IF you really can’t stomach even the thought of goat’s cheeses, then please look away now. If you are tentative or just curious about them, then this Dorset made goat’s cheese, Nanette, is more than worthy of your consideration. If you actively like them, then this is a must for you to sample, as it…
TASTE of the West judges who visited the Riverside Restaurant at West Bay sent a rave review, awarded the restaurant a gold star and concluded “this place should have a Michelin star.” Arthur Watson, who this year celebrates 50 years of running the Riverside with his wife Jan, was understandably thrilled: “It is a wonderful…
IT’S often said that there is a good reason for “rarities” from established playwrights and composers, and that is because the works are inferior. So it is with Gilbert and Sullivan’s penultimate collaboration, Utopia Ltd, which preceded the final opera, The Grand Duke, itself an immediate failure. But for Milborne Port Opera, celebrating its 24th…
RAIN opens and closes this intense two-hander, played with honesty and truth in the intimate Ustinov Studio at the Theatre Royal, Bath, and the steady rain of the title pervades the narrative, only ending once the angst and tragedy of the play has been resolved. A Steady Rain broke weekly box-office records for a non-musical…
THE great excitement about the current production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Things We Do for Love at Bath is the stage debut of Australian singer and actress Natalia Imbruglia. This 1997 play is perfunctorily dismissed on Wikipedia as the story of a woman who begins an affair with her best friend’s fiance, only for it to…
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…