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Contents

June/July 2022

Canine communications with Julia Collins

Art - Pablo Picasso at the Sainsbury Centre

WIN £100 M&S voucher with our guest beagle Frida

Ladies of Letters arrives in Norwich

Recipe for Paul Hollywood’s authentic Cornish pasty

Village Notice Board

Fashion - go crazy for crochet this summer

HEALTH, STYLE, FASHION & BEAUTY OUT & ABOUT 8

Good news from our region

WIN tickets to Norfolk’s newest music festival, Wide Skies & Butterflies

Latitude returns for summer

Art - wanderlust & watercolours from James Mayhew

Garden Jottings from The Garden Enclosure

Greenfingers with Alan Titchmarsh

Health - how to look after your joints

Book reviews – fiction for summer

WIN tickets to three amazing music concerts in Earlham Park

Ear health and hearing with Cecil Amey

Refreshing Waters - The Norfolk Community Foundation

Homes - focus on timber buildings

Health - gardening tips for hay fever sufferers

Memories of Oakley

Property - top tips for selling your home

HOME & GARDEN

Skincare with Geraldine Walters

40 Recipe for Miso Caramel Apple Cake

WIN tickets to see Queen Symphonic at Newmarket Racecourse

JOBS, MONEY & BUSINESS 77

Finance - kicking back against inflation

Find a local business or service in our directory

Exercise your brain cells with our crossword

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WELCOME TO THE EARLY SUMMER ISSUE

omething very unexpected happened to me in February, completely out of the blue and not planned; I got a rescue dog! And guess what breed? A beagle, of course! So this issue’s competition to win £100 M&S voucher is dedicated to the new addition to our family, Frida the beagle! Hop over to the competition page and see what she looks like so you can spot her hidden in this issue. Good luck! A special mention must go to Her Royal Highness The Queen, who marks her Platinum Jubilee in June. There will be four days of celebrations and community activities and we have listed several on our Village Notice Board pages. At the time of writing, many local events had not been finalised, so make sure you go to our website and take a look at the very popular EVENTS section, where we give full details of everything you can enjoy in our area. www.village-people.info Music fans are spoilt for choice in this issue, because we have some spectacular ticket giveaways to see Michael Ball and Alfie Boe, Simply Red and the Ibiza Orchestra, who will all be performing on our doorstep in Earlham Park. Plus, you can win tickets to see the rock and orchestra spectacular, Queen Symphonic, at Newmarket Racecourse, and Norfolk’s newest music festival, Wide Skies & Butterflies. It’s going to be a summer of music!

We have over 30 amazing new local businesses offering you their products and services for the first time in this issue, so make sure you read the magazine from cover to cover and support everything local. If you have any thoughts about how we can improve the largest circulation magazine in the county, give us a call. We’re always happy to have a chat!

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orfolk’s newest music festival, Wide Skies & Butterflies, will host their inaugural event this summer which will be held at Raynham Estate, near Fakenham, over three days from 5th to 7th August 2022. Headliners are The Vaccines, Hot Chip and James. Joining them will be the Editors, Everything Everything and the Levellers, as well as many more acts including Mercury and Ivor Novello-winning singersongwriter Laura Mvula, special guest 90s pop sensation and winner

of ITV's The Masked singer, Natalie Imbruglia, Scouting for Girls, Ibibio Sound Machine and upcoming UK indie band The Reytons. Along with main stage performers, the festival has also announced late night DJ slots by Faithless, Norman Jay MBE and DJ Yoda, as well as a variety of other performers including comedian Ed Byrne and Norfolk’s very own drag superstar, recording artist, best selling author and fashion icon, Bimini. Event promoter Samira Williams says: “We’re delighted to be able to

bring to Norfolk such an energetic line up of artists who are at the top of their game. These acts are amazing live and we’re so pleased that they’ve agreed to come and join us for our first year as a festival. It’s going to be a stunning show and really shines a spotlight on Norfolk’s music and entertainment scene.” wideskiesfestival.co.uk

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t never rains when you need it, and after a long dry spring (whatever happened to April showers?!) gardeners may once again be fearing the possibility of hosepipe restrictions this year. So what can you do? Well…you could take up rain dancing as a second hobby – it keeps you fit and relieves stress – or you could become just a little more wateraware and carry on gardening! Water is essential to plants, so it’s important to ensure that what little there is available stays where it’s needed and not lost through evaporation. Home-made compost or well-rotted manure adds structure to soil and helps hold moisture around the root zone, so dig in as much as you can when preparing new borders or clearing through old, then give your beds a treat with a nice thick layer of decorative mulch.

Almost any material can be used, including bark, straw, cobblestones or ornamental gravels, and these are best applied when the soil is wet so that dampness is locked in. Mulches applied thickly have the added benefit of suppressing most weeds, or try using a porous weed fabric over new beds and cover it with a thinner mulch to make bagged materials go further. Sacrificing your green lawn for a brown one may become an annual occurrence, but you can ease this transformation by not cutting grass too short and leaving the clippings on as a mini mulch. You could even reduce your lawn area and instead establish a low maintenance Mediterranean-style border or entire garden using drought-tolerant plants. Planting trees with a light canopy creates dappled shade and provides you with a place to sit or

somewhere to position pots full of colourful summer planting. When choosing containers, go for glazed types and larger sizes which will hold moisture longer than smaller ones, and arrange them in small groups to make watering with a can easier. Use a good quality compost and incorporate water-retaining crystals (preferably with a slow-release fertiliser mixed in), and then, like the borders, top off with a mulch to reduce evaporation and improve their appearance. Established garden plants can be virtually ignored unless they show signs of wilting, but you will have to water young plants, and having your own supply nearby will make the chore of lugging cans about much easier, so consider installing water butts near to high demand areas such as your veg plot. Try to do the watering in the evening, and to avoid surface rooting give plants a decent soaking every few days rather than a daily splash. There’s nothing quite like natural water, so if you fancy the rain dancing please go ahead, a regular overnight session throughout the summer would be great, thanks!

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GREENFINGERS… with Alan Titchmarsh Horticultural inspiration, accomplished gardener, talented novelist and much-loved presenter, Alan Titchmarsh, tells Village People readers to “get out, get out, get out!”

es, you – I’m telling you to get up, put your shoes on, open the door and immerse yourself in what a wonderful country and wonderful landscape this is. Even after my 70-plus years here, I’m proud and passionate and loyal to the UK, and I could never live anywhere else; and while those emotions hold firm all year round, in my mind there is never a better time to soak up the majesty of nature than now, with the sun out, the days growing longer, and nature unequivocally at her most resplendent. When I suggest getting outdoors in this way – and I suggest it a lot! – on some occasions I get a comment back that the person isn’t into nature, or doesn’t know where to start when it comes to pruning or trimming. In reality, it doesn’t matter. Of course I want our gardens to be at their most beautiful as regularly as they can, but these spaces are as much about what they give us, as what we give them. So while our own lawns and beds and trellises are often a priority, in these early days of summer I would encourage you

to take the opportunity to sample those of others… in the wild, at a country house, even at a neighbour’s. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so get out there, get imitating, and get inspired. And by the way, take your kids – every time. Get them off their consoles and prise them away from social media, it’s really good for them to see this whole other side of things. It’s funny, the three big things government are always ranting on about are law and order, health, and education. That’s fair enough. And yet, time outdoors, time gardening, gives us all of them. If you’re letting off steam, you're less likely to use your anger in a place where it wouldn't be suitable.

If you're out there, you're learning about how things grow, so that's the education element. And the health part is obvious – fresh air, exercise, open spaces, gardens, parks, woodland, moorland. I know it sounds terribly trite, but I do think if some of these world leaders just went out and pottered about in their garden for an hour every Saturday letting off steam, the world just might be a better place! So, please… get out!

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Award-winning Suffolk author, illustrator and artist, James Mayhew, investigates inspiring art in the region

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ye, in Suffolk, might seem an unlikely destination for an artist who loves to travel the world, but for designer, illustrator and author Dorien Brouwers, rural Suffolk has provided its own adventures. Hailing from the Netherlands, as a child she always drew. Unsure of which direction to take her talent, she eventually chose Graphic Design as her area of study, initially in Holland. However, she longed to travel, and after exciting excursions around the world she embarked on a successful career for a graphic design company in London where she met her husband, Stephen – her boss at the time. When their son was born, they realised London life in a small flat wasn’t going to work. Visiting friends in Eye, they discovered the house opposite – an old bank – was up for sale, and so made the move to Suffolk. The house is beautiful, full of Scandinavian-style painted wood and period features, with a labyrinth of rooms and stairs. “Difficult to heat,” admits Stephen, but it’s been home for seven years now, and has the space for chickens outside and calm, clean studio space inside. In the 26

music room I discover the graceful shape of a harp; Dorien is also an accomplished harpist. Motherhood gave Dorien a break from work, and the time to play around with ideas for children’s books. It’s a common scenario – aren’t we all supposed to have a book in us?! But Dorien proves it’s not an empty dream. With hard work, dedication, and, of course, a talent, she has realised her ambition in a spectacular fashion, with publishers now bidding against each other for future projects. She developed her first book ‘The Remarkable Pigeon’ in 2018 (published by Salariya Publishing). This was followed by ‘Sail' (Little, Brown in 2021),

a beautiful, sweeping book with dazzling illustrations in shades of teal and turquoise, leading us through a lyrical tale of a young boy finding his own courage. Her latest book ‘Wild Beings’ was published this Spring by Little Brown, and similarly explores the links between the animal and human world. She is currently developing an exciting new project for Penguin Random House. What strikes me is the beautiful painterly quality of Dorien’s work. It disguises the fact that there is huge control and skill involved in the way she assembles her images. As a child, watercolour was always her preferred medium, a passion she has carried through to adulthood. Dorien first paints

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intricate sheets of creatures – assorted sea life for ‘Sail’, for example. All these exquisite little paintings – on their own they are beautiful – are scanned into a computer and then placed on a very free, almost impressionistic background, created either in watercolour or gorgeous, one-off monoprints. Compiling the final image is painstaking, careful work, using Photoshop to place each component. In today’s world of book illustration, working digitally is commonplace. It’s rare, however, to find work that retains the integrity of the hand-made. Dorien somehow achieves that with her vibrant, immersive images. The natural world is a strong unifying theme, from sea creatures to beasts to birds in the air. Environmental considerations sit alongside human emotions.

It’s clear Dorien is an unusually thoughtful, reflective creator and as I prepare to leave the conversation shifts. I ask Dorien how she feels about creating art in such a volatile, troubled world. “I have questioned it.” she replies. “All we can do is spread some hope and love and beauty in whatever way we can.” Hope, love and beauty abound in Dorien’s work which will, I’m sure, touch and enrich many young lives.

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Memories of Oakley Local historian, Dennis Cross from Diss, shares with us his fascinating collection of old postcards, focusing on a different village in every issue. This time, we take a walk down memory lane in Oakley.

 Oakley Street on the Hoxne to Stuston Road, taken in 1910, with a very early motor car in the distance.

 The Lincolnshire Yeomanry at Oakley Park,  Soldiers on a motorbike in Oakley Park, in 1915. The photograph was taken by Earnest Abraham, who travelled with troops on manoeuvres.

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Looking along Oakley Street, this 1911 postcard

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for selling your home By August Atkinson, Residential Sales Manager at Durrants Estate Agents in Diss.

hen it comes to selling your home, first impressions really do count, because people often buy into a lifestyle as much as a property. They need to be able to envisage what it would look like if they were living there. Buyers often find this difficult, so here are my top tips to help make your home as appealing as possible to prospects. Kerb appeal Your house may be stunning inside, but the outside also needs to look cared for and well maintained. Sometimes you only get one chance to make a good first impression, and while you may be focusing on beautifying your indoors the exterior of your property is just as important. People often make a decision about whether or not they are interested in buying a property just from how it looks on the outside…before they even step over the threshold. Working the room Let rooms show their purpose. It should be clear what each area of your home is for, and that it ‘works’ – whatever its size. The use and function of some rooms in a house can become blurred over time; the living room becomes part office, the dining room becomes the kids' play area and the spare bedroom might be used for storage.

Clean and clear A home free of clutter feels more spacious, and if it’s clean too buyers will be assured it's well cared for. A major declutter and clean will ensure your home looks, feels and smells its best for viewings. This applies outside too. Gardens are a big draw right now, so mow the lawn, weed the flowerbeds, cut back foliage and place a table and chairs on the patio. Buyers will be able to see the garden as a place to relax in, rather than a job to be tackled. Sweet smell of success Everyone is familiar with the cliche of baking bread or brewing coffee before a viewing, but pleasant odours can enhance the appeal of your property. Instead, try fresh flowers, candles or reed diffusers. Also, ensure any features that first attracted you to the property are visible.

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Miso Caramel Apple Cake If you’re not familiar with miso, don’t panic – it simply gives a salty, umami flavour, contrasting with the sweet caramel. The apple adds texture to the richness of the rest of the cake. Some ready-made caramels are quite stiff, so you may have to zap gently in the microwave to loosen it a little for spreading. Serves 10 556 cals 70g carbs per slice

Tip: Make sure you use white miso; the others are too savoury.

INGREDIENTS Cake: 2 dessert apples (Braeburn) 15g butter 15g soft brown sugar Batter: 275g unsalted butter 200g soft brown sugar 80g caster sugar 5 large eggs 60g white miso 275g self-raising flour Filling & topping: 100g unsalted butter, softened 15g white miso 220g icing sugar 100g cream cheese, fridge temperature 100g apple sauce 300g caramel /Dulce de Leche

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2. In a large bowl, whisk the butter and sugars until soft and fluffy. In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs with the miso until combined, then add gradually to the butter/sugar mix, whisking constantly. Gently fold in the flour, then half the caramelised apples. Divide the mix between the tins, then bake for about 20-25 minutes, until springy to the touch, and a skewer comes out clean. Rest for 5 minutes then turn onto a rack to cool. 3. Combine the remaining apples with the apple sauce. Whisk the softened butter with the white miso, then add the icing sugar. Beat until fluffy, then add the cream cheese and beat until just combined. Spread the first cake with about ₁⁄⁴ of the icing. Put half the apple sauce mix in the centre and spread out. Drizzle with about a tablespoon of caramel. Repeat for the second tier.

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Village People Norfolk / Suffolk border edition – June / July 2022 (Early Summer)

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Health - gardening tips for hay fever sufferers

Refreshing Waters - The Norfolk Community Foundation

Recipe for Paul Hollywood’s

Ladies of Letters arrives in Norwich

Skincare with Geraldine Walters

Health - how to look after your

Art - Pablo Picasso at the Sainsbury Centre

Canine communications with Julia Collins

Recipe for Miso Caramel

Art - wanderlust

Greenfingers with Alan

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