The Edgcumbe, a Victorian pub overlooking the river Tamar, will be serving a special ‘Gentleman’s tea’ on Father’s Day, Sunday 17 June.

The chef and staff at the award-winning inn, based at National Trust’s Cotehele, are planning an assortment of delicacies accenting the savoury as well as the sweet which, served in the idyllic setting on Cotehele Quay, promises to make for an unforgettable afternoon.

 
Chef Shaun Collins, who has recently been recruited to head up the Edgcumbe kitchen, says he’s looking forward to the afternoon.

Shaun has been a professional chef for more than ten years, during which time he has developed a passion for working with chocolate.

He started with patisseries and confectionary, making cakes and petits fours; he then trained at the Barry Callebaut Chocolate Academy and at Slattery’s Patisserie.
 
Shaun says, ‘The Edgcumbe has been serving delicious afternoon cream teas for several years. I’m excited to embellish the menu with items that will especially appeal to the men and provide a very English experience for our visitors.’
 
The Father’s Day tea will include cheese scones, Cornish ham and Cornish cheese, red onion marmalade and fruitcake, served with a bottle of ginger beer or shandy.

It will feature Cornish ingredients and all the cakes will be freshly made on the premises.
 
In addition, the Edgcumbe has added new items to its traditional afternoon cream teas.

The menu now includes homemade scones, both cheese and plain, savoury tart, various cakes and biscuits such as chocolate bourbon, chocolate éclair, and Florentine, as well as tea or coffee.

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From clownfish to seahorses, staff at Newquay’s Blue Reef Aquarium are paying tribute to some of the aquatic world’s best dads as part of a celebration of Father’s Day on Sunday, June 17th.
 
Special talks and tours throughout the day will draw attention to the aquarium’s hardest-working piscine papas.
 
Blue Reef Aquarium’s Jenni Collins said: “”We always celebrate Mother’s Day so we thought it was only fair that fishy fathers should also get some recognition.
 
“”In some cases it’s the males that actually do most of the hard work when it comes to looking after the babies
 
“”Our clownfish recently produced eggs and the dad is doing a sterling job of tending to them,”” she added.
 
Clownfish lay their eggs among the tentacles of stinging anemones for protection.
 
The attentive males carefully fan the eggs using their fins and will often manoeuvre the anemone’s tentacles to provide a protective canopy above the developing fish.
 
In fact they are so protective that they have even been known to attack divers who venture too close to their young!
 
It’s the same story with would-be dads among the sea-going corkwing wrasse family who also do all the nest-building in readiness for the big day.
 
However the fishy world’s most famous fathers are undoubtedly members of the seahorse, and closely related pipefish, families.
 
They are virtually unique in the animal kingdom in that it is the male rather than the female which carries the babies and gives birth to them via a special brood pouch on their stomach.
 
The fathers develop a special lining in the pouch which gives the growing babies oxygen and food while they develop.
 
Pregnant males eventually ‘give birth’ to the tiny replicas of the adults after about 2-6 months, depending on the species. Some species can give birth to up to 1,500 babies at any one time!

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