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Contents 

July 2017 

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ALL IN THE DETAIL 

Maggie Alderson’s homes 

for downsizers 

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BEACH BEAUTY 

Josephine Fairley’s tips 

for beach chic 

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THE MAKINGS OF A GARDEN 

Sue Whigham describes the evolution 

of her own outside space 

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JULY NOTEBOOK 

Fill your diary with handpicked 

events going on 

around the Weald 

GRAND DESIGN 

Explore Karen Hahnel’s striking 

St. Leonards apartment 

GET THE LOOK 

Style your home monochrome 

MONOLITHIC MAGIC 

Marta Nowicka’s converted 

St John Ambulance station 

GET THE LOOK 

Perfect products to 

recreate Marta’s look 

GARDEN PARTY 

Relaxed summer fashion 

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SAVOUR THE SUMMER 

This month’s bitesize 

health news 

NEVER TOO LATE! 

Sarah Maxwell’s tips for 

building an exercise routine 

THE POWER OF 

THE MIND 

Julie Simpson looks at research 

into cognitive decline 

BEAUTIFUL EATING 

Madeleine Shaw’s recipes 

for a healthy body 

JUST ADD WATER 

Our pick of in-ground 

swimming pools 

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SECOND OUT, ROUND TWO 

Jo Arnell’s late summer veg 

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Susan Elkin looks into tutoring 

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FABLES FROM THE FARM 

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THE ELMBRIDGE SUITE 

Don’t miss an opportunity to own the premier retirement 

apartment in one of the region’s finest private retirement villages. 

Be amongst the very first to view this exclusive property. 

Bookings for private viewings now being taken. 

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• Separate living room with log burning fireplace 

• Stylish en suites and bathrooms 

• Landscaped gardens with extensive rear views 

• Underfloor heating to the ground floor 

Book your appointment to view The Crimbourne with Roger Coupe on 01483 268 555 

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Details and prices correct at time of going to press. 

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Buildings for conversion 

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Commercial buildings for 

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When all hope 

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Many of our clients retain our services and, in the majority of cases, 

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We are alWays on the lookout for property With development potential

NOW SELLING 

Set in the heart of the historic Wildernesse Estate, this development includes the restoration of 

the main house, together with a series of 8 newly built mews houses available for sale this summer. 

These two-bedroom houses benefit from access to all that’s on offer across the estate, from the spa 

and lounge to the restaurant and extensive landscaped grounds. 

Mews house prices from £735,000 

To book an appointment or find out more, call or visit: 

01732 789 740 

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Retirement livin 

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83 Bates Road, Brighton 

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Parking Space at Bonnetts Lane Car Park, 

Bonnetts Lane, Ifield, Crawley 

A fantastic opportunity to acquire this leasehold parking 

space situated close to Gatwick airport. 

The space is currently sub let for the term of two years 

expiring in December 2017 at the current rent of £2,000 per 

annum. 

It is considered ideal for immediate investment with future 

potential for private use. 

Guide: £30,000 Plus 

Battle Road, St Leonards-on-Sea 

An exciting opportunity to acquire this substantial detached 

church with good road links to The Ridge, Conquest Hospital, 

A21 and the neighbouring town of Battle. 

The building offers extensive accommodation over two floors 

including a second floor mezzanine level overlooking the 

congregation area. In addition, at the rear of the property, 

is a further building comprising three garages and first floor 

storage. 

Guide: £225,000-230,000 

Wilton Road, 

Bexhill-on-Sea 

A lower ground floor 

basement flat situated 

close to Bexhill town 

centre, mainline railway 

station and seafront. 

The flat is sold with 

vacant possession and is 

considered ideal for owner 

occupation, investment or 

holiday home. 

This self-contained flat 

with private entrance 

and double glazing is 

also within easy reach of 

the De La Warr Pavilion 

and offers good road 

links to the A259 coast 

road. epc:tbc 

Guide: £50,000-52,000 

London Road, 

Bexhill-on-Sea 

A ground floor shop 

located on the west side 

of London Road. 

This busy thoroughfare 

is situated on the edge 

of Bexhill town centre 

within easy access of the 

A259, the mainline railway 

station and seafront. 

The shop is let on a five 

year lease with a rent 

review at three years and 

is considered ideal as 

a continued investment 

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Guide: £75,000-80,000 

Guides are provided as an indication of each Seller’s minimum expectation. They are not necessarily figures which a property will sell 

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Cobham Surrey 

New homes just released 

–Designed exclusively for the over 55s 

–An exclusive gated development of 30 two, three and 

four-bedroom apartments and duplexes as well as two 

and three-bedroom houses 

–Generously-proportioned living space 

–Most homes have outside space in the form of 

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–Private allocated parking 

–Energy-efficient and easy to maintain 

–High quality specification including bespoke kitchens 

–Estate management service 

–Conveniently located close to shops 

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Beautiful, spacious one, two, three and four 

bedroom apartments and two bedroom 

cottages, all with outside space 

Our superb facilities include a swimming pool, 

hydrotherapy pool, fitness centre, therapy suite, 

coffee shop, restaurant, bar, hair salon, spa, 

village shop, carpet bowls and croquet lawn 

plus regular activities, trips and excursions 

Designed to make life easier for our residents 

by minimising the challenges of daily living, 

allowing everyone who lives here to relax and 

enjoy their later years 

To arrange a visit: 

Call: 01344 874250 Visit: lynwoodvillage.co.uk 

Email: sales@lynwoodvillage.co.uk 

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A charity registered in England and Wales (no.297877) and Scotland (no.SC039842).

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. 

1. 

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. Elmbridge Village 

3. Lynwood Village 

4. Lion Place 

Where? Elmbridge Village is situated 

in a leafy location just outside the village 

of Cranleigh, which enjoys an excellent 

mix of independent and high street 

stores and cafes. Cranleigh is just over 

twenty minutes from Guildford, with 

its forty minute rail link to London and 

Gatwick airport is a 35 minute drive. 

What? Elmbridge made history as the 

UK’s first privately owned retirement 

community and still continues to grow, 

with new apartments selling out fast. 

Facilities are constantly updated and 

there is a ‘country club’ style main 

communal area called Elmbridge Manor, 

plus a restaurant, bar, lounge, a library, 

a shop and a surgery. There is also a 

very large range of clubs and activities, 

including allotments, croquet and 

qigong. Properties vary, but the majority 

of the new ones are two bed, with one 

bathroom and an en suite shower room, 

fully fitted kitchen and living/dining 

area. There is a 24 hour emergency 

service and domiciliary care is available. 

How much? Prices at the village start 

from £135,000 up to £430,000. A recent 

addition of newly built homes is nearly 

sold out, but those remaining are priced 

from £375,000 to £430,000. Check out 

the website at retirementvillages.co.uk and 

call 01372 383950 to find out more. 

Where? Lynwood Village is an 

award-winning retirement village in 

the sought-after village of Sunninghill, 

in leafy surrounds near Ascot. 

What? A range of properties from 

one- to four-bed apartments – some 

of them duplex – and two-bedroom 

cottages. All fittings are of the highest 

quality with built-in storage, en suite 

shower rooms, high-level plug sockets 

etc. The kitchens have NEFF appliances. 

The village has a 24-hour concierge and 

emergency support, plus exceptional 

facilities including a restaurant, bar, 

coffee shop, beauty spa, hair salon and 

shop – plus a swimming pool, fitness 

and leisure facilities for exclusive use 

of homeowners. Taking a long-term 

view, there is a specialised team of 

permanent staff available to provide a 

full range of tailored domiciliary care. 

Lynwood also has a vibrant programme 

of activities and social events. 

How much? Prices range from 

£415,000 to £1,270,000. For more 

information call 01344 874250, or email 

sales@lynwoodvillage.co.uk. You can see 

more on the website lynwoodvillage.co.uk 

Where? White Lion Place sits in the 

heart of the stylish town of Cobham, in 

the area that has been described by the 

Daily Mail as the best place to live in the 

UK. Leatherhead and Walton-on-Thames 

are each under 15 minutes drive and 

London is 40 minutes by train. Heathrow 

is 15 miles, making it the ideal ‘lock up 

and leave’ home. The award-winning 

Painshill Park – 158 acres of 18th century 

parkland – is almost on the doorstep. 

What? An exclusive gated development 

for the over 55s, of two, three and fourbedroom 

apartments and two and threebedroom 

houses. Six apartments are housed 

in a sensitively converted Grade II listed 

Georgian building, which was once the 

first stop on the stage coach route from 

London to Portsmouth, the other 24 new 

homes are spread across three buildings. 

All are impeccably stylish, energy efficient 

and finished to the highest standards, with 

generous proportions. They all have some 

form of outside space from Juliette balconies 

to roof terraces and private gardens. The 

main building has underground parking. 

How much? Prices range from 

£895,000 to £910,000. Check it out on 

beechcroft.co.uk and call 01932 588963. 

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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Award Winning Care Homes 

Sussex Healthcare is an award winning 

group of care homes providing over 30 years 

of healthcare in Sussex. The Group operates 

20 homes, predominantly in the West 

Sussex area, providing over 600 placements, 

incorporating specialist care provision as 

well as care for older people. 

Care for older people: 

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Forest Lodge Nutley 01825 712514 

Horncastle House Sharpthorne 01342 810219 

Kingsmead Care Centre Horsham 01403 265335 

Longfield Manor Billingshurst 01403 786832 

Rapkyns Care Home Horsham 01403 265096 

Upper Mead Henfield 01273 492870 

Care homes for people with learning and/or physical 

disabilities, neurological conditions, acquired brain 

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and Hazel Lodge East Grinstead 01342 300499 

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and Oak Lodge Horsham 01403 791725 

The Granary Horsham 01403 327500 

Horncastle Care Centre Sharpthorne 01342 813910 

Kingsmead Care Centre Horsham 01403 265335 

Kingsmead Lodge Horsham 01403 211790 

Norfolk Lodge Horsham 01403 218876 

Orchard Lodge 

and Boldings Lodge Horsham 01403 242278 

Rapkyns Care Centre 

(The Grange) Horsham 01403 276756 

The Laurels Horsham 01403 220770 

Rapkyns Care Home Horsham 01403 265096 

Sycamore Lodge Horsham 01403 240066 

White Lodge Croydon 02087 632586 

Wisteria Lodge 

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Woodhurst Lodge Crawley 01444 401228 

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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 

 


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. 

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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, 

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“In Richmond I couldn’t afford to upgrade to a two 

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for another room and I didn’t want to move to a less 

lovely part of London to get it. Then I was chatting to 

my hairdresser, who told me she and her partner had 

just been looking at property in St Leonards. 

“I hadn’t even heard of it, but I started looking and two 

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 

specific – I quickly knew it could only be one of the 25 

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.” 

 


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 

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Now featuring a deep contemporary oval bath with 

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characteristic bold scale, plus a basin atop a black painted 

unit, the bathroom, while relatively small, packs just 

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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 


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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is evident in the master bedroom 

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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.” 

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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 

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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 

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flair in a wall papered with a bold design featuring the 

pressed tin ceilings found in houses in her native Melbourne, 

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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, 

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pooling in from the window on one side to the rear. 

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regularly swap their homes about) but as I look around this 

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bit remote there,” she says. “I wanted to be in Rye for the 

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time to see it and by the time I contacted the agent 

they said, ‘sorry, it’s been sold.’ I asked them to let 


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 

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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, 

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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 

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Marta knocked down the 1970s addition at the back 


Quote 

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 

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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 

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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 

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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 

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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 

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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. 

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This page: Throughout the house, exposed brickwork contrasts 

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and the company’s ethos. “I want DOM to be the go-to 

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I’m sure I’m not the only person whose heart sinks at 

the sight of yet another ‘Get Yourself Beach-Ready’ 

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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 

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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 

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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. 

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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 

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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, 

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UVB but firms and moisturises, 

boosted by botanicals including 

green tea and avocado. 

StEP four: reach for an 

SPF lip balm. You may notice 

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 

a combo of sea breezes and salt can become incredibly dry. 

I’m a massive fan of Lanolips Tinted Balm SPF30, £7.99 for 

12.5g (the SPF30 version, as opposed to the widely available 

SPF15, is at feelunique.com); it slicks lips with a sheen of sheer 

colour – and my favourite shade is Rhubarb, which would 

frankly flatter any complexion. Protection and glamour, in one. 

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 

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Look the age you 

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Nita’s Story 

Age 67, Mallorca, Spain 

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(left to right) Before Nita’s surgery and one month after Concept Facelift, 

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Since turning 60, I have felt that everything suddenly started 

to change with my appearance. In particular, over the last few 

years I have become very unhappy with my jowls and wrinkly 

neckline. I knew a surgical 

facelift was the only way to 

address the issue. 

I live in Spain so it was difficult 

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consultation in person, but Amir 

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Before my surgery I met Amir again and he went through 

everything with me and answered all my questions. I was a 

little apprehensive about the local anaesthetic injections, but 

really it was just like I’d experienced at the dentist getting a 

filling. Throughout the procedure, one of the nursing team 

I would absolutely recommend Amir 

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stayed by my side to hold my hand and she and Amir chatted 

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Despite a little swelling, there 

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Savour the summer 

Surrey Homes talks to Katherine Slater from Bee Potion 

Health & Beauty 

Do you have a beauty 

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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 

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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. 

Bee Potion creates skincare 

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Sulphur, the 

beauty mineral 

Sulphur, which is found in 

the ocean, is known for its 

ability to support collagen 

production, promote 

circulation and decrease 

inflammation. A new range 

of body scrubs from The 

Salt Parlour, a Kent based 

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power of organic sulphur 

with Dead Sea salts, 

minerals and cold-pressed 

oils to exfoliate the skin and 

leave it soft and nourished. 

There are six different salts 

to choose from and we tried 

their ‘Jasmine and Matcha 

Green Tea for Repair’ scrub. 

We loved it for its subtle 

scent, gentle exfoliation and 

for making our rough postwinter 

limbs beach-ready. 

The scrubs retail at £15.000 

and are natural, vegan, 

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Mediterranean magic 

As we move into high summer, 

deliciously sweet, flavoursome 

English tomatoes are in the 

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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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. 

Sarah Maxwell is a professional 

PT and group exercise 

instructor based in 

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Health 

The power 

of the mind 

Julie Simpson looks at new research 

showing that lifestyle changes can 

reverse cognitive decline 

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All the older women in my family 

– my mother, her mother and 

both her sisters – suffered from 

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 

Aging at the University of California 

put ten patients exhibiting memory 

loss due to Alzheimer’s or dementia 

on a holistic therapeutic programme. 

After 3-6 months nine of them 

showed significant improvements in 

memory – and astonishingly, six of 

the nine were able to return to work. 

The programme was built around 

four things: optimising diet, getting 

plenty of exercise, having 8 hours 

sleep a night and reducing stress. 

Patients taking part in the research 

also had their diet supplemented 

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 

hours sleep which is needed to repair the 

body and restore the mind. Researchers 

included a 12-hour food fast at night, 

with supper being eaten three hours 

before bedtime, to reduce insulin levels. 

Diet: patients were put on plant-based 

diets, eliminating carbohydrates, gluten 

and processed food. They ate non-farmed 

fish and avoided ‘inflammatory’ foods 

like red meat, coffee, alcohol and dairy. 

Stress: patients did stress busting 

techniques comprising a daily meditation 

or mindfulness practice plus yoga classes. 

Exercise: optimum exercise 

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or cycling for 30-60 minutes a 

day, four to six days a week. 

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also cheaper than taking a pill and 

has far fewer side effects. According 

to Dale Bredesen, who authored the 

research, it is noteworthy that the 

major side effect of this therapeutic 

system is improved health and 

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I think I can live with that. 

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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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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 

so easy to make at home when 

you want a warming meal. 

Chicken stock is great when 

you’re feeling run-down because 

it contains immune-boosting 

minerals such as calcium, 

magnesium, phosphorus, silicon 

and sulphur, which makes ramen 

such fantastic comfort food. 

• 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. 

 


Food 

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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Food 

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, 

published by Trapeze in hardback and 

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Sue Whigham talks about the evolution of her own 

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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 

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reading Robin 

Lane Fox’s book, 

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which we think 

might have been 

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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 

 


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 

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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. 

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interesting garden plants. 


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Garden 

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 

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The weather and the soil have warmed and anything 

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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. 

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Garden 

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 

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Herbs, especially annuals like Coriander, Chervil, Dill and 

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and kale. These leafy stalwarts will provide harvests right 

through the winter and into the early spring. Protect kale from 

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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 

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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 

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stir fries and spicy salads right through the autumn. 

The rush of early season growth may be over, but the 

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Fitzpatrick’s vision of togetherness 

Friday 21 July 6pm – 9pm 

sees a brand new challenge of a 5km 

Fri 14 – Sat 15 July, and 

regardless of colour, sexuality, 

RHS Garden Wisley, Wisley 

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Sat 19 – Sun 20 Aug 

religion, nationality or species. 

Lane, Woking GU23 6QB 

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Guildford Lido, Lido Road, Stoke 

Info: onelivefestival.co.uk 

Wisley Late 

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Park, Guildford GU1 1HB 

The flagship RHS Garden is 

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Open Air Cinema 

Food 

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summer days and staying open 

under the stars this summer. Enjoy 

Sat 8 July 11am – 4pm 

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Thurs 13 – Sat 15 July 

an evening swim from 7pm to 8pm, 

Denbies Wine Estate, London 

experience the tranquillity of this 

Liquid Leisure Boat & Cable Park, 

then order a cocktail and a Mexican 

Road, Dorking RH5 6AA 

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Horton Road, Datchet SL3 9HY 

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One Day Wine Workshop 

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Plastic Playground Wake 

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6pm: Adults £7, Children £5 

The all-time greatest male and female 

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wake park riders from all over the 

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world meet at Liquid Leisure for 

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Music & Theatre 

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champion Aaron Gunn, former 

Sat 15 July 

grape varieties and wine regions, and 

Sat 1, Sun 2, Sat 8 and Sun 9 July 

world champion Courtney Angus, 

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Thurs 20 July 

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Epsom Downs Racecourse, Epsom 

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Sat 22 July – Sun 3 Sept 

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Yvonne Arnaud, Millbrook, 

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the EAT! Live Kitchen, Ginporium 

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half concert from Culture Club’s 

Animal Antics 

Cocktail Fight, and demos and 

The Railway Children 

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The summer schedule at Godstone 

tastings at the open fire pit. 

Lucy Betts directs this fantastic 

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Farm sees pig racing, a ferret agility 

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musical adaptation of E. Nesbit’s 

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Millmead Island, the 

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Cheese Festival 

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Stoke Park, London Road, 

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Sun 9 July 

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medicine for animals and humans, 

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Hazeley Heath, Mattingley, 

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Butterflies in Summer 

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Suitable footwear and clothing 

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Woking Park, Kingfield 

Road, Woking GU22 9BA 

Party in the Park 

A rocking 60s and 70s themed Party 

which celebrates the era’s iconic 

music, art and entertainment in 

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40th anniversary and Status Quo’s 

Rick Parfitt who sadly passed 

away last Christmas Eve. 

Entry: Free 

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Sun 16 July 10am – 4pm 

Painshill, Portsmouth Rd, 

Cobham KT11 1JE 

Jane Austen Day 

On the bicentenary of the great 

authoress’ death, Painshill is 

transporting you back to the 

eighteenth century. There will be 

readings from Austen’s classic novels 

in the follies as well as Georgian 

treats, activities and games. 

Entry: Included with 

standard admission 

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Theatre 

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 perform Jessica 

Swale’s award-winning comedy. It’s 

the story of an unlikely heroine, the 

lowly orange seller who won the 

adoration of the public and the heart 

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Workshops 

Fri 14 July 

Birtley Estate, Bramley, 

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Wood Sculpting 

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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 

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