James reports: Food Festival - Thursday, Friday and Saturday

If you have lunch with us over the Food Festival period we will give each diner a complimentary glass of our popular single estate prosecco. Incidentally if you shop at Sakura, Trish Thomas, Baxters, Dreams of Dartmouth, Distinctly Living, Mistral or Hawkes, you can pick up a voucher for lunch for anytime! Happy Days!

An amazing cheese board of over 20 local cheeses will be available at lunch on this Friday and Saturday, along with our normal lunch menu.

2.  Local Artist makes the big time, again!

Dartmouth artist Paul Barclay and his wife Marianne  were V.I.P guests of Sunseeker at this year's Southampton Boat Show after his art work was used on their front cover for their brochures. 

The photo shoot was taken on the new Predator 150, Sunseeker's show boat.  Click here to see Paul's website.

3.   Thrills by Day, Fright by Night! A First for Woodlands Family Theme Park!

The largest Family Theme Park in Devon has joined up with two local colleges and is offering a brand new experience for visitors this October Half Term.

During the day expect Halloween fun of awesome proportions like the Flying Spooks Ride through waving monsters and the Ghoulish Ghost Train around the haunted circus. There’s 1000’s of free home-grown pumpkins, carving championships, weird workshops and Trick or Treat Hunts.

However on October 29th at 5.00pm all will change in the Park. Working with South Devon College and King Edward VI Community College Woodlands Family Theme Park is offering a whole new event ‘Woodlands Family Fright Night”.

Woodlands Fright Night will have 7 Scare Zones to test your nerves. You’ll be able to meet the ‘living’ zombies as they shudder in their dreadful Zombie Lair. Have you got the nerve to enter the Bleeding Bones Kitchen? You will be shivering through the Horror Hospital and the Vampire’s Castle promises to be revolting fun. Jessica Repton, Events Manager said “this is going to be a fantastic event, we are having great fun preparing all the zones especially the Circus Ghost Train”.

With live actors, scare-zones, music & gruesome food this night is one not to be missed. Tickets can be bought on the door or online by clicking here.

4.   Winter's Bone : Tonight

Director: Debra Granik : Actors: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt : 100 minutes : Cert. 15. Drama/Mystery/Thriller

‘An outstanding lead performance from 20-year-old Jennifer Lawrence as Ree, a young woman who must take on some scary neighbourhood types to protect her family’ In the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, teenage Ree is effectively the only sentient adult in her household: her mother has become catatonic with depression and her younger brother and sister need looking after. Ree is considering joining the US army, on account of the $40,000 cash bonus promised by the recruitment posters. Her father is absent, and thought to be engaged in the criminal manufacture of crystal meth. The local sheriff shows up outside Ree's ramshackle property, and informs Ree her daddy has posted the family home as bail, and if he doesn't show up for next week's court date, they will be required to leave. So, to keep a roof over everyone's head, Ree must find her errant father. In doing so, she starts to dig up some very dangerous secrets…

Films are screened at The Guildhall, Victoria Road, Dartmouth. The bar is open from 7.00pm and the films start at 7.30pm Guest tickets are available on the night for £3.50 each from “The Windjammer” Victoria Road between 7.00pm & 7.25pm only. No guest tickets will be sold on the door. For more information about Dartmouth Film Society, call Clive Osborne on: Tel. 07968 026449

5.   Small News

• Restaurant Angelique reports:  Alan & Chris will be doing cookery demonstrations at the Dartmouth Food Festival this weekend.  You can see Alan's demonstration at 14.30 on the Friday as part of the Visit South Devon Chefs programme and Chris will be in The Flavel at 11.00am on the Saturday as part of the Saturday Morning Kitchen Live programme.  Check out their website by clicking here.
  
   

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