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octopus CORNWALL’S FAMILY MAGAZINE. JUGGLING LIVES

Issue 23

Little chefs

Knight fever

Lovely lobsters

Little Chefs

Swashbuckling fun with English Heritage

Cookery courses for kids, Food Revolution Day and more

Fascinating facts and a new book

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Lovely lobsters Facinating facts and a new book

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Managing Editor

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Steve Mathews

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A warm welcome to our May edition.

With so much to do at this time of year, this is our early summer special edition of the magazine.

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Joanne Stinton

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Charlotte Forster

We have chosen to build this issue around food. Writer Nadia

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Pendleton takes a look at the variety of cookery and food courses on offer to children here in Cornwall. These are a really good way to get

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kids to try new things and also to understand where food comes from. See page 8.

Ian Grant

On page 7 we visit Cornwall Services off the A30. If you regularly drive the

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stretch between Bodmin and Truro, you may have noticed the huge new building slowly being completed. Now it’s up and running and offering not only play

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options for kids (ideal for parties) but also fresh gourmet food cooked on site.

Food Revolution Day is coming up. This is an initiative from Jamie Oliver designed for kids, and again, it’s all about real food. Read more on page 14.

Finally, take time to get to know Claude the lobster in a new book from the National Lobster Hatchery in Padstow on page 18. Happy reading!

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Andy Forster

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Issue 23

Contents 4 7 9

News Steam trains, dinosaurs and competitions Active kids Visit Cornwall Services Little chefs Cookery courses for kids

Cover image courtesy of: Tom Young

11 Fun with the family Take a trip to Porthcurno 13 Knight fever At Pendennis and Tintagel 18 Lovely lobsters The National Lobster Hatchery’s new book

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Celebrate steam heritage in style with Bodmin & Wenford Over the weekend of 13th and 14th June, this fantastic steam railway is staging its annual Heritage Transport Festival, a highlight of this railway’s calendar year.

The event is a celebration of the transport of yesteryear with cars, lorries, buses, motorbikes, traction engines and working steam-power demonstrations.

An exciting timetable will be in operation at the Heritage Transport Festival, including brake van rides with one of the railway’s smaller steam locomotives.

There will be displays and attractions at Bodmin General Station throughout the weekend too, and the all-inclusive ticket offers great value for money.

On Saturday 13th June at 6pm the Steam, Beer & Jazz Event takes place, with live music on the platform and train from the Pennyroyal Jazz Band. Booking for this event is essential.

The Bodmin & Wenford Railway looks forward to welcoming you. Head along to this lovely stretch of countryside and discover Cornwall’s Premier Steam Railway.

Trains run daily from 2nd May until 4th October.

For more info call 01208 73666 www.bodminrailway.co.uk

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Dreaming of dinosaurs This May, the Theatre Royal Plymouth is thrown back in time with Dinosaur Zoo bringing awesome prehistoric creatures to the stage as you’ve never seen them before! This is a perfect treat for children ages 3 and upwards.

From gorgeous baby dinos to huge teethgnashing giants, marvel and interact with these extraordinary life-like dinosaurs in this imaginative and hilarious live show.

But watch out: not all of these ravenous reptiles are as tame as they seem.

Dinosaur Zoo has been wowing audiences across the country and in the West End. This is guaranteed fun for all the family and in Plymouth from Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd May. Simply contact the Box Office on 01752 267222 or visit the website below to book (if you’re brave enough!).

Theatre Royal Plymouth 01752 267222 www.theatreroyal.com/dino

Different daily craft activities 11am-2pm.

Tues 26th May – Streamer Fish Make a colourful friend to brighten up any room Weds 27th May – Butterfly Mobiles Decorate and assemble this hanging mobile Thurs 28th May – Lion Finger Puppets Have a roar-ing time making this puppet Fri 29th May – Peg Animals Fun clips to keep your photos & shopping lists safe

Or enjoy one of our may spotter trails:

Can you spot Teddy Horsley?

Tues, Weds, Thurs 11am-3pm and

Kings and Queens Spotter Trail

Award winning music classes for babies & young children TRURO, PENRYN, CHACEWATER, HAYLE, HELSTON, FALMOUTH, REDRUTH T: 01872 276766 E: truro@monkeymusic.co.uk

Riff-Raff’s Special Place Noah’s Ark Challenge St Piran Trail Why is Truro Cathedral a Special Place?

Monday to Saturday, 9am to 5pm

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Summer Family Activities at Tate St Ives Be inspired, explore and create with our holiday activities for all the family!

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Tate St Ives and the Barbara Hepworth Museum

Free for 18s and under^ To find out about our full programme of family activities and events Call 01736 796 226 / visit tate.org.uk/stives stivestate @tate_stives ^Accompanying adults pay standard admission

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This is a great choice for children’s parties.

You get 90 minutes of play followed by 30 minutes of food from the talented team of on-site caters. A minimum booking of 10 children is required and the birthday child of course goes free.

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The new Soft Play at Cornwall Services is really worth a visit. Add to this the tasty local food available here and your kids will be entertained for hours.

This May sees the arrival of a brand new leisure offer at Cornwall Services. It’s a three-floor purpose-built soft play for children up to age 11. It’s located next to the new Clip ‘n Climb offer at Cornwall Services, and between them these two leisure outlets will offer something for all ages, from toddlers to grown ups.

This soft play facility has been designed to fit in one of the units at Cornwall Services. It will be one of the tallest in Cornwall and will offer 1,500 square feet of fun. There’s a ball pool and double slide for toddlers on the ground floor level, rope bridges, climbing nets and a maze run on the next two levels.

This is also an exciting collaboration with Sausage & Roll and the Open Oven Pizza

Co who are based on site. Both of these companies use fantastic local Cornish ingredients to produce top quality food, whether it’s a fresh stone-baked pizza or a gourmet hot dog.

Together the soft play and the food outlets will be offering a fantastic menu for kids and adults to choose from. You simply order in the soft play area and it’s delivered straight to your table. There’s delicious barista coffee and an array of cakes and treats for grown ups too!

Prices & booking

Soft Play is free for under 12 months.

1-4 years: £4 off-peak and £5 weekends and school holidays.

4-11 years: £5 off-peak and £6 peak.

Special rates for registered child-minders of £1 off per child with a childminder During busy periods, play may be restricted to two hours.

It is not essential to book the Soft Play as you can simply drop-in and pay on arrival.

Opening times

Soft Play is open from 9.30-5.30pm (9.30am-6.30pm in the summer holidays).

For more information visit: www.indooractive.co.uk

Cornwall Services

Victoria, Roche, St Austell PL26 8UF (on the A30) 01726 891406 www.indooractive.co.uk

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Cooking is fun and creative. For children and adults alike, it is a way of self expression and a also a means of some instant recognition and thanks for your efforts. It boosts confidence in even the most shy or challenging child, and can really bring families closer together too.

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Cooking with your kids is a great way to get them to try new foods. Nadia Pendleton explores some ideas perfect for early summer.

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Cookery schools in Cornwall keep good company, from Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen Cornwall at Watergate Bay, recently renamed Cornwall Food Foundation, which has enrolled over 120 young apprentices and is fighting the good fight for food education regionally and nationally. Add to this the fish and seafood master classes of celebrity chefs such as Rick Stein and Nathan Outlaw, and it has never been easier to teach your children the importance of cooking healthy good food from scratch.

If you prefer to leave it to the experts, read on for some fantastic courses for young culinary explorers.

Brush up on pro skills at Rick Stein’s Cookery School The children’s cookery courses at Stein’s are specifically designed to inspire and engage the young chefs into the world of cookery. After watching an expert demo three dishes, you will then recreate each dish in pairs at your workstation enjoying each dish as you complete it. This is a real hands-on class with techniques such as de-scaling, trimming, filleting, slicing and deep-frying fish, making batter and preparing and cooking a compote included.

Courses offered from 8-11yrs 9:45 to 1pm; 12-16yrs 2 to 5pm.

A half day costs from £72. www.rickstein.com

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DIY food Be a wild foodie with The Family Foraging Kitchen Vix believes foraging is about more than just food and nourishment. It gets us out into the countryside, helps to cultivate an intimate appreciation of nature, lets us explore history, science and folklore and it can bond families, reestablishing connections severed by modern life. Look out for their wild walks and bee keeping sessions too.

Six sessions starting from 9th April, 5th May, 2nd June, 7th July, 4th Aug and 8th Sept, £5 per child and accompanying adults go free. www.familyforagingandwil.wix.com Forage with The Fat Hen Find delicious treats to cook and eat with Caroline. The group goes on a gentle walk to find a few key and easily identifiable wild foods and garden herbs and flowers such as nettles, blackberries, wild garlic, and elderflowers, followed by a one-anda-half hour cooking session where the class will prepare lunch together and eat together.

Fridays 10am to 2pm for children 5-12yrs (children under 7 need to be accompanied by an adult), £35. www.fathen.org/childrens-cooking-club

Bake outdoors with the Badger Forest School For little wild ones, there are woodland sessions designed for children and adults to work and play together, in a safe environment. Claire aims to have a fire and cook different campfire treats ranging from baked apples and pears stuffed with fresh blackberries and honey, homemade soup in a dutch oven, to making bread to cook on sticks over an open fire. There are delicious delights for all ages.

Cooking Outdoors 25th April 10am to 12pm, Cardinham Woods.

Badger Cubs (parent-toddler) sessions are every Monday and Wednesday morning 10.00 to 11.30 through term times.

All good cooking starts with great ingredients and there are some easy ways to teach your kids where it all comes from...

• Get a rod, or just a net and go fishing.

• Find out the best beaches to pick fresh mussels, whelks or cockles in season.

• Visit a ‘pick your own’ fruits and vegetables farm.

• Cook anything on an open fire together (even bread toasted on a stick tastes better).

One of the advantages of learning in this rich natural environment is that kids can easily see the field-tofork journey. Fishing boats fill the harbours, vegetables and grain grow in the fields around, farm animals are grazing all around and chickens run around plenty of local farm shops ready to let you collect fresh eggs.

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Duchy College Stoke Climsland Sat 20th & Sun 21st June 2015, 10am – 4pm Duchy College Rosewarne Sun 21st June 2015, 11am – 3pm Visit our website for full details of activities available on each campus site.

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Cast your line into the sea of songs, hoist the story sail and make treasures from the cargo of creativity!

23-24 May, 11am-3.30pm Work with a local artist to create a lighthouse keeper art installation, enjoy the classic tale of The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch, plus help fire a water-powered rocket to ‘rescue’ of a puppet sailor.

Thorsday

Shine On!

28 May, 11.30am 12.30pm & 2pm

Every Thursday of every school holiday is ‘Thorsday’!

Meet the Norse men and women from our epic Viking Voyagers exhibition, strike your own ‘Eric Bloodaxe’ coin, join in a Viking battle and see Vikings brought to life.

23-31 May, 12-3.30pm

Show some flare with our brilliant array of ‘make and take’ activities. Build your own St Anthony’s lighthouse model, make a lighthouse keeper’s lunch basket and create and fire a rescue rocket.

All activities are FREE with Museum entrance ticket. One creative craft activity each day.

Adult supervision required.

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Head down to glorious Porthcurno this May half term for Cornwall’s best family day out. With its glorious beach, an amazing museum packed full of surprises, and a beautiful cafe in which to refresh and refuel, it’s a special day out to remember.

If you still haven’t explored the amazing exhibitions at the Telegraph Museum Porthcurno, there’s no better time than this May half term. Special activities throughout half term week explore the art and science of light, and are

guaranteed to inspire bright young minds. Half term highlights include Irresistible Insects on 26th May when you can explore the science that makes some insects shine like beautiful jewels, and join a creepy-crawly learn, make and take session. Then, on 28th May, find out about the amazing properties of gold and make a glittering South East Asian mask to take home inspired by the museum’s global treasures.

ABOVE Explore and discover at the Telegraph Museum Porthcurno

May half term events Light up Porthcurno 23rd to 31st May We’ll be shining and dazzling with family-friendly activities all week celebrating the science and art of light.

For little visitors, free Explorer Backpacks come with loads of extra activities to keep them busy. A free museum trail and make and take activities are available every day. You’ll also get to return free for a whole year when you Gift Aid your admission, meaning you’ll never be short of something exciting to do with the kids any weekend or school holiday.

Irresistible Insects 26th May

Don’t miss the lovely museum cafe for delicious homemade cakes and treats, fresh lunches and plenty of childfriendly options. The Museum cafe and shop are free to visit.

Be inspired by stories and museum treasures. Learn about the amazing properties of gold, and make your own glittering South East Asian inspired mask to take home!

Why do some insects shine like jewels in the sun? Discover and explore the effects of iridescence in the natural world, in this insect-themed ‘learn, make and take’ session.

The Glorious Glow of Gold 28th May

Porthcurno, Penzance TR19 6JX 01736 810966 www.telegraphmuseum.org

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Pendennis and Tintagel Castles are going knight crazy this May half term with special events designed to show off the very best in battle skills.

Clash of Knights at Pendennis Castle, Falmouth Wednesday 27th to Thursday 28th May, 11am to 5pm Chain-mailed and adrenalin-fuelled, masses ranks of armoured knights meet head on. Feel the heat of the battle as four teams fight with clubs and shields in this contest of skill and strength.

Tensions will rise, alliances will be made and broken but only one team will triumph. Revel in the atmosphere of the encampment as it buzzes with the activity of everyday medieval life. Enjoy merry music while your budding young knights test their bravery on the field and burn off energy in battle drills.

Knights of Tintagel, Tintagel Castle Wednesday 27th to Friday 29th May, 11am to 5pm Witness the action as you journey back to medieval times of knights and legends of old where military skills were the entertainment of the day. Hear storytellers weave magical tales, while young knights in training can practise their sword skills. A jester will also make merry as he thrills the crowds with his comical japes and colourful show. This is fun for all the family in the beautiful setting of Tintagel Castle.

Pendennis Castle, Falmouth, TR11 4LP Tintagel Castle, Tintagel, PL34 0HE www.english-heritage.org.uk

A taste of military life

There’s plenty of cha nce to watch the knights practise with their weaponry and to get a taste of life in a military camp.

Search online for Pen dennis and Tintagel Castle for more details .

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Special discounts if you book early for events

Get a discount on ear ly bird tickets for event by visiting: www.english-herita ge.org.uk/visit/ southwest Tickets are also availab le on the day.

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Take part in Jamie Oliver’s online cooking lesson on Friday 15th May with 1,300 ambassadors across the world!

The Cornwall Food Foundation, the charity behind the Fifteen Cornwall Apprentice Programme and Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen Cornwall restaurant, is putting Cornwall on the map in this year’s global Food Revolution Day on Friday 15th May. Food Revolution Day, first launched in 2012, inspires people of all ages to learn about food and how to cook it. This day is about getting kids food-smart and setting them up for a long, healthy life.

Jamie Oliver believes that by educating children about food and cooking in a fun and engaging way, we can equip them with the basic skills they need to lead healthier, happier lives, for themselves and their future families. That’s why this year, Food Revolution Day is a global campaign

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to put compulsory food education back on the school curriculum.

More than 1,300 ambassadors in more than 120 countries are currently planning events, both big and small, and Cornwall is no exception. The Cornwall Food Foundation will be working across the county encouraging every school in Cornwall to take part in Jamie Oliver’s exclusive cooking lesson online on Food Revolution Day. Lyndsey Marshall, Programme Manager at the Cornwall Food Foundation, tells Octopus: “We think it is incredibly important to be inspiring our young people at an early age in food. We’ve

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As part of Food Revolution Day, Jamie Oliver has launched a global petition with change.org where he will be calling on the leaders and governments of G20 countries to make food education a compulsory part of every school curriculum.

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Drop-in Workshops Tuesday 26th May

25 July – 23 August The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Explore the Trebah Wild West this half term via the Crazy Cowhand trail in your quest to become a Trebah Cow Boy or Girl. Say “How?” and drop into the creative workshop and make your own North American Indian inspired headdress.

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Trebah – it’s excitingly different.

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• The biggest lobster ever recorded weig

hed 20kg and stretched to cm. It was caught off eastern Can106 ada in 1977.

• Lobsters have one crushing claw and

one slicing claw, and can be left or right handed.

• A female will carry between 5,000 and

40,000 eggs on the und e of her tail for up to 12 months beforeersid they hatch.

• There are 138 species of lobster with

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some really curious names: Mus ical Furry Lobster, Shield Fan Lobster, Scorpion Mud Lobster, African Spear Lobster Blunt-horn Lobster just to namand Buffalo e a few.

• Lobsters can live to be 100 years old.

• Lobsters have three stomachs.

Bright young things:

Who doesn’t love a lobster? The National Lobster Hatchery is one of a handful of marine biology laboratories in the world open to visitors. It is also a pioneering marine conservation, research and education charity. Its primary aim is to help conserve vulnerable lobster populations and preserve coastal marine biodiversity.

As well as seeing first hand the fascinating progression of a lobster from egg to adult, you and the kids can learn about the wider marine environment and why we should protect it.

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The hatchery is committed to increasing the awareness of marine conservation issues and can offer a variety of unique educational opportunities that cover a variety of topics in the national curriculum.

The team is also perfectly happy to help you tailor your visit to include activities or group requirements not specifically mentioned in its programmes.

Lobster stocks are highly vulnerable, and both Scandinavian and Mediterranean stocks have completely collapsed and not recovered to this day.

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Pioneering work is helping to preserve future generations of Cornish lobsters.

• Lobsters often lose limbs during moulti

ng or battles, but they are able to regenerate most appendages except for the eye.

However, appendages may app ear in the eye’s place – an unwante d foot perhaps!

Lobsters date back to the Dev an incredible 400 million yearonian period, s ago.

European lobster. Exciting research is constantly underway at the hatchery to understand more about these amazing creatures, their nutritional requirements, their lifecycle, behaviour and the environmental issues that threaten their future.

A new book is also now available, created by the hatchery team and designed to inspire kids. Find out more on the website.

The National Lobster Hatchery www.nationallobsterhatchery.co.uk

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ROOM ON THE BROOM Fri 12 & Sat 13 Jun 100% EDUCATIONAL 200% ANARCHIC 300% EXPLOSIVE!

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Wed 29 Jul

The stellar line-up includes Bec Hill (CBBC’s The Dog Ate My Homework), Howard Read (Little Howard’s Big Question) and hosted by Tiernan Douieb (CBBC’s The Slammer)

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Tue 14 & Wed 15 Jul Songs, laughs and scary fun for children aged 3 and up (and their grown-ups)

Fri 21 & Sat 22 Aug Join Ben and Holly, and their friends on this exciting, enchanting and magical musical adventure

Box Office 01872 262466 hallforcornwall.co.uk

Suitable for all ages

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