Nick GreenFarming

Easter on the farm

AROUND 70 youngsters and their families enjoyed a visit to a smallholding near Shepton Mallet for an Easter egg trail.

Families were encouraged to walk along footpaths from either Shepton Mallet or Croscombe to reach Rock Farm at Windsor Hill which is home to the Good Life Projects, a family-run sustainable farming enterprise.

Rock Farm is also one of the bases for the Food Forest Project, a community scheme to encourage wellbeing and grow sustainable food for people to enjoy for free. It recently completed work on an education centre at Rock Farm. FFP has another site at West Shepton and has just opened a third, Worthington Woods, in Wedmore.

Enjoying the sunshine at Rock Farm

We are now stockists of ASPEN Fuels

l Ready mixed for 2 stroke engines l Burns cleaner than ordinary fuel l Virtually free from sulphur, benzene and solvents making it less harmful than regular petrol, therefore breathing much cleaner air when working with power tools l Better for engines, longer storage staying fresh for years therefore easier starting l Reduced toxic emissions so better for the environment

Forwarding emails

SOMETIMEwe receive an email and we would like to send it onto someone else. In the not too distant past, there was a lot of jokey emails doing the rounds, which got sent on to everyone in a very long chain. That doesn’t tend to happen so much now, but the etiquette remains the same.

If you reply to an email, you are simply sending back to the person who sent it, of course. But when you forward an email you are sending on everything – all the names and email addresses in the body of the email and all the attachments.

At the top of the email will be the reply arrow, usually top right. To forward, click on the three little dots (first illustration) for a drop down list and click forward, or you can scroll down to the bottom of the page and find three boxes, and click on the Forward arrow (second illustration).

This starts a brand new email, starting with the words Forwarded email and containing all the information you originally received, so if it has been previously sent to five people, all five email addresses will be sent onto the new recipient. Which is OK if everyone knows everyone and is happy for their address to be shared, but in these days of Data Protection, may not be acceptable. So if that is the case, highlight and delete any address you think should not be shared.

If you are sending it onto one person, then just put the address in the To: or Recipients box, type what you want to say, and off you go. But if you are sending it to more than one person, who may not want their data shared with others, click on the Bcc link – top right of your email – and put all the address in the Blind Carbon Copy box – everyone will get the same email with the same contents and the same attachments, but will not know who else has received it. So it would be polite to put something like – Hello Committee or Dear friends, etc at the start, so everyone knows what’s what.

And when you receive an email that has been forwarded, just bear in mind that it may have been altered.

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The Mendip Mindbender

ACROSS

1 Occupy, preoccupy or fascinate (7) 5 Name of the recently retired

High Sheriff of Somerset (7) 9 Grass like plant with triangular stems common to the levels. It has given its name to a Local Government

District (5) 10 An indoor map indicating where furniture is sighted (5,4) 11 Became higher than the temperature set or desired (10) 12 A criminal plan, a fraud (4) 14 Before Noah. Literally

“before the flood” (12) 18 This village near Frome plays host to an international cult,

“Universal Medicine” housed in a spread called ‘The

Lighthouse’ (12) 21 The last word beginning with

“A” (4) 22 Children’s storage can eclipse conversion (6,4) 25 Inflammation of the lining of the stomach (9) 26 A person to whom meat or animal products are tabu (5) 27 Diverge as if from a central point (7) 28 Precisely, word for word (7)

DOWN

1 My research could not find anything of note about this village, but it sits on A371 between Wells and Westburysub-Mendip adjacent to

Wookey Hole (6) 2 Village not far from

Glastonbury. 16/17th July it is holding a two-day music festival called The ----

Gathering. Plus, the Abrahams live here (6) 3 Munificent, the opposite of tight-fisted (4-6) 4 Capital of Bulgaria (5) 5 What hospitality businesses have been busy at (9) 6 Flat bottomed rowing boat or sea fish (4) 7 Catholic, multifarious or diverse (8) 8 Munition banned by treaty in 1997 but significantly not signed by China, Russia or

USA (4,4) 13 Name of what was the combined Kingdom of Serbia and Montenegro prior to 2003 (10) 15 The middle of an earthquake (9) 16 A newcomer compared to fiction (8) 17 Under pressure or underlined (8) 19 Immature offspring of a blowfly (6) 20 Avidly, with a sharp eye (6) 23 Class of actors to the east (5) 24 Chemical occurring in blood, bile, milk, urine and perspiration (4)

Clues in italics are cryptic