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Contents 

June 2018 

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JUNE’S HOT HOUSES 

Our editor picks her 

favourite properties 

NOTEBOOK 

Seven Surrey events to put 

in your diary this month 

A SLICE OF HEAVEN 

Take a tour of Samantha Bruce’s 

glamorous Tunbridge Wells home 

GET THE LOOK 

Products to help you 

steal Samantha’s style 

WHERE THERE’S A WILL... 

Expert advice on will writing 

104 

117 

121 

122 

SUNNY SPELLS 

Kate Watts styles beachy 

looks to get prepared for 

the British summer 

SUN SCENTS 

Joesphine Fairley finds 

your new summer scent 

A YEAR OF WELLNESS 

Eminé Rushton’s shares her 

secrets to natural allergymanagement 

NATURAL WISDOM 

A beauty sleep saviour 

and wise words from 

a medical herbalist 

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141 

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147 

148 

FRONTING UP 

Sue Whigham on front gardens 

JUMP TO IT 

Hilary Wilce explores why exercise 

is essential for children 

WHAT’S ON 

All the best things to do 

in Surrey this June 

COMPETITION 

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collection from King of Cotton 

FABLES FROM THE FARM 

Jane Howard’s latest reports 

freshly harvested from the farm 

78 

101 

PARK LIFE 

Explore a timelessly elegant 

Hampton home 

GET THE LOOK 

Products to imitate our 

second home interior 

124 

129 

TAPAS-TASTIC 

Rocksalt’s owner Mark Sargeant 

shares Spanish recipes 

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN 

Jo Arnell sorts the heroes from 

the villains of garden bugs 

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House 

Month 

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£2,700,000 

June’s hot houses 

Maggie Alderson picks her favourite homes on the market 

Eashing House 

The dream: The Ultra Modern Pad 

The luxury of 5000 sq ft of lateral 

space, with floor-to-ceiling windows 

in every room. The property was 

recently remodelled a few years ago, 

winning the Architects’ Journal 

Retrofit Award. The outside is a 

thrillingly space age mix of brick and 

stainless-steel cladding, which reflects 

the planted areas around the house. 

Inside you could ride your golf cart 

over the extra-wide oak floorboards 

through the reception rooms, while 

admiring the lofty vaulted ceilings. 

The entire interior is a mix of glass, 

black brick, steel and oak, creating the 

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Eashing, under two miles from 

Godalming and nine from Guildford. 

Locale: Surrounded by farmland. 

Beds: 6 Baths: 6 Studies: 2 

Special feature: An art collector’s 

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ground floor bedroom corridor. 

Pleasing details: The master 

bathroom is almost as big as the 

bedroom. Hard tennis court. 

Outside: 2.4 acres of parkland gardens. 

Time to town: 50 minutes to 

Waterloo from Godalming. 

Price: 2.7 million 

Agent: Hamptons, Godalming 

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Windsor Court 

£19,950,000 

The dream: Ultimate Doer Upper 

A classic Edwardian country house in 

the Arts & Crafts style. Empty since 

2004, it’s the ultimate renovation 

opportunity to create a modern home, 

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Where: Four miles from Windsor, on 

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miles from Egham. 

Locale: Adjoining Windsor Great Park. 

Beds: 10 Baths: 10 

Special feature: A Dower House ie. the 

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Pleasing details: I am imagining a 

joyous riot of dumb waiters and period 

bathrooms, but who knows? 

Outside: 15 acres of mature gardens 

and grounds, an ornamental lake, two 

cottages, stables and outbuildings. 

Time to town: From Egham, 45 mins 

to Waterloo. 

Price: £19,950,000 Agent: Knight 

Frank, Virginia Water 01344 840 020 

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£3,250,000 

Albury Park 

Mansion 

The dream: The Super Luxe apartment 

If you’re going to have an apartment in 

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Locale: The Duke of Northumberland’s 

Albury Estate, in the Surrey Hills AONB. 

Beds: 3 Baths: 2 

Special feature: Extensive Tudor cellars 

reimagined as a party space with a 

luxurious spa, sauna and hot tub, caged 

wine cellars and a Vinyl Music Room. 

Pleasing details: 42 ft drawing room 

with the original Robert Adam marble 

chimneypiece, 18 ft ceilings. 

Outside: A private courtyard, then 5 acres 

of shared formal gardens – amid parkland. 

Time to town: Under an hour to 

Waterloo from Gomshall, 5 minutes away. 

Price: £3,250,000 

Agent: Sotheby’s, Cobham 

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reproduction of a Czech railway convex mirror, prints by Ben Eine and a 

fully working old electronic eye test found at a French market decorate the 

sitting room This page: The photograph is by fashion photographer, Alex 

Prager. The kitchen cupboard door handles are from Buster + Punch 

The devil is in the detail as the saying 

goes. But in Samantha and Dougie 

Bruce’s house the details are more 

celestial. Sumptuous velvet seating, a Moroccan 

tiled feature wall, a lamp with a corset shade 

– and not forgetting the deep copper and 

white enamelled bath in the master suite. 

And just in case anyone might be left in any 

doubt there it is above that bath: the word 

‘heaven’ emblazoned in a pink neon light. 

It’s such a wonderfully warm and inviting 

house it’s a surprise to learn Samantha almost 

rejected the 1930s Tunbridge Wells semi out 

of hand. She explains: “The outside of the 

property didn’t excite me very much...” 

But when she stepped foot inside the 

parquet floored hallway everything changed: 

“As you enter you can see right through the 

kitchen and into the garden with trees beyond. 

Also, the couple we bought it from had been 

very happy here and I could feel that.” 

Samantha and Dougie’s first task was to renovate 

the kitchen to create an airy open plan family space 

that maximised the outdoor view. First was a row 

of bifold doors along the exterior wall leading 


onto a terrace with decking laid in a herringbone pattern in 

a clever nod to the original 1930s parquet in the hallway. 

Rows of kitchen cupboards painted in palest duck 

egg blue run along one wall – part of the house’s base 

palette of pale blue and pink - in front of which sits a 

huge marble island separating the cooking area from a 

dining area with a matching bespoke marble table. 

There’s also a cosy seating area with two hot pink 

velvet vintage armchairs by a wood-burning stove set in 

a white tiled feature wall. The room is so full of clever 

and unusual detail it’s hard to know where to start. 

“The cupboards are from Ikea with fronts from Swedish 

online firm Superfront. I always say spend money on the 

things you can see and I like mixing stuff. It’s like fashion. 

You can be in a Topshop dress and wear it with Dior shoes 

and feel amazing. My homes always have the same principle.” 

If there’s an equivalent of Dior shoes in the kitchen then 

it’s got to be the gold and silver cupboard handles and 

matching light dimmer switches from Buster + Punch, the 

design inspired by the volume controls of old amplifiers. 

“I get very obsessed about small details. And I wanted 

something nobody else had,” says Samantha. 

There’s more clever detailing on the floor. The boards 

in the dining and living areas are painted off white, 

Above: The kitchen flooring has been laid with the tiles edging 

into the wood to avoid a blunt cut off. Lighting was a bargain 

buy from Le Mans in France. Bi-fold doors lead onto a terrace 

Left: A huge marble island separates the cooking and dining 

areas. The wood-burning stove is set into a feature wall which 

contributes to a herringbone theme 

Samantha and Dougie’s 

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Above left: Two hot pink velvet vintage armchairs create a cosy kitchen seating area Above right: A Vivienne Westwood for the Rug 

Company tapestry bought with Samantha’s inheritance from her grandparents 

but the flooring in the kitchen work area is delineated 

with hexagonal blue and white geometric tiles. But 

instead of a straight join the tiles are playfully cut in 

at differing angles to create a jagged tooth effect. 

The stove and island unit point to a practical cook’s 

kitchen but glamorous feminine touches are never 

far away, such as the ornate French wall chandeliers 

hanging in the alcoves on either side of the wood burner, 

a huge vintage French mirror propped against a wall 

(which serves a dual purpose of reflecting light from 

the doors opposite) and a deco brass palm light. 

“I love lighting. It makes me happy,” explains Samantha 

pointing up at the row of pretty deco fan-shaped lights that 

run the width of the room across the table. “I got these from 

Le Mans in France. They were a real bargain. When Dougie 

comes home he tells me off because I always have all the lights 

on. But I adore the atmosphere different lighting creates.” 

At one end of the table is an abstract portrait by St 

Leonards based artist Rachel Glittenberg. “A lot of her 

work is around themes of strong women, which I love.” 

The pale shades are offset by pops of fun colour 

such as the pink flamingo lamp next to the toaster, a 

leopard print rug and a large framed photograph of 

60s-styled models smoking by a swimming pool. 

“It’s by a fashion photographer called Alex Prager. 

There was a moment after the endless building when 

we had a bit of money left over to spend on something 

nice for the house. Dougie had seen her work and 

asked me to choose one. Within a few weeks of buying 

it one of her pieces sold for a big price and the value 

suddenly shot up. But I can’t imagine selling it.” 

There’s a second snug sitting room on the same floor, 

dominated by a comfy Ligne Roset Togo sofa with 

matching ottoman and a huge reproduction Czech 

railway convex mirror. A row of prints by Ben Eine 

line the wall above a 1930s Perspex console table. A 

fully working old electronic eye test found at a French 

market offers a fun diversion for any visitors. 

There’s a second tiled feature wall in here too. 

Samantha took out a tired brown tiled fireplace with 

an electric fireplace and tiled the entire chimney breast 

wall with pale pastel Moroccan Zelligh tiles. Logs sit 

in a raised concrete fire bed. I ask if the tiles were not 

a bit delicate for the area. “They’ve done fine. I don’t 

do anything unless it’s going to serve a purpose.” 

It’s perhaps no surprise to learn that Samantha’s 

 


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skills have been honed professionally. She and Dougie, 

who works in the music industry, moved to Tunbridge 

Wells five years ago. At that time Samantha was 

working in the fashion industry as a pattern cutter. 

“I was bored with fashion and I was lucky enough to meet 

Stuart Taylor, who runs design company 44th Hill. He took 

me on and I got the chance to learn on the job travelling the 

country working on all sorts of different commercial projects. 

I learned so much, both in terms of project management and 

design, but what I realised I really loved was the sourcing. So, 

when the chance came to take on a shop lease I jumped at it.” 

She hasn’t looked back and commutes three 

days a week to open her shop, In House Junkie 

on Norman Road in St Leonards-on-Sea. The rest 

of the time she designs commercial projects. 

“It is great fun but it’s harder than people realise 

getting up at 5am on cold dark mornings to go to a flea 

market or car boot and then lugging things home all by 

myself. I often get men at markets saying, ‘You’ll never 

lift that love’. And I think to myself, Oh yes I will!” 

She seems to get a similar thrill from sourcing houses. “This 

is the third house we’ve lived in five years. We’ve been here 

three years and that’s the longest we’ve lived in any house.” 

Is she nuts I ask? Doesn’t the constant renovation 

get a bit much? 

She laughs: “This house had no bathroom for about 

nine weeks over one Christmas. It was the party season 

and we were all having to have strip washes in the sink. 

At that point I’d really had enough. But the same thing 

always happens. I get the last lick of paint on, make it 

all lovely and then decide I want to sell it because I’m 

already itching to start over again. Renovation is addictive 

because I think you get better at it each time you do it. 

The thought of staying here for another five years and not 

creating anything new would really drive me potty.” 

And as she points out every property comes with unique 

challenges. “Since moving here we’ve gone from a fourstorey 

Georgian townhouse to an open plan former stable 

to here. Next time I am craving a big modern glass box.” 

In this current house one of the biggest tasks was to 

convert the top attic into a large bedroom for daughter 

Madeline, 12. It’s a room fit for a teenage princess with 

 


Above: The master suite. The bed is from Selfridges. A corsetshaped 

lightshade by Sera of London sits atop a 70s base made 

with real ostrich eggs Below left: Saucy touches include a framed 

copy of Playboy with Kate Moss on the cover 

a feature wall covered in pink toile wallpaper bedecked 

with zebras, flamingos and giraffes. Above the bed hangs 

an unusual metal music light adorned with fat yellow and 

pink bulbs. Built-in storage units fit neatly along one wall 

under the window. The girliness is toughened up with 

a Perspex dressing table set on industrial style legs. 

Second daughter, ten-year-old Tippi Rose, has a 

room which is a bit Alice in Wonderland meets a zoo. 

Birdcage toile curtains juxtapose against a green and 

white harlequin wallpapered feature wall. The animal 

theme is resplendent in a feathered fake swan head, 

a rabbit lamp sitting atop a tiger table and a stuffed 

wolf peeping down from the top of a wardrobe. 

The elegantly rumpled pale pink bed linen on the 

twin upholstered French beds looks vintage but came 

from M&S. Both rooms seem so age perfect for the 

girls that it’s a surprise to learn they only recently 

swapped bedrooms having each preferred the other’s. 

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eggs bought from Sideshow Interiors in Norman Road, 

near Sam’s shop. The corset shade was one of the first 

purchases Samantha and Dougie bought as a couple. 

The original stained glass bay windows are draped 

with green ‘Inferno’ palm print curtains from textile 

firm House of Hackney. The curtains and assorted 

vintage cushions on the bed were made by Samantha’s 

mother. Clearly creativity runs in the family. 

Above the fireplace is a charmingly eccentric Edwardian 

photo of a little girl holding up rainbows, found in 

Wayward’s in St Leonards, which used to be across 

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But what’s not on show here is equally important. 

It’s all about those clever details again - the dressing 

area hidden behind a stud wall, the vintage towel 

ladder tucked behind the door and the inset tiled floor 

under the bath. As in the kitchen, the tiles are set in 

the floorboards at different angles. “I didn’t want any 

edges to be square. I like the fact they are offset.” 

The bath is certainly a showstopper, but is it practical? 

“People ask all the time if we actually use it, but we do. 

The girls are forever in and out of it. There’s a bit of 

mess but I am not precious about stuff like that.” 

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Two specialists offer advice about planning ahead to safeguard your legacy wishes 

Your digital legacy 

From Facebook photos to Bitcoin riches, the digital 

revolution has changed everything – even planning a will. 

Kate Arnold of Cripps legal services explains the issues 

Have you ever considered what happens to your ‘digital 

assets’ when you are no longer around? Who will take control 

of your social media, cloud storage and email accounts? 

While we are all encouraged to secure our digital 

assets with complex passwords and sophisticated 

encryption, we should also be thinking about how 

loved ones might access our accounts when we die. 

Our digital assets might include photos, videos or messages 

posted on social media accounts such as Facebook, Instagram 

and Twitter. While these have no financial value, they are 

often of huge sentimental importance to friends and family. 

The younger generation in particular often relies on 

these platforms for storage, rarely retaining hard copies. 

It is therefore important to consider who will access 

your accounts and how to provide this information. 

You should also consider how these accounts should 

be accessed if you were to lose mental capacity. 

Social media platforms are beginning to take notice of 

this issue and most now have policies enabling a deceased 

person’s relations to access their accounts. Facebook, 

for example, allows account holders to nominate a 

‘legacy contact’ to manage the account after death. 

Similarly, Instagram allows a user’s account to be 

‘memorialised’ after their death, effectively freezing 

the account from when the user passed away. This 

allows friends and family to continue to access the 

account, though no further posts are permitted. 

One complication is that unlike social media accounts, 

some digital assets do in fact have a financial value and 

must be valued as part of the probate process. These 

might include a PayPal account in credit or online-only 

bank accounts. You might hold cryptocurrencies such 

as Bitcoin or Ethereum in encrypted digital ‘wallets’. 

These assets have a clear monetary value and will pass 

under the terms of your Will. This is all very well, but 

without access to your passwords it may be impossible 

for these assets to be dealt with in practice. Making this 

information available to your executors when the time comes 

should form an essential part of your estate planning. 

Other digital assets have value through advertising or 

subscriptions, though these values are often less certain. These 

might include videos uploaded on YouTube, photographs, 

articles or blog posts. For some, use of these platforms is 

sufficient to earn a living and the amounts involved can 

be significant. It will not necessarily be clear how these 

assets can be valued for inheritance tax purposes and 

professional advice is likely to be required by the executors. 

Without direct access to your accounts, processes 

allowing your next of kin to gain access can often be 

long and complicated. When you think about writing 

a Will you should consider who should access your 

accounts and how to provide this information. 

The same thought should be given to any computers, 

tablets or mobile phones that could hold important data. 

Access to digital assets with monetary value might be 

particularly important where funds are required to meet 

funeral expenses and other costs arising when you pass 

away. Ensuring that your next of kin have direct access to 

these assets would avoid any delay in using the funds. 

These access issues have led to software coming onto the 

market designed to hold details of digital assets under the 

protection of a single master password. Some services allow 

the user to delegate access to a nominated individual under 


specific circumstances, such as death or loss of mental capacity. 

Some software collates password information automatically, 

while others require this to be updated manually. In this case, 

care must be taken to ensure the record is kept up to date. 

If you are less sensitive about the way your password 

data is stored, you may wish to notify your next of kin 

during your lifetime, or provide instructions on where to 

find the information. The trick is to remember to update 

that information each time a password change takes 

place, or whenever you open a new online account. 

For the less tech-savvy, physical storage of your data using a 

memory stick, hard drive or even on paper might offer a more 

practical solution. This method also protects your information 

from improper access by hackers, though you should of course 

ensure that the documents are stored in a secure place. 

Whatever the extent of your digital assets, it would be 

sensible to consider these when planning for the future. 

Making a list of these is a good place to start, allowing 

you to judge the size and significance of each account. 

If you already have a Will in place, you should think about 

making details of these assets known to your executors, along 

with instructions on how to access them. You could keep 

a list of these with your Will or in a safe place at home. 

The most important thing is to make these details 

known in advance. Specialist solicitors will offer an 

opportunity to discuss how to manage your digital 

inheritance as part of the Will-making process and 

enable you to decide what arrangements suit you best. 

For further information please contact Kate Arnold LLB 

TEP, at kate.arnold@cripps.co.uk or call 01892 506337. 

What’s in a will? 

Samantha Ewing of Charles Russell Speechlys explains why 

it’s essential to get professionals to draw up your will 

More and more people are trying to prepare 

their own wills at home, but the reality of the 

problems this can cause are often overlooked. 

A will is an important legal document and there are 

various strict legal requirements which determine how a 

will must be signed and witnessed for it to be valid. 

Best practice when executing a will is for two witnesses 

to remain in the same room with the testator and, once 

the testator has signed the will, the witnesses should 

then sign the will all in each other’s presence. 

Sounds straightforward enough? Not necessarily so. 

A recent Court case had to consider the validity of two 

wills from 1998 and 2012 where the parties argued 

over, amongst other things, whether or not they had 

been executed or ‘signed’ correctly by the witnesses. 

Even a simple mistake could mean that your will is 

invalid. This could mean a previous will might take 

effect, if you had one, which could contain gifts you 

no longer want to make or include people you no 

longer want to benefit – or leave someone else out. 

It may lead to you dying ‘intestate’ meaning the 

members of your family who benefit will be decided 

by law, rather than according to your wishes. 

Glossy flyers handed out by will-writing companies 

or non-lawyers may seem to offer a cut price deal for 

preparing a will, but there are always dangers in using 

unqualified individuals to prepare one for you. ‘Will writers’ 

are often unregulated and don’t have to comply with the 

same codes of conduct or regulation as a law firm. 

For the price quoted you are unlikely to receive full and 

detailed advice on all the issues that could affect how you 

should prepare your will, including tax and trusts (for example 

for your minor children, or for anyone whom you wish to help 

but who lack capacity to manage money themselves). 

Problems with signatures - and even the specific 

wording that is used to leave someone money or 

a gift - can lead to expert reports being required 

to prove who may or may not have signed the 

will, as well as court proceedings to determine 

what you meant by the terms of your will. This all 

adds to the expense of sorting out a dispute. 

It may seem that by making a homemade will you 

are saving money, but often it will be your loved 

ones, or friends named in your will (and those who 

are left out and want to challenge that decision) who 

have to pay for legal advice to sort out any claim. 

Will validity claims are a costly affair both 

financially and emotionally. Claims are often against 

other family members and can cause irreparable 

damage to family relations. There is no absolute way 

to prevent someone from challenging your will, or 

making a claim against your estate after your death, 

but by taking some simple steps you can minimise 

that risk for those you remember in your will: 

1. Get professional help from a law firm, particularly if 

you think someone may challenge your will after you die. 

2. Get tax advice on your will. Many law firms offer this 

or can put you in touch with a suitable financial adviser. 

3. If you have had a diagnosis of dementia or similar 

condition, that does not stop you from making a will. 

A law firm can advise you on the best steps to take to 

minimise any risk of a will challenge being made, should 

you want to exclude someone significant, or have concerns 

that someone might be upset with the terms of your will. 

Finally, don’t forget that your will is private to you. 

You have no obligation to tell anyone in your life what 

is in it (with one or two exceptions), but it is obviously 

sensible to tell someone that you have made a will and 

where it is. Law firms will also usually offer to store it 

free of charge for you, so you can be reassured it is safe. 

Samantha Ewing is a specialist in will and estate 

disputes. 01483 252579 charlesrussellspeechlys.com 


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basement kitchen is light and spacious with high ceilings and white walls. A traditional hanging rack is suspended over the island 

It is hard to beat the elegance of a large Georgian house. 

We love them because they tap into something deep 

within us; a naturally occurring harmony and sense 

of proportion - found in everything from the structure 

of clouds to the workings of our bodies – analysed into 

the mathematical formula called the ‘golden ratio’ (a 

rectangle of 1:1:61) and interpreted via architecture. 

This one in the Surrey area to the south west of London, 

known as the ‘Hamptons’ doesn’t reveal itself immediately, 

surrounded by a high wall and almost hidden from view. 

Alighting at the bus stop that bears its name (how cool 

to have your own bus stop) you enter through a door in the 

wall right next to it, as if through a wisteria-clad portal and 

find yourself in another world. Instantly the traffic noise 

fades, soothed away by the serenity of a formal walled garden 

and the restrained splendour of a large Georgian house. 

There is a definite, but refined, country feel to 

the surroundings, with views across to the parkland 

around Hampton Court Palace. It is only the road 

to one side that anchors the scene into an urban 

setting, hinting at the life going on outside. 

The first impression of the interior of the house starts in 

the basement, through the tradesman’s entrance down some 

steps into the basement kitchen. Basements are well known 


Above: In the family breakfast room, Eames style dining chairs are offset by a chunky oak table, all of which sit below a stripped back 

central ceiling beam and beside an inglenook fireplace surround. Above the table is a vintage Academy style industrial pendant light 

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for being dingy and dark; this one, although it is ‘below 

stairs’, has high ceilings and so feels anything but. It has been 

painted white throughout and is surprisingly airy and bright, 

making it spacious, practical and fit for modern living. 

The original kitchen and other working areas - pantry, 

laundry, storage rooms for food, glassware and china - have 

always been down here. We are used to having the kitchen as 

the heart of our home, but historically, in large houses at least, 

the kitchen, as ‘engine room’ was relegated to the lowest and 

least visible part of the house, accessed separately via ‘the area’. 

This was a space just outside the kitchen, with steps 

up to ground level, containing coal bunkers, wood store 

and cellar, so that the important ‘upstairs’ occupants 

would not be bothered by the coming and going of 

tradespeople and the machinations of essential daily life. 

The pared back, pale and contemporary style of this 

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Above: The ground floor is full of tasteful features including 

panelling, pillars and cornicing. The chandelier is from a vintage 

shop in Notting Hill, originally from a ballroom in Jersey. The 

cocktail chairs and footrest are from Graham & Green 

Eames style dining chairs are offset by a chunky oak table. 

They complement the simplicity of the stripped back 

central ceiling beam and inglenook fireplace surround. 

Above the table, the focal point is a vintage Academy 

style industrial pendant light. The original floorboards 

have been painted white and together with the white walls 

they bring a seamless - and timeless - feel to the space. 

The kitchen retains hints of its past too; hardwearing 

terracotta quarry tiles warm the white tones and 

soften the contemporary industrial look in this room. 

It is a kitchen equipped for modern living, with a 

large polished steel range oven and extractor shining 

out against white subway tiles - perhaps where an 

eighteenth century version would once have sat. 

The central feature hanging on chains over the 

island unit is a large hanging rack, ideal for pots and 

pans and reminiscent of original racks that might 

once have been used for a similar purpose. 

White painted stairs lead up to the ground floor - and the 

mood changes instantly, as we are lifted into another realm. 

There is an immediate difference in feel as the more ornate 

architectural features do their job, impressing modern 

 


Above: In the drawing room, barred mirrors reflect the Georgian 

bars of the actual windows. The sofa.com sofa matches the lower 

wall to create a simple but controlled effect. Left: The black 

and white theme is offset by occasional splashes of red as in the 

enlarged cover of Life magazine 

day visitors as much as they would have the Georgian, 

with their restrained and tasteful embellishments. 

Here there are corbels, dados, cornicing, pillars and 

panelling, but in a refined statement of good taste, not 

an over the top ‘icing’ of an already delicious cake. The 

ceilings are gloriously high and light floods in through 

the fanlight above the front door and the large Venetian 

style windows at the front and back of the house. 

The ground floor rooms are airy and open; the large 

drawing room at the back of the house can be seen from 

the reception room next to the hall. It is not surprising that 

Georgian houses were designed for dancing in - a lightness 

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Above left: In the dining room Philippe Starck Ghost chairs set off the black walls. The clock on the mantelpiece is an antique station 

clock from a London market. The chandelier is from a vintage shop in Notting Hill Above right: The hall floor is tiled black and 

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vintage mirrors, suitably cracked and worn in patches. The Isaac daybed is from sofa.com 

Again the wall lights, apart from the chandelier, 

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while a huge antique station clock is enjoying a 

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This feels very much like a contemporary update on some 

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Previous page: A small seating area in the first floor 

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slight edge, vintage mirrors, suitably cracked and 

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Above and below: The top floor’s main bedroom is fun and 

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Queen, a yellow sofa and huge red Anglepoise lamp. 

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Kitchen trends: furniture 

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4 The new kitchen mood 

The inspiring shift in 

kitchen thinking 

7 Kitchen trends: 

Contemporary country 


Glamour 


Furniture 


Timber 


Black and white 

16 Anatomy of a kitchen 

Our case-study of a 

Neptune kitchen 

19 Kitchen keepers 

Kitchenware classics 

to buy once and keep 

forever after 

25 The bathroom 

Furnish your bathroom 

like its an actual room 

27 Tap into the trend 

The hottest of taps 

28 A rub a dub tub 

The best bathtubs around 

31 Shower power 

Showers that think 

outside the box 

33 Splash out 

Our favourite Bathroom 

accessory picks 

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The bathroom 

Tap into the trend 

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Kitchen keepers 

Kitchen keepers 

Editor’s Letter 

There couldn’t be a better time for me to be editing a 

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process of ‘editing’ both of them in my own house. 

Two bathrooms are in, so I feel well qualified to share what I’ve 

learned from doing that. I love my very modern brass mixer 

tap, adding a contemporary note in my Victorian house. 

But my new kitchen is still a big unknown – and the range 

of possibilities can be quite overwhelming, so I’ve relished 

every minute of looking at dream kitchens, to find the best to 

show to you. 

There’s an exciting new shift in kitchen layouts and styling 

at the moment and we’ve broken it down into five key trends 

which we hope you will find as inspiring as we do. 

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kitchen trends 

The new kitchen 

Whether you prefer a country feel, or a more contemporary vibe, there is a fresh new mood 

in kitchen design, packed with great practical ideas 

Poggenpohl 

The +Modo kitchen with a central island 

incorporating open shelving and glass 

fronted drawers. Available in seven standard 

colours with contrasting wood detailing. All 

Poggenpohl kitchens are made to measure 

so they expertly fit the space available. From 

£35,000 01483 566444 poggenpohl.com 


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mood 

Rencraft 

A bespoke combination of Rencraft handmade butler cupboards 

with a SieMatic island. Rencraft / SieMatic by Rencraft kitchen 

cabinetry starts from approx. £25,000 01892 520730 rencraft.co.uk 

Trends in kitchens move 

much more slowly than in 

other areas of the house. Not 

surprisingly, considering its unique 

place as the heart of family life and 

the investment involved – both 

emotional and financial. For years 

one kind of arrangement seems 

to suit everyone, then suddenly – 

wham! – an entirely new kind of 

kitchen seems the only thing to have. 

Just such a change is happening now. 

In this new mood, the overall 

look of one kitchen will still be 

very different from another – be 

it a country feel, or more of a slick 

contemporary vibe – but they will 

share a mixture of practical changes, 

that will make them all still very 

much the new kitchen. 

These arrangements include 

deep drawers instead of lower-level 

cupboards, no handles on drawers 

and press-open doors. A long central 

bench and floor-to-ceiling wall 

cupboards, rather than lower and 

upper cupboards with a worktop 

in between. Units which look like 

freestanding pieces of furniture. 

Open shelves rather than closed 

cupboards. Entirely integrated 

appliances. 

On the aesthetic side there are 

some radical new choices, including 

mixes of colours, textures and even 

worktop materials in one kitchen, 

and featured wood combined with 

other surfaces. 

Most radical is the arrival of high 

glamour in the kitchen, via rich 

metallics mixed with the enduringly 

popular marble – and lots of it. 

There is so much to be excited 

about in this new world of kitchens. 

Theme by theme, here is our round 

up of some of the best . 

 

Chamber Furniture 

This stained oak kitchen, features a liquid 

metal island with a timber breakfast bar. 

Kitchens from £40,000. 

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Stoneham 

The Knole kitchen in Blue Hague. Kitchens from 

£25,000 020 8300 8181 stoneham-kitchens.co.uk 

Image courtesy of Connaught Kitchens, a Stoneham 

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Different styles 

may go in and 

out of fashion, 

but the country kitchen 

will always be dear to the 

English heart – but that 

doesn’t mean it can’t change 

and evolve. (Wheatsheaf 

toaster, anyone?) 

It might be as simple as 

taking a classic Quaker style 

and painting it a dramatic 

colour, or mixing two colours 

in one scheme, as seen in 

the two kitchens here. 

Other key modifications 

which add an up-to-date 

flair without losing the 

classic charm, are having 

deep drawers rather than 

cupboards, and the biggest 

shift of the new kitchen 

– replacing wall-hung 

over-counter cupboards 

with open shelves and 

dresser-style units. 

Contemporary country 

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This brief was for all materials to 

be sourced from local tradespeople. 

There is a walk-in pantry, with 

spice racks, a hidden coffee station 

and customised plate racks, and a 

submerged wine cellar. For cooking 

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Krieder 

The Manhattan, finished in solid 

brass, £65,000 including appliances, 

worktops and installation. 

01892 619721 krieder.com 

Glamour 

It’s one of those ideas that 

seems so right when you 

see it, you wonder why 

on earth we haven’t always 

had outrageous glamour in 

our kitchens. The days of 

below stairs are long behind 

us – indeed the kitchen is now 

the most important room, 

with an eat-in family space 

top of the list for homebuyers. 

Entertaining in the 21st 

century means you are as 

likely to be holding a glass 

of champagne, as a wooden 

spoon, in your kitchen. So 

it’s time to think of this space 

in a whole new way. And 

to celebrate it with luxury 

materials and rich textures. 

 

Rencraft 

This bespoke kitchen was designed as ‘a contemporary 

kitchen pod landed in the middle of this period room’. 

On one side of the island the drawers are finished with 

patina brass. Bespoke kitchens by Rencraft, price on 

application. 01892 520730 rencraft.co.uk 


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carcases from £30,000 0800 8600435 jonesbritain.co.uk 

When the built-in revolution hit in the 

mid-20th century it suddenly seemed 

very backwards looking to have any 

kind of furniture in the kitchen. As they got 

smaller, denoting the decreasing amount of time 

expected to be spent on domestic chores, with the 

arrival of labour-saving gadgets and food (Smash! 

Vesta curries!) and the hatch came in - even a 

table was considered de trop. 

Now kitchens are getting bigger again, within 

multi-use living spaces, furniture seems like a fine 

idea again. It breaks up the space, provides extra 

storage – and comes as part of the kitchen build 

The best of both worlds. 

 

Schmidt 

Chic Workshop from the Designer Line collection. Built in a former 

industrial workshop for the shoot, showing the practical storage 

elements, including the bespoke orange cupboard, with chairs and stools 

and a designer bar counter. These units are from the Groove range 

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It’s been a long time since 

we’ve seen much exposed 

wood in a kitchen, 

beyond the bleached oak of 

a French Provincial dresser 

or table, but suddenly 

interesting timbers look very 

fresh and appealing. 

Paint is lovely, but the 

grain and richness of feature 

wood brings warmth and 

integrity – and looks very 

sophisticated mixed in with 

contrasting white fixtures. 

 

Kutchenhaus 

The Structura kitchen, from £15,400. Kutchenhaus 

supplies fully rigid German kitchens built to order, 

direct from the factory. There are nine different price 

ranges, from £10,000 to £40,000. 

01892 289070 kutchenhaus.co.uk 

Timber 

Stoneham 

The Ambience TT/Pro features smooth, flushsurfaced 

doors and crown-cut veneer finishes. 

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£105 for 100ml L’Artisan 

Parfumeur 

artisanparfumeur.com 

Hot weather and fragrance aren’t happy 

bedfellows 

Perfume is as vulnerable to UV damage as our skins. If your 

fragrances are generally kept near a window, move them to 

the back of the room where sunlight can’t damage them. 

Keep them in the box, in a cupboard 

Scent will last much longer if it’s not exposed 

to daylight, let alone sunshine. 

Best of all, keep your fragrance in the fridge 

A normal fridge can be too cold – a wine fridge is perfect, 

advises James Craven of Pimlico’s ‘scent mecca’, Les Senteurs. 

Bois 

d’Hadrien eau de 

parfum 

£91 for 100ml 

Goutal Paris 

goutalparis.com 

Bel Azur 

£73 for 50ml 

eau de parfum 

Tory Burch 

toryburch.co.uk 

Beware of wearing fragrance in the sun 

Some of the ingredients in perfume can interact with sunlight, on 

vulnerable skins, potentially triggering redness, itching and even 

(in the cases of some citrus ingredients like bergamot), possibly 

leading to pigmented ‘staining’ of the skin. This doesn’t mean you 

can’t wear fragrance through the summer months, but if you’re 

sunbathing, why not spritz a sarong, rather than your skin? 

I always like to spray my clothing – I’m a walking miasma 

of scent, basically – although do check first that it won’t stain 

the fabric. This is easy to do: simply spritz a white tissue, 

and if there’s no marking afterwards, it should be perfectly 

safe for textiles. I’m a particular fan of spraying scarves and 

pashminas, as well as the lining of jackets and even skirts. 

Why not wear a scented ribbon…? 

Spray a ribbon and tie it in your hair, or around 

your wrist. Lovely, lovely, lovely. 

 

Signature eau 

de toilette 

£35 for 30ml 

L.K. Bennett 

lkbennett.com 

Soleil Piquant 

eau de parfum and 

purse spray 

£185 for 100ml 

By Terry 

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Beauty 

Travel light 

When you’re heading off on holiday, decant your favourite 

fragrance into a Travalo atomiser. You sort of ‘mate’ the 

atomiser with the base of the Travalo, pump a bit (!) and the 

fragrance is transferred almost magically to the travel spray. 

These are available in sleek metals and some really 

stylish leather-covered options (you can find them on 

perfumesociety.org/SHOP and at other retailers). 

But why not take a wardrobe of 

fragrances with you…? 

Shameless plug, here: our Perfume Society Discovery 

Box samples allow you to pack an entire wardrobe of 

scents – even if you’re one of those admirable souls who 

manages to travel with hand baggage. (Not something I’ve 

ever achieved in this lifetime, nor am ever likely to.) 

Colognes are perfect for summer, to be 

splashed and spritzed with abandon 

My top picks from this summer’s new launches 

Fragonard Verveine 

Fragonard’s scents are wonderfully affordable (find them 

in M&S and Cologne & Cotton) and Verveine is the pure 

scent of summer sunshine and sparkling water. Lemon and 

grapefruit accent the energy of verbena – which is lemony in 

itself – but there’s more staying power than you’d imagine, 

thanks to undertones of patchouli, Atlas cedarwood and 

amber. Fragonard also offer ‘layering’ opportunities – the 

Verveine soap is divine. 

£18 for 50ml eau de toilette 

Goutal Paris Bois d’Hadrien 

Eau d’Hadrien is the fragrance that put Annick Goutal – 

one of the original ‘niche perfume’ brands – on the scented 

map. Now, her daughter Camille is heading up the perfume 

house, putting her own stamp on this innovative fragrance 

brand which she’s renamed ‘Goutal Paris’. 

Eau d’Hadrien has also now acquired a counterpart. If the 

original is morning, with its airy, citrus notes, this evokes the 

other end of the day, with woodsier notes of cypress, cedar, 

pine, incense and musk alongside a bright echo of lemon. 

£91 for 100ml eau de parfum 

By Terry Soleil Piquant 

This light-filled, carefree, sun-drenched fragrance is pricy, 

for sure – but just in time for the getaway season, the 100ml 

eau de parfum does come packaged with a security-friendly 

8ml spray. Inspired by the Balearic island of Formentera, it’s 

bursting with bright neroli, opening to almond blossoms, 

and finally mellowing to notes of sandalwood and tonka 

bean. 

£185 for 100ml eau de parfum and purse spray 

L’Artisan Parfumeur Champ de Baies and 

Champ des Fleurs 

Colognes are a big trend in perfume right now and they 

happen to be a perfect-for-summer concentration, to be 

splashed and spritzed with abandon. 

Champ de Baies is the more intriguing of these two, I 

find, setting out to evoke the feeling of a mulberry tree in 

the early morning, ‘just before a heatwave’, offering crisp 

nashi pear, tart rhubarb and bergamot. 

Its counterpart is equally fresh and dew-drenched, but 

captures a ‘field of flowers’, with bitter grapefruit and 

crunchy pear giving way to lily of the valley and jasmine 

petals, finally enveloping skin in cedar, amber and musk. 

£105 for 100ml eau de Cologne 

Tory Burch Bel Azur 

Don’t blame me if you decide to redecorate your house 

to match the chic blue-and-white box this comes in. The 

bottle is also deep, deep sea blue – positively beckoning you 

to dive into its refreshing blend of bergamot, neroli and 

peony, whose breeziness fades into warm, sun-kissed notes 

of creamy sandalwood and earthy vetiver. For someone who 

loves fresh fragrances, but wants something different to the 

usual citrusy Eau de Cologne. 

£73 for 50ml eau de parfum 

L.K. Bennett Signature 

This is one of my surprising new favourites, a definite 

addition to my scent wardrobe. It’s a highly sophisticated 

Chypre fragrance that has an airiness that’s just perfect, 

right now, offering peppered citrus, tangy rhubarb (a very 

on-trend note), silky rose, jasmine and ylang ylang, revealing 

skin-warmed notes of powdery amber and woods as it 

unfolds on the skin. 

It’s incredibly accomplished – a new modern classic, I’d 

call it – and I love that it comes in three sizes, including 

a nicely affordable 30ml. (I’ll definitely be going for the 

biggest next time, though.) 

£35 for 30ml eau de toilette 

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Wellbeing 

A Year of Wellness 

Britain has one of the highest rates of allergies in the world, with 44% 

of Brits suffering with at least one allergy. With hay fever season in full 

bloom, Eminé Rushton shares her natural approach to allergy-management 

June: Natural relief for seasonal allergies 

We spent one summer, 

several years ago, 

flummoxed as to why 

Wour eldest daughter (who was then 

just four), had a continual cold. A 

streaming nose, mild temperature, 

sneezing, runny eyes – and unable 

to shift it. That’s when we realised: 

it wasn’t a cold – it was hay fever! 

The misery of the condition, and the 

symptoms that make it difficult for us to 

go about our daily lives, such as sneezing, 

itchiness, breathlessness and wheezing, 

are caused by the body’s own exaggerated 

immune response to the natural 

allergens in pollen. 

Our white blood cells 

begin to make more of 

a substance called 

histamine, 

which has an 

inflammatory 

response 

within 

the body, 

causing all of the symptoms above. 

Traditional treatment is with antihistamine 

medicine – to block 

those natural histamines, and 

dampen down their effects – and 

yes, they can be very effective. 

But they do not treat the root cause, 

which is why some of us produce more 

histamines in response to allergens 

than others (and, indeed, why some 

of us can deal with cats, dustmites, 

feathers and pollen without a sniffle, 

while others are reduced to 

sobbing, wheezing wrecks). 

A couple of years ago I 

had the privilege of working 

The misery of the 

symptoms makes 

it difficult for us 

to go about our 

daily lives 

with leading integrative medical 

expert, Dr Andrew Weil, and I grilled 

him on this very subject (hoping, 

too, to find some natural relief for 

my daughter along the way). 

For the most common ragweed allergy 

(the most prevalent type of pollen that 

we Brits encounter through spring 

& summer), Dr Weil recommends 

stinging nettle (urtica dioica), in freezedried 

capsule form. Children under 

twelve can take one capsule a day, 

whereas adults (12 and over) can take 

one capsule every two to four hours. 

Dr Weil also recommended 

quercetin – a natural 

bioflavonoid, which 

is most effective 

when combined with 

bromelain (a proteindigesting 

enzyme, 

from pineapple). 

Studies have shown 

that quercetin may 

help stabilise the cells 

that produce histamine, and within a 

week of us giving our daughter a daily 

capsule, her symptoms significantly 

improved (Higher Nature make a good 

one, as do Neal’s Yard Remedies). 

The best thing, however, is to 

begin taking these natural remedies 

in winter, to build the body 

up before the allergy season 

kicks in at all (something 

to remember next time!). 

The best foods for natural 

anti-histamines include apples, 

yellow peppers, watercress, 

onions, peas, parsley, thyme, 

turmeric (which is an 

Eminé Rushton is Wellbeing Director-at-Large at Psychologies magazine, and 

co-founder of the conscious living blog, The Balance Plan, balanceplan.co.uk 

incredible anti-inflammatory across 

the board – at home we all swear by 

Wild Nutrition Turmaforte Turmeric, 

£32 wildnutrition.com), ginger, sweet 

potato, peppermint and pomegranate. 

Decreasing dairy intake (but ensuring 

that good sources of calcium still abound 

– so crucial for children), can really 

help too. I also favour a natural barrier 

balm (i.e. a natural version of Vaseline 

– you could try Hay Max Pure, but any 

natural waxy balm will do the trick), 

which we smear within the nostril and 

around the outer edges, to trap pollen 

and prevent it being inhaled and further 

irritating the mucous membranes. 

We also invested in a HEPA Air Filter 

(ours is made by Vax) which is very 

effective at filtering out airborne pollen 

during sleep, particularly in summer, 

when many of us sleep with windows 

wide open, and certainly when the 

neighbours are mowing their lawns. 

These natural changes have very 

much benefited our family, and I do so 

hope they offer you some relief too. 

Time for a tonic 

Health-boosting tipples abound in Tonics & 

Teas: Traditional and Modern Remedies that 

Make You Feel Amazing by Rachel de Thample 

(Kyle Books, £9.99). From a ginger 

and turmeric concoction to keep 

the doctor away, to kefir, kvass 

and nettle tonics, this is a joyful 

book, reminding us of nature’s 

medicinal power, and inviting 

us to delight in the drinking. 

(imagery via victoria.scales@ 

kylebooks.com). 

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Rositsa Jeliazkova, Davide Guglielmo

Natural wisdom 

Natasha Richardson is a medical herbalist and founder of 

Forage Botanicals. She lives in Kent and runs a successful 

four-week online course that has helped hundreds of women 

to balance their hormones and have less painful periods 

What one piece of seasonal wisdom 

helps you in June? 

The dry and warm weather of June is 

wonderfully energising but I often find 

the long days quite tiring. My favourite 

thing to do in June is take the time in 

the evening to make myself a cooling 

foot bath with herbs and essential oils. 

It helps to refresh and calm me, and 

stops me from running around like a 

work-obsessed madwoman. 

What one self-care ritual do you 

never skimp on? 

I never forget to wear clothes which 

make me feel good about myself. Every 

day I carefully consider my appearance 

and it really does lift my spirits. It 

might seem odd to think of the way we 

dress as a form of self-care, but it’s the 

one thing I never change, whatever the 

season. 

What’s happening in your kitchen this 

month? 

I am embracing the warmth with my 

favourite salad – fennel, lemon, avocado 

and rocket with olive oil and salt. It’s the 

simple things that please me. 

Share one book that taught you 

something amazing about life – and 

made you better at living it? 

I have just finished reading a book 

called Nonviolent Communication and 

it literally is changing my life. I have 

started to see how very subtle ways 

we usually communicate in society 

can make others feel blamed or 

judged and it is enabling me to feel 

even more compassion and empathy. 

Given the work that I do, this is 

something I need to cultivate – but it 

is important for all of us to be more 

empathetic. 

What is the best treatment you’ve 

had locally? 

I love getting deep tissue massage 

from Sarah Lacey at Apotheca in 

Faversham. Such a treasure! 

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Eminé says: 

Try this in June 

The older I get, the less I like to shop 

online and I have recently rediscovered the 

joys of buying my dried herbs, flowers and 

remedies by weight (far more economical) 

and in person (far more pleasurable), at 

my local Neal’s Yard Remedies store. There 

are several NYR stores with dispensaries, 

across Kent and Sussex, and I stock up on 

everything from rosebuds and chamomile 

flowers to ashwagandha (a stress-relieving 

herb) and dried nettles (great for allergy 

relief, see previous page). Wandering back 

home with my basket filled with dried 

goods always makes me smile, too. 

nealsyardremedies.com/storefinder. 

Time for Beauty Sleep 

Amly is the Old English name of the organic wildflower meadow 

in East Sussex, and it is here that Amly co-founder, Lisa O’Connor, 

found a natural silver-rich source of spring water, which runs 

beneath this beautiful organic land. 

Intrigued by the unusual healing properties and mineral 

profile of the water, she and her friend, holistic therapist Kerry 

Moore, set about blending it with organic flowers, native 

herbs and healing essential oils. 

The result is dreamy - and nowhere more so than 

in the new Amly Beauty Sleep Face Mist, £52, which 

combines valerian root, passion flower, rose quartz, 

ylang ylang and St John’s Wort, for a somniferous 

olfactive experience that soothes not just fractious 

skin, but the anxious mind too. Save for the bedside 

table and anoint yourself before sleep… 

Health and beauty tips 

Discover a wealth of wellbeing advice 

surrey-homes.co.uk/wellbeing

Tapas-tastic 

Chef 

and owner of celebrated 

restaurant Rocksalt, in 

Folkestone, Mark Sargeant 

shares recipes for Northern 

Spanish food from his 

exciting new venture 


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Food 

Long-established as a 

restaurant venue, The 

Wife of Bath in Wye, has been 

reimagined, renovated and 

revitalised by esteemed chef 

Mark Sargeant. 

Now it is a Spanish 

restaurant, tapas bar and sixroom 

boutique hotel. The 

food, which has been described 

as ‘superb’ by no less an 

authority than the Telegraph, 

is inspired by the cuisine of 

Cataluña, the Basque country, 

Cantabria and Galicia, made 

using the wonderful produce 

available from the local fields, 

coastline – and vines. 

We are very honoured to 

share some recipes from this 

chef, who has won multiple 

awards, and was awarded a 

Michelin star when running 

Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant at 

Claridges. 

So while these may be a little 

more complex than our usual 

suggestions, the results will be 

more than worth it. 

Monkfish, Saffron and Piquillo 

Pepper Rice, Aioli, Coriander 

Serves 4 

• 1 monkfish tail double skinned on 

the bone 400g-600g size 

• 75g finely chopped shallots 

• 2 cloves garlic finely chopped 

• ½ tsp smoked paprika 

• Half a red chilli, finely diced 

• 200g sliced tomatoes 

• 1 litre chicken stock 

• ½ tsp saffron 

• 400g Arborio rice 

• 200g sliced piquillo peppers 

• Coriander cress to garnish 

Aioli 

Small pinch of saffron strands 

3 crushed garlic cloves 

2 egg yolks 

1 tbsp Dijon mustard 

300ml olive oil 

Juice of 1 lemon 

Method: 

1Preheat the oven to 200°C. 

2Begin by portioning the monkfish 

into 4 pieces around 100-150g 

each - your fishmonger could always 

do this for you if you are unsure. 

Place onto a try and leave in the 

fridge until required. 

3Next make the aioli. In a small 

bowl pour 1 tbsp of boiling water 

over the saffron and set aside. Put the 

garlic, egg yolks and mustard into a 

food processor and blitz until a paste 

and then slowly add the olive oil to 

make a thick mayonnaise. When 

everything has come together add the 

saffron, saffron water and lemon juice. 

Season with salt and pepper to taste. 

4Now make the saffron rice. Heat 2 

teaspoons of olive oil in a pan, add 

shallots and fry gently for 10 minutes. 

Add the chilli, garlic and smoked 

paprika and cook for 2 more minutes, 

then stir in the tomatoes. Stir in the 

saffron, stock, 1 tsp of salt. Bring to 

the boil and then add the rice. Stir 

once. Then leave to simmer vigorously 

for 6 minutes. Meanwhile cut up the 

roasted red pepper, and sprinkle on 

top of the rice. Lower the heat and 

cook for another 10-12 minutes. 

5Begin cooking the monkfish when 

the rice is about 5 to 6 minutes 

from being ready. Heat a frying pan 

with a little oil. Season the monkfish 

and fry evenly on all sides till golden. 

Place into the oven and cook for 5 to 

6 minutes. 

To Finish: 

Take a bowl and spoon some of 

the rice in the middle. Place the 

monkfish. Pipe dots of the aioli 

around the fish and garnish with the 

coriander. 

 


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Gin & Lime Cheesecake 

Serves 12 

Equipment needed 

• 12 x 75mm circular metal 

rings 

• Blowtorch 

• For one cheesecake, use a 

20cm springform cake tin 

Cheesecake 

• 90g caster sugar 

• 750g cream cheese 

• 1 litre double cream 

• 1 vanilla pod scraped 

• 3 limes, zested 

• 100g melted butter 

• 250g crushed Hobnob 

biscuits 

• 25ml Gin Mare gin (or gin 

of your choice) 

Lime Curd 

• 400ml lime juice 

• 250g caster sugar 

• 8 whole eggs 

• 175g butter 

• 25ml Gin Mare gtin (or 

gin of your choice) 

Candied Walnuts 

• 100g walnuts 

• 50g sugar 

• Splash of water 

• A few sprigs of chopped 

rosemary 

To Finish 

• Basil cress 

• Chopped mint 

• Chopped rosemary 

• Lime zest 

1Add the melted butter 

to the crushed Hobnob 

biscuits and mix well. Put 

between two pieces of 

parchment paper and roll 

flat. In a mixing bowl, beat 

the sugar, cream cheese and 

vanilla seed until soft. In 

a second bowl semi whip 

the cream, then add the 

cream, Gin Mare gin and 

lime zest to the cheese mix 

and whip using the mixer 

until thick then place into 

piping bags ready to build the 

cheesecakes. 

To Build the Cheesecakes: 

Press the 12 moulds into 

2 the biscuit base. Then, 

evenly pipe the cheesecake 

mixture on top. Once they 

are filled, take a spatula and 

dip it briefly in warm water 

then scrape across the top of 

the cheesecake to get a nice 

smooth finish. 

Lime Curd 

Bring the lime juice to the 

3 boil, meanwhile mixing 

the sugar into the eggs in a 

mixing bowl. Combine the 

two and return to a medium 

heat, continuously whisking 

until the liquid begins to 

simmer. Remove from the 

heat and whisk in the butter 

and gin slowly, pass through a 

sieve and spread out on a flat 

tray. Cover the top with cling 

film and cool in the chiller. 

When cold, store in a piping 

bag. 

Candied Walnuts 

Place the walnuts on a 

4 baking tray and put into 

the oven for 3-4 minutes at 

200°C. Meanwhile put the 

sugar and water into a pan 

and boil until it starts to go 

golden. Remove from the 

heat. Chop up the walnuts 

and add to the caramel. Stir 

to coat all the nuts and finish 

with the chopped rosemary. 

To Finish 

Using a blowtorch 

5 carefully heat up the 

side of the cheesecake to 

remove the metal rings. Next, 

pipe some of the lime curd 

in the centre of the plate 

and put the cheesecake on 

top. Arrange the walnuts 

going down one side of the 

cheesecake. Sprinkle a little 

of the chopped mint and 

rosemary on top and garnish 

with the basil cress. Finish 

with lime zest. 

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Garden 

Let the right ones in 

Not all garden bugs are baddies – Jo Arnell advises how to 

keep the pests at bay, while nurturing the good guys 

Credit: Hedgehog Photo by Piotr Łaskawski on Unsplash 

Early summer is the time for maximum growth in 

the garden. The new stems and leaves on our plants, 

plumped out by rain, fertilisers and human kindness 

are luscious - and irresistibly delicious to some of our garden 

visitors. Pesky sap suckers seem to have expensive tastes and 

well bred, cultivated plants are just so much tastier than 

tough old weeds. It can seem like the garden is under siege, 

especially when we come out in the morning (evil deeds 

mainly happen at night) and discover the carnage. It is very 

tempting to reach for a bug spray and nuke the lot of them. 

But, before we do that, it is worth remembering that 

most pesticide sprays are non-specific and will kill a wide 

variety of insects; the good, bad, the bug-ugly - and the 

butterflies. Luckily we are becoming more aware of the effects 

of chemical sprays and the days of DDT (the poisonous 

compound that accumulates in the fatty tissues of animals 

- including humans) but it has taken a long time. Rachel 

Carson’s classic book on the subject, Silent Spring, was first 

published way back in 1962. 

Alternative routes to sprays require a more benign approach 

to pest control through healthy practices. The aim is to 

maintain a more natural balance and prevent the build up of 

pests in the first place, but the problem is that – oddly - our 

gardens are not always the most natural of environments 

in the first place. Plants we consider ‘standard’ are mostly 

pampered non-natives and the edible crops are grown in neat, 

easy to feed on rows. It can be done though. We just need 

a range of strategies and, as in many hostile situations, an 

insight into the lifestyle choices and habits of our enemies. 

A healthy balance 

A natural ecosystem is a carefully balanced web of life; each 

organism within it has a role that has evolved over millions 

of years. In the garden it is us who organise the ecosystem, by 

going to the garden centre and popping in a random selection 

of things that take our fancy - plants that fill a gap in our 

borders rather than a specific ecological niche. Growing the 

right plant in the right place will help. Plonking a delicate 

woodlander into a scorching sunny border, or miring a 

Mediterranean meadow plant in heavy clay means that they 

use up all their resources just trying to survive. Unhappy 

plants, much like unhappy humans, are more prone to pests 

and disease. 

Overfeeding 

Spring is the best time to give your plants food – but only if 

they need it. Too much nitrogen will lead to excessively lush 

leaf growth. Soft, sappy leaves are easier to bite into. Don’t 

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Garden 

feed plants much past the summer or you will encourage late 

growth that will be prone to winter frost damage, leaving 

them open to pest attack. Warmer winters enable more pests 

to survive in situations where they might once have perished, 

and new ones are regularly creeping in on foreign grown 

plants, from where they can spread very rapidly. 

Catch them early 

Get out in the garden early in the season and keep an eye 

out for the first of the pests to arrive and you may be able 

to catch an infestation before it starts. Think of it as the 

gardener’s equivalent of a ‘stitch in time’: a bug squished 

in the hand is better than thousands on your plants. And 

catching them early in their life cycle, before they hatch and 

fly off to reproduce, will help too. 

Encourage beneficial predators 

Set up bee/ladybird/lacewing homes and hedgehog houses. 

Bees are essential pollinators and the others are all voracious 

eaters of aphids, whiteflies, mealybugs and many other 

insect pests. Make log piles for beneficial bugs and beetles 

to overwinter in. Plant a nectar border to encourage bees, 

hoverflies and other pollinating insects and grow plants for 

their seed heads to attract the birds. All birds feed insect to 

their young in spring and although birds will also eat your 

seeds, their bug catching role in spring is very useful. Even 

wasps do a good job, hunting down caterpillars and grubs and 

clearing up debris and rotting fruit. 

Netting crops 

Putting this in place at vulnerable stages will deter many bugs, 

depending on the gauge of net. Fine netting will prevent flea 

beetle and small flies (whitefly and carrot fly), the next size up 

will protect crops from Cabbage White butterflies and bird 

netting will deter pesky pigeons - make sure it’s pegged down 

well so that wildlife can’t get tangled in it. 

Companion planting 

This is an attractive way to deter pests and works by 

Below: Nasturtiums in their caterpillar-free glory 

Above: Caterpillars making short work of a nasturtium leaf 

confusing the insect (they’re easily confused) by disguising the 

smell of the crop. The most well known of these is planting 

carrots among onions, which helps to deter carrot fly. French 

marigolds attract hoverflies, and deter aphids and whitefly. 

Large pests 

Rabbits and deer can be a big problem, as they will decimate 

plants within a short space of time. Fencing is the best 

option. It needs to be dug into the ground at an angle to 

prevent burrowing, and if deer are the problem, high enough 

to stop a deer jumping over. There are lists of ‘rabbit proof’ 

plants available (look online), but the rabbits haven’t always 

read these lists. In general it’s the tasty new growth and young 

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Slugs and snails 

In wet years the ‘most hated pest’ award invariably goes to 

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endless gruesome solutions for controlling slugs and snails, 

but understanding a little about when they’re likely to be at 

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They first appear at the beginning of the season when all 

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cool of the early morning and at dusk and on rainy days. 

They don’t like travelling over gritty, spiky, oily or dry 

surfaces and copper will give them an electric shock, so there 

are lots of barrier methods, and they are drawn to the smell of 

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Vine weevil 

This is a serious pest in containers and evergreen shrubs are 

especially prone. The adults make notches in leaves, but the 

larvae do the most damage by eating the roots. You may not 

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containers on purchase. A biological control is available, but 

only use in the warmer months, as it is temperature sensitive. 

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Fronting up 

Take pride in your front garden, says Sue 

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will thank you (gnomes optional...) 

A 

few weeks ago I was early for an appointment in 

Canterbury. It was raining hard. To fill in half an 

hour and to walk the dog at the same time, I parked a 

couple of streets away from my destination and wandered up 

and down for a while peering at front gardens. 

Here were the sturdy Victorian villas interspersed with a 

few later houses but the sad thing was that I couldn’t find one 

garden that lifted the spirits even one little bit and the sight 

of all these wasted spaces was soul destroying. And to cap it 

all, the only people I saw on that gloomy morning were three 

young men wearing protective suits complete with netting 

over their faces, sawing away at what remained of a tree in 

their front garden. 

Front gardens are surely so important, to lift the spirits on 

your return home generally, to provide a sanctuary for wildlife 

close to home – and to cheer up the passer-by. 

A week or two later I was in Putney where the contrast was 

palpable. There the gardens varied down this particular street. 

Here a garden full of gnomes and little people and there ones 

which combined off street parking with lovely, mature plants 

and trees. I liked one double-fronted house and its garden so 

much that I felt moved to knock on the door to see if I could 

take a picture of the planting. How to make new friends… 

Top: A characterful front garden seen on a trip to Putney 

Above: Helleborus argutifolius 


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Underneath a mature magnolia, just coming into bud, was 

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which can take both full sun and partial shade. In this planting 

scheme this wonderful plant will look good all year with its large, 

veined, prickle toothed, evergreen leaves complementing the 

apple green flowers. 

To the right of these were five diagonally planted box hedges 

with gently curved ends. The whole was edged with large 

specimens of the sacred bamboo, Nandina domestica, again an 

evergreen, and with very showy clumps of red berries at this 

time of year. Finally, at nose-level appeared another evergreen 

shrub tangling through one of the nandinas, a coronilla with its 

intensely fragrant pea like flowers. 

I must admit that London’s micro climate means that plants 

like the coronilla are much happier than they would be growing 

elsewhere, especially after the winter we have just had, but it’s a 

thought, should you be wondering what plants to use which will 

give all round impact and are easily managed. 

And then there are Bonnington Gardens, SW8 to visit for 

inspiration and to see what can be done in an urban space, by 

residents working together to bring a sense of harmony to a 

neighbourhood and ‘inviting in nature’. 

The houses were originally built in the 1880s to house railway 

workers but after considerable bomb damage during the Second 

World War, the area was derelict and left abandoned apart from 

a walnut tree struggling on alone. By the 1980s all the houses 

around the square had become a giant squat, albeit the squatters 

were an eclectic and bohemian mix from the worlds of art, 

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In the 1990s, when a local builder applied to use the site as 

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The residents were informed that the council were considering 

redevelopment and rapidly formed an association to do 

something positive to improve their surroundings. 

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Above: large specimens of the sacred bamboo, Nandina 

domestica, with its showy clumps of red berries, in the same 

Putney garden 

on the old bases of the seven bombed-out houses, the Paradise 

Project began the following year with the greening of the local 

streets and their front gardens to create an all-encompassing 

lush, green space. Another smaller grant paid for trees such as 

catalpa, arbutus and Judas trees, vines and all manner of plants. 

Vertical space has been utilised with climbers growing up 

the houses and even old telegraph poles provide support for 

plants such as Morning Glory, the whole becoming a subtropical 

paradise. And right from the beginning of the project, 

local residents began to use the gardens as an extension of their 

homes and people who had never gardened before got involved. 

So, I think the aim for our front gardens is to create a green 

and inviting space, maybe using Bonnington as a shining 

example, to plant hedges to reduce the amount of dust and 

pollution around our streets, to balance hard landscaping and 

plants and accommodating cars, if needs be, with a judicious 

planting of ground cover plants that wouldn’t mind occasionally 

being run over, combined with a couple of paved tracks. 

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Fill up the corners of the site with shrubs to provide cover for 

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Have a couple of striking containers outside your front door 

and fill them up in the summer with fragrance. There are so 

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The end of term is coming 

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of running or walking fast, made primary-age children feel more 

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words and sentences and more able to exercise self-control. 

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Sat 9 June 7.30pm 

Haslemere Educational 

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Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, 

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John Finnemore 

John Finnemore, writer and star 

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Sat 16 Jun 

King Georges Playing Field, 

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Silent Summer 

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Jun 11am and 3pm 

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Sun 17 Jun 11am-3pm 

Claremont Landscape Garden, 

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Father’s Day Classic 

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The Surrey Classic Vehicle Club 

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Father’s Day Kite Day 

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Show Dad your appreciation 

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Fri 8 - Sun 10 Jun 

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Vann Fest 

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Sat 16 - Sun 17 Jun 10am-5pm 

Brooklands Museum, 

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The Brooklands 

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Strawberry Fair 

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Home & Renovating 

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Jewellery, Watches & Coins: 20 June 

Silver, Antiques & Fine Art: 21 June 

Antique Furniture & Clocks: 22 June 

Viewing Saturday 16 June: 10am-2pm, 

Monday 18 June: 9am-5pm; Tuesday 19 

June: 9am-7pm & Mornings of sale 

Above: Early 20th century Cartier ladies fob watch, the 

white unsigned enamel dial with Arabic numerals 

surmounted by minute chapter ring. 

Estimate: £2,500-3,500 


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Garden 

What’s On in June 

Sat 23 Jun 

RHS Garden Wisley, Wisley, 

Wisley Lane, Woking 

GU23 6QB 

Rose Evening 

The splendid Rose garden will be 

filled with live music, canapés and 

cocktails, plus a talk and tour by 

the team behind the collection 

and a special welcome from the 

Curator. 

Entry: £60 

Info: rhs.org.uk 

Fri 1 Jun - Sun 16 Sep 

Mayfield Lavender, 1 

Carshalton Road, Banstead 

SM7 3JA 

Mayfield Lavender 

A sea of fragrant organic lavender 

grown in what was one of the 

original Victorian Lavender fields, 

awaits for visitors to explore at 

Mayfield Lavender. While you 

are there you can try some very 

unique lavender cider, take a tour 

in a tractor, eat at the al fresco café 

and buy a lavender plant to bring 

home to your own garden. 

Info: mayfieldlavender.com 

Wellbeing & Leisure 

Sat 9 Jun 

Frimley Lodge Park, Sturt Road, 

Frimley Green, Mytchett 

GU16 6HY 

Messathon 

Every child is worth running for at 

the NSPCC’s messathon. Splatter 

through mud, swoosh along the 

water slide and scramble over hay 

bales in teams of up to six. It’s 

messy, it’s muddy and it’s great fun 

in aid of a great charity. 

Entry: Adults £15.50, 

Children £9.50 

Info: nspcc.org.uk 

Sat 16 Jun 

Farnham Maltings, Bridge 

Square, Farnham GU9 7QR 

Japanese Calligraphy 

A rare chance to learn ‘shodo’, one 

of the core traditional Japanese 

crafts and a valuable meditative 

tool to calm the mind. The 

workshop teaches how to write 

Japanese characters and build 

them up to create a finished piece. 

All materials and Japanese tea 

included. 

Entry: £45 

Info: farnhammaltings.com 

Third Tuesday of each month 

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 

Richmond TW9 3AE 

Health walks for 

people living with 

dementia 

People with dementia and their 

carers can spend an hour walking 

around the glorious Kew Gardens, 

guided by Kew’s volunteer walk 

leaders, absolutely free for one day 

every month. Register in advance 

to avoid disappointment. 

Entry: Free 

Info: kew.org 

Sat 23 Jun 

Various locations nationwide 

The Great Dog Walk 

Together 

The Great Dog Walk is 

promoting wellbeing this month 

by encouraging us all to get 

outside as a community with or 

without a dog. This is happening 

across the country but a special 

highlight in Surrey is a walk on 

the beautiful Denbies Hillside 

near Dorking. 

Entry: Free 

Info: greatdogwalktogether.com 

Listings are correct at time of going to 

press but may be subject to change. 

Readers are advised to check with 

venues before making arrangements. 

We can list your event in the next 

issue of Surrey Homes for only 

£15+VAT! Please supply up to 50 

words that should include date, time, 

venue, and any entry price to 

whatson@wealdentimes.co.uk or send 

with payment (cheques payable to JPS 

Media) to What’s On, Surrey Homes, 

Kettle Chambers, 21 Stone Street, 

Cranbrook, Kent TN17 3HF. Surrey 

Homes reserves the right to edit text 

to fit space allocated. If you would like 

your event listing to be accompanied 

by a full colour reproduction (42.5 x 

62.5mm) of a poster or other pictorial 

image, the total charge will be 

£95+VAT. Deadline for the July issue 

is 11 June 2018. 

Festival 

Family fun for the 

summer holidays 

at Godstone Farm 

on 

the 

farm 

24th July to 3rd September 2018 

godstonefarm.co.uk 01883 742546 

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Jane Howard’s 

Fables from 

the Farm 

It’s show time and Jane is getting the 

cattle beauty pageant perfect 

The swallows are filling the skies, the bees are buzzing 

in the wild flower meadows and the veg patch has 

gone feral. Hmmm, summer must have arrived and 

with it another season of showing our pedigree Sussex cattle. 

The preparation really starts around Easter when it’s 

time to select the team. Summer shows are for exhibiting 

breeding animals, males and females with classes for different 

age groups. First into the ring come the females, starting 

with cows and their calves, followed by the two-year-old 

heifers (young cows ready to go to the bull to produce 

their first calves in 2019), then the baby yearlings. And 

after that flourish of girl power then come the boys. 

It’s a tortuous path even getting a male calf to the point 

where it’s a registered pedigree Sussex bull, let alone ready 

for the show circuit. First they have to be weighed and at 

300 days reach a pre-set weight. Then the Sussex Cattle 

Society sends out two Bull Inspectors to check they are good 

specimens and meet the breed standards and finally they have 

to pass a vet inspection for eyes, jaws, 

heart, lungs, perambulation and testicles. 

If any of these are suspect then 

they won’t get registered and will 

be destined for a far less illustrious 

and long-term future. 

So how do we pick the Coopers team? 

These are beef cattle and ultimately will 

be judged on having plenty of muscle 

(meat) in the right places. To conform 

to breed standards, we are looking for a long body, with a 

topline parallel to the bottom line. For beginners it’s probably 

just easier to imagine a box of After Eights on four legs. 

Once we’ve chosen the candidates with the best shape 

Some cattle are a little 

more challenging and 

set off like a rodeo 

bull with me on the 

end of the rope 

then we need to set about feeding them with a carefully 

chosen diet to put the flesh on the frame. So for the past 

three months the young bulls – Ron and Tom – have 

been enjoying a bumper menu of about 10kg of grub 

a day, plus hay, while the girls, 

with a far greater propensity to get 

fatter rather than bigger, get far less 

exciting rations. Twas ever thus! 

We also have to get them halter 

trained which is where the fun and 

games really starts. It always helps 

to have some seasoned hands in the 

team, cattle that have been shown 

in previous years and have not just 

got the T-shirt but hopefully also a rosette or two. 

These old-timers are used to being tied up, but for the 

yearlings this is a completely strange experience and for a 

day or so they get in a right strop before they realise it’s 

not that scary and then they just accept it and job done. 

Some seem very happy to oblige and will happily follow 

one of the experienced ones round the farm without a 

care in the world. Others are a little more challenging 

and set off like a rodeo bull with me on the end of the 

rope. But the worst ones just decide they don’t want to 

participate and stand stock still refusing to budge in spite 

of my ever more frantic pushing, prodding and pulling. 

In the end we usually manage to move the immovable 

and then all that remains is some serious shampooing 

to bring out the glorious nut-brown sheen for which 

Sussex cattle are justly famous. Show time! 

Follow Jane Howard – and the farm – on Instagram @coopersfarm 


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