Nene Valley Living May Issue 2012

H e l p i n g y o u t o g e t t h e m o s t o u t o f l i v i n g LOC A LL Y

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e’re bursting with news of local events and happenings this month, which are creating a real buzz about our region. It’s exciting that Peterborough’s three day Willow Festival (May 25th-27th) has been reinstated, and great news, too, that Peterborough Artists Open Studios are having a preview exhibition in Cathedral Square on May 19th and 20th (details on our Diary Dates page). If you love visiting Open Gardens, we have a real treat in store, with a round up on page 30.

If you haven’t yet experienced the refurbished Peterborough Museum, I’d urge you to go along. It’s a wonderful achievement and a real insight into the geological and historical events which have shaped the area. The displays are imaginative, lively and will appeal to all ages.

Congratulations should go to everyone who has been involved with this project.

We try to include as many events as we can.

Here are a couple of ‘stop press’ items: • Local potters are holding a Ceramics Market in Stamford Arts Centre on Sunday 6th May and Monday 7th May. Over 20 potters will be exhibiting their work, and you can watch demonstrations and see a rolling show of ceramic themed films. A tombola of bowls will be available, too. Enquiries: www. katherinewinfrey.co.uk • Join a fundraising tea party at the Quaker House Meeting House and Garden Rooms, Thorpe Rd, Peterborough on Wednesday May 16th, 2.30-4.40pm. The Sip for a Stroke event will include the chance to have your blood pressure checked for free (it’s one of the main risk factors for stroke) with expert advice on hand. There will also be an exhibition of art work by stroke survivors and their carers who attend Peterborough Stroke Support Group, and a chance to enjoy some delicious home made cake.

Whatever your interests, you should find lots to do locally this month. Enjoy it.

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Cover shot: Section of a print by Northamptonshire artist Carry Akroyd.

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Editor’s selection

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Upfront

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Upfront

Garden buys

Win! Fabulous vouchers to spend at Reba

A countryside experience at Burghley House

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Could you foster?

12 LET’S HAVE A STREET PARTY 25 MARK RINGER

12 Let’s have a street party

Everything you need for a swinging celebration

14 Make your own bunting

Ema Corcoran from Green Olive shows you how

17 Food news

The Cherry House Restaurant reviewed

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20 Chronicler of the Countryside Artist Carry Akroyd interviewed

22 Health and beauty notes Curb those sugar cravings

25 The music man

Mark Ringer on The Willow Festival

26 Creative thinking Write that novel or poem

29 A day out at Lamport Hall Stately pursuits in Northamptonshire

30 May in bloom

Gorgeous gardens to visit

33 A spring cycle ride Two wheels good

34 The rising cost of your car Ashley Martin does the maths

37 Diary dates

The pick of this month’s events

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Editor’s selection Garden inspirations for May

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Roberts solar DAB radio, £81.65, John Lewis, Queensgate Centre, Peterborough

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Every gardener is powered by tea!

Cheerful mug, £5, Marks and Spencer, Queensgate Centre, Peterborough

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Colour in the Garden by Val Bourne (Merrell).

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Plant labels, £5.50, Foxtail Lilly. 41 South Rd, Oundle, tel: 01832 274593. Don’t miss the little barn shop’s grand vintage day on May 12th, 11am-4pm.

Lots of stalls and tea and cakes on sale.

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When the sun goes down, light some candles.

Tealight holders, from a selection at HobbyCraft at Peterborough Garden Park.

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Wayne Hemingway Punch and Judy chair, £55, John Lewis, Queensgate Centre, Peterborough

Protect your hands from the elements with a rich cream. This one, by King’s Cliffe based company Beauty Naturals, contains beeswax and sweet almond. £9.50 from www.beautynaturals. co.uk

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LOCAL NEWS

Upfront What’s new this month

WIN! WIN! WIN! Reba goodies worth £75 As one of Peterborough’s few independent boutiques, Reba, situated centrally in Cathedral Square, is full of quirky and gorgeous gifts, jewellery, sunglasses and clothing at affordable prices. It’s the perfect place to kit yourself out for this summer’s music festivals. We love the sunglasses (£8.99), scarf (£8.99), top (£22.50) and grab bag (£49). As well as calling into the shop, you can buy online at www.rebaboutique. co.uk. Nene Valley Living has teamed up with Reba to offer you two fantastic prizes, one £50 voucher to spend in store, and one £25 voucher. For a chance to win, visit www. bestlocalliving.co.uk and answer this question: Reba is situated in which central Peterborough square? a) Cathedral Square b) St John’s Square c) St Augustine’s Square

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The Talbot RE-OPENS IN OUNDLE Central Oundle landmark The Talbot Hotel is reopening on May 25th after seven months of closure for refurbishment. Now known as The Talbot Hotel Eatery and Coffee House, the establishment has been completely reconfigured to create a relaxed and welcoming interior.

Kevin Charity, managing director of the Bulldog Hotel Group, explains: “for two years we owned the hotel but for various reasons we weren’t allowed to touch it. However, after extensive consultation with English Heritage, and a full programme of building work, we can now show people exactly what we intended it to look like all along.” The Hotel now has different areas in which customers can relax, including a bar, a conservatory which can be used for dining or just having coffee, and a more formal glass sided restaurant. There are new lavatories, and every bedroom has been redesigned and redecorated, some in a modern style, and others with a period feel and antique furniture. “The aim was to bring it into the 21st century, but not to lose its sense of history,” explains Kevin. A new general manager, John Robinson, who has come from Leeds Castle, Kent, has been preparing for the opening at 9am on May 25th, and around 60 jobs have been created. “We hope to be the hub of Oundle and a meeting place for everyone,” says John. The focus, he adds, is very much on relaxed eating and drinking. Bookings for weddings and functions are being taken. See our June issue for lots more on The Talbot Hotel Eatery and Coffee House.

The Talbot Hotel Eatery and Coffee House, New St, Oundle, PE8 4EA Tel: 01832 273621

Nene Valley People

Five minutes with Priscilla Padley, founder of Nene Valley Care Trust, a charity which funds projects aimed at giving young care leavers essential support Tell us why you set up the charity In 2007, I retired after ten years as a county councillor and I’d been on the education committee for the whole time. I was also a youth magistrate for 18 years, so I knew the problems which face young people in care.

I saw some very sad cases in court, and I suppose the idea of the Trust was brewing in my mind. As I retired, we sold our family company, Paten & Co Ltd of Peterborough, so I had the funds to start the charity. It was lucky timing. I now have a keen team of six trustees.

What do you actually do?

Children who leave the care system don’t lack brains, they lack opportunities. Once they reach the age of 16, they have minimal contact with their social worker. Our aim is to offer intensive support to care leavers, helping them to access further education, training and employment. This can involve everything from using our business contacts to arrange apprenticeships, to making sure that they have suitable clothes for a job interview, and even ensuring that they wake up on time to get there. This is done through their mentors, who build a relationship with them.

How many people have benefited?

Around 50 young people since we started in 2008. We are steadily building up relationships with local colleges, and we have a peer mentoring scheme which we are progressing. We probably have a 20 per cent drop out rate, but when you consider the odds against them, the young people are doing very well.

What motivates you?

It comes from deep within. When I left school, we were told to “go and serve.”

It sounds old fashioned now, but it’s a good ethos. My Christian faith is a major motivation, too.

What are your future plans?

At the moment we work in Northamptonshire, and we’d like to expand into Peterborough. We have all sorts of ideas. We now have young people working across the building industry, child care, hair dressing and one girl has even become a youth worker herself.

Help young care leavers to turn their lives around at www.nenevalleycaretrust.co.uk

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VILLAGE HAPPENINGS

• Elton’s annual May Fair on Bank Holiday Monday May 7th. Interesting stalls, including plants and antiques, on the village greens, bbq, and teas in the Chapel. From 1pm.

• Warmington School’s May Fair on Saturday 26th May promises Maypole dancing, country crafts and produce, cream teas, raffle, and traditional fun and games for the whole family.

Free entry. 2pm. School Lane, Warmington PE8 6TA

A TASTE OF THE COUNTRYSIDE If you enjoy traditional rural pursuits, visit the Burghley Game and Country Fair. The two day show features displays of working gun dogs, angling competitions, a Falconry Village, fun dog show and the popular Scurry Driving Championships. There will be a display by the Waldburg Shires, a six horse team from Cambridge which provide grace and beauty. You can even see the gentle giants being prepared for the ring in the general viewing area. With three main show arenas, a craft show, food show, plenty of children’s entertainments and food courts, the organisers promise something for the whole family, all in the spectacular setting of historic Burghley House.

Tickets are £11 for adults, £10 seniors, £4 children. Show is open 10am-6pm daily. For full show information and advance tickets, visit www.livingheritagecountryshows.co.uk or call 01283 820548

NEW NOTARY FOR PETERBOROUGH

David Woods, head of the Corporate and Commercial Department at Greenwood Solicitors has become a Notary Public. There are only around 900 Notaries in England and Wales and their work relates to transactions and other matters taking place abroad, for example, if you are buying or selling an overseas property, or if you are emigrating and need to demonstrate that you are qualified to work in your chosen profession.

To gain the qualification, David had to complete the Cambridge University Post Graduate Diploma in Notarial Studies. It’s thought that he is only one of two people in Peterborough to gain this Diploma. He will continue his current role, as well as his services as a Notary, from Greenwoods Peterborough office in City Road.

Contact him by email at dvwoods@ greenwoods.co.uk or call 01733 887700

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ASK THE EXPERT

George Osborne presented his third budget in March 2012.

Here, Kerry Hilliard of Stephenson Smart & Co summarises the main changes to personal taxes which may affect you and your family

ANYONE FOR TENNIS? You can’t beat a great game of tennis on a summer’s evening, and Oundle Tennis Club is seeking new members. With five courts and a new floodlighting system in Occupation Road, this friendly club offers opportunities for every age and level of ability. If you haven’t played for a few years, the regular ‘rusty racquets’ sessions on Mondays might appeal. Those with more experience can join the improvers on Tuesdays, and there is professional Lawn Tennis Association coaching available to all. At just £133 for an annual unrestricted membership (£15 for under tens, £54 for 10-18s and £113 for over 65s, coaching sessions extra), it’s a cost effective way to keep active. To join, call the membership secretary on 01832 272506.

ART IN OAKHAM A group of local artists will be showing their work in a pop up gallery in the Victoria Hall, Oakham, from May 7th-13th. A selection of contemporary work includes ceramics, paintings and mosaics.

For more details, visit www.stillworkinggallery.co.uk

If you’re aged under 65, your personal allowance increased to £8,105 from April 2012. This allowance represents the amount of tax free income you can have in a year, and will further increase to £9,205 from April 2013, moving towards the objective of the Coalition Government to ultimately raise the allowance to £10,000.

To offset increases in personal allowance, the basic rate limit has reduced so that the threshold at which the 40 per cent higher rate of tax applies remains at £42,475. From April 2013, the highest earners will see the top rate of tax reduced from 50 per cent to 45 per cent.

Higher age related personal allowances available to those aged over 65 (currently £10,500 for those aged 65 plus, and £10,660 for those aged 75 and over) are to be frozen. From April 2013, these allowances will not increase and they will only be available to those who are already aged 65 by 6 April 2013.

Previously announced changes to Child Benefit have been modified. Instead of withdrawing the entire Child Benefit from higher rate taxpayers, it will now reduce for taxpayers earning more than £50,000.

The benefit will fall by one per cent for every £100 earned over £50,000. Those earning more than £60,000 will lose the benefit completely. Where both partners in a household have income in excess of £50,000, any reduction is based on the person with the higher income.

For more information, contact Stephenson Smart & Co on 01733 343275 or visit www.stephensonsmart. com

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Fashion Show Wednesday 9th May, Peterborough Town Hall at 7pm for 7.30pm. Tickets £7.50 to include a glass of wine, all proceeds going to Samaritans.

Tickets available from Circles, The Samaritans or Peterborough Destination Centre.

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LOCAL NEWS

Upfront Could you make a positive impact on a child’s life?

Do you have the qualities to help care for someone else’s child and give them a loving and supportive home?

There are over 300 children in care in Peterborough and not enough foster families to help whilst they are unable to live at home.

Peterborough City Council needs 40 new foster carers and is issuing an urgent call to action to the people of Peterborough to come forward and help.

People from all walks of life are needed. You can be single or married, young or old, male or female, gay or straight, have no children or a house full, be in perfect health or have a disability. The only thing you need is a spare room, an interest in helping local children and their families and a clean criminal record.

Becoming a foster carer is a fantastic career opportunity as you’ll receive free training and ongoing support, a fee and a weekly allowance per child that you foster. But most of all it can be enormously rewarding and lots of fun.

Eleven years ago, Tom* and his family

decided to share their home with some of Peterborough’s most vulnerable youngsters and become foster carers. They originally fostered children aged up to five, but since their birth children have left home, they now foster older ones.

A typical day for Tom starts around 7am when he gets up and writes the previous day’s progress logs for the young person he’s fostering. They have breakfast together and he then drops him off at school. In the evening, the whole family sits down for dinner, before going out and having fun together, perhaps bowling or ice skating. It’s stimulating for the young person, as well as Tom and his wife.

Tom says: “it’s a long day, but a hugely rewarding one, too. At weekends, we all go out together, and we go on holidays, too. Last summer, my wife and I took a teenage boy to Cornwall. It was the first time he’d been to a

beach in his 14 years.”

“The biggest kick I get from fostering is seeing the young person come on in leaps and bounds. There are good days and bad days, but the good ones far outweigh the bad, and it’s massively rewarding. The level of personal, financial and practical support we get means I wouldn’t swap it for the world.” *Name changed to protect identities For more details, contact 01733 317427 or visit www.peterborough.gov.uk/fostering email afuduty@peterborough.gov.uk Or visit a recruitment stand: Monday 14 May, Cathedral Square Thursday 17 May, Queensgate Saturday 19 May, Serpentine Green Sunday 20 May, Peterborough Garden Park Wednesday 23 May, Asda Saturday 26 May, Sainsbury’s, Bretton

Spectacular Sicily Still searching for ideas for your summer holiday? Consider the beautiful island of Sicily, says Paula Cockcroft of Oundle Travel The island that awaits you is a heady mixture of culture and traditions. Full of complete contrasts and a glorious mix of differing architectural styles, it’s a melting pot of people and is different geographically from one end to the other.

For 2012, Oundle Travel is offering a selection of handpicked hotels for the summer season in addition to an exceptional range of rural country estates and farm properties to suit every taste and budget. Some are country houses or cottages in the lesser known corners of the island specialising in their own high quality produce. You will be able to sample wine from the vineyard outside your window or the olive oil from the trees around you, as well as excellent locally produced meat and breads.

La Rosa Sul Mare, Syracuse Situated in Eastern Sicily these apartments have been beautifully renovated to a high standard and are surrounded by wellmaintained gardens. They’re within easy walking distance of the seashore and within

easy reach of the historic town of Syracuse.

June Departures - From £859.00 per person for 7 nights - Self Catering – Saturday arrivals only. Includes flights and car hire.

Azienda Agrituristica Bergi A few kilometres from the ancient medieval town of Castelbuono, this charming rural property is set in 8 acres which are planted with fruit orchards, olives and vegetables. The Di Garbo family use all their own organic products as the principal ingredients for their cooking, based on traditional dishes of the Madonie countryside.

July Departures – From £887.00 per person for 7 nights including flights and car hire.

Agriturismo Fondo Cipollate Set amidst orange groves, this house stands among the hills of the Alcantara valley overlooking the Ionian Sea. A stunning pool completes the open air space. Breakfast is

sublime, prepared using fresh ingredients. For guests staying in October, one night in seven is complimentary.

August departures – From £897.00 per person for 7 nights including flights and car hire For more information, contact Oundle Travel on 01832 273600 www.oundletravel.co.uk

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This year looks set to be a great British summer, with plenty of excuses for celebrations. Whether you’re getting together with friends, family or neighbours, or going for something on a grander scale, we have everything you need to make your celebrations go with a swing. Compiled by Fiona Cumberpatch

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HE Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the Olympics and the Paralympic Games are all landmark events in 2012, and we’ve come up with plenty of ways to ensure that you have the party of the year.

EATING Local company The Pickled Village has produced Jubilee Jammyboree, a patriotic mix of three layered jams, including red strawberry, white (pear and elderflower), and blue (wild blueberry) jams. Founder Camille Ortega McLean suggests creating a patriotic patchwork of scones, or sandwiching it in a multi-layered sponge cake. www.thepickledvillage.com The Small Bread Company, based at Barnwell in a dedicated bakehouse, can supply mouthwatering speciality breads, ideal for picnics. Currently stocked at Norman’s in Oundle (Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays) and Nassington Stores (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays), owner Filam Smallridge can supply hand made baguettes, scones, burger buns and soda bread, as well as traditional loaves, with no artificial additives and a scrumptious home made taste. Call 01832 205540 to place an order.

Old fashioned iced traybakes, sponge cake, flapjacks and cup cakes, perfect for a Jubilee tea party, are all baked on site by Lindsey

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Eassom at The Wansford Cakery, tel: 0775432 895 (thewansfordcakery@gmail.com). Order a week ahead for large quantities.

A barbecue is ideal for feeding a crowd.

We’re spoilt for choice in this area when it comes to butchers’ sausages and burgers.

Try Willow Brook Farm Shop and Traditional Butchers (www.willowbrookfarmshop.co.uk tel: 01780 740261). It’s a one stop shop, as they can also supply rolls, onions and relishes, everything you need to make your bbq sizzle.

Oundle’s Seven Wells butchers (www. sevenwells.co.uk tel 01832 273522) does a great range of pre-marinated barbecue meats, including chicken and ribs, as well as excellent sausages and burgers.

And Moor Farm Meats Farm Shop at Newborough (www.moor-farm.com Tel 01733 810229) is another great destination for bulk barbecue shopping. Try the free range beef steaks and lamb from their own farm, plus vegetables, chutneys and cakes.

If you’re entertaining on a large scale, Whittlesey Catering Hire supplies cutlery, crockery, glasses, table linen, trestle tables, chairs and even cookers and fridges to private and corporate clients. All items can be delivered and collected, and they have a huge warehouse full of stock. Find them at 6 Morley Court, Woodston, Peterborough PE2 7EP Tel: 01733 394232 www.cateringhire.com

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Bake some cakes!

“No patriotic party is complete without bunting. Make your own or buy ready made” DECORATING No patriotic party is complete without bunting.

Make your own (see page 14 for instructions) or buy ready made. Try Crackers at 3, New St, Oundle PE8 4EA for a brilliant selection of Jubilee decorations. As well as jaunty bunting, they stock cardboard cake stands and fun table decorations, all with a jolly Jubilee theme. If you’re heading to the supermarket, Sainsbury’s has a wide range of Jubilee food, table ware and accessories, including union jack napkins and china. Nook at Sheep Market, Stamford (www.nookfurniture.co.uk), is another destination for quirky, retro styled decorations for home and garden.

Spruce up the patio with some instant colour and foliage. The Barn Garden Centre in Barnwell Rd, Oundle PE8 5PB has an excellent selection of

bedding plants, ideal for patios and borders.

Refresh untidy areas and disguise weeds with their good value decorative gravel, or bark chippings.

Elton Hall Garden Store at Elton Hall, Elton, PE8 6SH Tel: 01832 280058 www. thegardenstoreltd.uk is packed with plants, pots, garden features and fixings. Look out for regular special offers and bulk buys which are great value for money.

Olive trees always look classy and, with a little care, they’ll thrive from year to year. Olive Grove Nurseries, Oundle Rd, Polebrook PE8 5LQ www.olivegrovenurseries.co.uk specialises in Mediterranean plants, and you’ll receive friendly, expert advice from owners Jackie and Tim Thackeray.

Peterborough-based website www. bakingmad.com brings you this recipe for Jubilee Crown Cupcakes. You’ll find hundreds of inspiring recipes and ideas on the website, including a free downloadable union jack template for the ultimate Jubilee cake decoration.

Ingredients 150g butter, at room temperature 150g Billingtons unrefined golden caster sugar Three eggs, beaten 150g Allinsons Nature Friendly self raising flour 1tsp Neilson Massey vanilla extract For the icing 50g butter 200g Silver Spoon Icing Sugar One pack red and blue Silver Spoon Create Ready to Roll icing Silver Spoon Create Edible silver balls

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• Heat the oven to 180 degrees, 160 degrees fan, gas 4. Line a cup cake tray with 12 paper cases.

• Place butter and sugar in a mixing bowl.

Beat until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs, a little at a time, until smooth, adding a little flour if the mixture curdles.

• Stir in the vanilla extract and flour until smooth.

• Place a heaped dessert spoon full in each cupcake case and bake for 20-25 minutes, until golden brown and just firm to the touch.

Allow to cool completely.

• Make the butter cream. Mix the butter and icing sugar together until light and fluffy, adding a drop of boiling water if necessary.

Place the butter cream in a large piping bag fitted with a large star shaped nozzle. Pipe the cakes with a swirl of butter cream and sprinkle with silver balls.

• To make the crowns, roll out a little of the ready roll icings and cut into rectangles about 1cm wide by 5cm. Cut v-shapes out of one edge to make the crown points and then wrap the strip into a circle and press the join together.

• Place crowns on top of the cakes just before serving (they can be made in advance and dried on paper for a day or so).

• The cakes keep for three to four days in a tin.

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MAKE YOUR OWN

REGAL BUNTING! With a few fabric offcuts and a dash of ingenuity, you can make your own flags to decorate your home or garden for the Jubilee celebrations. Ema Corcoran of Green Olive, Barnwell, shows you how it’s done. Photos: Lesley Anne Churchill

This guide will make a five metre run of bunting, with 15 flags.

You will need: 1.5 m fabric 5m bias binding Thread Tassels (optional) Zipper or piping foot attachment for your sewing machine. If you don’t want tassels, just use your ordinary presser foot.

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Make flag template. Decide what size you want your flags and draw on to paper. Take your template and using a larger piece of paper, transfer your flag and pencil around the edges, then lay your template next to the drawing so you have two long sides touching. Draw round your template again so you have a kite shape.

Add a 1cm seam allowance along each edge and your template is complete.

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Cut out flags. Lay your template on your fabric, pin and cut out. Repeat until you have 15 flags.

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Sew up flags, enclosing the tassel. Do this by folding your flags with right sides together. Lay the tassel on the centre fold in the inside, so it’s enclosed. Pin along the long raw edge ready to be sewn up. The loop of your tassel should be visible, sticking out at the point. If you are enclosing a tassel, use your zipper foot attachment, which will allow you to stitch close to the loop. Sew 1cm in from the edge along the long side only. Turn the tassel through.

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Join and press bias binding. Most haberdashery departments sell this binding in lengths of 2.5m, so you will firstly need to sew the two lengths together and press the seam flat. Then, using your iron, press your bias binding in half lengthways evenly, so both edges lie one of top of each other.

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Measure and mark up flag position on bias binding. Sandwich the raw edge of your flag in the bias binding strip making sure the edge of the flag is right up against the folded edge of the bias binding and pin to secure. Do this with all the flags to ensure they’re evenly spaced. Using the same colour thread as the bias binding, sew along the outer edge of it.

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Finishing touches. Tie a neat little knot at either end of your bias binding. Your bunting is now ready to hang!

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Personalise your bunting • Play about with flag size. Miniaturising flags for children’s bedrooms looks sweet.

• Embellish the flags with machine embroidery, buttons, anything that takes your fancy and ties in with your theme.

• Experiment with different fabrics to suit the occasion. You could use a more luxurious fabric for a wedding, as opposed to cheery vintage offcuts for a picnic. www.green-olive.com Tel: 01832 273209

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If you have a special event in 2012, please give us a call.

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The Largest Selection of Meats Available in the Area We can supply all your BBQ needs for your Jubilee Celebrations – Burgers, Sausages, Rolls, Onions & other meats etc.

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FOOD & DRINK

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Nene Valley Living recommends Cherry House Restaurant, Werrington

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The Witch is Wicked

The Wicked Witch in Ryhall, near Stamford, is causing a stir, and not only because it’s co-owned by Posh manager Darren Ferguson. The former Millstone Inn has been transformed into a modern, fine dining establishment, with a chef (Daniel Gill) who has worked at The Midsummer House in Cambridge and Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir (both two Michelin stars). Our reviewer raved about his recent meal there, describing it as “serious, sophisticated cooking, which never loses sight of the fact that it needs to be delicious, nor is it over-finicky.” Dinner for two comes in at around £80 with wine, but Sunday lunch, is £15.95 for two courses, and there is also an interesting bar menu. Highly recommended.

The Wicked Witch, Bridge St, Ryhall, PE9 4HH Tel: 01780 763649 www.ryhallwitch.co.uk

The garage grill

A quirky themed pub restaurant has opened in Bourne. The Jubilee Garage is styled with industrial chic, including retro signs and petrol pumps, and the upstairs bar is adapted from an original 1972 VW camper van. There’s a family friendly menu including burgers, hot dogs, grills, nachos and delicious fries, and an appetizing Sunday brunch menu. Great fun and something really different 30 North St, Bourne, PE10 9AB www.jubileegaragebourne.com

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friend who for many years wrote a weekly food column in a daily newspaper once told me that the best restaurants were the ones where chefs went to dine on their evenings off. So when the Anton Mosimann-trained chef Keith John Smee recommended the Cherry House Restaurant in Werrington, that was good enough for me: I booked a table for two.

Joanna and I were warmly greeted by the proprietor, Andrew Corrick, who took over the business 18 years ago. He ushered us to seats in the cosy lounge, served us a couple of glasses of the outstanding house white wine (Rive Haute Colombard Sauvignon) and talked us through the menu. The Cherry House occupies a quaint 16th century building, so it is appropriate that the restaurant adopts the rather old-fashioned table d’hote fixed menu: three courses plus coffee and petit fours for £26.95.

Andrew explained that he changed the menu every fortnight – and his loyal regulars visited every fortnight to sample it. It must work, because even though it was a Wednesday evening, the place was filling up fast. Once we’d placed our orders, Andrew ushered us to a table in the corner of the main restaurant.

For starters, Joanna chose the green pea soup, but declined a dollop of minted crème fraiche. It was a wise decision, she said, because the richness of the topping would have detracted from the freshness of the peas. I chose a trio of filo pastry parcels filled with Brie, Stilton and Mozzarella, accompanied by a cranberry compote.

It was delicious and got me in the mood for the main event, which in my case was a Grasmere Farm pork fillet rolled in apricot and sage, served with a port wine sauce.

The pork was nicely crispy on the outside but meltingly juicy within.

Joanna opted for a grilled fillet of salmon with freshly-seared scallops, presented exquisitely on leek ribbons and a saffron butter sauce. Like my pork, it was served with a side dish of six seasonal vegetables, including creamy Dauphinoise potatoes.

She declared the salmon tasty, the scallops outstanding – succulent and not at all rubbery. Her only regret was that she was served two modest molluscs, when she could have happily consumed a dozen.

Still, at least it meant she had room for a generous homemade dessert. She opted for a raspberry crème brûlée, while I chose a dark chocolate and cherry mousse.

Both were luxuriously tasty. I finished with a cafetiere of fresh coffee, while Joanna chose a chamomile tea. The service was prompt and attentive throughout. We even got the crumbs brushed off the linen tablecloth between courses. It would have been nice to have chatted more, but conversation was difficult due to our table being placed under a speaker that was delivering very dull music of the type you get in airport lounges. It was the only thing that marred an otherwise wonderful meal.

It wasn’t cheap: with two glasses of wine apiece (£15.80) and a bottle of water (£2.95!), the bill came to £72.65. But the food is lovingly prepared from fresh ingredients and the Cherry House is the ideal venue for a special meal. No wonder top chefs eat there.

Dave Phillips Cherry House Restaurant, 125 Church Street, Werrington, Peterborough, PE4 6QF. Tel: 01733 571721 www.cherryhouserestaurant.co.uk NENE VALLEY LIVING MAY 2012

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Queen Elizabeth II is only the second monarch in the UK’s history to reach a Diamond Jubilee, the last being Queen Victoria. In this very special year the Queen and Prince Phillip will be visiting Stamford for the first time since June 1961, when they came to help Stamford celebrate its Quincentenary. To mark this special occasion, an event is being held at Burghley House with 10,000 guests invited from across Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Rutland from various organisations and charities.

To commemorate both the Queen’s visit and the event a limited edition programme has been commissioned.

The Lord Lieutenants of the four counties have joined with Local Living magazines to offer their readers an opportunity to purchase the only pre-event copies to be made available. These will be issued on a first-come first-served basis and will make an amazing keepsake of the Jubilee to be cherished and passed on to future generations.

The programme will contain articles about the Burghley Estate, Stamford, the history of Royal visits to the area and from each of the four counties. It will also have feature pieces on all the entertainment of the event including the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, the Red Arrows and the Northamptonshire Youth Choir, to mention but a few.

The cost of the programme is £5.00 and this includes the postage. To order your copy please fill in the form below: Please fill in the following details and send with your cheque for £5.00 (made payable to Rutland County Council) to Local Living Ltd, PO Road, Box 208, Stamford, Lincs, PE9 9FY 13 Cherryholt Bourne, Lincs, PE19 9LA

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LOCAL ART

Chronicler of the

Countryside Artist Carry Akroyd’s striking work captures the changes and challenges facing the English countryside. Fiona Cumberpatch met her at home in Northamptonshire. Photos: Lesley Anne Churchill

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inding artist Carry Akroyd’s Victorian cottage involves an intricate hand drawn map and a drive through a labrynth of country lanes. Fittingly for a printmaker and painter whose work is both a testament to, and a requiem for, a vanishing rural English landscape, she lives in a tiny hamlet amongst the Northamptonshire fields, streams and meadows that inspire her.

“I grew up in nearby Barnwell, and I never really thought that the area was so beautiful, I must always live here,” explains Carry. “Then I went away, to teach in London, and to travel, and it was while I was in India that I missed the greyness and ordinariness of it all. It has no tourist falseness about it.”

Carry’s work often depicts native species, the hare, the fox, herons, in a stylised, almost emblematic depiction of the countryside.

She works with various media: screen prints, lino cuts, and watercolours. “I’m primarily a printmaker, but some idea will demand to be a painting. I like to do different things,” she

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says. “What I am always trying to create is the sensation of being somewhere, so I’m collecting the information that contributes to my initial feeling of what I saw and felt when I first saw that place.” To help evoke that response, she uses colour unexpectedly – a pink infused stark winter landscape, for example. “I’ve always had a very instinctive use of colour. I know when a colour is wrong, but it’s wrong in my terms, not in terms of accuracy,” she suggests.

The cottage which she shares with partner Gordon Monk and their dog, Mephistopheles, reflects Carry’s affinity with colour. But there is nothing contrived about her surroundings.

“I’ve lived here for 28 years, but I’ve had hardly anything new for the house, apart from the chairs which Gordon has made,” says Carry.

They are beautiful, organic structures, made from cherry wood, ash and an oak piece which has been treated with vinegar and wire wool, to turn it a deep, inky black. Originally two cottages, dating to 1870, Carry’s house was knocked into one during the 1950s, creating a

higgledy piggledy layout of rooms. “Everything slopes in this house,” she says.

A small kitchen leads off a snug dining area, heated by a Rayburn which Carry and Gordon use to provide hot water, heat the radiators, do the cooking and, in winter, dry the washing.

“During the colder months, I work in this room if I haven’t lit the wood burner in my studio,” says Carry. She works constantly, on commissions (currently a set of book covers) as well as regular national and local exhibitions, and writing and illustrating her own books.

She recently completed a set of 16 lithographs, using some of the words of the Helpston poet John Clare (1793-1864). Her connection to Clare remains a strong and pivotal part of her work.

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“What I am always trying to create is the sensation of being somewhere, so I’m collecting the information that contributes to my initial feeling of what I saw and felt when I first saw that place.” annual Festival in Helpston, the village of his birth(once in Northamptonshire, but now in Cambridgeshire) an active society celebrating his work, and several recent novels inspired by his life, Carry Akroyd came to him long before he was fashionable.

“It was during the 1980s when wheat subsidies were at an all time high, and we lost ponds, hedges, trees and every little scrappy corner of wilderness to intensive arable farming,” she explains. “These agricultural changes were so intense, it felt like the front line. John Clare was outraged by the high wheat prices and Enclosures Acts of his day, which changed the landscape around him and prompted his outpourings. I had not turned to him before, but developments in farming made me read his work and ultimately, it lead to me writing my book, Nature’s Powers & Spells, Landscape Change, John Clare and Me. He still inspires me, as he is such a visual poet, and he has an unsentimental, knowledgeable way of looking at the world, and finding just the right expression.”

Carry often sketches in the field, and her home and garden are full of objects which she’s found on her travels. In the garden, she has made a path using round pebbles which she has gathered over the years. “They are glacially rounded and they’re here because of the Ice Age,” she says. “I’ve also found medieval pottery, which made me very interested in archaeology.” Beachcombing is another passion, and she has a huge collection of coloured fishing floats outside, and inside, a large bleached chunk of bone from a sperm whale. She has experimented with ironwork, and has made a small and rather wonderful sculpture of a fox (a recurrent image in her work) which she cut out using an oxyacetylene torch.

Success has been a slow burn for Carry Akroyd, but her work has never been more relevant, as humankind and the natural world intensify their painful dance. “Things have improved since the 1980s, but any recovery will not last if wheat prices rise again,” says Carry.

The trend towards large, intensive indoor dairy farms disturbs her: “we will lose grassland and grazing and that will have a tremendous impact on our flora and fauna,” she says. “Economics will always win out.”

In the meantime, she will continue to document the fields and the skies, and the creatures and plants that thrive there. “People always believe they have to go somewhere else to see beauty rather than understanding what is right under their nose,” she says. It’s that capacity to make the ordinary seem extraordinary which makes her work so captivating. www.carryakroyd.co.uk NENE VALLEY LIVING MAY 2012

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HEALTH & BEAUTY

Teeth fix-it If you have loose dentures, have you considered the MDI Denture Stabilization System? The MDI System consists of a miniature titanium alloy implant that acts like the root of your tooth and a retaining fixture that is added into the base of your denture.

The head of the implant is shaped like a ball, and the retaining fixture acts like a socket with a rubber O-ring. The O-ring snaps over the ball when the denture is seated and holds the denture firmly in place.

When seated, the denture gently rests on the gum tissue.

The latest news from local health and beauty businesses. By Bridget Steele

health & beauty notes The sugar roller coaster

Do you feel shaky and weak if you go too long between meals? Get a headache, feel irritable, even a little lightheaded? You’re not alone; our food choices can wreak havoc with our blood sugar levels. We need sustained, steady blood sugar levels. Your body will soon let you know when its supplies are running low; energy will dip and before you know it you’ll be reaching for the first thing that gives you the boost you feel you need, and it’s likely to be a chocolate bar, doughnut, or Danish pastry.

These foods will raise your blood sugar, but they’ll do it too rapidly. Simple sugars in white bread, pasta, cakes and biscuits are absorbed very quickly. You will get an immediate boost of energy… so isn’t that fine?

Unfortunately, a rapid rise in blood glucose isn’t what your body wants either. It will respond by producing more insulin than may otherwise have been warranted; glucose levels will rapidly decline, your energy will slump and those feelings of ravenous hunger, shakiness and headaches will be back! You find yourself on a sugar ‘roller coaster.’

Food choices matter; complex carbs (wholegrains, for example) and proteins (such as fish, eggs, or cheese) with each meal and snack will help you feel good for longer.

Carole Nicholson. BSc Nutritional Medicine mBANT, CN Nutrition, 8 Brookside, Glapthorn, Northamptonshire, PE8 5BG Tel: 01832 273743 e-mail carole@cnnutrition.co.uk www.cnnutrition.co.uk

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Stress is a part of life, but when lots of little stresses and some big ones happen in a relatively short period of time, we may feel overwhelmed and lose our ability to cope. Severe stress can lead to disturbed sleep and physical symptoms such as frequent migraines, back ache or stomach cramps. For some people, life can become dominated by fears, anxieties, panic attacks or depression.

Therapists and counsellors working from the Human Givens approach view these symptoms as signs that important emotional needs are not being met (maybe our lives feel lonely, too demanding or meaningless). Human Givens therapists use a range of proven, effective techniques to help people make the necessary changes in their lives, and to learn healthy coping strategies which enable them to move on with their lives as quickly as possible.

Francesca Farino is a chartered psychologist and Human Givens therapist working locally, with consulting rooms in King’s Cliffe and central Peterborough. She has experience in helping people suffering from all kinds of emotional distress.

For more information, or to make an appointment, contact Francesca on 07746 835153 or by email at: francesca@hgee.org.uk

Protect your eyes and look great this summer

Most of us are aware that the sun’s rays can cause permanent damage to the skin, but did you know that your eyes can suffer from over exposure, too? At The Oculist in Westgate Arcade, Peterborough, Emma and Gerry will offer the latest advice in eye protection. “Many spectacle wearers think they have a limited choice when it comes to prescription sunglasses, but our specialist lab is able to glaze almost any prescription into wraparound sunglasses, including polarised lenses and even varifocals,” explains Emma. The Oculist has a fantastic range of ready to wear and prescription sunglasses from well known designers such as Ray-Ban, Prada, Dior, Adidas, Roberto Cavalli and Tom Ford, plus specialist optical brands Mykita, Oliver Peoples, Maui Jim and Face a Face.

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Nutritional therapy is a natural approach to health which effectively supports: 4Digestion

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PEOPLE

The Music Man Kasabian, Snow Patrol and The Darkness have all played at Peterborough’s Willow Festival in the past, and founder Mark Ringer is the man who booked them. He tells Fiona Cumberpatch why the event is coming back to the city after a nine year break

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think I turned down Kasabian the first time they applied to play at The Willow Festival,” says Mark Ringer with a grin. “I didn’t think they were good enough. We took them second time round, though!”

Mark lives and breathes music, and has done for as long as he can remember. He founded The Willow Festival in 1998 and it ran through to 2003. “I wanted to get into the music industry even when I was at school in Walton in the 1970s. The trouble was, none of my teachers knew anything about it so I had to make my own way.”

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Bands to look out for Mark will be keeping an eye out for Wonderlush, and he’s also looking forward to the gospel choir. He also recommends: • King Kool, a heavy grunge band, featuring Dan Donovan (vocals and guitar) and Pas Struthers on drums.

• Burning Codes, the solo project of Belfast born singer and songwriter Paul Archer, who contributed vocals to five tracks on Snow Patrol’s Eyes Open album. Burning Codes has supported Elbow, Snow Patrol, Duke Special and many others.

He progressed from a job in a Peterborough music shop (Treasure Music in Bridge Street) to a career in London working for some of the large record company conglomerates. “But I wanted to bring the music industry to Peterborough,” says Mark.

The way he achieved that was through The Willow Festival. “The first year we got about 3,000 people along, and by 2003, we’d got 53,000, making it Europe’s largest free music festival.”

Why did it end? “During the six years we ran it, everything was a struggle and it was hard to gain support,” says Mark. “We were always being told that it was of no use to the city. Yet it was a cost neutral event which attracted thousands of people. Things become so difficult, I called it a day.” Despite numerous campaigns to resurrect the popular event, during which 22,000 people expressed their support, it wasn’t until Mark met current council leader Marco Cereste that he sensed a new attitude.

“Fifteen minutes into my first meeting with Marco, it was clear that things were different,” says Mark. “Here was someone who was committed into turning Peterborough into a city with the potential to be great again. I knew that we’d get support on a level that we’d never experienced before, so I took it on.”

The Festival, which runs from Friday 25th to Sunday 27th May on the Embankment, will showcase 123 bands of every genre on six stages. Punk, pop, and even a gospel choir will appear. “We’re not a celebrity festival,” says Mark. “That’s never been our aim. Every single artist plays live and we hope to introduce live music to an audience who may not have experienced it before.”

Mark’s reputation in the industry, in which he still works as a consultant (the Festival is done on a purely voluntary basis), means that he’s inundated with requests from bands. “I listen to everyone who approaches me,” says Mark. “Social media has changed everything, and there have been thousands of applications.”

The Festival is funded via sponsorship, stall holders and with support from Peterborough City Council. It takes so many hours of organisation that Mark has taken to setting his alarm and working on it through the early hours, “the only time the phone doesn’t ring.” He is already planning the 2013 event. But despite the commitment it demands, and the understanding from his long suffering family, Mark firmly believes that The Willow Festival is worthwhile. “Music can touch people in so many ways, it has huge value in society,” he says. “For years now, Peterborough hasn’t been great for the Arts, but that is changing. There’s a big untapped audience out there, and we’re going to reach them.”

For more details, including camping and accommodation, visit www. thewillowfestival.org.uk

Visit the Art Village For the first time, a group of artists and craftspeople will be showing their work and demonstrating their skills at The Willow Festival. The group will include painter Tony Nero, abstract artist Jaroslaw Sokol and mosaic artist Mahemuda Arsalani. Handmade of Peterborough, brainchild of Emily Henderson, will be getting the public involved with a range of crafts, and Fenland Textiles will be demonstrating crochet, knitting and textile work, including a Yarnbomb, a form of extreme knitted graffiti. More details at www. activeantiques.com NENE VALLEY LIVING MAY 2012

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Creative thinking Peterborough’s writers are raising their voices to be heard in more places and by more people than ever before. By Kelly Pipes.

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rom a poet who has taken the internet by storm to the bittersweet local tales played out by the Eastern Angles Theatre Company, Peterborough’s creative writing scene has built up a big enough head of steam to make London’s arts editors sit up and take note. Talented bards, such Mark Grist, a ‘Dead Poet’ whose lyrical prowess online was reported by the national tabloids and broadsheets in February, perform year-round across the city.

They pop up in places as varied as John Clare’s cottage, Helpston, at a real ale pub on the River Nene and in their wellies at a community allotment. But the tricky thing for fans of the spoken word can be finding out when. Soon, however, some of this writing talent will have a proper base in a city centre church. St John the Baptist’s, a medieval gem at the heart of the refurbished Cathedral Sqaure, has appointed its very first poet in residence – the ecclesiastically-named ex-Peterborough Poet Laureate, Pete ‘Cardinal’ Cox. Already a prolific presence on the creative scene for over 20 years, Pete penned his first poems from the pews on Easter Monday.

“To be poet in residence of this church is a real honour”, says Pete, “and we’ll only know if I’ve done the right job after my year is up. As to the inspiration I’m expecting, well expected inspiration is never as good as something that comes upon you. When I was poet in residence for the city’s Broadway Cemetery one of the great things was that I’d never know what I’d have to write for, and so it kept me on my toes.”

“I have done poetry in the past that has a Christian aspect, just as I’ve written with other belief systems in mind, for instance the Welsh mythological work drawn from the medieval Mabinogion.”

Inspirational Heritage Pete recited his work in the Palace of Westminster three years ago, after winning the John Clare Trust poetry prize, and he is clearly passionate about historical buildings, archaeology and local heritage. He already plans to write one poem inspired by the legend of St John’s bell tower and another dedicated to the ladies who run its coffee mornings.

“The residency will use the church as a muse for inspiration,” says a church spokeswoman, “highlighting its beautiful architecture and the church being at the heart of Peterborough’s heritage. The poet will also have opportunities to work with the growing community which is

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using St John’s. It will create a body of work that can be seen by the public and there will be events in the next year where audiences can get involved too.”

New audiences Pete took to poetry in his teens as an outlet for his lyrics, after school band mates went their separate ways. Sometimes described as a ‘punk poet’ and a satirist who rarely shies away from political issues, he hopes his presence at St John’s can open up the city’s poetry scene to a brand-new audience.

“The church already has a large community of people who come here, at the weekends for its coffee mornings, for example. Perhaps

during my time some of them will enjoy my work and if they haven’t already attended some of the poetry nights in the city perhaps they’ll be encouraged to do so,” he says.

Reigning Peterborough Poet Laureate, Nikki DiGiovanni, also hopes to share her creative writing with as wide an audience as possible.

She performs in family-friendly venues including Peterborough Central Library. Nikki says: “Parents with children and perhaps older people might not feel comfortable attending poetry nights in pubs, so that’s why it is important for there to be other options and for the city’s churches, historical buildings and libraries to be put to this use.”

Pete Cox, the first poet in residence for St John the Baptist church.

Budding writer or poetry buff?

For poetry events at St John’s Call: 01733 235888 Website: www.peterborough-stjohns.org.uk.

‘A Pint of Poetry’ - This friendly open-mic night runs on the second Wednesday of each month at Charters pub, Town Bridge, Peterborough. Ask to perform or sit back and enjoy.

Events and opportunities - Visit the Facebook pages of Peterborough Poets United, Speakeasy!! And Creative Peterborough (UK).

Poet Mark Grist - One half of the Peterborough-based ‘Dead Poets’, Grist performs with Mixy to challenge preconceptions about poetry and hip hop. They have appeared at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Web: www.deadpoetry.co.uk.

• The Eastern Angles theatre company, as part of the Platform Peterborough project, have woven local yarns into plays performed across the East of England – such as Our Nobby.

Web: www.easternangles.co.uk.

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uring the Civil War, it was a brave man who flaunted his Royalist sympathies. In 1655, Sir Justinian Isham of Lamport Hall hung a massive painting of King Charles I in the grandest room in his house. He paid for his impudence with a prison sentence. He’d already caused a stir in the county by commissioning a ‘reception suite’ in the Classical style to extend the Tudor manor house. Its design, by John Webb, principal assistant to the renowned architect Inigo Jones, was considered much too extravagant for the Puritan tastes of the time. Today its façade can be appreciated as the stylish centre of the southwest front and its interior as the spectacular High Room.

There’s a 1638 Bible that once belonged to King Charles I on show in the splendid library, given by the king’s chaplain to ‘his dearest friend, Sir Justinian 2nd Baronet.’ The 3rd Baronet went on an extended Grand Tour of Europe in 1676 and filled the house with treasures, while the eccentric Victorian 10th Baronet brought the first garden gnomes to England from Nuremburg and built a towering alpine rockery to house his collection of ‘little people.’

Surrounded by vistas of rolling hills and calm Northamptonshire countryside, stately Lamport Hall has been home to the Isham family for over 400 years.

Across the generations, as family fortunes waned and flourished, the Hall experienced many changes. Seeing it now, it’s hard to imagine that in the mid-20th century it was in dire straits, battered and bruised by its use as a British and Czech army base and Italian prisoner of war camp, and riddled with dry rot.

Sir Gyles Isham, 12th Baronet, became its saviour. After a brilliant career at Oxford he’d found fame as an actor, on the Stratford and London stage and with MGM Studios in Hollywood, appearing in films with Greta Garbo and Maureen O’Sullivan, until the Second World War intervened. Returning from active service in the Middle East, he was so shocked by the state of the Hall that he dedicated the rest of his life to saving his family home and in 1974 established the Lamport Hall Preservation Trust, with the wish that the house should be restored and run for the benefit of the public.

The restoration programme of the Hall, its estate and gardens, carried out by the Trust since 1986, has been a triumph. There are splendid

parkland views from Georgian shuttered windows as light streams into rooms furnished in period style and walls painted in soft pastel shades hung with family portraits and treasured paintings.

Leather bound books, many of them rare and unique, fill floor-toceiling shelves in the fine Library, where an 1877 terrestrial globe stands centre stage. Imposing portraits watch over elegant 18th and 19th century furniture and china in the Drawing Room, where French windows overlook the Italian garden and lawns beyond.

The superb 17th-century wood panelling lining the Oak Room comes with a strange history, for it was installed in 1907 by a tenant, Lord Ludlow, and kindly left for posterity.

With the sweeping, carved wood staircase as a backdrop, the room is a romantic setting for civil weddings.

King Charles I astride his white steed seems to be riding straight into the High Room, where the exquisite ceiling is a masterpiece of the plasterers’ art. The vast Van Dyk painting, used as a political statement

by Sir Justinian in 1655, occupies one wall of this magnificent room.

Opposite, a grand portrait by Paulus Van Somer of Anne of Denmark, wife of James I and mother of Charles I, underlines his Royalist credentials.

Upstairs, four-poster beds, fine period furniture and paintings fill bedrooms, while corridor displays reveal insights into the family, their lifestyles and collections. Back downstairs, tea and scones are served in the Victorian Dining Room, hung with 19th-century portraits and prints.

Outside, 10-acres of gardens and parkland await, including the walled cutting garden, one of the largest in England and full of vibrant colour.

• Lamport Hall and Gardens, Lamport, Northamptonshire NN6 9HD. Tel: 01604 686272. Open Easter Sunday to 14th October. Guided tours Wednesday and Thursday at 2.15 and 3pm; non-guided tours Bank Holiday Sundays and Mondays, May 19/20, October 13/14, 2-4pm. Admission: adult £8, senior £7.50, child (11-18) £2.50.

An array of events, including live theatre, traditional jazz, shows, arts and festivals as well as gardening and art study days are held throughout the year. For a full listing see www.lamporthall.co.uk

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May in bloom

It’s the perfect month for garden visiting. Sue Dobson picks highlights in our region, open on weekends for the National Garden Scheme

1A The Village, Orton Longueville, Peterborough A pretty garden where roses, honeysuckle and clematis clamber over arches among trees, shrubs and herbaceous beds.

Where? PE2 7DN, off the A605 Oundle Road.

When? Sunday 27th May, 11am-5pm Cost? £2.50.

Mill House, Stamford Road, Market Deeping The River Welland runs through this four acre informal garden where different areas, including a pond and bog garden, display a variety of interesting plants. Children enjoy the ‘fairy walk’. Teas, classic cars.

Where? PE6 8AB. Off the A15/A16 roundabout.

When? Saturday 5th May, 12-5pm.

Cost? £3.50.

Walcot Hall, Barnack Twenty acres of tree-filled grounds with a lake, ornamental ponds, stone follies and a new rose garden. Teas, plant stall.

Where? PE9 3EU. 3 miles south of Stamford.

When? Sunday 20th May, 2-6pm.

Cost? £4, child £1.

Jericho, 42 Market Place, Oundle An arch in a massive hornbeam hedge invites the visitor in to a tranquil walled garden of ‘secret’ spaces. Clipped box and lavender frame the herb garden, carpets of flowers contrast with columns of juniper and Irish yew. Teas, plant stall.

Where? PE8 4AJ. Off the Market Square in Oundle.

When? Sunday 27th May, 12-5pm.

Cost? £3.

Titchmarsh House, Chapel Street, Titchmarsh Cherries, magnolias, shrub roses and irises feature amid walled herbaceous borders, unusual shrubs and an ornamental vegetable garden in over four acres of grounds.

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Where? NN14 3DA. Off the A605.

When? Saturday 19th May, 2-6pm.

Cost? £3.

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Island Hall, Godmanchester A Chinese bridge crosses a Saxon mill race to a wildflower island in this three-acre riverside garden that’s been restored to its mid-18th century formal design with box hedging, parterres and topiary. Homemade teas.

Where? PE29 2BA, 1mile south of Huntingdon off the A14.

When? Sunday 27 May, 11am-5pm.

Cost? £4.

Village gardens Ramsey Forty Foot Visit three contrasting village gardens where massive elms back a water garden with bog and aquatic plants, woodland and arid plantings; a riverside cottage garden is filled with old roses alongside ferns, shrubs and a vegetable garden; and a miniature steam railway features among shrub beds and herbaceous borders.

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Where? PE26 2YA, on the B1096.

When? Sunday 27th May, 2-6pm Cost? Combined admission £3.

Uppingham Three very different gardens, linked by the same stream, are within walking distance of the town centre. Lawns with mature trees, an orchard, vegetable garden and flower beds slope down from a sheltered terrace; an acre of garden with steps and slopes combines lawns, herbaceous borders, Himalayan blue poppies and a kitchen garden while a recently

redesigned garden includes a dry stone walled terrace and woodland walk. Teas, plant stall.

Where? LE15 9TT. A6003, off A47.

When? Sunday 22nd May, 2-5.30pm.

Cost? Combined admission £4.

Day Out Ely gardens Spend a day in the historic city and include a circular walk (about two miles) from the Cathedral along the river and Nature Trail to visit five different gardens including a small walled garden where the emphasis is on foliage; an eclectic town garden with themes from alpine to herbaceous, all linked by a model railway; and a lovely garden with cathedral and fenland views that includes a short trail for children. The Bishop of Huntingdon’s garden, made for family and entertaining, has herbaceous borders and mature trees, ponds, a small orchard, vegetable garden and a summerhouse. Homemade teas.

Where? Ely, CB7 4TX. When? Sunday 27 May, 2-6pm.

Cost? Combined admission £5.

• Unless otherwise noted, admission to the gardens is free for children accompanying an adult.

85 years of the National Gardens Scheme In 1927, some of grandest gardens in England and Wales opened to the public in aid of what is now the National Gardens Scheme (NGS), which was established that year to raise money for the nurses of the Queen’s Nursing Institute. Entry cost one shilling (5p) and marked a revolution in unrestricted public access to the grand and glorious acres of stately homes, manors, halls and castles.

Today more than 3,700 mainly private gardens, large and small, open for the charity, which over 85 years has donated more than £35 million to nursing, caring and gardening charities. In 2012 it’s expected that £2.6m will be distributed to beneficiaries including The Queen’s Nursing Institute, Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Help the Hospices, Crossroads Care, Perennial and the Alzheimer’s Society.

Full details and directions to all the gardens can be found in the NGS ‘Yellowbook’ on sale in bookshops and on the National Gardens Scheme website: www.ngs.org.uk

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A spring cycle ride It’s the perfect time of year to take to your bike. Here, we recommend a gentle 10.5 mile ride around the Nene Park via Mill Lane, Castor and Alwalton Village. Route compiled by Bristows Cycles, Peterborough

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Rear of Asda, cycle route 63 and 53 (Wellingtonia).

Follow cycle path over the cycle/foot bridge directly behind Asda over the River Nene, and under the railway bridge, keeping the river on your right. With Railworld on the left, follow the path alongside the Nene Valley Railway over two crossings, towards Orton Mere.

From Orton Mere, keeping the railway on the right, follow the path left, then right, keeping the car park and small lake on left (don’t go over the railway to the Mere). Follow path alongside railway (still on the right) and golf course and tall trees on left, to the end of the long straight path.

Turn right over the level crossing into the Nene Park, then keep left and follow path alongside the railway (on left) to Ham Lane.

Careful of the busy road. (Detour to the right here on the cyclepath into Ferry Meadows if you need toilets or the café). Cross the road, straight over and keep straight on the track that follows the railway (on left) and caravan site on the right. Follow to end. (Detour here to the Watersports Centre for toilets or café by following path to the left).

Go straight over the road and join the track again, keeping the railway bridge and railway on left, just past the trees on left, then turn to the left. Follow footpath towards the railway, bear right towards next level crossing. Pass over this and bear right, the railway will now be on the right and farm fields on the left. Follow long straight path all the way to the end, under the railway bridge and round to the left to join Mill Lane.

Turn right and follow the road down to the mill, through the gate onto the Nene Way. Follow this to the narrow bridge over the river and cross fields to the lock. Cross the lock then turn left to the next lock over the river, carry on to the corner, through the gate and up a steep hill and follow road past church on the right, down to Post Office/tea rooms on left and the Cuckoo Inn on your right.

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At the T junction with Oundle Road (A605), turn left on to the cycle path and follow alongside the slip road for the main road.

Follow the cycle path (signed Nene Park/City Centre) to Lynch Wood business park, cross the road (Holiday Inn on left), you will see the A B Agri building in front. Follow the cycle path parallel to the A605 on right and the business park on your left. At the end, cross the road towards the Norwich & Peterborough building, but keep it on your left, and follow cyclepath down the side of the N & P building. At the end cross the road (Wistow Way), the Chequers pub is on the left. Turn right onto the cyclepath and go straight over the roads into Brackenwood and then Paulsgrove. Continue until path bears to the left (Blue footbridge will be off to the right here), keep left and follow path at the end (T Junction).

Turn right, taking the path down to the

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underpass, go straight up the other side of the underpass towards the left, then bear right towards Ferry Meadows. Follow the path to the end, turn left at level crossing in Ferry Meadows, turn right and follow path alongside the Nene Valley railway and retrace your steps to the City Centre.

Please note the part to Alwalton across the fields to the locks can be muddy at certain times of the year). Refreshments are available at the Nene Valley Railway station at Orton Mere (opening hours are seasonal), the Visitor Centre Café as you enter Ferry Meadows from Ham Lane, at the Watersports Centre near the big lake in Ferry Meadows, the Tea Rooms at the Post Office and the Cuckoo Inn, both in Alwalton.

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MOTORING

The RISING COST OF YOUR CAR The cost of driving is soaring and it is not going to get any cheaper as a result of a number of Budget 2012 measures. Ashley Martin does the maths

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hether you drive your own car or a company car you will experience a rise in motoring costs in 2012/13 thanks to Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.

The Chancellor ignored the requests of motoring groups and industry to delay, or even axe, the scheduled August 1, 2012 3.02p per litre rise in fuel duty.

With pump prices already at record levels 140.02p per litre for unleaded petrol and 146.7p per litre for diesel - the duty rise will add further pressure to stretched household and business budgets That is before taking into account the socalled ‘perfect storm’ of adverse factors that have helped drive up wholesale prices of both petrol and diesel to the extent that they are hitting new highs almost daily. Those adverse factors include: • The stand-off between the Western powers and Iran over their nuclear programme tightening global supply with the European Union agreeing to an embargo on oil supplies from Iran starting this summer.

• The Pound remaining weak against the US Dollar, the global petro-currency.

• Financial problems at some of Europe’s ageing refineries may affect local UK supply.

• The continuing strong crude oil demand in Asia and other emerging economies.

Meanwhile, on April 1 most standard and first year rates of Vehicle Excise Duty increased in line with inflation.

However, in a bid to encourage further demand for low emission vehicles, standard VED rates for cars with up to 120 g/km CO2 were frozen. Additionally, first year rates for cars emitting up to 130 g/km remain at £0.

Elsewhere, across the 13-band system (A-M), there were increases in standard and first year ranging from £5 for most categories to £30 in the first year rate for vehicles emitting more

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than 255 g/km (band M).

Additionally, increases in company car tax rates for 2012/13 and 2013/14 were already known, but the Chancellor announced further rises for 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17.

There will be a further tightening of company car tax thresholds by one percentage point for cars emitting more than 75 g/km of CO2, to a maximum of 35% in 2014/15, and by two percentage points, to a maximum of 37% in both 2015/16 and 2016/17.

From April 2015, the current five-year exemption for zero carbon and ultra low carbon emission vehicles will end. The appropriate percentage for zero emission electric cars and low carbon vehicles will be 13% from April 2015 and will increase by two percentage points to 15% in 2016/17.

The surprise decision not to offer any benefit-in-kind tax incentive from April 2015 to company car drivers to choose an electric car could render demand for the breakthrough technology redundant before it has truly taken off unless manufacturers bring list prices into line with those for petrol and diesel models.

From April 2016, the Government will remove the 3% diesel supplement differential so that diesel cars will be subject to the same level of tax as other cars.

HM Revenue & Customs has calculated that the increase in newly announced company car tax rates will on average result in an employee driving a petrol-engined car paying an additional £70 in 2014/15, £165 in 2015/16 and

£165 in 2016/17.

Meanwhile, an employee driving a diesel company car will see average increases of £85 in 2014/15 and £190 in 2015/16, followed by a reduction of £85 in 2016/17 when the existing 3% supplement is removed.

The RAC has calculated the soaring annual cost of owning and running a car privately up 14% (£819) to £6,689 per annum (£5,231 excluding average fuel use) last year.

Drivers can do little directly about the high cost of fuel, although surveys highlight that many motorists can cut back on distances travelled. The RAC’s top tips for saving fuel include: • Drive smoothly and plan ahead anticipating the road ahead avoiding sharp braking and accelerating • Stick to the speed limits • Don’t rev - the more you rev the more it will cost in fuel.

• Check tyre pressures regularly • Shop around for fuel But company car drivers can keep increases in benefit-in-kind tax bills in check by choosing low emission vehicles.

Many motor manufacturers specially badge the lowest emission most fuel efficient models in their ranges. For example, Volvo’s ‘DRIVe’ nomenclature cars across its model range includes vehicles such as the C30 1.6, S40 1.6 and V50 (emissions of 99 g/km), the S60 1.6 (114 g/km) and the V60, V70, S80 1.6 (119 g/km).

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Free. Peterborough Museum, Priestgate Peterborough, PE1 1. 01733 864663; museum@vivacitypeterborough.com

Saturday, 5 May Baillies Mill’s Accordion Band Concert 8.00pm Toe- tapping rhythms all the way from Northern Ireland.

Tickets: £8.00 including light refreshments.

Accompanied children free. St Mary’s Church, Orton Waterville, Peterborough, PE2 5EQ.

Saturday 5 - Sunday 6 May Knobworth 2pm Real ale, cider and a music festival with local bands at The Angel Inn, Yarwell, helping to raise awareness and funding for Everyman raising money for research into prostate and testicular cancers. www.knobworth.com; www.angelinnyarwell.com

Monday 7 May Stilton Cheese Rolling 10am Maypole dancing, live music, ‘Molly’ dancing, fairground rides, stalls and more.

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Diary dates Yasmin Bradley selects interesting events for May

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Withering Looks, 7.30pm Award–winning LipService Theatre present their hilarious Brontë spoof! £10.00 (£7.50) Key Theatre, Embankment Road, Peterborough, PE1 1EF. 01733 207237/207239 key.theatre@vivacity-peterborough.com www.vivacity-peterborough.com/venues/key-theatre

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Wednesday 16 May

Flower Arranging Evening 7.30pm Demonstrations by professional floral designer, Robert Stubb.

Tickets: £8.00 including a glass of wine. Village Hall, Castor, Peterborough, PE5 7AX 01733 380303 or jenton.corke@talktalk.net

Peterborough Artists Open Studios Group Exhibition Painting, jewellery, woodwork, ceramics, mosaics, textiles with demonstrations and the chance to meet the locallybased artists… plus live music.

Cathedral Square, Peterborough, PE1 1XL www.paos.org.uk

May

Castor Plant Fayre 10.00am – 4.00pm Come and stock your plot with vegetables, perennials, annuals, hanging baskets and a selection of wild flowers all at competitive prices.

Free. Castor Village Hall, Castor, Peterborough, PE5 7AX. 01733 380773. jenton.corke@talktalk.net

Sheep Shearing Weekend 11am, 1pm and 3pm Lincoln Longwool and Jacob sheep have their annual haircut.

Normal admission prices. Sacrewell Farm & Country Centre, Thornhaugh, Peterborough, PE8 6HJ 01780 782254. www.sacrewell.org.uk

Thursday 17 May

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Vintage and Commercial Tractor Run 11am – 2pm Passing through Newborough and surrounding villages with a BBQ to finish.

Free: Start and finish at Willow Brook Farm, Stamford Road, Helpston Heath, Peterborough, PE6 7EL. 07718971902 . www.newboroughyoungfarmers.co.uk.

Friday 25 May Music in Quiet Places: Castalian String Quartet 8pm Magical music in a sensational setting.

Tickets: £13 (£11); under 21s: £5. Church of St Mary the Virgin, 6 Church Street, Titchmarsh, NN14 3DB. 01832 274734. www.oundlefestival.org.uk

Monday 28 May, An Evening with bestselling author, Joanne Harris 7pm Joanne talks about her new novel, Peaches for Monsieur le Curé, published this month and the sequel to Chocolat.

Tickets: £3 (£2) Central Library, Broadway, Peterborough, PE1 1RX. 01733 864280.

Tuesday 29th May

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2012 Halfords Tour Series Calendar 7pm Catch the team-based, televised cycling series competing on a city-centre circuit led by Peterborough’s own Steve Lampier.

Cathedral Square, Peterborough, PE1 1XL. www.paos.org.uk.

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Thursday 31 May

27 SUNDAY

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 5pm Roald Dahl’s classic tale of Willy Wonka, owner of a world-famous chocolate factory brought brilliantly to life by young actors.

Tickets: £5. The Stahl Theatre West Street, Oundle, PE8 4EJ. 01832 273 930. Box Office: 01832 27393. www.stahltheatre.co.uk.

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