A SHAFTESBURY couple have launched a new range of healthy teas, inspired by their travels in South America. Teatonics has been founded by Charles Grummitt and Rosie Marteau with the aim of creating new, healthy and exciting blends discovered in these lesser known tea drinking cultures. After quitting their city jobs to travel around Paraguay,…
CHARCUTERIE is an ancient craft originally intended as a way to preserve meat (usually pork) before the advent of refrigeration. It is carried on today for the unique flavours derived from the preservation process and is an integral part of modern cuisine. In medieval times local guilds were developed to regulate the food production industry…
OLIVER Goldsmith’s hilarious comedy of ill manners She Stoops to Conquer is the latest production by Devon-based Creative Cow, and starts its tour at the Cygnet Theatre in Exeter. Directed with a keen eye for detail, witty designs for costume and set, and a fluent choreographic style by Amanda Knott, this is the story of…
“TELL me it’s not true”, the five words most associated with Blood Brothers, rang around the auditorium time and time again this evening, ironically, as it is all too true that Mrs Johnstone’s twin sons have also died on the same day, causing shock, upset, and a full-house standing ovation at the Hippodrome, with almost…
IF you have a sweet tooth and an eye for pretty things, there is a must-see new shop opening in Wincanton High Street over the Easter weekend. Cake maker and creative cake decorator Vicky Riddick is opening The Small Cake Shop, at the entrance to Carrington Way, on Saturday 19th April, in time to enjoy…
WHEN New Zealand dairy farmer Louise Talbot moved to Dorset with her family she was surprised to discover that almost nobody made their own cheese – quite the opposite of what she was used to. Louise decided to share her expertise by setting up a cookery school with a difference – Louise brings her Cutting…
AMATEUR Players of Sherborne is one of 86 companies, from almost 200 applicants, to have been chosen to take part in the 2014 Royal Shakespeare Company Open Stages project – a special year also celebrating the 450th anniversary of the birth of the Bard. With professional mentors and input from young actors from local schools,…
A STYLISH restaurant with good food, attractively presented, served by charming, helpful waiters – and very affordable. What more could you ask? Add to those essential ingredients the spice that you are helping the training and development of the next generation of chefs and hospitality staff, and you have a recipe for customer satisfaction. The…
ON the way home from Bath tonight I have been singing songs from great musicals; South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, CATS, and others, all of which were musical memories stirred by songs in The Witches of Eastwick, yet curiously none of the actual songs from tonight’s show was original or memorable enough to remain in…
JOE Orton’s play Entertaining Mr Sloane caused a sensation when it first appeared, incredibly, 50 years ago. Now the black comedy seems almost gentle, a period piece set firmly in the days of Steptoe and the Kray Brothers, and that’s just how the current London Classic Theatre touring production plays it under the director of…