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THE LINKS TEAM: Publisher: Tim Randell Editor: Rosemary Best Writers: Nichola Williams, Kaye Rogers Design: Sara Venner, Julian Rees Advertising: Jane Daniel, Olivia Breyley, Joanne Mallard

Food is a fascinating subject – it satisfies us on so many levels from the basic requirement to eat enough to survive, to its ability to delight our senses when we see, smell and taste it, to the enjoyment of cooking and creating meals. We can’t live without it but what we eat and how we produce our food is becoming more and more important. ‘Sustainable food’ is a frequently mentioned term but what does that really mean? It seems it can encompass many things such as helping local economies, ensuring the welfare of animals and plants, providing good quality food and supply chains, protecting the environment, but in essence it’s about not using up resources faster than they can be replaced.

Our feature article is about Tamar Valley Food Hub and the work of Tamar Grow Local to encourage people to eat and grow local food. I also had the opportunity to meet two local food producers who both share an interest in sustainability: Cheryl Russell uses the fruit and vegetables grown by her husband to make jams and chutneys, while Egoitz Fernández bakes bread and cakes using UK grown and milled organic flour. Sue Fisher explains how you can grow your own fruit and veg no matter how small your garden is, while the Biodiversity Project and naturalist articles spell out the dangers of losing our insect population and the effect on our food industry. Our charity focus explores the work of Devon & Cornwall Food Action, which diverts surplus supermarket food from landfill and helps to fight local food poverty.

On top of that it’s wonderful to have a full what’s on section with Heritage Open Days, outdoor theatre, open gardens and open studios, exhibitions, markets and food events this summer!

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Tamar Valley Food Hub This not-for-profit, social enterprise connects local, small-scale food and drink producers to customers, via a weekly delivery scheme.

Tamar Valley Food Hub’s online community shop works in a very similar manner to an online supermarket site, except customers have the satisfaction of knowing they are helping local businesses, and that their fruit and veg will be picked the day before, or even the morning before they receive it, so it will keep longer, and won’t have travelled hundreds of miles; customers are also buying delicious, high quality produce which has been ethically and sustainably produced.

Established in 2009, Tamar Grow Local CIC is a not-for-profit umbrella of various community organisations and small enterprises encouraging people to eat and grow local food.

Established as a governing group for two allotment sites in Calstock and St Budeaux, it also facilitates community orchards. After developing to incorporate an educational aspect through a bee-keeping cooperative, which runs three courses a year, a commercial layer soon followed - Tamar Valley Food Hub. The food hub was formulated in 2013 to support local producers with an online platform where they could sell their goods collectively. This not-for-profit, producer-led venture provided customers with easy access to sustainable and affordable local produce, as well as publicising the benefits of local food, while helping producers engage with a ready-made market. By providing marketing, collating orders and distribution, Tamar Valley Food Hub now relieves some of the strain from small-scale producers so they can focus on what they do best - making their products.

Over 100 producers now use the platform over the course of the year, some of whom have approached Tamar Valley Food Hub, while others have been recruited by the hub to fill 6

gaps in the range of goods on offer. Producers load their own products on the site, and set their own prices and availability; they then receive an order on Tuesday for delivery to the hub on Friday morning. A portion of their profit goes to cover the organisational costs, but this supply-to-order scenario has the added benefit of zero waste. The CIC has also teamed up with Good Food Exeter to share produce – so for example, the hub takes fish to Exeter and returns with organic chicken, and since both organisations use Open Food Network software, the process is seamless for producers and customers.

Apple juice made by the CIC apple co-operative is sold through the platform and the food hub has recently played a supporting role to the community orchard in Harrowbarrow and Metherell.

With normal fundraising impossible, Cheryl of Kingston Preserves made the apples into chutney which was then sold on the hub platform to raise much-needed funds for the orchard. Customers also have an option to support Callington Food Bank by adding a donation or buying a veg bag to be delivered to a food bank client, while Tamar Grow Local works with Plymouth City Homes on the Grow, Share, Cook project, supplying fortnightly bags of seasonal vegetables to help people disadvantaged by Covid-19.

Keen to nurture new producers, Tamar Grow Local started the Farm Start scheme in 2015, by leasing eight acres in Metherell and then renting out the land in plots, ranging from a half-acre up to two acres. Prospective tenants apply with a new start-up horticultural business plan, and if successful, their rental costs can be under £1 per day, with no long-term commitment, and the promise of an engaged market once they have a product to sell. The scheme currently has seven tenants occupied in various endeavours, including a vineyard, an orchard, several market gardens and an acre of flax destined for linen.

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Combining the mentoring support of other growers and the CIC team, the scheme fulfils an important stepping stone between an allotment and a business, and its success can be measured by the waiting list and Defra’s interest in replicating it in other parts of the country.

Lockdown affected many local producers, causing them to rethink their business and find a new market. Pre-lockdown, Good Earth Growers grew micro-salads and herbs for highend London restaurants. When that requirement ground to a complete halt, they had to quickly adapt and start cultivating larger salad produce for the local market, using the hub platform. After the initial panic buying in supermarkets, customers also realised the value of a local and consistently available supply, and Tamar Valley Food Hub experienced an exponential surge in interest – in one week there was a 300% increase in orders. The hub had to source a huge extra fridge, Callington Town Council gave them permission to use the council chamber to pack bags, customers volunteered to help and Plymouth Raiders basketball team even did a delivery stint. Although orders have settled down since then, the pandemic has prompted people to re-evaluate the food they eat and where it comes from, resulting in a noticeable and long-term shift in shopping habits.

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Putting bread on the table Earlier this year some rather tempting baking smells starting emanating from the café connected to The Leaping Salmon in Horrabridge.

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Egoitz Fernández has been perfecting his skills as a baker for 11 years, and is delighted with this opportunity to run his own business. 2020 didn’t start well - he was made redundant in January, just as the country entered its third lockdown of the pandemic – and only 18 months after he had arrived in the UK from Spain. Fortunately, he has a good network of friends and when Fred Andrews of The Leaping Salmon heard about his predicament, he offered Egoitz the unused café premises.

Egoitz grew up in the Basque Country in the north of Spain and at 18 he already had an interest in baking bread, but without any official baking courses or artisan baking apprenticeships in the area, he took work in forestry management. His grandmother had always made her own bread though, and she taught him the basics. But when it came to quantities, she told him there was no such thing – he just needed to feel when the dough was right. He joined a Spanish bread forum and after various recommendations he managed to source the sort of flour he was looking for and start baking. A couple of years later the forum alerted him to a government funded scheme encouraging under-25s to become craftsmen, which included a pop-up bakery in a series of shipping containers in San Sebastian, called ‘The Loaf’. Egoitz successfully applied for a place and spent three months working with baking mentors, and networking with the multitude of bakers who flocked to visit the venture from all over Spain and further afield.

Most bread was mass-produced locally, so after the placement, Egoitz went to work in Cantabria at a small artisan bakery, where he worked hard for the next year. However the lack of social life was tedious for a 21-year-old, so when he was approached to work in a new bakery in San Sebastian, with its backdrop of sea and mountains, along with a much younger vibe, he leapt at the chance. For the next five years, he mixed with talented chefs who came to learn how to bake bread, while aspiring to meet the requests of Michelin-starred restaurants who sought out the bakery’s breads but continually pushed for more.

One of his chef friends went on to spend some time in Denmark and returned with a loaf of bread from Copenhagen’s Mirabelle Bakery, famous for its bread, croissants and organic

baked goods. He told Egoitz he should spend some time at the bakery - so after managing to secure a month’s apprenticeship, he went to learn how to work with a very different bread made with rye and formed into massive loaves that required little handling. Following this exciting experience, he ended up taking work at an industrial scale bread factory in Valencia, which he disliked intensely and abandoned nine months later, questioning what he wanted from baking. Hearing Egoitz was unemployed, the same chef friend, suggested he join him in England where there was a vacancy for a baker in Chagford.

Egoitz talked to the bakery owners and the terms sounded perfect – a flexible working environment, a lovely setting, and the chance to make bread by hand exactly as he wanted. He settled in North Bovey and thoroughly enjoyed the role, until the pandemic took hold, and he and his partner Esme set up Quernstone Bakery in Horrabridge.

Most flour for large-scale bread production comes from China or Canada because it is easy to work with and produces consistent results. Egoitz is determined to only use flour which is grown and milled in the UK - currently from Gilchester Organics. One batch of his dough is never exactly the same as another, which is where his skill as an artisan baker is so important. He purchased his own oven and fridge for the business, and spent the first two weeks experimenting with the flour and tweaking the fermentation until he was successful. He says that ‘bread is alive and every loaf has a character’ – even the weather can change the outcome. He is loving this new life and enjoys the interaction with customers which he hasn’t experienced before. He says it is imperative to source all ingredients very carefully but then the key is to keep it simple – rather similar to his outlook on life.

Rosemary Best You can buy direct from Quernstone Bakery on Wednesdays, 12-3pm (side entrance to The Leaping Salmon, Horrabridge); place an order at info@quernstonebakery.co.uk for delivery on Tuesdays & Thursdays; or Quernstone products are available at The Game Larder, Yelverton and Country Cheeses, Tavistock.

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What a pretty pickle!

Cheryl Russell of Kingston Preserves started cooking when she was six, and is still just as passionate about food now as she was in those first years of discovery.

After an introduction to cake baking, Cheryl’s appetite was whetted, and as an avid reader she started following recipes, gradually learning how to cook staple meals, and taking over the household cooking at an early age. With cooking still very much at the forefront of her interests when she left school, she went on to train as a chef at a catering college. She met her future husband Simon when she was 16 and they married three years later. Simon was in the navy, so Cheryl chose to fit her career around family needs, working part-time at a bank for 12 years and then later moving on to an HR role in the Civil Service for 15 years, as well as training and practicing as a counsellor, therapist and spiritual healer.

Simon has always been a keen gardener and enjoyed growing fruit and vegetables. His career took the family to various

locations in the South West, and in Bath, Cheryl found a use for their various fruit trees and prolific vegetable plot, by cooking jams and chutneys. Even after giving numerous jars to family and friends there was often more than they could consume themselves. So Simon constructed a small hutch outside the house, which Cheryl kept topped up with her wares, for passers-by to purchase. The couple had fallen in love with Devon when Simon was appointed to Britannia Naval College in Dartmouth, and always hoped to return; when the opportunity arose ten years ago to buy a former

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Naturally, with an even larger harvest of fresh produce, Cheryl carried on experimenting with jams and chutneys, and re-established the hutch outside the house for passing trade. In 2016, a series of events persuaded Cheryl to take the plunge and launch her business to the wider public: a postcard praising her strawberry jam arrived from Sierra Leone, addressed to ‘The house on the walking path… selling homemade jams and other things’; a photograph of her produce hutch appeared in Devon Life; and she carried out a successful trial sale at Ivybridge Market. Cheryl got in touch with Devon Life and the resulting article helped to launch her business, Kingston Preserves, as she established her range and attended a circuit of local markets, including the Pannier Market and Farmers’ Market in Tavistock. She was soon approached by local B&Bs for regular deliveries and also started supplying the local shop in Bere Alston.

Her business was ticking over well, until suddenly the pandemic took hold and Cheryl had to pull out of market trade due to her low immunity, cutting off a large part of her turnover. However as often happens, when one door closes, another opens, and she was approached by Tamar Valley Food Hub in May 2020 to sell her produce on their online platform.

The relationship developed well and Cheryl used this new shopfront to promote her goods, which were well received - at

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Christmas her hampers were snapped up, attracting even more regular custom for 2021.

Cheryl’s business has weathered the trials of the last year and she still derives great pleasure from what she does. She cooks everything herself using home-grown produce wherever possible, or locally bought produce – Continental Fruits deliveries were a huge boon for her during lockdown. Even though she has been cooking her marmalade recipe for the last 45 years she has taken courses to consolidate her knowledge and swap ideas with other cooks. She thoroughly enjoys the challenge of devising a new recipe, and her commended lime pickle (Taste of the West Awards 2021) was created to reflect her Anglo-Indian heritage, while the recipe for her silverwinning mango chutney is a closely guarded secret! Cheryl has never wanted Kingston Preserves to become too large, and although the garage and part of her house are overflowing with jars and boxes, and there are times in the height of summer when the greenhouse yields an unrelenting quantity of tomatoes destined for chutney, all in all she is very satisfied with her work-life balance. She still loves talking about food, and if a customer wants to ‘talk jam’ then she is more than happy to engage. Her advice to anyone with a passion and a business idea, is to just ‘give it a go’.

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Over the last few weeks, I have been trying to emulate two women who I have a great respect for and find hugely inspirational. The first is one of my GP partners who always seems so calm and cheerful no matter what the day throws at her, and radiates such an intense enjoyment of life and its adventures. The other is a woman who is learning to live with the grief of her partner’s death, and working out how to navigate this new world with such a huge, permanent hole in it.

Both these incredible women credit wild swimming with bringing resilience and joy to their lives, and after an entire adulthood of avoiding anything cooler than a hot bath I decided I had to leave my inner wimp at home and literally dive into the world of wild swimming. Admittedly I chose to do this on the hottest day in May on record, but we’ve all got to start somewhere. And I haven’t looked back. I’ve found I love it. Now walks are planned around a dunk in a river or the sea, something my children and dogs are very happy about.

Wild swimming feels good for me, but what does it actually do? A lot of the evidence people quote is a bit removed from the situation of wild swimming in Devon - it’s either in extreme sports environments, or immersing in ice water - but the following conclusions seem to be valid. Cool and coldwater immersion seems to cut down on muscle soreness and possibly joint pain; aids our immune system - especially decreasing our risk of contracting viral respiratory infections; improves our mood helping relieve anxiety, depression and stress; and boosts our metabolism which can in turn lead to weight loss, lower blood pressure and result in better cholesterol and blood sugar readings.

Scientifically no mention is made of the difference between dunking in an ice bucket, having a cold shower and swimming in a beautiful bay, but there must be one. Add to these basic metabolic effects the excitement of swimming in the sea at dawn, or laughing with your children and friends as you dive into a deep pool, and the sense of accomplishment when you

do something you’ve been too scared to do for many years, and my hunch is that this is every bit as powerful when it comes to making us feel better.

It takes some working up to though, and as good as wild swimming is, it can also be dangerous. We have an innate ‘cold shock response’ which means that as soon as we immerse in cold water, we take an involuntary breath in, we breathe fast and our heart beats harder. Although this is just at the start and fades, it’s important not to have your head underwater when you first get in, otherwise you might drown, and be careful if you have underlying cardiac disease or are on medications. Please also swim with a companion to improve safety for each other. With repeated cold immersions over some weeks, it’s possible to decrease this cold shock a little and increase your tolerance for staying in the cold water.

Initially start with very short dunks, but as you get hardier and stay in longer beware of hypothermia. Luckily all the health benefits seem to come within the first minute or so.

Make sure you have warm dry clothes to change into and do it relatively quickly after exiting the water because as long as you are still wet you are losing a lot of heat. Have a warm drink and something to eat, as both increase your core body temperature. But most of all enjoy it - it really is wonderful.

There is a wealth of information and there are groups out there for those wanting to start wild swimming but devonandcornwallwildswimming.co.uk is a great place to start, and has a wonderful section called ‘Top Tips for New Swimmers’.

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Nature’s medicines Over the last year, many people, including myself, have become more aware of maintaining and protecting their health – who could blame us with a worldwide pandemic happening and reaching most of our local communities? But increasingly, people are turning away from just treating conditions when they happen, and looking to prevent issues in the first place – hand washing and face masks have been highlighted recently, but more and more people are also looking to nature to prevent and resolve any health concerns they may have.

The use of products provided by nature can improve our body’s own natural healing abilities, making us better able to prevent infections, ill health and can even reduce the stress and anxiety of a modern lifestyle; imagine total person balance; including body, mind, spirit, and emotions. Nature has a way of providing all of this. The focus of natural medicine is on the whole person and on prevention, however nature also provides some great cures – often these are fully sustainable and from sources you would not think about. So, you just need to know where to look.

The great thing about nature, is that it is perfectly balanced, and everything has a purpose. Even what we would normally consider a pest has a use! We have all become familiar over time with seeing natural ingredients complementing our skincare products. Tea tree and witch hazel are available in a wide range of products to assist with skin conditions, but did you know that the humble dandelion, that gardeners try to remove each spring and summer from their lawns, has similar properties? Skincare producers have recognised this quality in the so-called weed, and by harnessing the dandelion’s extract, it is now being used to naturally treat severe, inflamed skin

conditions such as acne. And they are available everywhere, so they are naturally sustainable.

Let’s talk algae – the bane of pond owners everywhere, but they have amazing skin plumping qualities. They are not new to the skincare industry, but with the discovery of new species as well as sustainable harvesting practices, they are definitely creating a buzz, and it is easy to see why. Who does not want naturally clear pores, a whole range of detoxing minerals along with natural UV protection? Oh, and because algae are loaded with antioxidants, they also help to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles by protecting the collagen that is naturally produced in our body. Pass me the algae face-mask!

Natural products are easily accepted by our bodies and are key in preventative health, so next time you remove weeds from your garden or pond, remember that everything has a part to play in keeping our worlds balanced.

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Mirrors The Salon rebrands as Ochre Hair Lounge When Claire Boyle moved to the area, she knew Mirrors The Salon in Yelverton on the edge of Dartmoor, was just what she was looking for.

Realising its potential, Claire bought the salon at the start of 2018 and put her three-year plan in motion to gradually transform it - even Covid-19 hasn’t set that back. She started at the core of the salon redesigning it with an ultra-modern décor, and then creating a professional yet lively, upbeat vibe with master cutters, colour and styling experts, and handpicked apprentices, before adding cutting-edge, upmarket products.

The last stage of this process is to rebrand Mirrors The Salon with a new name - Ochre Hair Lounge.

As a natural pigment and mineral, ‘ochre’ represents the salon’s introduction of a more environmentally-friendly approach to hairdressing. Claire has joined Green Salon Collective, which aims to recycle or compost the industry’s waste products, such as foils, empty colour tubes, chemicals and PPE, as well as sharing information on sustainability.

Claire is the main colour educator within the salon, having

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Claire says: “We have precision cutters and brilliant styling experts, an extentionist who specialises in hair thickness, and even a very experienced barber every Saturday. We strive to give our clients a relaxing salon experience, and their wellbeing is paramount to us - as well as of course making sure they leave with a gorgeous hair cut or colour! And on top of all of this we serve a delicious slice of cake - what more could you want?”

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CHARITY FOCUS

Devon & Cornwall Food Action Millions of people across the UK regularly can’t afford to buy enough food to feed themselves and their families.

While every year, hundreds of thousands of tonnes of good food is wasted in the UK food industry - from farming, processing and distribution through to retail.

Devon & Cornwall Food Action (DCFA) was set up in 2010 to save some of the surplus produce from supermarkets

ending up in landfill, and at the same time, help to tackle poverty by using the surplus food to feed local people who were going hungry. Originally DCFA collected food from supermarkets and distributed it to charities and organisations who work directly with people in need of help. More recently, and particularly over the last year due to the vastly increased need caused by Covid-19, DCFA now distributes boxes

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We may think that food poverty should not exist in today’s society, but unfortunately it does and Covid-19 has made the situation significantly worse.

Low incomes, the uncertainty of zerohours contracts and seasonal work, or unemployment and delays in receiving benefits, place huge strain on people and at best make it difficult to provide for themselves and their families, while at worst can lead to debt, family break-up, homelessness, dependency on drugs and alcohol or other issues.

Long-term illness or bereavement of a family member can also have huge repercussions on a family’s ability to cope financially.

DCFA has a team of chiller vans which volunteers use to collect surplus food on a daily basis. The food is then sorted at the DCFA warehouse, which includes storing some of it in the new industrialsized freezer and chiller cabinets. Boxes of food are then packed with a range of food such as vegetables, fruit, bread, eggs, pasta, rice, frozen and tinned food, pasties and crisps. Any food which is past its sell-by date or not suitable for human consumption is sent to Langage Farm’s anaerobic digestion facility where it is converted into electrical power, heat and bio-fertilisers which are used to run the factory and the farm. DCFA is not government funded so although all the food donations are free, it relies on fundraising, grants and donations to cover its overheads,

such as rent, vehicle running costs and utility bills. Its fundraising scheme Pay It Forward, helps to cover the cost of delivering boxes - every £10 raised means someone in crisis will receive a food box to feed a family for a week. DCFA can also deliver boxes of basic household cleaning and sanitary products if required. Approximately 10,000 boxes were delivered last year to individual households.

Based in Roborough, much of DCFA’s recent focus has been on the Plymouth area, but it also provides relief elsewhere based on need and urgency, such as Princetown, Tavistock, Bovey Tracey, Torquay, Saltash, Callington and Liskeard. In addition, DCFA is about to partner with Dartmoor Community Kitchen Hub, which is based in Bovey Tracey and runs a hot meals service across the Dartmoor region for the vulnerable and elderly. The charity was founded by Stella West-Harling, who is its CEO and also the founder of Ashburton Cookery School.

Alan Dunne is the current chairman of DCFA’s active board of trustees. He is also extremely involved in the day-to-day running of the operation, and fighting poverty has become a very personal mission for him. He is no stranger to poverty himself, having grown up in a large family with an alcoholic father.

Despite having a successful career in London, he has also struggled with

addiction and went through rehab in Plymouth where he experienced his ‘lightbulb’ moment when out sailing, realising he needed to conquer this ‘disease’ and get his life back on track.

Volunteering at DCFA provides him with the sense of purpose he needs, but his experiences also mean he understands the pitfalls of life and the harm they can cause. He is determined to do everything he can to help people in crisis, and he was absolutely delighted when Devon and Cornwall Food Action was named as the Chief Constable’s Charity of the Year for 2021.

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DCFA is run by a hardworking band of volunteers, including husband and wife team, Peter who is 86 and Sheila who is 85. The huge increased need during the pandemic has seen up to 100 people helping out, however as people have gradually returned to work this number has decreased sharply although the number of people requiring help has not changed. So if you can spare a few hours to help, please get in touch on 01752 651800 or info@ devonandcornwallfoodaction.org.

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GARDENING

Grow a good-looking edible garden One of the positives to come out of the pandemic is much greater awareness of our food: where it comes from, how it’s been produced, and how rewarding it is to grow our own. Not just vegetables, but fruit, herbs, even edible flowers to give a pretty and personal touch to all kinds of dishes. Plenty of crops can be sown or planted now to give a harvest this year, particularly leafy crops like lettuce, rocket, mixed salad leaves, parsley, Oriental vegetables, radish, Swiss chard, and spinach.

Hardy veg that tolerates frost can be planted or sown outdoors to harvest next spring or early summer, particularly brassicas such as spring cabbage and kale, and onion sets or seed that are suitable to stand over winter. Fruit trees and bushes are best planted in autumn, but you can order plants now and prepare the ground thoroughly with plenty of time.

Regardless of the size of your outdoor space, whether large or small, there are plenty of ways to pack in plants. Any vertical surface such as walls, fences, posts, or trellis can support ‘living wall’ planters: innovative designs that vary from flat panels to troughs on frames, which can be as small or as extensive as space, time, and budget permit. Traditional containers like hanging baskets and window boxes can be

made more productive and easier to manage with products such as special composts; ‘self-watering’ designs with integral reservoirs; and a variety of watering devices from low-tech bottle top watering spikes to fully automatic irrigation systems. A ‘no-dig’ bed system is the easiest and most soilfriendly way to grow crops in the ground, while raised beds are great for patios and small gardens.

Sue’s tips for growing your own Choose a site that gets sun for at least several hours a day and is sheltered from strong winds.

Don’t feel you have to grow everything from seed. Readygrown plants are fantastically easy and particularly good if you only want a few plants. Local markets and nurseries usually offer a good range of excellent value plants.

Most crops need a regular supply of water. Collecting rainwater in butts or tanks saves using valuable mains water.

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Sow seeds into moist soil, rather than watering afterwards which can disperse seeds where they won’t grow.

Slugs and snails are very active in summer and can demolish seedlings overnight. There’s a wide range of barriers, traps and baits available to buy: choose wildlife-friendly to avoid harming creatures such as birds and hedgehogs (which will also demolish the pests for you).

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Summer-flowering bedding plants can be encouraged to keep blooming until well into autumn by regular deadheading plus a liquid feed every week or two, using a fertilizer high in potash.

If you have bare spots in borders or your patio needs a lift, add bursts of colour with a few bedding plants. Although it’s comparatively late in the season, if the autumn weather is kind you could enjoy up to three months of colour.

Order bulb catalogues or even bulbs themselves for next spring. Early flowering bulbs like crocus and narcissi are best planted by the end of September to make lots of root growth.

If you have a greenhouse, give it a thorough clean inside and out before it fills with plants for the winter.

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As well as giving you new plants for little outlay, they also provide excellent ‘insurance’ in case the parent plants don’t survive the winter. These new plants from cuttings occupy very little space and can be kept over winter on a windowsill or porch, or in a greenhouse.

helichrysum that dislike winter wet and may well give up the ghost if we have a cold, wet winter. You’ll need a sharp knife, a bag of seed & cuttings compost, some pots (any size, though 13cm wide is ideal), as well as clear polythene bags or a propagator. To boost your success rates, mix perlite in with the seed compost at the rate of 1:3.

Many frost-tender plants come very easily from cuttings, including geraniums, fuchsias, osteospermums and shrubby salvias; fleshy-leaved succulents such as Aeonium; and silvery-leaved plants like lavender and

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FARMING NEWS

The life of a farmer It is always interesting to me how our industry is portrayed in the media and we are all used to the rather dull, scripted portrayal of the countryside presented by Countryfile on lazy Sunday evenings. It has some good stuff, but to be honest I don’t watch it and if I do the only good bit is Adam Henson’s own farm. I don’t think Countryfile is honest with the viewers and presents a simplistic, greenwashed agenda with very little balance or understanding of the real issues and complexities facing our farmers, the countryside and the rural communities of the UK. We then have the polarised portrayal of a farmer in fiction on television with the grass chewing, cider drinking, cheese rolling, down-trodden farmer at one end of the scale and on the other, the Edward Horton, Range Rover driving, shot gun carrying, tweed wearing, large farmer, landowner living in the manor house, owning half the county! There are characters in our communities, loved and loathed in equal measure, but on the whole most farmers I know are hard-working people trying their hardest to run a small family business to make ends meet like everybody else - but I suppose they don’t make good characters in a drama or comedy!

One of the best TV shows in recent years has been This Farming Life, which

follows a group of Scottish farmers through the seasons. It is much more honest, showing how complex their lives are and the infinite variety of challenges that can be faced every day! It is a real eye opener and a credit to the makers.

We then have Channel 5’s offering, Our Yorkshire Farm, following the life of Clive and Amanda Owen and their nine children. It is easy on the eye and sees numerous small children frolicking around the farm in the beautiful Yorkshire dales being very helpful and seemingly oblivious to health and safety.

They put my boys to shame and I hope that sometimes they can be difficult once the cameras stop! Again, a good watch and going by the amount of new machinery around the place, the farm is doing very well out of it and good on them.

But my most recent fancy is Clarkson’s Farm. It features Jeremy Clarkson and his Cotswold farm. He decides to run his thousand-acre arable and sheep farm on his own once his farm manager

retires. It is full of capers and a great team of staff who play their roles in his circus very well. It is very entertaining in a Top Gear sort of way and he holds no punches on how hard it is to run a modern farming business and make money. But you can also see how much he has enjoyed the journey; it is honest and it has shone a light on our industry in a different and innovative way – and I laughed out loud a lot!

I suppose in our small community on and around Dartmoor I am trying to provide a window into our farming lives in my own way by writing to you all every other month. It is a tough life. I spend far too much time looking for things I don’t want to find, the weather can be rubbish, prices rise and fall, cost always go up, but I love the job I do. Many smarter folk than me spend their whole lives working hard to afford to buy a small farm and run it in their retirement.

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‘Lush woodbine’ One of the most widespread climbing plants in woods, hedgerows and scrub in Devon is the honeysuckle, or woodbine, Lonicera periclymenum. It flowers from June to September and may climb to 20 feet (6 metres).

The unmistakeable scent of honeysuckle is best at night, probably to attract night-flying moths to pollinate it - they can detect the scent up to a quarter of a mile away. As with some other plants, when the flowers of honeysuckle are ready to exchange pollen, they change colour to white, which is easily seen by moths. Once they have been pollinated, the flowers turn yellow and wither.

Honeysuckle is the foodplant for the larvae of at least 40 of the larger moths, including the Beautiful Golden Y, Copper Underwing, Early Grey and Green Arches; I have seen Elephant Hawkmoths, Hummingbird Hawkmoths and Silver Y moths visiting the flowers on our honeysuckle. The larvae of the White Admiral butterfly, as well as about a dozen leaf-mining moths and flies, also feed on honeysuckle, the latter living inside its leaves. Some birds – such as thrushes, bullfinches and warblers – feed on the berries, though these are slightly toxic to humans. The plant is much favoured by nectar-feeding bumblebees, especially those with long tongues such as the garden bumblebee Bombus hortorum.

Older more dense clumps of honeysuckle are used by birds for nesting. If you find a honeysuckle with some of the bark removed, it may be that dormice are responsible; they shred the bark and use it to weave their summer nests, usually in a tree hole or old bird’s nest. It has also been used to make beautiful walking sticks, created as the plant twines around the branches, causing the branches to become twisted. In Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, he mentions honeysuckle twice: Oberon’s bank “Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine”, and when Titania says to Bottom: “…so doth the woodbine, the sweet honeysuckle, gently entwist…”.

Beetles Have you ever looked at the beetles in your garden? There are over 4000 species of beetles in Britain, some of which are very common. They are mostly found in ground vegetation, leaf litter, in the compost heap or under logs and stones. The Wildlife Trusts and Royal Horticultural Society have recently appealed to gardeners to report beetle sightings via the iNaturalist phone app, to help get a better sense of beetle numbers after a cold April and wet May. Numbers of ladybirds seem very low, due to aphids being killed by cold weather. In particular, sightings of soldier beetles, click beetles and longhorn beetles are requested. Just like bees, beetles have been badly affected by habitat loss, pesticide use and unpredictable weather. Gardeners are encouraged to leave a small area (about 3 feet long) of raised earth or a pile of dead wood for beetles in the garden. It also helps if you can leave cutting back your flower beds until late winter; the dead plant stems will be used by overwintering beetles and spiders. You can find out more about beetles at www.wildaboutgardens.org.uk Anthony John

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All creatures great and small The UK supports over 24,000 species of insects, all of which play an integral part in sustaining the diverse and healthy ecosystems that we humans rely upon for our water, food, energy, clothes, shelter, health, etc. Insects are often overlooked and tarnished with the term ‘pest’ particularly when they sting or bite us - believe me I’m not a fan of midges, mosquitoes and horseflies as they love me, but all insects have a role and are particularly vital for our food industry. They can break down and decompose organic matter to maintain healthy soils, pollinate our crops, fruit and vegetables; they break down livestock dung and provide natural pest control by feeding on aphids. In fact, the economic value of these pollination services to the UK crop industry is estimated at £500 million a year (UK insect declines & extinctions, UK Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology, March 2020).

However, we are witnessing huge declines in insect numbers, changes in their distribution and even species extinctions which is threatening the viability of these ecosystems. The loss and fragmentation of species-rich habitats, the increase in chemical use, impacts of climate change and threats from non-native invasive species are all interconnected.

Over the summer months we have been out and about across the Burrator catchment recording insects, and have been joined by professional entomologists (insect surveyors) to see whether the site supports any rare Dartmoor species such as: Blue Ground Beetle (Carabus intricatus), Bog Hoverfly (Eristalis cryptarum), Marsh fritillary (Euphydryas aurinia) and Southern damselfly (Coenagrion mercurial). So far we have found Marsh fritillary. The Devon Fly Group have also been out on the ground to record flies, although the unseasonal cold and wet weather during May seems to have affected a few species

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this year. By gaining a better understanding of what insects the site supports we can help rebuild these insect populations to ensure healthy ecosystems for humans and wildlife, as birds and mammals also rely on insects for food. Buglife is leading on a project to identify nationally or internationally ‘Important Invertebrate Areas’ and parts of Dartmoor are recognised for their important invertebrates and specialist habitats. More information is available at: buglife.org.uk/ our-work/important-invertebrate-areas I can’t imagine a world without the buzz of a bee as it goes from flower to flower or catching a glimpse of a butterfly or moth as it flutters by, and just learning about their complicated life cycles is so fascinating. We must all take responsibility to ensure that we farm and garden with nature not against it.

Just leaving some wild areas in your garden for native flowers and allowing trees and hedges to flower and fruit, can provide food and a safe refuge for insects enabling them to perform these vital services that we all rely on.

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Oxfam’s extraordinary bequest The Oxfam Books and Music shop in Tavistock was recently left an extraordinary donation, in the will of a regular customer. For nearly 10 years, Andres Nurmela came to Tavistock every Tuesday on the bus from Okehampton, and always popped into the Oxfam bookshop for a long chat with volunteer John Dale. He frequently bought some of the more valuable books in the cabinets and was a real book lover - the older the better!

Andres was relocated with his family as a refugee from Estonia to Hull, England in 1947 and later settled for many years in and around Brighton where he met his late wife, Cornelia. They both shared a passion for antiques and Andres even undertook a leather book binding course there. The couple moved to Okehampton in the early 2000s, and Andres became a regular visitor to local antiques fairs and the Tavistock Oxfam bookshop. He loved the artistry and history of old books and avidly collected over 2800, driven by the ambition to find rare first editions, especially by the poets Tennyson and Byron. He didn’t read them all but worked hard restoring the leather covers using traditional methods and equipment.

After lockdown in July 2020, Andres shared with Val Sharpe, the Oxfam shop manager, that he had been diagnosed with cancer and was undergoing chemotherapy. He stated quite clearly on several occasions that he was going to leave his books to the Oxfam bookshop in Tavistock when he died, as he knew the shop would value them.

When the shop reopened after lockdown in April 2021, Val was contacted by the executors to Andres’s will, as he had passed away at the end of January and had indeed left his whole book collection to the Oxfam bookshop. He had never

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divulged the scale of his interest so it was a huge surprise when the executors informed her there were 2,300 antiquarian books, many dating from the 18th and early 19th century - a quite extraordinary and hugely generous bequest. The executors were in Brighton, the books were in Okehampton, and it took a fair bit of organising, a number of volunteers, a fleet of cars and lots of boxes to get the donation to Tavistock!

New Oxfam bookshop manager, Robin Neave, is hugely honoured that Andres chose the Tavistock Oxfam bookshop because it was one of his favourite places. She says that although they have only had some books from the bequest in the shop for a few weeks, over £600 worth have been sold.

Items of particular interest have been an 1853 first edition of Bleak House by Charles Dickens and a UK first edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Oxfam Books and Music is taking donations daily - if anyone wishes to donate books or music could they please phone first on 01822 613901 to confirm a drop-off time.

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Rotary Round-up Tavistock Rotary Club hit the ground running in July when it welcomed new president Nigel Ellis at the start of its new year. Having started to emerge from Covid restrictions, members have been able to get cracking with projects such as garden clearance, Tavy Fridge support, Music Mends Minds, refurbished computers for schools and the Francis Drake educational programme. Working with schools, the club is also planning a whole range of youth projects including Youth Speaks, Young Photographer, Young Environmentalist and Young Artist - along with the annual Rotary Youth Leadership Award, where the club sponsors a young person (18-28 years old) to attend a residential course with an intensive programme of activities, tasks and lectures aimed at building individual leadership skills.

Club members are also gearing up to run their annual Goose Fair ‘This and That’ bric-a-brac stall, and planning for December’s Santa Sleigh visits, the highly popular Christmas Day Lunch and next year’s Golf Day. There will also be other events over the year raising funds towards providing support in the community via a new 75th Anniversary Community Fund, together with the president’s three chosen charities: Tavistock Memory Café, Tavistock Hospital League of Friends and Wingletang Animal Rescue. For more details about Tavistock Rotary Club visit rotarytavistock, Rotary Tavistock Facebook page, or contact Judy Hirst on judyhh@btinternet.com.

50th year for Tavistock Photography Club Tavistock Camera Club was formed in 1971 by a group of 12 enthusiasts. Evolving rapidly over the last 16 years or so it is now thriving with 30 to 40 members. We have come a long way from the days of traditional, wet photography where those with dark rooms spent hours hovering over trays of chemicals, to today where the club has embraced all that modern digital photography can offer - the club now has a new laptop computer and digital projector courtesy of £5000 from the ‘Grants for all Scheme’. Membership varies between experienced and novice photographers, and we pride ourselves on being a friendly and helpful club, providing advice, tips and general information to help everyone develop their skills.

Potential new members are welcome to use our ‘taster system’ and come along to get a feel for the club and enjoy meeting like-minded people. Our programmes feature guest speakers who are often experts in their particular field of photography, and our competitions include varied subject matter to encourage members at all levels to challenge themselves.

Competition judges are constructive in their comments which can be a useful learning vehicle for members whether they enter competitions or not.

Tavistock Camera Club is approaching its 50th anniversary.

To celebrate this and regenerate after the Covid shutdown, the club is relaunching with a new name - the Tavistock Photography Club – as well as a new logo and website with members’ images and details of forthcoming programmes at www.tavistockphotographyclub.com.

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Enjoy Tavistock this summer!

There are lots of reasons to visit your local town this summer and you can be assured of a safe visit, with all the open spaces to escape to and explore, plus plenty of ways to continue being COVID-secure. The hanging baskets around the town look blooming marvellous and there are a number of new businesses to discover.

Now is also a great time to redeem those Tavistock gift cards from Christmas! Or pick one up for that special occasion from any participating business – using the ‘load this card’ scheme.

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Our brand new and exciting summer trail – Tavistock Time Traders – is a family adventure for all. The Duke of Bedford needs help finding items for Goose Fair – located on trader cards throughout the town. Everyone receives an exclusive Tavistock Trader Card and goody bag plus 5 lucky participants will find prize-winning golden cards! In collaboration with Learn Devon, there will be workshops to design your own family coat of arms, and rounding off the holiday, the amazing Bubbleman and Bubble Faerie come to town on Monday 30 August. Moving into September, the town will be hosting a Cream Tea Festival on Sunday 12 September. Set to become an annual event, this is an occasion not to be missed with our very own Tavy tuff taking centre stage in the town’s first ‘Tuff-off’!

Workshops with Learn Devon - free entry but tickets must be reserved:

Family Coat of Arms workshops Tuesday 10 August & Monday 23 August, 10:30-12:30

10 August at The Alexander Centre, Tavistock: eventbrite. co.uk/e/family-coat-of-arms-workshop-tickets-163021466595 23 August at Bedford Square, Tavistock: eventbrite.co.uk/e/ family-coat-of-arms-workshop-tickets-163024690237 Bubbleman and Bubble Faerie Monday 30 August, 11:00-15:00 The amazing Bubbleman and Bubble Faerie face-painting in Bedford Square, Tavistock Tavistock Cream Tea Festival Sunday 12 September ALL DAY festival in Tavistock

Funding for farming in protected landscapes Farmers and land managers in England’s areas of outstanding natural beauty (AONBs) and national parks will be given grants to make improvements to the natural environment, cultural heritage and public access on their land – the next step in the government’s landmark plans for a renewed agriculture sector. The new programme is open for applications until 31 January 2022. It has been developed by Defra with the support of a group of AONB and national park staff from across the country, following its announcement as part of the Agricultural Transition Plan. The programme will provide funding for one-off projects which allow farmers and land managers in protected landscapes to: •

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Projects could include creating ponds or other wetlands to support a variety of wildlife; conserving historic features on a farm, such as lime kilns or mining heritage; improving access; or even action to reduce carbon emissions or use of plastics on farms. The Farming in Protected Landscapes programme is open to all farmers and land managers (including from the private, public and charity sector) in an AONB or national park in England – or where activity on the ground can bring benefit to one or more of those areas. It is a programme of funding for one-off projects rather than an agri-environment scheme. The Tamar Valley AONB has significant funding to award to farmers over the next three years, subject to formal approval. For more details visit tamarvalley.org.uk, and click on Our Work, Current Projects. Farmers and land managers can also find out more at dartmoor.gov.uk.

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Holidaying in covid-19 times I am sure you are all the same as me and itching to travel once again to places far and wide. But with the everchanging ‘green list’, with places you’ve never heard of or thought of travelling to, it can be difficult to navigate the options.

While Australia and New Zealand are on our green list, they have both closed their borders to UK residents.

However areas that caught my eye are Israel and Jerusalem. Yes they are and have always been fragile, but their history and culture still place them on my bucket list. Tel Aviv on the Mediterranean with blue seas, blue skies and temperatures reaching 30°c is the place to holiday, with budget airline flights from London and some fantastic hotels.

On the green list updated 30 June, the UK Government has added a few more holiday desinations BUT with a twist – the ‘green watchlist’, which means their status could change. To our great relief, UK’s go-to holiday destinations the Spanish Balearic Islands (Menorca, Majorca, Ibiza), are now on the green watchlist. There are only three countries on the green list which I would class as ideal for short-break holiday destinations - Gibraltar, Iceland and Malta. Gibraltar is part of the UK and as close to the traditional summer holiday in Spain as you can get. Iceland is ideal for the traveller who doesn’t sleep, with sunrise at 3am and sunset at midnight, but it’s great if you’re into adventure, and outdoor activities - and yes, you will need to pack shorts, T-shirts and swimwear. Also once the sun sets you may get the chance to view the fantastic phenomenon that is Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights). But the dark horse of the pack if you are double vaccinated, is Malta, with its dramatic coastline and stunning clear blue seas great for snorkling, diving or just a simple paddle.

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Or enjoy a staycation and help the UK hospitality industry bounce back. These beautiful British Isles can offer you the same as our European counterparts, for example if you enjoy surfing in Lagos in the Algarve then there is no better place in the UK than Newquay and Polzeath in Cornwall with their sandy beaches and great surf ideal for all abilities. Or if you like to golf, the UK has some of the best golf in Europe such as The Belfry near Birmingham which won ‘world’s best golf hotel’ in 2020. Then for history you have the Cotswolds, Bath, and London where you can also take in a show. CPC Travel offers complete packages with rail tickets from your local mainline station, a choice of shows and hotel to suit your budget.

Just ask us for advice on any of the above options and current travel rules at CPC Travel or visit our website at cpctravel.co.uk for up-to-date information.

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DARTMOOR NATIONAL PARK TIME FOR NATURE CHALLENGE Until March 2022 Celebrating DNPA’s 70th anniversary, Time for Nature encourages people to discover, enjoy and protect landscapes. Download an activity sheet or pick one up at a DNPA visitor centre, and choose your activities.

For details got to dartmoor.gov.uk.

MOOR OTTERS ARTS TRAIL Summer 2021 ‘Otter spotters’ can find 81 sculptures of otters with cubs by following trails in Okehampton, Lydford & Tavistock; Ashburton, Buckfastleigh & Princetown; Bovey Tracey, Haytor, Moretonhampstead & Chagford; the Yelverton area; Plymouth’s Mayflower Trail. For details visit dartmoor. gov.uk/moorotters or join the Moor Otters Facebook group.

RHS ROSEMOOR SUMMER HOLIDAYS FAMILY FUN Until 5 September Discover the wonderland at Rosemoor, including a garden trail and sculptures inspired by the original works of Lewis Carroll. Children can sneak through the rabbit hole, peek through the door in the tree, transform themselves into a Queen (or King) of Hearts. Plus weekly welly walks & bug hunts for little ones.

Activities vary daily so please visit rhs.org. uk/rosemoor WONDER WITH GRIMM 11 August, 5pm Grimm used to live in the Black Forest, but now travels through UK forests looking

for children’s voices to steal. To prevent it, we gather to re-tell the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Join Heartbreak Productions for an evening of storytelling full of magic, puppetry, and music. Age 8+; Book at theploughartscentre.org.uk THE THREE MUSKETEERS 31 August, 5pm Follow the young D’Artagnan as he travels to Paris to join the legendary musketeers in a thrilling production brimming with excitement, danger, comedy, and in true Immersion Theatre style, bags of audience interaction. Age 8+; Book at theploughartscentre.org.uk

SOAPBOX THEATRE, PLYMOUTH THE THREE LITTLE PIGS 24 July to 7 August With A HUFF and A PUFF... Join the three little pigs on the adventure of their lives, hotly pursued by the Big Bad Wolf.

Packed full of thrills and spills, and lots of audience participation, Stiltskin Theatre Company’s summer show is sure to be a great hit for all the family (children under 1 year free) For details see stiltskin.org.uk

STERTS LITTLE RED AND THE BIG BAD WOLF 5 August, 2pm Little Red sets off through the forest to visit Grandma. The three pigs are building their homes, Goldilocks is on the run from some bears and to top it all, the Big Bad Wolf is out on the hunt for dinner! Filled with live music, puppetry and audience interaction.

THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE 7 August, 5pm Illyria presents a brand-new musical with the Doctor’s FURTHER adventures with Jip the Dog, Dab Dab the Duck, Gub Gub the Pig and Polynesia the Parrot. Where in the world will they go? Which new animals will they help along the way?

SHREK THE MUSICAL 20, 21, 28, 30 August, 7:30pm ‘Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek…’ And thus begins the tale of an unlikely hero who finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking donkey and a feisty princess who resists her rescue. (​www.sterts.co.uk or 01579 362382 Mon-Fri 10am - 1pm)

TAVISTOCK HERITAGE OPEN DAYS CHILDREN’S HERITAGE STAMP TRAIL 11 to 18 September Pick up details from the Visitor Information Centre at Court Gate and follow this trail organised by Tavistock Subscription Library.

‘STRAWBERRIES, CREAM & STEAM’ 11, 12, 18 & 19 September, 11am-4pm Enjoy steam engine trailer rides complete with strawberries and cream, between The Bedford Hotel and The Works, Pixon Lane, organised by The Robey Trust.

VICTORIAN CHILDREN’S GAMES DAY 18 September, 2.30-4.30pm Enjoy games the Victorians played at Tavistock Guildhall, Guildhall Square, organised by Tavistock Heritage Trust

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Reflections on a Covid year This has in many ways been a tumultuous year. The pandemic cleaved it in two, obscuring the past and separating us from our usual touchstones. Reviewing the year, we might be reminded of the well-known opening words from Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities: ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’. Completing the introduction might tempt us down the rabbit-hole of comparison, but it is not beyond reason to suggest that we have experienced something as significant and seismic as the subject of Dickens’s masterpiece. The easiest way to proceed with this piece would be to claim that the best times came before the pandemic and the worst after the lockdown was announced. Certainly, the first half of the year was full of the ‘best of times’; just as the virus was enveloping the nation, joyous activity was crowned

by Mount Kelly’s victories in the Arena League swimming and Choir of the Year competition. And certainly, the second half had plenty to suggest the ‘worst of times’; riven with insecurity and anxiety, most keenly felt by those taking public examinations and our oldest pupils, cruelly robbed of final rites of passage, until now taken for granted.

This dichotomy between best and worst, is neat but misleading. In fact, it has been during the worst time of lockdown, or rather in the collective response, that we may have seen the very best of Mount Kelly. Staff created a remote learning programme in a matter of days, but more impressively adapted constantly to the unanticipated demands of a medium that had never been explored at teacher training college; pupils found hitherto unmined reserves of application and undoubtedly many stood more on their own feet than they had ever done before, exposing in the process a steel that older generations claim exclusively for their own; and whilst all this was going on, parents rallied to the support not only of their children, but the school itself.

It is often at the times of greatest stress that we discover who we really are and what we can do. We have at a dark moment in our history affirmed our values as a school community, and felt the boundless power of kindness and compassion; we have understood, as never before, creativity and innovation, and when the time is right, the importance of acting swiftly and with courage. We have learned that how we respond to challenges beyond our control is utterly within our control. We have lived Machado’s words that ‘there is no path, paths are made by walking’, and taken hope that what troubled us yesterday rarely comes to pass when a new day dawns.

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The story of the Tavy tuff and the birth of the cream tea One of the best places in England to enjoy a delicious cream tea is Tavistock, where legend has it that the very first ‘cream teas’ were served over 1,000 years ago by Tavistock Abbey’s monks.

The town will be celebrating this legend as part of the national Heritage Open Days in September. This year’s HOD theme is Edible England and it has given Tavistock Heritage Trust a chance to dig a little deeper into the story of the cream-tea-making Benedictine monks and the long lost history of the Tavy tuff. We’ll come back to the Tavy tuff later but let’s first look at those benign Benedictines. It is said that when Tavistock Abbey was being re-built after being plundered and badly damaged by a horde of marauding Vikings in 997AD, the monks were so grateful to the local workers who helped them rebuild it that they rewarded them with bread and ‘clowted cream’. Apparently, this proved so popular the monks continued to serve the treat to passing travellers. In fact, if the story is to be believed, they would have handed out these delights from the now blocked-up window under Court Gate.

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was shipped in by the ton by the East India Company using streamlined clipper ships like the Cutty Sark. There would certainly have been cream though, ‘clowted cream’ to be more exact, which had always been a speciality in Devon.

Traditionally, clotted cream was created by straining fresh cow’s milk, letting it stand in a shallow pan in a cool place for several hours to allow the cream to rise to the surface, then heating it either over hot cinders or in a water bath, before leaving it in shallow pans to cool slowly. During this time, the cream content would rise to the surface. The name ‘clowted’ is thought to originate from ‘clout’, or ‘clowt’, an old word for a patch of cloth, which is what the crust on the cream resembles. Think of the saying ‘Cast not a clout till May be out’.

jams did become popular amongst wealthy folk thanks to the Crusaders who brought sugar back to western Europe, but jams were far too precious to spread on bread. Instead, they were eaten as ‘spoon sweets’; feasts were capped off with the distribution of delicate silver spoons laden with fruit preserves. The price of sugar fell in the mid-19th century after the abolition of sugar tax and this brought sugar prices within the means of the ordinary citizen, making jam more readily available to all.

Though the original jam used in Devon was probably whortleberry or ‘urt’ the local name for the wild blueberries found on Dartmoor and Exmoor.

So what about the scone? Devon certainly can’t claim to be the birthplace of the scone, it probably originated in Scotland in the early 1500s as a type of quick bread made with oats and griddlebaked. As for the origin of the word ‘skone’, some say it comes from the Dutch word ‘schoonbrot’, which means beautiful bread, while others argue it comes from the Stone of Destiny, where the Kings of Scotland were crowned.

When baking powder became available to the masses in the mid-19th century, scones began to be the oven-baked, well-leavened items we know today.

Before the scone arrived in the West

So what would a 10th century cream tea have looked like? Well for a start there obviously wouldn’t have been any tea with it - tea didn’t arrive in England until the 17th century when it was introduced via the coffee houses. It first became popular in the 1800s when it

Unfortunately for those hungry workers the monks wouldn’t have topped their bread and ‘clowted cream’ with strawberry preserve in the true Devon tradition. Sugar hadn’t made its way to England in the 10th century and so fruit preserves were made by mixing fruit pulp with honey and allowing it to dry in the sun, creating a texture more like that of a jellied sweet. So, it is more likely the workers’ treat would have been rye bread and clowted cream topped with dollops of honey. By the 11th century,

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Tavi Tuffs made by Stuart Honey

Country in the 19th century the jam and cream delights were served on a type of yeast bun, less cakey than a scone and more like a semi-sweet roll. So popular were these buns that bakers across the county vied with each other for the best baked goods - so we have a wonderful variety of names such as cutrounds, chudleys, farthings, ashburtons, baps, butter biscuits, skits, soft cakes, nubbies, splits, halfpenny or farthing buns.

Here in Tavistock, where the very best buns were baked, they were known as ‘tuffs’, no-one knows how the name originated, but until the interloper scone arrived, Tavy tuffs were top of everyone’s shopping list. In fact,

Medieval baker & apprentice: The Bodleian Library, Oxford

ironically, it seems to have been the Duchess of Bedford who brought about the tuff’s demise. In the 1840s it was the fashion for the evening meal to be served around eight o’clock, leaving a long period between lunch and dinner.

One day Anna Maria Russell, the 7th Duchess of Bedford, was feeling faint from hunger during a visit to the Duke of Rutland and asked for a tray of tea and sweet breads, including Scottish scones, during the late afternoon. This became a habit and she began inviting friends to join her. Soon the fashion for afternoon tea spread across every level of society complete with cake, sandwiches and scones with jam and cream, and dedicated tea rooms and cafes sprang up across the country.

Following the 1850s’ tourism boom, brought on by the opening of the railway, it was in Devon that these afternoon treats became known as ‘cream teas’. Local tea rooms made a valiant attempt to keep using Devon buns, but over time the demand for scones became too great and the Tavy tuff and its cousins fell out of favour.

Nowadays, thanks to the renewed enthusiasm for baking, old recipes are coming back into fashion. So it may not be long before the Tavy tuff retakes its rightful place as the key ingredient in any genuine Devon cream tea.

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Tavistock Heritage Open Days Friday 10 September Thanks to the annual Heritage Open Days, each September thousands of volunteers across the country invite you to experience local history, architecture and culture. All for free.

This year’s theme is Edible England and along with a host of other heritage experiences, Tavistock will also be celebrating the history of two of its finest culinary triumphs, the cream tea and the pasty. Legend has it that the cream tea originated here in Tavistock in the 10th century, but during Heritage Open Days visitors will be able to experience what a genuine Devon cream team would have looked like, complete with wild blueberry jam, ‘clowted’ cream and a Tavy tuff. There will also be a chance to experience, thanks to the exodus of West Country miners in the 19th and 20th centuries, how the pasty made its way across the world giving rise to some interesting variations, such as the Mexican chilli and chocolate variety.

Food will be the main focus of the opening weekend with a Heritage Food Festival extravaganza taking place across the town on Sunday 12th September. Over the following week there will be lots of opportunities to explore different parts of Tavistock and beyond with a variety of guided walks and talks led by heritage experts, together with a chance to visit some wonderful historic buildings not normally open to the public, and a chance to see some of the town’s historic treasures such as St Eustachius’ Church silver.

There will also be several fun events for children and adults alike, including a Victorian children’s games day, a heritage stamp trail, the burial of a time capsule close to the Duke of Bedford’s statue, along with a rare opportunity to enjoy steam engine trailer rides complete with strawberries and cream, organised by The Robey Trust. Last but not least, for one day only on Tuesday 14 September, the recently restored and refurbished Tavistock Guildhall will be opening its doors for special pre-booked sneak previews.

Full details of these events are available online at heritageintavistock.org and heritageopendays.org.uk or via the Tavistock Visitor Information Centre, Court Gate, Tavistock.

10.00 – 16.00 Tavistock Subscription Library Open Day – Guildhall Square 14.00 Discover Historic Whitchurch guided walk, organised by Tavistock Heritage Trust 16.15 – 17.45 Mount Kelly Tours, organised by Mount Kelly School

Saturday 11 September 9.00 – 14.00 Farmers’ Market, Bedford Square 10.00 – 16.00 Tavistock Subscription Library Open Day – Guildhall Square 10.00 Children’s heritage stamp trail runs all week.

Pick up details from the Visitor Information Centre, Court Gate, organised by Tavistock Subscription Library 11.00 – 16.00 ‘Strawberries, Cream and Steam’ passenger trailer rides between The Bedford Hotel and The Works, Pixon Lane, organised by The Robey Trust 11.00 – 16.00 Our Lady & St Mary Magdalen Catholic Church Tour, Callington Road 14.00 Tavistock Town and Abbey Walk, organised

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Sunday 12 September 10.00 – 16.00 Heritage Food Festival –Butchers’ Hall, Bedford Square and Guildhall car park, sponsored by Tavistock Heritage Trust 11.00 – 16.00 ‘Strawberries, Cream and Steam’ passenger trailer rides between The Bedford Hotel and The Works, Pixon Lane, organised by The Robey Trust 14.30- 15.30 ‘Tavistock’s Policing Past’ book-signing by author Simon Dell – Subscription Library, Guildhall Square

14.30 Plymouth Road Cemetery guided walk, organised by Tavistock Heritage Trust

Monday 13 September 11.30 – 14.00 St Eustachius’ Church – church treasures on display 14.30 900 years of Tavistock Markets guided walk, organised by Tavistock Heritage Trust

Tuesday 14 September 11.00 – 16.00 Guildhall Heritage Centre – sneak previews (pre-booked via Visitor Information Centre)

Wednesday 15 September 11.30 – 14.00 St Eustachius’ Church – church treasures on display 14.00 Tavistock Wharves guided walk, organised

by Tavistock Local History Society & Trevithick Society

Thursday 16 September 17.30 History of the Tavistock Subscription Library Zoom Talk by Simon Dell – pre-book via tavistocksubscriptionlibrary.co.uk

Friday 17 September 10.00 – 16.00 Tavistock Subscription Library Open Day, Guildhall Square 14.00 Tavistock Burial Grounds guided walk, organised by Tavistock Local History Society 16.15 – 17.45 Mount Kelly Tours, organised by Mount Kelly School

Saturday 18 September 10.00 – 16.00 Tavistock Upcycled Market, Butchers’ Hall, organised by Miss Ivy Events 10.00 – 16.00 Tavistock Subscription Library Open Day, Guildhall Square

11.00 – 12.00 Morris Dancing display outside Tavistock Guildhall, organised by Tavistock Heritage Trust 11.00 – 16.00 ‘Strawberries, Cream and Steam’ passenger trailer rides between The Bedford Hotel and The Works, Pixon Lane, organised by The Robey Trust 14.00 Tavistock Time Capsule Burial, Duke of Bedford statue, Guildhall Square, organised

by Tavistock Heritage Trust 14.30 Discover Tavistock guided walk, organised

by Tavistock Heritage Trust 14.30 – 16.30 Victorian Children’s Games Day, Tavistock Guildhall, Guildhall Square, organised by Tavistock Heritage Trust

Sunday 19 September 11.00 – 16.00 ‘Strawberries, Cream and Steam’ passenger trailer rides between The Bedford Hotel and The Works, Pixon Lane, organised by The Robey Trust 14.30 Plymouth Road Cemetery guided walk, organised by Tavistock Heritage Trust Tavistock Heritage Open Days are part-funded by the EU Regional Development Fund

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Lewtrenchard Manor Visit the summer gardens at Lewtrenchard Manor, Lewdown, EX20 4PN, which were designed by Walter Sorel and extend over several acres with streams, a sunken garden, a profusion of shrubs, a huge rustic dovecote and a recently restored, walled vegetable garden. There are timeless walks from the gardens along Madam’s Walk, on the banks of the River Lew and to the woods and beyond. Open 12-4pm; refreshments, free parking and toilet facilities are available. Entry: adults £5, children (U16) free entry (plus online booking fee) in aid of St Luke’s Hospice – book at www.stlukes-hospice.org.uk

Sunday 8 August

Windmills & Anvil Cottage Windmills, Callington, Cornwall, PL17 7LP is next to a medieval church and on the site of an old rectory where there are still signs in places of that long-gone building. It is a garden full of surprises - formal paths and steps lead up from the flower beds to extensive vegetable and soft fruit area; more paths lead to a pond, past a pergola, and down into large lawns with trees and shrubs and chickens.

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Late summer blooms at The Garden House The Garden House holds delights for both the seasoned gardener and for those who would simply enjoy exploring and immersing themselves in the beauty and tranquillity of 10 acres of stunning gardens. The Garden House is open daily (except Mondays) throughout the summer months, so why not come and stroll around the colourful, romantic gardens, which include the Cottage Garden area, the Acer Glade, the Walled Garden and the Jubilee Arboretum, where you’ll enjoy finding new views at every turn. August and September at The Garden House see the earlier summer blooms beginning to fade, and the glory of the later-flowering Hydrangea paniculata, the heleniums and dahlias come into their own. The Walled Garden is always a riot of colour at this time of year, and its profusion of garden perennials will give all gardeners some fantastic inspiration to take home and try themselves. Many of the garden’s plants are also available for sale in the plant sales area.

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RHS Garden Rosemoor 13 to 15 August

Rosemoor Garden Flower Show The only RHS flower show in the South West, features specialist nurseries from all over the UK, even from Europe, together with carefully selected trade stands, live music, flower arranging demonstrations from the effervescent Jonathan Moseley, fabulous floral displays and scrumptious food and drink. Live music will also be played by the lake throughout each day of the show. A garden flower show is an altogether more relaxed experience than traditional busy flower shows - instead of one big marquee, all the nurseries have their own mini marquees and inspirational displays, and all set in 65 stunning acres of gardens.

2 September to 3 October

Rosemoor Open Art Exhibition Showcasing a wealth of West Country talent, this exhibition will focus on gardens and plants, as well as landscapes, wildlife and seascapes. There will be a range of naturalistic paintings, using a wide variety of media, all of which will be for sale. There will also be artists available to talk to on selected dates throughout the exhibition. New for 2021, we will be displaying the artistic skills of Karen Arthurs, who creates stunning and fun, felted animals.

2 & 3 October

Apple Festival & the Taste of Autumn Food Fair Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Rosemoor’s Apple Festival this year, we have also combined it with the Taste of Autumn Food Fair. In addition to amazing apple displays, tastings, guided walks and talks about our apple orchards, Morris dancing and live music, there will be cookery demonstrations by local chefs and stalls selling wonderful culinary and applerelated products – truly something for everyone to enjoy.

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Outdoor theatre 2 & 24 August

Much ado about nothing Claudio loves Hero, and Benedick hates Beatrice. This is just as well, because Hero loves Claudio and Beatrice hates Benedick. Everyone laughs when Don Pedro plays a trick on Benedick and Beatrice, letting each think that they are secretly loved by the other. But it is no laughing matter when Don John plays a trick on Claudio and Hero, deceiving Claudio into thinking that Hero is not faithful to him. Murderous rage is unleashed, and death can be the only solution... Or can it?

Perhaps one last trick may resurrect the innocent dead, restore broken relationships - and even create an unlikely union of Benedick and Beatrice!

In its 29th open-air touring season, Illyria is renowned all over the world for clarity, quality and ingenuity. Running time: 2 hours 10 minutes (including a 20-minute interval) Monday 2 August, 7.30pm at Sterts, Liskeard (sterts.co.uk) Tuesday 24 August, 6pm at RHS Garden Rosemoor (theploughartscentre.org.uk)

11 August

Wonder With Grimm

to re-tell the stories from whence it took its name – the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Join us for an evening of enchanting storytelling full of magic, puppetry, and music, as we enter into the fantastical world of the Brothers Grimm – with altered endings and modern twist. Pack the picnic basket, dress for the weather, and don’t forget to bring something to sit on. Age 8+; Running Time 2 hours Wed 11 August, 5pm at RHS Garden Rosemoor (theploughartscentre.org.uk)

13 & 14 August

HMS Pinafore

by Gilbert & Sullivan Set on board the warship HMS Pinafore, the opera cheerfully mocks such Great British institutions as Class, Patriotism and the Royal Navy. Josephine the captain’s daughter is in love with Ralph a common sailor, but her father wants her to marry Sir Joseph Porter, First Lord of the Admiralty. The couple are caught as they elope from the ship and Ralph is locked in the ship’s dungeon. Only when certain revelations are made by Buttercup, a dockside vendor, can everyone end up freely marrying their true hearts’ loves. This wonderful comic opera gets the complete Illyria treatment. Running time: 2 hours (including a 20-minute interval) 13 & 14 August, 7.30pm at Sterts, Liskeard (sterts.co.uk)

If you join Heartbreak in the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise! It’s Grimm Night and the forest spirits are wandering abroad. Never heard of the Grimm? It used to live in the Black Forest, but now travels through forests across the UK looking for children’s voices to steal. To prevent this spectre from taking our voices we must tell it stories, so we gather together

23, 24 & 31 August

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travels to Paris to join the legendary musketeers in a thrilling production brimming with excitement, danger, comedy, and bags of audience interaction. Will our heroes thwart the scheming Cardinal Richelieu and the deadly Milady de Winter?

Will they retrieve the Queen’s jewels and restore her honour before it’s too late? Find out in this gripping tale. All for one – and one for all! Recommended age: 8+ Mon 23 August, 5pm at Sterts, Liskeard (sterts.co.uk) Tue 24 August, 5pm at Tawstock Court (theploughartscentre. org.uk) Tue 31 August, 5pm at RHS Garden Rosemoor (theploughartscentre.org.uk)

29 August

The Tempest Join the critically-acclaimed Pantaloons on a voyage to an enchanted island full of adventure, romance, magic and… monsters! Shakespeare puts the audience through charged emotional scenes as well as hilarious comedy. The Tempest is also a play about other kinds of transformation: from tears to laughter, from cruelty to forgiveness, from enslavement to freedom. “Shakespeare suggests that theatre itself is a kind of conjuring, summoning up whole imaginary worlds from just the shared creative efforts of actors and audience,” says The Pantaloons artistic director Stephen Purcell. “In our production, the cast create all the magical effects live onstage – with the help of the audience.” This is a chance for the whole family to enjoy one of Shakespeare’s most magical masterpieces – in the open-air. Bring your own seating, picnic, umbrellas and warm/waterproof clothing – the show will go on unless the weather is extreme! (check

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1 September

The Jungle Book Immersion Theatre is thrilled to bring you its wildest show yet, a brand-new musical adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling family favourite, The Jungle Book! Filled with original music, audience interaction, and the chance to meet the characters after the show, you are invited to join Mowgli and his friends, Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther, on a madcap jungle adventure as they meet and attempt to outwit a slithering snake, some cheeky monkeys, and the fierce tiger, Shere Khan!

Funny, exciting and wildly entertaining; the perfect treat for the whole family! Recommended age: 4+ Wed 1 September, 5pm at The Big Sheep (theploughartscentre.org.uk)

2 September

Romeo & Juliet Multi-award nominated Immersion Theatre proudly presents an unforgettable adaptation of Shakespeare’s powerful story of forbidden love and bitter rivalry, brought to life in a visual spectacle infused with comedy, heartbreak, and danger. Moving, funny, and tragic in equal measure, this is Shakespeare as it’s meant to be: interactive, fun, and highly accessible! Recommended age: 10+ Thu 2 September, 7pm at Clovelly Court (theploughartscentre.org.uk) Tickets for performances at RHS Rosemoor include garden admission from 2 hours before show time.

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Saturday 28 August to Sunday 5 September

Dartmoor Walking Festival 2021 Since 2016 the festival has been a great success and the very positive feedback received has really supported the idea of it becoming an annual event - which is absolutely fabulous. Since the early days it has grown and grown, and now regularly raises over £1000 every year for the Devon Air Ambulance charity. In 2021 we are again holding the Dartmoor Walking Festival and full details can be found online at www.moorlandguides. co.uk.

As it is being held in the last week of the summer holiday which encompasses the August bank holiday weekend, it will hopefully allow our visitors to stay on through the week to enjoy all

that Dartmoor has to offer. We will be putting on several events each day during the nine-day festival ranging from modest guided strolls and children’s rambles to full day walks and more ambitious challenges! There really will be something for everyone, including ‘accessible’ events for the less mobile in partnership with the ‘Disabled Ramblers’ Association. The week is only limited by your imagination, so come along and explore Dartmoor on your Doorstep and find out much more about this incredibly special place.

For more details about the full walking programme and how to book, go to dartmoorwalkingfestival.co.uk.

Until 5 September

BHS Ride Out UK’s Rideathon Join us for the British Horse Society’s Ride Out UK’s Rideathon. With a little BHS Devon ‘twist’, we want you to ‘saddle up’ and take part in B.H.S. Devon’s Olympic challenge ‘Topsham to Tokyo 6,060 mile/9750 km ride’. If you live in Devon, you and your four-legged friends are welcome to join us so we can clock up our combined miles to get our BHS Devon flag to Tokyo in time for this year’s Olympics Games. To submit the miles you have ridden simply email

a picture of your Rideathon tracking card to bhs.johanna@gmail.com or post a picture of your tracking card on the BHS Devon Equestrian Community Facebook Group. The Olympic challenge ends on 5 September to coincide with the closing ceremony of the Paralympics in Tokyo. You too, could be in with a chance to win a medal. Gold, silver, and bronze are all up for grabs to the highest fundraisers for the BHS Ride Out UK Fund, based on the amount of

money raised: bronze £70 - £100; silver £101 - £200; gold over £201. There will be a special award for the participant with the most heart-warming story about taking part in the BHS Devon’s Olympic challenge, plus a certificate for the oldest and youngest riders. Our award ceremony takes place at The Westcountry Equine Fair in December 2021. Sign up for the BHS Ride Out UK’s Rideathon at bit.ly/3tUXsG7

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go. Treggie (DBM Bagman) says they are often asked why they dance, why they wear feathers in their hats etc.

Morris dancing is hundreds of years old, and Dartmoor Border Morris likes to practise the traditional form of Morris dance for various reasons: it`s a way to keep fit, and will certainly keep your heart pumping; for others it`s a form of escapism - after a busy week of work, putting on your feathered hat and tattered blue coat to dance is just what the good doctor ordered. The style of Morris dance is called ‘Border’, as it originates from the Welsh and English border counties; it’s very energetic with big stick bashing, high stepping with arms linked and loud whooping whilst the band plays fast and furious music. You might also get involved with Chatterley, the side’s mischievous beast...

Dartmoor Border has people ranging from 25 to 80-years-old and usually dances outside Dartmoor pubs, and

at various events, such as Devon County Show, Royal Cornwall Show, Widecombe Fair and Meavy Oak Fair, to name a few. Their biggest claim to fame was appearing in a 2-minute advert on Channel 4 with The Black Farmer Company a couple of years ago, then appearing in posters at bus stops all over the country. The side has just been re-sponsored by the Black Farmer Company and has some interesting times planned. Dartmoor Border Morris also collects for a local charity every year - currently Dartmoor Rescue Group - as well as organising 220 dancers at Pudsey Day of Morris, which in six years has collected around £9000 for Children in Need.

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Friday 13 & 27 August, 3 & 18 September,

Love Local Upcycled Eco & Gift Market Fridays Our Friday markets are dedicated to the best handmade and upcycled gifts as we’re firm believers in upcycling, recycling, eco and hand-crafting. This market brings you a beguiling blend of all four, with a focus on quality products made locally. In a throwaway society there’s so much waste. Yet there’s a growing movement towards sustainability, environmentally-friendly and giving old things a new lease of beautiful life - creating unique new pieces that cock a snoop at mass production. What’s more, the clever crafters at this market ply their trade with a skill and passion not typically seen on your average production line. If you care about our environment, dislike the idea of a throw-away society, see beauty where others see rubbish and want to help support local communities then come along to this fun, fascinating and inspirational market. We’ll be at Butcher’s Hall in Tavistock from 10:00am to 3:30pm, entry is free and in case you’re wondering – we’re all Covid-safe here.

Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 August

Arts and Crafts Fair

Butchers Hall will be hosting a three-day

celebration of all things arts and crafts.

This is a great opportunity to buy that unique, handmade little something for somebody special, or why not treat yourself!

open at 2:30pm. Refreshments will be available, restrictions permitting. Book in advance on 01822 855041 or pay on the day.

29 August & 26 September

Duck Race

Brentor Car Boot Sales Sellers: cars £5, vans £10; Buyers: free entry!

The car boot sales are held in aid of village funds on Brentor Playing Field, Burn Lane, Brentor, PL19 0ND. Sellers to arrive from 8:30am, buyers are welcome from 10:00am. We will be adhering to Covid-19 rules and a oneway system will be in place to ensure social distancing. Refreshments will be available. Please call 07706 972906 or email belarusness@hotmail.co.uk to book a space.

29 August

Walkhampton Car Boot Sale Sellers: cars £5, vans £10, tables under cover £5; Buyers: free entry The car boot sale is held in aid of Children’s Hospice South West at Walkhampton Village Hall & field PL20 6JX. Sellers to arrive from 1:00pm, gates

12 September Join in the fun at this duck race in aid of Children’s Hospice South West at Huckworthy Bridge, nr Walkhampton, PL20 6LP. Ducks cost £2 and can be bought on the day or in advance from Mike Spry on 01822 852277.

Refreshments including ice-creams will be available. (The event may be cancelled due to bad weather or changes in Covid restrictions.)

3rd Monday of month

Tavy Turners and Carvers Club Tavy Turners and Carvers Club has resumed regular meetings on the 3rd Monday of the month, 7.30 to 9.30pm at the Scout Den, Pixon Lane, Tavistock. New members are always most welcome. See www. tavistockwoodturners.co.uk for further information.

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Friends of the Wharf Lunchtime Lectures Organised by Dr Ann Pulsford, 2-3pm at Tavistock Wharf, cost £5 (FOTW £4) 9 August: Peter Burkill

Tyger, Tyger William Blake’s 1794 ‘Tyger Tyger burning bright’ poem struck me as a school boy and in March 2020, we flew to India to see the elusive tiger. The talk is a photo-essay on the wildlife in three national parks of Madhya Pradesh, ending with Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book, written in 1894, where the tiger (Shere Khan) is the man-eating ‘baddy’.

6 September: Simon Dell

Tavistock’s Policing Past Simon Dell’s recent books: Tavistock’s Policing Past, and Tavistock Guildhall - A Story of Policing, celebrate the restoration of Tavistock Guildhall as a ‘gateway’ centre for the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site. The talk charts the building’s life as magistrates’ court and police station from 1848 until 2012.

13 September: Richard Thomas

A Day in the Life of a Thames Tug A close look at the work done by the Cory tug General VIII, which was one of a fleet of five vessels engaged in the movement of refuse lighters on the

Thames, giving an insight to one of the remaining commercial operations on the tidal Thames.

and suitable clothing required for the evening and the height (1,000 feet).

4 October: Robert Hesketh

A talk by Richard Thomas at the Parish Centre – Powdermills: Its History & People. In a remote spot in the middle of Dartmoor, between Two Bridges and Postbridge, are the extensive ruins of a gunpowder factory. Operating between 1845 and 1897, it has lain abandoned for more than 120 years. Who owned the factory, who lived and worked there, and in what conditions? Was it ever profitable and why did production cease?

Devon’s Railway Heritage Railways have profoundly altered Devon – the talk explores their rich and varied heritage, including two mainlines, four branch lines, excellent preserved railways, two cliff railways and the cycleways/walkways established on former track. Illustrated with over 130 images.

Tavistock Local History Society 10 August, 7pm

Outdoor visit to Kit Hill with member Stephen Docksey. A short walk around the summit of Kit Hill, which is topped by a chimney in the shape of a Greek column, discussing the archaeology: some pre-history, tin working, stone cutting, boundaries, communications and Sir John’s folly. Stout footwear

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An update from Lydford Gorge In June 2021 we opened the path through the gorge for the first time since March 2020, and now we have more space to spread out, you no longer need to book your visit to Lydford Gorge in advance. The Devil’s Cauldron viewing platform was unfortunately damaged by a fallen tree, so this section of the walk remains closed for repair. When we had to close the whole of Lydford Gorge, little did we know that it would be over a year before we got back to any kind of normal opening.

In June 2020 we opened just the waterfall trail with a booking system in place to help limit numbers and keep everyone safe.

There were several considerations that meant we couldn’t open more of the gorge at that time. Safety is always our top priority as the terrain in the gorge is so challenging, and with reduced staff it wasn’t possible to keep up with the maintenance.

Over the past year there has been lots of work going on behind the scenes to get ready for reopening. On top of catching up with the maintenance of all the steps, paths and handrails, there were several fallen trees to deal with; areas where the river had eroded the bank that needed shoring up; and plenty

of fallen rocks to clear off the paths. In addition to maintaining the walking routes, another important role is to check on the wildlife that lives in the gorge. We have some important species that are temperate rainforest specialists; a habitat that is becoming increasingly rare. The success story for 2021 were the pied flycatchers, which had a good year despite the very late, cold spring with six pairs breeding successfully.

If you’re planning a visit, please check online at www. nationaltrust.org.uk/lydford-gorge for up-to-date information before travelling. We look forward to welcoming you back soon.

Tavistock Heritage Trust Guided Walks 7, 14, 21, 28 August & 4, 11, 18, 25 September, 2pm Tavistock Heritage Trust’s popular series of guided walking tours continues throughout the summer with a full programme of fascinating tours. For £5 per person, you will be taken on a journey through the history of this World Heritage Site in the company of our team of friendly, local historians, opening doors to the past and providing an unforgettable experience.

Ideal for new visitors to the area and local residents - we promise you’ll learn something new. Our range of walks includes an introduction to the history of the area and the history of all things Tavonian from canals and railways to pubs and breweries! photo by Michael Leek

See heritageintavistock.org/events for details of the full programme.

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W hat’s O n she will fly across the sea in a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle for a live audience. The Hatchling was conceived by Angie Bual, artistic director of Trigger. For more information visit thehatchling.co.uk.

evening. There is also entertainment, including a fun fair, and food and drink stalls to enjoy on Plymouth Hoe before the spectacle begins. For the latest updates about the British Firework Championships, please see www.britishfireworks.co. uk or visitplymouth.co.uk.

Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 August The Hatchling Theatre-makers Trigger will stage an extraordinary outdoor performance as a giant puppet in the form of a dragon roams through Plymouth, exploring its new surroundings and interacting with the public. The Hatchling, which stands at over 6.5m tall, is the largest ever puppet to be solely humanoperated. It is constructed from super lightweight carbon fibre weighing less than a piece of hand luggage, allowing it to be operated by a team of 36 puppeteers working in rotation in groups of 15. Designed by a palaeontologist, the dragon is based on the pterosaur, a prehistoric reptile and one of the largest flying animals.

Upon hatching the dragon will explore her environment, stopping traffic and meeting members of the public. At sunset on Sunday 15 August, she will undertake a miraculous metamorphosis into a kite.

With a wing span of over 20m,

Wednesday 18 & Thursday 19 August British Firework Championships The world-famous British Firework Championships is set to return to Plymouth’s waterfront in August. Over the two nights this popular annual event is watched by approximately 100,000 people from viewpoints all around the natural harbour, but the best viewpoint is Plymouth Hoe. Under the sparkling night sky, viewers will enjoy spectacular pyrotechnics illuminating Plymouth Sound, as six top firework companies battle it out over two nights, each putting on an awe-inspiring display in an attempt to be crowned the winner. The fireworks will start from around 9.30pm, with three ten-minute displays each

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Friday 27 to Sunday 29 August 1 Big Summer This three-day music event on Plymouth Hoe caters to a plethora of musical tastes.

Friday will see Ibiza Classics 2021 with a live 26-piece orchestra.

On Saturday, the ‘1 Big Summer’ day festival and main event features an array of UK chart topping acts and entertainment throughout the day. Sunday is one for the whole family. ‘The Great British Sausage and Cider Festival’ will offer an unprecedented array of craft cider, sausage flavours, street food and entertainment, including some of the UK’s best-known arena and festival bands, alongside a fantastic line-up of local talent.

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The Box Elizabethan House now open Part of The Box family, Plymouth’s Elizabethan House reopened at the end of July following a six-year, £1.7m restoration as part of Plymouth’s Mayflower 400 commemorations. The Grade II Listed historic property dates from the late 1500s, and has survived the slum clearances of the early 1900s and the Blitz of World War II. Now one of Plymouth’s oldest buildings, Elizabethan House was built as a letting house and has been lived in by many people whose lives and livelihoods were based around the waterfront. The new attraction takes visitors on an immersive yet authentic journey through its history, as well as offering an insight into the history of Plymouth’s Barbican area. The multi-sensory, audio-visual tour of the building lasts around 45 minutes and is led by the ‘voice’ of the house. You meet the first owner, a washerwoman, a wig maker, get a glimpse at the house’s architecture and see what life was like for the rich and the poor. Projections, images and smells all add to the experience. Local actors have been used to voice the different characters visitors meet; June Marlow, the voice of the house, is a 90-year-old Plymothian who was actually born on New Street, where the house is located.

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Until 5 September

Family & Friends: Reynolds at Port Eliot Sir Joshua Reynolds was born and lived most of his life in Plymouth; outside of London, The Box holds the UK’s single largest collection of his paintings. This new, free exhibition displays the Port Elliot Collection, a collection of rarely seen paintings by the leading portrait painters of the 18th century including Reynolds, George Romney and Thomas Lawrence. It explores how a rare fusion of patronage and genuine friendship supported Plymouth’s most famous portrait painter throughout his life, from budding local artist to founding president of the Royal Academy.

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Saturday 11 to Sunday 26 September

Devon Open Studios Artists all over Devon will be throwing open their doors and inviting people to look behind the scenes of an artist’s studio. Over 300 artists are taking part in this year’s Devon Open Studios, with a range of free exhibitions, workshops, demonstrations and opportunities to see artists at work. The art and craft on display will include drawing, painting, sculpture, tapestry, ceramics, jewellery and glasswork. Artists range from new

talent to experienced professionals, all keen to share their inspiration and creativity with visitors. Of course, there’s also the opportunity to buy, when you’ve met the artist, seen them working and heard about their inspiration. Guides will be available from community venues, libraries and tourist information offices in early August or online at devonartistnetwork.co.uk

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August & September

Wildwood Arts exhibitions Trailblazers of the Southwest: Post-war Art Too often the decade after the Second World War has been characterised by austerity and anxiety, but thankfully these labels did not apply to British art. The European artistic influences of Picasso and Matisse were to have a bedazzling effect on a generation of young British artists. This exhibition features the work of Allin Braund, Richard Slater RI, Arthur Homeshaw RWA and Eric Waugh RI. The impact of the war and its aftermath provides the context to understand how the artists were encapsulated in their generation.

Three of the four saw military service.

Allin Braund served in the Royal Marines and saw active service in North Africa and Crete. Both Richard Slater and Arthur Homeshaw did National Service.

After the war they all either taught or were trained in the premier league institutions of British art education. In terms of the art they produced, the most common thread is a dialogue between abstraction and landscape or nature.

Braund’s signature medium was the lithograph but he was equally adept

Allin Braund

at watercolours and acrylic, as well as a qualified silversmith.

Homeshaw’s two mediums were linocuts and pastels and his work consists of striking use of tonal contrasts and complex patterning. Of the four, Slater is closest to the British neo-romantics.

His watercolours and oils are infused with workaday scenes of the English village, his ever-present sun, abstracted landscapes and plants. Finally, Eric Waugh worked with watercolours and acrylic, employing a bold use of colour with brush stokes applied as angled rectangles. In summary these four trailblazing West Country artists do two things that all good art should do: they make us think and feel. This is a powerful bequest for the twentyfirst century, and their work is highly collectable.

Eric Waugh

Annual Contemporary Summer 2021 Exhibition

Every season, our artists submit new work to our exhibitions and it is always a lovely surprise to see what they have created and the subjects they have chosen. What struck me most about submissions for this exhibition is that after the tiresome lockdown, when many told me that they had lost their mojos and found it difficult to create - they all seem to have found their mojo with increased fervour. That is what makes contemporary art- it is about what is happening right now in the emotions of the artists and you may find some of it resonates with you too!

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Tavistock Festival 2021 It seems some time ago since we had to cancel a fabulous festival in April 2020 - no choirs, no orchestras, no lunchtime concerts, no artists’ market, no talks, no library workshops. Thankfully, we have come a long way since then, most notably in the partial arrest of this dreadful virus, which has been awful for all of us in so many respects.

Nevertheless, we are very excited that festival activities might be possible in the not-too-distant future.

Although we can’t stage a complete festival in 2021, the Friends of the Tavistock Festival have planned three lunchtime concerts as a ‘taster’ and this has been possible thanks to the generous financial support of our significant sponsors Alistair Kinsey and Hansford Bell, as well as others.

Concerts Rosemary Turner (Soprano) and Andrew Wilson (Piano) A diverting compilation for voice and keyboard including a selection from a new set of songs ‘Stella’s Cycle’ by Andrew Wilson

Mary, Kamila and Leslie MazurPark (Piano and Oboe) One of the festival’s most popular events including music for solo piano, solo oboe and piano duet.

Dr Sean Sweeney (Organ) One significant loss last year was the diminution of the Mayflower 400 programme. Supported by Plymouth Culture, Plymouth Music Accord and

Wednesday 8 to Saturday 11 September

Plymouth and District Organists’ Association, two organ pieces were commissioned from Plymouth composer Clive Jenkins and American organistcomposer Carson Cooman. This concert features both works, together with music ‘from the New World’ and the Plymouth Suite by Percy Whitlock.

Final details about these events will be published on www.tavistockfestival.org as soon as everything can be confirmed.

We look forward to seeing you.

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Tavistock Group of Artists Exhibition Tavistock Group of Artists will be holding their 65th annual exhibition in the new and more easily accessible venue of Butcher’s Hall, close to the entrance to the Pannier Market.

Preview Evening will be held on Tuesday 7th September from 7 to 9pm, and the exhibition opens to the public on Wednesday 8th and runs through to Saturday 11th September, from 10am to

5pm daily. Around 30 local artists and crafters will be showing their latest works alongside some retrospective pieces from previous years, from abstract to landscape, watercolour to oil, paintings and ceramics - all will be available for purchase along with prints, cards and small gift items.

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4 to 8 August

Drawn to the Valley Summer Exhibition It’s a busy month for the Drawn to the Valley (DTTV) network of artists, with two major events taking place, starting with their Tavistock Annual Summer Exhibition. Eighty artists from the 170-strong group are exhibiting at the event, which is being held within the fabulous setting of Butchers’ Hall in Tavistock (open daily 10am-4.30pm; Sunday 10am-2pm). The exhibition showcases the artists’ diverse range of work, which is often influenced by the inspiring Tamar Valley where all the artists live and work. Expect many different art forms and materials, from oil, acrylics and graphite to glass, ceramics and metals. The styles are equally varied, with landscapes, seascapes, figurative, contemporary and abstract artwork all on show. It’s an opportunity for members of the public to buy original pieces from local artists, and to view their work ahead of the open studios event across the area.

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25 August to 5 September.

Drawn to the Valley Open Studios This year’s event has a mixture of individual open studios and studios shared by several artists. Among these is the open studio at Tavistock Library where an exciting partnership is developing between DTTV and the library, with its town centre location and wide range of community activities for all ages. The library offers artists’ cards for sale, and for the open studio six artists will be displaying their work and offering demonstrations in two newly refurbished community rooms. They are Shelagh Brown (weaving, textiles), Dorothy Harris (photography), Stefania D’Amico (ceramics, pen & ink, prints), Lyn Edwards (mixed media, textiles), Jane Deane (weaving, textiles), and Gilly Spottiswoode (linoprints).

At Peter Tavy, Angela Smith (painting and mixed media) and Jen Bradley (mixed media) are sharing Angela’s studio which boasts stunning views over Dartmoor. There are two open studios in nearby Mary Tavy - Julia

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Odell (documentary-style painting and drawing); and husband and wife, Clark and Karen Nicol (landscape artist and textile artist). Down the road in Yelverton, there’s the chance to take in several studios in close proximity. In all, there are 67 artists in 33 open studios all are free entry, with various opening times. Visit drawntothevalley.co.uk for artist profiles and more information about the events.

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Tavistock Musical Theatre Company Little did we know as the final curtain fell on our very successful production of ‘The Sound of Music’ in late October 2019 that the (metaphorical) footlights would be dimmed for more than two years hence. Of course, TMTC is just one of many community theatre companies across the land that has found itself grounded by the Covid pandemic and sadly, there are those who haven’t survived. We at TMTC were due to stage ‘My Fair Lady’ in Tavistock Town Hall in late 2020 and ‘Elf -The Musical’ in late 2021. Both of these productions have had to be postponed until 2023 and 2022 respectively, until it is hoped that amateur theatre will be able to perform with all restrictions lifted.

to the Tavistock scene with the possibility of a low budget entertainment later this year, or in early 2022.

TMTC has provided Tavistock with high calibre musical theatre for over sixty years and we hope to continue to do so in the future. We pride ourselves on having an inclusive and multigenerational membership. We are a self-funding company, relying on membership fees, fundraising efforts and occasional local grant funding which we have been fortunate to have secured. But since March 2020, our income has dwindled significantly; however, our outgoings have not, and storage and insurance costs run into quadruple figures annually. Our committee has stayed active during the pandemic, meeting monthly via Zoom. Through much ‘head scratching’ and long discussions, plans are being formulated for a comeback

A programme of fundraising events is being planned and we hope to access some recovery grant funding and maybe some local patronage or sponsorship in the coming months. To that end, we are inviting anyone with a genuine wish to see live community theatre resurrected, and the means to help us by contributing ideas, time, or financial aid, to join us in this effort. If you think you may be able to help, we would love to hear from you at tmtc@hotmail.co.uk. As a long-established community theatre group, we are confident that with support, we can rise from the Covid ashes to deliver once again what we are good at – musical theatre – starting with ‘Elf -The Musical’ in November 2022!

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How to BBQ the perfect steak Enjoy the theatre of a night out at the Eversfield Organic Dartmoor Inn, Merrivale. Watch the chef sear your steak to perfection on the open fire grill from the comfort of your table, with a glass of wine or a local organic ale from the barrel. The menu is 100% organic with everything sourced from the Eversfield organic farm and market garden, or from a wonderful selection of small, local producers. Head chef Tom has put together the following instructions so you can re-create this delicious barbeque experience in your garden and cook the most succulent steak to impress your guests this summer.

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Method 1. Allow the steak to come to room temperature Leave the steak out of the fridge for approximately 10 to 15 minutes before you’re ready to cook. Allowing the meat to come to room temperature allows for a more even cook all the way through. If your meat is cold when it hits the grill, it can cause the muscle fibres to tense up.

2. Heat up your coals Light the charcoal on your barbeque and wait until the coals turn white before cooking. This will take approximately 10 to 15 minutes.

3. Oil the steak

Rub a generous amount of oil into the meat to ensure that perfect outer texture once cooked, and of course so it doesn’t stick.

4. Season your steak The best way to do this is to sprinkle with salt on both sides immediately before popping on the barbeque.

Cooking times Pop your steak on the grill and sear for 3 to 4 minutes each side for medium rare.

Don’t forget to rest (the meat) This is the final, but most important part for your perfect tender steak, and it gives you time to dish up your sides and pour your wine! Rest for 5 minutes.

Timings are based on a 10oz steak.

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Pairing wines with barbecued foods Dave Anning has some summery suggestions

You may recall sauces are critical when it comes to pairing food with wines, because they have strong flavours especially trendy, hot sauces. With spice, red wine drinkers should look for something fruity and juicy like sangiovese. The easier option is a cool, low alcohol white - maybe even with a little sweetness to counter the heat.

With sweet sauces, a smoky Rioja or pinotage are good red choices, while the best all-round white is probably sauvignon blanc, aromatic and with clearly defined flavours.

Meat forms the basis of many barbecues. Primitivo has deep, dark fruit that can be so intense it gives an impression of sweetness despite being dry. It has enough tannin to balance both fat and strong umami flavours in stronger barbecued red meat such as beef (umami means savoury and salty). Don’t forget - the more crispy and flavoursome the meat, the more tannic the wine can be; big cabernet sauvignons and cabernet-based Bordeaux can really shine - just watch the alcohol!

Lighter (or less burned!) meat such as pork or chicken is similar for pairing purposes when barbecued, so drink lighter reds with them, or whites with body. Red lovers could consider bonarda.

Overshadowed by malbec, Argentina’s bonarda is more obviously fruity than its famous neighbour, and is great easy drinking so merlot drinkers will love bonarda! White fans should consider full-bodied viognier or fresh, zesty chenin blanc. Don’t forget rosés. Hints of red fruit add a dimension, especially if you’re making a sticky sauce.

Fish is challenging on the barbeque hence it often ends up IN the barbeque but can be delicious. The right wine will refresh your palate to appreciate those

light, delicate flavours. Zippy picpoulde-pinet works brilliantly and grows overlooking the sea. Grilling fish adds flavour so you can also increase body and flavour in a wine so try finding an appassimento grillo from Italy.

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Saturday 28 August, 5:30pm

Tavistock Street Food Festival We’re bringing a host of street foods and drinks, many from local producers right here in the West Country for a delectable evening of food, drink and music in Tavistock’s historic and very beautiful Bedford Square. An array of mouth-watering street food will be on offer, including seafood, vegan, posh hotdogs, Mediterranean, Jamaican, and lots, lots more.

This is the perfect chance to meet friends and family for a scrummy start to a summer Saturday evening. Grab some food, find a sunny spot, laugh, dance, hug (in your bubble), and have some long-overdue fun. Try new foods and chill whilst listening to live music – drink in hand! There’s loads of free parking nearby and plenty of space for social distancing too.

Entry to this event is entirely free of charge, so clear your diary of other commitments, shelve the diet for another time and join us for a fun evening this summer.

Saturday 11,18,25 September

Italian Jack’s Supper Club Italian Jack, aka chef Davide, presents three evenings of authentic Italian food at Tavistock Parish Centre, PL19 0AD. All menus include two options for starters, mains and desserts, and bookings are taken for 6.30 to 8pm, with carriages at approx.

10pm. You can bring your own bottle or have wines paired with the meal and delivered from SW Bottle Shop.

11 Sep: Seafood Night; 18 Sep: A Night in Milan; 25 Sep: Road to Apulia For details visit italianjack.co.uk and for bookings email hello@italianjack.co.uk

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The Parish Centre The Parish Centre for St Eustachius’ Church Tavistock (on Plymouth Road opposite the church) has recently had a complete refurbishment funded by the Friends of St Eustachius’. The main hall has had the walls fully lined and freshly painted, dimmable lights fitted, and 75 new chairs have been procured. In addition, a substantial amount of rewiring was carried out and new sockets fitted. The toilets have also been modernised. The centre already has a well-fitted kitchen, suitable for professional catering. Rick Crawford, chair of the Friends of St Eustachius, said: “I am delighted that we took the opportunity to modernise and redecorate the Parish Centre during the closed period required by the pandemic. It is now fully suitable for a wide range of functions, from fine dining to aerobics!”

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Stannary Brewing Co. Tavistock’s own brewery Based in their hometown of Tavistock, Chris John, Mark Stephens and Garry White have run Stannary Brewing Company since 2017. Starting as home brewers with a passion for full flavoured beer they have grown to run a fully independent craft brewery right here in the heart of West Devon. On a recent visit to the brewery, Chris, Mark and Garry spoke to us about their journey so far: “Stannary Brewing Company was first talked about over a few beers in a pub.

We thought, why not start our own brewery and brew the modern, full flavoured beers we love but can’t buy locally?” said Chris.

“From the start we had great local following. We were only brewing 200 pints in each batch, but we felt like we’d started our brewery,” Garry explained.

Very soon pubs in Plymouth, Exeter and Bristol were taking Stannary beers and Chris, Mark and Garry realised they would have to grow to keep up with demand. 2019 was a big year for them as Stannary moved into its current premises and their new brew plant was finally installed, which is now capable of producing 8000 pints a week. Everything was going well and they were shipping their beers far and wide. 2020 was planned to be another year of growth, or

so they thought.

But then the pandemic started - we asked the guys how the Covid lockdown had affected them.

“Yeah wow, that was a surreal and scary moment we thought we were finished,” said Chris. “But local support from our home deliveries and take-away service dragged us through.”

Mark continued: “Local support over the past 12 months has been amazing and humbling. It gave us the kick we needed to refit the brewery taproom while we were closed - we’ve also created an undercover area in our yard and our warehouse becomes a seated barrel room at weekends. Things have gone from strength to strength since the rules have started to relax again. Our visitors create a cracking family atmosphere whenever we open the brewery and it will be great to see even more friendly faces back at the brewery again. We

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now have a chef cooking street food and a pizza company onsite at weekends and as the covid restrictions start to relax further we are planning live music events.”

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The role involves assessing the value of antiques, art, silver, jewellery and collectable items for different purposes, including probate (inheritance tax), insurance, family division and for sale by auction or private treaty. You often need to visit clients’ homes to appraise larger items or collections, as well as overseeing the marketing and preparation of online sale catalogues before conducting auction sales.

What training and qualifications do you need?

To become a successful valuer and auctioneer, practical experience of handling objects is key and best gained by working in a reputable auction house, with experienced valuers, covering a wide range of items.

Formal qualifications include the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and for jewellery valuers the Gemmological Association (FGA).

There are also a number of universitybased art history degrees, which provide a useful grounding.

When and how did Eldreds start as a business?

I started the firm in 1993 having spent a number of years with London-based international auction house Phillips (later merged with Bonhams), based mainly in the West Country and latterly in Plymouth.

What services do you offer?

We hold regular specialist auction sales throughout the year and provide comprehensive advice to executors, solicitors and other professional advisors, as well as to the general public and collectors wishing to buy or sell antiques and valuable items. We also prepare inventories and carry out

valuations of entire house contents where a client is downsizing or after a bereavement, and assist in organising house clearances through trusted and reliable contractors. We hold regular valuation days at our Roborough office and travel throughout the West Country and beyond to value clients’ collections.

What are the most interesting or unusual items you have auctioned?

We auctioned a solid 18ct gold model of an Iranian casino (£46,000), a marble top table from Windsor Castle, and a pair of Queen Victoria’s bloomers!!!

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Out and About with Tavistock Ramblers A high and mighty walk for late summer away from the crowds, with John Noblet of Tavistock Ramblers. It is 5 miles although it can be shortened if you wish. Although within sight of the highest tors of Dartmoor (and in the whole of southern England for that matter) this walk is remarkably level.

Passing above Meldon reservoir and then crossing the dam the walk returns on the old London and South Western Railway line, now a recreational trail.

Park on the roadside 200m beyond a pair of cattle grids on the access road signed to Prewley water treatment works just off the A386 and close to the junction with the A30. SX544910, nearest postcode EX20 4HT

1. From the parking area bear right on the wide grassy path towards the left side of Sourton Tors. The lumps and bumps that you can see are the remnants of a short-lived 19th century ice-making venture. Go left at a cross track and continue towards a stone wall. Bear left, with the wall on the right, to reach a gate.

2. A wide track between stone walls leads past a line of trees with distant views of the highest points on Dartmoor. The closest, Yes Tor,

is 619 m, or just over 2000 ft, above sea level. Pass through a second gate and continue ahead to a third. Don’t go through this gate but turn right just before it and walk alongside the wall. Go left around the corner and follow the path, which is a bit stony in places. When the path drops down to Meldon dam there are great views across the reservoir. Turn left on the tarmac lane for the short cut but otherwise go right and walk over the top of the dam.

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3. Go left onto a path high above the East Okement Valley with distant views of the impressive iron lattice viaduct, built in 1874 - the only one of its type in the country. Bear left onto a wider track and down to a concrete bridge over the Red-a-ven Brook. The quarry on the right was for aplite, and the two buildings are the remnants of a forgotten industry for the manufacture of glass. (There is an information board about the history of the area in the car park behind the larger building.)

5. Cross the viaduct but take time to savour the view.

Immediately below is yet another quarry (this time for limestone) and two old lime kilns. From here it is a simple matter of following this shared path back to a gate by the cattle grid at the start of the walk.

4. Go through the gate onto a quarry access road and then immediately right onto a footpath signed to Rock Park. Keep straight on at a fork (NOT left) to the top. Pass through two small gates and on to the trackbed of the old railway at the end of the viaduct. (To the right is an enormous quarry

Tavistock Ramblers have by now, hopefully, returned to near normal and have a programme of weekend and mid-week walks, which vary between short strolls to all day hikes, so visit the website to see the full programme. www.tavistockramblers.org.uk

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Devon’s Railway Heritage

By Robert Hesketh This lively and beautifully illustrated little book is a concise summary of Devon’s Railway Heritage which will be of great interest to railway enthusiasts, locals and tourists. It also provides valuable information on places to visit and their contact details. Robert Hesketh is a writer and photographer specializing in West Country subjects, including local history, guides and walks. To date, he has published 59 books covering Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset, as well as illustrated articles for a wide range of magazines including Devon Life, Cornwall Life, Dartmoor Magazine, Country Walking and The Countryman. He also has 21 local history talks to offer.

Mainline steam trains first came to Devon in 1844 when the westward extension of the Bristol and Exeter Railway reached Exeter. The new line was engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and regular services to Paddington were scheduled at only five hours making them the fastest trains in the world.

Brunel thought that the Atmospheric Railway system would bring speed and efficiency to the difficult and hilly terrain west of Exeter by replacing locomotives with stationary pumping houses. A vacuum created in a central pipe that ran between the rails drew the train along by atmospheric pressure. But the all-important leather flap valve was prone to damage by frost and rats and the pumping houses used more fuel than expected so that eventually the whole project was abandoned and replaced with steam locomotives. Brunel built a series of wooden viaducts but his Royal Albert Bridge was one of his greatest and enduring triumphs and still carries mainline

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Railways also brought a population explosion to several Devon towns. Cheap rail travel opened the Devon coasts to ordinary people and the coastal resorts expanded. Through the 1960s and 1970s though Devon’s track mileage dwindled as branches were closed.

Devon also has a number of preserved railways and stations with vintage locomotives, carriages and rolling stock where visitors can experience the distinctive sounds and smells of earlier railway travel. The book details interesting railways and stations to visit, including the South Devon Railway, Dartmouth Steam Railway, Dartmoor Railway, Launceston Steam Railway, Plym Valley Railway, Seaton Tramway, Bere Ferrers Station, Devon Railway Centre at Bickleigh, the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, Lynton Cliff Railway and the Babbacombe Cliff Railway. There is also very useful information on exploring Devon’s railway heritage on foot or by bike. Places listed include the Tarka Trail, Instow’s Signal Box, Bideford’s Railway Heritage Centre, Great Torrington’s former station house, Christow Station, Haytor Tramway, Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway, The Granite Way, Plym Valley, Wray Valley Trail and the Ruby Way. This book is a treasure trove of valuable information and a fascinating read.

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With wit, style and pathos, Tyler’s simple prose brings Micah’s real depths, weaknesses and strengths to the surface as he encounters challenges variously thrown up by his difficulty in reading girlfriends past and present (or their difficulty in reading him?), his crazy family, his neighbours’ plumbing, the customers of his modest tech business and a teenager claiming to be his long lost son... Tyler’s novel mirrors its main protagonist - on the surface slim and modest, but dig deeper and you will find real treasure.

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