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ALL IN THE DETAIL
Maggie Alderson’s homes
for downsizers
WEALDEN TIMES
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GRAND DESIGN
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GARDEN PARTY
Relaxed summer fashion
BEACH BEAUTY
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THE MAKINGS OF A GARDEN
Sue Whigham describes the evolution
of her own outside space
SECOND OUT, ROUND TWO
Jo Arnell’s late summer veg
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Period detached house in beautiful cottage gardens. Living
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Playden, Nr. Rye, East Sussex - £850,000
Detached country cottage with views on the edge of Rye.
Sitting room, dining room, orangery, family room, kitchen/
breakfast room, master bedroom with en-suite, 2 further
bedrooms. Roof terrace. Garden. Home office/studio.
Garage. Parking. EPC D
Beckley, East Sussex - £695,000
Spacious detached house in quiet edge of village location.
Large sitting room, dining room, study, kitchen/breakfast
room, utility, master bedroom suite, three further bedrooms.
Single garage. Parking. Front and rear gardens. EPC D
New Romney, Kent - £395,000
Grade II Listed period house with double fronted shop. Living
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room, 3 bedrooms, double fronted shop. 2 substantial
outbuildings. Off road parking. Part walled garden. Detached
Grade II listed unconverted bake house available separately.
Rye, East Sussex - £535,000
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Detached single storey building situated on the edge of the
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HOUSE OF THE MONTH
1.
All in the Detail
Maggie Alderson explores homes for downsizers
When I helped my mum move house three years ago she had four full services of
Staffordshire bone china. The grandest design featured real gold rims, which
meant they had to be washed by hand. Such fun. (Not.) As well as twelve
settings of four sizes of plates, plus half-moon salad plates and soup set she had no fewer
than twenty-two cups and saucers. That’s a big bridge party. And with all that to choose
from, on what did she eat all her meals? Plain white pottery plates and bowls from Dunelm.
So at her own insistence, when she moved into her beautiful brand new
apartment in a complex specially designed for the over 70s, it was the Dunelm
she took with her. She says she likes their simplicity. She doesn’t miss the posh
china at all. It was just a load of stuff that lived in her cupboards for years.
But while she was happy to unload that, she didn’t get rid of everything.
She has all her paintings, her favourite pieces of furniture and her good
whisky glasses, from which she enjoys a dram most evenings.
This is the reality of ‘downsizing’ and we really do need to think of a
better word for it. Done right, with a move to one of the new generation
of mid-life (55 up) and retirement homes where every detail has been
thought of and done beautifully, there’s nothing down about it at all.
In her light-filled one-bedroom apartment – where she still has post and milk
delivered to her front door – my mum finds life not at all lessened without her
collections of small pieces of wrapping paper that might possibly fit something
one day, carrier bags too nice to re-use and possibly useful elastic bands.
In fact she feels enormously freed from it all and takes daily pleasure in
windows which open and close by pressing a button, glow-in-the-dark light
switches at elbow height and the sheer freshness of a brand new home.
With a move into an expertly designed, purpose-built property, with
all mod cons on the site, moving on from the family home can be more
freestyling than downsizing. Take a look at these developments, which
show just how great twenty-first century retirement living can be.
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1. Wildernesse House
Where? Wildernesse House is
surrounded by acres of rolling Kent
countryside in its own extensive grounds,
rich in mature woodland and specimen
trees, right by the village of Seal and two
miles from central Sevenoaks, plus a 40
minute rail link to Charing Cross and
proximity to the M25, M26 and M20.
What? A superb conversion of a jawdropping
grand house with historical
links back to the 14th century (the oak
trees planted for Henry VIII’s visit are still
there) into a selection of 23 one- and twobed
apartments, plus eight two-bedroom
mews houses in the newly built stable
block, exclusively for people over 60.
While floorplans vary all the homes are
light and spacious with open-plan living,
dining and kitchen areas. Some have an
additional study or dressing room. The
development is fully staffed and has superb
shared spaces, including a library, a spa and
a restaurant, plus features in the grounds
such as a croquet lawn and a folly.
How much? Apartments in the
main house start at £940,000 and the
mews houses from £735,000. See more
on the website wildernessehouse.co.uk,
or ring 01732 510150. Sales are via
Savills, Sevenoaks, call 01732 789700.
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2. Terlingham Gardens
3. Regal Gate
4. The Coachworks
Where? Terlingham Gardens is
situated in the village of Hawkinge,
which sits in countryside on top of
the North Downs at 508ft above sea
level, with stunning views of nearby
Cheriton and Folkestone. An excellent
connection to the M20 makes it just
twenty minutes to Ashford International
station, with its fast rail link to St Pancras.
Folkestone is under ten minutes’ drive.
What? A gated community of 20 two
and two/three bedroom semi-detached
bungalows and chalet bungalows,
aimed at the over 55s, with landscaped
communal gardens and step-free access.
Maintenance and care packages are
available to residents, offering services
from window cleaning to personal care.
Those buying at early stages can have
house details tailored to individual
needs, as well as choosing from a range
of designer kitchen, bathroom, flooring
and decorating finishes. The first
phase of a larger development, which
will include family homes, it would
be a great opportunity for different
generations of one family to live nearby.
How much? Bungalows start
from £329,995. For more information
call 01303 893080. You can look at
the properties on rightmove.co.uk
Where? Bang in the middle of
Tunbridge Wells, with all its amenities,
so close to Hoopers you could
practically walk there blindfolded.
The station with its one hour link
to Charing Cross, is similarly close
and The Pantiles area, with all
its lovely shops and restaurants a
mere saunter away. A walk up the
hill takes you to theatres, Fenwick
and Royal Victoria Place shopping
centre, urban living at its best.
What? While not specifically
designed for the retirement market,
these four apartments (three onebedders
and one two-bedroom) would
be a great choice for downsizers wanting
to trade the big family home on the
outskirts, for a beautifully fitted out
modern pad right in the thick of things.
How much? The guide price
is £200,000. Telephone 01732
450184 for more information and
look on the website regalpoint.co.uk
Where? The Coachworks is located
in the heart of the lovely Wealden
village of Ticehurst, surrounded by
beautiful countryside, with trains to
London from nearby Stonegate and
the A21 five minutes away. Wadhurst
is the next village along and it’s 20
minutes to Tunbridge Wells.
What? A new development of
25 luxury two-bedroom apartments
and penthouses for those aged over
65, built in red brick in the local
vernacular style. The apartments are
light and airy, with kitchens adjoining
the sitting areas. Ideal for downsizers
looking for stress free living and
peace of mind, the development
features a concierge service, gardens,
parking and lift to all floors.
How much? Prices start at
£340,000, with sales via Savills,
Tunbridge Wells 01892 507005,
or look up The Coackworks on
their website, savills.co.uk
Please note: because these are new developments and conversions still in progress, some
of the images used are computer-generated representations of the finished properties.
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We’ve been lucky enough to make two (well,
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If our houses get you in the mood to try something a
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Previous pages: Striped tins that once held soap are
arranged on the console table in the spare bedroom.
The candlesticks alongside them were found in the
antique emporia around St Leonards’ Norman Road
Above: The striking drawing room features wonderfully
large windows which span the full length from floor
to ceiling Right: Boris the wild boar head is mounted
on the wall above a French army folding table
From the moment you walk into Karen Hahnel’s
ground floor St Leonards apartment your face
changes – and with every step further inside it gets
more pronounced. Your eyes widen, your eyebrows travel
progressively up your head and your mouth drops open.
Wow. Wow. Wow. It’s the wow factor writ large – very large.
Not just in the fabulous proportions of the main room,
with its three metre plus ceilings (with original mouldings)
and dramatic dark red marble fireplace, which was once in
a reception room in a major Victorian house. Nor even the
huge window, right down to the floor giving onto a sea view.
Although all of these are ticks on the dream home wish
list, what makes Karen’s flat so impressive is the way she’s
taken on the massive scale of the place – and run with it.
So there’s no pussyfooting around here with mimsy inperiod
chandeliers, instead the ceiling light is a huge 1950s
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Above: The sitting room has a wonderfully restrained palette of white and ecru,
a perfect backdrop for Karen’s gorgeous cockerpoo, Mabel
asymmetric piece by French designer Serge Mouille. No fussy
wall of fanciful French-hung artworks, but a huge drawing on
one side and a supersized decorative hanging on the other.
And then on the back wall something even
more amazing: a human-scale wire sculpture of an
angel, her wings threaded with Swarovski crystals,
looking down on all within. It’s magical.
A quick scan makes it immediately clear that even beyond
her ease with large scale, Karen is a very confident decorator.
The sitting room has a wonderfully restrained palette
of white and ecru (a perfect backdrop for her gorgeous
cockerpoo Mabel, who is exactly the same colours) with
no temptation to reach for splashes of feature colour.
Her confidence is also gloriously apparent in her fearless
decision to paint every surface in the apartment the same
shade of dark grey. Walls and ceilings are all finished in
Fired Earth’s Mercury, which wonderfully enhances the
sense of flow between the rooms, bringing it all together
and making the flat seem bigger at the same time.
But there is one good reason she feels comfortable
decorating such a space… she moved to it from
an almost identical property in Richmond.
“I had a flat there in a similar era building, with similar
proportions and I just transported everything down to
this one,” she says. “The only difference is that there
everything was painted white and here it felt right to go
for this rich dark grey with a tiny bit of warmth in it.”
And it’s no happy accident that this two-bedroom
flat is so similar in style to her one-bedroom London
one – it was that extra bedroom that she was looking
for when she moved, not a new style of home.
So unlike most DFL (Down From London) decampers
to St Leonards, Karen wasn’t looking to trade in a tiny
flat in the smoke for a huge mansion; she transplanted
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Above left and below right: Karen has framed a postcard of a
work by a Egon Schiele in an ornate frame on the mantelpiece
Above right: A collection of coral, feathers and candles is
gathered together in a tray on top of a buttoned pouffe by
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herself from one splendid Victorian flat to another,
which had that extra bedroom and the sea view.
“In Richmond I couldn’t afford to upgrade to a two
bedroom,” she says. “It was going to be an extra £500,000
for another room and I didn’t want to move to a less
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my hairdresser, who told me she and her partner had
just been looking at property in St Leonards.
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days later I put an offer in on this flat. It all felt meant to
be. Once I came down and started looking I was really
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houses in this terrace, on the ground or first floor.
“I looked at seven or eight of them, but the moment I
saw this one online I knew immediately. It needed a lot of
love, it had broken windows, it hadn’t been looked after
for a long time, but it was definitely the right one.”
The work to be done on the flat was mostly putting right this
lack of care – overseen by Project Manager Carl Ross – there
were no walls to knock down or move around. The layout,
with the kitchen very cleverly arranged along one side of the
long wide hall the front door opens onto, was already in place.
“I only had to paint it and put up shelves,” says Karen,
“but I gutted the bathroom and started again.”
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The wire angel is by French artist Marie Cristophe, bought on a trip to Paris.
“She does a lot of work for the big fashion houses,” says Karen. “I saw the
angel in a gallery and knew I had to have her in my home.”
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Above: The beautiful bird cage on the sideboard in the drawing room was from Lille
Now featuring a deep contemporary oval bath with
a central hand shower, star design floor tiles on the
characteristic bold scale, plus a basin atop a black painted
unit, the bathroom, while relatively small, packs just
as much dramatic punch as the rest of the flat.
And it turns out that one of its standout features
– the tasselled light cord pull – was another of the
treasures Karen brought with her to her new home,
although this one pre-dates even the Richmond flat.
“It’s a curtain tie back I’ve had for 25 years and never
done anything with. I bought it in the Conran Shop when I
first moved to the UK from Australia. I saw it and thought
‘I’ve got to have that, I’ll find somewhere for it…’ I’ve had
it all those years and not used it and it turns out this was
the place,” which is another example of her decorating
confidence – the light pull might be from one of the country’s
most respected interior shops, but the designer-looking
bath was bought from an online bathroom supply store.
This juxtaposition of elite brands and clever finds is found
all over the flat. In the drawing room – it’s far too grand
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This page: The free-standing kitchen is very cleverly
arranged along one side of the long wide hall which
spans the front to the back of the apartment. There’s
even space for a stylish chrome washing machine and
dishwasher in a little alcove by the bathroom
to be called anything else – on one end of the mantelpiece
is a design classic, the Tizio desk lamp by Artemede.
Suitably impressed, I ask where the smaller lamp on
the side table next to the sofa is from – presuming it
will be another treasure fit for the Design Museum.
Karen laughs as she replies: “IKEA! The sofa is from
there too – the covers are washable, which is great.”
But the round buttoned pouffe, upholstered in cream
linen, next to the IKEA sofa is from George Smith.
The high/low trick happens again when I enquire
about a beautiful small drawing which sits in a frame
on the mantelpiece, assuming it will be a find from a
gallery in one of the many European cities Karen visits
frequently for her job with a large software company.
It turns out it is a work by a major Austrian artist –
Egon Schiele – but it’s a postcard, which she popped into
a frame, the wide mount adding to the posh effect.
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Above left: In keeping with the grand, rich feeling of the whole apartment, Karen’s cooking utensils and cutlery are kept in a
collection of pressed glass jugs and vases Above right: The long hallway is lined on one side with round mirrors of assorted sizes
But while sources may vary from seriously grand
to canny bargains, one theme that weaves through all
Karen’s treasures is her love for European style.
The formerly mentioned wire angel is by French artist
Marie Cristophe, bought on a trip to Paris. “She does a lot
of work for the big fashion houses,” says Karen. “I saw the
angel in a gallery and knew I had to have her in my home.”
The industrial-style dining table at the windowend
of the room is also French, inspired by a
Paris trip, although not bought there.
“It’s a French army folding table. I saw one at Merci in
Paris, then searched on line until I found one. It weighs 80
kilos! I don’t know how it was ever thought of as portable…”
The chairs round it, though, are modern design classics:
Danish designer Verner Panton’s cantilevered plastic chair,
designed in 1960, bought by Karen from The Conran Shop.
The stuffed wild boar head – called Boris – mounted
over the table, was a find at the famous annual Braderie
flea market in Lille. He was wearing a bowler on the day of
our visit, but, says Karen “…he changes his hat often.”
The beautiful bird cage on the sideboard was also
from Lille: “I brought it back on Eurostar.”
The large armoire at the back of the room is more
genuine French Provincial – but sourced in the very
British West Sussex town of Arundel, an hour and a half
to the west of St Leonards, in an emporium specialising in
antiques from across the Channel, called French Loft.
Another, even bigger, armoire from there is one of
the major features of Karen’s bedroom. It’s so huge, I
wonder how they got it in there. Karen explains:
“Large antique French furniture like this can be
dismantled and put back together again, flat pack
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This page: Karen’s flare for scale
is evident in the master bedroom
where an Old Master painting has
been blown up to a magnificent
size. The armchair was found on the
online antiques site The Hoarde
style, because they used to take it from their town
house to the country house, so it came in pieces which
could be put together and taken apart as needed.”
This room also hosts another example of Karen’s flair
for scale, in the detail from an Old Master painting,
blown up to a magnificent size, from Surface View, setting
the atmosphere from the moment you walk through
the door of this otherwise downplayed scheme.
Featuring the same restrained, calm colour scheme as
the drawing room, there is just a simple grey linen padded
headboard by Paola Navone and an armchair of great
character, which Karen found on the online antiques
site The Hoarde, upholstered in plain ecru canvas.
The only other standout features in this haven of tranquillity
are the lights: a very decorative chandelier which was already
in the house and a bedside lamp of delightful whimsy, from
Designers Guild, so pretty against sheer white curtains.
The bedroom is one place in the house where
Karen did undertake some construction, taking
advantage of the ceiling height to put in some large
storage areas, which disappear into the walls.
Walking out of this room and through the vestibule to
the kitchen takes you past another example of Karen’s bold
flair in a wall papered with a bold design featuring the
pressed tin ceilings found in houses in her native Melbourne,
dating from a similar period to this St Leonards one.
There’s more feature wallpaper in the spare bedroom
at the back of the flat, featuring old books stacked in
bookshelves. The room has rather theatrical lighting,
quite dark as you step in from the door, but with sun
pooling in from the window on one side to the rear.
This makes the perfect setting for Karen’s mix of
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This room is richly accessorised with treasures
from Karen’s trips to France, notably the gold mirror
with a leaf surround. “I dragged it back from a Paris
flea market – and it cost me more in physiotherapy
to recover from that than I paid to buy it!”
The two striped tins on the console table, which
add to the ‘Hollywood Regency’ feel of the room,
once held soap and were another find from the Lille
Braderie, while the candlesticks alongside them were
found closer to her new home, in one of the more junky
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Heading from this room back out into the kitchen,
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Contents
4 Cool Forest
Our woodland-inspired
mood board
7 Sand Storm
Beach and desert chic
8 Hot Tropics
A taste of the exotic
11 Pure Form
Accessorise with
beautiful glass
12 Scented Candles
Through the Seasons
A year of perfumed
interiors with Atlanta
Bartlett and Dave Coote
14 Get the Look
Purple velvet cushions
14 Directory
The interiors A-Z
Traditional & Contemporary
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Editor’s Letter
The WT editorial team love getting creative, and this
Interiors Supplement provided the ideal opportunity
to get hands-on creating our mood boards. From
the shade of the forest to the burned ochre tones of the
desert, we’ve got a comprehensive selection of fabrics,
wallpapers, paints and trimmings. Turn to page 11 for glass
accessories and find out how Pale & Interesting’s Atlanta
Bartlett and Dave Coote scent their home all year round.
‘Our philosophy is to inspire and create
beautiful and unique interiors which are a
reflection of your unique style and personality’
Pure Form, page 11
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Vert Anglais Chalk Paint, 100ml
Sample Pot, £5.95, Autentico
autentico-paint.com
Lock Keeper No.18 Paint
Sample Pot, Marble Matt
Water Based Emulsion
Paint Sample Pot, £4.25,
Mylands mylands.co.uk
Aged Paper Chalk Paint
100ml Sample Pot, £5.95,
Autentico
autentico-paint.com
Pebble Moon Wool- Multi
Check, available for use in
a variety of made to order
furniture pieces, Arlo &
Jacob arloandjacob.com
Seaweed Soft Wool Mix,
available for use in a
variety of made to order
furniture pieces, Arlo &
Jacob arloandjacob.com
Cool Forest
Harness a woodland palette with our pick of
paints, fabrics, wallpapers and flooring
Harriet Emerald Green by
Aqua Clean (84123538),
available for use in a variety of
made to order furniture pieces,
John Lewis johnlewis.com
Woodland Chorus Wallpaper
in Sky Blue/Multi (215706) by
Sanderson, £61/10.05m roll,
Bell House Fabrics & Interiors
bellhousefabrics.co.uk
Botanical Wallpaper Nostalgia,
£85/10m roll, Woodchip & Magnolia
woodchipandmagnolia.co.uk
Series Woods Professional
Harbour Oak Laminate Flooring,
£27.01/m2, UK Flooring Direct
ukflooringdirect.co.uk
Fern c.1960 in
Green, £74/10.05m
roll, Little Greene
littlegreene.com
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Anais Sunflower Fabric by
Prêt à Vivre, £44.90/m,
Jenny Blanc jennyblanc.com
Sand Storm
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Transform your interior with a sunkissed golden
glow reminiscent of beach and desert holidays
Japonica Fabric in Saffron
(PON-52), £49.50/m,
Vanessa Arbuthnott
vanessaarbuthnott.co.uk
Bonnet Shell Fringe
in Pearl by Samuel &
Sons, £50/m,
Jenny Blanc
jennyblanc.com
Celtic Stripe in Natural by
Marsons, £27.50/m, Bell House
Fabrics & Interiors
bellhousefabrics.co.uk
Draycott Terrace
(143) Marble
Matt Water Based
Emulsion Paint
1 Litre Pot, £23,
Mylands
mylands.co.uk
Rope Washed Cotton,
available for use in
a variety of made to
order furniture pieces,
Loaf loaf.com
Rose Gold Metallic
Luxe Fabric Lighting
Cable 8 AMP, £3.79/m,
Dowsing & Reynolds
dowsingandreynolds.com
Rose Theatre
(249) Marble
Matt Water Based
Emulsion Paint
Sample Pot,
£4.25, Mylands
mylands.co.uk
Little Greene Paint
& Paper Colour
Chart, Bell House
Fabrics & Interiors
bellhousefabrics.co.uk
Home Choice Engineered
European Oak Flooring
in Cappuccino Lacquered,
£54.55/m2, UK Flooring
Direct ukflooringdirect.co.uk
Landscape Plains
Wallpaper in Pebble
(106/2019), £75/10m
roll, Cole & Son
cole-and-son.com
Bark c.1961 in Tundra
(0281 BATUNDR),
£55/10.05m roll, Little
Greene littlegreene.com
Ardmore Wallpaper,
Senso Spot (109/6030),
Simple Ticking
£65/10m roll,
Ground in Pigeon
Cole & Son
(Ground-19), £48/m,
cole-and-son.com
Vanessa Arbuthnott
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Wild Jungle by Chivasso
(CH2814/070),
£79.90/m, Jenny Blanc,
jennyblanc.com
Kravet 25703,
£65/m, Jenny
Blanc
jennyblanc.com
Bright Turquoise Chalk
Paint, 100ml Sample Pot,
£5.95, Autentico
autentico-paint.com
Echeveria in
ceramic pot, £10,
Happy & Glorious
happyglorious.co.uk
Zesty Green Smooth
Satin Sheen Fabric
Lighting Cable 8
AMP, £3.79/m,
Dowsing & Reynolds
dowsingandreynolds.com
Peony Soft Velvet fabric,
available for use in a
variety of made to order
furniture pieces, Arlo &
Jacob arloandjacob.com
Brazilian Bird Chalk Paint,
100ml Sample Pot, £5.95,
Autentico
autentico-paint.com
Fern Chalk Paint, 100ml
Sample Pot, £5.95,
Autentico
autentico-paint.com
Raspberry Brushed
Cotton, available for use
in a variety of furniture
pieces, Loaf loaf.com
Sunshine Yellow
Smooth Satin Sheen
Fabric Lighting Cable
8 AMP, £3.79/m,
Dowsing & Reynolds
dowsingandreynolds.com
Monstera Wallpaper,
£99/10m roll,
Woodchip & Magnolia
woodchipandmagnolia.co.uk
Hot Tropics
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Green Pina Colada Fabric,
£85/m, Penelope Hope
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Reef Shoal,
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Teal (pictured),
Sea Pink or Aqua,
£445, Jo Downs
jodowns.com
Juliette 9 Light
Cluster Pendant
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Handmade glass
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Coastal Home,
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Rope Trellis
Glass Bottles,
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Gemma pendant, £870,
Elstead Lighting
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Olsson & Jensen Votive
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Mosaic Glass Winter Tree
Wall Art (70x90cm), £324,
Element One House,
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Antique 1920s
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‘Puffin’ by Simon
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Orb lamp base,
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Chandon chandelier, £954,
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Atlanta Bartlett and
Dave Coote, the
husband and wife team
behind the Pale &
Interesting brand, share
their perfumed candle
picks to fragrance your
home all year round
“We just love scented
candles and how they
change the mood to suit the
seasons. Like fresh flowers,
they bring a room to life
and make a house a home.
Scented candles are
wonderful gifts and add
another rich layer to the
textures in your home –
from Cire Trudon, who
have been making candles
in France since 1643 and
indeed famously made
candles for Louis XIV
and Napoleon, to Bella
Freud, the UK’s own iconic
Brit knitwear designer.
We currently stock a
range of candles at Pale &
Interesting and in our shop
in Rye are building up a
‘library of scented candles’
giving you our handpicked
selection of the best smells
available on the market.
Here, we have tried
and tested the range to
handpick four candles:
one for each season.”
Visit the Pale & Interesting
shop at 21 Mermaid Street,
Rye, 01797 344077. For more
info. see paleandinteresting.com
/ paleandinterestingholidays.com
Scented candles
through the seasons
Spring
Cire Trudon - Manon £70
“This luxurious scented candle blends notes of linen, orange and
lavender to fill your home with a refreshing and lighthearted
scent. We love this candle – it make us think of fresh spring
mornings, of new beginnings, and could even inspire a bit of
spring cleaning! It’s so energizing and refreshing!” trudon.com
Autumn
Summer
Annick Goutal - Fleur de Tiaré €47
“This candle is one of the best summer scented candles
around. We love the sun-kissed glow it gives – full of
rich floral notes of frangipani, ylangylang, neroli and
tiaré flower. It reminds us of heady flowers and long
sunny summer days and sultry nights.” annickgoutal.com
Bella Freud - Signature Candle £40
“Autumn is all about preparing for winter. Stacking up logs, tidying
up the garden, making bonfires and the smell of smoking leaves.
For warmth and woody smokiness, we like Bella Freud’s Signature
Candle in a stylish black glass container with her dog motif. Blended
in the UK, this hand poured natural wax candle has a warming,
woody scent which combines smoked incense from Morocco with
cedarwood and rich resins of amber and myrrh.” bellafreud.com
Winter
Azzi Glasser - Black Moss £49
“The award-winning perfumer Azzi Glasser has launched her
five-piece candle range following the success of her fragrance
range ‘The Perfumer’s Story’ – we think they are amazing: deep,
complex and truly beautiful. Her Black Moss candle is rich,
luxurious and sensual, giving warmth in its scent and glow. It’s all
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and memorable fragrance to the entrance of your home. We stock
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Get the look... purple velvet cushions
Emulate our cover image from The Kula, Hastings (wealdentimes.co.uk /house/wt177b)
with our pick of three tactile velvet cushions
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Maidstone 01622 753073
clarkesfurnishers.co.uk
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West Malling 07974 006146
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Frant & Cuckfield
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The French Depot
Hastings 01424 423703
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Lulu Klein Interiors
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Neptune
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Monolithic
Magic
When a former St. John Ambulance station in Rye came up
for sale, it took interior architect Marta Nowicka only three
hours to decide to take on its renovation. After removing
endless partitioning and flattening a 1970s extension, she has
redesigned it as a unique and spacious family home
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Previous pages & above: Marta wanted to use the original St. John Ambulance station doors, but they didn’t
meet building regulations, so are used on an internal wall instead as decoration and to reference the historical
use. A new set of functional doors have been made in the same style. The double sided wood burning stove and
adjacent log pile are housed on a huge concrete plinth, creating a focal point, whether the fire is lit or not
They say that home is where the heart is, but if you
spend half the year in one place and the other in
a completely different space, you must have to
have two hearts (make that two sets of everything), in
order to feel at home. Award-winning Interior Architect
Marta Nowicka appears to manage two-heartedness
brilliantly, living for half the year at her home in London
and the rest of the time at her home in Rye, letting out
whichever house she’s not living in. “It’s all a bit Mapp
and Lucia!” Marta laughs when we meet at the former St
John’s ambulance station in Rye Citadel. Rye may have
been the setting for the most recent TV adaptation of EF
Benson’s Mapp and Lucia books (in which the occupants
regularly swap their homes about) but as I look around this
stunning contemporary conversion, it is definitely where
the similarity ends. Tilling this isn’t. When Marta first
came across the property she was (half) living in nearby
Camber, in an old coastguard’s cottage. “It began to feel a
bit remote there,” she says. “I wanted to be in Rye for the
ease of access, the shops. It feels like there’s more life here.”
“My assistant came across the building first, but it
was in the middle of a sealed bids race. I didn’t have
time to see it and by the time I contacted the agent
they said, ‘sorry, it’s been sold.’ I asked them to let
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Above: A central feature of the open plan kitchen/dining/living area is a huge dining table, which has been designed
to be reconfigurable – it can be a square or a rectangle, depending on how many are coming for dinner
me know if anything changed, and six months later the
buyer pulled out – there was so much to be done: rewiring,
re-plumbing, you name it. The agents put the
property back online at 9am one morning. By 9.30am
I had seen it and by midday I’d purchased it.”
Marta explains that the building took a long time to
get planning permission, as it is in Rye’s conservation
area. “Rye is very medieval. The wall in the front is listed
and the other wall behind the property is part of Rye
Citadel. My style is quite monolithic, which works well
with the medieval wall. There is also a feeling of medieval
hall house going on in here, so this was the inspiration
for the plan. The fire had to be central so that people
can gather in the middle of the room.” The double sided
wood burning stove and adjacent log pile are housed on a
huge concrete plinth. It is a focal point, whether the fire
is lit or not. Another central feature is the huge dining
table, which has been designed to be reconfigurable, so
that it can be a large square or a rectangle, depending
on how many are coming for dinner. The open plan
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Above: The entrance hall windows look out onto a beautiful old brick wall which is illuminated at night
living area is ideal for entertaining. “It’s magical with
candles in the evening and with the fire,” adds Marta.
The rest of the plan flowed from the hall house idea,
with hints at the building’s previous incarnations as both
coach house to the adjacent Georgian property and, more
recently, the St John Ambulance station. Marta wanted to
use the original ambulance station doors, but they didn’t
meet building regulations, so are used on an internal wall
instead as decoration and to reference the historical use.
They mirror the new functional doors that have been made
in the same style. There are other nods to the building’s
recent history with medical and industrial inspired pieces,
such as the nurse’s trolley in the upstairs bathroom and a
sleek brushed stainless steel island unit in the kitchen.
The property has had several lives then, transitioning
from coach house to ambulance station to stunning
contemporary home. Marta explains, “The original coach
house building was demolished in the war and rebuilt
to the same design, being made into an ambulance
station to help with the war effort. Then St John
Ambulance took it over, housing two ambulances and
making a warren of rooms, some for training and for
use as public spaces, others for admin and office space.”
Marta knocked down the 1970s addition at the back
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This page: A concrete plinth has been cast at the base of the
stairs. Marta has weaved rope through the metal handrail. Rather
than hanging from the ceiling, a huge glass orb has been set down
in one corner to provide illumination
of the building and extended it to make a downstairs
bedroom, bathroom and generous reception area.
Upstairs “it was the worst of the worst,” she laughs,
describing the flattened ceilings and endless partitioning.
“It was a warren of little rooms, fluorescent lights and
magnolia paint.” Marta’s builder Pat Gill, from Kent, with
whom she’s worked for over 20 years, demolished all of that
and together they completely reconfigured the building.
Now the only traces of the ambulance station are the
large doors and a paper sign that is taped onto the front
window. “I’ve redesigned it to be a family home with as
many bedrooms as possible. The bedrooms are deliberately
small as they’re only used for sleeping – and it’s all about
being together. It’s great for weekend gatherings.” She
adds: “The large space downstairs had been made into
two rooms by St John Ambulance, so I put that back into
one large space. I love space, my remit is to have space.”
That feeling of space has been made by physically moving
walls and taking down partitions, but also through Marta’s
clever ideas and design skills. On the ground floor the
whole area is unified by the limited palette of materials.
The wide limed oak floorboards continue, in narrower
form, to clad the central walls, fusing floor with wall,
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Above & above right: A family bathroom neatly slots into a
space under the sloping roof upstairs Right: Wide limed oak
floorboards line the staircase. “I see the staircase running through
the centre of the building like a spine,” Marta says
as if the staircase is rising up through the middle of the house, like a
monolith. “I see the staircase running through the centre of the building
like a spine,” she says, and then adds intriguingly, “I love the spaces
that other people overlook or want to hide – the awkward gaps and
places under the stairs. I expose them and use them to make interesting
spaces.” Having no need for under-stairs cupboards – or much storage
at all from what I can see, also opens up the rooms and enhances the
feeling of light and space. There is no need for storage, it would appear,
because there is not much to store. Marta travels light, which I guess, is
a necessity if you are often between two properties and renting out one
of them each time. Home is wherever she lays her laptop then. “Yes, I
keep my life in my bag,” she laughs. The key to a streamlined home,
as Marta stylishly demonstrates, is not more storage, it’s less stuff. I
suddenly feel the need to rush home and have a massive clear out.
As we move through the house, each area informs the next, anchored
by the central staircase. Exposed brickwork, concrete plinths and
the steel beam in the living area contrast with the highly finished,
sleek timber cladding and floorboards, and the clean, sharp lines of
the slightly industrial furnishings. It is this well judged juxtaposition
that makes everything in the building come together so seamlessly.
It wasn’t all smooth progress, but Marta and Pat the builder were
able to overcome most of the obstacles. Marta points to the cast
concrete plinth at the base of the stairs. It went wrong, apparently.
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Above: Marta’s son Lucas’s room has been designed with friends
staying in mind Right: The spare bedrooms
“It was supposed to be smooth and monolithic, but
these pock marks and craters appeared in it. Now I like
it, but at the time I wasn’t happy.” There is a definite
seaside or rockpool feel to the finish, but anyone would
think it had taken ages to deliberately get the effect.
An old wall dominates the view from a fantastic double
height window at this end of the building – a vista that
can be seen from the other end, as it is all one big space,
just divided into zones. A similar thing happens upstairs.
The old bricks continue to echo through the house,
giving little pointers to its origins, to the ancient town
and to each stage of change and regeneration. This is
clearly evident in Marta’s son Lucas’s room, which is at
the end of the original part of the building and features
an old wall that has been pared back to the brick of its
first incarnation – with remnants of the ancient paint still
clinging on in patches. Lucas’s room has been designed
to function as both a sleeping room – for him and his
friends, and also as a study or games room. This is achieved
through the ingenious use of partition doors that open
out, or give privacy, depending on requirements.
The master bedroom features an amazing triangular
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This page: Throughout the house, exposed brickwork contrasts
with the highly finished, sleek timber cladding and floorboards.
Son Lucas’s room has been designed to function as both a
sleeping and study or games room. This is achieved through the
use of partition doors that open out, or give privacy, depending
on requirements
window that spans between the twin gables of the roof
from which there are wonderful views of the tiled roofs of
the surrounding buildings and the countryside beyond. A
bathroom has been cleverly tucked behind the bed. It’s a
very creative use of space – more of an en-bed, than en suite
facility. And the wonderful ‘Citadel’ window at the other
end of the building can be seen directly from this bedroom.
Marta clearly enjoys the whole process of designing, and
then making, living spaces out of unloved commercial, or
slightly industrial buildings. She has several other properties
in Sussex and London, including a development of five
apartments created from the building that was once the
old Labour Party headquarters in Hoxton. She has recently
decided to stop designing for clients and focus on her own
property portfolio, letting out spaces – her own and other
stylish and interesting homes. The company is called DOM,
a Polish word for home, which references her Polish roots
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This page: On both floors there are hints to the building’s former use as an ambulance station in
the form of medical and industrial inspired pieces of furniture – a steel and glass cabinet housing
towels on the landing, and stripped back metal chairs in the master bedroom
and the company’s ethos. “I want DOM to be the go-to
site for people wanting to rent unusual and contemporary
spaces to live in or holiday in, or even to buy.” She has a
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“It can take ages to trawl through Airbnb to find the
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place in England or abroad.” As the website grows she
plans to take on other properties around the globe –
already there’s a fabulous place in Warsaw signed up.
It takes determination, creative vision and a huge amount
of steely pragmatism to achieve such a breathtaking
transformation in a building. Constructing a family
home from a tired old industrial or municipal space is
no easy feat. Marta has achieved it by celebrating the raw
materials of its construction – the bricks, concrete,
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are wonderful views of the surrounding buildings and the countryside beyond
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medieval setting, the former lives of both coach house
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Beach
Beauty
Josephine Fairley shares her essential cheats
for an instant summer body
I’m sure I’m not the only person whose heart sinks at
the sight of yet another ‘Get Yourself Beach-Ready’
magazine article. My idea of being ‘beach-ready’ is
ensuring there’s enough sandwiches, potato salad and
soft drinks to keep the family happy. (And quite often,
making sure we’ve got macs and a windbreak.)
That doesn’t mean we don’t want to look good for summer
– but it’s not all about prepping for two weeks in a swimsuit, is
it? One of the glories of living in these isles is taking advantage
of these precious few months of warmth and sunshine: all
the more special because they don’t last year-round. If you’re
anything like me, that means you’re outdoors as much as
possible – on walks, in the garden, at barbecues with friends.
Yes, we all want to look and feel our best – but why waste
precious time in the bathroom when we could be taking
advantage of the great outdoors? So: I’ve focused here on
great ‘cheats’, which will minimise your time getting ready
for the beach – and maximise your actual time on it.
STep one: buff with an oil-based scrub. These are, in my
book, just about the most body-transformative products
out there. They slough away dead, dull skin cells (and can
actually revive a tan, as a result), while leaving skin veiled in
nourishing oils. Any fake tan will go on more smoothly if
you use an oil-based scrub first. I prefer sugar-based scrubs as
salt can sting if you’ve any nicks and cuts (as a gardener, that
invariably means me). Top of the scrubs for me are VOYA
Effervescence Nourishing Scrub, £34 for 259g (it features
plenty of hand-harvested seaweed in a base of almond oil,
sunflower oil and seaweed oil – and who knew there was
such a thing?), and the perennially fabulous, deliciously
rose-scented REN Moroccan Rose Shea Sugar Body Polish,
£33 for 330ml. Both leave skin gleaming and nourished
and are so enjoyable to use – well, you’ll use them. And
at the end of the day that is the key, with all products.
STep TWo: fake a tan. Who wants a body that’s pastrypale
on the first day of a vacation? Dita Von Teese, and that’s
about it, I reckon. There’s no need to go anywhere near a UV
tanning salon – the health risks of which become more and
more evident – with all the fabulous fake tans there are around.
My advice isn’t to go for a deep instant tan, but to apply a
gradual tanner a couple of evenings in a row, before you leave
for holiday. That’s all it takes to build up really quite a fabulous
skin tint, and it’ll look more realistic than one dark coat. Bathe
and exfoliate first, pat skin dry, and smooth body butter into
any dry zones such as heels, knees and elbows. These areas go
carrot-y because the dry cells take up more of the self-tanning
ingredient; if they’re well-nourished, that won’t happen.
Over the past few years I’ve slathered my way through
plenty, with three that I return to time and again. First off,
from an oddly-named brand called Eco by Sonya (available
from lovelula.com). Their Winter Skin, £25 for 200ml is
deliciously ‘slippy’, like a gel-cream – and is incredibly easy
to spread. ESPA Gradual Tan Body Moisturiser, £34 for
200ml, has an almost identical texture – and I can honestly
say I’ve never had better results from a fake tan. If you really,
really have a bare-leg emergency on Day One, nothing
fixes that faster than This Works Perfect Legs Skin Protector
SPF30, £40 for 100ml, which is a perfecting and blurring
product for legs that minimises imperfections and improves
appearance in a flash, with mica and natural caramel evening
out skintone – and with that SPF30, it protects while it gilds.
STep THRee: protect your face before you hit the beach.
I walked along the sands in Dubai back in January literally
aghast at how almost every woman was lying there with her
face turned to the sun, in the midday heat. You know why they
call it ‘tanning’? Because skin turns to leather. L-e-a-t-h-e-r. I
honestly cannot counsel anything less than an SPF30 on the
face, beneath a hat, and preferably with your head in the shade,
too. I rely on another product from This Works, the fantastic,
weightless In Transit Skin Defence SPF30, £29 for 40ml,
for facial protection – and am delighted it’s about to become
available in an SPF45. Also brilliant for sun-sensitive skins
like mine is Green People Scent-Free Facial Sun Cream SPF30,
£16.50 for 50ml, which not only protects against UVA and
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STEP FOUR: reach for an
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here that I’ve fast-forwarded
without talking about body
suncare. That’s because I think
it’s a matter of personal choice
whether you want to fry yourself
dark bronze (with all the sun
damage that goes along with that) – or do as I do and slowly
build a lovely golden glow from the shade of my umbrella. And
I’ve a hunch you’re going to go ahead and either buy an SPF10
or something way up in the SPF stratosphere – and not much
any expert is going to say will change your strategy. What I will
say is that there are some terrific sunscreens out there, in textures
that are more skin-compatible and pleasurable to use than ever;
ranges I like include Clarins, Clinique, Lancaster and (at the
affordable end) the Hawaiian Tropic Silk Hydration range.
But what you do need to pack (which you might not have
thought about) is that SPF lip tint – because the lips are supervulnerable
(it’s the way they’re angled to the sun), and through
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STEP FIVE: stow your favourite, richest hair mask
or conditioner in your beach basket. Make a ritual of
slathering generously onto wet hair straight after a dip;
you can shower it out later, but the sooner you put back
what seawater and chlorine take out of hair, the better.
And honestly, this is all you need to think about. Anything
else you choose to do will be because it’s actually part of your
psychological preparation towards switching off. Yes, you’ll
want to get waxed, or at least shave your legs, depending on
how sprout-y your body hair is. By all means book yourself
a manicure and a pedicure: there’s something wonderfully
satisfying about lounging with a book and catching an
occasional glimpse of glossy red or mermaid-sparkly toenails.
But summer is short. Holidays
even shorter. So my advice
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really have to on holiday
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there and make hay/whoopee/
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Savour the summer
Wealden Times talks to Katherine Slater from Bee Potion
Health & Beauty
Do you have a beauty
regime? As I approach my
50th year, my beauty regime
starts in the morning by
looking in the bathroom
mirror and thanking my life,
that way I feel more beautiful
with age! I have devised my
own natural honey bee, twostep
beauty ritual. First, I apply
my honey, seaweed and aloe
facial cleanser wash and, if my
face is feeling particularly tired,
I use it as a face pack too. I
follow this with my face and
body balm which is natural
and nourishing both night
and day. The two products
together are all I need,
Do you have a particular
product you couldn’t
live without? My face
feels lost without my face
balm (also known as BEE
NOURISHED) as it’s so
versatile and nourishing. I
made a handy travel size
so I can take it everywhere.
Regarding make-up, I find less
is more but mascara is the key
for me. I love Kevyn Aucoin
mascara from Space NK. It’s
light, does not smudge or
flake and is easy to remove.
What’s your ultimate
pampering treat? I lived
and worked in Bali for a year
and massages and pedicures
were so cheap that you had
them every week so they no
longer felt like a treat. To
feel truly indulged, I need to
receive the pampering from
someone I am fond of! So, a
foot massage after a long day
from my partner is great and
so is a facial treatment from
my friend Rachel Heavens
who I run pampering
workshops with. In our
workshops I demonstrate
how to make natural skin
care products while Rachel
teaches the facial part. It’s
pampering on another level.
Who’s your style icon? Style
icons for me don’t only look
good, they create good. My
top two icons would be the
painter Georgia O’Keeffe
and installation artist Louise
Bourgois. Like all female
artists who have challenged
the idea of conventional
style or beauty through their
art, they both leave a legacy
in terms of femininity and
identity which is timeless.
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Sulphur, the
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As we move into high summer,
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shops and soon they’ll be
ripening in the garden. While
they’re plentiful, and relatively
cheap, it’s worth remembering
the health benefits of cooking
tomatoes: they’re a great source
of the antioxidant lycopene,
which helps protect against
cancer and heart disease.
Scientists have discovered that
when tomatoes are eaten raw,
very little lycopene is absorbed
but when cooked with a good
quality oil, the antioxidant is
much more readily available.
This successful combination
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of the Mediterranean diet.
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Beauty
Never too late!
We asked fitness guru and personal trainer Sarah Maxwell for
her advice on building an exercise routine later in life …
1
IS IT EVER TOO LATE TO START?
I believe it’s never too late to start exercising.
The positives are huge for the over 60s, there
are diverse improvements ranging from increases
in strength and flexibility to improvements in
circulation and bone density. I run a variety of exercise
classes and have many people over sixty involved.
I encourage everyone of all ages and levels to go at their
own pace and enjoy themselves whilst doing it.
2
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
There are a wide range of classes, as close as your local
leisure centre or village hall. Gyms aren’t for everyone
but this doesn’t mean there aren’t many other ways to exercise.
Some great things to try for beginners are:
. Yoga
. Tai Chi . Walking
. Zumba . Water Fitness dance classes
. Pilates
. Ballet Barre
groups
. Ballroom
It’s a great time to try new things and find out what
works best for you. Classes are great because you can go
along on your own or take a friend for support. Start
with a beginners’ class and let the teacher know you’re
new to exercise so they can help, encourage and get you
on the right track safely and effectively. Exercising with
others is proven to be the most effective way to maintain
a routine and encouragement plays an important role.
3
HOW MANY TIMES A WEEK?
I would suggest a minimum of two sessions
a week to get results. Start out gently and
build up gradually so you improve consistently and
prevent injury. Space the classes a couple of days
apart so your body gets a chance to recover between
sessions. Try to fit in some regular cardiovascular
exercise between classes such as walking or swimming.
As your fitness improves you’ll notice that you have more
energy and confidence and are more active in everyday tasks.
4WHAT BENEFITS CAN
I EXPECT TO SEE
FROM EXERCISING?
Regular exercise will tone your
body, increase your metabolism
and make you feel great on the inside and
outside. It also has many benefits for your health
and wellbeing in general: research shows that
physical activity can also boost self-esteem, mood,
sleep quality and energy, as well as reducing
your risk of stress, depression, dementia and
Alzheimer’s disease. The best medicine you can
give your body and mind is a regular exercise routine,
even one that just involves walking and moving more.
5MOTIVATION
Getting started with exercise is one thing,
keeping it up is another. I advise my clients to
set short term goals that are easy to stick to. People are
motivated when they start but without goals they find it
difficult. Planning sessions ahead in your diary is a great
motivator. Teaming up with someone in your class or a
friend can also help enormously. Fun is the name of the
game. If you dread going along to your class it’s time to
change and try something new. Make a list of all of the
classes/activities you would like to try and give them a go.
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PT and group exercise
instructor based in
Cranbrook. She is HAB
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All the older women in my family
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dementia in their last years. They were all
in their 80s and 90s before the symptoms
showed, but it is a cruel illness however
long and good your life has been.
So, as a sixty-year-old with a lot of
dementia in my family, it’s great to hear
of any progress in the battle to fight
this horrible disease which affects 30
million people globally and is expected
to rise to 160 million by 2050.
Drugs take a long time to develop
and dementia is a complex nut to crack
as it’s now thought to have a variety
of causes. So, while we wait and hope
for a magic pill to stem the tide, some
recent research showing that lifestyle
changes can reverse cognitive decline
feels like a breakthrough. Even better,
if the research is correct, then making
the changes used by the researchers
could prevent the brain changes that
bring about serious problems later.
Admittedly, the trail was small: the
Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research
and Buck Institute for Research on
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on a holistic therapeutic programme.
After 3-6 months nine of them
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The programme was built around
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Patients taking part in the research
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with vitamins and minerals and were
screened for heavy metal toxicity but,
for the process of prevention, these
four ingredients – sleep, exercise, stress
reduction and stress management
– seem like a good place to start.
This is how it was done
Sleep: patients were told to get 7-8
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Beautiful
Eating
Recipes: Madeleine Shaw
Photographs: Martin Poole
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Food
Following her appearance at Wealden Times
Midsummer Fair last month, bestselling
food writer and nutritional health coach
Madeleine Shaw shares wholesome, flavourful
recipes supercharged with all the vitamins
and minerals your body needs to keep
you glowing with health all year round.
Oregano-Infused Potato Salad
with Fennel and Leeks
Potatoes have had a bad rep over the years. Sure, they
are a bit carby, but cold potatoes are rather spectacular.
You see, cold potatoes contain lots of starch... which is
amazing for your gut. And a healthy gut means clear
skin, so let’s get munching on those spuds – yum!
Serves 4 Prep time: 20 mins Cooking time: 25 mins
• 2 leeks, trimmed
• 1 tbsp avocado
oil or butter
• salt and freshly ground
black pepper, to taste
• 400g Jersey Royals
• 50ml veggie or chicken
stock, just boiled
• sprig of fresh
oregano, leaves
picked and chopped
• 100g rocket
• 1 fennel bulb
• 2 spring onions
• 30g walnuts,
roughly chopped
• 2 tbsp chopped
fresh parsley
• 1 tbsp olive oil
1. Finely chop the leeks into thin slivers. Heat
the oil in a large pan and sauté the leeks
with a pinch of salt and pepper for 20
minutes, until golden and caramelised.
2. While the leeks are cooking, boil the potatoes in a
pot of simmering salted water for 20-25 minutes
until tender. Drain them and slice in half, then put
back into the same pot you cooked them in. Pour
over the hot stock and add the oregano and a pinch
of salt. Leave while you prep the rest of the salad.
3. Place the rocket in a bowl. Thinly slice the fennel
with a mandolin into fine ribbons and add to the
rocket, then tip in the cooked leeks and potatoes.
4. Finely chop the spring onions and throw them
over the salad, along with the nuts, parsley, a big
pinch of salt and the olive oil. Toss and serve.
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Food
Chicken Ramen
Serves 4 Prep time: 15 mins
Cooking time: 25 mins
This is my take on one of our
Japanese favourites. Ramen has
totally exploded in popularity
in recent years, but what many
people don’t realise is that it’s
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• 1 tbsp coconut oil
or butter
• 1 tsp freshly grated ginger
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 500ml chicken stock
• 200g button mushrooms
• 1 red chilli, deseeded
and finely chopped
• 1 tbsp tamari or soy sauce
• 2 chicken breasts or
thighs, cut into strips
• 100g rice noodles
• 2 eggs
• salt, to taste
• 2 carrots, julienned
• juice of ½ lime
• 2 spring onions,
finely chopped
• 1 tbsp toasted
sesame seeds
1. Heat the oil in a large pan, add the ginger and garlic and sauté for 30 seconds. Next
add the stock, mushrooms, chilli, tamari and chicken pieces. Cook for 20 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, cook your rice noodles as per the packet instructions in a
separate pot. In another pot, boil the eggs in plenty of water for 4 minutes,
until the whites are cooked but the yolk is still runny. Once cool enough
to handle, peel and slice the eggs in half and sprinkle on a little salt.
3. Just before serving, throw the carrots and cooked noodles into the
soup and squeeze in the lime juice. Top with the boiled egg halves,
spring onions and sesame seeds, then serve immediately.
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Summer Lovin’ Bowl
My favourite film of all time is Grease... so you can see where
the name comes from. This is basically a combination of all the
things I love about summer. It’s a real mixture of things, but
it really packs a punch. Say hello to flavour and goodbye to
soggy lettuce in Tupperware, and take this to work instead!
Serves 2 Prep time: 15 mins Cooking time: 40 mins
• 2 large beetroots
• 1 tbsp avocado oil or
melted coconut oil
• salt and freshly ground
black pepper, to taste
• 100g buckwheat
• 1 cucumber, chopped into
1cm chunks
• 1 mango, peeled, stoned and
chopped into 1cm chunks
• juice of 1 lime
• 2 tbsp chopped fresh coriander
• 1 jalapeño chilli, deseeded
• 4 tbsp hummus
• 1 tbsp chopped walnuts
For the dressing
• 2 tbsp almond butter
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 tsp nutritional yeast
(if you can find it)
• 1 tsp tamari
• pinch of chilli powder
• pinch of smoked paprika
• 1 tbsp cold water
1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/
gas mark 6. Peel and cut the beetroots
into 2½cm chunks. Put in a roasting
tray and mix with the oil and a big
pinch of salt and pepper. Roast for
30-40 minutes until cooked through.
2. While the beetroots are cooking, cook
the buckwheat and make the dressing.
First rinse the buckwheat in warm
water, then place in a pot with 250ml
of cold water and a pinch of salt.
Bring to the boil and simmer for 12
minutes until cooked through and all
the water has been absorbed. Whisk
the dressing ingredients together.
3. Mix the cucumber, mango and lime
juice together with the coriander and
jalapeño. Plate up the roasted beets with
the cooked buckwheat, hummus and
walnuts, plus the cucumber and mango
salad. Drizzle over the dressing.
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Madeleines
It’s not a coincidence that I love
madeleines. My love for these
soft shell-shaped sponges
blossomed at a young age, but I also
lived in France for a brief time when
I returned from Australia. I’d just set
up my blog, and was experimenting
with how to make some of my
favourite treats gluten, dairy and
refined sugar free. Well, I finally did
it with the madeleines, but I have to
say I’m yet to crack the croissant!
Makes 16, serves 6-8
Prep time: 20 mins Cooking time: 10 mins
• 50g coconut oil, melted,
plus extra for greasing
• 60ml almond milk
• 85g maple syrup or honey
• grated zest of 1 lemon
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 120g buckwheat or
white spelt flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
For the strawberry chia jam
• 400g strawberries
• 4 tsp chia seeds
• 3 tbsp maple syrup
1. Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/
gas mark 5 and brush a madeleine
tray with melted coconut oil.
2. Make the jam by blending the
strawberries, chia seeds and
maple syrup until smooth.
Leave on the side – the chia
seeds will soak up the liquid
and the mixture will become
gelatinous after 10 minutes.
3. To make the madeleines, whisk the
coconut oil, almond milk, maple
syrup, lemon zest, egg and vanilla
together in a large bowl. Sift in the
flour, baking powder and bicarb
and stir to mix. Pour the batter
into the madeleine moulds and
bake in the oven for 10 minutes.
4. Serve the madeleines with a
dollop of jam. They are also
great dipped in chocolate.
These recipes are taken from A Year of
Beautiful Eating by Madeleine Shaw,
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The makings
of a garden
Sue Whigham talks about the evolution of her own
garden and perfect plant combinations
It was 1996 when we first saw the garden, and it
was love at first sight. There was a paddock for our
donkeys and an orchard behind the house with old
lichen covered apple trees. And many of them are still here,
looking a little elderly and some of which have become
climbing frames for roses. We’re eternally grateful to Miss
Richards who planted the orchard in 1952 and who left
us a now very faded hand written plan of her trees. What
wonderful varieties she sourced. A row of Peasgood’s
Nonsuch is still standing as well as the old Yorkshire
variety, Ribston Pippin, grown since the 18th Century,
and one of my favourites, the robust and delicious cooker,
M. ‘Arthur Turner’, still laden with fruit every autumn.
We’re trying to remember what we did first apart
from taking down some of the hurdles around the
orchard which housed a few pet sheep here and there
and rather foolishly buying a few tiny grass and ghost
carp to control the water lilies that had become triffid
like in the dew pond to the east of the house.
We think it must have been some of the
climbing and rambling roses that went in first.
One mistake was to plant a couple of climbers
up two of the Peasgood’s Nonsuch and whilst
they are still very much there, their nature
doesn’t really suit being trained up trees. We
didn’t really know then that ramblers are so
much better suited for the job whilst climbers
have a rather more complicated pruning regime
which is so difficult to carry out when they are
clambering around in their host’s branches.
We’d been reading Robin Lane Fox’s book,
Better Gardening, which we think might have
been the only gardening book we had then.
So taking his advice and reading what he said about Rosa
‘Blairii No. 2’ we started with that, seduced by his description
of a rose whose petals are so ‘tightly packed that the scent,
too, is doubled, like the fruit of a sweet white German
wine’. And it is true except that much of the bloom is now
too high to do anything but admire from ground level.
Rosa ‘Paul Transon’ was another early arrival and we can’t
“We’d been
reading Robin
Lane Fox’s book,
Better Gardening,
which we think
might have been
the only gardening
book we had then”
Hypericum and ‘Fox and Cubs’
recommend it more. We’d worked out by then that a rambler
was more suitable for the trees so this went in. It’s a repeat
flowerer, a rich salmon with ‘coppery overtones’ but the best
thing about it is its unusual and rich scent.
And then there were ramblers like Rosa
‘Phyllis Bide’ first spotted whilst on a bus
driving through Odiham, R. ‘Rambling
Rector’, too vigorous for its host, but showy,
and the delicate R. ‘Cecile Brunner’ which is
just coming out now and which uses a rather
decrepit old prunus as a climbing frame, the
soft pink of the rose combining with the
purple foliage. Later additions include R.
‘Wedding Day’ and two less vigorous roses,
R. ‘Apple Blossom’ and R. ‘Open Arms’,
both charming. Then Peter Beales sent us
a few shrub roses with delectable names
and these went in between the apple trees. R. ‘Madame
Hardy’ is lovely; white with a green eye but alas, no scent.
A few trees arrived, perhaps two or three a year, from Robert
Vernon’s Bluebell Nursery. These were bought as small plants
but soon grew on and we had few fatalities. I think it is a
good idea to start small if you feel you have the time to wait.
The trunk of the beautiful birch, B. ermanii split and
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Garden
R. ‘Open Arms’
hornets feasted on the sap. It had to be bandaged with the
remains of an old sheet but made a remarkable recovery. One
of the slowest trees to establish, a beautiful lime introduced
by Ernest Wilson from the wilds of China, Tilia henryana,
is now romping away and maybe one day soon it will start
to produce its autumn flowers. Look out for this one. It has
huge ovate leaves which are toothed and so very striking.
Clematis were planted here and there. Some have
thrived but in this last dry spell, two or three seem to have
disappeared. The soft pink C. ‘Duchess of Albany’ has gone
in this year with the idea of it providing late summer interest
through a grey leaved Elaeagnus ‘Quicksilver’. I love the late
flowering clematis. Their bell-like flowers appear when you
are least expecting them. The house and sheds are
smothered with C. montana ‘Wilsonii’. Many of
the plants have self seeded and combined with
a Persian ivy which arrived as a cutting from a
friend’s plant in Benenden. C. ‘Wilsonii’ is a
good doer and its fragrant white flowers come
a little later than many of the other montanas.
Gravel in the garden has proved to be
a fantastic growing medium as there is
always something new popping up and
there are now interesting combinations
of self sown hypericums and the prolific burnt orange
flowers of ‘Fox and Cubs’ which came from a Winchelsea
garden open under the National Garden Scheme and
a low growing Euphorbia cyparissias ‘Fens Ruby’.
Borders were dug and filled with a mixture of shrubs and
perennials. One border proved to be too ambitious and the
soil baked hard in the summer. As its nutritional value didn’t
seem to improve despite the addition of copious amounts
of compost and grit, we’ve abandoned ship and a third of it
has now been sown with a wild flower and grass mix from
Emorsgate Seeds. It’s a huge success this year although a
few less ox eye daisies in the mix would have been better.
What survivors these are. I have never known anything to
proliferate quite as much! The other parts of the border are
“It took years to
take out a huge
and exceedingly
geriatric privet
hedge from
round the little
vegetable patch”
R. ‘Blairi No.2’ in the trees
waiting for attention and meanwhile the teasels and purple
fennel have taken up residence and look very happy too.
It took years to take out a huge and exceedingly
geriatric privet hedge from round the little vegetable
patch, apparently highly prolific in our predecessors’ day.
Getting rid of this and replacing it with a picket fence
now planted up with a cultivated blackberry, boysenberries
and that really decorative Japanese Rubus
phoenicolasius is a great improvement and
it’s much more fun to see a few dahlias
and salvias growing together through the
kitchen window rather than the hedge.
A giant purple fennel has appeared and
reaches great heights by the end of the season
too and provides a good backdrop to Salvia
‘Amistad’ and that lovely variety, Salvia
confertiflora. Both of these need to be lifted at
the end of the year and a few cuttings taken but
they strike easily and are worth the effort. S. ‘Amistad’ starts
flowering in July – earlier if it has been kept in a greenhouse
– and its dark purple flowers are still going in November.
And so each year things change – a little. Some
plants start to outgrow their space and have to be hard
pruned; the apples need attention each winter and
gradually need replacing. Moss seems to take over the
lawn but by early June everything is looking rosy.
Sue Whigham can be contacted on 07810 457948 for
gardening advice and help in the sourcing and supply of
interesting garden plants.
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Second out, round two!
Jo Arnell explains that it’s never too late to get the most out of your veg garden over the summer months
I’m all for trying again when I don’t succeed, for never
saying die and persisting in the face of unsurmountable
odds; in another life I might be climbing mountains or
swimming the channel. In this one I’m attempting to grow
vegetables. It would be easy, if it weren’t for a myriad of
factors that conspire against me (my own nature probably
being one). There’s the weather – it is either too cold, too
windy, too hot or too many things in rapid succession; there
are pests galore helping themselves left and right, from above
and below. And then there are mysterious problems linked
to the soil, or the general health of the plants. Let’s not even
mention the events in life and work that take us far away
from thoughts of vegetable growing. It can be easy to lose
the plot. If you’ve been lucky, or very diligent, you may have
managed to avoid most pitfalls and already have harvested and
cleared a space. On the other hand (mine’s a grubby, blistered
one) one, or all of the above setbacks may have occurred;
the weather, the pests, or just life in general, have prevented
a harvest of any kind. In either scenario, this is the moment
to jump back in and start again. There is still time (you’ll be
glad to hear) to sow some vegetables from scratch this year.
Catch-up Crops
The weather and the soil have warmed and anything
sown now will be faster to germinate, in fact
some crops will grow so quickly that they almost
catch up with those sown earlier in the year.
Choose fast maturing vegetables and those that
don’t take long from sowing to harvest:
Radishes are so quick that they can even be grown in
between rows of slower growing vegetables, as they’ll be
harvested before their companions need the space.
Baby beetroot can be nearly as fast, with the added bonus
that you can harvest the young leaves for salads too.
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Summer crops can be prone to bolting – that is,
running to seed before you have a chance to harvest
them. Make sure that they get adequate water and sow
bolt proof varieties of things like beetroot, coriander
and spinach.
Fast maturing vegetables will give you a harvest
in just a few weeks, but this is also a good time for
sowing crops to harvest in the autumn and winter.
Salads, mange tout peas, baby carrots and dwarf beans
are quick croppers, while a row or two of kale, Swiss
chard, broccoli or spring cabbage will provide a harvest
during the colder months.
Pests can increase to plague proportions in the
summer months and decimate crops, so make sure that
you protect them with fine netting or fleece. Grow
carrots in raised containers to keep out carrot fly.
Tender plants like beans and courgettes must be
harvested before the first frosts arrive and need about
10-12 weeks from sowing to cropping.
Peas are useful to grow in succession – there’s a fast
one, aptly called ‘Meteor’ and then there are mange
tout varieties, which are eaten as young pods.
Dwarf beans are faster than climbing beans because they
don’t have to make a giant beanstalk before starting to
flower and form pods. Sowing to harvest time should be
around 10 weeks. Make sure that beans are well watered
in dry spells, especially when they’re forming their pods.
You should just get away with a sowing of courgettes
now too. Remember that courgettes and beans are
tender, so the latest you can sow for a harvest before
the frosts is probably July. Some years it stays mild until
December, but frosts can come as early as September…
July is generally the last month to sow carrots for an autumn
crop. Choose smaller varieties – there are quite a few stubby
ones around – ‘Chantenay’ is quite a good one, or a quick
growing variety such as ‘Amsterdam Forcing’. There are
even tiny round carrots, almost like orange radishes. Small
carrots can be eaten whole and don’t need peeling either.
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Salad days
Lettuce needs cool, light conditions in which to germinate.
They will grow in partial shade, which may be a better
place to sow it in summer, as lettuce is prone to bolting
in hot, dry conditions. Sow in succession if you eat a
lot – a pinch of seed every four weeks or so. Loose leaf
varieties like Salad Bowl, Lollo Rosso, or salad mixes
that contain a combination of leaves are useful, as you
can treat them as cut-and-come-again crops – just cut
and more leaves will grow from the base of the plant.
Rocket does what its name suggests, but may bolt
(run to seed) in very hot conditions, so might be
better sown towards the end of the month.
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Herbs, especially annuals like Coriander, Chervil, Dill and
Parsley (a biennial) are very easy to sow and grow. Depending
on how much you need, sow small quantities right through
the growing season. Coriander is prone to running to seed
almost before it grows any leaves, so grow a leafy variety like
Cilantro, which is less annoying and has the same flavour.
Planning ahead
This is a good time to start thinking about sowing crops for
the autumn and winter such as Swiss chard, perpetual spinach
and kale. These leafy stalwarts will provide harvests right
through the winter and into the early spring. Protect kale from
caterpillars in the summer, and pesky pigeons in the winter.
Oriental greens like pak choi, tatsoi and mustards like
mizuna (I also grow a pretty dark leaved one called ‘Red
Frills’) can be sown towards the end of the month. These
are best grown either side of the summer – so in the spring
or at the end of the summer. They are good and reliably
fast (pak choi may need a little watering, so that the base
swells – and it can get attacked by caterpillars). Sometimes
the leaves of oriental greens become peppered with tiny
holes, which are made by flea beetles. A really fine net or
fleece will protect them and ensure a supply of perfect
stir fries and spicy salads right through the autumn.
The rush of early season growth may be over, but the
soil is warm and welcoming and conditions are less prone
to extremes than they were back in the spring and early
summer. Watering may be an issue (let’s all wish for warm
dry days and rain at night…) and the pests are still as
hungry as vegetarian micro-wolves, but if you provide some
protection for the vulnerable crops and water judiciously
– when and where needed, you will soon be harvesting
some (more?) wonderful, home grown vegetables. So, if it
all went wrong back in the spring, or if you’re twiddling
your thumbs and looking at a nice empty space on your
plot, or even if you are finally getting round to thinking
about it, this is a very good time to get growing again,
in fact there’s no time to waste. Let’s get out there.
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Susan Elkin explores the demand for unqualified tutors
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Tutoring is a mixed blessing. In my time I’ve done
plenty of it – teaching all day in school and then
coaching children privately from other schools
in the evening because I had a young family and there
was never enough money. And of course many parents
buy extra help for their children because they are not
satisfied with what happens in schools especially when
there are entrance tests or public examinations at stake.
But what about tutors employed by schools? It seems to
be quite widespread. Earlier this year I saw, at Southwark
Playhouse, School Play by young playwright Alex MacKeith
whom I also interviewed. The play, now published by
Oberon, is inspired by Alex’s experience of being employed
as a new graduate, to tutor groups of primary school
pupils. The aim is to get the SATS results to the right
level so that the school qualifies for the level of funding
it needs. He was so fascinated by the dynamic of teachers
and tutors (and he knows lots of others) working alongside
each other in schools that he wrote a play about it.
Then, the other day, I found myself sitting at a family meal
next to a distant, by-marriage relation on her gap year. She’s
due to start a bio-chemistry degree at a prestigious university in
September. Meanwhile she’s working in three secondary schools
tutoring small maths and English groups to boost GCSE results.
“They’re not interested in science because it’s the maths and
English which affects the statistics,” she told me ruefully.
I find this both intriguing and worrying. The concern seems
to be driven entirely by figures, tables, the status of schools
and the future of the people who are working in them.
I’m surprised, too, that the teaching unions aren’t jumping
up and down, furious that their members are being “sidelined
by unqualified teenagers”. My dinner companion tells me,
incidentally, that she is paid even less than a teaching assistant
so it’s a good bargain for the school. She works in the north of
England and is paid partly by the schools she’s in and partly
by the local authority. She is, of course, one of dozens.
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Sat 1 July 12-5pm
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Sat 8 – Sun 9 July 10am-5pm
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Monchelsea, Maidstone, Kent
King John’s Nursery and Garden,
Saturday 1 July 7.30pm
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ME17 4HN
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St. George’s Church, Church Street,
jewellery from Wendy Penrose.
Boughton Monchelsea
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The Cobnut Food Fair
An Evening with
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Trade stands, arena events, BBQs,
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Gravesham Choral Society will be
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conducted by Alan Vincent, with
Mon 24 July - Mon 7 Aug, Mon -
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food and drink. There will be cookery
Eloise Irving as soprano and Malcolm
Weds 9am-6pm, Thurs 9am-8pm,
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Riley on organ. The programme
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Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate and
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Duruflé’s Requiem. Tickets available
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Textile Studio Exhibition
Thurs 6 – Sun 16 July
themselves or on the door.
An exhibition of contemporary
Various locations in Romney Marsh
Sat 8 – Sun 9 July 11am-6pm
Entry: £12, students £5
textiles and mixed media by artists
JAM on the Marsh
Stade Open Space, Hastings Old
Info: 01474 816684
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Romney Marsh to life as locations
Fish Festival
Sat 8 July
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dotted around the 15 mile marshland,
Learn to expertly prepare and cook
Leeds Castle, Penfold Hill (B2163),
including its beautiful medieval
fish and seafood, try your hand at
Maidstone, Kent ME17 1RG
Children & Family
churches, host a line up of 32 free
sea themed craft activities and enjoy
Leeds Castle Classical
and low priced events in a spectrum
live music from artists including The
Concert
Sat 15 July – Sun 3 September and
of music and art which embraces all
Kytes and Violet Jive.
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sat 9 – Sun 10 September
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Entry: £1 advance, £2 on the gate,
is set to deliver another masterful
Penshurst Place, Penshurst,
Under 18s free (tickets cover both days)
programme hosted by Aled Jones. Sip
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Fri 7 – Sun 9 July
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Summer Maize Maze
Kent Showground, Detling,
Rigby conducts the orchestra, the
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Kent County Show
a 1940s spitfire takes to the skies.
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A typical country showcase
Sat 8 – Sat 15 July
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Pashley Manor Gardens, Pashley
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combining the best of Kentish
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clues and riddles hidden throughout
animals, food and entertainment to
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bring you a wonderful family day out
Kitchen Garden Week
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July sees the Kitchen Garden of
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stands and over 300 competitions,
Pashley Manor ripe and ready to
Musical Evening
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Enjoy an evening of beautiful music
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Week, the gardeners behind this
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Tues 25 – Sun 30 July
re-creation of the manor’s garden will
the Waldron Handbell Ringers.
Arundel Castle, Arundel, West
Sat 15 – Sun 16 July
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Entry: £12 (including a glass of wine
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Boldshaves Garden, Woodchurch,
Entry: £10, HHA members free
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Sat 8 July 2pm
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Tues 4 July 10am-8pm
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A lovely way to enjoy a British
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Sat 22 July
Leeds Castle, Maidstone ME17 1PL
Open Air Theatre: Romeo
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What better setting for Shakespeare’s
great romantic tragedy than the
world’s loveliest castle? This timeless
tale of death-marked love will be
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which if you with patient ears attend,
what here shall miss, their toil shall
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Entry: Adults £12, Concession £10,
Under 4s Free
Info: 01622 767865 / leeds-castle.com
Thurs 27 – Sat 29 July
Haslemere Museum, 78 High St,
Haslemere GU27 2LA
The Guildburys Theatre
Company – Nell Gwynn
The Guildburys Theatre Company
are delighted to be performing Jessica
Swale’s award-winning comedy. This
warm hearted production tells the
story of an unlikely heroine, the
lowly orange seller who won the
adoration of the public and the heart
of the King. The beautiful grounds
of Haslemere Museum provide the
perfect setting for outdoor open-air
theatre, so grab a picnic, uncork the
wine and head to the lawns for a
highly entertaining evening.
Info: guildburys.com
Workshops
Sun 16 July 10.30am-4pm
Belmont House and Gardens,
Belmont, Belmont Park, Throwley,
Kent ME13 0HH
Spoon Carving
For any readers looking to learn a
new skill, book now to get yourself
into this fantastic workshop with
limited spaces. Badger Bushcraft’s Phil
will be demonstrating and instructing
on how to make your own spoon
safely and expertly. The suggested age
range is 13 and up, and lunch and
refreshments will be provided.
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Jane Howard’s
Fables from the Farm
Jane is thrilled to see that her wildflower meadow is a blooming success at last
Summer has at last arrived. Everyone
who is going to give birth has
done so, the sheep and cattle
are all happily grazing outside and the
grass is not yet high enough to make
hay. So it’s a time of relative peace and
calm and our focus has turned to our
six- rather than four-legged friends.
I have written before about the flower
meadow we painstakingly planted two
years ago. Quite a performance, for first
we had to kill off five acres of grass – no
mean feat, three times we sprayed it and
twice it bounced straight back – and then
we had to rip up the
dead thatch to reveal bare
soil. Then we sowed a
typical Weald assortment
– including the now
quite rare Ragged Robin,
Yellow Rattle and Corn
Cockle – and while we
were thrilled when the
bare brown earth turned green, the first
year was mainly common annuals such
as poppies, daisies and cornflowers.
This year however, I am happy to
report, the meadow looks much more like
the meadow I imagined, a kaleidoscope
of delicate flowers against a backdrop of
green leaf and red sorrel. Lovely. Even
better news, while last year there was
a definite lack of insect life, this year
it is positively humming with a huge
variety of bees, beetles and butterflies.
This is great to see, as here at Coopers
Farm our thoughts are turning more
“There are more
than 2,500
different moths
native to the UK”
and more to encouraging pollinators.
And while we have five beehives in
another part of the farm, honey bees
account for a surprisingly small fraction
of pollination. Wild bees, and a huge
variety of bumbles, hoverflies, moths
and butterflies do most of the work!
To encourage butterflies we have been
busy cutting glades into a woodland
along a fence line where it meets the field.
Every few hundred metres, ideally near a
pussy willow if we can find one, we have
chopped down some trees and saplings to
make small clearings that are south facing
and open to the sky
but entered on an eastfacing
edge. It’s called a
scalloped margin. Once
the sun gets in it will
only take one season
for dormant seeds on
the woodland floor to
burst into life providing
a varied habitat. But our property
developments don’t stop there and we are
also making bee ‘hotels’ – oak logs drilled
with 5mm and 6mm holes for solitary
bees to crawl in, lay eggs and hibernate.
Needless to say, to achieve these
new habitats and to make sure our
endeavours are as des res as they can
possibly be we have had a lot of help
from Laurie, our local expert from the
charity Buglife. And very excitingly she
turned up one evening last week to carry
out our first nocturnal moth audit.
This is quite a palaver but, full of
anticipation of what we might find,
we filled our Thermos (and hip) flasks
and set off about nine o’clock into the
woods. The moth trap is rather like a
sawn-off dustbin, placed on a white
sheet, filled with egg boxes and topped
with a clear dome holding a bright
light bulb to draw in the moths.
And hey presto, along they came.
There are more than 2,500 different
moths native to the UK, so you can
appreciate the English names get
quite weird and wacky at times. The
Common Wave (as opposed to a royal
one?), the Puss moth, Triple Lines,
Carpets, there’s even a Tunbridge Wells
Gem out there, but not that night
in our Sussex fields. Some of them
have adorable fluffy faces like kittens,
others look like dead tough hockey
goalies. Some are plain like the Straw
Dots, while others were marvellously
patterned like the Marbled Carpet.
A whole new journey of discovery!
On the night, we trapped (and
released) more than 30 different
moths. Only 2,470 to go!
Follow Jane Howard – and the farm
– on Instagram @coopersfarm
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