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Issue 20 | March+Apri2010
The doors are opening
THETEAM After the excesses of the Christmas period, the first few months of the new year
are generally spent quietly indoors with little inclination to venture out at the
weekends and even less in the evenings. Despite the fact that we probably
haven’t seen the end of the unpredictable winter weather, psychologically,
everything changes in March. Officially, we can say it’s Spring (at the Vernal
Equinox on 20 March) but a more potent sign is the re-opening across the
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nation of all the National Trust properties – the houses spruced up and dusted
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off after their winter closure. We have our fair share in Somerset and our feature
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on page 17 will give you the low down. One ‘opening’ is a little bit different this
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year. It concerns the Water Mill and Barn at Hestercombe Gardens. Following
an extensive renovation that was two years in the making and 15 years in the
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planning we will, from the end of April, be able to see, once more, the water mill
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in action and a stunningly refurbished Barn (see page 36).
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The American Museum in Bath also opens its doors again after a winter
slumber with an exciting new exhibition of its renowned Quilt collection. And
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Quilts are very much ‘on trend’ in 2010 with a major show at the V&A which
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will display, for the first time, not only its own collection of quilts but historically
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important quilts brought from as far as Australia and as close as Exeter’s RAMM.
Our very own Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury clearly has its finger on the
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fashion pulse as it showcases, this month, Somerset textile artist Alicia Merrett’s
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contemporary quilts. See our feature on page 12.
There would be no Spring, and no Easter, without eggs. And this year there are
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some very special eggs hatching in Somerset - and these are certainly not for
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eating. These are eggs that will hatch and produce chicks that will fledge and
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go on to become adult birds with an eight-foot wing span. I’m talking about
the Eurasian Crane. These birds will, it’s hoped, remain in Somerset and
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breed across the Somerset Levels. It’s a very exciting prospect
and you can read the beginning of the story on page 42.
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