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Guernsey’s Style Magazine | no. 18 | June 2013 | the

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oogling makeover brings up a myriad of results including such oddities as the barbie website where you can “create your own pinktastic makeover magazine cover with the Superstar Makeovers game. Become a superstar designer in this pink-tastic game”. [if anyone has actually done this we’d love to hear from you!!]. Too many girls have probably strived to look like barbie over the years or another impossible to achieve body types. In real terms barbie would apparently only have room for half a liver and her ankles wouldn’t be able to support her own body weight, hardly a good look. On a real woman, Dita Von Teese probably has the smallest waist I have ever seen aided by a corset but you don’t see many women doing the weekly shop in one of those. Fashion has tried to satisfy our need for thin and curves in the right places with bandage and optical illusion dresses but more extreme measures have become mainstream with botox and plastic surgery on the up. Have a look at page 19, an article written by Mercedes Black which neatly sums up how easy it is to be led into drastic measures to make yourself look younger. I say what’s wrong with looking older? Surely like a good wine, we mature with age as we are shaped by our life experiences? Or is it our maturity we are running away from? A makeover does not always relate to beauty and can mean taking stock of other aspects of your life. So make a change in your life for the better, make yourself smile, help others, what about looking closer to home, spend time with friends and family, it’s amazing what a change it can make on both sides when you spend quality time with love ones and best of all it’s free, just like your lovely Gallery magazine. Until next month.

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32 Artist Profile

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CONTENTS Edito ............................................................................01 Highlights................................................................02 Contributors ...........................................................03 Event Listings ........................................................04 News in Numbers................................................06

A Tale of Two Guerns .......................................36 The Iron Lady ........................................................38 Guernsey Arts Commission .........................40 What’s on in the Market Buildings ..........42

Business ...................................................78

Travel ....................................................... 43 A Month in Myanmar .......................................44 Whats on in Sark .................................................46

Sport ......................................................... 87

Events... ........................................................ 07 Liberation Day ......................................................08 Guernsey Race Club ..........................................10 Stanley Gibbons...................................................11 60’s Exhibition ......................................................12

Upfront .....................................................13

Free Range Kids ...................................................14 The Image Overhaul .........................................16 A Simple Confidence Boost ..........................18 Innocent Makeover ............................................19 Relative Values......................................................20 POTM .........................................................................22

Give.... .......................................................23

Maison Saint Pierre ...........................................24 Our Community ...................................................26 GSPCA .......................................................................28

Culture ..................................................... 29 Film Review ............................................................30 Book Corner............................................................31 Artist Profile ...........................................................32 Aerial Guy ................................................................34

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Fashion.....................................................47

Extreme Celebrity Makeunder ................... 48 Makeover Fashion ...............................................50 Trends.........................................................................58 Style Stalker.. ..........................................................60

Beauty ...................................................... 61

Beauty News ...........................................................62 Making up Isn’t Hard to do ...........................64 Martin & Martin....................................................66 Great Lengths... .....................................................68 Perfect Creations... ..............................................69

Appetite ................................................... ....

Sitar Restuarant....................................................70 Levi Roots BBQ Recipes .................................72 Liberation Ale Recipes.....................................74

Business on the Sofa .........................................82 Business News ......................................................84 Odey Wealth...........................................................86 Shambles Rambles .............................................88 Muratti Day .............................................................90 Woman Power .......................................................92

Hardware ................................................95

Motoring News .....................................................96 Tupperware Terrors ...........................................98 Good, Bad, Ugly....................................................99 Phone Home ...........................................................100

Music ........................................................101

Lost Respect for Cover Songs ......................102 Jehst ............................................................................104 Paul Loraine ............................................................105 Dorset Arms ...........................................................106 Balcony Gig ............................................................107 Liberation Day, Last Post................................108 Liberation Day, Town ........................................108 Nightlife, Out and About................................110 Boardom....................................................................112

Home ........................................................ 75 25 Square Miles ....................................................76

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EVENTS

JUNE 2013 FOR MORE GREAT LOCAL EVENTS AND BUSINESSES VISIT WWW.THEBESTOFGUERNSEY.CO.UK

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GUERNSEY CLASSIC VEHICLE CLUB SHOW 2012

If classic cars get your motor humming, come and enjoy the sights at the annual Guernsey Classic Vehicle Club Car and Bike Show. From classic, vintage, sports and custom cars, exotic Japanese imports, and motorbikes to military vehicles, old cycles and commercial vehicles. Entry to the show is FREE to the public, with £3.00 per car for parking at ‘Home Farm Field’ (all proceeds to be split between local charities and ongoing costs of staging the event).

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REACH FOR A STAR AUDITIONS

SPECSAVERS OPTICAL GROUP, LA VILLIAZE £FREE TO ENTER // 17.00 TEL: 231709 // TINA.BURY@SPECSAVESRS.COM

Have you got star quality or a hidden talent that’s dying to escape? Specsavers is calling all singers, comedians, dancers, magicians or anyone with an act worthy of an audience, to come and audition for Guernsey’s premier talent competition. Auditions will be held on Tuesday 11th June and Wednesday 12th June 2013 from 5pm, culminating in a Grand Final at Beau Sejour on Saturday 21st September. First prize - £1,000.

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WINE TASTING DINNER AT THE FARMHOUSE THE FARMHOUSE HOTEL & RESTAURANT £39.95 // 19.30 TEL: 264181 // ENQUIRIES@THEFARMHOUSE.GG

The Farmhouse Hotel & Restaurant is holding a series of wine tasting dinners taking your taste buds on a stimulating journey. These include a fabulous 3 course meal, a different wine to complement each different dish, a presentation from the wine master and no empty glasses! To whet your appetite, this dinner will be with the WINE MASTER John Davies who will be discussing Tiki wines.

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ART SUNDAY

Arts Sunday brings together Guernsey’s multitude of arts groups to help nurture the idea of communication, cooperation and collaboration and create a real sense of Guernsey’s artistic community. Taking place along the Town seafront, Arts Sunday will feature a mix of live music, theatre and dance performances alongside poetry readings and workshops spanning many arts disciplines.

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This ‘Arts in Health’ exhibition at The Greenhouse explores the lives of people affected by, or living with HIV through photography and word. Artist Lottie Barnes worked in partnership with an HIV/AIDS charity facilitating a series of workshops. Participants were given disposable cameras and Lottie’s role was to help them turn their thoughts and emotions into images and words.

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SPORTINGBET FATHER’S DAY HALF MARATHON L’EREE TO TOWN

£15 (£17 NON-AFFILIATED ) BEFORE 9TH JUNE / £18 (£20 NON-AFFILIATED) AFTER 9TH JUNE // 09.30 WWW.GUERNSEYATHLETICS.ORG.GG/ HALF/INDEX.ASPX The Father’s Day challenge is back! Are you lacking motivation to get into shape? Are you a regular runner wanting a goal? Do you want to raise funds for Headway Guernsey? Do you just fancy running 13.1 miles around Guernsey’s picturesque coastline? If the answer to any of these is ‘Yes’ then go online now to enter. A FREE Shuttle bus from North Beach to L’Eree start line will be provided. GUERNSEY’S STYLE MAGAZINE

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LIBERATION MONUMENT TO CANDIE GARDENS

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EVACUATION, OCCUPATION, LIBERATION AND POTATO PEEL PIE GUIDED WALK £10.00 PER PERSON // 10.00 - 12.00 TEL: 252403 // WWW.GILLGIRARDTOURGUIDE.COM

A guided walk through the fascinating streets, steps and alleyways of Town with information on our ancient history, Second World War history right up to the present day. Meet at the Liberation Monument, St Peter Port and finish two hours later, outside the Guernsey Museum in Candie Gardens; a short walk from the starting point.

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FULL-BOAR MC PRESENTS LOCK-IN GUERNSEY ROUND 2 BEAU SEJOUR

£40.00 STANDARD SEATING / £80.00 VIP SEATING WITH FOOD // 17.30 TEL: 747280 // WWW.LOCKINGUERNSEY. COM

Full-Boar MC is proud to announce the return of Lock-In Guernsey - the island’s only cage fighting event. If an evening of white collar boxing, kick boxing, muay Thai and MMA cage fighting is your thing, then this guarantees an evening of punching entertainment.

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British top riders and sidecar crews will be competing at this championship event held at Vazon Bay, organised by the Guernsey Motorcycle & Car Club LBG. 500cc solos - 1000cc sidecars - no breaks no fear. First race at 10.30am. FREE event.

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TRI-ULTIMATE GUERNSEY ISLANDWIDE

£15 REGISTRATION FEE PER PERSON // 07.30 – 19.00 EMILY@HOPEFORACHILD.ORG.UK // WWW. TRI-ULTIMATE.GG

Hope for a Child presents a new island event, ‘Tri-Ultimate Guernsey’ on Sunday 30th June for individuals and teams. Swim the crystal waters of Pembroke Bay, cycle a picturesque circuit of the island, then run or walk the same route clocking up an impressive 44.25 miles. The event is open to individuals as a timed event as well as teams. Enter to win or just to have fun whilst raising money for Hope for a Child, Guernsey’s international charity. The event is kindly being sponsored by Next Generation IT.

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PINK LADIES SUNSET COASTAL WALK

GRANDES ROCQUES OR BORDEAUX KIOSK TO MARKET SQUARE £10 REGISTRATION FEE PER PERSON // 18.00 / 20.00 PINKLADIES@CWGSY.NET // WWW.PINKLADIES.ORG.GG

CALLING all ladies who love to wear pink, enjoy a stroll along the coast and want to do their bit for charity. Pink Ladies Sunset Coastal Walk is taking place on Saturday 22nd June raising money for Breast Cancer Support Group Guernsey. Choose from TWO different start points; GRANDES ROCQUES - 10.5 mile route or BORDEAUX KIOSK - 3.5 mile route, both finishing with a party in Market Square, where Cafe Bon Port will provide food and drink for walkers and entertainment from Abba tribute band Sensation. BECAUSE QUALITY MATTERS

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NEWS IN NUMBERS

NEWS IN NUMBERS £8000 1 A Trawler that was caught fishing within the 12-mile limit without a licence at the weekend could catch the Bailiwick’s yearly scallop total in just over a month. The Trawler was fined £8,000.

An Islander was part of a group that reached the peak of the highest mountain in the world (Mount Everest) at the weekend.

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Extreme sports fans labelled Guernsey’s long-awaited skatepark ‘awesome and exciting’ as they stepped foot on it for the first time.

Health and Social Services has predicted an overspend of between £2.5m. and £3.7m. for this year.

Police are investigating a potential arson with intent to endanger life after two people had to be rescued from a house fire.

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60’S EXHIBITION - CANDY GARDENS

Collectibles and investments experts Stanley Gibbons held an exclusive event at The Old Government House Hotel on Wednesday 1 May. Guests at the event enjoyed champagne and canapés whilst listening to a presentation explaining the benefits of investing in rare stamps and coins given by Stanley Gibbons Investment Director, Keith Heddle. The presentation was followed by a raffle offering a framed Penny Black and a bottle of champagne kindly donated by the hotel, which were won by Mr Harvey and Paul Matthews. As a reminder about all they had heard during the evening guests were presented with an extra-large Stanley Gibbons gold chocolate coin on their departure!

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FREE RANGE KIDS

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OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS THERE’S BEEN A FRIENDSHIP DEVELOPING ‘OVER THE HEDGE’ AT HOME. MY SON AND THE LITTLE GIRL NEXT DOOR HAVE HIT IT OFF AND NOW THEY ARE BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS, MUCKING AROUND TOGETHER, BEAUTIFULLY, SPONTANEOUSLY. NOTHING HAS BEEN SCHEDULED, NO ‘PLAYDATE’ MADE; IT’S JUST HAPPENED AND IT CHEERS MY HEART. Much has been written in recent years about pressurized childhood. Our children are too busy, have too many things, are overloaded with information and are expected to ‘do’ rather than to ‘be’. Cue a recent mumsy conversation... “How many activities are your children doing? We have something after school every day; trying to keep the weekends free but even they are getting swallowed up now. And the cost of it all...” My school-age child is pretty shattered after a day of learning. We have two ‘scheduled’ after-school activities in the week and sometimes even they are a bridge too far. Are we expecting too much of our little ones? It’s a fine balance between activity, boredom and overload, and I confess to often tipping it in the wrong direction. If I’m honest, what they really need is downtime, time to be free, unstructured, spontaneous and, yes, bored. In 2012, the Evening Standard estimated that 474 million unused toys were simply gathering dust in British homes. If my playroom is anything to go by, I can well believe it. Since my children were born I feel as if I’ve been swimming against a tide of ‘more, more, more’. Much as I’ve tried to stem the flow of plastic and electronics entering our house, they are stealthily coming in at a higher rate than they are going; only a fraction of the ‘stuff’ gets played with. Last year, The Telegraph* interviewed a Mrs Goddard Blythe, director of the Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology in Chester, who said the consumer culture had “led to parents being seduced into thinking that the more they provide for their children in terms of material, electrical goods and, in turn, the more money they spend, the better parents they are”. Over-indulgent parents are shunning outdoor play ‘in favour of expensive gadgets’. The trouble is, not only are our children overloaded with information, so are we. Each weekend I grimace as I look at The Times’ latest article on parenting. Recently it warned us of the perils of ‘overparenting’; indeed there is a whole new lexicon of definitions to describe us in these anxious times. Are you a ‘helicopter parent’, perhaps, overly protective, unable to cut the umbilical cord? Or do you instead embrace the virtues of ‘simplicity parenting’. The following week we will be worried about the latest food scare, perhaps, or a supposed link between childhood vaccinations and mental development. The list goes on. No wonder we can feel like

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rabbits caught in headlights at times. One response to this anxiety trend has been the stratospheric rise of the ‘Mummy Blog’. Sites such as simplemom.net and sewliberated.typepad.com exhort us to intentional, back-to-basics living, have a cult following and accompanying books. Type ‘simple parenting’ into your Amazon search, and titles such as ‘Fifteen Minutes Outside’, ‘Free Range Kids’ and, of course, ‘Simplicity Parenting’, will be suggested to you. A great book was recommended to me, ‘The Incredible Years’, which is full of down-to-earth, insightful wisdom; but the implication I also get is, ‘These are precious, fleeting times. DON’T BLOW IT!!!!’ Much as I enjoy dipping into and out of these beautiful, inspirational, sites and tomes, and much as I lust after a perfectly organised home and life, labelled to within an inch of its existence (let’s be honest, who wouldn’t?), something bothers me about them too. Subliminally we are told that, once you’ve crocheted your own dishcloths, fashioned your children’s clothes in organic fabrics and switched off the TV for good, life will be simpler and, ultimately, more fulfilling. Simple is undoubtedly better where children are concerned, but when we are feeding ourselves with beautifully Instagrammed images of a lifestyle, do we not induce even more feelings of guilt, anxiety and inadequacy? For all that simplicity parenting resonates with me, labelling it seems a step too far. It’s what our parents did anyway; they simply hadn’t made it into a verb. I want my kids to be free to explore, use their imaginations and be inventive. I want them to appreciate the things they have, play freely with other children and not waste it staring at a screen. So I’ve been avidly following journalist Hattie Garlick’s blog, freeourkids.co.uk. Faced with redundancy, she set herself the challenge of living with her young child ‘for free’; in her words, “ to try to raise a child for a year without spending ANY money (but having just as much fun).” She has simple rules such as no toy-buying, no paid-for activities, no new clothes. It’s such a breath of fresh air, it’s honest, beautiful and, hey presto, it’s working. I agree with her argument that trends such as ‘thrift chic’ “just peddle(s) another unattainable fantasy, another mirage of perfection for women to aim at before collapsing face-down in the sand in exhaustion. None of us have enough time to really live the ‘homemade idyll’’. In contrast, Hattie’s simplicity is actually attainable. I am also drawn to Tom Hodgkinson’s philosophy of Idle Parenting in which he advocates a certain ‘benign neglect’. By not being his child’s entertainer and activity provider 24/7, by involving them with chores from an early age, by leaving them alone a little more, he is teaching them self-reliance, achieving a balance between freedom and authority. Free range kids. Sounds liberating for all. *Source: Graeme Paton, 21st Aug 2012 The Telegraph

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This being Gallery’s ‘Makeover’ issue, we decided to take a look at some of our favourite instances of the phenomenon that is the celebrity rebrand. Not everyone in the public eye is capable of doing a complete U-turn; indeed, many are cursed to perform the same act over and over again for eternity, in a sort of purgatorial Groundhog Daystyle lifelong nightmare. Take Sid Owen, aka Eastenders’ Ricky Butcher. He was sick of being a miserable, pug-faced soap opera also-ran, and in 2000 embarked on a career as a pop star. One cod-reggae cover single later, he was back in Eastenders, only to leave, then return, then leave, then return, and then chuck the whole thing in and retire from acting. Of course, for every Ricky Butcher there’s a Charlene from Neighbours, who later came to be known as Kylie Minogue, and for every Bruce Forsyth (who has actually been a camp, doddering and slightly lecherous eighty-five year-old buffoon since 1912) there’s an Amy Winehouse, who went from slightly shy girl-next-door jazz singer to beehive-wearing tattooed tearaway and style icon. Pop culture is littered with examples of famous figures who have ditched their image, either intentionally or otherwise, and undergone drastic reinventions. Here are a few of our favourites:

RUSSELL BRAND

They say that the best pop culture icons are the ones that you don’t even have to see in full light to recognise; all you need to see is a silhouette to identify them instantly. Standup comic Russell Brand certainly seemed to have recognised that when he underwent his revamp in the mid-noughties. Going from a scruffy jeans, t-shirt and hoodie-wearing presenter of Big Brother’s Eforum in 2004 to, in his own words, an “S&M Willy Wonka”, Brand became a style icon, one of the world’s most bankable comedians, and his combination of John Cooper Clarke haircut, Pete Doherty wardrobe and heroin and sex addiction backstory only served to make him a favourite with the tabloids. To be fair, he was no stranger to controversy anyway, having been fired from his first presenting job with MTV in 2001, for dressing up as Osama Bin Laden the day after the September 11th attacks. But stories of drugs, high profile girlfriends, a charge for beating up a photographer in LA in 2010 and of course the notorious ‘Sachsgate’ scandal cemented his place as Hollywood’s go-to rock n’ roll comedy bad boy. It’s little wonder his highest profile acting roles so far have been in Get Him to the Greek, as a drug-addicted rockstar and as the titular boozy philanderer in Arthur. It’s certainly been an impressive re-Brand. Then: Geeky, scruffy E4 presenter with a penchant for the controversial Now: A-list Hollywood comic with a famed penchant for the opposite sex

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SNOOP DOGG

Calvin ‘Snoop Dogg’ Broadus shocked the rap world last year when he announced that he was swapping his guns n’ bling lifestyle for that of peace-loving Rastafarian reggae star, and wanted to be known from them on as ‘Snoop Lion.’ Having decided that he had outgrown the gangsta lifestyle that had made him famous but which had also brought him his fair share of pain and suffering with the loss of friends such as Tupac Shakur, gunned down in 1996, Snoop headed to the hallowed Tuff Gong Studios in Trenchtown, Jamaica, to undergo a spiritual transformation – and record a reggae album with producer Diplo and guests including Bunny Wailer. His reincarnation has not been without its critics though – Wailer, after initially embracing Snoop’s new life choice, has since renounced Snoop’s conversion to Rastafarianism, slamming his “outright fraudulent use of Rastafari Community’s personalities and symbolism.” Meanwhile, the catchily-titled Ethio-Africa Diaspora Union Millennium Council (aka Rastafari Millennium Council) told Snoop “smoking weed and loving Bob Marley and reggae music is not what defines the Rastafari Indigenous Culture!” It possibly doesn’t help that he continues to tour and record under the name Snoop Dogg… Then: Gun-toting gangsta rapper Now: Spliff-wielding, peace loving Rastafarian reggae star (sort of)

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LANCE ARMSTRONG

MARK WAHLBERG

Then: All-American superhero cyclist Now: All-American cheating, bullying supervillain of the highest order

Then: Chart-topping 90s rapper and Calvin Klein model with a silly name Now: Academy Award-nominated star of the silver screen

Hands up who found Lance Armstrong interesting and exciting back when he was the Usain Bolt of cycling? Yeah, not many of you. When he had yellow jerseys coming out of his ears as a ‘seven time Tour de France winner, full time cancer fighter’ (his description) and was the perfect all American hero, quite frankly, he was a boring sod. The sort of boring sod that gets filed next to other boring sods like Alan Shearer, Michael Owen and Gary Lineker – bland, somehow too perfect and also with an added dash of smugness just to top it off. However, when he finally owned up to the doping allegations that had hung over him for years, he underwent an instant transformation to sporting supervillain. If his battle against cancer and return to the sport was an inspirational story, the bombshell that Lance was actually a scheming, seemingly sociopathic cheat who had bullied fellow cyclists into partaking in the systematic use of performance enhancing drugs, was a thrilling twist. After all, who wants their heroes to be cleaner than clean and whiter than white? Everyone prefers Batman to Superman, and really, everyone actually prefers the Joker to Batman. In other words, we all love a bit of a bastard don’t we? N.B Gallery does not endorse the use of performance enhancing drugs or cheating in sport. Play nicely readers.

Mark Wahlberg has technically had not one but two revamps of his image. To say that as a youth growing up Wahlberg was somewhat unruly is quite the understatement. A cocaine addict as a thirteen year old, a member of a Boston street gang as a teenager and charged with attempted murder at the age of sixteen, Wahlberg pledged to change his ways and reinvented himself as rapper Marky Mark, and with his band The Funky Bunch scored a string of chart hits in the early 90s. As Marky Mark, Wahlberg became as famed for his trademark washboard stomach as for his bad boy image, and became the face/abs of Calvin Klein, and a pin-up for pre-pubescent girls worldwide. Stage three of Wahlberg’s metamorphosis came when he embarked on an acting career, first earning plaudits opposite Leonardo Di Caprio in The Basketball Diaries before his breakthrough leading role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights. He has since been nominated for an Oscar for The Departed, been critically acclaimed for his portrayal of boxer Micky Ward in The Fighter, and enjoys a rarified status as both one of Hollywood’s highest earners and one of its most credible actors. That credibility is about to be put to the test however, as he takes up the lead role in Michael Bay’s upcoming and sure-to-be-boring Transformers sequel.

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A SIMPLE CONFIDENCE BOOST, OR SOMETHING MORE SINISTER?

A SIMPLE CONFIDENCE BOOST, OR SOMETHING MORE SINISTER? words | Nathanial Eker

MAKEOVERS. The simple act of changing someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appearance via the way they dress, apply makeup or even improving their general hygiene is usually portrayed in a positive light. Makeup artists and style guru's will argue that by changing these factors, the person in question will feel more confident in themselves and be happier based on the now improved judgements of other people. That's all well and good but where is the line drawn? When do we stop saying "here is a dress to better suit your figure" and start saying "here is a more acceptable face to suit your body." Well, news flash; It's already happening. A QUICK ANECDOTE: The other day, I was flicking through the channels when I came across a show called "10 years younger." I thought it would be your bog standard Trinny and Suzanna type programme that aims to improve middle aged women's fashion sense and make them feel better about themselves as a result. Slightly shallow, but fair enough, I thought to myself. If dressing differently makes them feel happier day to day then who am I to judge? Good on them. However, that's when the episode took an unexpected and pretty dark turn. What started of as the woman in question being taken round the shops and getting style advice turned into what bordered on a tame horror film. We had gone from "10 years younger" to "Saw" territory. I was amazed as we got in close with the camera as the woman was taken into surgery to get work done to her face. I stopped and reflected. Really? Is this where society is right now? Is this where the idea of a "Makeover" has gone? Women changing what they are born with to gain the approval of the perceived "attractive people" like the presenter Myleene Klass? This was seriously disturbing stuff

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in my opinion and although the argument would be the restoration of confidence and a better outlook on life, shows like "What not to wear" and "How to look good naked" achieve this without the use of surgery. Ok, I admit it, I may have exaggerated with the "Saw" metaphor as not a lot was actually seen, but the fact that people actually are comfortable with the total change of someone just for the shallow respect of what is expected from the general public was a huge shock to me. I would like to make it clear that I have nothing against the aforementioned shows that use a change of fashion as a means to make people feel better about themselves. These shows are totally harmless and raise no alarm bells in my mind. The fact that they make people feel better is great and is even somewhat commendable as they do it simply by changing the materials that we wear often with impressive results. But the fact that a show like "10 years younger" can warp the idea of a makeover and make it necessary for people to distort their bodies for the camera makes feel a little bit sick inside. This is especially true when you consider the demographic that could be watching this show. I believe (please don't quote me) that if often airs around seven/eight o clock at night which is a prime time for young girls to be watching this with their mothers. Is this really the attitude to makeovers that we want young girls to take to makeovers? To have in their minds that for boys to like you, you should go to the nearest hospital asap and get a facelift? I don't think so. Rest assured, when I have children (many, many years away yet) they will not be watching this programme.

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THE START OF AN INNOCENT MAKEOVER IN PURSUIT OF PERFECTION words | Mercedes Black And so it starts... Lip gloss and facemask parties Eyeliner and mascara Innocence lost. Concealer and foundation Primer and airbrushing Confidence gained. MAKE UP! Permanent makeup False eyelashes and breast implants Hair extensions and teeth whitening Rhinoplasty and blepharoplasty – nose job and eyes

Botox and fillers Enhanced lips and cheeks Implants and liposuction Facelift

Perfection pursuit.

Youth restored.

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PHIL

RITA

Phil was born in Serbia, went on to live in Germany and moved to Guernsey many moons ago; he is what I like to call a Guer-bian. He is a man of many disguises; you may recognize him as being your plumber, a chef, a break-dancer, a kick boxer or in more recent years a talented hairdresser at Toni and Guy. Phil and Rita make the perfect duo, as Rita is waxing your eyebrows, Phil can be trimming your barnet. They met six years ago in a local restaurant and haven’t looked back since. Rita is passionate for her work and has just opened up her own salon in Victoria Road. Why not pop by and mention “Gallery Magazine” for 10% off tanning.

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Favourite possession My Audi TT Turbo

My new beauty salon

Favourite place in the world New York

Costa Del Sol

Favourite colour Red

Grey

Favourite animal Pussy Cats

Dogs

Favourite smell Food

Dior Jâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;adore

Favourite way to spend a weekend In Herm with a glass of champagne

Sunshine + BBQ

Favourite Guernsey beach Belvoir Bay in Herm

Fermain Bay

Favourite food Nutella

Seafood

Favourite ice-cream flavour strawberry cornetto, exotic solero

coconut, pistachio and toffee

Favourite restuarant Fermain Beach CafĂŠ

The Auberge at Jerbourg

Favourite pastime Gym, swimming, dancing and fitness in general

Break dancing, kick boxing and the gym

Favourite film American Gangster

Skyfall

Favourite book Karma Sutra The Secret Favourite song John Legend - Refuge

Rihanna - Diamonds

Favourite person Rita

Phil

Favourite celebrity Kelly Washington, Leonardo Dicaprio

Rhianna, Beyonce and Jennifer Lopez

Favourite thing to splurge on Clothes

Beauty products

Favourite memory Our first holiday together in Spain

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PET OF THE MONTH

NICKY DE LISLE Breed: Dog Age: 43 Likes: Peanut Puffs, the sun and the sea. I also love Staffies. Dislikes: People not picking up after their dogs and animal cruelty. If you were an animal what would you be?: I would be a dog because you're well loved, well fed, cuddled, walked and have no worries. What do you most enjoy or what would you most like to do in life? I love travelling and working with animals. If I had enough money I would rescue all the dogs on death row. An interesting fact about you: Every day is different as I run Barking Mad Pet care. I get the pleasure of working with a variety of animals on a daily basis as well as boarding some at home.

JESSIE Breed: Collie cross Age: 14 and a half Likes: Cuddles with mum, walks, sausages and her ball. Dislikes: Not many just having her claws trimmed. If you were a human what would you be?: Jessie would be a right little Madame. What does your pet most enjoy doing?: Chasing her ball! An interesting fact about Arthur: Jessie was rescued from the UK to a better life with us at 6 months old. She also used to go to hydrotherapy classes for her arthritis in her hips and spine which she has had since she was rescued..

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MAISON SAINT PIERRE

FOR MANY OF US, IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE IN GUERNSEY WHO HAVE NOWHERE TO LIVE. THE REALITY IS THAT THERE ARE MANY CIRCUMSTANCES THAT CAN LEAD TO PEOPLE BECOMING HOMELESS. Being evicted from rented accommodation, losing your job, health and relationship problems or a disaster such as a fire or flooding can lead to someone suddenly finding themselves with nowhere to live. Maison Saint Pierre is a local Guernsey Registered Charity on the Island which provides a safe, friendly and supportive place to stay, where residents can develop life skills and start to rebuild their lives. The charity was formed about 26 years ago when it was first recognised that there was a need to provide suitable accommodation for, in particular, young mothers and their children that had no-where to stay. Since those early days when Maison Saint Pierre first occupied a property in Hauteville the charity has now developed in to a well recognised service that endeavours to assist those families accommodated with us. Women of various ages have sought the help offered at Maison Saint Pierre over the years although these tend to be mothers who still have children who are dependent upon them for their daily care. Some examples of past residents are expectant mums, teenage mothers needing advice and support with a first baby, women who are experiencing difficulties possibly with a relationship breakdown, Women who have suffered from domestic abuse, or experiencing housing difficulties due to the high rents or lack of suitable accommodation on the island as in many cases children are not accepted when looking to rent within the private sector. Currently we have nine families accommodated with us in our property in St Peter Port (we can take ten). This creates a busy house and we are never quite sure what may happen next or what the day may bring. Fourteen families along with their fourteen children have stayed with us so far during 2013. Referrals for a room at Maison Saint Pierre come to us from many different sources. Some from other Charities or States Departments, Health Visitors and Social Services also will call to enquire for help. You cannot simply call in and be allocated a room, there are procedures to

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follow, and includes an assessment interview as this is a “shared accommodation” house. Staffing Maison Saint Pierre currently employs 7 part-time paid staff who covers various shifts on a weekly rota. The house is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 356 days a year providing a safe environment for the residents and their children. Staff are trained in the relevant Child Protection and Domestic Abuse courses and are well equipped to be able to offer advice on anything from childcare, how to look after a newborn baby to general budgeting and financial matters. We work in partnership with other States Departments and Community Services on behalf of our residents. Funding – Day to Day Survival Maison Saint Pierre as a local charity does not receive any grants, or sponsorship from the States of Guernsey; we are funded entirely by contributions, donations and fund-raising. All monies raised are used to finance the home and its activities. We are grateful to those local businesses that do help and support us financially by the way of donations, but the matter of providing enough funds to keep the house in a reasonable condition and providing the essential commodities like electricity, water, heating etc like any large house can prove to be a challenge! We try to arrange several fundraising events throughout the year and our Management Committee are always on the lookout for new ideas (If anyone is interested in helping please make contact at MSP). Events such as flag days, Afternoon Teas are just some of the regular fundraising events. One of our staff is even willing to jump out of a plane skydiving (along with several other willing fundraisers) in order to collect money for the funds at Maison Saint Pierre and there is currently talk of another staff member undertaking a cycle challenge later this year (watch this space!). For more information on the work of Maison Saint Pierre please contact Anne Stuart, Project Manager at, Maison Saint Pierre Fort Road , St Peter Port, GY1 1ZW Or phone on 234456, e-mail maisonsaintpierre@cwgsy.net GUERNSEY’S STYLE MAGAZINE

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OUR COMMUNITY “We launched our Volunteering Week in the Channel Islands two years ago and it has proven a huge success, giving our staff a valuable opportunity to offer their support to a local charity or community group. It’s a pleasure to offer our help for this project which, given we had only a matter of days to complete it, certainly provided us with a challenge. The project will make a positive difference for the GAA and those who use the Centre.”

DEUTSCHE BANK STAFF TASKED WITH MAKEOVER PROJECT FOR GUERNSEY ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION A GROUP OF STAFF VOLUNTEERS FROM DEUTSCHE BANK IN GUERNSEY HELPED GIVE THE PREMISES OF THE GUERNSEY ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION (GAA) A FACELIFT RECENTLY. With the Bank already sponsor of the GAA’s monthly carers lunches, staff nominated the Association as the charity to benefit from a project to be completed as part of their annual Volunteering Week this year. During the week, they undertook an extensive redecorating project at the charity’s premises between Monday 20th and Wednesday 22nd May. With the support of Amalgamated Facilities Management (AFM), who offered to help project manage and provide specialist assistance throughout the week, and using materials generously donated by B&Q, the staff focused on giving the GAA’s premises a very welcome makeover, including painting and redecorating extensively internal and external areas of the Centre. The GAA, located at the Centre in Delancey, St Sampson, aims to help in any way it can those who care for people with dementia, including carers whose responsibilities for one reason or another have now ceased. Jurat Mike Tanguy of the Guernsey Alzheimer’s Association, said: “It’s fantastic that Deutsche Bank has nominated the Guernsey Alzheimer’s Association as the beneficiary charity for its Volunteering Week project this year. We welcome the support of businesses and the public to ensure we can continue to offer support to those who need it, so the efforts of Deutsche Bank’s staff are very much appreciated.” Paul Shevlin, Chief Operating Officer for Deutsche Bank in the Channel Islands and who is leading the project for the Bank, added:

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RAISING AWARENESS FOR GUERNSEY FOSTER CARE – POSTIES EMBARK ON AN AMBITIOUS TOUR OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS SEVEN GUERNSEY POSTIES ARE TO TAKE PART IN AN 80 MILE CYCLING TOUR OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS NEXT MONTH WITH THE AIM OF RAISING THE PROFILE OF THE GUERNSEY FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION ASSOCIATION (GFCAA) AND THE NEED FOR FOSTER CARERS ON THE ISLAND. The Tour Des Isles 80 mile cycle challenge will take place on Saturday 22nd June. The ambitious team start their journey at 6.30am and, using only their post bikes, will cycle around Guernsey, Alderney and Sark before leaving for Jersey. They will then cycle the circumference of Jersey, supported by a team of Jersey Posties, the following morning. For Postie Steve Sheppard, the cycle challenge has great personal significance: “As a local foster carer, the Family Placement Service and the Guernsey Foster Care and Adoption Association have proven a huge support to my family over the years and I hope that by completing this challenge we are able to promote the awareness of this Charity and hopefully encourage the recruitment of new foster carers.” The team are also seeking sponsorship for their mammoth 80 mile ride. All of the money raised will be donated directly to the GFCAA, this will enable the charity to organise events to help enrich the lives of local foster and adopted Children. Karen Reade, Guernsey Family Placement Service Team Manager said: “When the Guernsey Post team approached us with their idea for a Tour Des Isles 80 mile challenge we were over-the-moon! The sponsorship money will directly benefit local foster children and we hope that the challenge will help to maintain awareness in the community of the need to recruit more foster carers for Guernsey children. We are so grateful to the posties who are taking part and to Guernsey Post for their sponsorship.”

HAIL A HAT FOR HEADWAY GUERNSEY, 08 MAY 2013 – CANACCORD GENUITY WEALTH MANAGEMENT (FORMERLY COLLINS STEWART WEALTH MANAGEMENT) IS SUPPORTING HEADWAY GUERNSEY THIS MONTH FOR THE CHARITY’S ANNUAL FUNDRAISING DAY ‘HATS FOR HEADWAY’. Throughout May a Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management London style taxi, which is usually covered in the company’s branding, will be advertising the Hats for Headway initiative to help raise awareness of Hats for Headway Day on Friday 17 May in Guernsey. As well as the Headway branding, the taxi will also have its own giant woollen bobble hat, which was knitted by members of the island’s Women’s Institute (WI). Charlie Roger, head of Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management in Guernsey, said: “It’s great that we could get together with Headway this month to help promote their ‘Hats for Headway’ day. “Our London style taxis are already easily recognisable on the island’s roads but with the giant bobble hat and Headway branding, this one really will be hard to miss and hopefully it will help promote Headway’s message about the fundraising day to islanders so they can take part.” Headway Guernsey supports over 50 islanders and their families who are living with the long-term effects of a brain injury. The charity provides a wide range of services including a helpline and a regular programme of social events and information evenings that bring people together in a supportive and positive environment. Phillipa Stahelin from Headway Guernsey said, “Everyone at Headway is thrilled to have this amazing support from Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management and feel sure the taxi presence will spread the word throughout the island about our work in brain injury. We plan to book the taxi ourselves for members who need transport to access our services.”

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STANDARD CHARTERED LOSE THEIR VISION FOR A GOOD CAUSE STAFF OF STANDARD CHARTERED WILL STRIDE OUT BLINDFOLDED ON SATURDAY 1 JUNE TO RAISE MONEY AND AWARENESS FOR THE BANK’S INITIATIVE, SEEING IS BELIEVING, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE GUERNSEY BLIND ASSOCIATION. 26 members of staff from the Guernsey operation of Standard Chartered Bank will embark on a Blind Marathon which will involve each participant walking a mile blindfolded and assisted around a specially created course. The Marathon will start at 9am at Les Echelons, St Peter Port, later finishing in the same place. The final leg will be completed by young members of the Guernsey Blind Association, whose fundraising day coincides with Standard Chartered’s Blind Marathon. In addition three participants, including Standard Chartered Trust’s Chief Executive Officer, Trevor Kelham, will go on to complete a Blind Triathlon to further add to their fundraising efforts. This will involve an 800 metre swim across Havelet Bay using blacked out goggles, as well as cycling back to the South Esplanade, blindfolded on a tandem, and finishing their final mile walking blindfolded. Seeing is Believing (SiB), Standard Chartered’s own global initiative, was launched in 2003 in conjunction with the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and has raised over US$50 million to try and prevent and treat avoidable blindness, and has helped over 28 million people so far. Every dollar raised for SiB is matched by Standard Chartered Bank. The Bank announced at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2011 that it would step up its efforts to raise US$100million by 2020 to build sustainable eye-care services across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, almost trebling its fundraising for the prevention of blindness from 2003 to date. With nearly 90% of avoidable blindness occurring in the developing world, this is a health issue that resonates across the Bank’s global footprint. Trevor Kelham, Chief Executive of Standard Chartered in Guernsey said: ‘We are really looking forward to what I hope will be a successful ‘Blind Marathon’, raising both vital funds and awareness for SiB. I’m also delighted to have the opportunity to partner with the Guernsey Blind Association for this initiative, further helping to increase our efforts. Our own SiB initiative is aimed at eradicating preventable blindness and every pound donated to SiB is matched by the Bank, doubling our impact on the ground. A simple corrective cataract operation costs as little as US$30 so we are highly motivated to raise as much money as possible. Our Blind Marathon also resonates with the Bank’s brand promise of being ‘Here for good’. I’m really excited to take up this challenge and I hope we can encourage many Islanders to BECAUSE QUALITY MATTERS

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come down to Havelet Bay sea wall and cheer us on and give generously to this worthy cause.’ Debbie Clarke of the Guernsey Blind Association said: ‘We are really excited to have this opportunity of partnering with Standard Chartered during their ‘Blind Marathon’. We are a local charity which provides financial and emotional support for anyone living within the Bailiwick with visual loss. The Association funds eye tests and glasses, and specialised equipment to help someone with loss of sight stay in employment as well as maintain independent living skills. This Blind Marathon is a truly fantastic opportunity of highlighting the problems individuals can suffer as a result of visual loss. Sometimes all that is required is a small operation or additional magnification to enable an individual to maintain a normal working and family life and allow them to join in with activities that they may well have otherwise felt unable to join in and participate with. I hope that this great community event will help raise awareness of this.’ If you would like to donate money for this worthy cause, please go to: http://seeingisbelieving.org/ support-us/sponsor-a-fundraiser/guernsey-blindmarathon-and-triathlon.

STANDARD CHARTERED ‘CHIP IN’ TO SUPPORT GOLF IN SCHOOLS THE GUERNSEY SPORTS COMMISSION HAS TEAMED UP WITH GUERNSEY GOLF PROFESSIONALS TO INTRODUCE GOLF TO CHILDREN IN YEAR 5 AND 6 THROUGH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM STANDARD CHARTERED.

Golf professionals Steven O’Rourke (La Grande Mare), Lindsay Boyd (Royal Guernsey) and Steve Wilford (St Pierre Park) have delivered one off sessions in a number of participating schools and the response from the children has been fantastic. Introducing golf at Year 5 and 6 will play an important role in introducing more children to the sport which for many, is not seen as accessible compared to more traditional sports such as football, netball and cricket. Ollie Dowding from the Guernsey Sports Commission highlighted that “we are delighted to have teamed up with the Guernsey Golf Professionals and Standard Chartered to offer this exciting opportu-

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nity for Year 5 and 6 children. Introducing children to a number of sports at this age can be of great benefit in ensuring children stay active, develop as young people and of course have fun”. Each child who participates in the sessions with the golf professionals is also going to be invited to play in a Short Golf ‘Oncourse’ Festival to be held at Sausmarez Manor on 12th July 2013. Trevor Kelham, the CEO for Standard Chartered in Guernsey commented, “Standard Chartered is delighted to be supporting the Short Golf Initiative in Guernsey Primary Schools. This is part of our ‘Here for Good’ commitment to the Islands youth in terms of sport, the performing arts and our general charitable purposes. Maybe we can help discover the next James Hamon or Aimee Ponte!” If you would like to find about more about other programmes and initiatives organised and run by the Guernsey Sports Commission, visit our website at www. guernseysports.com

GIVE & GAIN DAY LAST FRIDAY ALLYSON WALKER, PERSONNEL MANAGER OF WAITROSE ROHAIS, TALKED TO STUDENTS IN YEAR FIVE AND SIX AT THE FOREST SCHOOL LAST FRIDAY (17 MAY) ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF HEALTHY EATING.

Mrs Walker was one of nearly 1,000 Waitrose Partners to promote healthy eating in schools to almost 15,000 pupils throughout the UK to mark the UK’s biggest day of volunteering, the Business in the Community (BITC) Give & Gain Day. The initiative is part of the Waitrose Partner Volunteering Programme which will see 11,000 full working weeks donated to local causes across the UK and Channel Islands by 2017. Allyson Walker, personnel manager at Waitrose Rohais, said: “I really enjoy going into schools to talk to students about healthy eating and educating them about nutrition. It was encouraging to see how much they knew about the food groups already and for children of their age it’s vital for their growth that they’re eating a variety of all the food types – as I tell students, they should be eating a rainbow of food.”

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LOOKING FOR THE ‘PAWFECT’ HOME GSPCA AND GALLERY MAGAZINE HAVE TEAMED UP TO SHOWCASE SOME OF THE ADORABLE ANIMALS THAT ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR HOMES HERE IN GUERNSEY. EVERY MONTH WE WILL BE BRINGING YOU 8 PROFILES OF ANIMALS THAT TOUCHED OUR HEARTS WHEN GALLERY WENT ON OUR MONTHLY VISIT. If you are interested in any of the featured animals and think you could offer them a safe and loving environment within your home please get in contact with the GSPCA on 01481 257261 to arrange a visitation. The team at Gallery Towers would love to know how successful our collaboration with the GSPCA is and which little blighters we have helped to re-home so please, please quote “Gallery” when phoning the shelter. If you are successful in your animal adoption please email us at info@gallery.gg with a pic and we will run a feature ;)

Name: Malibu Animal: Senior male Cat Bio: lovely older boy in need of a quiet home, is on a daily tablet of fortekor as he suffers from high blood pressure which he takes easily crushed in meat.

Name: Mario Animal: Adult Male Cat Bio: Mario came in as a semi- feral, has calmed down a lot since being neutered but is still not fully domesticated.

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Name: Miranda Animal: Cockatiel Bio: Miranda is a cheeky older cockatiel that would love a new home.

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Name: Moon Animal: Chinese Hamsters Bio: Moon is one of many little Chinese Hamsters in need of a forever home.

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Name: Sam Animal: Medium cross breed Dog Bio: Sam is a cheeky chappy medium cross breed dog that is in need of a home where there is an owner with plenty of time and energy.

Name: Pickles Animal: Male Cat Bio: At only 7 years old a cat called Pickles here at the GSPCA Animal Shelter in Guernsey Has been diagnosed with skin cancer.

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Name: Ash Animal: Rabbit Bio: Ash is an adult domestic rabbit that has been at the GSPCA since last year and really needs a loving new home.

Name: Sissi Animal: 12 year old Rottie Bio: She likes the company of a relaxed home where she can lie back and enjoy life with a few squeaky toys.

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If you are interested in adopting any of the animals featured here please call 01481 257261... to view further pets available please visit gspca.org.gg

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FILM REVIEW UP&COMING words | Jonathon Holloway

Director of the month

Rick Baker Since the theme of 'makeover' can't really be applied to film without delving into the truly horrible realm of teen rom-coms, I'm going to take a different approach and focus on make-up in film instead. Hence this month's Filmmaker of the Month is not a director, but a revolutionary make-up artist. Rick Baker has been nominated for 12 Academy Awards, winning 7, all for "Best Achievement in Makeup". He has worked on films such as The Exorcist, An American Werewolf in London, Star Wars, X-Men & Batman Returns among many more. He is one of the most successful cinematic makeup artists of all time, and is considered legendary in Hollywood. Even if the film is lacking in quality, his work still stands out. Take his most recent Oscar win for The Wolfman in 2010. Truly mediocre and tedious, but such is the excellence of Baker's work that The Wolfman is now an Oscar winning film. Baker got his big break as the assistant to legendary makeup artist Dick Smith on The Exorcist, which in turn lead to him being hired on films such as the 1976 remake of King Kong, and Star Wars in 1977. Baker honed his craft working on creature horror films in the 1970s, for which he has gained a level of cult status among horror fans. Films such as Squirm (1976), Track of the Moon Beast (1976) & The Incredible Melting Man (1977) made Baker a specialist in horror creature effects. This even lead to him working with infamous body-horror film director David Cronenberg on Videodrome (1983), which stars James Woods as the CEO of a broadcast station which transmits surreal and violent hallucinations. The scene where Woods puts his face through a television screen is particularly bizarre. Baker won his first Oscar for An American Werewolf In London in 1982, and over 20 years later remains the industry standard.

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12 Dir. M. Night Shyamalan. Starring: Will Smith & Jaden Smith. Starring Will Smith and his real life son Jaden Smith playing fictional father and son Cypher and Kitai Raige. 1000 years after a cataclysmic event forced the evacuation of Earth mankind has settled on a fictional planet in the Solar System named Nova Prime. Cypher and Kitai are part of the "Ranger Corps", on a mission to Earth when they are stranded on the planet after a crash with an asteroid. The latest outing from deteriorating director M. Night Shyamalan so expect a terrible twist.

Despicable Me 2

U Dir. Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud. Starring: Steve Carell, Ken Jeong, Russell Brand & Kristen Wig. The sequel to 2010's hit animated film which was a success with audiences and critics alike. Having given up Super Villainy after the adoption of his three daughters (events as told in Despicable Me), Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villian league to help them defeat a powerful new Super Villain named Eduardo. With the help of his minions Gru must once again save the world and his family. Despicable Me was a break out hit in 2010, second only to the gigantic Toy Story 3. In a year where six major animated films were released, including How to Train Your Dragon & Shrek Forever After, this is no small feat. A prequel spin off focused on Gru's minions ingeniously titled, "Minions" is set for release in 2014.

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Featuring the talents of our filmmaker of the month Rick Baker, An American Werewolf In London is a cult comedy-horror classic. Two American teenagers, David and Jack, are backpacking through England and stop at a local pub on the Yokshire Moors. After a less than friendly reception, the two boys become lost on the Moors during the night and are attacked by a werewolf. Jack is killed, but David survives after the villagers rescue him. Waking up in a London hospital weeks later, David begins to have bizarre dreams and hallucinations while he is questioned and harassed by the police, who insist he was attacked by an escaped lunatic. David soon begins to realise he has become a werewolf, and will transform on the next full moon. Directed by John Landis who is famous for directing the Michael Jackson video, "Thriller", and for directing The Blues Brothers.

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12 Dir. Zack Snyder. Starring: Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Russell Crowe & Michael Shannon. Starring Jersey born actor Henry Cavill as the Man of Steel himself, this is the latest reboot of the Superman franchise. Clark Kent is adopted and raised in rural America after he lands on Earth as a babe on his escape from the dying planet of Krypton. After struggling to fit in to human society with his extra terrestrial powers, the young journalist has to rise to mankind's defence after members of his race attack Earth. Director Zack Snyder is familiar with comic book lore having helmed 300 in 2006, and Watchmen in 2009. Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight trilogy, produces the film, perhaps being hired to keep the visually obsessed Snyder grounded to the story, which has been the major fault in Snyder's most recent work.

World War Z

TBC Dir. Marc Forster. Starring: Brad Pitt & Mireille Enos. Based upon the hit 2006 novel, "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War", World War Z is a post-apocalyptic tale of one man's quest to save the world, and his family, from the Zombie uprising. Brad Pitt stars as Gerry Lane, a United Nations employee who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to decimate humanity itself. Directed by Quantom of Solace helmsman Marc Forster, World War Z has had a troubled production from day one, with the script being entirely re-written delaying the production for two years.

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Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum), a brilliant yet eccentric scientist, invents the "telepod", a revolutionary teleportation device. While initially only usable for inanimate objects, Brundle modifies the machine to teleport living things. Using himself as a test subject Brundle teleports himself, unaware that a common housefly is also in the machine. Brundle emerges from the receiving telepod normal, but soon begins to change, and realises the telepod has fused his DNA with that of the fly, beginning a transformation. Directed by body-horror specialist David Cronenberg in one of his most famous works. Cronenberg explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection, often intertwining the psychological with the physical. As such, The Fly is seen by many critics to be a comment on the AIDS epidemic which swept America in the 1980s.

Peter Jackson returns to Middle Earth with the first of an expect trilogy of films based upon The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien. In the film sense a prequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, in this film we follow Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) on his journey to the Lonely Mountain with Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) and his company of dwarves to recover their lost home from the dragon Smaug. In fitting with the book, this film has a more child-friendly and jaunty tone which has divided fans of The Lord of the Rings film series, which had a more serious and realistic tone. To fit with this month's theme I also wanted to pick a less gruesome or horror-centric film known for it's makeup work. Primarily, this being the transformation of the 13 human actors into the company of dwarves who accompany Bilbo Baggins (played by Martin Freeman) on his adventure to the Lonely Mountain. GUERNSEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S STYLE MAGAZINE

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BOOK CORNER words | Caroline Mauger Having a makeover is generally regarded as a positive thing, making you look and feel better. This month I’m reviewing books in which the protagonists transform themselves physically – and in some cases their motives are rather more sinister than simply feeling like a change of style. Unlike having a haircut, getting your eyebrows plucked or buying a new lipstick, there is often a high price to pay for turning one’s back on nature and adopting a disguise.

Under the Skin by Michel Faber Isserley drives up and down the A9 in Scotland, picking up male hitchhikers in good physical shape. We suspect she has endured some kind of trauma: she has extensive surgical scarring and suffers from excruciating backache. Isserley’s hands are narrow and deformed and she wears thick glasses, yet she drives with her hands high on the wheel to show off her well-endowed chest. What happens to the hitchhikers when she takes them back to Ablach Farm? What begins as an apparent psychosexual drama gradually evolves into something totally unexpected: part sci-fi, part horror, wholly bizarre. Under the Skin raises some moral and ethical dilemmas and is a deeply unsettling read.

Jemima J by Jane Green Popular author Jane Green wrote this back in 1998 but the issues it raises have never been more relevant. Jemima Jones is seven stone overweight and in love with her colleague Ben, but is convinced he only sees her as friend material, due to her size. After discovering the world of Internet chat sites, Jemima meets an American hunk online and plans to visit him; the only problem is, she sent him a photoshopped image of herself so can she slim down before her deception is revealed? Those who have criticised this book for sending out the message that you have to be thin to get a boyfriend have missed the point – this is chick-lit rather than a serious novel, but it does actually question society’s obsession with being slim and tries to make you see that you shouldn’t change who you are, inside or out, for anyone but yourself.

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn One motive for changing your appearance is that you’ve committed a crime. I can’t really reveal the nature of the transformation in this book because I don’t want to give anything away; chances are you’ve already discovered Gone Girl but if you haven’t, you simply have to read it! On Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary, Amy vanishes – and the state of their living room suggests she hasn’t left of her own free will. The novel’s structure is ingenious, with Nick narrating from the point of his wife’s disappearance and Amy filling in their relationship from the very beginning. There are hints that both narrators are unreliable, and the toxic mix of sharp-edged wit and deliciously chilling prose creates an unputdownable thriller that surprises you at every turn.

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The beautiful Dorian Gray doesn’t get a makeover as such, but he stops ageing when he has his portrait painted and his wish that the ravages of time should take their toll on the picture rather than himself is granted. It’s a case of ‘be careful what you wish for’ as Dorian, egged on by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, behaves in an increasingly debauched manner – and the degeneration of his soul, sin by sin, is reflected in the portrait. Wilde is often quoted and you’ll recognise many of the one-liners, such as ‘The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it’, spoken through his characters, particularly Lord Henry. Wilde is undoubtedly clever and witty and as a cautionary fable it’s a classic - but I found it hard to care what happened to this shallow, vain, casually cruel bunch of aristocrats.

We offer the people of Guernsey the chance to enjoy classic, foreign and contemporary films – not available for public viewing elsewhere on the island. If you're interested in film and meeting like‑ minded people then CinéGuernsey is for you.

My Week With Marilyn

On Saturday 29th June 2013 CineGuernsey will be screening ‘My Week With Marilyn’ (2011) directed by Simon Curtis.

Sir Laurence Olivier is making a movie in London. Young Colin Clark, an eager film student, wants to be involved and he navigates himself a job on the set. When film star Marilyn Monroe arrives for the start of shooting, all of London is excited to see the blonde bombshell, while Olivier is struggling to meet her many demands and acting ineptness, and Colin is intrigued by her. Colin's intrigue is met when Marilyn invites him into her inner world where she struggles with her fame, her beauty and her desire to be a great actress. The screening will be introduced by David Gainsborough Roberts The film is being screened at Frossard Theatre, Candie and starts at 19:30pm. The film is rated 15. Tickets cost £8 (nonmembers) / £6.50 (members and students) and can be booked at HYPERLINK "http://www.guernseytickets.gg" www. guernseytickets.gg

CineGuernsey can be found online at www.cineguernsey.com, http://www. facebook.com/CineGuernsey or on Twitter at @cineguernsey

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CHARLIE BUCHANAN So, tell us a bit about yourself! After leaving school in Guernsey, I studied Fine Art at Falmouth College of Arts in Cornwall, met my husband Magnus, went travelling and then settled in Spain to paint. We now live in Guernsey and have three children. I paint alongside doing a job I love, teaching Art at Elizabeth College. How would you describe your Artwork? My work is a mixture between Fine Art and Illustration. I love storytelling and there is generally an element of narrative in my images, however cryptic. The scale of my work moves them away from traditional illustrations; they are large, A1 or bigger and designed to be seen as paintings in real space. They can also be scaled down in the case of our new book and work as a series to tell a story. What mediums do you use and why? I work in watercolour and ink. I love the expressive nature of water-based media and the risk it brings to a piece of work. I believe in the ‘happy accident’ when painting; as a painter, I feel one should be able to exploit this. I love watercolour as a medium: it requires spontaneity as well as precision, it is lyrical and takes on a life of its own on the paper. Which artists have inspired you? I love the emotive power of Frida Kahlo and the imaginative tour de force of the surrealist Leonora Carrington. Early 20th century illustrators Edmund Dulac’s singing colour and composition and the mystery of Arthur Rackham are also great influences. The passionately dark ink drawings of Victor Hugo are also extremely compelling, many of which are available to see in Hauteville House. The photographic image is also extremely important to me. As an artist, what do you find inspires you to start creating? The creative itch, it is always there. If I don’t have time to paint, I bake a cake or write a letter. I also try to photograph my children every day. What projects do you have planned for the future? I am working on illustrating my story ‘Osmond the Owl Boy’ which is a folk tale based in Sark. I am interested in exploring the digital media of ebooks to publish it. I am also working on a private commission and creating a painting for my daughter based on ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Tell us about your new book ‘The Soul of the Sea’ I loved working with my husband on the book which is released June 9th and is a limited edition illustrated hardback. After stumbling upon a battered old copy of Victor Hugo’s Guernsey epic ‘The Toilers of the Sea’ whilst in New Zealand Magnus and I embarked on reimagining the tale. Magnus rewrote it as a beautiful epic ballad poem, whilst I illustrated key points in the story. It was originally an exhibition of 15 large scale paintings, Magnus’ poem and a community film by our friend Peter Root. We have dedicated the book to Pete and his girlfriend Mary Thompson who lost their lives while cycling around the world earlier this year. The book will be available to buy island-wide and through my blog :redcha.blogspot.com

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AERIAL GUY

AERIAL GUY words | Nick Mollet

GUERNSEY RESIDENT PAUL THOMSON IS AIMING HIGH WITH HIS NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC HOBBY. The 40-year-old garage door fitter-engineer is creating a new perspective on stunning views of the island from above - without divine intervention. It is possible due to his recently acquired quadcopter - with Go-Pro 2 camera attached. 'My intention is to get unseen and unusual views of the island,' he told Gallery. He has forked out over ÂŁ4,000 on the quadcopter and all the ancilliary home equipment to go with producing the images - but believes it is money well spent. But there are safety considerations. 'You need to make sure there aren't too many people around and the conditions aren't too windy. Anything up to 20mph winds is relatively safe. It's just common sense and there are no actual rules about the usage. The quadcopter is stabilised using more than 6 GPS satellites so if you were to drop and break the controller the quadcopter would automatically go into fail safe mode and return home to land where it took off from in a controlled manner,' he said. So is there a specific art to it and how high are the best shots taken from? ''It depends on what you want - if you want a Google map kind of shot then you would make sure the quadcopter was as high as you are willing to take it. Alternatively, if you were asked to take a specific photo of a house for an estate agent then the shot would be quite low just to show the house and the boundaries or surrounding land.' 'You can get up as far as 400 to 500 metres high - but for low level detailed shots the height would be roughly 100ft high,' He

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targets places of interest and the island's coastlines and seascapes. and landmarks, such as Sausmarez Park, the fire station, L'Ancresse, Bluebell Woods, Fort Grey, Castle Cornet, St Saviour's Reservoir and the Orchid fields - either aerial or landscape shots. So is it difficult to shoot the perfect photo? 'It can be depending on the Guernsey weather. Also, trying to get early morning shots you aren't necessarily guaranteed a nice red sky and the days there are really good skies would be the day I don't have my camera to hand. Getting a good seascape can involve getting in the water. You have to have a lot of patience and wait for the right time,' he advised. He loves photography and enjoys getting out in the peace and quiet and obtaining scenic shots that other people have missed. 'Guernsey has been over-photographed and it's hard to get 'different' shots of places, but Guernsey does give phographers a wide range of good photo opportunities.' If anyone asks him to take photos he is more than happy to oblige, depending on the location, weather and safety. 'I've always been interested in photography and photo manipulation. I bought my first camera (Canon EOS) in 2008 and everything I have done has been self-taught. I'd go out and try different functions on the camera and I've taught myself Photoshop and can spend hours on various photos, changing certain aspects of pictures - general editing. My new hobby stemmed from that.' To see more of Paul's photos his link is: www.flickr.com/photos/paulthomson

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A TALE OF TWO GUERNS

A TALE OF TWO GUERNS GALLERY MET WITH TWO ASTOUNDING INDIVIDUALS WHO KINDLY SHARED THEIR EXPERIENCES ON THEIR EVACUATION OF GUERNSEY FROM THE OCCUPYING GERMAN FORCES FROM 1940-1945. Mr Pratt: “We were evacuated on June 14th 1940 on a ship called ‘Antwerp’. Aged 14 and a half I had not long left school and had been working for about six months. I went with my mother and a brother; my eldest brother had already gone away because he was married and the next one was already in the army. We travelled all night across to Weymouth. It was more of an excitement than anything else, I had only left the island once before and that was to go to Alderney. We arrived in Weymouth in the morning and there were hundreds of people around. Everyone had to go through an examination by a doctor where you were each individually examined and passed through to a theatre for something to eat. There was a stage in front of it and I will always remember there was a lady up there busy using a bread cutting machine and I had never seen one before. After that there was a lot of moving around, we were asked if we had any relatives to go to and we did. My mother’s sister lived in Berkshire so they supplied us with tickets and we travelled there. It seemed like a very long journey and we eventually finished up on the doorstep, they didn’t know we were coming, without phones in those days there was hardly any communication but I think they guessed that we might turn up. I found a job working for the Ordnance Depot that belonged to the Ministry of Defence; there were thousands of people working there. I worked as a messenger first in the main office then moved up to the motor workshops where we used to service all sorts of stuff like little three-wheeler trailers, 10-ton Leylands and generators. A friend of mine joined the navy and I wanted to join eventually too. At 17 and a half I had a medical but my eyesight wasn’t up to standard and I failed. Only a few months later, I noticed in the mirror the headline said ‘Navy winks at grade 2 eyesight’ so I reapplied and passed as a Telegraphist in the Navy. I served for three years on the Pacific Campaign starting in 1943 and came out in October 1946, I was on a destroyer called ‘Urania’. Whilst serving on the ‘Urania’ we noticed an island in the pacific, we thought a ship was on fire but was a volcano sticking out the sea. The following day there was a report from the South-East Asia Command, who had sent a plane out to take photographs and it was already 60ft in height and still erupting. They named the volcano ‘Urania’ after the destroyer. There was one chap who joined as the same time as me as a Telegraphist, we trained together and as time went by we were drafted together abroad on the same ship. His name was John Piggott, after the war we never kept in touch but I always thought I ought to. ‘The Navy News’ magazine often hosts reunions and one day I happened to see they were having one for our flotilla of ships. There was a phone number so I called and asked if they had someone on the books called ‘Piggott’ and sure enough he had joined two years ago. They gave me the number and I phoned in 2008 after 60 years. He had a lovely surprise and we kept in touch thereafter, he sadly died last year but we still keep in touch with his wife. Although it was a struggle with the rationing, it was better off than those who stayed in Guernsey. I am glad I went it was an experience we would never have had otherwise and at the age of 14 you had to make the best of everything that came along.” Mrs Pratt: “I was evacuated at the same time when many thousands were evacuated. We went to Weymouth like Charlie (Mr Pratt) and too went through the medical process. From Weymouth

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we went to Manchester where we were taken into an institution and accommodated there. They were trying to evacuate the children with different families but we wanted to stay together as a family and with another family. We were taken to a housing estate in Bury, there were some children from the Castel School there too. We and the other family were given brand new furnished houses and we stayed there the whole time we were evacuated. It was a nice estate with a lot of Guernsey and Jersey people all mixed up. I went to work in a woollen mill to weave and make woolen blankets, we didn’t know where they went but it was all for the war effort. We helped with what they call the white surge to make arctic combat uniforms. It was very interesting and I liked it despite the damp environment. To pass the time we went for walks, went dancing and to the pictures and Sundays we would go for picnics. We entertained GUERNSEY’S STYLE MAGAZINE

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ourselves while we were there and took things day for day trying to make the most of it. We went to Channel Island Meetings in Manchester on a Sunday to talk about different things and have a cup of tea for moral and the organisation arranged day trips to Blackpool and places like that. It was a big experience really and we made a lot of friends. From where we were we could see the glow of the fire and the bombs of the Manchester blitz but we had raid shelters and blackouts. We were rationed but never hungry not like they were back in Guernsey. We used to make do and we managed. We used to worry about people back in Guernsey but you had to make the most of it. The only communication was Red Cross messages but words were limited and you were restricted on what you could say so you didn’t give your location away. The work by the Red Cross was lifesaving for many people back in Guernsey.” Mr Pratt: “To come back was exciting especially looking for your friends again that you hadn’t seen for 5 years. We got to hear stories BECAUSE QUALITY MATTERS

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from friends who stayed such as one friend had to stay with his Father and had to travel from St Sampson’s to town with a pig in a pram to disguise it as a baby. It was strange to come back and see all the bunkers and many houses had been knocked down. Mrs Pratt’s house had been knocked down and her Mother was able to salvage only a few items of furniture. A friend and I went mooching in the bunkers as he had access to the tunnels under St Saviour’s Church and we used to salvage all sorts of items like glass from gas masks.” For Mr and Mrs Pratt living through the war and being evacuated was an experience that changed the way they and many others in the same situation thought. Particularly for a generation that would never normally have had the chance to leave the island and see how others lived. Both secured a ‘make do’ attitude and embraced the experience, an attitude that very much swept across the Channel Islands bringing the occupation to a triumphant end.

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THE IRON LADY words | Nick Mollet

PUBLIC OPINION ON CERTAINLY DIVISIVE.

MARGARET

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ew peace-time politicians can lay claim to have changed the world but the 'Iron Lady' was certainly one of them. The former Prime Minister not only transformed the Conservative Party but the whole of British politics - with the essence of 'Thatcherism' being to oppose the status quo and create a strong state and free economy. After being voted into office in the late 70s she inspired an economic revolution by privatising state industries, refusing to negotiate with the unions, abolishing state controls and breaking the striking miners, and critics would argue that she sowed the seeds for the economic crisis we are experiencing today. As unemployment in Britain rose above the 2 million mark 'Thatcher the milk snatcher' insisted that 'The lady's not for turning.' Her political fortunes were changed by the Argentine invasion of the Falklands in 1982 and a shocked and angry woman launched a task force to re-take the South Atlantic islands. The warrior's decision to defend the islanders' choice to be British and not appease an Argentinian dictatorship resonated strongly

with much of the British public which had become disillusioned with years of defeatism and retreat. And she became the first British PM since Winston Churchill to be taken seriously by the leaders of the world's super powers and stayed in power for 11 years. But would Britain's only woman PM, who was once the most unpopular in history and who survived an IRA bomb blast in Brighton, be turning in her grave at the polarised public reaction to her death, at the ripe age of 87?

and boys on both sides, who were killed in the Falklands, and hard to forgive a government that closed down entire steel and coal communities,' said Deputy Barry Brehaut. 'She also spent too much time polishing the glass ceiling rather than smashing it to let other women into the higher offices of government. She thrived on division and would probably enjoy the passion of both sides of the Thatcher debate. Her legacy? Has to be Tony Blair and of course, Billy Bragg, so thanks Maggie for giving us the best protest singer we have seen in decades.' But did she inspire a new breed of women politicians? 'Margaret Thatcher was an inspiration to many by not only leading the country but also being successful with it. I accept not everyone supported her views and at times I didn't either, but you can't take it away from her, the determination and true grit she showed if she really believed in something,' said Deputy Mary Lowe, who is the unofficial 'Mother of the House' in the States of Guernsey. 'Margaret Thatcher inspired many women, not only those who supported politics but others who saw a woman leader in a man's world who can make a difference. She did this knowing many of her male colleagues struggled having a woman as Prime Minister - her

character enabled her to continue in what she believed in, and from the outside she wasn't going to let her male colleagues get the better of her during most of her time in office.' 'Margaret Thatcher achieved an awful lot during her time as Prime Minister, most of which I supported, but as with politics around the world not everyone gets it right all of the time. That said, the world would be a better place if we had more leaders like Margaret Thatcher,' claimed Deputy Lowe.

Loved and loathed probably in equal measure, thousands turned out for her recent funeral but there were protests and celebrations country wide at her demise and even a song which pronounced 'The Witch is Dead' was initiated and reached number 2 in the UK charts. So what did islanders and politicians make of Maggie and her principles and what should be her legacy?

Deputy Yvonne Burford had a different perspective. 'I am not sure Margaret Thatcher was a significant inspiration to women to enter politics. I believe she succeeded in entering a man's world because she was prepared to be like one of them. She even famously had voice coaching to deepen her voice. And like men she did not rush to promote women, having only one other woman in her cabinet in her entire premiership,' she said.

'Margaret Thatcher was a woman who thrived on conflict, from the cabinet room through to actual conflict. Society (and it does exist) likes strong leadership, even when perhaps they are being led in the wrong direction. I find it hard to forget the 1,227 soldiers, men

'Of course she could also afford childcare, unlike many women. She stated that she believed a woman's place to be in the home bringing up children, she just did not include herself in that world view. If she had wanted to bring about equality she was perfectly placed to

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introduce family friendly policies, such as parental leave, but she didn't. 'She pursued a path of liberal individualism at the expense of the societal, and in doing so completely ignored the structural inequalities that prevented women advancing in public life. What is more, she hated feminism despite the fact that she would never have got where she did without the efforts of the brave women who fought for all women's rights to equality.'

'I became interested in politics during my time in the UK and it is one of the reasons I decided to stand for the States of Guernsey. I have thought over the years that I would like to be the first female Chief Minister of Guernsey, however, after a year in politics I am happy to leave this honour for someone else. I totally underestimated the politics in politics,' she said. She had worked in the finance indutry in the UK before returning to Guernsey.

'Guernsey currently embraces the neoliberal path of Thatcher. We have one of the most unregulated labour markets - little employment protection, virtually non-existent equalities legislation, little income re-distribution, high levels of income inequality, little social mobility, a gender pay gap and an elite who appear to have little empathy or understanding of those it deems to be the undeserving poor,' said Deputy Burford.

'Policies introduced during her time encouraged home ownership and then enabled far more people to purchase their own homes, particularly with the Right to Buy Scheme in the UK. I expect she is remembered far more for her stance with the trade unions. There was a need to reduce their power but the devastating effect of the closure of the mines is today still affecting many communities. This is why many people rejoiced when hearing of her death. I can understand their bitterness - with hindsight we can see that it was not only the miners that lost their jobs but also the shops and businesses that supported the miners that also went out of business due to high unemployment,' said Deputy Le Clerc. She recently returned from the Falklands and said Thatcher is still incredibly popular over there and suggests the Guernsey funded housing project is on 'Thatcher Drive'. 'I do think she was a role model for women to achieve, however, she did not actively promote women in politics and I believe she only promoted one woman to her cabinet during her time as PM. This was an opportunity lost - if she had been more supportive we may have seen more women in boards and in politics now.' Recently, Deputy Francis Quin attended a Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in the Falklands.

'I would like to think, optimistically, that in time the legacy of Thatcher will be an object lesson in how not to live as a society.' Deputy Heidi Soulsby is one of 'Thatcher's Children', having been at school, university, qualified as a chartered accountant, started work and got married all during her period in power. Her first memory as a primary school child was when she became Conservative Party leader and she thought it was amazing to have a woman leader. 'However, politics was dominated by men in suits and it is astonishing looking back that she managed to lead the most traditionalist mainstream party in the UK.' 'The fact that Margaret Thatcher liked to demonstrate her super-human qualities, such as being able to cope on sleeping four hours a night and relishing the title 'Iron Lady', may have inspired some women to go into politics but possibly put off others who thought that was what you needed to get to the top. At the time, this is probably exactly the image she had to put forward, but it made her a difficult figure for many women to relate to. And, whilst there are more women in Parliament in the UK than there were when she entered the House of Commons, they are still a small minority of 22% and there are only 18% of women that make up the Cabinet. It is also true that any woman seeking the leadership of their party will always be compared to Margaret Thatcher until such time as one of them succeeds and I think the UK needs that to happen to show we come in other varieties, and I don't just mean politically,' said Deputy Soulsby. She believes the PM was undoubtedly a strong leader who had the courage of her convictions. 'Britain in 1979, when she became Prime Minister, was very different from that in 1990, when she left, and she made lasting changes that were needed to get Britain working again. She understood the need to free businesses up from government interference and let markets dictate economic growth.' 'However, the flip side of being a conviction politician meant she found it difficult to listen to others and consider the opposing viewpoint. This was evident from her insistence on bringing in the poll tax and which ultimately spelled the end of her time as Prime Minister. She did little to support those adversely affected by her reforms, principally those in the old mining areas. Whilst it was evident that the traditional industries were unsustainable, more could have been done to prevent the breakdown of those communities,' she said. 'Under Thatcher, manufacturing's loss was the financial services industry's gain. The deregulation of the markets and the Big Bang of 1986 ultimately led to the financial services industry we have in Guernsey today, and on which our economy is now so dependent.' 'The one thing Margaret Thatcher said she was not, was a consensus politician. I therefore wonder how she would have managed with Guernsey's system of government, with no party politics and where consensus is the order of the day. Would she have ever become Chief Minister? We will never know, but given her self-determination and self-belief, I'm pretty sure she would have given it a go,' said Deputy Soulsby. Deputy Michelle Le Clerc lived in Leicester from 1985 until 1992 and found Thatcher inspirational. 'She was very single-minded, her goal was to lead the Conservative Party and she was probably just fortunate to take advantage of the in-fighting to become leader and then Prime Minister.' BECAUSE QUALITY MATTERS

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'If ever her presence was felt it was there - every house or establishment I went to had her picture in pride of place - she was one of the most talked about topics among the delegates,' he said. He found a similar response on a visit to the USA and insists not since Churchill has a British PM had such an influence on world affairs. The lady from Finchley said on numerous occasions that it should be the best person for the job regardless of gender something he wholeheartedly concurs with. 'She should be remembered for daring to tackle the Unions and freeing up British industry, from being the 'sick man of Europe' to, along with Nigel Lawson, bringing down the rate of taxation to some 40%,' said Deputy Quin. One of his favourite quotes she made was: 'I fail to see how making the rich poor will make the poor rich'. He believes the knock-on effects on her time as PM were on the back of the success of the City of London returning to its premier position in finance. The downsides were the poll tax and not knowing when to move on, a lesson learnt to good effect by Tony Blair. 'What a legacy - disliked by both the old-style Tories and the Left,' he said. So did her politics have much of an impact on Guernsey? 'The decision of Mrs Thatcher's first government to abolish exchange and capital controls helped lubricate the growth of Guernsey's finance industry,' said Deputy Matt Fallaize. 'Mrs Thatcher was a successful leader in the sense that she led her party to three successive general election victories and led governments which changed the political, social and economic landscape of the country.' 'Without her arguably unique style of leadership reforms - especially economic reforms - which were clearly necessary, may well have remained elusive; but equally her distaste for consensus and pragmatism contributed to some of those reforms being quite devastating socially and culturally. I think Lord Ashdown was right when he said that she was better as a destroyer of tired old institutions and lazy ways of thinking than she was as the builder of new ones; better at defining divisions than building cohesion,' said Deputy Fallaize. 'She was also fortunate in her choice of opponents: Galtieri, Scargill and the official opposition which was divided on a grand scale. Her moderate, pragmatic opponents were forced to spend more time fighting the lunacy of extremism in their own ranks than they were promoting a credible alternative to Thatcherism and it must be arguable that without that particular good fortune she would not have prospered electorally for as long as she did.'

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Bringing you creative news from around the bailiwick

The Guernsey Arts Commission had a great time at Liberation Day last month! The Arts Development Team, GAC Artists and GAC volunteers were all present - making colourful planes and creating an incredible stop-frame film featuring over 150 people! We asked them: “What does Liberation mean to you today?”

The movie is available to watch at locations all over the island, including: - www.arts.gg - GAC Facebook page - Tourist Information Centre - Guille-Allès Library - Airport Waiting Lounge - Harbour Waiting Lounge

Insider Art >

Art on the Beach >

the greenhouse, Sunday 26th June

Vazon, Sunday 7th July

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MARKET BUILDINGS WHAT'S ON

WHAT'S ON IN THE MARKET BUILDINGS JUNE/JULY 2013 To view a full schedule of whats happening in the market buildings this June/July please VISIT WWW.MARKETPLACEGUERNSEY.CO.UK

EVERY FRIDAY THROUGHOUT 2013

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MARKET SQUARE

GUERNSEY MUSEUM, CASTLE CORNET AND FORT GREY

FRESH FRIDAY

£FREE // 08:30 - 14:30 WWW.MARKETPLACEGUERNSEY.CO.UK

Fresh Friday is a wonderful addition to St Peter Port. Taking place every Friday from 8:30am until 2:30pm. A range of local producers and traders sell fresh local Guernsey produce including Fresh fish, meat, vegetables, Chutney, pate, deli, cakes and much, much more. With no pitch fees, its a great way to get involved and connect with local consumers over a range of produce! For more information check out the Facebook page www.facebook.com/MarketBuildings.

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THE PINK LADIES SUNSET WALK 2013 MARKET SQUARE

£FREE TO ENTER //22:00 - 00:00 WWW.PINKLADIES.ORG.GG

The Pink Ladies Sunset Walk 2013. The walk will finish with a party in Market Square, where Cafe Bon Port will provide food and drink for walkers and entertainment from Abba tribute band Sensation.

THE QUEENS OFFICIAL BIRTHDAY

£FREE //ALL DAY WWW.MARKETPLACEGUERNSEY.CO.UK

Come and celebrate the Queens official birthday with free entry to Guernsey Museum, Castle Cornet and Fort grey all day.

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THE VALE EARTH FAIR COLLECTIVE RECORD AND CD FAIR THE GREENHOUSE £FREE // ALL DAY ROB ROUSSEL - 07781 107 698

Following the success of the recent Record & CD Fair in the Inner Street of Market Buildings, Vale Earth Fair organiser Rob Roussel.

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EVERY DAY INC SUNDAY

ST PETER PORT STREETS

CAFÉ DÉLICES

TOWN CARNIVAL

08:00 - 17:00 JACKHONEYBILL@HOTMAIL.COM

Oodles of family fun with clowns, face painters, musicians and much more ....

AL FRESCO DINNING

07.30- 6;00PM FACEBOOK.COM/CAFEDELICESGSY We open from 7:30am for a nice “cafe-croissant” until 6.00 in the evening. We offer a wide choice of Crepes, Galettes, Omelettes, Salads and Soups served throughout the day. A bientot!

EVERY MON TO SAT AL FRESCO DINING CAFE BON PORT

10.00- 19:00 MON-THUR 8:30 - 22:30 FRI-SAT FACEBOOK.COM/CAFEDELICESGSY At Cafe Delices you can enjoy the atmosphere of a real fThe Cafe Bon Port is located in the heart of Market Square and offers a whole range of delicious options. So come down and sample some of our breakfast/lunch/ dinner options soon…

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MYANMAR

Myanmar

A MONTH IN words | Guy Brown

MYANMAR (BURMA) IS A COUNTRY WHICH ONLY EVER SEEMS TO RECEIVE POOR PRESS DUE TO THE ON-GOING BORDER CONFLICTS AND THE STRANGLEHOLD THE MILITARY REGIME STILL HAS ON THE BURMESE PEOPLE.

ollowing rave reviews from other backpackers I decided to discover it for myself. What I found was a country full of warm, hospitable people, optimistic about their future especially following the release of the political prisoner, Aung San Suu Kyi. From a photographer’s point of view, the opportunities are endless - Majestic Temples, stupa studded skylines, golden pagodas and pristine beaches. I’m not going to spew out facts as it will only bore you to sleep and besides I’m not writing for the Lonely Planet! Here are a few photos and some of the more quirky tales / observations from my month in Myanmar. This was taken in the small town of Saigang, outside Myanmar’s second largest city, the exotic sounding Mandalay. I climbed a few hundred steps to one of the larger monasteries overlooking Saigang, the Ayewardy river and the surrounding hills which were shrouded in mist. This particular monastery housed three Buddhist monks and I was greeted by the chief monk who invited me inside. We walked into a room and I admired the view below while he rustled around in his cupboards to emerge, much to my delight, with a can of Pepsi, a bunch of bananas, some crackers and half a dozen packs of biscuits. I had been reading a book by the Dalai Lama and recalled that Buddhists are not greedy people so I proudly restrained myself around the biscuits. We sat in silence save for the sound of boats chugging along the river below before he gave me a tour around his monastery, answering my questions as we walked bare foot. At the end of my impromptu tour I donated some money to the monastery’s cause, as is customary. I wasn’t sure who was more generous, me or

the monk as he off-loaded yet another can of Pepsi on me, more bananas and enough biscuits to stuff in my pockets leaving me to stagger down the steps of the monastery like John Wayne..... Following my meeting with the monk, I stopped by a small village for some lunch. Admittedly I didn’t need to eat as I had accumulated more than enough snacks from the monk, but eating is one of my favourite pastimes and I relish the opportunity to try local dishes. Saigang doesn’t see many tourists and unlike the rest of the country, spoken English is a rarity. My knowledge of the Burmese language was limited to Mingalaba (hello) which, whilst getting me a huge smile from the restaurant owner upon arrival, wasn’t going to get me lunch. I ended up using my hands in a shovelling motion towards my mouth to gesture that I wanted to eat. The dear sweet lady trotted off to the kitchen to cook up what I hoped would be a storm. She came out 5 minutes later with this..... a bagged loaf of sliced bread served on a metal plate and nothing else......bless her. The local guy next to me gave my menu choice a strange look and I had to agree with him. I even went as far as dipping the bread in my coffee to save face and more awkward glances (or as

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it was by now, hysterical laughing) from the other punters. Coffee and bread - every bit as a terrible as you imagine...... The food in Myanmar was a huge hit with my taste buds. Tourism is very much a growing industry in Myanmar so many places haven’t cottoned on to Western cuisine or the idea of adapting local dishes to suit our palate. As a result the food is authentic, great value and they don’t hold back on the chilli. Even the ice cream is delicious. I ended up inside Mandalay Zoo after taking a wrong turn to the botanical gardens. I found a small stand selling ice cream and asked for a soft scoop in a cone. The lady disturbed an elderly man snoozing in his chair who woke with a startle then ran over to start the diesel generator so “fatty” could have his ice cream. It took him almost 5 minutes to start the thing. It eventually roared into action with a puff of smoke filling the air with intoxicating diesel fumes while I stood there feeling quite frankly, a bit of a wally. The ice cream stand came to life with the tinny sound of traditional Burmese pop music blaring from the speakers. After much deliberation from the machine, the ice cream oozed out into the wafer cone, the machine was switched off, the generator powered down, then silence..... All a bit much for some ice cream isn’t it? This was taken at a monastery in the middle of the Burmese countryside during a 3 day trek to Inle Lake from Kalaw. On the way we sampled local fruits and passed through small villages stopping each day around noon for some noodles and a midday siesta. The second night (also New Years Eve), was spent in a Buddhist monastery inhabited by half a dozen boy monks, their chief monk and some thug catapulting rocks at pigeons. Despite it being a monastery, beer somehow became readily available, beer.... and opium! We were woken at 5AM on New Years Day to the sounds of the boy monks chanting in front of a Lord Buddha statue, their vocals just about drowning out the snoring and sporadic flatulence

emanating from an Ozzy guy next to us who was still half-cut. Bagan is an area of 20 square miles and contains over 4000 ancient monuments, pagodas, temples and monasteries. I’ll confess I’m not a huge fan of temples and in most instances would rather eat my own leg than look at temples all day, but Bagan is different. Firstly there are so many buildings that apart from the larger temples you get most of the sites to yourself. Secondly, hiring a bike means you can explore off the beaten track and see temples which have been left just as they were discovered. Of course, this is Myanmar and riding a bicycle with no gears is not a whole lot of fun, especially in sand. I had the occasional swearing fit as I got stuck and when my tyres finally punctured I unleashed a string of expletives at my bike. It was only when I had my first puncture that I realised there were bike repair men everywhere! They must do a thriving business as my inner tube had no fewer than a dozen existing repairs and 3 more after the man had sealed up the new holes! The highlight of Bagan was this scene on top of a flat roofed temple where I sat alone, watching the sun rise over the temples as six silhouetted hot air balloons drifted across the panorama before me. Some fellow travellers and I walked to the top of a hill to view the sunset over the town of Kalaw. We were side-tracked by a group of GUERNSEY’S STYLE MAGAZINE

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small children who came out to greet us. There was one girl in the group who stood out from the rest as being incredibly photogenic. She didn’t make it easy for me but I eventually won her over with a smile, pulling some stupid faces and blowing some raspberries. The paint on her cheeks is known as hanakha and is worn by almost every female in Myanmar. It cools and refreshes the skin and provides protection from the sun. I could easily blow my own trumpet and tell you how much work was put into this shot. In reality I was sitting at a beer station reading my book sinking a couple of ice cold Dagon draughts. It just so happens, across the road from where I was enjoying life, was a monastery where monks were filtering out after a day of meditation and worshipping the ‘big guy’. I snapped a few shots of this monk speeding passed then went back to my beer not really thinking much about the photo I had just taken. It’s only since I’ve returned home and given the original a panoramic crop, that it’s taken on a life of it’s own. One of the joys of travel photography is the lack of planning involved and a lot of it is down to luck, pure and simple. I leave my hotel every day not having a clue what will end up on my memory card come the evening and for me, that makes this the most exciting and rewarding form of photography. Talking of beer, when at a beer station (a bar), in order to get the waiters attention you make a kissing sound with your lips which I admit, took me a while to summon up the courage to do. It’s a little embarrassing when they don’t hear you and made all the more difficult when you don’t know who the waiter is, so you end up throwing out kisses to half a dozen other people before you find the waiter! I’m not sure why it’s such an effective way of getting people’s attention but then again, if you make a kissing sound to anyone in the street its sure to get someone’s attention. Of course you have a completely different reaction depending on where you are in the world - in Myanmar you get a beer, at home you get a smack in the mouth. I’ve always been a fan of candid shots, capturing a person unaware of your presence. We have a tendency to tense up every time a camera

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is thrust in our face. We want to look our best which is especially true in the age of social media where everything and anything can find its way on to the internet. It’s the posed shots which don’t always portray the person’s true personality and that’s partly down to the photographer and people feeling intimidated with a lens in their face. One observation is that travelling in Asia, people seem a lot more relaxed in front of the lens than in the Western world. Perhaps this is a reflection on the different social pressures we face? This is one of my favourite portraits on this trip and was taken on a train journey around Yangon. She has so much character - I imagine she has led an interesting life. My travel companion was a big help in this shot allowing me to hide behind her so I could snap a candid shot of the old lady without being noticed. The light was streaming through the train window and lit up her face perfectly. I highly recommend a train journey in Myanmar. Not only is it a great way to see the outskirts of Yangon, it’s an opportunity to meet the locals and sample delicious snacks and noodles sold by the vendors who traverse up and down the carriages dishing out grub to happy punters. Myanmar was a breath of fresh air. I will admit a lot of the attractions are very similar and I really don’t care if I never see another temple or stupa again. What makes Myanmar beautiful is the people. I had not one hostility with a local and every person I spoke to was incredibly warm and happy to see another tourist in their country. I almost felt bad for travelling their country on a backpacker budget as I really wanted to give more to the people in return for their hospitality. Myanmar is changing rapidly and now that economic sanctions have been eased, the influx of foreign investment has already started with the introduction of readily available mobile phones and Coca-Cola, who have just re-opened a production facility after a 60 year hiatus. It will only be a matter of time before the golden arches of McDonalds touchdown in Yangon. On the flip side, maybe that’s a good thing and a sign that the dark ages could be behind them.....? www.facebook.com/guybrownphotography

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SARK IN JUNE

What's on in June... Saturday 1st June 2013

Market Day at the Sark Visitor Centre courtyard starts at 11am (weather permitting). Local produce, bric a brac, homemade goods. To reserve a stall or for more information please contact the Visitor Centre 01481 832345.

Monday 3rd June 2013

Sark Artists exhibition at the Sark Visitor Centre. Free entry. From lunchtime. Until Sunday 14th July.

Tuesday 4th June 2013

Artists of Sark A guided walk led by Visitor Officer Karen Adams. An exploration of the locations associated with some of the many artists who have been drawn to Sark throughout history, including where they lived and worked. We finish this walk in one of the most spectacular locations on Sark. Pre-booking essential. Starts 2 pm at the Mermaid Tavern. To book, telephone 01481 832345 or e-mail office@ sark.co.uk Tickets cost £4 per adult and £2 per child. Minimum of 4 adults needed for the walk to go ahead.

Friday 7th June 2013

Guided Garden Walk through private gardens on the West of Sark. This walk starts at 2 pm from The Visitors Centre, lasts around 2 hours and includes tea at the final stop, all for £3. No booking needed. All proceeds donated to local charities.

Monday 10th June 2013

Guided walk – The Secrets of Little Sark Enjoy an ‘off the road’ exploration of Little Sark with walk leader Jan Guy, taking in fabulous views and some history. The walk starts outside La Sablonnerie at 10.30 am and takes about two hours, leaving you free to enjoy a leisurely lunch or further exploration of this wonderfully wild part of Sark in the afternoon. Please note that the walk includes several stiles and is not suitable for those who do not like heights. It is not recommended for children. Pre booking is essential. Adults £4. To book Tel: 01481 832345 or e-mail office@ sark.co.uk

Friday 14th June 2013

Guided Garden Walk through private gardens on the North of Sark. This walk starts at 2 pm from The Visitors Centre, lasts around 2 hours and includes tea at the final stop, all for £3. No booking needed. All proceeds donated to local charities.

Saturday 15th June 2013

Market Day at the Sark Visitor Centre courtyard starts at 11 am (weather permitting). Local produce, bric a brac, homemade goods. To reserve a stall or for more information please contact the Visitor Centre 01481 832345.

Wednesday 19th June

Friends of Sark Music welcome - Bartosz Woroch Concert. Violin and piano. Violin sonatas by Strauss, Poulenc and Beethoven. 8pm at The Island Hall. Tickets £15 [members of Friends of Sark Music £10] available at the Island Hall, the Visitors Centre and on the night at the door.

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locations on Sark. Pre-booking is essential. Starts 2 pm at the Mermaid Tavern. To book, telephone 01481 832345 or e-mail office@ sark.co.uk Tickets cost £4 per adult and £2 per child. Minimum of 4 adults needed for the walk to go ahead.

Friday 21st June 2013

Guided Garden Walk through private gardens on the East of Sark. This walk starts at 2 pm from The Visitors Centre, lasts around 2 hours and includes tea at the final stop, all for £3. No booking needed. All proceeds donated to local charities.

Saturday 22nd June 2013

Another SAstroS event for the diary. Following last year’s Midsummer Masked Ball and many pleas for there to be another, SAstroS are holding this year’s Ball at Stock’s Hotel at the Cider Press Room. Dinner at 7 pm, a string quartet and waltzing under the stars by the swimming pool or inside. Please book directly with the hotel for the dinner (01481 832001) It is recommended that you do so early – last year’s Ball was a sell-out.

Monday 24th June 2013

Guided walk – How Sark Works – Politics, Sewage & Taxes A guided walk led by Jan Guy. Starts 2pm at the Visitor Centre. This 2 hour walk, which has one fairly steep ascent, attempts to answer all the questions visitors to the island ask: Where does your water come from? Where do your children go to school? Do you pay tax? Themes and routes might change if weather is inclement or paths temporarily out of use. Advanced booking at the Visitor Centre is advised. Tickets cost £4 per adult. £2 per child. Strong footwear, lightweight waterproofs and small bottle of water are also advised. To book Tel: 01481 832345 or e-mail office@sark.co.uk

Wednesday 26th June – Thursday 27th June 2013 Midsummer Show The Island Hall becomes home to the finest Sark flowers and produce.

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WORDS | GRACE RYAN

If there’s one thing fashion is addicted to (besides Peruvian gak and tiny dogs) it’s the belief in its own power to bestow upon even the dowdiest of us a glamorous Cinderella-style transformation. You may have a crusty unibrow and thighs like a carrier bag full of porridge, but given the right advice and a Platinum Amex card you’ll be a dead ringer for Kate Moss cruising the priory clinic in search of her next love interest. Fill your stomach full of toilet paper, paint the colour back onto your hollow cheeks and you too can aspire to the ultimate in human beauty spindly limbs, protruding ribs and a party wardrobe that makes you resemble a stork caught in a golf umbrella. Makeovers are big business - lowbrow TV and glossy magazines would implode without uplifting stories about horribly normal people remaking themselves into something that Karl Lagerfeld can look at without being sick. I burn off my afternoon hangovers watching E4 with the curtains drawn, and have witnessed brides, children and even dogs being made fabulous through the unholy alchemy of production assistants and a borrowed wardrobe. True, only an idiot would fall for the fairytale - it’s fun to watch but we all know Karen from Bradford will be forced to go back

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to shopping at Primark as soon as the makeup artists vanish back to Hoxton and leave her with the sartorial equivalent of two rats and a pumpkin with a flat tyre. Almost anybody can look good given enough cash, a stylist and good lighting; take it away and it’s back to posting photoshopped selfies on match.com. What interests me more is the idea of the extreme makeunder - where the beautiful and stylish would be forced to exist like the rest of us, stripped of their personal trainers, support undergarments and regular botox jabs. Give them a few weeks in the harsh light of day and they’d soon look more like redundant dinnerladies from Cardiff or Jeremy Clarkson. Wouldn’t that be nice? Read on to discover my essential tips to help those stars fall back down to earth.

Gwyneth Paltrow:

Queen of the trailer park She has a macrobiotic diet, a rock-star husband and was somehow voted both ‘most beautiful woman’ AND ‘most hated celebrity’ earlier this year. Our Gwinnie manages those achievements through a punishing regime of constant exercise, fun-free eating and Hollywood genes that produce both conventional beauty and insufferable smugness. Speaking as somebody who laughed when Brad Pitt opened the box in Se7en, I think we’d all like to know what la Paltrow would look like if she swapped Hollywood genes for Wal-mart jeans, and was forced to spend the rest of her days raising Coldplay’s kids in a filthy trailer park in Wyoming. Replace a diet of organic tofu bake with deep-fried hotdogs and sixty cigs a day; accentuate the wild meth-eyes with a hair dye bleached in neighbour Shurleen’s bathtub and some homemade tattoos, and you’ve got an image that screams red carpet. Admittedly this is either because kids Trig and Gator spilled Kool-Aid on it or the previous occupant was murdered in a dispute over the last slice of meatloaf.

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George Clooney:

manic street preacher He’s the dapper gentleman who looks like he was born in a tuxedo, is the life of any A-list party and is forever fending off ladies a third his age who want his equally dapper babies. He can command a sumptuous suit from any designer he chooses, but would he look quite as good if he was one of those people who stands on a box and shouts at people through a megaphone near Oxford Circus? I don’t think George would be advertising Rolex if his daytime wardrobe were a filthy polyester three piece and wellington boots, or if his last appearance in Vanity Fair involved him handing out pamphlets about lizard people and 9/11 conspiracies. Then again, he’s made premature grey hair a strong, sexy look, so who’s to say he couldn’t do the same for a greasy combover and a beard with cornflakes stuck to it?

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Mad Men:

Kate Middleton

US TV sensation Mad Men has made its mark on the style scene with its eyecatching vintage wardrobes and impossibly glamorous stars. You’re destined for big things when your ensemble features the razor-sharp Jon Hamm, all-American beauty January Jones and curvaceous bombshell Christina Hendricks. These people look fantastic the entire time they’re on camera, but would this be the case if they swapped wardrobes with the cast of grim East-London Soap Eastenders?

We all know posh girls like nothing more than a bit of rough, so imagine if Kate hadn’t traded up to her balding prince charming and had instead got knocked up at seventeen to a spotty layabout from Essex. Katie and Darren’s wedding would never have got the rest of us a day off, and sister Pippa’s velour tracksuit-clad bottom would be unlikely to upstage a miniskirt bridal gown with eye-popping cleavage courtesy of a shoplifted wonderbra. The groom would opt of the classic outfit of tracksuit and Asbo curfew bracelet; the wedding cake would be bought cheap from Greggs the baker. It brings a tear to my eye just thinking of it.

Walford Edition

I doubt Ms. Hendricks would still be on the cover of Vogue if she exchanged her classic look for Pat Butcher’s patterned polyester nightmare and candelabra earrings, and January Jones would turn fewer heads if she was done up like Dot Cotton, complete with varicose veins, fag-yellowed fingers and makeup like a vaudeville vampire. As for Jon Hamm, a week after the obligatory affair with Kat Slater he’d be as beige, balding and lifeless as every other man who’s been there. Leave it ahhhht, yeah?

...marries down

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SAMUEL PEPYS - BLACK AND GOLD - EVENING DRESS £135

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WOMEN

This summer is taking a sporty turn, with baseball shirts and varisty jackets, featuring leather panelling and netted sheer tops. This trend can be teamed perfectly withdenim or tailored joggers, dressed up with a platform shoe. Also packing a punch this season are these retro, pop-art inspired slogan tees and accessories, complimenting the sports luxe trend.

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If these looks are not for you then makeover your wardrobe with prints and patterns wherever you can. The brighter and bolder the better, clashing wherever possible, a top trend for the season.

1. New Look - £12.99, 2. New Look - £12, 3. River Island - £25, 4. River Island - £35, 5. New Look - £34, 6. New Look - £12.99, 7.New Look - £7.99, 8. New Look - £12.99, 9. New Look - £12.99, 10. JuJu @ New Look - £23.99, 11. New Look - £7.99, 12. Vila @ New Look - £29.99, 13. Miss Selfridge - £18, 14. New Look - £14.99, 15. Joy £39, 16. New Look - £22, 17. River Island - £30, 18. Miss Selfridge - £47, 19. Asos - £50, 20. Joyrich @ Asos - £80, 21. New Look - £3.99, 22. New Look - £9, 23. New Look - £12.99

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Sports jumpers and hoodies are a perfect way to keep warm on chilly summer evenings by the beach, paired with acid washed skinny jeans. But don’t be afraid to bare those legs in some short shorts, either denim or for swimming. The more retro, the better!

Grab your Hawaiian print shirts and shorts this summer, and give your wardrobes a tropical makeover. Dipped, tie dyed, and bleached are the way forward for any statement piece.

1. Burton - £25, 2. Burton - £20, 3. Burton £25, 4. Burton - £20, 5. River Island - £16, 6. New Look - £14, 7. New Look - £19, 8. New Look - £14, 9. Burton - £22, 10. River Island - £28, 11. River Island - £35, 12. River Island - @20, 13. Levi’s @ Asos - £60, 14. New Look £14.99, 15. River Island - £22, 16. Burton - £12, 17. River Island - £6, 18. Asos - £20, 19. Asos - £22.50, 20. Asos - £45, 21. Burton - £32, 22. New Look - £14.99, 23. River Island - £30, 24. Burton - £12, 25. River Island - £20, 26. New Look - £9

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STYLE STALKER

StyleStalker

The lovely people at Joy went out on the streets of St Peter Port camera in hand, to find some fashionable folk who are ahead of the trends and working their own style.

Steph Hughes, 22 Snowboarder

Libby phibbs, 23 Shop manager

Leon and Dan, 18 Students

Style Stalker: 'Steph knows how to put together a casual outfit that keeps her comfy and looking cool, Wide leg trousers are coming back into fashion now that the weather is warming up so ditch those skinny jeans and embrace the comfy look!'

Style Stalker: 'Pop colours are super summery and Libby's fitted blazer is as bright as it can be! Well balanced with a floral tee her outift is made less formal with clean converse. Such a good choice!'

Style Stalker: 'Leon and Dan echo student life with jumpers, band tees and fitted shoes. Very stylish :)'

Erin Renouf, 17 Hair dresser

Rosalie Falla, 17

Danny Evans and friend, 27 Photographer

Style Stalker: 'Slouchy jumpers are our favourite so when we saw Erin's tie-dyed style we were over the moon! we are loving the candy colours and oversized bag.'

Style Stalker: "Rosalie keeps her outfit calm and collected but still reflects an air of spring/summer chic, we adore the graphic print dress!'

Style Stalker: 'This pair know how to dress! nautical stripes and trendy jeans paired with your favourite sunglasses, ready for any sunny days ahead.'

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BEAUTY NEWS words | Nichole Sweetsur

SUN-TECH

THIS MONTH GALLERY’S BEAUTY EXPERT, NICHOLE SWEETSUR, GETS YOU READY TO TAN WITH THE SMARTEST SUN PROTECTION, ESSENTIAL PREP STEPS AND IDEAS TO MAKE YOUR TAN LAST LONGER PLUS CLEVER IDEAS TO FAKE IT. HELLO GLOW.

NIVEA

Sun Protect & Refresh £14.29 - BOOTS The new Nivea Sun Protect & Refresh Invisible Cooling Mist delivers immediate protection so there’s no waiting around before hitting the beach. Plus the 360° aerosol makes it easy to cover those hard to reach spots. The mist has a cooling sensation, which is perfect for soaring temperatures and you can take good care of your skin with an SPF20, SPF30 or SPF50.

HAWAIIAN TROPIC After Sun Lotion £11.99 - BOOTS Keeping skin hydrated after a day in the sun is the key to a longer-lasting tan. The new Hawaiian Tropic Silk-Hydration After Sun Lotion smells like a holiday in a bottle – think coconut and papaya but it also cools and moisturizes in one step. Aloe vera soothes skin whilst a blend of shea and mango butters really pampers and nourishes.

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Sublime Bronze Exfotonic Body Polishing Gel £7.99 - BOOTS However much care you take with sun protection, when it comes to tanning the safest option is always to fake it. Step one to self-tan success is exfoliation. The new body buffer from L’Oreal Paris, Sublime Bronze Exfotonic Body Polishing Gel, is hitting the shops in June. It contains the twin gods of smooth skin - alpha hydroxyl acids AND exfoliating beads and we love the subtle fragrance too. Follow the scrub with the NEW MOMENT BY MOMENT SELF-TAN BY VITA LIBERATA,, which will take you from pasty to gloriously brown in just one hour. Apply the streak-free formula and decide how deep a tan you want. Wash off after 30 minutes for a light glow or leave on for longer for a deeper bronze. £24.50 - BOOTS

PIZ BUIN Wet Skin

FROM £17.99 - BOOTS If you’re in and out of the pool or sea on holiday you’ll love the new Biz Buin Wet Skin sunscreen. Experts have been telling us for years to reapply sun protection after every dip and this clever new technology means you don’t even need to dry off first. The formula is absorbed by wet skin just as well as dry and it’s a broad-spectrum sun cream so it protects against burning and the ageing rays of the sun.

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REN

Satin Perfection BB Cream SPF15

Just when you think there can’t be another BB Cream a new one arrives and this one is a keeper. Ren’s Satin Perfection BB Cream SPF15 is smarter than your average face base with Noni Photo-Rejuvenation technology that turns the baddie UV rays into a skin-friendly red light that boosts elastin production. The result is firmer skin. Meanwhile the formula also illuminates, perfects any skin tone AND protects against sun damage with a broad-spectrum sunscreen. It’s a true multi-tasker and perfect for this time of year.

TRY ME, BUY ME.

£26 - PLAISIRS

LANCOME

Gloss in Love

£20 - CREASEYS Lancôme’s aptly named Gloss in Love is a high shine lip colour that will have you lusting after all 12 of the delectable shades. Pink Pamille seriously nails the trend for pink lips and is super glossy but also moisturizing.

DANYA DECKER

Clementine Essence Spray £29 - PLAISIRS If you are longing to be somewhere a little more exotic then transport yourself with a spritz of the new Danya Decker Clementine Essence Spray. The scent marries orange flower, neroli, honey, black tea and cassis with cucumber extract. It’s reminiscent of a warm Spanish evening and Laura from Plaisirs explains that it can be spritzed onto the skin or even used as a room spray. It’s an instant holiday! I’m also hooked on the Clementine moisturizer, which is a gel and oil hybrid that quickly sinks into skin to leave behind its addictive scent.

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MAKING UP

MAKING UP ISN’T HARD TO DO Words | Nichole Sweetsur

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IF YOU’RE STUCK IN A RUT WITH YOUR MAKE-UP OR DON’T KNOW YOUR BLUSH FROM YOUR BASE READ ON. ALLERY READER, REBECCA SKIPPER WANTED TO UPDATE HER LOOK AND WITH SOME HELP FROM MAKE-UP ARTIST AND HAIR STYLIST AMELIA WELLS WE WORKED A LITTLE MAKEOVER MAGIC. ‘I’ve always been quite sporty and never worn loads of makeup, I’ve made a single bottle of foundation last two years which says how little I’ve worn,’ confesses Rebecca. Let’s be clear, Rebecca’s a natural beauty, with flawless skin and a natural pink blush to her cheeks, but a little make-up does boost your confidence and when Rebecca told us she hopes to apply for a new job soon we decided it was time to expand her repertoire. Enter our make-up artist and hair stylist. Amelia worked out three new looks for Rebecca – a simple, on-trend pow-pink lip, a fast day time make-up that would work well for the office and an easy but oh-so-gorgeous smoky eye for evening. Here’s how. ‘Pink lips and minimalist eye make up popped up on the Spring Summer 2013 catwalks and this look works really well for Rebecca because her lips are a great shape and she likes a fairly minimalist look,’ explains Amelia. She preps skin with Caudalie Mattifying Moisture Fluid and Garnier’s 5 Sec Perfect Blur, which helps foundation to last longer, particularly in warmer weather. A touch of Lord & Berry’s cream foundation is all Rebecca needs to even out skin tone and create the perfect base. Lord & Berry’s Shining Lipstick is a chunky, creamy lip pencil that Amelia uses to line and fill in the lip shape. A little blotting mattifies the finish, which tones down the look and makes it more wearable. Amelia applies the blusher last so she can get the whole look in balance, picking a pretty pink Guinot blush that matches Rebecca’s natural colouring.

Fast and easy make-up getting ready for work is a breeze.

Amelia touches up imperfections with Guinot’s Master Colours, a creamy concealer that she pats on using her finger tips. ‘For evening I use a little more foundation and concealer to create more of a blank canvas. I’m also giving the brows a little more definition which will frame the eyes.’ Amelia uses the Benefit Smoken Eyes compact and blends the pale pink highlighter from the lash-line up to the optical bone. She takes the shadow from the outer corner of the eye diagonally up to the corner of the brow before using the shimmery mid-grey in the crease of the eye and down to the outer corner – creating a V shape. Work the dark shadow along the top of the lid and build colour, blending all the time. ‘I love using lashes to notch up the glamour quotient. I’ve chosen the Eylure Nicola Girls Aloud lashes which are inexpensive and longer at the edges. Use a volumising mascara on your own lashes first to give them a little body, apply the glue to the lashes and wait for that to get tacky before applying’ With dramatic eyes Amelia suggests a nude lip and picks out Hush Hush from Miners and then finishes with a dusky pink blusher from Guinot. With a cute plait and hair swept the side the finished look is glamorous but fresh. The verdict? ‘This is my favourite look,’ says Rebecca with a smile, ‘I love the hair and the eyes and lashes. It’s really pretty without being overdone.’

Pink lipstick made an appearance on the catwalks of Giles and Dries Van Noten. Be bold but keep the rest of your make-up minimal. ‘Make-up for work needs to give you confidence whilst maintaining your professionalism,’ shares Amelia. She recommends a fast routine for work that emphasises the eyes using shadow, rather than eyeliner. ‘I prefer to work with a dark eye shadow as it’s easier to build and blend. Just don’t overload the brush – tap excess shadow off first to avoid fall-out over your cheeks.’ Rebecca likes a natural look so Amelia’s job is to enhance her features, foundation stays light and eyes are prepped with a nude eyeshadow. Amelia uses shadow across the top of the lid but only on the outer corner of the lower lash line. ‘If you need to tone down the shadow, just blend it away using a cotton-bud,’ she advises. Amelia builds up two layers of lengthening mascara and finishes the skin with a little translucent powder. The final touch is a mauve lipstick from Lord & Berry, which is a brilliant alternative to nude lipstick but still works well for day. ‘For evening you can’t go wrong with a smoky eye,’ states Amelia. ‘It looks complicated but it’s a case of experimenting to find the right colours for you. Rebecca’s dark eyes will be flattered by greys but navy shadows look amazing against blue eyes and dark green and khaki looks incredible with hazel eyes.’ BECAUSE QUALITY MATTERS

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Smoky eye make-up is a classic evening look but it’s easy to adapt to suit your features. Thank you to Amelia Wells, Active Beauty and Rebecca Skipper.

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MARTIN

MARTIN&MARTIN I OPENED MY FIRST BUSINESS WITH THE HELP OF MY FATHER, TRADING AS GUERNSEY CHARMS LTD IN THE OLD CRAFT CENTRE IN TRINITY SQUARE, 1ST JUNE 1973. I MOVED THE BUSINESS TO MILL STREET IN NOVEMBER 1976. AUGUST 1993 SAW ANOTHER CHANGE IN PREMISES AND A NEW COMPANY NAME, MARTIN & MARTIN DESIGNER GOLDSMITHS LTD WHEN WE MOVED TO OUR PRESENT LOCATION IN COMMERCIAL ARCADE.

silver, saw the change to yellow gold in the 80’s. In the 90’s white gold became very popular. Now silver has regained its status due to the escalation in the price of gold.

We started as a purely family business having employed / trained my mother and one sister, my brother Karl who has gone onto run his own business KDesign and Wink Ltd, and my two sons.

In 2001 I had the idea to incorporate Guetrnsey French sayings into a piece of jewellery and came up with 4 designs. The initial one being A La Perchoine and The Patois Jewellery Collection was born. Since then because of the resulting enthusiasm and success, we have produced over 175 designs in the workshop and we are still evolving the range; taking older sayings and introducing new ones.

Now we have Jason and Neil in the workshop with combined 32 years between them. The shop has been managed by Jamie for the last 8 years and for the last two years assisted by his wife Emma. Handmade jewellery has always been a big part of our business, though trends and fashions have changed through my years in business and continue to do so, we try to keep up. The 70’s focus was on coloured stones, which continue into the 80’s but Opals had a starring role. The 90’s saw a trend in customers wanting diamond jewellery, and this has continued to date. There has also been trends in the metals used. We started using mostly

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The workshop remains very busy in redesigning old pieces of jewellery and repairs. But we are still designing new pieces working on new masters. This year we decided to look at our early designs and are looking to modernise some of them. Something retro but new.

Over the next 2 months we will be introducing 15 new designs for the summer and autumn, and something to celebrate our 40 years in business later in the year. Over the next 12 months, 1st June to 31st May 2014. We are designing 40 to 60 new designs. Incorporating many of our old designs from our 40 years in business, please see our facebook page for updates. www.facebook.com/patoisjewellery

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CELEBRATING 40 YEARS IN BUSINESS

1973

2013

FORTY YEARS 18ct WHITE GOLD BLACK AND WHITE

£1170

SILVER PATOIS PENDANT ‘WISH HOPE DREAM’

£46

MURU SIL BUTTERFLY PENDANT

£63

PLATINUM AND DIAMOND ENGAGEMENT RING

£1899

9ct YELLOW GOLD ‘I LOVE YOU’ PATOIS RING

£169

AMORE SILVER BANGLE

£130

18ct WHITE GOLD RUBY AND DIAMON PENDANT 9ct YELLOW GOLD ‘LOVE FOREVER’ PATOIS PENDANT

£189

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LESLIE DONN 18CT WHITE GOLD DIAMOND AND SAPPHIRE RING

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WINNER OF TWO PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS (CLASSIC LOOK OF THE YEAR & BRIDAL LOOK OF THE YEAR) AT THE GREAT LENGTHS HAIR AWARDS 2012, LINZI KING, AT MYLA AND DAVIS, LONDON IS ONE OF THE UK’S BEST EXTENTIONISTS. LINZI ONLY WORKS WITH GREAT LENGTHS HAIR EXTENSIONS, DESCRIBED AS THE ‘ROLLS ROYCE’ OF HAIR - WORLD LEADERS IN 100% HUMAN HAIR EXTENSIONS FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS THEY GUARANTEE THE ORIGIN AND ETHICALITY OF ALL THEIR HAIR. Linzi was selected for the Great Lengths Artistic Team 2013, working on shows such as Britain’s Next Top Model, as well as for many titles including Hair Magazine. She can colour match to perfection and create the most natural looking extensions you will ever see! Katie Osoka mobile beauty and make-up applied Lisa’s “Airbase” make-up. Katie offers bridal and day/evening make-up plus many more looks and treatments. She uses Airbase to create a flawless look. Her web page is www.katieosoka.co.uk. Hair Affair is where Linzi will be based once a month. It is a stunning “out of town” salon, with loads of parking and a down to earth service just great for Great Lengths. Linzi is a Bridal Award Winning stylist, specialising in hair extensions and bridal hair, so if your big day is on the way, Linzi is your gal. She could give you that dream “side chignon” you only wish your fine hair could achieve. This look lasts for up to 4 months, so would even cover your honeymoon period. Good photos EVERY DAY! My aim is to bring Great Lengths to the island on a regular basis. I offer free consultations at Hair Affair and during this time I will match the hair and discuss the amount of hair we want to add. Some clients might go from as little as thickening just the sides of their hair to full blown Cheryl Cole locks. A thickening service is amazing, as adding just 50 strands can make all the difference. Lisa’s look was a combination of 3 different

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light blondes blended together with some beautiful medium minky blondes. I applied 125 strands to Lisa’s hair which has given her a full length and thickness make-over. The blend is done to perfection! This is carefully worked out in the consultation. Hair extentions start from just £110 for a 25 strand application at 30cm. The 3 golden rules of looking after your new hair extensions are as follows: 1) brush regularly at least once in the morning and once in the evening with the Great Lengths designed paddle brush. 2) use the Great Lengths Shampoo, Conditioner and Anti-Tap water at least once a week. This protects the keratin protein bonds and keeps the PH balance of the hair at 6.5. It also helps to condition the hair and makes it shine. 3) tie them in a loose pony tail when you go to bed. This will stop the extensions moving around in your sleep and becoming tangled. If you follow these Three Golden Rules, you will reap the benefits of the best Great Length Hair Extension experience of your life. To book your free consultation with Linzi, call Hair Affair With Distinction on 01481 253426 today.

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omen have never been more concerned with the way they look! With the rise of ‘The Wag’ look and popularity of make over TV shows, the Beauty Industry has seen a surge of clients wanting to achieve new heights in results driven treatments and procedures.

The Aesthetic Industry is a rapidly growing one. Alongside the increased demand for Botox, Laser Hair Removal and Fillers of course Permanent Make up has also seen a growing interest in the last few years. Let’s not be fooled though. Permanent Make up, also known as Semi-permanent Make up, Micropigmentation and Cosmetic Tattooing is permanent. The pigments fade gradually over time but they are implanted into the dermal layer of the skin and therefore the darker the pigment the longer it will last in the skin. Maintenance is required in order to avoid colours fading and changing. When done well with finesse, artistry, a keen eye for detail and a deep understanding of colour the results can be outstanding. By enhancing the clients own natural beauty, we can give definition back to the lips, eyes and brows, ensuring a subtle, natural and beautiful result. When done badly it can have irreversible, devastating results. All the more reason to choose your Technician with care!

Shoreditch and the City. She has been working in the industry now for more than 10 years and offers her clients Eye lash enhancements, Permanent eyeliner and permanent eye brow enhancements using hair by hair simulation. Perfect Creations uses the latest technology and hypoallergenic organic pigments. Libby also offers Colour Boosts, Colour Corrections and Permanent Lip Liner with Blush. Trained in Advanced Ultra Thick Eye liner and Advanced Medical Micropigmentation, offering Scar Camouflage. Libby has worked on people with severe scarring ranging from self harm victims to clients who have been left with the tell tale scars by the ears due to face lift procedures.

I am passionate about bringing out the best in people and Cosmetic/Medical Tattooing is a speciality that allows me to do this in an artistic and sensitive way. The reasons I see people vary greatly - it can be as small a detail as a couple of hair strokes needed in the brow bone to replace lost hairs or a long term 6 -12 month treatment programme to help conceal numerous scars that the client feels are unsightly and that they are conscious of.

Sadly I see so many people whose procedures have gone wrong due to poor education or technique. This can be upsetting for the client and sometimes there is nothing that can be done. Laser is a long drawn out process of removal. For these reasons it is incredibly important that you choose the right person to perform your permanent make up and that you are happy with your long term maintenance plan.

After

Libby Operates from The Lavender Rooms and runs a clinic every 4-8 weeks. To book a consultation please contact the girls on 258882. If you would like to contact Libby personally then you can by e-mail at perfectcreations4u@hotmail.com or visit her website to see frequently asked questions and read her blog where you can find articles on Permanent makeup and other health and beauty related subjects.

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Elizabeth (Libby) Warlow Specialises in Permanent Make up and works independently in London from Clinics in Mayfair, Knightsbridge, Shepherds Bush,

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Permanent makeup is a cosmetic technique which employs tattoos (permanent pigmentation of the dermis) as a means of producing designs that resemble makeup, such as eyelining and other permanent enhancing colours to the skin of the face, lips, and eyelids. It is also used to produce artificial eyebrows, particularly in people who have lost them as a consequence of old age, disease, such as alopecia, chemotherapy, or a genetic disturbance, and to disguise scars and white spots in the skin such as in vitiligo. It is also used to restore or enhance the breast’s areola, such as after breast surgery.

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Sitar SITAR RESTAURANT

THE POPULARITY OF INDIAN CUISINE CONTINUES TO RISE IN GUERNSEY. NOWHERE IS THIS MORE ILLUSTRATIVE THAN AT THE SITAR INDIAN RESTAURANT IN LOWER VAUVERT.

‘We have been here in Guernsey for 17 years and nobody has had any complaints about us,’ said restaurant manager Ali. ‘We have a friendly customer care service.’

RESTAURANT complimented with a healthy plethora of rice and side dishes. It was the culmination of numerous hours of marination in the Sitar’s very special recipes of herbs, spices and fresh cream. Throw in some champagne, wine and beer and it adds up to a cracking evening out!

Sitar is able to offer authentic Indian and Bangladeshi cuisine and can provide a private party room and separate take-away area and delivery service.

It was the fourth Indian restaurant to open in the island. ‘I realised the demand was growing year on year for Indian cuisine. Indian food has become really, really popular in the last 8 to 10 years and it’s growing everywhere. Once people try it they seem to like it and that keeps bringing them back,’ said Ali. ‘It’s the combination of spices and herbs and the methods of cooking we are using.’ Ali and his team give lots of cooking tips to customers and regularly show them into the kitchen and they are willing to demonstrate how they cook the food to anybody who wants to know.

The Sitar is open from 12midday to 2pm daily, 6-11.30pm Sunday to Thursday and 6-12 midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Home deliveries can be ordered by calling 730559 or you can order online via www.thesitar.co.uk

‘We would like to say a big thank you to all our regular customers and clientele that have supported us throughout the years. Without their support we would not be where we are today,’ said Ali. ‘90% of our customers are locals and most are regular, returning, loyal customers.’ The business located at the bottom of Victoria Road has even had three couples propose in the restaurant and after marriage their kids now visit the premises. The hospitable and polite Ali has been working in Indian restaurants since 1991 and always had the ambition to open a restaurant himself. ‘When we were at the old Sitar we needed bigger premises and as the demand and popularity grew we decided to expand. We were turning a lot of people away because of the smaller premises and the opportunity came up to move to bigger premises in 2007,’ The most popular dishes on the menu are korma, masala, jalfrezi and garlic chilli chicken. Ali’s personal three favourites are Chicken Tikka Tarka, Rarha Gosht and Chicken Tikka Balti. Cooking seems to run in the family too as his 15-year-old son Bijoy last year won the Young Chef of the Year award from Gasp. Gallery staff recently enjoyed a nosh-up night at the Sitar in the friendly and airy restaurant surroundings and sampled some of the unique specialities the team rumbled up. Each dish was individually prepared and served professionally with a smile freshly to the table. Nothing was an inconvenience. An abundance of popadoms and various hot and mild dips whet the appetite before a variety of starters and main courses,

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A LOT CAN HAPPEN IN SIX YEARS. BACK IN 2007, LEVI ROOTS WAS A STRUGGLING REGGAE MUSICIAN WITH A SMALL BUSINESS SELLING JERK BARBECUE SAUCE WITH LITTLE CASH TO HIS NAME. A memorable appearance on Dragons’ Den later, his brand has exploded, with ready meals, drinks, numerous table and cooking sauces and collaborations with the likes of KFC under his belt. The business is now said to be worth around £35 million. Looking for the perfect excuse for some al fresco dining with friends. Try these tasty Levi Roots barbecue recipes for size...

BBQ RECIPES BY LEVI ROOTS

THESE RECIPES ARE TAKEN FROM FOOD FOR FRIENDS BY LEVI ROOTS PUBLISHED BY MITCHELL BEAZLEY, PRICED £18.99

STICKY JERK WINGS WITH SUGARED ORANGES (SERVES 4 AS A STARTER OR AS PART OF A BARBECUE SPREAD) 12 chicken wings 2tbsp soft light brown or demerara sugar 2 pipless oranges 5 long, mild red chillies, whole and undamaged

FOR THE JERK MARINADE: 4 spring onions, green part only, roughly chopped 1 hot red chilli (ideally Scotch bonnet), seeds left in 3cm (1 1/4in) piece of root ginger, cut into chunks 2tbsp thyme leaves

100ml (3 1/2fl oz) cider vinegar 3tbsp honey 2tsp ground allspice 1tsp ground cinnamon 2tbsp olive oil Salt and pepper

Put the marinade ingredients in a blender and whizz until smooth. Alternately, pound the ingredients to a paste using a pestle and mortar. Pour it over the wings, turning them over so they are well coated. Leave to marinate, covered, in the fridge for at least 4 hours, or overnight if more convenient, turning the wings over once or twice. Get a barbecue going until the coals die down to hot grey ash (or preheat an oven to 190ºC/375ºF/gas mark 5). Barbecue or cook the wings, turning them over a few times, until they are cooked through (the juices should run clear when a skewer is pushed into the thickest point) and nicely brown, basting with any leftover jerk marinade (about 15 minutes). While the wings are cooking, sprinkle the sugar on to a plate and cut the oranges into quarters. Dip the cut sides of each piece into the sugar and cook on the barbecue (or in a heavy dry frying pan or under a stovetop grill) for a few minutes until the sugar has caramelised. Keep a close eye on the oranges to prevent them from burning. At the same time, chargrill the chillies. Serve the wings with the caramelised oranges and chargrilled chillies.

BARBECUED PRAWNS

(SERVES 6)

6tbsp olive oil 3tbsp white wine vinegar 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped

Salt and pepper Small bunch of parsley, finely chopped 24 raw tiger prawns

Lemon or lime wedges, to serve

Mix the oil, vinegar, garlic, seasoning and parsley together. Pull the heads off the prawns and remove the little legs. (You can either discard these trimmings or use them to make fish stock.) With a sharp knife, make a shallow cut down the back of each prawn and, with your finger or a cocktail stick, remove and discard the black vein. Put the tails into the oil and vinegar mixture, cover and leave to marinate in the fridge for about an hour. Meanwhile, if you intend to cook the prawns on wooden skewers, soak these in cold water while the prawns marinate to prevent them from burning on the barbecue. Remove the prawns from their marinade and cook them either on soaked wooden skewers on a very hot barbecue or under a hot grill. Alternatively, cook on a searing griddle pan. In either case, reckon on about 3 minutes each side and baste with the marinade as you go along. Serve with lemon or lime wedges and any of the lovely sauces suggested above.

BARBECUE BANANAS WITH PASSION FRUIT CREAM

(SERVES 8)

8 bananas 300ml (1/2 pint) whipping cream

4 tbsp lemon or orange curd 8 passion fruit

Icing sugar, to taste, plus extra to dust

Set the bananas - in their skins - on the bars of your barbecue, close to medium-hot coals. Leave to cook until the skins are black and the flesh inside feels soft when you pierce it with a skewer. Meanwhile, whip the cream until it holds its shape, then stir in the curd. Halve the passion fruit and scoop out the pulp and seeds with a teaspoon. Strain this, then remove and discard half the seeds. Return the rest to the juice and pulp. Mix half the passion fruit into the cream. Taste to see if you want to add any icing sugar (passion fruit can be very tart so even with the curd you may want to add some more sweetness). When the bananas are cooked, slit them down their length and gently open them up. Spoon some of the cream over the warm flesh and divide the remaining passion fruit pulp between the bananas - it makes the dish look just beautiful. Dust with icing sugar and serve.

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LIBERATION ALE RECIPES

BEER BATTERED FISH AND CHIPS LIBERATION ALE BATTER INGREDIENTS 4 large baking potatoes, cut into French fry strips Beer Batter: Just over half a bottle Liberation ale (feel free to drink the rest while cooking!) 2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon House Seasoning, recipe follows 1 1/2 pounds cod fillets, skinned with bones removed, and fish cut diagonally into 1-inch-wide strips (5 to 6-inches long) PREPARATION Heat oil to 375 degrees F.

slide into oil as coated. Fry fish, turning over frequently, until deep golden and cooked through, 4 to 5 minutes. Transfer to a paper towel-lined baking sheet and keep warm in oven. Fry remaining fish in batches, returning oil to 375 degrees F between batches. Serve fish with French fries. House Seasoning: 1 cup salt 1/4 cup black pepper 1/4 cup garlic powder Mix ingredients together and store in an airtight container for up to 6 months.

Fry potatoes until golden brown, roughly 10 minutes removing with a slotted spoon or spider. Hold in low oven to keep warm while cooking the fish. Preheat oven to 225 degrees F BATTER: In a large bowl, pour in the Liberation Ale. Sift 1 1/2 cups flour into the bowl, whisking in gently until just combined, stir in House Seasoning. Pat fish dry and season on both sides with salt and pepper and coat the fish in the beer batter. Dredge the pieces of fish in 1/2 cup of remaining flour and

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Cured

GUERNSEY ENTREPRENEURS ON THE SOFA

Born:

The year The Beatles released “Hey Jude” and the movie “The Graduate” starred Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson.

School:

In Guernsey eh! and in Canada eh!

Further Education:

Always.

First Job:

Cleaning tables, making food and serving coffees. Ah, and here I am again!

Car:

Oh, Suzie Q, Baby, I love you!

Book:

Mostly, true crimes and justice

Music:

Gotta love a bit of Nina

Film:

Impossible to pick a favourite

Gadget:

My meat slicer

Last holiday:

Boston and Cape Cod. Played a part in the most amazing wedding…. “legs up Lady Di” was there and I arrived fashionably late a la mission impossible.

Enjoys:

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Travel, cultures, good food and drink plus lots of laughter along the way.

Q: Tell us what inspired you to start your own business?

Q: What advice would you give to would be entrepreneurs?

My love of travelling, especially throughout Europe. The café cultures, love of good quality food and the desire to bring a slice or two of Europe to our Guernsey.

Be open and honest with yourself and get involved in as much as you can. Be patient and take your time to make it right.

Q: What did you do prior to starting the business? Worked within the finance industry for years. Q: Did that teach you any lessons that helped you succeed? Yes, that you have to be open as possible and honest with yourself and others. Q: What is the toughest lessons that you have learnt since starting your own business? You cannot do it all at once…..so take your time to do it right. No matter how carefully you plan, as soon as you open your doors, something will change.

A little about your business here… Cured is committed to providing a slice of deli and coffee culture in the Commercial Arcade of St Peter Port. We offer our customers the best local, regional and European staple, speciality and artisan items at affordable prices. Cured is located in the heart of the Commercial Arcade in St Peter Port. Cured has opened in response to the limited number of meeting places and the need for good quality deli products in Guernsey. We will focus on bringing in the customer who visits or works in St Peter Port and is looking for a welcoming and comfortable place to relax, meet and enjoy excellent food and drink.

Q: Do you have any funny stories from your experiences at Shufixa? Plenty! Having a whole leg of Iberico de Bellota Jamon at Cured Deli provides both the best ham and bags of fantastic comments from kids. Q: What are your plans for the future? To give local people a voice, an opportunity to be involved in what Cured develops and evolves into.

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We are always on the prowl for bright individuals, exceptional graduates and students to join our trainee programmes. We offer excellent career prospects and employment packages within one of the most enjoyable working environments in financial services, with full support and professional training to become ACCA or ICSA qualified. We need new recruits for our trainee programmes in fund administration and accountancy to join our fast growing fund administration business. We will be holding our annual Audition Day on Thursday 18 July. Come and meet us at our offices: 3rd Floor, Tudor House, Le Bordage, St Peter Port. RSVP now to hr@aztecgroup.co.uk For more information on making a career at Aztec Group visit aztecgroup.co.uk.

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‘Liquid has been honoured to play a small part in raising £4m. to create a much-needed hospice fit for the 21st century. To raise that sum of money from a community with just over 65,000 people is quite an achievement and required constant and innovative efforts to ensure that islanders were kept fully engaged throughout the campaign,’ said Liquid’s PR director Katrina Bray. ‘It would not have been possible without the tireless energy and enthusiasm from the team at Les Bourgs Hospice including Jo Boyd, Mike Tanguy, Jack Honeybill and Helen O’Meara, and the phenomenal support from the local media including the Guernsey Press who agreed to be the media partner for more than two years.’ Liquid has also been shortlisted seven times for other campaigns for clients in Jersey and the UK. Liquid’s work in financial services and education is shortlisted in three of the five national regions and in five of the ten categories. ‘We are delighted that strategic and tactical communications originating in the Channel Islands continues to be recognised nationally. This is further endorsement of the quality of consultancy coming out of Guernsey and Jersey,’ said Liquid’s chief executive Elisabeth Lewis-Jones.

LES BOURGS HOSPICE REDEVELOPMENT APPEAL SHORTLISTED FOR UK PR AWARD THE public relations campaign to raise the profile of the Les Bourgs Hospice Redevelopment Appeal has been shortlisted for an award. Since 2010, communications consultancy Liquid has been providing pro bono PR to Les Bourgs Hospice and worked with the management team to raise the profile of Guernsey’s largest ever fundraising appeal. That work has now been shortlisted for the consumer choice award in the South West and Wales region of Public Relations Consultants Association DARE Awards.

‘Only one of the 72 organisations shortlisted has more campaigns up for an award than us – and it’s a global agency with a presence in 130 countries’ she said. The awards are co-chaired by Lord Chadlington, CEO of Huntsworth, and Lord Black, executive director of the Telegraph Media Group. Lord Chadlington is a leading advocate of the quality of regional PR. ‘People think that because you’re working in Nottingham, Leeds, Manchester or Scotland, your standards can’t be as high as they are in London - and that is absolute arrant nonsense,’ he said. ‘Very often the skills are greater, because you have to go across all of the methods of communication and PR and not concentrate on one, which makes you a skilled generalist, and I think that is a unique and very special advantage in the modern world.’

NEW RELATIONSHIP DIRECTOR FOR LLOYDS TSB LLOYDS TSB is strengthening its corporate team with the appointment of a new relationship director. Justin Snoxell brings with him 25 years’ experience in banking, all with the Lloyds Banking Group. ‘Justin will be responsible for some of our larger and more complex relationships across the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man as well as generating new business opportunities. He has extensive experience within the corporate banking sector and will strengthen the offering we have in this area,’ said Simon Prescott, head of corporate, Lloyds TSB Offshore. Mr Snoxell, 42, started his career in retail banking and moved to commercial banking in 1992. During his time with Lloyds Banking Group, he has been executive assistant to the risk management director and a relationship director in London focussing on providing funding for investors and developers into the UK market. In 2006, he was appointed regional head of property in the south west, where he created a new property team and subsequently positions as head of property in the south east and lead relationship director in London.

the Lloyds TSB Corporate customers in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man,’ said Mr Snoxell who is married with two children, Matthew and Olivia.

His most recent role has been managing a portfolio of corporate property customers in London with lending provided to investors and developers.

‘Lloyds TSB has an excellent reputation within the Islands and so it will be a challenge maintaining that reputation while at the same time learning and understanding the differences which make each of the islands unique. That challenge will certainly be made easier by the teams that we already have in place who are focussed on proving the highest level of service to our customers.’

‘I am looking forward to using the knowledge and expertise that I have gained through my time working across the UK to benefit

In his spare time, Mr Snoxell, who enjoys sport, is a keen Luton Town supporter and likes travelling to Florida.

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BUY LOCAL WEEK Buying Local is a hot topic in today’s economic climate and a message that marketing company, thebestof Guernsey has been promoting as part of a national drive with an ongoing Buy Local campaign. Many local businesses and people already actively support this campaign by displaying ‘Buy Local’ stickers in their shops, offices, cars and even on packaging. To enhance these initiatives Buy Local Week is being launched in June to support the current drive and encourage islanders to choose local business first.

KPMG DEMONSTRATE THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF VALUATIONS Valuations, particularly in contentious cases, are becoming increasingly scrutinised and challenged in the current market, delegates heard at a recent seminar hosted by KPMG in the Channel Islands. The event, spear-headed by Head of Advisory, Ashley Paxton, illustrated why local businesses should be carefully considering valuation processes, to drive corporate strategy and maximise shareholder value. “The importance of understanding valuations is key in mergers and acquisitions, but we are also seeing trends in the industry that indicate an increasing number of contentious cases. Getting it right is crucial if businesses are to avoid protracted and often expensive litigation or arbitration,” he said. Gavin Niven, Senior Manager at KPMG in the Channel Islands discussed the context of valuations, their use and some typical methodologies. “The key to successful valuations is recognising the inherent subjectivity of the processes. It can be an art, not an exact science, and there is a multitude of assumptions involved with no company, or scenario, ever the same. “A key issue is that often the source data is not reliable or publicly available. All of these variables need to be factored in to reach an appropriate valuation range and while the mechanics are key, the qualitative factors can often be the most important. Valuations are opinions, not everyone will agree with the answers,” he said. Senior Manager at KPMG in the Channel Islands, Mark Ashburn, used a number of real life case studies to illustrate the use of typical methodologies in the context of mergers and acquisitions, contentious legal situations and distressed scenarios. The event, spear-headed by Head of Advisory, Ashley Paxton, illustrated why local businesses should be carefully considering valuation processes, to drive corporate strategy and maximise shareholder value. “The importance of understanding valuations is key in mergers and acquisitions, but we are also seeing trends in the industry that indicate an increasing number of contentious cases. Getting it right is crucial if businesses are to avoid protracted and often expensive litigation or arbitration,” he said. Gavin Niven, Senior Manager at KPMG in the Channel Islands discussed the context of valuations, their use and some typical methodologies. “The key to successful valuations is recognising the inherent subjectivity of the processes. It can be an art, not an exact science, and there is a multitude of assumptions involved with no company, or scenario, ever the same. “A key issue is that often the source data is not reliable or publicly available. All of these variables need to be factored in to reach an appropriate valuation range and while the mechanics are key, the qualitative factors can often be the most important. Valuations are opinions, not everyone will agree with the answers,” he said. Senior Manager at KPMG in the Channel Islands, Mark Ashburn, used a number of real life case studies to illustrate the use of typical methodologies in the context of mergers and acquisitions, contentious legal situations and distressed scenarios. BECAUSE QUALITY MATTERS

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‘In a small island like ours there could be significant long term implications if we don’t make the effort to keep it local,’ Says Kate Heywood, managing director of thebestof Guernsey. ‘Buying goods and produce from Guernseybased retailers strengthens the island’s economy and helps our community retain its culture and identity. At the most basic level when you buy locally, the money you spend stays in Guernsey, however when money is spent on the internet it generally leaves the island never to return. By shopping locally we can grow our businesses, reduce unemployment and help maintain our economy and local way of life. The Commerce and Employment Department is backing the initiative. Deputy Al Brouard, the Department’s Deputy Minister, said, ‘Money circulating locally is a key part of a strong island economy, so naturally the Department is supportive of a campaign like this. All customers, whether they’re individuals or businesses themselves, should buy local if they can. Money spent locally helps keep people employed and is good for the retail sector and many other parts of the Guernsey economy too. Buying locally also comes with the added benefit of good face-to-face customer service, something you can’t get online.’ As part of the campaign thebestof Guernsey has included a large ‘Buy Local’ logo on a new island bus wrap which promotes local businesses. They and other local businesses will also be selling Buy Local ‘bags for life’ to raise money for Help A Guernsey Child at the Fresh Friday market on 7th June. Plus, people who pledge their support on www.thebestofguernsey.co.uk during Buy Local Week will be entered into a prize draw to spend £200 with any local business featured on the website. Car stickers and posters can be obtained by contacting guernsey@thebestof.co.uk Tel 246822.

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‘‘EUROPEAN CONCERNS RAISE THEIR UGLY HEAD ONCE AGAIN’’ In January, the Euro managed to push through 1.37 against the US Dollar, Italian 10-year bonds were approaching 4%, the spread against German bunds was tightening and private capital was finally flowing back into the Eurozone. Imagine a football team leading a match 5-0 with 10 minutes to go and then losing 6-5 with all six being spectacular own goals and you get the picture of how in just two months the situation has deteriorated very quickly. How has this been allowed to happen?

The turning point has been the recent events in Cyprus, which came pretty much as a bolt out of the blue. Over one weekend in March, it was announced that Cyprus would receive a EUR 17 billion bail-out package and that this small country would have to contribute up to EUR 6 billion from its own resources with the rest of the loan funds coming from the Troika institutions (EU, ECB and IMF). Initially it was decided to impose a bank levy on all bank deposits in Cyprus including those of up to EUR 100,000 but this was rejected by the Cypriot parliament. This appeared to violate the spirit of the European banking deposit insurance agreed in principle only last year. Following a week of tense negotiations, a bail-in involving depositors with more than EUR 100,000 was proposed, the two main Cypriot banks were split into one good and one bad bank and the package was finally voted through. The consequence has been to call into question the security of bank deposits all over the Eurozone. The Cyprus bail-out has introduced a new template for bank failures, potentially undermining the position of bank creditors and the seniority of any loans. In view of the size of potential bad debts across the EU periphery, this has led to renewed contagion fears, which despite the small size of the Cyprus economy, cannot be discounted due to the high exposure of the peripheral markets, including France, to each other. Even deposits covered by guarantee schemes appear now not to be wholly excluded as the initial Cyprus loan proposal actually reneged on deposit guarantees. Worse still, in order to prevent a catastrophic capital flight from Cyprus, capital controls have been imposed. This runs the risk of creating a ‘black market’ in Euros where German Euros could arguably trade at a premium to Cypriot Euros, bringing into sharp focus the dysfunctional nature of the single currency and the unpleasant truth that the EU is not a true monetary union. Whilst these mainly self-inflicted problems appear to be dragging the European economy down again, in contrast the economic situation in the US remains positive. During the first quarter, the divergence in growth between the Eurozone and the US has widened to as much as 3% and this trend is showing little sign of reversing. The US is on course to grow around 2.5% in annualised terms whilst the Eurozone is likely to shrink 0.4% on the same basis. Momentum behind US growth is strongly positive as self-reinforcing mechanisms come into play. The housing market recovery looks well established and this has undoubtedly supported consumer spending mainly via the transmission mechanism of a falling savings rate. In the short term, there are concerns over the introduction of the payroll tax and the upcoming enforced spending cuts on both consumer and business confidence but in the longer run, central bank policy remains extremely supportive at this stage of the cycle. The Federal Reserve remains focused on unemployment rather than inflation and has made it clear that it will support growth for longer than usual before seeking to tighten monetary policy to contain inflationary pressures.

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What is intriguing is clear evidence of under-investment across many key sectors in the US economy and we could be at the beginning of a new self-sustaining recovery led by such a replacement cycle. In summary, whilst European problems have returned to the surface and a correction may now be underway, there remain many interesting investment opportunities within certain cyclical industries and it may pay to once again shift away from European to US-based equities while the fortunes of these two economies remain on divergent paths.

GEOFF MARSON Managing Director Odey Wealth Management (C.I.) Ltd, PO Box 533, Level 3 (North), St Julian’s Court, St Julian’s Avenue, St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 6EY. +44 (0) 1481 743601 ci.odeywealth.com

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SATURDAY JUNE 29TH 2013 MORE BLOOD, SWEAT AND BEERS AT BEAU SEJOUR LEISURE CENTRE. TICKET DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON”

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words | Shambles Rambles TABLE TENNIS IS A 2 OR 4 PLAYER GAME PLAYED ON A TABLE WHERE YOU TRY AND HIT A PLASTIC BALL OVER A NET TO BOUNCE IN ORDER TO MAKE YOUR OPPONENT UNABLE TO HIT THE BALL BACK. THAT’S IT IN A SENTENCE! This month’s challenge pitches me against a chap who has been a leading light in Guernsey Table Tennis in his words, “For over 40 several years”. Mark Pipet played football at school until he had the choice to either ride to the football ground or the table tennis club and he picked table tennis because it was closer. He was 13 when he started at the Lions Club and says that his passion for table tennis started on a school cruise on the SS Uganda where he played it and liked it so that was that. “Pip” never won anything as junior but stuck with it and won his first Junior Championship as a seventeen year old. He won the Island Championship for the first time in 1976 beating the late Michael Bougourd. In all he won the Island Championships 14 times last winning it in 2004 and played in the European Championships through until 1986. This year he won the Over 40’s Championships whilst losing the Over 50’s which seems a little strange! He said one of the best things in the bar afterwards that to me sums up sport, “Many years ago I walked through some double doors like the ones over there and I made some friends, many of which are still my friends now”. Anyone thinking of taking up sport should bear those wise words in mind. It was time for the challenge, best of three and predictably Pip won 11-4, 11-5 and although we did have a few decent rallies I think he took it easy on me! It was time to head up to the place where Table Tennis Supremo, Derek Webb, does his best work - The Bar! I asked Pip some thought provoking questions over a Guinness.

A G N B, That’s bang out of order. Have you ever found yourself out of order during any matches or are you the genuine Mr Nice Guy? I may be gracious in defeat but it hurts and I want to learn by it. In my day there were no yellow and red cards in table tennis like there is today which control most incidents. I was reading this book today, about the Speed Glue that you use to bond the rubber to the bat. I couldn’t put it down. How important is it to get the right sort of bat and what assistance can a good bat give you? It is me that is good, not the bat!!!! It is more the point of contact on the ball that separates the players. If you have not played against someone before, what are you looking for in their game that might give you an advantage? When you get them out of position it is the way that they recover, that is fundamental to how the game is played and how you play them. I hear you are doing a spot of coaching with the juniors, how are you finding that? I find that it is more difficult than having played. When I played my reputation went before me, when I am coaching they are not worried who I am, they are just looking forward to tea! What’s are the next major events coming up for you? There are none really, I am just clinging on for grim death in Division One! Who has got the better of you in Guernsey the most? I have several really. Ian Powell through the 80’s and we were 50/50 really. At the start of the 90’s it was Ian Gallienne who had brute force and spin/speed. Phil Ogier in the late 90’s through to the current day for his work rate and dedication. And of course, Gary Dodd who in my opinion is the best player Guernsey has ever produced – breathtaking speed, phenomenal spin and so fluent.

I was just reading a story in the paper where a giant ape and a table tennis champion got in an argument over a karaoke machine. The headline was King Kong Ping Pong Sing Song Ding Dong. Give us a couple of future junior players who are going to become headline acts? Alex Robinson, he has got mettle, spirit and guts, the Stacey brothers, Joshua and Lawrence are committed and Charlotte Casey, Megan Gale and Daisy Kershaw are progressing nicely through the ranks.

What was the highlight of your career to date? The feeling of winning the Green trophy Inter-Insulars, you are playing as an individual but it means so much to the team.

The back of my anorak was leaping up and down as I was playing Table Tennis and people were chucking money at me. Someone yelled, “Do you earn a living doing that?”. I said, “Yes, this is my livelihood.” Exactly how hard is it to for the top players to carve a career out of Table Tennis? For the elite few at the top of the professional game it is fairly lucrative, the prize money is fairly poor but there is a bit to be made from sponsorship and deals. There are millionaires!

Our Table Tennis centre is one of the best around and hosts coaching and league opportunities for players of all ages and abilities. If you want to take up the game then give Derek Webb a shout on 07781 140280 or go to the Guernsey Table Tennis website www.gtta.org.uk

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You have a great set up down here, how many players are turning out each week during the season? Webby, Becks and the coaches do a great job down here. On a Friday and Saturday at the Junior Leagues you can’t move on the twenty tables. We have four divisions with near to 40 regular teams.

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IF CARLSBERG DID PERFECT DAYS THEN GUERNSEYMAN RYAN TIPPETT WOULD HAVE CHOSEN MURATTI DAY 2013. words | Nick Mollet WHILE ROSS ALLEN’S NOW INFAMOUS WONDER GOAL WILL BE FOREVER ETCHED IN MURATTI FOLKLORE - IT WAS A DAY OF PURE JOY AND A DOUBLE CELEBRATION FOR FORMER MURATTI PLAYER TIPPETT. ‘Muratti day 2013 was the proudest day of my life,’ said the ex Elizabeth College pupil. ‘Having spent the Friday night in the presence of Ben Fogle at the CIPD Centenary Ball, my partner Nadine went into labour in the early hours of Saturday 18th May. At the break of dawn our baby boy was born, which was the greatest moment of my life,’ he said in a Gallery exclusive. Tané Shea Tippett is named after the Maori God of light - due to being born at the crack of dawn and Tippett also had a former teammate by that name when he played national league football in New Zealand for Canterbury United in 2010/11. Shea comes from the Irish connection in both families and after Scouse boxer Shea Neary. ‘Full of excitement and joy only a new father could feel, I was given the Guernsey green light to go and support our lads in the Muratti,’ he recalled. ‘Having either been involved in the game or playing away from Guernsey, this was the first Muratti I had spectated since Grant Chalmers hit the top corner at the same end as Ross Allen’s wonder goal, which I personally feel was the greatest goal ever scored in a Muratti.’ The former Tranmere Rovers professional had already been made up upon his arrival at the Red Lion pub for a pre-match celebratory drink for his newborn son with friends, when the Barmy Army sang ‘there’s only one Ryan Tippett’, which he admitted ‘made the hairs stand up on my neck’. ‘By the end of our sweet victory and the first one on home soil since I played in 2001, word had spread like wild fire that my son was born on this winning Muratti day and I couldn’t have wished for a better outcome. It was written in the stars,’ said Tippett. ‘I am now going to embrace fatherhood and I look forward to taking my lad to his first Muratti next year when he makes his debut,’ said the immensely proud father. Guernsey’s Barmy Army had gathered at the Red Lion from 10am on Muratti Day and chuckles were raised when after fan Justin Le Tissier’s legendary annual speech, free-flowing beers on the walls and ceiling set off the fire alarms in the pub. Alarm bells were ringing on The Track pitch for Jersey soon after too when striker Craig Young gave Guernsey an early lead. Then just before half-time came Allen’s wondrous goal after he set off on a mesmerising run in his own half, which took him past several despairing tackles, before unleasing an unstoppable left-footed shot which went in off the underside of the crossbar. It turned out to be the matchwinner in a memorable 2-1 Guernsey victory. Spectators have branded it the best ever goal in the Muratti’s long history and its 97th year - and few can argue as nobody has witnessed them all! ‘I was over the moon with my goal. I have scored a few like that before, a couple possibly better, but they were playing for Rangers or GFC and sadly not captured on camera. However, due to the stage, and the impact that the goal had on the outcome of a Muratti final, it will have to go down as my best ever goal,’ Allen told Gallery. ‘I am not able to judge if it is the best Muratti goal ever, and I don’t believe anyone can as they won’t have seen every single one, but just that people are saying that means the world to me. It does make

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me think that, even in a career full of proud moments (especially in the last couple of seasons) that goal and what it meant is surely the highlight. Not that I’m resting on my laurels - I do believe I can improve on that one,’ said one of Guernsey’s greatest ever goalscorers. ‘I think the achievement of winning back-to-back Muratti’s and the first one on home soil in over a decade has been a long time coming. We deserved more after our performance in 2011 and have been improving year on year to a position where Jersey fear us more than we fear them,’ said Allen. ‘This probably hasn’t been the case since my involvement in the senior set-up starting back in 2007. This victory gave us the trophy we all deserved after such a hard and successful season with GFC, and looking back it’s been an incredible journey to be part of.’ Manager Kevin Graham masterminded the second consecutive victory for Guernsey in the biggest event in the Channel Islands’ sporting calendar in front of an estimated 3,500 fans - after Dom Heame’s two goals won the match at Springfield in Jersey last year and it meant a lot to him. ‘I don’t think there’s a game of football anywhere where the emotional investment is as big. Guernsey pride is unique - players are playing in front of not just their family and friends, but also their work colleagues, their old teachers, the guy who delivers their papers, the guy who sold them their house....you really do carry the hopes of everyone out there and you know what it means to them.’ ‘You only had to look at [captain] Chris Tardif’s face to know what it meant to him. Despite all he has achieved in the pro game - we’re all proud of him for that - this meant more to him than anything. Anyone who feels the Muratti doesn’t mean anything to the players is wrong,’ said Graham. So what did he think of the game itself? ‘We didn’t play particularly well - and Jersey deserved a lot of credit for their performance. I didn’t think any one of our players could say they had a great game and I think I underestimated the impact the season and particularly the gruelling GFC schedule has had on the boys. With half an hour to go, we had a lot of visibly tired lads out there and Jersey were definitely on top. But at times like that, when it matters most, you find out just what strength of character and bravery these boys have and to their credit, they managed to defend extremely well as a unit and keep Jersey to one or two decent chances despite conceding a lot of possession and territory. ‘A couple of years ago I think we would have conceded another and with so many tired legs it would have been tough to respond if they had equalised. But winning is a habit, and everyone played their part to ensure we kept the Vase where it belongs,’ said Graham. He paid tribute to the phenomenal work put in behind the scenes to help the team get over the line - especially the physio and massage work managed by Mike Thomas, Paul Gosling and Mandy Le Messurier. ‘Without that, the players may not have made it to the Muratti and would certainly not have been able to perform as well. Success in football is so dependent on people like Mike, unsung heroes who contribute so much. If anyone deserved to pick up the trophy with Tards,’ it was Mike.’ He said The Track atmosphere was amazing and the pitch and whole area looked perfect and praised Belgrave Wanderers for working so hard to get the ground looking so great. So what can Gallery readers learn of Graham’s future and will he be leading Guernsey in search of a hat-trick of Muratti victories in 2014? GUERNSEY’S STYLE MAGAZINE

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‘I’m so proud to manage Guernsey in the Muratti - it is such a privilege for so many reasons.’ ‘I will be sitting down with the GFA to discuss the position for next year and we’ll see what happens from there. Everyone knows I live in the UK and though it hasn’t caused any problems for me in the role so far, I’m also keen for the future of Guernsey coaching and management to flourish. The only reason I’d not do the job would be if I felt I stood in the way of another young coach developing who the GFA felt was capable of leading us to victory,’ he said. ‘Ultimately, I just want to see Guernsey football develop and us to keep that beautiful trophy every year - there’s nothing sweeter than beating Jersey.’ All Guernsey football fans would concur with that - including Tippett and his Muratti baby - and he said to top of his perfect day his niece Carmen sang her heart out in front of a live audience for the first time the same day. Remember the name - Tane Shea Tippett - you saw it here in Gallery first - and he could be emulating his dad by playing for Guernsey in the Muratti in future!

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MURATTI FACTFILE ➧ Every year the top footballers from Guernsey, Jersey and Alderney are chosen to compete in the Muratti Vase ➧ Alderney participate in the semi-final each year, which they play at home at their Mount Hale ground, with Guernsey and Jersey alternating in playing them ➧ The winner is awarded the Muratti Vase - the biggest sporting event on the Channel Islands calendar ➧ The event’s name derives from its first sponsors ‘Muratti’ cigarettes, which reputedly can still be bought in Switzerland ➧ It began in 1905 and was only interupted between 1915 and 1919 and 1940 and 1946 due to the two world wars ➧ Alderney have not reached a final since 1938 - they won it only once in 1920 ➧ The final is normally played at The Track in Guernsey and Springfield in Jersey. It was briefly played at Footes Lane but this proved unpopular with fans ➧ Out of 97 finals, Jersey have won it 51 times to Guernsey’s 46 ➧ Past Guernsey Muratti legends include Gerve Brazier, Colin Renouf, Colin Fallaize, Neil Hunter, Chris Dyer, Kevin Le Gallez and Kevin Le Tissier ➧ Guernsey successfully defended the Vase this year for the first time since 1992 and won it on home soil for the first time since 2001

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‘MY GOD - YOU’RE MAD!’ WAS ONE REACTION WHEN WE MENTIONED WE WERE RACING FROM SARK TO JERSEY ON JUNE 22ND. No sails, no propeller, just a rowing boat, 2.5 hours of man power (or woman power as the case may be), 16.5 statute miles and 2 oars each. The Guernsey Rowing Club (GRC) humourously call it a ‘social’ row which means it doesn’t even count for championship points in the grand scheme of the GRC season. But that’s ok because, for some reason, we seem to enjoy submerging ourselves waist deep in warm Guernsey waters, hopping into a boat and going out for a jolly. The annual Sark to Jersey row was the foundation of the rowing club’s race calendar and is seen as the inter-insular of rowing. Created in 1967 when an article was printed in the Guernsey Press inviting anyone interested to join two Jersey fishermen in a race from Sark to Jersey, it has now become an excuse to beat Jersey at something else. Once the new club was formed in 1973 by stalwart Brian Staples, the Committee began organising social rowing events to prepare for this race. The first social row of the newly formed club was from Guernsey to Herm, whilst the first race was from Havelet to Rocquaine, to coincide with the Rocquaine Regatta. These races still form part of the racing calendar along with longer distance championship races such as the mammoth Round Guernsey race and another racing highlight, the Sure ‘Herm Rocks’ Rowing Regatta weekend. If you’ve ever wondered who is to blame for taking up what might be seen as valuable parking space alongside the model yacht pond, the GRC are some of the culprits. With approximately 35 crews competing this season from March to September, we’re the ones in lycra, navigating cars, boats, tourists, fishermen, buoys, divers and sailors trying to find a spot to park or row.

In 2011, 12 rowers from the club completed the back breaking 100km indoor Centurion Charity Row for the charities Guernsey MS Society and Guernsey Cheshire Homes.

But what better way to become acquainted with the vast expanse of water surrounding our island than by hopping into a boat for exercise and gaining a different perspective of Guernsey. The only downside to off-shore rowing is that we’re at the mercy of the sea and the elements. That said, this season has got off to a good start as all races have gone ahead with fairly clear skies and low winds whilst 4 records have already been broken (unfortunately not by us.)

For more club history and fixtures check out http://www.guernseyrowingclub.org.gg/ Wish us all luck this season!

The bar has been set high with regards to accomplishments and, as much as many of us are GRC members for the pleasure of the sport, it does bring out a competitive streak in us all. The GRC wouldn’t be the club it is today if it wasn’t for the Committee, the highly valued guard boaters and the dedicated team of officials and helpers. We owe many people thanks for their support and boat repair advice and, given that it’s still early in the season, we’re sure this list will continue to increase. Most importantly we owe a huge thank you to Active Beauty who have very kindly sponsored us and made our first rowing season together possible.

Ella Pritchard, Liz Whelband

This is the first season that we have rowed together as the Active Beauties, having no more than 3 years rowing experience between us. We have so far managed to compete in all four championship races, which is a small miracle given the several minor setbacks along the way. Having won three of the four races we’re really pleased with our start to the season and are excited about the upcoming races. The boat we’ve rented this season belongs to James Plumley who is currently part of a 4 man crew rowing a distance of 2 000 miles around the British mainland dubbed ‘The World’s Toughest Rowing Challenge’. I’m not sure how much he minded when we holed his boat and gaffer taped it up for his Channel TV appearance, but none of our races compare to other GRC member’s achievements. Over the years current and past members have gone down in the Guinness World Records for crossing the Atlantic (Kathy Tracey, Paula Evemy, Sarah Day and Lois Rawlins-Duquemin) and completing an indoor non-stop row of over 300 000 metres (Sam De Kooker and Simon Johns.)

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ASTON MARTIN RAPIDE S YOU GET NOWHERE BY STANDING STILL, ESPECIALLY NOT IN THE CAR-MAKING GAME. AND ASTON MARTIN, AN ICON OF BRITISH STYLE AND PERFORMANCE, IS GOING ALL OUT IN ITS CENTENARY YEAR; THE WHOLE RANGE HAS EITHER BEEN REFRESHED OR IS BRAND NEW.

THE LATEST MODEL TO GET THE TREATMENT IS THE RAPIDE. First introduced in 2010, it has now turned into the Rapide S. It’s easy to tell apart from the outgoing car by virtue of its much more prominent grille. As well as echoing that of the blockbusting One-77 hypercar, the bigger grille gives the Rapide S more presence, and thanks to some clever engineering also improves its pedestrian impact performance to boot. Elsewhere, the Rapide S gains a discreet rear spoiler to balance the bigger front splitter, and there is a choice of a new 19in wheel design too. These are relatively minor visual tweaks for what was already a stunning piece of design. The stretched proportions of the Rapide may seem exaggerated at first but no other rival seamlessly blends an extra pair of doors into a coupe shape.

The Rapide S also benefits from a revised suspension set-up, with new specification dampers tailored to its demanding requirements. But even with this 190mph four-door GT, you start slowly. Slide into the driver’s seat and the cabin is a familiar blend of tasteful design and lush materials. If it’s not leather or chrome, then you don’t need to touch it, and although there are few changes from the previous Rapide, it is a layout that works well, particularly thanks to the improved satnav system. You still have to perform the deliberate starting ritual, slotting the sapphire glass ‘key’ into the slot before the mighty V12 fires up. A punch of the D button on the dashboard and with a squeeze of the throttle, the automatic handbrake releases. In the first few hundred yards a number of things become immediately apparently. Firstly, the increase in power and torque has made the Rapide S exceptionally effortless to drive at normal speeds. In the standard mode, the long travel throttle allows careful applications of performance but you never need very much to gather speed comfortably. On the other hand, punch the Sport button and the throttle is sharper, giving you access to all that grunt even more easily.

There are mechanical enhancements too, with the Rapide S gaining the new AM11 spec V12 engine already seen in the new Vanquish. Admittedly, it has slightly less power than in that installation, but the output is anything but small; 550bhp, a full 80bhp more than the previous Rapide. As before, drive is taken to the rear wheels through the six-speed Touchtronic transmission that offers automatic, sport and manual modes.

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The next thing is how impressively the revised suspension performs. Aston Martins have always managed that most difficult of tricks, blending a ride comfortable enough for long distances but without sacrificing handling, but the Rapide S takes it even further.

THE RAPIDE S IS UNDOUBTEDLY COMPETING IN A RAREFIED SECTOR, BUT THAT JUST MEANS THAT THE STANDARDS ARE EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH.

Helped by being the longest car to come from the company, it is remarkably supple and fuss-free, yet never floats or feels anything other than well tied down over bumps.

YET THIS LATEST ASTON TAKES THE ALREADYIMPRESSIVE RAPIDE AND MOVES IT TO ANOTHER LEVEL. NO COMPETITOR CAN OFFER QUITE THE SAME BLEND OF PERFORMANCE, COMPOSURE, COMFORT AND ELEGANCE.

Hit the damper button once and you switch into Sport, and even on lesser Spanish roads it still rode with deeply impressive composure. There’s even a Track mode if you hold down the damper button for a few seconds, and while that proved a little too stiff on smoother surfaces, it refuses to be upset by bumps. And yet when you sharpen the Rapide S up for a challenging set of bends, it is more than up for it.

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Regardless of the suspension mode, it is composed, diving between bends with remarkable ease and managing to shrink around you; from the driver’s seat you would have no idea that there were two seats and a sizeable boot behind you.

Aston Martin Rapide S, £149,995

The steering offers plenty of feel but isn’t hyperactive at a cruise, and the brakes are strong even after repeated hard use.

Transmission: Six-speed automatic gearbox driving the rear wheels

Best of all you can have two friends in the back to enjoy the ride. Those rear seats are sculpted buckets more than the kind of flat chair you get in a normal car, and the big transmission tunnel through the centre of the car is turned to its advantage, providing an ideal location for the rear air conditioning controls and a natural divider of the space.

Performance: Top speed 190mph, 0-62mph in 4.9 seconds

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Engine: 6.0-litre petrol unit producing 550bhp and 457lb.ft of torque

Economy: 19.9mpg combined Emissions: 332g/km of CO2

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EXTRA-LOUD SPINE RATTLING BIG BORE EXHAUST

For all of their gargantuan R&D budgets and years spent painstakingly designing and refining their vehicles, you have to admit that major vehicle manufacturers do play things a bit safe before unleashing their latest model onto the streets, leaving plenty of scope for the end user to generously slather the metalflake and pinstriped fibreglass icing on top of their automotive cake. And by ‘end user’ I mean end of life user, long after their grandmother has hung up her driving gloves and popped her race clogs. Sure, those extensively tested, Euro NCAP compliant front bumpers might save the shins of a small child who happens to be blindly bumbling across the road, steely eyes focussed solely on the Angry Birds fluttering across the screen of their iPod touch, the latest Top 40 tunes banging in their ears, but if they ain’t scraping a few thou of asphalt from each and every speed bump you crawl over at 5mph then you’re doing a disservice to your Burger Boy brethren. Shame on you.

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WHEELBEARING DESTROYING 20” AFTERMARKET RIMS

Hell’s Angels proudly proclaim that loud pipes save lives and who are you to disagree with these leather clad, unkempt hirsute elders of the road? Fit the largest exhaust back box you can find and tell all of your mates that you can definitely feel the ‘extra 10 horsepower’ claimed by the manufacturer, who likely designed it for use on a vehicle fifty times more powerful than your tupperware terror. What’s a 9.8 horsepower difference between friends anyway? Improving aerodynamic efficiency should also be high on your priority list if you want to go any way to counteracting the reduced acceleration you’ll suffer from doubling the size of your rims and increasing their overall rolling diameter. Fear not though, fibreglass is lightweight, right? Even when you’ve plastered it all over the lower part of your chariot and tripled the curb weight that the mighty (mightily asthmatic) 50.2 bhp hairdryer will now have to lug around wheezily.

FIBREGLASS BUMPER INSPIRED BY ALIEN VERSUS PREDATOR

I have to come clean at this point, and as much as the Max Power generation have all since grown up and bought far more sensible cars to take their kids to school in and the youth modification culture of today has managed to evolve to tone things down slightly, I am guilty of having owned a Metro GTa with a healthy 3.5 inch (88.9 millimetres, aspiring boy and girl racers) exhaust. The lure of a rocker cover with the words ‘16 VALVE TWIN CAM’ proudly cast into it was just too much to resist. If only I’d have known that head gaskets were essentially a service item I might have thought twice and saved myself from the shame. At least there were no lairy spoilers or bucket seats, which let’s face it, are just uncomfortable unless you’re only using them for a few hours at a time on the track. The moral of this tongue-in-cheek story? It’s probably better to save your pennies for something better and wait until insurance companies hate you a bit less. Because when you’re under 25, they really do tend to hate you.

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BREAKING NEWS It’s back, and it’s bigger than ever. Each month Gallery will bring you the latest from the automotive news hotwire, straight into your eyeballs.

ONE MILLIONTH JEEP WRANGLER BUILT

Last month a chap named Mauro Pino drove a black Jeep Wrangler JK Rubicon 10th Anniversary Edition due for a customer in Flordia from the Ohio production line. This kind of thing happens every day, except this particular Wrangler was the one millionth one to be built at the plant, which has been building all things Wrangler for the past 8 years.

Jeep is available from Motor Mall, tel. 635566

AUDI RS4 AVANT IS OFFICIALLY BRILLIANT

It is said that art is subjective and that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what exactly is it that makes these three examples good, bad and just plain ugly respectively? The Citroën 2CV ‘Picasso’ was created by Andy Saunders, world-renowned sculptor of cars hailing from Dorset and is pure art, with a rationale. The Citroën Saxo, middle, however, is an example of what inspired the article to the left - thousands upon thousands of pounds spent on a small luke-warm hatchback designed for aspiring young drivers and the final example? Well, I’m not even sure what it is, although it looks like a hybridisation of an Audi TT, Shelby Series 1. BMW Z3 and a Silver Spirit, to name but a few. On wheels from a VW Beach Buggy. Is it just art for art’s sake? Is it even art? I’ll let you decide - art is subjective after all. BECAUSE BECAUSE QUALITY QUALITY MATTERS MATTERS

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Honest John, well respected fictional internet personality has announced that these are brilliant, and with a massive V8 and room for almost anything you might care to carry at up to 193mph (double delimited version) who are we to argue? I’d also really like to test drive one for Gallery. Hint hint. Buy one, buy one now.

Audi is available from Jacksons, tel. 497777

COLD FEET FOR ASTON MARTIN OWNERS?

MG BRIBES PUBLIC WITH M&S VOUCHER

This isn’t just any test drive offer. This is a Chinese backed, revived badge ten pound M&S ‘dine in for two’ test drive offer. Personally, I fear that the stakes aren’t high enough, unless you’re homeless, hungry and have absolutely no shame. Or you’re wearing a wig. Either way, if you did happen to be in the market for an MG6 you can pick one up from as little as £199 per month and they’ll even give you tickets and some branded British Touring Car Championship clobber, if that’s your bag.

RENAULT GIVES YOU... SPOILERS?

Celebrating their third Formula 1 Constructors’ world title, Renault and Red Bull Racing have teamed up outside of the dizzying world of DRS and dominatrixes to create a special edition Megane RenaultSport finished in twilight blue and platinum grey with Red Bull Racing detailing, Recaro seats, fancy Bridgestone tyres and version 2.0 of the on-board RS Monitor, which means you can view lap times, performance telemetry and G-Force readouts as well as download them to a USB dongle for analysis. And to brag to your mates down at the pub, of course. They’re only building 30 of them so if you’re after one you had better get a deposit down quicker than a Megane 265 Trophy around the Nordschleife. (You’ve got 8 minutes, 7.97 seconds, by the way)

Renault is available from Bagot Road Garage, tel. 815120

In the literal sense, I mean, because this CC100 Speedster concept has gaping holes for doors. A tribute to 100 years of the brand, it looks mad in the best way.

Aston Martin is available from Jacksons, tel. 497777

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JERSEY’S OWN DJ HANNAH JACQUES GIVES HER VIEWS ON THE SONY XPERIA SP FOR AIRTEL VODAFONE I’m a big user of Facebook. Twitter, and Instagram, and one of the things I really like about the Xperia SP is how easy taking and uploading photos was. The shots were good, even in the club. This is a midrange phone, but it still looks and feels good, with a transparent LED strip and plenty of functions. The screen’s bigger and better than you’d expect, and really good for watching videos. It’s also got enough power to manage all the day-to-day things that you’d use your phone for. All in all, not bad at all, and in Airtel-Vodafone now.

A NEW DEFINITION FOR HD

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The 5 inch screen on this communication and entertainment hub will have you wondering how you ever got by with lesser displays in the past.

INTERIOR DESIGN HAS COME A LONG WAY SINCE THE 90’S WHEN WE WERE TREATED TO THE EXPLOITS OF BUDDING TV PRESENTER LAWRENCE LLEWELYN-BOWEN AND HIS ATTEMPTS TO TURN EVERY PROPERTY INTO A REPLICA OF A 19TH CENTURY PARISIAN KNOCKING-SHOP.

THE SONY XPERIA Z BRINGS A WHOLE NEW MEANING TO HIGH DEFINITION

Using expertise from Sony’s Bravia television engineers, the full 1080 pixel HD screen has a very high pixel density giving superb brightness even in the sunniest of conditions. Built around the Mobile BRAVIA® Engine 2, the screen automatically optimises images so they’re sharper and brighter, making it easy for you to see. This screen is about more than images, thanks to the OptiContrastTM panel, it looks incredible when on and reverts to a sleek, perfectly black look when off. It’s not just the screen that is taking HD to new levels, the 13 megapixel camera, powered by the Exmor RS® image sensor offers the world’s first HDR video for smartphones, ensuring you can take beautiful still and moving images even against the strongest light. With full Wi-Fi and 3G / 4G connectivity, the Xperia Z lets you take full advantage of the Internet and social media, enabling you to share images and files at the touch of a button. If you have a Bravia TV at home, the one-touch mirroring with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology means you can seamlessly switch between the phone and the TV display without the bother of cables. If all of this wasn’t enough, the Sony Xperia Z is no delicate flower. Made from glass fibre polyamide that’s as tough as metal, the Xperia Z is both water and dust resistant. The Sony Xperia Z is available soon in the Sure Store in town. It’s free on the Smart Ultimate price plan and for a limited period, comes with a free Bluetooth headset.

The way we see it, most modern homes and building renovations fall into two categories of interior finish (there are a few more but we don’t have all day...), clean-lined and minimalist or modernclassic-shaker style. Both of which have a similarity, no clutter! This minimalistic ideal is also fast becoming prevalent when it comes to filling a contemporary home with cutting edge technology. Harking back to the 80’s and 90’s once again, the idea was to go big and show off the latest behemoth TV, speakers and stacked sound system whilst taking pride in the multitude of remotes that were needed to control it all. Let’s not forget the tasteful, swivel-base CD racks bursting with cracked-cases and mismatched innards. An exception of course, was the ‘All-in-one remote’ for the real high-flyers but lets face it, programming those was always more troublesome and time consuming than pressing the 10 buttons required to blast out some ABBA in the first place!

Fast forward to the modern day and we see a very different picture.. Hardware has become smaller, wireless, integrated and much more affordable thanks to economic boom in the east. TV’s are wafer thin and entire home cinemas can be hidden behind motorised canvas pictures of family and friends. Amplifiers, evicted from front and centre, tucked away out of sight, no tape decks or CD trays, merely docking stations to charge iPhones and iPads. Record players that we’re once sat atop a rack of faders and buttons are now more often seen displayed like a piece of art, individually lit for effect yet still fully capable (we hope!) of mesmerising guests with Mile Davis and Nina Simone. For the more enthusiastic of us stay-at-home movie goers, who still require a true cinematic experience, super high-quality HD and 3D projectors are readily available from all the big manufacturers for the price of a decent TV -

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HAVE WE LOST RESPECT FOR COVER SONGS? words | Victoria Robert & Dominic Laine

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GIVING OTHER PEOPLE’S SONGS A REVAMP USED TO BE A SURE TICKET FOR MUSICAL SUCCESS. VICTORIA ROBERT AND DOMINIC LAINE ASK, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE HONEST COVER SONG?

e’ve all been there. You have just stumbled upon a new song that has a decent claim to being quite possibly the finest thing that you have ever heard. Excited beyond words, you rush to tell your clued-up crony who really just has to give it a listen. And they say, ‘Yeah, it’s alright eh’ with a shrug of nonchalance. Then they utter the immortal words, ‘but I prefer the original.’ Usually, the resulting humiliation is enough to make you want to give the twerp a bludgeoning with the nearest available object to banish their self-satisfied smirk into complete oblivion. That is until you remember that you’ve probably said the offending phrase once or twice yourself. But what’s the problem? Is it just musical snobbery to tarnish our good opinion of a song just because the artist that recorded it is not the true brains behind the operation? Back in the day, every man, woman and their dog thrived on the soulful beats and treats of the Motown mayhem, with artists such as Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye bringing the fans to the talc covered dance floors - artists who today are more commonly heard at family weddings with your strange Uncle Bob convulsing under the disco ball. In soul music, the relationship between the songwriter and performer has always been much more - wishy washy. The majority of Motown’s hits were not performed by the people that wrote them, and yet the artists were respected and admired as much for their ability to breathe new fire into existing songs as their ability to offer any new alternative. In earlier times, it was possible to kick start your music career by recording cover songs. In 1958, a young group called The Quarrymen (who tended to play at school dances and amateur skiffle contests) made a recording of themselves in some chaps house. The record included an original song and a cover Buddy Holly’s That’ll Be The Day. This band later became the Beatles. Revisiting the subject of mad dancing - think of The Rolling Stones. Their first single was a spiced-up, harmonica-drenched take on Chuck Berry’s Come On! which helped them carve out a name for themselves as dandy Englishmen playing Chicago blues - much to the bemusement of the Delta Bluesmen that wrote them. It was not until 1965 that the Stones would have the confidence to write their first single ‘The Last Time’ under their own steam and the now legendary song-writing partnership Jagger/Richards was born.

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Now, let us fast forward to the 21st century. Trying to find a decent cover which isn’t recycled purely to capitalise on the singles initial success is like trying to find a sausage on a vegans plate - i.e. It is unlikely to happen. You would need to have a lot of balls to even debate releasing an entire album of covers. Unless of course you are Mark Ronson who took advantage of his unearthly ability to produce – as music journalist Michelle Dhillon put it - “a conglomeration of obvious singles, littered with distinctly horrible numbers that are better ignored.” - with his, cannily titled album ‘ Version’ which generally consisted of lumping together a female vocal and a set of horns. It made a heck of a lot of money for the original songwriters and for him but also incurred the wrath of Noel Gallagher, who’s typically blunt take on the issue created headlines: ‘Mark Ronson needs to learn three chords on the guitar and write a tune.’ Far worse, than having your songs bastardised by Ronson though, is the prospect of them being pilfered by the X-Factory machine and re-packed as sanitised pop. Bands that end up in this bleak situation can find themselves the targets of hate mail and targeted vitriol. When Matt Cardle copied Biffy Clyro’s soaring ballad ‘Many of Horror’ and converted it into easy-listening ‘When We Collide’ for that year’s Christmas charts, the results were divisive. As much as the song brought the Scottish alternate rockers to a whole swath of new fans attention, for the die hard Iron Brew-toting Biffy fan base, it was an embarrassment and a let down. The claws of rank commercialism impinging on the integrity and desecrating the back catalogue of their beloved Biffy left them feeling truly mugged off. But it had it’s benefits. That Christmas, Cardle clocked in at number one, whilst Biffy gained their highest chart placing yet. As always though, it was an uneasy trade-off between money-making and artistic integrity. The truth is that contemporary alternative music fans in general will never take seriously the idea of artists carving their careers out of other people’s songs - no matter how inspired they might be by the whole shenanigan. Songwriters on the whole and predominantly in alternative music are expected to write, give account and come up original. This feeds into the romantic mystic of the reluctant icon and the rambling troubadour, with a ruffled collar and a story to tell. Authenticity rules the day. We expect them to live their song writing - blood, sweat, tears and all. A bit like Pete Doherty really. Indeed it could be said that much of the continuing value we place on the best song-writing comes from the belief that the person playing will tell us something we haven’t heard before, or relate to us like nobody else ever has, even if the story itself is as old as the sun. These days anyone can hear their favourite songs played down the pub for free on a Saturday night. But to write them? That’s the hard bit.

ACCORDING TO GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS, THE SONG TITLED ‘YESTERDAY’ HAS THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF COVER VERSIONS COMPARED TO ANY SONG EVER WRITTEN. THE SONG WAS ORIGINALLY RECORDED IN 1965 BY THE BEATLES, AND IS PART OF THEIR ALBUM ‘HELP!’.

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How many times have you been to Guernsey now? What’s your favourite memory? I think this was my third time. The first time I came out was with Cee Why on turntables and another MC called Tommy Evans. At the time all 3 of us ran our record label together - YNR Productions. It’s crazy to think how much has changed since then... According to Andre that was the first EVER Hip Hop/Rap gig in Guernsey. One for the history books! Have you always been known as Jehst or have you had any other names earlier in your career? Always Jehst. I’ve got a bunch of A.K.A’s like most MC’s but I’ve always released music under the name Jehst. I did put out one 7” single as Billy Brimstone though. In fact I think I’ve been credited as that on a recent Boot Records release. How would you describe your sound to someone that has never heard you? Hip Hop. With an emphasis on re-inventing the classic approach and always striving to be lyrical and entertaining. In some respects alot of what I do you could call ‘headphone music’- stuff you can really get lost in as opposed to music for the club or radio. I think fans appreciate the intimacy of my music. Do you remember the first rap song you heard that got you into Hip Hop? Doug E. Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew “The Show” was probably the first ‘proper’ rap record that I remember. The B-side was “La Di Da Di”, since covered by Snoop, and one way or another kids in playgrounds have been rapping the words to that track for generations. What music did you grow up listening to, how did it inspire you to become a rap artist? I was a Hip Hop fanatic as a kid. I really didn’t listen to anything else! So it’s pretty easy to make the connection... (laughs)

What album do you consider to be your best work so far? I like to think that I’m always improving and progressing so in keeping with that theory it would be my latest album “The Dragon Of An Ordinary Family”. Some of my favourite material is production work I’ve done for other artists, like Sir Smurf Lil’s “Myalpha” album and the “Kingdom Of Fear” project I did with Kashmere. What collaboration are you most proud of? Maybe the track I did with Australian rap group Bliss N Eso “I Can”. Other than me and one or two of their Australian peers the other guests on the album were Xzibit and RZA so it was kind of nice to see myself in that context. I mean, those guys are underground legends turned Hollywood stars! It’s pretty motivating to be associated with greatness. Who would you most like to collaborate with, dead or alive? There’s so many greats - like Bob Marley or Jimi Hendrix. But I’d probably have to go with J Dilla. We lost him too soon. Do you read, if so what is your favourite book? Not enough. For a long time my favourite book was “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep” by Philip K. Dick. At the moment I’m reading “Cosmopolis” by Don DeLillo. Obviously there is a strong link between Hip Hop and Poetry, do you have a favorite poet and do you consider yourself one? Rap IS modern-day Poetry. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind about that. In fact, any kind of song-writing should be poetic. But no, I don’t really have a favourite poet, it’s not something I’ve ever really thought about. You reference Clint Eastwood movies quite a lot in your rhymes, I take it you’re a fan. What is your favourite Clint Eastwood Film? “High Plains Drifter” of course!

Who are your top 5 emcees of all time?

What has been the pinacle of your career so far and where do you see yourself in five years?

Too hard a question! I could be here all day with that. A few favourites straight off the top of the head without over-thinking it Rakim, Pharoahe Monch, Big Daddy Kane, KRS One, Nas... That’s 5? See, 5’s not enough, I haven’t even touched on Wu Tang yet... Or any UK guys like Blade. He was a big influence on me and helped me understand what made MC’s like Rakim so great.

Who knows! I might quit. There’s a huge difference between music and ‘the music industry’. I love music but I really don’t love the industry and the more you get caught up in trying to quantify your value - high points, low points, future goals - it stops being about capturing a moment. For me the beauty and enjoyment in making music is the process.

Is there anyone else in your family who is musical?

Tell us a bit about how you met the people you perform with and your relationship with them.

My sister plays a little bit of keys and french horn. But she’s superhumble and just does it for fun. As opposed to me, who can’t read a note of music... What other kind of genres of music do you like to listen to? I listen to all kinds. There’s good music in every genre - rock, jazz, soul, funk whatever. And then you start getting into combinations - Jazz Fusion, Prog-Rock...Stuff from all over the world! If I could find a way to do it I’d spend every single day just discovering and re-discovering good music.

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Most of the time I’ll be out here performing with Micall Parknsun and DJ Jazz T. I met Micall through a friend and musical peer, Harry Love, many years ago. Now I’m God Dad to his youngest! Jazz is a legend of the turntables and well known on the circuit. It might have been way back when we both had a show with New York rapper J-Zone at Plastic People that we met. I’m not sure... Obviously when you spend that much time on the road together you form a strong bond. We genuinely get on and have mad respect for each other so it’s a good working relationship. I’m very humbled and grateful for all that they’ve done to help me progress in my career. GUERNSEY’S STYLE MAGAZINE

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POPULAR FORMER GUERNSEY RESIDENT PAUL LORAINE HAS GONE A LONG WAY IN THE DJ WORLD SINCE HIS RESIDENCY DAYS AT THE GOLDEN MONKEY NIGHTCLUB AND A KEEN CLUBBER AT THE PACKEDOUT BLISS NIGHTS AT THE FORMER NO.10. AFTER SWAPPING GUERNSEY FOR THE UK AND THEN THE SUNNIER CLIMATE OF SPAIN 2.5 YEARS AGO HIS DJ AND RECORD PRODUCING CAREER HAS SPIRALLED ONWARDS AND UPWARDS AND HE HAS NO REGRETS. AFTER A SUCCESSFUL TWO-HOUR SET AT SPACE IBIZA IN 2011 HE IS BACK AT THE PARTY PLACE TO BE THIS SUMMER. GALLERY CAUGHT UP WITH HIM TO DISCOVER WHAT HE’S UP TO THESE DAYS AND RACKED HIS BRAINS FOR HIS VIEWS ON THE GOOD OLD DAYS ON THE DECKS IN GUERNSEY.

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shines 320 days of the year means that there are many parties on hotel rooftops and beaches. One of the best gigs I have had here is when I was asked to headline Mac Arena Mar it´s a club on a beach and 3,000 people turned out. Are you putting Guernsey on the global DJ map and have you any residencies? I´m working in the studio so much these days that I don´t have time for any residencies, however I do have many great gigs in the diary this year one of the highlights being booked for a return gig at Space Ibiza for We Love What is the best thing about being a DJ? I love getting the crowd on my side, taking them on a music journey… nothing beats that feeling! What are you up to these days in terms of DJing and record producing? I have been asked to produce a EP for Defected Records so right now that is all I´m concentrating on in the studio, if I get that nailed then my career will once again move up a level. Do you still mix on vinyl? Yes What are your best DJ experiences? One of the best memories is my final night at the monkey, I played a final 5 hour set, everyone knew I was on my way back to the UK and a full club came to say goodbye… it was for me very emotional and very special. Another best experience was when I lived in Bristol I set up and night with Jamie called Loco, on our first Birthday we won the BBC Radio One essential house night of the year and I played with King Unique who were a huge influence for me during my early days DJíng What makes a top DJ? Determination, belief and never let the bastards drag you down. What are your favourite top 3 tunes of all-time? Sasha Ëxpander¨ Andre Kram ¨Safari¨ (James Holden Remix) & NJoi Änthem¨ What is your best ever set? Tricky question but if I had to give you one then Space Ibiza 2011, I played the closing set for 2 hours and everything worked out just perfect for me

When and how did you start DJing? I started DJíng at the age of 16, playing hip hop, trip hop and drum & bass Who were your major influences? My main influences were later on when I turned to house music, I became very infected by Sasha and John Digweed What do you remember about the DJ scene in Guernsey and what are your best memories? I guess my 6 year residency at the golden monkey, we had some very memorable nights there that I´ll never forget How has DJing changed in terms of evolution and modern technology? It´s changed loads since I started out, the most obvious being the digital revolution. In this day and age anyone can buy DJ software and have a go. I think it´s a good thing though I always think progress is good.

How would you describe the DJ scene locally and what was it like to return to the island for the Guernsey Festival last summer? I try and keep an eye on what is happening in Guernsey I think it´s a real shame that there isn´t a venue like the monkey nightclub anymore. Returning to the Island last year for the festival was great, I only wish that my set time wasn´t at 3 in the afternoon What is your advice to aspiring DJs and record producers? Have an identity, a certain sound that is recognisable and exclusive to you… don´t rush to get tracks signed and build up a nice catalogue of music, then send them out to your top 20 labels, if you don´t get a reply then rip it up and start again. Have you any plans to return to Guernsey? I hope so, I´d love to DJ in the Island again Is God a DJ? Nope

Why and when did you decide to leave Guernsey? I left Guernsey 11 years ago now, being a professional DJ was something I always wanted to pursue from the moment I started out so I always knew that my time in Guernsey was going to be limited. Do you regret leaving the island and was it purely a career move? To be honest with you there are moments where I miss the Island life, I have had some amazing moments in my DJ career but nothing will ever beat the times I had in the golden monkey where we had a capacity crowd and everyone being friends and family on a high… such a good feeling How does Barcelona compare to Guernsey in DJing terms? The obvious really, Barca is a huge vibrant city and the fact that the sun BECAUSE QUALITY MATTERS

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