Today, Wednesday, February 22, Tenby Museum and Art Gallery are having a fun day themed around leeks.

Everyone is welcome to join the fun from 10.30am to 3.30pm. All activities free with entry, and children are free with an accompanying adult. Learn about St David, make a leek hat, do a leek still life, and find out some fabulous leek facts!

THINKING DAY

February 22 is also the joint birthday of the founders of Scouting and Guiding, Robert Baden Powell and his wife, Olave. It is a day when members of these organisations think about members from all around the world, and learn about the different lives they lead. Why not choose a country to find out about – try the food, do a craft, listen to music, anything that helps to bring another country to life.

FOOD HUB

Any orders put in by last Thursday will be delivered tomorrow, Thursday, February 23 by Fresh and Fruit of Milford to the Old chapel in Lower Frog Street. They will be available for you to pick up from 1pm and the next deadline for putting in an order is next Thursday, March 2. You can order a selection of fruit, or of vegetables or of salad, each for £5. Fresh and Fruity try to get a good deal for you, including their own produce when they can.

TUDOR THOMAS ON ‘MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF SOUTH PEMBROKESHIRE’

On Friday, February 24, Tudor Thomas will give a talk on the myths and legends of South Pembrokeshire at Tenby Arts Club. Everyone is welcome to come along, the talk will start at 7pm in St Johns Church Hall, Warren St. The small entrance fee includes tea, coffee and biscuits after the talk.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE INVASION OF UKRAINE

Friday, February 24 is also the day that the war began – hard to believe that it has been a year.

GLOBAL HOPES: COMMUNITY CAMPAIGNS FOR CHANGE

On Saturday, February 25, a new exhibition opens at Tenby Museum and Art Gallery. It is an exhibition of creativity from individuals and organisations who use the arts as tools to amplify their calls for change: whether in the pursuit of social justice, equality or climate awareness, this collection of creativity is affecting and impactful. It will be on at Tenby Museum until April 1. Tenby Museum is open Wednesdays to Saturdays 10am to 4pm and your entrance fee lasts for a year, so you can pop back to see each new exhibition.

FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT

This starts on Monday, February 27, and is a chance to look out for the wide variety of fair-trade products available in our local shops. Climate change is making crops like bananas, coffee and chocolate and harder and harder to grow. Combined with deeply unfair trade, communities growing these crops are being pushed to the brink. But here’s the good news. More people choosing Fairtrade means extra income, power and support for those communities. By making the small switch to Fairtrade, we can all support producers in protecting the future of some of our most-loved food and the planet.

I am producing a guide to the local businesses and organisations, and the fair-trade products they sell and use themselves, so if you would like to be in it, let me know – [email protected]

URBAN THINKSCAPE ZIG ZAG PROJECT

The space where the arcade used to be under the North Beach Zig Zag is looking much better already thanks to the hard work of some Duke of Edinburgh candidates from Greenhill School. The next step is to give the site a bit of colour along the back wall so there will be another Duke of Edinburgh working party there in March. Any suggestions of suitable colourways would be welcomed!

Then, it is hoped to get lots more entries for the mural to go up on the wall of any art work which has a coastal theme. The plan at the moment is to have each piece submitted made into a ‘noticeboard; and attached to the wall reasonably high up to make a panel of images, but this is a work in progress so again, any suggestions would be great!

It is also hoped to acquire a bit of fishing net to put along the gap between the outside edge and the zig zag to discourage litter from being thrown down the cliff. Everyone is invited to make sea creatures from plastic bottles to decorate this fishing net with. It is amazing what you can make with an old plastic bottle!

PETANQUE PITCH

Tenby Town Council have received some funding from the Outdoor Connections fund to install a petanque (or boules) pitch in Battery Gardens. This will be freely available for anyone to use, and will hopefully be able to be used as a club pitch so Tenby could join the Welsh Petanque Association. If you are interested, please get in touch. At the moment, the practicalities of putting it in are being grappled with!

GRIT BINS

Tenby Town Council is able to supply grit bins to an estate where it would be useful, if at least two residents from that location are willing to put themselves forward to hold the key, to stir the grit occasionally to stop it clumping, and to spread it when ice is expected. If your street would like one, and you can find a couple of people interested, get in touch with Andrew Davies in the Town Council Office in the De Valence Pavilion on Upper Frog Street or on [email protected] or on 01834 842730.