Wealden Times | WT174 | August 2016 | Wedding supplement inside

Top: The basement originally had “lots of higgledy-piggledy little
rooms” which were knocked through to create a loft-style space
zoned into cooking, sitting and sleeping areas, plus a bathroom.
The grey painted steel feature stair rail was designed by architect
Jason Wren, who transformed the house. The vintage table
football underneath it is from a Hastings Old Town antique
shop. The charcoal grey modular IKEA sofa is dressed with
cushions by Kirsten Hecktermann and Abigail Ahern
After many years interviewing the great and the good,
primarily for The Times, where Ginny worked for 20 years, she
is now using her impressive contacts book to help promote the
Liberty Choirs project. Supporters include Roger Daltrey, Pete
Townsend, Ian Hislop, Polly Samson and David Gilmour.
“The choirs don’t simply help prisoners on the ‘inside’,” says
Ginny. “When the prisoners come out they can join one of our
regular choirs, giving them an ongoing sense of community,
which has been shown to be helpful in preventing reoffending.”
Dragging ourselves away from conversation at the kitchen
This mural of an Australian Goldencrowned
Honeysucker can be found on
the wall behind the basement staircase.
It’s one of five scattered around the
house, painted by artist John Brinklow
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