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Contents<br />
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HOUSES WITH HISTORY<br />
Maggie Alderson hunts<br />
down homes with<br />
interesting backstories<br />
NOTEBOOK<br />
<strong>April</strong> events to take note of<br />
LIGHT & SPACE<br />
Art director Clarkson’s<br />
coastal retreat<br />
GET THE LOOK<br />
Recreate airy seaside chic<br />
MAKE HISTORY<br />
Go behind the scenes<br />
at Battel Hall<br />
GET THE LOOK<br />
Invest in vintage style<br />
à la Battel Hall<br />
DESIGN THREAD<br />
Kit Kemp shares the key to<br />
magical interiors<br />
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FRESH PRINTS<br />
Our pick of Kit Kemp style<br />
fabrics and wallpapers<br />
TAKING SIDES<br />
Stunning side tables<br />
SIDE TO SIDE<br />
What to top your<br />
side tables with<br />
SETTING THE SEAM<br />
Kate Watts chooses bold suiting<br />
MAKE IT LAST<br />
Jo Fairley’s tips for<br />
successful scent layering<br />
FORWARD THINKING<br />
The latest non-invasive<br />
surgical news<br />
A YEAR OF WELLNESS<br />
Eminé Rushton takes a look<br />
at the vital role hormones<br />
play in our wellbeing<br />
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NATURAL WISDOM<br />
Wellbeing help and advice<br />
GREEN & PLEASANT<br />
Juliet Bidwell’s St George’s Day feast<br />
SKILLS THRILLS<br />
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the elegant seaside resort of St.<br />
Leonards in 1830. Lovingly<br />
restored by the current owners, it<br />
was featured in all its magnificent<br />
glory in the December 2018<br />
issue of this magazine.<br />
Where: Round the corner from<br />
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Setting: On the elegant Maze Hill,<br />
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Beds: 5 Baths: 2<br />
Special features: The whole<br />
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Pleasing details: The eponymous<br />
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Outside: Mature trees in its own<br />
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with its ornamental lake.<br />
Time to town: Fast trains from St<br />
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Agent: Fine & Country, Cranbrook<br />
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Hill House<br />
£1,595,000<br />
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Where: On The Hill, in the lee of<br />
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Setting: High pavement and street<br />
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Beds: 7 Baths: 4<br />
Special features: The drawing room is large<br />
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Pleasing details: Glorious beams,<br />
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The dream: What better way to embrace<br />
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Setting: The Georgian collonnade,<br />
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Beds: 3 Baths: 1 (and another loo)<br />
Special features: Lovely French<br />
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Pleasing details: A groovy<br />
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Outside: The Pantiles.<br />
Time to town: An hour from<br />
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What to do and see near you this month<br />
Living the dream<br />
Get ready to bounce! Dreamland<br />
Margate is joining forces with the<br />
UK’s favourite family festival this<br />
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From Saturday 6 to Monday 22 <strong>April</strong>,<br />
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with live music, rides, and extravagant<br />
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little kids alike. Plus, if you<br />
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Flowers,<br />
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Easter<br />
Eggtravaganza<br />
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For the second time in very recent years, Maggie<br />
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However, like all DIY attempts based on<br />
information gleaned from the internet,<br />
you will need to weigh up the good<br />
and the bad. Almost half (40%) of all<br />
application forms are rejected due to<br />
mistakes. The process can take much<br />
longer than you anticipate and this in<br />
turn can add upset and tension to what is<br />
generally a pretty stressful time already.<br />
While it may feel much more amicable<br />
‘not getting the lawyers involved’ - and<br />
starting the divorce process online does<br />
indeed reduce initial legal costs - it<br />
does not completely remove the need<br />
for lawyers. Although you are at the end<br />
of your married relationship, a divorce<br />
is the beginning of a different kind of<br />
relationship with your spouse – which<br />
will have to continue for as long as it<br />
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are two major factors that can make<br />
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How much the court is involved depends<br />
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The best time to resolve your financial<br />
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open and your ex-spouse comes back<br />
to you years later, after perhaps your<br />
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and theirs have declined, to seek<br />
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Filing for divorce online doesn’t take<br />
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explanation – even in the virtual world<br />
you are still required to support your<br />
grounds for separation.<br />
There are five facts in the UK used<br />
to support divorce: unreasonable<br />
behaviour; two-year separation;<br />
five-year separation; desertion and<br />
adultery. It can be argued that one of the<br />
most challenging aspects of a divorce<br />
is the justification – aside from the<br />
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and these two in particular require<br />
examples of the behaviours that led you<br />
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After considering both sides of the<br />
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use of the experience of a professional,<br />
or do you want to take a chance on an<br />
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We can also discuss the financial claims<br />
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With a situation that can be as difficult<br />
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Art director Clare Clarkson fell in love with the village<br />
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new dining room and the entrance hall and sitting room <br />
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The now spacious ground floor offers<br />
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“My grandchildren all think the house is magical, like<br />
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Top & above left: A fully panelled staircase leads to a half landing, where a stained glass panel sits in a window. Clare was told that it was<br />
originally medieval and the architects had incorporated it into the 1930s scheme Above right: As you come upstairs Clare has used a wallpaper<br />
by local designer Lindsay Alker, called Battle Great Wood. A further upstairs guest room is decorated in a wallpaper from Cole & Son.<br />
It is Clare’s unique eye, both as an Art Director and as an<br />
interior designer which one can only applaud. Where many<br />
people couldn’t see how to make the house work for a large<br />
extended family, Clare, literally, thought outside the box.<br />
She looked at the house from the outside in, rather than<br />
getting too tied in to what layout was already there. “We<br />
brought the entire ground level up in order to connect the<br />
living areas to the kitchen. The whole place needed opening<br />
up and we needed to fix the flow. It works now for parties<br />
and for family life, everyone can come and go without falling<br />
over each other.” The spectacular conservatory is one of the<br />
many stand out areas of the house. Dominated by the large<br />
dining table (which one can tell has seen many a good dinner<br />
party!) there are pots of plants and objets dotted all over. A<br />
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says Clare, who has loved gardening since she was a child.<br />
“I am a bit of a collector,” says Clare. “I get quite a few<br />
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It’s not about being the most expensive, it’s about being the<br />
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the shops in George Street and the High Street. McCully<br />
and Crane in Rye is another favourite. I like weird things<br />
that most people overlook, like taxidermy – I think it’s <br />
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A cosy guest room has a relaxed botanical feel with bold print wallpaper and floral patchwork quilt<br />
quite beautiful, but it’s not to everyone’s taste, I know.”<br />
Clare takes me through to the kitchen where she is making<br />
lunch. “The old kitchen was barely big enough to swing a<br />
cat, this works so much better, don’t you think? I can stand<br />
here and see pretty much all the main areas of the ground<br />
floor, so it’s nice, you don’t get cut off from everything.”<br />
The new extension, which now houses the extended kitchen<br />
and dining area, features a spacious pitched roof with<br />
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all of which flood the room with light from every side. Yet<br />
more light comes in from the conservatory to the left.<br />
Back in the entrance hall, a pair of glazed double doors<br />
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room offers various different nooks and crannies to explore.<br />
Painted in a soft eau de nil colour, with a generous wooden<br />
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of offset French windows. The main seating area is created<br />
by a contemporary corner sofa. Several armchairs, all from<br />
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Over the garage, where there was once a balcony, Clare has<br />
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This page: The master bedroom is painted in a seaside-perfect<br />
turquoise and accessorised with pink fabric blinds<br />
we watch so many films down here, it’s not something I<br />
would have ever put in myself, but now it’s here, I love it!”<br />
The upstairs of the house is equally as stylish as the ground<br />
floor. A fully panelled staircase leads to a half landing, where<br />
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was originally medieval and the architects had incorporated<br />
it into the 1930s scheme. Very typical of everything in this<br />
house, even the staircase has a story! As you come upstairs<br />
Clare has used a wallpaper by local designer Lindsay Alker.<br />
Called Battle Great Wood, the block print of leaping<br />
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Left: Hidden behind a pair of mirrored doors lies<br />
a stunning marble tiled bathroom Below: In the<br />
grandchildren’s bedroom kitsch paintings are hung in<br />
groups on the walls and retro toys and objects style the<br />
furniture that Clare found in a Hastings junk shop<br />
and Crafts style of the house. A large oak mirror that Clare<br />
found locally nods to the wooden floor and the panelling.<br />
Hidden behind a pair of mirrored doors, that you could have<br />
been lulled into thinking was just a wardrobe, lies a stunning<br />
marble tiled bathroom, straight out of Hollywood. “It used<br />
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the most amazing bathroom, so I raised the bath up onto a<br />
dais and covered it in marble, so now you can sit back and<br />
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leads off the bathroom is painted in a seaside-perfect turquoise<br />
and accessorised with pink fabric blinds – again showing off<br />
the eclectic mix of Clare’s travels and interests. The room and<br />
bathroom definitely have the touch of Los Angeles about them,<br />
and Clare tells me the family lived in the city during the 1990s<br />
and the bedside tables are a keep-sake from that time. The<br />
upholstered bed, in the French style, is from Graham & Green<br />
and the bright blue lamps are from a vintage shop in Hastings.<br />
You can sense Clare’s TV and Film skills at work again as <br />
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This page: Over the garage Clare has created a guest suite. She<br />
got the curtains that dictated the scheme of the room from a<br />
job and found the rattan bedhead on eBay<br />
you enter what she calls the “grandchildren’s bedroom.” It<br />
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the same patchwork fabric hangs at the windows. A further<br />
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& Son, that again nods to the Arts and Crafts vernacular<br />
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mother’s house died, and they were giving away his stuff as<br />
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now. I have added to it over the years with other pieces but<br />
it’s always nice to inherit a good set of paintings early on.”<br />
As with everything in this most magical of houses it<br />
is Clare’s effortless sense of style that makes it so special.<br />
It is a house that is cherished, yet not over precious. It<br />
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Make history<br />
Part of the Leeds Castle estate, Battel Hall has been given a makeover<br />
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Previous page: The walls in the drawing room are painted in Bone by Farrow & Ball Above: The tiled floor is original<br />
Anyone with a penchant for the roaring Twenties is in<br />
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Above: The kitchen is painted in Cactus by Neptune<br />
Left: Carved stone arrow-slit windows reveal Battel Hall’s<br />
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The magic of Battel Hall hits you as soon as you walk into<br />
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Left: The main entrance hall Below: The mural is a replica of<br />
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Previous: The Larkspur bedroom. The headboard is<br />
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Left: Francesca found the painting at Ardingly<br />
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The whitby hotel<br />
Kit first rose to fame for the wonderfully<br />
vibrant interiors she creates for the Firmdale<br />
Group of luxury hotels she owns with her<br />
husband Tim Kemp. This room is on the top<br />
floor of their newest opening, The Whitby<br />
Hotel in New York. “We didn’t want to make<br />
a penthouse full of opulence with gold bath<br />
taps, nor did we want one in a spectrum of<br />
taupe.” The prevailing colour scheme is blue<br />
and white with a magnificently foxed mirror<br />
and – in a very Kit Kemp touch – the arms of<br />
the alabaster and brass chandelier have been<br />
wrapped in twine.<br />
Photo: Simon Brown<br />
MYTHICAL LAND<br />
Kit created this wallpaper for interior design company Andrew<br />
Martin, in collaboration with Hastings-based mural painter<br />
Melissa White. It was based on the original which Kit had<br />
commissioned Melissa to paint for a room in The Whitby<br />
Hotel. “Melissa and I had always thought it was such a shame<br />
that no one else but hotel guests would be able to enjoy her<br />
subtle painting of the scene we called Mythical Land.”<br />
Photo: Melissa White
Friendly folk<br />
Magnificent headboards are<br />
one of Kit’s signature features,<br />
which grew from decorating<br />
the bedrooms for the ten hotels<br />
in the Firmdale stable. The<br />
headboards draw the eye to the<br />
bed, providing a focal point<br />
for the whole room. This one<br />
is upholstered in one of her<br />
designs for Andrew Martin,<br />
‘Friendly Folk’. In a clever play<br />
of positive/negative, Kit has<br />
paired the orange-on-white<br />
print with the white-on-orange<br />
of her ‘Wychwood’ design. The<br />
chest of drawers to the left is<br />
covered in ‘Over the Moon’.<br />
Photo: Dominic Blackmore<br />
CARIBBEAN DREAMS<br />
In the bedroom area of the Turnell & Gigon<br />
Caribbean Suite, another of Kit’s fabulous<br />
headboards and the cushions are upholstered<br />
in Scumacher’s richly embroidered ‘Under the<br />
Sea’ fabric. The walls are covered with ‘Sari<br />
Sea’ by Raoul Textiles in a bespoke colourway.<br />
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Photo: Simon Brown
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Just a few years back, perfume companies all seemed to be<br />
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For the most opulent effect, start with a bath treat (oils<br />
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then layer fragrance over the top. This also massively ups<br />
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So this month, as our body skin reaches peak dryness after<br />
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Heathcote & Ivory Neroli & Lime Leaves, from £5-10. Let<br />
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Within the collection there are some really fun Bathing<br />
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Follow, perhaps, with luscious Softening Body Cream and<br />
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Frédéric Malle Body Butter, £115-150 for 200ml (price depends<br />
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It’s fair to say that sometimes,<br />
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photorealistic Une Rose, or Musc Ravageur, created by the nose<br />
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These are all utterly luscious, truly buttery confections,<br />
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Chanel No.5 The Body Cream, £65 for 150g. While everyone<br />
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Jo Malone<br />
London Orange<br />
Blossom Body<br />
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for 175ml<br />
Hermès Eau de Citron Noir<br />
Moisturising Balm, £45 for 200ml.<br />
Best keep this citrusy treasure<br />
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body) also does double duty as an<br />
aftershave balm.<br />
Jo Malone London Orange<br />
Blossom Body Crème, £54 for<br />
175ml. Jo Malone London fragrances<br />
are designed to be layered – but not in the traditional way.<br />
Instead the brand encourages applying combinations of<br />
fragrances to create something that’s different again.<br />
This particular hefty glass jar of sweet-scented, white floral<br />
heavenliness has pride of place on my bedside and I slather<br />
my limbs with its moisturising formula night after night – but<br />
you could follow their Fragrance Combining suggestions and<br />
layer it with, perhaps, the classic Lime Basil & Mandarin,<br />
or, for something more exotic, Dark Amber & Ginger Lily.<br />
Jo Malone London offers a superb line-up of layerables, from<br />
hair fragrances to bath oils and even shampoo.<br />
Goutal Paris Italian Hand Balm, £26 for 40ml. Now<br />
that the late founder of the perfume house’s daughter<br />
Camille is at the helm, this most quintessentially French<br />
brand has had a name-change to Goutal Paris.<br />
Although there isn’t a huge range of bodycare on offer<br />
in the UK (do check out what’s on offer in the lovely<br />
store at 14 rue Castiglione, just off the rue de Rivoli<br />
next time you are in Paris), I do want to point you in<br />
the direction of the gorgeous new hand creams.<br />
The ‘Italian’ fragrance (there is also <strong>Garden</strong> and Oriental)<br />
is wonderful smoothed onto wrists before spritzing Eau<br />
d’Hadrien, one of the all-time stars in the pantheon of<br />
Cologne classics.<br />
Floral Street Neon<br />
Rose Body Cream,<br />
£22 for 200ml. Great<br />
name, great fragrances:<br />
inspired by Covent<br />
<strong>Garden</strong>’s flower market (the original, not the sprawling<br />
modern location in Battersea), Floral Street offer a portfolio<br />
of appealingly affordable scents, some of which now can be<br />
enjoyed as Body Wash (£18 for 200ml) and Body Cream.<br />
There are four ‘neo-florals’ (as in, not your granny’s<br />
floral scents…), in the bodycare collection and I<br />
particularly like this gorgeous fusion of jasmine, apple<br />
blossom, bergamot, angelica and peach nectar.<br />
I promise you’ll almost hear your skin slurping up the blend<br />
of shea butter, sweet almond and argan, as you smooth it in.<br />
I recommend some playtime at the brand’s store on Covent<br />
<strong>Garden</strong>’s King Street.<br />
E. Coudray Iris Rose Perfumed Body Cream, £38 for 250ml<br />
(escentual.com). This vintage French fragrance house<br />
is pure boudoir chic. It’s almost a crime to apply this<br />
cream unless you’re wearing a silk peignoir, while sipping<br />
a glass of something sparkling. It’s super-nourishing<br />
(hazelnut, sweet almond and jojoba oils feature in the<br />
blend), and the scent is pure ‘Mummy’s handbag.’<br />
There is also a Body Oil (£55 for 100ml) in this<br />
fragrance and a gorgeously bottled Eau de Toilette<br />
to spritz as your final, feminine scent gesture.<br />
And if your favourite fragrance doesn’t have accompanying<br />
body care? I’m an advocate for some experimentation. You<br />
can mix-and-match perfumes and bodycare, though it helps<br />
to stay within the same fragrance family – florals with florals,<br />
Orientals with Orientals, etc. – to avoid scent clash.<br />
Not confident enough to do that? Then reach for an<br />
unscented body cream or butter as the ‘base’ on which to layer<br />
a favourite fragrance. Try Clinique Deep Comfort Body Butter,<br />
£26 for 200ml (like everything they make, it’s fragrance-free)<br />
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Godalming’s Health & Aesthetics has the new<br />
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A Year of Wellness<br />
Hormones control everything from how much sleep we get to<br />
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<strong>April</strong>: Finding your balance<br />
Without diving too deep into<br />
the biochemistry behind<br />
our body’s mechanisms, it’s<br />
safe to say that, for most women, rarely<br />
a month passes without us feeling the<br />
impact of our hormones.<br />
I have friends who suffer extreme PMT,<br />
others who struggle to regulate serotonin<br />
levels and feel continually foggy and sad<br />
and yet others with disturbed sleep. Then,<br />
later in life, there are all the challenges<br />
that comes with the menopause. From<br />
our skin to our sleep, our moods to our<br />
energy levels, hormones rule.<br />
Naturally, when we are living good,<br />
healthy, calm lives, our endocrine system<br />
is able to produce all the hormones we<br />
need, in the right quantities. But in<br />
today’s fast-paced world, where we work<br />
longer hours, sleep less, switch off rarely<br />
and eat less natural, unprocessed food,<br />
our endocrine systems are unable to do<br />
the crucial work that they need to do.<br />
To balance hormones, the simplest<br />
changes have the biggest impact. A<br />
balanced diet with plenty of healthy fats,<br />
oils, protein and complex carbohydrates,<br />
is key. Studies have also shown<br />
that consuming healthy fat at every<br />
meal triggers the release of the ‘satiety<br />
hormones’ that help you feel full and<br />
satisfied (rather than empty and still<br />
craving sugar) – think avocado, olive oil,<br />
nuts, seeds and oily fish.<br />
High stress levels are perhaps the<br />
biggest impactor upon our health.<br />
Cortisol, the ‘stress hormone’, has a<br />
big knock-on effect on oestrogen and<br />
progesterone production. You need a<br />
good level of progesterone to balance out<br />
the effects of oestrogen – and because<br />
cortisol and progesterone are made from<br />
the same mother hormone pregnenolone,<br />
when you are extremely stressed (so<br />
producing a lot of cortisol) your body<br />
sacrifices its progesterone production.<br />
These higher levels of oestrogen in<br />
the body cause a raft of very familiar<br />
symptoms – PMS, bloating, breast<br />
tenderness, heavy/painful periods – but<br />
if oestrogen levels remain elevated over<br />
a long period of time, they also put<br />
women at an increased risk of fibroids,<br />
endometriosis and breast/ovarian cancer.<br />
There is also a tricky vicious cycle<br />
in regard to sleep. When we are<br />
menstruating, pregnant or post-partum,<br />
or in menopause, our hormone levels<br />
are more likely to be imbalanced (with<br />
oestrogen spiking or falling), which<br />
makes us more prone to interrupted<br />
sleep. And, interrupted sleep also causes<br />
our hormones to imbalance further.<br />
By doing all that we can to establish<br />
a good sleep routine – getting into bed<br />
at the same time each night and rising<br />
at the same time each morning – we<br />
stand a better chance of supporting our<br />
hormonal production to click back into a<br />
healthy groove.<br />
Early lights out,<br />
screens off, hot<br />
baths and plenty<br />
of time away<br />
from work<br />
and tech,<br />
every evening,<br />
is vital. And we<br />
need to incorporate<br />
ample stress relief – yoga, walking, time<br />
in nature, and time away from screens –<br />
into our everyday lives.<br />
And plenty of self-care! A recent<br />
review of multiple studies found that,<br />
on average, massage therapy not only<br />
reduced cortisol levels by an average of<br />
31%, but also increased levels of the<br />
mood-boosting hormone serotonin<br />
by 28% and dopamine by 31% – a<br />
wonderful reason to book in for a<br />
treatment, or to warm some oil and<br />
massage your own feet, hands, arms, legs<br />
and torso, with firm, soothing strokes.<br />
Given the seriousness of certain<br />
conditions associated with chronic<br />
hormonal imbalance I would urge all of<br />
us to put our hormonal health at the very<br />
tops of our lists. I’ve also found books<br />
on the subject – from Henrietta Norton’s<br />
Take Control of Your Endometriosis,<br />
Christiane Northrup’s Women’s Bodies<br />
Women’s Wisdom, and Lucy H Pearce’s<br />
Moon Time – extremely helpful in<br />
deepening my understanding of our<br />
bodies, cycles and needs.<br />
“ In today’s fast-paced world, where we work longer hours, switch<br />
off rarely and eat less natural and unprocessed food, our endocrine<br />
systems are unable to do the crucial work that they need to do.”<br />
Eminé Rushton is Wellbeing Director-at-Large at Psychologies magazine, and co-founder<br />
of the conscious living blog, The Balance Plan, balanceplan.co.uk<br />
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This month<br />
Eminé is trying<br />
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Even when I am up against deadlines, I<br />
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Halibut with wild garlic mayonnaise<br />
Serves 8 Prep time: 25 minutes. Cooking time: 15 minutes.<br />
In Tudor times, by law, fish had to be eaten instead of meat<br />
on certain days for religious reasons. Wild garlic is native to<br />
Europe and grows wild in English woodland, making it an<br />
excellent forage food. It is also known as ramsons, from the<br />
Saxon word hramsa. It has been used in English cuisine for a<br />
thousand years.<br />
• 1.4kg halibut, cut into<br />
portions<br />
• 160g breadcrumbs<br />
• 2 lemons, zested<br />
• 2 tsp rosemary,<br />
finely chopped<br />
• 2 tbsp chives,<br />
finely chopped<br />
• 2 tbsp parsley,<br />
finely chopped<br />
• 4 tbsp olive oil<br />
• salt & pepper to taste<br />
Wild garlic mayonnaise<br />
• 200g wild garlic, washed<br />
• 2 tbsp mayonnaise<br />
• 2 tbsp crème fraîche<br />
• ½ lemon, juiced<br />
• salt & pepper to taste<br />
1Preheat oven 190˚C.<br />
Combine the<br />
breadcrumbs with the lemon<br />
zest, rosemary, chives and<br />
parsley. Add the olive oil and<br />
season with salt and pepper,<br />
stir till the breadcrumbs<br />
are evenly coated in oil,<br />
and taste for seasoning.<br />
2Place the halibut portions<br />
skin side down on a<br />
baking tray lined with<br />
parchment paper. Pat the<br />
breadcrumbs evenly onto<br />
the halibut and bake in a<br />
hot oven for 7-10 minutes<br />
till just firm to the touch.<br />
Remove from the oven and<br />
leave to rest for 5 minutes<br />
before serving with the<br />
wild garlic mayonnaise.<br />
For the garlic mayonnaise<br />
3Blanch the wild garlic<br />
in boiling salted water<br />
until wilted, drain and<br />
when cool, squeeze to<br />
remove the excess water.<br />
4Put the wild garlic<br />
and mayonnaise into<br />
a food processor and blitz<br />
until smooth. Remove to a<br />
bowl and stir in the crème<br />
fraîche and add lemon juice,<br />
salt and pepper to taste.<br />
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Pigeon breasts with orange,<br />
watercress & walnut salad<br />
Serves 8 Prep time: 25 minutes. Cooking time: 26 minutes.<br />
Pigeon have been eaten in England for centuries.<br />
Dovecotes were popular on estates as a living pantry and<br />
a source of meat for unexpected guests. Watercress has<br />
been used for medicinal purposes for centuries to treat<br />
blood disorders and as a remedy for scurvy from as early<br />
as 1636. Oranges arrived in England in 1289 and from<br />
the 17th century they were cultivated in England.<br />
• 8 pigeon breasts<br />
• 1tbsp olive oil<br />
• 200g watercress, washed<br />
• 4 oranges<br />
• 100g walnut halves, toasted<br />
• salt & pepper<br />
Orange & redcurrant dressing<br />
• 200ml orange juice<br />
• 2tbsp redcurrant jelly<br />
• 3tbsp balsamic vinegar<br />
• 150ml walnut oil<br />
• 2tsp Dijon mustard<br />
• salt & pepper to taste<br />
1For the salad, prepare<br />
the oranges by using<br />
a serrated knife. Carefully<br />
remove the peel and the<br />
outer white pith, and<br />
cut the segments out.<br />
2Season the pigeon<br />
breasts with salt &<br />
pepper. Pan-fry the breasts<br />
in olive oil over a high<br />
heat, turning after a couple<br />
of minutes, and when<br />
cooked, leave to rest for 10<br />
minutes before carving.<br />
3To serve, assemble<br />
the watercress and<br />
orange, and place the<br />
pigeon on the salad and<br />
spoon over the dressing<br />
and scatter the walnuts.<br />
For the orange &<br />
redcurrant dressing<br />
4To make the dressing,<br />
reduce the orange juice<br />
in a saucepan to 100ml.<br />
When reduced, add the<br />
redcurrant jelly, stir till<br />
melted then remove from<br />
the heat. Add the balsamic<br />
vinegar and leave to cool.<br />
Whisk the walnut oil into<br />
the mustard till combined.<br />
Slowly whisk the orange<br />
mixture into the oil. Season<br />
with salt and pepper.<br />
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Spring vegetable & goat’s cheese pie<br />
Serves 8 Prep time: 20 minutes. Cooking time:1 hour 30 minutes.<br />
Earliest references to pies, go back to the Middle Ages, when<br />
they were a popular part of any banquet or feast. Vegetables<br />
were a common food for the poorer people although 75-80%<br />
of the diet was protein.<br />
• 1.6kg leeks, washed,<br />
sliced ½cm thick<br />
• 400g small white turnips,<br />
peeled, cut into 2cm cubes<br />
• 400g banana shallots,<br />
peeled, sliced into<br />
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• 600g asparagus, cut<br />
into 2cm lengths<br />
• 120g baby leaf<br />
spinach, washed<br />
• 6tbsp olive oil<br />
• 80g butter<br />
• 4tbsp crème fraîche<br />
• 1litre vegetable stock<br />
• 200g soft goat cheese,<br />
cut into cubes<br />
• 4tsp tarragon,<br />
finely chopped<br />
• 8 sprigs of thyme<br />
• 8 sprigs of rosemary<br />
• 320g puff pastry,<br />
ready rolled<br />
• 1 egg, lightly whisked<br />
• salt & pepper to taste<br />
1Preheat oven 180˚C.<br />
Sauté the leeks in half the<br />
olive oil and half the butter<br />
until soft, then remove from<br />
the pan and set aside in a<br />
bowl. Add the remaining oil<br />
and butter to the pan. Add<br />
the turnips and shallots and<br />
cook until golden brown.<br />
Then add the stock, thyme<br />
and rosemary sprigs and cook<br />
till the turnips are tender.<br />
Remove the turnips from the<br />
stock and add to the leeks.<br />
Keep the stock.<br />
2Meanwhile, blanch the<br />
asparagus until just<br />
tender, drain and add to<br />
the other vegetables along<br />
with the spinach, tarragon,<br />
crème fraîche and goat’s<br />
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and place in your pie dishes<br />
with a little stock if needed.<br />
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Lemon & lime posset with rhubarb & ginger<br />
Serves 8 Prep time: 36 minutes. Cooking time: 30 minutes.<br />
Rhubarb arrived in Europe from Asia in the 14th century.<br />
Originally it was used for medicinal purposes, but started to be<br />
used in cookery when sugar became more abundant and cheaper<br />
in the 18th century. Ginger was imported, from much earlier,<br />
also for medicinal purposes. A posset was originally a hot drink<br />
made of milk curdled with spiced wine, often used as a remedy<br />
for colds. In the 16th century the drink evolved into a cream,<br />
sugar and citrus-based confection, similar to syllabub.<br />
ramekins. Allow to cool, and<br />
then place in the fridge.<br />
For the compote<br />
2Place the sugar and<br />
water in a saucepan on a<br />
low heat to melt the sugar.<br />
Once the sugar is completely<br />
dissolved, increase the heat<br />
and bring to the boil, and<br />
boil for five minutes.<br />
3Place the rhubarb and<br />
stem ginger in an ovenproof<br />
dish, pour on the sugar<br />
syrup and cook in the oven<br />
for 15 minutes at 170˚C or<br />
until the rhubarb is tender.<br />
Cool before serving.<br />
• 800ml double cream<br />
• 200g caster sugar<br />
• 2 limes, zest & juice<br />
• 1 lemon, zest & juice<br />
Rhubarb & ginger compote<br />
• 400g rhubarb, washed &<br />
cut into 5cm batons<br />
• 8 stem ginger pieces, finely<br />
sliced<br />
• 400g caster sugar<br />
• 400ml water<br />
1Put the cream and sugar<br />
in a saucepan and bring<br />
to the boil slowly. Boil for<br />
three minutes and remove<br />
from the heat. Whisk in the<br />
lemon and lime juice and<br />
zest and pour into glasses or<br />
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There are a couple of boring<br />
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I’m plotting out my vegetable garden:<br />
‘cut your coat according to your<br />
cloth’ is one, and, ‘don’t bite off more<br />
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By the beginning of every June,<br />
when I’m up to my neck and nearly<br />
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paid attention. There is sense in not<br />
overreaching, in pacing yourself and<br />
generally living within your means,<br />
but the problem is that I can never<br />
find much joy in that approach.<br />
To me, a garden, especially a<br />
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immersive. If your outdoor space<br />
(or even your window box) is a<br />
gorgeous place, brimming over with<br />
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quiet surge of joy that will make<br />
the (sometimes overwhelming) hard<br />
work and effort worthwhile.<br />
Veg patch or flower border?<br />
A cottage garden traditionally<br />
combined vegetables, herbs and<br />
flowers. Somewhere along the lines<br />
they were separated and the vegetables<br />
were consigned to the boring back<br />
of beyond, hidden at the bottom of<br />
gardens, or done away with altogether.<br />
Where vegetables are still in evidence,<br />
they are often a bit lacklustre, sitting<br />
in dutiful rows, catching the sun,<br />
but not many admiring glances.<br />
Don’t get me wrong, I do find<br />
a well-organised vegetable plot to<br />
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Vegetables to grow in the flower borders<br />
Ideally you want crops that have a<br />
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The plant breeders and garden<br />
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Some, like stubby Chantenay carrots<br />
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away from the pesky carrot fly that<br />
lurks at ground level, its larvae waiting<br />
to bore holes into tasty carrot roots.<br />
Herbs<br />
Herbs are such good value plants. Pretty<br />
to look at, fragrant flavour enhancers in<br />
cooking and drinks. They are especially<br />
useful to grow in containers and most<br />
will sit happily – and more or less<br />
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Above: Nasturtiums - pretty edible<br />
reason that they are dying, when you<br />
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You don’t have to wear a hair shirt<br />
to grow vegetables (other gardening<br />
outfits are available), it really can<br />
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Let’s pacify our inner Jiminy and<br />
hijack William Morris’s wisdom about<br />
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Edible beauties<br />
There is still plenty of time to grow a plot full of beautiful vegetables<br />
this year. Here are some of my favourites, chosen for flavour and ease<br />
of growing as much as their looks.<br />
Artichoke ‘Violetta di Chioggia’<br />
– almost too decorative to eat,<br />
artichokes can happily be grown at<br />
the back of the flower border. This<br />
one has stunning purple buds.<br />
Courgette ‘Parador’ – will give you<br />
a sunshine yellow crop to harvest<br />
all summer long. Keep picking<br />
them, in fact don’t even turn your<br />
back for a moment, or you will end<br />
up with a yellow submarine…<br />
Cauliflower ‘Romanesco’ –<br />
technically this is a broccoli, but let’s<br />
not split curds. Despite the impressive<br />
looks it’s much easier to grow than<br />
cauliflower and tastes good too,<br />
elegantly spiralling from plot to plate.<br />
Borlotti bean – climbing or<br />
dwarf – these truly magic beans<br />
can be eaten young as whole<br />
pods, or left to mature on the<br />
plant to harvest as actual beans.<br />
Turk’s Turban – this squash will squat<br />
handsomely amid sprawling tendrils;<br />
leave to ripen like a gleaming jewel in<br />
the early autumn garden. Pumpkins<br />
and squash also store really well,<br />
making them a great late season crop.<br />
Lettuce ‘Lollo Rosso’ – this is<br />
a loose leaved variety with frilly<br />
dark red leaves. Loose leaved<br />
lettuces are slower to bolt (go to<br />
seed) than hearting types. Mix<br />
them in with a green loose leaf<br />
type for a colourful salad bowl.<br />
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Anyway, yes, fern fever or pteridomania was rife in<br />
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Some of them went out into the countryside armed with<br />
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Not only that, Victorian houses and public buildings<br />
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Education<br />
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Skills thrills<br />
Skills<br />
for learning are a better basis<br />
for education than fact cramming<br />
says Hilary Wilce<br />
Children go to school to learn. But learn what? Schools<br />
have been grappling with this question ever since<br />
they were invented and life in the 21st century is<br />
adding yet more complications to an already tangled tale.<br />
Obviously, children need to be taught stuff – reading and<br />
writing, English grammar and literature, biology, physics<br />
and chemistry, history and geography, technology, modern<br />
languages. They also need to be taught about art and music<br />
and drama. And, of course about themselves as human beings,<br />
by learning about wellbeing and human psychology.<br />
But children also need to be helped to<br />
acquire skills. All the facts in the world<br />
are useless unless you also know how to<br />
research, question, evaluate, collaborate,<br />
and problem solve. So schools need<br />
to teach facts and skills through all<br />
the subjects on their timetables.<br />
That’s a big ask in itself, but schools<br />
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self-harm. About not carrying a knife and spotting fake news,<br />
handling their screen time and taking care of their mental health.<br />
It’s easy to see that it’s impossible for schools to teach<br />
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figures that children can look up on their smart phone in<br />
“In today’s internet age, does<br />
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The so-called ‘skills-led curriculum’ does exactly that,<br />
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to work collaboratively to learn it and to reflect afterwards on what<br />
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A while back, a lot of money<br />
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But it has also led to a sorry<br />
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pendulum, having gone quite far one way, is swinging back<br />
towards more teacher-led lessons with lots of factual content.<br />
Of course, the elusive sweet spot will always be somewhere<br />
in the middle. Obviously, it’s good for children to have<br />
core literacy and numeracy, to understand the sweep of<br />
human development and to have a good grasp of science<br />
and technology. But it’s no good if they have simply been<br />
fed these things in order to regurgitate them in exams.<br />
It’s just as important that they leave school knowing<br />
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#nationaltrust<br />
Spring at Smallhythe Place<br />
Explore a new exhibition in the house<br />
celebrating the Museum’s 90th<br />
anniversary or stroll through the colourful<br />
spring gardens. Catch a family show in<br />
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over the Easter weekend. It's the perfect<br />
time to explore.<br />
Call 01580 762334 for details<br />
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Art<br />
Sundays 7 Apr – 13 Oct<br />
Farleys House & Gallery<br />
Muddles Green, Chiddingly,<br />
Lewes, Sussex BN8 6HW<br />
Lee miller in colour<br />
The Lee Miller Archives presents<br />
a brand new exhibition celebrating<br />
colour photography rarely seen<br />
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Easter<br />
What’s On in <strong>April</strong><br />
Sat 6 – Mon 22 Apr<br />
Kent Life, Lock Lane, Sandling,<br />
Maidstone, Kent ME14 3AU<br />
Spring into easter<br />
Meet the cute baby lambs, goat<br />
kids, and piglets which are often<br />
born around springtime, have a<br />
go at bottle feeding the lambs<br />
and kids, hop on a fun farm<br />
ride, get creative and decorate<br />
the perfect Easter gift in the<br />
Paint-a-Pot studio and enjoy<br />
Easter Shows in the Big Top, a<br />
bouncy castle and cuddle corner.<br />
kentlife.org.uk<br />
Sun 14 – Wed 17 &<br />
Sun 21-Wed 24 Apr<br />
Chiddingstone Castle, Hill<br />
Hoath Road, Chiddingstone,<br />
Edenbridge, Kent TN8 7AD<br />
Easter bunny hunt<br />
Grab a £2 clue sheet to find<br />
all the Easter bunnies hidden<br />
around the historical castle’s 35<br />
acres of informal grounds.<br />
chiddingstonecastle.org.uk<br />
Fri 19 – Mon 22 Apr<br />
Various locations<br />
Cadbury Easter<br />
Egg Hunt with<br />
National trust<br />
The Easter bunny has been<br />
up to mischief hiding clues<br />
throughout National Trust<br />
locations across the Weald. Crack<br />
the clues for some Easter fun and<br />
delicious prizes at sites including<br />
Ightham Mote, Sissinghurst<br />
Castle <strong>Garden</strong>, Scotney Castle,<br />
Knole, Smallhythe Place,<br />
Bodiam Castle and Batemans.<br />
easter.cadbury.co.uk<br />
Sun 6 – Mon 22 Apr<br />
Port Lympne, Aldington Road,<br />
Lympne, Hythe CT21 4LR<br />
Wild Easter Adventures<br />
Book online up to midnight the<br />
day before your Easter visit to Port<br />
Lympne to save 20% on a family<br />
day out with Kent’s only giraffes,<br />
hundreds of free roaming animals,<br />
and some life size time-travelling<br />
dinosaurs. Plus on Good Friday<br />
there will be a delicious BBQ on<br />
offer at the Port Lympne Hotel’s<br />
Iceburg Terrace and an Easter<br />
Sunday lunch or dinner at just<br />
£25 per person for two courses<br />
and £30 for three courses.<br />
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Charity<br />
Wed 24 Apr<br />
Hush Heath Wine Estate,<br />
Five Oak Lane, Staplehurst,<br />
Tonbridge, Kent TN12 0HT<br />
Flowers, Fizz & Fun<br />
Join the <strong>Garden</strong>ing for Disabled<br />
Trust at Hush Heath for a<br />
fabulous Plant Fair and open<br />
garden. Meet plant and garden<br />
specialists, enjoy some free tastings<br />
of Hush Heath’s award-winning<br />
pink fizz, and explore the restored<br />
and landscaped private garden of<br />
Mr & Mrs Balfour-Lynn.<br />
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Sun 28 Apr<br />
Five Acre Wood School,<br />
Boughton Lane, Maidstone,<br />
Kent ME15 9QF<br />
Sainsbury’s Stores<br />
sponsored cycle<br />
Take to the roads for a sponsored<br />
bike ride of 25 or 50 miles in<br />
support of Heart of Kent Hospice.<br />
Sainsbury’s will generously provide<br />
refreshments along the route<br />
which will start at Sainsbury’s<br />
on Loose Road in Maidstone.<br />
Entry: £15 per cyclist<br />
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ENTERTAINMENT MADE IN
Penshurst VINTAGE<br />
& Antiques Fair<br />
Penshurst Village Hall TN11 8BP<br />
20 th , 21 st , 22 nd <strong>April</strong><br />
Trade entry Saturday 9.30am<br />
Public 10.30am–5pm<br />
Entrance £2.00<br />
Come and find decorative antiques, French<br />
brocante & vintage items for the home & garden.<br />
Enjoy delicious cakes and tea by Betsy’s Bake.<br />
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What’s On in <strong>April</strong><br />
Sun 28 Apr<br />
Horsmonden, Tonbridge<br />
TN12 8HT<br />
CYCLE HORSMONDEN<br />
A bike ride for Walking with<br />
the Wounded. Cycle 25, 50 or<br />
75 miles through the beautiful<br />
Kent countryside. WWTW funds<br />
the re-training and re-education<br />
of servicemen and women,<br />
both veterans and those leaving<br />
The Armed Forces today.<br />
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event/cyclehorsmonden<strong>2019</strong> /<br />
walkingwiththewounded.org.uk<br />
Children & Families<br />
Sat 6 – Mon 22 Apr<br />
Kent & East Sussex Railway,<br />
Tenterden Town Station,<br />
Station Road, Tenterden,<br />
Kent, TN30 6HE<br />
LEGO® ‘Civilisations’<br />
An innovative and entertaining<br />
LEGO touring show with 40<br />
stunning LEGO models including<br />
life-size human figures from a<br />
range of civilisations throughout<br />
history. This exhibition<br />
is a real treat for LEGO fans<br />
young and old, whilst also being<br />
educational and informative.<br />
kesr.org.uk<br />
Sat 13 Apr<br />
Leeds Castle, Maidstone,<br />
Kent ME17 1PL<br />
Adventure Golf & New<br />
Playground Official<br />
Opening with Ben Cajee<br />
Children’s TV presenter Ben Cajee<br />
from CBeebies will open the<br />
Knights’ Stronghold Playground<br />
and a brand new adventure golf<br />
course at Leeds Castle, as part of<br />
the 900th anniversary celebrations.<br />
leeds-castle.com<br />
Fri 19 Apr<br />
Betteshanger Sustainable Parks<br />
Almond House, Betteshanger<br />
Road, Deal, Kent CT14 0EN<br />
Family Forest Skills Day<br />
Make Easter crafts, light a<br />
campfire, toast marshmallows,<br />
spend time building woodland<br />
dens, hunt for bugs and ultimately<br />
bring the family together at a<br />
special forest skills day with<br />
Really Wild Wooders.<br />
Entry: First child £10, additional<br />
siblings £8, adult £5<br />
betteshangerparks.co.uk<br />
Sun 21 – Mon 22 Apr<br />
The Historic Dockyard<br />
Chattham, Main Gate Road,<br />
Chatham, Kent ME4 4UY<br />
Festival of Steam<br />
& Transport<br />
Steam trains, a free funfair, food<br />
stalls, steam punks and live music<br />
– there is much fun to be had<br />
at this family friendly festival.<br />
thedockyard.co.uk<br />
Music<br />
Sat 13 <strong>April</strong> 7.30pm<br />
St. Dunstan’s Church,<br />
Cranbrook, Kent TN17 3HA<br />
Cranbrook<br />
Choral Society:<br />
MOZART, HAYDN, HUMMEL<br />
Works by three giants of<br />
the world of classical music<br />
sung by Cranbrook’s fine<br />
choir and accompanied by<br />
the Cranbrook Sinfonia.<br />
Entry: £15 (£7.50 students)<br />
cranbrookchoral.org.uk.<br />
Fri 19 – Sat 21 Apr &<br />
Fri 17 – Sun 19 May<br />
Green Farm, Duck Lane<br />
Shadoxhurst, Kent TN26 1LT<br />
Singing with<br />
Nightingales<br />
A night time walk and concert<br />
by wild nightingales. Each event<br />
will feature a campfire gathering<br />
in the delightful setting of<br />
Fairyland, featuring songs and<br />
folk music from Sam Lee and<br />
his guests, story-telling, wildlife<br />
lore and a home cooked feast,<br />
followed by a silent walk to a<br />
location favoured by birds.<br />
singingwithnightingales.com<br />
Spring<br />
Mon 8 – Fri 12 Apr<br />
Godinton House & <strong>Garden</strong>s,<br />
Godinton Lane, Ashford,<br />
Kent TN23 3BP<br />
Spring week<br />
Set within the fabulous 13 acres<br />
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What’s On in <strong>April</strong><br />
of stunning gardens surrounding<br />
the historic house of Godinton,<br />
this week of family fun will have a<br />
traditional treasure hunt, children’s<br />
crafts, garden games and ecoart<br />
and outdoor fun with Lorna<br />
Wyrill from Onodrim Woods and<br />
Debbie Reynolds from the Kentish<br />
Stour Countryside Partnership.<br />
godintonhouse.co.uk<br />
Wed 10 – Fri 12, Wed 17 – Thu<br />
18 & Wed 24 – Fri 26 <strong>April</strong><br />
Brogdale Collections<br />
Hanami Picnics<br />
Celebrate the traditional Japanese<br />
festival of the cherry blossom,<br />
with over 4,000 fruit tree varieties<br />
and all sorts of Japanese themed<br />
delights. Explore the Japanese<br />
culture exhibition, sample Japanese<br />
food, have a go at origami and<br />
calligraphy and try on a kimono.<br />
Entry: Adult £11.50, child £2.50<br />
brogdalecollections.org<br />
Wed 24 – 30 Apr<br />
Hever Castle, Hever Road,<br />
Hever, Edenbridge TN8 7NG<br />
Tulip Celebrations<br />
The third Tulip Celebrations<br />
event as part of the Tulip Festival<br />
at Hever Castle & <strong>Garden</strong>s will<br />
feature 21,000 tulips in bloom<br />
in the stunning grounds of the<br />
childhood home of Anne Boleyn.<br />
Enjoy a self-guided tulip trail<br />
throughout the grounds or if you<br />
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Jane Howard’s<br />
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It’s proper spring and Jane and the<br />
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Early <strong>April</strong> brings moments of warmer weather and<br />
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a T-shirt. Bliss, but this is no time for getting out<br />
the deckchairs and lemonade, it’s time to look at the bees.<br />
I last peeked <strong>inside</strong> in October when I made sure they<br />
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them up for the last time I wrapped their wooden hives<br />
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who are wont to drill their way in and eat the honey.<br />
For the same reason I fitted tiny metal guards across<br />
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