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OCTOBER <strong>2016</strong><br />
<strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
The lifestyle magazine for the Weald<br />
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Contents<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
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Supplement 8<br />
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54<br />
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SHED AHEAD<br />
John Graham-Hart<br />
salutes the hidey-hut<br />
OCTOBER NOTEBOOK<br />
Interesting things to<br />
do this month<br />
PRIDE, NO PREJUDICE<br />
A Georgian stately home<br />
gets a chic contemporary<br />
makeover - and a new purpose<br />
GET THE LOOK<br />
Give your house the<br />
Goodnestone treatment<br />
SWEET DREAMS<br />
A plumpelicious bedstead makes<br />
your bedroom into a luxury zone<br />
WINTER WARMER<br />
Treats to look forward to at<br />
this year’s <strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Midwinter Fair<br />
126<br />
128<br />
143<br />
147<br />
149<br />
151<br />
KITCHEN & BATHROOM<br />
SUPPLEMENT<br />
32 pages of inspiration<br />
for your home<br />
WHERE ENDS MEET<br />
Cosy autumn menswear<br />
for outdoor pursuits<br />
BALMY HIGH<br />
Josephine Fairley<br />
moisturises madly<br />
WEALDEN BEAUTY<br />
Susannah Hewett of Eggs to<br />
Apples shares her regime<br />
HEALTH<br />
Expert information for Breast<br />
Cancer Awareness month<br />
THE STAFF OF LIFE<br />
A sourdough masterclass<br />
with baker Emmanuel<br />
Hadjiandreou<br />
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166<br />
169<br />
175<br />
177<br />
183<br />
184<br />
FROM A TINY ACORN...<br />
Sue Whigham celebrates<br />
the mighty oak<br />
THE GREEN GODDESS<br />
Penny Kemp on upcycling<br />
LATERAL THINKING<br />
Alternative education options<br />
assessed by Sue Elkin<br />
GRAMMAR LESSONS<br />
Sue Elkin revises the key points<br />
for choosing a school<br />
WHAT’S ON IN OCTOBER<br />
Apples, art and Halloween fun<br />
COMPETITION<br />
Win a knife set worth £225<br />
from Flint & Flame<br />
FABLES FROM THE FARM<br />
For Jane Howard autumn<br />
is a new beginning<br />
102<br />
LOVE SHACK<br />
John Graham-Hart is smitten by<br />
a beach house with the X factor<br />
159<br />
SQUASH UP!<br />
Jo Arnell gets misty in<br />
her pumpkin patch<br />
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An attractive twin roundel oast house within walking distance of the town centre<br />
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Rolvenden<br />
An attractive Grade II Listed oast house with wonderful views<br />
5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3 reception rooms. Triple open bay garage with office / study<br />
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Hastings Old Town, East Sussex - £1,395,000<br />
Grade II listed Regency Italianate villa with attached 3<br />
bedroom cottage. <strong>Kitchen</strong>, dining room, drawing room,<br />
tower room, lower ground floor with utility room and wine<br />
store. 3 double bedrooms and 4th bedroom/sitting room.<br />
Garage and secure off road parking. Large walled garden.<br />
Brookland, Kent - £925,000<br />
Lovely Grade II listed farmhouse on little used country lane.<br />
Sitting room, dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, utility/<br />
cloakroom, 4 bedrooms, attic room. Single garage with<br />
office above. Parking. Garden and orchard of 1.25 acres.<br />
Beckley, East Sussex - £750,000<br />
Spacious house in rural position. <strong>Kitchen</strong>, utility, sitting<br />
room, dining room, living room, conservatory, 3 first floor<br />
bedrooms, study/bedroom 4, office/bedroom 5. Triple<br />
garage with workshop. Swimming pool. Gardens & grounds<br />
of 1.5 acres. Further land available. EPC E.<br />
Rye, East Sussex - £499,950<br />
Attached house in mews development in central location<br />
in Conservation Area. Living room, dining room, kitchen/<br />
breakfast room, main bedroom with en-suite and 2 further<br />
bedrooms. Lovely courtyard garden. Allocated parking<br />
space. EPC D<br />
Wittersham, Kent - £475,000<br />
Lovely 3 bedroom village house. Grade II listed with sitting<br />
room, dining room, home office/gym, kitchen/breakfast<br />
room, utility. Master bedroom with en-suite and 2 further<br />
bedrooms. Garden. Off road parking.<br />
Brookland, Kent - £395,000<br />
Deceptive attached period cottage with generous living<br />
accommodation on edge of village with rural views. 23 ft<br />
sitting room, open plan kitchen/dining room, utility, study,<br />
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An enchanting Grade II listed farmhouse with an excellent range of<br />
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• 3 Reception Rooms • <strong>Kitchen</strong>/Breakfast Room • 4 Bedrooms • <strong>Bathroom</strong><br />
• Substantial Outbuildings • About 7 acres in all<br />
Biddenden Excess £925,000<br />
A recently completed country house in a delightful secluded setting<br />
overlooking its own land • CSCA • 2 Reception Rooms • <strong>Kitchen</strong>/Diner<br />
• 4 Bedrooms • 3 <strong>Bathroom</strong>s • Double Garage • Open Bay Garage • Stables<br />
• Outbuilding • In all over 6 acres • EPC B<br />
Biddenden Excess £895,000<br />
A spacious and well presented oast conversion with leisure complex amid<br />
beautiful landscaped grounds with far reaching views • CSCA • 3 Reception<br />
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• Cart Lodge • Circa 2.3 acres in all • EPC E<br />
Bethersden Excess £600,000<br />
An individual village house providing 2,864 sq ft of stylish and flexible<br />
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Hawkhurst Excess £550,000 Cranbrook Guide Price £525,000<br />
An expansive duplex apartment set in a prestigious development on the A delightful attached barn and oast conversion with lovely south facing<br />
popular Moor area of the village • CSCA • 2 Reception Rooms • <strong>Kitchen</strong> gardens in a convenient semi rural setting • CSCA • 2 Reception Rooms<br />
• 3 Bedrooms • 2 <strong>Bathroom</strong>s • Double Garage • Private Terrace • Shared • <strong>Kitchen</strong>/Breakfast Room • 3 Bedrooms • Family <strong>Bathroom</strong> • Garage<br />
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High Halden £750,000 - £800,000<br />
Stunning 16th Century Grade II listed country house set in its own<br />
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• Triple Bay Garage • Detached Games Room • Two Ensuites • EPC C<br />
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Brookland £625,000<br />
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and paddock · CSCA · EPC: n/a<br />
Sought after Rural Location<br />
RURAL BRIGHTLInG £1,200,000<br />
Grade II Listed Thatched Barn · Three reception rooms<br />
· <strong>Kitchen</strong>/breakfast room · Utility room · Five bedrooms<br />
(two ensuite) · Grounds approx. 1.3 acres · Detached one<br />
bedroom annexe · Garaging · EPC: n/a<br />
Stunning Far Reaching Views<br />
RURAL Benenden £1,195,000<br />
Detached Property with Acreage · Three receptions<br />
· <strong>Kitchen</strong>/breakfast room · Five bedrooms (two ensuite)<br />
· Detached building with planning permission · Approx<br />
5 acres (including woodland) · CSCA · EPC: E<br />
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FARMHOUSE. The property sits amid delightful gardens and land of approximately 17 acres<br />
commanding unparalleled views from all rooms and includes a separate three bedroom Oast<br />
conversion and high specification equestrian facilities.<br />
HAWKHURST £1,295,000<br />
A UNIQUE AND ARCHITECTURALLY SIGNIFICANT FIVE BEDROOM BESPOKE BUILT,<br />
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GOUDHURST £820,000<br />
AN EXTREMELY RARE OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE A BUILDING PLOT OF APPROXIMATELY<br />
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GOUDHURST £835,000<br />
AN IMPRESSIVE AND BEAUTIFULLY APPOINTED 5/6 BEDROOM OAST CONVERSION.<br />
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RURAL WITTERSHAM £740,000<br />
AN EXCEPTIONALLY PRETTY FOUR BEDROOM GRADE II LISTED OAST HOUSE,<br />
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BROOKLAND, near Rye OIEO £695,000<br />
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HOUSE OF THE MONTH by John Graham-Hart<br />
1.<br />
Get ahead, Get a shed<br />
John Graham-Hart celebrates the small wooden hut<br />
which holds such a special place in the British heart<br />
As 11,000 athletes from more than 200 nations battled for glory beneath<br />
the appreciative gaze of Rio’s Christ the Redeemer this summer,<br />
another equally intense contest was reaching its climax under the<br />
beady and critical eyes of an army of gnomes at the bottom of suburban gardens<br />
all over the UK.<br />
Cuprinol’s annual Shed of the Year competition had attracted a record-breaking<br />
2,800 entries and the most magnificent 32 had made it onto the shortlist.<br />
Themes ranged from nuclear bunkers to Viking boltholes, duck hotels to<br />
Hobbit hideouts, crocodile homes to Hans Solo’s Millennium Falcon. The<br />
excitement of sheddies throughout the country was making the Brazilian home<br />
football crowds look positively apathetic.<br />
The shed is a peculiarly and pleasingly British obsession. It began as a little<br />
workshop where a man might tie flies or tinker with small unidentifiable pieces of<br />
metal which he would one day unveil in triumph as a single, larger, unidentifiable<br />
piece of metal. It was in short, somewhere to which he could escape for an hour<br />
or two and slip his mind comfortably and comfortingly into neutral.<br />
Sheds varied in size and shape but tended to share this essential<br />
purposelessness. Today, however, they have evolved into valuable additional<br />
family spaces - offices, summerhouses, gyms, studios, playhouses or, of course,<br />
just somewhere downright weird.<br />
There are regulations governing sheds and their placement but, generally,<br />
planning permission isn’t required so you can build pretty well what you want.<br />
However, whatever its guise, a shed rarely adds significant value to the<br />
sale price of a house but it can be an attractive extra – which means all these<br />
properties come with a useful little freebee…<br />
1. Hurst Mill Cottage<br />
Where? Hurst Mill Cottage is<br />
beautifully situated well back off a rural<br />
country road near Hothfield Common<br />
a couple of miles from Pluckley (Google<br />
Maps TN25 4LT).<br />
What? A lovely Grade II listed cottage<br />
dating from the 17th century, the property<br />
is awash with period features from Dering<br />
casement windows with stone mullions<br />
to exposed timbers and beams and brick<br />
flooring. Reception rooms include a triple<br />
aspect drawing room with direct access<br />
to the garden, a sitting room with woodburning<br />
stove and a large third room that<br />
could be used as an annexe.<br />
On the first floor are two bedrooms and a<br />
family bathroom and a separate staircase<br />
leads to a further bedroom – with access<br />
to a decked terrace - and bathroom. The<br />
landscaped gardens which lie to three sides<br />
of the house are a major feature of the<br />
property and encompass paved pathways,<br />
lawns underplanted with spring bulbs, a<br />
variety of mature trees including impressive<br />
willows, an old mill pond, a summerhouse<br />
and a studio with power and light.<br />
How much? Hurst Mill Cottage is on<br />
the market at £850,000 and is with Savills<br />
in Cranbrook. Call 01580 7<strong>2016</strong>1 or visit<br />
savills.co.uk<br />
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2. Fairfield<br />
Where? Fairfield is located on the edge<br />
of the attractive and historic <strong>Wealden</strong><br />
village of Sissinghurst (Google Maps<br />
TN17 2AR).<br />
What? An attractive contemporary<br />
property surrounded by well over an<br />
acre of beautiful grounds, Fairfield is a<br />
light, spacious and versatile family home.<br />
Downstairs accommodation includes<br />
living room with dual aspect picture<br />
windows overlooking the garden, dual<br />
aspect dining room, study, kitchen/<br />
breakfast room with French windows to<br />
the garden patio, two bedrooms and a<br />
shower room.<br />
Upstairs is a master bedroom, two further<br />
bedrooms, playroom and bathroom.<br />
Outside the gardens are mainly laid to<br />
lawn but with a lovely range of mature<br />
shrubs along with various trees and<br />
mature plants, flowerbeds and landscaped<br />
kitchen garden. There are three patio<br />
areas, two greenhouses and a Scandinavian<br />
garden lodge fitted with a central barbecue<br />
and chimney, table top and seating.<br />
How much? Fairfield has an asking<br />
price of £799,995 and is on the market<br />
with Peter Buswell in Hawkhurst. Call<br />
01580 755565 or visit<br />
peterbuswell.co.uk<br />
3. West Lodge<br />
Where? West Lodge is in a semi-rural<br />
setting on the edge of the village of East<br />
Farleigh a couple of miles from Maidstone<br />
(Google Maps ME15 0HA).<br />
What? An attractive single-storey<br />
ragstone property that was originally<br />
one of two gatehouses that served the<br />
nearby manor house, the property has<br />
been renovated and extended by its<br />
current owners who have converted a<br />
former tandem garage into a detached<br />
single storey studio. In the main house,<br />
accommodation includes a large drawing<br />
room that is open–plan to the kitchen/<br />
breakfast room, three bedrooms – one<br />
with an en suite shower room – and<br />
family room/fourth bedroom.<br />
Outside, a large paved patio with ornate<br />
cast balustrade overlooks the courtyard<br />
and studio building. The gardens -<br />
primarily laid to lawn and edged by<br />
mature trees – encompass a modern<br />
wooden chalet with power and light and<br />
a large wooden deck provides superb<br />
views over the adjacent orchards and<br />
countryside.<br />
How much? West Lodge is on the<br />
market at £850,000 and is with Fine &<br />
Country in West Malling. Call 01732<br />
222272 or visit fineandcountry.com<br />
4. West Cross<br />
Where? No 3 West Cross is set on the<br />
west side of High Street in the historic<br />
Cinque Ports town of Tenterden (Google<br />
Maps TN30 6JR).<br />
What? The property is an impressive<br />
Grade II listed Georgian town house<br />
believed to date back to 1730 with<br />
later additions. The property has been<br />
sympathetically restored over the years and<br />
is now an attractive family home with all<br />
the conveniences of modern living. The<br />
ground floor comprises drawing room,<br />
dining room and a bright south-facing<br />
kitchen/breakfast room.<br />
On the first floor are two double bedrooms<br />
and a family bathroom and, on the second,<br />
there is a master bedroom and further<br />
guest bedroom with en suite bathroom.<br />
There is also a large basement utility room<br />
which leads through to a games room. To<br />
the rear of the property is a lovely southfacing<br />
courtyard garden which has been<br />
thoughtfully landscaped with a pretty<br />
summerhouse and potting shed.<br />
How much? No 3 West Cross has a<br />
guide price range of £525,000 - £550,000<br />
and is with Fine & Country in Tenterden.<br />
Call 01580 766388 or visit<br />
fineandcountry.com<br />
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City centre celebration...<br />
Canterbury Festival has announced this year’s super sized line-up, with<br />
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will take place to please wine lovers, keen gardeners and historians, with<br />
speakers including Oz Clarke and Monty Don. With over 200 events<br />
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<strong>October</strong><br />
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Exhibitions & events<br />
near you this month...<br />
Dance & dazzle...<br />
Join the party at Assembly Hall on Sunday 30<br />
<strong>October</strong>, as Magic Of Motown celebrates its<br />
10th birthday. Having embarked on a sensational<br />
nationwide tour, this theatrical treat will be wowing<br />
audiences in Tunbridge Wells, with musical brilliance,<br />
glittering costumes and dazzling dance moves.<br />
Legends such as the Supremes, Jackson 5, Stevie<br />
Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and many more<br />
will be featuring in this stunning production. Book<br />
now by phoning 01892 530613.<br />
Creative coaching...<br />
This <strong>October</strong>, West Dean College are offering a<br />
series of short creative courses to give participants<br />
the opportunity to learn traditional and<br />
contemporary handcrafts. Explore outside oil<br />
painting and investigate autumnal landscapes.<br />
Choose from a diverse range of woodworking<br />
and furniture making courses, develop your<br />
gardening skills, pick up a camera and learn about<br />
composition, build on a sewing project or try your<br />
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More than words...<br />
Friday 30 September and Saturday 1 <strong>October</strong> will<br />
be a celebration of reading and writing at Cranbrook<br />
Literature Festival. Join Julian Clary, Sarah Raven,<br />
Vanessa Nicolson, Luke Wright and Gyles Brandreth<br />
and Benet Brandreth for performance poetry, creative<br />
writing workshops, art, illustration and plenty of<br />
stories. For tickets and further information visit<br />
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Stroke of genius...<br />
Kent Painters Group will be hosting their 26th<br />
annual art exhibition and sale at Sevenoaks School,<br />
over the weekend of Friday 28 - Sunday 30 <strong>October</strong>,<br />
to raise money for local mental health and learning<br />
disability charities. Entry is free all weekend, and<br />
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Friday evening. There are 60 acclaimed artists and<br />
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An apple a day...<br />
After an amazing Apple Festival in 2015, the team<br />
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<strong>October</strong>. The Red Sails restaurant will be providing<br />
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of family festival fun. To find out more visit<br />
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Pretty ordinary...<br />
Jerwood Gallery are offering a rare opportunity for<br />
visitors to enjoy starting on Saturday 15 <strong>October</strong>.<br />
Stanley Spencer - A Panorama of Life, gives art<br />
lovers the chance to see works rarely viewed outside<br />
Stanley’s home town in Berkshire. The paintings<br />
celebrate the everyday and document life as it was in<br />
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a beautiful demonstration of ordinary life and work.<br />
Find out more jerwoodgallery.org<br />
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starts at Eridge station where visitors<br />
are met with the smell of hot chestnuts<br />
and a roaring coal fire in the festively<br />
decorated waiting room. Whilst you are<br />
waiting to board your Santa special<br />
train why not visit our award winning<br />
Bar Car "Kate" and sample our hot<br />
or cold drinks together with either a<br />
snack or light lunch.<br />
• Saturday 3rd December<br />
• Sunday 4th December<br />
• Saturday 10th December<br />
• Sunday 11th December<br />
• Saturday 17th December<br />
• Sunday 18th December<br />
• Thursday 22nd December<br />
• Friday 23rd December<br />
• Saturday 24th December<br />
ALL ABOARD FOR A DAY OUT<br />
WITH THOMAS!<br />
Meet Thomas the Tank Engine<br />
and his friends, who are waiting<br />
to meet you at Spa Valley Railway.<br />
• Experience a ride behind a real steam engine<br />
• Shake hands with The Fat Controller<br />
• Take part in Thomas themed activities in the<br />
Imagination Station<br />
DAY OUT WITH THOMAS<br />
at - Tunbridge Wells<br />
<strong>October</strong> 1st, 2nd, 8th & 9th <strong>2016</strong><br />
HALLOWEEN <strong>2016</strong><br />
SPOOKY SURPRISES AT THE SPA!<br />
Fright night express -<br />
Saturday 29th <strong>October</strong>!<br />
Join us as we take a ride into the unknown,<br />
with our Ghost Trains running into the<br />
darkness on Saturday 29th <strong>October</strong>!<br />
Enter into our fancy dress competition as part of the fun!<br />
We want to see lots of little witches, ghosts & ghouls,<br />
so don your best costume and join us for a frightfully<br />
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THURSDAY 3 RD NOVEMBER <strong>2016</strong><br />
Arrive 12.45pm for coffee and registration<br />
Seminar 1pm - 1.45pm<br />
Lunch served from 1.45pm<br />
Draw at 2.30pm<br />
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and Property and Financial Affairs (as a single person or a couple)<br />
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*Only those individuals that have not previously had an appointment or consultation with us at their home or at one of<br />
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Numbers strictly limited to 25
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Fosse Bank is a small independent school in a stunning building set in 26 acres<br />
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Forthcoming Open Days<br />
Saturday 15th <strong>October</strong><br />
Monday 10th <strong>October</strong> - Friday 14th <strong>October</strong> - Open Week<br />
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BAGHAM BARN ANTIQUES<br />
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With a fresh look for Autumn, Bagham Barn has welcomed in<br />
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My back pain was so bad<br />
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Non-invasive disc treatment ends<br />
Julie’s battle with sciatica<br />
Three years ago, Julie Phillips from Woking cycled 500 miles<br />
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64 year old Julie explains: “I’ve always been an active person;<br />
I was a keen horse-rider for over 30 years and love cycling.<br />
About five years ago I started getting lower back pain and<br />
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Julie’s pain gradually got worse as she approached her<br />
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back, worse on the left side. It was so severe I could only<br />
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At 64, I really believed I was going to spend my retirement<br />
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Julie tried various manual treatments over the years without<br />
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“I made enquiries about the treatment and discovered that<br />
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I knew I would be moving to Devon in a matter of weeks<br />
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Make an entrance<br />
Above: one of the beautiful small garden gates we made especially for the Feel Good Front Gardens at the RHS Hampton Court show this summer<br />
Gates are there for a very good reason - simply put, a gate helps<br />
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Please make sure your gate, or gates are in a good state of repair. It<br />
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100 Years of Education, 1000 Years of History<br />
Battle Abbey School<br />
Sixth Form Open Evening<br />
Thursday 13th <strong>October</strong> <strong>2016</strong>,<br />
6.30pm - 8.00pm<br />
Please contact the school for further information.<br />
Tel: 01424 772385 email: registrar@battleabbeyschool.com,<br />
Battle Abbey School, Battle, East Sussex, TN33 0AD.<br />
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Recent University Destinations for Year 13 Leavers include:<br />
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Battle Abbey School 1912 - 2012<br />
Battle Abbey School <strong>Times</strong> top 200!<br />
As announced in The <strong>Times</strong> on 27th August Battle Abbey School comes in at 153 in the UK for<br />
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Outside Brighton only one other Eastbourne school ranked higher in East Sussex.<br />
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Previous page: The coffee table in the library was made from<br />
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But perhaps the most important factor in saving the<br />
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Above: Light pours into the breakfast room through two floorto-ceiling<br />
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Above: The cushions on the bed in Effie’s Room are covered in a GP & J Baker fabric. The painting was found at an antiques fair<br />
Above all, the designers would have one guiding principle: at<br />
the end of what was going to be a very long day, Goodnestone<br />
must still be a stately home – the FitzWalter family home.<br />
The designers Julian chose were Francesca Rowan-<br />
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“Had I been given the project, I would have involved<br />
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“Right from the start Julian was very specific about<br />
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He had a very clear vision and it was great to be able<br />
to work toward such a clearly defined goal.”<br />
Also invaluable would be the continuing support and input<br />
from Julian and his wife, Sally. “We would meet regularly to<br />
talk through ideas, go through fabrics and wallpapers and<br />
look at colours. We’d also go together to Ardingly, often<br />
not looking for a specific piece but finding something and<br />
thinking ‘that’s perfect for the library’ or ‘that would go well<br />
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it and move on. It was a project that grew organically.”<br />
The project, start to finish, would take two-and-a-half years.<br />
Taking an early 18th century house and positioning it<br />
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but, surprisingly, it involved very little in the way of<br />
the knocking down of walls and where it has had to be<br />
done it has had the full blessing of English Heritage.<br />
The only major remodelling downstairs was the knocking<br />
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elegant and state-of-the-art kitchen capable of serving the<br />
24 guests the house is now designed to accommodate.<br />
The shaker-style units and island were custom-built.<br />
The breakfast room is a couple of steps up and through<br />
bronze and glass doors designed by Marcus. The panes match<br />
exactly the panes in the Georgian sash windows. This is a<br />
glorious, bright room, the light pouring in through floorto-ceiling<br />
windows – the perfect place to start any day.<br />
The oval table was made to order by the project’s main<br />
contractors, BW May, and the chimney piece was found<br />
in the cellar and given a new FitzWalter coat of arms.<br />
On the walls is a wonderful collection of leaf pressings that<br />
Marcus found long-forgotten in the attic, framed and gave<br />
the pride of place they deserved. They are complemented by<br />
the contemporary abstract by Luke Hannam which hangs <br />
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over the fireplace – a juxtaposition of old and new which<br />
continues throughout the house, never inappropriate and<br />
always gently contributing to the air of elegant informality.<br />
Even the rooms such as the ‘formal’ dining room are<br />
anything but. Here the superb dining table was commissioned<br />
by Julian and Sally and made by Alastair Murray. The<br />
star of this show must, however, be the stunning, bespoke<br />
hand-painted de Gournay wallpaper. Hanging there in<br />
all its delicate serenity, one wouldn’t know that it was the<br />
one item in the whole project that was a major drama.<br />
When the old wallpaper was stripped from the walls,<br />
the man from de Gournay, he say no. “He said there<br />
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Francesca. “This gave us a serious problem because<br />
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Above: The walls of Henry’s Room are painted in Hague Blue by<br />
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Left: The teal tiles are from Topps Tiles<br />
Family treasures include two lovely bow-fronted walnut<br />
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Above left: Francesca and Marcus found the pictures in<br />
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There are simply too many superb bedrooms to do<br />
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Previous page, above: The chairs in the Games Room were upholstered by Richard Harris in Jane Churchill velvet. The cabinet<br />
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Trimaran stripe cushion<br />
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armchair, £1497, Artisanti<br />
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Artesà Copper tri-ply 12cm mini<br />
fry pan, £19.99, <strong>Kitchen</strong> Craft<br />
kitchencraft.co.uk<br />
Artesà Copper tri-ply 10cm mini<br />
saucepan, £18.99, <strong>Kitchen</strong> Craft<br />
kitchencraft.co.uk<br />
Mandalyn floral grey wallpaper,<br />
£14, Colours at B&Q diy.com<br />
Set of 2 large Cornbury storage<br />
jars, £10, Garden Trading<br />
gardentrading.co.uk<br />
Haresfield sofa in pink<br />
velvet, £2203, Sofas & Stuff<br />
sofasandstuff.com<br />
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frenchbedroomcompany.co.uk<br />
Dusky pink beehive<br />
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Patterned Moroccan<br />
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Golden botanical<br />
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thefarthing.co.uk<br />
Double sided picture<br />
frames, £12.95<br />
Decorator’s Notebook<br />
decoratorsnotebook.co.uk<br />
Linen pillowcase<br />
from £60<br />
The Linen Works<br />
thelinenworks.co.uk<br />
Pure Morris cushion collection,<br />
fabric prices from £66 per metre<br />
Skinners of Tunbridge Wells<br />
skinnersoftunbridgewells.co.uk<br />
Set of two nesting<br />
trinket boxes<br />
£20, Oliver Bonas<br />
oliverbonas.com<br />
Sleepy loose leaf tea<br />
£4.25, The Hop Shop<br />
hopshop.co.uk<br />
Espresso cup and<br />
saucer, £25, Made<br />
By Hand Online<br />
madebyhandonline.com<br />
Faux fur throw<br />
£50, B&Q<br />
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Finney bedside table<br />
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Come and discover beautiful bed linen this autumn at Fenwick.<br />
Your bedroom is your sanctuary at the end of a stressful day and there<br />
is nothing better than relaxing in a beautifully made bed. Let us help<br />
you to create the perfect ambience that reflects your personality.<br />
Whether you prefer a muted colour palette or stunning vivacious print<br />
designs in seasonal shades, we have it covered. Plus, our collections have<br />
beautiful co-ordinating knitted throws and soft cushions to make the look<br />
complete.<br />
Preparing for a good night’s sleep requires some attention to detail.<br />
As autumn sets in and the nights become colder, you may be thinking<br />
of investing in a warmer duvet. At Fenwick we have a wide selection of<br />
duvets, hypo-allergenic, synthetic or with luxury goose and feather down<br />
fillings, to suit your needs and budget. You also need to think carefully<br />
about the pillow that you are using to ensure you have the optimum neck<br />
and spine alignment. New for autumn you will find TEMPUR. The TEMPUR<br />
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and NEW designs from Clarissa Hulse and Designers Guild; plus<br />
sumptuous duvets from Brinkhaus, renowned worldwide for their superior<br />
quality and innovative designs and the Tempur pillow collection.<br />
Then come in store and see what else is NEW in the Linens department<br />
for autumn <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
AUTUMN<br />
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LINENS<br />
ELIZABETH SCARLETT<br />
Elizabeth Scarlett is a luxury homeware brand, created by London based<br />
designer Elizabeth Scarlett Elsey. Combining an enduring love of soft<br />
textiles with an eye for detail, Elizabeth Scarlett was launched in 2013,<br />
bringing soft, colourful cushions to the forefront. With a textile heritage<br />
and a background in fine art, Elizabeth uses her signature hand painted<br />
designs to uniquely embroider lifestyle products.<br />
ANANAS : Inspired by the tropical fruits sold in Saint-Tropez market,<br />
translated from a hand illustrated design of soft grey pineapples.<br />
Duvet : King £100 : Super King £115 Cushion 45 x 45cm £35<br />
Quilt 220 x 230cm 220 thread count £145<br />
Only available in the Tunbridge Wells store<br />
FENWICK CANTERBURY AND TUNBRIDGE WELLS
CLARISSA HULSE : MEADOW GRASS<br />
Layers of swaying Wiltshire meadow grasses in hot pink and<br />
turmeric are contrasted on a dramatic ombré background fading<br />
from charcoal to ice grey, while spindly reeds are cleverly revealed<br />
on the reverse. Digitally printed on smoothest 200 thread count<br />
cotton sateen the range includes four sizes of duvet cover, an<br />
oxford panel pillowcase featuring meadow grasses and a housewife<br />
pillowcase in the reverse print. Accessorise with a striking cushion<br />
decorated with an embroidered crescent leaf design and a grey<br />
chunky knit throw with a bold turmeric coloured border.<br />
Duvet covers : Double £95 : King £110<br />
Oxford pillowcase £22 Housewife pillowcase £19<br />
Cushion 30 x 50cm £45 Grey knitted throw 150 x 200cm £150<br />
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DESIGNERS GUILD : TULIPANI GRAPHITE<br />
This dynamic yet graceful floral bed linen design has<br />
been taken from the successful Designers Guild print fabric<br />
of the same name. Colourful botanical style flowers and<br />
green ferns on a statement graphite grey background.<br />
The luxurious modern floral bed linen design will bring a<br />
dramatic edge to your bedroom scheme. Digitally printed<br />
onto 200 thread count cotton with a soft grey plain reverse.<br />
Duvet covers : Double £95 : King £110 : Super King £125<br />
Housewife pillowcase £20<br />
Hiranya graphite throw 140 x 200cm £120<br />
Hiranya cushion 50 x 30cm £35<br />
FENWICK CANTERBURY AND TUNBRIDGE WELLS
BRINKHAUS : THE GEM COMPONENT<br />
DUVET 10.5 Tog Premier New White<br />
Hungarian Goose Down<br />
Brinkhaus duvets combine the finest fillings<br />
with the finest Medicott treated cotton covers<br />
and are renowned worldwide for their superior<br />
quality and innovative designs. These duvets<br />
can be combined in up to 10 different ways.<br />
Each duvet features lightweight stainless steel<br />
nickel free press studs. You purchase any of the<br />
duvets that you need now, then add to it at a<br />
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your individual needs.<br />
Super King 260 x 220cm £659<br />
Other sizes to order<br />
TEMPUR ® : Pillow collections<br />
TEMPUR offers a wide range of pillows to<br />
accommodate a variety of preferences and<br />
sleep positions. Made from unique TEMPUR<br />
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and warmth, conforming to your shape. Unlike<br />
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is filled with specially developed TEMPUR<br />
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3 year guarantee £85<br />
Visit our Linens departments and see what else is NEW for autumn. Be inspired by the beautiful selection of bed linen with<br />
co-ordinating soft cushions and throws that will make your bedroom complete.<br />
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37 Royal Star Arcade<br />
High Street<br />
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Bang & Olufsen<br />
of Tunbridge Wells<br />
66 Mount Pleasant Road<br />
Tunbridge Wells<br />
Kent TN1 1RB<br />
Tel: 01892 527525
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Spotlight on exhibitors...<br />
TeePea design and craft beautiful hand-made<br />
teepees. They caused such a stir at the Midsummer Fair,<br />
we had to know more about Tunbridge Wells<br />
mums, Emma and Ella.<br />
Describe the essence of the business<br />
Bright, colourful and lots of fun! We make beautiful cotton<br />
teepees that provide the perfect pop-up space for imaginative<br />
play and give children their own little hideaway, <strong>inside</strong> or out.<br />
Why did you go into business together?<br />
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both wanted to continue doing something creative, without<br />
the London commute, that would fit around the kids. Ella<br />
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fell in love with it and that was enough to get us thinking.<br />
Tell us about the process of creating your product<br />
Once we have a design concept and the perfect fabric and<br />
trimmings, our seamstress works her way up and down the<br />
vast metres of cut-out fabric. Once assembled, each unique<br />
TeePea goes into its own coordinating bag. We often take<br />
special orders for clients with a specific theme in mind.<br />
What makes all the hard work worth it?<br />
Honestly, it is seeing how much children (and their parents)<br />
love their TeePea. We receive lots of photos and reviews<br />
from new members to the TeePea family. There is something<br />
really special about a toy that grows with a child, inspires<br />
different uses and creates memories along the way.<br />
What can we look forward to from<br />
TeePea at the Midwinter Fair?<br />
Alongside our signature range of spots and<br />
stripes, our fun, new Winter Collection are the<br />
perfect gifts for children this Christmas.
Midwinter Fair<br />
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Stegmann House Clogs, £65<br />
Fire & Felt Ltd, fi reandfelt.com<br />
Carnival Light (large), £50<br />
Electric Pineapple,<br />
electricpineapple.co.uk<br />
Lip Therapy 7ml, £10<br />
Ruby Red,<br />
rubyredcosmetics.co.uk<br />
Fountain pen, £59<br />
Plooms, plooms.co.uk<br />
Unisex Sweat, £30<br />
Lounge Shorts, £27<br />
Blue Blancmange, blueblancmange.co.uk<br />
Handmade TeePea, £125<br />
TeaPea, facebook.com/myteepea<br />
Bolivia Cross Body Bag, £229.95<br />
Grandala, grandala.com<br />
Produce Candles, £21.99 each<br />
I Love Produce Candles, iloveproducecandles.co.uk<br />
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Previous page: The kitchen island and the ‘wooden’ wall that runs from the front to the back of the house were designed by<br />
Francesca and made by Hastings & Bexhill Wood Recycling from sanded, unpainted, scaffolding board. The industrial-style ceiling<br />
lights were being thrown out of a café in St Leonards. Francesca found the real ship’s porthole on a stall in Hastings Old Town. The<br />
table is from eBay and the chairs are from Dunelm. The tractor seat stools are from Strand Quay Antiques Above: The blue sitting<br />
room sofa is from made.com and the white painted chest from – as many other objects of desire around the house – McCully &<br />
Crane in Rye. Marcus Crane was Francesca’s design partner in the refurbishment of Goodnestone Park (see page 54)<br />
This issue sees something of a <strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong> first -<br />
featuring two houses by the same interior designer.<br />
Why? Well, the simple answer is that the work of Ms<br />
Francesca Rowan-Plowden is in need of serious celebration.<br />
Every month, when I walk into yet another breathtaking<br />
home, I am stunned by what extraordinary flair and<br />
talent so many owners have. Exposed to creativity on<br />
such a scale, I find myself struggling not to blurt out<br />
the opinion that they should do this for a living.<br />
When I visited Francesca’s Georgian farmhouse near Rye<br />
some years ago I remember totally losing this struggle. I<br />
doubt very much if my career advice was taken seriously<br />
but others considerably more qualified than I must have<br />
expressed exactly the same opinion because Francesca has<br />
since launched Rowan Plowden Design and become one<br />
of the best professional designers south of the Smoke.<br />
Actress, TV presenter, mother of four young boys and<br />
founder of Rye’s popular Lamb Players, established<br />
when she was curator of Lamb House, Francesca is<br />
currently being fêted for her work with Marcus Crane at<br />
Goodnestone, but one of her great strengths is versatility<br />
- and little demonstrates this versatility as dramatically<br />
as placing stately home alongside holiday home.<br />
Field View, her own property on The Ridge at Winchelsea<br />
Beach, was always intended as a rental so, although she<br />
was the owner and would stay there as often as possible,<br />
it was not somewhere she could indulge herself. Rather<br />
than please one client – as she might on most projects –<br />
she was going to have to please a wide range of potential<br />
guests, none of whom she had ever even met.<br />
Francesca and her husband, wine importer Piers Plowden, had<br />
always liked the idea of a beach property. “As a child I used<br />
to spend holidays with my aunt and uncle in Nantucket,” she<br />
says. “Piers grew up in Bermuda and our favourite holiday<br />
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“We saw the Winchelsea house advertised just before<br />
we went on holiday and thought it would be gone by<br />
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Above: The original sunroom is now used as a dining/breakfast<br />
area. The table and bench were made by the Hastings & Bexhill<br />
Wood Recycling with wood reclaimed from Hastings Pier. The<br />
steel walls lights are by Cox & Cox and the walls are painted in<br />
Farrow & Ball Ammonite Left: the chair is from Strand Quay<br />
Antiques and the sheepskin from Hunter Jones, both in Rye. The<br />
wooden stag’s head is from Eras of Style in Bexhill<br />
The woodburner is set into a<br />
central chimney that is all that is left<br />
of the original wall that separated<br />
the front and rear rooms<br />
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It was also going to need a considerable number of walls<br />
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Previous page: The four-foot-high framed poster of Gary<br />
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bedroom has been raised to be on a level with the windows<br />
looking south over the fields to the sea. The headboard and<br />
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from an old wooden-cased voltmeter, is from McCully & Crane<br />
On the walls are works by two Rye artists – mermaids by<br />
Richard Adams and a delicate ladybird drawing by Lincoln<br />
Taber. Flanking the window are two galvanised steel nautical<br />
lights by Cox & Cox. “There are odd nods to the seaside<br />
here and there,” says Francesca, “but nothing too obvious<br />
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Also delightfully conspicuous by its absence is any evidence<br />
of The Dead Stuffed Things School of Interior Design. True,<br />
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but this is a lovely wood carving from Eras of Style in Bexhill.<br />
The woodburner is set into a central chimney that is<br />
all that is left of the original wall separating the front<br />
and rear rooms. “It was the most expensive item in<br />
the house to buy and to install,” says Francesca, “but<br />
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home for all seasons and it certainly does its job.”<br />
The fireplace is now open from both sides of the chimney,<br />
heating and cheering both the sitting room area and the<br />
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The former garage has now been converted into a twin bedroom, games room and a bathroom. Above: The desk and chair in the<br />
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Above Left: The headboards are Rowan Plowden. Francesca bought the old painted toy box serving as a joint bedside table from a<br />
stall in Lydd. The ceiling lampshade is from Hunter Jones. The wall behind the beds is painted in Stiffkey Blue by Farrow & Ball.<br />
The hurricane lamps on the chest are from Dunelm Above right: Over the free-standing bath in the in new bathroom is a picture by<br />
Francesca’s artist uncle, Nick Maddison.<br />
The majority of walls throughout the downstairs are<br />
Farrow & Ball Ammonite but a great feature of the<br />
ground floor is a superb ‘wooden’ wall that runs from<br />
the front to the back of the house and is clad floor to<br />
ceiling in sanded, unpainted scaffolding board, effortlessly<br />
giving the whole area a lovely beachy, driftwood feel.<br />
Pièce de résistance in the kitchen area is a stunning<br />
central island designed by Francesca, built by H&B<br />
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kitchen storage area and lit by two industrial-style lights<br />
that were being thrown out of a café in St Leonards.<br />
In one side wall is a real ship’s porthole which Francesca<br />
bought from a stall which appears and disappears Brigadoonlike<br />
in Hastings Old Town and is run by a bloke called John.<br />
At one end of the island is virtually a wall of glass, with<br />
doors out into a magical shingle garden. At the other end are<br />
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Downstairs, the former owner’s double bedroom now sports a<br />
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your eyes you are looking south over the fields to the sea. The<br />
headboard was designed by Francesca as were the cushions<br />
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The former garage has been converted into a twin bedroom,<br />
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Above left: Wrought-iron daybed from IKEA. Francesca designed the Roman blind, which is in Ralph Lauren fabric<br />
Above right: The shuttered mirror in the bathroom is from Strand Antiques and the industrial style light fitting is from<br />
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Left: This flat in Cleveland Square is owned by Lulu Lytle of<br />
Pimlico interiors shop Soane Britain. “Lulu and Charlie knocked<br />
out the walls of three rooms to make a wide, welcoming kitchen,<br />
installing oak cabinets and a copper-wrapped island that have<br />
stood the test of time (like fixtures in all the best kitchens). The<br />
walls are lined in turquoise glazed tiles from World’s End Tiles; a<br />
copper Owl lantern from Soane Britain hangs above the dining<br />
table, with its set of beautiful, battered leather Soane Casino<br />
dining chairs—an iconic and timeless design.”<br />
Above: A house on the Lloyd Baker estate in Islington, owned by<br />
landscape gardener Maisie Rowe. “I love Maisie’s simple kitchen,<br />
installed by the previous owner, architect Steven Mullen, in the<br />
1970s. The cooking is still done on his lipstick-red AGA or on<br />
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Left: A country house in Northumberland.<br />
“The chatelaine is a woman of great character<br />
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one end is a cream-coloured AGA, seeming<br />
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Above left: The pantry, next door, is idyllic; it<br />
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Above right: Wardington Manor, North<br />
Oxfordshire, owned by Bridget Elworthy of<br />
The Land Gardeners. “The kitchen is a warmhearted<br />
room, with a wide table around which<br />
all family life takes place. Bridget’s kitchen style<br />
can be distilled into a successful recipe: a cream<br />
AGA, white curtains in front of the cupboards<br />
and Carrara marble counters with white tiles and<br />
a simple shelf above. Throw in a huge, vividly<br />
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Colourful character<br />
We asked kitchen designers for their expert<br />
advice on how to bring colour back into the<br />
heart of the home<br />
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“<strong>Kitchen</strong>s are becoming bolder with mixed<br />
styles and colours - a Shaker-painted cabinet<br />
with zinc worktops, or painted cabinets with<br />
polished copper fittings. When incorporating<br />
separate furniture pieces, it’s important to<br />
link them to the rest of the kitchen - through<br />
the cabinetry, worktops or walls - to keep a<br />
polished finish.”<br />
Gemma Collins<br />
Collins Bespoke<br />
Old Surrenden Manor, Bethersden, Kent 01233 822595<br />
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“A lot of people now want a freestanding look,<br />
with a separate dresser and a separate larder,<br />
rather than runs and runs of units. Clients are<br />
also veering away from wall units. If they’ve<br />
got the space they’d rather have it more open.<br />
When it comes to colour, blue seems to be the<br />
new colour coming up. Several clients have<br />
wanted islands in a rich blue to contrast with<br />
grey units. It’s also popular to have details of<br />
wood in the island, to add interest without<br />
having too much upkeep.We would always say<br />
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and texture, look at what floor you’re having –<br />
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“We’ve just changed our<br />
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deal to have it repainted if<br />
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they also have the Siematics<br />
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bright colours. Strong yellows<br />
and orange are very popular<br />
and as kitchens are more living<br />
areas now, they can be picked<br />
up through the scheme in soft<br />
furnishings.”<br />
Sarah Cooper<br />
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“Using two tones is a very popular way of adding interest in a kitchen.<br />
Darker shades are most often used in islands and base cabinets, with a<br />
lighter shade on the wall cabinetry to soften the overall effect. A bold<br />
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“People are starting to ask for something a<br />
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kitchens that have dominated for so long.<br />
With so many exciting materials, different<br />
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“Bold people are starting to ask for bold<br />
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“Clients are moving away from the greys and are starting to feel adventurous<br />
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blue. Dressers are the most popular freestanding pieces.”<br />
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<strong>Bathroom</strong> plants are back back back… Jo Arnell advises what varieties to<br />
choose for this hotly revived trend – and how to keep them alive<br />
After years out there in the interior design<br />
wilderness, houseplants are trendy once more,<br />
and looking especially cool in bathrooms.<br />
Whether you want a jungle, or a more restrained or<br />
contemporary look, there will be a plant to help create<br />
the mood. Let’s do the Cheese plant again…<br />
Design<br />
Using one big plant (it doesn’t have to be a Monstera) in<br />
your smallest room will make a statement and provide a<br />
striking focal point. Contemporary spaces are enhanced<br />
with architectural plants like Yuccas, but if your bathroom<br />
feels a bit stark and clinical, a frothy line of Maidenhair<br />
ferns along a shelf or a tasteful update on a cascading<br />
Spider plant will soften the edges. Try a single pale orchid<br />
for restrained opulence, or the frills and fronds of a<br />
Boston fern or Kentia palm to cheer up a dull corner.<br />
Health and beauty<br />
Indoor plants not only make a room look fresher, the<br />
plants themselves bring added health benefits. Studies<br />
have shown that we feel calmer, safer and more creative<br />
in the presence of plants. Many help lower humidity<br />
levels by absorbing moisture through their leaves and<br />
some can even purify the air and absorb polluting toxins.<br />
So that’s clean, green and serene. Let’s get planting!<br />
Growing conditions and cultivation<br />
Houseplants are able to cope with varying degrees of low<br />
light. As a general rule cacti and succulents need good light<br />
and will be fine in direct sunlight. Those with dark green,<br />
tough looking leaves will manage in shade and big floppy<br />
leaves tend to need more watering. Most bathrooms are<br />
humid environments, but if, like me, you have a cold and<br />
draughty house, some plants will curl up their leaves<br />
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in horror. Choose carefully. A potted plant is completely<br />
dependant on you, so be a kindly jailor and remember to<br />
feed and water your captives according to their needs.<br />
11 of the best bathroom plants<br />
Some like it steamy<br />
These plants have come from areas of naturally high<br />
humidity and often have either large lush looking<br />
leaves, or tiny delicate ones. Misting is also a good way<br />
of introducing moisture (for you and the plant).<br />
Swiss cheese plant (Monstera deliciosa) - huge split<br />
leaves (not remotely like Swiss cheese except for holes).<br />
This monster is a climber and will need support.<br />
Peace lily (Spathiphyllum wallisii) - absorbs pollution<br />
and moisture from the air. Peace lilies are toxic,<br />
however, so avoid if you have small children.<br />
Boston fern - likes a moisture retentive soil and<br />
indirect light. Trim out any browning leaves.<br />
Maidenhair fern (Adantium) - small, delicate fronds on a<br />
compact plant, but needs a bit of tlc to stop it withering (I<br />
only have to glance at one). Keep out of direct sunlight.<br />
Architectural wonders<br />
Succulents, spiky cacti and palms make striking focal<br />
points in contemporary settings. Do not overwater.<br />
Aloe vera - the sap in this spiky plant can be used medicinally.<br />
String-of-beads (Senecio rowleyanus) - trailing green bobbles<br />
best grown in a hanging container in gritty compost.<br />
Air plants (Bromeliads) - these don’t need<br />
any soil at all and can be attached to pieces of<br />
wood or stone and misted once a week.<br />
The indestructibles<br />
Choose these if you’re not a nurturer, as they will put up with<br />
some neglect. For best results, be kind but don’t pamper.<br />
Cast iron plant (Aspidistra) - the name says<br />
it all. You just can’t kill this one…<br />
Bamboo (Dracaena braunii) - this is the small ‘lucky’<br />
type of bamboo that won’t take over the bathroom.<br />
Snake plant (Sansevieria) also known as ‘mother-in-law’s<br />
tongue’. It’s another succulent, so don’t overwater.<br />
Kentia palm (Howea forsteriana) - tall,<br />
elegant dark green fronds.<br />
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But the very last thing you want to do is<br />
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One of the best-known ‘barrier products’ is of course<br />
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There’s also a Chanel Hydra Beauty Gel-Crème, also £50<br />
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Health<br />
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Genevieve runs Stalwart<br />
Wellness in ‘Tenterden...<br />
What are the side effects of breast cancer treatment<br />
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Genevieve is fully qualified and experienced in Cancer<br />
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What do you offer as part of a One Stop consultation? The<br />
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Spire Tunbridge Wells Hospital offers a comprehensive range of<br />
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Food<br />
The Staff<br />
Above: The master at work Above right: Flour<br />
is dusted over proving loaves before baking<br />
Below: Emmanuel periodically checks on the<br />
loaves in the oven<br />
of life<br />
Photographs: David Merewether Styling & Words: Helen Barton<br />
Meet internationally acclaimed baker, author of three titles and<br />
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<strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong> visited The Crown in Hastings where the floury<br />
magic happens on a daily basis, picked up a few age-old skills and<br />
came away with a couple of recipes<br />
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Above far right: Beetroot bread proves in baskets on an<br />
old shoe rack Above right: Emmanuel mills his own flour<br />
from wheat grown in Surrey Below: The malt varies in<br />
roasting time, producing numerous beautiful shades<br />
Above: Proving baskets and baking tins line the walls<br />
Below: Emmanuel uses a special tool to slash the dough before<br />
baking, creating the crusty ‘ears’ that appear once finished<br />
Judges Bakery brought him to Hastings, and an organic<br />
offering sealed the deal. His project was to transform a<br />
conventional bakery, and introduce a wider variety of gluten<br />
filled, and gluten free products. What better person for the<br />
job than Emmanuel?<br />
Having learnt his impeccable levels of precision from<br />
working at The Savoy and Gordon Ramsay, he went on to<br />
teach, and still does. The love of teaching comes from the joy<br />
on students’ faces when they take their first loaf out of the<br />
oven, he tells me, and the look of relief that theirs has turned<br />
out like everyone else’s.<br />
The timer Emmanuel seemingly carries everywhere,<br />
bleeps, so as he rushes off to check on the beetroot bread<br />
the conversation changes to menus. Tess and Andrew are<br />
the owners of The Crown pub on All Saints’ Street and were<br />
drawn to Hastings by the ever growing creative hub here.<br />
Having started out with well-loved pub classics, the menu<br />
evolved into a simple, honest and expertly executed collection<br />
of dishes. The bar is graced with an extensive selection of<br />
locally brewed beers that can be perfectly matched with one<br />
of The Crown’s bar snacks. Taste buds tingling yet?<br />
Like so many other grand ideas, Emmanuel’s contribution<br />
to the pub started over a drink. After sharing dreams of<br />
starting his own micro-bakery, Tess and Andrew suggested he<br />
bake bread for the pub. Nearly a year later here he is, using<br />
up kitchen leftovers and dregs of kegs. ‘You can put anything<br />
in bread,’ Emmanuel explains. Potato, hummus, beer,<br />
onion and dill with smoked salmon, seaweed and mackerel,<br />
beetroot, pumpkin, liquorice, charcoal, the list is neverending.<br />
You name it, he’s tried it.<br />
‘Baking is all inclusive, anyone can do it’- Emmanuel<br />
attempts to convince me as I try my hand at kneading for the<br />
first time. His passion, however, is contagious. I’ve since gone<br />
home with a copy of his most recent book ‘How to make<br />
Sourdough’, and have<br />
spent considerable time<br />
gazing wide-eyed at some<br />
of the masterpieces that<br />
fill the pages.<br />
There’s something<br />
about bread that’s<br />
grounding. It’s humbling.<br />
It’s a cultural common<br />
denominator. Do it as<br />
a family, it’s cheap and<br />
above all, it’s fun.<br />
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How to<br />
Make Sourdough<br />
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Food<br />
Beetroot Sourdough<br />
Ingredients:<br />
• 340g strong white flour<br />
• 8g salt<br />
• 200g coarsely grated fresh<br />
beetroot<br />
• +/- 200ml cold tap water<br />
Equipment:<br />
• 2 large mixing bowls (+/-<br />
2l capacity)<br />
• 2 small mixing bowls (+/-<br />
1l capacity)<br />
• 1 grater with a course<br />
setting<br />
• 1 pastry brush<br />
• 200g white sourdough<br />
• +/- 60ml olive oil<br />
• extra strong white flour<br />
for dusting<br />
• 1 loaf tin (500g capacity)<br />
• 1 proving basket (500g<br />
capacity)<br />
• 1 roasting tray<br />
• 1 small peel (for loading<br />
the loaf into the oven)<br />
1. In a smaller mixing bowl, combine the white flour<br />
and salt together to create a dry mix. Set aside.<br />
2. Grate the beetroot on the course setting<br />
and place in a small bowl.<br />
3. In a big mixing bowl, dissolve or break up the<br />
sourdough into small pieces in the water.<br />
4. Mix the flour (dry) mixture into the wet mixture<br />
and combine by hand until it comes together, then<br />
add the grated beetroot and thoroughly mix in.<br />
5. Put half of the olive oil in the other big mixing bowl.<br />
6. Place the sticky dough into the olive oil, allow<br />
to rest for 15 minutes, making sure it is covered<br />
with the small bowl that had the flour in it.<br />
7. After 15 minutes fold the dough lightly<br />
twice and cover with the small bowl.<br />
8. Repeat the process another three times with 15 minutes<br />
rest in between, adding some olive oil, so that the<br />
mixture does not stick to the bottom of the bowl.<br />
Remember to cover the mixture between folds.<br />
9. Allow to rest for 1 hour.<br />
10. Remove from the bowl, using a light sprinkling of white<br />
flour so the dough does not stick. Shape into a ball.<br />
11. Shape the loaves into proving baskets that<br />
have been floured, or a greased tin.<br />
12. Allow to prove for around 3-6 hours or<br />
until the dough is double in size.<br />
Above left: Tess slices some freshly baked loaves for us to<br />
nibble on Above: Chunky doorstop slices are served with<br />
butter and handmade fruit jams<br />
13. Pre heat the oven to 250C / 500F / Gas 9 on a<br />
fan setting with a deep tray at the bottom.<br />
14. Once the bread is ready for baking, turn it out of<br />
the proving basket onto a floured peel and slash<br />
the loaf with a very sharp serrated knife.<br />
15. Place the loaf in the oven.<br />
16. Add a cup of tap water on the hot bottom tray to<br />
form steam, lower the oven to 220C / 425F / Gas 7.<br />
17. If the loaf is in a bread tin, follow steps 15 and 16,<br />
remembering to slash the top of the loaf with a<br />
sharp serrated knife before placing in the oven.<br />
18. Bake for around 30-40 minutes until golden brown.<br />
19. The loaf will be baked when a hollow sound be<br />
can heard when it’s tapped on the bottom.<br />
20. Turn out of its shape and allow the<br />
loaf to cool on a wire rack.<br />
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Food<br />
Malted Beer Soda Bread<br />
Ingredients:<br />
• 170g strong white flour<br />
• 170g wholemeal flour<br />
• 30g dark malt powder<br />
• 6g salt<br />
• 4g bicarbonate of soda<br />
• 170g whole milk<br />
• 170g dark beer<br />
• vegetable oil for greasing the tin<br />
1. For this recipe you require 2 mixing bowls: 1 big<br />
and 1 small. The small bowl when placed upside<br />
down on the big bowl can act as a lid.<br />
2. Pre heat the oven to 250˚C / 500F / Gas<br />
9 with a tray at the bottom.<br />
3. Mix the strong white flour, wholemeal flour, dark malt powder,<br />
salt and bicarbonate of soda (remember to sift if lumpy) in<br />
a small mixing bowl and set aside. This is the dry mixture.<br />
Make sure all the ingredients are thoroughly combined.<br />
4. Weigh out the milk and the beer together in the large mixing bowl.<br />
5. Mix the dry ingredients together with the wet mixture<br />
until it comes together and there are no dry lumps.<br />
6. Transfer the mixture into a greased 500g baking tin.<br />
7. Place the loaf in the oven and pour a cup of water<br />
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oven to 200˚C (fan) / 400F / Gas 6.<br />
8. Bake through for 30 to 35 minutes.<br />
9. Remove the loaf from the tin and allow it to cool on a wire rack.<br />
10. If you can’t hear the hollow sound when it’s tapped on the<br />
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Above: freshly baked loaves sit ready and<br />
waiting for pub service<br />
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Garden<br />
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Some of us get really excited about giant pumpkins<br />
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This has been to no avail, alas, but not because pumpkins<br />
themselves are intrinsically inedible, nor because I’m<br />
that much of a bad cook (we’ll gloss over that). No,<br />
it’s because the giant Jack-o-lantern pumpkins are too<br />
fibrous, disappointingly watery and so sadly only fit for<br />
Halloween hollowing (and then the compost heap).<br />
Luckily, however, there are lots of delicious pumpkin<br />
varieties available - both to buy and to grow,<br />
and the ever reliable, if harder to carve, winter<br />
squash is in season for much of the year now.<br />
Pumpkins and squash are in the same<br />
botanical family (Cucurbitaceae) and it can<br />
be hard to tell them apart. I’m not sure<br />
it matters unless you’re a botanist, except<br />
that it’s useful to know the difference between soft-skinned<br />
summer squash (including courgettes), and the winter types,<br />
which ripen later and have a much tougher outer skin.<br />
Pumpkins and squash come in all shapes and sizes,<br />
and many are beautiful enough to just sit about as<br />
ornaments or still life subjects - for months on end if<br />
you so choose, because they store so beautifully (but<br />
think of the dust). They are also really easy to grow.<br />
Jo Arnell gets misty about her pumpkin patch<br />
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How to grow pumpkins and squash<br />
The seeds of cucurbits are reassuringly large and easy to<br />
handle, but because of their size, each one will need its own<br />
9cm pot to grow in. If you can bear to be cruel, sow two seeds<br />
per pot and then pull out and discard the weaker seedling.<br />
Seeds can be sown directly into the ground, but are<br />
not hardy and may rot off or be eaten by pests before<br />
they can germinate. They are more reliably sown under<br />
cover in mid April and then planted out into their<br />
final positions once the danger of frost is passed.<br />
That final position might ideally be a dedicated pumpkin<br />
patch, or at least somewhere that gives<br />
them enough space to grow (when I say<br />
grow, I mean rampage untrammelled over<br />
everything). Mini pumpkins and some of<br />
the smaller squashes will climb up sturdy<br />
obelisks or arches, but larger varieties<br />
need space to ramble along the ground, as<br />
their fruits are too heavy for the stem alone to support.<br />
You may see pumpkins and squash being grown on<br />
large compost heaps (the garden at Great Dixter has a<br />
magnificent pumpkin heap). This suits them very well,<br />
as they need rich deep soil - and the warmth of<br />
the heap will also help with growth and ripening.<br />
You can also make a mound of compost on<br />
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similar ‘heap’ effect. The distance between each plant<br />
should be at least 60cm, to allow for all the rampaging.<br />
Three in a bed<br />
If you are short of room, or want to maximise vertical<br />
as well as horizontal space, there is a way to grow three<br />
tender crops – squash, beans and sweetcorn in one space.<br />
This ancient American Indian technique called the<br />
‘Three Sisters’ relies on the tall growing corn to act as a<br />
support for the climbing beans, the beans then help to<br />
feed them (with the special nitrogen fixing nodes in their<br />
roots) and the pumpkin or squash plants create shade<br />
and suppress weeds with their large spreading leaves.<br />
It’s not the tidiest way to grow them (think three straggly<br />
sisters entwined together on a bad hair day), but it has been<br />
tried and tested as a companion planting technique for<br />
thousands of years and, if nothing else, definitely saves space.<br />
Feeding and watering<br />
Most vegetables that produce fruit - tomatoes,<br />
aubergines, sweetcorn - and all the cucurbits need<br />
plenty of food and water in order to successfully<br />
flower, set seed and swell into juicy edibleness.<br />
Try to keep the monstrous plant from The Little Shop of<br />
Horrors in your mind (‘FEED ME!’) as you mulch the ground<br />
around squash and pumpkin plants with compost or wellrotted<br />
organic manure, water well in dry spells and, if needed,<br />
feed with potassium rich fertiliser once the plant is flowering.<br />
The fruits are produced all along the rambling stems<br />
and will go on appearing as long as the plant keeps<br />
growing. I tend to pinch out the growing tip once I can<br />
see about five fruits appearing on each stem. This is not<br />
compulsory, but it diverts the plant into producing a<br />
few good sized fruits rather than lots of smaller ones.<br />
Harvest time<br />
Make sure that the developing fruits are cushioned as<br />
they get to maturity - either with mulch, or a light bed of<br />
straw. This will stop the side or base of the fruit coming<br />
into contact with damp ground and rotting. It will also<br />
help air to circulate and aid the ripening process.<br />
Pumpkins and squash should be ripe by the time the<br />
foliage starts to die back in early autumn. Leave them<br />
out in the sun for as long as possible, as this will ‘cure’<br />
the skin and enable the fruit to last longer in storage.<br />
Bring <strong>inside</strong> before the frosts arrive, cutting each fruit off<br />
from the main stem, but leaving a long stalk if you can, as<br />
this will also help prolong their shelf life. As mentioned,<br />
they’ll keep for ages, providing they’re stored in a dry place.<br />
For the tastiest results<br />
As mentioned, huge monsters are best saved for<br />
lanterns, as it seems to be the smaller pumpkins<br />
that are the tastiest. The sweet nuttiness of<br />
pumpkins and squash is enhanced by roasting.<br />
Bake them whole in their skins, and then scoop<br />
out the flesh, mash and mix with seasoned butter.<br />
Or chop thinner skinned varieties and butternut<br />
squash into smaller pieces, roast in herby oil (scatter<br />
sage or oregano onto the roasting tray).<br />
I tend to stuff the little ones and bake them whole, use<br />
firm fleshed butternuts for risottos and pasta dishes and the<br />
larger pumpkins for soups and for purees to put into baking.<br />
Best culinary varieties<br />
Uchiki Kuri - also called Red Kuri/Red Onion<br />
Squash, is medium sized and an attractive<br />
deep red colour. A good all-rounder.<br />
Marina di Chioggia - suspiciously weird and blue<br />
on the outside, but with tasty orange flesh.<br />
Crown Prince and Queensland Blue - more blue/<br />
green skin with orange flesh. Great roasted.<br />
Sweet Dumpling - smallish with cream and green<br />
striped outer skin, with firm orange flesh, excellent for<br />
baking. Delicata is also good for baking and stuffing.<br />
Butternut squash - widely available and actually<br />
these are my favourite and (mercifully if you<br />
end up with a glut) home grown ones taste even<br />
better once they’ve been stored for a while.<br />
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From a tiny acorn...<br />
Sue Whigham celebrates the mighty English oak tree<br />
On the first day of college we were instructed that<br />
the only book we would need at this stage was<br />
The Hillier Manual of Trees and Shrubs. We were<br />
pretty horrified to see that it didn’t have any pictures. But<br />
can you imagine how huge a tome it would have to be with<br />
the section on the Quercus (oak) genus alone describing<br />
just a small proportion of the 500 species of oak?<br />
However, we’ve only two native species in the UK:<br />
Quercus robur, the English Oak, which is surely the most<br />
easily recognised native tree we have, a national emblem<br />
if you like, and the sessile oak, Quercus petraea.<br />
They’re easy to tell apart in that the acorns of Q. robur are<br />
held on a long stalk whilst those of the sessile grow straight<br />
from the stem. The other way to identify them is that the<br />
leaves of the English oak are far smaller<br />
than those of the sessile – about four inches<br />
compared to the sessile leaf which is a good<br />
six or seven inches or so. And sessile oaks,<br />
which do well in damp conditions, are<br />
mainly found in the wetter west of the UK.<br />
However, wandering down the lane<br />
by my house recently, I found sessile oak<br />
leaves in the hedge and near a pond, but the plant itself<br />
definitely hadn’t reached the dizzy heights of a mature tree.<br />
The oak is a massive feat of engineering in itself. Given<br />
some space and a lot of it, it can grow up to forty metres<br />
tall and live for hundreds of years. When young it has a<br />
growth spurt which slows down when it reaches 120 years<br />
old. This the tree does in order to extend its own lifespan.<br />
Above: Quercia rouge, one of the 500 species of oak trees<br />
“Oaks create a<br />
haven for numerous<br />
species of insects,<br />
animals and birdlife”<br />
Wandering through the woods, you’re likely to see a lot of<br />
pretty lanky ‘young’ oaks looking a bit sorry for themselves<br />
and without the fissured bark of a mature tree. This is because<br />
they’ve been fighting for light and resources all their lives<br />
and it shows, but somewhere in that same wood will be<br />
their ‘free range’ parent, so recognisable by its thick squat<br />
trunk and its lower branches growing sideways and its upper<br />
branches growing in a very distinct matrix of sturdy limbs.<br />
A large tree will compete more successfully for said resources<br />
if it rearranges itself over the years. It has to be able to cope<br />
with prevailing environmental conditions, usually high<br />
winds, and to do this it spreads its weight equally around<br />
its ‘body’ which tends to become as wide as it is high.<br />
This of course is in an ideal world and it’s rare to see an<br />
oak in a perfect ‘cloud’ shape, but the ones<br />
which have had optimum conditions and the<br />
time to create their own core strength create<br />
a very distinctive silhouette – as beloved by<br />
designers of corporate logos - in the winter<br />
months after their leaves have fallen.<br />
Oak woods create an incredible haven for<br />
numerous species of insects, animals and<br />
birdlife. The flowers, produced in early spring at the same<br />
time as the leaves, provide food for caterpillars of various<br />
butterflies including the little native purple hairstreak.<br />
The purple hairstreak’s larvae burrow into young<br />
oak flower buds and can be found in crevices of<br />
oak branches. They’re seldom seen as they tend to<br />
live high up in a tree’s canopy unless feeding off<br />
honeydew provided by aphids nearer the ground.<br />
Oak leaves are soft and break down into a hugely rich<br />
leaf mould which is home for both invertebrates and fungi.<br />
Bats roost in any loose bark they might find as well as in old<br />
woodpecker holes; all manner of creatures eat the acorns.<br />
It is an interesting fact that the acorns of Q. robur are not<br />
produced until the tree is at least forty years old with peak<br />
acorn production at twice that age. Acorns, even produced<br />
in huge numbers, are such a good food source – eaten by<br />
squirrels, mice, pigeons, woodpeckers, ponies and pigs when<br />
they get the chance - that many hundreds of thousands fail<br />
to germinate each season. They are too busy being useful.<br />
I know that there are wild boar in the local woods and<br />
maybe they are helping germination by trampling some of the<br />
acorns into the ground as they forage. It has been found that<br />
in European woods oaks tend to have a higher germination <br />
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Above: The distinctive bark of the Quercus robar<br />
rate than here due to the number of wild boar being sustained<br />
there. And in the days when a commoner had the right<br />
(pannage) to graze his pigs in local woodland, doubtless<br />
there would have been a higher acorn germination rate.<br />
Either way, acorns are pretty miraculous if you<br />
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Bluebell Nursery and Arboretum have a particularly<br />
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One of the trees they sell is an absolute winner – if<br />
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This is definitely one oak you’ll be able to see reach<br />
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pretty girl playing the violin on page 5 of the prospectus,<br />
the wholesome boy in his cricket whites on page 7 and<br />
everyone in science goggles looking very alert on page 9.<br />
So what about the alternatives? Schools which swim<br />
against the tide and try to offer something quite different,<br />
usually with a strong focus on individuality, may seem<br />
like a gamble but they can work well for some children.<br />
The alternatives come in two main forms. First there are<br />
independent schools trying to break away from the norm<br />
and for these, obviously, fees are charged unless the child<br />
wins a scholarship or is assigned some sort of bursary.<br />
Then there is the new breed of ‘free school’. Such schools<br />
are part of the state education system and therefore free at the<br />
point of use as well as being free from local authority control<br />
and many of the regulations which govern their maintained<br />
sector counterparts. That allows scope for a different way of<br />
working if that’s what the people concerned want. There are<br />
now 300 free schools across England, including for example,<br />
eight in Kent and Medway and more in Sussex and Surrey.<br />
Let’s look at the independent options first. The<br />
most famous example, and certainly the most<br />
extreme, is AS Neill’s Summerhill in Suffolk which<br />
was founded by the eponymous Neill in 1921 and is<br />
now run by his daughter Zoe Neill Readhead.<br />
It hasn’t always been plain sailing. The school was<br />
severely criticised by Ofsted in the late 1990s and came<br />
close to closure in 2000. And a 1993 Channel 4 TV<br />
documentary, which showed students killing and cooking<br />
a wild rabbit, did it no favours in the public eye.<br />
The idea has always been to run a school on democratic<br />
lines. In practice that means daily councils at which<br />
pupils make management decisions, optional lessons<br />
and a strong focus on learning outside the classroom.<br />
Summerhill’s published examination results suggest<br />
that most students attend most lessons most of the<br />
time and that they are well taught. In 2015, for<br />
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“The best independently<br />
minded schools focus on<br />
rigour and firmly reject<br />
the word ‘alternative’<br />
instance 72.5% of Summerhill students passed five<br />
GCSES at A*-C including English and Maths.<br />
The relevance of Summerhill today is probably that its<br />
ideas, shared worldwide via Neill’s books have, for nearly a<br />
century, influenced other free-thinking educators and schools.<br />
It’s a case of buyer beware, with all these schools and it’s all<br />
too easy to let your liberal principles get the better of you so<br />
that your child is sold short. The best independently minded<br />
schools focus on rigour and firmly reject the word ‘alternative’.<br />
Take Hampton Court House School for example. “We<br />
don’t reject the tenets of traditional education, not at all,”<br />
says headmaster Guy Holloway, who talks to staff applicants<br />
by Skype before inviting them in for interview because he<br />
wants to be sure that they are committed readers and have a<br />
range of intellectual interests and passions for sharing them.<br />
Holloway himself teaches a history of music course, teaching<br />
is bi-lingual (English and French) in Years 1-4, Mandarin is<br />
taught to all as part of the curriculum and many pupils can<br />
chat in it. Holloway teaches a Cultural Studies course which<br />
allows for plays and novels outside examination specifications.<br />
He believes strongly that children must be helped to learn<br />
how to make the very best possible use of their time.<br />
The school achieves all this without the trappings<br />
of uniform and it’s Christian name terms throughout.<br />
“Our staff are not friends with the children but we are<br />
friendly,” says Holloway. It works. 42% of all HCHS<br />
GCSE grades were graded A or A* this year.<br />
Another example of a different way of working began with<br />
Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). He was an Austrian philosopher<br />
who applied his ideas about how human beings function<br />
and develop to a number of fields as well as education.<br />
The first Steiner School was opened in Stuttgart in 1919<br />
(interestingly, two years before AS Neill’s Summerhill).<br />
Today there are 26 such schools in England (including one<br />
in Brighton, one in Canterbury, one at Forest Row and four<br />
in London. In Britain these are fee charging schools. In most<br />
European countries they are part of the maintained sector.<br />
The emphasis in a Steiner school is on the needs<br />
of the whole child and the unforced development<br />
of a love of learning with an emphasis on artistic<br />
activity and the development of the imagination.<br />
The idyllically rural Canterbury Steiner School, for<br />
instance, has a well-equipped theatre space for musical<br />
and theatrical learning and performance which is fairly<br />
unusual in a primary or prep school. Controversially,<br />
technology is not usually used at primary level so there<br />
are no computers and tablets in Steiner classrooms.<br />
Or take the Round Square Schools Association which was<br />
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(1886 – 1974). Hahn was a German educator who fled<br />
Germany in 1933 having spoken out against Hitler. He then<br />
founded Gordonstoun in Scotland where Prince Philip was<br />
one of the first pupils in 1934. The school was modelled<br />
on the school Hahn had founded and run in Germany.<br />
Later Hahn founded Outward Bound and the Duke of<br />
Edinburgh Award among other things. Prince Charles, who<br />
has always insisted that he loathed it and was very unhappy<br />
there, was at Gordonstoun in the 1960s. A generation later,<br />
Princess Anne’s children both seemed to flourish at the school.<br />
The Round Square / Kurt Hahn philosophy is based on<br />
six holistic learning ideals. Schools which become part of<br />
the group are committed to internationalism, democracy,<br />
environmentalism, adventure, leadership and service. The<br />
association currently has 160 members worldwide (Australia,<br />
India, USA, South Africa, mainland Europe and elsewhere).<br />
The ten English members include Box Hill School<br />
in Surrey and Cobham Hall in Kent where Radio 4’s<br />
Today programme presenter Mishal Hussain, was a pupil.<br />
In all these schools there is slightly more emphasis on<br />
learning by doing than on being formally instructed<br />
by teachers, but we’re a long way from Summerhill and<br />
much of the approach is relatively conventional.<br />
And so to those free schools. Usually launched by<br />
determined parents and teachers, they are funded directly by<br />
central government. They often have a specific focus such<br />
as being more academically rigorous, being more childcentred<br />
or meeting special educational needs. Some have<br />
been founded to meet local needs such as opening a village<br />
school where there is no longer local authority provision.<br />
Focus on a specific faith is quite common. So is the inclusion<br />
of a subject not usually taught such as Mandarin or Latin.<br />
Free schools are sometimes satellites of established schools<br />
or trusts and there have been cases of small independent feecharging<br />
schools, including several Steiner schools, applying<br />
for free school status. In theory – and often in practice – free<br />
schools are adding diversity and giving parents more choices.<br />
The Tiger Primary School in Maidstone, for example,<br />
opened in September 2012 and was one of the first free<br />
schools. Operated by Future Schools Trust it is on the<br />
site of an existing secondary school operated by the Trust<br />
which also runs another secondary school elsewhere in<br />
the town. Mandarin is taught alongside English and<br />
there is a commitment to improve numeracy. Every<br />
child is encouraged to play a musical instrument.<br />
Last year the school took possession of its new building<br />
in which learning takes place in large ‘plazas’ which<br />
accommodate the whole year group with access to plenty of<br />
technology – the space can be subdivided for smaller sessions.<br />
Unlike many mainstream schools Tiger is open from<br />
7.30am to 6pm and there’s a healthy breakfast, lunch and<br />
tea on offer to all pupils. For working parents this seems<br />
to have some of the advantages of boarding without the<br />
disadvantage. The school admits 60 children per year<br />
into Reception and is usually oversubscribed. Since this<br />
was the first new primary school to open in Maidstone<br />
for 25 years it is clearly meeting needs locally.<br />
Education in Britain is a mixed economy. In 1992,<br />
when David Blunkett was Education Secretary, he issued<br />
a White Paper called Choice and Diversity. Twenty four<br />
years later, parents really do have as much choice as they’re<br />
ever likely to given cash and locality constraints. But a<br />
really good school is not about gimmicks, slogans and<br />
whacky theories. Let Guy Holloway have the last word.<br />
“I think the key is respect for the child, commitment<br />
to continual self-improvement (for both pupils AND<br />
staff) and a strong sense that the world needs good<br />
men and women in it, who have acquired the skills<br />
to influence and lead. If these things are in place then<br />
you have a happy and transformative school.”<br />
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roundsquare.org<br />
futureschoolstrust.com/Tiger-Primary-School<br />
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Grammar lessons<br />
Education columnist Susan Elkin considers all the issues when choosing a school<br />
I’ll come clean. I’m a grammar school girl and proud<br />
of it. Today only 158 grammar schools remain across<br />
the country although Theresa May has indicated –<br />
controversially but rightly in my view – that there could soon<br />
be more. Meanwhile Kent has 33 selective schools and there<br />
are a further six in the Medway Local Education Authority<br />
area which lies within the county.<br />
Last month thousands of children took the Kent<br />
Test to assess whether or not they have the ability and<br />
potential to benefit from a grammar school education.<br />
Results will be announced on 13 <strong>October</strong>.<br />
When I was in what we now call Year 6 every one<br />
of us sat the 11 plus examination. Today it’s optional.<br />
Many families are perfectly happy with the local<br />
alternatives to grammar school so their children are<br />
not tested for selective education suitability.<br />
In principle a grammar school education is a fine thing but<br />
not all grammar schools are as good as they should be and<br />
many non-selective schools are excellent. Moreover, if a child<br />
isn’t ready for grammar school at 11, they may be different<br />
at 14 or 16 and there’s plenty of flexibility within the system.<br />
You do, however, have to make the best possible choice for<br />
your child from the options available – now. That means<br />
attending every open day/evening this term. Don’t rely on<br />
reputation which is always fickle and usually out of date.<br />
If there’s a chance to see the schools in session then grab<br />
it. Open days can be strained and contrived. If you’re there<br />
when real lessons are happening look for a well-managed<br />
working buzz. Too much silence is not necessarily good.<br />
Visit the students’ toilets if you can too. If they’re<br />
clean and pleasant it’s a sign that this is a school which<br />
takes care of its pupils and respects them. Above all<br />
talk to the current students who show you round.<br />
Listen to your child’s opinion. Sometimes they will spot or<br />
sense something you’ve missed. Ultimately though remember<br />
that they are only 10 or 11, very inexperienced and may be<br />
more worried about where friends are going than anything<br />
else. It is your responsibility as parent to make this decision<br />
on his or her behalf and the wise parent makes that very clear.<br />
Grammar schools are a great idea (excuse my bias) but<br />
they are never going to be right for everyone. We should<br />
look for and support high quality alternatives (Mrs May and<br />
colleagues, please note) and stop this destructive, emotive<br />
talk of ‘failure’ and ‘writing them off for life at 11’.<br />
Christmas Panto<br />
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14th December <strong>2016</strong> - 10am -11.30am<br />
Sutton Valence Preparatory School invites you and your<br />
toddler to our Christmas Panto and Craft morning.<br />
Prepared specially for a young audience Theatre Bugs will be<br />
performing The Toytown Christmas. The festive fun will continue<br />
as the children make a classic Christmas craft with our expert staff.<br />
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Chart Sutton, Maidstone, Kent ME17 3RF<br />
Spaces are limited so book your place<br />
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What’s On In <strong>October</strong><br />
Art<br />
Throughout Oct<br />
De La Warr Pavilion, Marina,<br />
Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1DP<br />
PETER BLAKE: ALPHABETS,<br />
LETTERS & NUMBERS<br />
Using silk screen printing Blake<br />
has created several fascinating<br />
series of works based around the<br />
alphabet related to his enduring<br />
interest in childhood innocence<br />
and nostalgia, and Victorian and<br />
Edwardian graphic illustration.<br />
Entry: Free<br />
Info: dlwp.com<br />
Sat 17 Sept – Sat 1 Oct<br />
RYE ARTS FESTIVAL<br />
Rye Arts Festival is one of the<br />
top ten small festivals in Britain,<br />
providing a diverse mixture of<br />
musical, literary and theatrical<br />
events with an emphasis on quality,<br />
intellectual weight, style and fun.<br />
Info and Booking: 01797<br />
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Sat 1- Tues 11 Oct 12-5pm<br />
The Observer Building,<br />
53 Cambridge Road,<br />
Hastings TN34 1DT<br />
OBSCURED BY CLOUDS<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
Bringing together two painters<br />
who have steadily worked<br />
through the coming of the<br />
Personal Computer age,<br />
‘Obscured by Clouds’ explores<br />
the irresolvable clash between<br />
the analogue and digital realms.<br />
Entry: Free<br />
Info: info@<br />
observerbuildinghastings.co.uk<br />
Sat 15 - 29 Oct<br />
WING Gallery, High Street,<br />
Wadhurst TN5 6AA<br />
5 MILLION COLOURS:<br />
MELANIE BERMAN<br />
Using entangled graffiti<br />
marks and rhythmic patterns<br />
Melanie’s paintings<br />
explore man-made traces<br />
within the natural world.<br />
Fragmented irregular coloured<br />
shapes float, dance & move<br />
before the viewer’s gaze.<br />
Info: wingartgallery.com<br />
Fri 21 Oct - Sun 20<br />
Nov 10am-4.30pm<br />
The Stables Gallery, Hall<br />
Place, Bourne Road,<br />
Bexley, Kent DA5 1PQ<br />
Textile studio<br />
exhibition<br />
Enjoy a collection of new work<br />
by member of The Textile<br />
Studio. Work includes hand and<br />
machine stitching, felt making,<br />
fabric printing, dyeing and other<br />
techniques, that reflect the makers<br />
unique approach to their art.<br />
Info: 01322 526574<br />
Sat 22 Oct – Sun 30 Oct<br />
The Powder Mills Hotel,<br />
Battle TN33 0SP<br />
PURE ARTS FAIR<br />
A selected and curated art<br />
fair showcasing the brightest<br />
upcoming and more established<br />
talent, it features the work of<br />
artists working across all fine<br />
art media including painting,<br />
drawing, printmaking,<br />
photography, sculpture,<br />
ceramics and glass.<br />
Info: pureartsgroup.co.uk<br />
Sat 22 - Sun 23 Oct 10am-5pm<br />
De La Warr Pavilion,<br />
Marina, Bexhill-on-Sea,<br />
East Sussex TN40 1DP<br />
The Sussex Guild<br />
Contemporary<br />
Craft Show<br />
For the first time designer<br />
makers of the Sussex Guild<br />
exhibit their fine crafts in the<br />
ground floor auditorium.<br />
Entry: Adults £3,<br />
accompanied children free<br />
Info: 01273 479565 /<br />
thesussexguild.co.uk<br />
Sat 29 & Sun 30 Oct 10am-4pm<br />
Hamstreet Primary<br />
Academy TN26 2EA<br />
Art Exhibition and Sale<br />
A unique opportunity to enjoy<br />
the work of a much-loved<br />
and talented Kent artist.<br />
Exhibition of paintings loaned<br />
by private owners. Also<br />
over 150 works for sale.<br />
Entry: Free<br />
Info: 01233 732684<br />
Family & Friends<br />
Sat 1 - Sun 30 Oct 10.30am-6pm<br />
Hever Castle, Hever Road,<br />
Nr Edenbridge TN8 7NG<br />
Autumn Colour Trail<br />
Pick up a trail on arrival and<br />
discover the top autumn walks<br />
and colour hotspots. Besides<br />
suggesting picturesque routes<br />
through the gardens, it’s packed<br />
with interesting information about<br />
plants and trees to look out for at<br />
the height of their autumn glory.<br />
Info: 01732 865224 /<br />
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Fri 7, Sat 22 & Sat 29<br />
Oct 6.30pm-11pm<br />
The Observatory Science<br />
Centre, Herstmonceux,<br />
Hailsham BN27 1RN<br />
STAR GAZING OPEN<br />
EVENINGS<br />
Are you interested in the night<br />
sky? Have you ever wondered<br />
what it would be like to look<br />
at the stars, planets and the<br />
moon through some of the<br />
country’s largest telescopes? Well<br />
here is your opportunity.<br />
Entry: Adults £8, Children £6.15<br />
Info: 01323 832731 / theobservatory.org/open-evenings<br />
Sat 8 Oct 7.30pm<br />
Ashdown Primary School,<br />
Crowborough TN6 2NT<br />
Charity quiz Night<br />
The Royal British Legion,<br />
Crowborough Branch, presents<br />
a Charity Quiz Night with cash<br />
prize, raffle and licensed bar.<br />
Entry: £6.50, including supper<br />
Booking: Guest’s Shoe Services,<br />
5 High Street, Crowborough<br />
Info: 07884 484100 /<br />
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Sat 15 - Sun 23 Oct 10.30am<br />
Penshurst Place, Penshurst,<br />
Tonbridge TN11 8DG<br />
Spooky half term<br />
Discover the life of some of<br />
Britain’s more spooky inhabitants<br />
like bats and spiders for our<br />
Spooky Half Term pumpkin<br />
trail, before creating some creepy<br />
crafts to take home ready to<br />
decorate for Hallowe’en!<br />
Info: 01892 870307 /<br />
penshurstplace.com<br />
Sat 22 - Fri 28 Oct<br />
Leeds Castle, Maidstone<br />
ME17 1PL<br />
HAlloween activities<br />
Join Leeds Castle for Halloween<br />
fun this <strong>October</strong> half term with<br />
a fancy dress competition at 2pm<br />
each day with prizes to be won.<br />
Included with price of admission.<br />
Info: 01622 765400 /<br />
leeds-castle.com<br />
Mon 24 – Fri 28 Oct 1pm-4pm<br />
Godinton House &<br />
Gardens, Godinton Lane,<br />
Ashford TN23 3BP<br />
AUTUMN WEEK<br />
A week of activities for families<br />
to enjoy. Including a traditional<br />
treasure hunt, garden games<br />
and children’s arts and crafts.<br />
Info: godintonhouse.co.uk<br />
Thurs 27 – Mon 31<br />
Oct 7pm-9pm<br />
The Canterbury Tales,<br />
St Margaret’s Street,<br />
Canterbury CT1 2TG<br />
CONTAGIOUS!<br />
The Canterbury Tales’ Halloween<br />
event Contagious! returns for<br />
its second year, transforming<br />
the much-loved attraction into<br />
something much more sinister on<br />
the streets of Medieval Canterbury.<br />
Entry: £10<br />
Info: canterburytales.org.uk<br />
Fri 28 & Sat 29 Oct<br />
6.30pm and 8.30pm<br />
Bodiam Castle, Bodiam<br />
TN32 5UA<br />
GHOST WALKS AROUND<br />
THE CASTLE<br />
This Hallowe’en visitors to the<br />
castle will be warmed through<br />
with a hearty meal in our Terrace<br />
Room before taking a trip to the<br />
castle to meet some of Bodiam’s<br />
lesser known residents.<br />
Info and Booking: 01580 831324<br />
Festivals and Fairs<br />
Fri 30 Sept – Sat 1 Oct<br />
Cranbrook<br />
CRANROOK LITERATURE<br />
FESTIVAL<br />
The town of Cranbrook has always<br />
embraced tradition and culture<br />
with its popular annual art show,<br />
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Detling Antiques,<br />
Vintage &<br />
Collectors Fair<br />
Up to 300 stalls in two buildings, shopping<br />
arcades, marquees & outside offering a wide<br />
range of items from ceramics, glass, vintage<br />
clothing, furniture, books, metalware, kitchenalia,<br />
postcards, pictures & much more.<br />
Sat 29th - Sun 30th<br />
<strong>October</strong><br />
Sat: Early Entry 8.30am - £6<br />
Sat: General Entry 10am - 4.30pm - £5<br />
Sun: 10am - 3.30pm - £4<br />
Kent County Showground, Detling, ME14 3JF<br />
Tel: 01636 676531<br />
www.b2bevents.info<br />
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Play and Display exhibition<br />
22 <strong>October</strong> to 20 November, 11am - 3.30pm<br />
daily<br />
Relive childhood memories with our charming new<br />
exhibition of paper and card toys. The collection<br />
highlights how popular, versatile and enchanting<br />
paper and card toys have been over the centuries<br />
with puppets, paper dolls, model theatres and<br />
panoramas. You can get hands on and have some fun<br />
playing with modern ones too.<br />
Call 01580 710700 for details<br />
nationaltrust.org.uk/sissinghurst-castle-garden<br />
When you visit, donate, volunteer or join the National Trust, your support helps<br />
us to look after special places such as Sissinghurst Castle Garden for ever, for<br />
© National Trust <strong>2016</strong>. The National Trust is an independent registered charity, number 205846. Photography © National Trust Images\Emma Warren.<br />
From Country Chic To Fabulous Boutique<br />
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Fashion / Gifts Galore / Homeware / Artisan Makers / Food & Drink<br />
LUXURY CHRISTMAS GIFT FAIRS<br />
11-12 Nov Tun Wells / 24-25 Nov Uckfield<br />
“A fabulous collection of Boutique Owners<br />
& Artisan Makers selling a huge array of beautiful<br />
& unique Christmas gifts & decorations”<br />
Each Fair is open 10am-4pm / £4 Entry / Free Parking<br />
11-12 Nov - Salomons Estate, Tunbridge Wells, TN3 0TG<br />
24-25 Nov - East Sussex National, Uckfield, TN22 5ES<br />
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What’s On In <strong>October</strong><br />
The Contemporary<br />
Craft &<br />
Design Fair<br />
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Purchase<br />
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the very best<br />
makers in<br />
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Sevenoaks School<br />
SEVENOAKS<br />
21 - 23 <strong>October</strong><br />
12 noon to 5pm Fri<br />
10am to 5pm Sat & Sun<br />
Admission £4 • High Street TN13 1HU<br />
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apple fayre and music festival.<br />
Now it’s time to celebrate the<br />
written word with the first ever<br />
Cranbrook Literature Festival.<br />
Entry: Some events free,<br />
others start from £8<br />
Info: cranbrookliteraturefestival.com<br />
Sat 1 Oct 9.30am-12pm<br />
Penshurst Place, Penshurst,<br />
Tonbridge TN11 8DG<br />
<strong>October</strong> Farmer’s<br />
market<br />
With over 40 stalls offering the<br />
best local food and drink, the<br />
market is a must for anyone<br />
looking to learn more about<br />
the produce of Kent, and<br />
the people who supply it.<br />
Info: 01892 870307 /<br />
penshurstplace.com<br />
Sat 1 - Sun 2 Oct 10am-6pm<br />
Kent Life, Lock Lane, Sandling,<br />
Maidstone ME14 3AU<br />
APPLE AND CIDER FAYRE<br />
As well as the traditional<br />
process of cider pressing,<br />
enjoy live music, local produce<br />
stalls and morris dancing.<br />
Entry: Adults £9.50, Children £7.50<br />
Info: 01622 763936<br />
/ kentlife.org.uk<br />
Sat 15 Oct from 12pm<br />
The Stade Open Space,<br />
Old Town, Hastings<br />
950TH ANNIVERSARY OF<br />
THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS<br />
CELEBRATIONS<br />
Celebrate the 950th anniversary<br />
of one of history’s most<br />
famous battles with a torch<br />
light procession, fireworks,<br />
drumming and much more.<br />
Entry: Free<br />
Info: hbbs.info<br />
Sun 16 Oct<br />
Bateman’s Lane, Burwash,<br />
East Sussex TN19 7DS<br />
BATEMAN’S APPLE DAY<br />
As well as exploring the orchards,<br />
you can even have a go at making<br />
apple juice with our homemade<br />
apple mill and press and meet our<br />
beekeeper to learn how the bees<br />
and the orchard work together to<br />
produce this rich autumn harvest.<br />
Entry: Adults £10, Children £5<br />
Info: nationaltrust.org.uk/batemans<br />
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WILD BOAR WEEK<br />
The 6th Wild Boar Week in Rye,<br />
East Sussex offers the perfect<br />
opportunity to indulge in culinary<br />
delights from the countryside.<br />
Wild Boar Week events also<br />
include walks, tours, live music<br />
and quiz nights in various locations<br />
around the historic town of Rye.<br />
Info: wildboar.org.uk<br />
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Sat 29 Oct 9am-3pm<br />
Highbury Hall, Highbury<br />
Lane, Tenterden TN30 6LE<br />
TENTERDEN BOOK FAIR<br />
15 book dealers attending with<br />
1000s of pre-loved books for<br />
sale on all subjects, for both<br />
the reader & the collector.<br />
Refreshments available all day.<br />
Entry: Free<br />
Info: 01580 764395<br />
Music<br />
Thurs 6 Oct 7.30pm<br />
Hazlitt Theatre, Earl Street,<br />
Maidstone ME14 1PL<br />
The Unique Komedy<br />
Ukelele Orchestra<br />
After a string of hugely successful<br />
European Tours, the musicians<br />
from TUKUO directed by Peter<br />
Moss will once more be combining<br />
their totally unique vocal harmony<br />
blend with their own brand<br />
of typically British humour,<br />
brilliantly daring and inventive<br />
arrangements and the unbelievable<br />
sound of their miniature<br />
instrument of choice, the famous<br />
and hugely underrated Ukulele<br />
that originated from Hawaii.<br />
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Ibbett Mosely<br />
AuctIoneers & VAluers<br />
Limited Liability Partnership<br />
The Auctioneer's Next Sale Will Be On<br />
Wednesday 19th <strong>October</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
Commencing at 12.30pm | Viewing 10.00am - 12.30pm<br />
At Ibbett Mosely Auction Rooms, Argyle Rd, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 1HJ<br />
Valuation Day - Wednesday 26th <strong>October</strong> <strong>2016</strong> 11am to 4pm<br />
Crown Inn, School Road, Chislehurst, Kent BR7 5PQ<br />
Tel: 01732 456731 Web: www.ibbettmosely.co.uk<br />
125 High St, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 1UT<br />
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FESTIVE GIFT FAIR<br />
Everybody<br />
Welcome<br />
join us and<br />
choose<br />
your festive<br />
gifts<br />
Winchelsea New Hall<br />
Saturday 12 NOVEMBER <strong>2016</strong><br />
10AM – 3PM<br />
RIBBONS<br />
PAPER & TAGS<br />
GIFT BOXES<br />
PROCEEDS<br />
TO THE<br />
RefUrbishment<br />
of Winchelsea<br />
New Hall<br />
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HORNBROOK MANOR FARM<br />
SWEETS<br />
JAMS<br />
CHUTNEYS<br />
BISCUITS<br />
TEA & COFFEE<br />
TOMBOLA<br />
RAFFLE<br />
Wine Tasting<br />
Garden ideas, design and planting<br />
For Borders, Planting plans or full Garden Makeovers<br />
Contact Jo on 01233 861149 www.hornbrookmanor.co.uk<br />
Chocolate<br />
Cakes<br />
Children’s<br />
Clothes<br />
Cards<br />
WOOL PRODUCTS<br />
WALKING STICKS<br />
WINTER BULBS<br />
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What’s On In <strong>October</strong><br />
Entry: Adults £22, Children<br />
/ Concessions £20<br />
Info: 01622 758611 /<br />
parkwoodtheatres.co.uk/<br />
Hazlitt-Theatre<br />
Fri 7 Oct 8pm<br />
Tunbridge Wells Jazz Club, The<br />
Masonic Centre, St John’s Road,<br />
Tunbridge Wells TN4 9UY<br />
The Pedigree Jazz Band<br />
Enjoy this live jazz event with<br />
a raffle and licensed bar. The<br />
bar is also open for sandwiches<br />
and soft drinks/coffee.<br />
Entry: Members £1.50, Students £2<br />
Info: 01892 890442 /<br />
twjazzclub.co.uk<br />
Fri 21 Oct 7.30pm<br />
Groves Hall, Sutton<br />
Valence School<br />
SUTTON VALENCE<br />
MUSIC SOCIETY<br />
Classical guitarist Sean Shibe<br />
studied at the Royal Conservatoire<br />
of Scotland. He is the only<br />
solo guitarist to have been<br />
awarded a Borletti-Buitoni<br />
Trust Fellowship and is the<br />
first guitarist to be admitted<br />
to the prestigious BBC New<br />
Generation Artist Award Scheme.<br />
Entry: £12<br />
Info & Booking: 01622 863002<br />
Tours<br />
Every Sat in Oct 9.45am-11am<br />
Biddenden Vineyards,<br />
Gribble Bridge Lane,<br />
Biddenden TN27 8DF<br />
BIDDENDEN<br />
VINEYARD TOURS<br />
Learn more about the history of<br />
the vineyard and how we make<br />
our award-winning wines, ciders<br />
and juices. The tour is followed<br />
by tastings of our wines, ciders<br />
and juices in our vineyard shop.<br />
Entry: Free<br />
Info: 01580 291726 /<br />
biddendenvineyards.com<br />
Mon 17 Oct 12.30pm-3.30pm<br />
Great Dixter, Northiam,<br />
East Sussex TN31 6PH<br />
BEHIND THE SCENES<br />
AT GREAT DIXTER<br />
Great Dixter gardener Rachael<br />
Dodd will take you on an<br />
afternoon’s exploration of the<br />
borders to examine the plants in<br />
bloom and give you an insight<br />
into the work that makes the<br />
renowned garden so beautiful.<br />
Entry: £45 per person<br />
Info and Booking: 01797<br />
254048 / greatdixter.co.uk<br />
Sat 22 – Mon 31 Oct 11.30am<br />
Tunbridge Wells Tourist<br />
Information Centre, The Old<br />
Fish Market, The Pantiles, Royal<br />
Tunbridge Wells TN2 5TN<br />
GUIDED WALKS OF ROYAL<br />
TUNBRIDGE WELLS<br />
Learn all about the historic spa<br />
town of Royal Tunbridge Wells<br />
on a guided stroll through the<br />
Pantiles and the historic heart<br />
of the town. Discover its 400<br />
year old history and hear about<br />
the many famous visitors.<br />
Entry: Free<br />
Info: 01892 515675<br />
/ visitkent.co.uk<br />
Sat 22 Oct from 9.30am<br />
Mote Park, Maidstone,<br />
Kent ME15 8NQ<br />
TREE WALK AT MOTE PARK<br />
A guided walk around Mote Park<br />
with the Chairman of the Mote<br />
Park Fellowship who will introduce<br />
you to some of the history of the<br />
park as well as the importance<br />
it plays in protecting some of<br />
the oldest trees in the country.<br />
Entry: Adults £2.50<br />
Info: 01622 730453 /<br />
moteparkfellowship.org.uk<br />
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VOICE TRIALS<br />
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5 th November <strong>2016</strong><br />
Substantial scholarships are<br />
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Weekdays <strong>October</strong>-3rd-21st.<br />
Autumn Tints—enjoy a trip<br />
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countryside. Sit back and relax as<br />
you meander along the line between Sheffield Park and<br />
East Grinstead. ‘Souper Steam’- enjoy a bowl of warming<br />
Autumn vegetable soup as you travel or choose to travel<br />
in the Railway’s unique Observation Car-limited seating<br />
so booking advisable and essential for the ‘Souper Steam’<br />
The next BIG thing 28th-30th <strong>October</strong><br />
‘Giants of Steam’<br />
Train services throughout the day-two visiting engines<br />
will compliment the Railway’s fleet of larger engines.<br />
70013 ‘Oliver Cromwell’ (with thanks to NRM and<br />
Great Central Railway) and LNER B12 from Midland<br />
and Great Northern Society based at North Norfolk<br />
Railway (both subject to availability)<br />
For more information or to book<br />
please contact us. 01825 720800<br />
www.bluebell-railway.com<br />
Sheffield Park Station<br />
TN22 3QL<br />
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Jane Howard’s<br />
Fables from the Farm<br />
It’s already Christmas in the supermarkets and getting towards the end of the<br />
year on the calendar – but in farming it’s all just kicking off<br />
<strong>October</strong> already. Aaaagh. While<br />
it may seem like the year is<br />
drawing to a close, in the world<br />
of agriculture it is quite the opposite and<br />
Michaelmas, which falls on September<br />
29th, is very much seen as the start of<br />
the farming calendar.<br />
Michaelmas is named after St Michael<br />
the Archangel, the greatest of all the<br />
Archangels honoured for defeating Satan<br />
in the War of Heaven. He is seen as a<br />
protector against the dark of night, and<br />
the administrator of cosmic intelligence!<br />
So quite an interesting<br />
chap then, but on a more<br />
mundane level Michaelmas,<br />
coming around the equinox<br />
(when night time hours<br />
are the same as day time<br />
hours) is also one of the<br />
Quarter Days – the others<br />
being Christmas Day, Lady Day and<br />
Midsummer Day.<br />
Traditionally farmers expected to have<br />
completed the harvest by Michaelmas<br />
and it’s the day when rents were due,<br />
leases began and servants hired.<br />
Although we won’t be hiring any<br />
servants this year at Coopers, there is still<br />
very much a feeling that another year<br />
has drawn gently to a close. <strong>2016</strong> has<br />
been an exceptionally good year for grass<br />
and our barns are crammed with hay<br />
and straw in preparation for the cattle<br />
“Rather like dress<br />
sizes, cows get<br />
scored according<br />
to their level<br />
of rotundity”<br />
coming in when the weather changes<br />
again in November.<br />
The pigs are fat as butter (having<br />
stuffed themselves with acorns) and<br />
ditto the cattle. In terms of assessing<br />
the condition of the cows, rather like<br />
dress sizes they get scored according to<br />
their level of rotundity with one being<br />
exceptionally thin and five being far too<br />
much of a Bessie Bunter.<br />
Sussex cows are known for their ability<br />
to ‘do well’ on the roughest grazing and<br />
having enjoyed the summer grass mine<br />
are edging dangerously up<br />
the scale, but this is to be<br />
expected. And when they<br />
come <strong>inside</strong> at the end of<br />
the year, the calves will be<br />
weaned off them and they<br />
will go on a four month<br />
‘hay diet’ i.e. just hay so<br />
they slim down to calve in the spring at a<br />
respectable 3.5 or 4.0.<br />
The ewes, however, end the summer<br />
looking much plainer (thinner in<br />
farming parlance) having raised a couple<br />
of lambs that end up being almost the<br />
same size as their mothers. The lambs<br />
were weaned in August and the ewes are<br />
now on a ‘rising plane of nutrition’ to<br />
end up in tip top condition ready for the<br />
rams in early November.<br />
Unlike cows and pigs that are fertile<br />
all year, female sheep only come into<br />
oestrus when the night time hours exceed<br />
the day time hours (so, starting around<br />
Michaelmas) and traditionally the rams<br />
are put to the ewes on Bonfire Night<br />
with lambs appearing after April Fools’<br />
Day, a clever way of ensuring the lambs<br />
only come when the weather warms up<br />
and the grass starts growing.<br />
So the ewes are now grazing the better<br />
pasture and soon they will go on to the<br />
best the farm has to offer – those fields<br />
which were cut for hay and have sweet<br />
and succulent regrowth - to be flushed.<br />
Grazing such nutritious grass encourages<br />
them to produce more eggs so when<br />
they do get together with the rams the<br />
result will be more twins and triplets as<br />
opposed to singles.<br />
The other thing I love about this time<br />
of year is blackberrying and producing<br />
pots of bramble jelly. But that too<br />
must come to an end. Going back to<br />
our cosmic administrator St Michael,<br />
apparently when Satan was hurled out of<br />
heaven he fell to the ground and landed<br />
in a patch of brambles.<br />
Not being best pleased he poured fire<br />
and brimstone on the innocent bushes<br />
and apparently renews the curse every<br />
Michaelmas, so unsuspecting foragers<br />
like you and I should never pick them<br />
after September 29th. But that doesn’t<br />
matter too much as soon it will be time<br />
for the sloes and strangely the gin always<br />
seems more popular than the jam.<br />
Follow Jane Howard – and the farm<br />
– on Instagram @coopersfarm<br />
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