Out & About Chiswick, June - July 2022

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Chiswick GREEN DAYS

West London ARTISTS AT HOME

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SHAKESPEARE IN THE GARDEN

Brentford CANAL FESTIVAL

The Weir Bar celebrates 20 years • Brentford Canal Festival Bedford Park Festival • Artists at Home • Hearing Well • Watermans Chiswick House • Chiswick School performing arts • Shakespeare in the garden Gardener’s notes • Jazz at George IV • Hen Corner

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INSIDE

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Features

Regulars 4

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Letter from the Editor

24 Hen Corner Strawberry fields forever 18 Gardening Notes From the head gardener at Osterley Park 22

Jazz at George IV Summer nights of Jazz

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Watermans Weekender on 10-12 June

All information in this edition was correct at time of publication but may be subject to change.

7 The Weir Bar Celebrates 20 years 8 Brentford Canal Festival Celebrating the history of Brentford’s waterways 10-11 Bedford Park Festival The return of Green Days 13

Artists at Home Open their doors in June

15 Hearing Well Hearing technology 17 Chiswick House Paradise in the sun

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20 Chiswick School Performing arts 21

Hare & Hounds S hakespeare in the garden

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EDITOR'S LETTER

Welcome

It’s summer! Whether we’re in for hot sunny days or tropical rain, west London’s organisers are determined to make up for the last couple of years, so there is lots on to go and see and do.

Brentford is holding its first canal festival in celebration of its industrial heritage. Beer, barges, good food and live music on Saturday 25 June. Page 8 Green Days returns to Chiswick – two days of fete with fun fair, band stand, beer and cake stalls, a craft fair… all the usual festivities for the opening weekend of the Bedford Park Festival on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 June. Pages 10-11

Artists At Home open their doors again, with 83 artists participating across 66 open studios over the weekend of 17-19 June. Page 13 Before the end of the summer term, Chiswick School ends the academic year with a burst of activity on the performing arts front – a week of music, dance and theatre to which you are all invited. Page 20 There is a programme of live jazz at George IV in Chiswick all the way through to the end of July on Thursday nights. Pages 22-23 Chiswick House has a new ‘immersive audio experience’ in the Kitchen Garden, which they describe as ‘part hypnosis, part therapy’: Paradise in the Sun. Page 17

Watermans arts centre has a full summer programme of cinema, theatre, dance and music.

Page 16 On to the beginning of August and the Hare and Hounds pub in Osterley offers live theatre in the garden, with a production of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors on 3rd August.

Sara Ward offers ideas on what to do with strawberries.

Page 24 The head gardener at Osterley House offers tips on what to do with the garden. Page 18 Audiologist Deepak Jagota tells us about a new bit of kit he now has at Hearing Well, a digital laser scanner which makes it so much easier to design and fit a hearing aid, with no discomfort to the client. Page 15 And The Weir celebrates 20 years. Page 7

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Celebrating

20 YEARS AT THE WEIR www.theweirbar.co.uk The Weir is the oldest surviving licensed premises in the area, dating back to 1604. Having been lovingly restored by owner, Joanne Scully, the design is carefully considered, embracing the original features.

A secret oasis set back from the bustling streets of Brentford.

Drink or dine inside in the main bar, relax in Turner Corner or the Bubble Bar with friends, enjoying cocktails or craft beers with a menu of light bites. The Garden Room’s windows frame views of the heated waterside garden, provides the perfect setting for a romantic meal or for larger groups.

The Weir’s has one of the largest waterside gardens in West London. It boasts its own pizza kitchen, garden bar and five separate areas that can be hired privately.

Weekends are what make The Weir so unique.

Saturday lunchtimes enjoy a disco DJ set.

Friday and Saturday nights are party nights with DJs and live music from the resident band. Lazy Sunday afternoons can be spent in the waterside garden listening to live Latin music by Jorge Ramirez whilst enjoying their famed roast lunches.

From brunches to bar snacks, gourmet burgers to homemade pies, stone-baked pizzas, Black Angus steaks and an array of fresh fish and seafood, there is something for everyone. Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free dishes along with a varied children’s menu are also available.

The Weir is perfect for private and corporate events; catering to your every need from bespoke menus and flower displays to DJs, live music, fireworks, balloons or cocktail designed by their mixologists. The venue’s history and unique location also make it popular for filming and photoshoots, fashion shows and product launches.

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BRENTFORD CANAL FESTIVAL

BRENTFORD CANAL Festival

Celebrating Brentford’s waterways The Brentford Canal Festival is a new festival celebrating the history of Brentford’s waterways.

Initially planned for last year but cancelled because of Covid, the Brentford Canal Festival will take place on Saturday June 25 as a one day event from 12 – 6pm.

Organiser Martin Case says: “to celebrate our waterways, we’re creating a Canal Festival recognising their importance in establishing Brentford and to bring our community together for a day of fun where they can appreciate and enjoy life by the water.”

Brentford was a key location in the transport of goods from the north of England to the River Thames, via the Grand Union Canal from Birmingham.

Events will be based around the River Brent, the gauging lock, Brentford Lock piazza and Market Place.

“This is an event for ALL, not only to reignite people’s interest in Brentford’s waterways, but in our town’s rich heritage and culture, and to celebrate the vibrancy of life by the water” says Martin.

“This an opportunity to showcase Brentford and all it has to offer with fun for the whole family, including

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live music, dance and entertainment, arts and crafts, sport, food & drink.”

The Market Place on Brentford High Street will be the place for loud, electronic music, while Brentford Lock Piazza and The Dial at the gauging lock will be venues for quieter, acoustic music.

The Market Place will also be the venue for contemporary dance, including a show by an Albanian dance group, while you will find Morris dancing and Maypole dancing at The Dial.

There are already plenty of canal boats to look at, but there will be free trips from the gauging lock to Boston Manor and back, funded by Inspire Hounslow. Active 360 and Edge, based at the arches at Kew Bridge, will be running paddleboarding, kayaking and canoeing sessions at Brentford Lock West. The toll house will be open to visitors.

The artists’ studios at Johnson’s Island will be open, as will the Rye on the Water café alongside.

“We’re at a crucial turning point in Brentford’s future and the time has come to introduce Brentford’s unique character, vibrancy and diversity to the wider west London community” says Martin.

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Torin Douglas celebrates the return of Green Days Green Days weekend is back on June 11th and 12th - and people in Bedford Park can’t wait for its return, as a highlight of the Chiswick calendar and its longest-established community event.

After two years’ absence because of COVID, an array of marquees, gazebos, funfair rides and refreshments stalls will spring up opposite St Michael & All Angels Church and Turnham Green tube station for two days of fun, food and friendship – supported by local people and businesses, in aid of charities.

The Green (called Acton Green, confusingly, not Turnham Green), will be taken over by families, musicians, young footballers and children in fancy dress, for the opening weekend of ‘Chiswick’s favourite fortnight’,

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the Bedford Park Festival. The Green Days Fete & Craft Fair attracts thousands of people with its stalls, children’s corner, 5-a-side football and skittles - not to mention the music performances, refreshments and beer tents, Win-A-Meal competition, tombola, books, bric-a-brac, cakes and an open air church service.

Green Days is just the start of a fortnight of arts and community events held in and around St Michael & All Angels Church, which runs the Festival in the world’s first garden suburb.

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June 13th, the birthday of WB Yeats, it’s the annual poetry evening with Cahal Dallat, leader of the artwork project to celebrate Yeats’ formative years in Bedford Park, hosted by AnneMarie Fyfe, former chair of the Poetry Society.

On Wednesday June 15th, Theo Fennell, the celebrated jeweller (and father of Oscar-winner Emerald Fennell) will talk about his hilarious new memoir, I Fear for This Boy: Some Chapters of Accidents, in conversation with writer Kathy Lette. And on Friday 17th, Gerard Logan will perform Hauntings, an evening of three tales of the supernatural from the great ghost-story writers, EF Benson and MR James.

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music events including Jazz On A Summer’s Night, with The Denis Smith Trio and vocalist Vanessa Rose on Saturday 18th; St Michael’s Choristers on Sunday 19th; Musique du temps perdu with David Juritz, Milly Forrest and David Gordon on Wednesday 22nd; a piano recital

by Mark Viner on Thursday 23rd; a Gilbert & Sullivan singalong on Friday 23rd; and the London Welsh Rugby Choir on Saturday 24th.

There are several events marking the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

As a curtain-raiser, on the afternoon of Saturday June 4th, there’s The Big Jubilee Sing: 70 Years of Songs hosted by Bedford Park’s church, St Michael & All Angels, and pub, The Tabard. The following Saturday, June 11th, the Queen’s Jubilee is the theme of the Children’s Fancy Dress

competition and there’s a ‘Cake Fit For A Queen’ competition at the Refreshments Tent. The week after that, June 18th, there’s a Children’s Jubilee Biscuit Decorating Competition.

There are also the perennial Festival favourites – the Artists At Home open studios event from June 17th to 19th; the Bedford Park Walk on Saturday June 25th; the Festival Mass on Sunday June 26th and the Bedford Park Open Gardens that afternoon, bringing the Festival to its traditional close. Tickets are now on sale for all the events, and the full programme can be read, at www.bedfordparkfestival.org.

The first Bedford Park Festival took place in 1967 – launched by the then vicar of St Michael & All Angels to foster a sense of community, celebrate the arts, and raise money for repairs to

the Church. With the support of the Bedford Park Society and under the patronage of Sir John Betjeman, it helped save the area from developers, leading to its current status as a conservation area.

Since then the Festival has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charities, with the support of local people and businesses. This year it will again raise money for the church and its chosen charities: The Upper Room, which feeds and support the community in need in West London; West London Welcome, a free drop-in centre for refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants, and Swinfen Telemedicine, which uses digital technology to bring specialist medical expertise to doctors and nurses working in remote regions of the world.

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ARTISTS AT HOME

ArtistsAT HOME Open their doors in June once more

The popular West London cultural event – Artists at Home – will return to its usual third weekend in June this year, with artists and makers opening up their homes and studios from 17-19 June and online.

The open studios event is believed to be the first of its type in London and was started by Mary Fedden, OBE RA RWA and Julian Trevelyan RA almost 50 years ago. This year will be the biggest yet with 83 artists participating across 66 open studios and nine artists showing online only.

A record-breaking 17 new artists will be joining the event this year including Clare Burnett, President of the Royal Society of Sculptors, who will be showing her sculptures and paintings in W12, Karin Raab, who creates decorative and functional ceramics in W6 and AJ Coady who will exhibit his paintings in W4.

“After two years of disruption, we are all thrilled to return to our regular dates in June, with such a strong

showing of artists,” says Kathryn Davey, Chair of the Artists at Home Steering Group.

“We have new branding and great enthusiasm as we approach our half century anniversary next year. We know this weekend is incredibly popular with visitors, who come mostly from the local area of course but also from further afield, to enjoy the unique experience of seeing and buying work directly from artists and visiting their studios.”

The main sponsor for Artists at Home 2022 is once again leading local estate agent Horton and Garton whose Director John Horton says, “We are proud of our close association with Artists at Home, which is a local institution we greatly admire. The combination of finding original artworks, meeting their creators and getting to see inside some wonderful local property is irresistible. We are looking forward to this year’s event.”

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HAVING A HEARING AID just got a whole lot easier

Bridget Osborne talks to Deepak Jagota about non-invasive technology for designing hearing aids.

Deepak Jagota is an audiologist whose business Hearing Well in Chiswick High Rd helps people with hearing loss. He has clients of all ages from 18 upward, many of them referred by GPs. Until recently the way he has been able to provide custom-made hearing aids which fit into the ear has been to fill the ear with a kind of putty using a syringe to make a hard mould, which some people have found uncomfortable.

The whole process only takes a few minutes. He then sends the digital file to the manufacturer for the earpiece to be made.

The alternative to a hearing aid which fits inside the ear is one which hooks on to the ear and hangs down behind it.

Now he has a new bit of kit which means he can map the inside of an ear digitally just by holding a 3D laser scanner to the outer ear so it can take pictures.

“It took me ages to get it right” he says, “trying it out on members of my family” The result is a state of the art, precision hearing aid which looks like any of the in-ear speakers on the market for phones, ie. not obviously a hearing aid.

He showed me how quick and easy it is, holding the scanner to a model of an ear and demonstrating the way it took measurements. On his laptop beside it, a blue circle on a diagram of the inner ear showed how the laser was ‘painting’ different parts of the ear to provide a 3D shape which exactly replicates the inside of the ear.

Deepak has had his shop in Chiswick High Rd for six years but has more than 16 years’ experience as an audiologist. New customers are introduced to him mainly by word of mouth by satisfied customers, as he prides himself on a high level of customer service, taking as much time as necessary to chat to each patient and put them at their ease.

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WATERMANS

WatermansWEEKENDER Make a date for the Watermans Weekender on 10-12 June!

Watermans, your local arts centre, will be hosting a wide array of top quality events and activities to show-off the best of what it does. For families there will be installations free screenings, theatre workshops and award-winning children’s theatre; for adults there will be music from indo-jazz clarinettist

Arun Ghosh, DJs, cabaret with the award-wining, An Evening Without Kate Bush, art installations and special screenings and events in our cinema. Also, if you dare, we have the dark immersive experience, COMA from Darkfield. There will be something for everyone!

Please check watermans.org.uk to see full up to the minute times and listing of all events across the Watermans Weekender.

Many events are FREE and paid events all have concession pricing - book tickets in advance to avoid disappointment.

A weekend of fantastic events & activities for everyone!

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ParadiseIN THE SUN Or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers

Part hypnosis, part therapy, {Paradise in the Sun} Or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers celebrates the joy of community and the sensory pleasures of being in nature. A new immersive audio experience, in the award-winning Chiswick House Kitchen Garden, encourages you to slow down and reconnect with the natural environment. {Paradise in the Sun} Or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers invites visitors to participate in a multi-sensory walking route using an audio guide.

Spoken instructions ask you to reflect, to lie on the grass, to look up at the sky, to soak up the smells, to listen to the hidden sounds of the garden, to walk mindfully and to fully engage with your surroundings using all of your senses.

This Chiswick House & Gardens commission, by Klasien van de Zandschulp and Dr. Natalie Dixon of Netherlands-based creative studio, affect lab, was created in specific response to the Kitchen Garden environment. The work was also inspired by

conversations with members of the Heston West Big Local community group, based in Hounslow, during affect lab’s artistic residency at Chiswick House & Gardens. {Paradise in the Sun} Or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers is the first part of GrowFM, a summer programme of activities and experiences based on the theme of ‘community as health’.

Included in the programme is a pop-up roaming radio station, powered by the community for the community, and a Chiswick House & Gardens Late on 14 July.

Admission to {Paradise in the Sun} Or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers is included in Chiswick House & Kitchen Garden tickets. Free for Chiswick House & Gardens members.

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Andy Eddy, Head Gardener at Osterley Park & House, writes “One of the chief glories of the garden in June (and July) is roses. At Osterley I have been building up the collection so that we now have a very good selection of all types both modern and old. These are displayed in beds, borders and cascading from walls and trees.

One of the best ways to grow the old fashioned, scented types ( a technique I learn whilst working at Sissinghurst garden) is by training them on ‘benders’ – these are hazel rods that are curved and then pushed into the ground for the the rose stems to be tied down on to. By tying the stems horizontally you will get more rose flowers ‘breaking’ from every place where a there would usually only be a leaf, thus increasing the flowering tenfold. This also holds the roses bushes in place whenever there is wind or rain when they are

flowering. As you can see in the photo it produces a lovely domed shape covered in flower – and at a good height to smell their scent! Of course hazel poles are not readily available (we cut our own from the estate) but you can do this technique more simply by just bending the stems down until they reach another part of the same bush (or another) and tying it in place using soft twine.

This way of growing roses can also be adapted for climbers and ramblers that are trained on walls, where again by bending the branches you get more flowers. Of course this is mimicking what the rose would do in the wild where it grows up and through the branches of trees before drooping romantically towards the ground.”

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School Chiswick School is getting a bit of a name for itself for the Performing Arts. The school’s Head of Performing Arts, Tommy Robinson, has delivered a very ambitious programme of no fewer than 15 productions in this academic year.

Oliver! In July was the eleventh – a brilliant production set in the round, with the audience sitting at tables, cabaret style, and the cast milling about, chatting to the audience in character before it started.

Strong performances especially from Orla, the year 7 girl who played Oliver, Eloise as Widow Corney, the matron of the workhouse, and Manny as Fagin (not allowed to report their surnames). Exuberant, confident performances from all.

The choice of Oliver!, where you need a large cast of children, is perfect for a school. It’s perfect in other ways too. The music is infectious, all the songs are catchy and everyone knows the words. The audience was invited to join in and to get up and dance with the cast.

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Head of music Zak Moxon made sure the music was spot on. The direction – involving slapstick interactions with unsuspecting members of the audience and using the whole space as the cast ran around at the end, hunting Bill Sykes, the lighting, the costumes and the set – right down to Victorian knickknacks on the tables – made it a very exciting and innovative production.

The school has four productions coming up in July, to which the public are invited. Just turn up, they are not ticketed events, but donations are welcome, which go in the pot to enable the department to put on future events.

Monday 11th July at 7pm Wind in the Willows Tuesday 12th July from 5pm Summer Arts Festival with live music and food Wednesday 13th July at 7pm The Caucasian Chalk Circle Thursday 14th July at 7pm Music and dance revue Chiswick School, Burlington Ln, Chiswick, London W4 3UN Entrance on Staveley Rd.

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Shakespeare IN THE GARDEN THE COMEDY OF ERRORS 3rd August, 7:30pm - 10:00pm This summer, soak up some Shakespeare in the garden with The Hare and Hounds, Osterley.

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THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Six actors bring to life this classic story brimming with Shakespearian wit and humour.

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JAZZ AT GEORGE IV

JazzAT GEORGE IV

Larry Pryce on Live Blues & Jazz in the Boston Room Summer nights of Jazz in the Boston Room at George IV. What could be nicer?

Thursday June 2nd Mississippi Swamp Dogs

Thursday June 16th June JT4tet

showcasing songs from her wellreceived new album ‘So Nice’.

Kick off the long bank holiday weekend with the Mississippi Swamp Dogs celebrating her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee in fine style with their musical melange of New Orleans flavoured jazz and blues.

JT4tet featuring the soulful vocalist Nazarene Mighty.

Influenced by George Benson and Herbie Hancock this reunion of keyboard player Tim Richards and guitarist Jon Taylor present a subtle blend of swing jazz, Chicago R&B and barrelhouse blues.

Thursday June 30th Blues Engineers

Thursday June 9th Barb Jungr’s ‘Dylan and Cohen and Love’ Barb’s superb reinterpretation of the work of two of the greatest musical icons of the 20th Century, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.

“Barb Jungr is a force of nature and if you want to hear Dylan & Cohen’s songs given a whole new lease of life .....get along to one of her shows .... .” - London Theatre Review.

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Thursday June 23rd Wilma Baan trio Wilma pays homage to her musical inspirations, Nancy Wilson, Julie London and Diana Reeves. Her new show, ‘Visions’ references her interpretation of Stevie Wonder’s song as well as covering the music of Johnny Mandell, Rodgers & Hart, Jerome Kern and Anthony Newley and

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We welcome back the brilliant Blues Engineers with their exciting mix of jazz-tinged Urban & Country blues featuring the slide and steel guitarist and vocalist John O’Reilly and multiinstrumentalist Nick Payn on saxophone, flute and harmonica.

Thursday July 7th – Dom Pipkin’s Ikos trio “I can’t hold a candle to this guy’s playing ....” says Jamie Cullum of the much-acclaimed singer and piano supremo, returning with his marvellous Ikos Trio for some more funky New Orleans jazz, blues and street funk. www.outaboutmagazine.co.uk

JAZZ AT GEORGE IV Thursday July 14th The Andy Roberts Experience

Thursday July 28th Tim Whitehead trio

Featuring ex-Atlantic Soul Machine vocalist and keyboard player Andy Roberts and his top band playing great soul grooves including numbers by the likes of Curtis Mayfield and Gamble & Huff as well as some of their own material.

Giants of UK jazz, the awardwinning saxophonist, Tim Whitehead & his trio featuring the hugely acclaimed vocalist Hattie Whitehead for an evening of top flight jazz and swing showcasing songs from Hattie’s forthcoming new album with Tim’s own arrangements of Bacharach numbers and material from artists as diverse as Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell and even Bruce Springsteen together with some favourite jazz standards.

Thursday July 21st Richie Milton & The Lowdown A great mix of Southern Soul and Chicago Blues with a touch of Latin & Ska along the way, featuring vocalist Linda Hal.

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HEN CORNER

HEN Corner Strawberry fields forever

Isn’t it just the dream to have a strawberry field outside your back door? Where you can always find perfectly ripe dark red fruit, ready for plucking, with smaller yellow promises of more to come as the summer unfurls.

lockdown holiday, it was picked prematurely and starved of sunshine in its final hours of life… but a freshly picked berry, warm from the plant bathed in summer’s heat, is a timeless pleasure loved by young and old alike.

I remember day trips to pick your own farms as a child, armed with ice cream containers and cardboard baskets, tasting the berries as you go. ‘Don’t eat too many’ said Mum, ‘they’ll be weighing you on the way out to see how much you’ve picked!’

‘Don’t choose the really dark ones as they’ll be ruined by the time we get back’. Then the long journey home, with sticky fingers, dusty toes, and the car filled with the heady scent of juice.

I have high hopes for this year’s crop with established plants both in the garden and on the allotment. Once the roots stretch down deep seeking water to pump out into the fruit, strawberries are the gift that just keep giving.

Not only do they yield plentiful strawberries, but a healthy plant in the right conditions will send out runners to establish new baby plants, filling out your beds or allowing you to transplant them elsewhere.

As for those of you who say that strawberries don’t taste like they used to, check the plastic punnet for the country of origin.

If it’s travelled further than your

So the big question is, to jam or not to jam? I love homemade strawberry jam, especially when served on a warm scone topped with clotted cream. But why

would you cook down something that’s so perfect when fresh and ripe?

I think there’s something almost holy in appreciating and enjoying the harvest in its natural form.

On the other hand, jam making is a brilliant ways of utilising fruit and vegetables when you have a glut, i.e. more than you can eat, ensuring none go to waste.

As I write, I’ve just remembered a strawberry ice cream I made a few years ago. So here’s the plan.

Enjoy fresh, make ice cream then jam what you have leftover. That sounds like the perfect plan for summer.

Courses coming up: Making Scones and Jam: Wednesday 22nd June A Day at Hen Corner: Wednesday 29th June

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