Wealden Times | WT244 | September 2022 | Winter Interiors Supplement inside

WINTER INTERIORS SUPPLEMENT <strong>inside</strong><br />

Inspirational <strong>Interiors</strong> • Fabulous Fashion • Delicious Dishes<br />

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Contents<br />

<strong>September</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />

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HOUSE OF THE MONTH<br />

Gorgeous homes on the market<br />

NOTEBOOK<br />

Fun-filled <strong>September</strong> events<br />

DARK & INTERESTING<br />

An interior with a cool party vibe<br />

GET THE LOOK<br />

Harness moody and rich tones<br />

for a well balanced look<br />

CHANGING ROOMS<br />

Berni and Peter’s artistic seaside<br />

home is filled with glorious pattern<br />

GET THE LOOK<br />

Get creative with clashing<br />

prints for optimum interest<br />

ROCK & ROSES<br />

Kate Watts visits Odyl for a<br />

fresh take on autumn styling<br />

FOCUS ON FLAVOUR<br />

Get cooking with organic fruit<br />

and veg, the Riverford way<br />

89<br />

95<br />

96<br />

99<br />

104<br />

109<br />

111<br />

DON’T LET GO!<br />

Jo Fairley’s tan-prolonging<br />

products for beautiful skin<br />

KEEP YOUR COOL<br />

Sarah Maxwell chats<br />

exercising in the heat<br />

NOURISH TO FLOURISH<br />

Charlotte Lau explains how<br />

to eat healthily on a budget<br />

SKANDI STYLE<br />

Sue Whigham explores Sweden’s<br />

unique flora and fauna<br />

TOTALLY TROPICAL<br />

Jo Arnell’s tips for bringing bit<br />

of the exotic to your garden<br />

WORKING TOGETHER<br />

ACS International School<br />

Cobham joins forces with MERU<br />

ROUND & ROUND<br />

THE GARDEN<br />

Dulwich Prep Cranbrook’s<br />

Sensory Garden project<br />

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126<br />

MEET THE ART TEACHER<br />

Get to know Ellie Greenwood, Art<br />

Teacher at Eastbourne College<br />

A RECIPE FOR SUCCESS<br />

What is Mayfield School’s<br />

Cookie Project?<br />

SETTLING IN<br />

Bede’s discuss the transition to school<br />

BOOKS CLUB<br />

Literary recommendations from<br />

students and teachers<br />

WHAT’S ON<br />

Events throughout the month<br />

FARM FABLES<br />

Jane takes a closer look at<br />

the humble blackberry<br />

WINTER<br />

INTERIORS<br />

SUPPLEMENT<br />

18 pages of beautiful<br />

finishing touches<br />

for cosy homes.<br />

After page 54.<br />

<strong>Winter</strong><br />

<strong>Interiors</strong><br />

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Editor’s<br />

Letter<br />

Love it or hate it, it looks likely that unpredictably<br />

warm summers are here to stay. And whilst we’re<br />

all hopefully doing our best to be kinder to the<br />

environment, we need to learn how to adapt to these<br />

changeable temperatures. Whether it’s harnessing the<br />

strength of plants that can withstand warmer climes – like<br />

Jo Arnell who shares her recommendations for tropical<br />

greenery that can thrive in an English summer garden on<br />

page 104 – or learning how to keep up an exercise regime<br />

when the degrees are set against us à la Sarah Maxwell on<br />

page 95, there’s plenty we can do to be better prepared.<br />

We loved touring the two gorgeous homes for our shoots<br />

this month. The beautifully dark interior created by superstylish<br />

Jen MacLeay is filled with rich colour and offers<br />

the perfect place to entertain friends, with a carefully<br />

curated bar in all the main rooms! And the owners of<br />

Hastings Old Town’s emporium of all things interesting,<br />

Merchant57, open the door to their wonderfully patternfilled<br />

home, just a stone’s throw from the seafront.<br />

Recipes this month come courtesy of seasonal saviours<br />

Riverford, who share moreish dishes that can be made<br />

using autumnal veggies grown on their organic farms.<br />

Speaking of autumn, it won’t be long until we start to notice<br />

the evenings drawing in and cosiness becomes a priority. Rebecca<br />

Cuffe has compiled a beautiful <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>Interiors</strong> <strong>Supplement</strong> to<br />

inspire your interiors choices as the end of the year approaches.<br />

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House<br />

Month<br />

of the<br />

£2,750,000<br />

Damien Pestell picks his favourite homes on<br />

the market in Kent and Sussex this month<br />

Westerham<br />

The dream: An impressive 19th<br />

century period home converted<br />

from former farm buildings and<br />

tucked away in a rural position.<br />

This beautiful unlisted house<br />

comes with the exciting possibility<br />

of existing planning permission<br />

to extend to over 6,000 sq ft.<br />

Where: Located between the<br />

picturesque village of Brasted and<br />

the historic town of Westerham<br />

about half a mile away.<br />

Setting: Set at the end of a long<br />

private driveway, with delightful<br />

views over the extensive garden<br />

and neighbouring fields.<br />

Beds: 5 Baths: 2<br />

Special features: The delightful<br />

living room with open fireplace<br />

and garden room overlooking<br />

the rear walled garden.<br />

Pleasing details: A gorgeous<br />

two storey stone tower offers<br />

scope to create a rather unique<br />

stand-alone home office.<br />

Outside: The beautiful gardens<br />

with various outbuildings<br />

are mainly laid to lawn with<br />

established trees, hedges,<br />

shrubs and a number of<br />

secluded seating areas.<br />

Time to town: The nearest<br />

rail station is at Sevenoaks<br />

with services to London<br />

Bridge in just 25 minutes.<br />

Agent: Jackson Stops<br />

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£600,000<br />

Detling<br />

The dream: A spacious Grade II listed<br />

home bursting with character and believed<br />

to have originally been two or even three<br />

separate properties, updated by the current<br />

owners to create a modern home with plenty<br />

of charm, in a peaceful village location.<br />

Where: The village of Detling at the foot<br />

of the North Downs AONB, just 4 miles<br />

from the county town of Maidstone.<br />

Setting: A central village location.<br />

Beds: 4 Baths: 2<br />

Special features: The stunning<br />

kitchen-breakfast room features a range<br />

cooker, island and walk-in larder.<br />

Pleasing details: The house exudes<br />

historical character with original<br />

beams, exposed floorboards and<br />

low ceilings throughout.<br />

Outside: The secluded private cottage<br />

style garden to the rear has the added<br />

bonus of a small parcel of land that comes<br />

with a workshop and off-road parking.<br />

Time to town: Bearsted Station is a<br />

7 minute drive with trains to London<br />

Victoria in just over an hour.<br />

Agent: Rafferty & Pickard<br />

01732 905499 raffertyandpickard.co.uk<br />

Beckley<br />

£1,200,000 -<br />

£1,350,000<br />

The dream: An exceptional Grade II Listed<br />

house updated into a welcoming and<br />

comfortable family home, privately set within<br />

established grounds of over an acre including<br />

a hard tennis court and various outbuildings.<br />

Where: Nestled in the genteel countryside<br />

village of Beckley, just 6 miles from<br />

the Cinque Port town of Rye.<br />

Setting: Set back within its<br />

own secluded grounds.<br />

Beds: 5 Baths: 3<br />

Special features: The impressive double<br />

aspect dining room with high<br />

ceilings and tall sash windows is a<br />

bright and airy space to unwind<br />

Pleasing details: The charming 18th Century<br />

front elevation with porticoed entrance porch..<br />

Outside: The extensive gardens feature a<br />

wonderful kitchen garden with an array of<br />

fruit trees including cherry, plum and damson.<br />

Time to town: Rye station 6 miles away to<br />

London St Pancras in just over an hour.<br />

Agent: Batcheller Monkhouse<br />

01424 775577<br />

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Dark & Interesting<br />

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Previous pages & above: In its previous incarnation as a shop, the property was divided into lots of little rooms. Calum<br />

and Jen opened up the space by knocking through walls and adding decorative arches and Corinthian columns<br />

“<br />

No one wanted to buy it,” Jen says of the beautiful<br />

period home in Horsham that she and husband<br />

Calum have lived in for the last ten years.<br />

“It was built in 1911 as a dairy shop and stayed as a<br />

shop until quite recently. The front was the shop and<br />

then behind it was all divided into smaller rooms.<br />

“There was a wall by the stairs,” says Jen, “and a wall<br />

across the sitting room and dining room. We opened it all<br />

out and put in the arches.” The couple lived in the small<br />

front room – rechristened the bar – while the structural<br />

work was done. “It was so dusty,” she laughs.“The<br />

ceilings had to come down as well as the walls, so it was<br />

a huge mess.” It is now a huge space, no trace of the<br />

division between shop front and back rooms detectable,<br />

although they did have to re-lay the floorboards on the<br />

ground floor to make them fit the space properly.<br />

There are arches and splendid pillars where the walls<br />

once were. “I wanted the arches,” says Jen, “and Calum<br />

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Everything is painted dark grey – in the style of the queen<br />

of darkness, Abigail Ahern – that includes the plasterwork,<br />

radiators and fire surrounds. “So much easier to paint that<br />

way,” remarks Calum, “you don’t have to worry about the<br />

edges, and there’s no fiddly cutting in to do.” The colour is<br />

Bowler Hat by Dulux. “If you can’t get hold of it,” says Jen,<br />

“the nearest colour is Farrow & Ball’s Down Pipe.” There<br />

is a grand and rather theatrical air here, the dark colour<br />

adding another layer to the drama. “The guy who did the<br />

plasterwork and pillars works in film,” Calum explains.<br />

They were determined to have a large island unit in<br />

the kitchen, but were told that there wasn’t room, but<br />

Calum was undaunted. “The carpenter said this won’t<br />

work, but I drew it out on paper.” The bespoke unit they<br />

chose – with a worksurface in quartz from Crown<br />

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Above: Rattan and house plants are<br />

a prominent feature of the dining<br />

area. The antique dining table<br />

was bought for £6 at Denhams<br />

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much slimmer than standard kitchen cupboards – it’s like<br />

a slight of hand, conjuring a more manoeuvrable kitchen.<br />

They also chose to put the hob within the island, which<br />

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This page: In each room accent colours work well against dark backgrounds, the bright<br />

tones of teal and pink, combined with natural tones, lighten the mood<br />

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a distinctly tropical feel, and were planted to provide a<br />

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space for entertaining. The original estate agent’s details<br />

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The extension, once the shop’s uninspiring storeroom and<br />

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and laundry room, the washing machine and dryer are cleverly<br />

concealed behind rattan panels. “These were a headboard<br />

for a bed from H&M,” she says adding, “we used a <br />

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This is a friendly space – Calum and Jen are keen on entertaining, something that becomes<br />

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Above: The extension opens straight into the courtyard garden. A mural by Avalana Design runs the length of<br />

the back wall, with the others painted in chalky finish Rust-Oleum paint, giving a textured finish<br />

sofa that belonged to Calum’s mum – a wedding gift from<br />

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on eBay too, including an oxblood leather sofa and chair<br />

now in residence in the front room and some bone inlay<br />

furniture originally from Graham & Green. The antique<br />

dining table was bought for £6 at Denhams auction house.<br />

“I have always liked period features and period properties,”<br />

she says. “I really enjoy mixing the old with the new. And<br />

I’m not too girly – I’ve probably got more of a masculine<br />

taste. The moody colours are definitely influenced by<br />

Abigail Ahern. I like her eclectic designs and her use of<br />

texture. I like to do the rooms dark, especially where<br />

there are high ceilings to make shadows. It’s really cosy<br />

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Accent colours work really well against dark backgrounds,<br />

the bright tones of teal and pink lighten the mood.<br />

There is warmth in the dark wall colour, making the<br />

atmosphere intimate, rather than gloomy and oppressive.<br />

Jen has been clever with the window treatment in the<br />

living room, creating a means of keeping privacy – letting in<br />

the light, but keeping with the theme of the room, she has<br />

mixed voile curtains with plain grey – voile across the whole<br />

window would have been too much white in the room.<br />

The artistic trait is strong on both sides of this family.<br />

Many of the pictures adorning the living room were painted<br />

by Calum’s mother, the artist Lynn MacLeay; her delicate<br />

and vibrant paintings of beetles and plants adding a rich<br />

layer of interest and fitting perfectly into the theme.<br />

There’s a distinctly wordly feel in the dining room<br />

area, where the accents are rattan, large ferns and the<br />

intricate bone inlay sideboard, originally from Graham<br />

& Green, that Jen bought for a snip on eBay.<br />

Upstairs there’s a spacious landing and a surprise.<br />

One of the bedrooms has been turned into an opulent<br />

cinema room, complete with a mini bar, bespoke chairs<br />

and ottomans that can double up as a sofa or beds.<br />

These exactly match the colour on the walls, it is a very<br />

inviting and comfortable looking room. “Yes, we spent<br />

a lot of time in here during lockdown,” Jen laughs.<br />

Another of the bedrooms has been turned into a <br />

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Above left & right: Alongside their shared passion for an aesthetically<br />

pleasing bar, Calum and Jen have made sure they’ve created plenty<br />

of inviting seating arrangements Bottom left: The guest bedroom<br />

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Above left: A bedroom has been repurposed as a dressing<br />

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bottom right: Farrow & Ball’s Inchyra Blue provides the<br />

perfect base for feature wallpaper panels in the master<br />

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window. Dead Salmon, that iconic colour from<br />

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background and adds to the slightly<br />

bohemian feel in here. This room boasts an<br />

ensuite, although at one point the couple thought<br />

about knocking it through and incorporating it<br />

into the main bathroom. “We originally wanted<br />

a roll-top bath, but the one we found works with<br />

the size of the bathroom, so we’ve kept it as two<br />

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They chose another iconic Farrow & Ball<br />

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This page: Large<br />

ferns, hardy palms<br />

and bamboo give the<br />

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tropical feel, whilst<br />

providing some<br />

privacy. Calum built<br />

a pergola at the<br />

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outdoor kitchen<br />

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heirlooms and up-cycling, mixed in with online and high<br />

street purchases – the wall light is from H&M, bedspread<br />

Hello Fern and the bedside tables are from Zara Home.<br />

Back downstairs and into what was once part of the shop<br />

front – but is now the bar room – Jen and Calum’s love of<br />

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us. I use mood boards to help piece things together. It’s an<br />

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dark colours, but people get scared. It’s only paint. There’s<br />

nothing wrong with showing personality, so go with your gut<br />

feeling – if you’re unsure, then start small or in one area.”<br />

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<strong>Winter</strong> <strong>Interiors</strong> <strong>Supplement</strong><br />

Pottery<br />

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Electric Feels<br />

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David wallpaper<br />

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<strong>Winter</strong> <strong>Interiors</strong> <strong>Supplement</strong><br />

Designer’s World<br />

We speak to Ben Stokes – founder of KAGU in<br />

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life as an interior designer, and design process<br />

What inspires you?<br />

Everything and anything. I love staying at hotels, drawing<br />

inspiration from their hugely talented owners and interior designers.<br />

Do you have any go-to designers when it comes to fabrics?<br />

There are so many fabric companies! To say I have a go-to one<br />

I cannot do, BUT there are a few out there at the moment that<br />

I love‚ Designs of the time, George Spencer Designs, and Mind<br />

the GAP are all favourites.<br />

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We try to design and make our clients their own bespoke<br />

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designed room and quite often a fantastic talking point. But<br />

we are also willing to get up at 4am or 5am in the morning<br />

and head off to an antique fair to find unique pieces and we<br />

also have furniture suppliers across the UK and Europe.<br />

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I get this question quite a lot, and to be honest, I don’t<br />

know what the next trend is. I don’t particularly look out for<br />

trends, I just look for beautiful things in design. I understand<br />

that looking for yearly or seasonal trends really works, but<br />

to me, when designing a space for a client, I have to think<br />

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How does your design process begin?<br />

I would say my first place to start with is usually the flooring.<br />

Getting the flooring right is key, and I would generally steer my<br />

client towards more natural flooring materials – wood, marble,<br />

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I would not say I have a particular personal style. I work<br />

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their beauty instead of enforcing‚ “My Style” onto them.<br />

How did you start out as an interior designer?<br />

After living about ten years away, mainly in London, I came home<br />

to Kent and started a small property development company. I was just<br />

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years, my business grew, I could feel that my passion was not in property<br />

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(obsession…) for how the place should look.<br />

So it’s always a nice surprise when you get to do<br />

the tour of the premises with both the owners, as I<br />

did with Berni and Peter, in their early Victorian villa<br />

in the heart of Hastings’ picturesque Old Town.<br />

It was my first visit to the house – although I know<br />

it from many walks past, imagining how amazing<br />

the views must be from its spot on the hill across<br />

the valley which so neatly contains the town.<br />

I’m not disappointed. From the sitting room windows you<br />

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Styling: Holly Levett<br />

Berni and Peter Leach constantly tweak<br />

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Town – and their wonderful shop too<br />

To the south, your eye travels across the fishing<br />

boats pulled up on the beach, to a wide expanse of<br />

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And while it’s my first call at the house, I have met the<br />

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the hill at the bottom end of the Old Town’s High Street.<br />

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appeal as the shop – a fascinating mix of new things,<br />

with antiques, original artworks and hand-crafted oneoff<br />

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“She does all the buying, although I do enjoy it too.”<br />

“It represents us,” says Berni. “We sell what we<br />

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This page: Large sliding pocket doors separate the<br />

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This page: Clashing pattern creates a wonderfully vivid scene in the newly redecorated sitting room – a lockdown project<br />

it had a conservatory on the side, so we were able to<br />

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“We looked at loads of wallpapers,” says Berni. “I<br />

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But while the background colour may be soft<br />

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“When we first moved in here we had the woodwork<br />

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during the day and we started to find it depressing.”<br />

There is no chance of that now, with colour and<br />

pattern leaping about. From the vintage tiled coffee<br />

table to the wonderful ceiling lampshades, made from<br />

mixed-up fabrics. “We sell them in the shop,” says Berni.<br />

“A woman makes them for us in the South of France,<br />

from vintage fabrics. They are all mixed and no two are<br />

the same. We met her at an interiors show in Paris.”<br />

Another masterpiece in mixed fabrics, is the armchair<br />

next to the fireplace. “Peter has had the chair for 40<br />

years,” says Berni, “and we came up with the idea to<br />

cover it with a patchwork of old Indian Kantha quilts.”<br />

So, in this one room, are two perfect examples of<br />

how they like to keep switching things up, to keep<br />

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This page: The floral touches continue upstairs<br />

in a guest bedroom, where the chimney breast has<br />

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says Peter. “That’s fun, that’s what we enjoy. The<br />

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And talking of pictures, another element adding to the<br />

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Rock<br />

Roses<br />

Get set for autumn with<br />

beautiful new season picks<br />

Photographs:<br />

David Merewether<br />

Styling: Kate Watts &<br />

Gemma Holmes<br />

Model: Isabelle<br />

Rose letters: istockphoto.com/ Studio Veris<br />

Fabienne Chapot<br />

dress £230, Odyl<br />

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Fabienne Chapot<br />

blazer £189, blouse<br />

£149, jeans £129, all<br />

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5 minutes with...<br />

Gemma Holmes, Odyl’s owner<br />

Tell us about your background in<br />

fashion... I had worked in TV for years<br />

and was always interested and drawn to<br />

the fashion and what shapes and styles<br />

worked on screen. When I had my son<br />

my career path took a turn and Odyl was<br />

born. I’ve now been on Cranbrook high<br />

street for eight years and we’re set to stay!<br />

Which brands and designers do you stock?<br />

With all that’s recently gone on in the world,<br />

we have been working very hard to keep<br />

stocking the unique mix of European brands<br />

we are well known for and that I love.<br />

The Dutch brand Fabienne Chapot has been<br />

at Odyl since the start and delivers season<br />

after season. Their knowledge and attention<br />

to detail on fabrics and prints is exceptional.<br />

I also work with a very high end Italian<br />

brand Partizia Pepe who offer individual<br />

and unique premium womenswear.<br />

Second Female has been one of my core<br />

brands since I started here alongside<br />

Onjenu – the stretchy dress brand<br />

– which is a customer favourite.<br />

How do you advise your customers<br />

on the shapes and styles that will suit<br />

them? The whole ethos behind Odyl is<br />

to make our customers feel fabulous – my<br />

customers are my best advert! We stock<br />

a petite range alongside the core sizes<br />

and are soon to introduce a plus size<br />

offering in store and on the website.<br />

As a woman who has been all different<br />

shapes and sizes, I understand how<br />

important it is to find out where a<br />

customer’s body confidence lies and work<br />

with them to accentuate this so they<br />

feel comfortable. I’m also here to nudge<br />

customers out of their comfort zone. I<br />

feel very lucky that they trust in me and<br />

my team to advise them and suggest<br />

new things to try that ensure they leave<br />

through our pink door feeling fabulous!<br />

Patrizia Pepe sequin<br />

jumpsuit £320, Odyl<br />

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What exciting pieces are arriving soon<br />

for the new season? I’m excited to touch<br />

on the oversized suiting and tailoring<br />

trend in our usual colourful way! There are<br />

some surprises arriving in store soon! We<br />

all absolutely love the buttery soft MDK<br />

leather jackets – the colour options this<br />

season are phenomenal. Such a key piece<br />

to change up an outfit. They can be casual<br />

with jeans and a t-shirt or thrown over a<br />

billowy dress to change the silhouette.<br />

We have some great boots coming in from<br />

Vanessa Wu in gorgeous metallics that<br />

complement the beautiful feminine pieces<br />

in our signature stand out colour palettes.<br />

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Focus on<br />

Flavour<br />

With an emphasis on eating with the seasons, and a wealth<br />

of recipes to try out using their organic veg boxes, delivered<br />

straight from the farm, Riverford really do live up to their motto<br />

‘Live Life on the Veg’. Here, we’ve chosen four wonderfully<br />

vibrant dishes to guide you into autumn the tastiest way<br />

possible. What’s more, you can meet the Riverford team at this<br />

November’s <strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Midwinter Fair. To book tickets,<br />

and see who’ll be exhibiting, visit wealdentimes-fair.co.uk<br />

Recipes & photographs: riverford.co.uk<br />

Masala mussels<br />

Prep time: 10 min<br />

Cooking time: 10 min Serves 5<br />

This makes a simple and delicious<br />

alternative to moules marinière:<br />

the spiciness of the curry paste is<br />

balanced beautifully by cooling,<br />

creamy coconut milk. Top with lots<br />

of fresh coriander and serve with<br />

crusty bread and wedges of lemon.<br />

• 200g masala curry paste<br />

• 400ml coconut milk<br />

• 2kg Yealm mussels<br />

• handful coriander, chopped<br />

• 2 limes, cut into wedges<br />

1. Tip the curry paste and coconut<br />

milk into a large saucepan. Mix<br />

well and bring to the boil.<br />

2. Add the mussels, cover with a lid<br />

and steam for five minutes. shaking<br />

occasionally, until they have all opened.<br />

3. Uncover and stir in the<br />

coriander. Serve with crusty<br />

bread and the wedges of lime.<br />

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Food & Drink<br />

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Why not enjoy one of our delicious sharing<br />

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Stuffed squash with kale, red<br />

cabbage & beetroot salad<br />

Prep time: 15 min<br />

Cooking time: 30 min Serves 2<br />

This is a healthy and delectable vegetarian<br />

autumn or winter dinner. Roasted squash<br />

filled with feta, quinoa and fresh herbs,<br />

served with a crunchy, super-nutritious<br />

salad of raw red cabbage, kale and red<br />

onion, sprinkled with toasted seeds.<br />

• 1 small squash (about 600g)<br />

• olive oil<br />

• 25g quinoa (red gives a nutty flavour)<br />

• 100g feta<br />

• 2 tbsp fresh mint and parsley, chopped<br />

• ¼ red cabbage, leaves finely shredded<br />

• ½ red onion, thinly sliced<br />

• 1 small beetroot, peeled and cut into<br />

thin matchsticks, or coarsely grated<br />

• 50g kale, leaves torn into small pieces<br />

• 1 tbsp olive oil<br />

• splash cider vinegar<br />

• ½ tsp Dijon mustard<br />

• 3 tbsp mixed seeds, toasted in<br />

a dry frying pan for 1 min<br />

• salt and pepper<br />

1. Preheat oven to 180°C/Gas 4.<br />

2. Cut the squash in half lengthways, scoop<br />

out the seeds, season and drizzle with oil.<br />

3. Place cut side down on a nonstick<br />

baking tray and roast until<br />

tender - about 30 minutes.<br />

4. Cook the quinoa in boiling water<br />

for 12 minutes, drain and leave to<br />

cool slightly, then mix with the feta,<br />

herbs and a drizzle of olive oil.<br />

5. Scatter the cabbage, beetroot,<br />

onion and kale on a serving plate.<br />

6. In a small bowl, whisk the olive<br />

oil, mustard and vinegar. Season,<br />

then drizzle over the veg.<br />

7. Scatter over the seeds.<br />

8. Serve the squash filled with<br />

the quinoa and feta, with<br />

the salad on the side.<br />

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Ginger poached pears with<br />

honeyed crème fraîche<br />

Prep time: 10 min Cooking time: 40 min<br />

Serves 4<br />

These ginger-spiced poached pears<br />

with honey-sweetened crème fraîche<br />

make a lovely end to any meal.<br />

Firm winter pears are ideal for this<br />

because they hold their shape. Eat<br />

either warm or at room temperature.<br />

This is good made in advance so<br />

that the pears have time to absorb<br />

the flavour of the poaching liquid.<br />

• 200g caster sugar<br />

• 1 stick cinnamon<br />

• 2 tbsp freshly grated ginger<br />

• 4 firm pears<br />

• juice of 1 lemon<br />

• 250ml crème fraîche<br />

• 1 tbsp clear honey<br />

1. Put 500ml water in a pan with<br />

the sugar, cinnamon and ginger.<br />

Bring to the boil. Reduce the<br />

heat slightly and bubble for 5<br />

minutes. Remove from the heat.<br />

2. Peel the pears, cut in half lengthways<br />

and core (leave the stalks on if they<br />

are still intact). Put in a bowl and<br />

toss in the lemon juice as you go<br />

to stop them turning brown.<br />

3. Transfer the pears to the pan with<br />

the sugar syrup, making sure the pan<br />

is a size where the syrup can coat the<br />

pears completely. Bring to the boil.<br />

4. Reduce the heat and simmer<br />

for 25-30 minutes, until the<br />

pears are just tender. Leave them<br />

to cool slightly in the syrup.<br />

5. Stir the honey into the crème<br />

fraîche and serve with the pears.<br />

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Chefs’ Specials board & A La Carte menu<br />

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and freshly made milkshakes too!<br />

See our website www.trinityofbattle.co.uk<br />

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Fig leaf panna cotta<br />

Prep time: 10 mins<br />

Cooking time: 20 min Serves 6<br />

A recipe from our farm restaurant,<br />

The Riverford Field Kitchen. These<br />

sweet, creamy figgy puddings make<br />

the most of seasonal figs and fig leaves.<br />

You will need to allow time to infuse<br />

the cream with the fig leaves, either<br />

overnight or all day if you start the<br />

recipe in the morning. You will also<br />

need to leave the panna cottas to set<br />

overnight, but they are worth the<br />

wait. We topped ours with a fig leaf<br />

crumb, which is a great finishing touch,<br />

but they are also lovely without.<br />

Cook’s note: If you don’t have enough<br />

figs to serve 1 per pudding, you can<br />

mix with or swap for seasonal berries.<br />

For the panna cotta:<br />

• 4 fig leaves<br />

• 1 litre double cream<br />

• 160g sugar<br />

• 3 gelatine leaves<br />

For the crumb topping (optional):<br />

• 2 fig leaves<br />

To serve:<br />

• 3-6 figs, quartered (or seasonal berries)<br />

1. Preheat your oven to 170°C/Gas 3.<br />

Put the fig leaves in a baking tray in the<br />

preheated oven and toast for 5 minutes.<br />

2. Warm the cream to just below<br />

boiling point and pour into a bowl<br />

with the toasted fig leaves. Cover and<br />

leave to infuse all day or overnight.<br />

3. Strain the cream into a pan and bring<br />

to the boil with the sugar. Bloom the<br />

gelatine in cold water for 5 minutes.<br />

4. Take the cream off the heat<br />

and whisk the gelatine into the<br />

cream. Pour into moulds and<br />

set in the fridge overnight.<br />

5. To tip out, dip the moulds into<br />

boiling water for a couple of seconds<br />

then tip onto a plate. Serve with<br />

chopped figs and/or seasonal berries.<br />

6. We topped ours with an optional<br />

fig leaf crumb. To make this, toast 2<br />

fig leaves for 5 minutes in an oven at<br />

170°C/Gas 3, then blitz into a powder.<br />

Find out more about Riverford,<br />

explore their recipes and sign<br />

up to their veg and recipe box<br />

deliveries at riverford.co.uk.<br />

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Don’t Let Go!<br />

Josephine Fairley shares her expert tips for retaining and maintaining<br />

that glorious summer glow for as long as possible<br />

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It’s the summer we’ve never wanted<br />

to say goodbye to. A ‘Go-Between’<br />

summer, of parched fields and<br />

golden landscapes and equally gilded<br />

limbs. (If you haven’t read LP Hartley’s<br />

book, or watched the Julie Christie/Alan<br />

Bates film, I can’t recommend them too<br />

highly, for conjuring up the baking heat<br />

of a season like we’ve enjoyed in <strong>2022</strong>.)<br />

From a beauty perspective, though,<br />

happily there are plenty of ways to<br />

extend the glow for that bit longer.<br />

First off? We all want to cling onto<br />

that tan (faux or real – it’s been<br />

almost impossible to stay pale and<br />

interesting this summer). Counterintuitively<br />

the best way to do that is<br />

with a body scrub; scrubbing sloughs<br />

away dead and dull surface skin cells,<br />

revealing fresher-looking and more<br />

vibrant skin beneath; simply add<br />

a slick of oil (perhaps infused with<br />

glimmery particles, see below), and<br />

you’ll be glowing all over again.<br />

My favourite scrubs, right now?<br />

Beauty Bible Gold Award-winning<br />

OSKIA Renaissance Body Scrub,<br />

£48 for 220g, always has a place bathside<br />

in my house, but I remain a huge<br />

fan of ESPA Detoxifying Salt Scrub,<br />

£40 for 700g, which – cliché alert! –<br />

really is a ‘spa-in-a-jar’, with its blend<br />

of grapefruit, cypress and eucalyptus<br />

oils. At the affordable end of the<br />

spectrum, meanwhile, Sanctuary Spa<br />

just launched a gorgeously fragranced<br />

new bodycare collection in which you’ll<br />

find Ruby Oud Natural Oils Coffee<br />

Scrub, £12 for 300ml, which harnesses<br />

the power of coffee grains to buff skin,<br />

leaving you veiled in the most gorgeous,<br />

exotic, nuzzleable scent. (The whole<br />

line-up is stunning; check it out.)<br />

And now for that oil slick – only<br />

it’s not a ‘slick’, because these ‘dry<br />

oils’ really do sink in super-fast,<br />

enabling you to dress-and-go. One<br />

of summer’s biggest bargains has<br />

to be Revolution Makeup Glow<br />

Revolution, £10 for 200ml, which<br />

spritzes a fine, dewy, bronze-y gold mist<br />

onto skin. Mid-priced is the classic<br />

which basically invented this category,<br />

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Dry Oil, £19 for 50ml – it works on<br />

face, body and is also lovely skimmed<br />

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vanilla – while at the oh-why-not-blowthe-budget?<br />

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both platinum and gold. (A trick from<br />

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In terms of keeping a tan ‘topped up’, my go-to is either<br />

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added to your favourite body cream or face cream. The<br />

how-to is simple: add a dollop of your regular product in<br />

the palm of your hand – more for bodies, obviously – and<br />

dropper in the tanning drops; I start cautiously and then<br />

build up the number of drops, as I become confident with<br />

the level of bronzitude that a particular product delivers.<br />

For faces, I like to use Balance Me Gradual Tanning<br />

Drops, £30 for 30ml, about once every three days; it’s<br />

98.8% natural – and can be added (more generously) to<br />

body lotion, too. I’m also a fan of Green People Age Defy+<br />

Liquid Gold Tanning Drops, £35 for 30ml, which just<br />

did deservedly well in the Natural Health Beauty Awards.<br />

Body-wise, James Read Click & Glow Body/£40 for<br />

30ml, offers the most amazingly can’t-tell-it-from-real results;<br />

you click the top and it dispenses the vitamin-enriched<br />

tanning drops into your palm so, so easily. In terms of an<br />

all-in-one self-tanner (rather than the D-I-Y options above),<br />

I’d rather ‘build’ colour to achieve results over a few days,<br />

rather than go for an immediate and sometimes unpredictable<br />

level of tan. My absolute favourite gradual tanning lotions,<br />

then, are Eco by Sonya <strong>Winter</strong> Skin, £26.95 for 200ml, a<br />

luscious gel-cream formula which has the slightest caramel<br />

tint, and is fah-bu-lous for legs, and ESPA Gradual Tan<br />

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‘slip’ when you apply, making seamless results easier.<br />

Make-up-wise, matte foundations and red lipsticks and<br />

smoky eyes will be seducing us soon enough, but they work<br />

best when the light levels shift a bit more; right now, tooheavy<br />

make-up and matte skin look as wrong as wearing<br />

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Today I’m enjoying basking in glorious<br />

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This summer my favourite HOT HIIT Workout involves:<br />

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• Plank<br />

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peaceful existence until the following spring.<br />

And with noise in mind, we arrived at the<br />

house to the sound of a bird shrieking from<br />

the neighbour’s garden, so it was over the fence<br />

to find out what it was only to find a juvenile<br />

woodpecker stuck deep in a thicket. It was<br />

making a piercing distress signal because it had<br />

been pursued into its thicket prison by some sort<br />

of raptor that was trying and failing to get him<br />

out. A flurry of big black wings and his potential<br />

attacker left the scene and the woodpecker was<br />

rescued to live another day. But the interesting<br />

thing was that we had no idea what sort of bird<br />

the woodpecker was about to fall victim to until<br />

the following day when, in the late afternoon, we<br />

saw him out hunting again – this time pursuing a<br />

blackbird through a birch thicket. He was flying<br />

low and we saw him long enough to identify him<br />

as a Northern Hawk Owl (Surnia ulula); not<br />

something you see very often. So they are neither<br />

nocturnal nor crespular (hunting in the twilight)<br />

but are active in the day and they tend to remain<br />

within their breeding territory, which we were<br />

obviously in. We were<br />

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and deciduous trees,<br />

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The tracks that you can follow for miles<br />

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Free sustenance is provided by the wild raspberries<br />

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Succisa pratensis<br />

In Sweden you<br />

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So you can<br />

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swim in the lake<br />

and then go on<br />

and plenty of dragonflies darting around. I<br />

did spot the succulent red berries of a red<br />

elderberry which I haven’t seen before and tiny<br />

pinks, Dianthus deltoides, growing alongside<br />

one of my favourite late flowerers, Succisa<br />

pratensis, or devil’s bit scabious. Its lilac pin<br />

cushion flowers grow on top of a particularly<br />

long stem creating a see-through effect. Claire<br />

Austin’s nursery describes them as looking<br />

like ‘a sweet from a bag of licorice allsorts’.<br />

And then there are garden escapees such as<br />

great stands of golden rod, Solidago virgaurea,<br />

which is excellent as a cut flower. And then<br />

small forms of alchemilla, hypericums and<br />

achilleas and little blue bellflowers which<br />

grow in the ditches alongside the yellow<br />

flowering spikes of agrimony. And a real star<br />

for me was a perfect little white umbellifer<br />

with the splendid name of Solidstem burnet<br />

saxifrage or Pimpinella saxifraga which<br />

has the most glamorous seed-heads.<br />

All these grow with a backdrop of moss<br />

lined paths through the trees and giant granite<br />

rocks embellished with mini ferns, mosses and<br />

lichens creating a sort of fairy world through<br />

the Norway spruces, grey birches, Scots pines,<br />

black alders with their racquet shaped leaves<br />

and the English oaks which form the forest. I<br />

did try to record the song of tiny birds flitting<br />

through the birches in particular and failed<br />

miserably, but had more success recording the<br />

sound of silence by the lake – the silence that<br />

was only broken by the gentle lapping of the<br />

water in Liksdammer lake. Oh, what bliss.<br />

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Great Dixter’s exotic garden<br />

Totally Tropical<br />

Work with nature to create a lush oasis in our unpredictable climate, as Jo Arnell explains<br />

Making a tropical garden or border means<br />

choosing plants that will give the impression<br />

of the humid tropics – a lush-leaved oasis<br />

dripping with ferns, bananas and exotic blooms. Looking<br />

around as I write this, I’m finding it hard to imagine<br />

such a place in my drought ravaged borders. Jungly<br />

plants need lots of water in order to stay in tip top<br />

shape – something they make clear from the size and<br />

floppiness of their leaves – me, save water? If the weather<br />

stays dry and you are determined to create a lush looking<br />

space – and the thought of that is almost too enticing<br />

– you might need to create a micro microclimate and<br />

find a few large leaved tropical-looking plants that will<br />

manage in a parched patch. Luckily there are some,<br />

but even these will need some rain in order to thrive.<br />

The Bare Necessities<br />

An enclosed area – any small space surrounded<br />

by walls or fences – will help to trap moisture,<br />

especially if there’s a canopy of leaves above<br />

and plenty of ground cover plants below.<br />

A jungle is similar to a forest, so try to find plants that<br />

will occupy different layers. Most of our houseplants<br />

come from the shady tropical places, which is why they<br />

can live in the relative gloom of our interiors, and why<br />

they don’t much like the drying effects of central heating.<br />

A pergola covered in vines and scented plants will create<br />

instant height. Climbers will grow relatively quickly up<br />

supports to help enclose a seating area, hide a shed, or<br />

screen off a section of the garden. Use exotic looking<br />

Campsis radicans, Passiflora, or scented climbers like<br />

Jasmine – evergreen Trachelospermum will give you the<br />

best of both worlds with jasmine-like flowers and dark,<br />

glossy evergreen foliage, often tinged with pink in the<br />

winter. Annual climbers like Cobaea scandens, Ipomoea<br />

(Morning Glory and also Spanish Flag) and Thunbergia<br />

(Black-eyed Susan) will scamper up supports in no time<br />

at all and provide masses of exotic looking flowers all<br />

summer long. These are tender annuals, so won’t survive<br />

through the winter, but will do more in one season than<br />

many longer lived plants manage in their whole lives.<br />

Create the feeling of rain in your forest with a water<br />

feature. The sight and sound of water is evocative and<br />

refreshing – and can be relatively easy to install. You<br />

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Canopy Plants<br />

The use of vertical planting to give height will create<br />

a more intimate atmosphere, increase humidity and<br />

define the space. Choose fast growing canopy plants<br />

– and the great thing about big leaved, soft-stemmed<br />

trees and tree-sized herbaceous perennials, is that they<br />

tend to grow quickly – racing upwards and spreading<br />

out to claim their share of the sunlight. There are<br />

masses to choose from, but, as with specimen trees and<br />

shrubs in a traditional garden, there may only be room<br />

for one or two impact plants – so don’t go bananas.<br />

There are plenty of exotic looking, (but hardy)<br />

woody trees that will look the part. For big leaves<br />

there’s evergreen Magnolia grandiflora, which also<br />

has enormous, pale cream scented flowers, Almost<br />

evergreen is Tetrapanax ‘Rex’ – or rice paper tree. With<br />

its enormous palmate leaves it looks very exotic, but<br />

is usually fairly hardy. Catalpa bignonioides, the Indian<br />

bean tree, will grow enormous left to its own devices,<br />

but looks spectacular when cut hard back each year,<br />

as this makes the leaves even bigger, while dwarfing<br />

the tree. Palms are impressive and many are hardy<br />

in a sheltered situation. Or you could try a Fig tree,<br />

which in a good year, will also bring luscious fruit.<br />

Mid-sized leaves can be just as exotic looking – Ginko<br />

biloba has really unusual fan shaped leaves that turn a<br />

wonderful deep butter yellow colour in the autumn.<br />

It is an ancient plant that’s been around since the time<br />

of the dinosaurs and is a bit slow growing, but makes<br />

up for that by being low maintenance and pest free.<br />

Mid Layer<br />

From head height down to just above the knee, the mid<br />

layer in a tropical scheme will have to work hard – foliage<br />

will be mainly green, often dark, packed with chlorophyl<br />

and glossy, to make the most of the dappled light under<br />

the canopy. Sword-like leaves are useful here to punctuate<br />

and contrast – colourful Phormiums work well, Cordylines<br />

will do a similar job, but will eventually grow very tall.<br />

Euphorbia mellifera or Honey spurge, looks exotic, with<br />

honey scented flowering bracts in spring. It can get<br />

quite large, but is easy to prune and keep to scale – just<br />

watch out for the irritant sap that all Euphorbias have<br />

and wear gloves/long sleeves when cutting back. Another<br />

plant that smells of honey is Melianthus major. It is a bit<br />

sprawly – but in a gentle jungle way and has beautiful,<br />

glaucous leaves, softly serrated, the greeny-blue colour<br />

makes a lovely contrast with other foliage. Melianthus<br />

will need a sunnier spot than some of the darker leaved<br />

and will be cut back, but rarely killed, by the frost.<br />

Verbena bonariensis<br />

with Crocosmia<br />

Morning Glory ‘Grandpa Ot’<br />

Alstromeria<br />

“Indian Summer’<br />

Exotic Blooms<br />

Tender, fabulous, but worth it, tuberous perennials like<br />

Cannas, Dahlias and Agapanthus will provide gorgeous<br />

flowers from early summer until the frosts. They have<br />

jungly foliage too – in contrasting shape and form – <br />

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Phormium<br />

Cannas unfurl to look like mini banana<br />

plants, Agapanthus leaves are arching<br />

and strappy, Dahlias are lush and leafy.<br />

Lilies are great for providing a splash<br />

of splendid colour without taking up<br />

much room, These do like a bit of<br />

sun, it’s true, but Fuchsias, Begonias<br />

and tender perennials like Impatiens<br />

(Busy Lizzies) will thrive in the shade<br />

of other plants. Frost tender annuals<br />

like Zinnia, Tithonia and scented<br />

Nicotioana (tobacco plants) will bring<br />

pops of colour all summer long – and<br />

all for the price of a packet of seeds.<br />

Plant them out once the danger of<br />

frost is over – and use them to fill<br />

gaps in the border or plant in pots<br />

to group together in a display.<br />

Ground Cover<br />

Creeping along the floor of a jungle<br />

will be the most tenacious of the plants,<br />

able to exist in the deepest shade in<br />

and among their taller neighbours.<br />

These plants will be able to manage<br />

with less of everything and will make<br />

a green carpet that will also smother<br />

any non-exotic weeds that might try<br />

to infiltrate the scheme. Lysimachia<br />

(creeping Jenny) is a useful scrambler<br />

in damp shade, Bergenia (Elephants<br />

ears) has huge weed-smothering<br />

leathery leaves and spring flowers,<br />

Pachysandra has smaller palmate leaves<br />

and is great beneath trees and shrubs,<br />

Euphorbia Purpurea’s dark leaves and<br />

lime green bracts will provide contrast.<br />

And then there is a host of delicate<br />

looking ferns that will bring a little<br />

air and light to the understorey.<br />

<strong>Winter</strong><br />

Tropical gardens don’t look their<br />

best in the winter, let’s be honest. If<br />

you have enough space to close off<br />

your exotic space or divert attention<br />

elsewhere once the frosts arrive, you<br />

can plant with abandon and then<br />

make sure that the most tender have<br />

an over-wintering space while you<br />

wrap up the rest. If this is an area that<br />

you look at out of your window all<br />

year round, then you will have to plan<br />

carefully to stop it looking depressing<br />

and bare in the winter. Perhaps stick<br />

to evergreens, hardier plants and then<br />

add in some bulbs to cheer it up in the<br />

spring. Provide continuity of interest<br />

through the seasons, while still making<br />

room for the blast of tropical colour<br />

and leaf in the summer months.<br />

Water<br />

There’s no getting away from it – true<br />

jungle plants will need water – and<br />

lots of it, something that not many<br />

of us have the luxury of through the<br />

summer, unless we have been very<br />

careful and set up lots of rainwater<br />

storage. Luckily, as discussed above,<br />

there are a few sensible, large-leaved,<br />

exotic looking shrubs and perennials<br />

that are able to withstand periods<br />

of dry weather, will thrive in dry<br />

shade and aren’t bothered too much<br />

by pests and diseases. Hooray!<br />

Top of my list would probably<br />

be Fatsia japonica, with its huge<br />

shiny dark green leaves and unusual<br />

looking, creamy flowers in the<br />

autumn. It is a real gem and will<br />

provide structure and presence in<br />

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muddling along through the seasons,<br />

sporadically flowering with slightly<br />

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weird looking metallic blue/black<br />

berries that last a long time on the<br />

plant – because they are too suspicious<br />

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together with fewer stomata (tiny holes<br />

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skills to talk about and manage<br />

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aspect of our co-curricular offering<br />

to find additional ways to enhance<br />

wellbeing; and we have regularly<br />

hosted Youth Mental Health First<br />

Aid courses for local schools and<br />

parents in association with the<br />

Sam West Foundation. But we are<br />

always looking at what more we<br />

can do for wellbeing.<br />

We wanted to create a garden<br />

that would be an enclosed,<br />

safe space, in contrast to our<br />

widespread open spaces (we are<br />

lucky enough to sit on over 50<br />

acres). It would be somewhere<br />

to take a short time out from a<br />

lesson, to alleviate anxiety before<br />

the start of the day, to find a<br />

moment of calm when feeling tired<br />

or overwhelmed.<br />

We knew the design and<br />

execution should be just as<br />

important as the end result; it was<br />

vital to maximise the children’s<br />

involvement from beginning to<br />

end. This would be their initiative.<br />

Dulwich Prep Cranbrook tell us about their<br />

wonderful Sensory Garden project<br />

The Design<br />

The idea for a sensory wellbeing<br />

garden – incorporating all five<br />

senses – was taken to the Little<br />

Stream children, across Years 1 – 4,<br />

during an assembly. The design<br />

and elements they wanted to<br />

include were up to them and they<br />

really rose to the challenge.<br />

The children collaborated on<br />

their ideas, which were then<br />

presented by a representative from<br />

each form at the Little Stream<br />

School Council meeting during<br />

the Spring term. Lots of truly<br />

wonderful ideas were proposed,<br />

tying in with the five different<br />

senses. Some ideas were perhaps<br />

more feasible than others, but<br />

we found a way to incorporate as<br />

much as possible.<br />

The children’s ideas included<br />

a wishing well or water feature,<br />

outdoor speakers, rain sticks,<br />

insect hotels, a bird box, a stream,<br />

wind chimes, and outdoor<br />

instruments for sounds.<br />

Fruit trees, plants and herbs<br />

were all considered to incorporate<br />

taste, while the sense of smell<br />

could be achieved through floral<br />

scents of lavender or roses.<br />

Popular sight requests included<br />

lighting, sunflowers, statues, a<br />

treehouse, mirrors and colourful<br />

artworks. And finally, the sense of<br />

touch inspired ideas of textured<br />

pathways, sandpits, grasses, a<br />

water trough, or the ultimate<br />

choice: an animal cuddle corner.<br />

The animal cuddle corner came<br />

top of everyone’s list.<br />

Local landscape designer, David<br />

Sarton, then took the children’s<br />

marvellous ideas and used them to<br />

create a garden design.<br />

The Build<br />

Across several weeks, children,<br />

parents and staff collaborated<br />

in their efforts to create the<br />

garden: we painted fences, made<br />

flower beds, built paths, planted<br />

flowers, shrubs, fruit trees and<br />

herbs, installed water features<br />

and ensconced the much-desired<br />

guinea pig hutch.<br />

The Result<br />

The joy of working collaboratively<br />

towards such a positive end-goal<br />

was rivalled only by the end result<br />

itself. Our Year 3 children were<br />

on-hand to open our Sensory<br />

Wellbeing Garden to Dulwich<br />

staff, parents and children on<br />

our Summer Celebration Day<br />

25 th June, as planned. The<br />

transformation of the space into<br />

our Sensory Wellbeing Garden is<br />

breath-taking.<br />

Almost every idea presented<br />

at the Little Stream Council<br />

meeting has been incorporated<br />

and the delight among the<br />

children in seeing their concepts<br />

come to fruition has been a joy<br />

to behold. Since its opening we<br />

have run clubs and workshops<br />

to continue to maximise the<br />

children’s connection with the<br />

garden – willow weaving to create<br />

some shade for a beautiful bench<br />

donated by a kind staff member,<br />

gardening clubs, maintenance<br />

and watering clubs, and guinea<br />

pig care. There is so much more<br />

yet to come and we look forward<br />

to finding more ways in which<br />

the garden will contribute<br />

”<br />

to our<br />

wellbeing for years to come.<br />

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Meet<br />

the<br />

Art<br />

Teacher<br />

Education<br />

Meet Ellie Greenwood, artist and Art<br />

Teacher at Eastbourne College<br />

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What inspired you to<br />

become an art teacher?<br />

My degree course was very<br />

collaborative. I often led workshops<br />

for other pupils, but it was my<br />

experience as an artist-in-residence<br />

at a secondary school which<br />

ultimately inspired me to teach. I<br />

learnt so much in such a short space<br />

of time – applying for a PGCE<br />

seemed like the perfect next step.<br />

What do you enjoy most<br />

about your work?<br />

I really enjoy the moment a pupil<br />

finds their sense of direction with a<br />

project – this often happens to a few<br />

pupils at the same time and suddenly<br />

there’s this energy in the studio that<br />

really excites me. Plus, I get to play<br />

with art materials all day for a living!<br />

Do you have a favourite<br />

artist or art movement?<br />

This subject is so broad. It’s almost<br />

impossible to choose favourites but<br />

that’s what I love about art. I do<br />

love large scale installation pieces<br />

and lots of forms of printmaking.<br />

I also like work made from every<br />

day or unusual materials like<br />

Tony Cragg’s Stack sculpture.<br />

How do you encourage pupils who<br />

don’t believe they have natural talent?<br />

Because of the breadth of this<br />

subject, there’s a way in for everyone<br />

whether that’s through digital<br />

media, printmaking, sculpture…<br />

Many people measure artistic talent<br />

by looking for a certain type of<br />

drawing style, but I value ideas<br />

and imagination. I would never<br />

discourage anyone from making art.<br />

Did you have a favourite<br />

teacher at school?<br />

My art teacher of course! She was<br />

so enthusiastic and encouraging<br />

but wasn’t afraid to tell you if<br />

something wasn’t working! I loved<br />

how she would do demo drawings<br />

or write notes on the surface<br />

of our desks with a whiteboard<br />

pen. I sometimes do that now!<br />

Why is it important to get creative?<br />

Over the last couple of years we<br />

have seen what a lifeline creativity<br />

is in supporting mental health and<br />

in tackling loneliness. We’re also<br />

going to need creative thinking<br />

to resolve some complex issues<br />

around the world, particularly<br />

those concerning the environment.<br />

Now with social media there are<br />

endless ways of being creative and<br />

reaching people with ideas.<br />

How do you relax outside work?<br />

I have a two-year-old daughter,<br />

so life isn’t particularly relaxing<br />

outside work but it is great fun!<br />

When I find the time I enjoy sea<br />

swimming, reading and making my<br />

own work. I love being outdoors<br />

and feel really lucky to live in such<br />

a beautiful part of the country.<br />

If you could take your pupils to<br />

any inspiring gallery or sight in<br />

the world where would you go?<br />

I’d like to take pupils to see the<br />

prehistoric drawings in the Cave of<br />

Altamira. It would be interesting to<br />

demonstrate the idea that humans<br />

are innately creative beings and that<br />

we have been using drawing to make<br />

sense of the world for millennia,<br />

before schools even existed.<br />

For more information and<br />

details of open days visit<br />

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Education<br />

Claire Baker, Head of Lower School at Mayfield<br />

School tells us about their Cookie Project<br />

A Recipe for Success<br />

ealing with the opportunities and<br />

challenges of life requires well developed<br />

soft skills, especially in the workplace, and Senior<br />

School provides a vital opportunity to develop<br />

these skills. It is a time when habits are formed<br />

and pupils need to be encouraged to try new<br />

things to help them discover interests and passions,<br />

learn more about themselves, and practice how to<br />

work effectively alongside peers. Mayfield School’s<br />

answer to this is The Cookie Project.<br />

Ingredients<br />

‘The CBIs ‘Getting young people work ready’ study (2019) set out three pillars<br />

to being work ready, based on research with employers. These three pillars are:<br />

• Character – an individual’s traits and strengths<br />

• Knowledge – the best and most powerful knowledge<br />

within subject disciplines<br />

• Skills – the application of knowledge and character in real world scenarios<br />

through teamwork, leadership, problem-solving and communication<br />

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Preparation<br />

As part of the Mayfield journey, we provide plenty of<br />

opportunities to develop these skills. In Years 7 and 8,<br />

we run a themed cross-curricular day each term, during<br />

which girls are taken off timetable to explore topics in<br />

greater depth, with recent examples including Earth Day,<br />

Moon Camp, Code Breaking, and the Cookie Project.<br />

Method<br />

‘The Cookie Project is based on the BBC’s The Apprentice, with the girls working in teams<br />

to produce cookies, design packaging, come up with a marketing plan, and then deliver a<br />

presentation and a short advert promoting their product. The girls have great fun and valuable<br />

soft skills – communication, listening, empathy, problem solving, creativity, teamwork,<br />

resilience – are all enhanced as they tackle the challenges of the day. It is these soft skills that<br />

will help them develop into confident, reflective, empathetic and successful world citizens.’<br />

To find out more about the exciting work at Mayfield School, including details of upcoming Open Days, visit mayfieldgirls.org<br />

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Education<br />

Laura Leigh-Hill, Head of Nursery at Bede’s, shares her guide to starting school in <strong>September</strong><br />

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It is that time of year again! Your fouryear-old’s<br />

time at pre-school has come<br />

to an end and they will begin their<br />

school journey, starting in Reception.<br />

This is a big change, a milestone in<br />

their life and it can feel daunting – for<br />

both your child and you! Every child is<br />

different and, therefore, settling into a<br />

new environment may take days, weeks<br />

or even months. No matter how long<br />

it takes them to settle into school life,<br />

there are some steps you can take to<br />

make the transition feel a little easier.<br />

Before they start school in reception:<br />

Help your child to feel familiar<br />

1 with their new environment. If there<br />

is the opportunity, your child should<br />

visit their new classroom and meet their<br />

new teacher. Getting to know their<br />

new surroundings will help to ease any<br />

anxieties they may have about being in a<br />

new place. At Bede’s, during the Summer<br />

Term, Nursery children attend some of<br />

the Reception class assemblies and join<br />

in lessons. Children new to the school<br />

are invited to visit their new class and<br />

teachers in the following weeks. This also<br />

provides them with an opportunity to<br />

meet their peers and for parents to meet<br />

one another. Our Reception teachers also<br />

visit the Nursery children at play and story<br />

times. This means that the children get to<br />

know each other, their teachers and their<br />

new surroundings before <strong>September</strong> rolls<br />

around, making them more comfortable<br />

and even excited for their new start!<br />

Communicate positively about their<br />

2 new start. Speak to your child about<br />

how they feel about starting at school.<br />

Give plenty of reassurance and listen to<br />

any worries they may have. You can talk<br />

about any of the new extracurricular<br />

activities the child will be<br />

involved with and<br />

the opportunities that they will be able<br />

to embark upon at their new stage in<br />

school life. This should help them look<br />

forward to what’s to come in <strong>September</strong>.<br />

Make sure your child has everything<br />

3 they need. When starting at their<br />

new school, it is likely that they will<br />

need the correct uniform and PE kit.<br />

Your child’s school should provide you<br />

with a list of everything they may need.<br />

Trying their uniform on will help your<br />

child to visualise the next step and feel<br />

excitement about their new start.<br />

4Help your child with some<br />

independence skills before they start.<br />

There are some skills that are very useful<br />

and will help your child’s transition into<br />

Reception more seamless and stress-free.<br />

For example, helping your son or daughter<br />

to dress and undress and teaching them<br />

to put their shoes on (with Velcro). It<br />

is also helpful if they can be used to<br />

using the toilet independently, washing<br />

their hands, holding and using scissors,<br />

enjoying stories, recognising their name<br />

and writing their name if possible. It is<br />

hugely beneficial if you and your son or<br />

daughter play letter and sound games<br />

(using ‘pure’ sounds) as well as simple<br />

maths games. At Bede’s, we offer plenty of<br />

resources for our parents to help with the<br />

above all before their child walks through<br />

the door in <strong>September</strong> to join Reception.<br />

5Practise the school run! It may<br />

sound daft, but in the lead up to<br />

the start of their school journey it really<br />

helps children to be as prepared as<br />

possible and simply explaining timings<br />

and travelling to and from their school<br />

will help ease them into that transition<br />

and get them excited about starting<br />

school in <strong>September</strong>. At Bede’s we are<br />

fortunate to have the beautiful Eastbourne<br />

coastline right on our doorstep, so it’s<br />

the perfect excuse to enjoy a day at<br />

the seaside in the school break whilst<br />

practising your route to your new school!<br />

6It’s a big change for you too...<br />

especially if it’s your first child! You<br />

may be feeling daunted by the prospect<br />

and children can easily sense your<br />

unease. Ensure you have received all the<br />

information from your child’s school so<br />

you feel prepared and organised about<br />

timings, start of term activities. Make<br />

sure you have a list of everything your<br />

child needs to bring on their first day<br />

and also log-in details for any parent<br />

communication portals. At Bede’s<br />

we have weekly round-ups, monthly<br />

newsletters and also ClassList which<br />

give parents a glimpse into their child’s<br />

school day. It’s a great way to help<br />

spark discussions with your child about<br />

what they have been doing at school<br />

and give you the reassurance you need<br />

that they are settling into school life.<br />

If you or your child are worried about<br />

what those first few weeks of Reception<br />

may look like, it is important to note<br />

that you are not alone and there are<br />

many going through the same process<br />

and have similar worries. At Bede’s, we<br />

pride ourselves on establishing strong<br />

links with our parents and believe that<br />

maintaining these links are vital to your<br />

child’s development. Our door is open for<br />

parents to communicate any concerns or<br />

questions at any time. It is our priority to<br />

create a joyful learning experience for all<br />

of our pupils, and we are confident that<br />

all Reception pupils will feel comfortable<br />

and settled within just a few weeks.<br />

To find out more about the outstanding<br />

teaching, facilities and co-curricular<br />

opportunities at Bede’s, sign up for<br />

their Prep School Open Morning on<br />

Saturday 8 October <strong>2022</strong>. Book<br />

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Education<br />

The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell follows<br />

the story of Vita, who moves to New York after her<br />

grandfather was robbed of everything he owned. With<br />

the aid of 3 unlikely friends, she concocts a plan to<br />

steal back all he lost. I recommend this book to people<br />

who love mystery and adventure, and a good historic<br />

read. I would describe this book as adventurous,<br />

exciting and suspenseful – I couldn’t wait to<br />

turn the next page!<br />

– Issie Pincus (age 12) at Skippers Hill<br />

Prep School<br />

The Girl of Ink and Stars by<br />

Kiran Hargrave is an amazing<br />

fiction book about an island with<br />

a legend that leads to intriguing<br />

happenings, and from the small<br />

village comes a cartographer’s<br />

daughter who will do anything to<br />

save her friend. I love that I really<br />

feel connected with the characters,<br />

and there are always reasons to turn<br />

the page and keep reading. It is a<br />

book of Friendship, Adventure and<br />

Mystery and a gripping book that<br />

inspires and shapes young minds.<br />

– Molly Burden (age 12) at<br />

Skippers Hill Prep School<br />

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For older readers I would highly<br />

recommend Fake Law, written by<br />

the Secret Barrister, who is a reallife<br />

junior barrister. They use their<br />

anonymity to give a behind-the-scenes<br />

account of the world of criminal law<br />

and even reveal cases of corruption.<br />

I was interested learning about the<br />

shocking cases where laws have been<br />

manipulated to serve questionable<br />

outcomes and protect those in power<br />

rather than victims of crime.<br />

I would only recommend this book<br />

to older readers due to the content<br />

around very serious criminality.<br />

– Arthur Pavey (age 14)<br />

at Oakwood Park<br />

Grammar School<br />

Find your next favourite read<br />

with recommendations from<br />

students and teachers<br />

I thoroughly enjoy sharing extracts from the<br />

Bill Bryson travel books with our Year 7 and 8. He writes<br />

with such superb detail and his clever, often ridiculous<br />

sense of humour appeals greatly whilst also teaching us<br />

about humour in writing. We study carefully selected<br />

extracts from: “The Life and <strong>Times</strong> of the Thunderbolt<br />

Kid”, a memoir of his childhood spent in Iowa in the<br />

1950s, and “Neither Here Nor There”, a tale of his<br />

backpacking adventures in Europe. Highly entertaining!<br />

– Katrina Atkins Head of English at Marlborough House<br />

A book which I would recommend<br />

is “The Woman In Black” by Susan<br />

Hill. We study this text with our Year<br />

7 students and I have found that<br />

they thoroughly enjoy the wonderful<br />

description and use of imagery, the<br />

brooding atmosphere and the clever<br />

build-up of tension. Without giving<br />

away too much, it also has a stunning<br />

ending. The book provides an accessible<br />

and enjoyable introduction to the<br />

genre of Gothic fiction without<br />

being too terrifying!<br />

– Katrina Atkins Head of English<br />

at Marlborough House<br />

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Don’t miss Haslemere’s Vintage,<br />

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an eclectic bunch of local artisans,<br />

vintage collectors and home deco<br />

stylists have joined forces with<br />

Haslemere Chamber of Trade to<br />

stage the fair. Includes brocante,<br />

handmade jewellery, screenprinted<br />

textiles, pottery and more.<br />

Entry: Free and free parking<br />

Sun 4 Sept 11am-4pm<br />

St Martin’s Car Park, Mill<br />

Lane Dorking, Surrey<br />

DORKING ARTISAN<br />

MARKET<br />

Surrounded by the Surrey Hills,<br />

with nearby independent shops<br />

and cafés to enjoy. The market<br />

comprises 30 stalls of local<br />

producers providing enticing food,<br />

bespoke spirits and craft beers,<br />

fabulous handmade arts, crafts,<br />

jewellery, eco-friendly items,<br />

pet treats, clothing, home and<br />

garden décor – there is something<br />

for everyone. The market is<br />

held on the first Sunday of each<br />

month with local musicians<br />

providing entertainment,<br />

and free parking on-site.<br />

Entry: Free<br />

Weds 14 – Sun 18 Sept<br />

Riverhill Himalayan Gardens,<br />

Riverhill, Sevenoaks,<br />

Kent, TN15 0RR<br />

SKETCH IN SEPTEMBER<br />

A week of creativity and calm.<br />

To coincide with the Eden<br />

Valley Artists’ exhibition in the<br />

Garden Room this week, Riverhill<br />

Himalayan Gardens will be<br />

promoting creativity. Take some<br />

time for yourself and, maybe,<br />

try something completely new.<br />

Art materials will be supplied to<br />

encourage you to sketch in the<br />

gardens and enjoy slowing down<br />

and studying nature for a while.<br />

Entry: Free, included<br />

in gardens ticket<br />

riverhillgardens.co.uk<br />

Fri 23 – Sun 25 Sept<br />

Sandown Park Racecourse,<br />

Portsmouth Road, Esher,<br />

Surrey KT10 9AJ<br />

CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR<br />

Art lovers and artists meet faceto-face<br />

at Contemporary Art<br />

Fairs, to browse, to talk, to admire<br />

and to buy. Artwork from £50<br />

to £5,000, plus workshops and<br />

demonstrations from leading<br />

artists. Get some inspiration.<br />

This is an opportunity to see over<br />

160 curated artists, printmakers,<br />

photographers, sculptors,<br />

ceramicists and selected galleries<br />

from all over the UK; offering<br />

the very best in Contemporary<br />

Art. See website for daily opening<br />

times and ticket prices.<br />

contemporaryartfairs.co.uk<br />

DAYS OUT<br />

Fri 9 – Sun 11 Sept<br />

Epsom Historic Marketplace<br />

GO EPSOM HERITAGE<br />

WEEKEND<br />

Take a trip to Epsom for Heritage<br />

Open Days weekend and you will<br />

encounter several new attractions<br />

and premises opening their doors.<br />

Epsom’s historic marketplace will<br />

be playing host to The Vintage<br />

Mobile Cinema – the world’s<br />

one and only, perfectly preserved,<br />

cinema in a van. Vintage buses<br />

will be offering round trips and<br />

several more attractions will be<br />

announced in the coming weeks.<br />

Follow Go Epsom on social media<br />

nearer the time for updates.<br />

goepsom.com<br />

Sat 17 Sept<br />

Losely Park, Guildford<br />

GU3 1HS<br />

THE MILITARY POLO<br />

– CHUKKA EVENTS<br />

The Royal Navy and British<br />

Army Polo teams are ready to<br />

go head-to-head for what will<br />

be an exciting day! Whether<br />

you are bringing friends,<br />

family or hosting clients, the<br />

Military Polo <strong>2022</strong> offers all<br />

you could hope for and more.<br />

The stunning location at Loseley<br />

Park allows you to get close to<br />

the action whilst surrounded<br />

What’s On in <strong>September</strong><br />

by a range of food, drink and<br />

other family-friendly stands. The<br />

atmosphere will sweep you off<br />

your feet and leave you wanting<br />

to come back year after year.<br />

Entry: £15<br />

themilitarypolo.com<br />

MUSIC & THEATRE<br />

Fri 9 – Mon 25 Sept<br />

Rye various locations<br />

RYE ARTS FESTIVAL<br />

Rye Arts Festival offers a broad<br />

range of artistic events, with<br />

world class performers from<br />

around the globe. The Festival has<br />

partnered with the City Music<br />

Foundation (CMF) to showcase<br />

many brilliant young professional<br />

classical musicians. The music<br />

programme mixes traditional and<br />

contemporary featuring everything<br />

from the hot sounds of West<br />

Africa to the fusion of blues guitar<br />

and Celtic fiddle (by way of 1920s<br />

Charleston music and English<br />

folk). The books programme is<br />

headlined by best-selling author<br />

Robert Harris, while Lord David<br />

Owen will also provide a topical<br />

talk about England’s relationship<br />

with Russia, and the Reverend<br />

Richard Coles will discuss his<br />

debut crime novel Murder in<br />

the Cathedral. Elsewhere, a<br />

number of E.F. Benson events<br />

celebrate the centenary of Miss<br />

Mapp’s publication. And don’t<br />

miss Inside the Archers, where<br />

the editor Jeremy Howe and<br />

Felicity French (Ruth Archer)<br />

give the low down on the world’s<br />

longest running radio drama!<br />

ryeartsfestival.org.uk<br />

Wed 14 Sep<br />

GLive, Guildford<br />

DAVE GORMAN:<br />

POWERPOINT TO<br />

THE PEOPLE<br />

Dave Gorman is back on the<br />

road with a brand new live show.<br />

The ‘high priest of the comedy<br />

Powerpoint talk’ (The <strong>Times</strong>)<br />

is touring again – as much as<br />

anything to demonstrate that a<br />

powerpoint presentation doesn’t<br />

have to involve a man in a grey<br />

suit standing behind a lectern<br />

and saying ‘next slide please’.<br />

We’ve all had enough of that,<br />

so let’s put it all behind us and<br />

never speak of it again – there<br />

are far more important things<br />

to analyse. Well… they’re more<br />

important in Dave’s head anyway.<br />

Entry: £31.50 (transaction<br />

fee may apply)<br />

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Fri 30 Sept 7:30pm<br />

GLive Guildford<br />

SUPREME QUEEN<br />

Supreme Queen take things to a<br />

whole different level, with their<br />

homage to the halcyon days of one<br />

of the planet’s greatest ever rock<br />

bands. Scott Maley’s incredible<br />

vocal and visual resemblance to<br />

Freddie Mercury, fronting this<br />

remarkable band of musicians,<br />

has seen them become one of<br />

the most respected bands of<br />

their genre anywhere on earth.<br />

Entry: £27.50 (transaction<br />

fee may apply)<br />

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NATURE<br />

Sat 10 Sept 2pm-4.30pm<br />

West Blean and Thornden<br />

Woods, Sturry<br />

WILDER KENT SAFARI:<br />

BISON, PIGS & PONIES<br />

AT THE BLEAN<br />

With expert guides and small<br />

groups, Kent Wildlife Trust’s<br />

safaris showcase their vital<br />

projects and conservation work.<br />

This month discover the Wilder<br />

Blean project. Throughout <strong>2022</strong><br />

European bison, Iron Age pigs,<br />

Exmoor ponies and Longhorn<br />

cattle have been arriving at the<br />

Blean. Join this safari to learn<br />

about what characteristics led to<br />

each species being chosen, how<br />

their behaviour will replace some<br />

of the management normally done<br />

by humans and machinery, how<br />

their presence should improve<br />

habitats and biodiversity, and how<br />

this will be monitored. Sightings<br />

can’t be guaranteed and this is<br />

aimed at adults, but 14-17 year<br />

olds may attend with an adult.<br />

Entry: £35<br />

kentwildlifetrust.org.uk <br />

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Woodfest & Country Fair - Sat 10 th & Sun 11 th <strong>September</strong><br />

We have lots of exciting woodland demonstrations taking place<br />

over the weekend including chainsaw carving, wood turning,<br />

campfire cooking, pole lathe turning as well as vintage tractors and<br />

stationary steam engines.<br />

The main arena attractions run continuously throughout the day<br />

and will include Joe’s Bows Falconry, Terrier Racing, Speed Carve,<br />

Ferret Racing, Fun Dog Show (Sunday) and new for <strong>2022</strong>, The Mini<br />

Pony Show.<br />

We have many different craft making activities including clay<br />

creations and flower crowns, creepy claws animal display and<br />

Arbor, Part Man. Part Tree. An interactive show, for all the family<br />

to experience. There will also a range of craft stalls, local food and<br />

drink. This is a great show for all the family! Adults £10 children<br />

under 16 are free of charge. Book your tickets online to save 10%.<br />

Linocut Printing Workshop - Monday 26 th <strong>September</strong><br />

Our Head Gardener will gather a variety of flowers and leaves for<br />

you to use as inspiration for your print. After working these into a<br />

design. You’ll learn how to transfer your image to a linocut tile and<br />

carve it using specialist tools. £40.00pp. Online booking required.<br />

EAST SUSSEX’S PREMIER<br />

MULTI-ARTS FESTIVAL<br />

9th - 25th <strong>September</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />

ryeartsfestival.org.uk<br />

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Putting the WOW back into craft fairs<br />

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What’s On in <strong>September</strong><br />

Sat 24 – Sun 25 Sep 11am-5pm<br />

Lullingstone Castle Gardens,<br />

Eynsford, Kent DA4 0JA<br />

MEXICAN CELEBRATION<br />

WEEKEND – CACTUS<br />

AT THE CASTLE<br />

The Castle teams up with Cactus<br />

and Succulent Review for ‘Cactus<br />

at the Castle’. Visitors can browse<br />

and buy from leading nurseries<br />

and growers; Darren Everest<br />

Dahlias will be there with a pop<br />

up plant sale and stunning Dahlia<br />

displays; and Tom Hart Dyke will<br />

be offering tours of The World<br />

Garden at 12.30 and 2.30pm.<br />

Entry: Adults £12.50, children<br />

under 16 Free, Cactus and<br />

Succulent Review Subscribers<br />

£6, BCSS Members £10<br />

lullingstonecastle.co.uk<br />

LOOKING FORWARD<br />

Sat 8 Oct 10.30am-4.30pm<br />

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John’s Street, Farncombe<br />

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UPHOLSTERY COURSE<br />

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Pre-booking is essential for<br />

this fantastic opportunity to<br />

learn new upholstery skills. The<br />

course will run with no more<br />

than ten students. More dates<br />

and other courses are available<br />

on the website. Payment due<br />

at least two weeks before the<br />

course, so book soon.<br />

Entry: £150 (excluding fabric)<br />

sarahlouisedix.co.uk<br />

Sat 15 Oct 7.30pm<br />

St Andrew’s Parish Church<br />

Upper Church Lane,<br />

Farnham, Surrey GU9 7PW<br />

FARNHAM SINFONIA’S<br />

AUTUMN CONCERT<br />

Formed in 2018 by composer<br />

and conductor Matthew Taylor,<br />

Farnham Sinfonia brings together<br />

professional musicians who live<br />

within the local community.<br />

Farnham Sinfonia’s Autumn<br />

concert includes Handel’s Overture<br />

- Arrival of the Queen of Sheba;<br />

Vaughan Williams’ Oboe Conerto<br />

with soloist, James Turnbull;<br />

a world premier of Taylor’s<br />

Castle Vistas, a Farnham Castle<br />

Charity & Trust Queen’s Jubilee<br />

commission; and Schubert’s<br />

Symphony No. 5. Refreshments will<br />

be available during the interval<br />

and there is free parking from<br />

6.30pm in Waggoners Car Park,<br />

a short walkin distance away. For<br />

further information please contact<br />

email address below or see website.<br />

Entry: Free (retiring collection)<br />

farnhamsinfonia<strong>2022</strong>@gmail.com<br />

farnhamsinfonia.org.uk<br />

Sat 22 – Mon 24 Oct<br />

St Mary in the Castle, Hastings<br />

BAREFOOT OPERA:<br />

BLOOM BRITANNIA<br />

Barefoot Opera presents a<br />

new ‘people’s opera’ by leading<br />

composer Orlando Gough and<br />

librettist Stephen Plaice, a post-<br />

Brexit satire on the Great British<br />

seaside, sung by the people<br />

who live there. Coming to the<br />

stage in Hastings this Autumn,<br />

Bloom Britannia is a ‘state of the<br />

nation’, inclusive, contemporary<br />

production that tells the story of<br />

one extraordinary day in the life<br />

of a seaside town. An outstanding<br />

team of professionals will perform<br />

alongside a chorus of people<br />

from Hastings, St. Leonards and<br />

Bexhill, including award-winning<br />

soprano Abigail Kelly, ENO<br />

regular Simone Ibbett-Brown,<br />

leading director, Polly Graham,<br />

and conductor Christopher Stark.<br />

Entry: £10-£25<br />

barefootopera.com<br />

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Farm<br />

Fables<br />

There’s much more to the<br />

humble blackberry than meets<br />

the eye, as Jane Howard explains<br />

I<br />

love <strong>September</strong>, my favourite month<br />

partly because of the chance to wear a<br />

jumper and partly because few things in life<br />

are as pleasurable as foraging (is that sad?). And<br />

amongst the many delicacies to be found and foraged,<br />

blackberries are top my list. A bit like raising tadpoles<br />

or watching as caterpillars in a jar turn to chrysalises,<br />

these are simple pleasures that need to be savoured.<br />

And for those of you who think blackberrying just<br />

involves a walk in the countryside with<br />

a carrier bag and a lot of subsequent<br />

scratches, let me enlighten you. Firstly,<br />

timing. Did you know that you absolutely<br />

have to pick your blackberries before<br />

Michaelmas Day, <strong>September</strong> 29th? For<br />

this is the day Lucifer was expelled from<br />

heaven, and when he fell from the skies<br />

he landed on a blackberry bush. Not<br />

surprisingly he was less than impressed<br />

and cursed the fruit, first scorching it<br />

with his fiery breath, then spitting on it<br />

making the berries unfit for consumption!<br />

But it’s not just about timing, there’s<br />

more you need to know. There is a quite<br />

wonderful book written in 1954 by<br />

Dorothy Hartley Food in England and still<br />

in print, which contains recipes, anecdotes,<br />

household hints, spells and history,<br />

making it an absolute classic – and a great present for any<br />

foodies. In the book Dorothy guides us through which<br />

blackberries to choose for which purpose. At the start of<br />

the season the lowest berry of each cluster swells and ripens<br />

alone and these are the juiciest ones to be eaten alone. The<br />

secondary berries which ripen later are less juicy but good<br />

for pies and jams and by the end of the month the last<br />

blackberries are smaller with more seed in proportion to<br />

pulp, so must be cooked with apple. So now you know!<br />

But it’s not just me who will be foraging this month.<br />

Did you know that<br />

you absolutely have to<br />

pick your blackberries<br />

before Michaelmas<br />

Day, <strong>September</strong> 29th?<br />

For this is the day<br />

Lucifer was expelled<br />

from heaven, and<br />

when he fell from the<br />

skies he landed on<br />

a blackberry bush<br />

The pigs will also soon be at it too giving up on their usual<br />

rations as they gorge themselves on acorns. For hundreds of<br />

years peasant farmers released their pigs into<br />

the woods at this time of year to fatten up<br />

on acorns for Christmas in a practice known<br />

as pannage. The Weald was the stronghold<br />

of pannage in Britain. In 1086 Domesday<br />

Book records indicate that around 150,000<br />

pigs were being driven every season from<br />

the Low Weald up to the High Weald to<br />

clearings in the oak forests known as Dens.<br />

Farmers from a particular village made<br />

the same journey from their village to<br />

their Den year after year along droving<br />

routes and these sunken tracks can still<br />

be found today in a pattern of north<br />

south lanes, bridleways and footpaths<br />

radiating away from the High Weald.<br />

And many of the Dens eventually became<br />

established settlements which is how<br />

places like Horsmonden, Tenterden<br />

and Witherenden acquired their names.<br />

With the exception of The New Forest, and Coopers<br />

Farm, pannage isn’t really practised any longer which is<br />

a great shame because acorns are a great source of free<br />

protein and there aren’t many other uses for them.<br />

Even Dorothy is stumped: “Acorns can be ground up<br />

to supplement bread flour and can be roasted to make<br />

a miserable coffee but as far back as records go they are<br />

mostly used for pig feed”. Not surprising: the pork is utterly<br />

delicious and goes very well with the blackberry jelly.<br />

Find out more about daily life at Coopers Farm by visiting coopersfarmstonegate.co.uk<br />

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