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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
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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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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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FABLES FROM THE FARM
Jane Howard’s latest reports
freshly harvested from the farm
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PARK LIFE
Explore a timelessly elegant
Hampton home
GET THE LOOK
Products to imitate our
second home interior
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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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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
ideal contemporary country home.
Where: In the pretty hamlet of
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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including an extra wide gallery-style
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
01483 417222 hamptons.co.uk
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Windsor Court
£19,950,000
The dream: Ultimate Doer Upper
A classic Edwardian country house in
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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
ultimate Granny Flat.
Pleasing details: I am imagining a
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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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Augustus Pugin? The master bedroom in
this one is so big it has a second, two-sofa
sitting room within it.
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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Our very own editor Maggie Alderson
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perfume blogger whose life is thrown
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On Wednesday 20 June, Ewbank’s in
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She has a shop called In House Junkie –
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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
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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
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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
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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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because you buy one and you are stuck with it for years.”
The ocean liner effect comes with Deborah Bowness
‘swag’ wallpaper, a deep copper bath from West One
Bathrooms (bought as an ex-display bargain), a curvy
dressing table (bought from The Conran Shop several
years ago) and marble and glass side tables.
“Marble and brass just go together,” says Samantha.
“Both are luxurious, elegant and a bit girly.”
There are some fun saucy touches too such as a framed
copy of Playboy with Kate Moss on the cover and a
corset-shaped lightshade by Sera of London perched
atop a 1970s standard lamp base made with real ostrich
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
the road from her shop, but has now relocated.
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.”
And if there’s ever a queue forming, there’s a
fabulous family bathroom with a huge square basin
from West One Bathrooms. Over it is a French metal
medicine cabinet on top of which sit a fun 1980s
former shop display nail varnish and lipstick.
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Above: Daughter Madeline’s bedroom. A metal music light with yellow and pink bulbs hangs above the bed
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grandparents. I love it because it reminds me of
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Where there’s a will...
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
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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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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
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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
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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
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setting, hinting at the life going on outside.
The first impression of the interior of the house starts in
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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
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In the family breakfast room, light and comfortable
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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
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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
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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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imagine arriving at the front door and seeing straight through
to the dancing room, filled with sparkling lights and music.
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is an impressive carriage lamp above the black and
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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
white in a recurring theme of contrasting light and dark
white tiled floor of the hall floor. The black and white
design is echoed through the bold colour scheme of
the ground floor, in shades of dark blue and white.
It feels almost nautical. The drawing room has
striped navy and white blinds, two circular mirrors
on either side of a central barred mirror, repeated
above the fireplace at the other end of the room and
reflecting the Georgian bars of the actual windows.
The dark blue L-shaped sofa unit matches the lower
part of the walls exactly, adding to the controlled
simplicity. The scheme is set off – flag style - by splashes
of red from an armchair and accessories and is subtly lit
by a combination of recessed spotlights and mid-century
Anglepoise lamps. The fittings and furnishings combine
well in here, bringing a fun contemporary twentiethcentury
twist to an elegant Georgian drawing room.
The painted walls darken to a striking, but intimate
midnight blue in this room, set off by the Philippe Starck
Ghost chairs and circular stained oak table. Original
floorboards are painted white in the dining room, setting off
a rustic stained oak circular table, its friendly shape set off by
the square room, making a welcoming entertaining space.
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Above: The first floor is largely taken up by the master suite. Each room has its own big and beautiful fireplace, often decorated with
vintage mirrors, suitably cracked and worn in patches. The Isaac daybed is from sofa.com
Again the wall lights, apart from the chandelier,
are designed to give the right evening light effects,
while a huge antique station clock is enjoying a
glorious retirement, sitting as the focal point on the
mantelpiece, more art-piece than time-piece.
Adjacent to the dining room is a very handy little
side room, complete with a door to the back garden, a
cloakroom and a dumb waiter (so that food could be
hauled up from the kitchen in its own mini lift). There’s
a large, wall mounted heated plate rack to keep things
warm, cupboards for extra crockery and glasses, a sink…
in fact this room is almost a second kitchen, designed to
make the serving of food smooth running and invisible.
This feels very much like a contemporary update on some
of the clever ideas the swan-like Georgians had, making
life look serene and calm on the surface, so that the busy
workings of the house, the day-to-day activities, could
be hidden away (like swans’ frantically paddling feet).
Georgian houses are notoriously, but healthily, draughty.
There are large and beautiful fireplaces in each room, but
radiator warmth is a must - and throughout the house there
are large radiators, all carefully blended into the background
and wall panelling, so that they are virtually unnoticeable.
The first floor is almost entirely taken up by the master
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Previous page: A small seating area in the first floor
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Above and below: The top floor’s main bedroom is fun and
colourful with a portrait of the Queen, a yellow sofa and huge
red Anglepoise lamp Left: The adjoining bathroom continues a
light and fun attitude with a green bathtub
Queen, a yellow sofa and huge red Anglepoise lamp.
These rooms may lack the grandeur of the middle floors,
but this is more than made up for, as they are bathed in
light and have stunning views out across the parklands.
Outside are two walled gardens, front and back.
In the front mature shrubs and fruit trees line the
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garden containing a summerhouse and formal pool.
The back garden faces west and has a Yorkstone terrace
and dining area overhung by a glorious old quince tree. It is
a mature and very well-kept garden, but it has the advantage
of borrowing the landscape of the park beyond, so that the
overall effect is large, leafy and in proportion to the house.
Georgian architecture might be all about restraint,
taste and adherence to strong classical lines, but it is also
about providing a welcome, living generously and
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Kitchen trends: furniture
Contents
4 The new kitchen mood
The inspiring shift in
kitchen thinking
7 Kitchen trends:
Contemporary country
8 Kitchen trends:
Glamour
11 Kitchen trends:
Furniture
12 Kitchen trends:
Timber
15 Kitchen trends:
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
Kitchen & Bathroom supplement – as I am in the
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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power
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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
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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
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Stoneham
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kitchen trends
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
JM Interiors
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
there is an Aga, Wolf oven and
induction hob. Prices for bespoke
kitchens start from £25,000
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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
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Jones Britain
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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
(Tabacco in the photo) and the Bolero range (Tangerine). The laminate
worktops are in Tabacco and Nano Black. Kitchens from £10,000.
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kitchen trends
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
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integrity – and looks very
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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.
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Timber
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Adaptations
The island is bespoke in American reclaimed oak with
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What’s black
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of feature timber mixed in.
It’s a sleek contemporary
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Anatomy of a kitchen
Neptune
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The vision
The Suffolk kitchen has been updated, with this most classic
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contemporary uplift, that’s a blank canvas to build on with
accessories and furnishings.
The range
New cabinets have been added, including countertop
cupboards which create the sense of a larder. The full-height
dresser-style cabinet has bifold doors, so they don’t protrude
into the room space too much when opened. In-drawer and
cabinet accessories allow customers to customise their storage,
with spice racks, cutlery separators and wet stores, and hidden
inner drawers, creating an extra level to store things like baking
parchment.
The Charlecote island comes in a choice of options to be
geared more towards entertaining, dining, or food preparation
(or a bit of all three), combining drawers with spaces to tuck in
bar stools, and in a range of sizes to suit different spaces.
The cabinetry is made from tulipwood, plywood and oak,
with magnetic chrome catches and chrome drawer pulls.
Kitchens from £38,000.
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You see a dresser. We see a kitchen.
That’s because we design our kitchen cabinets as pieces of furniture. The same materials,
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Experience
the
softness
Investing in a kitchen and bathroom
is a big decision – there is nothing
nicer than shiny taps and shower
screens of a newly fitted kitchen
and bathroom. With the majority of
people living in Surrey suffering the
effects of hard water, before long,
that pesky limescale will start to
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The effects of hard water
The water that runs through your
home is vital to the maintenance of
it; impacting everything from your
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Rainwater is ‘soft’ but when it flows
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make the water hard. When hard
water runs through your pipes it
will result in a build-up of limescale
- staining your bath and taps,
making your hair dull and flat, as
well as eating away at your monthly
budget. Your pipes and appliances
build up cm’s worth of scale over
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scale around your boiler’s heating
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scaled up it can’t work as efficiently.
Benefits of softened water
With a Harvey Water Softener, you
can enjoy the 7 wonders of Harvey
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will disappear from your surfaces too.
“A water softener
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Simon, from Surrey
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The 7 Wonders
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SHINIER HOME
No more limescale residue on
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No more limescale means more
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Softened water keeps your
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Keeps your hair shiny
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Softened water leaves your skin
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Soaps and shampoos lather
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Creating more lather means you
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You can spend less time cleaning
and more time with your feet up this
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how softened water lathers better
with products, so you are left with
softer skin and hair. The installation
of a water softener will bring these
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Potts Ltd Oasis vanity guide price £6,200, tiles
£1,500 per square metre 01732 848444 potts.ltd.uk
Neptune Large Edinburgh washstand £2,385
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The bathroom
The days of a tiled space as sterile as an operating theatre are over, now your bathroom is part of
your living space with furniture and accessories to make it a welcoming space to hang out in
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Catchpole and Rye La Parisienne
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O
f course a
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and able to withstand
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where we both start and
end the day to be as cosy
and inviting as the rest of
the house? Furnishings –
curtains rathe-han blinds,
wallpaper rather than tiles,
rugs as well as bathmats,
a chair or sofa if you have
room – add to that feeling,
but even better is to choose
fixtures which are more
furniture than sanitary
ware and have the added
bonus of integral storage.
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Range of Tiles, Bathrooms and Showers
from Laura Ashley, Heritage Bathrooms and Burlington Bathrooms. Suppliers
of Contemporary Ranges including Laufen, Roca, Vitra and Roper Rhodes.
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Telephone 01483 272727
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West One
Arteform Itap £265
Fontane Bianche ceiling-mounted
washbasin mixer in gunmetal
£1716 0333 011 3333
westonebathrooms.com
Vola HV1 tap
£512.40
Aston Matthews
Ambra wall tap with plate
£297 01483 478826
astonmatthews.co.uk
Nero two hole wall-mounted basin
mixer in satin black £358.36
Tap into the trend
Classic chrome taps are timeless – but isn’t it time to give some other options a thought?
Brass is the metal of the moment, but black and coloured taps are looking very appealing.
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A rub a dub tub
There’s nothing better than a good soak, so why not make the bath the central
feature of your bathroom – then lie back and relax. Rubber duck optional
Cranleigh Bathroom Studios
Alderley leather effect freestanding acrylic
bath £2495 01483 272727
cranleigh-bathroomstudios.co.uk
Potts Ltd Victoria & Albert Worcester
copper bath £4,400 01732 848444
potts.ltd.uk
West One Victoria + Albert freestanding bath
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Catchpole and Rye Niederbronn bath tub from
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Aston Matthews Grid-45 shower panel from
£1233, Nero shower fittings from £228
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Towns bathrooms Matki curved offset enclosure
£2107.20 01732 350911 townsmerchant.co.uk
Shower power
Think outside the box – that square glass one with metal edges – when choosing a shower
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not all shutters
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Selecting your new shutters?
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and warp in humid environments, shutters are the
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Summer is here and it’s time to rethink your
perfume with the season says Josephine Fairley
Verveine eau
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£18 for 50ml
Fragonard
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Beauty
There are still women who have a ‘signature’ scent, worn
all-year-round, for everything from a summer wedding
to the Christmas party. The modern trend, though, is
to build a ‘wardrobe’ of fragrances, because as Aerin Lauder
(granddaughter of the redoubtable Estée) observes, ‘You wouldn’t
wear the same shoes with a tennis dress and an evening dress…’
Well, I certainly wouldn’t. Indeed, there are fragrances in my
wardrobe that for me, are the equivalent of black opaque tights
and are put away each year at around the same time as my Wolford
Velvet Deluxes, waiting for the weather to turn in the autumn.
I love those scents precisely because they’re wonderfully
snuggleable and cocooning, but I find them almost oppressive right
now. So for me, this is the perfect time to switch to something
lighter, airier, fresher and fortunately (as you can read below),
there are lots of exciting new launches that fall into that category.
Before that, though, there are a few things
about wearing fragrance in the warmer months
that I think it’s worth remembering.
Champ de Baies
and Champ des Fleurs
eau de Cologne
£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
Jo Fairley is Co-Founder of The Perfume Society
(perfumesociety.org), which offers Discovery Boxes and
an online V.I.P. Club membership with six downloadable
issues a year of the award-winning magazine The
Scented Letter, discounts on Discovery Boxes, exclusive
online competitions and special discounts from leading
perfume websites.
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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.
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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
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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
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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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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
plants that they’re attracted to.
Slugs and snails
In wet years the ‘most hated pest’ award invariably goes to
these slimy creepers, but there are other contenders that
come and go, depending on how cold the winter is. There are
endless gruesome solutions for controlling slugs and snails,
but understanding a little about when they’re likely to be at
their most active will help.
They first appear at the beginning of the season when all
the fresh, succulent new growth emerges and the conditions
are damp. As the weather warms up you’ll find them in the
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
fermenting fruit which is why the ‘slug pubs’ work so well.
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
know they’re there - until the plant suddenly dies. Check
containers on purchase. A biological control is available, but
only use in the warmer months, as it is temperature sensitive.
Aphids
Greenfly and blackfly are sap suckers (too kind a name for
them) that start building up in numbers when the weather
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Above: Caterpillar eggs
warms up in late spring. They can quickly cause large
infestations because they’re born pregnant, so don’t even
have to pause to find a mate. They just keep eating and
popping out babies as they go… A jet of water will wash
them off, or if you’re not squeamish (and gardeners soon
learn not to be), just rub them off with your fingers.
Aphids also make tasty snacks for baby blue tits.
Lily beetles
Look out for these smart little beetles, with their orange
backs and black undersides. The larvae have a nasty
habit of hiding in their own excreta, the grown-ups have
developed an annoying survival technique: dropping to
the ground upside-down, their black undersides hard to
spot in the soil. Outwit them by holding one hand under
the leaf they’re on and then, if you don’t catch them,
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Garden
Fronting up
Take pride in your front garden, says Sue
Whigham, and the whole neighbourhood
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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I liked one double-fronted house
and its garden so much I felt
moved to knock on the door
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Underneath a mature magnolia, just coming into bud, was
a great mass of the Corsican hellebore, Helleborus argutifolius,
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,
music, architecture and horticulture.
In the 1990s, when a local builder applied to use the site as
a storage area, the council was alerted to the fact that they had
‘idle’ land on their hands and should do something about it.
The residents were informed that the council were considering
redevelopment and rapidly formed an association to do
something positive to improve their surroundings.
They struck lucky with one of the local councillors who
supported their ideas and £20,000 was allocated to building a
garden on the site. At
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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.
You could have gravel over a permeable sheet of something
like Mypex to prevent weeds coming through and cut holes into
the sheet where you want to plant. Try some of the creeping
thymes, or easy, low growing perennials like Ajuga reptans.
Fill up the corners of the site with shrubs to provide cover for
nesting birds and insects. Plant up walls and fences.
In a shadier site use some of the pyracanthas; their berries
will bring in birds and try some of the honeysuckles for both
their fragrant flowers and juicy red berries. If you have room
for a small tree, choose one of the varieties with an upright
or fastigiate habit. Pyrus calleryana ‘Chanticleer’ is nice,
particularly with its striking autumn colour, or one of the crab
apples like Malus ‘Hornet’ or perhaps a fastigiate yew.
Have a couple of striking containers outside your front door
and fill them up in the summer with fragrance. There are so
many annuals like nicotiana which sown this spring will give
you a long flowering season and plenty of welcoming scent as
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Education
Jump to it
Exercise is as essential for children’s brains as
it is for their bodies says Hilary Wilce
The end of term is coming
over the horizon, which
means that in the school
calendar it’s the season for sports
days, swimming galas, and
outdoor trips and challenges.
So maybe it’s also the time
when we parents should
turn our minds to the whole
question of children, exercise,
health and learning.
Of course we all know
that children today don’t get nearly as much exercise as children
in the past. Some of the consequences of this inactivity, such
as obesity and diabetes, are serious and life-limiting. But how
many of us know that a lack of exercise also has a direct effect
on children’s mood, personal effectiveness, and ability to learn?
One of the most recent studies to highlight this, from the
Universities of Edinburgh and Stirling, found that just 15 minutes
of running or walking fast, made primary-age children feel more
awake and happy. It also made them better able to remember
words and sentences and more able to exercise self-control.
The researchers concluded that exercise didn’t need to be
ferocious to make a difference. Running faster and faster against set
times did no more for children than getting them moving at their
own best pace. But the exercise did need to be frequent and regular.
The researchers concluded that short bursts of activity,
breaking up classroom learning, were the best way forward.
In line with this, a particularly good school exercise initiative
has also come from Scotland. Award-winning primary school
head Elaine Wyllie, was so appalled to find her 10-yearolds
could not run once round the school field without
getting breathless, that she consulted with her pupils and
together they came up with the idea of the Daily Mile.
Quite soon the whole school was out running round the field
for fifteen minutes a day, getting rapidly fitter and loving it. It
wasn’t competitive, there was no expense involved, no PE kit to be
changed into, and pupils could do it exactly as they liked, either
with friends or alone, either skipping, jogging, running or walking.
Every pupil owned their own “fifteen golden
minutes…of fun, friends, fresh air and freedom,” as
Elaine Wyllie put it. Now tens of thousands of schools
do it in more than 30 countries round the world.
Of course, there are other ways in which students are
encouraged to take exercise, but in schools where the
sports programmes are mainly team-based there is a real
danger that children who don’t naturally star at hockey
or rugby can come to feel that exercise isn’t for them.
So we parents always need to play a big part in making
sure our children discover that exercise is not only essential,
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Lee Miller: Picasso
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9 Jun - 21 Jul
New Ashgate Gallery, Waggon
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Martin Greenland
Highly acclaimed and awardwinning
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painting, not as backdrop but as
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Fri 15 - Sun 17 Jun
Wildwood, Shere Road, West
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The Shape of Colour
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Sat 9 June 7.30pm
Haslemere Educational
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Haslemere, Surrey GU27 2LA
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Sun 10 Jun
Dorking Halls, Reigate Road,
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John Finnemore, writer and star
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Entry: £26.50, 10% off for groups
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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
Epsom Playhouse, 42 Ashley
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Rapunzel
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Entry: From £17
Info: epsomplayhouse.co.uk
Father’s Day
Sun 17 Jun 11am-3pm
Claremont Landscape Garden,
Portsmouth Road, Esher
KT10 9JG
Father’s Day Classic
Vehicle Club
The Surrey Classic Vehicle Club
returns to Claremont to display
a collection of classic cars from
various eras on the amphitheatre.
Normal admission prices apply
but Dads get in free when
accompanied by their children.
Info: nationaltrust.org.uk
Sun 17 Jun 10am-5pm
Hatchland’s Park, East
Clandon, Guildford GU4 7RT
Father’s Day Kite Day
Dads go free at this fun family
event. Whether you bring your
own kite, or make your own in
the kite craft workshop, Dads will
love the chance to show off.
Info: nationaltrust.org.uk
Sun 17 Jun 10am-6pm
Painshill, Portsmouth Road,
Cobham KT11 1JE
Father’s Day
Show Dad your appreciation
with a stroll through the Painshill
landscape before lunch and a
drink at Mr Hamilton’s tea room.
Free entry for fathers accompanied
by their children.
Info: painshill.co.uk
Fairs, Festivals &
Shows
Fri 8 - Sun 10 Jun
Vann Farm, Vann Farm Road,
Ockley, Dorking RH5 5TF
Vann Fest
A grass roots, family friendly
music festival in aid of The Royal
Marsden cancer charity, with
locally sourced food and drink,
live comedy, cabaret, workshops
for children, and free camping!
Info: vannfest.co.uk
Fri 8 Jun - Sun 12 Aug
Guildford
Guildford Summer
Festival
The Guildford Summer Festival
returns with all the annual
favourites including the craft
festival, farmers’ markets and
Guildford Lions Raft Race, as
well as free Alice Day in the castle
grounds and the Cheese and Chilli
Festival.
Info: guildford.gov.uk
Thu 7 - Sat 9 Jun
Hole Park, Benenden Road,
Rolvenden, Cranbrook, Kent
TN17 4JA
Wealden Times
Midsummer Fair
We are so excited for our annual
midsummer fair with over 250
exhibitors selling fashion, food,
homeware and much much more
at the sure-to-be-sunsoaked Hole
Park. A selection of street food
vendors will be offering delectable
treats from Champagne to
charcuterie, the Garden Hub will
be full of expert advice, and the
Beauty Hub will be equipped with
complimentary treatments, talks
and workshops. See you there!
Info: wealdentimes.co.uk
Sat 16 - Sun 17 Jun 10am-5pm
Brooklands Museum,
Brooklands Road, Weybridge
KT13 0SL
The Brooklands
Double Twelve
Motorsport Fesival
For its 111th anniversary
Brooklands is holding its annual
two-day extavaganza complete
with speed trials, driving tests,
family friendly entertainment and
the prestigious Double Twelve
concours and Test Hill ascents.
Info: brooklandsmuseum.com
Sat 23 - Sun 24 Jun
Priory Farm, Sandy Lane, South
Nutfield, Redhill RH1 4EJ
Strawberry Fair
Festival goers can look forward
to a delicious spread of artisan
and locally-made food and drink
to try before you buy, a sizzling
barbeque and tractor rides for
young visitors.
Entry: Free
Info: prioryfarm.co.uk
30 Jun - 1 Jul
Sandown Park, Portsmouth
Road, Esher KT10 9AJ
Home & Renovating
Show
Whether you are renovating your
kitchen, building your own home
or just exploring your options,
this show is filled with experts to
give you all the advice you need
and hundreds of exhibitors from
all over the country with plenty of
inspiring products.
Info: homebuildingshow.co.uk
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Denbies Wine Estate
England’s Largest Vineyard
Indoor Wine Experience tours
and tastings
Outdoor vineyard tours & trail
The Gallery Restaurant
A la carte/panoramic views
over the vineyard
The Conservatory Atrium Restaurant
Open all day for refreshments/lunches/
afternoon tea
Shopping
Art Gallery
Farmhouse Accommodation
To find out more call 01306 876616 or visit www.denbies.co.uk
Denbies Wine Estate Ltd, London Road, Dorking Surrey RH5 6AA
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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
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Festival
Family fun for the
summer holidays
at Godstone Farm
on
the
farm
24th July to 3rd September 2018
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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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