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Jottings First of all, we would like to wish you all a very happy New Year. We do hope you had a really good Christmas and unlike 2013, managed to cook Christmas dinner without disruption! We look forward to receiving all your Jottings in the coming year. If you are a club, society, school, charity or indeed anyone who is doing something for the benefit of our community and would like some publicity to increase membership or highlight an event, do email us. Although we can’t guarantee it, we will certainly try our best to include your entry. Need to walk more for your health in 2015? New walkers are always welcome at the Haslemere ‘Walks for Health’ group at any of their weekly walks of about an hour, leaving on: Tuesdays from Haslewey at 2.30pm: Thursdays from High Lane Community Centre at 1pm: Saturdays from Haslemere Leisure Centre (Herons) at 11am. Also ½ hour walks are now available on the first Tuesday of each month from Haslewey at 3pm, for those wishing to start gradually. So why not try these walks and help make 2015 a healthier year for you! Weekly Walks leave on: Tuesdays
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at 2.30pm from Haslewey (also at 3pm on first Tuesday of each month for a shorter 30 minute walk) Thursdays at 1pm from High Lane Community Centre and Saturdays at 11am from Haslemere Leisure Centre (formerly The Herons). The Three Counties Luncheon Club is for ladies who lunch! Members come from the three local counties of Surrey, Hampshire and West Sussex and one or two from even further away! It’s a member’s only club but you can try them first to see if you like them! They meet on the first Wednesday of every month throughout the year, at the Georgian House Hotel on High Street, Haslemere at 12.15 pm and finish by 3pm. A two course lunch alternates each month between a starter and a main course or a main course and a pudding, plus coffee or tea. Speakers lined up for the first three months of 2015 are: on 7th January, J.O. Smith on ‘Parcel of Gold for Edith - letters from the Australian Goldfields’, 4th February Susan Howe on ‘Cantering Through A Funny Life’ and March 4th Gill Parker tells of her ‘Life as a Playboy Bunny’. If you would like to join or try them, and you are a ‘lady who lunches’, contact Jenny on 01428 656605 or TCLC@anneshatch. co.uk – they’d love to meet you.
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Midhurst Camera Club has three Wednesday events coming up in January. On 7th, it’s the Len Clarke Memorial Trophy Competition (in memory of the founder chairman). One panel of between three and six prints on a related theme. No set subject ‘Open’. Prints may be individually or multi-mounted. Judge – Barry Day. On 21st, there’s a talk by Cpl Steve Blake – ‘Tunics and Bearskins – British Pomp and Ceremony’. Steve Blake is no stranger to Midhurst Camera Club having visited a few times with presentations on his work on the front line in Afghanistan; his last visit was early in 2011. However, this presentation will be a little different as he has spent the past six months based in London in the busiest media post in the Army. Steve moved to London at the beginning of 2014 as photographer of London District, covering ceremonials and news stories involving the Army and Royals. On 28th there’s a Practical Evening, based around getting better macro images. Grayshott Decorative and Fine Arts Society’s (GDFAS) next meeting is on Thursday 8th January at 2pm in Grayshott
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Turner at Petworth House Visitors to the National Trust’s Petworth House in West Sussex will be able to enjoy a unique exhibition of artwork and artefacts, inspired by the themes in Mike Leigh’s award-winning film Mr. Turner.
Turner in the garden of the Chelsea cottage he shared secretly with his Margate landlady, under the name ‘Mr Booth’. The painting was last exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1852 – a year after Turner’s death.
Petworth House played a starring role in the film having once been the home of one of Turner’s greatest patrons, the third Earl of Egremont.
• Turner’s personal possessions, including his fishing rod, watch and signet ring, books from his library, and his painting materials. Some of these pieces have never been on public display before.
The exhibition features over 30 works of art, mostly by Turner, and on loan from major museum collections including the Tate and V&A, alongside personal effects once belonging to the artist, some on show for the first time. Also on view are paintings and drawings by the actor Timothy Spall, created whilst he trained for his role as Turner in the film, together with props and items of costume from the feature. Highlights include: • Major loans of Turner’s paintings in oil and watercolour • Rarely seen portraits of Turner, such as John Phillip’s touching late watercolour – possibly the last painted image of the artist before his death, and CW Cope’s oil sketch, one of the very few visual records of Turner at work. • The first showing of a painting by 19th-century artist Alexander McInnes, discovered on the BBC Antiques Roadshow. It shows 8
• Props and items of costume from the film, Mr. Turner.
Below: Petworth House - Carved Room with four Turner landscapes set into Grinling Gibbons panelling - credit National Trust, Bill Batten.
• The additional 20 Turner paintings that reside permanently at Petworth House alongside countless masterpieces by other artists in five historic show rooms, several of which featured in the film. • A short film by Mike Leigh’s production company Thin Man Films, about the making of Mr. Turner at Petworth House, and featuring rare behind-the-scenes footage. Visitors can also tour the Old Library, not usually open to the public, but once used by Turner and other artist guests as a studio in the 19th century. This extraordinary space, which features in the film, hosts an exhibition of artwork by Timothy Spall, who was awarded the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance as Turner. vantagepointmag.co.uk
Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at Petworth House, Andrew Loukes said: “Mike Leigh’s work on Mr. Turner at Petworth was arguably the most significant cultural moment at the ‘house of art’ since Turner himself was a frequent guest here in the 1820s and 30s.
JMW Turner and Petworth House and Park
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775– 1851) was born in London and entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1789. He is one of the best-loved English Romantic artists and became known as ‘the painter of light’ due to his use of brilliant colours for his landscapes and seascapes. The critic John Ruskin became a great champion of his work.
“Having been a major location for the film, Petworth is a fitting venue for Mr. Turner – an exhibition: a unique show of loans celebrating a great British film, inspired by its principal themes and featuring an important mix of iconic paintings and rarely seen exhibits.” The exhibition explores major themes of the film, such as travel, patronage, science, the Royal Academy and colour. Included in the collection are views reflecting Turner’s many European adventures, such as the enigmatic oil Calais Sands (Bury Art Gallery). Turner’s work at Petworth is showcased by a group from the Turner Bequest (Tate), including the famous view of the third Earl of Egremont striding out with his dogs – a scene recreated in the film. Turner’s close involvement with the Royal Academy is represented by examples of his work as student, lecturer and exhibitor, while his lifelong residence in the capital is also acknowledged through works such as The Port of London (V&A). Mike Leigh said: “Petworth wrote itself into the film rather than us having to think of possible stately homes; it is such an extraordinary, and rare, and rarefied place. “When you’re in a place like Petworth and you’re saying, ‘OK, let’s pretend it’s 1828’ and you do all the research, and get into the costumes and breathe the air, you really do experience some kind of magic.” FIND OUT MORE
Booking is essential for Mr. Turner – an exhibition. For more information please visit www. nationaltrust.org.uk/petworthturner or telephone 0844 249 1895.
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Left: Timothy Spall as Turner - Simon Mein and Thin Man Films
Turner had strong links with Petworth. During the 1820s and 30s he was a frequent visitor to the house as a guest of his friend and patron the third Earl of Egremont. The 20 paintings bought and commissioned by the third Earl continue to be enjoyed by thousands of visitors today, and are central to the story of Petworth.
Petworth House as a film location for Mr. Turner
Above: The Artist and his Admirers by JMW Turner, 1827 - Tate Britain
Mike Leigh filmed for just over a week at Petworth House, which was the seat of one of Turner’s greatest patrons - the third Earl of Egremont, played by Patrick Godfrey in the film. Turner famously had the run of the house when he visited, and annexed the enormous library as his art studio, which was vividly brought back to life in the film. Little needed to be done to the interiors to prepare them for filming; they remain much as they were during Turner’s time.
Petworth House’s splendid Carved Room is prominent in the film, and contains four landscapes painted by Turner for the 3rd Earl, two of which are of Petworth House and Park. The film also captures a scene portrayed in Turner’s painting, Petworth Park, with Lord Egremont and his Dogs (on show), which depicts the Earl walking towards the house with his dogs at sunset. Petworth House’s Marble Hall and Little Dining Room also feature.
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Haslemere Natural History Society is holding a talk on Saturday 10th January at 2.15pm at Haslemere Educational Museum. Medmerry (near Selsey) was one of the stretches of coastline most at risk of flooding in Southern England. Peter Hughes (RSPB Senior Warden Medmerry Pagham Harbour) will
I have always loved the work of JMW Turner, so was very excited to hear that this spring, Petworth House hosts an exhibition inspired by Mike Leigh’s award-winning film Mr Turner. Petworth House played a starring role in the film having been the home of one of Turner’s greatest patrons, the third
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Moving later in life When elderly parents need to downsize, it can be an ordeal for the whole family. Penny Kitchen talks to a woman who knows how to help from first-hand experience. Amanda Fyfe was a successful businesswoman with a young family when she realised that her parents, aged 75 and 85, needed to downsize – and needed help to do it. This presented problems for all the family members, not least because her parents lived several hours’ drive away. Both Amanda and her brother wanted to help, but spending weekends looking for suitable accommodation, and then helping her parents to get rid of a lifetime’s accumulation of possessions, took an increasing toll on family life, and on the emotions. “Mum was very fit and still worked full-time at Oxfam, but she was beginning to feel isolated and wanted to move closer to me. Dad who was that much older was beginning to slow down – but he didn’t want to move.” Finally Amanda’s parents were persuaded and she takes up the sory: “I found them somewhere to live, no problem; found a buyer for their house, no problem; but the practicalities of moving them from a very large four bedroom bungalow into a little two bedroom flat were huge. I was going over every weekend. I had three stepchildren living with me, a dog, a business with 18 employees to run, and an old house which required a lot of looking after. 14
“I was driving to my parents’ every Friday evening, frantically sorting through their belongings and I was exhausted. It would literally be ‘OK, right, Mum, let’s clear this room now’. I would start and she would say ‘But Auntie Annie gave me those…’. Tempers frayed as the hours ticked by. “Oh, the guilt afterwards!” Amanda acknowledged ruefully. “It should have been an exciting time for them, but frankly they must have been glad to get rid of me on Sunday, to have five days of peace. Meanwhile my brother was making trips over to clear the garage.” Amanda had planned her parents’ move. They were going to stay with her for a week while she cleaned and sorted boxes in the flat, but in the end she had to make them move into the flat. “It was awful. It was probably the most stressful time of my life.” As I listened to Amanda recount the story, I thought of my own parents years ago – them in Canada, me in Surrey – and, despite my urging, putting off the evil day when they had to downsize. Lacking practical support, they understandably could not face the upheaval. As I was of minimal help, they could have vantagepointmag.co.uk
benefitted enormously from someone like Amanda. Not the stressed and overloaded Amanda who dealt with her own mother and father’s move, but the Amanda who today, as a professional ‘senior moves manager’, can stand back from the fraught family situation and guide her elderly clients through the process. A revelation On a business trip to the States shortly after her parents’ move, Amanda was telling an associate there about the ordeal. “He said to me ‘You should talk to my wife – she got in a senior moves manager.’ “The concept of a specialist helping older people downsize and move house was a revelation to me and I thought this is something I could do myself back in England. I’m usually calm and organised. I’ve always loved older people and felt relaxed with them – I loved visiting my grandparents and felt closer to my own parents when they got older.” Training in America through the Senior Moves Trade Association followed and Amanda reduced the time she spent at her other business in order to experience at first-hand what it would be like to move other people. “I had moved every three years because my father was in the army, so I could do that with my eyes closed, “ she explained, “ but it is very different moving yourself and moving someone else.” Amanda’s father died in 2011, a turning point for her. At the age of 49, she sold her business to concentrate full-time on her new venture. Today she feels well qualified to offer good advice to others who may be facing the prospect of helping to relocate elderly relatives.
• Invite other - older - family members or friends of your parents to sit in on one of these sessions so that they don’t feel they are being bullied. • Be open and truthful with them. Unfortunately, adult children may approach the issue obliquely out of respect for mum and dad. Show them reality but at the same time show them solutions. For example, point out to them “the day is coming when one of you might have a fall – who will pick you up?” Describe all the available options – care home, sheltered accommodation, ground floor flat, etc. • Parents will capitulate if the adult children give assurances often enough that they can help them. But what if adult children can’t offer help for whatever reason? Like me, they may live far away; the chemistry/history between parents and children sometimes gets in the way; and sadly, some families are estranged. Amanda believes that this is where the American concept of Senior Moves provides a solution. You will inevitably get situations where mother might want to keep something that daughter has designated for the charity shop. Says Amanda: “Someone like me coming in can spare the time to chat about a precious possession that holds a memory for the elderly person. We act as surrogate family to them because we’ll listen to them, whereas often family members have commitments of work, children at home, etc. We give them every minute of the hours we’re with them.” And importantly, there is no emotional childparent tension.
Amanda’s advice • If you haven’t already talked to elderly parents about a move, it is essential to open up a communication channel. You may not be able to convince them at first, but you have to keep trying. And if subtlety doesn’t work, you have to sit them down and say “mum and dad, we have to have a serious conversation here.”
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Who do you call? Ghost busters are possibly the only services Amanda hasn’t enlisted to help her clients! She helps get services in, contacts charities, organises house and garage clearance, makes a floor plan of the new property to help them plan in advance where pieces of furniture will go. “We can even unpack for them so that they don’t have to face new rooms full of boxes. But the important thing is, they are always in control.” She will take on any or all parts of the relocation process, but at each stage her clients are presented with choices and asked how they would like to proceed.
Questions to ask Amanda is always happy when a family calls her in at the beginning of the process and the questions she asks provide a guideline for anyone in this situation: • Do the parents want to move nearer to their family? • Should they stay where they are because they have friends in the area, because they’ve always lived there? • Are they sociable, do they like to go for a drink in the evening? Or perhaps they like gardening or to go and listen to talks? This should be taken into consideration when choosing accommodation. • What sort of support do they need now – and importantly, what support will they need in five years’ time? It’s a much shorter time frame for an older person – closer to five years than 20. The type of accommodation families choose is dependent on personality and interests as well as finance. Amanda takes her clients personally to see what’s on offer and they are sometimes pleasantly surprised. “Care homes, retirement flats and sheltered accommodation are labels that a lot of elderly people don’t like, so I might take them to visit a retirement community so they can see what it’s really like and make up their own minds.” 16
A service like this wasn’t something anyone could have envisaged needing years ago. Amanda explains why: “The change in our culture over the last 30 years means that daughters no longer live at home, or take parents in, or are there to assist when they get old. Now every woman I know works. And also we live so far away from our families now. “Older people themselves have become more independent. They are happy they’ve been able to build an independent life and they don’t want to disrupt their children’s lives. “It also has a lot to do with an improvement in health – by and large the baby boomers aren’t unhealthy, just frail. “It’s great when the adult children want to be in contact, to help and make sure their parents are OK, but it’s also nice for them to know that they can go away and someone like me will be helping to sort things out. The sad thing is where we are helping elderly people who are completely on their own, or have children who just don’t care.” Penny Kitchen in a Farnham based writer and editor. She can be reached by email at penny. kitchen@btopenworld.com. FIND OUT MORE
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(membership) on 01428 652338 or Alan Davis (meetings) on 01428 717115. Grayshott Folk Club has some really good diverse gigs to start off 2015. On Thursday 15th January at 7.30pm, a band called Fish & Bird (www.fishandbird.ca) will be playing at Grayshott Social Club, Hill Road, Grayshott, Nr Hindhead GU26 6HL. They are over from Canada for their first ever tour of the UK and are destined for big things. They play their own unique style of country/folk and their recently released fourth album, ‘Something in the Ether’ is receiving great critical acclaim. Adult Tickets: £12/under 16’s £6. Call Des O’Byrne on 01428 607096. Then on Thursday 22nd January at 7.30pm, there will be a collaboration with Farncombe Music Club to bring a band called Caravan to the area. They will be playing at St. John’s Church, St. John’s Road, Farncombe, Godalming GU7 3EJ.
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Caravan are considered by many to be the undisputed, unsung heroes of the British Progressive movement and are often quoted as being one of the most formidable acts to emerge from the ‘60s progressive rock scene, Advance Tickets: £16 Oo the door £19. Call Des O’Byrne on 01428 607096. Finally on Saturday 31st January at 7.30pm, Martin Turner Plays The Music of Wishbone Ash-The Warriors Return, at Grayshott Village Hall, Headley Road, Grayshott, Nr.Hindhead GU26 6TZ. When the band played Grayshott last February, the sell-out audience loved what they heard and have established a mutual admiration society. If you went along last year, do go again. If you missed out, be sure to book your tickets early! All tickets £15. Call Des O’Byrne on 01428 607096. Personal callers can buy their tickets for all Grayshott Folk Club events from Magical Rooms, 2 Headley Road, Grayshott. Call 01428 608340 for information.
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Guildford Shakespeare Company, Guildford’s award-winning theatre company, has announced that actor Brian Blessed will be joining the company to play Shakespeare’s King Lear in their opening production of 2015. This will be first time that Brian has played this iconic role on stage. The production will also be the first time that he has worked on stage with his actress-daughter Rosalind, who will be playing one of Lear’s three daughters, Goneril. The production, which runs from Saturday 17th January to Saturday 7th February, will be staged in Holy Trinity Church, Surrey’s largest Georgian church on Guildford High Street. It will be Guildford Shakespeare Company’s 24th since their inception in 2006. Performances start at 7.30pm, with Saturday matinées at 2.30pm (no performances on Sunday). Tickets cost £25, £21 concessions (over 60’s.under16’s, students, Equity), £18 matinées and family tickets are
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£80 (2 x adults + 2 children under 16).There are also 20 tickets set aside every Monday for students, under 25’s and job seekers for £12.50. To book, go to www. guildford-shakespeare-company. co.uk or call 01483 304384. My goodness, no sooner had I written this jotting than I got an email saying due to the amazing demand already, they have extended the run by a week, and so, King Lear will now run until Saturday 14th February. I suggest you book as soon as possible. Saturday morning ‘Coffee Concerts’ at St Bartholomew’s Church, Haslemere continue. Recitals in the New Year commence with Timothy Ravaldes, Assistant Organist at Chichester Cathedral and Musical Director of the Fernhurst Choral Society, on Sat 17th Jan 2015 followed by Julian Cooper, Director of Music and organist St Thomas-on-the-Bourne, playing Bach, Mendelssohn
and Vierne on Sat 7th Feb 2015 and concluding with the Stretto Quartet performing Mendelssohn and Smetana on Sat 7th Mar 2015. Coffee and biscuits are served from 10.30 am. and all the events commence at 11.00 am sponsored by the Friends of Haslemere Parish. There is a retiring collection but no tickets are required. Please phone 01428 643320 if further details needed. Two Compton residents, Ken Miller and Tim Carter, have each played an important part in the Prostate Project OctoBeardFest Appeal. They are hoping that the final total will be an astonishing £80,000. Ken raised a fantastic £1,810 and Tim, who is Operations Manager at Nikon UK in Kingston, encouraged 18 Nikon staff to grow beards raising over £1,000. In a further exciting development, Tim is trying to get the Prostate Project nominated as Nikon UK’s charity of the year for 2015. All the money
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raised will be used to support Professor Hardev Pandha’s cancer research team at the University of Surrey and specifically, to help fund a new 500 man trial that if successful, will provide the extensive visibility, governance and a CE mark for a prostate cancer urine test that is 50% more accurate than the 30 year old PSA blood test. Anyone wishing to donate can do so at www.octobeardfest.co.uk or by contacting Tim on 07989 865702. Fantastic, well done chaps! Even in January, there is much to do and see at RHS Garden Wisley GU23 6QB. Their website is pretty comprehensive and gives details of all upcoming events. www.rhs.org. uk/wisley. Just to give you an idea, here are a few that caught my eye. Always a favourite, Butterflies in the Glasshouse runs from Saturday 17th January to Sunday 8th March and is open from 10am to 3.45pm. It really is a tropical paradise where exotic butterflies of all sizes and
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Model mum Farmer’s wife and mother of four, Jo Baker, has a model experience Having bought a raffle ticket from the school’s charity event, Jo was a little surprised to be holding the winning ticket. “I really wasn’t sure I would do it, but I am so glad I did, it was a lovely day”. With a busy life (mainly in wellies) running the farmhouse and four boys to look after, there really couldn’t have been a better winner. So, towards the end of last year, on a beautiful bright day, the pamper team turned up full of optimism - great weather, stunning location and a lovely model to work with. Whilst celebrity hair and make-up artist, Hanna Wildman spread out her brushes, powders and glosses on the kitchen table, fashion stylist, Kirstie Smillie started to edit Jo’s wardrobe and choose some great looks for her to wear. Meanwhile photographer, Anna Saverimuttu searched for the best light and locations for the photo session.
Hanna kept Jo’s make-up minimal. “I was conscious that as Jo doesn’t normally wear a lot of make-up, she needed a light, simple look to reproduce herself. I didn’t want to change her, just enhance what is there already.” Hanna’s Five Minute Morning Routine for Jo: (Ok, maybe 10 minutes, but after practice, it should get quicker!) A tinted moisturiser, cream blush and cream eyeshadow (all simply applied with fingertips) followed by a quick pencil eye line, mascara and lip gloss. Et voila.
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Hanna emphasised that the “most important part is to have shades that flatter ... with the wrong choice of colour you can go to plenty of effort but not necessarily achieve the best results. For Jo I kept everything warm.” For the photoshoot, Hanna added an extra detail, just a few single eyelashes on the outer corners to highlight Jo’s blue eyes. Maybe not for every morning but great for a special occasion. 20
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FASHION FOOD Meanwhile, upstairs, with clothes now spread on bed and doorways, Kirstie worked her magic: “It’s so easy to forget gems already in your wardrobe. By taking everything out, trying it on and assessing if it still works for your lifestyle, it’s possible to reduce your options and make your fashion choices simpler. Only then, invest in missing pieces you really love and know you will wear. ” Jo’s wardrobe consists of easy pieces in muted tones and shades of blue, and the fluid layers from Mint Velvet fit perfectly worn with jeans and slim fit trousers. We ditched a few obviously older pieces but also rejuvenated others that had been forgotten. One new addition that Jo loved, was a cashmere poncho from The Gate in Guildford, as it’s just one of those pieces that won’t date, and for the early morning school dash, looks fab worn in any season. Once hair and make-up and outfits had been decided, the team moved about the house and gardens with Anna taking these great photos. Jo soon relaxed and got used to others organising clothes and hair for each shot. There were a few extra visitors, a friendly cockerel, moody cat and herd of cattle to deal with, but the relaxed mood made for a fun indulgent day. Jo had some ‘self time’ away from her everyday duties - learnt make-up and wardrobe tips, with some great images to remember the day by.
“I am so pleased that I didn’t chicken out! It really was a fun and unusual way to spend a day.” Hair and Make-up/Hanna Wildman. Visit www.hannawildman.com. Fashion styling/Kirstie Smillie. Visit www.kirstiesmillie.com. Feel relaxed and confident in your own style with a wardrobe full of clothes you love. email: kirstie@kirstiesmillie.com. Photographs/Anna Saverimuttu. A luxury hair, make-up and photography service for women. Visit www.annasaverimuttu.co.uk to find out more. Clothes credit: Mint Velvet, 162 High St, Guildford 01483 385301. Cashmere poncho, The Gate, Guildford 01483 453466. Evening dress, House of Fraser, www.houseoffraser.co.uk. Bolero, Edenblu, www.edenblu.com.
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BRIGHTER FUTURES AT HASLEWEY OFFERING A CHANCE FOR CHANGE If you are unemployed, between jobs, returning to work after a long absence, a parent with school-age children or recently retired with too much time on your hands - getting back into the workplace can be a very daunting task. However, help is at hand with the January 2015 launch at Haslewey of ‘Brighter Futures’ - a six week programme of specialist courses designed to empower people and guide them along the pathway back to work, be it part-time, full-time or in a voluntary capacity. Situated opposite Lion Green, Haslewey is a thriving community centre in the heart of Haslemere. Running every Monday from 10am-2pm from Monday 12th January to Monday 23rd February, Brighter Futures is absolutely FREE of charge to residents of Haslemere and district and funds are also available for child care if needed. A warm welcome and a complimentary light lunch and refreshments are also provided. A repeat of this six week course will run from Monday 27th April 2015.
• How to go about getting funding for further education/new skills training • The pros and cons of self employment – making informed choices • Working with image consultants to find the clothes with the right styles and colours to ensure maximum impact at interviews • Looking good on a budget So, for those seeking the opportunity to become “work ready” – be it full-time, part-time or voluntary – Brighter Futures is the answer.
Brighter Futures offers the tools to move forward with confidence and fulfill people’s potential through a series of inspirational workshops. Led by a group of professionals, sharing their experience and expertise aimed at encouraging people to take that all important first step back into a work environment. Subjects covered include: • Interactive and stimulating “Lumina Learning” workshops • Psychometric tools to discover your hidden strengths! • Computer training – step-by-step guide to honing invaluable IT skills • Communication and confidence boosting, teamwork techniques and goal-setting • Writing and formatting a CV to impress • Finding a job that suits and stimulates you and fits in around your other responsibilities • Interview practice to promote yourself and get noticed • Presentation skills/understanding social media/self-marketing • Voluntary work placements and opportunities 22
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colours take flight amongst plants from far-off shores. If you’re lucky one might even land on you! Normal garden entry applies, but you can beat the queues and prebook a time slot for weekends and half-term by going to the website. In conjunction with this, there is a Butterfly Photography Morning (non-tutored) on Thursday 29th January from 7.45am to 10.15am. Based in the Clore Learning Centre, where refreshments will be served, you will be free to visit and photograph the glasshouse and butterflies as you please. As there are only 25 places, please book as soon as possible by calling 08456 121253, open 9am – 5pm Monday – Friday. RHS members £21, nonRHS members £34. Here’s something to do that’s a bit different. On Saturday 17th January the Sussex Wildlife Trust is holding a Parent and Child Bushcraft Day near Henfield. It runs from 10am to 2pm. An exciting opportunity
for parents and older children to learn bushcraft and survival skills whilst sharing in the joy of winter woodland with Sussex Wildlife Trust. Outdoor activities at Woods Mill near Henfield will include fire lighting using natural materials, shelter building, crafting objects from freshly cut wood to take home, whittling, wildlife ID and tracking skills. Please take a packed lunch, a delicious vegetarian stew will be cooked over the camp fire and hot drinks will be provided. No previous experience or skill is required. The whole session will be held outside unless the weather is extreme. Cost for Sussex Wildlife Trust members: child £10, adult £2.50. Non members, child £15, adult £5. Suitable for children aged 9 years and over and all children must be accompanied by an adult. Online booking is essential, visit: www.sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/ whatson or call 01273 497561 for further information.
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Saturday morning ‘Coffee Concerts’ at St Bartholomew’s Church, Haslemere continue in the New Year with Timothy Ravaldes, assistant organist at Chichester Cathedral and musical director of the Fernhurst Choral Society, on Saturday 17th January followed by Julian Cooper, organ scholar, playing Bach, Mendelssohn and Vierne on Saturday 7th February and concluding with the Stretto Quartet performing Mendelssohn and Smetana on Saturday 7th March. Coffee and biscuits are served from 10.30am and all the events commence at 11am sponsored by the Friends of Haslemere Parish. There is a retiring collection but no tickets are required. Please phone 01428 643320 for further details. To start the year, Haslemere Decorative And Fine Arts Society (HDFAS) will be finding out about the rich and varied cultural history of Bulgaria, in a lecture by John
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Meet a local business... Creative Blinds & Shutters Carol Martin goes behind the scenes of a local business. Did you know that curtains are old hat, wooden venetians are ‘last year’ and shutters are the new trend? Neither did I, but I was brought quickly up to speed by Richard Teague when I visited the Creative Blinds & Shutters showroom in Wrecclesham, Farnham. With over 18 years’ experience in the industry there is not much that Richard doesn’t know about blinds, awnings and shutters. Which can only be good news for the majority of us who don’t buy these products very often and are rarely up to speed with the latest options available. How reassuring it is to have an expert on hand to advise on the pros and cons of each different type of window covering and some of the problems which can occur during fitting. Richard explained that it’s good to do your research before buying. He said: “Find a company that Richard Teague, Director at Creative Blinds and knows what they are Shutters, with Pippa his Jack Russell. doing. We’ve had lots of people who have come to us after they have used someone else and it’s gone wrong.”
The team apply the same care to tricky or smaller jobs. Richard talked about finding arched shutters and solid panels to match originals in an old schoolhouse. And then there was the time he did such a good job supplying and fitting a roller blind in Compton that the customer flew him out to do all the windows at a second home in Portugal. Looking after customers makes good business sense too. Richard explained: “The business has grown 43% year-on-year for the last four years and 70% of the business comes from repeat customers or recommendations.” He added: “What I have noticed over the last three or four years is that people do want to ‘buy local’. They are looking for service and are prepared to pay for it.” I was impressed by his genuine drive to do a great job. And with their once a year sale now on until February 14th, there is no better time to get in touch. Creative Blinds & Shutters, 11 The St, Farnham, Surrey GU10 4PP. Tel: 01252 727490.
“Deal with a local company so that if anything goes wrong you can knock on the door, rather than having to phone a call centre in Abu Dhabi.”
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It is clear that Richard is proud of the service and advice he and his team give to customers. Unlike other firms in the industry CBS sales people do not work for commission and have been fitters before becoming sales people. This means they know the problems that can occur and will advise accordingly.
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Long Term Care Bernado Hunte looks at how this could affect you or a loved one An inescapable fact of life is that we all are born with parents and possibly grandparents. We may now be parents or grandparents ourselves, however, the ‘Peter Pan’ in us wants us to live forever…free of aches, pains, serious illnesses and forgetfulness. The real world is of course quite different. We do have a finite existence on earth. Our loved ones do age, become frail, have heart attacks or strokes, struggle with cancer, contract any number of conditions and in some cases they don’t even recognise us any more. I write this article as both a qualified independent chartered financial adviser who gives regulated advice on long term care and a son whose mother fought off cancer when she was 67. She then contracted Parkinson’s in her early 80s and lived as a widow in her own home with daily incoming care. She then fell one day when she was on her own smashing her elbow joint to pieces which led her into hospital for an operation. She ended her days in a care home as she was deemed to be unable to look after herself at home after her elbow operation. Her time in the care home was approximately 18 months…she actually died of pneumonia aged 85. My personal experience with my mother may ring bells with you. I was lucky in that I was one of three siblings so the responsibility of looking after my mother was ‘shared’...looking back there were good and bad aspects of ‘sharing the responsibility’ as I discovered. Not everyone gets on fabulously well with their fellow siblings. So who may need long term care? Today more people are living longer. This improvement in life expectancy also brings with it the increased possibility of a person suffering a chronic illness later in life resulting in the need for another person to look after 26
them. This need is most likely to arise for very elderly people, typically those aged 80 or over. Numbers in this section of the population are rising quickly. Recent figures from the National Office of Statistics predict that by 2035, 110,000 of the population will be living to the age of 100. That’s a sevenfold increase in the number of people living to the same age in 2013. Although there is no guarantee that a person will have the need for long-term care during their lifetime, the numbers who do are increasing substantially, and the problem is likely to worsen further in the future (Who may need Long Term Care - Techlink Professional 7th November 2014). Long term care can be provided in a separate residential care home by an independent care provider or in the person’s own home. There is also a difference between a residential care home and a nursing care home. The latter provides ‘nursing’ care by qualified nursing staff. People entering a residential home usually do not need much ‘nursing’ care e.g. they may be physically fit but have ‘dementia’. When it is ‘established’ that someone can no longer look after themselves and therefore ‘needs’ care, all sorts of issues start to surface. How and what will the State provide? What social security benefits can be claimed e.g. Attendance Allowance or Registered Nursing Care Contribution? Can care be provided in the home or would residing in a care home be better? Is Power of Attorney in place and which relative/friend has the ‘power’? Which relative/ friend can do most of the local legwork? (Other relatives/friends may live a considerable distance away). What will the care cost? How do vantagepointmag.co.uk
we go about finding what assets the individual has? How do we go about finding what net monthly income is being paid to the individual? Does the individual own a home? Will it have to be sold? Where is the individual’s will, is it up to date and is it valid? What are the processes we must go through on behalf of the person requiring care? Where there are two partners and one needs care how do we deal with the fitter one? Out of all the relatives/friends which one will offer to do all the above ‘spadework’. Will just one relative/friend liaise with the solicitor and the financial advisor? Do any of the relatives/friends live abroad? Do the closest relatives/friends get on with each other? You will now conclude that there are quite a few ‘hoops’ to pass through. Emotions will undoubtedly surface in some individuals. My personal experience is that the fewer the relatives/friends the smoother the ‘processes’ will flow, as human nature is quite interesting to observe! This is where the combination of an experienced LTC CF8 qualified adviser who has a good working relationship with a solicitor who is also familiar with all aspects of long term care will provide much needed support, guidance and a steadying influence.
For me, professionally speaking, the best way to look at the overall situation is to start from the simple premise which is: this is my mum or dad, aunt or uncle, relative, friend. He/she has hopefully lived a good life to date but their health is now failing and they deserve the very best care, so let’s try and give them the best that resources/circumstances will allow. If you pursue this philosophy then processes tend to go more smoothly and purposefully. Here is an inescapable fact. What we do now know is that two in three women and one in two men will develop high care needs (Techlink Professional -Reform of the current Long Term Care provisions Friday 7th November 2014). The question is who amongst our relatives/friends will it be? This article attempts to look at the human and practical sides of what is involved in providing care for an elderly person. In a subsequent article I will spell out how the ‘financial assessment’ operates. The present UK coalition government established the Commission on Funding on Care and Support chaired by Andrew Dilnot in July 2010. The government responded with the ‘Care Act 2014’. FIND OUT MORE
Bernardo Hunte is a CF8 qualified Independent Chartered Financial Planner with Aspect8 Ltd. Aspect8 Ltd is a member of Best Practice IFA Group Ltd which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Bernardo can be contacted at bernard.hunte@ aspect8.co.uk or 01403 331419.
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Melody Care were there when we needed them most Good health is something many of us take for granted. Those who have to care for a loved one with failing health know only too well the devastating effects this has on their quality of life. So often people’s worlds are turned upside down when a parent or spouse become seriously ill or lose the ability to care for themselves. It is when this happens that professional help is often needed. Melody Care has an enviable reputation for providing Care Assistants to help share the burden. Whatever the circumstances might be, Melody Care will be there when the help is needed most.
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A typical day for a Melody Care Live-In Care Assistant: • Arise and prepare the house for the day (draw curtains, open windows, etc) • Feed and walk any pets • Deliver morning tea or breakfast, newspaper and post • Prompt or assist with any medication requirements • Prepare bathroom for washing • Assist with all aspects of personal care if necessary • Assist with dressing and hair care etc • Perform household duties (cleaning, laundry, etc) • Accompany Client to shops/dentist/ doctor/hairdresser/ friends or family • Prepare and serve lunch • Break 14.00-17.00hrs • Prepare and serve dinner • Close down the house for the night • Run a bath and prepare bedroom • Assist with all aspects of personal care and undressing, ready for bed.
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Osborne, on Tuesday 20th January, entitled ‘Europe’s Best Kept Secret: The Painted Monasteries of Bulgaria’. This will be the first of 10 lectures in 2015 on diverse subjects including Roberto Burle Marx the Brazilian artist and landscape designer, the Art of Waterloo, Faberge’s Imperial Easter Eggs (in time for Easter), the enigma of the Wilton Diptych and the history of stained glass through the Christmas Story in December. HDFAS also organises in-depth study days, the first in February tackling the subject of heraldry. Outings to places of historic and artistic interest also form part of this year’s programme. Visitors are warmly invited to go and see for themselves. For more details about the Society, contact HDFAS membership secretary Sue Wright on 01428 683578 or email membership@haslemeredfas.org. uk. Further information about all the Society’s future activities can be found at www.haslemeredfas.org. uk.
It is going to be a big year for Liphook W.I. as it is the centenary of the founding of the W.I. and they will be marking the event with a party in June. They start the year off with a presentation from Lloyds Pharmacy entitiled ‘Skincare on your Doorstep’ and with winter upon us we all need a bit of help. They meet every third Wednesday evening at 7.30pm and in this case that will be 21st January. Why not give the New Year a good start and go along you can be sure of a warm welcome. If you would like any further information please telephone Christine Chubb on 01428 723957. Witley Pantomime Company presents its latest production. This month we’ll find out if Goody Two Shoes wins over Fairy Bovver Boots! Will the Beast find his Beauty? Will Carlos meet his match? And will Smelle get her tiara? To find out - get yourself to Chichester Hall in Witley. Performances run from
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SURREY CARE AWARDS 2014 At Beritaz Care we are incredibly proud to announce that as a company we have been selected as a finalist for the 2014 awards for “Using Technology in Care Settings”. The celebrations took place at Epsom Downs on 21 November 2014 and we were celebrating the really excellent, caring service that goes on in Surrey’s care sector. Social care staff are so often unsung heroes and Surrey Care Association wants to change this by highlighting and rewarding their achievements.
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iPad then they have a new course ‘iPad the Next Steps.’ This session will help you to ‘get really smart with your iPad’ - includes iCloud Skype - Facetime and connecting to your PC with iTunes. Monday 26th January from 2pm-4pm. The cost is £10. Places must be booked in advance so please contact the Centre either on 01428 641931 or email them at ferncent@gmail. com – or check the website www. fernhurstcentre.org.uk. Les Amitiés Françaises’s popular series of lectures in French continues with its first talk in the New Year on Thursday 22nd January at 7.30pm in the Baptist Church Hall, Queen Street, Godalming. Thierry Viennois’ lecture will be on ‘Napoleon – not just Corsica’. This complements the December talk on ‘La Corse - Not just Napoleon’...given by Cédric Cabanne, which set the historical and geographical backdrop to his incredible life. Thierry Viennois’ lecture will be mainly on the history of Napoleon, who was born in Ajaccio in 1769 and was granted a free military education in France but had to study French in Autun before entering the academy. February’s talk on Monday 9th February will be on Les Fauves – Matisse, Braque et Derain ‘Colour in the South of France’, to be delivered by Brian Stimpson. Non-members are very welcome at the lectures (£6 at the door) and brochures on Les Amitiés are available in libraries and museums. As well as a programme of lectures, there are convivial lunches and dinners together with visits to historic houses and gardens, all with a French connection. For further information, contact John Petty, membership secretary on 01483 861974, john.petty@ which.net and on http://www. amitiesfrancaises.com. Winter Wassailing at Swan Barn Farm in Haslemere takes place on Friday 23rd January, 7pm – 30
9pm, free. Learn the art of the wassail and join us for an evening of wintery fun as we perform a traditional ceremony to banish the evil spirits from our orchards. Bring pots and pans to bash and sample the traditional drink of the ceremony made with apples pressed right here on the farm. Vivace Chorus is holding another Come and Sing event on 24th January. It usually sells out and 2015 will be no exception because they are singing Mozart: the C minor Mass and the Solemn Vespers! (1780 version). It’s at Normandy Village Hall from 10am to 4.30pm, with music supplied and their now famous lunch: home-made soup and a ploughman’s. (Do some people go mainly for the homemade soup?) To apply, download a form from www.vivacechorus. org and send a cheque for £24 to 30 Shepherds Way, Liphook, Hants GU30 7HF or, alternatively, book and pay online. Ever wanted to try scuba diving or dived before and want to start again, now’s your chance! Haslemere Sub Aqua Club (HSAC) is giving you the opportunity to book a free try-dive with one of their qualified instructors on Thursday 29th January at 8pm at the Herons Leisure Centre, Kings Road, Haslemere GU27 2QT. (booking reservation and pre-completion of medical declaration essential) HSAC (affiliated with the national Sub Aqua Association) meets each Thursday at the Herons Leisure Centre with theory sessions at 7.45pm followed by pool training at 8.45pm and a social drink afterwards at the Mill Tavern. New faces are always welcome so go along and introduce yourself any Thursday at 8.45pm. Further details at www.hsac259.co.uk, email: info@haslemeresubaquaclub. com. Tel: 01428-651685. Another new course at the Fernhurst Centre. ‘How to sell on
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eBay’. This hands on session will show you how to sell a single item on eBay and that there is nothing to fear, as long as you follow a few simple steps, and, of course, remember it’s just fun! The two hour session will run on Thursday 29th January from 7.30pm – 9.30pm at a cost of £10. Places must be booked in advance either on 01428 641931 or email them at ferncent@gmail.com. There’s free parking at the rear of the Centre. www.fernhurstcentre. org.uk. Midhurst DFAS do not have a lecture in January. The next meeting will be on Tuesday 3rd February when the lecture will be by Helen McCabe on ‘Houses and Gardens of Cornwall’. Helen is a lecturer, author and gardener and this will be particularly enjoyable for all gardeners and those with a love of Cornwall. This will be held in the Midhurst Methodist Church Hall. Coffee available from 10am for 10.45am start. Contact the membership secretary if you would like to attend, on 01730 814641 or visit www.nadfassussexarea.org. uk. Do you love Mozart choruses? Haslemere Musical Society invites all interested singers to join this widely popular community singing event. Their annual Come and Sing activity will take place at St. Christopher’s Church, Haslemere, on Saturday 7th February and will feature choruses from Mozart’s Requiem. The conductor will once again be Christopher Hann and the accompanist for the rehearsal will be well-known local composer Clive Osgood. The event starts at 2pm and singers will be joined by the society’s orchestra for a final performance at 6pm. Interested singers and groups wanting to book are invited to contact treasurer Kate McWhirter on 01428 609203 or go onto the HMS website www. hmsoc.org.uk. vantagepointmag.co.uk
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Grayshott Market A successful start for this popular local market There’s nothing new about the idea of having a market. Markets have been an essential part of communities for thousands of years. Now, Grayshott, a small village on the Surrey/Hampshire borders has established its own regular event known as the Grayshott Market. Rising rents, minimum wages and supermarkets have made it increasingly more difficult to run profitable high street businesses and internet shopping has only made it worse. It’s so easy to browse, buy, and take delivery of best value deals without leaving the comfort of the home. To draw customers back to local shopping centres, communities need to find some additional attraction. For Grayshott, it was decided to use a regular market as a solution The concept of having a market in Grayshott came from the rise in popularity of street markets throughout the UK. Helped by its Parish Council, local residents set up a group to develop a community market, run by volunteers with all proceeds being used to aid community projects. The plan was to fill the Grayshott Square with stalls that would attract footfall into Grayshott and give shoppers an alternative browsing experience to the Internet by visiting both the variety of markets stalls and local shops. Stalls would offer the ability to feel or taste and bargain before buying - something not possible when shopping on the Internet. Additionally, as food was thought to be the lure, the main theme for the Market was ‘Foods from around the World to taste, try and take home’. A capacity was planned for 30 stalls of which one third would be food orientated. With no funds available to fund promotion, it was essential to seek sponsorship. Applegarth Farm Shop and Restaurant came to the rescue by providing the tools for a professional website and financing high quality artwork for the entire first year. On 19th April 2014, the first Market was opened by the Leader of East Hampshire District Council, Ferris Cowper. There were 30 stalls that included food from France, Japan, Nepal, Thailand, 32
South Africa and Spain, local cakes, artisan breads, cheeses, hand-made chocolate truffles, vintage clothing, bric-a-brac and cards. Since then, running on the third Saturday of every month, the Market has become a part of life in Grayshott, increasing in variety of produce and squeezing in more and more stalls. But has the Market achieved increased footfall into the Village? On Market day, the answer is certainly ‘yes’ as has been seen from the crowds of visitors and emphasised by parking problems. Its success for stallholders can be judged by the fact that over 20 have already signed up for all nine 2015 Markets. For local business, there have been known instances where visitors to the Market have also been into local shops and made significant purchases. So what about this year? The aim is to achieve 40 stalls per market at the end of 2015. The first Market will be on 21st March and then on the third Saturday every month through to 21st November. Last year, a pilot bus service to bring shoppers into Grayshott was run between Headley and Hindhead. Plans to expand this as a regular community bus service are in hand to bring shoppers from Bordon, Liphook, Whitehills, Haslemere and Beacon Hill. For the Grayshott Village shops and businesses, it’s difficult to judge the long-term benefits of having a regular Market. Whilst it has certainly become a fixture in the local calendar and Market visitors become regulars, will they start to shop in Grayshott on days other than Market days? Only time will tell. FIND OUT MORE
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I love bringing nature indoors; vases of flowers, pretty stones and all manner of leaves, bark and pinecones are welcome in my house at any time of year. I enjoy house plants, but I especially love creating bottle gardens or terrariums. Terrariums are fun to plant up either by yourself, with a friend, or with children or a disabled or housebound friend or relation; they are something everyone can be involved in and enjoy, which is wonderful. Whether you’re looking for a unique present or to add a special touch or feature to your home, whatever your style or budget, I’d recommend a terrarium. I have a number of terrariums, here’s a closer look at two of them: The first is a glass terrarium I bought second hand, it cost me £10. After giving it a good clean I set about planting it up: first I added a mixture of gravel and activated charcoal, then I added a layer of very fine gravel, then a layer of peat free coir compost and on top of this I added my own peat free compost mixed with sand. I carefully planted my plants and mosses, each chosen to cope with the humidity and conditions of a terrarium. All manner of items can be used to plant a beautiful and unique indoor garden: bell jars, cloches, carboys, old fish
bowls and tanks, sweet jars, cheese domes, even old light bulbs! Select a sturdy, robust container, without any drainage holes, that’s made of clear glass, strong plastic or acrylic. Choose a container with a wide enough opening to allow for planting and maintenance and ensure you select one with enough height and room for both the growing medium and the plants. My second terrarium is a BiOrbAir, a specially designed, automated terrarium, created by a company known for their aquariums. The BiOrbAir uses modern technology to create a stable microclimate with regulated humidity and air movement. It even has LED lights which simulate daylight, allowing you to take nature with you, even in a basement office or room without any natural light. The lights are designed and arranged so that the plants will grow upright, meaning you won’t have to regularly turn the terrarium as with traditional types; this also allows you to have a ‘backdrop’ to your planting design should you wish. The way the terrarium is lit means that it also adds a soft, natural looking light to the room, casting pretty foliage shaped shadows – it really is beautiful and creates a unique feature and talking point. The design and features of the BiOrbAir take a lot of the guess work and worry away from the planting and maintenance of the terrarium. The water level indicator, a discreet tube at the side of the base of the unit lets you know if you need to top up the water reservoir. This is such a great feature, the tube can even be used to drain water from the base should you accidently overfill your terrarium. Watering is a key component of any aspect of gardening, it’s so easy to get it wrong; this is such a clever feature and will give confidence to gardeners of all ages and experience. There’s a fan which runs continually drawing in fresh air and circulating it around the terrarium; I’d compare the noise of the fan with the sound of a laptop computer fan running. Another exciting feature is the misting unit! The built in sensors control the humidity, creating a perfect environment for plants to thrive. For a list of suitable terrarium plants, please visit my website: www.pumpkinbeth.com. Beth Otway is a horticulturalist and garden writer from Godalming. She is vice-chairman of Godalming in Bloom, the Programme & Visits Secretary for The National Vegetable Society Surrey District Association and the Press Officer for Milford Horticultural Society. She is a member of the Royal Horticultural Society, Milford Horticultural Society and the National Vegetable Society. Beth is a vegetable enthusiast and has an allotment where she enjoys growing a wide variety of vegetables, fruit, herbs and cut flowers. Beth has previously worked for the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) at Wisley, reviewing and editing digital photographs of RHS plant trials.
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Healthy New Year by Be Kassapian from Be in the Kitchen Welcome to ‘Be in the Kitchen’ Cookery School and an introduction into our wonderful way of healthy eating. This month’s recipes are taken from their regular ‘Energiser’ and ‘Kill Sugar Cravings’ demonstrations, which are all free from sugar, caffeine, wheat and alcohol. Free-ing your body from these things is liberating and powerful, but unless you can enjoy the recipes and feel ‘full’ when you have eaten, a healthy eating regime won’t last long. So Be makes sure you love her recipes and want to eat this way for the whole year. Join Be for one of their spring workshops. Just £45, this includes welcome drinks (coffee if needed!), cake, lunch and a glass of Prosecco – or not if you are being extremely good!
Roast ratatouille baked with goat’s cheese This heart-warming, cosy, full flavoured, luscious bubbling gem is a huge ‘detox’ favourite. It might seem odd to be cooking Mediterranean veg in the winter, but the colours and flavours are just what we need as a ‘pick me up’ on those freezing days when we are trying to revert to a sensible eating regime after Christmas.
1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/ Gas 6. 2. Prepare the vegetables: Take the ends off the courgettes and cut each into 4 large chunks. Cut the stem end off the aubergine, cut in half lengthways and divide each half into about 8 chunks. Cut the peppers in half, remove the seeds and cut each half into 4 pieces. Peel and quarter the red onions. 3. Put all the vegetables into a large roasting try and pour over the olive oil. Add the herbs, crushing a little bit with your fingers as you put them in. Season generously with salt and pepper and then toss everything together so they are all coated evenly. 4. Transfer the roasting tray to the top
of the hot oven for about 30 minutes, or until the vegetables are starting to brown. 5. Remove the tray from the oven, turn the vegetables over and return to the oven for 10 minutes or until starting to brown on the second side. 6. Stir in the garlic, then add the tomatoes and tomato puree to the tray, mix well together and return to the oven for a final 20 minutes. Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary. 7. To serve: Tip the ratatouille into a large shallow oven proof dish (or individual dishes). Arrange the goat’s cheese slices on top and return to the top of the oven for 5-10 minutes, just until the cheese has melted and is bubbling attractively!
Ingredients 3 courgettes 1 large aubergine 4 sweet peppers, mixed colours 3 red onions approximately 4-6 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon dried mixed herbs or a few sprigs of fresh thyme and oregano Salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 large cloves garlic, crushed 1 tin good quality chopped tomatoes 2 tablespoons tomato puree 2 x goat’s cheese logs (approx 140g each), cut into 1 cm/ ½ in slices Serves 4-6
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Turkey burgers with chilli, coriander & feta Drizzled with tzatziki 1. In a large bowl, mix the turkey, red onion, chilli, coriander, feta and seasoning (not too much salt because the feta is salty). Shape into 4 large burgers, place on a tray, cover with cling film and chill for 30 minutes to develop the flavour. 2. Make the Tzatziki: Mix all the
ingredients together. Season with salt and pepper and set aside until ready to use. 3. Preheat a grill on its highest setting. Grill the burgers on each side for approximately 3 minutes or until brown and feeling ‘firm’. 4. Serve with the tzatziki drizzled over.
Ingredients 500g minced turkey ½ red onion, finely chopped 1 red chilli, seeds removed, finely chopped 1 handful of fresh coriander leaves, roughly chopped 110g/4 oz feta cheese, crumbled salt and freshly ground black pepper For the Tzatziki 150ml/ 5 fl oz low fat natural yoghurt ½ cucumber, peeled, deseeded & finely diced small bunch fresh mint leaves, roughly chopped 1 clove garlic, crushed juice of ½ lemon salt and freshly ground black pepper Serves 4
Greek yoghurt with ‘cappuccino’ crunch This recipe comes at the start of my ‘Kill Sugar Cravings’ Demonstration. Caffeine is a trigger for me and somehow after a nice coffee, my defences are weakened and I reach for sugar, so drinking coffee it out! But I love a cappuccino because they look so lovely and I hate feeling deprived. At ‘Kill Sugar’, we teach you to start the day with an amazing breakfast, of which one part is a delicious, luscious crunchy layered yoghurt/muesli that looks like a cappuccino. This way, you get the ‘look’ without the caffeine and it tastes so good you don’t feel you’ve missed out!
1. Prepare the ‘crunch’: Heat the coconut oil in a large frying pan. Add the nuts, seeds, oatbran, buckwheat flakes, cinnamon and stevia. Gently stir over a medium heat until pale golden in colour and smelling ‘toasted’. Remove the pan from the heat and tip the ‘crunch’ onto a plate and allow to cool. 2. Divide half the ‘crunch’ mixture between two small tumblers (or wine glasses), spoon half the yoghurt on top and then layer with the remaining ‘crunch’ and yoghurt on top. Sprinkle with a little cinnamon before serving. NOTE: The ‘crunch’ can be kept in an airtight container in the fridge for a few days and is so named as it does resemble
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a cappuccino. Caffeine is not good when giving up sugar, so you have this instead and feel good about it!
Ingredients 100ml/3 ½ fl oz Greek, Goat’s or Natural Probiotic Yoghurt For the ‘crunch’ 1 heaped teaspoon coconut oil 30g/1oz hazelnuts, roughly chopped 30g/1oz sunflower seeds 30g/1oz pumpkin seeds 30g/1oz oat bran 30g/1oz buckwheat flakes ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon (plus extra for dusting) ½ teaspoon stevia Serves 2
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Guildford Choral Society would love to welcome participants in its next Singing Day. It takes place at Normandy Village Hall, Manor Fruit Farm, Glaziers Lane, Normandy GU3 2DD. They will be singing, perhaps the greatest choral work ever written, the St Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach. It takes place on Saturday 7th February from 10am to 5.30pm. To book a place contact ticket master, Derek Lake, on 01494 675571. More details can be found at: https://guildfordchoral.org/ events/singing-day-st-matthewpassion/ . Following this Singing Day, the Society will be performing The St Matthew Passion on Saturday 7th March at 7.30pm. For this performance the choir under Jonathan Willcocks, will be joined by Guildford High School Choir and one of the finest orchestras in the country, Florilegium. If you only listen to one choral work in your life, I urge you to choose Bach’s Matthew Passion. Tickets are available at £10 to £20 (concessions available) from boxoffice@ guildfordchoral.org or directly from Derek Lake on 01494 675571. They are also available from the Guildford Tourist Information Centre: 01483 444333. Winston’s Wish is calling out across the country for families, friends, colleagues and classmates to join them and help raise £50,000 to support bereaved children by hosting a charity breakfast in February 2015. From the 9th to 15th February, Winston’s Wish is asking everyone to make their morning special and revive the tradition of the Great British Breakfast! This can be anything from sturdy full English, to a good old cuppa and toast, to a fancy continental dish. To support the campaign the Great British Brekkie website has been revamped to include sample ‘brekkie’ recipes, a gallery of supporters’ photos and videos, an interactive ‘brekkie’ map and online registration: www.greatbritishbrekkie.org. 38
uk . Winston’s Wish is the leading childhood bereavement charity in the UK and all funds raised from the Great British Brekkie go directly into their work supporting children and their families after suffering the death of a loved one. There’s a Valentine’s Dinner and Auction of Promises at The Georgian House Hotel, Haslemere on Saturday 14th February in aid of Haslemere Museum’s ‘Museum in a Million Campaign’. Tickets have now gone on sale for this fun black tie event which combines a delicious three course dinner with the chance to bid for some fantastic auction promises followed by dancing, at £45 each. Last year’s auction included holiday homes (both in the UK and abroad), tickets to Wimbledon tennis, sailing days, dinners at local eateries, a private tour of Coutts, bell ringing and lots, lots more. To buy your tickets or to donate an item for the auction, please contact Rebecca McLusky-Cannings on Rebecca@ haslemeremuseum.co.uk or on 01428 642112. For music lovers in Haslemere and the surrounding area, HHH will be presenting its final two concerts of the season in the New Year at St Christopher’s Church, Wey Hill, Haslemere on Saturday 14th February and Saturday 21st March at 7.30pm. The February concert is ‘Food of Love’. The Amaryllis Consort presents a delightful programme of songs and readings from Shakespeare sonnets and plays. Perfect for Valentine’s Day! The March event is a celebrity Concert given by the distinguished pianist John Lill, performing: Mozart: Sonata in F, K332; Schumann: ‘Carnival Jest from Vienna’ Op 26; Prokofiev: Toccata in D minor, Op 11; Brahms: Three Intermezzi, Op 117, Eb, Bbminor, C#minor; Beethoven: Sonata in F minor Op 57 ‘Appassionata’. For tickets (£18 each) please make cheques payable to HHH Concerts
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and post with stamped, selfaddressed envelope to: Alastair Vartan, Rosewood, Park Road, Haslemere GU27 2NJ. Tel: 01428 652448. I can’t believe that I am writing about next half-term already but I mention this as it should be a nice thing to go to during the half-term break. Sooty, the nation’s favourite bear will be at GLive on Thursday 19th February in a fabulous new show to entertain the whole family. Featuring a spectacular mix of magic, music and messguaranteed giggles for Sooty Fans old and new! It’s Sooty’s Birthday party and things aren’t going to plan. Sooty and Sweep get messy baking the birthday cake and will Soo ever decide which dress to wear? Special party guests include legendary Sooty favourites Butch the bulldog and Ramsbottom the snake. Sooty said: “I’m really looking forward to meeting Sooty fans old and new – and I can’t wait to squirt the Mums and Dads with my water pistol!” The Sooty show is the longest running children’s programme in the world, it must be, even I remember it as a kid! Harry Corbett originally bought Sooty for his son Matthew whilst on holiday in Blackpool in 1948. Sooty first appeared on our screens in 1952. Following Harry Corbett ’s retirement in 1976, Sooty was operated by Corbett ’s son Matthew, and enjoyed a new wave of popularity on stage and TV. Matthew retired in 1998, giving Sooty to then co-star Richard Cadell who presented the show through another five series. In June 2008, Richard Cadell bought the rights to Sooty. Tickets are £15 adults, £13 children. Family tickets and group bookings are available. Go to www. GLive.co.uk or call 0844 7701 797 (10am-6pm, Mon-Sat). Prepare to quake in your boots at a giant panto spectacular this February from Liphook’s Methodist Amateur Dramatic vantagepointmag.co.uk
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Farnham to Crondall This is an easy, relatively flat walk which offers some interesting views and pleasant countryside. The walk was provided by Guildford Rambling Club (guildfordramblingclub.org.uk).
The walk Duck back into the park at the back of the car park and go right. Then take the path right, between the cricket pitch and the moat of the castle. (The castle dates from 1138.) At the road turn left and walk about 150 yards until you can cross right (caution, dangerous blind bend) and enter Old Park Lane. Walk along here for about 300 yards to the point at which the road ahead becomes a wide track. Take a footpath left, next to No 3 Old Park Lane. The track swings right and across a field with views down over Farnham, to the left. At a sharp left bend in the track continue straight ahead on a narrow path towards trees. At a three way signpost go left and immediately, at another three way signpost, go right. Walk along a corridor for a long way, ignoring lefts. Cross the dead end of a road and continue straight ahead. At the next road, turn left and walk along until, by a phone box, you can cross
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and turn right, into Byworth Road. Go down here and look for a footpath right, along a track signed to ‘Blackbirds’. By the car port at the back of ‘Blackbirds’ fork right, off the track and along a path into trees. Follow this down over a little footbridge and across a crossing track into a field. Stay on its left-hand side for 100 yards than go up, left, through a hedge into a field. Follow the path right, across the wide, open field until, about 150 yards before a barn, following a yellow arrow right and down to a road. Cross and enter a track opposite. Follow this, ignoring lefts and rights and running parallel to a concrete track (over the hedge on the left). At the entrance to ‘Burles House’, the path branches off right and reaches a road. Turn right and wind up the hill to pass ‘Lower Old Park’. Look, on the left 50 yards further on, for a white gate. There is a footpath and kissing-gate next to it, taking you into a field. Head out half-left across it to go through another kissing-gate into a wood. The path takes you down, across a footbridge in a more open area and up into a large field. Go straight across to Dora’s Green Lane. Turn right and walk about 200 yards to take a track left, signposted to ‘Meadow Cottage’ (see later).
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signpost and you go left and through a kissing gate into a field. Quickly reach a gate and a footbridge, right, into another field. Now, walk half-left up a slight slope and then left along the tree line at the top of the slope. Reach a kissing gate, right, into another field and head out half-left. You will reach the gate by ‘Meadow Cottage’ (noted earlier). Retrace your outward route to reach the road by ‘Lower Old Park’. Now, turn left and walk along the road until, just beyond ‘Middle Old Park’, where the road turns sharp left, continuing straight ahead on St Swithun’s Way, a wide track. At a junction by a house, turn right. At a three way signpost, turn right. Keep going to reach No 3 Old Park Lane and retrace your initial route back to the start.
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OS MAPS: Explorer 145 Guildford & Farnham, Godalming & Farnborough and Explore146 Dorking, Box Hill & Reigate, Leatherhead & Caterham
REFRESHMENTS: The Hampshire Arms, Crondall, Farnham, Surrey GU10 5QU (01252 850418)
STARTING POINT: The car park by the Golf Club and the Castle (GU9 0AG) on Castle Hill in Farnham
Image above: Fields in Crondall Lane by Colin Smith
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that anything sold also benefits the NCT. RASASC (Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre- Guildford) offers listening and support for women and men who have experienced childhood or adult rape and/or sexual abuse. They are holding a Telephone Helpline Volunteers Training Course starting on Thursday 22nd February 2015. Limited number of spaces – female only. The course runs on seven Thursday evenings (7.30pm to 9.30pm) from 26th February to 9th April plus there are three Sundays (10am to 4pm). On completion of the course, you would need to be free 2 evenings a month from 7.15pm to 9.45pm for the helpline plus the second Tuesday evening of every month for clinical supervision. Volunteers are offered a friendly and supportive environment, with supervision and ongoing training and no previous experience is necessary. Details and
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application form on www.rasascguildford.org or email vivcien@ rasasc-guildford.org. This does qualify as an informal placement, but they need a commitment from you of at least 18 months. West Dean Gardens, Near Chichester, West Sussex PO18 0RX, has launched an appeal to restore the Victorian glasshouses in the walled Kitchen Garden. Built by Foster & Pearson between 1891 and 1900 they are some of the few remaining in active use in the UK. They are examples of the social aspirations and technological advancements of Victorian Britain and part of our horticultural heritage. It will cost over £30,000 to carry out restoration work on just one of the different types of glasshouses which range from cucumber and pineapple pits to vine houses. Maintaining the glasshouses is an ongoing project but two glasshouses are in urgent need of repair. The donation
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Midhurst Gardening Club Midhurst Garden Club is a thriving, friendly club that welcomes all residents of Midhurst and the surrounding villages who have an interest in gardens. Regardless of the size or shape of your garden, or whether you just have pots on your balcony or even no garden at all, we can help bring gardens into your life.
Meetings are held on the second Monday of every month except January and August. Our splendid venue is the Memorial Hall in the South Downs Centre, North Street, Midhurst. The post code for Club the sat-nav is iving, friendly GU29 9DH. Refreshments the surrounding are servedvillages from 7pm and the lectures begin at of the size or shape of 7.30pm.
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Regular newsletters are circulated to all members keeping them informed of club news and any changes to the printed programme. New members are warmly welcomed to our club. The annual subscription is £8.50 payable at the first meeting in February and there is an entry fee of £1. Visitors are also very welcome to attend any of our regular Club Nights at a cost of £2 per meeting. Our first Club Night in 2015 is Monday 9th February. We have Mark Saunders, Head Gardener at Fittleworth House, speaking on an A - Z of Gardening tips. Guaranteed to set you up for your gardening year!
includes 10 Club Nights In May we will be going to Sissinghurst with a variety of specialist Speakers. We also arrange Gardens in Kent (the home of Vita Sackthree summer coach visits to August. public and private gardens ville-West and Harold Nicolson, shown ery month except January and Our splendid of significance and visits by car to local gardens for inspira- below) with a lecture on Sissinghurst by wns Centre, North Street, Midhurst. The postwith coderenowned Speaker and Tour Guide, Steve tion. Our AGM in November is a great social evening a fun but challenging accompanied by cheese andat Harmer, ten days beforehand. s are served from 7.00pmQuiz and the lectures begin wine. There’s a lot to look forward to this year. Other activities include an annual ‘Grow a Bulb’ competi- We’d love to see you so do pop along and tion, a plant swap and sale - this year with Pimm’s and can- say hello. You can phone Denise Skinner ghts with a variety of specialist Speakers. We also (Hon. Secretary) on 01730 814194 for apés in the garden, and our regular flower of the month competi tion. A raffl is also held on each Nightby withcarmore information or email us at: midhurstand private gardens ofesignificance andClub visits some great prizes. Our members are entitled to discounts gardenclub@gmail.com or visit us at www. n November is alocal great social evening with a fun butmidhurstgardenclub.org.uk. at several garden product suppliers and nurseries.
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try their hand at over 75 different sports and activities at GoFest2015, which was launched in November by Olympic gold medallist and BBC presenter Sharron Davies and footballing superstar Kevin Keegan. GoFest will be the UK’s first festival of sport, fitness, dance and health and takes place at Surrey Sports Park on the weekend of 10th-12th July 2015. Around 15,000 people are expected to attend the event which will include 12 specialist zones such as GoCompete, GoSplash, GoTry, GoCool, GoFuel and GoTeens along with live music, entertainment and picnic areas. GoFest has teamed up with charity partners, Macmillan and SportsAid and a selection of elite sportsmen and women who will be on hand to offer expert coaching tips across the weekend. I gather that camping will also available nearby to give the weekend a true festival feel. Tickets and more information are now available at www.gofest.co.uk/ tickets. Pilates classes are held weekly in Hascombe, Cranleigh, Fernhurst and Redford. Massage clinics are also available; for more information please contact Laura at, kaizen. pilates@outlook.com or 07557 018276. There was quite a lot of good news in the Chancellor’s autumn statement particularly if you are buying a house for under £2 million! George Osborne also announced that he is awarding a significant grant to the Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance. The seven figure sum will go towards the charity’s capital investment programmes based on a new helicopter and future needs. Chief Executive, Adrian Bell said “The Chancellor’s statement today, in which he granted the Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance Trust £1.5m, is a very clear and ringing endorsement of the critical service this Charity provides to its patients”. The Charity is also hugely appreciative of his move to exempt all Air
Ambulance charity expenditure from VAT. In our case, this will release about £100,000 per year directly to frontline services rather than the Exchequer and equates to over 30 life-saving missions of the 1800 that the Charity undertakes annually. However they still have to raise over £6m annually to provide this life-saving service. Incidentally, I wrote a while ago that The Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance became the first air ambulance service in the country to operate a 24 hours Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS).You might be interested to know that in the first year of its night operations crews have attended over 430 patients as well as about 1,400 patients by day. You may be new to the area and the New Year is always a good time to try out new activities especially if they involve a bit of exercise. So if you haven’t come across it before, do have a look into Circle Dancing. It is, by all accounts, great fun, very relaxing, wonderful exercise and an opportunity to make new friends. It is suitable for men and women of all ages and you do not need a partner. The dances are international folk dances to beautiful ethnic music from many different countries such as Greece, Russia, Romania, Israel, Bulgaria and many more. They are done in a circle mostly holding hands and everyone attempts to do the same steps at the same time! Classes run at: Pirrie Hall, Brook on Thursdays in three ten-week terms, 7.30pm-9.30pm. St Catherine’s Hall, Guildford on the third Tuesday of the month, 7.30pm-9.30pm. WI Hall, Hartley Wintney on the second Wednesday of the month, 7.30pm9.30pm. For more information, contact Lynn on 01420 474881. FIND OUT MORE
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GOS, together with Vantage Point, is giving you the opportunity to WIN a pair of tickets for the performance at Godalming on Thursday 19th February and a pair of tickets at Leatherhead on Thursday 26th Feb.
The first two correct entries drawn will win a pair of tickets for either Thursday 19th February performance at Godalming or the Thursday 26th February performance at Leatherhead.
Just answer the following question by indicating A, B or C on the website entry form:
Closing date is 31st Jan 2015.
Godalming Operatic Society’s 2015 production of The Mikado is sure to be a eye-catching and colourful show with superb musical numbers such as ‘Three Little Maids’ and ‘Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day’ plus the usual witty storylines. The highly accomplished team of Robin Wells (Musical Director) and Pat O’Connell (Stage Director) join forces once again for this un-missable production.
For GODALMING TICKETS:
Tickets for both venues can be obtained from the Main Box Office – Tel: 01252 703376 or visit our website: www.godalmingoperatic.org.
Which of these is a character from The Mikado? A: The Grand Duke B: Nanki-Poo or C: Winnie the Pooh For LEATHERHEAD TICKETS: Name one of the three little maids? A: Tum-Tum B: Katisha or C:Yum-Yum Enter your answers on the online entry form at:
www.godalmingoperatic.org
Please enter online at www.vantagepointmag.co.uk unless otherwise stated. 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, KT and RH postcode.
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