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LookLocal Summer 2016

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Welcome to our double month, summer issue! There are lots of lovely summer events going on locally over the next few months and we have shared a few highlights on our ‘What’s On’ page for you to peruse. And of course, the West End Flower Show

is coming up soon too. This is a really lovely and very popular local event, well worth a visit. Details within… There is also news on a fabulous Food Festival taking place at nearby Sandown, so if you fancy going along, check out the details. We are delighted to welcome a selection of new businesses to our

Contents

6 ASK BRUCE

Read Bruce’s column about canine swimming lessons

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pages this month too. I hope you find our magazine a helpful reference when looking for services locally. If you would like to advertise your business, please do not hesitate to get in touch. I would be very pleased to hear from you. That’s about it for now. We are off on our travels in August but we look forward to bringing you more local news in September … Wishing you all a lovely summer, stay safe and have fun ! Warmest regards,

See what’s on in and around Esher in July and August

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SUDOKU & HUB WORDS SANDOWN FOOD FESTIVAL GARDENING WITH SELINA ELMBRIDGE VOLUNTEERS WHAT’S COOKING? MUSIC MATTERS MUSIC ON THE GREEN CROSSWORD

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D O G G Y PA D D L E This month, we tackle swimming lessons canine-style, as requested by reader Michele who has a six-year-old boxer that loves to paddle but never actually swims. Swimming is an excellent source of exercise for dogs. It’s great for building muscle strength without putting too much pressure on their joints, which is why it’s often used as a post-injury rehabilitation tool. Some breeds, particularly labradors and spaniels, take to it, well, like a duck to water! Others, such as chihuahuas and pugs, are very reluctant. Boxers can and do swim, but are not renowned for it. This is partly due to their small tail and muzzle design, neither of which makes for natural doggy water-babies. Here at Bruce’s Doggy Day Care, our dogs love to swim and learn from each other. We have large paddling pools for them to swim in and smaller ones just for splashing around. For the less confident swimmers, the smaller paddling pools help familiarise them with water and build their confidence. They can then watch their other four-legged friends swimming in the larger pools and eventually join in too. Like children, dogs learn from other dogs and tend to copy. What better encouragement than seeing your pals having a splash and wanting to join in? As a result, we’ve seen breeds that stereotypically don’t like water turn into voracious swimmers – including boxers! Bruce Casalis is director & founder of Bruce’s Doggy Day Care, a multi-award winning business in Esher.

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WEST END VILLAGE FLOWER SHOW RETURNS SATURDAY AUGUST 27

Traditional Bank Holiday family fun in an idyllic village green setting, all in aid of local good causes. This August Bank Holiday Saturday will see the picturesque village green in West End, Esher, with its duck pond, cricket pitch and unspoilt woodland, burst into life with a host of attractions, stalls, activities, competitions and tasty treats to keep the whole family entertained. It’s the perfect setting for a Great British summer day out, and best of all, entry is free! The focal point is the spectacular marquee, displaying prize-winning flowers, fruit and vegetables, keeping alive the origins of the show which has now been running for over 60 years. It also plays host to competitions for baking, handicrafts and photography. Other top attractions include: • A children’s sports tournament to give your little ones a chance to shine • The Arts and Crafts marquee with tons more on offer this year • A village Tug O’War to test your strength

• The famous Smash a Plate stall • Dunk the Damsel stall, featuring some brave local volunteers • Traditional fairground rides • Punch and Judy show • Local favourite Matto the Clown • Our very own Kennel Club-affiliated Dog Show for your four-legged friends • A huge array of stalls selling everything from local produce and cakes to pocket-money toys and books • Indulgent afternoon teas • And much, much more! Young or old, there really is something for everyone to enjoy. West End’s bank holiday weekend festivities are set to raise over £10,000 for local good causes. The village is just a short distance from Esher High Street and is easily accessible from the surrounding area, located just off the Portsmouth Road (via Hawkshill Way or West End Lane). The fun starts at 12.30pm Find out more online:

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If you are looking for a summer holiday activity camp in Surrey, then consider Painshill Wild Summer Camp in Cobham. Kids can have a wild time with den building, woodland craft, campfires, treasure hunts & outdoor fun. Children MUST be aged 8 to 13 years £40 per day or £170 for five days 25th - 29th July, 9.00am - 4.30pm Advance booking required. 01932 868113 Painshill Park, Portsmouth Rd, KT11 1JE

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The Buster Lang Classic Car Show welcomes allcomers but fundamentally, we are an American Car and Motorcycle show. Mustangs, Corvettes, Chargers, Harleys, Indians and a whole lot more. Come along and see muscle cars and classics of Americana. There will be entertainment and trade stands, as well as great food. It will be a great weekend!

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Macmillan Cancer Support, Guildford Area Group, is hosting its 6th Classic Motor Show and Family Fun Day There will be classics galore, full hospitality, serving hot and cold drinks and food, ice creams, picnic area, children’s entertainment area, stalls and a central arena where you will see a Birds of Prey display. Ewbanks Auctioneers of Send will be supporting us with an Antiques Road Show. Bring your little treasures along and get a free valuation. Pre-registration. Classics is advised and free by contacting details below... This is a fun day for all the family in the knowledge that you are helping to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support, which aims to help people and their families affected by cancer. General admission on the day is £7 per person, £6 concessions and under 12s free.

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EXTENDING

THE SEASON OF INTEREST AWARD-WINNING LOCAL GARDEN DESIGNER SELINA BOTHAM

GIVES SOME TIPS & HINTS FOR EXTENDING THE SEASON OF INTEREST IN YOUR GARDEN Many people love their garden at a certain time of the year but feel it has definite periods of ‘lack’. I think this is because it’s easy to find yourself in the garden centre, making an impulse purchase and of course, if you do that in spring each year, you’re going to end up with a spring or early summer peak. Show gardens look amazing but do remember they are designed for a peak on judging day. Also, most designers assume (for the judging) a beautiful loamy, moisture-retentive soil and full sun. We don’t all have that in our real gardens - certainly not in Claygate! I’m not suggesting you never visit a garden centre or show garden again, but do plan for the seasons, as well as choosing a pretty plant that makes you smile. For winter, you need to concentrate on the overall form of the garden and the structure of the planting. Winter shapes of deciduous trees, shrubs and even perennial flowers with interesting seed-heads and wispy grasses can be really pleasing. A good balance of evergreens (too many can be overpowering and even depressing) is important so the garden feels comfortable. Make sure you create balance around the garden, and also include different textures and shades of green. Variegated foliage is out of fashion these days but it can still look good as long as there aren’t too many conflicting colour ways.

Spring is great fun - there are so many spring bulbs, and you can mix and match and even have a different colour and mood changing by the month. The slight catch with spring bulbs is that they need to be chosen in late summer and then planted in autumn for the following spring. I am passionate about bulbs as they can be planned to compliment the rest of the planting and can add little highlights of colour or big swathes if you are prefer. There are bulbs for every month from January through to May/June and most of them keep coming back year after year. If the timing works out, I can plant a carpet of crocus under a new lawn if its laid in autumn. These little treasures really brighten up the garden in those dark months of late winter/ early spring. Summer - again it’s important to spread the interest and also think about the months that are most important to you. There is not much point planting lots of lavender if you’re always on holiday in July. Late

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summer through to September is often a dull time in people’s gardens and it’s wonderful to come back from holiday and find that you still have flowers in your garden. Asters are splendid for this time of year, as are sedums, hydrangeas and ornamental grasses. Autumn - when you plan your structural planting for winter, think also about the autumn picture you want to create, so choose some ‘back bone’ planting to have yellow leaves, some red and some with berries. The seasons provide an exciting opportunity, as the garden is always changing and you certainly can’t get bored when you have a new work of art, according to the time of year. If you would like to improve & make the best of seasonal change in 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 and her Facebook page Selina Botham – Designs for all Seasons.

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It’s not often that you get to show your contemporary family home to the person that lived in the house over 70 years ago. But for Tom Platts, after an impressive extension, that’s exactly what happened. Tom, his wife and young daughter live in a Twickenham home with large, enviable rooms and a modern interior. Yet originally the house began life as a semi-detached, old brick, worker’s cottage. It started with planning for an extension on the kitchen and downstairs living space. “My wife and I decided we wanted to take out the old kitchen, expand into the side return and knock three downstairs rooms into one to create one large living space.” Tom contacted around 12 building companies but after seeing another build in progress in his area by L&E (Lofts and Extensions), he decided to contact them for a quote. “One of the surveyors came straight over. Their prices are in the low- to mid-range but I was particularly impressed by the contract and payment schedules,” said Tom. “I work in law and so I am interested in contracts. It was by far the most professional I had seen and I trusted them from the start.” BUILDING TRUST Once all the planning procedures

were secured, preparation on the build began. “The team that arrived from L&E was great even before the build started. They explained that it would get very dusty so we could make the necessary arrangements. They also gave us a schedule of key dates of completion so we could understand at each stage what was being done and that the deadlines were met.” Tom also points out that unlike other building companies, L&E work to a schedule so that payments can be made as and when they are completed. “Another example of how professional I found L&E was when they noticed our roof was slightly lower at one side. Rather than try to work around this, they talked with us and we all agreed to level the whole roof out,” said Tom. “With this and every decision throughout, we were always kept informed.” Talking on the finishing touches and extras to the build, Tom is really impressed: “They kept coming back to make more changes and to check that nothing had shifted since completion.

The quality of the finishing has been fantastic and they made it look so easy. MODERN-DAY FAMILY HOME Now with a huge downstairs living space, large doors that open out onto decking, Velux windows in the beams and big island in the centre of the kitchen; the room is the perfect family and party room. “The project has been way above our expectations. L&E produced something for us that is the envy of all our friends and we feel so proud to have produced something so beautiful.” Not long after, Tom noticed an elderly man looking inquisitively around the front of the house. The two got chatting and it turned out that the man, in his nineties, used to live in the house as a young boy during the 1930s. “I invited him into our home and showed him how we lived here today. “He was overwhelmed by what he saw. He said it was beautiful and was amazed it was being lived in this way. Undoubtedly the house looks fantastically different to when he lived here and I would 100 percent recommend L&E.”

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I was greatly saddened recently to read of the passing of the man universally known and loved as the 5th Beatle, the wonderful producer and renowned gentleman, Sir George Martin. I was privileged to get to know him in my Capital Radio days, as George was one of the founders of Capital Radio. He used to come and visit the studios and was always interested in the process and the way we operated. He also wrote the official themes for both Capital Radio and also Radio 1. Sir George, who died at the age of 90, was one of the key engineering and production team at EM. He was part of the generation of pop pioneers who used to wear white lab technicians overalls before work clothing became more relaxed and T -shirts and denim became more the norm. He first met The Beatles in 1962 and went on to have no fewer than 49 hits with the fabled 4, including 30 number one singles and 23 numbe ones. No wonder that he was so admired and successful. In the 50s, he recorded mainly comedy and novelty records with the likes of Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore, Spike Milligan and Bernard Cribbins among others, but he was particularly excited about working with the Beatles with their offbeam wit and presences and he was convinced they had what it would take to become a global success story. When I think of Sir George today, I am reminded of an interview he did in 2007 in which he told Mark Ellen that he had all the money he could want and that he tended to look at people and think; “Are you a good human being? That’s what impresses me most, rather than what they’ve achieved. These days, people don’t believe in anything apart from money and success. I really believe family and love are more important than anything.” Love is truly all you need.....

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE Clue: 1 Across

Clue: 11 Across

Clue: 1 Down

ACROSS

1. Marine mammal (5) 4. Type of crossword (7) 8. Deviation from the rule (7) 9. Fabric (5) 10. Rubbing or clash (8) 11. Woody plant (4) 13. Egyptian statue (6) 14. Creatures (6) 17. Wander (4) 19. Expert on precious stones (8) 22. Decree (5) 23. Inactivity (7) 24. Victory (7) 25. Larceny (5)

DOWN

1. Dock (5) 2. Get rid of (7) 3. Fastidious (8) 4. Former name of Sri Lanka (6) 5. Shout (4) 6. Male singing voice (5) 7. Admit to (7) 12. Feeling remorse (8) 13. Glut (7) 15. Take aback (7) 16. Social outcast (6) 18. Excuse (5) 20. Helps to raise dough (5) 21. Molecule (4)

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Clue: 21 Down

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Salmon and Prawn KERAL AN CURRY

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METHOD

Spritz a large frying pan with oil and cook the dry spices from the curry kit for 30 seconds. Add the salmon and cook for 3–4 minutes until browned. Stir in the contents of the curry sauce sachet with 100ml water, the beans and tomatoes. Cover and simmer for 5 minutes until the beans are tender and the salmon is cooked through. Stir in the prawns and cook for 1–2 minutes until they are pink and completely cooked through. Add the lime juice and coriander and serve with the basmati rice.

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A W Sewell .......................................................... 6 Able Roofing...................................................... 37 Alexander Roofing ............................................. 35 Astek Dental...................................................... 34 Audi - Epsom....................................................... 5 Bathrooms Eleven................................................ 2 Bright Horizons................................................. 25 Bruce’s Doggy Day Care....................................6/7 Casey & Associates............................................. 12 Castello Restaurant ............................................ 35 Chiropody – Melissa Bennett............................. 30 Claremont Fan Court School .......................22/40 Cleanability........................................................ 30 DB Garden Services........................................... 17 Elmbridge Volunteers Centre ............................ 30 Englishman’s Castle............................................ 25 Esher Tyres & Exhausts...................................... 39 Hub Property Care............................................... 7 J. Penycate Fencing ............................................ 29 Kalkankeyfi Travel................................................ 4 Lodge Brothers – Funeral Directors.................... 33 Lofts and Extensions ......................................... 26 MacDonalds Fencing & Sons Ltd...................... 37

Marks Plastering ................................................ 33 Mercedes – Benz Brooklands.........................10/11 Mobile Curtain Studio......................................... 4 MPS Garden & Estate Machinery .................... 17 Music on the Green............................................ 35 Ovenclean............................................................ 6 Pest Control – Patrick Stone............................... 27 Reynolds Cars ................................................... 36 Roofs of Esher.................................................... 31 Roxley Models ................................................... 16 Sandown Food Festival ...................................... 23 Seasons Art Classes............................................. 15 Supergrass.......................................................... 12 Tec Res Computer Solutions ........................18/19 The Gentle Dental ........................................20/21 The Interior Edit ............................................... 29 The Plough - Effingham..................................... 13 WG Harper........................................................ 27 Yoga with Barbara Currie................................... 31

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