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Cheddaring is a cheese making process, while Cheddar is the cheese, a town, a gorge and a man. Cheddar is a large village and civil parish in the Sedgemoor district of the English county of Somerset. It is situated on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills. Cheddar Gorge, on the northern edge of the village, is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom and includes several show caves, including Gough's Cave. The gorge has been a centre of human settlement since Neolithic times including a Saxon palace. It has a temperate climate and provides a unique geological and biological environment that has been recognised by the designation of several Sites of Special Scientific Interest. It is also the site of several limestone quarries. The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese. The name Cheddar comes from the Old English word ceodor, meaning deep dark cavity or pouch. There is evidence of occupation from the Neolithic period in Cheddar. Britain's oldest complete human skeleton, Cheddar Man, estimated to be 9,000 years old, was found in Cheddar Gorge in 1903. In 1997, scientists were able to sequence DNA extracted from one of the Cheddar Man’s molars, and astonishingly were able to find two people living in the village that shared the same DNA as him, making the Cheddar Man a very distant ancestor! The Cheddar Gorge Cheese Company is the only company to make Cheddar in Cheddar. We join the process after the milk has been separated into curds and whey and the whey has been drawn off. This leaves behind the milk solids which make the cheese. It is what happens next which determines what type of cheese you end up with and many different traditional processes yield many different traditional types of cheese from hard to soft, dry to washed rind, young to mature. In the Cheddar making procedure, most of the moisture is drawn off in a draining and pressing process. This involves cutting the compressed curd into ever smaller pieces. This releases more and more liquid. A giant wheel of cheddar cheese was presented to Queen Victoria of England for a wedding gift back in 1840. It weighed over one thousand pounds. In 2015, around 3.4 billion pounds of cheddar cheese were produced in the United States alone. The caves at Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, England are a constant temperature of 7 degrees, providing the optimum temperature for the cheese to mature – and it still does so to this day. This cheese meister Luke. Originally, in order to claim the name cheddar, the cheese had to be crafted within 30 miles of Wells Cathedral, Somerset in England. In 1901, Scott of the Antarctic took 3,500lbs of cheddar (made in Cheddar itself) on his famous expedition. Due to rationing during the Second World War, and for almost ten years after, most milk in Britain was used for making a single type of cheese – ‘Government Cheddar’ – which resulted in almost wiping out all other cheese production in the country. The curd is being cut yet again. For the 1964 World’s Fair in New York, Wisconsin created a 34,951lbs cheddar cheese from the milk of 16,000 cows. Now the smaller pieces have the salt added. Salt is added for flavour, to increase moisture loss and also for preservation. Eating cheese late at night, the rumour goes, will give you strange dreams. As far back as 1964, a researcher noted that a patient stopped having nightmares when he dropped his habit of eating one or two ounces of cheddar cheese every evening. More recently, the now-defunct British Cheese Board, who funded a study in 2005 and concluded that eating blue cheese causes vivid dreams, while cheddar makes people dream about celebrities. Now those smaller pieces are milled into crumbs. Despite the fact that most people prefer their cheddar to be aged for a year and a half or less, there was recently some cheddar that was 40 years old. This was not intentional however; it was a lucky accident. Ed Zahn had made the cheese years ago when he was still working in an old cheese manufacturer in Oconto, Wisconsin and when he went back in 2012 he found this batch in the back of a cooler. Some people said that this cheese was so old it was barely edible due to the sharp flavour but it was such a rarity to find a cheddar aged for so long that it sold out quickly. Cheddar is made in at least 14 countries worldwide. At this stage any added ingredients can be mixed in. In this case garlic and chives are added and tossed by hand. The curd is then placed in metal drums where it is put under pressure. When removed the cheese is in the traditional truckle shape, wrapped in cheese cloth. The cheese can be matured in different ways and is a complex process. It is the cutting of the curd into smaller and smaller pieces and the stacking of those slabs to drain out the whey that constitutes the Cheddaring process. Mac'n'Cheese is said to be the most popular cheese recipe.

The screens, which were saved, are in safe storage. The ancient wood carvings on the Parclose Screens in the church had as recently as the 1860's been removed So the screens that we see today, I presume to be reconstructions using original parts. architect, of Plymouth, in A.D. 1869; until then the remains of a pair of fine old carved oak Parclose screens The two screens, will each be about l2 ft, long and about the same height.

Originally published on Photoblog by Gethin Thomas AUGUST. 06, 2021 Strictly speaking this is just one dominating structure in Tavistock that I did a whole set on because it fascinated me. I did drop clues in part 1 and part 2. As you walk up the hill from the town square this monumental structure starts to appear between the buildings and trees. Dated 1889 it comprises eight arches, five spanning fifty feet and three spanning thirty feet. The pier between the third and fourth arches from the western end includes a narrow archway. It closed in 1968 and is now a listed structure carrying a walkway. There is some discussion of reopening the railway.

a mix of old and new, and once you emerge into the Market Square on the High Street you are in the Food and new goods section. lathe, a variety of chair legs from green wood. Using a spokeshave he shapes the green wood into spindle legs. You can see more of his work here. We are finding some good words today. Despoliation - The action or process of despoiling.

I have checked my trusty "Let's Preserve It" by Beryl Wood and I am raring to go.

medieval castle more than a church with it's unusual pepper pot tower that originally gave access to the rood The stained glass is mostly modern but of good quality. Over in Kingswear they have the far more erudite names of Lower Contour Road and Higher Contour Road. This is West Alvington Woods with this years stunning display of wild garlic. I have never seen it this good.

Having tried the largest supermarket in the area because the very good greengrocer in the high street He was wearing a mask and I am half deaf so I may have imagined that, but I have a good feeling about He did explain that while he doesn't really do Facebook he is quite good at emails and sure enough I

There was no road crossing at all up to this point in the river. The road opposite would have led to the ferry landing on the Devon side. British road improvements usually entail taking a winding old road and straightening it. needed to get there fast, while modern roads are more concerned with road safety. On the 20th July 1644 there was more than a bit of road rage right here.

This is the view a mad axe murderer climbing over the roof would get. I blame the blind company. The latest is we are getting the roof blind in about three weeks. I am not convinced.

George’s, with its typical Devon three-gabled roof and tall broach spire, is still considered to be one the winding staircase within the octagonal turret led to an upper chamber which was also the priest's room The huge tower arch of this church, unlike so many others, isn't blocked by a screen or other barrier This vane was designed so that Triton, who was holding a rod in his hand, would turn so that the rod And so we leave the church behind now to cross over the road and complete a circuit via the school and

As you can see below, pedestrians including me, are "in road". This fine 1780 house has balustrades on the attractive colonnade and (intermittently) along the roof To add to this, there were yet more horse-drawn carts and drays delivering goods around what was then

sheep, most of which given hundreds of square miles to eat, much prefer standing on or around the only roads Incidentally the white line on the road is what passes for the pavement or sidewalk should you wish to on a stick out first before you step out yourself, because that pavement also serves as part of the road