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<strong>Restoration</strong> & <strong>New</strong> <strong>Build</strong> Supplement <strong>inside</strong><br />
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Contents<br />
<strong>May</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
26<br />
43<br />
50<br />
75<br />
81<br />
86<br />
50<br />
THE DROOL FACTOR<br />
Maggie Alderson’s dream homes<br />
MAY NOTEBOOK<br />
What to do this month<br />
INTERIORS NOTES<br />
FROM A STYLIST<br />
Sara Delaney’s glorious home<br />
GET THE LOOK<br />
Pieces to steal Sara Delaney’s style<br />
CAPTURING MOMENTS<br />
Artists and gallery directors on<br />
the art of still life paintings<br />
THE REBIRTH OF COOL<br />
A dazzling Hastings home to<br />
keep you cool this spring<br />
129<br />
133<br />
135<br />
137<br />
140<br />
112<br />
MAKEUP MAKEOVER<br />
Josephine Fairley on how to<br />
refresh your <strong>May</strong> make up<br />
COME ON, YOU BEAUTY!<br />
Looking forward to the<br />
Wealden Times Midsummer<br />
Fair Fenwick Beauty Hub<br />
A YEAR OF WELLNESS<br />
Eminé Rushton on the<br />
importance of a healthy gut<br />
NATURAL WISDOM<br />
A yoga and meditation expert,<br />
calendula and the health<br />
benefits of hot chocolate!<br />
CAULIFLOWER POWER!<br />
Oz Telem’s superveg recipes<br />
159<br />
160<br />
163<br />
167<br />
168<br />
140<br />
light on the beauty of plants<br />
which thrive in shade<br />
SCHOOL OF FROCK<br />
Be wowed by the weddingworthy<br />
Frewen College<br />
KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON<br />
(REVISING)<br />
Hilary Wilce examines revision stress<br />
WHAT’S ON?<br />
The best ways to spend your <strong>May</strong> days<br />
COMPETITION<br />
Win £499 of Le Creuset cookware<br />
FABLES FROM THE FARM<br />
Jane Howard’s less paltry poultry<br />
109<br />
112<br />
GET THE LOOK<br />
Update your home<br />
with a fresh style<br />
INVITATION TIME<br />
Kate Watts styles fashion to<br />
take you to any event<br />
147<br />
153<br />
HOW DOES YOUR<br />
GARDEN SHOW?<br />
Jo Arnell tells us about the<br />
Chelsea Flower Show<br />
SHINING IN THE SHADE<br />
Sue Whigham shines some<br />
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The computer generated illustration is for general guidance only. Price correct at time of going to press. Terms and conditions apply. Not in conjunction with any other offer.<br />
Times from www.nationalrail.co.uk
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House<br />
Month<br />
of the<br />
The drool<br />
factor<br />
Maggie Alderson picks out some<br />
dream homes<br />
This month we are moving in a<br />
slightly different direction with<br />
House of the Month. In the past we<br />
have come up with a theme we think will<br />
be of interest, houses which have equestrian<br />
facilities, granny flats, views, amazing<br />
bathrooms, special gardens etc. From now<br />
on we’ve decided instead to look for houses<br />
on the market which are simply wonderful,<br />
for lots of different reasons and in lots of<br />
different ways. Houses which make you<br />
sigh and start imagining your life there. In<br />
short, houses with DHDF: dream home<br />
drool factor.<br />
£17,000,000<br />
Dunsborough<br />
Park<br />
The dream: An estate of 107<br />
acres, with a Grade II listed<br />
house and ten cottages, this<br />
is a wonderfully romantic<br />
property. With origins in the<br />
early 12th Century, it has been<br />
added to at most points in<br />
between, most significantly in<br />
the 18th, when the gardens<br />
were also laid out.<br />
Many colourful owners<br />
include Charles Hughesdon,<br />
described in his Telegraph<br />
obituary as ‘a daredevil aviator,<br />
champion ballroom dancer,<br />
insurance broker and airline<br />
executive who married the<br />
film star Florence Desmond,<br />
and boasted of affairs with<br />
Shirley Bassey and Margot<br />
Fonteyn’. When the current<br />
vendors bought the house in<br />
1984 they found 123 empty<br />
champagne bottles at the<br />
bottom of the swimming pool.<br />
The interior is a rambling<br />
marvel with an eat-in kitchen,<br />
family room, sitting room,<br />
wood-panelled drawing room,<br />
plus a galleried music room, a<br />
flower room and a card room.<br />
To read more about the<br />
history of this magnificent<br />
property take a look at<br />
mansionglobal.com<br />
Where: On the edge of the<br />
village of Ripley, between<br />
Woking and Guildford.<br />
Locale: The splendour of its<br />
gardens, parkland and pasture.<br />
Time to town: 28 minutes to<br />
Waterloo from Woking, under<br />
five miles.<br />
Beds: 7 or 8 Baths: 7<br />
Special features: Equestrian<br />
facilities with a manège.<br />
Outside: Formal gardens of<br />
great loveliness, a pool, tennis<br />
courts. A parterre garden, a ha<br />
ha, Edwardian glass houses,<br />
follies, a bluebell wood...<br />
Price: £17 million.<br />
Agent: Savills, Weybridge.<br />
01932 838004 savills.com<br />
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Southwinds<br />
£15,950,000<br />
The dream: A 21st Century mansion,<br />
with a stately porticoed front elevation<br />
you wouldn’t be surprised to see Mr<br />
Darcy strolling out of, with an interior<br />
you could imagine Mr Beckham<br />
mooching about in.<br />
With 1,505 square metres of floor<br />
area, Southwinds has every dream<br />
feature: a lift, a TV room and a film<br />
room, an indoor pool, a spa area, a<br />
gym, a sauna, a wine room, a boot<br />
room and a prep kitchen (staff) off the<br />
main one.<br />
Where: St George’s Hill uber swank<br />
private estate, 3 miles from Weybridge.<br />
Locale: Deep and abundant leafiness.<br />
Time to town: 75 minutes to Mount<br />
Street in a chauffeured car.<br />
Beds: 6 suites plus 2 for staff. Baths: 7<br />
Special features: Everything.<br />
Outside: 1.5 acres of landscaped<br />
gardens and mature trees.<br />
Price: £15,950,000<br />
Agent: Savills, Weybridge 01932 838000<br />
savills.com and Knight Frank, Weybridge<br />
01932 548000 knightfrank.com<br />
Southgate House<br />
£2,995,000<br />
The dream: A superb example of<br />
porticoed new-build gracious living which<br />
has had eight full years to bed in – and<br />
is therefore ripe for the new owners<br />
to entirely rip out and refurbish, with<br />
the latest kitchen and bathroom styles.<br />
Sacrificing one bedroom would provide<br />
potential for a second master en suite and<br />
dressing room and the large flat lawn is<br />
crying out for a pool.<br />
Where: In the prestigious Pachesham<br />
Park private estate, between Oxshott and<br />
Leatherhead.<br />
Locale: Leafiness, plus other prestige<br />
homes.<br />
Time to town: From half an hour,<br />
Oxshott (5 mins) to Waterloo.<br />
Beds: 7 Baths: 7<br />
Special feature: Air con.<br />
Outside: 1.25 acres of immaculate lawn,<br />
borders and mature trees, with enormous<br />
scope for further landscaping.<br />
Price: £2,995,000<br />
Agent: Sotheby’s, Cobham, 01932<br />
860537 sothebysrealty.co.uk<br />
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<strong>May</strong> Day...<br />
Join the Lord and Lady of the <strong>May</strong>, along with the <strong>May</strong> Queen<br />
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<strong>May</strong><br />
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Exhibitions & events<br />
near you this month...<br />
Brandon’s off-ramps...<br />
On his journey from Brooklyn to Britain - via<br />
Hollywood - Michael Brandon has taken many<br />
off-ramps on the way. Michael Brandon - Off Ramps<br />
is a brilliant, funny and engaging show full of<br />
original footage, rare photographs and eye-widening<br />
Hollywood truths harvested from half a century in<br />
the industry. The show will be at Epsom Playhouse<br />
on Saturday 26 <strong>May</strong>. For more details and booking<br />
go to epsomplayhouse.co.uk<br />
Landmark Arts...<br />
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Spring Art Fair. It will take place from Saturday<br />
19 to Sunday 20 <strong>May</strong> from 10am to 5pm in the<br />
centre’s truely unique location of a Grade II*<br />
listed 19th century former church in Teddington,<br />
where the art displayed will encompass painting,<br />
sculpture, graphics, print, illustration and mixed<br />
media, high quality ceramics, jewellery and textiles.<br />
Visit landmarkartscentre.org to find out more.<br />
Treat yourself...<br />
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<strong>May</strong>, The Dabbling Duck Café is returning<br />
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treats including finger sandwiches, macaroons,<br />
tarts, scones, and fresh strawberries, as well as tea<br />
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Monogamy...<br />
Olivier award winner Janie Dee stars in critically<br />
acclaimed playwright Torben Betts’ sharp state<br />
of the nation comedy, Monogamy, following the<br />
dramatic life of Caroline Mortimer. The nation’s<br />
favourite TV cook is the woman who has it all<br />
but beneath the flawless facade of her Highgate<br />
house looms the threat of what happens when<br />
you live a private life in the public eye. Go to<br />
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Tuesday 8 to Saturday 12 <strong>May</strong> at Yvonne Arnaud<br />
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A novel idea...<br />
Authors, illustrators, poets and children’s<br />
performers including Evan Davis (<strong>New</strong>snight),<br />
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Previous pages: The double-height entrance hall, where Sara and her husband decided<br />
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Artists seek the north light: a pure, pale reflected light that is not<br />
subject to the shifting dazzle of the sun. The Victorian landscape<br />
artist who commissioned the building of this house in the <strong>Surrey</strong><br />
Hills, an official ‘area of outstanding natural beauty’, put the huge windows<br />
of his huge studio in exactly the right place for him: facing north.<br />
North in this instance faces away from the landscape - straight into<br />
the hill behind the house. So when the Delaney family moved in they<br />
knew they had to make another large window immediately – in the space<br />
they use as a family room - this time facing out towards the garden,<br />
across a valley of Los Angeles scale, the sunset, and the distant south<br />
coast. Artists may seek the north light; the rest of us seek a view.<br />
We are at the home of Sara Delaney, award-winning and inspirational lifestyle<br />
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was at the top of the agenda. Sara and her husband bought the large, late Victorian<br />
house in 2005 and immediately set about updating it, choosing to live alongside<br />
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the inevitable chaos that living with the builders creates.<br />
“We couldn’t unpack, so we carved a single path through<br />
the boxes and learned how to barbecue everything.”<br />
The ironic thing was that once they had finished<br />
refurbishing the house from top to toe, they moved to<br />
<strong>New</strong> York for five years, before returning and employing<br />
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the builders, from Portugal, who did the barbecuing,<br />
cooking sardines on a makeshift griddle on top of a<br />
wheelbarrow. “It smelled delicious,” Sara remembers.<br />
They employed interior architect Nick Coombs during<br />
both projects at first to help them bring the house into a<br />
brighter, bolder light than the shy, north-facing art studio had<br />
bathed in. They installed the large picture window opposite<br />
the original window; bright sunshine instantly flooded<br />
the room and revealed the fabulous landscape outside.<br />
Sara is keenly aware of light and its effects and through her<br />
blogging has developed a photographer’s eye for it. “I look<br />
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Left: They kept all the original fireplaces as features in the<br />
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Studio Interiors, Sara set about the business of neutralising<br />
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“My husband lost his shoes at one point and we<br />
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A Designers Guild floral panel covers what was<br />
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too went most of the oppressive wood panelling.<br />
“Spyros suggested whitewashing the wood, or liming<br />
it,” explains Sara, “but it wasn’t amazing old oak, it had<br />
come from a local church interior. We just kept this one<br />
wall as a feature, a sort of homage to the panelling.”<br />
The discarded wood did not go to waste. “We<br />
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Above left: More of Sara’s beloved scatter cushions in the spare room. The artworks are Sara’s photographs blown up on canvas<br />
Above right: The bathroom off the spare room. The wood is zebrano<br />
There are some features that have remained in place; the<br />
imposing fireplaces for one, which are from original designs<br />
by the famous 17th century wood carver Grinling Gibbons.<br />
“I want light everywhere else because the<br />
fireplace in here is so dominant.”<br />
The surround is lifted by having a clean, light, but<br />
cosy, new look and a fire bowl interior. The high ceilings<br />
have carefully wrought plasterwork on the ceiling.<br />
“Except it isn’t,” laughs Sara. “If you look<br />
closely you can see that they are just tiles that were<br />
once stuck on and made to look original.”<br />
Light pours into the house during the day, from the<br />
windows now all along the ‘view’ side, but at night a stunning,<br />
sun rivalling, artificial light shines in the hall, in the shape<br />
of a huge spiralling solar system of a chandelier. It is a total<br />
wow, and is the first thing you see when you enter the house.<br />
This ultimate statement piece was designed by Nick Coombs,<br />
totally bespoke and carefully constructed to fit the space.<br />
“Nick gave us some ping pong balls and sticks to help with<br />
the design process,” says Sara, “so that we could play with the<br />
light and get exactly the right balance and combination.”<br />
Beneath the chandelier hangs a large landscape painting of<br />
Villa D’Este by local artist and friend Alexander Cresswell.<br />
It is pressed beneath a plain glass frame, with no surround.<br />
“We felt that a frame would close it in somehow,”<br />
Sara explains. “It’s also hung so that the line of sight<br />
matches up when you look at the view outside.”<br />
And indeed the horizon line matches perfectly,<br />
seamlessly blending the Tuscan and <strong>Surrey</strong> hills.<br />
With this combination of what was there, with modern<br />
additions, the hallway is a harmonious space and the colours<br />
of the painting are coordinated with accents in the decor.<br />
“We matched the decor to the painting, not the other way<br />
round.” Sara wanted to respect the artist who she’s known<br />
for years, adding that a painting is art, not interior design<br />
- tempting as it is to organise it the other way around.<br />
Looking from the hall into the dining room, with a<br />
lovely soft and muted colour scheme in warm grey and<br />
pale dusky pink, your eye is caught by what looks like<br />
an artwork, a coil of gold which stands on the floor. It’s<br />
actually a feature light but works as a piece of sculpture<br />
on its own, found in a shop in Westbourne Grove years<br />
ago and moving with them from house to house.<br />
The lights above the table are by Achille<br />
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and comfortable looking dining table and chairs were<br />
designed by the award-winning Rupert Senior.<br />
“The chairs are deliberately designed with low backs,”<br />
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Previous page top left: The ‘stacked’ drawers unit is from The Conran Shop Lower left: Sara’s walk-in closet Lower right: Part of a<br />
shoe collection Carrie from Sex in the City would envy This page: Sara’s dressing table is from 1stdibs.com and the mirror behind is<br />
from US interiors store Lillian August.The jacket on the chair is a favourite jacket by Needle & Thread<br />
The chairs we had before had high backs and it makes<br />
such a difference. It had never occurred to me.”<br />
Interestingly, in a room with such serious<br />
designer pieces, Sara has also used her styling skills<br />
to find some more cost-conscious solutions.<br />
“I knew that I wanted a round mirror in here,” she<br />
explains. “I searched everywhere and all the mirrors I<br />
found were so expensive. In the end I went to a local<br />
glass merchant and commissioned it. They sourced the<br />
glass and made it for me - it’s so much cheaper.”<br />
She also has techniques to keep the house<br />
constantly updated for blogging purposes.<br />
“I use the interior of the house for photography shoots<br />
and interior blogs and have to keep it fresh. The basics stay,<br />
but the accessories move around and change. Here in the<br />
dining room I rotate and refresh what’s on display on the<br />
shelf units. Throughout the house I change the cushions<br />
seasonally. The kids scatter them all over the place, but that <br />
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Left: The original north facing window<br />
in what was the studio of the Victorian<br />
artist who originally owned the house. All<br />
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covered in Designers Guild fabrics. The<br />
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makes me rethink the colour schemes in each room.”<br />
There are cushions everywhere in this house, today<br />
pert and organised – the children are at school - and<br />
wearing their spring covers; zingy pastels in shades<br />
of pink, green, yellow and blue, looking fresh and<br />
crisp against the light neutral backgrounds.<br />
“Spyros does the wallpaper, cushions and curtains. I have<br />
used him for all our houses,” she says. “He has a great eye<br />
and will suggest things - and we look at them in a book and<br />
I say ‘NO!’, and then he brings the actual samples over -<br />
and pushes me out of my comfort zone, which is good. He<br />
has made me think about textures more too. I like to use<br />
velvet and devoré a lot and I like sequins and throws.”<br />
We head up the pale carpeted stairs (remarkably blemishfree<br />
for a family of five with two large dogs), past a seamstress’s<br />
dummy gloriously festooned with lanyards from fashion<br />
shows and hospitality suites and into the master bedroom.<br />
From there, via a beautiful shower room in muted shades<br />
of stone, you enter a space that was once a bedroom and is<br />
now something of a sanctuary: Sara’s dressing room. Although<br />
it is more accurately named the ‘shoe room’ as it features a<br />
display of some of Sara’s favourites – a seriously impressive<br />
collection of Manolos, Louboutins, Charlotte Olympia, Prada,<br />
Miu Miu… which would make Carrie Bradshaw drool.<br />
“I like to look at them, a bit like you’d peruse books on a<br />
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Sara firmly believes that beautiful clothes and<br />
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Above: At the far end of the family room, steps down to the home cinema and wine room on the lower level. The cowhide butterfly<br />
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John Myatt<br />
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You have created genuine copies of some of the greatest artworks in<br />
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If you start with Cezanne there’s a whole way of thinking about still life<br />
painting which is completely different to how they would have thought<br />
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It has survived right into that format to today. Now it’s a way of<br />
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are composition, colour balance and drawing. That avenue was opened<br />
up particularly by Picasso and Matisse.<br />
Which painters of still life do you particularly admire?<br />
Ben Nicholson. The way an artist in the post-war period used a very<br />
small repertoire of jugs and goblets for gigantic abstract paintings and<br />
very small ones. You can decipher a Nicolson painting by looking at the<br />
handles and the spouts, they’re a kind of abstract music of colour and<br />
form and texture, I like him a lot.<br />
What is the appeal of painting still lifes rather than other genres?<br />
Logistics. Still life you can set up in the studio, it doesn’t matter if it’s<br />
raining, you are in charge of the set up and the lighting. Cezanne and<br />
Monet painted flowers when it was too wet to go out - and of course<br />
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How do you get into the head of a particular artist?<br />
I have some genuine fakes of Cezanne still life paintings in the studio at<br />
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Are any particular still life themes popular at the moment?<br />
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Emma Haggas paints what she calls her ‘happy flowers’, very<br />
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Then there’s Miles Oxenford, a very interesting artist. He<br />
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Antonio Bellotti often uses vases as subject matter. What’s<br />
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He will not split them apart.<br />
Linda Felcey is different again as she works on aluminium,<br />
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Previous page: The main living space is in what was<br />
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Soviet-era artworks in the nearby Baker Mamonova<br />
Gallery This page: The couple restored the original<br />
stone staircase and wrought iron bannisters. Original<br />
drawings by Gerry Whale<br />
Houses by the seaside always have a special<br />
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Whatever the reason, it was the pull of the East<br />
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The couple’s impressive six-storey terrace is located<br />
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Leonards-on-Sea. Designed by architect Decimus<br />
Burton in the early 19th century, when the town<br />
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Above: The peacock light on the half landing is by local lighting artist Philip Oakley. An original piece from Blackpool Illuminations,<br />
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twenty years ago, I visualised where I wanted to end up<br />
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the rear of the property a series of palm trees sway gently<br />
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Standing in the first-floor apartment, in a space<br />
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Ignoring the advice of the local agents, who suggested<br />
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This page: The main living area has floor-length<br />
windows with views out to sea. The rattan chaise<br />
longue is by Poul Kjaerholm<br />
went on to develop five of the modernist flats in the<br />
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Above: Looking from the sitting area into the kitchen. The leather sofa is by Heals. The armchair is from Tilt St. Leonards. The metal<br />
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Previous page: Dieter Rams’ shelving by Vitsoe Above left: The garden seen through the kitchen window at the back of the house.<br />
The vintage haberdasher’s cabinet is from ebay Above right: Looking the other way, towards the sea. The refectory table is from<br />
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This page above: Looking from the kitchen back towards the living area.<br />
The light on the wall is another piece by Philip Oakley<br />
“We didn’t spend a fortune on the kitchen,<br />
it’s just very white and minimal from Howdens,<br />
but of course we needed to add our own<br />
touch,” says Ed running his finger over the<br />
immaculate stainless steel kitchen counter<br />
surface, which was fabricated locally.<br />
The couple chose not to have a splashback,<br />
preferring to keep the lines clean which means<br />
that the kitchen flows seamlessly from the<br />
reception room, working as a dining room and<br />
a work space. A refectory table and benches<br />
and a series of pendant light bulbs offer the<br />
perfect studio area for Ed, who, since moving<br />
to Hastings, has picked up his paintbrush<br />
once again. Following the purchase of a series<br />
of original Russian TASS agency propaganda<br />
posters from local dealer Russell Baker at the<br />
Baker Mamonova Gallery on Norman Road,<br />
Ed is now creating his own versions in paint,<br />
including the neighbouring Marine Court,<br />
which obviously still has a place in their hearts.<br />
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back original pine floors give a feeling<br />
of warmth, helped by new underfloor<br />
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Above: The bedroom, at the back of the apartment, with a<br />
window to the bathroom behind. The chair is by Niko Kralj<br />
Below left: The steel-framed doors were made by a local<br />
craftsman. The chairs are originals by Alvar Aalto from De La<br />
Warr Pavilion in Bexhill<br />
Moyra’s prized haberdashery cabinet, a wonderful<br />
conversation piece of a storage cabinet in the kitchen.<br />
A giant roll of cord from local haberdashers Wayward has<br />
been transformed into a side table and an old French breadbasket,<br />
discovered in Sideshow Antiques on Norman Road, has<br />
been turned into a fireplace wood basket. Architect favourite<br />
Dieter Rams’ shelving by Vitsoe offers touches of modern<br />
convenience within the minimalist yet very warm aesthetic.<br />
As with everything the couple have done throughout<br />
this most personal of renovations, the devil is very much<br />
in the detail. The nods to the building’s past, its unique<br />
design and architectural heritage, sit side by side with all<br />
the tricks of a contemporary architect, working at the<br />
height of the industry. Together Ed and Moyra have created<br />
a home that will look after them both for many years<br />
to come. You can almost hear the building singing with<br />
happiness that its former glory has at last been returned.<br />
Moyra and Ed would particularly like to highlight the<br />
role played by Patrick and Ylli Ajvazi, whose positive and<br />
professional work and energy really helped create this new<br />
version of the house. Sadly Patrick passed away from cancer<br />
towards the end of the renovation. He made an incredible<br />
difference to this beautiful house.<br />
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in the process of renovating a house with an<br />
extension to create the all important eat-in kitchen.<br />
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Renovate<br />
and CELEBRATE<br />
It’s official, you can add thousands to the value of your home with well-chosen, simple refurbishments<br />
It’s not just the stuff of dinner party conversations – the slightly annoying<br />
kind where smug people boast about how much their houses are worth.<br />
When someone says, “We’ve just put a loo in the cupboard under our<br />
stairs and added more than £26 grand to the value of our house and it only<br />
cost us two and a half to put it in…” it’s a matter of fact. (Although still<br />
annoying of them to boast about it.)<br />
Figures released recently by the Federation of Master <strong>Build</strong>ers (FMB) and<br />
the Home Owners Alliance have confirmed exactly how much we can add<br />
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extensive research project involving estate agents and builders.<br />
And, making it all even more appealing, all the projects they studied can<br />
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Here are the official numbers for the value increase after various home<br />
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As solid<br />
as an oak<br />
Conservatory<br />
Call it whatever you like – a conservatory, an orangery,<br />
a sun room, or a garden room – an oak-framed<br />
extension is a very fine thing to add to a house<br />
James Ransley<br />
The Oak Glasshouse Company<br />
What’s the difference between a conservatory, an orangery<br />
and a sun room? The biggest difference is the construction of<br />
the roof. A conservatory has over 75% of the roof glazed, an<br />
orangery has less than that. A conservatory by definition must<br />
also have over 50% of its wall area glazed.<br />
An oak-framed sunroom of the kind we do is a proper<br />
extension and whereas five years ago people would have<br />
a separate door going into it from the house, like a<br />
conservatory, now they want it all open plan. The vast<br />
majority of our business now is creating these to be eat-inkitchen<br />
family rooms. They become like part of the house,<br />
with an insulated roof supported by the oak frame, then<br />
tiled to match the existing house. If necessary we will find<br />
reclaimed tiles to make the match as good as possible.<br />
What is the appeal of a sun room? English people used to be<br />
indoors or outdoors, now we all like a more outside in healthy<br />
feeling. It’s how people want to live now, how they want to<br />
feel in there, how they want the light coming in. They gain<br />
another room and with lots of glass, bifold doors and patio,<br />
it’s much more linked to the outside. When you’re in one of<br />
our rooms it feels like you’re standing in the garden.<br />
Do you have any words of advice for people considering<br />
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linked to the kitchen, back in the main house. The new room<br />
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area they live most of their lives in. The ideal though is to<br />
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space, so it’s fully integrated.<br />
Are there any particular kinds of houses that this approach<br />
is better suited to? Up to ten or 15 years ago oak-framed<br />
extensions were more of a farmhouse style for buildings in<br />
the country, now we do them in London. They can go on a<br />
bungalow or modern houses.<br />
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Paul Fitzgerald<br />
Richmond Oak Conservatories<br />
I have been working with timber since the 1960s. As the<br />
name of the company suggests we specialise in constructing<br />
glazed extensions in seasoned oak. One of the most common<br />
questions we are asked is “What is the difference between<br />
an orangery, a conservatory, and a garden room?”. In simple<br />
terms, a conservatory has a predominantly glass roof, a garden<br />
room has a predominantly tiled or slate roof and an orangery<br />
comes in several different forms, usually with a part flat roof<br />
and a glazed lantern.<br />
Although most timber conservatories and garden rooms<br />
include dwarf walls and often some full heights walls,<br />
especially adjacent to a boundary, an orangery usually has<br />
more brickwork. Some have a timber fascia, some a tiled verge<br />
to the roof and others have a brick parapet wall.<br />
The modern conservatory, orangery or garden room, built<br />
with the correct materials, glass, ventilation and to building<br />
regulations standards is a permanent glazed living space that<br />
can be used all year round. Most ‘off the peg’ conservatories,<br />
however, are exempt from building control standards and are<br />
built with inferior glass and ventilation specifications and<br />
really could be described as ‘not fit for purpose’.<br />
When advising a client, first and most important is to do<br />
a thorough fact find. Like any type of home improvement,<br />
it is a solution to a problem, so it is really necessary to first<br />
explore exactly what problem you are designing a solution<br />
for. An attractive building that doesn’t fulfil the requirements<br />
is a waste of money. Which type of glazed extension I<br />
would recommend is based upon four factors; the client’s<br />
requirements; the space available and position relative to the<br />
house; the he style of property and the budget available - as it<br />
usually costs more than anticipated.<br />
To work out the design with the client usually takes several<br />
visits. To carry out the fact find, measure, take photos, discuss<br />
design options and after looking at photos of completed<br />
projects, to agree on which suits their requirements best. After<br />
which I would go away and create 3D concept illustrations<br />
for their unique solution.<br />
Normally I would expect to return within two weeks to<br />
go through the concept illustrations with the client. Quite<br />
oftenthere will be some changes required. At this point, I<br />
would normally be able to provide a fairly accurate guide<br />
price for the timber/glazed element of the project but I would<br />
also want to get one of our builders to provide a price for the<br />
other aspects. This would include any demolition, drainage,<br />
foundations, brickwork, plastering, plumbing, electrics,<br />
underfloor heating and floor finish, including any steelwork<br />
required for open-plan installations.<br />
Every design is unique and in addition to size, there are<br />
over 50 factors which affect the price. Different factors not<br />
only include the client’s requirements, including such things<br />
as differences of colour, in and out, but are dependent upon<br />
access, varying house layouts, drainage, type of bricks or<br />
stonework, etc.<br />
There are many advantages of an oak-framed structure, so<br />
long as the correct specification of oak is provided. Oak has<br />
been the builder’s and<br />
architect’s choice for house<br />
and window construction<br />
for centuries. Not<br />
only does it have great<br />
structural integrity, it is<br />
extremely durable and has a unique, warm natural colour,<br />
that blends with the background colours of the garden.<br />
White painted frame interiors are very clinical by<br />
comparison. Oak is unique in that it blends with highly<br />
contemporary furnishings or those from more traditional<br />
periods. I consider it essential not to use softwoods such as<br />
European Redwood (Pine) or Siberian Larch, as these have a<br />
typical anticipated lifespan of only approximately 15 years.<br />
When working in close proximity to glass, it is essential<br />
to use the correct specification of oak. There are basically<br />
thee types of oak: green oak with a moisture content of up<br />
to 80%, air-dried oak, typically with a moisture content of<br />
30-40% and fully seasoned oak, with a moisture content of<br />
approximately 15%.<br />
The more moisture in the timber at the time of use, the<br />
more movement, distortion, and shrinkage there will be as it<br />
dries out. For a garage or shed, this is not an issue, but when<br />
being used adjacent to glass, this can be a major issue.<br />
It is also a major concern with respect to opening doors<br />
and window sashes if you don’t want them bending in the<br />
wet weather. At Richmond Oak we only use fully-seasoned<br />
oak and it is engineered, using a process where the solid oak<br />
frames are made up from layers, typically between 20-30mm,<br />
glued together with alternative grain.<br />
Not only does this make it extremely stable, but increases<br />
the strength of a rafter by up to 30%, also making it possible<br />
to have much greater lengths that are not going to distort.<br />
Whilst many smaller conservatories can be installed<br />
under ‘permitted development’, most of our work requires<br />
planning permission and more than 30% of our work is on<br />
listed buildings, so requires listed building consent. We have<br />
our own team of experienced draughtsmen and planning<br />
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What we find exciting about our work is the amazing<br />
differences in the projects and not only seeing the finished<br />
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A Chartwell Oak garden room exterior<br />
Alex Torikian<br />
Chartwell Oak <strong>Build</strong>ings<br />
What are the majority of projects you do these days? The<br />
majority of work we do is garages and outdoor rooms, but we<br />
are moving more into glazed oak-frame extensions. They’re<br />
getting very popular and they’re a good replacement for those<br />
plastic conservatories. They are much more aesthetically<br />
pleasing, have a lovely ambience and far better insulation.<br />
Whatever you want to call them – and I’ve heard garden<br />
room being used more - they are a solid construction. All<br />
of the ground works would be the same as a brick-built<br />
extension, with a brick layer and then the timber frame on<br />
the top. The brick height up the wall can be lower or higher,<br />
according to the client’s preferences.<br />
Do you need planning permission? The planning permission<br />
rules are the same as for a brick-built extension, depending on<br />
the distance to the boundary and the extension from house<br />
and height. If you have a big enough gap from the boundary,<br />
it’s classed as a permitted development so you don’t need<br />
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extension.<br />
If people want a large expanse of glass, how does that work<br />
with the oak frame? We glaze externally with an envelope<br />
over the timber frame, because oak moves a lot and shrinks<br />
back as it dries, which can leave gaps which the elements can<br />
penetrate. With modern expandable weather proof materials<br />
between the glazing and then another layer of oak over the<br />
top, it’s neat and tidy and weatherproof. The same with doors,<br />
we can shape the edges of the frame to work with that system<br />
as well.<br />
What is the benefit of a timber-framed extension? It can<br />
really set off a conventional modern house. An architectdesigned<br />
timber extension can lift a bland house into being<br />
something special, whether it’s in keeping with the period of<br />
the house, or a contrast. It’s a matter of personal preference.<br />
People are very aware of oak frames now and the ambience<br />
and character they create.<br />
How do you plan the design of the extension with the<br />
client? We work with an architect in house who can design<br />
the extension bespoke, or with the clients’ own architects.<br />
We can also offer from a range of pre-designed options.<br />
What kind of doors to you use on these projects? We use<br />
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Do you have any favourites among your projects? I love<br />
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Hilary Wilce’s new house designed by Beasley Dickson<br />
Raising the roof<br />
Hilary Wilce shares what she learned having a brand new house – above – designed to order<br />
Where did you live before this house? We lived in a lovely<br />
18th century farmhouse in Hawkhurst.<br />
What inspired you to go for a new build? We had supported<br />
our son David Dickson through about a decade of training<br />
as an architect and we had always said – as a joke - that our<br />
payback would be for him to design a beautiful house for us.<br />
Then it became that if we found an amazing site with beautiful<br />
views we’d do it, but we never really thought it would happen.<br />
Then we found the site.<br />
Were you daunted by the idea of a modern house after<br />
living in a lovely old one? We were ready to move from the<br />
family home, we’d been there nearly 20 years, the children<br />
had all left home and it was time to do something different.<br />
Also, we have lived in America twice and in Africa and<br />
Turkey, so we weren’t stuck in our ways, we are very open<br />
minded and we had begun to crave light, which I think is<br />
something that comes on as you grow older. There are a lot of<br />
very beautiful houses in Kent but the price you pay is they’re<br />
often very dark.<br />
How did you work together on the style of the building?<br />
We sat down and talked with David, walked around the plot.<br />
We were all very much in agreement from the beginning.<br />
Everyone thinks how fabulous it would be to do a new build<br />
because you can do what you like, but you are never without<br />
restrictions, from budget, the plot, building regs etc. This site<br />
is quite narrow in one place and it was immediately obvious<br />
to all of us that it needed to be an L shape, so the restrictions<br />
informed the design.<br />
Starting from nothing, how did you begin to form ideas<br />
of what the house should look like? It’s a very wooded plot<br />
and we all felt very strongly we had to put a wooden house<br />
on it. The cladding is iroko wood, a sustainable hardwood<br />
from West Africa, so it’s OK to use. Our son was keen on that<br />
because it’s plain, without blemish. He sent us off to look at<br />
houses in Dungeness that are clad in it and we loved it.<br />
From the start we were clear we didn’t want to build an<br />
ersatz Kent farmhouse, we felt a modern house should be a<br />
modern house and not pretend to be anything else. I think<br />
that comes from living in America where there are a lot of<br />
very beautifully designed modern houses.<br />
We also knew we wanted big windows, because this is a<br />
beautiful plot with nice views in every direction. For the next<br />
stage we turned it over to David and he sent us images to<br />
look at and discuss. It was a long process, back and forth. We<br />
all looked at the design website Houzz a lot, at the outsides of<br />
houses, then <strong>inside</strong> for details of kitchens and bathrooms.<br />
How about the specifics of the interior details? Working<br />
with the architects they have all that expert knowledge about<br />
things like which taps are well designed and last and different<br />
kinds of limestone. They also advised us not to go completely<br />
open plan, because you’ll have nowhere to hang paintings<br />
and not to have too much glass, because you don’t want to<br />
live in an aquarium, you need to feel enclosed. We were very<br />
impressed by the considered nature of what they did for us.<br />
I’ve got such new respect for everyone who works in construction,<br />
it’s so complex. We had whole morning sessions on<br />
the wiring diagrams and modified them as we went along,<br />
then even once it was built, we added more sockets.<br />
How long did it take? It took two years to sort out our<br />
ideas and get them through planning, then another two years<br />
to build. You need patience, but we finally moved in on<br />
December 21st last year and the family came for Christmas.<br />
What do you love most about it? It’s wonderfully warm with<br />
underfloor heating and it’s amazing to walk around the house<br />
and have it all one temperature. It’s magic to come down in<br />
the morning and look out at the wildlife and the birds and<br />
even on the darkest winter days we have lovely light. And<br />
another thing we love – it came in close to the budget.<br />
What is the one piece of advice you would give to anyone<br />
who was thinking of building from scratch? Think about<br />
who is going to project manage – you must have a good project<br />
manager. Someone constantly going round with a list.<br />
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info@beasleydickson.com 0207415 7082<br />
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Architects and designers of bespoke new build homes.<br />
Turning your aspirations into reality.<br />
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Hale Brown Architects, Eaton Park<br />
GRAND<br />
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Whether you are building a house from scratch, or renovating<br />
a listed one, your architect will be your guiding light<br />
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“Keep an open mind”<br />
Simon Brown, Director of<br />
Hale Brown Architects<br />
There are all sorts of reasons why<br />
a new build might be right for<br />
you: a lifelong ambition, finding<br />
the perfect site or perhaps an aspiration<br />
to shape your own living environment.<br />
Whatever the reason, it needn’t be a<br />
daunting task to start from scratch.<br />
First you will need to draw up a<br />
‘Project Brief’. This can be a simple<br />
wish-list, or you might try using<br />
the internet to save a scrap book of<br />
precedent images on your phone<br />
or laptop. These may be pictures of<br />
buildings, but they might also include<br />
snapshots that illustrate a mood, quality<br />
of light, colour or texture.<br />
Rather than thinking of what needs<br />
to be built, you might try focusing on<br />
what it is that you want to achieve,<br />
noting down all your requirements<br />
and highlighting any challenges. Think<br />
of your changing needs over time,<br />
especially if this is going to be your<br />
lifetime home.<br />
This is the right time to talk to an<br />
architect. Architects are professionally<br />
trained to guide you through the whole<br />
process from start to finish and to<br />
see things from the broadest possible<br />
perspective down to the smallest detail,<br />
turning aspirations into reality.<br />
Our first step takes your brief and<br />
teases out what makes it tick. Working<br />
with plans and sections we typically<br />
start from the <strong>inside</strong>, organising the<br />
size and sequence of spaces. Where is<br />
the entrance and does the circulation<br />
flow legibly to the principal rooms? Is<br />
there an underlying logic, separating<br />
entertainment from more private<br />
rooms?<br />
Plans can be difficult<br />
to read, particularly<br />
if you are not used<br />
to them. Perspective<br />
sketches, fly through<br />
computer visuals and<br />
real card models bring a<br />
space to life and enable<br />
you to inhabit a room,<br />
considering its scale,<br />
proportion and materiality.<br />
The best houses seamlessly<br />
integrate the <strong>inside</strong> with the outside,<br />
responding sympathetically to their<br />
environment. Every site is different, so<br />
we look carefully at the surrounding<br />
opportunities and constraints. How do<br />
you enter the site? What is the sun’s<br />
path over the course of a day? What<br />
Picture frame<br />
windows focusing<br />
on a single view can<br />
be just as powerful<br />
as an entire wall of<br />
sliding glass doors<br />
views are there? Is there a strong local<br />
or historical building character?<br />
Where the sun rises and sets can<br />
inform where the main living spaces<br />
are orientated to make the best use<br />
of morning or afternoon sun.Views<br />
generate opportunities for drama!<br />
Moving through a house can be<br />
about telling a story by concealing<br />
and revealing key views as you move<br />
from space to space. Only a small<br />
proportion of sites are located remotely<br />
away from any neighbours.<br />
Carefully<br />
sited buildings,<br />
thoughtfully<br />
orientated windows<br />
and planted<br />
boundaries can be<br />
used to maintain<br />
privacy and minimise<br />
noise from roads.<br />
We always<br />
recommend<br />
keeping an open mind and allow the<br />
proposal to develop organically. Like<br />
all creative processes, there will be<br />
design development as you go. Most<br />
important of all, give yourself time,<br />
don’t be afraid to make mistakes!<br />
Hale Brown Architects Ltd<br />
020 3735 7442 halebrown.com<br />
<br />
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“We are here to listen”<br />
Nicolas Tye<br />
Nicolas Tye Architects<br />
The opportunity to design their<br />
own home is often a dreamed-of<br />
opportunity for our clients. So<br />
from the outset this needs to be treated<br />
with enormous respect, as the clients’<br />
build up to this moment has not just<br />
been weeks or months of thought, but<br />
typically years or decades.<br />
We ask our clients to provide us with<br />
three main elements of briefing, in a<br />
detailed document that should include<br />
storage requirements and everything you<br />
can possible think of. The second item<br />
is simply discussion on all aspects of the<br />
project from the site to family life and<br />
future planning etc.<br />
The third element is three sets of<br />
images, including aspirational <strong>inside</strong><br />
images, landscape and external house<br />
pictures, with the latter being the most<br />
difficult to finalise for clients typically.<br />
We then review budget and the<br />
site and its surrounding context, pull<br />
together some design options and ideas<br />
in principle, and then develop the more<br />
detailed CAD drawings and, as required,<br />
3D visuals.<br />
Having the right data and team is<br />
critical to the robustness of the project.<br />
Typically, we ask for an independent<br />
digital levels survey of the site (and<br />
surroundings as necessary) to show us<br />
the levels of the site, positions of trees,<br />
drains and any built objects and this<br />
would include any relevant elevations<br />
and sections.<br />
From this data we can map the<br />
proposals more accurately and this<br />
is critical in the context of planning,<br />
regarding adjacent buildings or trees and<br />
Fishpool Houses, Hertfordshire (CGI image)<br />
A Nicholas Tye one-off house in High Wycombe (CGI image)<br />
the volumetric calculations for houses in<br />
the green belt.<br />
Sometimes we have to call in<br />
planning consultants who specialise in<br />
local and national planning policies,<br />
highways engineers if access is awkward,<br />
arboricultural (trees) in case they are<br />
protected or roots could be damaged,<br />
drainage and - most importantly of all -<br />
quantity surveyors.<br />
The benefit of the<br />
quantity surveyor is to<br />
provide what we call<br />
‘cost comfort’ near the<br />
beginning of the project.<br />
This means that prior to<br />
going to planning or anywhere near<br />
tender, you have a strong indication on<br />
cost which can inform decisions on size,<br />
scale and specification to tune the project<br />
to budgetary needs.<br />
The context of the budget, the<br />
location and surroundings and the needs<br />
We are there to<br />
add value to the<br />
buildings - and to<br />
people’s lives.<br />
of the client pulls together to develop the<br />
design itself.<br />
Some clients want traditional<br />
architecture, others very contemporary,<br />
some in the middle, with front elevations<br />
being traditional and rear elevation and<br />
internals being more modern.<br />
Our role is to explain more about<br />
design and what we feel meets our clients<br />
briefing and budget, but<br />
also to challenge and<br />
extend their discussions<br />
by providing some<br />
previously unthought<br />
about alternatives. We are<br />
there to add value to the<br />
buildings - and to people’s lives.<br />
A strong part of what we also advocate<br />
is high quality materials, sustainability,<br />
low maintenance and high quality<br />
healthy environments.<br />
Clients rate these differently and again<br />
we are here to listen and understand their<br />
views, challenge and provide options<br />
and develop what will be an outstanding<br />
house for them.<br />
The architect’s role is not just<br />
designing the building, it’s the ‘holistic<br />
approach’ including the internals, the<br />
landscape, the furniture, sometimes<br />
even as far as the crockery and cutlery to<br />
compliment the house. We are here to<br />
make that dream come true.<br />
Nicolas Tye Architects 01525 406677<br />
nicolastyearchitects.co.uk<br />
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Pushing the boundaries of design we are able to achieve timeless, highly innovative and sustainable projects.<br />
We offer a complete design service from initial advice through to the completion of your project.<br />
We complete works all over the UK and internationally.<br />
We would welcome the opportunity to discuss your potential project<br />
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Inside out<br />
<strong>Build</strong> a home away from home, just a few steps from your back door with a garden building<br />
Shaun O’Neill of Woodcote Garden <strong>Build</strong>ings<br />
What are the main different kinds of<br />
garden buildings you do? We have a<br />
range of cedar and pine buildings, but<br />
we also offer a bespoke service, so we<br />
can build whatever you like and design<br />
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What kind are most in demand?<br />
Increasingly we see people go for a<br />
contemporary style featuring to-theground<br />
windows which provide more<br />
light. Invariably they incorporate flatter<br />
roofs, are properly insulated and have<br />
laminate floors.<br />
What are the main purposes people<br />
have them for? People mostly get<br />
them for entertaining or working.<br />
More people are working from home -<br />
masseurs, sports therapists, osteopaths,<br />
aromatherapists… These are the sort of<br />
people looking for them, particularly<br />
as we can provide internal blinds for<br />
privacy, as well as electricity and even<br />
plumbing under certain circumstances.<br />
Do get more queries at this time of<br />
year? It is seasonal, but that is changing.<br />
The term ‘summer house’ is fine but,<br />
because of the range of uses people buy<br />
them for, we are increasingly seeing<br />
them being ordered all year round.<br />
What advice would you give<br />
to someone thinking of<br />
commissioning a garden building?<br />
Come and talk to us! Have a think<br />
about what you want it for and we<br />
can help you go from there. Get<br />
some ideas of designs and materials<br />
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to check you have a good base for<br />
the building to go on. The ground<br />
must be good, firm and level, so the<br />
building goes up square – and stays<br />
that way.<br />
What is the appeal of garden<br />
buildings? Space is at a premium and<br />
you can use them for such a wide<br />
range of purposes, for work, leisure,<br />
a place for you or the kids, or just<br />
as a break out space. They are built<br />
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erected and used all year round.<br />
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What is the appeal of a garden<br />
building? They are not glorified sheds,<br />
they are proper buildings, but they are<br />
so quick to put up. Whether they are<br />
standard or bespoke it takes three to<br />
four weeks from the order to delivery<br />
and then most buildings are up in a day.<br />
What kinds of outdoor buildings are<br />
most in demand? Carriage houses are<br />
very popular, with one bay for your car<br />
and then a stable, office, or gym next<br />
door. They are lovely rustic-looking<br />
buildings which blend in beautifully with<br />
the countryside and older properties of<br />
character. They have curve braces at the<br />
front in oak and look very smart. They<br />
can have doors on the carriage side but it<br />
takes away the rustic quality.<br />
Is there an ideal ratio of garden size to<br />
building footprint? No, if you feel you<br />
have enough space to have a building,<br />
just go for it.<br />
What are the main purposes people<br />
have them for? Home offices are<br />
probably the main reason, because you<br />
can convert a bedroom, or have a nice<br />
garden building, which gets you out of<br />
the house and doesn’t mean sacrificing<br />
a bedroom. We’ve built them for yoga<br />
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People use them for granny flats, guest<br />
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What advice would you give to<br />
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What are the main options for glass<br />
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What are the relative advantages<br />
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The choice boils down to the type<br />
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instance can have a maximum width of<br />
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can be fitted so at least the ‘wall of glass’<br />
effect can still be achieved, even if not<br />
all of it can be opened.<br />
Bifold and sliding doors can have<br />
massive openings, but bifold doors also<br />
need adequate room on the opening<br />
side for the folded panels of the doors<br />
when opened. There must also be<br />
room to stack the panels of doors once<br />
opened (on both sides on a double<br />
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metres of bifolding doors are possible<br />
with our Sunflex bifolding doors so you<br />
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outside world.<br />
Sliding doors allow the least<br />
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our Ultraslim VISION sliding doors<br />
system are just 24mm and panels can<br />
be 3000mm wide – that’s three metres,<br />
or nearly ten feet of glass. With a threepanel<br />
system covering an area of nine<br />
metres, that means just two visible<br />
upright sightlines of 24mm (less than<br />
an inch) each will be visible with the<br />
doors shut.<br />
In comparison, our slimmest<br />
bifolding doors have sightlines of<br />
115mm and a maximum panel size of<br />
1200mm, so for the equivalent nine<br />
metre opening, an eight-panel system<br />
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of the glazing area would be sightlines.<br />
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Crittall windows and doors<br />
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glass, sound proofing and so on.<br />
Are there any kinds you would<br />
advise against? The British weather<br />
often limits how often a set of doors<br />
can realistically be left open and we<br />
often see just the one door of a set<br />
of bifolding doors being used which<br />
makes it seem a bit pointless to have<br />
them. This is another reason people<br />
tend to choose sliding doors instead.<br />
However, if the opening is not<br />
especially wide, say less than 3 metres,<br />
then bifolds would enable a wider<br />
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of the maximum door width. Sliding<br />
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panel width remaining in the doorway<br />
at all times, so this must be taken into<br />
consideration.<br />
Of course, when space prohibits the<br />
opening of certain doors, such as an<br />
upwards sloped garden, then sliding<br />
doors are the only viable option.<br />
What are the options in sliding<br />
doors? Our sliding doors come in a<br />
range of over 200 colours. We offer<br />
some colours as standard, so there is a<br />
slight cost increase and possible longer<br />
lead time for the more unusual colours.<br />
The handles and furniture can be<br />
configured and personalised.<br />
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as the popular flush track, where the<br />
running gear is recessed into the floor<br />
to provide a seamless run from indoors<br />
to outdoors when the doors are open.<br />
Moveable corner posts can be specified<br />
to create ‘infinity corners’ with no<br />
pillar in the way when the doors on a<br />
corner are open.<br />
What about glazed French windows<br />
– is there still a place for them? Very<br />
much so. Classic styles will always find<br />
a place in certain homes, especially<br />
when the modern look is not called for.<br />
A period house may not suit modern<br />
architecture, and listed properties or<br />
houses in conservation areas may be<br />
restricted to fitting only certain styles.<br />
As mentioned, Crittall steel frame<br />
windows are only available in French<br />
doors, and the Crittall look is also very<br />
much in vogue.<br />
You are an official Crittall supplier,<br />
what is the appeal of these most<br />
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many companies cannot even dream<br />
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see it everywhere, including worldwide<br />
in many famous buildings. There is<br />
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the modern product has advanced so<br />
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The price can put it out of reach of<br />
some, which increases its appeal further<br />
amongst wealthy clients.<br />
The Crittall factory process involves<br />
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desirable aging effect to the material<br />
too, something that cannot be replicated<br />
in other products.<br />
What would be a cheaper option to<br />
get a similar modernist effect? We<br />
also offer an aluminium product that<br />
can give a similar style at a slightly<br />
reduced cost. Our heritage aluminium<br />
range have slightly thicker frames so<br />
will not appeal to everybody, but it<br />
does have the advantage of the frame<br />
being thermally broken, so will be<br />
more efficient at keeping the heat<br />
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What exciting developments are there<br />
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Can you tell me about a really<br />
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the sun rises and sets every day, our faces change, over time.<br />
I love a makeover. If I have even ten minutes while<br />
traversing a department store, I’m like a heat-seeking missile,<br />
making for one of a handful of beauty counters where I find<br />
the consultants particularly adept at giving my techniques a<br />
refresh. Before I launch into my favourite counters, though,<br />
there are a few things to bear in mind.<br />
“Done well,<br />
makeup can take<br />
off ten years, but<br />
it’s all too easy to<br />
get stuck in a rut”<br />
It pays to figure out first what is missing<br />
from your makeup regime. Are you looking<br />
for a new brow look, or a primer, or a tinted<br />
moisturiser? Do some inventory, first –<br />
see what in your make up bag is looking<br />
really tired, or you’re just bored of. And<br />
as with everything in life, communicate,<br />
communicate, communicate. Tell the<br />
consultant about the kind of makeup you like to wear –<br />
barely-there, or full-on? Is it for a special occasion, a wedding,<br />
evening wear, work, or just chilling at home? Interact. Make<br />
it a dialogue. She (or he) is a makeup pro, not Mystic Meg.<br />
With all that in mind, here’s where I head for a face refresh.<br />
Bobbi Brown. A longstanding go-to. Even though my<br />
friend Bobbi (who I’ve known right from when she first<br />
launched) is no longer at the helm of her brand, her original<br />
philosophy – making you look like you, only prettier – is<br />
still its guiding light. Bobbi Brown offer various different<br />
makeup lessons, with the (reasonable) fee redeemable against<br />
purchase. One of these sessions can be brilliant for finding<br />
your personal ‘match’ and what defines a great makeup<br />
range, for me, is that it offers a wealth of colours that look<br />
natural on the skin, rather than as if they’re wearing you.<br />
Personally, I think the full-session Bobbi Brown makeup<br />
lessons are absolutely worth it. I’ve taken several of the<br />
teen girls in my life, over the years, as well as given them<br />
as gifts for more mature friends, and they never fail to be<br />
wowed. Go to bobbibrown.co.uk to book an appointment.<br />
Laura Mercier. Another of the pioneering ‘makeup artist<br />
brands’, with lovely Laura still giving great creative input.<br />
I never knowingly pass a Laura Mercier counter without<br />
asking to be ‘Tightline-d’. This is a technique<br />
with cake Tightliner eyeshadow which lines<br />
super-close to the lash-line, creating an<br />
amazing illusion of lash length. (Don’t let<br />
on, but if you’re not over-diligent about eye<br />
makeup removal at night, the effect can last<br />
a couple of days!) Again, Laura’s colours are<br />
very wearable, the textures melt into skin<br />
and the Laura Mercier makeup pros are just<br />
brilliant for sharing tricks. Just ask them. Find stockists at<br />
lauramercier.com (you have to scroll all the way down to the<br />
bottom of the home page, to find ‘store locator’ on the left).<br />
By Terry Gosh, writing this, I realise how incredibly<br />
privileged I’ve been with the makeup artists I’ve known over<br />
the years – as with Laura and Bobbi, I’ve known Terry de<br />
Gunzburg for aeons (actually since she was at YSL, where<br />
she came up with the iconic Touche Éclat). As that suggests,<br />
nobody quite does light-reflective pigments like Terry –<br />
which means her collection is great news for mature skins, <br />
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with those optical pigments<br />
incorporated into line-blurring,<br />
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and if you only have one<br />
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on you. It’s possibly the worstnamed<br />
foundation on the planet, but<br />
don’t let that put you off. I constantly get<br />
compliments about my ‘great skin’ and always reply<br />
that actually, it’s a great foundation. Please do not blame<br />
me, however, if you end up hooked on a £78.50 base.<br />
Charlotte Tilbury. It was just last week that I sat in<br />
Fenwick, Tunbridge Wells asking the makeup pro to demo<br />
Charlotte’s new Hollywood Flawless Filter Complexion<br />
Booster on me (see my line-up of ‘five products to makeover<br />
your makeup bag’, below). I heartily recommend you do the<br />
same to see its glow-getting effect with your own eyes, but<br />
there’s much more here in terms of makeover opportunities.<br />
Charlotte (weird factoid: she decided to become a makeup<br />
artist while standing in my husband’s kitchen in Formentera)<br />
based her 10 Signature Looks on her A List clients, and it’s<br />
really fun to pick a look and then see yourself transformed<br />
in front of your eyes into The Ingénue, The Rock Chick,<br />
The Golden Goddess (or whoever). Don’t let the rose-gold-<br />
packaged glitziness of this brand put you off; this is definitely<br />
for those of us who hoover carpets rather than simply swish<br />
up red ones in glamorous frocks, but many of the products<br />
have to be experienced to be believed. Her passionate<br />
makeup pros will be more than happy to do that for you.<br />
And if you haven’t got time for a full overhaul, here are<br />
five finds that will update any kit (and in several cases,<br />
help peel back the years).<br />
Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter<br />
Complexion Booster, , £30. Makes skin look lit from within –<br />
it’s that simple – when used as a primer or blended with your<br />
foundation.<br />
Chanel Rouge Coco Lip Blush, £28. A tint rather than<br />
a gloss, this doubles for lips and cheeks, with a gel-like<br />
finish, but I’m finding the Rose Natural shade fantastic<br />
for perking up a tired-looking face mid-afternoon.<br />
Cailyn Cosmetics O, Wow! Double Brush, £26.50<br />
(qvc.com). Incredible for seamlessly ‘smooshing’ foundation<br />
into skin. You could use it in the dark and look flawless.<br />
Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Sheer Powder SPF15,<br />
£40 (in six complexion-matched shades). I make no apologies<br />
for including two Chanel ‘picks’, because is there anything<br />
more cheering than adding one of those shiny black Chanel<br />
containers to your beauty bag? This is brilliant for setting<br />
makeup and helping it stay put, without ever looking<br />
flat; in fact, it adds the lightest whisper of radiance.<br />
Kat Von D ‘Lock It’ Colour Correcting Eye Primer,<br />
£12. If your eyeshadow disappears into the wide blue<br />
yonder (as mine always used to), this can be life-changing,<br />
helping it to cling in place until cleansing-time.<br />
Tightline Cake<br />
Eye Liner £19.50<br />
SpaceNK<br />
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By Terry<br />
Terrybly Densiliss<br />
Serum Foundation<br />
£78.50 SpaceNK<br />
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Cailyn Cosmetics<br />
O, Wow! Double<br />
Brush, £26.50 QVC<br />
qvc.com<br />
Hollywood<br />
Flawless Filter<br />
Complexion Booster<br />
£30 Charlotte Tilbury<br />
charlottetilbury.com<br />
Kat Von D<br />
‘Lock It’ Colour<br />
Correcting Eye Primer<br />
£12 Debenhams<br />
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Come on, you beauty!<br />
Beauty<br />
Don’t miss out on the mini treatments and other beauty bounty at the<br />
Fenwick Beauty Hub at Wealden Times Midsummer Fair<br />
SEE US AT THE<br />
WEALDEN TIMES<br />
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FAIR<br />
One of the great treats in store at the Midsummer<br />
Fair next month is the Fenwick Beauty Hub,<br />
where you will be able to watch masterclasses by<br />
experts from ten leading beauty brands, have one-on-one<br />
instruction - and enjoy complimentary mini treatments.<br />
There will be different events and treatments each day, so<br />
go to wealdentimes.co.uk/events for details of what is happening<br />
when, to make sure you don’t miss your favourite brand. Mini<br />
treatments can be booked on the day at the Beauty Hub.<br />
As well as all the fabulous beauty fun, Fenwick<br />
fashion will be showcasing their top picks for summer<br />
<strong>2018</strong> and on Friday, special guest Sarah Edwards from<br />
Australian summerwear brand Oneseason will be sharing<br />
her favourite styles from their new collection.<br />
Aveda hair and skin expert Lucy Broggio will be talking about<br />
all things Aveda and sharing her tips and tricks from the trade.<br />
Fenwick resident Aveda therapist, Shannon, will be in the<br />
pop-up tent offering mini facials to transform your skin.<br />
Charlotte Tilbury Team Tilbury makeup artists will<br />
be demonstrating the new Beauty Filters collection<br />
– your favourite filter effects bottled. They will also<br />
be offering quick tricks, a complimentary 15-minute<br />
appointment for you to discover the collection.<br />
Clarins Beauty Coaches will talk you through their 1<br />
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bag. Clarins will also be offering a luxurious hand and<br />
arm massage, during which your hands are cleansed,<br />
gently exfoliated, then moisturised, leaving you with<br />
supple and velvety-soft skin, finishing with a spritz of Eau<br />
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Caudalie consultant Caroline Harris will<br />
be talking about the Caudalie Premier Cru<br />
collection, including the brand’s major<br />
breakthrough in anti-ageing solutions,<br />
the new Premier Cru Serum. This unique<br />
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Caroline will also be offering 5-minute complimentary<br />
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Dermalogica is giving a fun and informative masterclass<br />
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also be an opportunity to receive a free 10-minute Skin Solver<br />
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Kiehl’s On Wheels will be a space to relax, unwind<br />
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Miller Harris invite you to meet fragrance industry<br />
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Nick will also be holding a one-on-one fragrance profiling<br />
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Neal’s Yard Remedies’ brand experts will talk about their<br />
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PIXI is running an informative masterclass where you<br />
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Wellbeing<br />
A Year of Wellness<br />
Wondering exactly what your microbiome is – and why you should<br />
be worrying about it? Eminé Rushton explores the crucial link<br />
between a happy gut and a healthy body and mind<br />
<strong>May</strong>: Gut instinct<br />
Have you noticed recently that a<br />
lot of people seem to be talking<br />
about the importance of good Hgut health? So why so much fuss – and<br />
what actually constitutes the ‘gut’?<br />
The G word refers to our entire<br />
digestive system – the stomach, small<br />
and large intestines, pancreas, liver,<br />
gallbladder and rectum – but when<br />
people talk about ‘gut health’ what<br />
they are usually referring to is the<br />
microbiome. This is the complex,<br />
uniquely individual balance of the four<br />
main strains of bacteria that reside<br />
within our gut, which is, ultimately, our<br />
foundation for overall health.<br />
Some gut bacteria, or<br />
some in excessive amounts,<br />
can cause infection, illness,<br />
digestive discomfort, and<br />
even an increased risk<br />
for cancer. While other<br />
bacteria, or the right<br />
amounts of them, help us<br />
fight disease and stay healthy, in fact,<br />
80% of our immune function resides in<br />
our gut walls.<br />
In particular, low levels of lactobacillus<br />
bacteria are commonly linked to low<br />
immunity. Great natural sources of<br />
lactobacillus are live yoghurt and kefir,<br />
and raw, unpasteurised milk, or you can<br />
get it from non-dairy sources such as<br />
sauerkraut, kimchi and coconut kefir.<br />
There are countless recipes for these<br />
online and they’re supremely cheap and<br />
easy to make, or you could try Biona’s<br />
tasty kraut, or Purearth Life’s vibrant<br />
and zingy kefir waters<br />
(both online at Planet<br />
Organic).<br />
If you’re not<br />
vegetarian<br />
and regularly roast a joint or a chicken,<br />
boiling up the carcass and bones,<br />
for up to 24 hours, until the bones<br />
soften and crumble, will give you a<br />
rich, deep bone broth, which is full of<br />
natural amino acids, which has been<br />
shown to heal the gut wall and reduce<br />
intestinal inflammation. You can tweak<br />
a basic recipe (there’s a great one on<br />
hemsleyandhemsley.com) with whatever<br />
seasonal herbs and veg you have<br />
to hand.<br />
Then there are the mood-boosting<br />
effects of a healthy gut. Around 75% of<br />
our happy hormone, serotonin, is also<br />
produced within our microbiome. Poor<br />
gut health is often related<br />
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– poor gut health<br />
how to fix it with diet.<br />
is often related We can also feed up<br />
our good bacteria with<br />
to low mood”<br />
prebiotic-rich foods. To<br />
explain: prebiotics are the food that feed<br />
your good bacteria – probiotics are the<br />
good bacteria themselves. Cooked and<br />
cooled potatoes, basmati rice, Jerusalem<br />
artichoke, chicory and tiger nuts, are<br />
fantastic natural sources of prebiotics.<br />
Then, there is the stress connection.<br />
Being in a state of relaxation plays a<br />
huge part in how well we digest<br />
our food. When we chew<br />
well, breathe slowly, and eat<br />
mindfully, we are far less likely<br />
to suffer digestive discomfort.<br />
When we are overly stressed,<br />
our stomachs also produce<br />
less hydrochloric acid – and<br />
we need a lot of it to properly<br />
break down our food. The<br />
best long-term approach is to<br />
Eminé Rushton is Wellbeing Director-at-Large at Psychologies magazine, and<br />
co-founder of the conscious living blog, The Balance Plan, balanceplan.co.uk<br />
tackle your stress levels head on. (A daily<br />
antacid is not the answer. Sorry.)<br />
There has been some heartening<br />
research into the herb ashwagandha,<br />
which dramatically reduces the impact<br />
of stress on the body’s immune, digestive<br />
and nervous systems. I now take it every<br />
day and love the one by Wild Nutrition,<br />
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And, finally, if you feel that your gut<br />
bacteria simply are not functioning<br />
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Independent research by University<br />
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Healthy <strong>inside</strong><br />
Nutritional therapist Eve Kalinik<br />
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foods, e.g. green tea, blueberries,<br />
cold-pressed olive oil and a<br />
glass of good red wine, to<br />
boost overall wellbeing. Her<br />
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Wellbeing<br />
Natural Wisdom<br />
Which one piece of seasonal wisdom<br />
helps you in <strong>May</strong>?<br />
We are so connected to the elements,<br />
our mental and physical health aligns<br />
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physically spend time in nature we can<br />
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get outside in bare feet and feel my toes<br />
in the earth. <strong>May</strong> is always one of my<br />
favourite months for walking because<br />
the bluebells are out and seeing the<br />
carpet of colour in the woods is magical.<br />
Which self-care ritual do you never<br />
skimp on?<br />
Rather than one big practice, I tend to<br />
break it up into smaller elements that<br />
are easy to fit in no matter what. I am<br />
a great believer in emotional self-care<br />
and I don’t go a day without writing in<br />
my gratitude journal. This helps me feel<br />
naturally abundant and ‘full’ no matter<br />
what challenges I may be facing. There<br />
is always something to be grateful for.<br />
<strong>May</strong>’s mood booster<br />
We grow calendula on our allotment<br />
plot. It takes so easily and spreads like<br />
wild, amber fire. Every year, I collect<br />
the flowers at their prime, dry them<br />
out and then add the papery petals<br />
to jars of cold-pressed sunflower oil,<br />
leaving them for months on a sunny<br />
sill, where they infuse. Once strained<br />
and bottled, the oil can be used for<br />
sore, dry, irritated patches on skin, or<br />
taken internally, to calm skin from<br />
within. Now is a good time to plant<br />
calendula – you’ll reap the harvest for<br />
months to come if you do.<br />
Lauren Barber is a yoga and meditation teacher and writer who lives in<br />
Hildenborough with her husband and dog Pickle. When she isn’t teaching a class<br />
at Kingdom in Penshurst, she loves walking in the local countryside, meditating in<br />
her home studio and sharing her wellbeing experiences via her website<br />
What’s cooking in your kitchen<br />
this month?<br />
After a winter of comforting, warming<br />
foods I am thoroughly enjoying<br />
getting back into creating lovely<br />
colourful, crunchy salads again. The<br />
more beautiful vibrant vegetables<br />
I can fit in the better. Right now<br />
I am enjoying mixing up my own<br />
hummus in a variety of flavours such<br />
as beetroot, lemon and coriander and<br />
roasted red pepper.<br />
Share one book that taught you<br />
something amazing about life.<br />
Wild Power by Alexandra Pope. This<br />
book’s subtitle is ‘Discover the magic<br />
of your menstrual cycle and awaken<br />
the feminine path to power’ which<br />
may be a little daunting for some,<br />
but it describes in detail the way a<br />
woman’s menstrual cycle works from<br />
a physical and emotional point of<br />
view and brought me so much clarity<br />
around my own feminine cycles. Once<br />
we understand the cyclical nature of<br />
ourselves as women we can connect to<br />
a much healthier and more balanced<br />
way of finding optimal wellbeing.<br />
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What brings a smile to your face?<br />
Being out in nature with my dog.<br />
Even when the weather is dreary and<br />
I feel like staying indoors, having a<br />
dog makes sure you get outside no<br />
matter what. A sunrise walk in the<br />
springtime puts a joyful bounce in<br />
my step.<br />
What is the best treatment you’ve<br />
had locally?<br />
I recently had a healing treatment<br />
with Kelley Swan, who uses a<br />
combination of energy work, Thai<br />
yoga massage and acupressure, along<br />
with her years of experience as a yoga<br />
teacher. She helped me release a lot<br />
of physical and emotional tension<br />
in my shoulders and jaw. Having<br />
spent many years with a lot of upper<br />
body tension from anxiety and stress,<br />
I am still unravelling the physical<br />
effects and I felt incredible after the<br />
treatment. laurenbarber.co<br />
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Eminé says:<br />
Enjoy hot choc<br />
Hot chocolate is often seen as an unhealthy<br />
indulgence, but cocoa is in fact one of our most<br />
nutritious raw ingredients, for both health-salving and<br />
spirit-lifting properties. And when the steaming cup<br />
in question brims with polyphenol-rich raw cacao,<br />
the most nutritious form of cocoa, it is an incredible<br />
source of immune-boosting antioxidants and trace<br />
minerals. My most recent find is Made<br />
by Noble’s Himalayan Salted Cacao, £29<br />
(harveynichols.com). An unusual blend of<br />
beetroot, maca, cinnamon and richest cacao<br />
powder, it blends a treat with any milk.<br />
The slow stirring of the velvet-thick powder<br />
with milk in the pan brings a sense of coca’s<br />
ceremonial pleasure. Sweeten it up with<br />
maple syrup, or brown sugar if you wish.<br />
Savour!
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Cauliflower<br />
power!<br />
Food blogger Oz Telem loves the nutritionladen<br />
flowery white superveg so much he has<br />
written a whole cook book about it<br />
Words Oz Telem Photography Assaf Ambram
Food<br />
Cauliflower and spinach<br />
shakshooka<br />
When people ask me<br />
what I do for a living,<br />
my reply is, ‘I help spread<br />
happiness through cooking.’<br />
This is the goal of every<br />
post I publish on my blog<br />
thekitchencoach.co.il<br />
The idea of dedicating an<br />
entire book to ‘the white<br />
princess’ came from my wife,<br />
Adi. Once she suggested the<br />
idea, it felt so right. Everyone<br />
loves cauliflower. It is<br />
nutritious and delicious, easy<br />
to find and can be cooked in<br />
every possible way. Yet, when<br />
I asked around, I found that<br />
most people knew only three<br />
or four ways to prepare it, so I<br />
saw a gap I could fill.<br />
Please follow my Instagram<br />
@oztelem and tag #caulibook<br />
whenever you are cooking<br />
from the book!<br />
Serves 3-5 Prep and cooking time: 30 minutes. Contains eggs and dairy, gluten-free, paleo<br />
Who needs tomatoes? Shakshooka, a breakfast dish of eggs cooked in spicy tomato<br />
sauce is popular in Israel, Libya and Tunisia. Over time, Israeli cooks got creative and<br />
shakshooka started describing various other dishes of eggs cooked in vegetable-based<br />
sauces – most famous of which is the green shakshooka, that contains spinach. The idea<br />
to upgrade green shakshooka came from my fellow Israeli food blogger Hagit Bilia. I<br />
was telling Hagit about my grand plans for the white princess, and she asked me: ‘Why<br />
don’t you make a cauliflower shakshooka with spinach and some good cheese?’. ‘That<br />
will work!’, I replied, and very soon after she posted a very luscious shakshooka on her<br />
blog, proving the feasibility of the concept in the most delicious way possible.<br />
• 1 small cauliflower<br />
• 4 tablespoons olive oil<br />
• 60 ml (2 fl oz/¼ cup) water<br />
• 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) fresh spinach<br />
leaves, rinsed and roughly<br />
chopped if large<br />
• sea salt and freshly ground black<br />
pepper<br />
• 6–8 medium to large eggs,<br />
preferably free-range<br />
• 60 g (2 oz) feta or chèvre cheese, to<br />
serve (optional)<br />
• slices of good bread, to serve<br />
1Cut the cauliflower into florets,<br />
then thinly slice (reserve the other<br />
parts for stock).<br />
2Heat the olive oil in a wide,<br />
shallow frying pan. Add the sliced<br />
cauliflower and sauté over a high heat<br />
for 6–7 minutes, stirring frequently,<br />
until just tender and golden.<br />
3Add the water, bring to the boil,<br />
cover and cook over a mediumhigh<br />
heat for a further 5 minutes until<br />
tender. Add the chopped spinach and<br />
stir well. Cook for 3 minutes, stirring<br />
occasionally, until the leaves have<br />
wilted and lost most of their volume.<br />
4If you see too much water pooling<br />
in the bottom of the pan, push<br />
all the vegetables to one side, then<br />
allow the excess liquid to reduce (3–5<br />
minutes over a high heat).<br />
5Stir well and, using a spoon, create<br />
little holes in the cauli-spinach<br />
mixture (according to the number of<br />
eggs you are using). Crack the eggs<br />
into the holes.<br />
6Cover the pan and cook over a<br />
medium heat for 5–8 minutes until<br />
the eggs are done to your liking.<br />
7Crumble over the feta, if using, and<br />
serve with chunks of good bread. <br />
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Cauliflower and beetroot borscht<br />
Serves 4-5 Prep and cooking time: 1 hour. Vegan option: omit sour cream<br />
A tangy classic, borscht is an Eastern European soup, prepared<br />
in countless ways with a vast variety of ingredients from potatoes<br />
and beans to beef, pork and even porcini mushrooms. Aside<br />
from the beetroot and vinegar, which are the most iconic<br />
borscht ingredients, many Ukrainian and Russian recipes have<br />
cabbage (and even sauerkraut). Here, I replace the cabbage with<br />
cauliflower. If you prefer your soup creamy rather than chunky,<br />
use a hand-held blender to purée the soup once it’s cooked (just<br />
don’t forget to pick out the bay leaves first). For a smooth and<br />
creamy texture, add a few tablespoons of olive oil while<br />
puréeing the soup.<br />
For the soup<br />
• 1 large cauliflower<br />
• 3–4 tablespoons olive oil<br />
or vegetable oil<br />
• 1 large onion, diced into<br />
medium-size cubes<br />
• 1 heaped tablespoon<br />
tomato purée (paste)<br />
• 4 medium-size beetroots,<br />
peeled and diced into<br />
medium-size cubes<br />
• 2 bay leaves<br />
• 3–4 tablespoons apple<br />
cider vinegar or red wine<br />
vinegar<br />
• 980 ml–1½ litres (37–44<br />
fl oz/4–5 cups) water<br />
• 1 teaspoon fine sea salt,<br />
plus more to taste<br />
• 1 teaspoon brown sugar<br />
To serve<br />
• 150 ml (5 fl oz/⅔ cup)<br />
full-fat sour cream or<br />
crème fraîche<br />
• a small handful of fresh<br />
dill fronds (optional)<br />
• coarsely ground black<br />
pepper<br />
Cut the cauliflower into<br />
1 medium-size florets, peel<br />
and roughly chop the main<br />
stem and roughly chop the<br />
stalks and leaves.<br />
2Heat the oil in a<br />
medium-size saucepan.<br />
Add the onion and chopped<br />
cauliflower stem, stalks<br />
and leaves, and fry over a<br />
medium-low heat for about 8<br />
minutes, stirring occasionally<br />
until slightly tender.<br />
3Add the tomato paste<br />
(purée) and cook,<br />
stirring, for one minute. Add<br />
the beetroot, florets, bay<br />
leaves, vinegar and enough<br />
water to come up to about<br />
4 cm (1½ in) above the<br />
contents of the saucepan.<br />
4Bring the soup to the<br />
boil, cover, then simmer<br />
over a medium-low heat<br />
for 30 minutes, until the<br />
vegetables are tender. Taste<br />
and season with salt and<br />
more vinegar, if you like;<br />
add sugar if the acidity needs<br />
balancing.<br />
serve, divide the soup<br />
5To among bowls and add<br />
a dollop of cream to each.<br />
Sprinkle the dill and some<br />
black pepper on top. Keeps<br />
refrigerated for 3-4 days. <br />
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Cauliflower and red lentil kichri<br />
Serves 4-5 Prep and cooking time: 1 hour. Vegan option: omit yoghurt<br />
Cauliflower rice taken to the next level kichri is an Iraqi dish<br />
with Indian roots made with rice and red lentils. The Indian<br />
dish (khichdi) is rich with spices, herbs and even nuts, whereas<br />
the Iraqi version is more minimal in nature. Due to its high<br />
nutritional value, kichri is prepared by some Jews of Iraqi descent<br />
before ritual fasting. The final step of preparation is what makes<br />
it unique: garlic and cumin are fried in oil and drizzled on top<br />
of the dish. In this recipe I make kichri just as my grandmother,<br />
Hanna, taught me, but using cauliflower grains instead of rice.<br />
After seeing them do so well in stir-fried ‘rice’, I wanted to test<br />
their power in a different rice dish, and I am very proud of the<br />
results. The amount of water I use might not seem like much,<br />
but it is enough because you only need moisture for the lentils.<br />
If you put in too much water, things will get mushy. You can top<br />
your kichri with fried eggs, baked or fried aubergines (eggplants),<br />
grated fresh tomatoes, sour cream and chopped spring onions<br />
(scallions).<br />
For the cauliflower and lentils<br />
• 1 medium-size cauliflower<br />
• 250 g (9 oz/1 cup) red<br />
lentils, preferably whole<br />
• 2–3 tablespoons olive oil<br />
• 1 scant teaspoon ground<br />
turmeric<br />
• 350 ml (12 fl oz/1½ cups)<br />
water<br />
• fine sea salt<br />
To finish the dish<br />
• 6–7 garlic cloves, peeled<br />
and grated<br />
• 3–6 tablespoons olive oil<br />
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin<br />
(or whole seeds)<br />
• natural yoghurt,<br />
homemade tahini or<br />
lemon wedges, to serve<br />
To cook the cauliflower and<br />
1 lentils: Cut the cauliflower<br />
into florets. Chop the florets<br />
into small pieces that resemble<br />
breadcrumbs (using a food<br />
processor, a box grater or a<br />
knife). Place the lentils in a<br />
fine sieve and rinse really well<br />
(stirring with your hands).<br />
Allow to drain.<br />
2Place the cauliflower<br />
crumbs and lentils in a<br />
medium-size saucepan. Add the<br />
oil, turmeric and water, and stir.<br />
Bring to the boil over a<br />
3 high heat, season generously<br />
with salt, cover, reduce the heat<br />
to low and cook for 12– 16<br />
minutes, until the cauliflower<br />
and lentils are tender but not<br />
mushy.<br />
To finish: Place the garlic<br />
4 and oil in a small frying<br />
pan over a medium heat and<br />
cook for 20–30 seconds until<br />
fragrant.<br />
Add the cumin and fry for<br />
5 a further 20–30 seconds<br />
until the aromas are deeply<br />
satisfying. If you see the garlic<br />
beginning to take colour,<br />
remove from the heat.<br />
Empty the pan with the<br />
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Cauliflower by Oz Telem, published by<br />
Hardie Grant £15 hardiegrant.com<br />
sizzling garlic and cumin<br />
into the cauliflower and<br />
lentils. Combine gently. Serve<br />
alongside yoghurt, tahini or<br />
with a wedge of lemon.<br />
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Garden<br />
How does your<br />
garden show?<br />
The Chelsea Flower show is the floral equivalent<br />
of the Paris catwalk says Jo Arnell<br />
Often bizarre, occasionally radical, always brilliant,<br />
the Chelsea Flower Show is the most prestigious<br />
and talked about event in the gardening year. It<br />
is the perfect interface between the worlds of horticulture,<br />
garden design and the rest of the world. It’s a meeting place,<br />
a fashion show, a talking point and nowhere else can we see<br />
so many issues of the day reflected back at us in floral form.<br />
It is not to be confused with actual gardening –<br />
the Chelsea show is, just like the catwalk, a slightly<br />
impossible place of fantasy; a stage on which design<br />
and horticultural excellence struts its stuff.<br />
The other thing it’s about is winning, about being the<br />
best, using the best of materials, planting the best plants,<br />
claiming a medal. Preferably a gold one. Silver-gilt and<br />
silver are just about acceptable, but, heaven forbid, no one<br />
appears happy with the almost-insult of a bronze medal.<br />
The judging criteria are sometimes mysterious, as can<br />
be seen when the popular vote varies markedly from<br />
the professional, but we all know a winning garden idea<br />
when we see one - and we can copy. Just as the high<br />
streets make catwalk styles wearable by mortals, we can<br />
apply good design to our domestic spaces. Once you peel<br />
away the pizzaz and impossibly perfect plantings, there’s<br />
always a wheelbarrow full of ideas to take home.<br />
Above: A large silver ‘focal point’ in one of 2016’s show<br />
gardens Right: A garden by Professor Nigel Dunnett<br />
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Garden<br />
More show gardens from<br />
the Chelsea Flower Show.<br />
Stealing some<br />
Chelsea Gold<br />
We need first to digest and<br />
then translate those new<br />
ideas, turn them, as a fork<br />
turns compost, into practical<br />
solutions for our more down<br />
to earth and domestic spaces.<br />
Show gardens are, well,<br />
for show, and won’t always<br />
include a space for the bins; they often have peculiar paths<br />
that go nowhere, are too narrow, or go around in circles.<br />
Paths in show gardens lead on and off the garden onto<br />
bigger paths and walkways – and in our gardens that is usually<br />
where the fence or garden boundary would be. It also pays<br />
not to be too fashionable. Chelsea designers have the luxury<br />
of a new makeover each year, we are stuck with our gardens<br />
for a lot longer than that; huge pink walls, mad rockeries and<br />
steel water features might not be in vogue for long. Like a<br />
classic staple wardrobe (where you can update the accessories)<br />
it is often better to stick to some tried and tested ideas.<br />
Features and focal points<br />
All gardens need focal points; and while choosing<br />
garden features is a matter of taste, it does pay to look<br />
at your surroundings, their scale as well as their style.<br />
Focal points can easily tip into the realms of folly. A<br />
huge silver ball or corner of a ruined abbey might set<br />
off a Chelsea garden, but can look out of kilter in a<br />
domestic garden, positively monastery-ous in fact.<br />
Water features<br />
These can be a sparkling addition to the garden, bringing<br />
refreshing movement, sound and life. But, as with focal<br />
points, style, scale and positioning are key here. It is also vital<br />
to keep them clean and functioning. They don’t have time<br />
to get clogged with algae and grunge at a flower show, but<br />
it’s surprising how quickly a water feature can turn into a<br />
forlorn relic, becoming dry, silent and shamefully derelict.<br />
The Plants<br />
For most of us, plants are the main attraction at<br />
Chelsea, but you can’t buy them directly from the show,<br />
at least not until the final hour, when they are sold<br />
off in a frenetic bun fight that sees normally demure<br />
and well-behaved ladies forgetting their manners and<br />
scrambling for bargains like seagulls behind a trawler.<br />
If you do visit on the last day with the intention<br />
of buying plants, be as prepared as you would be<br />
for the first day of the sales. Pay with cash and have<br />
some kind of trolley to take your haul home in.<br />
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Many new cultivars are launched at Chelsea. Some will be<br />
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rose, have stood the test of time and become border favourites.<br />
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Flower colours and planting combinations seem to follow<br />
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These must be taken, sad to say, with a pinch of horticultural<br />
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It’s not all about the sunny spots - Sue Whigham celebrates<br />
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There has been a garden at the Inner Temple in London<br />
since the 12th century and mediaeval papers record<br />
an orchard on the site at that time. By the 14th<br />
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the venue for the RHS’s Great Spring Show from 1888 to<br />
1911 before it outgrew the space and moved to Chelsea.<br />
Now you’ll see a rather wonderful three-acre garden<br />
sweeping down to the Thames, complete with rare<br />
trees and the most sumptuously planted borders.<br />
There has been a major regeneration of the garden<br />
under the guidance of Andrea Brunsendorf, the current<br />
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the new Head Gardener, Sean Harkin, influences the<br />
planting in the future. His previous appointment was at<br />
Kensington Palace so he comes with great credentials.<br />
It’s a splendid thing to have right in the heart of the<br />
capital and best of all, to my mind, is the lovely planting<br />
under the trees to the east of the rolling lawns, a wonderful<br />
source of inspiration for making the most of shady<br />
areas, which can be a challenge to home gardeners.<br />
When you are choosing plants for shade, it is useful<br />
to know their provenance. There are so many bulbs,<br />
perennials, woody plants and ferns that originally thrived<br />
in forests and woodland and of course for the happiest<br />
plants it is ideal to emulate their original ‘home’.<br />
We’re spoilt for choice really and I think that as we seem to<br />
have such dry summers down here in the South East, shady<br />
borders have the benefit of not scorching in a hot sun as they<br />
are in soil that does not immediately dry out. Provided that<br />
the borders have had the benefit of added organic matter,<br />
the shade will reduce the need to water and by mid to late<br />
summer all should be looking good, as the shaded areas of<br />
Shade in the garden comes in<br />
a lot of different guises:<br />
• Light shade, created by walls, fences and buildings.<br />
• Deep shade, under evergreen trees or in<br />
alleys between houses and buildings.<br />
• Partial shade, created by the position of the sun<br />
as it moves round (there are very many plants<br />
that can cope with sun/or partial shade)<br />
• Dappled shade, created under the<br />
canopy of deciduous trees.<br />
• Damp shade and dry shade.<br />
your garden are less exposed to extremes of temperature.<br />
The areas under the trees at Inner Temple, when I saw<br />
them in <strong>May</strong> a couple of years ago, were a marvellous<br />
mix of ferns, Smyrnium perfoliatum, wonderful creamy<br />
foxgloves - from memory, D. ‘Camelot Cream’; some large<br />
yellow aquilegia – possibly Aquilegia chrysantha ‘Yellow<br />
Queen’ – and the promise of martagon lilies to come.<br />
This particular aquilegia is one of the largest, longest<br />
spurred varieties you’ll find and it has the added bonus of<br />
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been successful with it, but it is well worth persevering with<br />
as once you’ve got the plant established, it will naturalise in<br />
your shady areas. Its combination of airy greeny yellow flowers<br />
and shield-like leaves which decrease in size as they climb<br />
the stem, are intriguing and for anyone who likes euphorbias<br />
and fresh limes and yellows, it’s a must. Some nurseries sell<br />
small plants now and as long as you don’t hoe them out<br />
and remember that they are biennials, they will bulk up.<br />
A really good evergreen fern which can cope with dry<br />
conditions and partial shade and which may well have<br />
been the one growing at the Inner Temple is Dryopteris<br />
wallichiana, otherwise known as Wallich’s Wood Fern. Its<br />
beautiful fronds form a big shuttlecock and if you provide<br />
it with rich soil, it can reach about three foot (90cm).<br />
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Pulmonaria<br />
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my mention of ground elder as there is a particularly good<br />
variegated form, Aeogopodium podagraria ‘Variegata’, which<br />
provides a fantastic light reflecting carpet in dappled shade.<br />
Leaf interest for shade include bergenias – B. ‘Abendglut’,<br />
a favourite of Gertrude Jekyll’s, is particularly choice. The<br />
flowers are magenta and the undersides of the leaves are a<br />
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And then there are taller plants like Rodgersia aesculifolia<br />
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‘Maurice Mason’, named by Christopher Lloyd after the<br />
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Tall, late flowering plants like the rodgersias and the<br />
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• Libertia grandiflora. From <strong>New</strong> Zealand, with<br />
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• Nicotiana sylvestris, a tall biennial with<br />
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• Persicaria bistorta ‘Superba’ is particularly good<br />
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What’s On In <strong>May</strong><br />
Art<br />
Sat 14 Apr – Sun 17 Jun<br />
The Lightbox, Chobham Road,<br />
Woking, <strong>Surrey</strong>, GU21 4AA<br />
Lee Miller: Picasso<br />
Portraits<br />
See Picasso through the eyes<br />
of Lee Miller, the supermodel<br />
turned surrealist photographer<br />
and muse to Picasso himself.<br />
Info: thelightbox.org.uk<br />
Sat 21 Apr – Sat 19 <strong>May</strong><br />
<strong>New</strong> Ashgate Gallery, Waggon<br />
Yard/Lower Church Lane,<br />
Farnham GU9 7PS<br />
Celebration of<br />
Illustration<br />
<strong>New</strong> Ashgate Gallery explores<br />
the importance of visual<br />
communication in everyday<br />
life along with the pleasure of<br />
drawing as a feast for the eyes.<br />
The upcoming show features local<br />
and nationally acclaimed artists,<br />
Diana Boyle, Claire Caulfield,<br />
Eliza Southwood, Nick Tankard,<br />
Liz Toole and James Warren.<br />
Info: newashgate.org.uk<br />
Sat 5 – Mon 7 <strong>May</strong> 10am-6pm<br />
Betchworth Village Hall<br />
Station Rd, Betchworth, <strong>Surrey</strong><br />
RH3 7DF<br />
The Dorking Group<br />
of Artists – Spring<br />
Exhibition<br />
Exhibiting members of The<br />
Dorking Group of Artists, many<br />
professionals among them, will<br />
be displaying over 250 pieces of<br />
new and original art, all for sale at<br />
affordable prices.<br />
Entry: Free<br />
Info: 01372 375123 /<br />
j.andersonwood@gmail.com<br />
Mon 7 - Sun 13 <strong>May</strong><br />
Various Locations<br />
Spelthorne Arts Week<br />
A week of arts packed with live<br />
theatre, music, comedy, arts,<br />
crafts, and dance workshops.<br />
Learn to make a mosaic, enter a<br />
photography competition, see the<br />
artwork of Spelthorne schools, or<br />
try the Staines art walk.<br />
Info: spelthorne.gov.uk/<br />
spelthorneartsweek<br />
Children & Families<br />
Sat 5 – Mon 7 <strong>May</strong> 11am-8pm<br />
Hersham Green, Hersham,<br />
Walton-on-Thames KT12 4HL<br />
Carters Steam Fair<br />
Take a trip back in time with the<br />
same authentic vintage travelling<br />
fun fair that Paddington visits in<br />
Paddington 2. The fair operates<br />
rides and sidestalls from 1870s to<br />
1960s including a Ghost Train,<br />
Mirror Show, Shooting Salon,<br />
Dodgems, Chairoplane and<br />
Steam Gallopers; in this picture<br />
perfect immersive experience even<br />
the living wagons and transport<br />
vehicles are vintage.<br />
Info: carterssteamfair.co.uk<br />
Sat 12 <strong>May</strong> 10am-9pm<br />
Brooklands Museum,<br />
Brooklands Road, Weybridge<br />
KT13 0SL<br />
The 1940s Relived<br />
Brooklands turns back the clock<br />
and celebrates the 1940s with a<br />
vintage market, period vehicle<br />
displays, re-enactment groups,<br />
dance marquee, live music, dance<br />
lessons, a family activity zone and<br />
style scouts looking for the best<br />
dressed guests.<br />
Info: brooklandsmuseum.com<br />
Sat 12 & Sun 13 <strong>May</strong><br />
Wintershall Estate, Wintershall,<br />
Bramley, Guildford GU5 0LR<br />
The Little Welly<br />
Let kids go wild and get muddy<br />
in this 30 obstacle, 3km course<br />
set to include a three-humped<br />
dragon, dodge ball, trapeze swing,<br />
and water slide among its many<br />
challenges.<br />
Info: thelittlewelly.co.uk<br />
Sat 26 <strong>May</strong> – Sun 3 June<br />
Bocketts Farm, Young Street,<br />
Fetcham, Leatherhead<br />
KT22 9BS<br />
Spring Spectacular<br />
Have a spectacular spring<br />
with birds of prey flying<br />
demonstrations, circus skills<br />
workshops and panning for gold.<br />
Info: bockettsfarm.co.uk<br />
Wed 30 <strong>May</strong> 10.30<br />
Farnham Maltings, Bridge<br />
Square, Farnham GU9 7QR<br />
Lego Cupcake<br />
Decorating<br />
Kids aged 6+ can have fun icing<br />
cupcakes and decorating them<br />
with lego pieces they make using<br />
colourful icing. All materials and<br />
cakes supplied and you can take<br />
home your creations in a box.<br />
Entry: £16<br />
Info: farnhammaltings.com<br />
Festivals & Shows<br />
Sun 6 – Mon 7 <strong>May</strong> 9am-5pm<br />
South of England Showground,<br />
Ardingly RH17 6TL<br />
Spring Live!<br />
Enjoy the bank holiday weekend<br />
with performances from the music<br />
stage, maypole and Sussex dance<br />
workshops, seasonal gardening<br />
demos, dog agility, animal barn,<br />
donkey rides, artisan food and<br />
drink, fairground attractions and<br />
so much more.<br />
Entry: seniors/students £9, children<br />
under 16 free with a paying adult.<br />
Book online until midnight 5th<br />
<strong>May</strong> for 10% discount.<br />
Info: 01444 892700 / Follow @<br />
SouthEngShows / seas.org.uk<br />
Sun 6 - Tues 8 <strong>May</strong><br />
Chiddingstone Castle, Hill<br />
Hoath Road, Edenbridge, Kent<br />
TN8 7AD<br />
Literary Festival<br />
A festival to please any and all<br />
bookworms with author talks for<br />
adults and teenagers on Sunday<br />
6 <strong>May</strong>, a wide range of events for<br />
families on Bank Holiday Monday<br />
7 <strong>May</strong>, and a whole day of<br />
children’s authors, illustrators and<br />
workshops especially for schools<br />
on Tuesday 8 <strong>May</strong>.<br />
Info: chiddingstonecastle.org.uk<br />
Sat 12 <strong>May</strong> 2pm – 9pm<br />
Hartsfield Manor, Sandy Lane,<br />
Betchworth RH3 7AA<br />
Food & Drink Festival<br />
Hartsfield hosts its first ever food<br />
and drink festival with all the best<br />
food and drink suppliers from<br />
around <strong>Surrey</strong>, live music and<br />
a free drinks token for all adult<br />
tickets bought before the day.<br />
Entry: £4<br />
Info: hartsfieldmanor.co.uk<br />
Sat 12 <strong>May</strong><br />
RHS Garden Wisley, Wisley<br />
Lane Woking GU23 6QB<br />
The National Alpine<br />
Show<br />
Explore a National level show<br />
filled with colourful and exotic<br />
Alpine plants to buy or view in a<br />
guided behinds the scenes tour.<br />
You can also gain helpful advice<br />
from friendly experts from the<br />
National Alpine society, try a<br />
competition class and buy all the<br />
equipment you need to grow your<br />
own Alpines.<br />
Info: 01483 224234 /<br />
rhs.org.uk/gardens/wisely<br />
Sun 13 <strong>May</strong><br />
Blue Anchor Farm, Blindley<br />
Heath RH7 6JL<br />
Cowpie County Show<br />
A classic family day out<br />
combining a programme of events<br />
in the Main Ring and Countryside<br />
Ring with all sorts of attractions,<br />
trade stands, and <strong>Surrey</strong> Young<br />
Farmer Competitions. Expect<br />
the UK number one monster<br />
truck team, Big Pete, the Savage<br />
Skills anti gravity bike show,<br />
a medieval village, dog show,<br />
miniature ponies, vintage<br />
vehicles and much much more.<br />
Info: 01737 844528 / cowpie.co.uk<br />
Music<br />
Fri 18 & Sat 19 <strong>May</strong><br />
Various locations in Guildford<br />
Trinity Folk Festival<br />
The best of modern contemporary<br />
folk and roots music gathers<br />
together in this fun and folksy<br />
festival with two stages in<br />
Guildford’s oldest building, St<br />
Mary’s Church.<br />
Info: trinityfolkfestival.co.uk<br />
Sat 19 – Sun 10 <strong>May</strong><br />
The Boileroom, 13 Stoke Fields,<br />
Guildford GU1 4LS<br />
Rock4Refugees<br />
Bands, musicians, speakers and<br />
performers get together to raise<br />
much needed funds for Dorking<br />
Refugee Support and Refugee<br />
Community Kitchen.<br />
Info: goldengiving.com/event/<br />
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What’s On In <strong>May</strong><br />
Shopping<br />
Tues 1, Tues 8 & Tuesday 29<br />
Kempton Park Racecourse,<br />
Staines Road, Shepperton,<br />
Sunbury-on-Thames TW16<br />
5AQ & Sandown Park<br />
Racecourse, Sandown Park,<br />
Portsmouth Road, Esher<br />
KT10 9AJ<br />
Sunbury Antiques<br />
Market<br />
The largest and longest running<br />
twice monthly market in the<br />
country and one of Europe’s<br />
premier antiques markets now<br />
in two fabulous locations.<br />
The market will be running at<br />
Sandown Park Racecourse, on<br />
the first Tuesday of each month<br />
while the second and last Tuesdays<br />
still belong to Kempton Park<br />
Racecourse.<br />
Entry: Free parking & admission<br />
Info: sunburyantiques.com<br />
Sports & Leisure<br />
Sun 6 <strong>May</strong><br />
Priory Park, Bell Street, Reigate<br />
RH2 7RL<br />
Fun Run & Festival of<br />
Sport<br />
This festival is all about<br />
participation. Celebrate sport in<br />
any way you want - run in one of<br />
the many races catering to all ages<br />
and abilities, cheer on local dance<br />
and gymnastics groups in the<br />
central arena, or grab an activity<br />
passport and you can try new<br />
sports including golf, martial arts<br />
and windsurfing.<br />
Info: ymcaeastsurrey.org.uk<br />
Mon 7 <strong>May</strong><br />
Starting at Stansted Village<br />
Hall, Malthouse Road, Stansted,<br />
Sevenoaks Kent TN15 7PH<br />
Annual Cloisters Bike<br />
Ride<br />
Chose from three glorious bike<br />
rides from ‘The Challenge’s 44<br />
miles to ‘The Cruise’s 13 miles,<br />
any option will have you wheeling<br />
through quiet leafy lanes and<br />
charming villages of the North<br />
Downs of West Kent. In aid of St.<br />
Mary’s Church, Stansted, Fabric<br />
and Improvement Fund and Heart<br />
of Kent Hospice.<br />
Info: cloistersbikeride.org<br />
Thurs 17 <strong>May</strong> 10.30am<br />
Camberley Heath Golf Club,<br />
Golf Drive, Camberley<br />
GU15 1JG.<br />
Charity Golf Day<br />
A chance to enjoy fantastic day of<br />
golf at one of the finest courses<br />
in <strong>Surrey</strong>, all in aid of Sebastians<br />
Action Trust for families of<br />
seriously-ill children. Includes<br />
bacon rolls and two-course dinner.<br />
Entry: Individuals £75, Corporate<br />
Team £420<br />
Info: 01344 622500 /<br />
fundraising@sebastianstrust.org /<br />
sebastiansactiontrust.org<br />
Theatre<br />
Sat 9 June 7.30pm<br />
Haslemere Educational<br />
Museum, 78 High Street,<br />
Haslemere, <strong>Surrey</strong> GU27 2LA<br />
The Rude Mechanical<br />
Theatre Company -<br />
Oberon’s Cure<br />
The Rude Mechanical Theatre<br />
Company, who specialise in<br />
iconic outdoor theatre, will<br />
be returning to the Museum<br />
this year, with a new play -<br />
‘Oberon’s Cure’ - a beautiful<br />
poetic and hilarious prequel to<br />
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’<br />
in which the human and fairy<br />
worlds collide.<br />
Info: haslemeremuseum.co.uk /<br />
therudemechanicaltheatre.co.uk<br />
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Jane Howard’s<br />
Fables from<br />
the Farm<br />
Jane goes out for chickens and falls for less paltry poultry<br />
I<br />
am always amazed that our hens are able to wander<br />
around the farmyard and across the fields without<br />
meeting a fox! There are plenty of the latter about so<br />
not sure why this status quo persists – but I think you can<br />
imagine where this story is going.<br />
About a month ago, having set off on their daily walk<br />
about they didn’t come home to roost and a search soon<br />
found the sad pile of tell-tale feathers. Doubly galling as they<br />
had only just come back into lay after their winter break<br />
(being posh pure-bred hens they only oblige at certain times<br />
of the year).<br />
Anyhow our chicken-free status did convey certain<br />
advantages, the main one being no need to remember to<br />
shut them in every night at dusk. As the years advance the<br />
ability to remember anything, and especially when it is time<br />
sensitive, is not a given and so it was liberating to strike this<br />
essential task from one’s mental ‘to do’ list. There was however<br />
another positive to look forward to.<br />
Every year I diligently prepare the raised veg beds by<br />
covering them in manure in the autumn and lightly digging<br />
them over in the spring. The one chosen for<br />
the salad veg also gets carefully raked and then<br />
I plant very straight rows of lettuce, spinach,<br />
beetroot, rocket, spring onions and carrots and<br />
sit back waiting for the seedlings to poke their<br />
heads above the surface a week later.<br />
Why, oh why, after all these years I still<br />
believe in the possibility of this happening I<br />
don’t know because without fail the chickens<br />
consider it their God-given right to break in and create havoc.<br />
Finding such a fine tilth they scratch away so that all the<br />
seeds get jumbled up and so what does appear is a) not in a<br />
straight row and b) can’t be distinguished from all the weeds<br />
that germinate at the same time.<br />
“The chickens<br />
consider it their<br />
God-given right<br />
to break in and<br />
create havoc”<br />
So I was feeling rather thrilled about the chicken-free status<br />
when my daughters came home. They no longer live here<br />
full time but are convinced that nothing at home should ever<br />
change. Coopers Farm without chickens was unimaginable<br />
and they simply had to be replaced.<br />
Now for those of you who don’t know,<br />
chickens come in two basic types: hybrids<br />
and purebreds. The hybrids are the working<br />
girls, bred to lay an egg most days of the year<br />
and not go broody (when a hen decides to<br />
become a mum and stop laying).<br />
The purebreds are the indulged beauty<br />
queens, all different colours, shapes and sizes,<br />
which lay eggs in an amazing variety of tones that would<br />
grace any Farrow & Ball paint chart. But they are unlikely to<br />
lay every day anyway and are prone to go broody.<br />
Having always had Buff Sussex, which fall into the latter<br />
category, I thought this time we would get some brown<br />
hybrid hens which apart from being excellent layers you can<br />
also pick up for about £10 a bird. So, with daughter No 2,<br />
in tow we set off to the equivalent of a chicken superstore to<br />
pick up our brown layers.<br />
Even the man who was selling us the hens advised that the<br />
huge Gold Laced Orpingtons were not the best layers and<br />
we’d be far better off with a different breed. But the inevitable<br />
happened, we happily parted with a ridiculous amount of<br />
money and are now the proud owners of three hens that only<br />
lay when the wind is in the right direction.<br />
But thankfully the fox hasn’t discovered them and they<br />
haven’t discovered the veg patch.<br />
Follow Jane Howard – and the farm – on Instagram @coopersfarm<br />
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