Food festival fun for all the family.UNEARTH your kids' foodie instincts at the Children's Food Theatre at the Tavistock Food and Drink Festival on July 26 and 27. Now in its 5th year, the festival will also feature cookery demos and a farmers' market farm·ers' market n. A public market at which farmers and often other vendors sell produce directly to consumers. Also called greenmarket. . Entry is pounds 5 per adult and free for children. Stay at nearby Devon Country Barns, one of Devon's newest properties and the latest addition to the Premier Cottages' fold, where young guests can enjoy the company of rare breed sheep, alpacas, a potbellied pig potbellied pig n. A small domesticated pig native to Vietnam, often raised as a house pet, having a saddle-shaped back and usually dark coloration. and chicken. Surrounded by 12 acres of pastureland, the newly-converted Devon Country Barns are all individually but very stylishly furnished with oak floors, French doors that lead onto private stone-flagged terraces, Wi-Fi, DVD players A stand-alone device that plays DVDs. It contains a DVD drive and the electronics to decode the digital video. The device may play only manufactured DVDs, or it may be able to play DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs. DVD players are cabled to a TV or home theater system for display. and plasma TV's. A one-week stay from July 25 costs pounds 1,025 (sleeps 4) with www.premiercottages.com. Premier Cottages is a collection of independent four and five-star graded properties throughout Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain and Ireland are the two largest islands in the British Isles. A former state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was composed of the political union of the two. , now in its tenth year of operation. Properties sleep from 2-40. The Premier Cottages website offers online availability but bookings are made direct with the property owner, therefore eliminating agency fees and giving access to in-depth property knowledge. Further information from www.premiercottages.com or tel. 01271 336050 for a brochure. Birthday bonanza BANHAM Zoo in Norfolk, www.banhamzoo.co.uk, has marked it 40th birthday by opening a new Giraffe giraffe, African ruminant mammal, Giraffa camelopardalis, living in open savanna S of the Sahara. The tallest of animals, giraffes browse in treetops at heights inaccessible to other leaf-eaters. A male may be 18 ft (5.5 m) from hoof to crown. House. The zoo provides a sanctuary for almost 1000 animals ranging from big cats to birds of prey and siamangs to Shire horses Shire horse, a breed of draft horse native to central England. It is equal in weight to the Belgian horse and is usually slightly taller. Widely used as a war horse during the Middle Ages, it was well adapted to carry the excessive weight of armor worn by both horse . |
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