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DEVONSHIRE<br />

Devon’s Countryside, Wildlife, His<strong>to</strong>ry and Events<br />

OCT, NOV, DEC <strong>17</strong> LARGEST CIRCULATION DEVON GLOSSY - ADVERTISING INSPECTOR GOLD AWARD £3 WHERE SOLD<br />

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CURIOUS TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE<br />

SOMETHING OF VALUE?<br />

It could pay <strong>to</strong> talk <strong>to</strong> Bonhams<br />

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ENQUIRIES<br />

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The Lodge<br />

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EX1 1JG<br />

A RUBY AND DIAMOND FLOWER<br />

BROOCH BY CARTIER, CIRCA 1960.<br />

Consigned in the West Country,<br />

sold in London for £27,500.<br />

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Whittaker<br />

Commercial<br />

New Build<br />

Refurbishments<br />

Extensions<br />

Project Management<br />

We are very pleased that we chose<br />

Whittaker Limited <strong>to</strong> undertake this<br />

project on our behalf, we cannot fault<br />

any of the work. The demeanour of all<br />

those involved in the project can only<br />

be described as excellent.<br />

Julie and Shaun Gibbons - Exeter<br />

Tel: 01404 43340<br />

Email: enquiries@njwhittaker.com<br />

Web: www.njwhittaker.com<br />

Address: Unit 1, Gt Western Business Park,<br />

<strong>Devonshire</strong> Rd, Honi<strong>to</strong>n, Devon EX14 1TA<br />

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An important crop for the past 2,000 years<br />

Change is good<br />

News from <strong>Devonshire</strong> magazine<br />

Devon’s Grape<br />

Very much part of the landscape, the apple is<br />

generally considered an indigenous species,<br />

but the apple has exotic and far flung<br />

origins. It’s said the Romans introduced<br />

sweet tasting apples <strong>to</strong> Britain although<br />

there are alternative s<strong>to</strong>ries of the Celts<br />

already grafting and developing our own<br />

apple varieties before the Romans even<br />

reached our shores. Both as edible fruit and<br />

as cider, the humble apple’s an important<br />

crop, and at the end of the season provides<br />

a beautiful sight in our orchards. See this<br />

issue’s Devon’s Apple Heritage<br />

Peak circulation over 20,000+<br />

magazines (audited & guaranteed).<br />

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MAGAZINE ISSUES<br />

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Devon’s Countryside, Wildlife, His<strong>to</strong>ry and Events<br />

OCT, NOV, DEC <strong>17</strong> LARGEST CIRCULATION DEVON GLOSSY - ADVERTISING INSPECTOR GOLD AWARD £3 WHERE SOLD<br />

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DISCLAIMER The publishers of this magazine are not responsible for<br />

any costs, loss or damage suffered by any person, persons, or company<br />

as a result of any advertisement or article in this magazine. Adverts are<br />

accepted on the understanding that descriptions of goods and services<br />

are fair and accurate. All artwork is accepted on the strict condition that<br />

permission has been given by the owner for use in this publication. The<br />

opinions and comments expressed are purely those of the origina<strong>to</strong>rs.<br />

We do not endorse any products or services advertised within this<br />

magazine. Whilst every effort is made <strong>to</strong> ensure that information is<br />

correct, the publishers take no responsibility for any errors or omissions.<br />

Any person or persons undertaking the circular walk featured within this<br />

publication does so entirely at their own risk. If you take children or dogs<br />

on the walk, they will require supervision. We strongly advise that prior<br />

<strong>to</strong> travelling <strong>to</strong> any of the events listed in our What's On sections, that<br />

you call the event organisers <strong>to</strong> check that the event is running at the<br />

times and dates specified.<br />

COPYRIGHT All material within this magazine are subject <strong>to</strong> copyright.<br />

Excepting adverts, all images within the magazine are copyright <strong>to</strong> N.Jones<br />

unless otherwise specified.<br />

BOOST YOUR<br />

EVENT PROMOTION<br />

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If you’re a reader of <strong>Devonshire</strong> magazine, you need <strong>to</strong> be<br />

aware that we’re moving our publication dates by a month<br />

from this issue onwards. There are several reasons for<br />

this, primarily it’s <strong>to</strong> tie in better with the seasons across<br />

the year, such as Easter, Summer, Christmas, etc, and also<br />

because we’re launching a brand new What’s On magazine<br />

for Devon, brought <strong>to</strong> you from our HUBCAST websites.<br />

This new WHAT’S ON (and Things To Do)<br />

magazine will be available across Devon at<br />

1,100 outlets and means that you can access<br />

the most extensive event information both<br />

online and offline. (Event promoters take<br />

note - our SkyRocket package gives virtually<br />

1/2 price rates <strong>to</strong> allow unparalleled event<br />

exposure across Devon - please call Hannah<br />

on 01395 513383 option 1 for more details).<br />

If you currently subscribe <strong>to</strong> <strong>Devonshire</strong><br />

magazine, this publication date change will<br />

mean your subscription renewal will be a<br />

month later than last year’s subscription.<br />

This issue of <strong>Devonshire</strong><br />

magazine sees John Fisher<br />

write about the person<br />

he suggests is probably<br />

<strong>Devonshire</strong>’s finest poet,<br />

namely Samuel Taylor<br />

Coleridge. Incidentally,<br />

there’s a ‘Weekend with<br />

Coleridge’ taking place<br />

on 20th <strong>to</strong> 22nd <strong>Oct</strong>ober<br />

as the <strong>to</strong>wn marks the<br />

life and works of its most<br />

famous son. See hubcast.<br />

co.uk/eastdevon Additionally,<br />

we also take a<br />

pho<strong>to</strong>-visual look at heath<br />

lands, precious man-made<br />

environments (apparently<br />

rarer than rain forests!),<br />

we visit Chagford and<br />

also talk about the origins<br />

The Three Hares - a roof boss<br />

in Chagford’s St Michael the<br />

Archangel church. The three<br />

hares (known as the “Tinners’<br />

Rabbits” in Devon) is an ancient<br />

symbol that has origins in cave<br />

temples in China apparently.<br />

It’s a symbol very much<br />

associated with Buddhism.<br />

of Devon’s most popular fruit in our new<br />

series entitled ‘Devon’s Apple Heritage’. We<br />

welcome a couple of new writers <strong>to</strong> <strong>Devonshire</strong><br />

magazine, Emma Moore, she’ll be telling<br />

us about her outdoor adventures across<br />

the county. Also, Stephen Hussey from the<br />

Devon Wildlife Trust brings us a new ‘Nature<br />

Matters’ column.<br />

In the last issue of <strong>Devonshire</strong> magazine<br />

we featured the Red Arrows in Sidmouth,<br />

unfortunately the WWII flying display with<br />

Spitfire and Welling<strong>to</strong>n bombers didn’t occur<br />

because of problems<br />

with the Merlin engine.<br />

Hopefully next year we’ll<br />

finally get <strong>to</strong> see these<br />

his<strong>to</strong>ric aeroplanes off<br />

the Sidmouth seafront.<br />

Don’t miss our review of<br />

books by Devon authors<br />

further on in the magazine,<br />

great Christmas<br />

present material I should<br />

have thought.<br />

Wishing you a great<br />

Festive Season!<br />

Nigel Jones (Edi<strong>to</strong>r)<br />

@<strong>Devonshire</strong>Mag


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The stylish new Upper <strong>Dec</strong>k Bar & Restaurant takes full advantage of its<br />

waterside location, with floor <strong>to</strong> ceiling glass taking in the panoramic coastal<br />

views, opening out on<strong>to</strong> an extensive new terrace for alfresco dining.<br />

Taking centre stage is the stunning new bar, perfect for enjoying an evening<br />

cocktail or a few light bites. With menus created by award-winning Chef<br />

Patron Alex Aitken, and <strong>to</strong>p local chefs delivering mouth-watering fresh and<br />

seasonal dishes, the restaurant leads the way in destination dining.<br />

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TO MAKE A RESERVATION PLEASE CALL 01395 513252<br />

Sidmouth Harbour Hotel, Manor Road, Sidmouth, Devon EX10 8RU<br />

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DEVONSHIRE<br />

Devon’s Countryside, Wildlife, His<strong>to</strong>ry & Events<br />

Devon’s Countryside, Wildlife, His<strong>to</strong>ry & Events<br />

5. Edi<strong>to</strong>r's Letter<br />

The latest from the Edi<strong>to</strong>r.<br />

9. Letterbox<br />

News from across Devon.<br />

10. The Countryman<br />

By Chris<strong>to</strong>pher Taylor.<br />

12. What's On<br />

From the HUBCAST websites.<br />

19. HUBCAST<br />

A new magazine - What's On.<br />

26. Xmas Gifts<br />

Gifts and Book Reviews.<br />

30. Chagford<br />

Glimpses of this lovely <strong>to</strong>wn.<br />

34. Fashion & Beauty<br />

Great places <strong>to</strong> indulge.<br />

40. Great Night Out<br />

Enjoy great food & live music.<br />

42. Overnight Stay<br />

The Jubilee Inn, South Mol<strong>to</strong>n.<br />

44. Food Review<br />

The Five Bells, Payhembury.<br />

48. Art Exhibitions<br />

Major art events from HUBCAST.<br />

54. Heathland Wonders<br />

Autumn & Winter, by the Edi<strong>to</strong>r.<br />

68. <strong>Devonshire</strong> Home<br />

'Interiors Update' by Sue Folwell.<br />

72. Nelsonʼs Column<br />

By <strong>Devonshire</strong>’s John Fisher.<br />

76. But hereʼs the thing...<br />

John Fisher expounds.<br />

82. Samuel T. Coleridge<br />

Devon's greatest poet - J. Fisher.<br />

86. Equine Learning<br />

Empathy - Natalie Bucklar.<br />

87. The Old Vetʼnary<br />

'A life on the road' - K.Watson.<br />

88. Devon's Apple Heritage<br />

The origins of our apple - Edi<strong>to</strong>r.<br />

90. Nature Matters<br />

With the Devon Wildlife Trust.<br />

92. Life Matters<br />

Live-in companions.<br />

95. Yellingham Farm<br />

"My Work is Finished" by Todd East.<br />

96. The Drywell Cross<br />

A pho<strong>to</strong>graphic visit by the Edi<strong>to</strong>r.<br />

98. Financial Planning<br />

Robots <strong>to</strong> the Rescue - H.Mulvaney.<br />

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Hillside House<br />

BOUTIQUE RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME<br />

Brandon Care Ltd is proud <strong>to</strong> present its third care home: Hillside House, a<br />

boutique care home with a warm and homely ambience set in the outstanding<br />

East Devon countryside on the outskirts of the village of New<strong>to</strong>n Poppleford.<br />

The house has undergone<br />

complete renovation <strong>to</strong> provide<br />

superior accommodation for<br />

fourteen residents. The rooms are<br />

large and bright with contemporary<br />

ensuite shower rooms.<br />

We focus on providing delicious<br />

home cooked food served in a<br />

dining room that invites you <strong>to</strong> sit,<br />

converse and enjoy your meals with<br />

perhaps a glass of wine with your<br />

fellow companions.<br />

Our day room is accessed<br />

through a delightful walkway<br />

which encloses the courtyard<br />

garden; sit, relax and enjoy the<br />

tranquillity, or participate in our<br />

many and varied activities.<br />

Modern, spacious lounge with views<br />

Panoramic views across the Otter Valley<br />

We have lift<br />

access <strong>to</strong> the<br />

first floor area, which<br />

accommodates<br />

seven bedrooms,<br />

seating areas and<br />

the beautifully<br />

presented<br />

hydrotherapy<br />

bathroom.<br />

Within the grounds<br />

of Hillside House<br />

we have stables that<br />

provide homes for<br />

our horses, ponies &<br />

other lives<strong>to</strong>ck, which<br />

is hoped will give<br />

pleasure and interest<br />

<strong>to</strong> residents and<br />

visi<strong>to</strong>rs.<br />

Bright, cheerful dining room<br />

Enclosed courtyard - relaxing lounge at end<br />

Throughout the care home<br />

Our ethos at Hillside House is <strong>to</strong> provide residents with the best possible<br />

there are panoramic views<br />

care within an exceptional environment. As a new care facility our aim is <strong>to</strong><br />

across the countryside <strong>to</strong> the sea<br />

grow with the input of our residents and their families.<br />

at Sidmouth and Ladram Bay<br />

and eastward <strong>to</strong> the Blackdown Contact: Tel: 01395 562960 / e-mail: hillside@brandoncare.onmicrosoft.com<br />

8 Hills and beyond. Countryside, His<strong>to</strong>ry, Walks, the Arts, Events & all things Devon at: DEVONSHIRE magazine.co.uk


Letterbox<br />

YOUR NEWS TO THE EDITOR - LETTERBOX@DEVONSHIREMAGAZINE.CO.UK<br />

New What’s On mag for Devon<br />

<strong>Oct</strong>ober <strong>17</strong>th sees the launch of<br />

a new What’s On magazine for<br />

Devon, brought <strong>to</strong> you by the team<br />

at DEVONSHIRE magazine. This<br />

new publication is the culmination<br />

of six years of investment and<br />

development work on the unique<br />

HUBCAST event promotion website<br />

network which now has over 5,000<br />

clubs, societies, charities, councils,<br />

businesses registered (5,267 as<br />

of 04/10/<strong>17</strong>). You may ask why<br />

it’s taken so long <strong>to</strong> establish this<br />

website network? Well, it grew<br />

from small beginning, starting<br />

out as EastDevonHub, then<br />

SouthDevonHub, followed by a host<br />

of other regions <strong>to</strong> cover Devon. We<br />

were caught out really - the growth<br />

was so rapid, we never envisaged<br />

nine websites covering Devon, so<br />

nearly two years ago we decided<br />

<strong>to</strong> combine all these domains in<strong>to</strong><br />

a single one, as HUBCAST.co.uk<br />

Nigel’s keen <strong>to</strong> point out that<br />

HUBCAST is not just websites, it’s<br />

a highly developed software system<br />

that allows event promoters <strong>to</strong><br />

obtain free online exposure through<br />

HUBCAST websites. Additionally,<br />

independent publishers are able<br />

<strong>to</strong> log in and access event data,<br />

and subsequently download and<br />

generate event listings for their<br />

magazines. This massively increases<br />

exposure for these events. Nigel<br />

(pho<strong>to</strong> above)says that: “the sheer<br />

amount of event information on<br />

the HUBCAST website is staggering,<br />

there really is nothing even remotely<br />

comparable, and the new What’s<br />

On magazine will contain many of<br />

these great events”.<br />

This new publication is free <strong>to</strong> the<br />

public and is available at 1,100<br />

outlets across Devon.<br />

Devon’s NGS Sponsor<br />

Devon jeweller, Jethro Marles is <strong>to</strong> be<br />

one of the main sponsors for the Devon<br />

National Garden Scheme in 2018.<br />

Jethro says - “I’m passionate about<br />

preserving our native wildlife and love<br />

<strong>to</strong> get ideas from other gardens large<br />

and small, so I’m very familiar with the<br />

great work done by the NGS. This year<br />

they donated £3 million <strong>to</strong> charities<br />

including Macmillan Cancer Support,<br />

Marie Curie, Hospice Care and many<br />

others. I’m delighted <strong>to</strong> be supporting<br />

them in 2018 and would encourage<br />

as many people as possible <strong>to</strong> visit the<br />

gardens listed in their ‘Yellow Book’.<br />

Many will also provide refreshments,<br />

tea and cake, so even those individuals<br />

without a horticultural interest will<br />

have something <strong>to</strong> enjoy in beautiful<br />

surroundings and in the knowledge<br />

that their money will be helping so<br />

many worthwhile charities.<br />

www.jethromarles.co.uk<br />

Touch Design Group - showroom open<br />

On Tuesday <strong>17</strong>th <strong>Oct</strong>ober, luxury<br />

interiors brand Touch Design<br />

Group will open their brand new<br />

showroom <strong>to</strong> the public. Located at<br />

the company’s HQ in Exeter, the new<br />

space will showcase the very latest<br />

Giving Back day at Jolly Jacks in Plymouth<br />

Some of us are very fortunate, we<br />

have friends and loving families <strong>to</strong><br />

share our lives with, but what about<br />

those who have lost those precious<br />

bonds and no longer have that loving<br />

support any more. Unfortunately,<br />

gone are the days when neighbours<br />

know each other, local post offices<br />

are closing, corner shops are fewer,<br />

and those connections are no more.<br />

in luxe bespoke interiors whilst<br />

providing a unique insight in<strong>to</strong><br />

TDG’s manufacturing capabilities<br />

and the endless possibilities open<br />

<strong>to</strong> their clients. The launch will<br />

be marked by a Private View on<br />

On <strong>Dec</strong>ember 6th, Jolly Jacks are<br />

having a Giving Back afternoon and<br />

are looking for you <strong>to</strong> contact them<br />

if you know of people who could<br />

benefit from making new friendships<br />

<strong>to</strong> bring light back in<strong>to</strong> their lives.<br />

It’s a chance <strong>to</strong> share s<strong>to</strong>ries and<br />

experiences. Contact Sally or speak<br />

the crew at Jolly Jacks for more<br />

information on 0<strong>17</strong>52 500008.<br />

Thursday 12th <strong>Oct</strong>ober when a<br />

select number of private clients<br />

and partners will be first <strong>to</strong> set<br />

eyes on an exclusive range of<br />

furniture, <strong>to</strong> include a bespoke<br />

kitchen interior from in-house brand<br />

Touch Kitchen plus a cocktail bar,<br />

media unit and wardrobes from<br />

Touch House - TDG’s ‘whole house’<br />

bespoke interior service. Situated on<br />

Marsh Green Road North in Exeter<br />

with easy access from the M5 and<br />

A30, clients are welcome <strong>to</strong> drop<br />

by and browse the showroom from<br />

or book an appointment for one <strong>to</strong><br />

one meeting. From Tuesday <strong>17</strong>th<br />

of <strong>Oct</strong>ober, the showroom will be<br />

open from Tuesday - Friday, from<br />

10am - 3pm or by appointment.<br />

For more information, please call<br />

01392 364269 or email:<br />

sue@<strong>to</strong>uchdesigngroup.com.<br />

Making a difference<br />

Central Park, Plymouth became a sea<br />

of pink as thousands of women joined<br />

the fight against cancer by taking<br />

part in Cancer Research UK’s Pretty<br />

Muddy 5k obstacle run in <strong>Oct</strong>ober. Just<br />

over 2,200 mums, daughters, sisters<br />

and friends showed their incredible<br />

commitment <strong>to</strong> the cause as they<br />

battled the wet and muddy conditions,<br />

<strong>to</strong> help bring forward the day when<br />

all cancers are cured. Amy Salmon,<br />

Cancer Research UK’s South West<br />

Events Manager, said: “Life-saving<br />

research is being funded right now<br />

thanks <strong>to</strong> the women of Plymouth<br />

running, jogging or walking at Pretty<br />

Muddy Plymouth. Our participants<br />

play a crucial role in helping <strong>to</strong> turn<br />

discoveries made in the lab in<strong>to</strong> better<br />

treatments for patients in Devon<br />

and across the UK and we’d like <strong>to</strong><br />

thank everyone who <strong>to</strong>ok part in the<br />

event. For information on returning<br />

sponsorship money, or <strong>to</strong> make a<br />

donation, visit www.raceforlife.org<br />

hubcast<br />

.co.u k<br />

Find out what’s on in Devon<br />

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The COUNTRYMAN<br />

CHRIS TAYLOR<br />

The COUNTRYMAN<br />

Chris lives with his wife, Brianne,<br />

in north Devon at the confluence<br />

of the Mole and Bray Rivers.<br />

Raised on a farm, with a degree in<br />

Agricultural Zoology, Chris moved<br />

in<strong>to</strong> Farm Management and more<br />

recently in<strong>to</strong> Estate Management<br />

and Consultancy. Over the past<br />

50 years his passions cover all<br />

aspects of the countryside, wildlife,<br />

conservation,agriculture and<br />

country pursuits.<br />

A bumper<br />

harvest of<br />

Pumpkins<br />

Pho<strong>to</strong>s copyright C. Taylor<br />

Another season winding down<br />

We are now well in<strong>to</strong> Autumn<br />

and this year there is not doubt<br />

about it. No Indian summer for<br />

us in North Devon! Even the<br />

corn harvest wasn't all finished<br />

at the beginning of <strong>Oct</strong>ober. In<br />

fact, you might find it difficult <strong>to</strong><br />

remember summer though, some<br />

first class hay was made in June.<br />

Bereavements in my family have<br />

kept me from being out and about<br />

as much as normal, but several<br />

noticeable and encouraging things<br />

have happened recently.<br />

One noticeable absence from apple<br />

pressing (on 21st September) were<br />

the swallows and House Martinss.<br />

I can't recall another year they<br />

left so early. Most years there<br />

have been hundreds feasting<br />

over the valley in<strong>to</strong> the second<br />

week in <strong>Oct</strong>ober. One year in<br />

the last decade, I saw several in<br />

fledged successfully and the adults<br />

were soon busy again! Clutches<br />

of eggs laid, but then the adults<br />

never incubated the eggs. Was<br />

this weather related or predation?<br />

Unfortunately this is just one more<br />

natural riddle I will not resolve<br />

this year. With no second brood<br />

<strong>to</strong> raise there would be no reason<br />

Glowing red fruits<br />

The green woodpeckers seem <strong>to</strong><br />

have returned <strong>to</strong> the Mole Valley<br />

in numbers. After a noticeable<br />

absence, they appeared daily<br />

in the orchard feeding under<br />

the apple trees presumably on<br />

invertebrates who feed off the<br />

carpet of apples on the ground.<br />

The rush is now on <strong>to</strong> gather<br />

as many apples as possible for<br />

juicing. This is a great excuse for<br />

our neighbours and friends <strong>to</strong><br />

come over. Working up a sweat<br />

washing, crushing, pressing and<br />

sampling! the many different<br />

varieties. The remaining pulp is<br />

heavenly food for my small flock<br />

of ewes which have just gone <strong>to</strong><br />

the ram. All being well, we look<br />

forward <strong>to</strong> an early lambing in<br />

February.<br />

November. If only we knew why<br />

they have gone. Whether there is<br />

any relevance in the fact that the<br />

first of several swallows nesting<br />

in the small barn, hatched and<br />

A White Christmas?<br />

<strong>to</strong> hang around in adverse weather.<br />

As I have written before, it is<br />

normal that the Fieldfares and<br />

Redwings arrive within a couple of<br />

weeks after the swallows depart...<br />

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will that happen this year? If so,<br />

soon after arriving they will find all<br />

the dropped apples in the orchards<br />

which are an important winter<br />

food source for these migrating<br />

thrushes.<br />

Friday morning (19 September)<br />

saw our first grass frost in the<br />

valley and almost the same day<br />

I was <strong>to</strong>ld the red stags were<br />

roaring and thus the rut had<br />

started! Another natural autumn<br />

occurrence, but again a week or<br />

10 days earlier than normal. I was<br />

slightly sceptical about this but by<br />

September 22nd I heard a very<br />

vocal stag claiming his terri<strong>to</strong>rial<br />

rights <strong>to</strong> some hinds. The onset of<br />

the rut is thought <strong>to</strong> be triggered<br />

by cold weather so this early start<br />

is explainable.<br />

salmon at sea all take their <strong>to</strong>ll on<br />

our salmon s<strong>to</strong>cks <strong>to</strong> some degree.<br />

As well as global warming.<br />

I personally try my damnedest<br />

<strong>to</strong> release every fish back <strong>to</strong> the<br />

river <strong>to</strong> spawn but it is not always<br />

possible. Somewhere deep inside<br />

me is a hunter gatherer, instinct is<br />

part of why I fish. I fish <strong>to</strong> catch<br />

a fish <strong>to</strong> eat. At the time of this<br />

writing, the Environment Agency<br />

has a consultation paper out and<br />

associated survey for the rod and<br />

and Torridge estuary by netsman,<br />

that is now somewhere closer <strong>to</strong><br />

50 and in 1920s rods caught a<br />

couple of thousand. Salmon were<br />

commonly caught in<strong>to</strong> 30lbs and<br />

even one of 61lbs was recorded.<br />

We unfortunately have <strong>to</strong> say those<br />

days have gone and probably will<br />

never return but the salmon is a<br />

resilient species and with help will<br />

hopefully recover.<br />

I agree wholeheartedly with<br />

voluntary catch and release as<br />

Countryman's Diary<br />

Late <strong>Oct</strong>ober <strong>to</strong> <strong>Dec</strong>ember<br />

1. Listen close <strong>to</strong> any North Devon<br />

woodland at dusk or dawn <strong>to</strong> hear<br />

the stags roar.<br />

2. See large number of winter migrants<br />

on the Taw and Torridge Estuaries.<br />

3. Golden plover and lapwings often in<br />

large numbers away from the Coast.<br />

4. This is the best time of year for<br />

walking, spotting wildlife and taking<br />

in our great landscapes.<br />

Much of the content of these<br />

articles revolves around fishing the<br />

River Taw and its main tributary<br />

the river Mole. The season has just<br />

finished for salmon, sea trout and<br />

brown trout which are really the<br />

only quarry species. It has been an<br />

encouraging year, though the final<br />

rod catch has not been calculated,<br />

the Mole has fished well. Hopefully<br />

this is the result of many years of<br />

conservation work on the rivers.<br />

One of the main conservation<br />

measures is that anglers are now<br />

encouraged <strong>to</strong> return all salmon.<br />

All salmon have <strong>to</strong> be returned<br />

before the 16th June by law! and<br />

all over 70 cms have <strong>to</strong> be returned<br />

after 31st July. Many instream<br />

projects have been undertaken<br />

<strong>to</strong> remove weirs which impede<br />

the passage of migra<strong>to</strong>ry fish, as<br />

well as debris dams which have the<br />

same adverse effect. However, all<br />

these and hundreds more projects<br />

still haven't s<strong>to</strong>pped the decline<br />

in salmon numbers. We anglers<br />

must <strong>to</strong> do our part <strong>to</strong> ensure<br />

there are fish in the rivers but<br />

99% of salmon survival is outside<br />

our control. High seas netting,<br />

coastal netting, land use changes<br />

over decades, pollution, siltation<br />

of spawning gravels, sewage and<br />

chemical pollution and farming<br />

Otter approaching - orange thingy's a fishing rod!<br />

net fisherman about the future of<br />

all rivers in England. The result of<br />

this will not be known for several<br />

months and this will be the basis<br />

for future regulations in 2018.<br />

There are way <strong>to</strong>o many proposals<br />

<strong>to</strong> discuss here but, in essence,<br />

the idea is <strong>to</strong> reduce exploitation<br />

of this natural resource. There<br />

is not a fisherman, netsman or<br />

rod angler, who wishes <strong>to</strong> see the<br />

salmon disappear from our rivers.<br />

Groups of anglers like the River<br />

Taw Fisheries Association, work<br />

hard <strong>to</strong> persuade their members<br />

and other anglers who fish the<br />

rivers <strong>to</strong> return fish <strong>to</strong> the river<br />

<strong>to</strong> spawn. In recent years 80%<br />

of all salmon caught have been<br />

returned <strong>to</strong> spawn.<br />

I may have mentioned before<br />

that back in the 1920s 5,000<br />

salmon were caught on the Taw<br />

the end result and this has been<br />

encouraged on the Taw system<br />

since the mid 1990s and may well<br />

have helped this river be one of<br />

the most stable salmon and sea<br />

trout rivers in the West Country.<br />

Any more stringent regulations<br />

enforced upon fisherman could<br />

be counter productive.<br />

There are many organisations and<br />

individuals who put time, effort<br />

and often large sums of money<br />

in<strong>to</strong> protecting the river habitat for<br />

the benefit of the river. All this is<br />

a result of the love of being on the<br />

river and fishing. These fisherman<br />

are now the eyes and ears of the<br />

Environment Agency and they<br />

are the only ones regularly on<br />

the river. It is possible that <strong>to</strong>o<br />

much regulation will put some<br />

off fishing. If fisherman were <strong>to</strong><br />

go, the salmon and sea trout will<br />

soon follow. Fisherman are part<br />

of this environment and it is fair<br />

<strong>to</strong> say have the least effect on the<br />

dwindling salmon s<strong>to</strong>ck.<br />

There is one 5 lb salmon in the<br />

freezer which will be enjoyed<br />

shortly with friends, the texture<br />

and flavour so different <strong>to</strong> the<br />

farmed variety, with almost no<br />

continued on page 62<br />

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18 <strong>Oct</strong>- VFB presents a<br />

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score, Exeter Corn Exchange,<br />

Exeter, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 9.30pm.<br />

BALLET CYMRU - THE<br />

LIGHT PRINCESS<br />

25 <strong>Oct</strong>- A new full length live<br />

ballet for 20<strong>17</strong> with a new<br />

score, Pavilions Teignmouth,<br />

Den Crescent, Teignmouth,<br />

6.00pm <strong>to</strong> 8.30pm.<br />

THE NUTCRACKER -<br />

BALLET<br />

13 Nov- Tickets are £21<br />

adults, £19 concession<br />

and £15 children, Exmouth<br />

Pavilion, The Esplanade,<br />

Exmouth, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 10.00pm.<br />

Children<br />

BURRATOR FAMILY DROP<br />

IN ACTIVITY DAY<br />

25 <strong>Oct</strong>- Nature trails, art,<br />

games, practical activities<br />

and cooking on the camp<br />

fire, South West Lakes<br />

Trust, Burra<strong>to</strong>r Discovery<br />

Centre, Yelver<strong>to</strong>n, 10.00am<br />

<strong>to</strong> 3.00pm.<br />

KNIGHTSHAYES BY NIGHT<br />

09 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 11 <strong>Dec</strong> & 16 <strong>Dec</strong><br />

<strong>to</strong> 18 <strong>Dec</strong>- Discover a winter<br />

wonderland at Knightshayes,<br />

Bolham, 4.30pm <strong>to</strong> 7.00pm.<br />

SANT IN LOVE<br />

20 <strong>Dec</strong>- Lovely performance<br />

for children will be shown<br />

twice on Wednesday<br />

afternoon, The Watermark,<br />

Erme Court, Ivybridge,<br />

2.00pm.<br />

CINDERELLA PANTOMIME<br />

24 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 07 Jan- Tickets<br />

are £11.50 & £13.50 (£2 per<br />

ticket for raised), Exmouth<br />

Pavilion, The Esplanade,<br />

Exmouth.<br />

SEE HALLOWEEN<br />

EVENTS ON PAGE<br />

Festivals<br />

FOOD & DRINK<br />

REAL ALE, ENGLISH WINE<br />

AND CIDER WEEKEND<br />

29 <strong>Oct</strong> <strong>to</strong> 01 Nov-<br />

Rosemoor’s fourth Real Ale<br />

and Cider Weekend will<br />

feature a range of real ales<br />

from near & far, RHS Garden<br />

Rosemoor, Great Torring<strong>to</strong>n,<br />

10.00am <strong>to</strong> 6.00pm.<br />

GENERAL<br />

CLOVELLY HERRING<br />

FESTIVAL<br />

18 Nov- Clovelly, 10.00am<br />

<strong>to</strong> 4.00pm.<br />

MUSIC<br />

THE TWO MOORS<br />

FESTIVAL<br />

Until 21 <strong>Oct</strong>- Renowned as<br />

one of the leading classical<br />

music festivals in the UK,<br />

The Two Moors Festival,<br />

Barkham, South Mol<strong>to</strong>n.<br />

Garden<br />

LUKESLAND GARDENS<br />

AUTUMN OPENINGS<br />

Until 12 Nov- Suns and Weds.<br />

24 acres of beautiful Autumn<br />

colour. Home-made soups<br />

and teas, Lukesland Gardens,<br />

Lukesland House, Ivybridge,<br />

11.00am <strong>to</strong> 5.00pm.<br />

Markets<br />

FARMERS & COUNTRY<br />

FARMERS' MARKET<br />

21 <strong>Oct</strong>- The Farmers' Market,<br />

Kennaway House, Coburg<br />

Road, Sidmouth, 9.00am <strong>to</strong><br />

1.00pm.<br />

TAVISTOCK FARMERS'<br />

MARKET<br />

28 <strong>Oct</strong>, 11 & 25 Nov - The<br />

Square hosts the popular<br />

Farmers Market selling fresh<br />

local produce, Tavis<strong>to</strong>ck<br />

Farmers Market, Tavis<strong>to</strong>ck,<br />

9.00am <strong>to</strong> 2.00pm.<br />

INDOOR MARKET<br />

UNIQUE BOUTIQUE<br />

CHRISTMAS MARKET<br />

25 Nov - A quirky arts<br />

market offering original,<br />

handmade and locally crafted<br />

goods, Unique Boutique<br />

Markets, Exeter Phoenix,<br />

Exeter, 10.00am <strong>to</strong> 4.30pm.<br />

SOUTH MOLTON PANNIER<br />

MARKET<br />

Thurs & Sat - Wide range<br />

of stalls with an extensive<br />

variety of produce, South<br />

Mol<strong>to</strong>n Pannier Market,<br />

Broad Square, South Mol<strong>to</strong>n,<br />

8.00am <strong>to</strong> 1.00pm.<br />

TIVERTON CHRISTMAS<br />

MARKET<br />

03 <strong>Dec</strong> - Annual Christmas<br />

Market on Sunday with<br />

favourite stalls & lots of<br />

new ones, Tiver<strong>to</strong>n Pannier<br />

Market, Fore Street, Tiver<strong>to</strong>n,<br />

10.00am <strong>to</strong> 5.00pm.<br />

SIDMOUTH FARMERS<br />

MARKET<br />

09 <strong>Dec</strong> - Kennaway House,<br />

Sidmouth, 9.00am <strong>to</strong> 1.00pm.<br />

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CHRISTMAS BAROQUE<br />

02 <strong>Dec</strong> - A wonderful mixed<br />

programme for Christmas<br />

which has something for<br />

everyone, Exeter Bach<br />

Society, Southernhay Church,<br />

Exeter, 7.00pm <strong>to</strong> 10.00pm.<br />

JOY TO THE WORLD<br />

02 <strong>Dec</strong> - A celebration of<br />

seasonal music by Rutter,<br />

MacDowall, Bach and others,<br />

Torbay Singers, St Matthias<br />

Church, Torquay, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong><br />

10.00pm.<br />

Classical<br />

Music<br />

AMALTHEA FLUTE &<br />

HARP JOURNEYS<br />

22 <strong>Oct</strong>- Klio and Siobhan<br />

and their special combination<br />

Clock and<br />

Watch Repair<br />

Expert and professional<br />

repairs <strong>to</strong> all types of<br />

clocks and watches.<br />

A wide range of watches<br />

and clocks also available<br />

for sale.<br />

D. J. Offord<br />

01626 364766<br />

of flute and harp, Pavilions<br />

Teignmouth, Den Crescent,<br />

Teignmouth, 3.00pm <strong>to</strong><br />

5.00pm.<br />

LUNCHTIME CONCERT<br />

01 Nov - Annabel Rooney,<br />

cello & Josephine Pickering,<br />

piano, Glenorchy United<br />

Reformed Church, Exeter<br />

Road, Exmouth, 12.30am <strong>to</strong><br />

1.15pm.<br />

THE CONCERT FOR<br />

REMEMBRANCE<br />

02 Nov - Concert <strong>to</strong><br />

commemorate the Fallen of<br />

two world wars and other<br />

conflicts since, Royal British<br />

Legion, The Mint Methodist<br />

Church, Exeter, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong><br />

9.30pm.<br />

LUNCHTIME CONCERT<br />

08 Nov - Beacon Piano Trio,<br />

Glenorchy United Reformed<br />

Church, Exeter Road,<br />

Exmouth, 12.30am <strong>to</strong> 1.15pm.<br />

5 Union Street New<strong>to</strong>n Abbot


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MEET THE...<br />

20 <strong>Oct</strong> - ...Politician - Vince Cable<br />

- with his new book, ‘Open Arms’.<br />

7am-9.30pm.<br />

SIDMOUTH STORYNIGHTS FOR<br />

GROWNUPS<br />

27 <strong>Oct</strong> - The Return of Fearsome<br />

Fairy Tales for Fearless Adults-The<br />

Fairies Fight Back! 7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 10pm.<br />

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MEET THE ACTOR/AUTHOR -<br />

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03 Nov - ‘Being David Archer’ -<br />

Timothy Bentinck recounts his<br />

enormously varied life. 7pm-9pm.<br />

JAZZ IN THE AFTERNOON<br />

<strong>17</strong> <strong>Dec</strong> - Featuring the Pete Allen<br />

Jazz Band, 3pm <strong>to</strong> 5.30pm.<br />

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AUTUMN PIANO & VIOLIN<br />

RECITAL<br />

10 Nov- Featuring Bruch,<br />

Beethoven, Williams, Kreisler<br />

and more, Violin & Piano<br />

Duo 'Elegance', St Lawrence<br />

Lane, Ashbur<strong>to</strong>n, 7.00pm <strong>to</strong><br />

9.00pm.<br />

AUTUMN CONCERT<br />

12 Nov- Performance<br />

of vocalists and<br />

instrumentalists of different<br />

ages and abilities, Violin<br />

& Piano Duo 'Elegance',<br />

St John's Church, Totnes,<br />

2.00pm <strong>to</strong> 2.00pm.<br />

CHAMBER ENSEMBLE<br />

OF LONDON: WE WILL<br />

REMEMBER<br />

19 Nov- Directed by Peter<br />

Fisher: a WW1 concert,<br />

Jeanie Moore MVO, The Duke<br />

of Cornwall Hotel, Plymouth,<br />

3.00pm <strong>to</strong> 5.00pm.<br />

LUNCHTIME CONCERT<br />

22 Nov- Phil Bonser, clarinet<br />

& Dorothy Craven, piano,<br />

Glenorchy United Reformed<br />

Church, Exeter Road,<br />

Exmouth, 12.30am <strong>to</strong> 1.15pm.<br />

DIRECTOR’S CUT - 30<br />

YEARS OF VOCES<br />

25 Nov- A concert of 15th<br />

and 16th century choral<br />

music, Renaissance Choral<br />

Music, Buckfast Abbey,<br />

Buckfast, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 8.45pm.<br />

ISCA ENSEMBLE AUTUMN<br />

CONCERT<br />

25 Nov- A programme of<br />

Brahms and Sibelius' Violin<br />

Concer<strong>to</strong> with Emmanuel<br />

Bach, ISCA Ensemble,<br />

Sidmouth Parish Church,<br />

Sidmouth, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 9.30pm.<br />

Collec<strong>to</strong>rs<br />

EXETER RECORD & CD<br />

FAIR<br />

21 <strong>Oct</strong>- Knowledgeable local<br />

vendors selling quality vinyl,<br />

CD's and music memorabilia,<br />

Exeter Record & CD Fair,<br />

Corn Exchange, Exeter,<br />

9.30am <strong>to</strong> 3.30pm.<br />

MICHAEL HALE<br />

COLLECTORS FAIRS<br />

04 Nov- Stamp and coin fair,<br />

Michael Hale Fairs, America<br />

Hall, Exeter, 10.00am <strong>to</strong><br />

4.00pm.<br />

CONTINUED OVERLEAF...<br />

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What's On: <strong>Oct</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>17</strong><br />

1913-20<strong>17</strong><br />

Over One Hundred Years of<br />

Service in South Devon<br />

DAY TRIPS<br />

CLARKS VILLAGE Thurs 19th <strong>Oct</strong> £21<br />

SALISBURY & WILTON VILLAGE Tues 24th <strong>Oct</strong> £22<br />

FOREST OF DEAN & WYE VALLEY Fri 27th <strong>Oct</strong> £22<br />

BRIDGWATER CARNIVAL Sat 4th Nov £21<br />

SALTRAM HOUSE Weds 8th Nov £31 inc (NT Members £21)<br />

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING<br />

IKEA, BRISTOL & CRIBBS CAUSEWAY Sat 11th Nov £22<br />

GLOUCESTER QUAYS VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS MARKET<br />

Sat 18th Nov £22<br />

CARDIFF SHOPPER Sat 25th Nov £22<br />

BATH CHRISTMAS MARKET Thurs 7th <strong>Dec</strong> £25<br />

YORK CHRISTMAS MARKET & CASTLE HOWARD<br />

Thurs 30th Nov 4 night break<br />

£389 per person based on 2 sharing<br />

6 Daneheath Business Park,<br />

Heathfield, New<strong>to</strong>n Abbot, Devon TQ12 6TL<br />

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PLYMOUTH RECORD &<br />

CD FAIR<br />

11 Nov- Knowledgeable local<br />

vendors selling quality vinyl,<br />

CD's and music memorabilia,<br />

Exeter Record & CD Fair,<br />

Lower Guildhall, Plymouth,<br />

10.00am <strong>to</strong> 3.00pm.<br />

Comedy<br />

PAUL FOOT: 'TIS PITY<br />

SHE'S A PIGLET<br />

21 <strong>Oct</strong>- Enjoy a comedy<br />

whirlwind with a sharp eye<br />

for satire...utterly outlandish!<br />

Marine Theatre, The Marine<br />

Theatre, Lyme Regis, 8.00pm<br />

<strong>to</strong> 10.00pm.<br />

JIM DAVIDSON<br />

08 Nov- Jim Davidson<br />

celebrates an explosive 40<br />

years in show business,<br />

Exeter Corn Exchange, Exeter,<br />

8.00pm <strong>to</strong> 10.30pm.<br />

SIMON AMSTELL - WHAT<br />

IS THIS<br />

09 Nov- Simon Amstell<br />

begins his fifth stand up<br />

<strong>to</strong>ur in the UK, Exeter Corn<br />

Exchange, Exeter, 8.00pm <strong>to</strong><br />

10.00pm.<br />

JASON MANFORD - WORK<br />

IN PROGRESS<br />

18 Nov- Jason Manford, is<br />

back with a work in progress<br />

show ahead of his national<br />

<strong>to</strong>ur, Babbacombe Theatre,<br />

Babbacombe Downs, Torquay,<br />

7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 9.30pm.<br />

JETHRO - BULL AND<br />

BONKERS TOUR<br />

19 <strong>Dec</strong>- Tickets are £21 and<br />

£23, Exmouth Pavilion, The<br />

Esplanade, Exmouth, 7.30pm.<br />

Craft<br />

CRAFT, FOOD & GIFT FAIR<br />

21 <strong>Oct</strong>- 40+ stalls - buy<br />

locally produced craft items,<br />

gifts and food and drink,<br />

Children's Hospice South<br />

West, Tiver<strong>to</strong>n, Blundell's<br />

School, Tiver<strong>to</strong>n, 10.00am<br />

<strong>to</strong> 4.00pm.<br />

CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR<br />

24 Nov <strong>to</strong> 26 Nov- Avoid the<br />

Christmas shopping madness<br />

by visiting our talented and<br />

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Halloween<br />

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AUTUMN TREATS AND A<br />

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MUSICALS<br />

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BALLET THEATRE<br />

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04 Nov <strong>to</strong> 05 Nov- Top<br />

Ballet company present LIVE<br />

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Arts Centre, Manor Road,<br />

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11 <strong>Dec</strong>- Neil & his brilliant<br />

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29 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 06 Jan- Traditional<br />

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PLAYS<br />

MAGIC OF THE STARS<br />

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18 <strong>Oct</strong> <strong>to</strong> 21 <strong>Oct</strong>- by Enid<br />

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BLACKBERRIES &<br />

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18 Nov- Baroque Theatre<br />

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Cygnet Theatre, Friars Gate,<br />

Exeter, 2.00pm <strong>to</strong> 10.00pm.<br />

THE TWO SHILLING<br />

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24 Nov <strong>to</strong> 25 Nov-<br />

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Manor Pavilion Theatre &<br />

Arts Centre, Manor Road,<br />

Sidmouth, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 9.40pm.<br />

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Saturday 18 November<br />

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under 1 giant roof at<br />

the biggest show in the<br />

west! Grandstand Events,<br />

Westpoint, Exeter, 9.30am<br />

<strong>to</strong> 5.30pm.<br />

CHRISTMAS TREE<br />

FESTIVAL (DATE TBC)<br />

25 Nov- Imaginatively<br />

decorated Christmas trees<br />

will adorn the festival, St<br />

Eustachius Tavis<strong>to</strong>ck Parish<br />

Church, Plymouth Road,<br />

Tavis<strong>to</strong>ck.<br />

CULLOMPTON<br />

CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL<br />

25 Nov- Festive celebration<br />

with fun for all the family,<br />

Cullomp<strong>to</strong>n Town Council,<br />

Town Hall, Cullomp<strong>to</strong>n,<br />

10.00am <strong>to</strong> 7.00pm.<br />

PLYMOUTH CHRISTMAS<br />

SHOW 20<strong>17</strong><br />

25 Nov- Free indoor market,<br />

food, drink, entertainment<br />

and event Santa! Diverse<br />

Events, Plymouth Guildhall,<br />

Plymouth, 10.00am <strong>to</strong><br />

4.00pm.<br />

DONKEY SANCTUARY<br />

CHRISTMAS FAIR<br />

25 Nov <strong>to</strong> 26 Nov- Kickstart<br />

your Christmas<br />

shopping at the Sanctuary's<br />

festive fair, The Donkey<br />

Sanctuary Sidmouth, Slade<br />

House Farm, Sidmouth,<br />

10.00am <strong>to</strong> 4.00pm.<br />

SANTA'S GROTTO AT<br />

HOUSE OF MARBLES<br />

25 Nov <strong>to</strong> 26 Nov- A<br />

Magical Grot<strong>to</strong> can be<br />

found at House of Marbles<br />

this Christmas, House of<br />

Marbles, Pottery Road,<br />

Bovey Tracey, 10.00am <strong>to</strong><br />

3.00pm.<br />

Just £6.99 per child<br />

with balloon, badge & gift<br />

Quizzes with Prizes<br />

Come & visit Santa’s Grot<strong>to</strong><br />

at<br />

It’s out of this world!<br />

10am until 3pm<br />

every weekend from 18th Nov until <strong>17</strong>th <strong>Dec</strong><br />

PLUS Mon 18th <strong>to</strong> Fri 22nd <strong>Dec</strong><br />

For more info visit: www.houseofmarbles.com or call us on 01626 835285<br />

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Michaelmas<br />

Fair<br />

Tickets available from<br />

Charity number: 1146420<br />

A chance <strong>to</strong><br />

do some early<br />

Christmas<br />

Shopping!<br />

Powderham<br />

Castle<br />

Thursday 2nd<br />

November 20<strong>17</strong><br />

10am-3pm<br />

Free verbal advice from Bearnes Hamp<strong>to</strong>n<br />

& Littlewood specialists Lucy Marles<br />

and Martin McIlroy on Jewellery,<br />

Watches, Militaria and Silver<br />

SPONSORED BY<br />

Exeter Visi<strong>to</strong>r Information and Tickets 01392 665885<br />

ABF The Soldiers’ Charity 01392 496412 southwest@soldierscharity.org<br />

aspara<br />

york street, sidmouth<br />

7TH SOUTH MOLTON<br />

CHRISTMAS TREE<br />

FESTIVAL<br />

30 Nov <strong>to</strong> 04 <strong>Dec</strong> - All<br />

trees are provided by South<br />

Mol<strong>to</strong>n clubs/orgs/schools/<br />

churches, South Mol<strong>to</strong>n<br />

Parish Church, North Street,<br />

South Mol<strong>to</strong>n. Please call for<br />

opening times.<br />

WINTER WONDERLAND<br />

20<strong>17</strong> AT THE PANNIER<br />

MARKET<br />

01 <strong>Dec</strong>- Late night shopping<br />

in the traditional Winter<br />

Wonderland spectacular,<br />

South Mol<strong>to</strong>n Pannier Market,<br />

Broad Square, South Mol<strong>to</strong>n.<br />

CHRISTMAS LATE NIGHT<br />

SHOPPING DAY<br />

01 <strong>Dec</strong>- Late Night Shopping<br />

Day, Sidmouth Museum,<br />

Hope Cottage, Sidmouth,<br />

10.00am <strong>to</strong> 8.00pm.<br />

A CHRISTMAS CAROL<br />

01 <strong>Dec</strong>- David Mynne<br />

performs Charles Dickens'<br />

A Christmas Carol, The<br />

Beehive, Dowell Street,<br />

Honi<strong>to</strong>n, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 9.30pm.<br />

COLETON AGLOW<br />

01 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 03 <strong>Dec</strong>- The<br />

house & garden are lit for<br />

an opulent 1920s Christmas<br />

party, Cole<strong>to</strong>n Fishacre,<br />

Browns<strong>to</strong>ne Road, Kingswear.<br />

CHRISTMAS FARMER'S<br />

MARKET<br />

Saturdays during <strong>Dec</strong>- All the<br />

delights of Christmas in the<br />

biggest S.W. indoor Farmer's<br />

market, The Big Sheep,<br />

Abbotsham.<br />

IVYBRIDGE CHRISTMAS<br />

FAIR<br />

02 <strong>Dec</strong>- Stroll through<br />

a Winter Wonderland on<br />

the way <strong>to</strong> see Santa in<br />

his grot<strong>to</strong>, The Donkey<br />

Sanctuary Ivybridge, Filham<br />

Park, Ivybridge, 11.00am <strong>to</strong><br />

3.00pm.<br />

<strong>Devonshire</strong><br />

ASHBURTON CHRISTMAS<br />

MAKERS MARKET<br />

02 <strong>Dec</strong>- Local Artists<br />

and Crafts people selling<br />

affordable, quality, handmade<br />

gifts, Ashbur<strong>to</strong>n Makers<br />

Market, St Andrews Church<br />

hall, Ashbur<strong>to</strong>n, 10.00am <strong>to</strong><br />

4.30pm.<br />

NORTH DEVON<br />

CHRISTMAS MARKET<br />

02 <strong>Dec</strong>- With over 130<br />

stalls your sure <strong>to</strong> find<br />

something festive <strong>to</strong> interest<br />

you, Braun<strong>to</strong>n Parish<br />

Council, Caen Street Car<br />

Park, Braun<strong>to</strong>n, 3.00pm <strong>to</strong><br />

10.00pm.<br />

Spoil someone<br />

this Christmas<br />

with a Gift Voucher from Aspara<br />

w our experienced therapists offer a wide<br />

range of treatments including:<br />

massage, facials, body treatments,<br />

manicures and pedicures.<br />

w stunning hydra-spa with<br />

hydrotherapy pool,<br />

steam cabin & sauna<br />

tel: 01395 515120<br />

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Christmas<br />

SANTA'S GROTTO AT<br />

HOUSE OF MARBLES<br />

02 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 03 <strong>Dec</strong>- A Magical<br />

Grot<strong>to</strong> can be found at House<br />

of Marbles this Christmas,<br />

House of Marbles, Pottery<br />

Road, Bovey Tracey, 10.00am<br />

<strong>to</strong> 3.00pm.<br />

SANTA'S MAGICAL<br />

CHRISTMAS AT CREALY<br />

02 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 23 <strong>Dec</strong>- Join Santa<br />

and his elves at Crealy for<br />

a truly magical Christmas<br />

event, Crealy Adventure Park<br />

& Resort, Sidmouth Road,<br />

Exeter, 10.00am <strong>to</strong> 5.00pm.<br />

VISIT SANTA AT WORLD<br />

OF COUNTRY LIFE,<br />

EXMOUTH<br />

02 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 23 <strong>Dec</strong>- A<br />

traditional Vic<strong>to</strong>rian<br />

Christmas experience for the<br />

whole family <strong>to</strong> enjoy! World<br />

of Country Life, Exmouth,<br />

10.00am <strong>to</strong> 3.30pm.<br />

WOOLLY'S WONDERLAND<br />

02 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 31 <strong>Dec</strong>- Santa's<br />

elves will be beavering away<br />

day & night adding their very<br />

own magic, The Big Sheep,<br />

Abbotsham.<br />

CHRISTMAS LIGHTS IN<br />

AID OF THE R.N.L.I.<br />

03 <strong>Dec</strong>- The promenade<br />

starts down the cobbles,<br />

Clovelly, 3.00pm <strong>to</strong> 8.00pm.<br />

SANTA IN THE CAVES<br />

03 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 24 <strong>Dec</strong>- Join Santa<br />

and his friends in a magical<br />

underground adventure,<br />

Kents Cavern, Cavern House,<br />

Torquay, 10.00am <strong>to</strong> 3.00pm.<br />

EXETER COMEDY CLUB -<br />

CHRISTMAS SPECIALS<br />

07 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 08 <strong>Dec</strong>- We are<br />

celebrating 20 years of Exeter<br />

Comedy Club events at the<br />

Corn Exchange, Exeter Corn<br />

Exchange, Exeter, 8.30pm <strong>to</strong><br />

11.00pm.<br />

MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS<br />

FAIR<br />

08 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 10 <strong>Dec</strong>- A<br />

most magical fair full of<br />

temptation and delights, RHS<br />

Garden Rosemoor, Great<br />

Torring<strong>to</strong>n, 10.00am <strong>to</strong><br />

4.00pm.<br />

CONCERT OF CHRISTMAS<br />

MUSIC<br />

09 <strong>Dec</strong>- Music performed<br />

by Devon and Somerset Fire<br />

and Rescue Concert Band,<br />

The Raleigh Federation, St<br />

Michael's Church, Budleigh<br />

Salter<strong>to</strong>n, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 9.15pm.<br />

Formally Panic design<br />

01297<br />

625241<br />

S<strong>to</strong>ckists of world famous Tilley hats,<br />

Sunday afternoon and barmah hats,<br />

Jack Murphy, Lighthouse / Target dry<br />

rainwear, Grisport walking boots and<br />

shoes, Teva sandals, darn <strong>to</strong>ugh<br />

socks, hiking poles, walking sticks<br />

plus much much more! Look forward <strong>to</strong> your visit.<br />

The Grove, Sea<strong>to</strong>n EX12 2FU<br />

(Co-op car park)<br />

<br />

<br />

“unique collections”<br />

“rare, self indulgent”<br />

“innovative designs”<br />

“luxurious wearable pieces”<br />

For more Jewellery, Online Shop<br />

and Jewellery Workshops (including<br />

‘Making Your Own Wedding Rings’) visit<br />

us at: www.vic<strong>to</strong>riasewart.com<br />

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Join us for Christmas fun at<br />

Rodney Moorhouse Jewellers<br />

In Paign<strong>to</strong>n<br />

26 Torquay Road, TQ3 3AB<br />

moorhousejewellers@gmail.com<br />

01803 550952<br />

Make your purchase, choose a star<br />

From our Christmas tree and<br />

reveal a discount from 10% <strong>to</strong> 20%<br />

Free gift wrapping on all purchases<br />

We look forward <strong>to</strong> seeing you all!<br />

<strong>Devonshire</strong><br />

Christmas<br />

CHRISTMAS CONCERT<br />

09 <strong>Dec</strong>- Music by Rutter,<br />

Pergolesi and Bruckner;<br />

carols for choir and audience,<br />

Shaldon Singers, St Peter's<br />

Church, Shaldon, 7.00pm <strong>to</strong><br />

9.30pm.<br />

SANTA'S GROTTO AT<br />

HOUSE OF MARBLES<br />

09 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 10 <strong>Dec</strong>- A Magical<br />

Grot<strong>to</strong> can be found at House<br />

of Marbles this Christmas,<br />

House of Marbles, Pottery<br />

Road, Bovey Tracey, 10.00am<br />

<strong>to</strong> 3.00pm.<br />

CINDERELLA<br />

09 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 01 Jan- Kickline<br />

return with a s<strong>to</strong>ry full of<br />

magic for audiences of all<br />

ages, Exeter Corn Exchange,<br />

Exeter.<br />

JEANIE MOORE<br />

MVO: CHRISTMASES<br />

REMEMBERED<br />

10 <strong>Dec</strong>- Concert organiser<br />

and promoter, Jeanie Moore,<br />

presents another musical<br />

journey, Jeanie Moore MVO,<br />

The Duke of Cornwall Hotel,<br />

Plymouth, 3.00pm <strong>to</strong> 4.00pm.<br />

PIANO&VIOLIN<br />

CHRISTMAS CONCERT<br />

10 <strong>Dec</strong>- Vivaldi Winter,<br />

Beethoven, Kreisler,<br />

Rachmaninov and more, Violin<br />

& Piano Duo 'Elegance',<br />

Lup<strong>to</strong>n House, Brixham,<br />

5.00pm <strong>to</strong> 7.00pm.<br />

GALLERY<br />

6 Fore Street Sea<strong>to</strong>n<br />

Open 10.30 am <strong>to</strong> 3.30 daily<br />

Closed Thursday<br />

That PERFECT Gift<br />

For generations Steiff has been renowned<br />

for <strong>to</strong>p quality collectable Bears /Animals<br />

and Child safe cuddly <strong>to</strong>ys. You will be<br />

surprised how competitive our prices are!<br />

All art from local artists. Quality cards and<br />

gifts. Silver jewellery.<br />

ʻAxmouth Harbour’ - Painting by BARRY MASON,<br />

exclusive <strong>to</strong> Gallery Usala Sea<strong>to</strong>n<br />

Contact us for more information.<br />

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Chris Wakefield, of the Coleridge Memorial Trust (CMT), Richard Coleridge, Great<br />

(x4) grandson of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Bill and Lady Pam Coleridge, and<br />

John Pilsworth, Chairman of the CMT. (PHOTO: Phyllis Baxter)<br />

Weekend with Coleridge<br />

THERE WILL BE CHIMES, rhymes and his<strong>to</strong>ric times at Ottery St. Mary<br />

on the weekend of Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd <strong>Oct</strong>ober as the <strong>to</strong>wn<br />

marks the life and works of its most famous son and Devon’s most<br />

illustrious poet and philosopher, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (STC).<br />

BEAUTIFUL / ECLECTIC / INSPIRED / UNIQUE<br />

It also marks the launch of the fundraising<br />

appeal by the Coleridge Memorial<br />

Trust <strong>to</strong> erect a statue of the great man,<br />

<strong>to</strong> stand in the churchyard where once<br />

he played.<br />

At 3.00 pm on the Friday the <strong>to</strong>wn’s<br />

beautiful St. Mary’s Church hosts<br />

poetry readings by pupils from Kings<br />

- his old school - <strong>to</strong>gether with Laurie<br />

Palmer and broadcaster Oscar Pearson<br />

in full his<strong>to</strong>ric costume.<br />

At 7.00 pm Dr. Sandra Tuppen of the<br />

British Library gives a talk on the great<br />

man and lays out some of Coleridge’s<br />

original manuscripts, and the sculp<strong>to</strong>r<br />

Nicholas Dimbleby reveals details of<br />

his STC statue.<br />

On Saturday at 9.30 am (STC’s birthday)<br />

the church hosts a Coleridge Exhibition<br />

- whilst the <strong>to</strong>wn will echo <strong>to</strong> a quarter<br />

peal of bells in his honour, sponsored<br />

by Otter Vale Probus <strong>to</strong> mark its own<br />

30th anniversary. A celebra<strong>to</strong>ry lunch<br />

rounds off the day at the Tumbling Weir<br />

hotel, arranged by the joint organisers<br />

and promoters of the weekend, the<br />

Ottery Heritage Society, where the<br />

speaker will be his<strong>to</strong>rian and writer,<br />

Dr. Todd Gray.<br />

On Sunday the exhibition continues<br />

throughout the day and there will be<br />

a guided walk around ‘The Coleridge<br />

Link’ led by Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br />

himself! (That’s this generation’s Samuel<br />

Taylor Coleridge you understand).<br />

Fuller details at www.coleridgememorial.org.uk<br />

P O P P Y N E C K L A C E<br />

Yellow Gold Plated and Silver Necklace<br />

H A N D C R A F T E D J E W E L L E R Y<br />

4 HIGH STREET . BUDLEIGH SALTERTON . DEVON EX9 6LQ<br />

Mobile 07939 057297 . www.whitfordjewellery.co.uk . whitfordjewellery@gmail.com<br />

THE ALBION CHRISTMAS<br />

BAND<br />

10 <strong>Dec</strong>- Specially formed for<br />

the festive period, an evening<br />

of traditional English Christmas<br />

music, The Beehive, Dowell<br />

Street, Honi<strong>to</strong>n, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong><br />

9.30pm.<br />

MUSIC: PLYMOUTH<br />

UNIVERSITY CAROL<br />

SERVICE<br />

12 <strong>Dec</strong>- Service of readings<br />

and carols, Peninsula Arts,<br />

Central Methodist Church,<br />

Plymouth, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 9.30pm.<br />

MUSIC IN THE CASTLE -<br />

CHRISTMAS CONCERT<br />

15 <strong>Dec</strong>- Exeter Cathedral Choir<br />

- directed by Timothy Noon,<br />

Music in the Castle, The James<br />

Wyatt Music Room, Exeter,<br />

7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 9.30pm.<br />

BUCKFAST ABBEY CHOIR<br />

CHRISTMAS CONCERT<br />

16 <strong>Dec</strong>- Buckfast Abbey<br />

Choir Christmas Concert with<br />

pre-concert meal available,<br />

Buckfast Abbey, Buckfast<br />

Abbey, Buckfastleigh.<br />

SANTA SPECIALS<br />

16 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 21 <strong>Dec</strong>- Santa<br />

returns <strong>to</strong> Pecorama! Pecorama,<br />

Underleys, Beer, 11.00am <strong>to</strong><br />

5.30pm.<br />

SANTA'S GROTTO AT HOUSE<br />

OF MARBLES<br />

16 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 22 <strong>Dec</strong>- A Magical<br />

Grot<strong>to</strong> can be found at House<br />

of Marbles this Christmas,<br />

House of Marbles, Pottery<br />

Road, Bovey Tracey, 10.00am<br />

<strong>to</strong> 3.00pm.<br />

FESTIVE WINTER CRAFTS<br />

<strong>17</strong> <strong>Dec</strong>- Christmas themed<br />

winter crafting for all the<br />

family. Free entry, Torbay<br />

Coast and Countryside Trust,<br />

Cocking<strong>to</strong>n Country Park,<br />

Torquay, 11.00am <strong>to</strong> 3.00pm.<br />

COLETON AGLOW<br />

20 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 24 <strong>Dec</strong>- The house<br />

and garden are lit for an<br />

opulent 1920s Christmas party,<br />

Cole<strong>to</strong>n Fishacre, Browns<strong>to</strong>ne<br />

Road, Kingswear.<br />

NOSTALGIC CINEMA: WHITE<br />

CHRISTMAS (U)<br />

22 <strong>Dec</strong>- Classic 1950’s<br />

Romantic Christmas Comedy,<br />

The Beehive, Dowell Street,<br />

Honi<strong>to</strong>n, 2.00pm <strong>to</strong> 3.30pm.<br />

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Christmas Gifts<br />

A selection of unique gifts from across Devon<br />

VICTORIA SEWART GALLERY<br />

Plymouth 0<strong>17</strong>52 220011<br />

www.vic<strong>to</strong>riasewart.com<br />

jewellery@vic<strong>to</strong>riasewart.com<br />

VIRTUAL JET CENTRE<br />

Chudleigh 01626 852119<br />

www.virtualjetcentre.co.uk<br />

admin@virtualjetcentre.co.uk<br />

BAXTERS GALLERY<br />

Dartmouth 01803 839000<br />

www.baxtersgallery.co.uk<br />

info@baxtersgallery.co.uk<br />

WHITFORD JEWELLERY<br />

Budleigh Salter<strong>to</strong>n 07939 057297<br />

www.whitfordjewellery.co.uk<br />

whitfordjewellery@googlemail.com<br />

HOUSE OF MARBLES<br />

Bovey Tracey 01626 835285<br />

www.houseofmarbles.com<br />

enquiries@houseofmarbles.com<br />

SIDMOUTH GIFTS<br />

Old Fore Street 01395 512874<br />

www.sidmouthgifts.co.uk<br />

sidmouthgifts@btinternet.com<br />

POLKADOT GALLERY<br />

Exeter 01392 276500<br />

www.polkadotgallery.com<br />

info@polkadotgallery.com<br />

CRAFTY JAY<br />

Honi<strong>to</strong>n 07724 108708<br />

www.etsy.com/shop/craftyjayuk<br />

judith@craftyjay.co.uk<br />

ANGIE’S OF BUDLEIGH<br />

Budleigh Salter<strong>to</strong>n 01395 4431<strong>17</strong><br />

www.angiesofbudleigh.co.uk<br />

info@angiesofbudleigh.co.uk<br />

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Treat someone special this Christmas!<br />

ARK POTTERY<br />

Ottery St. Mary EX11 1PY 01404 812628<br />

www.arkpottery.co.uk<br />

ark.pottery@mypos<strong>to</strong>ffice.co.uk<br />

STOCKWELL CERAMICS<br />

Saltash 01579 351035<br />

www.s<strong>to</strong>ckwellceramics.co.uk<br />

info@s<strong>to</strong>ckwellceramics.co.uk<br />

JETHRO MARLES<br />

New<strong>to</strong>n Abbot 01803 813781<br />

www.jethromarles.co.uk<br />

info@jethromarles.co.uk<br />

COAST WATERSPORTS<br />

Axminster 01297 533633<br />

www.coastwatersports.co.uk<br />

cus<strong>to</strong>merservices@coastwatersports.com<br />

CASA MAGNOLIA<br />

Chagford 01647 433905<br />

www.casamagnolia.co.uk<br />

info@casamagnolia.co.uk<br />

ERIN COX<br />

Exeter 01392 660836<br />

www.erincox.co.uk<br />

info@erincox.co.uk<br />

KATE HIGHAM<br />

Ashbur<strong>to</strong>n 01364 652155<br />

www.kate-higham.com<br />

mail@kate-higham.com<br />

GALLERY USALA<br />

Sea<strong>to</strong>n 01297 553980<br />

www.facebook.com/Galleryusala<br />

ursala@tiscali.co.uk<br />

JOHN ARBON TEXTILES<br />

Lyn<strong>to</strong>n 01598 752490<br />

www.jarbon.com<br />

info@jarbon.com<br />

POLKADOT GALLERY<br />

Exeter 01392 276500<br />

www.polkadotgallery.com<br />

info@polkadotgallery.com<br />

LEAF LEATHER<br />

Chagford 01647 432414<br />

www.leafleather.co.uk<br />

leafartisanleather@gmail.com<br />

RODNEY MOORHOUSE LTD<br />

Paign<strong>to</strong>n 01803 550952<br />

www.rodneymoorhousejewellers<strong>to</strong>rbay.co.uk<br />

moorhousejewellers@gmail.com<br />

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Nigel Jones reviews new releases from Devon based authors<br />

Viperʼs Blood by David Gilman<br />

From Devon author David Gilman, Viper’s Blood is the fourth book<br />

in his Masters of War Series, with the central figure in the s<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

being Thomas Blacks<strong>to</strong>ne. Set in the mid 1300s during the period<br />

of the Hundred Years’ War,<br />

at a time when the English<br />

Plantagenet rulers were at<br />

war with the House of Valois,<br />

the rulers of France over<br />

the succession <strong>to</strong> the French<br />

throne. Although King John<br />

of France had been captured<br />

by the English forces and had<br />

agreed <strong>to</strong> hand over much of<br />

France, his son, the Dauphin,<br />

was reluctant <strong>to</strong> cooperate.<br />

The action proceeds across<br />

France and finally centres<br />

on Paris, where the Dauphin<br />

is holed up, English forces<br />

being loath <strong>to</strong> fight their<br />

way through the streets<br />

of Paris in order <strong>to</strong> seize<br />

control, knowing that a<br />

bloodbath would ensue. This<br />

book doesn’t fail <strong>to</strong> deliver<br />

and is an entertaining and<br />

enjoyable read of the bloodthirsy, action variety.<br />

This hardback’s £18.99<br />

Secret Duties of a Signals Intercep<strong>to</strong>r<br />

by Jenny Nater<br />

East Devon author Jenny Nater was born in the United States <strong>to</strong> America<br />

parents several years after<br />

the end of the World War I.<br />

At the age of five she was<br />

sent <strong>to</strong> a boarding school,<br />

and in 1937 at the age of <strong>17</strong><br />

she was placed at school in<br />

Switzerland, run by Jewish<br />

refugee teachers who’d<br />

fled from Nazi Germany at<br />

a time of growing German<br />

National Socialism. Jenny<br />

went on <strong>to</strong> learn German<br />

and eventually served in<br />

the Special Duties service<br />

based at Dover during WWII.<br />

This was a <strong>to</strong>p-secret service<br />

where German communications<br />

were intercepted and<br />

subsequently forwarded <strong>to</strong><br />

Bletchley Park. Jenny suffered<br />

great loss when the<br />

Lieutenant she met during<br />

this time was lost off the<br />

Dover coast. Much of this s<strong>to</strong>ry is based around the letters between<br />

them and the book is very much a personal record of her secret war.<br />

A great book for WWII aficionados.<br />

ISBN 978<strong>17</strong>84974466 ISBN 9781473887121<br />

The Paradoxal Compass<br />

by Horatio Morpurgo<br />

Firstly I’d say that there’s a fair bit of rambling and general moving<br />

around in this book which is no bad thing, secondly, yes, you’d be<br />

spot on if you were wondering<br />

whether there’s some connection<br />

<strong>to</strong> the famous Michael Morpurgo,<br />

his son in fact. The books starts by<br />

discussing some of our mariners in<br />

the Age of Discovery, famous and<br />

obscure (Drake amongst them, the<br />

others less known such as Stephen<br />

Borough and John Davis). There’s<br />

much interesting information about<br />

our Tudor naviga<strong>to</strong>rs including John<br />

Dee who was the inven<strong>to</strong>r of the<br />

Paradoxal Compass. The book goes<br />

on <strong>to</strong> discuss the ‘infinite s<strong>to</strong>re’ of<br />

earth’s riches, with many interesting<br />

glimpses in<strong>to</strong> the Elizabethan<br />

world, including how whales would<br />

once have been a ‘common’ sight<br />

along the coastline (Lyme Bay) until<br />

they were fished-out (for want of a<br />

better expression). The book ends<br />

by exploring our abusive relationship with the earth. A thoroughly<br />

intreaguing read. £14.95<br />

Counterfeit! by Elizabeth Ducie<br />

Published by Chudleigh Phoenix Publications, Counterfeit!’s s<strong>to</strong>ry is<br />

based around the supply of counterfeit drugs in Africa. The mission of<br />

regula<strong>to</strong>r Suzanne Jones is <strong>to</strong> prevent the manufacture and distribution<br />

of fake medicine. Unfortunately<br />

Suzanne’s investigations in<strong>to</strong> the<br />

counterfeit trade bring her in<strong>to</strong><br />

ever closer danger, eventually<br />

becoming personal when a colleague<br />

buying a bottle of counterfeit<br />

cough syrup suffers tragic<br />

consequences. Her friend disappears,<br />

children die in Zambia<br />

and Swaziland, and she discovers<br />

that there’s an Eastern European<br />

connections. Can Suzanne s<strong>to</strong>p<br />

this trade before more people<br />

s u ff e r ?<br />

It’s a good bedtime read.<br />

Note - you can buy a signed copy<br />

directly from the publishers by<br />

phoning Elizabeth Ducie on<br />

01626 854611<br />

ISBN 97819107495<strong>17</strong> ISBN 9780956950864<br />

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Exeterʼs Royal Clarence Hotel<br />

by Darren Marsh<br />

20<strong>17</strong> was the year that one of Devon’s landmarks burnt <strong>to</strong> the ground.<br />

I’d say that many of us were extremely sad <strong>to</strong> see the coverage on<br />

local TV of Exeter’s Royal Clarence Hotel in flames. Exeter, once an<br />

architectural ‘jewel in the crown’, has suffered enough over the past<br />

century, both at the hands of the German Luftwaffe, but also as a result<br />

of insensitive redevelopment following World War II. To lose another<br />

of Exeter’s precious his<strong>to</strong>ric buildings was another major blow. Parts of<br />

the original building<br />

dated back <strong>to</strong><br />

mediaeval times<br />

and over the centuries,<br />

a beautiful<br />

hotel emerged,<br />

finally assuming<br />

the ‘Royal’ mantle<br />

in 1827, when<br />

the Duchess of<br />

Clarence stayed.<br />

Illustrious former<br />

visi<strong>to</strong>rs include<br />

Admiral Nelson,<br />

Thomas Hardy,<br />

Beatrix Potter, Gary<br />

Cooper, Clark Gable<br />

amongst others.<br />

The hotel was<br />

witness <strong>to</strong> Devon’s<br />

last duel of honour.<br />

Author Darren<br />

Marsh charts the<br />

early years right up<br />

<strong>to</strong> the present day<br />

in immense detail,<br />

having taken 3<br />

years <strong>to</strong> research and write. It’s an excellent buy for his<strong>to</strong>ry buffs or<br />

indeed anyone interested in the background <strong>to</strong> this illustrious hotel.<br />

Highly recommended!<br />

ISBN - 97809930<strong>17</strong>223<br />

The Home Design Yearbook<br />

for Devon 2018 provides<br />

home owners with a great<br />

source of reference and<br />

information for their Devon<br />

based home project.<br />

It brings <strong>to</strong>gether many<br />

of Devon’s best home-sec<strong>to</strong>r<br />

businesses in an attractive,<br />

visual format.<br />

<br />

An indispensible home project reference guide<br />

including many premier Devon based businesses<br />

<br />

BUILT SPACE<br />

INTERIOR LIVING SPACE<br />

EXTERIOR LIVING SPACE<br />

Fatherless by Phil Barber<br />

Phil Barber’s another Devon based author who apparently also<br />

coaches teenagers and adults through personal problems! This<br />

book is a memoir of Phil’s own childhood, particularly relating <strong>to</strong> his<br />

experiences of being sent <strong>to</strong> live<br />

in a distant orphanage when his<br />

father denies paternity and his<br />

traumatised and impoverished<br />

mother, living in a mill <strong>to</strong>wn in<br />

Yorkshire, decides there is no<br />

alternative when Phil is three<br />

years old. This imaginative and<br />

spirited boy understandably feels<br />

very much alone and abandoned,<br />

especially following a series of<br />

separations that occur. Although<br />

Phil’s early life was marred by<br />

this depressing, lonely background,<br />

he manages <strong>to</strong> display<br />

a dry sense of humour and a<br />

generous heart. Reading online<br />

reviews for this book, I think it’s<br />

summed up well by S.J. Haswell<br />

who stated “I was reluctant <strong>to</strong> buy<br />

and read this book as I really don’t like the whole ‘pity meʼ genre,<br />

however I was in for such a surprise and joy as the book contained<br />

great humour and wit. The poignancy of this book really moved me”.<br />

ISBN 9780992899400<br />

Published by <strong>Devonshire</strong> magazine<br />

HOME DESIGN YEARBOOK for Devon 2018<br />

by <strong>Devonshire</strong> magazine<br />

You know how it is, sourcing long-established and proficient<br />

businesses <strong>to</strong> carry out work on your home can be extremely<br />

hard going when using the internet as a source of reference.<br />

These days Google delivers just <strong>to</strong>o much information, most<br />

of which is irrelevant. Inevitably you’ll spend hours online<br />

becoming quite frustrated in your searches.<br />

The YEARBOOK is devised <strong>to</strong> bring you highly pre-filtered<br />

information on businesses engaged in the home sec<strong>to</strong>r, at a Devon<br />

level, in an attractive visual showcase format. It also contains<br />

valuable information from Industry Professionals who’ve been<br />

working within their particular sec<strong>to</strong>r for many years in Devon.<br />

Released in early 2018, it’ll be available <strong>to</strong> purchase through<br />

W.H. Smith, Waters<strong>to</strong>nes, Amazon, and also will be supplied<br />

<strong>to</strong> many outlets across Devon including estate agents and<br />

professional offices engaged in the home sec<strong>to</strong>r. Call 01395<br />

513383 <strong>to</strong> order your copy.<br />

SPECIALIST TRADES<br />

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Glimpses of Chagford<br />

by Nigel Jones<br />

1. What could be more culturally authentic than a<br />

<strong>Devonshire</strong> dairy. Milk, cheese, butter, butter milk<br />

were all important food stuffs in days gone by,<br />

capable of being produced at a hyper-local level.<br />

2. A glimpse through the churchyard <strong>to</strong> the Three<br />

Crowns in March, the trees still bare and crows<br />

nests dotting the crown.<br />

3. An interesting mediaeval frieze in the church of<br />

St Michael the Archangel, part of a an extremely<br />

ornate burial monument. The church is well<br />

worth a visit and please make sure you leave a<br />

donation <strong>to</strong> help with maintenance.<br />

4. A view out across the valley from the churchyard.<br />

It reminds one that the surrounding countryside<br />

is beautiful and worthy of discovery.<br />

5. A painted plaque in the church. There was a time<br />

when ennoblement was taken very seriously, the<br />

allusion <strong>to</strong> illustrious ancestry was embroidered<br />

upon with much heraldic symbolism. Around<br />

the late 1600 and through the <strong>17</strong>00s is where<br />

those ornate burial flags<strong>to</strong>nes in churches occur,<br />

bearing coats of arms.<br />

6. The Bishop's house, an unusual jettied porch,<br />

apparently, a fire in May 1970 ravaged through<br />

Chagford, but valiant efforts by residents helped<br />

save this unique property from destruction.<br />

7. On old cross - well, the <strong>to</strong>p bit at least. At some<br />

point in his<strong>to</strong>ry many ancient crosses were<br />

destroyed, many by puritans in the 1600s who<br />

considered these crosses <strong>to</strong> be idolatrous, many<br />

were also used as farm gate posts.<br />

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8. A view up High Street, the his<strong>to</strong>ric 13th<br />

century Three Crowns (formerly the Black<br />

Swan) dominating the scene with its impressive<br />

granite s<strong>to</strong>ne porch, the site of a Civil<br />

War incident where Sydney Godolphin, a<br />

Cornish Member of Parliament, died after<br />

being shot in the porch, receiving a musket<br />

ball through the thigh.<br />

9. Chagford Market House situated in the<br />

Square, Chagford's a Stannary Town, one<br />

of four chartered in 1305, where tin was<br />

brought down <strong>to</strong> be assayed and stamped.<br />

Lorna Doone - Mary Whiddon contains a<br />

memorial <strong>to</strong> Mary, and it's believed that her<br />

violent death is the inspiration behind the<br />

Lorna Doone novel.<br />

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Beautiful Grade II Listed Detached Georgian Village House with Exquisite Mature Garden<br />

Charming and distinguished period house offering spacious 6 bedroomed accommodation and retaining superb character features. 3 reception rooms, 2 bathrooms, fine rural<br />

views, delightful landscaped garden and garage. EPC - Exempt.<br />

£595,000 Totnes 01803 863888<br />

More<strong>to</strong>nhampstead, Dartmoor National Park<br />

Smallholding Extending <strong>to</strong> Approx 5 acres, within Walking Distance of the Centre of Town<br />

Including a spacious 6 bedroom Vic<strong>to</strong>rian house with a wealth of period features, extensive gardens and grounds suited <strong>to</strong> a variety of uses; including paddocks and orchard.<br />

Range of outbuildings for working, stabling, animal housing and s<strong>to</strong>rage. Fine views over the surrounding countryside. EPC - E.<br />

£695,000 Chagford 01647 432277<br />

New<strong>to</strong>n Abbot 01626 353881<br />

Totnes 01803 863888<br />

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Chagford 01647 432277<br />

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1. Traditional hardware shop, James<br />

Bowden & Sons has been in the Smith<br />

family for over a 100 years on this very site.<br />

2. Traditional fruit and veg shop. The octagonal<br />

building in the centre is the<br />

Grade II-listed Pepperpot Market House.<br />

3. The granite lined stream running past<br />

picturesque cottages in Chagford.<br />

4. The Three Hares Gallery and Blacks<br />

Delicatessen are situated right in the<br />

heart of Chagford and overlook the<br />

<strong>to</strong>wn centre.<br />

3<br />

Pho<strong>to</strong>graphy by the Edi<strong>to</strong>r<br />

artisan 68 The Square Chagford, Tel: 01647 432414<br />

artisan 68 The Chagford, Tel: 01647 432414<br />

artisan 68 The Square Chagford, Tel: 01647 432414<br />

An extensive range of hand made Dartmoor pottery, wood<br />

An extensive range of hand turning, made forged Dartmoor iron, felt, pottery, paintings wood jewellery and our own leather<br />

turning, forged iron, felt, studio paintings offering jewellery unique and artisan our own made leather wares and a warm welcome<br />

studio offering unique artisan made wares and a warm welcome<br />

An extensive range of hand made Dartmoor pottery, wood<br />

turning, forged iron, felt, paintings jewellery and our own leather<br />

studio offering unique artisan made wares and a warm welcome<br />

Exciting New Collections<br />

for Autumn/Winter <strong>17</strong><br />

Oska<br />

Yacco Maricard<br />

Wyse & Co (Cashmere)<br />

French Connection<br />

Querns<strong>to</strong>ne<br />

Warm & Co (Cashmere)<br />

Ginger Toby<br />

Mcverdi<br />

Lily & Me<br />

Postcard<br />

Robell<br />

Lofina Boots<br />

Plus a great selection<br />

of accessories!<br />

artisan artisan 68 68<br />

The<br />

The Square<br />

Square Chagford,<br />

Chagford, Tel:<br />

Tel: 01647<br />

01647 432414<br />

432414<br />

IT’S ALL ON OUR WEBSITE<br />

www.casamagnolia.co.uk<br />

An extensive range of of hand made Dartmoor pottery, wood<br />

An extensive range of hand made Dartmoor pottery, wood<br />

turning, forged iron, felt, paintings jewellery and our own leather<br />

turning, forged iron, felt, paintings jewellery and our own leather<br />

studio offering unique artisan made wares and a warm welcome<br />

studio offering unique artisan made wares and a warm welcome<br />

38 The Square, Chagford, TQ13 8AB<br />

01647 433905<br />

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FASHION & BEAUTY<br />

Get ready <strong>to</strong><br />

sparkle!<br />

This season is all about sparkle,<br />

sequins and embellished party<br />

outfits. Cosy knits are core<br />

wardrobe staples and red is the<br />

key colour this season. Visit your<br />

local retailer for the latest styles<br />

and trends for winter 20<strong>17</strong>.<br />

Just White : selected lines available from<br />

Chapter, Sidmouth and Angie's in BudleighSalter<strong>to</strong>n<br />

Great shoe shopping<br />

in Sidmouth<br />

Just back from the Esplanade in Fore Street<br />

WHITE & SON SHOES<br />

@ SIDMOUTH<br />

01395 516618<br />

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FASHION & BEAUTY<br />

Chapter<br />

Autumn/ Winter collection<br />

Lebek ◆ Olivier Philips<br />

Pause Café ◆ Marie Mero<br />

Viccio ◆ FDJ ◆ Monari<br />

Brax ◆ Just White ◆ Adini<br />

Pomodoro ◆ Part Two<br />

www.chapterclothing.co.uk<br />

for a relaxed & enjoyable shopping experience<br />

Tel: 01395 579181<br />

email: info@chapterclothing.co.uk<br />

Chapter ◆ Church Street ◆ Sidmouth ◆ Devon ◆ EX10 8lZ<br />

Michele<br />

Just White<br />

Monari<br />

Passioni<br />

Olivier Phillips<br />

Orientique<br />

Capri<br />

Anna Montana stretch<br />

Lucia<br />

Le Comte<br />

Taifun<br />

Irelands Eye<br />

Shoes/boots:<br />

Riva<br />

Capollini<br />

Van Dal<br />

Haflinger<br />

Christmas Shopping Morning<br />

Date: 22 Nov Time: 10am-2pm<br />

Bareminerals makeover • Environ demo<br />

ESPA taster treatments • Discounts on the day<br />

Free samples • Prize Draw<br />

NEW <strong>to</strong> Seabrease<br />

Introducing Sam Walsh<br />

who will be having a<br />

monthly clinic offering<br />

anti wrinkle injections.<br />

01395 4431<strong>17</strong><br />

12 High Street,<br />

Budleigh Salter<strong>to</strong>n<br />

EX9 6LQ<br />

WWW.SEABREASE.CO.UK<br />

01395 5789<strong>17</strong> SEABREASE@BTCONNECT.COM<br />

PROSPECT PLACE, SIDMOUTH, EX10 8AS<br />

www.angiesofbudleigh.co.uk info@angiesofbudleigh.co.uk<br />

Open Mon <strong>to</strong> Sat 10am - 4pm<br />

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FASHION & BEAUTY<br />

LUXURY SPA BLISS<br />

IN DEVON<br />

sidmouth-harbour-hotel.co.uk<br />

HARSPA REVIEW<br />

<strong>Devonshire</strong> magazine visits the stunning Sidmouth Harbour<br />

Hotel <strong>to</strong> sample their luxurious Spa offering<br />

The HarSpa at Sidmouth Harbour Hotel is a<br />

luxurious retreat set amongst the jewel of<br />

the South East Devon coast. The luxury spa is<br />

home <strong>to</strong> five treatment rooms, a well equipped<br />

fitness suite, indoor pool, hydrotherapy pool,<br />

sauna and steam room.<br />

On arrival, we were provided with a <strong>to</strong>wel,<br />

robe and slippers which was a great <strong>to</strong>uch<br />

and the staff are very welcoming. The spa<br />

facilities are excellent and I particularly liked<br />

the warm hydrotherapy pool, although, once<br />

you get in, you won’t want <strong>to</strong> get out! It’s the<br />

perfect place <strong>to</strong> unwind and relax before going<br />

for a treatment.<br />

The spa menu offers a wide variety of luxury<br />

packages as well as everyday beauty treatments<br />

including manicures and pedicures. The ESPA<br />

Aromatherapy massage is a great choice and<br />

uses aromatherapy oils <strong>to</strong> help reduce stress<br />

and tension.<br />

During the consultation, the therapist tailored<br />

the treatment and focused on areas of tension.<br />

I really liked the fact that you are able <strong>to</strong> choose<br />

the oil during the consultation which is great<br />

if you have sensitive skin. The massage left me<br />

feeling truly pampered and fully rejuvenated.<br />

Of course, the full spa experience wouldn’t be<br />

complete without a spot of lunch afterwards.<br />

The bar and dining area is extremely spacious<br />

with floor <strong>to</strong> ceiling glass and stunning<br />

panoramic coastal views. The food and service<br />

in the Upper <strong>Dec</strong>k restaurant is excellent and<br />

the staff are friendly and attentive.<br />

If you’re looking for a relaxing spa experience,<br />

The HarSpa at the Sidmouth Harbour Hotel<br />

is a great choice and will leave you feeling<br />

pampered from head <strong>to</strong> <strong>to</strong>e!<br />

Hannah Trim<br />

The glorious Upper <strong>Dec</strong>k Restaurant<br />

Beautiful coastal views, some<br />

of the best in Sidmouth<br />

The gym is particularly well-equipped<br />

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FASHION HEALTH & & BEAUTY<br />

<br />

<br />

01395 444432<br />

www.ashburydentalcare.co.uk<br />

Take the first step <strong>to</strong><br />

improving your oral<br />

health.<br />

Do you have:<br />

Bleeding Gums?<br />

A build up of plaque and tartar?<br />

Stained teeth?<br />

Bad Breath?<br />

Loose teeth?<br />

Then book a HALF PRICE dental<br />

hygiene appointment <strong>to</strong>day.<br />

Simply visit:<br />

www.ashburydentalcare.co.uk/firststep<br />

<br />

<br />

Experience how different a visit <strong>to</strong> the dentist can be<br />

At Ashbury Dental Care, we offer the complete range of dental<br />

care, with a growing in house referral team, on site labora<strong>to</strong>ry and<br />

a practice purpose built with your comfort and relaxation in mind.<br />

It’s service <strong>to</strong> make you smile.<br />

A team of experts for complete care<br />

With dental care advancing every day, the need for a team approach<br />

is becoming ever more important. At Ashbury Dental Care we are<br />

proud <strong>to</strong> have recruited some of the leading experts in their fields<br />

<strong>to</strong> allow us <strong>to</strong> provide outstanding care <strong>to</strong> our patients.<br />

Leading the team<br />

The team at Ashbury Dental Care is led by<br />

Dr Maurice Sims, a dentist with a passion for<br />

dentistry, and an eye for detail, which led him<br />

<strong>to</strong> create Ashbury Dental Care.<br />

Today he is supported by a growing team<br />

of experts including two dental hygienists a<br />

dental therapist and a dentist whose practice<br />

is limited <strong>to</strong> dealing with gum problems.<br />

Our Oral Health - Gateway To General Health<br />

Our oral hygiene is not only important <strong>to</strong> prevent pain, <strong>to</strong>oth decay,<br />

gums disease, bad breath and stained teeth. But research is now<br />

showing that poor oral hygiene can be linked <strong>to</strong> conditions such as<br />

Heart Disease, Stroke, Type II Diabetes, Rheuma<strong>to</strong>id Arthritis, and<br />

low pre-term birth weight. Visit our website <strong>to</strong> find out more and<br />

how you can improve your oral health:<br />

www.ashburydentalcare.co.uk/myoralhealth<br />

Here <strong>to</strong> help you<br />

Our dental hygiene team are here <strong>to</strong> help you with everything <strong>to</strong> do<br />

with your gums, <strong>to</strong> improve your smile, reduce your risk of problems<br />

and <strong>to</strong> show you how you can maintain a healthy mouth yourself.<br />

Don’t be embarrassed, book and appointment <strong>to</strong>day.<br />

My team and I look forward <strong>to</strong> welcoming you <strong>to</strong> our practice, whether<br />

for regular care, a one off hygiene appointment or a specific problem.<br />

Dr Maurice Sims<br />

BDS (U.Bham) BSc. (Hons) (U.Wales)<br />

Dental Surgeon - GDC No. 85555<br />

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<strong>Devonshire</strong>’s intrepid adventure junkie<br />

brings you her latest trip!<br />

The Paddle <strong>to</strong> Smugglers Cove...<br />

Sadly, yes winter is not far around<br />

the corner, but instead of getting<br />

bogged down by the thought of<br />

shorter days and colder temperatures,<br />

surely there are still some<br />

ways in which we can get outside,<br />

be adventurous and just have fun?<br />

Of course there is! Whatever activities<br />

tickle your fancy, whether<br />

it’s Walking, Scuba Diving or<br />

something in between, stick on<br />

some extra layers and get outside!<br />

Emma’s<br />

Outdoor<br />

Adventures<br />

by Emma Moore<br />

We wanted <strong>to</strong> enter the water in<br />

the harbour so we could practise<br />

our manoeuvres and test<br />

our strength in the water before<br />

heading out in<strong>to</strong> the unruly ocean<br />

through the flowing mouth of the<br />

Estuary. Here I made my first<br />

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Great Night Out<br />

Enjoy FOOD and LIVE MUSIC at your local venue<br />

LIVE MUSIC<br />

TUCKERS JAZZ CLUB<br />

21 <strong>Oct</strong>- Trichord Up-tempo Trio featuring<br />

James & Hilda Clemas and Ed Jacobs, The<br />

Tucker’s Jazz Club, Axminster, 8.00pm <strong>to</strong><br />

10.00pm.<br />

PETE ALLEN & ROGER MARKS ELITE<br />

JAZZMEN<br />

21 <strong>Oct</strong>- Jazz music at it’s finest, The<br />

Gateway, Sea<strong>to</strong>n, 8.00pm <strong>to</strong> 10.00pm.<br />

JAZZ IN THE AFTERNOON<br />

22 <strong>Oct</strong>- Featuring the Pete Allen Jazz Band,<br />

Kennaway House, Sidmouth, 3.00pm <strong>to</strong><br />

5.30pm.<br />

BUDDY HOLLY AND THE CRICKETERS<br />

22 <strong>Oct</strong>- Enjoy this tribute band on its Silver<br />

Anniversary Tour...Buddy Brilliant! Marine<br />

Theatre, Lyme Regis, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 9.30pm.<br />

MONEY FOR NOTHING - DIRE STRAITS<br />

LEGACY<br />

22 <strong>Oct</strong>- Money for Nothing is a tribute<br />

<strong>to</strong> one of the world’s premier rock bands,<br />

Exeter Corn Exchange, Exeter, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong><br />

9.30pm.<br />

Pan-Roasted Brill , Scall ops, Crab<br />

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HOPE COVE SOUTH DEVON<br />

RED SKY<br />

28 <strong>Oct</strong>- The Black THE Horse, Sidmouth, 9.30pm<br />

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ROACHFORD && BAND RESTAURANT<br />

HOTEL HOPE COVE SOUTH DEVON HOTEL<br />

28 <strong>Oct</strong>- Singer-songwriter with huge<br />

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RESTAURANT<br />

& RESTAURANT<br />

HOPE COVE SOUTH DEVON<br />

HOPE COVE SOUTH DEVON<br />

with Cuddly <strong>to</strong>y & Family man, The Gateway,<br />

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HALLOWEEN PARTY<br />

29 <strong>Oct</strong>- We Are Uncollective & Lucy Faith<br />

Watts Present: A Halloween indie party,<br />

We Are Uncollective, Plymouth, 8.00pm <strong>to</strong><br />

11.00pm.<br />

BRIDGE JAZZ CLUB<br />

01 Nov- Pete Canter & Friends<br />

Jam Session £6 or £4 jammers, Pete Canter,<br />

Exeter, 8.30pm <strong>to</strong> 11.00pm.<br />

MUNJENTA CAFE<br />

01 Nov- Charlie Hearnshaw’s Munjenta<br />

Café Latin Jazz Quintet, SpeakeasyTorquay,<br />

Torquay, 8.30pm <strong>to</strong> 11.00pm.<br />

PSYCHEDELIC NIGHT<br />

02 Nov- A Night of Psychedelia at Exeter<br />

Cavern, Featuring Headliners Syd Arthur, We<br />

THE Are Uncollective, Exeter, 8.00pm <strong>to</strong> 11.00pm.<br />

COTTAGE<br />

HOTEL ROADHOGS<br />

& RESTAURANT<br />

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03 Nov- The Black Horse, Sidmouth, 9.30pm<br />

<strong>to</strong> 12.00am.<br />

STONEFOX<br />

04 Nov- The Black Horse, Sidmouth, 9.30pm<br />

<strong>to</strong> 12.00am.<br />

Make a night of it!<br />

HOPE COVE SOUTH DEVON<br />

& RESTAURANT<br />

Gilad Atzmon at Teignmouth Jazz Festival<br />

PUNK NIGHT<br />

05 Nov- Punk Night with Attila The<br />

S<strong>to</strong>ckbroker, TV Smith plus Local Support,<br />

We Are Uncollective, Plymouth, 7.00pm <strong>to</strong><br />

11.00pm.<br />

OPEN ACCESS FOLK BAND<br />

06 Nov- An open access folk band lead by<br />

a professional musician - David Faulkner,<br />

Wren Music, Broadclyst, 7.00pm <strong>to</strong> 9.00pm.<br />

KINGSBRIDGE JAZZ CLUB AT AVETON<br />

GIFFORD<br />

07 Nov- The Pedigree Jazz Band presents<br />

for you an evening wonderland of Trad<br />

Jazz, Kingsbridge Jazz Club, Ave<strong>to</strong>n Gifford,<br />

6.30pm <strong>to</strong> 10.00pm.<br />

THE BLUES BAND<br />

09 Nov- Tickets £20.50 and £22.50, Exmouth<br />

Pavilion, Exmouth, 8.00pm.<br />

BAV’S KARAOKE<br />

10 Nov- The Black Horse, Sidmouth, 9.30pm<br />

<strong>to</strong> 12.00am.<br />

SKY LIZARD<br />

11 Nov- The Black Horse, Sidmouth, 9.30pm<br />

<strong>to</strong> 12.00am.<br />

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BIG BAND REMEMBRANCE CONCERT<br />

11 Nov- War-time classics in a unique<br />

concert over Remembrance weekend, Jazz<br />

Jurassica, Lyme Regis, 8.00pm <strong>to</strong> 10.30pm.<br />

METEOROLOGICAL JAZZ<br />

11 Nov- South Devon Singers ‘do’ their<br />

annual jazz thing! South Devon Singers,<br />

Teignmouth, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 9.45pm.<br />

JUST MISBEHAVIN’<br />

12 Nov- Swing jazz <strong>to</strong> finish your weekend<br />

in style, Just Misbehavin’, Exmouth, 6.00pm<br />

<strong>to</strong> 8.30pm.<br />

CONCERT BY POPULAR FOLK BAND<br />

CROWS<br />

12 Nov- Return of popular 80s folk band.<br />

Four strong voices and expert musicianship,<br />

Lymps<strong>to</strong>ne Entertainments, Lymps<strong>to</strong>ne,<br />

2.30pm <strong>to</strong> 5.00pm.<br />

GREG ABATE WITH THE MATT CARTER<br />

TRIO<br />

12 Nov- Great American sax. & flute player<br />

with superb young pianist & his Trio,<br />

Plymouth Jazz Club, Plymouth, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong><br />

10.30pm.<br />

OPEN ACCESS FOLK BAND<br />

13 Nov- An open access folk band lead by<br />

a professional musician - David Faulkner,<br />

Wren Music, Broadclyst, 7.00pm <strong>to</strong> 9.00pm.<br />

LATE SHIFT<br />

<strong>17</strong> Nov- The Black Horse, Sidmouth, 9.30pm<br />

<strong>to</strong> 12.00am.<br />

TEIGNMOUTH JAZZ AND BLUES<br />

FESTIVAL<br />

<strong>17</strong> Nov <strong>to</strong> 19 Nov- One of the most<br />

established Festivals in the UK for jazz and<br />

blues, Teignmouth Jazz and Blues Club,<br />

Teignmouth, 4.00pm <strong>to</strong> 11.00pm.<br />

ROLLIN’ STONED<br />

18 Nov- Rolling S<strong>to</strong>nes tribute, The Gateway,<br />

Sea<strong>to</strong>n, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 11.00pm.<br />

ROCK THE NIGHT<br />

18 Nov- The Black Horse, Sidmouth, 9.30pm<br />

<strong>to</strong> 12.00am.<br />

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Thursday 19th November<br />

OYSTERBAND<br />

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Sunday <strong>17</strong>th <strong>Dec</strong>ember<br />

THE PEDIGREE JAZZ BAND<br />

Plymouth Jazz Club<br />

Sunday 5th November<br />

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musicianship, Exeter Corn Exchange, Exeter,<br />

7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 10.00pm.<br />

THE JOHN SHILLITO BAND<br />

19 Nov- Traditional jazz from one of Devon’s<br />

finest bands, Plymouth Jazz Club, Plymouth,<br />

7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 10.30pm.<br />

STEELEYE SPAN<br />

22 Nov- Steeleye Span are <strong>to</strong>uring with a<br />

new live show, Exeter Corn Exchange, Exeter,<br />

8.00pm <strong>to</strong> 10.30pm.<br />

ROCKFELLA<br />

24 Nov- The Black Horse, Sidmouth, 9.30pm<br />

<strong>to</strong> 12.00am.<br />

MOTOWN & PHILADELPHIA ON TOUR<br />

25 Nov- A full evening show delivers<br />

memoires of a twin era of music, Exeter<br />

Corn Exchange, Exeter, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 9.30pm.<br />

WHITE SPIRIT<br />

25 Nov- The Black Horse, Sidmouth, 9.30pm<br />

<strong>to</strong> 12.00am.<br />

JAZZ IN THE AFTERNOON<br />

26 Nov- Featuring the Pete Allen Jazz Band,<br />

Kennaway House, Sidmouth, 3.00pm <strong>to</strong><br />

5.30pm.<br />

EXETER RAILWAY BAND<br />

26 Nov- Seasonal tunes, South Devon<br />

Singers, Teignmouth, 3.00pm <strong>to</strong> 4.45pm.<br />

PETE CANTER TRIO<br />

27 Nov- Superb dinner jazz, Pete Canter,<br />

Shaldon, 8.00pm <strong>to</strong> 10.30pm.<br />

OPEN ACCESS FOLK BAND<br />

27 Nov- An open access folk band lead by<br />

a professional musician - David Faulkner,<br />

Wren Music, Broadclyst, 7.00pm <strong>to</strong> 9.00pm.<br />

The<br />

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DINING OFFERS<br />

Afternoon Tea & Cream Tea<br />

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Xmas Parties<br />

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SUNSPLASH QUARTET<br />

29 Nov- Philip Clouts’ Sunsplash Quartet<br />

play music from the <strong>to</strong>wnships of South<br />

Africa, SpeakeasyTorquay, Torquay, 8.30pm<br />

<strong>to</strong> 11.00pm.<br />

THE CRAVING<br />

01 <strong>Dec</strong>- The Black Horse, Sidmouth, 9.30pm<br />

<strong>to</strong> 12.00am.<br />

RIVIERA DOGS<br />

02 <strong>Dec</strong>- 80’s 90’s covers band, The Gateway,<br />

Sea<strong>to</strong>n, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 11.00pm.<br />

PERFECT STRANGERS<br />

02 <strong>Dec</strong>- The Black Horse, Sidmouth, 9.30pm<br />

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03 <strong>Dec</strong>- Currently one of the most<br />

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SpeakeasyTorquay, Torquay, 8.30pm <strong>to</strong><br />

11.00pm.<br />

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DINING OFFERS<br />

Pie Kick & Pud Evenings Back & Relax<br />

£13.50 | per person | Mon |From 5pm<br />

Christmas Jazz with lunch<br />

Sun <strong>17</strong>th <strong>Dec</strong> | From 1.30pm<br />

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03 <strong>Dec</strong>- Two trombones in harmony plus a<br />

fine rhythm section play Mainstream Jazz,<br />

Plymouth Jazz Club, Plymouth, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong><br />

10.30pm.<br />

BRIDGE JAZZ CLUB<br />

06 <strong>Dec</strong>- Pete Canter & Friends<br />

Jam Session £6 or £4 jammers, Pete Canter,<br />

Exeter, 8.30pm <strong>to</strong> 11.00pm.<br />

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BUDDY HOLLYS WINTER DANCE PARTY<br />

07 <strong>Dec</strong>- Tickets are £<strong>17</strong>.50 and £18.50,<br />

Exmouth Pavilion, Exmouth, 7.30pm.<br />

THE MAGIC BADGERS<br />

08 <strong>Dec</strong>- The Black Horse, Sidmouth, 9.30pm<br />

<strong>to</strong> 12.00am.<br />

ONE NIGHT OF QUEEN - GARY MULLEN<br />

& THE WORKS<br />

09 <strong>Dec</strong>- Tickets are £21.50, Exmouth<br />

Pavilion, Exmouth, 8.00pm.<br />

FLISS GORST QUARTET<br />

09 <strong>Dec</strong>- Swinging jazz standards with<br />

bags of sax appeal with Lauren Bush on<br />

vocals, Jazz Jurassica, Lyme Regis, 7.00pm<br />

<strong>to</strong> 10.00pm.<br />

LAST EXIT<br />

09 <strong>Dec</strong>- The Black Horse, Sidmouth, 9.30pm<br />

<strong>to</strong> 12.00am.<br />

CHRISTMAS DISCO & SOUL EXPLOSION<br />

09 <strong>Dec</strong>- Christmas Disco & Soul Explosion<br />

with Chris Dinnis, Exeter Corn Exchange,<br />

Exeter, 8.00pm <strong>to</strong> 12.00am.<br />

RED SKY<br />

15 <strong>Dec</strong>- The Black Horse, Sidmouth, 9.30pm<br />

<strong>to</strong> 12.00am.<br />

USUAL SUSPECTS<br />

16 <strong>Dec</strong>- The Black Horse, Sidmouth, 9.30pm<br />

<strong>to</strong> 12.00am.<br />

JAZZ IN THE AFTERNOON<br />

<strong>17</strong> <strong>Dec</strong>- Featuring the Pete Allen Jazz Band,<br />

Kennaway House, Sidmouth, 3.00pm <strong>to</strong><br />

5.30pm.<br />

Chocolate ganache with Tonka beans,<br />

white chocolate and hazlenut butter<br />

biscuit, tiramisu ice-cream from<br />

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CHRISTMAS PARTY WITH THE<br />

PEDIGREE JAZZ BAND<br />

<strong>17</strong> <strong>Dec</strong>- Playing traditional jazz at Plymouth<br />

Jazz Club’s Party, Plymouth Jazz Club,<br />

Plymouth, 7.30pm <strong>to</strong> 10.30pm.<br />

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was chosen, a superb piece of beef<br />

with accompanying vegetables, all<br />

beautifully cooked, a particular treat<br />

being the new pota<strong>to</strong>es sautéed<br />

with goose fat. Also John Dory with<br />

truffled gnocchi, the fish being<br />

expertly cooked, another great dish.<br />

cream - a <strong>to</strong>ur-de-force in pudding<br />

craft I’d say! Finally, not forgetting<br />

the full English, the best I’ve had in<br />

many a year. To finish, the bedroom<br />

was comfortable and well equipped<br />

and the staff helpful and friendly -<br />

particular credit goes <strong>to</strong> the chef/<br />

owner Sam who is most obviously<br />

passionate about food, and possesses<br />

a fine palate.<br />

Edi<strong>to</strong>r<br />

swish shower room<br />

Fine<br />

Dining<br />

g o l d awa r d<br />

John Dory<br />

Gascon salad and cripsy duck<br />

Fillet of aged local beef<br />

Vulscombe goats cheese<br />

length of the building with a wood<br />

burning s<strong>to</strong>ve situated right in the<br />

centre, and comfy seating scattered<br />

about. Definitely a place <strong>to</strong> unwind<br />

and enjoy a drink at the end of the<br />

day. The Jubilee is very much in deep<br />

North Devon countryside and close<br />

<strong>to</strong> the Exmoor National Park, about<br />

3 miles directly north, so if you’re<br />

a walker or cyclist planning <strong>to</strong> get<br />

in<strong>to</strong> peaceful, unspoilt countryside,<br />

extremely busy, particularly in the<br />

warmer months. Getting back <strong>to</strong> the<br />

Jubilee, the evening was started with<br />

wine by the glass, the Cuvée Louis<br />

Vincent Rouge, Duboef, a smooth<br />

French, easy drinking red which<br />

proved a good indica<strong>to</strong>r as <strong>to</strong> what<br />

was <strong>to</strong> follow, being a really superb<br />

drinking wine priced at an affordable<br />

£6.25 for a large glass.<br />

Starters were delicious, Vulscombe<br />

And finally on<strong>to</strong> pudding, Lost<br />

Madeira cake with poached pear<br />

(in honey mead), with walnut praline<br />

and Chantilly cream. The other<br />

pudding being Chocolate ganache<br />

with Tonka beans, white chocolate<br />

and hazelnut butter biscuit with<br />

tiramisu ice cream. What great<br />

puddings, the Chocolate ganache<br />

being deep, subtle and thankfully<br />

not sickly sweet. Likewise the ice<br />

Chocolate ganache with Tonka beans<br />

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GOLF CLUB AND RESTA URANT<br />

Great Devon eateries<br />

The<br />

Salty Monk<br />

restaurant with rooms<br />

Food & Dining Pho<strong>to</strong>graphy<br />

It's no good just producing great<br />

food, you need <strong>to</strong> shout about it<br />

with rich imagery <strong>to</strong> show the public<br />

what your kitchen can deliver.<br />

We specialise in pho<strong>to</strong>graphy and<br />

can provide a highly affordable<br />

professional service <strong>to</strong> businesses<br />

wishing <strong>to</strong> upgrade their website,<br />

social media and print imagery.<br />

Contact DEVONSHIRE magazine<br />

Ask for Nigel Jones on: 01395 513383<br />

Come for Dinner stay for Breakfast<br />

Dinner Tues <strong>to</strong> Sat<br />

Coffees & Afternoon Teas Daily<br />

Christmas Party Menus<br />

Dinner *Lunch *Grazing Buffet*<br />

Festive Afternoon Tea<br />

New Years Eve 7 course Gala Dinner<br />

01395 513<strong>17</strong>4 www.saltymonk.co.uk<br />

e: info@saltymonk.com<br />

Church Street Sidford Sidmouth EX10 9QP<br />

Christmas Lunch and Evening Parties<br />

Christmas Lunch and Evening Parties<br />

In The In The Oak Oak Room<br />

Restaurant at<br />

Restaurant at<br />

From 25th November <strong>to</strong> 23rd <strong>Dec</strong>ember<br />

3-course meal in our Oak Room Restaurant.<br />

Evening parties include entertainment<br />

(live jazz on Wednesday 13th and 20th <strong>Dec</strong>,<br />

disco other nights).<br />

01803 815000<br />

www.dain<strong>to</strong>nparkgolf.co.uk<br />

Ipplepen, New<strong>to</strong>n Abbot, TQ12 5TN<br />

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The FOOD Restaurant and DRINK Inspec<strong>to</strong>r<br />

Visits:<br />

The Five Bells Inn<br />

Clyst Hydon, East Devon<br />

Five Bells Inn<br />

at Clyst Hydon<br />

Fine<br />

Dining<br />

g ol d awa r d<br />

menu sampled<br />

Starters<br />

Grilled Capricorn Goats<br />

Cheese Salad, beetroot<br />

purée and horseradish<br />

Wye Valley Asparagus, poached<br />

duck egg and hollandaise<br />

Mains<br />

Pan-Roasted Brill, scallops,<br />

crab and mussels, fennel,<br />

saffron & basil<br />

Dartmoor Lamb Haunch,<br />

broad beans, mushroom,<br />

almond and mint<br />

Pudding<br />

Custard Tart, local<br />

strawberries, elderflower<br />

and strawberry sorbet<br />

Chocolate & Garden Mint, mint<br />

ripple ice cream, chocolate<br />

mousse, yoghurt & mint sorbet<br />

Drinks<br />

Monbazilliac, Chateau Vari<br />

Delicious homemade bread selection<br />

Grilled Capricorn Goats Cheese Salad, beetroot purée and horseradish<br />

Culinary magic<br />

We visited the Five Bells in August<br />

on one of those lovely summer<br />

evenings where you could enjoy a<br />

drink in the garden before retiring<br />

indoors <strong>to</strong> eat. It’s situated in<br />

sleepy Clyst Hydon and you are<br />

very grateful for the satnav here<br />

as it’s a little off the beaten track.<br />

The garden’s lovely, with fields<br />

and trees all around.<br />

Devon has many fine eateries<br />

that’s certain, the standard of food<br />

delivered <strong>to</strong> the table these days<br />

can be impressive, although there<br />

are still many pubs/inns aspiring<br />

<strong>to</strong> the ‘gastro’ dining label, which<br />

fail dismally, delivering overpriced<br />

and pretentious food that can<br />

disappoint on many levels. I think<br />

I’m right in saying that none of us<br />

mind paying the extra for proper<br />

high quality, but when the food<br />

is just mediocre, it can ruin your<br />

experience.<br />

A cursory glance at the menu can<br />

be quite revealing, sometimes you<br />

get the feeling that it’s contrived<br />

<strong>to</strong> tick the usual ‘gastro’ boxes, and<br />

there’s a level of lip service being<br />

paid <strong>to</strong> make things appear what<br />

they’re possibly not.<br />

Pan-Roasted Brill, scallops, crab and mussels, fennel, saffron & basil<br />

Dartmoor Lamb Haunch, broad<br />

beans, mushroom, almond and mint<br />

Happily, the only conclusion<br />

<strong>to</strong> be drawn after dining at the<br />

Five Bells was that a true master<br />

resides in the kitchen. Not only did<br />

each course taste utterly fantastic,<br />

but the visual presentation was<br />

approaching what you could<br />

consider <strong>to</strong> be ‘art’ on a plate! One<br />

of the very best meals we’ve ever<br />

had in Devon - utterly superb - I<br />

have no reservations in awarding a<br />

<strong>Devonshire</strong> magazine Fine-Dining<br />

Gold award <strong>to</strong> the Five Bells Inn.<br />

The Five Bells Inn changed<br />

hands just under a year ago with<br />

Gary and Graciela now being<br />

the owners. Chef Ian Webber,<br />

(formerly Head Chef of the two<br />

Michelin starred Gidleigh Park<br />

for 6 years) still resides and his<br />

flair has helped the pub earn (and<br />

retain for the last 3 years) a rare<br />

Michelin Bib Gourmand.<br />

So, if you fancy a peaceful drive<br />

out <strong>to</strong> an old thatched inn set<br />

amongst lovely <strong>Devonshire</strong><br />

countryside, you can enjoy true<br />

gourmet food at the Five Bells Inn<br />

at Clyst Hydon, East Devon.<br />

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E<strong>to</strong>n Mess, elderflower and<br />

strawberry sorbet<br />

Wye Valley Asparagus, poached duck egg and hollandaise<br />

Chocolate & Garden Mint, mint ripple ice cream,<br />

chocolate mousse, yoghurt & mint sorbet<br />

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Great Devon eateries<br />

Christmas Fayre Offer<br />

Receive a FREE glass of Prosecco<br />

(or alternative soft drink) with<br />

your meal when you book your<br />

table by 10th November.<br />

£23.95 per person, 3 course<br />

Christmas dinner between 1st <strong>to</strong><br />

24th <strong>Dec</strong>ember.<br />

Come and see why we have such<br />

a fantastic reputation for locally<br />

sourced food, at Devon’s hidden<br />

gem. Our atmospheric bar with a<br />

welcoming lounge area, and three<br />

large log fires for cosy winter evenings<br />

is a perfect place <strong>to</strong> enjoy a drink.<br />

Old Church House Inn<br />

01803 812372<br />

Torbryan, TQ12 5UR<br />

Christmas Jazz with lunch<br />

Sunday <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>17</strong>th from 1.30pm<br />

With The Metropolis swing and<br />

jazz and two/ three course<br />

sunday lunch<br />

Christmas Party<br />

Party menus from 2 people<br />

upwards created by head<br />

chef Chris and his team.<br />

Regular menu available.<br />

New Years Eve Party<br />

‘Simply Stylish’<br />

Spectacular menu and<br />

entertainment courtesy of<br />

Michael Campari.<br />

Booking essential.<br />

Local Fresh Fish and Shellfish<br />

West Country Wines,<br />

Beers & Gin<br />

Christmas Party Bookings now<br />

being taken.<br />

New Years Day<br />

Brunch/Lunch<br />

Starting from 11am.<br />

Bloody Mary’s and the<br />

all-important traditional<br />

post party brunch.<br />

A terrific start <strong>to</strong> 2018.<br />

See menu at neilsrestaurant.com<br />

Radway Place, Vicarage Road, Sidmouth, EX10 8TL<br />

T: 0<strong>17</strong>52 500008 | www.jollyjacks.co.uk<br />

To Book Tel. 01395 519494 or online at neilsrestaurant.com<br />

Open for Tuesday Dinner Tuesday <strong>to</strong> Saturday <strong>to</strong> Saturday from from 6.30pm 6.30pm<br />

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The FOOD Restaurant and DRINK Inspec<strong>to</strong>r<br />

Visits: Th e M a r i n e<br />

Sidmouth Esplanade<br />

Th eM a r i n e<br />

Seafront Bar<br />

menu sampled<br />

Mains Pizza Deal<br />

The Scicilian Pizza, made<br />

with locally sourced flat<br />

mushrooms, roasted peppers<br />

with Italian Mozzarella<br />

and Sicilian Pes<strong>to</strong>.<br />

Glass of ‘house’ Shiraz<br />

Flaming Creme Brulée<br />

£10 all-in deal<br />

Artisan Pizzas in a box<br />

I think I’m right in<br />

saying that it’s a crowdpleaser,<br />

a pizza, that is!<br />

There are many<br />

permutations on a pizza,<br />

the worst having those<br />

leathery, grease laden<br />

<strong>to</strong>ppings (made with the<br />

cheapest cheese, resting<br />

a<strong>to</strong>p inert bases having the<br />

consistency of polystyrene).<br />

The best pizzas are<br />

a joy <strong>to</strong> behold and<br />

satisfying <strong>to</strong> eat.<br />

Many Italian restaurants really chargeup<br />

for their offerings, usually beers<br />

and wines alongside make for a quite<br />

expensive meal, so it’s refreshing<br />

<strong>to</strong> bring you information on a great<br />

place <strong>to</strong> enjoy a pizza and drink deal<br />

<strong>to</strong>gether for just £10 (Tuesdays).<br />

The Marine in Sidmouth, East Devon,<br />

produce really high quality pizzas<br />

which would be very much at home<br />

in a high quality Italian restaurant.<br />

You can sit and enjoy the view of the<br />

seafront whilst eating a delicious<br />

pizza out of a box with a drink, all<br />

for a tenner. This offer is for Tuesday<br />

evenings, they also do a Manwich<br />

Burger, guaranteed <strong>to</strong> satisfy the<br />

biggest appetite. Top marks!<br />

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THE<br />

COTTAGE<br />

HOTEL<br />

& RESTAURANT<br />

HOPE COVE SOUTH DEVON<br />

Great Devon eateries<br />

The<br />

Otter<strong>to</strong>n<br />

Fresh food prepared & cooked on the premises<br />

using local ingredients from our own farm shop<br />

• Fish landed by our own fishing boats • Sunday carvery 12-8pm<br />

• Bar serving superb local beers and fine wines<br />

THE<br />

• 15 quality rooms for bed and breakfast<br />

COTTAGE • Garden & childrens play area • Dogs welcome (designated areas)<br />

• Courtesy 7 seat minibus available locally with prior arrangement<br />

HOTEL • Breakfast 7-10pm Lunch 12-2.30 Dinner 6.30-9<br />

& RESTAURANT • Booking now for Christmas Parties, Christmas Day & Boxing Day<br />

HOPE COVE SOUTH DEVON<br />

FORE STREET • OTTERTON • DEVON • EX9 7HB 01395 568416 www.kingsarmsotter<strong>to</strong>n.co.uk<br />

THE<br />

COTTAGE HOTEL<br />

& RESTAURANT<br />

HOPE COVE SOUTH DEVON<br />

THE<br />

COTTAGE HOTEL<br />

& RESTAURANT<br />

HOPE COVE<br />

SOUTH DEVON<br />

Booking now for New Year 3-night Breaks<br />

please enquire for<br />

Special Winter Breaks and 5-Night Winter Warmers<br />

A charming traditional family-run hotel in a spectacular coastal<br />

location. Relaxing holiday atmosphere with excellent cuisine<br />

and an established reputation for hospitality and service.<br />

Festive 3-Course Lunches £18.95<br />

The Cottage Hotel<br />

Hope Cove, Kingsbridge, Devon TQ7 3HJ<br />

Tel: 01548 561555 info@hopecove.com<br />

www.hopecove.com<br />

A PLACE FOR<br />

EATING<br />

DRINKING<br />

AND MEETING<br />

WITH A VIEW OF LYME BAY<br />

PYNE'S SIDMOUTH DEVON 01395 513047<br />

WWW.BEDFORDHOTELSIDMOUTH.CO.UK<br />

The Oxenham Arms<br />

Hotel & Restaurant<br />

The most beautiful Devon restaurant, set in<br />

a former 12th century monastery<br />

Stunning restaurants, lunches, afternoon<br />

teas, evening dinners, Sunday lunches<br />

Function room, luxury four poster<br />

accommodation, parking, 4 acres of<br />

grounds, Dartmoor walks and views<br />

Open daily from 11am <strong>to</strong> 11pm<br />

AA Gold<br />

Dinner<br />

Award<br />

<br />

01837 840244 South Zeal, EX20 2JT (25 mins. from Exeter) www.theoxenhamarms.com<br />

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<strong>Oct</strong>ober <strong>to</strong> <strong>Dec</strong>ember 20<strong>17</strong><br />

ART<br />

EXHIBITIONS<br />

Michael Sole - 'Cap d'antibes no.2' - Marine House at Beer<br />

CONTEMPORARY MARK MAKERS<br />

COLLABORATION<br />

Until 21 <strong>Oct</strong>- Contemporary<br />

Mark Makers artists working<br />

collaboratively new exciting work,<br />

Contemporary Mark Makers,<br />

Birdwood House, Totnes, 10.00am<br />

<strong>to</strong> 4.45pm.<br />

EXMOUTH ART GROUP 71ST ANNUAL<br />

EXHIBITION<br />

Until 22 <strong>Oct</strong>- Extensive and varied<br />

display of original paintings, 3D,<br />

ceramics & IPad Art, Exmouth Art<br />

Group, Ocean, Exmouth, 10.00am <strong>to</strong><br />

7.00pm.<br />

TOUCHY FEELY - TIM GEE AND CAROL<br />

HOCKING<br />

Until 23 <strong>Oct</strong>- An exhibition with<br />

ceramic artist Tim Gee and textiles<br />

by Carol Hocking, 45 Southside<br />

Gallery, 45 Southside, Plymouth,<br />

10.00am <strong>to</strong> 6.00pm.<br />

PAINTINGS, PRINTS & PATTERNS<br />

Until 24 <strong>Oct</strong>- Cheerful paintings,<br />

humorous prints and abstract<br />

patterns by Peter Coates, Town Mill<br />

Arts, The Courtyard Gallery, Lyme<br />

Regis, 10.30am <strong>to</strong> 4.30pm<br />

LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF<br />

HAPPINESS: A<br />

Until 28 <strong>Oct</strong>- “Moving <strong>to</strong> New York<br />

City awoke something in me: the way<br />

that the city is alive, Artizan Gallery<br />

Cafe Venue, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay,<br />

10.30am <strong>to</strong> 4.30pm.<br />

FRANCES HATCH: RED UNDER EARTH<br />

UNDER MY NAILS<br />

Until 28 <strong>Oct</strong>- A new body of work<br />

by artist Frances Hatch, winner of<br />

the THG Open 2016, Thelma Hulbert<br />

Gallery, Elmfield House, Honi<strong>to</strong>n,<br />

10.00am <strong>to</strong> 5.00pm.<br />

ENJOY THE BLUES<br />

Until 28 <strong>Oct</strong>- Solo art exhibition by<br />

Devon artist, Axminster Arts Cafe,<br />

The Axminster Arts Cafe, Axminster,<br />

<strong>to</strong> 9.00am.<br />

SHAF ARTS TRAIL OCTOBER 20<strong>17</strong><br />

Until 29 <strong>Oct</strong>- Two week Arts Trail<br />

held across the South Hams in<br />

Studios and Group Venues, South<br />

Hams Arts Forum, The Market Hall,<br />

Kingsbridge, 10.00am <strong>to</strong> 5.00pm.<br />

Studio Gallery<br />

Award Winning Art Gallery<br />

& Picture Framers<br />

In the Studio Gallery<br />

Venice, Devon and Cornwall<br />

New work by Mark Fielding.<br />

Ocean Studios, Royal William Yard,<br />

Plymouth PL1 3RP<br />

www.markfielding.co.uk<br />

NEW FOR AUTUMN<br />

INTRODUCING:<br />

Julie Clifford - Twinkling Florals<br />

Tamsin Evans - Art on Metal<br />

Ross Emerson - Clocks <strong>to</strong> Amaze<br />

The colourful world that is<br />

Mary Rose Young<br />

Meet Matt’s Gorilla!<br />

Find us on Torquay’s harbourside:<br />

6-7 Vic<strong>to</strong>ria Parade, TQ1 2BB 01803 213000<br />

www.haddongalleries.co.uk<br />

Our Gallery<br />

Jurassic Coast Exhibition<br />

05 <strong>to</strong> 11 <strong>Dec</strong> - By Colin Bentley.<br />

Sidmouth Pho<strong>to</strong>graphic Club<br />

05 <strong>to</strong> 11 <strong>Dec</strong> - Celebrating 80 years.<br />

Beth Pearson And Friends<br />

05 <strong>to</strong> 11 <strong>Dec</strong> - The Naked Truth.<br />

We welcome enquiries from artists<br />

wishing <strong>to</strong> exhibit. Please contact us.<br />

01395 515551 Coburg Road, Sidmouth<br />

www.kennawayhouse.org.uk<br />

Amanda Popham<br />

Imagination unleashed<br />

04 <strong>to</strong> <strong>17</strong> Nov<br />

Annual show 60 new works.<br />

www.steamgalleryatbeer.co.uk<br />

Michael Sole<br />

04 Nov - Seascapes.<br />

www.marinehouseatbeer.co.uk<br />

01297 625257 • 01297 625144<br />

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LOSING THE THREAD<br />

Until 31 <strong>Oct</strong>- A celebration of fibre<br />

and fabric in the work of 9 textile<br />

and fibre artists, Town Mill Arts,<br />

The Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis,<br />

10.30am <strong>to</strong> 4.30pm.<br />

FOUR ARTIST EXHIBITION<br />

Until 04 Nov- Jeannette Hayes,<br />

Edward Kelly, Louise McClary and<br />

Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf, Artwave<br />

West, Artwave West, Morecombelake,<br />

10.00am <strong>to</strong> 4.00pm.<br />

HANDS EXHIBITION<br />

Until 05 Nov- Hannahs Artists<br />

and Designers (HANDS) hold an<br />

exhibition of their work, Hannahs at<br />

Seale-Hayne, How<strong>to</strong>n Lane, New<strong>to</strong>n<br />

Abbot, 10.00am <strong>to</strong> 4.00pm.<br />

BP PORTRAIT AWARD 20<strong>17</strong><br />

Until 03 <strong>Dec</strong>- Represents the very<br />

best in contemporary portrait<br />

painting, Royal Albert Memorial<br />

Museum - RAMM, Queen Street,<br />

Exeter, 10.00am <strong>to</strong> 5.00pm.<br />

IT'S NEVER TOO EARLY (FOR<br />

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING)<br />

Until 24 <strong>Dec</strong>- The work we sell<br />

is handmade in the UK so come<br />

and choose something different,<br />

Baxters Gallery, 12 Foss Street,<br />

Dartmouth, 10.00am <strong>to</strong> 5.00pm.<br />

"THE MYTHIC GARDEN" - CALL FOR<br />

ENTRIES<br />

Until 30 <strong>Dec</strong>- For the Sculpture<br />

Exhibition in Summer 2018. See:<br />

www.s<strong>to</strong>nelanegardens.com,<br />

S<strong>to</strong>ne Lane Gardens, "The Mythic<br />

Garden", Chagford.<br />

Scott Naismith - 'Sunset Cumulus Study 1' - GalleryFAB<br />

SELF PORTRAIT<br />

18 <strong>Oct</strong> <strong>to</strong> 04 Nov- Open art<br />

exhibition featuring a wide range<br />

of works by local artists, Harbour<br />

House, The Promenade, Kingsbridge,<br />

10.00am <strong>to</strong> 5.00pm.<br />

WINTER EXHIBITION<br />

20 <strong>Oct</strong> <strong>to</strong> 31 Jan - Fantastic<br />

collection of new work on display,<br />

ready for Christmas, Browns<strong>to</strong>n<br />

Gallery, Modbury.<br />

JURASSIC COAST EXHIBITION BY<br />

COLIN BENTLEY<br />

21 <strong>Oct</strong> <strong>to</strong> 27 <strong>Oct</strong>- Jurassic Coast<br />

Exhibition by Colin Bentley,<br />

Kennaway House, 10.00am <strong>to</strong><br />

5.00pm.<br />

AUTUMN EXHIBITION<br />

21 <strong>Oct</strong> <strong>to</strong> 29 <strong>Oct</strong>- An exhibition of<br />

art works from a variety of West<br />

Country artists, East Devon Art, Old<br />

Fore Street, Sidmouth, 11.00am <strong>to</strong><br />

5.00pm.<br />

Mark Fielding - 'Small pleasures, Grand Canal' - Ocean Studios<br />

Julie Clifford - 'The Light Hits the Gloom on the Grey' - Haddon Galleries<br />

CONTINUED OVERLEAF...<br />

MAYNE<br />

GALLERY<br />

Exhibitions<br />

New Artist & Art Fair<br />

Jiri Ptacek: A new collection of<br />

Devon landscapes from this highly<br />

admired and collected artist.<br />

Cambridge Art Fair<br />

09 <strong>to</strong> 12 Nov<br />

Showcasing a selection of the finest<br />

artists from the gallery.<br />

Award Winning<br />

Picture Framers<br />

Award Winning, Fine Art Trade Guild<br />

Commended Picture Framers<br />

Small enough <strong>to</strong> care, large enough for<br />

all framing styles and budgets (even<br />

Christmas budgets!)<br />

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F R A M<br />

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Art · Homeware • Picture · Giftware Framing<br />

Greetings Cards<br />

Greetings Cards • Giftware<br />

Picture Framing<br />

FRAMES & BOXES, BANK STREET, NEWTON<br />

ABBOT, TQ12 2JW · 01626 335965<br />

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Come and see<br />

It’s FAB!<br />

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In our Gallery<br />

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21 <strong>Oct</strong> <strong>to</strong> 04 Nov<br />

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<strong>Oct</strong>ober <strong>to</strong> <strong>Dec</strong>ember 20<strong>17</strong><br />

ART<br />

EXHIBITIONS<br />

ZEE JONES SOLO<br />

26 <strong>Oct</strong> <strong>to</strong> 01 Nov- An exhibition of<br />

recent work by landscape and mixed<br />

media artist Zee Jones, Town Mill<br />

Arts, The Courtyard Gallery, Lyme<br />

Regis, 10.30am <strong>to</strong> 4.30pm.<br />

SUSAN CAVALIERE: SURREAL AND<br />

ABSTRACT<br />

30 <strong>Oct</strong> <strong>to</strong> 24 Nov- Artizan Solo<br />

Series continues with an exhibition<br />

of the works of Susan Cavalie,<br />

Artizan Gallery Cafe Venue, 7 Lucius<br />

Street, Torquay, 10.30am <strong>to</strong> 4.30pm.<br />

MICHAEL SOLE - NEW WORKS<br />

04 Nov <strong>to</strong> 05 Nov- A weekend<br />

presentation of new works by<br />

Michael Sole, Marine House at Beer,<br />

Fore Street.<br />

TWO BIRDS PAINTING - ART<br />

EXHIBITON<br />

04 Nov <strong>to</strong> 12 Nov- Theresa Shaw<br />

is painting ‘A Year in the Life of<br />

Rosemoor’ and Jill Griffin, RHS<br />

Garden Rosemoor, Great Torring<strong>to</strong>n,<br />

11.00am <strong>to</strong> 4.00pm.<br />

Sophie Capron - 'Isolation' - Artwave West<br />

Barry Kelly - 'Approaching South Sands' - Browns<strong>to</strong>n Gallery<br />

AMANDA POPHAM SOLO SHOW<br />

04 Nov <strong>to</strong> <strong>17</strong> Nov- New work by<br />

Amanda Popham, Steam Gallery,<br />

Fore Street, Beer, 10.00am <strong>to</strong><br />

5.30pm.<br />

AUTUMN EXHIBITION<br />

10 Nov <strong>to</strong> 23 <strong>Dec</strong>- The<br />

Traditional Grand Finale<br />

Exhibition, Artwave West,<br />

Artwave West, Morecombelake,<br />

10.00am <strong>to</strong> 4.00pm.<br />

SIDMOUTH PHOTOGRAPHIC<br />

CLUB EXHIBITION<br />

20 Nov <strong>to</strong> 26 Nov- Sidmouth<br />

Pho<strong>to</strong>graphic Club Exhibition<br />

Celebrating 80 years, Kennaway<br />

House, Coburg Road, Sidmouth,<br />

10.00am <strong>to</strong> 5.00pm.<br />

HOCKNEY AT THE ROYAL<br />

ACADEMY-ART DOCUMENTARY<br />

30 Nov- Direc<strong>to</strong>r Phil Grabsky<br />

secured privileged access <strong>to</strong><br />

David Hockney's work, The<br />

Gateway, Fore Street, Sea<strong>to</strong>n,<br />

2.00pm <strong>to</strong> 3.25pm.<br />

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Autumn Exhibition<br />

21 <strong>to</strong> 29 <strong>Oct</strong> - West Country<br />

artists display their latest works.<br />

Winter Solstice Exhibition<br />

16 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 07 Jan - A wide range<br />

of paintings, prints and 3D work<br />

from various artists.<br />

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Exhibitions<br />

Four Artist Exhibition<br />

Until 04 Nov - Jeannette Hayes,<br />

Edward Kelly, Louise McClary<br />

and Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf.<br />

Autumn Exhibition<br />

10 Nov <strong>to</strong> 23 <strong>Dec</strong> - The Traditional<br />

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19 <strong>Oct</strong><br />

In aid of Devon Air Ambulance.<br />

Original artwork kindly donated<br />

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WINTER EXHIBITION<br />

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05 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 11 <strong>Dec</strong>- Art Exhibition<br />

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winter exhibition, Royal Albert<br />

Memorial Museum - RAMM, Queen<br />

Street, Exeter, 10.00am <strong>to</strong> 5.00pm.<br />

WINTER SOLSTICE EXHIBITION<br />

16 <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>to</strong> 07 Jan- A variety of<br />

various West Country artists<br />

display their latest works, East<br />

Devon Art, Old Fore Street,<br />

Sidmouth, 11.00am <strong>to</strong> 5.00pm.<br />

Jiri Ptacek - ' Thurles<strong>to</strong>ne ' - Mayne Gallery<br />

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Norman Ackroyd, Terry Frost<br />

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WINTER EXHIBITION<br />

20 <strong>Oct</strong>ober <strong>to</strong> 31 January<br />

Inspirational collection of art, glass,<br />

sculpture, prints and jewellery<br />

ART AUCTION<br />

Thursday 19th <strong>Oct</strong>ober 7pm<br />

in aid of Devon Air Ambulance<br />

Art kindly donated by our wonderful gallery artists<br />

Music by the fabulous Scarlet Ladies<br />

Auctioneer : Stuart Cartwright of Marchand Petit<br />

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Daughters<br />

26cm, £395<br />

Saturday 4th <strong>to</strong> Friday <strong>17</strong>th November<br />

AMANDA POPHAM<br />

Imagination Unleashed<br />

Anticipation grows for this year’s major collection<br />

of 60 new figurative pieces held at its traditional<br />

venue in Beer at Steam Gallery. Amanda’s invention<br />

and creativity never cease <strong>to</strong> amaze and this is the<br />

best opportunity each year <strong>to</strong> acquire her work.<br />

‘Head in the Clouds’<br />

33 cm - £450<br />

‘I would put<br />

the Moon<br />

in the Sky<br />

for You’<br />

58cm<br />

£625<br />

You can meet Amanda at the gallery on launch<br />

day from 11.00 - 5.30 on 4 November.<br />

Contact the gallery for a brochure. The work will<br />

be on www.steamgallery.co.uk from Tuesday 10<br />

<strong>Oct</strong>ober and can be acquired. Additional pieces<br />

awaiting completion will be revealed on 4th<br />

November.<br />

‘Dear Cat Jug’<br />

33cm - £450<br />

‘Somersault’ - 87x33cm - £875<br />

‘Cornwall Rocks No.3’ - 125x<strong>17</strong>0cm - £8000<br />

MICHAEL SOLE<br />

A selection of important seascape<br />

studies recently completed by ‘Cap D’Antibes No.2’ - 120x159cm - £6500<br />

Michael, will be presented at Marine<br />

House at Beer on 4 November <strong>to</strong><br />

coincide with the opening day of Amanda’s show. Few artists are able <strong>to</strong> represent the mood<br />

and the power of the sea so ably and he has quickly gathered an international following.<br />

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Heathlands are beautiful<br />

places, vast swathes of<br />

purple and pink, dotted<br />

with the yellow of gorse, the<br />

patchwork of colours are both rich<br />

and vibrant. Since the 19th century<br />

we've lost 80% of our lowland<br />

heaths* and they're now even rarer<br />

than rainforests. Heaths support a<br />

staggeringly wide range of wildlife,<br />

snakes take refuge along the quieter<br />

margins of paths, where they can<br />

bask in the sunshine. Bird varieties<br />

are usually numerous, S<strong>to</strong>ne Chat,<br />

Heathland Wonders<br />

Our cultural habitat<br />

Our heathlands are unique cultural landscapes<br />

that owe their existence <strong>to</strong> centuries of human<br />

clearance and animal grazing.<br />

Dartford Warbler, Curlew, Nightjar<br />

<strong>to</strong> name but a few. If you've spent<br />

any time walking along heathland<br />

in the summer months, you can't<br />

fail <strong>to</strong> have noticed prolific insect<br />

life, it's said that there are 5,000<br />

species of invertebrates associated<br />

with heathland habitat. All manner<br />

of bees, wasps, ants, damselfly,<br />

dragonfly, beetles, moths, butterflies<br />

and spiders, in fact those are just<br />

a few of the insects you see, but<br />

many remain unnoticed, the list<br />

goes on. In terms of plant varieties,<br />

heaths principally consist of dwarf<br />

shrubs of heather, gorse, as well as<br />

mosses, lichens, grasses, they all<br />

have their part <strong>to</strong> play, with trees<br />

such as hawthorn, blackthorn and<br />

bramble providing valuable nectar<br />

along the margins earlier in the year,<br />

when the heather is yet <strong>to</strong> come<br />

in<strong>to</strong> flower.<br />

The best heathland for wildlife<br />

occurs when there's a wide range<br />

of growth stages within the plant life<br />

makeup of the heath, this is because<br />

different species survive on plants<br />

of differing ages. For instance the<br />

Lynx spider is very much a specialist<br />

that requires old heather plants <strong>to</strong><br />

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Small Copper butterfly<br />

gorse - its cinnamon/vanilla<br />

scent is unmistakable on a<br />

warm day<br />

Dartmoor ponies - do a great job of<br />

keeping bracken and gorse down<br />

pho<strong>to</strong>graphy by Nigel Jones<br />

survive. On the other hand, Silver-studded Blue butterflies need<br />

young heather, and it's know that the 'growth' phase of plants<br />

within heathland is said <strong>to</strong> support the maximum biodiversity*.<br />

Various practices are employed <strong>to</strong> attain this state of growth.<br />

Bare ground is important for many insects and birds, particularly<br />

on south facing slopes. This can be achieved by scraping out<br />

shallow pits, also by using a bulldozer, the surface vegetation<br />

can be scraped clear. Grazing in the most natural method<br />

of keeping vegetation down, with ponies, horses and cattle<br />

suppressing bracken due <strong>to</strong> their weight. Burning can also be<br />

employed, although it's advised that it's only used where there's<br />

a his<strong>to</strong>ry of this type of land management over the long term.<br />

Fire used on lowland heath can be hot enough <strong>to</strong> burn off the<br />

humus underneath the heather, exposing mineral soil which is<br />

beneficial <strong>to</strong> many species of insects. Of course there are two<br />

main variations in heathland habitat types, Lowland Heath and<br />

Highland Heath which is a cooler, wetter environment.<br />

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Core Hill - Scots Pine have immense character<br />

Cobwebs - sparkling as they pick up moisture from the air<br />

Heathland Wonders<br />

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The Cooler Months<br />

Mists and cooler weather add an air<br />

of mystery <strong>to</strong> the heath, you can see<br />

in this pho<strong>to</strong> that spiders proliferate<br />

in this type of habitat.<br />

Below: Mutters Moor, Sidmouth<br />

A permanent battle is being waged <strong>to</strong><br />

keep the growth down - gorse, bracken<br />

and trees can easily overwhelm this<br />

fragile, man-made habitat. Using<br />

animals <strong>to</strong> keep the growth down<br />

is the traditional method, alongside<br />

burning.<br />

Core Hill under snow<br />

Core Hill's where most of the pho<strong>to</strong>s for this<br />

heathland feature were taken - see if you can<br />

spot the wild life in this shot, and yes, I do mean<br />

'wild ' in every sense of the word, - perfectly<br />

camouflaged and in its natural environment,<br />

possibly a relic from the 'Ice Age', the bicolour<br />

Jack Russell, the tan and white matching both<br />

leaves and snow, a perfect adaptation that<br />

comes in<strong>to</strong> its own over the winter months - of<br />

course it's <strong>Devonshire</strong>'s own Jack, celebrating<br />

his 10th birthday this year.<br />

Jack's an interesting character, as indeed<br />

all Jack Russells tend <strong>to</strong> be, having a list of<br />

unsavoury habits as long as your arm, capable<br />

of alerting the whole household at any time of<br />

the day or night in the event of a leaf dropping,<br />

afeared of water deeper than his knees, and<br />

able <strong>to</strong> keep up continuous whining for hours<br />

if he's not entirely happy when you're out<br />

enjoying a coffee, or having a relaxing pub<br />

lunch. He's also the scourge of Postie (our<br />

post resides in a box outside as a result).<br />

Happy Birthday Jack, it has <strong>to</strong> be said that<br />

you're one of a kind!<br />

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Heathland Wonders<br />

The Conservation Crew<br />

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The Heathland Conservation Crew - they manage the heath fairly efficiently, clearing invasive species and keeping the taller<br />

plants in check. Minus the pedestrian crossing and bell bot<strong>to</strong>ms, they could almost be re-enacting the scene for the pho<strong>to</strong>graph<br />

on the Abbey Road 1969 Beatles studio album. The situation is Core Hill at the back of Sidmouth, with Budleigh Salter<strong>to</strong>n and<br />

sea in the distance. I should imagine the environment for them here is a lot kinder than that of Dartmoor, particularly during<br />

the winter months, when snow can descend on the moors.<br />

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continued.....<br />

The COUNTRYMAN<br />

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thought the latter, but occasionally<br />

salmon do survive spawning and<br />

return <strong>to</strong> sea, frail and thin. They<br />

are known as kelts.<br />

The fishing season lasts 30 weeks<br />

but there is so much pleasure <strong>to</strong><br />

More in<strong>to</strong> the hopper<br />

A trac<strong>to</strong>r's very handy for dragging<br />

tree trunks out of the river<br />

Chris<strong>to</strong>pher with chainsaw - no room for error, its hard, dangerous work<br />

dining experience at Highbullen<br />

Hotel based in the heart of Devon<br />

surrounded by the most stunning<br />

views over Taw and Mole valleys and<br />

onwards <strong>to</strong> Exmoor and Dartmoor.<br />

At this point some more facts: it<br />

<strong>to</strong>ok me over 20 years of occasional<br />

fishing most seasons <strong>to</strong> catch my<br />

first salmon! Fortunately things<br />

have got better and just recently<br />

caught my first 20 pounder on the<br />

Mole. This fellow <strong>to</strong>ok 20 mins<br />

<strong>to</strong> land and was no longer bright<br />

silver as they are on leaving the<br />

sea but coloured, as us fisherman<br />

say. Meaning the fish is changing<br />

<strong>to</strong> a reddish/ pink colour. When I<br />

released this handsome fish, it swam<br />

off upriver <strong>to</strong>wards the spawning<br />

areas further upstream. Spawning<br />

starts usually after sustained cold<br />

weather normally in November.<br />

There are parts of the river Bray<br />

where on a walk along the public<br />

footpaths, you'll have a good chance<br />

of seeing spawning or the end result,<br />

be gained in a winter day's hard<br />

graft on the river thinning trees<br />

and undergrowth. Removing fallen<br />

trees involves getting wet and a <strong>to</strong>tal<br />

disregard of Health & Safety. How<br />

do you write a Risk Assessment,<br />

Safe Operating Procedure or train<br />

someone for use of a chain saw in<br />

moving water on an uneven slippery<br />

surface? Should you wear chainsaw<br />

trousers or waders? Chop off a limb<br />

(hopefully not my own!) or drown? I<br />

have <strong>to</strong> deal with the Health & Safety<br />

of others and take it very seriously.<br />

Working in the river is exhilarating.<br />

Best <strong>to</strong> be fully alert and don't ask<br />

anyone else <strong>to</strong> do it!<br />

Pressing the pulp, a good way <strong>to</strong> burn off calories!<br />

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INTERIORS<br />

UPDATE<br />

Interior designer Susan<br />

Folwell of Devon based<br />

design studio Artisans<br />

and Artists talks<br />

about their year so<br />

far, the new season's<br />

fabric and wallpaper<br />

collections and makes<br />

some winter bookshelf<br />

recommendations<br />

DEVONSHIRE HOME<br />

A Busy Year<br />

Here we are ... cosy winter evenings by the fire and planning the Christmas<br />

and New Year celebrations. Where has the year gone? It has been a<br />

whirlwind year in our studio with design and build projects completed and<br />

ongoing for waterside homes in the county, a number of interior design<br />

projects for some lovely Dartmoor properties as well as for his<strong>to</strong>ric homes<br />

in neighbouring counties. Overseas shopping trips for the showroom and<br />

specific client projects, alongside attending launches of the international<br />

fabrics and furnishings collections, have been a source of inspiration (so<br />

thankful for our convenient regional airports).<br />

The Autumn / Winter fabric and wallpaper collections were especially<br />

beautiful this year with a number of our favourite fabric houses launching<br />

inspired collections. A number of interesting interior design books were<br />

published during the year, a few favourites are recommended here for<br />

your Winter bookshelf.<br />

Rosanna Trellis by Matthew Williamson for Osborne and Little - fabric and<br />

wallpaper shown here in Blush / Aqua colourway.<br />

English Country House Style With A Modern Twist<br />

A visit <strong>to</strong> Belvoir Castle inspired Matthew Williamson <strong>to</strong> produce his latest fabric and<br />

wallpaper collection for Osborne and Little. Belvoir is an unmistakably glamorous<br />

and very usable collection, featuring the designer's signature colours of aquamarine,<br />

azure blue, turquoise, coral and jade combined with soft neutrals such as pearl and<br />

ivory. The faded glory appearance of Rosanna Trellis offers a fabric and wallpaper<br />

which can be dressed up or down <strong>to</strong> great effect. The richness of the Folklore and<br />

Lyrebird designs as well as the exuberance of Fanfare and the quirkiness of Ceramica<br />

all warrant consideration for that special country house project.<br />

Dômiers wallpaper in Charcoal / Ivory colourway, the<br />

chair is upholstered in La Moulade in Chocolate / Coral<br />

colourway and the jacket is made-up using Mourlot in<br />

Bitter Chocolate - all Nina Campbell.<br />

Unique Use Of Colour<br />

Nina Campbell's Les Rêves fabrics and wallpapers present a<br />

painterly palette of Matisse inspired colour and pattern. This<br />

is such a versatile collection one is spoilt for choice, Camille,<br />

Belle Île and Mourlot are especially striking fabrics; Dômiers<br />

and Portavo are distinctive wallpapers with a hand-painted<br />

and welcoming appearance.<br />

Claribel is a beautiful collection of weaves with an artisan<br />

hand-woven appearance, La Moulade is a firm favourite<br />

and adds charm <strong>to</strong> upholstery whether you are covering a<br />

treasured antique piece or a new acquisition.<br />

Fanfare wallpaper by Matthew Williamson for<br />

Osborne and Little shown in Electric Blue /<br />

Gold colourway.<br />

Lyrebird wallpaper by Matthew<br />

Williamson for Osborne and Little<br />

shown in Aqua colourway.<br />

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The drama of Delft Velvet in Noir colourway by Designers Guild.<br />

Casablanca in Berry by Designers Guild.<br />

Drama And Opulence<br />

Delft Flower Grande from Designers Guild's Tulipa Stellata collection<br />

is striking, opulent and dramatic. Casablanca Berry takes cut velvet <strong>to</strong><br />

a new level and is both modern and beguiling. Severini is an utterly<br />

gorgeous velvet stripe with a soft blurring of the edges reminiscent of<br />

the work of a super talented New York graffiti artist. Tammaro, the<br />

new soft washed corduroy won our hearts, paired with a contrast<br />

fringe or braid it appears almost Regency, played loose and relaxed<br />

on large cushions it says "come on, sit by the fire with a decent<br />

glass of red and read a good book ...".<br />

The sensational Severini<br />

velvet in Magenta by<br />

Designers Guild.<br />

Curtains in Lyrebird fabric by Matthew<br />

Williamson for Osborne and Little in Aqua<br />

colourway<br />

Designer's Bookshelf<br />

Rosanna Trellis (as above) shown in Aqua /<br />

Coral colourway on the curtains and cushion, the<br />

sofa is upholstered in Con<strong>to</strong>ur also by Matthew<br />

Williamson and in the Coral colourway.<br />

At Home with Dogs and Their Designers by<br />

Susanna Salk - a truly personal look at some<br />

of the world's leading interior designers at<br />

home with their dogs ... a perfect gift for any<br />

dog loving design fan.<br />

Haute Bohemians by Miguel Flores-Vianna<br />

- a voyage in<strong>to</strong> the authentic homes of a<br />

select group of fashion designers, landscape<br />

architects, interior designers, potters, artists<br />

www.artisansandartists.co.uk<br />

and his<strong>to</strong>rians through the lens of this<br />

extraordinary pho<strong>to</strong>grapher.<br />

Past Perfect by Richard Shapiro - known for<br />

his ability <strong>to</strong> create interiors and gardens<br />

that exude Old World charm, this renowned<br />

designer and antiques dealer takes readers on<br />

a journey through his much imitated homes<br />

and gardens. Beautifully pho<strong>to</strong>graphed, this<br />

is a generous and inspiring book.<br />

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A point of view!<br />

Nelson’s Column<br />

by JOHN FISHER<br />

Devon’s £1<br />

telephone kiosks<br />

Telephone kiosk at Sticklepath<br />

BT TELL US there are 1,123 pay phones in<br />

Devon, of which 458 are red kiosks. But they<br />

are on the way out unless Devon either uses<br />

them more - or steps forward <strong>to</strong> ‘adopt’ them<br />

- at £1 each. BT says it has decided <strong>to</strong> scrap<br />

half of the 40,000 remaining red telephone<br />

boxes in the UK because a third of them are<br />

never used and it’s all because more than a<br />

third of us nowadays carry mobile phones.<br />

However, if there are two kiosks within<br />

400 yards walking distance of a site, BT is<br />

allowed <strong>to</strong> remove one, as long as there is<br />

one left. Even so, they must inform the public<br />

and consult with the local authorities. The<br />

authority then has 90 days <strong>to</strong> object, which<br />

is known as a “local ve<strong>to</strong>”.<br />

Many local communities have transformed<br />

and preserved some 4.000 red kiosks by<br />

buying them for £1 from BT under the Adopt<br />

a Kiosk scheme. Some have been re-born as<br />

mini-libraries, art galleries, information<br />

centres or <strong>to</strong> house defibrillation machines.<br />

Alas, before that letter arrived he was slain<br />

just 11 days later, cut down at the Battle of<br />

Inkerman when and where troops fought on<br />

their own initiative<br />

in thick fog, earning<br />

the engagement the<br />

name ‘The Soldier’s<br />

Battle’.<br />

He was unmarried<br />

and the last of<br />

the family’s male<br />

line. His mother,<br />

Margaret, had a<br />

statue erected <strong>to</strong><br />

his memory. It is of<br />

a weeping woman<br />

and stands near the<br />

lake at Tapely, with<br />

this inscription (now illegible):<br />

Forgive blest shade the tribu<strong>to</strong>ry tear,<br />

That mourns they exit from a world like this.<br />

Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here,<br />

And stayed thy progress <strong>to</strong> the realms of Bliss<br />

We asked for it<br />

LOVE EM OR HATE ‘EM there are now<br />

some 25 Community Speed Watch (CSW)<br />

teams out there in Devon with two more<br />

coming on stream this autumn. They came<br />

in<strong>to</strong> being because local communities were<br />

asked <strong>to</strong> tell Devon & Cornwall Police what<br />

their local priorities are. Speeding mo<strong>to</strong>rists<br />

were identified as the biggest priority and<br />

CSW came in<strong>to</strong> being. Speed Watch involves<br />

volunteer members of the local community,<br />

and aims <strong>to</strong> engage and educate drivers<br />

rather than issue fines and court summonses.<br />

Using a staged warning system, first-time<br />

offenders receive education and warnings,<br />

whilst persistent offenders can expect further<br />

police action and even a court appearance.<br />

Elaine Hartley, Force Speed Watch<br />

Coordina<strong>to</strong>r <strong>to</strong>ld is “If anyone is interested<br />

in joining an existing team or forming a<br />

new one they can email me at speedwatch@<br />

devonandcornwall.pnn.police.uk<br />

A Devon hero<br />

remembered<br />

IT IS NOW OCTOBER and this is Archibald<br />

Clevland, of Tapely Park in North Devon, a 19-<br />

year old Cornet (or second lieutenant) in the<br />

<strong>17</strong>th Lancers. He was one of the few officers<br />

<strong>to</strong> survive the Charge of the Light Brigade on<br />

the 25th day of this month in 1854 and wrote<br />

his mother from his tent at the Crimea that<br />

he was alive and well.<br />

Rain s<strong>to</strong>ps play<br />

FUNNY KIND OF MONTH, <strong>Oct</strong>ober. It’s when<br />

the really keen cricket fan discovers that<br />

his wife left him in May. (Dennis Nordern)<br />

The cricket season ends and stumps are<br />

pulled right across <strong>Devonshire</strong> as countless<br />

‘cricket widows’ heave sighs of relief, their<br />

months of single parenting end and ‘normal<br />

family life’ returns.<br />

It was ever thus. Devon’s first ‘Gentlemen’s<br />

Eleven’ went in<strong>to</strong> bat at the Fortfield ground,<br />

Sidmouth in 1823 against the Gentlemen<br />

of Somerset, but Devon didn’t get round <strong>to</strong><br />

forming a County team until 1899 - which also<br />

turned out <strong>to</strong> be one of the wettest summers<br />

on record.<br />

“Instant karma!” as one 1899 cricket widow<br />

was heard <strong>to</strong> remark.<br />

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But here’s the thing...<br />

pho<strong>to</strong>: Stuart Dow, Timekeepers<br />

Name that s<strong>to</strong>rm<br />

IT’S TIME TO BATTEN DOWN THE<br />

HATCHES again in the West Country, where<br />

we let in a lot of our island’s weather during<br />

the autumn and winter months.<br />

Rock of ages<br />

LATEST CRAZE FOR ‘STONE-STACKING’<br />

on beaches in the West Country has taken a<br />

more worrying turn according <strong>to</strong> His<strong>to</strong>ric<br />

England, by moving the pastime inland.<br />

Now ‘persons unknown’ are making their<br />

presences felt at neolithic sites in remote<br />

parts of the peninsula, using what they see<br />

as loose rocks and boulders but are in fact<br />

the remains of pre-his<strong>to</strong>ric round houses.<br />

Daniel Ratcliffe, inspec<strong>to</strong>r of ancient monuments<br />

at His<strong>to</strong>ric England South West, said<br />

“S<strong>to</strong>nes are being taken <strong>to</strong> construct the inevitably<br />

temporary ‘fairy castles’: whilst it<br />

may seem benign, this is eroding nationally<br />

protected archaeology”.<br />

The Met Office and Met Éireann have coined<br />

our s<strong>to</strong>rm names again for the 20<strong>17</strong>-18 season.<br />

Last year the first s<strong>to</strong>rm was named after a<br />

chap called Angus, so this time round the<br />

honours go <strong>to</strong> one, Aileen.<br />

Surveys conducted after last year’s named<br />

s<strong>to</strong>rms have shown increases in awareness<br />

and action taken in response <strong>to</strong> people<br />

hearing of a named s<strong>to</strong>rm. S<strong>to</strong>rm Doris for<br />

example achieved an 89% awareness score<br />

with 94% of those responders finding the<br />

severe weather warning useful.<br />

Plymouth’s wave of poppies<br />

‘WAVE’ IS A BREATH-TAKING SCULPTURE<br />

designed by artist Paul Cummins and<br />

designer Tom Piper, which seems <strong>to</strong> have<br />

come racing in across the Sound and dashed<br />

itself against the massive s<strong>to</strong>ne Naval<br />

Monument a<strong>to</strong>p of Plymouth Hoe.<br />

The Memorial commemorates the 7,300<br />

pho<strong>to</strong>: Richard Lea-Hair<br />

servicemen men and women who<br />

died at sea during the Great War<br />

and have no known graves. The<br />

sweeping arch of thousands of<br />

bright red ceramic poppy heads<br />

suspended on <strong>to</strong>wering stalks<br />

is part of several 14-18 NOW<br />

projects happening in various<br />

parts of the UK <strong>to</strong> bring <strong>to</strong> life<br />

the legacy of the 1914-18 war for<br />

new generations. The poppies<br />

will remain there, on Plymouth<br />

Hoe, until 18th November.<br />

Remembrance Sunday is on 12th<br />

November this year.<br />

If you visit the monument look up at the<br />

large metal globe at the very <strong>to</strong>p, which is<br />

dented. It came about, indirectly as a result<br />

of enemy action in WW2, when a defensive<br />

barrage balloon became deflated and came<br />

down nearby.<br />

Weather forecaster Gerald Fleming, said:<br />

“Last winter was a very quiet one weather-wise<br />

and we only worked our way through five<br />

named s<strong>to</strong>rms, from Angus <strong>to</strong> Ewan. While<br />

it is <strong>to</strong>o early <strong>to</strong> say whether the coming<br />

winter will be a s<strong>to</strong>rmy one or a quiet one<br />

we are prepared with a whole new set of 21<br />

names for whatever nature may throw at us.<br />

As in previous years, Q; U; X; Y and Z will not<br />

be used <strong>to</strong> comply with international s<strong>to</strong>rm<br />

naming conventions. Here are the ones we<br />

can look forward <strong>to</strong>:<br />

(Aileen), Brian. Caroline, Dylan, Eleanor,<br />

Fionn, Georgina, Hec<strong>to</strong>r, Iona, James, Karen,<br />

Larry, Maeve, Niall, <strong>Oct</strong>avia, Paul, Rebecca,<br />

Simon, Tali, Vic<strong>to</strong>r and Winifred.<br />

Obligingly, Met Éireann tell us that Fionn<br />

is pronounced ‘Fy-unn’ and Niall ‘Nye-ul’<br />

JOHN FISHER<br />

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br />

“Of my sweet birth-place, and the old church-<strong>to</strong>wer,<br />

Whose bells, the poor man's only music, rang,<br />

From morn <strong>to</strong> evening, all the hot Fair-day,<br />

So sweetly, that they stirred and haunted me<br />

Coleridge's <strong>Devonshire</strong> Childhood<br />

They sent the child out of Ottery St. Mary<br />

but nothing was ever quite able <strong>to</strong> take Ottery St. Mary out of<br />

the child, who grew <strong>to</strong> become Devon’s most famous poet.<br />

EVERYONE (well, almost<br />

everyone) has heard of The<br />

Rime of the Ancient Mariner<br />

or Kubla Kahn but some of us<br />

might struggle <strong>to</strong> remember<br />

who wrote them, even though<br />

he ranks amongst Devon’s most<br />

famous sons.<br />

He was the founder, along with<br />

William Wordsworth, of the<br />

Romantic Movement, he was<br />

a poet, writer, philosopher<br />

and an extraordinarily gifted<br />

speaker who, like Sir Walter<br />

Raleigh before him, never lost<br />

his rich Devon accent.<br />

The voice of a poet<br />

His name was Samuel Taylor<br />

Coleridge (STC) and this is how<br />

Wordsworth’s sister, Dorothy,<br />

described the man and that<br />

remarkable voice:<br />

“At first I thought him very<br />

plain, that is, for about three<br />

minutes: he is pale, thin, has a<br />

wide mouth, thick lips, and not<br />

very good teeth, longish, loosegrowing,<br />

half-curling, rough,<br />

black hair . . . But, if you hear<br />

him speak for five minutes you<br />

think no more of them”.<br />

Wordsworth himself, a lifelong<br />

friend, likened it <strong>to</strong> ‘a majestic<br />

BY THE CHURCHYARD WALL:<br />

The Wedding-Guest sat on a s<strong>to</strong>ne: He cannot choose but hear; And<br />

thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.<br />

river’. “He talks as a bird sings,<br />

as if he could not help it: it is<br />

his nature”.<br />

But whilst that ‘majestic river’<br />

was little more than a two yearold<br />

babbling brook Coleridge<br />

himself recalled his first<br />

spoken words. “I was carelessly<br />

left by my nurse, ran <strong>to</strong> the<br />

fire, and pulled out a live coal -<br />

burnt myself dreadfully. While<br />

my hand was being dressed by<br />

a Mr Young, I spoke for the first<br />

time (so my mother informs<br />

me) and said,’Nasty Doc<strong>to</strong>r<br />

Young!’ The snatching at fire,<br />

and the circumstance of my<br />

first words expressing hatred<br />

<strong>to</strong> professional men”.<br />

A spoiled child<br />

STC was born - a Wednesday’s<br />

child - on 21 <strong>Oct</strong>ober, <strong>17</strong>72<br />

in Ottery St. Mary, the tenth<br />

and last child of the Reverend<br />

John Coleridge, Ottery’s vicar<br />

(<strong>17</strong>19-<strong>17</strong>81) and his second wife,<br />

Anne.<br />

His father was headmaster of<br />

Henry VIII’s Free Grammar<br />

School (nowadays the King’s<br />

School) in Ottery and was<br />

a tad eccentric in that he<br />

gave long Bible readings in<br />

Hebrew - <strong>to</strong> what must have<br />

been a somewhat bewildered<br />

congregation - because he<br />

believed the language <strong>to</strong> be<br />

closer <strong>to</strong> the word of God.<br />

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At three STC went <strong>to</strong> the<br />

so-called Reading school in<br />

Ottery, “because I was <strong>to</strong>o little<br />

<strong>to</strong> be trusted among my father’s<br />

schoolboys". By the end of<br />

that first year he could read a<br />

chapter from the Bible.<br />

Father's book burning<br />

At six years he had found some<br />

of the racier s<strong>to</strong>ries in The<br />

Arabian Nights and the tale<br />

of a man who was compelled<br />

<strong>to</strong> seek for a pure virgin: “I<br />

had read it in the evening<br />

while my mother was mending<br />

s<strong>to</strong>ckings and was haunted by<br />

spectres, whenever I was in the<br />

dark: my father found out the<br />

effect which these books had<br />

produced, and burnt them”.<br />

By the time he graduated <strong>to</strong><br />

his father’s school he was a<br />

phenomena - and by his own<br />

account something of an enfant<br />

terrible. “So I became fretful<br />

and timorous, and a tell-tale;<br />

and the schoolboys drove me<br />

from play, and were always<br />

<strong>to</strong>rmenting me, and hence I<br />

<strong>to</strong>ok no pleasure in boyish<br />

sports, but read incessantly”.<br />

Boyish charm<br />

“And though despised and hated<br />

by the boys; because I could<br />

read and spell, I was flattered<br />

and wondered at by all the old<br />

women. And so I became very<br />

vain”.<br />

Of his father, STC wrote “He<br />

had so little parental ambition<br />

in him, that, but for my<br />

Mother’s pride and spirit, he<br />

would certainly have brought<br />

up his other sons <strong>to</strong> trades -<br />

had nevertheless resolved that<br />

I should be a parson. He was<br />

very fond of me and used <strong>to</strong><br />

take me on his knee and hold<br />

long conversations with me”.<br />

The deep impression his<br />

father’s words and teachings<br />

made on his young mind was<br />

profound and is evident in his<br />

philosophical works and poetry,<br />

yet Coleridge was only <strong>to</strong> know<br />

him for seven short years.<br />

“I remember walking with him<br />

one winter evening”, he said,<br />

“from a farmer’s house, a mile<br />

from Ottery - he <strong>to</strong>ld me the<br />

names of the stars and… when<br />

I came home he showed me<br />

how they rolled round”.<br />

“I heard him with a profound<br />

delight and admiration but<br />

without the least mixture of<br />

wonder or incredulity. Ought<br />

children <strong>to</strong> be permitted <strong>to</strong><br />

read romances and s<strong>to</strong>ries of<br />

giants , magicians and genii? I<br />

know of no other way of giving<br />

the mind a love of the Great<br />

and the Whole”.<br />

STC’s mother, Anne Bowden<br />

Coleridge (<strong>17</strong>26-1809) came<br />

from Exmoor and married her<br />

husband, a widower with four<br />

sons, in Exeter. She bore him<br />

nine sons and one daughter,<br />

Samuel being the baby of the<br />

family.<br />

She was “industriously<br />

attentive <strong>to</strong> her household<br />

duties, and devoted <strong>to</strong> the care<br />

of her husband and family”.<br />

“She had neither love nor<br />

sympathy for display in others<br />

and she disliked, as she would<br />

say, ‘harpsichord ladies’, and<br />

strongly tried <strong>to</strong> impress upon<br />

her sons their little value in<br />

these accomplishments in their<br />

choice of wives”.<br />

A night of drama<br />

Anne spoiled her youngest<br />

child, something that did not<br />

endear him <strong>to</strong> his older brother,<br />

Francis.“When I was seven,”<br />

Coleridge related, “I had asked<br />

my mother one evening <strong>to</strong><br />

cut my cheese entire so that<br />

I might <strong>to</strong>ast it. This was no<br />

easy matter , it being a crumbly<br />

cheese”.<br />

YOUNG COLERIDGE IN THE PIXIES’ PARLOUR:<br />

Lord Byron mocked him and said that he had a fairy for a muse<br />

“I went in<strong>to</strong> the garden for<br />

something or other and in<br />

the meantime my Brother<br />

Frank minced my cheese ‘<strong>to</strong><br />

disappoint the favourite’. I<br />

returned, saw the exploit, and<br />

in an agony of passion flew<br />

at Frank - he pretended <strong>to</strong> be<br />

seriously hurt by the blow,<br />

flung himself on the ground,<br />

and there lay with outstretched<br />

limbs - I hung over his moaning<br />

& in a great fright - he leapt<br />

up & with a horse laugh gave<br />

me a severe blow in the face - I<br />

seized a knife, and was running<br />

at him when my Mother came<br />

in & <strong>to</strong>ok me by the arm - I<br />

expected a flogging - and<br />

struggling from her I ran away,<br />

<strong>to</strong> the hill at the bot<strong>to</strong>m of<br />

which the Otter flows - about<br />

one mile from Ottery”.<br />

“There I stayed: my rage died<br />

away but not my obstinacy<br />

& taking out a little shilling<br />

book which had, at the end,<br />

morning & evening prayers , I<br />

very devotedly repeated them -<br />

thinking at the same time with<br />

inward & gloomy satisfaction,<br />

how miserable my Mother must<br />

be!”<br />

Night fell by the Otter amid<br />

pouring rain and as he hid<br />

in the damp grass he was<br />

cry’d by the Ottery Crier and<br />

neighbours scoured the woods<br />

and meadows, ponds were<br />

dragged, so <strong>to</strong>o was the river -<br />

all in vain.<br />

He was found in the morning<br />

and carried <strong>to</strong> his bed. The<br />

rheumatic fever he later<br />

contracted afflicted him for<br />

years <strong>to</strong> come and was treated<br />

with laudanum, which fostered<br />

a lifelong opium addiction.<br />

With the church (including the<br />

church cat) and churchyard<br />

his immediate playgrounds he<br />

later recalled how “I used <strong>to</strong><br />

lie by the wall and mope, and<br />

my spirits used <strong>to</strong> come upon<br />

me sudden and in a flood; and I<br />

then was accus<strong>to</strong>med <strong>to</strong> run up<br />

and down the churchyard and<br />

act over again all I had been<br />

reading, <strong>to</strong> the docks and the<br />

nettles and the rank grass. I<br />

became a dreamer.”<br />

Towards the latter end of<br />

September <strong>17</strong>81 his father died<br />

suddenly and unexpectedly<br />

on his return from Plymouth<br />

where he had taken brother<br />

Francis <strong>to</strong> become a<br />

midshipman. “The image of my<br />

father,” Coleridge wrote, “my<br />

revered, kind, kind, learned,<br />

simple hearted father, is a<br />

religion <strong>to</strong> me”.<br />

A change of name<br />

In April of the next year he was<br />

taken <strong>to</strong> the Feni<strong>to</strong>n crossroads<br />

and lifted up and on<strong>to</strong> the<br />

outside of the coach that was<br />

<strong>to</strong> take him <strong>to</strong> London: that<br />

departure point, marked <strong>to</strong>day<br />

by a tall, s<strong>to</strong>ne cross erected<br />

<strong>to</strong> honour the memory of a<br />

martyred kinsman, Bishop John<br />

Coleridge Patteson - was the<br />

start of his exile away from the<br />

place and people he loved, for<br />

some seven long years.<br />

He had been given a charity<br />

place at Christ’s Hospital in<br />

London and of his time there he<br />

wrote that he was “Depressed,<br />

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orphan, half starved,” yet it<br />

was here .that he made lifelong<br />

friendships with boys who were<br />

<strong>to</strong> become some of the great<br />

writers in the English language.<br />

Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt<br />

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How this came about is related<br />

by the late John Whitham<br />

in his book Ottery St. Mary,<br />

a <strong>Devonshire</strong> Town, who<br />

recounts an episode in the life<br />

of Francis George Coleridge<br />

(<strong>17</strong>94-1854) who practised as a<br />

solici<strong>to</strong>r in the <strong>to</strong>wn, as did John<br />

Whitham.<br />

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH,<br />

who addressed his great<br />

unfinished poem 'The Recluse'<br />

<strong>to</strong> Coleridge, “who inspired the<br />

work”<br />

He left Christ’s when he was <strong>17</strong><br />

and went up <strong>to</strong> Jesus College,<br />

Cambridge, studied hard and<br />

wrote Greek poetry “like a mad<br />

dog” - which won him a prize -<br />

but he never <strong>to</strong>ok a degree and<br />

after walking away from his<br />

studies twice and “indulging<br />

in a tempest of pleasure in<br />

London” he changed his name <strong>to</strong><br />

Silas Tomkyn Cumberbatch and<br />

became a horse-soldier with the<br />

Dragoons.<br />

(He always hated his first name,<br />

Samuel, and frequently used<br />

pseudonyms in his writing.<br />

His pen names included<br />

Gnome, Zagri, and Nehemiah<br />

Higginbot<strong>to</strong>m).<br />

His military career lasted some<br />

four months before he was<br />

bought-out by his family and<br />

returned <strong>to</strong> Cambridge.<br />

Picnic among pixies<br />

Before he married Sarah Fricker<br />

(<strong>17</strong>40-1845) and in search of a<br />

love - or at least romance - in<br />

his life he came back from<br />

Cambridge <strong>to</strong> Ottery, first s<strong>to</strong>p<br />

the family home and his mother<br />

but then, two days later, he<br />

headed back <strong>to</strong> his beloved river<br />

Otter and one of his childhood’s<br />

secret places. This was the<br />

so-called Pixies’ Parlour and<br />

this his chosen spot for a rather<br />

special picnic he hosted.<br />

St. Mary's Chruch, viewed from the Otter Valley's East Hill. PHOTO: Mike Bird<br />

It is a place that survives <strong>to</strong> this<br />

day - more or less - and inspired<br />

one of his poems Songs of the<br />

Pixies - causing Lord Byron <strong>to</strong><br />

taunt him by writing that, “He<br />

has a pixie for a muse!” This is<br />

the poem’s introduction:<br />

Initials carved by Samuel Taylor<br />

Coleridge in <strong>17</strong>89 on the rock at<br />

Pixies' Parlour<br />

“The Pixies, in the superstition of<br />

<strong>Devonshire</strong>, are a race of beings<br />

invisibly small, and harmless<br />

or friendly <strong>to</strong> man. At a small<br />

distance from a village in that<br />

county, half-way up a woodcovered<br />

hill, is an excavation<br />

called the Pixies’ Parlour. The<br />

roots of old trees form its<br />

ceiling; and on its sides are<br />

innumerable cyphers, among<br />

which the author discovered<br />

his own cypher and those of<br />

his brothers, cut by the hand of<br />

their childhood. At the foot of<br />

the hill flows the river Otter. To<br />

this place the Author, during<br />

the summer months of the<br />

year <strong>17</strong>93, conducted a party<br />

of young ladies; one of whom,<br />

of stature elegantly small, and<br />

of complexion colourless yet<br />

clear, was proclaimed the Faery<br />

Queen”.<br />

That young lady’s name was<br />

Elizabeth Boutflower, who,<br />

whilst doubtless delighted with<br />

the attention was evidently not<br />

sufficiently impressed by STC’s<br />

rhyming couplets and married<br />

elsewhere some short while<br />

after.<br />

What then of that epic Rime<br />

of the Ancient Mariner, the<br />

wondrous Kubla Kahn and the<br />

rest? All of these came later<br />

and <strong>to</strong>gether with the fuller<br />

s<strong>to</strong>ry of his extraordinary life<br />

beyond the confines of the<br />

beautiful Otter Valley are well<br />

documented elsewhere whilst<br />

this is solely about his formative<br />

years in his beloved Devon.<br />

After his death in Highgate,<br />

London on Friday, 25 July 1834<br />

at the age of just 52, it was said<br />

of him that “As a poet, his place<br />

is indisputable: it is high among<br />

the highest of all time”.<br />

A poet's pilgrimage<br />

But the greatest tribute by one<br />

great poet <strong>to</strong> another must<br />

surely be the pilgrimage that<br />

William Wordsworth made <strong>to</strong><br />

Ottery St. Mary some 13 years<br />

after his great friend’s death.<br />

“On coming in<strong>to</strong> the church one<br />

afternoon <strong>to</strong>wards the end of<br />

May, 1841, he had noticed a tall,<br />

elderly gentleman. Thinking<br />

that he was an interested<br />

visi<strong>to</strong>r, he approached him and<br />

was surprised <strong>to</strong> find he was<br />

the celebrated poet William<br />

Wordsworth. He gave him a<br />

warm welcome and invited him<br />

<strong>to</strong> tea with his family at the<br />

Manor House”.<br />

Wordsworth had travelled<br />

from the Lake District <strong>to</strong> make<br />

farewell visits <strong>to</strong> his old haunts<br />

in the Quan<strong>to</strong>cks after an<br />

absence of over 40 years and<br />

had decided <strong>to</strong> include this, the<br />

birthplace of his old friend at<br />

the culmination of his journey<br />

<strong>to</strong> the West Country.<br />

The memorial<br />

How appropriate therefore<br />

that the very place where a<br />

friendless little boy once ‘moped<br />

and played and dreamed’,<br />

the self-same place that<br />

Wordsworth came <strong>to</strong> pay tribute<br />

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become the site of a memorial<br />

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Horse<br />

Care<br />

Empathy<br />

by Natalie Bucklar<br />

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Natalie Bucklar<br />

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Natalie has owned horses for over<br />

30 years and owns East Devon<br />

Riding Academy near Sidmouth.<br />

She has previously lectured in<br />

Equine Science <strong>to</strong> degree level and<br />

produced research for preparing<br />

Great Britains' equestrian teams<br />

for the Olympics. Natalie provides<br />

consultations in horse management,<br />

training and problem solving using<br />

a force-free, science based approach.<br />

Empathy<br />

At East Devon Riding Academy,<br />

one of the skills we like <strong>to</strong> develop<br />

in riders is empathy. The ability <strong>to</strong><br />

understand and share the feelings<br />

of the horse undoubtedly makes<br />

you a better horse person but<br />

furthermore, it enhances your<br />

own life <strong>to</strong>o.<br />

Amazing research carried out<br />

with rats showed that they would<br />

release other rats from a cage even<br />

if there was no reward for doing so.<br />

Taking it one step further, when<br />

given the choice of two cages, one<br />

containing a rat and one chocolate,<br />

the rats would open both cages,<br />

often sharing the chocolate with<br />

the rat they had released. This<br />

research clearly demonstrated<br />

empathy in action and shows that<br />

helping others brings rewards<br />

beyond anything tangible.<br />

I’ve often heard riders complain<br />

that their horse won’t do<br />

something, even though<br />

they’ve asked it <strong>to</strong> several times.<br />

At this point I like <strong>to</strong> go back<br />

<strong>to</strong> square one, checking the<br />

understanding and execution<br />

of the communication offered<br />

by the rider. Often something is<br />

missing or physical actions are<br />

contradic<strong>to</strong>ry and then there’s the<br />

regular occurrence of perception<br />

not matching reality. The rider<br />

thinks they have done something<br />

or asked a certain way but the<br />

reality is very different. This can be<br />

highlighted with a simple exercise-<br />

try it. Put your hands out in front<br />

of you, side by side level with your<br />

shoulders, then close your eyes.<br />

Put one arm up <strong>to</strong> your ear and<br />

one arm down <strong>to</strong> your thigh then<br />

bring your hands back <strong>to</strong>gether<br />

in front of you. When you think<br />

your hands are level open your<br />

eyes. Are your hands level? If they<br />

are, well done, you have better<br />

perception than most. With many<br />

people one hand will be higher<br />

than the other, showing that even<br />

though the person thought they<br />

were level, the reality is different.<br />

So many riders think they’ve got<br />

their shoulders in the right place<br />

or their leg aid was soft but in<br />

many cases this is not an accurate<br />

representation of what the horse<br />

feels or even thinks. Perceived rein<br />

contact has been shown <strong>to</strong> be<br />

inaccurate even by experienced<br />

riders- what they would describe<br />

as light pressure has been proven<br />

<strong>to</strong> be anything but when it has<br />

been measured objectively with<br />

strain gauges attached <strong>to</strong> the reins.<br />

One other exercise <strong>to</strong> help<br />

understand a horses perspective is<br />

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attempting <strong>to</strong> swallow in different<br />

ways. First, swallow normally. Then<br />

try <strong>to</strong> swallow with your <strong>to</strong>ngue<br />

held down <strong>to</strong> the bot<strong>to</strong>m of your<br />

mouth. Feel the difference? Now<br />

try <strong>to</strong> swallow with the <strong>to</strong>ngue<br />

held down but with the mouth<br />

both open and closed, which is<br />

easier? The hardest way <strong>to</strong> swallow<br />

is with both the <strong>to</strong>ngue held down<br />

and the mouth shut- it’s possible<br />

but it’s not easy as it completely<br />

changes the way the mouth<br />

needs <strong>to</strong> function <strong>to</strong> swallow<br />

properly. Now think about the<br />

horse wearing a bit in conjunction<br />

with a tight noseband or one that<br />

is designed <strong>to</strong> keep the mouth<br />

closed. With this tack arrangement<br />

the <strong>to</strong>ngue is prevented from<br />

coming up <strong>to</strong> the roof of the<br />

mouth normally and the horse<br />

is forced <strong>to</strong> keep its mouth shut.<br />

This is why horses can be seen<br />

with frothy mouths, it’s not<br />

acceptance of the bit, it’s because<br />

swallowing is being impaired. I am<br />

hoping this exercise has inspired<br />

empathy <strong>to</strong>wards all those horses<br />

that are expected <strong>to</strong> perform a<br />

job, listen <strong>to</strong> the rider and even<br />

carry out intense exercise whilst<br />

having difficulty swallowing! And<br />

hopefully for those who can, this<br />

empathy can be used <strong>to</strong> help out<br />

a horse or two.<br />

Happy Riding!<br />

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The Old Vet’nary<br />

by Ken Watson<br />

A life on the road<br />

a friendly, family practice<br />

Somewhere back in the 70s<br />

the cost of a visit by a vet was<br />

so cheap that I was kept busy,<br />

between surgery times, careering<br />

around the roads of Plymouth<br />

and surrounding countryside<br />

<strong>to</strong> fit in a dozen or more home<br />

visits every day. This was a very<br />

Ken's Triumph TR6<br />

satisfying time, allowing me <strong>to</strong><br />

bond with people and their pets<br />

in their homes.<br />

One day my wife said <strong>to</strong> me, “As<br />

you spend so much time on the<br />

road, why don’t you get yourself<br />

a good car <strong>to</strong> enjoy it”. So I did, a<br />

low mileage Triumph TR6, garish<br />

in it’s body colours, which had<br />

obviously been someone’s pride<br />

and joy. The only snag was its<br />

clutch pedal, which needed a<br />

superhuman effort <strong>to</strong> depress. A<br />

kindly mechanic made me a raised<br />

wooden shoe which he fixed <strong>to</strong><br />

the pedal <strong>to</strong> ease depression, but<br />

it still had a mighty kick.<br />

When I first arrived at the<br />

surgery in it there was a<br />

lot of banter about midlife<br />

crisis and bird pullers,<br />

but I rose above it all and<br />

I thoroughly enjoyed my<br />

time driving it. It had<br />

a hard removable <strong>to</strong>p<br />

which spent most of its<br />

time suspended from<br />

the garage ceiling and a<br />

client made me a <strong>to</strong>nneau which<br />

covered all except the driver’s seat;<br />

but unfortunately I had the only<br />

two proper accidents I have ever<br />

had while driving. In both cases<br />

another car drove in<strong>to</strong> me. In the<br />

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along a residential street parallel<br />

<strong>to</strong> Plymouth’s Alma Road when<br />

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struck me on the left rear wheel,<br />

making my car spin through 180<br />

degrees, so that I ended up facing<br />

the way I had just come. They say<br />

that in incidents such as this you<br />

see everything in slow motion and<br />

I can vouch for the truth of that.<br />

As my car spun round, I watched<br />

by Richard Woodward<br />

in dreamy horror as I aimed for a<br />

substantial looking metal lamp<br />

post. A yard short of impact my<br />

rear tyre burst with a bang and<br />

s<strong>to</strong>pped my spin dead. Someone<br />

was watching over me that day.<br />

Driving had not always been that<br />

luxurious. I learnt <strong>to</strong> drive and<br />

passed the text in a Morris Minor,<br />

that most simple and dependable<br />

of cars. After that I did not drive a<br />

car for two years, except for a one<br />

day hire of an Austin Cambridge.<br />

Geordie drives one in the latest<br />

series of Grantchester. It had a<br />

steering column gear shift and<br />

was a very boring car. We also,<br />

for a Norfolk holiday, hired an<br />

ancient Opel which jumped out<br />

of third gear up every hill and<br />

every 50 miles or so, deciding it<br />

needed a rest and refused <strong>to</strong> go<br />

any further until it had a rest in a<br />

layby or farm gateway. Then we<br />

moved <strong>to</strong> Streatley-On-Thames<br />

for the final, clinical, year of Vet<br />

College, and the only digs we<br />

could afford was an ancient<br />

caravan which be bought from<br />

another student for £150. When<br />

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GARDENING<br />

Can it get any prettier I ask you?<br />

Here an old orchard situated<br />

amongs the rolling Devon<br />

countryside at Bow in<br />

South Devon.<br />

DEVON'S APPLE HERITAGE<br />

Nigel Jones suggests that the humble apple is possibly the world's most important fruit,<br />

Devon has certainly benefitted from its perennial bounty over the centuries.<br />

DNA analysis indicated that our modern<br />

apple owes its existence <strong>to</strong> Malus sieversii,<br />

which originated in an area around Kazakhstan’s<br />

mountainous region next <strong>to</strong> its border<br />

with the Tien Shan mountains in China. It<br />

can still be found flourishing <strong>to</strong>day (see map<br />

right). Gradually the apple is thought <strong>to</strong> have<br />

spread along the old silk routes through Asia,<br />

the Middle East and then Europe.<br />

The apple through the centuries<br />

Britain’s apple his<strong>to</strong>ry most probably starts<br />

with the Roman invasion, and although it’s<br />

thought Britain already had apples of a sort in<br />

the Neolithic period, the Romans introduced<br />

varieties that provided much improved taste<br />

and sweetness. The Romans regarded the<br />

apple as a luxury fruit, the Norse gods supposedly<br />

owed their immortality <strong>to</strong> apples, and it’s<br />

reputed that a golden apple (inscribed with “For<br />

the fairest”) started the Trojan war, when it was<br />

thrown down amongst the assembled gods.<br />

Apple plantations in the Nile are mentioned<br />

in a papyrus dated <strong>to</strong> the reign of Rameses II<br />

(1279-1213 BC), apples and orchards were also<br />

referred <strong>to</strong> in Homer’s Odyssey. Today, the<br />

humble apple is the world’s most important<br />

and largest grown fruit crop, with production<br />

at 84.6 million <strong>to</strong>nnes in 2014, China consuming<br />

nearly half that quantity.<br />

Early propagation / grafting<br />

It’s important <strong>to</strong> note that apple trees grown<br />

from pips will be entirely different from their<br />

parents so if an apple was found <strong>to</strong> have all<br />

the properties desired <strong>to</strong> make it exceptional,<br />

such as good eating, resistance <strong>to</strong> pests and<br />

blight, etc, then it was necessary <strong>to</strong> ensure no<br />

changes occurred once the desired properties<br />

were found. This is why grafting was so<br />

important in terms of securing the properties<br />

of the existing strain. It’s said that the Chinese<br />

first worked-out how <strong>to</strong> graft apples, and it’s<br />

known that the Ancient Greeks also carried<br />

this out practice. It’s also said that the Celts<br />

were using grafting, pre Roman invasion, so<br />

there’s some debate about the widely held<br />

view that the Romans made a major input <strong>to</strong><br />

our strains of apple.<br />

Apple culture in Roman times was advanced,<br />

Columella describes cleft and rind grafting<br />

and they had also developed a method of<br />

propagation similar <strong>to</strong> the modern patch<br />

budding technique. Pliny noted that apples<br />

had the highest value amongst fruit and that<br />

apple cultivation was very profitable.<br />

In Europe the monasteries became major<br />

producers of apples, particularly after Charlemagne*<br />

was crowned the Holy Roman Emperor<br />

in AD800, because he introduced a law that<br />

every crown-owned piece of land should have<br />

gardens planted with herbs and fruits, apples<br />

and pears <strong>to</strong> be amongst these. (*The title of<br />

Holy Roman Emperor was held in conjunction<br />

with the rule of the Kingdom of Germany).<br />

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The Norman Conquest & Christianity<br />

In England following the Norman Conquest,<br />

monasteries and priories planted many apple<br />

orchards. They brought with them much<br />

expertise in apple cultivation from France. In<br />

1086, twenty years after the invasion, half of<br />

the land in Kent was owned by the Christian<br />

church and St Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury,<br />

so you can imagine the Norman/Christian<br />

influence on apple production across England.<br />

Two cultivars of apple became widespread in<br />

the thirteenth century, ʻPearmain’ and ʻCostard’,<br />

there being records of their roots<strong>to</strong>cks being<br />

bought and sold. Cider became a popular and<br />

safe beverage, diluted for children, and cider<br />

became a valuable product with which <strong>to</strong><br />

pay workers, also a popular drink for pilgrims.<br />

When you consider that ale required the<br />

production of an annual crop, whereas cider<br />

apples appeared year in, year out, perhaps<br />

for 70 years once the tree had started <strong>to</strong> fruit,<br />

then the value of the apple was inestimable,<br />

particularly because they could be cold-s<strong>to</strong>red,<br />

providing they were kept frost-free. In addition,<br />

cider had a much longer shelf-life than ale.<br />

GARDENING<br />

Adam and Eve<br />

It’s a question for debate whether our Christian<br />

forebears formed an uneasy alliance with the<br />

apple, and although the apple is not given as<br />

the forbidden fruit in the Old Testament’s Book<br />

of Genesis s<strong>to</strong>ry about Adam and Eve (nor is<br />

any other fruit given), artistic speculation and<br />

interpretation of this s<strong>to</strong>ry in the mediaeval<br />

period eventually began <strong>to</strong> include the apple.<br />

For instance, an engraving by Albrecht Durer in<br />

1504 shows Adam and Eve with the forbidden<br />

fruit being an apple. Again in the 16th century,<br />

Lucas Craach’s (1472-1553) Titian shows Adam<br />

and Eve under an apple tree with a single apple<br />

held jointly between them both (see image).<br />

The apple theme was further propagated by<br />

artists in subsequent generations. It’s interesting<br />

<strong>to</strong> note that Malus - the Latin name for the<br />

apple, means both ʻapple’ and ʻevil’.<br />

The Reformation<br />

Henry VIII played his own part in the his<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

of the apple in England. Following the Black<br />

Death and the War of the Roses, apple production<br />

had declined dramatically in England.<br />

Henry VIII imported French gardeners and<br />

instructed his fruiterer, Richard Harris, <strong>to</strong> identify<br />

and produce new varieties at his orchard in<br />

Kent. The red skinned Pippin was introduced<br />

from France, but in Tudor times the Queene<br />

was the most common variety.<br />

Cider for wages<br />

Cider was once used <strong>to</strong> pay employees, and<br />

it’s said that employers who produced the best<br />

ciders could attract good quality employees,<br />

because much of their wage was paid in lieu<br />

of cider.<br />

The Truck Law<br />

Of course there was a major flaw with paying<br />

employees in goods, as it was down <strong>to</strong> the<br />

employer <strong>to</strong> decide on the value of goods<br />

given <strong>to</strong> employees in lieu of money. It was<br />

very much in the interest of the employee<br />

<strong>to</strong> value whatever goods that were given as<br />

highly as possible, leading <strong>to</strong> much swindling,<br />

(for want of a better word). When researching<br />

the Truck Law, I'd found reference <strong>to</strong> it in 1464,<br />

although no information was forthcoming,<br />

although there were amendments listed for<br />

<strong>17</strong>25, 1831, 1887, 1896 and 1940. It appears<br />

that employee payment with goods was<br />

finally made illegal in 1887 but I stand <strong>to</strong> be<br />

corrected. Edi<strong>to</strong>r<br />

To be continued...<br />

Ireland<br />

North<br />

Sea<br />

United<br />

Kingdom<br />

Denmark<br />

Germany<br />

Baltic<br />

Sea<br />

Poland<br />

Es<strong>to</strong>nia<br />

Latvia<br />

Lithuania<br />

Belarus<br />

THE ORIGINS OF OUR APPLE<br />

Russia<br />

The place where our<br />

current day apple<br />

originates, in the form of<br />

malus sieversii, the mother<br />

(or father) <strong>to</strong> all our apples<br />

Celtic Sea<br />

Bay of Biscay<br />

France<br />

Austria<br />

Romania<br />

Ukraine<br />

Kazakhstan<br />

Mongolia<br />

Portugal<br />

Morocco<br />

Spain<br />

Alboran Sea<br />

Balearic<br />

Sea<br />

Tunisia<br />

Italy<br />

Tyrhenian<br />

Sea<br />

Greece<br />

Mediterranean Sea<br />

Black Sea<br />

Turkey<br />

Syria<br />

Georgia<br />

Armenia<br />

Iraq<br />

Caspian<br />

Sea<br />

Libya<br />

Pakistan<br />

Egypt India<br />

Iran<br />

Turkmenistan<br />

Uzbekistan<br />

Afghanistan<br />

Tajikistan<br />

Kyrgystan<br />

China<br />

Map showing where our modern day apple originates from, Kazakhstan, on the<br />

border with the Tien Shan mountains in China. It's thought that the apple spread<br />

along the old Silk Route, then up in<strong>to</strong> Europe. There's debate as <strong>to</strong> whether the<br />

Romans introduced superior, sweeter apples <strong>to</strong> England, because the Celts were<br />

already using grafting techniques <strong>to</strong> enhance the fruit strains.<br />

The Silk Route<br />

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GARDENING<br />

Nature Matters<br />

by Stephen Hussey of the Devon Wildlife Trust<br />

It’s a family day out...<br />

We - wife, two children and I - have<br />

come <strong>to</strong> the heart of Dartmoor.<br />

We’ve barely begun <strong>to</strong> explore<br />

when our first wildlife experience<br />

of the day comes in<strong>to</strong> view, and<br />

then leaves again just as quickly.<br />

Stepping off the narrow road<br />

between Postbridge and the<br />

hamlet of Bellever we’re walking<br />

a broad pathway through grass<br />

and the autumn deadheads of<br />

wildflowers when we disturb a<br />

grazing roe deer. With bouncing<br />

athleticism, it takes off and in a<br />

few seconds disappears in<strong>to</strong> the<br />

distance.<br />

We’re left <strong>to</strong> discover the open<br />

spaces of Bellever Moor and<br />

Meadows nature reserve. Its<br />

sweeping meadows, sub-divided<br />

by granite walls, were a few<br />

bounds for the deer, but it takes<br />

us the next couple of hours <strong>to</strong><br />

fully explore.<br />

What <strong>to</strong> see - Roe deer<br />

this kind of hay meadow. It’s a<br />

landscape which has gone missing<br />

from much of the remainder of<br />

Dartmoor, let alone the wider<br />

countryside. But at more than 70<br />

hectares Bellever nature reserve<br />

is a sizeable reminder of what<br />

wonderful places they are.<br />

(pho<strong>to</strong> Alexander Backus)<br />

For those who take the time <strong>to</strong> find<br />

it, Bellever Moor and Meadows<br />

also possesses a different side.<br />

Taking a 15 minute walk through<br />

Bellever hamlet past its Youth<br />

Hostel and forestry workers<br />

cottages we come across part<br />

two of the nature reserve. This<br />

is a place called Laughter Hole<br />

and there’s a distinct contrast<br />

here <strong>to</strong> the open moorland we’ve<br />

just been exploring. A patchwork<br />

of nine much smaller fields are<br />

marked out by dry s<strong>to</strong>ne walls<br />

and enclosed by the striking evergreen<br />

background of Bellever<br />

Forest.<br />

This is a more intimate space and<br />

its pleasures come closer <strong>to</strong> hand.<br />

Along the track through the fields<br />

we rub shoulders with the tall<br />

yellow fading flower heads of<br />

ragwort mingled with the last<br />

purples of the season courtesy<br />

of rosebay willowherb.<br />

Picking one of the fields at random<br />

we enter through a gate in<strong>to</strong> a<br />

field which quickly provides a<br />

quickfire test of our botany skills.<br />

Knapweed, bird’s foot trefoil,<br />

creeping buttercup, germander<br />

speedwell are among the plants<br />

we do know, but that are many<br />

others we don’t! In spring and<br />

summer, with flowers on show,<br />

the job of identification should get<br />

easier. Back through a gate and<br />

along a track <strong>to</strong>wards the edge<br />

of the conifer forest we arrive at<br />

a final, remarkable sight - a tree<br />

whose canopy drips with lichen.<br />

Its branches are home <strong>to</strong> a huge<br />

collection of sausage lichen that<br />

dangles <strong>to</strong>wards us. The tree looks<br />

odd with its decoration, but the<br />

lichen’s abundance is a positive<br />

sign, a mark of the good, clean air<br />

hereabouts. It’s a scene that might<br />

appear in a tropical rainforest -<br />

but the keen wind and the first<br />

drops of a cold autumn shower are<br />

enough <strong>to</strong> keep us in the present<br />

and remind us that it’s time <strong>to</strong><br />

turn for home.<br />

Visiting Bellever<br />

Moor and Meadows<br />

Bellever Moor and Meadows<br />

can be found close <strong>to</strong> the Dartmoor<br />

village of Postbridge. Go<br />

<strong>to</strong> www.devonwildlifetrust.org/<br />

wildlife/reserves for directions<br />

and visi<strong>to</strong>r details.<br />

The truth is we’re in no hurry,<br />

there’s plenty <strong>to</strong> experience.<br />

Meadow pipits fly up from the<br />

tall grasses as we walk, we meet<br />

linnets sat along a strand of<br />

boundary fence wire and hear<br />

ravens and buzzards overhead.<br />

Then there’s the scent of grasses,<br />

herbs and wildflowers as we take<br />

each step ‒ a faint reminder of<br />

the summer just past. Much of<br />

the nature reserve is covered in<br />

Great open space at Bellever Moor and Meadows nature reserve<br />

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Life Matters<br />

Balancing the stresses of work and living<br />

with health and relaxation<br />

Courses & Classes<br />

ADULT LEARNING<br />

CHRISTMAS GIFT WRAP PRINTING<br />

18 Nov- Bur<strong>to</strong>n Art Gallery & Museum,<br />

Bideford.<br />

STIR-UP SUNDAY<br />

19 Nov- Trill Farm, Axminster.<br />

ART WORKSHOPS<br />

VAN DYCK AT COURT, DR STEPHEN<br />

BEMROSE COURSE<br />

<strong>17</strong> <strong>Oct</strong> <strong>to</strong> 21 Nov- Kennaway House,<br />

Sidmouth.<br />

SILK PAINTING SCARVES<br />

22 <strong>Oct</strong>- Coastal Craft Collective, Sea<strong>to</strong>n.<br />

JAKE WINKLE. WILD IN<br />

WATERCOLOUR<br />

02 Nov- East Devon Art, Sidmouth.<br />

JOHN HOAR. WATERCOLOUR - FAST<br />

AND FREE.<br />

09 Nov- East Devon Art, Sidmouth.<br />

CRAFT<br />

BY THE LOOM A SPINNING &<br />

WEAVING CRAFT EVENT<br />

27 <strong>Oct</strong>- Axminster Heritage, Axminster.<br />

FAIR ISLE KNITTING & STEEKING AT<br />

SPIN A YARN<br />

31 <strong>Oct</strong>- Spin A Yarn, Bovey Tracey.<br />

ADVANCED SOAP MAKING<br />

04 Nov <strong>to</strong> 05 Nov- Trill Farm, Axminster.<br />

CRAFT SOCIAL EVENINGS - WIRE &<br />

BEAD DECS<br />

08 Nov- Coastal Craft Collective, Sea<strong>to</strong>n.<br />

SIDMOUTH CRAFTERS<br />

09 Nov- Sidmouth Crafters, Sidmouth.<br />

COFFEE AND CREATE.CRAFT<br />

TASTER SESSION<br />

14 Nov- East Town Cafe, Credi<strong>to</strong>n.<br />

WILLOW WEAVING CHRISTMAS<br />

DECORATIONS<br />

<strong>17</strong> Nov- Trill Farm, Axminster.<br />

WILLOW WEAVING CHRISTMAS<br />

DECORATIONS<br />

18 Nov- Trill Farm, Axminster.<br />

DRIFTWOOD CHRISTMAS<br />

DECORATIONS<br />

22 Nov- Coastal Craft Collective, Sea<strong>to</strong>n.<br />

DRIFTWOOD CHRISTMAS CRAFT<br />

WORKSHOP<br />

10 <strong>Dec</strong>- Torbay Coast and Countryside<br />

Trust, Paign<strong>to</strong>n.<br />

CHRISTMAS TABLE DECORATIONS<br />

AT BUCKFAST ABBEY<br />

12 <strong>Dec</strong>- Buckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh.<br />

SIDMOUTH CRAFTERS<br />

14 <strong>Dec</strong>- Sidmouth Crafters, Sidmouth.<br />

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A day in the life<br />

of a live-in companion<br />

Rio Bailey, who works in South Devon,<br />

describes her love for life as a<br />

Live in Companion.<br />

There is a real connection that is formed when<br />

getting <strong>to</strong> know a new companion<br />

live-in Companion provides care,<br />

A assistance and companionship <strong>to</strong><br />

people with a range of difficulties and<br />

personal restrictions that affect their<br />

ability <strong>to</strong> carry out daily activities in<br />

and around the house, as well as in<br />

the community. The people looked<br />

after all have their individual issues<br />

with help: some with various types of<br />

dementia, sensory impairments and<br />

disabilities such as Multiple Sclerosis.<br />

We speak <strong>to</strong> local Devon woman,<br />

Rio, about her experiences being a<br />

Live-in Companion.<br />

"Walking up <strong>to</strong> the house you have no<br />

idea who is on the other side of that<br />

door. It can be very nerve racking<br />

as you need <strong>to</strong> build a relationship<br />

with a stranger quickly - being open<br />

minded and thick skin helps a lot.<br />

Getting <strong>to</strong> know a person and their<br />

Insomnia<br />

Headaches<br />

Back pain<br />

Sciatica<br />

Also safe for children<br />

routine is a fun but sometimes<br />

challenging experience. You may<br />

be the first person <strong>to</strong> care for them<br />

or the fifth, but what is important<br />

is that you will be the one who will<br />

The beauty of live<br />

in care is that there<br />

is an opportunity<br />

<strong>to</strong> build a strong<br />

friendship<br />

be providing a high level of care in<br />

a personal way, adapting <strong>to</strong> that<br />

individual’s physical and emotional<br />

needs.<br />

"I get a sense of pride from my job,<br />

actively making a difference <strong>to</strong> not<br />

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only my new companion, but their<br />

friends and family as well. I do it <strong>to</strong><br />

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their independence, so I also always<br />

ask never assume.<br />

"There is a real connection that is<br />

formed when getting <strong>to</strong> know new<br />

people and personalities, what<br />

makes them smile and what makes<br />

them sad. I love being a person<br />

someone can turn <strong>to</strong> for help <strong>to</strong> make<br />

them laugh or hold their hand as<br />

they cry.<br />

"Even though there is a personalised<br />

care plan you quickly learn that you<br />

have <strong>to</strong> adapt. Many days have<br />

been quite different <strong>to</strong> the previous!<br />

Everyone’s routine is be different,<br />

as a live in companion you have <strong>to</strong><br />

adapt quickly.<br />

"The beauty of live in care is that<br />

there is an opportunity <strong>to</strong> build a<br />

strong friendship; you learn almost<br />

everything there is <strong>to</strong> know about the<br />

person you are caring for. Knowing<br />

someone so well also means that<br />

you can easily spot when something<br />

changes, and adapt how you care<br />

for them <strong>to</strong> ensure that their needs<br />

are met.<br />

"I love my job!"<br />

Rio Bailey, 22, a Live-In Companion<br />

with Bluebird Care.<br />

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continued...<br />

Emma’s<br />

Outdoor<br />

Adventures<br />

by Emma Moore<br />

The Old Vet’nary<br />

continued from page 87<br />

A life on the road<br />

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Despite our false start we were<br />

soon well away, striding through<br />

the crashing waves and loving<br />

every minute of our new exhilarating<br />

sport, it didn’t take us<br />

long <strong>to</strong> fall in love with our little<br />

boats and the amazing feeling<br />

that came with being completely<br />

free and at one with the incredibly<br />

powerful sea.<br />

Paddling strong we decided<br />

<strong>to</strong> head on a bit further, so<br />

we cruised past Ness Cove in<br />

search of Smugglers Cove the<br />

next secluded beach along, only<br />

accessible at low tide or via a boat.<br />

A perfect spot <strong>to</strong> have a little rest<br />

and some well-earned lunch.<br />

We then spent a good couple of<br />

hours playing around in the sea<br />

before catching the tide in and<br />

heading home. We’ve come away<br />

with not only an amazing day<br />

exploring but also gaining a huge<br />

respect for the sea and admiration<br />

of the beautiful coastlines we have<br />

all around us.<br />

Until next time...<br />

Emma<br />

it came <strong>to</strong> vacations, there was<br />

no rest for vet students. We had<br />

<strong>to</strong> “see practice” somewhere<br />

and produce a written record of<br />

interesting cases witnessed. To be<br />

near the practice and night calls, it<br />

would be useful <strong>to</strong> <strong>to</strong>w our caravan<br />

<strong>to</strong> my chosen practice in North<br />

Taw<strong>to</strong>n. It would need a powerful<br />

car <strong>to</strong> <strong>to</strong>w our heavy old 4 wheel<br />

van. On the forecourt of a garage in<br />

Pangbourne we spotted a big old<br />

Talbot 110 with a canvas hood, a<br />

running board and headlamps like<br />

searchlights. It had a pre-selec<strong>to</strong>r<br />

gear change on the steering wheel<br />

so that you set the required gear,<br />

double declutched and carried on<br />

your way. There was no choke, but<br />

a contraption called KiGas. This<br />

had <strong>to</strong> be pumped vigorously at<br />

least ten times and then you tried<br />

<strong>to</strong> start with the ignition key. If<br />

that did not work, it was out the<br />

front with the starting handle,<br />

which either put your back out<br />

or dislocated your thumb. So by<br />

the time you got it running, you<br />

had forgotten where you were<br />

going, but just felt the need <strong>to</strong><br />

go indoors and have a lie down.<br />

But what a magnificent beast it<br />

was <strong>to</strong> drive. It cost me £110, of<br />

which I had <strong>to</strong> borrow £100, but<br />

I think they must have seen me<br />

coming because within 6 months<br />

the big end packed up and it was<br />

scrap. Still, it served its purpose<br />

gallantly, <strong>to</strong>wed our caravan<br />

twice and finally, unencumbered<br />

by caravan, carried us and all<br />

our worldly possessions, which<br />

included a pregnant wife, from<br />

Streatley <strong>to</strong> Sidmouth <strong>to</strong> my first<br />

job with the big end clanking so<br />

loud that the staff of every garage<br />

on the old A303 came out <strong>to</strong> cheer<br />

us on our way.<br />

(<strong>to</strong> be continued) - K. Watson<br />

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The diary of lady farmer, Janet East<br />

were over. She never spoke as<br />

I put my head down in shame<br />

and walked back <strong>to</strong> the gate.<br />

I couldn’t do it. Don’t ask me<br />

why. The rams are huge, strong,<br />

very fast, much younger than<br />

me and <strong>to</strong>day I knew that I<br />

wouldn’t win. They would beat<br />

me. I didn’t want that <strong>to</strong> happen<br />

and more importantly I didn’t<br />

want <strong>to</strong> let my mum down ‒ it<br />

would be the first time ever.<br />

My time is up, I don’t want <strong>to</strong><br />

work anymore, my work is<br />

complete and its time <strong>to</strong> rest.<br />

My name is Todd. I am a brown,<br />

foxy looking, pure bred border<br />

collie and I am 13 years old. I<br />

was born at Yellingham Farm<br />

and was one of 4 pups out of<br />

my mum’s fantastic border<br />

collie called Tinker. I have<br />

loved every minute of my last<br />

12 years of work. Yesterday,<br />

mum <strong>to</strong>ok me over <strong>to</strong> the small<br />

paddock down our lane where<br />

we keep our s<strong>to</strong>ck rams after<br />

they finish work in the autumn.<br />

It’s a pretty field, out of the way<br />

of the rest of the farm and has<br />

2 small stables in the corner<br />

which provide ideal shelter<br />

for the sheep. My job was <strong>to</strong><br />

carefully work them up the far<br />

hedge <strong>to</strong> the stables and gently<br />

push them in before mum<br />

quickly shuts the gate ‒ it’s<br />

normally feet problems that<br />

need sorting. Sounds easy? Not<br />

always. Depends on their mood.<br />

I always get picked out of all<br />

My work is finished.....<br />

the dogs <strong>to</strong> do the ram work.<br />

They don’t frighten me and<br />

never have. It’s just a matter of<br />

how you treat them. Early in<br />

my career I learnt the benefits<br />

of giving sheep a little nip on<br />

the nose and they never forget.<br />

Rams are a different matter<br />

and you can’t take anything<br />

for granted. Mum hates them,<br />

doesn’t trust them and never<br />

ever enters the field without<br />

her trusty wooden sheep<br />

crook. When the stick gets<br />

taken off the hook outside<br />

the back door, one of us 4<br />

working dogs knows we<br />

are going <strong>to</strong> work. We all<br />

get excited, bark a bit, spin<br />

around in circles, hoping it<br />

will be our turn. I’ve always<br />

done any work associated<br />

with rams, always have and<br />

I suppose mum <strong>to</strong>ok it for<br />

granted that I always will. I am<br />

old for a Border Collie but I still<br />

run and enjoy the odd bit of<br />

work, although I must say, fast<br />

work is no longer my forte.<br />

I stayed a mum’s heels as we<br />

walked the familiar route down<br />

the lane. The blinking gate<br />

always makes a massive noise<br />

as we open it and the 2 mature,<br />

large rams s<strong>to</strong>p grazing and<br />

make a beeline for the furthest<br />

corner in the field ‒ they know<br />

what’s coming ‒ me! We both<br />

walked steadily <strong>to</strong>wards them,<br />

no rushing, no words. I s<strong>to</strong>pped,<br />

got my first quiet command:<br />

“Come Bye Todd”<br />

I didn’t move. Again the same<br />

quiet command, again I didn’t<br />

move. As we both s<strong>to</strong>od still,<br />

Mum looked at me, I looked<br />

back and my eyes <strong>to</strong>ld her that<br />

<strong>to</strong>day, for me, my working days<br />

She unders<strong>to</strong>od and slowly<br />

walked back with me <strong>to</strong> the<br />

gate, up the lane and back<br />

<strong>to</strong> the yard and through the<br />

double wooden gates. She<br />

lent down, patted me and in<br />

return I wagged my tail as a<br />

way of saying thank you for<br />

everything, particularly for<br />

understanding the situation<br />

that we faced 10 minutes ago in<br />

the field. All she said was …<br />

“I’ll go and fetch Nell ‒ you stay<br />

here”.<br />

I could see mum was crying<br />

but I hope she unders<strong>to</strong>od that<br />

<strong>to</strong>day, I instinctively knew my<br />

working days were over. Nell,<br />

a good young dog, will do a<br />

reasonable job I’m sure, but she<br />

needs <strong>to</strong> slow down with those<br />

feisty rams or there will be a<br />

few harsh words spoken. (Note<br />

<strong>to</strong> self ‒ must have a quick<br />

word with her before she goes<br />

off <strong>to</strong> work those rams).<br />

It was a beautiful day and I laid<br />

down in the yard and closed my<br />

eyes. I had done my bit. It’s time<br />

for the younger dogs <strong>to</strong> take<br />

my place.<br />

I have had a good life, I have<br />

worked hard in rain, sun, and<br />

snow and given everything I<br />

could <strong>to</strong> serve mum. In return,<br />

she has given me food, a good<br />

home, love and real respect. A<br />

dog can ask for no more.<br />

PS Maybe a bed in front of the<br />

Aga?<br />

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devon's crosses | Drywell Cross<br />

Dartmoor's magnetic pull is intractable, pristine<br />

landscapes, unique cultural treasures, impressive natural<br />

feature, I challenge anyone not <strong>to</strong> consider it a magical<br />

place <strong>to</strong> visit.<br />

What's as<strong>to</strong>unding is how often you<br />

come across the many s<strong>to</strong>ne crosses<br />

lurking across Dartmoor, often in<br />

the middle of nowhere. Some are<br />

extremely ancient, markers of times<br />

spanning millennia, Celtic, Saxon,<br />

Norman, their appearance I hesitate<br />

<strong>to</strong> say, is almost commonplace. From<br />

what I've read, the purpose of these<br />

crosses seems <strong>to</strong> be unknown, some<br />

are positioned at crossroads, although<br />

many aren't. According <strong>to</strong> dartmoorcrosses.org.uk<br />

the Drywell Cross has<br />

had a checkered his<strong>to</strong>ry, it lies 400<br />

yards north of Jordan Manor and it's<br />

said that a Mr Masson Phillips recorded<br />

that in 1937, he found the head of the<br />

cross build in<strong>to</strong> a nearby roadside wall.<br />

There was no sign of the lower shaft,<br />

and when a Mr Harry Starkey looked<br />

for the cross during the 1950s, it was<br />

found in a nearby ditch and later still<br />

it was found in a pile of rubble in a<br />

field. Thankfully, in 1967 the cross was<br />

res<strong>to</strong>red by the Dartmoor Preservation<br />

Society (led by Masson Phillips), a<br />

replacement had been found for the<br />

lower shaft at the grounds of a house<br />

in Totnes. Jordan manor is his<strong>to</strong>ric, the<br />

name Jordan being interesting with<br />

the most obvious reference being<br />

<strong>to</strong> the river and its associations with<br />

Judaism and Christianity although in<br />

1239-58 a Jordan de Exeter existed, an<br />

Anglo-Norman knight. Perhaps there's<br />

some connection there? Edi<strong>to</strong>r<br />

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MANAGING your MONEY<br />

"the hardest thing in the world<br />

<strong>to</strong> understand is income tax"<br />

Albert Einstein<br />

Celebrating 26 years of<br />

providing independent<br />

financial advice in Devon<br />

Robots <strong>to</strong> the rescue..<br />

Helen Mulvaney<br />

BA (Hons), Dip M, DipPFS<br />

Proprie<strong>to</strong>r of<br />

RICHMOND INDEPENDENT<br />

We seem <strong>to</strong> be having the same pension headlines<br />

in the news again and again; "Millions will have<br />

<strong>to</strong> wait longer <strong>to</strong> get their state pension".<br />

The original plan was <strong>to</strong> increase<br />

state pension age from 67 <strong>to</strong> 68<br />

between 2044 and 2046 - now there<br />

are plans <strong>to</strong> bring this forward <strong>to</strong><br />

between 2037 and 2039. The DWP<br />

has put the move down <strong>to</strong> necessity<br />

due <strong>to</strong> the increasing financial<br />

burden of paying out the state<br />

pension <strong>to</strong> retirees who are living<br />

longer in retirement. The recent<br />

proposals will mean that around 6<br />

million people in their 40s will need<br />

<strong>to</strong> wait or work longer before they<br />

can draw their state pension.<br />

For many retirees the state pension<br />

forms a basic reliable amount of<br />

So the state<br />

pension age keeps<br />

rolling in<strong>to</strong> the<br />

distant future<br />

pension income which enables<br />

them <strong>to</strong> cover the necessities<br />

in retirement.<br />

The later state<br />

pension age will mean paying more<br />

contributions and missing out on<br />

pension payments. The financial<br />

effect is that this is going <strong>to</strong> cost<br />

thousands of pounds more for the<br />

younger generations. My own state<br />

pension age is now 6 years later than<br />

my sibling who has only managed<br />

<strong>to</strong> clock up a 10 year working life<br />

and is now retired. Whereas, once<br />

I reach retirement (hopefully) I will<br />

have clocked up around 45 years of<br />

work and contributions !<br />

So the State Pension age keeps<br />

rolling in<strong>to</strong> the distant future.<br />

Recently, I've advised clients who<br />

have been effected by the earliest<br />

changes - the 65 <strong>to</strong> 66<br />

move and when you're<br />

not in good health or<br />

you're in an extremely<br />

stressful occupation,<br />

even this one extra<br />

year can seem like an<br />

eternity. In the future,<br />

some people will be working and<br />

paying an additional 8 years of<br />

contributions and this will affect<br />

their retirement plans even more<br />

than <strong>to</strong>day's up and coming retirees.<br />

It strikes me that having your own<br />

pension arrangement provides<br />

you with a lot of flexibility when it<br />

comes <strong>to</strong> timing and arranging your<br />

retirement benefits and it can now<br />

be used flexibly <strong>to</strong> fit in with state<br />

retirement dates and/or final salary<br />

arrangements therefore sometimes<br />

allowing an earlier retirement or part<br />

retirement. This might be a very<br />

important fac<strong>to</strong>r for those suffering<br />

stress or who are in poorer health as<br />

it allows some ability <strong>to</strong> take control<br />

of their retirement.<br />

If you have a reasonable time<br />

frame <strong>to</strong> retirement for making<br />

contributions in<strong>to</strong> your own<br />

The later state pension age will<br />

mean paying more contributions and<br />

missing out on pension payments<br />

pension you should try <strong>to</strong> build up<br />

your pension. Pensions offer tax<br />

relief on your contributions and tax<br />

efficient investment growth and<br />

are probably the most tax efficient<br />

investment you can make.<br />

For those looking for a little solace<br />

in all this bad news I did find an<br />

intriguing article in the press a few<br />

weeks ago which sheds a glimmer<br />

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of hope on the whole situation. A<br />

recent report from the TUC on the<br />

rise of robots and AI has suggested<br />

that the gains made from higher<br />

productivity could<br />

be used <strong>to</strong> s<strong>to</strong>p<br />

planned increases<br />

in the state pension<br />

age. According <strong>to</strong> the<br />

TUC, we are going <strong>to</strong><br />

benefit from a boost<br />

<strong>to</strong> national prosperity<br />

but we need a debate about who<br />

benefits from this wealth. There's<br />

also been a similar suggestion of<br />

taxing robots and AI which could<br />

boost the coffers. Time will tell how<br />

this will play out - but I suggest it's<br />

not going <strong>to</strong> happen soon so relying<br />

on your personal pension rather<br />

than the robot might be the best<br />

course of action for now.<br />

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