ON Saturday, August 27 a new exhibition opens at Tenby Museum and Art Gallery. It is called ‘Printed Vision’ and is a selection of mixed media prints by Printmakers Inc, which also includes ‘secret postcards’. Intriguing! It is on until Saturday, October 8. The museum is open Wednesdays to Saturdays 10am - 4pm, and entry is £4.95 for adults (which lets you return for a whole year) and free for accompanied children.

There are 40 different types of ladybird in the UK, how many can you find? The easiest to recognise is the 7 spot which is red with black spots, but there is also a 2 spot, which can be black on red or red on black or even orange! These beetles are very handy as they eat the aphids that might otherwise eat vegetables growing in the garden. Perhaps you could put up a bug house for them. You can use pine cones piled together with twigs and leaves, in a corner somewhere with a couple of old tiles leaning over them as a roof.

As there have been some problems with the delivery of the fruit and vegetable selections on Fridays, this will be changing to Tuesdays. Orders for a £5 selection of fruit, vegetables or salad need to be in by tomorrow, Saturday, August 27. There is a posting box at the old chapel with forms and envelopes, so you can put in your order and the £5 to pay for it. This is used to pay Four Seasons when they deliver. The orders will be delivered by Four Seasons by 11 am on Tuesday, August 30 to the Old Chapel, so they can be picked up after that. Please ask, as they will be kept safely out at the back ready for you to collect by 4pm, or the next day if needs be – but don’t leave it too long – it is fresh food and it will deteriorate. This will be tried for a few more weeks, and if there isn’t much call for it, the scheme will close.

This takes place in London over the Bank Holiday weekend. Tenby has its own Carnival of course, the Fireman’s Carnival which happens on the first Wednesday in August every year. Perhaps we can get some ideas from watching what they do in London to do here in Tenby - on a smaller scale of course! There might be some good ideas for costumes...

This garden has been allocated a Food Starter package from Keep Wales Tidy. This will be arriving over the next couple of weeks, and then volunteers will be needed for one day to help get it all installed. There will be four potted fruiting shrubs and three climbers, two wild herbs, 12 strawberry plants, 30 edible flowers, tools, topsoil, compost, a trellis, four raised beds, two hanging baskets, two bird boxes and a bug box! Watch this space...

This is a Hindu celebration on Tuesday, August 30 of the birthday of Lord Ganesh, who is the one with the head of an elephant. He is the god of new beginnings and success. People often make a model of Ganesh covered in red flowers and red paste. You could make a picture of Ganesh using lentils or pasta or cereals. You could have a look at some traditional pictures of Ganesh, and design an up to date version to be an avatar, or to make into a card or a bookmark. It is also common to give sweets as presents, so you could make your favourites. Maybe your own version of truffles with crushed biscuits and dried fruit or mini marshmallow or crushed maltesers all mixed in melted chocolate and a bit of golden syrup. Roll them into balls, coat in dessicated chocolate, and allow to cool in the fridge before eating – or giving away...

Great Big Green Week

The Great Big Green Week is the UK’s biggest ever celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature and everyone’s invited to join in. Help to make September 24 to October 2, 2022 the greatest, biggest, greenest week the UK has ever seen by organising or joining in an event. Any suggestions? Possibly a beach clean or litter pick, some craftivism, a repair cafe or upcycling workshop, a walk, a film screening? Get in touch with your ideas at [email protected] or pop in to the Town Council Office in the De Valence, or phone on 07811 359686. You could also organise activities with any groups that you are part of. The more people who join in the better!

When you feel like relaxing by focussing on something, music can be a good way to do it. Choose a piece of instrumental music, classical, jazz, techno, whatever you like. Listen to it a couple of times, preferably with your eyes shut. Then listen again, but try and write down what you see in your minds eye. It could be images, a story, feelings, sensations or colours. What is the tone, mood and feel of the music, is it happy, frenetic or mournful? Try the same thing another time with a completely different piece of music. How different do you feel afterwards?