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<strong>Kitchen</strong> & bathroom Supplement <strong>inside</strong><br />
Inspirational Interiors • Fabulous Fashion • Delicious Dishes<br />
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10 tips<br />
ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE<br />
Top<br />
to creating your<br />
perfect <strong>Kitchen</strong><br />
Creating the perfect kitchen for you<br />
is an exciting project. No doubt you<br />
will have seen pictures in magazines<br />
and online or stood in a kitchen that<br />
has given you inspiration, but as you start<br />
to create your own you’ll find hundreds of<br />
options to choose from such as mixing and<br />
matching styles to contrast or complement<br />
the rest of your home, combining materials<br />
with different aesthetic qualities and<br />
deciding on colour schemes to add your<br />
own personal touch, to name just a few.<br />
With so much to consider, having an<br />
experienced designer to help guide you<br />
is invaluable. Here Schmidt <strong>Kitchen</strong>s<br />
gives their top 10 tips to guide you to<br />
creating the perfect kitchen for you.<br />
1<br />
Plan early. If extending, having<br />
your kitchen design ready will<br />
help avoid having to make too<br />
many compromises. Your architects and<br />
structural engineer can then ensure water,<br />
electrics and drainage are best placed.<br />
2<br />
Create a ‘golden triangle’. Keep your<br />
sink, fridge and hob in a triangle with no<br />
more than 2m between each if possible.<br />
This will allow you to stand in the middle and<br />
be a step away from everything you need<br />
and create a much more ergonomic space.<br />
3<br />
Don’t<br />
try to cram too much in to<br />
a space. There is nothing more<br />
disappointing than investing in a<br />
kitchen and it feeling cramped. Always<br />
leave a minimum of 900mm+ between<br />
units to allow for doors to open and people<br />
to move around each other easily.<br />
4<br />
Make the kitchen multifunctional.<br />
Apart from cooking, for what will the<br />
space be used? Would it benefit from<br />
a breakfast bar or seated island to create a<br />
functional, yet social area to do your cooking?<br />
There’s nothing like a glass of wine with<br />
a friend whilst you cook or being able to<br />
prepare dinner whilst kids do their homework.<br />
5<br />
Invest in made to measure. Many<br />
pre manufactured units will leave<br />
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cover up gaps leaving you with wasted<br />
potential. Made to measure will allow you<br />
to use every millimetre to get maximum<br />
value from your space, increase storage<br />
and create options for more gadgets too.<br />
6<br />
Be<br />
smart with your storage. Why not<br />
get a tall larder unit with drawers in<br />
it, rather than shelves, to ensure that<br />
the can of beans at the back of the cupboard<br />
is not forgotten about for years to come!<br />
7<br />
Remember a rubbish bin! Imagine your<br />
lovely kitchen has just been installed,<br />
you’ve used up all the available space<br />
and now you have to find somewhere to<br />
put a big ugly bin. Get a set of integrated<br />
bins tucked away in a unit out of sight.<br />
Small things can make a big difference.<br />
8<br />
Make sure that cleaning the dishes<br />
is a breeze. Locate your dishwasher<br />
underneath your sink drainer as this will<br />
allow you to quickly rinse and place anything<br />
into the dishwasher in one swift movement.<br />
9<br />
Safety<br />
first. Ovens above the height<br />
of a child, boiling tap that can’t be<br />
turned on easily or knocked on by<br />
accident, and induction hobs that have a<br />
much cooler residual surface temperature<br />
designed to make our kitchen a safer place.<br />
10<br />
Design what is right for you. Don’t<br />
need a dishwasher? Don’t get one.<br />
Want a gas hob? Get a gas hob.<br />
Want to store enough wine to party in style?<br />
Get a wine cooler that can hold 20+ bottles.<br />
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THE KITCHEN PLANNING EVENT!<br />
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20 th <strong>October</strong> where you can bring your plans,<br />
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make it? Call us on 01892 547 132 and<br />
arrange a meeting at a time to suit you.<br />
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Contents<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
30<br />
54<br />
OLD STYLE CHARM<br />
Maggie Alderson peeks <strong>inside</strong> this<br />
month’s most desirable properties<br />
136<br />
120<br />
32B OR NOT 32B?<br />
We talk to one of Fenwick’s<br />
experts about bra fittings<br />
163<br />
146<br />
TALKING THE TALK<br />
Two schools discuss the benefits<br />
of learning a second language<br />
41<br />
54<br />
OCTOBER NOTEBOOK<br />
Events to make note of<br />
HIGH GLOSS<br />
Gloss and glamour galore in<br />
Lauren Atkins’ Oxshott home<br />
139<br />
143<br />
SOAK IT UP<br />
Josephine Fairley finds your<br />
beautiful bathroom must-haves<br />
A YEAR OF WELLNESS<br />
Eminé Rushton’s sleep solutions<br />
167<br />
173<br />
WHY STEM SUBJECTS NEED<br />
SOME ART TO MAKE STEAM<br />
The importance of arts in our schools<br />
ON GOOD TERMS<br />
How to keep kids enjoying school<br />
79<br />
81<br />
94<br />
116<br />
120<br />
GET THE LOOK<br />
Gorgeous objects to imitate<br />
the high gloss look<br />
BED TIME<br />
The best of bed trends<br />
HOME ON THE FARM<br />
Look <strong>inside</strong> a quintessentially<br />
<strong>Wealden</strong> farmhouse<br />
GET THE LOOK<br />
Imitate the Home Farm look<br />
LIFE’S RICH TAPESTRY<br />
Kate Watts styles this season’s<br />
most luscious fashion trends<br />
144<br />
146<br />
153<br />
159<br />
NATURAL WISDOM<br />
Wellbeing guidance<br />
from the co-founder of<br />
The Remedy Retreats<br />
ONE POT WONDERS<br />
Deliciously easy midweek<br />
marvels<br />
HARVEST HOME<br />
Jo Arnell’s celebration of the<br />
autumn harvest<br />
A PRICKLY SUBJECT<br />
Sue Whigham on cactus that will<br />
thrive in future summer heatwaves<br />
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WHAT’S ON<br />
All the best things to do this month<br />
COMPETITION<br />
Win a £500 gift voucher from<br />
GANT clothing<br />
FABLES FROM THE FARM<br />
Jane Howard marks the start of the<br />
farming year<br />
KITCHEN &<br />
BATHROOM<br />
SUPPLEMENT<br />
32 pages of trends,<br />
designer tips, and<br />
desirable products<br />
After page 118.<br />
<strong>Kitchen</strong>&<br />
<strong>Bathroom</strong><br />
A <strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Supplement<br />
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Elite kitchen designer tips<br />
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HAWKHURST £1,500,000<br />
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· <strong>Kitchen</strong> · Utility room · Cloakroom · Five bedrooms<br />
(two en-suite) · Gardens approximately 2 acres · Tennis<br />
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Cranbrook School Catchment<br />
BENENDEN £1,295,000<br />
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Two reception rooms · Entrance hall · <strong>Kitchen</strong>/dining<br />
room · Four double bedrooms (two en-suite) · Detached<br />
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· Tennis court · Outbuilding · EPC: C<br />
Cranbrook School Catchment<br />
BENENDEN £1,200,000<br />
SUBSTANTIAL DETACHED FAMILY HOME<br />
Two receptions rooms · Conservatory · <strong>Kitchen</strong>/<br />
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Five bedrooms (one en-suite) · Charming garden<br />
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Cranbrook School Catchment<br />
RURAL STAPLEHURST £1,195,000<br />
SUBSTANTIAL LISTED FARMHOUSE<br />
Four reception rooms · <strong>Kitchen</strong>/breakfast room ·<br />
Five bedrooms · Two bathrooms and shower room ·<br />
Approximately 1.2 acres · Garaging and outbuildings<br />
with scope to convert subject to planning · EPC: n/a<br />
Cranbrook School Catchment<br />
Sales & Lettings Team<br />
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4<br />
• Outstanding views<br />
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• In all about 70.2 acres<br />
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Guide price £1,250,000<br />
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A Grade II listed Georgian farmhouse.<br />
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StapleHurSt Guide price £1,250,000<br />
Circa 5,000 sqft inc 6 beds · Outbuildings · CSCA · No Onward Chain · EPC D<br />
Marden Guide price £995,000<br />
Outbuildings · 3 Receptions · 5 Bedrooms · Tennis Court · Listed<br />
GOudHurSt OieO £895,000<br />
Village Location · 3 Beds · Annexe · Circa 0.7 Acres · CSCA · EPC E<br />
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New Build in Village · 5 Beds · 3 Recs · 3 Baths · Double Garage · CSCA · EPC TBC<br />
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Beckley, East Sussex - £795,000<br />
Grade II Listed detached cottage in approx. 1.2 acres.<br />
Living room, study, kitchen, garden room, dining room,<br />
3 bedrooms and 4th bedroom guest suite on secondary<br />
stairs. Double garage. Gardens, paddock and orchard.<br />
Appledore, East Sussex - £695,000<br />
A detached cottage with stunning views across farmland<br />
yet convenient for Appledore station and connection<br />
to London. Living/dining room, kitchen, family room,<br />
utility 2 double bedrooms. Gardens to side and rear.<br />
Outbuildings. EPC E<br />
Icklesham, East Sussex - £965,000<br />
An attached Grade II Listed Georgian property in the lee<br />
of the church. Drawing room, dining area, conservatory,<br />
kitchen, breakfast room, utility, home office, cellar, 6 double<br />
bedrooms with 3 en-suite facilities. Garden. Parking<br />
Broad Oak, East Sussex - £699,950<br />
A modern detached house with flexible accommodation.<br />
Living room, vaulted kitchen/dining/family room, ground<br />
floor bedroom with en-suite, 3 further bedrooms. Detached<br />
home office and playroom. Garden. Parking. EPC C<br />
Appledore, Kent - £895,000<br />
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Battle, East Sussex - £399,950<br />
Attached period cottage in convenient location a short walk<br />
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Chillies Granary<br />
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origins can be seen in the beautiful<br />
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Beds: 5, two en suite Baths: 3 in all.<br />
Special features: Two-storey galleried<br />
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Pleasing details: A detached bar/<br />
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Outside: Established gardens – partwalled<br />
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Time to town: An hour and ten<br />
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Price: Offers in excess of £1,000,000<br />
Agent: Hamptons International,<br />
Tunbridge Wells 01892 640013<br />
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Stilebridge<br />
£995,000<br />
The dream: The full tile-hung 17th<br />
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Special features: A Grade II listed<br />
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<strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong> was, and still is, a fanzine for the Weald<br />
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with five of us (the entire staff back then) turning out<br />
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Like that first magazine, the fairs started very small, but<br />
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Previous page: It was the height and space in the house that<br />
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Previous page: In the dining room, the chairs are by Koket and Lauren found the dining table in a shop on the King’s<br />
Road. The sculpture is by her friend Maria Bassett and is made out of concrete Top: The sofas are by Two is Company.<br />
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This page: The blue-dominant scheme continues in the<br />
media room. The oversized brass lamp is by Graham<br />
& Green, the sofa bespoke – designed by Lauren. The<br />
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interesting approach with the projects they take<br />
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An example of this is an apartment development<br />
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It is these details that make the schemes stand<br />
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“I work with a historian who helps me research<br />
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Above: The very light and spacious bedrooms are all furnished with calming<br />
neutrals. The oversized headboard is designed and made by Lauren and the<br />
lamps are Flos Left: A lamp by Julian Chichester in a corner of the bedroom<br />
is launched – and sold – as early as possible. “We do the show flat just<br />
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When it came to purchasing her own home two and a half<br />
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“I worked with them to choose the flooring, the carpets, the doors – I<br />
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The interior finishes were just as she wanted prior to moving<br />
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For Lauren, furnishing the house has been an evolutionary process<br />
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Below left: The bedside tables are Graham & Green and the lamps are Vaughan Designs Right: A quiet seating area on the very<br />
spacious landing Bottom: In the second guest bedroom a sideboard by MFUK, the ‘photobooth’ photos were found in Camden<br />
and tackled it in stages,” she explains. “You get interior<br />
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Above: The bed is by Conran and the ottoman is bespoke by<br />
Lauren. The lamps are from West Elm Left: A chest of drawers<br />
by West Elm and a mirror by Graham & Green<br />
She has used gold throughout the house, but as an<br />
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Above: With a four-poster bed from Maisons du Monde Lauren’s daughter’s bedroom is fit for a princess.<br />
The light fitting is by Smallable<br />
accents dominate. She bought the dining chairs at Koket,<br />
but the table was bought separately in the King’s Road.<br />
A delicate looking sculpture on the dining room<br />
table forms a centrepiece. “It’s actually made from<br />
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“It is by a friend of mine called Maria Bassett.”<br />
Lauren explains how she chooses furniture, both for<br />
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“To me, furniture is a kind of art – and I’m looking<br />
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is on loan, while the company make the bigger one to<br />
go there. Rugs are always a difficult one; there’s not the<br />
breadth of choice unless you spend a lot of money.”<br />
Lauren has found an ingenious way around some of her<br />
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have a section on the website for bespoke pieces soon.”<br />
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Above: In the master bedroom, the headboard is bespoke by Lauren<br />
Right: The yin and yang ottoman is also bespoke by Lauren. The brass<br />
flying ducks are an antique find<br />
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Upstairs the feeling of light and space continues. The<br />
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Monday<br />
My first client today is a lady whose divorce I am finalising. Her<br />
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Tuesday<br />
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are going to prevail.<br />
Wednesday<br />
I take a call from a mum. She is hoping to relocate to New<br />
York with her young son as she has been offered a new job<br />
in the States. She is divorcing her husband. Her estranged<br />
husband understandably does not want his son across the<br />
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Thursday<br />
I receive a call from the police. My client who is dissolving his<br />
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This page: More bookshelves in the drawing room. The<br />
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put it back, replicating the style on either side,<br />
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The oak shelf under the leaded window holds<br />
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look. “Our client spotted that fabric which, given her<br />
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the ‘gentleman’s suite’ of dressing room and bedroom.<br />
Our tour continues into the next room – now the<br />
snug and formerly the kitchen. “You could say that <br />
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This page: A bedroom in the extension features a very rare five-pane<br />
sash window. The architect, Charles Baine-Smith, works as the building<br />
advisor to the National Trust in the South East. The bed is from<br />
Nordic Style Left: The chest of drawers is client’s own and the chairs<br />
are covered in William Yeoward stripe<br />
it lacked inspiration…” says Belinda. “There was an old Aga, a<br />
cork floor, a central heating boiler behind a false wall and formica<br />
everywhere.” Much to everyone’s delight, the false wall not only hid<br />
the boiler but also a wonderful old brick fireplace. Now the owners’<br />
favourite room, it is painted in a moody French blue by Paint and<br />
Paper Library, with the wonderful name ‘Btwn Dog & Wolf’.<br />
“The starting point for this room, was this fabric,” says<br />
Belinda, gesturing to the curtains. “Our client absolutely loves<br />
this ANTA plaid fabric and we debated where to use it. Not<br />
only is it lovely and cosy but it’s great with this wall colour.”<br />
The sofa and footstool were made bespoke, while the<br />
antique farmhouse furniture came from the owners’<br />
previous home. Gilt-framed Victorian paintings hang over<br />
the fireplace while a cluster of smaller paintings decorate a<br />
corner. The overall effect is calm, cosy and uncluttered.<br />
As we go back out into the hallway and towards the<br />
Georgian front of the house, the rooms immediately<br />
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Above: The Swedish neo-classical style bed is from Nordic Style. The bench on the side wall is an antique<br />
take on a more classic feel, both in dimensions and<br />
decor. To the right as you come in the front door is the<br />
drawing room and to the left is the dining room.<br />
“Cox’s found the most incredible, single piece of slate, but<br />
it came out further than we expected,” says Belinda. “We<br />
decided to replace the two armchairs – which were too big<br />
for the space – and also had a bit of a re-think on colours,<br />
injecting a touch of mauve and ochre to ‘zing it up’ a bit.”<br />
A sisal carpet by Tiger’s Eye, in Titanium adds a relaxed<br />
farmhouse feel while demi-lune tables from Phoenix Antiques<br />
add a classic touch. Understated linen curtains with an<br />
amazing Samuel & Son’s ‘onion fringing’ are a playful twist<br />
and, as Belinda adds, “Probably my favourite curtains ever!”<br />
Across the hallway, the dining room is a ‘work in progress’<br />
though key features are already there including a vast sash<br />
window, open fireplace and high ceilings. “The wheatsheaf<br />
chandelier is from Phoenix Antiques, and seemed rather<br />
appropriate given the farmhouse setting,” says Belinda.<br />
A glance out of the window reveals a stunning thatched<br />
barn, bought as a frame and reconstructed by Cox<br />
Restoration. Beyond that is a tithe barn, roofed in Kent<br />
pegs, and home to the owners’ three horses. The views<br />
from every room are unspoilt; lawns, horse paddocks<br />
and the farmyard. Upstairs, the views are even better.<br />
As with the downstairs, it’s easy to see where<br />
the old finishes and the new begins – if Georgian<br />
constitutes ‘new’. The upstairs has been divided<br />
into ‘his and hers’ suites as well as a guest suite and<br />
another study. All lead off a wide, central landing.<br />
“We’re going to put alcove bookshelves on either side of the<br />
bed,” says Belinda of the gentleman’s bedroom. “Our client’s<br />
husband has more than 40 suits for work, so the dressing<br />
room will need to have as much wardrobe space as possible.”<br />
A huge sash window overlooks a sand school and the<br />
valley beyond. According to the architect who worked on<br />
plans for the house, sash windows such as these, which are<br />
five-panes wide, are extremely rare. Despite being in the<br />
old part of the house, the room is lovely and light.<br />
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Left: The slipper bath, from Tenterden<br />
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window over the horse paddocks. Wooden<br />
panelling was added on lower walls to give a<br />
classical feel. Below: The wall sconces over the<br />
basin are by Heathfield & Co<br />
At the end of the landing, at the front of the house<br />
and overlooking the paddocks and barns, is another<br />
suite of bedroom, bathroom and dressing room.<br />
Strikingly Scandinavian, the bedroom is the only<br />
room in the house that has been wallpapered:<br />
“The wallpaper is by Cole & Son, the curtains are<br />
lined with fabric by Veere Grenney and the trim is<br />
by Samuel & Son,” says Belinda. Painted furniture<br />
completes the Scandinavian neo-classical styling.<br />
All three rooms at this end of the house have retained<br />
the original floorboards: “Cox’s stripped and restored<br />
them. I’m really glad we did it,” says Belinda. The<br />
light colouring and rustic charm of the ancient boards<br />
hits just the right note; contemporary and ‘clean’ in<br />
their simplicity yet hinting at the building’s past.<br />
Next to the bedroom is a stunning, classic bathroom<br />
with slipper bath, wood panelling and a marble-topped<br />
vanity unit. “I often recommend that my clients go and lie<br />
in the bath they are going to buy,” laughs Belinda. “You<br />
need to know if it’s comfortable, as well as looking right.”<br />
In this case, her client was happy to oblige and is thrilled by<br />
the fact that this classic cast-iron bath is not only supremely<br />
comfortable but also looks out over the horse paddocks. The<br />
marble basin-surround was chosen specifically by the client<br />
and, as we know, few things add a sense of luxury like marble.<br />
The dressing room is as light as the bedroom and bathroom,<br />
with a huge mirror to maximise on the natural light. A<br />
beautifully designed fitted cupboard holds shoes and clothing,<br />
although more wardrobe space is planned, in the more<br />
traditional form of a free-standing wardrobe and drawers.<br />
Back in the older part of the house is a cosy guest suite with<br />
a view out across the back garden. Heavy fabrics and blankets<br />
add to the sense of warmth, while colours are muted and<br />
furniture painted in a pale grey, again to make the most of<br />
the light. The adjoining bathroom feels a little more ‘country’<br />
and less grand, though marble surfaces keep things luxurious.<br />
“The contemporary brick effect tiles are from<br />
Marlborough Tiles and are ‘offset’ so that they don’t<br />
look too institutional,” says Belinda. It certainly works,<br />
though it takes a while to notice why they look<br />
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Above: The bed is from Nordic Style. Below: The lamps<br />
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painting client’s own<br />
different. The wooden panelling is tongue and groove,<br />
for a rustic feel, and there is a simple narrow mirror<br />
above the basin, rather than anything too ornate.<br />
The last room to be completed is a study in<br />
what was once the hay loft. Its former incarnation<br />
is a charming reminder of the building’s history<br />
and hopefully one that the owner of the house<br />
will enjoy while poring over their paperwork.<br />
“It was a fantastic brief, a lovely house... and easy working<br />
with my client who was clear as to what she liked and<br />
didn’t like,” says Belinda. “Whilst the architect designed<br />
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Recipe for your<br />
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A good kitchen design is a<br />
balance between the style and the<br />
practicality. It might look brilliant<br />
but if it doesn’t work, it’s no good.<br />
I can start designing a kitchen<br />
before an extension is built, from the<br />
architect’s drawings, but first clients<br />
have to make certain key decisions.<br />
What sort of fridge do you want -<br />
hidden, or visible, or do you want<br />
a big American fridge? What kind<br />
of cooker? A range, separate ovens,<br />
induction… If you entertain a lot<br />
you might want two dishwashers.<br />
Do you want a larder? Once all<br />
that has been decided we can start<br />
designing.<br />
Our office and workshop are<br />
attached to the showroom and I’ll<br />
walk the client round the showroom<br />
to show them the details, different<br />
drawers, larders, all that, then I’ll<br />
take them out to the workshop and<br />
they might see something there.<br />
It’s nice for them to see where<br />
their kitchen will be made. We<br />
manufacture everything here, exactly<br />
for the space.<br />
We are doing a lot of storage<br />
drawers now, they are a very good<br />
practical option. There has been<br />
a strong move away from wall<br />
cupboards. I don’t mind them – I<br />
just wouldn’t fill all the walls up with<br />
them, that’s lazy. We would rather<br />
do a mixture of wall cupboards and<br />
chunky shelves, less of a fitted feel.<br />
We are seeing a high demand for<br />
Quooker boiling water taps. I do<br />
think they’re worth having, they<br />
are simple and stylish. People used<br />
to say ‘that’s a lot of money for a<br />
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JM Interiors is a family business,<br />
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kitchens and has a lot of experience<br />
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When new clients come in we<br />
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listening to what they want to<br />
get out of a kitchen. We can pick<br />
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from what makes them excited in<br />
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Once people have had a play<br />
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with plugs <strong>inside</strong>. A working<br />
coffee area <strong>inside</strong> a cupboard and<br />
cold shelves in larders for pastry<br />
making. It’s all about hiding<br />
things that traditionally sat on<br />
the worktop and getting rid of<br />
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If people arrive with lots of<br />
images of enormous islands for<br />
what is really quite a small space,<br />
we can explain ‘The dishwasher<br />
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show them with a tape measure.<br />
This kitchen was the second we<br />
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moved house and wanted to take<br />
their old kitchen with them, but<br />
since the first one they’d added<br />
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It’s in a traditional Kentish<br />
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added a Belfast sink, an Everhot<br />
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Nick Collins, owner and lead designer<br />
This kitchen was built in a new rear extension – if<br />
you’ve got the space, this is what people want. It has<br />
four different elements. There is a tall wall larder, then<br />
there is a working wall with double ovens, a double<br />
fridge, coffee machines, warming drawers and all the<br />
functional items, which I put into tall cabinetry on the<br />
side of the space with less natural light.<br />
The third element is the elevation with the range<br />
cooker and beautiful overmantel and the final piece is<br />
the feature island with an oak breakfast bar.<br />
And on top of all that, there also is the separate blue<br />
dresser, with glazed doors.<br />
All of them could be kitchens in their own right, so<br />
the challenge is to bring it all together, which we did<br />
by using two distinct palettes. The dark shade is Farrow<br />
& Ball Railings, one of the most popular colours at the<br />
moment, but all dark can be a bit oppressive, so in the<br />
areas with less light, we used a pale shade, Farrow & Ball<br />
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This is the dream, smaller kitchens are harder to<br />
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symes INTERIORS<br />
Richard Vassallo, Managing Director<br />
We start with a full survey of the room to make<br />
sure that what the client wants can be fitted in the<br />
space and that the drainage position isn’t too far<br />
away from where the sink is going, or there are<br />
obstructions in the way.<br />
Then we look at practical requirements for the<br />
kind of cooking they do. We go through what kit<br />
they have, how many pots and pans, how much<br />
crockery, because it varies considerably between<br />
clients. Some people have a dinner set from their<br />
wedding they want to expose with glass doors,<br />
other people want everything put away.<br />
Gadgets are key nowadays. Some appliances work<br />
on wifi and people are very tech savvy. Baking is a<br />
big trend and making bread and pasta, so people<br />
have big mixing machines and need more storage<br />
and work space. People love entertaining and need<br />
a big island space for people to sit around.<br />
Larders are a great way to get the most out of<br />
a space. Because we are bespoke, manufacturing<br />
everything ourselves, it doesn’t matter what the<br />
space is, we can always build one. Spice racks <strong>inside</strong><br />
larder doors are very popular.<br />
It’s important that people are realistic about<br />
budgets. There are expensive options, but you get<br />
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because we can make the most of any space.<br />
Symes Interiors, Alton, Surrey 01386 841060<br />
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ScHmidt<br />
Leigh Colbran, Design Consultant<br />
When new clients come in we give them a tour of the showroom, talk about the<br />
project they have in mind and show them the quality of our product – a lot of<br />
what’s good about Schmidt is behind the doors.<br />
To demonstrate this, we stand in our drawers and then let them soft close.<br />
It makes an impression, because they know it’s being done every day and the<br />
drawers are still good.<br />
In our kitchens, everything has been thought about. There’s a great movement<br />
towards pull out units, making everything accessible, so you don’t have to get on<br />
your knees to try and reach that abyss at the back of the cupboard, where things<br />
get lost and you end up rebuying things you already had.<br />
Because we have a home living range as well, in a run of tall housing, we can<br />
add in bespoke book casing, bifold doors and pop out shelves, that you can use<br />
to tuck a coffee machine away, making a dead corner useful and pretty.<br />
We’ve got over 1000 door front choices and 24 carcass interior colours, so you<br />
can create a bespoke combination. People usually have some idea and we can<br />
guide them through a process of elimination in the showroom.<br />
We also have our own laminates, which are water resistant, they don’t peel.<br />
Our plinths are also water resistant, with a rubber seal that is embedded into the<br />
base of the plinth so no moisture can get underneath. They are also bracketed so<br />
they are fixed, there are no wonky kickboards.<br />
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Do<br />
Symes Interiors<br />
• Shop around and check previous<br />
jobs.<br />
Jones Britain<br />
• Work out a practical footprint<br />
between appliances within the<br />
kitchen. You don’t want to have to<br />
travel miles between appliances.<br />
Rencraft<br />
• Do be comfortable with your<br />
designer, it’s a long journey and<br />
it should be enjoyable. It’s a<br />
collaboration, starting with how<br />
you work in a kitchen, it’s a<br />
question of both sides listening.<br />
• Do be aware of space – you might<br />
need more than you think.<br />
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• Go and see a kitchen designer<br />
before you start planning the<br />
extension.<br />
• Make sure your ideas work for<br />
your space.<br />
• Always invest in a good quality<br />
handle. It makes such a visual<br />
impact, it can transform a kitchen.<br />
JM Interiors<br />
• Do some research into the style of<br />
cooking you want to do and the<br />
appliances you want for it. With<br />
built in, steam, ranges, there are so<br />
many choices and it’s the starting<br />
point for a design.<br />
• Understand how much your<br />
appliances are going to cost,<br />
because it can really cut into your<br />
budget.<br />
• Take some time to decide what<br />
your priorities are.<br />
• Go to showrooms and play around<br />
to see what you like.<br />
Schmidt<br />
• Do allow enough time for the<br />
installation – don’t ever leave<br />
choices last minute.<br />
• Plan your kitchen before you go to<br />
the architect, then you will already<br />
have underfloor ducting, electrics<br />
and plumbing in the right places<br />
and you won’t have to pay your<br />
architect to change the plans for<br />
the kitchen design.<br />
• Factor in installation charges,<br />
which can vary widely between<br />
companies. You want to invest in<br />
the quality of the kitchen first and<br />
foremost.<br />
Jones BRITAIN<br />
Dan Stronge, Owner and head designer<br />
We do kitchens across the whole spectrum from highly modern to exceptionally<br />
traditional. Two years ago everyone wanted mid-grey, now it’s moving to dark blue<br />
and very dark greys. Often it’s an island in the darker colour, with lighter units<br />
around the outside.<br />
Everyone wants an island, but sometimes the space just isn’t big enough, then I<br />
would suggest a peninsula, where a row of units turns the corner, then turns back<br />
again. This will give the effect of an island with as many units and more work space<br />
and can be achieved in a smaller space.<br />
With appliances, steam ovens are more and more popular and now 95% of our<br />
kitchens have a boiling hot water tap. The buzzword that has just started to kick in<br />
is home automation. Talking to Alexa or Google to turn the oven on, or turn the<br />
lights up. Very handy if you have hands covered in flour!<br />
When it comes to working out how much storage a client needs, when we do a site<br />
survey, we can see how much storage they currently have. We need to see all their<br />
current items – sometimes there is stuff stored in other rooms – so we can see how<br />
we could best fit them. We always try to give them more storage in the new kitchen.<br />
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or Freephone 0800 8600 435 jonesbritain.co.uk<br />
Don’t<br />
Rencraft<br />
• Don’t take the first design you’re given.<br />
Explore different companies before<br />
committing.<br />
• Don’t put the dishwasher somewhere<br />
you can’t get round it with the door<br />
open.<br />
Collins Bespoke<br />
• Don’t rush it – understand it’s an<br />
evolving process, it takes time to get<br />
the perfect kitchen.<br />
JM Interiors<br />
• Don’t put big islands in small kitchens.<br />
It’s really important to work with your<br />
proportions, or you can make the space<br />
feel smaller.<br />
Jones Britain<br />
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Symes Interiors<br />
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Schmidt<br />
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you look at. Check out a few<br />
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• If it’s a long-term purchase, it needs<br />
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Ouch!<br />
I think I’ve slipped a disc…<br />
Is back pain or neck pain ruling your life? Are you stuck on a merry-go-round<br />
of painkillers, physiotherapy treatments and GP visits?<br />
Spinal expert James Pickering<br />
treats a range of back and neck<br />
conditions with gentle, noninvasive<br />
techniques. Here, he<br />
shines a light on disc-related conditions.<br />
What causes back and neck pain?<br />
Many back and neck pain issues are caused<br />
by our own bad habits. Sitting, standing,<br />
bending or lifting for long periods,<br />
slouching over PCs and tablets, or poor<br />
driving or sleeping posture can lead to<br />
back and neck pain niggles - which if left<br />
unchecked can turn into more serious issues.<br />
What is ‘chronic’ pain?<br />
‘Chronic’ means pain which has persisted for<br />
three months or more. For many sufferers,<br />
it’s due to some damage or degeneration of<br />
the spinal discs or surrounding nerves.<br />
The discs are the protective pads of<br />
connective tissue dividing the bones of<br />
the spine. They act as ‘shock absorbers’<br />
protecting the spine when we move around.<br />
How do discs become damaged?<br />
If we’re on our feet all day, sitting at<br />
workstations or lifting heavy objects, the<br />
spine can weaken, causing discs to stretch<br />
and bulge. Bulging discs are harmless for<br />
most people - BUT if the outer wall of the<br />
disc tears (herniates), the inner part can leak<br />
out on to surrounding nerves.<br />
When discs are dehydrated, they can leave<br />
the vertebral bones rubbing against each<br />
other: very painful indeed!<br />
What are the signs of a herniated<br />
or ‘slipped’ disc?<br />
Typically, you’ll experience episodes of pain<br />
which become more frequent over time. You<br />
may also suffer nerve pain in the arms or<br />
legs (sciatica) or headaches. You’ll probably<br />
need daily painkillers; physiotherapy and/or<br />
spinal injections may not help.<br />
What is sciatica?<br />
When a disc herniates, the gel-like nucleus<br />
can leak out, irritating or compressing<br />
the surrounding nerves. In lower back<br />
patients, the sciatic nerve is affected<br />
with a shooting pain travelling from the<br />
buttock down the leg. Sometimes the pain<br />
is accompanied by tingling, numbness<br />
or weakness in the legs and feet.<br />
In neck pain sufferers, nerve pain affects the<br />
shoulders, arms and hands.<br />
Most nerve pain resolves with over the<br />
counter anti-inflammatory drugs. Also, go<br />
about your normal daily activities if you<br />
can. However, if you’re still in pain after six<br />
weeks, you should seek advice from one of<br />
our specialists: our first-choice treatment is<br />
IDD Therapy.<br />
How can IDD Therapy help?<br />
IDD Therapy uses safe and gentle pulling<br />
forces to draw apart specific spinal segments<br />
where discs are damaged, removing pressure<br />
and irritation from any trapped nerves.<br />
Patients receive a structured programme of<br />
regular sessions, progressively relieving pain<br />
and improving mobility for the long-term.<br />
IDD Therapy is changing the lives of<br />
slipped disc and sciatica suffers.<br />
Sue’s IDD Therapy Experience<br />
Sue James suffered for 16 years with back<br />
pain and sciatica:<br />
“The pain started in my right leg; I<br />
couldn’t sit for more than half an hour.<br />
Going out for a meal or to the cinema<br />
became impossible.<br />
My GP prescribed strong painkillers, but<br />
the side-effects were too severe; I tried<br />
chiropractic and nerve block injections, but<br />
nothing helped.<br />
My consultant suggested surgery, but I<br />
didn’t want to have an operation with the<br />
recovery time and possible risks.<br />
After a programme of IDD Therapy, I’m<br />
enjoying an active life again, competing in<br />
athletics events pain-free.”<br />
About the<br />
Expert<br />
Osteopath James<br />
Pickering works with<br />
patients across the<br />
Kent community. He<br />
specialises in spinal<br />
disc conditions and<br />
associated nerve<br />
pain. His practice<br />
is an approved IDD<br />
Therapy Disc Clinic.<br />
Call <strong>Wealden</strong> Osteopaths and Spine Centre on 01580 212833 or go to wealdenosteopaths.co.uk
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Life’s rich<br />
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Tweeds, plaids, satins and leopard print – this autumn’s<br />
styles are a lush mix of texture and pattern<br />
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Location: Battle Abbey School Model: Georgia Dispenza, Fresh Agents<br />
Make Up: Amy Deakin, Truffle Tunbridge Wells, truffleonsea.com/tunbridgewells 01892 557722<br />
Hair: Amie Coombes, instagram @amieadellhair<br />
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dressing undeniable beauty<br />
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on Instagram 07772 056945; velvet ankle boots £295,<br />
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Simon Harrison Amphitrite ring £150 and<br />
Amphitrite earrings £150, Jason Charles Jewellery<br />
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Above: Dress £75, belt £35, from a selection at Hawk<br />
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£150, Jason Charles Jewellery jasoncharlesjewellery.co.uk;<br />
bag £225, The Vintage Lions thevintagelions.co.uk<br />
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Cord blazer £285, GANT<br />
Bluewater 01322 422640 gant.co.uk;<br />
shirt £225, L.K.Bennett Bluewater<br />
01322 427178 lkbennett.com; skirt £98,<br />
trainers £98, Jigsaw Bluewater 01322<br />
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STYLISH SHOES FOR STYLISH FEET<br />
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Welcome back,<br />
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This season we are pleased to announce that we have<br />
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and provide comfort for the modern gentleman.<br />
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“The brand’s unique properties guarantee all-day<br />
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Tenterden<br />
Kent, TN30 6AD<br />
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Now at the Bull House Studio,<br />
Lake Street, Mayfield,<br />
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Faux fur stole £108,<br />
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leg cropped trousers £98,<br />
Jigsaw Bluewater 01322<br />
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Faux fur jacket £369, British<br />
Design British Made 01424 777711<br />
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cashmere lambswool jumper £155<br />
GANT Bluewater 01322 422640<br />
gant.co.uk; trousers £209, Peter<br />
Hahn peterhahn.co.uk; trainers<br />
£98, Jigsaw Bluewater 01322<br />
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The One Stop Shop for Ladies Fashion in Surrey<br />
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Tel: 01276 856308<br />
17 High Street, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN1 1UT<br />
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Check blazer £275, GANT Bluewater 01322 422640 gant.co.uk; shirt £265,<br />
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Faux fur coat £239, Peter<br />
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A huge thank you to Battle Abbey School for allowing us<br />
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experience. For more information about visiting Battle Abbey<br />
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battleabbeyschool.com or email info@battleabbeyschool.com<br />
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32B or not 32B?<br />
that is the question<br />
Whether your cup runneth over or there’s room for more in there, you’re probably<br />
wearing the wrong bra size. Expert fitter and Triumph consultant Carol Wales, of Fenwick,<br />
Tunbridge Wells, explains why you need professional guidance<br />
What Carol Wales doesn’t<br />
know about bras isn’t worth<br />
knowing. She’s been a<br />
consultant for Triumph for over 30 years<br />
and was an experienced fitter before that,<br />
having trained at a specialised lingerie<br />
fitting school in London.<br />
But what may surprise you is that<br />
there is one thing she never uses while<br />
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of whom come to see on her word-ofmouth<br />
recommendation) at Fenwick,<br />
Tunbridge Wells: a tape measure.<br />
“You do it by eye,” she says.<br />
And there’s something else surprising,<br />
that you may be relieved to hear – you<br />
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“Once you’re trained, you can get a<br />
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at a woman. You can’t measure with any<br />
accuracy with a tape, it’s much better to<br />
do it by eye. I look at a woman in her<br />
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wrong, or otherwise.”<br />
Once Carol has assessed the basic size,<br />
she has to call on another area of her<br />
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multiple ranges and styles of bra.<br />
“Just like clothing, sizes vary a lot<br />
between brands and even within a brand,<br />
depending on the style, some come up a<br />
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But even with all that knowledge, the<br />
only way to be sure a bra is the right fit<br />
is to try it on and have it checked on you<br />
by an expert fitter. “I can’t look at a bra<br />
and know if it will fit me – I have to try<br />
it on. This is why it’s very difficult to buy<br />
them online.”<br />
One of the reasons so many of us wear<br />
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the ‘average’ size and work from that as<br />
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“Women’s perception of bra sizes<br />
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And with that new bra<br />
size comes a whole new,<br />
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says Carol.<br />
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Josephine Fairley wallows blissfully in bath<br />
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I<br />
love a bathroom. The one room in a home where you<br />
can legitimately lock the door without someone thinking<br />
you’re throwing a strop (even if you are). Turn your back<br />
on a frantic world and a busy day and reclaim some time for<br />
yourself. I love designing bathrooms (I’ve done quite a few in<br />
my time...), but the final touch, I always think, is the products<br />
that you indulge in, within that space. Ideally, they’ll look as<br />
good on the bathroom shelf as they make you feel – but just<br />
because something isn’t presented in glam packaging, doesn’t<br />
mean it won’t have a feelgood factor.<br />
What I tend to do with baths is to create what Dayle<br />
Haddon – a supermodel who’s now seventysomething and<br />
looking fabber than ever – calls her ‘Magic Bath’. That means<br />
blending a bit of this, a handful of that, a slurp of something<br />
else, to come up with a custom bath prescription that differs<br />
pretty much every time.<br />
I tend to start with a large dollop of salts – salt and<br />
magnesium flakes. Magnesium is absorbed through the skin<br />
and helps induce relaxation, aiding sleep.<br />
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My newest bath salt love is Dead Sea Spa<br />
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perfect for the impending cold and flu season,<br />
with its potent, nose-clearing, sense-awakening<br />
blend of rosemary and eucalyptus.<br />
This comes in seriously workaday packaging<br />
– a shiny big sachet. So, while always being<br />
aware that bathrooms and broken glass don’t go together<br />
well, I like to decant less-than-gorgeous-looking products<br />
like this into pressed and cut glass jars and bottles, which<br />
I acquire in charity shops. If you’ve got a hardtiled<br />
floor, that might not be sensible, but<br />
mine is vinyl-that-looks-like-sisal and if I do<br />
drop something, glass bottles almost bounce<br />
off it. Although I still always keep the glass<br />
containers away from the bath area itself.<br />
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I’m a huge fan of<br />
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“Restore your getup-and-go<br />
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eucalyptus alongside Cambrian blue clay, which will<br />
help draw out impurities from skin.<br />
On the oil front, I’ve some fab new finds. A long-term fan<br />
of Aromatherapy Associates Bath & Shower Oils, these have been<br />
joined next to my bath by two tall green bottles from Gaia<br />
Spa (located at Boringdon Hall’s eco-spa, on the fringes of<br />
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If I’m frazzled, there’s the Calming Bath Oil option:<br />
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Another current wake-up-call-of-choice on<br />
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a fabulously uplifting blend of mandarin<br />
and geranium. If you’re not sure what a<br />
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Celebrating the festival in which Indians throw coloured<br />
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My favourite is crisp green Paris-Deauville, you might<br />
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Wellbeing<br />
A Year of Wellness<br />
We are all born knowing how to do it, but can get worse at<br />
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function of sleep and how to improve it<br />
<strong>October</strong>: Pillow talk<br />
We’ve all been there, desperate<br />
to fall asleep, knowing that<br />
we need to be up early for<br />
something immensely important – yet<br />
wholly unable to drift off. For many of<br />
us it’s fortunately a fleeting experience,<br />
perhaps ahead of a stressful event – but<br />
for 30% of people in the UK, the odd<br />
sleepless night has slipped over into<br />
debilitating chronic insomnia.<br />
The National Sleep Foundation has<br />
highlighted the link between stress and<br />
insomnia. With stress levels in this<br />
country at an all-time high (a poll by<br />
YouGov found that in <strong>2018</strong>, 74% of<br />
Britons have felt so stressed as to no<br />
longer be able to cope with daily life),<br />
the parity between our waking and lackof-sleep-ing<br />
lives is crystal clear.<br />
It is, admittedly, not a pretty or restful<br />
picture but thankfully, when it comes to<br />
sleep, there are several simple steps that<br />
each of us can take to make enormously<br />
positive differences.<br />
Firstly, we must wake up to how<br />
much our modern-day lives are<br />
affecting our body’s ancient sleep-smart<br />
programming. When once we would<br />
have woken at sunrise and retired at<br />
sunset, we are now able to power on<br />
as early and late as we wish – phones,<br />
laptops, tablets keep us plugged in<br />
unnaturally often, and the blue light<br />
emitted from their screens has been<br />
shown to be one of the biggest health<br />
concerns of our time. Blue light<br />
suppresses melatonin<br />
– the hormone<br />
that takes us off<br />
to sleep – twice<br />
as long as other<br />
light wavelengths<br />
and alters<br />
circadian rhythms by twice as much<br />
again. This affects more than just sleep.<br />
“Interference with the body’s circadian<br />
rhythms can have a significant effect<br />
on health, creating problems with<br />
the cardiovascular, metabolic, and<br />
immune systems, disturbing mood, and<br />
compromising cognitive function,” says<br />
sleep doctor Michael J Breus PhD.<br />
I recommend setting all devices to<br />
switch automatically to night mode<br />
at sunset. Also stay clear of all screens<br />
– television included – for up to two<br />
hours before you wish to sleep.<br />
Other sleep-supporting activities<br />
I have found to be most successful<br />
are linked to lowering<br />
stress levels. Meditation<br />
is being shown to be<br />
something of a golden<br />
bullet when it comes to<br />
improving sleep issues.<br />
I’d highly recommend<br />
Will Williams’ brilliant<br />
book, The Effortless<br />
Mind, which breaks down exactly why<br />
this practice is so effective. If a daily<br />
studio visit is out of the question, try<br />
movementformodernlife.com.<br />
Professor Jim Horne of the Sleep<br />
Research Centre at Loughborough<br />
University advocates two simple, yet<br />
highly effective, choices for a better<br />
night’s sleep. Firstly, a long walk outside<br />
in nature, which allows the brain to<br />
‘rest’ and focus on things beyond the<br />
internal paraphernalia, is incomparably<br />
stress relieving. This also douses the<br />
body with natural daylight which helps<br />
maintain the correct day/night balance<br />
of our internal body clock.<br />
A seminal 2016 study in the US<br />
found that low vitamin D levels often<br />
“Stay clear of all<br />
devices - television<br />
included - for up to<br />
two hours before you<br />
wish to go to sleep”<br />
resulted in insomnia, so that daily walk<br />
with all of its natural light benefits,<br />
wherein we get to top up our vitamin<br />
D stores too, has yet another benefit<br />
to herald. When the days begin to dim<br />
significantly, do ensure you top up daily<br />
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Professor Horne’s second sleep tip is<br />
no less enjoyable: a long hot bath, taken<br />
an hour before bedtime, which raises<br />
the core body temperature, only to then<br />
have it drop, rather rapidly, as we step<br />
out of the bath and towel dry.<br />
This drop in body temperature<br />
perfectly mimics the<br />
body’s own drop in<br />
core temperature as<br />
we begin to prepare<br />
for sleep (ever stayed<br />
up too late and started<br />
to shiver?). When our<br />
core body temperature<br />
drops, it creates optimal<br />
conditions for melatonin production,<br />
promoting good healthy sleep.<br />
Getting too hot at night is indeed one<br />
of the chief causes of waking and fitful<br />
sleep, so keep the bedroom cool, stick to<br />
breathable bedclothes and PJs, and leave<br />
the window open for as long as you<br />
feasibly can for fresh and cooling air.<br />
Yes, there are innumerable gadgets,<br />
gizmos, pills and teas to try too, but in<br />
keeping with sleep’s innate and simple<br />
nature, I shan’t expand on them here.<br />
The fact is, the more we can simplify<br />
and re-naturalise our waking lives, the<br />
more likely we are to sleep well at night.<br />
And if that, perchance, isn’t the stuff<br />
of the sweetest, easiest dreams, I really<br />
don’t know what is.<br />
Eminé Rushton is Wellbeing Director-at-Large at Psychologies magazine, and<br />
co-founder of the conscious living blog, The Balance Plan, balanceplan.co.uk<br />
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Ali Roff is co-founder of The Remedy Retreats with her husband<br />
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degree in psychology, she aims to create a safe retreat space to rest,<br />
de-stress and improve physical and mental wellness.<br />
What one piece of seasonal wisdom<br />
helps you in autumn? For me, autumn<br />
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reset my body clock after long summer<br />
nights. As the clocks go back an<br />
hour, we get the perfect opportunity<br />
to trick our bodies into getting to bed<br />
earlier and so waking an hour earlier,<br />
without any great impact to our body<br />
clock – or, in other words, our ability to<br />
get out of bed!<br />
Every year I use this chance to bring<br />
my wake time an hour earlier and<br />
spend the weeks beforehand setting a<br />
little intention to use that hour to do<br />
something for me before the day even<br />
begins, such as journalling, yoga, or<br />
meditation. Sometimes I just sit in the<br />
garden with a cup of lemon water and<br />
a blanket and listen to the world wake<br />
up. As we move into winter, I’ll get cosy<br />
with some candles and meditate in my<br />
living room. The best hour of the day.<br />
What one self-care ritual do you never<br />
skimp on? I have to move every day.<br />
Whether it’s a walk in nature, yoga or an<br />
energetic class at the gym, or even some<br />
simple stretches before bed (the intensity<br />
doesn’t matter), but if I don’t move<br />
my body each day, my mind will tell<br />
me about it. I’ve started to incorporate<br />
movement into my breaks at work too.<br />
To move away from my desk and sway<br />
Choose kindness<br />
my arms and my hips feels great after<br />
sitting for so long.<br />
What’s cooking in your kitchen this<br />
month? Pattypan squash. I even have a<br />
little song I sing when they arrive in my<br />
veg box. These little gemstone-shaped<br />
squashes are so sweet, tender and easy<br />
to chop into little wedges. I roast them<br />
with minced garlic, pink Himalayan<br />
salt and fresh sage or dried herbs, with a<br />
good glug of olive oil.<br />
Share one book that taught you<br />
something amazing about life – and<br />
made you better at living it?<br />
It has to be Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny<br />
Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and<br />
Life from Dear Sugar. Her collection of<br />
columns from her days writing as an<br />
anonymous agony aunt, always seem<br />
to speak directly to me and my life<br />
experiences, giving advice, counsel,<br />
compassion, and sometimes even a ‘kick<br />
in the pants’, as Strayed says in one of<br />
her replies to a reader in need.<br />
But many simply offer tenderness<br />
in reply to life events which I hope<br />
will never touch me, from divorce to<br />
the loss of a son. It’s a heartbreaking<br />
book - not only the questions asked by<br />
readers, whom she calls her ‘Sweetpeas’,<br />
but the stirring, inspirational<br />
and heartrending guidance offered<br />
by Strayed herself.<br />
I have so enjoyed reading Shahroo Izadi’s<br />
The Kindness Method, which is focused on<br />
going gently on yourself. Being kinder to<br />
ourselves has been shown by Izadi to not<br />
only help us break life-long negative habits,<br />
but to also shift the barriers that prevent us<br />
achieving our goals. A lovely read, or gift,<br />
for a friend in a tough spot.<br />
What is the best treatment you’ve<br />
had locally? Massage is so great for<br />
fascia and connective tissue work,<br />
which we are learning is more and<br />
more important, yet often neglected<br />
in our physical health.<br />
I work on mine a lot through my<br />
yoga practice and often incorporate<br />
it into my classes and retreats, but<br />
massage is a lovely relaxing way<br />
to include it in our holistic health<br />
ritual and routine. The best one<br />
I’ve had is with a very talented<br />
masseuse called Becky Smith, who<br />
incorporates amazing essential oils<br />
into her treatments. She always<br />
offers a selection to choose from,<br />
depending on what you want to<br />
work on, or how you’re feeling. I<br />
tend to book in when I’m feeling<br />
overwhelmed. You can contact her<br />
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Eminé says:<br />
Try this in<br />
<strong>October</strong><br />
With nights drawing in and<br />
daylight less abundant, I<br />
find increasing comfort in<br />
the moon’s silvery glow and<br />
movements. I enjoy local<br />
artist, Jo of The Moon Journal’s musings, art work and<br />
#myslowerlivingmoments prompts on Instagram @<br />
themoon_journal . Her moon journal is beautiful too.
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I want to make the healthiest<br />
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Words: Anna Stanford<br />
Photographs: David Merewether<br />
and Anna Stanford<br />
Chuck it all in and heat it up for blissfully easy – and<br />
tasty – mid-week suppers<br />
• 2 tbsp olive oil<br />
• 600g lamb neck fillet cut into 1 inch<br />
chunks<br />
• 2 onions roughly chopped<br />
• 1 tsp Maldon salt<br />
• 3 garlic cloves crushed<br />
• 10cm piece of ginger peeled and<br />
chopped<br />
• 1 tbsp ras-el-hanout<br />
• 1 tsp each cumin, coriander and<br />
cinnamon<br />
• 200g tomatoes (fresh or tinned)<br />
• 400g chickpeas<br />
• 400g butternut squash cut into 2cm<br />
cubes<br />
• 400ml chicken or lamb stock<br />
• 2 preserved lemons chopped<br />
• 30g bunch coriander, stalks chopped,<br />
leaves reserved<br />
Lamb tagine<br />
Serves 4-6 Prep time: 10 minutes. Cooking time: 4-6 hours<br />
One of my favourite one pots. It can be thrown together and then left in a low oven or<br />
slow cooker. Just add the squash and chickpeas for the last hour of cooking and finish<br />
with the fresh coriander, green olives and pomegranate seeds.<br />
To finish:<br />
• 100g green olives<br />
• 2 tbsp pomegranate seeds<br />
• 3 tbsp coriander leaves<br />
1Colour the onions in the oil for 5<br />
minutes before adding the lamb. Ten<br />
minutes later add all the other ingredients<br />
apart from the squash and chickpeas. Add<br />
½ tsp salt and 6 grinds of black pepper.<br />
Cook at 140 degrees or in a slow cooker<br />
for as long as possible – 4-6 hours is ideal.<br />
(I leave mine in the simmering oven of my<br />
Aga for up to 8 hours).<br />
2Add the squash and chickpeas for the<br />
last hour of cooking time.<br />
3Serve the tagine sprinkled with the<br />
pomegranate seeds, olives and fresh<br />
coriander.
Orange, soy, honey & basil roast chicken<br />
Serves 4-6 Prep time: 5 minutes. Cooking time: 90 minutes<br />
Who doesn’t love roast chicken? This one tray makes for a livelier<br />
Sunday roast. It takes 5 mins to prep and then the whole dish<br />
(minus the mange tout and basil) gets put in the oven for 90<br />
minutes. Stir in the mange tout (or peas if you prefer) at the end.<br />
The hot juices from the chicken will cook them through.<br />
• 2 whole chickens (approx<br />
1.5kg each) or you could<br />
use a mixture of thighs<br />
and legs<br />
• 2 oranges sliced<br />
• 300g mange tout (or peas)<br />
• 15g fresh basil leaves<br />
• 750g new potatoes, large<br />
ones halved<br />
For the orange dressing:<br />
• 3 tbsp olive oil<br />
• juice and zest of one<br />
orange<br />
• 1 chilli chopped<br />
• 3 tsp honey<br />
• 3 tbsp soy sauce<br />
• 3 garlic cloves crushed<br />
1Line your roasting tray<br />
with baking parchment or<br />
greaseproof paper to stop the<br />
sauce burning on the bottom<br />
of the tray.<br />
2Toss the potatoes in the<br />
tray with the olive oil.<br />
3Add the chickens to the<br />
roasting tray and pour over<br />
the dressing making sure you<br />
spoon some <strong>inside</strong> the cavity of<br />
the chicken.<br />
4Season the whole dish with<br />
salt and pepper.<br />
5Place the orange slices<br />
around the chicken and roast<br />
at 180 degrees for 90 minutes. If<br />
using thighs and legs reduce the<br />
cooking time to 45 minutes.<br />
6Stir in the mange tout –<br />
the hot juices will cook<br />
them. Sprinkle over the basil<br />
and serve.<br />
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Serves 4 Prep time: 10 minutes. Cooking time: 30 minutes<br />
This is a showstopper dish but is very easy. The trick is to use<br />
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and part-cook the rice with saffron and turmeric so the paella<br />
takes on the amazing colour. Both of these tips were given to<br />
me by Sankey’s in Tunbridge Wells. If you wish to simplify the<br />
dish you can omit the squid and/or the mussels. The prawns,<br />
chorizo and chicken are a must!<br />
• 1 tsp (1g) saffron<br />
• ½ tsp ground turmeric<br />
• 300g bomba paella rice<br />
• 2 tbsp olive oil<br />
• 150g chorizo sliced on the<br />
diagonal into ½cm thick<br />
slices<br />
• 2 chicken thighs (skin off,<br />
bone out) sliced into 2cm<br />
strips<br />
• 2 onions finely chopped<br />
• 3 cloves of garlic, crushed<br />
• 2 tbsp smoked paprika<br />
Cheat’s paella<br />
• 800ml- 1l fish stock<br />
• 200ml white wine<br />
• 10-12 cleaned mussels<br />
• 2 squid tubes cut into<br />
rings, fresh or frozen<br />
• ½ pint glass of Greenland<br />
prawns, shell on<br />
• ½ pint glass of Greenland<br />
prawns shell off or king<br />
prawns, shell off<br />
• 100g frozen peas<br />
• 2 lemons, quartered<br />
1Remove any remaining<br />
beards from the mussels<br />
and wash them under cold<br />
water. Tap each mussel. If it<br />
doesn’t close, dispose of it.<br />
2Put your rice, saffron,<br />
turmeric and 500ml of<br />
stock in a pan and simmer for<br />
8 minutes. Fork through the<br />
rice and set aside.<br />
3Add the olive oil to a<br />
large pan (I used a large<br />
casserole) and add your<br />
chicken. Colour for 5 minutes<br />
before adding the onion and<br />
garlic. Sauté for 5 minutes.<br />
Push the onion and chicken<br />
mixture to the side of the pan<br />
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for 5 minutes turning them<br />
every minute or so. This<br />
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4Give the onions and<br />
chicken a stir to make sure<br />
they don’t catch then push<br />
them to the side of the pan<br />
again. Colour the chorizo for a<br />
minute on each side. Add the<br />
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and give everything a stir.<br />
5Add your part-cooked rice<br />
and the remaining stock.<br />
Stir and simmer for 5 minutes.<br />
Add your mussels on top of the<br />
rice, put a lid on the pan and<br />
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5 minutes. Discard any mussels<br />
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6Add the squid, prawns and<br />
peas. Give the paella one<br />
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fresh herbs if you like. <br />
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Food<br />
Photo: David Merewether<br />
Chickpea, sweet potato<br />
and paneer curry<br />
Serves 4 Prep time: 10 minutes. Cooking time: 30 minutes<br />
This is a 30 minute hearty curry. A rewarding and fairly simple<br />
supper, it’s perfect for those meat-free days when you need<br />
something warming and your family is chomping at the bit. You<br />
can adjust the heat level by leaving out the chilli seeds. Natural<br />
yoghurt on the side will also appease anyone who prefers a curry<br />
mild. Delicious served with brown basmati rice.<br />
• 1tbsp groundnut oil<br />
• 1 onion finely chopped<br />
• 2 garlic cloves crushed<br />
• 5cm fresh ginger chopped<br />
• 1 red chilli deseeded and<br />
chopped<br />
• fresh coriander - stalks<br />
chopped, leaves reserved<br />
• 1 tsp ground cumin<br />
• 1 tsp ground coriander<br />
• 1 tsp turmeric<br />
• 1 tsp medium curry<br />
powder<br />
• salt & pepper<br />
• 1 tsp garam masala<br />
• 400g chickpeas<br />
• 200g vegetable stock<br />
• 500g sweet potatoes,<br />
peeled & chopped into 1<br />
inch cubes<br />
• 400g chopped tomatoes<br />
• 150g spinach<br />
• 200g paneer cheese cut<br />
into 2cm cubes<br />
• juice of 1 lemon<br />
1Colour the onion in the<br />
oil for 5 minutes before<br />
adding the ginger, garlic,<br />
chilli, coriander stalks & the<br />
dried spices (apart from the<br />
garam masala).<br />
2Stir for 5 minutes then<br />
add the stock, chickpeas,<br />
chopped tomatoes & sweet<br />
potato cubes. Season, stir &<br />
simmer for 20 minutes whilst<br />
you cook the paneer.<br />
3Colour the paneer in a<br />
hot frying pan with a lug<br />
of oil for 5 minutes. Stir the<br />
seared paneer into the curry<br />
then stir in the garam masala,<br />
squeeze in the lemon, stir in<br />
the spinach, sprinkle over the<br />
coriander and serve.<br />
Granola plum crumble<br />
“Grumble”<br />
Serves 6 Prep time: 5 minutes Cooking time: 30-40 minutes<br />
A quick family pudding, my Grumble uses seasonal plums but<br />
would work equally well with pears, blackberries or apples. The<br />
topping is a quick granola mix. You can also make a healthy<br />
homemade breakfast granola by spreading the mix on a baking<br />
sheet and baking for 30 minutes at 160 degrees, stirring every 10<br />
minutes. This will store in an airtight container for a week.<br />
For the granola mix together:-<br />
• 300g porridge oats<br />
• 80g mixed seeds<br />
• 80g flaked almonds<br />
• 80ml maple syrup<br />
• 3 tbsp rapeseed or coconut<br />
oil<br />
• 3 tbsp apple juice<br />
• ½ tsp Maldon salt<br />
For the plums:-<br />
• 800g ripe plums, such as<br />
Victoria, halved and stones<br />
removed<br />
• ½ tsp ground all spice<br />
• 2 tbsp runny honey<br />
• zest of one orange<br />
Fabulous food<br />
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1Mix together all the granola<br />
ingredients in a bowl.<br />
2Put the plums in an<br />
ovenproof dish and sprinkle<br />
over the all spice, orange zest<br />
and squeeze over the honey.<br />
3Spoon over the granola<br />
mix.<br />
4Bake in an oven at 160<br />
degrees for 30-40 minutes.<br />
Halfway through fork over the<br />
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Garden<br />
Harvest<br />
home<br />
Jo Arnell celebrates the traditional<br />
early autumn festival<br />
It’s hard to remember a time before Wilderness, Latitude,<br />
Glastonbury etc, but not so long ago there was only<br />
one major festival in the British year – Harvest Festival.<br />
Once a major event in the calendar, the harvest is as packed<br />
with rituals and symbolism as it is produce. We are lucky<br />
these days that most of our lives do not depend on the safe<br />
gathering in of crops, but this is still an<br />
important – and potent time of the year.<br />
Whether you are busy harvesting gleaming<br />
pumpkins and earthy roots and preparing<br />
to dance pagan-style around wheat sheaves,<br />
or are just scratching about at the back of<br />
the cupboard for lacklustre tins of beans<br />
and packets of rice to take into school or<br />
church, the fruits of the season are ripe<br />
and ready, and deserve to be celebrated.<br />
Let’s head out to the patch, farm shop, market or even<br />
into the hedgerows, and gather the harvest home.<br />
Seasonal fruitfulness<br />
Apples and pears are the fruits of the moment and local<br />
events celebrating orchard fruits abound during <strong>October</strong>.<br />
Brogdale in Faversham holds the national collection and<br />
is home to over 2,000 apple varieties and 500 pears.<br />
If you are thinking of buying an apple tree (or two, as they<br />
normally need a pollinating partner), then this is the best<br />
“If you are planning<br />
to eat pumpkins,<br />
rather than carve<br />
them, don’t pick a<br />
Halloween monster”<br />
time to get out and about and sample different varieties.<br />
Many orchards and suppliers have their own apple festivals<br />
this month. Apple Day itself, an event started in 1990 to<br />
celebrate both the fruit and a part of our lives that is in<br />
danger of disappearing, is on 21st of the month. Brogdale’s<br />
apple weekend is slightly earlier, on 13th/14th <strong>October</strong>.<br />
Apples harvested towards the end<br />
of the season tend to be cookers and<br />
robust eaters. The good news about<br />
these is that they store well through the<br />
winter. Flavour is key and although the<br />
supermarkets have improved their selection<br />
of apples, there is nothing better than<br />
eating an apple straight from the tree.<br />
Good late varieties include ‘Egremont<br />
Russet’, ‘Chivers Delight’ and ‘Blenheim<br />
Orange’, which is great for both cooking and eating.<br />
Beyond Halloween<br />
Pumpkins abound this month, but if you are planning to eat<br />
them, rather than carve them, don’t pick a Halloween monster.<br />
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Above: Home-grown chillies are great for cooking – and look<br />
lovely too<br />
I often grow a variety called ‘Hooligan’ (it does what<br />
its name suggests and romps about all over the patch,<br />
so be warned) and there’s another small one called<br />
‘Sweet Dumpling’ (but don’t be fooled, it’s a hooligan<br />
in a dumpling outfit and will also run rampant). Both<br />
grow to be a little bigger than a cricket ball and are<br />
great roasted whole, hollowed out and stuffed with<br />
risotto. Of the butternut squash varieties, ‘Hunter’ is<br />
a good variety, as it has been bred to flourish in the<br />
UK and will ripen well regardless of the weather.<br />
Pumpkins and winter squash are easy to grow, but are<br />
greedy, needing rich soil, sunshine and moisture to ensure<br />
a good crop – this is why they are often grown on compost<br />
heaps. They take a while to make their fruit and need a<br />
fair amount of space to sprawl about in, but (if given a<br />
good long summer like this one) should be ripe by the<br />
time the foliage starts to die back in early autumn.<br />
Leave them out in the sun for as long as possible, as<br />
this will cure their skins and enable them to last longer<br />
in storage. Bring them <strong>inside</strong> before the frosts arrive,<br />
cutting each fruit off from the main stem, but leaving<br />
a long stalk if you can, as this will also help prolong<br />
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Garden<br />
Above left: Rose hips are great for cordials and fruit gins. Right: The taste of freshly dug potatoes is a revelation<br />
artistically (they make great subjects for still-life paintings),<br />
plump and gleaming in the low autumn light.<br />
Hedgerow harvests<br />
Satisfy the hunter gatherer urge by heading out into the<br />
hedgerows for a foraging session. Many of us have subverted<br />
this urge into shopping, but the dopamine hit we get from<br />
picking fruit is the same and is free (but remember the<br />
needs of wildlife and don’t go on too much of a splurge).<br />
You might be lucky enough to catch the very<br />
last of the blackberries, there may be wild apples<br />
and even cobnuts around, but you will definitely<br />
find rose hips, elderberries and sloes. These can be<br />
made into cordials, or fruit gins and vodkas.<br />
Sloe gin is simple to make – half fill a container with<br />
sloes (pricked or frozen and then defrosted to break the<br />
skins), add some sugar (ratio of fruit to sugar approx<br />
2:1) and fill to the top with gin. Stir each day for a<br />
week and then leave to mature until Christmas.<br />
Unearthing treasures<br />
Harvesting root crops is nearly as exciting as digging<br />
for treasure (okay, 18 carrots might not be as valuable<br />
as 18 carats, but there’s less danger from pirates). It’s<br />
exciting partly because until you dig down into the<br />
soil, you have no idea of the potential harvest.<br />
Main crop potatoes are ready to lift once the haulm (leafy<br />
top growth) has died back in early autumn. They can be<br />
left in the ground and dug up when required, but if you<br />
need the space for other crops, or suffer with keel slugs<br />
(underground slugs that attack tubers and root crops) or<br />
blight, it is probably better to lift and store the tubers.<br />
Unearth potatoes carefully. Push your fork gently<br />
into the ground a distance away from the plant to avoid<br />
spearing or slicing through them. Spread them out to dry<br />
in the open air for an hour or so to enable their skins to<br />
toughen up for storing. Potatoes need to be stored in dry,<br />
dark conditions, or they turn green and produce the toxic<br />
chemical solanine, but don’t be tempted to put them in the<br />
fridge, as it is too cold and will adversely affect the flavour.<br />
Hessian sacks are ideal, allowing air to circulate,<br />
while keeping the light out. Check occasionally<br />
and remove any tubers that may be rotting (as with<br />
apples, one bad one may very well spoil the whole lot,<br />
no matter what the Jacksons said in the song).<br />
Other roots, such as carrots, beetroot, parsnips, turnips<br />
and swede, can be left in the ground and harvested when<br />
needed, but to stop them being attacked by pests and if<br />
your ground freezes too hard in the winter, it’s best to<br />
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Once lifted, cut off the leaves and stems to prevent<br />
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box, or storage container and put a layer of sand, sawdust<br />
or multi-purpose compost (kept moist, but not wet) in the<br />
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A succulents garden in Majorca<br />
A prickly subject<br />
With more hot summers predicted Sue Whigham suggests we – carefully – embrace cactus<br />
As we all know, temperatures in the UK<br />
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endless days of scorching heat reaching<br />
over 35C and it looks likely to happen again.<br />
An article I read in one of the reputable dailies quoted<br />
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of Brest which was published in the highly respected<br />
journal Nature Communications before the heat wave,<br />
predicting that from <strong>2018</strong>-2022 we should expect ‘an<br />
increased likelihood of intense to extreme temperatures’.<br />
Well, they got that right, so we should probably believe<br />
them about the next few years.<br />
Gardeners amongst us had a good spring<br />
after a hard winter but it was sad to see our<br />
efforts crisp up as the drought lengthened<br />
and lengthened. So perhaps what we need to<br />
do now is to take current phenomena into<br />
account and plant accordingly. One place to<br />
start is to see what is looking good and what<br />
has suffered the most from lack of water.<br />
Thank goodness we didn’t have a<br />
hosepipe ban otherwise things would have been pretty dire.<br />
It certainly reminds us that a good, deep mulch on our<br />
borders helps retain moisture as well as feeding the plants.<br />
However, we could perhaps consider growing more<br />
cactus and succulents which are adapted to drought<br />
conditions and retain water in their fleshy leaves and in<br />
some cases, their root systems. Look how good sedums<br />
are still looking in early autumn, whilst all around them<br />
other plants look as if they have turned up their toes.<br />
Cactus (all cactus are succulents but not all succulents are<br />
“They are the perfect<br />
plants for the young,<br />
as they require little<br />
care and are almost<br />
impossible to kill”<br />
cactus) had their heyday in the 1970’s, then went completely<br />
out of fashion but are now having a huge resurgence. I see<br />
that Selfridges and Top Shop’s flagship store in Oxford<br />
Street have in-store cactus shops and promotions on line.<br />
They are the perfect plants for the young who tend<br />
to be out a lot or perhaps live in flats without access<br />
to gardens, as they require little care and are almost<br />
impossible to kill. Having said that, if you do give<br />
them attention you will soon notice the results.<br />
They are also very enthusiastically collected, sometimes<br />
for nostalgic reasons, by people who as children used to<br />
nip down to Woolworths and spend<br />
their pocket money on a cactus or<br />
two on a Saturday morning.<br />
Gynelle Leon is one of the people<br />
leading this hike of interest in cactus.<br />
She opened her shop, Prick, in uber<br />
trendy Dalston, East London, a couple of<br />
years ago and business is booming. She<br />
says that whilst the younger generation<br />
are ‘behind the boom’, she has many<br />
people, older men particularly, whose parents used to collect<br />
cactus and are now setting up their own collections.<br />
Meanwhile, the cactus shop is booming at the Camden<br />
Garden Centre, selling around 400 different varieties<br />
of the spiny plants. They have even had cactus festivals<br />
there with their cafe providing cactus-themed food.<br />
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Garden<br />
This page: Cacti in the Marjorelle Garden, in Marrakech,<br />
restored by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé<br />
So what attention do these plants need? To start with they<br />
prefer, no, must have, a well-drained soil. Bearing in mind<br />
where many of them originate, the idea is to emulate those<br />
conditions. I’ve recently seen huge aloes growing on rocky<br />
screes in the north west of Majorca in what seemed impossible<br />
growing conditions. You can buy special succulent composts.<br />
Give the plants as much sunlight as possible. They’ll<br />
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them every seven to ten days in the summer and every three<br />
weeks or so in the winter making sure that the soil is pretty<br />
dry before you water again. Overwatering causes the plant’s<br />
roots to rot off and its leaves to turn brown and unhealthy<br />
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as you would check whether a cake is cooked through,<br />
you’ll know that it is time to water if the end is dry.<br />
Many cactus originate from Mexico, a country rich<br />
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miles and miles except the cactus and the horizon.<br />
Should you want inspiration closer to home though<br />
take yourself off to the Majorelle Gardens in Marrakech<br />
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Talking the talk<br />
Being confident in another language – or two – will bring your<br />
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Northbourne Park School<br />
The learning of languages in<br />
school can bring a mixed<br />
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For some it was a great success while<br />
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To be able to stand in a foreign city<br />
and ask for directions is a simple but<br />
quite empowering achievement while<br />
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language is invaluable. So how do we<br />
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At Northbourne Park School we place<br />
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By starting at a young age it creates<br />
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“Making<br />
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Every year the school celebrates<br />
European Day of Languages where the<br />
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Education<br />
Learning languages expands our world<br />
Ashford School<br />
Paola Sagastuy, Head of Languages,<br />
Senior School<br />
When people find out that I<br />
teach languages, invariably,<br />
their response goes<br />
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Substitute ‘languages’ in the above<br />
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British person does come across<br />
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from English when attempting to<br />
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Babbel Magazine claims that 20%<br />
of the 7.5 billion<br />
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The perception is<br />
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The second reason people give up on<br />
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but you will always<br />
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Unfortunately,<br />
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The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein<br />
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mean the limits of my world”. And<br />
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Education<br />
Why STEM subjects need<br />
some art to make STEAM<br />
Andrew Vaughan, Head of Visual Arts, at ACS Egham International Schools<br />
For several years now official government education<br />
policy has focused on the study of STEM subjects<br />
– science, technology, engineering, maths. But at<br />
ACS International Schools, we believe that the study of<br />
art is just as important and should in fact be combined<br />
with them. This is why we talk about STEAM in our<br />
schools, adding art to the well-known acronym.<br />
Focusing on STEAM provides a better education<br />
and preparation for the future for all our youngsters.<br />
It can also help address the widely reported gender<br />
imbalance in the study of science subjects.<br />
So why is art such an important complement to<br />
science? In its Future of Jobs report the World Economic<br />
Forum estimates ‘two thirds of children entering<br />
primary school today will ultimately end up working<br />
in completely new job types that don’t yet exist’.<br />
Traditional teaching methods where STEM subjects<br />
are taught in ‘subject silos’ are no longer enough for<br />
this fast-changing world. Subjects like science and<br />
maths cannot be taught in a stand-alone way if students<br />
are to develop the skills they need to thrive. Young<br />
people need transferable skills they can apply to think<br />
beyond the classroom or text-based learning.<br />
We often invite parents and business leaders in to give talks<br />
at school. At one such talk at ACS Egham, the CEO of a<br />
global bank said that they are just as likely to recruit someone<br />
who has an arts degree as one in maths, because their business<br />
is looking for innovators; people who can come up with new<br />
options and synthesise ideas.<br />
Equally, a speaker from one of the top four management<br />
accountancy firms giving a presentation at ACS Cobham<br />
recently, told us that an analysis of staff appraisal scores and<br />
qualifications revealed that the best performing employees<br />
had degrees in arts subjects rather than maths or science. The<br />
company changed its recruitment policy as a consequence.<br />
This is not to suggest that we don’t need maths or science,<br />
but to show that art is an essential complement to science<br />
subjects. It can be the spark that brings these subjects to<br />
life, at school, at university and in later working life.<br />
The study of the arts ensures students develop life skills such<br />
as creativity, problem solving and communication abilities<br />
which are increasingly in demand across all industries. Art<br />
also plays a vital role in equipping students with an innovative<br />
mindset, needed to be successful in engineering and business.<br />
A former pupil at ACS Cobham, Candace Rubenstein, a<br />
lead material lab analyst at Under Armour – luxury sportswear<br />
brand, says: “Without<br />
exposure to arts subjects<br />
you can become a human<br />
calculator essentially, but by<br />
adding an artistic lens, you<br />
can look at STEM from a<br />
unique angle – thus coming<br />
up with solutions the human<br />
calculator could never dream of.”<br />
Her views are echoed by Gwen Musial who also went<br />
to ACS and has just completed a Ph.D in biomedical<br />
engineering: “In research and development, creativity is<br />
a useful tool for thinking of unique solutions to difficult<br />
problems. By having a balanced and well-rounded<br />
background, a student has a broad base of experience<br />
to draw upon when faced with challenges,” she said.<br />
How do we inspire more of our youngsters, especially girls,<br />
to maintain and deepen their interest in STEAM subjects?<br />
By giving them options and choices and allowing them to<br />
develop their creativity through studying arts subjects, while<br />
also maintaining contact with traditional science subjects.<br />
Art is being increasingly side-lined at many schools.<br />
According to figures from the Education Policy Institute,<br />
the proportion of 15 and 16-year-olds studying arts subjects<br />
such as art, music and drama has fallen to the lowest level in a<br />
decade as a result of government policies and education cuts.<br />
Many schools streamline their curriculum so that children<br />
have to make a binary choice between arts or science when<br />
they make A level or other exam choices at age 16/17.<br />
This is desperately sad because art can be such a balm<br />
or counterbalance in life, and provides a different way<br />
“The world no longer rewards people for<br />
what they know – Google knows everything<br />
– but for what they can do with what they<br />
know. Global education today needs to be<br />
much more about ways of thinking, involving<br />
creativity, critical thinking, problem solving<br />
and decision-making; about ways of working,<br />
including communication and collaboration.”<br />
Andreas Schleicher, Director for<br />
Edcuation and Skills at OECD
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of learning and self-expression<br />
which can be especially important<br />
in the teenage years.<br />
A study by the University<br />
of Sydney found that active<br />
participation in the arts<br />
increases students’ motivation,<br />
engagement in class, self-esteem<br />
and improves wellbeing. There<br />
is no limit to creativity in art,<br />
it is an open-ended doorway<br />
to expression. It allows us to explore and express personal<br />
feelings and responses to the world. Art can both soothe<br />
and energise the mind, qualities we need more than ever<br />
before in our globally connected, fast-paced digital world.<br />
But for art to be an effective part of STEAM it has to be more<br />
than just a stand-alone subject. At ACS we physically bring<br />
art into science, where an art class might work in the science<br />
lab, and we invite the art students to express the science being<br />
conducted using any medium they like. This shows them how<br />
they can express scientific learning and approaches through art,<br />
which piques the interest of students studying both subjects.<br />
At ACS Hillingdon students use apps like Hopscotch<br />
and Floors as an arts-based way of learning to code. This<br />
cross-curriculum approach, combining art, technology and<br />
computer science, nurtures logical thinking, problem-solving<br />
and persistence, encourages collaboration and communication,<br />
and provides the opportunity for students to develop practical,<br />
future-focused skills, in an imaginative, fun and creative way.<br />
We find that including art in STEAM makes all the subjects<br />
more lively and relevant, and builds exactly the qualities<br />
universities want, without narrowing students’ options.<br />
Hannah Wagner, a current ACS Cobham student, who<br />
was recently awarded a summer research programme at the<br />
University of Surrey to study electrical engineering, commented:<br />
“It’s widely acknowledged that fewer girls are entering<br />
the engineering sector – so I’m proud to have been<br />
selected for this placement. I think to get more girls into<br />
STEM subjects we need first to remove the mentality<br />
that we only enjoy and excel at certain subjects.”<br />
Beyond the school years there are a wealth of statistics which<br />
demonstrate the economic significance of the creative arts;<br />
just think of the film industry, or the gaming industry which<br />
between them contribute £92bn a year to the UK economy.<br />
Given this and how much we value our business entrepreneurs<br />
and innovators, it is astonishing how compartmentalised<br />
the approach to art and science has become in education.<br />
Last year, university admissions officers said the top two<br />
reasons why students fail in their first year at university is not<br />
being able to think and learn independently and being unable<br />
to manage their own time. Exam cramming and narrowing<br />
of subject choice has removed the spark and creativity from<br />
learning. Russell Group universities have inadvertently<br />
played their part in reducing the support for arts subjects by<br />
specifically highlighting the value they place on ‘hard subjects’.<br />
The STEAM approach, combining all the core<br />
subjects, will help address this issue and develop a<br />
generation who can express new innovative ideas and<br />
become our future entrepreneurs and innovators.<br />
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Education<br />
On good terms<br />
There’s a lot you can do at home to keep your children happy at school says Hilary Wilce<br />
Now we are stuck into the new school year, a<br />
time for fresh beginnings, in the great tradition<br />
of new pencil cases and geometry sets, this<br />
is an optimistic column about all the many things we<br />
can do to help our children stay happy at school.<br />
Because, although it’s not something anyone wants to<br />
think about, there has been more news over the summer<br />
about the shocking number of school-age children<br />
struggling with depression, anxiety and stress.<br />
The good news though, is that there is also a large body of<br />
work about what helps everyone – young people<br />
and adults alike – to maintain mental balance.<br />
First off there are the physical things. It<br />
increasingly seems that inflammation plays a part<br />
in the development of anxiety and depression, so<br />
make sure your child’s body, including their brain,<br />
stays healthy by eating well, drinking enough<br />
water, getting fresh air and exercise and last, but<br />
quite definitely not least, getting the right amount<br />
of sleep.<br />
Then there is the social context you bring your child up<br />
in. Good family bonds, a network of family friends and<br />
links to a wider community all help children feel anchored,<br />
significant and safe. Young people whose only reference<br />
points are their friends and peers can be much more<br />
vulnerable to worry, insecurity and unstable behaviour.<br />
Other things to encourage in your child are the key attitudes<br />
of optimism and hope. This might sound airy-fairy, but these are<br />
known to foster good mental health and once you start looking<br />
it’s possible to find lots of ways to encourage them, whether it’s<br />
“Good family<br />
bonds, a network<br />
of friends and<br />
links to a wider<br />
community”<br />
through modelling those attitudes yourself, or talking to your<br />
children in a positive way about mistakes and challenges.<br />
You can help them see that happy, outward-looking people are<br />
popular and attractive and that happiness doesn’t come through<br />
having lots of cool stuff, or hundreds of social media followers,<br />
but through being comfortable in your own skin, being grateful<br />
for what you’ve got, and making the most of your opportunities.<br />
It also helps to have realistic and positive goals and these<br />
can be encouraged even in very young children. I’ve been in<br />
reception classrooms where children have decided they’d like<br />
to be ‘the person I’d like as a friend’ or ‘not to<br />
be so cross when I’m woken up for school’.<br />
But vague aims don’t have much clout, so<br />
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This purpose doesn’t have to be set in stone, but a young person<br />
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All these things will definitely help children stay strong<br />
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What’s On in <strong>October</strong><br />
Art & Antiques<br />
Tue 9 Oct 10.30am-3.30pm<br />
Hole Park, Rolvenden,<br />
Kent TN17 4JA<br />
ANTIQUEs VALUATION DAY<br />
Bring your items for valuation<br />
for £2.50 each (photos of<br />
furniture accepted).<br />
Fergus Gambon (Antiques<br />
Roadshow), and experts Jeremy<br />
Sparks and Patricia Law will all<br />
be in attendance, and Gambon<br />
and Law will both be hosting talks<br />
(11.15am Fergus Gambon ‘If pots<br />
could talk’ and 1.30pm Patricia<br />
Law ‘History of Pearls’). Light<br />
lunches, coffee and cakes available.<br />
Tickets in advance only. In aid of<br />
Gardening for Disabled Trust.<br />
Entry: £25 all day with two talks,<br />
£15 morning with one talk.<br />
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Sat 20 Oct<br />
Jerwood Gallery Hastings,<br />
Rock-A-Nore Road, Hastings,<br />
Sussex TN34 3DW<br />
The Quick and the Dead<br />
An exhibition of five groundbreaking<br />
artists – each radically<br />
different in approach – whose<br />
lives have intersected at various<br />
points. Maggi Hambling, Sarah<br />
Lucas, Jurgen Teller, Julian<br />
Simmons and Sebastian Horsely<br />
are friends who have portrayed<br />
each other at different moments,<br />
and are being displayed together<br />
for the first time this autumn.<br />
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Children & Families<br />
Sun 14 Oct 10.30am<br />
Leeds Castle, Maidstone,<br />
Kent ME17 1PL<br />
The Big Dog Walk<br />
Guide dogs return to Leeds<br />
Castle for a 2.5 mile walk around<br />
the castle’s upper parkland<br />
Entry: Free, all dogs<br />
encouraged to raise £35<br />
01622 765400 /<br />
nicola.darling@guidedogs.org.uk /<br />
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Sun 23 Oct<br />
Brogdale Collections, Brogdale<br />
Farm, Brogdale Road,<br />
Faversham, Kent ME13 8XZ<br />
Beastie Day<br />
Hunt for and collect bugs in the<br />
orchards, meet the Bug Roadshow’s<br />
impressive collection of mega-bugs<br />
and get creative to build your very<br />
own bug to take home with you.<br />
01795 536250 /<br />
brogdalecollections.org<br />
Fairs & Shows<br />
Thu 4 Oct 9am-4pm<br />
Chafford Park, Ashurst,<br />
Tunbridge Wells TN3 9UR<br />
Pop Up Autumn Fair<br />
Support Hospice in the Weald<br />
and enjoy relaxed shopping for<br />
home, garden, interiors, brocante,<br />
fabulous fashion and accessories, all<br />
in a beautiful manor house setting<br />
where you can also meet friends for<br />
coffee, cake or a Prosecco lunch.<br />
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‘ourcountrymarket Pop Up’<br />
Wed 10 Oct 10am-3.30pm<br />
Mayfield School, The Old<br />
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The Friends of Mayfield<br />
Michaelmas Fair<br />
There will be a diverse range of<br />
quality stalls along with the everpopular<br />
Cloisters Café serving teas<br />
and light lunches. Each year the<br />
Fair gets bigger and better.<br />
Entry: £3<br />
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Sat 13 Oct<br />
Sprivers Mansion, Lamberhurst<br />
Road, Tonbridge, Kent<br />
TN12 8DR<br />
LPM BOHEMIA OPEN DAY<br />
LPM Bohemia invites you to view<br />
their extensive range of beautiful<br />
marquees and interesting tents for<br />
weddings, parties, corporate events<br />
and festivals. With the finest<br />
collection of crafted structures to<br />
hire or buy we look forward to<br />
discussing your requirements.<br />
01892 725489 /<br />
sales@lpmbohemia.com<br />
<br />
KENT PAINTERS GROUP<br />
FRIDAY<br />
SATURDAY<br />
SUNDAY<br />
28TH ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION AND SALE<br />
SEVENOAKS SCHOOL TN13 1HU<br />
26th OCTOBER<br />
6.30 — 9 pm<br />
Opening drinks party with the artists — all welcome<br />
27th OCTOBER &<br />
28th OCTOBER<br />
10 am — 4 pm<br />
Exhibition and sale — including unframed work<br />
Lunch and refreshments available<br />
12th - 13th - 14th <strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
A weekend celebrating the history and<br />
romance of a bygone era<br />
Special Guests!<br />
A4 60009 ‘Union of South Africa’<br />
and<br />
61306 ‘Mayflower’<br />
Don’t miss out - get your tickets<br />
now! Visit the website for more<br />
information and to buy tickets.<br />
All proceeds go directly to mental health and learning-disability<br />
charities in Kent: MENCAP, MacINTYRE & RETHINK<br />
SPONSORED<br />
BY<br />
Images: Tony Bartlett<br />
www.kentpaintersgroup.co.uk<br />
01825 720800 info@bluebell-railway.co.uk<br />
The Bluebell Railway | Sheffield Park Station | East Sussex TN22 3QL<br />
www.bluebell-railway.com<br />
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HauntFest<br />
CAROLINE ZOOB WORKSHOPS<br />
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Embroidery, textile & mixed<br />
media workshops<br />
New teaching studio at Ticehurst | Regular embroidery<br />
and mixed media workshops | Weekly stitching group<br />
(starting in <strong>October</strong>) | Workshops with guest tutors<br />
Workshops for private groups on request<br />
A self-taught embroiderer, I love to gather<br />
like-minded people at a workshop, give them lots<br />
of ideas, materials and inspiration, and set them off<br />
on their own creative journey. I particularly enjoy<br />
showing someone who may never have stitched<br />
before how easy it is to treat a needle and thread<br />
like a slow-moving paintbrush. I enjoy devising<br />
workshops reflecting my own changing interests,<br />
including mixed media and collage. Many<br />
friendships have been forged at my workshops,<br />
which gives me almost as much pleasure as<br />
seeing the beautiful work they create.<br />
www.carolinezoob.co.uk<br />
“ I can’t tell you how marvellous it was.<br />
Caroline made me feel more confident and<br />
I can’t wait to do further projects”<br />
@carolinezoobdesign<br />
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PAINT YOUR OWN CERAMICS,<br />
CRAFTS & PERSONALISED GIFTS<br />
Keepsakes<br />
Come in and have a go!<br />
No appointment necessary<br />
Paint your own<br />
Decopatch<br />
Located on Hawkhurst Fish Farm<br />
www.slapndash.com 01580 755674<br />
Open times: Mon-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Sat & Sun 10.00 to 4.00<br />
(Evenings by appointment)<br />
Disabled access • Ample Parking • Cafe on-site<br />
BEATRIX<br />
POTTER’S<br />
GARDEN<br />
Sissinghurst Castle Garden<br />
27 Oct <strong>2018</strong> – 6 Jan 2019<br />
Open daily except 24 & 25 Dec<br />
Normal admission applies<br />
An exhibition exploring the<br />
inspirations of the world<br />
famous author of the original<br />
Peter Rabbit Books TM with<br />
objects on loan from the<br />
Frederick Warne Archive.<br />
For more information visit<br />
nationaltrust.org.uk/sissinghurstcastle-garden<br />
or phone<br />
01580 710700.<br />
CANTERBURY FESTIVAL <strong>2018</strong><br />
20 OCTOBER - 3 NOVEMBER<br />
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Thursday 15 November, 7.30pm<br />
Claire Hall, Haywards Heath<br />
Box Office 01444 455440<br />
Tuesday 20 November, 7.30pm<br />
The Woodville, Gravesend<br />
Box Office 08442 439 480<br />
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Stag Community Arts<br />
Centre, Sevenoaks<br />
Friday 2 November, 7.30pm<br />
Box Office 01732 450 175<br />
Hazlitt Theatre, Maidstone<br />
Sunday 11 November, 2pm<br />
Box Office 01622 758611<br />
Winter Gardens, Margate<br />
Wednesday 14<br />
November, 7.30pm<br />
Box Office 01843 292795<br />
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What’s On in <strong>October</strong><br />
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<strong>October</strong> half-term<br />
fun at Millbrook<br />
Staplehurst!<br />
Book online<br />
millbrookgc.co.uk<br />
Tickets<br />
£7<br />
Under 2s<br />
FREE<br />
24th - 28th<br />
<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
Millbrook Garden Centre<br />
Staplehurst Road, Marden, Kent. TN12 9BT<br />
01622 832299<br />
Facebook /MillbrookGCStaplehurst<br />
Sat 27 Oct 10.30am-4pm<br />
King Charles Church Hall, 3<br />
Warwick Park, Tunbridge Wells,<br />
Kent TN2 5TA<br />
VINTAGE FAIR<br />
Squirrel Vintage has organised a<br />
quality vintage market with 25<br />
traders from all over the South<br />
East and London as well as a<br />
Northern Soul DJ. This fair<br />
will be packed with true vintage<br />
fashion and accessories from<br />
the 1920s to 1970s, menswear,<br />
salvaged homeware, antique<br />
jewellery, and original records.<br />
Entry: £1 (under 16s free)<br />
ruthjvintage@gmail.com / facebook.<br />
com/squirrelvintage<br />
Halloween<br />
Sat 6 – Sun 7, Sat 13 – Sun 14 &<br />
Fri 19 – Sun 28 Oct<br />
Pumpkin Moon, Maidstone,<br />
Kent ME14 3BE<br />
Pick your Own Pumpkin<br />
Pumpkin Moon boasts over 70<br />
varieties of pumpkin, squash and<br />
gourd starting at just £1, as well as<br />
a maize maze, face painting, story<br />
telling and pumpkin painting.<br />
Fancy dress always encouraged.<br />
Entry: Free<br />
pumpkinmoon.uk<br />
Sat 20 Oct – Sun 28 Oct<br />
Groombridge Place,<br />
Groombridge Hill,<br />
Groombridge, Tunbridge Wells<br />
TN3 9QG<br />
The Addams Family at<br />
Groombridge Place<br />
If you go down to Groombridge<br />
Place this Halloween you will be<br />
greeted by the fascinating Addams<br />
family characters including<br />
Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday<br />
and Pugsley. There will be two<br />
Addams Family musical shows and<br />
Singalongs every day together with<br />
children’s games and activities.<br />
groombridgeplace.com<br />
Sat 20 – Sun 28 Oct<br />
Penshurst Place, Penshurst,<br />
Tonbridge, Kent TN11 8DG<br />
Halloween<br />
This Halloween Penshurst<br />
Place has something for all ages<br />
with Not-so spooky interactive<br />
storytelling for littlest guests,<br />
tales from the Wicked Witch<br />
of the Wild Wood for older<br />
children (with hot chocolate<br />
and marshmallow roasting over<br />
an open fire) and for grown ups<br />
with stronger stomachs, Surgery<br />
through the centuries will take a<br />
macabre look at how far medicine<br />
has come with the help of Hands<br />
on History.<br />
penshurstplace.com<br />
Thu 25 – Sat 27 Oct<br />
10.30am-4.30pm<br />
Chiddingstone Castle, Hill<br />
Hoath Road, Chiddingstone,<br />
Edenbridge, Kent TN8 7AD<br />
Chiddingstone Castle<br />
School of Witchcraft<br />
and Wizardry<br />
Brush up on your witchcraft and<br />
wizardry this year as you study<br />
flying, dark arts and crafts and<br />
potion making, to earn your<br />
certificate. There will also be<br />
singing, dance and games practice,<br />
and even a chance to meet the<br />
headmaster.<br />
chiddingstonecastle.org.uk<br />
Thu 25 – Sat 27 Oct 7pm-10pm<br />
Dover Castle, Castle Hill Road,<br />
Dover, Kent CT16 1HU<br />
Murder mystery<br />
An evening of gothic mystery,<br />
intrigue and murder. The year is<br />
1852 and you are invited to take<br />
a seat at the dining table of the<br />
grand banquet hall in Constable’s<br />
Tower for an exclusive dinner.<br />
But the evening takes a dramatic<br />
turn when a scream is heard from<br />
within the kitchen. Now it is<br />
up to you to use your powers of<br />
deduction to solve the mysterious<br />
murder that has taken place.<br />
english-heritage.org.uk<br />
Music<br />
Fri 26 Oct 7.30pm<br />
Groves Hall, Sutton Valence<br />
School, North Street, Sutton<br />
Valence, Kent ME17 3HL<br />
SUTTON VALENCE MUSIC<br />
SOCIETY<br />
The Attard Zerafa Duo (Philip<br />
on saxophone and Christine on<br />
piano) have played at many major<br />
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“Outstanding”<br />
THE INDEPENDENT<br />
(Verdi: La Traviata)<br />
Glyndebourne Tour <strong>2018</strong><br />
La Traviata | Cendrillon | La Traviata: Behind The Curtain<br />
TUE 6 - SAT 10 NOV<br />
marlowetheatre.com<br />
01227 787787
chamber music venues in the UK<br />
and Europe. Their programme<br />
will include Bach, Tchaikovsky,<br />
Iturralde and Yosimatsu.<br />
Entry: £12.50 at door<br />
01622 843325<br />
Theatre<br />
What’s On in <strong>October</strong><br />
Thu 25 – Sat 27 Oct 7.30pm<br />
Bedgebury National Pinetum<br />
Bedgebury Road, Goudhurst,<br />
Kent TN17 2SJ<br />
The Hunting of the<br />
Snark<br />
Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem is<br />
brought to life by outdoor theatre<br />
company, Burn the Curtain, in<br />
this truly spectacular promenade<br />
performance.<br />
Entry: Adults £15, children £10<br />
forestry.gov.uk/bedgebury<br />
Wellbeing<br />
Fri 12 Oct, 11am – 2pm,<br />
Stalisfield Village Hall,<br />
Stalisfield Road, Faversham,<br />
Kent ME13 0JE<br />
Breathe Better<br />
Created by Yvonne Fernando,<br />
NLP Master Practitioner & Life<br />
Coach. Experiential workshop<br />
designed to help you become<br />
more aware of how you breathe<br />
and make conscious changes<br />
to breathe better. With tips,<br />
techniques, discussion and a<br />
healthy light snack.<br />
Entry: £35<br />
01233 878474 /<br />
yvonnefernandonlp.co.uk<br />
Sat 13 Oct 10am-4.30pm<br />
The Church Rooms, Back Lane,<br />
Goudhurst, Cranbrook, Kent<br />
TN17 1AN<br />
EFT Retreat Day<br />
Spend a deeply relaxing and<br />
nurturing day learning EFT<br />
(tapping) from trainer, EFT<br />
expert and AAMET Board<br />
Member Kate Munden. Come<br />
away with a new self care skill and<br />
find out how to discover the gifts<br />
in your light shadow.<br />
Early Bird: £59<br />
info@katemunden.com<br />
07710 261921<br />
Workshops<br />
Thu 20 Oct 10am-12pm<br />
The Huguenot Museum,<br />
95 High Street, Rochester,<br />
Kent ME1 1LX<br />
Herbal Workshop<br />
Sip an indulgent spicy coconut<br />
hot chocolate and explore the<br />
world of herbs. Make a variety<br />
of pure and organic products,<br />
including a frankincense face/<br />
body cream, a marigold lip balm<br />
and an antiseptic myrrh ointment.<br />
Perfect ideas for Christmas gifts<br />
Entry: £45<br />
huguenotmuseum.org<br />
Sun 28 & Wed 31 Oct<br />
Canterbury Baking School, 22,<br />
The Ness, Canterbury, Kent<br />
CT1 3NL<br />
Baking School<br />
Canterbury Baking School offers<br />
a multitude of classes which teach<br />
life-long skills including basic<br />
bread techniques, and making<br />
artisan bread, sourdough, pasta or<br />
pizza! In the heart of Canterbury,<br />
these personal, specialist<br />
workshops are taught by bread<br />
expert, Vicky, who was trained by<br />
an Italian master chef.<br />
Entry: £165pp, £10 off for <strong>Wealden</strong><br />
<strong>Times</strong> readers, quote ‘<strong>Wealden</strong>10’<br />
vicky@canterburybakingschool.com /<br />
canterburybakingschool.com<br />
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to press but may be subject to change.<br />
Readers are advised to check with<br />
venues before making arrangements.<br />
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Exclusive Dinner with celebrity<br />
speaker Ann Widdecombe<br />
London Beach Hotel Tenterden<br />
Friday 2 November <strong>2018</strong> from 7.00pm<br />
Exclusive Dinner with<br />
After<br />
celebrity<br />
“The<br />
speaker House”<br />
Ann Widdecombe<br />
London Beach Hotel Tenterden<br />
Friday Ann will 2 November talk<br />
<strong>2018</strong> from 7.00pm<br />
about her career<br />
including After<br />
“The Celebrity House” Big<br />
Ann Brother will and<br />
talk<br />
answer about her questions<br />
career<br />
on Etienne including<br />
any topic<br />
Pradier award-winning<br />
+ Etienne<br />
magician Etienne<br />
Pradier<br />
Pradier will award-winning<br />
entertain award-winning<br />
magician<br />
amaze!<br />
magician Celebrity will<br />
Book will entertain<br />
signing entertain with Big<br />
Ann &<br />
amaze!<br />
amaze!<br />
Book Book signing<br />
Delicious signing with<br />
Dinner with<br />
Ann<br />
Ann<br />
per person (drinks not included)<br />
Black<br />
Brother Tie or Lounge<br />
and<br />
Tickets £42.50<br />
Delicious<br />
Delicious<br />
Dinner<br />
Dinner<br />
per person (drinks not included)<br />
Suits per person<br />
To book (drinks<br />
call Hi not<br />
Kent included)<br />
Black Tie or Lounge Suits<br />
Black Tie or Lounge Suits<br />
during<br />
answer questions<br />
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office To<br />
book<br />
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hours call Hi<br />
on Hi Kent during<br />
01622 Kent during<br />
office<br />
691151<br />
hours on 01622 691151<br />
office (credit/debit hours on cards 01622 accepted) 691151<br />
Charity Night for Hi Kent the county’s own<br />
(credit/debit cards accepted)<br />
Charity<br />
on deaf Night<br />
any and for hard Hi Kent of hearing topic<br />
the county’s charity own<br />
or email (credit/debit L.Clayton@hikent.org.uk<br />
cards accepted)<br />
Charity Night for Hi Kent the county’s own<br />
with deaf Hi Kent’s and hard Patron of hearing Ann Widdecombe<br />
charity<br />
with deaf Hi Kent’s and hard Patron of hearing Ann Widdecombe<br />
charity<br />
with Hi Kent’s Patron Ann Widdecombe<br />
+ Etienne Pradier award-winning<br />
magician will entertain & amaze!<br />
Book signing with Ann<br />
Delicious Dinner<br />
Tickets £42.50<br />
per person (drinks not included)<br />
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The Penshurst Vintage office hours Christmas<br />
on 01622 691151<br />
(credit/debit cards accepted)<br />
Charity Night for Hi Kent the county’s own<br />
deaf and hard of hearing charity<br />
Fair <strong>2018</strong> or email L.Clayton@hikent.org.uk<br />
with Hi Kent’s Patron Ann Widdecombe<br />
or<br />
or<br />
email<br />
email<br />
L.Clayton@hikent.org.uk<br />
L.Clayton@hikent.org.uk<br />
Saturday 3rd November<br />
10.00 am – 4.00 pm<br />
Penshurst Village Hall, TN11 8BP<br />
Vintage Homewares, Clothes, Jewellery,<br />
Decorative, Gifts & More!<br />
With entertainment from Miss Vintage and<br />
refreshments from Dolly’s Tea Parlour<br />
Entry: £2.00 Tel: 07885610912<br />
Facebook: Cherish Vintage Fairs<br />
Donating to Hospice in the Weald<br />
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Made to measure curtains, I N T E Rblinds I O R Sand soft furnishings<br />
I N T E R I O R S<br />
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I N T E R I O R S<br />
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01580 712209<br />
colour 01580 palette<br />
clare@clarelangdoninteriors.co.uk<br />
712209<br />
clare@clarelangdoninteriors.co.uk<br />
www.clarelangdoninteriors.co.uk<br />
www.clarelangdoninteriors.co.uk<br />
Association House, St David’s Bridge,<br />
Association<br />
Cranbrook,<br />
House,<br />
Kent,<br />
St David’s<br />
TN17 3HL<br />
Bridge,<br />
Cranbrook, Kent, TN17 3HL<br />
I N T E R I O R S<br />
Ibbett Mosely<br />
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Y = 72<br />
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Tel: 01732 456731 Web: fonts www.ibbettmosely.co.uk<br />
Caleigh<br />
I N T E R I O R S<br />
The Auctioneer's Next Sale Will Be On<br />
Commencing at 12.30pm | Viewing 10.00am - 12.30pm<br />
125 High St, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 1UT<br />
Registered in England No. 0C341637 Regulated by RICS Registered at the Sevenoaks office as Ibbett Mosely Surveyors LLP<br />
Gotham Book<br />
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Battle Mowers Ltd<br />
Main dealer for<br />
THE ESSENCE OF FINE<br />
BRITISH LAWNS<br />
For further information please phone 01424 773096<br />
or-email: battlemowers@btconnect.com www.battlemowers.co.uk<br />
Showroom: 15-19 Vinehall Business Park, Vinehall Road, Mountfield TN32 5JW<br />
Bespoke Joinery & Carpentry<br />
Interior woodwork & refurbishment<br />
Staplecross • 01580 830590<br />
www.ianthomasbespokejoinery.com<br />
Try something different...<br />
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come curling & love it!<br />
Autumn Open Day<br />
Saturday 13th <strong>October</strong> 10am-4pm<br />
Staff Outings<br />
Entertaining Clients<br />
Birthday Parties<br />
Christmas Parties<br />
Stag & Hen Parties<br />
Social Events<br />
FUN<br />
on ice!<br />
View our beautiful tents at Sprivers Mansion,<br />
Lamberhurst Road, TN12 8DR a secluded<br />
Georgian country house wedding venue.<br />
To arrange an appointment contact us on<br />
01892 725489 or email sales@lpmbohemia.com<br />
www.lpmbohemia.com www.spriversmansion.co.uk<br />
LOVE CURLING IN KENT!<br />
Dundale Farm, Dundale Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN3 9AQ<br />
01892 826004 • info@curlinginkent.co.uk • www.curlinginkent.co.uk<br />
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Competition<br />
WIN A £500 GIFT VOUCHER<br />
FROM GANT CLOTHING<br />
GANT is proud to announce the re-opening of its 3,218 sq ft newly refurbished<br />
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showcases GANT’s classic range of menswear, womenswear, teens and kids.<br />
To celebrate, GANT are offering you the chance to update your wardrobe and<br />
have a £500 gift card to spend in store or online. From a classic button down<br />
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Jane Howard’s<br />
Fables from<br />
the Farm<br />
Ever wondered what Michaelmas is? And Lady<br />
Day... Jane explains<br />
There are four Quarter days in a year, all of which<br />
mark a significant change in the relationship between<br />
day time hours and night time hours. We know that<br />
a day near Christmas is the shortest and Midsummer the<br />
longest, but the other two quarter days, Lady Day in April<br />
and Michaelmas in September are less famous. They mark the<br />
spring and autumn equinoxes, when night time and day time<br />
hours are equal, and are important dates in the farming year.<br />
We have just passed Michaelmas Day, September 29, the<br />
feast of Saint Michael the Archangel, a celestial Poldark who<br />
rather magnificently hurled the devil Lucifer down from<br />
heaven. It traditionally marked the end of the harvest and was<br />
also the day when the curfew would begin, the first hint that<br />
winter was on its way. During curfew which occurred across<br />
the country from Michaelmas to Shrove Tuesday, church bells<br />
would ring at 9pm every night, apart from Sundays, as a sign<br />
to stay indoors, douse the household fire (couvre feu, hence<br />
curfew) and go to bed! How simple.<br />
Being recognised as the start of the farming<br />
year, Michaelmas was also the date upon<br />
which labour and tenanted farms changed<br />
hands and to this day many agricultural<br />
payments fall due on this day. It also sees the<br />
start of the shepherd’s year. Female sheep are<br />
only fertile when the night time hours exceed<br />
daytime hours, another Michaelmas milestone, which is<br />
nature’s clever way of ensuring lambs are only born in spring.<br />
Traditionally the rams are put in with the ewes on Bonfire<br />
Night and five months later on April Fool’s Day the lambs<br />
start arriving. With that in mind <strong>October</strong> is the month to<br />
sort out the flock and keep only those in tip top condition<br />
“Traditionally, the<br />
rams are put in<br />
with the ewes on<br />
Bonfire Night”<br />
to use for the breeding season ahead. The ewes will have had<br />
a couple of months off since their lambs were weaned so the<br />
first thing is to make sure they are in good condition and not<br />
looking plain – shepherds’ parlance for<br />
a thin sheep. Then they have to pass the<br />
three T’s test: teeth, toes and teats.<br />
Sheep only have lower teeth at the front<br />
which meet a hard pad and are used to pick<br />
off the grass which is then chewed by the<br />
back teeth before being swallowed. As they<br />
get older these front teeth become worn<br />
and if they fall out the ewe can no longer eat enough grass to<br />
maintain a healthy pregnancy and produce enough milk for a<br />
growing lamb – so sadly she’s out. Various foot problems, like<br />
cracked or splayed hoof, or abnormal growth can lead to less<br />
than perfect toes, so sorry missus but you’re out, too. Finally<br />
we check the udders to make sure they’re soft, mastitis free<br />
and not too low slung for a newborn lamb to find.<br />
The boys also get an MOT. Now I don’t mean to sound<br />
judgmental, but while the ewes have spent the year carrying<br />
and then raising one maybe two or three lambs, the boys<br />
have been having it super easy. For them the job spec reads<br />
something like this: Wanted male sheep to work hard for<br />
six weeks a year with 46 weeks holiday. So as you can see<br />
it matters big time that when November comes the boys<br />
are ready for the challenge and they too get the three T’s<br />
treatment. Teeth, toes and testicles. And then they’re off.<br />
In fact we’re all off as we look forward to another farming<br />
year at Coopers and all the joys and challenges it will<br />
inevitably bring.<br />
Follow Jane Howard – and the farm – on Instagram @coopersfarm<br />
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