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6 THE WISHLISTOur pick of the best treats this week

9 JUST BETWEEN US...Sh! We have the latest gossip!

12 WIN CORNISH BEACH READS Liz Fenwick’s new novel is out now

16 CREATIVE SPACESArtists throw open their studios

22 A WARM WELCOMEThe family home turned country house hotel

26 ANNE SWITHINBANKWhy untidy gardening is good for wildlife

28 BEAUTY WITH ABBIE BRAYTop tips on looking good this summer

32 FESTIVAL STYLE Kathryn Clarke-Mcleod on   eld-proof fashion

34 CULTURE VULTUREOur don’t-miss tips for the days ahead

36 BOOST YOUR WELLBEING Smart ways to feel your best this week

38 MINE’S A (THIRD OF A) PINTDarren Norbury on the new ale trends

46 ON SECOND THOUGHTS...James, six, watches an unsuitable movie

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42 PERFECT WEEKENDSWhere to go, what to do

22 COUNTRY HOUSE CHICThe mid-Devon star of TV’s 4 in a Bed

CREATIVE SPACESCornwall’s artists open their doors16

FESTIVAL FASHIONHow to look good in a   eld32

30 SUMMER DRESSINGChannel Twiggy in a smart shirt dress

44 MY SECRET WESTCOUNTRYA top chef spills the beans

‘Our unruly garden is full of birds. As you

can imagine, the dawn chorus is impressive

and evensong is not bad either’

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his week, we hear from the super-successful novelist Liz Fenwick, who has been so inspired by her home on the Helford river that she has writ-ten several

acclaimed novels set in its beautiful landscape. She tells us how a girl from Massachusetts ended up writing about life in Cornwall on page 12 today. This weekend marks the start of the Open Studios Cornwall event, in which some of the very best artists in Cornwall welcome you into their creative spaces to have a nose around. We meet four of those taking part on page 16 today, including Gareth Edwards,

who is lucky enough to paint in the iconic St Ives studio once occupied by Francis Bacon, and Caroline Cleave, whose adorable garden studio is in Port Isaac. Incidentally, her husband Jon sings

with the Fisherman’s Friends shanty group. I can’t help feeling they must be a fun couple.On the subject of crea-tive people, we are having a champagne moment here at West. Our team-mate Kath-

ryn Clarke-Mcleod has been off to London, where she won Designer of the Year at the Regional Press Awards, beating fi erce competition from all over the country. We think you’ll agree, she does a terrifi c job designing West every week.

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Mary Berry was all smiles at the TV Ba� as recent-ly, picking up the Best Feature award while wear-ing this gorgeous dress from Adrianna Papell. Her pale pink three-quarter sleeved gown was encrusted with sparkling beads, like a perfectly iced fondant fancy. You can buy the same frock right now from John Lewis, or here are another couple of sweet treats to try.

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n my youth, I always thought that my parents were seriously boring be-cause of their routines.

They always did the same stuff, in the same order. For instance, they sat down each night at 6pm with a drink (my dad had a beer and my mum had a white wine with soda) and watched the news. How dull can you get?

As I’ve grown up, though, I’ve learned to appreciate the value of these little moments. It’s easy, as a working parent, to drive yourself to do stuff constantly. There is, after all, a lot to do. The more you do, though, the more tired you get, and the greater scope to do things wrong. Like cutting yourself with the dicing knife, dropping your child into orchestra with no violin, or sending your tax return to the dry cleaner’s. These are mere exam-ples, of course.

It’s important to pause and chill out. And enjoy yourself – it’s later than you think. Routines help benchmark your day, and also your week. I can always tell how early or late I am on my commute depending on what programme is on Radio 4, and where I am when I hear the pips.

Friday mornings, when I’m driving my 11-year-old to school, we tune into Heart Cornwall and listen to breakfast hosts Matt and Caroline “assessing the freshness” of the Westcountry. If enough people call in and say they’re “feeling fresh,” they’ll play the theme tune of the Fresh

Prince of Bel Air. There’s noth-ing like a very young Will Smith rapping over a jingly backtrack to cheer you up. Freddy’s never even seen the show and he still enjoys it.

Friday evenings at around 6pm is Prosecco o’clock. I try not to drink during the week, so Friday is always festive, even if my chil-dren are turning into the booze police these days. What’s up with

that?On Saturdays,

after dropping my daughter into riding, I go to our local garage and buy the papers, as well as bacon and rolls for lunch. When I come home I let the papers fall onto the table with a satisfying thwack. It means the time has come to stop and catch up.

I do love that feeling of Satur-day morning – a few unallocated hours stretching ahead, the smell of a fresh pot of coffee, and the prospect of a really nice read in The Western Morning News.

The trick is to stay engrossed for as long as possible, and don’t look up from the paper. Other-wise the fl oor says: “hoover me,” or the garden says “weed me,” or one of your kids says, “I thought this would be a really good day to build a treehouse.” Groan…

Story of my life...

Gillian Molesworth

Making a routine of Prosecco o’clock

Gillian Molesworth is a journalist and mum-of-two who grew up in the USA and moved to north Cornwall when she met her husband

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When you’re tired, you get things wrong:

dropping your child to orchestra

with no violin, or sending your tax return to the

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Reality star Jessica Wright has quit The Only Way is Essex reality TV show. She says that two events, her own 30th birthday in September followed by the death of her 80-year-old grand-mother Nanny Pat, who also fea-tured in the show, played a part in her decision. “Nanny was a huge loss for our family which we’re still coming to terms with. I was going to leave anyway, but a� er that, it made even more sense,” she says. “Also, I was really scared of turn-ing 30 and kept thinking, ‘Am I getting old?’ As it’s turned out, I’ve never felt better than I do now. Everyone says you � nd yourself at this age and that’s true.”

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Tom Hiddlestone’s recent performance as undercover agent Jonathan Pine, in the TV adaptation of John Le Carre’s espionage drama The Night Manager, drew huge acclaim – along with calls for him to play the next Bond.But it was the intense sex scene, with actress Elizabeth Debicki, that caused a real sensation.So is it strange to wake up and discover newspaper columns and online forums dedicated to the sight of your bare but-

tocks? “I have no control over anyone else’s opinion of my work, or who I am or what I do, so you just have to keep doing what you do,” he says.Tom spent 10 days � lming the north Devon section of the show, which was set at Blackpool Mill Cottage, Hartland. The 15th century property is available to hire for holidays and was also used in the 2008 BBC adaptation of Sense and Sensibility with Dan Stevens, Dominic Cooper and Charity Wake� eld.

Mumford & Sons have told music fans to “stand up” to rip-o� ticket touts. Marcus Mumford, who shares a 350-acre farm at Ide, near Exeter, with his

actresss wife Carey Mulligan and daughter Evelyn, is calling for tougher sanc-tions on the touts and re-sale websites.

Marcus explains: “We try hard to ensure that true fans have the best oppor-tunity of getting into shows, at the right price, but are o� en powerless when

faced with organised industrial-scale ticket touting.“At the moment, the law makes it easy for these shady operators to hoover up

tickets and pro� t at your expense .”

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in pictures

Adorable: Richard Austin spotted the first cygnets of the year to hatch at Abbotsbury

Swannery in Dorset

Friends: Toby, aged two, enjoyed the Stepping Stones Nursery open day in St Austell

In the pink: Well done to

everyone who took part in

Falmouth’s Race for Life

Celebrate: The What’s

On Cornwall awards were a

lot of fun at the Eden Project

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Like father...

Jack the lad

10 books written by Roger Hargreaves’ son, Adam

1 Little Miss Stella 2 Little Miss Princess3 Mr Cheeky4 Little Miss Whoops 5 Mr Rude 6 Little Miss Scary 7 Mr Cool 8 Mr Birthday 9 Little Miss Bad 10 Mr Good

DID YOU KNOW?

This week:

Famous faces with links to the Westcountry

ONE OF US

Children’s author Michael Morpurgo lives in north Devon

MichaelMorpurgo

The happy list

10 things to make you smile this week1 The Royal Cornwall

Show June 9-11

2 Food festivals Ottery St Mary, Saturday June 4

3 Strawberries in season

4 Guys & Dolls Plymouth Theatre Royal, May 31-June 4

5 Half term fun try Spring-� eld Fun Park in Newquay

6 Glamping try it

7 Swallows � ying in the sky

8 Hidden Valley Garden open days June 4-5, near Par

9 Scarlett Mo� att love her

10 Swimming in the sea

10 card games where the Jack is all-powerful:

1 Hearts

2 Cribbage

3 Loo

4 Napoleon

5 Spoil Five

6 Twenty Eight

7 Euchre

8 Bezique

9 Trappola

10 All Fours

10 his and hers animal names:

1 Cob, Pen (swan)

2 Jack, Jill (hare)

3 Bull, Cow (whale)

4 Tom, Queen (cat)

5 Jimmy, Jenny (crab)

6 Buck, Doe (rat)

7 Stag, Hen (turkey)

8 Wolverine, Angeline (wolverine)

9 Seastallion, Seamare (seahorse)

10 Boar, Sow (jelly� sh)

Fame: Michael Morpurgo was the Children’s Laureate from 2003-2005. He is best known for writing War Horse, which has been made into a successful � lm and stage play.

Career: Michael, 72, started out as a primary school teacher in Kent, where he discovered a talent for storytelling: “I could see there was magic in it for them, and realised there was magic in it for me.” His � rst book of stories was published in 1974.

Devon: He has lived in the village of Iddesleigh, north of Dartmoor, since the 1970s. He immortalised the village in his tragic World War One story Private Peaceful.

Charity: Michael and his wife Clare set up the charity Farms for City Children in 1976. The charity has o� ered 75,000 children the chance to stay on the three farms it runs, one in Devon, one in Wales and one in Gloucestershire.

Honours: Both Michael and Clare

received the MBE in 1999 for their charity work.

Childhood: Michael grew up in London but attended the private school Mount House in Tavistock until he was 13. His unhappy school experiences informed his book The Butter� y Lion.

Father: Michael grew up in a step-family, a£ er his actor father le£ when he was two. “My brother and I felt the shame strongly

and it was troubling.” His step-father was literature professor Jack Morpurgo.

Reality: Michael’s books o£ en tackle tragic themes: “Both brutality and sadness are part of human experience whether we like it or not. I don’t write stories to make people feel happy. I write to make me think, and I hope to make others think too.”

Scilly: His book When the Whales Came is set on the Isles of Scilly: “We go to Scilly every summer and have done for 30 years or so.”

Michael has written more

than 300 children’s

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People

Liz Fenwick is the acclaimed author of The Cornish House and A Cornish Affair. Her latest novel, Under A Cornish Sky, is out now. Liz, 53, is married to Chris and they have three chil-dren. Born and raised in America, Liz now has a much-loved

home on the Helford River and explains why she is...

eople frequently ask me two ques-tions – first, how did you become a writer and then that is quickly fol-lowed by: why Cornwall?

I’ll answer the second one first. I’m not Cor-nish but it took only one short visit in 1989, when my now husband took me to meet his parents and to pass the “Cornwall” test. If I hadn’t fallen in love with Cornwall then I don’t think Chris and I would be coming up to our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary in July.

In our married years we’ve moved internation-ally nine times, thanks to Chris’s career in the oil business. Very quickly we realised that we needed a home that was constant, a place where our (now grown-up) children could put down roots. So we chose Cornwall, which was not a convenient choice when you’ve just come off a 14-hour flight!

When we were expats, it would be summer and Christmas that would see us enjoying home on the Helford River. But in November we finally left our last posting, in Dubai. My husband cur-rently works in London so I’m between the two places, but I am now in our home at least ten days a month plus the whole summer and Christmas too.

So the Duchy has captured my heart, but often in ways I hadn’t expected. I wish I could give a

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Cornwall Totally inspired by

simple answer to the question “why Cornwall?” but there isn’t one. I can only compare it to my experience of visiting Ireland for the first time and each visit thereafter… Let me step back a little. All four of my grandparents left Ireland to find a new life in America. And they did, carv-ing new places for themselves, finding love and having families. They left their old ways behind and never spoke of the old country. The only things they kept out in the open were their music and their family ties. Despite this when I touched ground in Ireland at the age of 13, I was home. It was as if my genetic roots found their soil and connected. The land spoke to me and fed me. We were a part of each other.

So jumping to 1989 and my first step across the Tamar, my heart and my soul stirred in a similar fashion. The landscape called out to me and cre-ated an itch, albeit one that I can’t quite reach. My roots can’t penetrate the mineral-laden soil. Yet my soul sings. It tries to connect. I see stories everywhere. It is as if the only way I can join with Cornwall is to write about it.

So I write, wrapping stories around the land-scape and the history, trying to hold onto the elu-sive. Cornwall stole my heart and my writing is the way I keep it close.

The desire to be a writer has been with me for as long as I can remember. I’m an only child and I

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spent a lot of my early life with my head in books. I can’t tell you how many times I read The Ad-

ventures of Tom Sawyer and afterwards in my mind I would continue the story. It didn’t take long before I began to write my stories down. I can cringe at some of the teenage angst por-trayed on the pages but I also gasp at some of the poetic descriptions of ordinary things.

One thing is clear, look-ing back on my journey as a novelist. I have always been on the outside, an observer. That isolation I felt as a child has turned into a useable skill as a writer. A sense of separation allows me to see things differently and not to take the small and the mundane for granted.

So, going back to my feelings for Cornwall, being an outsider means I look at the landscape, the history and the people there differently. By

When I said I wanted to be a writer all those years ago, I had no idea that I would fi nd myself living in a foreign country, a wild land of myth and legend. Life has provided my imagination with details and Cornwall has become the muse. I’m looking forward to continuing to explore the Duchy and the human heart in future books.www.lizfenwick.com

Win a copy!We have � ve copies of Under A Cornish Sky (Orion, £7.99) to win. Simply tell us the name of its two main characters and send your full contact details to: Liz Fenwick competition, westmag@westernmorningnews.co.uk by June 10. Normal terms apply, West magazine will not share your details.

‘In my novels, I try and convey my love of Cornwall,

in stories of people at turning points in their lives’[ [

My Cornwall Liz Fenwick loves...

Frenchman’s Creek: It’s where my husband Chris proposed to me.

The Helford River: The view from The Shipwrights Arms in Helford is hard to beat.

The beaches: Especially Dollar Cove on The Lizard.

Pubs: Try The New Inn at Manaccan.

Sunday brunch: At Hotel Tresanton

Fresh mackerel: Paired with Helford Creek Cyder

having large chunks of time when I can’t be in Cornwall, my heart and soul hungers for it. On every return I drink in each detail, from the smallest fl ower in the hedge to jackdaws caught motionless, battling the wind and appearing to be hung in the air. In my novels I try and convey my love of the Duchy in stories of people, par-ticularly women, who are at turning points in

their lives. Many of us will have dealt with, or supported other through, these e x p e r i e n c e s : cancer, old age, love, divorce, death and how new beginnings can be born out

of these times of trial. I am endlessly fascinated by how we adapt

and grow when we are confronted with events that rock us to our cores. In my book The Cor-nish House, Maddie, a widow, has to rebuild her life after losing everything. In my books I try to weave together the magic of Cornwall with fl awed characters who gain strength, grow through their pain and their interaction with the landscape. My book A Cornish Affair sweeps through a classic adventure story to fi nd a lost treasure. But, more importantly, it’s about being who you truly are.

In my new book, Under A Cornish Sky, there are two very different women who have every reason to hate each other. Through an inherit-ance, Demi and Victoria have to share an estate and work together. At the moment I’m just fi nish-ing The Returning Tide, due out in January 2017. In it, I follow the lives of two women, one through World War Two and one today, to see how acts of betrayal and forgiveness can shape lives.

Liz has a home on the Helford River and the landscape inspires her

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Hannah WheelerHannah Wheeler, 39, paints her ac-claimed portraits in oils at her studio in Bude, north Cornwall. Hannah lives in Bude with her children Jess, 17, and Morgan, 14.

Hannah says: Last year, I was looking through the Open Studios Cornwall cata-logue and I realised that Bude hadn’t even made it on to the map. So this year, a few of us have been in cahoots to make sure our town takes part.

The far north of Cornwall often gets over-looked but there are actually quite a few in-teresting artists working up here.

As an artist, it is nice to meet the custom-ers and find out what they are looking for, in the artwork they buy. I think people are becoming more aware of the person behind the painting; it is an opportunity to mix with people who are creating some strange and beautiful pieces of work.

I have always been interested in seeing how other artists work. It is nice to have that insight but this is the first time I have taken part in Cornwall Open Studios myself.

When I first had my two children, I stopped painting for ten years and took up photography instead. It was a lot cleaner – and easier to pack away. Then, as the chil-dren got older, I was able to bring the paint-ing back in. Now painting is my number one

job. I love it. I also love having a studio of my own. I

used to work at home but I found it quite hard to get into painting mode. For me, having a studio definitely focuses me on what I am doing. I do a lot of thinking at home then I bring it to the studio.

I have always been fascinated with faces; I’m interested in what limited light does to a face. It refines everything and it brings out the twinkle in the eye. I take photographs of people, then take elements from those images when I paint. I like to use my studio for testing new ideas. I sometimes work on canvas and sometimes on wood.

My current project is about looking at the interaction between people when they are playing games. I’m doing some pictures with people playing cards, in a low light set-ting. Playing cards is good one for getting some shifty expressions!

Yesterday, I did a shoot of people playing Scrabble, so I’ve got subjects who are both thinking and playing. They forgot I was taking photographs, which is what I wanted to achieve.

For the Open Studios event, I’ll have sev-eral paintings on the go, because visitors might be interested in seeing my work in progress. I’m trying to get all my urgent work done ahead of time, though, so I’ve got time to talk.www.hannahwheelerart.co.uk

In an exciting event, renowned artists are throwing open their doors for the Open Studios Cornwall programme. Sarah

Pitt catches up with four artists taking part

A place to paint

OPen StudIOS

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Gareth Edwards, 55, paints at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives, where famous artists like Patrick Heron, Ben Nicholson and Francis Bacon once worked. He lives in the beautiful setting of Lamorna Cove, west Cornwall with his wife and two daughters.

Gareth says: Open Studios Cornwall is an oppor-tunity to meet not just the public but also poten-tial clients. A gallery owner called Jill George came along to see my studio here a few years ago and liked what she saw. Now my work is shown in her gallery in London.

She was able to see my studio, talk to me and also to see the range of my work. If an artist approaches a art dealer, you are in their space, which can be intimidating – this is the other way around and you are a bit more in charge.

As for the public, they just love looking at my materials, the Japanese in particular. They are just fascinated by all my paint encrusted on the floor. They take pictures of it with their phones – what I do is maximise the opportunity for pub-

licity and ask them to put the pictures on social media like Twitter and Instagram.

I see the idea of an open studio event as the democra-tisation of making art. People can see art in a less formal set-ting than a gallery, where they feel more able to make com-ments and ask questions.

I’m working on a massive commission at the moment for a private collector who has bought a new home in Corn-wall by the sea. It is taking up a huge amount of space in the studio. I’ve also got an ex-hibition coming up at the Jill George Gallery in London from June 13, called Terra Lumina. Visitors to my studio will be able to see those works - a private view of the private view if you like.

In my work, I use ash and marble dust and iron oxide mixed with oil paints. Visitors see all of these tubs and ask me

Gareth Edwards

questions about how I work, so I tell them a few details about the mixtures I use. I have a vat of fir turpentine for thinning oil paints in the studio.

Whenever anyone walks in, they sniff deeply and say: "what a wonderful smell".www.garethedwardsartist.co.uk

'A few years back, a gallery

owner came along and liked

what she saw. Now my work is in her gallery in

London' [ [

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Caroline Cleave, 55, lives in Port Isaac, north Cornwall, with her husband Jon Cleave who is both a writer and a member of the Fisherman’s Friends sea shanty group. She and Jon have three grown-up sons. Her illustrations can be found on merchandise distrib-uted countrywide through the artist Emma Ball’s company.

Caroline says: My studio is tucked away in the heart of Port Isaac. It is very much my per-sonal space but this year I’ve bitten the bullet and decided to let people in. I have never taken part in an open studios event before. I’m a bit nervous. I’m thinking maybe no one will come, or maybe I’ll be inundated and just want to shut the door.

I do want to show people where I work and also I’m hoping to inspire my visitors - everyone has a creative side. My studio is in our garden, across a stream from the house where my husband Jon writes - he mostly writes children's books. Our working life is great, because he loves doing what he does, and I love doing what I do.

The reason I paint fish dates right back to when our three boys were little - they are in their 20s now - and used to come back with fish from the beach. My favourite picture is of them holding the first mackerel they caught. I painted a quick watercolour of them, then the babysitter filleted the fish and we all ate them! My son George now works in a fish-monger’s in the village, so there’s a constant supply of fish. He’ll say "Mum, come and look at this red gurnard."

I got into painting crabs and lobster be-cause that is what the fishermen in Port Isaac are landing all the time. I think they are quite fascinating and I draw them from life. I really love the colour indigo so I’m putting blue rope into my paintings all the time at the moment. I love lobsters and mussels most of all.

It can be hard work but I love the challenge of painting. I paint in acrylics, then use inks over the top to add details and lines.

On the day of my open studio event, I will have some framed prints of my bigger paint-ings for sale. I love working on a large scale but not everyone has the room for large pieces in their homes, so I’ll also have a range of smaller prints for sale.

I’ve got a lot of commissions on at the moment, some really big ones, so the timing of this event is really good. It means there will be quite a bit for people to see. I just hope some turn up!www.carolinecleave.co.uk

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Alasdair Lindsay, 40, works at Krowji Studios in Redruth, where he is part of a community of artists. Originally from Chester, he arrived in Cornwall 20 years ago to study fine art at what was then Fal-mouth College of Art, and has never left. He works in acrylics, painting docklands, harbours and bridges in paintings that have an architectural quality.

Alasdair says: I think more people come to Open Studios Cornwall to see the dog than they do me! She’s called Bobbi and is half pug and half griffon terrier. She belongs to Lizzie, with whom I share the studio. Bobbi likes to hang around while I’m painting.

I’m interested in scenes that are architectural and industrial. I paint Falmouth docks, working harbours, the Penzance Lido, bridges, through to funny old fishermen’s huts. Anything graphic is what I love.

There are a lot of artists in Cornwall concen-trating on the natural landscape, the beaches and coast paths, so I’m happy to do something a bit different. My works are in bold colours, but which are a bit muted. A lot of people say the col-

ours are reminiscent of 1950s and 1960s colours - oranges and reds but not straight out of tins. I mix the colours myself, to get a more mellow colour. I guess the process is a little like filtering a colour photo.

I also paint aerial views of London, especially along the Thames. I want my works to be true to life so that you can recognise which bridge I’m painting.

On one occasion, an artist called Neil Pinkett was hiring a helicopter and said to me: "There’s a spare seat, do you want to come along?" I took pho-tographs looking directly down on the Thames bridges, which were like a plan view, with all the shadows giving a 3D quality. From that half hour flight, I have created about 50 paintings.

There’s a nice atmosphere here at Krowji Stu-dios. It is relaxed and friendly and you bump into artists all the time. It is a bit like being back at col-lege. There are so many studios here at Krowji, it makes it really worthwhile for people to visit during Open Studios. Some come from quite a long way away, making a weekend of it.

I did sell a few paintings at last year's event, and it is also good for making connections – people may not buy a painting during Open Stu-dios week but then they might buy one later on.

I’ve also had a few long-term collectors of my

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work come along to look around, whom I had never met before. One couple invited me to their house a few times since and I’ve done some paint-ings of it since.

Most of the time, I’m in the dark about who’s buying my work, because galleries don’t disclose details. So it is great when someone comes up to me and says "I’ve got ten of your paintings" and I’ll say "wow" and get to have a chat with them. Often, they’ll then buy an eleventh!www.facebook.com/alasdairlindsayart

Open Studios Cornwall runs from today (May 28) until Sunday, June 5. See www.cornwallopenstudios.co.uk for full details on all participating artists and opening times for their studios, which vary.

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Born and raised in Tiverton, Nicky spent time in London as a property developer and estate agent. She then bought Muddifords to share with new hus-band Pip, where they brought up her son, then nine, and Pip’s three children from his former marriage, who would spend weekends with them.

“This place struck a chord with me,” Nicky ex-plains. “I bought it as a family home with the idea of doing up its separate courtyards and barns as holi-day lets. But then life took a different turn and we did B&B and six months after that, we appeared on Four in a Bed. We won – and had 1,000 bookings as a result!”

The enduring Channel 4 programme sees a dis-parate group of B&B owners take turns to host the others and turn hotel inspector to judge whose ac-commodation is best value for money. Among those competing against Nicky and Pip were the famous Welsh singer Charlotte Church’s parents James and Maria, who run a B&B from their Cardiff townhouse.

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lades for their hospitality, not least fi ve AA stars. And following on from her TV appearance, Nicky also began to receive queries about her home’s availability as a wedding venue.

“We had no great experience of the hospitality industry or of running a hotel, so we decided to offer it as a venue-only hire,” she says. “Pip and I were married here in 2010 and our own wed-ding was a bit of a dummy-run. Initially I said I’d do no more than ten a year, or I’d feel like I was living in a goldfi sh bowl, but we ended up doing 30 in our fi rst year.”

Three years ago, Nicky and Pip made the de-cision to move into a house in nearby Willand village. The property’s general manager (“and rock”) Julian England lives on-site in a self-con-tained apartment.

Weddings are held in Muddifords’ two beauti-ful oak-beamed barns, set around a traditional

farm courtyard, while the house can sleep up to 21 guests. There’s also a two-bedroom cottage and two fairy-tale shepherd’s huts in the grounds.

Inside the house itself, Nicky’s always thrilled to encounter guests with shoes off and feet up. “It’s not an imposing home,” she explains. “It’s personable and people feel relaxed the minute they walk over the threshold.

“My favourite bedrooms are the Willow, which I revamped recently with drapes above the bed and a Victorian claw-footed bath in the ensuite. And I love what used to be our old bedroom, which is Art Deco style, with its own separate staircase. It tends to be used as the honeymoon suite.”

The dining room is dominated by a huge fi re-

place, with a dresser laden with pretty china and stag antlers on the wall but there’s a sense of charm and curiosity and, above all, warmth and invitation within. “I put antiques in all the rooms and it’s a country house feel, not too austere,” ex-plains Nicky. “I wanted to get the balance right, for people to feel free to pick things up and touch them.”

As for Muddiford Court’s Four in a Bed win-ner’s plaque, it has been relocated from its origi-nal home (in the downstairs loo) to greater prom-inence on the staircase. “So many people asked about it!” Nicky laughs.

“Four in a Bed was very much a gamble and fortunately we were portrayed in a really good light. It’s car crash TV but for us the positive effect has been amazing even to this day. It was fi rst shown almost four years ago now but, God bless Channel 4, they keep repeating it.”

Many of Muddiford Court’s talking-point features come from auctions and local recla-mation yards: Tobys of Exmin-ster, Fagin’s Antiques at Hele, Cullompton Antiques and Shepton Mallet Antique Fair are among Nicky’s favourite haunts.

“I’m notorious for buying something and then having to create somewhere to put it. I bought a mosaic sheep recently and had no idea what to do with it at fi rst, but it’s a real talking point. You’re never quite sure when you impose your own

taste on a place that it’s the same as other peo-ple’s,” she refl ects, “but I’m really happy that I seem to have got it right.

“Even though it’s no longer our home, there really isn’t one thing I’d have done differently, although I’d love more accommodation to do up. I have been approached about interior design for other people, but I’m not sure if I’m confi dent enough. I’d never say never, though. I’m 50 this year, so I say bring on the challenge!”www.muddifords.co.uk

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ooking out across the kitchen garden, I see charms of goldfi nches, chaffi nch, greenfi nch, wrens and dunnocks. There are also blue, great,

long-tailed and coal tits, as well as blackbirds, thrushes and garden warblers on a regular basis. As you can imagine, the dawn chorus is impres-sive and evensong is not bad either.

For the past six years I’ve been preoccupied with looking after older members of our family, all living within a mile of us, and I could say our garden has suffered as a result. Yet what does this really mean? In horticultural terms, it is not as well cared for as perhaps it should be, in that clumps of nettles have prospered, apple trees have gone unpruned, hedges untrimmed, tangles of bramble formed and every spring we enjoy a sea of fabulous, self-seeded forget-me-nots.

The kitchen garden has always been slightly unruly, as the beds are mounded but not prop-erly edged, raised or accessed by weed-free path-ways, as seems to be the fashion. It does need a lot of weeding and hoeing and, with fruit trees, bushes, perennial crops and herbs, it is like a little forest garden.

By making our garden ‘suffer’, my husband John and I have also provided more of what wild-life needs, which is free movement and cover for nesting, roosting, sheltering and a proliferation of invertebrates. Weeding might give me back-ache but also the pleasure of watching fi nches pull tufts of seed from dandelion clocks.

Even during the most diffi cult of years, we’ve kept the lawns mown, tended borders and grown crops and fl owers, so it is a controlled chaos. Wildlife so loves thick growths of ivy and decay-ing wood.

Now and again, unusual birds appear and a practised eye will notice a different kind of movement. Without thinking, you focus in on woodpeckers, a nuthatch or tree creeper because of their swooping fl ight or vertical, erratic move-ments around the trunks and branches of trees.

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I came across a bag of unplanted second early seed potatoes, all sprouting merrily in their net. Is it too late to put them in?

If you have the space and can plant them quickly, you will get a reduced crop rather than waste them. In one of my old books dating back to 1925, a large trial conducted at Wisley using a second early variety proved that for the weightiest crop, a mid April or early May planting was optimum. Tubers planted in early April gave a slightly reduced crop but a delay until mid May or into early June cut the harvest by up to a third. Another big reason for planting potatoes early in the south west is to allow tubers to develop before the likelihood of potato blight. If this appears, you can cut down the stems and foliage quickly and still save a harvestable crop. Delayed planting means the tubers might still be swelling when the blight strikes

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Chelsea Flower Show has put in mind of the ‘Chelsea Chop’ What exactly is it, which plants do you do it to and should we all be chopping about now?

The Chelsea Chop is a technique of cutting back herbaceous perennials around the time of the flower show towards the end of May. This has the effect of making them branch out, delivering slightly lower, sturdier plants with less need for staking and more flower buds. Some gardeners cut everything by about half at the same height but others will trim selectively and leave some stems tall, trim others by a third and the rest by two thirds. You target later flowering perennials that have a history of leaning and flopping in the garden, so here I often give the chop to Michaelmas daisies and sometimes Sedum ‘Matrona’. Heleniums would also be good candidates. In my garden, growth is behind so I might not administer the ‘chop’ until the beginning of June. Go forth and experiment.

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• Keep notes of plants you’d like to add in early autumn. Here, it will be lilacs. I love scented plants and while we currently have azara, lily of the valley and Azalea mollis flowering; no lilac. I’m earmarking the area, conditioning and gently mounding our heavy soil (they don’t like waterlogging) and putting annuals in for the summer.

• Spread straw under your strawberries to keep them clean by separating berries from the soil. If you can’t get straw, use

strawberry mats.

• Make sure delphiniums are staked, as a sudden wind can snap the stems.

• Look out for dahlia shoots pushing above the ground and make sure they are protected from slugs. You can pick these off by torchlight, bury margarine or yoghurt tubs with rims projecting (to prevent slug-eating ground beetles from falling in) and pour beer in the base as slug traps. Or put down ferric phosphate slug pellets, using only one every six inches.

Poton Strelitzia reginae (bird of paradise plants) if they are bursting their pots, using 50:50 John Innes no 2 and a soilless potting compost. They make fabulous summer patio plants in large containers.

Pruning away dead wood takes away the beetle larvae and other food they seek. Recently, I no-ticed a band of twitchers gathering near some local ponds and stopped to ask what they were hoping to see. Apparently a hoopoe had been sighted. I wasn’t lucky enough to see it (I’ve only spotted them in France) but sometimes a catch of different song means an unusual visitor has turned up. The other day an urgent singing and chattering had me stalking and peering into the bamboo to identify what I think was a whiteth-roat.

Often, gardening jobs that give us pleasure will please wildlife too. Verbena bonariensis has seeded itself thickly into a section of our gravel driveway, so I’ve been thinning the plants out and moving seedlings to poor soil in a bed by the drive. We’ll enjoy seeing the tall, wiry stems of purple flowers and bees, hoverflies and butter-flies will love the nectar.

Our small pond is a home and breeding ground for aquatic animals, and a drinking and bathing hole for other creatures. It is always in danger of being overgrown by plants, so we constantly remove clumps of marsh marigold and iris, which, divided up, are replanted into a boggy area down the bottom of the garden where fine colonies are forming.

Once the duckweed is netted off, about two thirds of the surface is shaded by plants which should keep algal growth down. Clear, shallow water at the edges make it easier for animals to use and cover at the edges enables amphibians

such as newts, frogs and toads to come and go safely as these creatures spend much of their time on land.

Biennials sown now mean plenty of flowers to fill the gap between spring bulbs and summer flowering plants next year. I’ve already sown white-flowered foxgloves and must get on and transplant the seedlings one per pot. Honesty is great for hedge bottoms and for bright, sunny spaces sweet rocket and clary sage (Salvia scla-rea) are ideal. All make great ground covering ro-settes and while we enjoy their form and flower, the creatures who share our plot can exploit the shelter, nectar and seeds they’ll supply.

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he Radio 1 Big Weekend is upon us. The beauty of the timing is that Coachella has just taken place across the pond, which means there is no shortage of festival fashion in-

spiration at the moment. I spent a happy hour online, fi lling the virtual

shopping basket in my head full of sheer white sheaths like Sara Sampaios and fl irty playsuits a la Taylor Hill. Then I realised that Powderham Castle isn’t exactly the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, and the sky above it is infi nitely less reliable.

Zoe Kravitz (daughter of rock god Lenny) was an easier act to follow, as her uniform of denim on denim, slouchy grey tees and effortless cool has much more application in a Westcountry fi eld. I’m not quite edgy enough to copy her outright, something to do with not having the blood of Lenny coursing through my veins, a carefully curated tattoo collection, and boyfriend called Twin Shadow.

Still, it was Ms Kravitz that made me reach for these ripped jeans in All Saints. Buttery soft with just the right amount of stretch, they are the perfect pair to see me through a long day on my feet. The tee had me at hello too. Typography is still big news this season, and this little beauty has the words Noise repeated down the front, most apt.

A bright pink scarf was essentially the death blow to my dream of channelling Zoe. But it was just so sugary sweet that I couldn’t resist it. It adds a lovely pop of colour to the ensemble and means that I stand out from the crowd in photos. Also, I’ll let you in on a little secret, I always have a scarf like this in some pattern or another in my bag. When it is warm, I can spread it on the grass

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Just in case you were wondering, Avenue Q is not a children’s show – even if it does feature puppets. Hailing from across the Atlantic, the Tony Award winning musical is packed with mischief, bad behaviour and political incorrectness. Created by Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez (co-creator of satirical musical Book of Mormon and writer of songs for Disney’s

Frozen), the musical tells the story of the loveable characters of a downtown New York street, trying to make sense of life’s burning issues. Expect to be riotously entertained by both the puppets and the performers.Avenue Q is at the Exeter Northcott from Monday, May 30 to Saturday, June 4. Tickets £25-£35 from www.exeternorthcott.co.uk

PuPPet fun

Striking and soulful, Laura Mvula will share an open air stage with 1980s pop legends Duran Duran at the Eden Project on Friday, June 3. Soul singer Laura is classically trained, studying at the Birmingham Conservatoire, and wrote her fame-clinching debut album Sing to the Moon while working as a receptionist at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Her second album The Dreaming Room is released on June 17. The open-air gig, being broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 from 6pm, is the finale of BBC Music Day. Tickets are £50 plus a £7.50 booking fee, which includes entry to Eden for the weekend. See www.edenproject.com

Soul session

The magic that can be created between a moog synthesizer and a harp will be revealed, in a rare performance by harpist Ruth Wall and pianist and composer Graham Fitkin in Cornwall. The distin-guished musical couple live near Land’s End but spend much of their time performing and record-ing all over the world. They will be at the Hall for Cornwall in Truro on Wednesday, June 1, however, to present FitkinWall: Lost, a show inspired by their work with aerial theatre company Ockham’s Razor. Performing on harps, moog synthesizers and auto-harp, accompanied by vivid visuals from Cornish filmmaker Ryan Sharpe, they promise to take you on a journey into the unexpected.FitkinWall: Lost at 7.30pm, Hall for Cornwall, www.hallforcornwall.co.uk, 01872 262466

Ancient and modern

Unleash your inner child – or actual child – at a Wild Tribe session on the beach and in the woods at Trevornick in Holywell Bay, north Cornwall on Saturday, June 18. The experts in finding “something to do” outdoors will show you how to build a bug hotel and a woodland shelter and take you on a low tide rock pool adventure. With the day finishing up with toasting marshmallows over a camp fire, it sounds like something out of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five books. The free day, a taster session for the Wild Tribe events is open to over fives – adults also welcome – from 10am-4pm. Meet at the Holywell Bay Fun Park car park at 10am.

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Do you long to switch o  , or yearn for a bit of peace? Sandi Clark and Mike Maye run the Rainbow’s End retreat in Branscombe, east Devon. There is no WiFi, mobile signal or TV but a wealth of opportunity to soothe your soul with woodland and beachside walks and the opportunity just to enjoy the quiet. With money worries a major stress for many people, the pair run the self-catering retreat on a donation basis, to make a stay there accessible to everyone. The suggested rate is £25 a night per person. A little beyond your budget? Donate what you can a  ord. Or chip in a little extra to keep this not-for-pro� t sanctuary going. www.rainbowsendcottage.co.uk

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GOOD-FOR-YOU GARLICNigella Lawson is among the celebrity

fans of the Dorset-based South West Garlic Farm’s latest trend: black garlic! The caramelised cloves are made by heating whole bulbs and the end result tastes a little like balsamic vinegar, but still packed with garlic’s immune-boosting properties. It can even be eaten as a snack, without lingering on your breath. Prices start at £3.95 for a bulb, which can be kept for up to a year, with lots of recipe ideas at: www.southwestgarlicfarm.co.uk

Inspired by the calming loveliness of our Westcountry shores, local artist Gillian Adams has been inspired to create a colouring book for grown ups. Called Drawn to the Ocean,

it’s a collection of 30 beautiful hand-inked designs for you to colour and enjoy. Take a dip in the ocean with a variety of drawings, including patterns and illustrations, and � nd

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Amazon at £4.99. You can meet Gillian and a host of healers, readers and

makers tomorrow at the Mind, Body, Spirit Festival at Lostwithiel Community Centre, between 11am and 4pm.

There will be workshops and demonstrations throughout the day and entry is by donation.

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Recent sunny weekends have seen lots of us out in the garden. Many of us may have found that mowing, digging and weeding can result in aches and pains in body parts we barely knew we had! Made from green-lipped mussel extract, Penaton Gel has been developed to bring instant cooling relief to aching limbs. The brand’s Louise Lamb warns that a pre-garden-ing warm up with lots of gentle stretching is also a wise precaution. “Gar-dening is a very physical activity,” she says. “You wouldn’t go on a run without stretching beforehand, so why go out in your garden unprepared?”

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Darren Norbury

talks beerhave, on occasion, wandered into pubs, on my own which I would probably give a wide berth to, were it not for my interest in beer. And once inside, I’ve stood at the bar,

keeping myself to myself, until I (often) get talking to a local. On some occasions, these locals have been tattooed, bearded fellas, built like brick outhous-es, often with so many parts of their anatomy pierced you’d expect them to leak like a sieve if they were removed.

And I must admit, I usually get a bit nervous for a moment, before discovering they want to share their love of beer, and are usually the best company you could hope to fi nd in a pub. You see, never assume.

And so it goes with women and beer. Never assume. There are certain individuals who would have you believe that a woman might want a beer that is light, low-ABV, golden and hoppy. And you know, it ain’t so. Many go for darker, stronger brews. And this is borne out by south Devon beer sommelier Sophie Atherton, who tells me that, in her experience, women enjoyed beers with bigger, fuller fl avours.

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My friends Boak & Bailey – Jess and Ray – have been named top online drink writer

at the Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards. The Penzance couple bring

pub and beer history to life on their blog boakandbailey.com – well worth a visit.

Beers in a good causeHall & Woodhouse is to stage another charity beer festival at its Blandford St Mary base on June 18. Last year’s event raised more than £7,000 for four charities. Tickets can be purchased at hallwoodhousebeerfest.com

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“You must try this!” says Lucy from behind the bar at The Front, Falmouth, as soon as

I walk in the door. The Tintagel Brewery Black Porter is a � ne enough brew at the

best of times, but this one has aged six months in The Front’s cellar and is smooth,

rich and deep, with mocha co  ee and liquorice notes. Heavenly.

Beer of the week

Scientifi c research has, incidentally, shown that women are actually, on average, better at detect-ing individual fl avours in beer than men are and so probably make better beer judges. Mass media may not have told you this.

I added a comment on Face-book this morning which, again, fl ies in the face of common thought. This was to do with the inexorable rise of the third of a pint measure. We’re supposed to be a nation of pint drinkers, in contrast to the laid-back and cultured Belgians, yet the third strikes me as having done huge amounts to boost popularity of beer in recent years.

In a bar where I work part-time, we’ve sold any amount of very fl avoursome, but quite strong Belgian beers in thirds because it’s a civilized and re-sponsible way to drink.

The quality cask and keg beer market is no longer dominated by men of a certain age who drink pints – lots of pints – and risk their health. The beer world is always changing and develop-ing, and that’s why I love it.Darren Norbury is editor of beertoday.co.uk

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Tim Maddams is a Devon chef and author of Game: River Cottage Handbook no. 15 (Bloomsbury £14.99)

have written before about my du-bious skills as a gardener but I’m enjoying my new approach, which is this: grow stuff that invades and takes over. This year, I have decided

to add fennel to the list even though everyone keeps telling me I am mad. “Don’t plant fennel,” they say. It will self-seed and end up all over the garden. Well, good. Frankly, any tasty plant that provides me with fl avour for much of the year for zero work except popping out to lop off a few inches is fi ne by me.

The thing is, you see, I am not really after bulbs of fennel such as we see in the shops. I am told they are very hard to grow (so they are defi nitely out for me, then). But I love fennel seeds. I use them in loads of stuff, from breads to stews and curries. Fresh fennel leaf too, whether the green or the bronze variety, is always welcome in my kitchen.

Fennel stems are excellent fl avour-enhancers, doing a somewhat better job than celery at being useful in this way. They work just as well dried

out and used to fl avour stews, so long as you re-member to remove them again before serving. All but the toughest of fennel stems can be braised slowly to make a wonderful puree or soup.

And all this can be achieved with little or no expense. I have simply scattered a load of fennel

seeds from the spice rack and we will see what the summer brings. But it is autumn that I am really looking forward to. The reason is fresh fennel seeds. Fresh fennel seeds, a lot like fresh coriander seeds, are so much more pun-gent than the dried ones. I love to make an ice cream with them. I like fennel fl owers too, the bright yellow pollen adds a fresh dimen-sion to a poached plum dish and also fi nds its way into salads and the like.

Before now, I have always picked my fresh fennel fl owers

from the wild, as you can fi nd fennel all over the place, especially near the sea. But this year hope-fully I will be saved a journey, and if my garden-ing friends know what they are talking about, I will never have to plant fennel again. Result.

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Fabulous fennelThe fresh, frondy tips of fennel are excellent added to salads to provide an extra something in both taste and texture. They can also be used as a herb to fi nish dishes, particularly fi sh. And they make a welcome addition to pestos, green sauces and herby mayonnaise too. Or, for something you may never have thought of, try adding fi nely-chopped fennel tops to some strawberries sometime this season. Add a squeeze of lemon, and then tell me I am wrong in saying this is something you need in your repertoire.

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Enjoy

adstow is well known for its food and drink, championed by the town’s longstanding celebrity chef, Rick Stein. But did you know that it also has seven fantastic beaches on its

doorstep, some of which are among the top surf-ing spots in Europe?

Explore: The beautiful Camel estuary is pop-ular for sailing, fi shing and bird watching and designated as an Area of Outstanding Natu-ral Beauty. See it from the water by taking a trip on The Jubilee Queen (07836 798457) which runs one-hour cruises from Padstow Harbour throughout the main season (weather depend-ent). Sailing times change according to tides and weather and are published daily on boards around the harbourside. Adults £11 children £6.

Discover: If you prefer to explore on land rather than on water, the well-maintained and (mostly!) fl at Camel Trail offers you the choice of walking, cycling or horse riding. Follow the former track of the Padstow branch line for 17 miles of stunning scenery – you can hire bikes from Padstow Cycle Hire on South Quay (01841 533533, www.padstowcyclehire.com). Alterna-tively, you can enjoy fabulous walks along the South West Coast Path from Padstow to Stepper

Point or take the ferry over to Rock and head out to beautiful Pentire Point.

Stay: Overlooking Padstow harbour and offering wonder-ful views of the Camel estuary is the grand Victorian four star, 58-bedroom Metropole Hotel. The hotel’s Summer Sizzler stays in June start at £149 for a double room with bed and breakfast and a free jug of Pimms on arrival. The hotel has an AA rosette restau-rant plus casual brasserie, a spa and the only outdoor pool in Padstow. Call 01841 532486 or visit www.the-metropole.co.uk for details.

Eat: Food is a big part of what makes Padstow special. Find casual fi sh and chips from Rick Stein’s shop on the quayside or fi ne dining at Paul Ainsworth’s No.6 in the town centre (www.paul-ainsworth.co.uk). Rick Stein’s fl agship is the renowned Seafood Restaurant and the AA rosette Harbour Restaurant at The Metropole Hotel is well worth a visit. From fi sh and chips to a lobster thermidor, this town has it all.

Visit: The National Lobster Hatchery on the quayside. This attraction is charity run and focuses on conserva-tion, research and education helping to safeguard lobster stocks. New for 2016, you can even adopt a lobster (www.na-tionallobsterhatchery.co.uk).

Don’t miss: Rick Stein himself will be signing his cookbooks this Bank Holiday Monday (May 30) in Padstow. You can meet Rick between 11am and 12 noon at Stein’s Deli. There will be samples

from the deli to keep you entertained while you wait, and a full range of Rick’s recipe books will be available to buy.

Shop: While you are in Padstow, be sure to try an award-winning Cornish pasty from the fami-ly-run Chough Bakery – and they also send past-ies by post if you want a taste of Padstow and can’t make it (www.cornishpasty.com). You may also like to have a look around Quay Art on the North Quay, selling a good range of original art work, ceramics and unique gifts.

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View: I’m a Westcountry girl, born and brought up in Torquay, so I love everything all around the English Riviera. I’m particularly fond of Babbacombe – the views there are to die for. I now live right in the very eart of Devon in Bampton, which couldn’t be more different, but it’s just as lovely. I do miss the sea and the seaside though. Thank goodness they are not too far away if I need my fi x.

Beach: Although I do love Torbay, I think at the moment my favourite beach is Croyde, near Barnstaple. It has the best sand in the area and it’s just lovely there. In the summer months it can get a bit crowded but on the edges of the holiday season, it’s a great place for a walk.

Activity: Cooking! I can’t get enough of it really. We close The Swan Inn on Mondays, so we can recharge our batteries, as running a pub with a restaurant and rooms is fairly full on. On the days when no one is here, I still spend time in the kitchen inventing new dishes. A favourite

Donna BerryDonna Berry runs The Swan Inn in Bampton, Exmoor, with her husband Paul. The Trencherman’s Guide named it the Best Pub, 2016.

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thing for me to do is play around with creat-ing new vegetarian dishes. It’s great fun being inventive in the kitchen. I’m also interested in gluten-free dishes. I can get very experimental.

Food: I get very, very excited when we get something different from our fi sh suppliers at Newlyn and Brixham. I’m a bit like a child in a candy shop when the delivery van doors open. There are so many wonderful fi sh dishes to cook with and eat. I also love crab and lobsters. Tipple: Wicked Wolf Exmoor Gin – it’s THE tipple of choice all over the Westcountry at the moment. It’s made from 11 botanicals, distilled and blended in north Devon by husband and wife team, Pat Patel and Julie Heap. Hibiscus and kaffi r lime leaves are blended with the traditional aromatics too. Everyone’s buzzing about it. Pub: Of course I have to say The Swan! We’ve run it since 2001 and I do think we’ve managed to strike a good balance between a traditional pub that suits the regulars and a more contem-porary eatery.

Restaurant: There are so many lovely places to choose from and my husband and I love to eat out. We love going to Ben’s Cornish Kitchen in Marazion, overlooking St Michael’s Mount, which is run by brothers Ben and Toby Prior. I’ve also recently discovered Rock Salt, Plymouth, which is also a family affair. They both use lots of fabulous ingredients to make some stunning dishes. We’re also fans of a few local places as well, The Bridge at Bampton, The Masons Arms in Knowstone and Woods in Dulverton. Way to relax: Eating out – I’m such a de-voted foodie that I just love to go and see what everyone else is doing. It’s relaxing to be the one who is waited on for once, too. Paul and I are not

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people who are precious about our own brand; there’s room for everyone and we genuinely applaud the good work others do. Rising stars do so much for the sector and boost its profi le, so it’s good for everyone. Weekend away: If we’re pushing the boat out a bit, Paul and I like to make our way to Cornwall and to spend time at Nathan Outlaw’s at Port Isaac. It’s a special place and we fi nd it really relaxing there, plus there’s the added bonus of being near the sea too. Shop: Bampton is an idyllic market town, which perhaps gets overlooked for trendier des-tinations but it’s still pretty bustling and lively. Unlike many similar sized places, we still have a vibrant high street with a traditional butcher, baker and greengrocer. But my favourite shop has to be Lucy Lou’s, it sells beautiful bits and bobs for the home, trinkets, jewellery, pictures and handbags. Paul gets lots of his presents for me there and I defi nitely approve! Secret place: Tarr Steps on Exmoor, not far from Dulverton. This ancient stone slab bridge over the river Barle used to be very famous and tourists fl ocked there. Now it’s a bit quieter even on nice sunny days in the summer and it’s a magical place. We love going there with our Labrador Tansy for a paddle in the river and a walk, and we always recommend it to guests who stay with us.

Treat: Bristol is a hidden gem as a city week-end break destination. For us it’s not so far away that we have to travel for ages to get there, yet it’s still got all the attractions a big city should have, including the shops, restaurants, theatre and decent hotels.

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et’s grab the wetsuits and hit the beach,” I suggest, as the sun cracks the flags outside. “Uh-uh,” the lad tells me, wagging a finger. “Sha-arks.”

This is entirely my fault. Emboldened by my son’s fearless indif-

ference to scary films, I let him watch Jaws. What the heck, I thought. He has seen countless people de-voured by dinosaurs, not to mention dozens of grisly wild-life documentaries showing nature red in tooth and claw. What harm could a rubber shark terrorising three men in a boat possibly do?

What I had failed to factor in was that Steven Spielberg’s 1970s blockbuster is, even now, a pretty good thriller, de-spite the less-than-convincing antagonist. As Quint slipped down the deck of the sink-ing Orca and into the jaws of the great white shark, blood spurting from his middle, my wife threw in the towel and called time on the screening.

You might think me irresponsible allowing a six-year-old to witness such carnage. In my de-fence, I had always considered the threat from carnivorous animals, though deadly, to be a kind of a natural danger we had faced for mil-lennia and worthy of warning against.

I imagine that cave-dwelling parents might have once pointed to a mural depicting a sabre-tooth in much the same way. I know this is shaky ground but you see where I am coming from.

I would not consider allowing him to see something twisted, like for example The Texas

Chainsaw Massacre, although it strikes me that the film serves as a pretty good warning against picking up hitch-hikers and visiting seemingly deserted farms.

Anyway, cutting short the movie revealed two problems: first he was a bit traumatised by the man-eating activities of the shark and secondly he was angry at not being able to

watch the rest. In the end I fast-forwarded to the finale, hoping that victory over the shark might at least help him come to terms with the whole situation.

But bedtime was hard work afterwards. He was wriggling and complaining, and took ages to get off to sleep. Then I got a telling-off from his mum and prom-ised to be more thoughtful and protective of the little lad.

But I couldn’t help wonder-ing what, exactly, had got to

him. Perhaps it was too realistic. I realised how much I still love the film, in particular Quint (It is a little-known fact that the actor Robert Shaw went to school in Truro) and the drinking scene.

As the brilliant story recounts, the old shark hunter has a death wish and, in the end, the shark takes him down to the bottom of the sea. Well, I may be crediting James with understand-ing beyond his years, but perhaps the lad was struck by the tragedy of old Quint.

None of this helps with the sea problem. “There are no great whites off the coast of Devon,” I protest. “Yeah, that’s what the Mayor of Amity said,” he countered, smugly. He has a point. But how are we ever going to go swimming again?

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