All About Malvern September 2010

Autumn in Malvern 2010 Festival Plus Local Artist Tia Lambert Eat for Vitality Scouts seeking help And much more...

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Editor’s message

Welcome to the September issue of ‘All About Malvern’.

Sept 2010 Published and edited by: Sascha McDonald All About Local Magazines Ltd sascha@allabout-local.com 07906 573352 Photo Front Page: Painting by local artist Tia Lambert (see page 8) Graphic Design & Layout: All About Magazines Editorial: Sascha - 07906 573352 Advertising: Tina Palmer - 07952 591031 Distribution: All About Malvern is distributed to 7,000 homes and businesses in Malvern Booking Deadline: For October - 10 September

I enjoy a walk along the hills as much as the next woman, but I must admit the idea of walking along the ridge - along the entire length - and in the dark - is something altogether different! But later this month, that is exactly what scores of women are going to do. The walk, to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support, is a challenge, but a fun one, and with teams of willing volunteers everybody taking part should have a very enjoyable night. Tina Palmer, who works for this magazine, is one of a group of Barnards Green Traders who will be taking part, and I’d like to take this opportunity to wish her luck (she’ll need it!). If you’re interested in taking part, there’s more details in our extensive what’s on listings towards the back of the magazine. If outdoor activity isn’t your thing, then take a look at the Autumn in Malvern festival, which brings art, music and literature together in events spread throughout the town.

Let’s hope for an Indian Summer!

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Contents Features

6 Autumn in Malvern Festival 14 Heat Pumps Explained 22 Holistic Therapy Interview

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8 All About...The local artist Tia Lambert 18 Health Article: Eating for Increased Vitality 26 Lizzy’s Recipe 32 Community Focus: The Malvern District Scouts 38 Notice Board 42 What’s On in September 46 Index

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Autumn in Saturday September 25th - Sunday October 31st The Festival of Music, Art and Literature reaches an important milestone. The man who founded it tells us the secret of its success. on the local engineer and philanthropist Peter Smith still remembers all the Stephen Ballard and the artist Dame work involved in setting up the first Laura Knight who came here to paint. ever Autumn in Malvern Festival, not There’s an opportunity to witness the least finding an eye-catching picture to plainsong office of Compline in the use on publicity materials. ‘I remember Priory, which is currently celebrating thinking ‘we need something classy’ so its 925th anniversary. It’ll be sung by I spoke to the artist David Birtwhistle men from Aldwyn Voices in honour of and said ‘I’m starting a festival, I must Aldwyn, the first Benedictine Prior of be mad, but can you come up with Malvern. Also performing during the something?’’ festival will be Sofya Gulyak, winner of The picture’s on the front of this year’s last year’s Leeds International Piano brochure, 21 years later. In this, it’s Competition. ‘coming of age’ year, the Festival is continuing to Each year there’s a strand running through the whole go from strength to strength. Peter always wanted month, connecting the British Arts with another to run his own arts festival and finally realised nation. This year’s strand is American, with two his ambition in 1989. Its ‘idiosyncratic’ he says, concerts featuring music a personal collection of

by American composers much-loved and newly Malvern is a very and another with a Modern researched music, poetry, Jazz Trio. There’s also a special place, prose, visual arts and film, photographic exhibition by with firm roots in our local because the hills have Carly Rebecca Bishop who artistic tradition. ‘Its a gift’ visited New York earlier this he says, ‘Malvern is a very inspired all sorts of year on an assignment to special place, because the famous people capture transient moments hills have inspired all sorts in the daily life of the city. of famous people,scientists, Peter’s work hasn’t gone unnoticed, and over the musicians,writers and artists’. years the festival has been appreciated by audiences Peter’s love of music began as a chorister at Great of thousands of people not only at the events in Malvern Priory. Later he formed Aldwyn Voices in Malvern but to listeners of BBC Radio3. ‘From the 1968 and for 10 years sang in the Three Choirs beginning I felt there was a significant audience who Festival with the Worcester Festival Chorus under appreciated it. In fact over the years I have received its inspirational conductor Christopher Robinson, many letters of thanks, and people frequently come someone who had a great influence on Peter. up to me in the street Despite a busy career as saying how much they a research scientist at enjoy the concerts, talks RSRE/DERA he always and exhibitions’. found time for music, Funding for the festival something he regards as comes from all sorts life sustaining. of places; many local This year’s festival, which businesses contribute as starts later this month, sponsors or benefactors, features an eclectic but and there is support from uncompromising offering local authority sources of quality music, speech and grants from bodies and art. There are talks

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Malvern Festival including the Arts Council and the Elmley Foundation. Private individuals also contribute. ‘We’ve survived for 21 years because I look at the budget early in the year and cut my cloth accordingly’ says Peter.

‘Even so we have maintained an international standard’.

In the midst of final preparations for this year’s festival, planning for 2011 has already begun, although so far Peter is giving little away. ‘I have to start planning early because good people get booked up well ahead.’ The artists come to Malvern from all over the world. ‘Everybody we’ve had, whether from Russia,

the United States or from London say how wonderful Malvern is, and how well they’re looked after here’.

The festival runs from Saturday 25th September until Sunday 31st October 2010. Tickets are available by calling (01684) 892277 between 10am and 7pm, Monday to Saturday.

There’s free entry for young people (aged 8-16 years) when accompanied by a paying adult to performances by Aldwyn Voices, Carlo Curley, Sofya Gulyak and the European Union Chamber Orchestra. For more details of the full programme, festival brochures are available around the town, or log on to www.malvernfestival.co.uk

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All About... ...local artist Tia Lambert

Tia Lambert studied Fine Art and completed a post-graduate course at the Royal Academy Schools before becoming a professional artist. Her new exhibition ‘Sunny with a Chance of Snow’ features watercolours of the hills and begins in Malvern later this month.

Tell us about your latest paintings

I’ve been painting on the hills since last October, and completed 40 scenes in all kinds of weather. There are sunny scenes but also snowy ones which I’ve never painted before, so for the first time I had to use a different palette of colours. I usually paint outside, on the spot, but at times this winter it was too cold and so I took a photo and painted at home.

What’s your favourite view of the hills?

I never take the hills for granted and I never tire of looking at them all the time. They’re like an island rising out of the landscape, its unusual to have a ridge with a drop on either side, and on the top there’s a sense of space with rolling countryside all around. Its very uplifting and you feel better once you’re up there, I like to get that feeling in my pictures. Earlier this year the snow was good because it transformed something familiar into something else. One morning I walked up the Beacon and it was extremely windy, it just makes you feel the force of nature. No-one else was up there, it was very special.

H ow do you create a picture?

I only started painting landscapes around five years

ago, after years of concentrating on still life using oils.

Someone suggested I try to paint the hills, I hardly dared to start, but in retrospect I’ve really enjoyed it. For these

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pictures I’ve used ink and watercolour.

Usually a small painting takes between 3 and 5 hours to complete, a larger one (A1 size) around 15 hours, not counting the time it takes me to find a spot on the hills to sit! My largest picture is approximately four feet wide by two feet high (140cm x 56cm), painted in situ on the hills in three sittings. It was during the recent warm spell of weather, the paint was drying so quickly I was having to pour water from a cup onto the paper to keep it damp.

Are there still views you want to paint?

I see different aspects of the hills all the time and I’m constantly searching for new views. Whenever I go out I’m looking for new places, a footpath sign makes me think ‘there might be a good view up there’.

Right now there’s a field of sunflowers on a nearby farm with the hills standing in the distance which I’m planning to paint. I’ve been focussing on flowers at different times, this year it’s been bluebells and the strong pink of Rose-Bay Willow Herb. I like a strong subject in the foreground framed against the hills.

There’s always something new to paint, the same fields change through the seasons and one subject can look good in so many different ways. In late summer the grass on the hills turns a honey colour and looks beautiful when its rippling in the wind.

Tia’s Exhibition begins on 18th September at Iapatus on Belle Vue Terrace, from Monday to Saturday between 10am and 5.30pm. All the work is for sale except one which is being offered as a prize in a raffle to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Tia will be painting at the gallery on the first day of the exhibition.

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Heat Pumps Explained

By Steve Knowles of Ecoliving, Worcester There is a lot of excitement around renewable energy and heat pumps in particular, especially given the introduction of the Renewable Heat Incentive next April, but how do they work?

A heat pump uses solar heat energy stored in the ground, water or air.

This is renewable and totally free which is harnessed, collected and delivered to the heat pump.

A heat pump works in very much the same way as your refrigerator, but in reverse! In other words just as a fridge gets cool on the inside and warm at the back, so the heat pump heats your hot water and central heating system and cools the liquid (or air) going through it which is then pumped (or blown) away to be re-heated by the environment.

Not to get too technical, heat energy, either in the form of a liquid from pipe-work in the ground or directly from the air is brought into the heat pump where it comes into contact with a refrigerant, which evaporates at a very low temperature thus drawing heat out of its surroundings (that’s why a licked finger feels cool). The refrigerant gas is then pressurised in

the heat pump and as the pressure goes up so does the temperature.

The now very hot refrigerant gas passes into the heat exchanger, where the heat is transferred to your heating system to provide heating and hot water. Simple? It really is!

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Heat pumps provide one of the cleanest and most energy efficient ways of heating your home as most of the energy they produce comes from a free source. Typically heat pumps deliver between 3 and 4 times as much heat energy as electrical energy put in. They can be used with both under floor heating or traditional radiator systems. The electricity used can be offset with electrical energy generated onsite via solar PV panels for example.

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Eating for Increased Vitality Sometimes, the foods that we eat can affect the chemicals that are present in our brain. These chemicals can, in turn, have an effect on the way we think, feel and behave says our resident health expert Allison Maxwell from Colwall.

The Glycaemic Index (GI) is a numerical system that tells you how fast a particular food causes a rise in your blood sugar levels. A food with a high GI will produce a sudden rush in blood sugar, while a food with a low GI will keep your blood sugar levels more stable. This is not a ‘fad way of eating or diet’ it is a scientific fact! However, it is important to stress that people with diabetes or other medical conditions should consult their GP before following any GI eating regime.

Eating low GI foods will leave you feeling fuller for longer, and will help you to avoid snacking in between meals. Foods that have a low GI include apples, oranges, pears, porridge, beans, peas, pulses, lentils, bran cereals and peanuts.

However, as well as eating low GI foods, sometimes it is necessary to eat high GI foods.

For example, after exercising your muscles need to restore their sugar levels quickly, as most of their energy will have been used up. This is when eating a food with a higher GI value, such as a banana, can be beneficial.

A Healthy Balanced Diet As well as considering low and high GI values in your diet, it is also important to ensure that your diet is balanced and contains foods from all five of the main food groups. These are carbohydrates, proteins, fruit and vegetables, fats and sugars and dairy products.

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Dairy products, such as cheese, milk and yoghurt are good sources of calcium and are important for strong bones and teeth.

Fruit and vegetables are rich in vitamins and minerals, which are essential nutrients that your body needs in order to work properly. You should eat at least five portions of a variety of fruit and vegetables a day. Fats and sugars contain more energy than any other food group and should make up the smallest part of your diet.

Fats are divided into two groups - saturated and unsaturated. Eating a small amount of unsaturated fat will help to keep your immune system healthy and can reduce cholesterol levels.

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However after the initial rush your sugar levels will drop. As your sugar levels drop, so will your energy levels. As a result, you may find it more difficult to concentrate, or you may feel irritable, tired, and lethargic. As sugary foods are bad for your teeth and high in calories, you should eat them sparingly, as a special treat!

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Holistic Therapy

Interview with Emma Mary Gathergood, Holistic Therapist So what is Holistic Therapy?

Holistic Therapy works to integrate and restore balance to mind, body, spirit and emotions. It accepts the latest research indicating the close relationship with all four parts, and how problems in one area are linked to less obvious issues in all other areas. It includes techniques from a wide range of disciplines including Life Coaching, Gestalt Therapy, Body-Mind Awareness, Mindfulness, Psychosynthesis, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), NLP and Solution Focused Therapy. If you are feeling down, you often identify with the unhealthy part of yourself, mistakenly thinking that is who you are. Holistic Therapy can help you to access the strong and healthy parts of yourself. It then teaches new coping strategies, thinking habits, ideas and most importantly a new awareness of who you REALLY are.

What do you mean by who you REALLY are?

As human beings we have many different aspects to ourselves. We each have a “Mask self”, the face we like to present to the world, where we try to appear in a positive light. Then we have our “Shadow self”, the

face we hide from the world, full of all our worst traits. Many people think that is all they are. However, looked at holistically, we all have an inner face of our “True Self”, our innermost core, who we REALLY are.

The more we can get to know this aspect of our self, and choose to express this in the world, the more chance we have of creating what we REALLY want in our life.

So what do you mean by creating what we want?

How do we do that?

Our thoughts, feelings, dreams, ambitions and fears all create an energy field around ourselves. This acts as a magnet, drawing situations to us as like attracts like. So if we spend a lot of time worrying or being negative or critical, we are more likely to draw the very thing we don’t want to us. Sometimes, even when we are thinking positively, we are being influenced by our underlying core beliefs, and past negative experiences. By working to understand and then release some of these beliefs and experiences, we can more consciously start to draw to ourselves situations we REALLY want.

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Makes 4 Ready in 20 minutes 4 slices ciabatta bread 1 clove garlic 2 tomatoes chopped 1 tbsp olive oil 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar salt and freshly ground black pepper handful of fresh basil leaves chopped

1. Preheat the oven to Gas Mark7/220°C. Toast the slices of ciabatta bread.

2. Chop the tomatoes and put them in a bowl.

3. Add the olive oil, balsamic vinegar and mix gently.

4. Rub the garlic clove on the bread.

5. Add the tomato topping. Season.

6. Place on a baking tray and bake in the oven for 10 minutes.

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Lee Hankins Carpenter and General Builder Property Maintenance All Aspects of building work undertaken Over 20 years experience

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Greg Davies Wood Design Bespoke Furniture Internal Joinery External Joinery Greg Davies Wood Design specialise in the design and manufacture of bespoke wooden products with over twenty years experience in design and wood crafts. Whether you are replacing like for like or looking for a complete redesign, we can provide a solution that will fit your needs and your budget.

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BRIAN BARNETT SERVICES

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Harcourt Design Associates Ltd Architecture and Surveying

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Community Focus

Fact File

The Malverns District Scouts Name: Derek Barnes Organisation: The Malverns District Scouts Role: District Commissioner

Contact: 0844 4142951, e-mail apply@malvernscouts.org.uk or visit our website

at www.malverscouts.org.uk Details: Registered Charity Number 1030019

The purpose of Scouting is to contribute to the development of young

people in achieving their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual

potentials, as individuals, as responsible citizens and as members of

their local, national and international communities.

The Scout Association works with young people maximum use of these. The Active Support Unit (male & female) from the ages of 6 to 25 years to provides resources for Scouting events in the District, deliver its purpose. Scouting provides Fun, Challenge looks after the District campsite and provides fun and and Adventure for young people and Adults and can social events for members. make use of any free time or skills you may have.

Scouting provides a challenging, but fun, Come on – stay young and have fun by joining the development programme for young people, fastest growing co-educational movement for young culminating in the Chief Scout’s Award in each people in the world. section. Every year the District holds a presentation The Malverns Scout District includes Malvern, evening to recognise the achievement of its young Ledbury, Colwall, Cradley, Leigh and Upton. There people and adults. are over 700 young people and 150 adults in The The District has its own campsite (Warren Oak, near Malverns Scout District, which Staplow, north of Ledbury) has grown by over 20% during available for year round use.

“I got involved to help the last three years. There are Warren Oak is a large 15 acre on an occasional basis many more young people (male camp site comprising a large about 10 years ago & female) wanting to join us. area of grass land separated when my son joined as We need the help of more Adult into a number of fields with a Beaver, but enjoyed it Volunteers to meet this demand a central group of buildings so much that I became a and continue to keep Scouting including a toilet block, holiday Leader and now run the thriving in the Malverns. centre, stores and support Cub Pack.” buildings. The site is flexible and Scouting in The Malverns is can easily be used for small or organised into 10 Scout Groups large (1000+) camps and pack holidays. [providing Beavers (ages 6 to 8), Cubs (ages 8 to 10½) and Scouts (ages 10½ to 14)], 5 Explorer Units Do you have any skills we could use? All you need (ages 14 to 18), a Network Unit (18 to 25) and an is the enthusiasm, drive and willingness to try Active Support Unit for individuals who wish to retain something new. We will provide full training and a link to Scouting. All the Scout Groups have their support. We need adults who have the occasional own buildings and other units and organisations hour to spare, through to dedicated individuals to run make extensive use of these facilities. Within The weekly meetings, in a range of support, help, DIY, Malverns, we are also blessed with a wonderful range administration, management and leadership roles. of outdoor locations to use and Scouting makes the If so, please contact us.

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Notice Board

October Deadline: Monday 13 September

Had that idea for years and don’t know how to make it happen?

Malvern Inventors Club

Congratulation s to the Number 1 Hai r & Beauty competition w inners: 1st Place: Mar garet Torlet 2nd Place: Man dy Williams

meet on 2nd Thursday of the month.

Next meeting: 9 Sept 7pm at Malvern Hills Science Park, Geraldine Road, Malvern

Come and see if we can be of assistance in helping you develop, patent and make that idea of yours into a commercial success.

For more information: www.malvern.inventors.co.uk

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Do you have some free time?

Want to do something useful or help others?

Try Volunteering!

V-Inspired Team

Malvern Hills Volunteering Project supported by MHDC and Malvern District CAB

malvernhillsvolunteering@yahoo.co.uk Drop-in Thursdays from 1.30-4.30pm Fridays 9am - 12.30pm Malvern Library Hub: 01684 862151

Coddington Vineyard

Small Message?

for 16 - 25 yr olds who want to volunteer

Drop-in Session at Malvern Library 2 September 3.30 - 5.30pm

For more information: Chris Reed 07595 099865 vinvolvedwest@wcvys.co.uk

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ren Zolman p (misprint in July issu e), WRG C Dave Zolman hairm would like to say a big th an and Cat Play Range ank you to the rs, WCVYS , Mal Council and all the peop vern Town le who have advised, he lped and Wilderness supported the Garden!

(Vegetables ornamental are only planted for or educatio nal purp Terms of co nditions MT ose: C)

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DAVID PROSSER

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For advice on HomeBuyer Reports Building Surveys Valuations for Tax Valuations for Probate Boundary Disputes Expert Independent Advice Reports in plain English!

Call David Prosser 01684 893778 surveys@allan-morris.co.uk www.davidprosser-charteredsurveyor.co.uk

01886 889059

Specialists in Quality Hand Sewn Curtains & Soft Furnishings Fabrics Wallpapers Interior Design And much more...

Mathon 01684 540 122 www.hanleyinteriors.co.uk

Robert Adam Furniture

07754 004595

Bespoke Hand Made Furniture Kitchens, Bedrooms & Home Offices • A small company offering a personal service • High standard hand made furniture and kitchens using traditional methods • Modern or traditional styles • Made to suit your individual specifications • A selection of available woods all from sustainable sources • All pieces finished to a high standard • We can supply kitchen appliances and granite work tops • Antique restoration and French polishing Unit 5 Jennett Tree Farm, Callow End, WR2 4UA

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PAY LESS FOR THE BEST Full range of home improvements including Garage and Loft conversions

Conservatories Orangeries Garden Rooms Windows/Doors Roofline in PVCu, Hardwood & Aluminium Electric Garage Doors ‘All works come with a 10 year Insurance Backed Warranty’

‘All windows and doors come with Tripleshield glazing as standard’

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What’s on

In September

: Malverns by Moonlight 2010 Month e h t f o t n Eve Get your girlfriends together and walk with many others by joining the Macmillan’s nighttime walk on the Malvern Hills, as it enters its second year.

25 September

Registration will be open from 6.30pm - 8.30pm at Malvern St James Sports Centre and walkers will be taken to and from the start and finish by coach.

The Details: Walk length - 5 miles Start time - 8pm Registration fee - £10 16 years and above only 01527 579575 www.macmillan.org.uk/worcestershire

13 Sept

Hill Poets - Bring your own work or that of others 7pm, Great Malvern Hotel, Graham Road, Malvern. Come and meet a small friendly group.

14 Sept

Malvern Small Business Forum 7pm - 9pm, Elgar Room, main Council Office next to Priory Lodge on the corner of Church Street and Avenue Road, Malvern. New members welcome. Meeting every 2nd Tuesday of the month. For more info: www. malvernhills.gov.uk/business

15 Sept

Business Start-up Workshop ‘Finding and keeping customers’ Half day workshop, Priory Lodge Hall, Avenue Road, Malvern, WR14 3AF For people fully committed to starting a business or running an early stage business (up to 6 months).

Focus on growing sales, and keeping customers coming back for more. Free (funded by Business Link West Midlands). For more information contact Anabela on Anabela.ferreira@balancingbusiness.co.uk, 07894 413776

14 - 18 Sept

18 Sept

25/26 Sept

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Disconnected - a comedy by Nick Wilkes Coach House Theatre, Malvern. Box office 01684 892277 1st Colwall Scout Group - Annual Jumble Sale Colwall Village Hall, 2pm Scouts and/or their parents will collect donations in the week commencing 13 Sept.

Please sort out anything you no longer need (please no genuine rubbish). For further information, please call Andrew or Lynn Lee 01684 541733 Malvern Autumn Show - A Celebration of Nature’s Harvest Three Counties Showground, 9am - 6pm

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What’s on

In September 12 Sept

Local Produce Market - Westons Cider Come and support local producers who will be sampling and selling their finest produce from 10am - 4pm. Our shire horses will be out, we will be having a BBQ and entry to our Farm Park will be FREE, so bring the family for a great day out.

30 Sept

Malvern Concert Club - John McCabe piano Beethoven, Hayden, McCabe, Ravel, Shubert. Concerts in The Forum, Malvern Theatres, 7.30pm. 01684 892277

October

The Downs, Malvern College Prep Open Days Pre-prep: Friday 15 October 2pm - 5pm. Brockhill Road, Colwall 01684 540094 Whole School: Saturday 16 October 9.30am - 12.30pm Malvern College Open Day Saturday 9 October, 9.30am - 12.30pm. College Road, Malvern 01684 581500 Great Malvern Priory Events:

11 Sept 13 - 27 Sept 23 Sept 25 Sept 25 Sept 29 Sept Every Sunday

Tower Open Adults £3, children 5 - 16 £1.50 Beacon Camera Club Exhibition in North Aisle Lunch Box Talk by Rob Swinton about Son et Lumiere in the Priory Bring your own lunch. Tea/coffee available from 12.30. Talk begins at 1pm American and English Music and Literature by Aldwyn Voices 12noon The Wit and Wisdom of John Dunne by Rob Swinton 7.30pm Choral Communion to celebrate St Michael, one of the Priory’s Patron Saints, 7.30pm Bands in the Park, every Sunday until early September, Priory Park. 2.30 - 4.30pm Country Market Days Home-made, Home-grown and Hand-crafted

Every Friday Every 2nd Friday 18 Sept 25 Sept 31 October During September

Malvern Country Market 8.30 - 11.15am, Lyttleton Rooms, Church Street, Malvern West Malvern Community Market 3.30pm Hall of St James’ CofE Primary School, West Malvern Road Malvern Farmers Market 9am - 2pm, Abby Road, Malvern Autumn in Malvern Festival Music, Art and Literature. www.malvernfestival.co.uk.

Box office 01684 892277. Enquiries: petersmith@malvernmusic.co.uk.

The Picton Garden Open throughout September (until 17 October) DAILY 12pm - 5pm. Walwyn Road, Colwall, WR13 6QE. 01684 540416. www.autumnasters.co.uk

To promote your October event, email sascha@allabout-local.com or phone 07906 573352. Deadline: Monday 13 September

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CELLO’S COOL

Beginner’s Class Starts September At The Grove Malvern with Julia Palmer-Price GRNCM

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RESTAURANT OFFER Bookings of four people or more receive a complimentary bottle of House Wine Terms & Conditions: Offer valid upon reservation only from Sunday to Thursday, valid only for four persons or above, one voucher per party of four.

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The Chase Inn A Traditional Free House On Chase Road Upper Colwall

Andy warmly welcomes you to sample the delights of our vibrant and traditional Free House. Enjoy our beer, garden with views across Herefordshire to the Black Mountains, fine Ales and traditional home cooked food.

Opening hours: Mon - Fri 11.30am - 3 pm & 5 - 11pm Sat 11.30am - 11pm; Sun 12 noon - 10.30pm Food served: Mon - Fri 12 noon - 2pm; Sat & Sun 12 noon - 2.30pm; Mon to Sun 6.30 - 9pm

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VERZON HOUSE ENJOY THE EXPERIENCE OF BRITISH “TAPAS” LUNCHING AL FRESCO ON THE TERRACE BEAUTIFUL VIEW OF THE MALVERN HILLS Choose your own meal from the following Menu Each dish only £7.50 St Eadburgha Cheese and Caramelised Onion Tart Home Cured Peppered Salt Beef, Potato Salad & Sweet Pickle Twice Cooked Belly of Pork, Vintage Cider & Honey Glaze Spiced Peanut & Asian Slaw Verzon House Herb Pork Chipolatas, Caramelised Sweet Red Pepper and Onion Madgeetts Farm Free Range Duck Spring Rolls with Sweet & Sour Plum Sauce Marinated Old White Pork Raised Pie & Scotch Egg with Black Pudding Mini ‘Chesapeake Bay’ Crab Cakes with Remoulade Sauce Traditional Scallops with Crispy Smoked Bacon and Béarnaise Sauce Goujon of Cornish Haddock, Crushed Peas and Tartare Sauce Terrine of Cornish Crab and Smoked Salmon with Toasted Brioche Wye Valley Smoked Salmon with Caraway Seed and Sultana Bread Tempura Fried Cornish Squid in Sea Salt & Pink Peppercorns Sweet Chilli Jam Triple cooked chips, french fries, home-made breads and salads also available

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Index Art Blue Ginger 7 Iapetus 9 B&B The Old Rectory 47 Weobley Cottage 10 Bookkeeping CBH 10 Business Opp Avon Rep 26 Cafe Bonne Bouche 27 Car AutoTech

5 Children/Families Kumon 25 Magic Moments 24 Shortwood Farm 24 Classes & Training Cello Lessons 43 Pitman Training BP Dentist 23 Design Hanley Interiors 40 Harcourt Design 30 Reeves Design 8 Sarah Jane Design 39 Traplet Publications 12 Estate Agent 31 Food & Drink Icing on the...

26 Outside Catering 26 The BranTub 19 Garden Branchworks 29 Grange Farm Nursery 33 Joyce Arnold Garnening 33

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