Salisbury Life - Issue 261

Food/Arts/Entertainment/Shopping/Property ISSUE 261 / AUTUMN 2018 / £3

CELEBRATING THE BEST IN SALISBURY & WILTSHIRE

DARK THOUGHTS FASHION GOES BACK TO BLACK

ISSUE 261 / AUTUMN 2018 / CLAWS AND EFFECT

SECOND TO NONE SHOP OUR BEAUTIFUL TIMEPIECES

JAZZING UP THE SUNDAY ROAST SALISBURY CHEFS GET INVENTIVE

STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE DINING AT THE BOOT INN

POWER DRESS YOUR HOME THIS AUTUMN WITH KEY TRENDS

IN GOOD SPIRITS

HAPPY HALLOWE’EN HAPPENINGS

DYNAMIC CERAMICS

MEET POTTER JENNIE GILBERT

EDITOR’S LETTER

ABOVE: Emma J Shipley

design wallpaper for Clarke & Clarke BELOW: Olivia Burton watch from Allum & Sidaway

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ello autumn my old friend. How have you been? You’re looking amazing I must say. I love the way you’re wearing that Indian summer. Oh, and those crisp, cold, clear nights.

Wowzer! Summer was lovely that’s true - but you autumn, you’re something special. This issue is for you baby.

We’ve got expert advice on falling in love with our neglected homes and make them fall-friendly on page 10. On page 34 we celebrate the dark side of fashion with a few key black pieces (come to think of it, when it came to matters sartorial, me and summer fell out big time. She really isn’t helpful when it comes to what to wear.)

There’s a timely reminder on page 30 that 28 October sees the official end of British summer time with our collection of locally sourced watches. And because salads and picnics don’t quite cut the mustard right now, everybody’s favourite meal is back on the table with local chefs talking Sunday roasts on page 38.

Cosy up, and see you next issue!

COVER Emma J Shipley for Clarke & Clarke, available through www.miointeriors.com

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Issue 261/Autumn 2018

cover feature

10 INTERIORS Expert advice on getting your home

spruced up for autumn

the arts

19 INTRO Alastair Margadale’s fundraising exhibition

at Messums Wiltshire

20 WHAT’S ON Arts, gigs, festivals and family fun, it’s

time to update your diary

24 hallowe’en Thrills and spills the Salisbury way

shopping

26 marvellous makers It’s the potter’s club with

Jennie Gilbert

30 ed’s choice These accessories go like clockwork 34 Fashion Paint it black - sartorially speaking

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FOOD

38 Roasts Local chefs share their Sunday bests 42 RESTAURANT Our reviewer steps into the

charming Boot Inn

45 Food & DRINK news Amesbury’s new

community café and Fisherton Mill’s new accolade

Business

53 business insider News, views and interviews

from the region’s professional scene

61 MY DESK Dr Claudia Morley’s work space

Property

62 showcase Look around a wonderful Winsterslow

abode

Regulars

06 Spotlight Remembrance at Salisbury Cathedral 17 Column How Noorie Parvez made Salisbury her

new forever home

48 scene Gallery21, Larmer Tree, and @home 66 salisbury lives Songwriter Pete Aves

Editor Sarah Moolla sarah.moolla@mediaclash.co.uk Managing Editor Deri Robins deri.robins@mediaclash.co.uk Senior Art Editor Andrew Richmond Graphic Design Megan Allison Cover Design Trevor Gilham Editor’s photo John Rose Contributors Adrian Harris, John Rose, Deborah Morgan, Noorie Parvez, John Mather and Elsie Chadwick Advertising Manager Hillary Thompson hillary.thompson@mediaclash.co.uk Production/Distribution Manager Sarah Kingston sarah.kingston@mediaclash. co.uk Deputy Production Manager Kirstie Howe kirstie.howe@mediaclash.co.uk Production Designer Gemma Scrine gemma.scrine@mediaclash.co.uk Chief Executive Jane Ingham jane.ingham@mediaclash.co.uk Chief Executive Greg Ingham greg.ingham@mediaclash.co.uk Salisbury Life MediaClash, Circus Mews House, Circus Mews, Bath BA1 2PW 01225 475800 www.mediaclash.co.uk @The MediaClash © All rights reserved. May not be reproduced without written permission of MediaClash.

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spotlight Armistice

REMEMBERING OUR HEROES There are extensive plans in place to remember the fallen of two World Wars this October and November at Salisbury Cathedral. Over Armistice weekend the west front of the Cathedral will be illuminated by The Royal British Legion Poppies installation, a gigantic and evocative colour projection of tumbling poppies.

The projection will be switched on by the Dean of Salisbury on 8 November and will subsequently light up at sunset and run until 11 November.

On the eve of the Armistice Day centenary, 10 November, Benjamin Britten’s epic War Requiem will be performed by Salisbury Musical Society and the Choristers of Salisbury Cathedral. Britten, who was a lifelong pacifist, wrote the piece in 1962 as both a personal response to the loss of friends in battle, and as a larger and more political statement about war.

There’s also special services, art exhibitions including Binding the Past to the Present Through Remembrance running 25 October – 25 November, film screenings, performances of Shakespeare’s Henry V, and a reading by serving soldiers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery Roll of Honour from World War I of the names of 49,076 artillerymen who died in battle.

For more: www.salisburycathedral.org.uk

Local Hero Awards

A poppy light installation will be projected onto the Cathedral

WWI grave marker for Lt. Carpenter, son of the Archdeacon of Sarum in the Cloisters Thanks to Kate Church for her image of her dog Vivi taken in their poppy-filled Firsdown garden

Salisbury Musical Society and Cathedral choristers in concert

The siblings in 2018 with their Child of Achievement award

Salisbury Life and Spire FM have teamed-up to bring you the Local Hero Awards 2019, and names of the brave and inspiring are already flooding in. Your nominee could follow in the footsteps of previous winners, like Austin, Lawrence, Heidi and Natasha Crapper. The two brothers and two sisters set up their own company, Happy Spuds, to help other children deal with stress and anxiety. Their proud mum Debbie nominated them, saying that at first she tried to ignore their ideas, but she says, “We all sat down and I said, if we do this we need to go for it, and so we started.’

The four, who were really involved with steering the project designed to help children feel better through talking and sharing during sessions involving art, music and sports, picked up the Child Of Achievement Award, sponsored by Five Rivers Childcare.

Visit the Spire FM website for the full list of categories and to nominate before 30 November.

For more: www.spirefm.co.uk

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SIBLING SUPPORT

The floral displays were inspired by the Winchester Bible

LEFT TO RIGHT: The Dean of Winchester Catherine Ogle with TV’s Alan Titchmarsh, and creative director Angela Turner

Exhibition

PETAL GURUS

More than 50,000 flowers helped create the festival

Winchester Cathedral Flower Festival returned earlier last month and was opened by gardening legend Alan Titchmarch. He was joined by the festival’s creative director Angela Turner and The Very Reverend Catherine Ogle, the Dean of Winchester. The beautiful and thought-provoking exhibition consisted of 50,000 flowers, 350 flower arrangers, 400 varieties of plants and flowers and 5,000 hours of work, and was inspired by the Winchester Bible, the largest and finest surviving 12th-century English bible.

Canon Annabelle Boyes, the Cathedral’s Receiver General says, “I have no doubt that Angela’s skill and creativity resulted in a truly unique and spectacular event.”

For more: www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk

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FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN

With the help of the local experts, SARAH MOOLLA explores stylish and simple ways to brighten up our neglected homes this fall 10 I SALISBURY LIFE I www.mediaclash.co.uk

Jemma from Orchid recommends velvet and jewel colours this season

INTERIORS

“Using paint can transform the mood in any room”

This teal paint by Valspar is Susi Mason’s preferred autumn shade

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he upside of a totally glorious summer? Being out of the house, soaking up the sunshine. The downside of a totally glorious summer?

Our poor neglected homes are looking a bit sorry for themselves. We’ve heaved ourselves up from the sun loungers to check out the house. We’ve spotted the gathering of dust in the living room corners and the tatty, parched houseplants crying out for attention.

To help us indulge, refresh and re-energise our homes in time for autumn, we’ve got the inside track from Salisbury’s interior experts on the latest décor trends and seasonal top tips.

A COLOUR FOR ALL SEASONS

Clarissa Reilly of the antiques and vintage furniture emporium and workshop, Digger & Mojo, gravitates towards the traditional autumnal shades for her interiors at this time of year, “I love to use shades of terracotta, sage and gold in the autumn season. Some pizazz can easily be injected with a bright orange bowl, pieces of yellow china, or a wild fabric.”

Chris Southon of Southons of Salisbury, the family-run furniture store, suggests reconsidering your larger pieces. “A great way to enrich the autumn sun is to select bold fabric and leather for your sofas and chairs.

A beautiful leather sofa and the appropriate lighting can create a cosy atmosphere.

The stylish Natuzzi range is available from Southons

Alternatively, choose one brightly coloured contrasting statement chair into your home.

This brings a sense of fun and lightness to a room that might otherwise look sombre this time of year.”

“We instinctively respond to different colours and if you haven’t experimented before then autumn is a good time to start,” advises Susi Mason of the gift and homeware store Casa Fina.“With the darker evenings and more time spent indoors, simply using paint can transform the mood in any room.

Personally I love Dulux’s Victorian red and Valspar’s Poseidon’s Castle, a stunning teal.

These both provide a great background for artwork, and create character in a room.”

Custom Creations’ Jo Philips is celebrating the even darker hues as she explains, “This year has seen the introduction of an urban trend with materials that replicate concrete, slate and stone. These grey and black hues can create a stunning backdrop to bright autumnal soft furnishings and look great with a brightly coloured textured rug in front of them.”

LEAF IT

“In the autumn we have less choice in our gardens when it comes to filling vases with flowers to decorate the home,” points out Susi. “And if you are not green fingered, faux plants are so good these days and instantly add colour, texture and a homely vibe.”

Clarissa deploys a similar trick, “I fill tall vases with teasels, hips and hoars, grasses and

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INTERIORS stems of poppy and nigella. These have already dried out in the garden, and there is nothing easier than to snip them in a bunch and stick them in a stoneware jar.”

Also think about ways to draw the beautiful landscape of autumn into your home. “A small forgotten corner could lend itself to the creation of a window seat,” suggests Jo. “And for smaller touches, stags, trees or conkers can create an interesting seasonal focal point, along with changing your family photographs to more autumnal and wintery images.”

“Fill tall vases with teasels, hips and hoars, grasses and stems of poppy and nigella”

FLAWLESS FLOORS

“We all love hard floors these days in every room,” says Susi. “They are hygienic, easy to take care of, and look great. In the autumn however they can look and feel a little cold, so a simple colourful rug can make the room look cosy and feels wonderful underfoot.”

Bakhtiyar’s Koroush Mazaheri-Asadi, the Persian and Oriental carpet specialist, agrees, “The layering of kilims and Persian carpets is very on trend. Build up patterns by choosing complementary colours and designs in differing sizes and layer them around the room at different angles.” And as Chris adds, “Introducing some soft and light coloured rugs will deflect the duller light of an autumn day.”

Phil Gosden of Salisbury Tile Store also advises we don’t over look our bathrooms this time of year. “A good, all year round, base colour for bathroom tiles is still grey – from soft gossamer to industrial dark – it always looks incredible. It provides great contrast to any accessories and you can easily change the look for the season by swapping your bathroom rugs and towels.”

Adorn your home with nature’s autumnal offerings

Koroushi talks Persian carpets

MATERIAL WORLD

The use of opulent and textured fabric is a theme repeated by many of our experts including Gosia MacDonald of Chenille Interiors, who says, “Velvet once again remains an absolute must in home décor trends. From navy, emerald and burgundy on the larger pieces of furniture to the colour popping mustard yellow and flamingo pink on accessories such as cushions and curtains, it creates a luxurious and opulently welcoming vibe in any room.” Jemma Page of Orchid, the luxury interior specialists, agrees, “Velvet is even stronger this season.

Contrast its cosiness with metallic and rustic finishes to accentuate the textures. Autumn is always a wonderful time for interiors, with tactile textures and the changing colours of nature to inspire new and exciting room schemes. You can’t go wrong if you look to using rich jewel colours and russet tones combined with velvets, earthy wood texture, and metallics with both golden and dark hues.”

The current trend for high impact wallpapers, like that seen on our cover, is a powerful and an effective way to add depth and interest to a room. Custom Creations’ Jo also suggests combining materials and finishes for maximum impact, “For example, the gloss

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Create a window seat and enjoy the views

The Unicomstarker range is available through Salisbury Tile Store

Jo of Custom Creations suggests plush fabric headboards

finish of a deep coloured wood can blend beautifully with the soft plush fabric of a headboard. Pick this up in the cushions and soft furnishings, add soft lighting, and you have created a luxurious place to relax on those cold autumn evening.”

“Kilim cushion covers are a simple and effective way to give an instant change of feel to your room throughout all the seasons, and are so easy to store away, “ says Koroush. “In autumn the colours mirror nature’s rusts, golds and reds of the leaves and conkers.”

LIGHT THE WAY

Velvet is no longer just underground

“This time of year, ambient lighting is more important than ever,” says Teresa Wilkinson of the lifestyle store Grace Decorative. “Lighting small spaces in a bigger room gives more intimacy and cosiness and try never to use an overhead light where a table lamp could be utilised. Also, to help reflect all available light, add a little pre-Christmas sparkle in the form of mirrors, crystals, mercury glass, chandeliers and candles – the effect is stunning.”

Ira Blake, of the lighting design specialists Light My Space, advises, “Switching out cool, pastels for warmer and brighter colours applies to your lighting too. Avoid opaque fabric shades and conical hat styles as this will focus light downwards and look dark. Instead, choose soft amber tones like vintage filament bulbs for a firelight effect – a warming look that can also be achieved with copper and golden metallic fittings and shades.

“I’m a big fan of the ambient effect created by wooden pendants – my favourites being those from Sylvie lights near Shaftesbury, who use sustainably sourced hardwoods such as oak, ash and walnut.”

THE INSIDERS Bakhtiyar; tel: 01264 811033; www.bakhtiyar.com

Light My Space; tel: 01980 555493; www.lightmyspace.co.uk

Box of Tricks; www.aboxoftricks.com

Mio Interiors; tel: 01722 742447 www.miointeriors.com

B& R Textiles; tel: 01722 330554 www.bandrtextiles.co.uk

Orchid Furniture; tel: 01264 811111; www.orchidfurniture.co.uk

Casa Fina; tel: 01722 326428; www.casafinasalisbury.co.uk Chenille Interiors; tel: 01722 331099; www.chenilleinteriors.co.uk

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Custom Creations; tel: 01202 823231; www.customcreations.furniture Digger & Mojo; tel: 01672 851510; www.diggerandmojo.com

Ira suggests ambient lighting this time of year

Grace Decorative; tel: 01985 213208; www. gracedecorative.co.uk

Pure Comfort; tel: 01722 322596; www.pure-comfort.co.uk Salisbury Carpet Company; tel: 01722 341330; www.salisburycarpetcompany.com Salisbury Tile Store; tel: 01722 325306; www.salisburytilestore.net Wave Bathrooms; tel: 01722 333553; www.wavebathrooms.co.uk

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A WOMAN’S WORD Noorie Parvez

Zoning out Noorie Parvez found she was more in the zone than ever, when she left zone two London for a new life in Salisbury

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hen I announced to friends last year that I was selling up and downsizing from London, I was greeted with absolute disbelief as they choked on their Blue Matcha lattes.

I was deemed a savvy creative Wandsworthian – they thought I couldn’t possibly replicate life outside of zone two.

Citing a move to Salisbury resulted in further derision.

Woeful wakes were held and no-one heard me say, “It’s just 75 minutes from Clapham Junction peeps.” I earned the nickname Bilbo Baggins, supposedly off to the Shires to spend my older age in God’s waiting room.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Upon arrival in ‘Smallsbury’, as I strolled towards viewing my new home, I ticked

off my ‘necessity’ checklist: Thai takeaway (Friday night sorted); eyebrow bar (that’s the taming-ofthe-shrews dealt with); caramel lattes and millionaires’ shortbread in abundance (pure sugared happiness). Life in self-imposed London-exile already looked wonderful and sweetly promising.

Finding my spacious forever dream home in a converted Victorian Museum, it was then also realisation hit, that I wasn’t retiring – I was reborn! I’d swapped my four-bed Victorian linear terrace for the gorgeous grandeur of a city centre artist’s atelier. The intended ‘downsize’ had actually become an ‘upsize’.

Since I’d always visualised a dotage of lying under palm trees, my first acquisition was a six-foot faux plant that is dwarfed by my Harland & Fisher Grade II ceiling.

Finding my spiritual home at 60,

“Long before the Instagram hashtags #BohoChic and #EclecticDecor ‘flea-market-fab’ was my way of life”

my life now reads like the synopsis of the film Cocoon, as I happily drink from the fountain of youth that Wiltshire affords. (Or is it the abundance of delicious West Country cider on tap I’m supping….?)

Finding time for well-being, I now understand my anapanasati from my antipasti, my chakras from my ciabatta. My newly acquired astral body is carrying a few more pounds, true, but I’ve never been more content (again maybe thanks to that cider..!)

New friendships soon formed, (smiling-in-the-street no longer deemed a misdemeanour) and the plethora of independent shops and markets have provided me with a smorgasbord of choice so diverse, that the intended shopping trips back to the capital never materialised, thanks to amazing local shops like Casa Fina, and Forever England.

My son Oli never tires of ‘a mummy in the museum’ jokes about my new abode, which once housed pre-historic archaeological Neolithic flint chips, alongside eclectic exhibits from India, Egypt and The Americas. It seems only fitting that my passion for ethnic décor now graces this space. Pictured above, I am leaning against a beautiful hand carved Indonesian cocktail cabinet, hand-painted

by Monsoon Dragonfly Interiors, and am surrounded by a plethora of vintage finds; many from

Salisbury’s charity shops. I frequently do the Catherine Street slalom, zig-zagging between emporiums of pre-owned loveliness. (If this is God’s waiting room, he has amazing taste!)

It was as a struggling photographer, I developed a skill for creatively repurposing cast-offs, rather than it being a coveted bohemian interior design life style choice. Long before the Instagram hashtags #BohoChic and #EclecticDecor - ‘fleamarket-fab’ was my way of life.

As we slip into my favourite time of year, I shall cosy up with an autumnal spiced pumpkin latte, and ponder all the things I’ve now ticked off my bucket list: riding camels in the Egyptian desert; dancing barefoot in crop circles, witnessing (maybe) UFOs on Knap Hill; and ultimately finding my forever home in the wonderful city of Salisbury. (Sadly with arthritic knees, climbing the 123 metre Cathedral spire will stay unchecked on my list of things to do). Novichok might have brought my new home city worldwide fame and put it centre-stage, but I realise elegant Salisbury never needed to shout about its beauty. Zone two ain’t got nothing on this place!

Noorie Parvez is a retired photographer and is now a Salisbury Instagrammer, @noorieparvez, sharing snapping snippets of her Salisbury life

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THE ARTS S N A P S H O T S O F S A L I S B U R Y ’ S C U LT U R A L L I F E

BOWLED OVER Cricket arrived in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide as Rwandan exiles returned home from nearby English-speaking cricket-playing countries like Kenya and Uganda. The lack of a pre-1994 history made cricket the perfect vehicle for reconciliation, and continues to do so.

Despite the lack of facilities, cricket is one of the fastest-growing sports in Rwanda, and as it has never been seen as a male sport it is equally as popular amongst girls as boys. Cricket Builds Hope plays a role in the ongoing maintenance, operation and sustainability of the Gahanga Cricket Stadium which opened in October 2017 and is a not-for-profit ground.

To help support this work, Messums is hosting a party and private view of Alastair Margadale’s photographs to be sold in aid of Cricket Builds Hope on 27 October.

For more: www.messumswiltshire.com

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What’s on 20 October 30 November

Celebrate Voice gets folky dokey with Hazel Askew, Hannah James and Rowan Rheingans who make up the powerful and exquisite Lady Maisery

exhibitions Until 31 October

JEREMY HOUGHTON “To paint movement… you have to eliminate detail. I have pushed this concept further by also reducing my palette.” And it’s an approach that has worked well for this artist who has seen a huge number of impressive residencies including Highgrove for HRH The Prince of Wales and Windsor Castle for HM The Queen. The Wykeham Gallery; www.wykehamgallery.co.uk

Until 3 November

FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT Three West Country artists, Amanda Gentle, Chris Pickard and Rod Hague have joined forces for this exhibition. They work in a range

of styles and demonstrate how different artists respond to the challenges posed by capturing different moods and subject matters in paint. Fisherton Mill; www.fishertonmill.co.uk

Until 4 November

THE MOST REAL THING This exhibition brings together diverse artists and makers, including Ptolemy Mann, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, to examine the ongoing relationship between sculpture and textiles, including work made using a range of techniques and media, from three-dimensional objects, contemporary painting, costume and performance to fabric, craft and design.

NewArtCentre; www.sculpture.uk.com

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Until 6 November

MUSIC: A JOY FOR LIFE This exhibition explores and celebrates Sir Edward Heath’s lifelong love of music, from his early boyhood piano lessons to his later life experiences conducting orchestras around the world.

Exhibits include never-seen-before items from the Arundells collection.

Arundells; www.arundells.org

Until 10 November

OUR NAKED SKIN A visual arts exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the women’s vote bringing together the work of four contemporary artists who work in video, performance and photography. Salisbury Arts Centre; www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk

Until 30 November

1918: WAR AND PEACE A powerfully moving exhibition tracing the events of the last year of World War I from the perspective of both Wiltshire and Berkshire regimental soldiers, and the loved ones waiting at home. Rifles Berkshire and Wiltshire Museum; www.thewardrobe.org.uk

Until 16 February 2019

ANELLO FLOW: AN EXHIBITION BY ALMUTH TEBBENHOFF This exhibition expands on the origins of Anello Flow, currently on display on the Wessex Plinth, and other work in this series, reflecting on Almuth’s fascination with the patterns made by water, and how this has informed her work. The Salisbury Museum; www.salisburymuseum.org.uk

what’s on Until 5 January 2019

HOARDS: A HIDDEN HISTORY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN The exhibition traces the story of hoarding from Bronze Age weapons discovered in the River Thames and the first Iron Age coin hoards, through to the coin treasures buried following the collapse of Roman rule in Britain. The Salisbury Museum; www.salisburymuseum.org.uk

20 October – 30 November

ROB HAMES’S AVIATION EXHIBITION Collected works of the Wiltshire based artist, painter and sketcher, who is a member of the prestigious Guild of Aviation Artists since 2002.

Antelope Café Gallery; www.robhames.com

27 October – 2 December

NEW PERSPECTIVES New Perspectives, a reappraisal of classical and scholarly painting techniques, how they are interpreted by modern artists, including Euan Uglow and Daphne Todd. Turn to page 19 for information on an upcoming charity event at the Tisbury gallery. Messums Wiltshire; www.messumswiltshire.com

10 November ­– 29 December above:

Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook plays City Hall Salisbury on 8 November left: Artist Rod Hague is appearing as part of Fisherton Mill’s new exhibition below: From the upcoming New Perspectives at Messums Wiltshire

27 October

BEASTLY MONSTERS AND MONSTROUS BEASTS A fantastical one-woman performance by Fiona Johnston as Alice Quatermain, is told in the style of Edwardian melodrama, in which Alice talks monsters, dinosaurs and fauna. 2.30pm, £8-£4. Salisbury Museum; www.salisburymuseum.org.uk

30 October – 17 November Abigail’s Party This delicious 1970s dark comedy pays homage to cheesypineapple, Demis Roussos and social awkwardness in a suburban nightmare. Melanie Gutteridge breathes smoky life into the horrifying hostess Beverly, a role made famous by Alison Steadman. £25-£13. Salisbury Playhouse; www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk

4 November

TERRAIN AND CONFLICT Arabella Dorman has recently returned from Syria where she bore witness to widespread cultural and social damage. In response, her work Suspended is a powerful and heartbreaking installation of refugee clothes. More artists will be featured including former UK serviceman Steve Pratt, now an artist, and a psychotherapist. Young Gallery; www.younggallerysalisbury.co.uk

Theatre/ Dance /Film Until 20 October

Her Naked Skin London 1913. Militancy in the suffragette movement is at its height.

Hundreds of women of all classes serve time in Holloway Prison in their fight to gain the vote. Stars Jane How, Lorna Fitzgerald, Abigail Cruttenden, Rebecca Cooper, and a community cast. £25-£13. Salisbury Playhouse; www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk

22 – 27 October

starring Wendi Peters, with an energetic and peppy score featuring songs including We Said We Wouldn’t Look Back, and is said to be the show that inspired a seven-year-old Cameron Mackintosh to fall in love with the theatre. £25-£13. Salisbury Playhouse; www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk

SALAD DAYS Salad Days is a romp of polite naughtiness and saucy encounters,

NO PETTICOATS HERE A musical performance with Louise Jordan who explores the lives of inspirational World War I women through original songs and storytelling. 3pm, £10. Sarum College; www.sarum.ac.uk

9 November

TOPSY TURVEY The film of the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary theatrical and musical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado. Salisbury Arts Centre; www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk

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25 October – 3 November

CELEBRATE VOICE Back for a fifth year with a packed programme including Don Giovanni in The Close’s Medieval Hall, busking in the city centre, world class vocals from the jazz scene and Makaton performances. There’s also a fun Grease Sing-along on 31 October and Lady Maisery perform on 1 November at Salisbury Arts Centre.

For more visit www.celebratevoice.co.uk

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What’s on 31 October

RICHARD THOMPSON Rolling Stone has hailed this songwriter, who has been covered by everyone from Alison Krauss to Robert Plant, as a perennial darkhorse contender for the title of ‘greatest living rock guitarist.’

7.30pm, £37-£27. City Hall Salisbury; www.cityhallsalisbury.co.uk

1 November

A COUNTRY NIGHT IN NASHVILLE Country music from some of its biggest stars including Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton, showcased by the acclaimed Dominic Halpin and the Hurricanes. 7.30pm, £28. City Hall Salisbury; www.cityhallsalisbury.co.uk

2 November

LuNCHTIME CONCERTS Lunchtime concerts are held in Sarum College’s Butterfield Chapel and are followed by a light buffet lunch included in the ticket price.

On this date, Jenny Broome and Christine Lewry deliver a potpourri of French songs and harp solos. 12.45pm, £12 per concert or £50 for series of six. Sarum College; www.sarum.ac.uk

4 November

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM Capt. David Cole, MD of the Central Band of the Royal British Legion will bring his band to the City Hall for the 19th Annual Remembrance Concert. Joining them is The Salisbury Plain Military Wives Choir, delivering the emotional message of the sacrifices made by those who serve in our armed forces. 3pm, £14. City Hall Salisbury; www.cityhallsalisbury.co.uk

7 November

THE MANFREDS WITH GEORGIE FAME Pioneers of British rhythm and blues music, The Manfreds with Paul Jones, return for a monumental 2018 tour with very special guest Georgie Fame. Expect timeless hits including Do Wah Diddy and Yeh, Yeh. 7.30pm , £33.50-£29.50. City Hall Salisbury; www.cityhallsalisbury.co.uk

8 November

GLENN TILBROOK Also known as one half of Squeeze, Glenn Tilbrook’s solo shows have continued to rise in popularity, with his 2016 tour nearly completely selling out. This tour is promoting awareness and donations for The Trussell Trust, the charity that

supports a network of foodbanks around the UK. 8pm, £21.50. City Hall Salisbury; www.cityhallsalisbury.co.uk

13 November

DR JOHN COOPER CLARKE The people’s poet is as relevant and vibrant as ever, and his influence just as visible on today’s pop culture, and his poetry included on national curriculum syllabus, 8pm, £29.50£21.50. City Hall Salisbury; www.cityhallsalisbury.co.uk

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20 October – 4 November

THE GREAT BRITISH AUTUMN Half term seasonal activities include ferret racing, juice pressing, pumpkin carving, banjo-playing and sculpted woodland creatures. Price included with general admission. Longleat; www.longleat.co.uk

25 October – 2 November

HALLOWE’EN HALF TERM SPECTACULAR Enjoy Hallowe’en on the farm with a quiz, pumpkins and a phantom photo booth. For a round-up of lots of Salisbury spooky fun, turn to page 24. Cholderton Rare Breeds Farm; www.choldertoncharliesfarm.com

26 – 28 October

FROM NEGLECTED RUIN TO NATIONAL TREASURE English Heritage and the artist Jeremy Deller are marking 100 years since Stonehenge was donated to the nation, with a day of celebrations at the ancient stones which includes live music, art, an inflatable Stonehenge, and an anniversary tea party.

For more information and prices visit www.english-heritage.org.uk

27 October

TEENAGE MARKET Salisbury City Council will be hosting the last Salisbury Teenage Market of the year in the Guildhall Square alongside the Charter Market. 10am3pm. www.salisburycitycouncil.gov.uk

13 – 17 November

PRIVATE PEACEFUL Scamp Theatre bring their touching production of Michael Morpurgo’s classic tale of Private Tommo Peaceful. He’s a young soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn and during the night he looks back at his short but joyful life growing up in rural Devon. £19-£15.

Theatre Royal Winchester; www.theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk

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clockwise from top left: Shonibare’s Adam and Eve at the NewArtCentre; Charlotte Cray is at the Salisbury Literary Festival; Rob Hames’s work at the Antelope Café

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SALISBURY LITERARY FESTIVAL Lunches, workshops and talks all over the city from an incredible range of talent from the literary world including Jonathan Coe and Lionel Shriver. Events include Writer’s Day at Sarum College on 21 October, with Katy Mahood and Charlotte Cray. For full details visit www.salisburyliteraryfestival.co.uk

8 November

THE WEST END TO WILTSHIRE Musical director Kate Edgar talks winning Baftas, judging Eisteddfods and working with Salisbury Playhouse. Money raised from the event at Coombe Bissett Village Hall goes to Cancer Research UK. £15.

For more visit www.kateedgarmusic.com

9 November

MARK ‘BILLY’ BILLINGHAM Join TV’s most experienced, highest ranking, most decorated SAS leader and sniper, Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham, for an exciting evening of thrilling stories from the former bodyguard of Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Russell Crowe, Sir Michael Caine, Tom Cruise and many others. 7.30pm, £25.50. City Hall Salisbury; www.cityhallsalisbury.co.uk

23 November

Michael Dobbs: Life, Liquor and Lust – How House of Cards Wrote Itself Organised by Arundells, Michael Dobbs, the best-selling author, Wiltshire resident and former politician, talks Winston Churchill, finding creative success, and the TV dramatisation of his work. 7.30pm, £22. Guildhall, Salisbury; www.arundells.org

What’s on

SCAREFULLY DOES IT! If there’s something strange in the neighbourhood, who you gonna call? All your family and friends to join you by the looks of all this dead good Hallowe’en fun…

MONSTER PUMPKINS AT CHOLDERTON CHARLIE’S FARM

25 October-2 November, 10am-6pm, £5

Pick your own pumpkin from the farm’s own pumpkin patch and carve it there, take the Witches’ Walkway through the Tree Top Trail and enjoy the seasonal arts and crafts workshops. There’s also pig racing, a fancy dress parade and ghostly ghouls to be found. www.choldertoncharliesfarm.com GHOST HUNT AT The RIFLES MUSEUM

26 October, 8pm-2am, £59

The Rifles Museum has a long history of paranormal activity, with books flying from shelves, heavy footsteps from empty rooms, unexplained temperature drops and regular sightings of a cavalier and a grey lady. This creepy late-night vigil is only for the strong of heart and steely of nerves. www.hauntedhappenings.co.uk | www.thewardrobe.org.uk FACE (PAINT) YOUR FEARS AT CROSS KEYS

27 October, 10am-3pm, free

Little horrors will be thrilled by the chance to have their face (other body parts are available) adorned with their favourite hero or preferred villain. Of course this comes with the sizeable bonus, that their delighted mood will assist your Cross Keys shopping. www.crosskeysshopping.co.uk

SHOCK THIS WAY WITH SALISBURY CITY GUIDES

26-31 October, £6

Discover Salisbury’s plentiful ghosts and scary secrets, with the city’s experts. Telling the tales, and following the trails, of the ghostly Salisbury Station and the grisly dismembered hand kept in a glass cage in Britain’s most haunted pub, The Haunch of Venison. Childfriendly walks are also available. www.salisburycityguides.co.uk ZOMBIE WALK, DEATHCELL AND ZOMBIE PARTY @HOME

31 October, 6pm-9pm, £5.98-£16.76

Teen terrors can meet at The Guildhall at 6pm for the Zombie Walk through town to the buzzy community hub at 5 Bridge Street.

Once there brave souls can navigate the underground horror maze, enjoy (or not as the case may be) unhappy hour, and then shuffle into the disco of the walking dead at 8pm. For the more little of beasts, @home is hosting a mini hallo’disco at 4pm with tricks and treats. www.athomesalisbury.co.uk GHOULS IN THE GARDEN AT LARMER TREE

28 October, 11am-4.30pm, £4 The Larmer Tree gets even more spooktacular than (para) normal on its last open day of the season. Hallowe’en trails, facepainting, story-times, fancy dress competitions – all designed to raise the spirits…woooooo! www.larmertree.co.uk

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Ghost walks with Salisbury City Guides middle: Smashing pumpkins at Cholderton Charlie’s Farm bottom: The Haunch of Venison contains a mummified hand

JUST POTTERING ABOUT Meet Jennie Gilbert who makes beautiful, functional pottery, and shares her skills

By John Mather Photos by John Rose

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irst there was that scene in the film Ghost, and more recently there was BBC2’s The Great Pottery Throw Down presented by superstar DJ Sara Cox, both helping to make pottery cool.

Pottery classes are selling out fast and a quick hashtag search reveals Instagram can’t get enough of the stuff. Even auction houses are reporting ‘smashed’ record bids for all things ceramic – a Hans Coper, vase which sold for just £250 in the 1970s, fetched £381,000 in March this year. Clay is in its hey day.

But some people have always been in the know, like Salisbury potter Jennie Gilbert.

“My first experience of pottery was when I was doing the International Baccalaureate in Hammersmith in the mid 1980s,” she says.

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“We had a wonderful and inspirational teacher, Gina Walters, and I loved it. At first I couldn’t centre the clay for ages, but once I got it, I was completely hooked.”

After attending college in Swansea and enrolling on various apprenticeships in France and Surrey, Jennie set up her first workshop in Chobham in 1993. “In the early days I did a lot of pub work and waitressing to support my pottery and as I improved, I started part time teaching work at a Surrey adult education college and a sixth form college.”

Jennie, who has lived in Salisbury for the last 17 years, now sells her ever-increasing and exquisite range of functional pottery from her Broad Chalke workshop, and through various galleries, and major ceramic shows. But she

main image: Jennie at her wheel;

below: Just a few of the tools

required for shaping clay

marvellous makers clockwise from left: All the work is fired to 1280°C in a gas kiln; food always looks nicer in handmade crockery; Jennie sells her pieces from the Fifield Bavant workshop; Jennie first discovered the art of pottery in the 80s

“Each piece brings a little joy to the washing up”

still fondly recalls the first thing she ever made, “It was a large coil pot bottle – the glazing was terrible and it weighed a tonne. My parents still have it!

“My aim is to keep crafting beautiful pots that work and that feel good to use. I make and decorate each piece individually using a variety of different techniques and all my work is fired to 1280°C in a gas kiln.”

And surprisingly her inspiration is not the actual core material of clay. “It’s food!” laughs Jennie. “I’ve always enjoyed growing, preparing, cooking, and of course eating food. Food looks so much more appetising in a handmade bowl, plate or dish.”

Jennie is also passionate about sharing her skills with others. “My classes are very

rewarding for me personally, and are often therapy for the students. They don’t necessarily want to be full time potters, but it’s a chance to switch off from pressurised busy lives.

“To work with clay, and form a piece you’ve imagined, and then see the process through to end up with a jug, mug or teapot that you have made with your own hands, and then take it home to use – there’s an immense feeling of satisfaction from that.”

The teaching aspect of the business has recently expanded, as Jennie explains, “My sister lives in France and has two beautiful holiday cottages deep in the Lot countryside, that we use for the accommodation. With help from a dear friend who donated her old wheels and kiln, we set up a workshop in one of the

barns last year. My sister is a wonderful cook so she supplies delicious lunches, and we run courses in the spring and autumn.”

However Jennie is determined the teaching won’t dominate her work. “I love the teaching, but you’ve got to keep the balance right. I make sure I have enough time and space to do my own work too. Both to sell, and for myself – it’s lovely to sit down to a meal with friends or family and be surrounded by beautiful individual pots, they all have their own story, and each piece brings a little joy to the washing up.” n For more: Jennie Gilbert-Pottery, The Pottery, 4 St. Martin’s Workshops, Manor Farm, Fifield Bavant, Broad Chalke, Salisbury. tel: 01722 780402; www.jenniegilbert.com

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SUNDAY BEST JUST GOT BETTER It’s all gravy with the help of our regional chefs...

By John Mather

clockwise from top left: It’s easy like Sunday roasts at the Solstice Bar & Grill; Mark Young from The

Bell Inn; John Tobin, chef at The Legacy Rose and Crown; Chapter House’s Catalin Prodan; The Grosvenor Arms’ Tom Blake; The Mayfly’s roast beef sirloin; Thomas Kare in the Mayfly kitchen

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utumn is the perfect time of year to indulge in that most comforting, hearty and social of meals – the Sunday roast.

Friends, family, large bowls of buttered veg, crispy roasties, unlimited Yorkshires, and maybe a glass or two of warming red wine, what could be better? We asked a few of our local chefs for their take on this divine and satisfying cuisine…

Mark Young chef at Bell Inn at Bramshaw

What’s on the Sunday menu?: We roast three different meats every Sunday. Always chicken from Noah’s Ark Farm, and beef sirloin from Swallowfield Farm. We alternate between Hampshire lamb leg, or Swallowfield Farm loin of pork, depending on the time of year.

Spud you like?: I really like a King Edward as they fluff up real nice when steamed, and crisp up in the duck fat beautifully.

Pint of the usual?: Flacks Double Drop for the ale lovers; a hearty Malbec for the wine drinkers; and for a soft drink, you can’t beat a Fever Tree ginger beer.

And for happy ever afters?: Our peanut butter and banana parfait is rich and indulgent, and the perfect end to a Sunday lunch, before settling down in front of the log fire.

Brook near Lyndhurst, Hampshire. tel: 0238 0812214; www.bellinn-newforest.co.uk

Matthew Bills of Solstice Bar & Grill within Holiday Inn Solstice Park,

What’s cooking?: A full buffet spread consisting of melon platters, soup of the day, salads, Yorkshire puddings, selection of seasonal vegetables, roast and new potatoes, a dessert buffet, chocolate fountain, fresh breads and accompaniments, and coffee and tea.

And the meat?: We offer three types of roast every Sunday lunch – a selection of beef topside, turkey breast, pork loin and pork leg.

Anything from bar?: We have lots of great local ales to choose from including the Stonehenge Ales – Heelstone and Great Bustard – plus Devitara from Rowde near Devizes Amesbury. tel: 01980 677466; www.hisalisbury-stonehenge.co.uk

Executive chef Tom Blake at The Grosvenor Arms

Boast about your roasts please: We have dry aged topside of beef with red wine gravy and horseradish sauce; soft pork belly from Baker’s Orchard Farm in Wedmore with fennel and sea salt crackling. And there’s free range chicken with lemon and thyme. Plus there’s the total treat yourself, it’s Sunday option, of all three with The Grosvenor Arms’ Triple Roast special.

We have a veggie in our midst: Squash and lentil roast with balsamic onion gravy, and a gluten-free option is south coast fillet of hake with chorizo and capers.

Side lines?: All roasts are served with garlic

and herb roast potatoes, seasonal roasted vegetables, buttered greens, root mash, Yorkshire puddings and lashings of gravy.

What can we pour you?: A bottle of Montepulciano from Rosso Piceno. It’s warmly spiced and luscious. A lovely soft drink is the Orchard Pig Apple Tingler, a refreshing sparkling apple juice.

And for dessert?: Orange and poppy seed pudding with orange sauce and clotted cream ice cream.

The Commons, Shaftesbury. tel: 01747 850580; www.grosvenorarms.co.uk

THOMAS KARE, SOUS chef at The Mayfly

Choice of meat: Roast beef sirloin; shoulder of lamb which is basted for six hours and slowly roasted for eight more hours; pork loin and crackling; and Norfolk chicken, all served with homemade Yorkshires of course.

Living life on the veg?: We serve duck fat Maris Piper roast potatoes, honey glazed parsnips, roasted carrots, kale and cauliflower gratin. And we also have the delicious veggie option of squash and feta wellington.

Washed down with?: A large glass of Opawa Pinot Noir, which is exclusive to Fuller’s or a Cornish Orchard Ginger Beer.

Fullerton, Nr Stockbridge, Hampshire tel: 01264 860283; www.mayflyfullerton.co.uk

Try the rare 28 day aged Angus sirloin roast at the Old Ale & Coffee House

Giles Dickinson, the chef and owner aT The Boot Inn

What are you having this Sunday?: Always roast beef, sourced locally with Yorkshire pudding and balsamic red wine onion gravy. Our roast potatoes are cooked in beef dripping to give them a wonderful flavour.

Anything from the bar?: Sparkling elderflower is a very nice and refreshing soft drink or a large glass of Argentinian Malbec goes very well with the roast beef.

Room for dessert?: Our date and toffee pudding with home made banana ice cream.

(Turn to page 42 for more on The Boot Inn) High Street, Berwick St James, Salisbury. tel: 01722 790243; www.theboot.pub

Catalin Prodan is chef at The Chapter House

What’s on the Sunday menu?: Devizes’ pork with proper cracking and tart apple sauce; corn-fed chicken; medium rare rump of beef. All roasts come with crispy roast potatoes, parsnips, seasonal vegetables, cauliflower cheese, rich gravy, and giant Yorkshire puddings.

Anything from the dessert trolley?: All our puddings are homemade – a lovely Sunday indulgence is the Belgian waffle with vanilla ice cream, toffee sauce and toasted almond flakes. Or try the classic comfort choice of sticky toffee pudding.

9-13 St Johns Street, Salisbury tel: 01722 341277; www.thechapterhouseuk.com

Jake Bennett, a proper Salisbury boy, and the chef at Old Ale & Coffee House

Current Sunday bests?: On offer at the moment are rare roasted 28 day aged Angus sirloin; lemon and thyme chicken; and for non meat eaters, smoked cheddar and lentil roast.

The gravy with this, is meat free and made with soy sauce, sautéed mushrooms and red wine.

Potatoes are the classic King Edwards, always gloriously crispy.

What are you having?: The Black Face lamb shoulder with rosemary and garlic, roasted until it falls away from the bone.

Any secrets?: The meat roast gravy uses stock from veal bones, slow roasted and then reduced with root vegetables for 18 hours. Deep, slick and gloriously moreish.

80 Crane Street, Salisbury. tel: 01722 410541 www.oldaleandcoffeehouse.com/

John Tobin is head chef at Legacy Rose & Crown Hotel

What’s the secret of your roast: The key is in the preparation and great seasoning. My leg of lamb is filled with sautéed onions, rosemary, chopped garlic, breadcrumbs and sausage meat.

Beef topside is slathered in olive oil, garlic purée and horseradish, then left in the fridge for one day to enhance the lovely flavours.

Veggie special?: Nut roast – it is definitely making a comeback!

Best washed down with…?: A pint of Guinness, or a glass of smooth Merlot.

Pudding?: The great English classic, apple pie with warming custard or ice cream.

Harnham Road, Salisbury. tel: 08444 119 046; www.legacy-hotels.co.uk

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THE MAYFLY

Giles & Cathy welcome you.

The Boot Inn CELEBRATE EARLY & SAVE 20% We’re experts in making your Christmas, so why not celebrate early with us?

Book for the 3rd, 4th, 10th or 11th December to enjoy a 20% discount.

Simply make your choices from our Christmas menus on our website, then make your booking online, call or email.

The Mayfly, F ul l erton, Stock bri dge SO 2 0 6 A X 01264 860283 | m a yf l yf ul l erton. co . u k Only 4 miles from Stockbridge

• Sawday’s Special Places, Pubs and Inns Guide 2018 • Inclusion in the Good Food Guide for the past 10 years • Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence • Village Location • Large Beer Garden • Close to Stonehenge • Children Welcome • Dog Friendly Daily changing, fresh, seasonal menu.

British food, locally sourced where possible.

Fresh fish and chips on a Friday.

Home smoked meat and fish platters.

Themed food nights, last Friday of the month. (please call for details) High Street, Berwick St James, Salisbury, Wilts, SP3 4TN t: 01722 790243 • w: www.theboot.pub e: cathy@theboot.pub

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Enjoy a menu packed with locally sourced ingredients and full of festive forest flavours. Relax at tables dressed with candles, crackers and all things Christmas. Our extensive range of fine wines, gins, local beers, juices and pressés provides plenty to get you into the Christmas spirit.

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The Boot Inn Deborah Morgan finds an award-winning country pub with real ales, delicious dishes, and a great atmosphere to boot

W

e’ve had a scenic journey to the village of Berwick St James to find the much-praised Boot Inn and are thrilled when we see its beautiful stone frontage looming in the horizon. Putting our best feet forward we step into the warm and welcoming pub. Big smiles greet us and we are shown immediately to our table, putting everyone in the party in a great mood and feeling relaxed.

Before we peruse the menu boards, we are enticed by the bar’s ‘Drink of the Moment’ – home-flavoured blackberry and ginger gin with ginger ale and it’s clear The Boot goes that extra mile in thoughtful touches; a ‘Drinking Partners’ menu offers savoury treats including butcher’s pork pie with homemade brown sauce for those wanting a tasty snack with their pint, perhaps while they join in the Sunday night charity quiz.

Reading the specials boards I’m beginning to suspect

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shoemaker’s elves are afoot as so many items are homemade, not just brown sauce, but also biscuits, bread and ice cream. Plus The Boot has its own smoker, and dedicated chef and landlord Giles regularly experiments creating a sharing board of an impressive 10 in-house smoked meats, fish and cheeses and, of course, an incredible range of homemade chutneys.

As a Wadsworth pub, there’s beers to suit every palate, and also a wide choice of unusual gins including Blackwoods Vintage Dry, bursting with coriander!

Landlady Cathy takes our order and while we wait, homemade rolls with smoked paprika butter are set before us, a lovely start. We are then delighted with our sharing board and taste our way clockwise from delicate, moist chicken, to tender, gamey pigeon. Slices of duck dissolve on my tongue complimented by a tangy sweet red onion relish. The smokiness of a king prawn lingers while its salty sweetness provides the taste of the sea in each juicy mouthful.

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The potted brown shrimp is full of citrus flavours on homemade malty 6X bread accompanied by a vibrant watercress salad. Another joy is the melting strips of lamb breast encased in golden crumbs served with a light mustard dressing and charred baby leeks.

Main courses follow, served promptly as other tables order and eat, or simply drink and chat. There is an inclusive feel to the bar, retaining the atmosphere of a real pub, that just happens to serve fabulous food at very reasonable prices. My cep risotto is a rounded dome topped with grana padeno shavings and chives.

The rice is dense with forest fungi flavour and intense saltiness cuts through from the cheese while crisp watercress lightens the indulgent dish; a bowl of soft comfort on an autumn evening.

As The Boot gives so much consideration to the quality and provenance of its food, we also choose their sausages, a speciality from the local O’Hagan’s Butchers.

They arrive sat on smooth mustard mash and soaked in a glorious balsamic red onion gravy. The meaty, plump bangers capture the gravy in silky swathes with every savoured forkful.

The slow roast duck leg salad is imaginative, innovative and divine – delving beneath the succulent meat there is a citrus surprise in soft slices of caramelised orange contrasting with the crisp golden duck skin.

Despite generous portions we squeeze in two desserts to share. A delicate milk pudding flavoured with fragrant elderflower and lemon, light, silky smooth, balanced with the zing of raspberries. The chocolate ale cake has a thick chocolatey layer with a shine to see your face in, and tops decadent moist sponge, and the cushion of muscovado malt cream adding a subtle sweetness demonstrating Giles’s considerable culinary flair. The Boot Inn oozes character and charm, with relaxed informality alongside enthusiasm for a delightful dining experience. Hot foot it to The Boot Inn soon! n

“There is a citrus surprise in soft slices of caramelised orange contrasting with the crisp golden duck skin” Dining details The Boot Inn, High Street, Berwick St James, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP3 4TN. tel: 01722 790243; www.theboot.pub Opening hours Tuesday-Saturday 12pm-2.15pm and 6.30pm-9.15pm, Sunday 12pm-2.15pm Covers 30 Outdoor space Large beer garden Specialities The Boot Inn smokes all of their own meats and fish Prices Starters: £6-£7.50 Mains: £13-£19 Desserts: £6-£6.50 Drinks choice Real ales, cider and lagers on tap, homemade gins and selected red, white and rosé wines Vegetarian options Lots, including a beetroot and goats cheese tartlet Disability access Yes but no disabled toilet

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Choose a starter and a main course for just £14.90 per person. Available Monday to Thursday: 7pm–9pm.

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CLOCKWISE FROM BELOW: Brett and Rufaro head up a new community café;

organic salmon with English peas and chorizo; oven roasted rack of lamb, matchstick potatoes with fenugreek leaves, and wild mushroom pulao

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COMMUNITY CUISINE A brand new community café has opened in the heart of Amesbury. The newly built Evergreen Café is run by Salisbury-based husband and wife Brett and Rufaro Mavunga. As well as being open to the public, the eaterie will provide dishes for the residents of the new Evergreen Court retirement complex.

Brett, a former chef to the British Army, says, “We’ll be introducing themed days and meals with Caribbean, Mexican and African overtones, as well as acknowledging important seasonal dishes around Easter and Christmas. We definitely want to add diversity to the menu and serve up something really fresh, exciting and a bit out of the ordinary.”

The couple also plan to provide a corporate catering service, as Rufaro, a qualified nutritionist, nursing assistant and cook, explains, “It will be from a simple sandwich service, to full buffets for outside events, business lunches and conferences.”

Salisbury’s Fisherton Mill’s café, already the recipient of many accolades, has made it into the prestigious Good Food Guide 2019. The Gallery Café, which has already won five times in the yearly Observer Food Monthly Awards, and is headed up by chef Michael Fox, was praised by the guide for being: “A unique café providing tasty, interesting and unfailingly fresh food. The menu is innovative and ever-changing, but there is something for everyone, including vegetarian food and our favourite pudding – the glutenfree polenta cake.”

Director Deborah Fox says, “We are delighted that the Good Food Guide has recognised our chef ’s passion for delicious and healthy home-cooked food. We’d like to express our sincere thanks to our hard-working staff, as well as to all our customers, especially those who have recommended us to the guide.

With their support, we will continue to keep Salisbury’s flag flying on the UK food map, despite the struggles the city has faced following the Skripal affair.”

Other Wiltshire entries include The Boot Inn at Berwick St James (turn to page 42 for our review), The Compass Inn at Tisbury, and Howard’s House Hotel in Teffont Evias.

For more: www.fishertonmill.co.uk

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THE VEGAN WAY With more and more people going down the path of veganism, Goodfayre owner Dana Burton has decided to help point them in the right direction. Along with graphic designer Phil Burton, Dana has created a map of the best Salisbury indie places for vegan meals and produce. She explains, “I did a little mystery shop over the city to find out which restaurants could, and would, cater for vegans. I put the results all together in a handy map. It also helps to highlight the city’s local and independent cafés and shops.”

Among the many vegan-friendly businesses who are listed are Fisherton Mill, Goodfayre’s neighbours the Cross Keys Restaurant, Scent and Colour, and The Antelope Café.

For more: www.goodfayre.co.uk

TOP: Michael serves up only the best;

Dana with the vegan map

ABOVE: Fisherton Mill is a former Victorian grain mill

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La fosse Festive December Menu From 30th November to 22nd December If you are vegan or gluten free, please let us know at booking stage Smoked leek and potatoe soup, croutons, micro cress, smoked rapeseed oil Pigeon, chicken and black pudding terrine, toasted hazelnuts, sourdough, tarragon mayonnaise, chutney Scallop and crab gratin in the shell, pomegranate and watercress salad (£1 sup.)

Celeriac risotto with Dorset Blue Vinney, apple and candied walnuts Pan fried hake, sage butter, potato and buttnernut squash gratin, thyme green beans Roast turkey, chipolatas, stuffing and with all the trimmings, cranberry sauce Roasted venison, braised red cabbage, spiced blackberries, roasted root vegetables Garlic roasted butternut squash with pearl couscous, honey roasted root vegetables, Germolata, sauce Vierge Spekulatius crème Brule with warm cherries infused in Gluehwein, fig & honey ice cream (Spekulatius = German Christmas cookies) Triple chocolate brownie, warm salted caramel sauce, candied orange, choc. orange ice cream Traditional Christmas pudding with brandy butter & sauce Award winning Dorset’s best cheese board, nibbles, crackers (£4.50 sup) or as a fourth course to share (£9)

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Two courses £25 ë Three courses £29.95 Six course tasting menu £48 (entire table and dishes from above menu with sorbet and cheese board to share. Matching wine flight £20) We please ask for a £5 non refundable deposit for parties of 6 guests or more. Pre-orders are required for parties of 8 guests or more.

SCENE AC ROSS SA L ISBU RY, O N E SH I N D I G AT A T I M E Adele Reed and Luke Higgins

Gary, Juliette and Chloe Martin

Izzy Kennedy, Dan Lewis, Sue Parkinson and Victoria Adamson

Lloyd Kingston, Jake Murphy and Jessica Thomas

John Clayton, Sarah Adamson and Louella Adamson

WELCOME HOME

Michael Forde and Keta Hunt

Louella Adamson launched her @home Salisbury at the former Truth Bar in Bridge Street in summer with a special opening night. The entertainment hub provides a range of activities for all ages, including talks, discos, Knit’n’Knatter groups, films, food, playgroups and book clubs. Turn to page 24 for @home’s upcoming Hallowe’en events.

Photos by John Rose www.johnrosephotography.com

Verity Cogdon and Yvonne Chick

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Nikki Emerton and Graeme Stevens

Can you spot yourself?

Having a yabba dabba do time Beautiful setting

Garba Touré of Songhoy Blues

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GARDEN PARTY

Beam them up

Little angel!

Larmer Tree festival’s celebrated return to the beautiful Larmer Tree Gardens was befitting of its 27 years in the nationally recognised area of outstanding beauty. Across the site, a diverse range of performances, including Songhoy Blues, First Aid Kit and Jake Bugg, took place across the weekend, keeping a sold-out audience thoroughly entertained in the July sun.

Photos by John Rose www.johnrosephotography.com

All aboard for a cup of tea

Klara Söderberg of First Aid Kit

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Kevin and Louise Edwards

Brett Martin, Rose Currens and Vic Martin

WINNING BIDS

Gallery 21, Queen Street held an art auction and raised more than £6,500 on 22 July for the Elizabeth Foundation, which supports deaf infants and preschool children, and their families. Artists who donated work included Lhouette, Duncan Wade and Gina Hawkshaw, with Mauls Wine and Cheese Bar, and Cambridge Wine Merchants Salisbury, donating to the rafe.

Sophie Dorman and Lorna Hawkins

Clare Godwin, John Baines and Poppy-Lake Baines

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Pete Simm and Julie Hughes

Paul Whitelegg, Sue Whitelegg and Luke Fagan Richard Mogg, Lorna Hawkins and Lucy Mogg

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businessinsider salisbury gets serious

Market forces are strong in Salisbury

Quote of the issue

“Phil and I go way, way, way back”

Vernon Kay has history with which Salisbury hairdresser? Turn to page 58 to find out

The Big Number

12,500 A big number of little people trying to break a world record. Turn to page 58 for the full story

GLAD TIDINGS WE BRING Good news for Christmas market traders

T

he organisers of Salisbury’s Christmas market, happening 29 November to 23 December, have secured a major boost for local businesses taking part this year. Salisbury Business Improvement District (BID) is offering a 30 per cent discount on the cost of renting a retail chalet to traders based within a 20-mile radius of the city centre.

The traders’ discount has been welcomed and supported by councillor Pauline Church, Wiltshire Council Cabinet Member for Economic Development and Salisbury Recovery, who says, “This year we especially want to see a thriving Christmas market with visitors coming into the city to enjoy the varied and vibrant shopping experience that the Christmas Market and our permanent

retailers offer.”

BID chief executive Robin McGowan says,“This year, as everyone knows, Salisbury has had unprecedented challenges to overcome, and it has not been an easy struggle for our city economy.

“That’s why we applied for extra Christmas support from the recovery fund as part of a much wider range of efforts on behalf of local businesses.”

Last year’s market was the

biggest in the event’s sevenyear history. It attracted more than 200,000 people during an extended run, and was voted one of the country’s top ten markets.

Adding to the market’s appeal, a temporary rink opens on the same day. It will have real ice and extend to 240 square metres, and will sit alongside the chalets in the Guildhall Square.

For more: www.salisburychristmasmarket.co.uk

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MURAT NEGUZEL

Murat Neguzel is director and master tailor of Stonehenge Tailoring, which specialises in bespoke and made to measure tailoring, and alterations.

Originally from Turkey, Murat started learning his trade at the age of 12, before moving to London to work on Mayfair’s Savile Row Hello Murat! Where did you learn to tailor?

I worked in several regions of my homeland in Turkey, I then went on to make bespoke shirts for a German company. In 2005 I went to evening classes to learn pattern making, and then moved to Istanbul to work for a fashion designer.

Have you ever considered any other professions?

No. I started to learn tailoring as a trade at the age of 12, and I couldn’t imagine doing anything else.

When did you come to the UK? In 2012, I came for London Fashion Week, and decided there and then I would love to live and work in London. I moved to England later that year and was fortunate enough to secure a tailoring position with Cad and the Dandy in Savile Row. And how did you end up moving to Salisbury?

I travelled around many cities for my work, but I was particularly overwhelmed by the friendliness of the people of Salisbury.

When did you establish your Stonehenge Tailoring business?

It was always my dream to open my own tailoring business, and when I visited Salisbury, I knew I’d found the perfect place. I opened the Stonehenge Tailoring store on my birthday 7 April, in 2015.

What was the company’s inspiration?

Working in Savile Row was, undoubtedly, the inspiration. It was a completely life changing experience.

I was totally inspired by the shops and clientèle. I had never seen anything like it in my life.

Tell us a little about the set-up...

Stonehenge Tailoring is a small business owned by myself. We do all sorts of alterations and repairs. We

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also provide a bespoke tailoring service for gentlemen. For the moment we are providing a bespoke service for making trousers for ladies.

didn’t want to travel needlessly, so we tried to complete most alterations and repairs within an hour, which was very much appreciated by the clients.

How many of you work there?

At the moment, I have three part time and staff who provide customer service, administrative and accounting expertise.

Which clothing retailers and manufacturers inspire you?

Huntsman, Gieves and Hawkes and Dege and Skinner, all in Savile Row, are exceptional. The Pitti Immagine Fashion Show, that originated in Florence in 1954, is probably the most important show for men’s clothing and accessories.

Do you think that people are seeing the value of caring for their clothes again?

People keep clothes for all sorts of reasons. Some are heirlooms, some for emotional and sentimental reasons. Many people love to hang on to their clothes because they love the style and they were an expensive purchase.

Is there a rise too in having our clothes made bespoke?

I think most of our clients see the value or their clothes and obviously want them to fit perfectly. The reaction to our bespoke service has been really positive and we have started to make some fantastic garments. It is all about the feel good factor and making people feel special in their clothes.

What is your most requested tailoring job?

Shortening trousers and jeans for both gentlemen and ladies. …and your most unusual job?

We have had all sorts of weird and wonderful requests especially fancy dress costumes. I am currently altering a morning coat that is more than 100 years old. It is a fascinating and interesting project.

Do you collaborate with other local businesses?

Yes, we work with many Salisbury independent and chain retailers. If you do a good job for someone they are keen to tell their friends, family, and other businesses. We also work with Wiltshire College regarding their language courses.

Being based in The Maltings, how did the recent Novichok events effect you?

It was terrible for us at Stonehenge Tailoring, the Maltings and Salisbury as a whole. However unlike some unfortunate retailers, we were able to remain open. We were very conscious that people

What are the highs and lows you’ve experienced in setting up the business?

The lows have definitely been my lack of the English language and my early inability to converse with my clients. The high was when my first employee, Marion, walked into the shop and asked if I needed any help.

She has worked with me ever since.

“I WAS OVERWHELMED

BY THE FRIENDLINESS OF THE PEOPLE OF SALISBURY” Any immediate plans for Stonehenge Tailoring?

I hope that we shall be expanding into the unit next door later this month. We have outgrown this shop and we need a larger reception area specifically for fittings for our newly launched bespoke service. All our handmade garments will be made on the premises.

Where do you see the business in 10 years?

I should like to set up an apprenticeship scheme for young people to learn the art of tailoring.

I should also like to support foreign students in Turkey so they can learn tailoring and the English language.

For more: Stonehenge Tailoring, Unit 4/5 The Maltings, Salisbury. tel: 01722 322377

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and treatments and to make that knowledge available to all.

How difficult was it to raise awareness back then?

I admire Joan hugely as she took up this work against the odds; money was scarce and there was much misunderstanding but she persisted, and not for any benefit for herself.

How might you describe the work ICC does now?

The charity is about education and empowerment of people all over the world, be they vets, vet nurses, cat behaviourists, cat breeders or cat owners, to understand cats and provide the best possible care, and keep felines healthy, both physically and mentally.

CLAIRE BESSANT

Claire Bessant is the chief executive of International Cat Care, a charity that was established 1958 with the aim of improving the health and welfare of cats worldwide Where do you come from, and how did you end up in the West Country?

I am Isle of Wight born, and came to Wiltshire when my parents moved to Trowbridge when I was 16, via Kenya and Northern Ireland.

I studied at Leeds University and later lived in London. Then 29 years ago, I moved to Tisbury.

Have you always loved cats?

Some of my family are unfortunately allergic to cats, and I was actually a bigger fan of dogs in my youth.

However the more you find out about cats, you cannot help but admire and respect their independence and intelligence.

Now I have three cats, who enjoy a wonderful country life.

What won you over, compared to dogs, in the end?

This is a species which freely chooses

to share time and space with us, while retaining an independence and its instincts, which would allow it to survive without us if necessary. I still feel honoured when a cat wants to sit with me and be stroked.

What is the background to International Cat Care?

Our charity work spans the veterinary world, pet cats and unowned cats such as street cats.

The charity is 60 years old this year and has been celebrating the improvements it has achieved for cats over all these years.

What were the charity’s early reasons to start its work?

In the 1950s, Joan Judd was appalled by cats suffering from poor nutrition, poor husbandry and many diseases.

The charity funded vets to specialise in feline medicine at veterinary schools and develop knowledge

What difficulties, if any, does ICC experience in its day-today running?

Funding the charity has always been difficult. While charities which physically rescue cats are often given donations and legacies, education is not seen as sexy, and often fails to stir the emotions. But through our ethos, about 25 million cats a year can be helped.

Are there any aspects of cat care, you think people are resistant to?

Lots of people, who like the look of certain types of cat, do not want to hear about the downsides to that look. For example, the Scottish Fold, with his downturned ears which give it a very cute face and whose image is often shared on social media, actually suffers from painful arthritis because the cartilage problems that turn down the ears, also affects the joints. Sadly, some of these cats should never be bred.

What about understanding our relationship with cats?

Some people struggle with the realisation not all cats want to live closely with people or be pets as they understand it, and no amount of love or attention will change this.

We have to respect the way they feel, adapt our expectations, and be understanding of different types of relationships we can have with cats.

Any recent ICC work you have been particularly proud of?

One of the problems in keeping cats healthy is that people and cats find it stressful visiting the vet. We

developed a programme called Cat Friendly Clinic which showed vets how to make visits less traumatic such as having a cat-only zone in the waiting room where dogs cannot go.

This idea has been taken up around the world, including the USA, Japan, and China.

Any other schemes that have helped owners and pets?

Not so long ago many treatments for cats were in the form of large tablets, which were very difficult to administer, or sprays for fleas, which terrified the cats. The charity developed the Easy to Give awards to reward companies which produce medicines that are palatable or can be used in different ways to treat cats, such as easy to apply spot-on flea treatments, which ensure that cats actually get their medicine.

“THROUGH OUR ETHOS, ABOUT 25 MILLION CATS A YEAR CAN BE HELPED” How did the charity mark its 60th anniversary?

We launched our ‘International Declaration of Responsibilities to Cats’, which looks at how organisations need to understand cats and work together to make a sustainable difference, including a programme looking at the ways in which we deal with unowned feral and homing centre cats. We’ve also got a fundraising art exhibition planned for November, at the Rook Lane Gallery in Frome.

Any future plans for International Cat Care?

We are launching a new website with everything we need to know about cats and their health and will also be developing information on cat behaviour over the coming year.

In many countries, cats have not been seen as pets, and veterinary training has centred around farm animals, so we will continue our global work in the veterinary field to bring about change.

For more: International Cat Care Place Farm, Tisbury. tel: 01747 871872; www.icatcare.org

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01722 555300; www.salisburycathedralschool.com What books offer the best insights into teaching?

The Spud books by John van de Ruit offer an irreverent and entertaining description of the relationships which form such a huge part of school life. For an accurate depiction of what happens without good teachers, The Lord of the Flies is worth keeping in mind. Harry Potter serves up some good teacher role models: Snape is ever under-estimated and Hagrid inspirational (outside of the classroom). However the bar was set first by Jennings and Molesworth (and undoubtedly boobytrapped to boot).

Which subject deserves more curriculum time?

Every subject offers the opportunity to exercise curiosity, and that’s the most important benefit to preserve in a timetable. Similarly, the overall breadth and balance of a curriculum is every bit as important as its individual components. That said, I don’t feel that nature currently gets the attention it deserves: children should be able to name trees as well as climb them.

Describe the sense of community at the school Our school has a strong sense of community which is often commented on by visitors. It is one of our core values, and is at the heart of everything we do. Sports and music play a large part in helping to develop the essential teamwork skills required for participating in a successful community, whilst also enhancing a child’s feeling of being included. This helps develop a desire to overcome adversity and teaches them to strive and always do their best.

Simon Head

What does your school offer that others don’t?

For nearly 1,000 years, we have been home to the Salisbury Cathedral Choristers, and we also have the benefit of being able to hold our assemblies and concerts in the magnificent Cathedral. All pupils in Years 7 and 8 are issued with a Chromebook for the duration of their senior years giving them access to all lessons, class material and revision work, which aids independent learning, preparing them for life at their senior schools.

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Headmaster, Walhampton Prep School

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01590 613303; www.walhampton.com How big is your average class size?

We keep our class sizes small, on average 15 children.

What is your top tip for parents visiting a school?

Ask the head some difficult questions. With a smile on your face, ask the head what his or her vision is for that school. What are the core values embedded in the school’s Mission Statement? How is that school different and distinctive from others nearby? Stilted and half baked answers won’t do.

They need to speak from the heart with passion and conviction. And try to gauge how much contact that head has with the pupils. Does this head look like he or she is energised and motivated by the children? Do they really love children? Perhaps there’s nothing more important than that.

What scholarships and bursaries are available for students?

Walhampton’s scholarship programme helps us identify those pupils with exceptional talent.

We are committed to providing our scholars with outstanding opportunities that can nurture and extend their particular gifts and talents.

We award our scholarships in the spring term of Year 6 in a variety of areas: academic, sport, music, art, and drama.

Deputy Head Pastoral, Godolphin School 01722 430500; www.godolphin.org What is paramount to picking a good school?

It’s important to find a school which can develop the personality, needs and happiness of each individual.

Happy children do well and finding a school which will build resilience and nurture happiness and self-worth is paramount.

Describe the sense of community at the school?

There is a real sense of working together to achieve the best results possible at Godolphin whether that be in the classroom, on the lacrosse pitch, in drama rehearsals, music ensembles and elsewhere. The boarding community is wonderfully warm and welcoming and the newly refurbished boarding houses create a truly caring, homely environment which is much sought after.

Titus Mills

What makes you most proud?

I love to see the girls simply enjoying their time at school and making the most of the wealth of inspiring opportunities which are available at Godolphin. There really is something for everyone and the girls have a great attitude towards getting involved.

Jenny Price

What does your school offer that others don’t?

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NEWS STORIES Our pick of the most exciting, intriguing or important local business stories happening right now

MOVERS AND SHAKERS ETC

xxxxxx Bristol Airport’s Nigel Scott

There’s a great idea flying in from the west

GO WEST Bristol Airport has become the official airline sponsor for the Great West Way – a major new touring route along the corridor the west of London through to Bristol including Salisbury, Stonehenge and Avebury. Bristol Airport business development director Nigel Scott says, “The Great West Way will bring even more overseas tourists to the South West and we want Bristol Airport to be a preferred point of entry.”

For more: www.visitwiltshire.co.uk

SHEDDING LIGHT Alabaré, the Salisbury based charity, welcomed John Glen MP to its head office for the opening of the Salisbury Men’s Shed, which is part of a nationwide initiative to raise awareness of the social and health benefits of reducing isolation, loneliness and in empowering local communities.

Harvey Taylor, the charity’s communication officer, explains, “The Salisbury Men’s Shed will provide local members of the community the opportunity to take part in practical projects and learn new skills whilst also being able to socialise and interact with likewise individuals.

John Glen MP says, “The Men’s Shed will be a massive contribution to the people of Salisbury, for men and women to

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come and spend time. It chimes completely with the wonderful work of Alabaré.”

For more: www.alabare.co.uk

Salisbury’s MP John Glen lends a helping hand to open the new Men’s Shed

The Giant Under The Snow is set to be Salisbury and Southampton-based film

NOVEL IDEA

Salisbury and Southampton are the backdrops for a new children’s movie, The Giant Under The Snow. Based on the 1968 book written by John Gordon, about three children trying to stop an evil warlord, the makers are offering people a chance to invest in the film.

Salisbury-based associate producer Gemma Wilks says, “With casting of some big showbiz names currently underway, the production team have some great plans to get local talent involved in this epic film. We are all especially keen to see Salisbury shown off to an international audience, in an exciting and new way.” www.thegiantunderthesnow.com

SCREEN TIME

Salisbury-based Lucy Spittle has set up her own business, Computer Lit, to help teach computer skills to everyone from the, new at-home user, to the established business trying to master the art of social media. Lucy explains, “As technology is rapidly advancing now is the time to become computer literate and open your mind to a whole world of information and creativity that can be easily accessed.”

Computerlit9@gmail.com

BUSINESS INSIDER

The Smith England team with celebrity fan Vernon Kay

LEGAL Q&A

WEARS THE CROWN

MARIANA CRAWFORD, solicitor at Trethowans, looks at what to consider before you buy a property

Smith England scooped a major award at the British Hairdressing Business Awards on 17 September. The hairdressers, based on Salisbury High Street, was crowned Salon of the Year, at the London’s Park Plaza Hotel ceremony hosted by the TV presenter and radio DJ, Vernon Kay. Smith England’s award entry received feedback from judges that included ‘a hugely refreshing approach to salon business,’ ‘a community focussed business that is making a real name for itself,’ and

Think about the costs Find a property that you can afford.

Start by speaking with a financial advisor to establish what you can afford to spend on buying a house or flat, and then what your monthly outgoings will be. Consider what your financial situation would be if your circumstances change and interest rates increase. Be careful not to overstretch yourself.

Choose the right mortgage It is advised not to apply for mortgages yourself, but rather to speak with an independent mortgage advisor. You run the risk of affecting your credit score if you make multiple applications. A good advisor will be able to source the best product for you.

Make an offer Once you have found a home, the next step is to make an offer via the estate agent. Do not get emotionally attached to the property but instead, don your negotiating hat and keep your wits about you, before agreeing on a final price.

For more: Trethowans; tel: 01722 426916; www.trethowans.com

‘thorough and conscious in all its procedures, this salon was a standout winner.’

Vernon paid his own tribute, after owner Phil Smith collected his award, saying, “Phil and I go way, way, way back. He is one person that has done everything in the salon business. He is a true professional and if one man is going to go the extra mile to be successful, it is Phil Smith.

Congratulations Phil, you’re an absolute legend.”

For more: www.facebook.com/smith.england.96

WHAT A PRODUCTION Stagecoach Performing Arts Salisbury was part of an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the ‘Largest Simultaneous Performance of One Show.’

The local students joined forces with almost 12,500 children from 200 schools in 144 locations including Canada, Germany and Malta to simultaneously perform Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Junior on 1 July.

Kristie Grant, principal of Stagecoach Salisbury, says, “We were honoured to be joined by The Mayor and Mayoress of Salisbury and The Right Honourable Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, who played a vital role on the day as our official witnesses.

Whether we have broken the record has yet to be determined as the process is a lengthy one, but we all had a wonderful time regardless.”

For more: www.stagecoach.co.uk/ salisbury

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PEOPLE I sometimes wear this LED phototherapy mask, which is great for collagen stimulation, whilst working at my computer

I love being able to work with my husband, and it means we get to spend more time with our two boys iS Clinical products are 96 per cent botanicallyderived, not tested on animals, and achieve amazing results, yet are pharmagrade high quality

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MY DESK

I began as a GP 18 years ago, but now I’m a full time cosmetic doctor and a member of the British College of Aesthetic Medicine

I enjoy keeping up to date with all the new developments in this line of medicine

DR CLAUDIA MORLEY Desk photo by JOHN ROSE

C Diggy has to be wherever I am, and likes to sit under my desk

laudia Morley has been a doctor for nearly 20 years, starting in a hospital then moving into general practice in 2004.

She started her cosmetic medical career in 2008 and set up her own Salisbury clinic in 2010, where her husband Dr Crispin Malpas also works. They specialise in an holistic approach to the face and have more than 500 patients. â– For more: www.morleyaesthetics.co.uk

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IN OUR VIEW Elsie Chadwick discovers, no matter how you look at it, this Winterslow home looks truly wonderful

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here are views, and then there are views. Some views are glimpsed from a window in the attic room, if you stand on tip toes and squint. And then there are those vistas that come at you from all angles. Weston Hill House has such views. These are far-reaching, all encompassing, green, and good for the soul type views. This six-bedroomed family house with mellow brick elevations sits in the beautiful village of Winterslow, some seven miles east of Salisbury, and is nestled in nearly five acres of mature gardens and paddocks. And with skylights, terraces, French doors, a conservatory, and plenty of windows, the home is designed to make the most of its glorious surrounds.

Weston Hill House, which was built in 1999, completed in 2000, and created in the style of a 19th century country house and adjoining barn, has recently been extended, as well as extensively renovated. The end result has ensured

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the interior is as good looking as the exterior and its breathtaking location.

The kitchen with its high-end, luxe, double-Aga finish, is open-plan and leads into a garden room which can double as a dining room, giving the best of all worlds – a contemporary, formal and intelligent layout. The large reception rooms also have access to the terrace and gardens via the stylish French doors, with every room taking in those views through large sash windows.

On the first floor is a large master bedroom with its own dressing room and en suite bathroom, plus two bedrooms with en suite shower rooms, then three further bedrooms and a family bathroom. Surrounding the house are formal gardens enclosed by mature hedging and post and rail fencing, principally lawned with gravel paths and terracing, well stocked beds, mature trees and a vegetable garden. On the south side there is a meadow, a haven for wildlife, with pretty paths cut through it. There’s also a greenhouse, double garage and the barn. There

are excellent local walks and rides over the surrounding countryside including Bentley Wood, which together with the adjacent Blackmoor Copse, form one of the largest areas of woodland in Wiltshire.

Whilst thriving Salisbury is just on the doorstep, and the mainline railway station at Grateley connects to London Waterloo in approximately 75 minutes, the village itself offers all the amenities for convenient day-to-day living including a post office and store, doctor’s surgery, inn, cricket club and church. And if you were looking for decent schools, then this is at the education hub. The local area is renowned for its schools, both private and state.

There is an excellent primary school in the village whilst Salisbury offers very good grammar schools, plus there are numerous private schools in the area including Farleigh, Norman Court, Chaffyn Grove, and Godolphin.

It is our learned view that from every viewpoint, be it first-class education, charming village life, effortless commuting or luxe living, this house has it all going on. n

House numbers Bedrooms 6 Bathrooms 4 Barn 1 Guide price £2,300,000 Acres 4.88 For more: Strutt & Parker, 41 Milford Street, Salisbury. tel: 01722 328741; www.struttandparker.com

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Lives

“George Best told me never to name drop”

pointed out to me that I could be.

So I figured it out for myself.

PETE AVES Meet the musician who wrote an ode to Salisbury, for both the benefit of the city, and to raise money for charity Pete Aves describes himself as ‘performer, musician, writer of songs, singer of songs. High Llama. Wearer of warehouse wear with his band The Manuals.’ Most well-known for his position as the guitarist for the High Llamas, Pete began his solo career in 2001 to great acclaim. His sixth studio album See How was released in March 2016 with Q magazine giving it four stars and praising its ‘impossibly catchy tunes’, adding that ‘catharsis has never sounded so sweet.’ Record Collector was equally enthusiastic, describing it as ‘transcendent’ and ‘compelling’ and declared it a ‘charmingly idiosyncratic roots flavoured record.’ Mojo gave it four stars and Uncut praised his guitar playing, comparing it with that of folk master Richard Thompson.

Pete has also worked with Petula Clark, Beth Orton, Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley, Harry Hill, Turin Brakes, Nick

Lowe, and The Undertones.

Earlier this year, Pete and his band The Manuals, wrote and recorded The Ballad Of Salisbury Town to take advantage of the media attention following the Novichok incidents, and turn it into something positive by reminding people of the beauty of the city.

My upbringing is that I was raised by musical wolves.

The first song I wrote was called Sorry and Down, a dreadful title for a dreadful song. To be fair I was only eight at the time.

I found school boring, so I formed my first band in a woodwork lesson aged 11.

I emerged in 1982 with eight ‘O’ levels and a small pile of wooden songs.

I always wanted to be a musician but nobody ever

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The worst job I’ve ever had was a rat catcher in Crete.

Well, perhaps not the worst, but certainly the strangest.

I’m very happy doing both solo material and working with a band. I like to respond to other people’s ideas in a group setting but I also like to follow my own inclinations when I’m toute seule.

I parachuted in from London 12 years ago with my kids and have been lucky enough to have made some good friends over the years.

The Ballad Of Salisbury Town was written in response to the second Novichok incident though it’s never actually referenced in the song. All proceeds from sales of the track are being donated to Alabaré, Salisbury’s charity for the vulnerable and homeless.

I am aware that Salisbury enjoys city status but the word ‘town’ presents better rhyming opportunities.

If asked for any rock’n’roll on-tour stories I refer people to the Cold Llamas track on my 2016 release See How. Q magazine gave the album four stars and described the track as ‘an irresistibly wry touring tale of a breakdown in North Dakota.’

I do not share celebrity anecdotes. George Best told me never to name drop. However I can confirm that Harry Hill is the kindest and most generous man in showbiz. And he’s very funny.

I have 12-year-old twins, Charlie and Maddy. At their age I was obsessed with music.

Fortunately they are not.

My idea of perfect happiness is creating.

My biggest inspiration is the many musicians who’ve pursued their art without compromise.

I don’t have any hobbies. I’m too busy trying to make a living.

American songwriter Randy Newman recently compared being a contemporary musician to trying to rob a bank that’s already been robbed. As ever, he’s right.

My most prized possessions are probably some guitars that I’m very fond of, but I’m aware that ultimately they are just lumps of wood and metal.

I enjoy Salisbury best when, it’s late at night or very early in the morning, and I have the place to myself. n

The Ballad Of Salisbury Town by Pete Aves and The Manuals can be downloaded from Amazon for 99p, with all proceeds being donated to the charity Alabaré. www.peteaves.co.uk