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Winchester Lifestyle Aug - Sep 2020

Our first issue back from lockdown, this edition is a celebration of local business resuming once more. We've got great recipes, fantastic home inspiration and lots of reflection on life after lockdown.

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Contents<br />

A Note<br />

from the editor<br />

What a crazy few months. I’m not even<br />

sure how I can begin to summarise<br />

the last 16 weeks...they are certainly<br />

the strangest in my lifetime, and I’m<br />

sure in yours too.<br />

A Culinary to transform Journey your through home into<br />

Northern 10Ideas your dream Ireland space<br />

13 26<br />

Dining out at the<br />

Has COVID made<br />

Ivy Brasserie you consider retiring?<br />

Editor Kate Thomson<br />

e katie.thomson@minervapublications.co.uk<br />

Publisher Sally Thomson<br />

Contributors Peter Thomson, Sue Cooke, Matthew Biggs, Angela Cave,<br />

Kate O’Connell and Pippa O’Keefe. Cover image courtesy of www.Lights4Fun.co.uk<br />

Key Account Manager Laura Rodney<br />

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Welcoming nature<br />

into the garden<br />

visit our website www.winchesterlifestyle.co.uk<br />

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First and foremost, I hope you, your<br />

friends and your family have stayed<br />

well during this fraught period. My<br />

sincerest, heartfelt condolences go<br />

out to anyone who has lost a loved<br />

one during this time. It has been so<br />

testing in ways we could just not have<br />

imagined in February.<br />

Never has our sense of civic duty felt<br />

stronger - we all have a part to play<br />

in keeping ourselves well, not just for<br />

our own sakes, but to help halt the<br />

spread of this horrible disease. So,<br />

face masks at the ready, and hand<br />

sanitizer within arm’s reach, let’s try<br />

and delve into the new normal!<br />

With all this considered, it is still very<br />

heartening to see the early, tentative<br />

steps back toward normality. Being a<br />

small, family business ourselves, we<br />

know just how much this period has<br />

affected businesses up and down the<br />

land - you may have even noticed that<br />

we didn’t produce our usual June/July<br />

issue. We are back, albeit at a smaller<br />

size than usual, with lots of content<br />

to help lift some of the gloom and to<br />

give our treasured local independents<br />

a platform to stand up and say hello<br />

- please, as much as possible, give<br />

them your support - after all, money<br />

spent in local independents is more<br />

likely to stay in the community.<br />

In this issue you’ll find the usual dose<br />

of delicious recipes, home and garden<br />

inspiration, advice from industry<br />

experts and an insight into what is<br />

going on locally. We fully recommend<br />

reading with a cuppa - or a large G&T<br />

in the sunshine.<br />

Hopefully the whole gang, will be back<br />

next edition and usual programming<br />

will resume - we will see you in<br />

October when we will be looking at<br />

all things schools, dare I say it pre-<br />

Christmas loveliness and hopefully<br />

some travel ideas and what’s ons!<br />

Katie<br />

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<strong>Winchester</strong> Cathedral is the stunning<br />

jewel in the crown of one of the most<br />

beautiful cities in England.<br />

We offer a choice of venues set<br />

within the Cathedral grounds where<br />

you can celebrate your marriage in<br />

spectacular surroundings.<br />

For more information, please e-mail us<br />

mywedding@winchestercathedral.events or call 01962 857258<br />

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WINCHESTER Business Directory<br />

Hayes Music<br />

Musical instrument stores in Romsey<br />

selling a range of instruments including<br />

brass, woodwind, pianos, percussion and<br />

more. New and second hand.<br />

02380 860889 | hayesmusic.co.uk<br />

Attractions<br />

Hampshire Wine School<br />

Independent wine education company,<br />

offering wine, champagne, beer, port, gin,<br />

rum & whisky tastings as well as wine &<br />

food pairing courses. 02380 644350<br />

hampshirewineschool.com<br />

Leckford Estate,<br />

THE WAITROSE & PARTNERS FARM<br />

A working farm with retail shops, golf<br />

courses, fly fishing and a water garden<br />

open to the public. leckfordestate.co.uk<br />

Mottisfont, National Trust<br />

A historical priory, garden and country<br />

estate in Hampshire. Fantastic exhibitions<br />

and events throughout the year. Cafés on<br />

site. 01794 340757<br />

nationaltrust.org.uk/mottisfont<br />

Education<br />

Peter Symonds College Adult &<br />

Higher Education Divison<br />

Offering a diverse range of cost-effective<br />

courses varying from language and<br />

leisure classes to industry-recognised<br />

professional qualifications and university<br />

degrees. 01962 886166 | psc.ac.uk/ahed<br />

Pippa's Guardians<br />

Providers of an exclusive Guardianship<br />

service for students attending UK<br />

boarding schools and whose parents live<br />

abroad. 01684 252757<br />

pippasguardians.co.uk<br />

Stroud School<br />

Preparatory day school for girls and boys<br />

aged 3 - 13 years in Hampshire with<br />

an exciting curriculum and wonderful<br />

facilities. 01794 513231<br />

stroud-kes.org.uk<br />

The Westgate School<br />

Hampshire’s first 4-16 ‘all-through’ school<br />

who is at the top of the school league<br />

tables in Hampshire. 01962854757<br />

westgate.hants.sch.uk<br />

Health & Beauty<br />

Macks Fitness<br />

Personal trainer, corporate fitness,<br />

pilates, boxercise and circuits classes in<br />

<strong>Winchester</strong>. 07920 282502<br />

macksfitness.co.uk<br />

South Coast Urology<br />

A team of seven Consultant Urologists<br />

based in Hampshire and Dorset,<br />

providing a comprehensive service in all<br />

aspects of Urology. 02380 764389<br />

southcoasturology.co.uk<br />

House & Home<br />

Alexander Design<br />

Award winning Chartered Architects<br />

Practice whose aim is to create high<br />

quality yet affordable buildings, whether<br />

for community, commercial or private<br />

clients. 01962 878 833<br />

alexanderdesign.uk.com<br />

Cranbourne Stone Ltd<br />

Leading supplier of high-quality and<br />

bespoke natural stone swimming pool<br />

surrounds as well as natural stone for<br />

kitchens, bathrooms and landscaping<br />

projects. 01264 810813<br />

cranbournestone.co.uk<br />

Fix My Garage Door<br />

A small family business serving the<br />

Hampshire area specialising in all aspects<br />

of garage door engineering including<br />

repairs, automation and bespoke doors.<br />

07780566033 | fixmygaragedoor.co.uk<br />

Interstyle Bedrooms<br />

Hampshire based specialists in bespoke<br />

fitted wardrobes, pull down beds and<br />

storage solutions. 023 8033 6331<br />

interstylebedrooms.com<br />

Moores Cleaning SERVICES LTD<br />

Commercial cleaning company that pride<br />

themselves on their high standards and<br />

delivery. 01264 362378<br />

moorescleaning.co.uk<br />

Neat-House Interiors<br />

Specialists in bespoke curtains and<br />

interiors as well as a whole host of Interior<br />

Design services. 02380 273414<br />

neat-house.co.uk<br />

Paul Price Painting &<br />

Decorating<br />

Specialists in all aspects of house<br />

decoration, from small, simple paint<br />

tasks to larger listed buildings requiring<br />

specialist painted finishes. 0741 131 1508<br />

paulpricepaintinganddecorating.co.uk<br />

Pine & Oak Furniture<br />

Locally owned and operated company<br />

selling beautiful rustic and contemporary<br />

furniture, as well as unusual giftware and<br />

accessories. 01962 865775<br />

pine-oak.co.uk<br />

Swan Systems Furniture<br />

Designers, manufacturers and installers of<br />

bespoke bedrooms on the South Coast.<br />

Showrooms at Swaythling Road SO30<br />

3AG | 01329843636 | swansystems.co.uk<br />

Tucker Joinery<br />

Kitchens, Furniture and joinery. Delivering<br />

bespoke hand crafted joinery including<br />

windows,doors, staircases, kitchens,<br />

furniture and much more. 01264 365113<br />

tuckerjoinery.co.uk<br />

<strong>Winchester</strong> Framing<br />

Bespoke framing, art supplies and gallery.<br />

01962 854072<br />

winchesterframing.co.uk<br />

Trinity Rose<br />

Members of the Royal Institution of<br />

Chartered Surveyors (RICS) TRINITY<br />

ROSE abide by the RICS Code of<br />

Conduct and confidently deliver<br />

exceptional customer service with<br />

professional integrity. 02382 002500<br />

trinity-rose.co.uk<br />

Later Life<br />

Brendoncare in Hampshire<br />

Five care homes in Hampshire offering<br />

residential, nursing, specialist dementia,<br />

respite and end-of-life care, depending<br />

on location. 01962 852133<br />

brendoncare.org.uk<br />

Melody Care<br />

Providers of the highest standard of<br />

care to those who want to remain living<br />

independently in their own homes.<br />

01962 458088 | melodycare.co.uk<br />

WINCHESTER HEARING CENTRE<br />

Offering a range of hearing healthcare<br />

options including – hearing tests, hearing<br />

aids and ear wax removal by a friendly,<br />

independent local company 01962<br />

865500<br />

soundadvicehearing.co.uk/clinics/<br />

winchester/<br />

Legal & Finance<br />

Clear Vision Financial<br />

Management<br />

Based in Romsey and established in<br />

2011, Clear Vision is a forward-thinking<br />

financial management business.<br />

01794330025 | cv-fm.com<br />

Paget Will Writing<br />

Professional, thorough and effective Will<br />

Writing for your peace of mind, security<br />

and confidence. 07786626979<br />

pagetwillwriting.co.uk<br />

Travel<br />

Alresford Travel<br />

Luxury long haul travel agent, specialising<br />

in long haul travel, adventure and cruise<br />

holidays, USA trips and more. ATOL<br />

protected. 01962 733659<br />

alresfordtravel.co.uk<br />

Angela Holidays<br />

Family owned company offering UK and<br />

Continental Coach holidays, river cruises<br />

and short breaks. 02380404536<br />

angelaholidays.co.uk<br />

Stagecoach South<br />

Stagecoach South operates local bus<br />

services in West Sussex, Surrey and<br />

Hampshire. Visit www.stagecoachbus.<br />

com to plan a journey today.<br />

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How has<br />

covid<br />

changed<br />

education?<br />

What positives can<br />

we take from this<br />

pandemic?<br />

Teaching during these<br />

difficult times has created a<br />

blended learning approach,<br />

meaning a school has had<br />

to develop a multi-faceted<br />

approach to education.<br />

Andy Perryer, Digital<br />

Learning Adviser for<br />

Cognita, reflects on how<br />

teachers and pupils have<br />

embraced online learning<br />

during the pandemic in this<br />

piece for the Independent<br />

Schools Council.<br />

Last week, a teacher at Breaside Prep,<br />

one of the Cognita schools just outside<br />

London, showed me how her class had<br />

taken to using collaborative documents.<br />

It sounds ordinary but is anything but. It<br />

started with a blank screen. Then a sprout<br />

of an idea appeared, followed by one<br />

branch and another; images were added,<br />

giving life and colour to the initial thinking,<br />

and a stream of comment boxes popped<br />

over the screen. All within the space of a<br />

minute: an explosion of creativity.<br />

Online teaching under Covid-19<br />

restrictions has been a hothouse for<br />

EdTech in the independent sector.<br />

Sometimes painful necessity has seen<br />

schools’ digital wizardry advance two+<br />

years in mere weeks, as online tools once<br />

viewed as ‘nice to have’ additions become<br />

everyday necessities. So the future has<br />

arrived early, with lasting implications for<br />

what it means to be a teacher.<br />

But the story of the last few months is not<br />

a chronicle of the wonders of technology<br />

– rather the value of good teachers who<br />

are flexible, adaptable and committed.<br />

Evidence has shown that just giving<br />

children digital devices and software<br />

leads nowhere. The technology is an<br />

engine of education, but it’s the quality<br />

of the teacher’s guidance, motivation,<br />

feedback and interaction that are the allimportant<br />

wheels.<br />

Our schools in the UK were able to learn<br />

key lockdown lessons early on due to<br />

experiences shared by our sister schools<br />

in Asia, where the pandemic hit first.<br />

Chief among these was that well-being<br />

and a sense of security had to be the<br />

initial foundation. Pupils had to see their<br />

teachers and classmates, albeit virtually,<br />

and have time to re-establish feelings of<br />

being part of a community - before the<br />

impetus for learning was unlocked.<br />

There’s no doubt it’s been a trial by fire.<br />

Before Covid-19, teachers tended to<br />

fall into two camps: those who were<br />

comfortable with IT anyway, and those<br />

who couldn’t wait to turn off their<br />

laptop and get back into the classroom.<br />

Either way, the transition to online has<br />

prompted an incredible groundswell of<br />

teacher collaboration as peers share the<br />

challenges they’re feeling in this brave<br />

new world - along with ideas, support<br />

and handy hacks for overcoming them.<br />

Out went normal routines and mindsets<br />

as the realisation soon set in that an<br />

element of freewheeling agility is what’s<br />

needed. For example, as soon as we<br />

learned how to set up outward-facing<br />

webinars on Microsoft Teams in April, we<br />

had live online events up and running for<br />

parents from the following week on how<br />

to support children through lockdown.<br />

Before, this would have likely involved<br />

months of planning.<br />

We’ve been fortunate at Cognita in that the<br />

UK pandemic restrictions came towards<br />

the end of our national initiative to refresh<br />

how EdTech was being used, introducing<br />

mobile technology and wireless screen<br />

sharing as standard in the classroom. We<br />

were already encouraging teachers to be<br />

more mobile around classrooms, making<br />

their teaching practice more flexible and<br />

intuitive. They could take a snap of a<br />

student’s piece of work for instantaneous<br />

sharing and peer feedback, and teach<br />

from where they were needed rather than<br />

be tethered to the corner of the room<br />

where the tech used to sit. We showed<br />

them how digital tools could transform<br />

learning, not just substitute what is done<br />

without them. That’s what lockdown<br />

brought into sharp focus.<br />

As per the opening example of children<br />

using collaborative documents,<br />

we’ve seen how difficult times have<br />

opened eyes to how learning can be<br />

enhanced: the limits to collaboration<br />

and participation while working on<br />

paper in a classroom; the benefits of<br />

personalisation and student agency,<br />

when students get to choose how and<br />

when they study and who they learn<br />

with. Feedback has been transformed.<br />

Teachers have more options, from the<br />

simple text box, to a short piece of<br />

audio or a fully interactive video that<br />

encourages more depth and variety in<br />

responses; if a group of students are<br />

experiencing the same issue, they can<br />

provide group face-to-face feedback;<br />

and most importantly the feedback is on<br />

record, something that can be returned<br />

to rather than advice in a classroom that<br />

can’t always be remembered.<br />

The <strong>2020</strong> pandemic won’t be remembered<br />

as a blip for education but a step change,<br />

the opening up of the box to genuinely<br />

blended learning - the best of both online<br />

and face-to-face. And that will mean<br />

more flexibility and freedom for teaching<br />

professionals, no longer rooted in the<br />

classroom but able to move between the<br />

physical and virtual<br />

worlds, marshalling<br />

stores of resources<br />

and collaboration in<br />

ways that provide<br />

a more engaging,<br />

innovative education<br />

experience for our<br />

children.<br />

The Independent Schools Council (ISC)<br />

brings together seven associations and<br />

four affiliate associations to represent over<br />

1,300 independent schools. These schools<br />

are amongst the best in the world, and<br />

educate more than half-a-million children.<br />

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Twyford School welcomes<br />

their new Headmaster at the start<br />

of the new academic year<br />

ADVERTISING FEATURE<br />

Our new Headmaster, Andrew Harvey arrives at Twyford with his<br />

family, over the Summer, from The Paragon School in Bath. We are<br />

delighted that he is joining Twyford...<br />

Andrew has a wealth of experience in the Prep school world,<br />

having been Head at The Paragon for 8 years and prior to this,<br />

Deputy Head at Lambrook School, Housemaster at Chafyn<br />

Grove and Head of Pastoral Care at Sherfield School. We are<br />

planning for the School to be fully open in <strong>Sep</strong>tember, operating<br />

within the government guidelines. Work on our DT extension and<br />

additional classroom is well underway with the aim to be ready<br />

for the new academic year.<br />

The Summer term of <strong>2020</strong> was momentous and unusual for<br />

many reasons. The entire Twyford School community rallied<br />

strongly in the face of the pandemic providing provision on site<br />

for our 35 or so children of Key workers throughout the weeks<br />

and months of lockdown. The teachers adapted to online<br />

teaching using Zoom, Google Classroom, interactive websites,<br />

video and ‘live marking’ on Kami. Thanks to our full provision of<br />

chrome books in School, we were able to loan them out, where<br />

necessary, to the children.<br />

From June 1st we welcomed Nursery, Reception, Years 1 and<br />

6 back on site. One-way systems and staggered timings for<br />

drop off and pick up kept a safe flow through the school. Our<br />

spacious grounds enabled outside learning, games and play to<br />

take place as usual. A regime of regular and increased cleaning<br />

and a focus on personal hygiene was strongly encouraged.<br />

We were delighted to be able to welcome three further year<br />

groups back for the last two weeks of term; the Year 8s, our<br />

‘Leavers’, were able to enjoy their Shakespeare workshop and<br />

performance together, rather than over Zoom! We were even<br />

more excited to be able to welcome the remaining three year<br />

groups back for the last week of term to be altogether as a<br />

community; a fitting farewell for our retiring Headmaster, Dr<br />

Steve Bailey, after 10 years at Twyford.<br />

Our next Open Morning is planned for Friday 2nd October and<br />

we hope that the tours will be in person rather than virtually, but<br />

this will of course depend upon guidelines!<br />

Please contact registrar@twyfordschool.com for further<br />

information.<br />

‘It’s the little things that start your biggest journey’<br />

Independent Day and Flexi-Boarding School for Boys and Girls aged 2-13<br />

Twyford School, Twyford, <strong>Winchester</strong> SO21 1NW<br />

www.twyfordschool.com | 01962 712269<br />

To arrange a visit, please contact: registrar@twyfordschool.com


Lockdown Life<br />

at King Edward<br />

VI School<br />

For schools, responding to the<br />

Coronavirus pandemic has<br />

meant working above and<br />

beyond to continue to educate<br />

our young people...<br />

ADVERTISING FEATURE<br />

At King Edward VI School in Southampton, adjusting to the ‘new<br />

normal’ saw a transition to online learning which reconstructed<br />

the students’ usual timetable, albeit from home. As phased<br />

reopening was endorsed by Government, then came preparing<br />

the site for social distancing regulations and devising ‘hybrid’<br />

lessons, delivering content appropriate for the whole class,<br />

whether they were in school or connecting from home.<br />

Staff and students were heavily involved in the community effort<br />

to support the NHS, answering the call for PPE. Distributing<br />

to frontline workers at Southampton Children’s Hospital and<br />

other local NHS hospitals, surgeries, and social care facilities,<br />

the laser cutter worked overtime on manufacturing hundreds of<br />

visors, and soon surgical gowns and scrubs were added to the<br />

production schedule.<br />

The school is open to small groups of visitors for Taster<br />

Mornings and Open Afternoons; email<br />

registrar@kes.hants.sch.uk for more information.<br />

Follow @KESSouthampton or visit www.kes.hants.sch.uk<br />

for updates on the virtual Open Day experience launching in<br />

October.<br />

Taster Mornings<br />

Year 6<br />

Thursday 17 <strong>Sep</strong>tember<br />

Thursday 24 <strong>Sep</strong>tember<br />

Tuesday 26 <strong>Sep</strong>tember<br />

Year 8<br />

Monday 21 <strong>Sep</strong>tember<br />

Open Afternoons<br />

Tuesday 13 October<br />

Tuesday 10 November<br />

Tuesday 24 November<br />

@kessouthampton


St Swithun’s prep school for girls from<br />

ages 4-11 with co-ed nursery from age 3.<br />

Nursery and reception places available in our<br />

purpose-built school and 45 acres<br />

of countryside<br />

Nursery funding available<br />

To find out more or to arrange a visit, please contact<br />

prepoffice@stswithuns.com<br />

www.stswithuns.com


WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF SENDING<br />

CHILDREN TO NURSERY<br />

Sending a child to nursery can have huge benefits for their<br />

capabilities and development<br />

Here the National Day Nurseries Association<br />

outlines how beneficial nursery can be for<br />

your child.<br />

Research shows that a child’s first five years<br />

are fundamentally important as their brains<br />

continue to develop. These early years are<br />

the foundations that shape their future.<br />

Ofsted judged 97% of nurseries and<br />

pre-schools as good or outstanding,<br />

demonstrating their high quality and ability<br />

to support children during these formative<br />

years.<br />

General benefits<br />

Children are assigned a key person who<br />

builds a close relationship with the child and<br />

parents. They plan activities/experiences<br />

that meet the child’s interests and support<br />

their learning and development.<br />

Settings will work closely with parents to<br />

support children’s learning with skills such<br />

as toilet training and managing feelings.<br />

They will share strategies, and often<br />

resources, to make sure that children can<br />

see staff and parents working together.<br />

Children build relationships across age<br />

groups, which can give siblings time to play<br />

together, and with others from different<br />

backgrounds. This increases their sense of<br />

well-being and belonging.<br />

Nursery promotes learning through play<br />

and helps children develop confidence,<br />

independence and the fundamental skills<br />

needed for school.<br />

Routines are developed in accordance with<br />

the needs and routines of the individual<br />

child, alongside the structure of the nursery<br />

day, allowing them to feel safe and secure.<br />

Many nurseries offer home-cooked meals,<br />

specific to dietary needs, and healthy<br />

snacks throughout the day. This ensures<br />

that children are eating not only what they<br />

need, but are also experiencing different<br />

food that they may not eat at home.<br />

Well-developed learning<br />

opportunities<br />

All nurseries in England follow the Early<br />

Years Foundation Stage, developed by<br />

the Department for Education, to support<br />

a child’s communication and language,<br />

physical, personal, social and emotional<br />

development. This is alongside the<br />

specific areas of Literacy, Mathematics,<br />

Understanding the World and Expressive<br />

Arts and Design.<br />

Children take part in a wide range of<br />

activities and some nurseries offer<br />

additional specialised learning opportunities<br />

like dance lessons or languages. Many<br />

settings offer trips/experiences out into local<br />

surroundings like the park and even further<br />

afield to zoos and farms.<br />

Benefits for Parents<br />

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Editor Katie Thomson heads to the Ivy <strong>Winchester</strong> in her first<br />

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A first restaurant visit since the COVID-19<br />

outbreak and subsequent lockdown was<br />

always going to feel a little…tense. After<br />

so many weeks of fastidious cleaning at<br />

home and keeping a strict distance from<br />

passersby, how would it feel to reenter<br />

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So it was with a mix trepidation and<br />

excitement to leave the house (with<br />

actual, going out clothes on) that we<br />

headed to the newly reopened Ivy<br />

<strong>Winchester</strong> Brasserie. I always feel a<br />

sense of occasion dining here and the<br />

only change to the impressive welcome<br />

is a new temperature scanning screen<br />

- it digitally records your temperature to<br />

check for symptoms. If you fail it the first<br />

time don’t fear though - you can take a<br />

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Precautions have been taken without<br />

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evening - discreet hand sanitisers sit on<br />

each table and glass screens now cover<br />

the gaps between booths. Unobtrusive,<br />

they do nothing but reassure within lovely<br />

surroundings.<br />

We dined on a Tuesday night - not an<br />

evening that is busy at the best of times,<br />

but here, it was buzzing - my fears about<br />

a post-COVID lack of atmosphere were<br />

unfounded. As I sipped my Ivy Royale,<br />

I looked from table to table - guests<br />

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The menu is like the exuberant friend<br />

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For mains it was a 21 day aged sirloin<br />

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we chose a beautiful thin apple tart,<br />

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LOVING<br />

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KITCHEN REDESIGN<br />

The kitchen is the undeniable powerhouse of the home,<br />

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NOTES FROM THE GARDEN<br />

DISCOVERING THE JOY OF nature<br />

Expert plantsman and radio<br />

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we should use the past few months,<br />

having been in lockdown, and take<br />

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For those of us lucky enough to have a<br />

garden or outdoor space, during this time we<br />

have probably spent more hours outside than<br />

at any other time.<br />

Whether enjoying a morning coffee to the<br />

sound of the local blackbird, building a den<br />

with the kids or growing some veggies we<br />

have certainly got to know our outdoor<br />

space - and appreciate not only the physical<br />

benefits but the mental benefits that it offers<br />

too. A walk around the local area for our daily<br />

exercise is also a really good insight into what<br />

gardens can offer and we notice the small<br />

changes that occur so much more when we<br />

are not in a car or rushing around.<br />

With the strict lockdown days hopefully<br />

behind us it may now be time to consider<br />

how we have used our outdoor spaces, what<br />

worked, what didn’t and what we would like<br />

to change going forward. Taking time to plan<br />

that now, while it is still fresh in our minds, is<br />

the best possible positive thing to do - a chat<br />

with your local nursery or garden centre is a<br />

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and are always so happy to share it. It is also<br />

a great time to plant vegetables as well as<br />

sowing some fast-growing herbs.<br />

Additionally, you may find that a local<br />

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some more fundamental changes so give<br />

them a call too to get the ball rolling.<br />

The quieter streets and lack of traffic noise<br />

have also allowed us to enjoy birdsong and<br />

although I can tell the song of a blackbird<br />

from that of a robin I have been delighted at<br />

all of the other<br />

bird song I am<br />

hearing - and<br />

it is a great<br />

way for a bit of<br />

home -schooling too. Get the children<br />

to identify what they hear and you can learn<br />

together - the RSPB website is a great help!<br />

There are various ways to continue to enjoy<br />

the wildlife in your gardens, nest boxes,<br />

feeding stations and bug hotels are a real<br />

boon and with a bit of creativity don’t have<br />

to cost a fortune either, so however you have<br />

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To find out more about Matt’s love of<br />

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Later life...<br />

Let the fun begin !.?<br />

Here Peter Thomson takes stock of time during lockdown and how<br />

many older people benefitted from their time away at home<br />

The past few months have been<br />

remarkable in mainly a bad way but<br />

thankfully with a few positives thrown in.<br />

Wishing to avoid adding to the negative<br />

bombardments we have been receiving<br />

daily, I am going to concentrate on some of<br />

these positives and how they might interact<br />

with ‘later life’.<br />

Enforced lockdowns have afforded many<br />

of us the ‘luxury’ of decoupling from the<br />

daily grind and given us a time to take<br />

stock. With no workday commuting nor<br />

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that have remained on the back burner<br />

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fitness regimes.<br />

It has in effect been a form of preretirement<br />

when people approaching<br />

their golden age get a chance to taste<br />

the future without having to make the<br />

big decision. Retirement used to be at<br />

a fixed age whereby a suitable present<br />

was bought and a venue booked so that<br />

everyone could give their soon to be<br />

former colleague a good send-off. If you<br />

are having to make this decision yourself<br />

do you soldier on whatever or call it a day<br />

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half dreading a retirement with nothing to<br />

do. You can only bake so many cakes and<br />

the garden is not a 7 day a week job. At<br />

this point anxieties can be awakened in as<br />

the old adage ‘use it or lose it’ cuts in and<br />

people become fearful for their future.<br />

But what has the lockdown taught us?<br />

Without getting on an ecological soapbox,<br />

we have all had time to appreciate the<br />

environment we live in. With much less<br />

travel and industry taking place the world<br />

gently began to heal itself. Seemingly bluer<br />

skies and more birdsong have been truly<br />

gladdening. Hopefully all this good will<br />

not be undone as we begin to return to<br />

the new normal. There has been a huge<br />

upswing in the amount of walking and<br />

cycling that has been taking place. People<br />

have discovered some beautiful locations<br />

within a short distance of their homes as<br />

well as getting exercise.<br />

It has also taught that the business of living<br />

is very important for people of all ages.<br />

If you do not nurture these processes<br />

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experiences. In a funny way it should not<br />

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