It’s the time of year for poring over the seed catalogues and deciding what to grow this year. But the cost of seeds is going up fast and it can be quite daunting to realise how much it will cost to grow all the different crops we might like.
But there is an alternative! Very few people need to use a whole pack of carrot seeds, so how about swapping half your pack for half a pack of lettuce seeds?
A seed swap is an opportunity to get together with other gardeners and swap seeds that you don’t need, or that you have collected from last year’s crops. Even if you have no...
Where does our bread come from? What’s in it? How hard is it to make?
Humans have been making some kind of bread for more than five thousand years - it’s central to our culture.
Think of the importance of bread in religious stories, or in the many expressions we use – "best thing since sliced bread"; "putting bread on the table"; and so on.
Originally just ground grains and water, then later leavened (risen) with yeast, bread has been a simple staple food throughout human history. But the bread we see today in supermarkets is full of additives, enzymes and...
As part of Exeter's Extreme Imagination Festival, The Bike Shed Theatre have joined up with Cube Theatre to bring you Freddy Dare and the Ginger Robber .
Fred Andrews is short for his age, can’t play football, and making friends at his new secondary school is proving difficult. His dad died a while ago, and Fred’s mum is too sad to pay attention to him. Fred wants to change his world, and so he does. He becomes Freddy Dare - a superhero with a glamorous accomplice, the Ginger Robber! Together, they must overcome The Mistress, steal their opportunity and tap dance their way to Vegas...
Fred’s lost his Dad, and now it looks like he might be losing his Mum too. Looks like a job for... FREDDY DARE and the GINGER ROBBER!
The toe-tapping twosome must dance with destiny, take on a terrifying quest, and stop their arch-enemy before it’s too late! But as Fred sinks deeper into the world of his imagination to avoid reality, will he ever be reunited with his mum?
Three weeks of events celebrating the works of Samuel Beckett
The centrepiece of the festival is one of Samuel Beckett's most celebrated works, Endgame . A depiction of the heart of an uncompromising relationship, laid out in ruthlessly beautiful poetry and image. Directed by Anthony Richards, Endgame features some of the best seasoned local performers.
There are also performances of Breath and A Piece of Monologue and extracts from All That Fall and Embers.
Surrounding Beckett’s own works, we have new performances from visiting groups of professionals and students...
The Exe Estuary in winter is one of the best places in the UK to get great views of avocets. With their black-and-white plumage, and slender, curved bills, you can’t miss them especially a flock of up to 500 when they’re sweeping the mud to search for tasty morsels.
Every winter, over 40,000 birds, including hundreds of black-tailed godwits, Brent geese and red-breasted mergansers, flock to the Exe Estuary from as far a field as Siberia and Greenland.
With expert commentary on each cruise, you'll learn something new and exciting about the Exe Estuary and its residents....
A few years ago, you would have been lucky to spot avocets anywhere, but today - a conservation success story.
The Exe Estuary in winter is one of the best places in the UK to get great views of avocets. With their black-and-white plumage, and slender, curved bills, you can’t miss them especially a flock of up to 500 when they’re sweeping the mud to search for tasty morsels. Every winter, over 40,000 birds, including hundreds of black-tailed godwits, Brent geese and red-breasted mergansers, flock to the Exe Estuary from as far a field as Siberia and Greenland.
A Sense of Place and Culture: British and Australian narrative jewellery.
Curated by Professor Norman Cherry, University of Lincoln, in conjunction with the National Centre for Craft and Design, this exhibition of contemporary narrative jewellery explores a sense of place and cultural identity through the theme of Transplantation . A carefully selected group of contemporary jewellery artists from the UK and Australia were asked to create a body of work which would articulate the notion of Transplantation. Each has their own experience of cultural, familial,...
4 counties, 630 miles, 56 days … The South West Coast Path through the eyes of a printmaker Anita Reynolds is a printmaker Associate Member of the Guild. In the spring of 2012 Anita walked the first 280 miles of the South West Coast Path from Minehead to Penzance. She will complete the remaining 350 miles in the spring of 2013. Daily drypoint prints from the first section of the walk will form the centrepiece of this exhibition. Also on display will be collagraphs, monoprints and sketchbooks produced along the way. The exhibition will be an exhilarating collection of small scale and larger...
How many sports can claim to be to be for all the family? Skiing is one of the best of them! Not only because we are all together (children, parents, grandparents) but also because when we play, we discover so much that we create some of the best memories ever.
Memories that are so strong that, when the time will come, our children will bring their own children to the mountains to share with them the incredible experience of the snow world.
Some of you already know, some of you don’t. Some of you are maybe anxious to bring your little ones to the cold and to the snow. Some...
