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DEVONSHIRE’S<br />
NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 18<br />
<strong>magazine</strong><br />
<strong>magazine</strong> coverage: EAST DEVON, EXETER, MID DEVON & WEST DORSET
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From the Editor<br />
USE IT LOSE IT<br />
Is it me, or do the internet based businesses seem to have an<br />
extremely unfair advantage over retail shopping, and indeed many other<br />
business sectors today. So often it’s reported in the newspapers just how<br />
little tax the internet giants pay to operate in our country. More worrying<br />
is the lack of action by politicians to redress the balance in favour of our<br />
beleaguered high street retail. No surprise really, the internet companies<br />
have cash to splash, particularly on consultancies around Westminster,<br />
and of course our politicians are like pigs at the trough!<br />
However, we all do it, shop online that is, so it’s no good<br />
pointing any fingers is it? NO, but there’s an easy way we can all help,<br />
it’s called shopping, but with your feet, not a mouse in sight - and it’s<br />
infinitely more healthy and enjoyable, especially when followed up by a<br />
spot of lunch. None of us want our own towns to have endless lines of<br />
empty shop windows displaying nothing but To Let signs. It’s simple - go<br />
shopping in your local town.<br />
Shops - we’re running our Shop Local scheme again this year,<br />
free Shop Local posters are available to display in your window<br />
just call 01395 513383 for copies.<br />
Nigel Jones<br />
PS - please don’t miss our competition - a meal for two with wine<br />
at the lovely Sidmouth Harbour Hotel (see p50).<br />
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advise that prior to travelling to any of the events listed in our What's On sections, that you call the event organisers to check that the event is running at the times and dates specified.<br />
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<strong>Devon</strong>’s Countryside, Wildlife, History & Events<br />
5. Editor's Letter<br />
The latest from the Editor.<br />
9. Letterbox<br />
News from across <strong>Devon</strong>.<br />
14. The Countryman<br />
By Christopher Taylor.<br />
16. What's On<br />
From the HUBCAST.<br />
34. Fashion & Beauty<br />
Indulge your inner self.<br />
36. <strong>Devon</strong> Xmas Present<br />
By <strong>Devon</strong>shire’s John Fisher.<br />
38. Snow Scene<br />
By the Editor - river Otter.<br />
40. Great Night Out<br />
Enjoy great food & live music.<br />
42. Overnight Stay<br />
The Imperial Hotel, Barnstaple.<br />
44. Food Review<br />
Alexandra Hotel, Lyme Regis.<br />
46. Food Review<br />
The Clock Tower, Sidmouth.<br />
50. Dream Destination<br />
Sidmouth Harbour Hotel.<br />
54. Amsterdam<br />
A visit with the Editor.<br />
62. Art Exhibitions<br />
Brought to you by HUBCAST.<br />
70. St. Martin's Church<br />
Britain's most important church.<br />
75. Nelsonʼs Column<br />
By <strong>Devon</strong>shire’s John Fisher.<br />
79. But hereʼs the thing...<br />
John Fisher expounds.<br />
86. A Growing Trend<br />
Garden rooms - David Matthews.<br />
88. Equine Learning<br />
Gastric Ulceration - Natalie Bucklar.<br />
89. The Old Vetʼnary<br />
3 Marmalade Cats - Ken Watson.<br />
91. Life Matters<br />
Barleclose with Neil Dowding.<br />
93. Interview - Tom King<br />
By Susan Gebbie.<br />
94. <strong>Devon</strong>shire Walk<br />
Venn Ottery with the Editor.<br />
98. Financial Planning<br />
Stalling longevity... - H.Mulvaney.<br />
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YOUR NEWS TO THE EDITOR - LETTERBOX@DEVONSHIREMAGAZINE.CO.UK<br />
Chris Simpson<br />
wins Michelin Star<br />
Andrew Brownsword Hotels<br />
is celebrating following the<br />
announcement that Chris Simpson<br />
of Gidleigh Park has been awarded a<br />
Michelin star, following the release<br />
of the Michelin Guide 2019.<br />
Awarded to Chris in person at<br />
the prestigious ceremony held<br />
on Monday 1 October at the BFI<br />
IMAX cinema in Waterloo, the guide<br />
inspectors commented that Chris<br />
“has made a confident start at this<br />
beautiful hotel”.<br />
Chris Simpson commented, “I’m<br />
absolutely delighted to have been<br />
awarded a Michelin star. Whilst<br />
in the past I have celebrated many<br />
times, leading kitchens to win both<br />
one and two stars, this is the first<br />
time I’ve been awarded a star for my<br />
own kitchen and it is a huge honour.<br />
As well as congratulating all the<br />
kitchen team, whose dedication and<br />
continued efforts have delivered this<br />
accolade, I would also like to thank<br />
everyone at Gidleigh Park who all<br />
play their part in creating a brilliant<br />
experience for all of our guests”.<br />
Stephanie Hocking, CEO Andrew<br />
Brownsword Hotels, comments,<br />
“Huge congratulations to Chris and his<br />
team on being awarded a Michelin<br />
star, which is fantastic recognition<br />
for his outstanding cooking. Having<br />
been long been aware of Chris’s<br />
exceptional talent, we’re delighted he<br />
has settled in so well at Gidleigh Park<br />
and we look forward to exciting times<br />
ahead, as he continues to flourish”.<br />
www.gidleigh.co.uk<br />
Searegs new facility<br />
A training provider that runs<br />
commercial maritime training courses<br />
has moved in to a brand new, state-ofthe-art<br />
facility at Turnchapel Wharf<br />
on Plymouth’s waterfront. SeaRegs<br />
Training specialise in commercial<br />
maritime training including survival<br />
and first aid for entry level seafarers<br />
right up to Stability, Navigation and<br />
Radar for Masters with notable clients<br />
including the Port of London Authority,<br />
the International Sailing Federation<br />
and other maritime institutes around<br />
the world. Led by Directors Simon and<br />
Vicky Jinks, SeaRegs Training has taken<br />
occupancy of a new business unit at<br />
Turnchapel Wharf, Plymouth. The<br />
facility includes a modern workshop,<br />
classrooms facilities as well as a<br />
Transas simulator suite for pilotage<br />
and navigation exercises.<br />
www.searegs.co.uk<br />
Chapter Clothingʼs ongoing success<br />
In March this year, Sidmouth<br />
based independent boutique<br />
Chapter Clothing was taken<br />
over by new owner, Eileen Ellis<br />
(pictured right). Eileen has since<br />
held numerous fashion shows<br />
for charity and continues to grow<br />
Chapter’s ongoing success. Eileen<br />
is keen to raise awareness about<br />
Tamar Security celebrating over 30 years<br />
One of the South West’s favourite<br />
family run security companies,<br />
Tamar Security, is celebrating over<br />
30 years in the security industry.<br />
Their vast experience in installing<br />
and maintaining security systems<br />
for domestic, commercial and<br />
industrial clients over the past 30<br />
years has led them to be one of<br />
the leading providers in the South<br />
the importance of shopping local<br />
and supporting local high street<br />
retailers. “At Chapter, we cater for<br />
the discerning shopper who is<br />
looking for that something different.<br />
We also provide a friendly, personal<br />
service to help shoppers find the<br />
perfect outfit” says Eileen.<br />
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West. Tamar Security has won<br />
sought after accreditation from<br />
the National Security Inspectorate<br />
as a Gold standard company, and<br />
has since gained accreditation in<br />
Quality Management Systems to<br />
ISO9001:2015. These standards<br />
recognise a consistently high level<br />
of customer care and service, and<br />
not only assure customers of quality<br />
fitting and equipment, but are<br />
recognised by all leading insurers.<br />
Although the company has grown<br />
substantially over the years, the<br />
quality of customer service remains<br />
paramount.<br />
Tamar Security’s service engineers,<br />
office staff and telephone response<br />
team are highly experienced and<br />
most have been with the company<br />
for many years, including Managing<br />
Director Martin Shearer, who<br />
started in 2001 as a trainee alarm<br />
technician.<br />
“We find customers really value<br />
continuity of service and that<br />
familiar friendly voice on the end<br />
of the phone; they also find seeing<br />
their regular engineer each time<br />
their service is due very reassuring”<br />
says Martin.<br />
www.tamarsecurity.co.uk<br />
Refurb at Quayside<br />
A series of extensive improvement<br />
and refurbishment works at Quayside<br />
Leisure Centre have taken place,<br />
marking a major financial investment<br />
in improving local leisure facilities.<br />
Led by the UK’s leading sports and<br />
leisure charity, Fusion Lifestyle, the<br />
improvements were designed to<br />
significantly modernise the centre,<br />
while also improving and enhancing<br />
the experience for its members.<br />
Improvements have been made across<br />
the centre, and just some of the exciting<br />
changes which have taken place include<br />
a complete refurbishment of the gym,<br />
which now includes the latest in new,<br />
industry leading fitness equipment–<br />
including new cross-trainers, free<br />
weights and treadmills. Members<br />
can also look forward to taking part<br />
in group exercise classes in the centre’s<br />
new spin studio, which includes stateof-the-art<br />
spin equipment, or in the<br />
newly refurbished fitness studio. One<br />
of the other biggest new additions is<br />
the creation of a new soft play room<br />
for young children.<br />
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Burn Right campaign sweeping the country<br />
A local chimney sweep is backing a<br />
national campaign to help reduce<br />
pollution and keep homes safe.<br />
James Holbrook from Heritage<br />
Chimney Sweeping based near<br />
Axminster, has signed up to the<br />
Burn Right campaign.<br />
The Burn Right campaign was<br />
formulated by chimney sweeps<br />
and professionals in the solid fuel<br />
industry to educate people on how<br />
to use their wood burners and multifuel<br />
stoves correctly. If not properly<br />
operated, appliances can not only<br />
pollute the atmosphere, but also<br />
pose a risk to life and property.<br />
James Holbrook, of Heritage<br />
Chimney Sweeping, said:<br />
“The Burn Right campaign has come<br />
at a critical time, as the government<br />
is looking closely at emissions from<br />
domestic fires.”<br />
“The root of the problem is that wood<br />
is often not burned at a high enough<br />
temperature. If it’s not hot enough,<br />
then unburned fuel vapours travel<br />
up and out of the chimney causing<br />
unnecessary pollution. There is a<br />
real lack of awareness with some of<br />
these issues and many people who<br />
use a stove don’t even know there<br />
is a problem, let alone think that<br />
they might be a part of it.”<br />
The design of the stove and the<br />
moisture content of the wood are<br />
two factors that affect the burning<br />
temperature, if the air supply is<br />
closed off too much, the wood<br />
can’t burn hot enough. Closing<br />
the air off too much does not save<br />
fuel, it wastes fuel. The Burn Right<br />
campaign is being spearheaded by<br />
professional chimney sweeps across<br />
the country: “I’m pleased to be one of<br />
them. We have a unique perspective<br />
of the stove, the fuel, the chimney<br />
and the customers burning habits<br />
and can advise accordingly.”<br />
For further information visit<br />
heritagechimneysweeping.co.uk.<br />
or www.BurnRight.co.uk<br />
Shop Local Campaign<br />
DEVONSHIRE <strong>magazine</strong> is running<br />
the Shop Local campaign again this year.<br />
The campaign was originally launched<br />
in 2014 by <strong>Devon</strong>shire <strong>magazine</strong> to<br />
encourage people to support their local<br />
high street shops. This is an important<br />
message, now more than ever especially<br />
with Christmas on the way and online<br />
shopping set to yet again increase its<br />
share of the festive shopping market.<br />
Walking past empty shop windows is<br />
a reminder to us all that we need to<br />
ensure we support our local town high<br />
street. “Why should I worry about<br />
this” - you may ask, well if you’ve ever<br />
visited a town that has died, it feels<br />
like the light has literally gone out -<br />
a depressing sight that tells you the<br />
town is dead. If your business would<br />
like to have a poster or refresh your<br />
existing poster, please email letterbox@<br />
devonshire<strong>magazine</strong>.co.uk<br />
Independent Retailer of the Year winners<br />
When Living and Lifestyle Mobility<br />
won an Independent Retailer of the<br />
Year Award at Exmouth Business<br />
Awards at the end of May, the<br />
Competition - a meal for two<br />
If you’re a foodie, or even if you<br />
just enjoy spending quality time<br />
with your partner over a meal, don’t<br />
miss the competition in this issue of<br />
<strong>Devon</strong>shire <strong>magazine</strong> on page 50.<br />
The prize is a meal for two with<br />
a bottle of wine at the Sidmouth<br />
Harbour Hotel. If you haven’t<br />
visited, it’s true to say that the<br />
company’s owner Sarah Ford, put<br />
it down to her team’s hard work<br />
and compassion.<br />
‘Harbour’ is something of a dining<br />
destination. Superb views with chic,<br />
elegant dining space in their Upper<br />
Deck Restaurant, a truly great place<br />
to relax. It’s extremely simple to<br />
enter the competition, just go to:<br />
www.devonshire<strong>magazine</strong>.co.uk/win<br />
The competition was fierce as<br />
70 local companies contended<br />
across 12 award categories for the<br />
prestigious accolades. Located on<br />
Exmouth’s Brixington Parade, Living<br />
and Lifestyle Mobility opened it’s<br />
doors in April 2015 - and has since<br />
gone from strength to strength.<br />
L&L’s showroom is unique within<br />
the industry. While many mobility<br />
shops look clinical, it has stepped<br />
away from this conventional model.<br />
L&L is accredited by <strong>Devon</strong> County<br />
Council to provide NHS prescription<br />
equipment to those who require<br />
extra care in the home.<br />
livingandlifestylemobility.co.uk<br />
Swing into Christmas<br />
at Exeter Racecourse<br />
Swing into Christmas at Exeter<br />
Racecourse, which will be hosting<br />
three of its renowned parties on<br />
<strong>December</strong> 8th, 14th and 15th. This<br />
year swing singer Neil Barclay’s<br />
fabulous songs will accompany the<br />
evening followed by a disco until<br />
midnight. Tickets for the parties cost<br />
£40 each and include arrival drinks,<br />
a three-course dinner, and a photo<br />
booth and the sensational music.<br />
Guests will also receive two free<br />
race tickets to enjoy a day at Exeter<br />
Racecourse in 2019 worth £34.<br />
Since 2013, Exeter’s Christmas parties<br />
have become a rich <strong>Devon</strong> tradition,<br />
with businesses, individuals and<br />
friends delving in year after year to<br />
enjoy the warm ambience, delicious<br />
food and fantastic entertainment.<br />
To book, call Michelle Thomas<br />
on 01392 832599 or visit<br />
www.Exeter-racecourse.co.uk<br />
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Nigel Jones reviews new releases from <strong>Devon</strong> based authors<br />
by David Gilman<br />
Xmas<br />
present<br />
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DEVONSHIRE<br />
c o m m e n d e d<br />
by Tim Pears<br />
Xmas<br />
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DEVONSHIRE<br />
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Another in the Masters of War Series from <strong>Devon</strong> author David Gilman.<br />
Thomas Blackstone is the central character as usual, who sees his<br />
name blackened, his son hunted and his men slaughtered in one<br />
rip-roaring, action packed<br />
historically based story.<br />
The 1300s were a time in<br />
English history when, having<br />
captured King John II of<br />
France, Edward III agrees<br />
a treaty that sees England<br />
gaining massive tracts of<br />
France. But France is torn<br />
apart with mercenary bands<br />
and uncooperative French<br />
lords, meaning that gaining<br />
control over the lands<br />
ceded is proving extremely<br />
difficult.<br />
If you haven’t read any of<br />
David’s Master of War series,<br />
I can heartily commend<br />
them, just great reading<br />
that keeps you engaged all<br />
the way through.<br />
This paperback costs £7.99<br />
It’s a much vaunted book - upon opening this copy some thirty three<br />
glowing quotes from all manner of media. This book is the final<br />
instalment of an epic West<br />
Country trilogy written by<br />
Tim Pears.<br />
There’s a fascinating level<br />
of detail in sections that’s<br />
staggering, although so<br />
neatly in context that the<br />
picture painted by your mind<br />
is rendered in technicolor.<br />
For instance, where Leo (the<br />
central character), having<br />
enlisted in the Royal Navy,<br />
is anchored up on-board in<br />
the Forth of Firth in 1916.<br />
Some of the detail of daily<br />
life on-board is engrossing.<br />
Written beautifully, reading<br />
is effortless and has<br />
much evocation threaded<br />
throughout.<br />
Superb, you will not be disappointed!<br />
Hardback RRP £16.99<br />
ISBN 9781784974527 ISBN 9781526607942<br />
by David Will<br />
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Th e C O U N T R Y M A N<br />
Short eared owl<br />
CHRIS TAYLOR<br />
The COUNTRYMAN<br />
Chris lives with his wife, Brianne,<br />
in north <strong>Devon</strong> 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 />
Photos copyright C. Taylor<br />
Our changing seasons<br />
Blackberry<br />
Chicory<br />
Cornflower<br />
What do the months of<br />
<strong>November</strong> and <strong>December</strong><br />
hold in store this year? Summer<br />
seemed to continue well into<br />
October and the normal September<br />
storms waited until mid-October<br />
to descend on us. Whilst writing in<br />
mid-October, with the temperature<br />
at 17 degrees C at 9.00 AM,<br />
storm Callum is overhead. Could<br />
it possibly be snowing hard in<br />
some 6 weeks time, as back in<br />
2010? Our weather doesn’t seem<br />
to hold the seasonal patterns I<br />
recall over my lifetime. I only<br />
wish. As a great farming friend<br />
once told me when I entered farm<br />
management, keep a detailed<br />
diary of all the dates of harvest,<br />
sowing, fertilizer applications and<br />
weather and ground conditions<br />
etc., etc. I did, but frustratingly,<br />
I never wrote down with any<br />
regularity what the wildlife was<br />
up to. The distinctive call of the<br />
arrival of the Brent geese was<br />
always around 17th October when<br />
farming down in Sussex. This was<br />
like clockwork and was recorded<br />
and eagerly awaited, heralding<br />
in autumn.<br />
before their long migration<br />
south. Thumbing through my<br />
more recent diaries, I notice<br />
that from mid-October I have<br />
we will not see them until we get<br />
into <strong>November</strong>, especially if our<br />
more northern regions have as<br />
many rowan and hawthorn berries<br />
You can see that Christmas approaches!<br />
Ragged The harvest Robin<br />
I always record the first swallows<br />
to arrive and the last to leave.<br />
Unusually, I saw none in October<br />
this year. The odd few would<br />
normally be around to now<br />
normally seen the first few<br />
migrants from Scandinavia,<br />
members of the thrush<br />
family: redwings and fieldfares<br />
but none yet. I think it fair to say<br />
as we have this year. There is much<br />
folk lore about such bountiful<br />
quantities of wild fruit and how<br />
we are in for a hard winter. If<br />
there is an element of truth to<br />
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14
Ponies on Exmoor<br />
You guessed it, the drought - ground parched<br />
this, we must be in for plenty of<br />
bad weather. Not only are the<br />
hedgerow trees laden with fruit, so<br />
too are the apple orchards and this<br />
year it seems difficult to give away<br />
any of the multitude of apples that<br />
did colour the sagging branches of<br />
nearly all the trees. This has been<br />
Well camouflaged on the rocks - seals<br />
Salmon leaping weir on Mole, which has now been removed<br />
a great, even the best for crop for<br />
many years. Storm Callum left few<br />
remaining on the trees and I look<br />
forward to see what wildlife will<br />
benefit from all that is not stored,<br />
used for juicing or given away.<br />
So far, the neighbours bullocks<br />
have got in on several occasions<br />
and there is evidence of a few roe<br />
and red deer, badgers as well, all<br />
dinning to their hearts content on<br />
many different varieties. This I am<br />
happy to put up with, that’s until<br />
they start to eat the apple trees or<br />
as has happen before, the red stags<br />
used the few unprotected trees to<br />
rub their antlers on. Is this a form<br />
of aggression in the rut or are they<br />
just marking their territory? I am<br />
not sure, but this often removes<br />
most (if not all!) the bark and thus<br />
the trees die. Having grafted and<br />
continued page 60<br />
Countryman's Diary<br />
<strong>November</strong> and <strong>December</strong><br />
1. Put any old apples or peelings out for<br />
the birds when the cold sets in along<br />
with those seeds.<br />
2. As the red deer rut seems late this year,<br />
you may still hear the stags well into<br />
<strong>November</strong>.<br />
3. Sea fishermen are now allowed to keep<br />
a Bass a day until the end of the year,<br />
make sure they are big enough!<br />
4. Try to get down to the estuaries to see<br />
the over wintering waders. These can<br />
be many thousand strong on the Taw<br />
and Torridge estuary children will be<br />
captivated! Please Keep your dogs under<br />
close control.<br />
5. Our grey seals give birth in late autumn/<br />
early winter, so there is always the<br />
chance of seeing the white pups at this<br />
time of year on a isolated coastal walk.<br />
Lugging the fodder<br />
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SALE OF ANTIQUES &<br />
INTERIOR FURNISHINGS<br />
06 Nov - A regular auction<br />
of furniture, pictures and<br />
interior effects, Eldreds<br />
Auctioneers & Valuers, 1<br />
Belliver Way, Plymouth,<br />
10.30am to 1.00pm.<br />
ANTIQUES & INTERIORS<br />
AUCTION - EXETER<br />
06 Nov - Antiques &<br />
Interiors, Bearnes Hampton<br />
and Littlewood, St.<br />
Edmund’s Court, Exeter,<br />
10.00am.<br />
SPORTING &<br />
COLLECTORS’<br />
AUCTION - EXETER<br />
14 to 15 Nov - Bearnes<br />
Hampton and Littlewood,<br />
St. Edmund’s Court, Exeter,<br />
10.00am.<br />
SALE OF ANTIQUES & ART,<br />
WINES & SPIRITS<br />
20 Nov - Quarterly auction<br />
of quality antiques with<br />
wines & spirits and 20thC<br />
design, Eldreds Auctioneers<br />
& Valuers, 1 Belliver Way,<br />
Plymouth, 10.30am to<br />
4.00pm.<br />
ANTIQUES & INTERIORS<br />
AUCTION - EXETER<br />
27 Nov - Antiques &<br />
Interiors, Bearnes Hampton<br />
and Littlewood, St. Edmund’s<br />
Court, Exeter, 10.00am.<br />
20TH CENTURY &<br />
CONTEMPORARY<br />
AUCTION - EXETER<br />
04 Dec - Bearnes Hampton<br />
and Littlewood, St. Edmund’s<br />
Court, Exeter, 10.00am.<br />
SALE OF SILVER, GOLD,<br />
JEWELLERY & WATCHES<br />
04 Dec - Christmas auction<br />
of jewellery, watches,<br />
silver, gold & objects de<br />
vertu, Eldreds Auctioneers<br />
& Valuers, 1 Belliver Way,<br />
Plymouth, 10.30am to<br />
4.00pm.<br />
ANTIQUES & INTERIORS<br />
AUCTION - EXETER<br />
11 Dec - Antiques & Interiors<br />
including Jewellery, Bearnes<br />
Hampton and Littlewood,<br />
St. Edmund’s Court,<br />
Exeter, 10.00am.<br />
Looking<br />
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Christmas<br />
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more?<br />
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SALE OF ANTIQUES &<br />
INTERIOR FURNISHINGS<br />
18 Dec - A regular auction<br />
of furniture, pictures and<br />
interior effects, Eldreds<br />
Auctioneers & Valuers, 1<br />
Belliver Way, Plymouth,<br />
10.30am to 1.00pm.<br />
Ballet<br />
ROYAL BALLET LIVE: LA<br />
BAYADERE (12A)<br />
15 Nov - Natalia Makarova’s<br />
production of this 19thcentury<br />
classic ballet, The<br />
Beehive, Dowell Street,<br />
Honiton, 7.00pm to 10.15pm.<br />
Children &<br />
Family<br />
HALLOWEEN<br />
THE ROGUES GALLERY<br />
HALLOWEEN SHOW<br />
03 Nov - Rogues Gallery<br />
& Revmarc presents ‘The<br />
Rogues Gallery Halloween<br />
Show’, The Rogues Gallery,<br />
Brixham Theatre, Brixham,<br />
7.30pm to 10.30pm.<br />
BONFIRE NIGHT<br />
GRAND FIREWORKS<br />
DISPLAY<br />
03 Nov - Grand Fireworks<br />
Display in Tavistock<br />
Meadows organised by the<br />
The Lions Club of Tavistock,<br />
Tavistock Meadows,<br />
Tavistock, 7.00pm to 7.30pm.<br />
FIREWORKS IN FORDE<br />
03 Nov - Set against the<br />
historic backdrop of Forde<br />
Abbey, watch a spectacular<br />
firework, Forde Abbey &<br />
Gardens, Historic House &<br />
Gardens, Chard, 5.30pm to<br />
9.00pm.<br />
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CHILDREN'S EVENTS<br />
BOOKWORMS MAKE<br />
BOOKS<br />
17 Nov - Join children's<br />
Author/Illustrator Clare<br />
Elsom, Exeter Literary<br />
Festival, <strong>Devon</strong> & Exeter<br />
Institution, Exeter, 10.30am<br />
to 12.30am.<br />
ACCORDING TO ARTHUR<br />
18 Nov - Join PaddleBoat<br />
Theatre Company in an<br />
interactive book reading,<br />
Exeter Literary Festival,<br />
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter,<br />
10.00am to 11.00am.<br />
LIGHT UP TUNNEL CARD<br />
WORKSHOP<br />
08 Dec - Create a unique 3D<br />
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Choirs<br />
OPEN ACCESS FOLK<br />
CHOIR<br />
07 Nov - Open access Folk<br />
Choir - no auditions, Wren<br />
Music, Stowford Community<br />
Hall, Sidmouth, 7.30pm to<br />
9.30pm.<br />
LEST WE FORGET -<br />
ARMISTICE CENTENARY<br />
CONCERT<br />
10 Nov - Choral concert to<br />
remember the Armistice and<br />
those who fell in the Great<br />
War, South West Chamber<br />
Choir, St Andrews Minster,<br />
Plymouth, 7.00pm to 9.00pm.<br />
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Remember, remember!<br />
Remember, remember!<br />
The fifth of <strong>November</strong>,<br />
The Gunpowder treason and plot;<br />
I know of no reason<br />
Why the Gunpowder treason<br />
Should ever be forgot!<br />
Guy Fawkes and his companions<br />
Did the scheme contrive,<br />
To blow the King and Parliament<br />
All up alive.<br />
Threescore barrels, laid below,<br />
To prove old England's overthrow.<br />
But, by God's providence, him they catch,<br />
With a dark lantern, lighting a match!<br />
A stick and a stake<br />
For King James's sake!<br />
If you won't give me one,<br />
I'll take two,<br />
The better for me,<br />
And the worse for you.<br />
A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,<br />
A penn'orth of cheese to choke him,<br />
A pint of beer to wash it down,<br />
And a jolly good fire to burn him.<br />
Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!<br />
Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!<br />
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What's On: Nov and Dec 18<br />
CALM AFTER CHAOS<br />
01 Dec - Haydn Nelson<br />
Mass, Williams Tsunami<br />
Requiem & Lauridsen O<br />
Magnum Mysterium, South<br />
<strong>Devon</strong> Choir, Central Church,<br />
Torquay, 7.30pm to 9.45pm.<br />
SIDMOUTH MUSIC - TRIO<br />
MARTINU<br />
17 Nov - Trio Martinu (piano<br />
trio). Music by Martinu,<br />
Mendelssohn, Dvorak,<br />
Sidmouth Music, Sidmouth<br />
Parish Church, Sidmouth,<br />
3.00pm to 5.30pm.<br />
PHILIPPA MO: PARTITA,<br />
FANTASIA, CAPRICE<br />
24 Nov - Philippa Mo<br />
Internationally acclaimed<br />
British violinist plays solo,<br />
Sladers Yard, West Bay<br />
Road, West Bay, 6.30pm to<br />
10.30pm.<br />
Tel. (01395)<br />
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ORCHESTRAL CONCERT<br />
WITH PAL BANDA -<br />
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10 Nov - The Isca Ensemble<br />
welcomes the renowned<br />
Hungarian cellist, PAL<br />
BANDA, ISCA Ensemble,<br />
Sidmouth Parish Church,<br />
Sidmouth, 7.30pm to 9.45pm.<br />
EXETER PHILHARMONIC<br />
CHOIR CONCERT<br />
10 Nov - Bruckner Mass in<br />
E minor and Rutter Requiem<br />
with instrumentalists and<br />
soloist, Exeter Philharmonic<br />
Choir, Exeter Cathedral,<br />
Exeter, 7.30pm to 9.30pm.<br />
THE LISNEY BRIGGS DUO<br />
(PIANO - FOUR HANDS)<br />
16 Nov - An exciting<br />
programme of music for<br />
Piano - Four Hands, NADSA<br />
Concerts, Courtenay Centre,<br />
Newton Abbot, 6.30pm to<br />
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ORCHESTRA - WINTER<br />
CONCERT<br />
24 Nov - Britten, Vaughan<br />
Williams & Elgar, Exeter<br />
Symphony Orchestra,<br />
Southernhay United<br />
Reformed church, Exeter,<br />
7.30pm to 9.40pm.<br />
THE DREAM OF<br />
GERONTIUS - ELGAR<br />
25 Nov - With the<br />
Plymouth Philharmonic<br />
Choir, Plymouth Symphony<br />
Orchestra, Plymouth<br />
Guildhall, Plymouth, 7.30pm.<br />
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SEMMENS: TUNEFUL<br />
VOICE<br />
30 Nov - Music for<br />
fortepiano and voice from<br />
Haydn and Mozart, Totnes<br />
Early Music Society, United<br />
Free Church, Totnes, 7.30pm<br />
to 9.30pm.<br />
SIDMOUTH MUSIC: EMILY<br />
SUN, JENNIFER HUGHES<br />
01 Dec - Emily Sun<br />
(violin), Jennifer Hughes<br />
(piano):Schubert, Grieg,<br />
Faure,Tchaikovsky, Sidmouth<br />
Music, Sidmouth Parish<br />
Church, Sidmouth, 3.00pm<br />
to 5.30pm.<br />
MUSIC IN THE CASTLE -<br />
MESSIAH<br />
14 Dec - With Powderham<br />
Consort & Divertimento,<br />
Music in the Castle, James<br />
Wyatt Music Room, Exeter,<br />
7.30pm to 10.00pm.<br />
MEET THE AUTHOR - SIR DAVID<br />
HEMPLEMAN-ADAMS<br />
08 Nov - Britain’s greatest adventurer.<br />
Tickets £13, doors 7pm for 7.30pm.<br />
FARMERS’ MARKET<br />
10 Nov - Local artisans selling their<br />
beautiful handmade products in our<br />
Cellar Bar, 9am-1pm.<br />
Comedy<br />
COMEDY: JAMES<br />
ALDERSON<br />
29 Nov - "James lights up<br />
the room like a pyromaniac<br />
in a fireworks shop!" Russell<br />
Kane, The Beehive, Dowell<br />
Street, Honiton, 8.00pm to<br />
10.00pm.<br />
WILLOW WREATH WORKSHOP<br />
23 Nov - All materials provided. Leave<br />
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CHRISTMAS FAIR<br />
07 Dec to 09 Dec - Including Late Night<br />
Shopping. Lots of stall selling locally<br />
made crafts, food and art. Drinks and<br />
light snacks available, 10am-5pm.<br />
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REMEMBRANCE<br />
CONCERT<br />
07 Nov - British Legion's<br />
annual remembrance concert<br />
with Brixham Town Band,<br />
St Mary's Church, Brixham,<br />
7.00pm to 9.30pm.<br />
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY<br />
SERVICE<br />
11 Nov - Procession through<br />
the town centre and service<br />
held at the War Memorial,<br />
Newton Abbot Town Council,<br />
Newton Abbot, 10.00am to<br />
11.30am.<br />
ANNUAL ARMISTICE<br />
PARADE AND SERVICE<br />
11 Nov - Brixham Town Band,<br />
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What's On: Nov and Dec 18<br />
Fairs<br />
MICHAEL HALE<br />
COLLECTORS FAIRS.<br />
03 Nov - Michael Hale<br />
Fairs, America Hall, Exeter,<br />
10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
TRAVELWORLD CRUISE &<br />
HOLIDAY SHOW<br />
04 Nov - Exciting Cruise &<br />
Holiday Show, Travelworld,<br />
Woodbury Park, Exeter,<br />
10.00am to 3.00pm.<br />
THE BEEHIVE CRAFT<br />
FAIR<br />
10 Nov - Something for<br />
everyone at the Craft Fair<br />
taking place at The Beehive,<br />
Dowell Street, Honiton,<br />
10.00am to 3.00pm.<br />
PSYCHIC AND<br />
WELLBEING FAIR IN<br />
TORQUAY<br />
17 Nov - Mind, Body,<br />
Spirit - Therapies, Readings<br />
and Gifts fair. Free entry &<br />
parking, Discovery, Belgrave<br />
Beefeater, Torquay, 1.00pm<br />
to 6.00pm.<br />
ANIMAL AID'S<br />
CHRISTMAS FAYRE -<br />
SOUTH WEST<br />
24 Nov - An amazing array<br />
of animal friendly products,<br />
food gifts & information,<br />
Animal Aid, Exeter Corn<br />
Exchange, Exeter, 10.00am<br />
to 4.30pm.<br />
ANTIQUES FAIR<br />
24 Nov - Antiques and<br />
Collectables Fair, Newton<br />
Abbot Racecourse, Newton<br />
Road, Newton Abbot, 9.00am<br />
to 2.30pm.<br />
FESTIVE & LOVELY FAIR<br />
25 Nov - A chance to pick up<br />
unique Christmas gifts, Miss<br />
Ivy Events, Two Bridges<br />
Hotel, Princetown, 10.30am<br />
to 3.30pm.<br />
MIND BODY SPIRIT FAIR<br />
25 Nov - Mind Body Spirit<br />
Fair Everyone Welcome!<br />
<strong>East</strong> <strong>Devon</strong> Mind Body<br />
Spirit Network, Budleigh<br />
Salterton Public Hall,<br />
Budleigh Salterton, 10.30am<br />
to 4.30pm.<br />
ASHBURTON MAKERS'<br />
MARKET<br />
01 Dec - Affordable quality<br />
crafts and gifts brought<br />
direct to you from local<br />
makers, Ashburton Makers<br />
Market, St Andrews Church<br />
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PLAYS<br />
PRIVATE PEACEFUL<br />
10 Nov to 11 Nov - The<br />
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Exmouth, 2.30pm to 10.00pm.<br />
CROSSINGS - NEW PLAY<br />
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22 Nov - Marking the end of<br />
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CHRISTMAS PREVIEW<br />
01 Nov - Its the official<br />
preview of Juul at Home's<br />
Christmas and Festivity<br />
Collection. B, Juul at Home,<br />
37 Fore Street, Ilfracombe,<br />
4.00pm to 10.00pm.<br />
CHRISTMAS FAIR<br />
07 Nov - Our popular annual<br />
Christmas Fair in aid of <strong>Devon</strong><br />
Air Ambulance, Lewtrenchard<br />
Manor, Lewdown, 10.00am to<br />
3.00pm.<br />
MICHAELMAS FAIR<br />
08 Nov - A chance to do some<br />
early Christmas shopping with<br />
many unusual stalls and gifts,<br />
ABF The Soldiers' Charity,<br />
Powderham Castle, Kenton,<br />
Exeter.<br />
PRESENT MAKERS <strong>2018</strong><br />
10 Nov to 22 Dec - A<br />
celebration of excellence<br />
in South West making from<br />
across South West, Thelma<br />
Hulbert Gallery, Elmfield<br />
House, Honiton, 10.00am to<br />
5.00pm.<br />
ADVENT FAIR & CRAFT<br />
MARKET<br />
17 Nov - A magical day for all<br />
the family at the South <strong>Devon</strong><br />
Steiner School, Hood Manor,<br />
Dartington, 10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
CHOOSE A TREE WEEKENDS<br />
17 Nov to 24 Nov - Handpick<br />
your very own Christmas Tree!<br />
Cotley Farm, Cotley Farm,<br />
Whimple, 10.00am to 3.00pm.<br />
CHRISTMAS SWAGS,<br />
GARLANDS & TABLE<br />
DECORATION<br />
20 Nov - Social Evening & Talk<br />
on ‘Christmas swags, garlands<br />
and table decorations’,<br />
Otterton Garden Club, Otterton<br />
Village Hall, Otterton, 7.30pm<br />
to 9.30pm.<br />
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING<br />
FAYRE<br />
23 Nov to 25 Nov - Do ALL<br />
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Westpoint, Exeter.<br />
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS<br />
SWITCH ON<br />
24 Nov - Annual Newton Abbot<br />
Light Switch On, Newton<br />
Abbot Town Council, Newton<br />
Abbot, 5.00pm to 7.00pm.<br />
SIDMOUTH LIONS LADIES/<br />
FLAPPERS FESTIVE FAYRE<br />
24 Nov - The stalls feature<br />
Gifts, Cakes, Preserves, Toys,<br />
Books, Jigsaws, Bric-a-brac,<br />
Sidmouth Lions Club, Flappers<br />
Festive Fayre, Sidmouth,<br />
10.00am to 12.05am.<br />
SIDMOUTH LIONS LADIES/<br />
FLAPPERS FESTIVE FAYRE<br />
24 Nov - The stalls feature<br />
Gifts, Cakes, Preserves, Toys,<br />
Books, Jigsaws, Bric-a-brac,<br />
Sidmouth Lions Club, Flappers<br />
Festive Fayre, Sidmouth,<br />
10.00am to 12.05am.<br />
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Glow<br />
15 <strong>November</strong> - 5 January<br />
Thursday - Saturday until 8.00pm<br />
New route and extended to the Lake for the first time.<br />
Delicious two course Simple Suppers<br />
(booking highly recommended).<br />
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For tickets, offers and Simple Supper table reservations<br />
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24 Nov - Design and create<br />
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25 Nov - An afternoon<br />
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TREES OF LIGHT SWITCH<br />
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30 Nov - The switching on<br />
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front of Tavistock Town Hall,<br />
The Lions Club of Tavistock,<br />
Tavistock Town Hall, Tavistock,<br />
7.00pm to 7.30pm.<br />
DROP IN FAMILY<br />
WORKSHOP<br />
01 Dec - Family workshop<br />
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enjoy a glass of mulled wine/<br />
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Honiton, 11.00am to 3.00pm.<br />
AN ENGLISH CHRISTMAS<br />
01 Dec - Concert of 20thcentury<br />
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CHRISTMAS SPECIAL<br />
01 Dec to 02 Dec - Visit<br />
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train. Christmas story<br />
and crafts, PRE-BOOK!<br />
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Tavistock, 10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
A MAGICAL CHRISTMAS<br />
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01 Dec to 02 Dec - A magical<br />
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10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
POP-UP VINTAGE<br />
01 Dec to 27 Dec - Recycled<br />
and up-cycled vintage goods<br />
for that special Christmas gift,<br />
Town Mill Arts, The Courtyard<br />
Gallery, Lyme Regis, 10.00am<br />
to 4.00pm.<br />
HARBERTONFORD’S<br />
CHRISTMAS CRAFT AND<br />
ART FAIR<br />
02 Dec - Harbertonford’s wellloved<br />
Christmas Craft and Art<br />
Fair, The Village Hall, Totnes,<br />
10.30am to 4.30pm.<br />
TREE OF LIGHT SERVICE<br />
02 Dec - Sidmouth<br />
Hospiscare and Sidmouth<br />
Parish Church Tree of Light<br />
Service, Sidmouth Hospiscare,<br />
Sidmouth Parish Church,<br />
Sidmouth, 6.00pm to 7.30pm.<br />
CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL<br />
05 Dec to 09 Dec - Sponsors<br />
sought for our Christmas Tree<br />
Festival this year £25 per tree,<br />
St Andrew’s Church, 1 Carlton<br />
Court, Newton Abbot, 2.00pm<br />
to 7.30pm.<br />
DEVON VOICES (LAST)<br />
CHRISTMAS CONCERT<br />
07 Dec - Come along to a<br />
wonderful Christmas concert<br />
performed by <strong>Devon</strong> Voices,<br />
Friends of All Saints Church,<br />
All Saints Church, <strong>East</strong><br />
Budleigh, 7.30pm to 9.30pm.<br />
CHRISTMAS FAIR<br />
07 Dec to 09 Dec - Christmas<br />
Fair in our Cellar Bar,<br />
Kennaway House, Coburg Road,<br />
Sidmouth, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
SIDMOUTH LATE NIGHT<br />
SHOPPING<br />
07 Dec - Christmas Late<br />
Night Shopping Event, a key<br />
date in their festive calendar!<br />
Sidmouth Chamber of<br />
Commerce, Sidmouth Town<br />
Centre, Sidmouth, 5.00pm to<br />
8.00pm.<br />
NEWTON ABBOT<br />
CHRISTMAS FAYRE<br />
08 Dec - Fabulous Family Day<br />
out - lots of lovely Christmas<br />
Gift & Craft Stalls, Newton<br />
Abbot Racecourse, Newton<br />
Road, Newton Abbot, 10.00am<br />
to 4.00pm.<br />
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SHALDON SINGERS<br />
CHRISMAS CONCERT<br />
08 Dec - Works by Haydn,<br />
Parry and Goodall, and<br />
carols for choir and audience,<br />
Shaldon Singers, St Peter’s<br />
Church, Shaldon, 7.00pm to<br />
9.30pm.<br />
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL<br />
08 Dec to 09 Dec - Visit<br />
Santa's grotto on the Mine<br />
train. Christmas story<br />
and crafts, PRE-BOOK!<br />
Morwellham Quay, Address,<br />
Tavistock, 10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
CHRISTMAS COFFEE<br />
MORNING AT THE<br />
BLACKMORE<br />
08 Dec - Christmas Coffee<br />
Morning at The Blackmore<br />
Theatre, Exmouth Players,<br />
10 Bicton Street, Exmouth,<br />
10.00am to 12.00am.<br />
MUSIC FOR ADVENT<br />
08 Dec - Music for Advent,<br />
West <strong>Devon</strong> Chorale, Plymouth<br />
R C Cathedral, Plymouth,<br />
7.30pm to 9.30pm.<br />
CHRISTMAS CONCERT<br />
09 Dec - Featuring Handel's<br />
Messiah choruses including<br />
the Hallelujah Chorus, Seaton<br />
Choral Society, Seaton Gateway,<br />
The Town Hall, Seaton, 4.00pm<br />
to 5.30pm.<br />
FESTIVE & LOVELY SHOW<br />
09 Dec - A chance to pick up<br />
unique Christmas gifts, Miss<br />
Ivy Events, The Imperial Hotel,<br />
Torquay, 10.30am to 3.00pm.<br />
CHRISTMAS WREATH<br />
WORKSHOP<br />
11 Dec - Make a Christmas<br />
wreath from natural materials<br />
to adorn your front door!<br />
Thelma Hulbert Gallery,<br />
Elmfield House, Honiton,<br />
2.00pm to 4.00pm.<br />
CAROLS IN THE CATHEDRAL<br />
11 Dec to 12 Dec - Exeter<br />
Philharmonic Choir with<br />
Chaconne Brass and Milly<br />
Forrest - soprano, Exeter<br />
Philharmonic Choir, Exeter<br />
Cathedra, Exeter, 7.30pm to<br />
9.30pm.<br />
LANTERN PARADE &<br />
CHRISTMAS STREET FAYRE<br />
12 Dec - Annual lantern parade,<br />
Newton Abbot Town Council,<br />
Newton Abbot, 6.00pm to<br />
8.30pm.<br />
CHRISTMAS SOCIAL<br />
13 Dec - Christmas social,<br />
Newton Poppleford Garden<br />
Club, N P Pavilion, Newton<br />
Poppleford, 2.30pm to 4.30pm.<br />
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Avon Mill<br />
Café • Garden Centre • B&B<br />
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<strong>Devon</strong>shire Christmas<br />
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studio offering unique artisan made wares and a warm welcome<br />
studio offering unique artisan made wares and a warm welcome<br />
VIOLIN & PIANO<br />
CHRISTMAS RECITAL<br />
14 Dec - Violin and Piano<br />
Christmas Recital by graduates<br />
Lupton House, Brixham,<br />
7.00pm to 9.00pm.<br />
ANNUAL SELL-OUT<br />
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15 Dec - Christmas Music for<br />
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all, Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir,<br />
Harewood House, Plymouth,<br />
An extensive range of hand turning, made forged Dartmoor iron, felt, pottery, paintings wood jewellery and our own leather 7.30pm to 9.45pm.<br />
turning, forged iron, felt, studio paintings offering jewellery unique and artisan our own made leather wares and a warm welcome<br />
studio offering unique artisan made wares and a warm welcome<br />
REINDEER TRAIL AND<br />
CHRISTMAS CRAFTS<br />
15 Dec - Father Christmas<br />
needs your help! <strong>East</strong> <strong>Devon</strong><br />
Santa's grotto on the Mine<br />
train. Christmas story<br />
and crafts, PRE-BOOK!<br />
Morwellham Quay, Address,<br />
Tavistock, 10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
CHRISTMAS CONCERT<br />
15 Dec - Christmas concert<br />
with violin, vocal and piano<br />
compositions, Violin & Piano<br />
Duo ‘Elegance’, St Michaels<br />
and Archangel church,<br />
Teignmouth, 5.30pm to 7.00pm.<br />
SEATON WETLANDS<br />
SNOWMAN TRAIL<br />
15 Dec to 06 Jan - How many<br />
wooden snowmen can you find<br />
hiding around Seaton Wetlands,<br />
<strong>East</strong> <strong>Devon</strong> Countryside Team,<br />
Seaton Wetlands, Seaton,<br />
10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
FESTIVE FOOD, DRINK &<br />
GIFT MARKET<br />
16 Dec - A chance to pick up<br />
unique Christmas gifts, Miss<br />
Ivy Events, Tavistock Pannier<br />
Market, Tavistock, 11.00am<br />
to 4.00pm.<br />
MAYORS CAROL SERVICE &<br />
CHRISTMAS STREET FAYRE<br />
19 Dec - Join your town<br />
councillors for some carols,<br />
Newton Abbot Town Council,<br />
Newton Abbot, 7.00pm to<br />
8.30pm.<br />
CHRISTMAS ORCHESTRAL<br />
CONCERT DOUBLE<br />
CONCERTI<br />
22 Dec - The Isca Ensemble<br />
with EMMANUEL BACH violin<br />
and JOEL MUNDAY violin,<br />
ISCA Ensemble, Sidmouth<br />
Parish Church, Sidmouth,<br />
7.30pm to 9.45pm.<br />
TWIXT CHRISTMAS AND<br />
NEW YEAR CÉILIDH<br />
27 Dec - South Brent Folk’s<br />
great annual céilidh to dance<br />
off the winter blues, South<br />
Brent Folk, South Brent Village<br />
Hall, South Brent, 7.30pm to<br />
11.00pm.<br />
MERRY CHRISTMAS<br />
FROM THE TEAM AT<br />
DEVONSHIRE!<br />
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Christmas gifts<br />
A selection of unique gifts from across <strong>Devon</strong><br />
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Plymouth 01752 220011<br />
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AVON MILL<br />
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BAXTERS GALLERY<br />
Dartmouth 01803 839000<br />
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info@baxtersgallery.co.uk<br />
DEVON HAMPERS<br />
Lifton 01566 784494<br />
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HOUSE OF MARBLES<br />
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enquiries@houseofmarbles.com<br />
SIDMOUTH GIFTS<br />
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CRAFTY JAY<br />
Honiton 07724 108708<br />
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Honiton 01404 45006<br />
www.thelmahulbert.com<br />
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THE ARUNDELL ARMS<br />
Lifton 01566 784666<br />
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Treat someone special this Christmas!<br />
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WM GUITARS<br />
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EBENEZERʼS CHRISTMAS SHOP<br />
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ERIN COX<br />
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FASHION & BEAUTY<br />
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Never underestimate the little<br />
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There is nothing like warm,<br />
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Whether it's cosy, oversized<br />
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essentials and easily able to<br />
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Whether buying clothing for<br />
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it's important to remember to<br />
support your local town this<br />
Christmas. There is nothing like<br />
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Charles Dickens’<br />
<strong>Devon</strong> Christmas Present<br />
CHARLES DICKENS did not invent ‘traditional’, old fashioned Christmases<br />
of course, the kind that many of us still enjoy revelling in today (and<br />
so beloved of greetings card manufacturers): that particular garland rests<br />
more fittingly on the noble brow of Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert.<br />
His wholesale import of the age-old German<br />
Christmas, complete with feasting, merriment<br />
and the lighted tree itself, hung with sugar plums<br />
and barley sugar canes were readily embraced<br />
by the new, romantic era, ushered in by its new<br />
Queen with her young family.<br />
But it was Dickens, that literary genius and<br />
social commentator of the Victorian age who<br />
not only promoted Christmas in this form, he<br />
did so by creating his immortal morality tale,<br />
A Christmas Carol.<br />
Having lived and worked in <strong>Devon</strong> as a young<br />
newspaper reporter, he returned to the county<br />
at the height of his fame to give one of the first<br />
ever public readings of this perennial classic in<br />
August, 1858 at the Royal Public Rooms, in the<br />
heart of the City of Exeter.<br />
He afterwards wrote to his sister-in-law that the<br />
good people of <strong>Devon</strong> packed the place to the<br />
rafters and he wished that he had been able to<br />
book the venue again.<br />
“We had a most wonderful night at Exeter. I<br />
think they were the finest audience I have ever<br />
read to. I don’t think I have ever read, in some<br />
respects, so well, and I never beheld anything<br />
like the personal affection which they poured out<br />
upon me at the end. It was really a remarkable<br />
sight, and I shall always look back upon it with<br />
pleasure.”<br />
The reporter from the Flying Post was impressed<br />
by the great man’s performance, as well he might.<br />
“Mr. Dickens possesses great dramatic ability,<br />
wonderful powers of facial expression, and a rich<br />
sonorous voice, of which he is a perfect master‒<br />
changing it from the rough tones of Scrooge to<br />
the sweet and delicate key of Tiny Tim with an<br />
easy and remarkable facility.”<br />
Yet here, more than a century and a half after<br />
A Christmas Carol when that crowd streamed<br />
out into the High Street, laughing and crying in<br />
turn at the end of the performance, it still seems<br />
an extraordinary way for such a story to begin.<br />
“Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no<br />
doubt whatever about that. The register of his<br />
burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk,<br />
the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge<br />
signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon<br />
‘Change, for anything he chose to put his hand<br />
to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.”<br />
Extraordinary that is until, we are reminded of<br />
the novel’s subtitle, often dropped by publishers<br />
in later editions “A Christmas Carol. In Prose.<br />
Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.”<br />
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<strong>Devon</strong>’s winter weather in the early and mid-<br />
1800s, like most of the rest of southern England<br />
was extreme. Sheep on Dartmoor were still<br />
being dug out of snowdrifts as late as April on<br />
successive years in the 1830s. Stagecoaches and<br />
their unfortunate passengers had to be rescued<br />
from monumental snowdrifts: roads were made<br />
impassable and rural communities were sometimes<br />
cut off for weeks at a time.<br />
In 1814, when Dickens was just two years old,<br />
the Thames had frozen over in London and its<br />
citizens marked the event with The Great Frost<br />
Fair which saw coaches travelling on the frozen<br />
river between the City and Westminster whilst<br />
an elephant promoted a circus by being walked<br />
to and across the ice at Blackfriars.<br />
It has been suggested that these and similar<br />
weather related events during his formative<br />
childhood years - before his father was torn away<br />
from the family and thrown into debtors prison -<br />
made a deep and lasting impression on him that<br />
manifested in many of his writings: particularly<br />
in the Pickwick Papers and most pointedly in A<br />
Christmas Carol itself.<br />
Was the book then really an invocation of his<br />
childhood of Christmases with his family? Many<br />
believe that it is.<br />
Charles Dickens<br />
Catherine Dickens<br />
Dickens quit his life as a reporter in 1834, bid<br />
farewell to his drinking companions at the Turk’s<br />
Head tavern next to Exeter’s Guild Hall and left<br />
<strong>Devon</strong> for London, to write full time . But he came<br />
back to the county often, and married Catherine<br />
Hogarth, a pretty, Scottish lass then living in Exeter<br />
and the daughter of his one-time newspaper editor.<br />
Dickens was 24 and she just 21.<br />
Charles John Huffam Dickens preceded her on 9th<br />
June 1870, aged 58. His grave is to be found at<br />
Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey but his greatest<br />
monument of course is his literary work.<br />
Of these, A Christmas Carol remains the most<br />
popular, internationally. As a book it has never<br />
been out of print.<br />
On television it has appeared scores of times and<br />
in various guises since it was first transmitted by a<br />
New York tv channel, WABD ,on 20 <strong>December</strong> 1944.<br />
There have been 22 film versions since the first<br />
one-reeler attempted to tell the tale in 1901. That<br />
is if you include The Muppet Christmas Carol<br />
(1992) with Michael Caine as Scrooge and Kermit<br />
the Frog as Bob Cratchit.<br />
But to the arguably sublime from the wonderfully<br />
ridiculous, the last words on this subject must<br />
surely go to the great man himself.<br />
<br />
“If I could work my will,” said Scrooge indignantly,<br />
“every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’<br />
on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding,<br />
and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.<br />
He should!”<br />
<br />
But here, finally, is Charles Dickens himself,<br />
speaking to the reader in the voice of one of the<br />
key characters of the tale. Fred.<br />
Fred? You will remember (or might care to know)<br />
that Ebenezer Scrooge had a sister, called Fran,<br />
who had died in childbirth, bringing this, her only<br />
child into the world.<br />
Having tried, unsuccessfully to persuade his uncle<br />
to join him and his wife to share Christmas dinner<br />
with them, Fred tells the unrepentant old miser:<br />
“The only time I know of, in the long calendar<br />
of the year, when men and women seem by one<br />
consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to<br />
think of people below them as if they really were<br />
fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another<br />
race of creatures bound on other journeys. And<br />
therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap<br />
of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it<br />
has done me good, and will do me good; and I<br />
say, God bless it!’”<br />
John Fisher<br />
It was 1836, the same year that he had published<br />
his first literary success, The Pickwick Papers. (The<br />
character of The Fat Boy is based on a potman at<br />
The Turk’s Head).<br />
Within a few years he had become an international<br />
literary celebrity but although the couple had<br />
10 children the marriage was not a happy one.<br />
Nevertheless, Catherine found time, between her<br />
confinements, to write her own best-seller - a<br />
cookery book - which in an age of long book<br />
titles was called What Shall we Have for Dinner?<br />
Satisfactorily Answered by Numerous Bills of Fare<br />
for from Two to Eighteen Persons.<br />
Catherine Dickens died on 22 <strong>November</strong> 1879 aged<br />
64 and was laid to rest in Highgate Cemetery in<br />
London with her infant daughter, Dora, who had<br />
died in 1851 aged nearly eight months.<br />
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Great Night Out<br />
Enjoy FOOD and LIVE MUSIC at your local venue<br />
LIVE MUSIC<br />
THE JAKE LEG JUG BAND<br />
03 Nov - The Jake Leg Jug Band brings the<br />
authentic sounds of 1920’s and 30’s America,<br />
The Tucker’s Jazz Club, The Tucker’s Arms,<br />
Axminster, 8.00pm to 10.00pm.<br />
PERFECT STRANGERS<br />
03 Nov - The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
NIGEL PRICE WITH THE MARTIN DALE<br />
QUARTET<br />
04 Nov - Guitar star plays great jazz<br />
standards backed by fine quartet. Plus Big<br />
Band! Plymouth Jazz Club, The Royal British<br />
Legion Club, Plymouth, 7.15pm to 10.30pm.<br />
MUSIC NIGHT: HONEST JOHN & RAY<br />
BEAVIS<br />
04 Nov - Blues, Rock and Popular classics,<br />
The Point, 14 Pilot Wharf, Exmouth, 6.30pm<br />
to 8.45pm.<br />
KINGSBRIDGE JAZZ CLUB AT AVETON<br />
GIFFORD<br />
06 Nov - John Maddocks Jazzmen present a<br />
unique evening of popular classic trad jazz,<br />
Kingsbridge Jazz Club, The Fisherman’s<br />
Rest, Aveton Gifford, 6.30pm to 10.00pm.<br />
PHILIP CLOUTS TRIO<br />
07 Nov - Philip Clouts with this trio, playing<br />
jazz standards, Latin jazz and originals,<br />
Fougou Jazz, Fougou Jazz at Churston Golf<br />
Club, Brixham, 8.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
Kirk Key’s Lime Pie, Rockfish<br />
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07 Nov - Pete Canter & Friends Jam Session,<br />
Pete Canter, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, 8.30pm to<br />
11.00pm.<br />
SWING JAZZ NIGHT<br />
09 Nov - Five piece swing band, Just<br />
Misbehavin’, The Sorry Head, Exeter, 9.30pm<br />
to 11.45pm.<br />
EVOLVER<br />
10 Nov - The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
10 Nov - In 1964 The Seekers came to Britain<br />
capturing the nation’s hearts, Brixham Theatre<br />
CIO, Brixham Theatre, Brixham, 7.30pm to<br />
10.00pm.<br />
Ben Carr<br />
JUST MISBEHAVIN’<br />
11 Nov - Swing jazz to finish your weekend<br />
in style, Just Misbehavin’, The Point Bar &<br />
Grill, Exmouth, 6.00pm to 8.30pm.<br />
ROCKFELLA<br />
16 Nov - The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
THE MATT CARTER QUARTET WITH<br />
LEIGH COLEMAN<br />
17 Nov - Matt Carter, Leigh Coleman, Tom<br />
Drewett & Gary Evans - soul & blues<br />
evening, The Tucker’s Jazz Club, The<br />
Tucker’s Arms, Axminster, 8.00pm to<br />
10.00pm.<br />
STONEFOX<br />
17 Nov - The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
DUTTY MOONSHINE BIG BAND<br />
17 Nov - 14-piece Jazz trained big band<br />
fronted by Grime MCs. Not the usual<br />
big band, Pigs Nose Inn, <strong>East</strong> Prawle,<br />
Kingsbridge, 8.00pm to 11.30pm.<br />
PETE ALLEN, HONORARY CITIZEN OF<br />
NEW ORLEANS<br />
18 Nov - Pete Allen presents a slick, fastmoving<br />
show of happy, traditional jazz, Pete<br />
Allen, Sidholme Hotel, Sidmouth, 3.00pm<br />
to 5.30pm.<br />
THE SUSSEX JAZZ KINGS<br />
18 Nov - Great traditional jazz by a talented<br />
& highly entertaining band, Plymouth<br />
Jazz Club, The Royal British Legion Club,<br />
Plymouth, 7.30pm to 10.30pm.<br />
SKY ENSEMBLE AT NORTH DEVON JAZZ<br />
CLUB<br />
19 Nov - Superb jazz septet playing folktinged<br />
original music by Pete Canter, Pete<br />
Canter, Beaver Inn, Appledore, 8.30pm to<br />
11.00pm.<br />
OPEN ACCESS FOLK BAND<br />
19 Nov - Open access Folk Band for acoustic<br />
instruments, Wren Music, Victory Hall,<br />
Broadclyst, 7.00pm to 9.00pm.<br />
SHEELANAGIG<br />
23 Nov - ‘High octane stuff…Would liven<br />
any party and keep the floor full’ - fRoo,<br />
James H Soars Media Services, The Barrel<br />
House, Totnes, 7.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
THE CRAVING<br />
23 Nov - The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
ROCK THE NIGHT<br />
24 Nov - The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
PETE CANTER TRIO<br />
25 Nov - Excellent jazz with fine saxophonist<br />
Pete Canter & Friends, Pete Canter, Point<br />
Bar & Grill, Exmouth, 6.00pm to 8.40pm.<br />
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£14 | per person | Wed | 6:30-9:00pm<br />
Pie and Pudding Thursdays<br />
£14 | per person | Thu | 6:30-9:00pm<br />
Sunday Lunch<br />
£14 | per person | Sun | 12:00-2:00pm<br />
Sunday Dinner & Dessert<br />
£14 | per person | Sun | 6:30-9:00pm<br />
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Shack Classic Fish Pie<br />
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Live Music<br />
Wednesday 7th <strong>November</strong><br />
PHILIP CLOUTS<br />
Churston Golf Club, Brixham<br />
Sunday 18th <strong>November</strong><br />
PETE ALLEN<br />
Sidholme Hotel, Sidmouth<br />
Saturday 17th <strong>November</strong><br />
DUTTY MOONSHINE BIG BAND<br />
Pigs Nose Inn, <strong>East</strong> Prawle<br />
LATE SHIFT<br />
30 Nov - The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
TANKUS THE HENGE & SUPPORT: JESS<br />
MCALLISTER<br />
30 Nov - A Tankus the Henge live experience<br />
is something to behold, The Beehive, Dowell<br />
Street, Honiton, 8.00pm to 11.00pm.<br />
THE DRAT PACK<br />
02 Dec - Jazz, jump-jive, swing & Latin<br />
band with Charismatic singer Adam Moran,<br />
Plymouth Jazz Club, The Royal British<br />
Legion Club, Plymouth, 7.30pm to 10.30pm.<br />
MUSIC NIGHT: HONEST JOHN & RAY<br />
BEAVIS<br />
02 Dec - Blues, Rock and Popular classics,<br />
The Point, 14 Pilot Wharf, Exmouth, 6.30pm<br />
to 8.45pm.<br />
OPEN ACCESS FOLK BAND<br />
03 Dec - Open access Folk Band for<br />
acoustic instruments, Wren Music, Victory<br />
Hall, Broadclyst, 7.00pm to 9.00pm.<br />
JULIEN MARGA QUARTET<br />
05 Dec - Julien Marga is a French guitarist<br />
influenced by Pat Metheny and Keith Jarrett,<br />
Fougou Jazz, Fougou Jazz at Churston Golf<br />
Club, Brixham, 8.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
BRIDGE JAZZ CLUB<br />
05 Dec - Pete Canter & Friends<br />
Jam Session, Pete Canter, Exeter Phoenix,<br />
Exeter, 8.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
POETRY AND MUSIC<br />
07 Dec - Poetry and Music Ann Gray with<br />
Pam Zinnemann-Hope supper from 6.30 for<br />
8pm start, Sladers Yard, West Bay Road,<br />
West Bay, 6.30pm to 10.00pm.<br />
THE<br />
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ARMS<br />
DINING OFFERS<br />
Rump Steak & a bottle of red wine<br />
£25 | 2 persons | Mon | 6-9pm<br />
Christmas Lunch Special<br />
Roast Turkey and Christmas Pudding<br />
£14.95 | Tue-Sat | 12-2pm | 04-22 Dec<br />
Table Bookings t. 01395 232218<br />
WRECKING BALL<br />
07 Dec - The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
BAD EDUKATION<br />
08 Dec - The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS WITH NICK<br />
THE FISH<br />
08 Dec - Join us for a Fishy Christmas.<br />
Fantastic menu, Cocktails and Dancing,<br />
The Oyster Shack, Milburn Orchard Farm,<br />
Bigbury, 6.00pm to 12.00am.<br />
Just quote '<strong>Devon</strong>shire' for all dining offers<br />
DINING OFFERS<br />
Early Diners Offer: 20% off<br />
Tues-Fri | bookings only 6.30-6.45pm.<br />
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information or see neilsrestaurant.com)<br />
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DINING OFFERS<br />
Christmas Parties for Lunch & Dinner<br />
from £16.50 | per person | Dec<br />
Handmade Pizzas<br />
Buy 1 get 1 half price | Mon-Sun | 6-9pm<br />
Fish & Chip Fridays<br />
£15 | 2 persons | Fri<br />
2 Course Lunches<br />
£15 | per person | Mon-Thurs<br />
More details on website. T&Cs apply to offers.<br />
Table Bookings t. 01548 852237<br />
JUST MISBEHAVIN’<br />
16 Dec - Swing jazz to finish your weekend<br />
in style, Just Misbehavin’, The Point Bar &<br />
Grill, Exmouth, 6.00pm to 8.30pm.<br />
KEVIN GRENFELL’S JAZZ GIANTS<br />
16 Dec - Great music & fun with Kevin<br />
Grenfell’s highly entertaining band, Plymouth<br />
Jazz Club, The Royal British Legion Club,<br />
Plymouth, 7.30pm to 10.30pm.<br />
PETE ALLEN’S JAZZ IN THE AFTERNOON<br />
16 Dec - Pete Allen, Honorary Citizen of<br />
New Orleans, with full seven-piece jazz<br />
band, Pete Allen, Sidholme Hotel, Sidmouth,<br />
3.00pm to 5.30pm.<br />
LAST EXIT<br />
21 Dec - The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS WITH BEN<br />
GUITAR CARR<br />
21 Dec - Join us for a Benny Christmas<br />
with 3 course menu, glass of Bubbles and<br />
Dancing, The Oyster Shack, Milburn Orchard<br />
Farm, Bigbury, 6.00pm to 12.00am.<br />
ROADHOGS<br />
24 Dec - The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
SKY LIZARD<br />
31 Dec - Celebrate the New Year with us!<br />
Fancy Dress optional! The Black Horse, 30<br />
Fore Street, Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
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Great <strong>Devon</strong> eateries<br />
By Richard & Jayne Eley<br />
THE<br />
MALTSTERS<br />
ARMS<br />
A great pub for every week of the year!<br />
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Ringmore<br />
his very individual thatched<br />
pub is well-named, located<br />
down a narrow lane in the<br />
rather remote South Hams<br />
village of Ringmore.<br />
The surrounding countryside<br />
is amongst the most attractive<br />
in our beautiful County.<br />
Dating from the 13th century,<br />
settling in a comfy chair. The<br />
food has a fusion feel, and has<br />
deservedly given the Journey’s<br />
End a destination reputation.<br />
The<br />
Journeyʼs<br />
End<br />
Ringmore<br />
Come and join us in our traditional village pub. On top<br />
of our delicious regular menu, we have ever-changing<br />
seasonal specials such as our succulent slow-braised lamb<br />
shank or a baked sea bass fillet with chive and shrimp sauce.<br />
We also boast beautiful home-made desserts to finish<br />
off your meal in the perfect way.<br />
We are now taking Christmas bookings so<br />
do not hesitate to get in touch!<br />
THE<br />
COTTAGE<br />
HOTEL<br />
Visit our website to view our current menu & events:<br />
www.themaltstersarms.com<br />
& RESTAURANT<br />
HOPE COVE SOUTH DEVON<br />
Lobster Pod<br />
Bistro now open<br />
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HOTEL<br />
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HOPE COVE SOUTH DEVON<br />
the pub has an interesting<br />
interior of log fires and memorabilia:<br />
one of those pubs<br />
that you walk round before<br />
Bigbury on Sea<br />
Bantham<br />
So this is not just an unusual<br />
and characterful pub, but one<br />
providing high quality fare.<br />
The Journey’s End Inn is dog<br />
friendly.<br />
THE<br />
COTTAGE HOTEL<br />
& RESTAURANT<br />
HOPE COVE SOUTH DEVON<br />
A charming traditional family-run hotel in a spectacular<br />
coastal location. Relaxing holiday atmosphere with excellent<br />
cuisine and an established reputation for hospitality and<br />
service. With sun terraces and gardens down to the beach.<br />
Winter Warmer breaks or short Breaks from<br />
£62 per person per night with dinner, bed and breakfast<br />
THE<br />
COTTAGE HOTEL<br />
OPEN & TO RESTAURANT<br />
NON-RESIDENTS<br />
HOPE COVE<br />
SOUTH DEVON<br />
Hope Cove, Kingsbridge, <strong>Devon</strong> TQ7 3HJ<br />
01548 561555 ◆ info@hopecove.com ◆ www.hopecove.com<br />
Lobster Pod Bistro now open<br />
Booking now for<br />
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The Restaurant Inspector<br />
Visits:<br />
Alexandra Hotel<br />
Lyme Regis<br />
Alexandra<br />
Hotel<br />
menu sampled<br />
The beautiful new conservatory, with views out across the lawns to the horizon<br />
Elegant dining with views!<br />
Starter<br />
Flaming Creme Brulée<br />
Spiced courgette and<br />
chickpea fritter<br />
Mains<br />
Pan roasted Cornish hake<br />
with braised pork belly<br />
Sous vide fillet of<br />
Pithayne Farm beef<br />
Pudding<br />
Baked white chocolate and<br />
raspberry cheesecake<br />
Drinks<br />
2012 Chateauneuf du Pape<br />
Destination dining in Lyme<br />
Dining is not just about the food, surroundings and<br />
views are equally important for your dining experience<br />
For the ultimate dining experience,<br />
you need good company, beautiful<br />
surroundings, low key service,<br />
comfortable chairs and great food.<br />
On this occasion the company was<br />
provided by my wife (as always),<br />
the surroundings were the recent<br />
new conservatory on the front of<br />
the Alexandra hotel facing directly<br />
out to sea. There are relatively few<br />
dining places along the <strong>East</strong> <strong>Devon</strong><br />
coast where you can experience a<br />
peaceful sea view, so there’s much<br />
to commend the Alexandra on this<br />
aspect alone.<br />
When it comes to a really important<br />
and often forgotten aspect - seating,<br />
so many dining establishments seem<br />
to totally forget about the need for<br />
comfortable seating. Those chairs<br />
with near vertical, straight backs are<br />
instruments of torture and can really<br />
mar the diners’ enjoyment, so it was<br />
a relief to have a lovely sea-facing<br />
table with comfortable seating.<br />
Their conservatory is a beautiful<br />
place to spend quality time<br />
dining and when it comes to<br />
the quality of food served, it<br />
was, as you’d expect, of a high<br />
standard.<br />
The Alexandra Hotel’s dining<br />
provision certainly provides a<br />
relaxed and memorable dining<br />
experience - top marks!<br />
Editor<br />
The Pope’s new castle, that’s the literal<br />
translation. Around Chateauneuf du Pape,<br />
more wine is produced in this one southern<br />
Rhone area than for the enire northern<br />
Rhone region. Let us not forget that once<br />
upon a time the Popes resided in Avignon,<br />
becoming great lovers of Burgundy wines.<br />
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Top - Pan roasted Cornish hake<br />
and braised pork belly<br />
Below - Spiced courgette<br />
and chickpea fritters<br />
What can beat a view out to sea whilst<br />
dining? Here in the conservatory<br />
of the Alexandra Hotel restaurant,<br />
looking across the lawns<br />
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Top - Baked white chocolate<br />
and raspberry cheesecake.<br />
Below - Sous vide fillet of<br />
Pithayne Farm beef
Great <strong>Devon</strong> eateries<br />
Book online now at www.oystershack.co.uk<br />
or call us on 01548 810 876<br />
The Oyster Shack, near the estuary, Milburn Orchard Farm,<br />
Stakes Hill, Bigbury TQ7 4BE<br />
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FOOD and DRINK<br />
The Restaurant Inspector<br />
Visits:<br />
The Clock Tower<br />
Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth<br />
The<br />
Clock Tower<br />
Restaurant<br />
menu sampled<br />
Starters<br />
Goats cheese bon bons,<br />
cauliflower puree, spiced<br />
carrots & pea shoots<br />
Beetroot, fennel & halloumi<br />
salad with citrus dressing<br />
Flaming Creme Brulée<br />
Mains<br />
Scallop & king prawn<br />
tagliatelli in a rich crab bisque<br />
Wild mushroom ravioli,<br />
pesto & parmesan crisps<br />
Pudding<br />
Rich dark chocolate mouse,<br />
vanilla cream & brandy snap<br />
Lemon & ginger posset with<br />
cardamom shortbread<br />
Scallop & king prawn tagliatelli in a rich crab bisque<br />
Time flies at the Clock Tower<br />
A place thatʼs famous place for lunches, teas and delicious<br />
giant sized cakes - now thereʼs a restaurant where you can<br />
dine in the evening<br />
A memorable place for many<br />
people visiting Sidmouth are the<br />
Connaught Gardens, in particular<br />
a visit to the Clock Tower for a<br />
lunchtime meal or tea and cake.<br />
Where they really excel is in the<br />
cake department,<br />
when you order a<br />
cake, the portions<br />
are enough to feed<br />
a family of four.<br />
But now it’s possible<br />
to dine in the<br />
evening at the Clock<br />
Tower. The team<br />
there, there headed<br />
by Justine Fraser, have opened<br />
up a restaurant, so great news for<br />
Sidmouth as there are even more<br />
dining choices for the consumer.<br />
Amuse bouche<br />
Dining upstairs means that you<br />
can stare through the gothic arch<br />
windows out across the bay, little<br />
glimpses, and it’s a unique space<br />
that does make for an interesting<br />
dining occasion.<br />
On to the food, you<br />
can see that there are<br />
some adventurous<br />
dishes on the menu,<br />
and execution of<br />
these was carried<br />
out with aplomb!<br />
The food was all<br />
cooked to a high<br />
standard and was extremely tasty<br />
to boot. All I can say is well done to<br />
Justine and the team at the Clock<br />
Tower. Editor<br />
Beetroot, fennel & halloumi salad with citrus dressing<br />
Rich dark chocolate mouse, vanilla<br />
cream & brandy snap crown<br />
Lemon & ginger posset with<br />
cardamom shortbread<br />
Lovely gothic windows through which<br />
to enjoy the fine views of the bay<br />
Goats cheese bon bons, cauliflower puree,<br />
spiced carrots, radish & pea shoots<br />
Wild mushroom ravioli, pesto & parmesan crisps<br />
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Great <strong>Devon</strong> eateries<br />
The<br />
Otterton<br />
Fresh food prepared & cooked on the premises<br />
using local ingredients from our own farm shop<br />
• 15 quality rooms for B&B. From £90/night per double room,<br />
including full English breakfast • Dogs welcome (designated areas)<br />
• Children’s play area • Extensive Gluten Free menu<br />
• Fresh food using local ingredients from our own farm shop and fish<br />
landed by our own trawlers whenever possible<br />
• Food served 12pm-2.30pm and 6pm-9pm Monday to Saturday<br />
Quality carvery Sundays Noon-8pm • Reservations recommended.<br />
• Bar serving quality local real ales & fine wines<br />
FORE STREET • OTTERTON • DEVON • EX9 7HB 01395 568416 www.kingsarmsotterton.co.uk<br />
DON'T MISS OUR FANTASTIC COMPETITION<br />
a meal for two and wine at the SIDMOUTH HARBOUR HOTEL<br />
See page 50 for more information<br />
A place for eating, drinking & meeting<br />
• WITH A VIEW OF LYME BAY •<br />
Tuesday to Friday 20% Discount<br />
for Early Diners<br />
T’s & C’s Apply, see website for details<br />
Open for Dinner Tuesday to Saturday from 6.30pm<br />
Live online booking at neilsrestaurant.com<br />
Radway Place, Vicarage Road, Sidmouth, EX10 8TL<br />
Tel. 01395 519494 | Email. bookings@neilsrestaurant.co.uk<br />
Pyne's Sidmouth <strong>Devon</strong> | 01395 513047<br />
www.bedfordhotelsidmouth.co.uk<br />
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Festive<br />
Dining Guide<br />
Celebrate Christmas and enjoy a little seasonal indulgence<br />
<strong>Devon</strong> has some great eateries and venues with delicious menus available throughout the festive season,<br />
perfect for Christmas celebrations, parties and festive family meals during the run up to Christmas.<br />
Take a look at our suggestions below - make sure you book well in advance to secure your table.<br />
THE KINGS ARMS AT OTTERTON<br />
Otterton 01395 568416<br />
www.kingsarmsotterton.co.uk<br />
EXETER RACECOURSE<br />
Exeter 01392 832599<br />
www.exeter.thejockeyclub.co.uk<br />
JOLLY JACKS<br />
Plymouth 01752 500008<br />
www.jollyjacks.co.uk<br />
THE OYSTER SHACK<br />
Bigbury 01548 810 876<br />
www.oystershack.co.uk<br />
THE MALTSTERS ARMS<br />
Woodbury 01395 232218<br />
www.themaltstersarms.com<br />
BERNAVILLE NURSERIES<br />
Cowley 01392 851326<br />
www.bernaville.co.uk<br />
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Great <strong>Devon</strong> eateries<br />
award winning restaurant • award winning marina<br />
Great<br />
Kick back & Relax<br />
Food, Company<br />
& Location!<br />
The<br />
sublime<br />
Primus<br />
Malbec<br />
2013<br />
Jolly Jacks, the perfect venue for your Christmas festivities.<br />
Amazing food, great Christmas menu, warm and cosy ambiance,<br />
friendly, welcoming and fun; Jolly Jacks has it all!<br />
CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR’S EVE BOOKINGS NOW BEING TAKEN<br />
• FREE secure parking • Dog & child friendly<br />
Tel: 01752 500 008 • www.jollyjacks.co.uk<br />
Mayflower Marina • Richmond Walk • Plymouth • PL1 4LS<br />
The Church House Inn, Churchstow<br />
Christmas<br />
Parties<br />
Festive lunch & dinner<br />
2 courses, coffee & mince pies, £16.50<br />
3 courses, coffee & Mince pies, £19.95<br />
Complimentary mulled wine<br />
Tel: 01548 852237<br />
hello@churchhouse-churchstow.com<br />
www.churchhouse-churchstow.com<br />
Red, red wi.... ine<br />
What is it about red wine, can there be anything as enjoyable<br />
if you've picked a really good one. Conversely, if you've<br />
made an error in your choice and picked something awful, it<br />
can literally sour your evening (I assume you're not a daytime<br />
drinker!). I've found myself suffering the after effects even up to<br />
four days after drinking some really bad stuff - not that it tasted<br />
bad, just I assume how it'd been grown at the vineyard, I suspect<br />
that cheap wines support overly liberal use of pesticides, which<br />
make their way into the wine.<br />
Back in the 80s, a famous song from<br />
that reggae band UB40 extolled<br />
the virtues of red wine (in terms of<br />
forgetting painful relationships), I<br />
have to laugh though, because there<br />
were some truly awful wines in this<br />
country in the 80s and the ability to<br />
buy something half decent from a<br />
shop was more often a miss than<br />
a hit. Not only would you be heartbroken at<br />
the breakup of your relationship, but possibly<br />
feeling very ropey from the after effects of the<br />
wine. Shop bought stuff was diabolical, so often<br />
it'd already turned to vinegar before opening,<br />
those canny European growers had recognised<br />
somewhere they could get rid of all their bad<br />
harvests - incidentally, what ever happened to<br />
the Wine Lake? I suppose in those days it really<br />
paid to use a reputable wine merchant, but you<br />
were talking serious money per bottle. Today the<br />
quality of wine is practically on another planet - I<br />
suspect the need for a merchant has diminished.<br />
If you're a UB40 fan and also a red wine drinker,<br />
there's a treat in store for you here because they<br />
have their own wine you can purchase at £28.50<br />
per bottle - one perhaps for Christmas. Editor<br />
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One of the most beautiful coastal locations in <strong>Devon</strong><br />
Dream Destination<br />
SIDMOUTH HARBOUR HOTEL<br />
The terrace of<br />
the Sidmouth<br />
Harbour Hotel,<br />
looking out<br />
across Lyme Bay<br />
- the views are<br />
sublime!<br />
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SIDMOUTH HARBOUR HOTEL<br />
Occupying what must be the most commanding positions<br />
in the town, the views from their dining area and patio are<br />
stupendous on a warm summer day or evening. Winners<br />
will be able to enjoy a most memorable dining occasion!<br />
COMPETITION<br />
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A bottle of wine is also included in the prize.<br />
All you need to tell us is at which hotel the Upper Deck Restaurant is situated?<br />
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Closing date for competition is the 15th <strong>December</strong>.<br />
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Peak and Salcombe Hills<br />
The coastal footpath is literally just across the<br />
road from the hotel, taking you up to Peak Hill<br />
and Mutters Moor.<br />
A readymade break is waiting<br />
for you at Sidmouth: beautiful<br />
walks, a great town with<br />
interesting shopping and a<br />
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NETHERLANDS<br />
Windows are important to the<br />
Amsterdammer ('Mokummer'<br />
in Dutch), no ugly modern<br />
skyscrapers to ruin the sky<br />
line here. Just take note of<br />
how the massive windows<br />
dominate facades of buildings,<br />
there's something very<br />
cheerful about it all.<br />
AMSTERDAM<br />
Venice of the North<br />
'River View by Moonlight' - Aert van<br />
der Neer circa 1640/50 on view at the<br />
excellent Rijksmuseum.<br />
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Amsterdam has excellent sea links,<br />
essential for any trading dependent<br />
nation in the days before the train.<br />
You can see that the city is very well<br />
connected to the open sea.<br />
If you're a lover<br />
of maps, the<br />
collections at the<br />
Maritime Museum<br />
are exceptional<br />
(see further on).<br />
PARS on map is<br />
Persia (in Greek), a<br />
province of Iran.<br />
Amsterdam has<br />
many beautiful<br />
and interesting<br />
independent<br />
shops, it's a great<br />
place to just<br />
amble!<br />
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NETHERLANDS<br />
Early in the year, leaves yet to sprout on the trees, bicycles stacked up on the railings - you must<br />
remember to be careful crossing, bicycles creep up on you silently from all directions.<br />
Reliquary<br />
decorated with<br />
Christ, saints<br />
and angels of<br />
gilded copper,<br />
inlaid glass<br />
and enamel<br />
originating from<br />
Limoges, circa<br />
1200-1250.<br />
Body Worlds<br />
If you've an eye for the<br />
gruesome, then a visit to<br />
Body Worlds (right) is highly<br />
recommended. Human bodies<br />
dissected, arteries and muscle<br />
tissue replaced with resin,<br />
showing the physiology of<br />
the human body in gruesome<br />
detail - an absolute must!<br />
Rijksmuseum<br />
The most visited museum in<br />
the Netherlands, the Rijksmuseum<br />
is the Dutch national<br />
museum. It was opened in<br />
2013 after a ten year renovation<br />
project costing €375<br />
million. The Rijksmuseum<br />
should figure highly on your<br />
list when visiting Amsterdam.<br />
Above and below, a couple of<br />
the exhibits from the museum.<br />
One of the selection of early Dutch paintings at Rijks Museum<br />
Your eyes don't deceive you, stripped<br />
of skin and fat, an actual cadaver<br />
painstakingly preserved to show the<br />
physiology of the human body.<br />
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No visit to Amsterdam would be complete<br />
without popping into the house where<br />
Rembrandt lived and worked for twenty<br />
years, between 1639 to 1656. The 17th<br />
century Dutch interior has been lovingly<br />
Rembrandt House Museum<br />
and meticulously reconstructed providing<br />
a unique experience of Rembrandt, the<br />
Netherlands' greatest artist. The Museum<br />
also contains an almost complete collection<br />
of etchings by Rembrandt.<br />
Herbal Products<br />
Something you cannot fail to notice are the<br />
numerous shops and cafés pedalling cannabis<br />
in all shapes and forms. Your nose will quickly<br />
tell you when you come across someone<br />
smoking this very pungent weed. The photos<br />
below show some of the products available from<br />
retail outlets if you're of a mind to partake.<br />
The impressive building of the Amsterdam Centraal station which is actually the second<br />
largest railway station of the Netherlands, used by up to 160,000+ passengers a day. The<br />
building was designed by Pierre Cuypers in the Gothic Renaissance Revival style, with the<br />
roof superstructure being of cast iron. The station was first opened in 1889 and quite closely<br />
follows the style of the Rijksmuseum.<br />
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NETHERLANDS<br />
NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM<br />
Amsterdam<br />
A veritable gem for those interested<br />
in maritime history is the National<br />
Maritime Museum (Het Scheepvaartmuseum<br />
in Dutch). Housed in what<br />
was once a naval storehouse named<br />
's Lands Zeemagazijn built in 1656.<br />
The range of exhibits is impressive,<br />
from a fully restored sailing vessel,<br />
through to a cartography department,<br />
where you could literaly spend a<br />
couple of days milling around admiring<br />
the artistry. Also they have a<br />
beautiful collection of model sailing<br />
ships, complete with sales and rigging<br />
which have been built at quite a large<br />
scale, some standing height.<br />
Of particular merit is their ship figureheads<br />
section, I've can honesty say<br />
I've never seen anything like it. The<br />
detail lavished on these is a real eye<br />
opener, with all manner of modelled<br />
characters. A very common theme<br />
seems to be ladies with full bosoms<br />
on display. If you peer over to the<br />
top right it's evident what I'm saying<br />
here. Riebald humour would have<br />
been the mainstay of mariners who<br />
would be at sea in harsh conditions<br />
for months, even years at a time,<br />
without the presence of women. The<br />
Het Scheepvaartmuseum is a most<br />
engaging place for those who love<br />
their history.<br />
An early compass made<br />
by Ioannes van Keulen in<br />
Amsterdam.<br />
Maps were elevated to being<br />
works of art, the lavish detail<br />
and artistry is staggering.<br />
The beautiful model ship<br />
department of the museum.<br />
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The magnificent<br />
Dutch Royal Barge, a<br />
breathtaking display of<br />
gilded splendour.<br />
A Roman centurion figurehead. I<br />
wonder what the name of the ship<br />
would have been that had this fine<br />
figurehead at the bow.<br />
You get the feeling that our maritime predecessors enjoyed a<br />
riebald sense of humour. These figureheads are fairly blatant,<br />
I particularly like the lady sporting the fine hat and feather.<br />
These figureheads would make ships easily recognisable,<br />
particularly with illiterate sailors.<br />
The Het Scheepvaartmuseum to give it its proper Dutch name, a wonderful place for visitors with an interest in maritime<br />
history, if you have the time you may find you wish to visit over a couple of days as there's much to admire.<br />
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Th e C O U N T R Y M A N<br />
planted these trees some 20 years<br />
ago, this is so disheartening and<br />
even more so to have to replant.<br />
Easily rectified! Just get down and<br />
finish laying the boundary hedge<br />
this winter, this may stop intruders<br />
next apple harvest season.<br />
I now try to lay sections of hedge on<br />
a 10-year rotation. This is slightly<br />
quicker than most, however, I<br />
do so for a very good reason; a<br />
huge sense for satisfaction and<br />
achievement once completed. Also,<br />
the by-products are essential. Last<br />
year’s produced bushy hazel pea<br />
footing without making a noise and<br />
announcing their presence to all.<br />
Some 10 years ago, when in the<br />
veg patch mid-<strong>November</strong>, my<br />
attention was drawn to a lot of<br />
splashing and water disturbance<br />
on the River Bray some 80 metres<br />
away. I paid little or no attention at<br />
first assuming the local mallards<br />
were in some form of dispute. As<br />
it endured for several minutes<br />
I heeded more notice and soon<br />
released it was spawning salmon.<br />
Though I still have never seen this<br />
at close hand, I watched from afar<br />
The importance of apple trees in your garden,<br />
and indeed, winter feeding for birds when they really need it.<br />
best gravels on all the Taw system<br />
and that’s why it is thought to be<br />
the best spawning tributary of the<br />
river Taw. The drought of this last<br />
summer has meant salmon and sea<br />
trout fishing on all <strong>Devon</strong>’s rivers<br />
has been particularly bad. On the<br />
Mole, the worst I can remember,<br />
very few salmon have been caught,<br />
so we have little or no indication<br />
of the salmon population in the<br />
rivers this year. Thus, the only way<br />
fishermen have any idea of salmon<br />
stocks is by locating and counting<br />
the redds. This is not easy, last<br />
year the river Bray was often too<br />
high and the water too coloured<br />
to even see the base of the river,<br />
however, if the water has the right<br />
clarity then the gravel disturbance<br />
can be easily noticed. So, if a crisp<br />
<strong>November</strong> riverside walk takes<br />
your fancy this autumn, keep an<br />
eye out for these redds and get a<br />
glimpse of the part of the salmon’s<br />
life cycle that occurs in our rivers.<br />
Wildlife encounters such as<br />
seeing the salmon spawning or<br />
just finding evidence of their<br />
presence, even hearing or, better<br />
still, seeing the last of the red<br />
deer rut in early <strong>November</strong> are<br />
so rewarding. The effort to get<br />
out on often not the most pleasant<br />
days of the year should be part of<br />
all the lives of those that live in<br />
this county. To that end, I try to<br />
provide a few photos of some of<br />
the exhilarating encounters I have<br />
had recently. One of the best was<br />
watching an adult peregrine with<br />
prey in its talons teasing it’s young<br />
away from the security of their<br />
nesting site. I witnessed this along<br />
the cliffs between Combe Martin<br />
and Watermouth in September<br />
unfortunately, I didn’t bring the<br />
camera out in my very small kayak!<br />
In the constant pursuits of photos<br />
of close encounters none could<br />
have been better than my latest. It<br />
was the last week in October and<br />
this article had to go to press and<br />
I needed more photos. Luck was<br />
on my side! Off to the moor on a<br />
cloudy, still warm afternoon, surely<br />
something of interest would show<br />
up. I was expecting a really special<br />
stag or better still, two big boys<br />
with antlers locked… it wasn’t to<br />
be. However sat on a lichen covered<br />
and weather old fence post, I came<br />
across the most obliging short<br />
eared owl some 15 metres from<br />
where I was and here is the last and<br />
best photo (page14). Christopher.<br />
sticks, slightly bent hazel runner<br />
bean poles, and plenty of small<br />
ash for kindling for the wood<br />
burner. I get a great pleasure<br />
of seeing the hedge stock proof.<br />
Once completed, the interlocked<br />
branches provide sheltered<br />
nest-sights for many birds and<br />
the red deer don’t like climbing<br />
through the tightly interwoven<br />
laid branches. I suppose it is<br />
difficult to find sound footing on<br />
the top of the banks and it must<br />
be almost impossible to get a firm<br />
and enjoyed the rest from forking<br />
over the soil. <strong>November</strong> is the best<br />
month to see the female salmon<br />
cut a redd, which is to loosen an<br />
area of river bed gravel, forming a<br />
shallow depression in the fist-sized<br />
gravelled areas close to the tails<br />
of pools where the water flow is<br />
even. This requires a lot of effort<br />
on their behalf. Once done, the<br />
male or cook fish releases his<br />
milt to fertilize the eggs which<br />
then stick to the stones ready to<br />
develop. The river Bray has the<br />
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NOV & DEC 18<br />
art exhibitions<br />
DEVON<br />
EXHIBITIONS<br />
SHOOTING THE BREEZE<br />
Until 04 Nov- An exhibition of<br />
paintings by Sue Ifould and<br />
handmade books by Gaynor<br />
Williams, Harbour House, The<br />
Promenade, Kingsbridge, 10.00am<br />
to 5.00pm.<br />
LOOKING FOR JEFFERY EDWARDS<br />
Until 17 Nov- We are delighted to<br />
be showing a selection of past and<br />
brand new works, Brook Gallery,<br />
Foreshore House, Budleigh Salterton,<br />
10.30am to 5.00pm.<br />
EXHIBITION: GREAT ARTISTS GREAT<br />
TEACHERS<br />
Until 17 Nov- Exhibition celebrating<br />
the 250th anniversary of the Royal<br />
Academy of Arts, The Arts Institute,<br />
The Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth.<br />
KABOOM! HONITON!<br />
Until 21 Nov- A series of silkscreen<br />
prints inspired by Honiton's shops,<br />
pubs & galleries, Ross Penwill,<br />
Artist-Printmaker, The Red Room,<br />
Honiton, 7.00am to 6.00pm.<br />
DEVON VOICES 1914-1918: HOME<br />
FRONT STORIES<br />
Until 06 Dec- Exhibition exploring<br />
<strong>Devon</strong>’s unique First World War<br />
history, Royal Albert Memorial<br />
Museum - RAMM, Queen Street,<br />
Exeter, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
Michael Morgan - 'Bamburgh Castle' - Marine House at Beer<br />
Studio Gallery<br />
E X H I B I T I O N S<br />
In the Cafe Gallery<br />
Light on Water<br />
13 to 18 Nov<br />
An exhibition of Mark’s paintings<br />
at the Cafe Gallery.<br />
Ocean Studios, Royal William Yard,<br />
Plymouth PL1 3RP<br />
www.markfielding.co.uk<br />
Budleigh: Tues-Sat 10.30-5.00 Sun 2.00-4.30<br />
www.brookgallery.co.uk 01395 443003<br />
From City to the Sea<br />
30 Nov to 04 Jan<br />
An exhibition combining etchings<br />
by Louise Davis and line prints by<br />
Gail Brodholt to make a glorious<br />
exhibition this Christmas.<br />
For this, other talks and events visit:<br />
www.brookgallery.co.uk<br />
Exhibitions<br />
Aspirations<br />
04 to 10 Nov - 10am-4pm, free entry.<br />
Wild Thing<br />
15 Nov to 04 Dec - Paintings and prints<br />
of wildlife, 10am-4pm, free entry.<br />
Christmas Art & Craft Exhibition<br />
07 to 09 Dec - Fri: 10am-late,<br />
Sat & Sun: 10am-4pm, free entry.<br />
01395 515551 Coburg Road, Sidmouth<br />
www.kennawayhouse.org.uk<br />
Amanda Popham<br />
Inspiration in Clay<br />
03 to 16 Nov - Solo show<br />
of new works at Steam Gallery.<br />
www.steamgallery.co.uk<br />
01297 625144<br />
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CANADIANS IN DEVON 1914 - 1918:<br />
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER<br />
Until 06 Dec- Exhibition of WW1<br />
photographs originally exhibited at<br />
RAMM in 1918, Royal Albert Memorial<br />
Museum - RAMM, Queen Street,<br />
Exeter, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
CURIOSITY SHOP: LOOKING WITH<br />
OLDER EYES<br />
Until 09 Dec- Exhibition of art by<br />
older people in Exeter City Council<br />
housing in the city, Royal Albert<br />
Memorial Museum - RAMM, Queen<br />
Street, Exeter, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
'ATMOSPHERE’ EXHIBITION BY<br />
ALISON JOHNSON<br />
03 Nov to 18 Nov- Alison will<br />
be in the gallery to discuss her<br />
work with you, Host Galleries,<br />
12 Whimple Street, Plymouth,<br />
9.00am to 5.30pm.<br />
ART EXHIBITION 'ASPIRATIONS'<br />
04 Nov to 10 Nov- Art Exhibition<br />
by local Artists, 'Aspirations',<br />
Kennaway House, Coburg Road,<br />
Sidmouth, 10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
Jeannette Hayes - 'Two trees 3' - Artwave West, Morcombelake<br />
CONFERENCE: WOMEN LEADING<br />
CHANGE<br />
11 Nov- A multidisciplinary<br />
conference for women exploring<br />
how we can lead change, Bridging<br />
the Worlds - Christa Mackinnon,<br />
Duke of Cornwall Hotel, Plymouth,<br />
10.00am to 5.30pm.<br />
BODY LANGUAGE<br />
13 Nov to 18 Nov- Drawings and<br />
paintings from the Friday Life<br />
Drawing Group at Harbour House,<br />
Harbour House, The Promenade,<br />
Kingsbridge, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
AFTER EIGHTIES CELEBRATION OF<br />
FOUR ARTISTS<br />
17 Nov to 20 Jan- Fred Cuming RA,<br />
Alfred Stockham RCA RWA, Robin<br />
Rae RCA and Richard Batterham,<br />
Sladers Yard, West Bay Road, West<br />
Bay, 10.00am to 4.30pm.<br />
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: DAVE ROPER<br />
20 Nov to 25 Nov- See the art<br />
gallery transformed into a working<br />
art studio, Harbour House, The<br />
Promenade, Kingsbridge, 10.00am<br />
to 5.00pm.<br />
DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY GALLERY<br />
TOUR: DEVON VOICES<br />
21 Nov- A friendly, relaxed tour of<br />
the exhibition <strong>Devon</strong> Voices 1914-<br />
1918: Home Front St, Royal Albert<br />
Memorial Museum - RAMM, Queen<br />
Street, Exeter, 10.30am to 12.30am.<br />
YOURWAY SUPPORT - MEMBERS<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
24 Nov to 29 Nov- Host Galleries<br />
are proud to collaborate with<br />
'Yourway', a local support<br />
facility for people with learning<br />
disabilities, 12 Whimple Street,<br />
Plymouth, 9.00am to 5.30pm.<br />
Mark Fielding - 'Small pleasures, Grand Canal'<br />
WINTER ART FAIR<br />
02 Nov to 21 Nov- Festive artwork<br />
by members of Town Mill Arts, Town<br />
Mill Arts, The Malthouse Gallery,<br />
Lyme Regis, 10.30am to 4.30pm.<br />
NOVEMBER EXHIBITION<br />
02 Nov to 23 Nov- Works of Pauline<br />
Talbot., Artizan Gallery Cafe Venue,<br />
Artizan Gallery, Torquay, 12.00am to<br />
6.00pm.<br />
DORSET ARTISTS<br />
02 Nov to 28 Nov- A showcase of<br />
artwork about Dorset created by<br />
talented Dorset-based artists, Town<br />
Mill Arts, The Courtyard Gallery, Lyme<br />
Regis, 10.30am to 4.30pm.<br />
AMANDA POPHAM SOLO SHOW<br />
03 Nov to 16 Nov- New ceramic<br />
sculptures by British earthenware<br />
sculptor Amanda Popham, Steam<br />
Gallery, Fore Street, Beer, 11.00am to<br />
5.00pm.<br />
DRAWN TOGETHER<br />
06 Nov to 11 Nov- Collaborative<br />
paintings by students in Anita<br />
Reynolds' workshops, Harbour<br />
House, The Promenade,<br />
Kingsbridge, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
TALK: CHANGE & CHALLENGE AT<br />
THE ROYAL ACADEMY<br />
08 Nov- Sir Charles <strong>East</strong>lake's<br />
Presidency (1850-65), with<br />
Dr Susanna Avery-Quash, The<br />
Arts Institute, Theatre 2, Roland<br />
Levinsky Building, Plymouth,<br />
7.00pm to 8.00pm.<br />
AUTUMN EXHIBITION<br />
09 Nov to 15 Dec- An enthralling<br />
mix of artists for the last show<br />
of <strong>2018</strong>, Artwave West, A35,<br />
Morecombelake, 10.00am to<br />
4.00pm.<br />
Alan Cotton - ' Cyprus - Summer Landscape' - Brockhill Studio<br />
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NOV & DEC 18<br />
art exhibitions<br />
DEVON<br />
Simon Fowler - 'Dartmoor' - GalleryFAB, Newton Abbot<br />
A SUNDAY AT STUDIO 36<br />
25 Nov- A day of art, music and lively<br />
conversation, Studio 36, 36 Denmark<br />
Road, Exeter, 11.00am to 6.00pm.<br />
PRESENT MAKER<br />
27 Nov to 09 Dec- A Christmasthemed<br />
exhibition of arts and crafts,<br />
Harbour House, The Promenade,<br />
Kingsbridge, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
SON & MOTHER<br />
29 Nov to 05 Dec- Showcase of<br />
abstract landscapes, Town Mill Arts,<br />
The Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis,<br />
10.30am to 4.30pm.<br />
FROM CITY TO THE SEA<br />
30 Nov to 04 Jan- Joint exhibition<br />
featuring work by Louise Davies<br />
and Gail Brodholt, Brook Gallery,<br />
Foreshore House, Budleigh<br />
Salterton, 10.30am to 5.00pm.<br />
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Until 17 Nov - Paintings by<br />
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Deck the Halls<br />
24 Nov to 22 Dec - Gallery artists<br />
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Gail Brodholt - 'Alice Underground' - Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton<br />
ALAN COTTON CHRISTMAS STUDIO<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
01 Dec to 02 Dec- Alan Cotton will<br />
open his studio for two days on the<br />
first weekend in <strong>December</strong>, Alan<br />
Cotton, Brockhill Studio, Colaton<br />
Raleigh, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
EXHIBITION: FREQUENCIES<br />
01 Dec to 14 Dec- Arts and<br />
Humanities MA Show, The Arts<br />
Institute, The Levinsky Gallery,<br />
Plymouth.<br />
ART EXHIBITION AT OUR CHRISTMAS<br />
FAIR<br />
07 Dec to 09 Dec- Art Exhibition<br />
at our Christmas Fair by Rob<br />
Crisp, Kennaway House, Coburg<br />
Road, Sidmouth, 10.00am to<br />
5.00pm.<br />
Thelma<br />
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Julie Ellis - 'Morning Sunlight' - Brownston Gallery, Modbury<br />
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A selling exhibition of contemporary craft<br />
Present Makers<br />
A selling<br />
<strong>2018</strong> 10 <strong>November</strong> – 22 <strong>December</strong><br />
exhibition of contemporary craft<br />
Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Elmfield House, Dowell Street, Honiton, <strong>Devon</strong> EX14 1LX<br />
A selling exhibition 10 <strong>November</strong> of contemporary<br />
01404 – 22 45006 info@thelmahulbert.com <strong>December</strong> craft<br />
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Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 5pm<br />
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10 <strong>November</strong> – 22 <strong>December</strong><br />
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Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 5pm Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Elmfield House, Dowell Street, Honiton, <strong>Devon</strong> EX14 1LX<br />
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LOCATION:<br />
Brockhill Studio<br />
Colaton Raleigh<br />
<strong>Devon</strong> EX10 0LH<br />
Alan Cotton<br />
STUDIO EXHIBITION<br />
1 st and 2 nd <strong>December</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 10am to 5pm<br />
Transylvania - The Vegetable Garden at Miklosvar<br />
Oils on Canvas 51 x 61 cm 20 x 24 ins<br />
Two summers ago Alan Cotton travelled<br />
to Transylvania to gather new ideas for his<br />
paintings. For many it is a land of legend<br />
and mystery, but for Alan it was an amazing<br />
discovery of a landscape and way of life<br />
largely unchanged for centuries. The<br />
wildflower meadows, hayricks and village<br />
cultivation provided rich material for a series<br />
of paintings of this pastoral landscape. For<br />
this studio exhibition he has produced a<br />
collection of new Transylvanian paintings<br />
together with work from Provence, Venice,<br />
Piemonte and Hartland in North <strong>Devon</strong>.<br />
The exhibition is open for two days only,<br />
when the artist will be there to welcome<br />
anyone who would like to visit the studio<br />
and see his work.<br />
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Solo show of new pieces at Steam Gallery, Beer<br />
<br />
Inspiration In Clay<br />
Saturday 3 <strong>November</strong> to<br />
Friday 16 <strong>November</strong><br />
Our annual highlight of new works by the<br />
celebrated sculptural potter Amanda Popham<br />
is with us again! This is our fifteenth year<br />
showcasing her unending innovation and creativity.<br />
The show of 60 new works has now become<br />
an established highlight of Steam Gallery’s year.<br />
As always, collectors greatly anticipate<br />
this event. Most pieces can be viewed<br />
on our website and can be secured<br />
now by simply contacting the gallery.<br />
However, nothing can surpass the<br />
impact and sheer joy of seeing the entire<br />
grouping displayed at the exhibition.<br />
Amanda Popham - ‘Sunday Afternoon’ - 36cm - £575<br />
Please join us and catch up with Amanda<br />
on launch day Saturday 3 <strong>November</strong><br />
from 11.00am.<br />
Amanda Popham<br />
‘Giddy Up Pussy Cats’<br />
29cm - £775<br />
Steam Gallery, Fore<br />
Street, Beer, EX12 3JB<br />
01297 625144<br />
www.steamgallery.co.uk<br />
Amanda Popham - ‘Looking at the Little Birdies’ - 56cm - £795<br />
Michael Morgan - ‘Bamburgh Castle III 2009’ - 10.5x10.5 ins - £5350 Michael Morgan - ‘Bamburgh Castle I, 2003’ - 12.5x12.5ins - £6450<br />
Michael Morgan - ‘Lighthouse VIII’ - 10x8ins - £4350<br />
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Marine House at Beer has long been the centre<br />
for original paintings by the distinguished<br />
<strong>Devon</strong> artist the late Michael Morgan.<br />
We continue to acquire his work which<br />
(1928 - 2014)<br />
remains in high demand. Here we present<br />
three of his special coastal scenes currently<br />
available. For enquiries please contact the<br />
gallery on 01297 625257.<br />
Fore Street, Beer, EX12 3EF Marine House 01297 625257 Steam Gallery 01297 625144<br />
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Tuscany - Cherry Orchard in Evening Light at Strove 91 x 102 cm (36 x 40 ins)<br />
Alan Cotton,<br />
one of Britain’s<br />
most distinctive<br />
landscape artists,<br />
has travelled to<br />
many parts of the<br />
globe to discover<br />
new subjects for<br />
his paintings.<br />
His explorations have taken him from Morocco to<br />
Tibet, where he went as Expedition Artist to Mount<br />
Everest with Sir David Hempleman-Adams. As Tour<br />
Artist, Alan also travelled with His Royal Highness<br />
the Prince of Wales to Australia, New Zealand,<br />
Sri Lanka and Fiji. When working in Transylvania,<br />
paintings from which feature in this exhibition, he<br />
was privileged to stay in The<br />
Prince of Wales’ cottage.<br />
Alan has produced paintings<br />
from all these exotic places, but<br />
it is to Provence in the South<br />
of France and Tuscany and<br />
Piemonte in Italy that he returns<br />
again and again. Sometimes<br />
film crews accompany him and<br />
there have been a number of<br />
television films of Alan working<br />
in these regions. The first, “A<br />
Step or Two Away the Picture<br />
is Complete” for BBC saw Alan<br />
working in his studio, along<br />
the Otter Valley and in Brittany.<br />
Two half hour programmes<br />
called “Cotton on Canvas”,<br />
Alan Cotton's<br />
beautiful<br />
Provence - Bonnieux From Tom<br />
Stoppard's Garden in Lacoste<br />
77 x 61 cm (30 x 24in)<br />
landscapes<br />
narrated by Hugh Scully, were made for ITV<br />
and these was filmed amongst the hill towns of<br />
Provence, the orchards of Tuscany and beside the<br />
canals in Venice.<br />
There have been two illustrated biographies by<br />
Art Historian Jenny Pery “On a Knife Edge” and<br />
“Giving Life A Shape” and a<br />
new book “Drawn to Paint”,<br />
currently in production, which<br />
shows how his drawings form<br />
the basis for his paintings, will<br />
be launched at the Private View<br />
of his London Exhibition with<br />
David Messum in September<br />
2019.<br />
Alan is Hon. Professor of Arts<br />
at the University of Bath and a<br />
founder member and President<br />
Emeritus of the South West<br />
Academy. He also received an<br />
Honorary Doctorate from the<br />
University of Exeter for his “...<br />
outstanding contribution to<br />
the Arts”.<br />
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Ear cleaning is a vital task for a mother, mum here<br />
is Rosie and Lily the grateful recipient. Sadly, Lily<br />
is now deceased, and having met her, I can say it's<br />
Down at Yellingham Farm<br />
a great tragedy as she was such a lovely little dog<br />
with a great character. Below, Janet <strong>East</strong> onboard<br />
her trusty Fordson tractor.<br />
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This scepter'd isle<br />
ENGLAND<br />
St Martin's Church, Canterbury<br />
Probably Britain's most important Christian site<br />
Up and down the land there are literally<br />
thousands of churches, in fact over 37,500.<br />
St Martin's church at Canterbury holds<br />
an extremely important place in Britain's<br />
Christian history and it's easy to forget just<br />
how significant the church remains in the<br />
Christian world.<br />
Firstly, it's the oldest extant* church in Britain,<br />
it's also the first church founded in England<br />
and the oldest church in the entire English<br />
speaking world, so to say it's significant<br />
would be something of an understatement.<br />
Although the Celts in Britain had widely<br />
converted to Christianity by the 3rd and<br />
4th centuries, the post-Roman invasion by<br />
Angles, Saxons and Jutes meant that pagan<br />
religions were returning to dominance,<br />
certainly as Kent was one of the counties<br />
bearing the brunt of these invasions,<br />
Christianity was being to relegated to<br />
the native Celts. To stem this ongoing<br />
pagan invasion Pope Gregory the Great<br />
despatched a mission to England with<br />
the purpose of converting the invaders<br />
to Christianity. He sent Augustine who<br />
departed from Rome in May 595, but<br />
he became so daunted by the task that<br />
he returned to Rome in July, begging<br />
permission to abandon the mission. After<br />
being made an abbot, he was instructed to<br />
complete the task originally given to him.<br />
In early 597 Augustine landed on the<br />
Isle of Thanet. He made his way to Canterbury,<br />
meeting up with the Saxon (and<br />
pagan) King Aethelberht and his wife<br />
Bertha. Bertha was already a Christian,<br />
being the daughter of the King of Paris,<br />
and it's known that she used St Martin's<br />
Church as her private chapel for worship<br />
before Augustine's arrival in England.<br />
King Aethelberht was later baptised in<br />
this church.<br />
It's interesting to note that the Venerable<br />
Bede said of St. Martin's church that it had<br />
been in use since the late Roman period,<br />
although it had subsequently fallen into<br />
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Your ENGLAND<br />
Aethelberht - first English<br />
king to convert to<br />
Christianity, was king of<br />
Kent. In the ninth century<br />
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle<br />
Aethelberht is referred to<br />
as Bretwalda.<br />
On the right is the<br />
oldest part of the<br />
church where you can<br />
see the bare Roman<br />
bricks and Saxon<br />
stonework.<br />
disuse. Undoubtedly it would have seen both<br />
Celtic and Roman worshippers meaning that<br />
in reality the church is most likely to be even<br />
older than the stated year of Augustine's<br />
arrival in 597AD.<br />
Augustine, with the help of Queen Bertha,<br />
managed to get King Aethelberht to agree<br />
to the allocation of land and subsequent<br />
construction of an abbey (later to be known<br />
as St. Augustine's Abbey).<br />
The church itself, as with most churches, is<br />
an amalgam of construction through the<br />
ages, although it's easy to spot the Roman<br />
bricks used in parts of the building. If you<br />
visit, there's information within the church<br />
that tells you exactly where the earliest part<br />
of the church is located.<br />
If you're a church lover, St. Martin's Church<br />
must go onto your wish list of most historic<br />
churches visited.<br />
Nigel Jones<br />
(extant* - in continuous use)<br />
St. Augustine's Abbey, or rather, what's left of it. There's an excellent mini museum on site which is run<br />
by English Heritage. There is a charge for entry, but it's a fascinating and extremely historic site that<br />
you will really wish to visit once you've been to St Martin's church which is about half a mile up the road<br />
Inside St. Martin's, the lower end in fact. It's<br />
fairly basic inside, but you have to be awed by<br />
the history and significant visitors to which this<br />
humble church has been privy, including a Saxon<br />
king and St. Augustine.<br />
The font for performing baptisms. It's said that<br />
king Aethelberht was baptised here in 597. The<br />
font has been constructed out of a well head from<br />
the Cathedral cloisters.<br />
It's a well-trodden path and you'll walk in King<br />
Aethelberht and St. Augustine's footsteps, taking<br />
you back beyond fourteen centuries of English<br />
Christian history.<br />
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DEVONSHIRE HOME<br />
The Prince of Terriers<br />
DEVON'S ONLY BREED OF DOG<br />
It's true, the Parson Jack Russell is <strong>Devon</strong>'s only breed of dog (unless you know otherwise?). It's<br />
a formidable animal, all the feisty character of a terrier JR with the long legs of the Parson, it was<br />
originally bred by Parson John "Jack Russell" to chase foxes. The Parson was based at St. James's<br />
church, Swimbridge in North <strong>Devon</strong> and here you can see Alfie Jones pictured outside.<br />
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Be Inspired<br />
Christmas Nutcrackers<br />
with Colwin Way<br />
Saturday 10 th <strong>November</strong><br />
Upcoming store event...<br />
Be inspired to turn your own decorative Christmas nutcrackers this season,<br />
at this special free demonstration in our Axminster store.<br />
International woodturner and Axminster Skill Centre tutor, Colwin Way, provides<br />
a step-by-step guide to crafting these traditional German nutcrackers. His knowledge<br />
and informal presentation style have made him one of the most popular woodturning<br />
demonstrators in the UK - don’t miss this rare opportunity to see him in our Live Workshop!<br />
Free event 10am-4pm. Please register your interest on<br />
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Visit our store soon to experience the ‘Axminster difference’<br />
and discover just how much we share your passion.<br />
Search axminster.co.uk or call 01297 302370.<br />
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A point of view!<br />
Nelson’s Column<br />
by JOHN FISHER<br />
kicking our way through drifts of leaves<br />
in reds, yellows, oranges, golds and browns<br />
this autumn instead we seem to enjoying<br />
a surplus of, well - a surplus of just plain,<br />
common or garden browns.<br />
And it’s all down to our<br />
deciduous trees and<br />
shrubs having been<br />
seriously dehydrated<br />
this summer, the RHS<br />
tells us. That lack of<br />
moisture has starved<br />
leaves of a number<br />
of essential sugars<br />
because trees have<br />
been unable to build<br />
up their reservoirs of these sugars that are<br />
needed to trigger colour changes.<br />
“Autumn is a second Spring<br />
when every leaf becomes a flower!”<br />
BEAUTIFULLY PUT, by one Albert Camus*,<br />
the French philosopher, author, and Nobel<br />
Prize Winner for Literature, who clearly<br />
had never experienced the kind of hot, dry<br />
summer we experienced in <strong>Devon</strong> this year.<br />
Whilst we could normally expect to be<br />
*Not to put the poet in Albert Camus down,<br />
we should add in his defence that he was<br />
born, raised and studied in Algiers and may<br />
not have experienced an Autumn amongst<br />
deciduous trees until he lived in Paris in his<br />
early 20s and came up with that very pleasing<br />
line in our headline.<br />
A storm named Kevin?<br />
EVERY STORM NOW HAS A NAME - and no<br />
bad thing because it increases our awareness<br />
of these weather extremes the Met Office<br />
informs us. But some sound stormier than<br />
others, do they not?<br />
A storm called Ragnar for example (we made<br />
that one up) sounds much more threatening,<br />
surely, than one called Kevin, which we did<br />
not make up.<br />
The complete list of storm names for <strong>2018</strong>-<br />
2019 issued jointly by the Met Office and Met<br />
Eirean reads as follows: Ali, Bronagh, Callum,<br />
Deirdre, Erik, Freya, Gareth, Hannah, Idris,<br />
Jane, Kevin (we told you), Lily, Max, Niamh,<br />
Oliver, Peggy, Ross, Saoirse, Tristan, Violet<br />
and Wyn.<br />
If some of those names sound a tad unfamiliar<br />
(or even unpronounceable) it is because the<br />
list has been compiled from suggestions by<br />
members of the public, with the weather<br />
experts selecting the names “that reflect<br />
the nations’ culture and diversity of both<br />
the UK and Eire”.<br />
To save you looking it up, Saoirse is<br />
pronounced, Seer-sha or Ser-sha.<br />
All our yesterdays<br />
FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND is the title of a<br />
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the Carew baronets to have lived at Haccombe,<br />
the family seat in <strong>East</strong> <strong>Devon</strong> and spanning<br />
some 30 generations from 1086-1945.<br />
And if that sounds like some kind of history<br />
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thousand years in the telling, think on.<br />
The book will have wide appeal, especially<br />
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reflects the rich social history of county life<br />
as it does this remarkable family. how they<br />
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Sir George Carew went down with his ship,<br />
The Mary Rose and Thomas Carew was a<br />
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by JOHN FISHER<br />
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she shed, man cave or granny annex.<br />
With a little imagination you can create a haven<br />
for work or leisure, improving the quality of your<br />
home and working life.<br />
There are a number of companies that design,<br />
build and install garden rooms ranging from<br />
‘glorified sheds’ to high end, fully insulated<br />
rooms suitable for year-round use. Depending<br />
on the specification, level of service, size of<br />
building and site preparation, expect prices<br />
to range from £350/m²- £2000/m². Generally<br />
speaking you will get what you pay for. It’s<br />
important to research the market carefully<br />
and view buildings before buying whenever<br />
possible. When obtaining quotations, ensure<br />
that you get a detailed specification sheet so<br />
you can compare prices on a like-for-like basis<br />
and be sure of exactly what you’re getting for<br />
your money.<br />
With a relatively speedy build time, not to<br />
mention the disruption associated with a typical<br />
home extension, garden rooms have proven to<br />
be a cost-effective alternative to an extension.<br />
Garden rooms can be an aesthetically pleasing<br />
focal point to your garden that can serve many<br />
purposes. Unlike an extension, a garden room<br />
can provide serenity - an obvious benefit when<br />
working from home.<br />
A well-designed<br />
garden room will<br />
comprise of a<br />
number of layers<br />
including vapour<br />
barriers, breathable<br />
membranes and<br />
ventilated air spaces. This prevents warm<br />
moist air from inside the building escaping<br />
and condensing on colder surfaces within<br />
the structure. This in turn ensures the whole<br />
Garden rooms are<br />
generally considered<br />
to be a permitted<br />
development, not<br />
normally needing<br />
planning permission<br />
structure remains dry, preventing timbers rotting<br />
and ensuring longevity. For this reason, it is<br />
important that any insulation is installed correctly<br />
within a structure that has been designed to<br />
be insulated.<br />
Unlike a shed, a well-constructed garden room<br />
requires a solid foundation to prevent differential<br />
settlement and/or the building blowing away in<br />
the next storm. Some companies will provide<br />
a suitable foundation whilst others will require<br />
you to provide a concrete raft foundation on<br />
which they can install your garden room.<br />
Garden buildings are generally built using<br />
timber frame or structural insulated panel<br />
systems, normally pre-fabricated and installed in<br />
around five to ten days depending on building<br />
specification.<br />
A well-designed building should have a minimum<br />
life expectancy in excess of twenty years and<br />
will certainly add value to your property. When<br />
buying a garden room, make sure that the<br />
cladding, roofing, windows and doors come<br />
with guarantees and always invest in the best<br />
that your budget will permit.<br />
Garden rooms are generally considered to be a<br />
permitted development, not normally needing<br />
planning permission. There are exceptions and<br />
limits to this rule and ultimately the onus is on<br />
the property owner to ensure that any necessary<br />
approvals have been obtained. For further<br />
information you can visit www.planningportal.<br />
co.uk<br />
Building regulations will not normally apply<br />
if the floor area of the building is less than 30<br />
square metres and<br />
contains no sleeping<br />
accommodation.<br />
Once again there<br />
are exceptions and<br />
limitations to this<br />
rule and it would<br />
be prudent to check<br />
with building control<br />
when planning a<br />
garden room.<br />
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Horse<br />
Care<br />
Gastric Ulceration<br />
by Natalie Bucklar<br />
Gastric Ulceration<br />
in Horses<br />
At this time of year there are<br />
many reasons why horses can<br />
be more prone to gastric ulcers. As<br />
time in the field often decreases<br />
and horses spend more time in<br />
the stable, the ‘little and often’<br />
trickle feeding that is needed<br />
for gastrointestinal health can<br />
become compromised. Horses<br />
left in confinement overnight<br />
can finish their forage provision<br />
in a few hours, leaving them<br />
without food for several more.<br />
As the horse’s stomach continually<br />
produces acid, when no forage is<br />
present, less saliva is produced to<br />
buffer the acid and the acid will<br />
attack the stomach lining instead.<br />
If there is inadequate grass in<br />
the field and the horse isn’t fed<br />
additional forage outside, this too<br />
can contribute to this increasingly<br />
common problem, as can cereal<br />
feeds.<br />
Natalie Bucklar<br />
BSc (Hons), MSc (Equine Science)<br />
Natalie has owned horses for over<br />
30 years and owns <strong>East</strong> <strong>Devon</strong><br />
Riding Academy near Sidmouth.<br />
She has previously lectured in<br />
Equine Science to degree level and<br />
produced research for preparing<br />
Great Britains' equestrian teams<br />
for the Olympics. Natalie provides<br />
consultations in horse management,<br />
training and problem solving using<br />
a force-free, science based approach.<br />
Sadly, Equine Gastric Ulceration<br />
Syndrome (EGUS) often begins<br />
at a very young age. Sudden<br />
weaning is a huge contributory<br />
factor and a recent study found<br />
the prevalence of gastric lesions<br />
increase to an unbelievable 98% of<br />
foals within two weeks of weaning.<br />
EGUS can affect any type of horse,<br />
with other studies showing 93% of<br />
racehorses, 65% of performance<br />
horses and 54% of leisure horses<br />
to be affected.<br />
Medication is often<br />
required to aid recovery<br />
and good management<br />
is vital to help treat and<br />
prevent the condition<br />
Signs of EGUS include changes<br />
in behaviour, poor performance,<br />
difficulties when riding, refusing<br />
to jump, weight loss, colic, fatigue,<br />
grumpiness, teeth grinding, crib<br />
biting, loose droppings, dislike<br />
of the girth being done up and<br />
being cold backed. Some horses<br />
very obviously exhibit there is<br />
a problem, whilst others only<br />
show one or two mild symptoms,<br />
however, some horses with<br />
ulceration don’t demonstrate<br />
these symptoms at all. A full<br />
veterinary examination is needed,<br />
(including a video endoscopy)<br />
to evaluate the location and the<br />
extent of the internal damage.<br />
Medication is often required to aid<br />
recovery and good management<br />
is vital to help treat and prevent<br />
the condition. A low starch, high<br />
fibre diet, trickle feeding, less<br />
stabling, reducing stress and<br />
not exercising the horse with an<br />
empty stomach are all positive<br />
management strategies. Fibre<br />
in the stomach prior to exercise<br />
helps to prevent the acid splash.<br />
Unfortunately, EGUS is often a<br />
man made problem, so as with<br />
many conditions, prevention is<br />
better than cure. It can be fatal,<br />
particularly for foals, and at the<br />
least causes chronic discomfort<br />
for horses of any age.<br />
If you suspect that your horse<br />
may have EGUS, it is important<br />
to consult a specialist equine<br />
vet who can assist you with<br />
helping your horse to recover.<br />
Without appropriate treatment<br />
and management, the horse will<br />
continue to suffer and can exhibit<br />
dangerous behaviour due to the<br />
discomfort. However, if managed<br />
appropriately, horse’s can recover<br />
and consequently they become<br />
healthier and happier partners.<br />
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The Old Vet’nary<br />
by Ken Watson<br />
Three Marmalade Cats<br />
a friendly, family practice<br />
Or Gingers as I like to call them.<br />
In my time I have owned, or<br />
rather been on the staff of, many<br />
cats; but not so many as it might<br />
have been because they all, except<br />
one, lived to a good old age. It was<br />
the one exception which ensured<br />
my last three cats to be all Gingers.<br />
When I retired, one present<br />
amongst all my embarrassing<br />
number of gifts was a Siamese<br />
kitten we called Roo. She shared<br />
all the uprooting of our move<br />
from Plymouth to Sidmouth and<br />
we loved her dearly; but sadly, on<br />
her very first outing she was run<br />
over and killed by a tractor right<br />
outside our gate. She was never<br />
allowed that precious time to<br />
learn the dangers of the world. Her<br />
predecessor had been a Ginger<br />
cat from a farm at Plympton, so<br />
we made enquiries through the<br />
veterinary nurse network to see if<br />
they had another, and they did. So<br />
came about Ginger I and Ginger<br />
II. Later there was to be another<br />
Ginger cat and I would like to<br />
show how three cats, so similar<br />
in appearance, could differ so<br />
much in their characters.<br />
Ginger was a big strong cat, a<br />
typical castrated Tom. He was by<br />
nature an outdoor cat and he had<br />
a domain which really could not<br />
be improved upon; 15 acres of<br />
field and ancient woodland, and<br />
the field was alive with rabbits, his<br />
favourite food. Even so, he liked to<br />
spend most afternoons indoors<br />
which he enjoyed although his<br />
real home and nightly bed was<br />
with the chickens who lived in<br />
stables some 50 yards from the<br />
house. In the day he would often<br />
catch a rabbit as big as himself<br />
which he would carry down to the<br />
chicken house for consumption.<br />
To achieve this he had to drag his<br />
catch over a 4ft high chain link<br />
fence. It was not really necessary<br />
to scale the fence, but he knew<br />
it was right opposite the kitchen<br />
window and he did it just to show<br />
off. As I have said, he was a big<br />
strong cat, but yet he remained<br />
cuddly and loveable. Every tea<br />
time my wife would carry him<br />
down to the chicken house for his<br />
nightly sleep with the chickens,<br />
cat under one arm, his food under<br />
the other. He took his chicken<br />
guarding duties seriously, and we<br />
would often find the corpse of a<br />
rodent which had the temerity<br />
to try to steal the chicken food.<br />
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had passed away peacefully in his<br />
bed beside his beloved chickens.<br />
I have already told you how we<br />
came about to have Ginger II. I<br />
think he was the best of the lot. He<br />
loved to lay in wait in our Sidbury<br />
garden and ambush our Border<br />
Terrier as she strolled past intent<br />
on some ball game of her own<br />
devising. Whenever we sat on<br />
by Richard Woodward<br />
a garden seat he would make<br />
a beeline for your lap. When I<br />
revelled in retirement by having<br />
a post-lunch siesta, he would<br />
snuggle up to my chest and purr,<br />
and if I put my arm around him he<br />
would raise the rate and decibel of<br />
purr so that I had some difficulty<br />
in nodding off, although I did<br />
mostly manage. He was made for<br />
love, yet he had his mischievous<br />
streak. One time we went to<br />
London overnight and left him<br />
with plenty of food and all modcons,<br />
but when we returned we<br />
found he had completely unrolled<br />
the toilet roll so that it spanned<br />
the bathroom and even reached<br />
the hallway. When the end came,<br />
again at the grand old age of<br />
eighteen, he made a bed under<br />
our bed and refused to come out.<br />
A true gentleman of a cat.<br />
So that was that. We decided that<br />
at our age it was not fair to have<br />
another dog or even a cat... but our<br />
daughter had other ideas. The day<br />
she arrived with another ginger<br />
kitten, one of a litter of feral cats<br />
she rescued from a local farm in<br />
Shropshire. But what a cat she<br />
became. Everything about her<br />
is different. You notice I say “her”<br />
and that was the first difference,<br />
because most ginger cats are<br />
male; and having come in from<br />
the wild she decided to embrace<br />
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The Third Trimester of Life<br />
We speak to Neil Dowding about his life<br />
and how he's helping others at his home,<br />
Barleclose Farm.<br />
Barleclose<br />
Farm<br />
“Ideal for<br />
animal lovers!”<br />
Neil was a district nurse, working in Sidmouth for<br />
over 30 years. He's now looking after others of like<br />
minds while tending his small working farm.<br />
During our first Trimester,<br />
aged one to thirty we<br />
grew, developed and<br />
gained knowledge.<br />
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minds, with a choice of how they<br />
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Our second Trimester, aged thirty<br />
to sixty, a family is raised and a<br />
career progressed.<br />
So what do we do during our third<br />
Trimester, aged sixty and beyond?<br />
Neil and Sandra Dowding reached<br />
that third Trimester and decided<br />
to up size rather than to down size.<br />
They bought a small working farm<br />
on the <strong>East</strong> <strong>Devon</strong>, Dorset, and<br />
South Somerset boarder where they<br />
are living their rural dream.<br />
Now settled, they are in the<br />
position to be able to invite a lady<br />
or a gentleman, or both, to come<br />
and join them as an alternative to<br />
moving into a more formal care<br />
system.<br />
We spoke to Neil about his life so<br />
far and how he hopes to help others<br />
during their final stage of life.<br />
"I was a district nurse, working in<br />
the Sidmouth community for over<br />
thirty years while Sandra worked<br />
as an NVQ level 3 care assistant<br />
in Sidmouth hospital for 22 years.<br />
So between us we have had many<br />
years when they were able to study<br />
our patient’s reactions during their,<br />
sometimes rocky journey, through<br />
the dreaded third Trimester.<br />
"Living the life that we have chosen,<br />
Sandra and I are true converts<br />
"What are those choices? Does a<br />
person choose to socialise? Do they<br />
want to explore the Jurassic coast?<br />
Or would they rather retreat into<br />
their own private space? Are they<br />
‘Classical’ or ‘Pop’? Do they prefer<br />
Television to books? The choice<br />
is theirs. One thing is for sure a<br />
person’s love of animals would be<br />
well catered for here on the farm.<br />
"If a problem with health should<br />
arise, then a care provider would<br />
be bought in. But with a balance<br />
of interaction with others, mental<br />
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of private reflection, the whole<br />
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third Trimester should, and can<br />
be, joyous."<br />
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'INTERVIEW' by Susan Gebbie<br />
Tom King - WWII veteran<br />
At 94 years old, Tom King, MBE and recent recipient of<br />
the French Legion d’Honneur, lived through World War 2<br />
serving with the Royal Air Force and travelled extensively as<br />
a horticulturalist for the Imperial War Graves Commission.<br />
I’m keen to find out what he thinks of the way we live today.<br />
Tom welcomes me into his home in<br />
Sidmouth that he shares with his<br />
wife of over 70 years, Madeleine.<br />
He met his Belgian bride when<br />
liberating her village during World<br />
War 2. Neatly turned out and with<br />
a twinkle in his eye, he sits with<br />
his wife in the comfortable front<br />
room, while the well behaved dog<br />
sniffles around trying to work out<br />
what’s going on.<br />
Tom and Madeleine lived abroad<br />
for many years before retiring<br />
to Sidmouth, including France,<br />
Italy Belgium and Germany. He<br />
admits they all have their bad<br />
and good points. I ask which was<br />
their favourite country and Tom’s<br />
answer makes us all laugh. ‘Politically<br />
perhaps Belgium or Germany.<br />
But for the love of a country and<br />
for the people - the Italians. They<br />
say - 'yes we tell you lies, but we<br />
only tell you lies to please you!'<br />
Starting in 1946 with the Imperial<br />
War Graves Commission and<br />
finishing his career as senior<br />
horticulturalist, Tom enjoyed the<br />
job very much. He had some rough<br />
times too. For example beyond the<br />
iron curtain people were a little bit<br />
dubious and suspicious of what he<br />
was doing. And once in Algiers he<br />
had all his belongings stolen. Then<br />
the commissar of police suggested<br />
Tom should head to the Kasbar<br />
immediately where he might be<br />
able to buy his own stuff back!<br />
I want to ask him about the<br />
challenges he has faced and his<br />
thoughts on the youth of today,<br />
Brexit, Donald Trump, and how<br />
to get to 94. I’m hoping for some<br />
straight talking and I won’t be<br />
disappointed.<br />
So, how does he view the world<br />
today? 'Organisations seem more<br />
corrupt. You loose confidence. I<br />
have no interest in any politician<br />
irrespective of party. And, in terms<br />
of Brexit, we are in a terrible mess<br />
and don't seem to be able to sort<br />
anything out.'<br />
I ask if the Kings will be happy to<br />
leave Europe? Madeleine responds,<br />
‘We saw what was going to happen<br />
if we came out’ and Tom adds,<br />
‘I’m a Brit, but we’re Europeans,<br />
as we’ve lived so long in Europe<br />
and we understand the Europeans<br />
a lot more than many people in<br />
this country. A lot of older people<br />
think we’re a powerful nation like<br />
we were in the British Empire, I<br />
say we haven’t got the power or<br />
the influence that we had and we<br />
have to accept we are just another<br />
European country like any other.’<br />
Madeleine reflects 'They wont<br />
make it easy for Britain to get out<br />
because if others see we are getting<br />
something out of it then they may<br />
want to follow. We were disappointed<br />
and I blame Boris Johnson.'<br />
I’m wondering how the wealth of<br />
experience and wisdom garnered<br />
from 94 years can be passed on<br />
to the next generation. Tom’s<br />
response leaves me disillusioned<br />
'I’m not terribly convinced they’re<br />
interested. Youngsters have a<br />
totally different life to lead. Things<br />
have changed out of all recognition.<br />
The man was the bread winner and<br />
the wife and mother looked after<br />
the home and children. Now you<br />
need two salaries for the standard<br />
of living [the young] demand today.<br />
Back in our day we went without.'<br />
As Madeleine points out, 'credit<br />
wasn’t heard of in those days, it’s<br />
too easy for youngsters to make<br />
debt.'<br />
We discuss how living through war<br />
affects how you approach the rest<br />
of your life.<br />
'We can’t agree with the attitude<br />
of younger people today, maybe<br />
we’re envious that they have an<br />
easier life,' Tom admits. 'When you<br />
are younger there is always that<br />
hope,' Madeleine says, and I ask if<br />
she has become less trusting. 'Yes,<br />
of course. I seem to be expecting<br />
something that’s not nice to<br />
happen.' But Tom feels he has a<br />
more optimistic outlook.<br />
So what about the challenges we<br />
face now?<br />
'Wars today are more conflicts<br />
which is a great difference. We’ve<br />
had this recent skirmish with<br />
North Korea. And Trump - well<br />
everybody seems to hate him but<br />
he’s done something that no-one<br />
else has ever done, you have to<br />
give him credit for that.' A note of<br />
caution from Madeleine - 'We don’t<br />
know what he promised.' Only<br />
time will tell.<br />
However, for the Kings, war was<br />
not the only or even greatest<br />
challenge they faced over the<br />
years. Very sadly, they lost one of<br />
their daughters. Tom recalls 'it<br />
was sad, she was a lovely girl, the<br />
saddest moment, it happened after<br />
we retired. Other than that, the<br />
job was quite strenuous and quite<br />
frightening.' He looks rueful as he<br />
tells me that one of his colleagues<br />
was murdered for which he felt<br />
terribly responsible. I ask him<br />
to explain and the dreadful story<br />
unfolds.<br />
"'There was a cemetery just outside<br />
Tunis. A boy who was working<br />
there was not playing the game.<br />
We got fed up with his attitude so<br />
we had a report written in French<br />
for the Minister of Works and as a<br />
result this boy was suspended for<br />
6 months. In the meantime I went<br />
on tour with The Superintendent of<br />
Horticulture covering all Tunisia,<br />
Algeria and Morocco and then<br />
I left him in Casablanca and he<br />
took the car back to Tunisia. Just<br />
before Armistice in <strong>November</strong> he<br />
rang me and said, “I’m going down<br />
to see if this boy has retaken his<br />
job” as he was due back.'<br />
'The boy was there and convinced<br />
my colleague to go to the back<br />
of the cemetery to look at some<br />
weeds or something in the turf<br />
and while he was bending down<br />
he decapitated him. This man was<br />
responsible to check he’d returned<br />
to work, but had nothing to do with<br />
the suspension.'<br />
So was the boy brought to justice?<br />
'He escaped over the Atlas<br />
mountains into Algeria and they<br />
eventually caught up with him<br />
but the life of a European wasn’t<br />
thought to be worth much. These<br />
were the most difficult cemeteries<br />
to maintain because of the<br />
misunderstandings between the<br />
Europeans and Arabs.'<br />
And finally to the secret of long<br />
life? 'Luck, love and be happy' says<br />
Madeleine. Yes, that seems to have<br />
worked for the Kings and I think it’s<br />
a pretty good motto for life today.<br />
Susan Gebbie<br />
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Oak Apple Gall - caused by a tiny wasp<br />
W<br />
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A fine autumn day, the gradual wind-down to winter<br />
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The rolling countryside of <strong>East</strong> <strong>Devon</strong> is a<br />
real joy to walk. There are many miles of<br />
green lanes straddling <strong>East</strong> <strong>Devon</strong> that can<br />
be a delight to walk, giving you a feel for how<br />
fine old Norman tower. Whilst in the church,<br />
I was approached by the verger who informed<br />
me that Venn Ottery was on the old Salt Route<br />
from Exeter to Dorset. I couldn’t find any<br />
references to this, so if anyone out there has<br />
information on this, please make contact. I’m<br />
interested in finding out where it would have<br />
crossed the Otter, whether Harpford or Tipton<br />
St. John?<br />
Infinitely visually interesting - trees<br />
peaceful the countryside was, way back before<br />
the motor car. In those times, you’d probably<br />
see the odd cart or perhaps livestock being<br />
moved to market, other than that, it would have<br />
been very solitary. It’s amazing to reflect that<br />
people have trodden along these same lanes for<br />
centuries, and in all manner of circumstances.<br />
I should imagine that in the depths of winter,<br />
the fire and company at the local ale or cider<br />
house would have been a very welcoming<br />
prospect after a cold walk!<br />
Whilst on the walk, you could stop to admire<br />
the church at Venn Ottery, particularly the<br />
You may find sloes in the hedgerows,<br />
great popped in a bottle of gin<br />
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River Otter<br />
Higher Metcombe<br />
Hall’s Farm<br />
Metcombe<br />
Tipton<br />
St John<br />
Venn Ottery<br />
St Gregory’s<br />
Church<br />
+<br />
Venn Ottery<br />
Barton<br />
pond<br />
River Otter<br />
DISTANCE: 3.5 miles in<br />
total. As you can see on<br />
map, there are detours if<br />
you wish to walk further.<br />
GOING: Gentle inclines and<br />
flat. In winter, after rain,<br />
wellies are a good idea.<br />
Good for dogs also, but<br />
ensure you take a lead.<br />
ST GREGORY’S: It’s worth<br />
taking a look at the old<br />
church, particularly the<br />
Norman tower.<br />
Oak Apple Galls<br />
These gall formations are<br />
formed by the Oak Gall<br />
Wasp laying eggs inside leaf<br />
buds, the tissues then swell<br />
around the wasp larvae as it<br />
develops.<br />
Oak Gall Wasp<br />
St Gregory's Church at Venn Ottery<br />
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Rain, rain, glorious rain!<br />
A good old downpour drenching an<br />
autumnal landscape, the sun doing its<br />
best to break through the gloom. Rain<br />
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MANAGING your MONEY<br />
"the hardest thing in the world<br />
to understand is income tax"<br />
Albert Einstein<br />
Celebrating 26 years of<br />
providing independent<br />
financial advice in <strong>Devon</strong><br />
Stalling longevity<br />
and its impact on the pension world<br />
Helen Mulvaney<br />
BA (Hons), Dip M, DipPFS<br />
Proprietor of<br />
RICHMOND INDEPENDENT<br />
We seem to have got very used to the ever growing life<br />
expectancy rates which have been used, particularly by<br />
government, over the last decade or so, to convince us that we need<br />
to pick up our state retirement pensions a lot later.<br />
However, over recent years, the<br />
increase in life expectancy seems<br />
to have stalled*. The reasons for<br />
this are difficult to pin-point as<br />
there seem to be multiple factors<br />
causing this slowdown. Not least,<br />
that deaths from dementia and<br />
Alzheimer** related complications<br />
are on the rise and these have<br />
off-set the gains from other<br />
serious illnesses, such as cancer<br />
and heart problems. Diabetes is<br />
also possibly going to make an<br />
increasing impact with diagnosis<br />
of this disease trebling for men<br />
and women over the last 20 years<br />
and storing up problems for the<br />
future. This is also a disease which<br />
will have a devastating impact on<br />
the NHS as its management can<br />
be very expensive. The UK is not<br />
alone in experiencing slowing life<br />
expectancy with many developed<br />
countries in the same position.<br />
Slowing life expectancy has had a<br />
number of implications especially<br />
for annuity providers and trustees<br />
and corporate sponsors of final<br />
salary schemes. Many have had<br />
to revisit their projections. For<br />
final salary schemes this has<br />
represented a bit of relief and<br />
possible reduction in anticipated<br />
costs, whilst big insurance<br />
companies with large annuity<br />
books are probably going to be<br />
Slowing life<br />
expectancy has<br />
had a number of<br />
implications<br />
more profitable and able to release<br />
some reserves. Although the effect<br />
of slowing mortality rates may take<br />
some time to filter through. For<br />
those looking at buying an annuity,<br />
the situation has improved as their<br />
retirement savings may go a little<br />
further. This is likely to continue<br />
over the next few years , unless<br />
there's a substantial pick up in life<br />
expectancy.<br />
The recent improvements in<br />
annuity rates have been due mainly<br />
to improving gilt yields, but they<br />
are probably still historically low.<br />
However, as factors such as life<br />
expectancy and interest rates<br />
develop it is possible that buying<br />
an annuity will become more<br />
attractive in the future. Those in<br />
good health have probably not<br />
benefited too much from recent<br />
annuity increases because more<br />
retirees are taking advantage<br />
of medical underwriting and<br />
therefore those who are fit and<br />
healthy will get worse rates. If<br />
you want a guaranteed income<br />
for your lifetime then here's a<br />
reminder that shopping round the<br />
market for an annuity will nearly<br />
always be beneficial (unless there<br />
is a high guaranteed annuity rate<br />
attaching to your pension policy).<br />
Therefore it's worthwhile getting<br />
some independent advice on this<br />
matter. For clients in drawdown, we<br />
regularly consider how annuities<br />
compare and how much income<br />
Helen has been advising<br />
clients in the <strong>East</strong> <strong>Devon</strong><br />
for the past 26 years and<br />
specialises in the provision<br />
of retirement and<br />
investment advice.<br />
richmondindependent.co.uk<br />
helen@richmond-ifa.com<br />
01395 512166<br />
might be produced from an annuity<br />
at our regular reviews. This helps<br />
clients to focus on merits of taking<br />
a guaranteed income as opposed to<br />
taking income from a drawdown<br />
pension. Stockmarkets have been<br />
volatile recently and may become<br />
increasingly volatile as we head<br />
towards Brexit and it's important<br />
that retirees should also remain<br />
aware of the investment risk and<br />
sequencing risks that are part of<br />
drawdown plans.<br />
Helen Mulvaney<br />
* Source Office of National Statistics<br />
** reasons for stalling longevity FT<br />
Adviser 04/10/<strong>2018</strong><br />
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domesticity to the feline full.<br />
Although she will go out and enjoy<br />
her territory, she makes it clear that<br />
unless the weather is perfect, she<br />
would rather stay in with us. She<br />
is the most intelligent of the three<br />
and has developed many quirks of<br />
habit. She will only drink from a tap<br />
and lets us know when she is thirsty.<br />
At night she sleeps in the kitchen<br />
for she would otherwise give us no<br />
overnight peace. I have to announce<br />
“It’s time for Bed” and she appears<br />
for her nightly head scratch before<br />
making her way to the kitchen. She<br />
loves routine and her favourite foods<br />
are mayonnaise and mashed potato.<br />
She is full of life, but I would be less<br />
than honest if I said she was an angel.<br />
Some time in those early few weeks<br />
of life when she was like a sponge<br />
soaking up habits, good and bad,<br />
someone taught her a game which<br />
involved attacking hands or ankles.<br />
Nothing we have tried has cured her.<br />
As she can also open doors, it can<br />
get tedious.<br />
Yet of all her habits, one is the most<br />
charming. It is my old fashioned way,<br />
after a meal, to get up and give my<br />
wife a kiss. Wherever she may be<br />
in the house this cat miraculously<br />
appears on the table and as I bend<br />
down I feel a wet kiss on my cheek<br />
as she joins in the general love-in.<br />
Her name is Tigger. - Ken<br />
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