Epsom out&about Feb_Mar Edition

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FEB-MAR 2016

FESTIVAL COUNTDOWN

Celebrating artistic talent

Chocolate BOX

Indulge your senses

MIMI & ME

Reminiscing with ‘Allo ‘Allo star

Behind the scenes at Four Gables � The Japanese art of flower arranging � Jacqueline Wilson talks books � Half term activities � Ewell’s Roman legacy

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Editor’s Tips Wife carrying anyone?

12 Guest writer A preview of Derek E Pearson’s new release, Soul Asylum 15 Coffee Break 16 How Roman rule defined the village Ewell’s Roman legacy

Features 6 The joy of books Bestselling author Jacqueline Wilson headlines reading festival 8 Festival countdown A celebration of the arts 10 Mimi & Me ‘Allo ‘Allo star shares memories of hit comedy

11 Living flowers The Japanese art of floral arrangementsa 14 Chocolate box of delights Epsom chocolatier Sara Jane Chapman 19 The Good Life In the kitchen with chef David Gillott 24 Music @ St Martin’s Spring recitals 27 Lavender Rooftops Spreading nature 27 Gardening Tips Get weeding 28 Half term fun Entertain the kids over the holidays 32 Countryside Fashion Gamebirds Clothing 33 Words Poems by Lauren Merin

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WELCOME

Trees laden with pretty pink cherry blossom are starting to bloom, signalling the arrival of spring.

Spring is just around the corner.

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The evenings are slowly getting a little brighter, trees are developing the first green shoots of new life and blooms are making an appearance, although the sight of daffodils in January due to the unseasonably mild weather brought a welcome touch of colour to the long winter days.

EDITOR’S TIPS

These new beginnings often serve as a catalyst for our own endeavours, whether that’s trying a sport or hobby or taking the first steps on the road to starting a new business venture or change in career.

Getting carried away There’s nothing more likely to test your devotion to your other half than throwing them on your back and hot-footing it over a series of obstacles.

But that’s exactly what runners will be doing on March 6 at the ninth UK Wife Carrying Race at the Nower, Dorking.

Entrants will have to negotiate a 380m course, which includes a 15m ascent, followed by a 15m descent and a series of obstacles all while carrying their ‘wife’ over their shoulders.

So why sit back and wait for it to happen?

This month’s out&about has inspiration for new pastimes.

We’re looking ahead to Epsom’s first arts festival and celebrating the entrepreneurial talent of some of the borough’s small businesses which have been born from a change in circumstances.

So sit back and enjoy. And if you have a project or business success to share or if you have written a book or short story that you want to see in print then get in touch.

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There’s also the added challenge of dodging buckets of water thrown by spectators along the route.

Wife carrying is believed to date back more than 12 centuries to 793AD when Viking raiders rampaged into Lindisfarne on the northeast coast of what is now England, destroying a monastery and carrying off unwilling women.

Today’s event is a far friendlier, if not more competitive, affair.

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LOCAL BUSINESS

THE JOY OF READING Children’s writer Jacqueline Wilson comes to Ewell as part of ReadingZone festival Bestselling children’s author Jacqueline Wilson will talk about her life and work at a three-day festival of reading.

The writer, famous for the Tracy Beaker series of books, will headline the ReadingZone Surrey Festival at Bourne Hall, Ewell.

During the event fans will be able put questions to the writer and hear about her latest work.

Throughout the day there will be book readings and a range of fun activities inspired by stories for younger children, as well as a chance to meet Sibéal Pounder, author of Witch Wars.

From 4pm young readers can enjoy a special Beast Quest Adventure. Help the good wizard Aduro and the heroes of Avantia to free the beasts from Malvel’s evil spell.

Tickets for both the Jacqueline Wilson and Beast Quest Adventure cost £5 and are available from Epsom Playhouse on 01372 742555, www.epsomplayhouse.co.uk

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COMMUNITY

FESTIVAL COUNTDOWN out&about talks to the organisers of Epsom’s first arts festival too, with bespoke milliners and glovemakers setting up shops to sell to the wealthy tourists.

“With MGSO4, we really want to recapture the energy and excitement of that era. Epsom and Ewell has so much to offer. There are some incredibly talented students and staff at UCA, Laine Theatre Arts and NESCOT who are all working in isolated pockets. We also have fabulous choirs, bands, writers and performers who aren’t getting enough opportunities to show what they can do. MGSO4 wants to shine a light on those people and enable everyone to join in and enjoy the arts.

“We all spend so much time sitting at computers and checking our phones nowadays, it’s easy to forget the simple pleasure and feeling of wellbeing that you can get from drawing, or from singing out loud. We have a fantastic team of volunteers who are all very excited to be creating something brand new with the whole community.”

In My Mind’s Eye by Ewell artist Elly Wright

MGSO4 is an independent not-for-profit organisation, run by volunteers, and has applied for charity status. The Festival will be accessible and inclusive, and organisers are working with schools, care homes and groups including The Sunnybank Trust and Conquest Art.

What started as an open letter suggesting that the arts provision in Epsom appeared to be lacking has spiralled into a desire to put the arts firmly at the forefront of the community.

A group of volunteers has taken the idea of staging a festival showcasing Epsom’s artistic talent and run with it. Within the space of six months a committee has been formed, a date set, venues sourced and a programme of events almost finalised for Epsom’s first MGSO4 festival.

The name MGSO4 has been inspired by the chemical formula for Epsom Salts, which first made the area famous almost 400 years ago.

Workshops, exhibitions, live performances and outdoor events will be held over the course of the three-day festival in June covering music, art, theatre, dance, literature, film and photography. Artists Brett Lohn and Elly Wright have already signed up to take part.

The festival relies entirely on charitable donations and organisers are appealing for support. Visit mgso4festival.org or email hello@mgso4festival.org to find out how you can make a donation.

See the April edition of out&about for the latest news and programme of events for the three-day festival

MGSO4 Festival, June 24-26, www.mgso4festival.org @mgso4festival

One of the festival organisers, Maria Reeves said: “The borough does have an incredible history of attracting artists and entrepreneurs. Back in the 18th century, the celebrities of the day visited from all over Europe, and stayed for the whole summer season to drink and bathe in the famous mineral waters. The streets were filled with people promenading and there was dancing every night. It really was the place to be seen. It was a great place for artisan businesses

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LOCAL TALENT

LISTEN VERY CAREFULLY ‘Allo ‘Allo star relives best moments of comedy classic in new show As Mimi Lebonq, actress Sue Hodge became a familiar face in households across the UK as one of the stars of the hit TV comedy ‘Allo ‘Allo.

Nearly 30 years later Sue is taking to the stage, accompanied on piano by her husband Keith ‘Paddington’ Richards, with a behind-the-scenes look at the TV show and the escapades that never made it on to the screen.

At its peak, audiences of more than 20million tuned in to watch the comedy and even today Sue says she is taken aback at the public’s reaction.

“It doesn’t matter where you go. The show’s been sold to about 95 countries. They have shown the entire series 22 times now in Bulgaria.

“Some of the cast visited Bulgaria and that was unbelievable.

The cab drivers were using catchphrases. It’s amazing now in 2016 that people, and younger fans, are still watching the show.”

“It was an absolute thrill being part of television history,” said Sue. “We all got on so well, it was like a family, although we did play some naughty tricks on some of the cast, particularly if we were hanging around waiting to start filming.”

“Mimi is just like me really,” joked Sue, who played the character for 62 episodes. “If you light my touch paper I go off like a rocket, 150mph energy. It’s a big explosion of personality.

“I loved doing all the stunts suggested by those genius writers, David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd. I don’t think today’s BBC health and safety policy would allow us to get away with all the explosions, crushings and flying that we did back then!

“I did everything myself. People ask how they got me to be a baby in a pram. The pram was a genuine sized pram. We cut a hole in the bottom and put a false bottom in it so I could sit inside cross legged.”

There will be a special Q&A in the second half of Sue’s stage show, which comes to Epsom Playhouse on February 25.

“A lot of people ask about Carmen Silvera (Edith in the show) and did she have to train very hard to sing that badly,” said Sue. “The answer to that is no. She couldn’t sing for toffee!”

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LOCAL BUSINESS

LIVING FLOWERS In Japan, flower arranging is an art form encompassing structure, shape and colour Simply translated ikebana means ‘living flowers’.

The Japanese art of flower arranging follows rules about shape, form and structure that give the arrangements a more minimalist look than traditional western arrangements.

Irene Moore, of Epsom, has been practising ikebana, first as a student and now as a teacher, since she was introduced to the art while living in Oman.

She said: “Ikebana is very different to western flower arranging. It’s more like an art, you handle it like you are starting a painting.

“We don’t use oasis, we only use pin cushions to get the flexibility to anchor the flowers, the leaves and branches.

“There are basic formats that you follow. The basic structure of a Japanese flower arrangement is based on three lines, considered in some schools to symbolise Heaven, Earth and Mankind and in others Sun, Moon and Earth.

“Once you master the formats you develop your own creativity. Once you have the structure you play about with space, colour, proportions and so on.”

Irene runs classes in ikebana based on the Sogetsu School of teaching founded by Sofu Teshigahara in 1926. An artist, sculptor and garden designer, he combined the old styles and techniques of ikebana with a belief that the art form should not be bound by rules but allow freedom of expression and creativity.

“Art is something that you have to develop from within,” said Irene. “Everybody has a certain flair you just need to bring it out, to express it in the form of an arrangement. I can give the class the same materials and each student will produce a completely different piece.

“Ikebana is very flexible and it’s creative. We all have busy lives these days with work, housework, things to do. To be sitting down and doing and thinking about nothing but flowers and trying to create something is good. It settles the mind.”

To find out more about the art of Ikebana or to sign up for one of Irene’s classes, visit www.ikebanawithirene.com or call 01372 729733.

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GUEST WRITER

SOUL’S ASYLUM

by Derek E Pearson Since being accepted into the TP sisterhood Katy had learned a lot more about what may have happened to her pimp. She knew about the Dragon and the reasons why the sisterhood wanted the concept of a lethal telepath hushed up.

She reiterated everything she had said before, but now she developed her story differently. Feeling sick and guilty she added doubt and caveats, fudging the details.

‘Now that I’m training with the sisterhood I have a clearer idea of what’s possible for a telepath. What I imagined I felt has never been experienced before, never been known in the entire recorded history of telepathy. That’s why Raaka, Ms Tandon, went ballistic. I’m sorry, Mandy, but now I’m just not so sure any more.’

Mandy knew a liar when she heard one and she was pretty sure she was listening to one now. She wondered why Katy was changing her story. Then it hit her. Of course, the girl joined the sisterhood. She’s singing from the corporate hymn sheet.

‘Thanks, Katy. I’ll bear that in mind. Perhaps we can speak again another day?’

‘I’d be more than happy to join you for a chat anytime, Mandy.

Really, anytime. Just give me a call.’

She knows I’m lying. I’m crap at this.

Now Prius reached into her bag and pulled out a tablet.

She fired it up and found the image she was looking for. It automatically brightened to compensate for the sunlight. She handed it to Woodman and he gazed at it silently for a long moment then looked up straight at the police officer.

Woodman said, ‘Nobody saw the need to perform a deep scan on Brudecker before, so why now?’

Mandy explained about the AI network and showed him the almost identical images from all over the planet. She concluded by sharing Meobius’ belief that whatever the nano biologics were, they were not from Earth.

‘You know something?’ Suddenly Woodman looked and sounded very tired. ‘I’ve always believed that we’re not alone in this universe. I hoped one day we would receive a message from beyond the Solar System or even have a great starship enter Earth orbit and invite us up for some sort of inter-species exchange. Who knows, we might even have something to offer that they don’t know about. As a child I dreamed of galactic empires and wormholes, star drives and voyages across light years of space. It was all so wonderful in my head; and now look at it.’ He gestured with the tablet Katy had handed back to him.

‘Look at it – my first sight of alien life and it’s infesting a chunk of murdered human meat.’

Derek E Pearson is a journalist who lives in Wallington, Surrey, with his wife Sue. Soul’s Asylum is the first in a new trilogy launched with a book signing at Waterstones, Kingston, on February 14, from 2pm-4pm. It follows his enthusiastically reviewed Body Holiday trilogy which is available online and from select bookstores.

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‘If this has been done with special effects I can’t see the join.’

‘Real time, filmed this morning by Moebius.’

‘Where?’

‘Tissue sample in the forensics lab.’

‘Deep scan?’

‘Very.’

‘You saying this is Brudecker?’

‘Yes.’

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Katy craned to look over at the tablet. Chester handed it to her.

She could feel his concern growing. She looked at the image. It meant nothing to her but it had evidently created a mounting sense of unease in the pathologist.

This is his field of expertise. He knows about this stuff and whatever is happening in that image is scaring him really badly.

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LOCAL BUSINESS

CHOCOLATE BOX OF DELIGHTS out&about chats to Epsom’s very own master chocolatier Sara Jane Chapman “I can’t remember a time when I haven’t loved chocolate,” says Sara Jane Chapman.

Although the idea of being surrounded by temptation on a daily basis was far from her mind before she launched her own business.

“About 80% of our business is us going out to customers’ homes. We organise events and parties for every occasion ranging from hen parties to baby showers, children’s and adult birthday celebrations.

An accountant by profession, the arrival of a young family set Sara Jane on the path to looking at new opportunities.

“It’s great fun. We do demonstrations every step of the way and show people how to make things.

Disappointed by a box of chocolates she had bought from a high street store Sara Jane set out on a road of discovery about all things chocolate.

“Everybody gets to take home the chocolates that they have made. It’s a party, it’s a chance for people to come and chat while they are doing things.”

“The packaging was beautiful and elegant, the chocolates looked delicious but I was so disappointed with the taste. I couldn’t tell what the different flavours were.

“I thought I could do better myself. That’s when the idea of working with chocolate came up.”

When she’s not on the road, Sara Jane hosts small parties from the kitchen of her Epsom home and spends much of her week on prep, making the fillings for each party by hand.

After taking training courses and endless trials and practice at home after which Sara Jane admits she wanted to “throw some pans out of the window because it hadn’t worked,” her business was born.

Five years on and business is on the up with Sara Jane and her team taking their chocolate making events and parties on the road around London, Kent and as far afield as Basingstoke.

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Is there ever a day when she would rather not see chocolate. “I never tire of chocolate. I have to remind myself that I don’t want to eat myself out of business!”

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LOCAL HISTORY

EWELL’S ROMAN LEGACY Spared the horrors of conquest, the Romans had a defining role in how the village of Ewell looks today When the Romans came, Ewell already had a long history.

The site of the village has many natural advantages. It stands at the edge of the Downs, where the light soils of the chalk land meet the heavier clays of the London basin, and it is just above the head of the Hogsmill river, which made it a natural crossing point in the days before causeways and bridges. The springs, which later on in the Saxon period would give the village its name, provided fresh water for people and their livestock. Trout could be fished from the river, a skilful fowler could take ducks or wild geese from beside its banks, and shoot the deer and wild boar as they came down to drink.

Gifts to the gods

But there were other, less visible inhabitants. The springs were a place where the world of gods met that of men.

Ancient cultures were quick to see the spirits or powers that inhabited everything in nature – stones, trees and sources of water. Here the other world could be kept friendly by making sacrifices and offering gifts, and here the spirits could be called on to help with life’s problems and to cure disease. Since the Bronze Age people had been throwing objects into the spring as a mark of respect for the spirits. In the last few years before the arrival of the Romans, two valuable gold coins were thrown in.

Currency of this sort was confined to the ruling elites of the late Iron Age, so that people of importance and wealth must have been visiting the area.

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At the time of the Roman conquest, there was no village of Ewell. Instead, people lived in a scatter of farmsteads along the north slope of the Downs. They grazed their sheep on the hills and grew wheat and barley in small fields on the chalk soil. The corn was stored in pits, and ground between quernstones to make bread. West Ewell and the far side of Epsom were uncultivated due to the difficult nature of the soil, and were left wooded for hunting and cattle grazing.

Like other lands east of the River Mole, Ewell seems to have been under the authority of the Cantiaci in Kent. In turn they became subject to the Catuvellauni north of the Thames, and their leader Cunobelinus. During the last years of Celtic independence he was preparing to unite the kingdoms of the south-east, until overtaken by events in 43 AD. Claudius, who had recently been made Emperor, was anxious to prove himself by a successful programme of conquest and launched the invasion of Britain.

Stane Street

As Ewell belonged to a kingdom which was already in league with the Romans, the area was spared the horrors of conquest, but the next generation saw life change for the people of the area. After the occupation plans were made for roads to transport troops between the new centres of power, and one of these would run from the new capital at London to the major military and naval supply base of Noviomagus, near Chichester. This is the

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LOCAL HISTORY The road consisted of a raised bank of gravel mixed with sand known as an agger. On damp ground, as in the surviving stretch along the London Road side of Nonsuch Park, a clay foundation was banked up. The aggers would have been about 20 feet wide with a drainage ditch along each side. There would also have been a wide clear space at each side to provide security against the possibility of ambush. In the area of Staneway a wooden building was demolished to make way for the new road, and the timbers were removed for use elsewhere.

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Roman road that we now call Stane Street, since its original name has not been preserved.

The first Romans to be seen in Ewell would probably have belonged to the survey and construction team for Stane Street. Possibly local people were pressed into gang work on the construction of Stane Street, or perhaps the whole job was handled by the army. Even if the native people did not work on it directly, they would have had food requisitioned from their farms to feed the workforce.

The upheaval and destruction of landmarks would have been as great as that caused by canals, railways or motorways in later generations. People would have seen how unimportant their chiefs and headmen were compared to the new administrators, and the supply of food to the builders probably gave them their first contact with the coinage that was to change the way they did business, and give them a common link with other people across the Empire.

In return, they passed on their traditions to the strangers.

The first Roman coin to be thrown into the sacred springs was a denarius of Mark Antony, which would have been at least seventy years old when offered, and probably part of a soldier’s pay packet.

Stane Street was probably completed by 50 AD and, despite the common understanding of Roman roads, did not follow a single straight line from end to end, regardless of obstacles; instead it followed a series of straight stretches. Military engineers had surveyed the direct line between London and Chichester, 55 miles apart, and assessed the suitability of the terrain for building a road. They found that the direct route would involve a difficult crossing of the River Mole but that this could be avoided by deflecting the course of the road at Ewell. In this way the road would turn straight up onto the down land chalk instead of having to persevere through two more miles of sticky clay soil. Coming from London the road bends left near Glyn House and continues on this new alignment until a point near Windmill Lane, where it turns back parallel to its original course, and so continues to the official posting station at Dorking and onward toward Chichester.

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The Roman government attached great importance to the maintenance of military communication as this enabled troops to move quickly and provided routes for official messengers, couriers with packages, or large shipments of military stores. Stane Street brought Ewell into touch with events throughout Roman Britain. The inhabitants must have watched the people of London fleeing down the road to the coast as Boudicca’s forces burnt the city, and seen the smoke of a burning London, wondering which way the fortunes of war would turn next.

Roman roads were laid out with mutatios or stopping places.

These were buildings where people on official business or authorized persons could find accommodation and be issued with a change of horses, pack animals or vehicles. Such buildings were placed at set distances along Roman roads at intervals of about 14 miles, which was a day’s journey. In thinly occupied country they were set in small, defensible enclosures, while in small towns an inn was given official status. If there was one at Ewell, nothing of it has been found to date. The second mutatio out of London was at Dorking and, at the normal distance, the next one would have been at Merton. However, Merton at that time was very marshy and was perhaps too near London, so Ewell would have made a better stopping point with its ready supply of fresh water.

By the end of the 1st century AD, there were enough buildings along the line of Stane Street to deserve the name of a village. They began near the present Organ Inn, and continued to the upper end of Epsom Road; probably they had begun at the first corner by Church Street and Glyn House, then sprawled outwards along the road as each roadside stall tried to be the first to catch the attention of travellers. But the village was not a squatter settlement; someone must have owned the different building plots, for in the Ewell Grove area a ditch was cut in the second century, parallel with the road, to demarcate their back fence.

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A MASTERCLASS IN COOKING Tucked away from the hustle and bustle of Ashtead Village, chef David Gillott is living the good life and sharing his culinary skills at his Four Gables Food Academy When did you decide you were going to be a chef?

I was 13. I went to Bournemouth and Poole Chef School and spent two out of three years working as an apprentice at One Lombard Street. I worked at Sloane Square and in France before starting my own business in 2008. We grew and expanded to Ashtead.

Has food always played an important role in your life?

Do you believe anyone can cook?

I do. Cooking is a mindset, it’s not rocket science. It’s easy but it’s a case of knowing what you are doing.

What are the courses like at Four Gables?

My mum was a food tech teacher so food was always quite important at home. The thing I love about cooking is taking a box of boring ingredients and finishing with a dish that’s really tasty.

The courses are really, really relaxed. We only do courses for up to six people and we tend to make between six and nine recipes. It’s great fun. We show them some interesting techniques and they get to take home some of the food they have cooked.

Why leave restaurants behind?

What’s your most popular course?

I’m quite a people person. One reason I didn’t want to open my own restaurant was that I couldn’t meet people and chat.

In a kitchen you don’t get to do that really. Moving here gave us the opportunity to open the cookery school, which launched in January 2012.

Running your own business at 27 is quite an achievement

I don’t think of it like that. I’m pretty ambitious. I see my career in two stages. My ‘chef ’ career was great fun. I love being an entrepreneur, I love the challenge of running a business and being successful at it.

Our most popular course is our fish course. We cover lots of techniques; skinning, boning, fishmongering. I love cooking fish, it’s quite specialist.

You’ve said you would like the business to be at least 25% self-sufficient

My aim was to be self sufficient. We get to keep three pigs a year, three lambs and we have chickens and 15 beehives. We also have raised beds in the garden where we grow vegetables.

In the summer we are self-sufficient, in the winter in Britain, less so.

Is knowing the provenance of your food important?

We have a real disassociation with the pigs outside being on the kitchen table. I don’t want to pick up a piece of bacon and not know where it came from. The animals here have a great life. We do all the butchery ourselves so we do the animals complete justice.

What’s your favourite meal?

I love toad in the hole, particularly wth our garlic sausages.

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The PPG is the link between patients and the practice with a view to improving services and providing useful information.

Since its launch the PPG, which covers the Gilbert House surgery, Ashtead, and Linden House surgery, in Leatherhead, has conducted a patient survey, which showed the vast majority of patients were very satisfied, and held two open meetings to inform patients about the group’s plans for the future.

The next PPG open meeting is at 7.30pm on Thursday, April 14, at the Old Chapel, St John’s School, Leatherhead. It will be followed by a talk from a guest speaker from the Princess Alice Hospice.

Music @ St Martin’s returns for 2016 with a diverse programme Set in St Martin of Tours Church, the free classical concerts are a celebration of musical talent featuring artists from some of the UK’s top conservatoires.

The spring recital series includes performances by pianist Melis Omeroglu and baritone Samuel Oram, both former Royal College of Music students.

On Good Friday, resident soprano Natalie Johnson-Hyde will perform an hour long programme of moving and reflective music portraying the final hours of Jesus’ life.

Concerts start at 4.30pm, except the Good Friday recital which will be held at 7.30pm.

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GARDENING IN SPRING Get out into the garden, allotment or to the window-box Buy and plant container-grown snowdrops - add some compost to the soil plus a sprinkling of bonemeal and plant them slightly deeper than they were in the pot. Pot up lily bulbs to flower in early summer in barely moist compost and keep somewhere light and frost free. Only increase watering if the compost dries out or you see shoots appear above the surface; lily bulbs rot easily in overly wet conditions. Bring dahlias out of hibernation and pot them in compost singly or dormitory style in a tray! Keep them somewhere light and frost free.

Sow sweet peas under a cloche or in the greenhouse for a cheery reminder that spring is on the way. Brighten up a dull month with pansies, violas, primroses and heathers, pansies densely packed make for a truly striking display.

as you can - those chilly winds will really help to dry out the soil. Mulch bare soil once you have done the work and remove moss and weeds from paths, terraces and driveways.

They may be boring tasks but if you don’t get on top of the garden now (especially the weeds!) it will be a nightmare for the rest of the season.

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March is the time for a thorough spring clean; weed and dig over your borders incorporating as much organic matter

BRING LAVENDER BACK TO LONDON Marisa Oliveira tells us how we can bring nature to our rooftops Historically, lavender was grown and harvested across areas of London, but as time passed this slowly disappeared from the capital. Wild About Roofs aims to ‘Bring Lavender

Back to London’ and has developed methods to utilise the roof space to grow this beautiful plant. Besides this, it gives you a striking pool of colour attracting bees and butterflies. This year, Wild About Roofs installed some lavender rooftops in both for commercial buildings and for residential projects, creating bespoke solutions. If you love nature you should love our company.

The benefits of a Lavender Roof are countless. A research study from the University of Melbourne, said that a green roof boosted the mental resources controlling attention, which explains why a moment of looking at green roofs (for a mere 40seconds) boosts tired workers. People tend to think that a lavender roof is much more expensive than a standard green roof but the cost is roughly the same.

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HALF TERM Stuck for ideas on how to entertain the kids this half term? Get out of the house and try one of these family days out.

Behind the curtain

What goes on backstage at a theatre? What does it look like? What is an iron? Who does the flying? Where does the sound come from?

All these questions and more will be answered by Epsom Playhouse’s team of technicians who are running free backstage tours for children aged eight plus this February.

A rare opportunity to go behind the scenes of a busy theatre and discover how shows are staged as well as getting to peek inside the dressing rooms.

Tours last approximately one hour and must be booked in advance. Spaces are limited to 20 on each tour, with only one adult per family group.

Epsom Playhouse, February 17, 12pm and 2.30pm, www. epsomplayhouse.co.uk, 01372 742555/742227

Puppet show

There be magic and strange goings on at the mystical world of Hobbledown.

Over half term the children’s farm will be staging puppet shows at Topperpot’s Teepee Theatre and there will be sessions each day when your little ones can get up close and meet some of Hobbledown’s animals.

There are also quests to carry out, face-painting and plenty of play areas to explore from underground tunnels and mazes to the Tree Top Climbing Towers and the daring High Ropes course.

Hobbledown, Horton Lane, Epsom, KT19 8PT, www. hobbledown.com, 0843 289 4979

Spring lambs

February is the start of lambing season at Bocketts Farm with up to 90 lambs due from February 12. Visit over half term

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There will also be birds of prey flying demonstrations and a chance to meet the farm’s miniature Shetland ponies, with the Pony Parlour open for pony grooming sessions.

What’s more, there’s plenty of activities including pony rides, tractor rides, animal handling and pig racing to watch and enjoy. Outdoors are the jumping pillows, pedal go karts and play trails while the indoor play barn means you can have fun whatever the weather.

Bocketts Farm, Young Street, Fetcham, Leatherhead, KT22 9BS, February 13-21, www.bockettsfarm.co.uk, 01372 363764

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Discover how the medieval knights helmet and weapons changed over the centuries. From the basic helmet of the Normans to those worn in the War of the Roses, which covered the entire face. See why the helmets needed to change as weapons became heavier and more deadly and also to provide protection from the great arrow storms that were part of medieval battles.

Bourne Hall Museum, Spring Street, Ewell, KT17 1UF, February 13, 1pm-2.30pm, 0208 394 1734

Party pooches

Take a stroll through the grounds of Polesden Lacey estate and uncover the secret life of Edwardian hostess Margaret Greville’s beloved pet dogs.

For the holidays there will be a family trail around the grounds to find her dog Tokio’s friends who are all dressed up for a very special party. Can you spot them?

Polesden Lacey, Great Bookham, February 13-21, 10am3.30pm, http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/polesden-lacey, 01372 452048.

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COUNTRYSIDE FASHION Sarah Wood, founder and director of Gamebirds Clothing talks to out&about My friend, Cindy Boundy and I created Gamebirds clothing in 2015. I used to be in finance and then freelance website design so I am used to working for myself. However, starting your own business in a totally new industry, designing and manufacturing clothing from scratch has been an interesting journey. It came out of a long-term frustration with finding comfortable, functional yet stylish clothing for women who enjoy country pursuits. Our initial focus was on designing clothes for women who shoot. Most ladies shooting clothing is designed by men who just “shrink it and pink it.�

Our core range launched in September has been really well received and is perfect for anyone who enjoys getting out in the countryside, or indeed Richmond Park, and wants to look elegant and stylish. Our skinny range is fantastic with the skinny cord Partridge trousers and skinny moleskin Pheasant trousers becoming big hits! Breeks are becoming more and more popular not only in shooting circles but with women who want to walk in boots but not have their trousers uncomfortably stuffed down them. This spring will see an exciting range of spring/summer shirts and accessories!

All our products, despite being created with shooting ladies in mind, are equally perfect for dog walkers, country amblers or women who like the country style.

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WORDS Poetry by Lauren Merin Tragedy

All I have to do to know where you are is check the theatre schedule. Are you a player tonight or do you watch the acts unfold from behind the spread of red curtains, your fan of cue cards blending in the backdrop? The apple caught in the heroine’s teeth has been laced; you feign surprise, staged. I see where you go with your dagger, velvet mouth lying.

Now you are in the audience, sitting up high in a box, the balcony a many-colored balloon to take you out of yourself. The tragedy is even when you aren’t acting out, you are on stage—click—echo—light—and that I cannot tell you from which trick— however slick—you perform for me through two lips.

Lessons

In second grade I was told to answer my own question, to look up something I wanted to know more than anything else.

Who made the sky blue?

My dad said, “How ‘bout the history of the piano?”

My mom said, “We’ll use the encyclopedia.”

She dictated and I wrote.

Pianoforte and clavichord, Cristofori-somebody-or-other, fake white curly wig— like a girl’s hair—and those high heels too. I wanted to know something much bigger.

My dad thought it was way over my head and my mom— her’s too—and he chuckled, closed the book and bought me piano lessons.

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Tarantula

Just when the desert had convinced me that spiders are good luck you scuttled across the floor and circled me twice.

Three time’s a charm.

It’s getting cooler.

Cobbled cloud cover and wind tendrilling in, I can’t tell from which direction you came.

You swirled without boundaries with impunity to physics, you felt at home here, tarantula.

I let you worship all over me, I moved your rocks around so I could put my weight on you, a billion living cells crenated.

You showed me how to collect rainwater as I slandered you.

You showed up for sunset and there was water enough to weep, to look you square in the web I caught you in.

I said you couldn’t come back. For the third time I said who let you in?

You caught me.

Lauren Merin is a second year MFA student at Kingston University. She grew up in the Sonoran desert in Tucson, AZ and currently lives in London. Her interests include poetry, gardening, evolutionary biology, teaching, cats, social justice, fiction, and challenging gender normativity.

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