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PRICELESS<br />
MARCH <strong>2018</strong><br />
FASHION Supplement <strong>inside</strong><br />
Inspirational Interiors • Fabulous <strong>Fashion</strong> • Delicious Dishes
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Trends • Jeans • Bags • Shoes • Specs<br />
Contents<br />
<strong>March</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
22<br />
41<br />
48<br />
73<br />
75<br />
80<br />
48<br />
HOUSE OF THE MONTH<br />
Maggie Alderson finds homes with<br />
open plan kitchen and living areas<br />
105<br />
109<br />
MARCH NOTEBOOK<br />
Interesting things to know about this<br />
month in the <strong>Surrey</strong><br />
THE WHITE STUFF<br />
Atlanta Bartlett and Dave Coote’s<br />
masterclass in light and airy beach<br />
house style<br />
GET THE LOOK<br />
Be inspired by the cabin’s breezy style<br />
MIXED METALLICS<br />
The new trend for interesting<br />
bathroom finishes<br />
GLAMOUR-AMA<br />
This Hastings house is a gloriously<br />
glam tribute to high fashion<br />
GET THE LOOK<br />
Get going with the glitter, gloss and<br />
gold<br />
FACE OFF WINTER<br />
Jo Fairley urges us to treat our skin<br />
80– and ourselves – to a nourishing<br />
face mask<br />
112<br />
115<br />
116<br />
123<br />
125<br />
129<br />
TAKING A MOMENT<br />
New wellbeing writer Eminé<br />
Rushton shares her own beauty<br />
routine<br />
GET FIT FOR SPRING IN 3<br />
MONTHS<br />
The final part of Sarah-Jane Holt’s<br />
programme<br />
LET’S HAVE LUNCH<br />
Easy-wheeling spring lunches from<br />
Margate-based artisan bakery The<br />
Baker’s Bicycle<br />
MAKE LIKE A MIXOLOGIST<br />
Silent Pool gin cocktails to make<br />
at home<br />
130<br />
137<br />
145<br />
147<br />
151<br />
152<br />
SCENTS OF SPRING<br />
Even before your garden is in full bloom<br />
it can be heavenly scented<br />
POTS OF LOVE<br />
Jo Arnell’s tips on how to make a<br />
planted container for Mother’s Day<br />
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6<strong>supplement</strong><br />
SEED THE DAY<br />
Sue Whigham celebrates the spring joy of<br />
swapping seeds<br />
THE BRAINS OF TOMORROW<br />
Three schools tell us about their brilliant<br />
new facilities<br />
NURTURE THE CHILD<br />
Wise words from our new education<br />
columnist, Hilary Wilce<br />
WHAT’S ON<br />
All the happening things this month<br />
COMPETITION<br />
Win £250 to spend on gentlemen’s<br />
clothing at County Clothes<br />
FABLES FROM THE FARM<br />
Jane Howard is sleeping in the lambing<br />
shed – with the girls<br />
FASHION<br />
SUPPLEMENT<br />
24 pages of spring<br />
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83 Bates Road, Brighton<br />
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62/62a Elliott Road, London, W4 1PE<br />
A rare opportunity to acquire this substantial freehold block<br />
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over three floors. epc:tbc<br />
Guide: £2.2 Million Plus* + fees<br />
34a The Hornet, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 7JG<br />
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Ordnance Survey © Crown Copyright (2017). All Rights Reserved. Licence Number<br />
LIG1016. Plans are for location purposes only.<br />
Land rear of 164 Macdonald Road, Lightwater, GU18 5YB<br />
A freehold parcel of woodland situated within a predominantly<br />
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Guide: £5,000-10,000* + fees<br />
Road<br />
19 Bourne Lane, Caterham, CR3 5SP<br />
Situated within the London commuter belt this three bedroom<br />
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Guide: £380,000-390,000* + fees<br />
Guides are provided as an indication of each Seller’s minimum expectation. They are not necessarily figures which a property will sell for<br />
0m 20m 40m 60m<br />
and may change at any time prior to Auction. Unless stated otherwise, each Lot will be offered subject to a reserve (a figure below which<br />
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the Auctioneer cannot<br />
Licence number 100022432. Plotted<br />
sell<br />
Scale - 1:1652<br />
the Lot during the Auction). We expect the reserve will be set within the guide range or no more than 10%<br />
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The Lane, Ifold, West Sussex<br />
The Olde Garden is a bespoke development of just three newly built family houses in a semi-rural<br />
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Asking Price £810,000<br />
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This property<br />
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HOUSE OF THE MONTH by Maggie Alderson<br />
1.<br />
Modern living<br />
Maggie Alderson finds homes with kitchens you can eat and live in<br />
How many hours of sleep – if not whole heads of hair and even<br />
marriages -– have been lost over the stress of renovations? It all seems<br />
so simple, obvious really, rude not to, in fact, as you sweep through<br />
your potential new home imagining how lovely it would be if you ‘just knocked<br />
through’ and then ‘just added a tiny extension’…<br />
In your mind that somewhat dark dwelling, with rather poky rooms, is already<br />
rendered an airy light-filled space, that most desirable of 21st Century housing<br />
features. And with those trifling – you think, in your house-drunk state – tweaks<br />
your new home will also have the number one domestic feature de nos jours: the<br />
eat-in kitchen/family room.<br />
What we all long for, it seems, is to make the dinner in the same room our<br />
children are doing their homework in (or, more likely, gawping covertly at<br />
Snapchat), or be deftly chopping up the final ingredients for the salad while our<br />
dinner guests waft around us, with glasses of wine, chatting.<br />
In our imaginations, of course we are doing this family dinner prep in the<br />
harmonious hum of academic concentration, or chopping and chatting in a<br />
floaty dress, the space as immaculate as our nails. Sizzle sizzle, scribble scribble,<br />
chop chop, pop, fizz, clink clink, ha ha ha…<br />
In real life, however, we won’t be able to hear The Archers for kids squabbling<br />
and would be too exhausted to chat with friends, from the time spent deep<br />
cleaning the kitchen after doing the bulk of the food prep before they arrived.<br />
Despite that, the flowing space of the kitchen/family room is what we all<br />
desire. So rather than kill ourselves to get it, spending twice the budget, over<br />
twice the time promised by the builders, while microwaving dinner on the<br />
landing and washing up in the bath… why not move into a heavenly apartment<br />
where it has been designed by someone else to be that way?<br />
surrey-homes.co.uk<br />
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1. Commonweal Lodge<br />
Where? Commonweal Lodge is a<br />
new development built on the site of<br />
the former Commonweal school on the<br />
Webb Estate on the outskirts of Purley.<br />
The estate was conceived and developed<br />
by local entrepreneur William Webb in<br />
the late 1800s as a garden suburb ‘country<br />
landscape for city dwellers’, located just<br />
15 miles from central London. Just 1.5<br />
miles from Purley, which has retained its<br />
leafy village atmosphere, from where trains<br />
take under 30 minutes to London at peak<br />
times.<br />
What? One of just four truly luxurious<br />
apartments, Apartment 3 is a duplex on<br />
the first floor (via lift or stairs) with floor<br />
space of 2,710sq ft, with high ceilings<br />
and everything finished to a very high<br />
spec. Double doors lead from the hall<br />
to the expansive kitchen, dining and<br />
family area, with two sets of French<br />
doors opening onto the private L-shaped<br />
terrace, presenting elevated views over<br />
the landscaped rear gardens. The master<br />
bedroom suite has a dressing area plus<br />
a luxurious bathroom. On the second<br />
floor, there is a guest suite and bedroom<br />
three with a separate bathroom. There is<br />
an open-plan study area on the galleried<br />
landing.<br />
How much? Apartment 3 is marketed<br />
by Walter & Mair and is POA. 0208 660<br />
6674 walterandmair.co.uk
2.<br />
3.<br />
4.<br />
2.<br />
3.<br />
4.<br />
2. Knowle Hill Park<br />
3. Ravensbourne<br />
4. Sondes Place<br />
Where? The Knowle Hill Park<br />
Country Estate is surrounded by<br />
45 acres of secluded private woods<br />
and parkland, five minutes from the<br />
charming <strong>Surrey</strong> village of Cobham.<br />
Almost equidistant between Heathrow<br />
(20 miles) and Gatwick airports (24<br />
miles), Cobham & Stoke d’Abernon<br />
train station is approximately one and<br />
a half miles with regular services to<br />
Waterloo in around 40 minutes.<br />
What? This luxury garden<br />
apartment is the show home in this<br />
exclusive development. There is a<br />
very large kitchen/dining/living area<br />
with bay windows and doors onto<br />
the terrace. The large master en suite<br />
bedroom has a dressing area, while the<br />
generous second bedroom is served<br />
by a shower room. There is a separate<br />
utility room. The apartments share use<br />
of a purpose-built gym.<br />
How much? This apartment<br />
has a reserve price of £2,100,000.<br />
Please contact Savills, Cobham 01932<br />
586200 savills.com<br />
Where? The Ravensbourne Collection<br />
is four miles south of Bromley, in the<br />
village of Keston. The Keston Ponds and<br />
Common location is surrounded by treelined<br />
roads, large detached properties and<br />
gated estates. It’s 17 minutes to Victoria<br />
from Bromley South station. Hayes and<br />
Orpington stations are also near with<br />
connections to other London stations.<br />
What? This Victorian manor house is<br />
being transformed into seven apartments,<br />
and four new-build houses, all with<br />
private terraces or gardens and views<br />
across three acres of grounds. Apartment<br />
3 incorporates the grandest room in the<br />
original manor house with impressive<br />
proportions and windows throughout,<br />
plus a private terrace wrapping round<br />
two sides. The kitchen/dining/living<br />
area is nearly 1000 sq ft, with a large<br />
bay window at one end. The master<br />
suite has an en suite, with a separate loo<br />
and dressing area. There are two further<br />
bedrooms with a family bathroom and<br />
another guest loo. As well as a club<br />
room with a boot room and storage, the<br />
development has a dog-wash facility and a<br />
cold room for online grocery deliveries.<br />
How much? Apartment 3 has an<br />
asking price of £1.60m, and is being<br />
marketed by Alan de Maid. 01689<br />
Where? Sondes Place sits in an<br />
elevated position in a parkland setting<br />
amid the tranquillity of the <strong>Surrey</strong> Hills,<br />
yet is just a eight minutes drive from<br />
Dorking, from where trains take around<br />
an hour to Victoria or Waterloo.<br />
What? Apartment 1 is 3000 sq ft of<br />
duplex ground and lower ground floor<br />
luxury in a mansion originally designed<br />
by Thomas Cubitt, now converted<br />
into six apartments, with new-build<br />
houses (all sold) in the grounds. With<br />
exceptionally high ceilings in what were<br />
the original reception rooms and far<br />
reaching views, it has a contemporary<br />
kitchen and three large bedrooms, all en<br />
suite, with a separate utility room and a<br />
private lift to the lower floor. A terrace<br />
wraps around the apartment.<br />
How much? Apartment 1, Sondes<br />
place is priced at £1.75 million through<br />
Patrick Gardner Land & New <strong>Homes</strong><br />
01372 360832 patrickgardner.com<br />
813333 ravensbourne-collection.co.uk<br />
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The Embroidery Girl...<br />
On Thursday 29 <strong>March</strong> at G Live Guilford, see this<br />
legendary tale of Xiu Niang, an embroidery master whose<br />
life, loves and accomplishments are set against the backdrop<br />
of a rigid male dominated society. This balletic blend<br />
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<strong>March</strong><br />
notebook<br />
Exhibitions & events<br />
near you this month...<br />
Yummy for mummys...<br />
Live chocolate art, a wedding cake showroom,<br />
mini classes, cake decorating competitions, live<br />
demonstrations on things like decorating cookies,<br />
cupcake design, or sugar floristry... basically<br />
everything sugary, delicious and gorgeous all in<br />
one place at the Squires Kitchen Exhibition <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
The exhibition will be at Farnham Maltings from<br />
Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 <strong>March</strong> so, it could<br />
make a very yummy mother’s day treat. Visit<br />
squires-exhibition.com for more details and booking.<br />
Crack the case...<br />
Head to Painshill in Cobham this Easter to treat<br />
the family with the easter trail running from Friday<br />
30 and Saturday 31 <strong>March</strong>. The hunt for delicious<br />
chocolatey treats will have the whole family<br />
searching for clues and hints and exploring the<br />
mystical follies and enchanted woodlands of this<br />
elegant eighteenth century landscape in all of its<br />
spring glory. Go to painshill.co.uk for details.<br />
Bargain hunt...<br />
<strong>Surrey</strong>’s leading auction house, Ewbanks, is<br />
holding their flagship Antiques and Fine Art<br />
Auction this month from Wednesday 21 to<br />
Friday 23 <strong>March</strong>. Wednesday is the day to<br />
see fine jewellery, watches and coins, while<br />
Thursday will be dedicated to silver, antiques<br />
and fine art, then Friday is your last chance to<br />
grab some one of a kind pieces with clocks and<br />
antique furniture. See the sale in full online at<br />
ewbankauctions.co.uk from Friday 9 <strong>March</strong>.<br />
Mum’s the word...<br />
At the Friary in Guildford, ladies are getting<br />
special treatment for Mother’s Day on Saturday<br />
10 <strong>March</strong> with VIP ladies’ day. You will want to<br />
turn up early to this one – the first 100 customers<br />
will be awarded goody bags, plus you can get to<br />
the front of the line for free makeovers in the<br />
free VIP lounge. Topshop’s new concession, Doll<br />
Beauty will also have celeb-worthy lashes and there<br />
will be a Belgian chocolate fountain, free prosecco<br />
or elderflower and discounts in stores including<br />
Accessorize, The Fragrance shop and Boux Avenue.<br />
Visit thefriaryguildford.com for more details.<br />
Shed Art..<br />
This spring, Denbies Art Gallery invites you to<br />
discover an inspiring collection of original and<br />
contemporary paintings with Shed Art. From<br />
Monday 19 to Sunday 25 <strong>March</strong> this free exhibition<br />
will be showcasing a diverse range of pieces for you<br />
to view, fall in love with and maybe find a special<br />
gem to take home. And while you’re there be sure to<br />
enter the prize draw raffle to win a fabulous Easter<br />
Egg. Find out more at shedart.co.uk<br />
Garden glory...<br />
See Ramster Gardens’ famous display of Camelias,<br />
Magnolias, Azaleas and Rhododendrons as they<br />
reopen for the spring. It’s the perfect season to<br />
visit as the award-winning gardens erupt into<br />
colour with seasonal carpets of bluebells, 25 acres<br />
of peaceful woodland, lake views, and the unique<br />
100 year old avenue of maples. The gardens will be<br />
open from Saturday 17 <strong>March</strong> to Sunday 10 June.<br />
For more information visit ramsterevents.com<br />
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Previous page: Atlanta and Dave removed the original ceilings to expose a double height, pitched ceiling and open up the cabin, to<br />
create one central living space. The floors throughout are old scaffolding planks sanded and treated with a special Danish finish and<br />
several applications of white soap Above: The snug, which can also be used as a bedroom<br />
This talented husband and wife team are<br />
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brand producing everything from furniture<br />
and home accessories to interior products, sets and<br />
locations. They run an online shop with a branch in<br />
Rye and holiday homes along the East Sussex coast.<br />
The cabin was the first holiday property to be developed<br />
and was potentially the most daunting. “We cut our teeth<br />
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The transformation of a modest two-bedroom<br />
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Left: the walls of the snug are clad with tongue<br />
and groove made with the original ceiling of the<br />
house. The cushions on the sofa are from Pale &<br />
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“We have kept the template and tried to keep<br />
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have a passion for old English cabins. We think<br />
they’re not appreciated and should be protected.”<br />
This one had lain empty for a while and at<br />
the time of purchase it looked very different.<br />
“It was all mock Tudor <strong>inside</strong>, very dark<br />
and with red on the walls,” says Atlanta.<br />
“It was divided into little rooms with low,<br />
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Above: The bathroom is small by necessity, but the space has been used so well that they’ve even squeezed in a washing machine,<br />
tucked cleverly behind bi-fold doors. The wall and bathside are clad in bespoke panelling which Atlanta and Dave commissioned<br />
specially. The brass plumbing pipes have deliberately been left visible and the taps are garden stopcocks<br />
the house sit more comfortably in its surroundings<br />
and giving it a New-England-meets-Scandi vibe.<br />
Big changes weren’t limited to the cabin either; their fourth<br />
child, Honey-Rose, was also born during the project.<br />
“Honey got very used to the sound of nail guns and<br />
power sanders,” Atlanta remembers, describing how<br />
they removed the original ceilings to make the double<br />
height, pitched ceiling and ‘open’ up the cabin.<br />
“We cleared out the large space in the middle of the house<br />
and then worked out how to squeeze in all the bedrooms.<br />
From the start we knew it would be a beach house and a shoot<br />
location. We wanted one central living space – and to be able<br />
to see right through from one end of the house to the other.”<br />
As a result the cabin is wonderfully light, which is<br />
a key feature when choosing a space for locations and<br />
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“We like to use natural light as much<br />
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They have also installed Velux windows in the roof in places.<br />
“We put one in the bathroom to bring in light<br />
from above, because it has no wall windows.”<br />
The bathroom is small by necessity, but the space has<br />
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Left and below: Looking from the sitting area through to<br />
the eat-in kitchen, shows the beautiful flow of the space. The<br />
antlers are vintage and they found the 1970s lamp in Hastings.<br />
The sofas are IKEA cleverly disguised under antique French linen<br />
sheets (Pale & Interesting always have a stock of antique linen)<br />
and the cushions are also from their shop<br />
machine, tucked cleverly behind bi-fold doors. There are<br />
other neat, space-saving tricks around the cabin, in fact<br />
there’s not an inch of wasted space. They’ve been able to<br />
install – and disguise – a huge fridge-freezer, turning a gap<br />
between two bedrooms into a useful ‘fridge cupboard’.<br />
For the ultimate space-saving idea, you only have<br />
to look in the children’s bunk bedroom; designed<br />
and built by Dave, it serves as both a quirky nod to<br />
the sea, with its four cabin-style bunks – and as a<br />
fantastically fun way to stack sleeping children.<br />
The bedrooms all surround the large central<br />
room and are deliberately modest in size.<br />
“Bedrooms in a holiday home are just for sleeping<br />
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areas of it and not feel on top of each other. “They can<br />
use the snug,” which also doubles as a bedroom, “or<br />
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Top: Looking out onto the deck and into the garden, with light<br />
pouring in from all sides. The gloriously patina-ed club chairs<br />
and the cushions – made from grain sacks –are all from Pale &<br />
Interesting. The flowing curtains – the essence of a summery<br />
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retreat to their own rooms, or even go outside.”<br />
The space is zoned into a sitting area and kitchen diner,<br />
united by the uniform floor and the clever recycling of<br />
the original ceiling, which has been used throughout<br />
as accents to keep a sense of unity. The floorboards are<br />
scaffolding planks, making them generously wide, sanded<br />
and treated with a special Danish finish, involving lye – a<br />
strong alkali used to bleach the planks and stop them<br />
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This gives a quiet, soft texture to the flooring, and it’s<br />
easy to keep clean; all you do is wash it with more white<br />
soap. Both items are for sale at Pale & Interesting.<br />
The boards from the cabin’s ceiling have been reused<br />
throughout the house to bring a rustic touch that contrasts<br />
well with the smooth white of the walls and floor and<br />
adheres to Dave and Atlanta’s belief in recycling and<br />
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to a look that relies on a limited palette, especially whites<br />
and pastels, because it is the contrasts in textures and<br />
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This is part of the philosophy lying behind the<br />
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“It’s a bit like an outfit,” Atlanta explains, “you<br />
don’t want to look as if you’ve tried too hard.”<br />
It is quite an art – which they are masters of. Using<br />
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Above: There is a Velux window over the kitchen table to<br />
bring in even more light, to this central part of the house. The<br />
extending wall lamp is a flea market find. Atlanta and Dave<br />
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pretty and thematic, but that doesn’t happen here, as<br />
the ‘pale and interesting’ style has a definite edge to it.<br />
Dave and Atlanta often use factory furniture and rough,<br />
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“Metal has good textures,” says Dave. “It has rough<br />
and smooth together and a worn down, lived-in look.”<br />
The master bedroom is a case in point here. It is a<br />
pretty room with French doors opening out onto the<br />
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The delicate French shutters and twinkly chandelier are<br />
carefully offset by some utilitarian bedside cabinets - the<br />
interiors version of wearing a lacy dress with DMs.<br />
The exciting news is that the Pale & Interesting shop<br />
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this spring; this will enable them to sell bigger pieces like<br />
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Above: The dining area, just off the kitchen, is surrounded by windows. They bench is vintage Swedish, the metal chairs are vintage<br />
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Together they design new pieces, such as the two<br />
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Many more mirrors can be found on the cabin<br />
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“Someone once said to me you must be extremely<br />
vain,” laughs Atlanta, “because I have so many mirrors<br />
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of a room and set up vistas and other view points, so<br />
that there’s always something different to look at.”<br />
Another misconception about Atlanta and Dave’s<br />
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down or washes. The linen throws go straight in the<br />
washing machine.”<br />
Atlanta has lots of such tips that can be applied to all<br />
interiors and ought really to become mantras for<br />
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Above: The dining set was a present from a friend. The squiggly<br />
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Gaultier – the cleverness<br />
is in the mixing...”<br />
Left: Sarah painted a dark wood<br />
Edwardian cabinet to fit in her white<br />
and cream scheme. The coral is from<br />
Dunelm and Sarah found the Jean-<br />
Paul Gaultier display in an antiques<br />
shop in Norman Road, sadly no<br />
longer there<br />
who has amassed her collection with wit and panache.<br />
A pair of amazing red glitter ankle boots are genuine<br />
Yves Saint Laurent, but sitting next to them is an equally<br />
fab-looking silver pair – which are from Primark.<br />
On Sarah, worked into an amazing look – which she<br />
has the height and presence to pull off - you wouldn’t be<br />
able to tell which pieces are the designer real deals and<br />
which the chain-store cheap and cheerfuls. Equally, from a<br />
distance, you wouldn’t know that her collection of amazing<br />
bright-coloured fur pieces is all of the fake, fun variety.<br />
“I buy everything from Topshop to Jean-Paul Gaultier,”<br />
she says. “The cleverness is in the mixing. You could go<br />
into Gucci and dress yourself from head to toe, but that’s<br />
not using any imagination. And a lot of the fun is in the<br />
chase of sourcing amazing pieces. It would be boring just to<br />
go into a shop in Bond Street and buy it all off the rail.”<br />
Along with the talent to spot the one knock-out<br />
thing among the swathes of crud in shops like Primark,<br />
Sarah’s shopping secret is her address book of designer<br />
second-hand stores, which she visits regularly and has<br />
built up relationships with the owners, so they let her<br />
know when something special, in her style, comes in.<br />
Then there are pre-loved designer clothing<br />
websites, which she can browse from the comfort<br />
of home, although these take a little more care.<br />
“I’m very good at researching things if I buy online, I’ve<br />
never bought a fake, but you do have to be careful.”<br />
Her other secret, to keep it fun and to hold on to that sense<br />
of the chase, is constantly updating and refreshing her trove.<br />
“I do turn things over,” she says. ‘I sell things<br />
back through Mel at The Wardrobe, but there<br />
are some things I would never part with.<br />
One of these is the ankle length chiffon Jean-<br />
Paul Gaultier dress with a print pattern which looks<br />
like dollar bills, but they actually say ‘SEX’.<br />
“I like quirky things,” says Sarah, “the<br />
weird and the wonderful…”<br />
There is a great example of the latter in the window<br />
treatment of the master bedroom, next door to the<br />
dressing room. Sarah found the apricot and gold<br />
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Previous page: Sarah has created dramatic glamour in the ground floor study, with a statement chandelier from Roomings in George<br />
Street, Hastings Old Town Above left: the furry leopard print chest of drawers is from Hastings Antique Warehouse. Above right:<br />
Sarah gave the vintage buttons to her upholsterer to sew into the Chesterfield chaise longue<br />
lamé fabric in the amazing vintage haberdashery<br />
Wayward in Norman Road, St Leonards.<br />
“It was from the same bolt used to make a coat for<br />
Meryl Streep in the movie ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’,”<br />
says Sarah. “I have an amazing curtain maker and I<br />
asked her to do the tops ruched into puffballs. She<br />
asked me how big I wanted them and I said, ‘Well, they<br />
can’t be too big…’. Each one took loads of fabric.”<br />
Then, by happy chance, she came across the perfect<br />
bed cover to go with them – on sale in Debenhams,<br />
showing how her approach to clothes shopping,<br />
mixing vintage and designer with chain store, works<br />
just as well for homewares as it does for fashion.<br />
As is shown by the successful combination of<br />
the mirror over the mantlepiece from TK Maxx<br />
and an antique kimono sourced on line.<br />
The same approach is in glorious evidence down in the<br />
living room, a scheme in white, cream, sheepskin – and lots<br />
of glitter - Liberace himself would have appreciated. And with<br />
a detail another of Sarah’s icons, Mr Elvis Presley, would have<br />
appreciated: a cream leather La-Z-Boy reclining armchair.<br />
“My husband hates the sofa,” says Sarah, “but he’s<br />
American and I knew he would secretly love a La-Z-<br />
Boy, so I decided to get him one. I went to Bexhill<br />
and found this one in a charity shop for £35.”<br />
She then Sarah-ised it by popping on a luscious<br />
sheepskin, one of many in the room.<br />
“I’ve got a flock of sheep,” she says, laughing.<br />
“They’re so comfy to sit on and so warm. I’ve<br />
bought them from Dunelm, boot fairs…’<br />
Picking up the fluffy white theme is a magnificent pair<br />
of squiggly wiggly 1960s ceiling light fittings, one in the<br />
sitting room and the other in the adjacent dining room<br />
in the knocked-through space, which Sarah found in the<br />
Antiques Warehouse in Hastings Old Town High Street.<br />
“We went in looking for wardrobes and I spotted<br />
them hanging up. When my husband wasn’t looking<br />
I went over and had my name put on them… It<br />
was a done deal without involving Stephen.”<br />
And it turned out she was right to jump<br />
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Above: The wallpaper on the half landing was designed by Barbara Hulanicki<br />
of Biba fame. Sarah draped the chandelier with strings of pearls Above right:<br />
The landing houses her collection of glamorous make up, set off by feathers<br />
and black flowers Below right: The wallpaper in the spare room, by Kandola,<br />
is hand-studded with Swarovski crystals<br />
at them: “They were the key to decorating this whole<br />
room, everything else was done around them.”<br />
Two more standout pieces are the prints of Elvis and Blondie, in ornate<br />
white frames, which hang on either side of the exposed brick chimney<br />
breast – and are lavishly enhanced with glitter. Sarah made them herself.<br />
“I saw a fabulous glitter Elvis in an exhibition at the Dragon Bar in<br />
George Street in Hastings,” she explains. “I wanted it so much, but it<br />
was £2,500, so I thought I would go for it myself. I bought the print<br />
at Posters Online for £6, got some glue and a pot of glitter and that<br />
was it. I already had the frames. I buy old ornate frames whenever I<br />
see them, so I always have some ready to go. I painted these white.”<br />
In the adjoining dining room there is another feature print of an icon: a<br />
giant photograph of Marlene Dietrich on the wall behind the dining table.<br />
“I bought a card of that portrait for my daughter and I loved it so<br />
much, I commissioned it online as an oversize print. I was going to<br />
have it cover the whole wall, but then I decided to rein it in a bit.”<br />
Which is somewhat out of character – and not something that came<br />
into play when Sarah and Stephen recently made over their kitchen.<br />
From a distance it appears to be a simple all-white treatment. Once<br />
you get up close, you see that the worktops are in a sparkly finish, <br />
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Above: In Sarah’s sanctum, her dressing room, her collection of white shirts is displayed on a rack from shop fitting suppliers<br />
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Above and below: Sarah’s bedroom is a veritable boudoir. She<br />
had the curtains made in fabric from Wayward in St Leonards.<br />
She found the bed cover in Debenhams and the wallpaper is by<br />
Italian firm Dochi. The gold and crystal mirror was from TK<br />
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there is glitter in the paint on the walls – and the handles<br />
on all the units are packed with Swarovski crystals.<br />
Even the kettle and toaster are in the theme, being from<br />
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Completing the look are oversized shiny, ceramic floor<br />
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“For some reason, as soon as you want bright white, rather<br />
than cream, the price shoots up,” she says. “But we found<br />
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ticking. A treasure picked up on a visit to Graceland.<br />
Which, if Sarah and Stephen ever felt like giving<br />
their own house a name, would be a good inspiration.<br />
A sign by the front door saying ‘Glamourland’<br />
would be just the thing to do it justice.<br />
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Left: Sarah loves fake fur and collects it in<br />
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Beauty<br />
Face off winter<br />
Treat your skin – and yourself – to regular, renewing masks says Josephine Fairley<br />
As friends, family (and my old teachers) will tell you:<br />
I’m not good at doing what I’m told. But there’s<br />
one command I find it pretty irresistible to obey:<br />
to relax for 10, 15, 20 minutes or so, while a face mask<br />
works its magic. I suppose it is possible to work/cook/do<br />
the housework while you’re wearing one, but in a world<br />
in which we scurry from commitment to appointment,<br />
there is a huge amount to be said for the TLC a face mask<br />
delivers to our busy souls – quite aside from<br />
the huge boost it delivers to our complexions.<br />
If you’re in a real hurry, sure, there are quick<br />
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go-to fast-acting options: Liz Earle Brightening<br />
Treatment Mask, £17.50 for 50ml starter kit<br />
(it’s powered by skin-reviving camphor, which<br />
gives it a wonderful aromatic scent), and Lixir<br />
Vitamin C Paste, £32 for 50ml (victoriahealth.<br />
com), which you apply to damp skin for an amazingly<br />
reviving burst of brightening vitamin C in just two minutes.<br />
Aside from fast fixes, masks tend to fall into two categories.<br />
Clay-based options, some of which ‘set’ on the skin, are<br />
designed to draw impurities out, even working to clear pores<br />
and blackheads, sometimes with the addition of ingredients<br />
“There is a huge<br />
amount to be said<br />
for the TLC a<br />
face mask delivers<br />
to our busy souls ”<br />
like salicylic acid and charcoal. Then there is the skinquenching,<br />
ultra-moisturising type of mask, often powered<br />
by glycerine, hyaluronic acid, or butters like shea and cocoa.<br />
In general, the clay style of mask is best suited for oily/<br />
combination skins, but the vast majority of 35+ women (and<br />
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nourishing benefits of something much richer.<br />
Me? I can’t stand masks which set on the skin; they give<br />
me a sort of beauty claustrophobia. But I<br />
have friends who want every last toxin outta<br />
there, thank you – who I will point in the<br />
direction of the very reasonable Earth Kiss<br />
range of four 100% natural exfoliating/porerefining/rejuvenating/deep<br />
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Priced somewhere in between is Clinique City Block<br />
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Or, delivering a deliciously warming sensation on the<br />
skin, there is Sanctuary Spa 5 Minute Thermal Detox<br />
Mask, £10 for 100ml – very soothing and relaxing (and<br />
doesn’t set too hard, in the five minutes it needs to get<br />
to work). Other excellent masks in this category include<br />
Amie Spring Clean Cleansing Mask, £5.95 for 100ml, or<br />
Argan+ Lift & Renew Clay Mask, £8.99 for 125ml.<br />
As for my preferred moisturising masks, I have an absolute<br />
arsenal, bathside. I tend to rotate them, using one two or<br />
three nights a week, often in the bath where the steam seems<br />
to help them penetrate even better. (Entirely unscientific,<br />
that observation, but I recommend giving it a go.)<br />
Among my longstanding favourites is the ultra-rich<br />
L’Occitane Immortelle Cream Mask, £58 for 125ml –<br />
as creamy as a mask gets, packed with vitamin A and<br />
E. (Very good for evening out skintone, I find.)<br />
A new discovery is the wonderfully radiance-boosting<br />
Nuxe Nuxuriance Ultra Roll-on Mask, £37 for 50ml. I’ve<br />
long been a fan of metal applicators – for<br />
eye creams, or for ‘rolling’ skin to diminish<br />
puffiness – and this is dispensed by a cooling<br />
metal rollerball, to help with fluid dispersal.<br />
The roller dispenser has an ‘off’ position,<br />
and I like to glide it back and forth along the<br />
cheekbones and jaw for extra de-puffing.<br />
The REN Ultra Comforting Rescue<br />
Mask, £30 for 50ml, is another favourite –<br />
and does exactly what it says on the tin (um, tube).<br />
Then there’s the multi-masking phenomenon. Now, you’ve<br />
heard of multi-tasking (you probably do it all day, every day...),<br />
but multi-masking is a bit of a new buzz-term in beauty circles<br />
and the basic principle is this: few of us have consistently<br />
‘normal’ skin all over our faces so the idea is to take two or<br />
more masks and apply them as required to cleansed (and<br />
ideally lightly exfoliated) skin together, on the relevant areas.<br />
“You’ve heard of<br />
multi-tasking –<br />
multi-masking is<br />
a new buzzword<br />
in beauty circles”<br />
This mirrors what a professional beauty therapist would<br />
do, during a facial – perhaps one clay-based mask from the<br />
paragraph above (or alternatively, something incorporating<br />
charcoal or salicylic acid, which fight breakouts), where a<br />
moisturising mask would be too rich, on areas of the face, such<br />
as the chin and nose, where you’re prone to shine or spots.<br />
Then for the forehead, cheeks – and most definitely the<br />
neck – which tend to be much drier, you want to opt for<br />
a skin-quenching mask. In addition to my suggestions<br />
above, I love the moisture power of Liz<br />
Earle Intensive Nourishing Treatment<br />
Mask, £17.50 for 50ml, and Decléor Hydra<br />
Floral Expert Mask, £33 for 50ml.<br />
And there’s another hot new mask<br />
trend – for sheet masks. If you follow any<br />
Instagram beauty bloggers and vloggers,<br />
you’ll have had a good laugh at how<br />
ridiculous some of them look, slathered<br />
in these sheet masks with their cut-outs for eyes, nose<br />
and mouth. But hey, who cares (except maybe a terrified<br />
postman/small child), if the results are impressive?<br />
Basically, these are all single-dose, single-use products.<br />
If you’ve an eco-conscience, you might want to opt for a<br />
more conventional type of wash-off face mask, as these<br />
are a real throwaway beauty treat – but if you do want to<br />
check out the sheet mask craze, I recommend three that<br />
did incredibly well with the testers for the Beauty Bible<br />
Awards (check out all the results on beautybible.com).<br />
Temple Spa The Contourist Mask, £50 for six sachets, is<br />
slightly hilarious because you actually hook the impregnated<br />
stretchy gauze mask over your ears and chin. Serum-infused<br />
Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Powerfoil Mask, £16.50<br />
for one mask had one tester’s husband comment that it made<br />
her look ‘10 years younger’, £60 for four. A real steal, Amie<br />
Daybright Glow Brightening Sheet Mask, £6.99 for three,<br />
put on an impressive, skin-reviving performance<br />
considering the super-affordable price.<br />
At this end of winter, when skin’s been<br />
parched by central heating for up to six<br />
months – and really put through it, if you<br />
succumbed to that horrible flu that was going<br />
around - masks are the pick-me-up skin needs.<br />
And if they encourage you to put your feet up,<br />
sit back and do absolutely nothing while they’re<br />
working their magic, what’s not to love about that?<br />
For daily health and beauty updates<br />
from Jo Fairley, visit beautybible.com.<br />
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Health & Beauty<br />
Taking a moment<br />
Wellbeing and beauty editor Eminé Rushton, who will be writing<br />
for us each month, tells us about her own beauty routine<br />
Credit: FreeImages.com/Michael & Christa Richert<br />
Do you have a beauty<br />
regime? I do a little skin<br />
ritual when I wake up<br />
and before I go to bed.<br />
My routine is all-natural;<br />
I stopped using synthetic<br />
products around 10 years<br />
ago, and my skin responded<br />
immediately. What I use,<br />
how I apply it, and what I do<br />
in between, vary a great deal<br />
from day to day, depending<br />
on my skin’s needs in that<br />
Miso, please!<br />
Fermented foods contain<br />
probiotics, the good bacteria<br />
which help boost immunity, aid<br />
digestion and repopulate the<br />
gut biome. This repopulation is<br />
important at this time of year,<br />
particularly if you’ve suffered<br />
from winter bugs and been<br />
prescribed antibiotics, which<br />
wipe out everything.<br />
Miso paste, made from<br />
fermented beans and grains, is<br />
a staple in Japan and China.<br />
In addition to containing<br />
millions of beneficial bacteria,<br />
unpasteurized miso is packed<br />
full of essential minerals and<br />
moment, and what it’s<br />
‘telling’ me.<br />
Whatever I’m using I take<br />
time to massage and stroke<br />
the skin, and breathe in<br />
the aromas of the natural<br />
products. Sometimes, this<br />
moment is the only thing<br />
drawing a line between the<br />
busy working day, and the<br />
more restful evening, so I like<br />
to honour it. Oh, and I love<br />
my little jade face roller – it’s<br />
so cool and deeply soothing<br />
– rolling it around my skin<br />
in the morning to help with<br />
absorption of my products<br />
always feels wonderfully<br />
invigorating.<br />
Do you have a particular<br />
product you couldn’t live<br />
without? I get sent so many<br />
products to test, so when I<br />
am faithful to something, it’s<br />
rather telling. I love the May<br />
Lindstrom Pendulum Potion<br />
(a cleanser) and the serums<br />
by Botane Actives, Romilly<br />
Wilde, and TWELVE beauty.<br />
I am also very loyal to my<br />
is a good source of various<br />
B vitamins, vitamins E, K<br />
and folic acid. Sourcing<br />
unpasteurised miso – as<br />
opposed to the packets<br />
of instant powdered miso<br />
widely available is important,<br />
as extreme heat kills the<br />
probiotics.<br />
Miso soup for 4: make<br />
800ml of low sodium vegetable<br />
bouillon and bring to the boil<br />
in a pan, add a bunch of finely<br />
chopped spring onions and<br />
simmer for 3 minutes. Place<br />
2 tablespoons of miso paste in<br />
a small bowl, mix with water<br />
hydrating masks and think<br />
Josh Rosebrook’s is the best.<br />
I love a good face oil – my<br />
favourites are from Votary,<br />
Herbivore Botanicals, A.S<br />
Apothecary or MV Organic<br />
Skincare. But if I were<br />
allowed only one product<br />
forever it would have to be<br />
coconut oil – I can cleanse,<br />
moisturise and protect my<br />
skin with it (and have done<br />
on many a remote island<br />
escape. Bliss!).<br />
Eminé Rushton has been a<br />
wellbeing and beauty editor<br />
for over 15 years (she is<br />
Wellbeing Director-at-Large<br />
at Psychologies magazine), is<br />
a trained holistic facialist,<br />
and is studying to become<br />
an Ayurvedic Lifestyle<br />
Consultant. She writes a<br />
blog about conscious living<br />
and holistic wellbeing<br />
called the The Balance Plan<br />
balanceplan.co.uk and gives<br />
daily wellbeing advice on<br />
Instagram @eminerushton<br />
to form a thin paste and pour<br />
the mixture into the pan,<br />
heating through gently without<br />
allowing to come to the boil.<br />
Season with soy sauce -<br />
being aware that it is quite salty<br />
- and serve in bowls or cups.<br />
You can also add cubes of tofu<br />
and some spinach leaves to<br />
make it more of a meal.<br />
Scrub away<br />
winter<br />
Clean<br />
They say a summer body<br />
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Month 3<br />
weekly challenge<br />
1 x power walk for 40 mins<br />
2 home workout for 20 mins each<br />
Health<br />
Get fit for spring<br />
in three months<br />
It’s the third and final month of our get-fit-for-spring programme. Keep going!<br />
1<br />
This month, personal trainer and nutritionist Sarah-Jane Holt, is focusing<br />
on making the two workouts we’ve been using in January and February<br />
that bit harder and increasing the weekly power walk to 40 minutes.<br />
Visit the Wellbeing section of our website to see Sarah-Jane demonstrating<br />
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3<br />
<strong>March</strong>: Home Workout<br />
Now you are getting fitter, it’s<br />
time to ramp it up a little from<br />
the base we have set in the first<br />
two months. refer to January’s<br />
magazine, or visit the website, to<br />
look at Work out 1 and add the<br />
following changes to it to increase<br />
the challenge. The framework<br />
is to exercise for 30 seconds,<br />
followed by a 30 second rest, and<br />
repeat each exercise four times.<br />
Press ups with a twist Add a twist<br />
to work the core and shoulders. After<br />
completing a press up, raise one hand<br />
up towards the ceiling, rotating the<br />
body, with hips sideways to the floor.<br />
Bring the hand down, placing it<br />
directly under the shoulder, to start<br />
the next press up. Raise alternate left<br />
and right arms on each press up.<br />
refer to February’s magazine - or<br />
visit the website – for Work out<br />
2 and add the following changes<br />
to add an extra challenge:<br />
v up with a twist In the V<br />
position, twist one hand across<br />
your body to touch it to the floor<br />
and then repeat on the other side.<br />
Mountain climbers A new<br />
exercise to replace the squat<br />
jumps. Start with your hands on<br />
the floor, arms straight, body in a<br />
plank position, bring one knee up<br />
towards your chest - this is your<br />
starting position. With speed,<br />
return that foot to the floor and<br />
bring the other knee up towards<br />
the chest, repeat for 30 seconds.<br />
4<br />
5<br />
Leg lowers This is a progression from<br />
the single leg lowers. The principle<br />
is the same, but this time move both<br />
legs together, keeping a bend in both<br />
knees, and aim to tap your heels to<br />
the floor. Make sure you protect<br />
your back by keeping it in contact<br />
with the mat throughout.<br />
High knees with squat<br />
jump Combine the squat<br />
jumps from session 2 with<br />
the high knees from session<br />
1. Complete two squat jumps<br />
followed by four high knees.<br />
Contact Sarah-Jane on 07772 416993 or see sarahjaneholt.co.uk<br />
Nutrition Tip<br />
This month, replace processed carbohydrates<br />
with whole, natural carbs. For example,<br />
substitute sweet potatoes for bread at lunch<br />
and brown rice for pasta at supper. The benefit<br />
of making these changes is that whole, natural<br />
carbohydrates are far more nutrient dense, release<br />
their energy more slowly and have a higher fibre<br />
content. All these elements help to provide the<br />
body with better quality nutrients, maintain<br />
a healthy body composition and aid with<br />
digestive function. You’ll find recipes and more<br />
information on our website.
Food<br />
Let’s have lunch<br />
Enjoy easy-wheeling spring lunches with these recipes from Margate-based artisan bakery,<br />
The Baker’s Bicycle, using their specialty breads – and leftovers from the Easter feast<br />
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Food<br />
The only Red Tractor certified bakery in the country -<br />
because they use 100% British wheat – the Baker’s Bicycle<br />
range includes such delights as ciabatta-style panini rolls<br />
perfect for toasties, glazed brioche buns and something unique<br />
they invented: the scioche, which is a combination of a scone and<br />
a brioche. All the bread is made from scratch at their bakery, with<br />
doughs proving for 24 to 48 hours – so none of the quick-acting<br />
yeasts used in industrial bread production. You will find the range<br />
in selected food emporia, delis and specialist farm shops (see their<br />
website for details) not in bread racks, but in the freezer cabinet.<br />
Managing director Simon Cannell explains their philosophy: “We<br />
freeze straight from the oven, to seal in all the flavour, freshness and<br />
goodness. All the serious gourmet has to do, is thaw and adore…”<br />
Mini Moroccan Pulled Lamb Brioche Sliders<br />
Makes 4 portions<br />
• 8 Baker’s Bicycle Mini Brioche Sliders,<br />
split in half<br />
• 4 garlic cloves, chopped<br />
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon<br />
• 2 tsp cumin seeds<br />
• 1 tbsp dried oregano<br />
• 1 unwaxed lemon, quartered, pips<br />
removed<br />
• 1.5kg lamb shoulder (bone in)<br />
• 2 red onions, cut into wedges<br />
• 500ml pomegranate juice<br />
• 2 tbsp clear honey<br />
• 4 tbsp natural yogurt<br />
• 50g pomegranate seeds<br />
• 2 tbsp chopped mint leaves<br />
• 50g rocket salad leaves<br />
Method<br />
To marinate the lamb:<br />
1. Put the garlic, cinnamon, cumin, oregano and lemon in a blender with 1 tsp salt and<br />
2 tsp black pepper and blend well. Alternatively, chop all ingredients and crush to a<br />
paste in a mortar and pestle.<br />
2. Place the lamb in a large food safe bag, tip the marinade in over the top & massage<br />
into the lamb. Refrigerate and leave to marinate overnight.<br />
To Cook<br />
1. Pre-heat oven to 140C.<br />
2. Place the lamb and marinade into a casserole dish with the onions and the<br />
pomegranate juice and cover with a lid or foil.<br />
3. Place into the pre-heated oven and cook for approx 4 hours until the meat is soft and<br />
falling from the bone.<br />
4. Remove from the oven and carefully pour off all the juices into a thick bottomed<br />
pan. Leaving the lamb uncovered return to the oven at 200C for 20 mins to brown.<br />
5. Meanwhile, add the honey to the cooking liquor and boil gently, stirring regularly<br />
until the mixture is thickened and syrupy. Place to one side.<br />
6. After 20 mins remove the lamb from the oven, cover and allow to sit for 10-15<br />
minutes. Using two forks shred the lamb into a bowl.<br />
7. Add the syrup mixture to the shredded lamb and mix well.<br />
To Serve<br />
Place the bottoms of the buns onto a large platter. Top each with a small pile of rocket<br />
salad leaves, pile on a generous amount of the warm shredded lamb, top with a dollop of<br />
the yoghurt, mixed with shredded mint leaves. Sprinkle on the pomegranate seeds. Put<br />
the brioche lids on and serve, two to a plate.<br />
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Spring Watercress & Asparagus Soup with Mini Tin Loaves<br />
Serves Four<br />
• 4 Baker’s Bicycle Mini Multigrain Tin Loaves<br />
• 25g unsalted butter<br />
• ½ an onion, finely diced<br />
• 1 large potato (peeled & cut into 2 cm chunks)<br />
• 250g washed watercress<br />
• 150g asparagus tips (chopped into 5mm pieces)<br />
• 600ml vegetable stock<br />
• 100ml double cream<br />
• 1 tbsp chopped chives<br />
1. Gently sweat the onion in 25g of butter for 8-10mins<br />
without colour until soft and translucent.<br />
2. Add the potatoes, cover with the stock and simmer for<br />
20-25minutes until the potatoes are starting to break up.<br />
Food<br />
3. Turn off the heat, add the watercress, mix well and<br />
allow to sit for 3-4 minutes. (Note: keep a few leaves of<br />
watercress back to use as garnish.)<br />
4. Blend the soup thoroughly in a liquidiser and pass into a<br />
clean pan through a sieve.<br />
5. Adjust the seasoning and thin the soup with a little more<br />
vegetable stock if needed.<br />
6. Add the cooked asparagus and gently heat - but do not<br />
boil!<br />
To Serve<br />
Ladle the soup into bowls, drizzle with a little double cream<br />
and sprinkle with a few watercress leaves and garnish with<br />
chopped chives to taste. Serve with warmed Multigrain <br />
Mini Tin Loaves.
Food<br />
Caramel Griddled Apricots on Toasted Scioche<br />
Makes 4 portions<br />
• Baker’s Bicycle fruited scioche, cut in half<br />
• 8 ripe apricots, stoned and cut in quarters<br />
• 1 tbsp icing sugar<br />
• 120g light brown sugar<br />
• 120g butter<br />
• 100ml double cream<br />
• 125g mascarpone<br />
• ½ tsp shredded mint<br />
• 1 tbsp castor sugar<br />
• 2 tsp flaked almonds, toasted<br />
Method<br />
To make the sauce:<br />
1. Melt the butter and brown sugar in a saucepan over a<br />
low heat until the sugar is dissolved, watching it carefully<br />
to ensure it doesn’t burn.<br />
2. Stir in the cream and heat gently until bubbling, stirring<br />
continually until thick. Remove from the heat and keep<br />
warm.<br />
To make the minted mascarpone:<br />
Place the mascarpone, shredded mint and castor sugar in a<br />
bowl and mix well, then refrigerate for one hour.<br />
To serve:<br />
Griddle the apricot quarters on all sides in a thick bottom<br />
griddle pan until nicely charred.<br />
Just before removing from the pan, sprinkle on the icing<br />
sugar and allow it caramelise, turning them as necessary and<br />
taking care not to allow the sugar to burn.<br />
Arrange the toasted scioche on a wooden board. Top each<br />
with the griddled apricots, then finish with a generous drizzle<br />
of the hot toffee sauce and a dollop of minted mascarpone<br />
cream. Sprinkle with toasted almonds.<br />
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Make like a<br />
How to make professional style<br />
gin cocktails – without having<br />
to stock your bar like the Savoy<br />
mixologist<br />
Some would say making cocktails is an art<br />
form – there’s a reason they call the best<br />
cocktail barmen ‘mixologists’. Silent Pool<br />
gin distillers have created some amazing recipes<br />
for such professionals, who have a whole array<br />
of exotic potions to hand to whizz together<br />
with their gin into fabulous brews.<br />
Sometimes, perhaps, with a bit of theatrics in<br />
the style of Tom Cruise in the film Cocktail…<br />
But most of us don’t keep cardamom spirit, or<br />
green chartreuse at home, so Silent Pool have<br />
helped us adapt their recipes to make their<br />
cocktails at home with ingredients we are more<br />
likely to have in our kitchen.<br />
With your trusty shaker, your best glasses<br />
and some fun garnishes, you can enjoy a<br />
sophisticated cocktail hour in the comfort of<br />
home. Strictly no juggling skills required.<br />
Each recipe makes one cocktail, so increase as<br />
required for the number you are making for.<br />
Blackberry Shrub<br />
• 50ml Silent Pool Gin, from freezer<br />
• 25ml Silent Pool raspberry or blackberry<br />
gin cordial (or non-alcoholic cordial)<br />
• 25 ml sweet vermouth<br />
• 10ml ginger wine<br />
• Soda water to top up<br />
• Fresh raspberries<br />
• Glass tumblers and cocktail sticks to serve<br />
• Shake alcohol ingredients together. Pour<br />
over cubed ice in a tumbler. Top up with<br />
soda. Garnish glass with fresh raspberries<br />
threaded onto a cocktail stick.<br />
Aviation<br />
• 40 ml Silent Pool gin<br />
• ½ tsp juice from a jar of<br />
maraschino cherries<br />
• 20 ml freshly squeezed lemon<br />
juice<br />
• 1 drop of violet essence food<br />
flavouring<br />
• Shake ingredients with ice.<br />
Strain into dainty, stemmed<br />
glasses, with a maraschino<br />
cherry in the bottom of each<br />
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Scents of<br />
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Even before your garden is in full bloom it can<br />
be heavenly scented says Jo Arnell<br />
It seems positively greedy to expect flowers to be fragrant<br />
at this time of the year – a glimpse of colour is treat<br />
enough when we’ve been waiting all winter. The glad<br />
news is that there are quite a few scented plants around in<br />
early spring, pumping out their perfume to attract early<br />
pollinating insects. Many of the dainty woodlanders and<br />
demure, shade loving shrubs need to have fragrance; in fact<br />
they might get overlooked if it weren’t for their scent. In<br />
summer, scents abound and we can surround ourselves with<br />
fragrant plants – roses and lilies are a heady mix, with deep,<br />
sensual undertones. Spring flowers exude lighter, fresher notes<br />
– more Doris Day than Gina Lollobrigida, but that’s just what<br />
we need to wake us up to the delights of the coming season.<br />
Where to grow spring scented plants<br />
It’s easy to get lost in the visual when planning a planting<br />
scheme, we’re often drawn to colour or filling gaps in borders,<br />
at the expense of scent. If possible, situate fragrant plants<br />
in a warm, sheltered spot where aromas will intensify and<br />
not be blown away by strong spring winds. Use containers,<br />
or prune shrubs with care to keep scents at nose height.<br />
A well-placed scented plant is an uplifting thing in its own<br />
right, but because our sense of smell is located in the limbic<br />
system in the brain, where emotions and long-term memories<br />
are lodged, the scent may also create, or trigger, evocative and<br />
powerful memories. Fill spaces near paths, seating areas, or<br />
doorways with scented plants and they will be transformed.<br />
Just imagine, the mundane trip to and from the front door<br />
could become a delightful amble through a sensory paradise…<br />
What to grow<br />
In general, the closer you are to the species, the more<br />
fragrant a flower is likely to be; for instance a Primrose<br />
(the ‘prima’ rose) is scented, but its hybridised (I was going<br />
to say cultivated, but I can’t think of them as that) cousin<br />
Polyanthus is sterile and unscented. Flowers bred for their<br />
looks will often lose characteristics like scent. Plants with<br />
flouncy double flowers are hybrids and are usually sterile;<br />
they have no need for pollinators, so will not attract wildlife<br />
either. More frilly frou-frou on a flower generally means less<br />
fragrance. Luckily the plant breeders have realised and pay<br />
attention to other attributes than just looks now, so many<br />
cultivated versions of species plants retain their scent.<br />
Woody plants<br />
Blossom on trees and shrubs is one of the great delights<br />
of the season, but remember the above rule if you want<br />
fragrance from a tree or shrub, and go for single flowers,<br />
rather than flouncy doubles. The powerful scent will<br />
more than make up for shy, diminutive blooms.<br />
Here are some of the best:<br />
Daphne odora ‘Aureomarginata’ All Daphnes are<br />
highly scented, but can be a bit fussy, demanding<br />
conditions that are just right (perhaps they should be<br />
renamed ‘Goldilocks’?). This variety is evergreen with<br />
golden-edged leaves, its fragrant flowers emerging<br />
early in the season and carrying over a distance.<br />
Osmanthus x burkwoodii is another evergreen with<br />
small box-like leaves and tiny white flowers that have an<br />
intense fragrance. This can be grown as a hedge, but if<br />
so, prune after flowering in late spring/early summer.<br />
Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’ has tiny pink<br />
flowers with an intense fragrance which emerge on<br />
dark woody stems in late winter and early spring. Snip<br />
off a twig and bring into the house to put among your<br />
cut flowers, or even on its own in elegant starkness.<br />
Buddleia alternifolia is technically verging on summer<br />
flowering, but this is the earliest of the Buddleias. Small lilac<br />
flower clusters smother the drooping branches, which is a<br />
gorgeous enough sight, but get closer and you’re in a bath of<br />
pure honey. And of course, being a Buddleia, it’s a magnet for<br />
butterflies and bees. The only downside is that when not in<br />
flower, like a starlet after a party, it’s a wild untameable mess.<br />
Only plant by a path if you can do what they’ve done to the<br />
one at Sissinghurst and turn it into a sort of weeping tree.<br />
Climbers There are plenty of scented summer climbers<br />
– rose, jasmine, honeysuckle, sweet peas – but not so many<br />
for the spring. Clematis armandii ‘Apple Blossom’ is a good<br />
(but rampant), evergreen with large leaves and pale pink<br />
flowers; more fragrant still is the aptly named Clematis<br />
montana ‘Fragrant Spring’. Montanas are the earliest, most<br />
vigorous of the Clematis family and will quickly smother<br />
a wall or shed – ideal if you want total coverage, slightly<br />
overwhelming if not. Wisteria sinensis is another that <br />
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of these emit perfume to lure insects into the woods.<br />
In our gardens, these plants are brilliant for planting in<br />
containers, where we can raise them up out of lowly ground<br />
hugging situations and appreciate their beauty and scent.<br />
When choosing daffodils, look for the smaller,<br />
less showy narcissi (i.e. not the giant varieties with<br />
hulking great trumpets) and you will find that<br />
many are scented and look good in containers.<br />
The Hyacinth family contains our native (and<br />
scented) bluebell, together with the diminutive,<br />
delicately scented Muscari, or Grape Hyacinth,<br />
which will spread rapidly if allowed to naturalise.<br />
Tulipa ‘Ballerina’ is a graceful, lily flowered tulip; warm<br />
orange in colour, with exceptional scent, it is fairly longlived<br />
and the foliage doesn’t become as tatty as that of some<br />
Tulips. Tatty foliage is an annoying after effect with bulbs; it<br />
needs to be left on, ideally for six weeks after the flowers have<br />
finished, so that the bulb can regain its strength and bulk up<br />
again. If planted in a pot, simply shove behind the shed until<br />
the leaves have turned yellow, in the borders, try planting<br />
among early biennials, so that the bulb foliage gets hidden by<br />
a frothy skirt of forget-me-nots or spicily scented wallflowers.<br />
Spreading carpets of scented Lily of the Valley are wonderful<br />
in shady areas. Once established, they will romp away<br />
and provide ground cover (to the point of being invasive).<br />
Another scented carpeting bulb is wild garlic, commonly<br />
called Ramsons, which look very pretty en masse in a<br />
woodland situation, but will quickly dominate in the garden,<br />
swamping all the other, more delicate plants. A soft spread of<br />
scented native primroses works better on a domestic scale.<br />
The fresh spring air is a lovely thing to experience.<br />
Add some scented plants to the mix and the effect<br />
will be truly glorious. It is possible for us all to create<br />
a fragrant haven in the garden right now. It won’t<br />
get that way on its own, though. So whip-crackaway,<br />
as Doris Day would say; let’s get out there.<br />
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Pots of love<br />
Jo Arnell shows how easy – and enjoyable - it is to<br />
make a Mother’s Day treat for mum yourself<br />
The garden centres are packed full of springtime<br />
loveliness, much of it already made up into<br />
generic containers in readiness for Mother’s Day.<br />
But with a little time and thought it’s easy and satisfying<br />
to make an original floral gift. Classic spring flowers are<br />
always cheerful and uplifting, but there are also permanent<br />
plants or plant combinations that will work equally<br />
well and will be a lasting reminder of your devotion.<br />
Types of container: Whether you choose a conventional<br />
terracotta pot, bespoke planter, or something more quirky,<br />
drainage is essential, so make sure there are holes in the<br />
bottom of the container. If it’s not possible to make holes,<br />
add a generous layer of gravel to the bottom so that plant<br />
roots don’t drown in a pool of water. If you are planting into<br />
a basket, line the <strong>inside</strong> with polythene prior to planting, or<br />
even plant in a pot and then place that <strong>inside</strong> the basket.<br />
The plants to choose<br />
Bulbs are great in containers, providing welcome bursts of<br />
colour at the start of the season. Plant out in the garden,<br />
or tuck out of sight once they’ve finished flowering.<br />
Narcissi Many of the smaller varieties are scented<br />
which adds an extra layer of loveliness. They are also a<br />
better scale for containers than the giant show-offs.<br />
Tulips Look out for varieties that have good foliage,<br />
as some have lots of leaf that can start to look tatty<br />
and yellow before the flowers have gone over.<br />
Hyacinths are highly scented bulbs and<br />
come in every colour except orange.<br />
Muscari (Grape Hyacinth) have delicate blue flowers<br />
that look like tiny upside-down bunches of grapes. These<br />
will quickly multiply if planted on in the garden.<br />
Biennials make ideal companions for bulbs as they flower<br />
early. Basically a biennial is just an annual plant that<br />
spreads the growing period over the winter, so it is ready<br />
to start flowering as soon as the light and warmth come<br />
back in the spring. Once a biennial has finished<br />
flowering it will die and can then be<br />
replaced with summer bedding.<br />
Forget-me-nots will flower happily in<br />
pots and make a good ‘skirt’ at the base<br />
of flowering bulbs, helping to<br />
disguise that tatty foliage.<br />
Wallflowers (Erysimum) are<br />
available in a good range of<br />
colours and spicily scented, they<br />
mix especially well with tulips<br />
for a glamorous container display.<br />
Bedding The first<br />
outdoor bedding plants<br />
available at the garden<br />
centres are happy and<br />
tough, so they should<br />
survive any cold snaps.<br />
Don’t be tempted to<br />
choose tender bedding<br />
plants for your containers just yet.<br />
Primroses and polyanthus Choose either a demure<br />
natural-looking species primrose, or go for a jaunty<br />
and bright polyanthus. They are low growing, so<br />
work well either singly in small pots, or as fillers.<br />
Pansies and violas will go on flowering for<br />
months if you keep deadheading.<br />
indoor succulent arrangements<br />
These trendy plants make great table top displays for<br />
<strong>inside</strong> the house, but as the name suggests, succulents<br />
have evolved to store water in their leaves, so are<br />
ideally adapted to grow in arid conditions (perfect<br />
if you are giving them to a plant neglector).<br />
This means that they will need to be potted into<br />
free draining gritty compost. You can make up<br />
your own mix, using equal parts sand, compost and<br />
horticultural grit, and then top with a gritty mulch<br />
once planted in the container. Cacti and succulents<br />
(contrary to popular opinion in my family) do need<br />
to be watered, especially in the growing season, just<br />
make sure that the water can drain away adequately.<br />
Herbs<br />
Planters of mixed herbs are fun to put together and can be<br />
tailored to suit a cook’s requirements. Small single pots are in<br />
good supply at the moment, as the foliage will be young<br />
and fresh. Pot them up singly into attractive containers<br />
and group together, or arrange in a planter. Use a<br />
taller plant like rosemary or lavender in<br />
the centre and arrange the others around<br />
it. Herbs might not be as colourful as<br />
flowers, but they will make up for that<br />
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I liked James Wong’s idea of buying up vegetable seed packets<br />
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but we seem to find seed packets in odd corners of the<br />
shed and provided they have been kept dry, there is<br />
every chance that they will burst into life when sown<br />
even if they are apparently past their ‘sell buy’ date.<br />
Visiting a seed swap is such an easy and economical way<br />
of buying fresh and perhaps unusual varieties and whilst<br />
you’re doing that, you are making a bit of a stand against the<br />
few large seed companies who tend to monopolise garden<br />
centres. Having said that there are still wonderful exceptions<br />
with smaller seed companies producing fascinating plants<br />
and vegetables. And now there is still plenty<br />
of time to pore over catalogues and order.<br />
By the time you’ve done that, the rain might<br />
have eased off a bit as there really is no point<br />
in sowing in wet, cold, claggy ground.<br />
I very much liked the sound of home-made<br />
clay ‘seed bombs’ sold at Seedy Sunday, much<br />
loved by ‘guerilla gardeners’ and anyone else<br />
of like mind who wants to green up wasteland<br />
and roadsides as well as barren patches in their own gardens.<br />
It is always such a treat to see little patches of colour appear<br />
alongside busy roads and on dreary roundabouts where<br />
some like minded person has made a bit of an effort.<br />
We pass a little garden underneath a rather bedraggled<br />
street tree in Brixton quite regularly. The gardener there<br />
often pops out for a little chat to discuss his marigolds<br />
and Mexican daisies that flourish despite the attention<br />
of marauding cats and feral foxes. And of course the<br />
‘bombs’ would be perfect for a school garden.<br />
The Bumblebee Conservation Trust recommend one which<br />
contains wildflower seeds for scattering in either spring or the<br />
autumn. They are protected with ‘added chilli’ which, it seems,<br />
protects the seeds from predators like slugs and ants. The only<br />
thing to remember with wildflowers is that they do best on<br />
poor soil and would have a bit of a struggle if sown into grass.<br />
The seed bombs remind me of the story of Ellen Willmott,<br />
an Edwardian plantswoman who gardened at Warley<br />
Eryngium giganteum or<br />
‘Miss Willmott’s Ghost’<br />
“If you want to<br />
encourage bees<br />
to your garden<br />
buy seeds and<br />
sow liberally ”<br />
Place in Essex and had gardens in both France and Italy.<br />
She had inherited a fortune and spent it lavishly on her<br />
passion, employing over a hundred gardeners at one time.<br />
She would, it seem, keep seeds in her pockets when visiting<br />
friends’ gardens and would surreptitiously sprinkle them<br />
in their borders as she passed. The plant that she is famous<br />
for distributing is a beautiful one: Eryngium giganteum or<br />
‘Miss Willmott’s Ghost’. I would happily have invited her<br />
to share a few seeds with me. E. giganteum’s name could<br />
really apply to the plant’s colouring as this big, bold, spiky<br />
eryngium – it can grow to over a metre – has<br />
late flowers which are surrounded by a ghostly<br />
silver ruff. If you want to encourage bees and<br />
other beneficial pollinating insects to your<br />
garden, buy some seeds and sow liberally. It’ll<br />
self-seed and you can then do Miss Willmott’s<br />
job for her and pass some on to friends.<br />
Chiltern Seeds’ forty-second catalogue<br />
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for the plantaholic. What I like is not only the variety<br />
available but the fact that it is a family business born<br />
of a keen gardener’s hobby. You’ll find ‘Miss Willmott’s<br />
Ghost’ in there along with scrumptious trees, vegetables,<br />
annuals, perennials and everything else in between.<br />
I like the thought of perennials such as Perovskia<br />
atriplicifolia ‘Taiga’, a new variety of the original species<br />
native to Afghanistan, flowering away in its first season. It<br />
is lovely for cutting and provides a wonderful, nectar rich,<br />
late flowering cloud of blue. We’re going to experiment with<br />
a new tobacco plant this year. Nicotiana hybrida ‘Starlight<br />
Dancer’ is a new colour form of N. langsdorffii with its<br />
small, limey, tubular flowers. The anthers of N. ‘Starlight<br />
Dancer’ are a lovely chocolate brown. The thing about<br />
tobacco plants is that they have such a long season and this<br />
one can be woven through other border plants to knit your<br />
planting scheme together. The Jamaican forget-me-not or<br />
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seed which you might want to try this season. Sow in late<br />
spring in a seed tray in a greenhouse/conservatory or porch.<br />
Browallia americana has tiny, long flowering, amethyst blue<br />
flowers which float in a rather gentle way through other plants.<br />
Great Dixter used it to great effect in their borders last year<br />
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Whole School: Saturday 28th April <strong>2018</strong>, Saturday 13th October <strong>2018</strong><br />
Forest School: Saturday 17th <strong>March</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
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CO-EDUCATIONAL | 13-18 YEARS | DAY & BOARDING<br />
OPEN MORNINGS:<br />
13+ Entry: Saturday 10th <strong>March</strong> <strong>2018</strong>, Saturday 16th June <strong>2018</strong><br />
Sixth Form Entry: Saturday 23rd June <strong>2018</strong><br />
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Education<br />
Investing in the brains<br />
of tomorrow<br />
From theatres to science labs and social hubs, three schools tell us about<br />
their exciting new facilities, guaranteed to inspire young learners<br />
The King’s School, Canterbury<br />
What are the new facilities at the school? A collection of<br />
basement rooms beneath Shirley Hall, the school’s main hall and<br />
performing space, has been transformed into an open, modern<br />
and attractive area comprising ‘Chums’ (the new Pupils’ Social<br />
Centre), updated classrooms and a new specialist University and<br />
Careers room which is now rightly positioned at the centre of the<br />
school.<br />
Preparation for the construction of the new Science Centre in<br />
the Mint Yard area of the school has seen two old chemistry labs<br />
relocated from beneath the soon to be demolished Mitchinson’s<br />
Day House. The new labs are bright, spacious and designed to<br />
allow synthesised theoretical and practical work.<br />
Specially designed desks allow pupils to flow from one task to<br />
another and provide ample space for more active teaching and<br />
learning.<br />
Mitchinson’s Day House has relocated to a site just<br />
outside the main entrance of the school, where Count<br />
Zborowski housed the original ‘Chitty<br />
Chitty Bang Bang’ racing cars.<br />
Designed by award-winning London architects Walters & Cohen,<br />
the building provides contemporary areas for both study and leisure<br />
activities, in easy reach of the main school buildings that lie within<br />
the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral.<br />
What was the inspiration to invest in this particular aspect of<br />
school life? To provide a 21st century education within the context<br />
of a World Heritage Site.<br />
What are you most pleased with about the way the project has<br />
turned out? The relocation of Mitchinson’s Day House enables<br />
a transformation of classroom teaching and learning allowing an<br />
integration of the sciences.<br />
Did you use any specialist advisors or companies to design or<br />
build the facilities? Award-winning London architects Walters<br />
& Cohen are designing the new Science Centre and the new<br />
Mitchinson’s house. They had previously overseen the conversion of<br />
a former primary school into a new girls’ boarding house at school in<br />
2016. Creative arts specialists Tim Ronalds Architects are contracted<br />
to convert a Victorian malt house into a performing arts centre.
Whole School Open Morning<br />
Friday 9 <strong>March</strong><br />
Early Years Activity Morning<br />
Wednesday 14 <strong>March</strong><br />
Nursery and Reception places available<br />
Book online: www.bansteadprep.com/visit<br />
A new, co-educational independent prep school<br />
for girls and boys aged 2 - 11<br />
SUTTON LANE, BANSTEAD WWW.BANSTEADPREP.COM 01737 363600
Banstead Preparatory School<br />
Education<br />
How have pupils – and parents - responded to the new<br />
facilities? Current pupils have embraced the new facilities with<br />
whole-hearted enthusiasm and spirit. Parents are pleased that the<br />
school is modernising itself even within the constraints of a World<br />
Heritage Site.<br />
Do you have any plans for other new projects? A £50 million<br />
building programme continues across numerous areas throughout<br />
the school, the most ambitious level of investment being<br />
undertaken by a UK independent school.<br />
A Victorian malt house building is being transformed into a<br />
stunning performing arts centre comprising a 350-seat theatre<br />
complete with orchestra pit, dance and drama studios, bar and<br />
dining facilities. This state-of-the art school facility will also be<br />
available for community use.<br />
Alongside the malt house theatre a brand new International<br />
College is being constructed, which will join the family of King’s<br />
Schools. Welcoming pupils aged 11-16 from all over the world the<br />
International College will be a truly global community. A single<br />
purpose-built unit, it will be a striking mixture of concrete and<br />
glass intended to preserve the gentle industrial feel of the site.<br />
The Mint Yard, an historic area within the Cathedral precincts,<br />
will host a new science centre. Due to open in 2020 the building<br />
has been designed to be in keeping with its beautiful architectural<br />
surroundings. Alongside seven new physics laboratories, the<br />
development will deliver a dedicated science research space, an<br />
auditorium, and refurbished biology and chemistry laboratories.<br />
It is anticipated that the new and improved facilities will enable<br />
the school to extend their<br />
partnership activities with<br />
local state schools, adding to<br />
the already successful Saturday<br />
Smarties science masterclasses<br />
and Community Science Day.<br />
Improved dining facilities<br />
are also on the menu. A second<br />
dining space below the current<br />
dining hall will make the most<br />
of views across Green Court to<br />
the Cathedral.<br />
The King’s School, 25 The Precincts, Canterbury, Kent<br />
CT1 2ES 01277 595501 kings-school.co.uk<br />
What are the new<br />
facilities at the school?<br />
Our whole school is new this<br />
year! Our children benefit from<br />
outstanding facilities that very<br />
few prep schools are able to offer,<br />
including science labs, a floodlit<br />
all-weather games pitch, full-<br />
size sports hall, indoor swimming pool, professional dance<br />
studio and specialist art, music, drama, food technology and<br />
computing teaching spaces, and everything has had a facelift.<br />
We’ve also created a suite of brand new pre-prep classrooms<br />
and outdoor learning space, purpose built to give our youngest<br />
children the very best start to their education.<br />
What was the inspiration to invest in this particular<br />
aspect of school life? As an Early Years specialist, our<br />
Headteacher, Vicky Ellis places great importance on giving our<br />
youngest children an appetite for learning, by ensuring that<br />
everything they do in the classroom excites them and creates<br />
opportunities to try new things. As a brand new school, we<br />
expect to grow organically through the children joining our<br />
Early Years classes.<br />
What are you most pleased with about the way the project<br />
has turned out? The flexibility of the space allows us to<br />
constantly re-engineer the layout of the classrooms and keep<br />
things exciting for the children.<br />
For example, for our Reception topic ‘Around the World’<br />
this term, we’ve built the Banstead Buccaneer, a pirate ship<br />
that is ‘sailing’ the children around the world to different<br />
destinations to learn about the geography and culture in<br />
those countries.<br />
How have pupils and parents responded to the new<br />
facilities? Our first pre-prep classes are pioneering the way in<br />
their new classrooms – and they love them! All year groups<br />
from nursery up benefit from access to the specialist facilities<br />
and parents have been amazed by how much we have achieved<br />
in a short time.<br />
Do you have any plans for other new projects? Yes, we are<br />
continuing to improve other areas of the school and we are<br />
especially excited about a giant climbing frame that appeared<br />
in our playground during the half term holiday.<br />
We are in the midst of creating a plan of works for future<br />
years to continue to develop innovative learning spaces to<br />
meet the demands of our growing school. We have room to<br />
expand and to develop specialist facilities for the future. We’ll<br />
be able to make sure that in this current climate of educational<br />
change, Banstead Prep can continue to provide a curriculum<br />
that goes far beyond what most prep schools can offer.<br />
Banstead Preparatory School, Sutton Lane, Banstead, <strong>Surrey</strong><br />
SM7 3RA 01737 363601 bansteadprep.com<br />
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The alphabest of the new<br />
Baily Building, Ha-zelwood<br />
awesome auditorium bathed in natural light<br />
classrooms 14 dynamic design<br />
environmentally friendly food tech kitchen<br />
glass and plenty of it high ceilings<br />
interactive LCD screens just in time for September<br />
kaleidoscope of colour lower school art room<br />
majestic, magnificent and must-see<br />
natural ventilation outside learning spaces<br />
perfect teaching conditions quality finish<br />
reflective learning and curtain walling<br />
sweeping external staircase tree-lined approach<br />
undulating roof curves views to die for<br />
wide corridors xtra excited children<br />
years 3, 4 and 5 together under one roof<br />
zesty lime green colour-scheme<br />
www.hazelwoodschool.co.uk. Contact Nick Tappin on 01883 733841
Education<br />
Hazelwood School<br />
What are the new facilities at the school? The Baily Building<br />
is the first capital project for the school in over ten years. It is a<br />
magnificent teaching facility which sits alongside the Old School<br />
Building, reflecting the glory of that in the expanse of glass which<br />
forms the main façade of the new wing.<br />
Inside, there are fourteen teaching rooms, an Art Room, a<br />
Music Room and a 450 seat auditorium. For the first time in<br />
thirty years, the school’s Years 3, 4 and 5 cohorts are together<br />
in one environment, purpose-built for inspired and engaged<br />
teaching and learning.<br />
What was the inspiration to invest in this particular aspect of<br />
school life? The teaching and learning is at the heart of any great<br />
school. Whilst an outstanding teacher can inspire and influence<br />
in any environment, there comes a time when they, and the<br />
children, deserve the very best. After thirty years of changing lives<br />
in a ‘temporary Portakabin classroom’, the time had come to call<br />
in the demolition squad and to bring these classrooms up to the<br />
standard of the rest of the school’s exemplary facilities.<br />
What are you most pleased with about the way the project has<br />
turned out? The space is big and light, and has a life and a spirit<br />
which exudes creativity and encourages independent thought. It<br />
is colourful, vital and full of life. It was completed in just one year.<br />
And it came in on budget!<br />
The auditorium gives us a place where the whole school can<br />
assemble. It looks stunning in any light and at any time of day<br />
and the curves add a sense of elegance and grace to its scale and<br />
magnitude – but there is not one thing we are most pleased with.<br />
Everything about the building takes our breath away.<br />
Did you use any specialist advisors or companies to design<br />
or build the facilities? The school worked with an architect<br />
specialising in educational facilities. Our brief was interpreted well<br />
and challenged effectively. The resultant design perfectly translates<br />
our vision and delivers way beyond our expectations. It is a<br />
modern building sitting alongside a piece of tradition and history.<br />
The reflections caught in the glass capture, and make heroic, this<br />
potentially uncomfortable juxtaposition.<br />
How have pupils – and parents - responded to the new<br />
facilities? The whole school community loves the Baily Building.<br />
The children and teachers enjoy its style, space and light and our<br />
parents are proud to have it within the school estate. All are in<br />
agreement that it is no ordinary teaching space.<br />
Do you have any plans for other new projects? The Baily<br />
Building is Phase One of a Masterplan for the development of<br />
the school site. Future phases are planned once we have lived and<br />
loved the Baily Building for a little longer. It’s still too new and<br />
wonderful to think of passing it over in favour of another project!<br />
Hazelwood School, Wolfs Hill, Limpsfield, Oxted, <strong>Surrey</strong> RH8 0QU 01883 712194 hazelwoodschool.co.uk<br />
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JOIN THE “TOP CO-EDUCATIONAL<br />
DAY SCHOOL IN SURREY”<br />
Four years running - The Telegraph and The Sunday Times<br />
MONTHLY OPEN MORNINGS<br />
For dates and to register please visit rgs.to/open<br />
Reigate Grammar School, Reigate Road, Reigate, <strong>Surrey</strong>, RH2 0QS<br />
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HURSTPIERPOINT COLLEGE
Open Morning: Saturday, 10th <strong>March</strong> from 10.00am - 12.00pm<br />
Catholic Day and Boarding School for girls aged 11 to 18<br />
• Experience teaching the IB Diploma for<br />
over 35 years<br />
• Exclusive pre-IB Middle Years Programme<br />
• Nurture and support: girls gain excellent results<br />
• Places achieved at top Universities worldwide<br />
• Scholarships and bursaries available<br />
• Multilingualism: up to 9 languages taught<br />
• Internationalism: over 40 nationalities, yet one<br />
shared mission<br />
• All faiths welcome<br />
Please contact: admissions@marymountlondon.com www.marymountlondon.com Tel: 020 8949 0571<br />
George Road, Kingston upon Thames, <strong>Surrey</strong> KT2 7PE.<br />
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chinthurstschool.co.uk<br />
Open Days 8th <strong>March</strong> & 3rd May Outstanding 11+ Results 2017<br />
Co-educational school for children aged 3-11 years<br />
52 Tadworth Street, Tadworth, <strong>Surrey</strong>, KT20 5QZ<br />
admissions@chinthurstschool.co.uk<br />
Telephone 52 Tadworth 01737 Street, 812011 Tadworth, <strong>Surrey</strong>, KT20 5QZ<br />
admissions@chinthurstschool.co.uk<br />
@Chintschool facebook.com/ChinthurstSchool<br />
Telephone 01737 812011<br />
Co-educational school for children aged 3-11 years<br />
@Chintschool facebook.com/ChinthurstSchool<br />
Part of the Reigate Grammar School Family<br />
Part of the Reigate Grammar School Family<br />
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Nurture the child<br />
– not the targets<br />
Our new education columnist Hilary Wilce believes passionately<br />
that a successful education starts with a child’s sense of self<br />
This winter we got a new Minister for Education<br />
and for once the person in charge of the country’s<br />
schools had something interesting to say.<br />
In his first big speech Damian Hinds announced that he<br />
wanted schools to focus as much on developing children’s<br />
character and resilience as on boosting exam results. And that’s<br />
really good news - up to a point.<br />
It’s vital that we help pupils learn how to stick at difficult<br />
things, bounce back from set-backs, and be kind and thoughtful<br />
to themselves and others. This inner strength is the greatest gift<br />
we adults can give to children as they grow up.<br />
But it’s wrong to think – as Damian Hinds seems to – that<br />
teaching these so-called ‘soft skills’ is somehow separate from<br />
teaching reading, writing, maths and science.<br />
In fact, they are indivisible; you can’t make progress in maths if<br />
you are terrified to make a mistake, understand literature without<br />
empathy, or get your head round the hard parts of any school<br />
subject without being willing to stick at it.<br />
So schools should not just be told to offer character education<br />
lessons, but encouraged to develop their pupils’ character at every<br />
turn. And parents must play their part too – a much bigger<br />
part than any school will ever play. Research shows that children<br />
mainly take their values from home, so parents will always need<br />
to be proactive and committed if they want to build strong, wellbalanced<br />
children.<br />
What’s testing you about education?<br />
With an education system which seems to get ever more<br />
complex the whole schools experience can be bewildering<br />
for parents. With our annual education magazine,<br />
<strong>supplement</strong>s and regular features we address a wide range<br />
of issues in the field, but we would love to know what<br />
your particular areas of concern are. We won’t be able to<br />
answer individual questions, but please email to tell us<br />
what you would like to read more about at education@<br />
surrey-homes.co.uk<br />
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COOKERY COURSES • CHEF’S TABLE • PRIVATE PARTIES<br />
CORPORATE EVENTS • CHILDREN’S COURSES<br />
CHEF’S TABLE DINING EXPERIENCE<br />
Enjoy a five course tasting menu and a glass of Prosecco, at Rosemary Shrager’s Gallery Kitchen.<br />
HALF DAY, ONE DAY & TWO DAY COOKERY COURSES<br />
Choose a cookery class to suit you with many options on offer,<br />
spanning from the ‘Best of British’ which explores afternoon tea, to ‘Tastes of Europe’<br />
with Italian cooking. We even cover the tricky delicacies of gluten-free cookery.<br />
Telephone: 01892 528700 Email: school@rosemaryshrager.com<br />
RSCookerySchool RSCookerySchool www.rosemaryshrager.com<br />
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What’s On In <strong>March</strong><br />
Art<br />
Sat 3 Mar – Sat 14 Apr<br />
New Ashgate Gallery Trust,<br />
Waggon Yard, Farnham<br />
GU9 7PS<br />
Rising Stars <strong>2018</strong><br />
View and collect some of the most<br />
exciting new craft by emerging<br />
makers in this curated exhibition<br />
which rewards one winner with a<br />
£500 Professional Development<br />
Award and a solo exhibition at the<br />
new Ashgate Gallery.<br />
Entry: Free<br />
Info: 01252 713208 /<br />
newashgate.org.uk<br />
Tues 6 Mar - Sun 3 Jun<br />
Down Lane, Compton,<br />
Guildford GU3 1DQ<br />
A Pre-Raphaelite<br />
Collection Unveiled:<br />
The Cecil French<br />
Bequest<br />
A ‘forgotten’ collection of later<br />
Pre-Raphaelite paintings and<br />
drawings, including important<br />
works by Frederic Leighton,<br />
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, John<br />
William Waterhouse, Edward<br />
Burne-Jones and Albert Moore.<br />
Info: wattsgallery.org.uk<br />
Easter<br />
Fri 30 Mar – Mon 2 Mar<br />
Locations throughout England<br />
Cadbury Easter Egg<br />
Hunts<br />
Once again the National Trust<br />
is teaming up with Cadbury<br />
to scatter chocolate all over the<br />
English countryside. There are<br />
over 250 hunts going on across<br />
the country, with plenty in<br />
<strong>Surrey</strong> in locations including<br />
Winkworth Arboretum, River<br />
Wey Navigations and Hatchlands<br />
Park. This all helps to fund<br />
vital conservation work to<br />
protect special places for future<br />
generations to explore.<br />
Info: easter.cadbury.co.uk /<br />
nationaltrust.org.uk<br />
Fri 30 Mar – Sun 15 Apr<br />
Bockett’s Farm Park, Young<br />
Street, Fetcham, Leatherhead<br />
KT22 9BS<br />
Easter Eggstravaganza<br />
Learn all about spring at a farm<br />
this year with Bockett’s 350<br />
gorgeous new-born lambs, ‘Meet<br />
the Shepherd’ sessions, an easter<br />
craft corner, a stamp trail and a<br />
full programme of farm activities<br />
including tractor and pony rides,<br />
goat milking, and pig races.<br />
Info: bockettsfarm.co.uk<br />
Sat 31 Mar 12noon & 2.30pm<br />
Guildford High Street<br />
The Passion of Jesus<br />
The Wintershall players transform<br />
Guildford High Street to the stage<br />
of one of the greatest stories ever<br />
told, in the home town of many<br />
of the cast and crew.<br />
Entry: Free<br />
Info: wintershall-estate.com<br />
Sat 31 Mar<br />
Whiteley Village, Hersham<br />
KT12 4EH<br />
Easter Farm Festival at<br />
Whiteley Village<br />
With farm animals, horse and<br />
cart rides, mini tractor obstacle<br />
course, an Easter bunny trail, face<br />
painting, bouncy castle, themed<br />
crafts and local food and drink<br />
exhibitors selling seasonal local<br />
produce, the village of Whiteley<br />
has all you could need to make<br />
this Easter a great one.<br />
Entry: £9, Children £5, Family of<br />
four £25<br />
Info: facebook.com/pg/<br />
WhiteleyVillage<br />
Fairs & Shows<br />
Sat 10 & Sun 11 Mar<br />
Ascot Racecourse, Hight Street,<br />
Ascot SL5 7JX<br />
Bride: The Wedding<br />
Show<br />
Mothers of the bride and groom<br />
will be excited to hear that this<br />
year’s Bride: The Wedding Show<br />
falls on Mother’s Day. Expect a<br />
wide selection of suppliers set over<br />
two floors in the grand Pavilion,<br />
goody bags filled with samples for<br />
the first 100 brides through the<br />
door, complimentary magazines,<br />
competitions, deals and discounts<br />
and the unmissable catwalk show.<br />
Entry: Advance £5, Door £7.50<br />
Info: bridetheweddingshow.co.uk<br />
Sat 17 Mar 10am-3pm<br />
Grayswood Village Hall,<br />
Grayswood GU17 2LJ<br />
Spring <strong>Homes</strong> &<br />
Gardens Fair<br />
Home & Vintage Living<br />
A beautiful spring fair with a<br />
stunning selection of French<br />
Brocante, linens, soft furnishings,<br />
home, garden ware & stunning<br />
hand crafted gifts. There will be<br />
spring plants & garden talks in<br />
the tearoom and a playground for<br />
children.<br />
Entry: £2, under 14s free<br />
Info: homeandvintageliving.co.uk<br />
Families & Children<br />
Sat 24 Mar<br />
Chertsey Museum, 33 Windsor<br />
Street, Chertsey KT16 8AT<br />
River Celebration <strong>2018</strong><br />
Runnymede Borough Council<br />
reveres all things river related<br />
with the launch of the River<br />
Celebration exhibition and the<br />
Forest Estate Community Hub<br />
River Themed Spring Fayre, plus<br />
refreshments, stands and activities.<br />
Info: runnymede.gov.uk<br />
Sun 25 Mar<br />
Brooklands Museum,<br />
Brooklands Road, Weybridge<br />
KT13 0QN<br />
Brooklands Mini Day<br />
All Minis are invited to this<br />
annual event with old classics,<br />
vans, pickups, and modern<br />
BMWs displayed in all areas of<br />
the Museum site. As always Test<br />
Hill will be in action (subject to<br />
weather) and there will be a variety<br />
of trade stands offering mini parts,<br />
spares and memorabilia.<br />
Info: 01932 857381 /<br />
brooklandsmuseum.com<br />
Food<br />
Sat 10 – Sun 11 Mar<br />
Farnham Maltings, Bridge<br />
Square, Farnham GU9 7QR<br />
Squires Kitchen<br />
Exhibition <strong>2018</strong><br />
Live chocolate art, a wedding<br />
cake showroom, mini classes,<br />
cake decorating competitions,<br />
live demonstrations on things<br />
like decorating cookies, cupcake<br />
design, or sugar floristry; basically<br />
everything sugary delicious and<br />
gorgeous all in one place.<br />
Entry: £15<br />
Info: 01252 260260 /<br />
squires-exhibition.com<br />
Garden<br />
Sat 10 Mar 9.30am – 12.30pm<br />
Merrist Wood College,<br />
Worplesdon, Guildford<br />
GU3 3PE<br />
Know your Garden Soil<br />
Gain hands-on experience<br />
in assessing garden soil and<br />
evaluating what will make your<br />
plants grow happily and healthily.<br />
Entry: £45<br />
Info: merristwood.ac.uk<br />
Sat 17 Mar – Sun 10 Jun<br />
Ramster Gardens, Petworth<br />
Road, Chiddingfold GU8 4SN<br />
Ramster Gardens<br />
Reopen<br />
See the famous display of<br />
Camelias, Magnolias, Azaleas and<br />
Rhododendrons and the seasonal<br />
carpets of bluebells at Ramster’s<br />
award-winning colourful gardens<br />
which boast over 25 acres of<br />
peaceful woodland, lake views,<br />
and the unique 100 year old<br />
avenue of maples.<br />
Entry: £7.50<br />
Info: 01428 654167 /<br />
ramsterevents.com<br />
Tues 27 & Weds 28 Mar<br />
RHS Garden Wisley, Wisley<br />
Lane, Woking GU23 6QB<br />
Early Daffodil<br />
Competition<br />
See the early flowering daffodils<br />
out of the cold, including<br />
exquisite miniature daffodils and<br />
classes for daffodils grown in pots<br />
and for novice growers.<br />
Entry: Normal Admission<br />
Info: 01483 224234 / rhs.org.uk<br />
Mother’s Day<br />
Sun 11 Mar 10am – 4pm<br />
Painshill, Portsmouth Road,<br />
Cobham KT11 1JE<br />
Mother’s Day<br />
Treat your mum to something<br />
special on Mother’s Day, with<br />
a relaxing stroll through the<br />
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The Spring Contemporary<br />
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200 Exhibitors<br />
NEW FOR THIS YEAR:<br />
• 30 demonstrating exhibitors<br />
• Live music on a central stage<br />
• Specialist food exhibitors<br />
The UK’s most popular Craft Fair<br />
9am – 6pm Thursday to Sunday<br />
9am – 5pm Monday<br />
(Garden open to 6pm daily)<br />
Admission to Garden also gives admission to Fair<br />
Normal admission charges apply<br />
Free Garden entry for RHS<br />
Members • Last entry 1 hour<br />
before closing • GU23 6QB<br />
www.craftinfocus.com T: 01622 747325<br />
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What’s On In <strong>March</strong><br />
landscape and cream tea and<br />
Painshill Sparkling Wine at Mr<br />
Hamilton’s Tea Room.<br />
Info: painshill.co.uk<br />
Sun 11 Mar from 1.30pm<br />
Farnham Castle, Castle Street,<br />
Farnham GU9 0AG<br />
Mother’s Day<br />
Afternoon Tea<br />
Mums will love this elegant<br />
afternoon tea at the castle with<br />
live music, a selection of teas and<br />
coffee and a surprise gift for mum.<br />
Or if you feel like an extra treat,<br />
there is an optional upgrade to an<br />
English sparkling afternoon tea for<br />
an extra £6 per person.<br />
Entry: £39/person under 12s £19<br />
Info: farnhamcastle.com<br />
Sun 11 Mar<br />
Godstone Farm, Tilburstow Hill<br />
Road, Godstone RH9 8LX<br />
Mums go free!<br />
Take mum to Godstone Farm<br />
this Mother’s Day to see the little<br />
lambs, skipping goat kids and<br />
blooming spring flowers, and,<br />
because it’s her special day, she<br />
will even get free entry with a<br />
paying child. While there, grab a<br />
last minute gift at the giftshop and<br />
enjoy some cake at the tea room.<br />
Info: godstonefarm.co.uk<br />
Sun 10 Mar<br />
The Friary, North Street,<br />
Guildford GU1 4YT<br />
VIP Ladies’ Day<br />
You will want to turn up early to<br />
this one – the first 100 customers<br />
will be awarded goody bags, plus<br />
you can get to the front of the line<br />
for a free makeover in the free VIP<br />
lounge. Topshop’s new concession,<br />
Doll Beauty will also have celebworthy<br />
lashes and there will be<br />
a Belgian chocolate fountain,<br />
free prosecco or elderflower, and<br />
discounts in stores including<br />
Accessorize, The Fragrance shop<br />
and Boux Avenue.<br />
Info: thefriaryguildford.com<br />
Music<br />
Fri 16 – Sun 25 <strong>March</strong><br />
Various locations around<br />
Guildford<br />
Guildford Spring<br />
Music Festival<br />
Artistic director Lucy Parham<br />
leads a wonderful programme of<br />
music, talks and workshops in<br />
the Guildford area this month<br />
with highlights including Young<br />
Musician of the Year Jess Gillam, a<br />
concert featuring pianist John Lill<br />
and Classic FM’s John Suchet.<br />
Info: gsmf.org.uk<br />
Theatre<br />
Sat 10 – Sat 17 Mar<br />
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre,<br />
Millbrook, Guildford GU1 3UX<br />
Cats<br />
A fantastical tribe of feline friends<br />
gather for a night of Midsummer<br />
madness featuring Andrew Lloyd<br />
Webber’s most memorable score.<br />
Entry: From £15<br />
Info: yvonne-arnaud.co.uk<br />
Workshops<br />
Fri 9 Mar, 20 Apr & 11 May<br />
Polesden Lacey, Great Bookham,<br />
Dorking RH5 6BD<br />
Photography<br />
Workshops<br />
Learn to get the best out of<br />
your camera with this workshop<br />
covering camera controls,<br />
portraiture, landscapes, action,<br />
flash and low light photography.<br />
Entry: £70<br />
Info: nationaltrust.org.uk<br />
Listings are correct at time of going to<br />
press but may be subject to change.<br />
Readers are advised to check with<br />
venues before making arrangements.<br />
We can list your event in the next<br />
issue of <strong>Surrey</strong> <strong>Homes</strong> for only £15!<br />
Please supply up to 50 words that<br />
should include date, time, venue, and<br />
any entry price to whatson@<br />
wealdentimes.co.uk or send with<br />
payment (cheques payable to JPS<br />
Media) to What’s On, <strong>Surrey</strong> <strong>Homes</strong>,<br />
Kettle Chambers, 21 Stone Street,<br />
Cranbrook, Kent TN17 3HF. <strong>Surrey</strong><br />
<strong>Homes</strong> reserves the right to edit text<br />
to fit space allocated. If you would<br />
like your event listing to be<br />
accompanied by a full colour<br />
reproduction (42.5 x 62.5mm) of a<br />
poster or other pictorial image, the<br />
total charge will be £95. Deadline for<br />
the April issue is 12 <strong>March</strong> <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
ShedArt Art Exhibition<br />
Mon 19th to Sun 25th <strong>March</strong> 10am–5pm<br />
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Join us this spring at Denbies Art Gallery and discover<br />
a diverse and inspiring collection of original and<br />
contemporary paintings. You will find lots of artwork to<br />
fall in love with, and maybe take home that special gem.<br />
With Easter just around the corner, you could win<br />
a fabulous Easter Egg, in our prize draw raffle.<br />
FREE<br />
Admission<br />
www.shedart.co.uk shedart@shedart.org<br />
facebook.com/ShedArtUK<br />
Denbies Wine Estate, London road, Dorking,<br />
<strong>Surrey</strong> RH5 6AA www.denbies.co.uk<br />
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● Mother’s day and Easter hampers & gifts<br />
● Freshly baked bread<br />
● A large selection of cheese & charcuterie<br />
● Ready-made ‘cook’ meals<br />
● Jams, chutneys & sauces<br />
● Cottage tea garden serving<br />
homemade sandwiches & cakes<br />
● Vintage treasures, gifts and plants<br />
● Vintage furniture<br />
GIFT<br />
IDEAS<br />
Offer 1:<br />
For the Novices<br />
Bring your Mum along for a one<br />
hours Clay Pigeon Shooting<br />
Lesson for two, includes 50 clays<br />
and cartridges, each gun hire and<br />
insurance<br />
(pre-booked only) Only £99<br />
Offer 2:<br />
For the experienced Shots<br />
Bring your Mum along and get<br />
her practice prices half price<br />
OFFER<br />
Week commencing<br />
12 <strong>March</strong> - 16 <strong>March</strong><br />
Gift Vouchers<br />
Available<br />
WEST KENT SHOOTING SCHOOL<br />
New Hay Farm, Old Hay (Off Pearsons Green Road)<br />
Paddock Wood Kent TN12 7DG<br />
T: 01892 83 4306<br />
www.westkentshooting.co.uk<br />
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Bounc<br />
e<br />
with joy this Easter<br />
at Watts Gallery - Artists’ Village<br />
Friday 30 <strong>March</strong> - Sunday 15 April<br />
Kids go<br />
FREE<br />
Explore with family trails | Make at drop in workshops | Play in woodlands<br />
See website for full details wattsgallery.org.uk | Closed 9 April | Guildford GU3 1DQ<br />
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Competition<br />
WiN A £250 SHoPPiNG voUCHer<br />
For CoUNTY CLoTHeS!<br />
Our spring fashion <strong>supplement</strong> is full of gorgeous clothes and accessories for<br />
the girls – so it only seems fair to give the chaps a bit of the action with a<br />
chance of a fashion treat with this fantastic competition. And what a treat!<br />
The prize is £250 to spend at one of their four branches (Canterbury, Tenterden,<br />
Reigate or Sevenoaks). Their range of contemporary and classic menswear includes<br />
Barbour (above), Barker shoes, Olymp shirts, Meyer trousers, Cheaney shoes and RM<br />
Williams, among many others. Find out more on countyclothesmenswear.co.uk.<br />
HoW To eNTer: For<br />
your chance to win a £250<br />
shopping voucher for County<br />
Clothes, just answer the<br />
following question: How many<br />
branches do County Clothes<br />
have? Enter your answer with<br />
your contact details* in the<br />
online form at surreyhomes.<br />
co.uk/competition or post<br />
to: The County Clothes<br />
Competition, <strong>Surrey</strong> <strong>Homes</strong>,<br />
21 Stone Street, Cranbrook,<br />
Kent TN17 3HF by 31<br />
<strong>March</strong>. Prize comprises one<br />
voucher for £250. There is<br />
no cash alternative and the<br />
prize must be taken before 31<br />
<strong>March</strong> 2019. *All entrants’<br />
details will be passed on to<br />
County Clothes and Wealden<br />
Times Events. Please let us<br />
know if you do not wish<br />
your details to be passed on.<br />
Congratulations to Anita from Woodbridge who wins our dog-friendly break competition from PetsPyjamas<br />
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Jane Howard’s<br />
Fables from<br />
the Farm<br />
The daffs are up and it can only mean one thing... lambs!<br />
<strong>March</strong> already! Love it – the daffodils are out, the<br />
birds are busy sorting out their territories (and<br />
their love-lives) and here at Coopers it’s time to<br />
start lambing.<br />
Back in October we put the rams in with the ‘tegs’ (18<br />
month old female sheep that are being mated for the<br />
first time) a few weeks earlier than the main flock, in the<br />
knowledge it will all start 147 days later, in the middle of<br />
<strong>March</strong>. And every year we look forward to the prospect of so<br />
much new life, completely forgetting the sleepless nights, the<br />
tricky births and the inevitable sad losses.<br />
Before it all begins there will be a visit to the agricultural<br />
equivalent of Mothercare to stock up on birthing supplies.<br />
Latex gloves (hygiene), colostrum powder (for the weaklings),<br />
castration rings (pretty self explanatory), and bottles and<br />
powdered milk for the unlucky third triplet (ewes only have<br />
two teats so one unfortunate soul always gets left out).<br />
Next step is to get the caravan ready. We used to take it in<br />
turns to get out of bed in the farmhouse – a big deal when<br />
you’re cosy and tucked up at 3am and it’s blowing a freezing<br />
gale outside – to go down to the sheep shed to<br />
check on progress. But then a couple of years<br />
ago we had the idea to put an old caravan in<br />
there with the girls, so all you have to do is tip<br />
out for a quick look round without having to<br />
endure the cold <strong>March</strong> winds outside.<br />
In January we scanned all the ewes. Malcolm<br />
the Scan Man runs a camera under their<br />
stomachs - a process not unlike a human<br />
pregnancy ultrasound scan – although of course the sheep are<br />
not lying on their backs and Malcolm, unlike the midwife,<br />
has a lot of wool to deal with.<br />
We scan them so we see whether they are carrying singles,<br />
twins or triplets and as they come through the scan machine<br />
we are ready with the spray paint to put a splodge on their<br />
“Before it all begins<br />
there will be a visit<br />
to the agricultural<br />
equivalent of<br />
Mothercare”<br />
shoulder for a single, on the top of their tail for twins and a<br />
stripe across the back for triplets.<br />
Not only is this useful information at three in the morning<br />
when you have to investigate a tricky birth which could<br />
involve four legs or eight (or heaven forbid<br />
twelve) but it also means we can feed<br />
accordingly.<br />
The last four weeks of pregnancy represent<br />
the period of maximum growth for the lambs<br />
and those ewes with multiple babes on board<br />
need more food than those with singles. But<br />
one of the biggest problems can arise with<br />
the tegs that are carrying single lambs is that<br />
if they eat too much in these last few weeks they can end up<br />
producing a huge lamb that is devilish hard to get out.<br />
Two or three days before the first lambs are expected, we<br />
bring the ewes into the lambing shed where they will be quite<br />
disgruntled, as they actively prefer to be outside, whatever the<br />
weather.<br />
They give birth in the large open-plan part of the shed<br />
but once delivered we will move the new family units to<br />
individual pens to ‘mother up’, the opportunity for the<br />
mother and lambs to get to know each other’s bleats, baas and<br />
smells so once back in the great outdoors they can find each<br />
other if they get parted.<br />
Before this happens they will all be given matching<br />
numbers sprayed on the side of the ewes and the lambs, so if<br />
two should get accidentally parted, you can wander around<br />
the field carrying the lost no. 30 lamb seeking the matching<br />
30 ewe and effect a happy reunion. Bring it on.<br />
Follow Jane Howard – and the farm – on Instagram @coopersfarm<br />
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