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I CLITHEROEADVERnSERSTIMES VALLEY ENTERTAINMENT: VALLEY ENTERTAINMENT Fest next weekend


Live music will be on tap alongside more,than 30 dif­ ferent and celebratedalesand ciders for all those attending the annual Waddington Beer Festival. It takes place all next weekend at Waddington Social Club,


just off the main road through the village.


Kicking off on Thursday


February 26 th at 7-30 pm, the event will nin throughout the weekend, concluding with live music act Cherry Bomb from 8-30 pm on Sunday night. - Saturday night’s live music


will be provided by John Gro­ gan from 8-30 pm. Admission to the festival is free of charge.


As the long winter months drag wearily on, how many ofusyeamforaleisurelylife inthesun? Some have made that


dream a reality, moving to: foreign climes to live as “ex- " pats”, with varying degrees of success. One who is, you mightsay,“hedginghisbets”, is a new correspondent for The Clitheroe Advertiser, a man of a certain age who, with his long suffering wife, spends half his year here in the Valley and half in Spain. Writing under the from


de plume "the Ancient One”, he describes himself as a “would-be playboy, bless­ ed with all the requisite at­ tributes for that demanding role.;, except thefunds”. His articles, the first of


which follows, will tell of his experiences and adventures


Bowling Club Flea Market


Hurst Green


& Indoor Carboot This Sun 22nd Feb


Charity Stall fo r CAFOD Village Hall - From 9am


H o m e m a d e R e f r e s h m e n ts


abroad, renovating hisprop- erty while doing his utmost tobefriendandblendinwith the local populace: Cancel the RSPCA - not all Spanish shake red rags and stick darts into sharp-horned •


• fighting bulls. It isn’t all glit­ tering gold suits and oceans of blood. In fact, some Span­ iards love and treasure their bulls, walking them and talk­ ing to them in a best buddy fashion. - This is something! found in special odd corners of An- dalucia. Hidden away from the tourist masses there are “Bueys”. Huge, enormous great


bulls “complete”, “entero”, including naughty bits, not emasculated at all - with mammoth heads and horns yards wide, weighing one, two tons, even shod with iron shoes on their feet! These great beasties are, thank goodness, very placid beasts ofburden.alittlelike working oxen of old, but much more impressive - often black or very dark brown - pulling carts or ploughs - moving mountains or very obedi­


ently standing stock still as instructed, sometimes even kneeling, all to the command of softly spoken little old men with long thin canes. To suddenly come across


tHese Bueys and encounter them at close quarters on the beach, orin the campo, is like seeing a rhino in your back garden, and qualifies you to spend the next few hours in a bar, topping up your alcohol levels. Soyou don’t feel a small and inadequate little being. One sneeze from the crea­


tures could blowyou into the middle of next week, just be glad they’re docile, and this takes me neatly to cooking sardines. Manolo and Rap­ hael, and probably every otherself-respectingmiddle- aged Andalucian, will, from time to time, get the urge to cook sardines. Each man has his own ritualistic way of do­ ing this. First,- a date is arranged


when there is no “R” in the month, then he goes out and buys fresh sardines by the lorryload, plus collecting a few armfuls of freshly cut bamboo canes. Manolo is


wheelbarrow chef. This en­ tails filling a wheelbarrow


with sand, starting a fire in the middle, then cutting and


strippingdown the canes into lengths of about 18 inches and spearing about six orseven sardines on to each cane, be­


fore sticking them in the sand around the fire.


Freshly cooked sardines


are delicious, but by the time you’ve consumed 30 or so, sangria and beer in hand, the appeal begins to wane a little. Hold on.you’veonlyjust started- cries of “No, thanks! I couldn’t eat another one” are ignored, he knowsyou are


just being polite and another plate of 30-plus is set down in front of you. Four hours later, you are about half-way through.


The hospitality and gener­


osity of Spanish friends is out of this world - which is where wearegoingat this rate! Con­ firmed international mortal­ ity rates show Spaniards live on average 18 months longer than we do, and this is how they do it! Keep taking the medicine...


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Ant iques &


Col lectables NOW INVITED for our forthcoming


Fine Art Auction The


: - New proprietors Jonathan & Frances have returned A this lovely old building to It's tradition as Bashall Eaves


I village Inn.


The finest quality chargrilled steaks form the core of a superb new menu along with a splendid seledion ’of cask ales, beers and wines.


Tue - Sat: 12:00-14:00,17:30 - 23:00 Sunrl 2:00-15:00


Food till 21 00 Closed Sun pin 8 Mon 'till April


A warm welcome awaits all J / o / / a / / < 7 / ? s (Sc S f i 'C t / l s • - ■ ' ■


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- • Bi monthly sale of quality antiques


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You are cordially invited to the


MERCURE Dunkenhalgh Hotel & Spa Wedding Open Day Sunday


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22nd February 2015 12pm - 4pm


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With its tree lined drive, turrets and porticos the MERCURE Dunkenhalgh Hotel and Spa makes a dream wedding venue. Come along to our open day to see all we have to offer.


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Mercure HOTELS X onsteJ To buy great deals please go to www.dealmonster.co.uk/preston/ Award-winning singer-songwriter Ian Sherwood to play in Sawley


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Canadian singer/songwriter, in­ strumentalist and storyteller Ian Sherwood will bring his UK tour to Sawley Village Hall early next month.


The village venue will be the first stop of four Lancashire dates for Sherwood when he performs in Sawley on Saturday March 7th, at 7-30 pm. Ian Sherwood is an award-win­


ning singer and musician from Halifax, Nova Scotia, whose mu­ sic dances the line between folk and pop. He won a 2013 Canadian Folk Music Award for Contempo­ rary Singer of the Year and was named Male Artist of the Year at the 2012 International Acoustic Music Awards. Sherwood’s latest album, “Eve­


rywhere To Go”, was released in September 2014 to much critical acclaim and is considered his best work to date. The four Lancashire


wasn’t warm ora crowd that didn’t know how to have a good time. “Every place is different but I’ve


always been made to feel at home. I love that about these shows! ” The Lancashire dates have been


programmed by Spot On as part of its Spring season of rural touring. . The show is one of three coming to the region fromCanadaintheSpot On Spring programme. . Theatre Newfoundland will


. bring their play “With Cruel Times ■ In Between” to Barnoldswick arid Lytham St Annes in April and Ca­ nadian Comedy Award winner Melody A Johnson will bring her “Miss Caledonia” show to Took- / holes and Arkholme in May. Tickets for Ian Sherwood’s gig


Canadian singer-songwriter Ian Sherwood will play in Sawley on March 7th.


gigs form part ofamuchlarger UK Speaking ahead of his Sawley tour which sees Sherwood play gig, Sherwood commented on his right across the country, from enjoyment of playing in rural ven- Yorkshire to Shropshire, North- ues:“Ihaven’tfoundatownIdidn’t umberland to Herefordshire.


like by rural touring. Not apub that


at Sawley Village Hall are available - directly from the venue by calling 01200 440622. For more informa­ tion about these shows or to see the full Spot On season programme, visitwww.spotonlancashire.co.uk, callSueRobinsononoi25466036o . or emailhello@spotonlancashire. co.uk


Wagon Train was loaded with ‘Clitheroe Blues’


Review: WagonTrain,playingforRibble Valley Jazz andBIues Club atthe Atrium Cafe, Clitheroe Castle.


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The CD was “Damnation Twist”, the band Wagon Train. Led by steel guitar maestro Steve “Billy”


Buckley, with John Ellis on backing key­ boards, Eryl Roberts on drums and Pete Turner on double bass (all fine jazz musi­ cians by the way) they were in Clitheroe demonstrating their hot Country Blues credentials. Introduced by Gary Ward as “music for


: the hell of it”, our choice of band seemed to have paid off if the turnout was anything to go by- our biggest for a while for a regular monthly club gig I Lyrical, funky, mellow by turns, the mu­


sic ranged from out-and-out rockabilly to Ray Charles and material highly reminis­ cent o f laid back Honolulu beaches arid film soundtracks! The dreamy “Omara”. fbrinstance.


; - . They finished with an improvised blues


set which Billy named “Clitheroe Blues”, a titlethatisveryappropriateattimes! ■ * The only thing missing from this fine


event, in my opinion, was a line of equally hot tequila slammers.


■ PaulEllis


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