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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 diďŹƒculty 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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14 Soaring into Space With the University of Surrey

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28 Bringing the Inside Out Creating outdoor living spaces

30 Haslemere Fringe Festival A great weekend of entertainment

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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.

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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.

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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.

Friday Art will be holding their annual exhibition ‘Summer Extravaganza’ at the Haslemere Museum from Saturday 31st May to Saturday 21st June. Opening times are 10am5pm, Tuesday to Saturday. There will be an Open Day with wine and refreshments on Saturday 14th June.

Everyone welcome. The artists are Elizabeth Calthorpe, Maureen Farr, Daphne Jefferis, Celia Lewis, Keith Mainstone, Jennifer Owen, Peter Owtram, Sallie Roles and Mararetha Shepherd. Guest Ceramicist: Ali Tomlin, Jewellery: Jennifer Owen.

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Liphook & District Model Railway Club is celebrating 50 years this year and meets every Friday night in the committee room at Milland Valley Memorial Hall. If you have an interest in model railways do have a look at www.millandvalleyrailway. co.uk for full details of the club and its contacts.

Once again, Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice is running its popular plant sales through the summer months, where you can pick up some beautiful 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

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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.

Midhurst Decorative Fine Arts Society lecture on Tuesday 3rd June is ‘Ancient Art from Afghanistan: Surviving Treasures from the Crossroads of Asia’ by Hanne Sutcliffe who is a guide and researcher on tours to China.

Looking ahead, the meeting after that is on Tuesday 1st July. It is ‘Holkham and Houghton: Great Norfolk Houses’ by Caroline Knight, architectural historian trained at the Courtauld. Both meetings will be held in the Midhurst Methodist Church Hall. Coffee available from 10am for a 10.45am start. Contact the Membership Secretary if you would like to attend, 01730 814641 or visit www.nadfassussexarea. org.uk.

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Transforming Swan Barn Farm, Haslemere

By Sarah Bain, President of the Black Down & Hindhead Supporters of the National Trust.

Unusually for the National Trust’s open space properties, Swan Barn Farm, a 70 acre smallholding, backs right onto Haslemere town centre, immediately east of the High Street. It is a picturesque valley at the northern foot of the Black Down hills with a stream dissecting its pasture from its ancient woodland of mature oak and chestnut coppice.

Swan Barn Farm was left to the National Trust by a Haslemere resident, Mrs Potter, in 1952.

At the time, the National Trust felt unable to accept it without an endowment and it was very nearly lost. But some generous local benefactors felt that, as a lung for the town, it was an important amenity, and gave the endowment. For many years it was managed by a tenant farmer. Later, its barns became the National Trust’s Black Down estate offices and a hostel, known as the Hunter Base Camp, for the Trust’s working holiday groups.

An opportunity: But situated so near to Haslemere, Swan Barn Farm could always offer so much more for local people. Over the last four to five years, led and inspired by National Trust Head Ranger, David Elliott, a unique programme to breathe new life into the property and reconnect it with the town has been put into place.

It is constructed from locally sourced, natural materials, mostly from National Trust properties. Heat comes from a state-of-theart bio-mass boiler, and some huge solar panels supplement the electricity supply. A rainwater-gathering system which supplies green water for the Base Camp’s WC’s, the vegetable patch and the rangers’ yard, feeds into a 10,000 litre tank buried in the ground. Not surprisingly, funding such an ambitious project was a major challenge.

A collaboration with the Black Down & Hindhead Supporters: Fortunately, this National Trust team is advised and supported by a long-established group, the Black Down & HIndhead Supporters (see side panel). The Supporters were so impressed with David’s plans that they pledged the ‘seed’ money to secure most of the funding, and have given further funding for specific items as the project has progressed.

The cornerstone of this transformation is the ‘Speckled Wood’ project, named after a local woodland butterfly, to add an exemplary eco-extension to the Hunter Base Camp. The purpose is not only to make the whole building almost completely carbon-neutral, but also to provide on-site accommodation for three longterm volunteers to run Swan Barn Farm as a traditional smallholding.

As soon as sufficient finance and planning permission was secured, construction got under way. Wherever possible, this was carried out by Ben Law’s Roundwood Timber Framing Company and the Black Down National Trust Rangers. Although there were a few setbacks and some exhausted rangers, hard work by everyone involved meant that by spring 2012 most of the building was completed and three promising long-term volunteers had been chosen to live there.

Locally-sourced, natural materials: David Elliott ’s masterstroke was to persuade talented local woodsman, Ben Law, of Channel 4’s Grand Designs, to co-design and build the new extension with them.

Bringing Swan Barn Farm to life With the buildings in place, David’s team set about bringing this smallholding to life. Firstly stock to maintain the pasture was needed. So David built up a small herd of Belted Galloway cattle which grazes Swan Barn Farm’s fields in summer and roams

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Black Down through the winter. Next, the team planted a second orchard of traditional species of apple, pear, cherry and plum to provide fruit both for eating and cider-making. David’s own small flock of Jacob sheep were put to work to keep the grass down.

Chickens to provide fresh eggs were obviously an essential. In keeping with the project’s name, David chose Speckled Sussex chickens, supplemented by some Light Sussex hens. To complete the scene, traditional bee hive was placed near the chicken run and a new vegetable plot dug and fenced to protect from deer and rabbits.

Who are the Black Down & Hindhead Supporters, and how have they supported this project?

Community involvement: It was never, however, intended for the long-term volunteers ran Swan Barn Farm just for the benefit of the National Trust. One of the most important parts of this project was to provide local people with opportunities to see countryside skills in action and learn how they can put them into practice.

Impressed with every aspect of this imaginative initiative, the Supporters’ Committee first pledged seed-money to secure project funding. Ben Law was invited to explain the project to local people who supported it by signing chestnut roof tiles destined for the building, purchasing his books or by sponsoring a fruit tree for the orchard.

The team has, therefore, been running some very enjoyable events in the last few years, which people can join in by walking down from the town. Two particularly popular annual events are: • The Countryside Craft Day, this year on Saturday 26th July, where a hog-roast and home-made cakes supplement a wide variety of stallholders demonstrating many almost-forgotten skills.

• The Apple Pressing Day, this year on Saturday 27th September, when local people are invited to bring their apples to be made into either apple juice or fermented into cider. The beautifully refurbished apple-press, given by the cider makers at Gospel Green, and the traditional apple scatterer, given by John Simpson, definitely work overtime on this day.

A work in progress:Even with such a transformation, the Swan Barn Farm project remains very much a work-in-progress and currently the type of events David and his team can arrange is limited by a lack of covered space.

So there are plans for an Orchard House to provide a demonstration room and housing for the bee-keeping and applepress equipment. This open-fronted barn, will be of a similar design to the extension to the Hunter Base Camp and sited just beyond it. Again it will be built in co-operation with Ben Law. Future plans include improvements to the signage and access to Swan Barn Farm from Haslemere town, and a ‘nature playtrail’ for younger visitors. The trail will start at the Town Walk and consist of a wide variety of small but imaginative physical challenges, each constructed from materials from local properties. It will be built in stages over the coming year.

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The Black Down & Hindhead Supporters are an advisory and fund-raising group. The Committee meets with local National Trust staff regularly to advise on management plans and raise funds for improvements on the local National Trust properties.

As the project progressed, supporters stepped in to fund the rain-water harvesting system, a traditional bee-hive and beekeeping equipment, and the Light Sussex and Speckled Sussex chickens, complete with an electric fenced run to protect them from foxes.

Finally, supporters have, subject to planning permission, pledged to finance up to 50% of the new Orchard House and fund the nature play-trail.

The ability to support this project depends on supporters whose subscriptions are our main source of income. Funds are spent exclusively on National Trust open spaces on the Black Down and Hindhead estates. Our financial support makes a big difference to these properties.

If you would like to be a supporter, please join us. See: www.haslemere-nt.com or membership@haslemere-nt.com FIND OUT MORE

For more information about Swan Barn Farm, community events or to watch a video about Speckled Wood, visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ swan-barn-farm.

The Swan Barn Farm blog, written by David Elliott, is a great insight into the day-to-day delights and challenges of running the estate: swanbarnfarm. wordpress.com

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Sunday 3rd June and 6th July are the dates for the next Haslemere Farmers’ Markets, (every first Sunday of the month). Open from 10am-1.30pm in the High Street, Haslemere. Try turkey sausages, locally made bread, jams and preserves. Taste a wide variety of Italian cakes and baked goods, curry sauces and chutneys and maybe buy some fresh fish, shellfish, fresh organic meat, sausages, roses and bedding plants, chocolate, pies, patisserie, crafts and soap. You can talk to the producers and learn how your food is produced and where it comes from. Haslemere Transition Town are now recycling second hand books, so take your old ones and buy some new. If you can’t make Haslemere Farmers Market go along and sample all the above at Milford Farmers’ Market on Sunday 15th June at Secretts’, Milford, GU8 5HU. You might also meet Paddington Bear! Also Godalming Farmers’ Market which is on 28th June in the High Street

(last Saturday of every month) from 10am-4pm. For more details call 07428 784876, or email admin@ farmersmarketsurrey.co.uk.

We’ve been asked to let you know that the next meeting of the Grayshott Decorative and Fine Arts Society is on Thursday 5th June at 2pm in Grayshott Village Hall. They are looking forward to welcoming Rosalind Whyte for what promises to be a fascinating look at the art of that ever controversial figure - love her or hate her - Tracey Emin. After the summer break Anthony Russell will explore ‘The Power and Glory of our Country Houses’ on Thursday 4th September.

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,

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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 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.

Haslemere Macular Support Group will next meet on Friday 6th June at 2pm at Haslewey Community Centre, Lion Green, Haslemere.

Mr Andrew Matheson, FCOptom DipTP-IP DipGlauc DipOC FAAO of Mathesons Optometrists is coming to talk about Common Eye Problems and Prevention. Incidentally, Mr Matheson was Macular Society Optometrist of the year 2013-14.

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The Haslemere Players present Show Stoppers – Memories of the Movies at the Haslemere Hall on 6th/7th June. This year they bring you a nostalgic selection of songs made famous by the silver screen. The programme includes rousing chorus numbers from some of the great musicals to several Oscar-winning songs.

They also feature a tribute to Clark Gable, a salute to Walt Disney and a reminder of Haslemere’s Rex Cinema. Relax in a cabaret style setting and enjoy a light two course supper at the Friday or Saturday evening performances, starting at 7.30pm, or tea and freshly-made cakes at the 2.30pm Saturday matinee.

Refreshments are available from their fully licensed bar. Tickets are available from the Haslemere Hall box office on 01428 642161 or online at www.haslemerehall. co.uk Advise the box office of any dietary restrictions when booking.

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 One-Eyed 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.

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

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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.

There is a Bridge Tea at The Clock House, Chapel Lane, Milford on Saturday 7th June 1.30pm for 2pm.

The cost is £32 per table; contact Carol May on 01252 782070 or carolmay@onetel.net . You need to take your own cloth, cards, pens and score cards. Don’t forget the Summer Fair on Saturday 28th June from 10am to 2pm.

Sussex Guild ‘Contemporary Craft Show’ at Parham House & Gardens on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th June 10.30am to 5pm. There will be over 30 Sussex-based designers and makers of contemporary and traditional crafts at Parham to show and sell their products. Members attending will be showing and

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Jottings - YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY NOTICEBOARD - NOW IN DATE ORDER! selling their products including ceramics, furniture, glass, jewellery, metalwork, silversmithing, textiles and woodwork. Normal Parham Gardens admission prices apply: Adults £8, Concessions £7, Children (5-15 yrs) £4, Family (two adults and up to four children) £22. £2 extra for entry to the House which is open from 10.30am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday. Have a look at the website to find out what else is going on in June. www. parhaminsussex.co.uk Reputed to be one of the most haunted villages in England, and home to the late Boris Karloff, the Village of Bramshott, near Liphook, in Hampshire, is once again holding its Open Gardens weekend, over the 7th and 8th June. Gardens will be open between 11am and 6pm on Saturday and 11.30am and 5pm on Sunday. Tickets are £6, children under 16 free, and cover both days.

Proceeds will be divided between local charities including supporting St. Mary’s Church Roof Fund. A

bus service will circulate around the village on both days, cost £1.

Over 30 gardens will be open, from large formal gardens, including the ancient 13th century Manor, to small cottage gardens. Lots of refreshments will be available, outside the Church of St. Mary the Virgin. For more information and photo gallery go to www. bramshottopengardens.org.uk.

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

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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. 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

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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.”

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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.”

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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.

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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.”

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Church. There is also an option for a shorter afternoon walk, starting Fight cancer with laughter! from Shalford Church. This is aimed Guildford-based cancer charity at families, is four miles long and The Fountain Centre is excited to will start at 2pm. Anyone wanting announce its first Comedy Night, to join the longer walk, which will on Sunday 8th June. It features be signposted and with a map three on-trend comedians: Russell provided, should arrive between Hicks, Sunna Jarman and Ola! and 9am and 10.30am. Walkers opting takes place in the beautiful Roger H OMES AND FAMILIES TAKEN C ARE OF. Pub in Loxwood. The for the shorter routeTAILOR should arrive WE PROVIDE MADE CLEANINGTichbourne & C ARE SERVICES TO MAKE HECTIC LIVES A LITTLE EASIER. kicks off with a free glass evening at the church between 1pm-2pm.

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Decorate it if you like.

Blow up the balloon, set the car on the ground and watch it go!

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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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Local walkers and riders have watched with interest as areas of heathland from Black Down to Lynchmere and Woolbeding have gradually been restored to the open landscapes they had been for centuries. The National Trust was amongst the first to put a major programme of heathland renewal in place, but more recently the South Downs National Park has launched an exciting scheme to restore heathlands along the sandstone ridges. Jonathan Mycock, South Downs National Park Heathland Project Manager, has agreed to give a talk about the National Park’s flagship scheme at their Annual Open Meeting. It takes place at Haslemere Museum at 7.30pm on Tuesday 10th June. Entrance free; no need to book and refreshments available.

A reminder that PACT - Petworth Area Churches Together’s Early Summer Talk will be given by Bishop Martin Warner, the newish Bishop of Chichester. He is a forceful speaker and will answer the question ‘The deepest needs of our society – how the Church seeks to address them’. It takes place on Wednesday 11th June at 7.30pm at St. Mary’s, Church Road Petworth GU28 0AE. Ample parking in the town centre. There’s a Q&A at the end. Refreshments will be available and admission is free; no ticket required. Details from Geraldgreshamcoke@gmail.com or tel: 01798 342151 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

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On Wednesday 11th June, Haslemere Gardening Society (HGS) has organised a trip to NT Mottisfont Abbey and NGS Terstan in Hampshire. These are both lovely gardens and should be at their best for the visit. Travelling by luxury coach you will have plenty of time to take in all the delights of both gardens in your own time. They are a friendly group of garden lovers who always welcome newcomers most warmly. On 18th June HGS are hosting a summer lunch in the gardens of Pendean Bupa Care Home, Midhurst. All monies raised will be donated to The Macmillan Local Cancer Support Midhurst.

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Season Tickets are also available from both locations. For all the latest information and screening dates sign up to their online mailing list, or see the website at www.chiddingfold-hall.org. uk. For further details, especially any advance ticket enquiries or if you are interested in joining as a volunteer, please contact Matthew Lacey on 01428 683120, or email cinema.admin@chiddingfold-hall. org.uk.

The beat goes on at Grayshott Folk Club with another two gigs in June.

They are diversifying with some Americana/Folk Rock on Saturday 14th June at 7.30pm when The Kennedys will be arriving fresh from the United States to play some of their own original material as well as performing a tribute to Nanci Griffiths. The Kennedys have been part of Nanci Griffiths’ backing band for some years. What is even more exciting is the prospect of Edwina Hayes playing a solo spot and then joining them on stage for the Nanci Griffith tribute. It will be a fantastic night of music. All tickets £12. Call Des O’Byrne on 01428 607096.

They follow that up on Saturday 28th June with young Maz O’Connor performing her own interpretations of some traditional Folk songs as well as playing some of her own compositions. She has just released a brand new album ‘This Willowed Light’, parts of which she will be performing on the night. What makes this gig even more exciting is that Maz will be joined by Hazel Askew of Lady Maisery, who wowed Grayshott Village Hall in March this year. Adult tickets £12, children under 16, £6. Call Des O’Byrne on 01428 607096. Both concerts are at Grayshott Village Hall, Headley Road, Grayshott, GU26 6TZ. You can also buy tickets for all Grayshott Folk Club events from: Magical 26

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Tel: 01428 604041 and Haslemere Bookshop, High Street, Haslemere.

Tel: 01428 652952 On Saturday 14th June at 7.30pm, The Leconfield Singers will perform a programme of well-known choral music in the brand new Theatre at Midhurst Rother College in North Street, Midhurst, GU29 9DT. The varied programme includes Vivaldi’s ‘Gloria’, ‘The Magnificat’

by Pergolesi, and some popular short pieces by Mozart, Fauré and Handel. There will be a retiring collection for Macmillan Cancer Care (Midhurst). The Choir will be joined by the English Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra, and perform under the baton of their Musical Director and Conductor Graham Wili. Solo violinist Jonathan EvansJones is the leader of the Orchestra, and playing solo trumpet will be local musician Hugh Davies, who lives in Milford. The Leconfield Singers started two years ago and now have 70 members meeting every week in Petworth. They have performed three previous concerts to sell out audiences, and are about to embark on their first European tour to Normandy this summer.

Tickets £20 (Adults) and £10.00 (children under 16) are available from the Box Office at Spriggs, New Street, Petworth or Outfit, West Street, Midhurst. Buy online at www.lsconcert.com.

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 include piano music, songs and arias, and the much-loved slow movement

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of his clarinet concerto. The evening will take place at Practical Philosophy Guildford, St Catherine’s School House, 26a Portsmouth Rd, Guildford, GU2 4DJ. Entry is £10 per person, 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.

Well guess what! It’s Father’s Day on Sunday 15th June. Never short of ideas, the National Trust in West Sussex, has a number of events specially organised at three of their beautiful properties in the area. Whether Dad enjoys real ales, captivating gardens, history hunting through country houses, geocaching or simply getting closer to nature, the National Trust has everything you need to help him and the rest of the family have a great day out. He might even fancy creating a den with the kids - one of the ’50 things to do before you’re 11¾’ challenges!

The properties involved are Uppark in South Harting, Nymans in Handcross and Petworth House and Park in Petworth. For further information on events at National Trust properties, visit www. vantagepointmag.co.uk

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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!”

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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.

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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 28

comfy chairs, pillows or cushions, lay down a rug, and you can transform a garden area.

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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.

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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.

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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 floating candles in your water element also add ambience.

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For all home styling home consultation visits, please call Charlie on 07770 568307 or email charlie@charliesmith.biz.

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HASLEMERE FRINGE FESTIVAL Friday 4th July to Sunday 6th July The third Haslemere Fringe Festival celebrates the very best in alternative and popular music, drama, dance, arts and crafts, poetry and comedy – a veritable cornucopia of energised entertainment for friends, family and people of all ages.

Located in the heart of Haslemere on Wey Hill’s Lion Green, this fantastic, bi-annual three day event, organised by members of the local community, will run over the weekend of Friday 4th, Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th July this year and is expected to attract thousands of visitors seeking a family friendly festival experience.

Ace music industry professional, Iain Martin, will be the compère on the Main Stage for the entire Festival Weekend alongside Geoff Whiting, a highly experienced and popular comedian, who will be hosting a stellar line up of hilarious comedy, incredible music and sharp witted performance poetry on Saturday night on the Acoustic Stage.

The headline acts over the weekend includes The Bad Shepherds, fronted by comedian and actor Ade Edmondson (right), offering inventive punk uniquely blended with amazing folk musicality and a large pinch of banter! Also appearing are The Blockheads, a huge Festival favourite with a fabulous catalogue of musical hits including the iconic ‘Hit me with your rhythm stick’ and Moulettes who weave folk, pop, prog and classical music to enthralling effect. For more information on these performers and all the other fabulous musical and comedy acts booked so far, please go to the website at www.lionfest.co.uk.

The Fringe Festival not only promotes up and coming artists, but also brings together local schools, clubs and societies to introduce amazing young talent. The programme includes the zany, highly popular inter-school Poetry Slam – featuring students from Woolmer Hill, Bohunt and Rodborough, supported by well known performance poets.

The Fringe is also proud to announce that its partner charity for 2014 will be Action for A-T, which gives valuable support to children with this rare genetic disorder.

Additional attractions on site will be the Family Fun Fair (with many attractions including a Big Wheel), face painting in keeping with the Festival theme of Giant Mini Beasts, Lizzie the fire eater, Surrey’s Strongest Man competition, stilt walkers, pom-pom girls, plus dazzling performance dance and dance workshops.

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Children can enjoy art and craft, music, drama, dance and storytelling – provided by two well known, local specialist companies - Molly Moo Cow and The Man in the Moon - who have got together as ‘Molly in the Moon!’ - over Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

In addition, The Festival Village will showcase a wide variety of fabulous stalls, together with a delicious range of international hot and cold food washed down with real ale, wines, drinks and refreshments which will be available at The Lion Bar, together with the brand new Sports Bar – where the Wimbledon Finals, the World Cup quarter finals, the Tour de France and the British Grand Prix will be screened live.

If you are interested in running a stall over the Festival Weekend, please go to the website – www.lionfest.co.uk, click on ‘information’ for more details on Festival Stalls and a booking form can be downloaded.

Great lengths have been taken to keep ticket prices as low as possible, providing outstanding value and accessibility for all. Tickets will be available to purchase on the day, but to avoid any disappointment, it is advisable to prebook in advance from Haslemere Hall – 01428 642161 or online at www.haslemerehall.co.uk.

Adult tickets for Friday night will be £7.50 and £10 per day on both Saturday and Sunday. If accompanied by an adult, children under 16 go free (one adult, one child) on all days. Tickets for unaccompanied youngsters under 16 will be £3.00 per day. A special adult ‘season’ ticket, covering Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be £20 - offering great value for money - and children under 16 apply, as before, on each day of this weekend ticket.

The 2014 Fringe Festival is shaping up to be a wonderful community experience - bigger and better than ever with a larger stage, jam packed entertainment line up and an incredibly busy site programme – there’s almost too much to see and do. vantagepointmag.co.uk

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nationaltrust.org.uk/events. For further information on ‘50 things to do before you’re 11¾’, visit www. nationaltrust.org.uk/50things .

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 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.

For anybody interested in a lovely walk, Monday 16th June is the day.

A seven mile walk from Tillington to Midhurst via The Midhurst Way is being organised. Leaving The Horse Guards Inn, Tillington GU28 9AF at 9.30am, the Midhurst Way goes via the Lodsworth Larder ( cake and loo stop), lovely 70 Lime Tree Avenue, Queen Elizabeth Oak (it was old when Queen Elizabeth 1st saw it!) and Cowdray Golf Course with optional refreshment/lunch at Cowdray Farm Shop Cafe. The walk is totally free of charge. There will be a bus returning to Tillington every hour. (About a 20 minute journey). More information from Geraldgreshamcooke@gmail.com tel; 01798 342151.

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June is a great month for fishermen.

The start of our metrological summer means bumper catches of traditional summer species like carp and tench on venues like Broadwater Lake and the nationally renowned Marsh Farm Fishery at Milford. It also heralds the start of the river fishing season on June 16th. The river fishing above and below Godalming is as varied as anywhere in the country. The river above the town bridge is non-navigable and has all the classic features of a traditional small English river.

Overhanging trees, weedy riffles and deep pools invite you to wander and try different swims.

The river may be small but the fish are spectacular. Double figure barbel, chub to over six pounds and some huge perch can all be caught along this charming section of river. Below the town bridge the river changes character and becomes navigable. The channel is more uniform and its downward

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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.

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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!

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journey punctuated by the locks at Catteshal, Peasmarsh and St Catherines. The fish grow big here and there are a fair few river carp to add to the more traditional river species. The fishing below town bridge is available on a day ticket from local tackle shops (Guildford Angling Centre and Marsh Farm) or R&V newsagent on Meadrow.

Above the town bridge the river is open to Godalming Angling Society members and their guests. So if you fancy wetting a line by the river then do give it a go. But remember river fishing is closed nationally until June the 16th! Check out the Godalming Angling Society website for more details on www. godalminganglingsociety.co.uk and don’t forget the junior open day at Marsh Farm on Saturday the 12th July!

Liphook W.I. will meet in the Village Hall on Wednesday 18th June at 7.30pm. The speaker this month will be Joyce Meader and her talk is entitled ‘Knitting Patterns from 1800 to the Present Day’, which should be interesting as so many people are taking up craft again, think Kaffe Fasset. (I have to admit I don’t have a clue what this is all about!) They have a full programme of events lined up for the summer so go along to find out more; visitors are made very welcome.

For further information phone Christine Chubb on 01428 723957.

A major new Design and Craft Fair is to take place in the grounds and workshops of West Dean College, Near Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 0QZ, from Friday 20th - 22nd June, 10am to 5pm. It’s part of a collaboration between the College and the team behind the highly successful MADE London, MADE Brighton and the Brighton Art Fair. The event at West Dean will include around 80 innovative and original makers and designers who will show and sell their work to the public. Visitors will be able to make a day of it with plenty of delicious food and drink options and free 34

entry to the award-winning gardens at West Dean. You can book tickets online at www.westdean.org.uk/ event Early Bird booking £7.50 Adult, on the door £8.50. Taster Workshops £8 (pre-book online) Ages 16 and over. 16 and 17 year olds must be accompanied by an adult. Children free entry.

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.

Chiddingfold Horticultural Society will hold their Summer Show on Saturday 21st June in the Village Hall in Coxcombe Lane. Visitors are welcome to come at 2pm to admire the exhibits, entry is free. They will also have a stall at the Village Fête on Sunday 8th June on the village Green.

Do you love to sing and want to take your singing to a new level?

Tried sing-along groups but would like a bit more of a challenge? Here is the answer! Come to this oneday 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

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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 internationallyknown 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.

Camelsdale Gardening Club in Haslemere has arranged its coach outings for 2014. All are full day outings by luxury coach as follows: Saturday 21st June to Lullingstone Castle in Kent; Saturday 19th July to Penshurst Place and gardens in Kent; Saturday 16th August to Sussex Prairie Gardens; Saturday 20th September to Great Dixter House and gardens in East Sussex; Saturday 18th October to Sheffield Park Gardens in East Sussex. All non-members will be made very welcome. Call Bill Atkinson on 01428 724592 to book or for more details.

The first Grayshott Market, held on Easter Saturday 19th April, was acclaimed a great success by stallholders and visitors alike. Organised by the Square Events Group and sponsored by Applegarth, the Grayshott farm shop and restaurant centre, the first Market had well over 1000 visitors. Every stallholder without exception said they had exceeded their expectations and in many cases sold out of produce before the Market closed.

Grayshott Village Archives used the Market to launch John Hill’s book ‘We Will Remember Them’, which details the lives and service record of each person inscribed on Grayshott ’s War Memorial. Phil Bates, Chairman of the Archives believes that John Hill’s book is a unique work that will live on for many hundreds of years and a real treasure for the Village. The vantagepointmag.co.uk

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LEARNING TO LET GO

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 June 2014

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.

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Laura Lychnos. Registered yoga teacher. www.yogacentred.co.uk.

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What to do in With Matthew Pottage, Garden Manager at RHS Garden Wisley

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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.

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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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next Grayshott Market is to be held on Saturday 21st June, when even more food stalls will be present.

Pop along to Beacon Hill School’s Great British Summer Fayre on Saturday 21st June from 2.00pm4.30pm. A traditional fayre with cream teas, beer tent, barbecue and come rain or shine an ice cream van! Arena events include Maypole dancing, children’s displays and their great dog show. Stalls include a raffle, tombola, plants, silent auction plus many games stalls and a bouncy castle - so fun for all the family and everyone is welcome.

To enter the Dog Show contact beaconhillpta@hotmail.co.uk.

On Midsummer night, Saturday June 21st, and staged at the Lythe Hill Hotel, Restaurant & Spa on the Petworth Road, is Haslemere’s ‘Mid-Surrey Murder Mystery Dinner’. The scenario is based around the school Centenary reunion of ‘Lythe Hill High’ and the 10 main characters in this intricate

drama are played by members of The Haslemere Players, who will also entertain afterwards with a selection of mega-hit musical masterpieces from their recent ‘Showstoppers at the Movies’ extravaganza. Guests, acting as ‘Dining Detectives’, who will have enjoyed a sumptuous three course dinner during the thickening plot, will employ their little grey cells and reveal who they think the murderer is and what the motive was - and stand to win champagne for their table! Tickets are £49.95 per person and include a welcome drinks reception, amuse bouche and three course dinner plus murderous entertainment (!) from The Haslemere Players! Please go to www.lythehill.co.uk for more information.

Fancy an entertaining change?

The Rude Mechanical Theatre, will be performing their production of ‘The Wife’ – based on Chaucer’s ‘The Wife of Bath’ - on the fabulous lawn of the Haslemere Educational

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Museum on Midsummer’s night, June 21st at 7.30pm. Bring a scrummy picnic, rugs and/or chairs, a bottle of something to enjoy and soak up the atmosphere of not only this unusual and fascinating play, but also the wonderful setting of the beautiful Museum garden – and, of course, the sun will shine on this unusual and spectacular evening!

The Rude Mechanical Theatre Company has been creating original theatre inspired by the traditions and style of Commedia dell’Arte since 1999. They are professional actors best known for their outdoor summer touring across the village greens of Southern England. So what do women really want? Well there’s a question and is there one man who has not asked it? Tickets are available from Haslemere Hall – 01428 642161 or online at www. haslemerehall.co.uk.

The British Red Cross is organising an opening of The Secret Gardens of Petworth on Sunday 22nd June from 2pm to 6pm. Tickets and

Get beach fit!

Your holiday is booked, you’ve located your passport but you are carrying rather more ‘on board’ luggage than you would like! Don’t Panic! These tips from the team at Uniq Physique Gym will get you looking good for the beach…

Nutrition Forget cliff-edge diets where calories plummet dramatically. Instead cut your calorie intake by a sixth for the next few weeks. Cut out inter-meal snacks and evening-meal carbs. This reduction in calories avoids the metabolic slowdown that comes from dramatic dieting and will make your body more efficient at burning fat.

On the bike, cross-trainer, or treadmill, exercise as hard and fast as you can for 30 seconds. Then rest for 2 minutes, and repeat as many times as you can – increase the amount of intervals each workout. Aim for 3 times a week. Supplement this with explosive weight training such as kettle bell workouts or circuits.

The team at Uniq Physique run a range of classes to help you stay on track with your programme and can offer advice to personalize your workout and get you looking good in your speedos!

Stay hydrated Your liver is vital in the role of fat burning so drink about 1.5 to 2 litres of water a day. More if exercising.

Avoid alcohol – after all you’ll be making up this this on holiday!

Workout With a few weeks to, your best form of belly attack is to hit the interval training. A study in the Journal of Applied Nutrition Physiology and Metabolism found that this increases your body’s capacity for burning fat by 60%.

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maps will be available on the day from The Red Cross Centre, Market Square, Petworth. There is free parking in the town car park and refreshments will be served all afternoon. The cost is £5 per adult, children under 12 are free. More information is available by calling 01798 343252 or 01273 227815.

Haslemere Natural History Society (HNHS) is holding a one-day course on Wednesday 23rd July at 10am at Haslemere Educational Museum. The course is entitled ‘Why has the Weald such contrasts of scenery?’ and is led by Jill Fry. In the morning, a tour of exhibits, including examples of the Wealden rocks, maps and photographs, will trace the timescale of events and forces that have led to the Weald we know today. In the afternoon you will visit one or two of the features to see the rocks in situ and how the elements have shaped the landscape we look at. Booking is for members only in the first instance and numbers are limited, but non-members are welcome to apply one month before the event. Enquiries to the Secretary, HNHS, c/o Haslemere Museum, High Street, Haslemere, GU27 2LA. Please enclose address and tel. no.

If places are available, booking fee will be £10.

There’s a Grayswood coffee morning on Tuesday 24th June in aid of Grayswood WI at Village Club from 9.15am to 11.30am.

There will be a raffle, cake stall and exclusive, Linny Wood, French and Italian designed clothes. Everyone welcome.

Carlos Gracida, ten times winner of the Cowdray Park Gold Cup for the British Open Polo Championship, who died as a result of a polo accident in Florida on 25th February 2014, is to have a permanent trophy endowed in his memory. The Hon Charles and Lila Pearson have commissioned The Carlos Gracida Memorial Trophy to be presented to the winners of the 38

opening match of the 2014 Veuve Clicquot Gold Cup tournament at Cowdray Park Polo Club on 24th June. He was by all accounts a huge personality in the Polo world and has an extraordinary playing record. Public admission on Tuesday 24th June for The Carlos Gracida Memorial Trophy will be £5 per person. Following the match, the league phase of the 2014 Veuve Clicquot Gold Cup continues until Quarter Finals and Semi Finals with the Final taking place on Sunday 20th July. For further information and online booking visit www. cowdraypolo.co.uk.

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 ex-Formula 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/festivalof-speed.

The Rotary Club of Haslemere will be joining forces with the Haslemere Museum to present an Edwardian Fair on Saturday June 28th from 10am to 4pm at Haslemere Museum and the Museum grounds. There will be numerous stalls such as face painting, hurdy gurdy man, beer and Pimm’s tent, hotdogs etc. There will also be organised children’s races. Entrance is free for a great day out for all the family.

This is the first time this event has been promoted in Haslemere, so go along and support this fund raising event and make it a great success.

All proceeds will go to the 2014 Haslemere Rotary Club’s supported charities.

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The third Haslemere Fringe Festival takes place from Friday 4th to Sunday 6th July. Located in the heart of Haslemere on Wey Hill’s Lion Green, this fantastic, bi-annual three day event, organised by members of the local community, is expected to attract thousands of visitors seeking a family friendly festival experience. The Headline Acts over the weekend include The Bad Shepherds, fronted by comedian and actor Ade Edmondson and also The Blockheads, a huge Festival favourite. (Remember Hit Me with your Rhythm Stick?). Additional attractions will be the Family Fun Fair and a brand new Sports Bar – where the Wimbledon Finals, the World Cup quarter finals, the Tour de France and the British Grand Prix will be screened live! Tickets will be available to purchase on the day, but to avoid any disappointment it is advisable to pre-book in advance from Haslemere Hall – 01428 642161 or online at www. haslemerehall.co.uk. Adult tickets for Friday night will be £7.50 and £10 per day on both Saturday and Sunday. If accompanied by an adult, children under 16 go free (one adult, one child) on all days. Tickets for unaccompanied youngsters under 16 will be £3 per day. A special adult ‘season’ ticket, covering Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be £20great value for money!

The annual Open Day of Cats Protection, Haslemere is on Saturday 5th July from 11am4pm at the Haslemere Shelter, Upper Hammer Lane, GU27 1QD. This will be an opportunity to meet the currently resident cats, enjoy a variety of live music from local musicians, and tuck in to tasty barbecues and other delicious refreshments. There will be numerous stalls, sideshows and games. Two returning favourites are the ferret racing and balloonmodelling. There will be lots on offer for all ages, so take the whole family along for a fun day! vantagepointmag.co.uk

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Thorney Island, near Chichester This is the ideal walk for those who love sea views. Doing the walk clockwise from Emsworth gets the inland sections over at the beginning. Once onto the shoreline, the route is very easy to follow so you can concentrate on enjoying the route rather than reading instructions. A visit to the church is also a must as is looking out for many of the birds that thrive in this tranquil area. I appreciate that this walk is not exactly on the doorstep but it is a very fine one and well worth the trip. From time to time we will feature walks that are further afield when we feel they warrant it. I did this on a crisp sunny day in January and it was beautiful. It is a long walk but you do not have to do the full circuit if you want to take the children or the dog but please note that you must stick to the perimeter footpath. SR

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Neither the publisher nor the author can accept any responsibility for any changes, errors or omissions in this route. Diversion orders can be made and permissions withdrawn at any time.

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Chiddingfold Village is holding an Arts Festival from Friday 4th July-Sunday 6th July. There will be two concerts; one given by Surrey Brass on Friday evening in St Mary’s Church at 7.30pm and on Saturday 5th July, a ‘Bring it and Sing it Mikado’ with professional soloists in Chiddingfold Village Hall. (Rehearsal 4.30pm; concert 7.30pm). A Flower Festival will also be held in the church. David Paynter (Sculptor) and Wendy Richards (Artist) will be exhibiting in the Church Room. The weekend will conclude with a choral evensong.

Proceeds to Macmillan Nurses and St Mary’s Church. Details from chiddartsfest@amartin.org.uk.

Always a lovely day out, The RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show takes place from Tuesday 8th to Sunday 13th July. (On 8th/9th RHS members only) It is open from 10am-7.30pm except on Sunday when it finishes at 5.30pm with the sell off at 4.30pm. One of the main

displays is ‘The 7 Deadly Sins’ and two of them have been designed by Surrey residents. ‘Lust’ is the focus of Rachel Paker Soden’s garden and ‘Pride’ is the subject of Amanda Miller’s Design. To book tickets go to www.rhs.org.uk/shows.

Volunteers needed! Are you aged 14-25? Enthusiastic volunteers are needed to help run this year’s Summer Reading Challenge in libraries from 12th July-13th September. If you enjoy working with children and have good communication skills, this could be the ideal opportunity for you.

Hours are flexible, but they ask you to commit to at least 10 hours over the summer. Interested? Go to www.surreycc.gov.uk/libraries, email libraries@surreycc.gov.uk or phone 01483 543599. Closing date: 21st June 2014.

The week-long Summer School, (this will be the 33rd) offers amateur, young professional or student quartets or ensembles the chance to work closely with the celebrated Chilingirian Quartet.

Each group is given their own practice room for the week to allow plenty of opportunities to enhance a repertoire of their own choice, with intensive, yet informal, daily coaching. The cost is £639 including all dinners. Accommodation is available at the College from £270.

To book tickets online go to www. westdean.org.uk/events or call the bookings line 0844 4994408.

To find out more about attending the Summer School (note: must be Grade 8 equivalent or above) contact Rosemary Marley on 01243 818263 or rosemary.marley@ westdean.org.uk

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The Fountain Centre Do you know what The Fountain Centre is?

Some of us find out the hard way, but many local residents have no idea that they have this wonderful facility on hand when they need it most.

The Fountain Centre is an independent charity within St Luke’s Cancer Centre at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford – the main cancer hub in the South East. We offer information and support, counselling and a range of complementary therapies to cancer patients and their carers. We have a wig bank, a lending library, and can provide information about local support groups, welfare benefits and a host of specialist cancer charities. People come to us from all corners of Surrey and beyond.

Integrated cancer care, which involves therapies such as acupuncture, hypnotherapy, massage and meditation - in conjunction with conventional medicine - is recognised by many health professionals as the way forward.

There are many ways in which we can help, from dealing with the initial shock of a cancer diagnosis, minimising the side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, to re-establishing confidence and well-being. Some therapies can help with pain, stress and stimulating the body’s circulatory and immune systems. The first four treatments are free; after that we ask patients to give a small donation if they can.

Perhaps just as important is the feeling of sanctuary, quite unlike a hospital. One recent user explained: “Walking in the first time was like balm on irritated skin. I was totally unprepared for the welcome. I always leave the centre feeling relaxed, listened to, supported and more cheerful.” The husband of a patient put his side of the story: “My wife and I spent a lot of time there while she was receiving treatment, and I would wait and have a

cup of coffee, so we got to know everyone really well.

“When I was encouraged to have a reflexology treatment I wasn’t sure at all. I was a copper who had worked the streets of London.

I thought complementary therapies were not for me. But the therapist put me totally at ease; it was fabulous. I had more reflexology and massage therapies. It changed my life, allowing me to unwind during a really rough ride that lasted several years.”

Cancer services are constantly evolving. The Fountain Centre plans to expand into other hospitals in the region, as the NHS develops the delivery of chemotherapy at a more local level.

Talks are well under way with Frimley Park and Ashford/St Peter’s about providing support and information to chemotherapy patients. By this time next year we hope these services will be up and running, though perhaps not quite on the same scale as we have within the Royal Surrey.

The Fountain Centre is run by a small team and has approximately 95 volunteers. The majority are qualified therapists and 15 are counsellors.

At present around 650 people use the centre every month. It receives no money from the government. It has to raise all the money it needs to keep going by its own efforts. It costs about £180,000 per year to run, which is tiny compared to other well-known local causes.

But we make the money work really hard and put the ‘fun’ into fundraising whenever we can – highlights in the last year include abseiling off the Cathedral Tower and our Annual Fashion Show. We keep going, and growing, entirely through the love and generosity of the community we support.

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For more information about our work and how you can help, call us on 01483 406619 or visit our website www.fountaincentre.org.

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their homes and the Hospice.

They are looking for drivers of all ages, whose practical support will enable more patients to attend Day Hospice, medical appointments, therapy sessions and counselling meetings that the Hospice offers to patients and their families affected by terminal illness across West Surrey and part of North East Hampshire. As well as accelerating its recruitment of drivers, the Hospice is also looking for escorts to sit with patients during their journey. The Hospice, located on Waverley Lane in South Farnham, offers a thorough induction programme to all its volunteers, including vehicle training where applicable, and ongoing support for as long as it is needed. If you are interested in volunteering as a driver or driver’s escort, call Hazel Steel on 01252 729400 for a noobligation chat, or email her at: hazel.steel@pth.org.uk.

Teenagers aged 13-15 are not always well catered for when it comes to activities for the summer holidays, so here’s an interesting week’s worth of activity for them and their friends. Set up with variety, skills and fun experiences in mind, the week includes a day with the media experts at Eagle Radio, a scuba diving taster session, a certificated course in first aid, performance and voice training from the experts at G Live and a day at the University of Surrey plus lots more. The week takes place from Monday 21st to Friday 25th July and you can booking now at www. exorta.co.uk Tel: 07799 883851.

Latest news from Wings & Wheels is that the only other air worthy WWII Lancaster bomber in the world, owned by the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (CWHM), will be making an appearance at the show on 23rd and 24th August.

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the show starting from £20 for adults, £45 for a family (two adults and three children aged 5-15 years), £6 for children aged between 5 and 15 years and under 5s are free.

Hospitality packages start from £150 per person, weekend passes, grandstand tickets and camping are also available. For more information visit www.wingsandwheels.net or to book standard tickets call 08712 305 572.

At the age of 83, a local man called Barry Uglow has just released his first novel, entitled ‘The Alien Stone: The Adventures of Professor Margrave’. Barry has had a fascinating life having lived in Co. Kildare in Ireland, served in the Canadian Army and travelled the world. A huge lover of the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he now lives in Grayshott and has been greatly active in working to restore and save Doyle’s house, The Undershaw. The story begins in the mid 19th Century when an old friend arrives at Professor Margrave’s house bringing his rough sketch of inscriptions carved on a stone plinth that he had come across during his travels in Central America. The quest to solve the puzzle takes him to Central and South America and many adventures ensue. Sounds like a good read and I believe you can get copies or download by going to Amazon.

I haven’t yet visited them but by all accounts West Dean Gardens, Near Winchester, West Sussex, PO18 0RX are well worth a visit especially as The Sunken Garden has reopened after a major six year restoration.

The whole project was carried out in-house by the Gardens’ team using the original wall stone and other hard landscape materials. The garden was completed, turfed and planted up in spring 2013 and has been designed to be perennial, to give a long season of floral interest and fragrance throughout the summer months. The Gardens are open from 10.30am to 5pm until

31st October. Entrance is £8.10. The Gardens Restaurant serves delicious home cooked food, including hot lunches, home-made cakes, scones and afternoon teas. Free parking.

Dogs on short leads are welcome in the Gardens. More information at www.westdean.org.uk.

The Rotary and Inner Wheel Clubs of Midhurst and Petworth recently held a Race Night at Midhurst Rother College at which they raised over £3500 to help local sports clubs to continue with the grand work they do in this area. Well done all involved!

A date for the diary. The Midhurst Music, Arts and Drama Festival (MADhurst) will take place this year between 16th and 25th August, culminating in a free Grand Finale family day beside Cowdray Ruins on August Bank Holiday. More information next month!

Tourists attracted by the history and environment of the Wey & Arun Canal can now make the most of their visit, whether their first language is English or not, as Dutch, French and German versions of its history leaflets have been produced in order to meet the growing demand from overseas visitors to its canal centre in Loxwood, West Sussex. The canal centre has become a hub for tourists since it opened in 2012 and acts as an informal tourist office with lots of information of other local attractions and guide books for the area. Wey & Arun Canal Trust hopes that the new leaflets will widen the appeal of a visit to the canal.

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