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Creating the perfect kitchen for you
is an exciting project. No doubt you
will have seen pictures in magazines
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has given you inspiration, but as you start
to create your own you’ll find hundreds of
options to choose from such as mixing and
matching styles to contrast or complement
the rest of your home, combining materials
with different aesthetic qualities and
deciding on colour schemes to add your
own personal touch, to name just a few.
With so much to consider, having an
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is invaluable. Here Schmidt Kitchens
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creating the perfect kitchen for you.
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Plan early. If extending, having
your kitchen design ready will
help avoid having to make too
many compromises. Your architects and
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electrics and drainage are best placed.
2
Create a ‘golden triangle’. Keep your
sink, fridge and hob in a triangle with no
more than 2m between each if possible.
This will allow you to stand in the middle and
be a step away from everything you need
and create a much more ergonomic space.
3
Don’t
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units to allow for doors to open and people
to move around each other easily.
4
Make the kitchen multifunctional.
Apart from cooking, for what will the
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There’s nothing like a glass of wine with
a friend whilst you cook or being able to
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5
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you requiring large filler panels to
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potential. Made to measure will allow you
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and create options for more gadgets too.
6
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smart with your storage. Why not
get a tall larder unit with drawers in
it, rather than shelves, to ensure that
the can of beans at the back of the cupboard
is not forgotten about for years to come!
7
Remember a rubbish bin! Imagine your
lovely kitchen has just been installed,
you’ve used up all the available space
and now you have to find somewhere to
put a big ugly bin. Get a set of integrated
bins tucked away in a unit out of sight.
Small things can make a big difference.
8
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is a breeze. Locate your dishwasher
underneath your sink drainer as this will
allow you to quickly rinse and place anything
into the dishwasher in one swift movement.
9
Safety
first. Ovens above the height
of a child, boiling tap that can’t be
turned on easily or knocked on by
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much cooler residual surface temperature
designed to make our kitchen a safer place.
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Want a gas hob? Get a gas hob.
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Get a wine cooler that can hold 20+ bottles.
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Contents
October 2018
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OLD STYLE CHARM
Maggie Alderson peeks inside this
month’s most desirable properties
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32B OR NOT 32B?
We talk to one of Fenwick’s
experts about bra fittings
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TALKING THE TALK
Two schools discuss the benefits
of learning a second language
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OCTOBER NOTEBOOK
Events to make note of
HIGH GLOSS
Gloss and glamour galore in
Lauren Atkins’ Oxshott home
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SOAK IT UP
Josephine Fairley finds your
beautiful bathroom must-haves
A YEAR OF WELLNESS
Eminé Rushton’s sleep solutions
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WHY STEM SUBJECTS NEED
SOME ART TO MAKE STEAM
The importance of arts in our schools
ON GOOD TERMS
How to keep kids enjoying school
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GET THE LOOK
Gorgeous objects to imitate
the high gloss look
BED TIME
The best of bed trends
HOME ON THE FARM
Look inside a quintessentially
Wealden farmhouse
GET THE LOOK
Imitate the Home Farm look
LIFE’S RICH TAPESTRY
Kate Watts styles this season’s
most luscious fashion trends
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NATURAL WISDOM
Wellbeing guidance
from the co-founder of
The Remedy Retreats
ONE POT WONDERS
Deliciously easy midweek
marvels
HARVEST HOME
Jo Arnell’s celebration of the
autumn harvest
A PRICKLY SUBJECT
Sue Whigham on cactus that will
thrive in future summer heatwaves
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WHAT’S ON
All the best things to do this month
COMPETITION
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FABLES FROM THE FARM
Jane Howard marks the start of the
farming year
KITCHEN &
BATHROOM
SUPPLEMENT
32 pages of trends,
designer tips, and
desirable products
After page 118.
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HIGHAM, ROCHESTER, KENT GUIDE PRICE £1,300,000
A substantial Grade II listed detached barn conversion providing versatile accommodation with up to four double bedrooms and benefiting from the addition of a
detached one bedroom/one reception room annex. Set within just under three quarters of an acre of grounds with a further detached cart lodge garage. Located in a
semi-rural yet not isolated hamlet surrounded by open countryside with major transport links only a short drive away. An internal viewing is strongly recommended to
appreciate exactly what is on offer. No forward chain.
• PADDOCK WOOD OFFICE 01892 832 325
MARDEN, KENT GUIDE PRICE £895,000
A well presented and versatile four bedroom detached Grade II listed converted barn with a wealth of character and charm throughout. Benefiting from four reception
rooms with a separate cloakroom and utility with the addition of an en-suite bathroom to the master bedroom. Set within three quarters of an acre of grounds comprising
formal gardens and a small paddock with a southerly aspect backing onto open farmland. Located on the semi-rural outskirts of the popular Wealden village of Marden and
only a short drive or cycle ride to the mainline railway station and high street. Cranbrook School catchment area an. No forward chain.
• PADDOCK WOOD OFFICE 01892 832 325
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HERE TO GET you THERE
APPLEDORE £635,000 BETHERSDEN £535,000
A superb three/four-bedroom detached family home presented
to a high standard with oak joinery throughout, featuring an
impressive 31ft kitchen/dining room and electric gates with
intercom, situated on the edge of the popular village of Appledore.
EPC RATING C
A well presented four bedroom detached family home with three
reception rooms and southerly aspect rear garden, situated in a
quiet cul de sac in the popular village of Bethersden and within
walking distance to the local primary school.
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HEADCORN
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luxury homes. The charming village offers an abundance of local amenities and primary school. Weavers Park is just a
short drive from the M20 and Headcorn station with regular trains into London.
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HERE TO GET you THERE
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HARPERS AND HURLINGHAM
HAWKHURST £1,500,000
ATTRACTIVE DETACHED FAMILY HOUSE
Entrance hall · Three reception rooms · Conservatory
· Kitchen · Utility room · Cloakroom · Five bedrooms
(two en-suite) · Gardens approximately 2 acres · Tennis
court · Garaging · EPC: E
Cranbrook School Catchment
BENENDEN £1,295,000
CONVERTED OAST AND ANNEXE
Two reception rooms · Entrance hall · Kitchen/dining
room · Four double bedrooms (two en-suite) · Detached
two bedroom annexe · Grounds approximately 4.5 acres
· Tennis court · Outbuilding · EPC: C
Cranbrook School Catchment
BENENDEN £1,200,000
SUBSTANTIAL DETACHED FAMILY HOME
Two receptions rooms · Conservatory · Kitchen/
breakfast room · Utility room · Cloakroom ·
Five bedrooms (one en-suite) · Charming garden
approximately 0.6 acres · Garaging · EPC: F
Cranbrook School Catchment
RURAL STAPLEHURST £1,195,000
SUBSTANTIAL LISTED FARMHOUSE
Four reception rooms · Kitchen/breakfast room ·
Five bedrooms · Two bathrooms and shower room ·
Approximately 1.2 acres · Garaging and outbuildings
with scope to convert subject to planning · EPC: n/a
Cranbrook School Catchment
Sales & Lettings Team
Harpers&Hurlingham
The Cornerhouse, Stone Street, Cranbrook
01580 715400
www.harpersandhurlingham.com
LONDON OFFICE: KENSINGTON 020 7938 2311
Jane Emilie Chez Cathy Sara Debbie Clare Jane A Debbie S Caroline Dianne Caroline J
Connecting people
& property, perfectly.
Biddenden TN27
6 3
Hawkhurst TN18
8 3
First time on the market - a detached
Georgian style property.
4
An elegant Grade II listed farmhouse within
Cranbrook School Catchment Area.
4
• Outstanding views
• Detached coach house
• Double garage with office
• In all about 70.2 acres
• Sought-after position
• Wonderful views
• Many period features
• In all about 3.5 acres
OIEO £2,000,000
simon.biddulph@knightfrank.com 01892 310700
Guide price £1,250,000
simon.biddulph@knightfrank.com 01892 310700
Etchingham TN19
6 4
High Halden TN26
4 3
A beautiful period barn conversion.
A Grade II listed Georgian farmhouse.
4
3 2
• Annexe potential
• Detached office
• Rural position
• Just over 1 acre
• Conveniently located
• Period features
• Summer house
• Outbuilding
Guide price £1,295,000
simon.biddulph@knightfrank.com 01892 310700
Guide price £895,000
simon.biddulph@knightfrank.com 01892 310700
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StapleHurSt Guide price £1,250,000
Circa 5,000 sqft inc 6 beds · Outbuildings · CSCA · No Onward Chain · EPC D
Marden Guide price £995,000
Outbuildings · 3 Receptions · 5 Bedrooms · Tennis Court · Listed
GOudHurSt OieO £895,000
Village Location · 3 Beds · Annexe · Circa 0.7 Acres · CSCA · EPC E
lintOn OieO £895,000
Glorious views · 6 beds · 2 Recs · 2 Baths · Dble gge · Circa 0.87 acres · EPC E
Thinking of moving? Contact us today for a free market appraisal
For Lettings call Ella Krzos or Sales call Rupert Newcomb
SiSSinGHurSt Guide price £775,000
New Build in Village · 5 Beds · 3 Recs · 3 Baths · Double Garage · CSCA · EPC TBC
Frittenden OieO £625,000
Period Village House · 3 Receptions · 4 Bedrooms · CSCA · EPC E
SALES 01580 720 000
LETTINGS 01580 720 400
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Beckley, East Sussex - £795,000
Grade II Listed detached cottage in approx. 1.2 acres.
Living room, study, kitchen, garden room, dining room,
3 bedrooms and 4th bedroom guest suite on secondary
stairs. Double garage. Gardens, paddock and orchard.
Appledore, East Sussex - £695,000
A detached cottage with stunning views across farmland
yet convenient for Appledore station and connection
to London. Living/dining room, kitchen, family room,
utility 2 double bedrooms. Gardens to side and rear.
Outbuildings. EPC E
Icklesham, East Sussex - £965,000
An attached Grade II Listed Georgian property in the lee
of the church. Drawing room, dining area, conservatory,
kitchen, breakfast room, utility, home office, cellar, 6 double
bedrooms with 3 en-suite facilities. Garden. Parking
Broad Oak, East Sussex - £699,950
A modern detached house with flexible accommodation.
Living room, vaulted kitchen/dining/family room, ground
floor bedroom with en-suite, 3 further bedrooms. Detached
home office and playroom. Garden. Parking. EPC C
Appledore, Kent - £895,000
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Exclusive main open plan kitchen/dining area with day room
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Attached period cottage in convenient location a short walk
from town. Living room, dining room, kitchen/breakfast
room, garden room, 2 bedrooms. Front and rear gardens
Garage. EPC F
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Maggie Alderson selects three heavenly houses currently on the market
Chillies Granary
The dream: As the name suggests,
Chillies Granary was created from a
former granary and its agricultural
origins can be seen in the beautiful
exposed golden stone walls on the
lower half of the exterior and in the
hall. The original beams have been
set off to their best advantage by the
creation of a two-storey entrance
hall, galleried on the first floor.
The upper half of the outer walls
are black weatherboard giving it a
sophisticated appearance.
Where: Just outside the village
of High Hurstwood, under three
miles from Crowborough, ten from
Tunbridge Wells.
Setting: An elevated position with
far-reaching rural views, close to
Ashdown Forest.
Beds: 5, two en suite Baths: 3 in all.
Special features: Two-storey galleried
hall and landing.
Pleasing details: A detached bar/
studio in the garden.
Outside: Established gardens – partwalled
- and grounds.
Time to town: An hour and ten
minutes to London Bridge from
Crowborough.
Price: Offers in excess of £1,000,000
Agent: Hamptons International,
Tunbridge Wells 01892 640013
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Stilebridge
£995,000
The dream: The full tile-hung 17th
Century Wealden hall house dream,
with every key detail: mellow oak
beams, inglenooks, oak floorboards
and latch doors. There is a particularly
nice, spacious entrance hall with stoneflagged
floors.
Where: Two miles from the thriving
village of Marden, 15 minutes drive to
Maidstone.
Setting: Rural, among open farmland.
Beds: 5 Baths: 2, one en suite
Special features: A Grade II listed
barn, with enormous potential for
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alongside young, emerging talent from Kent schools.
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Pure art
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Welcome to our
200th issue
Wealden Times’ founder Julie Simpson celebrates 16 years of the
magazine she created to champion our very special part of England
I
can’t believe we are publishing the 200th issue of Wealden
Times. It’s been 16 years since we started and to have
reached this stage feels like it deserves a moment of quiet
contemplation and a look back to where it all started.
Wealden Times was, and still is, a fanzine for the Weald
and surrounding areas, a love letter to the countryside,
houses, food producers and communities which lured my
growing family from London over 30 years ago with the
promise of more space, a proper garden and good schools.
But there was a price to pay and my husband – and most
of our friends – spent long hours commuting up to London
every day. The Wealden Times was to be a monthly reminder
of all the reasons why they’d made the move in the first place.
The idea of creating a glossy homes and gardens magazine
celebrating life in the Weald had been in my
mind from the moment we landed here, but it
wasn’t until the spring of 2002 when Wealden
Times, then a small local magazine, ceased
trading that we finally got our act together.
Although our vision was nothing like the
original mag, which focused on stories about
local business, we bought their name and a list
of advertisers because it gave us the impetus to get started.
Everyone who joins the company is shown the first
issue of Wealden Times we published in November 2002.
It’s just 32 pages and lacks the polish of later issues, but
in many ways is just the same: It has a house feature
(designer Kaffe Fassett’s gorgeous Hastings home), plus
fashion, garden and food features all photographed
in glorious colour by David Merewether. It also has
what is still one of my favourite front covers.
“A love letter to
the countryside
which lured my
growing family...”
Importantly, those dedicated commuters who originally
inspired the magazine were the first people to see it
with five of us (the entire staff back then) turning out
at 6am to hand out copies at local train stations.
Sixteen years and 200 issues later there are 23 of us
working on two magazines (Wealden Times now has a
younger sister Surrey Homes) and two very popular events,
the Wealden Times Midsummer and Midwinter Fairs,
which have become ‘must do’ biannual fixtures for many
people in this area and beyond. We have loyal attendees
who come from Belgium and Holland every year and a
couple of ladies made the trip specially from Australia!
Like that first magazine, the fairs started very small, but
while the company has got bigger at heart it remains very
much the same: We are proud to work with
all the fabulous businesses who advertise in
the magazine every month and exhibit at
our fairs. We are incredibly grateful for their
continuing support without which we would
not be able to be ‘priceless’ to our readers.
We are also indebted to all the lovely
people who have let us photograph
their homes to create the house features which are
the backb one of the magazine. Also our wonderful
contributors, all eminent in their own fields.
And my final words must be to say an enormous thank
you to you, dear readers, for picking up Wealden Times
each month and reading it. We love your feedback and we
love meeting you at our events. We hope to meet lots of
you at the Midwinter Fair in November – please come and
find us at the magazine stand. Here’s to the next 200!
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It has seemed particularly appropriate to be putting together
our Kitchen & Bathroom Supplement for this issue as we’ve
just had a lovely new kitchen put in at our offices.
Shiny and white, with lovely soft close drawers, a huge integral
fridge and everything neatly stashed away – we even have a
groovy boiling water tap - it makes every tea run feel like a mini
Zen moment. I return to my desk, mug in hand, feeling mentally
refreshed, so I know first-hand what a difference a well-designed
kitchen can make.
We’ve made the practical aspects of kitchen planning the focus
of this supplement and I’ve learned so much chatting to six
expert kitchen designers, to glean their priceless insights.
Another exciting thing to plan at this time of year is your new
season autumn wardrobe and I’m sure you’ll find inspiration in
our fashion feature, shot in the very special location of the Battle
Abbey School library.
Our houses this month are a wonderful contrast of the
ultimate modern glamour in Oxshott and elegant country style
in a Kent farmhouse. With our regular mix of wonderful gardens,
wellbeing, beauty and brilliant quick and easy mid-week one-pot
suppers, I hope you will enjoy reading your Wealden Times, as
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work with the colours and story.
I want to experiment as much as possible with how to give a twist to something
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Previous page: It was the height and space in the house that
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It has an appealing art gallery feel too, with artworks
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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
Road. The sculpture is by her friend Maria Bassett and is made out of concrete Top: The sofas are by Two is Company.
Lauren designed the ottoman Above: Lauren buys some artworks from The Affordable Art Fair
depicting ice lollies in various states of being eaten.
“Big pieces work in here,” says Lauren: “I really want a giant
balloon sculpture going right up to the roof by the stairs.”
It is certainly the perfect space for a statement.
Lauren follows my gaze up towards the soaring double
height ceiling in the entrance hall. “It was the height,
the space, the light, that I liked,” she explains.
This sounds like a fair comment – but takes on greater
significance when you know she was imagining the
height and space when she made that decision, because
she bought the house off plan – before it was built
two and a half years ago. A brave step for most, but as
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Above: In the study the white, gold and blue theme continues, with
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is in corporate IT, but when she had her daughter, Bella, almost
ten years ago, she decided to go into the family business.
The Malins Group was founded by her father Malcom
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men. Lauren’s first job was to sell – and make a profit
on – some properties that were proving hard to move.
Building a workforce of mainly part-time working mothers,
she managed to turn the project around and they sold them all.
“At the time it was very unusual to offer part-time flexible office
hours,” she explains. “And there were very few women in the
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very fluid, so the whole team gets involved at certain times.”
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This page: The blue-dominant scheme continues in the
media room. The oversized brass lamp is by Graham
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bespoke – made by Lauren
interesting approach with the projects they take
on these days: “We specialise in the conversion of
buildings with an interesting history or provenance,
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an old metal works, rich in architectural and
industrial details: “These are period features of the
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preserved and celebrated in the refurbishment.
It is these details that make the schemes stand
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the apartments were sold within two weeks.
“I work with a historian who helps me research
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“We also have a fantastic CGI designer in Serbia.
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This way several months of marketing can be done
in advance, which also means that the building
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Above: The very light and spacious bedrooms are all furnished with calming
neutrals. The oversized headboard is designed and made by Lauren and the
lamps are Flos Left: A lamp by Julian Chichester in a corner of the bedroom
is launched – and sold – as early as possible. “We do the show flat just
before the launch and it’s amazing how it looks identical to the CGIs.”
When it came to purchasing her own home two and a half
years ago, Lauren was very well placed to put her experience and
talents into practice and collaborated closely with the developers
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“I worked with them to choose the flooring, the carpets, the doors – I
wanted a high gloss finish, not wooden doors and I knew just which
carpets I wanted because we had used them in one of our developments.”
The interior finishes were just as she wanted prior to moving
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For Lauren, furnishing the house has been an evolutionary process
and one that is still in progress. “I did three phases of furnishing
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to have a break and then come back in with fresh
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The walls in all the rooms are white, or pale neutrals,
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Above: The bed is by Conran and the ottoman is bespoke by
Lauren. The lamps are from West Elm Left: A chest of drawers
by West Elm and a mirror by Graham & Green
She has used gold throughout the house, but as an
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together. The occasional and side tables around the house, for
example, have all come from separate places and were chosen
at different times, but they are united by their golden legs and
all are in a similar style. The repetition of just a few colours
and shapes in this way anchors and unifies the scheme.
There are two smaller rooms on the ground floor at
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floor with views directly onto the garden. Lauren has
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“To me, furniture is a kind of art – and I’m looking
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challenge to find exactly the right piece for the space. The
sofas in the sitting room came from France and the rug
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go there. Rugs are always a difficult one; there’s not the
breadth of choice unless you spend a lot of money.”
Lauren has found an ingenious way around some of her
sourcing issues, however. She has begun to design and make
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The company is keen to expand the interiors side of
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Above: In the master bedroom, the headboard is bespoke by Lauren
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the business. “Furnishing a house is never a chore. I can have a
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Monday
My first client today is a lady whose divorce I am finalising. Her
soon to be ex-husband runs a string of successful nightclubs in
London but claims that they are barely making a profit; a story I have
heard countless times before. I had the business valued by a forensic
accountant. The accountant has proved that my client was right in that
the business is a goldmine! The husband’s lawyer has made a good
offer to settle where my lady keeps the house and the holiday home.
Tuesday
I am preparing a case where I am representing dad. His teenage
daughter has decided she wants to live with him. Her mum isn’t
happy and is opposing the decision. Given the child’s age, her wishes
are going to prevail.
Wednesday
I take a call from a mum. She is hoping to relocate to New
York with her young son as she has been offered a new job
in the States. She is divorcing her husband. Her estranged
husband understandably does not want his son across the
pond. We need to make a Court application for permission
to relocate the child, otherwise it will be child abduction.
Thursday
I receive a call from the police. My client who is dissolving his
Civil Partnership has spent the night in the cells following an
argument with his partner. They had consumed too much alcohol,
argued over who was keeping what and it came to blows. Their
Civil Partnership is long standing as it took place in the US long
before we had same sex marriages or Civil Partnerships in the UK.
One of them should move out whilst we sort everything out.
Friday
I see a bride-to-be who is getting married in 5 months.
Her parents want her to have a prenup as she is an
only child and even though they are very fond of their
soon to be son-in-law, they know the statistics.
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Previous page: Evernden Interiors sourced the antique kitchen table. The kitchen is
by Plain English This page: The book-lined study leads into the kitchen. The blind
fabric was designed by Lindsay Alker
It’s often said, by the owners of very
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Few homes demonstrate this better than
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the generations who would have lived here
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with many houses in the area, the older
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and 17th centuries, while a Georgian facade was added later.
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“I remember coming to the house when our clients
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So a wall that had previously butted into the hallway,
creating a dog-leg, was subsequently repositioned. This
instantly opened up the hallway and created a tantalizing
view through the house and into open countryside.
As with any decent farmhouse, the kitchen is at the
This page: The snug – formerly the kitchen – is painted in
Btwn Dog & Wolf by Paint and Paper Library. The sofa and
ottoman were commissioned by Evernden Interiors. The lamps
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This page: More bookshelves in the drawing room. The
oversized ottoman is upholstered in a William Yerwood jute
stripe. The patterned cushions are a Nina Campbell linen. The
brass lamp is by Porto Romana. The painting client’s own
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“Our client was very clear that she wanted us to bear in
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Quirky Elizabeth Blackadder prints dot the
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Next to the kitchen is an impressive study lined
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include as much built-in storage as possible.”
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Above: The wheatsheaf chandelier over the dining room is from Phoenix Antiques. The antique-style radiators are from the Old
Radiator Company. The chairs are covered in a Colefax & Fowler linen and the table lamps are Ecco trading with Porta Romana
silk lampshades. Looking through the hall to the drawing room
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Above: Looking from the hall into the kitchen. The antique settle (client purchase) cushion is covered in Colefax &
Fowler grey and natural check fabric, the glass lamp Porta Romana. The ceiling pendant in the kitchen Olive & Fox,
Tunbridge Wells
The bookshelves have been painted in a very
dark blue/almost black. “We took the plunge and
painted the shelves in this very dark palette. It’s
fab, exactly the effect we wanted,” says Belinda.
An oak-framed, leaded window – in what was
once an exterior wall – allows light to flood in
through the study and into the kitchen. “Cox’s
took out the leaded window, restored it and
put it back, replicating the style on either side,
and framing it with oak,” says Belinda.
The oak shelf under the leaded window holds
a collection of medieval artifacts while the blind
overhead, featuring block-printed stags, has a medieval
look. “Our client spotted that fabric which, given her
husband’s love of the medieval period and the colour
red, was spot on.” The fabric is a design by Lindsay
Alker, who is based in Hastings. A staircase leads up to
the ‘gentleman’s suite’ of dressing room and bedroom.
Our tour continues into the next room – now the
snug and formerly the kitchen. “You could say that
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This page: A bedroom in the extension features a very rare five-pane
sash window. The architect, Charles Baine-Smith, works as the building
advisor to the National Trust in the South East. The bed is from
Nordic Style Left: The chest of drawers is client’s own and the chairs
are covered in William Yeoward stripe
it lacked inspiration…” says Belinda. “There was an old Aga, a
cork floor, a central heating boiler behind a false wall and formica
everywhere.” Much to everyone’s delight, the false wall not only hid
the boiler but also a wonderful old brick fireplace. Now the owners’
favourite room, it is painted in a moody French blue by Paint and
Paper Library, with the wonderful name ‘Btwn Dog & Wolf’.
“The starting point for this room, was this fabric,” says
Belinda, gesturing to the curtains. “Our client absolutely loves
this ANTA plaid fabric and we debated where to use it. Not
only is it lovely and cosy but it’s great with this wall colour.”
The sofa and footstool were made bespoke, while the
antique farmhouse furniture came from the owners’
previous home. Gilt-framed Victorian paintings hang over
the fireplace while a cluster of smaller paintings decorate a
corner. The overall effect is calm, cosy and uncluttered.
As we go back out into the hallway and towards the
Georgian front of the house, the rooms immediately
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Above: The Swedish neo-classical style bed is from Nordic Style. The bench on the side wall is an antique
take on a more classic feel, both in dimensions and
decor. To the right as you come in the front door is the
drawing room and to the left is the dining room.
“Cox’s found the most incredible, single piece of slate, but
it came out further than we expected,” says Belinda. “We
decided to replace the two armchairs – which were too big
for the space – and also had a bit of a re-think on colours,
injecting a touch of mauve and ochre to ‘zing it up’ a bit.”
A sisal carpet by Tiger’s Eye, in Titanium adds a relaxed
farmhouse feel while demi-lune tables from Phoenix Antiques
add a classic touch. Understated linen curtains with an
amazing Samuel & Son’s ‘onion fringing’ are a playful twist
and, as Belinda adds, “Probably my favourite curtains ever!”
Across the hallway, the dining room is a ‘work in progress’
though key features are already there including a vast sash
window, open fireplace and high ceilings. “The wheatsheaf
chandelier is from Phoenix Antiques, and seemed rather
appropriate given the farmhouse setting,” says Belinda.
A glance out of the window reveals a stunning thatched
barn, bought as a frame and reconstructed by Cox
Restoration. Beyond that is a tithe barn, roofed in Kent
pegs, and home to the owners’ three horses. The views
from every room are unspoilt; lawns, horse paddocks
and the farmyard. Upstairs, the views are even better.
As with the downstairs, it’s easy to see where
the old finishes and the new begins – if Georgian
constitutes ‘new’. The upstairs has been divided
into ‘his and hers’ suites as well as a guest suite and
another study. All lead off a wide, central landing.
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valley beyond. According to the architect who worked on
plans for the house, sash windows such as these, which are
five-panes wide, are extremely rare. Despite being in the
old part of the house, the room is lovely and light.
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Left: The slipper bath, from Tenterden
Bathroom Shop, has views through the sash
window over the horse paddocks. Wooden
panelling was added on lower walls to give a
classical feel. Below: The wall sconces over the
basin are by Heathfield & Co
At the end of the landing, at the front of the house
and overlooking the paddocks and barns, is another
suite of bedroom, bathroom and dressing room.
Strikingly Scandinavian, the bedroom is the only
room in the house that has been wallpapered:
“The wallpaper is by Cole & Son, the curtains are
lined with fabric by Veere Grenney and the trim is
by Samuel & Son,” says Belinda. Painted furniture
completes the Scandinavian neo-classical styling.
All three rooms at this end of the house have retained
the original floorboards: “Cox’s stripped and restored
them. I’m really glad we did it,” says Belinda. The
light colouring and rustic charm of the ancient boards
hits just the right note; contemporary and ‘clean’ in
their simplicity yet hinting at the building’s past.
Next to the bedroom is a stunning, classic bathroom
with slipper bath, wood panelling and a marble-topped
vanity unit. “I often recommend that my clients go and lie
in the bath they are going to buy,” laughs Belinda. “You
need to know if it’s comfortable, as well as looking right.”
In this case, her client was happy to oblige and is thrilled by
the fact that this classic cast-iron bath is not only supremely
comfortable but also looks out over the horse paddocks. The
marble basin-surround was chosen specifically by the client
and, as we know, few things add a sense of luxury like marble.
The dressing room is as light as the bedroom and bathroom,
with a huge mirror to maximise on the natural light. A
beautifully designed fitted cupboard holds shoes and clothing,
although more wardrobe space is planned, in the more
traditional form of a free-standing wardrobe and drawers.
Back in the older part of the house is a cosy guest suite with
a view out across the back garden. Heavy fabrics and blankets
add to the sense of warmth, while colours are muted and
furniture painted in a pale grey, again to make the most of
the light. The adjoining bathroom feels a little more ‘country’
and less grand, though marble surfaces keep things luxurious.
“The contemporary brick effect tiles are from
Marlborough Tiles and are ‘offset’ so that they don’t
look too institutional,” says Belinda. It certainly works,
though it takes a while to notice why they look
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Above: The bed is from Nordic Style. Below: The lamps
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different. The wooden panelling is tongue and groove,
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Expert kitchen
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Recipe for your
perfect kitchen
Putting in a new
kitchen is very
exciting – but with
so many choices
to make, it can be
daunting. So we’ve
asked expert kitchen
designers for
practical advice on
how to ensure you
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Rencraft
John Stephens
Managing Director
A good kitchen design is a
balance between the style and the
practicality. It might look brilliant
but if it doesn’t work, it’s no good.
I can start designing a kitchen
before an extension is built, from the
architect’s drawings, but first clients
have to make certain key decisions.
What sort of fridge do you want -
hidden, or visible, or do you want
a big American fridge? What kind
of cooker? A range, separate ovens,
induction… If you entertain a lot
you might want two dishwashers.
Do you want a larder? Once all
that has been decided we can start
designing.
Our office and workshop are
attached to the showroom and I’ll
walk the client round the showroom
to show them the details, different
drawers, larders, all that, then I’ll
take them out to the workshop and
they might see something there.
It’s nice for them to see where
their kitchen will be made. We
manufacture everything here, exactly
for the space.
We are doing a lot of storage
drawers now, they are a very good
practical option. There has been
a strong move away from wall
cupboards. I don’t mind them – I
just wouldn’t fill all the walls up with
them, that’s lazy. We would rather
do a mixture of wall cupboards and
chunky shelves, less of a fitted feel.
We are seeing a high demand for
Quooker boiling water taps. I do
think they’re worth having, they
are simple and stylish. People used
to say ‘that’s a lot of money for a
kettle’, but now they are on wishlists
when clients come in.
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The test of time
That’s what thoughtful design means to us. Furniture that will
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Furniture that will stand the test of time.
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JM Interiors
James Mundy, Managing Director,
and Amy Biddle, Marketing
Manager
JM Interiors is a family business,
started by our father, so we have
both grown up with it. James has
worked in all aspects of building
kitchens and has a lot of experience
working with classic old Wealden
buildings which don’t have any
straight walls.
When new clients come in we
ask a lot of questions. The first
two meetings are info gathering,
listening to what they want to
get out of a kitchen. We can pick
up a great vibe for what they like
from what makes them excited in
the showroom. That’s why it’s so
important to come in.
Once people have had a play
about and tried our deep and
wide pan drawers, they go on
the list. They might not have
experienced them before. Another
idea they pick up on is having a big
cupboard as an ‘appliance garage’
with plugs inside. A working
coffee area inside a cupboard and
cold shelves in larders for pastry
making. It’s all about hiding
things that traditionally sat on
the worktop and getting rid of
clutter.
If people arrive with lots of
images of enormous islands for
what is really quite a small space,
we can explain ‘The dishwasher
isn’t going to open…’ and we can
show them with a tape measure.
This kitchen was the second we
built for the same client. They
moved house and wanted to take
their old kitchen with them, but
since the first one they’d added
two children to the mix.
It’s in a traditional Kentish
farmhouse. For this version we
added a Belfast sink, an Everhot
range cooker, lots of touches of
warm solid oak and changed
from black granite to lighter
quartz for the worktop which
helped to lighten the kitchen.
JM Interiors, Biddenden, Kent.
01580 291221 jminteriorsuk.uk
Collins BESPOKE
Nick Collins, owner and lead designer
This kitchen was built in a new rear extension – if
you’ve got the space, this is what people want. It has
four different elements. There is a tall wall larder, then
there is a working wall with double ovens, a double
fridge, coffee machines, warming drawers and all the
functional items, which I put into tall cabinetry on the
side of the space with less natural light.
The third element is the elevation with the range
cooker and beautiful overmantel and the final piece is
the feature island with an oak breakfast bar.
And on top of all that, there also is the separate blue
dresser, with glazed doors.
All of them could be kitchens in their own right, so
the challenge is to bring it all together, which we did
by using two distinct palettes. The dark shade is Farrow
& Ball Railings, one of the most popular colours at the
moment, but all dark can be a bit oppressive, so in the
areas with less light, we used a pale shade, Farrow & Ball
Ammonite. We also used a light colour worktop on the
island.
This is the dream, smaller kitchens are harder to
design. My advice to people with smaller spaces is to
work out what the fundamentals are you really need in
your kitchen. Once you’ve decided what’s essential to
you and put that in the space, you can add the luxury
items and get your own reduced version of this.
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Richard Vassallo, Managing Director
We start with a full survey of the room to make
sure that what the client wants can be fitted in the
space and that the drainage position isn’t too far
away from where the sink is going, or there are
obstructions in the way.
Then we look at practical requirements for the
kind of cooking they do. We go through what kit
they have, how many pots and pans, how much
crockery, because it varies considerably between
clients. Some people have a dinner set from their
wedding they want to expose with glass doors,
other people want everything put away.
Gadgets are key nowadays. Some appliances work
on wifi and people are very tech savvy. Baking is a
big trend and making bread and pasta, so people
have big mixing machines and need more storage
and work space. People love entertaining and need
a big island space for people to sit around.
Larders are a great way to get the most out of
a space. Because we are bespoke, manufacturing
everything ourselves, it doesn’t matter what the
space is, we can always build one. Spice racks inside
larder doors are very popular.
It’s important that people are realistic about
budgets. There are expensive options, but you get
better value for money with a bespoke kitchen,
because we can make the most of any space.
Symes Interiors, Alton, Surrey 01386 841060
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ScHmidt
Leigh Colbran, Design Consultant
When new clients come in we give them a tour of the showroom, talk about the
project they have in mind and show them the quality of our product – a lot of
what’s good about Schmidt is behind the doors.
To demonstrate this, we stand in our drawers and then let them soft close.
It makes an impression, because they know it’s being done every day and the
drawers are still good.
In our kitchens, everything has been thought about. There’s a great movement
towards pull out units, making everything accessible, so you don’t have to get on
your knees to try and reach that abyss at the back of the cupboard, where things
get lost and you end up rebuying things you already had.
Because we have a home living range as well, in a run of tall housing, we can
add in bespoke book casing, bifold doors and pop out shelves, that you can use
to tuck a coffee machine away, making a dead corner useful and pretty.
We’ve got over 1000 door front choices and 24 carcass interior colours, so you
can create a bespoke combination. People usually have some idea and we can
guide them through a process of elimination in the showroom.
We also have our own laminates, which are water resistant, they don’t peel.
Our plinths are also water resistant, with a rubber seal that is embedded into the
base of the plinth so no moisture can get underneath. They are also bracketed so
they are fixed, there are no wonky kickboards.
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Do
Symes Interiors
• Shop around and check previous
jobs.
Jones Britain
• Work out a practical footprint
between appliances within the
kitchen. You don’t want to have to
travel miles between appliances.
Rencraft
• Do be comfortable with your
designer, it’s a long journey and
it should be enjoyable. It’s a
collaboration, starting with how
you work in a kitchen, it’s a
question of both sides listening.
• Do be aware of space – you might
need more than you think.
Collins Bespoke
• Go and see a kitchen designer
before you start planning the
extension.
• Make sure your ideas work for
your space.
• Always invest in a good quality
handle. It makes such a visual
impact, it can transform a kitchen.
JM Interiors
• Do some research into the style of
cooking you want to do and the
appliances you want for it. With
built in, steam, ranges, there are so
many choices and it’s the starting
point for a design.
• Understand how much your
appliances are going to cost,
because it can really cut into your
budget.
• Take some time to decide what
your priorities are.
• Go to showrooms and play around
to see what you like.
Schmidt
• Do allow enough time for the
installation – don’t ever leave
choices last minute.
• Plan your kitchen before you go to
the architect, then you will already
have underfloor ducting, electrics
and plumbing in the right places
and you won’t have to pay your
architect to change the plans for
the kitchen design.
• Factor in installation charges,
which can vary widely between
companies. You want to invest in
the quality of the kitchen first and
foremost.
Jones BRITAIN
Dan Stronge, Owner and head designer
We do kitchens across the whole spectrum from highly modern to exceptionally
traditional. Two years ago everyone wanted mid-grey, now it’s moving to dark blue
and very dark greys. Often it’s an island in the darker colour, with lighter units
around the outside.
Everyone wants an island, but sometimes the space just isn’t big enough, then I
would suggest a peninsula, where a row of units turns the corner, then turns back
again. This will give the effect of an island with as many units and more work space
and can be achieved in a smaller space.
With appliances, steam ovens are more and more popular and now 95% of our
kitchens have a boiling hot water tap. The buzzword that has just started to kick in
is home automation. Talking to Alexa or Google to turn the oven on, or turn the
lights up. Very handy if you have hands covered in flour!
When it comes to working out how much storage a client needs, when we do a site
survey, we can see how much storage they currently have. We need to see all their
current items – sometimes there is stuff stored in other rooms – so we can see how
we could best fit them. We always try to give them more storage in the new kitchen.
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Don’t
Rencraft
• Don’t take the first design you’re given.
Explore different companies before
committing.
• Don’t put the dishwasher somewhere
you can’t get round it with the door
open.
Collins Bespoke
• Don’t rush it – understand it’s an
evolving process, it takes time to get
the perfect kitchen.
JM Interiors
• Don’t put big islands in small kitchens.
It’s really important to work with your
proportions, or you can make the space
feel smaller.
Jones Britain
• Don’t leave a gap any smaller than
1metre around an island.
Symes Interiors
• Don’t go cheap, it won’t last.
Schmidt
• Don’t go with the first company
you look at. Check out a few
showrooms before you decide.
• If it’s a long-term purchase, it needs
to be functional first, rather than
pretty or trendy. It’s a lot of money
to spend to find you haven’t got
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tap £622 Grohe grohe.co.uk 2 True stainless steel sink from
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Villeroy & Boch villeroy-boch.co.uk 4 Wooden double
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diffuser £40 The French Bedroom Co. frenchbedroomcompany.co.uk 6 Textured glass soap dispenser £11.50
Amara amara.com 7 Soap dispenser £10 Debenhams debenhams.com 8 Geometric ceramic dispenser £15.99
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We are demystifying bathroom
lighting with the help of Chris Jordan,
Managing Director at Christopher
Wray (christopherwray.com). Turns out,
bathroom lighting can be broken down
into three simple zones, each with its
own rules. It’s as easy as 0,1,2...
Bathed
in
Zone 0
Inside the shower or inside the bath.
Any light fitting in these areas must be
a minimum rating of IP67 (which is
completely immersion proof) and must
be low voltage.
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“IP stands for
“Ingress Protection”.
It basically tells you how
resistant each light is to water.
The higher the rating the more
protection. Always aim for the
highest IP rating in bathrooms.”
– Nicky Taha
victoriaplum.com
Directly above the bath or shower.
Any lighting fitting here must be
a minimum rating of IP65. This
means that they are dust-tight and are
protected from low pressure jets and
that no water can seep into the fitting
itself.
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copper sconce wall light £289 Industville industville.co.uk 3 Antique brass wall bracket
£63 Dar lighting darlighting.co.uk 4 Horizontal light with pineapple finials £635
Besselink & Jones besselink.com 5 Round pleated chiffon light £210 Pure Bathroom
Collection purebathroomcollection.co.uk 6 Hollywood wall bar £85 Frontline Bathrooms
frontlinebathrooms.co.uk 7 Shipyard wall light £545 Davey Lighting uk.originalbtc.com
8 Polished chrome pendant £134.40 Dar Lighting darlighting.co.uk
Either side of the bath or shower
or a radius of 60cm from the basin.
Any lighting fitting here must be a
minimum rating of at least IP44 which
will protect from splashes of water.
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“Central pendants are
not only a great design
feature, but create an
ultimate wow factor in
a larger space. ”
– Simon Wallis-Smith
Lighting Designer
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advice
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not all about function.
Layering the lighting to
provide task, ambient and
accent points are crucial
in creating a calming
space.”
– Peter Legg, Lead Designer,
Dar Lighting
“Consider the kind of overall
look you’re hoping to create
– a contemporary design may
call for modern spotlights or
flush ceiling lights, whilst a
more traditional or boutique
hotel-inspired scheme could be
complemented by a decorative
IP44 rated bathroom chandelier
or retro-glamour wall light.”
– Michael Sammon, Sales and
Marketing Director, Frontline
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of the room in question. Then
select a lighting fixture that
matches that same number in
inches. This simple trick will
give you the right proportions
every time.”
– Demi Stanley, Home Improvement
Specialist, Fantastic Services
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3 Hereford swan neck wall light Fritz Fryer fritzfryer.co.uk 4 Brass bulkhead in polished brass £185 Davey Lighting
uk.originalbtc.com 5 Weathered brass narrow box wall light £449 Davey Lighting uk.originalbtc.com 6 Double
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A D V E R T I S E M E N T F E AT U R E
Ouch!
I think I’ve slipped a disc…
Is back pain or neck pain ruling your life? Are you stuck on a merry-go-round
of painkillers, physiotherapy treatments and GP visits?
Spinal expert James Pickering
treats a range of back and neck
conditions with gentle, noninvasive
techniques. Here, he
shines a light on disc-related conditions.
What causes back and neck pain?
Many back and neck pain issues are caused
by our own bad habits. Sitting, standing,
bending or lifting for long periods,
slouching over PCs and tablets, or poor
driving or sleeping posture can lead to
back and neck pain niggles - which if left
unchecked can turn into more serious issues.
What is ‘chronic’ pain?
‘Chronic’ means pain which has persisted for
three months or more. For many sufferers,
it’s due to some damage or degeneration of
the spinal discs or surrounding nerves.
The discs are the protective pads of
connective tissue dividing the bones of
the spine. They act as ‘shock absorbers’
protecting the spine when we move around.
How do discs become damaged?
If we’re on our feet all day, sitting at
workstations or lifting heavy objects, the
spine can weaken, causing discs to stretch
and bulge. Bulging discs are harmless for
most people - BUT if the outer wall of the
disc tears (herniates), the inner part can leak
out on to surrounding nerves.
When discs are dehydrated, they can leave
the vertebral bones rubbing against each
other: very painful indeed!
What are the signs of a herniated
or ‘slipped’ disc?
Typically, you’ll experience episodes of pain
which become more frequent over time. You
may also suffer nerve pain in the arms or
legs (sciatica) or headaches. You’ll probably
need daily painkillers; physiotherapy and/or
spinal injections may not help.
What is sciatica?
When a disc herniates, the gel-like nucleus
can leak out, irritating or compressing
the surrounding nerves. In lower back
patients, the sciatic nerve is affected
with a shooting pain travelling from the
buttock down the leg. Sometimes the pain
is accompanied by tingling, numbness
or weakness in the legs and feet.
In neck pain sufferers, nerve pain affects the
shoulders, arms and hands.
Most nerve pain resolves with over the
counter anti-inflammatory drugs. Also, go
about your normal daily activities if you
can. However, if you’re still in pain after six
weeks, you should seek advice from one of
our specialists: our first-choice treatment is
IDD Therapy.
How can IDD Therapy help?
IDD Therapy uses safe and gentle pulling
forces to draw apart specific spinal segments
where discs are damaged, removing pressure
and irritation from any trapped nerves.
Patients receive a structured programme of
regular sessions, progressively relieving pain
and improving mobility for the long-term.
IDD Therapy is changing the lives of
slipped disc and sciatica suffers.
Sue’s IDD Therapy Experience
Sue James suffered for 16 years with back
pain and sciatica:
“The pain started in my right leg; I
couldn’t sit for more than half an hour.
Going out for a meal or to the cinema
became impossible.
My GP prescribed strong painkillers, but
the side-effects were too severe; I tried
chiropractic and nerve block injections, but
nothing helped.
My consultant suggested surgery, but I
didn’t want to have an operation with the
recovery time and possible risks.
After a programme of IDD Therapy, I’m
enjoying an active life again, competing in
athletics events pain-free.”
About the
Expert
Osteopath James
Pickering works with
patients across the
Kent community. He
specialises in spinal
disc conditions and
associated nerve
pain. His practice
is an approved IDD
Therapy Disc Clinic.
Call Wealden Osteopaths and Spine Centre on 01580 212833 or go to wealdenosteopaths.co.uk
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Autumn styles are now here with the
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Take a fresh look at Adini and
Wear Something Beautiful
Tea Room
— and catering & styling for —
Weddings & Events
Opening Hours:
Tuesday - Friday 10.30 - 5pm
Sats 10.00 - 3pm
High Street, Charing, TN17 0HX
Tel. 01233 714689
We cater for and style events of all occasions,
including weddings, birthdays and corporate
functions.
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Ashford, Kent, TN27 0HX
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Life’s rich
tapestry
Tweeds, plaids, satins and leopard print – this autumn’s
styles are a lush mix of texture and pattern
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Photographs: David Merewether Styling: Kate Watts
Location: Battle Abbey School Model: Georgia Dispenza, Fresh Agents
Make Up: Amy Deakin, Truffle Tunbridge Wells, truffleonsea.com/tunbridgewells 01892 557722
Hair: Amie Coombes, instagram @amieadellhair
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dressing undeniable beauty
www.odyl.co.uk
01580 714907
Previous page: Dress £99, Capsule @capsulehastings
on Instagram 07772 056945; velvet ankle boots £295,
L.K.Bennett Bluewater 01322 427178, lkbennett.com;
Simon Harrison Amphitrite ring £150 and
Amphitrite earrings £150, Jason Charles Jewellery
jasoncharlesjewellery.co.uk; headscarf, stylist’s own
Above: Dress £75, belt £35, from a selection at Hawk
and Dove Vintage, Hastings Old Town Instagram
@hawkanddovevintage; velvet ankle boots £295,
L.K.Bennett Bluewater 01322 427178 lkbennett.com;
glasses, model’s own Left: Silk blouse £194, Peter
Hahn peterhahn.co.uk; Simon Harrison Amphitrite ring
£150, Jason Charles Jewellery jasoncharlesjewellery.co.uk;
bag £225, The Vintage Lions thevintagelions.co.uk
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Cord blazer £285, GANT
Bluewater 01322 422640 gant.co.uk;
shirt £225, L.K.Bennett Bluewater
01322 427178 lkbennett.com; skirt £98,
trainers £98, Jigsaw Bluewater 01322
387316 jigsaw-online.com; hat £15, from
a selection at Hawk and Dove Vintage;
ruby coral ring £150, Simon Harrison,
simonharrison.com
Over 45 years experience
specialising in coats of arms
With over 10,000 coats of arms, crests &
monograms seal engraved since 1970
18 carat
signet ring
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Sizzling
Autumn
collections
9 carat white
gold cuff link,
3D engraved
coat of arms
Swattenden Lane | Cranbrook | TN17 3PS
01580 713189
www.charityfarmcountrystore.co.uk
Rodney J Rigby F.I.P.G
Goldsmith & Designer
Hand & seal engraver
Handmade signet rings, cuff links
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in gold, silver & platinum
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STYLISH SHOES FOR STYLISH FEET
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www.countyclothesmenswear.co.uk
Welcome back,
Bruno Saint Hilaire
This season we are pleased to announce that we have
a familiar face joining us at County Clothes. We
celebrate the return of Bruno Saint Hilaire into the
UK with the arrival of jackets and trousers
that channel the sophistication of French style
and provide comfort for the modern gentleman.
19 St Margaret’s Street
Canterbury
Kent, CT1 2TH
“The brand’s unique properties guarantee all-day
neatness and, combined with classic French styling, the
collection is unrivalled for creating timeless menswear
that fits into modern-day lifestyles.”
2 East Cross
Tenterden
Kent, TN30 6AD
01580 765159
County Clothes Menswear
Quality & Personal Service
Canterbury Tenterden Reigate Sevenoaks
velvet finesse
Find the new Autumn/Winter ranges in store now.
6 High Street
Reigate
Surrey, RH2 9AY
Cosy
Scarves
14 Bank Street
Sevenoaks
Kent, TN13 1UW
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The go-to address for Striking pieces
to complement your unique style
Fine, vintage & costume jewellery | Designer vintage clothing
Vintage collectables | Seasonal specials | Unique gifts
Christmas Markets
at the Bull House
8 th –11 th November
6 th –9 th December
10am–6pm
www.smashing-things.co.uk
Telephone 01435 813 320 info@smashing-things.co.uk
Now at the Bull House Studio,
Lake Street, Mayfield,
East Sussex TN20 6PR
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Faux fur stole £108,
British Design British
Made 01424 777711
britishdesignbritishmade.com;
Chloris bangle £395, Simon
Harrison simonharrison.com;
velvet top £250, L.K.Bennett
Bluewater 01322
427178 lkbennett.com; wide
leg cropped trousers £98,
Jigsaw Bluewater 01322
387316 jigsaw-online.com
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Faux fur jacket £369, British
Design British Made 01424 777711
britishdesignbritishmade.com;
cashmere lambswool jumper £155
GANT Bluewater 01322 422640
gant.co.uk; trousers £209, Peter
Hahn peterhahn.co.uk; trainers
£98, Jigsaw Bluewater 01322
387316 jigsaw-online.com
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your first visit
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for emergency services
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Hawkhurst-No6 The Colonnade Rye Road Kent. TN184ES
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Lewes -27 High Street Lewes East Sussex. BN72LU
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Book online
www.keithfrancishair.co.uk
01233 503630 Ashford salon
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be sure to
to your
TUNBRIDGE WELLS STORE
and enjoy £20 OFF
offer code: UKJN0104
38 HIGH STREET, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, TN1 1XF
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TERMS & CONDITIONS: Offer valid on full priced items on a purchase over £70 until 1st December 2018
in Tunbridge Wells Store only. This offer is one time use only. Offer is not valid on sale items, cashmere care
products or services; it is non- transferable and cannot be used in conjunction with another offer. No adjustments
may be made to prior purchases. Offer cannot be used in Pure Collection department store concessions or on
their websites. Pure Collection reserves the right to amend/withdraw this offer at any time. For full terms and
conditions visit our website.
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The One Stop Shop for Ladies Fashion in Surrey
www.melitaboutique.co.uk
57 High Street, Chobham, Surrey GU24 8AF
Tel: 01276 856308
17 High Street, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN1 1UT
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Concept
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TELEPHONE 01580 753744
50 High Street, Tenterden 01580 762 564
Book online at www.williamcharleshair.co.uk
or through our facebook page
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Check blazer £275, GANT Bluewater 01322 422640 gant.co.uk; shirt £265,
White and White whiteandwhite.co.uk; pocket square £45, Geoff Stocker
geoffstocker.com; lion brooch £85, The Vintage Lions thevintagelions.co.uk
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Faux fur coat £239, Peter
Hahn peterhahn.co.uk;
sleeveless polo
£64, Capsule
on Instagram @
capsulehastings 07772
056945; jeans £90, Jigsaw
Bluewater 01322 387316
jigsaw-online.com; suede
boots £130, GANT
Bluewater 01322 422640
gant.co.uk; cheetah brooch
£35,The Vintage Lions
thevintagelions.co.uk;
ring £30, Karen Millen
Bluewater 01322
384676 karenmillen.com
A huge thank you to Battle Abbey School for allowing us
to shoot in their historic library, a very special venue to
experience. For more information about visiting Battle Abbey
School or holding an event at this unique venue please visit
battleabbeyschool.com or email info@battleabbeyschool.com
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Oaks Hair and Beauty Retreat was established
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on by their son Alexander. We simply fell in love
with this amazing 14th century property starting
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Having both worked in the hairdressing industry
for many years putting on fashion shows ,
training many students , been nominees of
the British Hairdressers of the year South East
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did we realise how busy we would be here on
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We have an exceptionally highly experienced
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We often hold open day/evening events for our
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HERO PRODUCT
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We have been advocates for this product range
and fortunate to have been with Moroccanoil
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At these events we have worked alongside:
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OLAPLEX
The Olaplex hair treatment is one of the biggest
advances in hair technology for years. It’s a
real game changer for our hair colourists with
it maximising the strength and integrity of your
hair during both hair colouring treatments and
what we call stand alone hair treatments.
Once again Oaks was invited to be first to
market with Olaplex, working with it for over
3 years. Olaplex is an in salon treatment with
us using stages 1 & 2. OLAPLEX Number 3 is
your turn; it’s an at home treatment that you
use once a week , quick and easy to use at
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with reviews of great results and easy to use
OLAPLEX No 3 is available at Oaks Hair and
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We introduced beauty treatments to Oaks
3 years ago employing only the top level
therapists in beauty , Level 3 or above with the
therapists continually training and keeping up
to date with their knowledge ever growing. This
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32B or not 32B?
that is the question
Whether your cup runneth over or there’s room for more in there, you’re probably
wearing the wrong bra size. Expert fitter and Triumph consultant Carol Wales, of Fenwick,
Tunbridge Wells, explains why you need professional guidance
What Carol Wales doesn’t
know about bras isn’t worth
knowing. She’s been a
consultant for Triumph for over 30 years
and was an experienced fitter before that,
having trained at a specialised lingerie
fitting school in London.
But what may surprise you is that
there is one thing she never uses while
fitting bras for grateful customers (many
of whom come to see on her word-ofmouth
recommendation) at Fenwick,
Tunbridge Wells: a tape measure.
“You do it by eye,” she says.
And there’s something else surprising,
that you may be relieved to hear – you
don’t even need to take all your clothes
off for Carol to fit you.
“Once you’re trained, you can get a
rough idea of the frame just by looking
at a woman. You can’t measure with any
accuracy with a tape, it’s much better to
do it by eye. I look at a woman in her
own bra and I can see what’s going right,
wrong, or otherwise.”
Once Carol has assessed the basic size,
she has to call on another area of her
expert knowledge, being familiar with
multiple ranges and styles of bra.
“Just like clothing, sizes vary a lot
between brands and even within a brand,
depending on the style, some come up a
bit tighter, so you have to allow for that.”
But even with all that knowledge, the
only way to be sure a bra is the right fit
is to try it on and have it checked on you
by an expert fitter. “I can’t look at a bra
and know if it will fit me – I have to try
it on. This is why it’s very difficult to buy
them online.”
One of the reasons so many of us wear
the wrong size, Carol says, is because
we’ve got stuck on the idea that 34B is
the ‘average’ size and work from that as
a starting point.
“Women’s perception of bra sizes
is wrong. If they haven’t been
professionally measured mostly
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cup too small. They come in
wearing a 38 or 40 B cup and
once we’ve fitted them, they
might be in a 34DD or E.”
And with that new bra
size comes a whole new,
neater, slimmer look,
says Carol.
“Once you get your
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length of your body and makes your
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You see how it changes a client’s figure
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I’ve had women cry because they are so
grateful I’ve sorted them out.”
Trained bra fitters are always available
in the lingerie department at Fenwick
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I
love a bathroom. The one room in a home where you
can legitimately lock the door without someone thinking
you’re throwing a strop (even if you are). Turn your back
on a frantic world and a busy day and reclaim some time for
yourself. I love designing bathrooms (I’ve done quite a few in
my time...), but the final touch, I always think, is the products
that you indulge in, within that space. Ideally, they’ll look as
good on the bathroom shelf as they make you feel – but just
because something isn’t presented in glam packaging, doesn’t
mean it won’t have a feelgood factor.
What I tend to do with baths is to create what Dayle
Haddon – a supermodel who’s now seventysomething and
looking fabber than ever – calls her ‘Magic Bath’. That means
blending a bit of this, a handful of that, a slurp of something
else, to come up with a custom bath prescription that differs
pretty much every time.
I tend to start with a large dollop of salts – salt and
magnesium flakes. Magnesium is absorbed through the skin
and helps induce relaxation, aiding sleep.
Tickled Pink
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My newest bath salt love is Dead Sea Spa
MagikRSalted Activated Charcoal Salts, which is
perfect for the impending cold and flu season,
with its potent, nose-clearing, sense-awakening
blend of rosemary and eucalyptus.
This comes in seriously workaday packaging
– a shiny big sachet. So, while always being
aware that bathrooms and broken glass don’t go together
well, I like to decant less-than-gorgeous-looking products
like this into pressed and cut glass jars and bottles, which
I acquire in charity shops. If you’ve got a hardtiled
floor, that might not be sensible, but
mine is vinyl-that-looks-like-sisal and if I do
drop something, glass bottles almost bounce
off it. Although I still always keep the glass
containers away from the bath area itself.
Herbivore’s packaging, by contrast, is pure
mimimalist chic. They’re
a US brand which is a
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‘millennials’, now to be
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I’m a huge fan of
their Calm Bath
Salts, £16 for
Wild Rose
Body Salt Scrub,
£20 for 250g
“Restore your getup-and-go
when
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227g at SpaceNK, featuring
an incredibly cocooning
and calming blend of ylang
ylang and vanilla, blended
into Himalayan pink salt crystals. They also offer
Herbivore Detox Bath Salts, featuring lavender and
eucalyptus alongside Cambrian blue clay, which will
help draw out impurities from skin.
On the oil front, I’ve some fab new finds. A long-term fan
of Aromatherapy Associates Bath & Shower Oils, these have been
joined next to my bath by two tall green bottles from Gaia
Spa (located at Boringdon Hall’s eco-spa, on the fringes of
Dartmoor).
If I’m frazzled, there’s the Calming Bath Oil option:
lavender, chamomile and orange blossom. But I also absolutely
adore the Awakening Bath Oil, which features Gaia Spa’s
signature blend of geranium, tangerine, petitgrain, grapefruit
and rosemary – one to restore your get-up-and-go when it’s
got-up-and-went. Both have matching body
products, for fragrant layering.
Another current wake-up-call-of-choice on
increasingly darker (*sob*) mornings is Le
Labo Mandarin Shower Oil, £22 for 250ml,
a fabulously uplifting blend of mandarin
and geranium. If you’re not sure what a
shower oil is, here’s the deal: you massage
into skin, and it transforms into a milky lather that
cleanses, but at the same time, nourishes the body (in
this case with a beautiful blend of coconut, argan and
sunflower oils).
If you’re a fan of Jo Malone London Lime
Basil & Mandarin, you’ll want to know that
this is now available as a Shower Oil, too;
utterly luxurious, giving a beautifully skinsoftening,
satiny lather. Shower oils are also
absolutely fabulous for leg shaving.
While soaking in that bath, meanwhile, is the
best possible time to do a little skin buffing and the
following products will also further infuse the water
with essential oils, adding to the fragrant magic.
An exciting new brand discovery for me is the Natural
Spa Factory, who offer a really impressively wide range
of salty, sandy, rice, coconut and bamboo scrub options, in
resealable pouches. I’m particularly taken with the Tickled Pink
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Celebrating the festival in which Indians throw coloured
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while the Shower Foam Flower delivers up foam in the form
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My favourite is crisp green Paris-Deauville, you might
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Wellbeing
A Year of Wellness
We are all born knowing how to do it, but can get worse at
it as we age – Eminé Rushton takes a look at the all-important
function of sleep and how to improve it
October: Pillow talk
We’ve all been there, desperate
to fall asleep, knowing that
we need to be up early for
something immensely important – yet
wholly unable to drift off. For many of
us it’s fortunately a fleeting experience,
perhaps ahead of a stressful event – but
for 30% of people in the UK, the odd
sleepless night has slipped over into
debilitating chronic insomnia.
The National Sleep Foundation has
highlighted the link between stress and
insomnia. With stress levels in this
country at an all-time high (a poll by
YouGov found that in 2018, 74% of
Britons have felt so stressed as to no
longer be able to cope with daily life),
the parity between our waking and lackof-sleep-ing
lives is crystal clear.
It is, admittedly, not a pretty or restful
picture but thankfully, when it comes to
sleep, there are several simple steps that
each of us can take to make enormously
positive differences.
Firstly, we must wake up to how
much our modern-day lives are
affecting our body’s ancient sleep-smart
programming. When once we would
have woken at sunrise and retired at
sunset, we are now able to power on
as early and late as we wish – phones,
laptops, tablets keep us plugged in
unnaturally often, and the blue light
emitted from their screens has been
shown to be one of the biggest health
concerns of our time. Blue light
suppresses melatonin
– the hormone
that takes us off
to sleep – twice
as long as other
light wavelengths
and alters
circadian rhythms by twice as much
again. This affects more than just sleep.
“Interference with the body’s circadian
rhythms can have a significant effect
on health, creating problems with
the cardiovascular, metabolic, and
immune systems, disturbing mood, and
compromising cognitive function,” says
sleep doctor Michael J Breus PhD.
I recommend setting all devices to
switch automatically to night mode
at sunset. Also stay clear of all screens
– television included – for up to two
hours before you wish to sleep.
Other sleep-supporting activities
I have found to be most successful
are linked to lowering
stress levels. Meditation
is being shown to be
something of a golden
bullet when it comes to
improving sleep issues.
I’d highly recommend
Will Williams’ brilliant
book, The Effortless
Mind, which breaks down exactly why
this practice is so effective. If a daily
studio visit is out of the question, try
movementformodernlife.com.
Professor Jim Horne of the Sleep
Research Centre at Loughborough
University advocates two simple, yet
highly effective, choices for a better
night’s sleep. Firstly, a long walk outside
in nature, which allows the brain to
‘rest’ and focus on things beyond the
internal paraphernalia, is incomparably
stress relieving. This also douses the
body with natural daylight which helps
maintain the correct day/night balance
of our internal body clock.
A seminal 2016 study in the US
found that low vitamin D levels often
“Stay clear of all
devices - television
included - for up to
two hours before you
wish to go to sleep”
resulted in insomnia, so that daily walk
with all of its natural light benefits,
wherein we get to top up our vitamin
D stores too, has yet another benefit
to herald. When the days begin to dim
significantly, do ensure you top up daily
– Wild Nutrition Food-Grown Vitamin
D, £10 (wildnutrition.com) is my
supplement of choice.
Professor Horne’s second sleep tip is
no less enjoyable: a long hot bath, taken
an hour before bedtime, which raises
the core body temperature, only to then
have it drop, rather rapidly, as we step
out of the bath and towel dry.
This drop in body temperature
perfectly mimics the
body’s own drop in
core temperature as
we begin to prepare
for sleep (ever stayed
up too late and started
to shiver?). When our
core body temperature
drops, it creates optimal
conditions for melatonin production,
promoting good healthy sleep.
Getting too hot at night is indeed one
of the chief causes of waking and fitful
sleep, so keep the bedroom cool, stick to
breathable bedclothes and PJs, and leave
the window open for as long as you
feasibly can for fresh and cooling air.
Yes, there are innumerable gadgets,
gizmos, pills and teas to try too, but in
keeping with sleep’s innate and simple
nature, I shan’t expand on them here.
The fact is, the more we can simplify
and re-naturalise our waking lives, the
more likely we are to sleep well at night.
And if that, perchance, isn’t the stuff
of the sweetest, easiest dreams, I really
don’t know what is.
Eminé Rushton is Wellbeing Director-at-Large at Psychologies magazine, and
co-founder of the conscious living blog, The Balance Plan, balanceplan.co.uk
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Natural wisdom
Ali Roff is co-founder of The Remedy Retreats with her husband
James Farrar. Combining Eastern yoga and mindfulness with her
degree in psychology, she aims to create a safe retreat space to rest,
de-stress and improve physical and mental wellness.
What one piece of seasonal wisdom
helps you in autumn? For me, autumn
is the perfect time to recalibrate and
reset my body clock after long summer
nights. As the clocks go back an
hour, we get the perfect opportunity
to trick our bodies into getting to bed
earlier and so waking an hour earlier,
without any great impact to our body
clock – or, in other words, our ability to
get out of bed!
Every year I use this chance to bring
my wake time an hour earlier and
spend the weeks beforehand setting a
little intention to use that hour to do
something for me before the day even
begins, such as journalling, yoga, or
meditation. Sometimes I just sit in the
garden with a cup of lemon water and
a blanket and listen to the world wake
up. As we move into winter, I’ll get cosy
with some candles and meditate in my
living room. The best hour of the day.
What one self-care ritual do you never
skimp on? I have to move every day.
Whether it’s a walk in nature, yoga or an
energetic class at the gym, or even some
simple stretches before bed (the intensity
doesn’t matter), but if I don’t move
my body each day, my mind will tell
me about it. I’ve started to incorporate
movement into my breaks at work too.
To move away from my desk and sway
Choose kindness
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sitting for so long.
What’s cooking in your kitchen this
month? Pattypan squash. I even have a
little song I sing when they arrive in my
veg box. These little gemstone-shaped
squashes are so sweet, tender and easy
to chop into little wedges. I roast them
with minced garlic, pink Himalayan
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good glug of olive oil.
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to speak directly to me and my life
experiences, giving advice, counsel,
compassion, and sometimes even a ‘kick
in the pants’, as Strayed says in one of
her replies to a reader in need.
But many simply offer tenderness
in reply to life events which I hope
will never touch me, from divorce to
the loss of a son. It’s a heartbreaking
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readers, whom she calls her ‘Sweetpeas’,
but the stirring, inspirational
and heartrending guidance offered
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I have so enjoyed reading Shahroo Izadi’s
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going gently on yourself. Being kinder to
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only help us break life-long negative habits,
but to also shift the barriers that prevent us
achieving our goals. A lovely read, or gift,
for a friend in a tough spot.
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which we are learning is more and
more important, yet often neglected
in our physical health.
I work on mine a lot through my
yoga practice and often incorporate
it into my classes and retreats, but
massage is a lovely relaxing way
to include it in our holistic health
ritual and routine. The best one
I’ve had is with a very talented
masseuse called Becky Smith, who
incorporates amazing essential oils
into her treatments. She always
offers a selection to choose from,
depending on what you want to
work on, or how you’re feeling. I
tend to book in when I’m feeling
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• 2 tbsp olive oil
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• 2 onions roughly chopped
• 1 tsp Maldon salt
• 3 garlic cloves crushed
• 10cm piece of ginger peeled and
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• 1 tbsp ras-el-hanout
• 1 tsp each cumin, coriander and
cinnamon
• 200g tomatoes (fresh or tinned)
• 400g chickpeas
• 400g butternut squash cut into 2cm
cubes
• 400ml chicken or lamb stock
• 2 preserved lemons chopped
• 30g bunch coriander, stalks chopped,
leaves reserved
Lamb tagine
Serves 4-6 Prep time: 10 minutes. Cooking time: 4-6 hours
One of my favourite one pots. It can be thrown together and then left in a low oven or
slow cooker. Just add the squash and chickpeas for the last hour of cooking and finish
with the fresh coriander, green olives and pomegranate seeds.
To finish:
• 100g green olives
• 2 tbsp pomegranate seeds
• 3 tbsp coriander leaves
1Colour the onions in the oil for 5
minutes before adding the lamb. Ten
minutes later add all the other ingredients
apart from the squash and chickpeas. Add
½ tsp salt and 6 grinds of black pepper.
Cook at 140 degrees or in a slow cooker
for as long as possible – 4-6 hours is ideal.
(I leave mine in the simmering oven of my
Aga for up to 8 hours).
2Add the squash and chickpeas for the
last hour of cooking time.
3Serve the tagine sprinkled with the
pomegranate seeds, olives and fresh
coriander.
Orange, soy, honey & basil roast chicken
Serves 4-6 Prep time: 5 minutes. Cooking time: 90 minutes
Who doesn’t love roast chicken? This one tray makes for a livelier
Sunday roast. It takes 5 mins to prep and then the whole dish
(minus the mange tout and basil) gets put in the oven for 90
minutes. Stir in the mange tout (or peas if you prefer) at the end.
The hot juices from the chicken will cook them through.
• 2 whole chickens (approx
1.5kg each) or you could
use a mixture of thighs
and legs
• 2 oranges sliced
• 300g mange tout (or peas)
• 15g fresh basil leaves
• 750g new potatoes, large
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For the orange dressing:
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• juice and zest of one
orange
• 1 chilli chopped
• 3 tsp honey
• 3 tbsp soy sauce
• 3 garlic cloves crushed
1Line your roasting tray
with baking parchment or
greaseproof paper to stop the
sauce burning on the bottom
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2Toss the potatoes in the
tray with the olive oil.
3Add the chickens to the
roasting tray and pour over
the dressing making sure you
spoon some inside the cavity of
the chicken.
4Season the whole dish with
salt and pepper.
5Place the orange slices
around the chicken and roast
at 180 degrees for 90 minutes. If
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This is a showstopper dish but is very easy. The trick is to use
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• 1 tsp (1g) saffron
• ½ tsp ground turmeric
• 300g bomba paella rice
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 150g chorizo sliced on the
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• 2 chicken thighs (skin off,
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• 2 onions finely chopped
• 3 cloves of garlic, crushed
• 2 tbsp smoked paprika
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• 800ml- 1l fish stock
• 200ml white wine
• 10-12 cleaned mussels
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rings, fresh or frozen
• ½ pint glass of Greenland
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• ½ pint glass of Greenland
prawns shell off or king
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• 100g frozen peas
• 2 lemons, quartered
1Remove any remaining
beards from the mussels
and wash them under cold
water. Tap each mussel. If it
doesn’t close, dispose of it.
2Put your rice, saffron,
turmeric and 500ml of
stock in a pan and simmer for
8 minutes. Fork through the
rice and set aside.
3Add the olive oil to a
large pan (I used a large
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chicken. Colour for 5 minutes
before adding the onion and
garlic. Sauté for 5 minutes.
Push the onion and chicken
mixture to the side of the pan
and char the lemon quarters
for 5 minutes turning them
every minute or so. This
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lemon wedges and set aside.
4Give the onions and
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they don’t catch then push
them to the side of the pan
again. Colour the chorizo for a
minute on each side. Add the
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Stir and simmer for 5 minutes.
Add your mussels on top of the
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last stir then put the lid on the
pan for 2 more minutes. Serve
with the lemon wedges and
fresh herbs if you like.
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Chickpea, sweet potato
and paneer curry
Serves 4 Prep time: 10 minutes. Cooking time: 30 minutes
This is a 30 minute hearty curry. A rewarding and fairly simple
supper, it’s perfect for those meat-free days when you need
something warming and your family is chomping at the bit. You
can adjust the heat level by leaving out the chilli seeds. Natural
yoghurt on the side will also appease anyone who prefers a curry
mild. Delicious served with brown basmati rice.
• 1tbsp groundnut oil
• 1 onion finely chopped
• 2 garlic cloves crushed
• 5cm fresh ginger chopped
• 1 red chilli deseeded and
chopped
• fresh coriander - stalks
chopped, leaves reserved
• 1 tsp ground cumin
• 1 tsp ground coriander
• 1 tsp turmeric
• 1 tsp medium curry
powder
• salt & pepper
• 1 tsp garam masala
• 400g chickpeas
• 200g vegetable stock
• 500g sweet potatoes,
peeled & chopped into 1
inch cubes
• 400g chopped tomatoes
• 150g spinach
• 200g paneer cheese cut
into 2cm cubes
• juice of 1 lemon
1Colour the onion in the
oil for 5 minutes before
adding the ginger, garlic,
chilli, coriander stalks & the
dried spices (apart from the
garam masala).
2Stir for 5 minutes then
add the stock, chickpeas,
chopped tomatoes & sweet
potato cubes. Season, stir &
simmer for 20 minutes whilst
you cook the paneer.
3Colour the paneer in a
hot frying pan with a lug
of oil for 5 minutes. Stir the
seared paneer into the curry
then stir in the garam masala,
squeeze in the lemon, stir in
the spinach, sprinkle over the
coriander and serve.
Granola plum crumble
“Grumble”
Serves 6 Prep time: 5 minutes Cooking time: 30-40 minutes
A quick family pudding, my Grumble uses seasonal plums but
would work equally well with pears, blackberries or apples. The
topping is a quick granola mix. You can also make a healthy
homemade breakfast granola by spreading the mix on a baking
sheet and baking for 30 minutes at 160 degrees, stirring every 10
minutes. This will store in an airtight container for a week.
For the granola mix together:-
• 300g porridge oats
• 80g mixed seeds
• 80g flaked almonds
• 80ml maple syrup
• 3 tbsp rapeseed or coconut
oil
• 3 tbsp apple juice
• ½ tsp Maldon salt
For the plums:-
• 800g ripe plums, such as
Victoria, halved and stones
removed
• ½ tsp ground all spice
• 2 tbsp runny honey
• zest of one orange
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1Mix together all the granola
ingredients in a bowl.
2Put the plums in an
ovenproof dish and sprinkle
over the all spice, orange zest
and squeeze over the honey.
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mix.
4Bake in an oven at 160
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Harvest
home
Jo Arnell celebrates the traditional
early autumn festival
It’s hard to remember a time before Wilderness, Latitude,
Glastonbury etc, but not so long ago there was only
one major festival in the British year – Harvest Festival.
Once a major event in the calendar, the harvest is as packed
with rituals and symbolism as it is produce. We are lucky
these days that most of our lives do not depend on the safe
gathering in of crops, but this is still an
important – and potent time of the year.
Whether you are busy harvesting gleaming
pumpkins and earthy roots and preparing
to dance pagan-style around wheat sheaves,
or are just scratching about at the back of
the cupboard for lacklustre tins of beans
and packets of rice to take into school or
church, the fruits of the season are ripe
and ready, and deserve to be celebrated.
Let’s head out to the patch, farm shop, market or even
into the hedgerows, and gather the harvest home.
Seasonal fruitfulness
Apples and pears are the fruits of the moment and local
events celebrating orchard fruits abound during October.
Brogdale in Faversham holds the national collection and
is home to over 2,000 apple varieties and 500 pears.
If you are thinking of buying an apple tree (or two, as they
normally need a pollinating partner), then this is the best
“If you are planning
to eat pumpkins,
rather than carve
them, don’t pick a
Halloween monster”
time to get out and about and sample different varieties.
Many orchards and suppliers have their own apple festivals
this month. Apple Day itself, an event started in 1990 to
celebrate both the fruit and a part of our lives that is in
danger of disappearing, is on 21st of the month. Brogdale’s
apple weekend is slightly earlier, on 13th/14th October.
Apples harvested towards the end
of the season tend to be cookers and
robust eaters. The good news about
these is that they store well through the
winter. Flavour is key and although the
supermarkets have improved their selection
of apples, there is nothing better than
eating an apple straight from the tree.
Good late varieties include ‘Egremont
Russet’, ‘Chivers Delight’ and ‘Blenheim
Orange’, which is great for both cooking and eating.
Beyond Halloween
Pumpkins abound this month, but if you are planning to eat
them, rather than carve them, don’t pick a Halloween monster.
Smaller pumpkins and squash have much more flavour.
There are some very beautiful and romantically named
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‘Cinderella’ that looks suitably coach-like); they
all have orange flesh, but very different skins.
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Above: Home-grown chillies are great for cooking – and look
lovely too
I often grow a variety called ‘Hooligan’ (it does what
its name suggests and romps about all over the patch,
so be warned) and there’s another small one called
‘Sweet Dumpling’ (but don’t be fooled, it’s a hooligan
in a dumpling outfit and will also run rampant). Both
grow to be a little bigger than a cricket ball and are
great roasted whole, hollowed out and stuffed with
risotto. Of the butternut squash varieties, ‘Hunter’ is
a good variety, as it has been bred to flourish in the
UK and will ripen well regardless of the weather.
Pumpkins and winter squash are easy to grow, but are
greedy, needing rich soil, sunshine and moisture to ensure
a good crop – this is why they are often grown on compost
heaps. They take a while to make their fruit and need a
fair amount of space to sprawl about in, but (if given a
good long summer like this one) should be ripe by the
time the foliage starts to die back in early autumn.
Leave them out in the sun for as long as possible, as
this will cure their skins and enable them to last longer
in storage. Bring them inside before the frosts arrive,
cutting each fruit off from the main stem, but leaving
a long stalk if you can, as this will also help prolong
their shelf life. They’ll keep for ages, providing they’re
stored in a dry place and look wonderful piled up
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Garden
Above left: Rose hips are great for cordials and fruit gins. Right: The taste of freshly dug potatoes is a revelation
artistically (they make great subjects for still-life paintings),
plump and gleaming in the low autumn light.
Hedgerow harvests
Satisfy the hunter gatherer urge by heading out into the
hedgerows for a foraging session. Many of us have subverted
this urge into shopping, but the dopamine hit we get from
picking fruit is the same and is free (but remember the
needs of wildlife and don’t go on too much of a splurge).
You might be lucky enough to catch the very
last of the blackberries, there may be wild apples
and even cobnuts around, but you will definitely
find rose hips, elderberries and sloes. These can be
made into cordials, or fruit gins and vodkas.
Sloe gin is simple to make – half fill a container with
sloes (pricked or frozen and then defrosted to break the
skins), add some sugar (ratio of fruit to sugar approx
2:1) and fill to the top with gin. Stir each day for a
week and then leave to mature until Christmas.
Unearthing treasures
Harvesting root crops is nearly as exciting as digging
for treasure (okay, 18 carrots might not be as valuable
as 18 carats, but there’s less danger from pirates). It’s
exciting partly because until you dig down into the
soil, you have no idea of the potential harvest.
Main crop potatoes are ready to lift once the haulm (leafy
top growth) has died back in early autumn. They can be
left in the ground and dug up when required, but if you
need the space for other crops, or suffer with keel slugs
(underground slugs that attack tubers and root crops) or
blight, it is probably better to lift and store the tubers.
Unearth potatoes carefully. Push your fork gently
into the ground a distance away from the plant to avoid
spearing or slicing through them. Spread them out to dry
in the open air for an hour or so to enable their skins to
toughen up for storing. Potatoes need to be stored in dry,
dark conditions, or they turn green and produce the toxic
chemical solanine, but don’t be tempted to put them in the
fridge, as it is too cold and will adversely affect the flavour.
Hessian sacks are ideal, allowing air to circulate,
while keeping the light out. Check occasionally
and remove any tubers that may be rotting (as with
apples, one bad one may very well spoil the whole lot,
no matter what the Jacksons said in the song).
Other roots, such as carrots, beetroot, parsnips, turnips
and swede, can be left in the ground and harvested when
needed, but to stop them being attacked by pests and if
your ground freezes too hard in the winter, it’s best to
lift them too and store in a protected environment.
Once lifted, cut off the leaves and stems to prevent
moisture being drawn out of the roots. Find an old wooden
box, or storage container and put a layer of sand, sawdust
or multi-purpose compost (kept moist, but not wet) in the
bottom, then a layer of roots, then more sand/compost
etc. Store in a shed/garage/cellar, but make sure that the
pests can’t get at them – don’t seal with a lid, though, as
this may create an airless, unhealthy environment.
If you have space outside, or have large quantities to
store, you could build a clamp, which is a traditional way
of keeping vegetables available all through the winter.
Find a flat, dry patch of ground and dig a trench around
it to ensure that it stays well drained. Put straw/gravel/
compost in the trench to stop earth filling it back up,
then put a layer of straw on the base of the clamp.
Arrange some roots on top, making sure they don’t touch,
then layer straw and root crops alternately into a pyramid
shaped mound (so that water doesn’t settle on the top). The
earth from the trench can be piled over the final layer.
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A succulents garden in Majorca
A prickly subject
With more hot summers predicted Sue Whigham suggests we – carefully – embrace cactus
As we all know, temperatures in the UK
almost broke records this summer with
endless days of scorching heat reaching
over 35C and it looks likely to happen again.
An article I read in one of the reputable dailies quoted
research carried out by scientists from the University
of Brest which was published in the highly respected
journal Nature Communications before the heat wave,
predicting that from 2018-2022 we should expect ‘an
increased likelihood of intense to extreme temperatures’.
Well, they got that right, so we should probably believe
them about the next few years.
Gardeners amongst us had a good spring
after a hard winter but it was sad to see our
efforts crisp up as the drought lengthened
and lengthened. So perhaps what we need to
do now is to take current phenomena into
account and plant accordingly. One place to
start is to see what is looking good and what
has suffered the most from lack of water.
Thank goodness we didn’t have a
hosepipe ban otherwise things would have been pretty dire.
It certainly reminds us that a good, deep mulch on our
borders helps retain moisture as well as feeding the plants.
However, we could perhaps consider growing more
cactus and succulents which are adapted to drought
conditions and retain water in their fleshy leaves and in
some cases, their root systems. Look how good sedums
are still looking in early autumn, whilst all around them
other plants look as if they have turned up their toes.
Cactus (all cactus are succulents but not all succulents are
“They are the perfect
plants for the young,
as they require little
care and are almost
impossible to kill”
cactus) had their heyday in the 1970’s, then went completely
out of fashion but are now having a huge resurgence. I see
that Selfridges and Top Shop’s flagship store in Oxford
Street have in-store cactus shops and promotions on line.
They are the perfect plants for the young who tend
to be out a lot or perhaps live in flats without access
to gardens, as they require little care and are almost
impossible to kill. Having said that, if you do give
them attention you will soon notice the results.
They are also very enthusiastically collected, sometimes
for nostalgic reasons, by people who as children used to
nip down to Woolworths and spend
their pocket money on a cactus or
two on a Saturday morning.
Gynelle Leon is one of the people
leading this hike of interest in cactus.
She opened her shop, Prick, in uber
trendy Dalston, East London, a couple of
years ago and business is booming. She
says that whilst the younger generation
are ‘behind the boom’, she has many
people, older men particularly, whose parents used to collect
cactus and are now setting up their own collections.
Meanwhile, the cactus shop is booming at the Camden
Garden Centre, selling around 400 different varieties
of the spiny plants. They have even had cactus festivals
there with their cafe providing cactus-themed food.
And reading reviews of The Cactus Shop down in
Devon, I was taken with the lady who had left the
premises with thirty-seven new plants, a grumbling
husband and a big smile on her face!
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This page: Cacti in the Marjorelle Garden, in Marrakech,
restored by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé
So what attention do these plants need? To start with they
prefer, no, must have, a well-drained soil. Bearing in mind
where many of them originate, the idea is to emulate those
conditions. I’ve recently seen huge aloes growing on rocky
screes in the north west of Majorca in what seemed impossible
growing conditions. You can buy special succulent composts.
Give the plants as much sunlight as possible. They’ll
suffer in a dark corner. A sunny windowsill is ideal. Water
them every seven to ten days in the summer and every three
weeks or so in the winter making sure that the soil is pretty
dry before you water again. Overwatering causes the plant’s
roots to rot off and its leaves to turn brown and unhealthy
looking. If you use a wooden skewer to prod into the soil,
as you would check whether a cake is cooked through,
you’ll know that it is time to water if the end is dry.
Many cactus originate from Mexico, a country rich
in biodiversity. The Sonoran desert in the north of the
country and the south west USA is home to cactus
such as the saguaro, the cardon and the organ pipe.
This arid region covers approximately 100,000 square
miles of SW Arizona and South Eastern California
as well as Baja California and the western half of the
Mexican state of Sonora. The Saguaro Cactus is the one
you spot in ‘cowboy’ films where you see nothing for
miles and miles except the cactus and the horizon.
Should you want inspiration closer to home though
take yourself off to the Majorelle Gardens in Marrakech
where there is an absolutely stunning collection of
cactus and succulents. The garden was the creation of
Jacques Majorelle, a French artist who started what
was a forty-year love affair with the place in 1923.
In the centre of the garden is a Cubist building painted the
most wonderful clear cobalt blue which Majorelle patented
as Majorelle Blue. It is a fantastic backdrop to the collection
of plants there. Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé bought
the garden in the 1980s after it had fallen into disrepair. They
restored it and continued Majorelle’s work. There is now a YSL
museum to visit if you can tear yourself away from the plants.
Prick prickldn.com The Cactus Shop cactusshop.co.uk
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Talking the talk
Being confident in another language – or two – will bring your
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Northbourne Park School
The learning of languages in
school can bring a mixed
reaction from many people.
For some it was a great success while
others feel they never quite got to
grips with it. We all however will
agree just how useful, important and
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To be able to stand in a foreign city
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At Northbourne Park School we place
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and Mother’s Day Service. Language is
given to them as a natural part of the
school day and at this age the children
pick up the new words with ease.
By starting at a young age it creates
an environment within the school
where it is the norm to speak someone
else’s language. As the children move
up through the school they also
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they leave Northbourne Park they
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have a go without feeling silly.
Making mistakes is key to making
progress and as soon as the children
understand this essential
part to their learning, they
quickly make progress.
The lessons, delivered
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to reinforce new language points.
Combine this with a community of
children from Spain and France who
board at the school and you have an
environment where friendships are
forged in not one but three languages. It
is not uncommon to hear two children
“Making
mistakes is
key to making
progress”
in the corridors of the school using all
three languages in a conversation.
Every year the school celebrates
European Day of Languages where the
children share language, culture and
international cuisine. The older pupils
also enjoy language lunches every week
where they eat with a ‘buddy’ from
another country, taking it in turns to
speak each other’s language. As for the
annual Spelling Bee, well of course it
isn’t just in English!
All of these activities,
coupled with language
lessons, are a reminder
to the whole school
community that
there is a big world
out there ready to be
explored and people to meet.
So what does this give the
children? Naturally there’s that sense
of achievement and confidence
boost to be able to communicate
in a different language and research
shows that speaking more than one
language increases brain capacity
and memory skills. It becomes easier
the more languages you learn, as
you develop your own best ways
of learning and remembering.
So in a world where political,
economic and cultural boundaries
are shifting, the children at
Northbourne Park School have already
reached beyond these boundaries
and are embracing everything
that this world has to offer.
Come and visit us to find
out more. À bientôt.
Language lessons are engaging and interactive
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Education
Learning languages expands our world
Ashford School
Paola Sagastuy, Head of Languages,
Senior School
When people find out that I
teach languages, invariably,
their response goes
something like this: “Oh, I’m rubbish at
languages. I did Spanish for my GCSEs,
but I can only say, ‘Hola, me llamo
John y tengo quince años.’” [Hello, my
name is John and I’m fifteen years old.]
This, regardless of how old my
interlocutor actually is, points to
memorized phrases and expressions, but
no actual development of proficiency
in the language. It also reveals that the
main objective of this so-called language
learning is to pass an exam and move on.
Substitute ‘languages’ in the above
expression for better-regarded subjects
and you would have something
like: “Oh, I’m rubbish at English.
I did English for my GCSEs, but
the only thing I can spell is my
name.” Or: “Oh I’m rubbish at
maths. I did maths for my GCSEs,
but I can only count up to 10.”
And of course, in parents’
evening, the ever-present, “I can’t do
languages, so I expect my daughter
won’t do very well either.”
Somewhere along the line, it became
acceptable to give up on learning
languages - and this is completely
unacceptable! Asking myself why this
happened, I have come up with two
main reasons: One, while the standard
British person does come across
other languages in everyday life, it is
seldom, if ever, necessary to deviate
from English when attempting to
communicate. This is true even abroad.
Babbel Magazine claims that 20%
of the 7.5 billion
people in the world
speak English… that
is 1.5 billion people.
The perception is
that “everyone speaks
English”, so there is
no need to learn a
different language.
This would be partially true if the
only purpose of learning languages
were communicating while on
holiday. But the benefits of learning
languages are far greater than that.
There is evidence that shows
that there are significant cognitive
advantages to being bilingual. People
who speak two or more languages are
better at attention and task switching.
It also allows people to have stronger
cultural awareness of themselves and
“People who
speak two or more
languages are better
at attention and
task switching”
others, which improves social relations
between people, but also in business.
The second reason people give up on
the idea of learning a language is that
there is no magic recipe to learn one
fast. Learning languages is a process
that never truly ends. It’s one of those
subjects that you have to work at a little
every day, take every opportunity to
practise, and make many mistakes. And
you will continue to make mistakes
— fewer as you progress, naturally,
but you will always
make mistakes.
Unfortunately,
mistakes have a
bad rap, but in the
learning process —
not only of languages
— making them
is essential. It is in
mistakes that true learning takes place.
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein
said “the limits of my language
mean the limits of my world”. And
don’t we all want to have a wider
and more interesting world?
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Education
Why STEM subjects need
some art to make STEAM
Andrew Vaughan, Head of Visual Arts, at ACS Egham International Schools
For several years now official government education
policy has focused on the study of STEM subjects
– science, technology, engineering, maths. But at
ACS International Schools, we believe that the study of
art is just as important and should in fact be combined
with them. This is why we talk about STEAM in our
schools, adding art to the well-known acronym.
Focusing on STEAM provides a better education
and preparation for the future for all our youngsters.
It can also help address the widely reported gender
imbalance in the study of science subjects.
So why is art such an important complement to
science? In its Future of Jobs report the World Economic
Forum estimates ‘two thirds of children entering
primary school today will ultimately end up working
in completely new job types that don’t yet exist’.
Traditional teaching methods where STEM subjects
are taught in ‘subject silos’ are no longer enough for
this fast-changing world. Subjects like science and
maths cannot be taught in a stand-alone way if students
are to develop the skills they need to thrive. Young
people need transferable skills they can apply to think
beyond the classroom or text-based learning.
We often invite parents and business leaders in to give talks
at school. At one such talk at ACS Egham, the CEO of a
global bank said that they are just as likely to recruit someone
who has an arts degree as one in maths, because their business
is looking for innovators; people who can come up with new
options and synthesise ideas.
Equally, a speaker from one of the top four management
accountancy firms giving a presentation at ACS Cobham
recently, told us that an analysis of staff appraisal scores and
qualifications revealed that the best performing employees
had degrees in arts subjects rather than maths or science. The
company changed its recruitment policy as a consequence.
This is not to suggest that we don’t need maths or science,
but to show that art is an essential complement to science
subjects. It can be the spark that brings these subjects to
life, at school, at university and in later working life.
The study of the arts ensures students develop life skills such
as creativity, problem solving and communication abilities
which are increasingly in demand across all industries. Art
also plays a vital role in equipping students with an innovative
mindset, needed to be successful in engineering and business.
A former pupil at ACS Cobham, Candace Rubenstein, a
lead material lab analyst at Under Armour – luxury sportswear
brand, says: “Without
exposure to arts subjects
you can become a human
calculator essentially, but by
adding an artistic lens, you
can look at STEM from a
unique angle – thus coming
up with solutions the human
calculator could never dream of.”
Her views are echoed by Gwen Musial who also went
to ACS and has just completed a Ph.D in biomedical
engineering: “In research and development, creativity is
a useful tool for thinking of unique solutions to difficult
problems. By having a balanced and well-rounded
background, a student has a broad base of experience
to draw upon when faced with challenges,” she said.
How do we inspire more of our youngsters, especially girls,
to maintain and deepen their interest in STEAM subjects?
By giving them options and choices and allowing them to
develop their creativity through studying arts subjects, while
also maintaining contact with traditional science subjects.
Art is being increasingly side-lined at many schools.
According to figures from the Education Policy Institute,
the proportion of 15 and 16-year-olds studying arts subjects
such as art, music and drama has fallen to the lowest level in a
decade as a result of government policies and education cuts.
Many schools streamline their curriculum so that children
have to make a binary choice between arts or science when
they make A level or other exam choices at age 16/17.
This is desperately sad because art can be such a balm
or counterbalance in life, and provides a different way
“The world no longer rewards people for
what they know – Google knows everything
– but for what they can do with what they
know. Global education today needs to be
much more about ways of thinking, involving
creativity, critical thinking, problem solving
and decision-making; about ways of working,
including communication and collaboration.”
Andreas Schleicher, Director for
Edcuation and Skills at OECD
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of learning and self-expression
which can be especially important
in the teenage years.
A study by the University
of Sydney found that active
participation in the arts
increases students’ motivation,
engagement in class, self-esteem
and improves wellbeing. There
is no limit to creativity in art,
it is an open-ended doorway
to expression. It allows us to explore and express personal
feelings and responses to the world. Art can both soothe
and energise the mind, qualities we need more than ever
before in our globally connected, fast-paced digital world.
But for art to be an effective part of STEAM it has to be more
than just a stand-alone subject. At ACS we physically bring
art into science, where an art class might work in the science
lab, and we invite the art students to express the science being
conducted using any medium they like. This shows them how
they can express scientific learning and approaches through art,
which piques the interest of students studying both subjects.
At ACS Hillingdon students use apps like Hopscotch
and Floors as an arts-based way of learning to code. This
cross-curriculum approach, combining art, technology and
computer science, nurtures logical thinking, problem-solving
and persistence, encourages collaboration and communication,
and provides the opportunity for students to develop practical,
future-focused skills, in an imaginative, fun and creative way.
We find that including art in STEAM makes all the subjects
more lively and relevant, and builds exactly the qualities
universities want, without narrowing students’ options.
Hannah Wagner, a current ACS Cobham student, who
was recently awarded a summer research programme at the
University of Surrey to study electrical engineering, commented:
“It’s widely acknowledged that fewer girls are entering
the engineering sector – so I’m proud to have been
selected for this placement. I think to get more girls into
STEM subjects we need first to remove the mentality
that we only enjoy and excel at certain subjects.”
Beyond the school years there are a wealth of statistics which
demonstrate the economic significance of the creative arts;
just think of the film industry, or the gaming industry which
between them contribute £92bn a year to the UK economy.
Given this and how much we value our business entrepreneurs
and innovators, it is astonishing how compartmentalised
the approach to art and science has become in education.
Last year, university admissions officers said the top two
reasons why students fail in their first year at university is not
being able to think and learn independently and being unable
to manage their own time. Exam cramming and narrowing
of subject choice has removed the spark and creativity from
learning. Russell Group universities have inadvertently
played their part in reducing the support for arts subjects by
specifically highlighting the value they place on ‘hard subjects’.
The STEAM approach, combining all the core
subjects, will help address this issue and develop a
generation who can express new innovative ideas and
become our future entrepreneurs and innovators.
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Now we are stuck into the new school year, a
time for fresh beginnings, in the great tradition
of new pencil cases and geometry sets, this
is an optimistic column about all the many things we
can do to help our children stay happy at school.
Because, although it’s not something anyone wants to
think about, there has been more news over the summer
about the shocking number of school-age children
struggling with depression, anxiety and stress.
The good news though, is that there is also a large body of
work about what helps everyone – young people
and adults alike – to maintain mental balance.
First off there are the physical things. It
increasingly seems that inflammation plays a part
in the development of anxiety and depression, so
make sure your child’s body, including their brain,
stays healthy by eating well, drinking enough
water, getting fresh air and exercise and last, but
quite definitely not least, getting the right amount
of sleep.
Then there is the social context you bring your child up
in. Good family bonds, a network of family friends and
links to a wider community all help children feel anchored,
significant and safe. Young people whose only reference
points are their friends and peers can be much more
vulnerable to worry, insecurity and unstable behaviour.
Other things to encourage in your child are the key attitudes
of optimism and hope. This might sound airy-fairy, but these are
known to foster good mental health and once you start looking
it’s possible to find lots of ways to encourage them, whether it’s
“Good family
bonds, a network
of friends and
links to a wider
community”
through modelling those attitudes yourself, or talking to your
children in a positive way about mistakes and challenges.
You can help them see that happy, outward-looking people are
popular and attractive and that happiness doesn’t come through
having lots of cool stuff, or hundreds of social media followers,
but through being comfortable in your own skin, being grateful
for what you’ve got, and making the most of your opportunities.
It also helps to have realistic and positive goals and these
can be encouraged even in very young children. I’ve been in
reception classrooms where children have decided they’d like
to be ‘the person I’d like as a friend’ or ‘not to
be so cross when I’m woken up for school’.
But vague aims don’t have much clout, so
help your child to think their goals through
to specific targets. Not just ‘do my homework
better’ but ‘make a homework timetable and
sit down, without my phone, at six o’clock
to do my work, at least three times a week’.
Older children could also be encouraged
to start developing a sense of purpose in life,
because aiming for something you want to do is said to be another
powerfully protective thing against mental health problems.
This purpose doesn’t have to be set in stone, but a young person
with something specific to aim for is less likely to run into
problems than one who only lives for short-term pleasures.
All these things will definitely help children stay strong
and stable but, of course, if things are more serious, it is
always worth seeking medical attention, and you should
talk to your doctor if you are seriously worried about your
child’s continuing low mood or worrying behaviour.
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What’s On in October
Art & Antiques
Tue 9 Oct 10.30am-3.30pm
Hole Park, Rolvenden,
Kent TN17 4JA
ANTIQUEs VALUATION DAY
Bring your items for valuation
for £2.50 each (photos of
furniture accepted).
Fergus Gambon (Antiques
Roadshow), and experts Jeremy
Sparks and Patricia Law will all
be in attendance, and Gambon
and Law will both be hosting talks
(11.15am Fergus Gambon ‘If pots
could talk’ and 1.30pm Patricia
Law ‘History of Pearls’). Light
lunches, coffee and cakes available.
Tickets in advance only. In aid of
Gardening for Disabled Trust.
Entry: £25 all day with two talks,
£15 morning with one talk.
events@gardeningfordisabledtrust
.org.uk
Sat 20 Oct
Jerwood Gallery Hastings,
Rock-A-Nore Road, Hastings,
Sussex TN34 3DW
The Quick and the Dead
An exhibition of five groundbreaking
artists – each radically
different in approach – whose
lives have intersected at various
points. Maggi Hambling, Sarah
Lucas, Jurgen Teller, Julian
Simmons and Sebastian Horsely
are friends who have portrayed
each other at different moments,
and are being displayed together
for the first time this autumn.
jerwoodgallery.org
Children & Families
Sun 14 Oct 10.30am
Leeds Castle, Maidstone,
Kent ME17 1PL
The Big Dog Walk
Guide dogs return to Leeds
Castle for a 2.5 mile walk around
the castle’s upper parkland
Entry: Free, all dogs
encouraged to raise £35
01622 765400 /
nicola.darling@guidedogs.org.uk /
leeds-castle.com
Sun 23 Oct
Brogdale Collections, Brogdale
Farm, Brogdale Road,
Faversham, Kent ME13 8XZ
Beastie Day
Hunt for and collect bugs in the
orchards, meet the Bug Roadshow’s
impressive collection of mega-bugs
and get creative to build your very
own bug to take home with you.
01795 536250 /
brogdalecollections.org
Fairs & Shows
Thu 4 Oct 9am-4pm
Chafford Park, Ashurst,
Tunbridge Wells TN3 9UR
Pop Up Autumn Fair
Support Hospice in the Weald
and enjoy relaxed shopping for
home, garden, interiors, brocante,
fabulous fashion and accessories, all
in a beautiful manor house setting
where you can also meet friends for
coffee, cake or a Prosecco lunch.
Instagram/Facebook
‘ourcountrymarket Pop Up’
Wed 10 Oct 10am-3.30pm
Mayfield School, The Old
Palace, Mayfield, East Sussex
TN20 6PH
The Friends of Mayfield
Michaelmas Fair
There will be a diverse range of
quality stalls along with the everpopular
Cloisters Café serving teas
and light lunches. Each year the
Fair gets bigger and better.
Entry: £3
01435 874600 / mayfieldgirls.org
Sat 13 Oct
Sprivers Mansion, Lamberhurst
Road, Tonbridge, Kent
TN12 8DR
LPM BOHEMIA OPEN DAY
LPM Bohemia invites you to view
their extensive range of beautiful
marquees and interesting tents for
weddings, parties, corporate events
and festivals. With the finest
collection of crafted structures to
hire or buy we look forward to
discussing your requirements.
01892 725489 /
sales@lpmbohemia.com
KENT PAINTERS GROUP
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
28TH ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION AND SALE
SEVENOAKS SCHOOL TN13 1HU
26th OCTOBER
6.30 — 9 pm
Opening drinks party with the artists — all welcome
27th OCTOBER &
28th OCTOBER
10 am — 4 pm
Exhibition and sale — including unframed work
Lunch and refreshments available
12th - 13th - 14th October 2018
A weekend celebrating the history and
romance of a bygone era
Special Guests!
A4 60009 ‘Union of South Africa’
and
61306 ‘Mayflower’
Don’t miss out - get your tickets
now! Visit the website for more
information and to buy tickets.
All proceeds go directly to mental health and learning-disability
charities in Kent: MENCAP, MacINTYRE & RETHINK
SPONSORED
BY
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CAROLINE ZOOB WORKSHOPS
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Embroidery, textile & mixed
media workshops
New teaching studio at Ticehurst | Regular embroidery
and mixed media workshops | Weekly stitching group
(starting in October) | Workshops with guest tutors
Workshops for private groups on request
A self-taught embroiderer, I love to gather
like-minded people at a workshop, give them lots
of ideas, materials and inspiration, and set them off
on their own creative journey. I particularly enjoy
showing someone who may never have stitched
before how easy it is to treat a needle and thread
like a slow-moving paintbrush. I enjoy devising
workshops reflecting my own changing interests,
including mixed media and collage. Many
friendships have been forged at my workshops,
which gives me almost as much pleasure as
seeing the beautiful work they create.
www.carolinezoob.co.uk
“ I can’t tell you how marvellous it was.
Caroline made me feel more confident and
I can’t wait to do further projects”
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PAINT YOUR OWN CERAMICS,
CRAFTS & PERSONALISED GIFTS
Keepsakes
Come in and have a go!
No appointment necessary
Paint your own
Decopatch
Located on Hawkhurst Fish Farm
www.slapndash.com 01580 755674
Open times: Mon-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Sat & Sun 10.00 to 4.00
(Evenings by appointment)
Disabled access • Ample Parking • Cafe on-site
BEATRIX
POTTER’S
GARDEN
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
27 Oct 2018 – 6 Jan 2019
Open daily except 24 & 25 Dec
Normal admission applies
An exhibition exploring the
inspirations of the world
famous author of the original
Peter Rabbit Books TM with
objects on loan from the
Frederick Warne Archive.
For more information visit
nationaltrust.org.uk/sissinghurstcastle-garden
or phone
01580 710700.
CANTERBURY FESTIVAL 2018
20 OCTOBER - 3 NOVEMBER
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Friday 2 November, 7.30pm
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Sunday 11 November, 2pm
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October half-term
fun at Millbrook
Staplehurst!
Book online
millbrookgc.co.uk
Tickets
£7
Under 2s
FREE
24th - 28th
October 2018
Millbrook Garden Centre
Staplehurst Road, Marden, Kent. TN12 9BT
01622 832299
Facebook /MillbrookGCStaplehurst
Sat 27 Oct 10.30am-4pm
King Charles Church Hall, 3
Warwick Park, Tunbridge Wells,
Kent TN2 5TA
VINTAGE FAIR
Squirrel Vintage has organised a
quality vintage market with 25
traders from all over the South
East and London as well as a
Northern Soul DJ. This fair
will be packed with true vintage
fashion and accessories from
the 1920s to 1970s, menswear,
salvaged homeware, antique
jewellery, and original records.
Entry: £1 (under 16s free)
ruthjvintage@gmail.com / facebook.
com/squirrelvintage
Halloween
Sat 6 – Sun 7, Sat 13 – Sun 14 &
Fri 19 – Sun 28 Oct
Pumpkin Moon, Maidstone,
Kent ME14 3BE
Pick your Own Pumpkin
Pumpkin Moon boasts over 70
varieties of pumpkin, squash and
gourd starting at just £1, as well as
a maize maze, face painting, story
telling and pumpkin painting.
Fancy dress always encouraged.
Entry: Free
pumpkinmoon.uk
Sat 20 Oct – Sun 28 Oct
Groombridge Place,
Groombridge Hill,
Groombridge, Tunbridge Wells
TN3 9QG
The Addams Family at
Groombridge Place
If you go down to Groombridge
Place this Halloween you will be
greeted by the fascinating Addams
family characters including
Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday
and Pugsley. There will be two
Addams Family musical shows and
Singalongs every day together with
children’s games and activities.
groombridgeplace.com
Sat 20 – Sun 28 Oct
Penshurst Place, Penshurst,
Tonbridge, Kent TN11 8DG
Halloween
This Halloween Penshurst
Place has something for all ages
with Not-so spooky interactive
storytelling for littlest guests,
tales from the Wicked Witch
of the Wild Wood for older
children (with hot chocolate
and marshmallow roasting over
an open fire) and for grown ups
with stronger stomachs, Surgery
through the centuries will take a
macabre look at how far medicine
has come with the help of Hands
on History.
penshurstplace.com
Thu 25 – Sat 27 Oct
10.30am-4.30pm
Chiddingstone Castle, Hill
Hoath Road, Chiddingstone,
Edenbridge, Kent TN8 7AD
Chiddingstone Castle
School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry
Brush up on your witchcraft and
wizardry this year as you study
flying, dark arts and crafts and
potion making, to earn your
certificate. There will also be
singing, dance and games practice,
and even a chance to meet the
headmaster.
chiddingstonecastle.org.uk
Thu 25 – Sat 27 Oct 7pm-10pm
Dover Castle, Castle Hill Road,
Dover, Kent CT16 1HU
Murder mystery
An evening of gothic mystery,
intrigue and murder. The year is
1852 and you are invited to take
a seat at the dining table of the
grand banquet hall in Constable’s
Tower for an exclusive dinner.
But the evening takes a dramatic
turn when a scream is heard from
within the kitchen. Now it is
up to you to use your powers of
deduction to solve the mysterious
murder that has taken place.
english-heritage.org.uk
Music
Fri 26 Oct 7.30pm
Groves Hall, Sutton Valence
School, North Street, Sutton
Valence, Kent ME17 3HL
SUTTON VALENCE MUSIC
SOCIETY
The Attard Zerafa Duo (Philip
on saxophone and Christine on
piano) have played at many major
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“Outstanding”
THE INDEPENDENT
(Verdi: La Traviata)
Glyndebourne Tour 2018
La Traviata | Cendrillon | La Traviata: Behind The Curtain
TUE 6 - SAT 10 NOV
marlowetheatre.com
01227 787787
chamber music venues in the UK
and Europe. Their programme
will include Bach, Tchaikovsky,
Iturralde and Yosimatsu.
Entry: £12.50 at door
01622 843325
Theatre
What’s On in October
Thu 25 – Sat 27 Oct 7.30pm
Bedgebury National Pinetum
Bedgebury Road, Goudhurst,
Kent TN17 2SJ
The Hunting of the
Snark
Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem is
brought to life by outdoor theatre
company, Burn the Curtain, in
this truly spectacular promenade
performance.
Entry: Adults £15, children £10
forestry.gov.uk/bedgebury
Wellbeing
Fri 12 Oct, 11am – 2pm,
Stalisfield Village Hall,
Stalisfield Road, Faversham,
Kent ME13 0JE
Breathe Better
Created by Yvonne Fernando,
NLP Master Practitioner & Life
Coach. Experiential workshop
designed to help you become
more aware of how you breathe
and make conscious changes
to breathe better. With tips,
techniques, discussion and a
healthy light snack.
Entry: £35
01233 878474 /
yvonnefernandonlp.co.uk
Sat 13 Oct 10am-4.30pm
The Church Rooms, Back Lane,
Goudhurst, Cranbrook, Kent
TN17 1AN
EFT Retreat Day
Spend a deeply relaxing and
nurturing day learning EFT
(tapping) from trainer, EFT
expert and AAMET Board
Member Kate Munden. Come
away with a new self care skill and
find out how to discover the gifts
in your light shadow.
Early Bird: £59
info@katemunden.com
07710 261921
Workshops
Thu 20 Oct 10am-12pm
The Huguenot Museum,
95 High Street, Rochester,
Kent ME1 1LX
Herbal Workshop
Sip an indulgent spicy coconut
hot chocolate and explore the
world of herbs. Make a variety
of pure and organic products,
including a frankincense face/
body cream, a marigold lip balm
and an antiseptic myrrh ointment.
Perfect ideas for Christmas gifts
Entry: £45
huguenotmuseum.org
Sun 28 & Wed 31 Oct
Canterbury Baking School, 22,
The Ness, Canterbury, Kent
CT1 3NL
Baking School
Canterbury Baking School offers
a multitude of classes which teach
life-long skills including basic
bread techniques, and making
artisan bread, sourdough, pasta or
pizza! In the heart of Canterbury,
these personal, specialist
workshops are taught by bread
expert, Vicky, who was trained by
an Italian master chef.
Entry: £165pp, £10 off for Wealden
Times readers, quote ‘Wealden10’
vicky@canterburybakingschool.com /
canterburybakingschool.com
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10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Penshurst Village Hall, TN11 8BP
Vintage Homewares, Clothes, Jewellery,
Decorative, Gifts & More!
With entertainment from Miss Vintage and
refreshments from Dolly’s Tea Parlour
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Jane Howard’s
Fables from
the Farm
Ever wondered what Michaelmas is? And Lady
Day... Jane explains
There are four Quarter days in a year, all of which
mark a significant change in the relationship between
day time hours and night time hours. We know that
a day near Christmas is the shortest and Midsummer the
longest, but the other two quarter days, Lady Day in April
and Michaelmas in September are less famous. They mark the
spring and autumn equinoxes, when night time and day time
hours are equal, and are important dates in the farming year.
We have just passed Michaelmas Day, September 29, the
feast of Saint Michael the Archangel, a celestial Poldark who
rather magnificently hurled the devil Lucifer down from
heaven. It traditionally marked the end of the harvest and was
also the day when the curfew would begin, the first hint that
winter was on its way. During curfew which occurred across
the country from Michaelmas to Shrove Tuesday, church bells
would ring at 9pm every night, apart from Sundays, as a sign
to stay indoors, douse the household fire (couvre feu, hence
curfew) and go to bed! How simple.
Being recognised as the start of the farming
year, Michaelmas was also the date upon
which labour and tenanted farms changed
hands and to this day many agricultural
payments fall due on this day. It also sees the
start of the shepherd’s year. Female sheep are
only fertile when the night time hours exceed
daytime hours, another Michaelmas milestone, which is
nature’s clever way of ensuring lambs are only born in spring.
Traditionally the rams are put in with the ewes on Bonfire
Night and five months later on April Fool’s Day the lambs
start arriving. With that in mind October is the month to
sort out the flock and keep only those in tip top condition
“Traditionally, the
rams are put in
with the ewes on
Bonfire Night”
to use for the breeding season ahead. The ewes will have had
a couple of months off since their lambs were weaned so the
first thing is to make sure they are in good condition and not
looking plain – shepherds’ parlance for
a thin sheep. Then they have to pass the
three T’s test: teeth, toes and teats.
Sheep only have lower teeth at the front
which meet a hard pad and are used to pick
off the grass which is then chewed by the
back teeth before being swallowed. As they
get older these front teeth become worn
and if they fall out the ewe can no longer eat enough grass to
maintain a healthy pregnancy and produce enough milk for a
growing lamb – so sadly she’s out. Various foot problems, like
cracked or splayed hoof, or abnormal growth can lead to less
than perfect toes, so sorry missus but you’re out, too. Finally
we check the udders to make sure they’re soft, mastitis free
and not too low slung for a newborn lamb to find.
The boys also get an MOT. Now I don’t mean to sound
judgmental, but while the ewes have spent the year carrying
and then raising one maybe two or three lambs, the boys
have been having it super easy. For them the job spec reads
something like this: Wanted male sheep to work hard for
six weeks a year with 46 weeks holiday. So as you can see
it matters big time that when November comes the boys
are ready for the challenge and they too get the three T’s
treatment. Teeth, toes and testicles. And then they’re off.
In fact we’re all off as we look forward to another farming
year at Coopers and all the joys and challenges it will
inevitably bring.
Follow Jane Howard – and the farm – on Instagram @coopersfarm
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