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The lifestyle magazine for Surrey - Inspirational Interiors, Fabulous Fashion, Delicious Dishes
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FEBRUARY AUGUST <strong>2020</strong> 2019<br />
INTERIORS SUPPLEMENT <strong>inside</strong><br />
Inspirational <strong>Interiors</strong> • Fabulous Fashion • Delicious Dishes
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Contents<br />
<strong>February</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
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ALL GROWN UP<br />
Maggie Alderson’s run down of<br />
<strong>February</strong>’s most desirable homes<br />
NOTEBOOK<br />
Get clued up on Asia, book<br />
in some half term activities<br />
and learn to play the piano<br />
A HOUSE TO TRULY LOVE<br />
Take a look <strong>inside</strong> Olya Lammas’<br />
stunning Victorian villa<br />
GET THE LOOK<br />
Recreate Olya’s<br />
effortlessly chic look<br />
HILLSIDE HAVEN<br />
Explore an architectdesigned<br />
eco self-build<br />
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93<br />
97<br />
98<br />
100<br />
100<br />
THE POWER OF LOVE<br />
Kate Liz Watts styles<br />
unique jewels, perfect<br />
for Valentine’s Day<br />
GRAB A BARGAIN<br />
Josephine Fairley’s pursefriendly<br />
beauty essentials<br />
KIND ON THE INSIDE<br />
Henrietta Norton’s monthly<br />
nutritional insight<br />
STRONG ON THE SLOPES<br />
Avoid injury with Sarah<br />
Maxwell’s strengthening tips<br />
EAT WELL<br />
Melissa Hemsley’s sustainable<br />
nutrient-packed recipes<br />
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117<br />
121<br />
125<br />
126<br />
84<br />
NAKED ATTRACTION<br />
Jo Arnell’s colourful winter<br />
garden wonders<br />
A DIETARY ALTERNATIVE?<br />
Hilary Wilce looks into unbalanced<br />
nutrient supplies and ADHD<br />
WHAT’S ON<br />
A guide to <strong>February</strong>’s events<br />
COMPETITION<br />
Win a two-night stay for two<br />
people at Laindons Guest House<br />
FABLES FROM THE FARM<br />
Jane restocks her collection<br />
of rare breed chickens<br />
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GET THE LOOK<br />
Harness design-led style<br />
with our furniture picks<br />
107<br />
PLANT HUNTERS<br />
Sue Whigham uncovers<br />
centuries of plant seekers<br />
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The computer generated illustrations are for general guidance only. Interior images are of the show homes
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*Prices correct at time of going to press and subject to availability. **Terms and conditions apply, selected plots only. Photography depicts streetscenes and Showhome and is indicative only.
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*Prices correct at time of going to print. ^Timing is approximate only. Source: www.tfl.gov.uk. Travelling from Oxted station. Computer generated image is indicative only.
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The computer generated illustrations are for general guidance only. Interior images are of a recent Martin Grant <strong>Homes</strong> show home. *Help to Buy is available in England on new homes up to £600,000.
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House<br />
Month<br />
of the<br />
£16,500,000<br />
All grown up<br />
Maggie Alderson picks stunning homes on<br />
the market with mature gardens<br />
Jura, Wentworth Estate<br />
The dream: This is something<br />
special – the finest modern<br />
architecture, in one of the<br />
nation’s most elite enclaves. This<br />
landmark contemporary house is<br />
built from natural materials, with<br />
walls of glass bouncing light and<br />
space over 21,000 sq ft of <strong>inside</strong>/<br />
outside, lateral flow heaven. It has<br />
all the features you would expect,<br />
including a state-of-the-art screening<br />
theatre, dressing rooms, a huge<br />
party space and an indoor pool.<br />
Where: On the Wentworth<br />
Estate, in Virginia Water.<br />
Setting: Close to the 12th<br />
fairway of the famous golf club<br />
(you might spot Ant and Dec<br />
playing a cheeky round), very<br />
green and leafy, in 5.10 acres.<br />
Beds: 10 Baths: 9<br />
Special features: It appears to<br />
have a bespoke beauty room.<br />
Pleasing details: Electronic blinds.<br />
Outside: Gardens with<br />
lawns and mature trees, land,<br />
tennis court and spectacular<br />
outside entertaining areas.<br />
Time to town: From Virginia<br />
Water station, 1.5 miles away,<br />
it’s 45 minutes to Waterloo.<br />
Agent: Knight Frank, Virginia<br />
Water 01344 840020<br />
knightfrank.com<br />
surrey-homes.co.uk<br />
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Dunsborough Park<br />
£10,000,000<br />
The dream: A historic country estate, with<br />
origins back to the 12th century, with the<br />
current house developed from a 17th century<br />
farmhouse, just 26 miles from Trafalgar Square.<br />
It combines an air of country cosiness with<br />
true elegance. There is a spectacular wisteria<br />
running across half of the exterior and over<br />
the archway of the Tudor-style gatehouse.<br />
Where: On the edge of the picturesque<br />
village of Ripley, five miles east of Woking.<br />
Setting: Within yards of the RHS gardens at<br />
Wisley, and with spectacular gardens of its own.<br />
Beds: 7/8 Baths: 7<br />
Special features: A stand-alone galleried<br />
pavilion known as the ‘concert hall’.<br />
Pleasing details: It has a card room –<br />
and a snug and a flower room…<br />
Outside: The most spectacularly beautiful<br />
garden ever seen in this feature, with<br />
extraordinary greenhouses, plus a swimming<br />
pool and a tennis court. There are 80 acres<br />
in all, with cottages, available separately.<br />
Time to town: Five miles to Woking station,<br />
then under half an hour to Waterloo.<br />
Agent: House 01932 283283<br />
housepartnership.co.uk<br />
Cousens<br />
£1,325,000<br />
The dream: A charming Grade II-listed<br />
red brick country home of great character,<br />
with the original 16th century house still<br />
clearly apparent in the vaulted hall and lovely<br />
beams, but extended over the centuries to<br />
create substantial family accommodation.<br />
Where: The small hamlet of Cox Green,<br />
one mile from Rudgwick on the <strong>Surrey</strong>/<br />
West Sussex border, five miles from<br />
Cranleigh, six from Horsham.<br />
Setting: In the hamlet, secluded by<br />
its own mature trees and garden.<br />
Beds: 4/5 Baths: 4<br />
Special features: A bespoke Mark<br />
Wilkinson kitchen in natural wood.<br />
Pleasing details: Flagstone flooring<br />
in the old part of the house.<br />
Outside: Mature gardens with a lovely sense<br />
of hidden corners, around 1.5 acres, with<br />
a paddock, various outbuildings and direct<br />
access to a path leading to the Downs Link.<br />
Time to town: 20 minutes drive to<br />
Horsham station, 50 to Victoria<br />
Agent: Roger Coupe, Cranleigh<br />
01483 268555 rogercoupe.com<br />
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What to do and see near you this month<br />
Southern Hospitality<br />
Cruising the ‘White Continent’ in ultimate luxury,<br />
witnessing some of earth’s most striking scenery and<br />
gliding through the pristine ice in search of penguin<br />
colonies, elephant seals and orca whales. Humbolt Travel<br />
has just released new dates and departures for 2021 and<br />
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the Falklands to suit the most avid wildlife watchers.<br />
01603 340680 / humboldttravel.co.uk<br />
Sheep’s in<br />
the meadow<br />
Enjoy a great day out on the farm this<br />
<strong>February</strong> half term with the start of<br />
the spring lambing at Bocketts Farm<br />
Park. There are more than 60 lambs<br />
due, with ‘meet the shepherd’ sessions<br />
daily and even a chance you may get<br />
to watch a lamb being born. Plus,<br />
children can go on a Junior Farmer<br />
Adventure, see birds of prey flying<br />
demonstrations and enjoy daily shows<br />
from The Giggle Company with<br />
dancing, games, bubbles and more!<br />
Daily activities include pony<br />
rides, tractor rides, small animal<br />
encounters, pig racing, and acres of<br />
indoor and outdoor play. It’s great<br />
fun for the whole family, whatever<br />
the weather. bockettsfarm.co.uk<br />
Limpsfield<br />
This month former stockbroker<br />
and self-confessed foodie, Jacqueline<br />
Derbyshire opens Limpsfield Cookery<br />
School in a gorgeous converted heritage<br />
building in the heart of Limpsfield village. To<br />
kick things off they will be offering a host of<br />
fabulous cooking classes including a number of<br />
Valentine’s options. There will be a chocolate day<br />
with talented Pâtissier, Lucie Bennett, on Wednesday<br />
12 <strong>February</strong>, and baking with sugar craft expert,<br />
Sue Wilcox and the founder herself, Jacqueline, on<br />
Thursday 13. And that’s just a taste – the team is<br />
filled with more talented teachers to look out for<br />
including executive head chef Oliver Thompson,<br />
River Cottage’s former head chef, Andy Tyrell,<br />
vegan chef and author Jenny Chandler and Asian<br />
chefs Jaya Malani and Pamela Chen. Watch<br />
this space! thelimpsfieldcookeryschool.co.uk<br />
gets cooking<br />
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Silver<br />
linings<br />
The stunning Desire Jewellery & Silversmithing<br />
Fair is returning to Chelsea Old Town Hall<br />
from Friday 28 <strong>February</strong> to Sunday 1 March.<br />
Visitors can purchase direct from around<br />
90 of the UK’s best contemporary<br />
designer makers including individual<br />
jewellers and contemporary<br />
silversmiths, all of whom have<br />
been selected for their superb<br />
and innovative craftsmanship<br />
and genuine passion. It’s the<br />
place to go to explore stylish,<br />
unusual and original designs<br />
or even commission bespoke<br />
pieces for something truly unique.<br />
desirefair.com / craftinfocus.com<br />
Vision of Love<br />
Create<br />
& Grow<br />
Keep the little ones busy this half term<br />
and help them learn about the garden,<br />
too, at Squires Garden Centres’ Create &<br />
Grow event. From Monday 17 to Friday<br />
21 <strong>February</strong> they will have daily activities<br />
including ceramic bird feeder painting, a<br />
spring hunt competition and a flower<br />
maze. squiresgardencentres.co.uk<br />
Rhubarb & Custard in Eton have a romantic<br />
and thoughtful way to say “I Love You” with their<br />
Valentine's mini photoshoots this month. These sessions<br />
will be at a special price of £125 for a 45 minute shoot which<br />
includes a free 12 x 8” lustre print. Shoots are not limited to<br />
couples, but also can be used for families, or Pet Pawtraits too. Plus<br />
visit their website to see their give away to win one of three places<br />
on a DSLR Photography workshop for complete beginners worth<br />
£125 for you or a friend. rhubarbandcustard.com<br />
La Dolce<br />
Vita<br />
No Valentine’s gift could ever compare<br />
to a romantic getaway to Italy and<br />
Railtrail is currently offering £120 per<br />
person off their tour of Lake Garda,<br />
Venice and Verona by train. Explore the<br />
medieval spa town of Sirmione, taste<br />
handmade pasta and wine with lunch<br />
in the Italian hills at Trattoria da Arturo,<br />
tour the home of Romeo and Juliet in the<br />
romantic city of Verona and the island<br />
city of Venice. The tour<br />
is based at Parc Hotel<br />
Gritti, Bardolino, the<br />
4-star lakeside resort<br />
on Lake Garda, and<br />
departs on Sunday 21<br />
June and bookings are now<br />
open. railtrail.co.uk<br />
Join<br />
club the<br />
This month <strong>Surrey</strong>’s friendliest golf club,<br />
the Clandon Regis Golf Club in West<br />
Clandon, is offering a special six month<br />
taster membership for just £650. This is<br />
available in all categories and will entitle<br />
you to enter club competitions, get an<br />
official handicap, use special members<br />
rates on tuition and discounted food<br />
and drinks at the bar. 01483 224888 /<br />
clandonregis-golfclub.co.uk<br />
LOOK FORWARD: MARCH<br />
Inner Art in Reigate invites you to embrace depth and<br />
perspective via the great outdoors with their Landscape and<br />
Location course in March. Reignite your love of the great<br />
outdoors, learn practical ways to make location drawing<br />
work for you and enjoy exploring perspective alongside<br />
other art learners. The course will run on Mondays from<br />
2 to 30 March and will hone the skills of observational<br />
drawing, pencil, ink and paint, working on location<br />
and taking inspiration from photos. arttuition.co.uk<br />
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★ Stay in a lakeside hotel by Lake<br />
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Bernina Pass<br />
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★ Take in great views of the Upper<br />
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Muragl funicular<br />
★ Visit stylish St Moritz<br />
★ Witness two of the world’s great<br />
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DEPARTS: Saturday 2 May & 12 September <strong>2020</strong><br />
10<br />
DAYS<br />
★ Begin our tour at a hotel within the<br />
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Heritage site<br />
★ Visit Blists Hill Victorian Village and<br />
tour Ironbridge<br />
★ Steam on the Severn Valley Railway<br />
★ Get to know Chester on a River<br />
Dee cruise<br />
★ Anderton Boat Lift, marvel of<br />
Victorian engineering<br />
★ Masterpiece of the canals,<br />
breathtaking Pontcysyllte Aqueduct<br />
★ Llangollen Steam Railway nostalgia<br />
★ Cruise along the Manchester<br />
Ship Canal, viewing Barton Swing<br />
Aqueduct<br />
Fares<br />
From<br />
£1230<br />
★ Steam excursion on the East<br />
Lancashire Railway<br />
★ Visit Burnley Weavers’ Triangle and<br />
walk part of Burnley Embankment<br />
★ Boat trip into Standedge Tunnel, the<br />
longest, deepest and highest canal<br />
tunnel in Britain<br />
★ Steam on the Keighley & Worth<br />
Valley Railway<br />
★ Visit Saltaire, another UNESCO<br />
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★ Walk the canal lock staircase at<br />
Bingley Five Rise Locks<br />
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Editor’s<br />
Letter<br />
We’re one month into a brand new decade and I’m<br />
feeling an increasing urgency to bite the bullet<br />
and finish off all those decorating tasks that<br />
remain irritatingly incomplete since we started renovating<br />
our little Victorian terrace over eight years ago! So, I’ve<br />
been watching Rebecca Cuffe compile this issue’s <strong>Interiors</strong><br />
Supplement with great interest as she sifts through some of<br />
the loveliest looks that <strong>2020</strong> promises to deliver. From timeless<br />
velvets to nature-inspired wallpapers, she’s edited down a<br />
selection of the most ‘wearable’ interior trends to transition<br />
your home from the twenty-tens to the twenty-twenties.<br />
Sticking with interiors, explore two beautifully different homes<br />
– which both feature copious amounts of space as a common<br />
denominator – with comprehensive tours of Olya Lammas’<br />
Victorian villa and Steve Ackhurst and Bronwen Malcolm’s<br />
impressive new build. Maggie Alderson and Antonia Methuen find<br />
out how they’ve tailored their homes to their exact requirements.<br />
Elsewhere, Sue Whigham explores the origins of plant<br />
hunting and Jo Arnell gets to grips with winter colour<br />
outside. Be sure to take Melissa Hemsley’s nourishing recipes<br />
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A House to<br />
Truly Love<br />
After documenting the transformation of her<br />
Victorian villa on social media, Olya Lammas<br />
decided to trade in her career in fashion to<br />
follow her passion for interiors<br />
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Words: Antonia Methuen<br />
Photographs: David Merewether<br />
Styling: Anna Richardson<br />
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Previous pages: In the living room, Olya has inserted pops of blue<br />
in the form of velvet stools and a hydrangea plant that really lifts<br />
the design This page: One of the most impressive spaces within<br />
the house is the double height entrance hall<br />
“I<br />
wasn’t planning on buying a home like this!” says<br />
interior designer Olya Lammas. We are standing in<br />
the double height hallway of her detached Victorian<br />
villa tucked away on one of Tunbridge Wells’s most charming<br />
streets, Hungershall Park. Olya admits she didn’t know the road<br />
existed until the estate agent took her and her husband to see<br />
the property. “We had moved from London in 2014 and lived<br />
in a converted stables, however I needed somewhere with more<br />
space,” she says. “This house had everything we wanted and <br />
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This page: The focus in Olya’s husband’s study is a piece<br />
by the artist Louis Midavaine, a copy of one of Toulouse<br />
Lautrec’s Moulin Rouge paintings from the 19th century.<br />
A rug from The Rug Company and a bright green Conran<br />
velvet sofa compliment the painting’s palette<br />
also some things that I never knew that I wanted.” Olya<br />
points out of the window. “When I was in London<br />
I never dreamt I would wake up and see cows!”<br />
As the animals quietly graze in the green fields<br />
across the road, it is easy to see how Olya and her<br />
family immediately fell in love with the house, even<br />
though she needed to completely re-decorate the whole<br />
building from top-to-toe. “I changed pretty much<br />
everything: the lighting, the heating, the flooring and<br />
the fireplaces.” Indeed, it has been the transformation<br />
of her house that has simultaneously heralded in a new<br />
career for Olya and her company, A House To Love.<br />
“I bought the house and at the same time closed<br />
my fashion boutique. I worked in fashion for years<br />
in London but when I began working on the house<br />
suddenly people began to ask me about my style<br />
and my decorating tips. It’s as though the house<br />
has helped me to completely change career!”<br />
It’s a change that Olya has embraced with open<br />
arms. “In some ways interior design is very like<br />
fashion, you need to use your imagination, you need<br />
focal points and a sense of balance, you need to<br />
create a mood and yet for me, interior design feels<br />
so natural, I just love it and wish I had done it <br />
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This page: The downstairs loo has been decorated in a stylish contemporary geometric printed wallpaper. A bookcase is packed with<br />
Penguin classics, which Olya sourced from eBay. The marble sink is flanked by two wheatsheaf lighting sconces that sit either side of<br />
an antique mirror<br />
years ago, I understand myself so much better now.”<br />
Olya’s enthusiasm is infectious. You can understand why<br />
her client list is growing fast as she shows me how she created<br />
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untrained and she wanted to rely on her eye and intuition.<br />
“I love the work of the interior designer Kit Kemp, her<br />
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Although influenced by Kit, it is very obvious that<br />
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and style. She pulls out a book on Kaitag textiles from<br />
Dagestan (think Suzani but with even more chic) and<br />
explains how these antique pieces are starting points. Olya,<br />
who is a bit of a textile obsessive, has even been known to<br />
source fabrics from Argentina where she discovered they<br />
are still making raw textiles created on manual machines,<br />
which Olya uses for wall coverings and natural raffias.<br />
It is the pursuit of unique and very special fabrics and<br />
the attention to detail and a love of pattern and texture<br />
that is apparent throughout the interior of the house.<br />
“I start with a concept,” says Olya. We are looking at two<br />
pieces of art depicting surrealist-inspired Japanese warriors<br />
that mirror each other on opposing walls in her living room.<br />
“I discovered these at a dealer in Antwerp, where I source<br />
a lot of my antiques and art. I saw them and before I had<br />
any idea how much they were, I decided to take them as<br />
I knew they would be the starting point for this room.”<br />
From the soft colour of the walls to the bespoke Wendy<br />
Morrison silk rug, the round mother-of-pearl coffee table<br />
from Anthropologie USA to the Jonathan Adler light fitting<br />
and William Yeoward lamps, these two paintings gave Olya<br />
the road map for her design. However, it is Olya’s unique skill<br />
with colour, inserting pops of blue within the scheme in the<br />
blue velvet stools and blue hydrangea plant that really lifts the<br />
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One of the most impressive spaces is the double height<br />
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Although Olya has not yet done any major work on the family kitchen and dining room<br />
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Above & top left: Olya has kept the walls in the entrance hall neutral and the floors stained dark, which has allowed the geometric<br />
patterns of the Sahara Tuareg reed and leather rug, as well as the pieces of antique furniture and paintings, to shine<br />
Above right: In the dining area, Olya has combined a Balinese bench, an antique oak dining table and a Moooi spherical pendant<br />
designing interiors for her clients, Olya also sources and<br />
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as the pieces of furniture and paintings, to have space to<br />
sing. Consoles, benches, cabinets and chests are a mixture<br />
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Paris, other items from more conventional routes such<br />
as retailers Harvey Nichols and Sweetpea & Willow.<br />
The magnificent wooden staircase, which is also carpeted<br />
in a natural jute, plays host to a series of antique African<br />
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Above left: Beyond Joinery in London created with Xylocleaf panels and polished brass edges in Olya’s dressing room<br />
Above right: The magnificent wooden staircase has been carpeted in a natural jute<br />
textiles,” she says, “they are quite beautiful pieces reflecting<br />
an individual woman’s life. I hope I have done them justice.”<br />
Throughout the house, window treatments have been<br />
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Olya is keen to show me her husband’s study. “I am not<br />
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Undeniably masculine in its intent and varied in its style, the<br />
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copy of one of Toulouse Lautrec’s Moulin Rouge paintings<br />
from the 19th century. This bold piece of artwork has<br />
been married with a green The Rug Company rug and<br />
a bright green Conran velvet sofa. Dark blue cabinetry<br />
along one wall sits happily with the soft pinky browns of a<br />
leather Mid-mod chair and two dusty pink velvet cushions.<br />
“It’s a room of straight lines,” says Olya, “something<br />
that would appeal to my husband, a room for him.”<br />
The downstairs loo of any large property can be a forlorn<br />
and forgotten space but not with Olya. Her lavatory is a<br />
room whose generous proportions have been decorated in<br />
a stylish contemporary geometric printed wallpaper. There<br />
is a pop of instantly recognisable orange from a bookcase,<br />
packed with Penguin classics, which Olya painstakingly<br />
sourced from eBay, next to which sits a rather fine antique<br />
mirror. The generous marble sink is flanked by two<br />
wheatsheaf lighting sconces that sit either side of the mirror.<br />
Although Olya has not yet done any major work on<br />
the family kitchen and dining room she has already <br />
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Above: The dominant palette in one of the guest bedrooms is blue, with chinoiserie influences<br />
worked her stylist magic on the space. Tom Dixon<br />
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house, Olya has combined looks: a Balinese bench, an<br />
antique oak dining table and a Moooi spherical pendant.<br />
As the house is also home to four boys, it is with a sense<br />
of relief that, as we move upstairs, I find Olya has carved a<br />
feminine recluse within her dressing room. “It’s ironic I have<br />
this wonderful space, as I gave most of my clothes to charity<br />
from when I worked in fashion. My wardrobe is different<br />
now but I am glad I have this room in which to escape.”<br />
The room is an essay in chic tones. A soft silk Nourison rug<br />
underfoot pays homage to the pale parchment-effect doors,<br />
which Olya designed with a team from Beyond Joinery in<br />
London, created with Xylocleaf panels and polished brass<br />
edges. The Buster + Punch etched brass handles and the Rima<br />
& McRae antique glass back panels for her bag and perfume<br />
shelves are the cherry on a very pretty cake of a room.<br />
The house, which is still a work in progress, has several<br />
bedrooms leading off the generous upper landing. Olya<br />
has completed two of the guest rooms so far and is<br />
planning the re-design of her own master bedroom in the<br />
next few months. “Although each of the bedrooms has its<br />
own look,” she explains, “I wanted them to relate to one<br />
another as you glimpse them from across the landing.”<br />
The dominant palette is blue, however whilst the larger<br />
bedroom tiptoes from the contemporary in the artwork<br />
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jute in accessories such as rugs and lampshades.<br />
As with her client work for her company A House To<br />
Love, Olya has curated a space for an individual, a house<br />
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Olya has completed two of the guest rooms so far and is planning the re-design<br />
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This page and previous: The walls and towering ceilings are made from<br />
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M<br />
aking my way along the impressive<br />
tree-lined drive to this house, I feel like<br />
Kevin McCloud when he goes back<br />
to revisit the owners of a project after they’ve<br />
lived there for a while.<br />
For this is the rainbow unicorn Narnia<br />
of house aspirations – the architectdesigned<br />
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I am deeply impressed even before I make it<br />
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on a hillside to the rural north of Hastings,<br />
looking out over a panoramic expanse of Wealden<br />
countryside. Nothing to jar the retina in sight.<br />
It was a miracle to find such a plot, so it<br />
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Bronwen Malcolm, an artist, 18 months of<br />
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family and gradually worked their way east.<br />
As so often with forever-home stories, they put a<br />
lot of time and energy into another site, before <br />
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“We wanted a<br />
versatile house<br />
combining the best of<br />
British 1930s houses<br />
with the lateral space<br />
of the Hollywood<br />
Hills style.”<br />
Above left: The clever kitchen joinery is by Matthew Smith Above right: Gorgeous views surround the 10-seater dining table<br />
they found this one, but even beyond drainage issues, that<br />
plot had a bad vibe around it, with tricky vendors in historic<br />
conflict with neighbours, and eventually they walked away.<br />
“We were on holiday when we heard about this one,”<br />
says Steve, “and we came straight from the airport to see it,<br />
walked across the land and put an offer in right there.”<br />
There was good karma around this one – the land,<br />
which had housed two holiday homes since the 1930s,<br />
had been bequeathed to St Michael’s Hospice, which<br />
was selling it to raise funds, so the deal was done.<br />
The inspiration to build their own home came from<br />
Steve’s architect father who had always wanted to build<br />
his own house. They discussed their ideas with him,<br />
before making a list comprising 60 names, gradually<br />
narrowing it down in stages before meeting the final<br />
three designers. So not a lightly-made decision.<br />
Then there was the stage of conveying their vision, as<br />
Bronwen explains. “There was a written brief and a mood<br />
board of what we wanted to achieve. Practical details like<br />
the number of bedrooms, wanting a pool, making the<br />
most of the view, but also more generally how we live…”<br />
Steve chips in, “We wanted a versatile house combining<br />
the best of British 1930s houses with the lateral space of the<br />
Hollywood Hills style.”<br />
They moved in four years ago, after a two-and-a-half<br />
year build, with all the usual angst and complications.<br />
But it was definitely worth it. Standing at the top of the<br />
stairs, just before turning into the kitchen – the living<br />
spaces are all on the first floor, the bedrooms downstairs<br />
– I pause to look out of the large window and it really<br />
does have that LA vista, just without all the buildings<br />
and cars. Instead, glorious peace and tranquillity.<br />
It’s really quite an effort to drag yourself away from that<br />
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Left: The view from the window<br />
at the top of the stairs across<br />
tranquil countryside<br />
Below: The dramatic stairway<br />
leads up to the kitchen, living<br />
space and master bedroom suite<br />
ceiling space of the kitchen, at the 10-seater dining table,<br />
next to a wall of windows with views to the east. There’s<br />
another large window looking out to the main northerly<br />
view and then another on the opposite wall, looking onto the<br />
upward slope of the hillside through the pergola that runs<br />
along the back of the house. And the pergola is not there just<br />
to look pretty in the summer.<br />
“It has nine vines planted on it,” says Steve. “In summer<br />
the leaves shield the kitchen from the beating sun through<br />
the windows and in the winter there are no leaves, so the heat<br />
from the sun can get in.”<br />
Not that heating the place is an issue, even with the<br />
amazing vaulted 5.3 metre ceilings. It’s all supplied<br />
from a ground-source heat pump and with triple-glazed<br />
windows, a little goes a long way. “The large array of<br />
solar PVs generates more than we can use,” says Steve.<br />
“Selling the excess pays all our bills,” adds Bronwen.<br />
Sitting with them at the table gives me the chance to really<br />
take in the scale and detail of the house – and there is a lot<br />
to process, because when you are in an unique house that has<br />
been built from scratch, from the imagination of two owners<br />
and a designer, it makes you realise that, lovely though they<br />
are, all the houses you visit really fit into just a few categories.<br />
Even old beamy Wealden farmhouses, Georgian<br />
cottages, or Victorian mansions, with all their lovely<br />
quirky historical details, are all of their types. But<br />
I’ve never been in a house like this before – because<br />
it’s the only one – and there is a lot to take in.<br />
On this upper floor, the walls and towering ceilings<br />
are all made from CLT – cross-laminated timber,<br />
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Above and left: The pool was Steve’s dream, a keen swimmer since<br />
the age of six. It has a steam room and showers to the side<br />
which Steve describes as “big boys’ plywood”. It’s very<br />
strong and highly sustainable – a very important factor for<br />
them – with a natural pattern a bit like knotty pine, but<br />
beautiful. The effect has been softened, Steve explains, by<br />
misting all the surfaces with one coat of Osmo oil.<br />
Having absorbed all that information, I turn my<br />
attention to the windows treatments – or more to what<br />
wasn’t there: no bi-folds, no big sliding glass panels.<br />
Steve explains: “Bi-folds have lots of black vertical lines<br />
when they are closed, which obscure rather than frame a view,<br />
and sliding doors have to have a wall to slide behind.”<br />
Instead, they have large picture windows which don’t open,<br />
interspersed with stable doors that do – either fully, or just the<br />
top – which is a nice reference to the agricultural buildings<br />
which are scattered throughout the surrounding landscape.<br />
With all that absorbed, I can start to take in some of the<br />
decorating details, like the collection of animal ‘skulls’ in various<br />
materials, which they already had from their previous house. “The<br />
first was a plywood stag,” says Bronwen. Which seems appropriate,<br />
because they see a lot of deer in the surrounding landscape.<br />
Another veteran from their last three houses is<br />
a cantilevered Alvar Aalto chair that fits perfectly<br />
in the space in front of the picture window.<br />
“The things we already had fitted in,” says Steve, “we didn’t<br />
have to buy much new furniture for the house.” What they<br />
did buy, such as the plywood bar stools on the ‘social’ side of<br />
the central island, came from London furniture makers Unto<br />
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This page: The master suite is entered via its bathroom. The<br />
loo, basin and shower sit either side of a central pod<br />
kitchen, which Bronwen explains “...is great for dinner<br />
parties, because you can leave the messy stuff in there.”<br />
There are two open doorways into the second kitchen,<br />
which I later discover on our tour, is one of the themes of<br />
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cooking area, while someone on the other side of the central<br />
island can pop in for a glass, or something. It also invests<br />
the whole space with a lovely flow – apart from loos, where<br />
you want privacy, there isn’t a dead end in the whole house.<br />
Popping into the storage kitchen for a peep – and<br />
then coming out through the second entrance, because<br />
I can – I notice a clever detail: shallow shelves built<br />
into the sides of the entrance spaces, very handy for<br />
jars at the kitchen end and glasses at the table end.<br />
This rhythmic articulation of space is also evident in<br />
the kitchen layout, with three parallel rectangles – the<br />
long dining table (made from French oak floorboards),<br />
the central island and the drawers and worktop<br />
against the internal wall – dividing the room.<br />
This repetition of shapes gives a sense of order, which is<br />
further increased when Bronwen shows me the wonderfully<br />
wide, gliding drawers which store all her equipment and<br />
spices – she’s a keen cook. The joinery, with no handles, was<br />
all by Matthew Smith, a friend and extremely talented joiner.<br />
With a cup of tea <strong>inside</strong> me and feeling less overwhelmed<br />
by the scale and fabulousness of the house, Steve<br />
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“Bronwen found the Etcetera 1972 lounge chair by Jan<br />
Ekselius,” says Steve. “She’s a furniture detective.”<br />
and Bronwen lead the way back downstairs for<br />
the full house tour, starting another floor down<br />
with the subterranean 20-metre swimming pool,<br />
which has my lower jaw hanging open again.<br />
With added drama from the pool being lit from<br />
within and an oversized Acctim clock, with showers<br />
and a steam room alongside, the concrete space<br />
is like something out of a futuristic movie.<br />
The pool was Steve’s personal dream – he’s been<br />
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There are three almost<br />
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This page: The three downstairs bedrooms all make the most<br />
of the wonderful rural vistas. There’s no shortage of carefully<br />
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to 30 minutes every day, swimming 40 to 60 lengths.<br />
“We originally wanted a pool with a view, but<br />
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we decided a subterranean setting was OK.”<br />
And so did the advertising agency which recently shot a<br />
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location agencies. But from his own experience in the industry,<br />
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have 50 plus people in the house… I know what it’s like.”<br />
Heading back up to ground level I notice the lovely polished<br />
effect on the concrete floors and ask how they achieved it.<br />
“They were ‘power floated’,” says Steve, which is a process<br />
with a hand-operated machine to produce a smooth, dense<br />
and level surface, “and then they become shiny with wear.”<br />
In a pleasing contrast, the poured concrete walls are<br />
more rugged looking, setting off artworks, such as the<br />
eye-catching print in the hallway – ‘Inferno’ by Tobias<br />
Till, a brilliantly detailed Sodom and Gomorrah vision<br />
of London. Keen art collectors, they found this one<br />
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Left: The whole length of the back of the house is lined<br />
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There are three almost monastically, beautifully calm<br />
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This page: Bronwen’s studio, with fitted<br />
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and fitted desks from Unto This Last<br />
loo, basin and shower on either sides of a central pod (with<br />
that storage at each end again), a striking difference from<br />
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Teak Root Table, from £1,100.04 Indiginous indigenous.co.uk<br />
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Metallic pieces inspired by branches<br />
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“Deep inky blues and charcoals remain a major colour<br />
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Bronwen Firth, Interior Designer<br />
at Evernden <strong>Interiors</strong><br />
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seeing more of over the<br />
next year. Materials like<br />
concrete and bamboo<br />
are eye-catching and<br />
inspiring while keeping the<br />
environment in mind.”<br />
Louise Ashdown, Head<br />
of Design at West One<br />
Bathrooms<br />
Silver Orient Wall Mural, £375, Avalana avalanadesign.co.uk<br />
The Empress basin on frame, £1,680,<br />
Catchpole & Rye catchpoleandrye.com<br />
“People are starting to pay more attention to the<br />
health benefits of immersing themselves in the natural<br />
world. Adorning your walls with hand-painted<br />
wallpaper featuring natural habitats and botanicals<br />
is the perfect way to bring the outdoors in.”<br />
Hazel Carruthers, Owner of Avalana Design<br />
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“The little girl who owns this bedroom wanted<br />
pink, but her mum was not so sure. This grey toned<br />
Orchard Pink from Fired Earth kept everyone<br />
happy – definitely pink, but not too sugary.”<br />
Amy Crabtree, Director of Crabtree<br />
& Crabtree Limited<br />
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Be kind to the planet by buying products<br />
made to last. However, this isn’t the easiest idea<br />
to incorporate into children’s rooms as their<br />
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“Nurturing imagination in our little people is a magical thing and using favourite<br />
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Abigail Willis, Creative Director at Willis Bloom<br />
Pebble Safari Fabrics, £58/m<br />
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‘At the Farm’ Print, £23.83,<br />
Kunskapstavlan kunskapstavlan.com<br />
Unicorn and Flamingo Cushions, £24 each,<br />
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The Power of Love<br />
Kate Liz Watts picks unique jewellery collections and pairs them with<br />
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The Silvery: “Nature coated<br />
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From left to right: ivy leaf necklace,<br />
£40, hydrangea flower necklace £40,<br />
canary conch shell earrings, £40, The<br />
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crystal, £160, Rock Body Soul<br />
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Pearl & Queenie: “Equestrian<br />
treasures celebrate the bond formed<br />
by the striking beauty and raw<br />
power that has intertwined woman<br />
and horse for centuries. To hunt,<br />
herd, show and reward.”<br />
Kaaren Buchanan: “The LIV collection is inspired<br />
by my daughter; beautiful, strong and successful.”<br />
▲ From left to right: fox coin bangle, £246,<br />
fox coin ring, £210, lucky horseshoe earrings<br />
£132, silver longhorn herding necklace, £225,<br />
Pearl & Queenie; citrine crystal cluster, £55,<br />
Rock Body Soul<br />
From left to right: all in 18kt gold vermeil.<br />
LIV I Twist, £172, LIV I Classic, £168, pearl<br />
chain, £145, Kaaren Buchanan; Himalayan and<br />
milky quartz cluster, £140, Rock Body Soul<br />
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SONA: “Taking inspiration from the Victorian era and the romantic<br />
atmosphere of this time. The collection is particularly influenced by<br />
Queen Victoria and her great loves: Albert, sentiment and jewellery.”<br />
Heritage 11th century sun<br />
chariot stud earrings, £85,<br />
Kastur Jewels; tangerine quartz<br />
crystal, £85, Rock Body Soul<br />
▲ From left to right: mis-matched drop earrings with 9ct gold wires, vintage glass pearls, Victorian gilt heart<br />
and gold plated 1930s drops, £80, rings (from top): amethyst and seed pearl Victorian setting in 9ct rose gold,<br />
£145, Victorian ring of seed pearls in 9ct gold, £135, Victorian 9ct gold and seed pearl horseshoe ring, £140,<br />
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Luscious Lips (Lip FiLLer)<br />
With age, the lips naturally become thinner<br />
and lose their definition, and the v-shaped<br />
area of the upper lip, known as Cupid’s<br />
bow, is where you’re most likely to see this<br />
happen.<br />
Many people try to disguise the effects<br />
of ageing in this area with make-up, but<br />
it can bleed down the vertical wrinkles<br />
and highlight the problem. If you’ve been<br />
wondering how to look younger, lip fillers<br />
are an easy answer because they’re quick,<br />
affordable and non-invasive.<br />
They can be the centrepiece of a makeover<br />
that gives you youthful looking, plump lips<br />
and a more defined smile. Because the lips<br />
are sensitive, we apply local anaesthetic<br />
cream about an hour before the procedure<br />
to numb them. Dermal filler is injected,<br />
usually into the upper rim of the lip to<br />
define the Cupid’s bow, and immediately<br />
afterwards you may experience small<br />
pinpricks for a few hours.<br />
There is often some mild redness of the<br />
skin, but this settles by the next day and<br />
designed for smooth integration into the delicate lip tissue and to imp<br />
the lip body and definition of the lip border. The effects typically last<br />
Hyaluronic acid is a natural substance found in the body, which attrac<br />
skin and plumps it up, giving the skin elasticity and volume. Lip fillers<br />
sometimes described as temporary lip fillers or temporary lip enhanc<br />
like other non-surgical facial aesthetic treatments, they are not perma<br />
Over time as your mouth moves for eating, talking and facial expressi<br />
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definition of the lip border. The effects<br />
typically last about six months.<br />
At Portmore we inject hyaluronic acid<br />
products including Restylane and Juvéderm<br />
that come with the local anaesthetic<br />
Hyaluronic acid is a natural substance<br />
found in the body, which attracts water to<br />
the skin and plumps it up, giving the skin<br />
elasticity and volume. Lip fillers are also<br />
sometimes described as temporary lip fillers<br />
or temporary lip enhancement because,<br />
like other non-surgical facial aesthetic<br />
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Over time as your mouth moves for<br />
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Grab a<br />
Bargain<br />
Josephine Fairley picks her favourite<br />
purse-friendly pick-me-ups<br />
At this time of year, post-Christmas, post-tax bill (if you’re<br />
self-employed), we often feel the pinch a little bit. But<br />
ironically, isn’t that the very time we really deserve a bit<br />
of a treat…? Nothing does that, for me, like a great beauty ‘find’.<br />
Something to perk up a tired complexion, or revive a winterlacklustre<br />
face, or work its aromatherapeutic magic on our spirits.<br />
Over my years as a beauty editor, I’ve realised: you truly don’t<br />
need to spend a fortune to find great products, but you do need<br />
to know where to look. So for <strong>February</strong>, I thought I’d put together<br />
a list of my 10 Best Beauty Bargains – face, body, hair and<br />
make-up – which I return to, time and again. (Just one sadness<br />
on that front, though: one of my go-to ‘beauty steal’ make-up<br />
brands, Bourjois, late last year announced they were pulling out<br />
of the UK market. I may just have to host a memorial service.)<br />
TRUE Skincare Facial Oils, from £13.50 for 30ml. Fact:<br />
most facial oils cost an arm and a leg (often four times or<br />
more as much as this one). But from a female-founded<br />
British skincare start-up, TRUE oils are organic, natural and<br />
ethical, yet accessible in terms of price and availability (find<br />
them at Holland & Barrett and Ocado, as well as TRUE’s<br />
own website). The quality’s seriously fab; I especially like the<br />
Nourishing Avocado & Evening Primrose Facial Oil, with its<br />
deeply grounding scent of patchouli, palmarosa and vetiver.<br />
Maybelline The Eraser Eye Perfect & Cover Concealer, £8.99. I first<br />
discovered this when I set out to walk from Soho to the City<br />
in an Arctic blast and had to nip into Superdrug for make-up<br />
supplies after the biting cold make me weep most of my eye makeup<br />
down my cheek. This brilliantly affordable concealer blends<br />
beautifully via the sponge tip – it repaired my under-eye zone and<br />
banished shadows with a dab or two. Can’t live without it, now.<br />
SenSpa Hair & Scalp Mask, £7 for 300ml. You can find the<br />
SenSpa range on the shelves of Waitrose, though its roots<br />
are in award-winning Careys Manor spa in Hampshire.<br />
Wonderfully aromatherapeutic, the line-up offers haircare,<br />
bodycare and some fab bath treats, but my favourite is this<br />
luxe-textured restorative hair mask. Lie back in the tub and let<br />
the 97% natural mix of Abyssinian oil, lava clay and coconut<br />
oil nourish winter-thirsty locks, while you breathe in the<br />
divine essential oils of jasmine, cedarwood and ylang ylang.<br />
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Beauty<br />
Tisserand Paradise<br />
Mood Mist,<br />
£9 for 50ml<br />
Simple Skin Quench Sleeping Cream, £6.99<br />
tisserand.com<br />
for 50ml. ‘Sleeping creams’ are night creams<br />
by another name, but have become a buzz<br />
in the skincare universe. (I do slightly wonder if<br />
it’s because they sound somehow sexier – we all spend so<br />
much time dreaming of sleep, one way or another.) This is<br />
a super-affordable version, from Simple’s hear-your-skinslurp-it-up<br />
Water Boost range: you’ll feel your complexion’s<br />
comfort level rising, but it’s not heavy at all, packing a<br />
moisturising punch <strong>inside</strong> a formula that’s satiny and airy.<br />
Sanctuary<br />
Spa 1 Minute<br />
Daily Glow Mask,<br />
£14 for 75ml<br />
sanctuary.com<br />
Heathcote & Ivory Neroli & Lime Leaves Hand Cream Trio,<br />
£5 for 3 x 30ml. Love Jo Malone Lime, Basil & Mandarin…?<br />
You’ll also adore the scent of this, from Heathcote & Ivory<br />
(who make the best hand creams at ANY price, in my book<br />
– and a huge selection to choose from). The fragrance is as<br />
cheery and sunshine-y as a smell gets – truly a breath of spring.<br />
And these particular hand creams are delightfully pocket- or<br />
handbag-sized, so there’s no excuse to leave home without one.<br />
(Larger sizes and some fab other products also available in the<br />
Neroli & Lime Leaves collection, at heathcote-ivory.com.)<br />
Revlon Nail Enamel, £6.49. You really can’t find a more<br />
durable nail polish than Revlon’s at any price, frankly.<br />
The design of the bottle hasn’t changed in decades and<br />
the formula is both chip-resistant and anti-fade, leaving<br />
nails ultra-glossy, smooth-finished and glam. There are<br />
now a staggering 47 shades to choose from, ranging from<br />
sheer to opaque, metallic, chrome and shimmer. (NB:<br />
different retailers stock different selections of colours.)<br />
Tisserand Paradise Mood Mist, £9 for 50ml. This springs from<br />
a collaboration between National Geographic and one of the<br />
most established names in aromatherapy, featuring ingredients<br />
which Tisserand promise are ‘sustainably-sourced’. There are<br />
many different offerings within the Paradise collection for bath,<br />
body and – here – for spritzing your home. What blew me<br />
away when I first opened this up was that the first mandarinpowered<br />
hit reminded me of a much-loved fragrance from<br />
my youth, Goya Aqua Manda. (And I know a lot of you feel<br />
equally nostalgic about that scent…) It also features jasmine<br />
and grapefruit, ‘to inspire positivity, provide a dose of calm and<br />
impart a warm inner glow’ – something<br />
we could all use right now, for sure.<br />
Sanctuary Spa 1 Minute Daily Glow Mask,<br />
£14 for 75ml. Not perhaps quite as cheap as<br />
most of the other products here, but still a great<br />
buy. You know those mornings when you wake up, look in<br />
the mirror and – sort of quote Peanuts’ Charlie Brown – just<br />
want to go ‘bleeaurgh’? This is for those mornings. Just slather<br />
the thickish, jelly-like, ever-so-slightly rough mask onto tiredlooking<br />
skin, leave for 60 seconds and then remove (I like to<br />
use a soft flannel). The granules buff, while a skin-brightening<br />
cocktail of vitamin C extracts puts back the glow, ultra-fast.<br />
Better You Magnesium Bath Flakes, £9.95 for 1k. Magnesium<br />
is another ‘buzz’ in beauty circles: a mineral that’s readily<br />
absorbed through the skin, restoring magnesium chloride<br />
levels (which in turn aids with sleeplessness and stress).<br />
About once or twice a week I soak in a bath infused with<br />
these on their own (they’re unscented) – but I also add<br />
generously to just about any other bath oil whenever I<br />
want a darned good night’s sleep. The flakes are therapeutic<br />
for psoriasis, eczema and other skin challenges, but they<br />
really do soothe the mind as well as a weary body.<br />
Beauty Bible Lip Balm, £6. Last, but by no means least,<br />
this could look like a shameless plug, but I’d buy it<br />
whatever brand it had on the packaging. Indeed, it’s the<br />
only product my Beauty Bible co-author Sarah Stacey<br />
and I have ever felt worthy of putting our website/books’<br />
name to: a chubby, amazingly nourishing lip balm that<br />
lasts all winter long, has no taste or scent, and is perfectly<br />
protective. (It’s stocked exclusively at victoriahealth.com.)<br />
SenSpa Hair<br />
& Scalp Mask, £7<br />
for 300ml<br />
senspa.co.uk<br />
All in all, there is no reason why beauty finds shouldn’t<br />
delight you – AND your bank manager…<br />
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Heathcote &<br />
Ivory Neroli &<br />
Lime Leaves Hand<br />
Cream Trio,<br />
£5 for 3 x 30ml<br />
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com<br />
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For more recommendations and the results of<br />
The Beauty Bible Awards <strong>2020</strong>, which will be<br />
released in late <strong>February</strong>, visit beautybible.com.
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Dr Kim Prescott’s top tips for beautiful skin<br />
After a few months of exposure to<br />
central heating – or sun and icy<br />
cold reflecting off the slopes, for<br />
those who have managed a ski trip this<br />
winter - many of us start to notice our skin<br />
looking dull and tired. With Valentine’s<br />
dates on the horizon, it’s time to consider<br />
ways to restore your dewy complexion.<br />
EXFOLIATION<br />
There’s no need for me to stress the<br />
importance of proper cleansing, but not all<br />
of us exfoliate regularly. A fruit acid facial<br />
wash left on the skin for a few minutes<br />
in the shower, or glycolic acid overnight<br />
cream used once or twice a week can help<br />
improve the texture of your skin. Glycolic<br />
acid helps to promote cellular turnover in the<br />
skin, increase penetration of serums, refine<br />
skin tone and texture, and most importantly<br />
before a big event, helps to improve light<br />
reflection (essential for enviable selfies).<br />
HYDRATION<br />
Adequately hydrated skin appears plumper<br />
and reflects light better, and can be<br />
surprisingly hard to maintain in winter. In<br />
addition to using a humidifier, a moisturiser<br />
rich in hyaluronic acid will help the skin retain<br />
moisture. Hyaluronic acid also has healing<br />
and anti-inflammatory properties and helps<br />
to reduce the irritation of dry skin. If your<br />
current moisturiser is not quite<br />
doing the trick, then try<br />
adding a layer of<br />
hyaluronic acid<br />
to your skin<br />
regimen<br />
(under<br />
your usual<br />
moisturiser).<br />
NUTRITION<br />
FOR THE SKIN<br />
With a glut of<br />
excellent products<br />
available, all with<br />
their own set of avid<br />
fans, it can be diffi cult<br />
to decide which ones are<br />
worth the investment. There<br />
are a number of ingredients<br />
to look out for when you’re<br />
needing a skin boost, but if I had<br />
to choose, my top picks would be:<br />
Vitamin C<br />
A good quality product with the optimal<br />
structure, concentration and acidity for<br />
penetration to the deep layers of the skin.<br />
Vitamin C is beneficial in skin over the age<br />
of 35. It is a potent antioxidant, helping<br />
to reverse skin damage caused by sun<br />
and pollution, and is an essential building<br />
block for making new collagen. Products<br />
which don’t penetrate as deeply can<br />
still help brighten skin, so less advanced<br />
products still have a role in younger skin.<br />
Niacinamide<br />
A relative newcomer to skin care,<br />
niacinamide (vitamin B3) is another<br />
potent anti-aging ingredient, used in<br />
both nutrition and skin science. It is best<br />
known for reducing the appearance<br />
of large pores, uneven skin tone and<br />
fine lines. Clinical studies suggest it<br />
may also have the potential to reduce<br />
the DNA damage that leads to nonmelanoma<br />
skin cancers, so it is useful in<br />
anyone with a history of sun damage.<br />
Peptides<br />
Peptides are another group of ingredients<br />
that are current hot favourites in the press,<br />
These have multiple benefits and are<br />
key ingredients in anti-aging products.<br />
High concentrations have been shown to<br />
stimulate collagen and elastin, the scaffold<br />
of the skin, promoting strength and elasticity,<br />
and encouraging smoother, firmer skin.<br />
ENCOURAGE CELL TURNOVER<br />
I get a lot of questions about retinol, the<br />
rock-star ingredient in anti-aging skin<br />
science. Retinol (vitamin A) slows the<br />
breakdown of collagen, and encourages<br />
thicker, firmer, more even-toned skin. It<br />
does this by encouraging cell turnover in<br />
every layer, thus playing an important role<br />
in maintaining youthful suppleness (along<br />
with a host of other benefits). Winter is a<br />
good time to introduce it to your regimen<br />
if you’re not already a committed user.<br />
FIRMING AND TIGHTENING<br />
Multiple effective technologies are available<br />
to help promote firming and tightening in<br />
the skin, and over the past couple of years<br />
we have been seeing the rise of a plethora<br />
of SuperFacials. Every clinic has its own<br />
version – mostly combination modalities<br />
that exfoliate, tighten, plump and infuse<br />
nutrients. The best one is really the one<br />
that works for you and your budget. At the<br />
PSMD Clinic, we have recently brought on<br />
board the Geneo 3-in-1 SuperFacial and I<br />
have to admit that our team are thoroughly<br />
enjoying making use of it on each other!<br />
Dr Kim Prescott practices aesthetic and<br />
lifestyle medicine in Cobham, Esher and<br />
Harley Street, alongside lecturing and<br />
training in aesthetic medicine. She<br />
co-developed the PSMD Skin Science skin<br />
care range, and co-founded the PSMD Clinic<br />
with Dr Tania Schroeder and Dr Ruslana<br />
Popelyuk. Please<br />
email info@drkpclinic.co.uk<br />
with your questions.<br />
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Wellbeing<br />
Kind on the Inside<br />
Is depression a gut reaction? Henrietta Norton explores<br />
the importance of supporting your digestive system<br />
Currently 3.5 million people in<br />
the UK are being prescribed<br />
anti-depressants. But is it<br />
as simple as a psychological issue?<br />
Research would suggest not and<br />
in the last few years, Nutritional<br />
Medicine has made substantial<br />
developments to explore the link<br />
between mental and physical health.<br />
GUT AS THE ‘SECOND BRAIN’<br />
Functional gastro-intestinal (GI)<br />
problems, such as irritable bowel<br />
syndrome (IBS), are commonly linked<br />
to anxiety and mood changes. The GI<br />
tract has over 100 million neurons and<br />
has the largest collection of neural tissue<br />
in the body (after the brain) called<br />
the enteric nervous system (ENS).<br />
The level of good bacteria in the gut<br />
greatly contributes to the health of the<br />
ENS and it is argued by some experts<br />
that one reason for the increase in<br />
depressive disorders may be due to an<br />
imbalance in this bacteria, sometimes<br />
due to our exposure to antibiotics or<br />
dietary deficiencies from an early age.<br />
An inflammatory subject<br />
The gut and colon are the principle sites<br />
for the production of body chemicals<br />
that increase the level of inflammation in<br />
the body (known as pro-inflammatory<br />
cytokines). These cytokines also have<br />
the ability to affect the health of the<br />
brain and an association has been made<br />
between the level of inflammation in<br />
the body and depressive and anxiety<br />
disorders. It may also explain why a bout<br />
of illness can affect our<br />
mental wellbeing too.<br />
Prevention starts from conception<br />
Growing evidence shows that our<br />
sensitivity to stress, anxiety and<br />
depression as adults is already<br />
programmed in infancy. Essentially,<br />
the level of stress encountered in early<br />
life sensitizes us to a certain level of<br />
adversity. High levels of stress can<br />
result in hypersensitivity to stress as<br />
well as adult depression later, due to<br />
changes in our stress response network.<br />
Of great clinical interest is that this<br />
group of inflammation-sensitive<br />
depressives tend not to respond well<br />
to anti-depressive medication.<br />
SUPPORTING YOUR<br />
NERVOUS SYSTEM<br />
B vitamins – The B vitamins are<br />
essential for energy production, for<br />
the normal functioning of the nervous<br />
system, and vitamin B5 in particular<br />
for production of the glucocorticoid<br />
hormones in the adrenals, such as<br />
cortisol. Good sources include whole<br />
grains, eggs, beans and lentils, a wide<br />
range of vegetables, fish and lean<br />
meats. Taking a B Vitamin Complex<br />
can be very supportive. The Wild<br />
Nutrition B Complex Plus also<br />
includes vitamin C, magnesium and<br />
the herb Ashwagandha shown to<br />
support healthy cortisol regulation.<br />
Magnesium – Magnesium is essential<br />
for energy production and the<br />
production of neurotransmitters,<br />
including dopamine and serotonin.<br />
It is quickly used up when we are<br />
stressed. The best examples are<br />
nuts and seeds, buckwheat, greens,<br />
such as spinach and kale, and fish<br />
and seafood. If sleep is an issue<br />
then taking an additional 80mg<br />
of Food-Grown Magnesium at<br />
night can be a great support.<br />
Good bacteria – Essential Fatty<br />
Acids are also required to help these<br />
‘friendly’ bacteria stick to the gut wall,<br />
reduce pro-inflammatory cytokines<br />
and improve brain function.<br />
Food sensitivities – More recently a<br />
large body of research has highlighted<br />
the link between ‘gluten sensitivity’, gut<br />
health, inflammation and depression.<br />
Gluten sensitivity can not only reduce<br />
absorption of nutrients from the diet<br />
but increase the inflammatory process.<br />
FOODS TO KEEP YOUR<br />
GUT AND MIND HAPPY<br />
Eggs – Use steamed asparagus<br />
to dip into boiled eggs as a<br />
morning mood booster.<br />
Avocado – For an extra boost of<br />
healthy fats, slice chunks of avocado<br />
into your salad or onto your morning<br />
toast, drizzle over virgin olive oil<br />
and add flakes of wild salmon.<br />
Wild Salmon – Mix with horseradish<br />
and plain yogurt to make a<br />
salmon pâté for a quick<br />
mood-supporting snack.<br />
Quinoa – Use as an alternative<br />
to rice or wheat pasta for<br />
managing anxiety and stress.<br />
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Therapists at clinics in Lewes and London<br />
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Earn your après ski and dodge injuries with<br />
Sarah Maxwell’s exercise tips for getting ski-fit<br />
Flights and accommodation<br />
booked, lift passes sorted,<br />
snazzy new ski jacket ready<br />
to burst out of its wrapping. Did<br />
you remember everything?<br />
After the last few weeks of buzzing<br />
around getting organised for<br />
Christmas and putting yourself last in<br />
order to make everyone’s Christmas<br />
merry, are you even fit to ski?<br />
Skiing is an intensely physical<br />
activity and one that<br />
you are likely to be<br />
doing for several hours<br />
a day and at altitude.<br />
Here are my tips to<br />
help you get ski-fit by<br />
improving your fitness<br />
now so you can make the<br />
most of your precious<br />
time on the slopes,<br />
minimise injury and<br />
maximise your enjoyment!<br />
Get Cardio Active: Increasing<br />
your general cardiovascular fitness<br />
by cycling, running, circuit<br />
training, or even walking, can<br />
make a big difference as long as<br />
you get your heart pumping.<br />
Strong on<br />
the Slopes<br />
Strength Training: Look out for the<br />
many ski fit classes in the area this<br />
season. Cross-fit, kettle bells and<br />
strength-based circuits are really<br />
“Being flexible<br />
will help your<br />
skiing in general<br />
as well as helping<br />
you recover<br />
much more easily<br />
when you do<br />
take a tumble”<br />
effective. The key areas to focus on are<br />
the legs, back and core. Working on<br />
your core allows your legs to work as<br />
shock absorbers in all kinds of terrain.<br />
Squats and lunges in abundance will<br />
make a huge difference to your leg<br />
strength. Not a member of a gym? I<br />
have recently found a great app called<br />
SkiFit which shows you ski specific<br />
exercises that you can do at home.<br />
Flexibility and Balance:<br />
being flexible will help<br />
your skiing in general<br />
as well as helping you<br />
recover much more<br />
easily when you do<br />
take a tumble. Balance<br />
work and yoga classes<br />
will make a real<br />
difference and might<br />
even help you fall<br />
over less. I have found<br />
that regular standing<br />
yoga poses have really made a<br />
difference to how often I fall over!<br />
Warming Up: When you’re there –<br />
don’t forget to warm up! A lot of time<br />
is spent in chairlifts and gondolas and<br />
by the time you get to the top your<br />
body will have cooled down. Use<br />
those few moments waiting for others<br />
to warm up, loosen and prepare<br />
your body for the fun to come.<br />
Exercise of<br />
the month:<br />
THE PLANK<br />
The plank strengthens your<br />
spine, shoulders, engages your<br />
abdominals, glutes and hamstrings;<br />
if you do nothing else prior to<br />
hitting the slopes, do this!<br />
To perform a plank, bend your<br />
elbows and rest your weight on<br />
your forearms, ensuring the rest<br />
of your body is fully laid out<br />
behind you on the floor. Engage<br />
your stomach muscles, raise your<br />
pelvic floor and squeeze your<br />
bottom. Bring your feet beneath<br />
yourself so you are balanced on<br />
your forearms and toes. Hold your<br />
body in a straight position for<br />
10-60 seconds depending upon<br />
your fitness level. Slowly release<br />
back into the starting position.<br />
Repeat 3 times.<br />
✣<br />
If you find this position too<br />
difficult at first, lower your<br />
knees to the floor and build<br />
up your strength gradually.<br />
✣<br />
Now go and have a ball!<br />
✣<br />
Sarah Maxwell is a multiple awardwinning<br />
Fitness and Lifestyle coach<br />
and mum of two who juggles a lot<br />
of balls. Find out more about Sarah<br />
and her work at sarahmaxwell.com<br />
Sarah shares her Fitness and<br />
Lifestyle tips on Instagram<br />
@sarahmaxwelllifestyle<br />
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Free hospital<br />
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Our open events are a great<br />
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Tap into real expertise<br />
Our events are led by experienced Consultant<br />
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Meet others like you<br />
Your health concern or interest in a procedure is unique<br />
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Get to know the hospital<br />
By attending an event at the hospital, you’ll get a sense<br />
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after you if you do proceed with treatment.<br />
Upcoming events at Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital<br />
Knee Pain with Mr Oliver Templeton Ward: 26th <strong>February</strong> <strong>2020</strong> at 6:30pm<br />
Oliver Templeton-Ward is a specialist knee surgeon offering expertise in<br />
reconstructive surgery for sports injuries.<br />
His special interests include: knee replacements (partial and total), ligament<br />
reconstruction, arthroscopic cartilage surgery & preserving surgery for early arthritis.<br />
Mr Templeton-Ward is a keen skier, open water swimmer & tennis player.<br />
Female Cosmetic Surgery (From the shoulders down) with Mr Jonathan Lohn: 11th March <strong>2020</strong> at 6:30pm<br />
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His special interests include: breast reconstruction, cosmetic surgery of breast/<br />
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Mr Lohn’s personal interests include cooking, collecting wine, skiing & family time.<br />
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Eat Well<br />
Feel good this <strong>February</strong> with the help of Melissa Hemsley who shares three recipes from her<br />
brand new cookbook, Eat Green, which focus on a more sustainable way of eating for everyone<br />
Recipes: Melissa Hemsley Photographs: Philippa Langley<br />
Parsnip Dahl topped<br />
with Roasted<br />
Parsnips & Pink<br />
Pickled Onions<br />
Serves 6<br />
Preparation time: 40 mins<br />
Cooking time: 55-65 mins<br />
This is ideal to make at the end<br />
of the weekend with any leftover<br />
root veg that didn’t make it into<br />
the Sunday roast. It will set you up<br />
nicely for Monday’s dinner – just<br />
reheat and top with the onions and<br />
yogurt and either freeze the rest or<br />
enjoy later in the week with fresh<br />
leaves and a crispy fried egg on top.<br />
• 4 tbsp ghee or oil<br />
• 5 large parsnips (about 900g)<br />
• 1 tbsp maple syrup<br />
• 2 large onions, thinly sliced<br />
• 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped<br />
• 1 thumb of ginger, finely grated<br />
• 400g split red lentils, rinsed<br />
• 2 large handfuls of fresh<br />
coriander, leaves and stems<br />
finely chopped separately<br />
• 3 tbsp tomato purée<br />
• 1 × 400ml tin of fullfat<br />
coconut milk<br />
• 200g leafy greens, like chard,<br />
leaves and stems finely chopped<br />
• Yogurt, to serve (optional)<br />
For the spice mix:<br />
• 1½ tsp ground turmeric<br />
• 2 tbsp ground cumin or 1½ tbsp<br />
cumin seeds, roughly ground<br />
• 2 tbsp ground coriander or<br />
1½ tbsp coriander seeds<br />
• 2 tbsp black mustard<br />
seeds, roughly ground<br />
• Pinch of chilli flakes<br />
or chilli powder<br />
• Big pinch of sea salt<br />
and black pepper<br />
For the pink pickled onions:<br />
• 2 large red onions, thinly sliced<br />
• Juice of 2 limes or 4 tbsp vinegar<br />
• Big pinch of sea salt<br />
• 2 tsp maple syrup (optional)<br />
1Preheat the oven to fan<br />
220°C/Gas mark 9. Melt 2<br />
tablespoons of the ghee or oil on<br />
a large baking tray in the oven.<br />
2Meanwhile, mix the spice mix<br />
in a small bowl and slice up<br />
three of the parsnips into about<br />
18 wedges, say 5cm × 1.5cm,<br />
then toss the parsnip wedges<br />
in the oil on the tray with half<br />
of the spice mix. Pop in the<br />
oven for about 30-35 minutes,<br />
tossing halfway through with<br />
the maple syrup, until golden<br />
and going crispy at the edges.<br />
3In a large pan, fry the<br />
onions in the remaining<br />
2 tablespoons of ghee over a<br />
medium heat for 10 minutes,<br />
stirring occasionally, while you<br />
get on with everything else.<br />
4Add the remaining half of the<br />
spice mix, plus the garlic and<br />
ginger and fry for 3 minutes.<br />
5Add the diced parsnips and<br />
lentils, the chopped coriander<br />
stems and the tomato purée and<br />
let fry. After a minute, add the<br />
coconut milk, then fill up the<br />
tin four times with hot water<br />
(1.6 litres) and pour in, stirring<br />
well. Pop the lid on, bring to<br />
the boil and immediately turn<br />
down to a medium heat and let<br />
simmer for 20 minutes. Stir a<br />
few times throughout to make<br />
sure the lentils don’t stick to the<br />
pan. Add more liquid if you<br />
think it needs it or if you like<br />
your dahl soupier, like I do.<br />
6Meanwhile, scrunch and<br />
massage the red onion in<br />
a bowl with the lime juice,<br />
salt and maple syrup, if using,<br />
for 30 seconds, then leave to<br />
bathe in the salty lime juice.<br />
7Once the lentils and parsnips<br />
in the pan are cooked,<br />
add the chopped greens, pop<br />
the lid on so they steam for<br />
3-5 minutes until just tender,<br />
then taste for seasoning.<br />
8Serve up each bowl, topped<br />
with the roasted parsnips,<br />
coriander leaves, pink pickled<br />
onions and their juices and a<br />
dollop of yogurt, if you like.<br />
Tip: If you have vegetable<br />
stock, use it instead of hot<br />
water for extra flavour.<br />
Waste not: Swap the parsnips for<br />
carrots, sweet potato, squash or<br />
cauliflower and you can use kale<br />
or spinach in place of the chard.<br />
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Rescue Noodle Soup<br />
with Leftover Chicken<br />
Serves: 4<br />
Prep & cooking time: 30 mins<br />
There’s nothing quite like a warming<br />
bowl of homemade soup to make you<br />
feel a thousand times better. If I’ve<br />
had a Sunday roast chicken, I make<br />
this on a Monday to get a great boost<br />
of vegetables in. It’s based on store<br />
cupboard and freezer ingredients like<br />
frozen peas, onion, garlic and carrots,<br />
though you could swap in anything<br />
that needs using up. You can up the<br />
amount of vegetables or noodles<br />
here, so adjust to your liking. Post-<br />
Christmas and other celebrations, this<br />
is a fantastic way to use up leftover<br />
turkey or any other leftover meats.<br />
• 1 tbsp ghee or butter<br />
• 1 large leek or onion, diced<br />
• 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped<br />
• 1.2 litres vegetable stock or bone broth<br />
• 1 big handful of a mix of fresh<br />
herbs, like parsley and dill,<br />
leaves and stems chopped<br />
• 1 tbsp fresh thyme leaves or<br />
1 tsp dried<br />
• 1 bay leaf, dried or fresh<br />
• 2 celery sticks, diced<br />
• 2 carrots, thinly sliced<br />
• 2 handfuls of 2cm chunks of root veg,<br />
like sweet potato, squash, pumpkin,<br />
potato or (in the summer) courgette<br />
• 400g noodles or spaghetti, any type<br />
• 1 tsp olive oil<br />
• 300g mix of cabbage, rainbow<br />
chard and/or chard, stems finely<br />
chopped and leaves shredded<br />
• 300g leftover shredded chicken<br />
• Juice of ¼ lemon or 1 tsp<br />
apple cider vinegar<br />
• 2 big handfuls of frozen<br />
peas or sweetcorn<br />
• Sea salt and black pepper<br />
1In a large wide saucepan, heat the<br />
ghee or butter and fry the leek or<br />
onion over a medium heat for 8 minutes<br />
while you prep everything else. Add<br />
the garlic and fry for another minute.<br />
2Add stock or broth, chopped parsley<br />
and dill stems, thyme, bay leaf,<br />
celery, carrot, root veg and some salt and<br />
pepper, pop the lid on and cook for 15<br />
minutes until the carrot is almost tender.<br />
3Meanwhile, cook noodles or<br />
spaghetti in a separate pan until<br />
almost tender (check the label for<br />
suggested timings), then drain and<br />
rinse under cold water to stop them<br />
cooking further. Toss with the olive oil<br />
to stop them clumping and set aside.<br />
to your soup pan: add<br />
4Back the chopped cabbage and<br />
chard stems, shredded chicken,<br />
lemon juice or vinegar and cook<br />
for a few more minutes.<br />
5Add the chard leaves, frozen peas<br />
or sweetcorn and cooked noodles<br />
or spaghetti for a final 2 minutes so<br />
that the chard wilts, the peas cook and<br />
the noodles/spaghetti heat through.<br />
6Season to taste and serve up<br />
straight away, topped with<br />
the fresh herb leaves.<br />
<br />
Waste Not:<br />
You don’t have to use noodles here,<br />
you can add any pasta shapes you<br />
like so just use whatever odds and<br />
ends of pasta packets you have.<br />
You could even add the pasta<br />
straight into the soup to cook<br />
and save on using a second pan.<br />
Flexi Swap:<br />
For a vegetarian version, swap the<br />
chicken for 500g roughly chopped<br />
mushrooms and a pinch of dried<br />
seaweed or seaweed salt. Sometimes<br />
I add even more garlic and a thumb<br />
of grated ginger, plus 1tsp ground<br />
turmeric for an extra boost. Try<br />
adding a tablespoon of miso or<br />
tamari just before serving or swap<br />
the herbs for coriander and mint.<br />
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Tahini Choc Chip Cookies<br />
Makes: 16 cookies,<br />
Preparation time: 10 mins<br />
Cooking time: 15 mins<br />
The vegan version of these are just as<br />
delicious, none of us can decide which we<br />
love the most. Store these cakey cookies<br />
in an airtight container for 5 days. You<br />
could warm them briefly in the oven to<br />
give them a little crispening boost. The<br />
dough freezes well so double up and save<br />
half for a rainy day. Just defrost, then slice<br />
into portions before putting in the oven.<br />
• 2 eggs<br />
• 2 tsp baking powder<br />
• 4 tbsp maple syrup<br />
• 2 tsp vanilla extract<br />
• 150g light tahini<br />
• 110g smooth nut butter<br />
• 100g good-quality dark chocolate,<br />
broken up into squares, or chips<br />
• 30g black and/or white sesame seeds<br />
• Pinch of sea salt<br />
1Preheat the oven to fan 170°C/<br />
Gas mark 5. Line a large baking<br />
tray with reusable baking paper.<br />
2In a large mixing bowl, whisk the eggs then<br />
mix in the baking powder, maple syrup and<br />
vanilla extract. Add the tahini and nut butter<br />
and mix together until very well combined.<br />
3Roughly chop the chocolate (if not<br />
using chips) and fold through the<br />
batter along with the sesame seeds.<br />
4Measure out 16 balls of the cookie batter,<br />
roughly 1 tablespoon each, and bake<br />
for 10-15 minutes on the lined baking tray<br />
(making sure to leave a little room between<br />
each one) until the cookies are just set.<br />
5Remove from the oven, sprinkle<br />
with a little sea salt and allow to<br />
cool on a wire rack before serving.<br />
Flexi Swap:<br />
For vegans, replace the 2 eggs with 1 large<br />
mashed ripe banana. You can also swap the<br />
nut butter for the same amount of a seed<br />
butter or tahini for a nut-free alternative.<br />
These recipes are from<br />
Eat Green by Melissa<br />
Hemsley (Ebury<br />
Press, £22, hardback)<br />
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Garden<br />
Plant Hunters<br />
Sue Whigham explores the origins of many popular plant species and how they were discovered<br />
I<br />
must say that when my son and daughter-in-law<br />
announced that they were going to take a sabbatical<br />
in the summer of 2019 and, with their daughters<br />
aged six and four, travel to Colombia, I initially had<br />
alarming visions of dangerous jungle trails, groups of<br />
heavily armed FARC rebels and threat of kidnap.<br />
I suppose what I was thinking of is what happened to<br />
Tom Hart Dyke from Lullingstone Castle and his travelling<br />
companion, Paul Winder, back in 2000. They found<br />
themselves in the inhospitable jungle of the Darién Gap<br />
between Panama and Colombia with Tom following his wild<br />
enthusiasm for orchids and Paul in his pursuit of adventure.<br />
They were kidnapped by a rebel group and spent nine<br />
months in their company. Since then, Tom, a modern day<br />
plant hunter, has undertaken many other plant hunting trips,<br />
including one to Central Peru in 2009 where he came upon<br />
an entire clump of Puya raimondii (Queen of the Andes)<br />
flourishing at over 14,000 feet where virtually nothing else<br />
grows. This particular bromeliad is on the endangered list in<br />
the wild. To see the plant flower must be extraordinary. Some<br />
of the flower spikes are over 44ft tall with each producing over<br />
10,000 creamy white flowers. And to cap it all, the flowers<br />
are pollinated by hummingbirds. Can you just imagine it?<br />
And then, in a chance conversation at a recent meeting of<br />
the local Hardy Plant Society, I got talking to a friend who<br />
said she was related, she knew not how, to Reginald Farrer<br />
who made his name with his book, My Rock-Garden, in<br />
1907. This book kindled a huge interest in alpine plants and<br />
rockeries amongst British horticulturalists of the time. She<br />
also grows and loves alpine plants so it must be in the genes.<br />
Reginald was born in 1880 in Clapham, North Yorkshire,<br />
and was heir to the estate of Ingleborough Hall where some of<br />
his plant introductions are still to be found. He was seen as an<br />
eccentric and somewhat difficult man but his scope of exploration<br />
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I spotted one of his introductions from China, Viburnum<br />
farreri (fragrans) in full fragrant flower at the weekend.<br />
I like the story of him wanting to replicate a plant covered<br />
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Left: In 2000, modern-day plant hunter Tom Hart Dyke<br />
was captured, along with his friend Paul Winder, by a rebel<br />
group in The Darién Gap while on an expedition to discover<br />
orchids. They wrote about their ordeal in their best-selling<br />
book, The Cloud Garden<br />
lake near his home, loaded his shotgun with seeds collected<br />
on one of his expeditions and fired it into the nearest rock<br />
face. Many of them took and this piece of Yorkshire became<br />
the only true natural rock garden in the country at the time.<br />
According to some records, active plant hunting dates<br />
from 1495 BC when Egyptian pharaoh, Queen Hatshepsut,<br />
commissioned an expedition to go to Somalia in search<br />
of incense trees, Commiphora myrrha, the tree from which<br />
the resin, myrrh, is derived.<br />
And subsequently the Romans, as<br />
they expanded their Empire, whilst<br />
not actively plant hunting, introduced<br />
non-native plants to our shores as<br />
foodstuffs. Think of the ubiquitous<br />
ground elder and the rather glamorous<br />
umbellifers, ‘Alexanders’ that grow<br />
along the coast in Kent and Sussex.<br />
After that, medieval monks would<br />
have exchanged medicinal plants<br />
through their monasteries both here and<br />
in Europe. Up until the mid sixteenth<br />
century, most new plants would have come from Europe until<br />
the Middle East became a source of horticultural treasure as<br />
the plant hunters of the time spread their nets further afield.<br />
And in the 17th century came two hugely influential<br />
generations of the Tradescant family. John Tradescant the<br />
elder, (1570-1638) was gardener to Charles I and his son,<br />
John the younger (1608-1662), was gardener to Charles II’s<br />
wife, Catherine of Braganza. They both travelled extensively<br />
in North America returning with hitherto unknown<br />
“The RHS, founded in<br />
1804 ‘for the improvement<br />
of horticulture’, sponsored<br />
a number of important<br />
collectors who braved<br />
incredible hardship to feed<br />
the ongoing demand for<br />
anything new and exotic”<br />
plants, amongst them the tulip tree, Liriodendron tulipifera,<br />
the swamp cypress, Taxodium distichum, plane trees and<br />
pineapples. They are both buried in the churchyard of St<br />
Mary at Lambeth, which stands close to the gatehouse of<br />
Lambeth Palace. The church was de-consecrated in the 1970s<br />
and in 1977 became the Museum of Garden History.<br />
If you have a chance to go to Lambeth Palace Gardens,<br />
and it is open to the public on certain days, you can see<br />
a particularly fine specimen of Liliodendron tulipifera<br />
there – look out for the pineapples on the columns<br />
of nearby Lambeth Bridge which commemorate the<br />
Tradescant’s introduction of such an exotic fruit.<br />
Subsequently, The Royal Horticultural Society, founded<br />
in 1804 ‘for the improvement of horticulture’, sponsored<br />
a number of important collectors who braved incredible<br />
hardship in far flung countries of the<br />
world to feed the ongoing demand<br />
for anything new and exotic. They<br />
included famous names such as<br />
Robert Fortune, George Forrest,<br />
David Douglas and Frank Kingdon-<br />
Ward, all of whose exploits are, quite<br />
frankly, hair-raising. Both the RHS<br />
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forays, including Tom Hart Dyke.<br />
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Above: Queen of the Andes, Puya raimondii, flourishing in its natural habitat. The flower spikes can reach as much as 44ft tall<br />
might be hardy enough for our climate in England.<br />
They make contact with local universities and work<br />
with local botanists sharing information and knowledge.<br />
They also follow strict quarantine rules, a must these days<br />
to guarantee biosecurity. Usually Bleddyn sends any seeds<br />
he has collected by runner to Sue at ‘base camp’ where she<br />
sets to cleaning, drying and packaging them up. The whole<br />
procedure is a lengthy one as often the quantity of seed<br />
is small and germination can, in some cases, take years.<br />
The walled garden at their nursery is full of exotic looking<br />
plants and unfamiliar genera. Their Chelsea garden in the<br />
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plants for dry shade and included plants such as unusual<br />
aspidistera – just what we need with ever increasing<br />
parched summers in the South East – from Vietnam and<br />
South China as far as I can remember. The oreopanax<br />
they grow is very exotic and rather fabulous. As is the<br />
hardy Schefflera taiwaniana with huge and jungly leaves.<br />
They have an interesting website, to say the least.<br />
So plant hunting continues with entrepreneurial private<br />
nurseries collecting plants and seeds from countries which<br />
weren’t always open for exploration. And like the plant<br />
hunters of old, they are highly motivated as they were<br />
and perhaps a little bit obsessed. They have found hardier<br />
forms; have discovered plants with ‘garden potential’<br />
and plants which will form the basis of hybridising<br />
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I remember visiting ‘backstage’ in the wondrous<br />
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years ago and then they had people scouring other<br />
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Jo Arnell strips the garden back to beautiful winter basics<br />
Winter can stretch on into spring sometimes,<br />
remaining colourless and drab for longer than<br />
necessary, dragging its grey heels even as the<br />
days lengthen and the green shoots start peeking through.<br />
Bare branches and tree tracery stand out against the winter<br />
landscape and although the buds are swelling on woody<br />
plants, they won’t unfurl into leaves for months yet.<br />
Look closely at the twiggy skeletons; as you get familiar<br />
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naked and maybe even plant some in the garden.<br />
BARE-BARKED BEAUTIES<br />
Our native silver birch is graceful and elegant enough – its<br />
white bark fissured with black, thin besom broom branches<br />
wafting in the wind – but if you want to grow a really<br />
showy white birch, try a Himalayan one: Betula utilis var.<br />
Jacquemontii ‘Grayswood Ghost’ has stark, bone-white<br />
trunks. Some gardeners even wash their trees to remove<br />
algae and keep the bark looking perfectly white. They do<br />
look stunning, freshly cleaned and gleaming in the winter<br />
light. It takes a certain kind of determination to wash trees.<br />
Prunus serrula (Tibetan cherry), has polished, mahoganyred<br />
bark that gently peels away in gleaming curls – try<br />
walking past without reaching out your hand. This is a<br />
good all-year-round ornamental tree, with interest from<br />
blossom in spring and lovely autumn foliage too.<br />
I also love the bark on Eucalyptus, but it is fast<br />
growing and will very quickly escape your clutches to<br />
grow into a 50ft monster. There are other trees with<br />
irresistibly tactile bark more suited to smaller gardens.<br />
Some Acers, known more usually for their foliage, have<br />
ornamental bark as well as brilliant autumn colour. The Snake<br />
Bark Maple, Acer davidii, has green and silver bark in snake<br />
pattern stripes. Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’, has gleaming<br />
coral-coloured bark, pale<br />
lime green emerging foliage<br />
and golden autumn tints.<br />
Acer griseum has shaggy<br />
cinnamon-coloured bark<br />
that glows when backlit<br />
by the winter light. A.<br />
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tree, eventually reaching<br />
a mere 10ft, so it’s a<br />
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Top: Willows, Dogwoods<br />
and Rubus Right: Gleaming<br />
bark of Prunus serrula<br />
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can sometimes be made into multi-stems, or ‘treelets’,<br />
depending on the elegance of their stems. If you have an<br />
old shrub that is about to be radically chopped (or removed<br />
altogether), look at it carefully and see whether it could<br />
be transformed into a multi-stem. This could be a much<br />
kinder and less expensive way of improving the view.<br />
“Acer griseum has shaggy cinnamoncoloured<br />
bark that glows when<br />
backlit by the winter light”<br />
small space. It grows on chalk and on alkaline soil too –<br />
something many acers don’t like. Most acers are hardy, but<br />
prefer a sheltered site, out of the wind and scorching sun.<br />
MAGIC WANDS<br />
Cornus (Dogwood) stems will provide brilliant winter colour,<br />
especially if you have a large garden and can plant them en<br />
masse. Try groups of Cornus by a pond, or damp part of<br />
the garden. Dogwoods will grow in most soil conditions,<br />
and they actually quite like damp or heavy soils. They<br />
don’t mind shady conditions, but their stem colour shows<br />
up best in full sun. Dogwoods will send out suckers, so<br />
plant them where they have room to spread. The stems also<br />
look good cut and poked into winter containers, bringing<br />
height and structure – they may even take root…<br />
For the best stem colour, dogwoods should be cut<br />
back hard in mid-spring to encourage the growth of new<br />
young stems which have the strongest colour. Some will<br />
cope with hard pruning better than others – generally the<br />
more vigorous the growth, the harder you can cut back.<br />
After pruning, mulch around the roots with compost or<br />
other well-rotted organic material, but not right up to the<br />
stems, as this could cause them to rot. Mulching will feed<br />
and condition the soil – and also help retain moisture.<br />
Dogwoods won’t get too tall, because they are regularly<br />
pruned to the base. Some of the best for stem colour are:<br />
Cornus alba ‘Sibirica’, which has bright red new growth, while<br />
the aptly named C. sanguinea ‘Midwinter Fire’ has young<br />
stems that literally look as if they’re on fire – in shades of<br />
SHOWING SOME LEG<br />
Carefully pruned, some trees can be crown lifted by<br />
pruning out the lowest branches to make the main trunk<br />
more visible. Or they can be pruned to have more than<br />
one trunk, which turns them into elegant multi-stemmed<br />
versions. This works well with birch, cherries and is especially<br />
effective with Amelanchier lamarkii. The result is elegant<br />
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Top: Acer griseum – the cinnamon bark Maple Bottom left: Coppiced willow Bottom right: Dogwood stems bring height to containers<br />
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‘Deben’ is a deciduous shrub with small pink buds<br />
opening to become highly fragrant white flowers.<br />
These plants are well suited to a path-side position,<br />
where you can catch their exquisite fragrance, but<br />
they need to be able to bow out and retreat into<br />
the background once they come into leaf as they<br />
are fairly dull for most of the rest of the year.<br />
yellow/orange tinged with red.<br />
Cornus stolonifera ‘Flaviramea’<br />
has yellow-green stems;<br />
Cornus alba ‘Kesselringii’<br />
has young growth of a<br />
deep purple colour.<br />
Willows can (literally)<br />
run about in the<br />
garden, so should be carefully positioned,<br />
as they can be invasive and hard to remove. They are fast<br />
growing and some have brightly coloured stems to rival<br />
the dogwoods. Salix ‘Britzensis’ is one of the best for<br />
stem colour, but will need regular pollarding or coppicing<br />
in early spring for fresh new stems. Just like Cornus,<br />
Willows are best grown near water or in boggy places.<br />
Rubus is an amazing ornamental blackberry with<br />
powdery white stems that clump up to form thickets of<br />
living barbed wire. It will need a fair amount of space<br />
and looks striking next to dogwoods, a look that could be<br />
perfected with an underplanting of cyclamen, snowdrops<br />
and the black grass Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’.<br />
STARK STEMS & SEEDHEADS<br />
Plants like Teasels, Phlomis and Sedum have long lasting<br />
seedheads that stand stoutly through the winter weather,<br />
glistening in the frost and providing architectural interest at<br />
lower levels. They are also useful for wildlife – birds will eat<br />
the seeds and insects will use hollow stems for refuge until<br />
the spring. Tempting as it is to tidy everything up in the<br />
autumn, if herbaceous plants die gracefully, they can add a<br />
layer of ephemeral, ghostly beauty in the winter landscape.<br />
BARELy BLOSSOMING<br />
Late winter and early spring flowering shrubs, if they are<br />
deciduous, tend to blossom on bare stems. They are usually<br />
pale coloured and can be highly scented, often growing in<br />
semi-shade at the edge of woodland where early emerging<br />
insects, moths and beetles will be lured in by their perfume.<br />
Grow a winter-scented plant somewhere near to the house<br />
– by the front or back door, near a path or gate, where you<br />
will be able to walk past regularly, inhaling as you go.<br />
Chimonanthes praecox and Lonicera ‘Winter Beauty’,<br />
a winter flowering honeysuckle have powerful perfume.<br />
Plant them where they can fade into the background<br />
once the flowers are over. If you have the space for a<br />
specimen, try a Witch Hazel – Hamamelis x intermedia<br />
‘Pallida’ has scented flowers that climb its bare branches<br />
like little yellow spiders. Viburnum x bodnantense<br />
UNDERGARMENTS<br />
Bare stems and branches are companionably set off with<br />
contrasting carpets of late winter and early spring flowers<br />
beneath them – try Cyclamen coum, Anemone blanda, or bulbs<br />
like Snowdrops, Winter Aconite and Crocus. These are all<br />
little treasures and best seen in massed throngs beneath the<br />
trees, where they make the most of the light before the dense<br />
canopy of leaves closes in on them. There’s the wonderful and<br />
aptly named ‘<strong>February</strong> Gold’ narcissus for an uplifting throng<br />
of golden daffodil without too much floppy leaf later on.<br />
Hellebores are good and hardy, often flowering where<br />
not much else will and are a great asset in the garden<br />
at this time of the year. Helleborus niger (the Christmas<br />
Rose) flowers around now and then a little later comes the<br />
showier Helleborus orientalis cultivars, which have flowers<br />
in shades from darkest burgundy through to purest white.<br />
Low-growing evergreens look good next to bare<br />
stems – try the scented Christmas box Sarcococca<br />
confusa, slow growing dwarf conifers, or hardy ferns<br />
such as polystichums for all year foliage interest.<br />
Structure is vital in the garden, perhaps even more<br />
so in winter when we can’t distract with flowers and<br />
foliage. Architecture, focal points and framework<br />
plants come in different forms and those with elegant<br />
skeletons, or striking bark – that might be overlooked<br />
during the rest of the year, shine out beautifully. Now<br />
please excuse me while I go out and wash some trees.<br />
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Top: Long-lasting seedheads are also useful for wildlife – birds<br />
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Above: Dogwood stems in a winter container<br />
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it seems that mothers-to-be with that same<br />
higher ratio may be at greater risk of having an<br />
ADHD child, and the higher the imbalance,<br />
the more a child is likely to show ADHD<br />
symptoms at the age of seven. These researchers<br />
point out that the brain takes a particularly long time<br />
to develop in a foetus, so could be more vulnerable to<br />
an unbalanced nutrient supply than other organs.<br />
Research is constantly adding tiny glimmers to<br />
our understanding of the way that diet affects our<br />
brains, and when you add them all together it seems<br />
increasingly clear that what we eat does (not surprisingly)<br />
have an impact on our mood and behaviour.<br />
It now seems certain, for example, that a good diet,<br />
along with enough sleep and regular exercise, can help<br />
conditions such as anxiety and depression. And common<br />
sense tells us that consuming only fizzy drinks, fried<br />
“The benefits<br />
of a good diet<br />
need to build<br />
up over time”<br />
chicken and chocolate bars is not going to keep anyone<br />
healthy, strong and emotionally well-balanced.<br />
However, the picture for ADHD is very complex and no<br />
one is yet suggesting a diet-based treatment for all hyperactive<br />
children – especially when there are so many different ways<br />
the condition shows itself and so many possible causes.<br />
The King’s College study, for example, shows that giving<br />
children omega-3 <strong>supplement</strong>s seems to benefit those<br />
with very low levels of it in their blood, while children<br />
with balanced blood don’t show the same results, or may<br />
show negative symptoms. And the effect<br />
is only known to work on attention span,<br />
not other ADHD traits like impulsivity.<br />
Even so, paediatric nutritionists suggest that<br />
children with ADHD could benefit from a diet<br />
of fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts, wholegrain<br />
bread and pasta, and oily fish like salmon<br />
or mackerel. They point out that ADHD<br />
children are often low in magnesium, iron, zinc and fibre, so<br />
foods that include these could be beneficial. And they also<br />
suggest limiting red meat, any dairy, salty snacks and sugar.<br />
This isn’t easy, especially when so many hyperactive children<br />
are picky eaters who don’t sit quietly for regular meals – and<br />
when the urge to calm a child down with biscuits and sweets<br />
might be especially strong! But it seems important to persist<br />
as the benefits of a good diet need to build up over time.<br />
And while nutritious food might not ‘cure’ a<br />
child’s ADHD there will always be tangible benefits<br />
to health and wellbeing from a good diet – as there<br />
will be for all children, hyperactive or not.<br />
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Located in the heart of Limpsfield Village, The Limpsfield<br />
Cookery School launches this month with top chefs and a<br />
variety of culinary classes on offer for small groups of all<br />
abilities.<br />
Founded by Jacqueline Derbyshire, the school's Executive<br />
Head Chef is Oliver Thompson, an award-winning chef who<br />
has trained at some of the top 3-star Michelin restaurants<br />
around the world. He will be taking meat, fish and fine dining<br />
master classes.<br />
Jacqueline and Oliver are joined by vegan chef, Jenny<br />
Chandler; Jaya Malani and Pamela Chen teaching Asian<br />
Fusion and Indian Cuisine; former Head Chef of the River<br />
Cottage, Andy Tyrell teaching Artisan bread-making;<br />
celebrated Patisserie chef and author, Lucie Bennett<br />
purveying patisserie and chocolate skills and sugar craft<br />
expert, Sue Wilcox on cake decorating duty!<br />
Classes are either half or full day, with a maximum of 8<br />
students per class.<br />
www.thelimpsfieldcookeryschool.co.uk<br />
Tel: 07909 960046 @thelimpsfieldcookeryschool<br />
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What’s On in <strong>February</strong><br />
Art & Exhibitions<br />
Sat 11 Jan – Sun 29 Mar<br />
The Lightbox, Chobham Road<br />
Woking GU21 4AA<br />
Great Minds by Anne-<br />
Katrin Purkiss<br />
A celebration of the achievements<br />
of women in both science and<br />
arts. This exhibition of portrait<br />
photographs depicts influential<br />
women working, inspiring<br />
and contributing to society.<br />
A discussion with renowned<br />
sculptor Sophie Ryder has also<br />
been arranged on Friday 6 March<br />
to coincide with this exhibition,<br />
in which Sophie will talk about<br />
her practice, experiences as a<br />
female artist and the challenges<br />
faced by women in the arts.<br />
Entry: Day Pass £7.50,<br />
Members & under 21s Free<br />
thelightbox.org.uk<br />
Children and<br />
Families<br />
Sat 8 Feb, 1pm-2.30pm<br />
Bourne Hall Museum, Spring<br />
Street, Ewell KT17 1UF<br />
ANGLO-SAXONS OR THE<br />
NOT SO DARK AGES<br />
Bourne Hall Museum Club is the<br />
club for children 7 to 12+ who<br />
love history and like to have fun<br />
while learning about it. Travel<br />
back through time to discover the<br />
past and its people and this time<br />
take a look at the amazing Anglo-<br />
Saxons. Discover what life was like<br />
for the people that gave Ewell its<br />
name (which means the people<br />
who live at the start of the river).<br />
Entry: £5<br />
020 8394 1734 /<br />
dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk<br />
Sat 15 – Sun 23 Feb<br />
Bocketts Farm Park,<br />
Young Street, Fetcham,<br />
Leatherhead KT22 9BS<br />
<strong>February</strong> Farming Week<br />
It’s the start of the spring lambing!<br />
There are more than 60 lambs<br />
due, with ‘meet the shepherd’<br />
sessions daily and even a chance<br />
you may get to watch a lamb<br />
being born. Children can join<br />
a Junior Farmer Adventure, see<br />
birds of prey demonstrations<br />
and enjoy daily shows from<br />
The Giggle Company.<br />
bockettsfarm.co.uk<br />
Food and Drink<br />
Tuesday mornings<br />
throughout <strong>February</strong><br />
Woking, Chertsey and West<br />
Horsley Squires Garden Centres,<br />
CHATTER AND NATTER<br />
Fancy a cuppa and a chat? Head to<br />
any Squire’s Garden Centre Café<br />
and you’ll find designated ‘Chatter<br />
and Natter’ tables where you can<br />
share a table with others who<br />
enjoy making good old-fashioned<br />
conversation over a tasty breakfast.<br />
Whether you’re on your own, in<br />
a couple, group, all are welcome.<br />
squiresgardencentres.co.uk<br />
Gardens<br />
Sat 8 Feb – Sun 8 Mar<br />
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,<br />
Richmond, London, TW9 3AE<br />
KEW ORCHID FESTIVAL<br />
No need to wait for Spring, head<br />
to Kew’s annual orchid festival<br />
for dazzling displays. The theme<br />
is Indonesia to celebrate Kew’s<br />
vital science work in the country.<br />
In the immersive glasshouse,<br />
visitors will encounter an erupting<br />
volcano created from orchids and<br />
other tropical flowers, as well<br />
as after-hours events featuring<br />
Indonesian music, dance and<br />
cuisine, and a series of talks<br />
from Kew’s orchid experts.<br />
kew.org<br />
Sat 15 Feb<br />
Ashtead Peace Memorial<br />
Hall, Woodfield Lane,<br />
Ashtead KT21 2BE<br />
THE EDWARDIAN GARDENS<br />
OF HAROLD PETO<br />
Author and garden<br />
historian, Dr Katie Campbell,<br />
explores one of the greatest<br />
designers of the Edwardian era.<br />
Harold Peto was a classicist with<br />
a love of the Italian Renaissance<br />
and a distinctive style of<br />
formal layout softened by<br />
exuberant planting, antique<br />
Purchase direct from the UK’s leading designer makers<br />
OLD TOWN HALL<br />
CHELSEA<br />
28 Feb - 1 March<br />
Admission £7 • 10am - 5pm Daily<br />
90 exhibitors<br />
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16 & 17th May <strong>2020</strong>, Sandown Park, <strong>Surrey</strong><br />
* Exhibition * Informative and Inspiring Talks<br />
* Demonstrations * Delicious Samplings<br />
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What’s On in <strong>February</strong><br />
statuary and architectural salvage.<br />
Entry: £12, Members £10<br />
surreygardenstrust.org.uk<br />
Music and Theatre<br />
Tue 25 – Thu 27 Feb<br />
G Live, London Road,<br />
Guildford, GU1 2AA<br />
JOHN BISHOP<br />
The comedy legend himself will<br />
be stepping out onto the G Live<br />
stage for a run of performances<br />
to warm up his new show. This<br />
well-loved and utterly hilarious<br />
comedian is excited to hit the road<br />
once more in what is shaping up<br />
to be his best stand-up show yet.<br />
glive.co.uk<br />
Workshops<br />
Sun 9 Feb (Women<br />
Only) & Sun 16 Feb<br />
Rhubarb & Custard, 140<br />
Eton High Street, SL4 6DB<br />
DSLR Photography<br />
Workshop For<br />
Complete Beginners<br />
A workshop for people who<br />
would like a fast and enjoyable<br />
introduction to DSLR<br />
photography. It is limited to<br />
four people at a time, and<br />
covers setting up your camera,<br />
basic camera functions and<br />
settings, the basics of exposure,<br />
composition, depth of field and<br />
a practical session on exposure,<br />
ensuring a good balance of<br />
theory and practice in the<br />
inspiring town of Eton.<br />
Entry: £125 pp<br />
01753 911 630 /<br />
rhubarbandcustard.com<br />
Look Forward:<br />
March<br />
Mon 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30<br />
Mar 12.45-2.45<br />
Inner Art Studio, 26 West<br />
Street, Reigate, RH2 9BX<br />
Landscape & Location<br />
Embrace depth and perspective<br />
via the great outdoors.<br />
‘Landscape & Location’ is an<br />
excellent opportunity to unite<br />
your love of the great outdoors<br />
with your art passion. Learn<br />
practical ways to make location<br />
drawing work for you, and<br />
enjoy exploring perspective<br />
alongside other art learners. We<br />
call upon the work of landscape<br />
artists throughout history to<br />
inspire you to create artwork<br />
with depth and atmosphere.<br />
Entry: £165<br />
arttuition.co.uk<br />
Thu 5, 12, 19, 26 Mar &<br />
Thu 2 Apr 10am-12noon<br />
Inner Art Studio, 26 West<br />
Street, Reigate, RH2 9BX<br />
Spring Flowers in<br />
Colour Pencil<br />
This specialist art class for adults<br />
is a structured and closely tutored<br />
course with artist-teacher Alison<br />
Powell. It will teach you how to<br />
draw wonderfully realistic spring<br />
flowers. You’ll make drawings<br />
with step-by-step instruction,<br />
focusing on all the key areas<br />
including petals, leaves, stalks and<br />
pollen, and the techniques used<br />
to create a realistic silky delicate<br />
feel for petals. This workshop is<br />
suitable for anyone that would like<br />
to learn the techniques to draw<br />
their own realistic and beautiful<br />
flowers. Beginners welcome.<br />
Entry: £165 (includes all materials)<br />
arttuition.co.uk<br />
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Etchings, watercolours, posters, books, cards<br />
See also works by Jason Clarke<br />
Up the Garden Studio, Green Lane,<br />
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Don’t miss the March issue of <strong>Surrey</strong> <strong>Homes</strong> which<br />
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Located in the heart of Hastings Old<br />
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Jane Howard’s<br />
Fables from<br />
the Farm<br />
Missing her feathered friends, Jane<br />
restocks her flock with rare breeds<br />
With the evenings beginning<br />
to draw out and the first<br />
crocuses poking through<br />
it’s just about possible to imagine<br />
that spring is round the corner. And<br />
at Coopers Farm that means only<br />
one thing: the arrival of abundant<br />
and assorted new life. And after all<br />
these years that still fills me with<br />
excitement and anticipation.<br />
Malcolm the sheep scan man will be<br />
here any day. The rams went in with the<br />
ewes in late October and now it’s time to<br />
find out how successful those romantic<br />
liaisons were. To scan them, the sheep<br />
pass along a corridor similar to a Heath<br />
Robinson contraption that looks a bit<br />
like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. With<br />
Malcolm at the controls, perched on<br />
an old Toyota car seat, the ewes file<br />
alongside him and are scanned to see if<br />
they’re carrying one, two or three lambs.<br />
As each is recorded we spray them<br />
with marker paint on the shoulder<br />
for singles, on their tail for twins<br />
Phil the cockerel and<br />
his very rare Brown<br />
Sussex hens<br />
and across the rump for triplets. And<br />
then finally – ta-da! – Malcolm gives<br />
us the total score for the number of<br />
lambs we can expect. Hopefully about<br />
150 with not too many ‘empties’.<br />
And at last the hens have decided<br />
to get in on the act, too. I’ve had hens<br />
ever since we came to the farm and<br />
love to see them wandering around the<br />
farmyard. Sadly, however, a few months<br />
ago they wandered just a bit too far<br />
from said farmyard and the inevitable<br />
happened. I swore I wouldn’t get any<br />
more, but then after a few egg-free<br />
months I succumbed.<br />
Not for me cheap<br />
brown hybrid hens that<br />
happily lay an egg every<br />
day – hell no – I have a<br />
real weakness for the rare<br />
and the beautiful when it<br />
comes to feathers. So, back<br />
in the summer, I acquired<br />
a cockerel and five young<br />
pullets (the term used<br />
for hens before they produce an egg)<br />
of the old-fashioned Sussex breed.<br />
These come in many shades, all with<br />
black neck and tail feathers and most<br />
commonly available in Light (think<br />
white), Buff (heavenly caramel) or<br />
Speckled (dark brown with what looks<br />
like a smattering of snow) variations,<br />
but we’ve gone really off-piste and opted<br />
for the extremely rare Brown Sussex.<br />
But here’s an interesting aside, there<br />
is apparently an even rarer, possibly<br />
even extinct, one. The Coronation<br />
Sussex chicken (I’m not making this<br />
up) was created for the coronation of<br />
Edward VIII – an event which as we<br />
know thanks to Mrs Simpson never<br />
took place. It had the same white body<br />
“These posh hens<br />
found the late<br />
autumn and early<br />
winter of 2019<br />
far too wet and<br />
cold to lay eggs”<br />
as the Light, but with lavender instead<br />
of black neck and tail feathers and a<br />
red comb it was supposed to resemble<br />
the Union Jack. They haven’t been<br />
seen for many years now but wouldn’t<br />
it be wonderful to discover there<br />
still were some scratching around.<br />
Anyway, back to my quite but not<br />
completely rare Brown ones. Purchased<br />
at about 10 weeks old, they were not<br />
expected to ‘come into lay’ until about<br />
20 weeks which would have taken us to<br />
November. Trouble is, these posh hens,<br />
unlike the far more obliging brown<br />
hybrid ones, found the<br />
late autumn and early<br />
winter of 2019 far too<br />
wet and cold to lay<br />
eggs – which might go<br />
some way to explaining<br />
their rarity. But bang on<br />
the button, as soon as<br />
we got past the winter<br />
solstice in late December<br />
and the evenings began<br />
to draw out – bingo we had an egg!<br />
Like buses they’re now coming fast<br />
and furious and will continue to do<br />
so until – unlike those reliable hybrids<br />
who’ve have it bred out of them – they<br />
go broody and stop laying. But then<br />
again a few chicks around the place<br />
at Easter is always a welcome sight.<br />
Jane will be teaching a half-day<br />
course on an introduction to bee<br />
keeping at the wonderful Curious<br />
House in Stonegate on Thursday<br />
7 <strong>February</strong>, curioushouse.net.<br />
Follow Jane Howard – and the farm – on<br />
Instagram @coopersfarm<br />
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