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‘In between starting Wolf Hall and now, a great deal has happened in my life’’ Our exclusive interview with Budleigh Salterton’s Hilary Mantel, p 12

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ETERNAL SUNSHINE Interiors with a year-round summery vibe

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ALL THE GOSSIP Why Peter is (genuinely) eating glitter - and more!

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THE WISHLIST This week’s pick of lovely things to buy

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DAMN YOU, TOY STORY! Our columnist struggles to de-clutter

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JUST BETWEEN US...

Sh! We have the latest gossip!

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DEVON’S LITERARY DAME Meet Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel

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50 SHADES OF GREEN The new colour for autumn

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SECRET PLACES Where to go, what to try

WIN A £50 ART PRINT Sensational photography to be won

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SUMMER FOREVER Interiors with year-round sunshine

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EAT WELL, NOW Tim Maddams on wild duck

ANNE SWITHINBANK For the very best garden advice

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50 SHADES OF GREEN What to wear this September

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YOUR WEEK AHEAD Cassandra Nye looks into the stars

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BOOST YOUR WELLBEING Great ways to feel your best this week

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THE PERFECT ROAST DUCK Top chef Tim Maddams knows how

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A WEEKEND AWAY Exploring the very best of Salcombe

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MAN AND BOY Phil Goodwin’s holiday memories

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HOW TO WEAR IT This season’s silhouette, sorted

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Beer of the week

dead Back from theVictorian

A barley variety from times, Chevallier, has been Crisp resurrected by maltsters and Malting. Crisp’s own maltster Sharp’s master brewer (the former has head brewer Carl Heron) a new used the variety to create Cheshire beer, Govinda, with the which Brewhouse. More Chevallier, is is incredibly disease resistant, now due to be sown.

Hooray for an Indian summer

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2,000 people in the St Ives Guildhall.

Brewing for three debut, too, for Penzance event was packed came over three chocolatey sampling Co’s smooth, malty, days with drinkers days’ from the Liberty.

60 or so beers, mostly year’s as several By the time of next Westcountry, as well brewery tipples festival, Marco’s new ciders, including local housing St Ives in St Ives will be open, from David Berwick’s with spectacular views a ten-barrel brewplant Cider.

Ives festival was a bigger be good to see the St over the port. It will Marco told me: “The have dreamed. Over beers finally come home. success than we could over through the door 2,000 people came with of beertoday.co.uk flowed fantastically Darren Norbury is editor three days. The beer on close the by completely @beertoday almost 30 selling out cider twice just to Sunday. We had to re-stock

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[ How lovely to have the added bonus of a little September sunshine, when you’re not really expecting it. This week has seen some gorgeous weather, hasn’t it? One person who really appreciates the beauty of this part of the world is Jo Bradford, who lives with her young family on the edge of Dartmoor.

Jo’s a photographer, and her pictures of women on horseback, galloping across Cornish beaches and through lush green fields, are completely stunning. Her latest project is to take a picture of Dartmoor every day for a year, and Jo’s Instagram pictures of the moor are viewed daily by 800,000 people – that’s quite a following. Find out

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Farmhouse Cider brand, Cornish Cloudy 11-13, at its has just launched a new next weekend, September Healey’s Cyder, which to suit all tastes.

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of the week @StIvesBrewery @beertoday @WMNWest Cheers Darren. Our dreams are coming true.

more on page 16 today, where you can even win one of Jo’s signed prints, too.

Elsewhere in the magazine, we have an exclusive interview with a Westcountry writer who is both fascinating and very famous indeed. Fran McElhone meets Dame Hilary Mantel at the Booker prizewinner’s seaside home in Budleigh Salterton. Turn to page 12 to hear all about how her latest novel is coming on, plus much more.

Finally, if you’re thinking of good things to eat this week, look out for Tim Maddams’ advice on how to roast duck on page 40 today, well worth a read. Have a lovely Sunday.

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Find out more on page 16, and you can win one of her prints, too

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Bargain Jane Asher ramekins, £1 for two, Poundland

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Wall clock £38 Exit Interiors

STREET STYLE STAR

Playsuit: Pinko (a shop in Italy) £200 Shoes: Lacoste £59 Bag: LK Bennett £165 (on sale recently) Tanya says: “Karen Millen is definitely my favourite shop and my style inspiration is my mum. I always like what my mum buys.

“I dress far more casually here than I did at home in Russia. No one wears heels over here and you don’t wear much make-up either. In Russia, everyone wears high heels.”

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Delicious British gastronomy map tea towel £10.50 www.lucylovesthis.co.uk

BRIGHT Copper wire pendant light Mia Fleur £45

Store we adore Rural Urban, Wadebridge

This interiors and gift shop sells new-but-old looking distressed furniture, table lamps and clocks. There is also Annie Sloan chalk paint if you want to create a similar look with your own pieces of furniture. The shop is also known for its cosy and colourful throws and blankets, and sprays of extremely realistic-looking fake flowers, including magnolia and cherry blossom. With four rooms packed with things to discover, a browse here can take quite a while.

Rural Urban, 1 Molesworth Street, Wadebridge, www.ruralurban. co.uk, 01208 812221

COSY M&S Collection coat with cashmere £120

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talking points Gillian Molesworth

Story of my life...

Why saying goodbye is never easy he great overhaul of the stuff continues – I have flung out a third to a half of my clothes, including the Nicole Farhi blazer and the Michael Kors leather coat, neither of which have been worn in some time. Please don’t be disillusioned – those were two of the only recognisable labels in my wardrobe. Which obviously helper – NOT with your family. is why I have hung onto them all This is because of the emotional these years. pressures associated with so In case you missed it, the much of what we own. You have family is partway through “the to be able to say: “I don’t want process” as laid down by Marie this” without looking at a face Kondo in her book, The Lifewith a trembly lip, saying “but I Changing Magic of Tidying gave you that for Christmas!”

Up. Unfortunately, most of my With mothers, there’s also the family now hate this book, and issue of return on investment. will complain about it loudly to Our kids go through phases: anyone who listens. I am still Pokemon, Go-gos, Beanie Boos, loving the book, Bakugan, Puppy however, and in my Pocket… or aspire to a clean, whatever plastic clutter-free, liberproduct it was ated life with no they last saw on You have to be “rebounds”.

TV. They beg you able to say: “I Having gone for this stuff. They don’t want this” through all our plead with you with clothes, mine and real tears in their without looking the children’s, we eyes. They want at a face with were in slightly nothing else. All dangerous tertheir friends have a trembly lip ritory – toys. I them. They will be took a big bag social pariahs withof Freddy’s old out them. So eventustuffed toys to ally you give in, and the charity shop today, and I am then eight months later they say: still suffering separation anxiety.

“You can get rid of these. I’m over It’s like they have personalities. them.”

I feel like I’m betraying them.

There’s a parenting moment What will become of them? I’m right there. On one hand, they’re envisioning landfill. Dammit doing what you told them to. On Pixar’s Toy Story, did you KNOW the other hand, you’re looking you were disempowering a whole at £70 down the drain. You want generation of mothers to EVER to shake them by the shoulders throw anything away?? and say: “You begged me to buy In her book, Marie Kondo these? So PLAY with them!” advises that you should do your If we all make it to the end clearing out and throwing away of this book intact it will be a by yourself, or with an impartial miracle.

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THE MUM’S RACE The mums’ race at school sports day is dreaded by many of us – and taken far too seriously by others. But spare a thought for the children of a school in east Devon who found themselves running against Olympic runner JO PAVEY this summer – holder of the current European gold medal for the 10,000

metres.

Jo, who has two small children, came second in the race. Apparently having to run with a pink ball under her chin hampered her performance somewhat – or was she just being kind? Hats off, though, to Jenny, mum of Lewis in Year 5, who won!

between us Gossip, news, trend setters and more – you heard all the latest juicy stuff here first!

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Rita & Cheryl

BEST OF FRIENDS CHERYL FERNANDEZ-VERSINI and RITA ORA really have become best gal pals after bonding as X-Factor co-judges.

Cheryl’s told The Sun she wants to work on new music with Rita - who could help bring a different flavour to her sound. The former Girls Aloud star revealed: “I miss working with the girls in the band, so would love to work with Rita now on something. I know it’d be great. She’s so funny.

“I am recording and let’s just say I’m loving RnB again,” the 32-year-old added.

THEY ALL WANT PETER Oh dear. Apparently OLA JORDAN is miffed that she didn’t get Peter Andre to be her dance partner in the new series of Strictly Come Dancing.

Peter, who is married to Westcountry girl Emily Macdonagh, had said he’d only do it if he can dance with OLA JORDAN. He and the professional dancer had a “long-standing” joke

about him doing the show, he says.

“I met her many times in the past and we always joked for years, it’s been going on for years, where I said ‘I’ll only ever do Strictly if you’re my partner.’”

But it is not to be. And Peter is also having to contend with new wife Emily teasing him by putting edible glitter on his toast in the morning!

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Belly good: The Belly Board championships were fun at Chapel Porth, near St Agnes

in pictures With a bang: Spectacular Dartmouth Regatta fireworks lit up the sky

Quick dip: Sadie Vincent-Bennett goes paddling at 45 beaches in a day to raise money for Penlee lifeboat

Best friends: The Ships Tavern in Elburton, south Devon, held a fundraising family dog show for The Cinnamon Trust

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ONE OF US Famous faces with links to the Westcountry

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Damon Albarn

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House in the country: Damon, 47, has a home on the clifftop near Hallsands beach that he bought 17 years ago.

He says: “It’s not that big a house, but it’s in a beautiful location and that’s enough.”

Early years: Damon and sister Jessica were born in London, but were brought up in Oldham, Essex. Their bohemian parents were art school head Keith and theatrical set designer Hazel.

10 things to make you smile this week

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The Blur and Gorillaz frontman gets away from it all at his home in Hallsands, south Devon

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1 Bramleys ripe on the tree 2 Sunsets simply amazing 3 The Full Monty Hall for Cornwall, Sept 28 - Oct 3

4 Rugby come on, England!

5 Alice in Wonderland 150 years old this year

6 Surf hello, September swells 7 Great Cornish Food Festival Truro, Sept 25-27 8 Shopping new autumn/ winter collections - yippee

9 Doc Martin he’s back!

10 Long walks an autumnal pleasure

the cows became more and more elongated, to the point where it [looked] like a sort of stone circle.”

Environment: Debris on Hallsands Beach inspired Damon to pen the Gorillaz album Plastic Beach.

DID YOU KNOW? “It is a very clean beach generally... I The first realised that there ever music was an amount of concert very small particles that were not stone, Damon went not glass but plastic. It to was The was the beginning of a Osmonds, meditation on the state of our oceans.” when he was

Family ties: Damon and Jessica and their only six children still spend Low key: Damon often time together in gets around by bike.

Devon. Damon says: He opted not to have “I often think that keeps the magic of a nanny when Missy was young and our childhood alive.” did up the Devon house himself with Suzi. He says: “OK, I’m famous but I Family: Damon’s long-term partner is live a fairly normal life.” the painter Suzi Winstanley and the couple have a 15-year old daughter, Party: Damon launched his 2006 Missy Violet. music collaboration, The Good The Bad And The Queen, with a gig for Music: Devon life has played a part 150 people at his local, The Pigs Nose in Damon’s music. The title rack of his Inn at East Prawle, south Devon. debut solo album Everyday Robots, Among the songs was the Devonreleased last year, includes lyrics themed Hallsands Waltz. The starry inspired by an evening walk. “I was line-up also included Clash bassist looking at the other side of a valley Paul Simonon and the former Verve in Devon, at sunset. The shadows of guitarist Simon Tong.

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Interview

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Dame Hilary Mantel has won not one but two Booker prizes for her novels. Fran McElhone visits her Devon seaside apartment to hear all about Wolf Hall, the Duchess of Cambridge and New York. Not to mention her involvement in the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival...

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hope to keep a personal touch. And Budleigh is a place of very distinct character, and a very pleasant place to visit for the weekend.

“This event has brought prestige to the town and really put it on the map – in the best possible way.”

She’s too modest to say so, but her own appearance at the festival is, in no small part, contributing to its prestige. The 63-year-old’s work is diverse but it is her books recreating the Tudor world of Thomas Cromwell which have won her greatest acclaim. The first two parts of her yet-to-be-completed trilogy, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, have both won the Booker, and she is talking at the festival next weekend about the third book in the series, called The Mirror and the Light When I arrive at her seafront apartment, Hilary is on the phone to her agent, so I hear from her husband about how in demand his wife is. So far this year, she’s been to New York three times, the first a five week stint for rehearsals of

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the Royal Shakespeare Company’s theatrical version of her books, showing at The Winter Garden Theater on Broadway.

“With writing, I ask myself where will I be in a year’s time, but with live theatre, you are preoccupied with the next five minutes,” Hilary explains, musing on the difference between being a playwright and a novelist. “So when I first came back, settled down and began to write my novel again, I couldn’t get used to it. I was habituated to a crisis every day and I was used to asking, where’s the crisis? But there wasn’t one anymore, which felt quite sinister!”

Yes, Hilary is serene, but she has seen her fair share of controversy just recently. First, she ruffled feathers with her collection of short stories called, “The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher” and secondly when she said in a talk that she found Kate Middleton “bland, plastic and machine-made”.

She tells me her words were “instantly twisted” and resulted in a group of tabloid journalists camping on her east Devon doorstep. “Things

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ilary Mantel has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize not once but twice, and was made a Dame in 2014 for her services to literature. But she tells me she is “much more likely” to be recognised in central London than at home in Budleigh Salterton.

In the capital, Hilary is often followed around by people trying to take photos of her. In Budleigh Salterton, by contrast, where we meet in her apartment overlooking the sea, there appears to be mutual loyalty between Hilary and the townsfolk. Hilary has been hugely supportive of the town’s literary festival (which takes place this week) and is now its president. It was when she noticed a flyer about the inaugural festival on a lamppost that she promptly volunteered herself.

“This festival is my ideal of how a festival should be – as an author I’ve seen all shapes and sizes of literary festivals,” says Hilary, describing the Budleigh event as “efficient, cohesive and friendly”, with an “enthusiastic” audience.

“As an author at Budleigh, you feel part of the festival,” she continues. “Because of its intimacy and the fact it is kept to a long weekend, with venues all within walking distance, it gives very busy writers the opportunity to meet up with old friends.

“The whole town is involved – we rely on townspeople and volunteers – so we very much

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are distorted as soon as they’re repeated,” says Hilary. “But this was deliberate distortion to make a story. The lecture I’d given ended by me asking the media not to do to Kate what they’d done to Diana, so it was pro Kate not anti Kate, but this was turned on its head.

“It concerns me that there are journalists who behave so perversely. You do feel at a time like that how important it is to know your neighbours, and to feel that they will take all of this with a pinch of salt. People in this town are very friendly and also very discreet,” she says.

Light and the sea breeze stream into Hilary’s top floor home. It is her writing haven, where much of the Thomas Cromwell series has been penned since she started on Wolf Hall “in earnest” in 2006.

Her home is filled with books, of course, “everything and anything”, history books, a whole wall on Henry VIII, the French Revolution, as well as science, psychology, “lots of poetry”, cricket and novels.

She somehow finds time to read three books a week, describing this as “part of the job”. “For a break,” she tends to read poetry.

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Festival time A few highlights on the Budleigh Salterton menu

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Hilary Mantel: Booker prize winner talks on ‘My Life in Books’ at Temple Church Thursday September 17, at 7.30pm

remains transfixed by his political rise to power.

How did he become the right hand man of Henry VIII, she wonders?

“I’m more fascinated by the era and by the man than when I began,” she admits. “It’s endlessly yielding up good material – the closer you get to the truth of a story, the more complex it becomes and the more you want to explore. There are no easy answers.

“I’m a long-haul person. In the time between starting Wolf Hall and now, a great deal has happened in my own life. But it is just a blink of an eye in writing terms.

In terms of three really big novels, a decade isn’t a long time.

“Cromwell was a shaper of the nation.

He was, I think, one of the cleverest operators in English politics ever. He’s been an enigma – how does one start out as the son of a blacksmith but become Earl of Wessex?”

Wolf Hall is an extraordinary feat. Anyone who is familiar with the 650-page epic will know how eloquently and originally she interweaves fact and imagination.

“You have to look at it in two ways,” she tells

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me. “There are the day to day events, and as far as that’s concerned I follow historical record. But there are points when historical record runs out.

A novelist just gives you a version, but that version has to be built on the best facts you can get.

Where the record runs out, that’s where I start work.”

Hilary loved the TV drama series of Wolf Hall earlier this year, describing the production team as “brilliant”: “I had faith in them, and I knew I’d be confided in at every turn. It wasn’t as if they confiscated Wolf Hall from me. I knew there were going to be compromises but you know you can arrive at agreements. You have to recognise when a work changes form.

It’s a new work, there’s no need to be possessive or precious.”

In the past two years, she has also been busy with literary journalism, the theatre versions of her books, and – of course – the Budleigh Literary Festival. But from now on, Hilary will be in Budleigh, working on the hugely anticipated final book in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy.

It is a place that, I think, is her sanctuary as much as it is her home.

‘In between starting Wolf Hall and now, a great deal has happened in my life’

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Judith Kerr: Much-loved author of children’s books including The Tiger Who Came To Tea will be speaking at St Peter’s Church on Thursday September 17 at 4.15 pm Paula Hawkins: Author of best-selling thriller The Girl On The Train will talk at Temple Church, Friday September 18, 4.30pm Kaffe Fassett: Famous knitwear designer and author of Dreaming in Colour will speak in the Public Hall on Friday September 18, 12 noon Margaret Drabble: Renowned literary novelist will talk on her book The Pure Gold Baby in St Peter’s Church on Saturday September 19 at 8pm The Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival, 17-20 September. For more details and tickets visit www. budlitfest.org.uk or call 01395 445275

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Westcountry photographer Jo Bradford specialises in capturing the joy of life on horseback, with beautiful results

By Sarah Pitt

o Bradford uses her skill as a photographer to capture the freedom of wide open spaces and the joy of life on horseback. Landscape is important to her – she lives on the edge of Dartmoor, and previously spent many years on the north Cornwall coast. Her childhood was spent in South Africa, in the aptly named Wild Coast on the Eastern Cape.

Jo’s photographs, which are licensed to Getty Images and used in prestigious websites and glossy magazines the world over, are all about recapturing that sense of childhood freedom.

With her photographer’s eye, which is more important, she says, than any amount of fancy camera equipment, she creates nostalgic, summer holiday-tinged images of women riding on Cornish beaches and in lush summer countryside.

To find accomplished equestriennes to be models for the shots, Jo ropes in her photography students at Cornwall College near Camborne and her model friend, whom she persuaded to meet her with their horses a few miles away on the stunning sands near Godrevy.

“My student was always bringing in photographs of her beautiful white horse to show me.

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She said her friend was a model who was keen to build up her portfolio. So I said to her, why don’t we meet up with your horses on the beach?

“I brought dresses for them to wear. I told them I wanted them to look like they were on their way to a brilliant party and that jumping on their horses was the quickest way to get there.

“The images were so lovely that I started to meet up with them on a regular basis. We also took pictures on the horses in a cornfield and some more on the beach.”

One shows a silhouette of a woman charging along a beach on her horse clutching a bunch of balloons. The image is called Summer Dreams and is hotly in demand as a print, as it radiates the joy of escaping from everyday life. It is part of a series, all shot on beaches, called Halcyon Days.

Another dreamy image shows two women on the back of a white horse leading another chestnut horse across a field in the evening light. A third, which could be a fashion image in a glossy magazine, captures a woman in evening dress with her horse on the beach, blowing bubbles.

These pictures were very much inspired by her own South African childhood, Jo explains.

[[ ‘My work is about women being at one in the landscape.

Women are just as capable as men of having adventures outdoors’

“Where I grew up, you would have a five mile long beach and if another human being walked onto the beach you would think it was crowded. I used to go riding with my friends on horses and would roam free. We used to go out and just take off.

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of freedom. I try to convey the way a scene makes me feel when I’m standing in front of it and then I work with that to get the picture.”

Jo’s pictures have sparked other requests from women to take their portraits outside in the landscape. “All the girls in my portraits are wonderful, outdoorsy, intelligent women. I want my

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Jo’s leaving her high tech camera kit at home for her latest project, taking a picture of Dartmoor every day this year using just the iPhone in her pocket. Her Instagram feed, A Love Letter to Dartmoor, began with a single picture taken on her daily walk with her children and two dogs. After she posted it on the networking site Instagram, it had 830,000 likes in 24 hours.

“There’s an old adage in photography that the best camera is the one you have in your pocket,” says Jo. “I couldn’t take my big camera, it was too much to manage with the children, so it had to be the phone.” Someone contacted me just the other day, and said ‘I’ve done it, I’ve moved to Dartmoor’ all because of your blog’.

It has been amazing.”

See Jo’s Instagram feed at @greenislandstudios

pictures to be about women and girls being at one in the landscape. Because women are just as capable as men of having adventures outdoors.”

Jo, 42, moved to the UK with her family when she was 15. She started her photography career in Birmingham. There she met her husband Paul, a born adventurer and outdoor pursuits instructor. It was Paul who first persuaded her to move with him to his home village of St Agnes in north Cornwall. They now have a young son and daughter together, Grace, two and a half, and Kade, 11 months, and live near Okehampton.

In the Westcountry, over the past 15 years, Jo says she has “fallen in love” with the landscape here and seen her career flourish. She now has a Masters degree in Photography from University College Falmouth and spent a year as Artist in Residence at Plymouth College of Art. She has also, on the empty beaches, rugged clifftops and open moorland, rediscovered the wildness of the landscape of her childhood. One of her bestselling photographs shows the sun glittering on miles of sand. “It is called Cape Dreams because it reminds me of life in South Africa, of the searing heat on the beach, and the emptiness,” she says. Luckily for us, she is here in the Westcountry now.

See www.jobradford.com. Jo Bradford is available for portraits and commissions

Win! A signed picture We have a signed and mounted high quality giclée print of Jo’s seascape Summer Dreams, worth £50, for one lucky West reader to win. To be in with a chance, email your name and address and a phone number to westmag@ westernmorningnews.co.uk, with ‘Jo Bradford print’ as the subject, by September 21. Normal terms apply.

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Cielo wallpaper, £213 per roll, sofa in Caprifoglio linen in sky, £74, both from www. designersguild.com

Sunny vibes It will soon be time to pack away those summer clothes, but that doesn’t mean the holiday sunshine can’t linger a little longer indoors, as Gabrielle Fagan reveals oon, autumn will be here - and yes, the warmer months always seem to slip away too fast.

But while the weather rules our lives outside, indoors at least, with a few simple tweaks, it is easy to conjure up rooms where the sun shines on.

Scents like cut grass, mimosa or even lemon groves can instantly bring summer days to mind, even if the weather outside isn’t co-operating.

“Our home fragrance collection helps the home to feel fresh and light, making summer last that little bit longer,” says Nicola Elliot, founder of scented candle company Neom.

“Scent is all about triggering memories and creating atmosphere, and our Happiness Candle,

by Jenny Packham, includes a cut grass note as well as mimosa, white neroli and lemon.”

Perfect blue skies and fluffy white clouds could be an antidote to unwelcome showery, stormy weather.

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Alternatively, let that symbol of summer – the butterfly – flutter across your walls, with designer Elli Popp’s Butterfly Valley wallpaper, £199 a roll, from www.in-spaces.com.

Garden parties needn’t be seasonal if your landscape is always rich and colourful, inside and out.

Artificial grass is ‘growing’ in popularity for gardens, and now, hot on its heels, comes faux green living wall panels for indoors customisable with a mix of faux plants. These could look lush inside in a dining area, or be used outside to compensate when your plot’s lost its lustre.

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to entertain, and a faux living wall is perfect for providing foliage when nature starts shutting down and borders are devoid of blooms,” says Harriet Thompson at Evergreen Direct, whose green wall panels include selections of plants clad on a timber backing.

The summer holidays may be over but memories of happy days can stay fresh for you, with a display of photos taken on trips and days out.

“As an interior designer, I find there’s no better starting point than taking a photographic memory the client loves and designing a space around it, so it has real meaning to them,” says Richard Randall, who runs WhiteWall, which specialises in converting home photography into works of art.

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displays are summer holiday photos, accorda labour of love but they last forever, and nothing ing to a recent survey, as they beats the feeling of getting them to instantly lift people’s wellbeflower again the following year.” ing and bring an informal freeAbove all, don’t be afraid to be spirited feel to a place, as well as bold with colour. Adding a shot of ‘Plants and injecting loads of personality.” colour is the easiest way to brightflowers are There’s still time to enjoy a en spirits on gloomy days, says sultry sanctuary in your bedSachin Bagga, director of homeessential for room, before you have to resort ware specialists, Sabichi. me, being to layering on warm throws and “Colour’s such a wonderful surrounded by covers for winter. Go for tropical tool, which can sway thinking and print bedding – such as the Harchange moods, and it’s not difficult living things is lequin Paradise bedding from to update or simply redecorate one wonderfully www.bedeckhome.com – and wall,” he says. cheering’ add atmosphere with artificial “I’ve used pinks, butter yellows silk plants and trees. and bright green, which are upliftAnd a key way to make a ing and have the effect of ‘turning home an inspirational space, up the heat’ because we associate which is always bright and welcoming whatever them with the colourful exteriors of Caribbean the season, is make the most of natural light and homes. If you prefer to stay with a neutral backbring nature indoors, suggests leading textile designer, Clarissa Hulse.

“I compensate in dark rooms by adding colour and designs with hints of nature, combined with layered lighting and decorative mirrors to reflect any available daylight back into the room,” she says. “Plants and flowers are essential for me, and I think being surrounded by living things, especially as autumn draws in, is wonderfully cheering.

“I love succulents and have them dotted around my home in decorative pots. Orchids are

drop, simply add colour in a statement chair or an accessory.”

Even small improvements – such as a lick of paint – can transform a room, and you’ll get a warm glow of satisfaction from being shipshape and ready for the change of the season this September.

“Everyone wants to feel at home, yet often it’s the first thing we neglect when busy schedules crowd our lives,” says Holly Becker, author of Decorate Workshop (Jacqui Small, £25), which is a complete guide to all aspects of transforming a home.

“Decorating is an art of creative self-expression, and making something your own is the spice of life. This is the perfect time of year to start a room project, even a small one. Why not spend some time making a creative corner in your home, where you can relax or enjoy a hobby during the autumn.”

STYLE TIP: Compensate in dark rooms by adding

colour and designs with hints of nature, combined with layered lighting.

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Artificial fern faux living wall £69.95 a square metre, www. evergreendirect. co.uk

Virginia Creeper silk cushion £59, www. clarissahulse.com

Jenny Packham for Neom happiness candle £80, www. neomorganics.com

Fuchsia chenille throw £26, www. sabichi.co.uk

Feather fern silk lampshade £75, www.clarissahulse. co Bailey chair £399, www.sabichi.co.uk

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Gardens

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Giving a fig Devon’s Anne Swithinbank, panellist on Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time, says it has been a good year for figs, even in the Westcountry climate his has been a good year for figs, as early sunshine and warmth helped fruits swell. Normally, blackbirds make a feast of them but this year they were distracted by apricots and blackberries. We had plenty of luscious purple fruits from our ‘Brown Turkey’, a variety well suited to the British climate and therefore one of the commonest over here. The red-fleshed fruits are delicious when fully ripe but I’m the only member of my family who enjoys them. My brother came to stay with his tribe from Kingston and guess what? His proud gift was a box of figs because he, too, was the only one eating them. We looked at each other and silently blessed our digestive systems.

The curious thing about figs is that one never sees their flowers, as these secretive organs are hidden deep within the fruitlets. They set without fertilization in the UK but, in the wild, the fig wasp penetrates the fruit to lay its eggs, effecting pollination en route. All we see is the tiny fruit developing, or rather many, crammed together around seeds inside the outer skin.

During early autumn, plants generally require a good de-figI love sliced figs ging, because only the tiny, recently produced, pea-sized fruits with a tricolore at the tips are destined to ripen. of tomato, It is best to remove all the rest and I fill half a bucket from ours mozzarella every year. Some are green and and avocado, some brown but they are all as and a lemony hard as stones. Without having to hold onto these doomed fruits, dressing the plant is ready to push all its energy into developing the peasized ones come spring. Without

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rieties than ‘Brown Turkey’ and the next choice for hardiness and reliability is large-fruited ‘Brunswick’ with a yellow-green skin and red flesh. Pale-fruited ‘White Marseilles’ is also often recommended as a good doer but I haven’t grown it myself. I have planted ‘Madeleine des Deux Saisons’, mainly because I like the name (she’s also

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This week’s gardening tips known as ‘Angelique’) but also because she was a great favourite at Versailles in the 17th century. However she seems to be pining for sunnier climes and has hardly put on 5cm/2in of growth in two years, let alone set any fruit. Though realistically, you would expect a plant to settle for three to four years before cropping. There are many others to try, including ‘Castle Kennedy’ whose fruits are greenish yellow to bronze, with amber flesh.

When planting a fig, choose a sheltered, sunny site but not the good, deep soil most trees would thrive in. On rich soils, they are famous for growing up into massive specimens resplendent with luxuriant foliage but few fruits. This is why the roots of fig trees are usually restricted, often by digging a pit preferably 90cm/3ft square and deep but at least 60cm/2ft and lined with slabs. This is backfilled with decent soil mixed with John

Innes no 3 potting compost and the fig planted, some 20cm/8in away from a wall or fence. Although figs can be neatly fan-trained, ours just leans against the wooden wall of an out building and we occasionally prune out older wood in spring. We don’t give our established ‘Brown Turkey’ any extra high potash food or water because it appears not to need it but I think I’d better start nourishing poor old ‘Madeleine’ in her raised bed.

Back to the excess of figs, I love sliced figs with a tricolore of tomato, mozzarella and avocado with basil and a good lemony dressing. They make delicious, simple pairings with parma ham and various cheeses and I need to experiment with fig jam, stuffing them with slightly sweetened mascarpone and simmering them in a variety of alcohol and spice-infused syrups. Next year’s fig season had better be another good one.

Anne’s advice for your garden

• Begin to clear summer bedding plants out of the way. They may still be flowering but look like sad reminders of last season. Cleared, you can weed, condition soil and think about filling gaps with perennials, winter bedding or bulbs.

• For long stems of pretty irises to cut next June, plant cheap Dutch

Question time with Anne

iris in rows in the kitchen garden or allotment. They will come back and flower year after year.

• Bulbs planted into containers are a great plan, as you can move the display to where it is most needed to bring spring colour.

Mine go by the door, on the patio or even in a border.

White hyacinths are classy.

West reader queries answered by Anne Swithinbank I bought three young delphinium plants and set them in good soil, hoping for a fine display next year. Instead of growing properly, one is stunted with black spots on leaves, an odd browning on the leaf backs and blackened flower stem and buds.

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Black blotches start on the leaves first but spread to stems, flower stalks and buds. I would remove the plant and dispose of it in the hope that it won’t spread to the others. It might even be worth lifting them and moving them further away.

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The goji or Duke of Argyll’s tea tree to give it a more old fashioned common name, has been all the rage since its berries were hailed as a super food. As you’ve probably found, they are not exactly prolific. But it is good to grow something decorative, tolerant of salt-laden winds, good on poor sandy soil in our coastal regions and which produces edible fruit for garden foraging.

Flowers and fruit are produced on stems that grew the previous year, so maybe you became annoyed with the long lax arms and carried out some heavy pruning? Tie in the growth made this summer and hopefully they will produce buds. A dose of potash-rich fertilizer in spring should help matters along. You can tame a wayward plant by shortening or removing some stems directly after fruiting, but only thin out one third of the plant at a time.

Treat potted plants that regularly suffer from vine weevil larvae damage with biological control based on microscopic nematodes.

This is applied as a drench and can help primula, cyclamen, fuchsia, saxifraga, heuchera and others.

Tidy the compost heap and tubs, separating made compost from that still rotting and make room for all the material that will arise from autumn clearing. A separate wire corral for fallen leaves is a good idea to make leaf mould.

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SAVE FACE A primer makes your base last longer. This one by Accessorize (£9.99) will help even out your skin tone.

We present the beauty treats and cheats of the week, picked by West magazine’s Catherine Barnes, with help from daughter Tilly, 18

AUTUMN SHADES H&M’s eyeshadow palette’s nine-colour collection (£9.99) includes greens, greys and blue, as well as essential browns, in easy to wear muted shades.

GOOD VALUE It’s buy one, get one free on autumn skincare essentials from the Korres Black Pine range, (£36 to £39) at M&S this month. The serum, moisturisers and eye cream help maintain skin firmness.

SMOOTH STUFF This Lavender Apples Body Scrub (£31), is a global bestseller. It’s by Sabon, based in Israel, and newly available to buy in the UK at www.sabonuk.co.uk

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the review This week we try:

Tress trends Katie Wright investigates the latest generation of hair treatments, which are all inspired by up-to-theminute skincare technology

PUCKER UP! Vegan-friendly B. Kissable has put together nine pretty lippies in this palette (£9.99 at Superdrug).

A bargain way to try the brand, whose individual lipsticks cost £7.99 a pop.

SUPER SERUM Like the pre-moisturising step for your face, hair serums deliver repairing actives to your locks to leave them looking shiny and nourished.

Try: Ojon Damage Reverse Restorative Hair Serum, £16, a lightweight formula containing a blend of natural shine-enhancing oils, best used on dry hair (www.lookfantastic.com).

FLOWERY A big hit in its native France, Melvita L’Or Rose Firming Oil (£30) is a gorgeously scented cellulite-targeting treatment, that’s been flying off the shelves in the few months since it launched this side of the channel www. melvita.com

HEAVEN SCENT It’s phenomenally popular and no wonder: Jo Malone’s Pomegranate Noir Cologne, £85 for 100ml, is bold, succulent and unforgettable (www.jomalone.co.uk)

PERFECT PRIMER Make-up primers sit on the skin to create a smooth surface but hair primers are alcohol-based sprays that soak into the follicle, leaving hair ready to take on styling products. Try: Pantene Paltinia Hair Strengthening Primer, £14.99, which targets the scalp too, fortifying strands from roots.

BEAUTIFUL BALM BB or blemish balm creams have been phenomenally popular since they arrived in the UK from Asia, and now almost every major brand has a version.

Obviously, hair doesn’t get blemishes, but BB styling creams perform a similar multi-tasking use by smoothing cuticles, taming frizz and protecting against heat damage, so they can be used on damp or dry hair.

Try: Dove Advanced Hair Youthful Vitality Hair BB Cream, currently reduced to £3.47 from £6.99, is formulated with a UV filter for mature hair types (www.superdrug.com).

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Coat £149 sweater £49 and skirt £69 all La Redoute

Embellished top £79 East

Rhinestone cuff £8 Dorothy Perkins

Green with envy ime’s marching on and here we are in mid-September already. Time, surely, for a wardrobe re-think, Indian summer or no Indian summer. There’s a trend around now that we really like, based on softer tones of green than you’d wear in high summer.

Forget neon pops of bright colour, these greens are subdued, making them flattering to the complexion in the cooler light of autumn. Perfect for an enviable September outfit, we think.

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Cami £29.95 White Stuff

Feather pompom beanie, £10 Very

Sequin maxi dress £59 Very Woven silk scarf £240 Brendan Joseph

Trousers £49 jacket £49 all La Redoute

Slouch tote £24, New Look

Jacket £370 Betty Barclay

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Trend Dress, Karen Millen, Princesshay, £190 Shoes, Karen Millen, Princesshay, £130

HOW TO WEAR IT:

Bag, Karen Millen, Princesshay, £99

MAIN PHOTO HAIR: ADAM AT SAKS, EXETER MAKEUP: CLARINS, DEBENHAMS (BOTH PRINCESSHAY) PHOTOGRAPHY: STEVE HAYWOOD STILL-LIFE PHOTOGRAPHS: PR SHOTS

Cinched waists Kathryn Clarke-Mcleod tackles the timeless silhouette he word ‘timeless’ gets bandied about an awful lot when we talk about style, and few things actually deserve the label. In my opinion the list of items worthy of this description is a short one, and all the better for its brevity. Denim jeans, crisp white shirts and cinched waists are my fashion royalty, never out of style.

And the latter is having a real moment. The doyenne of dresses, Roksanda Illincic (she’s Serbian, with VIP clients including Michelle Obama and Keira Knightley) included this classic silhouette in her AW15 show, showing once again that she was born to make women look good.

This season, ‘cinched’ has a variety of meanings. Waists can be belted, tied with a bow or even just a simple band in a block of colour will Don’t buy one do the trick. Anything that draws a horizontal line across of these frocks your midline curve gets a giant in a psychedelic thumbs up. Versace chose extra geometric print wide belts buckled around highnecked jumpers and full-bodied and expect it to blazers. Gorgeous, but not exbe something actly ‘everyday’.

If you’re looking to make an that delivers addition to your wardrobe and instant chic you want it to be truly timeless then follow these guidelines for style that keeps on giving.

I’ll start with a ‘don’t’. Don’t buy one of these frocks in a psychedelic geometric print or in the variety of different ways. most floral of flowery bursts and expect it to be Length is also a key factor here. There is a something you can turn to for an instant dose of classiness and gentle allure to the nipped waist chic. Think black, white or nudes. If you must that must be protected. This means that your buy something more jazzy, then be sure to choose hemline stays knee length, low thigh at the a delicate and restrained option that won’t be cheekiest. It is amazing what a difference a few seared onto peoples retinas for days to come. I’m centimetres make to the message your outfit not just being a snob. After all, what is the point radiates. There are a mere 100mm between of owning something ‘timeless’ if you can’t trot ‘I’ve stepped off the pages of Elle’s anniverit out again and again. This can only be achieved sary edition’ and ‘I’ve just stepped off the stage by choosing basic colours that can be styled in a of Cabaret’.

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Also, heels are your friend. I can’t emphasise this enough. It’s simple geometry. You have just increased the perceived angle of your centre point. So now you need to add length to ensure your overall outline has elegant proportions. Funnily enough, these proportions are the very reason the look is truly timeless.

See, whoever said you didn’t need maths in the real world?

All fashion in these pictures is from Princesshay Shopping Centre, Exeter, www.princesshay.co.uk

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GET THE MONSOON Pippa patchwork tassel cardigan £99

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DEBENHAMS Betty Jackson dress £55

NEW LOOK black tieup waistcoat £22.99 TOPSHOP playsuit £75

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The edit Your straight line to style: time to think winter warmers

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Your stars

by Cassandra Nye This week’s sign:

Happy birthday to...

Virgo is a very independent zodiac sign. They are very able to put their intelligence to use and get things done for themselves. People look up to Virgo as friends because they are straight thinkers and solve problems logically. They are truthful, loyal and determined but can be overly critical of themselves.

Stella McCartney born September 13, 1971 Fashion designer and daughter of Beatle Paul, Stella McCartney celebrates her 44th birthday today. Stella studied fashion in London 20 years ago, and celebrity friends Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss modelled at her graduation show. Just two years later, she was creative director of Parisian fashion house Chloe, and critics attributed her rapid rise to her famous name. But over time Stella has proved her worth as a designer, securing an OBE in the process. She is married to publisher Alasdhair Willis and the couple have four children.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) A strong change in the way you see yourself comes about this week. There are things that you want to change. As long as you are doing it for yourself and not just for others, it can work. You should look after your health at this time. Someone leaving your area of influence, perhaps an adult child, gives you pause for thought. This is the start of a new phase in which you decide the outcome.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) The financial boost that is due is not with you yet. Try not to overstretch yourself in this direction. On romance and friendships, however, let your instincts guide you. Give attention to a loved one rather than spend lots of money. A slower pace next week allows you to recharge your batteries.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) The line between friendship and romance is blurred this week. Either you or a friend are feeling confused in this area. Avoid leading someone astray romantically as it could be embarrassing later. Speed ahead at work and give colleagues a hand when they are stuck, especially with technology.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Changes can come thick and fast this week. Don’t let small things affect your attitude. You are on the right track.

Someone who admires you may give up if they don’t get a response soon. Perhaps you have not even noticed their interest? Imagine if you had a lot of money or the chance to speak your mind, what would you do differently?

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) In a week when travel and secrets come together, life is far from dull. If you are planning something special, midweek gives the best bargains and good negotiations. Drama and spiritual feelings rise at the

weekend. Break the ice with someone you have a longstanding disagreement with. Life is too short to hold grudges or bruised pride.

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) It is a light-hearted kind of week, especially when spending time with children and friends. Those on holiday will find travel inspires them creatively. Will you start that painting now, or even begin to write that novel? Something that gives you great satisfaction can stimulate on a daily basis.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) The kind of passions and changes that affect you this week will rumble on. Do not see this as a bad thing. Certain relationships need to change, and for the better. Perhaps at work you will be promoted or decide to move on. Either way, the impact on your finances is eventually for the better. Stay firm while the wind changes.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) A fast-paced week sees you catching up with chores and getting in touch with work colleagues. A piece of good news puts you in a bright and optimistic mood. Looking for some bargains? Don’t accept the first offer that comes to hand - there may be better ones out there. Be lucky after midweek but keep a close eye on paperwork and anything legal.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) This is a dramatic and passionate week.

A loaded question put to you midweek needs careful consideration, but you don’t have to respond immediately. Take the time to think.

You need to take a practical approach, although with affairs of the heart that is not always easy.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Changes and disruptions are not necessarily bad. There is certainly much excitement after midweek. Why does someone keep repeating themselves, could it be that you are not listening? It is so tempting to just switch off at times this week - you have heard it all before and are not inclined to be impressed.

CANCER (June 22 - July 22) For you this is a pretty smooth-running week. But those around you may be going through dramatic times. This is sure to affect you and your plans. Telling someone to get a grip won’t work. You really need to listen and then try and find out where it all started. You have an oasis of calm open to you that you don’t take up enough.

LEO (July 23 - August 23) The angels of activity and fun are smiling at you. There is nothing that you like more than a happy, social time.

Being in the spotlight, you find yourself being admired. Does this give you the chance to do something good? Yes. Don’t be shy about offering your help where it is needed.

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Wellbeing

the boost Life just got better. We’ve handpicked the latest wellness trends, best-body secrets and expert advice to help you be your best self, everyday

FITNESS REWARDS Stick with your fitness goals with the help of Earthmiles, an app which rewards you with points for keep-fit sessions. It links to tracking apps such as Fitbit and Mapmyrun, and you can redeem Earthmiles on offers from health, fitness, nutrition, wellness, and sports companies. Find it on iTunes.

RUN FOR FUN! Fancy giving running a try?

Lace up your trainers and jog along to one of the friendly 5km Parkruns held on Saturday mornings at beauty spots across the region, including Lanhydrock near Bodmin, Parke on Dartmoor, the riverside in Exeter and the coast near Helston. It’s free and there’s a chance to join other runners for a coffee afterwards. Register at www.parkrun.org.uk

Upli ing Scents have a huge power to lift our spirits, and fans of London-based Molton Brown’s gorgeous bath products might be interested to know that they also have a new range of perfumes. We particularly love the Orange & Bergamot Eau de Toilette, an invigorating fragrance with an uplifting character, £39 for 50ml from www.moltonbrown.com

ALOE ALOE Drinking aloe juice comes with the promise of positively radiant skin. Aloe is a natural antiinflammatory and high in vitamin E. We suggest a high quality, organic filtered versions free of additives and sugars, known as aloe water.

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COAST PATH CHALLENGE If a run sounds that bit too strenuous, why not join in with the South West Coast Path Challenge in October? The event, backed by adventurer Monty Halls, aims to get people walking anything between one mile and the entire 630-mile route, in a bid to set a record for miles walked along the path in one month.

Find out more at www.southwestcoastpath. org.uk.

SPECS DIRECT It can be difficult to get to the opticians in a busy working week. So it’s great news that high street chemist Superdrug has launched an online service for prescription sunglasses and glasses. Prices start at £9 with more than 900 styles on offer. Customers just log onto the website – opticians.superdrug.com – choose their frames and lenses, enter their prescription and chose where to have their glasses delivered. Simple.

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Kiss and make up What to do when you’re not getting on My husband and I never used to let the sun go down on an argument – and if I’m honest, a blazing row would clear the air. But since I’ve returned to work, we seem to be constantly simmering. How can we learn to kiss and make up like we used

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Tricia Moore, counsellor, replies: Two individuals sharing the same space are bound to argue from time to time because they have different views and ideas. Ideally, arguing can be more loaded with emotions which we ignore at a lively and productive exchange of views, our peril. which can lead to a mutually agreed change.

The fact that the bad arguments started when However, some arguments are stopped when you went back to work suggests that this change they become uncomfortable, but are never in your life has affected the ‘fit’ of your relationresolved. Or issues are ignored, to ‘keep the ship: the unspoken agreement about how your peace’. So the issue and the argument inevitably relationship works. You need to work together returns, this time with added to make a new agreement, but irritation that nothing has at the moment you are working changed. against each other.

There can also be unspoken Don’t be afraid to seek profesthoughts fuelling the argument sional help if it’s not working.

An unresolved like, ‘He doesn’t care about me A relationship counsellor will issue gets bigger anymore,’ or ‘She doesn’t apprebe able to give impartial and and will come ciate how hard I work,’ or ‘If he confidential support. loved me he’d know…’

There will always be times of out eventually, This type of exchange comes change and conflict in a long this time more loaded with barbed comments relationship, but they only loaded with and instead of being productive, indicate another turn or junccan damage the relationship. tion in the road you’re building emotions Perhaps those arguments you together. There’s no time like used to have were stopped with the present to learn how to a kiss before bed, but were negotiate these junctions better never resolved. Maybe you and this skill will stand you in didn’t want to upset things by showing negative good stead in the years to come. Good luck. feelings. But an unresolved issue generally gets Tricia Moore is a counsellor in Plymouth for the national bigger and will come out eventually, this time charity Marriage Care.

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Breaking the cycle: •

First: agree that things are bad and that you both want to put it right

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Make the time to talk without distraction

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Keep calm. You’ve both been angry, so it’s essential that you keep to the point, avoiding sarcasm or bringing up old hurts

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Take turns to speak, describing your feelings and the situations that cause them

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Listen, reflecting back what you hear, without comment. It’s important that you hear and accept each other’s feelings

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Then: with your new understanding of what’s been happening, decide together how you can make changes to make your new situation work better. Make it a ‘win-win’ solution

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Super food porridge Ally says: Let’s face it, we haven’t had a super-hot summer and so I have been enjoying my winter porridge regularly over the summer. I decided to be more adventurous with my flavours when making this porridge and boy was it worth it! I can hold my hands up and say it is probably the creamiest, most moreish bowl of porridge I have ever made.

I’ve called it ‘super food porridge’ because it is made with Maca powder, which gives it its green hue as well as making it super healthy. Maca powder is known as Peruvian ginseng because of its energygiving properties and is bursting with goodness. It gives smoothies and porridge a delicious malty caramel flavour. @allyskitchenstories

You will need (serves one):

Method:

Gluten-free oats – I use approximately one cup of oats but you can alter this depending on how much you fancy eating One cup of almond milk 1 tbsp Maca powder 1/4 tsp cinnamon 1 tbsp coconut oil 1 pinch of sea salt – pink Himalayan salt is the best but sea salt is also fine 1 banana, which is mashed into the porridge while it is cooking 1 tbsp desiccated coconut for topping (again optional) A handful of berries for topping (I used blueberries and a raspberry) If you want it a little sweeter you can add a tsp of maple syrup before serving

Combine the oats, almond milk, Maca powder, cinnamon and pinch of sea salt in a pan on medium heat and stir Once the porridge has thickened slightly, add in half the mashed banana and the tbsp of coconut oil and stir it in. Allow your porridge to cook over a simmering heat for about five minutes Once the porridge is looking thick and creamy pour into a bowl Make your porridge look pretty with your toppings of desiccated coconut and the berries. Add maple syrup if you fancy it.

That’s it! Your bowl of creamy porridge goodness is ready to enjoy

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Ingredient of the Week

Wild duck with Tim Maddams have recently published a book. For complex than that, but this point is inevitably a man who left school with little where the discussion ends up. more than a wing and a prayer, From a foodie point of view, if you like meat this has been quite a big thing for but don’t eat game then you are missing out me. The book is all about game and and among the best of the treats to be found is is part of the River Cottage the meat of the wild duck tribe. handbook series. If you are Mallard will likely be the most familiar with these diminutive common but look out also for guides to all things foodie you teal, widgeon and pochard. If you Look out also will know what I’m on about, get really lucky a gadwall is an for teal, widgeon if you’re not, it matters little. absolute must. and pochard. If I just wanted to lead in to From a sustainability point of this week’s ingredient, wild view, we need to make sure we you get really duck, on the understanding don’t take to many wild ducks, lucky a gadwall that game is a subject within and we are a long way from the cookery that I, perhaps, know a bounty of yesteryear when whole is an absolute little more about than most. “paddlings” of wild fowl were must I have thought long and hard taken on the decoys. But we can about the ethics of shooting allow ourselves a few each year. and hunting and there are Treat wild duck carefully, they strong ethical arguments both are not farmed ducks and so will for and against. But what it all boils down to have better texture, and a deeper flavour. But this, you either (rightly or wrongly) find the they will be tougher, requiring longer resting very idea offensive or you don’t. It’s far more and stronger flavoured accompaniments.

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Roast duck Buy the ducks in an oven ready state if you can. This saves on all the faff of plucking and gutting, though they will cost a little more. Roast them hard and hot, then rest them for at least as long as you cooked them. Serve them up with some nice rich sauce made from the roasting juices and maybe a bit of gooseberry jam you put by and you will be on the right track. Look out for partridge if you’re not into duck, they are cheap now and very, very tasty.

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Darren Norbury Beer of the week I know it’s only September, but I’ve recently been drinking Gouden Carolus Christmas, from Belgium. At 10.5% ABV it’s not for the faint-hearted, but it doesn’t really pack an alcoholic punch, offering warm, rich roast notes instead, with hints of coffee and aniseed. It’s a Belgian classic which is for life, not just for Christmas.

Exe Valley open day Exe Valley Brewery, at Land Farm, Silverton, is throwing open its doors for an open day on Saturday (September 19), with a barbecue, live music and, of course, beer!

Proceeds are in aid of Headway Devon. There’s no parking at the brewery, but there will be transport from Silverton Square to tie in with buses.

talks beer pecials and seasonals: most random) the style, hop-growing region and ABV brewers can’t resist them. It’s an strength from a number of options. Whose beer opportunity to step away from the will be most popular with Nicholson’s drinkers? day-to-day recipes that are their Will it be Skinner’s The All Blondes? bread and butter and have a bit The other big ‘fixture’ this month is the 50th of a play. And two events this month have been anniversary of the malt variety Maris Otter. particularly challenging a The event is being marked with number of brewers lately. a festival in Norfolk, organised On Friday, England kick off by grain merchant H Banham The official against Fiji at Twickenham Ltd and the Norfolk Brewhouse. to get the 2015 Rugby World It will feature 50 new beers sponsor is Cup under way. As people say, brewed using Maris Otter malt.

Heineken because, there’s a beer for that. In fact, St Austell head brewer Roger obviously, nothing there are several. The official Ryman swears by its quality and sponsor is Heineken, because, has submitted one of the brews, says English rugby obviously, nothing says English The Gribben, a special developed like Dutch fizzy rugby like a Dutch fizzy lager. with the National Trust and lager. Sigh.

Sigh. But fear not, there are named after Gribben Head in more imaginative options.

Cornwall.

Down my way, for instance, Other Westcountry brewers Skinner’s has a new brew of taking part in the festival its Splendid Tackle beer for are Butcombe Brewery, from the duration of the competition, golden amber Somerset, Dorset Brewing Company, and Devon’s with tropical and citrus fruit notes. It has also Otter Brewery (with a name like that, how could been involved in creating a beer for pub chain they be left out?). Next up, it’ll be time for those Nicholson’s Rugby World Cup Beer Festival. once-a-year Halloween brews.

Several breweries were invited to submit beers Darren Norbury is editor of beertoday.co.uk for the event, but only after they had drawn (at @beertoday

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DOWN ON THE FARM It’s the last day today of the Little Cyder and Music Festival at Healey’s Cornish Cyder Farm, Penhallow, near Truro. As well as family entertainment and live music acts, there’s a chance to try a range of traditional ciders - why not pop along?

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A WEEKEND IN...

Salcombe Fresh crab on the waterfront

f you want to feel as though you are abroad without the hassle of going, Salcombe is the perfect place to retreat for a weekend, says Connie Champain. The sweet sea breeze followed by the enticing scent of fresh food and delicacies creates a comforting foreign feel only a drive from your doorstep.

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Wake up to magnificent views of the estuary and stay in the Salcombe Harbour Hotel and Spa (www.salcombe-harbour-hotel.co.uk).

If you want to make the most of your luxury surroundings, opt for the estuary view rooms (dinner, bed and breakfast in September is £265 per couple, per night). Even non-residents have the option of two restaurants to eat in at the hotel: The Jetty and The Terrace. If you want to travel inland slightly, stay at the pretty Tilly

Stay:

The view from Overbeck’s

Cottage for £75 a night (double room). Call 01548 580377 to book a room.

Eat: Dick and Will’s on the waterside is the place to enjoy a superfood salad wrap or a portion of shellfish paella. Watch the sun set over the estuary while indulging in their “Famous Fish and Chips” for £16.95. Their wide variety of local produce makes this restaurant a popular place for everyone to enjoy. If you are a lover of seafood, pay a visit to The Crab Shed on the water’s edge.

All the crab is local and fresh from the water.

Sailing is the sport in Salcombe with the estuary providing a safe area for everyone to spend some time on the idyllic boats. With Salcombe Dinghy Sailing, you can experience a one to one tuition (£50 for 1½ hours) and learn the basics of sailing. However, if you already

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know the ropes, you can hire a boat for a whole day from £75. Find out how to book at www. salcombedinghysailing.co.uk. Or why not pay a visit to the Maritime Museum in Market Street and be amazed by the sea-bed treasures from the South West coastline.

Enjoy walking? Follow the South West Coastal Path and stop in at the National Trustowned Overbeck’s Garden and Museum. This is the seaside home of inventor and scientist Otto Overbeck. His beautiful house and gardens are high above the cliffs of Salcombe, with a spectacular view of the estuary.

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Shop: Grab an ice cream at the Salcombe Dairy Ice Cream factory on Island Street; their awardwinning ice cream comes in a variety of flavours.

From their sourdough loaves to their almond croissants, The Bake House produces handcrafted breads and pastries inspired by French and British methods. Founder Jeremy Thompson moved to Salcombe with his family in 1973 and discovered his passion for baking. Now, Jeremy’s daughter Stephanie runs the shop alongside Ben Holt-Wilson. Find them on Fore Street near the tourist information centre.

Ice cream from Salcombe Dairy

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Mawgan Porth beach

My favourite...

My Secret Westcountry

Walk: The Hall Walk by the River Fowey is a particular favourite of mine as we were regularly taken on it as children. We used to holiday in Polruan so would start from there and walk around to the Bodinnick ferry, cross over to Fowey and then jump on the Polruan ferry home (via the pub). My brother lives in Golant now, so that’s another excuse to head over to such a pretty part of Cornwall.

Rosie Hoppe Rosie Hoppe co-founded The Laid Back Coffee Co with husband Graham last year. They and daughters Elsie and Ivy live in Mawgan Porth, near Newquay, and have a shop in nearby Porth, as well as a vintage Morris Minor coffee van called Bert. It’s also available to hire for special occasions.

Beach: That’s like asking me to choose my favourite child. Any beach on the North Cornwall coast - especially Mawgan Porth. It’s where I’ve probably spent the most time with the kids and where my husband Graham and I started our coffee business.

Festival: The North Cornwall Book Festival is a real hidden gem, held in beautiful St Endellion. There are small, intimate workshops and talks from some of Britain’s top authors. It’s full of eccentric characters too.

Activity: Camping, surfing or stand up padRosie and family enjoy life on the beach in Cornwall

dleboarding... all with the kids in tow.

Food: Red Stuff Lemon and Lime Curd, made

by Bedruthan Hotel chef Adam Clark. Bake

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The Old Coastguard, Mousehole

Roo’s Beach boutique

with it, slather it on toast or simply spoon it straight from the jar... it’s amazing and far less hassle than making your own!

Pub: The Ship Inn in Wadebridge is the local at the end of our road. We’re very lucky to have such a great independent pub on our doorstep.

Restaurant: Scott and Babs at Retorrick Mill in St Mawgan is a hidden gem of a place. Very relaxed, rustic and unpretentious with the most delicious food you could imagine.

Red Stuff preserves

Relaxation: Cooking and eating at home, with friends and family - out in the garden in summer or around the log burner in winter.

Weekend away: The Old Coastguard in Mousehole is a lovely place to visit. Beautiful rooms with views of Mounts Bay, a great menu, lovely gardens going down to the sea and comfy sofas in the bar surrounded by books. Perfect.

Shop: Roo’s Beach surf

boutique in Porth is where I spend my days window shopping. Our coffee shop is attached to it, and I look in on this beautiful shop. So this is where I would definitely like someone to browse for me.

Their SunnyLife radio in aqua would be lovely thanks...!

Treat: BinTwo in Padstow sells a brilliant selection of wine and spirits - all of which I’d be happy to name as my ‘treat’!

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Phil Goodwin, father of James, five, finds his holiday home very altered on’t you just hate it when so-called progress screws up some of your fondest memories? Let me explain. Our family usually spends late summer in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, the pretty home town of my wife that was virtually unheard of until it was awarded the 2014 Winter Olympics. As England feels the autumn chill, we tend to bake in southern Russia, where temperatures this year remained in the 30s through August and into September. One of the nicest things to do there as the sun goes down and the heat subsides is stroll along the tree-lined promenade, swim in the sea – also a comfortable 28C – before eating in one of the open-air cafés which line the coast. Unfortunately, our favourite eaterie and one-time courting spot no longer exists, at least not where it used to be, thanks to the most ferocious of the Olympic events – the real estate land grab.

Sochi was first turned from a mosquitoinfested swamp into a health resort by Joseph Stalin, who created a paradise of neo-classical sanatoriums, bathing beaches and open air theatres nestling among the palm trees. Its small-scale, Soviet-designed centre remained more or less unchanged into the 21st century.

However, when the Olympic Committee envelope was opened in 2007 to reveal a card containing the word ‘Sochi’, the starting gun was fired on an almighty rush to build roads, apartments and railways – not to mention an entire Olympic park and ski resort up in the mountains.

The place became pretty unpleasant as cement trucks criss-crossed the city and an army of migrant workers from the old Soviet states – places like Uzbekistan,

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Tajikistan and Kyrgistan – were shipped in and put up in tin huts. If the place in which you live ever receives such an honour – unlikely in the South West, I admit – my advice is leave town until it is all over.

A year or two later, as huge seaside apartment towers began to spring up, our favourite Georgian restaurant, Vody Lagidze (Waters of Lagidze) was burnt down. There was no suggestion that it was anything other than an accident

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but eyebrows were raised among some of our friends at the timing of the incident, just as property prices began to rise and such locations were at a premium. This is Russia after all. It was a wonderfully quaint old wooden place, full of paintings of waterfalls – the kind of restaurant that guests were brought to in the old Soviet days, probably with the KGB guy sitting off in the corner.

When my wife and I met and I first went over there, it was a regular haunt of ours and the first time I ever tasted that amazing cuisine.

I was gutted to hear it had been, well, gutted, whether by accident or design. Now that the dust has settled on the Games, things have returned to normality, Russian style. Train prices to the ski resort have increased massively and the initial excitement to see the various sites has subsided. In fact, the new ring roads and especially the tunnels though the mountains – 63 were excavated in around five years I am told – have made driving around much easier.

So the $50 billion wasn’t badly spent.

Just the other day we were strolling through the gardens were the ‘Waters’ once stood, only to discover it had been replaced by a shiny wood and glass restaurant, serving Uzbeki cuisine. It looked tempting, I admit. Open plan, high ceilings and state-of-the-art décor. And under normal circumstances we would have gone in and tried out the food. As we paused, the maître d’ caught me eye and asked if we wanted a table. We looked at each other. There was no way. This stood on sacred land; Vody Lagidze land. It would be sacrilege to enter. A matter of principle. So we just walked on by.

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