December 2007 issue

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December 2007 issue

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Hampshire
THE COUNTY’S
FREE
INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE
December 07
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A treatment
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FASHION • FOOD • HOME • GARDENING • WINE • DESIGN
GOING OUT • HEALTH • EDUCATION • BOOKS • SHORT STORY
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is the season to be spending – and don’t we know it.
Few things can part us from our money more
comprehensively and more rapidly than the whole
shebang that is Christmas.
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Rest easy
with our
prices
As we are now inexorably headed for the great festival of excess, it
is worth bearing in mind how all this spending can be of the
greatest benefit – and I don’t just mean to those who have been
good little girls and boys in Santa’s eyes.
Big Savings
throughout
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recliner chairs
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Spent wisely, the great avalanche of Christmas cash can bring
prosperity to our communities, in many cases enough to buoy
them through leaner times as winter progresses.
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The slogan ‘Use it or lose it’ applies very much to the shops and
small businesses that give our home towns – and in some cases,
villages – their identity and vitality. While the internet
undoubtedly fulfils a valuable role for shoppers, do try and spare a
thought, and a good proportion of your Christmas spending
money, for what’s close at hand. It’s a really good way of spreading
Christmas cheer where it’s most deserved.
Woburn
Manual Standard
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and Tilt Recliner Chair in Arizona Sand colour
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Editorial contributors
Regulars: Annie Bullen, Andy Kerr, Sally Easton, David Eidlestein,
Mark Sparrow, Hilaire Walden, Teresa Walsh
This issue: Debbie Allan, Pete Aves, Samantha Denisdottir, Peter Grist,
Jan Simmonds.
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Contents
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A little taste of stardom
Driving instructor Peter Grist’s
American adventure
10
Women’s fashion
Bare essentials
10
Invest in your undies
Quality counts,
says Teresa Walsh
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Men’s fashion
It’s time for coats
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Addicted to dance
How salsa changed
Debbie Allan’s life
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Cookery
Hilaire Walden suggests festive
treats for dogs
22
View Points
News Digest (1)
24
Table Talk
Solman Farsi of Anokaa
answers the questions
26
The View Review
Rosemary Staal visits the
Solstice Brasserie
28
Wine Wisdom
Sally Easton on frivolous fun
for Christmas
30
The Waitrose Page
Hampshire farm keeps the
shelves filled
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Christmas shopping in
Lymington
Think original this year,
suggests Jan Simmonds
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The January issue of View will be ava
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• Chandlers Ford
• Gosport
• Havant
• Hythe
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Touchy Feely Art
The work of a textile artist
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Want One
Andy Kerr on what’s new
and desirable
42
Interior View
Samantha Denisdottir’s
style guide
44
Pupils’ View
Spotlight on Norman Court
Preparatory School
46
Modern art in an historic setting
Spotlight on ArtSway
48
Gardening
Annie Bullen on winter perfumes
50
Health
Mark Sparrow advises on how to
survive Christmas
53
Motoring – New in View
What’s new on the roads
54
Short story
Dear Sam, by Pete Aves
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On Two Wheels
New motor-cycle arrival
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View Points
News Digest (2)
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Books
Stocking filler ideas from
Waterstone’s
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A little taste of
stardom
by Peter Grist
Peter Grist’s ‘day job’ is as a driving
instructor on the streets of
Hampshire. But his passion involves
writing – and specifically writing
about legendary American cars.
As a result, he found himself whisked
away for a memorable few days in
America where he was wined and
dined, feted and fawned over, as the
author of a new book.
Now back behind the L-plates, he
tells the story of his time in the full
glare of the celebrity spotlight, USstyle.
y job as a driving instructor in
Southampton can be exciting and
rewarding, teaching a life skill to
people that will be useful to them into their
old age. It also gives me the flexibility to
allow for another passion that I have: writing.
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After leaving the Army in 1991, I bought an
American car. The 1959 DeSoto Firesweep
was a befinned powerhouse with a V8 engine
and looked not dissimilar to the original
Batmobile.
I found that in this country there was no
club where I could meet fellow enthusiasts so
I started one. It was through the pages of the
club’s bi-monthly magazine that I got the
opportunity to start writing articles on old
American cars. This led to writing for other
magazines as I became a part-time freelance
motoring journalist.
and I was asked to write the biography of
Virgil Exner, the legendary American car
designer responsible for creating my 1959
DeSoto. He had been an industrial design
giant and I was amazed to find that his story
had not been written already. I accepted the
challenge and went to work.
Early into the research, I found out that he
had studied at Buchanan High School,
Michigan. When I contacted them, I was
disappointed to find that they had never
heard of him. Eventually they were a great
help finding the information I needed so I
promised them that, once the book had been
completed, I would visit Buchanan and
present a plaque to commemorate Exner’s
time there so that he wouldn’t be forgotten
again. The high school thought this would
be a great idea.
In 1999, I was asked if I could write a book
on an American automotive subject for a UK
publisher who had just opened an office in
the United States. This I gladly did and my
first book was published in 2001.
I then thought it would be great if the
children there could actually see some of his
designs, inspiring a new generation of artists
and scholars. Buchanan High School agreed
so I phoned some car-owner friends in
America, who phoned others.
The success of this book and the style in
which it was written appealed to enthusiasts
Interest was overwhelming and the whole
thing snowballed, with people wanting to
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Exner in the
Chrysler
studio 1953
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1958 DeSoto outside the Snite Museum
come from around the world. So many
people wanted to come that the school felt
that it was not capable of doing justice to
the event. Exner’s old alma mater, the
University of Notre Dame, just 12 miles
away from Buchanan in South Bend,
Indiana, agreed to take over the
celebration.
Between me and Vigil’s son, also a graduate
of Notre Dame, a day’s celebration of the
design and artwork of Virgil Exner was
created, including the attendance of more
than nine million dollars’ worth of the
designer’s concept cars, vehicles from
museums, an art exhibition and
presentations.
The work of writing the book had to sit on
the back burner for a year while I
completed another book but finally a date
for the event was set. As the time
approached, interest in the book and the
event gained momentum.
1955 Dodge LaFemme
1965 Bugatti 101CX
I was asked to fly out a few days early so
that I could give a presentation and do a
book signing at the world headquarters of
Chrysler in Detroit. With his automobile
designs of the mid- to late-1950s, Exner
was responsible for saving that company
from financial ruin. Two weeks before
departing I found myself giving interviews
by phone and e-mail to various American
journals.
My wife Catherine and I flew to Detroit
for my 15 minutes of fame. A car had been
hired for me and hotel rooms paid for.
Next day I gave a presentation to guests
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1964 Mercer Cobra
and employees of Chrysler, followed by a
long book-signing session. It was the most
nerve-wracking time of my life. We then
took the four-hour road trip, across
Michigan, through Ohio to Indiana.
When the big day dawned the University
had excelled themselves: their art
department had created unique posters and
tickets for the event, which was held in a
domed hall, where the car show was held.
The day was a blur of handshakes, signing
books, photographs, interviews and pats on
the back.
In the evening I had to give a more formal
lecture at the University’s Snite museum.
After I had given my presentation, I sat
down with a huge sigh of relief. The
celebration of Virgil Exner’s work had been
a success for everybody concerned.
1959 Chrysler 300E
The following day was spent relaxing and
sight-seeing before flying back to
Southampton. Then it was back to
normality – my wife went back to work at
Hardmoor Early Years Centre in
Swaythling, and once again I became Neon
Driving School to teach my pupils.
For a brief period I had seen how the ‘other
half lives’, talking to millionaire car
collectors, staying in posh hotels and jetting
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around the world. My brief time as a
celebrity was fun. I made some firm
friendships and useful contacts, and we had
a great time.
But I prefer my low-profile life. Many of
my pupils don’t even know that I write and
teaching keeps my feet firmly on the
ground. Now, where did I put my car keys?
* Virgil Exner, Visioneer (£24.99) is the story
of the last great American automotive
designer. From a time when one man could
be responsible for a car or whole range of
cars, he set the design parameters for all
modern cars with his 1947 Studebaker
Champion and went on to save the ailing
Chrysler Corporation with his Forward
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e have come a long way from
the first pair of knickers, or
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is such a variety of underwear to
choose from, from thongs to
all-in-one bodies that it is difficult
to know what we should choose.
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What you wear underneath your clothes
can make or break your outfit. It’s easy
to think that because it’s covered up, our
underwear doesn’t matter. This is
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Addicted to dance
The salsa addiction quiz
What are the signs that you are addicted to salsa? We conducted
this quiz at our club to see how many members are salsa addicts
– and unsurprisingly it turned out that there are an awful lot.
How salsa has changed my life
by Debbie Allan
hen one of my friends suggested that we started learning
salsa I was keen to give it a try. We’d been doing
aerobics on a weekly basis for years and we’d become a
bit stale and bored with it.
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I hardly knew what to expect and so I was totally unprepared for
salsa changing my life – and to becoming completely addicted to it.
We only started salsa a few months ago but my friends and I quite
quickly became obsessed with it – an obsession that means salsa
occupies our thoughts all day and every day and we simply have to
get to as many classes as possible each week.
The spin-offs are great. We’ve all lost weight and are fitter, and I’ve
had to buy new clothes as all mine have become too big, which is
no bad thing. We’ve made lots of new friends, too, and we’ve
laughed more than we could ever have thought possible. (Laughter
is unavoidable when you
completely mess up the
steps).
Because I’m only a recent
beginner I know how it feels
to be a new member and
want to hide at the back of a
class, but somehow learning
salsa isn’t like that. It
seems to have some
miraculous effects that I
would never even have
considered – and believe
me, you can do it too, even
if you’ve never danced a step
before in your life. The
enthusiasm of everyone
there just gets you going and
feeling as though you want
to dance all night.
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1.
Do you find yourself thinking about salsa more than
twice a day?
2.
Do you find yourself taking lessons more than once a
week?
3.
When you get up in the morning, is your first thought
‘Where am I going to go salsa dancing tonight?’
4.
Do you talk about salsa continually with your friends
– and sometimes not even to your friends but to
anyone who will listen, even checkout operators?
5.
When you meet someone new, do you try and get them
to go salsa dancing?
6.
Are all your friends and everyone you know now into
salsa? Or will they be soon if you have anything to do
with it?
7.
Your friend calls you to say her car has broken down and
she is waiting to be towed to a garage. Is your first
response ‘How will we get to salsa now?’
8.
Do you find yourself getting extremely ratty if you have
to attend something other than salsa, and then thinking
all night that salsa is where you would rather be?
9.
Do you send text messages and emails to the wrong
people, as only the names of the people you do salsa with
come to mind?
10. Have you changed your mobile phone ringtone to a salsa
rhythm?
11. Do you have car window stickers that say ‘I would rather
be at salsa’ or ‘What is the quickest way to salsa?’
12. Would you rather Christmas was cancelled so that you
didn’t have to spend time shopping and attending boring
work events when you could be at salsa?
(Question number 7 really did happen to one of our class – me!)
It’s totally different from going to a nightclub to dance. Hardly
anyone drinks – it wouldn’t help with concentrating on learning your
steps – and the girls don’t feel intimidated by drunk guys standing at
the edge of the dance floor because everyone is joining in.
Fortunately our salsa teacher has been very encouraging and
motivating, as have a lot of the other more experienced people. It’s a
bit like learning to drive: you think you will never learn a particular
move but suddenly it all clicks into place and you find you can do
the right steps that had eluded you up to then.
Salsa is so infectious that I find I can’t wait for non-salsa days to pass
just so I can get dancing again. As a group, we attended the autumn
salsa congress in Bournemouth, joining nearly 3,000 people from all
over the world. We managed to fit in five classes in one day, with
blisters and aching legs to prove it, and still stayed up until 3am
dancing. It was a great experience for a salsa addict like me.
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I thought that must all be exaggeration, but actually have since found
it all to be true. I don’t know of anything else you can do with your
friends, whether single people or married couples, or whole families
together and still have so much fun as a group.
After the first lesson you may think to yourself ‘That was good!’ Six
weeks later you find yourself taking even more classes. You start to
look forward to the next lesson . . . the next dance . . . the next fix . . .
you don’t know how it happened, but you find yourself addicted to
salsa dancing.
Life doesn’t begin when you are 40 – it begins when you start salsa.
It’s a new kind of night out. I don’t know of anything else you could
do which is so much fun for under £10. Take it from me, if you’re
looking for a sense of exhilaration and wellbeing, then side-step the
stress in your life and step into a salsa class. And if you become
addicted too, then consider that a bonus.
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the slice. To her, and our, amazement, instead of taking a bite from
the cake, the whole large chunk came up. Fortunately, she had to
drop it to eat it and I quickly snatched it from her. Also
fortunately, the photographer managed to take a good shot at the
crucial moment.
That was not the case with the next recipe, which was for biscuits.
The art director tried to balance one on Eeda’s nose. Tricks are not
in her repertoire. With an efficient nose such as hers – she is from a
working breed, after all, and one that is well-known for gluttony –
and with an unknown person trying to get her to co-operate,
failure was more likely than success. However, the biscuit did stay
on her nose for a fleeting second, long enough for the
photographer to get a shot, before she managed to dislodge the
morsel into her mouth. The picture was not used in the end.
Hilaire Walden takes her
dog on a foodie photo shoot
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Quite the reverse happened when some filled crepes were produced
for another dog. The dog just wasn’t interested. I don’t think even
my greedy hound would have been that keen, especially in the
setting, although she probably would have at least tried them. The
crepes were made from a plain batter, with a filling of bananas and
honey. Ploys were used to ‘improve’ the crepes.
I heard that ‘attractive’ dogs, preferably young, were being sought by
Hamlyn, the publishers. Although my dog, Eeda, is not young (she
was 11 when photographed) she is quite attractive. I know I am
biased but other people think she is too. She belongs to one of the
rare native breeds identified by the Kennel Club, so I put her name
forward and she was duly selected.
Usually, only one dog was present at a time, but one dog walker
arrived with all her charges. Then, with up to eight dogs at a time
in the room, catching the models’ attention proved extremely
difficult. Excited dogs, especially young ones, can have a problem
controlling their bodily functions, so, inevitably, accidents ensued.
The occasion got to a husky-type dog in a different way and it
nearly took a piece out of the editor.
upcakes is not a misspelling but the
name of the latest cookery book that
I have been involved with. Not in
the usual way of writing, editing or consulting, but
providing one of the models for the photographs: my chocolatecoloured field spaniel.
I was originally told the photography would be done in central
London, which would have meant taking Eeda on a train and then
in a taxi, not a prospect I relished. Eeda is very voluble and likes
people, so she would have spent the whole time squeaking and
whining in her desire to ‘talk’ to other passengers. At least she would
have drowned out mobile phones. Fortunately, the location that was
eventually chosen was reached easily by car, with free parking.
I found the session surprisingly stressful because I so wanted Eeda to
perform well, and although food – the great love of her life – was
involved, she also found the occasion a little bewildering.
The first shot was to accompany the recipe opposite. As it is referred
to as a birthday cake, the stylist had provided a suitable hat. Earlier,
a dog had refused to wear a hat for the Halloween shot, but Eeda
took absolutely no notice of her green titfer. She was a bit confused,
though, when she had to sit between a large backdrop and a box
disguised as a table bearing a bowl full of enticing food. She just
didn’t know where to look – so fixed her gaze on anything other
than the camera. But when I put her paws on the ‘table’ and told
her she could try the cake, whoosh, she made a lightning grab for
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Shots of other dogs also caused problems. A rather foolhardy
decision was made to pose a six-month old Labrador puppy
with a bowl of hot chicken soup. Not surprisingly, as soon as
the bowl was put in front of him, down went his head never
to come up again until everything, including all the vegetables,
had gone.
The recipes in Pupcakes were specially developed using pure, doghealthy ingredients, by Stephanie Mehanna when her latest dog
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Barking Birthday Cake
I know Eeda is a gannet but there are some foods she
prefers, and this is one of them. I can’t say that I agree with
her. I have tried it but I wouldn’t wolf it down as she does.
300ml semi-skimmed milk
3 tbsp olive oil
2 eggs, lightly beaten
500g wheat- and glutenfree flour
11/2 tbsp chopped parsley
500g chicken or lambs’
liver
Filling and icing
500g low-fat soft cheese or
quark
4 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp clear honey
3 unsmoked bacon rashers,
grilled and chopped
Apple and
cinnamon lollipups
Mix the milk, olive oil and eggs and then slowly pour into
the flour and parsley, stirring to combine.
Purée the liver in a blender. Fold and stir into the flour
mixture to make a smooth paste.
Flea fighters
Chicken soup
suffered from hyperactivity. She studied canine nutrition and visited
dog bakeries in the United States before setting up a dog bakery as
part of the delicatessen she ran with her husband in Leigh-on-Sea,
Essex. The deli has now expanded into a complex called Vanity Fur,
catering for pets’ needs, including a spa, boutique, beauty parlour,
toys, food and bakery, as well as a café for the owners.
Stephanie’s dog food, and therefore most of the recipes in the book,
are for snacks and treats and not intended to provide all a dog’s
meals. The book also contains useful information about dog
nutrition.
Pupcakes is available by calling 0845 8382330 or via Stephanie’s
website, www. caninacookiecompany.com or through Waterstone’s
and independent bookshops, price £8.99. V
Divide between two greased deep 20-cm sandwich tins and
bake in a preheated oven at 180°C/350°F/gas 4 for 30-35
minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes
out clean. Leave to cool for a few minutes before turning
onto a wire rack to cool completely.
To make the filling and icing, beat the soft cheese or quark,
oil and honey together until fluffy.
Place one cake upside down on a serving plate. Spread a
scant half of the cheese mixture over the top and sprinkle
over the chopped bacon. Put the other cake on top, domed
side uppermost and press lightly together. Spread the
remaining cheese mixture over the cake, using a spatula.
Any leftover cake can be stored in the fridge for up to 24
hours, or in the freezer for up top 3 months. Makes about
12 portions.
Hilaire’s ingredients are kindly supplied by Waitrose Food and
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Furniture firm
takes a brave
green stand
A local company has imposed a unique
‘green tax’ on itself to do its bit for the
environment.
Leading furniture store A World of Pine
has pledged that, for each item they sell
during the next 12 months, they will pay for a tree to be planted.
The business was set up some 15 years ago, just off Salisbury’s Southampton
Road, by husband and wife team Mark and Lucy Hotson. From modest
beginnings the company now employs more than 20 staff, and also has
branches in Poole and Blandford Forum.
Each store stocks a vast range of furniture, providing quality items at
warehouse prices with quick delivery. It is an ethos that has helped the
business to tremendous success.
But the impact of the successful business can bring a negative impact on the
environment so their new green initiative, ‘Furniture For Trees’, is aimed at
redressing the balance.
A World of Pine has committed to planting a tree for every single piece of
furniture purchased from any of their stores. They are hoping to help
subsidise the Forestry Commission’s planting of trees in the localities of their
shops – in the New Forest, Ringwood Forest and Wareham Forest.
The aim for the next year will be to cover the cost of planting more than
30,000 trees. ‘By directly linking our furniture sales to tree planting, we feel
we really are putting something back,’ say Mark and Lucy.
‘The hope is that the thousands of pieces of furniture sold each month can
be turned back into thriving woodland.’
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JSW
Michelin Star Restaurant
Winner Restaurant of the Year 2007
(Hampshire Life, Food & Drink Awards)
The White Horse offers sensational original food by
talented Head Chef Robert Probst.
Our food is inspired by selecting premium suppliers
to create a classic modern British menu with a twist.
Hampshire’s best kept secret!
Open daily 12–3pm and 6–11pm
(Closed Sunday and Monday evenings)
We are now taking party & Christmas bookings.
Please note we will be closed on Christmas Day
THE WHITE HORSE INN & RESTAURANT
(Off the A303 -Thruxton exit), Mullens Pond, Thruxton, Andover SP11 8EE
Tel: 01264 772 401
Email [email protected]
Website: www.whitehorsethruxton.co.uk
Celebrate Christmas in sophisticated style. Set in a beautifully renovated
17th century coaching inn, JSW offers sublime food in an elegant,
light and relaxed atmosphere.
Whether you are gathering with a few friends, need a private function
room (up to 18 covers), or wish to enjoy the entire restaurant (48 covers)
JSW offers you the finest dining experience.
We are open for Christmas lunch and also for New Year’s Eve.
The Christmas menu is now available.
JSW B&B NOW OPEN - 01730 262030
Open Tuesday – Saturday Lunch 12 – 1.30pm. Dinner 7 – 9.30pm
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Name: Solman Farsi
Restaurant: Anokaa
Find it: Fisherton Street, Salisbury
Call it: 01722 414142
View it: www.anokaa.com
You’ll eat: Contemporary Indian
What makes Anokaa special? We offer serious Indian food
against a background of oriental glitter, impeccable service and an air
of confidence.
What is the most popular dish on Anokaa’s menu? Old
Delhi-style chicken curry – honey and orange glazed chicken breast
lightly chargrilled and cooked in a rich tomato gravy with dried
fenugreek leaves and cream of coconut.
Which celebrity would you most like to welcome to
your restaurant – and why? Keira Knightley dined with us a
couple of months ago as she was in the neighbourhood. But if I
could choose a celebrity to dine at Anokaa, I would be honoured to
have an entrepreneurial genius like Richard Branson.
Who has had the biggest influence on you in your
work? My culinary inspiration comes from top Michelin chefs who
bring cooking to life, and from Madhur Jaffrey, who makes any classic
dish look simple. But my mother is my biggest influence. I’ll be
preparing something and she will come over and say: ‘No, Solman,
you don’t do it like that’ and nudge me out of the way. But she’s my
mother. I just do as I’m told! I remember cooking an Indian speciality
dish called Rasmali and when I turned it out at the table I saw
everyone drool. That gave me such a buzz that I realised I wanted a
career as a chef. It was also the sense of entertaining people that
went with it..
What would you do with a million pounds? I would invite
all of Wiltshire to dine at Anokaa for free as, once they have
experienced our fine cuisine, they will be hooked and want to come
back again and again. But next time they would have to pay!
You must work very long hours so what do you do to
relax? I enjoy all kinds of sports, socialising, travelling, eating,
cooking and creating new food ideas for my other restaurants. My
professional career is also my hobby.
What would you choose to have as your last meal on
earth? I play this game often when dining out with my friends.
Almost always, people answer with favourite comfort foods that
remind them of home, family and the experiences they’ve had. So I
would choose mashed potato and braised lamb leg curry, and not
only because braising the lamb leg would give me a few more hours
of life because it takes so long to cook!
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CHRISTMAS 2007
Three course set menu, lunch and dinner, includes
coffee and mince pies.
£20 per person (booking required)
Christmas menu available 1st ~ 23rd December.
Open Christmas Day for drinks and nibbles from 12pm.
New Years Eve bookings now being taken.
Open New Years Day for brunch.
Larger Bookings and Special Occasions catered for.
Please call for reservations and date availability.
New Winter Menu now being served, a selection of daily specials including local game and fresh seafood.
Real Ales and a wide selection of fine wines.
Traditional country pub, open fire, with a relaxing, cosy atmosphere and an informal dining area.
Sunday Roast served from 12pm to 9pm. (booking advisable)
T H E O N LY M I C H E L I N G U I D E L I S T E D P U B I N R O M S E Y.
The Three Tuns, 58 Middlebridge Street, Romsey, Hampshire
Tel: 01794 512639
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Rosemary Staal
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in a tarmac desert
Solstice Brasserie and Bar • Holiday Inn Salisbury-Stonehenge • Solstice Park • Amesbury SP4 7SQ
0845 241 7990 • www.solsticebrasserie.co.uk
here has to be a good reason to get
me away from my fireside in winter.
As reasons go, is a booking for
dinner at the restaurant attached to a new
Holiday Inn near Amesbury altogether
compelling enough?
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The decision is made for me when I note
that our fridge boasts little more than one
hard-boiled egg. The prospect of sharing
that, combined with the call of duty, gets
me and D out of the house and heading for
what turns out to be one of the strangest
locations we have ever ventured into.
Solstice Park, just down the road from
Stonehenge, is one of those depressing blots
that attach themselves to the edge of towns:
a sprawl of anonymous buildings that
appear to have been thrown up in an
emergency. ‘These’ll do for the time being,’
someone has said.
Dominant in the area of park we’re headed
for is the Holiday Inn, a lozenge-shaped
building that at least looks as though
someone has taken the trouble to design it,
with all its glass and shiny bits giving it
some individuality. Around it lie rather too
many reminders of the state we’re in: fastfood joints, a supermarket, a fast-food pub
and the like.
However, I must not judge a book by its
cover. The Solstice Brasserie might be a
little unconventionally situated – it doesn’t
get much more unlikely than the ground
floor of a chain hotel, surrounded by
tarmac and some severely clipped grass and
with the lights of traffic on the A303
jazzing against the windows – but it’s what
lies within that matters, and that’s what D
and I are here to explore.
The Solstice Brasserie and Bar is a franchise
that happens to be located here, in the
hotel, just off to the right from reception. I
don’t think I’ve been in a Holiday Inn since
about 1978 so I wouldn’t know if this one
is either typical or unique, but it’s certainly
smart, much needed and already very
popular judging by its impressive
occupancy figures.
There’s a lovely curve of floor-to-ceiling
windows around the outer edge of the
restaurant, where we sit, and the kitchens
are just close enough for us to enjoy hearing
chef director Matt Bills calling out the
orders and exhorting his troops.
Apparently he has a purpose-built range in
there, an astonishingly sophisticated piece
of equipment, complete with an integral
refrigerated unit. It cooks well. Or, rather,
Matt cooks well. He does all the cooking
himself, working a 75-hour week, which is
a stroll compared with the 100 hours a
week he was putting in when the bar and
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brasserie first opened four months earlier.
The menu is great – even fussy me could be
well fed here for several days. I choose a
butternut squash risotto for starters (it’s
wonderful) and delicious, toothsome
barramundi, born and bred in the New
Forest, with fragrant rice and a tomato,
onion and coriander salad for my main
course. Trevor, the friendly assistant
restaurant manager, recommends I have the
fish. ‘It has a peaty flavour,’ he suggests.
He’s right.
D declares his starter of coconut-crusted
Thai fishcakes with beansprout and green
onion salad to be ‘absolutely heavenly’, and
he’s still floating around up there while
tucking in to a 10oz teriyaki rump steak
that is ‘beautifully cooked’.
It’s impossible to resist the dessert menu, so
we don’t. I go for a dieter’s dream: bitter
chocolate and orange tart topped with
rocky road ice cream, just the 12 million
calories and tasting sensational, and D goes
into quiet ecstasies over his banana tarte
tatin.
The things we appreciate here are the very
nice atmosphere, the very good staff, and,
above all, the thoughtfully prepared dishes
using fresh, mainly local, seasonal
ingredients, cooked with care and
attractively presented. It is also incredibly
good value and if the whole set-up were
translated to a high street or into a roadside
pub, rather than a Holiday Inn, I am sure it
would be wildly popular. Certainly if this
was a fair world, it would be driving its
garish neighbouring eateries out of the
park.
Our three-course meal for two, excluding
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Frivolous fun for
Christmas
by Sally Easton
lassicism at Christmas is genetically imprinted. But what to buy apart from Chablis and Claret?
With all those visiting rellies and neighbours, choose something frivolous and fun.
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The wines in this selection are all great with mince pies and Christmas pud, as they all have some
sweetness. And they’re surprisingly refreshing on their own, so spice up visitors with some good value,
fun wines.
The first three are also light in alcohol, so they won’t inebriate you by 10am on
Christmas morning. A little goes a long way with the fourth one, so it’s worth the
splash.
De Bortoli Casa Dolce Syrah/Dolcetto
2007, Australia. 9.5% abv. Tesco. £5.99.
Dolcetto is a northern Italian red grape variety,
known as the ‘little sweet one’, for its sweetness
of fruit. Christmas colour and sweet cherry
fruit.
Brown Brothers Cienna 2006,
Australia 5% abv Tesco £4.99. The cienna
grape variety has only been around since 2002,
bred in Australia by crossing cabernet sauvignon
with sumoll, a (much, much) lesser-known red
Spanish variety from around Barcelona, but one
that’s suited to the warmer climes of inland
Australia. This wine is made slightly fizzy –
frizzante – and with its bright, vibrant beetrootred colour and juicy sweet cherry, raspberry and
strawberry fruit flavours, it’s another fun wine.
A great party piece:
Stanton & Killeen Classic
Rutherglen Muscat, from
Waitrose
Moscato d’Asti, Italy. 6.5% abv
Waitrose £4.26. Much maligned and underappreciated, Moscato d’Asti, with its fresh,
grapey, appley flavours and light sparkle with
only 6.5% abv, should always bring a smile to the
face of the drinker. It’s sweet, frothy, fun and
funny and a great pick-me-up for flagging energy
levels.
Serve any of these chilled, by themselves. For a
healthy fruit salad, any of these wines would be
great, either as an accompaniment, or poured over
vanilla ice-cream. After Christmas these are the
sort of juicy fruity wines that’ll go well with spicy
Indian and Thai cooking, if you feel you need food
with them at all.
And now, as they say, for something completely
different.
Stanton & Killeen Classic Rutherglen
Muscat, Victoria, Australia. 18% abv.
Waitrose 37.5cl. £12.99. This is really,
really sweet and complex. Chill it down, pour a
small amount, swirl and soak up the aromas.
Tangerine, nuts, clove, raisins, molasses, layers
upon layers. Some would consider it sacrilege,
but make a 40:60 with tonic or soda water for a
longer drink which brings out cinnamon and
clove spices and baked orange fruit. Really
festive. It’ll be a great party piece. Pour it neat
over ice-cream too.
Sally Easton MW (Master of Wine) is a wine educator and freelance writer.
She teaches consumer classes and runs corporate seminars via her wine school. www.winewisdom.com
Christmas feasts
and treats
ANOKAA
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Fisherton Street, Salisbury
Reservations : 01722 414142
www.anokaa.com
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The growing business
Hampshire farm fills the shelves at Waitrose
idden in the heart of Hampshire lies
the extraordinary 4,000-acre
Leckford Estate, one of Waitrose’s
most precious assets.
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Purchased in 1928 by parent group John
Lewis Partnership, Leckford Estate has been a
working farm for nearly 80 years. It is an
idyllic spot beside the trout-filled River Test
but its peaceful atmosphere belies a busy
farming operation.
It is a huge business, with a herd of 600
Friesian cattle, 12,000 free-range Colombian
Blacktail hens, 1,500 Poulet d’Or chickens,
apple and pear orchards and a mushroom
farm.
Leckford now provides the supermarket with
27 tonnes of cup mushrooms and five million
litres of premium Waitrose Select Farm milk
each week, as well as flour, apples, apple juice,
honey, eggs and Poulet d’Or chickens.
Iain Dalton, general manager of Leckford
Estate, is enthusiastic about the benefits that it
brings to Waitrose. ‘We not only provide farm
produce, but we are an excellent source of
practical lessons on agricultural methods,
providing genuine experience for many
Waitrose staff visiting the estate. We are
farming prime Hampshire land, but making a
profit is still difficult; it gives us a real
perspective on how farmers are struggling to
make a living.’
Leckford’s farming operations give Waitrose
credibility with its suppliers. ‘We are able to
show our buyers the economics and challenges
of farming,’ Iain says, ‘making us unique
among British food retailers. We know from
first-hand experience how much investment is
needed to produce good-quality food and
drink.’
In the run-up to Christmas, Leckford, like
most other UK farms, is gearing itself up to
meet the huge consumer demand. While most
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of us are winding down, looking forward to
spending time with family and friends,
Leckford is working and planning to ensure
Waitrose shelves will be full of its best quality
produce.
Try this hot mulled apple juice
recipe as a delicious non-alcoholic
alternative to punch this
Christmas.
Even on Christmas Day, the farm is busy as
the chickens still need to be let out and fed
and their eggs collected. The stockmen have
to be on hand in case calves are born, while
the dairy herd has to be milked, once at 4am
and again in the afternoon. ‘Despite having to
turn out on a frosty Christmas morning to
keep the farm running, I get a great sense of
satisfaction from doing a job well,’ says Iain.
‘It is a special day, and you feel as if you really
deserve Christmas lunch!’
Hot Spiced Apple Punch
(serves 6 to 8)
2 bottles Leckford apple juice
(1 Cox and 1 Cox and Bramley)
½ orange – spiked with a few cloves
Thinly-pared rind of ½ lemon
1 cinnamon stick
A few allspice berries (optional)
2-4 tablespoons brown sugar (to
taste)
Leckford’s farm shop is kept busy selling its
produce right up to Christmas – orchard
fruits, apple and pear juice, eggs, mushrooms
and local honey.
The Estate’s other major retail operation is
nearby Longstock Park Nursery, home to
national collections of Buddleias and Clematis
viticella. The nursery is a fabulous spot for
gardeners, with experienced staff to help
visitors find inspiration. There is a large
selection of Christmas trees, holly wreaths and
mistletoe. It is also a great spot
for gifts, with garden tools, bird
feeders, garden trugs, terracotta
and glazed stoneware planters,
statues and cast-iron rose arches.
Many are made locally and sold
exclusively.
Directions: Longstock Park
Nursery is signposted from
Stockbridge, on the road
through Longstock to the
A3057. The Leckford Farm
Shop is signposted off the A30,
about two miles north-east of
Stockbridge.
Heat the ingredients together gently,
adding brown sugar to taste. Allow to
infuse for at least 15 minutes, but
ensure it does not boil. Put a
teaspoon of sugar in a glass before
pouring in the punch. A slosh of rum
or brandy will further enliven the
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CHRISTMAS SHOPPING IN
L Y M
N G T O N
Think original this year
Jan Simmonds of Lymington Dot Com is your guide to Christmas shopping in Lymington
ow many of us remember watching
our friends, family or loved ones
opening the Christmas present we’ve
given them, quietly thinking to ourselves
about how we’d bought the gift in question in
a last-minute dash around a department store
a few days earlier?
We know of course that the ‘Just what I
always wanted’ response, with its
accompanying half-raised smile, confirms the
effort you put into sourcing the present and
the amount of joy it has delivered. Similarly,
there are times when we’ve planned ahead, lovingly thought of what
we might buy that would really delight, and instead been rewarded with
a full smile and genuine pleasure as the original and unexpected item
is revealed from its wrapping.
If this year you would prefer the latter reaction to your gifts, then
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read on, because in this article we not only
believe we can offer a Christmas full of joy,
but also help make the usually arduous task of
shopping a whole lot more pleasant, too.
So many larger towns, while usually the
first choice for shoppers, are predominately
served by national branded stores whose vast
range of products are the very same as the
ones that the person you are buying for is
almost certainly staring at every day as well,
wherever they may be in the country. How can
you hope to thrill them with something totally
unexpected if they have seen that very item and its price on another
shelf in another town only days before?
Of course you’ll always need to get some presents, for kids
especially, in larger multi-national stores but in Lymington you’ll be
doing so in a relaxed manner with warm and convivial staff to attend to
you instead of hastily recruited temps just there for the season – and
what nicer way to shop than in an old-fashioned toy shop like HE
Figures, where you can not only get all the latest things, but some
really wonderful things that may last in popularity for a lifetime.
So why is Lymington so different? Well, for a start the majority of
retailers in the town are independent businesses, whose proprietors
source much and in some cases all of their stock from a whole host of
international suppliers, who may be too individual and niche to fit the
mould of the superstore buyers or are young manufacturers still below
the radar of the bigger names.
Lymington offers in rich abundance all these special treats
throughout the whole town and therefore gives you the opportunity to
make sure that your presents this year will not be run-of-the-mill
average but, instead, inspired, personal, eclectic and delightful.
This town, if you’ve never been, is a jewel at the foot of the New
Forest whose location on the Solent and surrounded by the New Forest
is rather like The Secret Garden in the book of that name, with
Brockenhurst or Beaulieu serving as the doorway between the two
worlds. It boasts one of the oldest charter markets in the country, held
every Saturday in the main High Street where elegant Georgian facades
and hidden courtyards hide rows and rows of owner-run boutique
shops, bars, restaurants and hotels.
The landmark Stanwell House Hotel & Restaurant has been
recently acquired and revived by new owners and provides a wonderful
‘shoppers’ base camp’. Its bistro and seafood restaurants are widely
revered. If you fancied making a weekend of it then the Stanwell, being
right on the High Street, could not be better placed for bouts of retail
heaven underpinned by a tranquil escape just moments away.
One couldn’t hope to include every shop here despite the fact that
many more are spectacular, but a good place to start would be
Yasmin’s at the very top of town and on the right in St Thomas Street,
where the flowers are as beautiful as they are unique. Place your
orders for displays, pop over the road to Apolonia Skurk for high-end
lingerie and underwear and then nip to Pod further down on the same
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style Polly’s lavish
array of soft
furnishings, clothes,
gifts and
accessories are
more Fulham Road
than Hampshire, but
for that reason a
treasure trove for
great gifts. Look out
for the fabulous choice of coffee table books too which are handpicked
by Polly and I guarantee you won’t find them anywhere else that easily.
A little further down, Karen’s Pet Market is a tick in the box for
those with furry friends and then maybe over the road to see some
antiques. The Kitchen Gallery is certainly worth a visit and if you’re
tempted in there you’ll also be tempted to pop in to Granite
Transformations. Maybe whilst you’re planning a new kitchen for
Christmas ‘him indoors’ could take the children up to His & Kids where
they offer top hairdressing with DVDs and other cool distractions and
then you’ll be able to create your ‘grand design’ in peace.
Once you’ve been back to pick up your flowers and been in the
other shops in St Thomas Street, perhaps stopping for coffee at The Ark
bookshop, we suspect you’ll head towards the High Street. Don’t miss
Jaeger, tucked away to the left in Rashley Mews as you gaze downhill
at the wonderful view of this perfect market town and the river and
green fields beyond. If you are visiting on market day (Saturday) then
we should also mention that these are not just any old market stalls,
and apart from great quality produce there’s a host of very quirky stalls
like The New Forest Soap Company and an Italian delicatessen whose
wares would be well received in my stocking any time.
Some may stop for coffee halfway down at Costa Coffee or keep to
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and others would sneak off to Peter and Nicola’s ‘Lanes’, just past
House of Flowers, another treat hidden away down Ashley Lane, where
you can enjoy fantastic food in a New England-style setting away from
the hustle and bustle. It would be a shame to miss Ama-La, which is
tucked away down another lane adjacent to The Cornish Pasty Co, a
favourite of local sailing hero Ben Ainslie. Here Vanessa’s stunning mix
of items from the far corners of the earth would undoubtedly be hard to
find elsewhere. Of course Esprit, Henri Lloyd and so many more are all
here in the High Street too. Special mention must be made of two great
fashion pit stops:
Julia’s Stanwells
(next door to the
hotel) and Yvette’s
Thirty-Three, with
Phase 8 directly
opposite.
There are
several jewellers in
the town including
Barry Papworth’s,
Hi-Ho Silver,
Buchanan’s and Hadley’s all of whom are in the main High Street and
it’s worth a visit to Watches of Distinction where you can drop big hints
to your partner and browse some of the finest watches in the world.
For shoes – from Crocs to Ilse Jacobsen and Clarks to Ruby & Ed
slippers – Lymington has them all, and in fact there’s so much choice
we can’t possibly list them all. As for gifts, no trip to Lymington is
complete without a visit to the wonderful courtyards off the High Street
and of course the delightfully cobbled Quay Hill, Quay Street and
adjacent Gosport Street.
In the recently developed Angel Courtyard, just behind The Angel
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We supply Bouquets of all types, Wedding Flowers,
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We offer free Local and National delivery,
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Hotel, some of the
fabulous shops
include Hicks, Plant
Nation, Enigma,
Simply Daisies, Le
Studio, Pretty
Woman, Maison
Cuisine and Kitchen
Matters. Earley
Court has Phase
Eight on the corner
and Belle Gray
inside. Basking Cod in Gosport Street provides more fun and frivolity
and could fill even the most grown-up stockings, while opposite, The
Control Zone is the answer to parents of addicted gaming fans.
Kate & Nicki’s Graze or the famous King’s Head just down the road are
perfect for that early evening glass of wine but first be sure to visit all the
small and fantastic shops along the cobbles and down to The Quay.
Tatty’s is just superb with a variety of eccentric and exciting items
purely for the garden. Hide & Seek not only do Crocs but dresses to die
for and when you reach the fishing boats and ‘that’ view, Yachtmail
Chandlery and Nauticalia will satisfy any father or grandfather at
Christmas time. The former also stocks a massive range of the very
coolest fashion labels and ski wear alongside all main nautical brands
of shoes and clothes and is associated with Animal in the High Street,
another important destination for those buying for the trendy and style
conscious.
In terms of those things you just have to buy at the bigger stores,
you’ll find Lymington also has all the main names including
Waterstone’s, where you can pick up your copy of View while you
browse among the books, and Waitrose, which in the locals’ opinion is
one of the friendliest in the country as well as being one of their
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flagship UK stores. To round off your productive day or weekend, on
your way home you could pop in to Waitrose and get everything else
you need in one go. Just imagine being able to put your feet up the
next day, smug in the knowledge your job is done!
So you see, Christmas shopping really needn’t be a nightmare. Our
very top tip is to book a weekend away with your partner at one of the
many great B&Bs or hotels in or around the town. Include a couple of destressing treats for you and your companion, such as a visit to the top
hairdressers or salons around Lymington like Simply B, No.11 The Salon,
Jason Jones and maybe a couple of nice meals, then at a measured and
comfortable pace enjoy the whole experience of shopping for your friends
and family while also giving yourself time to really buy them something
they’re going to appreciate. If you can’t stay all weekend, then come during
the week when it’s slightly quieter perhaps. Either way, a trip to Lymington
not only gives you the chance to be original with your shopping, it also
provides a welcome relief from ‘clone town’ and starts Christmas as you’d
like it to continue; full of happiness and joy!
Travel advice
Lymington is always busy on Saturday so our advice is to take the
gorgeous Heritage Line train from Brockenhurst where you’ll be able to
park more easily . Alternatively, one of the many Wilts & Dorset bus
routes will bring you right into the centre of town. If you do have to
drive, then it is best to arrive in the town early and park in one of the
long-stay car parks. For more information about travelling to Lymington
visit www.lymington.com/transporttoandfromlymington
Hotels, bars, restaurants and B&Bs
Lymington is a popular destination all year round, so it is always best to
book in advance for accommodation and eating out. For more
information about the wide range of options available, go to
www.lymington.com/hotelsbarsetcmenu
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Coming events
Lymington is hosting a truly
wonderful weekend called The
Dreams Weekend on
December 8 and 9 in aid
of Dreams Come True,
a charity which
fulfils the dreams
of children who
are either
terminally or
seriously ill. It is
very much aimed at
families with young
children only, but for
anyone who fancies a
great Christmas
shopping trip it could
be the perfect day out.
On that particular weekend
parking will be extremely
limited if not impossible so
we would strongly
recommend that you take
advantage of South West Trains’ themed ‘Dream Train’ from Brockenhurst
where a park and ride service will be in operation at Brockenhurst College.
For more information visit www.thedreamsweekend.com
Lymington wishes all View readers a very happy Christmas and prosperous
new year and hopes that all your friends and family are reading this too so
that the presents you receive will be as wonderful as the ones you will now
be giving.
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View
outlook
A touchy-feely kind of art
lare Proctor is a freelance textile
artist, happily fulfilling her longheld ambition ‘to make things that
people want to touch’. Since 1997 she has
been creating exhibtion pieces and
commissions, and delivering workshops and
other activities in her home county of
Wiltshire and further afield.
C
View learns about the
work of a textile artist
Clare Proctor
textile artist
To mark her 10th year as a practising artist,
she was delighted to be included in the
Crafts Council’s London Craft Fair, Origin,
held at Somerset House in October.
This anniversary year has also seen Clare
make a new collection of original textile art
and accessories. She says: ‘Most of the
fabrics that I use are hand-felted or are
recycled from old tableclothes, clothing and
everyday objects. I have always been
fascinated by the replication of simple
shapes to produce complex forms. I hope
that I have produced a range of objects that
people find both intriguing and playful, as
well as beautiful.’
that ranged from water puppets for a
performance with children to be held in
swimming pools, to creating weekly craft
workshops for the Manchester Museum of
Science and Industry.
She moved to Wiltshire in 2001 and began
creating more workshops for the
community. She worked for Salisbury
District Council on their PAWS menu
(South Wilthsire Participartory Arts
Workshops Scheme), which gave many
opportunities to work in Wiltshire schools,
youth clubs, libaries and with some WI
groups, creating 3D sculputures based on
her work. She has also worked for two
years at Salisbury Hospice, and more
recently designing and delivering the
children’s workshops at Salisbury Arts
Centre and Farley Nursery School.
She will be starting a 12-week residency at
Norman Court School. West Tytherley, next
year. ‘Once again,’ Clare says, ‘we will be
creating work based on mine, but hopefully
by working alongside the children they will
inspire me to make new work of my own.’
Since graduating from Manchester
Metropolitan University with an
embroidery degree, Clare has worked for
many organisations and on commissions
For more about Clare’s work, go to
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Flower
bloom
Rubber Glove Sculpture
Circle
felt sculpture
Smarties Art
Project for
Salisbury
Arts Centre
Flower cushion
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Sail Boat
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Wantone?
Andy Kerr makes his pick of the month’s desirable kit
Audica CX System 3
£1,500 www.audica.co.uk
Many’s the household where the mere mention of the words ‘home cinema’ is enough
to induce a wince of disdain, but at least British outfit Audica is attempting to win over
the more house-proud with its beautifully turned-out loudspeaker line-up. Constructed
almost entirely from aluminium and finished in stunning high-gloss black, the
company’s latest CX range retains the elegant teardrop cabinet shape that has become
an Audica signature – except for the curvaceous subwoofer bass box, each speaker is
just 75mm wide – and is claimed to sound every bit as tasty as it looks. Should be
good, then.
Denon S-52DAB
£500 www.denon.co.uk
Denon’s new S-52DAB is a less flashy design than other pricey desktop
radios, but it’s a sight more sophisticated underneath. Its built-in wi-fi
receiver lets it go online wirelessly to replay internet radio from all over the
globe. At the same time, it can detect and replay any digital music files
– MP3, AAC and the like – that you’ve got stored on your computer. It’ll also
talk to your iPod via its built-in dock, support other portable audio players
via USB and phono audio inputs, and (of course) replay DAB, FM and AM
radio stations. It even comes with a slot for CDs. Remember them?
IXOS XMM238 Cube Speaker
£15 www.ixos.co.uk
’Tis the season to be jolly so here’s an ideal stocking-filler for the gadget-lover in your life. The
XMM238 is a compact, battery-powered travel speaker you can plug into any MP3 player,
audio-enabled telephone or laptop. It’s tiny, at just 70mm cubed, weighs next to nothing, and
it’ll run off a laptop’s USB socket. Alternatively, it’s good for eight hours’ playback from four
AA batteries. You can choose from black, silver or, er, pink, and best of all, it costs less than
twenty quid – not that whoever you give it to needs to know that, of course.
Toshiba Regza XF-series TVs
From £1,700 www.toshiba.co.uk
Apparently the UK’s ardour for big-screen tellies shows no signs of cooling.
Amazingly, it won’t be long before the average screen size of a new TV in this
country is 37in. Credit to Toshiba, then, for attempting to cut down on the bulk
of the set itself: its new XF-series TVs sport an astonishingly small ‘picture frame’
around their screens, so you get a bigger picture from a smaller television.
Available in 40in and 46in designs, they’re also just about as cutting-edge as flat
TVs get, with Full HD 1080p resolution, plentiful sockets and a digital TV tuner.
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design
Interiorview
with
Samantha
Denisdottir
Welcome . . . step inside the world of stylish interiors – or at least a
page packed full of them. This feature is about the best, the beautiful
and the budget, with plenty of tips on how to make your home the
haven you want it to be and clever ideas that will provide you with
the inspiration you’ve been waiting for.
All lit up
It’s not just about the branches and the decorations – you can turn your
Christmas tree base into a glowing focal point with this beautiful light-up
pot. Designed by Rob Slewe, they are waterproof and made of doublewalled polyethylene with two energy saving lamps inside. They look really
striking all year round. Bloempot available through
www.cameronpeters.co.uk
The colour purple
In case you haven’t heard, purple is the colour of the season. There have been
hints of the fashionable colour emerging in recent months, but winter 2007
sees it hit the mainstream in a big way. The new purple is a whole world away
from the pinky versions of previous seasons; it is a deep plum colour (think
plums and aubergines with sparkly heather notes echoing the shimmer for the
festive season). It mixes perfectly with the oh-so-cool monochrome that’s
everywhere at the moment.
No need for tinsel
The Scandis are without doubt the leaders in Christmas chic, and for
proof just visit somewhere like Copenhagen or Stockholm at
Christmas. The effortless way in which Christmas decorations are so,
well, stylish is envied all over the world. It is the norm for young
inspirational designers to create beautiful new objects for famous
brands, and this year is no exception. Now, with the ease of internet
shopping, there are no excuses. Do ditch the tinsel and browse these
websites for some further inspiration: www.menu.as,
www.georgejensen.com, www.peithein.com, www.habitat.net
A little bit of rough is so desirable
Yes, the world of design is embracing imperfection. Gone are the days when co-ordinated themes,
pristine new furnishings and things like the dreaded three-piece suite are the norm. Now is the time, if
you’ve not already done so, to ditch the uniform look and to indulge in your passion for things that
are one-off and unique. Mix those pieces – don’t match them. Trawl around flea markets, salvage yards
and antique shops and create your interior space with originality and character.
Think irregular shapes and time-worn finishes. Hunt down battered old mirrors or picture frames and
combine them with the modern clean lines of this decade. Old trunks or suitcases look fantastic at the
end of the bed and double up as great storage. This is old meets new, scruffy meets polished, stark
meets detail. Throw in that battered old trestle table with your beautiful designer chairs for the
ultimate in original, casual style.
So go on – dig out those old, flawed, treasured items that most of us own, and put them on display
with confidence.
Samantha Denisdottir runs Coast Interior Design, which offers a range of design solutions for the home.
Call 01202 399605 or 07900 927862 or go to www.coastinteriordesign.co.uk
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A series that gives pupils the chance to say what aspects of school life they enjoy
The spotlight this month is on Norman Court Preparatory School
The French trip
Every year, the Year 6s go on a trip to
France. It is in Normandy in a
chateau! There are lots of activities
organised for us like archery, rock
climbing and a really cool (and muddy)
assault course. During the week, we
also have some French lessons which
are done by the Animateurs and not by
our teachers. Also, during the day, the
Animateurs only speak to us in French,
so at the end of the week we end up
having improved our French a lot. I
can’t believe what fun I’ve had!
Sport
Norman Court is a great place for sports. We play netball, hockey, rounders,
football, cricket and rugby. We also do athletics and have a very strong cross
country running team. We also have outstanding facilities which include a gym,
five tennis courts and a squash court. I am in the netball and hockey teams.
There are also, of course, many extra-curricular activities such as Fit’n’Funky
and, in the summer, swimming club (in our own heated swimming pool). Norman
Court also has an annual tour for the first teams and last year we went to Devon.
BOARDING
I really enjoy boarding at Norman Court.
In the evening, you get a lot of free
time to socialise with your friends, first
before tea, which is at 5.35pm, then
after tea until prep at 7.30pm. After
prep, there normally are activities run
by the gap students in Blake Hall. On top
of that, the food is fantastic and the
staff are always trying to cook new things and vary the meals they prepare for us.
The thing I like best about boarding though, is that in the evening, you can just
sit in the dorm and talk to your friends or play games before bed.
FOREST SCHOOL IN PRE-PREP AT NORMAN COURT
I like being where there are lots of trees. I like collecting autumn leaves –
they are green, orange, pink.
I like all the colours and the views – the green and the trees.
I like making dens because you need to carry logs. There are loads of colours.
I like drawing on the logs.
I like sitting around the bonfire, watching it smoke and smelling it.
I like roasting marshmallows on sticks, walking through the woods and looking
for things.
I like all the fun we have.
I like listening to the insects.
I like making dens for squirrels, running and
playing ‘1,2,3 Where are you?’
I like making nests for birds and exploring.
It’s fun because we collect things and do
fun things.
I like playing hide and seek, being outside
and looking for things.
THE ENVIRONMENT
AND THE FACILITIES
The unique thing about Norman
Court is its grounds and its school
buildings. Norman Court’s grounds
are spread across approximately 50
acres, much of which is kept as
woodland. The house at Norman
Court is spectacular and the school
has been there for around 50 years
and (I hope) will be there for a lot
longer. Norman Court was owned by
the Singer family (the family who
invented the Singer sewing
machines). The Singers got a
designer to design the house and
the ceilings in particular. They are
amazing! My favourite rooms are
the library and the dining room,
because both of them have amazing
architecture.
The facilities at Norman Court
are second to none, and the learning
is constant and fun. The school
provides free extra-curricular clubs
for everyone, as well as paying clubs
like tennis, squash, archery, golf
and many more. I really like what
the school has done to provide a
huge amount of choice of things to
do for the pupils. I love it!
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Historic showcase
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ne of the South’s most internationally renowned
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village of Sway, housed in what at first appears to be an old
coach house and stables.
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This is ArtSway and these historic buildings, meant for horses and
coaches, were transformed ten years ago, by renowned architect Tony
Fretton, into a beautiful gallery space.
The stables have become studios for artists, the gardens a showcase for
sculpture, and the gallery, as well as holding six exhibitions a year, hosts
a contemporary craft shop with a collection which ranges from jewellery
made by local artists, to hand-knitted bags made from recycled
materials.
In ten years, ArtSway has hosted exhibitions from emerging and wellestablished artists, including Turner Prize winners and Royal
Academicians, as well as the art stars of the future.
‘People are often surprised that we exist,’ says director Mark Segal.
‘When someone stumbles across the gallery by accident, they can’t
believe the quality of the exhibitions that they have found in a rural
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Hundreds of artists from across the UK and abroad apply for residencies
with the gallery, to come and make work in the local studio and on site,
and in the last two years ArtSway has introduced artists from Armenia,
China, London and Germany.
Mark and the small ArtSway team – Peter Bonnell, curator of
exhibitions and education; Melinda McCheyne, gallery manager; and
Jack Lewis, marketing and press officer – are keen on supporting
emerging artists. They seem to have a knack for selecting artists who go
on to great success.
Curator Peter Bonnell explains: ‘Artists often apply to come here when
they have a new or interesting idea that they want to develop,
something that they have never tried before, and that’s what we try and
support at the gallery.
‘We don’t particularly want artists to travel here and make work about
the forest, lovely though it is. This time often ends up being a key
period of focus during their career, which is why they often go on to
such success.’
ArtSway offers a wide range of activities, workshops and educational
programmes to audiences of all ages, providing people with
opportunities to engage in activities, ideas and experiences that they
may otherwise be unable to access. From weekly life drawing classes, to
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gardening
Winter perfumes
are heaven-scent
By Annie Bullen, a nurserywoman
and gardening journalist living in
north Hampshire
A honeysuckle that flowers in winter seems
a miracle in itself, but there are two that are
outstanding for their scent. Lonicera
fragrantissima is one. This is a shrub rather
than a climber and makes a bushy plant
that remains evergreen if it’s in a sheltered
position, growing to about five to six feet in
height and spread. The creamy yellow
flowers aren’t big but they pack a powerful
punch on the fragrance front.
he winter miracle is about to happen
– and I don’t mean Christmas,
although that’s looming too. It is
when the days are at their shortest and it
seems impossible that anything could
brighten the chill dark scene, that you are
stopped in your tracks by an impossible
sweetness scenting the winter air.
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The fragrance coming from one winter
flowering honeysuckle or daphne outdoes
all the perfumes wafting from the
overheated cosmetics counter. When you’re
rooted to the ground you must try every
trick in the book to get pollinated. In
winter the most powerful lure to the few
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insects around is a scent so entrancing that
everything in sight makes a literal beeline.
I had to provide flowers and foliage for a
florist friend who was making ‘tussiemussies’ – tightly wrapped posies. As she
worked on the bright little bunches, the
room was filled with fragrance which we
soon traced to the tiny clustered pale pink
flowers cut from Viburnum x bodnantense
‘Dawn’. That medium (10ft) shrub has
wonderful bronze-green leaves throughout
the summer. As the thousands of flowers
burst open, the leaves fall, so that from
November through to February, the bush is
a feast for eyes and nose.
My own favourite is the slightly later
flowering but no less scented Lonicera x
purpusii, another shrubby honeysuckle with
creamy perfume-laden flowers in late winter
and early spring. It’s more dense and
compact than L. fragrantissima and semievergreen, the flowers normally appearing
on bare wood. Both honeysuckles prefer a
sheltered sunny position.
Other winter favourites are witch hazels
(Hamamelis) and wintersweet
(Chimonanthus praecox). I’ve heard people
grumble that witch hazel has no scent at all
– and that’s true for some varieties. To get
that exotic spicy smell, try planting
Hamamelis mollis, the so-called ‘Chinese
witch hazel’, or one of the many Hamamelis
x intermedia cultivars.
Witch hazels don’t like an alkaline soil and
will perform best in a sheltered sunny
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Stachyurus praecox
Daphne burkwoodi
Somerset
position. If you have that, you’ll be
rewarded with clusters of spidery yellow,
rusty orange or red scented flowers, spicing
the cold air. Try H. mollis itself or go for H.
x intermedia ‘Arnold Promise’ AGM,
‘Aphrodite’ or ‘Pallida’ AGM.
Photo Maurizio Usai
Wintersweet is aptly named – very fragrant
narrow-petalled waxy yellow flowers with
purple centres smother bare branches in
winter. It will happily grow to around eight
feet, scenting the air around.
Chimonanthus praecox
There are a whole range of Daphnes, all
with a powerful scent and most flowering
in late winter or early spring. One of the
earliest to flower is D. bholua which makes
a tall (10ft) shrub; look for the variety
‘Jacqueline Postill, evergreen with large
showy scented purplish pink and white
flowers.
Daphne bholua Jacqueline Postill
Much more compact are Daphne x
burkwoodii ‘Somerset’ or Daphne odora
‘Aureomarginata’. The tubular pink flowers
aren’t big on either shrub but there are a lot
of them and the scent is wonderful.
Daphne odora aureomarginata
One of the loveliest, most understated
winter flowering shrub of all is the neat
glossy-leaved Christmas box, Sarcococca
hookeriana var. humilis with narrow glossy
evergreen leaves surrounding the tiniest
feathery pink and white flowers breathing
out sweet scent in December and January.
It’s perfectly happy on chalk and good for a
small garden, reaching only two feet tall.
Viburnum bodnantense Dawn
Stachyurus praecox will delight you in
February with gleaming racemes of pale
golden bell-shaped flowers to about six feet.
The scent is subtle but distinct and the
flowers appear before the leaves, for
maximum impact.
Hamamelis mollis
If you’re looking for your own Christmas
miracle, I reckon that all of these lovely
shrubs are heaven-scent – guaranteed. V
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health
ith the party season in full swing, it doesn’t take much for a year
of good resolutions to go out of the window.
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We all know that we shouldn’t drink too much, that we should eat a
healthy, balanced diet, drink plenty of water and get lots of sleep, but
who manages all that when the mulled wine is being passed around, the
canapés are your best bet for an evening meal and your yoga class has
given way to a conga round the desks at the office party?
Too much partying and the onset of cold weather do nothing for the
health of your skin and leave you feeling drained, frail and off colour, so
here are some tips to keep you looking good and feeling great and still
be joining in all the fun of the festivities:
• If your eyes are puffy as a result of excesses, try an infusion of
chamomile and eyebright herbal teas to soak away the bags. Make a cup
of tea with a teaspoon of each of the herbs and allow to cool, then soak
cotton wool in the resulting brew and apply to the eyes.
• For grey, tired skin, massage in a few drops of rosehip seed oil and
then remove with a damp cloth. Rosehip seed is rich in antioxidants
and will give the skin a much-needed lift. Spritzing the skin with a
flower water or a mist of white tea will brighten both you and your
complexion.
• If you are feeling tired and low, try using a Bach Flower Remedy.
Olive is good for exhaustion and oak is the one to reach for if you find
you normally cope well but are a little weak just now. Soaking in the
bath with fragrant essential oils can also help lift your mood. Try black
pepper for energy, orange for detoxing, rose for nurturing and
cardamom to lift the spirits. A blend of all four will leave you ready to
face the world again.
• Medicinal herbs are a great help if you have over-indulged in
alcohol. Milk Thistle not only helps protect the liver but also helps
repair liver tissue and function. Take drops of the tincture two to three
times a day. It is especially helpful taken before a big night out, when its
properties will help protect you from eating and drinking unhealthily.
• Other herbs can help boost your energy levels, so reach for ginseng
if you are flagging in the face of all the Christmas shopping. It provides
stimulation and rejuvenation to the entire body and helps overcome
stress and fatigue. It has the power to generally increase vitality
alongside physical and mental performance – perfect if you’ve only had
a few hours’ sleep.
You don’t have to wait until the New Year to begin detoxing. Try adding
elements of a detox routine to your life now and you will help reduce
the impact of the party season on your system.
Apples are excellent for detoxification, rich in fibre, vitamins and
minerals. Grapes are good cleansers for the skin, liver, intestines and
kidneys. Kiwi, lemon and pears are excellent sources of Vitamin C,
which is a natural detox agent.
How to survive
Christmas
A guide to steer you safely through
the season of over-indulgence
by Mark Sparrow
On the veggie front, artichokes are a liver cleanser, beetroot is valuable
for flushing the kidneys and cabbage stimulates the immune system. If
you add the herbs dandelion and burdock to your daily dose of milk
thistle you will also be helping your body keep clean. Burdock is
cleansing and mildly diuretic and dandelion helps remove waste from
the liver and gall bladder.
Detoxifying oils include juniper, lavender, grapefruit and rosemary. Use
them regularly in the bath or massage to encourage healthy elimination.
Massage in particular will encourage healthy circulation, improving
blood supply, which increases the amount of oxygen and nutrients that
reach your organs and tissues and stimulates your lymph system to
remove waste products from your body. Make sure you drink plenty of
water and replace coffee with herbal teas to keep you hydrated.
I’m the last to suggest you give anything up this festive season but
adding one or two of these tips to your December routine will leave you
in better shape for the big day and a whole new year ahead. V
Mark Sparrow is from Neal’s Yard Remedies, 27 Market Place, Salisbury. Tel: 01722 340736
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short story
Dear
Sam
by Pete Aves
ell me, Dr Johnson, were you ever
stuck in a tailback on the
southbound approach to the
Blackwall Tunnel at 3am on a Sunday
morning, and did you ever question why
there was no-one working inside the
tunnel when you finally drove
through it and just what they’d been
doing or not doing in there for the last
however many years?
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Did you ever arrive at Charing Cross
station on a Sunday evening to find no
trains, no staff and no explanation for the
absence of both? Did you ever
get mugged at gunpoint whilst using a
cashpoint machine in Walthamstow, or
was Walthamstow a hamlet then, with
bartering still preferred to currency and
nary a musket in sight?
You see, Sam – can I call you Sam? – we
weren’t tired of life, we were just very
tired of London. Exhausted, in fact.
Torpor, ennui, lethargy, the vapours. You
name it, we had it.
So we moved to Salisbury. Just like that.
And we started to go for walks in the
afternoon. Not just up to the Co-op and
back for the sake of it, but proper walks.
Exploring walks. Walks where instead of
knowing every crack in the pavement by
name we sometimes didn’t know if there
would be a pavement.
I think you would’ve enjoyed Thursday’s
walk. Out the door, turn left, me, Charlie
and Maddy, pensive wrung out skies,
puddles. Through the churchyard at St
Martin’s. Older even than the cathedral,
or at least the chancel is. Older even than
you, Dr J. Cut through the college car
park, cross the road and down along the
river that runs through Churchill
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Gardens. The Avon. Ding-dong, Avon
calling, Avon rolling, Avon fishing and
wishing the sea would add some salt soon.
And there’s the spire, always the spire, its
red light yet to be illuminated for the
night. When do they turn it on, or is it
on a sensor, or timer? Has anything ever
crashed into it? Yesterday morning ’twas
mist-shrouded ’til luncheon, but
catastrophe was averted and it continues
to impassively witness our scurrying.
Onwards. Past Harnham Gate, lazily
guarding the jewels of Cathedral Close,
over the bridge, wintering jetties, gazebos
and tired willows to left and right, past
the Rose and Crown’s shining ale pumps,
past ancient thatches staring at the upstart
Victorian bricks and mortar which had
the temerity to move in a century or so
ago.
Now we’re yomping through the little
park, fleeing the traffic’s noise. Charlie’s
not impressed, Maddy’s cool and I daresay
it would’ve made a mess of your
stockings, Sam. Speaking of which, we
encounter a man in a green velvet cape
and breeches outside the Old Mill. There’s
a rather Elizabethan aspect (the first
Elizabeth) to his apparel, and we follow
him across the water meadows, the
Cathedral now towering to our right.
Sleeping swans, sluices, mud slicks
where water once ran. The hiss of bike
tyres, the crouch of the buildings that
cling resolutely to the skirts of the spire.
I sing to my companions a song about
velvet-clad drunkards, mindful of the
number of pubs we’ll pass once we leave
the meadows.
Soon we’re on the home run. It’s been
nearly an hour. At High Street gate we
lose our velvety guide. He disappears
into the gathering shadows and perhaps
strolls back through the centuries to
slake his thirst with ale. As I would like
to do, perhaps at the White Hart,
dipping my nose into a fragrant pint as
the off-white sculpted beast atop the
pub raises hers to the sky, still sniffing
out danger after all these years. But
Maddy and Charlie aren’t having it..
Cloisters, Queens, Rai d’or,
Huntsman’s, home again, home again,
clippety clop.
I park the pram, unlock the front door
and lift Charlie out, placing him
carefully on some cushions inside while
his sister takes a last look at the shapes
that she will one day assemble into a
thing called Salisbury. I lift her from
the pram, kiss her chilly cheek and say,
‘It’ll still be there tomorrow, darling.’
Does that bore you, Dr Johnson? V
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On two wheels
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The following readers won competitions in the October issue of View.
Seven treatments for face or body with Penellies Beauty at Amesbury: Sasha
Stagg, Salisbury.
The smallest-ever
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the junior fun
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A £200 voucher to spend at Habels in Andover or Winchester: M. Cook,
Nether Wallop, Andover.
Gardening duo
land top award
he collaboration of two gardening
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with a national award.
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Catherine Thomas, who runs a garden
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Catherine won the Gold Award in the
best garden new home under £500,000
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Her design, for the garden of a new
house in Shrewton on Salisbury Plain,
was put into effect by landscape
contractor Jim Hewlett and was
completed in September 2006.
The garden at Shrewton
that won a top award for
two local experts
House owners Michael and Elisabeth
Broadbent say: ‘We are delighted with
the layout of the garden and the hard landscaping, the succession of
flowering plants, and the colour schemes of the various beds. Each month
has brought a new surprise.’
The awards are regarded as the garden and landscape ‘Oscars’ of the housebuilding industry, and highlight best practice in the design and creation of
inspiring gardens and landscapes around new homes.
Hewlett Turf and Landscape was established in 1987 and carries out a wide
range of landscaping work, from small garden alterations, such as a patio or
new lawn, to large comprehensively designed landscaping projects.
Triumph
Rocket III
Touring
Triumph’s first
purpose-built touring
cruiser shares the
same 2.3-litre engine
platform as the
Rocket III. Available in
February at an
expected £13,000.
Says Jim: ‘When a client employs a professional garden designer like
Catherine, we are able to put together a very accurate costing for the
project, as well as having precise specifications to work from. That was the
case with the project at Shrewton. It was a great bit of teamwork and we are
delighted to share the limelight with Catherine.’
Dancing for a good cause
ebbie Allan, who writes in this issue of View (Page 16) about her passion
for salsa, was one of the organisers of a salsa charity night in
Southampton in mid-November which raised more than £1,700 for the
British Heart Foundation.
She says she was inspired to do something to support the charity when three
of her work colleagues were either directly affected by heart problems
themselves or had relatives who were. ‘The event wouldn’t have been
possible without our wonderful teacher, Colin Tomlinson, who runs the
Justdance organisation,’ Debbie says. ‘We generated plenty of interest from
people new to salsa – so there are plenty more salsa addicts in the making.’
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Heinz Tomato
Ketchup
Cookbook
by Paul Hartley
Absolute Press
£7.99
First produced from
a secret recipe devised
by Henry J. Heinz in 1876, Heinz
Tomato Ketchup is one of the most iconic
and recognisable brands in the world.
This colourful and entertaining gift recipe
book celebrates this much-loved sauce in
all its glory including a saucy history,
recipes, food photography and beautiful
archive material as well as trivia and
anecdotes.
A Pig With Six
Legs
by Gavin
Pretor-Pinney
Sceptre £10
From the Cloud
Appreciation
Society, this is a glorious collection
of clouds that look like things, including
dragons, skateboarders, pasta, witches and
poodles. It is a proud celebration of the
carefree, aimless and endlessly life-affirming
pastime of cloudspotting.
Cheers My Arse!
by Ricky
Tomlinson
Sphere £10
Ricky has worked in
pubs and clubs up and
down the country
and seen more than
his fair share of last orders. This is
his hilarious collection of classic tales from
the heart of publand – the perfect book for
anyone who has ever had one too many.
Don’ts For Wives
and Don’ts For
Husbands
A & C Black
£2.99 each
These are facsimile
editions of the
original books
published by
A&C Black in 1913.
Each pocket-sized
book contains
hundreds of snippets
of entertaining
advice for a happy
marriage, which rings true almost
100 years after it was written. An ideal
gift for newly-weds or the soon to be
betrothed.
Doctor Who
TARDIS Model
Making Kit
Penguin £9.99
A model kit so amazing
it’s from another
dimension! Stunning
paper-engineered 3D
model of the interior of
the Doctor’s TARDIS, designed to be
made without the need for scissors or glue.
A great gift for all aspiring timelords.
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Isn’t that part of the great joy of being a dog?
This book is for good dogs, bad dogs, and the
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Christmas Houses
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Bantam £9.99
Christmas Houses pays
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capturing the best, the
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Horrid Henry’s
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This is Horrid
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Henry’s triumphs and nightmares, a review
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with Henry’s hallmark humour, Tony
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How to Catch A
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by Oliver Jeffers
Harpercollins
£12.99
Catch your own star
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young star lovers everywhere. It contains a
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poster, a star gazer’s torch and lots of glowin-the-dark stars.
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A healthy treat for mind and body
Rediscover your zing
at Redwood Health
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and the best form of treatment will be
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edwood Health Therapies is
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their doors, invariably leaving happier and
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Many of the treatments on offer are excellent
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will be opening up pampering and relaxation
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Redwood offers 40 mind and body
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they have one of the finest teams with them.
The centre has six treatment rooms – four
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studio for yoga, pilates and meditation
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the highest standards, offering a relaxed
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of their busy schedules.
This may be for an unwinding, pampering
Redwood Health Therapies and View are giving one lucky reader the chance to WIN a
treatment of their choice. There are also vouchers to the value of £20 for 10 runners-up.
To be in with a chance of winning these great prizes, answer the following question:
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