Historic Benchmarks: This is a project to add a bit of interest to a sit on a park bench in Tenby – on ten benches, there will be a sign with a QR code, so if you have a smart phone, you can use the QR code to listen to a talk by Mark Lewis about something interesting that you can see from the bench.

Tenby Food Hub

Orders for the next delivery of a selection of fruit, or vegetables, or salad need to be dropped in to the box at the back of the Old Chapel in Lower Frog Street with the £5 for each selection you would like, by tomorrow (Thursday). Fresh and Fruity of Milford tries to ensure that each selection represents good value depending on what is in season now, and that as much as possible is grown by themselves. They will deliver your order the following Thursday for you to pick up from the Old chapel.

Tenby Arts Club presents ‘Razor Bill’

This Friday (February 17), Tenby Arts Club is happy to have a performance from Razor Bill at 7pm in St Johns Church Hall on Warren Street. They include jigs, reels and slipjigs, modern ‘folk’ classics, traditional songs, a touch of country and some crowd-pleasing singalongs in their concert. Everyone is welcome to come along, the entrance is very reasonable and includes tea/coffee and biscuits afterwards.

Random Acts of Kindness Day

Friday is also the day designated for trying to do at least one random act of kindness - although it is a good thing to do any time, of course! Some suggestions include to give compliments recklessly, say hi to someone you don’t know, share your snack with someone at work, make a bookmark and pop it into a library book, just smile at someone…

Cooking Demonstrations

This will be happening from 12 to 2pm in the Warm Room at Augustus Place Community Hall on Friday, February 17 and every Friday until the end of March, and everyone is welcome to come along, pick up some tips for healthy, budget cooking, and try out some of the food, along with a cup of tea or coffee and the chance for a chat.

Poetry in the Park

The next gathering is this Sunday, February 19 at 3pm in the Old Chapel on Lower Frog St. Everyone is welcome to come along, and bring some poetry if you would like to – yours or someone else’s that you like – or just come to listen and have a chat.

Films4Tenby presents ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’

This Tuesday, February 21, you can come along to the De Valence Pavilion to see ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’. Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect the kingdom of Wakanda from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for their nation. This film starts a little earlier, at 6.30pm as it is longer than usual. Everyone is welcome to come along.

Mardi Gras

Tuesday is referred to in French as Mardi, while gras is French for “fat”. The day before Ash Wednesday became known as Mardi Gras or “Fat Tuesday” in France. In Britain, the day is also known as Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday. This is because, in the days before Lent, people would typically gorge on all the rich, fatty foods - meat, eggs, milk, lard, and cheese - that were still in cupboards and fridges, in preparation for three weeks of eating only fish and engaging in various forms of fasting or denial.

You could make yourself a King Cake. These are glazed cakes, braided to resemble a king’s crown, that have become a Mardi Gras tradition. It’s believed that the tradition was brought to New Orleans from France, where these cakes were served as part of the Epiphany celebration. Each king cake has a tiny plastic baby hidden inside, meant to represent baby Jesus. According to tradition, the person who finds the baby is King for a day and is tasked with hosting the next king cake party.

Urban Thinkscape

More entries are needed to be part of the mural to go on the back wall along the part of the North Beach zig zag where the arcade used to be. These can be anything related to the coast, so can be animals, fish, plants or man made things like bucket and spades or fishing kit, or anything else – the more varied the better. All contributions will be used.

The idea of this project is to make the area a space where there are activities that encourage children and their families to interact with each other, so one possibility is to have a picnic table with images of things that could be found around the beach on it so it could be used as for a scavenge hunt. Another is to have a small rowing boat fixed there as a seat for small children with images on it designed to spark their imagination and encourage storytelling. Any other ideas would be great!

The intention is also to create an area towards the back of the space for teenagers with a graffiti wall, and maybe some seating. It is also hoped to put in a fishing net along the gap between the space and the bank to discourage littering, and any help to source this would be great.