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Contents<br />
<strong>July</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
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HEAVENLY HAVENS<br />
Maggie Alderson selects this<br />
month’s dream properties<br />
NOTEBOOK<br />
Our top events to put in<br />
your diary this month<br />
GOD’S ACRE<br />
A vibrant revamp of a<br />
rambling old rectory<br />
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110<br />
94<br />
MIDSUMMER FLAIR<br />
Kate Watts styles summery<br />
frocks at our Midsummer Fair<br />
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL<br />
Josephine Fairley finds petite<br />
beauty buys to travel with<br />
A YEAR OF WELLNESS<br />
Eminé Rushton keeps your skin<br />
safe for summer<br />
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135<br />
141<br />
38<br />
SWIM TIME<br />
Pools that are built to suit the<br />
Great British climate (even<br />
when it’s not so great)<br />
BIG IS BEAUTIFUL<br />
Sue Whigham shares her<br />
love of large leaves<br />
SCHOOL’S OUT!<br />
Hilary Wilce on summer holidays<br />
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GET THE LOOK<br />
Products to help you steal<br />
the rectory’s style<br />
HOUSE OF SCARVES<br />
See <strong>inside</strong> the home of textile<br />
designer Melanie Laslett<br />
GET THE LOOK<br />
A guide to imitating the lovely<br />
Melanie’s unique aesthetic<br />
WEALDEN TIMES<br />
MIDSUMMER FAIR <strong>2018</strong><br />
A look back at our biggest<br />
ever Midsummer Fair<br />
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116<br />
123<br />
TOOTH WISDOM<br />
Dentist’s tips to keep you<br />
smiling through the years<br />
CHEF’S HOME COOKING<br />
Find out what chef Toby<br />
Welfare cooks for his family<br />
when he’s off duty<br />
PORTRAIT OF A GARDEN<br />
Jo Arnell muses on a year in<br />
the life of Great Dixter<br />
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WHAT’S ON<br />
Events to look forward to this <strong>July</strong><br />
COMPETITION<br />
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FABLES FROM THE FARM<br />
Jane Howard is as busy as a bee<br />
INTERIORS<br />
SUPPLEMENT<br />
18 pages<br />
of fabrics,<br />
furniture, and<br />
figurines.<br />
After page 64.<br />
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NON-STOP FAMILY<br />
FUN IN SURREY<br />
A day out to suit every family member<br />
For families who wish to remain<br />
close to London while being<br />
free from the capital’s hustle and<br />
bustle, <strong>Surrey</strong> is the ideal county<br />
to settle in. Neighbouring south-west<br />
London districts, Epsom, Banstead and<br />
surrounding areas are the epitome of<br />
suburban living and boast a variety of<br />
fun activities suitable for all age groups.<br />
One of the most popular attractions in the<br />
area is Chessington World of Adventures.<br />
Alongside it’s exhilarating rollercoasters is<br />
the impressive zoo with over 1,000 exotic<br />
animals, including lions, gorillas, penguins<br />
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Land of Tiger opened with a family of four<br />
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Rock log flume. Just a short drive from<br />
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For the perfect combination of education<br />
and fun there is Bocketts Farm in Fetcham.<br />
Nestled on the edge of the idyllic <strong>Surrey</strong><br />
Hills is a family run, working farm where<br />
visitors can learn about the day-to-day<br />
responsibilities of a farmer, such as<br />
lambing in the spring. Children are also<br />
able to blow off some steam in miniature<br />
tractors in the Young Drivers Zone or in<br />
the play barn. Other features include the<br />
trampolining centre, a giant inflatable<br />
jumping pillow and a water war zone.<br />
The award-winning Hobbledown is also in<br />
the local area and is suitable for children<br />
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Hobbledown is home to an array of<br />
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exotic species such as camels, wallabies<br />
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keeps its schedule varied meaning no<br />
two visits are ever the same. A standout<br />
opportunity, perfect for a birthday<br />
treat, is the ‘Be a Zookeeper for the Day’<br />
experience. This gives children the<br />
opportunity to get up close and personal<br />
with the animals and get a hands-on<br />
experience. To keep energy levels high,<br />
the menu has been revamped to serve<br />
food inspired by London food markets.<br />
From southern fried chicken wraps to<br />
za’atar chicken, there will be something<br />
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Take your day out into the evening at<br />
Epsom Playhouse. Located in the heart<br />
of Epsom, a visit to the theatre makes<br />
for a seamless afternoon or evening<br />
with plenty of dining options, including<br />
Pizza Express, Prezzo, Ask Italian and<br />
Bill’s just around the corner. The main<br />
auditorium of the Playhouse seats up<br />
to 450 people and is a favourite with<br />
touring pantomimes, comedians and<br />
tribute acts, with a multi-storey car park<br />
adjacent allowing for easy access.<br />
With the ample child-friendly experiences<br />
available, Epsom and the neighbouring<br />
villages are in high demand amongst<br />
young and growing families. Centrally<br />
located between Banstead and Epsom<br />
Downs, Shanly <strong>Homes</strong> have developed<br />
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Nower Place is a private development of 11<br />
three and four bedroom modern houses<br />
all designed with stylish kitchens featuring<br />
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range from £775,000 to £945,000 and the<br />
show home is available to view Thursday<br />
– Monday, 10am-5pm. Meanwhile, The<br />
Bramblings is a collection of 8 four and<br />
five bedroom detached houses situated<br />
on an exclusive private cul-de-sac, ranging<br />
from £699,950 to £885,000. The show<br />
home will be opening in Autumn <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Both developments are around ten minutes<br />
from Epsom Town Centre making them a<br />
great investment for your family’s future.
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Brighton Road this one<br />
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Now in need of<br />
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A unique opportunity to acquire this substantial property situated<br />
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The delightful village setting of Cranleigh is home<br />
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fittings of the highest quality, whilst the<br />
traditional exteriors are inspired by the quaint<br />
local surroundings. In each home, the meticulous<br />
attention to detail is evident in its design, with<br />
spacious living arrangements carefully structured<br />
to encourage natural light to flood in and enhance<br />
the interior features. The open-plan layouts are<br />
complemented by high specification kitchens with<br />
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fitted Roca bathroom suites.<br />
Cranleigh offers a great community spirit and a<br />
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selection of independent cafés, boutique shops<br />
and traditional pubs, all within a ten-minute walk *<br />
from the development. The town is rich in local<br />
heritage, from Cromwell Coffee House serving<br />
coffee to villagers for over 50 years, to Manns of<br />
Cranleigh dating back to 1887, making it one of<br />
the finest and oldest independent department<br />
stores in the area.<br />
Longhurst Park enjoys a beautiful countryside<br />
location whilst being just 10 miles from Guilford,<br />
from which London Waterloo is easily accessible<br />
via rail in just over 30 minutes. For residents<br />
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Airport is just 17 minutes and Heathrow Airport<br />
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*<br />
Travel times taken from National Rail and Google Maps. Terms and conditions apply. Please speak to a sales advisor for further details on Help to Buy. Street scene and show home photography. Imagery includes optional upgrades at additional cost.<br />
Pricing correct on 22.06.18. Crest Nicholson Operations Limited, Crest House, Pyrcroft Road, Chertsey, KT16 9GN. Registered Company Number: 1168311<br />
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The computer generated illustrations are for general guidance only.<br />
*Help to Buy is available in England on new homes up to £600,000. Terms and conditions apply.
THE LODGE<br />
Price Guide £1.8m<br />
∙ A magnificent four bedroom country house<br />
∙ Luxurious master bedroom suite<br />
∙ Three further bedrooms all ensuite<br />
∙ Superb kitchen/dining/family room with bi-fold doors<br />
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HIGHFIELD Price Guide £3m<br />
∙ A magnificent (circa 5466 ft 2 ) country house<br />
∙ Grounds of approx. 5 acres (further land available by<br />
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∙ Six bedrooms all ensuite<br />
∙ Luxurious kitchen/dining room<br />
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PICTURESQUE SURROUNDINGS<br />
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gold leaf, crafted by the famous Austrian<br />
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Where: Oxshott, described in the<br />
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Setting: Wooded landscape for miles.<br />
Beds: 9 Baths: 9<br />
Special features: A lift from the<br />
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A Wendy house in the same style as the<br />
mansion, that’s big enough to live in.<br />
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Outside: A stunning outdoor pool<br />
in formal landscaping, 360 degrees<br />
panoramic views. A lot of car parking.<br />
Time to town: “40 minutes from<br />
Piccadilly.”<br />
Price: £14,500,000<br />
Agent: Sotheby’s International Realty<br />
01932 860537 sothebysrealty.co.uk<br />
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Gore’s Farm<br />
£2,500,000<br />
The dream: Timber clad, with a traditional<br />
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house was built in 2007 and combines<br />
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There’s a glass-sided open staircase and the<br />
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Where: Four-and-a-half miles from<br />
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Setting: Tranquil countryside, with farreaching<br />
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Beds: 5 Baths: 4<br />
Special features: Stabling for ten horses.<br />
Pleasing details: Cinema room, music<br />
room, boot room, library, larder…<br />
Outside: Eight acres of beautifully<br />
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Time to town: A crisp 35 minutes from<br />
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Price: £2,500,000<br />
Agent: Savills Guildford 01483 796820<br />
savills.com<br />
Plot 2, Highfield<br />
£1,795,000<br />
The dream: Farmhouse-style architecture in a<br />
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Where: Just outside the village of Lingfield.<br />
Setting: Rolling countryside, between two areas<br />
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Beds: 5 Baths: 5<br />
Special features: A very large master suite with<br />
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Outside: Laid to lawn with some planting at<br />
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Time to town: Trains from Lingfield to<br />
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Price: £1,795,000<br />
Agent: Hamptons 01342 393034<br />
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Previous page: The dining room is painted in Thai Sapphire<br />
by Little Greene. The cast iron dining chairs are from Oka. The<br />
botanical photograph is by Isabel Bannerman Top: Jane’s love of<br />
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Looking through to the back kitchen<br />
Every house has a story – but it’s very rare to find one<br />
that feels like a story in itself. With this dwelling, in<br />
the south east corner of Kent, even before you turn<br />
into the gravel drive that slopes gently up to the elegant<br />
porticoed entrance, there is a sense of a scene being set.<br />
The perfect English meadow, with sheep safely grazing,<br />
trees dotted through it, as though placed by Capability<br />
himself, an ancient parish church set behind, all enclosed<br />
by the kind of metal fences you see around major country<br />
estates. It feels like it’s still the 18th century, when the<br />
house was built, and if Mr Darcy were to swing into view,<br />
wet shirt and breeches clinging to his hunksome frame,<br />
you wouldn’t be at all surprised.<br />
It fits perfectly with the most recent part of this house’s<br />
history. The trail which brought the current owners to this<br />
perfect Georgian rectory – only the fourth set of residents<br />
not to be rectors of the parish – started with one of them<br />
dreaming of a house with its own lake.<br />
“We were still based in London,” says John, “but we had<br />
a cottage near Canterbury. One day I said, ‘Wouldn’t it be<br />
nice to have a lake at the end of the garden so you could<br />
have a swim in the morning?’…”<br />
A treasure hunt of houses began with the first one,<br />
while being in entirely the wrong spot, too close to the <br />
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Left and below: The first glimpse of Jane’s extensive collection<br />
of Murano glass in the main hall. The ebony console table is by<br />
Gareth Neal<br />
motorway, opening up the idea of the perfect proportions of a<br />
Georgian house being what they were looking for.<br />
“I had always said I couldn’t retire to the country,” says<br />
Jane, “because the houses aren’t big enough, they’re all<br />
barns and farmhouses, but when we saw the first house it<br />
got us thinking maybe there are other Georgian ones.”<br />
The next key plot point: separate Googling led them<br />
both to the same house – the one where they now live.<br />
“It said it was under offer,” says John, “but on an irrational<br />
impulse I took the day off to come and look at it anyway –<br />
and found the owners weren’t happy with the offer. I thought<br />
Jane will say it’s too big…but when she came to look, to<br />
my amazement she said ‘It’s going to be a lot of work’…<br />
with the clear implication ‘and when can we start?’ ”<br />
“We knew it was a ten-year project,” says Jane. “We’ve<br />
done a room a year for six years and it’s not finished yet. We<br />
couldn’t have done any of it without Kevin McNulty, our<br />
wonderful builder. He’s my hero and genius problem solver.”<br />
As they tell the tale, we are sitting around a large table<br />
under a chandelier made from old-style decanters by Lee<br />
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of rooms, with a wonderfully theatrical feel – enhanced<br />
further by the sound of the church bells ringing outside.<br />
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Above: Behind a sofa in the sitting room, a collection of<br />
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decorative screen. The late 19th century bronze figure is from<br />
Christopher Buck Antiques<br />
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Above: The dining room viewed from the other end, showing the second Isabel Bannerman photograph over 12 figures of Chinese<br />
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This page: The wonderful pea green paint in John’s study also by<br />
Little Greene. The curtain fabric is by Lacroix. John’s computer<br />
is cleverly hidden behind doors in the bookshelves. The Chinese<br />
porcelain Foo Dogs – or ‘guardian lions’ – on the mantelpiece are<br />
another of Jane’s favourite things to collect<br />
features, the shutters and the windows.”<br />
Sitting with us at the table is another important<br />
character in the story of the rectory, Mark Howorth<br />
of the London-based interior and architectural design<br />
company, Callender Howorth, who worked with Jane<br />
and John previously on their London house and Kent<br />
cottage, and played a big part in the décor of the rectory.<br />
“Kitchens are normally very utilitarian,” he says. “But<br />
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That’s why it is so much fun working with her. It’s all<br />
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sparks something in our team, it’s very collaborative.’<br />
This made it the perfect point for us to go and explore<br />
what that collaboration has created, which turned out to<br />
be more of an expedition than a house tour, as I filled 30<br />
pages of my large notebook, with frantic scribbling.<br />
It is truly rambling, with a back staircase up to the<br />
mansard-roofed old wing of the house as well as the grand<br />
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“depending how you look at it,” says John. I also lost count<br />
of the number of bathrooms and can only remember that<br />
they were all big and they were all fabulous and I wanted<br />
to have a long leisurely bath in every one of them.<br />
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Left: The walls in the ‘blackboard loo’ have<br />
been enthusiastically graffitied by the whole<br />
family Above: The loo window is filled with<br />
coloured Duralex tumblers, reflected in the<br />
mirror on the window sill<br />
But while it is a very large and varied house, it is unified in<br />
character, all brought together by the owners’ personalities,<br />
interests and collections, with various themes linking it all<br />
together, cleverly merged into context by Mark’s input.<br />
One of the themes is peacock feathers, which I first notice<br />
on the decorative screen in the grand drawing room, in fabric<br />
sourced by Mark. Later on I spot them again on the other<br />
side of the house in the snug – a cosy TV room – where they<br />
appear in a beautiful mosaic table by glass artist Nikki Ella<br />
Whitlock, one of many craft makers Jane follows and collects.<br />
And when, at the end of the house tour (several hours<br />
later…) we returned to the kitchen, I spotted the peacock<br />
wallpaper in there.<br />
“There is something peacock in every room…” said Jane,<br />
smiling. “I’ve always loved them, which made me want to<br />
set off to the top of the house again to find them all, and I<br />
would have been quite happy to have done so, being by that<br />
point as much in love with a house as it’s possible to be.”<br />
The magic starts in the hallway, where the glass collection<br />
– as seen in the kitchen - comes into glorious focus in a<br />
brightly coloured group of stunning hand-blown pieces of<br />
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scene curtains and some splendid Venetian glass mirrors.)<br />
But back to the hall – although it is hard to<br />
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As she says: “We’ve got room for it…”<br />
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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<br />
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<br />
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bibelots, some from CAA, others made by friends and family.<br />
The third arrangement is on top of the mantelpiece, the fourth<br />
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Above and left: The mantelpiece in Jane’s library<br />
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“I told Mark I wanted colour and he came up with this<br />
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“It’s all about colour, texture and vibrancy,” says Mark.<br />
“Nothing was done in the way it’s ‘supposed’ to be. It’s<br />
quirky. A house has to reflect the personality of the owners.”<br />
“You made me brave,” adds Jane.<br />
“We did push you a bit…” laughs Mark.<br />
Perfectly illustrating the colour-texture-vibrancy here is his<br />
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and black velvet by Timorous Beasties, called Bird Branch.<br />
Another of Mark’s touches, showing the (literal…)<br />
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“The premise of designing this house,’”says Mark, “was<br />
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“Because of the scale of the dining room – it really is<br />
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careful to get the balance right, not to be garish. It had<br />
to be the right level of patina and the right scale. Because<br />
the walls of an old house aren’t straight, it’s a bit skewiff<br />
and that’s perfect, it looks like it’s been there 250 years.”<br />
Alongside the contemporary energy boost from such<br />
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reflect its perfect Georgian symmetry, with four doors, two<br />
windows and two facing console tables. Then there is the<br />
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The colour and drama continues when you step through<br />
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in the room it’s the perfect background for the vivid<br />
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This page: The ‘Library Loo’ featuring a table made of books,<br />
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Above left and right: Another book cover artwork by the<br />
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Above: The terraced garden at the front of the house. The previous owner had created the garden from scratch and Melanie has<br />
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Below right: The rear garden looking across the Old Town<br />
It was William Morris, who said “Have nothing in your<br />
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<strong>inside</strong> and out.<br />
The Georgian frontage – which is at the back of the house<br />
- overlooks Hastings’ Old Town with fabulous views across<br />
to the West Hill with its rows of houses painted in sugaralmond<br />
shades. On the main entrance side the exterior is a<br />
combination of Victorian and 1960s, with sweeping views <br />
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It’s this magical location that first drew Melanie from<br />
London (via Canterbury) to the most easterly side of Hastings.<br />
So close to the hustle and bustle of the Old Town, with its<br />
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“I love the fact that when we are in the cottage,<br />
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a coffee or snapping up a vintage bargain.”<br />
Melanie, I hope she won’t mind me saying, is a magpie. But<br />
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design sensibility. Her home is the epitome of curated calm<br />
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either its beauty or usefulness.<br />
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This page: The main bedroom. The ladder, above, is from Eras<br />
of Style and displays some of Melanie’s fabric designs for Laslett<br />
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This page: The spare bedroom has views over the Old Town.<br />
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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<br />
the third bedroom<br />
adaption was to create a dream bathroom.<br />
“That was the first room to be completed – and it’s<br />
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Hill while I soak in my tub. It really is perfect.”<br />
The original bathroom was downstairs, so it made sense<br />
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ceramic tiles, while the rest of the room has original<br />
Victorian floorboards, which have been sanded and varnished.<br />
“I love introducing a focal point with pattern, rather<br />
than using it everywhere,” she says, her textile design<br />
and pattern-making background coming to the fore.<br />
The master bedroom window also benefits from views,<br />
looking out over the garden and up to the country park.<br />
“We can sit in bed with our morning cups of tea and gaze<br />
out – and whatever time of year it is, the view is never bleak.”<br />
This room has plenty of Melanie’s signature pops of<br />
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a black and white optical print woven rug from John<br />
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Propped up against the side of the wardrobe is a vintage<br />
wooden ladder from Eras of Style in Bexhill, used to display<br />
samples of Melanie’s own textiles and scarves and some of<br />
her favourite finds. Bedlinen is neatly stored in a 1940s<br />
tallboy, another bargain from a secondhand shop in Bexhill,<br />
a favourite hunting ground for retro furniture and fabric.<br />
Like the bathroom, the guest bedroom has a vantage<br />
point over the Old Town and is one of the few rooms that<br />
has curtains – the rest have shutters. The room oozes calm<br />
and although it’s undoubtedly minimalist, it still has a<br />
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Under the window, there’s a secondhand ottoman<br />
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This page: The front door<br />
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downstairs bathroom was ripped out to make way for the<br />
dining area and a skylight fitted to introduce yet more light.<br />
Slate grey kitchen units from Jewsons were cleverly<br />
customised by Melanie’s uncle and their modern, no-nonsense<br />
utilitarian feel is softened by quartz sandstone worktops.<br />
“The quartz adds a bit of sparkle and glamour,” she<br />
says. Her signature pop of pattern is present in the form of<br />
Moroccan jewel-coloured encaustic tiles sourced in London.<br />
“I laid them out like a patchwork quilt and I love the<br />
fact that they introduce a riot of colour to the kitchen.”<br />
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This page: The living space had already been knocked through.<br />
The denim-covered sofa is by Danish designer Peter Jeppesen<br />
and the coffee table is from Heals. The shelving unit, left, is<br />
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Melanie’s choice of furniture has maximised the space.<br />
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that are linear and not space hungry.”<br />
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Above: A woodburning stove keeps the sitting room cosy.<br />
Left: Melanie’s work space is at the other end of the room<br />
Solutions such as a glass desk and generous shelves to<br />
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Above: Melanie keeps her workspace ordered with a shelving unit from Habitat. The glass desk is also from there<br />
perennials, accent shrubs – and the odd cactus.<br />
Rosemary rubs shoulders with lavender, sage with thyme,<br />
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While I have every admiration for light<br />
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This summer, I will be packing the below<br />
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You just never<br />
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trip to Dubai of all places – EIGHT JACKETS.<br />
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VOYA Organic Voyager Travel Set, £38. With its<br />
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Liz Earle Essentials Try-Me Kit, £25. Liz Earle’s skincare<br />
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Charlotte Tilbury Mini Celebrity Lipstick Charms,<br />
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A Year of Wellness<br />
These days it can feel as though you need a PhD in biochemistry to<br />
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down what the labels mean, and how to keep skin safe, naturally<br />
<strong>July</strong>: natural protection<br />
My<br />
M<br />
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bubble bath, I would immediately flare<br />
up – red skin, sore patches, eczema.<br />
Because of this sensitivity I’ve had to<br />
figure out what my skin can tolerate<br />
and have ended up with a vanity bag<br />
of simple natural oils, soothing balms<br />
and mineral make-up. Suncream was<br />
always trickiest, though. Hives, heat<br />
rash, prickly heat, eczema – I couldn’t<br />
go near the stuff. I later learned that<br />
this was because so many<br />
of the biggest names in<br />
sun protection use<br />
chemical UV filters,<br />
which absorb the sun’s<br />
rays into the skin, and<br />
then release that<br />
energy as heat.<br />
Manufacturers<br />
argue that UV<br />
energy from the sun is released<br />
as harmless photons from the<br />
skin, before it can be absorbed by<br />
any of our reactive cells, or DNA.<br />
Yet, lab studies have shown the<br />
absorption rate of the most commonly<br />
used chemical sun filter, oxybenzone<br />
can be anywhere from 1 to 9%.<br />
An important 2010 study carried<br />
out by the University of Zurich also<br />
detected oxybenzone and four other<br />
sunscreen filters in Swiss women’s breast<br />
milk, indicating that the developing<br />
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to these substances too. Oxybenzone<br />
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Covering up<br />
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being sold on their territory – to<br />
preserve their magnificent coral<br />
reefs, following damning reports<br />
on the impact that these nondegradable<br />
chemicals are having on<br />
our delicate marine ecosystem.<br />
Complicating matters even<br />
further is that almost every chemical<br />
sunscreen is, to some degree or other,<br />
shown to be pretty unstable when<br />
exposed to sunlight.<br />
When exposed to UV<br />
light, they essentially<br />
degrade on the skin,<br />
releasing free radicals<br />
that can cause premature<br />
ageing. Of the two<br />
chemical sunscreens<br />
that pass the EWG.org<br />
test (a great resource for<br />
anyone looking to remove harmful<br />
chemicals from their home), avobenzone<br />
and mexoryl SX, are by far the safest,<br />
with very limited skin penetration and<br />
no evidence of endocrine disruption.<br />
The former, however, does have a<br />
relatively high propensity to cause<br />
skin irritation as it breaks down.<br />
So which brands do I entrust with<br />
my skin? Even 100% mineral filters zinc<br />
oxide and titanium dioxide have their<br />
potential problems. There are those<br />
who believe that using nanoparticles of<br />
heavy metals, such as zinc and titanium,<br />
could also pose inhalation risks.<br />
The International Agency for Research<br />
on Carcinogens has classified titanium<br />
dioxide as a possible carcinogen when<br />
inhaled in large doses, because the lungs<br />
have difficulty clearing nanoparticles,<br />
which may pass from the lungs into<br />
the bloodstream (source: EWG.org).<br />
It’s a minefield, but common sense<br />
can prevail. A big hat, sunglasses and<br />
covering up when in direct sunshine<br />
(and certainly on the beach) is the wisest<br />
move of all. And if you want to soak up<br />
some of the sun’s healing light - lest we<br />
forget that it remains our best provider<br />
of vitamin D - you can healthily do so<br />
in the early morning, and late afternoon.<br />
You can also boost your skin’s own<br />
resilience to the sun by upping your<br />
antioxidant intake: resveratrol, a<br />
polyphenol found in red grapes (yes,<br />
that includes good red wine) and dark<br />
chocolate (hurrah), is one of the best for<br />
protecting skin from sun damage too.<br />
And, for those times when you<br />
need something serious to protect<br />
your skin, I would opt for mineral<br />
over chemical, and trust the nonnano<br />
cream from Josh Rosebrook<br />
Nutrient SPF Day Cream, £85<br />
(abeautifulworld.co.uk) and de Mamiel<br />
Exhale Hydrating Nectar SPF30, £75<br />
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tinted sunscreens are highly effective,<br />
100% natural, and a joy to use).<br />
I have also found Weleda and Lavera’s<br />
SPF offerings to be wonderfully effective<br />
at protecting my children’s skin.<br />
Most important of all is that we<br />
remember that an SPF is not a licence<br />
to sunbathe. It is simply an insurance<br />
measure against skin cancer and<br />
irreparable damage. If you seek out<br />
shade, cover up and wear a hat you<br />
are in with your best shot of having<br />
a safe summer. And, given that it can<br />
take up to 20 years for this summer’s<br />
damage to show up on your<br />
face, your future self will be<br />
eternally grateful too.<br />
Eminé Rushton is Wellbeing Director-at-Large at Psychologies magazine, and co-founder of the<br />
conscious living blog, The Balance Plan, balanceplan.co.uk<br />
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Health<br />
Tooth<br />
wisdom<br />
Teeth always matter, but as<br />
we get older the key issues in<br />
looking after them can change<br />
– we asked two dentists to give<br />
us their expert tips on how to<br />
keep smiling down the years<br />
Russell Blanchard BDS<br />
StoneRock Dental Care, Hawkhurst<br />
What are the most important things to do<br />
to safeguard your teeth over the age of 50?<br />
A good day-to-day cleaning regime and a diet low in sugar<br />
and acidity is as important over 50 as it is under, for the health<br />
of our teeth. As we grow older there may be an increased<br />
reduction in saliva production, which is very important<br />
to protect the teeth, so with specific advice and products<br />
such as Xylitiol or sugar-free gum we can help encourage<br />
saliva production and reduce the risks of active decay.<br />
Natural bone loss over time may cause the more vulnerable<br />
roots of the teeth to be exposed, giving rise to increased<br />
sensitivity and decay of the root surfaces. Regular dental<br />
visits for advice on how to manage these areas and input<br />
from a dental hygienist will benefit with cleaning and<br />
protecting the surfaces with bespoke fluoride treatment<br />
if indicated. And as we get older any untreated gum<br />
disease will potentially risk the affected teeth being lost.<br />
Over time all teeth will wear to some degree. Previous<br />
dentistry may need replacing and it’s important to<br />
keep track with regular checks and digital images.<br />
Then you can make informed choices on how further<br />
wear and tear can be reduced and whether dental<br />
treatment – functional, or aesthetic – is needed.<br />
Can everyone have tooth whitening? Or<br />
is it less advisable with older teeth?<br />
Anyone over 18 can consider tooth whitening, but we<br />
would always check the health of the teeth and gums first<br />
and the procedure should always be provided by a dentist.<br />
For older patients we would assess the potential success of<br />
the procedure before starting, because enamel will whiten<br />
and dentine won’t, so the more yellow root surfaces we<br />
sometimes see in older teeth will not be whitened.<br />
What are the most common cosmetic<br />
dentistry issues for older patients?<br />
People consider cosmetic dentistry because they would<br />
like to improve their smile or dental appearance. This<br />
motivation is specific to each client and even the smallest<br />
concerns are relevant if they can be realistically improved.<br />
The success of any cosmetic procedure depends on the<br />
end result meeting the expectations of the patient. An<br />
“However small your worry, if<br />
it matters to you, it’s important<br />
to ask and find out how<br />
it might be changed”<br />
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open communication with the clinician where concerns<br />
and possible outcomes can be discussed is vital.<br />
Examples of previous work and bespoke digital predictions<br />
of the client’s end results, as well as trial smiles, can be<br />
created to provide patients with a good understanding of<br />
what to expect before going ahead with any changes.<br />
The most common complaints are “I don’t like the way<br />
my teeth look” and “I just don’t like smiling anymore<br />
in photos” which may be as a result of mismatched<br />
fillings or old crowns in front teeth, crowded, worn, or<br />
missing teeth or old ‘silver’ fillings in the back teeth.<br />
Most troubling is loose or missing teeth which not only<br />
can be debilitating aesthetically but functionally too.<br />
We can resolve these concerns with a variety of procedures:<br />
hand-built tooth coloured fillings and veneers, ceramic<br />
restorations, implant crowns and bridges, dentures - and<br />
sometimes just with improved cleaning and whitening.<br />
However small your worry, if it is important to<br />
you then it is important to ask and find out how it<br />
might be changed. Discussing your concerns will<br />
allow you to find out specifically what your options<br />
are and how they can be achieved before you start.<br />
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Elmsleigh House Dental Clinic<br />
What are the most common dental<br />
health issues for people as they age?<br />
As we age the risk of tooth decay increases. It increases<br />
when teeth are not cleaned thoroughly, possibly<br />
because of dexterity problems such as arthritis, and<br />
when prescribed medications cause dry mouth.<br />
Older people often have a legacy of dated dental<br />
treatments, which need replacing with modern alternatives.<br />
Tooth wear can be a problem, but modern materials and<br />
techniques mean that lasting repairs can be made.<br />
Teeth can also move with age, but there are many<br />
orthodontic solutions available to all ages, from bespoke<br />
fixed braces such as Insignia and Incognito, Invisalign clear,<br />
removable aligners to faster systems for adults such as Cfast,<br />
which can straighten most adults’ teeth in 6-9 months.<br />
Gum disease, diabetes, heart disease, auto-immune<br />
conditions and dementia are all associated with a deterioration<br />
in oral health, which should be closely monitored.<br />
It is important to maintain regular check-ups<br />
with your dentist, so that as you age your dentist<br />
can take preventive measures and plan treatment<br />
for the future to minimise problems.<br />
Are people keeping their own teeth<br />
longer than they used to?<br />
With better oral health education and products available<br />
to keep your teeth healthy, people can look after their<br />
teeth for life, with regular dental check-ups, preventive<br />
measures and hygiene appointments. However, people<br />
can lose teeth at any age as a result of gum disease,<br />
tooth decay, dental infections and trauma.<br />
As people are now living a lot longer, we have to look after<br />
our teeth to ensure they last, with healthy eating and visiting<br />
your dentist for regular check-ups and preventive treatment.<br />
If teeth are too badly damaged to save, what are<br />
the options for replacements?<br />
Dentures have been the option for replacing teeth for<br />
many years, and a clinical dental technician can now make<br />
dentures that fit securely and look like natural teeth.<br />
However, no matter if you have lost one, several or<br />
all your teeth, expertly placed dental implants offer the<br />
best fixed long-term solution. They provide a stable<br />
base to which your crown, bridge or implant-stabilised<br />
denture can be securely attached, and will be made to<br />
look, fit and function just like your natural teeth.<br />
Prices vary widely for implants, but always look<br />
for a dentist who has years of expertise and uses<br />
well-researched materials, rather than the cheapest<br />
option; often these dentists have only been on a short<br />
course and use cheaper systems that do not last.<br />
The dental implant team at Elmsleigh House have<br />
helped patients who have had implants placed elsewhere<br />
fail, and are referred patients for dental implants because<br />
they are trusted for their expertise and longlasting results.<br />
One of the first implant patients at Elmsleigh House is still<br />
enjoying her replacement teeth placed over 30 years ago.<br />
What are the relative costs, time taken<br />
and longevity of the different options?<br />
This is a difficult question to answer because each<br />
option depends on an individual’s dental health and<br />
overall health – and the level of expertise, technology<br />
and quality of materials used by the practitioner.<br />
With dental implants, it is essential they are placed in<br />
healthy gum and bone, so sometimes extra work is needed<br />
such as a bone graft to ensure secure and longlasting<br />
results. Everything must be bespoke to the individual.<br />
To ensure the best dental care at any age, it is<br />
important to:<br />
• Brush your teeth last thing at night and at least one<br />
other time in the day with a fluoride toothpaste<br />
• Cut down on sugary food and drink<br />
• Visit your dentist for regular check-ups, as often<br />
as they recommend, and your hygienist for<br />
professional cleaning.<br />
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l We take time and care to ensure your replacement teeth look, feel and function like your natural teeth<br />
l Other dentists refer their patients to us for dental implants and complex treatments for our expert care<br />
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Food<br />
Chef ’s home<br />
cooking<br />
Beverly, Woody and Toby eat dinner, in their home over the restaurant<br />
Good enough to eat in the restaurant, but quick and easy to<br />
prepare at home - what a chef cooks for his own family<br />
Since opening The Cloudberry restaurant in<br />
Cranbrook in January this year, life has been<br />
very busy for chef Toby Welfare and his wife<br />
Beverley - and catering for family meals between<br />
restaurant busy shifts has not always been easy.<br />
“It can be easy to start grabbing instant food,”<br />
Toby admits. “But the trouble is you don’t feel<br />
great afterwards. The trick is to find food that is<br />
uncomplicated and quick to prepare.”<br />
This is something that son Woody, 9, already<br />
appreciates. He loves dad’s homemade pizza and<br />
pasta, with sliced courgettes sautéed in butter.<br />
“Remember things that you ate as a kid,” says<br />
Toby. “Adapt them, add in extras: a drizzle of<br />
pesto, a blob of mozzarella, or some salsa verde. Try<br />
different combinations, as long as the ingredients<br />
are good it will work.”<br />
Another great chef’s tip is to have a semi-prepared<br />
risotto base ready in the fridge (see opposite). A<br />
composed salad can be treated the same way. With<br />
a couple of additional ingredients, a mix of leaves<br />
and raw vegetables can become a complete meal.<br />
“You just need to have something rich to add in,”<br />
says Toby. “Chicken or cheese, something to lift it.<br />
Change the dressing, add mayo, herbs, whatever<br />
you have in the fridge – asparagus, peas, beans.”<br />
Chicken thighs are another stalwart. “Thighs<br />
have a lot of flavour and are quick to cook. It’s<br />
such a versatile meat. Tarragon goes really well with<br />
chicken, lemon is great, or mushrooms…”<br />
Slotting home cooking into a hectic schedule can<br />
seem a challenge, but as Toby shows with some<br />
good standby staples and a few chef’s shortcuts,<br />
delicious family meals can be rustled up in no time.<br />
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Cod with summer vegetable risotto<br />
Serves 4<br />
• 4 cod steaks, skin slashed<br />
• Risotto base:<br />
• 200g risotto rice<br />
• 1 medium onion finely<br />
chopped<br />
• 2 celery stalks peeled and<br />
finely chopped<br />
• 2 cloves garlic finely<br />
chopped<br />
• ¾ pint vegetable stock (a<br />
good stock cube will do)<br />
• Splash of white wine<br />
• 1 courgette finely diced<br />
• 250g spinach finely<br />
chopped<br />
• 150g podded peas<br />
To finish<br />
• Knob of butter<br />
• 2 tbsp grated parmesan<br />
1Fry the onion and celery<br />
in some light olive oil until<br />
soft, add the garlic and cook<br />
for one more minute, don’t<br />
allow the garlic to colour. Add<br />
the risotto rice and stir fry for<br />
a minute until the grains are<br />
slightly translucent. Add the<br />
spinach, courgettes and peas<br />
and cook for about 3 more<br />
minutes. Add a good splash<br />
of wine (125ml glass will do)<br />
and cook, stirring all the time<br />
until it evaporates.* see Chef’s<br />
Home Tip<br />
2Once the white wine is<br />
absorbed into the rice,<br />
keep adding a ladle of hot<br />
stock one at a time until the<br />
rice is almost cooked – it<br />
should still have a bite to it.<br />
3Take off the stove, add<br />
a good knob of butter<br />
and a handful of parmesan<br />
cheese, stick a lid on and rest<br />
for 5 mins. Meanwhile salt<br />
the cod steaks and place skin<br />
side down into a hot oiled<br />
frying pan. Crisp up the skin<br />
and turn over and place in a<br />
pre-heated oven (gas mk 6) for<br />
6-8 mins depending on the<br />
thickness of the fish.<br />
4When the cod is ready,<br />
stir the risotto and place<br />
a mound in each bowl. Place<br />
the cooked cod on top. You<br />
can finish this with a dollop<br />
of pesto, or simply a good<br />
squeeze of lemon.<br />
*Chef’s home tip<br />
You can make risotto days<br />
in advance and quickly<br />
finish it off to use when<br />
you need it. Prepare it<br />
to the stage marked *<br />
opposite, then spread it<br />
out on a baking tray. Leave<br />
to cool, then transfer to a<br />
bowl or storage box and<br />
it will keep in the fridge<br />
for up to five days. All you<br />
need to do when you want<br />
to use it, is add roughly<br />
two ladles of hot stock,<br />
stirring all the time until<br />
the stock is absorbed and<br />
the rice is cooked. <br />
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Parma ham, goat curd,<br />
pea & broad bean<br />
salad<br />
Chicken thigh, olives<br />
& green beans with a<br />
basil & lemon dressing<br />
Serves 4<br />
• 8 slices parma ham<br />
• 150g soft goat’s cheese<br />
• 4 tbsp crème fraîche<br />
• 100g fresh podded peas<br />
• 100g broad beans<br />
Pesto<br />
• Bunch of basil<br />
• Clove of garlic<br />
• 2 tbsp of grated parmesan<br />
• Olive oil to loosen<br />
• Pinch of salt<br />
Dressing<br />
• Half a lemon<br />
• Tsp Dijon mustard<br />
• 5 tbsp extra virgin<br />
olive oil<br />
• Salt and pepper<br />
• Chopped chives and mint<br />
1Blanch the peas and<br />
broad beans for a minute<br />
in boiling water then refresh<br />
under cold running water.<br />
Mash the goat’s cheese and<br />
crème fraîche until you have<br />
a smooth paste – this is<br />
your ‘goat curd’. Heap two<br />
tablespoons of curd onto each<br />
plate.<br />
2Bash the pesto ingredients<br />
in a pestle and mortar<br />
slowly incorporating the olive<br />
oil until you have a thick<br />
pourable consistency (this<br />
tastes even better if you do it<br />
the day before). Pour a little<br />
over the ‘goat curd’.<br />
two slices of parma<br />
3Fold ham around the goat<br />
curd, fat side up so they look<br />
a little like tulip petals. Dress<br />
the broad beans and peas and<br />
scatter around the parma ham<br />
and goat curd, scatter the<br />
chopped chives and mint over<br />
the top.<br />
Serves 4<br />
• 8 chicken thighs, boned<br />
• 3 tbsp green olives<br />
• 1 packet green beans<br />
trimmed<br />
• Salad leaves (rocket,<br />
watercress, lamb lettuce)<br />
• 1 red onion cut in half,<br />
then sliced<br />
• 6 basil leaves<br />
Dressing<br />
• Extra virgin olive oil<br />
• Lemon<br />
• 1 clove of garlic, crushed<br />
• salt<br />
1Salt the skin on the<br />
chicken thighs and place<br />
skin side down in a cold<br />
frying pan with a splash of<br />
olive oil. Put on the heat, the<br />
rising temperature will release<br />
the fat from the skin and crisp<br />
it up, this takes about 6-8<br />
mins. Turn the chicken thighs<br />
and put in a pre-heated oven<br />
gas mark 6 for 5 mins until<br />
cooked.<br />
2Meanwhile cook the green<br />
beans in boiling water. I<br />
like to cook them for 5 mins<br />
until slightly limp, I don’t like<br />
green beans when they still<br />
have their ‘squeak’ but if you<br />
want it more al dente I’d give<br />
it mins.<br />
3Crush the garlic and salt<br />
with the flat of a knife<br />
until you achieve a paste. Put<br />
in a bowl and whisk in the oil<br />
and lemon, and add any juice<br />
from the pan you’ve cooked<br />
the chicken in, add the warm<br />
green beans, olives and basil<br />
and toss.<br />
each thigh in half and<br />
4Cut stack the dressed beans,<br />
salad leaves and red onion on<br />
the plates. Rip up the basil<br />
and scatter over. Serve with<br />
chunks of crusty bread.<br />
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Peach Melba with crushed amaretti biscuits<br />
Serves 4<br />
• 3 ripe peaches<br />
• 100g caster sugar<br />
• 300ml water<br />
• 1 vanilla pod, split<br />
• Good vanilla ice cream<br />
• Amaretti biscuits<br />
Chantilly cream:<br />
• ½ pint double cream<br />
• 50g icing sugar<br />
• 1 tsp vanilla essence<br />
1You can peel the peaches<br />
but I find it always<br />
reminds me of tinned peaches<br />
when you do, so I leave the<br />
skins on. Heat up the water,<br />
sugar and split vanilla pod,<br />
bring it to the boil, stirring to<br />
release the vanilla seeds. Take<br />
off the heat.<br />
2Meanwhile cut the peaches<br />
into thin wedges and put<br />
into the hot sugar syrup. Leave<br />
to cool.<br />
3Whip the double cream<br />
with the icing sugar and<br />
vanilla essence until soft peaks.<br />
4Now construct the<br />
pudding. Get individual<br />
bowls with a bit of height - the<br />
old fashioned coupes that ice<br />
cream parlours use are ideal.<br />
Place the peach slices, napping<br />
over the sugar syrup in the<br />
bottom of the bowl. Scoop a<br />
nice ball of ice cream on top of<br />
this, spoon over the Chantilly<br />
cream, then roughly crush the<br />
amaretti biscuits with your<br />
hands over it.<br />
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Garden<br />
Portrait of<br />
a Garden<br />
Jo Arnell shares her impressions of a year at Great Dixter,<br />
one of the great gardens of England, inspired by a new<br />
tribute by esteemed photographer Julian Anderson<br />
Everchanging, always interesting, often breathtaking,<br />
Great Dixter is a fascinating place to visit. Famous<br />
for the giant Alice in Wonderland topiary, installed<br />
by the father of its creator, the late Christopher Lloyd, it is<br />
a place of floaty meadows and singing plant combinations,<br />
all set off by Lutyens’ architecture and design.<br />
For the last ten years in the care of world-renowned<br />
head gardener Fergus Garrett – who joined Lloyd there<br />
in 1992 and whose idea it was to put cactus and other<br />
exotic plants into the once Edwardian garden – it’s<br />
one of my own very favourite gardens to visit. I return<br />
to it again and again and I’m always enthralled.<br />
Eminent photographer Julian Anderson (who has 27<br />
pictures in the permanent collection of the National Portrait<br />
Gallery) was equally inspired and has spent a year taking<br />
photographs as the weather and the light change through<br />
the seasons. The results, some of which can be seen here,<br />
are being gathered into a sumptuous, crowd-funded book.<br />
“I’ve visited Dixter on a weekly basis, at different<br />
times of day and in differing weather conditions, for<br />
one calendar year,” he says. “The result is a series of<br />
pictures chronicling Dixter’s evolving life, as seen<br />
through the eye of a portrait photographer.”<br />
As well as contextual shots of areas of the garden, Julian’s<br />
pictures capture moments: small unfurlings, intimate<br />
snapshots and minute effects. Many of these result from<br />
changes in the weather. Touches of frost, mist, and slanting<br />
rays of sunshine are beautifully recorded as the garden<br />
drifts, shifts, bolts and blooms through the months.<br />
Great Dixter is a garden that is magnificently in tune with<br />
the seasons and no visit there is ever the same. There are<br />
always new combinations of plants, exciting experiments<br />
in border design, all held together by the constant - and<br />
very characterful presence of the house and yew topiary.<br />
Here are my own, very personal, impressions of a<br />
year there.<br />
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Summer<br />
Spring<br />
Spring spectacular<br />
My impressions of Dixter in late spring (the gardens open<br />
to the public in April) are of tulips and topiary. Mad, darkly<br />
looming yew shapes: peacocks on pyramids, castellations<br />
and huge chunky archways. They are too impressive to be<br />
whimsical, but you wouldn’t bat an eyelid if you came across<br />
a talking caterpillar on a giant mushroom somewhere here.<br />
The yew is a dark green backdrop, acting as both<br />
anchor and stage set, showcasing the luminous dancing<br />
troops of tulips among the fresh new growth of perennial<br />
foliage. The first wisps of monstrous fennels are already<br />
prominent, yet to rear up to their eventual dizzying<br />
heights, you can almost hear the squeak of them as they<br />
expand among their companions in the stock beds.<br />
It is joyful and uplifting to come to Dixter in May,<br />
when the spring bulbs are sounding their fanfare and the<br />
wave of surging green is making its summer promises.<br />
Summer meadows and exotica<br />
Early summer starts with drifts of opium poppies – which give<br />
the relaxed impression of being self-seeded, but are actually<br />
grown from seed and planted out as seedlings – among clouds<br />
of airy purple Thalictrum, abundantly buzzing meadows<br />
and the beginnings of the bedding. But not bedding in the<br />
municipal style, instead, wild and outrageous experimental<br />
bursts of colour, combined in often unexpected ways.<br />
Flower borders at Great Dixter, Christopher Lloyd<br />
showed us in his book, The Adventurous Gardener are<br />
exuberant, dynamic and often groundbreaking.<br />
Lloyd famously caused a horticultural intake of breath<br />
when he and Garrett ripped out the rose garden – created<br />
by Lloyd’s mother – and replanted it with exotics. A few<br />
roses still manage to eke it out there, swamped by a glorious<br />
outrage of bananas, palms, canna lilies and ginger.<br />
By late summer the yew hedges and topiary have become<br />
floating green islands on a riotous sea. Only those in the<br />
meadows are calm, as the wildflowers and grasses fade gently<br />
into dusty gold, setting seed and dying back for the winter.<br />
Self-seeding and the use of accidentally and deliberately<br />
planted annuals and biennials are a big feature of the<br />
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style here at Dixter. Some are magnificent and become<br />
focal points. Verbascum bombyciferum - a huge yellow<br />
spire with felty grey leaves - tall teasels, tame thistles<br />
and evening primroses make arresting focal points.<br />
Some are gentler; swathes of Verbena bonariensis and<br />
Tagetes ‘Cinnabar’ wash through the borders, filling out into<br />
tapestries and impressionistic panoramas. Late summer here<br />
is an endless lesson of colour effects and artful serendipity.<br />
Autumn glories<br />
The start of autumn at Great Dixter is as spectacular as high<br />
summer, the exuberance not dimmed until temperatures<br />
dip and the sun hangs lower in the sky. The borders<br />
are still in full swing, when those in other gardens have<br />
fizzled out and become drab echoes of themselves.<br />
Here at Dixter, dahlias gleam like jewels, tall daisies reach<br />
for the skies and whacky, candy pink blooms of Persicaria<br />
orientalis dangle wildly among the ornamental grasses.<br />
There is a slow softening as the days shorten;<br />
the light slants among the grasses, and the narrow<br />
paths, now festooned with foliage, can wet your<br />
legs with dew or recent rain as you brush past.<br />
By the time the garden closes to the public, the<br />
colours are mellowing into biscuity golds, rusts and<br />
dusty purple. The herbaceous plants and flowers start<br />
to die back and now the art is in dying gracefully,<br />
leaving photogenic stems, seed-heads and berries.<br />
At the top of the garden, pumpkins festoon the<br />
Autumn
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Garden<br />
compost heaps, ripened on the warm and cosy piles of<br />
meadow plants and grass from previous seasons. They<br />
will be gathered in before the frosts arrive and are then<br />
clustered in groups in the house and the porch, posed, as<br />
if waiting for a still life painter. They are ornamental, but,<br />
like all the vegetables grown here, are completely edible too<br />
and used as meal ingredients for the staff and visitors.<br />
Winter architecture<br />
The garden is shut to the public in winter, but I can<br />
imagine that this is when the architectural shapes of shrubs,<br />
trees and evergreens come to the fore. The grasses will<br />
stand unbowed until spring, perennial seed-heads and<br />
teasels silhouetted against them in the low winter light.<br />
Cotoneaster horizontalis, so often overlooked or<br />
used in dull corners in other gardens, is shown off<br />
here as a focal point, with its zig-zag of herringbone<br />
stems overlapping into a sculptural mound.<br />
Julian’s book affords us the pleasure of some out of season<br />
glimpses of the garden while it is sleeping, frost enhancing its<br />
curves, mist settling like a soft blanket across the meadows<br />
and the odd poignant leftover from the summer hanging<br />
poetically, as if it has been waiting for Julian’s camera all year.<br />
For the full ‘Dixter effect’ you really do need to visit more<br />
than once, you will find something different and interesting<br />
every month of the year, so I recommend a season ticket.<br />
If you are unable to get there, or would simply like a linen<br />
bound companion, Julian’s sensitively honed portrait is an<br />
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Garden<br />
Big is beautiful<br />
Sue Whigham rejoices in the splendour of plants with outrageously large leaves<br />
It was serendipitous that we discovered that Blenheim<br />
was to be closed for two days recently, as we had to<br />
put our visit off and decide on a ‘day out’ somewhere<br />
else. And so we went to Chartwell near Edenbridge, so<br />
much nearer and such a fascinating place to visit.<br />
The house, being Sir Winston Churchill and Lady<br />
Churchill’s former home, was very interesting, but the<br />
bonus was that as we wandered through the rose garden,<br />
we came upon a volunteer guide waiting to take a garden<br />
tour and we had her to ourselves.<br />
The views from the terrace across the lake<br />
to the woods are even more fabulous when<br />
you realise that virtually all the mature trees<br />
you can see have grown up since the 1987<br />
storm when the area lost thousands of trees.<br />
From our vantage point they looked as if they<br />
had been there for centuries. Then there is the<br />
Weald of Kent stretched out before you with hardly a building<br />
to be seen. No wonder Sir Winston loved the place so much.<br />
To get to the house you walk up past the rock<br />
garden and several ponds, one of which is stocked<br />
with golden orfe and was a favourite spot for Sir<br />
Winston, particularly in his later years.<br />
In 1948 Lady Churchill had visited the Chelsea Flower<br />
Show and had been taken by a rock display designed by Gavin<br />
Jones. Subsequently he and the Churchills became friends and<br />
his Chelsea garden was installed at Chartwell without charge.<br />
“This is the<br />
largest hardy<br />
herbaceous plant<br />
grown in Britain”<br />
There are dramatic plantings of Gunnera manicata in this<br />
part of the garden, which the guide described as a ‘marmite’<br />
plant. You either love it or you really don’t. It is certainly<br />
a giant with its sturdy, prickly stems and absolutely huge<br />
leaves, their undersides covered with lethal looking prickles.<br />
Native to Brazil, this plant is the largest hardy<br />
herbaceous plant grown in Britain. Grow it by<br />
water or any boggy part of your garden but not<br />
so deep that their crowns are kept too wet.<br />
So, after seeing the gunnera in all its<br />
glory, we were on the lookout for other<br />
large-leaved plants. We were in luck with<br />
a planting on the far side of the golden<br />
orfe pond of the Yellow Skunk Cabbage or<br />
Lysichiton americanus with its spectacular<br />
paddle-shaped leaves and bright yellow arum<br />
spathe flowers. We’d missed the flowers by<br />
a month. And then there were huge plantings of Osmunda<br />
regalis, the Royal Fern, completely happy in their damp<br />
conditions and a particularly lively green at this time of year.<br />
In Lady Churchill’s rose garden another large-leaved<br />
plant caught our eye. Hydrangea aspera subsp. sargentiana.<br />
This is one for a shadier site as the enormous, velvety<br />
leaves scorch under a hot sun. This plant can have a<br />
dramatic growth spurt of up to ten feet if it is happy<br />
with you. The flat florets are an electric bluish white.<br />
Another species of hydrangea that is worth<br />
<br />
Above left: Trachystemon orientalis Above right: The Gunnera manicata at Chartwell<br />
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Garden<br />
Top: Hydrangea aspera subspecies. sargentiana Middle: Hosta<br />
sieboldiana Bottom: Royal Fern<br />
mentioning for its rather beautiful and large foliage is<br />
Hydrangea quercifolia, the oak-leaved hydrangea. We<br />
have one here but I’m not sure that it is in the right spot<br />
as it is happiest kept moist and this one here is rather<br />
too close to an old ash tree which sends its progeny all<br />
over the garden and results in a pretty dry flower bed.<br />
If you reduce the height of this hydrangea by a third in<br />
early spring, the fresh leaves will be much bigger. This has<br />
wonderful autumn colour, the leaves turning a ‘garnet red’.<br />
And then there are the rodgersias. Grow them for<br />
their spectacular foliage and for their flowers. We<br />
have Rodgersia pinnata ‘Maurice Mason’ which was<br />
originally given to Christopher Lloyd by Maurice<br />
Mason, a Norfolk farmer and horticulturalist, and which<br />
was thought so choice that it was given a name.<br />
It’s more vigorous than some, although ours is taking a while<br />
to come back up. There have been some anxious moments<br />
when we thought that the plant hadn’t made it through such<br />
a harsh winter, but three bronzy stems have now appeared<br />
and a leaf is unfurling and is making its way upwards. This<br />
cultivar has deeply serrated palmate leaves and lovely rich<br />
pink panicles of flower which darken as the season goes on.<br />
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Education<br />
It’s the start of the long summer holiday, but do our<br />
kids really need this long break? asks Hilary Wilce<br />
It’s <strong>July</strong>. School’s out. And pupils and teachers<br />
- but especially teachers are ecstatic!<br />
By this time of year most of them are wrung out,<br />
overwrought, and maybe too exhausted even to say a proper<br />
thank you for the many presents that parents give them.<br />
Because this end-of-year gifting ritual has grown over<br />
the years until it is now practically written in stone<br />
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chocolates, bath oil and theatre vouchers. In fact, like so<br />
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race of one-upmanship, with some parents in wealthy<br />
areas bestowing designer handbags and wads of cash.<br />
But teachers often say they appreciate the<br />
kind notes and cards far more than the presents<br />
themselves (well, perhaps not the cash…).<br />
This is because today’s teaching is so often a thankless<br />
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all that appreciative of a profession which goes AWOL for<br />
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Art<br />
Mon – Sat Wed 4 – Thu 19 <strong>July</strong><br />
10am-5pm<br />
Mill Studio, Yvonne Arnaud<br />
Theatre, Millbrook, Guildford,<br />
GU1 3UX<br />
Yvonne Arnaud Art<br />
Guildford Arts’ summer exhibition<br />
“Yvonne Arnaud Art” at the<br />
historic Mill Studio, is an exciting<br />
display of contemporary paintings,<br />
prints, photography, sculpture,<br />
ceramics and glasswork from<br />
local and nationally renowned<br />
artists. All work is for sale, and on<br />
Saturdays there is an opportunity<br />
to meet the artist. There is also an<br />
art quiz for younger visitors.<br />
Entry: Free<br />
Info: yvonne-arnaud.co.uk<br />
9 Jun – 21 Jul<br />
New Ashgate Gallery, Waggon<br />
Yard, Farnham GU9 7PS<br />
Martin Greenland<br />
Highly acclaimed and awardwinning<br />
artist Martin Greenland’s<br />
beautifully detailed and highly<br />
realistic yet surreal paintings will<br />
be exhibited at New Ashgate as<br />
a celebration of the landscape<br />
painting, not as backdrop but as<br />
centre stage.<br />
Info: newashgate.org.uk<br />
Children & Families<br />
Sat 14 Jul 3.30pm – Sun 15<br />
Jul 10am<br />
Hascombe Road, Godalming,<br />
GU8 4AD<br />
Big Camp<br />
Join wildlife expert Jonnie for an<br />
overnight camping experience<br />
which allows you to sleep under<br />
the stars in the unique landscape<br />
of Winkworth Arboretum.<br />
Entry: Adults £35, Children £16<br />
Info: nationaltrust.org.uk/<br />
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Sat 14 Jul – Mon 27 Aug<br />
Hever Castle, Hever Road,<br />
Hever, Edenbridge TN8 7NG<br />
Summer Jousting<br />
For those who couldn’t make it to<br />
the World Cup, try this medieval<br />
alternative - a jousting tournament<br />
right out of a costume drama<br />
starring Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn<br />
and a host of valiant knights, and<br />
set in an authentic Jousting Arena<br />
complete with royal box.<br />
Info: hevercastle.co.uk<br />
21 Jul to 2 Sep<br />
Bocketts Farm<br />
Young Street, Fetcham,<br />
Leatherhead, <strong>Surrey</strong> KT22 9BS<br />
Summer Fun on the<br />
Farm<br />
The ‘Magic of Summer’ trail<br />
will have children searching for<br />
dragons, unicorns, fairies and<br />
mermaids. Other daily activities<br />
include pony rides, tractor rides,<br />
gold panning, animal handling,<br />
goat milking and the famous pig<br />
racing. There are large indoor<br />
play barns, trampolines, a young<br />
drivers’ area, sandpits, pedal<br />
go-karts, treehouse towers and two<br />
giant jumping pillows.<br />
Info: 01372 363764 /<br />
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Mon 23 Jul – Sun 2 Sep<br />
Godstone Farm, Tilburstow Hill<br />
Road, Godstone RH9 8LX<br />
Festival on the Farm<br />
Godstone Farm is bringing you<br />
festival vibes this month with extra<br />
activities and entertainment for<br />
the family, including messy play,<br />
storytellers, garden games, and a<br />
farm disco with the mascots, as<br />
well as lots of food and drink to<br />
fuel all the excitement.<br />
Info: 01883 742546 /<br />
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Fairs & Festivals<br />
Mon 2 – Sun 8 Jul<br />
Venues all over Epsom & Ewell<br />
Epsom & Ewell Arts<br />
Festival<br />
The theme of the <strong>2018</strong> Epsom<br />
& Ewell Arts Festival is discovery,<br />
and so it offers visitors the chance<br />
to discover new things with<br />
attractions including the Journey<br />
of Discovery Contemporary Art<br />
Exhibition, the first-ever street<br />
performance of the seventeenthcentury<br />
play Epsom Wells, and the<br />
quirky, award-winning dance show<br />
for young children, Grass.<br />
Info: mgso4festival.org<br />
Sat 14 - Sun 15 Jul<br />
RHS Garden Wisley, Wisley<br />
Lane, Woking GU23 6QB<br />
Wisley Arts Fest<br />
This year’s art fest offers a<br />
weekend full of circus themed<br />
activities, with shows in the Circus<br />
Marquee, have-a-go areas, magic<br />
and trapeze workshops, music<br />
magic and art.<br />
Entry: Members free, Non-members<br />
normal garden admission applies.<br />
Info: rhs.org.uk<br />
Sat 21 Jul 12 noon<br />
Recreation Ground, Leigh, Near<br />
Reigate <strong>Surrey</strong> RH2 8NP<br />
Flower Show &<br />
Country Fayre<br />
A tradition village show with<br />
craft and produce stalls,<br />
demonstrations, a vintage vehicle<br />
parade, animal corner, and<br />
children’s entertainment.<br />
Entry: Adults £3, under 17s free<br />
Info: ldcgs.co.uk<br />
Sat 21 – Sun 22 Jul<br />
Shalford Park, 10 Shalford<br />
Road, Guildford GU4 8BL<br />
Cheese & Chilli Festival<br />
A foodie paradise complete with<br />
food challenges, demonstrations,<br />
stalls and competitions.<br />
Info: cheeseandchillifestival.com<br />
Garden<br />
What’s On in <strong>July</strong><br />
Fri 1 Jun – Sun 16 Sep<br />
Mayfield Lavender, 1<br />
Carshalton Road, Banstead<br />
SM7 3JA<br />
Mayfield Lavender<br />
A sea of organic lavender grown<br />
in what was one of the original<br />
Victorian Lavender fields, awaits<br />
visitors at Mayfield Lavender.<br />
While you’re ther, try some very<br />
unique lavender cider, take a tour<br />
in a tractor, eat at the al fresco café<br />
and buy a lavender plant to bring<br />
home to your own garden.<br />
Info: mayfieldlavender.com<br />
Fri 27 Jul<br />
Great Fosters, Stroude<br />
Road, Egham TW20 9UR<br />
Meet the Bees & Estate<br />
Tour Lunch<br />
Take a tour of Great Fosters’<br />
glorious gardens with estate<br />
Manager, Russell Dixon, visit the<br />
bee hives with the resident Bee<br />
Keeper and then enjoy a three<br />
course lunch in the Estate Grill or<br />
on the terrace.<br />
Entry: £75<br />
Info: greatfosters.co.uk<br />
Leisure & Sport<br />
Sun 15 Jul 7am<br />
Thorpe Park, Staines Road,<br />
Chertsey KT16 8PN<br />
Thorpe Park Triathlon<br />
This triathlon includes a swim<br />
around Fleet Lake, a bike lap<br />
on the park’s surrounding roads,<br />
and a 10km run, consisting of<br />
three laps around the lake on a<br />
flat fully tarmac path which takes<br />
competitors straight through the<br />
middle of the park. Rallying is an<br />
option, and there will be prizes,<br />
finishers medals, and (best of all)<br />
free entry to Thorpe Park during<br />
and after the triathlon for all<br />
volunteers, athletes and spectators<br />
who arrive before 7.30am.<br />
Info: triproject.co.uk<br />
Music<br />
Tue 10 – Sun 15 Jul<br />
Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew,<br />
Richmond TW9 3AB<br />
Kew the Music<br />
Get your hampers at the<br />
ready! This one is the most<br />
quintessentially British summer<br />
picnic in the most stunning<br />
setting with an all star line up to<br />
boot. This year Kew the Music<br />
is hosting STEPS, Gipsy Kings,<br />
2Cellos, The Human League,<br />
Boyzone and Jools Holland.<br />
Info: kewthemusic.org<br />
Sat 28 Jul 7.30pm<br />
Pavilion Theatre Marine Parade,<br />
Worthing BN11 3P<br />
SINATRA & MORE BIG<br />
SWING HITS<br />
A unique swing experience to<br />
take you through a history of all<br />
the swing music greats including<br />
Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr,<br />
Ella Fitzgerald and Michael Buble.<br />
Featuring special guest Stephen<br />
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Blackland Farm<br />
Outdoor Activity Centre<br />
Kayaking<br />
Canoeing<br />
Bungee trampolining<br />
Rock climbing<br />
Archery<br />
Crate challenge<br />
Zip wire<br />
Abseiling<br />
Aeroball...<br />
...and many more!<br />
Come and join us for<br />
fun-filled activity days.<br />
Why not have your<br />
birthday party here too?<br />
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Blackland Farm<br />
Mt Ephraim<br />
Gardens<br />
Faversham, Kent<br />
AUGUST 3-5<br />
Three days of classic, legendary<br />
bands, good food, award winning<br />
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What’s On in <strong>July</strong><br />
Triffitt, the world’s number one<br />
Frank Sinatra tribute (as seen in<br />
Frankly Sinatra)<br />
Info: ryanmacmusic.com<br />
Sat 28 Jul 7.30pm-10.30pm<br />
Painshill, Portsmouth Road,<br />
Cobham KT11 1JE<br />
WWI Centenary Jazz,<br />
Jive & Swing Night<br />
Painshill’s beautiful conservatory<br />
and walled garden will be filled<br />
with the music of Five Star Swing<br />
Band performing the best of<br />
feel good jazz, jive and swing, so<br />
polish off your dancing shoes and<br />
party like it’s 1918!<br />
Entry: Adults £22, Members £18<br />
Info: painshill.co.uk<br />
Theatre<br />
Wed 11 – Sat 14 Wed 25 – Sat<br />
28 Jul<br />
Waverley Abbey House,<br />
Waverley Lane, Farnham<br />
GU9 8EP & Merrist Wood,<br />
Worplesdon, Guildford<br />
GU3 3PE<br />
Anne Boleyn<br />
Howard Brenton’s unique take<br />
on the complex and notorious<br />
life of Anne Boleyn is performed<br />
by Guildbury’s Theatre<br />
Company as the perfect open<br />
air accompaniment to a summer<br />
evening picnic.<br />
Info: guildburys.com<br />
Fri 13 – Sat 21 Jul<br />
Guildford Castle Keep, Castle<br />
Street, Guildford GU1 3SX<br />
The Taming of the<br />
Shrew<br />
Shakespeare’s fast-paced comic<br />
tale of two sisters – the lovely<br />
Bianca who is desired by all and<br />
the shrewish Katherine who is<br />
desired only by one devilish suitor.<br />
The Pranksters Theatre Company<br />
brings this controversial classic to<br />
the perfect setting of Guildford<br />
Castle keep for four performances.<br />
Info: pranksterstheatre.org.uk<br />
Wednesday 25 <strong>July</strong> 7pm<br />
Haslemere Museum 78 High<br />
Street, Haslemere GU27 2LA<br />
Chapterhouse Theatre<br />
Company – Sense and<br />
Sensibility<br />
Grab a picnic and head to the<br />
beautiful lawns of Haslemere<br />
Museum to see Chapterhouse<br />
Theatre Company perform<br />
magical theatre under the stars.<br />
The exquisite and lively tale of<br />
Sense and Sensibility follows the<br />
love mistakes and heartbreaks<br />
of sisters Elinor and Marianne<br />
Dashwood as they make their<br />
first forays into the exciting world<br />
of Regency society and try to<br />
find a balance between sense and<br />
sensibility. Adapted by awardwinning<br />
writer Laura Turner.<br />
Info: chapterhouse.org<br />
Workshops<br />
Sat 7 and Sun 8 Jul 10am-4pm<br />
Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent<br />
TN15 0RP<br />
Call the shots at the<br />
Panasonic Roadshow<br />
Knole’s intricate architecture and<br />
wild deer herd make fantastic<br />
subjects for photographers. Brush<br />
up your skills at the familyfriendly<br />
Panasonic Roadshow,<br />
where experts will lend you a<br />
camera and show you how to take<br />
the best shots on a guided photo<br />
walk in Knole Park.<br />
Entry: Free<br />
Info: 01732462100 /<br />
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“London’s hottest<br />
picnic concerts”<br />
Metro<br />
10 <strong>July</strong><br />
with very special guests<br />
Saara Aalto<br />
12 <strong>July</strong><br />
11 <strong>July</strong><br />
the<br />
GIPSY KINGS<br />
ft. NICOLAS REYES & TONNINO BALIARDO<br />
13 <strong>July</strong><br />
with support<br />
NERINA PALLOT<br />
10 – 15 <strong>July</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
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Raymond Gubbay<br />
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14 <strong>July</strong><br />
BOYZONE<br />
THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT<br />
THE FAREWELL TOUR<br />
NADINE<br />
Luna<br />
15 <strong>July</strong><br />
Jools Holland<br />
& His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra<br />
featuring Gilson Lavis with<br />
special guest Marc Almond<br />
and guest vocalists Ruby Turner,<br />
Louise Marshall and Rosie Mae.<br />
JAZZ MORLEY<br />
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Trains throughout the Summer - Picnic Areas -<br />
Buffet Facilities at all Stations.<br />
WHY NOT VISIT<br />
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OFF AT KINGSCOTE STATION FOR A<br />
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don’t miss<br />
FUN and NOISE filled<br />
Kids Tours on<br />
Concorde!<br />
30 TH JULY - 24 TH AUGUST<br />
A bumper season of family fun awaits visitors this summer holiday...<br />
our legendary car rides<br />
run every Monday-Thursday* until the August Bank Holiday.<br />
Every weekday (including Fridays) we will be running<br />
free workshops for youngsters<br />
napier-railton race experience<br />
in the 4d theatre<br />
pedal planes and cars for the<br />
under 5s and our mascot bertie bear , who<br />
will be taking strolls through the site to meet his fans.<br />
PLUS every weekday throughout the summer holidays join one<br />
mins<br />
kids tour of the flight shed!<br />
of our expert guides for an exciting 30mins<br />
who<br />
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Here’s your Summer<br />
Holiday checklist<br />
from 30 th <strong>July</strong> – 24 th August<br />
Every day<br />
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Meet Bertie Bear ü<br />
FREE Family Workshops ü<br />
Kids Tours on Concorde ü<br />
Kids Tours of the Flight Shed ü<br />
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free parking, sat nav postcode: kt13 0sl<br />
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Pedal Planes ü<br />
Monday – Thursday<br />
Car Rides ü<br />
22 nd & 23 rd August<br />
Wood Turning<br />
Demonstrations<br />
The <strong>Surrey</strong> Association of Woodturners will be here<br />
delivering free wood turning demonstration.<br />
*Car rides are subject to a minimum donation of<br />
£1 per passenger and will only proceed if weather<br />
and track conditions are suitable.
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14TH JULY - 2ND SEPTEMBER <strong>2018</strong><br />
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New Food & Wine Pairing Dinners and<br />
a new Fizz on Foot Wine Club<br />
These are exclusive evenings where you can explore wines that have been<br />
carefully selected with the hotel’s chef to match a delicious dinner. Plus<br />
wine tasting evenings with matching canapés.<br />
Friday 27 <strong>July</strong> – Spanish wine tasting with six wines and matching<br />
canapés, 7pm, £18 per head at Da Vinci Hotel, Eastbourne.<br />
Friday 24 August – French wine tasting with six wines and matching<br />
canapés, 7pm, £18 per head at Da Vinci Hotel, Eastbourne.<br />
Date to be confirmed, September – German wine tasting with six wines<br />
and matching canapés, £18 per head at Da Vinci Hotel, Eastbourne.<br />
Thursday 25 October – Wine Pairing Dinner with Spanish wines.<br />
Thursday 13 December – Wine Pairing Dinner<br />
with champagnes (black tie).<br />
All wine pairing dinners are £45.00 per head and<br />
held at the Hydro Hotel, Eastbourne.<br />
Wine tasting club<br />
Tel: 01323 737271 to make a reservation.<br />
Fizz on Foot offers escorted walking tours in<br />
the beautiful Sussex Downs area, with a focus<br />
on visiting great award winning vineyards<br />
and enjoying tasting fine English wines.<br />
These one day bespoke tours can be made as<br />
much fun as you want and include transport,<br />
gourmet lunch and the wine tastings.<br />
Why not try our one day mid-week taster<br />
Tour including lunch and wine tasting<br />
for £89.00.<br />
Tel: 01323 737271 Mobile: 07971 851777<br />
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Win A £400 Voucher<br />
From Layered Lounge<br />
Layered Lounge began when owners Suzy and Lou met at the school gates<br />
and realised that they both shared a passion for interiors and a dream<br />
of building something of their own to be proud of. They launched<br />
Layered Lounge last year and now that dream is becoming a reality.<br />
At Layered Lounge, products are designed to pay attention to trends without being<br />
dictated by them. Their beautiful online store is a destination for those looking<br />
for affordable products sourced from specialist producers. It’s full of timeless,<br />
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but elegant sense of style into their own homes. As well as a stunning range of<br />
textiles, lighting, and other accents, Layered Lounge also sell own brand fragrances<br />
with a donation of the profits going to local charity Action4Archie, which raises<br />
money and awareness for research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.<br />
Although Layered Lounge is still young Suzy and Lou see it growing into something of a<br />
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answer the following question:<br />
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your answer with your contact<br />
details* in the online form at<br />
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by 31 <strong>July</strong> <strong>2018</strong>. The prize<br />
comprises a gift voucher<br />
worth £400 to be redeemed<br />
at Layered Lounge. There is<br />
no cash alternative and the<br />
prize must be taken before 31<br />
October <strong>2018</strong>. *You must be<br />
over the age of 18 to enter.<br />
Congratulations to Mo Sansara who wins our May competition for £499 of Le Creuset Cookware<br />
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Jane Howard’s<br />
Fables from<br />
the Farm<br />
This month Jane finds she’s as busy as a bee<br />
It has been very busy in the apiary in recent weeks – for<br />
me and the bees – and I’m looking forward to things<br />
settling down as spring meanders into summer.<br />
I have always been quite a low-key bee keeper with two, or<br />
three colonies producing enough jars to supply us throughout<br />
the year with honey for our tea and presents for foodie<br />
friends. But this year I got carried away and started doing<br />
lots of what I considered rather advanced manipulations (the<br />
official bee-keeping term for knowledgeable rummaging) and<br />
bloomin heck I now have five colonies on the go!<br />
Most insects overwinter when a mated queen hibernates.<br />
Honey bees do it differently. At the height of the summer,<br />
usually <strong>July</strong>, there will be some 50,000 bees in a colony<br />
rushing about to collect pollen, propolis, water or nectar.<br />
Pollen, which is collected in little sacs on the bees’ hind<br />
legs, is very high in protein and is used to feed the young<br />
larvae. Propolis, (if you’re interested the name is derived from<br />
the Greek: pro – in front of and polis – city which refers<br />
to its use to seal up and protect their empire) is collected<br />
from the buds and bark of certain trees<br />
and rather like Polyfilla is used to seal up<br />
cracks and strengthen creaking joints.<br />
Among other things, water is used for<br />
cooling the hive on a hot day, but it’s<br />
nectar, which is turned into honey, that<br />
they eat over the winter – and it’s also the<br />
bit we beekeepers get excited about.<br />
On a sunny summer day each bee will make about 10 trips,<br />
each one lasting up to an hour and covering 5 or 6 km. On<br />
every journey she (the workers are all female!) will visit about<br />
1000 flowers collecting about 70mg of honey – the equivalent<br />
of her own weight. Imagine trying to haul that lot home from<br />
“Each bee collects<br />
about a teaspoon of<br />
honey in her frantic<br />
six-week life”<br />
Waitrose. And next time you spread some on your toast<br />
ponder this: to make one pound of honey the bees have<br />
flown over 55,000 miles and visited over 2 million flowers,<br />
with each bee collecting about a teaspoon of honey in her<br />
frantic six-week life. Beat that, Marmite.<br />
In a good year a strong colony of bees should produce<br />
at least 40lb of honey which is collected in August and<br />
will last forever – the oldest ever found, in a noblewoman’s<br />
grave in Georgia, was 5,500 years old and<br />
Tutankhamun was also discovered with<br />
a few jars for the journey. But as well as<br />
collecting nectar the bees are also busy<br />
with another agenda – making more<br />
colonies and this is the tricky part for the<br />
beekeeper.<br />
As explained, in the summer there<br />
will be up to 50,000 in the hive but by the autumn the<br />
numbers drop to around 10,000 bees who will spend the<br />
winter eating the stored honey and keeping the queen (who<br />
is full of fertile eggs) warm and fed. She starts laying again<br />
in the spring to create peak population in <strong>July</strong>.<br />
However, as the numbers build they often decide to<br />
swarm, whereby the queen and all the flying bees – the<br />
workforce – leave home for fresh pastures leaving behind<br />
all the brood (eggs, larvae and baby bees). One of the best<br />
ways to prevent this is to split them manually which is why<br />
my three colonies have become five.<br />
I’ve heard mead is delicious, time to research a recipe…<br />
If you’ve ever thought about owning a few chickens, sheep, pigs<br />
or even cows, Jane will be running a full-day course as part of<br />
the summer programme at Curious House Courses in Stonegate<br />
on September 7th. The morning will romp through the joys of<br />
smallholding and the afternoon will include a walk round Coopers<br />
Farm. Find out more at curioushouse.net<br />
Follow Jane Howard – and the farm – on Instagram @coopersfarm<br />
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