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Co n t e n t s 3 Contents 4 Editor’s Comments...

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8 Just like Elizabeth Bennet - Stowe House 10 Have printed books had their day?

13 Holiday Ideas 20 Free & Indepenent Advice & Support 22 Gardening in May I N £25 25 WBuckingham Garden Centre Competition

26 Community What’s On

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Welcome...

MAY ISSUE 2014

The aim of the monthly Buckingham In Business Magazine is to support businesses in order that the local community can flourish. www.inbusinessmags.co.uk inbusinessmagazines@gmail.com Office: 0844 6933228 Home: 01386 861478 Mobile: 07899 757473 ADVERTISING Kate Martin FEATURES EDITOR Jen Oakton NEXT ISSUE COPY DATE 13th May 2014

....As the old saying goes, "Ne'er cast a clout 'til May be out......."

With lighter evenings, blossom on the trees and the steady hum of lawnmowers buzzing each weekend, Summer's truly on the way!!

If you're feeling a little shy about casting off those Winter layers, head to our Health & Beauty section for Spring pampering ideas to help you feel revitalised and bursting with happiness.

With the garden flourishing in the warmer weather, check out the tips on page 22 to keep everything blooming beautifully.

Until next time‌

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Just like Elizabeth Bennet: Visiting the Georgian Country House What was it like to visit one of the earliest tourist attractions in the country? This month our Twilight Tour invites visitors to experience this beautiful House in the early evening.

Following the route set out by original Georgian guidebooks you can follow in the footsteps of Jane Austen’s contemporaries.

Explore the House while learning about how it was built to entertain and influence the most important people in the country. You will hear about how the estate was opened for public celebrations, will see for yourself one of these historic guidebooks detailing the wonderful interiors of Stowe and hear extracts from the diaries of visitors to the House.

Tickets include wine and canapés on arrival in the magnificent Marble Saloon.

Pre-booking is essential. To book tickets telephone 01280 818002. Find out about more forthcoming Talks by visiting the Stowe House website: www.stowehouse.org

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Have printed books had their day?

Recently I sold off some of the books outgrown by my children. Some were true modern classics and I hesitated for a moment, wondering if I should box them up to give to my future grandchildren!

It occurred to me then that printed books might not be so relevant to the next generation. It may be that children’s books will only be read on digital devices like the iPad or Kindle (albeit, much whizzier versions!)? Maybe, those children won’t have to read at all… could information be downloaded (or is it uploaded?) to their brains by some new fangled gadget?!

It might seem a ridiculous idea but perhaps it’s possible - vinyl was replaced by music CDs but the rise of the mp3 player has made those almost obsolete!

Vinyl is now quite simply a collectors’ item – is this the future of the printed book?

As more readers have turned from printed to digital books, the physical book trade has declined dramatically. Amazon states that sales of e-books have overtaken their sales of printed books.

It seems significant that the website’s best selling product in 2013 was its Kindle.

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Of course, there are some fantastic benefits to digital books. An e-reader can hold thousands of books in its memory. Most houses would struggle to do the same.

An e-reader gives access to a large number of free books. But then so does a library.

An e-reader is supremely portable. But then so are many books (and their batteries won’t run out!).

The newly opened avenues for digital self publishing has made many an aspiring writer’s dream come true and there are some real gems – three out of the top

ten authors on Amazon’s e-book sales chart last year were self publishers.

Could printed books disappear entirely? Somehow it seems unlikely. There is something about a book that the e-readers and tablets just haven’t been able to match. Perhaps the texture? The smell? I’m not sure.

But I am sure that the fate of printed books is in the hands of the consumer. If you stop buying books from our local bookshop and stop visiting the local library, the result doesn’t take much effort to predict. Does that matter? That’s for you to decide!

Written by Jen Oakton

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Health &Beauty

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Health &Beauty

Holiday Ideas

Have you booked your holiday yet?

After a few grey and cold months, many people now make plans for some summer sun or other getaway. We asked some of the Buckingham in Business readers what their holiday plans are for 2013. Perhaps our findings may inspire you!

Heading off to Europe for some warmer weather is always a popular choice, with Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey being favourite destinations. If you are in need of a change, consider Italy, Bulgaria, Croatia or Egypt.

Camping is becoming more and more popular every year. There are some wonderful sites around the UK and especially in France, just a short hop over the Channel, where camping is loved and the campsites typically have a wider range of facilities than UK sites. There’s lots of great advice on camping and

caravanning on www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk.

Buckingham in Business readers love camping for the flexibility it offers, the ability to live more simply for a short period and the sense of adventure that a camping holiday brings.

Several people recommended going camping with friends.

A number of readers planned to send their children on a Summer Camp this year. PGL offers children’s adventure activity holidays for children aged 7 – 17 years.

Activities include abseiling, surfing, pony trekking, dancing, cooking, bushcraft, and film making! See www.pgl.co.uk for more details. If you’re not ready for your child to go alone, PGL also offer family adventure breaks!

If you’re the person who is fed up with the same old holiday every year, make 2013 the year you do something completely different! Why not try a cycling tour, a riding holiday, a camper van trip, or a painting holiday? If lying on a beach doesn’t appeal, then there are a huge number of special interest holidays on offer. Our local travel agents are a good starting point, as are specialist travel websites.

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ndent advice and support coming into Brackley The Lottery-funded Village Networks outreach vehicle is coming to Brackley with expert help on debt, welfare benefits, job-seeking, volunteering and information on free computer lessons.

You can also bring along your gas & electricity statement for help seeking out betters deals to reduce these ever-increasing household bills!

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The Garden in May A dedicated follower of fashion As The Great Allotment Challenge hits our screens and the BBC Two celebrates 50 years of nostalgia, being home to Gardeners’ World of course, it’s perhaps a good time to look at what’s fashionable in the garden this season, writes Buckingham Garden Centre’s Chris Day. I think it was John Betjeman, who described the Victorian’s “ghastly good taste” when describing clashing bedding plants, multi-coloured leaves and fancy ferns.

However, the Edwardian "gardens of a golden afternoon" veered towards softly graded borders of Delphiniums, Hydrangeas and Hollyhocks.

In the Seventies, the country got carpeted in heathers and dwarf conifers (well, actually Leylandii as well). Today, the trend is for impact colour, evergreens, low maintenance, grasses,

vegetables, trained fruit and prairie perennials, such as the wonderful garden, Foggy Bottom at Bressingham Gardens (pictured below).

In gardening new plants and concepts of growing them takes a while to filter through and become accepted. Commercial growers trial perhaps the latest Hebe, Fuchsia or Dahlia, often across many countries, before we get a chance to plant them in our own plots.

The process of getting a new plant into production can take many years, because all new plants undergo extensive trialing to make sure it remains true to type, stable in growing, attains the height and generally behaves itself! New plants then take centre stage at trade shows and once garden centres take them on board they come under the scrutiny of you, the public. Many plants also become ‘stars’ at the big flower shows, and this month’s RHS

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Chelsea Flower Show will see many new plants being Monty Don officially launched in front of the media and the 160,000 visitors to the six day event. No doubt Monty Don and Carol Klein will give them plenty of mentions over the BBC’s coverage. During July at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, famous for its amazing rose marquee, new rose varieties are given an official “christening ceremony’ with celebrities and fund raising charities promoting the virtues of the latest English rose, Floribunda or Patio rose together with the story behind its development.

However, that’s for plants of the future, gardening is all about the here and now. What’s exciting in 2014 is we are seeing plenty of innovation coming into the market place. Grafted vegetable plants such as Aubergines, Cucumbers, Peppers and Tomatoes have impacted on how we grow these favourites and this year, you’ll even come across

popular favourite varieties given the magic grafting touch. Still on vegetables, as we continue to pursue the Good Life, veggie growers are increasing the range of many of the crops to help extend the range and encourage us to give new things a try. How about different forms of Baby Leaf Salad, the new and well named Cucumber Snack Box ‘Cucino’ F1 hybrid or even growing a few Gherkins! Growers are also aware we don’t want masses of young plug plants to set at a time, so look out for packs of 6 plants with the option of Cucumber Snack Box picking and mixing them so you get good mixture of different crops maturing at different time to help ensure continuity. These are often offered on a multi-buy, so saving you a few pennies in the process.

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You’ll see more native wildflowers available in small 9cm pots and these are perfect to help encourage bees, butterflies and other beneficial insect life into the garden. There are some beauties such as Cornflowers, Honesty (pictured above), Ox-Eye Daisy, Herb Robert and Meadow Cranesbills. Remember it’s the diversity of planting which yields the best range of visitors, so add as much variety as you can. Remember too, if you are on a budget many of these can be easily raised from seed sown through the late spring.

Planting opportunities in the garden can also be addressed. The current trend to mixed borders is being driven by the smaller garden, so getting the right plants for the location is paramount. Where possible, always turn a so-called ‘problem’ location into a planting opportunity. So, if you have a shady border, think of it as a woodland location and plant with a range of plants suited to those specific conditions. Good contenders would include ferns, Wild Garlic, Iris foetidissima Honesty Seed Pods

(the so-called Stinking Iris stinking iris, pictured above), Tellima grandiflora, English Bluebells, Hostas and even Wild Strawberries will positively thrive and give you much interest through the year. However, shade can be wet or dry so be sure to check the requirements before you plant.

Dry soils can be bulked up with organic materials such as garden compost, well-rotted manure or using one of the soil wetting agents such as Broadleaf P4 and adding a small amount to the planting hole to help keep the roots moistened to aid the new plant’s successful establishment.

Nostalgia does appear to be a theme of our gardens of late with many of the old fashioned perennials such as Lupins receiving a 21st century breeding makeover. Although towering stems can look spectacular, especially in wide dramatic borders, the downside is the maintenance can be labour-intensive so many growers are now developing popular varieties which are much more compact in stature, perfect for the narrow border

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or even growing in large pots. Look out for the West Country Lupins which repeat flower and keep to around 60-90cm (24-36in) and they available in stunning colours.

Good ones to look out for Lupinus Manhattan Lights include ‘Gladiator’ (vibrant orangeand yellow bicolour), ‘Manhattan Lights’ (bicolour of purple bells and yellow, pictured above) and Towering Inferno (flaming rich orange red bells, yellow flecked).

Selecting plants is always a journey of discovery, you often come across plants by default and that’s what creating a gardening and learning is essentially all about.

Remember all plants have potentially the word ‘new’ attached on them, that’s if you haven’t come across them before!

Happy May gardening!

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Thur 1 May May Day Celebrations with the children of Buckingham 11 am Parish Church green more details from 816426 Sun 4 May 'Go Batty' walk talk and walk to see bats Stowe Gardens (NT) 8pm-10pm £10 ad, £5 ch - book on 817156 Sun 4 May Afternoon Tea Party at the Museum come and enjoy a delicious afternoon tea and help raise funds for Cancer Research UK 3pm-4.30pm Buckingham Old Gaol tickets from 07886 888391 Bank Holiday Monday 5th May Thornborough 10 mile race and Fun Run Registration commences at 10.00 am Village Green, Further details Race Secretary 01280 814434 Wed 7 May Stowe Arts presents a Piano & Soprano concert 7pm Stowe School tickets from 818012 Thur 8 May Talk and Valuation by Simon Davies of Bonhams(bring an item for valuation) 7.30pm Buckingham Old Gaol tickets £5 from the musuem shop Saturday 10th May 10-4pm.

The next Best Made Local Makers Market will be at Buckingham Community Centre Cornwalls Meadow Buckingham MK18 1RP Please pop along and buy quality products made by local artisans and foodies. There will also be a café with locally baked cakes. Free entry too! For more info www.bestmadelocal.co.uk Sat 10 & Sun 11 May Florence Nightingale Weekend Claydon House(NT), Middle Claydon11am-4pm more details from 01296 730349 Wed 14 May - Stowe Arts presents a Piano & String Quartet 7pm Stowe School -tickets from 818012 Saturday 17th May Cake Sale outside Signature Opticians, Meadow Walk, Buckingham enquiries or donations contact Elaine on 07790549858 Sun 18 May Artisan Market, Buckingham Town Centre from 10am till 2pm great produce and crafts Sun 18 May Twilight Tours 'Visiting the Georgian country house' 7.30pm Stowe House tickets from 818002

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Fri 23 May 'Tramps Supper' three course supper and entertainment by magician Wayne Murphy 7.30pm Buckingham Old Gaol ticket £10 on sale at museum shop Fri 23 May Gala Concert with Lesley Garrett and Craig Greene and The Russian National Orchestra 8pm Stowe School - call 01432 35541 Sat 24 May Launch of '50 Things to Do' for children pick up a map and attempt the challenges free event 10am-6pm Stowe Gardens (NT) more

details from 817156 Sunday 25th May Clay Pigeon Shoot Lodge Farm, Leckhampstead 12.00 until 4.30 p.m.£400 in prize money, Team of 4 cost £100 More details email: buckinghampanto@outlook.com Sun 25 May Music in the Market Buckingham town centre 1pm till 10pm music for all free event Mon 26 May - Bank Holiday

EVERY MONDAY Dance School Stepbystep Ballroom and Latin Dancing with Jean Conway Winslow CofE Combined School, Winslow Call Jean 07855546406 Jazzercise 7.30-8.30pm @ Winslow CofE Combined School, Winslow, 07900 987230 or jazzercise1@hotmail.co.uk Ceroc dance class 7.45- 10.45 at Buckingham Community Centre.

New members welcome every week. www.cerocbucks.com Learn to SCUBA dive with us, call Roger for more information, 07802 765 366 www.stowesubaqua.co.uk Flute Choir 7.30 - 8.30 Call 01280 823853 for details.

EVERY MONDAY (term time only) Adstock Village Hall, Church End, Sing and Sign, Baby Signing classes for babies from 6 weeks to speaking.

Booking is essential Helen 07906 055591 EVERY MONDAY/THURSDAY Buckingham & Stowe Running Club. Please see our website for more information http://www.buckinghamrunningclub.com or email buckinghamrunningclub@hotmail.co.uk EVERY TUESDAY Jazzercise 7.30-8.30pm @ Bourton Meadow Academy, Buckingham, 07900 987230 or jazzercise1@hotmail.co.uk EVERY WEDNESDAY Jazzercise 7.30-8.30pm @ Winslow CofE Combined School, Winslow, 07900 987230 or jazzercise1@hotmail.co.uk Heart Strings Community String Orchestra 8-10pm at the Chantry Chapel, Buckingham. Violinists, violists and cellists of all standards welcome.

Call Rachel on 07789 050257.

Buckingham Camera club meets at Padbury Village Hall 8:00 to 10:00pm www.buckinghamcameraclub.co.uk EVERY THURSDAY Zumba Gold (Latin-inspired dance-fitness) class 14:00pm - 14.50pm Swan Pool, Buckingham (class is not on Swan Pool timetable) 07919962307 or info@zumbabuckingham.co.uk Jazzercise 7.30-8.30pm @ Bourton Meadow Academy, Buckingham, 07900 987230 or jazzercise1@hotmail.co.uk SATURDAYS/TUESDAYS Chrgd NRG Dance Classes at Calvert Green community hall for children 10am to 11am,Saturdays at Steeple Claydon Methodist Church for children 2:30 to 3:30 and 3:30 to 4:30pm Tuesdays Steeple Claydon Methodist Church 7 to 8pm for children Tuesdays 8 to 9pm for adults currently £2 per session per person for any more info, please phone Sheree Bird, artistic director, on 07754 870052 or e-mail chrgdnrg@btinternet.com

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