Cotswolds Lifestyle Jan - Feb 2021

Contents 

A Note 

from the EDITOR 

21 A Culinary real-life Journey transformation throughof a 

Northern damp and Ireland dark cellar 

The competition 

page returns 

04 

The New Year issue always 

brings with it a certain level of 

recollection and introspection, 

but gosh, we’ve never had to 

look back on a year like the one 

we’ve just experienced have we! 

I wonder at what point I’ll be 

able to stop sending off emails 

sounding like a Jane Austen 

character, ‘I trust you and your 

family are in good health and 

prospering’! 

Putting my inner Elizabeth Bennet 

aside, I know we aren’t out of the 

woods yet, but this edition we 

have decided to focus firmly on 

all the good that has come from 

COVID, alongside the hopes for 

a brighter, better and perhaps 

more compassionate 2021. 

If you’re considering a renovation, 

we look at a really unusual space 

- a Georgian vault - and how it 

was transformed from a damp 

and dark hovel into a luxurious 

snug - hopefully it inspires you 

to re-examine your own spaces 

that could be overdue a face 

lift - we can guarantee that can’t 

be much more challenging than 

this one! 

26 

We interview TV’s 

favourite GP Dr Hilary 

Weddings during 

COVID-19 

Editor Kate Thomson 

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Publisher Sally Thomson 

Pre-Press Manager Kate O’Connell 

Contributors Peter Thomson, Sue Cooke, Matthew Biggs, Angela Cave, 

Front Cover courtesy of Lydia Booth Photography 

Key Account Manager Steve Davies 

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We had the chance to speak to 

TV’s favourite GP Dr Hilary Jones 

about the virus, looking after 

people as they get older and 

generally finding ways to keep as 

healthy as possible in the autumn 

years of life. 

We are also welcoming back 

a very popular addition to the 

magazine - our competition 

page! This edition has a bevy of 

fantastic new prizes to be won - 

make sure to check it out! 

Next time we see you it will be 

nearly spring - a new beginning 

many of us are hoping for. See 

you in March! 

Katie 

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COMPETITION 

Time 

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random - entries made after closing date will not be accepted. 

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covid 19 put a 

halt to your 

wedding plans? 

Weddings might be a little 

uncertain for a while, but 

there are plenty of ways you 

can plan a safe and happy 

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SPREAD LOVE, NOT GERMS 

Add Stylish Hand Sanitising Stations 

There are loads of ways to make your 

guests feel safe and keep them healthy 

without sacrificing the look of your day. 

Your guests will be opening doors, 

picking up glasses, touching chairs and 

shaking hands so the best way to contain 

any spread of germs is to have lots of 

hand sanitiser and wipes available. Here’s 

some creative ways to display them: 

• You aren’t going to get away from 

the fact that the sanitising pumps 

themselves might not fit in exactly 

with your theme, but you can 

arrange them so they work. You can 

also set up your sanitising station 

on a vintage dresser with lots of 

bottle on top and flowers tumbling 

out of lower drawers for a boho or 

festival theme. Try cool chrome and 

geometric shapes if your theme is 

elegant and modern 

• Include personalised bottles of 

sanitiser in welcome bags that can 

be left in guests’ hotel rooms or 

sent to their home ahead of the 

ceremony 

• Have serving staff pass round little 

bottles of hand sanitiser on trays or 

walk around with a large bottle that 

they can pump out so guests don’t 

have to touch it 

• Put packets of sanitising wipes in 

pretty tissue boxes 

SWITCH IT UP 

Adopt Alternative Ceremony Seating 

Ceremonies have changed to keep 

guests at a distance. Circular or semicircular 

seating is becoming more 

popular, with spaced out rows of guests 

around the edge and the couple in the 

centre. Small bench seating that holds 

two to three members of the same 

household can be placed ‘in the round’ 

with the couple at the centre to allow 

everyone to get the best views. 

Guests can even be assigned ceremony 

seating in the same way as a reception. 

This way you can keep family units and 

‘social bubbles’ together and avoid 

seating elderly grandparents or at-risk 

loved ones near someone you know may 

be more exposed in a key worker role. 

MASK UP 

Provide Custom Masks 

Give out custom wedding face masks to 

your guests; it’s so much better for the 

environment than disposable ones and 

can be a keepsake that your guests can 

take home to wear again. 

We love personalised ones with your 

names and wedding date on but you 

could also get simpler fabric masks made 

in a colour or design that matches your 

wedding theme. Cute ways of distributing 

them include leaving them in an organza 

bag on each seat in the ceremony room 

or have ushers handing them out as 

guests arrive. 

RECORD IT 

Livestream Your Wedding 

For loved ones who can’t attend, we’ll 

see more couples livestreaming their 

wedding ceremony. Elderly relatives 

or those at-risk may not want to be 

in a large group, so take a digital-first 

approach right from the start. 

Allow them to watch your wedding live 

on a video platform, record a message 

for a digital guestbook, and share in your 

day by sending them a little bottle of 

champagne and a wedding favour and 

emailing the order of service ahead of 

time. 

This is even more important if you’re 

having an unplugged wedding. Your 

videographer can set up cameras to 

record the ceremony from several 

different angles and it’ll be so much more 

memorable and special than your aunt on 

her iPhone. 

REASSURANCE IS KEY 

Make Guests Feel Comfortable Before 

the Day 

Guests might have a few nerves about 

group gatherings after a long time away 

from them. Calm nerves and get them 

excited about the day by sending out a 

welcome pack before the big day. 

We love a small box or tote bag 

which contains a personalised bottle 

of sanitiser, a mask and some safety 

guidelines for the day. 


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SUPPORTING BOARDING SCHOOLS 

How boarding schools are coping with the COVID-19 pandemic 

Like all organisations, boarding schools 

have quickly had to adapt to a ‘new 

normal.’ In recent months, they have 

supported pupils and parents through 

first-class online learning, and we have 

organised a variety of seminars for schools 

to help them modify their teaching and 

learning styles for this new world. Here 

Robin Fletcher tells us more. 

Through our BSA Academy, we’re 

continuing to offer a comprehensive range 

of online learning on a variety of subjects. 

These include the possible impact of 

COVID-19 and lockdown on the mental 

health and wellbeing of students; how to 

create positive and healthy routines for 

young people during the pandemic, and 

students’ future mental health. We have 

also just announced our ‘BSA COVID 

Conference: lessons learned and planning 

ahead,’ which will be taking place virtually 

on November 18. 

Supporting the health and wellbeing 

of boarding students is at the heart of 

everything we do; never more so than 

during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. In 

response to the pandemic, we developed 

our COVID-SAFE Charter, which schools 

can voluntarily adopt. The charter offers 

reassurance to boarders and their parents 

/ guardians that schools have done 

everything they can to ensure their safety 

and it has been welcomed enthusiastically 

by the boarding family across the world. We 

also translated the COVID-SAFE Charter 

into several different languages to keep 

international parents informed and also 

delivered a series of webinars to parents 

and agents in China, Hong Kong and 

Germany, designed to reassure them that 

UK boarding schools were safe places for 

their children. 

The main concern schools reported to us 

was that parents / guardians wanted to 

know their children were going to be as 

safe as they could possibly be when they 

returned. For example, they wanted to 

know what cleaning protocols the schools 

had in place; what their procedures were 

for testing students for coronavirus and 

what measures would be implemented for 

isolating pupils if there was a positive test; 

whether students could wear face masks or 

coverings in class if they wished, and that 

students would have an opportunity to raise 

any concerns. We responded by creating 

a COVID-19 supplier list to help schools 

find suppliers of products such as face 

coverings, sanitisers, testing and tracking 

devices and temperature camera systems. 

We’re continuing to work with a range of 

government departments to ensure all our 

member schools and staff receive the most 

comprehensive, up-to-date information as 

the coronavirus pandemic continues. We’re 

here to support to all our member schools 

and provide any advice and guidance 

they may need – we’d encourage them to 

contact us as soon as possible if they do 

require any assistance. 

Robin Fletcher, CEO, BSA and BSA Group 

A copy of the BSA COVID-SAFE Charter 

can be viewed by visiting their website 

www.boarding.org.uk where you will be able 

to link onto their advice. 


a place for discovery, 

a lifetime of 

belonging 


Dragon School has increased the 

flexibility of its boarding options to meet 

the needs of modern families. 

There are ten family-style boarding houses run by dedicated 

Houseparents and families can choose full or weekly boarding 

with many day pupils also spending regular or ad-hoc nights as 

flexi boarders. After school, there is a wide variety of Clubs or 

the children can simply relax with friends before supervised Prep, 

supper and House activities. Weekends are busy and varied; with 

Friday evening events and visiting speakers, the newly-launched 

Dragon QUEST and Upper School sport fixtures on Saturdays 

and a programme of activities and excursions on Sundays. A 

boarding experience helps children to grow in confidence as they 

develop a sense of responsibility and respect for others and it 

is a fantastic preparation for those considering Senior Boarding 

Schools. 

This year, Years 4 and 5 have immersed themselves in Dragon 

QUEST on Saturday mornings and this extends to the whole 

Prep School from September 2021. Children can choose 

from activities as diverse as cultural outings in Oxford, bike 

mechanics, visits to a working farm, paddle boarding and 

calligraphy. Dragon teachers lead many of the activities and 

enjoy sharing their passions beyond the classroom. Behind 

QUEST is the aim to develop young Dragons holistically so that 

they ‘Discover new interests, Develop new skills and Dare to do 

something new’. 

Please visit the website www.dragonschool.org, email 

admissions@dragonschool.org or call 01865 315405. 

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Boarding at 

Burford School 


Developing life skills for an 

ever-changing world... 

In a dynamic and ever-changing world, boarding provides 

students with the skills they need to tackle whatever lies ahead. 

Within any boarding community the structure, care and support 

provided enables students to flourish both as individuals and as 

part of a team, developing independence, strength of character, 

adaptability and resilience. 

The atmosphere in any boarding house sets the tone for the 

life within it. At Burford we are a close-knit community with 

just over 100 UK and international students and the family 

atmosphere is tangible. Students settle quickly, thriving under 

the care of our residential pastoral staff and also benefitting from 

the academic support provided by boarding tutors. Our year 

groups mix well, with older students often providing a friendly 

ear or acting as mentors to younger students. 

In these challenging times, the size of our community has 

enabled us to react and adapt quickly to the demands of 

the pandemic. We have recently taken on new technologies, 

investing in a track and trace system that allows our students 

to continue to mix freely within the boarding house. Parents 

too feel reassured, knowing that interruptions to their child’s 

education are being minimised. 

Boarding is at the very heart of Burford, and has been a 

key element of the school since its foundation in 1571. Our 

standards are high but, being a state boarding school, our fees 

remain within reach. Today most of our boarders come to us 

through word of mouth and applications for places continue 

to grow each year. We believe that the case for boarding is as 

strong today as it has ever been and are proud of the young 

people who leave us at 18, setting off into the wider world with 

confidence, self-assurance, empathy and tolerance. 

To find out more, why not visit us on Saturday 6 February 2020. 

Our staff will be on hand to provide you with further information 

and our students will be happy to show you around. 

Contact us on: 01993 823383 

boarding@burford.oxon.sch.uk 

www.burford.oxon.sch.uk 

Boarding 

Department 

Open Morning 

Saturday 6 February 2021 

10.30am - 12.30pm 

Burford School 

Founded 1571 

An outstanding day and boarding school 

for students aged 11-18 

‘Home to a vibrant community of hard 

working students and caring staff.’ 

Ofsted 2018 

Please check our website or call before visiting 01993 823283 www.burford.oxon.sch.uk

A packed term 

awaits pupils 

at The Downs 

It won’t just be curriculum subjects 

keeping pupils busy at The Downs Malvern 

this Lent Term, but, as usual, they will, 

with their characteristic enthusiasm be 

fully involved in an exciting packed extracurricular 

programme including music, 

sport, drama, ecology and more. 

There will be plenty of activity happening in and on the 

superbly-equipped indoor and outdoor sporting facilities: 

boys will be playing a mixture of football, hockey and rugby 

sevens, with girls focusing their sporting efforts on netball. 

Restrictions allowing, fixtures may come into the equation, 

but the highlight for 2021 is the annual hockey trip to 

Holland. 

Enthusiastic thespians, musicians and artists have been 

busy preparing and rehearsing for the big production of 

“Through The Looking Glass”, based on the Lewis Carroll 

book and adapted by Andrew Biliter of Lighthouse Plays. As 

ever, this will be a huge, collaborative undertaking. The play 

will be performed in a dedicated theatre featuring stateof-the-art 

lighting and sound systems, and almost every 

pupil will be taking part: either performing, creating scenery, 

singing or providing musical accompaniment. 


The school is also busy planning for their second “Earth 

Awareness Day”. Last year, everyone was involved in raising 

awareness of environmental issues and reducing the school’s 

carbon footprint by finding novel ways to cut energy as well 

as plastic and paper use. 

Ms McDonnell, one of the school’s Year 3 teachers, will be 

guiding the children’s efforts. She explains, “Each class elects 

an Eco-committee member to inspire the whole school to 

‘think green’ and become part of something that really makes 

a difference to our endangered but beautiful planet.” 

Headmaster Alastair Cook adds, “The school’s focus is not 

just on academic achievement. These extra-curricular activities 

impart important skills and broaden pupils’ horizons and add to 

the exciting teaching and learning programme that the children 

enjoy receiving from our enthusiastic and dedicated teachers.” 

Inspired. 

Individual. 

Independent. 

PART OF 

THE MALVERN COLLEGE 

FAMILY OF SCHOOLS 

Inspiring children to 

reach new heights 

Every child is an individual with unique gifts and talents. 

Our role is to spot those natural abilities, encourage and 

celebrate them. For more information visit: 

thedownsmalvern.org.uk 

or call the Registrar +44 (0)1684 544108 

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MAXIMISING 

Space 

With more of us working from home or putting off 

a move, we need to maximise every inch of space 

in our homes. This issue, we look at a real-life vault 

conversion which has given the homeowners ample 

new living space and room for guests... 

WORDS Katie Thomson 

PHOTOGRAPHY Lydia Booth Photography 

I 

f you’ve never ventured into the belly of a Georgian building, 

the term ‘vault’ might be an unfamiliar one to you. During 

what was a hugely prolific building period, Regency 

architects created many of their characteristic town houses 

with an interconnected series of rooms below ground level, with 

vaulted ceilings. All houses except the poorest had basements 

containing a kitchen, scullery and other stores such as a pantry 

and larder. More generally, these allowed for the services of the 

household to operate without needing to use the front door. 

In the intervening years, many of these properties have been 

converted into flats and remedial works have been started on 

these vault spaces - so was the case with this room. Before 

work commenced (with relevant permissions), the vault was 

dark and the previous tanking system had failed entirely, leaving 

blown patches of plaster on the walls. The flooring was a thick 

carpet laid over a concrete substrate, only adding to the issues 

with damp. 

Unlike some spaces, this room had the benefit of a window, 

so for owners Dan and Kate, it made sense to be able to make 

it more habitable as a ‘snug’ with an option to accommodate 

The side table is both practical and allows for cosy 

candlelight. Table and vase, jysk.com; candle, Pecksniffs 

Aromatherapy; cushion, hauslife.co.uk 

Left: prints lean against the wall, covering sockets, and 

giving visual depth - both Desenio 

guests. “The project was a daunting one, but the damp issue 

was getting worse and I knew we needed to take some action” 

explained Katie, “we wanted to make the space both dry for 

storage and somewhere we could actually use - but as you can 

see, the shapes of the walls made sure it wasn’t a standard 

project. The number one priority was getting it dry.” 

The first steps were removing the failed tanking and applying a 

new membrane. Where possible, Kate was very conscious not to 

harm the fabric of the building “I was adamant that I didn’t want 

wires channelled into the walls or any harm done to the building 

itself, so together with our builder we devised the panelling - the 

batons are secured to the walls and hide the myriad of cables 

to supply socket points and the LED up-lighting. The power for 

these comes from the original power source already in place in 

the room.” 


efore 

Once tanked and rendered, the next big 

challenge for the couple was the flooring. 

Even with all precautions taken, this is 

an underground space and the flooring 

needed to be able to withstand moisture 

but also be able to be laid in a space 

with such an unusual shape “there is not 

a single right angle in this room!” says 

Dan, “aside from making it challenging 

to plaster, the flooring had to be really 

easy to cut to size. We couldn’t go with 

laminate because it doesn’t cope well 

with moisture, so the more obvious choice 

were luxury vinyl planks. We chose a 

product from the Colosseum range at 

Lifestyle Floors (lifestyle-floors.co.uk - you 

can find your local supplier on the website) 

which we had installed through a local 

fitter - the 7” plank width was perfect and 

the colour was exactly what we needed.” 

The Colosseum Flooring in ‘Limed Oak’ from 

Lifestyle Floors was the perfect choice for the space 

The colour of the flooring in a space like 

this is crucial too, “if you were to stand 

looking straight down the wall, you would 

see the floor undulates back and forth, 

like a wobbly line! We couldn’t have a dark 

coloured floor as this would highlight this - 

we went for the finish Limed Oak and it is 

perfect - it looks like real wood and gives 

us that nice Scandi look we love. I can’t 

recommend this flooring enough - whether 

your space is straightforward or tricky! 

It looks spectacular, is so cost effective 

and feels great underfoot. We finished 

it with this beautiful Savannah rug from 

Rug Love (ruglove.co.uk), which is the 

plushest, loveliest rug we’ve ever had! The 

colours really tie in well together and it’s 

handwoven.” 

Another challenge presented by this 

project was furnishing. Due to the huge 

curve and narrowness of the staircase 

down to the room, the owners knew most 

sofas and sofa beds would not fit into the 

room. Thankfully the answer was found 

with Snug Sofa (snugsofa.com). These 

ingenuous sofas arrive in their constituent 

parts in three boxes and are then 

assembled in under five minutes. What’s 

more, Snug can usually deliver within a 


“We were just desperate for some 

extra space with us both working 

from home, and this has given 

a new lease of life to a space we 

hadn’t been using.” 

week - gone are the days of waiting eight 

weeks for a sofa to arrive, only to realise 

it won’t fit through the door. The other 

sofa options include modular elements, 

helping your sofa grow with your family 

- and they come in a whole host of stainresistant 

(coffee, wine, small hand prints, 

paw prints) colours. 

Owner Dan was also sceptical about 

ordering a sofa online - Snug Sofa have 

UK stores to try out the products, but 

these were not in his locale. Though, he 

admits he needn’t have worried “the sofa is 

amazingly comfortable - my expectations 

were low as it was a sofa bed, but 

amazingly it’s even more comfy than my 

normal sofa upstairs. That, combined with 

lightning fast delivery, made something I 

was dreading incredibly easy. Because of 

lockdown, we haven’t had guests yet, but 

they’ll be able to sleep on a queen sized 

bed, which is pretty impressive for a sofa 

bed! It was a good opportunity to inject 

some colour into the room too!” 

Did the couple have any regrets from 

the project? “Only that I wish we’d 

done it sooner” says Kate. “Working on 

renovations this size are intimidating, 

but having a good plan of each step and 

executing it are the key points - you do 

have to consider the unique challenges 

of your own project and try to plan ahead 

to a degree. We were just desperate for 

some extra space with us both working 

from home, and this has given a new lease 

of life to an area we hadn’t been using. It 

feels like a natural extension of our home 

and I love all the products we’ve used - so 

much so that we are thinking of changing 

up some rooms upstairs!” 

Molly the dog is also a big fan of the Snug 

Sofa Bed, snugsofa.com, and the Elowen 

throw from hauslife.co.uk 

IMPORTANT NOTE: 

Today, renovation can only being with prior 

consent in the case of historically significant 

buildings and it is likely only granted if 

previous works have been started - it is 

important to check the details with your local 

planning authority before starting any works. 

Product information: 

Cushions, throw and floor cushions from 

hauslife.co.uk 

Luxury bed linen from riseandfall.co 

Savannah Rug in Grey (160 x 230cm) £319, 

from ruglove.co.uk 

Prints and frames from desenio.co.uk 

Lydia Booth Photography - 

lydiaboothphotography.com 

lydia@lydiaboothphotography.com 


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Fashion and interior design guide the trends in the kitchen industry 

and these have changed greatly over the last 15 years. When we 

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Customers are now presented with literally hundreds of options. 

The range of granites has increased and new technology materials 

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We currently sell lots of Quartz worksurfaces that look like White 

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is also a recent trend towards the 

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It is important to consider your family lifestyle and how you use your 

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all sorts of diseases. We are developing 

vaccines all the time which are effective 

and safe, and I do have faith that a vaccine 

would be the answer. 

DOCTOR DOCTOR 

We talk to one of the UK’s favourite doctors - Dr Hilary Jones 

Dr Hilary Jones is one of best known TV 

doctors and has been ITV’s Health Editor 

on Good Morning Britain since 1989. Sally 

Thomson had the opportunity to have a 

discussion with him following his early start 

on the programme. 

Thank you very much for taking my call. 

Dr Hilary, have you had a long day? 

It’s been a fairly long day but I’m getting 

used to that at the moment. 

Most people know you from the breakfast 

programme you are on, but a lot of people 

don’t know why you actually chose to 

become a doctor? 

My dad was a doctor so I had an insight 

into what was involved and I think I was 

always a people person so I suppose in a 

corny way I wanted to do something that 

would make a difference. Whilst I had to 

change from Art A levels to science which 

was a struggle the clinical work was very 

satisfying, so it was an easy decision. 

Was there a particular field that you 

wanted to specialise in? 

No, I’ve always thought a specialist is 

someone who knows more and more about 

less and less until they know everything 

about nothing. I wanted to be a jack of 

all trades and have a broad spectrum of 

knowledge and the challenge of general 

practice is you never know what’s going to 

come through the door. 

How long ago did you enter it, when did 

you become fully qualified? 

1976 so 44 years ago. 

Would you recommend a young person 

goes into the profession? 

Yes, it’s a fantastic career still. It has its 

challenges and I think in the UK it’s not 

particularly appreciated enough by the 

doctors patients but I would say that its 

challenging, interesting, satisfying and 

nobody does it for the money but I think 

in terms of job satisfaction and going to 

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bed at night thinking my goodness I’ve 

think I’ve made a difference it is a fantastic 

career. 

I guess it must be quite challenging at 

times, the other side of it that is quite 

difficult I should imagine. 

Of course, they are long hours and you 

have to impart bad news sometimes and 

you deal with death and dying as well as 

making people better. 

Is that a major part of the syllabus? How 

you handle those unpleasant and really 

heart rendering times when you have to 

give somebody bad news? 

What you learn in training is fairly superficial 

and it’s what you pick up through the 

experience of practice that makes the 

difference and you never stop learning in 

medicine. 

How did you get into TV? There appears 

to be a lot of doctors now on the box, but 

you have been there for a little time, now 

haven’t you? 

I was lucky enough to have gone to a 

school with a very good drama society 

and it was not unusual for us to perform in 

front of an audience and I think that when I 

was in general practice I realised we could 

reach a lot more people rather than dealing 

with one person in the surgery. Public 

health messages were capable of reaching 

hundreds of thousands of people in one hit 

so I wrote to TV AM asking for a job, then I 

got a letter back saying we like your ideas 

come and meet us and that was in 1989. 

Do you have faith in a vaccine being 

beneficial? 

Yes, I think it’s likely that amongst all the 

hundreds of vaccines that are being worked 

on at the moment that we will have several 

that have a good protective effect it may be 

that we have to use a combination or use 

a combination several times a year. There 

are some very clever people working on 

this and we have created vaccines against 

Most Christmases are the time when we 

see our elderly relatives what should 

we be looking out for if we have the 

opportunity to have time with them? 

When we don’t see them from year to year 

to see how they are getting on. We might 

find for example that their cognitive function 

is a bit slower, that their concentration is 

less, and they can’t find the words that they 

were looking for. They might be forgetful or 

hard of hearing. If they can’t hear you on 

the phone or online, then they are going to 

miss out on activity. We know that loss of 

hearing is the leading preventative cause 

of dementia. If we can correct people’s 

hearing, then they are less likely to develop 

dementia. 

Checking on the elderly checking their 

hearing making sure their vision is good, 

making sure they are not too isolated, 

eating & drinking properly and keeping their 

mind busy with crosswords, books that sort 

of thing physical activity all of these things 

help. These are things you can discuss on 

the phone and you can encourage people 

to get their hearing checked for example. 

So if somebody does have bad hearing can 

a specialist visit them at home or do, we 

have to take them to a specialist? 

There are NHS services but they are very 

much under strain at the moment but there 

are some good high street outlets such 

as Hidden Hearing where you can go and 

have a free hearing test. You will be given 

advice about what level of hearing loss if 

any you have and what could be done. It 

may just be something simple such as wax 

removal is needed but it could be a degree 

of hearing loss caused by increasing age 

that could be corrected with a hearing 

aid. This can change people’s lives almost 

overnight and can have a dramatic effect. 

It reconnects them with the world, they can 

understand conversation, share jokes, they 

can socialise. It makes a huge difference 

and that means no more isolation or 

depression and happiness again. 

Finally, everybody has different things 

that they have missed since this has all 

happened. What have you missed most 

during this difficult year? 

I’ve got 5 children, 3 grandchildren and an 

elderly mother whom I look after. I would 

love to invite my children round or go to 

stay with them, but I haven’t been able to as 

it’s just too risky, I don’t want to put them at 

risk and vice versa. We speak on the phone 

a lot and I miss them terribly, but I look 

forward to the time when we can all meet 

up again. 

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we have to be patient. We are in a society 

that is used to having instant gratification 

and if we want something, we want it now, 

unfortunately we can’t do that. The National 

Health Service is distracted by the worst 

global pandemic for over 100 years with 

very serious repercussions and we have to 

be grateful for what we have, make some 

adjustments, be patient and get through 

this by helping each other out as much as 

possible as well as looking after ourselves. 

It is quite scary and most of us are on 

tenterhooks with what’s going on and 

naturally if you go back to April when 

the weather was lovely and warm, but 

now rain, cold snap, bit of wind and 

the dark days it’s rather gloomy so is 

this a concern with you in the medical 

profession? 

Of course, and people are feeling down 

and tend to, get Seasonal Affective 

Disorder in the Winter anyway with the dark 

days and not much daylight “What is there 

to look forward to?” people might say. 

Mental Health Charities are being kept very 

busy, much more so though than in the last 

few years. It’s always been a challenge, but 

I think a lot of people are feeling particularly 

anxious even if they weren’t before or more 

anxious if they were before and feeling 

depressed, not sleeping very well. I think 

we have to be able to manage we have 

to be able to give people the support so 

they can reach out to mental health apps, 

counsellors, doctors and just talking to 

friends and family about our concerns 

as I think everybody has this degree of 

apprehension at the moment but that’s 

normal it’s a sort of protective mechanism 

but if we can share our fears and concerns 

that really helps. 

It’s worrying on so many levels for 

instance whether you are an employee 

and people you have worked around for 

years are being made redundant or the 

business you are working in is at threat, 

it’s going to make people very jittery 

and it really brings it home and makes it 

difficult for most of us and knowing how 

to keep above it? 

I think it’s choosing the things we can do 

despite it being Winter, we can still exercise 

as much as possible in daylight hours, we 

can cheer ourselves up with a good book, 

a good film or some uplifting music. We 

can talk to the people that we trust and we 

love, so there are many things that we can 

still do, there are some things we can’t do 

but there are still plenty that we can do and 

we need to hang onto those and spend as 

much time enjoying life as we possibly can. 

What’s concerning, and I have heard 

this from a lot of people is that they are 

worried about Christmas, worried about 

their families and the whole thing moving 

forward is unsettling. Christmas time 

is usually when we can see and spend 

time with our elderly relatives, and you 

would maybe notice any problems or if 

something is developing that you could 

help with? 

I suppose it’s the time of the year that 

families get together after a long busy 

year so the thought of having to forego 

that is distressing for a lot of people but 

at the same time we don’t know where 

we are going to be in a couple of months’ 

time. I think for me as a doctor health 

is paramount and we need to protect 

our elderly and people with pre-existing 

conditions but there are ways of connecting 

and communicating which are safer than 

others. If we care for our parents, then we 

are already caring for them however if we 

are in different households and there’s any 

risk of transmitting the virus then talk on 

the phone or online. It may be that we just 

have to wait a little longer and have what we 

would normally have at Christmas a couple 

of months later. 

Do you have faith in a vaccine being 

beneficial? 

Yes I think it’s likely that amongst all the 

hundreds of vaccines that are being worked 

on at the moment that we will have several 

that have a good protective effect it may be 

that we have to use a combination or use 

a combination several times a year. There 

are some very clever people working on this 

and we have created vaccines against all 

sorts of diseases that we couldn’t master 

before like meningococcal meningitis C and 

A and respiratory in situ virus in children. We 

are developing vaccines all the time which 

are effective and safe, and I do have faith 

that a vaccine would be the answer. 

With the measles jab, people stopped 

having it done and am I right in saying 

that rose again and more children were 

getting measles and it’s a very serious 

illness in children? 

Yes, before we had a measles vaccination 

hundreds of children died of complications 

of measles and of rubella and occasionally 

mumps so MMR has saved thousands of 

lives and whilst people were worried by a 

study from one just man that was dismissed 

the coverage for a vaccine is back up to 

where it was before, thank goodness. 

People have forgotten that a hundred years 

ago 1 in 4 children died before their 5th 

birthday of disease. 

We mentioned the care for our elderly 

relatives and I think it’s an opportunity 

when we don’t see them from year to year 

to see how they are getting on and we 

might as the middle aged children of elderly 

parents recognise changes in them that 

have been gradual that nobody else has 

noticed. We might find for example that 

their cognitive function is a bit slower, that 

their concentration is less, and they can’t 

find the words that they were looking for. 

They might be forgetful or hard of hearing. If 

they can’t hear you on the phone or online, 

then they are going to miss out on activity. 

We know that loss of hearing is the leading 

preventative cause of dementia. If we can 

correct peoples hearing, then they are less 

likely to develop dementia. 

34% of people aren’t aware that there are 

things that you can do to prevent or delay 

the onset of Dementia and top of the list is 

making sure that people can hear well. If 

people have a mild hearing loss it doubles 

their Dementia risk but if they have a severe 

hearing impairment the risk is 5 times that of 

someone that can hear normally. Checking 

on the elderly checking their hearing making 

sure their vision is good, making sure they 

are not too isolated, eating & drinking 

properly and keeping their mind busy 

with crosswords, books that sort of thing 

physical activity all of these things help. 

These are things you can discuss on the 

phone and you can encourage people to 

get their hearing checked for example. 

So if somebody does have bad hearing can 

a specialist visit them at home or do, we 

have to take them to a specialist? 

There are NHS services but they are very 

much under strain at the moment but there 

are some good high street outlets such 

as Hidden Hearing where you can go and 

have a free hearing test. You will be given 

advice about what level of hearing loss if 

any you have and what could be done. It 

may just be something simple such as wax 

removal is needed but it could be a degree 

of hearing loss caused by increasing age 

that could be corrected with a hearing 

aid. This can change people’s lives almost 

overnight and can have a dramatic effect. 

It reconnects them with the world, they can 

understand conversation, share jokes, they 

can socialise. It makes a huge difference 

and that means no more isolation or 

depression and happiness again. 

Finally, everybody has different things 

that they have missed since this has all 

happened. What have you missed most 

during this difficult year? 

I’ve got 5 children, 3 grandchildren and an 

elderly mother whom I look after. I would 

love to invite my children round or go to 

stay with them, but I haven’t been able to as 

it’s just too risky, I don’t want to put them at 

risk and vice versa. We speak on the phone 

a lot and I miss them terribly, but I look 

forward to the time when we can all meet 

up again. 

The interview took place before we 

had the news that a vaccine had been 

approved, and until fully implemented 

everyone should continue following the 

Government’s advice. Go to www.gov.uk 

for more information. 


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