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It’s always the same in <strong>January</strong> and <strong>February</strong>, cold, dark,<br />
damp and dreary, we certainly need something to cheer<br />
us up, especially after the festive outlay and barrage of<br />
TV repeats. Thoughts at this time of year naturally drift<br />
to holidays in sunnier climes, further on in the magazine<br />
you can read <strong>Devonshire</strong>’s exclusive feature on the city of<br />
Florence, home to the Italian Renaissance.<br />
Also in this issue our Restaurant Inspector<br />
review sees visits to Rockfish at Exmouth<br />
and the Two Bridges Hotel up on Dartmoor,<br />
both thoroughly excellent places to enjoy<br />
food, drink and cheerful ambiance. Whilst<br />
talking about Dartmoor, we also bring you a<br />
photo-visual feature on the redundant Powder<br />
Mills, not far from the Two Bridges Hotel on<br />
the road to Postbridge.<br />
I assumed would allow a world-wide search<br />
of the aforementioned terms (or at least<br />
searching in the full-fat American Google.<br />
com) - it didn’t really want to know, as I was<br />
rapidly re-routed back to the Google’s .co.<br />
uk portal no matter what I tried. That’s the<br />
internet up to its tricks again! Before we<br />
both lose the thread, can I direct you to the<br />
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issue is 52 Classic <strong>Devonshire</strong><br />
Country Pubs, a joint effort by<br />
Richard and Jayne Eley, having<br />
intrepidly ventured forth and<br />
chartered 52 commendable pubs<br />
across our verdant county, a most<br />
valiant effort, certainly worthy of<br />
recognition.<br />
As usual, <strong>Devonshire</strong> magazine’s<br />
John Fisher brings us another of his excellent<br />
historical articles, this time entitled “Devon<br />
and the English Civil War” and there’s also a<br />
piece discussing our earliest British coinage.<br />
Wimple as a word is know to refer to an ancient<br />
cloth headdress covering the head and neck,<br />
also the sides of the face and was often worn<br />
by nuns in times gone by (the similarities with<br />
the hijab are interesting). In the mediaeval<br />
period, the covering up of women seemed to<br />
be common practice. It set me wondering if<br />
the place name ‘Whimple’ (the small village<br />
in East Devon) had any derivation from the<br />
‘Wimple’ name. There certainly don’t appear<br />
to be any other places in the England sharing<br />
the ‘Wimple’ or ‘Whimple’ name. Even more<br />
curios was trying to open google.com, which<br />
There’s much in the press these<br />
days about electric cars which<br />
inevitably are on their silent way,<br />
let’s hope enough power stations<br />
are built to power it all. I don’t<br />
know whether you heard the<br />
recent news snippet from the<br />
Tesla CEO, telling journalists<br />
how they’d be building electric<br />
lorries which would revolutionise<br />
the haulage industry in the near<br />
future, particularly worrying was the 0-60<br />
mph time quoted at 5 seconds - if that ever<br />
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gloves! Whilst on the subject of motoring,<br />
we feature the cream of the British crop,<br />
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technology in the motoring world. To own<br />
one you’d probably need to sell the family<br />
home - page 52.<br />
Incidentally, <strong>Devonshire</strong> has changed<br />
publication dates for 20<strong>18</strong>, so magazines are<br />
published bimonthly from <strong>January</strong> this year<br />
(was from <strong>February</strong> every 2 months previously).<br />
Wishing you a happy and healthy 20<strong>18</strong>!<br />
Nigel Jones (Editor)<br />
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The COUNTRYMAN<br />
CHRIS TAYLOR<br />
The COUNTRYMAN<br />
Chris lives with his wife, Brianne,<br />
in north Devon at the confluence<br />
of the Mole and Bray Rivers.<br />
Raised on a farm, with a degree in<br />
Agricultural Zoology, Chris moved<br />
into Farm Management and more<br />
recently into Estate Management<br />
and Consultancy. Over the past<br />
50 years his passions cover all<br />
aspects of the countryside, wildlife,<br />
conservation,agriculture and<br />
country pursuits.<br />
A bumper<br />
harvest of<br />
Pumpkins<br />
Photos copyright C. Taylor<br />
Baby, it's cold outside...<br />
Spring beckons<br />
The shortest day of this winter has<br />
gone and two months of winter<br />
remain, so far we in Devon have<br />
missed any disruptive snowy or<br />
frosty weather but we have had<br />
more than our share of rain. It is<br />
unusual for much snow before<br />
Christmas and the last time that<br />
occurred in North Devon was<br />
early December 2010. That year<br />
almost a foot of snow fell and the<br />
few ewe lambs I had struggled to<br />
move around and just trampled<br />
one small area of their field and<br />
that's where they stayed until the<br />
snow receded.<br />
I recall after Christmas of 1983<br />
or 1984 as being particularly<br />
difficult when trying to make a<br />
living farming. Plenty of snow<br />
and much worse penetrating<br />
cold, even the tractor diesel froze<br />
whilst driving along, this made<br />
life extremely hard. The small<br />
streams froze and we relied on<br />
these for water for the ewes. We<br />
had to resort to using a mattock<br />
( a cross between an axe and an<br />
adze ) to dig frozen swedes to feed<br />
hundreds of sheep. These swedes<br />
were their only water source. It<br />
was this or nothing, but the sheep<br />
scour badly, fed on frozen swedes.<br />
The farm I occasionally helped on<br />
had one running tap working in<br />
this cold period that lasted some<br />
6 weeks. Keeping yourself warm<br />
all day was also a challenge, as<br />
many layers of clothes as possible.<br />
My neighbouring farm, like many<br />
others just poured their milk away<br />
as no tankers could get to their<br />
farms but I do remember how<br />
all the community helped one<br />
another out to get by.<br />
Wildlife suffers in extreme winters<br />
and in those winters of the early<br />
1980 starving fieldfares and<br />
redwings would follow me and the<br />
sheep to the trough in expectation<br />
of any small morsel of food.<br />
So far this winter hundred of these<br />
birds have been feeding in the<br />
Suckling lambs - bottle and teat<br />
orchard on the many dropped<br />
apples and I even have many bags<br />
of apples stored just in case of<br />
worse to come. If you feed your<br />
garden birds leave any old apples<br />
and even the peelings out and see<br />
what comes along.<br />
There are good numbers of<br />
woodcock and snipe around<br />
this winter. Take a walk along<br />
any estuary or over any wet and<br />
rushy farmland and you are sure<br />
to frighten up the later. There<br />
are two types of snipe that occur<br />
in Devon and unless you are a<br />
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Brianne collecting eggs<br />
All warm and dry<br />
professional birder armed with the<br />
most powerful telescope you will<br />
never see either in detail. However<br />
in flight they are easily told apart,<br />
the smaller jack snipe is much<br />
less common and is a weak flier.<br />
Once in the air it will likely only<br />
fly 100 metre and alight again and<br />
never getting high in the air. More<br />
resembling the flight of the water<br />
rail if you are fortunate enough to<br />
have seen one of these. Whereas<br />
the common snipe is a strong flier,<br />
with a marked zigzag flight and it<br />
climbs rapidly upwards and soon<br />
out of site. The woodcock is a<br />
much larger bird than the snipe<br />
and as the name suggests is found<br />
mainly in woodland during the<br />
day. Again this bird will sit tight<br />
to the ground and you may find<br />
you have got extremely close to<br />
it before it takes to flight. They<br />
occur mostly in undisturbed wet<br />
woodland, with fallen and decaying<br />
trees and leaf litter. Often the best<br />
time to see woodcock is at dusk as<br />
they leave woodland to forage in<br />
open farmland. So stand close to<br />
any large wooded area, preferably<br />
deciduous and they may fly by<br />
during these winter months. The<br />
very best time to see them is at<br />
dusk on the full moon.<br />
I understand that it was back in<br />
Three's a crowd!<br />
1963 large numbers of pink footed<br />
and greylag geese descended on<br />
North Devon in that atrocious<br />
winter and something not seen<br />
since. Very few greylag turn up<br />
each winter on the Taw or Torridge<br />
estuaries, but there are many<br />
wintering Brent geese to be seen<br />
up until March, to say nothing of<br />
thousands of others waterfowl<br />
and waders.<br />
Many animals have built in<br />
mechanisms to cope with wintry<br />
conditions such as hibernation like<br />
dormice. Others take on a different<br />
strategy, one of the most obvious<br />
but not commonly seen is when<br />
stoats go into ermine. That's when<br />
their coat changes colour and they<br />
turn a patchy white or sometimes<br />
a totally white colour. Though they<br />
are veracious predators they too<br />
are prey and this change to white<br />
is a great form of camouflage in<br />
wintry conditions. I have only seen<br />
this once on a stoat in Devon and<br />
I am not sure if they go totally<br />
white as they do in the north of the<br />
country, this probably depends on<br />
the severity of conditions<br />
By <strong>February</strong> the days have<br />
become noticeably longer and as<br />
I lamb from the 1st <strong>February</strong> in a<br />
shed with no electric lights, just<br />
powerful torches this is a god send.<br />
The natural world is awakening<br />
all around but not that noticeable,<br />
unless you make that extra effort.<br />
Usually by now the frogs have<br />
produced mountains of spawn,<br />
any cold weather may stop it<br />
developing fast, but as long as it<br />
doesn't get frozen it's possible to<br />
watch the tadpoles develop over<br />
the coming weeks. Snowdrops<br />
will be out and last well if the<br />
weather still has that winter chill<br />
and survive well if covered by<br />
snow or frost.<br />
In woodland the first leaves have<br />
burst, honeysuckle being the<br />
first to appear. This must be to<br />
get growing early prior to being<br />
shaded out up the canopy of large<br />
trees in spring. By the end of the<br />
month the wild daffodils will up<br />
but not out in bloom. Bird wise, the<br />
rooks are well into nest building.<br />
Not many years ago I was clearing<br />
part of the river bank on the upper<br />
Mole underneath a rookery and<br />
never realised the noise they<br />
made or the intensity of the<br />
activity. I am not a great lover<br />
of rooks but any collection<br />
of wildlife is fascinating to<br />
watch , seeing how they<br />
interact as breeding pairs<br />
and squabble over nest sites<br />
whilst repairing those of<br />
previous years or building<br />
afresh.<br />
At the beginning I mentioned<br />
the amount of autumn<br />
and early winter rain that<br />
had been keeping river<br />
levels high and dirty, so<br />
unfortunately, I am unable<br />
to report back on how<br />
the salmon and sea trout<br />
spawning went. It has not<br />
even been possible to locate<br />
any redds, however, I have<br />
seen a few spent fish, all<br />
dead, but lets hope those<br />
in the rivers successfully<br />
completed their lifecycle.<br />
Countryman's Diary<br />
<strong>January</strong> and <strong>February</strong><br />
1. Listen out for vixens ( female Foxes)<br />
calling/barking especially at dusk<br />
2. Hen Harriers may be seen over<br />
Exmoor.<br />
3. Spawning Frogs in ponds and ditches.<br />
4. Cold weather elsewhere in the country<br />
will bring flocks of Peewits<br />
( Lapwings) onto Devon farmland<br />
5. Plant the first veg seed of the season,<br />
Celeriac inside. Get the veg patch<br />
dug over.<br />
6. Graft any apple trees before end of<br />
<strong>February</strong> and make sure all fruit tree<br />
pruning is done and burnt up.<br />
7. Clean out any nest boxes.<br />
A snowy river Mole<br />
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Devon Countryside Team,<br />
Younghayes Community<br />
Centre, Cranbrook, 2.00pm<br />
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Choirs<br />
CHORAL WORKSHOP<br />
17 Feb- Mozart Requiem<br />
Workshop with Exeter<br />
Philharmonic Choir, Mint<br />
Methodist Church, Exeter,<br />
9.30am to 5.00pm.<br />
DARKNESS TO LIGHT<br />
24 Feb- From Ash Wednesday<br />
to Easter via the genius of<br />
Orlande de Lassus (1532<br />
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Choral Music, Buckfast<br />
Abbey, 7.30pm to 8.45pm.<br />
Classical<br />
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SIDMOUTH MUSIC:<br />
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13 Jan- Sidmouth Music: Ella<br />
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Sidmouth Parish Church,<br />
Sidmouth, 3.00pm to 5.00pm.<br />
<strong>February</strong> Half Term<br />
13th to 17th Feb<br />
LUNCHTIME CONCERT<br />
17 Jan- Ruth James, violin<br />
and Josephine Pickering -<br />
piano with David Lee,<br />
Glenorchy United Reformed<br />
Church, Exeter Road,<br />
Exmouth, 12.00am to 1.15pm.<br />
CLASS OF 1685<br />
19 Jan- Baroque music for<br />
harpsichord and flute from<br />
Masumi Yamamoto and<br />
Boris Bizjak, Totnes Early<br />
Music Society, United Free<br />
Church, Totnes, 7.30pm to<br />
9.30pm.<br />
POMEGRANATE PIANO<br />
TRIO - VIOLIN, CELLO,<br />
PIANO<br />
21 Jan- Playing Haydn,<br />
Smetana and Beethoven on<br />
a Sunday afternoon, NADSA<br />
Concerts, Courtenay Centre,<br />
Newton Abbot, 3.00pm to<br />
5.15pm.<br />
LUNCHTIME CONCERT<br />
24 Jan- An-Ting Chang,<br />
piano, Glenorchy United<br />
Reformed Church, Exeter<br />
Road, Exmouth, 12.00am to<br />
1.15pm.<br />
TRIUMPH AND PASSION<br />
26 Jan- Mikhail Tatarnikov,<br />
Conductor; Boris Giltburg,<br />
Piano, Bournemouth<br />
Symphony Orchestra, Great<br />
Hall, Exeter, 7.30pm to<br />
9.30pm.<br />
LUNCHTIME CONCERT<br />
31 Jan- St David's Singers,<br />
Glenorchy United Reformed<br />
Church, Exeter Road,<br />
Exmouth, 12.00am to 1.15pm.<br />
MONUMENTAL BRAHMS<br />
01 Feb- Kirill Karabits,<br />
Conductor; Sunwook<br />
Kim, Piano, Bournemouth<br />
Symphony Orchestra, Great<br />
Hall, Exeter, 7.30pm to<br />
9.30pm.<br />
RUSSIAN GALA CONCERT<br />
09 Feb- An extravaganza<br />
of Russian music featuring<br />
balalaika, vocal, violin and<br />
piano, Violin & Piano Duo<br />
'Elegance', Cygnet Theatre,<br />
Exeter, 7.00pm to 9.00pm.<br />
RUSSIAN GALA CONCERT<br />
10 Feb- An extravaganza<br />
of Russian music featuring<br />
balalaika, violin, vocals and<br />
piano, Violin & Piano Duo<br />
'Elegance', Central Church,<br />
Torquay, 7.00pm to 9.00pm.<br />
HEROES AND MONSTERS<br />
15 Feb- More Music from<br />
the Movies; Pete Harrison,<br />
Conductor, Bournemouth<br />
Symphony Orchestra, Great<br />
Hall, Exeter, 7.30pm to<br />
9.30pm.<br />
ANNA TSYBULEVA<br />
(PIANO)<br />
17 Feb- Chopin, Tchaikovsky,<br />
Sidmouth Music, Sidmouth<br />
Parish Church, Sidmouth,<br />
3.00pm to 5.00pm.<br />
ARCADIA STRING<br />
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<strong>18</strong> Feb- The Arcadia String<br />
Quartet from Romania<br />
play Haydn, Borodin and<br />
Shostakovich, NADSA<br />
Concerts, Courtenay Centre,<br />
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ANTIQUES VALUATION<br />
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08 Feb- A no fee/obligation<br />
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20 Feb- A no fee/obligation<br />
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Comedy<br />
CHARLIE BICKNELL:<br />
FALLEN ANGEL<br />
26 Jan- Cabaret with<br />
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Artsreach, Comrades Hall,<br />
Beaminster, 7.30pm to<br />
10.00pm.<br />
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Exmouth Pavilion<br />
ED BYRNE: SPOILER<br />
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Exeter, 7.30pm.<br />
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26 Jan- Print your own fabric<br />
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Elmfield House, Honiton,<br />
10.00am to 3.00pm.<br />
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10 Feb to 17 Feb- Follow<br />
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Festivals<br />
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FARMERS’ MARKET<br />
2nd Saturday each month - Hot<br />
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20 Feb - An adventurepacked<br />
programme of short<br />
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MUSIC<br />
EXETER RECORD AND<br />
CD FAIR<br />
20 Jan- Knowledgeable local<br />
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9.30am to 3.30pm.<br />
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SLAVE OWNERSHIP IN<br />
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05 Feb to 24 Mar- This<br />
temporary exhibition<br />
examines the slave trade,<br />
Tiverton Museum of Mid<br />
Devon Life, Becks Square,<br />
Tiverton, 10.30am to 4.30pm.<br />
DEVON AND THE<br />
TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE<br />
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22 Feb- Talk about the links<br />
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Tiverton Museum of Mid<br />
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Tiverton, 7.30pm.<br />
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PLAYS<br />
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RUSSIAN GALA CONCERT<br />
09 & 10 Feb - Celebration of Russian Heritage in Music with works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov,<br />
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27 Jan- An action packed,<br />
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Devon Players, St Matthews<br />
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06 Feb- The UK's favourite<br />
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to 12.00am.<br />
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Great Night Out<br />
Enjoy FOOD and LIVE MUSIC at your local venue<br />
LIVE MUSIC<br />
ROCKFELLA<br />
05 Jan- Free Live entertainment...If<br />
carlsberg did music it would sound like this!<br />
The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street, Sidmouth,<br />
9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
SILVER BULLET AT THE SNOOTY FOX<br />
05 Jan- Silver Bullet at The Snooty Fox,<br />
Silver Bullet Band, Snooty Fox, Torquay,<br />
9.00pm to 11.15pm.<br />
EXTRACTOR<br />
06 Jan- Free Live entertainment...If<br />
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9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
Custard Tart, local strawberries,<br />
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sorbet, Five Bell s<br />
Seth Lakeman<br />
JAZZ NIGHT<br />
17 Jan- Jazz night, Sidmouth Jazz, 1922<br />
social club, Sidmouth, 7.30pm to 10.00pm.<br />
THE CRAVING<br />
19 Jan- Free Live entertainment...If<br />
carlsberg did music it would sound like this!<br />
The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street, Sidmouth,<br />
9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
PERFECT STRANGERS<br />
20 Jan- Free Live entertainment...If<br />
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The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street, Sidmouth,<br />
9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
JOHN SHILLITO’S SELECT FOUR<br />
20 Jan- Excellent toe-tapping jazz from<br />
four dynamic and outstanding Musicians,<br />
The Tucker’s Jazz Club, The Tucker’s Arms,<br />
Axminster, 8.00pm to 10.00pm.<br />
PETE CANTER QUARTET<br />
07 Jan- Superb mainstream jazz led by fine<br />
saxophonist Pete Canter, Pete Canter, Royal<br />
British Legion Club, Plymouth, 7.30pm to<br />
10.30pm.<br />
THE PETE CANTER QUARTET<br />
07 Jan- Mainstream, Swing & Latin jazz by<br />
a quartet led by saxophonist Pete Canter.,<br />
Plymouth Jazz Club, The Royal British<br />
Legion Club, Plymouth, 7.30pm to 10.30pm.<br />
PETE CANTER QUARTET<br />
08 Jan- Superb jazz led by fine saxophonist<br />
Pete Canter, Pete Canter, Bread and Roses,<br />
Plymouth, 8.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
KINGSBRIDGE JAZZ CLUB AT AVETON<br />
GIFFORD<br />
09 Jan- John Shillito’s Select Six; an<br />
evening of melodic New Orleans style jazz &<br />
fun, Kingsbridge Jazz Club, The Fisherman’s<br />
Rest, Aveton Gifford, 6.30pm to 10.00pm.<br />
BRIDGE JAZZ CLUB<br />
10 Jan- Pete Canter & Friends<br />
Jam Session £6 or £4 jammers, Pete Canter,<br />
Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, 8.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
KATHRYN ROBERTS AND SEAN<br />
LAKEMAN<br />
11 Jan- “It’s folk music for the modern age”<br />
The Telegraph, Artsreach, Drimpton Village<br />
Hall, Beaminster, 7.30pm to 10.00pm.<br />
ROADHOGS<br />
12 Jan- Free Live entertainment...If<br />
carlsberg did music it would sound like this!<br />
The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street, Sidmouth,<br />
9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
LEIGH COLEMAN & MATT CARTER TRIO<br />
13 Jan- Funky jazz with a finger-snapping<br />
soul vibe from dynamic piano trio, JAZZ<br />
JURASSICA, Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis,<br />
7.00pm to 10.00pm.<br />
ROCK THE NIGHT<br />
13 Jan- Free Live entertainment...If<br />
carlsberg did music it would sound like this!<br />
The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street, Sidmouth,<br />
9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
Noisette of lamb in a herb crust, with<br />
navet puree, wild garlic, pomme fondant<br />
& rosemary jus, Orestone Manor<br />
PAPRIKA<br />
21 Jan- Paprika is the UK’s leading Balkan<br />
band, Artsreach, Tarrant Gunville Village<br />
Hall, Blandford Forum, 7.30pm to 10.00pm.<br />
ADRIAN COX<br />
21 Jan- A Tribute to the music of the<br />
legendary American jazzman Edmond Hall,<br />
Plymouth Jazz Club, The Royal British<br />
Legion Club, Plymouth, 7.30pm to 10.30pm.<br />
JUST MISBEHAVIN’<br />
21 Jan- Swing jazz to finish your weekend<br />
in style, Just Misbehavin’, The Point Bar &<br />
Grill, Exmouth, 6.00pm to 8.30pm.<br />
BAV’S KARAOKE<br />
26 Jan- Free Live entertainment...If<br />
carlsberg did music it would sound like this!<br />
The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street, Sidmouth,<br />
9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
WHITE SPIRIT<br />
27 Jan- Free Live entertainment...If<br />
carlsberg did music it would sound like this!<br />
The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street, Sidmouth,<br />
9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
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Live Music<br />
Sunday 4th March<br />
THE HOT BANANA BAND<br />
Plymouth Jazz Club<br />
Saturday 17th <strong>February</strong><br />
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Ibberton Village Hall, Dorset<br />
Saturday 17th March<br />
NIGEL PRICE<br />
Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis<br />
PETE CANTER TRIO<br />
28 Jan- Excellent jazz with fine saxophonist<br />
Pete Canter & Friends, Pete Canter, Point<br />
Bar & Grill, Exmouth, 6.00pm to 8.40pm.<br />
BOWJANGLES: THE QUEST FOR<br />
EXCALIBOW<br />
02 Feb- A string quartet theatrical, musical<br />
journey through myths, folklore & legends,<br />
Artsreach, Wotton Fitzpaine Village Hall,<br />
Lyme Regis, 7.30pm to 10.00pm.<br />
JULIAN STRINGLE WITH THE CRAIG<br />
MILVERTON TRIO<br />
04 Feb- Leading jazz clarinettist plays<br />
mainstream jazz with The Craig Milverton<br />
Trio, Plymouth Jazz Club, The Royal British<br />
Legion Club, Plymouth, 7.30pm to 10.30pm.<br />
KINGSBRIDGE JAZZ CLUB AT AVETON<br />
GIFFORD<br />
06 Feb- A musical journey of Stephane<br />
Grappelli’s life presented by Fret & Fiddle,<br />
Kingsbridge Jazz Club, The Fisherman’s<br />
Rest, Aveton Gifford, 6.30pm to 10.00pm.<br />
BRIDGE JAZZ CLUB<br />
07 Feb- Pete Canter & Friends<br />
Jam Session, Pete Canter, Exeter Phoenix,<br />
Exeter, 8.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
MAGGIE REEDAY QUARTET - JAZZ<br />
JURASSICA<br />
10 Feb- Sultry jazz classics with a bluesy/<br />
soul twist from a consummate entertainer,<br />
JAZZ JURASSICA, Marine Theatre, Lyme<br />
Regis, 7.00pm to 10.00pm.<br />
CEILIDH WITH THE OGGLE BAND<br />
10 Feb- OGGLE BAND once you have<br />
seen and heard them you know what to<br />
expect - superb, Marwood Community Hall,<br />
Muddiford, Marwood, 8.00pm to 11.00pm.<br />
JUST MISBEHAVIN’<br />
16 Feb- Swing Jazz & Early Rock ‘n’ Roll,<br />
Just Misbehavin’, The Sorry Head, Exeter,<br />
9.15pm to 11.45pm.<br />
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17 Feb- Emily Burridge on cello and Felix<br />
Gibbons on Latin percussion and Bossa<br />
guitar, Artsreach, Ibberton Village Hall,<br />
Blandford Forum, 7.30pm to 10.00pm.<br />
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SIDMOUTH TOWN BAND & GUEST<br />
ARTISTES CONCERT<br />
17 Feb- Popular, traditional and classical<br />
music by award winning band plus guests,<br />
Sidmouth Lions Club, Manor Pavilion<br />
Theatre, Sidmouth, 7.45pm to 10.00pm.<br />
STOMP, SING & SWING<br />
<strong>18</strong> Feb- Stomp, Sing and Swing with the<br />
traditional jazz of the John Maddocks Band,<br />
Plymouth Jazz Club, The Royal British<br />
Legion Club, Plymouth, 7.30am to 10.30pm.<br />
THE GRAHAMS<br />
22 Feb- The Grahams are a treat for all<br />
fans of American folk music, Artsreach,<br />
Drimpton Village Hall, Beaminster, 7.30pm<br />
to 10.00pm.<br />
SILVER BULLET ROCK, POP,SOUL BLUES<br />
NIGHT<br />
24 Feb- An evening of dancing to this<br />
popular local band, Silver Bullet Band,<br />
Balfour Arms, Sidmouth, 9.15pm to 11.45pm.<br />
THE GRAHAMS<br />
25 Feb- The Grahams are a treat for all fans<br />
of American folk music, Artsreach, Milborne<br />
St Andrew Village Hall, Blandford Forum,<br />
7.30pm to 10.00pm.<br />
JAZZ IN THE AFTERNOON<br />
25 Feb- Jazz in the Afternoon with Pete<br />
Allen, Kennaway House, Coburg Road,<br />
Sidmouth, 2.00pm to 5.30pm.<br />
KEVIN GRENFELL’S “HOT BANANA”<br />
04 Mar- The Hot Banana band plays jazz,<br />
swing, jump-jive and Rhythm ‘n Blues,<br />
Plymouth Jazz Club, The Royal British<br />
Legion Club, Plymouth, 7.30pm to 10.30pm.<br />
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Great Devon eateries<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 />
award winning restaurant • award winning marina<br />
Jolly Jacks wishes you<br />
a fabulous 20<strong>18</strong>!<br />
We look forward to seeing you here at<br />
cosy Jolly Jacks, where you can come and<br />
enjoy everything we have to offer.<br />
Jolly<br />
Jacks<br />
Upcoming Events<br />
Burns Night - 25th Jan<br />
Valentine’s Day - 14th Feb<br />
waterfront bar bistro<br />
Kick Back & Relax<br />
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& Location !<br />
• Delicious food from land and sea served fresh all day, every day<br />
• Friendly and welcoming • Independent restaurant<br />
• Traditional Sunday Lunches<br />
• Check website for live music & events<br />
• FREE secure parking • Dog & Child friendly<br />
• Bookings for Burns Night and Valentines now being taken<br />
tel: 01752 500 008 www.jollyjacks.co.uk<br />
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FOOD and DRINK<br />
The Restaurant Inspector<br />
Visits:<br />
Two Bridges Hotel<br />
Two Bridges, Dartmoor<br />
Two Bridges Hotel<br />
menu sampled<br />
Amuse Bouche<br />
Tomato Velouté<br />
with basil pesto<br />
Flaming Creme Brulée<br />
Starters<br />
Monkfish Pakora<br />
Goats cheese, gingerbread<br />
biscotti, beetroot<br />
Mains<br />
Dartmoor Sirloin Steak, tomato,<br />
onion rings, triple cooked<br />
chips and garlic butter<br />
Beef & Jail Ale Suet Pudding,<br />
mashed potato, seasonal veg<br />
Pudding<br />
Sticky Toffee Pudding with<br />
toffee sauce, toffee ice<br />
cream, peanut praline<br />
Blackberry Frangipane, white<br />
chocolate Anglaise, Italian<br />
meringue, English blackberries<br />
Drinks<br />
Urmenta Merlot 2016<br />
Dartmoor Sirloin Steak, tomato, onion rings,<br />
triple cooked chips and garlic butter<br />
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Above - Goats cheese, gingerbread<br />
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Urmenta Merlot 2016<br />
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meringue, English blackberries<br />
Above - Monkfish Pakora starter<br />
Below - Sticky Toffee Pudding with toffee<br />
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The Restaurant Inspector<br />
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Rockfish<br />
Pier Head, Exmouth EX8 1DU<br />
Rockfish<br />
Fish Restaurant<br />
menu sampled<br />
Starters<br />
Norwegian Prawns<br />
Crisp Fried Calamari<br />
Flaming Creme Brulée<br />
Mains<br />
Sea Bass<br />
Skate Wing<br />
Sides<br />
Cut Chips<br />
Curried Mushy Peas<br />
Pudding<br />
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concoction<br />
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Crisp Fried Calamari<br />
Cut Chips - it’s unlimited consumption,<br />
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A very naughty pudding concoction<br />
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RESTAURANT<br />
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Cooking it<br />
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THE<br />
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An excellent licensed daytime restaurant with<br />
views of Powderham Castle Deer Park<br />
Open 7 days a week for breakfast,<br />
lunch and afternoon tea<br />
Located at the County Store site<br />
on the Powderham Castle Estate<br />
Easily accessible with parking provided<br />
free of charge to patrons of the restaurant<br />
Bringing you the real taste of street food<br />
from Thailand, Vietnam, Laos,<br />
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Fresh, local fish<br />
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SPICE IT UP<br />
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VEGETARIAN,<br />
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OPEN<br />
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Tel. 01752 228513<br />
12 - 10pm<br />
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FASHION & BEAUTY<br />
Start 20<strong>18</strong><br />
in style!<br />
The new year is the perfect time<br />
to give your wardrobe a fresh<br />
start. Statement making fringe,<br />
peppy colours and artful motifs<br />
are all on the horizon for 20<strong>18</strong>.<br />
Visit your local retailer for the top<br />
style trends this season.<br />
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Just back from the Esplanade in Fore Street<br />
WHITE & SON SHOES<br />
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FASHION HEALTH & & BEAUTY<br />
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Complete dental care tailored to your needs<br />
With dental care advancing every day and the importance of oral<br />
hygiene becoming increasingly recognised as affecting our general<br />
health, the need for a team approach and care tailored to your needs<br />
is now more important than ever.<br />
A growing team here for you<br />
In response to demand and our continued growth, we are delighted<br />
that Dr George Mentzos will be joining our team. This once again<br />
allow us to welcome new patients.<br />
George has over 15 years experience in<br />
providing outstanding care in both general<br />
dental care and dental implants.<br />
His calm and relaxed manner puts patients<br />
at ease and his philosophy in combining<br />
the latest techniques and materials with a<br />
holistic approach ensures patients receive<br />
exceptional care tailored to their needs.<br />
Leading the team<br />
The team at Ashbury Dental Care is led by Dr Maurice Sims, a dentist<br />
with a passion for dentistry, and an eye for detail. Today he is<br />
supported by a growing team of experts, including several dentists,<br />
two dental hygienists and a clinical dental technician.<br />
Here to help you<br />
Our team are here to help you with all aspects of dental and oral<br />
health, to improve your smile, reduce your risk of problems and to<br />
show you how you can maintain a healthy mouth yourself. Don’t be<br />
embarrassed, by your smile, book an appointment today.<br />
My team and I look forward to welcoming you to our practice, whether<br />
for regular care, a one-off appointment or a specific problem.<br />
Dr Maurice Sims<br />
BDS (U.Bham) BSc. (Hons) (U.Wales)<br />
Dental Surgeon - GDC No. 85555<br />
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BROOKVALE DENTAL PRACTICE<br />
6 King Street, Honiton, EX14 1AF<br />
Tel: 01404 44800<br />
MERRIFIELD DENTAL PRACTICE<br />
15 Mill Street, Sidmouth, EX10 8DW<br />
Tel: 01395 579932<br />
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The arduous treck to base camp - not exactly, but taking the wrong<br />
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recommended on a hot day, particularly when there’s lots to carry.<br />
Climbing Chinkwell Tor on a lovely autumn day. Using the belaying<br />
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<strong>January</strong> & <strong>February</strong> 20<strong>18</strong><br />
ART<br />
EXHIBITIONS<br />
Jo Quigley - 'South Bank' - Gallery Fab, Newton Abbot<br />
Studio Gallery<br />
Award Winning Art Gallery<br />
& Picture Framers<br />
In the Studio Gallery<br />
Venice, Devon and Cornwall<br />
New work by Mark Fielding.<br />
Ocean Studios, Royal William Yard,<br />
Plymouth PL1 3RP<br />
www.markfielding.co.uk<br />
Happy New Year!<br />
Original Art • Limited Edition Prints<br />
Picture Framing • Frogman<br />
Sculpture • Greetings Cards<br />
Jewellery • & Much More...<br />
Do not miss our<br />
SENSATIONAL SEASONAL SALE<br />
in <strong>January</strong> & <strong>February</strong><br />
Find us on Torquay’s harbourside:<br />
6-7 Victoria Parade, TQ1 2BB 0<strong>18</strong>03 213000<br />
www.haddongalleries.co.uk<br />
Art Classes<br />
Art Class with Hannah Twine<br />
Contact for more info.<br />
Chinese Brush Painting with Kaili Fu<br />
Starts 19th Jan for 6 weeks.<br />
We welcome enquiries from artists<br />
wishing to exhibit. Please contact us.<br />
01395 515551 Coburg Road, Sidmouth<br />
www.kennawayhouse.org.uk<br />
Twenty Years Young<br />
Twenty years is a long time, but<br />
for Marine House and Steam<br />
Gallery and their founders Mike<br />
and Rosemary Lambert, it’s been<br />
an exciting and happy journey.<br />
Come and visit us in Beer, we’re<br />
open seven days a week.<br />
01297 625257 • 01297 625144<br />
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CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION<br />
Until 20 Jan- Mixed Christmas Show<br />
with 2 new potters, Artmill Gallery,<br />
83 Hyde Park Road, Plymouth,<br />
9.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
NEW YEAR'S ART SALE<br />
Until 23 Jan- An opportunity to buy<br />
from an extensive range of arts &<br />
crafts at reduced cost, Town Mill<br />
Arts, The Malthouse and Courtyard<br />
Galleries, Lyme Regis, 10.30am to<br />
4.30pm.<br />
SPECIMENS FROM AN IMAGINARY<br />
VOYAGE<br />
Until 01 Apr- Renowned Danish<br />
glass artist Steffen Dam presents<br />
his own 3D marine creatures, Royal<br />
Albert Memorial Museum - RAMM,<br />
Queen Street, Exeter, 10.00am to<br />
5.00pm.<br />
SOUTH WEST ACADEMY EXHIBITION<br />
13 Jan to 24 Feb- An exhibition of<br />
work by members of the South<br />
West Academy of Fine and Applied<br />
A, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Elmfield<br />
House, Honiton, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
Mark Fielding - 'Sunrise, Grand Canal'<br />
Ocean Studios, Plymouth<br />
Annie Waring - 'Japanese anemone, black elder and plums'<br />
Hybrid, Honiton<br />
Michael Morgan - 'Devon Farm' - Marine House at Beer<br />
EXHIBITION: VIRGIN TERRITORY<br />
Until 13 Jan- By Vincent Dance<br />
Theatre, Peninsula Arts, Peninsula<br />
Arts Gallery, Plymouth. Wednesday-<br />
Friday 10:00am-5:00pm, Saturday<br />
11:00am-4:00pm.<br />
THE EXPRESS & ECHO LOCAL ART<br />
SHOW<br />
Until 17 Jan- The theme for the<br />
2017 competition is Dartmoor. Royal<br />
Albert Memorial Museum - RAMM,<br />
Queen Street, Exeter, 10.00am to<br />
5.00pm.<br />
EXETER'S FINE ART COLLECTION:<br />
MODERN<br />
Until 28 Feb- Diverse collection of<br />
over 7,000 modern art pieces from<br />
the 1400s to today, Royal Albert<br />
Memorial Museum - RAMM, Queen<br />
Street, Exeter, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
DARTMOOR: A WILD AND<br />
WONDROUS REGION<br />
Until 28 Feb- The story of<br />
Dartmoor through artists' eyes,<br />
Royal Albert Memorial Museum<br />
- RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter,<br />
10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? TOY STORER<br />
16 Jan to 01 Apr- Regularly changing<br />
display shares the passions of local<br />
collectors, Royal Albert Memorial<br />
Museum - RAMM, Queen Street,<br />
Exeter, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
EXETER AND YAROSLAVL<br />
16 Jan to 01 Apr- Photographic<br />
essay by Marija Lees from Exeter<br />
and Aleksei Loban from Yaroslavl,<br />
Royal Albert Memorial Museum<br />
- RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter,<br />
10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
DARTMOOR AND THE ARTISTIC<br />
IMAGINATION<br />
17 Jan- Gallery tour of our<br />
exhibition, Dartmoor: A Wild and<br />
Wondrous Region, Royal Albert<br />
Memorial Museum - RAMM,<br />
Queen Street, Exeter, 11.00am.<br />
CONTINUED OVERLEAF...<br />
MAYNE<br />
GALLERY<br />
Into 20<strong>18</strong> in style...<br />
Bryan Hanlon<br />
An exquisite collection of<br />
still life paintings from this<br />
exceptionally talented artist.<br />
The Big Sale<br />
<strong>January</strong>’s traditional start to<br />
the year with super savings<br />
on a select range of artists.<br />
Award Winning<br />
Picture Framers<br />
Award Winning, Fine Art Trade Guild<br />
Commended Picture Framers<br />
Wishing everyone a happy<br />
and inspiring New Year.<br />
See you soon!<br />
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Art · Homeware • Picture · Giftware Framing<br />
Greetings Cards<br />
Greetings Cards • Giftware<br />
Picture Framing<br />
FRAMES & BOXES, BANK STREET, NEWTON<br />
ABBOT, TQ12 2JW · 01626 335965<br />
Get a fresh start to<br />
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the New Year with<br />
some gorgeous new<br />
art for your walls<br />
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In our Gallery<br />
Gallery Artists<br />
Recent work by gallery<br />
artists throughout <strong>January</strong><br />
and <strong>February</strong><br />
01548 853848 www.maynegallery.co.uk<br />
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Bank Street, Newton Abbot, TQ12 2JW<br />
01626 335965 galleryfab.co.uk<br />
Tues to Fri 9am-5.30pm Sat 9am-4.30pm<br />
Frames & Boxes, Bank Street,<br />
Newton Abbot TQ12 2JW Tues-Sat<br />
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ART<br />
EXHIBITIONS<br />
Catherine Osbond - 'Sidmouth Sun' -<br />
East Devon Art, Sidmouth<br />
John Hurford - 'My New Rose' - Brownston Gallery, Modbury<br />
SIDMOUTH SOCIETY OF ARTISTS<br />
MONTHLY MEETING<br />
24 Jan- Demonstration by artist<br />
Trevor Waugh entitled 'Roses' in<br />
Watercolour. Kennaway House<br />
Sidmouth EX10 8NG, 7.00pm to<br />
9.00pm<br />
THE WOODROFFE SCHOOL ANNUAL<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
24 Jan to 05 Feb- Annual showcase<br />
of recent work by Woodroffe School<br />
students, Town Mill Arts, The<br />
Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis,<br />
10.30am to 4.30pm.<br />
GEORGE SHAW: MY BACK TO NATURE<br />
27 Jan to 08 Apr- Turner Prize<br />
nominee George Shaw explores new<br />
magical woodland landscapes, Royal<br />
Albert Memorial Museum - RAMM,<br />
Queen Street, Exeter, 10.00am to<br />
5.00pm.<br />
PLYMOUTH FILM SHOWCASE<br />
29 Jan to 17 Feb- Celebrating all<br />
that is new in film, Peninsula Arts,<br />
Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth,<br />
Monday-Friday 10:00am-5:00pm,<br />
Saturday 11:00am-4:00pm.<br />
BITE SIZE: PLYMOUTH FILM SHOWCASE<br />
31 Jan- With Dr Allister Gall and Dr<br />
Phil Ellis, Peninsula Arts, Peninsula<br />
Arts Gallery, Plymouth, 1.00pm to<br />
1.45pm.<br />
PLAYBACK WORKSHOP: MICRO CINEMA<br />
01 Feb- A visual storytelling<br />
workshop, Peninsula Arts, Room 112<br />
Scott Building, Plymouth, 6.00pm to<br />
8.00pm.<br />
Gina Parr - 'In More Detail'<br />
Brook Gallery<br />
MARTIN GOOLD AND DONNA GOOLD<br />
01 Feb to 01 Mar- Martin and Donna<br />
Goold with supporting artists,<br />
Artwave West, Artwave West,<br />
Morecombelake, 10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
WRITING WORKSHOP: JELLYFISH<br />
THINKING, FEELING<br />
02 Feb- And Being Creative. With<br />
Bryony Gillard, Peninsula Arts, The<br />
House Studio, Plymouth, 6.00pm to<br />
8.00pm.<br />
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Spring Exhibition<br />
10 to <strong>18</strong> Feb - New works from<br />
various artists.<br />
Workshops<br />
Art and Textiles 01 & 02 Feb.<br />
John Hoar 08 Feb.<br />
Oils/Acrylics for Beginners 22 Feb.<br />
Art tuition available throughout the year.<br />
A selection of work may be viewed on-line at<br />
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Exhibitions<br />
Martin Goold & Donna Goold<br />
01 Feb to 01 Mar<br />
The Gallery opens the year with<br />
an exhibition of paintings by the<br />
owners Martin and Donna Goold,<br />
alongside supporting artists.<br />
Open Wednesday to Saturday 10am-4pm<br />
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LITTLE LOVE BITES!<br />
Throughout <strong>February</strong>.<br />
We are celebrating the Month<br />
of Love with an exhibition that<br />
will warm your heart, beautiful<br />
paintings, prints, sculpture and<br />
jewellery.<br />
Please note, during <strong>January</strong>,<br />
the gallery will be open on<br />
Thursday, Friday and Saturday<br />
from 11am till 4pm.<br />
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Martin Goold - 'From the Castle Tower' - Artwave West, Morcombelake<br />
Sarah Bowman - 'Sweet Peas and Lillies' - White Space Gallery<br />
RIVIERA ART FAIR<br />
03 Feb to 25 Feb- Art Exhibition<br />
Spanish Barn Torquay TQ2 5JE,<br />
11.00am to 4.00pm<br />
MEET THE ARTIST: WALK AND TALK<br />
06 Feb- Join artist George Shaw<br />
for a walk around his exhibition<br />
My Back to Nature, Royal Albert<br />
Memorial Museum - RAMM, Queen<br />
Street, Exeter, 12.30am to 1.30pm.<br />
PLAYBACK WORKSHOP: SCRATCH FILM<br />
08 Feb- With Dr Allister Gall and<br />
Dan Paolantonio, Peninsula Arts,<br />
Room 102, Scott Building, Plymouth,<br />
6.00pm to 8.00pm.<br />
EXHIBITION TOUR AND WORKSHOP<br />
09 Feb- Tour of current exhibition<br />
followed by sketching and painting<br />
workshop, Thelma Hulbert Gallery,<br />
Elmfield House, Honiton, 11.00am<br />
to 3.30pm.<br />
THE ART AND CRAFT OF ILLUSTRATING<br />
ANIMALS<br />
09 Feb- An informative talk on the<br />
art and craft of illustrating animals<br />
Manor Pavilion Theatre Sidmouth<br />
EX10 8RP, 2.30pm to 4.00pm<br />
PRINTMAKERS OPEN 20<strong>18</strong><br />
09 Feb to 28 Feb- The third<br />
annual open exhibition of work by<br />
printmakers from the South West,<br />
Town Mill Arts, The Malthouse and<br />
Courtyard Galleries, Lyme Regis,<br />
10.30am to 4.30pm.<br />
SPRING EXHIBITION<br />
10 Feb to <strong>18</strong> Feb- A lively exhibition<br />
of art works from a wide range of<br />
West Country artists, East Devon Art,<br />
Old Fore Street, Sidmouth, 11.00am<br />
to 5.00pm.<br />
FAMILY WATERCOLOUR WORKSHOP<br />
14 Feb- Exhibiting SWAc artist<br />
David Norman will show you how<br />
to prepare and paint a watercolour<br />
landscape, Thelma Hulbert Gallery,<br />
Dowell Street, Honiton, Devon,<br />
EX14 1LX, 2.00m - 4.00pm.<br />
THE PRE-RAPHAELITES: THEIR ART &<br />
THEIR WOMEN<br />
21 Feb- Examining the work and lives<br />
of Millais, Rossetti, Maddox Brown &<br />
Holman Hunt Woodham House Lyme<br />
Regis DT7 3ES, 2.30pm to 4.00pm.<br />
DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY EXHIBITION<br />
TOUR<br />
22 Feb- Friendly and relaxed tour<br />
of the exhibit Dartmoor: A Wild<br />
and Wondrous Region, Royal Albert<br />
Memorial Museum - RAMM, Queen<br />
Street, Exeter, 10.30am to 12.30am.<br />
SIDMOUTH SOCIETY OF ARTISTS<br />
MONTHLY MEETING<br />
28 Feb- Demonstration by David<br />
Norman entitled 'Venice-Canal Scene'<br />
in Watercolour Kennaway House<br />
Sidmouth EX10 8NG, 7.00pm to<br />
9.00pm.<br />
Bryan Hanlon - Mayne Gallery, Kingsbridge<br />
Craig Everett - 'Born to be Wild'<br />
Haddon Galleries, Torquay<br />
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At Polkadot Gallery we are passionate<br />
about ethically sourced, contemporary<br />
jewellery and stock the work of specially<br />
selected world-renowned and talented<br />
local makers.<br />
From beautiful gold and platinum rings<br />
containing exquisite diamonds, to jewellery<br />
incorporating wood and textiles we have<br />
something to suit every taste.<br />
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Call us on 01392 276500, or visit us at<br />
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Budleigh: Tues-Sat 10.30-5.00 Sun 2.00-4.30<br />
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Brad Faine<br />
The Big Screen Spectacular!<br />
Until 15th Jan<br />
Brook Gallery gift vouchers are<br />
available enquire in gallery or give<br />
us a call.<br />
For this, other talks and events visit:<br />
www.brookgallery.co.uk<br />
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Celebrating our 20th year in Beer<br />
Mike and Rosemary Lambert are celebrating the 20th year of their art galleries at<br />
Beer. Mike said "Back in 1997 we were walking down Fore Street in Beer, we'd<br />
had a flat in the village for a number of years, as we approached the sea we saw<br />
the large edifice which is called Marine House. It was very run down, but was<br />
for sale. Myself and Rosemary had been thinking of changing lifestyle, Rosemary<br />
ran a large holiday company in London, I owned a marketing and PR company in<br />
Kensington. Looking at Marine House we saw an opportunity to restore the building,<br />
converting the upper storeys into quality holiday apartments. On completing this task,<br />
which included renovating the shop at ground level, we asked ourselves - does this<br />
provide a commercial opportunity for us? - because we'd been thinking of moving<br />
out of London. It sprang to mind that we both liked art, opening a gallery might<br />
be a novel idea. So this we proceeded to do, finding local potters, glassmakers,<br />
sculptors and artists, well-known names joined us, including the late Michael<br />
Morgan, Andrew Coates, Tina Stokes, Mike Bernard and many more. We opened<br />
in April 2008 with little or no expectation, but fingers crossed, the rest is history;<br />
Marine House, which was shortly afterwards followed by Steam Gallery in Beer,<br />
proved an ongoing and increasing success. We now have thousands of customers<br />
and exhibit not only in Beer, but also in London, Singapore and Hong Kong. We<br />
hope it's been great for Beer, because it attracts lots of people from all over the<br />
world and we look forward to the ongoing enjoyment of the whole experience and<br />
welcoming customers old and new.<br />
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Twenty years is a long time, but for Marine House<br />
and Steam Gallery and their founders Mike<br />
and Rosemary Lambert, it’s been an exciting<br />
and happy journey. The galleries’ reputation<br />
continues to grow. We believe that the key<br />
reasons for this is our focus on good relationships,<br />
approachability and careful choice of artists.<br />
We make a point of having an informal, friendly<br />
style. Our staff are both knowledgeable and<br />
enthusiastic and most of them have been with<br />
us for many years.<br />
We build long term relationship with our artists,<br />
over 100 of them, mostly from the South West.<br />
A number have been with us from day one. Few<br />
galleries offer our range and variety.<br />
Last but not least, we hope we’re seen to go<br />
that extra mile to look after our customers who<br />
now number in their thousands with a growing<br />
following in the Far East and the United States.<br />
Here are a few examples of work by some of<br />
our most successful artists old and new, and<br />
whose work is always available in the galleries.<br />
Come and enjoy: we’re open seven days a week<br />
and Beer has many other delights packed into<br />
a small village to further add to your happiness!<br />
Andrew Coates<br />
Bob Crooks<br />
Peter Layton<br />
Amanda Popham<br />
Fore Street, Beer, EX12 3EF Marine House 01297 625257 Steam Gallery 01297 625144<br />
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It was such a lovely experience,<br />
wrapping up warm to wander<br />
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and villages whilst Christmas<br />
lights twinkled in all of the<br />
shops and stalls with hot<br />
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cold at bay!<br />
It was my first experience<br />
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From the moment I stepped<br />
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Sometimes we headed for<br />
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Every day the ship would dock<br />
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The other option was to join an<br />
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I learnt so much about the<br />
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We ended our cruise in Vienna<br />
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This may have been my first<br />
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Incredibly ornate, the First Courtyard inside Palazzo Vecchio<br />
The top of the Duomo, you can<br />
gain access to enjoy the views<br />
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Firenze<br />
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Rape of the Sabines<br />
The Fountain<br />
of Neptune<br />
Surprisingly verdant just outside the city walls<br />
Bellissimo - the view from Piazzale Michelangelo with the river Arno disappearing into the distance. If you<br />
haven’t visited Florence, then walking out to this spot is the best way to enjoy the majesty of the city. When<br />
you’re in the city itself, views are restricted to streets and squares. The walk out from the centre, across Ponte<br />
Vecchio and on to Piazzale Michelangelo is highly recommended.<br />
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View from the tower of Palazzio Vecchio<br />
The Florentine streets at night<br />
Mars by<br />
Bartolomeo<br />
di Antonio<br />
Ammanati<br />
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Firenze<br />
Right - none other than Julius Caesar who invaded Britain<br />
twice, firstly unsuccessfully in 55BC then again in 54BC.<br />
This bust is in the Uffi zi Gallery collection<br />
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Firenze<br />
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Coff ee and biscuits, you need a rest as there is so much to see<br />
This couple have brought their own photographer, seemed to be a<br />
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An old Florentine mansion, walking<br />
round the back streets is delightful<br />
Jewellers aplenty, with many customers browsing on the Ponte Vecchio<br />
Tuscans are fond<br />
of their beef, and<br />
the restaurant<br />
here (Toto) serves<br />
very fine (if rather<br />
expensive) steaks.<br />
Happening upon<br />
this restaurant by<br />
chance, their food<br />
was of a high level,<br />
of particular note<br />
was their gnocchi<br />
which for such a basic<br />
food, they seemed<br />
to have elevated to a<br />
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Firenze<br />
popular trend with our Asian friends<br />
Shopping to suit all budgets, this is where the posh bit starts<br />
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Enjoy a coff ee whilst being overlooked by statues<br />
- so many in fact it's a bit like an architectural<br />
salvage yard on steroids - fantastico!<br />
Ladies, it's time to spend!<br />
Hope I"m not guilty of sexual<br />
stereotyping here, guys if you<br />
wish to buy a manbag, go ahead,<br />
they have every permutation<br />
imaginable and the quality and<br />
prices are fantastic - don't forget<br />
to haggle - it's expected!<br />
Night time music on Ponte Vecchio<br />
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BRITISH COINS<br />
The start of coinage in Britain - the Celts<br />
50BC-AD42 in years between<br />
Caesar’s expeditions and the<br />
Claudian invasion<br />
Atrebates type coin showing obverse<br />
with the head of Apollo (55-45BC). The<br />
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WONDERS of WHIMPLE<br />
Fund raising calendar now available to purchase<br />
Whimple truly is a wonderful place, having<br />
lived there myself briefly in the 90s, it<br />
was before all the property development<br />
had happened and the Whiteway's Cider<br />
Factory was still standing. Whiteway's was<br />
once one of Devon's great success stories,<br />
but various factors including the addition of<br />
VAT in on 1st April 1973 (in order to comply<br />
with EEC practice) and drastic increases in<br />
fuel cost resulting from political moves in the<br />
Middle East and dramatic inflation in the 70s<br />
caused a major decline in Whiteway's fortunes<br />
(documented in Eric Whiteway's excellent<br />
book entitled 'Whiteway's Cider - A company<br />
history' - a highly recommended read if you<br />
can get hold of a copy ISBN 0-7153-9819-9).<br />
Incidentally, I hope our cider makers are<br />
lobbying for post Brexit to get VAT on cider<br />
reversed - it would provide major assistance<br />
to our orchards and producers - perhaps we<br />
have an MP worth his/her salt who would<br />
step forward to help? - just another of my<br />
Utopian dreams? - most probably.<br />
I'm not quite sure what happens in Whimple<br />
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producing. If you're a business operating<br />
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Getting back to the Wonders of Whimple<br />
calendar, what a great idea and equally, what<br />
excellent community spirit exhibited by these<br />
ladies in Whimple that have taken part in this<br />
project to raise money for the charities; Breast<br />
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Cancer Now and Breast Cancer Care, and<br />
also to raise money to purchase four licenses<br />
for Body Image Movement videos to show<br />
in East Devon secondary schools. I'm sure<br />
you will agree that the orchard photograph<br />
is a lot of fun, the orchard being that of Jill<br />
Courtney of Cider Apple Products and the<br />
idea for the calendar being that of Gill Wilson<br />
and photographer Sue Draycott. Well done<br />
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want them getting the wrong idea about what<br />
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720S<br />
Road tested by Chris Pickering for <strong>Devonshire</strong> magazine<br />
The Power & The Glory<br />
McLaren's stunning new 720s sets out to stir the soul as well as pummel the senses<br />
Absurd as this may sound, the one complaint levelled at the<br />
McLaren 720S’s predecessors tended to be that they lacked drama.<br />
On the face of it, this is an utterly ridiculous<br />
allegation to level at a family of cars where<br />
the slowest offering had a top speed of 204<br />
mph and a price tag in excess of £168,000.<br />
But the culture at McLaren has always been<br />
a little different to other supercar makers.<br />
Established in its current form in 2010,<br />
McLaren Automotive is a separate entity to the<br />
Formula 1 team that spawned it. At its heart,<br />
though, there’s the same slavish dedication<br />
to excellence; a desire to be quantifiably and<br />
irrefutably the best that’s led some to accuse<br />
the company of being a tad clinical. While<br />
one of its Italian counterparts might knock<br />
back its fourth doppio espresso, scream at<br />
the top of its lungs and then head for the hills<br />
in a flurry of engine revs and tyre smoke, the<br />
equivalent McLaren was often seen as a bit<br />
more demure. At least, until now.<br />
You can almost imagine the sound of [former<br />
McLaren F1 team boss] Ron Dennis’s teeth<br />
grinding as the designers and engineers set out<br />
to create a more emotional car with the 720S.<br />
It’s still recognisably a McLaren, but here is<br />
a car with a whole lot more visual theatre<br />
than the 12C that founded its dynasty (or<br />
even the much-improved 650S that followed).<br />
The body looks like it’s been shrink-wrapped<br />
over the chassis’ muscular haunches, while<br />
the afterburner-style exhaust pipes would put<br />
Bruce Wayne’s Batmobile to shame. It’s a far<br />
more intricate piece of automotive sculpture<br />
than the car it replaces. And that’s no bad<br />
thing, given a starting price of £208,600<br />
(add in a few options and you could easily<br />
be looking at £250,000).<br />
It’s a similar story inside. There are a lot<br />
more layers and textures in the interior than<br />
The most extraordinary thing about<br />
the 720S is its performance..<br />
before, which give it a more handcrafted feel.<br />
Indeed, those with particularly deep pockets<br />
can access an almost limitless number of<br />
personalisation options through McLaren’s<br />
Special Operations department.<br />
The most extraordinary thing about the 720S<br />
is its performance, however. The name - in<br />
case you were wondering - is a reference to its<br />
power output of 720 metric horsepower (710<br />
hp in old money). That’s six times the power<br />
output of a family hatchback in something<br />
that weighs a quarter of a tonne less. Nought<br />
to 60 mph takes just 2.8 seconds on the way<br />
to a top speed of 212 mph. Coming from<br />
pretty much anything this side of a Ferrari<br />
488 GTB, the performance requires complete<br />
mental recalibration. Even then, the McLaren<br />
is palpably quicker.<br />
You need a stretch of straight road, a steady<br />
nerve and a very flexible attitude to speed<br />
limits in order to keep the accelerator pinned<br />
to the floor for more than a fraction of a<br />
second. But even on a slightly damp British<br />
B-road it’s possible to experience the full<br />
warp speed effect, albeit for brief periods.<br />
In other words, this is performance taken to<br />
just the right level of excess.<br />
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The 720S has beautifully sculpted bodywork<br />
Second-Generation Super Series Monocage II<br />
Clever hydraulically interlinked suspension provides<br />
a superlative blend of ride & handling<br />
710hp twin turbo 4-litre V8<br />
Perhaps more impressively, it still feels<br />
genuinely special at lower speeds too. Drive it<br />
using a quarter of the throttle travel and it feels<br />
like a slightly larger Lotus Elise. There’s the<br />
same beautifully textured feedback through<br />
the steering, similarly incisive responses<br />
when you turn into a corner and a wonderful<br />
sense of balance and composure.<br />
As with its predecessors, the 720S uses a<br />
hydraulically-interlinked suspension system<br />
that does away with the need for conventional<br />
anti-roll bars. What this means is that the<br />
McLaren miraculously manages to blend<br />
iron-fisted body control with a ride quality<br />
that’s almost limo-like in the softest of its<br />
three settings. Combined with a clever traction<br />
control system - switchable if you’re feeling<br />
brave - it makes this 710 hp rocket sled<br />
ridiculously approachable.<br />
For the lucky few this is a car that you could<br />
genuinely use every day too. There’s a frontmounted<br />
boot, which is approaching useable at<br />
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150 litres, a decent-sized parcel shelf behind<br />
the seats and an optional nose-lift system<br />
that takes the terror out of speed bumps.<br />
Visibility is startlingly good for a mid-engined<br />
supercar. As if to demonstrate this, we stop<br />
mid-way through the test drive so I can swap<br />
seats with a fellow journo. Helpfully, he parks<br />
the McLaren nose-in to a parking space just<br />
off a busy main road. You would take your<br />
life in your hands reversing out in any other<br />
720S<br />
supercar, but the McLaren takes it all in its<br />
stride. We then shuffle off down the road with<br />
the seven-speed dual clutch gearbox quietly<br />
doing its own thing and the 720S proving no<br />
more taxing than a family saloon.<br />
There are still a few drawbacks, though. While<br />
the 720S is undoubtedly a more engaging car<br />
to drive than its predecessors, the soundtrack<br />
is still curiously industrial. Only when you get<br />
to the upper echelons of the rev range does<br />
the twin turbo 4-litre V8 really start to make<br />
itself known, with a hard-edged mechanical<br />
growl, underscored by the whoosh of the<br />
turbos. It’s a purposeful noise, but not an<br />
especially melodic one.<br />
So the Italians (and the Germans) still hold<br />
the upper hand when it comes to operatic<br />
prowess. In all other respects, though, the<br />
McLaren 720S sets a new supercar benchmark.<br />
So much so that it starts to look like a bit<br />
of a bargain. To go any faster you’d need<br />
to step up to £1+ million hypercar territory<br />
inhabited by the likes of the Bugatti Chiron<br />
and McLaren’s own P1. The 720S is so good<br />
you might even question the need to do so.<br />
Chris Pickering<br />
Back in Britain just outside the Goodwood motor circuit - the McLaren 720S - a tour-de-force of British technology<br />
The body has neat detailing touches<br />
This car brings us a full warp-speed experience<br />
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DISCOVERY SPORT<br />
ADVENTURE.<br />
IT’S IN OUR DNA.<br />
Official Fuel Consumption Figures for the Discovery Sport range in mpg (I/100km): Urban 44.1-50.4 (6.4-5.6);<br />
Extra Urban 60.1-62.8 (4.7-4.5); Combined 53.3-57.7 (5.3-4.9). CO2 Emissions 139-129 g/km. Official EU Test Figures.<br />
For comparison purposes only. Real world figures may differ. Drive responsibly on and off-road.<br />
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A point of view!<br />
Nelson’s Column<br />
by JOHN FISHER<br />
Because recent research from Weight<br />
Watchers reveals that 55 per cent of the clothes<br />
in an average woman’s wardrobe - and 47<br />
per cent in men’s - are never worn but one<br />
in ten of us refuse to throw out or give away<br />
redundant clothing.<br />
A third of us give ‘no longer fitting’ as the<br />
primary reason for clutching onto clothing<br />
whilst a quarter of us hang on to the belief<br />
that we will lose enough weight - one day - to<br />
get into them again.<br />
The irresistibility of Devon’s charity shops<br />
THE FEASTING IN DEVON IS OVER for<br />
another year and the county’s hundreds of<br />
charity shops are crying out to hear from<br />
the three-quarters of a million of us who<br />
may have indulged or been indulged during<br />
the festivities.<br />
Photo courtesy British Council<br />
By that we mean those of us who may be<br />
experiencing ‘difficulties’ getting into their<br />
clothes this <strong>January</strong> as well as those who<br />
are now trying to fit new apparel into the<br />
confines of old wardrobes.<br />
Or you may simply be one of the eight per<br />
cent of us who is hanging on to what we’ve<br />
got because we believe that it will come back<br />
into fashion again. One day.<br />
Wherever and however you fit into those<br />
statistics - Devon’s wonderful charity shops<br />
remain the irresistible places they are<br />
because of the generosity of people like you.<br />
So on their behalf, thank you for thinking<br />
of them especially this month.<br />
Stranger than fiction<br />
Unwrapping theatrical magic<br />
A BEHIND-THE-SCENES TOUR at<br />
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Only when it’s all over do you realise that<br />
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IF THE SALOON BAR at The Weary Badger<br />
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month marks the 100th anniversary of the<br />
birth of a famous Frenchman who actually<br />
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But here’s the thing...<br />
photo: Stuart Dow, Timekeepers<br />
Devon dowser’s invitation<br />
Dowser Gwynn’s ‘challenge’<br />
SOUTH WEST WATER APART, many of the<br />
UK’s water companies are using divining rods<br />
to locate underground water pipes - according<br />
to Sally le Page, an evolutionary biologist at<br />
Oxford University - in spite of the fact that no<br />
scientific evidence seems to exist to explain<br />
how these pieces of bent wire or twigs ‘work’.<br />
So we asked Gwynn Paulett, chairman of<br />
Devon Dowsers - who had read the same press<br />
reports as us - for comment. He said that he<br />
was disappointed. “The company could save<br />
time and money because dowsing works”.<br />
He said: “Dowsing has been used for thousands<br />
of years to locate water and minerals beneath<br />
the earth’s surface. Dowsers were used to<br />
locate tin and other minerals in Devon in<br />
past centuries and every Devon village had<br />
a dowser to find water for local people and<br />
farms”.<br />
“Mains water replaced wells of course but<br />
dowsers are still called on to find a good<br />
supply of water for farms and householders,<br />
as well as to help with archaeology, health<br />
issues for humans and animals, and house<br />
clearing”.<br />
“Dowsing is used by utility companies, the<br />
police, the Military, mining and oil companies,<br />
farmers and golf clubs to provide irrigation,<br />
as well as some health professionals.”<br />
“The proof of<br />
dowsing is in its<br />
results”, Gwynn<br />
concluded. “It’s<br />
a quick and<br />
accurate way<br />
of searching<br />
for things or<br />
for finding out<br />
information”.<br />
An “Introduction to Dowsing” course<br />
will be held on Sunday 20th May 20<strong>18</strong><br />
at Spreyton village hall run by Devon<br />
Dowsers. See www.devondowsers.<br />
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Sensitive Dog approaches<br />
BOOK YOUR TABLE EARLY at your local<br />
Chinese restaurant for the celebrations to<br />
welcome in the forthcoming Year of the Dog<br />
which begins on 16th <strong>February</strong>.<br />
It will be a good year to quit smoking, move<br />
home or start a new business venture or write<br />
poetry - this last one because it is also going<br />
to be a ‘sensitive’ year.<br />
In the Chinese zodiac the sign of the Dog<br />
(and this year it is the Earth Dog who<br />
comes jumping into our laps) is a symbol of<br />
intelligence and protection and can also be<br />
a good sign for those who may feel deprived<br />
of hope or are socially excluded in some way.<br />
This could be a time of change for the better<br />
in their fortunes if they care to take the<br />
initiative and act positively for the long term.<br />
The rest of us should tread carefully and be<br />
especially mindful of the attitudes and needs<br />
of others in the year ahead.<br />
And finally, will the much vaunted plans for<br />
the re-opening of Devon’s branch railway<br />
lines progress one single iota this year, next<br />
year, the year after? Nope. Not a dog’s chance.<br />
Trailblazer’s Devon<br />
connection<br />
THERE IS A PLAQUE outside the church in<br />
Bradninch, near Exeter to one, Squire Boone,<br />
who was baptised in the church there on<br />
Christmas Day, 1696 and became the father<br />
of Daniel Boone, America’s first immortal<br />
Western frontiersman.<br />
In 1713, young Squire, a weaver, blacksmith<br />
and Quaker, left England for America to<br />
escape religious persecution. In 1720, he<br />
married fellow Quaker Sarah Morgan and<br />
Daniel, the sixth of the couple’s 11 children<br />
was born in their log cabin in Exeter<br />
Township, near Reading, Pennsylvania on<br />
November 2, 1734.<br />
Daniel grew up to become a hunter, trapper<br />
and guide on various military campaigns<br />
against the French and Native Americans<br />
and blazed the trail West for the tens of<br />
thousands of fellow immigrants who crossed<br />
the wilderness to find new lives on and beyond<br />
the great frontier.<br />
He married, had ten children and died<br />
peacefully in bed on September 26, <strong>18</strong>20,<br />
aged 85 years, proclaiming “All you need<br />
for happiness in this life is a good gun, a<br />
good horse, and a good wife”.<br />
Name that moon<br />
FIRST IT WAS STORMS that were given<br />
names. This year our tv weathermen are<br />
reminding us that every full moon in the<br />
months ahead is something to be wondered<br />
at. This from the Farmers’ Almanac:<br />
<strong>January</strong>, Wolf Moon, <strong>February</strong> Snow Moon,<br />
March Worm Moon, April Pink Moon, May<br />
Flower Moon, June Strawberry Moon,<br />
July Buck Moon, August Sturgeon Moon,<br />
September Harvest Moon, October Hunters<br />
Moon, November Beavers Moon, December<br />
Cold Moon.<br />
Keep watchin’ th’ skies!<br />
JOHN FISHER<br />
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the powder mills | Dartmoor<br />
You've probably glimpsed the Powder Mills on the road<br />
taking you from the Two Bridges Hotel to Postbridge<br />
It's a desolate place to produce<br />
gun powder, but I suppose when<br />
manufacturing such a dangerous<br />
product it made good sense to pick<br />
somewhere that, should an explosion<br />
take place, would have minimal<br />
consequences. Several explosions<br />
are known to have happened, but<br />
fortunately no workers lost their<br />
lives. The roofs on the buildings<br />
were purposely made to be flimsy,<br />
so that if an explosion took place,<br />
they would blow off, carrying the<br />
explosion upwards.<br />
It's hard to imagine it, but Dartmoor<br />
was once an industrial hive of activity<br />
with all manner of works scattered<br />
across the landscape. Siting the<br />
Powder Mills in such an isolated<br />
position would have its problems,<br />
particularly with supply of materials<br />
and despatch also, but in terms of<br />
ready customers, I suppose with<br />
Devonport down the road at<br />
Plymouth and also the many mines<br />
across Dartmoor, there would have<br />
been a ready source of customers<br />
for their deadly produce.<br />
A wealthy Alderman from Plymouth,<br />
Mr George Frean, formed the<br />
Plymouth & Dartmoor Gunpowder<br />
Company in <strong>18</strong>44. The site was to<br />
be Cherrybrook Farm, with a water<br />
supply nearby, which could also be<br />
used a source of power, work was<br />
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pottery on the left (you'll see the signs) and the Powder Mills<br />
are in the distance, it's great for ambling around<br />
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A fine summer day at the<br />
Dartmoor Powder Mill ruins<br />
In the foreground we can see the water of<br />
the Cherrybrook whilst further back the cow,<br />
bull and calf (hiding behind the bullrushes)<br />
at rest in the sunshine. The chimney still<br />
stands proudly next to the Scots Pine trees.<br />
You'd hardly imagine this as an industrial<br />
site. There is a footpath that takes you past<br />
the pottery (signpost on the roadside) and<br />
up along the mills and out onto the moors.<br />
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completed by <strong>18</strong>46, remaining in use until <strong>18</strong>97<br />
when it was forced to close because of increased<br />
competition from dynamite as well as a slump<br />
in local mining on Dartmoor.<br />
The black powder was made from mixing<br />
saltpetre, sulphur and charcoal in various<br />
proportions, each ingredient having to be ground<br />
in the mill, then the mixture was mixed and<br />
churned to form the basic powder. It was then<br />
compressed into 1" slabs (compressing improved<br />
the explosive power). Finally, it'd be packed into<br />
barrels, apparently the Powder Mills employed<br />
many coopers and the barrels were made pretty<br />
much exclusively on site. There's a proving<br />
mortar at SX63777681 which sits on a restored<br />
carriage, this was used to test the strength of<br />
the powder. Prior to despatch powder was<br />
stored in a building situated remotely to the<br />
south west of the works.<br />
There's also a Bronze age prehistoric enclosed<br />
stone hut settlement and cairn close to the<br />
Powder Mills site which can be seen on an<br />
Ordnance Survey map.<br />
If you wish to find out more about the mills, the<br />
Legendary Dartmoor website has an excellent<br />
page about the Powder Mills.<br />
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JANUARY<br />
• Phone shearer to arrange date to<br />
come and dag ewes – this is removing<br />
wool around rear end. Important<br />
ewes are clean and also excess wool<br />
removed to assist lambs in finding<br />
the teat.<br />
• Condition score the ewes – this<br />
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as it measures the amount of fat the<br />
ewe is carrying.<br />
• Scan ewes.<br />
• Check water troughs around the<br />
farm for burst pipes.<br />
• Put out hay feeders for sheep<br />
• Bring cattle in if not already done as<br />
winter really sets in.<br />
FEBRUARY<br />
• Check lambing supplies – lambing<br />
gel, tail rings, iodine, colostrum,<br />
antibiotics, twin lamb disease liquid,<br />
ear tags, coloured sprays etc. – throw<br />
out any out of date supplies<br />
• Give Ewes booster vaccination<br />
• Build lambing pens and find feed/<br />
water buckets<br />
• Get torches checked out and make<br />
sure there are spare batteries<br />
• Find the radio and get my comfy<br />
chair ready<br />
• Tea tray and kettle, (secret supply of<br />
chocolate)<br />
• Notebook and a pen that work –<br />
recording all births is so important<br />
• Phone around friends for old towels<br />
• Check the old Burco boiler to make<br />
sure it still works – hot water is a<br />
godsend in the middle of the night.<br />
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route to Chinkwell Tor led us through tall thickets of bracken, not<br />
recommended on a hot day, particularly when there’s lots to carry.<br />
Climbing Chinkwell Tor on a lovely autumn day. Using the belaying<br />
technique to restrict the amount of potential drop should I slip. The<br />
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Horse<br />
Care<br />
Selling Horses<br />
by Natalie Bucklar<br />
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• Riding lessons for adults and children from 2 years of age.<br />
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Natalie has owned horses for over<br />
30 years and owns East Devon<br />
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She has previously lectured in<br />
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for the Olympics. Natalie provides<br />
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training and problem solving using<br />
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Why I hate selling<br />
horses<br />
Imagine one day being driven off<br />
somewhere without explanation,<br />
being dropped off, never to see<br />
your home or friends ever again.<br />
Sure, you can make new friends<br />
but what about if the new people<br />
around you spoke a different<br />
language, ate different food and<br />
had a different daily routine? Can<br />
you adjust to this quickly and still<br />
stay calm, relaxed and happy<br />
throughout?<br />
I think the worst expectations<br />
come with kids ponies, they can<br />
repeatedly move home and yet<br />
they are often expected to be<br />
foot perfect, they’re not given any<br />
allowances for what is actually a<br />
pretty hard and confusing job, let<br />
alone having their world turned<br />
upside down every few years.<br />
Don’t get me wrong, I know<br />
sometimes that re-homing sadly<br />
has to happen, it’s not always<br />
someone’s fault, it’s just life. In<br />
some cases a change of home<br />
can actually be beneficial to the<br />
horse. It’s just the unrealistic<br />
expectations that bother me,<br />
when new owners set the bar<br />
too high for the horse and then<br />
fail to give them the support they<br />
need when they struggle with<br />
their new environment. Or when<br />
a horse can no longer serve their<br />
owner, so they get passed on due<br />
to human selfishness.<br />
In my experience it takes months<br />
or even a year or more for a horse<br />
to settle into their new home. The<br />
last two horses that joined me 9<br />
months ago were moved into a<br />
different field recently, which was<br />
enough to trigger stress. They<br />
didn’t go in a horsebox, change<br />
ownership or routine, they just<br />
walked 50 metres to another<br />
paddock on the other side of<br />
the hedge! But to them it was a<br />
big deal as they’d only ever been<br />
in one field since coming to me.<br />
Their stress subsided relatively<br />
quickly but the point is that the<br />
move upset them, even though<br />
it was a relatively minor move.<br />
Whatever us humans think, the<br />
horses often feel differently and I<br />
think it’s important to be mindful<br />
of this.<br />
Having realistic expectations of a<br />
horse’s adaptability and helping<br />
the horse to cope with the changes<br />
go a long way to moving being<br />
more successful. Forcing a horse<br />
to accept factors that they find<br />
stressful will only lead to problems.<br />
A more beneficial approach for all<br />
concerned is to learn to recognise<br />
the signs of stress before they<br />
reach the running off/refusing to<br />
move/exploding screaming point.<br />
Gradual habituation is required,<br />
rewarding desired behaviour<br />
rather than punishing unwelcome<br />
behaviour. Punishment is<br />
unhelpful as it doesn’t show<br />
the horse what you do want.<br />
Giving the horse an appropriate<br />
environment that enables success<br />
is a huge help, as is being patient,<br />
so the horse is given a chance<br />
to adapt rather than being set<br />
up to fail.<br />
For me personally, I can’t bear to<br />
part with my horses. They have a<br />
home and friends and they know<br />
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The Old Vet’nary<br />
by Ken Watson<br />
A life on the road<br />
part 2<br />
a friendly, family practice<br />
In the post-war days a job for an<br />
assistant invariably came with<br />
accommodation and a car. In<br />
my case the living was No.1 Bird’s<br />
Nest Cottages, Sid Road owned<br />
by Farmer Bob Fry of adjacent<br />
Sidcliffe Farm and the car was<br />
a Land Rover which, judging by<br />
the milometer and its general<br />
condition, must have been one<br />
of the first off the production<br />
line. Yet I came to be very fond<br />
of it and it was ideal for some of<br />
the places I had to reach.<br />
The gear stick was about a yard<br />
long and selecting a new gear<br />
was said to be like stirring a<br />
pudding, but next to it was a lever<br />
topped by a red knob which when<br />
depressed gave access to another<br />
set of ultra-low gears which<br />
were then selected by another<br />
shorter lever which sported a<br />
yellow knob; 8 gears in all and<br />
very useful for cross-country work.<br />
Comfort - there was none and the<br />
suspension made for a bumpy ride.<br />
In fact when the boss’s wife ran<br />
over her time for delivery of their<br />
first born he borrowed it back and<br />
took her for the roughest ride he<br />
could find. I believe it worked.<br />
Seating in the cab was spartan,<br />
just a cushioned bench, but with<br />
passengers aboard it could be<br />
very sociable. Leaving surgery on<br />
my round I pressed the accelerator<br />
to the floor and there it stayed so<br />
that speed was a product of the<br />
incline of the road. Going down<br />
Straitway Head my ambition was<br />
to hit 70 by the time I reached<br />
the bottom end. The humped<br />
back bridge by the Toll House<br />
on Sid Road was much humpier<br />
in those days and I regularly tried<br />
to leave the ground at the top of<br />
the convexity. On two occasions<br />
I succeeded and landed with a<br />
bone jarring crash just before<br />
the corner.<br />
But suddenly on the day the boss’s<br />
wife decided she wanted it to<br />
pursue her new found interest<br />
in dog-cart driving and showing.<br />
So I was shunted on to the firm’s<br />
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front passenger seat lacked any<br />
attachment to the rest of the car.<br />
One time I drove Farmer Bob Fry<br />
to a cow on the top of Salcombe<br />
Hill and as I shot away with him<br />
in the errant seat he, plus seat,<br />
rolled back legs in the air into the<br />
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back of the car. Luckily he had a<br />
sense of humour.<br />
In those days windscreen wipers<br />
swept only a pitifully small area<br />
and screenwashers had neither<br />
been thought of or deemed<br />
necessary, so I made my own.<br />
Wound powder came in small<br />
plastic puffers. So when one<br />
became empty, I filled it with<br />
water and then, setting the<br />
wipers a wiping, I leaned out of<br />
the window and squirted across<br />
the driver’s wiper.<br />
Eventually I saved enough for a<br />
deposit on a Triumph Herald. My<br />
very own car, with its ingenious<br />
forward lifting bonnet which,<br />
having no wheel arch, meant<br />
that it had the turning circle of a<br />
London Taxi Cab. It was a beautiful<br />
fun car to drive and could outrun<br />
many more expensive cars. They<br />
came in only one colour, British<br />
Racing Green. From then onwards,<br />
with the encouragement of the<br />
Tax Man, I changed cars every<br />
two years, through the Herald<br />
12/50, the wonderful 6 cylinder<br />
Triumph Vitesse range, all that<br />
British Leyland and Ford could<br />
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by Nigel Jones<br />
1. Hawberries, equally as pretty as holly but bereft<br />
of leaves at this time of year.<br />
2. An arm of the river Lym (of Lyme Regis renown).<br />
The winter colours of burnt browns line the river<br />
in the rushes and trees.<br />
3. The Cannington Viaduct - an impressive feat of<br />
engineering, it really is amazing all the effort that<br />
went into building the railways, pity we don't<br />
still have all the lines, rail travel really is the best<br />
form of public transport.<br />
4. Proper old Devon lanes with cosy thatched<br />
cottages. The light in winter on sunny days can<br />
be a particularly cool blue.<br />
5. Ivy, not sure if the colours have changed for<br />
winter, or whether it's a variant, but certainly<br />
not the usual deep green you expect.<br />
6. Someone has a woodburner in their home and<br />
has been busy getting ready for the winter.<br />
Many homes these days don't have a real fire,<br />
I suppose for millennia we've been using fire<br />
for warmth, nothing beats a proper wood fire.<br />
7. The Viaduct in all its glory, what a lot of work just<br />
to get the train across the valley, the view must<br />
be great from the top. The railway route started<br />
at Axminster station, climbing for Combpyne and<br />
then descending to Lyme Regis, via the viaduct<br />
and then the village of Uplyme, although there<br />
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was no station here as the gradient was too steep.<br />
8. What a characterful lane with all the logs and<br />
bare trees, get yourself out into the countryside<br />
for a walk with family, friends and dogs, hopefully<br />
followed by a pub lunch and pint of real ale.<br />
Dear reader, it's just a brief time now until the<br />
snowdrops start to flower, heralding a new growing<br />
season. Winter in Devon is quite brief thankfully.<br />
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HEALTH & WELLBEING<br />
20<strong>18</strong><br />
The New Year is the perfect opportunity for a fresh start.<br />
Here are some top tips for a healthy and happy 20<strong>18</strong>.<br />
Come <strong>January</strong> 1, as we say farewell to 2017 and<br />
get set to embark on a new year, most of us will<br />
be making some new promises to ourselves and<br />
setting new goals. The New Year is the perfect<br />
opportunity for a fresh start. One thing that’s<br />
worth committing to this year is yourself - your<br />
wellbeing and your happiness.<br />
T h i n g s l i k e h e a l t h y e a t i n g , r e g u l a r e x e r c i s e ,<br />
giving up smoking are central to many people's<br />
New Year's resolutions. If you have vowed to<br />
improve your physical fitness in the New Year,<br />
you may notice mental health benefits as well.<br />
Exercise relieves tension and stress, boosts<br />
physical and mental energy, and enhances wellbeing<br />
through the release of endorphins.<br />
"One thing that’s worth<br />
committing to this year is<br />
yourself - your wellbeing<br />
and your happiness."<br />
Sleeping is vital for your health and allows your<br />
mind to unwind and de-stress. It also resets your<br />
body clock, gives your brain time to absorb what<br />
you’ve learnt and prepares you for tackling any<br />
challenge. Take time out and make time to relax<br />
like warm baths, listening to soothing music,<br />
reading, gentle stretching, yoga and meditation.<br />
Embrace a positive mind-set. Make a habit of<br />
acknowledging what's going right in your life.<br />
Keep sticky notes in the kitchen where each<br />
day you can write something fortunate that<br />
happened that day. A new year also means new<br />
opportunities and a chance to try new hobbies<br />
and activities. Whether it's learning an instrument,<br />
gardening, cooking or taking up a new sport,<br />
make time for things you enjoy.<br />
Making just one small lifestyle change can make<br />
a massive difference. Using milestones can help<br />
you manage your expectations and achieve your<br />
goals without feeling frustrated and defeated<br />
when life gets in the way or your schedule<br />
changes. After a couple of weeks, the changes<br />
you've made will eventually become a habit<br />
and part of your everyday routine, so don't be<br />
discouraged if you're still finding it tough after the<br />
first week. Stick with it and it will only get easier!<br />
Top tips for staying active<br />
8 STEPS TO WELLBEING<br />
1) Eat a balanced diet<br />
2) Keep active<br />
3) Make sleep a priority<br />
4) Find new ways to relax<br />
5) Embrace a positive mindset<br />
6) Start new hobbies<br />
7) Get support from family & friends<br />
8) Set achievable goals<br />
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You’ve got to love the human<br />
spirit - New Year’s resolutions,<br />
new gym memberships and a<br />
new diet... maybe even throwing<br />
in a little relaxation time here and<br />
there. Sorted! Right? Unfortunately,<br />
whilst our intentions are great, for<br />
a lot of us, our goals are not met<br />
and we become disappointed with<br />
ourselves leading to over eating,<br />
no motivation for exercise and a<br />
general negative impact on how<br />
we view ourselves and then how<br />
others view us. It impacts on how<br />
happy we are, how successful<br />
we are. And those that fail? They<br />
aren’t prioritising sleep. The science<br />
doesn’t lie. That’s about a third of<br />
us. You know what we call that in<br />
medicine? An epidemic.<br />
So what can we do instead? How<br />
about we start thinking about<br />
health and wellbeing differently.<br />
Squeezing complex new regimens<br />
into our already busy lives is a<br />
recipe for being let down. Most<br />
people I treat for sleep problems<br />
say as a result from fixing sleep,<br />
they are more efficient, they are<br />
happier, they are more successful.<br />
The reality is, sleep is the pillar<br />
of health in your life. You cannot<br />
survive without sleep, yet most of<br />
us are living in ‘survival mode'.We<br />
neglect this area in favour for more<br />
work, more play or even exercise.<br />
We seem to be working backwards.<br />
"You cannot survive<br />
without sleep yet<br />
most of us are living<br />
in survival mode"<br />
Once you have regular good<br />
sleep, where the quality is at its<br />
peak, making you feel lovely and<br />
refreshed even on the darkest of<br />
winter mornings, your body starts<br />
to regulate everything you do. It<br />
regulates when you’re hungry,<br />
when you’re full, when you’re<br />
happy, when you’re most alert,<br />
how your body reacts to exercise<br />
and stress, how quickly you heal as<br />
well as your ability to problem solve<br />
and communicate effectively. This<br />
is how your body was designed to<br />
work, which means sleep should<br />
make you feel amazing. Yet we<br />
continue to dictate our lives on an<br />
external clock on the wall which in<br />
recent times, seems to be getting<br />
Stephanie Romiszewski<br />
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longer and longer. This makes it<br />
much harder to achieve the one<br />
thing your body was designed to<br />
do so that you are prepared for the<br />
next day - so that you are prepared<br />
for life.<br />
"Prioritise sleep and<br />
give yourself time<br />
for any new change"<br />
When I run sleep courses I challenge<br />
a lot of people’s barriers - not just<br />
about their sleep, but about their<br />
lives. And we take time to do it. We<br />
love quick solutions don’t we? Can’t<br />
sleep? Try relaxing just before bed<br />
they say! Any insomniac will tell you<br />
this won’t work.<br />
You can’t lead a stressful life and<br />
then expect a quick wind down<br />
routine just before bed to undo<br />
all of the day. Changing the habit<br />
of a lifetime takes time. But when<br />
you do it this way; and being kind<br />
to yourself, giving yourself time<br />
to make mistakes, not punishing<br />
yourself for the odd slip up... you<br />
can make real progress.<br />
Prioritise your sleep and give<br />
yourself time for any new change.<br />
Eating well, exercising, learning to<br />
relax will come far more naturally<br />
if you allow your body to work<br />
the way it should. So I challenge<br />
you - make one of your New Year’s<br />
resolutions regulating your sleep<br />
opportunity, seeking help if you<br />
need it, and watch what happens.<br />
Sleep well sleepyheads!<br />
By Stephanie Romiszewski<br />
- Founder and sleep expert at The<br />
Sleepyhead Clinic.<br />
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Oral health is essential for your<br />
general wellbeing: not only<br />
does a healthy mouth enable<br />
good nutrition but it can also<br />
indicate if there’s something<br />
wrong elsewhere.<br />
Change your toothbrush<br />
regularly<br />
Invest in a new manual<br />
toothbrush or new electric<br />
brush head every two to three<br />
months, or sooner if the bristles<br />
become frayed and worn.<br />
Floss and rinse.<br />
Using dental floss or interdental<br />
brushes to clean between your<br />
teeth every time you brush<br />
is essential for gum health.<br />
Using a fluoride mouthwash<br />
with help to provide extra<br />
protection, fights bacteria and<br />
freshens your breath.<br />
Clean your teeth before<br />
breakfast<br />
Consuming foods and drinks<br />
with high acidic levels will<br />
soften the enamel on your<br />
teeth. Brushing straight after<br />
eating, when the enamel is at<br />
its softest, can damage it. Over<br />
time, weakened enamel can<br />
cause sensitivity, staining and<br />
cavities. It is recommended to<br />
wait 30 minutes after eating<br />
before cleaning teeth, to allow<br />
the enamel to harden again.<br />
Visit your dentist regularly<br />
Book an appointment for<br />
a check-up every six to 12<br />
months to catch any issues<br />
early and keep on top of your<br />
dental health.<br />
Did you know your dentist also<br />
checks your soft tissue (tongue,<br />
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for signs of oral cancer. Cases<br />
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Clean your tongue<br />
Use a soft toothbrush or a<br />
special tongue-cleaning tool<br />
to regularly clean the surface<br />
of your tongue and remove<br />
bacteria that can cause bad<br />
breath.<br />
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Life Matters<br />
Balancing the stresses of work and living<br />
with health and relaxation<br />
Courses & Classes<br />
ADULT LEARNING<br />
DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY OBJECT HANDLING<br />
17 Jan- Touch and talk about objects reflecting<br />
winter from RAMM's collections, Royal Albert<br />
Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter,<br />
2.00pm to 4.00pm.<br />
ART WORKSHOPS<br />
LIFE DRAWING<br />
Until 28 Mar- Life Drawing Class At TAAG 6<br />
week courses, Words & Pictures Gallery, TAAG<br />
Arts Centre, Teignmouth, 7.00pm to 9.30pm.<br />
ART CLASS WITH HANNAH TWINE<br />
Until 03 Apr- Kennaway House, Coburg Road,<br />
Sidmouth, 10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
CALLIGRAPHY WORKSHOP BEGINNERS /<br />
INTERMEDIATE<br />
13 Jan- Tutor: Gina Youens, Axminster Heritage,<br />
Thomas Whitty House, Axminster, 10.00am to<br />
12.30am.<br />
CHINESE BRUSH PAINTING WITH KAILI FU<br />
19 Jan to 22 Jan- Chinese Brush Painting<br />
with Kaili Fu, Kennaway House, Coburg Road,<br />
Sidmouth, 10.00am to 12.30am.<br />
FROM BROWN PAPER TO BEAUTIFUL ART<br />
01 Feb to 02 Feb- An exciting workshop with<br />
textiles, paint and print!, East Devon Art, Old<br />
Fore Street, Sidmouth, 10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
DRAWING CLASSES - ALL WELCOME<br />
05 Feb- ‘Developing Reflex Technique’ Tutor:<br />
Marie Blake Learn to draw spontaneou,<br />
Axminster Heritage, Thomas Whitty House,<br />
Axminster, 1.45pm to 3.45pm.<br />
JOHN HOAR - WATERCOLOUR FAST AND<br />
FREE.<br />
08 Feb- An exciting workshop with this<br />
renowned watercolour artist, East Devon Art,<br />
Old Fore Street, Sidmouth, 10.30am to 4.30pm.<br />
CALLIGRAPHY - AN INTRODUCTION<br />
21 Feb- An opportunity to try your hand making<br />
elegant letters with professional help, Greenway<br />
National Trust, Greenway Road, Galmpton,<br />
10.30am to 4.30pm.<br />
CHILDRENS ACTIVITIES<br />
MINECRAFT DAY<br />
10 Feb- Explore historic Exeter through a<br />
series of activities on Minecraft, Royal Albert<br />
Memorial Museum - RAMM, Queen Street,<br />
Exeter, 10.30am to 4.00pm.<br />
DARTMOOR LEGENDS ANIMATED<br />
16 Feb- Bring the well-known legends of<br />
Dartmoor to life in animation, Royal Albert<br />
Memorial Museum - RAMM, Queen Street,<br />
Exeter, 10.30am to 12.30am.<br />
CRAFT<br />
STAINED GLASS CLASS - VALENTINE<br />
HEARTS<br />
03 Feb- Enjoy a relaxed, fun day making<br />
stained glass Valentine Heart Suncatchers,<br />
Stained Glass Workshops, Umberleigh Village<br />
Hall, Umberleigh, 10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
SIDMOUTH CRAFTERS<br />
08 Feb- Beautiful handmade items for sale or<br />
try a taster session in various crafts, Sidmouth<br />
Crafters, Dissenters, Sidmouth, 10.00am to<br />
12.30am.<br />
FOOD & DRINK<br />
A TASTE OF DEVON COOKERY<br />
21 Jan- We will be making simple but<br />
wonderful local, traditional dishes, Torbay<br />
Coast and Countryside Trust, Occombe Farm<br />
Cookery School, Paignton, 10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
HEALTH & WELLBEING<br />
SLIMMING WORLD<br />
Until 28 Mar- Slimming World Every<br />
Wednesday, Kennaway House, Coburg Road,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30am to 8.30pm.<br />
IYENGAR YOGA<br />
Until 29 Mar- Iyengar Yoga with Barbara<br />
Vidion, Kennaway House, Coburg Road,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.45am to 9.00pm.<br />
IYENGAR YOGA CLASS<br />
Until 27 Mar- Iyengar Yoga class suitable for<br />
beginners and people with yoga experience,<br />
Barbara Vidion Iyengar Yoga, URC Hall,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30am to 11.00am.<br />
MINDFULNESS FOR WELLNESS TASTER<br />
13 Jan- Mindfulness for Wellness Taster<br />
Stress, Anxiety Management & More,<br />
mindfulness4wellness.org, Totnes Natural<br />
Health Centre, Totnes, 10.00am to 12.00am.<br />
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TAI CHI AND QIGONG<br />
15 Jan to 26 Mar- Tai Chi and Qigong with<br />
Kevin, Kennaway House, Coburg Road, Sidmouth,<br />
9.00am to 8.30pm.<br />
MINDFULNESS FOR WELLBEING<br />
<strong>18</strong> Jan to 15 Mar- Mindfulness for Wellbeing with<br />
Ros Hammond, Kennaway House, Coburg Road,<br />
Sidmouth, 1.30pm to 4.00pm.<br />
MINDFULNESS FOR HEALTH & WELLBEING<br />
27 Jan to 10 Mar- Mindfulness for Health &<br />
Wellbeing The popular ‘Breathworks’ Course,<br />
mindfulness4wellness.org, Totnes Natural Health<br />
Centre, Totnes, 10.30am to 4.00pm.<br />
LITERARY & CREATIVE WRITING<br />
BLACK DOG CREATIVE WRITING COURSE<br />
Until 28 Mar- Creative writing course - develop<br />
essential skills and build your confidence, Black<br />
Dog Writing, Charmouth Library, Charmouth,<br />
10.00am to 11.45am.<br />
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Devon and the English<br />
John Fisher writes of a county divided in "a world turned upside down"<br />
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“Trust in God and keep your powder dry!” Oliver Cromwell<br />
(Photo: Rusty Aldwinckle, The Sealed Knot)<br />
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Charles I 'Black Tom' Fairfax Oliver Cromwell<br />
"Who shall govern this realm, King or Parliament?"<br />
Devon and the English Civil War<br />
FOR SOME OF US, THE ENGLISH<br />
CIVIL WAR HAS NEVER ENDED:<br />
today’s splendid re-enactment<br />
societies like The Sealed Knot<br />
for example attract huge crowds<br />
throughout the summer months as they<br />
continue to play-out the bloody battles and<br />
skirmishes that once split our nation in two.<br />
If so much of our contemporary storytelling<br />
is to be believed, the flamboyant<br />
long-haired ‘Cavaliers’ are most often<br />
portrayed as the good guys, whilst the<br />
kill-joy close-cropped ‘Roundheads’ take<br />
the role of the not-so-good.<br />
But both names were coined by the<br />
protagonists themselves to insult each<br />
other, so more properly we were all<br />
of us in those days either Royalists or<br />
Parliamentarians, whether we liked it or not.<br />
King Charles ‘lost’ of course, both the<br />
war and his head and Oliver Cromwell<br />
‘won’ but it was only for a few short years<br />
(1642–1651). With the Restoration of the<br />
Monarchy - and the re-introduction of<br />
general merriment and bon homie - revenge<br />
was swift. Cromwell’s corpse - three<br />
years in its grave - was first dug-up, then<br />
strung-up before finally having its head<br />
put on a spike outside Westminster Hall<br />
where it remained until 1685*.<br />
So which side<br />
was Devon on?<br />
The answer is not a simple one. Seventeenth<br />
century Devon country folk were, for the<br />
most part, poor and uneducated and were<br />
told by their landlords which side they<br />
were to support and ultimately to fight for.<br />
By contrast there are many instances<br />
within the ranks of the more well-to-do<br />
where one son was sent to fight for the<br />
King, the other for Parliament: hedging<br />
one’s bets is nothing new.<br />
In simple terms, most of Devon could have<br />
done without it but all of Devon found itself<br />
embroiled in the dark struggles of what<br />
turned out to be three English Civil Wars<br />
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Below:<br />
The Battle of<br />
Naseby went badly<br />
for the Royalists<br />
and sieges at Ilfracombe and<br />
Barnstaple but there is hardly<br />
a community of any size, town<br />
or village in Devon that does not<br />
have its tales of confrontation<br />
and hardship.<br />
(Photo: Rusty Aldwinckle,<br />
The Sealed Knot)<br />
Cromwell, in charge of the New<br />
Model Army’s cavalry and General<br />
Sir Thomas Fairfax, its supreme<br />
commander, came into Ottery St.<br />
Mary in East Devon, took over the<br />
town and stabled their horses<br />
inside the church.<br />
The town’s great house, Chanters,<br />
was their base and in its dining<br />
room there is a panel recording,<br />
“In this room Oliver Cromwell in<br />
the fall of the year 1645 convened<br />
the people of the town and<br />
neighbourhood and demanded<br />
of them men and money for the<br />
Civil War. Here also on October<br />
29th Members of Parliament on<br />
behalf of both houses presented<br />
Sir Thomas Fairfax with a fair<br />
jewel and hung it about his neck<br />
in honour of his skill and valour<br />
at Naseby fight.’”<br />
Meanwhile, outside, one of<br />
Cromwell’s bored cavalrymen<br />
whiled away the afternoon by<br />
taking pot shots at the remarkable<br />
weather vane that still tops<br />
the parish church. Called the<br />
‘Trumpeting Cock’ by the longsuffering<br />
people of the town it is<br />
hollow and fitted with a two-note<br />
whistle that ‘crowed’ in the wind.<br />
The bullet holes were patched up<br />
during a restoration in the 1970s<br />
when the church took pity on the<br />
town and silenced the brazen fowl<br />
once and for all.<br />
Naseby had been decisive in the<br />
fortunes of the King. He lost<br />
most of his veteran infantry and<br />
Ottery's 'Trumpeting Cock' silenced by a Cromwellian pot shot<br />
officers, all of his artillery and<br />
stores. But worse still, in the<br />
captured baggage train Fairfax’s<br />
troops found his personal papers<br />
revealing his attempts to draw<br />
Irish Catholics and foreign<br />
mercenaries into the war.<br />
The Queen in flight<br />
As the war raged to and fro<br />
across England and with towns<br />
and villages often changing<br />
allegiances depending on the<br />
arrival of the latest occupying<br />
force, Charles’s queen, Henrietta<br />
Maria, heavily pregnant with her<br />
ninth child, left the Royalist’s<br />
capital of Oxford and fled to<br />
the West Country, intending to<br />
escape to France from Falmouth -<br />
Plymouth having already declared<br />
for Parliament.<br />
She got as far as Exeter, a city<br />
then in Royalist hands following<br />
siege upon seige, arriving on 1st<br />
May 1644 and stayed at Bedford<br />
House, close to the city centre,<br />
where, aged 35, on 16th June<br />
1644, she gave birth to Princess<br />
Henrietta Anne.<br />
At this time the Parliamentary<br />
forces led by the Earl of Essex<br />
were yet again threatening the<br />
west and planned to attack Exeter<br />
and hold the Queen to ransom as<br />
a bargaining chip in the King’s<br />
surrender.<br />
Although she had had a difficult<br />
labour and the baby was poorly,<br />
the poor woman hurried on again,<br />
this time to Cornwall and thence<br />
to France leaving her new baby<br />
in the care of Lady Dalkeith who<br />
saw to it that the sickly infant was<br />
baptised in ‘the new font’ in the<br />
Cathedral, on 21 July 1644.<br />
King Charles and his army<br />
arrived in Exeter and saw his<br />
still surviving baby daughter for<br />
the first and only time on 26 July<br />
1644 before moving quickly into<br />
Cornwall where he defeated the<br />
Parliamentary forces of the Earl<br />
of Essex at Lostwithiel.<br />
that claimed the lives of more<br />
than 85.000 in armed conflicts<br />
and 100,000 more from war<br />
related diseases: this from a<br />
population of some five million.<br />
It is a matter of record that a<br />
young shepherd and his flock<br />
inadvertently strayed into<br />
the preparations for a battle<br />
in 1644 - a full two years into<br />
the conflict - had to have it<br />
explained to him that the King<br />
and Parliament were at war.<br />
“Whassat?” enquired the good<br />
swain, “As them two fallen out<br />
then?”<br />
North Devon was the first part of<br />
the county to feel the effects of<br />
the war with bloody skirmishes<br />
Photo: Rusty Aldwinckle, The Sealed Knot<br />
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Devon and the English Civil War<br />
But the war continued to ebb and<br />
flow as the opposing forces battled<br />
for supremacy in the west until<br />
Parliament gradually gained the<br />
upper hand.<br />
Exeter under siege<br />
Whilst Royalist Exeter was<br />
still under siege, this time by<br />
Fairfax and Cromwell, 10.000<br />
Parliamentarians broke away<br />
from the siege and marched north<br />
to Torrington where the Royalists<br />
had barricaded the town - and as<br />
fate would have it - had stored<br />
80 barrels of gunpowder in the<br />
church.<br />
The battle began in pouring rain<br />
and total darkness on the bitterly<br />
cold night of 16th <strong>February</strong>, 1646:<br />
It was to be not only the last battle<br />
in the west, it was also the last to<br />
be fought on English soil.<br />
As Fairfax waited for dawn to<br />
break Cromwell arrived with<br />
his cavalry and advanced on the<br />
barricades at the edge of the town<br />
to test their strengths by firing<br />
blindly into them. All hell broke<br />
loose.<br />
Some 17,000 men and horses<br />
fought in the freezing downpour,<br />
street by street - with the<br />
townsfolk watching the bloodshed<br />
below them from upstairs<br />
windows. After the exchange of<br />
fire there was little time or space<br />
to re-load as pikemen rushed<br />
against pikemen and musket<br />
butts were used as clubs in the<br />
hand-to-hand fighting along the<br />
narrow streets and alleyways<br />
until, by some mischance and<br />
nobody knows how, the powder<br />
stacked in the church exploded,<br />
Torrington Church<br />
taking the roof off the building<br />
and killing more than 200 men<br />
from both sides.<br />
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*Which brings us almost full<br />
circle and the mention again<br />
of the remains of the Lord<br />
Protector of England, Scotland<br />
and Ireland’s body being exhumed<br />
- on 30 <strong>January</strong> 1661, the 12th<br />
anniversary of the execution of<br />
Charles I - to be subjected to a<br />
posthumous execution.<br />
At least that is what the Royalists<br />
thought they had done.<br />
It had been buried in Westminster<br />
Abbey, amid great pomp and<br />
ceremony, alongside the body of<br />
his daughter, Elizabeth, who had<br />
died earlier.(Her tomb remained<br />
undisturbed)<br />
Photo: Rusty Aldwinckle, The Sealed Knot<br />
But was it really Cromwell’s body?<br />
It is thought by some that his<br />
family, friends and followers<br />
who could see what was coming<br />
had already removed the body<br />
and reburied it several times to<br />
cheat the vengeful Royalists of<br />
their grisly goal. Cambridgeshire,<br />
London, Northamptonshire and<br />
Yorkshire are all places that have<br />
been suggested - whilst that head<br />
itself, when it was finally lifted<br />
from its spike outside Westminster<br />
Hall, finished up beneath the floor<br />
of the antechapel at Sidney Sussex<br />
College, Cambridge. But whose<br />
head, warts and all?<br />
Footnote<br />
The Royalists scattered towards<br />
Cornwall: it was the beginning<br />
of the end of resistance by<br />
their forces in the west and led<br />
eventually to the capture and<br />
execution of the King. Dartmouth<br />
and Exeter surrendered to the<br />
New Model Army in April 1646.<br />
TYBURN, 1661: Cromwell's remains were thrown into a pit<br />
after a posthumous execution<br />
‘Black Tom’ and<br />
the Princess<br />
One of Fairfax’s first actions in<br />
the city was to issue an order<br />
whereby the young Princess<br />
Henrietta Anne, now aged three,<br />
was given written safe conduct to<br />
travel to London together with the<br />
loyal Lady Dalkeith and her small<br />
household. Once out of sight of<br />
their escort at the Devon border<br />
however, the good lady headed for<br />
Dover and then to France where<br />
she reunited the little girl with<br />
her mother. Did Fairfax connive<br />
at this deviation from the route?<br />
Lord Thomas Fairfax or ‘Black<br />
Tom’ as he was known to both<br />
sides was an honourable man on<br />
and off the battlefield. He opposed<br />
the execution of the king and as<br />
a consequence was pardoned by<br />
Charles II at the Restoration whilst<br />
many, many others were not.<br />
The vacated Cromwell vault in<br />
Westminster Abbey was later used<br />
as a burial place for eleven of<br />
Charles II's twelve illegitimate<br />
descendants - his illegitimate<br />
son, the Duke of Monmouth is<br />
buried - minus his head - beneath<br />
the chapel floor in the Tower of<br />
London, having been beheaded<br />
publicly for treason on 15 July<br />
1685, and his head displayed on<br />
a spike, not outside Westminster<br />
this time but on London Bridge.<br />
JOHN FISHER<br />
MANY THANKS to<br />
Rusty Aldwinckle<br />
for the use of the<br />
excellent photos in this piece.<br />
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