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TO THE POINT A few small changes this month, celebrating our sixth edition as VantagePoint. You get me first (and with an extra picture, for which apologies!) and the contents are now overleaf. Much more important is that we have decided to put the Jottings in date order to make it easier for you to see what events are happening when. I hope this improvement is helpful. Perhaps it is my age but I seem to have become addicted to Desert Island Discs. Pretty much all past recordings are now available, either through an app for the iPhone and iPad or online on the BBC iPlayer. And what a treasure trove they are. The format works so well that it has not changed since 1942 when Roy Plomley, who conceived the idea, made the first recording with the comedian, actor and musician Vic Oliver, who at the time was also the (unlikely and unliked) son-in-

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law of Winston Churchill. With such a wonderful back catalogue, the diďŹ&#x192;culty is choosing who to listen to. Recent gems include Robert Hardy (2011), Bill Nighy (2004), Richard Briers (2000), and the sonorous Sir Donald Sinden (1982) and Henry Blofeld (2003). Aung San Suu Kyi (2013) was inspiring, as was Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin (2014) who must surely be favourite as our first female Bishop. What is lovely about this programme is how it challenges preconceptions. John Prescott came across as a very decent man (2012) and even Ed Milliband (2013) seemed charming, although I will probably draw the line at Ed Balls. If you get the chance, go and see Relative Values at the Harold Pinter Theatre until the 21st June. A great production with a wonderful cast, the highlight being a magnificent performance from Patricia Hodge which is worth the ticket price on its own.

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Open Evening 6 Jottings Your local community noticeboard

8 Bringing the Inside Out

Wednesday 9th July 2014 4.00–8.30pm www.godalming.ac.uk

Creating outdoor living spaces

14 Soaring into Space With the University of Surrey

22 Taking Theatre Outdoors With BurntOut Theatre Group

30 WWI at Clandon Park A profile of their new exhibition

32 Health Learning to let go

Your future starts here

34 Family Wacky races

40 Food

Do You Have a Job for Me? Graduate seeking first step on the career ladder

A foraged meal for summer

44 Garden Advice for June

48 Walk Thorney Island, near Chichester

51 Profile Fountain Centre

52 Business Cards Small ads for trades and services

55 Win Enter our competitions

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Jottings Back in the middle of April our kids very kindly treated us to a concert at G Live featuring the Bootleg Beatles. Angie is a very discerning Beatles fan with a fine collection of memorabilia including signed photos etc so she was all ready to give judgement. As it happens, even she was blown away with this band - they were terrific and the John Lennon looked more like John Lennon than John Lennon, if you know what I mean. It was a great night out as was an evening at the Cranleigh Arts Centre a few weeks later when we saw the brilliant Albert Lee in concert in a lovely, intimate venue with good acoustics and reasonably priced drinks. We are very lucky to have so many really good musical venues in our area. ‘The Journey Continues’ by Michael Hume, wildlife and nature photographer, is the latest exhibition at The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation Gallery, 7 Saba House, Kings Road, Shalford, Guildford, GU4 8JU. It runs Monday 2nd to Monday 30th June, Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm and Saturday, 10am-4pm. Free entry. Browse and buy from this stunning selection of wildlife photography. All sales support endangered wildlife. For more information see: www. davidshepherd.org. Once again, Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice is running its popular plant sales through the summer months, where you can pick up some beautiful

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blooms whilst raising money for this important local charity. Laura Moody, Events Fundraiser at Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice, said: “We are very grateful to those who have already donated plants to us. There is a wide range on offer, so come and pick up a bargain! Last year we raised over £1,500 through our plant sales, and we’d love to beat that this year! 100% of money raised goes to the Hospice.” The plant sale runs between 10am and 1pm at Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice, Waverley Lane, Farnham and will take place on the first Sunday of every month up until October. If you would like to donate any plants, please take them to the Hospice or call 01252 729446. The Surrey Guild of Craftsmen celebrates 21 years of excellence with a stunning touring exhibition in 2014. Forty makers were invited to produce three exceptional pieces to showcase their craft and they have responded with some truly stunning designs. Every exhibit reﬂects the individual maker’s quest for pushing the boundaries of what they can achieve in their own discipline. From Monday 2nd to Saturday 28th June the exhibition will be at both The Bourneside Gallery in Dorking, RH4 1DN and Dorking Library, RH4 1UX. Later in the year it will be in Cranleigh, followed by Horsham, Farnham and Woking. Details in future editions. Now the morris dancing season is on us once again, have you thought

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about having a crack at it yourself? It’s good aerobic exercise as well as being fun. Pilgrim Morris Men will be dancing, playing and singing around the area throughout the summer, typically at a pub on a weekday evening from about 8pm. Go along and see for yourself. If you have an acoustic instrument, then take that with you as they often have a music session in the pub after the dancing. During June they will be found at The Alfred, Upper Hale (Monday 2nd), The Harrow, Compton (Wednesday 11th), Royal Oak, Wood Street Village (Tuesday 17th) and the Hogs Back Brewery followed by the White Hart at Tongham (Wednesday 25th). A full programme and an email contact can be found on their website: www. PilgrimMorrisMen.org.uk or phone Phil on 01483 420763. Serendipity Fashions will once again hold a Charity Garden Party Week during 3rd to 7th June at their shop in Chilworth. Five different charities will benefit from the event. Each day, from Tuesday to Saturday, will be ‘owned’ by a different charity and a percentage of the days’ takings, proceeds from a raﬄe and donations for tea, coffee and cakes will go to the charity. Last year they raised £2,350. Tea will be served in the shop’s garden, under a gazebo, on small tables with pretty china and everybody is invited. Visit www.serendipityfashions.co.uk or email info@serendipityfashions. co.uk for further information.

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Invest in Renewable Energy Your chance to seize the opportunity to invest in a pioneering local energy project. You can invest in a new local social enterprise - Springbok Sustainable Wood Heat Cooperative (the Co-op) – which will generate renewable energy, help a local charity, improve the biodiversity of our local woodlands, create local employment AND give you an attractive financial return. The project The team behind the highly successful Wey Valley Solar Schools Co-operative has created a new community energy opportunity to produce renewable heat for local charity Care Ashore. Care Ashore provides retirement and sheltered accommodation for former merchant seamen at its Springbok Estate near Alfold. The Co-op will raise the investment needed to replace Care Ashore’s old oil boilers with new biomass boilers which will run on sustainably produced local wood chip. This will: • Save Care Ashore money on its fuel bills • Reduce its carbon footprint • Improve the energy eﬃciency of the residential buildings using money raised by the Co-op Springbok Estate is surrounded by unmanaged woodland including some on its own estate. The project will also create a market for the wood which will bring these woodlands back into sustainable management. This will improve the biodiversity of the woodland and bring bees, birds (such as nightingales) and butterﬂies back into these woods - as well as being a truly local source of fuel for the new boilers and creating local employment. How it works? The Co-op aims to raise £425,000 from individual members of the local community through a share offer which will be launched June 2014

in June. This will be used to purchase and install two 199kW Herz wood chip boilers and install a district heating system supplying heat to the residential buildings on the Estate. The Coop will sell heat to Care Ashore at a price which is less than the price currently paid for heating oil. The Co-op will also receive payment of the “Renewable Heat Incentive” (RHI). This income will be used to meet the Co-op’s costs and pay interest to its investors, anticipated to be at the rate of about 7% per annum. If the Co-op makes a return of more than 7% p.a. the surplus will be paid to Care Ashore to support their work, reduce their fuel bills and enable them to improve their energy eﬃciency. The Co-op will last for twenty years. Investors will become members of the Co-op and each member will have a vote and a say in how the Co-op is run and managed. The Co-op will apply to HMRC for advance assurance that the scheme qualifies under the EIS (Enterprise Investment Scheme) for tax relief. This may only be available for investments made by mid-July when the EIS changes. EIS relief reduces an investor’s liability to income tax by 30% of the amount invested, making investment even more attractive. The full details, assumptions and risks relating to the financial returns will be set out in the share offer document. So if you interested in investing from £250 and are keen to: • • • •

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Creating an outdoor living space can be done on a budget, says Charlie Smith. By using what you already have, limiting purchases to the basics, and creating a focal point, you can easily and inexpensively create a wonderful ambience and space in your garden. Before You Begin Ask yourself how you and your family currently use the garden space and how you would like to use it with just a few simple changes. The answers will help you determine what you need to take away or add to the current outdoor space. Focal Point Similar to creating an inviting indoor living space, the garden living space needs a focal point. The focal point may already exist - in the home’s architecture, in the landscaping, or in a garden structure such as a gazebo. If you don’t have one, you can add your own focal point. Gazebos are a great starting block for building an indoor vibe outside. They come in all shapes and sizes these days, and you can get pop-up gazebos for less than £50. Hang curtains, lanterns and fairy lights, add some 8

comfy chairs, pillows or cushions, lay down a rug, and you can transform a garden area. Fire Pit Table One of the most popular and easy additions to the outdoor living space is a fire pit table. The fire pit table can be low to the ground, with a wide perimeter where guests and family members can sit low on cushions and feel chilled and relaxed vantagepointmag.co.uk

around the fire. The fire pit adds instant warmth to any dusky evening when the sun goes down. Water Element If you already have fire, add water. A water element creates a soothing and pleasant addition to an outdoor living space. It could be a small waterfall as part of the landscaping or an inexpensive water feature from your local garden centre or DIY store. Mix and Match Outdoor Seating Invest in an outdoor furniture set with a love seat, chairs and table. These do not have to be expensive and you can mix and match pieces by shopping at local car boot sales, or use Freecycle or eBay. The styles and materials do not have to match. You can paint all of the pieces the same colour to make them appear as a cohesive set. Add outdoor cushions to the pieces to make them more comfortable, and use brightly coloured scatter pillows and throws too.

Umbrella Table The biggest and best investment you can make in your outdoor space is a table with an umbrella. With mixed up chair designs the table becomes an instant gathering place for your family and friends. Use the table to dine alfresco, play board games, or just relax over a wonderfully healthy breakfast to start the day in the spring sunshine.

On a Budget Tip: Use What you Have Use what you already have. If you have an old table that has been relegated to the basement or garage, it can be covered with a tablecloth or painted and used in a covered outdoor space. The same can be done with old side tables and chairs. If you have large pieces of wood from trees that had to be cut down, use them as seats for the fire pit after cutting to low stool size pieces. Longer pieces may be sliced in half, attached to two round log pieces and be used as long benches. June 2014

Lighting Lighting is not something home owners would overlook in their indoor spaces, and it should also be considered for outdoor spaces. Invest in solar lawn lights to mark or make pathways to outdoor living spaces. Lanterns and fairy lights create a calm and magical atmosphere too. Tiki torches, citronella torches, and ďŹ&#x201A;oating candles in your water element also add ambience. FIND OUT MORE

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On Tuesday 3rd June Wonersh and District Garden Club will visit Birtley House Gardens and there will be a talk by Emma Brown. Those requiring transport should meet at 7.15pm at Wonersh Memorial Hall. Then on Wednesday 25th June, there will be a visit to West Dean Gardens (near Chichester). The coach will leave from the Grantley Arms at 9.30am. There may be a few seats left for latecomers at £15 each. Please contact the secretary, Mrs Valerie Brockman on 01483 893808. Looking ahead, Tuesday 1st July is the date of the ‘Summer and Floral Art Show’. This will take place in the Wonersh Memorial Hall at 7.30pm with classes for Floral Arrangements, Flowers and Fruit. The Guildford Comedy Club have a Mini Comedy Festival coming up in June/July, at The Stoke pub, Stoke Road, Guildford, with comedians bringing their preview shows ahead of Edinburgh Festival: Wed 4th June – master of anecdotal storytelling Geoﬀ Norcott and musical crowdpleaser Jonny Awsum; Wed 18th June

– Live At the Apollo’s Zoë Lyons and internationally renowned doublebassist Jim Tavare (as seen in Harry Potter); Wed 2nd July – BBC New Comedian of the Year Lucy Beaumont and as seen on ‘Russell Howard’s Good News’ Iain Stirling; Wed 16th July – internet musical comedy hit Vikki Stone and a guest so big we can’t even announce their name!; Wed 30th July – up-and-coming gagsmith Paul Savage and one act yet to be announced. All shows run from 8pm-10.30pm and are £6 in advance from www.youmustbestoking.com, or £8 on the door. All shows compered by resident MC Paul Kerensa, Guildfordian and writer for BBC1’s Miranda and Not Going Out. The next Guildford meeting of the West Surrey Family History Society is on Wednesday 4th June at 8pm in the Friends Meeting House, Ward Street (opposite the Library). Leapale Road multi- storey car park is nearby. “Heraldry is Fun” is presented by Les Mitchinson who will give a basic introduction to this fascinating subject. He will describe the Heraldic

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colours, shapes and language, and the hatching of a coat of arms. A small symbol on a coat of arms helps to identify one brother from another and the shields are often quartered or halved representing different families. If you would like to go along and join the society at the start of the 201415 year do go to this meeting to find out more (annual subscription is just £11/£10). For further details contact Mrs Iris Hawkins on 01483 535986 or visit the website: www.wsfhs.org. Les Amitiés Françaises, who celebrate their 25th anniversary this year, are looking forward to their annual outing on Thursday 5th June (the Mary Rose (Tudor ship) Museum); a relaxed, probably convivial AGM on Sunday 22nd June and the annual lunch on Saturday 12th July at Thursley, commemorating the fall of the Bastille. All details of membership for the next season, starting in September, are available from John Petty, tel. 01483 861974, or johnpetty@sky.com. The printed programme is generally available from August. If you are interested and

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speak some French, go along and try them. Their talks are in French with French lecturers but they are used to speaking to English audiences. The next Cranleigh Antiques Collectors & Craft Fairs, held at Cranleigh Village Hall, GU6 8AT are on Saturday’s 5th and 19th June from 7am to 3.30pm. Free entry. Refreshments available. The Shere Antiques Collectors & Craft Fairs at Shere Village Hall, GU5 9HB are on Tuesdays 8th and 22nd June from 11am to 5pm. Free entry and parking. Refreshments available. For anyone interested in birds, do join this walk on Thursday 5th June with local RSPB members to ﬁnd and identify birds at Riverside Nature Reserve in Guildford. Suitable for both beginners and experts, it’s a gentle walk of about three hours (two miles) to spot birds on the lake, in the fields and woods and along the riverside. You might see some woodland birds and water birds, plus birds only seen in summer such as hirundines (swallows, martins),

warblers, and maybe some dragonﬂies and butterﬂies. Go prepared for the weather on the day - outdoor shoes or boots are a must! You may like to take a drink and snack. Start: Meet at car park off Bowers Lane, Burpham GU4 7ND. (Grid Ref: TQ 011527), at 9.30am. Bring binoculars if possible. The walk is unsuitable for buggies, very young children or dogs. Further details: gadcom2010@gmail.com, tel 01372 467074. Another busy month for Cranleigh Village Sports & Social Club. On Thursday 5th June it’s Dance Night at 8pm, on Saturday 7th June there is a live band, Worlds Apart and on Friday 13th June it’s Quiz Night. The Quiz comprises teams of four to six; all welcome, members, guests, non-members. There are various categories of questions including general knowledge, sport, TV, music, history and geography, film, food and drink and books. Bar meals available before the quiz from 6.30pm-7.30pm. There is more live music on Saturdays 14th and 21st June and then on Thursday 26th it’s ‘Big Band Sound’:

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John Sandford at 8pm; all welcome. Don’t forget it’s Bingo every Sunday at 7.30pm. If you just want to pop into the club for a drink or a bite, opening times are Monday to Friday, 12 noon-2.30pm. Evenings 6pm -11pm. Saturday 12 noon-11.30pm: Sunday 12 noon-10.30pm. For further details of all events, Contact: Yvonne Little or Richard Wood on 01483 276246. A slightly quieter month for Farncombe Music Club in June. Following an appearance at Windlesham in May, Friday 6th June will see Dani Wilde and Todd Sharpville at St. John’s Church, Farncombe. They are two of the UK’s finest blues exponents touring the country together in a rare, unplugged/acoustic format under the title of “Two Guitars and a OneEyed Dog”. www.daniwilde.com and www.toddsharpville.com. Tickets: £12 advance (£15 door) from www. wegottickets.com/julianlewrymusic, or Record Corner, Pound Lane, Godalming. There’s another Record & CD Fair at St John’s Church Room, Farncombe, on Saturday 14th June.

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SOARING INTO SPACE The University of Surrey is involved in a plethora of projects about Space. Read on to get a glimpse into some of these exciting initiatives.

Dealing with space debris and monitoring spacecraft Have you ever wondered what happens to satellites when they cease to work or come to the end of their life? Researchers at Surrey are working on technology that could help clear up space debris and service spacecraft. As the Head of the Surrey Technology for Autonomous systems and Robotics (STAR) Lab within the Surrey Space Centre, Professor Yang Gao and her team are working on a four-year project called ‘Reconfigurable Autonomy’. “Repairing space vehicles and sorting out space debris is challenging, dangerous and costs a lot when you employ humans to do the work,” she says. “This is why the space industry demands robotic solutions to do this instead. “We are creating intelligent robotic systems to inspect, monitor and identify when spacecraft needs repairing. These systems will also have the potential to support astronauts on space missions, and to deal with space debris. “Our autonomous technology will be deployed in snakelike robots. These robots will have a great deal of manipulability, building a perception of their environment using built-in cameras. Our technology could also work on simpler platforms, such as robotic arms, like the type used in car manufacturing factories.”

This may make it possible for robots to assist astronauts in the International Space Station – by carrying out hardware checks and testing equipment in the run-up to important missions. Another potential application is within the nuclear industry, identifying decommissioned radioactive waste in nuclear plants, saving human operators from potential radiation exposure. “Such techniques allow humans to operate robotic systems from a safe distance, letting the robot deal with risky tasks and interact with unknown or faulty objects in Space, or in radioactive nuclear plants on Earth. Once fully developed, the technology will be robust and reliable, and can benefit other space projects such as AAReST led by Professor Underwood.” Professor Gao’s ultimate goal is to deploy reconfigurable, autonomous robots in spacecraft of different sizes and shapes. “I feel robotic agents will play a crucial role in future space missions in supporting astronauts, and my team are enthusiastic and excited about new opportunities and applications of the technologies we are developing.” AAReST

The robot’s vision system means that the technology can recognise objects (shapes, colours, angles) as a human would, learning to detect, track and recognise anomalies of the spacecraft.

Professor Craig Underwood is leading the UK’s side of a project called AAReST, which stands for the ‘Autonomous Assembly of a Reconfigurable Space Telescope’.

“If you had a malfunctioning part on a moving spacecraft, our technology enables space robots to detect these issues, and to potentially fix the problem there and then, without human intervention.”

AAReST was formed with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and UK researchers from the University of Surrey in 2009. Its main aim is to create a new kind of large-scale, self-

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assembling telescope, 100m in diameter. This telescope will capture images of Space in more detail, and over greater distances than ever before. Professor Underwood explains, “We want to create a big, flexible and cost-effective telescope that takes a better picture of Space than any other. To do this, we need to build a massive photographic aperture in Space – a telescope that will photograph deep Space.” This aperture will be constructed from lots of separate, smaller satellites which will be launched into Space and then automatically come together to form one huge telescope. Each satellite carries a mirror, whose shape can change to form the perfect optical surface. “Astronomers need big telescopes for Space. The bigger the mirror, the more light you can gather, so fainter objects can be identified and captured on camera. Due to the time it takes for light to travel through Space, when we look at faint objects we are actually looking back in time so it is exciting to have the ability to look at Space’s past. “Because our telescope will be flexible, and assemble and reassemble itself, it will be able to adapt to suit different space-scapes in the solar system and beyond. With such an enormous and flexible telescope we could not only discover new planets and new life in the Universe, but also protect people on Earth from severe weather or natural phenomena through improved monitoring of Earth from Space – telescopes can look down as well as up!” To prove that a large-scale Space telescope of this nature will work, the team is first building a smaller-scale prototype, named a ‘MicroSat’. This MicroSat comprises a core satellite carrying a special camera on a long boom, with two tiny deployable ‘mirror-sats’ which enable the camera to record Space in high-definition detail. “People have followed the Hubble Space telescope, which was brilliant at the time of its inception, but is now nearing the end of its life. Hubble has delivered stunning images but our vision is of a telescope over 50 times June 2014

more powerful. NASA is also building the James Webb Space Telescope, which is bigger than Hubble, but the mirror is still rigid and inﬂexible and ultimately still limited in size.” The AAReST project has passed a preliminary design review, where teams from NASA and associated academics assessed the project’s viability. With this vote of confidence, Professor Underwood hopes that his team’s prototype will build support for the initiative to create a full-size, 100m telescope for use on Earth as well as Space exploration. Aside from the incredible potential to discover new planets and learn more about our Galaxy in Space, the telescope could also orbit our planet, looking down in real-time, with applications in search missions to find debris in oceans, and to track and predict natural disasters. He concludes, “The beauty of this project is that the satellite will automatically build itself, like an intelligent robot.” Galaxy evolution through the eyes of globular clusters Professor Mark Gieles, Chair of Surrey’s Astrophysics Research Group, is exploring the origin of the Milky Way and its globular clusters – the stars that orbit the Galaxy’s centre. These are systems containing several hundred thousand stars that are almost as old as the Universe, and therefore they carry important information about the birth and evolution of the Milky Way itself. He recently secured a grant from the European Research Council, to build a research team at the University of Surrey. Professor Gieles and his group are performing detailed computer simulations of the evolutions of these globular clusters, reenacting the journey of particles through Space to learn about their lives. This simulation will then be compared to data of the ESA-Gaia satellite launched (not by Surrey) into Space last year to compile a map of over a billion stars in the Milky Way over the coming decade. 15

to question common perceptions such as the Milky Way being perfectly spherical, and it is entirely possible that the data that Gaia delivers over the next ten years will prove this hypothesis correct.

The Gaia satellite is currently travelling around the sun, mapping stars in the Galaxy, multiple times. Its orbit takes the same as the Earth (one year), and the Gaia satellite continuously compares the new positions of stars to their previously measured positions. Comparing the changing positions of these stars can tell researchers how strong the Milky Way’s gravitational pull is, and can therefore give them more of an idea about what will happen in the future. More importantly, it shows scientists how the Galaxy may have formed. The movement of stars will reveal more about the existence of dark matter, phenomena that scientists believe exists but which cannot be observed with existing methods.

Formation of structure in a ‘warm dark matter’ Universe, photo credit Justin Read and Alex Hobbs

“The scientific community is engaged in this initiative, and to bring these ideas together, Professor Justin Read and myself initiated the ‘Gaia Challenge’, calling on astrophysicists from across the world to build a variety of mock-galaxy formations and globular clusters on computers, bringing together all these possibilities in order to explore new theories about the origins of the Universe. “We can’t wait to get the next batch of data from the Gaia satellite. Then we can test out our predictions and methods of analysis, and see what the Milky Way is really like. How old is it? How did it evolve?”

“We still do not know what or where dark Formation of a large galactic disk in the early Universe, photo credit matter is within the Milky Oscar Agertz Way,” Professor Gieles says. “But the movement and behaviour of these stars Further space projects - mapped out thanks to Gaia - is the only way we can study where this matter might be. Once we know more - Improving the ‘wasp drill’ to drill about the locations of the stars, and strength of their into highly-oxidised rocks on other gravitational pull, we can paint a better picture of what planets the Milky Way looks like and how it behaves. In turn, we hope to understand more about dark matter and its - Creating a ‘ﬂying wing’ aircraft to ﬂy effect on our Milky Way. on Mars “It will be at least two years before Gaia starts to return data that we can use. But that doesn’t mean our work FIND OUT MORE can’t start. Along with international collaborators, we Discover more by following the two links below: are creating a range of mock-formations of stars, to help Surrey Space Centre - www.surrey.ac.uk/ssc us try to begin predicting what shape the Milky Way is.” Astrophysics Research Group Professor Gieles and his team are using these models 16

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It runs from 10am to 3pm and there is always a great selection of CDs and DVDs available. Do go along and have a good browse. They also have a good selection of vinyl records which are becoming more and more popular. Looking ahead to the second half of the year, there are some great names lined-up including the reunion of 70s soul band Kokomo in August and top female singer-songwriters Beverley Craven, Nerina Pallot and Julia Fordham as well as over in Windlesham, 80s chart band China Crisis. Dani Maimone, photographer, and Roger Roberts, wood carver, will be exhibiting as part of SAOS in the glass pavilion at Clandon Wood Surrey Hills Natural Burial Reserve in West Clandon located just outside Guildford on the A246 Epsom Road. They will be there each weekend from 7th to 22nd June from 11am to 3pm. Contact Dani Maimone on 07887 525505 for more details or check the SAOS website at www. surreyopenstudios.co.uk or Dani’s webstite at www.danipics.com.

The National Garden Scheme (NGS) has raised over £20m for nursing and care charities in the past 10 years. I really think it is a wonderful concept and apart from raising so much money allows us, the general public, to visit some of the country’s most beautiful gardens, from huge formal gardens to little cottage gardens. The NGS Festival Weekend takes place over 7th/8th June and there are a number of lovely gardens open in Surrey, including Loseley Park in Guildford, Glenavon Close in Esher, Moleshill Park and Fairmile Lea in Cobham. Do have a look at their website www.ngs.org. uk and use the online ‘garden search’ tool for further details, directions and photos. Are you single and looking to meet new people? If so why not contact Icebreakers - a local dining club for the single over 40’s. They meet every few weeks for a meal at a number of different venues in West Sussex and Surrey. There is always a friendly atmosphere and new people are welcomed into the group by the organiser and existing members.

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There’s no membership or joining fee so members feel free to attend as often as they would like. See www. icebreakersclub.co.uk for more information or call Jacquie on 01403 273480. Walkers are invited to explore some new paths through Surrey and help raise funds to restore the Wey & Arun Canal with the 42nd annual “Poddle” sponsored walk on Sunday 8th June. One of the highlights of the walk will be the new riverside path created by the Wey & Arun Canal Trust (WACT) along the banks of the Cranleigh Waters in Shalford. This new path, built by volunteers, winds its way from Shalford towards Bramley and takes in part of what will be the new Hunt Nature Park. The walk starts from the National Trust’s 18th century waterwheel, Shalford Mill, situated in Shalford. The circular walk covers 12 miles and includes refreshment points and a lunch stop before finishing at Shalford Church. There is also an option for a shorter afternoon walk, starting from Shalford Church. This is aimed at families, is four miles

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and takes place in the beautiful Roger Tichbourne Pub in Loxwood. The evening kicks off with a free glass of wine and some delicious nibbles while you get ready for some very funny entertainment. For more information and box oﬃce details visit the website www.fountaincentre.org or www. facebook.com/FountainCentre . Peaslake Open Gardens takes place on Sunday 8th June 2014, from 12 noon to 5pm. Entry costs including FREE raﬄe ticket: adults £6; seniors £5; children under 14 voluntary contributions please. Tickets available from Peaslake Stores a couple of weeks ahead of the event and then on the day at the school and some gardens. Guildford Rambling Club, formed in 1973, provides members with walks in the beautiful countryside around Guildford. The walks take place on Sundays and sometimes during the week as well. Most are around 10 miles but there are usually shorter options available. Walks generally start at 10am and finish

around 4pm with a stop for lunch. Have a look at their website www. guildfordramblingclub.org.uk for full details of walks coming up and also information on membership. Monday 9th June is the date for the next Haslemere U3A meeting. It takes place at Haslemere Hall, Bridge Road and starts at 2pm. Entrance is £2 and includes refreshment. Non-members welcome. The subject is ‘Travel trends in Britain’ and asks the question ‘Why has car use stopped growing while rail travel keeps increasing’ The speaker is Peter Jones, who is Professor of Transport and Sustainable Development in the Centre for Transport Studies at UCI. For further information: Membership Margaret Mowatt 01428 652338; Meetings Alan Davis 01428 717115 Ladies, why not do something diﬀerent this summer? Perhaps you could take up a new sport; golf for example. West Surrey Golf Club, Enton Green, Godalming, GU8 5AF is holding a coffee morning on Monday 9th June at 11am. Whether learning

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BurntOut Theatre is a Surrey-based theatre company run by actress and director Clemmie Reynolds, who grew up in Shamley Green and went to St Catherine’s School in Bramley. BurnOut Theatre specialises in open-air and site-specific theatre featuring original music played live by Clemmie’s brother James, a composer for TV and theatre. They will be touring their production of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ to open-air venues in Surrey this July. Clemmie set up BurntOut Theatre as a way to make work for herself and her fellow RADA drama school graduates in an increasingly saturated industry: “I quickly became ‘burntout’ with the apparent impenetrability of the acting world, particularly for women, and so decided to make my own work.” The impetus for the company was a chance meeting with Caroline, Countess of Harrowby, of Burnt Norton in Gloucestershire. Caroline’s first husband very sadly died of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and she was looking for someone to put on a play in the beautiful grounds of her Cotswolds home, and raise money for the MS

Society in the process. Burnt Norton is a magical place that lends itself to open air theatre, in fact it was the notorious empty pools that were the inspiration behind the first part of T.S. Eliot’s famous poem ‘Four Quartets’. That summer in 2012, Clemmie gathered her RADA classmates and set to work creating a production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in under six weeks. With no budget for rehearsal space, they rehearsed in a London park, declaiming ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ to crowds of bemused picnickers. The company borrowed costumes from a local school and lights and set from a local farmer. The performers gave up a week of their holidays rehearsing in all weather conditions, sleeping in a crumbling shed in the grounds and washing their hair in buckets - the glamorous life of an actor! Caroline had no idea what to expect or whether anyone would come to the shows. But to everyone’s delight, the play attracted packed audiences and wonderful feedback: “Truly exceptional” said Prue Leith, whilst Roger Pringle, former Director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, found it “enchanting”. Crucially, it fulfilled Caroline’s wish to support the MS Society. Over just five performances, the production raised over £8,000.

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part of the Guildford Fringe Festival, which has been gathering pace and followers since inception last July. Nick Wychsna, Guildford Fringe Festival’s Director, said: “To have such a large scale open-air Shakespeare play in Guildford Fringe Festival is a complete honour. This is a production that is not to be missed”. ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ will be performed at Clandon Wood Natural Burial Reserve on 5th and 6th July and then at the Wintershall Estate in Bramley from 16th to 20th July.

Thus began BurntOut’s formula, of site-specific Shakespeare coupled with raising funds and awareness for charity. Clemmie’s next move was to put on a show in her home county of Surrey. She had been to the ‘Life of Christ’ production at the Wintershall Estate in Bramley as a child, and had been enchanted by the epic vistas and wild woodlands of the estate. She wrote to Peter Hutley, the owner of Wintershall, asking if she might bring her band of players to his home to put on ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in the magical and expansive grounds that seemed made for it. He agreed. Wintershall lends itself to the energetic and frenetic nature that characterises BurntOut’s productions, rendering actors physically ‘burnt-out’ by the end! Audiences watch actors running from a mile away to enter the scene, and find themselves in a surroundsound experience, as characters appear from all sides; shouting, singing, sword fighting and dancing. Clemmie was keen to involve local Surrey school children in the production, helping them to gain theatre experience onstage and backstage. Katherine Brookes, from the Duke of Kent School, said: “It was a truly inspiring production for us as a school theatre group”. BurntOut’s productions are particularly suitable for children, and they hope to be able to attract lots more school groups and young people this year. In 2013 the company also toured to Dorset, returned to Burnt Norton (with a WWI version of ‘As You Like It’), and won prestigious performance slots in RADA’s annual drama festival. They continued to raise funds for charities at each venue including the MS Society and the Wind of Hope (for victims of HIV in Kenya). This July BurntOut are delighted to be returning to Wintershall with Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, performing as June 2014

Audiences will be treated to lakeside performances of this much-loved romantic comedy with breathtaking views of the surrounding Surrey Hills. This 1920’s adaptation will invite audiences to don their best vintage outfits and picnic with the ‘bright young things’ of Duke Leonato’s Court. There will be ﬂappers, a swing band, a trapeze artist and original music by company composer James Reynolds. Local music maestro Ian Young will also join the team this year, bringing his excellent swing band to play at each performance. BurntOut Theatre will be raising money at each performance for local charities Disability Challengers and the Wintershall Charitable Trust Fund. BurntOut Theatre is branching out in other ways this year, with their first commission of a new play. The play is set on a sugar plantation in 1808, and features interlinking stories of both slave and slave owners. It will be performed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in June, and in October at Holy Trinity Church in Clapham, where William Wilberforce began his abolition campaign. FIND OUT MORE

Book tickets for Much Ado About Nothing online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/GuildfordFringe or at Tourist Information Centre, High Street, Guildford or by calling 01483 444333. To ﬁnd more information about the company and get involved, visit www burntouttheatre.co.uk. Images from bottom left: Burnt Norton with BurntOut Theatre cast of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. Photo credit, Juliet Reynolds. Above left: Minstrels in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Wintershall. Actors L-R - Andy Kinnear, James Reynolds. Photo credit Marina Leigh. Above: 1920s picnic at Clandon Wood. Models: L-R: Nick Wyschna, Charlotte Amey, Stephanie Shepherd. Photo credit: Dani Maimone.

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golf for the first time, getting back into golf or looking for a new club, why not come and see what West Surrey has to offer. The club’s team of qualified PGA Professionals will be on hand to give you a free taster coaching session and lady members will be happy to talk to you over a cup of coffee and Danish pastry in the clubhouse. For ladies who are looking for a members’ club to join, go and enjoy a free round of golf with members, and take your friends with you. West Surrey is one of the best golf courses in the area, a beautiful, quiet parkland course with wonderful views of the surrounding countryside. The course is well-tended and lovely to play. The clubhouse is a cosy, barnstyle building, which lends itself well to many enjoyable social club events. If you would like to go along give one of the following a ring: Gillie Ure, Lady Captain – 01428 684377. Christine Staff – 01428 683403. Sarajane Bartlett – 01483 417623. West Surrey Golf Club Pro Shop - 01483 417278 or Club Secretary – 01483 411832. You will receive a warm welcome.

The Guildford Branch of the Embroiderers Guild has another excellent speaker for the meeting on Tuesday 10th June. Entitled ‘Inspirations’, Leslie Morgan will examine where ideas come from, how to translate ideas and designs into cloth, stitch and quilt; and how quilt makers interpret themes and techniques in their work. This talk will appeal to both quilters and embroiderers. Leslie loves creating layered cloth which tells a story and says: “colour is still a source of joy and wonder”. Do join them at 7.15pm for 7.30pm in the St Catherine’s Village Hall, Chestnut Avenue, Guildford, GU2 4HF. Further details from Amanda on 07803 707921. Watts Gallery has two exhibitions opening in June. On Tuesday 10th, running until Sunday 9th November, ‘Ellen Terry: The Painter’s Actress’ will be the first exhibition to explore how the inﬂuence of Britain’s most famous Victorian actress reached beyond the stage to inspire generations of visual artists. Bringing together paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography

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It’s hard to believe that one of the most successful folk-rock duos, Simon and Garfunkel, recorded their ﬁrst No.1 hit single ‘The Sound of Silence’ nearly 50 years ago. On Wednesday 11th June the Simon and Garfunkel Story comes to G Live in Guildford. It tells the story from their early days when they were known as ‘Tom and Jerry’ up to the 1981 reformation concert in Central Park. The show starts at 7.30pm and tickets are £18.50 plus £2 booking fee. Go online to www.GLive.co.uk or call 0844 7701 797. You can of course call in to G Live during opening hours. Guildford’s award-winning professional theatre, Guildford Shakespeare Company (GSC), kick oﬀ their 9th Open-Air season with the gloriously frivolous comedy Twelfth Night. “If music be the food of love, play on” - I can still remember the opening line from when I did it for ‘O’ level English. If only I could remember what I did yesterday! Set amidst the leafy surroundings of Guildford Castle Gardens, some of Shakespeare’s bestloved characters – Sir Toby Belch,

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CLANDON PARK Sassoon. The war poet was second cousin to Hannah Gubbay, whose collection is housed at Clandon Park. The chosen poem, Survivors, was written whilst Sassoon was recuperating in a hospital. Clandon is renowned for its grand Marble Hall and during WWI this was a ward for patients. The new displays at Clandon include a viewfinder camera, which shows a historic photograph of the ward superimposed on today’s view of the hall. Sarah Watkins, House Steward at Clandon Park, said: “We hope we have created an immersive experience that brings Clandon Park’s WWI history to life. It’s difficult to imagine the sacrifices that were made by so many people during WWI. The operating theatre is the start of a five year image-led research project to find out more about this little-known part of Clandon Park’s history.”

Visitors to Clandon Park, near Guildford, will be able to step back a hundred years into a re-imagined 1914 WWI operating theatre. The project is part of the National Trust’s commemoration of the centenary of the outbreak of WWI, showing Clandon Park’s little-known role as a military hospital. The operating theatre was in the Earl of Onslow’s own dressing room – so chosen because of its even northeast light and running water. Carefully storing away the usual contents, the National Trust team at Clandon Park have transformed the room, reproducing nurses’ uniforms and the hospital blues and even introducing the smell of carbolic soap. The original medical record books and autograph books in which the nurses asked their patients to write and draw in are on display, alongside replicas that visitors can leaf through. Some of the sketches that patients made in the autograph books have been turned into canvases, shown on the white-washed walls alongside photographs taken at Clandon during the war and an evocative poem by Siegfried 30

Images from top: A WWI operating theatre has been re-imagined in the Earl of Onslow’s dressing room at Clandon Park; drawings from the nurses’ autograph books have been printed onto canvases and are displayed in the Earl of Onslow’s dressing room; visitors can ﬂick through reproductions of autograph books. Owned by the nurses who worked at Clandon Park, they are ﬁlled with drawings, poems and signatures made by the soldiers who spent time there. FIND OUT MORE

The operating theatre is part of a ﬁve year project commemorating Clandon Park’s role in WWI. To ﬁnd out more please visit www. nationaltrust.org.uk/clandon-park or call 01483 222482.

During WWI, the Earl and Countess of Onslow were keen to contribute to the war eﬀort and their application for Clandon to become a military hospital was accepted by the War Oﬃce in 1914. The Countess of Onslow, Lady Violet, played a key role in nursing the wounded soldiers who arrived from Belgium, France and Turkey and was to become the Commandment of the hospital. By 1919 the hospital had admitted over 5,000 patients and carried out some 750 operations, day and night. Lady Violet was presented with a silver salt – now on display at Clandon - for her role and the part that Clandon played in the Great War.

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Malvolio, Viola, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek – combine with some of his most enduring poetry in GSC’s new production of this brilliant comedy. The play runs from 12th to 28th June (no performances Sundays) and starts at 7.30pm. Tickets are £21 Adult, £17.50 Concessions (Over 60, under 16, students, Equity). Go to www. guildford-shakespeare-company. co.uk or call the Box Oﬃce on 01483 304384. For the diary GSC’s next production is Henry V which will be performed in the grounds of Guildford Cathedral. It will run from 14th to 26th July and tickets are available now. Surrey Artists Open Studios is an annual event which takes place across the county for two weeks in June. This year a group of eight local artists will be taking up residence at The Old School Room, Peaslake from 12th June 6.00pm-8.30pm, 13th-15th June 11am-5pm. Amanda Cobbett, Becca Clegg, Fleur Andreas, Gill Denyer, Julie Barham, Lillian Spibey, Louisa Sullivan and Tim Burns will be showcasing their work, which includes ceramics, glass, painting, photography, sculpture and

textiles. There will also be workshops in felting, papier mâché sculptures, digital photography and mixed media. See www.surreyopenstudios.org.uk/ event/studios.php?ven_number=136 for further details or to book. The Guildford Institute on Ward Street is a local charity committed to providing educational and cultural activities in a social atmosphere. Still to come this term, four local artists will be working and exhibiting at the Institute as part of the annual Surrey Artists Open Studios event. Summer is the Young Musicians’ Recital series, which showcases up and coming talent. Recitals will take place from 6.30pm on 10th and 24th June and 8th July – admission is free and there is no need to book. For the ﬁrst time this summer, the Institute will also trial a ‘Summer School’ – two art courses and one literature course will be held during August. For more information, or to view their full summer programme, visit www. guildford-institute.org.uk, contact them on 01483 562142, or email info@guildford-institute.org.uk.

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My goodness, there is a lot going on at Polesden Lacey this month. It’s the time of year for summer activities and one of them is croquet. I have always enjoyed having a go but to be honest I haven’t really got a clue as to the ﬁner points of the game. So I was interested to read that Polesden Lacey is holding Croquet Coaching days during the summer. They are on Saturdays 14th June, 12th July, 9th August and 13th September and there are two sessions, 11am to 1pm and 2pm to 4pm. If you fancy honing your skills, call 01372 452048 or go to www. nationaltrust.org.uk/polesdenlacey . Also have a look at the website to ﬁnd out about all the other events taking place in June. The Surrey Hills Family Concert will be held on Saturday 14th June at 6.30pm at Cranleigh Village Hall. Tickets are £8 for adults and £4 for children and include refreshments. Available from the choir website www.surreyhillschoirs.co.uk or call Debbie on 01483 276281. The evening brings together the Training Choir, Young Voices and Singers (mum’s choir) for an

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Local yoga teacher, Laura Lychnos, tells us what to expect from a hatha yoga class If you’ve never been to a yoga class you might imagine a room full of super-supple people contorting themselves into painful-looking positions, and thought it wasn’t for you. But the word ‘yoga’ which has its origins in the Sanskrit word ‘yui’, really means ‘union’, because classical yoga uses the breath to unite body and mind. This ‘union’ is achieved in a classical, or Hatha, yoga class through a combination of physical postures, breathing exercises, meditation and relaxation. More than 2,000 years ago, the Indian sage Patanjali is believed to have collated the practice of yoga into the Yoga Sutras. In these he identified the eight limbs of yoga: the Yamas (restraints), Niyama (observances), Asana (postures), Pranayama (breathing), Pratyhara (withdrawal of senses), Dharana (concentration), Dhyani (meditation), and Samadhi (absorption). Most modern yoga practice concentrates on the third limb, the Asanas, or physical postures. Treating yoga like an exercise class has given rise to the common myth that you have to be very fit and supple to be able to ‘do’ yoga. This isn’t true, the Asanas should form a valuable part of a balanced practice, but they are only one of the eight limbs of yoga. Classically the Asanas helped maintain the physical strength and health of the body in preparation for the practice of meditation - they weren’t devised to make you the bendiest person in the room. An experienced teacher is able to offer an accessible yoga class, which combines the physical (the Asanas), with the breath (Pranyama), meditation (Dhyana) and relaxation. By providing a comfortable, non-judgmental environment, your yoga teacher can help you as you start to ‘listen’ to your body, noticing your own limitations, without punishing your body by pushing it too far. To work 32

in harmony with your body you will need to practise with mindfulness and awareness, using your breath to unite your body and mind. Focusing mindfully on your breath as you hold an Asana will help you relax into the posture whilst calming and clearing your mind. This union of the breath and movement is the art and the beauty of yoga. By directing your attention inwards you can learn to recognise habitual thought patterns without labelling them, judging them, or trying to change them. Gradually you become more aware of experiences from moment to moment. The awareness that you cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Alongside the Asanas, a balanced Hatha yoga class will include Pranayama, specific breathing exercises or breath control. There are many Pranayama exercises, all having different effects and benefits, from creating energy, clearing the mind, cooling/ warming the body, cleansing the body, to balancing the energy or calming the mind. Pranayama exercises are best learnt alongside an experienced teacher and then practised at home. Meditation forms the seventh limb (Dhyani) and is ultimately at the heart of a balanced and holistic yoga practice. Meditation, like most experiences is difficult to express in words, but one might think of it as a ‘joyful experience of peace’. Once your body feels strong and relaxed through practising the Asanas, it is a natural step to turn your attention then to the mind. Meditation is used in yoga to bring about mental and emotional balance, in fact Yogis often describe it as the cessation of mental activity. Within a class setting, the teacher will often use a guided meditation practice to help in the initial stages of the session. Relaxation is an integral part of a Hatha yoga class too. Your teacher should plan the class, allowing time for you to relax physically and emotionally. Yogic relaxation helps you settle your mind; it’s a concentration exercise for both body and mind, that helps you control mental activity and find inner stillness. By combining exercise, breath control, meditation and relaxation, Hatha yoga can be the perfect antidote to our modern, fast-paced stressful lives. Taking time out, even if it’s only one class a week, to relax, be in the moment and stretch your body, can help lower your stress levels, and tone your body and quieten your mind. FIND OUT MORE

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entertaining evening of song. There is a lovely mixed programme that should appeal to everyone. The Merrow Infants School Summer Fair, organised by the PTA to raise money for their playground appeal, is on Saturday 14th June 2014 12pm2.30pm. There will be fun for the family with a range of stalls, such as a bottle tombola, 2nd hand toys and books, bouncy castle, BBQ, under 5 play area, coconut shy and manu more. Generous raﬄe pizes include £200 Mr and Mrs Smith hotel voucher, 6 climbing experience at Surrey Sports Park, 2 tickets to Surrey vs Sussex at the oval. You are invited to join the fancy dress competition, with the theme of ‘Countries of the World’, marking the Commonwealth Games and World Cup.

There will also be guided tours with guides in Victorian dress and the Old Vicarage garden will be open on Sunday. Displays and exhibitions, vintage costumes, history of the Church, children’s trail, cream teas, Harley Davidson motorbikes and Tony Hart cartoons will help make this a really fun day with something for everyone.

A Summer’s Evening with Mozart on Saturday 14th June at 7pm. David Ward, pianist and raconteur, his wife, Elizabeth, clarinet, and Gillian Thompson, soprano, will present a programme of Mozart’s beautiful music combined with readings from his entertaining and revealing letters. The evening will begin with pieces composed by the infant prodigy at the age of ﬁve and end with music written in the last years of his short life; it will Christ Church in Shamley Green is include piano music, songs and arias, celebrating 150 years (1864-2014) and the much-loved slow movement and is holding a Heritage Weekend of his clarinet concerto. The evening on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th will take place at Practical Philosophy June. From 10am to 5pm (12 noon to Guildford, St Catherine’s School Milford Window Company Oct music 13_Layout 1 12/09/2013 12:36 Rd, P Guildford, 5pm Sunday) there will be live House, 26a Portsmouth and entertainment by local schools. GU2 4DJ. Entry is £10 per person,

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including a glass of wine. Tickets will be on a ﬁrst come, ﬁrst served basis. The local WaterAid group invite you all to join their Walk for Water at beautiful Newlands Corner near Guildford on Saturday 14th June. There’s a choice of four signposted circular walks with something for everyone: wheelchair users, family groups to serious hikers. While enjoying the fresh air and superb scenery you’ll be helping people in the developing world to provide their own clean water, sanitation and hygiene. This transforms their lives from day-to-day survival to getting an education and earning a living. Goodbye poverty! You can get sponsors or simply make a donation (however large or small). Dogs are welcomed. The shortest circuit is a half mile tarmac path and the longest is eight miles across the Downs. There is no fixed start time: walkers free to start at any time from 9am. Find out more from Linda on 07934 839608 or go to www. wateraidwestsurrey.org.

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Hold your own Wacky Rally with your friends and race your fastest cars against each other. Use jam jar lids, juice and milk carton tops, cotton reels, buttons, old CDs or discs cut from card for the wheels and anything you like for the body. The Batmobile was made by taping straw axles to the bottom of a plastic drink bottle. Design a sign and a chequered ﬂag and get set to go! Here’s how to make some of the cars on the grid …

Balloon Car Use wind power to propel a junk car across the floor. The body of the car can be made from any kind of box - the trick is to angle the bendy straw upwards to keep the balloon off the floor. Remember, the car will go in the direction of the balloon. Tape two pieces of straw to the base of the matchbox. Cut two axles from wooden skewers a little wider than the box, push through the straw and fix a wheel on each end (as for the Elastic band car).

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Cut the lip off the balloon and tape the balloon firmly to the bendy end of the straw. Bend the straw upwards and tape to the top of the box. Trim the other end of the straw leaving enough so you can blow through it to inflate the balloon. Decorate it if you like. Blow up the balloon, set the car on the ground and watch it go!

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Elastic Band Car You will need: • Sturdy cardboard tube, such as from a roll of foil • Drinking straw • Wooden skewers • Plastic lids for wheels • Glue • Thick elastic band • Plastic milk bottle to cut up for the nose and tail

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Elastic bands have been silently powering thousands of junk cars across pavements and living rooms for decades. Once you’ve mastered the technology you can adapt it to your own vehicle design. Think of this one as a starting point. You’ll ﬁnd lots of other ideas on the internet on maker’s forums. Although simple in design, it can be quite tricky to get these cars to run properly because if the axles aren’t straight, or the wheels aren’t ﬁxed really securely to the axles, they won’t turn.

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Make two holes at opposite ends of the cardboard tube and insert two short lengths of drinking straw. Push short lengths of a wooden skewer through the straws and attach wheels to each end. Plastic milk bottle and jar lids are good here. Put them on a wooden board and pierce the centre with a sharp skewer, knitting needle or nail. Then push on to the skewer. They should stay, but if not, glue with a blob of strong plastic model making glue. Push a third short skewer through the tube about three quarters of the way down. This should be really snug – you may want to glue it in place. Cut a thick elastic band into a long strip and tie one end to this skewer and one end to the back axle. You can experiment with a second elastic band on the other side too. To run your car, turn the back axle to wind the elastic tight, then put it on the ground and release.

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This project is just one from the excellent book called ‘Boy Craft ’ by Sara Duchars and Sarah Marks. Published by Frances Lincoln (www.franceslincoln.com). There are over 50 things to make and do. Some of it is quite American, but it’s crammed full of great explanatory drawings and photographs so is easy to use. Great fun. June 2014

a smashing summer GUILDFORD SUMMER FESTIVAL - 20th JUNE TO 15th AUGUST Guildford Summer Festival returns for its 31st year celebrating the town and local area. The Festival is bigger than ever before with over 100 diﬀerent events to choose from.

to quizzes in no less than nine venues across town including The Keep and The Keystone as well as the Backroom at The Star.

Family favourites such as: the Town Centre Cycle Races; Guildford Festival Craft Fair; Farmers’ Markets; Guildford Cricket Festival; Guildford Lions Raft Race; Drama in the Castle Ground; classical concerts; Guilfest and Walkfest all return for summer 2014. There will be a whole host of theatre, sport, art, music, walks, heritage, tours and days out to keep you busy over the summer. This year the brochure also has a section dedicated to WWI Commemorative events happening in and around Guildford.

There are plenty of opportunities to get ﬁt whatever your age: There is Family Fun at Spectrum and the opening of Airhop – the UK’s ﬁrst Indoor Trampoline Park here in Guildford. Join in Junior Summer Holiday Camps at the Surrey Sports Park, or simply watch the 2014 FIFA World cup at Zicos Sports Bar. You can join the Round the Hogs Back cycle ride or just watch the cycle race in the High Street, and no summer would be complete without the Guildford Cricket Festival!

The Festival as always is heralded by the colourful town centre craft market which takes place 13th to 21st June and the first official evening of entertainment starts in Holy Trinity Church with Southern Pro Musica’s ‘Carnival’. The Guildford Town Guides offer their free guided walks around the town exploring its history and every nook and cranny, and Walkfest returns with a range of walks to suit beginners and hardy experts exploring flora and fauna and even the odd pub or two! As always Arts and Heritage events are in abundance with the annual Guildford Arts exhibition at the Mill Studio, Watts Gallery and Guildford House Gallery. Whether you prefer your theatre indoors or out you will not be disappointed. Shows include Dreamboys, The Searchers and the Reduced Shakespeare company at G Live; Comedy of Errors, The Other Shakespeare and James and The Giant Peach at the Yvonne Arnaud. For the first time, the Guildford Summer Festival has teamed up with Guildford Fringe who will provide a whole month of varied entertainment from comedy to Burlesque and muscials 36

This year, many of the events are completely free to attend so why not grab a brochure and see what takes your fancy? With so much to choose from you’re sure to ﬁnd something for everyone. Guildford Summer Festival runs across the borough from 20th June to 15th August 2014. Brochures are available to collect from Guildford Tourist Information Centre, The Electric Theatre, G Live ticket shop and other distribution points around the borough from mid May. Tickets for most events are on sale now. FIND OUT MORE

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This Father’s Day, what about treating Dad to a day out he will really love. (Will my children read this?). Whether he enjoys real ales, classic cars, woodcraft or getting closer to nature, the National Trust in Surrey has everything you need to help dad and the rest of the family have a great day out. He could have a go at archery at Clandon Park, near Guildford, and afterwards enjoy a roast lunch in the restaurant. Polesden Lacey, near Dorking, is pulling out the stops with a local brewers’ beer tent, lazy jazz minstrels and classic cars to make dad’s day special. For more information and ideas for great value family days out go to www. nationaltrust.org.uk.

Day event on Sunday 15th June. A great day out not just for Dad, but for all the family. There’ll be a survival skills challenge, construct a mini raft, make a camouﬂage crown and build dens, too. As an extra treat, why not pop into the new British Food Hall for a spot of tea? Free with normal garden entry. Also, the Garden will be open from 9am – 9pm on Saturday 21st June, Summer Solstice, so make the most of the longest day of the year, the summer sunlight and the beautiful blooms. Oh, and if you are a fan of pelargoniums, there is a stunning display in the Glasshouse up to 15th June. Glasshouse times: 10am to 5.15pm, last entry 5pm. Free with normal garden entry.

It is of course a great time of year to visit RHS Garden, Wisley. It is open daily 10am (9am Saturday and Sunday) to 6pm (summertime from 15th March – 19th October 2014). The best way to ﬁnd out about all the events going on in June is to look at their website www.rhs.org.uk/wisley but you can also call 0845 260 9000. I would just mention their Fathers

Canine Capers is on at Hatchlands Park in Clandon, near Guildford on Sunday 15th June from 11am to 4pm. The ever-popular dog show is returning to Hatchlands. With fun categories such as ‘Dog Most Like its Owner’, ‘Best Dressed Hound and Handler’ and ‘Most Obedient Dog’, there should be something for every dog (and owner!). There will also be

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a variety of stalls to browse. Normal admission applies (+ £1.50 per dog per class). Visit www.nationaltrust. org.uk/hatchlands-park On Father’s Day, treat the special man in your life to a trip on the Wey & Arun Canal whilst enjoying a tasty bacon butty washed down with tea or coffee! The 90 minute trips depart at 9.45am and 12noon. Tickets: £12 for adults; £8 for children. Booking in advance is essential. Then on Friday 20th June, celebrate the eve of the Summer Solstice by gently cruising through beautiful countryside on one of the longest evenings of the year, enjoy a sparkling summer drink and a sensational salad supper. The trip departs at 7.30pm and lasts for approximately 2.5 hours. Tickets: £18 per person. Booking in advance is essential. To book seats on any of the forthcoming special cruises or if you would like information about private charters or weekend public trips, please call the Wey & Arun Canal Trust Office on 01403 752403 or email office@weyandarun.co.uk.

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The specialist scrutiny groups within the Guildford Society continue to be very involved, at many levels of discussion, with Guildford Borough Council, Surrey County Council and urban planners to work for the good of our town which faces major developments affecting its future housing, transport, work, retail and leisure environment. The Guildford Society aims to influence decisions for the benefit of your family and children but they need to know your views and ideas about Guildford’s Local Plan, Town Centre Master Plan, North St redevelopment, housing numbers, garden Villages, transport infrastructure and much more. Given these many challenges, the Society is undergoing some changes, especially to the way it communicates to its members and the wider public. They are launching a new website which they hope will encourage new members to join them and to take an active role in their work new expertise is always welcome. The Society’s AGM (Members only) will be held on Tuesday 17th June at Trinity Centre Upper Hall at the top of the High Street at 7.00pm for 7.30pm. Following the AGM, Dr Mary Alexander will be talking about ‘The Fall & Rise of Holy Trinity Church’. Looking ahead to Tuesday 15th July, Society Members and their guests will be visiting the town of Lewes which has remarkable similarities to Guildford and hearing from members of the local Civic Society on how they tackle that town’s issues. More information about the new website as soon as we get it. The Wey Valley Decorative and Fine Arts Society’s next lecture, by Dr Kathy McLauchlan, is entitled ‘En Plein Air: Paintings in the Age of Neo– Classicism’. Why not brighten your day and join them at Shalford Village Hall on Thursday 19th June at 10.45am, with refreshments from 9.45am, and learn about the work, techniques and style of these artists who were painting outdoors hundreds of years before the Impressionists? The Society offers a monthly programme of varied and fascinating talks by first class speakers. There are also special interest days, visits and an annual tour for members. New members 38

and visitors are warmly welcomed. Annual Membership is £38.75 and visitors pay £6 per talk. If you are interested, contact the Membership Secretary on 01483 564077 for more information or visit their website at www.theweyvalleydfas.org.uk. ‘Picnic & Pimm’s’ and ‘Midsummer Music’ at Chilworth Manor. Take your own picnics and drink, one free glass of Pimm’s or wine with each ticket. Cash bar. Runs from 6.00pm – 9.30pm, Thursday 19th June in aid of St. Martha’s Church, Guildford; Friday 20th June in aid of Surrey Sands (for stillborn babies); Saturday 21st June in aid of Mobile Physio. Tickets: 19th and 20th June are £15. 21st June, £20. Car Parking £5 per car. All proceeds will go to the three charities. More information at www.chilworthmanor. net. Holy Trinity and St Mary’s Church in Guildford hold a number of lectures at St Mary’s Church in Quarry Street, Guildford. Coming up, on Thursday 19th June, Matthew Alexander will be giving a talk on ‘The Rise of Modern Guildford before 1914’. Then on Saturday 5th July Catherine Moorehead will be giving a talk entitled ‘From Surrey to K2, The early life of Haversham Godwin-Austen’. Both lectures start at 2.30pm and are free; however a donation towards the roof fund would be most welcome. Guildford Natural History Society has two interesting coach trips coming up soon. If you hurry, you may be in time to catch a place on a trip by coach to Emsworth, near Chichester, said to be the liveliest harbour village of the 12 individual villages and three nearby towns along the shoreline of Chichester harbour. This is on Thursday 19th June. On Thursday 17th July they are due to go to Magdalen Hill Down for ﬂowers and butterﬂies and New Alresford for tea. Details of both trips from Gwen Comerford on 01483 893524. There will also be short walks on Thursley Common, Pewley Down, the Tillingbourne Valley and Sheepleas over the next few weeks. Details of these from Vanessa McClure on 01483 303417. All these events are open to non-members.

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As part of the industry wide initiative National Care Home Open Day, Worplesdon View Care Home will be commemorating the 100 year anniversary of WW1 at 11am on Friday 20th June 2014 with celebrated local historian, Carla Bennett who will speak to residents and guests. National Open Care Home Day is a fantastic opportunity for care home across the UK to open their doors to the local community, something that they do often at Worplesdon View. They will also be holding a vintage afternoon tea on 20th June, with entertainment form the talented singer Emma Hall. The traditional afternoon tea will be served with home-made cakes and scones at 3pm. Please RSVP to Worplesdon View Care Home, Worplesdon Road, Guildford, GU3 3LQ. Tel: 01483 238010 or visit www.barchester.com. Guildford Summer Festival returns for its 31st year celebrating the town and local area. The Festival is bigger than ever before with over 100 different events to pick from. Family favourites such as the Town Centre Cycle Races, Guildford Festival Craft Fair, Farmers’ Markets, Guildford Cricket Festival, Guildford Lions Raft Race, Drama in the Castle Grounds, classical concerts, Guilfest and Walkfest all return for summer 2014. Guilford Summer Festival runs across the borough from 20th June to 15th August. Brochures are available from Guildford Tourist Information Centre, The Electric Theatre, G Live ticket shop and other distribution points around the borough. Tickets for most events are on sale now. For full details, sign up to the mailing list and have a brochure which will be delivered right to your doorstep! Alternatively, visit www.guildfordsummerfestival.co.uk or find them on Facebook. Clandon Wood Surrey Hills Natural Burial Reserve, winner of The People’s Award for The Best Natural Burial Ground in the UK, invites you to our first anniversary summer solstice open day on June 21st June. Join them for a free barbecue, horse and carriage rides, face painting, music and falconry displays. Learn about our wildlife with expert Pete Bickford who will be leading guided walks vantagepointmag.co.uk

Whizz... Zoom... Boom... Most people’s memories of science lessons are of trying not to set your jumper on fire while a crusty chemistry teacher tries to drum the periodic table into your brain. Not incredibly inspiring stuff. Or perhaps you’re a parent desperately wracking your brains to think of ways to engage your kids with their science homework? Rather than dig out your old O-Level text books, the Science Museum may have the answer. The Science Museum Live: The Energy Show aims to get kids excited to learn about the mysteries of electrons and gasping at rockets and explosions. But how can a show in a theatre get children engaged with science? Director Martin Lamb thinks it’s all to do with the sheer scale of the production: “Live theatre is great because you’re involved in a shared experience – so for this show, the sense of anticipation of being among 500 people waiting for something to explode takes the excitement to another level”. And of course, when you’re in a bigger space, you can blow things up on a bigger scale! Although the creative team at the Science Museum had some challenges bringing some experiments to the stage (watch out for bottle rockets!), Anthony Richards, Manager of Learning Programmes at the Science Museum thinks the show will have kids in wide-eyed wonder. “We hope audiences will learn new things, like Newton’s Laws, while watching our Rocket Show, but we also want people to be excited and enthused. We deal with some trickier questions too – what’s the difference between nuclear fission and nuclear fusion – but this isn’t the science you’re used to, believe me!” June 2014

If you and your family are more likely to be seen at a ballet than a Bunsen Burner, then you needn’t worry. The producers have kept a strong narrative plot where two futuristic science students are in a race against time to show their knowledge of energy, all with the help of their virtual assistant i-nstein. As Martin Lamb says, “Theatre and science are often working together to entertain people and there’s actually a very thin line between them. For centuries theatre writers and directors have been trying to harness technology to find new and exciting ways to tell stories. We’re going to be weaving together the best elements of a traditional live science show with the storytelling features of family theatre.” The producers of the show are especially keen to dispel the myth that it’s only boys that will be interested in rockets, explosions and technological wizardry. Director Martin Lamb believes that: “Science is something which many people can feel is difficult to absorb, and sometimes people who have an arts-based education can end up neglecting to satisfy their curiosity about science.” With recent campaigns to get girls and women into the sciences, this show could be the light bulb moment when they realise that careers in these fields are within their reach. FIND OUT MORE

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A Foraged Meal for Summer Peter Sibley from Forest Foragers offers us three courses mixing wild and farmed ingredients June is a time when many wild foods are at their best; combine these with some of the cultivated foods in season now and you can create some wonderful dishes. Here are a few seasonal suggestions.

Sea Trout with Samphire Sea Trout is in season now, but if you cannot get any, Brown or Rainbow Trout may be substituted in this recipe, though they lack the flavour of Sea Trout. 6. When the trout is ready, open the foil carefully so that you do not lose the juices. Strip off the skin from the visible side of the fish, slide a knife into the mid line of the back and ease the fillet away, starting at the head end just behind the gills. The backbone should then be easy to lift away, leaving the lower fillet to be lifted away from the skin.

1. Wash the trout inside and out. One Sea Trout will usually feed four as a main course or more as a starter. If you are using Brown or Rainbow trout you will probably need two for a main course for four. 2. Grease a sheet of cooking foil and place the trout on it. Fill the body cavity with chopped spring onion, watercress and some slices of lemon and a knob of butter. Smear a bit more butter on the top skin and seal the foil around the trout. 3.Place on a baking tray or roasting tin and cook at 180°C for 45 minutes or 12 minutes per pound or half kilogram. When ﬁnished, take out of the oven and leave in the foil for 20 minutes or so.

4. Wash the samphire and place in a steamer, you will need about 75 grams per portion. Steam for a few minutes until it softens; steam it for too long and it will break up, so watch it carefully. 5. Stir some chopped watercress leaves into mayonnaise to serve with the trout.

7. Spoon the juices, spring onion, watercress and lemon onto the ﬁllets and serve with the steamed samphire and watercress mayonnaise. 8. If using as a main course, couscous makes a good accompaniment to this dish, as do new potatoes with mint.

Peter Sibley and his business partner Clifford Davy run Forest Foragers, which was formerly called Wild Harvest, and run regular foraging courses near Godalming, Surrey. You can join them for a full-day course, or an afternoon foray, in recognising, collecting, preparing, preserving and cooking edible wild plants and mushrooms. The full-day Wild Food Foraging Course consists of a morning identification session, covering the principal edible plants and fungi, (notes provided), followed by a substantial lunch featuring some of these. The morning session will also cover hazards to be avoided when collecting. The afternoon sees you going out to find wild plants and mushrooms. They will be running Wild Food Foraging Courses (£115 per person) at the the Chichester Hall, Witley, nr Godalming, Surrey on the following Saturdays: 27th September, 4th October, 11th October, 18th October and 25th October. These are from 10am to 5pm. In addition they will run Afternoon Forays (£25 per person) somewhere in Surrey on the following Sundays: 20th and 28th September, 19th October and 9th November. Afternoon Forays are designed for participants who have already undertaken the full one day course, and are suitable for experienced foragers only. All courses numbers are limited to 14 and the courses are not suitable for children. Please visit forestforagers.co.uk for more information.

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Lamb and wild green vegetables June is when salt marsh lamb becomes available. Lamb raised on the sea-washed turf of sea marshes has a special succulence and the fat has a unique ﬂavour which comes from the animal’s diet, made up of seashore herbs and salt-tolerant grasses. It is more expensive than ordinary lamb but worth it for a special meal. For this recipe you can use either a leg or a shoulder of lamb. If using shoulder it is best to cook it on a trivet to let some of the fat drip out. For the wild leaves there is a considerable choice. If you can get to the coast, Sea Beet Alexanders and Sea Purslane are all available. Use the leaves of Sea Beet, add the young shoots of Alexanders and use the Purslane as a ﬂavouring. Inland, Garlic Mustard, Hog Weed and the Chenopods, (Common Orache, Fat Hen, Good King Henry and Red Goosefoot), are all in season. 1. Peel three or four cloves of garlic, according to size, and cut into slivers. Using a sharp, thin knife make holes in the surface of the lamb and insert the slivers of garlic, one to each hole. 2. Cut a pocket in the joint, next to the bone, and insert some chopped spring onion, wild leaves, oregano and mint. Close the pocket with a cocktail stick. 3. Cook at 220°C for 20 minutes per pound or half kilogram and 20 minutes extra, less if you like it rare.

4. Let the lamb rest for ten minutes before carving. 5. Serve the lamb with any of the greens mentioned above, boiled

or steamed, as you would spinach, plus some roast vegetables and gravy made with the meat juices. Delicious!

Frozen Elderﬂower Posset A posset was originally a warm drink made from milk and wine or cider. The acid in the wine or cider curdled the milk. These days a posset is a cream or milk based pudding, usually chilled or frozen. Our medieval ancestors wouldn’t recognise it! This recipe is like a granita. The ingredients are very simple and so is the recipe. 1. You will need 150ml or ¼ pint of double cream, ¼ pint of Elderﬂower cordial, (either home-made or bought) and some berries and sugar to serve. 2. Whisk the cream in until it forms soft peaks, then add the cordial, a bit at a time, until it is all combined. 3. Freeze this in a plastic container. June 2014

4. When required, spoon the frozen mixture into a blender or food processor and blend, which will break up any ice crystals, then transfer to dessert dishes and leave in the freezer for several hours. 5. Before serving, put in the fridge for twenty minutes or so, add some berries to each dish and sprinkle on some icing sugar. Enjoy! 41

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around the meadows, sharing his wealth of knowledge about our birds, butterflies, flowers and bees. To find out more call 01483 479614 or email info@clandonwood.com or look at the website www.clandonwood.com. Guildford Choral Society under the musical direction of Jonathan Willcocks, will be performing David Fanshawe’s ‘African Sanctus’ and Ariel Ramirez’s ‘Missa Criolla’ on Saturday 21st June at 7.30pm at Guildford Cathedral. Tickets £20 Front Nave, £15 Mid Nave, £10 Rear Nave, £17 West Gallery. Concessions: (children, students, disabled and ES40). £10 on all seats except Front Nave. Tickets are available from: boxoffice@guildfordchoral.org or directly from Derek Lake on 01494 675571. Also from the Electric Theatre box office, 01483 444789. I seem to remember my dad singing African Sanctus when he was with The Bach Choir under the musical directorship of Jonathan Willcocks’ father Sir David. In fact I think it might have been the first performance of this amazing work which is hugely original, exciting and probably unlike anything you have heard before. Do you love to sing and want to take your singing to a new level? Tried singalong groups but would like a bit more of a challenge? Here is the answer! Come to this one-day Acappella Harmony Workshop for Ladies, at Guildford’s G Live on Saturday 21st June (9.30am to 4pm). Discover the beauty, power and variety of the human voice and the joy of singing in resonant harmony with others. The course will be led by Andrew Edgley, a highly experienced musical director of men’s and women’s choruses and vocal coach. This year, they feature a special guest educator, Clare Wheeler, an internationally-known vocalist who performs with the renowned Swingle Singers. It’s a day of hard work, great fun and you’ll be inspired by what you can achieve. Cost: £25. For more information see their website: www. harmonyworkshop.org.uk. Horsley Garden Society holds flower and produce shows, meetings, lectures, and visits that bring together those with an interest in gardening. They hold a plant sale which is open 42

to the public, along with three shows at which members compete for awards and trophies with their flowers, fruit, vegetables, homecrafts and handicrafts. Their Summer and Autumn Shows, are open for viewing for non-members. Membership is £8 a year – contact Roger Lindsay, Hon. Chairman, email sue.roger@virgin. net or Terry Lazenby, Hon. Treasurer, email terrylazenby@terrylazenby. plus.com. On Sunday 22nd June from 11am4pm there is a ‘Scouting Skills Day’ at Dapdune Wharf, in Guildford. Normal admission applies plus £3 for activities. You’ll be able to join local members of the Scout Association to try your hand at some traditional scouting skills including fire lighting, tent pitching, knot tying and den building. Suitable for 8-14 years. Then on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th June from 11am5pm there is a ‘50 things weekend’ at Dapdune Wharf; normal admission applies plus £2.50 children’s activity fee. They’ve got 15 of the 50 things that you can do at Dapdune Wharf go along and make a race of it, who can do all 15 the quickest? If you have ever wondered about the history of some of the objects to be found in our churches go along to John Vigar’s lecture, ‘For Weddings, Baptisms and Funerals’. This is the title of the next lecture of the West Surrey Decorative and Fine Arts Society to be held on Tuesday, 24th June. The lecture will show how objects and pictures in our churches can introduce us to historic practices surrounding the ‘rites of passage’. The Society meets in Shalford Village Hall on the fourth Tuesday in the month at 9.45am for coffee. Lectures start at 10.30am. New members and visitors are very welcome. Details of their programme of lectures, visits and holidays for 2014 can be found on their website www.nadfas-westsurrey. co.uk. For more information ring 01483 811671. The Damon Hill Karting Challenge 2014 takes place on Wednesday 25th June, in partnership with Daytona Sandown Park. Last year’s event saw over 150 drivers in some 30 teams take part in the two and half hour challenge, pitting their wits against

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one another. As well as professional racing drivers and celebrities, teams were made up of competitive businesses and individuals throughout the south. Everyone enjoyed a great evening’s entertainment whilst raising much needed funds for the halow project, a Surrey based charity helping young adults with a learning disability. It takes place at Daytona Motorsport, Sandown park, KT10 8AN. Signing on from 3.15pm, briefings from 4pm. For enquiries contact Hannah or Richard of the Fundraising Team on 01483 447960. Once you have registered your team and paid your fees they will send further information on the event and the pre-event registration process. More information at www. halowproject.org.uk . Cranleigh Decorative and Fine Arts Society has a talk on Wednesday 25th June at 2pm and 7.30pm in Cranleigh Arts Centre. ‘An Introduction to Russian Art from Medieval to the 20th Century’. This illustrated talk by Theodora Clarke will offer a journey through the development of Russian Art up to modern times. Guests are very welcome; £5 voluntary admission donation suggested. For full information about Cranleigh Decorative & Fine Arts Society visit their website: www.cranleighdfas.org. At St Catherine’s Flower Arrangement Club on Thursday 26th June, Sally Hardy will demonstrate ‘Any Dream Will Do’ and the competition will be ‘Visions’. They meet at Shalford Village Hall. Doors open at 1pm for 1.45pm start. Visitors and new members are always very welcome. For further details call 01483 578368. The Goodwood Festival of Speed takes place from Thursday 26th to Sunday 29th June. Andy Rouse and John Fitzpatrick join an ever-growing line-up of current legendary drivers and riders and legends of motor sport on two wheels and four. Among those already confirmed are exFormula 1 world champions Emerson Fittipaldi and John Surtees, NASCAR ‘king’ Richard Petty, rallying’s most successful driver, Sebastien Loeb and grand prix motorcycle champions Giacomo Agostini and Freddie Spencer. More information at www. goodwood.co.uk/festival-of-speed. vantagepointmag.co.uk

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Frosty goodbyes Now we have the risk of night frosts behind us, this is the ultimate green light to get gardening! Take a look at your window boxes and pots and choose what style you will be planting this year. For ﬂower power, look at trailing petunias, New Guinea impatiens (mildew resistant busy lizzie) or the ever reliable begonias. The garden centres are now well stocked with summer bedding, so now is the time to plant for summer impact. If ﬂowers are not your thing, think of foliage plants such as the silver leaves of Dichondra ‘Silver Falls’ (pictured) planted alongside blue

succulents such as Echeveria elegans with a centrepiece like an Agave or Yucca. At Wisley this summer, we’ll be giving floriferous summer bedding a miss in the Walled Garden East, and planting it with a colourful patchwork of herbs, to link with ‘Herbfest’, a festival of cooking with herbs, which our caterers are championing. Do not forget how ornamental and colourful herbs can be – from purple basils to silver sages. If your love of cooking is greater than your love of flowers, why not fill your pots with colourful herbs this summer? The only secrets are good light and lots of liquid food. Herbs tend to run to flower or become small and insipid if not given access to decent nutrients, so while enjoying them in your dinner, remember they need to eat too!

Snail hunting and aphid squishing After such a mild winter I’m not surprised the ivy on the sheltered wall of my London home is literally dripping with aphids and at Wisley we are not short of lily beetles and you can hear the army of slugs and snails flocking to the Hosta display in the Walled Garden West! However, we have the advantage of still being early enough in the growing season to catch populations before they cause significant damage. Watch out for the young growth of vegetable plants, perennials and emerging summer bulbs. Whether you wish to try the chemical-free nematode treatment, Nemaslug, for slugs, or blasting aphids off with a hosepipe, or chemical treatment on lily beetles, now is the time to act. Hunting the infestations down early, rather than wincing at your shredded leaves in mid July is the answer. If you are not squeamish, wandering around the garden on a rainy or damp evening can yield many slugs and snails for the picking. Equally peeping behind wall shrubs on brick walls where snails tend to be found en masse. FIND OUT MORE

RHS Garden Wisley, Woking GU23 6QB. Visit rhs.org.uk/gardens/wisley to ﬁnd out more.

Holding up the herbaceous border At Wisley we have been busy putting the final pieces of staking and supports around clumps of herbaceous perennials. There is nothing more disappointing than to find a clump of sedum you have watched grow throughout the summer collapse outwards after a spell of wind and rain. Before the stems are too tall, insert supports around the plants for them to grow through or metal link stakes around the clump to contain the plants. If you are happy to have shorter plants with later, more compact flowers, ‘Chelsea Chopping’ is a method of cutting herbaceous plant stems in half in a bid to make them more compact, (traditionally carried out during the week of the Chelsea Flower Show, but can be done into early June). Try it on your sedums or phlox this year. vantagepointmag.co.uk

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For the first time, Watts Gallery will open its doors from 5pm to 9pm offering visitors the chance to experience the magic of the gallery at dusk. In addition to late night opening, free events will include a lantern-lit walk, a programme of talks and lectures, opportunities to try your hand at arts and crafts or simply to sit back, relax with a drink from the bar, eat freshly cooked food and enjoy live music in the beautiful surroundings. On Friday 27th June, from 5pm-9pm you can relax on the gallery lawn with a drink from the bar whilst enjoying live Jazz, and then be amongst the first to visit the new summer exhibition ‘Ellen Terry: A Painter’s Actress’. The Reduced Shakespeare Company will be bringing their entertaining, irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s plays to G Live on Saturday 28th June. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] was London’s longest running comedy having clocked a very palpable nine years in London’s West End at the Criterion Theatre. If you would like to join these madcap men in tights as

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they weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare’s comedies, histories and tragedies in one wild ride that will leave you helpless with laughter, call the Box Oﬃce on 0844 7701 797 or go to www.glive.co.uk. ‘Jazz in June’ is on Saturday 28th June at 7.30pm. Bramley Music presents Tom Hollister and Friends – bass, piano, vibraphone, marimba, sax, vocal – something for everyone! Come and hear the ﬁnest from the Royal College of Music in relaxed style, and while away a summer’s evening in their company. Early booking advised, as last year they were packed! Tickets in advance from Robertson’s in Bramley High Street, £10 each (under 18s and students £5). If you wish to order tickets for collection on the night, call Stuart White on 01483 892645, or email stuart.white@rpc.co.uk. And there’s even a free drink in the interval to get you completely in the mood! Shackleford is holding its annual traditional village fête on Saturday 28th June between 2pm and 5pm at Norney Farm, Shackleford Road. This

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is a great family afternoon with all the usual local stalls plus a ‘Fun Dog Show’ at 3pm. All breeds and ages welcome. Go and join in the fun. As David Bryant used to say: “Bowls is a young person’s game, that older people can play” Today’s game, whilst still retaining plenty of its traditional charm, also offers the chance to go as far as you care to compete, both in your county and country. Wonersh Bowls Club, set in a beautiful spot at the foot of Chinthurst Hill in the centre of Wonersh, has set aside Saturday 28th June from 11am to put the club at your disposal, so go along and have a go! They have experienced coaches and everything you’ll need to try bowls will be provided; all you need to take is flat footwear. They can also offer you four free lessons at a time to suit you in the following weeks. There will be members of the club available all day waiting to welcome you. If you would like to arrange a particular time give their Secretary Brian Taylor a ring on 01483 423159. On Saturday 28th June, Cranleigh Choral Society’s Summer Concert will take place in the Cranleigh Village Hall

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at 7.30pm. The programme features the well-loved Faure’s Requiem as well as two pieces by Vivaldi, ‘Beatus Vir’ and ‘Magniﬁcat’. Tickets £12 from 07973 772812, choir members or on the door. Visit their website: www. cranleighchoralsociety.org.uk. Also on Saturday 28th June, Cranleigh will come alive as The Cranleigh & District Lions Club stage their Annual Carnival & Fun Day –a free day out for the whole family and friends. Every visitor young and old is guaranteed a truly fun day out with Cranleigh Lions. To say something for everybody is an understatement – from clowns to bands, bouncy castles to craft stands and cream teas – they have it all! Join in the fun and make it the best procession ever. Download an entry form from the website www.cranleighlions. org.or contact Derek Trawber at procession@cranleighlions.org for more information. There is a display of John Surtees cars and bikes at Mercedes Benz World, Brooklands on Sunday 29th June. There is also a new book out by him titled ‘My Incredible Life on Two and Four Wheels’. It’s a pictorial history of his life. It isn’t cheap at £50 but for a motor sport enthusiast it wouldn’t half make a smashing present! Summer is almost upon us and plans are well and truly under way for this year’s Guildford Fringe Festival, which takes place from 1st-27th July. Last year saw the ﬁrst-ever Guildford Fringe Festival and at least one event was staged each night. The festival is an open access multi-arts festival which includes plays, musical theatre, stand-up comedy, debate groups, movie nights, cabarets, quiz nights, music, art exhibitions and even burlesque, to name just a few genres! In 2013 all events took place in the home of Guildford Fringe, the Back Room of the Star Inn, which is in the heart of Guildford’s town centre. This year though they will be popping up in a total of nine venues in Guildford including The Bellerby Studio (G Live), The Keep Pub, The Keystone, The Back Room, The Electric Theatre, Bar Des Arts, Boileroom, Wintershall Estate and Clandon Wood Natural Burial Reserve. The Guildford Fringe team 46

is always looking for volunteer ushers and stewards and if you are interested in being involved please either email them at info@GuildfordFringe.com or call on 01483 361101. For full events listings, venue information and to purchase tickets please visit www. GuildfordFringeFestival.com or pop into the Tourist Information Centre where you can pick up a brochure. To book by phone you can call the Tourist Information Centre on 01483 444333. ‘Freedom to Roam’ by oil and acrylic painter, Stephen Hornsby-Smith is the title of an exhibition at The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation Gallery, 7 Saba House, Kings Road, Shalford, Guildford, GU4 8JU. It runs from Tuesday 1st to Thursday 31st July, Monday to Friday 9am-5pm and Saturday 10am-4pm. Free entry. Browse and buy from this fabulous selection of wildlife oil paintings, posters and cards. All sales support endangered wildlife. For more see www.davidshepherd.org. Arthritis Research UK Cranleigh Branch is holding their Annual Cream Tea on Wednesday 2nd July from 2.30pm-4.30pm in the beautiful grounds of Knowle Park Care Home. Enjoy their delicious homemade scones and cakes, browse among the lovely craft stalls, buy a raffle ticket or two and support them in raising money for Arthritis Research. Tickets £5 in advance from Ruth, 01483 273935, Marilyn, 01483 276387 or Knowle Park, 01483 275432. Whether you are a regular racegoer or not, you might be interested to know that Sandown Park, Kempton Park and Epsom Downs have lined up some terrific musical acts after the racing. For example, after the evening meeting at Epsom on Thursday 3rd July, James Blunt is in concert. Actually he does have racing connections as his uncle worked for The Jockey Club and he was a member of the Household Cavalry. Tickets for James Blunt at Epsom Live will be on sale at Epsom Downs Racecourse for just £35. The first 1000 tickets sold will receive 10% discount. Children aged 5-17 are £20 and under 5’s are free. To book your tickets visit www.epsomdowns.co.uk or call: 0844 5793004.

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Back for a second year The Fitness Festival returns to Surrey Sports Park in Guildford on Saturday 5th July. Last year over 700 fitness fans flocked to Surrey Sports Park to enjoy a fitness packed day with functional movement demonstrations, new gym equipment, new classes and the hottest new fitness technology on the market. As well as classes and demonstrations there will be a chance to browse the fitness retail village, get expert advice on subjects such as nutrition and strength and conditioning in specialist seminars and have health checks with the Surrey Human Performance Team. To find out more about the Fitness Festival and book your £12 early bird tickets go to www. fitnessfestivaluk.com. For updates on line up and announcements follow @ fitnessfestuk. Surrey County Percussion Ensemble (SCPE) is one of the county’s leading youth ensembles who will be giving an informal concert in aid of The Therapy Garden in Normandy on Saturday 5th July at 6pm at Westfield School Bonsey Lane Woking GU22 9PR. SCPE have performed locally in music festivals and at the Royal Albert Hall led by their director Jackie Kendle. They will be performing some of their favourite repertoire from Coldplay to Duke Ellington! There will be raffle prizes, refreshments on sale and a plant stall so don’t forget to take your purse! Admission is free with donations to the Therapy Garden, a small charity that provides gardening to young people and adults with learning disabilities, mental health challenges and other special needs www.thetherapygarden.org. The annual Guildford Lions Club Raft Race, the 38th, is to have a nursery rhyme theme this year and welcomes all budding Humpty Dumpties, Goldilocks, Little Red Riding Hoods, black sheep and more. This year’s race, on Saturday 5th July, will start from Millmead and rafts will paddle downstream to the Waterside Centre, about two kilometres away. Entries are welcome from any organisations and the hope is that each raft will raise at least £100, either for their own charity or for Guildford Lions Club. Apart from the fastest, there will prizes for best vantagepointmag.co.uk

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The walk 1. Take the footpath alongside the Lord Raglan pub and through Chequers Quay. Go under the arch and through a gate onto the path alongside Slipper Mill Pond. At the end of the pond, go through the gate and then turn right in front of the converted mill building. 2. Continue ahead through the boatyard. Watch out for moving machinery. After the first few ‘stilt’ houses, turn left and then right at the next footpath sign along Osprey Quay. 3. Look out for the footpath on the left across a field. There are usually horses in this field. At the road, turn right and then shortly left into Thornham Lane. (The small and free parking area here is an alternative starting point.) Just past Thornham Marina there are some large rocks across the road. 4. Immediately past the rocks take the footpath to the left. At the shoreline turn right shortly crossing a wooden bridge. Keep going on the shoreline path until you come to the large security gates. Just before the gate, drop down the bank on the right to see Thorney Deeps. This was once part of the Chichester Ship Canal. 5. At the gates press the buzzer. You will be asked your name, address, contact telephone number and purpose of visit. Do not be put off, this is a formality as the land past the gate is owned by the Ministry of Defence. Once on Thorney Island do not stray off the clearly marked path. Call the Guard Post on 01243 388269 or the Guard Room on 01243 388275 if you get into difficulty. 6. After about a mile you will pass a dinghy park. Just beyond, the path climbs up the bank towards the 13th century church of St Nicholas. 48

This 13th century church was described by AA Evans in the Chichester Diocesan Gazette as the ‘loneliest, remotest, last seen, least known and altogether utmost church in Sussex’. This description still rings true today. The pretty church is still used by local parishioners but is inaccessible to the general public other than via the footpath or by yachtsmen landing at the nearby jetty. Despite its age there are a number of modern touches including an engraved window and a slate pulpit. In the well kept churchyard, RAF graves lie alongside the graves of Germans who lost their lives here during WWII. There are also a number of graves from recent conﬂicts.It certainly is a very restful place. vantagepointmag.co.uk

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At the tip of the island you will see the sandy beach and dunes of Pilsey Island. This area is leased by the RSPB and is important for nesting and roosting birds. There is no public access from the footpath. After a while you will come to a bird hide which is a good spot for a break on a windy or wet day. As you walk up the west side of the island, look out for seals on the mudﬂats if the tide is low.

At the security gates you will be asked your name and then let through. Here you can either continue along the shoreline path or drop down the bank on the right to walk alongside the Deeps. Either way the paths rejoin. 7. Take the path in front of the ‘stilt’ houses and then turn right at the marina. If you have parked at the road junction keep going to Thorney Road and then turn right. Otherwise turn left at the next set of houses. Retrace your steps back through the marina and around the Slipper Mill Pond to return to the start point.

DISTANCE: 8.5 miles from Emsworth start point OS MAPS: OS Explorer 120 START GRID REFERENCE: SU 752 057 STARTING POINT: The Lord Raglan pub, Queen Street, Emsworth. There are a number of pay and display car parks in Emsworth. Allow at least ﬁve hours for the walk. Alternatively, there is a small parking area on the corner of Thorney Road and Thornham Lane. If parking here follow the directions from the third paragraph.

REFRESHMENTS: Numerous restaurants, pubs and cafes at Emsworth, Boaters Café at Thornham Marina. There are no refreshments on Thorney Island so do carry drinks and snacks. TIDES: The path ﬂoods between points 1 and 2 and near the church at point 6 when the tide is 5m or higher. This walk used by kind permission of Chichester Harbour Conservancy. For more information, please visit their website at conservancy.co.uk.

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Saturday 12th July, from 12noon to 4pm, sees the return of The Ewhurst Carnival, a traditional family day out this year with a Mardi Gras theme. The street parade starts at 12 noon from the cricket green leading to the recreation ground for carnival entertainment, dog show, stalls, barbecue, bar, teas, the horticultural show and much more. The celebrations kick oﬀ again at 7.30pm with the return of local band The Fabulous Nobodies, this time with a twist of soul – see who you recognise on the stage! A fun day for the community organised by the community; have a fun day. Find out more at www.ewhurstcarnival.co.uk and www.ewhursthortsoc.org.uk.

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WIN A WASH, CUT & FINISH AT SCULLY SCULLY To celebrate the addition of hair stylist Simon Smith to the award winning hair salon Scully Scully . The salon situated in High Street Godalming would like to offer one lucky reader a Wash Cut and Finish with Simon (normal price £63.00). 10 vouchers worth £15 can also be won. Simon Smith has over 20 years experience as one of the UKs leading hair stylists. As the man behind the Nicky Clarke hairdressing empire Simon oversaw the expansion of the Nicky Clarke brand throughout major UK cities over the last 10 years as well as personally developing the Nicky Clarke Training Programme. He has now returned to his roots in Godalming to work alongside long time friends Paul Scully and Laura Southon where the trio will concentrate on what they do best ... provide beautiful hair styling and colouring for all their clients. To win, simply answer the following question: Q: Which hair salon group did Simon Smith work for? Please enter online at vantagepointmag.co.uk by 30th June 2014.

WIN FAMILY TICKETS FOR THE GARDEN SHOW AT LOSELEY The Garden Show returns to Loseley Park from the 18th-20th July 2014 and we have three family tickets to give away. The event showcases a brilliant collection of specialist nurseries, garden designers and artisans to help you transform your outdoor spaces and a fantastic range of wonderful gifts, fashion accessories and some of the best county foods and wines in the area. There is plenty to keep all the family occupied: watch the Huxley Birds of Prey and the wandering Jazz Magic whilst your children are entertained by puppet shows, juggling, storytelling, face painting and Old Tyme Funfair rides. For more information, call 01243 538456 or visit www.thegardenshowonline.com. To win, simply answer the following question: Q: Name the family who live at Loseley park? Please enter online at vantagepointmag.co.uk by 30th June 2014.

WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS FOR THE SOUTHERN HOMEBUILDING & RENOVATING AND HOME IMPROVEMENT SHOW - 28TH TO 29TH JUNE 2014 VantagePoint Magazine has teamed up with Britain’s largest homebuilding, renovating and home improvement shows, to offer you the chance to win one of 10 pairs of tickets to the show. The Southern Homebuilding & Renovating and Home Improvement Show will be taking place in Surrey at Sandown Park from 28th to 29th June and aims to cater for all projects, tastes and budgets. This year’s event will host over 150 exclusive exhibitors, free seminars and masterclasses, and a wide range of property experts will be on call to provide tips, advice and answers to visitors’ property questions. To win, simply answer this question: Q: Where in Surrey will the show take place? Enter online at vantagepointmag.co.uk by 20th June 2014.

Please enter online at vantagepointmag.co.uk. Postal entries can be sent to us at the address given on page three. TERMS & CONDITIONS OF ENTRY: By entering these competitions you agree to receive periodic emails from VantagePoint Magazine,Vantage Publishing Ltd and the originator of the competition you are entering.You can opt out of receiving these at any time and your data will never be passed on for use by third parties.The prizes are non-transferable and have no cash alternative. Only one entry per person per competition and prizes will only be sent to homes with a GU and KT postcode.

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