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Devon gets ready for an intimate gig with Mr Cardle

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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 AFTER THE X-FACTORMatt Cardle hits the highs... and lows

16 WIN AN ART PRINT Pretty pictures from Rosie Harbottle

22 COOL INTERIORSSmart ideas for your home

26 ANNE SWITHINBANKHow to have perfect pot plants

30 FOR THE FRILL OF IT Why ru� es are the latest look

34 CULTURE VULTUREWhat’s on and where to go

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

41 HEDGEROW TREASURESTim Maddams goes foraging

42 A WEEKEND IN...Get the most out of a trip to Exeter

46 MAN AND BOYPhil Goodwin and son watch the Euros

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12 AFTER THE X-FACTORMatt Cardle on the highs and lows

16 PRETTY PICTURESMeet Devon’s latest art sensation

SHADY PLACESMake your home a summer palace22

WEEKENDS AWAYMini-break heaven in Devon42

44 SECRET WESTCOUNTRYWhere to go, what to do

30 LIGHTLY RUFFLEDThe new fashion trend, sorted

‘You never know what you’ll � nd and on two

out of three visits I’ll leave empty-handed.

On the third I’ll usually strike lucky’

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att Cardle certainly has taken some bold decisions in his career. First up, in 2014 the X-Factor winner bravely admitted he had a problem with painkillers

and alcohol, and checked himself into rehab. On leaving, he took his sing-ing career in a whole new direction, starring on the West End stage in Memphis, The Musi-cal alongside Beverley Knight. Now, he’s touring again but has left the X-Factor razzmatazz behind in favour of small, in-timate gigs - including one in Exeter’s Northcott Theatre. You can fi nd out what drives this former painter-decorator on page 12, in Sue Kemp’s ex-

clusive and insightful interview.Another big decision that paid off handsomely was taken by illustrator Rosie Harbottle, who traded in a successful career for a national design

company to move home to Chudleigh and go it alone as a freelance. Clue: a Devon boy-friend named Chris might have infl uenced her decision somewhat! Anyway, fast-forward to today and Rosie is

designing for the likes of Paperchase and M&S, and very happily living with Chris and a whole menagerie of animals in their country home. Read her story, and win one of her beautiful pic-tures, on page 16 today. Have a great weekend.

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REBECCA HOULDENRebecca Houlden, 26, is a nurse. We

spotted her rocking this cute vintage-style out� t out shopping in Plymouth.

“I wear whatever I fancy and buy most of my clothes from Topshop.

I like the style of Mollie from the Saturdays pop group. I wear bright

lipstick every day,” she told us.

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and eau de colognes, Italian chocolates, handmade Moroccan baskets and jewellery both locally cra� ed and quirky fashion-pieces.Fi� y5a is at 55a High Street, Totnes, Devon, TQ95NP 01803 866681 www.� � y5a.com

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Helen McCrory wore a vibrant, embroidered gown by Singaporean/French designer Andrew Gn to the Ba� as recently. She looked the epitome of sophistication and – at 47 – age-appropriate. The printed silk gown is surprisingly subtle, despite its eye-catching fabric and the sheer silk shoulder details really add a romantic element. The Peaky Blinders actress kept her make-up and hair simple, showing that you can have fun with colour with feeling over the top.

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n the day this article comes out, I’ll be having my hair and make-up done, donning a fl oaty

green dress and drapey fairy wings, and swanning onto the stage as Titania in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. At the time of writing, the prospect drives terror into the soul. We’re not ready, we’re not ready! But ex-perience dictates: it will be fi ne on the night. Somehow, it always is.

We’ve just had our fi rst dress rehearsal. If you’re a thespian, you’ll be familiar with dress re-hearsals and how they are almost always a disaster. Actors forget lines, cues, entrances – or rush on miles ahead of their scene. Props and costumes malfunction, sometimes with embarrassing consequences.

And there’s always a moment in run-up when I think: really? Am I really about to stand up in front of a roomful of people and do this? Are we ever going to be able to manage?

Fortunately, the rule is that the worse the dress rehearsal, the better the opening night.

There’s hardly anything as exciting as being all dressed up, with months of rehearsals behind you and a quiet audience waiting to be impressed. And all gathered up in your mind and on your tongue are the words of the immortal Bard, the mighty Shakespeare himself. Still strong. Still funny. Still relevant.

One of my favourite elements of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the setting. The play opens in

Athens, where nothing’s going right for its citizens. They’re all in love with people who don’t love them back or being forced to marry someone else.

But then they go into the woods, and it all enters a magical muddle. It’s crazy and a little bit threatening. There are love tri-angles, revenge schemes, fairies, drugs, a queen falling in love with a donkey-headed man.

Did you ever study sociology? There’s a concept called “liminal space”. It’s the place humans enter for coming-of-age ritu-als in tribal society. Liminal space is where the physi-cal world crosses over into the divine world. Where things are not always as they seem.

In his usual pro-phetic way, Shakespeare had the sociologists beat in the 1500s. His woods are a liminal space.

And for the actors, so is the theatre. You don’t play by the rules when you’re on stage – you’re free, of social conventions, of your own self. My war-cry is, more liminal space! Have a bon-fi re, smear your face with mud, dance to the stars, make magic happen. Convention is boring. Get out of Athens. Or take part in a play. It’s exhilarating.

Story of my life...

Gillian Molesworth

All the world’s a stage

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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KYLIE MINOGUE says she is “over the moon” a� er recording the theme song for the forthcoming Absolutely Fabu-lous � lm. The 48-year-old pop princess has covered the theme tune This Wheel’s On Fire, which was featured in the original BBC One series.Show creator and scriptwriter Jennifer Saunders – who has a home on Dart-

moor - reprises her role as Edina ‘Eddy’ Monsoon for Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie alongside co-star Joanna Lumley. Talking about her involvement, Kylie said: “As a huge fan of the Ab Fab series and both Jennifer and Joanna, I’m over the moon to be singing the theme song.”

CHLOE MADELEY credits weight training with saving her a� er a dark period where she felt she was “out of control”. The 28-year-old daughter of Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan battled anxiety as she started to ex-perience celebrity in her own right.Chloe, who spent much of her child-hood at her family home in Talland Bay, south east Cornwall, says: “Back then, I was wound up and panicky, and was really struggling. I had very

bad anxiety and was � nding it hard to � nd my way.”A� er dropping out of her university course, she tried television.“It crept up and up. I felt I was out of control. I was desperately unhappy.”Her life changed when she discov-ered her love for exercising, and she has gone on to launch her own health and � tness business.“It was so empowering. I got control back over my life,” she says.

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Game Of Thrones star MAISIE WIL-LIAMS, who grew up in Somerset, has rewritten a headline focused around her appearance.The 19-year-old actress, who plays Arya Stark in the popular HBO series, tweeted the alternative to her 1.3 mil-lion followers.The original, which was published by the Daily Mail, said: “Unveiled: Game Of Thrones’ Maisie Williams goes braless in sheer lace dress and quirky headpiece at charity masquerade ball”.Maisie tweeted in response: “Game of Thrones actor, Maisie Williams, helps raise thousands at a Summer Masquer-ade Ball for @NSPCC.”The tweet has received nearly 32,000 retweets and more than 57,000 likes. Good on you, Maisie!

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in pictures

Hands in the air: Valerie Anne’s School of Dance put on a show in honour of the Queen’s 90th birthday at Woodford Methodist Church

Hooray: The Queen’s 90th birthday party in Helston was a great day out

Cool cat: Disabled biker Nick Priest of Penryn has a pet cat called Fidget Honey who rides with him on his specially-

adapted mobility scooter

Thwack! Harry Medhurst batted well for St Just against Redruth

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Man alive!

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Teeny-tiny dog breeds

1 Cavalier King Charles Spaniel2 Chihuahua3 Miniature Pinscher4 Papillon5 Shih Tzu6 Toy Poodle7 Pomeranian8 Pug9 Bichon Frise10 Shetland Sheepdog

This week:

Famous faces with links to the Westcountry

ONE OF US

Radio and TV presenter Jonathan Dimbleby has a home near Dartmouth in south Devon

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The happy list

10 things to make you smile this week1 Lisa Glass her new Cornish

surf novel Ride, is out now

2 Fresh peaches try the white doughnut ones - mmm...

3 Hanging baskets looking lovely in full bloom

4 Mary Poppins Theatre Royal Plymouth this August

5 Yarn bombing naughty knitwear in Clovelly all July

6 Liskeard Show proper farming, July 9

7 Elder� ower cordial or � zz

8 PJ Harvey playing Eden June 27 - wow!

9 Cider a� er haymaking

10 Flip � ops for cooler feet

People who have had roses named a� er them

1 Stephen Fry

2 Barbra Streisand

3 Julie Andrews

4 The Duchess of Cornwall

5 Dolly Parton

6 Liv Tyler

7 Queen Elizabeth

8 Brigitte Bardot

9 Paul McCartney

10 Angela Rippon

Ten (genuine) drag queen names, just for the pun of it...

1 Hedda Lettuce

2 Courtney Act

3 Summer Clearance

4 Paige Turner

5 Phyllis Stein

6 Sue Nahmi

7 Ima Mann

8 Alsace Lorraine

9 Angie O’Plasty

10 Pauline Pantsdown

Devon: Jonathan Dimbleby has a home in Moreleigh, in the picturesque South Hams area of south Devon.

Presenter: Since 1987 Jonathan, 71, has presented Any Questions on BBC Radio 4. He has also presented numerous travel and political shows on television, as well as live election coverage.

Family: Jonathan is the son of TV presenter Richard Dimbleby and his older brother David presents the BBC’s TV show Question Time. Their mother Dilys Dimbleby kept two televisions side-by-side: “So when I was anchoring the election for ITV and David was doing the BBC, my mother could say to us: ‘Of course I watched every minute of it, darlings’.”

Scoop: Perhaps his biggest scoop was the interview in which Prince Charles admitted being unfaithful to Diana with Camilla Parker Bowles.

Love: Jonathan married to the journalist Bel Mooney in 1968, with whom he had two children. In 2003 his marriage broke up a� er he fell in love with singer Susan Chilcott, who died from breast cancer that year.

Children: Jonathan and Bel Mooney have two children - Kitty works for the charity Help for Heroes and Daniel is a television producer.

Late fatherhood: In 2007 he married Jessica Ray, a publicist 30 years his junior. They have two daughters. “What I � nd irritating on behalf of older fathers is that you are looked at with a combination of envy by some

men and prurience by lots of people. I � nd that disgraceful. You fall in love with whom you fall in love.”

Walking: Jonathan regularly walks 20 miles or more in a day: “Our local walks cross farmland and I o� en � nd that farmers are happy for you to do this if you ask nicely and keep dogs under control

and close gates a� er you… I love the dramatic nature of our local coasts but also the way the farmland sweeps down to the sea.”

Farming: His � rst career ambition was to be a farmer and he studied Farm Management at the Royal Agricultural College before joining the BBC: “If I were reborn, I’d be a Devon farmer by the coast. I love observing the di¤ erent seasons and the impact they have on the natural environment.”

DID YOU KNOW?

Jonathan has strong family ties

to Devon. His mother lived in Dittisham near

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fter the long build-up to the winner being announced and their first single soaring up the charts, many alumni of Simon Cowell’s hit-making machine quickly fade from

public view.Not so with Matt Cardle, the 2010 winner who

seems to be working harder than ever, and who couldn’t be more excited to be back on the road. He will be singing in Exeter, at the Northcott The-atre, tomorrow night.

“I really want to reach out to new people on this tour, and I’ve chosen venues which allow that intimacy with an audience. I’m really looking for-ward to it,” he says.

Intimacy is at the heart of Matt’s new tour, as he strips his performances right back and takes a more informal approach towards audience in-teraction.

He’s in a much better place than he was back in 2014, when he decided to go into rehab at The Priory for problems with alcohol and prescrip-tion drugs, saying at the time: “Although I loved the show and the success, the pressures were im-mense.

“Gradually, my addictions became a regular thing. People in my home town started to talk and it was only a matter of time before it got in the press, so I decided to take charge.’

Since coming out of rehab, the former painter and decorator from Essex has been starring in

Memphis: The Musical, which saw him sharing a London stage with Beverley Knight for four suc-cessful months last year.

But after that West End hit, Matt says he is look-ing forward to giving a more low-key, approach-able performance in Exeter, as he explains: “I always like to engage with people, and with this tour it feels more like a Q & A, where I come out and chat to the crowd, and we just chill.

“When you’re performing, you don’t always know what your work can do for someone else.

“It’s always good to meet people, and sometimes you find out what an impact you’ve had on their life. It’s really important for me to stay connected to my fans.”

Matt says that he doesn’t feel under any kind of pressure to perform a certain way these days. “I don’t think there’s the same pressure on me now to live up to people’s expecta-tions,” he says. “It’s a choice, and it depends on your personality and what you want to do with your career. You have to be a little careful in terms of what you say or where you’re seen, but I’ve never courted that kind of

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X-FACTOR winner Matt Cardle has had a difficult few years but after a spell in rehab he is now touring again. He’s soon to be seen playing live in Exeter and has lots to feel good about, as he tells Sue Kemp

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publicity.” Matt, 33, is completely adamant that he

has never felt any pressure to present him-self in a given manner – even in terms of the gender expectations associated with today’s pop music.

“The way I see it,” he theorises, “You’ve got your Ricky Martins and your Ed Sheer-ans, and everyone in between. I wouldn’t expect to see Ed doing sexy dancing but he’s still a great performer.

“It’s the same with women – some will look like Adele, others will look like Ariana Grande. And it’s always possible to get a healthy balance between the two extremes.”

Matt’s famous four-octave range certainly puts paid to any comments about a lack of genuine musical talent in TV talent shows – but what advice would he give for budding singers who are wanting to follow in his foot-steps?

“It took me a long time to find this voice,” he says, “it wasn’t until I was 22 or 23 that I got it.

“The trick is not to emulate other voices too much. And if you are going to be singing a lot, see a vocal coach, just to get a ground-ing in the right technique.

“It’s all about individuality. I think the problem that a lot of people have with per-formers who come out of musical theatre is that they’ve been trained to lose any rough quality to their voice – so they sound clear, but everyone sounds the same.

“That’s why I love the singer James Mor-rison so much – he sings the way that’s right for him, and I strive to do the same.”

All reservations about musical theatre aside, does Matt intend to return to the stage once this tour is at an end?

“It would be great to jump back into a show,” he smiles, “But the role would have to feel right. Right now I’m happy just work-ing on landing the new album – then we’ll see.”

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It’s RosIe, RosIe all the way

osie Harbottle has always loved drawing and art but as a child she never imagined she could make a living from it. Growing up her dream was to be a zoologist or to run away with the circus.

After completing her A-levels at Exeter Col-lege, Rosie began an art and design teaching degree but left after a year because she didn’t feel ready and instead went travelling around Asia in 2007. “It was when I was in Cambodia that I met some locals who were desperate for an education but just couldn’t afford it. It made me realise how lucky I was, to have so many choices and opportunities,” Rosie explains.

After that wake-up call, she decided to return home to attend the University of Plymouth, where she graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Illustration.

After graduating, Rosie applied for a job with the nation-al design company Paper & Cloth as a junior print designer at their Northampton HQ.

It was a dream job, she says, which taught her so much about designing for kidswear, stationery, homewares and greeting cards. However, she wasn’t happy living so far from the sea or her family and friends. So in 2012 she made the decision to move back to Devon to become a freelance

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illustrator. It was a gamble but one that has paid off handsomely.

In 2013, Rosie, now 30, moved in with her boy-friend Chris, who is, she says, “one of my big-gest supporters” and together they cleared his spare room and created a studio. “Chris built me a beautiful desk with reclaimed scaffold boards and the bough of an oak tree,” she explains.

Based in Chudleigh, south Devon, with their two dogs and eight chickens, Rosie credits her current success with living back in the South West. “This is where I’m happy. A work-life bal-ance is very important to me and there’s nothing better or more inspiring than taking a trip to the moors or the beach. When I’m happy, my work is better,” she says.

Working with national companies such as Paperchase, Boden, Marks & Spencer, H&M and Hallmark, as well as several companies in America, Rosie has also found success more ex-otically, in Morocco. “I often work with Boutique Souk, which is a luxury wedding and events company in Marrakech. Most recently I created wedding stationery for a couple from Italy who tied the knot in Morocco and their photographer


was Catherine Mead, a renowned destination-wedding photographer. Catherine took photos of the stationery I created and they were published in Martha Stewart Weddings, which was truly amazing for me.”

But even better than this, says Rosie, was being asked to submit her work into the Trend Bible 2016/2017 Kids edition. “The Trend Bible is a forecasting blueprint for design studios so I was very honoured to appear in it,” she explains.

Rosie doesn’t usually sell the originals of her work but her prints, which range from £15 - £40 depending on size, can be purchased from her online store (www.rosieharbottle.com). Occa-sionally, however, she takes on commissions for original artworks, with prices on request.

Inspired by nature and travel, Rosie begins each project by creating a mood board of ideas and colours to help her focus. She’ll then make a few rough sketches for composition and paint lots of different elements before scanning them onto her computer to create the fi nished piece.

“At the moment I’m particularly enjoying pat-tern making. It’s so satisfying playing around with the elements until you get a repeating pat-tern that can be applied to all manner of prod-ucts.

“A lot of the work I produce is kept under wraps while I’m working on seasons for the fol-lowing year. Retailers don’t want to share new designs until the products are ready to be sold.” she explains.

These days Rosie creates most of her work

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with gouache or watercolours. “I just adore experimenting

with bright and bold colour. It’s great looking back just over the past few years and seeing how much my work has evolved. For years I was quite nervous of using bold colour until I started really experimenting with paints again,” she adds.

Rosie credits her fashion designer mother for her love of pattern and colour. “Her hero is [the Arts and Crafts designer] William Morris and that has naturally fi ltered down to me. My aunt was also always encouraging me to draw, paint and dance. As children, whenever we went to visit her in Bedford she would wake us up in the morning to join her in dancing, moving and stretching to the sounds of African drums or the

Win a print! We have a Rosie Harbottle print to give away, called Stay Wild Moon Child, worth £20. Simply tell us the name of one of the UK companies Rosie designs for. Send your answer, name and contact details to: Rosie Harbottle competition, [email protected] to arrive by July 8. Normal terms apply, West will not share your details.

Indian Sitar before getting out her huge supply of pens, pastels, paints and char-coal,” she says.

Looking ahead, Rosie is planning a range of new prints for her online store and will hopefully branch out into homewares. Her dream is to collaborate with bohemian retailer Anthro-

pologie. She is also going to be featured in the next book to be produced by the prestigious Print & Pattern website, which will be released later this year. You can also see her work at the Native Makers Summer Market at the Royal William Yard, Plymouth on July 16. There is no doubt that Rosie Harbottle is defi nitely one to watch.www.rosieharbottle.com

‘I just adore experimenting with bright and

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or Julie Cunningham, being given the brief to revamp eight holiday cottages near Dawlish Warren in south Devon was, she confesses, rather nerve-wracking.

She had just six weeks to oversee the transfor-mation of the cottages in the run-up to Christ-mas last year. What is more, her first major job

as a qualified interior designer was set to be a family affair – as the properties are owned by her partner Chris’s family. The pres-sure was on.

“Chris’s mum and dad, Valerie and George, very much wanted to be involved – they did up the cottages the first time around 25 years ago,” says Julie. “I did need to make sure everyone was happy!”

Also scrutinising Julie’s de-signs were Chris’s siblings Roger, Mellony and Helen, who together run Cofton Country Holidays, the business started by their parents 40 years ago.

“Luckily they all loved what I had in mind,” says Julie, 33. “They are pleased with the results, which was great, as Chris’s dad is quite a strong character when it comes to decision-making!”

Julie’s brief was to bring some luxury to the cottages, five on the main holiday park at Cofton, three others close by on the Eastdon estate.

While the style of each is broadly the same, the layout was different in each cottage, presenting Julie with quite a logistical challenge. She chose a palette of duck egg blues, gentle creams and sand shades to chime with the Exe estuary views

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Time for a makeoverInterior designer Julie Cunningham tells Sarah Pitt about bringing her decor flair to a pretty collection of Devon holiday cottages

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from the windows. Soft layers of lighting, using the latest LED technology, have been created with uplighters, recessed ceiling lights, table lamps and retro-fi tted wall lights.

Julie, whose lighting expertise was built up working for Amos Lighting in Exeter, says the aim was to create a cosy feel. “I wanted the cot-tages to be a home-from-home, because they are open all year around,” she says. “I need them to be as appealing in the winter as in the summer. They are coastal but are also in the countryside, so I have gone for elements of both in the design.”

Both the sailing boats and the wading birds which can be seen on the River Exe have been re-fl ected in the ornaments Julie has chosen. She’s also gone for local art on the walls, from Teign-mouth-based Laura Wall and Dawlish’s Becky Bettesworth.

The challenge for Julie was matching what she wanted in terms of design with the practical con-siderations of equipping a four-star holiday let.

“The decor has to appeal to all age groups and stand the test of time,” says Julie. “I didn’t want it to look dated after a few years. I also had to think about wear and tear. I have got eyelets on the curtains for instance, instead of hooks and eyes, because they are more durable.”

She admits that “styles have changed” since

the cottages were originally fi tted out 25 years ago. “They had really dark beams, so I have whitewashed them, which has brought in more light,” she says.

All the lighting used was British-made, includ-ing down-lighters below the kitchen cabinets which cast a mellow glow on the food that’s being cooked. “It is a really nice light for cooking in,” Julie says. “You don’t want your food to look anaemic.”

The initial outlay in LED lighting was a considerable in-vestment as it is still relatively new technology. “You can im-agine the amount of light bulbs you need for eight cottages,” she says. “The thing is, though, LEDs are energy effi cient and cost effective because they will last ten years.”

She sourced wooden furniture from a Devon company, and the family got involved again to decide what colours they should be painted. “Can you feel my pain?!” jokes Julie.

All the furniture for the eight cottages arrived pretty much at once. “We had lorry loads,” she

says. “Luckily we have got a free barn at the moment, so it all went in there.”

The pressure was on during the makeover period, as the cottages were due to be let over the Christmas period. They were fi nished in the nick

of time. “The paint was drying as the customers were coming in,” says Julie. “And the next day, Chris asked me to marry him, so we got engaged the day after!”

The couple, who have two sons aged one and three, are plan-ning to get married in St Mary’s Church, Cofton, beside the family holiday park, next June.Julie, who also has a daughter, Molly, 14, from a previous re-lationship, says the project has helped her feel she’s really part of Chris’ family. “It was just really nice that I have been able

to do this with the family, and to be accepted in. Getting engaged the day after they were fi nished was the icing on the cake. You never know 100% what a scheme is going to look like until you see it fi nished but I’m delighted with them.”See www.coftonholidays.co.uk

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know there are garden centres full of house plants but I still like to buy them from proper fl orist shops. This takes me right back to my child-

hood when I’d gaze through the windows at the pristine plants inside and wish for more pocket money. Instead, I’d have to make do with the half dead plants passed to me by friends and relatives. These were only a step from the compost heap but were usually revivable and formed the back-bone of my collection. Parsimony persists and it is the trays of smaller, cheaper plants that catch my eye. You never know what you’ll fi nd and on two out of three visits I’ll leave empty-handed. On the third I’ll usually strike lucky and in the past year have come out with a cluster of parlour palms, watermelon peperomia, drosera and re-cently, a baby bird’s nest fern. Florists will lov-ingly wrap your purchase in their special paper, another touch I like.

On a recent visit to the glass-houses at Wisley in Surrey, I ad-mired a magnifi cent bird’s nest fern (Asplenium nidus) and I’m looking forward to watching my tiny plant grow. It has already doubled in size and this week I’ll pot it on from the 9cm/3.5in pot it arrived in to one measur-ing 13-18cm/5-6in across the top, using good potting compost. If there is insuffi cient room to push new compost around the old rootball, the answer might be to ‘pot’ the old 9cm pot into the new one, then remove it to leave a hole exactly the right size for the rootball, which is then dropped into place and settled in.

Although repotting is easy, there are various common sense rules to follow. Don’t move a plant from a tiny pot into too large a container or the

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Devon’s Anne Swithinbank, panellist on Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time, loves

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My broad beans are infested with blackfly. I am trying to be an organic gardener and not use sprays but holding back is difficult. What should I do?

The earlier the beans, the less likely are pods to be affected by blackfly. An autumn sowing is usually successful here in the mild South West. Or make early sowings in late January and February under glass. Truth be told, I was late with my beans this year and I’ve just been to inspect them. Ants are moving the aphids about and ‘milking’ them for honeydew, so they don’t count. There were loads of flower bugs which predate on aphids and spider mites but only one or two ladybirds and no signs of their larvae or that of hoverflies and lacewings. Neither could I see husk-like aphids parasitised by wasps. However their eggs might be there, waiting to hatch. I’m going to leave most of the fly, as experience has taught me that they will be a breeding ground for all the above plus velvet mites. Good bugs will then control aphids all over the kitchen garden for the rest of summer. If you must spray, choose an environmentally friendly product and apply after the bees have gone to bed. But you’ll be killing the good bugs too!

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Last year I bought three young delphinium plants but while one took well, the others had distorted growth and black blotches. They’ve all grown again but the healthier plant is five

times the size of the poorer two. These are already producing slightly distorted leaves. Should I get rid of them?

Delphiniums are amongst the most beautiful, stately and colourful of herbaceous perennials but are not the easiest to grow. Slugs tend to home into new growths, a summer storm can send plants toppling and they have their fair share of complaints. There is actually a bacterial disease called black blotch which spreads from soil or rain splash and disposal is the only cure. They can also suffer from viruses the symptoms of which are yellowing, mottling and stunted growth. Personally, I’d have those lagging plants out promptly before anything can spread to infect your one thriving plant. Don’t put the remains on the compost heap.

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This week’s gardening tipsAnne’s advice for your garden

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• Check wormeries to make sure worms are happy, not overheating in harsh sun and have enough fresh compostable matter to feed on. If you have a small garden, wormeries are great. You make compost and liquid feed on-site, they don’t smell and make great pets.

• Pinks are flowering. Do use their petals in salads and on cakes but remove the bitter base of each petal first. Dead head regularly to keep them looking good. Take non-flowering shoots as cuttings to increase stock.

• Plums, cherries and other stone fruits should only

be pruned in spring and summer to minimise the likelihood of infection by silver leaf disease. Should your plums need any corrective pruning, suckers or lower stems removing, do so now.

• Make sowings of beetroot, runner beans, carrots, kohl rabi, turnip and plant out sprouting broccoli, winter cabbage, kales and other winter hardy greens.

• When harvesting summer cabbage, cut the stalk and leave a stump behind so more greens will sprout. They’ll make good eating in late summer and autumn.

Protect soft fruit from birds or you’ll never taste it properly ripe. Anything not in a cage is best covered with Enviromesh (after flowering and pollination has finished) and secured with clothes pegs. Fleece snags on thorns.

roots, surrounded by volumes of wet compost, will not be able to breathe and might suffocate and wither. At the time of potting, a plant should have moist but not sopping wet and certainly not dry roots. If dry, sit the plant in a container of water and then let it drain thoroughly for a few hours before potting. I like to gently break the old rootball here and there to encourage new roots to grow out. Compost should also be just moist. If wet, spread it on a tray to dry a little and if dry, water it and rub the moisture in. After potting, always water plants in promptly without disturb-ing the compost. Use a can fitted with a fine rose ‘sprinkler’, such as the Haw’s 2.5litre conserva-tory watering can.

Keeping houseplants takes you all around the world in your imagination and I like to imagine the bird’s nest fern in its native rain forest habi-tat. Widespread in the tropics, you might find it in North Queensland in Australia, Madagascar or New Guinea. There, it mainly grows as an epiphyte in nooks and crannies in the trunks of forest trees, rather than in the ground. Up in the branches, plants are elevated from the gloom below and thrive in light shade and high humid-ity. The ‘nest’ made by the fronds probably col-lects some water and detritus to help feed the plant. As house plants, ferns generally need only a weak general purpose liquid feed every month or so when established and making active growth.

This tropical asplenium requires a winter min-

imum temperature of around 10 C/50 F but the more temperate hen and chicken fern (Aspleni-um bulbiferum) from Australia and New Zealand lives happily in my porch, where temperatures dip to just above freezing in winter. Terrestrial or epiphytic, this has a different look, with finely di-vided fronds decorated by miniature ferns which detached and pushed into compost, will grow in-dependently. In the countryside, the native hart’s tongue (Asplenium scolopendrium) is no less lovely and completely hardy. These often arrive as sporelings in gardens and are welcome for their shiny, evergreen leaves to decorate hedge bottoms, woodland gardens and stumperies.

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at home, thanks to some great products on the market this summer.If your soles are suffering a build-up of dry skin, an electronic file is the fastest way to buff them back to life. The Scholl Wet & Dry foot file can be used while soaking your feet in water – just be light-handed and keep the device moving.If you’ve got the time to fake tan, then do so. Or there are some great instant-bronzing products you could try, which work like make-up for legs, such as Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s shimmer oil for Marks & Spencer. It’s good stuff!

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ink. Unlike Aerosmith’s Steve Tyler (“Pink! It’s my favourite colour”)I have a bit of a love/hate relation-ship with the shade. As in, I love it on the hanger but hate it when I see

myself wearing it in the changing room. I always look like an ageing Barbie, not a look I am really going for.

This season’s dusky incarnation is a whole other matter though. It’s pink for grown-ups and it’s muted tones make it fair game for just about any skin tone.

I especially like it for the workplace. I hate the idea that, to be taken seriously in the offi ce you should don a black trouser suit, repressing your feminity in an attempt to emulate your male counterparts. Pardon my French, but hell no. I’m a woman, I’m good at what I do, and I can celebrate both of those things at once. I especially like Facebook’s Chief Operating Offi cer Sheryl Sandberg’s quote, “In the future there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.” In fact, her book Lean In got me so fi red up I just had to go shopping for an outfi t that would look fantastic as I swanned in to take my seat at the head of a boardroom table.

This dusky pink shell top seemed a good place to start. Made from fabric so light and soft that it was akin to wearing a cloud, it was a pretty good example of why it is worth paying just a little bit more for a top from Reiss. There are literally a thousand ways to wear it too. I’m loving the idea of popping it on with a white pencil skirt and black leather jacket, or even with some oyster cropped trousers and simple grey courts.

These shorts were a match made in heaven. Their tailored lines and playful print make them

just the right mix of professional and irreverent. Irresistible. Tuck the shirt in smartly and throw on a pair of simple strappy heels and

you’re ready for any breakfast meeting summer can throw at you. Given that the summer in question is a British one, you’d be wise to invest in a softly tailored trench too, like this one. It adds interest with a hemline longer than the shorts. And is light enough to be bundled into a handbag should the mercury soar.

This gorgeous shade is a weekend warrior too. Wear it anywhere from a friend’s wedding (although beware, as dusky rose is one of the top bridesmaids choices for 2016) to a dinner date or a browse around a local market. Best of all, it works a treat with denim. Frankly, I plan on trying every possible combination. Because this time I agree with another sentiment of Tyler’s, and I don’t want to miss a thing.All fashion in these pictures is from Princesshay Shopping Centre, Exeter, www.princesshay.co.uk

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Our guide to what’s on in the South West by woman-in-the-

know Sarah Pitt

A beach on the south coast of Cornwall is set to host two open-air theatrical productions this summer, with renowned Cornish theatre groups performing on stages built directly on the sand. The first show at Carlyon Bay near St Austell, from July 22-24, sees Rogue Theatre performing their Deep Blue Summer Ball - a collection of sea-themed stories told with acrobatics, dancing and live music in the troupe’s inimitable style. And Miracle Theatre’s award-winning The Magnificent Three arrives on the beach for one night only on August 25, described as a ‘rootin-tooting, toe tappin comedy Western’. Find out more at www.carlyonbeach.com/whats-on.

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Devon painter Jill Griffin is particularly well known for her engaging cow studies, including ‘Clover’, pictured. Jill is one of a group of Devon artists showing their work at a Devon Pop Art exhibition at Buckland Abbey, west Devon, until July 17. The group got together after feeling frustrated

at the financial barriers facing artists wishing to exhibit in galleries. They include painters Theresa Shaw, Amy Jobes and Lucy Griffiths, printmaker Louise Thompson and felt artist Sue Lewis. The exhibition is open each day from 11am-5pm at the National Trust property.

Why not celebrate the famed landscape designer Capability Brown’s 300th birthday with a visit to the splendid acres he designed at Sharpham House in south Devon?The Sharpham Trust is hold-ing its summer open day on Sunday, July 3 from 10.30am-4pm. There will be arts and crafts, kayaking, storytelling, nature connections and mindfulness workshops, as well as a beer tent. The event is free, with a £4 charge for parking. Or you can leave your car in nearby Totnes, and take Bob the Bus’s free shuttle bus. Find out more at www.sharphamtrust.org.

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Enjoy

Your starsby Cassandra Nye

LEO (July 23 - August 23)Those who make contact have so much to offer that I urge you to listen care-

fully, Leo. Sometimes you tend to think that you know everything. We like to think so, but how can it be true? Seeking back-up for your ideas does not mean failure.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23)Making sure that you understand and

have control of a new situation is essen-tial. Accepting help is not the same as handing over control. Don’t underestimate your power of attraction at the weekend, Virgo. You may not feel like fl irting but letting someone see the ‘true you’ has many advantages.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23)Do you remember when you last showed

your sparkle and charm? Perhaps not often enough? Someone really appreciates what you have to offer midweek. A conversation shows you the potential of this relationship. There is no need to accept everything that is offered to you.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22)What a confusing time this can be for you, Scorpio. There are so many paths

that you could follow that giving up on all of them could seem the best option. However,

you are made of stronger stuff, aren’t you? Yes, give yourself time to think and pick something that will be fun!

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21)Others may not have appreciated that you need to consider some things care-

fully when they are used to making rash decisions. You are in control and need to show it. Making a romantic gesture is not enough this weekend. Some kind of physical or fi nancial move is called for.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20)After meeting a familiar situation this week you may well decide to look back.

Sure, it is worthwhile if it stops you from making a mistake. However, bear in mind that pre-conceived ideas can backfi re. People change their attitudes and their ideas as time goes on.

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19)You may not be perfect, Aquarius, but you are pretty near it at times! Am I

being fl attering? Possibly. Sometimes you do not receive the recognition and praise that you deserve. Take this little ego boost and run with it.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20)This week, you need to make sure that

someone doesn’t overstep the mark – give them an inch and they might take a yard. With distractions on a few fronts, keep an eye on your love life. It is here that rich and loving moments bring so much joy. Miss them and you miss a lot!

ARIES (March 21 - April 20)In a pretty smooth-running week you may feel that there is a little something

missing. What could it be? Are you losing your incentive to move forward because the current trend is so cosy and predictable? Do you need to move ‘up’ as opposed to moving ‘on’?

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21)There have been some strong infl uences driving your actions recently. Now is

the time to fi ne-tune your ambitions and direction and take more control. Where the input of others can be useful and even welcome, you know what is best for you. Going about it in the most direct way shows you mean business!

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21)This is a straightforward sort of week when you don’t have to try too hard to

keep the status quo. Is that what you want, though, Gemini? Somewhere deep inside is there a little voice telling you that there is more out there? A little bit of ambition has a lot to recommend it.

Cheryl

This week’s sign: Happy birthday to...Deeply intuitive and sentimental, Cancer can be one of the most challenging Zodiac signs to get to know. Very emotional and sensitive, Cancerians care deeply about family and home and are very attached to the people who surround them. Their ruling planet is the moon, which can create � eeting emotional patterns that the sensitive Cancer cannot control, especially when a child. They can be temperamental but one of their greatest strengths is persistent determination.

born June 30 1983Cheryl has dropped all surnames, which is probably just as well. The Girls Aloud star and X-Factor judge started o� as Tweedy, then Cole, then moved on to Fernandez-Versini. As a Cancer, Cheryl can be complicated and could well exhibit personality traits ranging from sweetness and loyalty to petulance and resentment. Now that she is about to turn 33, she is dating Liam Payne from One Direction, who is almost ten years younger than her. But age is just a number and we’re sure Cheryl will continue to surprise us in the years to come.

CANCER (June 22 - July 22)What you need right now is under-standing. Before someone else can

understand you though, maybe you need to understand yourself. You know what you want, right? The question is, do you know how to get it? Someone who has already achieved this can be of help to you. Just ask! When you know the questions to ask, progress can be swift. Listen to those answers

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There is no substitute for good old-fashioned fresh air when it comes to feeling upli� ed, energised and rejuvenated. At Cornwall’s very

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Get freshLive life in colour

It is widely acknowledged that art is a form of therapy that can help free the mind of unwanted thoughts and

anxieties and provide a healthy sense of achievement. So why not try a be-

ginner’s watercolour class with David Simmons at The Bishop’s Palace in Somerset? Classes cost £10 and take place on 30 June, 7 July and 14 July.

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Ever feel as though your life is one big military operation? Maybe you’re planning your wedding, have re-cently launched your own business or maybe you’re counting down the weeks until a new baby arrives. Inject some fun into life admin with Newton Abbott’s Pirongs Unique Planners. Design your diary to a tee with personalised photos, text, binding and ribbon from £20. www.uniqueplanners.co.uk

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NEW MEDS!

If you’re looking for a way to relieve stress through small and practical lifestyle changes, look no further than Staverton Bridge Nursery in Devon. Taking place on 19 July from 10am-1.30pm, new workshop Yoga & Food includes a talk on stress relief through food, followed by an outdoor yoga session on the deck overlooking the stunning River Dart. www.stavertonbridgenursery.com

All too much? nean diet might work far better than cutting fat to lose weight. Distinguish-

Lend a handIf you have a few spare hours on your

hands, volunteering can be a rewarding and enjoyable activity, and one that is guaranteed to generate that feel-good

factor. Whether you choose to help out at your local community centre, fundraise for charity or even take the whole family on a National Trust volunteering holiday, you

won’t regret using your time to help others.

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Wellbeing

I have some vertical lines on my upper lip that have started to develop over the past few years, even though I have never smoked.

They are really starting to bother me - is there any way I can get rid of them? HG, Bridport

Medical aesthetician Dr Pradnya Apte says: Aesthetics is a con-stantly evolving discipline that is essentially consumer-driven. It goes through flux and change both with new techniques, prod-ucts and even targeting different

areas of the face and body.I have noticed this year that a lot of focus has

been on the lips and, more importantly, the area around the lips. The vertical lines around the mouth, mainly on the upper lip, are known to aesthetic practitioners as the peri-oral lines but they are also known as “smoker’s lips”. or some-times “bar-codes”.

So why do they develop? Peri-oral lines are influenced by a number of factors and these include age, genetics, sun exposure, repetitive facial movements, lip threading, waxing, smok-ing and even drinking often through a straw.

Lips have a much thinner stratum corneum compared to the rest of our facial skin which makes them venerable to sun damage.

Q The muscles that surround the mouth are con-stantly being used and the repeated contraction of the upper lip muscles when we talk, eat, drink and kiss, can result in verti-cal lines. This is especially noticeable as we age, because the skin becomes thinner due to collagen loss and the slow-down of natural fibroblast cell activity.

Peri-oral lines are more visible in women than men because women have thinner skin in this area.

Threading and waxing the upper lip can also create lines because the process damages the skin and makes it thicker.

There are various ways to treat these lines. First, dermal fillers can be used to augment the lips.

Personally, I use a very light dermal filler like Perfectha Fine Lines or Emervel Touch. I use a serial puncture technique, whereby small amounts are injected in dots around the upper lip area. I also cross hatch, depending on the severi-ty of the lines but I have to be mindful of not over filling, so the upper lip area is does not look obvi-

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Perfectlips?It is possible to avoid the signs of ageing, says ourexpert

ously “treated”. This process can cost £200-260.Fractional laser resurfacing is also another

treatment that can resurface the upper lip area and promote collagen forma-tion. There is usually some recovery time needed with both these techniques and patients would normally need a course of three to five treatments.

Wrinkle-relaxing injec-tions (costing from around £200) such as Botox can also be used on the upper lip area but they have to be very carefully placed to relax the upper lip muscle. Care must be taken not to alter the pa-tient’s natural smile.

Whatever you choose, one thing that I would advise is to see an aesthetic practi-

tioner who performs lip treatments regularly, so that your improvements are natural and subtle-looking.

Dr Pradnya Apte runs the Revitalise-Rejuvenate MediClinic in Southernhay, Exeter. Visit www.revital-ise-rejuvenate.co.uk or call 01392 426285

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Friday and 11am until 11pm on the Saturday, there will be more than 30 beers and ciders.

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talks beert was one of those quiet Saturday nights in the local. My racing tip-ster friend, a Welshman resident in west Cornwall these days, was in an

upbeat mood thanks to a successful day on the horses. Penzance Brewing Co IPA (offi cially my favourite beer ever, although I admit I’m quite biased) was on and fresh as ever.

And then they arrived. The Rhos Keur Cornish singing group had been performing at a wedding at Penzance and were thirsty for a beer on their way home. Cue an impromptu performance of some Cornish community singing standards, culminating in the anthem Trel-awney. All this while many of our usual fellow punters were at home, or gracing some other bar, glued to Euro 2016.

There have been other nights like this, for in-stance when some of the Mousehole Male Voice Choir boys have turned up after a concert (two of their members live in the village). Spontane-ous singing in a Cornish pub takes a lot of beat-ing. And it’s incredible how it seems to be getting more popular with younger people, too. I even spotted a teenager disengage themselves from their iPhone!

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smoking ban has helped. Pubs

are cleaner and more welcoming

than ever

I place a lot of faith in the young when it comes to pubs and the beer industry. We have some terrifi c young people running breweries and, increasingly, taking up pub tenancies and freeholds, too. It’s viewed, unfairly, as a middle-aged or older person’s profession by some, the

Al Murray-esque landlord lean-ing against the bar while Old Jack sups his nightly pint of mild. But pubs – and increasingly bars, too, for that is the nature of the market now – are changing.

I didn’t agree with it at the time but the smoking ban has helped. Pubs, on the whole, are cleaner, more welcoming and offer a better range of drinks than ever. For many landlords, food is a must to help pay the rent but even this is more exciting now than your standard pub grub. The market has been shaken up by street food

and that ethos has now permeated through to indoor kitchens. Here’s the thing, then: if you haven’t been to your local pub for ages, you might be labouring under the misapprehension that it’s not for you. But if you go and look, you never know, that might be the moment when that thirsty choir walks through the door.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)

oraging is seen as a bit of a bit of a specialist activity and for very good reason. You need to know what will kill you, what’s tasty and what’s actually edible but frankly a waste

of time. Or, indeed, seemingly a waste of time unless you are in the know and have the trick to make it a good thing.

Gathering a few blackber-ries or some wild garlic is pretty straightforward even for the most devil-may-care. Nettles too are an obvious no-brainer. But how do we begin to add a few extra bits and bobs of interest into the equation without an expert hand to guide us?

Well, if I may, I’d like to show you a little plant that most people will have seen even if they don’t know what it is. And like most plants, once you do know it, you spot it here and there - it quickly seems to be abundant everywhere. The particu-

lar oddity I’d like to encourage you to try today is pennywort, sometimes known as navel pen-nywort (it looks like a tummy button) or as wall pennywort thanks to its liking for growing on rocky walls and ditch edges.

Found it yet? Good, now what to do with it? Well, pennywort makes a fi ne alternative to crisp lettuce and a handy addition to salads and sandwiches – of which a good egg mayo on brown has to be at the top of the list. It’s also quite a good garnish chopped and added to a potato salad. Or simply scatter a few leaves about a serv-ing of smoked fi sh and lentils.

The season for this plant is long but it’s certainly at its best before it fl owers, when the leaves are young and small. One note of caution would be to take care

when you are picking pennywort. It is very shal-low rooted and you don’t want to rip up the whole plant in carelessness.

F Pennies from heavenBy far and away the best use for pennywort is as a little crunchy salad garnish for a bit of steak, marinated in a little fi ve spice and oil, then grilled medium rare.

While that’s resting, make a dressing of mustard, soy sauce, chopped ginger, sesame oil and a few chilli fl akes, seasoned with a little lemon juice. Toss a handful of pennywort and a teaspoon of fi nely chopped onion in this dressing and serve it on top.

Top off with a few chilli fl akes if you like.

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Enjoy

ull of character and ancient history, Exeter packs a lot into its beautiful streets. Whether you’re a theatre lover, music buff, foodie or art enthusiast, this city has something for everyone.

Stay: Hotel du Vin Exeter (formerly The Magdalen Chapter) is a glamorous retreat housed in a former Edwardian eye hospital. Rooms are styled with bold colours and contemporary wallpaper, adorned with luscious thick curtains and original artwork. There’s a small ‘indoor/outdoor’ heated pool and a spa so you can indulge in massages, body scrubs, facials and manicures. The spa leads directly out to the garden so you can easily sweep from deep relaxation to deckchair in a blissed-out haze. For a double room you can expect to pay upwards of £130, which includes breakfast and wi-fi.

Occupying an 18th-century building overlook-ing Exeter Cathedral, ABode Exeter is said to be Britain’s oldest hotel. The hotel has 53 guest rooms with a warm, understated sense of style. All the luxuries of a contemporary space are set alongside the property’s original features. Benefit-ting from all the charms of the historic cathedral green, Abode Exeter is also seconds away from the modern shopping district, making it ideally placed for taking in the best of the city and its attractions on foot. Double rooms start from £99 per night in-cluding full English breakfast.

Eat and drink: The Samuel Jones Smoke & Ale House is a fun place to eat smokehouse-style food or hang out, in a lovely old building overlooking the water on Exeter’s beautiful quayside. The fit-out here cost St Austell Brewery £1.5 million in 2014 and it has just won Best New Pub at the national Publican Awards 2016. Lloyd’s Kitchen in the city centre is another popular place to eat, meet and drink. The restaurant is open every morning serv-ing their own Italian blended coffee, freshly baked croissants and cooked breakfasts. The lunchtime menu includes their signature fish and chips, well worth a try.

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Exeter’s Underground Passages, accessed from Paris Street, come highly recommended. Prepare to crouch down, don a hard hat and (possibly) get spooked in what is the only publicly-accessible system of its kind in England and a designated Ancient Monument. These medieval vaulted pas-sages were built to house pipes bringing fresh water to the city. The tours here are hugely popular, especially in the school holidays, so it’s wisest to book ahead on 01392 665887: adults £6, children £4.

Enjoy: During the summer months you can sail the oldest working shipping canal in Europe with

Stuart Line Cruises. Their Exeter Canal trip sails through eight miles of manmade water-way and makes use of two manually oper-ated locks at Turf Locks and Double Locks. Lasting approximately two and a half hours, the one-way trip departs Exeter at 2pm and is only £10 per person.

Discover: You can hire a canoe or a bike from Saddles & Paddles on the quayside (www.sadpad.com) and explore the River Exe at your own pace. The 18th century Double Locks pub makes for the perfect pit stop for a pint and a spot of lunch.

Don’t miss: Exeter’s quayside is located about 15 minutes’ walk from the city centre and is the place to be seen on sunny days. It is one of the most interesting and picturesque areas of the city, popular with locals and visitors alike for its fascinating history, interesting architecture, lively events and its friendly pubs, restaurants and cafes.

Shop: Lorna Ruby is an independently-owned boutique just off the cathedral green, which offers a carefully curated selection of cloth-ing, accessories and homeware from a network of relatively undiscovered brands. Nearby, and lined with quaint gift shops, independent jewel-lers and vintage clothing boutiques, medieval Gandy Street is also not to be missed. Do: The Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) was awarded Museum of the Year 2012 after a major extension and refurbishment and it is a must-see for any visitor to the city. Free to visit, do check out the Flower Power exhibition of botanical illustrations from India, running now until September 11. This beautiful exhibi-tion showcases early 19th-century illustrations of Indian fl ora, exploring the plants’ usage in tra-ditional Ayurvedic and modern medicine, visit www.rammuseumexeter.com for details.

Explore: If you’re not claustrophobic then

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Chef Mitch Tonks runs The Seahorse in Dartmouth, which has twice won the Observer’s Best UK Restaurant gong. His Rock� sh takeaway chain has twice claimed Best Independent Restaurant at the National Fish and Chip Awards. Mitch’s book Fresh scooped Best Fish Book at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. He lives in Brixham, south Devon with his wife Penny and their youngest daughter Issy.

My Favourite:

Walk: I walk the breakwater at Brixham twice a day with my dog Charlie. I like the ever-changing views, the various colours and clarity of the water, the fresh smells of the fi sh market wafting over when the wind is in the west. I walk this walk with many friends who also love the one-mile walk. My dad and I walked it regularly together and we lost him last year, so I still feel him out there some days.

Festival: I love Dartmouth Food Festival, it’s small enough to get round and there is a real community spirit and loads of great food. The town really does come out and celebrate all that’s good about our food culture here in Dartmouth.

Weekend away: A trip to Cornwall and a stay at the Idle Rocks Hotel, enjoying the pubs and coastline of Cornwall. It’s a magical place that brings back memories of my fi rst holidays with my primary school in the area, although the Idle Rocks is a bit more luxury than I had back then! I always have that holiday feeling when I head there.

Favourite ingredient: It is easy to forget but Westcountry fi sh really is some of the best

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in the world, and living right where it is caught is a treat. And South Devon Chilli Farm’s sauces, which I use in dressings and sauces or just straight on avocados and eggs in the morn-ing.

Favourite tipple: My new favourite drink, right up there behind a morning armagnac, is a glass of vermouth from Knightor in Cornwall, a new discovery of mine. I like it with a shot of gin and an ice cube.

Activity: I love to sail my little Contessa 26, I

dream of long journeys and ponder on my ability to be able to make them. I fi gure the joy is in the dreaming, which one day may lead to me fi nally breaking free. When there’s no wind I love to swim or go stand up paddleboarding. I just love being in or on the sea.

Pub: The Ship Inn at Kingswear. they have the best beer on the planet, some great seafood and great landlords in Heather and Colin. It’s a good locals pub.

Shop: I like Mr McCabe’s butchers in Totnes,

it’s always a good experience shopping there, friendly, helpful, knowledgeable and great meats.

Treat: Being at home when the sun shines, having all the children round the table and spending the night on my boat with my wife Pen.

Secret place: At anchor off Churston Cove

Way to chill out: The honest truth is I just like being at home, I feel relaxed, I love the place and the comfort it offers to me.

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my life

hen England and Russia were drawn to play each other on the opening fixture of Euro 2016, there was initially excitement in my An-glo-Russian family.

The happy truce under which my father-in-law had made Liverpool his foreign team (he actually supports CSKA Moscow, the former Soviet Army team) was shat-tered. We were pitted against one another – man against man, fan versus fan.

As the sun set, we stood di-vided: two clans, two cultures, two national anthems. Until, that is, the old man declared he had switched allegiance from Russia to England, on account of his nerves.

It is true that Valera is an emotional guy and his coping strategies begin to creak when faced with defeat on the pitch. He tends to launch into long tirades about donkeys, hurling unprinta-ble expletives down the Skype tube and swear-ing that he will not watch another game, ever.

Football does this to a man. I have to confess my passion for my national

team has slowly been drained over the years by a tedious mix of FA incompetence, street violence, tragic defeats, bad managers and the general lack of tournament nous that seems to have become our modern hallmark.

But once the competition comes around I just can’t help getting involved. Summer foot-ball is one of those collective events which bind us together. We journey together from the sweetness of joy and eternal hope to tear-ful defeat and bitter recrimination. What’s not to like?

So, come the England-Russia game, James is momentarily enthused by the idea of two halves of his family doing symbolic battle on the pitch. But he soon tires of the idea. Also, he is grumpy that the TV is no longer under his control.

When he asks me when Liverpool and Exeter City are playing in the tournament I realise he doesn’t quite get it.

As the teams line up for the hymns, my wife disappears. “It’s your national anthem,” I pro-test. She starts taking the wash-ing off the line.

James is building a Lego prison for his bad guys. So much for the big event.

Anyway, I watch the game, the script of which unfolds with agonising precision. A deserved lead is squandered quite

brilliantly by England in almost the last kick of a game in which Russia created not a single chance.

Wow, I thought. That is a new twist. They must have been working hard on that one at headquarters in Soho Square. By now my other half is upstairs on the computer; the lad is firing missiles from a dragon ship. I suffer what feels like a defeat alone.

The next day, we dial up the in-laws in Russia to get their reaction. Apparently, Valera went to bed at one-nil, utterly convinced there was no way back for the Russians. He didn’t even find out the result until breakfast.

But then, perhaps a one-all draw was the perfect result for our family?

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NEXT WEEK: Chris McGuire on starting his new life in the South West

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