1.     Anzac Street Bistro
 

2.    Flavour in the Flavel 


3.    The man who changed the World II
 

6.    Small News
 

1.    Anzac Street Bistro

2.  Flavour in the Flavel   

Last Thursday the Manna from Devon Cooking School took over the kitchen of the Flavel Centre to run an innovative, teambuilding workshop. 13 administrative staff from Ridgeway School in Plympton arrived in Dartmouth to be briefed by Holly and David Jones that in 4 hours time they had to have prepared a 5 course Italian meal, including fresh, handmade pasta, homemade bread and biscotti. Not wishing to make things too easy for the team there was no menu planned, no shopping had been done and the team would have to earn the money before they could buy anything.

"The beauty of the exercise lay in the interdependence of the different work groups", explained David, who has spent 16 years as a team development consultant. "Shoppers couldn't shop until the menu planners had decided on a what to cook, but they needed to consult the chefs as to what was possible in the kitchen. The menu relied on the availability of ingredients locally, so the shoppers had to investigate this and report back.  Meanwhile the chefs needed to get started on bread and pasta making, so they needed money earners to get some cash so the shoppers could buy the ingredients they needed."

"If all of this sounds confusing that's because it's meant to be, because that's how it is in nearly every organisation. The way to get through it is to practice excellent communication, coordination, planning and initiative; in other words, teamwork!" And at bang on schedule the team sat down to begin enjoying the fruits of their labour, with fish from Moby Nick's, veggies form Jilly's Farm Shop and plenty of wine from the Dartmouth vintners. Lucky team; all that and a day out in Dartmouth!  If your team could benefit from a day of teambuilding find out more by clicking here.

3.    The man who changed the World II

Remarkably last week's article caused quite a stir with BBC Radio Devon wanting to interview Dave Cawley. Our parent Company Timestep owes its name to Arthur and his friends.  First registered in 1974, Arthur has been the only person to work out where the name Timestep came from, but then he would!  Timestep's address is PO Box 2001, Dartmouth, in memory of the film 2001 A Space Odyssey.  It is perhaps important to remember the final sequences at the end of 2001, where the old man is reborn whilst being looked after by The Creator.  And it may be prudent to attempt to analyse "all these worlds are yours except for Europa" from the sequel 2010.  And a final thought, the monolith at the start of 2001, was that from Europa?

A few years before meeting Arthur, Dave was at a NASA Conference in Baltimore and met Neil Armstrong of "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" fame, and shook his hand.  Neil and all the other crew had seen 2001 before they went to the Moon and were all inspired by it.  Neil had given Arthur a piece of Moon rock, the only piece in private ownership, but as Dave said when he held it in his shaking hand in Sri Lanka,  "it's not made of cheese old lad, is it?"

Richard Webb of Dartmouth Books  reports: Following on your interest in Arthur C Clarke and your own distinguished space satellite background, I really thought that you should know that John Ellwood, one of the scientists responsible for the current European Space Agency Jules Verne spaceship project which has just been successfully launched, comes from Dartmouth and has his home at Warfleet with his wife Lindsay.
 
I am sure it would be of great interest featuring Dartmouth`s very own rocket scientist who is at this very moment engaged in an important space mission and a `scoop` as no other media are aware of this local connection. You can read more by clicking here.

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5.  Stewart Edmondson's new paintings