<br />
Trio, Southernhay Church,<br />
Exeter, 7.30pm to 10.00pm.<br />
LUNCHTIME CONCERT/<br />
RECITAL<br />
17 <strong>Feb</strong> - Samantha Muir -<br />
guitar, Glenorchy United<br />
Reformed Church, Exeter<br />
Road, Exmouth, 12.30am to<br />
1.15pm.<br />
HADELICH PLAYS<br />
TCHAIKOVSKY<br />
18 <strong>Feb</strong> - Bournemouth<br />
Symphony Orchestra, Great<br />
Hall, Exeter University, Exeter,<br />
7.30pm to 9.30pm.<br />
DIVERTIMENTO OBOE<br />
QUARTET<br />
18 <strong>Feb</strong> - SEATON MUSIC<br />
presents; Divertimento<br />
Oboe Quartet, The Gateway,<br />
Fore Street, Seaton, 7.30pm<br />
to 10.00pm.<br />
WEN WEN - VIOLIN,<br />
MINA BELDIMANESCU -<br />
PIANO<br />
19 <strong>Feb</strong> - Lunchtime concert.<br />
Works by Elgar, Smetana,<br />
Poulenc, Liu Tianhu, Honiton<br />
Festival, St Pauls Church,<br />
Honiton, 1.00pm to 2.00pm.<br />
THE PEGASUS TRIO -<br />
ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY<br />
20 <strong>Feb</strong> - An evening of<br />
classical music for violin,<br />
voice <strong>and</strong> piano, Pegasus<br />
Trio, St Matthias Church,<br />
Torquay, 7.30pm to 10.00pm.<br />
CLAYHANGER STRING<br />
QUARTET WITH ALISON<br />
ROUTH<br />
20 <strong>Feb</strong> - Concert in support<br />
of The Art Fund. Programme<br />
includes Haydn <strong>and</strong> Schubert,<br />
Art Fund, St Stephen's<br />
Church, Exeter, 4.30pm to<br />
6.30pm.<br />
NORTHERN BRASS<br />
21 <strong>Feb</strong> - Accomplished brass<br />
quintet plays works by Ewald,<br />
Scheidt, Bizet & Kamen,<br />
NADSA Concerts, Courtenay<br />
Centre, Newton Abbot,<br />
3.00pm to 5.45pm.<br />
ISCA STRING QUARTET<br />
21 <strong>Feb</strong> - This fine amateur<br />
quartet presents a special<br />
concert at Sidholme, ISCA<br />
Ensemble, Sidholme,<br />
Sidmouth, 3.30pm to 5.00pm.<br />
GILBERT & SULLIVAN<br />
CREAM TEA<br />
21 <strong>Feb</strong> - Including concert<br />
performance of TRIAL<br />
BY JURY & other excerpts,<br />
Seaton Choral Society, The<br />
Gateway, Seaton, 3.30pm to<br />
4.45pm.<br />
LUNCHTIME CONCERT/<br />
RECITAL<br />
24 <strong>Feb</strong> - Anna Cockcroft<br />
- viiolin <strong>and</strong> Pam Canter -<br />
piano accordian, Glenorchy<br />
United Reformed Church,<br />
Exeter Road, Exmouth,<br />
12.30am to 1.15pm.<br />
MUSIC IN THE CASTLE -<br />
THE ÉOLIENNE QUINTET<br />
26 <strong>Feb</strong> - 'New Generation<br />
Artist' Concert. Please visit<br />
our website for more details,<br />
Budleigh Salterton Ladies Choir<br />
Music in the Castle, James<br />
Wyatt Music Room, Exeter,<br />
7.30pm to 9.30pm.<br />
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A VERY SPECIAL VIOLIN<br />
RECITAL<br />
27 <strong>Feb</strong> - Two fine<br />
professional artists return to<br />
Sidmouth to give a special<br />
recital, ISCA Ensemble,<br />
Sidmouth Parish Church,,<br />
Sidmouth, 7.30pm to 9.30pm.<br />
BSO - FIREBIRD<br />
03 <strong>Mar</strong> - Chausson, De<br />
Falla, Debussy & Stravinsky,<br />
Bournemouth Symphony<br />
Orchestra, Great Hall, Exeter<br />
University, Exeter, 7.30pm<br />
to 9.30pm.<br />
AS OUR SWEET CORDS<br />
AND DISCORDS MIXED BE<br />
05 <strong>Mar</strong> - Consortium5<br />
play their favourite English<br />
Renaissance recorder consort<br />
music, Totnes Early Music<br />
Society, St <strong>Mar</strong>y's Church,<br />
Totnes, 7.30pm to 9.30pm.<br />
ISCA ENSEMBLE<br />
CLASSICAL CONCERT<br />
05 <strong>Mar</strong> - Classical Concert<br />
for Hospiscare, ISCA<br />
Ensemble, Sidmouth Parish<br />
Church, Sidmouth, 7.30pm<br />
to 7.30pm.<br />
PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY<br />
CHAMBER MUSIC<br />
CONCERT<br />
05 <strong>Mar</strong> - Saturday evening<br />
concert at The House,<br />
Peninsula Arts, Plymouth<br />
University, Plymouth, 7.30pm.<br />
CONTINUED OVERLEAF...<br />
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CITY OF CARDIFF - Sat 12 <strong>Mar</strong>, £22<br />
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PORT ISAAC - Good Friday 25 <strong>Mar</strong>, £21<br />
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TRIO ISIMSIZ<br />
10 <strong>Mar</strong> - SEATON MUSIC<br />
presents;Trio Isimsiz perform<br />
Schubert & Dvorak for<br />
Seaton Music, The Gateway,<br />
Fore Street, Seaton, 7.30pm<br />
to 10.00pm.<br />
SIDMOUTH MUSIC:<br />
MARIO MORA (PIANO)<br />
12 <strong>Mar</strong> - Sidmouth Music:<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>io Mora (piano): Soler,<br />
Albeniz, Granados, de Falla,<br />
Liszt, Sidmouth Music,<br />
Knowle Council Chamber,<br />
Sidmouth, 7.30pm to 9.20pm.<br />
CHORAL CLASSICS &<br />
SCHUBERT MASS IN G<br />
12 <strong>Mar</strong> - A concert of choral<br />
classics performed by the<br />
South Devon Choir, South<br />
Devon Choir, Central Church,<br />
Torquay, 7.30pm to 9.45pm.<br />
PLYMOUTH SYMPHONY<br />
ORCHESTRA<br />
<strong>16</strong> <strong>Mar</strong> - Wednesday evening<br />
concert. Conductor Anne<br />
Kimber, with Daniel Lebhardt<br />
-piano, Plymouth Guildhall,<br />
Armada Way, Plymouth,<br />
7.30pm.<br />
CHARLOTTE ROWAN<br />
VIOLIN, CHARLOTTE<br />
STEVENSON<br />
18 <strong>Mar</strong> - Lunchtime Concert.<br />
Works by Wieniawski,<br />
Glazunov, Bartok <strong>and</strong> others,<br />
Honiton Festival, St Pauls<br />
Church, Honiton, 1.00pm to<br />
2.00pm.<br />
SACCONI STRING<br />
QUARTET<br />
19 <strong>Mar</strong> - Music by Mozart,<br />
Schubert <strong>and</strong> Fitkin, NADSA<br />
Concerts, Performing Arts<br />
Centre, Teignmouth, 7.00pm<br />
to 9.45pm.<br />
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ANTQS & JEWELLERY<br />
VALUATION DAY -<br />
KINGSBRIDGE<br />
09 <strong>Feb</strong> - A no fee or<br />
obligation verbal appraisal of<br />
your Antiques & Collectables,<br />
Bearnes Hampton <strong>and</strong><br />
Littlewood, Harbour House,<br />
Kingsbridge, 10.00am to<br />
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ANTQS & JEWELLERY<br />
VALUATION DAY -<br />
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18 <strong>Feb</strong> - A no fee or<br />
obligation verbal appraisal of<br />
your Antiques & Collectables,<br />
Bearnes Hampton <strong>and</strong><br />
Littlewood, The Bedford<br />
Hotel, Tavistock, 10.00am<br />
to 1.00pm.<br />
DEVON COUNTY ANTIQUE<br />
FAIR<br />
20 <strong>Feb</strong> - Large antiques<br />
<strong>and</strong> collectors fair, Matford<br />
Centre, Exeter City Council,<br />
Exeter, 9.00am to 4.30pm.<br />
THE TOY TRAIN &<br />
COLLECTORS FAIR<br />
21 <strong>Feb</strong> - Look for those<br />
elusive <strong>and</strong> hard to find toy<br />
<strong>and</strong> train collectors models,<br />
Westpoint Arena, Clyst St<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>y, Exeter.<br />
ANTIQUES VALUATION<br />
DAY - LAUNCESTON<br />
23 <strong>Feb</strong> - A no fee or<br />
obligation verbal appraisal of<br />
your Antiques & Collectables,<br />
Bearnes Hampton <strong>and</strong><br />
Littlewood, Lawrence House<br />
Museum, Launceston,<br />
10.00am to 12.00am.<br />
ANTIQUES VALUATION<br />
DAY - TORRINGTON<br />
24 <strong>Feb</strong> - A no fee or<br />
obligation verbal appraisal of<br />
your Antiques & Collectables,<br />
Bearnes Hampton <strong>and</strong><br />
Littlewood, The Plough Arts<br />
Centre, Great Torrington,<br />
10.00am to 1.00pm.<br />
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What's On: <strong>Feb</strong> & <strong>Mar</strong> <strong>16</strong><br />
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ANTIQUES APPRECIATION<br />
NIGHT<br />
07 <strong>Mar</strong> - Antiques<br />
Appreciation night in<br />
association with Honiton<br />
Fine Arts Society, Whittons,<br />
The Fine Art Auction Rooms,<br />
Honiton, 6.00pm to 8.00pm.<br />
EXCALIBUR FILM &<br />
FANTASY CONVENTION,<br />
TORQUAY<br />
19 <strong>Mar</strong> - Film, scifi <strong>and</strong><br />
fantasy fan convention,<br />
South Devon Players, The<br />
Red House Hotel, Torquay,<br />
11.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
Comedy<br />
TOMMY TIERNAN<br />
12 <strong>Feb</strong> - Irel<strong>and</strong>'s number<br />
one comedian, Tommy<br />
Tiernan: Out of the<br />
Whirlwind, Exeter Corn<br />
Exchange, Corn Exchange,<br />
Exeter.<br />
BRIAN CONLEY<br />
27 <strong>Mar</strong> - The multi-talented<br />
Brian Conley returns to<br />
the Babbacombe Theatre,<br />
Babbacombe Theatre,<br />
Babbacombe Downs, Torquay,<br />
8.00pm to 10.00pm.<br />
THE NOISE NEXT DOOR'S<br />
'NOISE IN THE HOOD'<br />
31 <strong>Mar</strong> - The Noise<br />
Next Door, Hannahs at<br />
Seale-Hayne, Newton Abbot,<br />
7.00pm to 11.00pm.<br />
Craft<br />
'A LA RONDE'S GOT<br />
TALENT'<br />
Until 12 <strong>Feb</strong> - Exhibition of<br />
arts/crafts. Creative staff &<br />
volunteers show their many<br />
talents, A la Ronde, Summer<br />
Lane, Exmouth, 10.30am to<br />
5.30pm.<br />
Fairs<br />
PLANT & GARDENING<br />
FAIR<br />
06 <strong>Mar</strong> - 30 stalls of plants<br />
<strong>and</strong> gardening sundries are<br />
bound to tempt you! Forde<br />
Abbey & Gardens, Historic<br />
House & Gardens, Chard,<br />
10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
MOUNT BATTEN<br />
WEDDING FAIR<br />
20 <strong>Mar</strong> - Free entry, goody<br />
bag <strong>and</strong> parking. come <strong>and</strong><br />
meet some local suppliers,<br />
Mount Batten Centre, 70<br />
Lawrence Road, Plymouth,<br />
11.00am to 3.00pm.<br />
ANDERTON AND<br />
ROWLANDS FUN FAIR<br />
20<strong>16</strong><br />
24 <strong>Mar</strong> to 10 Apr - The fair<br />
is back in town. Enjoy all the<br />
fun on The Green this spring,<br />
Anderton <strong>and</strong> Rowl<strong>and</strong>s<br />
Funfair, Paignton Green,<br />
Paignton.<br />
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SARAH MILLICAN<br />
12 <strong>Feb</strong> to 13 <strong>Feb</strong> - Enjoy an<br />
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Plymouth Pavilions, Millbay<br />
Road, Plymouth, 8.00pm.<br />
GATEWAY COMEDY GROVE<br />
26 <strong>Feb</strong> - Gateway Comedy<br />
Grove presents the very best<br />
in st<strong>and</strong> up comedy from<br />
UK/Europe, The Gateway,<br />
Fore Street, Seaton, 7.30pm<br />
to 10.30pm.<br />
CRAIG CAMPBELL 'DON'T<br />
LOOK DOWN'<br />
05 <strong>Mar</strong> - Br<strong>and</strong> new show<br />
from Canada's comedian<br />
Craig Campbell, Tiverton<br />
Community Arts Theatre,<br />
Bolham Road, Tiverton.<br />
DARTMOUTH COMEDY<br />
FESTIVAL<br />
08 <strong>Mar</strong> to 12 <strong>Mar</strong> - 10th<br />
year of the festival with an<br />
amazing lineup <strong>and</strong> cracking<br />
comedy, Dartmouth Comedy<br />
Festival, The Flavel & Other<br />
Venues, Dartmouth.<br />
MARK STEEL AT THE<br />
CORN EXCHANGE<br />
20 <strong>Mar</strong> - A new st<strong>and</strong> up<br />
show by <strong>Mar</strong>k Steel: 'Who Do<br />
I Think I Am'? Exeter Corn<br />
Exchange, Corn Exchange,<br />
Exeter, 8.00pm.<br />
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Kiss Your Love<br />
Goodbye - Beehive,<br />
Honiton<br />
SUZANNE BREAKWELL<br />
WINDOW SHOWCASE<br />
14 <strong>Mar</strong> to 04 Apr - A display<br />
for Spring by paper artist &<br />
Festival exhibitor Suzanne<br />
Breakwell, Contemporary<br />
Craft Festival, Littlecote,<br />
Bovey Tracey, 9.30am to<br />
4.30pm.<br />
CRAFTY CASTLE CAPERS<br />
29 <strong>Mar</strong> - Get your h<strong>and</strong>s<br />
dirty by joining in a variety<br />
of fun filled crafty activities,<br />
Castle Drogo, Castle Drogo,<br />
Drewsteignton, 11.00am to<br />
4.00pm.<br />
Festivals<br />
GENERAL<br />
ILFRACOMBE FILM<br />
FESTIVAL<br />
11 <strong>Mar</strong> to 13 <strong>Mar</strong> - Three<br />
days of films for adults<br />
<strong>and</strong> children of all ages,<br />
Ilfracombe Film Club,<br />
Embassy Cinema, Ilfracombe.<br />
MUSIC<br />
THE DEEP END<br />
10 <strong>Feb</strong> - The Deep End at<br />
The Royal Clarence, Seaton,<br />
The Deep End, The Royal<br />
Clarence, Seaton, 9.00pm to<br />
11.45pm.<br />
THE TEMPLE BROTHERS<br />
AS THE EVERLY<br />
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13 <strong>Feb</strong> - £15.50, Exmouth<br />
Pavilion, The Esplanade,<br />
Exmouth, 7.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
BANG! THE ULTIMATE<br />
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THE GREAT BRITISH SEASIDE HOLIDAY<br />
25 <strong>Feb</strong> - History talk by Sarah<br />
Obermuller-Bennett, 2.00-3.45pm, tickets<br />
£7 on the door.<br />
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18 <strong>Mar</strong> to 19 <strong>Mar</strong> - Art Group Exhibition,<br />
9.30pm-4.30pm.<br />
APOLLO & THE ORACLES OF THE<br />
ANCIENT WORLD<br />
22 <strong>Mar</strong> - History talk by Ffiona Eaves,<br />
doors open at 2pm for a 2.30pm start.<br />
Tickets £7 on the door.<br />
Friday 19th <strong>Feb</strong>ruary<br />
Chinese violinist,<br />
Wen Wen with<br />
Mina Beldimanescu<br />
accompanying will be<br />
playing violin sonatas by<br />
ELGAR, SMETANA <strong>and</strong><br />
POULENC, together with<br />
‘A Fine Evening’ for Erhu<br />
<strong>and</strong> piano by LIU TIANHU<br />
Friday 18th <strong>Mar</strong>ch<br />
Young violinist Charlotte<br />
Rowan will be playing<br />
virtuoso pieces by Wieniawski,<br />
Glazunov, Sarasate, Bloch, Cyril<br />
Scott, Bartok, Lili Boulanger,<br />
Vitali <strong>and</strong> Bazzini accompanied<br />
by Charlotte Stevenson<br />
Both concerts are at St Paul’s Church, Honiton at 1pm,<br />
with lunch available in the Narthex from noon.<br />
All tickets unreserved are £11 at the door.<br />
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THE SIMON &<br />
GARFUNKEL STORY<br />
21 <strong>Feb</strong> - “Fantastic” -<br />
Elaine Paige, BBC Radio 2.<br />
“Authentic <strong>and</strong> Exciting” - ,<br />
Barnfield Theatre, Barnfield<br />
Road, Exeter, 7.30pm.<br />
THE DEEP END<br />
24 <strong>Feb</strong> & 02 <strong>Mar</strong> - The Royal<br />
Clarence, Seaton, 9.00pm to<br />
11.45pm.<br />
DEVON PERFORMING<br />
ARTS FESTIVAL 20<strong>16</strong><br />
28 <strong>Feb</strong> to 17 <strong>Mar</strong> - This<br />
popular annual event<br />
celebrates its 89th. season<br />
in churches in Exeter, Devon<br />
Performing Arts Festival,<br />
South Street Baptist Church,<br />
Exeter.<br />
THE SIMON AND<br />
GARFUNKEL REVIVAL<br />
BAND<br />
04 <strong>Mar</strong> - Tickets £17.50,<br />
Exmouth Pavilion, The<br />
Esplanade, Exmouth, 8.00pm<br />
to 11.00pm.<br />
TEIGNMOUTH CLASSIC<br />
MUSIC FESTIVAL 20<strong>16</strong><br />
04 <strong>Mar</strong> to 06 <strong>Mar</strong> - Fourth<br />
classic music festival,<br />
St Michael's Church,<br />
Teignmouth, Den Promenade,<br />
Teignmouth.<br />
ALISTAIR BRAMMER - A<br />
MOTHERS DAY CONCERT<br />
06 <strong>Mar</strong> - £13.50 & £15.50,<br />
Exmouth Pavilion, The<br />
Esplanade, Exmouth, 7.30pm<br />
to 11.00pm.<br />
UNFORGETTABLE<br />
12 <strong>Mar</strong> - Tickets start from<br />
£19.00, Exmouth Pavilion,<br />
The Esplanade, Exmouth,<br />
8.00pm to 11.00pm.<br />
GALA CONCERT<br />
17 <strong>Mar</strong> - This is the finale<br />
of the 89th. season of Devon<br />
Performing Arts Festival,<br />
Devon Performing Arts<br />
Festival, Southernhay United<br />
Reformed Church, Exeter,<br />
7.00pm to 9.00pm.<br />
DAVID HAMILTONS ROCK<br />
N ROLL BACK THE YEARS<br />
18 <strong>Mar</strong> - £20.00, Exmouth<br />
Pavilion, The Esplanade,<br />
Exmouth, 7.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
Mind Your Face, Cygnet Theatre<br />
Garden<br />
SNOWDROP WEEKENDS<br />
Until 28 <strong>Feb</strong> - Thous<strong>and</strong>s<br />
of snowdrops will line the<br />
drive in welcome, <strong>and</strong> carpet<br />
the gardens, Forde Abbey<br />
Billy Elliot the<br />
musical<br />
& Gardens, Historic House<br />
& Gardens, Chard, 10.00am<br />
to 4.30pm.<br />
EARLY SPRING TRAIL AT<br />
ARLINGTON COURT<br />
13 <strong>Feb</strong> to 21 <strong>Feb</strong> - Fun<br />
trail through the grounds<br />
<strong>and</strong> discover nature as<br />
it's beginning to awaken,<br />
Arlington Court, Arlington,<br />
Barnstaple, 11.00am to<br />
4.00pm.<br />
GARDEN TALK “CLEMATIS<br />
THROUGH THE YEAR”<br />
<strong>16</strong> <strong>Feb</strong> - Garden Talk“<br />
Clematis through the Year”<br />
by Trevor Batten, Otterton<br />
Garden Club, Otterton Village<br />
Hall, Otterton, 7.30pm to<br />
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SHRUB PRUNING WITH<br />
JON WEBSTER<br />
01 <strong>Mar</strong> - Outlining the<br />
different reasons for pruning<br />
a wide variety of plants, RHS<br />
Garden Rosemoor, Great<br />
Torrington, 11.00am to<br />
12.30am.<br />
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05 <strong>Mar</strong> to 13 <strong>Mar</strong> - Crocus<br />
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flowers will carpet the lawns,<br />
Forde Abbey & Gardens,<br />
Historic House & Gardens,<br />
Chard.<br />
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What's On: <strong>Feb</strong> & <strong>Mar</strong> <strong>16</strong><br />
OTTERY ST MARY<br />
GARDENING CLUB<br />
08 <strong>Mar</strong> - Talk "Restoration<br />
of Hestercombe Gardens"<br />
David Usher, Ottery St <strong>Mar</strong>y<br />
Gardening Club, The Institute,<br />
Ottery St <strong>Mar</strong>y, 7.30pm to<br />
9.00pm.<br />
TALK: A VICTORIAN<br />
GARDENER REMINISCES<br />
11 <strong>Mar</strong> - A lively, informative<br />
<strong>and</strong> amusing talk about<br />
a Victorian Gardener,<br />
Kilmington Gardening Club,<br />
Kilmington Village Hall,<br />
Axminster, 7.30pm to 9.00pm.<br />
GARDENING STARTING<br />
FROM SCRATCH<br />
12 <strong>Mar</strong> - Learn some basic<br />
soil science & pruning<br />
skills/seed growing, RHS<br />
Garden Rosemoor, Great<br />
Torrington, 10.30am to<br />
4.30pm.<br />
OTTERTON GARDEN CLUB<br />
- SPRING SHOW<br />
12 <strong>Mar</strong> - Otterton Garden<br />
Club, Otterton Village Hall,<br />
Otterton, 2.00pm to 5.00pm.<br />
GARDEN TALK A VIEW<br />
FROM INSIDE THE MET<br />
OFFICE<br />
15 <strong>Mar</strong> - Dr Jeremy Walton -<br />
“The Met Office - A view from<br />
inside”, Otterton Garden<br />
Club, Otterton Village Hall,<br />
Otterton, 7.30pm to 9.00pm.<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>kets<br />
FARMERS & COUNTRY<br />
BUCKFASTLEIGH<br />
FARMERS MARKET<br />
Thurs - At the Globe Inn<br />
car park every Thursday<br />
morning, 9am till 12 noon,<br />
Buckfastleigh Farmers<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>ket, Near Globe Inn,<br />
Buckfastleigh, 9.00am to<br />
12.00am.<br />
YARCOMBE VILLAGE<br />
MARKET<br />
13 <strong>Feb</strong> & 12 <strong>Mar</strong>- Successful<br />
village market on second<br />
Saturday of the month,<br />
Yarcombe Village <strong>Mar</strong>ket,<br />
Jubilee Hall, Yarcombe,<br />
10.00am to 12.00am.<br />
CULLOMPTON FARMERS'<br />
MARKET<br />
13 <strong>Feb</strong> & 12 <strong>Mar</strong> - Monthly<br />
farmers' market on second<br />
Saturday of the month. See<br />
website, Cullompton Famers'<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>ket, Higher Bullring,<br />
Cullompton, 9.30am to<br />
12.30am.<br />
MANATON PRODUCE<br />
MARKET<br />
18 <strong>Feb</strong> & 17 <strong>Mar</strong> - A great<br />
market selling locally grown<br />
produce. 10.30am until<br />
12 noon, Manaton Produce<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>ket, Manaton Parish<br />
Hall, Manaton, 10.30am to<br />
12.00am.<br />
INDOOR MARKET<br />
SOUTH MOLTON PANNIER<br />
MARKET<br />
11 <strong>Feb</strong> - A large range of<br />
stalls all undercover on<br />
Thursdays <strong>and</strong> Saturdays,<br />
South Molton Pannier <strong>Mar</strong>ket,<br />
Broad Square, South Molton,<br />
8.30am to 1.00pm.<br />
NORTH DEVON ANTIQUE<br />
MARKET<br />
21 <strong>Feb</strong> & 20 <strong>Mar</strong> - Monthly<br />
antique market, 25 - 30<br />
sellers free parking..no<br />
admission fee, South Molton<br />
Pannier <strong>Mar</strong>ket, Broad<br />
Square, South Molton,<br />
10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
CULLOMPTON INDOOR<br />
MARKET<br />
Wed - Food & grocery,<br />
jewellery shop, arts & crafts<br />
supply shop, Cullompton<br />
Indoor Craft <strong>Mar</strong>ket, Town<br />
Hall, Cullompton, 9.00am<br />
to 1.00pm.<br />
MARKET DAYS<br />
HONITON STREET<br />
MARKET<br />
Until 05 <strong>Mar</strong> - Tuesdays,<br />
Thursdays & Saturdays,<br />
Honiton Street <strong>Mar</strong>ket, High<br />
Street, Honiton.<br />
AXMINSTER STREET<br />
MARKET<br />
Woodbury Dance<br />
Studio, Manor<br />
Pavilion, Sidmouth<br />
Thurs - Street market<br />
offering a wide selection of<br />
produce, Axminster Town<br />
Council, Silver Street/Trinity<br />
Square, Axminster, 8.30am.<br />
Heritage<br />
BAMPTON HERITAGE &<br />
VISITOR CENTRE<br />
Until 27 <strong>Feb</strong> - Centre is open<br />
Fridays <strong>and</strong> Saturdays during<br />
Winter months, Bampton<br />
Heritage Centre, St Micheal<br />
<strong>and</strong> All Angels, Bampton.<br />
HOME FRONT FASHIONS<br />
Until 15 Apr - Part of<br />
a four-year programme<br />
focusing on WWI's impact<br />
on the southwest, Royal<br />
Albert Memorial Museum -<br />
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter,<br />
10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
CREDITON AREA HISTORY<br />
SOCIETY TALK<br />
08 <strong>Feb</strong> - Talk on Family<br />
History by Eric Rodd.<br />
(CAHMS event), Crediton<br />
History Society, The Boniface<br />
Centre, Crediton, 7.30pm.<br />
VIRTUAL BURRATOR<br />
11 <strong>Feb</strong> - Preserving the<br />
areas natural <strong>and</strong> man-made<br />
heritage using advanced<br />
technologies, South West<br />
Lakes Trust, Burrator<br />
Discovery Centre, Yelverton,<br />
7.00pm to 8.35pm.<br />
EVENING LECTURE: HOW<br />
LONG WAS MY FURROW?<br />
03 <strong>Mar</strong> - Ploughing in<br />
Medieval Devon by Dr<br />
Richard S<strong>and</strong>over of Exeter<br />
University, Devon Rural<br />
Archive, Shilstone, Modbury,<br />
7.00pm to 8.30pm.<br />
CREDITON AREA HISTORY<br />
SOCIETY TALK<br />
14 <strong>Mar</strong> - Talk on Myths &<br />
Tall Tales of the Moor by<br />
John Stuart, Crediton History<br />
Society, The Boniface Centre,<br />
Crediton, 7.30pm.<br />
GUIDED TOUR OF<br />
SHILSTONE, NEAR<br />
MODBURY<br />
15 <strong>Mar</strong> - Tour of Shilstone<br />
House <strong>and</strong> Gardens led<br />
by DRA archaeologist Abi<br />
Gray, Devon Rural Archive,<br />
Shilstone, Modbury, 2.00pm<br />
to 4.30pm.<br />
Opera<br />
ELLEN KENT'S TOSCA<br />
18 <strong>Feb</strong> - An Ellen Kent<br />
production of Puccini's<br />
Tosca, Princess Theatre,<br />
Torbay Road, Torquay,<br />
7.30pm.<br />
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LOCAL SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE<br />
KODO One Earth Tour, Plymouth Pavilions<br />
Rally<br />
& Motor<br />
WINTER STEAM FESTIVAL<br />
13 <strong>Feb</strong> to 21 <strong>Feb</strong> - Week<br />
of traditional branch line<br />
trains, South Devon Railway,<br />
Buckfastleigh Station,<br />
Buckfastleigh.<br />
BIRD HIDE ON WHEELS<br />
18 <strong>Feb</strong> - Bird Watching with<br />
Donald Campbell, Seaton<br />
Tramway, Riverside Depot,<br />
Seaton, 9.00am to 11.00am.<br />
EXPLORE SEATON<br />
BRANCH LINE TOUR<br />
20 <strong>Feb</strong> - Seaton Branch<br />
Line Tour, Seaton Tramway,<br />
Riverside Depot, Seaton,<br />
10.00am to 11.35am.<br />
ANTIQUE AND<br />
COLLECTORS FAIR<br />
05 <strong>Mar</strong> to 06 <strong>Mar</strong> - Antique<br />
& Collectors Fair at The<br />
Vintage Weekend at RHS<br />
Garden Rosemoor, RHS<br />
Garden Rosemoor, Great<br />
Torrington, 10.00am to<br />
5.00pm.<br />
BIRD HIDE ON WHEELS<br />
06 <strong>Mar</strong> - Bird Watching with<br />
Ian Waite, Seaton Tramway,<br />
Riverside Depot, Seaton,<br />
9.00am to 11.00am.<br />
EXPLORE SEATON<br />
BRANCH LINE TOUR<br />
19 <strong>Mar</strong> - Seaton Branch<br />
Line Tour, Seaton Tramway,<br />
Riverside Depot, Seaton,<br />
10.00am to 11.35am.<br />
GRAND REOPENING OF<br />
NEW VISITOR CENTRE<br />
25 <strong>Mar</strong> - A special opening<br />
celebration on Good Friday.<br />
See Web, Coldharbour Mill<br />
Working Wool Museum,<br />
Coldharbour, Uffculme.<br />
Seasonal<br />
ALL INCLUSIVE HALF<br />
TERM FUN AT BECKY<br />
FALLS!<br />
13 <strong>Feb</strong> to 21 <strong>Feb</strong> - <strong>Feb</strong>ruary<br />
Half Term Fun at Becky<br />
Falls, Becky Falls, Manaton,<br />
Manaton, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
MUMS GO FREE AT BECKY<br />
FALLS ON MOTHER'S DAY<br />
06 <strong>Mar</strong> - Free Entry for<br />
Mums on Mother's Day with<br />
full-paying child, Becky Falls,<br />
Manaton, Manaton, 10.00am<br />
to 5.00pm.<br />
EGG INCLUDED THIS<br />
EASTER AT BECKY FALLS!<br />
25 <strong>Mar</strong> to 10 Apr - Children's<br />
Easter trail (with free egg),<br />
animal encounter shows,<br />
meerkats, etc, Becky Falls,<br />
Manaton, Manaton, 10.00am<br />
to 5.00pm.<br />
Shows<br />
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST-<br />
TRADITIONAL FAMILY<br />
PANTO<br />
17 <strong>Feb</strong> to 20 <strong>Feb</strong> - Thigh<br />
slapping, rib-tickling panto<br />
presented by Lyme Regis<br />
Pantomime Society, <strong>Mar</strong>ine<br />
Theatre, Church Street, Lyme<br />
Regis.<br />
TOPSHAM FILM SOCIETY<br />
19 <strong>Feb</strong> - Belle, Topsham<br />
Film Society, Matthews Hall,<br />
Topsham, 7.30pm to 9.30pm.<br />
MUSIC HALL TAVERN<br />
27 <strong>Feb</strong> - Tickets: £20.00,<br />
Exmouth Pavilion, The<br />
Esplanade, Exmouth, 8.00pm<br />
to 11.00pm.<br />
THE BIG CHSW VARIETY<br />
SHOW<br />
27 <strong>Feb</strong> - Charity fundraising<br />
show hosted by Exeter<br />
comedian Tank Sherman,<br />
Barnfield Theatre, Barnfield<br />
Road, Exeter, 7.30pm.<br />
TOPSHAM FILM SOCIETY<br />
04 <strong>Mar</strong> - The Theory of<br />
Everything, Topsham Film<br />
Society, Matthews Hall,<br />
Topsham, 7.30pm to 9.30pm.<br />
PSYCHIC NIGHT<br />
11 <strong>Mar</strong> - Psychic Night with<br />
Nikki Kitt, Barnfield Theatre,<br />
Barnfield Road, Exeter,<br />
7.30pm.<br />
BARNSTAPLE & DISTRICT<br />
DTS<br />
19 <strong>Mar</strong> - Agility Show<br />
organised by Barnstaple &<br />
District Dog Training Society,<br />
Grange Equestrian Centre,<br />
Inwardleigh.<br />
EASTER WEEKEND OF<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
25 <strong>Mar</strong> to 28 <strong>Mar</strong> - Daily<br />
Show in the Station Gallery<br />
at 2.30pm, Pecorama,<br />
Underleys, Beer, 10.00am<br />
to 5.30pm.<br />
CHAMPIONSHIP CAT<br />
SHOW<br />
26 <strong>Mar</strong> - Cat show, craft<br />
stalls & trade st<strong>and</strong>s,<br />
Westpoint Arena, Clyst St<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>y, Exeter, 12.30am to<br />
5.00pm.<br />
Theatre<br />
MUSICALS<br />
CAVALERI QUARTET<br />
RECITAL<br />
13 <strong>Feb</strong> - Sidmouth Music<br />
present CAVALERI QUARTET<br />
RECITAL, Manor Pavilion<br />
Theatre & Arts Centre, Manor<br />
Road, Sidmouth, 3.00pm to<br />
5.00pm.<br />
SIDMOUTH TOWN BAND<br />
AND THE EXMOUTH<br />
SHANTY MEN<br />
20 <strong>Feb</strong> - Lions Club of<br />
Sidmouth present Sidmouth<br />
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What's On: <strong>Feb</strong> & <strong>Mar</strong> <strong>16</strong><br />
WOODBURY DANCE<br />
STUDIO PRESENT<br />
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27 <strong>Feb</strong> to 28 <strong>Feb</strong> - Manor<br />
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JESUS CHRIST<br />
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VARIETY BY THE SEA<br />
04 <strong>Mar</strong> - Slightly Fat<br />
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BY THE SEA, Manor Pavilion<br />
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SIMON AND GARFUNKEL/<br />
THROUGH THE YEARS<br />
12 <strong>Mar</strong> - GB Promotions<br />
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BRIDGE JAZZ CLUB<br />
03 <strong>Feb</strong> - Pete Canter & Friends - Jam<br />
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Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, 8.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
T.REXTASY<br />
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<strong>Mar</strong>c Bolan in this live rock‘n’roll concert,<br />
The Queen’s Theatre, 100 Boutport Street,<br />
Barnstaple, 7.45pm.<br />
ACOUSTICPLUS (OPEN MIC)<br />
05 <strong>Feb</strong> - Open mic all equipment supplied,<br />
The <strong>Mar</strong>ine, The Esplanade, Sidmouth,<br />
9.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
RISK<br />
05 <strong>Feb</strong> - Free Live Entertainment...not to be<br />
missed! The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
THE ADDERS & JET BLACK 3<br />
05 <strong>Feb</strong> - Acoustic singer songwriter, The<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>ine, The Esplanade, Sidmouth, 9.30pm<br />
to 11.00pm.<br />
CULPRITS<br />
06 <strong>Feb</strong> - Free Live Entertainment...not to be<br />
missed! The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
PORT ISAAC’S FISHERMAN’S FRIENDS<br />
06 <strong>Feb</strong> - Singing from the Friends: no gang<br />
leader, no choirmaster & no holds barred,<br />
The Queen’s Theatre, 100 Boutport Street,<br />
Barnstaple, 7.45pm.<br />
BARNFIELD BAR PRESENTS …<br />
FEBRUARY ROCK HOME<br />
12 <strong>Feb</strong> - Kick off THE HOMETOWN METAL<br />
ALLIANCE metal nights we have a heavy one<br />
for you! Barnfield Theatre, Barnfield Road,<br />
Exeter, 7.30pm.<br />
WHITNEY - QUEEN OF THE NIGHT<br />
12 <strong>Feb</strong> - Stunning celebration of the music/<br />
life of one of the World’s greatest singers,<br />
The Queen’s Theatre, 100 Boutport Street,<br />
Barnstaple, 7.45pm.<br />
ROCKFELLA<br />
12 <strong>Feb</strong> - Free Live Entertainment...not to be<br />
missed! The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
SONGS FROM A SMALL TRAIN -<br />
COUNTERPARTS MTA<br />
12 <strong>Feb</strong> to 13 <strong>Feb</strong> - Fifty singers <strong>and</strong><br />
musicians perform original songs of<br />
journeys <strong>and</strong> refugees.., Barbican Theatre,<br />
Barbican Theatre, Plymouth, 7.30pm to<br />
9.30pm.<br />
Adam Sweet<br />
LAZY LIZARD<br />
13 <strong>Feb</strong> - Free Live Entertainment...why not<br />
come down & celebrate Valentine’s day<br />
early! The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
JUST MISBEHAVIN’ SWINGING JAZZ<br />
14 <strong>Feb</strong> - Swing jazz music <strong>and</strong> much,<br />
much more .., Just Misbehavin’, The Bank,<br />
Exmouth, 3.00pm to 5.30pm.<br />
CONCERT: SASKIA MOORE-GRIFFITHS &<br />
ADAM SWEET<br />
18 <strong>Feb</strong> - Afternoon double bill of two of the<br />
finest rising acoustic artists in S.W, <strong>Mar</strong>ine<br />
Theatre, Church Street, Lyme Regis, 2.00pm.<br />
EDGE<br />
19 <strong>Feb</strong> - Free Live Entertainment...not to be<br />
missed! The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
ACOUSTICPLUS (OPEN MIC)<br />
19 <strong>Feb</strong> - Open mic all equipment supplied,<br />
The <strong>Mar</strong>ine, The Esplanade, Sidmouth,<br />
9.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
SMALL TOWN JONES<br />
19 <strong>Feb</strong> - Jim Jones aka Small town Jones,<br />
Cygnet Theatre, Exeter, 7.30pm to 10.00pm.<br />
STONEFOX<br />
20 <strong>Feb</strong> - Free Live Entertainment...not to be<br />
missed! The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
GORDIE MACKEEMAN & HIS RHYTHM<br />
BOYS<br />
20 <strong>Feb</strong> - Fundraiser to launch Sidmouth<br />
Sea Fest 20<strong>16</strong> with the best Country &<br />
Bluegrass, Sidmouth Sea Fest, The Gateway,<br />
Seaton, 7.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
WHOLE LOTTA LED<br />
20 <strong>Feb</strong> - Now in their 19th year, the Led<br />
Zeppelin tribute b<strong>and</strong> give a classic show,<br />
Tavistock Wharf, Canal Road, Tavistock.<br />
SECONDNATURE<br />
26 <strong>Feb</strong> - Free Live Entertainment...not to be<br />
missed! The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
PETE CANTER TRIO<br />
26 <strong>Feb</strong> - Fine saxophonist <strong>and</strong> trio in the<br />
conservatory, Pete Canter, City Gate Hotel,<br />
Exeter, 7.30pm to 10.20pm.<br />
DEAN MARTIN TRIBUTE NIGHT<br />
26 <strong>Feb</strong> - Unique tribute to the “King of<br />
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26 <strong>Feb</strong> - Extreme Baroque play a programme<br />
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Live Music<br />
Friday 05th <strong>Feb</strong>ruary<br />
T.REXTASY<br />
The Queen’s Theatre, Barnstaple<br />
Saturday 06th <strong>Feb</strong>ruary<br />
PORT ISAAC’S FISHERMAN’S FRIENDS<br />
The Queen’s Theatre, Barnstaple<br />
Friday 19th <strong>Feb</strong>ruary<br />
THE EDGE<br />
The Black Horse, Sidmouth<br />
CAVEMOUTH<br />
26 <strong>Feb</strong> - Originals <strong>and</strong> covers b<strong>and</strong>, The<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>ine, The Esplanade, Sidmouth, 9.30pm<br />
to 11.00pm.<br />
HEADS SOUTH<br />
26 <strong>Feb</strong> - Part of ‘A Message From…’ live<br />
music series, Barnfield Theatre, Barnfield<br />
Road, Exeter, 8.00pm.<br />
PETE CANTER’S LIGHTFLIGHT<br />
27 <strong>Feb</strong> - Latin Jazz with Saxophonist &<br />
composer, Pete Canter <strong>and</strong> Lightflight, The<br />
Tucker’s Jazz Club, The Tucker’s Arms,<br />
Axminster, 8.00pm to 10.00pm.<br />
PETE CANTER’S LIGHTFLIGHT<br />
27 <strong>Feb</strong> - Melodic, accessible <strong>and</strong> seriously<br />
groovy latin jazz quartet, Pete Canter,<br />
Tuckers Jazz Club, Dalwood, 8.30pm to<br />
11.00pm.<br />
ANGE HARDY LIVE IN CONCERT<br />
27 <strong>Feb</strong> - Award-winning folk singer Ange<br />
Hardy performs live - tickets @ £10, incl<br />
food, Friends of St Michaels, St Michael’s<br />
Church, Chagford, 7.30pm to 9.00pm.<br />
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Valentines Menu<br />
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SKY LIZARD<br />
27 <strong>Feb</strong> - Free Live Entertainment...not to be<br />
missed! The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
BRIDGE JAZZ CLUB<br />
02 <strong>Mar</strong> - Pete Canter & Friends<br />
Jam Session £6 or £4 jammers, Pete Canter,<br />
Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, 8.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
ACOUSTICPLUS (OPEN MIC)<br />
04 <strong>Mar</strong> - Open mic all equipment supplied,<br />
The <strong>Mar</strong>ine, The Esplanade, Sidmouth,<br />
9.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
ROADHOGS<br />
04 <strong>Mar</strong> - Free Live Entertainment...not to be<br />
missed! The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
DAVE SHARP (FORMER MEMBER OF<br />
THE ALARM)<br />
04 <strong>Mar</strong> - Originals acoustic, The <strong>Mar</strong>ine,<br />
The Esplanade, Sidmouth, 9.30pm to<br />
11.00pm.<br />
‘THE SKIMMITY HITCHERS’<br />
05 <strong>Mar</strong> - West Country All Stars Cider Night.<br />
The Skimmity Hitchers & support b<strong>and</strong>s,<br />
The Gateway, Fore Street, Seaton, 7.30pm<br />
to 11.00pm.<br />
ABBA ARRIVAL<br />
05 <strong>Mar</strong> - ABBA Arrival – ‘The Ultimate<br />
ABBATribute Show’, Barnfield Theatre,<br />
Barnfield Road, Exeter, 7.45pm.<br />
BLUE ARSED FLY<br />
05 <strong>Mar</strong> - Free Live Entertainment...not to be<br />
missed! The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
Just quote '<strong>Devonshire</strong>' for the dining offers below<br />
DINING OFFERS<br />
6 course taster menu<br />
from £29.99 | per person<br />
Book the restaurant (28 guests) for<br />
your function or our Redvers Suite (80<br />
guests) for your wedding.<br />
BARNFIELD BAR PRESENTS … MARCH<br />
MAYHEM<br />
05 <strong>Mar</strong> - <strong>Mar</strong>ch Mayhem comes to Exeter<br />
with two of the finest hard rock b<strong>and</strong>s<br />
around, Barnfield Theatre, Barnfield Road,<br />
Exeter, 7.30pm.<br />
ED SHEERAN TRIBUTE NIGHT<br />
11 <strong>Mar</strong> - A full Ed Sheeran experience<br />
at this Friday night show, Cedars Inn,<br />
Barnstaple, Bickington Road, Barnstaple.<br />
BAV’S KARAOKE<br />
11 <strong>Mar</strong> - Free Live Entertainment...not to be<br />
missed! The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
THE<br />
MALTSTERS<br />
ARMS<br />
DINING OFFERS<br />
Buy one get one half price<br />
Take-away pizzas | Weds<br />
Roast Dinner & Desert<br />
£12 | per person | Sun | 12:00pm-6:00pm<br />
Mother’s day & Easter bookings<br />
now being taken.<br />
Matthew <strong>and</strong> Me<br />
WHITE SPIRIT<br />
12 <strong>Mar</strong> - Free Live Entertainment...not to be<br />
missed! The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
NEVERTHELESS<br />
18 <strong>Mar</strong> - Free Live Entertainment...not to be<br />
missed! The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
ACOUSTICPLUS (OPEN MIC)<br />
18 <strong>Mar</strong> - Open mic all equipment supplied,<br />
The <strong>Mar</strong>ine, The Esplanade, Sidmouth,<br />
9.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
JIM NEWTON’S FIFTY SHADES OF JAZZ<br />
19 <strong>Mar</strong> - Jim Newton’s “Fifty Shades of<br />
Jazz”, The Tucker’s Jazz Club, The Tucker’s<br />
Arms, Axminster, 8.00pm to 10.00pm.<br />
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Great Night Out<br />
Enjoy FOOD <strong>and</strong> LIVE MUSIC at your local venue<br />
Fairport Convention<br />
LIVE MUSIC CONTINUED<br />
ROCK THE NIGHT<br />
19 <strong>Mar</strong> - Free Live Entertainment...not to be<br />
missed! The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
THE FRANK SINATRA HOLOGRAM SHOW<br />
19 <strong>Mar</strong> - Tickets: £18.50 Buy before<br />
31/12/15 <strong>and</strong> save £3.00! Exmouth<br />
Pavilion, The Esplanade, Exmouth, 7.30pm<br />
to 11.00pm.<br />
DAVID HAMILTON’S ROCK N ROLL BACK<br />
THE YEARS<br />
19 <strong>Mar</strong> - Legendary DJ <strong>and</strong> broadcaster<br />
David Hamilton comes to the Babbacombe<br />
Theatre, Babbacombe Theatre, Babbacombe<br />
Downs, Torquay, 8.00pm to 10.00pm.<br />
BLIMEY OH RILEY<br />
25 <strong>Mar</strong> - Originals<br />
Covers punk, ska, rock, The <strong>Mar</strong>ine, The<br />
Esplanade, Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
PETE CANTER TRIO<br />
25 <strong>Mar</strong> - Fine saxophonist <strong>and</strong> trio in the<br />
conservatory, Pete Canter, City Gate Hotel,<br />
Exeter, 7.30pm to 10.20pm.<br />
ROCKFELLA<br />
25 <strong>Mar</strong> - Free Live Entertainment...not to be<br />
missed! The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
STONEFOX<br />
26 <strong>Mar</strong> - Free Live Entertainment...not to be<br />
missed! The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
REGGAE NIGHT (DJ)<br />
26 <strong>Mar</strong> - Reggae dj’s, The <strong>Mar</strong>ine, The<br />
Esplanade, Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
JAZZ AT KENNAWAY HOUSE IN THE<br />
AFTERNOON<br />
27 <strong>Mar</strong> - Pete Allen is back performing his<br />
NEW programme of ‘Jazz in the Afternoon’,<br />
Kennaway House, Coburg Road, Sidmouth,<br />
2.00pm to 5.30pm.<br />
RESTAURANT OWNERS!<br />
Would you like to promote<br />
your eatery in our Great Night<br />
Out section for FREE?<br />
Book in now with a quarter<br />
page or above <strong>and</strong> get your<br />
special Dining Offers Box<br />
<strong>and</strong> guaranteed inclusion of<br />
your live music events at<br />
no extra cost!<br />
To take advantage of this<br />
fantastic deal just call<br />
Hannah Trim on:<br />
01395 513383 Ext. 3<br />
Dining Offers<br />
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THE<br />
Sea Trout Inn<br />
DINING OFFERS<br />
Stags Bar: Pie <strong>and</strong> a Pint<br />
£7.50<br />
Restaurant & Snug:<br />
Moules & Frites with a glass of<br />
Prosecco<br />
£9.95 | per person | Mon<br />
Fish & Chips Special<br />
£12.95 | 2 portions | Thurs<br />
Book for Valentines!<br />
Running on both Sat 13th <strong>and</strong> Sun 14th<br />
nights. See our website for details.<br />
AWARD WINNING<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>ina Location<br />
Table Bookings t. 01803 762274<br />
waterfront bar bistro<br />
DINING OFFERS<br />
Pie <strong>and</strong> Pud Night<br />
£12.50 | per person | Mon<br />
Valentines Day Evening Set Menu<br />
£35 | per person<br />
Booking essential | 3 courses<br />
Mothering Sunday<br />
Treat your mum to breakfast,<br />
lunch or dinner<br />
Kick Back & Relax<br />
Great<br />
Jolly<br />
Jacks<br />
Food, Company<br />
& Location !<br />
Chocolate<br />
Make a variety of luxury chocolates<br />
with a professional chocolatier<br />
Amour<br />
Fun, Relaxed,<br />
Informative<br />
Take home all you make!<br />
Full or half day courses held near<br />
Lyme Regis.<br />
For information call Gill at Chocolate Amour: 07717 887442<br />
Table Bookings t. 01752 500008<br />
grantgilli@aol.com www.chocolateamour.co.uk<br />
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tel: 01752 500 008<br />
www.jollyjacks.co.uk
MAGDALEN CHAPTER<br />
EXETER<br />
the best of Devon's eateries<br />
Highly<br />
Recommended<br />
DEVON<br />
SHIRE<br />
Top notch room with all the gadgets!<br />
Warm fires in reception<br />
Lovely, light <strong>and</strong> stylish dining area<br />
The ‘magic’ cocktails<br />
We bring you great stays from across Devon<br />
Overnight Stay<br />
The classy entrance<br />
Lovely bathing facilities<br />
We all know that Exeter’s one cool<br />
city, deep countryside a few miles<br />
outside, but all the facilities <strong>and</strong><br />
amenities at h<strong>and</strong> in what has to be<br />
the most intimate city in Engl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
There are many reasons to visit<br />
Exeter, shopping is excellent with<br />
all the main br<strong>and</strong>s <strong>and</strong> stores in<br />
town. Dining’s equally great <strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> whistles such as mood lighting<br />
switch arrays, excellent bathing<br />
facilities, elegant large windows, etc.<br />
The bed was luxuriously large <strong>and</strong><br />
comfortable, happily ensuring a good<br />
night’s sleep. Outside the room <strong>and</strong><br />
on the ground floor, there are some<br />
funky spaces, such as the airy lounge<br />
area that’s a new addition to the back<br />
of the building as is the dining area<br />
Framboise <strong>Mar</strong>tini <strong>and</strong> Mootiny on<br />
the Bounty - absolutely delicious,<br />
particularly liked the innocently<br />
presented Mootiny. Top marks!<br />
Food was modern, interesting,<br />
visually appetising <strong>and</strong> most<br />
importantly, delicious, with a cleverly<br />
thought-out menu, they’re certainly<br />
on top of their game. It’d be hard<br />
to find any reason to venture out of<br />
Busy shaking the cocktails<br />
Venison, salt baked celeriac,<br />
walnut <strong>and</strong> prunes with kale<br />
Buffalo mozzarello, blood orange,<br />
pomegranate <strong>and</strong> cori<strong>and</strong>er seeds<br />
MC’s puddings are delicious,<br />
delicate <strong>and</strong> light<br />
varied or you may be coming to<br />
town for the theatre. Our Overnight<br />
Stay features the Magdalen Chapter,<br />
located in the old Victorian Eye<br />
Infirmary. It’s a characterful <strong>and</strong><br />
imposing building that makes for a<br />
great hotel, being gr<strong>and</strong> inside <strong>and</strong><br />
out. Our stay was in one of their<br />
ʻfeature’ rooms which was luxurious<br />
<strong>and</strong> spacious, having all the bells<br />
which is a modern, chic place to enjoy<br />
your food. Pre dinner, was enjoyed<br />
in the bar over several cocktails, <strong>and</strong><br />
what cocktails they turned out to be.<br />
There’s always a worry that you get<br />
the ʻusual’ fruit juice with a bit of<br />
spirit thrown in, but here I have to<br />
say we were mightily impressed with<br />
the sophistication <strong>and</strong> flavour of our<br />
selection: Blueberry Bellini, Chocolat<br />
the hotel, particularly in the evening<br />
with the st<strong>and</strong>ard of cuisine coming<br />
from the kitchen, combined with the<br />
great ambiance of the hotel.<br />
If you’re coming to town for the<br />
weekend, it’s a great place to stay<br />
<strong>and</strong> can recommend it fully. Don’t<br />
forget to mention <strong>Devonshire</strong> mag<br />
when booking.<br />
Unusual, stylish <strong>and</strong> chic dining area<br />
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FOOD <strong>and</strong> DRINK<br />
are available to buy so that you can go home <strong>and</strong><br />
start making your own chocolates without having<br />
to make a special shopping trip.<br />
Gill runs these home-based courses at least twice a<br />
month. Most are designed for those new to chocolate<br />
making but Gill also hosts intermediate courses<br />
for those wanting to develop their skills further.<br />
The courses are<br />
very ʻh<strong>and</strong>s on’<br />
<strong>and</strong> you’ll make<br />
approximately<br />
thirty<br />
chocolates on a<br />
half day course<br />
A Love of Chocolate<br />
Itʼs fair to say that most of us like chocolate. And the latest evidence revealed by<br />
Harvard University means you neednʼt feel guilty eating it in moderation.<br />
The courses cater for all ages from 9 upwards. The<br />
courses are not just for women as many of Gill’s<br />
budding chocolatiers are men. The atmosphere is<br />
very relaxed <strong>and</strong> the house, which is full of art <strong>and</strong><br />
objets d’art, has been featured in several magazines.<br />
These home based courses are only a part of what<br />
Gill does however. She also caters for larger private<br />
parties if, for instance, a group of adults want a<br />
unique way to celebrate that special occasion. Gill’s<br />
courses are also very popular with hen parties, a<br />
fun way to experience something different before<br />
Chocolate can be called ʻone of your daily five’<br />
as it is a fruit from the cacao tree. The beans, in<br />
their raw state, have many health benefits, can<br />
make us feel happier <strong>and</strong> have the qualities of a<br />
ʻsuperfood’. However, during the production of<br />
chocolates for boxes <strong>and</strong> bars, other ingredients<br />
are added that are the<br />
culprits of weight gain.<br />
For some people chocolate<br />
is a treat, for others<br />
it’s a regular part of<br />
their diet. For Gill Coates<br />
it’s an obsession. Not<br />
eating chocolates, although<br />
tasting is an<br />
essential part of what<br />
Gill does, but teaching people to make them.<br />
Gill came across chocolate making by accident<br />
when she was living in France <strong>and</strong> decided to<br />
go on a chocolate making course with the world<br />
famous Valrhona chocolate manufacturer in 2007.<br />
Following this inspirational course Gill wanted to<br />
Gill decided to go on a<br />
chocolate making course with<br />
the world famous Valrhona<br />
chocolate manufacturer in<br />
2007<br />
Teachers perks on ‘Easter Chocolates’ Course 2015<br />
share her love of chocolate making <strong>and</strong> began<br />
running courses in France sharing her knowledge<br />
of chocolate <strong>and</strong> its origins <strong>and</strong> teaching people<br />
how to make chocolates in all kinds of different<br />
shapes, sizes <strong>and</strong> taste varieties. In 2011 she <strong>and</strong><br />
her husb<strong>and</strong> returned to live in Engl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
settled in Lyme Regis<br />
in Dorset. They renovated<br />
a property there,<br />
designing the kitchen<br />
specifically so that Gill<br />
could continue running<br />
her courses. She now<br />
runs regular classes for<br />
up to ten people at her<br />
home <strong>and</strong> for bigger<br />
groups in various locations across the South West.<br />
If you come on one of Gill’s courses you’ll start by<br />
learning about the origins of chocolate, tasting<br />
different varieties from around the world. Then<br />
you’ll make several varieties of chocolates using a<br />
range of ingredients <strong>and</strong> flavours. The courses are<br />
very ʻh<strong>and</strong>s on’ <strong>and</strong> you’ll make<br />
approximately thirty chocolates<br />
on a half day course <strong>and</strong><br />
about fifty on a full day course<br />
<strong>and</strong>, depending on how many<br />
you’re tempted to eat during<br />
the day, you gift wrap them<br />
ready to take home with you.<br />
A feature of the courses is that<br />
you will learn to make chocolates<br />
without having to buy<br />
expensive equipment, in fact,<br />
the equipment you use can be<br />
found in the drawer of any well<br />
stocked kitchen. She will also<br />
have a supply of top quality,<br />
inexpensive ingredients that<br />
A budding chocolatier at work<br />
the big day. Gill also runs children’s parties where<br />
chocolate making is tailored to the age of the<br />
group. All these courses can be held at different<br />
venues in the south west as long as the minimum<br />
facilities which Gill needs are provided.<br />
Gill also gives talks <strong>and</strong> demonstrations at a variety<br />
of venues in the South West; again, tailored to the<br />
group’s needs.<br />
Finally, a popular part of the service Gill offers is<br />
Gift Vouchers. These can be purchased if you want<br />
to give someone a very special gift. You purchase<br />
the voucher <strong>and</strong> Gill will personalise it with a<br />
message from you to the intended recipient who<br />
can then arrange to attend one of the courses to<br />
suit their diary.<br />
Contact Gill Coates at Chocolate Amour<br />
07717 887442 or email grantgilli@aol.com<br />
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THE<br />
Sea Trout Inn<br />
Warm welcome,<br />
exceptional food<br />
‘Stunning Family run 15th Century Coaching Inn close to the beautiful<br />
River Dart, 11 luxury en-suite bedrooms, cosy bars, log fires, beer<br />
garden <strong>and</strong> award winning restaurant. Let our family welcome your<br />
family to Devon’s best kept secret ‘<br />
Situated in the picturesque South Hams village of Staverton near Totnes the Sea Trout Inn hotel<br />
<strong>and</strong> restaurant is an idyllic country retreat. There are 10 well appointed en-suite rooms plus<br />
our Annex Suite adjoining the Inn, all available for bed <strong>and</strong> breakfast. Perfect for couples <strong>and</strong><br />
business people alike. The Sea Trout Inn offers an ideal place to stay, relax <strong>and</strong> wine & dine with<br />
friends, family or business colleagues.<br />
01803 762 274 Staverton, Totnes, TQ9 6PA<br />
info@theseatroutinn.co.uk www.theseatroutinn.couk<br />
Selling top quality produce from local suppliers<br />
Dean Court<br />
Farm Shop & Kitchen<br />
AWARD WINNING<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>ina Location<br />
Jolly<br />
Jacks<br />
waterfront bar bistro<br />
Kick Back & Relax<br />
Great<br />
tel: 01752 500 008<br />
Food, Company<br />
& Location !<br />
• Delicious fresh food served all day<br />
• Friendly <strong>and</strong> welcoming • Traditional Sunday Lunches<br />
• Check website for live music & events<br />
• FREE secure parking • Dog & Child friendly<br />
• Lovely outside terrace<br />
www.jollyjacks.co.uk<br />
Mayflower <strong>Mar</strong>ina • Richmond Walk • Plymouth • PL1 4LS<br />
Meet the new owners: The Mason<br />
family of Sladesdown Meat in<br />
Ashburton, who specialise in free<br />
range meats. Pop in to say hello!<br />
We stock a wide range<br />
of fruit, vegetables, dairy<br />
products, cakes, preserves,<br />
pickles, chutneys, jams,<br />
olives, free range eggs, local<br />
wine, beers, Devon Cider<br />
<strong>and</strong> a variety of fruit juices.<br />
Donʼt forget to visit our<br />
Farmhouse Kitchen for<br />
breakfast, lunch or a spot<br />
of afternoon tea<br />
(last hot food 3.15pm).<br />
Open (Mon-Sat) Shop: 9am-5pm • Kitchen: 9am-4pm<br />
01364 642199 • Lower Dean, Buckfastleigh, TQ11 0LT<br />
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FOOD <strong>and</strong> DRINK<br />
OPEN ALL DAY 8am - 11pm for breakfast, coffee, lunch, afternoon tea <strong>and</strong> dinner<br />
The<br />
Otterton<br />
Fresh food prepared & cooked on the premises<br />
using local ingredients from our own farm shop<br />
• Fish l<strong>and</strong>ed by our own fishing boats • Sunday carvery 12-3pm<br />
• Bar serving superb local real ales <strong>and</strong> fine wines<br />
• 15 quality rooms for bed <strong>and</strong> breakfast<br />
• Garden & childrens play area • Dogs welcome (designated areas)<br />
• Courtesy 7 seat minibus available locally with prior arrangement<br />
• Breakfast 8-11am, Lunch 12-2.30pm, Dinner 6.30-9pm<br />
FORE STREET • OTTERTON • DEVON • EX9 7HB 01395 5684<strong>16</strong> www.kingsarmsotterton.co.uk<br />
The Six Bells Inn<br />
Payhembury, Honiton EX14 3HR<br />
01404 841261<br />
www.sixbellsinn.co.uk<br />
THE<br />
MALTSTERS<br />
ARMS<br />
Matt, Sam & the staff welcome you to<br />
their family friendly village pub.<br />
Excellent fresh food cooked & prepared<br />
just for you at affordable prices.<br />
Book now for wedding <strong>and</strong> birthday celebrations!<br />
Food available: Lunchtimes 12 to 3, Evenings 6.30 til late<br />
Sunday Roast 12 to 4, Main Menu also available<br />
Sunday Evenings - booking only<br />
Closed - Monday Lunch<br />
Mother’s day & Easter bookings now<br />
being taken. Visit our website to view<br />
our current menu & events.<br />
www.themaltstersarms.com<br />
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Award Winning Ice Cream<br />
Tea & Coffee • Homemade Cakes • Lunches • Ice Cream Sundaes<br />
We make Artisan<br />
Gelato ice cream<br />
on premises using<br />
local milk & cream<br />
GLUTEN FREE<br />
ICE CREAM?<br />
WE HAVE IT!<br />
Freshly baked scones<br />
<strong>and</strong> other goods<br />
made on premises<br />
every morning!<br />
FRESHLY<br />
GROUND COFFEE<br />
CROISSANTS<br />
Ice Cream<br />
made on premises<br />
- in many delicious<br />
flavours<br />
Old Fore St, Sidmouth<br />
EX10 8LS 01395 512635<br />
info@tasteofsidmouth.co.uk<br />
OPEN 8am<br />
UNTIL 9pm<br />
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Contemporary <strong>and</strong> stylish Café/<br />
Restaurant on Budleigh Salterton<br />
High Street<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
Open daytime Wednesday to<br />
Sunday for breakfast, coffee,<br />
cakes <strong>and</strong> Lunch<br />
Open for Dinner every<br />
Thursday, Friday <strong>and</strong> Saturday<br />
evenings<br />
Open for Brunch every Sunday<br />
To book a table please call<br />
01395 442676<br />
Please visit www.bowmers.com<br />
for our opening times <strong>and</strong> menu<br />
Bowmers, 7 High Street,<br />
Budleigh Salterton EX9 6LD<br />
HOTEL<br />
A PLACE FOR<br />
EATING<br />
DRINKING<br />
AND MEETING<br />
WITH A VIEW OF LYME BAY<br />
PYNE'S SIDMOUTH DEVON 01395 513047<br />
WWW.BEDFORDHOTELSIDMOUTH.CO.UK<br />
20<strong>16</strong> Wedding Special Offer<br />
Wedding Breakfast from £23.95 per person, Evening Finger Buffet<br />
from £11.95 per person with no room hire charges. Please contact<br />
our wedding coordinator to book a viewing or to request a brochure.<br />
Quote ʻ<strong>Devonshire</strong>ʼ<br />
to receive 10% OFF<br />
your taster menu.<br />
01392 272709<br />
BYSTOCK TERRACE, EXETER EX4 4HY<br />
www.queenscourt-hotel.co.uk<br />
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FOOD <strong>and</strong> DRINK<br />
DEVONCOURT<br />
RESORT<br />
&<br />
APARTMENTS<br />
OUTDOOR POOL<br />
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Brasserie<strong>16</strong> at the Devoncourt Resort has<br />
always been known for its good honest<br />
food <strong>and</strong> carveries. Sat in a beautiful<br />
location overlooking flower bordered<br />
green lawns with the sea as a backdrop<br />
you can enjoy tasty food <strong>and</strong> honest ales<br />
<strong>and</strong> wines.<br />
Open for Breakfast, Lunch <strong>and</strong> Dinner,<br />
Teas n Coffees - Good food, good service,<br />
great taste!<br />
Weekly Specials<br />
Monday - Pie Night. A Selection<br />
of Traditional Homemade pies<br />
£10.50<br />
Tuesday - Selection of Italian<br />
Dishes. 2 Courses £13.95<br />
Wednesday & Friday - Lunchtime<br />
Carvery £8.95<br />
Wednesday - Evening Steak<br />
Special with a Glass of Wine £<strong>16</strong><br />
Thursday - Classic Fish & Chip<br />
Night £9.50<br />
Friday - Evening Carvery<br />
<strong>and</strong> Buffet with Selection of<br />
Homemade Dishes £11.70<br />
Sunday - Lunch <strong>and</strong> Evening<br />
Carvery £10.95<br />
AT<strong>16</strong><br />
A La Carte Menu <strong>and</strong> Bar Snacks<br />
Available Daily<br />
Brasserie<br />
DOUGLAS AVENUE<br />
EXMOUTH<br />
DEVONCOURT<br />
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The Restaurant Inspector<br />
Visits:<br />
Jack in the Green Exeter<br />
Jack in the Green<br />
Jack in the<br />
Green<br />
menu sampled<br />
Starters<br />
Mushroom Risotto with<br />
Truffle Oil & Parmesan<br />
Lyme Bay Crab Cake<br />
Flaming Creme Brulée<br />
Mains<br />
Maple Glazed Creedy<br />
Carver Duck Breast<br />
Roast Breast of Pheasant<br />
<strong>and</strong> Confit leg with<br />
Whisky Cream Sauce<br />
Pudding<br />
Chocolate, Cherry, Kirsch<br />
Cheeseboard<br />
Drinks<br />
House Malbec<br />
Tarka Otter Lager<br />
Superb food at this Gastro Pub<br />
The Jack in the Green is situated<br />
just outside Exeter on the<br />
eastward end <strong>and</strong> is a wellestablished<br />
eaterie with a solid<br />
reputation.Interestingly, the<br />
proprietor Paul Parnell, bought<br />
the pub in 1992, with limited<br />
funds, <strong>and</strong> was told by many<br />
that it was a disaster waiting to<br />
happen, particularly as the bypass<br />
was pending, meaning the end to<br />
the high levels of traffic outside<br />
the front. So, here we are, about<br />
a quarter of a century later <strong>and</strong> it<br />
has, <strong>and</strong> continues to be, a great<br />
success story. Of course, to be<br />
successful year in <strong>and</strong> year out<br />
Pub with a cosy, intimate feel<br />
over that duration is more than<br />
just good luck, it’s a combination<br />
of providing fine food <strong>and</strong><br />
excellent service which has won<br />
out for Paul <strong>and</strong> the team over<br />
the years. Arriving at the ʻJack’,<br />
you’re aware it’s a cosy place with<br />
a great pub feel. Whilst waiting<br />
for table, a pint of the excellent<br />
Tarka was taken, a fine beer for<br />
slaking your thirst. First course<br />
was Lyme Bay Crab Cake <strong>and</strong> also<br />
Mushroom Risotto with Truffle<br />
Oil <strong>and</strong> Parmesan. Both were<br />
extremely tasty <strong>and</strong> thoroughly<br />
enjoyed, as was the Maple Glazed<br />
Creedy Carver Duck Breast <strong>and</strong><br />
the Roast Breast of Pheasant <strong>and</strong><br />
Confit leg with Whisky Cream<br />
Sauce - great mains, delicately<br />
cooked, the meat being moist <strong>and</strong><br />
tender. Top marks to the head<br />
chef (Matthew Mason) <strong>and</strong> team!<br />
I’m a bit of a sucker for a good<br />
pud, <strong>and</strong> their Choc, Cherry &<br />
Kirsch more than satisfied my<br />
pud urge - blooming lovely.<br />
Their cheeseboard showed no<br />
skimming on ingredients, all<br />
high quality, tasty cheeses <strong>and</strong><br />
accompaniments. A thoroughly<br />
enjoyable evening I can<br />
thoroughly recommend the ʻJack’<br />
heartily to you all! Editor<br />
Maple Glazed Creedy Carver Duck Breast<br />
Roast Breast of Pheasant <strong>and</strong> Confit leg with Whisky Cream Sauce<br />
Otter Brewery’s Tarka is my favourite<br />
lager these days, it’s a clean, refreshing<br />
beer that’s thirst quenching <strong>and</strong> not<br />
overly gassy, with a great taste - a<br />
real pity more pubs don’t drop the<br />
usual mass, corporation produced<br />
lagers <strong>and</strong> replace with this.<br />
Mushroom Risotto with Truffle<br />
Oil <strong>and</strong> Parmesan<br />
Cheeseboard<br />
Chocolate, Cherry, Kirsch<br />
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Forthcoming Exhibitions<br />
<strong>Feb</strong>ruary & <strong>Mar</strong>ch 20<strong>16</strong><br />
Penelope Timmis - "Barry"<br />
Baxters Gallery, Dartmouth<br />
Vanessa Cooper - White Space Art, Totnes<br />
Lee Madgwick - 'Empress' - Hybrid Gallery, Honiton<br />
GALLERIES<br />
SOUTH WEST ACADEMY<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
Until 13 <strong>Feb</strong> - Exhibition of work<br />
by members of the South West<br />
Academy of Fine & Applied Arts,<br />
Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Elmfield<br />
House, Honiton, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
BROOMHILL NATIONAL<br />
SCULPTURE PRIZE<br />
Until 20 <strong>Feb</strong> - Budding sculptors:<br />
NSP are now accepting entries<br />
for 20<strong>16</strong>. See Web for details,<br />
Broomhill Art Hotel, Muddiford Road,<br />
Barnstaple.<br />
PRIMARY COLOURS<br />
Until 24 <strong>Feb</strong> - A celebration of the<br />
creativity of young artists from<br />
13 local primary schools, Harbour<br />
House, The Promenade, Kingsbridge,<br />
10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
RETROSPECTIVE OF ARTIST<br />
RICHARD SLATER<br />
Until 27 <strong>Feb</strong> - A Retrospective of the<br />
artist Richard Slater born London<br />
1927, Artmill Gallery, 83 Hyde Park<br />
Road, Plymouth, 9.30am to 5.00pm.<br />
EXHIBITION: BETWEEN<br />
THE MESS & THE<br />
MACHINE<br />
Until 28 <strong>Feb</strong> - A collection of work<br />
created by the students <strong>and</strong> staff at<br />
Coombeshead Academy, Hannahs at<br />
Seale-Hayne, Howton Lane, Newton<br />
Abbot, 10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
COLOUR CODED<br />
Until 29 <strong>Feb</strong> - Devon Guild Members<br />
Ruth Broadway, Stuart Low <strong>and</strong><br />
Angie Parker are three distinc, Devon<br />
Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill,<br />
Bovey Tracey, 10.00am to 5.30pm.<br />
SHEILA COX<br />
Until 05 <strong>Mar</strong> - Sheila Cox is<br />
exhibiting her eclectic mix of works<br />
for the first time, Axminster Arts<br />
Cafe, The Axminster Arts Cafe,<br />
Axminster, 9.00am to 2.00pm.<br />
EastDevonArt.co.uk<br />
The<strong>Mar</strong>leGallery<br />
CONTEMPORARY FINE ART<br />
Exhibitions<br />
Mike Bernard RI<br />
Solo Show<br />
09 to 22 Apr<br />
“Scenes around Britain’s coast”<br />
Catalogue available<br />
01297 625257<br />
www.marinehouseatbeer.co.uk<br />
51 High Street Honiton<br />
t. 01404 43201<br />
www.hybrid-devon.co.uk<br />
In our gallery<br />
A Singular Vision<br />
19 <strong>Mar</strong> to <strong>16</strong> Apr<br />
Twenty artists reveal their singular<br />
vision in a diverse exhibition of<br />
new paintings.<br />
Old Fore Street, Sidmouth EX10 8LS<br />
info@eastdevonart.co.uk 01395 5<strong>16</strong>284<br />
Spring Exhibition<br />
13 to 21 <strong>Feb</strong> then open at<br />
weekends until 20 <strong>Mar</strong>.<br />
Easter Exhibition<br />
25 <strong>Mar</strong> to 17th Apr.<br />
Art tuition available throughout the year.<br />
A selection of work may be viewed on-line at<br />
www.eastdevonart.co.uk<br />
www.facebook.com/eda.academy<br />
Open every day 11am-5pm & every weekend.<br />
Paintings<br />
Limited Edition Prints<br />
Designer Jewellery<br />
Ceramics<br />
Sculpture<br />
Limited Edition Textiles<br />
Call for exhibitors<br />
The <strong>Mar</strong>le Print Show<br />
Victoria Place, Axminster, Devon, EX13 5NQ<br />
art@themarlegallery.co.uk 01297 639970<br />
www.themarlegallery.co.uk<br />
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Mairi Stewart - 'Reds <strong>and</strong> Stripes'<br />
The <strong>Mar</strong>le Gallery, Axminster<br />
Simon Garden - 'Pointing Practice' - Sladers Yard, West Bay, Dorset<br />
Philippa de Burlet - 'Porcelain Bowl 3'<br />
The <strong>Mar</strong>le Gallery, Axminster.<br />
Mike Bernard - 'Lyme Regis Harbour' - <strong>Mar</strong>ine House at Beer<br />
LANDSCAPE, PLANT AND<br />
BEE<br />
Until 12 <strong>Mar</strong> - From Urban to Moor,<br />
ink to plant juice. Four Devon Guild<br />
of Craftsmen members fe, Green Hill<br />
Arts, Fore Street, Moretonhampstead,<br />
10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
EXHIBITION: LINE UP<br />
Until <strong>16</strong> <strong>Mar</strong> - Exhibition presenting<br />
monohrome objects in styled<br />
groups., Devon Guild of Craftsmen,<br />
Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey,<br />
10.00am to 5.30pm.<br />
COASTLINE<br />
12 <strong>Feb</strong> to 02 <strong>Mar</strong> - See how Dorset<br />
<strong>and</strong> Devon artists paint, draw <strong>and</strong><br />
photograph our coast, Town Mill Arts<br />
Guild, The Courtyard Gallery, Lyme<br />
Regis, 10.30am to 4.30pm.<br />
SPRING EXHIBITION AT<br />
EAST DEVON ART<br />
13 <strong>Feb</strong> to 21 <strong>Feb</strong> - West Country<br />
artists display their latest works.<br />
Open weekends until 20th <strong>Mar</strong>,<br />
East Devon Art, Old Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 11.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
CONTINUED OVERLEAF...<br />
Town Centre, Axminster<br />
EX13 5NQ<br />
Open 10-4 Mon-Fri, 10-3 Sat<br />
info@artwavewest.com | artwavewest.com<br />
artwave west | 01297 489 746<br />
morcombelake | dorset | DT6 6DY<br />
Exhibitions<br />
Spring Exhibition<br />
04 <strong>Mar</strong> to 23 Apr<br />
The ever popular mixed show for Spring.<br />
A very dynamic show to kick start the<br />
Spring featuring 10 artists including the<br />
highly collectable Gallery Artist,<br />
Donna Goold.<br />
Open Wednesday to Saturday 10am-4pm<br />
Current Exhibition<br />
A Winter’s Tale<br />
Until 20 <strong>Feb</strong><br />
Come <strong>and</strong> visit us!<br />
Contemporary Art<br />
Jocasta Jewellery<br />
Ceramics<br />
10am-4pm Tue Wed Fri Sat<br />
5 Cross Lane, Sidmouth 01395 576918<br />
Apple Tree Gifts<br />
Come <strong>and</strong> explore...<br />
A four room treasure trove of<br />
locally h<strong>and</strong>made art <strong>and</strong> craft,<br />
proudly supporting local<br />
artisans in the heart of<br />
Axminster.<br />
01297 598011<br />
www.appletreegalleries.co.uk<br />
South West Academy Exhibition<br />
Until 13 <strong>Feb</strong> - Work by members<br />
of the SWAc including Alan Cotton<br />
<strong>and</strong> Peter R<strong>and</strong>all-Page.<br />
Young Shoots Exhibition<br />
27 <strong>Feb</strong> to 09 Apr - A touring<br />
exhibition in collaboration with<br />
the Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
<strong>and</strong> The Natural World.<br />
www.thelmahulbert.com<br />
01404 45006<br />
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Forthcoming Exhibitions<br />
<strong>Feb</strong>ruary & <strong>Mar</strong>ch 20<strong>16</strong><br />
David Norman - Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton<br />
David Inshaw - 'Winter, St Ives' - Sladers Yard, West Bay, Dorset<br />
PRINTMAKING 20<strong>16</strong>: OPEN<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
13 <strong>Feb</strong> to 09 <strong>Mar</strong> - Lyme Regis<br />
celebrates fine art printmaking in<br />
this special exhibition, Town Mill<br />
Arts Guild, The Malthouse Gallery,<br />
Lyme Regis, 10.30am to 4.30pm.<br />
YOUNG SHOOTS<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
27 <strong>Feb</strong> to 09 Apr - Touring exhibition<br />
in collaboration with CCANW, Thelma<br />
Hulbert Gallery, Elmfield House,<br />
Honiton, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
SIX<br />
01 <strong>Mar</strong> to 05 <strong>Mar</strong> - Kingsbridge<br />
Community College A Level art <strong>and</strong><br />
photography exhibition, Harbour<br />
House, The Promenade, Kingsbridge,<br />
10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
WOMEN AND PEACE – AN<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
01 <strong>Mar</strong> to 31 <strong>Mar</strong> - Barnfield Theatre<br />
Front of House Gallery Free entry,<br />
Barnfield Theatre, Barnfield Road,<br />
Exeter, 10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
ACROSS BOUNDARIES<br />
04 <strong>Mar</strong> to <strong>16</strong> <strong>Mar</strong> - Julie Oldfield<br />
explores the concept of boundaries in<br />
her mixed media paintings, Town Mill<br />
Arts Guild, The Courtyard Gallery, Lyme<br />
Regis, 10.30am to 5.00pm.<br />
SPRING EXHIBITION<br />
04 <strong>Mar</strong> to 23 Apr - The ever popular<br />
mixed show for the Spring, Artwave<br />
West, n/a, Morecombelake, 10.00am<br />
to 4.00pm.<br />
CONNECTIONS: OUT OF<br />
THE BLUE<br />
12 <strong>Mar</strong> to 23 <strong>Mar</strong> - Colourful<br />
l<strong>and</strong>scape, abstract <strong>and</strong> figurative<br />
paintings <strong>and</strong> playful bronze dogs,<br />
Town Mill Arts Guild, The Malthouse<br />
Gallery, Lyme Regis, 10.30am to<br />
4.30pm.<br />
'A TIME FOR ART'<br />
12 <strong>Mar</strong> to 25 <strong>Mar</strong> - Liz Smerdon<br />
& Sheila Minchin give a spring<br />
exhibition, A la Ronde, Summer<br />
Lane, Exmouth, 10.30am to 5.30pm.<br />
SLADERS YARD<br />
Contemporary British Art,<br />
Furniture & Craft. Licensed Café.<br />
gallery@sladersyard.co.uk<br />
DREAM VISIONS<br />
Until Sunday 28 <strong>Feb</strong>ruary<br />
Recent paintings by<br />
ALFRED STOCKHAM ARCA RWA<br />
<strong>and</strong> his circle: DAVID INSHAW,<br />
SIMON GARDEN, STEWART GEDDES,<br />
STEPHEN JACOBSON, GEORGE TUTE<br />
Furniture by PETTER SOUTHALL<br />
www.sladersyard.co.uk<br />
Open daily. 01308 459511<br />
West Bay, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4EL<br />
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We now have even more<br />
framed limited edition prints<br />
by Yvonne Coomber in the<br />
gallery. Come <strong>and</strong> have a look!<br />
E X H I B I T I O N S<br />
Exeter: Tues-Fri 11.00-6.00 Sat 12.00-4.00<br />
Budleigh: Tues-Sat 10.30-5.00 Sun 2.00-4.30<br />
www.brookgallery.co.uk 01395 443003<br />
NEXT MAJOR SHOW<br />
North South East West<br />
18 <strong>Mar</strong> to 22 Apr<br />
The largest show of works by<br />
internationally acclaimed artist<br />
Norman Ackroyd CBE RA.<br />
Showing in Budleigh <strong>and</strong> Exeter.<br />
For this, other talks <strong>and</strong> events visit:<br />
www.brookgallery.co.uk<br />
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Donna Goold - 'Coastal View' - Artwave West, Morcombelake<br />
Jonathon Coudrille - 'Kelp Season'<br />
Brownston Gallery, Modbury<br />
Yvonne Coomber - GalleryFab, Newton Abbot<br />
Catherine Osbond - 'Last of the Rain'<br />
East Devon Art, Sidmouth<br />
Norman Ackroyd - 'Snowstorm, Cartmel Fell'<br />
Brook Gallery, Exeter<br />
Barry Seaforth - 'Days End Across the Exe'<br />
Apple Tree Galleries, Axminster<br />
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ART EXHIBITION<br />
18 <strong>Mar</strong> to 19 <strong>Mar</strong> - 'In the Picture'<br />
Art Group Exhibition, Kennaway<br />
House, Coburg Road, Sidmouth,<br />
9.30am to 4.30pm.<br />
PERSPECTIVES<br />
19 <strong>Mar</strong> to 30 <strong>Mar</strong> - Three local<br />
painters showcase an eclectic mix of<br />
styles <strong>and</strong> subjects, Town Mill Arts<br />
Guild, The Courtyard Gallery, Lyme<br />
Regis, 10.30am to 4.30pm.<br />
TREES: OPEN ART<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
19 <strong>Mar</strong> to 03 Apr - A varied<br />
exhibition featuring local artists'<br />
responses to the theme of trees,<br />
Harbour House, The Promenade,<br />
Kingsbridge, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
A QUEST FOR<br />
TRANQUILLITY<br />
24 <strong>Mar</strong> to 30 <strong>Mar</strong> - Peaceful<br />
seascapes & tranquil portraits<br />
painted by local artist David<br />
Manners, Town Mill Arts Guild,<br />
The Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis,<br />
10.30am to 4.30pm.<br />
EASTER EXHIBITION<br />
25 <strong>Mar</strong> to 10 Apr - An exciting<br />
exhibition of a wide range of<br />
work from West Country artists.,<br />
East Devon Art, Old Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 11.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
83 Hyde Park Road, Plymouth PL3 4JN<br />
Tel: 01752 255020<br />
whitespaceart<br />
thebrownstongallery<br />
thebrownstongallery<br />
7 Lucius Street,<br />
Torquay TQ2 5UW<br />
01803 428626<br />
07522 509642<br />
GALLERY & FRAMING CENTRE<br />
EXHIBITIONS<br />
A Retrospecitve<br />
05 to 27 <strong>Feb</strong> - A retrospective<br />
exhibition of Richard Slater.<br />
Light on Grey<br />
01 <strong>Feb</strong> to 30 Apr - Contemporary<br />
l<strong>and</strong>scape artist Saul Cathcart.<br />
Theatre Royal Plymouth.<br />
Open Mon-Fri 9am-5pm<br />
Sat 10am-4pm<br />
In our Gallery<br />
Nature of the Beast<br />
20 <strong>Feb</strong> to 05 <strong>Mar</strong><br />
Solo exhibition of new paintings<br />
by Vanessa Cooper.<br />
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea<br />
10 to 13 <strong>Mar</strong><br />
Please contact the gallery for<br />
complimentary tickets.<br />
72 Fore Street, Totnes TQ9 5RU<br />
01803 864088 10am-5pm Tues to Sat<br />
www.whitespaceart.com<br />
What’s on in the gallery<br />
South West Academy Exhibition<br />
10 <strong>Mar</strong> to 02 Apr - Showcasing the<br />
wealth <strong>and</strong> diversity of talent from<br />
our region.<br />
The Colour of the Colour<br />
15 Apr to 07 May - Five artists who<br />
studied with Robert Lenkiewicz,<br />
Karen Ciambriello, Louise Courtnell,<br />
Diane Nevitt, Lisa Stokes,<br />
Yana Trevail.<br />
art prints sculpture jewellery<br />
art prints sculpture jewellery<br />
36 Church Street, Modbury, Devon PL21 0QR<br />
36 Church Street, tel - 01548 Modbury, 831338 Devon PL21 0QR<br />
tel - 01548 831338<br />
Black <strong>and</strong> White<br />
05 <strong>Feb</strong> to 18 <strong>Mar</strong> - An open mixed<br />
exhibition in 2 parts, each running<br />
for three weeks <strong>and</strong> featuring<br />
the work of several Devon based<br />
artists, as they explore this theme.<br />
We shall also be re-opening<br />
our recently refurbished ‘Secret<br />
Garden’ cafe,where you can enjoy<br />
our now famous Maisie’s blend or<br />
try out our new guest coffee along<br />
with some delicious chocolates.<br />
juliebr<strong>and</strong>on@artizangallery.co.uk<br />
www.Artizangallery.co.uk<br />
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EWAN WALTON<br />
Fine Artist<br />
ʻJackʼ<br />
ʻHenryʼ<br />
ʻDaisy <strong>and</strong> Patchʼ<br />
Top dog animal paintings on commission<br />
www.ewanwalton.com<br />
www.facebook.com/ewanwaltonart<br />
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‘Sidmouth Beach’ - 41cm x 56cm ‘Evening Light, Salcombe’ - 61cm x 76cm ‘The Cuillin Mountains, Skye’ 70cm x 100cm<br />
‘Beer Beach Summer’ - 70cm x 100cm<br />
MIKE BERNARD RI<br />
“With the artist’s eye”<br />
A solo exhibition of new works at <strong>Mar</strong>ine House at Beer<br />
Saturday 9 April to Friday 22 April<br />
Mike Bernard has a deserved reputation as<br />
an artist with a great gift for “framing” a view<br />
which deftly avoids the obvious, but with<br />
subtle artistic licence captures the mood,<br />
colour <strong>and</strong> spirit of the setting. Mike who was<br />
trained at the Royal Academy Schools <strong>and</strong> a<br />
member of the RI (patron HM The Queen) is<br />
one of Britain’s leading l<strong>and</strong>scape painters.<br />
His collage style builds a sense of excitement<br />
<strong>and</strong> hidden expectation in his work.<br />
This is Mike’s fifteenth year as a leading artist<br />
at <strong>Mar</strong>ine House. This new group of paintings<br />
focuses on one of his great loves <strong>and</strong> a<br />
cornerstone of his reputation, the harbours,<br />
rivers <strong>and</strong> watering holes around Britain.<br />
Contact the gallery for a full colour catalogue<br />
<strong>and</strong> invitation to meet Mike on the launch day<br />
Saturday 9 April from 11.00am. Pictures will<br />
be on our web site from mid <strong>Mar</strong>ch.<br />
‘St Pauls <strong>and</strong> The City at Night’ - 51cm x 76cm<br />
www.marinehouseatbeer.co.uk Telephone: 01297 mydevonevents 625257 Fore Street, Beer EX12 3EF<br />
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The<strong>Mar</strong>leGallery<br />
CONTEMPORARY FINE ART<br />
Victoria Place, Axminster, Devon EX13 5NQ<br />
Tuesday - Saturday 10am-5pm<br />
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A point of view!<br />
Nelson’s Column<br />
by JOHN FISHER<br />
menus, at the other end of the scale the equally<br />
enterprising Royal Mint is hoping the year<br />
ahead will be fortunate for them too.<br />
So all parties will be pleased to know that this<br />
promises to be a better than ‘fair to middling’<br />
kind of a year for business, whether you are<br />
planning to mark the arrival of the Year of the<br />
Monkey with dim sum <strong>and</strong> fortune cookies or<br />
specially commissioned gold coins ranging<br />
in face value from £2 to £500 each.<br />
Monkey business<br />
DEVON’S 60-PLUS CHINESE RESTAU-<br />
RANTS <strong>and</strong> takeaways are not the only<br />
businesses looking forward to the start of<br />
the Chinese New Year on 8th <strong>Feb</strong>ruary.<br />
As they throw open their doors to welcome<br />
guests eager to explore their special festive<br />
image courtesy BHF<br />
Name that tune <strong>and</strong> save<br />
a life<br />
DEVON SCHOOLCHILDREN are among the<br />
35,000 young people in the UK who are being<br />
targeted by the British Heart Foundation to<br />
show them what CPR can do to save lives in<br />
an emergency.<br />
It st<strong>and</strong>s for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation<br />
<strong>and</strong> is the first aid technique that can be<br />
used if someone is not breathing properly<br />
or if their heart has stopped.<br />
Chest compressions <strong>and</strong> rescue breaths keep<br />
blood <strong>and</strong> oxygen circulating in the body.<br />
The British Heart Foundation used Vinnie<br />
Jones in its tv advert to show the beat you<br />
might adopt if you perform h<strong>and</strong>s-only CPR<br />
to the tune of Stayin’ Alive by The BeeGees.<br />
Which tune you opt for might depend on your<br />
age: so Nellie the Elephant or The Archers will<br />
do just as well, providing you try to perform<br />
those life saving chest compressions at 100<br />
Traditionally the Year of the Monkey is<br />
associated with ambition, activity, smartness<br />
<strong>and</strong> adventure. But as you swing into the<br />
year or branch out to explore another tree,<br />
be on your guard for mischief. You know<br />
what monkeys are.<br />
Chinese restaurants abound in Yellow Pages<br />
whilst those gold coins can be mined only at<br />
www.royalmint.com . Oh, yes – <strong>and</strong> Gong Hey<br />
Fat Choy! to all our readers!<br />
-120 a minute.<br />
Just call 999, says the British Heart<br />
Foundation, then push Hard <strong>and</strong> Fast.<br />
Nil desper<strong>and</strong>um<br />
RESEARCHERS FROM EXETER UNIVER-<br />
SITY reveal it’s more dangerous for animals,<br />
humans included, to be too thin <strong>and</strong> risk<br />
starving to death, rather than too fat.<br />
Dr. Andrew Higginson said. “Storing fat is an<br />
insurance against the risk of failing to find<br />
food: for pre-industrial humans this was most<br />
likely in winter. This suggests New Year is<br />
the worst possible time to start a new diet.”<br />
FACT: Spring is about to be sprung. Start<br />
your diet in April <strong>and</strong> you will turn heads<br />
on the beach this summer. But in a nice way.<br />
Devon’s night of the wolf<br />
THE LAST WOLF IN ENGLAND was hunted<br />
to extinction in the 14th century but Devon’s<br />
fallow deer can still be spooked by the sight<br />
of what they take to be the eyes of a wolf<br />
glinting <strong>and</strong> moving towards them through<br />
undergrowth.<br />
It’s why so-called ‘wolf posts’ have been<br />
erected at certain places along the edge of that<br />
part of the A38 between Exeter <strong>and</strong> Plymouth<br />
which is wooded.<br />
The wolf posts are designed, not to reflect the<br />
light of a vehicle’s headlights back towards the<br />
driver but instead to angle it at 90- degrees <strong>and</strong><br />
into the woods at the side of the road. A series<br />
of posts therefore can create the suggestion<br />
that the points of light are moving rapidly <strong>and</strong><br />
the deer – or other nocturnal w<strong>and</strong>erer - is<br />
thus startled <strong>and</strong> turns tail.<br />
A Highways Agency report suggests that<br />
there may be as many as 20,000 road incidents<br />
involving deer in the UK every year (20%<br />
of them in Scotl<strong>and</strong>) with perhaps 80% of<br />
the total happening at dusk or dawn. The<br />
same report also cautioned that over time<br />
the deer become familiar with the perceived<br />
threat – a question surely of who’s afraid of<br />
the big bad wolf?<br />
JOHN FISHER<br />
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FASHION & BEAUTY<br />
Your<br />
DREAM<br />
WEDDING<br />
in<br />
Devon<br />
Ensure your special day<br />
has the fairytale factor<br />
Veromia<br />
It's your special day, a day of celebration, a day to<br />
welcome friends <strong>and</strong> family, a day of pure joy <strong>and</strong><br />
the first day of your new life!<br />
It doesn't get much better that hosting your wedding<br />
in Devon, one of the largest <strong>and</strong> most beautiful<br />
counties in Engl<strong>and</strong>. Devon's also blessed with<br />
hundreds of ancient village churches, steeped in<br />
history, as well as historic sites, a large number<br />
of which have been registered for civil marriages.<br />
Of course, Devon's lucky enough to have some of<br />
the finest country house hotels in Engl<strong>and</strong> with<br />
excellent chefs, superb facilities, beautiful grounds<br />
- many of which are more than happy to cater for<br />
your most dem<strong>and</strong>ing wedding requirements. An<br />
increasing number of these hotels have their own<br />
in-house dedicated wedding planners, who can<br />
liaise with you over every detail of your special day.<br />
Over the next few pages we've included some<br />
great Devon based companies such as hotels <strong>and</strong><br />
venues, bespoke jewellers, bride <strong>and</strong> mother of the<br />
bride outfitters for your information <strong>and</strong> reference.<br />
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FASHION & BEAUTY<br />
Dress by<br />
Kenneth Winston<br />
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DREAM WEDDING in DEVON<br />
Dream Weddings at Highbullen Hotel<br />
Devon is a county blessed with fabulous wedding venues, <strong>and</strong> they don’t<br />
come more fabulous than Highbullen Hotel’s Palazzo, a Tuscan inspired<br />
bespoke wedding facility that is able to cater for up to 400 guests.<br />
The beautiful gazeebo at<br />
Highbullen Hotel<br />
Highbullen Hotel Golf <strong>and</strong> Country Club<br />
is a stylish country manor house set<br />
amidst 125 acres of pristine North Devon<br />
countryside, it’s a luxury venue with<br />
everything you could wish for. There’s<br />
a real sense of space, where you can<br />
welcome guests in exclusive <strong>and</strong> beautiful<br />
surroundings, stroll out onto the lawns<br />
<strong>and</strong> enjoy the stunning views out across<br />
the valleys that fan out into the distance<br />
across to Exmoor.<br />
Highbullen Hotel itself is the ideal venue<br />
for smaller, more intimate weddings,<br />
being a gr<strong>and</strong> old country house with<br />
elegant rooms <strong>and</strong> bags of character.<br />
The reception rooms are beautiful <strong>and</strong><br />
you are also able to enjoy the large<br />
terrace <strong>and</strong> croquet lawns in the warmer<br />
months. Highbullen is licensed to host<br />
civil marriages, it's a truly stunning venue<br />
for your ceremony <strong>and</strong> celebrations.<br />
For larger weddings, Highbullen’s spectacular<br />
Palazzo building has many Italianate features<br />
mixed with state of the art facilities, which<br />
has been purposely designed to provide you<br />
with the best wedding experience you could<br />
possibly imagine.<br />
The Tuscan inspired Palazzo<br />
The Palazzo is the perfect venue, with the space<br />
<strong>and</strong> luxury to cater for everyone, enabling your<br />
wedding day to be enjoyed in an elegant <strong>and</strong><br />
relaxed setting.<br />
If you wish to find out more about Highbullen<br />
Hotel’s wedding packages, you can talk to their<br />
Wedding Co-ordinator on 01769 540561 or<br />
email weddings@highbullen.co.uk<br />
Peninsula<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>quees<br />
We supply the latest marquee designs for<br />
weddings, corporate events <strong>and</strong> parties<br />
Offering quality, affordable, marquee hire<br />
throughout the South West region<br />
t: 01395 263444 m: 07711 349727<br />
e: info@peninsulamarquees.co.uk<br />
Based in East Devon<br />
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FASHION & BEAUTY<br />
Chittlehamholt Umberleigh<br />
North Devon EX37 9HD<br />
Highbullen Hotel, Golf <strong>and</strong> Country Club, home to the<br />
stunning Palazzo, the most unique wedding venue in the<br />
south west. Catering for small <strong>and</strong> large numbers of guests,<br />
Highbullen offers the perfect setting for your wedding day.<br />
To arrange a viewing <strong>and</strong> to discuss your options with our<br />
wedding planner, including finding out about details of<br />
our midweek £1,000 discounted honeymoon offer, please<br />
contact us quoting DEVONSHIRE<strong>16</strong>.<br />
Call: 01769 540 561<br />
Email: weddings@highbullen.co.uk<br />
For information <strong>and</strong> photos of the venue please go to<br />
www.highbullen.co.uk<br />
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DREAM WEDDING in DEVON<br />
Rodney Moorhouse Jewellers<br />
JEWELLERS<br />
The perfect place for<br />
your dream wedding<br />
Here at Rodney Moorhouse Jewellers we stock a beautiful<br />
selection of wedding rings in gold, white gold <strong>and</strong> platinum,<br />
ranging from plain b<strong>and</strong>s to full hoops.<br />
• We offer a bespoke service<br />
where we can make your<br />
wedding ring to fit with your<br />
engagement ring.<br />
• New in stock we have a range<br />
of shaped wedding rings.<br />
• We also keep in stock eternity<br />
<strong>and</strong> engagement rings, also<br />
gifts for all occasions.<br />
10% discount<br />
with this advert<br />
If you have any questions please call us on 01803 550952<br />
or visit us at 26 Torquay Road, Paignton TQ3 3AB<br />
weʼre open Mon to Sat 9am-5pm<br />
www.rodneymoorhousejewellerstorbay.co.uk<br />
01884 836100 www.padbrookpark.co.uk<br />
Padbrook Park Hotel Golf & Country Club<br />
Cullompton, EX15 1RU<br />
Mothering Sunday<br />
Treat your mum to a<br />
fabulous Mothering Sunday<br />
Lunch, glass of bubbles on<br />
arrival 3 course lunch <strong>and</strong><br />
gift for Mum<br />
£38.00 per person<br />
Easter Eggstravaganza<br />
Fish Friday Feast<br />
25th <strong>Mar</strong>ch 5 course dinner<br />
& Coffee & Sweets<br />
Easter Sunday Lunch<br />
27th <strong>Mar</strong>ch 3 course lunch<br />
Easter Afternoon Tea<br />
25th to 28th <strong>Mar</strong>ch, tuck<br />
into Chocolate treats, dainty<br />
s<strong>and</strong>wiches, Savouries &<br />
award winning Scones<br />
Morning Coffee, Lunches,<br />
Afternoon Teas, Dinners<br />
Private Car Park & award<br />
winning Gardens<br />
The<br />
Salty Monk<br />
t: 01395 513174 w: www.saltymonk.co.uk<br />
e: saltymonk@btconnect.com<br />
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FASHION & BEAUTY<br />
Chapter<br />
Spring<br />
Summer collection<br />
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Olivier Philips ◆ Pause Cafe<br />
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InWear ◆ Part Two<br />
JQ Jeans<br />
for a relaxed & enjoyable shopping experience<br />
Tel: 01395 579181<br />
www.chapterclothing.co.uk<br />
email: info@chapterclothing.co.uk<br />
Chapter ◆ Church Street ◆ Sidmouth ◆ Devon ◆ EX10 8lZ<br />
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FASHION & BEAUTY<br />
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in Lyme Regis<br />
Ladies fashion<br />
& Accessories<br />
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phone 01297 443824 - -www.onnishop.co.uk<br />
Looking forward to spring!<br />
our New Season ranges<br />
start to arrive soon, Sahara<br />
Two Danes, Flax, Cut Loose,<br />
Nila Rubia, Capri <strong>and</strong> all of<br />
ourregulars. Keep in touch<br />
at onnishop.co.uk, on our<br />
facebook page, or phone<br />
01297 443824<br />
Something special for your sweetheart<br />
this Valentines Day<br />
For more Jewellery, Online Shop <strong>and</strong><br />
Jewellery Making Classes visit us at:<br />
victoriasewart.com 01752 220011<br />
39 Southside Street, The Barbican, Plymouth<br />
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Call at the shop or phone 07833770569<br />
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FASHION & BEAUTY<br />
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Beautiful bespoke ladies<br />
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shoulder massage<br />
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15 Mill Street, Sidmouth, EX10 8DW<br />
Tel: 01395 579932<br />
www.brookvaledental.co.uk | www.merrifielddentalpractice.co.uk<br />
Full range of body <strong>and</strong> beauty treatments<br />
Open Monday-Saturday late nights Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri<br />
(01395) 578 917<br />
seabrease@btconnect.com<br />
seabrease.co.uk<br />
Above Mocha Restaurant, just off Sidmouth Esplanade<br />
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FASHION & BEAUTY<br />
But here’s the thing...<br />
pylons are being done away with all together<br />
<strong>and</strong> power lines buried under ground. First<br />
beauty spot in Devon to benefit from the<br />
work will be part of the Tamar Valley near<br />
Weir Quay.<br />
Burying cables in Devon<br />
IT’S ALL ABOUT REDUCING VISUAL<br />
IMPACT on the environment <strong>and</strong> it’s the<br />
start of a £500-million initiative being led<br />
by the National Grid.<br />
Artist’s impression of the new pylons: NATIONAL GRID<br />
New design electricity pylons will, over time,<br />
replace the old ones because they are also a<br />
third shorter, cheaper to build <strong>and</strong> can be<br />
erected in one day by a team of five people.<br />
In some parts of the country, specifically in<br />
areas of outst<strong>and</strong>ing natural beauty (AONB)<br />
on Highgate Hill ) the first Icel<strong>and</strong> shop was<br />
able to come into being, in Oswestry in 1970,<br />
since when the business has never looked<br />
back – except perhaps to that cold day in<br />
<strong>16</strong>26 when it all began. “It’s an ill wind” as<br />
the proverb has it.<br />
Signs of the time<br />
The name “pylon” dates back to 1928 <strong>and</strong> the<br />
original latticework design by one Robert<br />
Blomfeld. It was a reference to the gateways<br />
of ancient Egyptian temples, through which<br />
the energy of the human spirit was thought<br />
to pass into the afterlife.<br />
It must have seemed a good idea at the time<br />
but it prompted an outcry from a hundred<br />
worthies, including Rudyard Kipling <strong>and</strong><br />
John Maynard Keynes who signed a letter<br />
of indignation to the Times about Blomfeld’s<br />
intrusive erections.<br />
Just the ticket<br />
FAREWELL THEN finally – not to parking<br />
tickets, alas - but to old time Traffic Wardens,<br />
55 years after they were first empowered to<br />
issue £2 fines for parking offences “<strong>and</strong> help<br />
the public find parking spaces” <strong>and</strong> 53 years<br />
after the Beatles’ Lovely Rita Meter Maid.<br />
Unpaid police volunteers are replacing them,<br />
empowered to issue fixed penalty notices <strong>and</strong><br />
even detain suspects for up to 30 minutes<br />
while a uniformed constable arrives. Details<br />
of Devon’s Police Volunteer Programme (PVP)<br />
can be found at www.devon-cornwall.police.<br />
uk.<br />
EVEN THE YOUNGEST of Devon’s Hippies<br />
are now in their 70s <strong>and</strong> don’t just live in <strong>and</strong><br />
around Totnes anymore. They have spread<br />
out over the decades <strong>and</strong> can now be found<br />
drawing their pensions in almost any part of<br />
the 2,509 square miles of Devon’s hinterl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Frozen in thyme<br />
WHERE WOULD ICELAND BE without Sir<br />
Francis Bacon? Icel<strong>and</strong> the frozen food people<br />
that is – who are about to open two new stores<br />
in Devon shortly to add to their existing 855.<br />
For it was 390 years ago this April that the<br />
<strong>16</strong>th century philosopher died of pneumonia<br />
brought on whilst stuffing a chicken with<br />
snow – the earliest known experiments in<br />
refrigeration.<br />
Thanks to Bacon’s pioneering work in this<br />
field (it was actually a snow-covered field<br />
Those who frequent the saloon bar of The<br />
Weary Badger (somewhere in Devon) have<br />
remained cool during the county’s recent<br />
severe floodings even as they went about<br />
reminding fellow inmates that these watery<br />
occurrences were prophesised in the lyrics<br />
of the 1968 pop musical, Hair.<br />
Annoyingly they then break into, “When<br />
the moon is in the seventh house <strong>and</strong> Jupiter<br />
aligns with <strong>Mar</strong>s, then peace will guide the<br />
planets <strong>and</strong> love will steer the stars – this<br />
is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius…”<br />
<strong>and</strong> so on.<br />
When questioned further they admit that the<br />
actual start of the Age of the Water Carrier<br />
remains in contention amongst them <strong>and</strong><br />
at the time of going to press our call to the<br />
Environment Agency asking for clarification<br />
on the subject drew a blank.<br />
JOHN FISHER<br />
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Devon<br />
over 2,500 square miles<br />
by <strong>Mar</strong>ion of<br />
Illfracombe<br />
Lynton<br />
Croyde<br />
BARNSTAPLE<br />
Clovelly<br />
Bideford<br />
South Molton<br />
Chulmleigh<br />
Tiverton<br />
FLORIDA<br />
Holsworthy<br />
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Thurlestone's elegant lounge, a great place to enjoy their extensive, traditional<br />
afternoon tea. It includes s<strong>and</strong>wiches, home-baked cakes <strong>and</strong> scones, served up<br />
on a tiered cake st<strong>and</strong> - it certainly makes a great occasion.<br />
Extensive facilities with indoor pool, jet spa, laconium, speciality showers,<br />
steam room, sauna, <strong>and</strong> fitness centre. There's also an outside pool, golf<br />
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STAYCATION<br />
The Hotel balcony<br />
Thurlestone<br />
Near Kingsbridge & Salcombe<br />
South Devon<br />
Thurlestone<br />
Hotel<br />
01548 560382<br />
thurlestone.co.uk<br />
Thurlestone Hotel's a haven of peace <strong>and</strong><br />
tranquility with excellent facilities, outst<strong>and</strong>ing<br />
fine dining, stunning views <strong>and</strong> walks.<br />
It's often said it's great to 'get away<br />
from it all' <strong>and</strong> Thurlestone Hotel<br />
can certainly claim to have the<br />
perfect solution. The surrounding<br />
countryside <strong>and</strong> the hotel itself<br />
provide the perfect combination<br />
for both relaxation <strong>and</strong> enjoyment.<br />
Firstly, this section of South Devon<br />
coastline is stunning, the l<strong>and</strong>scape<br />
of rugged cliffs, coves <strong>and</strong> beaches<br />
is unforgettable. I found myself<br />
tracking the progress of the sun<br />
across the l<strong>and</strong>scape, <strong>and</strong> the ebb<br />
<strong>and</strong> flow of the tide across the bay.<br />
The hotel's the perfect place to<br />
watch these transitions play out,<br />
either from your bedroom, terrace,<br />
or from the panoramic dining room.<br />
Venturing outside the hotel, you're<br />
able to enjoy relaxed walks in a<br />
variety of directions, either down<br />
to the beach - there's a lovely little<br />
cafe where you can enjoy the views,<br />
or you can take the coastal path to<br />
Bantham Beach which provides you<br />
with a visual feast. Looking across<br />
from the headl<strong>and</strong>, you are able to<br />
see Burgh Isl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> also watch the<br />
surfers enjoying the waves breaking<br />
across the bay. If the tide's out, you<br />
can enjoy a drink <strong>and</strong> s<strong>and</strong>wich at<br />
the ancient Pilchard Inn on Burgh<br />
Isl<strong>and</strong> (do watch the tide though)<br />
or the Sloop Inn at Bantham. We've<br />
provided a photographic feature<br />
following on from this Staycation to<br />
give you an idea of the countryside<br />
surrounding Thurlestone Hotel.<br />
The Hotel itself is excellent, blessed<br />
with great facilities, such as tennis/<br />
squash courts, golf course, indoor<br />
<strong>and</strong> outdoor swimming pools, an<br />
extensive spa <strong>and</strong> fitness centre, the<br />
list goes on <strong>and</strong> on. It's great to have<br />
these facilities, especially if you have<br />
younger members of the family who<br />
Panoramic views (from the bedroom) with the unique Thurlestone Rock in the distance. Literally hours can be spend just sitting back <strong>and</strong> enjoying the views.<br />
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Thurlestone Hotel has delightful<br />
grounds <strong>and</strong> gardens, croquet on<br />
the lawn anyone?<br />
As you can see, the views from hotel bedrooms are panoramic <strong>and</strong> stretch across the countryside <strong>and</strong> coastline.<br />
There are beautiful walks right from the hotel. A particularly great walk takes you across the golf course, along<br />
the coastline to Bantham Bay <strong>and</strong> on to Burgh Isl<strong>and</strong>. See photographic feature overleaf.<br />
need to be kept occupied, allowing<br />
you to spend quality time together<br />
without distractions.<br />
Most rooms have superb views<br />
<strong>and</strong> balconies, these are carefully<br />
designed from glass <strong>and</strong> stainless<br />
steel so as not to interfere with the<br />
views from inside the rooms. This is<br />
very effective, allowing panoramic<br />
vistas from within the rooms.<br />
of the dining area is entirely glass, so<br />
as you enjoy your breakfast, you can<br />
peer out across the l<strong>and</strong>scape - truly<br />
lovely. Of course, the next area to<br />
discuss is the dining at Thurlestone<br />
Hotel. This is an area where they excel,<br />
both in terms of the table service <strong>and</strong><br />
the food. Attention to detail shines<br />
through, even with minor bits, for<br />
instance butter was served in a white<br />
of my pet hates!). Staff service at the<br />
table again was excellent, attentive,<br />
friendly, not intrusive - I was hardly<br />
aware my wine or water being topped<br />
up, easily some of the best table<br />
service I've ever had (incidentally,<br />
wine recommendations from the<br />
maître d'hôtel were spot on).<br />
Thurlestone regularly run gourmet<br />
stays at the hotel, if you love your food,<br />
every course was a treat. It proved a<br />
delight waiting for dinner time each<br />
evening, as the food was divine. If you<br />
wish to spoil yourself, I cannot think<br />
of anywhere better to do so - see the<br />
great Reader Offer below.<br />
Absolutely top marks to Thurlestone<br />
Hotel management <strong>and</strong> the staff.<br />
If one of your benchmarks for a really good holiday is fine food, I'm<br />
happy to tell you that Thurlestone Hotel provides the full fine-dining<br />
experience <strong>and</strong> is outst<strong>and</strong>ing. Great provenance, all food is sourced<br />
from local farms, growers <strong>and</strong> suppliers wherever possible.<br />
I don't think Alfie's ever experienced hospitality like this<br />
before, to say he was totally bowled over would be an<br />
understatement. A special basket with all manner of<br />
biscuits, walk leaflets <strong>and</strong> even a beautiful yellow ball -<br />
absolutely top notch!<br />
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Rooms throughout the hotel are<br />
delightful, my particular favourite was<br />
the dining room which is arranged on<br />
three levels, devised I should imagine<br />
to make the most of the views across<br />
the sea <strong>and</strong> countryside. The front<br />
porcelain ramekin, each topped<br />
with a waxed paper seal finished in<br />
gold hotel livery. In terms of dining<br />
space, you're given masses of your<br />
own space to dine without being<br />
squashed up against your table (one<br />
I can wholeheartedly recommend<br />
these to you. Many hotels claim<br />
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had the best lamb I've ever tasted <strong>and</strong><br />
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The view from the bedroom at Thurlestone Hotel looking south.<br />
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Thurlestone Church is just down the road from the hotel. There's been a church at this site for over 1,000 years,<br />
the current church being built in the 14th century. It's a beautiful church.<br />
Thurlestone's s<strong>and</strong>y beach is lovely in the summer months, gently shelving <strong>and</strong> not too busy either <strong>and</strong> there's<br />
a cute wooden café just behind the beach where you can sit <strong>and</strong> enjoy the views over a tea.<br />
The countryside is rural <strong>and</strong> unspoilt, with plenty of walks both along the coast <strong>and</strong> inl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
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Thurlestone Rock's a unique l<strong>and</strong>mark, it's great to watch the light<br />
<strong>and</strong> tide move around through the day.<br />
A beautiful thatched boathouse. The Avon estuary winds back into the<br />
countryside - incidentally, there are lots of stunning walks upstream on the Avon<br />
There's a peaceful charm to the countryside, unspoilt, with lots of open space. If<br />
you're a wildlife lover, don't forget to bring your camera <strong>and</strong> binoculars.<br />
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The light along this part of the coast can be dazzling. It's a rugged,<br />
interesting l<strong>and</strong>scape that invites exploration <strong>and</strong> walking.<br />
Burgh Isl<strong>and</strong><br />
Bantham Bay<br />
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The ancient Pilchard Inn. Once upon a time massive shoals of herring would appear along the coastline, a valuable food supplement <strong>and</strong> a<br />
source of much employment for local fishermen. The Pilchard Inn dates back to the mid 1300s - it's a 'Must See' place<br />
You can see Burgh Isl<strong>and</strong> in its entirety, it's well<br />
worth walking to the top for the spectacular views.<br />
The beach is called Bantham Beach (left) <strong>and</strong> is<br />
great for surfers, there's also a surfing academy which<br />
can provide lessons <strong>and</strong> hire. Also paddle boarding<br />
lessons <strong>and</strong> hire. Lifeguards are present on the beach.<br />
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The Pilchard Inn is situated on Burgh Isl<strong>and</strong>. The weird 4 wheeled contraption you can see is there to ferry people across the beach<br />
when the tide's in. Be careful not to mis-time your visit, you may become str<strong>and</strong>ed - a great excuse for a pint or two!<br />
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Devon is a world-class destination attracting visitors from across<br />
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Development Manager at <strong>Mar</strong>sdens Devon Cottages.<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>sdens prides itself on promoting its ever growing portfolio of<br />
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As more <strong>and</strong> more holidays are now booked online, <strong>Mar</strong>sdens<br />
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But for those that still wish to telephone, <strong>Mar</strong>sdens Devon Cottages’<br />
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Building on Success<br />
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With some of the most beautiful countryside in the world, world class hotels<br />
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The top of Burgh Isl<strong>and</strong> looking across Bantham Beach.<br />
If you enjoy the feeling of open space, <strong>and</strong> countryside, it's a<br />
great place to be. Lovely for dogs <strong>and</strong> kids too.<br />
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THE CLUE: t's great to wear a warm jumper on a frosty Spring day. A pity<br />
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I should imagine, perhaps, that the nearest gentlemen's outfitters could be<br />
found in Barnstaple that would suit?<br />
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St Peter's Church, Barnstaple<br />
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An old reservoir <strong>and</strong> a married couple!<br />
The story of how an old water reservoir made way for a spacious, low energy home<br />
The dream house - coming along nicely<br />
Russ <strong>and</strong> Emma<br />
Bob the Builder territory here<br />
M<br />
aybe it’s not so unusual<br />
these days to find a<br />
former service manager<br />
for Porsche <strong>and</strong> a performing arts<br />
teacher willing to give up their jobs<br />
in order to build a house, but for<br />
Russell <strong>and</strong> Emma this was no dream;<br />
they set out with determination to<br />
achieve a build, not only spacious but<br />
inexpensive as well as economical to<br />
run. Oh - <strong>and</strong> to build it themselves!<br />
This house had to have decent sized<br />
rooms that would be light <strong>and</strong> warm<br />
with a system that slashed those<br />
soaring energy bills.<br />
“So often you find people living in, say,<br />
the kitchen <strong>and</strong> having to heat the<br />
whole house to stay warm, paying<br />
maybe £200 a month on energy<br />
bills - it just doesn’t make sense”<br />
The only piece of affordable l<strong>and</strong><br />
they could find was an old water<br />
reservoir, one of a few that used<br />
to supply houses in Sidmouth. In<br />
use between 1933‒1968 the water<br />
tank itself is 22 meters square <strong>and</strong><br />
2.5 meters deep, situated at the top<br />
of a hill within a tree protected area.<br />
“We decided to incorporate the tank<br />
into the design rather than build<br />
on the lid or fill the whole thing in,<br />
it seemed such a waste of space<br />
otherwise.”<br />
In order to maximise light in the<br />
house <strong>and</strong> sunshine in the garden<br />
the building was to be pushed up<br />
against the very back of the tank,<br />
making it South facing; the South<br />
West facing side of the roof being<br />
perfect for solar panels.<br />
The oak cruck frame being erected<br />
to form the main living area/kitchen<br />
Russell <strong>and</strong> Emma worked with a<br />
local architect to complete their<br />
ideas, deciding to keep the main<br />
living area at ground level with a<br />
lower ground floor of equal size plus<br />
another living space at mezzanine<br />
level. Nestling the building within<br />
the original walls of the tank meant<br />
extra protection <strong>and</strong> warmth from<br />
winter winds.<br />
Russ <strong>and</strong> Em needed a system<br />
for building walls that was super<br />
insulative, avoided any brick laying<br />
<strong>and</strong> less expensive than any timber<br />
frame set-up with all the extra costs<br />
of membranes <strong>and</strong> layers inside<br />
the walls.<br />
Extensive research led them to a<br />
local specialist for Insulated Concrete<br />
Forms. Polarwall is based in Exeter<br />
"<strong>and</strong> was by far the best option for<br />
us because we were able to cut the<br />
blocks to any size we needed, rather<br />
than be dictated to by the modular<br />
blocks that are produced by other<br />
companies".<br />
Using the plastic rails, polystyrene<br />
blocks <strong>and</strong> metal rebar Em <strong>and</strong><br />
Russ reached the first concrete<br />
pour in under six weeks. The walls<br />
were then braced with metal bars<br />
<strong>and</strong> the concrete trucks arrived.<br />
Using a boom pump they poured<br />
systematically around the building<br />
down between the polystyrene <strong>and</strong><br />
rebar to create the walls.<br />
“We had 3 concrete pours in all, 4<br />
trucks each time, that’s a lot of<br />
concrete! At the end of every pour<br />
there is a huge sense of achievement,<br />
the building is extremely solid with<br />
incredibly warm insulation inside<br />
<strong>and</strong> out. We would often st<strong>and</strong><br />
against the polystyrene walls in<br />
the sunshine <strong>and</strong> feel the immense<br />
heat being reflected back into our<br />
bodies, how cosy this building was<br />
going to be”<br />
Once the walls were to full height<br />
<strong>and</strong> the first floor in place, the green<br />
oak frame could be erected.<br />
“ the oak cruck frame is the beautiful<br />
bit you want to live in; the Polarwall<br />
is the amazingly practical bit you<br />
build with that keeps you warm<br />
The only piece of<br />
affordable l<strong>and</strong> they<br />
could find was an old<br />
water reservoir, one<br />
of a few that used<br />
to supply houses in<br />
Sidmouth<br />
<strong>and</strong> the house airtight.”<br />
One of the aims of this build was to<br />
keep the energy costs to a minimum,<br />
“not just to save the planet but to<br />
save our pocket” says Russ. Again,<br />
after exhaustive research, the couple<br />
found the best method for heating<br />
this building <strong>and</strong> providing hot water<br />
turned out to be a state of the art air<br />
source heat pump along with under-<br />
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floor heating <strong>and</strong> a 4kw Solar PV, all<br />
items working in harmony, making<br />
the system extremely efficient.<br />
Evidence of this was recently<br />
confirmed after the house achieved<br />
an A+ rating during the test for it’s<br />
Energy Performance Certificate.<br />
For now, the ground floor level<br />
only requires finishing touches;<br />
the mezzanine is set up for a future<br />
conversion, to include bathroom,<br />
large bedroom <strong>and</strong> living area.<br />
The lower ground floor is open to<br />
so many options, “ right from the<br />
start, visitors to the build have<br />
all contributed their ideas, from<br />
Recording Studio to Spa, granny<br />
apartment to holiday lets ‒ you really<br />
have another whole house down<br />
there”.<br />
One of the benefits of a project like<br />
this is that those arriving to view<br />
the house, friends or otherwise,<br />
are immediately impressed <strong>and</strong><br />
can see for themselves what has<br />
been achieved by two people in a<br />
relatively short space of time, along<br />
with occasional specialist help.<br />
The completed house, a vast spacious home with A+ energy efficiency<br />
So, you have to ask what's the next step<br />
for this intrepid couple, who've created<br />
this amazing building?<br />
Well, when not building Polarwall, Em<br />
teaches singing, dancing <strong>and</strong> fun-filled<br />
music classes to pre-schoolers in the local<br />
area. Find her at www.missmir<strong>and</strong>amusic.<br />
co.uk<br />
It's a simple system, rails with<br />
external blocks that act as<br />
formers <strong>and</strong> also as insulation<br />
Metal rods in the middle, just<br />
waiting for the concrete to be<br />
poured in the gap<br />
And Russ, he's has now setup his company<br />
Devon Home Build which will specialise<br />
in Polarwall ICF new builds, extensions<br />
<strong>and</strong> renovations. He also installs kitchens<br />
<strong>and</strong> bathrooms, working right through<br />
from design to completion <strong>and</strong> is keen<br />
to speak to you if you have a project<br />
where you think he may be able to help.<br />
See contact details for Russ (right).<br />
• Specialist in<br />
Polarwall ICF<br />
new builds<br />
• Extensions<br />
• Renovations<br />
• Kitchens<br />
• Bathrooms<br />
www.devonhomebuild.co.uk<br />
07957 240 574<br />
PROJECT DETAILS:<br />
Fusion of traditional Devon Green Oak with ultra modern Insulated<br />
Concrete Forms.<br />
The first level, in the bed of the old reservoir, with the red steel<br />
beam that will form the support for the first floor<br />
• Names: Russell <strong>and</strong> Emma Gray<br />
• Location: The Water House, Sidmouth<br />
• Property: New Self Build using Woolbrook Water Tank<br />
• Bedrooms: 3 plus 3<br />
• Bathrooms: 2 plus 2<br />
• Project started: October 2014<br />
• Project finished: January 20<strong>16</strong><br />
• Size of house: 3 levels totalling 360sqm plus garage 42sqm<br />
• Finished value: £950,000<br />
• Build cost: with l<strong>and</strong> purchase £600,000<br />
What's On in Devon?<br />
mydevonevents..co.uk<br />
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Helen Jones reviews new releases from Devon based authors<br />
by Stan Bagwell<br />
Compiled <strong>and</strong> edited by Christine Hardy<br />
This highly readable book is not only an account, in his own words, of<br />
a Devon fisherman’s life, but an accessible, entertaining <strong>and</strong> moving<br />
piece of social history. Stan<br />
Bagwell is widely known<br />
in <strong>and</strong> around East Devon<br />
<strong>and</strong> as a young boy, watched<br />
his father struggle to earn a<br />
living, fishing from Ladram<br />
Bay. He was determined to<br />
buy his own boat <strong>and</strong> build<br />
a successful fishing business.<br />
Even in his earliest<br />
memories, Stan’s strength,<br />
determination <strong>and</strong> humour<br />
are immediately evident <strong>and</strong><br />
make for an absorbing <strong>and</strong><br />
often moving read. His story<br />
brings the difficulties <strong>and</strong><br />
challenges of the fishing community to life, through one family. His<br />
recollections of an East Devon childhood spent trapping <strong>and</strong> fishing<br />
with his uncles are particularly well observed <strong>and</strong> beautifully illustrated<br />
with many original photos, maps <strong>and</strong> diagrams. Stan’s memories span<br />
from 1940 to the present day <strong>and</strong> have been sensitively edited <strong>and</strong><br />
compiled by award winning playwright <strong>and</strong> local author Christine<br />
Hardy. The book is sold entirely in aid of The Fishermen’s Mission<br />
charity £12.00 <strong>and</strong> is available online www.fishermensmission.org.<br />
uk - (search for) ʻAll I Ever Wanted’ or www.devonmuseums.net or<br />
The Lantern Shop <strong>and</strong> Paragon Books, Sidmouth.<br />
ISBN - none<br />
by C J Browne<br />
This is a psychological crime thriller is set in our own East Devon. The<br />
heroine of the story is the highly attractive Dr Kate Trevelyan,<br />
a successful career girl, who<br />
is surrounded by murder <strong>and</strong><br />
intrigue when she is assigned to<br />
her company’s South west office,<br />
based here in Sidmouth. Some<br />
locations have had their names<br />
changed slightly but are still<br />
highly recognisable from the<br />
author’s description other<br />
places are completely fictional.<br />
The book plunges us into the<br />
author’s imaginary, nightmarish<br />
East Devon where immigrant<br />
towns become the focus of<br />
violence, demonstrations <strong>and</strong><br />
murder. Although completely<br />
fictional, the book reminds<br />
us of very current issues;<br />
including new developments<br />
on AONB, local councillors’<br />
involvement in this <strong>and</strong> there are also comments on the workings of<br />
the rural local police. For local readers, the characters visit a number<br />
of actual businesses during the book <strong>and</strong> this add some interest to<br />
the story. Maybe readers further afield might be tempted to seek<br />
them out <strong>and</strong> enjoy the beauty of the Jurassic coast.<br />
ISBN 9781517052799<br />
by Ted Gosling <strong>and</strong> June Richards<br />
Brixham has a long <strong>and</strong> interesting history, particularly relating<br />
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the west of Engl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> it remains<br />
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predominantly early 20th century<br />
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June Richards.<br />
The book contains a range of unique<br />
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catches on the quay alongside their<br />
boats. If you’re keen on local history,<br />
the book is a ʻmust have’ for your<br />
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back to Brixham’s golden years.<br />
ISBN 9780750947923<br />
BOOK SIGNING - don’t miss meeting <strong>and</strong> getting a<br />
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Library - 13th <strong>Feb</strong> at 1.30pm.<br />
by The Jack in the Green<br />
The Jack in the Green is one of Devon’s best-loved restaurants. It’s<br />
transformation from a near-bankrupt, dilapidated roadside pub into<br />
somewhere consistently recognised by the AA, The<br />
Good Food Guide <strong>and</strong> Michelin<br />
is a remarkable tale of drive <strong>and</strong><br />
determination spanning nearly<br />
24 years. This journey has been<br />
overseen by proprietor Paul Parnell<br />
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between them have now spent a<br />
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This <strong>16</strong>8-page book is their story<br />
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suppliers, customers <strong>and</strong> friends.<br />
For the enthusiastic home cook<br />
there are 42 easy-to-follow recipes<br />
spanning 8 different chapters.<br />
Staying true to their roots as a<br />
country pub there is also a section<br />
on bar snacks featuring their own<br />
classic fish pie <strong>and</strong> a South American inspired chilli pork belly.<br />
As part of their ongoing support for the local community £5 from<br />
every book will be given to FORCE Cancer in Exeter. To order a copy<br />
please visit www.jackinthegreen.uk.com or call 01404 822240 for<br />
details on local stockists.<br />
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Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart - obituary<br />
Presenter of Crackerjack <strong>and</strong> BBC1's Junior Choice<br />
It must be over two months now since we heard the sad news of Ed's<br />
passing away. For me it was poignant, being a kid of the 70s, the impact<br />
of radio at the time was immense. TV was confined to the 'best' room - so<br />
radio was something that could be enjoyed in the peace of your bedroom<br />
without the annoyance of the old codgers. Of course BBC Radio 1 was King<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Sunday chart count down was 'de rigueur'. Top of the Pops was a<br />
weekly feast that never disappointed - truly a time of optimism, creativity,<br />
great music, all currently lacking from the British l<strong>and</strong>scape. For me, the<br />
trannie* ruled supreme.<br />
Hong Kong whilst touring as a bass<br />
player in a b<strong>and</strong> in 1961.<br />
Initially, he started work as a sports<br />
commentator, ending up as a disk<br />
jockey. Upon his return four years<br />
later to the UK in 1965, he became<br />
a DJ on Radio London (a pirate station),<br />
changing his name from Eddie<br />
Mainwaring to Ed Stewart.<br />
In 1967 he moved to BBC Radio 1<br />
<strong>and</strong> in 1968 moving to the Junior<br />
Choice programme, later becoming<br />
from the programme in 1983.<br />
Ed's trademark was the cheeky 'Ello<br />
Darlin' that was played regularly<br />
on his show. Ed's broadcasting career<br />
lasted over 50 year <strong>and</strong> he was<br />
'Look out for Look-in' - how it was advertised, with<br />
Stewpot on the cover. The Chopper incidentally, was a major sales<br />
success, although was the cause of many unfortunate accidents,<br />
particularly because of gearstick placement. It was rubbish to ride,<br />
but looked the part!<br />
Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart was born in Exmouth,<br />
the son of a Treasury solicitor,<br />
in 1941. Attending school at Eagle<br />
House School, S<strong>and</strong>hurst, Berkshire<br />
<strong>and</strong> St Edward's School, Oxford,<br />
before beginning his broadcasting<br />
career on a local radio station in<br />
A 'Trannie'<br />
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when the Official Chart Countdown was announced.<br />
a regular on Top of the Pops <strong>and</strong> a<br />
presenter on Crackerjack, broadcasting<br />
to millions of viewers. Ed moved<br />
to Radio 2 in 1980, presenting Family<br />
Favourites before being dropped<br />
known for his gentle, self effacing<br />
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The diary of lady farmer, Janet East<br />
Janet on her trusty Fordson Dexta<br />
No... not the L<strong>and</strong>rover<br />
Daisy was the best, kindest<br />
cow I ever had the pleasure<br />
of owning. A complete gentle<br />
lady. She was a Friesian cross<br />
Hereford <strong>and</strong> as is typical of<br />
that cross, black with a wide<br />
white face, 3 white socks <strong>and</strong><br />
white on the end of her tail.<br />
Goodness knows why I called<br />
her Daisy but I suppose it sums<br />
up everything she was - pretty,<br />
delicate <strong>and</strong> always there. She<br />
formed part of my small suckler<br />
herd <strong>and</strong> has always calved<br />
with relative ease. I love suckler<br />
cows as it is so natural for the<br />
calf to stay with its mum until<br />
its weaned many months later.<br />
I put her back in calf to a<br />
Blonde Aquitaine bull <strong>and</strong> was<br />
very excited at the prospect<br />
of new life on the farm. A cow<br />
is in calve for about 283 days,<br />
similar to us, in the region<br />
of 9 months, so I was fairly<br />
certain that the day was soon<br />
approaching when another<br />
beautiful calf was to grace our<br />
farm.<br />
I had her in a field near the<br />
house so that I could keep a<br />
close eye on her <strong>and</strong> it wasn’t<br />
long before the day arrived<br />
<strong>and</strong> she was showing sure<br />
signs of starting to calve. It<br />
is so important that the cow<br />
remains as quiet as possible but<br />
after a while, I started to feel<br />
Mum Daisy <strong>and</strong> calf Henry<br />
uncomfortable <strong>and</strong> wasn’t sure<br />
that things were progressing<br />
as they should. She was getting<br />
very agitated <strong>and</strong> clearly not<br />
getting on with the job as in<br />
previous calvings. A very good<br />
friend of ours was an excellent<br />
cowman <strong>and</strong> I was soon on my<br />
mobile calling him from the<br />
field <strong>and</strong> describing what was<br />
going on.<br />
I explained that Daisy has<br />
started calving <strong>and</strong> I felt<br />
slightly worried, she’s up <strong>and</strong><br />
down like a yo-yo but isn’t<br />
making much progress. He<br />
was soon in his L<strong>and</strong>rover <strong>and</strong><br />
appeared at the gate, smiling<br />
as always. By this time there<br />
was one front foot in evidence,<br />
but not the two that we wanted.<br />
Given that she had been trying<br />
for some time, Jo shared my<br />
concern that she was getting<br />
tired <strong>and</strong> our help was needed.<br />
We decided that we would try<br />
<strong>and</strong> catch her up in the pen I<br />
had erected in the corner, but<br />
she was having none of it. She<br />
was getting wound up which<br />
was completely the opposite to<br />
what we wanted. Jo suddenly<br />
ran to the car <strong>and</strong> produced a<br />
very long wound up rope.<br />
“What on earth are you doing?”<br />
“We need to catch her quickly<br />
<strong>and</strong> there is only one thing for<br />
it - I’m going to lasso her”. He<br />
was deadly serious. I couldn’t<br />
believe it. I just laughed. But I<br />
soon stopped laughing. What<br />
happened next was a sight I<br />
shall never forget. He wound<br />
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the rope above his head, John<br />
Wayne style <strong>and</strong> launched it<br />
some 10 to 15 metres in the<br />
air towards Daisy <strong>and</strong> it l<strong>and</strong>ed<br />
flat on the floor <strong>and</strong> she ran<br />
straight over it. I told him in<br />
no uncertain terms that we<br />
needed to get more help <strong>and</strong><br />
quickly <strong>and</strong> to stop playing<br />
games. He ignored me totally,<br />
wound the rope back in at<br />
speed <strong>and</strong> launched it again<br />
<strong>and</strong> it was like watching a<br />
cowboy movie in slow motion.<br />
The noose came slowly down<br />
<strong>and</strong> seemed to hover a foot<br />
or so in front of Daisy low to<br />
the ground <strong>and</strong> her head went<br />
straight into it. Unbelievable.<br />
Totally unbelievable. Jo turned<br />
his head slowly towards me <strong>and</strong><br />
smiled a wry smile, no words,<br />
just a smile.<br />
“That was amazing! Where<br />
on earth did you learn to do<br />
that?” “Don’t you remember, I<br />
spent many years farming in<br />
South America <strong>and</strong> the kids out<br />
there learn to lasso anything<br />
that moves as soon as they can<br />
walk ... chickens, dogs, cats <strong>and</strong><br />
even each other - It was the<br />
best thing I ever learnt to do<br />
out there <strong>and</strong> a skill that saves<br />
the day on many occasions -<br />
just like today”. He laughed his<br />
cheeky laugh.<br />
Jo let go of the rope <strong>and</strong> Daisy<br />
just stood there. Very, very<br />
slowly Jo picked up the rope,<br />
wound it back in <strong>and</strong> slipped<br />
a halter over her head <strong>and</strong> we<br />
tied her too the nearest tree.<br />
In the furore, another foot<br />
This sheep's sick of mud!<br />
An unhappy Black Welsh<br />
Mountain Sheep<br />
had appeared. Jo quickly tied<br />
a rope around each foot <strong>and</strong> I<br />
wound them around my waist.<br />
We needed to get the head out<br />
as soon as possible. Daisy was<br />
still pushing thank goodness,<br />
so as quietly <strong>and</strong> carefully<br />
as possible, we pulled gently<br />
on the ropes, but we weren’t<br />
strong enough. Still no result<br />
<strong>and</strong> I was adamant that we<br />
needed to call the vet.<br />
“We need a ratchet, but we<br />
haven’t got one, but we’ve got<br />
my L<strong>and</strong>rover <strong>and</strong> we can tie<br />
the ropes to the bumper - that<br />
calf needs to be out”.<br />
Jo turned <strong>and</strong> started walking<br />
down the field, but he only<br />
managed a few steps before, at<br />
the top of my voice I shouted<br />
“We are not in South America<br />
now <strong>and</strong> you are not walking<br />
a step further towards your<br />
L<strong>and</strong>rover”.<br />
Jo stopped in his tracks <strong>and</strong><br />
just whispered in his quiet<br />
unassuming way “Trust me -<br />
she will be fine”. Deep down<br />
I did trust him, otherwise I<br />
wouldn’t have called him... but<br />
Daisy didn’t!<br />
After hearing the words<br />
L<strong>and</strong>rover bumper, she had<br />
ideas of her own <strong>and</strong> let out<br />
this almighty bellow, gave one<br />
enormous push <strong>and</strong> the calfs<br />
head appeared. Bless her, I can<br />
just imagine her saying “no<br />
L<strong>and</strong>rover trick for me thank<br />
you, I’ll try a bit harder”.<br />
A beautiful golden coloured<br />
bull calf was born <strong>and</strong> seemed<br />
Janet East is the proprietor<br />
at Yellingham Farm, also<br />
running a Farmhouse B&B<br />
establishment<br />
none the worse for his journey<br />
into the world. Daisy turned<br />
slowly <strong>and</strong> began licking her<br />
new born <strong>and</strong> with in no time,<br />
the calf was up <strong>and</strong> searching<br />
desperately for the milk bar.<br />
A truly wonderful sight.<br />
Janet East<br />
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FARM CALENDAR<br />
<strong>Feb</strong>ruary - start lambing 28th<br />
• Check lambing supplies - lambing gel, tail rings,<br />
iodine, colostrum, antibiotics, twin lamb disease<br />
liquid, ear tags, coloured sprays etc.<br />
• Ewes due booster vaccination.<br />
• Build lambing pens <strong>and</strong> find feed/water buckets.<br />
• Find the radio <strong>and</strong> get my comfy chair ready.<br />
• Tea tray <strong>and</strong> kettle, (secret supply of chocolate).<br />
• Notebook <strong>and</strong> a pen that works.<br />
• Find my lambing thermals (did I wash them?).<br />
• Charity shop - old towels.<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>ch<br />
• Move ewes <strong>and</strong> newborn lambs into individual<br />
pens to mother up.<br />
• Number ewes <strong>and</strong> lambs (so it looks like a<br />
number!).<br />
• Keep good legible records (Boys practice your<br />
h<strong>and</strong>writing skills).<br />
• Ear tag lambs before turn out <strong>and</strong> ring tails.<br />
• Worm ewes before turnout.<br />
• Move feeders <strong>and</strong> hay racks out to fields.<br />
• Keep an eye on ewes teats.<br />
• Moan at the lads for not lamb proofing fields.<br />
Barn Life! - the horrible muddy months with rain upon rain has meant that<br />
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Horse<br />
Care<br />
Equine Learning<br />
by Natalie Bucklar<br />
Natalie Bucklar gives<br />
valuable advice on<br />
various aspects<br />
of horse care <strong>and</strong><br />
welfare...<br />
Natalie Bucklar<br />
BSc (Hons), MSc (Equine Science)<br />
Natalie has owned horses for<br />
over 20 years <strong>and</strong> owns East<br />
Devon Riding Academy near<br />
Sidmouth. She has previously<br />
lectured in Equine Science to<br />
degree level <strong>and</strong> produced<br />
research for preparing Great<br />
Britains' equestrian teams for<br />
the Olympics. Natalie provides<br />
consultations in all aspects of<br />
Equine Science, <strong>and</strong> has fitted<br />
saddles for competitors at<br />
Badminton International<br />
Horse Trials.<br />
Biting: Part 2<br />
The study of equine behaviour is a<br />
huge subject, this can put people<br />
off learning <strong>and</strong> instead they<br />
reach out for a new supplement<br />
or a magic gadget that they hope<br />
will be a simpler key to rectifying<br />
problems. Although learning a<br />
better underst<strong>and</strong>ing of a horse’s<br />
thinking ability, with a concurrent<br />
commitment to improving<br />
the skill of giving signals <strong>and</strong><br />
reinforcements takes more time<br />
<strong>and</strong> effort, it can reap fantastic<br />
rewards helping a huge number<br />
of common problems people<br />
encounter with their equine<br />
friends.<br />
The way a horse learns is directly<br />
related to survival. Horses are<br />
driven by food, company, shelter<br />
<strong>and</strong> freedom from pain. If they<br />
think they are in danger, they<br />
will remove themselves from<br />
a situation (for example run)<br />
or refuse to get in to one (for<br />
example they won’t load). At East<br />
Devon Riding Academy we teach<br />
children not to run near the horses<br />
by explaining that although we<br />
know there are no tigers living<br />
in Branscombe, if the horses see<br />
them running they might think<br />
that the children are running<br />
from a tiger about to eat them<br />
<strong>and</strong> then they will run too. You<br />
have to think like a horse, if their<br />
herd mates suddenly take off then<br />
they are unlikely to be the one<br />
who st<strong>and</strong>s there waiting for the<br />
tiger. Even though they’ve never<br />
actually seen one, it doesn’t stop<br />
their instinct of thinking they’re<br />
about!<br />
In different situations, horses will<br />
either react to the rider/h<strong>and</strong>ler or<br />
the environment. If a horse is unreactive<br />
to a plastic bag, it is more<br />
under the control of the rider. If a<br />
horse spooks at the plastic bag, at<br />
that moment it is more under the<br />
control of the environment. To get<br />
the horse more under the control<br />
of the rider requires training, not<br />
punishment. If a horse won’t jump<br />
then whipping it will just associate<br />
an already scary object (the jump)<br />
with pain, leading to an even less<br />
likely chance of success. Through<br />
simplifying the problem (the<br />
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jump), giving appropriate signals<br />
that the horse underst<strong>and</strong>s at<br />
an appropriate time <strong>and</strong> taking<br />
the time to practise, you will<br />
have a much happier <strong>and</strong> safer<br />
horse, more compliant with your<br />
wishes. Again, it is important to<br />
think from the horses point of<br />
view. Just because he can jump<br />
a pole at 3 foot doesn’t mean he<br />
will automatically jump a set of<br />
planks or a whole course at this<br />
height if he hasn’t been trained<br />
accordingly.<br />
Horses learn well as a result of<br />
clear, consistent reinforcement<br />
of correct responses. An example<br />
of this is horses in many livery<br />
yards waiting at the gate to go in<br />
a stable each evening. This isn’t<br />
because they want to go in the<br />
stable, it is because every day at<br />
approximately the same time they<br />
are rewarded with something<br />
they want- food, which just<br />
happens to be in the stable. The<br />
owner has (often unwittingly)<br />
trained the horse to wait at the<br />
gate because they have clearly,<br />
consistently reinforced this<br />
behaviour with food.<br />
Horses can learn unwanted<br />
behaviours because they have<br />
somehow been rewarded for the<br />
incorrect response. If a horse gets<br />
through the electric fence <strong>and</strong><br />
receives a reward of more grass<br />
or a friend or freedom, he will<br />
do it again. Turn the electric on<br />
<strong>and</strong> some horses will prefer not<br />
to get the reward so they don’t<br />
get a shock. Others will be so<br />
motivated by the reward they<br />
will work out a way to still get<br />
it, such as jumping the fence or<br />
in the case of one of my horses,<br />
kicking <strong>and</strong> breaking the posts.<br />
Rewards for the horse take many<br />
forms, including removal of pain,<br />
which is worth remembering if<br />
you are having problems when<br />
riding. Stop, think <strong>and</strong> analyse<br />
from the horse’s point of view <strong>and</strong><br />
you will often see the problem<br />
<strong>and</strong> find a solution. Again, simplify<br />
the situation if need be, gain<br />
success then progress upwards.<br />
Simplification could be things like<br />
going slower, making a turn wider,<br />
3 poles instead of 5, 15 minutes<br />
instead of 30, 10 metres instead<br />
of 2 or vice versa.<br />
Alternatively,<br />
unwanted<br />
behaviours can be because the<br />
training has been insufficiently<br />
generalised. An example of this<br />
is a horse that will go through<br />
water at home but not when away<br />
from home because the water is<br />
a different version. In order to get<br />
the horse to go into any water,<br />
training requires exposure to lots<br />
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The Old Vet’nary<br />
by Ken Watson<br />
End of an era<br />
a friendly, family practice<br />
When I was nearing the time of<br />
my demob from the army, I was<br />
summoned to appear before the<br />
Colonel to discuss my future career.<br />
When I said I hoped to become a<br />
vet, he observed that he did not<br />
think there was such prospect<br />
there since there were now very<br />
few horses. He could not have been<br />
more wrong, but in vet college the<br />
horse was still, by tradition, the<br />
prime subject. Luckily, I was to see<br />
the last days of the heavy horse.<br />
Just along the road from the<br />
Camden Town College, 200 heavy<br />
hoses were stabled under the<br />
arches at King’s Cross Station, Shires,<br />
Clydesdales, Percheron <strong>and</strong> Suffolk<br />
Punch. In Stygian gloom they rested<br />
thankfully overnight, four to every<br />
arch, lit by oil lamps: <strong>and</strong> in the halflight<br />
their shoes shot sparks as they<br />
trudged in from a hard day’s graft<br />
delivering goods to the railway’s<br />
customers. Then one morning they<br />
were gone, to be replaced by smelly,<br />
noisy, dangerous lorries.<br />
Everything was on the change in<br />
farming. Until then it was a way<br />
of life, but after the war, business<br />
stepped in. There were some big<br />
farms, but the majority were small.<br />
It was possible to live off 30-50 acres,<br />
with a few cows, pigs <strong>and</strong> some<br />
sheep. Some lived shambolic lives<br />
<strong>and</strong> dressed accordingly, but others<br />
wore immaculate tweed suits which<br />
they then covered with a brown drill<br />
coat - it was basically all the same.<br />
The flat cap of the poor farmer<br />
might be contorted into a twisted<br />
shape <strong>and</strong> redolent of many house<br />
pressed against the yielding flanks<br />
of generations of cows, but it was<br />
still the same as worn by the richer<br />
farmer. The brown coat, where<br />
had it gone? Worn by all, from the<br />
warehouseman to the managing<br />
director touring his factory. Yet<br />
remember that everyone wore a<br />
suit <strong>and</strong> tie, no matter how tattered<br />
<strong>and</strong> greasy. Many wore celluloid<br />
collars fixed by stud front <strong>and</strong> back.<br />
I always wore a white shirt, with<br />
separate Van Heusen collar. As I<br />
spent much of my day with one<br />
or other arm up to the shoulder<br />
in a cow’s rear end, my wife cut<br />
my shirt sleeves off flush with<br />
the shoulder. Even then my shirt<br />
was often stained. Latex gloves<br />
weren't available then, so my fellow<br />
assistant in Sidmouth, as he was<br />
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buy his own rubber gloves. I never<br />
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jacket back on <strong>and</strong> I was fit to enter<br />
the lounge of a lord. The jacket! In<br />
it’s many pockets I could carry all<br />
the instruments I needed for the<br />
average consultation plus money,<br />
pen, notebook etc. Take modern<br />
man with his sweater <strong>and</strong> tight jeans<br />
<strong>and</strong> his wallet projecting enticingly<br />
from his back pocket. He takes half<br />
the consultation time to gather his<br />
tools together.<br />
Don't get the impression all was<br />
genteel <strong>and</strong> sedate. As a student, I<br />
did visits with a young vet who later<br />
rose to the top of the profession. He<br />
wore a pin stripe suit <strong>and</strong> worked<br />
so fast that I had to run to keep up<br />
with his frenzied pace. He would<br />
leave a house, jump into his car <strong>and</strong><br />
be off, <strong>and</strong> I had to leap into the<br />
moving car or be left behind. No<br />
sea belts. A few years later I would<br />
learn the art of jumping into the<br />
car <strong>and</strong> driving off before even<br />
closing the door, using the car’s<br />
momentum to close it. You could do<br />
this because there were few other<br />
cars on the road, <strong>and</strong> also hurtle<br />
around country lanes, but if you did<br />
meet someone, the brakes of those<br />
days meant you rarely stopped in<br />
the same direction you intended. I<br />
always thought that Honiton High<br />
Street resembled a Wild West<br />
cowboy town with it’s wide vista<br />
<strong>and</strong> emptiness. There were even<br />
horse carts, <strong>and</strong> I sometimes saw<br />
a horse hitched up outside a shop.<br />
Such antics were needed because of<br />
the heavy workload we carried, on a<br />
five <strong>and</strong> a half day week, plus nights.<br />
This was a result of the absurdly<br />
low fees we charged, but also the<br />
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Part of the<br />
Royal Albert<br />
Memorial<br />
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1952<br />
Views of Exmouth from the Beacon Walls, Devon by William H. Hallett, 1850<br />
The ladies who lived on the hill<br />
Two noble <strong>and</strong> extraordinary women, both bitterly betrayed by their<br />
famous but outrageously wayward husb<strong>and</strong>s, came to live quietly in Devon<br />
at the beginning of the nineteenth century, looking for a retreat from the<br />
gossips <strong>and</strong> sc<strong>and</strong>almongers of London <strong>and</strong> Bath.<br />
AS CHANCE WOULD HAVE IT,<br />
Frances Lady Nelson, wife of the<br />
naval hero <strong>and</strong> Anne Lady Byron,<br />
wife of the poet both came to live<br />
a few doors from each other at<br />
numbers 6 <strong>and</strong> 19 the Beacon, a<br />
genteel <strong>and</strong> secluded row of fine,<br />
newly-built properties perched<br />
high above the then seaside fishing<br />
village of Exmouth.<br />
But history had not finished with<br />
either of them, even after the deaths<br />
of their spouses: Nelson from his<br />
wounds at Trafalgar in 1805 <strong>and</strong><br />
Byron, the poet, in 1824 from<br />
a fever during the Greek war of<br />
independence.<br />
Lady Nelson suffered tragedy upon<br />
tragedy, losing two husb<strong>and</strong>s: her<br />
first, Dr. Josiah Nisbet to a fever<br />
contracted in the West Indies where<br />
she had first met <strong>and</strong> married him,<br />
the second to her ‘Hero of the Nile’<br />
husb<strong>and</strong> lost to the embrace of<br />
‘that woman’, the notorious Emma<br />
Hamilton. But these events were<br />
only the beginning of suffering<br />
for a woman who never spoke<br />
ill of her husb<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> defended<br />
both his name <strong>and</strong> reputation<br />
throughout her life. Following her<br />
move to Exmouth, Frances lost not<br />
only her son by her first marriage<br />
– Josiah - but no fewer than four of<br />
her gr<strong>and</strong>children, all of whom are<br />
buried with her at nearby Littleham,<br />
of which more anon.<br />
Maddening silence<br />
Lady Byron’s tragic lot was to lead to<br />
her fleeing with her infant daughter,<br />
Ada, when she believed, barely a<br />
year after her marriage, that she<br />
was wedded to a madman – a man<br />
whose countless well-documented<br />
sexual encounters with both men<br />
<strong>and</strong> women (including his half<br />
sister Augusta) would earn him<br />
the title of one who was “mad, bad<br />
<strong>and</strong> dangerous to know”.<br />
Like her titled neighbour a few steps<br />
along the elegant terrace at the<br />
Beacon, Lady Anne never maligned<br />
her husb<strong>and</strong>: unlike Byron who<br />
sl<strong>and</strong>ered <strong>and</strong> wrote against her<br />
for the rest of his life, whilst she<br />
remained stoically silent - something<br />
that infuriated him.<br />
In fact it was not until after her<br />
death that her friend <strong>and</strong> confidante,<br />
Harriet Beecher Stowe, the<br />
American author of Uncle Tom’s<br />
Cabin <strong>and</strong> a lifelong campaigner<br />
against slavery <strong>and</strong> for the rights of<br />
married women, turned the tables<br />
on the Byron camp <strong>and</strong> spoke at<br />
length on behalf of her wickedly<br />
maligned friend in her book, Lady<br />
Byron Vindicated:<br />
During all this trial, strange to<br />
say, her belief that the good in Lord<br />
Byron would finally conquer was<br />
unshaken. To a friend who said to<br />
her, "O, how could you love him!" she<br />
answered, briefly, "My dear, there<br />
was the angel in him."<br />
She read every work that Byron<br />
wrote, read it with a deeper knowledge<br />
than any human being but<br />
herself could possess. The ribaldry<br />
<strong>and</strong> the obscenity <strong>and</strong> the insults,<br />
with which he strove to make her<br />
ridiculous in the world, fell at her<br />
pitying feet unheeded.<br />
Healing broken hearts<br />
So did those two ladies-in-exile on<br />
the sunny southern slopes of what<br />
was fast becoming one of Devon’s<br />
favourite resorts, confide in each<br />
other, over the garden wall? Did<br />
Fanny <strong>and</strong> Annabella (Lady Byron’s<br />
familiar name to her friends) share<br />
their innermost thoughts about<br />
their errant husb<strong>and</strong>s?<br />
The answer is almost certainly<br />
‘no’. Although Society was fueled<br />
by gossip – then as now – Fanny<br />
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<strong>and</strong> Annabella were both, first <strong>and</strong><br />
foremost, ladies, <strong>and</strong> this a time of<br />
manners, decorum <strong>and</strong> the strict<br />
observance of the social graces that<br />
prohibited all such interchanges<br />
between people of breeding <strong>and</strong><br />
rank, face to face across the tea cups.<br />
cleaner <strong>and</strong> the bathing machines<br />
not so easily overlooked by curious<br />
passers-by.<br />
The Nelsons had known both places<br />
mined was her mother to paint the<br />
father out of her daughter’s life<br />
that Ada was not shown the family<br />
portrait of the man – which was<br />
safeguarding Ada was undoubtedly<br />
a chip off the old block.<br />
Instead they talked about the<br />
weather, their health, their children<br />
<strong>and</strong> in Fanny’s case, her gr<strong>and</strong>children.<br />
Both performed good works,<br />
read books <strong>and</strong> newspapers, wrote<br />
letters, (Annabella was a good poet<br />
in her own right) entertained in<br />
their homes (as well as local hotels)<br />
over teas <strong>and</strong> suppers, enjoyed the<br />
occasional promenade <strong>and</strong> were<br />
regular visitors to the town <strong>and</strong><br />
especially to Exmouth’s new <strong>and</strong><br />
popular Assembly Rooms at the<br />
bottom of the Beacon which had<br />
become a magnet for local society.<br />
Ada Byron, Countess of<br />
Lovelace rests next to her<br />
father in the family vault at<br />
Hucknall, Warwickshire<br />
Horatio <strong>and</strong> Fanny Nelson loved<br />
Devon <strong>and</strong> honeymooned in<br />
Exmouth. These happy memories<br />
brought her back to live there<br />
after his death<br />
Fanny Nelson, pictured here<br />
in her final year, outlived two<br />
husb<strong>and</strong>s, her son Josiah, <strong>and</strong><br />
four of her gr<strong>and</strong>children. She<br />
is buried at Littleham<br />
Both of course were also regular<br />
churchgoers <strong>and</strong> members of the<br />
congregation at the church of St.<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>garet <strong>and</strong> St. Andrew at nearby<br />
Littleham.<br />
Exmouth then had a population<br />
of 2,000 or so <strong>and</strong> was just 15<br />
hours coach travel from Bath <strong>and</strong><br />
20 or less from London <strong>and</strong> was<br />
well. They had spent part of their<br />
honeymoon to-ing <strong>and</strong> fro-ing<br />
between the newly emerging coastal<br />
resorts of East <strong>and</strong> South Devon.<br />
The year had been 1789, Fanny was<br />
then 28, <strong>and</strong> a widow with a young<br />
son, Josiah Nisbet, Nelson, 31 <strong>and</strong> it<br />
was almost certainly this memory<br />
of happier times that brought her<br />
back, aged 46, after his passing.<br />
kept hanging prominently wherever<br />
they lived, but covered in a green<br />
shroud - until her 20th birthday.<br />
Alas for Annabella’s best efforts:<br />
his genius did manifest itself in<br />
his daughter, not as a writer of<br />
poetry but as a scientist or ‘natural<br />
philosopher’ to use the language of<br />
the age. She worked with Charles<br />
Fateful encounter<br />
But the Byron’s were yet to arrive in<br />
Exmouth when, in 1815, the Napoleonic<br />
wars finally over, Fanny’s son,<br />
Josiah, (after a career in the navy<br />
where he had been the despair of<br />
his step-father) was given £1,000<br />
by his mother to set up a business.<br />
By 1819 he had extended its scope<br />
to Paris <strong>and</strong> on a return visit to<br />
Exmouth, met <strong>and</strong> married a personable<br />
young woman called Frances<br />
Evans, who had become companion<br />
to Lady Nelson at Number Six.<br />
Lady Byron - ‘Arabella’ to her<br />
friends, <strong>and</strong> the intellectual<br />
superior of her poet husb<strong>and</strong>,<br />
who scorned her as ‘the<br />
princess of parallelograms’<br />
already ‘a place to which the people<br />
of Exeter much resort for diversion<br />
<strong>and</strong> bathing in the sea’.<br />
In his book The Rise of the Devon<br />
Seaside Resorts, John Travis<br />
quotes a visitor who wrote, “walked<br />
among shoals of Exeter damsels,<br />
whose insufferable undress <strong>and</strong><br />
ill-breeding justly exposes them<br />
to the contempt <strong>and</strong> derision of<br />
strangers”.<br />
It is perhaps why Fanny Nelson, who<br />
was a frequent sea bather, preferred<br />
to take her ‘dips’ at neighbouring<br />
Sidmouth, a carriage ride away,<br />
where the sea was undoubtedly<br />
Ada, the Byron’s daughter <strong>and</strong><br />
a mathematical genius, was not<br />
allowed to look upon her father’s<br />
portrait until she was 20<br />
The Lady at Number <strong>16</strong><br />
Annabella arrived later in Exmouth<br />
<strong>and</strong> chose to live at Number <strong>16</strong>, a<br />
property that was then a small but<br />
very select hotel.<br />
Her daughter Ada was brought up<br />
to study the sciences <strong>and</strong> logic – an<br />
unusual education for a woman in<br />
that era – in the hope that any artistic<br />
or poetic leanings or ‘amorous<br />
excesses’ inherited from her father<br />
in self-imposed exile, would not be<br />
allowed to flourish.<br />
Byron had died in 1824 when Ada<br />
was eight years old <strong>and</strong> so deter-<br />
Lord George Byron, poet,<br />
adventurer <strong>and</strong> libertine, who<br />
lived in self-imposed exile<br />
abroad, never to return after<br />
his wife divorced him<br />
Babbage, the mathematician <strong>and</strong><br />
inventor who lived in Totnes <strong>and</strong><br />
designed <strong>and</strong> built the world’s first<br />
‘calculating engine’ or computer. He<br />
was also a philosopher <strong>and</strong> believed,<br />
interestingly enough, that many of<br />
the ‘breakthroughs’ in underst<strong>and</strong>ing<br />
by the scientific mind came<br />
about through divine revelation.<br />
Ada, mathematical genius that she<br />
was, agreed with him. She once<br />
wrote to a fellow scientist, “I am<br />
often reminded of certain sprites<br />
<strong>and</strong> fairies one reads of, who are<br />
at one's elbows in one shape now,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the next minute in a form most<br />
dissimilar”. In spite of her mother’s<br />
In 1823 Fanny went to Paris <strong>and</strong><br />
stayed with Josiah <strong>and</strong> Frances <strong>and</strong><br />
their young family in their home in<br />
the Champs Elysee <strong>and</strong> did what<br />
most gr<strong>and</strong>mothers are expected<br />
to do – baby sat whilst the parents<br />
travelled around Europe.<br />
But they were all together on Lake<br />
Geneva, where Fanny actually met<br />
Lord Byron, who took them rowing<br />
on the lake. To her horror one of<br />
the little ones fell in <strong>and</strong> was saved<br />
from drowning by Byron, a strong<br />
swimmer, who dived in after the<br />
child.<br />
Sad news from Paris<br />
Back in Exmouth what is nowadays<br />
called Nelson House, must have<br />
seemed suddenly large <strong>and</strong> empty<br />
to her, so she moved to a smaller<br />
property at the other end of the<br />
Beacon, in Louisa Terrace.<br />
Came 1830, <strong>and</strong> Fanny, now in<br />
her 69 th year was brought tragic<br />
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news from France. Josiah, her only<br />
child, had died suddenly – probably<br />
of heart failure brought on<br />
by ‘dropsy’ (oedema). She arranged<br />
for his body, together with three of<br />
his young children who had died<br />
previously <strong>and</strong> had been buried in<br />
a cemetery in Paris, to be exhumed<br />
<strong>and</strong> returned to Exmouth.<br />
As the coffins waited in the courtyard<br />
of a French convent there was<br />
a coup d’etat <strong>and</strong> Frances Nisbet<br />
<strong>and</strong> her remaining family were<br />
forced to flee the city, dressed as<br />
peasants. They managed to get<br />
back to Engl<strong>and</strong> safely <strong>and</strong> made<br />
their way to Fanny’s London home<br />
at 23, Harley Street.<br />
Meanwhile the four coffins came<br />
back to Exmouth unexpectedly <strong>and</strong><br />
were l<strong>and</strong>ed at the Temple Steps.<br />
What to do? In his book Exmouth<br />
Milestones (The Raleigh Press, 1948)<br />
Eric Delderfield writes:<br />
The Customs House officer had<br />
them removed to the house of Mr.<br />
Edmund Weller, then being built<br />
but not completed on the sea front<br />
where Alston Terrace now joins it.<br />
Being circular in shape it was to<br />
be called Beach Castle but forever<br />
afterwards it became known locally<br />
as Corpse Castle <strong>and</strong> subsequently,<br />
when it was only frequented by the<br />
town’s strays, as Cat’s Castle <strong>and</strong><br />
was always thought of as being<br />
haunted.<br />
A year later Fanny Nelson died at<br />
Harley Street on 4th May 1831<br />
<strong>and</strong> who would say that it was<br />
not of a broken heart? Her body<br />
was brought from London <strong>and</strong><br />
was buried beside her son <strong>and</strong> her<br />
gr<strong>and</strong>children in the churchyard<br />
at Littleham.<br />
Her eldest gr<strong>and</strong>child, also called<br />
Fanny, later wrote of her gr<strong>and</strong>mother’s<br />
good nature, <strong>and</strong> her devotion<br />
to her husb<strong>and</strong>'s memory <strong>and</strong> said<br />
she often kissed a miniature of him.<br />
Lady Nelson once confided to her,<br />
”When you are older little Fan, you<br />
may know what it is to have a broken<br />
heart”.<br />
The dove <strong>and</strong> the volcano<br />
Lady Byron left Exmouth <strong>and</strong><br />
returned to London. She too was to<br />
suffer the intense pain of outliving<br />
her only child. Ada died in 1852<br />
after a long illness. She was 36 years<br />
old, the same age as her father <strong>and</strong><br />
at her written request is entombed<br />
in the Byron family vault at the<br />
church of St. <strong>Mar</strong>y Magdalene in<br />
Hucknall, Warwickshire.<br />
A portrait artist later wrote of the<br />
grieving mother, “There is a lambent<br />
sorrow about her, bl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> touching,<br />
but she was no more fit for him<br />
than a dove for a volcano, poor<br />
Lady Byron. She looks as though<br />
she saw an inward sorrow. Perhaps<br />
his sublime head is always haunting<br />
her imagination”.<br />
Byron’s spirit it seems had haunted<br />
them both, wife <strong>and</strong> daughter,<br />
throughout their lives.<br />
JOHN FISHER<br />
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How wonderful it is that all of us are<br />
now recyclers. How did we ever cope<br />
with all that rubbish piling up in are<br />
back gardens years ago. Where did<br />
we put it all. What about the kitchen<br />
waste for instance that we carefully<br />
dispose of now in the right coloured<br />
box, <strong>and</strong> then take out to be collected<br />
on the right day at the right time,<br />
lest we forget that those who put out<br />
their waste at the wrong time can be<br />
fined. The answer of course is that<br />
we didn’t call it waste but compost, or<br />
at least that’s what it was after a few<br />
months on the compost heap. After<br />
which you didn’t need a box at all<br />
but a good strong spade to spread it<br />
over your garden to grow all those<br />
lovely fruit <strong>and</strong> vegetables that<br />
today takes you hours of queuing<br />
at the supermarket to buy. Ah, but<br />
you may counter, “what about nasty<br />
things like glass!” That wasn’t a<br />
problem either. Milk bottles were<br />
made of glass not plastic anyway<br />
so they were naturally recycled<br />
<strong>and</strong> seemed to go on forever. Soft<br />
drinks came in large glass bottles<br />
too, like the big corona bottles, <strong>and</strong><br />
sharp eyed children made a fortune<br />
on Saturday mornings taking all<br />
the neighbours empties back to the<br />
corner shop at 3 pence a piece. Even<br />
glass jars had their uses <strong>and</strong> were<br />
always pressed into service by my<br />
mother for jam making.<br />
Now how about those other recycling<br />
boxes that we cling too in our green<br />
fervour. What do we do with all<br />
those bits of material for instance<br />
that we just chuck into them without<br />
a thought. Why not use some of<br />
them in that lost art of quilt-making<br />
or be thrifty <strong>and</strong> start darning your<br />
old socks like gr<strong>and</strong>ma used to do.<br />
Unfortunately, we cant sell any odds<br />
<strong>and</strong> ends left anymore to our local<br />
rag <strong>and</strong> bone man for a few coppers,<br />
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Bereavement for children<br />
Balloons<br />
Death changes everything <strong>and</strong> yet life goes<br />
on - Balloons covers Exeter, Mid & East<br />
Devon to be there for the children who are<br />
mourning the loss of a loved one.<br />
Life Matters<br />
Balancing the stresses of work <strong>and</strong> living<br />
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Life Matters<br />
Editor - Averil Quinain<br />
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Averil is a Personal Life Coach<br />
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Coach. She works voluntarily<br />
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mentor for young people, <strong>and</strong><br />
for Oxfam as a school speaker.<br />
With a passion for inspired<br />
<strong>and</strong> responsible living, she<br />
also runs an organic natural<br />
remedy business. Averil<br />
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Bereavement is a distressing but<br />
common experience. Sooner or<br />
later almost all of us will suffer the<br />
death of someone we love. If we<br />
are young at the time of the death<br />
then it is often our first experience<br />
of bereavement <strong>and</strong> we can struggle<br />
emotionally <strong>and</strong> cognitively to cope<br />
with the loss.<br />
Children are often the ‘forgotten<br />
mourners’ in a household stricken<br />
by a tragic death. Adults might<br />
think that by not confronting the<br />
Mourning is necessary for healing to take place<br />
Children are often the 'forgotten mourners' in a household<br />
issue head-on, they somehow shield<br />
children from the pain; adults might<br />
think that children don't underst<strong>and</strong><br />
death, <strong>and</strong> therefore aren't affected<br />
deeply by it; adults might themselves<br />
be so caught up in their own grieving<br />
that they struggle to include <strong>and</strong><br />
comfort children at such a raw <strong>and</strong><br />
difficult time.<br />
Grief is the constellation of internal<br />
thoughts <strong>and</strong> feelings we experience<br />
when someone loved dies. Mourning<br />
is the outward expression of our<br />
grief, <strong>and</strong> mourning is necessary<br />
for healing to take place. But who<br />
can bear to sit alongside a mourning<br />
child <strong>and</strong> hear their story?<br />
Balloons, a small local charity<br />
covering Exeter, Mid <strong>and</strong> East Devon,<br />
was set up almost six years ago to do<br />
exactly that. Balloons has supported<br />
over 350 bereaved children <strong>and</strong><br />
young people, <strong>and</strong> worked with<br />
in excess of 500 families; <strong>and</strong><br />
awareness about their services<br />
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a safe space for grieving children to<br />
tell their grief story; to process anger,<br />
to unpack guilt <strong>and</strong> to rebuild a more<br />
constructive framework for coping.<br />
Families report that the positive<br />
impact of Balloons intervention lasts<br />
long after the 1:1 support had ended.<br />
‘We underst<strong>and</strong> the complex pain that<br />
families go through, especially after a<br />
tragic <strong>and</strong> catastrophic death. Supporting<br />
vulnerable children <strong>and</strong> young people after<br />
bereavement is what makes us civilised<br />
as a society’<br />
Sara Bennett, Balloons CEO<br />
Many of the referrals come from<br />
schools. Educational professionals<br />
note the negative impact that<br />
bereavement has on the child’s<br />
school attendance, engagement in<br />
lessons, compliance with homework,<br />
anger management <strong>and</strong> peer<br />
relationships. Allowed to continue<br />
unchecked, that unprocessed grief<br />
has a long term negative impact on<br />
Balloons supports children to find ways to manage feelings of<br />
anger, ab<strong>and</strong>onment <strong>and</strong> guilt.<br />
children’s educational pathways. The<br />
largest group of children who are<br />
school excluded for bad behaviour<br />
before age 9 are those who have<br />
suffered a bereavement (Home<br />
Office). Educational professionals<br />
note that with the support of<br />
Balloons, children remain engaged<br />
with their studies <strong>and</strong> maintain<br />
positive, supportive friendships with<br />
their peers. They find ways of coping<br />
in school despite their grief <strong>and</strong> can<br />
continue their educational journey in<br />
a positive way.<br />
Balloons can’t stop the trauma<br />
of the death of a loved one from<br />
happening, but they can intervene to<br />
improve the chances of the affected<br />
children coping positively with their<br />
loss so that the long term negative<br />
consequences are minimised. In<br />
particular, Balloons supports children<br />
to find ways to manage feelings<br />
of anger, ab<strong>and</strong>onment <strong>and</strong> guilt.<br />
Responses to bereavement are<br />
complex, <strong>and</strong> left alone to cope<br />
children can feel isolated, confused<br />
<strong>and</strong> overwhelmed. Statistics clearly<br />
indicate the huge spike in referrals<br />
to mental health support services<br />
for children affected by bereavement.<br />
Anxiety, depression, self-harm <strong>and</strong><br />
suicide are significantly higher<br />
amongst bereaved children. Balloons<br />
uses creative interventions <strong>and</strong> builds<br />
‘I missed my mummy <strong>and</strong> I was afraid<br />
because she was gone. My Balloons lady<br />
let me talk about mummy when no one<br />
else could’<br />
Grieving child - aged 8<br />
The grieving process is a journey <strong>and</strong><br />
children need to know that adults will<br />
walk with them on this journey by<br />
helping them process their feelings.<br />
Allowing the child to talk about the<br />
hurts they are experiencing in their<br />
own way <strong>and</strong> at their own time is<br />
one of the best ways to teach a child<br />
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<strong>and</strong> for life.<br />
‘Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign<br />
of weakness. It is an emotional, physical<br />
<strong>and</strong> spiritual necessity, the price you pay<br />
for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve’<br />
Earl Grollman<br />
If you want to know more about the<br />
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The Green Man<br />
hiding in the heart of Devon<br />
The middle of Devon is home to a mysterious figure<br />
that can be found hiding in some of the most<br />
picturesque churches in the county.<br />
Often hidden high up in the roofs of these<br />
magnificent medieval buildings, the carved<br />
images of the Green Man look down on the<br />
congregation <strong>and</strong> visitors alike. The Green<br />
there are conflicting<br />
arguments as to why<br />
the Green Man is so well<br />
represented in this part of<br />
the country<br />
Man though, is not a Christian figure, he dates<br />
from pagan times when trees <strong>and</strong> woodl<strong>and</strong><br />
formed the basis of our religions. Indeed,<br />
the area of Devon where he can be found in<br />
number is full of place names such as Nymet<br />
<strong>and</strong> Nympton, both of which are old Celtic<br />
terms meaning sacred groves. The Heart of<br />
Devon was once a very special place for tree<br />
worshippers.<br />
The image of the Green Man is that of a face,<br />
surrounded by foliage <strong>and</strong> with leafy shoots<br />
sprouting forth from the mouth, nostrils<br />
<strong>and</strong> sometimes even the eyes. These images<br />
are carved in to the oak bosses that brace<br />
the timber of the church roofs, they are<br />
sometimes also carved in to the Rood screens<br />
that separate the chancel from the nave. They<br />
are not always immediately obvious; the Green<br />
Man tends to lurk in the shadows. In the area<br />
around North Tawton <strong>and</strong> Bow in mid Devon,<br />
Green Man image displayed at<br />
the Bow based Heart of Devon<br />
festival<br />
several churches can be found that are home<br />
to the Green Man, whilst other parts of the<br />
county have none. Is it, perhaps, connected to<br />
the old sacred woodl<strong>and</strong> groves that once were<br />
part of this rural l<strong>and</strong>scape. It is tempting<br />
to think so; the importance of the area to<br />
past religions was underlined in 1984 when<br />
the soil marks of a large woodhenge were<br />
spotted, during an aerial survey, alongside<br />
the River Yeo on the edge of the village of<br />
Bow. The woodhenge dates back to the third<br />
millennium B.C <strong>and</strong> would have measured<br />
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Green man at Spreyton church<br />
photo by Bruce Gibbs<br />
Green man at South Tawton church<br />
photo by Bruce Gibbs<br />
Three hares at Sampford Courtney<br />
photo by Bruce Gibbs<br />
some 45 metres across, making it a large<br />
<strong>and</strong> very important structure that would<br />
have been used for religious purposes. One<br />
writer, the late Roger Deakin, reflecting on the<br />
area around Bow, described the River Yeo as<br />
Devon’s river Ganges.<br />
The Green Man images would have been made<br />
by local woodworkers as they carried out the<br />
timber work in the construction of the areas<br />
churches. The creators of these images were<br />
talented craftsmen indeed, a look at the oak<br />
bosses of these churches will reveal a whole<br />
host of intricate designs, all carved by h<strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> dating from the 14th <strong>and</strong> 15th centuries.<br />
The skill of these unknown workers is further<br />
demonstrated in some of the churches by a<br />
design showing three hares sat around the oak<br />
boss. At first glance, these hares all appear<br />
normal, but a closer look reveals that there<br />
are only three ears between them, making<br />
them, perhaps, some of the oldest optical<br />
illusions in the country.<br />
There are conflicting arguments as to why<br />
the Green Man is so well represented in<br />
this part of the county, but most have their<br />
origin in the Celtic sacred groves of the area.<br />
When the churches of mid Devon were being<br />
constructed in medieval times, the pagan<br />
worship of sacred groves was still something<br />
that lingered in the local population. One<br />
theory is that the Christian church deliberately<br />
incorporated the pagan Green Man image<br />
into the new buildings to demonstrate to the<br />
local population that Christianity was their<br />
religion. The other theory is that the local<br />
population had strongly held views when it<br />
came to their sacred groves <strong>and</strong> they weren’t<br />
prepared to let them go easily. Could it be<br />
that the local craftsmen employed to build the<br />
churches deliberately created the images as<br />
an act of rebellion against the rigidly enforced<br />
doctrines of the church?<br />
The simple truth is that nobody really knows<br />
why these symbols are so prevalent in the<br />
churches of the area, for every theory put<br />
forward at least another two are proposed to<br />
contradict it. Whatever the reason for their<br />
existence, one thing cannot be argued with;<br />
the images of the Green Man are true works<br />
of art that should be enjoyed <strong>and</strong> celebrated<br />
by us all.<br />
By Ian Parsons<br />
The approach to Spreyton Church - the avenue of trees recalling the<br />
sacred groves that once dominated the area<br />
photo by Bruce Gibbs<br />
Sampford Courtney Church<br />
photo by Bruce Gibbs<br />
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