Tenby Food Hub: If you put an order in last Thursday, your selection of fruit, vegetables or salad will be delivered to the Old Chapel tomorrow, Thursday, February 9 by Fresh and Fruit of Milford. You can come to collect it any time from 1pm. You can also pop in to see what you get if you are thinking about putting in an order, although it does change every week as Fresh and Fruity try to get the freshest and best deal available that week, including any of their own produce that is available. You can put an order in the order box any time up to next Thursday, February 16 at 1pm, including your £5 and the order form in the envelopes provided, and into the box in the Old Chapel, Lower Frog Street.

Tenby Community Fridge is doing well and is open whenever the Old Chapel café is open, from Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 4pm. There is often lots of bread left, especially baguettes, so please if you possibly can, pop down to get some as the volunteers make the effort to pick it up from the supermarkets in the evenings to save it from going in a skip, not for it to have to be thrown out anyway!

The Sensory Library is a collection of specialist toys and equipment for the benefit of children and adults with additional needs, including games for the blind and partially sighted, for aiding social and language skills, gross and fine motor skills and cognitive development. It is visiting Tenby Library on Thursday, February 9 from 2 to 4.30 pm, and everyone is welcome to go along, sample the equipment and find out more.

Cooking Demonstrations

Cooking demonstrations take place every Friday in Augustus Place Community Hall from 12 to 2pm and give ideas for healthy, budget cooking with air fryers, microwaves and slow cookers. Everyone is welcome, and you get to sample the food as it is cooked!

Tenby Project Tabletop Sale and Swap

On Saturday, February 11, from 2pm to 4pm, Tenby Project Tabletop Sale and Swap will be held in Augustus Place Community Hall. Join the circular economy and come along to see what useful things you can find! You can book a table for £5. You can sell crafts, or things you no longer have a use for. You can also donate to the jumble/swap tables. Anything on these will be available for a donation. The Tenby Project will be providing tea, coffee and biscuits for a donation. Any surplus made will go to Tenby Connects, which runs the Community Fridge and Edible Garden.

National Day of Japan

Saturday, February 11 is National Foundation Day. It is believed that on this day in 660 BC the first Emperor of Japan, Jimmu, was crowned thus being the beginning of Japan. In Japan a big parade is held. Maybe you could have a Japanese themed meal, some soba noodles and yakitori sauce? You could try some origami, write a haiku, make a concertina paper fan, read some manga comics, or draw your own. Try ikebana, flower arranging Japanese style, or have a karaoke night.

Tenby Edible Garden

The time is coming for planting vegetables in Tenby Edible Garden. If you have any seeds or cuttings spare, you are welcome to donate them to the Community Edible Garden in the Gilroy Phillips Memorial Garden on the corner of South Cliff and Sutton St. The inner bed around the grass is for vegetables. There are some vegetables already coming up from last year, but there is plenty of space for more, and in the box at the back of the park bench under the shelter there are tools and labels. There is also a little plastic greenhouse where you can put donations of plants etc so another volunteer can plant them. You can go in and do a bit of gardening any time you like, the garden is always open. As things start to grow, you are welcome to harvest anything you find that is ready, as there is no point growing things if they are just going to go to seed. It would also be nice to have some bulbs and perennials in the outer bed in between the shrubs to add a bit of colour and attract pollinators, so donations of these would be welcome too.

Bee Friendly Tenby

In order to help to attract pollinators to Tenby, we are all being encouraged to leave our gardens to grow a little more wild than maybe we have done in the past. Britain is the most nature deprived country in Europe, so although we are lucky here to have lots of pockets of wilder areas around us, everything we can do is a step in the right direction. As well as our private gardens, it would be great if the parks and grassy areas in Tenby could also become a little more pollinator friendly as well. It is hoped that in some areas that are not used mainly for picnics etc, the grass will be cut a little less often and the cuttings collected and piled up. This has two advantages – the pile becomes a habitat in itself, and the grass becomes less fertile enabling the wildflowers in the ground to have a chance to come through. If you see things looking a little more unkempt, this is on purpose to help the pollinators to survive and thrive.