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From the Editor
Welcome to Look Local in September! I do hope you all enjoyed a great summer!
Team Look Local had a lovely break and we also took the opportunity to refresh our computer systems here in the office, so we are all enjoying
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Contents
10 CLAYGATE FLOWER SHOW 16 GARDENING WITH SELINA Selina looks at how to make the most of all the seasons.
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our speedy new computers as we ease back into work mode! I hope you enjoy our colourful coverage of the Claygate Flower and Village Show which took place during the summer. A great time was had by all and it is a total pleasure to share the day with you here all over again. I spent a great morning visiting Bruce’s Doggy Day Care recently. Bruce shared some exciting news with me: due to popular demand, he has just opened a second centre! He really does offer a wonderful service. Find out more inside. We also have news about the Elmbridge Food Festival, which will be taking place at the end of September. It certainly sounds like a great event. In addition to this, you can read about the Oasis Children’s and Family Centre which recently received an amazing donation from a wonderful lady. This lovely charity help families all over Elmbridge, and it was a
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pleasure to visit and find out more about their work.
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Wishing you all a great month!
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conversion, adding a double bedroom & ensuite to the property. Everything went exactly to plan so after a short break the couple instructed L&E to begin on the extension. Creating a light kitchen was the main part of the brief, but Tom & Katherine were so happy with the quality of L&E’s work that the project turned into a total refurbishment, with work being done in every room. The L&E team fitted a new bathroom, skimmed all the downstairs walls, redecorated & also laid a new floor in the lounge. A chimney breast was removed in one of the bedrooms & the team were even able to help with the garden. Tom explains, “I’d had a quote from a landscape gardener, which was pretty expensive so I’d decided to put the garden on hold, but then the foreman offered to build a patio & lay grass & did a great job.” As well as being accommodating the L&E team were good to work with. “The building team were a friendly bunch of lads who worked really hard. In fact, they turned up for work on a bank holiday & we had to send them away,” laughs Tom. “They were very good with regards timescales & once the worked started it took exactly the length of time they said.” So, now the project is complete, how do the couple feel about their home? “It’s like living in a new house & we’re really happy with it. I love the island in the kitchen - it’s so light & such a nice place to sit - when it was first put in I think I sat there all day!” laughs Tom. “I would absolutely recommend L&E, they did exactly what they said they were going to & were polite guys who were really nice to work with. We’re delighted with the quality of the work.”
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It’s the seasons & the vastness of the sky that make being outside so special & so different. The seasons are an important way of connecting with the rhythms of nature, & if your garden is designed for each season, there is always something to look forward to & we can appreciate each season for what it is & for the treasures it brings us in our garden. A garden which has been designed for all seasons will not give you a particular peak week of stunning flowers, but a gentle comfort of knowing that it’s not all over. There are a few special rules that I have discovered for success in a seasonally-complete garden. Create areas for a particular seasonal peak, so that the impact is not too piecemeal. Thus, a winter area can be close to a well-used route & a spring area close to a path, so that you can walk to it even if the ground is a bit wet. This means that there will be pockets of pleasure even on a miserable January day. Play to seasonal strong points: for example, spring is about bulbs & these can be designed into every part of the garden, meaning that the whole garden can be transformed for spring. Autumn to me is about the scents & colours of autumn leaves, so choose key plants carefully &
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they will give you interest not only in spring or summer, but also provide a burst of autumn colour. There is a gorgeous smallish tree that smells of burnt sugar as it loses its leaves, Cercidiphyllum japonicum. I have this tree next to where I park my car and it smells delicious. Winter shapes & skeletons are important & the scale & proportions in the garden become increasingly important. If you have got the design right, the shapes & structure of your garden in winter should be as pleasing as the colours of summer. Pay attention especially to the main views from the house & make sure you include winter flowers in places that you can easily see them from the house or close to a door.
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Summer is easier & it’s just a question of creating a long season of interest by ensuring you have planted for that dismal moment when you get back from summer holiday. Include asters, sedums & grasses to give a late summer ‘pick me up’ & of course cut back any tired-looking perennials before you go away, as they may reward you with another flush of flowers when you get back. Selina Botham is an awardwinning garden designer, based in Claygate. If you would like to improve & make the best of your garden & need some professional help, contact Selina for an initial garden consultation on 07894 553 202 or see her website www. designsforallseasons.co.uk & her facebook or twitter SelinaBotham
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he Elmbridge Food Festival returns to Painshill in Cobham on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September 2015 with a host of local food and drink producers, live cookery demonstrations, musical performers and children’s entertainment. More than 9000 people attended the 2014 inaugural Food Festival, and based on this year’s line-up of activities, a similar strong attendance is expected. Entry and car parking for all visitors to Painshill will be free over the course of the weekend. Gates will open each day at 10.30am and close at 5pm. Leader of Elmbridge Borough Council, Councillor John O’Reilly, said the Festival put the spotlight on all the great food and drink the area had to offer. “Our first ever Elmbridge Food Festival was a standout success and we want to continue to focus on local producers, restaurants and high quality, artisan food-based businesses based throughout the borough,” Cllr O’Reilly said. “I encourage all residents and visitors to Elmbridge to come along to the Food Festival at Painshill, to sample all the wonderful produce, experience the live cookery demonstrations, relax in the picnic area and mostly, to enjoy all that the Festival has to offer.” The Elmbridge Food Festival, organised by Elmbridge Borough Council in partnership with Painshill, will have over 45 stalls, showcasing local food producers and restaurants, including;
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· BUMBLEBEE CUPCAKES
- delicious-tasting, stylishly finished cakes and cupcakes The Food and Drink Theatre will be the hub of the Festival, with live demonstrations throughout the weekend, while music from Brooklands Radio and the Ember Big Band, among others, will fill the air. The whole family will be catered for, as the bigger and better ‘Little Foodies’ children’s area returns to the Festival. A full programme of children’s entertainment will be available on both days and will include arts and crafts activities, face painting, balloon modelling, Tudor-style sweet making with Elmbridge Museum and a treasure trail around Painshill with the Elmbridge Countryside team. A detailed line-up of all stalls, Food and Drink Theatre events, music acts and children’s entertainment is available from the Council’s website elmbridge.gov.uk/foodfestival or follow @DiscoverElmb on Twitter to keep up-to-date with all Festival details.
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Tart blackberries, sweet pears & wholegrain muesli give a great contrast of flavours & textures. Prep time: 15 mins Total time: 50 - 55
Cooking time: 35 - 40 mins
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300g blackberries 2 ripe pears, peeled, cored & roughly chopped 1 tbsp lemon juice 3 tbsp light brown muscovado sugar 150g Bacheldre Watermill Stoneground Spelt Flour 100g cold butter, cubed 50g Dorset Cereals Super Cranberry, Cherry & Almond Muesli
METHOD Preheat the oven to 180°C, Gas Mark 4. Lightly grease
a 1-litre shallow ovenproof dish. Place the blackberries & chopped pears in the bottom of the dish & sprinkle over the lemon juice & 1 tablespoon of the sugar. Set aside while you make the crumble topping. Place the flour in a bowl, add the butter & rub in lightly with your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Stir in the remaining sugar & the muesli. Sprinkle the crumble topping over the fruit & press down lightly. Place the dish on a baking tray & cook for 35-40 mins until the topping is golden brown, the blackberries are just releasing their juices & the pears are tender. Allow to stand for about 10 mins before serving with clotted cream.
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a fun time. The fifteen acres of land which Bruce’s Doggy Day Care covers is so well used and very much enjoyed by these lucky hounds. It was also lovely to see Bruce, although he isn’t quite as entertaining as his four-legged clients! He was happy to welcome me and excited to share some wonderful news too: due to overwhelming demand, he is opening a second Doggy Day Care Centre in nearby Ripley. I went with him to visit the new centre, another similar set-up, with space for his canine clients to run free and enjoy their time away from home while their owners are busy. It has taken a little while to prepare, as new purposebuilt buildings have been constructed to offer shelter from the weather, and these include a top-of-the-range grooming salon. Dog-proof fencing and secure gates all
round, of course! It really is very smart indeed. The offroad position offers plenty of space for the vans to drive in and out and it should all work very well. The other good news is that Bruce will now be able to accommodate all those on his waiting list, and his growing business will also bring more employment to the local area. He is now able to cover more areas, and his service now encompasses Twickenham, Teddington, Thames Ditton and Guildford. Bruce has quite a team of dog carers and drivers these days. He really does offer amazing human-to-dog ratios, so it is wonderful
how much personal love, attention and affection each dog receives. More newly-branded vans will be out and about, collecting and dropping off his lucky local canine customers. As I mentioned above, a grooming salon has been included on site, and there will be an in-house groomer available as a bookable service for his clients. Many dog breeds need regular attention to their coats and this will be a wonderful addition to his business. Look Local would like to be one of the first to congratulate Bruce on his continued success!
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• £20,000 donated by Charlotte Grobien, OBE, of Give-it-away for high need families. • Staff moved to tears by generosity. • Donation secures the future of Oasis Outreach service for vulnerable children across Elmbridge. £20,000 was donated recently to Oasis Children’s Centre for vulnerable children and their families across Elmbridge. Charlotte Grobien, OBE, of the company Give-itaway, chose to support Oasis Children’s Centre after hearing about them whilst working on a development project in Woking. Charlotte founded the company in 2005 and has undertaken many projects since, developing and building properties, the total profits of which she then donates to children and young people in need. Charlotte’s focus for donations are always local to the project on which she’s working; she uses local contractors and suppliers each time and is at the heart of every project. Charlotte continues this ethos with her charity donations, choosing four local non-
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profit organisations or charities each time, and always remaining very much involved in all the charities that she supports. Charlotte said: “I found out about the Oasis Centre through researching local charities that care for vulnerable children. When I visited the centre and met with Caroline, the founder, it was clear to me the work they do is essential to the community of Elmbridge. I wanted to help them to continue to look after these extremely vulnerable children and their families, to help them to rebuild their lives and make positive choices” Caroline Edwards, founder of the Oasis Centre, said: “The tragic fact is that there are many hundreds of vulnerable children and families living in Elmbridge who need our help. This was highlighted just last week when Ofsted reported its findings on Surrey County Councils Children’s Services, labelling them ‘inadequate’ and the serious failings are putting children at risk. Sadly, we see the result of these failings daily within our outreach work
in the community. Receiving funding from Charlotte is incredible because it allows us to continue to look after the families on our register, tailoring individual care plans, running our 24 hr helpline for emergency situations, such as domestic abuse, and putting long-term supportive packages in place so that families and children have a chance of a better future”. Based in Cobham at the new Cedar Centre, the Oasis charity offers a lifeline to many families within Elmbridge across all social circles. Families and children access our services for a wide range of reasons, from social isolation and poverty to children and adults who have suffered all kinds of abuse. Oasis works tirelessly in conjunction with Social Services teams to protect and safeguard vulnerable children and families in Elmbridge, looking at the cause, rather than just the symptoms of families in crisis. All of this is done on a running cost of £150,000 a year, 80% of which is raised through donations and fundraising. If you think you can help Oasis, please do
get in touch via our website www.oasischildrenscentre. co.uk or if you wish to simply donate, please use our Just Giving page www.justgiving.com/oasischildcare Thank you. Local statistics • Nationally, one in four women experiences domestic abuse. In Elmbridge, this figure is 1 in 3. • 30% of Surrey children are living in poverty. • With public funding cuts and a lack of adequate children’s services in Surrey, the need for charities like Oasis is higher than ever to protect these children. • Last year, Oasis helped over 300 families to improve their lives and build a better future.
For further information, please contact: Oasis Children’s Centre 01932 887947 info@oasischildcare.co.uk Visit www.oasischildcare.co.uk
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eather Wood, CEO at Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity, has shaved her head in a bid to raise £7,000 to help support families with a terminally ill child. She did this in honour of all of the families the charity supports, and also her own nephew who has cancer. Heather courageously took to the chair on 17 June 2015 for the chop and Look Local was delighted to attend! Heather has been the CEO at Rainbow Trust since the charity began in 1986. During this time, she has seen the charity grow from the early days when it supported just a handful of families to now, when it is able to help over 1,800 of the 6,000 families with a seriously ill child in England at any one point. In 2014, Heather’s nephew was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma, a type of bone cancer, and he underwent chemotherapy treatment. Heather commented: “I have undertaken a number of challenges during my time at Rainbow Trust including a wing walk and a skydive. This year, I wanted to do something personal in a bid to raise as much money as possible.
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Over the years, I have met many families with a child with a life-threatening or terminal illness. The effects on the whole family can be devastating, but having some support at this difficult time can be really invaluable. I wanted to play my part and do something to help Rainbow Trust get closer to its goal and offer help to all families in England with a seriously ill child.” Rainbow Trust is a national charity which offers emotional and practical support for the whole family, from their child’s diagnosis, during treatment and, if needed, through bereavement and beyond. It relies almost entirely on voluntary donations, and thanks to its generous supporters, is able to help families across the UK at these very difficult times. To make a donation in support of Heather’s head shave, please visit http://uk.virginmoneygiving. com/Heatherwood or call 01372 220086 to make a donation over the phone. Well done, Heather, you are an amazing lady. I am very sure your new hairstyle will helping many families over the coming months.
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This big, brash comfort zone of an SUV is so clever & loaded with handy driver aids that you feel you could feed in your destination, let it get on with the ride & sleep off the journey, stretched across the club-class back seat. Trouble is, you’d miss the fun & total pleasure of sitting behind the steering wheel with its racy paddle gear shifts & revelling in this latest BMW’s finemannered behaviour, whatever the weather or conditions. It’s as if the legendary manufacturers who build this car at their Spartanburg plant in South Carolina, USA, opted to don their thinking caps & fit out their pride & joy with every gizmo that they could imagine might be of use. The original BMWX5, this one’s elder relative, was destined to become a pacemaker in family-friendly transport, & this newcomer, the XDrive40E, could be mistaken by its looks for its predecessors. Wrong! This baby is far removed from its sibling - a hush-hush treat of silence even at 70mph, when the only invasion into the luxurious cabin is the swish of its tyres & the amiably gentle rush of wind.The exclusive gentlemen’s club lounge discreet atmosphere, even at speed on a motorway, induces those sitting around the leatherwork to lower
their voices to non-intrusive whispers. And BMW has proved that big is not necessarily clumsy, with a dasher from stop to top speed that adeptly makes deft progress & light work of whatever bumps & potholes loom threateningly into path. This is where those gizmos come into play, with innovative automatic solutions to whatever hazard bids to unsettle the BMW’s elegance in motion. There is not enough room here to list them all, but I would point out a navigation system fitted as standard, that makes allowances & figures out traffic situations, your route’s characteristics & even your driving style & requirements to steer you economically and safely to where you want to be. Oh, & buzzers to let you know if you’ve wandered out of your lane, are in danger of being walloped from the rear end or running into a collision or a traffic jam, & a night vision system that distinguishes
between pedestrians & animals. Phew!!! Need I say more? This plug-in hybrid suffers no vibration, no noise, & mercifully for skinflints like me, reduces petrol guzzling to a comparative trickle on its all-wheel drive. A clever marriage of technology with down-to-earth thinking teams its twolitre turbo-charged petrol engine with a synchronous electric motor for a combined power show of 308bhp. And minimally low emissions. The battery can be plugged in at home & recharged in around 4 hours which, on its own, gives you a range of 19 miles with a top speed of 75mph, although that pace would seriously cut back the range. For a techno dunce like me, still in awe of the wonder of on-off light switches, the X5’s help modes which sort themselves out & find their way through an ultra-smooth eight-speed automatic transmission, are a wonder. Overall, BMW has come up with a winner in a heavily-contested SUV market where plug-ins are fast becoming the rage. Specification: BMWX5 Drive40e. Engine: 1997cc, 4-cylinders, turbo plus electric motor. Power 308bhp. Transmission: 8-speed automatic Performance 0-62mph in 6.6 secs. Topspeed 130mph. Fuel 85.6mpg. Price (UK) Approx £52,000.
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Welcome back to our autumn programme which, once again, will provide a rich variety of high class performances. We are delighted to start our regular series of lunchtime concerts with a return visit from Chris Bundhun, a Royal Academy of Music alumnus, on solo guitar. The series will then feature brass & woodwind (euphonium & flute respectively) over the following two months, concluding in December with a rousing “Come & Sing Carols” to herald the Christmas season. Full details can be found on our website below. Our concerts are free of charge & include a light lunch. Bring a friend & have an enjoyable mid-week break.
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or the month of June, The Art Agency donated a % of every Pam Carter sale to the Save The Children Nepal Appeal. The show was a great success and we are pleased to be handing over a cheque for £1645. “Pam’s main inspiration is in the Scottish land and seascape. She enjoys using colour to define contours, structure and changing light sequences. She searches out specific view points. She’s inspired equally by the rugged isolation of the Western Isles and the dramatic view points of the Eastern coastline. She works predominantly in oil”. We’re also extremely excited to announce that we’ll be moving to bigger premises over the road on 1 August. We will re-open on Thursday 13th August at 118 – 120 High Street, Esher. We are planning a diary of events for the autumn, so please contact emma@theartagency.co.uk to get invites
for workshops, artist talks and birthday drinks. EVENTS AT THE ART AGENCY - Fri 2nd October 7.30pm, 4th Birthday Party - free event - Sat 3rd October Join Nicky Chubb painting in the Gallery - free event - Tues 6th October Jake Winkle Watercolour Day £65 RSVP for all to emma@theartagency.co.uk To see more examples of the artists’ work, please visit
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Hub Words page 37 9-letter word - ENIGMATIC. Some other words of four letters or more containing the hub letter G: cage, gain, gait, game, gate, gent, geta, gnat (UK), giant, icing, image, magic, mange, tinge, acting, aiming, citing, eating, enigma, ignite, magnet, mating, taming, timing, imagine, mintage, teaming, magnetic.
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rightwater Brewery was established in August 2012 and started brewing in January 2013. Our first brew was our flagship golden ale ‘Daisy Gold’. We now have 6 beers in the range and supply pubs, clubs, beer festivals and our own recently opened micro pub ‘Platform 3’ next to Claygate Station. Our ethos is to produce quality real ales that have balanced flavours, using the very best ingredients we can obtain. Since opening ‘Platform 3’, we have had so many kind compliments and remarks that have really made the whole process worthwhile. There is nothing better than being congratulated by someone for something that you have made from scratch. We have also been surprised how quickly word has spread about what we are doing, with visitors from as far away as Scotland and the USA. We promise anyone who is thinking of visiting us that they will get a warm welcome, a selection of our beers and an experience of drinking in what is probably the
smallest licenced premises in the country. We serve Brightwater Brewery real ales, all made locally in Claygate, Surrey, straight from the cask to drink in or take home in 4 pint flagons or 5 litre mini kegs. A selection of soft drinks, wine, cider and nibbles are also available for purchase. Dogs and kids are welcome, and there’s easy access for disabled people, as there are two disabled parking spaces right next to Platform 3. No need to drive as people can come by train, but easy parking as the car park’s directly behind the pub, plus a cycle rack right next to the pub. Our core opening hours are Thursday and Friday 3.00pm – 9.00pm and Saturday 11.00am – 9.00pm. Keep an eye out for Platform 3 Bonus Days, extra opening hours that we post on our website and to our Twitter and Facebook followers. Follow us on Twitter @SmallestPubinUK www.facebook.com/Platform3SmallestPubinUK Website: www.brightbrew.co.uk
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ou may remember that we included recently a feature about Sam Irving, a local ten year old. Sam was preparing to climb Kilimanjaro in aid of ‘The Haller Foundation’. By using education, the foundation aims to alleviate poverty in East Africa. Sam & his mother Ros successfully completed their climb! Here we have a brief account of their amazing trip. They climbed as a group of 17 people; 15 of the group, including Sam & Ros, summited the 5,895m high Mount Kilimanjaro on Monday morning 15th June at 7.15am. In order to reach the summit, they had to set off from Barafu camp (at an altitude of 4,600 meters) at midnight on the Sunday night. Wearing their head torches & about 8 layers of clothes to protect them against the cold & the wind, they clambered over boulder fields & up steep inclines of slippery scree until they finally made it to the top. One of the first highlights was arriving at Stella Point, which is about 1,000 feet below the summit. The sun was just coming up, & following their six & a half hour of walk in the dark at high altitude, the sunrise was a beautiful & welcome reward for the climbers. Another 45 minutes uphill led them to the summit. Everyone in the group by now was feeling the effects of the altitude in one way or another! To give you some idea of the conditions, the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro (at 5,895metres above sea level) is higher than Base Camp Everest, & higher than the start of the Khumbu Icefall on Everest. Some of the team felt nauseous, or had headaches, dizziness & even shortness of breath. This is because the air is very thin at this height. Despite a few bouts of nausea along the way, Sam trekked at the front of the group & although he received encouragement from the mountain guides, he took every single step himself & reached the summit totally unaided. What an amazing achievement at the age of only ten! The photo attached shows the team holding their banner at the summit. It looks very cold: in fact, it was at least
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minus 10 degrees, so they didn’t hang around very long before starting the descent to more comfortable conditions. A fair bit of preparation was involved in getting ready for this trip; this was in the form of various training treks, which were also pretty arduous but very much enjoyed by Sam and Ros. So far, the group has raised £47,000 for their chosen charity, The Haller Foundation. The weblink for donations is here:https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/ capacityclimbers The Foundation is a small charity that brings sanitation programs & clean water to remote rural communities. The work these funds will be put to will be directly measurable, as they will work with Haller to determine jointly how the money is spent. The communities will also be consulted to see how best the money should be spent (in ways such as a bio loo, rain fed dam, well construction and so on) We think Sam is one of only a handful of people his age to have completed the summit climb successfully & is possibly the youngest British boy to have followed the Machame route successfully. Look Local says very well done, Sam!! (and Ros too!! )
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