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Contents
July 2018
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HEAVENLY HAVENS
Maggie Alderson selects this
month’s dream properties
NOTEBOOK
Our top events to put in
your diary this month
GOD’S ACRE
A vibrant revamp of a
rambling old rectory
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MIDSUMMER FLAIR
Kate Watts styles summery
frocks at our Midsummer Fair
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
Josephine Fairley finds petite
beauty buys to travel with
A YEAR OF WELLNESS
Eminé Rushton keeps your skin
safe for summer
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SWIM TIME
Pools that are built to suit the
Great British climate (even
when it’s not so great)
BIG IS BEAUTIFUL
Sue Whigham shares her
love of large leaves
SCHOOL’S OUT!
Hilary Wilce on summer holidays
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GET THE LOOK
Products to help you steal
the rectory’s style
HOUSE OF SCARVES
See inside the home of textile
designer Melanie Laslett
GET THE LOOK
A guide to imitating the lovely
Melanie’s unique aesthetic
WEALDEN TIMES
MIDSUMMER FAIR 2018
A look back at our biggest
ever Midsummer Fair
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TOOTH WISDOM
Dentist’s tips to keep you
smiling through the years
CHEF’S HOME COOKING
Find out what chef Toby
Welfare cooks for his family
when he’s off duty
PORTRAIT OF A GARDEN
Jo Arnell muses on a year in
the life of Great Dixter
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WHAT’S ON
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FABLES FROM THE FARM
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For families who wish to remain
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One of the most popular attractions in the
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Alongside it’s exhilarating rollercoasters is
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For the perfect combination of education
and fun there is Bocketts Farm in Fetcham.
Nestled on the edge of the idyllic Surrey
Hills is a family run, working farm where
visitors can learn about the day-to-day
responsibilities of a farmer, such as
lambing in the spring. Children are also
able to blow off some steam in miniature
tractors in the Young Drivers Zone or in
the play barn. Other features include the
trampolining centre, a giant inflatable
jumping pillow and a water war zone.
The award-winning Hobbledown is also in
the local area and is suitable for children
up to the age of 13. Just outside of Epsom,
Hobbledown is home to an array of
farmyard animals living in harmony with
exotic species such as camels, wallabies
and meerkats. The activities centre
keeps its schedule varied meaning no
two visits are ever the same. A standout
opportunity, perfect for a birthday
treat, is the ‘Be a Zookeeper for the Day’
experience. This gives children the
opportunity to get up close and personal
with the animals and get a hands-on
experience. To keep energy levels high,
the menu has been revamped to serve
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From southern fried chicken wraps to
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Take your day out into the evening at
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of Epsom, a visit to the theatre makes
for a seamless afternoon or evening
with plenty of dining options, including
Pizza Express, Prezzo, Ask Italian and
Bill’s just around the corner. The main
auditorium of the Playhouse seats up
to 450 people and is a favourite with
touring pantomimes, comedians and
tribute acts, with a multi-storey car park
adjacent allowing for easy access.
With the ample child-friendly experiences
available, Epsom and the neighbouring
villages are in high demand amongst
young and growing families. Centrally
located between Banstead and Epsom
Downs, Shanly Homes have developed
two stunning new build developments.
Nower Place is a private development of 11
three and four bedroom modern houses
all designed with stylish kitchens featuring
integrated appliances. These houses
range from £775,000 to £945,000 and the
show home is available to view Thursday
– Monday, 10am-5pm. Meanwhile, The
Bramblings is a collection of 8 four and
five bedroom detached houses situated
on an exclusive private cul-de-sac, ranging
from £699,950 to £885,000. The show
home will be opening in Autumn 2018.
Both developments are around ten minutes
from Epsom Town Centre making them a
great investment for your family’s future.
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Lyme Regis Road,
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Situated a short distance
from the popular village
of Banstead and with
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Brighton Road this one
bedroom first floor flat is
considered ideal for owner
occupation or investment.
Now in need of
modernisation and
refurbishment the property
offers well proportioned
living accommodation
with loft access and rear
staircase leading to a
private rear garden. epc:e
Guide: £220-225,000*
+ fees
Hailsham Road, Heathfield
A fabulous freehold detached cottage with tile hung elevations
and off road parking now requiring complete modernisation
and refurbishment. The main cottage is arranged with living
accommodation over two floors in addition to a later single storey
extension providing two further rooms. epc:tbc
Guide: £170-180,000* + fees
High Street, Pevensey
A unique opportunity to acquire this substantial property situated
within the historic village of Pevensey. To the rear of the site
you will find later additions to the building including a Victorian
Orangery and large warehouse/showrooms. There is also a
large detached garage/workshop outside of the property. epc:g
Guide: £450,000 Plus* + fees
Portland Road, Hove
We are pleased to offer
this first floor two bedroom
flat with shared garden
occupying the whole of the
first floor of this converted
two storey bay fronted
property situated on the
north side of Portland road.
The property provides light
and spacious living and
may be suitable for possible
reconfiguration to provide
additional accommodation,
subject to consents
being obtainable. epc:f
Guide: £200-225,000*
+ fees
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and may change at any time prior to Auction. Unless stated otherwise, each Lot will be offered subject to a reserve (a figure below which the
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Maggie Alderson picks three stunning homes now on the market
Pinewood
The dream: A sentence from the
brochure will give you the flavour of
this extraordinary house: “There is a
unique hand-painted ceiling with 24k
gold leaf, crafted by the famous Austrian
decorator, Peter Stoff, who also restored
the interiors of Buckingham Palace and
the Palace of Sultan Brunei.” The Grade
II listed Jacobean revival mansion was
built in 1880 and comprehensively
renovated in 2012, adding modern
facilities without compromising period
detail. There’s an extension housing a
spectacular pool and gym, with a viewobserving
party platform roof.
Where: Oxshott, described in the
brochure as “the most expensive village
in England and the premier address
for top footballers and other sporting
celebrities”.
Setting: Wooded landscape for miles.
Beds: 9 Baths: 9
Special features: A lift from the
underground parking to all four floors.
A Wendy house in the same style as the
mansion, that’s big enough to live in.
Pleasing details: Original Pre-Raphaelite
bas-reliefs and plastered ceiling.
Outside: A stunning outdoor pool
in formal landscaping, 360 degrees
panoramic views. A lot of car parking.
Time to town: “40 minutes from
Piccadilly.”
Price: £14,500,000
Agent: Sotheby’s International Realty
01932 860537 sothebysrealty.co.uk
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Gore’s Farm
£2,500,000
The dream: Timber clad, with a traditional
red-tiled roof, this is the full rambling
beamy dream, but with none of the closedin
feeling that can come with historic
houses of the genre. This timber-framed
house was built in 2007 and combines
modern features with the warmth of wood.
There’s a glass-sided open staircase and the
galleried dining room has a vaulted ceiling.
Where: Four-and-a-half miles from
Guildford, on the outskirts of the village of
Puttenham.
Setting: Tranquil countryside, with farreaching
views.
Beds: 5 Baths: 4
Special features: Stabling for ten horses.
Pleasing details: Cinema room, music
room, boot room, library, larder…
Outside: Eight acres of beautifully
landscaped gardens.
Time to town: A crisp 35 minutes from
Guildford to Waterloo on the fast train.
Price: £2,500,000
Agent: Savills Guildford 01483 796820
savills.com
Plot 2, Highfield
£1,795,000
The dream: Farmhouse-style architecture in a
new build, so you get all the ideals of modern
family life – two-car integral garage, a media
room and a very large kitchen/family area
opening onto a breakfast area with French
windows to the garden, plus a master suite with
a dressing room – without having to do the
renovation from hell. In a gated development.
Where: Just outside the village of Lingfield.
Setting: Rolling countryside, between two areas
of outstanding natural beauty.
Beds: 5 Baths: 5
Special features: A very large master suite with
its own balcony.
Pleasing details: Jolly handy for Lingfield Park
racecourse if you like the gee-gees.
Outside: Laid to lawn with some planting at
the front, more lawn at the back.
Time to town: Trains from Lingfield to
Victoria in under an hour.
Price: £1,795,000
Agent: Hamptons 01342 393034
hamptons.co.uk
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Previous page: The dining room is painted in Thai Sapphire
by Little Greene. The cast iron dining chairs are from Oka. The
botanical photograph is by Isabel Bannerman Top: Jane’s love of
peacock feathers is in strong evidence in the kitchen. The wallpaper
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Looking through to the back kitchen
Every house has a story – but it’s very rare to find one
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It fits perfectly with the most recent part of this house’s
history. The trail which brought the current owners to this
perfect Georgian rectory – only the fourth set of residents
not to be rectors of the parish – started with one of them
dreaming of a house with its own lake.
“We were still based in London,” says John, “but we had
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nice to have a lake at the end of the garden so you could
have a swim in the morning?’…”
A treasure hunt of houses began with the first one,
while being in entirely the wrong spot, too close to the
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Left and below: The first glimpse of Jane’s extensive collection
of Murano glass in the main hall. The ebony console table is by
Gareth Neal
motorway, opening up the idea of the perfect proportions of a
Georgian house being what they were looking for.
“I had always said I couldn’t retire to the country,” says
Jane, “because the houses aren’t big enough, they’re all
barns and farmhouses, but when we saw the first house it
got us thinking maybe there are other Georgian ones.”
The next key plot point: separate Googling led them
both to the same house – the one where they now live.
“It said it was under offer,” says John, “but on an irrational
impulse I took the day off to come and look at it anyway –
and found the owners weren’t happy with the offer. I thought
Jane will say it’s too big…but when she came to look, to
my amazement she said ‘It’s going to be a lot of work’…
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couldn’t have done any of it without Kevin McNulty, our
wonderful builder. He’s my hero and genius problem solver.”
As they tell the tale, we are sitting around a large table
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further by the sound of the church bells ringing outside.
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dark, so we put back the south-west-facing window
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Above: The dining room viewed from the other end, showing the second Isabel Bannerman photograph over 12 figures of Chinese
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This page: The wonderful pea green paint in John’s study also by
Little Greene. The curtain fabric is by Lacroix. John’s computer
is cleverly hidden behind doors in the bookshelves. The Chinese
porcelain Foo Dogs – or ‘guardian lions’ – on the mantelpiece are
another of Jane’s favourite things to collect
features, the shutters and the windows.”
Sitting with us at the table is another important
character in the story of the rectory, Mark Howorth
of the London-based interior and architectural design
company, Callender Howorth, who worked with Jane
and John previously on their London house and Kent
cottage, and played a big part in the décor of the rectory.
“Kitchens are normally very utilitarian,” he says. “But
this is more of a gallery of Jane’s lifetime collection of glass.
That’s why it is so much fun working with her. It’s all
about colour, texture, pattern. Jane will have an idea that
sparks something in our team, it’s very collaborative.’
This made it the perfect point for us to go and explore
what that collaboration has created, which turned out to
be more of an expedition than a house tour, as I filled 30
pages of my large notebook, with frantic scribbling.
It is truly rambling, with a back staircase up to the
mansard-roofed old wing of the house as well as the grand
one opposite the front door, and six to 12 bedrooms…
“depending how you look at it,” says John. I also lost count
of the number of bathrooms and can only remember that
they were all big and they were all fabulous and I wanted
to have a long leisurely bath in every one of them.
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Left: The walls in the ‘blackboard loo’ have
been enthusiastically graffitied by the whole
family Above: The loo window is filled with
coloured Duralex tumblers, reflected in the
mirror on the window sill
But while it is a very large and varied house, it is unified in
character, all brought together by the owners’ personalities,
interests and collections, with various themes linking it all
together, cleverly merged into context by Mark’s input.
One of the themes is peacock feathers, which I first notice
on the decorative screen in the grand drawing room, in fabric
sourced by Mark. Later on I spot them again on the other
side of the house in the snug – a cosy TV room – where they
appear in a beautiful mosaic table by glass artist Nikki Ella
Whitlock, one of many craft makers Jane follows and collects.
And when, at the end of the house tour (several hours
later…) we returned to the kitchen, I spotted the peacock
wallpaper in there.
“There is something peacock in every room…” said Jane,
smiling. “I’ve always loved them, which made me want to
set off to the top of the house again to find them all, and I
would have been quite happy to have done so, being by that
point as much in love with a house as it’s possible to be.”
The magic starts in the hallway, where the glass collection
– as seen in the kitchen - comes into glorious focus in a
brightly coloured group of stunning hand-blown pieces of
Murano glass, collected over many years of visiting Venice.
(Clearly a special place to Jane and John, who have decorated
one of the guest bedrooms in tribute to it, with Venetian
scene curtains and some splendid Venetian glass mirrors.)
But back to the hall – although it is hard to
maintain your focus in a house where there are just
so many amazing things in every room, from groups
of interesting objects masterfully arranged, to the
wonderfully bold colours on the walls and curtains.
The first collection of glass you see on entering the house
sits on a console table made out of ebony by woodworker
Gareth Neal, combining classic forms used in antique
furniture, in a contemporary design. This is just one of many
– and I mean, many - pieces in the house sourced from the
Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA) gallery on the South Bank.
CAA is a charity supporting designer makers in the
applied arts - glass, ceramics, textiles, metal, wood,
jewellery – which the couple have long supported.
As she says: “We’ve got room for it…”
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Above: The family call this display in a passage at the rear of the house ‘Jane’s Table of Curiosities’. It started as one shelf and grew
into three tables as people gave her presents for it. Below: The first room we visit upstairs is Jane’s library, lined with books, many of
them first editions
In the drawing room is another collection, of ceramics by
Tanya Gomez, brilliantly grouped, as are all the objects of
interest throughout the house, by Jane; an art form in itself.
Indeed, I found it hard to tear myself away from some of
the groups of collated treasures, which are found in every
room. They are just so interesting to look at. In the dining
room, across the hall from the sitting room, were four I found
particularly captivating, each very different in character.
Against the far wall, is a row of a dozen green figures
depicting the 12 signs of Chinese astrology, their scale
making them a striking focal point – and the first hint
of another theme of the house, which features many
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On the other side of the room, on top of a matching console
table, is a fascinatingly varied collection of artworks and
bibelots, some from CAA, others made by friends and family.
The third arrangement is on top of the mantelpiece, the fourth
a splendid group of cut glass decanters on a drinks trolley.
But while I had to drag myself from what legendary
decorator David Hicks called ‘tablescapes’, this magnificent
room – with walls in Thai Sapphire by Little Greene - is
splendid wherever your eye falls and a perfect illustration
of the creative partnership between Jane and Mark.
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Above and left: The mantelpiece in Jane’s library
with more chinoiserie and a detail of her very
personal collection of books Above right: a
collection of crystals
“I told Mark I wanted colour and he came up with this
wonderful purple,” says Jane.
“It’s all about colour, texture and vibrancy,” says Mark.
“Nothing was done in the way it’s ‘supposed’ to be. It’s
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“You made me brave,” adds Jane.
“We did push you a bit…” laughs Mark.
Perfectly illustrating the colour-texture-vibrancy here is his
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and black velvet by Timorous Beasties, called Bird Branch.
Another of Mark’s touches, showing the (literal…)
polish a professional interior designer brings to a project,
are the antiqued mirror panels on the back wall.
“The premise of designing this house,’”says Mark, “was
giving back some love and character which had been lost
over the years, while working within the listed status.
“Because of the scale of the dining room – it really is
a huge room – it needed another element and I came up
with the idea of the antiqued mirror. But we had to be very
careful to get the balance right, not to be garish. It had
to be the right level of patina and the right scale. Because
the walls of an old house aren’t straight, it’s a bit skewiff
and that’s perfect, it looks like it’s been there 250 years.”
Alongside the contemporary energy boost from such
considered additions, the furnishings in the dining room
reflect its perfect Georgian symmetry, with four doors, two
windows and two facing console tables. Then there is the
brilliant touch of unmatching dining chairs. Mixed in with
eight antique chairs are four modern iron ones, from Oka.
The colour and drama continues when you step through
the door into John’s study – its wonderful bright pea
green paint standing out thrillingly next to the purple of
the dining room. This one is also by Little Greene, called
Phthalo Green. “It has the exact brightness, intensity and
acidity of green we wanted,” says Mark and once you’re
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Jane’s touch sings out from an arrangement of Chinese
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certainly brilliant at creating them.
From the study, you step out through another door
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Next door is a temple to Jane’s glass creativity – the
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Back out into the corridor and Jane’s unique
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Above left and right: Another book cover artwork by the
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Below: A mounted unicorn head from Rockett St George
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“It started as one shelf,” she says. “People give me presents...”
It’s a collection you could spend an afternoon
examining, but the prospect of ascending the bright
red stair carpet – Mark’s choice to extend the bold
colour of the ground floor rooms to the upper floor – to
examine the bedrooms was enough to tear me away.
But the first room we visit up there is not a bedroom, it’s
Jane’s library. A room, lined with books, many of them first
editions, that I never wanted to leave. With a chandelier
brought from their London house, a marble fireplace,
the original lift-up shutters still working and polished
floorboards, sloping endearingly downhill, it’s a haven.
Next door is another loo, also fitted out Jane style. There is
a table in the shape of a pile of books, brilliant (and pleasingly
naughty) book cover artworks by the artists known as the
Connor Brothers and ‘bookshelf’ wallpaper. And next to the
loo what appears to be a pile of books hanging in mid-air.
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“I love the fact that when we are in the cottage,
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flat, you can be in the centre of Old Town, sipping
a coffee or snapping up a vintage bargain.”
Melanie, I hope she won’t mind me saying, is a magpie. But
her collector’s eye and love of a good rummage, hasn’t in any
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design sensibility. Her home is the epitome of curated calm
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As a textile designer, she has a well-trained eye for colour,
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This page: The main bedroom. The ladder, above, is from Eras
of Style and displays some of Melanie’s fabric designs for Laslett
England
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This page: The spare bedroom has views over the Old Town.
The grey curtains are from Marks & Spencer
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“I had help with the nuts and bolts of the building
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Above: Melanie left the lovely worn paint on the wooden stairs. The bathroom to the right was created in what was
the third bedroom
adaption was to create a dream bathroom.
“That was the first room to be completed – and it’s
still my favourite,” she says. “I always wanted a bathtub
that had a fabulous view… In the evening, I can look
out over Old Town and the twinkling lights of West
Hill while I soak in my tub. It really is perfect.”
The original bathroom was downstairs, so it made sense
to repurpose one of the three bedrooms. She installed a
separate shower, then hunted for her dream freestanding
bath, which she found at The Bath Store. The tub sits on a
slighted raised plinth of grey and white patterned Moroccanstyle
ceramic tiles, while the rest of the room has original
Victorian floorboards, which have been sanded and varnished.
“I love introducing a focal point with pattern, rather
than using it everywhere,” she says, her textile design
and pattern-making background coming to the fore.
The master bedroom window also benefits from views,
looking out over the garden and up to the country park.
“We can sit in bed with our morning cups of tea and gaze
out – and whatever time of year it is, the view is never bleak.”
This room has plenty of Melanie’s signature pops of
pattern. A plump, floral print eiderdown, another of her
vintage buys, resides at the foot of an M&S iron bed and
a black and white optical print woven rug from John
Lewis sits comfortably on stripped pine floorboards.
Propped up against the side of the wardrobe is a vintage
wooden ladder from Eras of Style in Bexhill, used to display
samples of Melanie’s own textiles and scarves and some of
her favourite finds. Bedlinen is neatly stored in a 1940s
tallboy, another bargain from a secondhand shop in Bexhill,
a favourite hunting ground for retro furniture and fabric.
Like the bathroom, the guest bedroom has a vantage
point over the Old Town and is one of the few rooms that
has curtains – the rest have shutters. The room oozes calm
and although it’s undoubtedly minimalist, it still has a
cosy feel, with a perfect ‘mismatch’ of pattern and print.
Under the window, there’s a secondhand ottoman
which was transformed from a dusky ‘old-lady’ pink
to a cool khaki with spray paint, then re-upholstered
in classic Marimekko floral fabric. A chest of drawers
from Browsers, one of Hastings’ best-loved secondhand
shops, was painted with Annie Sloan chalk paint,
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This page: The front door
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Slate grey kitchen units from Jewsons were cleverly
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“The quartz adds a bit of sparkle and glamour,” she
says. Her signature pop of pattern is present in the form of
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“I laid them out like a patchwork quilt and I love the
fact that they introduce a riot of colour to the kitchen.”
A vintage painted cupboard houses her collection of
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table purchased in Somerset is positioned by the window
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living room and combined office is long and narrow,
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This page: The living space had already been knocked through.
The denim-covered sofa is by Danish designer Peter Jeppesen
and the coffee table is from Heals. The shelving unit, left, is
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Melanie’s choice of furniture has maximised the space.
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that are linear and not space hungry.”
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Above: A woodburning stove keeps the sitting room cosy.
Left: Melanie’s work space is at the other end of the room
Solutions such as a glass desk and generous shelves to
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But for Melanie, the cottage extends beyond the walls.
“One of the things that I was most attracted by when
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am overlooked by eight other homes, there is a feeling
of privacy and space because of the location.”
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“I didn’t want the traditional English seaside garden
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garden. And one of the main benefits is that you don’t
need to water it, so it’s incredibly low-maintenance!”
The rest of the garden is stuffed full of hardy
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Above: Melanie keeps her workspace ordered with a shelving unit from Habitat. The glass desk is also from there
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Rosemary rubs shoulders with lavender, sage with thyme,
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enclosed than the back garden. I brought a palm with
me from London and have planted it here – they love
the sea air – and there is also an Echium, another coastal
lover, and sea kale, which I’ve mixed with foxgloves.”
As with the interior, Melanie has used touches of
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This year’s Wealden Times Midsummer Fair, the fairest of them all...
just like being in a Richard Curtis
film, but instead of Notting Hill it
‘It’s should be called Hole Park’ quipped
our editor, Maggie Alderson, as she gazed
across the sunlit show ground at this
year’s Wealden Times Midsummer Fair,
sponsored by Harpers and Hurlingham.
The cast of Maggie’s movie included a record
number of visitors and over 250 retailers who
spilled out of five large marquees and four
tented avenues onto the meadow at Hole Park
selling a fantastic range of furnishings, food,
fashion plus flowers, and plants for the garden.
But the fair wasn’t just about shopping: three
iconic brands, NFU Mutual, Benenden Hospital
Trust and Fenwick partnered Wealden Times
this year to offer free garden, health, beauty
and fashion-themed talks and treatments.
The Garden Hub, sponsored by NFU
Mutual, hosted some wonderful speakers
including David Archer – aka actor Tim
Bentinck – who came all the way from
Ambridge (or at least London…) to talk
about his new book. As well as the Hub,
gardeners gained free entry to Hole
Park’s gardens, pure horticultural
heaven, as part of their ticket price.
In the Health Hub, staff
from Benenden Hospital Trust
answered healthcare questions
plus nurses were on hand to provide cholesterol,
blood glucose and blood pressure tests.
Beauty masterclasses and mini beauty
treatments proved irresistible at the Beauty
Hub, sponsored by Fenwick of Tunbridge Wells.
Visitors enjoyed talks and demonstrations from
brand leaders including Clarins, Charlotte
Tilbury, Dermalogica and Aveda, as well as daily
fashion talks from the Fenwick fashion team.
Every quintessential English summer’s day
deserves a deckchair and the fair’s deckchair
zone hosted live music each day from local
schools Dulwich Prep Cranbrook Jazz Band,
St Ronan’s Jazz Band and Marlborough
House Choir. On Saturday lunchtime
Cranbrook Town Band played for us for
two glorious hours, supplying the perfect
sound track to the spirit of all three days.
Finally, we must thank the weather
gods for delivering sunshine and a gentle
breeze to our movie set each day.
We hope you’ll join us for our next
event, Wealden Times Midwinter Fair on
15, 16 & 17 November 2018 at The
Hop Farm, Paddock Wood. Tickets
are available online from 30 July.
Go online to wealdentimes.co.uk/
events/gallery.php to see our
gallery of photos from the fair.
Midsummer Flair
What more glorious setting could there be for lovely summer dresses than the Wealden Times
Midsummer Fair, in the glorious grounds of Hole Park house? Get your frock on.
Photographs: David Merewether Styling: Kate Watts Model: Grace Gray
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Josephine Fairley – a chronic over packer – rejoices in the beauty of travel mini kits
While I have every admiration for light
travellers, I am personally incapable of going
anywhere with less luggage than someone
embarking on The Grand Tour. I need trunks, I need
bearers, but instead I personally heave my (oversized, and
often overweight) luggage on and off various forms of
moving vehicle, with my husband muttering unhelpfully,
our family mantra: ‘You pack it, you carry it.’
But one way I can decrease my load is via travel beauty
kits. And even better, they serve two purposes, eliminating
the need to carry weighty full-sizes of products – and
offering a great opportunity to trial products, to see if you
might like to spring for the full size.
Although, if you’d rather not experiment
with products you aren’t familiar with on
vacation, get yourself to a Muji store – where
you’ll find a brilliant selection of travelfriendly
empty bottles and jars for decanting
your own skincare and haircare into.
This summer, I will be packing the below
– all airline security-friendly, suitable for
stashing in hand luggage. But alas, in my (literally...) case
they won’t be slipping into a dinky wheelie that fits into an
overhead locker.
Instead they will be stowed in a vast suitcase in the
hold, probably alongside half a dozen pairs of shoes, a
selection of scented candles (you just never know how
your hotel might smell, even when you’ve zoomed in
on the pictures on booking.com), a generous stack of
hardback books, a full-size feather pillow and – on one
You just never
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VOYA Organic Voyager Travel Set, £38. With its
roots in the seaweed-swathed west of Ireland, VOYA’s
products are all 100% organic, infused with marine
elements and are deliciously (not-seaweedy-at-all)
scented. In this kit, find generous 75ml sizes of body
wash and moisturiser, shampoo and conditioner; the
last is just brilliant for detangling beach hair.
Liz Earle Essentials Try-Me Kit, £25. Liz Earle’s skincare
business was built on offering samples, small
sizes and kits as a great intro to products,
which has helped make them a go-to brand for
travelistas. Showcasing multi-award-winning
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of the muslin cloths – in a choice for different
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Leonor Greyl Travel Kit for Dry Hair, £26.
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Legology Strip Lite, £20. Your legs are destined to
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Air-Lite Daily Lift for Legs, a wonderfully energizing
treatment which instantly improves their appearance
and Sun-Lite Sheer Lingerie for Legs, an instant tint
(rather than a self-tanner) to deal with the pastry-legged
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Aromatherapy Associates Perfect Partners Relax
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holiday pleasures is a long, leisurely soak – and I would
never travel long-haul without these. The first is great
for beckoning sleep when you’re jet-lagged and wide
awake in the wrong time zone, while the second is just
brilliant as a pre-cocktails wake-up call when you’d
actually rather hit the sack than the beach bar.
This Works In Transit Skin Defence Kit, £25. I have
been known to choose hotels for This Works amenities,
but this kit means I can take the range anywhere with
me. The In Transit No Traces mini-pads are brilliant for
in-flight cleansing before slathering on In Transit Camera
Close Up, a multi-tasking product which does triple-duty
as a moisturiser, primer and leave-on mask and is brilliant
for counteracting the dryness of a cabin at 37,000 feet.
In Transit Skin Defence is my favourite-ever daily SPF,
great for my sensitive skin and featuring an SPF30.
Charlotte Tilbury Mini Celebrity Lipstick Charms,
£29. It’s not hard to find great downsized skin and hair
care kits, bt make up offerings are rarer. This set from
red carpet make-up pro Charlotte is your complete
holiday lipstick wardrobe, in drinky tubes: a great
nude, pretty rose and a daring red, for after dark.
The Perfume Society Discovery Boxes, from
£15. We get regular feedback from customers and
members of The Perfume Society (see below) that
the samples in our discovery boxes are brilliant for
an in-transit perfume wardrobe. Alternatively, decant
your favourite holiday scents into a useful Travalo
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Jo Fairley is co-founder of The Perfume Society
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A Year of Wellness
These days it can feel as though you need a PhD in biochemistry to
navigate the suncream shelves. Wellbeing editor, Eminé Rushton, breaks
down what the labels mean, and how to keep skin safe, naturally
July: natural protection
My
M
skin has always been
sensitive to synthetics. As
a child, whenever I came
into contact with perfumed lotion or
bubble bath, I would immediately flare
up – red skin, sore patches, eczema.
Because of this sensitivity I’ve had to
figure out what my skin can tolerate
and have ended up with a vanity bag
of simple natural oils, soothing balms
and mineral make-up. Suncream was
always trickiest, though. Hives, heat
rash, prickly heat, eczema – I couldn’t
go near the stuff. I later learned that
this was because so many
of the biggest names in
sun protection use
chemical UV filters,
which absorb the sun’s
rays into the skin, and
then release that
energy as heat.
Manufacturers
argue that UV
energy from the sun is released
as harmless photons from the
skin, before it can be absorbed by
any of our reactive cells, or DNA.
Yet, lab studies have shown the
absorption rate of the most commonly
used chemical sun filter, oxybenzone
can be anywhere from 1 to 9%.
An important 2010 study carried
out by the University of Zurich also
detected oxybenzone and four other
sunscreen filters in Swiss women’s breast
milk, indicating that the developing
foetus and newborns may be exposed
to these substances too. Oxybenzone
and octinoxate have now also been
shown to act like oestrogen in
the human body, with robust
and compelling research
also linking it to a higher
Covering up
when in direct
sunshine is
the wisest
move of all
incidence of endometriosis in women.
As if that were not enough, Hawaii
has just passed a bill to ban both
of these chemical sunscreens from
being sold on their territory – to
preserve their magnificent coral
reefs, following damning reports
on the impact that these nondegradable
chemicals are having on
our delicate marine ecosystem.
Complicating matters even
further is that almost every chemical
sunscreen is, to some degree or other,
shown to be pretty unstable when
exposed to sunlight.
When exposed to UV
light, they essentially
degrade on the skin,
releasing free radicals
that can cause premature
ageing. Of the two
chemical sunscreens
that pass the EWG.org
test (a great resource for
anyone looking to remove harmful
chemicals from their home), avobenzone
and mexoryl SX, are by far the safest,
with very limited skin penetration and
no evidence of endocrine disruption.
The former, however, does have a
relatively high propensity to cause
skin irritation as it breaks down.
So which brands do I entrust with
my skin? Even 100% mineral filters zinc
oxide and titanium dioxide have their
potential problems. There are those
who believe that using nanoparticles of
heavy metals, such as zinc and titanium,
could also pose inhalation risks.
The International Agency for Research
on Carcinogens has classified titanium
dioxide as a possible carcinogen when
inhaled in large doses, because the lungs
have difficulty clearing nanoparticles,
which may pass from the lungs into
the bloodstream (source: EWG.org).
It’s a minefield, but common sense
can prevail. A big hat, sunglasses and
covering up when in direct sunshine
(and certainly on the beach) is the wisest
move of all. And if you want to soak up
some of the sun’s healing light - lest we
forget that it remains our best provider
of vitamin D - you can healthily do so
in the early morning, and late afternoon.
You can also boost your skin’s own
resilience to the sun by upping your
antioxidant intake: resveratrol, a
polyphenol found in red grapes (yes,
that includes good red wine) and dark
chocolate (hurrah), is one of the best for
protecting skin from sun damage too.
And, for those times when you
need something serious to protect
your skin, I would opt for mineral
over chemical, and trust the nonnano
cream from Josh Rosebrook
Nutrient SPF Day Cream, £85
(abeautifulworld.co.uk) and de Mamiel
Exhale Hydrating Nectar SPF30, £75
(demamiel.com) with my face (their
tinted sunscreens are highly effective,
100% natural, and a joy to use).
I have also found Weleda and Lavera’s
SPF offerings to be wonderfully effective
at protecting my children’s skin.
Most important of all is that we
remember that an SPF is not a licence
to sunbathe. It is simply an insurance
measure against skin cancer and
irreparable damage. If you seek out
shade, cover up and wear a hat you
are in with your best shot of having
a safe summer. And, given that it can
take up to 20 years for this summer’s
damage to show up on your
face, your future self will be
eternally grateful too.
Eminé Rushton is Wellbeing Director-at-Large at Psychologies magazine, and co-founder of the
conscious living blog, The Balance Plan, balanceplan.co.uk
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Tooth
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Teeth always matter, but as
we get older the key issues in
looking after them can change
– we asked two dentists to give
us their expert tips on how to
keep smiling down the years
Russell Blanchard BDS
StoneRock Dental Care, Hawkhurst
What are the most important things to do
to safeguard your teeth over the age of 50?
A good day-to-day cleaning regime and a diet low in sugar
and acidity is as important over 50 as it is under, for the health
of our teeth. As we grow older there may be an increased
reduction in saliva production, which is very important
to protect the teeth, so with specific advice and products
such as Xylitiol or sugar-free gum we can help encourage
saliva production and reduce the risks of active decay.
Natural bone loss over time may cause the more vulnerable
roots of the teeth to be exposed, giving rise to increased
sensitivity and decay of the root surfaces. Regular dental
visits for advice on how to manage these areas and input
from a dental hygienist will benefit with cleaning and
protecting the surfaces with bespoke fluoride treatment
if indicated. And as we get older any untreated gum
disease will potentially risk the affected teeth being lost.
Over time all teeth will wear to some degree. Previous
dentistry may need replacing and it’s important to
keep track with regular checks and digital images.
Then you can make informed choices on how further
wear and tear can be reduced and whether dental
treatment – functional, or aesthetic – is needed.
Can everyone have tooth whitening? Or
is it less advisable with older teeth?
Anyone over 18 can consider tooth whitening, but we
would always check the health of the teeth and gums first
and the procedure should always be provided by a dentist.
For older patients we would assess the potential success of
the procedure before starting, because enamel will whiten
and dentine won’t, so the more yellow root surfaces we
sometimes see in older teeth will not be whitened.
What are the most common cosmetic
dentistry issues for older patients?
People consider cosmetic dentistry because they would
like to improve their smile or dental appearance. This
motivation is specific to each client and even the smallest
concerns are relevant if they can be realistically improved.
The success of any cosmetic procedure depends on the
end result meeting the expectations of the patient. An
“However small your worry, if
it matters to you, it’s important
to ask and find out how
it might be changed”
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open communication with the clinician where concerns
and possible outcomes can be discussed is vital.
Examples of previous work and bespoke digital predictions
of the client’s end results, as well as trial smiles, can be
created to provide patients with a good understanding of
what to expect before going ahead with any changes.
The most common complaints are “I don’t like the way
my teeth look” and “I just don’t like smiling anymore
in photos” which may be as a result of mismatched
fillings or old crowns in front teeth, crowded, worn, or
missing teeth or old ‘silver’ fillings in the back teeth.
Most troubling is loose or missing teeth which not only
can be debilitating aesthetically but functionally too.
We can resolve these concerns with a variety of procedures:
hand-built tooth coloured fillings and veneers, ceramic
restorations, implant crowns and bridges, dentures - and
sometimes just with improved cleaning and whitening.
However small your worry, if it is important to
you then it is important to ask and find out how it
might be changed. Discussing your concerns will
allow you to find out specifically what your options
are and how they can be achieved before you start.
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What are the most common dental
health issues for people as they age?
As we age the risk of tooth decay increases. It increases
when teeth are not cleaned thoroughly, possibly
because of dexterity problems such as arthritis, and
when prescribed medications cause dry mouth.
Older people often have a legacy of dated dental
treatments, which need replacing with modern alternatives.
Tooth wear can be a problem, but modern materials and
techniques mean that lasting repairs can be made.
Teeth can also move with age, but there are many
orthodontic solutions available to all ages, from bespoke
fixed braces such as Insignia and Incognito, Invisalign clear,
removable aligners to faster systems for adults such as Cfast,
which can straighten most adults’ teeth in 6-9 months.
Gum disease, diabetes, heart disease, auto-immune
conditions and dementia are all associated with a deterioration
in oral health, which should be closely monitored.
It is important to maintain regular check-ups
with your dentist, so that as you age your dentist
can take preventive measures and plan treatment
for the future to minimise problems.
Are people keeping their own teeth
longer than they used to?
With better oral health education and products available
to keep your teeth healthy, people can look after their
teeth for life, with regular dental check-ups, preventive
measures and hygiene appointments. However, people
can lose teeth at any age as a result of gum disease,
tooth decay, dental infections and trauma.
As people are now living a lot longer, we have to look after
our teeth to ensure they last, with healthy eating and visiting
your dentist for regular check-ups and preventive treatment.
If teeth are too badly damaged to save, what are
the options for replacements?
Dentures have been the option for replacing teeth for
many years, and a clinical dental technician can now make
dentures that fit securely and look like natural teeth.
However, no matter if you have lost one, several or
all your teeth, expertly placed dental implants offer the
best fixed long-term solution. They provide a stable
base to which your crown, bridge or implant-stabilised
denture can be securely attached, and will be made to
look, fit and function just like your natural teeth.
Prices vary widely for implants, but always look
for a dentist who has years of expertise and uses
well-researched materials, rather than the cheapest
option; often these dentists have only been on a short
course and use cheaper systems that do not last.
The dental implant team at Elmsleigh House have
helped patients who have had implants placed elsewhere
fail, and are referred patients for dental implants because
they are trusted for their expertise and longlasting results.
One of the first implant patients at Elmsleigh House is still
enjoying her replacement teeth placed over 30 years ago.
What are the relative costs, time taken
and longevity of the different options?
This is a difficult question to answer because each
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overall health – and the level of expertise, technology
and quality of materials used by the practitioner.
With dental implants, it is essential they are placed in
healthy gum and bone, so sometimes extra work is needed
such as a bone graft to ensure secure and longlasting
results. Everything must be bespoke to the individual.
To ensure the best dental care at any age, it is
important to:
• Brush your teeth last thing at night and at least one
other time in the day with a fluoride toothpaste
• Cut down on sugary food and drink
• Visit your dentist for regular check-ups, as often
as they recommend, and your hygienist for
professional cleaning.
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Food
Chef ’s home
cooking
Beverly, Woody and Toby eat dinner, in their home over the restaurant
Good enough to eat in the restaurant, but quick and easy to
prepare at home - what a chef cooks for his own family
Since opening The Cloudberry restaurant in
Cranbrook in January this year, life has been
very busy for chef Toby Welfare and his wife
Beverley - and catering for family meals between
restaurant busy shifts has not always been easy.
“It can be easy to start grabbing instant food,”
Toby admits. “But the trouble is you don’t feel
great afterwards. The trick is to find food that is
uncomplicated and quick to prepare.”
This is something that son Woody, 9, already
appreciates. He loves dad’s homemade pizza and
pasta, with sliced courgettes sautéed in butter.
“Remember things that you ate as a kid,” says
Toby. “Adapt them, add in extras: a drizzle of
pesto, a blob of mozzarella, or some salsa verde. Try
different combinations, as long as the ingredients
are good it will work.”
Another great chef’s tip is to have a semi-prepared
risotto base ready in the fridge (see opposite). A
composed salad can be treated the same way. With
a couple of additional ingredients, a mix of leaves
and raw vegetables can become a complete meal.
“You just need to have something rich to add in,”
says Toby. “Chicken or cheese, something to lift it.
Change the dressing, add mayo, herbs, whatever
you have in the fridge – asparagus, peas, beans.”
Chicken thighs are another stalwart. “Thighs
have a lot of flavour and are quick to cook. It’s
such a versatile meat. Tarragon goes really well with
chicken, lemon is great, or mushrooms…”
Slotting home cooking into a hectic schedule can
seem a challenge, but as Toby shows with some
good standby staples and a few chef’s shortcuts,
delicious family meals can be rustled up in no time.
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Cod with summer vegetable risotto
Serves 4
• 4 cod steaks, skin slashed
• Risotto base:
• 200g risotto rice
• 1 medium onion finely
chopped
• 2 celery stalks peeled and
finely chopped
• 2 cloves garlic finely
chopped
• ¾ pint vegetable stock (a
good stock cube will do)
• Splash of white wine
• 1 courgette finely diced
• 250g spinach finely
chopped
• 150g podded peas
To finish
• Knob of butter
• 2 tbsp grated parmesan
1Fry the onion and celery
in some light olive oil until
soft, add the garlic and cook
for one more minute, don’t
allow the garlic to colour. Add
the risotto rice and stir fry for
a minute until the grains are
slightly translucent. Add the
spinach, courgettes and peas
and cook for about 3 more
minutes. Add a good splash
of wine (125ml glass will do)
and cook, stirring all the time
until it evaporates.* see Chef’s
Home Tip
2Once the white wine is
absorbed into the rice,
keep adding a ladle of hot
stock one at a time until the
rice is almost cooked – it
should still have a bite to it.
3Take off the stove, add
a good knob of butter
and a handful of parmesan
cheese, stick a lid on and rest
for 5 mins. Meanwhile salt
the cod steaks and place skin
side down into a hot oiled
frying pan. Crisp up the skin
and turn over and place in a
pre-heated oven (gas mk 6) for
6-8 mins depending on the
thickness of the fish.
4When the cod is ready,
stir the risotto and place
a mound in each bowl. Place
the cooked cod on top. You
can finish this with a dollop
of pesto, or simply a good
squeeze of lemon.
*Chef’s home tip
You can make risotto days
in advance and quickly
finish it off to use when
you need it. Prepare it
to the stage marked *
opposite, then spread it
out on a baking tray. Leave
to cool, then transfer to a
bowl or storage box and
it will keep in the fridge
for up to five days. All you
need to do when you want
to use it, is add roughly
two ladles of hot stock,
stirring all the time until
the stock is absorbed and
the rice is cooked.
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Parma ham, goat curd,
pea & broad bean
salad
Chicken thigh, olives
& green beans with a
basil & lemon dressing
Serves 4
• 8 slices parma ham
• 150g soft goat’s cheese
• 4 tbsp crème fraîche
• 100g fresh podded peas
• 100g broad beans
Pesto
• Bunch of basil
• Clove of garlic
• 2 tbsp of grated parmesan
• Olive oil to loosen
• Pinch of salt
Dressing
• Half a lemon
• Tsp Dijon mustard
• 5 tbsp extra virgin
olive oil
• Salt and pepper
• Chopped chives and mint
1Blanch the peas and
broad beans for a minute
in boiling water then refresh
under cold running water.
Mash the goat’s cheese and
crème fraîche until you have
a smooth paste – this is
your ‘goat curd’. Heap two
tablespoons of curd onto each
plate.
2Bash the pesto ingredients
in a pestle and mortar
slowly incorporating the olive
oil until you have a thick
pourable consistency (this
tastes even better if you do it
the day before). Pour a little
over the ‘goat curd’.
two slices of parma
3Fold ham around the goat
curd, fat side up so they look
a little like tulip petals. Dress
the broad beans and peas and
scatter around the parma ham
and goat curd, scatter the
chopped chives and mint over
the top.
Serves 4
• 8 chicken thighs, boned
• 3 tbsp green olives
• 1 packet green beans
trimmed
• Salad leaves (rocket,
watercress, lamb lettuce)
• 1 red onion cut in half,
then sliced
• 6 basil leaves
Dressing
• Extra virgin olive oil
• Lemon
• 1 clove of garlic, crushed
• salt
1Salt the skin on the
chicken thighs and place
skin side down in a cold
frying pan with a splash of
olive oil. Put on the heat, the
rising temperature will release
the fat from the skin and crisp
it up, this takes about 6-8
mins. Turn the chicken thighs
and put in a pre-heated oven
gas mark 6 for 5 mins until
cooked.
2Meanwhile cook the green
beans in boiling water. I
like to cook them for 5 mins
until slightly limp, I don’t like
green beans when they still
have their ‘squeak’ but if you
want it more al dente I’d give
it mins.
3Crush the garlic and salt
with the flat of a knife
until you achieve a paste. Put
in a bowl and whisk in the oil
and lemon, and add any juice
from the pan you’ve cooked
the chicken in, add the warm
green beans, olives and basil
and toss.
each thigh in half and
4Cut stack the dressed beans,
salad leaves and red onion on
the plates. Rip up the basil
and scatter over. Serve with
chunks of crusty bread.
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Peach Melba with crushed amaretti biscuits
Serves 4
• 3 ripe peaches
• 100g caster sugar
• 300ml water
• 1 vanilla pod, split
• Good vanilla ice cream
• Amaretti biscuits
Chantilly cream:
• ½ pint double cream
• 50g icing sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
1You can peel the peaches
but I find it always
reminds me of tinned peaches
when you do, so I leave the
skins on. Heat up the water,
sugar and split vanilla pod,
bring it to the boil, stirring to
release the vanilla seeds. Take
off the heat.
2Meanwhile cut the peaches
into thin wedges and put
into the hot sugar syrup. Leave
to cool.
3Whip the double cream
with the icing sugar and
vanilla essence until soft peaks.
4Now construct the
pudding. Get individual
bowls with a bit of height - the
old fashioned coupes that ice
cream parlours use are ideal.
Place the peach slices, napping
over the sugar syrup in the
bottom of the bowl. Scoop a
nice ball of ice cream on top of
this, spoon over the Chantilly
cream, then roughly crush the
amaretti biscuits with your
hands over it.
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Surrounded by elements from their
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Garden
Portrait of
a Garden
Jo Arnell shares her impressions of a year at Great Dixter,
one of the great gardens of England, inspired by a new
tribute by esteemed photographer Julian Anderson
Everchanging, always interesting, often breathtaking,
Great Dixter is a fascinating place to visit. Famous
for the giant Alice in Wonderland topiary, installed
by the father of its creator, the late Christopher Lloyd, it is
a place of floaty meadows and singing plant combinations,
all set off by Lutyens’ architecture and design.
For the last ten years in the care of world-renowned
head gardener Fergus Garrett – who joined Lloyd there
in 1992 and whose idea it was to put cactus and other
exotic plants into the once Edwardian garden – it’s
one of my own very favourite gardens to visit. I return
to it again and again and I’m always enthralled.
Eminent photographer Julian Anderson (who has 27
pictures in the permanent collection of the National Portrait
Gallery) was equally inspired and has spent a year taking
photographs as the weather and the light change through
the seasons. The results, some of which can be seen here,
are being gathered into a sumptuous, crowd-funded book.
“I’ve visited Dixter on a weekly basis, at different
times of day and in differing weather conditions, for
one calendar year,” he says. “The result is a series of
pictures chronicling Dixter’s evolving life, as seen
through the eye of a portrait photographer.”
As well as contextual shots of areas of the garden, Julian’s
pictures capture moments: small unfurlings, intimate
snapshots and minute effects. Many of these result from
changes in the weather. Touches of frost, mist, and slanting
rays of sunshine are beautifully recorded as the garden
drifts, shifts, bolts and blooms through the months.
Great Dixter is a garden that is magnificently in tune with
the seasons and no visit there is ever the same. There are
always new combinations of plants, exciting experiments
in border design, all held together by the constant - and
very characterful presence of the house and yew topiary.
Here are my own, very personal, impressions of a
year there.
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Summer
Spring
Spring spectacular
My impressions of Dixter in late spring (the gardens open
to the public in April) are of tulips and topiary. Mad, darkly
looming yew shapes: peacocks on pyramids, castellations
and huge chunky archways. They are too impressive to be
whimsical, but you wouldn’t bat an eyelid if you came across
a talking caterpillar on a giant mushroom somewhere here.
The yew is a dark green backdrop, acting as both
anchor and stage set, showcasing the luminous dancing
troops of tulips among the fresh new growth of perennial
foliage. The first wisps of monstrous fennels are already
prominent, yet to rear up to their eventual dizzying
heights, you can almost hear the squeak of them as they
expand among their companions in the stock beds.
It is joyful and uplifting to come to Dixter in May,
when the spring bulbs are sounding their fanfare and the
wave of surging green is making its summer promises.
Summer meadows and exotica
Early summer starts with drifts of opium poppies – which give
the relaxed impression of being self-seeded, but are actually
grown from seed and planted out as seedlings – among clouds
of airy purple Thalictrum, abundantly buzzing meadows
and the beginnings of the bedding. But not bedding in the
municipal style, instead, wild and outrageous experimental
bursts of colour, combined in often unexpected ways.
Flower borders at Great Dixter, Christopher Lloyd
showed us in his book, The Adventurous Gardener are
exuberant, dynamic and often groundbreaking.
Lloyd famously caused a horticultural intake of breath
when he and Garrett ripped out the rose garden – created
by Lloyd’s mother – and replanted it with exotics. A few
roses still manage to eke it out there, swamped by a glorious
outrage of bananas, palms, canna lilies and ginger.
By late summer the yew hedges and topiary have become
floating green islands on a riotous sea. Only those in the
meadows are calm, as the wildflowers and grasses fade gently
into dusty gold, setting seed and dying back for the winter.
Self-seeding and the use of accidentally and deliberately
planted annuals and biennials are a big feature of the
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style here at Dixter. Some are magnificent and become
focal points. Verbascum bombyciferum - a huge yellow
spire with felty grey leaves - tall teasels, tame thistles
and evening primroses make arresting focal points.
Some are gentler; swathes of Verbena bonariensis and
Tagetes ‘Cinnabar’ wash through the borders, filling out into
tapestries and impressionistic panoramas. Late summer here
is an endless lesson of colour effects and artful serendipity.
Autumn glories
The start of autumn at Great Dixter is as spectacular as high
summer, the exuberance not dimmed until temperatures
dip and the sun hangs lower in the sky. The borders
are still in full swing, when those in other gardens have
fizzled out and become drab echoes of themselves.
Here at Dixter, dahlias gleam like jewels, tall daisies reach
for the skies and whacky, candy pink blooms of Persicaria
orientalis dangle wildly among the ornamental grasses.
There is a slow softening as the days shorten;
the light slants among the grasses, and the narrow
paths, now festooned with foliage, can wet your
legs with dew or recent rain as you brush past.
By the time the garden closes to the public, the
colours are mellowing into biscuity golds, rusts and
dusty purple. The herbaceous plants and flowers start
to die back and now the art is in dying gracefully,
leaving photogenic stems, seed-heads and berries.
At the top of the garden, pumpkins festoon the
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compost heaps, ripened on the warm and cosy piles of
meadow plants and grass from previous seasons. They
will be gathered in before the frosts arrive and are then
clustered in groups in the house and the porch, posed, as
if waiting for a still life painter. They are ornamental, but,
like all the vegetables grown here, are completely edible too
and used as meal ingredients for the staff and visitors.
Winter architecture
The garden is shut to the public in winter, but I can
imagine that this is when the architectural shapes of shrubs,
trees and evergreens come to the fore. The grasses will
stand unbowed until spring, perennial seed-heads and
teasels silhouetted against them in the low winter light.
Cotoneaster horizontalis, so often overlooked or
used in dull corners in other gardens, is shown off
here as a focal point, with its zig-zag of herringbone
stems overlapping into a sculptural mound.
Julian’s book affords us the pleasure of some out of season
glimpses of the garden while it is sleeping, frost enhancing its
curves, mist settling like a soft blanket across the meadows
and the odd poignant leftover from the summer hanging
poetically, as if it has been waiting for Julian’s camera all year.
For the full ‘Dixter effect’ you really do need to visit more
than once, you will find something different and interesting
every month of the year, so I recommend a season ticket.
If you are unable to get there, or would simply like a linen
bound companion, Julian’s sensitively honed portrait is an
atmospheric evocation of an iconic and dynamic garden.
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Another brilliant solution is to have a timberframed
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outdoor pool in one – and will drastically save
on heating costs, with solar temperature gain
even on dull days. They are much cheaper to
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back to the house. They also create a super cool
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Garden
Big is beautiful
Sue Whigham rejoices in the splendour of plants with outrageously large leaves
It was serendipitous that we discovered that Blenheim
was to be closed for two days recently, as we had to
put our visit off and decide on a ‘day out’ somewhere
else. And so we went to Chartwell near Edenbridge, so
much nearer and such a fascinating place to visit.
The house, being Sir Winston Churchill and Lady
Churchill’s former home, was very interesting, but the
bonus was that as we wandered through the rose garden,
we came upon a volunteer guide waiting to take a garden
tour and we had her to ourselves.
The views from the terrace across the lake
to the woods are even more fabulous when
you realise that virtually all the mature trees
you can see have grown up since the 1987
storm when the area lost thousands of trees.
From our vantage point they looked as if they
had been there for centuries. Then there is the
Weald of Kent stretched out before you with hardly a building
to be seen. No wonder Sir Winston loved the place so much.
To get to the house you walk up past the rock
garden and several ponds, one of which is stocked
with golden orfe and was a favourite spot for Sir
Winston, particularly in his later years.
In 1948 Lady Churchill had visited the Chelsea Flower
Show and had been taken by a rock display designed by Gavin
Jones. Subsequently he and the Churchills became friends and
his Chelsea garden was installed at Chartwell without charge.
“This is the
largest hardy
herbaceous plant
grown in Britain”
There are dramatic plantings of Gunnera manicata in this
part of the garden, which the guide described as a ‘marmite’
plant. You either love it or you really don’t. It is certainly
a giant with its sturdy, prickly stems and absolutely huge
leaves, their undersides covered with lethal looking prickles.
Native to Brazil, this plant is the largest hardy
herbaceous plant grown in Britain. Grow it by
water or any boggy part of your garden but not
so deep that their crowns are kept too wet.
So, after seeing the gunnera in all its
glory, we were on the lookout for other
large-leaved plants. We were in luck with
a planting on the far side of the golden
orfe pond of the Yellow Skunk Cabbage or
Lysichiton americanus with its spectacular
paddle-shaped leaves and bright yellow arum
spathe flowers. We’d missed the flowers by
a month. And then there were huge plantings of Osmunda
regalis, the Royal Fern, completely happy in their damp
conditions and a particularly lively green at this time of year.
In Lady Churchill’s rose garden another large-leaved
plant caught our eye. Hydrangea aspera subsp. sargentiana.
This is one for a shadier site as the enormous, velvety
leaves scorch under a hot sun. This plant can have a
dramatic growth spurt of up to ten feet if it is happy
with you. The flat florets are an electric bluish white.
Another species of hydrangea that is worth
Above left: Trachystemon orientalis Above right: The Gunnera manicata at Chartwell
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Garden
Top: Hydrangea aspera subspecies. sargentiana Middle: Hosta
sieboldiana Bottom: Royal Fern
mentioning for its rather beautiful and large foliage is
Hydrangea quercifolia, the oak-leaved hydrangea. We
have one here but I’m not sure that it is in the right spot
as it is happiest kept moist and this one here is rather
too close to an old ash tree which sends its progeny all
over the garden and results in a pretty dry flower bed.
If you reduce the height of this hydrangea by a third in
early spring, the fresh leaves will be much bigger. This has
wonderful autumn colour, the leaves turning a ‘garnet red’.
And then there are the rodgersias. Grow them for
their spectacular foliage and for their flowers. We
have Rodgersia pinnata ‘Maurice Mason’ which was
originally given to Christopher Lloyd by Maurice
Mason, a Norfolk farmer and horticulturalist, and which
was thought so choice that it was given a name.
It’s more vigorous than some, although ours is taking a while
to come back up. There have been some anxious moments
when we thought that the plant hadn’t made it through such
a harsh winter, but three bronzy stems have now appeared
and a leaf is unfurling and is making its way upwards. This
cultivar has deeply serrated palmate leaves and lovely rich
pink panicles of flower which darken as the season goes on.
I also like the look of Rodgersia ‘Braunlaub’. Its huge
pinnate leaves darken to a rich chocolate brown combining
with panicles of creamy flowers and followed by strong
autumnal colours. How delicious that all sounds.
Grow rodgersias in shady, north‐facing borders where
they work well with hostas such as Hosta sieboldiana. Try
H. sieboldiana ‘Big Daddy’ which, as its name implies, is
a cultivar with large, very large, textured bluish leaves.
Someone recently told me that they always found it
difficult finding plants which will thrive in dry shade,
which seems to be everybody’s problem planting area. One
particular plant comes to mind which is perfect for these
conditions. Trachystemon orientalis comes from Eastern Europe
originally and its English name is ‘Abraham-Isaac-Jacob’.
It is a member of the Boraginaceae family and its borageblue,
rather enchanting flowers appear before the leaves
get into their stride. You can see sheets of it at Nymans.
We have it under three old holly trees. We’ve lifted their
canopies and the trachystemon has completely covered
the area underneath with its huge leaves. They are perhaps
a bit coarse, in fact not at all elegant, but they not only
serve a purpose but provide dramatic ground cover –
oh, and if you get bored with them, they’re edible...
Sue Whigham can be contacted on 07810 457948 for
gardening advice and help in the sourcing and supply of
interesting garden plants.
Help and advice
For all your gardening needs
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School’s out!
Education
It’s the start of the long summer holiday, but do our
kids really need this long break? asks Hilary Wilce
It’s July. School’s out. And pupils and teachers
- but especially teachers are ecstatic!
By this time of year most of them are wrung out,
overwrought, and maybe too exhausted even to say a proper
thank you for the many presents that parents give them.
Because this end-of-year gifting ritual has grown over
the years until it is now practically written in stone
that parents must shower their children’s teachers with
chocolates, bath oil and theatre vouchers. In fact, like so
many things in modern life, it has become a positive rat
race of one-upmanship, with some parents in wealthy
areas bestowing designer handbags and wads of cash.
But teachers often say they appreciate the
kind notes and cards far more than the presents
themselves (well, perhaps not the cash…).
This is because today’s teaching is so often a thankless
task. While many teachers love their hours in the classroom
and say it’s a privilege to be shaping young minds,
almost all now work in less-than-ideal circumstances.
Most have to deal with a trying combination of wayward
pupils, constantly changing exams and syllabuses, underfunded
schools, poor management and complaining parents. In
addition they have to read damning headlines about teachers
in the press and are often blamed for social ills like obesity and
child mental health problems, whose roots lie far beyond school.
So a few kind words from an appreciative parent
at the end of term can feel like gold dust.
But you, as a parent – even as you hand over your carefully
wrapped bottle of body lotion - might actually not be feeling
all that appreciative of a profession which goes AWOL for
six to eight weeks of the summer, leaving you to devise
numerous cunning and expensive ways to keep your child
supervised and entertained. Surely, you think, any job that
gives people that sort of summer break is a bit of a doddle?
The long summer holiday was historically there so
children could help with the harvest. But now, when
all that most children harvest is ‘likes’ for their social
media posts, there are plenty of people in and around the
educational world who say it’s time for schools to chop
the school year into more manageable bite-sized pieces.
A few have already done so, and say the advantages are
overwhelming. Pupils don’t forget so much of what they’ve
learned in their shorter summer holiday. Neither do they get
so bored. Pupils and teachers alike no longer have to crawl
exhausted to the end of three long terms. Family holidays can
be spread throughout the year. And working parents - which
these days means most parents - find it easier to plug the kind
of childcare gaps created by regular short school breaks.
But, as the headmaster of one of this country’s leading
independent schools recently explained to me, it ain’t
never going to happen on any widespread scale. The
universities and exam boards, he said, are far too invested
in how things run now to consider tearing up their
timetables. Also his “poor teachers” would be horrified
at the thought of losing their long summer break.
Perhaps surprisingly, the only group he thought would
welcome it would be the pupils. At the end of last summer
he had bumped into one of his girl students in the local
town and asked her how she was. She looked glum and she
was, she told him, “schoolsick”, and absolutely longing for
the routines and activities of school to start up again.
However no-one – not pupils, teachers or even parents
- feels like this in July, when the long, lazy promise
of summer lies ahead. Happy holidays everyone.
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Festival
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Family fun for the
summer holidays
at Godstone Farm
24th July to 3rd September 2018
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Art
Mon – Sat Wed 4 – Thu 19 July
10am-5pm
Mill Studio, Yvonne Arnaud
Theatre, Millbrook, Guildford,
GU1 3UX
Yvonne Arnaud Art
Guildford Arts’ summer exhibition
“Yvonne Arnaud Art” at the
historic Mill Studio, is an exciting
display of contemporary paintings,
prints, photography, sculpture,
ceramics and glasswork from
local and nationally renowned
artists. All work is for sale, and on
Saturdays there is an opportunity
to meet the artist. There is also an
art quiz for younger visitors.
Entry: Free
Info: yvonne-arnaud.co.uk
9 Jun – 21 Jul
New Ashgate Gallery, Waggon
Yard, Farnham GU9 7PS
Martin Greenland
Highly acclaimed and awardwinning
artist Martin Greenland’s
beautifully detailed and highly
realistic yet surreal paintings will
be exhibited at New Ashgate as
a celebration of the landscape
painting, not as backdrop but as
centre stage.
Info: newashgate.org.uk
Children & Families
Sat 14 Jul 3.30pm – Sun 15
Jul 10am
Hascombe Road, Godalming,
GU8 4AD
Big Camp
Join wildlife expert Jonnie for an
overnight camping experience
which allows you to sleep under
the stars in the unique landscape
of Winkworth Arboretum.
Entry: Adults £35, Children £16
Info: nationaltrust.org.uk/
winkworth-arboretum
Sat 14 Jul – Mon 27 Aug
Hever Castle, Hever Road,
Hever, Edenbridge TN8 7NG
Summer Jousting
For those who couldn’t make it to
the World Cup, try this medieval
alternative - a jousting tournament
right out of a costume drama
starring Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn
and a host of valiant knights, and
set in an authentic Jousting Arena
complete with royal box.
Info: hevercastle.co.uk
21 Jul to 2 Sep
Bocketts Farm
Young Street, Fetcham,
Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 9BS
Summer Fun on the
Farm
The ‘Magic of Summer’ trail
will have children searching for
dragons, unicorns, fairies and
mermaids. Other daily activities
include pony rides, tractor rides,
gold panning, animal handling,
goat milking and the famous pig
racing. There are large indoor
play barns, trampolines, a young
drivers’ area, sandpits, pedal
go-karts, treehouse towers and two
giant jumping pillows.
Info: 01372 363764 /
bockettsfarm.co.uk
Mon 23 Jul – Sun 2 Sep
Godstone Farm, Tilburstow Hill
Road, Godstone RH9 8LX
Festival on the Farm
Godstone Farm is bringing you
festival vibes this month with extra
activities and entertainment for
the family, including messy play,
storytellers, garden games, and a
farm disco with the mascots, as
well as lots of food and drink to
fuel all the excitement.
Info: 01883 742546 /
godstonefarm.co.uk
Fairs & Festivals
Mon 2 – Sun 8 Jul
Venues all over Epsom & Ewell
Epsom & Ewell Arts
Festival
The theme of the 2018 Epsom
& Ewell Arts Festival is discovery,
and so it offers visitors the chance
to discover new things with
attractions including the Journey
of Discovery Contemporary Art
Exhibition, the first-ever street
performance of the seventeenthcentury
play Epsom Wells, and the
quirky, award-winning dance show
for young children, Grass.
Info: mgso4festival.org
Sat 14 - Sun 15 Jul
RHS Garden Wisley, Wisley
Lane, Woking GU23 6QB
Wisley Arts Fest
This year’s art fest offers a
weekend full of circus themed
activities, with shows in the Circus
Marquee, have-a-go areas, magic
and trapeze workshops, music
magic and art.
Entry: Members free, Non-members
normal garden admission applies.
Info: rhs.org.uk
Sat 21 Jul 12 noon
Recreation Ground, Leigh, Near
Reigate Surrey RH2 8NP
Flower Show &
Country Fayre
A tradition village show with
craft and produce stalls,
demonstrations, a vintage vehicle
parade, animal corner, and
children’s entertainment.
Entry: Adults £3, under 17s free
Info: ldcgs.co.uk
Sat 21 – Sun 22 Jul
Shalford Park, 10 Shalford
Road, Guildford GU4 8BL
Cheese & Chilli Festival
A foodie paradise complete with
food challenges, demonstrations,
stalls and competitions.
Info: cheeseandchillifestival.com
Garden
What’s On in July
Fri 1 Jun – Sun 16 Sep
Mayfield Lavender, 1
Carshalton Road, Banstead
SM7 3JA
Mayfield Lavender
A sea of organic lavender grown
in what was one of the original
Victorian Lavender fields, awaits
visitors at Mayfield Lavender.
While you’re ther, 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
Fri 27 Jul
Great Fosters, Stroude
Road, Egham TW20 9UR
Meet the Bees & Estate
Tour Lunch
Take a tour of Great Fosters’
glorious gardens with estate
Manager, Russell Dixon, visit the
bee hives with the resident Bee
Keeper and then enjoy a three
course lunch in the Estate Grill or
on the terrace.
Entry: £75
Info: greatfosters.co.uk
Leisure & Sport
Sun 15 Jul 7am
Thorpe Park, Staines Road,
Chertsey KT16 8PN
Thorpe Park Triathlon
This triathlon includes a swim
around Fleet Lake, a bike lap
on the park’s surrounding roads,
and a 10km run, consisting of
three laps around the lake on a
flat fully tarmac path which takes
competitors straight through the
middle of the park. Rallying is an
option, and there will be prizes,
finishers medals, and (best of all)
free entry to Thorpe Park during
and after the triathlon for all
volunteers, athletes and spectators
who arrive before 7.30am.
Info: triproject.co.uk
Music
Tue 10 – Sun 15 Jul
Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew,
Richmond TW9 3AB
Kew the Music
Get your hampers at the
ready! This one is the most
quintessentially British summer
picnic in the most stunning
setting with an all star line up to
boot. This year Kew the Music
is hosting STEPS, Gipsy Kings,
2Cellos, The Human League,
Boyzone and Jools Holland.
Info: kewthemusic.org
Sat 28 Jul 7.30pm
Pavilion Theatre Marine Parade,
Worthing BN11 3P
SINATRA & MORE BIG
SWING HITS
A unique swing experience to
take you through a history of all
the swing music greats including
Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr,
Ella Fitzgerald and Michael Buble.
Featuring special guest Stephen
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Blackland Farm
Outdoor Activity Centre
Kayaking
Canoeing
Bungee trampolining
Rock climbing
Archery
Crate challenge
Zip wire
Abseiling
Aeroball...
...and many more!
Come and join us for
fun-filled activity days.
Why not have your
birthday party here too?
01342 810493
blackland@girlguiding.org.uk
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Blackland Farm
Mt Ephraim
Gardens
Faversham, Kent
AUGUST 3-5
Three days of classic, legendary
bands, good food, award winning
real ales, ciders and lagers,
presented in a truly beautiful setting
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What’s On in July
Triffitt, the world’s number one
Frank Sinatra tribute (as seen in
Frankly Sinatra)
Info: ryanmacmusic.com
Sat 28 Jul 7.30pm-10.30pm
Painshill, Portsmouth Road,
Cobham KT11 1JE
WWI Centenary Jazz,
Jive & Swing Night
Painshill’s beautiful conservatory
and walled garden will be filled
with the music of Five Star Swing
Band performing the best of
feel good jazz, jive and swing, so
polish off your dancing shoes and
party like it’s 1918!
Entry: Adults £22, Members £18
Info: painshill.co.uk
Theatre
Wed 11 – Sat 14 Wed 25 – Sat
28 Jul
Waverley Abbey House,
Waverley Lane, Farnham
GU9 8EP & Merrist Wood,
Worplesdon, Guildford
GU3 3PE
Anne Boleyn
Howard Brenton’s unique take
on the complex and notorious
life of Anne Boleyn is performed
by Guildbury’s Theatre
Company as the perfect open
air accompaniment to a summer
evening picnic.
Info: guildburys.com
Fri 13 – Sat 21 Jul
Guildford Castle Keep, Castle
Street, Guildford GU1 3SX
The Taming of the
Shrew
Shakespeare’s fast-paced comic
tale of two sisters – the lovely
Bianca who is desired by all and
the shrewish Katherine who is
desired only by one devilish suitor.
The Pranksters Theatre Company
brings this controversial classic to
the perfect setting of Guildford
Castle keep for four performances.
Info: pranksterstheatre.org.uk
Wednesday 25 July 7pm
Haslemere Museum 78 High
Street, Haslemere GU27 2LA
Chapterhouse Theatre
Company – Sense and
Sensibility
Grab a picnic and head to the
beautiful lawns of Haslemere
Museum to see Chapterhouse
Theatre Company perform
magical theatre under the stars.
The exquisite and lively tale of
Sense and Sensibility follows the
love mistakes and heartbreaks
of sisters Elinor and Marianne
Dashwood as they make their
first forays into the exciting world
of Regency society and try to
find a balance between sense and
sensibility. Adapted by awardwinning
writer Laura Turner.
Info: chapterhouse.org
Workshops
Sat 7 and Sun 8 Jul 10am-4pm
Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent
TN15 0RP
Call the shots at the
Panasonic Roadshow
Knole’s intricate architecture and
wild deer herd make fantastic
subjects for photographers. Brush
up your skills at the familyfriendly
Panasonic Roadshow,
where experts will lend you a
camera and show you how to take
the best shots on a guided photo
walk in Knole Park.
Entry: Free
Info: 01732462100 /
nationaltrust.org.uk/knole
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ENJOY FREE RANGE
FAMILY FUN ON THE FARM
THIS SUMMER!
Friendly
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Pony rides
PLUS
A full programme of fun farm activities
including pony rides, goat milking,
pig racing and much more!
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“London’s hottest
picnic concerts”
Metro
10 July
with very special guests
Saara Aalto
12 July
11 July
the
GIPSY KINGS
ft. NICOLAS REYES & TONNINO BALIARDO
13 July
with support
NERINA PALLOT
10 – 15 July 2018
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Raymond Gubbay
Royal
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14 July
BOYZONE
THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT
THE FAREWELL TOUR
NADINE
Luna
15 July
Jools Holland
& His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
featuring Gilson Lavis with
special guest Marc Almond
and guest vocalists Ruby Turner,
Louise Marshall and Rosie Mae.
JAZZ MORLEY
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Trains throughout the Summer - Picnic Areas -
Buffet Facilities at all Stations.
WHY NOT VISIT
THE ‘ELEPHANT PLAY VAN’ AT
HORSTED KEYNES STATION? OR HOP
OFF AT KINGSCOTE STATION FOR A
REFRESHING CUPPA AND LET THE CHILDREN
ENJOY SOME TIME IN THE PLAY AREA?
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don’t miss
FUN and NOISE filled
Kids Tours on
Concorde!
30 TH JULY - 24 TH AUGUST
A bumper season of family fun awaits visitors this summer holiday...
our legendary car rides
run every Monday-Thursday* until the August Bank Holiday.
Every weekday (including Fridays) we will be running
free workshops for youngsters
napier-railton race experience
in the 4d theatre
pedal planes and cars for the
under 5s and our mascot bertie bear , who
will be taking strolls through the site to meet his fans.
PLUS every weekday throughout the summer holidays join one
mins
kids tour of the flight shed!
of our expert guides for an exciting 30mins
who
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Here’s your Summer
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from 30 th July – 24 th August
Every day
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free parking, sat nav postcode: kt13 0sl
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Pedal Planes ü
Monday – Thursday
Car Rides ü
22 nd & 23 rd August
Wood Turning
Demonstrations
The Surrey Association of Woodturners will be here
delivering free wood turning demonstration.
*Car rides are subject to a minimum donation of
£1 per passenger and will only proceed if weather
and track conditions are suitable.
A MAGICAL SUMMER HOLIDAY EXPERIENCE
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14TH JULY - 2ND SEPTEMBER 2018
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New Food & Wine Pairing Dinners and
a new Fizz on Foot Wine Club
These are exclusive evenings where you can explore wines that have been
carefully selected with the hotel’s chef to match a delicious dinner. Plus
wine tasting evenings with matching canapés.
Friday 27 July – Spanish wine tasting with six wines and matching
canapés, 7pm, £18 per head at Da Vinci Hotel, Eastbourne.
Friday 24 August – French wine tasting with six wines and matching
canapés, 7pm, £18 per head at Da Vinci Hotel, Eastbourne.
Date to be confirmed, September – German wine tasting with six wines
and matching canapés, £18 per head at Da Vinci Hotel, Eastbourne.
Thursday 25 October – Wine Pairing Dinner with Spanish wines.
Thursday 13 December – Wine Pairing Dinner
with champagnes (black tie).
All wine pairing dinners are £45.00 per head and
held at the Hydro Hotel, Eastbourne.
Wine tasting club
Tel: 01323 737271 to make a reservation.
Fizz on Foot offers escorted walking tours in
the beautiful Sussex Downs area, with a focus
on visiting great award winning vineyards
and enjoying tasting fine English wines.
These one day bespoke tours can be made as
much fun as you want and include transport,
gourmet lunch and the wine tastings.
Why not try our one day mid-week taster
Tour including lunch and wine tasting
for £89.00.
Tel: 01323 737271 Mobile: 07971 851777
fizz on foot @fizzonfoot @fizzonfoot
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Win A £400 Voucher
From Layered Lounge
Layered Lounge began when owners Suzy and Lou met at the school gates
and realised that they both shared a passion for interiors and a dream
of building something of their own to be proud of. They launched
Layered Lounge last year and now that dream is becoming a reality.
At Layered Lounge, products are designed to pay attention to trends without being
dictated by them. Their beautiful online store is a destination for those looking
for affordable products sourced from specialist producers. It’s full of timeless,
quality buys which help customers to easily incorporate Suzy and Lou’s relaxed
but elegant sense of style into their own homes. As well as a stunning range of
textiles, lighting, and other accents, Layered Lounge also sell own brand fragrances
with a donation of the profits going to local charity Action4Archie, which raises
money and awareness for research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
Although Layered Lounge is still young Suzy and Lou see it growing into something of a
lifestyle brand, encompassing your home, health and wellbeing into one.
So watch this space!
layeredlounge.com
How to enter: For your
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from Layered Lounge, just
answer the following question:
What are the names of Layered
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your answer with your contact
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by 31 July 2018. The prize
comprises a gift voucher
worth £400 to be redeemed
at Layered Lounge. There is
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prize must be taken before 31
October 2018. *You must be
over the age of 18 to enter.
Congratulations to Mo Sansara who wins our May competition for £499 of Le Creuset Cookware
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Jane Howard’s
Fables from
the Farm
This month Jane finds she’s as busy as a bee
It has been very busy in the apiary in recent weeks – for
me and the bees – and I’m looking forward to things
settling down as spring meanders into summer.
I have always been quite a low-key bee keeper with two, or
three colonies producing enough jars to supply us throughout
the year with honey for our tea and presents for foodie
friends. But this year I got carried away and started doing
lots of what I considered rather advanced manipulations (the
official bee-keeping term for knowledgeable rummaging) and
bloomin heck I now have five colonies on the go!
Most insects overwinter when a mated queen hibernates.
Honey bees do it differently. At the height of the summer,
usually July, there will be some 50,000 bees in a colony
rushing about to collect pollen, propolis, water or nectar.
Pollen, which is collected in little sacs on the bees’ hind
legs, is very high in protein and is used to feed the young
larvae. Propolis, (if you’re interested the name is derived from
the Greek: pro – in front of and polis – city which refers
to its use to seal up and protect their empire) is collected
from the buds and bark of certain trees
and rather like Polyfilla is used to seal up
cracks and strengthen creaking joints.
Among other things, water is used for
cooling the hive on a hot day, but it’s
nectar, which is turned into honey, that
they eat over the winter – and it’s also the
bit we beekeepers get excited about.
On a sunny summer day each bee will make about 10 trips,
each one lasting up to an hour and covering 5 or 6 km. On
every journey she (the workers are all female!) will visit about
1000 flowers collecting about 70mg of honey – the equivalent
of her own weight. Imagine trying to haul that lot home from
“Each bee collects
about a teaspoon of
honey in her frantic
six-week life”
Waitrose. And next time you spread some on your toast
ponder this: to make one pound of honey the bees have
flown over 55,000 miles and visited over 2 million flowers,
with each bee collecting about a teaspoon of honey in her
frantic six-week life. Beat that, Marmite.
In a good year a strong colony of bees should produce
at least 40lb of honey which is collected in August and
will last forever – the oldest ever found, in a noblewoman’s
grave in Georgia, was 5,500 years old and
Tutankhamun was also discovered with
a few jars for the journey. But as well as
collecting nectar the bees are also busy
with another agenda – making more
colonies and this is the tricky part for the
beekeeper.
As explained, in the summer there
will be up to 50,000 in the hive but by the autumn the
numbers drop to around 10,000 bees who will spend the
winter eating the stored honey and keeping the queen (who
is full of fertile eggs) warm and fed. She starts laying again
in the spring to create peak population in July.
However, as the numbers build they often decide to
swarm, whereby the queen and all the flying bees – the
workforce – leave home for fresh pastures leaving behind
all the brood (eggs, larvae and baby bees). One of the best
ways to prevent this is to split them manually which is why
my three colonies have become five.
I’ve heard mead is delicious, time to research a recipe…
If you’ve ever thought about owning a few chickens, sheep, pigs
or even cows, Jane will be running a full-day course as part of
the summer programme at Curious House Courses in Stonegate
on September 7th. The morning will romp through the joys of
smallholding and the afternoon will include a walk round Coopers
Farm. Find out more at curioushouse.net
Follow Jane Howard – and the farm – on Instagram @coopersfarm
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