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TAVY LINKS February/March 2020 | Issue 41

IMAGINATION & ENTERPRISE

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WE MEET ARTIST AND COSTUME FABRICATOR ALLI EYNON, CREATIVE WRITER MYFANWY COOK, & ADVENTURER CLAIRE LEMASURIER

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Creativity often goes hand in hand with ingenuity, skill and patience, but creating something original, useful or beautiful from basic elements requires above all, vision. In this issue we have had the pleasure of talking to a number of highly artistic, inventive and pro-active people, who represent just a small percentage of the huge wealth of local creative talent. Nichola was fascinated to hear about Alli Eynon’s work as a sculptor and costume fabricator for the BBC, The Royal Ballet and Tim Burton’s films. She also went to talk to Myfanwy Cook about her love of creative writing and communication. We take a peek into the world of Tim Roberts at Fatcalf Media in our feature article, to discover what it takes to produce engaging video content. Our charity focus explains how Devon Guild of Craftsmen connects people through craft, as well as organising exhibitions, workshops and outreach programmes for schools and community groups. Nichola also enjoyed finding out about Claire Lemasurier’s year of adventurous challenges, and I met Steve Hipsey to find out how Tidy Tavi is helping to keep Tavistock litter-free. While Sue Fisher shares some suggestions on offsetting the effects of climate change in the garden. In addition, we have a host of events, creative and otherwise, with art exhibitions, festivals, concerts and theatre productions, as well as opportunities to get hands-on and have a go yourself with the Dartmoor Hill Farm Project’s heritage skills courses, The Postbridge Challenge, Lambing Live and Paint the Town. Front cover image: West Street, Tavistock by Rozanne Bell - see Tavistock Picture Framing Gallery on page 61 for details

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What makes a good story? The connection between a small film and design studio in Tavistock and a museum 8000 miles away in the Falkland Islands seems quite hard to comprehend, but despite never setting foot on the islands, Tim Roberts of Fatcalf Media in Tavistock has developed a close working relationship over the past few years with the Historic Dockyard Museum in Port Stanley. Tim set up Fatcalf Media in 2010, following ten years at Imagemakers, specialists in heritage interpretation and design, where he honed his skills as a finished artist, in addition to audio, video, digital media and graphic design. Having originally started his working life as a graphic designer, he realised quite early in his career that if each concept had a cohesive story, then it worked – so finding the right storyline has become the crux of all Tim’s work. Tim also has an innate ability to draw the story from the client and then instinctively guide the person in front of the camera, as only a true producer can, helping them engage their audience and ‘tell it from the heart’. Video production has always been what he terms his ‘happy place’, and the combination of his natural creative flair with his technical competence has led to some ingenious and compelling ‘story-telling’. Preferring to work with local suppliers, businesses and agencies wherever possible, over the years he has gathered a trusted technical support team, as well as building close connections with numerous actors, presenters and voice-over artists. Tim’s work first brought him in contact with Leona Roberts, who was then director of Falkland Islands Museum & National Trust, when they met by chance over lunch at a conference in the UK. When Tim was later invited by his former employer, Imagemakers, to take up a sub-contract for a heritage film for a museum in the Falklands, it seemed like a very fortunate co-incidence. Tim’s first collaboration with the newly opened Historic Dockyard Museum resulted in the centrepiece film for its 1982 Gallery, ‘Through Children’s Eyes’ which focusses on recollections of islanders who were children at the time of the occupation of the 1982 war. The film’s concept revolved around recording interviews with islanders to create a narrative and then adding any existing photographs and footage, as well as 4

audio of the invasion starting live on Falklands Radio. Tim said: “There were about 30 hours of interview audio to wander through and find the elements that told the story cohesively…We also had over 100 minutes of ITN footage, over 300 photographs, and even special agreement to use Argentine military footage. The only slight problem? All this needed to fit in a 10-minute film.” The result was a powerful story, which was incredibly well received by islanders and visitors, with many reviews mentioning ‘that film in the museum’; the film was later shortlisted for the 2015 Museum + Heritage Awards. Fatcalf Media then went on to create another film for the museum’s Antarctic Gallery about the Falklands and Britain’s Antarctic explorations and pioneering operations. This has since been followed up by requests to look at branding, brochures, and even help with a fundraising prospectus for an extension to the museum. Tim has created numerous other heritage films, most of which have been a little closer to home than the Falkland Islands, but a commission for National Maritime Museum Cornwall (NMMC) did involve working with Vikings – or at least the nearest modern-day equivalent. The Hold at NMMC is its largest exhibition space and used to display a series of renowned and ambitious exhibitions, often in partnership with other national and international museums. Fatcalf produced all the audio and video work for the stunning Viking Voyagers exhibition in 2016, including artwork for the immersive touchscreens. This also involved an interview with the recordbreaking Sir Robin Knox Johnston, as well as following the reconstruction of a Viking Faering in traditional klinker style. However, the icing on the exhibition ‘cake’ was provided by Fatcalf’s audio which entailed recruiting Scandinavian actors

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to produce authentic-sounding voice-overs to replicate the Viking characters and bring their stories to life. The work led to another exhibition which is just finishing called ‘Titanic Stories’, for which Fatcalf worked on animation and film editing to highlight accurate information about lifeboats, timings, radio communications and the historic newsreels, as well as audio for a survivor’s story - a detailed account through a passenger’s eyes. Fatcalf Media doesn’t just create heritage films though, it also creates PR and marketing films covering anything from crowdfunding to integrated campaigns, as well as helping with branding, and marketing materials. Tim finds that the same principles apply though in terms of seeking out a story that will resonate with the public and still convey the clients’ message. However, this can sometimes be even more challenging in the corporate world. After creating a suite of promotional films about chartered financial planners Hansford Bell, Fatcalf Media was commissioned by them to come up with a way of succinctly explaining how financial life planning works and the benefits to clients’ lives; Tim rose excellently to the task by creating ‘The Little Book of You’ which put over all the essential points in an easily understandable format. The client was so delighted with the product that Tim was also asked to animate it, which he obviously had no problem doing, resulting in ‘The Little Film of You’, which has pride of place on Hansford Bell’s homepage.

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As you would expect, Fatcalf Media has also been involved in making films locally in Tavistock, for both local businesses, and about the town itself. A set of short films commissioned by Tavistock BID are well worth watching, whether you are a seasoned Tavistock resident or a visitor to the area each three-minute film is packed with historical detail and interesting facts about different aspects of the town. Tim is also currently working with Tavistock Townscape Heritage Initiative to produce a brochure explaining what has been achieved in the recent heritage restoration projects in Tavistock, which will no doubt include yet more fascinating behind-the-scenes details. Rosemary Best

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From Glyndebourne to Batman Sharing a pot of tea, while looking at the expansive view from their beautiful woodland home, Alli Eynon told me how her artistic life has been a series of rather fortunate accidents. I would argue that whilst all of us are at the mercy of fate, talent is required to succeed in a very competitive world. Growing up in Wales, the youngest of four girls, Alli attended a small village primary school where her early talent for art was nurtured. Having secured a place at the local grammar school, Alli’s supportive parents realised that her artistic side needed a more inspiring outlet and so, aged 11, she was sent to board at Dartington Hall, a progressive school for creative thinkers. Alli describes this time as incredible; she accepted the freedom and unstructured, bohemian lifestyle as normal and only appreciates the uniqueness of the education she received in retrospect. She made lifelong friendships there, and fell in love with Devon. In the early 80s, having completed a foundation course at Carmarthen Art College, Alli enrolled on a 3D design degree at Middlesex Polytechnic (now Middlesex University). She had the opportunity to study ceramics, glass, furniture, and metalwork - developing a technique of using welded sheet steel to make animals and figures. Alli’s final year exhibition was held at Royal Festival Hall in London where her work garnered interest from galleries. At this time, she was introduced to designer Vin Burnham and this meeting changed the course of her working life. Vin was designing costumes for The Nutcracker ballet and Alli’s problem solving skills and experience with 3D materials were directly transferable to costume/prop making. Working in a team, Alli’s involvement was often sculpting the initial head designs in clay, which were then moulded - and then at the end, assembling, painting or applying hair. During the eight years that Alli and Vin worked together she was fortunate to work on costumes for Glyndebourne and English National Opera. They created Aslan for the BBC production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and also Tim Burton’s Batman movies, co-sculpting the iconic batsuit and penguin outfits. Alli has worked with designer and cartoonist Gerald Scarfe transforming 6

his fabulous designs into 3D characters for the stage, as well as sculpting pieces for the Millennium Dome and a retrospective of his work at the National Portrait Gallery. In 1992 Alli worked with Sands Films, assisting in the creation of Beatrix Potter character heads for The Royal Ballet. She supervised the making of the masks using the original moulds (sculpted by Doboujinsky). The project was a year in the making, and ended with her taking a bow on the opera house stage - quite mind blowing! In 1995 Alli went to work with Animated Extras, an internationally respected company known for making lifelike animals, animal costumes and figures – dead, alive or alien! Alli says the team at Animated Extras are like family; they are all amazing artists and it is truly a collaborative task bringing the costumes and props to life. Many of the costumes are highly complicated, using innovative textiles with internal muscle suits and cooling systems for the wearer. They are often animatronic and the attention to detail is second to none. Twenty years ago, Alli and her husband Jonny, also a Dartington Hall alumnus, moved to their rural hideaway in Devon leaving the busy streets of Shepherd’s Bush. After a ten-year sabbatical Alli returned to work with Animated Extras five years ago, making the familiar journey to Shepperton whenever she is required -

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sometimes travelling further afield to wrangle a brown bear costume in Egypt, take a prop lion to Africa, or a skating kangaroo to New Zealand! Most recently Alli has enjoyed helping create the enchanting characters for the 2018 film Christopher Robin, and a realistic Jack Russell for the newly released Amazon film, The Aeronauts. A collaboration with local artist, Tabatha Andrews, merged Alli’s two worlds of theatre and art, as they devised a number of workshops where the emphasis was on unleashing children’s creativity. Transforming an entire classroom into a ‘space garden’ at Horrabridge Primary School, a ‘winter wonderland’ at Plymouth School for Creative Arts and building a fantastical ‘tribal forest’ at Plymouth Art Centre. The culmination of this work was a week-long ‘body morphing’ course, part of the Dartmoor Arts programme, working with adults, to create their own sculptural costumes – all truly exciting, fulfilling and exhausting projects. Over a decade ago, whilst raising young children and countless Jack Russells, Alli needed to pursue something creative for herself, and the world of printmaking was opened up to her through Mary Gillet’s printmaking courses and studio. Alli

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has been attending Mary’s classes ever since and her original prints are now highly sought-after. Alli regularly exhibits at The Limekiln Gallery in Calstock and has also exhibited at the RWA in Bristol. She describes her subject matter as focusing on relationships, both abstract and figurative, real or imagined. She is constantly looking for new ways to approach her printing and enjoys creating large mixed media prints. Her film work can sometimes creep in unnoticed - in the form of a theatrical narrative or long forgotten character. She is currently making prints to be included in a print exchange exhibition between The Tamar Valley and Cape Cod printmakers, for Mayflower 400, with the work being exhibited at Cape Cod Museum of Art, Theatre Royal Plymouth and Torre Abbey, Torquay. Alli says Dartington gave its students an openness of spirit and a creative mind. She and her beautiful creations are most definitely proof of this, and she has also managed that rare thing – combining what she loves doing to make a living. Nichola Williams

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This girl can trek When opportunity comes knocking, some of us leave the door closed, some take a look, whilst others leap forward and grab the adventure with both hands. When Claire Lemasurier was offered the chance to represent a charity she believes in, she turned that invitation into a year of adventures. After working for Plymouth Sunday Independent newspaper for six years as a sales team leader, Claire moved back to her home town of Tavistock in May 2018 with her children, Toby and Beth, and began volunteering as part of St Luke’s Hospice community fundraising team. At the beginning of last year, she was invited to be an ambassador for the charity and take part in a fundraising trek in Malawi. With the support of her parents, Claire was delighted to accept this challenge although she felt wholly unprepared and very much out of her comfort zone. She enrolled with Peak Fitness in Tavistock and sought out Steve Birch, a personal trainer from SB Pure Fitness who devised an 8-month plan for her; despite having never walked higher than Yes Tor on Dartmoor Claire felt reassured that she was in capable hands. Unfortunately, the trip to Malawi was postponed for a year; Claire was so disappointed that she contacted Action Challenge UK – a company which organises adventurous challenges - and signed up for a trek to Machu Picchu in Peru, a 5000m climb to the summit of Mount Elbrus in Russia and a 400km cycle from Vietnam to Cambodia. A month before heading off on her first adventure, Claire walked up Pen y Fan in Wales – the first time she had travelled unaccompanied and the first test of her fitness. Thrilled by her achievement she entered the walk in Peru with both mental and physical positivity and was one of the fastest to complete the 4-day challenge, walking for 7 hours each day, covering the mountainous terrain in high spirits. Her second trip to Mount Elbrus was a very different affair. Having reached base camp at 2,500m the reality of the gruelling ascent hit home. The mountain face was close to sheer, the team had to scramble over boulders, glaciers and cope with walking in crampons, with heavy backpacks and ice-axes, all whilst

acclimatising to the altitude. Claire found the trek exhausting and after contracting a sinus problem was devastated to be unable to complete the last leg of the ascent. She describes the experience as lifechanging - the glacier was absolutely astonishing and she is determined to go back to Mount Elbrus to complete the climb in 2021. In October 2019 Claire joined Action Challenge UK again for a trip to Everest base camp. Her nerves now behind her, she was confident about completing this challenge. As with her other adventures, Claire met a lovely group of people, which was particularly pertinent when a sickness bug swept through the camp and everyone took turns as either debilitated patient or selfless carer. Delays and illness meant the 11-day trek was difficult, but the shared adversity made for a strong bond of camaraderie and Claire has remained in touch with many of her campmates – all 24 of whom made it to Everest base camp on a beautiful sunny day. Sadly, the Vietnam to Cambodia cycle challenge has recently been cancelled, so Claire is now focussing her energy on preparations for the original Malawi challenge that started off this year of adventure. She has been truly bitten by the bug and has already pencilled in further challenges both at home and oversees, including an attempt at a British record tandem parachute jump sponsored by Sky Dive Buzz and a 24-hour 100km walk on the Isle of Wight. In just one calendar year Claire has been on a series of extraordinary challenges. From a standing start, she has risen to them with courage and determination, and hopes to continue pushing herself and fundraise for charity. Nichola Williams

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Spreading the word Myfanwy, who is known locally as Vanni, suggested we meet at Tavistock Library, because of her belief in its importance as a vibrant community resource – but also because she loves words. She was born in Tavistock and went to Tavistock Comprehensive, now Tavistock College, where her father was a well-loved art teacher. He organised the first ever school trips abroad to Belgium and this - plus her parents’ welcoming attitude to everyone from carol singers to Dayaks from Sarawak - undoubtedly laid the foundations for her nomadic life. After studying history at university, her first ‘real’ job was as a recruitment consultant in Tottenham in London. Having battled with dyslexia and developed strategies to overcome it, she was acutely aware of the challenges people with limited language skills experienced in finding work in such a deprived area. This led her to complete a postgraduate degree in education at Bristol University and then teach in a lycée in Algeria. She loved the Algerian people and discovered that she also loved teaching people how to realise their potential through developing their communication skills.

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In her twenties, Vanni taught in Paris and was responsible for a group of language schools. Despite only speaking a few words of French, she had to sell language courses to French businesses and this entrepreneurial spirit and divergent way of thinking about language has since led to a range of different careers linked by the common thread of teaching communication skills; she has helped international engineers, crews on offshore supply vessels and business people, and now teaches medical students to communicate with paediatric patients using kinaesthetic methods. She has also used her professional experience to devise courses to enable artists to promote themselves, as well as courses on a similar theme for organisations such as Springboard Consultancy, which encourages women to achieve their potential in the workplace.

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In addition, she has run numerous workshops designed to provide the opportunity for ‘budding’ writers to achieve their creative objectives and aspirations. In March, Vanni will be running a workshop for Japanese student teachers hosted by Crispin Chambers from Tavistock College, having been fortunate to teach English to many of the Japanese exchange students at the college. She believes language is a tool that ‘opens doors globally’ when used positively and is fascinated by the creative art of transforming thoughts and ideas into stories that entertain, comfort, inform or inspire. Returning to England from Australia in 1999, she was convinced that everyone has a voice, and has since overseen the publication of seven anthologies of stories and poems, with contributions from people in the local area. Her personal favourite being ‘Poetry in the Pews’, which included over 200 poems by local children and over 700 from the wider community - displayed in St Eustachius’ in 2008. Vanni’s teaching has always run in parallel with her love of history and historical fiction. She particularly enjoys her role as one of the feature editors of the Historical Novels Society Review magazine (historicalnovelsociety.org). She has had over 120 short stories published in the UK and Australia and is also the author of ‘Historical Fiction Writing – A Practical Guide and Tool-kit’, written with the generous assistance of the well-known writers Bernard Knight, Bernard Cornwall, Michael Jecks and many others. Local subjects, including Tamar Valley heritage, are also of great interest to her as she believes that the memories and involvement of local people are an essential

way to record the past. Her research on mining and market gardening on behalf of Tamar Valley ANOB contributed to publications such as ‘Sovereigns, Madams and Double Whites’. Last year she encouraged everyone to get involved with creative writing as part of the Go Gothic project; held in Tavistock’s Butcher’s Hall, the Gothic and Steampunk Market raised awareness of Tavistock’s Gothic heritage through the medium of historical fiction writing. Writers whose work contained an element of Gothic, Steampunk, myths or legends were invited to talk about it to a new audience. This year, Vanni will be leading a workshop as part of the Music and Arts Festival entitled ‘Big Bands, Dances and Eisenhower– D-Day Tavistock and the Tamar Valley’. This historical fiction workshop is set against the backdrop of the Second World War and incorporates the big band music played at dances in Tavistock Town Hall. Myfanwy is an active friend of Tavistock Library, believing that ensuring libraries survive is essential for the ‘well-being’ of communities – but she is also an ‘eclectic’ teacher, writer, mentor and historian. Nichola Williams

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Devon Guild of Craftsmen Spreading the artistic message Devon Guild of Craftsmen is an educational charity which shares the pleasure of making and connects people through craft. We aim to give everyone a taste of making: whether enjoying our exhibitions; meeting members of the Guild who work in a wide range of craft disciplines; or learning new skills at one of our creative workshops. The Guild has an extensive outreach programme, Freehand, which provides craft residencies in schools and community groups. Freehand residencies provide young people with practical skills as well as enhancing their self-esteem, encouraging their creative development, and providing the empowerment that comes from creating something by hand, that connects them with natural materials and with their heritage. This crucial experience of hands-on, purposeful activity can also inspire a life-long appreciation of the hand-made and hand-crafted that may, for some, lead them to consider craft and design-based careers. Freehand’s work with community groups helps people in a multitude of ways: reducing social isolation, supporting the rehabilitation of offenders, helping refugees build confidence and integrate into society, increasing well-being and giving those who need it a space to relax and express their emotions. In the

past year our community projects have worked with bereaved families, refugee women and Headway, the charity for people with acquired brain injury. Alongside our outreach work, our exhibitions always feature a programme of workshops which explore the themes of the exhibition, and give visitors a chance to have a go at making. We seek to encourage young visitors in particular to respond and make their own work in our maker’s corner. We also offer free family workshops in the school holidays and drop-in demos and workshops with our members throughout the year. We are one of the few professional gallery spaces in the country devoted to craft, making us an important touring destination and prestigious place for makers to exhibit their work. But as well as providing a platform for our elected expert members and for some of the best craftspeople nationally and internationally, we seek to extend our outreach and education work into our three exhibitions galleries. Two examples this year include ‘Methods Making Madness’ and ‘A Good Age’. ‘Methods Making Madness’

exhibited the winning entries to a photography competition for 14-24 year-olds and was devised, selected and curated by a team of young people, mentored by our in-house exhibitions officer in this, their first experience of curating a show. For ‘A Good Age’, Devon Guild commissioned five professional artists, all born before 1948, to make contemporary craft on the theme of personal or global change in their lifetime. At the same time, five Devon libraries hosted artist-led workshops for people aged 65 and over, also producing craft inspired by change in their lifetimes. The oldest person taking part was 94, and the results were amazing. One participant said: ‘. . . without this, I wouldn’t go out. It has persuaded me to go out and interact with other people.’ As well as our education and outreach work, another crucial part of the Guild’s remit is to support local craft-makers – both the established who are elected to membership and new makers seeking to make the difficult leap between study and working as a craftsperson.

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Our biennial ‘Get Fresh’ exhibition showcases the work of the best new and emerging makers in the South West, and every year we select a craft graduate from Plymouth College of Art and from Plymouth University to win the opportunity to showcase – and sell – their work in our extensive craft shop. Check our website (www.crafts.org.uk) for details of exhibitions, workshops and Freehand opportunities. Andrew North Devon Guild of Craftsmen

Saturday 18 January to Sunday 8 March Journeyman Curated by Nick Hand and The Letterpress Collective, this exhibition brings together photography, film, letterpress prints, and the words of dedicated makers. All gathered by one man on an epic 6,500-mile bicycle journey from Land’s End to John O’ Groats, and around the coast of Britain and Ireland with a printing press on the back of his bike. Open daily 10am-5.30pm at Jubilee Gallery, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, TQ13 9AF. Free admission. Saturday 25 January to Sunday 1 March Neogeographies Captain James Cook’s official artists recorded some of the first encounters between Europeans and indigenous people with varying degrees of objectivity. Helen Snell reinterprets and reframes the Cook narrative to challenge notions of home, nationality, identity and freedom of movement. Open daily 10.30am - 5.30pm at Riverside Gallery, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, TQ13 9AF. Free admission. Saturday 7 March to Sunday 26 April New members exhibition Devon Guild’s newest members feature in our collection, including printmaking, ceramics and jewellery. Meet the makers, and find out more about their work. Open daily 10.30am - 5.30pm at Riverside Gallery, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, TQ13 9AF. Free admission.

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Could you save a life? Dr Jo Coldron explains what to do if someone has a cardiac arrest and the importance of acting quickly. I think that one of the scariest things that can happen to you is to be a bystander when someone suddenly collapses, whether it’s a family member or a stranger. Even as a doctor who has been on emergency response arrest teams at hospital and been involved in the resuscitation of many people it makes the adrenaline pump. Despite how unexpected and terrifying this situation can be, just a little bit of knowledge could enable you to save someone’s life. If someone collapses it’s really important to be able to work out what you need to do now. They might just have tripped and only need you to help them up, or they may have had a cardiac arrest and need life saving action immediately. The way we remember what to do to assess the situation is by thinking Dr ABC •

Danger – look for danger – don’t dash out into the middle of a road to get to someone until you’ve made sure you’re not going to get run over. That adrenaline can make you do crazy things sometimes, so that’s why this step is always first.

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Response – are they responsive to you? Ask loudly if they are OK, perhaps shake them a little.

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Airway – tilt the head up a little to open the airway.

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Breathing – is the chest moving up and down, can you feel air moving in and out of their mouth?

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Circulation – are there any signs of life, any movement at all? Don’t feel that you have to check for a pulse if you’re not sure how to do it, as this will just waste time.

If after doing the Dr ABC to assess this collapsed person and they don’t seem to be breathing and they aren’t showing any signs of life, you have to assume that they have had a cardiac arrest which means their heart has stopped beating. This person’s chances of survival can be increased by the following three things, and doing all of these things needs more than one of you – so call for help loudly, or go quickly and make sure you get that support if it’s possible to do so. Call the ambulance as soon as possible The call handlers are wonderful and will help you give them the right information - but if you are able to tell them clearly and confidently that the person is not breathing and not responsive, this will immediately let them know how serious the situation is, so they get the ambulance there as soon as they can.

Do basic life support (chest compressions and rescue breaths, CPR) If you haven’t been trained to do basic life support it can seem so confusing, and people worry about doing it wrong so end up doing nothing. It is so important to know that doing ANYTHING is better than nothing. One of the biggest barriers is the thought of giving mouth to mouth rescue breaths, so unless you feel confident with these just do chest compressions and keep going. Perform early defibrillation This is the absolute key to increasing survival. Because it is so important many organisations have now made defibrillators available on the outsides of buildings such as town halls, doctors’ surgeries, shopping areas, pubs etc. When you’re out and about note where these big yellow boxes are, because one day you might need them. If the collapsed person isn’t breathing or showing signs of life immediately, send someone to go and get a defibrillator and bring it to you as soon as possible. These defibrillators are designed to be used by someone who has never had any training - they talk you through how to put the pads on, tell you when to do CPR and when not to touch the patient, and direct you when to deliver a shock. You can trust them and many lives have been saved by someone with absolutely no medical experience performing an early shock with one of these machines. However, practicing a scary event like this makes it much less daunting when it does happen, and makes you much more confident about what to do (and remember doing ANYTHING is better than nothing). The Resuscitation Council UK has produced a way to experience different medical emergencies via 4 interactive scenarios where you make the decisions and save people’s lives. Have a look at these today on www.resus.org.uk/apps/lifesaver.

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Artists and hospital staff in new venture “Art helps keep us well. It can aid our recovery from illness and support longer, healthier lives” - so states an all-party parliamentary report aiming to improve recognition of this fact throughout the National Health Service.

communication. This is why artists from Drawn to the Valley, the collective of artists who live or work in the Tamar Valley, are working with Plymouth University Hospitals NHS Trust to try to brighten some areas of Derriford Hospital by lending artworks for display. There are currently paintings displayed around the hospital, in wards, clinics, waiting areas and some of the corridors, and they are changed every few months.

Hospital wards, corridors and waiting areas can be rather bleak surroundings which have a negative impact on the way we think and feel. Art can transform cold, clinical environments into compassionate care spaces filled with inspiration. Research has shown that art can ease anxiety, stress and depression for both patients and care staff; it reduces the need for painkillers, shortens stays in hospital and improves

The artists have also participated in well-being workshops for staff in the Emergency Department who enjoyed relaxing with paints and sculpture materials away from the stresses of their high-pressure workplace. There are plans for further community engagement in and around the hospital. The staff in the plaster room in fracture clinic, wanted something to help allay the fears of younger patients while having casts applied. So, two of the artists worked with children from Sparkwell Primary School in a workshop, to create a sculpture of Spiderman (using plaster of Paris) and this now hangs from the ceiling in a corner of the fracture clinic.

The project is in an early stage, and we hope it will grow over the next year or so, to help everyone who is a patient, member of staff, or a visitor to the hospital. Look out for the bright and cheerful paintings in the hospital. As this grows, a short art trail will be developed for people to follow. More about Drawn to the Valley can be found at www.drawntothevalley.co.uk, and Plymouth University Hospitals at www.plymouthhospitals.nhs.uk

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FARMING NEWS

Looking forward to spring When February arrives at least the evenings are pulling out, things are slowly coming to life, and there is hopefully a sniff of spring in the air. It has been a pretty hard winter for us with constant rain from the early autumn. The ground conditions have been terrible with the field turning to mud very quickly, preventing us from working in the fields; the sheep make a mess and the few cattle we still have out have just ploughed the fields! Fortunately, we have good facilities on the farm and are able to house nearly all our cattle which has been essential. With the good summer weather in 2019 we managed to get good crops of hay and silage, but the cattle came in very early and all that feed will be needed by the end of this winter. It has been tough times for all livestock farmers with such wet conditions but I must mention our arable cousins who have really struggled to get crops sown this autumn. This is not only bad news for them, it also means that good winter crops (sown in the autumn) will be in short supply, putting pressure on supplies and forcing the price up for farmers and ultimately consumers. Let’s hope that the late winter and spring bring better conditions as the heavily pregnant ewes will suffer during lambing if the wet conditions continue. So we have a majority government at

last. I won’t get too political but at least now the country can hopefully move forward and focus on the many things which seem to have been neglected for the past couple of years. There has been a lot of discussion about what future agricultural policy may look like. This we still don’t know, but what we do know is that our support system will change significantly and the money which currently supports British food production will be removed. The money that is available to support agriculture will have more emphasis on public money for public good - what that means we don’t know, so we will be looking closely at how that will affect us going forward. I believe our family farming business has a place in our community, supplying beef and lamb, as well as delivering a fantastic landscape and rich environment. But it is certain that our support will diminish and inevitably prices will rise, and our businesses could come under significant pressure. Time will tell and all I can ask is that our customers support local quality produce, and for me that is through Dartmoor Farmers and Howells of Tavistock. On a lighter note and looking forward to spring, we will be rolling out the red carpet for all our wonderful supporters of Greenwell Lambing Live 2020.

Lambing will soon be upon us and our doors open on 16th March every evening for a week, when we invite the general public into our lambing shed to share the magic of spring! It is wonderfully rewarding for us as a team to share what we do and it is one of those experiences which allows you to really get up close and personal with a sheep farmer and his flock! You can contact us at greenwellfarm@gmail. com or 01822855535 - we look forward to seeing you then and let’s hope the rain stops! Mat Cole, Greenwell Farm

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The subject of climate change is a suitably big one to kick-start the new gardening year, and while the issues are obviously huge and scary, anyone with a garden – however small - has the power for positive action to mitigate its effects as well as adapting gardening methods to cope with changing conditions. Even small actions can make a big difference when done collectively: if everyone did just one thing, the impact would be immense. Such as: put up a bird nesting box; plant a tree; stop using harmful chemicals; make a compost bin to recycle garden waste; grow a patch of bee-friendly flowers; or grow a bit of fruit and veg - by no-dig methods for the gold-standard approach. Many of these positive actions are not only great for the garden and the environment but often save both time and money too: a real win/win all round. Lawns are a good example: rather than regularly mowing all of a lawn, let at 20

To ‘future-proof’ your garden against extremes of weather, start with your soil - the foundation on which every garden depends. Heavy rainfall events are now alarmingly frequent, depleting nutrient levels and physically washing away valuable topsoil. Terrace sloping ground into stepped beds if growing veg or annuals; densely plant shrubs, perennials and the like that will protect and retain the soil; and mulch the surface with garden compost or chipped bark. Soil takes around 500 years to form a mere inch’s depth, so it’s worth taking care of!

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Cut back dead growth of deciduous perennials and ornamental grasses. Put bundles of stems under hedges and shrubs to encourage hedgehogs and beneficial insects. Trim or lay hedges of deciduous native plants like hawthorn, blackthorn and hazel as soon as possible, as birds are starting to nest.

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Garden problems Yet another threat to our poor beleaguered bees and other pollinating insects is the Asian Hornet, a highly aggressive predatory insect that was

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introduced accidentally to France in 2004 and is spreading rapidly. We can all help by being vigilant and reporting suspected sightings immediately: email alertnonnative@ceh.ac.uk or use the free app: Asian Hornet Watch. Key markings that differentiate the Asian Hornet from our native species are a dark abdomen with a yellow/orange segment (think bikini briefs!) and yellow tips to legs. Do keep your distance, though – this insect stings. More information can be found at www.nonnativespecies.org Sue Fisher

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in 2017 at Mount Edgcumbe Country Park. The venture aims to educate the public about the importance of pollinators, with a special focus on local Cornish honey bees. The Dartmoor Hill Farm Project has been running bee keeping courses with the Buckfast Abbey Bee Department since 2018 and they have proved popular with local farmers. A group of farmers became interested in which bees would adapt to the local environment, in a similar way to their own upland livestock. This led them to visit the Mount Edgcumbe apiary, where John Dracup of Broadaford Farm said that the farmers were struck by the hardiness and temperament of the native honey bees, which made them ideally suited for life in an upland environment such as Broadaford. Clare Densely from the Buckfast Abbey Bee Department delivered the training for the farmers and she is now involved in monitoring the new bee colonies in Widecombe-in-the-Moor to determine how well they perform in such an exposed environment and which areas of the farm and moorland they forage on during different periods of the year. The farmers are particularly keen to understand which flowers and habitats are preferred and whether any ways of enhancing grassland or cropping areas, might benefit the bees and other pollinators. If you are interested in joining a bee-keeping class go to our What’s on extra section for activities at the Dartmoor Hill Farm Project, or contact 01822 890913 or hfp@dartmoor.gov.uk. 23

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Boutique 32 When Danni Larcombe opened the doors of her new business Boutique 32 for the very first time at the beginning of November last year, a long-term dream of owning her own “fun and affordable” ladies’ clothing store had finally come true. Having worked for a major high-street fashion chain store for the last ten years and latterly becoming a regional manager, Danni has gained a real insight into the retail business and has developed her passion for trends and fashion. Years of training meant long working days and lots of travelling but Danni was determined to learn all she could until the time was right to start up on her own. Danni, who was born in Tavistock, is very aware of local demand and saw that there is a need for fashionable, yet reasonably priced, clothing. With brands such as Parisian, Missi Clothing and Stylewise, Danni says that customers can purchase celebrity-inspired styles and, with prices starting from just £5.99, there is something to suit all budgets. To complement the clothing, there are accessories such as shoes, boots and handbags and a range of gift cards is also available. When asked what age range she is catering for, Danni says emphatically that people should be confident to wear what they want to wear, no matter what their age is. She has even inspired her mum to wear things she would never have thought about wearing before.

Danni oozes enthusiasm for her new venture and is delighted with the start the business has had, which has exceeded her expectations in the first couple of months. There has been a good deal of interest in the shop and also in the online store, which Danni launched at the same time, and sales have been going extremely well. In December, Danni staged a successful fashion show at Tavistock College to help raise money for the Year 13 end-ofyear prom. The interior of the shop has been totally designed and created by Danni herself, with some willing help from her hugely supportive family who, incidentally, also have business links in the town: Danni’s father once ran a greengrocer’s store in Paddon’s Row and her brother currently operates a local taxi firm. To appeal to a younger market, an ‘Instagramable corner’ has been created, providing photo opportunities for customers as they try on clothes.

loungewear collection and, keen to support British manufacturing, she is proud that this will be fully produced in the UK. Danni will be making regular trips to wholesalers in Manchester to check stock quality and new ranges will be arriving every week ensuring a good turnover of styles. Kaye Rogers

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BID’s plans for Tavistock Tavistock Dickensian was a great success this year with increased footfall and a wonderful atmosphere throughout the town. The events of Christmas now seem like a distant memory as we look forward to spring. Our focus for the town this year is to increase our destination marketing to encourage more visitors to the high street. We are devising a town guide which will be distributed regionally to visitor information centres, accommodation and eateries. We are also looking to promote the town within other brands, such as Visit Dartmoor, to increase our reach to potential visitors and are continuing to update and improve the town’s new look official website ‘Visit Tavistock’. A new ‘Tavistock Passport’ was launched in January. Designed to give locals and visitors the ideal reason to visit the town during the quieter trading months, the booklet contains offers from a variety of town centre businesses. The passport promotion runs until the end of February so there is still time

to take part. Pick up your copy from participating shops, the Visitor Information Centre, The Tavistock Times Gazette, Kirby or Abode Estate Agents. Plans are afoot for another ‘Paint the Town’ day on Saturday 15th March. Local businesses, in conjunction with local primary schools and community groups, will create bright and wonderful displays to bring Tavistock alive for spring and activities will take place on Bedford Square. Over the Easter holidays you can expect another egg-citing town hunt! Available for adults and children to enjoy – the hunt will run from Saturday 28th March until Saturday 11th April. See Visit Tavistock on Facebook for more details. As well as all this, Tavistock BID is working to improve the town environment with updated signage and by increasing seasonal displays around the town. Keep your eyes peeled! For more details on all the upcoming events visit www.visit-tavistock.co.uk

Rotary’s local youth work Tavistock Rotary is known for nurturing the talents of the youth of the town and this year is no different, starting off with our youth competitions in January. Youth Speaks is a competition for junior school pupils and was won by Horrabridge School last year – the pupils continued to impress the judges all the way to the national finals. In Youth Speaks, schools are invited to enter teams of three: a chairperson, speaker and proposer of the vote of thanks. The teams choose and research their own topics and their presentations are judged on content, time-keeping and teamwork. Youth Debates is a new competition for senior schools, where teams of three prepare and deliver a short debate on a topic of their choice. Young Photographer is a competition open to all age groups and has produced some outstanding photographs in previous years. Lastly, preparation work is taking place

for our Art Exhibition – this takes place in June and is not a competition, but showcases the art work of out four local primary schools. Artist Annette Sharpe works with year-5 pupils to produce a series of pictures based on a theme. The children then have the opportunity to exhibit their artwork to the public.

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Local funding and expert support The Diverse Regeneration Company (a not-for profit Community Interest Company) based in Okehampton, has successfully supported many rural businesses, farms, tourism and community projects across the West Country with over £15 million of grant funding since 2005. This grant funding has supported all kinds of projects: help with starting up new businesses, help investing in new equipment for expansion, and help for farmers with all kinds of diversification projects. For individuals, small businesses or farms, knowing where to find the funds and support to start or expand a business, or to help buy new equipment, can be a tricky business in itself, and then starts all the form filling! This is where the Diverse Regeneration Company and their team of expert advisors can help. At the time of writing

there are various funds available to rural businesses from The Rural StartUp Fund (offering entrepreneurs up to £5,000 for a new start-up), the RDPE Growth Fund (offering grants from £20K to £175K for business development, food processing and rural tourism) to the local Greater Dartmoor LEAF funding programme - helping to invest in economic, environmental and community based projects. New opportunities arise regularly and the Diverse Regeneration Company keeps up to date on what is available and relevant for local businesses. So if you would like to know more about what is available now, get a heads-up on future funding programmes, and find out how the Diverse Regeneration Company can help support your growing business in 2020, then please get in touch with one of our advisors.

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REACH Charity Ltd Did you know that you have the head office of a national charity based in Tavistock? Snuggled into a small office in The Enterprise Hub, just along from Tavy Links, is Reach Charity Ltd. Reach provides support and information to parents and their children who are affected by upper limb difference - those children that are born with only a few fingers, or short fingers, no hands,

lower arms or the whole of their arm missing at birth. One of the most vital things Reach does is to enable parents and children to feel connected; it can seem a very lonely world if you think you are the only family that is having to deal with the issues having a limb difference throws up. We help members to build relationships that last a lifetime, whether it’s at our family weekends, branch meetings or on our closed

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DB Heating’s Race for Life A team from DB Heating were delighted to raise £557.50 for Cancer Research UK when they took part in a Race for Life event. DB Heating staff try to raise money for a different charity most years and when it came to planning which charity they would support in their recent event, Cancer Research UK was an obvious choice as various members of the team had family members and friends who had been affected by cancer. Everyone in the DB Race for Life team completed the course, either running or walking to the finish line, with Billy Rawlinson finishing in the top ten places and Lawrence Barnes in the top 20. Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life events raise money for research into all 200 types of cancer. Fundraising is absolutely vital for the charity to be able to continue its research into developing new treatments and funding new research, and every Race for Life participant is helping to make a difference. For more details about Cancer Research UK or to take part in Race for Life see cancerresearchuk.org.

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Tourism award success for Harford Bridge Harford Bridge Holiday Park at Peter Tavy, Tavistock is a finalist in the South West Tourism Excellence Awards having won ‘silver’ in the Touring, Camping and Caravanning Park of the Year category at the prestigious 2019 Devon Tourism Awards. The independent South West awards panel met on 3rd December 2019 and assessed a record number of entries - Harford Bridge Holiday Park is amongst the 14% of entrants to become a finalist in England’s top tourism region awards. After hearing of the second award nomination, director Paul Williamson said: “Receiving a silver 2019 Visit Devon Tourism Award was real recognition of the hard work put in by our team. We have total commitment to providing our guests with quality and value facilities in a tranquil Dartmoor setting. To be nominated to go forward

to the South West Tourism Excellence Awards is a further accolade we are delighted to achieve. 2019 was the first time for us in any tourism award and we are proud to be judged a finalist in both the Devon and the South West awards. “We’ve invested over the years in updating our offer, while preserving the tranquillity of our park and continuing to be a sustainable business. We’re a small family owned business that’s been going 34 years and we employ seven people full-time equivalent. So

to be in the running for a second award shows there is room in our market for a small inland park in Devon’s wonderful countryside. The awards will help sustain commitment to our aim of being the best we can be, and help immensely in marketing our business.” For more information see harfordbridge. co.uk and for details of South West Tourism Excellence Awards see southwestourismawards.org.uk

Thank you! Meavy-based Dartmoor Border Morris would like to thank everyone who came to Tavistock on Saturday 16th November, and kindly gave to the BBC Children in Need appeal. 210 Morris performers in Tavistock danced all day, and collected £1760, with every penny going to the cause. Despite near blizzard conditions

just two days beforehand, Pudsey Bear attended and did not disappoint. Plans for Pudsey Day number 7 are already in hand for next November, so watch this space – a big thank you to Tavistock Wharf, The Pannier Market, Bob`s East End Cafe and Dartmoor Brewery for helping make the day work so well!

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My wild place Peter Evans was born in Tavistock and since retiring he has walked every day, covering a total of 45,000 miles to date, and earning himself the name of ‘The Walking Policeman’. In keeping with this issue’s focus of creativity, he has written the following article about a Tavistock location he calls his ‘wild place’. It must have rained hard on Dartmoor last night. As the River Tavy emerges from the double arches of Abbey Bridge it is dark brown from the peat soil of the moors and flows fast and relentlessly towards its sea destination 19 miles away, determined to take anything with it that may hinder its progress. Just some 50 metres from the point of the river’s appearance it crashes and thunders over a weir where salmon struggle against its torrent, driven by instinct to reach their birth place and tranquil spawning grounds near the birth place of the river. The river rushes on unperturbed by this drama within its very body. Amongst the stony edges of the incessant

rush of water, Grey Wagtails obliviously flit from rock to rock snapping up tasty morsels. A few metres further downstream a dipper has spied a slower, shallower layby in the restless river water, and there peers into the water with its white chest almost touching it and its tail held high. Suddenly the bird is gone only to reappear on the rock with something in its beak. Almost simultaneously it has gone again like an arrow from a bow in its flight upstream. I am left standing with my binoculars only halfway up to my eyes as a blue streak flashes by heading down stream. “Was that a Kingfisher?”, I declare in my delight. But there is no reply as I am on my own in my wild place, in the middle of Tavistock. Peter Evans

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Tavistock Guide Hall Have you ever wondered about that large building, straddling Tavistock canal, as you enter Bedford car park? Tavistock Guide Hall is a busy meeting place for lots of Brownies and local community groups. It was gifted to local Girlguiding back in 1937 and has since become Grade II listed but has remained the Tavistock Girlguiding HQ since then. The Guide Hall is entwined with the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s industrial past and really owes its existence to the transportation of mining, industrial and agricultural produce in the West Devon area in the 19th century. This activity necessitated the construction of the Tavistock Canal in 1803 and the buildings now clustering the entrance to todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main Bedford car park were then used as offices, warehouses and stables supporting this busy commercial area. Flat bottomed, iron barges, drawn by horses, were used to take metal ores from the mines at Mary Tavy, down the canal to the port at Morwellham, and from there were shipped all over the country. Other commodities were also brought up the canal to Tavistock. The Tavistock Canal Company was a thriving business until, in 1873, its freighting abilities were inevitably bettered by the more efficient transport provided by the railways. In 1933 the West Devon

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Electric Supply Company used the canal water to produce hydro-electric power contributing to the National Grid, and it is now owned by South West Water. Tavistock Guide Hall was probably a warehouse or granary originally, and its structure is mostly unchanged. The ceiling is still open-beamed, and in recent refurbishments, a window was removed upstairs and replaced with a door, where originally there would have been an upstairs loading access. Repair work about 20 years ago provided an opportunity to view the below-floor structure of the hall and it was fascinating to stand on the original, worn, granite steps, inches from the canal water gently flowing past your feet - now all safely covered and preserved again. Tavistock Girlguiding is delighted to own such a valuable part of Tavistockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heritage. However, we do need help managing this lovely old building. If you are interested in joining the voluntary Guide Hall Management team and supporting the smooth running of this lovely old building, please contact Rica Olver via 01822 612743 or rica@live.co.uk for more details.

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Tavistock College – a ‘Matilda Champion School’

Jacqui O’Hanlon, Director of Education at the RSC, said: “Our growing bank of evidence shows that using RSC approaches can stimulate a child’s use of vocabulary and confidence with language, as well as support them to develop resilience, empathy and meta-cognition. All of the initiatives we’re announcing today are aimed at making those approaches available to as many young people as possible and helping to develop their confidence with language, reading and writing in a way that makes them better equipped to take their place in the world”.

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Tavistock College’s school production of Matilda is the result of what has happened since it was selected as one of the 50 national ‘Matilda Champion Schools’ in association with the Theatre Royal Plymouth. The RSC worked with our directors over two days and visited the college three times to help support early rehearsals and prepare for the production. The oldest students had only just turned 14 but most were 12 or 13. For a significant number this was their first experience of a large production, for some their first time on stage ever! They worked incredibly hard, gained confidence, made new friends across year groups, were braver than they thought they were, found skills they never thought they had and genuinely changed their own story. They performed to all the incoming Year 7 students, and the RSC Director of Programming and Theatre Royal Young People’s Officer came to see the opening night. They were impressed by how cohesive and slick the performance was with all performers in all roles totally energized and committed. They were delighted that the production was really unique to Tavistock College and that students had genuine ownership of the cartoon-esque characterization and highly choreographed songs. During the next year we will share the skills learned during the project with peers - both staff and students - from the wider school, community and local primary and secondary schools.

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trail. Normal admission charge applies, NT members free. nationaltrust.org.uk/ cotehele

Local businesses, in conjunction with local primary schools, will create bright and wonderful window displays throughout town to bring Tavistock alive for spring. Activities will be taking place on Bedford Square. visit-tavistock.co.uk

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Another egg-citing and free trail brought to you by Tavistock BID. Collect your clue sheet and find all the eggs to earn yourself a goody bag. Collect your sheets from Kaleidoscope, The Visitor Information Centre and the Toy Cupboard. visittavistock.co.uk

Have fun as a family spotting the many different birds that live in and around Cotehele and discover some fun facts about them along the way. Free trail (donations welcome), normal admission charge applies, NT members & U5s free. Cotehele, St Dominick, PL12 6TA nationaltrust.org.uk/cotehele

Learn how to light a fire without matches, and then mix up some tasty dough to cook on a stick over the campfire. £2.50 per person, booking advisable. nationaltrust. org.uk/lydford-gorge

PAINT THE TOWN Saturday 14 March

BUCKLAND ABBEY FEBRUARY HALF-TERM FUN Saturday 15 to 23 February, 10am-4:30 pm Get together as a family and enjoy a walk around the estate or head up to the play area to enjoy the zip wire? Take part in one of our seasonal trails or join us for some family crafting in the school room. Free event, but normal admission charges apply. nationaltrust.org.uk/buckland-abbey

BURRATOR DISCOVERY CENTRE ‘DROP IN’ FAMILY ACTIVITY DAY Wednesday 19 February, 10am-3pm Our school holiday family activity days

LYDFORD GORGE FUN WITH FIRE Tuesday 18 February & Saturday 14 March, 12-2pm

BUG HOME MAKING Friday 21 February, 10.30am-1.30pm Construct a mini home for all sorts of beneficial insects to improve your garden or window box. £2.50, booking advisable. nationaltrust.org.uk/lydford-gorge

WORLD BOOK DAY

CADBURY EASTER EGG HUNT

Saturday 7- Monday 9 March, 11am-4pm

Saturday 28 March to Sunday 19 April, 10am-4.30pm

Come along to the Brewery Bookshop this World Book Day weekend and exchange your voucher for a free, new book. There’ll be storytelling throughout the weekend and you can browse our shelves of preloved books as well. Normal admission charge applies, NT members free. nationaltrust.org.uk/cotehele CADBURY EASTER EGG HUNT Saturday 28 March – Monday 13 April, 10am-4pm You’ll have lots of fun when you join Bunny on a trail through Cotehele and there’s a chocolate prize at the end. £2 per

The gorge is alive with the music of nature. Rattle, bang and whistle around the orchard, then make a sound map of the gorge to earn a chocolate prize. £3 per trail. nationaltrust.org.uk/lydford-gorge SOUND MAKERS AND SHAKERS Tuesday 31 March & Sunday 5 April, 12-3pm Use natural and recycled materials to make your own sound makers to shake, rattle and roll. £2.50 per person, booking advisable. nationaltrust.org.uk/lydfordgorge

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or juice for the kids. Bring your children dressed in pyjamas if you wish, ready to roll into bed at home. Suitable for all the family. Tickets £6:50 from stiltskin.org.uk/ box-office THE DINO-SAW SHOW Wednesday 12 to Saturday 29 February Join baby Dino on an adventure and meet dinosaurs BIG and small. An immersive theatre show for under 8s by Stiltskin Theatre Company at The Soapbox, Devonport Park, Plymouth. Tickets £8:50 (U1s free) from stiltskin.org.uk/box-office

TAMAR VISITOR & LEARNING CENTRE PLYMOUTH SPOT BRUNEL FAMILY TRAIL Saturday 15 to Sunday 23 February, 10am – 4pm

THE SECRET GARDEN CRAFT WORKSHOPS

Go on a hunt to find Brunel in and around the visitor centre this half-term. See if you can find his hiding places as well as discover a few facts about this historical figure and the man who designed the Royal Albert Bridge

Monday 30 March to Friday 10 April (MonFri & excl. bank holidays)

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The Secret Garden themed drop-in family craft workshops. Please see rhs.org.uk/ gardens/rosemoor for details.

STILTSKIN THEATRE MORNING TALES Friday 7 February, 10am Enjoy a storytelling performance from our in-house storyteller extraordinaire Jacqueline at The Soapbox Children’s Theatre, Devonport Park, Plymouth. Includes tea or squash, toast and jam. Suitable for all the family. Tickets £6:50 from stiltskin.org.uk/box-office TWILIGHT TALES Friday 7 February, 6-7pm Enjoy a storytelling performance with our in-house storyteller extraordinaire Jacqueline at The Soapbox Children’s Theatre, Devonport Park, Plymouth. Includes toast, jam and hot chocolate

HOLES Tuesday 17 to Saturday 21 March, 7:30 9:15pm Stanley Yelnats can’t catch a break. Born into a family cursed with bad luck, it comes as no surprise when he finds himself accused of a crime he

didn’t commit. Sent to a labour camp as punishment, he is tasked with digging one hole, five-foot wide by five-foot deep, every day.

VILLAGES IN ACTION DIGGORY PIPER, THE WORST PIRATE EVER! Sunday 1 March, 3pm Join Diggory Piper as he takes to the seas in his ship, The Sweepstake. Will he be victorious in assisting Queen Elizabeth I in her quest to vanquish the Spanish Armada or will his chronic sea sickness win over? Little Trebiggan combines Cornish language, an environmental message and music in this heart-warming true story of an Elizabethan Robin Hood. South Zeal Victory Hall – contact 07980 837156 for tickets.

PLYMOUTH WATERFRONT PARTNERSHIP POLAR BEAR EXPLORER 1 DECEMBER TO 1 MARCH Follow the trail across Plymouth’s waterfront to find 20 polar bear cubs hidden in shops, restaurants and businesses from the Barbican to Royal William Yard and Mount Batten. Download your trail map from visitplymouth.co.uk or pick it up from a participating business. Learn lots about climate change and by finding the cubs, you’ll be in with a chance of winning some great prizes!

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Dr. John Dolittle lives in solitude behind the high walls of his lush manor in 19th-century England. His only companionship comes from an array of exotic animals that he speaks to on a daily basis.

Jane Austen’s beloved comedy about finding your equal and earning your happy ending, is reimagined in this delicious new film adaptation of Emma.

Frank, an opportunistic insurance lawyer, thinks he’s in for the time of his life when he goes out on the town to celebrate an upcoming promotion with his co-worker, Jeff.

A sled dog struggles for survival in the Alaskan wild.

Greed is the fictional story of a retail billionaire, set in the world of luxury fashion, which is centered around the build up to a spectacular 60th birthday party in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.

With their partners away serving in Afghanistan, a group of women on the home front form a choir and quickly find themselves at the center of a media sensation and global movement.

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Tuesday 17th March

James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) returns to the stage in an inventive new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, broadcast live to cinemas from the West End in London.

THE CELLIST / DANCES AT A GATHERING The Royal Ballet presents two world premieres with Cathy Marston’s first work for the Company on the Main Stage and a new work by Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett.

Sunday 1st March

Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph

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MUSIC..................................... MODS & ROCKERS SHOW Fri 14th February

SUPERSONIC 70s SHOW Sat 15th February

KEITH JAMES Sun 23rd February

THE FUREYS Mon 24th February

Filled with music from The Who, The Small Faces, Hendrix, Cream and of course The Kinks to name just a few!

Targeting the Jackie generation expect to drift away on a nostalgic trip of 70s pop idols like The Osmonds, David Cassidy, Abba and many more…

Music set to the wonderful poetry of Maya Angelou, Pablo Neruda, Frida Kahlo, Kahlil Gibran, Kate Tempest, Leonard Cohen, Lorca and W H Auden

Legends of Irish music & song The FUREYS, renowned for their hit songs pay a visit to Tavistock

STRAY & GROUNDHOGS Fri 28th February

RISING FROM THE DEEP Sat 29th February

DAVEY DODDS Sun 1st March

DIRE STREETS Fri 6th March

Stray will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the release of our self-titled debut album.

Deep Purple, Rainbow and Whitesnake hits played by former touring members who have worked with: Ian Gillan Band, Bernie Marsden and others.

DaveyDodds was the frontman, singer songwriter for Prog Rock band RED JASPER until he left the band in the ‘90s and worked as a fly fishing guide and writer

Dire Streets perfectly capture the distinctive, authentic sound of one of the biggest guitar bands of all time

THE STRYDES & DADDY LONG LEGS Sat 7th March

BUDDY HOLLY & THE CRICKETERS Sun 8th March

THE JAM’D Fri 13th March

DEBORAH BONHAM Sat 14th March

Widely regarded now as the UK’s most authentic and leading tribute to The Jam,

Over the course of an impressive career, Deborah Bonham has established herself as one of the finest blues-rock vocalists the UK has produced

Two popular Plymouth based cover Make your heart beat a little faster bands with some original music with the show that has thousands of thrown in fans the world over saying: “I can’t believe it’s not Buddy!”

STEVE TURNER Sun 15th March

CHANTEL MCGREGOR Fri 20th March

Steve Turner is known as a pioneer of highly sophisticated English concertina song accompaniments, stretching the boundaries of traditional forms, with one of the best voices in the business

Chantel recorded a live album at the end of March 2019, this was released on the 6th of September 2019.

A TRIBUTE TO NILE RODGERS AND CHIC Sat 28th March

Good Times are a collective of top musicians from South Wales who deliver a top Show from Nile Rodgers’ Chic hits and many more from his career.

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DAILY (UNTIL OCT 2020) RENA GARDINER: ART AND INSPIRATION Discover the life of print artist Rena Gardiner at Cotehele house and see some of her many artworks inspired by Cotehele’s views - in situ. Normal admission, 10am-5pm, NT Cotehele, PL12

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DAILY IN FEBRUARY BLIND DATE WITH A BOOK Visit our pre-loved bookshop, read the blurb and take a chance on loving a new read! All proceeds from the bookshop go directly to Cotehele’s conservation work. £1.50 per book, 11am-4pm, normal admission applies. NT Cotehele, PL12 6TA. 01579 351346; nationaltrust.org.uk/ cotehele 7 MARCH - 31 OCTOBER TIDE AND TIME To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower, we’re exploring the global connections of the Tudor house and collections at Cotehele. Normal admission, NT Cotehele, PL12 6TA. 01579 351346; nationaltrust.org.uk/ cotehele EVERY WEDNESDAY IN-DEPTH ABBEY HISTORY TOURS Take a look behind the scenes at Buckland Abbey with our great volunteer team who will talk to you about the vast and exciting history of the abbey and grounds. 11:301:30pm. 28 MARCH - 13 APRIL CADBURY EASTER TRAIL Pick up your shopping list from Visitor Welcome at Buckland Abbey and find all the giant eggs painted to show the different foods that were once grown here at the abbey. Can you also find a few Buckland-twist eggs and find the magical plants such as the lamb tree…

UNTIL 25 MARCH (CLOSED 24 FEB-9 MAR) WORKING LIFE ON DARTMOOR Diane Giles’ photographic reflection of how people on Dartmoor live, work and play in contemporary times. This social history, depicted in black and white photographs, showcases the special qualities of the local professions that have been shaped by the unique landscape and cultural traditions of the moor. High Moorland Visitor Centre, Princetown. 28 MARCH - 5 APRIL TAMAR VALLEY SPRING EXHIBITION ‘The Heralds of Spring’ – Drawn to the Valley art exhibition from 10.00am to 4.00pm daily (10:00am - 2.00pm 5 April) at Tamar Valley Centre, near Gunnislake, PL18 9FE FRI & SAT IN FEBRUARY & MARCH CHARITY LUNCHES AT LEWTRENCHARD MANOR Supporting Devon Air Ambulance, charity lunches will be served in February and March on Fridays and Saturdays between 12.00 noon and 2.00pm, (excluding 14th & 15th February). 2-course lunch £17.50, 3-course lunch £21.50, charity envelopes will be provided for donations.

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21 FEBRUARY-14 MARCH ART EXHIBITION ‘Artists for all Seasons’ features the work of Richard Slater RI, Allin Braund, Arthur Homeshaw SWA, and Carol Leith, including a variety of mediums at Wildwood Art Gallery, Horrabridge, PL20 7SP. Visit wildwoodartsdartmoor.co.uk or see Music & Art for details, or call 01822 258529.

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1ST SUNDAY OF MONTH JAZZ SUNDAY LUNCH Enjoy a 3-course lunch at The Bedford Hotel, Tavistock served with a generous helping of live jazz from our house jazz band, Desperate Measures. £26 (children £20), book on 01822 613221.

LAST TUESDAY IN MONTH PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP Join us at the Anchorage Centre, Tavistock from 10.30am to noon. We also have monthly exercise classes and social coffee mornings. Contact Pam on 01822 614204 or Val on 07778 552325.

23 FEBRUARY, 29 MARCH JAZZ AFTERNOON TEA Enjoy a traditional afternoon tea at the Two Bridges Hotel with live jazz with duo Fine Whines, or add a glass of fizz for a treat. 3pm – 5:30pm, £16.50 per person (£22 with prosecco). Book on 01822 892300.

FIRST SATURDAY OF MONTH TIDY TAVI LITTER PICK-UP Meet outside Meadowlands Leisure Centre. No need to register - just turn up! 10:00am to midday. All necessary equipment provided, but please bring your own gloves and wear stout footwear.

10,23,28 FEBRUARY & 3,9,22,27 MARCH VOLUNTEER DAYS AT BURRATOR RESERVOIR Meet at Burrator Discovery Centre. Please wear old clothes, sturdy footwear, rainwear etc, & bring lunch and drink. Mon, Tues & Fri: 10am-3pm; Sun: 10.30am-3.30pm. Contact 01822 855700 for more info. 1ST SATURDAY OF MONTH (7 & 14 DECEMBER) TAVI ARTS MARKET High quality, handmade wares from local artists - unique products not found on the high street and a chance to meet the artists and makers themselves. 9.00am to 4.00pm in Butchers’ Hall, Tavistock (free entry). 3RD MONDAY OF MONTH LEARN TO TURN WOOD Learn to turn wood with Tavistock Turners & Carvers Club! 7:30pm at the Scout Hall, Pixon Lane, Tavistock - the first two visits are FREE. For details see www. tavistockwoodturners.co.uk

EVERY WEDNESDAY BALLROOM DANCE CLASSES ’Strictly Social’ dance club ballroom dance classes for beginners at Nicholls Hall, Lydford - every Wednesday at 7.25pm, £5 per person for one-hour lesson. Contact Terry Flannery on 07891 614491, or email strictlysocialdanceclub@gmail.com EVERY WEDNESDAY TAVISTOCK DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB We welcome guests and can help if you do not have a partner - 18.45 in the United Reformed Church Hall, Russell Street, Tavistock. For more information, please telephone Pamela Heale 01822 615117 or email: downatheale@btinternet.com EVERY WEDNESDAY THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH CREDIT UNION OFFICE Savers can obtain loans at 2% or less. Children can save too. All savers are covered by a free life insurance. Call in for more information or ring 01752 201329.

11.00am - 1.00pm in the Princetown Community Centre, Tavistock Road, Princetown, PL20 6QE

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12 FEBRUARY THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY A fast paced, family show based on the true event of the infamous robbery of 1963 - and the tale of four women who were

WHAT’S ON Wine Tasting Dinner Friday 1st May Sample a selection of fine wines, partnered with a superb dinner menu using the finest local, seasonal ingredients. £65 including dinner and wines

Jazz Afternoon Tea Sunday 23rd February

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written out of the history books. 7:30pm at The House, University of Plymouth, PL4 8AA. Tickets: £10 adults; £7 concessions 12- 15 FEBRUARY THE ICE QUEEN OF MEAVY A new queen is to be crowned, and the coronation is to be held in Meavy! Expect trouble, thievery, love and ice. 7:30pm daily in Meavy Parish Hall, plus Sat matinee at 2:30pm. 14 & 28 FEBRUARY BRENTOR POP-UP CAFÉ Café opens 10am-2pm in Brentor Village Hall, serving homemade cakes and lunches. Walkers and dogs welcome, disabled access. 14 & 15 MARCH YELVERTON ART FESTIVAL Yelverton Art Festival celebrates and encourages local aspiring artists – exhibition & sale of paintings, cafe area & art workshops. Yelverton War Memorial Hall: Sat 3-7pm, Sun 10am-4pm. Proceeds will support Camps International and Plymouth and Cornwall Cancer Fund. Entry is free. For info: yelvertonartfestival@ gmail.com 15 FEBRUARY SETH LAKEMAN IN CONCERT Multi award-winning folk singer Seth Lakeman released his new album ‘A Pilgrim’s Tale’ on 7 February, inspired by the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower ship setting off to the Americas - listnin. co/SethLakeman-APilgrimsTale. Seth plays St Andrew’s Church in Plymouth on 15 February - see sethlakeman.co.uk for tickets. 15 FEBRUARY VINTAGE AND SALVAGE FAIR Vintage, textile and salvage fair at Butchers’ Hall, Tavistock between 10am and 4pm. Free admission and over 40 tables of vintage and salvage articles. 15-23 FEBRUARY FEED THE BIRDS Come to the cider Barn in Cotehele’s Mother Orchard and make a bird feeder to take home. Free activity (donations welcome), 12-3pm, admission applies. NT Cotehele, PL12 6TA. 01579 351346; nationaltrust.org.uk/cotehele

15 & 16 FEBRUARY APPLE GRAFTING WEEKEND 10am-4pm. Learn how to graft your own apple tree with more than 20 local apple varieties to choose from. No need to book, £5 per grafted tree to take home, admission applies. NT Cotehele, PL12 6TA. 01579 351346; nationaltrust.org.uk/ cotehele 15 & 16 FEBRUARY ROSEMOOR LIVE On 15 February is the Glenn Miller Spectacular & Big Band Greats - the Moonlight Serenade Orchestra recreates the 1940s feel. On 16 February, Elton John Unleashed, features classics performed by Jimmy Love. EX38 8PH 16 FEBRUARY THE RIVIERA RAMBLERS A welcome return of John Shillto’s swinging hot rhythm jazz band, a big hit last year. 7.30pm at the Royal British Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth. Tickets on the door £10 (members £8, full-time students £5) information 01752 721179, plymouth-jazz-club.org.uk 18 FEBRUARY YELVERTON & DISTRICT LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY ‘A Rural Legacy Lost: the decline of salmon fishing on the River Dart’ - a talk by Nick Baker at Meavy Parish Hall at 7.30pm 20 FEBRUARY KIDS LUNCH & MOVIE The Lion King – Child: £9.00 with fish & chips, ice cream, popcorn; Adult £27.00 to include a 2-course meal. 1.30pm at Hotel Endsleigh, Milton Abbot

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20 FEBRUARY WEST DARTMOOR U3A Ted Sherrell talks about ‘Tales from the Magistrates’ Courts’. The monthly meeting takes place at 10am in Tavistock Methodist Church Hall. 21 FEBRUARY DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION Rewilding Dartmoor, an illustrated talk by Adam Owen, Director of Moor Trees at 7.30pm at the Tavistock Parish Centre,

WE ARE NOW CATALOGUING FOR OUR SPRING SALES COLLECTORS’ ITEMS, BOOKS & TOYS, STAMPS, COINS & MEDALS on Tuesday 25th February

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Very large collection of antique & modern ﬁshing rods, reels & ﬂies

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Plymouth Road. For further details contact Barbara Edwards edwardsbobbarbara@ btinternet.com, 01822 852 636 or visit www.devonassoc.org.uk 23 FEBRUARY POSTBRIDGE CHALLENGE Join Dartmoor Search & Rescue Team Plymouth for 10/12-mile circular walk or a 4-mile family adventure route, both from Bellever Forest car park at 9am. For details go to dsrtplymouth.org.uk - minimum donation of £14.00 per person required for walk, or £14.00 for a family group for adventure. 24 FEBRUARY BERE LOCAL HISTORY GROUP Illustrated talk by Simon Dell OBE on ‘Tavistock: Heritage, Myth and Legend’. All meetings take place in Holy Trinity Church Hall, Bere Alston at 7.30 pm. All are welcome, admission £2, including tea/ coffee and biscuits. 25 FEBRUARY FILM NIGHT– DOWNTON ABBEY £27.00 per person to include a 2-course

meal and movie at 6.30pm at Hotel Endsleigh, Milton Abbot

lunches. Walkers and dogs welcome, disabled access.

26 FEBRUARY UPLAND SUCKLER COW GRASSLAND NUTRITION Free workshop looking at semi natural grassland in the form of commons and new-takes and relating it to upland suckler cows to maximise summer and winter grazing to improve their health and performance - with specialist Charlie Morgan, the ‘Grassmaster’. 11am – 3pm in Princetown area, lunch provided. Contact Dartmoor Hill Farm Project on 01822 890913 or hfp@dartmoor.gov.uk to reserve a space.

28 & 29 FEBRUARY INTRODUCTION TO DRY STONE WALLING Learn how to build strong foundations and to sort, select and ‘trig’ stones in the Mortenhampstead area. £60 (inc VAT), 9am - 5pm Contact Dartmoor Hill Farm Project on 01822 890913 or hfp@dartmoor.gov.uk to reserve a space.

27 FEBRUARY DINNER WITH ALEX POLIZZI £75 including arrival drinks, canapés, 3-course dinner and coffee, 7pm at Hotel Endsleigh, Milton Abbot

29 FEBRUARY ITALIAN EXPERIENCE EVENING A touch of the Mediterranean at Butchers’ Hall with fresh pastas, risottos, antipasti, wood-fired pizzas & tiramisu. Plus Italian bar, coffee and live music, 6pm and 9pm. Entry £6 inc. glass of prosecco or Italian beer - all food can be purchased on the evening. Book tickets at missivyevents.co.uk.

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1 MARCH THE UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH BIG BAND We are delighted to once again present this very talented & enthusiastic group of young musicians playing big band jazz and swing. 7.30pm at the Royal British Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth. Tickets on the door £10 (members £8, full-time students £5) information 01752 721179, plymouth-jazz-club.org.uk 3 MARCH PRINCETOWN HISTORY CLUB Sue Andrews talks about ‘Goldsmiths’ at 7:30pm at Princetown Community Centre princetownhistoryclub.weebly.com

3 – 7 MARCH AN INSPECTOR CALLS Set before WW1, ‘An Inspector Calls’ is a compelling and haunting thriller by JB Priestley at Plymouth Theatre Royal; Daldry’s production of the play has won a total of 19 major awards. For tickets go to www.theatreroyal.com 4 MARCH CORNWALL CAMERATA This professional ensemble presents music by Bach including four of his famous Brandenburg Concertos, with outstanding local soloists. 7:30pm at Mount Kelly, Parkwood Rd, Tavistock. Tickets are available from www.ticketsource.co.uk/ mountkelly; for details see music@ mountkelly.com 4 MARCH C.S. RETIREMENT FELLOWSHIP Retired? Why not join us for a friendly chat and a cuppa, (or something a wee bit stronger) at 12.30 in the Restaurant of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Princetown. Our guest speaker is Tom Soby with an illustrated talk on “A Tale of Two Counties”. 4 MARCH BEFORE THE SCREAMING STARTS Following Edinburgh Festival and a national UK tour, musical comedy sisters Flo & Joan have a new set of dark and waggish songs to get you howling with laughter. 8.00pm at Calstock Arts, doors and bar open 7.00pm. Visit calstockarts.org for details/tickets or 01726 879500

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6 MARCH ‘1959: THE GOLDEN YEAR OF JAZZ’ The Neil Maya Quartet presents music from some of jazz’s finest albums, including Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue and Dave Brubeck’s Time Out. 7.30pm at Coronation Hall, Mary Tavy, food & drinks available from 7pm. Tickets £9, from Mary Tavy Post Office & Stores, or www.mtjubileegroup. co.uk. For info: mail@mtjubileegroup. co.uk or 08455 193812. 6 MARCH MERAKI DUO The multiple award-winning duo of Meera Maharaj (flute) and James Girling (guitar) share a passion for chamber music that extends to jazz, Latin American and European folk. 8.00pm at Calstock Arts, doors and bar open 7.00pm. Visit calstockarts.org for details/tickets or 01726 879500 8 MARCH TWISTED TALES 2 ‘Owdyado Theatre presents 3 brand new twisted thrillers on stage (suitable for 14+ yrs), 7.30pm at Brentor Village Hall. Tickets available on 01822 811097: £9 adult; £7 child/concession; £25 family 13 MARCH BRENTOR POP-UP CAFÉ Café opens 10am-2pm in Brentor Village Hall, serving homemade cakes and lunches. Walkers and dogs welcome, disabled access. 13 & 14 MARCH YELVERTON ART FESTIVAL A celebration of local art in Yelverton War Memorial Hall on Saturday 3-7pm and

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Sunday 10am-4pm with an exhibition by local artists, art workshops and a café. Proceeds from the festival will support Camps International and Plymouth and Cornwall Cancer Fund. Free Entry. 13 MARCH A CAPPELLA QUARTETS St Peter’s Church, Meavy presents the amazing singing of two ‘a cappella` quartets - Raise The Roof and Myxd Up, at 7pm. Tickets cost £9, available on 01822 852672, or 01822 855541 or The Royal Oak, Meavy. Raising funds for repairs to St Peter’s. 13 MARCH CHARITY CABARET NIGHT In aid of Surfers Against Sewage, there will be a main stage with Big Band and classic Soul, an acoustic stage with singer/songwriters and covers, plus outstanding local jazz musicians who are also Mount Kelly staff on the MK Jazz All-stars stage. 7:30pm at Mount Kelly, Parkwood Rd, Tavistock. Tickets are available from www.ticketsource. co.uk/mountkelly; for details see music@ mountkelly.com 14 MARCH PAINT THE TOWN Local businesses, in conjunction with local primary schools, will create bright and wonderful window displays throughout town to bring Tavistock alive for spring. Activities will be taking place on Bedford Square. www.visit-tavistock.co.uk 14 MARCH CHARITY QUIZ Quiz in aid of Tamar Tender Loving Care at 7.30pm in Tavistock United Reformed

Church, Tavistock, PL19 8BD. Teams of 6, £4 per person. Contact Julia to book on 01822 890225. 14 MARCH HAGS: A MAGICAL EXTRAVAGANZA In Bideford in 1682, the final witch trial in Britain took place. But tonight, three fearless females explore the witch-hunt mania that swept the country 300 years ago, with magic tricks, comedy and live music. 7:30pm at the Barbican Theatre, Plymouth, PL1 2NJ. Tickets: £13.50; concessions £11.50 at barbicantheatre. co.uk 14 & 15 MARCH ROSEMOOR FLOWER FESTIVAL RHS Rosemoor Spring Flower Festival including the Early Camellia Show and the Wordsworth’s Daffodil Weekend with competitions and displays. Sat 11.30am (after judging) – 4pm, Sun 10am - 4pm. www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/rosemoor 14 - 22 MARCH DAFFODIL FESTIVAL 11am-4pm. Come and see the wonderful collection of daffodils grown on Cotehele estate, with a display of historic and new varieties of daffodils plus a guided tour of daffodils in the garden and daffodil sculptures too. Normal admission, NT Cotehele, PL12 6TA. 01579 351346; nationaltrust.org.uk/cotehele 15 MARCH THE JABBO FIVE Traditional jazz from a fine band set up by Dave Martin to play the music of Jabbo Smith and his Rhythm Aces from 1929. 7.30pm at the Royal British Legion Club,

Tailyour Road, Plymouth. Tickets on the door £10 (members £8, full-time students £5) information 01752 721179, plymouthjazz-club.org.uk 16 MARCH MEAVY GARDEN SOCIETY SPRING FUN SHOW 7.00 for 7.30pm in Meavy Parish Hall with schedule available at www.meavy. org.uk/mgs. Evening meetings normally start at 7.30pm in Meavy Parish Hall. Refreshments, time to chat and often plants for sale from 7pm. Enquiries 01822 852672 and 01822 852984 16 - 21 MARCH ‘LAMBING LIVE’ See the ewes and new-born lambs at Greenwell Farm, PL20 6PY. Booking is essential at greenwellfarm@gmail.com or 01822 855535 - adults £5.00, children (3 & over) £2.00, £100 per tour for 30 people. Mon-Fri, 5.30pm – 7:30pm: Sat, 1pm - 4pm 17 MARCH YELVERTON & DISTRICT LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY ‘The Black Death on Dartmoor’ - a talk by Dr David Stone at Meavy Parish Hall at 7.30pm 19 MARCH C.S. RETIREMENT FELLOWSHIP AGM All members are welcome. A buffet will be available after the meeting - booking is essential and reservations will be taken at our meeting on 4th March. 19 MARCH WEST DARTMOOR U3A Tony John talks about ‘Moths of a Devon Country Garden’. The monthly

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4 & 5 APRIL EXHIBITION OF LIFE DRAWINGS A remarkable collection of Edwardian drawings by Eleanor Grace Scarborough highlights the struggles faced by women artists in the early 1900s, in aid of the newly refurbished community building, The Printworks. 10am to 5pm at The Printworks, Pym Street, Tavistock. printworkstavistock.org.uk 6 APRIL EASTER TREE WORKSHOP Workshop led by H. Watts at 2:00pm at the Moorland Garden Hotel, followed by a wonderful cream tea. £30 per person, book on 01822 852245. 7 APRIL PRINCETOWN HISTORY CLUB Terry Faull talks about ‘Holy Wells of Cornwall and Devon’ at 7:30pm at Princetown Community Centre. princetownhistoryclub.weebly.com

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W hat’s O n Until November Mayflower Art Exhibition Plymouth artist Julie Hammonds presents ‘The Mayflower Voyage’, an exhibition of paintings inspired by quotes from the captain’s log on the journey of the Mayflower to the New World. Mayflower Museum, 3-5 The Barbican, PL1 2LR: juliehammondsfineart.com

24 & 25 March Some Call it Home 11 to 14 March The Wind in the Willows Award-winning Sounds Musical Theatre Company presents a riotous new musical adaption of Kenneth Grahame’s timeless story of woodland adventure, high jinks, skulduggery and true friendship, as the infamous Mr Toad and friends encounter the devious Wild Wooders. Devonport Playhouse, box Office: ticketsource.co.uk/sounds or 07395 159955.

19 to 22 February ‘Elephants’ Rose Heiney’s play is a sharp, black comedy with a tender heart that explores the paths we take in life. But behind the shiny tinsel and baubles, nothing is quite right. From alcoholism to racism, drug addiction and murder how can one family come back to normality? The Red House Theatre, 7:30pm (& Sat 2:30pm), Box Office 01752 291309.

A moving music, vocal and visual experience reveals how human destiny has been shaped from 1620 to the present day by our relationship with planet Earth. Directed by Dr Robert Taub with an ensemble from Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, it features Grammynominated baritone Randall Scarlata and soprano Deborah York, at the Theatre Royal.

24 to 28 March The Pirates of Penzance 21 to 29 March Mayflower Sport Week Watch home fixtures with Plymouth Argyle (21 Mar), Plymouth Albion (28 Mar) and Plymouth Raiders (29 Mar), plus take part in themed events with community sporting groups. Win free access ‘golden tickets’ at #M400Sport and check m400sport. co.uk for details on all Mayflower sport events as well as the Sport & Wellbeing Programme.

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Winter thrills and countryside skills! Winter like all other seasons offers an opportunity to get to grips with time limited tasks. Amongst the most pressing in Devon is maintenance of our traditional field boundaries which range from earth or stone-faced banks to dry stone walls and thick woody hedgerows. Amongst the most challenging skills is dry stone walling. Learning how to build strong foundations and to sort, select and ‘trig’ stones is incredibly rewarding. The Dartmoor Hill Farm Project will be running a two-day course in the Mortenhampstead area on the 28th and 29th February which aims to teach the basic skills. Delivered in small groups these courses are social, engaging and enjoyable. If you are interested in hedge laying then we also offer a 6-day course spread over several weeks to cover this art form. The project also runs a novice sheepdog handling course for farmers and young shepherds based at Postbridge. This is aimed at working dogs and provides the framework to ensure good habits are installed in both dog and owner. There are 6 sessions spread from February to September and the cost is £120 (inc. VAT). If you can’t herd sheep you might prefer the skills associated with bee keeping or apiculture. We run a fantastic course with Clare Densley of Buckfast Abbey Bee Department which is based partly at the abbey and partly on farms on Dartmoor. The 8 sessions between April and August

provide all the core skills as well as hands-on practical advice. It’s aimed at those intending to keep bees or new apiaries and the cost is £120 (inc. VAT). The Dartmoor Hill Farm Project (HFP) provides a year-round training programme for farmers and local residents involved in managing Dartmoor’s landscape. February sees ‘Grassmaster’ Charlie Morgan joining us to discuss the value of hill grazing and how to balance the nutritional needs of the upland suckler cow. Other topics in the pipeline include countryside stewardship and the next hedgerows and boundaries grant.

Dartmoor Hill Farm Project events and activities Upland Suckler Cow Grassland Nutrition with Charlie Morgan: 26 Feb, 11am-3pm; venue TBC Hedgerows and Boundaries Grant (Peter Tavy): Feb, TBC when grant announced Introduction to Dry Stone Walling (Okehampton): 28 & 29 Feb, 9am-5pm; £60 inc. VAT How to apply for Countryside Stewardship (Princetown): 4 Mar; venue TBC Introduction to Bee Keeping (Buckfast & on farms): 8 sessions starting 9 Apr; £120 inc. VAT If you are interested in any of the courses please email hfp@dartmoor.gov.uk or call 01822 890913

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Sunday 23th February

Postbridge Challenge 10/12-mile Circular Walk Join Dartmoor Search & Rescue Team Plymouth for our circular walk from Bellever Forest car park to Postbridge, Braddon Lake and Broad Down. Depending on conditions, there should then be an option to extend the route via the waterfall and Browns House, before re-joining the main route to Lower White Tor, Higher White Tor, Longaford Tor, Powdermills Chimney, Lakehead Hill, Bellever Tor, Laughter Tor, and back to Bellever.

Family Friendly Adventure The Family Adventure is an approximately 4-mile circular route, with checkpoints/stamps to collect on route. This will also leave from Bellever Forest car park, heading towards Lakehead Hill, past Bellever Tor, Laughter Tor, and then back to Bellever. The walk starts at 09:00am at the car park in Bellever forest (grid reference 655771), the family adventure starts between 09:00 and 10:00am - more information can be found at dsrtplymouth.org.uk. A minimum donation to DSRTP of £14.00 per person is required for the walk, or £14.00 for a family group taking part in the family adventure - this includes a certificate. You can book online before 21 February or print off a booking form at dsrtplymouth.org.uk

Sunday 8th March

‘Owdyado Theatre – Twisted Tales Vol 2 Back by popular demand, Twisted Tales 2 is a brand new show by ‘Owdyado Theatre Company. Following on from the huge success of Twisted Tales, this is a new trilogy of darkly comic tales of the unexpected. Expect three surprising stories of the macabre and mysterious from three distinct voices: get ready for an anarchic night of hilariously dark theatre! Inspired by cult series The Twilight Zone and Inside Number Nine, this series of dark comedies is co-written by Daniel Richards and Charlotte Bister (A View from the Edge, Above Bored) as well as distinguished Cornish writers Brett Harvey (Brown Willy, Weekend Retreat) and Jon Welch (Spillikin, Swivelhead). 7.30pm at Brentor Village Hall. Tickets: £9 adult; £7 child & concessions; £25 family - available by contacting swhitfraser@ gmail.com or 01822 811097.

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Monday 16th to Saturday 21st March

‘Lambing Live’ at Greenwell Farm Come and see the magic of spring in our lambing shed with a guided tour of the sheep maternity unit to see the ewes and new-born lambs. Mat Cole and his team will be on hand to answer any questions. Numbers are restricted so booking is essential: adults £5.00, children aged 3 and over £2.00. Group and school tours are also available - £100 per tour for up to 30 people. Larger groups are also welcome at a small additional cost. To book please email greenwellfarm@gmail.com or call 01822 855535.

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Paint the Town Day Tavistock is set to repeat the success of its ‘Paint the Town’ day on with local shops and businesses revealing their spring window displays featuring garlands created by local school children and other community groups. Organised by the Tavistock Improvement District (BID), the event is designed to bring spring colour, joy and a sense of optimism to traders and shoppers alike. On the day visitors will be able to take part in a seed swap with Tavistock Community Gardeners, and spring crafts with Tavistock Scrapstore. Mount Kelly will be selling their ‘rare’ daffodils and local school children will deliver spring flowers to participating businesses. People will be invited to help plant up some flowers for seasonal displays as part of the town’s entry into South West in Bloom, as well as an initiative to make the town a friendlier environment for wildlife. Ten local schools are taking part, plus four community groups, with 40 businesses hosting a garland. There will also be an award for the best garland and window display.

BID manager Janna Sanders said: “The idea behind the event is to bring spring colour into the town centre but also to get the community involved in helping the high street and showing support to traders during months that can be economically challenging. This event has a strong community ethos with schools and other groups all involved and working in partnership with Tavistock BID to celebrate our town. Last year we had an amazing response from businesses wanting a garland and schools wanting to create one, and the buzz in the town was really special. We hope to replicate this in March.”

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Saturday 14th March

Hags: A Magical Extravaganza In Bideford in 1682, the final witch trial in Britain took place. Three women were accused of witchcraft, tried & hanged. Now fast forward to the present day and name one female magician…pretty tricky. But tonight, three fearless females are climbing out of their boxes, shaking off the sequins and investigating what really happened in a small town in North Devon 300 years ago. Packed full of magic tricks, physical comedy and live music, Scratchworks Theatre Company explores the witch-hunt mania that swept the country and sent hundreds of innocent women to the gallows. With mind-blowing illusions, stupendous stunts and the occasional disappearing rabbit, ‘Hags’ sets the record straight for thousands of falsely accused women with all the joy, silliness and spectacle these three can muster.

7:30pm at the Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, Plymouth, PL1 2NJ. Suitable for 11+. Tickets: £13.50; concessions £11.50 available at barbicantheatre.co.uk or 01752 267131. “Highly imaginative...a genuinely funny & clever show” - A Younger Theatre “This is devised theatre at its best and the whole show is an absolute hoot from beginning to end.” - StageTalk Magazine

26th, 27th & 28th March

‘Who Did You Say You Were?’ The Brentorians present an award-winning play by Giles Scott – a comedy mystery which is great fun! It’s supposed to be a murder mystery weekend at a guest house, but one of the guests is psychic and has discovered the ghost of a real murder victim. The others have trouble keeping straight who they are, and who everyone else is, and what they’re supposed to be doing. Then the murderers arrive… Performances take place at Brentor Village Hall at 7.30pm. Doors open at 7.00pm and the bar will be available. Tickets cost £5.00 and are available from Helen de Carles on 01822 810412.

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RHS Rosemoor events Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th March

Spring Flower Festival

RHS Rosemoor’s Spring Flower Festival includes the Early Camellia Show and the Wordsworth Daffodil Weekend. Focusing on camellias, early magnolias and rhododendrons, in addition to the RHS Early Camellia Show the festival will also include classes for ornamental shrubs, plus the Rosemoor Daffodil and RHS Hyacinth competitions. Come and view the exquisite displays of top quality blooms from competitors all over the South West and beyond. In addition, we celebrate the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth’s birthday with a special exhibition and daffodil displays inside and out. All events at the festival are included with normal garden admission which is free for members. Saturday 11.30am (after judging) to 4pm, Sunday 10am to 4pm

Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th March

Wool & Yarn Fest

The Wool and Yarn Fest returns this year complete with a new yarn bombing display, wool and yarn traders and

demonstrations, plus spring lambs and alpacas for families to meet! All included with normal garden admission which is free for members. 10am to 4pm Saturday & Sunday. For more information and to book tickets go to: rhs.org.uk/ gardens/rosemoor

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Half term family fun, ‘whatever the weather’ 15 - 23 Feb Rosemoor Live music - Elton John Unleashed * 15 Feb Rosemoor live music - Glenn Miller Spectacular & Big Band Greats* 16 Feb Antiques and Collectables Fair 29 Feb & 1 Mar Spring Flower Festival & Wordsworth Weekend 14 & 15 Mar South West Alpine Garden Society Show 21 Mar

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Saturday 15th February

Seth Lakeman in concert Multi award-winning folk singer Seth Lakeman released his new album ‘A Pilgrim’s Tale’ on 7th February, in a year that marks four centuries since The Mayflower ship set sail. The album co-incides with a selection of UK concerts in locations significant to the Mayflower tale, including London, Plymouth, Immingham and Harwich. This stirring and beautiful record is narrated by the actor Paul McGann and features a host of guest performers including Cara Dillon, Benji Kirkpatrick, Ben Nicholls and Seth’s father, Geoff Lakeman. 2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower ship setting off to the Americas. The ship carried British and Dutch passengers with hopes of fresh settlement, who were famously met by the Wampanoag first nation tribe upon their arrival. Seth said: “I didn’t have far to go for inspiration. The Mayflower Steps, on Plymouth’s cobbled Barbican streets are 20 minutes away from me. I fished from this quay as a boy, sang songs on tall ships tied up here and played music in just

about every old sailors’ pub in this Elizabethan quarter.” Inspiration for the project also came when Seth was on tour with Robert Plant, and paid a visit to the Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts to talk to the Wampanoag that still reside in the area. “After I travelled home from the ‘New World’ to Plymouth, everything happened in a quite mystical way,” said Seth. “The songs came together so speedily and with exactly the vibe I wanted, and we recorded in a very short time in my studio at home on Dartmoor.” To supplement the recordings, a between-song narration was written by associate director of Plymouth’s Theatre Royal, Nick Stimson, and read by Paul McGann. Released by BMG, A Pilgrim’s Tale is available to pre-order from listnin.co/SethLakeman-APilgrimsTale. Seth plays St Andrew’s Church in Plymouth on Saturday 15 February see sethlakeman.co.uk for tickets.

Friday 6th March

‘1959: The Golden Year of Jazz’ The Neil Maya Quartet’s two previous concerts in Mary Tavy have been a huge success and so it is a pleasure to welcome their new concert project, ‘1959: The Golden Year of Jazz’. 1959 is often considered an extremely influential year in the development of modern jazz and the rise of a number of new jazz sub-genres, producing some of jazz’s finest albums of all times, including Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue and Dave Brubeck’s Time Out. The concept for this performance has grown out of the band’s very successful Brubeck Project and Neil’s close affinity with the 50s approach to jazz and improvisation. The Quartet consists of Neil Maya on saxes, Gav Martin on keys, Kev Sanders on double bass and Preston Prince on drums, and

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the concert is presented by the Mary Tavy Jubilee Group as part of the ongoing Mary Tavy Live series which brings live music, dance and theatre to the village, supported by Villages in Action, as well as raising funds for village projects. 7.30pm at Coronation Hall, Mary Tavy, with hot and cold food and drinks available from 7pm. Tickets £9, available from Mary Tavy Post Office & Stores, or www.mtjubileegroup.co.uk. For further information contact Ali at mail@mtjubileegroup. co.uk or 08455 193812. 57

MUSIC AND ART

Friday 21st February to Saturday 14th March Private viewing: 21st February

Artists for All Seasons Presented by Wildwood Arts

In the art world there are a small number of artists who have the ability to practise their craft across a spectrum of mediums, such as linocuts, lithographs, pottery, copperplate etchings, pastels, watercolours, and oils - in short they can be described as artists for all seasons. Wildwood Arts is pleased to present an exhibition displaying the skill, diverse mediums and artistic brilliance of these talented artists who have all forged careers in the South West.

Carol Leith Carol Leith studied art at Sidcup, Ravensbourne, and Hornsby colleges of art and worked in animation on classics such as ‘Willow the Wisp’ (narrated by Kenneth Williams) and with Gerald Scarfe on Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’. She later started her business, Monkeypuzzle, and her three-dimensional sculptural puzzles became renowned. She has undertaken commissions from The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim and The Art Institute of Chicago. Carol moved to Bath in 2000 where she concentrates on painting, mainly in oils and watercolour. This is the first public exhibition of her paintings, illustrations, glass, mosaics and puzzles in a UK gallery.

Richard Slater

Arthur Homeshaw RWA (Royal West of England Academy) Arthur Homeshaw (1933-2011) studied at the West of England College of Art gaining a National Diploma in Design in illustration and specialising in wood engraving. He lived in Devon and taught art and was a member of the RWA. His linocuts were part of the Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy in 1964,1984, and 1985; his work has also been purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum, BP, Devon County Council, and Exeter University. He uses strong tonal contrasts and imaginative representations of the countryside in particular Devon.

Allin Braund

Richard Slater RI (Royal Institute) Richard Slater attended Hornsey School of Art, and initially taught art, before moving to East Cornwall in 1973 to continue developing as a painter. He was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour in 1999 and is also a full member of the St Ives Society of Artists. He creates complex images of rural scenes, villages, buildings, wildlife and flora and this exhibition will show the diversity of his work, from watercolours and oils, to ceramics, wood engravings and lithographs, as well as unseen work recently discovered in his studio attic.

Allin Braund (1915–2004) was born in Devon and educated at Hornsey College of Art. He taught at Bideford Grammar School and at Hornsey until he retired in 1976, and concentrated on painting. Allin exhibited in numerous venues including Redfern Gallery and St George’s Gallery; his lithographs were also displayed in the 1954 Venice Biennale alongside works by Henry Moore and Eduardo Paolozzi. His works are held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Arts Council and the British Council.

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Artists for All Seasons Exhibition 21st February-14th March An exhibition of four artists who work with equal dexterity across a range of mediums from oils and watercolour to lithographs, ceramics and glass. View over 50 years of their work in a unique opportunity to enjoy the diverse mediums of true artistic brilliance.Includes Carol Leith, Richard Slater RI, Arthur Homeshaw RWA and Allin Braun.

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Events at Mount Kelly Mount Kelly in Tavistock is establishing itself as a centre for outstanding live music with recent visits from The Resurrection Choir of St Petersburg, The European Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra and most recently The Kings’ Singers. This March sees two more exciting events at the school. Tickets are available from www.ticketsource.co.uk/mountkelly and further details from music@mountkelly.com

Wednesday 4th March, 7.30pm

Cornwall Camerata

Professional ensemble, Cornwall Camerata, will be presenting a programme of music by Bach including four of his famous Brandenburg Concertos. Considered to be amongst the most exciting instrumental music ever written, this a rare opportunity to hear live performances of these iconic works with outstanding local soloists. This concert has been generously supported by the Bryan Foster Charitable Trust.

Friday 13th March, 7.30pm

Charity Cabaret Night

A whole host of musical styles will be on display as the school presents a Charity Cabaret Night in aid of Surfers Against Sewage, the current school charity. There will be three stages focusing on different styles: the main stage with Big Band and classic Soul, an acoustic stage with singer/songwriters and covers, plus outstanding local jazz musicians who are also Mount Kelly staff on the MK Jazz All-stars stage. A thrilling evening of live music is guaranteed while raising valuable funds for the essential work of Surfers Against Sewage in the process.

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A stunning collection of local scenes Tavistock Picture Framing Gallery is privileged to boast a stunning collection of local scenes, ranging from the current UK best seller Rozanne Bell, to the atmospheric moorland scenes of Victorian artist F.J. Widgery. Roz’s collection of local commissions, including our very own view of West Street (as pictured on the front cover) and Abbey Bridge, have been two of the artist’s favourite locations to paint. The layers of resin and glitter have been inspired by the family memories created in the South West, as four of her children attended the local university - such as the beautiful sunny beach scenes based on walks in Padstow and the Rock area. Frederick John Widgery was inspired to paint by his father William Widgery, who also produced stunning artwork of the local area. The artist became

the Mayor of Exeter in 1903, as well as an honorary Freeman and Alderman of Exeter. In his emotive depictions he captures the spirit of the moors in an elegant and traditional manner. ‘Rock/Padstow Area’ by Rozanne Bell 40x40cm image, 62x62cm framed £595 ’West Street Tavistock’ by Rozanne Bell 60x60cm image, 88x88cm framed £1195 ‘Tavy Cleave, Dartmoor’ by F.J. Widgery 45x27cm image, 78x61cm framed £149

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Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th April

Exhibition of Life Drawings Found in an attic and nearly lost forever, this remarkable collection of Edwardian drawings by Eleanor Grace Scarborough returns to Tavistock. Like so many talented women artists of the time, her work has had little recognition. However the drawings, forgotten for a hundred years, have survived to be treasured once again. This exhibition aims to throw some light on the struggles faced by women artists in the early 1900s and Grace’s drawings have been lovingly restored and framed, so that her work can continue to inspire and delight whilst helping raise money for charities. This time her work will be exhibited in, and raise money for the newly refurbished community building, The Printworks. This magnificent Arts and Craft building first opened in 1907 when Grace was a young woman pursuing her passion for art.With its high ceilings and beautiful rows of windows designed to let in maximum light, it provides the perfect venue for this exhibition. 10am to 5pm at The Printworks, Pym Street, Tavistock. For details of other events at The Printworks visit printworkstavistock.org.uk

Friday 28th March to Sunday 5th April

Tamar Valley Spring Exhibition Artists living and working in the Tamar Valley will be responding to the title ‘Heralds of Spring’ during Drawn to the Valley’s exhibition at the headquarters of the Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty at Gunnislake. But what are Heralds of Spring? - in this instance they are the humble daffodil, associated for centuries with this valley. Fields of budding daffodils, or roadside escapees are a sure sign that spring is on its way in this beautiful part of the West Country. The artists responses to daffodils and to the concept of the exhibition, will be dynamic and intriguing, featuring 2D, 3D, textile, jewellery and artisanal made items, giving the exhibition broad appeal. With their roots in the valley, Drawn to the Valley artists work closely both with, and in the landscape of the area. Their work is exhibited and collected both nationally and internationally, spreading knowledge of this quiet and beautiful valley far beyond its boundaries. During the exhibition there will be a talk by a local daffodil grower and the results of a species survey will be presented. Affordable art at £50 and under, plus the work of new or inexperienced members will feature in the exhibition; other 62

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Exploring nature at Lydford Gorge There’s loads to do at Lydford Gorge this February half-term. Hike to Whitelady Waterfall, stop for a snack and cuppa in the tea-room, try a hands-on activity for all the family or learn a new skill. The shop and tea-rooms will be open Saturday 15 to Sunday 23 February, 10am to 3.30pm.

FUN WITH FIRE

From Saturday 29 February the full gorge, including the roaring Devil’s Cauldron pothole and challenging river path, will re-open. March is a great time to explore the gorge without the crowds. Spot signs of spring as the season turns - the first buds bursting, new green leaves and birds singing in the trees. Can you match the rhythm of a woodpecker and the melody of a robin? - find out this Easter at the gorge with activities themed around music and nature. Normal admission applies to events, for more info please visit nationaltrust.org.uk/lydfordgorge or call 01822 820320.

APPLE PRUNING

’50 THINGS’ STICK TRAIL

Saturday 15 to Sunday 1 March, 10am-3pm Look out for the stick activity stations on a walk to Whitelady Waterfall.

Learn how to light a fire without matches, and then mix up some tasty dough to cook on a stick over the campfire. £2.50 per person, booking advisable. Saturday 22 February, 10.30am-12.30pm Join the rangers in the orchard to learn about pruning apple trees. Booking essential.

CADBURY EASTER EGG HUNT

Saturday 28 March to Sunday 19 April, 10am-4.30pm The gorge is alive with the music of nature. Rattle, bang and whistle around the orchard, then make a sound map of the gorge to earn a chocolate prize. £3 per trail.

SOUND MAKERS AND SHAKERS

Tuesday 31 March & Sunday 5 April, 12-3pm Use natural and recycled materials to make your own sound makers to shake, rattle and roll. £2.50 per person, booking advisable.

Space to stretch out

Tuesday 18 February & Saturday 14 March, 12-2pm

made at Lydford Gorge Hike into the gorge for some fresh Dartmoor air. The winter trails are open daily, 10am – 3.30pm. From Saturday 29 February the full gorge re-opens. These are the places that make us. nationaltrust.org.uk/lydford-gorge

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Early spring at Cotehele The estate at Cotehele covers 1300 acres, with woodland, fields, industrial ruins, riverside and quay. Pull on your boots, wrap up warm and come and explore the miles of footpaths here. The garden is full of the joys of spring too, with snowdrops, crocuses, hellebores and daffodils in flower, to name but a few. After your walk you could warm up with a hot drink, snack or meal in the Edgcumbe tea-room on the quay or the Barn restaurant by the house. Both are open daily from 10am-4pm and well-behaved dogs on leads are welcome to join you. A new children’s trail begins in February, and Cotehele House and Mill open on 7 March with a new ‘Tide and Time’ collections trail, followed by our Daffodil Festival shortly after. See our website for more info on these and other events: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/cotehele.

BIRD BINGO AT COTEHELE Daily until 27 March, 10am-4pm Have fun as a family spotting the many different birds that live in and around Cotehele and discover some fun facts about

them along the way. Free trail, admission applies.

APPLE GRAFTING WEEKEND AT COTEHELE Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 February, 10am-4pm. Learn how to graft your own apple tree with more than 20 local varieties to choose from. No need to book, just drop in. £5 per grafted tree, usual admission applies. Saturday 7 March – Saturday 31 October

TIDE AND TIME AT COTEHELE To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower, we’re exploring the global connections of the Tudor house and collections at Cotehele. Normal admission charge applies, National Trust members free.

DAFFODIL FESTIVAL AT COTEHELE Saturday 14 to Sunday 22 March, 11am-4pm. Join us for a fortnight celebrating all things daffodil! There’ll be displays, ID tours, sculptures by NAFAS, children’s trail and more. Normal admission charge applies, National Trust members free.

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Fun for all the family at Buckland Abbey Ever wanted to try something new? Have you thought about volunteering? It’s a great way of making new friends, you get to work in amazing places and you know you’re helping a great cause. There are lots of roles and opportunities to explore, so why not come along to our volunteer recruitment days? Please check the website for details. The whole property fully reopens daily from 15th February, including the abbey - just in time for February half-term. There are lots of things for families to do during the school break; try a family crafting session, or perhaps take part in one of our great family trails in the abbey or around the estate. Easter holidays start on Saturday 28th March and this year we need visitors to help find all the giant eggs, which are painted with items that were once grown on the Buckland Estate. But there will also be a few weird and wonderful items thrown in - with plants people in Tudor times thought existed, such as the ‘lamb tree’.

IN-DEPTH HISTORY TOURS Every Wednesday, 11:30-1:30pm

Take a look behind the scenes at the abbey with our great volunteer team who will talk to you about the vast and exciting history of the abbey and grounds.

MOTHERS’ DAY

Sunday 22nd March Treat mum this year to a special lunch and flower cupcake in the Ox Yard Restaurant. Or perhaps head on a walk around the estate as a family?

CADBURY EASTER TRAIL

Saturday 28th March to Monday 13th April

Saturday 29th February to 1st March

Pick up your shopping list from Visitor Welcome and find all the giant eggs painted to show the different foods that were once grown here at Buckland. Can you also find a few Buckland-twist eggs and find the magical plants such as the lamb tree…

Find out about all the different volunteer roles we have at Buckland and see how exciting it can be.

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COMMUNITY FOCUS

Tidy Tavy Since its early beginnings over eight years ago, Tidy Tavy has been going from strength to strength, with a steadily growing band of volunteers of all ages, including whole families, keen to help keep Tavistock litter-free. The concept was originally kindled by Jane Miller and Pamela Steele when they decided to clean up the canal area in Tavistock which had become a magnet for discarded wrappers, bottles and worse. Devon county councillor Debo Sellis, helped co-found the group and has been a strong supporter over the years. While West Devon Borough councillors Steve Hipsey and Jeff Moody, both got involved shortly after Tidy Tavi was set up and have now become the mainstay of the group, along with Vikki Bendle. Tidy Tavi will soon celebrate its 100th outing, having broadened its reach to include all parts of Tavistock and even the surrounding countryside.

How it works The group meets outside Meadowlands Leisure Centre every first Saturday of the month from 10am to 12 midday, and the monthly outing always takes place whatever the weather. There is no need to sign up as a member or commit to attending regularly; anyone can turn up on the day and if you can’t help for the full two hours that’s not a problem. On average about 20 people come to the monthly sessions but there have been as many as 37 on some occasions. Everyone brings their own gloves and is issued with a high visibility jacket, a litter-picker and a hooped bag – there are also mini-sticks and hoops for children. After the safety briefing, groups make their way through different areas of the town. Lots of regulars have a 66

patch they like to cover, but suggestions for new areas are always welcome; an adult group often covers areas such as the A386 towards Grenofen. The group also cleans road signs and even washed all the town centre bins in preparation for the town’s entry to Britain in Bloom.

What happens to the litter? Steve estimates that the group fills about 20 rubbish bags on average each session, which equates to approximately 40 tonnes over the last eight years, or the weight of 22 family cars. West Devon Borough Council supports the operation by picking up the collected bags of rubbish from Bedford car park and transporting them to the Energy from Waste Facility in Devonport, which processes the waste, generating both electricity and usable steam from it, as well as diverting it from landfill.

Benefits Tidy Tavi has some very obvious benefits for the community, such as the removal of 40 tonnes of rubbish. However, there are also a number of other advantages for the volunteers themselves, not least of which is the two-hour walk and the fresh air, as well as the sense of camaraderie and jovial banter. More and more families are coming along to help and Steve is delighted to see the children learning early in life that dropping litter is unacceptable. At the other end of the age spectrum, older people come along to help, enjoying the social aspects of working with a group,

and Tidy Tavi has been recognised as contributing to the health and wellbeing of the local community. Some of the regular members of Tidy Tavi can’t get enough of the activity and are keen to try out their litter-picking skills in other locations. Apart from organising a fascinating trip to the Plymouth Energy from Waste Facility for the volunteers so they could see what happens to the waste, Steve is also hatching plans to take a walking party of adventurous litter-pickers to some of the difficultto-access beaches on the River Tamar, arranging to have the rubbish collected afterwards by boat.

Organic growth The group’s success is contagious and recently various organisations in the community have approached Tidy Tavi for help in spreading the litter-picking bug. Combined with valuable help and advice, the group has started lending out its equipment to a number of other groups. Mount Kelly students now go out on weekly litter forays, and there has also been interest from Tavistock College. Sophia Buckingham-Wood recently started Yel-Lit which meets at 10am on Yelverton aerodrome on the last Sunday of the month. While the monthly Sunday Brunch Run from Run Venture Running Hub in Tavistock has taken on a new twist by targeting places the regular Tidy Tavi members would find difficult to access and going ‘plogging’ with mini-pickers to clear any rubbish that runners find on the route, including

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fly-tipping. West Devon Borough Council (WDBC) is also supporting this new wave of enthusiasm, by producing a pamphlet in collaboration with Tidy Tavi, advising aspiring groups on how to get started.

Local support Tidy Tavi’s good work complements the role of the council road sweepers, helping to keep all of Tavistock

looking its best, and a number of local businesses and organisations have been keen to support its work over the years: Devon County Council, WDBC and Tavistock Lions Club have supplied the group with equipment; Meadowlands Leisure Centre helped out with storing the litter-picking equipment in the early years; Bob’s East End Café supplies much-appreciated cups of tea and coffee; while Tavistock Laundrette cleans the tabards.

Tidy Tavi’s activities are a ‘win-win’ for the community and everyone involved, but as Steve says there is just one thing that would improve the situation even further, and that is if everyone disposed of their litter appropriately - the group’s challenge to the public is: ‘put Tidy Tavi out of business!’. Rosemary Best For more information search Tidy Tavi on Facebook

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Brentor pop-up café Brentor opened its first community ‘pop up’ café last summer after the Brentor Village Hall committee decided that the hall wasn’t being used to its full potential and there was scope for more opportunities. Millie Bickell stepped in to organise a pop-up café and now runs it regularly, aided by friends Lisa, who helps with the cooking and serving customers, and Debbie who sets up the hall. The doors were first opened to the community on 14th June and since then the ‘pop up’ has aimed to run twice a month, usually every other Friday, from 10am to 2pm. The café has been well received by the local community and lots of people drop in with friends and family. Local residents also often bring along their own produce to sell on popup days, paying a small contribution to hall funds.

The pop-up café ethos revolves around serving the best of British seasonal food while supporting local producers, to keep food miles as low as possible. The menu changes with the seasons and through the chillier months the current offering includes bacon rolls, freshly baked croissants, all-day breakfasts, homemade soup, plus jacket potatoes and paninis with various fillings, including vegetarian and vegan options. Homemade cakes have proved particularly popular accompanied with a tea or coffee - providing everything required for a good natter with friends. In 2020 Millie is also introducing a new brand of coffee from local company Owens, which has its own roastery in Devon. Everyone is welcome at the café, including walking groups, dogs and their owners. The pop-up benefits from the hall’s excellent facilities and

has a level-5 food hygiene rating, on-site parking, disabled ramp access and an enclosed grass area with seating. It’s also on a walking circuit around the village and close to Brentor’s beautiful churches, Christ Church and the 12th century St Michael de Rupe on top of Brent Tor. Millie is delighted with the way the popup café has been received and said: “We are amazed at the support for the pop-up through 2019, with fantastic regular customers. The venture contributes to the upkeep of the hall, helping maintain its current high standard and we hope the pop-up will continue to build through 2020, enabling us to potentially offer the service on a more regular basis.” Brentor pop-up café will be open 10am2pm on Friday 14th, 28th February, & 13th March.

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Chicken Liver Parfait At Hotel Endsleigh the chicken liver parfait is moulded into spheres, dipped in a mandarin jelly robe and served with pickled vegetables and spiced fig jam. The hotel’s chef has kindly adapted the parfait recipe for readers to make at home.

Ingredients 500g chicken livers trimmed 4 whole eggs 375ml clarified butter 5g pink salt 8g sea salt 3g white pepper

Reduction ingredients 1 shallot 1 clove garlic thyme 250ml red wine 100ml brandy 100ml port 50ml madeira

Method Cure the trimmed livers with salt for 45 minutes Reduce the reduction ingredients in a saucepan over a medium high heat until thickened Blend the livers, reduction and eggs together, then slowly add in the clarified butter Pass the mixture through a chinois or fine sieve

Pour the mixture into a terrine dish lined with clingfilm, allowing enough spare clingfilm to cover the top. Put the lid on, and place the terrine in a roasting tray of water. Cook in a pre-heated oven (140°C) for 45min or until a core temperature of 70°C is reached Remove from the oven and allow to cool, before placing the terrine in the fridge overnight to set Remove the parfait from the terrine and cut into slices to serve Note: a good way to serve the terrine is to whip some seasoned butter and smooth over all the surfaces of the terrine and set in the fridge until firm. This will also prevent the terrine from discolouring.

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Saturday 29th February & Saturday 28th March

Italian Experience Evening Transport yourself from the depths of winter in West Devon to the sunny climes of the Mediterranean at a special event being held in Tavistock this February and March. The historic Butchers’ Hall in the heart of the town’s Pannier Market precinct will be the setting for an Italian Experience Evening with local delicatessen de la Torre’s, which is making fresh pastas, risottos and antipasti; wood-fired pizzas, plus

delicious tiramisu will also be on offer. In addition, there will be an Italian bar, great coffee and live music to make the evening go with a swing! The evening is being staged by top South West organisers, Miss Ivy Events. Director Jo Macaskie said: “As a regular visitor to Italy, I wanted to bring a taste of this beautiful country to Tavistock. We love the amazing food, wine and lively nights out there, and my aim is to spread the Italian love!”

The Italian Experience Evening takes place on 29 February and 28 March between 6pm and 9pm. Entry costs £6 to include a glass of prosecco or Italian beer (all food can be purchased on the evening). Tickets are limited to ensure guaranteed seating and can be booked online at www.missivyevents.co.uk.

our supporters. We are so generously supported by the people of Tavistock and the surrounding villages, that sometimes we are fortunate to have more supplies than our little store room can accommodate. We have therefore explored a number of options and can now assist other Trussell Trust foodbanks in the South West who may be short of certain supplies. Trussell Trust has produced a very good report (entitled State of Hunger) about the need for foodbanks and it is hoped

that this will assist our government in reducing poverty in the United Kingdom.

Tavistock Foodbank Tavistock Foodbank continues to supply food parcels for individuals and families who find themselves in need of food. All of our clients are referred by an agency, often the Citizen’s Advice Centre or the Children’s Centre, with around 20 organisations in total. The Tavistock community is extremely generous and we have a steady supply of donations that ensure we have sufficient stock to support everyone in need; last year we fed around 900 people. On behalf of Tavistock Foodbank and its users, we would like to say a huge thank you to

Donations of money are always helpful, and food donations are welcome at the Tavistock branches of Tesco, Co-op and Morrisons (our website has an up-to-date list of items in urgent need/ not currently required). For more details please visit tavistock.foodbank.org.uk or find us on Facebook. RobertWeston Acting Chair Tavistock Foodbank

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Out and About with Tavistock Ramblers A 5-mile walk with David Simkins of Tavistock Ramblers around Horrabridge along the old railway line, returning on rural footpaths.

The walk starts in Old Station Road at the junction of the A386. SX512696. This walk will take you along Route 27 cycle track - this part of which is known as Drake’s Trail passing over Magpie viaduct, Gem Bridge and through the tunnel at Grenofen, with examples of both old and new engineering skills. Later you will pass old mine workings

hidden in woodland before walking through the village of Horrabridge. There are four stiles and one stream crossing. 1. Walk up Old Station Road and at the top turn right through a gate into The Old Station. Turning right, walk past the houses, many of which have names relating to the railways. Go through a gate at the end of this road signed as

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2. Just after you emerge from the tunnel turn sharp right signed to Grenofen and walk up the steep slope to Drake’s Café. Go left at the busy road and immediately left again through a metal gate to reach a road junction. Turn right up hill and after about 100m take the left fork opposite a post box. 3. Pass Highland Farm and shortly after there is a distant view of Magpie viaduct. After a further ¼ mile look for a stone stile on the right. Cross the stile into a field. Keep close to the hedge on the left, go through a gate into another field, still with the hedge on the left. 4. At the bottom of this field go left through a metal gate onto a track and immediately over a ladder stile dead ahead. Follow the path through the wood and cross another stile into a small field. Cross the stream keeping the hedge on the left to reach a further stile onto a track. Walk up the track with the hedge still on the left.

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5. Pass the parking area on the right and walk past a substantial house before bearing right. Go into a field keeping the hedge on the right before entering more woodland. The path here is not well way marked but is obvious. Go left at a ruined building and alongside a post and wire fence to a path junction. 6. Turn right downhill to a gate into a field. Continue downhill as the path becomes a concrete track and then a lane. 7. Turn left when you reach the road by the old school.

8. Pass The Leaping Salmon pub and turn right over the ancient bridge to walk up through the village. Bear right keeping on Graybridge Road to reach the A386. Turn left and cross the road using the pedestrian refuge, and back to the start. This walk has used just a few of the hundreds of miles of footpaths in Devon. Come and join Tavistock Ramblers and explore many more walks in the area. Walks vary from short strolls to all day hikes and everything in between. Go to www.tavistockramblers.org.uk for more details of our walks.

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