North Norfolk Living Special edition 2014

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HOME & GARDEN/FOOD & DRINK/PEOPLE & PLACES

NORFOLK LIVING COVERING THE COAST, BURNHAM MARKET, WELLS, HOLT & SURROUNDING VILLAGES

Glorious Art Galleries North Norfolk is well served

Winter Driving: Take Care!

Winter walking: Gentle strolling to put a glow in your cheeks!

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CONTENTS

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W W W . N O R T H N O R F O L K L I V I N G . C O . U K

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s I write this I am just back from looking at the new coastal landscape that has been created by the sea surge on Thursday December 5. I have to conclude; this is Mother Nature at her most powerful, highlighting to me the everchanging nature of our beautiful coastline.

Although very daunting, the events of the night of December 6 highlighted several very positive issues. People acted sensibly and stayed safe. The authorities and weather experts gave us plenty of warning that the surge was a very real possibility and once the warning was given our incredible communities swung into action.

Rest stations were set up in schools and village halls up and down the coast for those that needed evacuating and for the emergency services to take a breather. The Coast Guard started patrolling early to work to prevent as many problems as possible. Everybody did his or her bit.

Many houses were flooded, property lost and damaged and our hearts go out to the people involved; vast tracks of our nature reserves have been changed irreconcilably, roads were closed for days as the debris was cleared, farmers lost valuable agricultural land under five feet of water and our famous Norfolk Coast Path has been breached in many places.

Despite all this devastation our communities held strong and helped each other. I for one am very proud to live amongst you.

Happy New Year all!

Beachcombing – What’s On! What’s Good and Where to go!

Art: Galleries Round-Up Food: Local butcher Arthur Howell looks at customer tastes over the years 10 – 11 Home Interiors: Get fresh for the spring season 13 Outdoors: A gentle winter walk 15 Winter motoring with Brian Vertigen 16 Amanda Loose has ‘Gone Fishin’ with Norfolk Fishing Trips 19 Eating Out: Honor Welford enjoys great service as well as great food at The King William in Sedgeford 21 Peter Low explains the work of the Burnham Overy Harbour Trust and how they need support to protect our coastline.

21 A hidden Norfolk gem: The Riddle in Walsingham – real food, cooked properly says Lin Murray 22 The North Norfolk Living covers of 2013 24 Good carbs. Bad carbs. Our resident health, nutrition and fitness expert Bo Tyler explains 26 – 27 Boldly go! Amanda Loose looks at the latest trends in fabrics 29 What makes North Norfolk so special? – we ask local business woman Hetti Simpson 30 Keeping things transparent! Amanda Loose checks out SALT glass studios glassmaking courses – see the results!

30 Norfolk author Richard Mabey talks about the weather in his new book 5 7 8

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Editor

North Norfolk Living magazine @NNorfolkLiving Editor & Advertising Manager Lin Murray Email: lin@northnorfolkliving.co.uk Lin Murray 07881 657944 Email: lin@northnorfolkliving.co.uk Assistant Editor Amanda Loose Email: amanda@northnorfolkliving.co.uk Write to North Norfolk Living Magazine, PO Box 208, Stamford. Lincs. PE9 9FY Head of Design Steven Handley Email: steve@locallivingdesign.co.uk Senior Designer Nik Ellis Email: nik@locallivingdesign.co.uk Publisher Nicholas Rudd-Jones 01780 765571 Email: nicholas@bestlocalliving.co.uk Published by Local Living Ltd, PO Box 208, Stamford, Lincs. PE9 9FY www.bestlocalliving.co.uk 01780 765571 Printed by Warners of Bourne

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Amanda Loose

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LOCAL NEWS

Andrew joins Titchwell Manor team Here at North Norfolk Living we are particularly thrilled to see that the lovely Andrew McPherson (formerly Director at the Hoste) is now fronting things at Titchwell Manor. We thought that we had lost his excellent skills to the area but happily no. He joins award winning Head Chef Eric Snaith and team at this popular coastal venue.

Andrew says: ‘I’m thrilled to join the team at Titchwell Manor. Having spent over 20 happy years at The Hoste I felt it was time to explore new pastures and take up a new challenge.

As well as offering boutique accommodation and exquisite food, the hotel has an exciting calendar of events including its Supper Club held every other month and its fantastic summer Fete. I’m really looking forward to getting stuck in’ We would also like to wish outgoing Manager Mark all the very best in his new post at the Dabbling Duck in Massingham.

Beachcombin gs What’s on , What’s good and Where to go!

National Nest Box Week Feb 14-21 Do something really practical for our much loved wild owls this National Nest Box Week! Adopt a Box for a mere £18 and you’ll receive amongst other goodies, a report each year on who has used your box. Adopting a Box makes the most perfect Valentine’s Day present, everybody loves owls! www.hawkandowl.org/adopt-a-box or call 01328 856 788 for more information.

‘Nest box adoption makes a superb gift for any one, of any age, who loves owls’ Chris Packham – President of The Hawk and Owl Trust Fact: It is estimated that four out of five barn owl pairs have to use an artificial nest box now due to lack of traditional nesting sites in old barns and trees Alternatively, if you have the land or live adjacent to good rough grassland habitat (rough

• Titchwell Manor, Titchwell, Norfolk PE31 8BB 01485 210221 www.titchwellmanor.com • The Dabbling Duck Great Massingham, Norfolk PE32 2HN 01485 520827 www.dabblingduck.co.uk

Village Cinema

grassland is the home of an owls main food source – the field vole) you could buy your very own nest box!

These are made at Sculthorpe Moor Nature Reserve and can be ordered online at www.shop.hawkandowl.org or call 01328 856 788

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North Creake Village Hall, tickets from 01328 738959, £5 each

GREAT MASSINGHAM FILM CLUB Thursday 20 February, 7.30pm Captain Phillips (12A) Starring Tom Hanks as the captain of a merchant ship hijacked off Somalia. Directed by Paul Greengrass.

Great Massingham Village Hall, tickets £3.50 on the door.

STANHOE Friday 7 March, 7.30pm Philomena (12A) Directed by Stephen Frears, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan. Based on the true story of a woman searching for the long lost son she was forced to give up for adoption decades ago.

The Reading Room, Stanhoe.

Tickets £5 on the door.

NORTH CREAKE Tuesday 18 February, 7.30pm Blue Jasmine (12A) A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million, but isn’t bringing money, peace, or love.

Directed by Woody Allen, starring Cate Blanchett and Alec Baldwin.

SYDERSTONE VILLAGE CINEMA IN ASSOCIATION WITH CREATIVE ARTS EAST Saturday 22 February, 7.30pm Wadjda (PG) Wadjda is a 10 year old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

She is fun loving and outgoing and longs for a bicycle, something normally reserved for boys. Her

mother refuses to buy her one so she decides to raise the money to buy it herself.

Amy Robsart Village Hall, Syderstone. Advance tickets £3.50, 01485 578588/ 578171, or email cinema@syderstone.com

planned, including fortnightly screenings on Monday nights and their Third Film Festival from March 7th to 9th. Visit wells-cinema.com for details.

THORNHAM VILLAGE CINEMA Wednesday 19 February, 7.30pm Le Week-end (15) A British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage. Call 0781 802 8687 for tickets, £5 each, collect and pay at the door.

WALSINGHAM PICTURE PALACE Visit www.walsinghamvillage.org for their spring programme.

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ART

Gallery round up From dog shows to coronation durbars, 2014 looks set to be an interesting year in North Norfolk’s galleries, says Amanda Loose

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he Red Dot Gallery in Holt are holding their very own dog show this spring. For two weeks, from February 28th to March 14th, the gallery will be celebrating Crufts 2014 with an exhibition devoted to ‘Best Friends’. Red Dot has a reputation for artwork and sculpture with a canine theme and the show will include Zany Canines by Mary Carlson such as ‘Yellow Tie Affair’, pictured, Bronze Edition Sculpture by Rosemary Cook and Heirloom Cushions of a Labrador variety.

The Pinkfoot Gallery in Cley is starting the year with some stunning new work.

Peter Wileman, former President and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters will be showing new oils – a collection from North Norfolk - including Sunset, Burnham Overy Staithe (pictured). Stephen Henderson who carves wooden sculptures of birds and fish, and Norfolk based wildlife artist Robin Bouttell will be showing new pieces alongside ceramic sculptures by Blandine Anderson.

The gallery will also be exhibiting bronzes, glasswork, prints and locally published and printed books from Red Hare Publishing Ltd. Look out for North Norfolk By Night, by Jody Lawrence, due out in April. Jody specialises in night time photography, and using moonlight and artificial lighting, has created a series of pictures with a unique look at the local landscape.

It’s out with the old and in with the new as Pocock’s The Artmonger in Burnham Market stages The Artmonger Spring Clean! Throughout March there will be good reductions on old stock, as well as lots of new additions of 19th and 20th century pictures as well as contemporary works.

Coming up at The Artmonger in June is the Annual Exhibition of Recent Works by award winning local artist, Rebecca Lloyd, and in September ‘A Glimpse of Empire’ – a fascinating exhibition of photographs taken by Lilah Wingfield recording her childhood at Holkham Hall and her visit to India for the Royal Durbar in 1911.

Down the road, Burnham Grapevine Gallery starts 2014 with a Spring Show opening this month, including paintings by Cornish artist, Patrick Haughton.

Reflecting a life of art and music in Cornwall and Brittany, his works often include fragments of found objects and documents. Also featuring are new metal sculptures by David Killick and ceramic works by Richard Godfrey. Grapevine has represented Richard in East Anglia for over 10 years, but this will be the first time his new decorative work will be shown here.

Later in the spring the gallery is hosting ‘Out and about’, new paintings by a true Norfolk Hero, Brian Hinton. The Midsummer exhibition is another first, North Norfolk as seen through the eyes of Mike Bernard, arguably the country’s best known artist working in mixed media.

Burnham Grapevine, Burnham Market 01328 730125 www.burnhamgrapevine.co.uk Pinkfoot Gallery, Cley 01263 740947 www.pinkfootgallery.co.uk Pocock’s The Artmonger, Burnham Market Patrick 01328 730370 www.theartmonger.co.uk Haughton The Red Dot Gallery, Holt 01263 710287 at Burnham www.thereddotgallery.com Gr apevine Red Hare Publishing Ltd www.redharepublishing.co.uk

Sunset, Burnham Overy Staithe, oil on canvas, Pinkfoot Gallery

? Welsh River, attributed to John Varley O.W.S (1778-1842), Pocock's The Artmonger

Yellow Tie Affair, Mary Carlson at The Red Dot Gallery

Sophie Smith at Artemis Homes & Antiques writes: This Arts & Crafts screen circa 1905 is decorated with three lithographs by the Tabor-Prang Art Company, a company with a fascinating history.

Born in Prussia in 1824, Louis Prang emigrated to America in 1850. There he started producing high quality lithographs, travelling to Germany to learn new cutting edge techniques. In 1874 his company produced Christmas cards for the popular English market and became the first company to begin selling Christmas cards in America, so is sometimes known as ‘the father of the American Christmas card’. In 1897 the company merged, creating the Tabor Prang Art Company which continued production until 1938.

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A cut above the rest Kate Cleaver and Amanda Loose talk to butcher Arthur Howell about the changing patterns in customer tastes over the years and highlights some of his favourite cuts. Photos by albanpix.com

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rthur Howell still remembers his father’s staff coming into the back of the shop about 45 years ago to ask whether they could cut a sirloin to make something called a sirloin steak. Sirloin and rib eye steak were almost unheard of back then. When Arthur went into the business, launched by his Grandfather, it was all about big joints of meat used through the week and cheaper cuts like chuck steak compared with sirloin.

The meals our grandparents ate have been largely ignored by the under 40s. Few had actually cooked with hotpot chops, brisket or feather steak until recently when credit crunch squeezing made consumers determined to cut their bills without compromising on taste or nutrition.

But things have come almost a full circle. The trend is once again for fresh home-cooked food with economy in mind, says Arthur: “Interest in the cheaper cuts is definitely coming back into fashion. Cuts like shoulder of pork, hock, and cheek liver, lamb shoulder, chicken thighs and beef feather steak skirt, brisket and oxtail help to ease the burden on our wallets.”

Expensive white meats like chicken breast or cuts from the back of cattle, like loin and fillet come from the part of the animal which does the least work so is the most tender. Cheaper cuts often come from tougher, muscled areas - and are well worth the slow cooking in stews and casseroles to soften them and release flavours. For example, a leg of lamb costs more per kilo than a shoulder of lamb.

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Arthur Howell and Jane Trewhella a student of the School of Artisan Food based in Nottinghamshire

Many shoppers would not contemplate buying offal, but the edible internal parts of animals offer a selection of unusual, exciting tastes and textures which are quite unlike those of muscle meats, and which few people know how to prepare or cook. The more wellknown are oxtail, tongue, kidneys and liver and the more specialised tripe, ox cheek and pig trotters, a useful thickener for stews.

The shelf life of offal is short and ideally it should be used on the day it is purchased. When buying loose from a butcher it should look fresh, clean and moist with no dry patches and with an even colour and texture.

Sausages have hung onto their popularity being a regular and inexpensive buy for everyone. To begin with they were bought as a means of using up off cuts but butchers like Arthur now cut meat specifically for sausages and with the addition of herbs and spices, they have become a source of real creativity.

Recently Arthur was adding apple juice from the local cider makers and Mrs Temple’s cheese to create the latest sizzling sensation.

Arthur’s Brisket “A favourite of mine is Brisket cooked in a hot pot which is so enjoyable on those snowy winter’s nights. When drawing that pot roast out of the oven removing the lid the wonderful aromatic smell fills the air and to see those winter root vegetables all in a thick gravy and spooned out onto a plate and eaten with a glass of red wine - what could be better?”

2.5lb (1.25kg) rolled brisket, 8 small onions or shallots 8 baby carrots 6 celery sticks diced into 2 inch pieces A diced swede Beef dripping or oil 4 large flat field mushrooms A small tied bunch of thyme, rosemary and a bay leaf 2 pints or 2 large cans of Guinness or real ale 2 tablespoons of flour Pepper and salt Use an ovenproof casserole dish with a fitting lid big enough to put the brisket joint and vegetables in. First heat the pan on the oven top and brown the joint all over in the pan with the dripping/oil. Remove from pan to a plate. Now brown the onions/shallots, carrots, celery, and swede and remove to plate. Empty out fat from pan; replace the brisket and the vegetables and mushrooms and sprinkle over flour and mix it. Looks awful at this stage but don’t worry. Pour on Guinness/ale add in herb bunch and pepper (add salt to taste to gravy once cooked ).

Bring to a gentle simmer, fit lid, (add a layer of foil over the lid if its not fitting tightly) and put in a 140 degrees oven for 3 hours.

Wells-next-the-Sea 01328 710 228; Burnham Market 01328 738 230; Binham 01328 830 239 www.arthurhowell.com

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As ever, an eclectic collection from some of our gallery artists.

Bright and beautiful is our theme for late winter as spring beckons and calls.

Mary Carlson’s ‘Rain Walkers’ (Fig. 1) evokes a cooling summer shower.

Robert Heindel’s ‘Glitter Girl on Orange’ (Fig. 2) has all the razzmatazz of contemporary dance; we do in fact hold the most extensive selection of Heindel prints you are ever likely to see. ‘The Lion Tamer’s Wife’ (Fig. 3) is the latest and appropriately titled oil on canvas by Lizzie Riches, one from a selection of recent works now hanging in the gallery. We are delighted to have a gallery exclusive, two brand new limited prints from Lucy Boydell, pictured is ‘Red Ellis Stag’ (Fig. 4) the other image being a hare at full speed. Each in an edition of just 15. As ever the Heirloom Cushion Collection proves one of our most popular lines, many more to see in the gallery.

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HOME INTERIORS

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pring hasn’t even sprung, but designers and interiors lovers alike are poised to spring into action. A new season beckons, and with it thoughts of tweaking and titivating, revamping and refreshing our homes. It’s time to dust off your paint brushes, and clear out your clutter!

“I usually do this in mid-February,” says Nanci Gillett of Burnham Interiors: “I’m so anxious for spring to come that I can’t contain it any longer!

It’s that whole spring clean ethos, wiping away excess clutter, a bit of elbow grease, and after a few easy inexpensive changes you’ll perk up immediately.”

Tom Clarke at The Old Stores, Roydon, agrees: “Once Christmas is over and we start to think of spring, we begin to look at ways to revamp the house. You needn’t spend a fortune, and a few simple ideas can transform any room in your home.”

By the time you’re reading this, Nanci’s Poinsettias and all the reds of Christmas will be long gone, replaced by spring bulbs like Paperwhites, Grape Hyacinths and Snowdrops in baskets round her house: “They all herald spring, the colours are fresh and make a huge difference. I like a change of colours and to get a bit of fresh air through the house.

“If you’re a scented candle person, put the figgy pudding or orange and cinnamon away and replace it with a spring scent.

“A quick lick of paint and with it a change of colour always makes you feel good. I am a stockist for Farrow & Ball and love their new colour, Stiffkey Blue. It’s the most fantastic blue and is the colour of Stiffkey mud!

“I try to sweep away as much of the heaviness as I can, and introduce lighter touches like new cushion covers and a fabulous throw, replacing chunky knits with lighter cotton waffles. It’s time to declutter and introduce new storage.”

If you fancy revamping your curtains, Nanci advises checking out Victoria Bain’s embroidered panels, tapes and edges: “They suit up here beautifully and are a great quick fix. Use one of her lovely wide tapes as a leading edge on your curtains, an inexpensive way to refresh a pair of curtains. Add one to the bottom edge of a Roman blind, for a fresh, unfussy look.”

As for your bathroom, says Nanci, try a quick fix like changing an ornament or adding a scented candle. Pretty new towels can be an inexpensive change but make an impact.

Bathrooms and kitchens can be the most expensive home renovation projects you’ll undertake, says Tom, but they don’t have to be: “You don’t always need to refit the kitchen to make a change. Why not try painting the room or maybe just one wall in a new colour.

Perhaps if the kitchen overlooks the garden

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Fresh, bright ideas to welcome the new spring season into your home by Amanda Loose

you could introduce a splash of green and bring the outside in?

Changing your textiles, can also revamp your room, he says: “If you have a tired, old roller blind or nothing at all at the window you could invest in a new roman blind. Because the blind will be up most of the time it just adds a splash of colour.

“Why not try upholstering a bench or window seat and adding some scatter cushions to make it more of a sociable, cosy space.

“If you are looking for a really quick fix, simple things like a new bread bin and tea and coffee jars can transform a worktop. We stock a great range and many of our customers have done just this and love the look.

“A new piece of artwork or the addition of a shelf can allow you to alter the feel of the room.

A nice coffee and tea station above a worktop

Clarke and Clarke’s Maritime Collection of fabrics, ideal for that Coastal feel in kitchens and bathrooms. All designs are £14 a metre available to view at The Old Stores, Roydon

allows you to display all of your favourite mugs and gives a really informal feel” The Norfolk Kitchen Company in Swaffham is expert at revamping existing kitchens, as well as offering full bespoke kitchens. “We can do as much or as little as you want,” says Susan Allen.

If your cabinet carcases are good but your doors are looking a little tired, then The Norfolk Kitchen Company, a family run business since 1980, can tailor make new doors to a design and colour of your choice, in wood or in vinyl. There are new door handles and knobs aplenty to choose from, along with sinks and taps, another great kitchen refresher.

Replacing your kitchen work surfaces is another quick way to fix up your kitchen, says Susan, and they carry a wide selection of styles and materials including solid wood, laminate and granite.

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Paddywax Gardenia & Tuberose candle, from £9.50 at Nomad & the bowerbird, pictured £19.

Garden Trading accessories and kitchenware from The old stores, roydon, and furniture available to order

Above: Grace in rasberry and bedside tables from Wrought Iron & brass bed Co

Amanda Oldfield from Wrought Iron & Brass Bed Co shares her top tips for revamping your bedroom for spring • Updates don’t have to be expensive or time consuming. New bedding can instantly give your bedroom a seasonal lift, whether you choose bright patterns or a neutral scheme. Replace heavier woollen and velvet throws with lighter spring weight materials (when the weather permits!) Add cushions for extra luxury, and change your covers with the seasons.

• A pair of new bedside lamps or new lampshades on existing lights can transform the feel of your room. We’ve used Butterfly transfers above the lights [see picture] to add a little pattern and quirkiness to a neutral wall, and to coordinate with to our handmade wrought iron bed, Grace, in raspberry. A splash of colour works wonders.

• A new piece of furniture such as our wrought iron beside tables, which like our beds are handmade in North Norfolk, can give a whole new look.

• Finally, transport yourself to the South of France by giving your bedding a quick spritz with Lavender linen spray!

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doors by The Norfolk kitchen Company

Address book burnham Interiors, Burnham Market 01328 730989 www.burnhaminteriors.co.uk Farrow & ball, visit www.farrow-ball.com for stockists Nomad & the bowerbird, Holkham 01328 713093 www.nomadandthebowerbird.co.uk Closed until the beginning of March The Norfolk kitchen Company, Swaffham 01760 721 260 The old stores, Roydon, 01485 600591 www.theoldstoresroydon.co.uk Victoria bain, www.victoriabain.co.uk Wrought Iron & brass bed Co, Harpley 01485 521823 www.wroughtironandbrassbed.co.uk NORTH NORFOLK LIVING SPECIAL EDITION 2014

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OUTDOORS

Gentle winter walking If it’s blowing a gale on the coast but you fancy a walk, come inland slightly for this lovely gentle amble, full of history, wildlife, sea views and hot chocolate!

Looking back towards Creake

Big blue sky

• OS Explorer series 1:25000, Number 251 ‘Norfolk Coast Central’.

• Start: TF 855 394. Creake Abbey Café & Food Hall car park, 11/2 miles south of Burnham Market on the B1355. This is a circular walk and there are toilets and a café at the start/finish.

Check the fields opposite the car park for barn owls and then take the track which runs to the left of the pond round to the impressive ruins of Creake Abbey, evocatively named ‘St Mary of the Meadows’.

With the ruins on your right continue up the road until you come to a wooden gate on your left and a permissive footpath sign heading diagonally (NW direction) across the meadows. Cross the footbridge over the River Burn, continue through the gate and past the stand of trees on your right until you come to a mettled road. There are often cows in these meadows so dogs on leads.

Once on the road, turn right and keep walking (looking out for bullfinches in the hedges) until you come to a fork in the road.

You will be taking the right fork over the bridge, but before you do look more closely at the finger post pointing along the left fork. It reads ‘Nelson’s birthplace’. Burnham Thorpe’s most famous son!

Take the right fork over the bridge and continue until the road turns left and opposite you will see a wide track with a footpath sign.

Follow this green lane as it slowly climbs uphill.

You are now approaching the highest point of the walk, a lofty 50m above sea level. Beyond the harbour, windmill and marshes of Burnham Overy Staithe lies the sea and Buzzards can often be seen circling overhead and, if you are walking in the winter months, look out for flocks of Pink-footed Geese flying overhead in typical ‘V’ formation.

Continue along the track as it starts to descend, heading towards the large wood. This is the Holkham Estate. Pass to the left of the first trees that you come to and very soon you

will hit ‘The Great Wall of Holkham’. Turn right here and follow the path along side the wall.

Look out for the lovely English Grey partridge around here.

Follow the wall until you reach the road. Turn right here and head down hill until you come to a telegraph pole with a track on the left hand side of the road. Follow the hedgerow that runs beneath the telegraph wires (S direction) on the right hand side of the hedge until you meet a hedge running at right angles, turn right.

Creake Abbey Arch Follow the new hedge towards the large stand of trees (Old Meadow Plantation, W direction). At the next hedge turn left (S direction) and at the next hedge turn right (W again). You have basically zigzagged across the fields following the hedgerows between the telegraph pole and the left hand corner of the large wood. This is one of several permissive paths that you have walked on today, set up by Natural England under their much appreciated ‘Conservation Walks’ scheme in conjunction with the landowners.

When you reach the wood, turn right (N direction) walking the length of the wood.

Continue straight on when the trees finish and the path eventually turns into a track.

Turn left at the road and retrace your steps over the bridge, turn left at ‘Nelson’s’ finger post and along the road until you come to the sign on the left that directs you back across the meadows to Creake Abbey. Turn right, back to the car park and over to Abbey Café & Food Hall for a well-earned mug of hot chocolate.

You may also find yourself tempted by one of the delicious homemade cakes !

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MOTORING

WINTER IS NOT OVER YET! Wise words from Brian Vertigen, our motoring correspondent

‘The initial production line for the SEAT 1400 saloon back in 1953 when five cars a day were produced.’

SEAT IS 60 YEARS OLD Brian Vertigen reflects on incredible changes in the motor industry.

THE SPANISH carmaker SEAT has just celebrated its 60th birthday when it produced its first car, a 1400 saloon, with the help of Italian carmaker Fiat.

The car, an elegant and luxurious saloon designed in the spirit of the popular American sedans of the 50s was an instant success with 10,000 orders.

SEAT had been formed some three years earlier in 1950 by Fiat and had developed the 1400 with a focus on the transport needs of government officials. It then had a price tag of £636, which allowing for inflation etc would mean a price tag today of £35,000!

The factory just outside Barcelona managed to produce five cars a day with a workforce of 925 . The rear-wheel drive water-cooled 44 British Horse Power engine had a four speed manual gearbox.

The car was given its official debut in June 1954 and with petrol rationing in Spain ending in 1953, the company received a staggering 10,000 orders that allowed the price to be dropped to £600.

Gradually production increased to 10,000 a year by 1957 with 42 models leaving the factory every day with workforce of 5,000.

But by the 1980s changes were afoot. Fiat pulled out of SEAT, and the company was effectively nationalised with the Spanish government taking over. The factory continued to make old Fiat models.

But in 1986 a fairy godmother was found in the shape of the Volkswagen group, which initially took a 50 per cent share in SEAT and by 1996 acquired the rest of the company.

Today the company employs 14,000 at its three production centres in Spain and also produces other models in VW group plants in Portugal, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. SEAT now produces 10 different models, mostly based on VW Group products, manufacturing around 40,000 vehicles a year and exporting 80 per cent of its production.

Breakdown organisations say that more than half cold weather incidents would have been avoided if the vehicles had been properly maintained and equipped.

A large proportion would also have been avoided if cars had been fitted with winter tyres. Driving a SUV with 4x4 drive is not necessarily the answer – accidents involving SUVs on summer tyres on icy roads are worse than standard saloons because they are heavier.

You can continue to make sure your car is fit for winter driving by checking your lights wiper blades, coolant and screen wash. However, what is most likely to fail in cold is your battery. Car batteries tend to last around five years – if yours is getting on now is the time to have it checked at your local garage. If the car is a diesel, it will need a more powerful battery to crank it up. A non-starting car will be mainly due to the battery and this remains the number one cause of winter breakdowns, accounting for almost half of all calls to the breakdown organisations. Other causes include electrical and mechanical faults.

The Top 10 winter breakdown causes logged by Green Flag are: Battery failure, minor accidents, tyres/ wheel problems, electrical, mechanical, drive system, cooling system, keys locked in the car/ stolen or lost, mis-fuelling/ running out of fuel and cables.

Millions of drivers don’t bother with basic car maintenance including tyre tread and oil levels, unless a fault arises. Thirty per cent of motorists admit they have skidded on icy or wet roads, 10 per cent got stuck in snow and 10 per cent had a flat battery; with 26 per cent never carrying de-icer, 32 per cent without a spare tyre and 49 per cent don’t have a torch. Aim for a 50-50 mix of antifreeze and water in your radiator, and don’t forget the screen wash will also need strengthening.

A winter emergency kit should include a hi-vis vest, snow shovel, foil blanket, LED torch, a tow rope, warning triangle and a few snacks to eat to help you keep warm while waiting for assistance in the event of a breakdown/ accident.

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ACTIVITIES

GONE FISHIN’!

Amanda Loose checks out a great value sea fishing experience with Norfolk Fishing Trips.

This article first appeared in our Autumn 2012 issue

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s the nights draw in and winter beckons, it’s really rather cheering to start planning your next North Norfolk summer. A ‘must do’ for expert and would be fishermen or fisherwomen, is to book in with Norfolk Fishing Trips for a day or tide fishing out of Brancaster Staithe harbour, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Not only can you enjoy some fine fishing, but the delicious food served on board to boot.

Norfolk Fishing Trips was set up by Adam Wright, a head chef in local hotels for most of his working life, who also has a love of fishing.

Adam, who comes from a long line of local fishermen, has been fishing on the North Norfolk coast since he was a boy, and started Norfolk Fishing Trips to bring together his love of food (more of which later) and fishing for rather a unique day out.

“We have managed to combine our passions of food and fishing while doing it all a stone’s throw from home off the beautiful North Norfolk coast,” says Adam.

On arrival at Brancaster Staithe, you’ll have a ten minute ferry ride down the harbour, a chance to enjoy the stunning scenery and wildlife on the unspoilt marshes and beaches, to board their 12 metre luxury catamaran, Katie Louise. Custom built for Norfolk Fishing Trips

by Gemini Workboats in 2006, Katie Louise has 10 fishing stations, a spacious wheelhouse and galley.

You’ll then be transported past Scolt Head island and out to Brancaster Bay and beyond for your fishing experience – either a day trip of 8.5 hours, or a tide trip of around 3.5 hours by Chris King and Robin Southerland. Like Adam they are both are local boys

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with a passion for fishing and good food.

Adam and Chris have known each other for 18 years, and worked together at the Lifeboat Inn, in Thornham. When Adam set up Tidal Transit with Leo Hambro, which provides access, transport and crew transfer services to industries in the North Sea, he needed to spend more time on this new venture, so got chatting to Chris about needing someone to take over the Fishing Trips. The rest is history, and Chris, a chef specialising in local produce and seafood rustles up the delicious meals served on board Katie Louise. Possible mouth-watering menus can include Oyster Rarebit and Thornham Fish Pie. Robin, an experienced shore fisherman, has known Chris since their school days and they have now been working together for nine months. Katie Louise is about to take up her winter quarters at Lowestoft Marina, so the team can maximise daylight hours without being restricted by the tide, but she will be back in North Norfolk in April.

• Book online at www.norfolkfishingtrips.co.uk or by phone 01485 517610

Prices (including equipment) • 8.5 hours fishing from Brancaster Staithe for Tope, Mackerel and Bass with buffet lunch £85 • 3.5 hours fishing from Brancaster Staithe for Mackerel and Bass £35 • 4 hours father/son or novice winter cod fishing £40 per person from Lowestoft • 6 hours winter cod fishing including roast dinner £65 from Lowestoft Gift vouchers are available – great for a different Christmas or birthday present

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EATING OUT

THE KING WILLIAM IV IN SEDGEFORD Back by popular demand Honor Welford puts another local eating establishment to the test – this time it’s The King William IV in Sedgeford. This review originally appeared in our Early Summer 2012 issue, prices and dishes may have changed

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y sister and partner were staying for the weekend and on Sunday it was bright and sunny, all be it a bit fresh. So we decided to take a ride along the coast. Having heard good reports, we decided to stop at ‘The King William IV’ at Sedgeford for lunch.

Off to a good start as we entered the pub, we were welcomed by a friendly smiling face from the other side of the bar, as we ordered some drinks, prior to going through to the restaurant. There was a warm and relaxed atmosphere.

On entering the restaurant it was very busy, with the background hum of voices, people in full conversation, chatting away as they tucked into their food. We were greeted at our table by Amanda, who gave us the menus.

As well as the traditional Sunday roast, there was a wide and varied menu to choose from. So whether you just fancied a light lunch or a full three course meal, you would be sure to find something that appealed to your taste buds.

Starters were priced from £4.65 for Fresh Soup to £6 ish for Smoked Salmon. Light lunches such as Salads and Pasta dishes started from about £6.50, or a more substantial main course from around £10. With the usual tempting deserts, for about £5 to £6.

We all decided to have a starter. We chose Garlic Mushrooms, Liver Pate with Red Onion Marmalade and warm toast, Mussels and Roasted pepper stuffed with sun dried tomato and goats cheese. All were served promptly and were reasonable sized portions, not like some starters we’ve had previously from other establishments, when the starter is dwarfed by the garnish on the side of the plate. Even when Lucas had polished off his toast and still had pate left, it was not too much trouble to provide some more toast. We could not find fault with any of the starters,

in fact we thought they were so good, we all would have been happy to try another starter and miss out the main courses we had ordered, but we were glad we didn’t!

There was a breather of about 10 to 15 minutes, before Amanda brought us our main courses. We chose Stuffed Breast of Guinea Fowl, Sunday Roast Beef, Steak & Ale Pie and Fish Cakes. All were served with vegetables and potatoes, except the fish cakes which came with chips and salad. We ran out of gravy and asked for some more, another jug promptly arrived and again that was not too much trouble. All of the main courses were a fair size, served hot and we enjoyed every one of them.

But the one we wished we all had ordered was the Steak and Ale pie, it tasted fantastic and was packed full of steak.

After two great courses, time was running on, so sadly we had to give the desserts a miss; otherwise we would not have made it along the coast, well not in daylight anyway!

All in all, The King William is well worth a visit. From start to finish a very enjoyable experience, both the bar and restaurant were clean and in a good decorative order, from the welcoming smile when we entered the bar, to the friendly and bubbly service awarded to us by Amanda, when nothing was too much trouble and not forgetting the great food. We will definitely be returning again.

King William IV Heacham Road, Sedgeford, Hunstanton, Norfolk PE36 5LU Tel: 01485 571765 Email: info@thekingwilliamsedgeford.co.uk www.thekingwilliamsedgeford.co.uk

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Burnham Overy Harbour by Peter Low

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urnham Overy Staithe is loved by so many – residents and visitors alike – and it’s not hard to understand why. Just as you don’t need to be religious to appreciate and enjoy the beauty of ancient churches, you don’t need a boat to enjoy the creeks and saltmarsh – and in both instances you would be in the majority. What is less easy to appreciate is that there is a substantial cost attached to managing places like Overy Staithe.

The fact that Cathedrals fall down if they are not cared for at considerable cost is more readily appreciated than the fact that these creeks

would silt up and disappear if they were not cared for - also at considerable cost.

Traditionally, the groynes - these are the banks of stone you see in the creek at Overy were maintained as a matter of tradition and routine in order to direct the currents and maximise the scouring effect of the tide. With the decline of working boats this traditional pattern of care and maintenance passed into history and the channels become increasingly shallow. Ultimately, without maintenance, the groynes would pass into history and so would any navigable channel. Life and landscape would change - not as a result of activity but of inactivity, and there would be more and more mud and less water. Whatever we think about the current state of play it is hard to

find anything particularly good about such a change. The question is how even maintaining the status quo is to be funded.

Since 1986 the care of the creek has been in the hands of the Burnham Overy Harbour Trust.

Every boat that is launched at Overy is required to pay and display but the income raised in this way is very modest in relation to the £7080,000 needed to repair a couple of groynes.

Dredging would cost even more. Over the last 25 years, such projects have only been possible through specific appeals and donations.

• If you love Overy and Scolt Head, the Trust needs your support now even more than ever.

You can find out more about Burnham Overy Harbour Trust on Facebook or phone 01328 730125.

Harbour management at Burnham Overy These articles first appeared in our Spring 2013 issue. Prices and details may have changed.

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s we approached the Norfolk Riddle from the car park we were greeted with a fantastic smell coming from the kitchen – the smell of real food being cooked properly.

I had been recommended The Riddle by several people but it had never really been on my radar. This, as it turns out, is a pity as I am delighted to report that the Riddle is a real Norfolk gem!

Head Chef and Manager Hervé Stouvenel, the person responsible for creating the lovely smells, is a full-blooded Frenchman and as such has a very particular attitude to food. He has a philosophy that he shares with many of his countrymen that is naturally simple and draws on the local bounty.

The Riddle is part of the Walsingham Farms Shops family and Hervé has direct access to the best quality meat and vegetables from their own farms just down the road; reassuring after the recent horse meat shenanigans!

The entrance to the Riddle is all but traditional! You enter through the fish and chip shop, which is also owned by Walsingham Farms Shops and directly next door. The dining room is cosy and comfortable and the

staff friendly – it has a relaxed air that I think is important.

I asked the waiter to recommend a dish and without hesitation he suggested the slow roasted belly pork. My partner chose the local mussels and a bottle of locally brewed Yetmans Beer – it was my turn to drive so fizzy water for me but there is a nicely stocked wine list and several interesting soft drinks.

The food was delicious, with every scrap of it home made – no pre-peeled potatoes or packet gravy here! It arrived in a timely fashion, well presented and hot. Clean plates all round I’m happy to report. I would definitely recommend the Riddle especially for a relaxed lunch!

Lunch – served from 12 noon with last orders at 1.45pm Set lunch menu: £15.50 for two courses, or £17.50 for three.

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Good versus Bad Carbohydrates Nutritionist Bo Tyler, explains the good guys from the bad guys when it comes to carbohydrates

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e get our energy, otherwise known as calories, from macronutrients – carbohydrates, proteins and fats. We need most of our energy to come from carbohydrates, often referred to as “carbs” because: • Carbohydrates are the body’s main source of fuel.

• Carbohydrates, broken down by the body into glucose, are easily used by the body for energy.

• All of the tissues and cells in our body can use glucose for energy.

• Carbohydrates are needed for the central nervous system, the kidneys, the brain, the muscles (including the heart) to function properly.

• Carbohydrates can be stored in the muscles and liver and later used for energy.

• Carbohydrates are important for intestinal health and waste elimination.

Carbohydrates should never be avoided as they are a crucial part of any healthy diet, but that doesn’t mean you are free to load up on cakes and biscuits to get your daily quota; it is important to understand that not all carbs are alike.

There’s much discussion about the good and bad carbohydrates. So how do you know which is which? The answer is both “simple” — and “complex” and requires an understanding of their chemical makeup and the impact they have on your body.

SIMPLE CARBOHYDRATES Simple carbohydrates are composed of simple-to-digest, basic sugars that give you fast “hits” of sugar and therefore energy highs followed by deep troughs of both sugar and energy lows with no nutritional value for your body; their consumption places a great strain on the body and is linked to the development of many disease-states. In addition, they place your body in fat-storing mode putting the brakes on your body’s ability to break down your fat stores so the pounds pile on. The higher the sugar content and lower the fibre content, the worse the carbohydrate is for you.

Fruits and vegetables are actually simple carbohydrates — still composed of basic sugars, but very different to other foods in this category such as biscuits and cakes. The fibre and valuable nutrients wrapped up in fruits and vegetables are essential for the body and slow their digestion, making them more like complex carbohydrates.

The most important simple carbohydrates to restrict in your diet include: • Fizzy and soft drinks including fruit juices • Sweets • Syrups • Alcohol

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• Sugar • White rice, white bread, and white pasta • Potatoes (which are technically a complex carb, but act more like simple carbs in the body) • Pastries, cakes, biscuits and desserts You can enjoy simple carbohydrates very occasionally, you just don’t want them to be a diet staple if you want to keep in good shape, perform optimally and look after your health.

COMPLEX CARBOHYDRATES Complex carbohydrates, like whole grains and legumes, contain longer chains of sugar molecules which take more time for the body to break down and use which means that you will get lower amounts of sugars released at a more consistent rate, providing you with an even release of energy to keep you going throughout the day.

Picking complex carbohydrates over simple carbohydrates is a matter of making some simple substitutions when it comes to your meals. Have brown rice instead of white rice, have whole-wheat pasta instead of plain white pasta; have oats or no added sugar muesli instead of processed cereals or granolas.

Watch portions sizes though - unless you are exercising intensely you really don’t need that much.

GLYCAEMIC LOAD (GL) Describing carbs as being either simple or complex is one way to classify them, but another concept, the glycaemic load (GL), takes into account not only its glycaemic index (GI), how quickly and how high your blood sugar will rise after eating the carbohydrate contained in that food, as compared to eating pure sugar, but also the amount of carbohydrate in the food; its GL. A food can contain carbs that have a high GI, but if there is only a tiny amount of that carb in the food, it won’t really have much of an impact. An example of a food with a high GI but a low GL is watermelon, which of course tastes sweet, but is mostly water.

The bottom line: Just be sensible about the carbs you choose. Skip low-nutrient, high and fast sugar dessert, consider the levels of sugar and fibre in carbs, and focus on healthy whole grains, fruits, and veggies to get the energy and wide range of nutrients your body needs every day.

• To explore how to apply this to your diet to improve how you feel, how you perform or for health, call or email Bo on 07747 0084872 or bo@bonutritioncoaching.com

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inda, an advanced clinical massage therapist, who trained at the Jing Institute of Advanced Massage Training in Brighton, says: “I am currently working with clients to alleviate pain from migraines, sciatic pain, whiplash, lower back pain, recuperation from hernia operations, frozen shoulders, carpal tunnel and toothache from tension in the jaw. I am also qualified in pregnancy massage and work with local chiropractors/osteopaths as I can support the work they carry out on the skeletal structure by helping to rebalance the supporting muscles.”

So what is clinical massage? Linda says: “Clinical massage involves working with the soft tissue (muscles and connective tissue) which supports the skeleton and the body’s organs enabling them to function efficiently.

I work to alleviate pain, stiffness and tension using a variety of techniques including stretching.”

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Fabrics This article first appeared in our Spring 2013 issue

Be bold. If you’re clinging on to your creams or buckling under your beiges, but fancy a quick change, the word on the interior design street is that fabrics, both patterned and textured are a good bet. Whether you want to mix, match or clash, it’s a great way to update your room easily without changing your whole scheme. By Amanda Loose

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nterior designers are not immune to room fatigue, says Nanci Gillett of Burnham Interiors: “I go into my sitting room at the moment and feel ‘eugh’ but I know if I spend a bit of time and buy half a dozen new cushions, I would be delighted. Fabrics are not just for curtains and blinds but also for room accessories such as cushions and bespoke lampshades, which are made by most fabric houses now. They are an instant update and can freshen up or totally change the room.

“When mixing and matching various patterns, the fabrics and accessories should all have the same colour palette to unite the various elements and keep the overall look cohesive.”

You can use bold fabrics for a statement piece like a chair or cushions, without necessarily a huge outlay, says Nanci. One of her top tips is textile design company Corita Rose, whose boldly patterned velvets, linens and silks would add more than a little va va voom to any room. “And we’re fortunate up here to have a couple of very cool fabric houses in our county – St Jude’s, who have a studio in Norwich, and Nicole Fabre Designs, whose head office is in Syderstone.”

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Jo Griffiths of Vintage Home & Garden agrees. “Fabric accessories are a really good way of injecting colour and updating a room. I tend to do it seasonally in spring and autumn. I take down my winter curtains and replace them with a lighter fabric for spring and summer, and it’s the same with my cushions – I use darker colours and heavier fabrics like linens and corduroys in autumn and winter, then from Easter I swap them for lighter colours.

“With pattern keep it simple and go for a statement. If you use a really wild pattern, use it in one area and keep everything else simple.

Like my natural history cushions, I would have one in a room so you don’t lose the impact.”

So what are the best dressed homes sporting this season? Anything goes says interior designer, Annie Lambert of Home by Annie Lambert: “However, lots of designers are using ‘pops’ of colour to enhance neutral schemes.

This is a really cost effective way to update a scheme. Changing cushion covers, even seasonally is a great way to change bedroom and sitting room décor.

“I’ve seen lots of hot colours around recently - pinks and purples, greens and yellow. Interiors

often follow the catwalk as we’ve seen before with the use of animal prints and several chintz patterns are making a comeback too.”

Amanda Oldfield at Jack Oldfield Interiors, agrees. “People are mixing different colours, patterns and textures, using bold oversized patterns, including geometrics, botanicals and natural history prints.”

Emily Sutton Deep Sea, St Jude’s, £42 per metre

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Mixing and matching blues by Hunters Interiors

Top tips from Sara NormanSmith from Hunters Interiors on how to use patterns: • Be brave! Using large scale fabrics in particular can be a bit daunting – even if you have fallen in love with the fabric itself. If you are unsure how to use it – take advice – an interior designer will give you their ‘talented eye opinion’ on how it can be used or avoid a costly mistake with long term consequences.

• When using patterns, use colours that are present in each of the patterns, this way they will have an link to each other • Use large and small patterns as a combination – not all large or all small • The key is to use a spread of pattern and strength of design within a room. The curtains may be a large pattern, the sofa medium, the cushions small • Textured fabrics – cut piles, embossed and velvets all create patterns, but don’t shout too loud in a scheme • Don’t feel restricted by the size of your room – large or small – there’s a scale of pattern right for each • To give a tired room a lift – try cushions.

A really cost effective way to inject some new life into a room

Cushions from £30 and walkies fabric from £35.99 per metre by Voyage Decoration from Jack oldfield Interiors Mixing different colours, fabrics and textures, cushions from £30, fabric from £63.99 per metre, by Voyage Decoration from Jack oldfield Interiors

Above: Antique Chesterfield with a fitted loose cover made by Saffron Paffron, using vintage William Morris fabric pieced together with linens and velvet piping, £1,200, Bluejacket Workshop Above: Temara by Nicole Fabre, 100% linen, £142 per metre Below: Manon Purpura by Nicole Fabre, £110 per metre

Cushion £60, Vintage Home and Garden

ADDreSS Book Bluejacket Workshop, Morston 01263 740144 Burnham Interiors, Burnham Market 01328 730989 Corita rose www.coritarose.com Home by Annie Lambert, Creake Abbey, North Creake 07796656384 Hunters Interiors 01780 757946 Jack oldfield Interiors, Harpley 01485 521823 Nicole Fabre Designs 01485 576200 www. nicolefabredesigns.com St Jude’s www.stjudesfabrics.co.uk Vintage Home and Garden, Drove Orchards, Thornham 01485 525 714 NORTH NORFOLK LIVING SPECIAL EDITION 2014

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ACTIVITIES

What makes North Norfolk so special? We asked…

Hetti Simpson, owner of Norfolk Hideaways holiday cottages of Burnham Deepdale and Wells-next-the-Sea.

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was brought up in Norfolk and when I left to go to Edinburgh for university, I couldn’t wait to leave and head to the bright lights of the big city. After over ten years away, in 2002, I returned to the Norfolk Coast bringing with me my Scottish husband and we have never looked back.

If I’m honest, it wasn’t until we opened Norfolk Hideaways in 2009 that my love affair with this stretch of coast really blossomed.

There is something special about talking to people about where they are planning to come on holiday and that, coupled with getting the opportunity to visit so many beautiful homes in tucked away places in the villages I thought I knew so well, made my love for North Norfolk turn into a passion.

I am lucky enough to be blessed with two beautiful children, a daughter who is seven and a son who is nearly four; so many of my favourite places revolve around us as a family. Being at the helm of a business that is growing so quickly, is thrilling, but it is also time consuming, so the time we have together is very precious.

The beach is of course a favourite haunt,

Wells-next-the-Sea is near the top of the list for us because the car park is close to the beach itself (so we don’t have to lug the gear too far to the sand) and the Beach Café is fantastic for lunch, snacks and ice creams when sandy sandwiches just lose their appeal. I love Holkham for its wide-open space and it has a special place in my heart for the beach I first visited on my return from Scotland. I thank Holkham beach for sealing our fate in North Norfolk, it was love at first sight for my hitherto townie husband.

Holkham is also home to two of my favourite shops, Adnams Cellar and Kitchen Store & Bringing The Outside In. Lee Newstead and his team at Adnams are fantastic and the selection of wine is first rate (I probably visit more often than I should!) and Martin and Sarah have such gorgeous things for the house at BTOI, and Sarah’s new clothing outlet is well worth a visit.

Once off the beach, eating is usually on the agenda. Probably our favourite place for lunch with the kids is La Campagna in Thornham.

The yurt is such a fun venue and it’s great all year round. In the winter the log burner gives out a very welcoming glow and in the summer

the kids can run around the play area whilst we relax. Tiago and Jeni make wonderful hosts and Tiago’s food is delicious.

When the weather is not so kind and the children really need to get out of the house, Farmer Fred’s at Norfolk Lavender, Heacham is perfect. I am not a fan of ‘soft play’ but at Farmer Fred’s the play area itself is large and spacious and the seating for parents is comfortable and because they share ownership with the lovely Orange Tree in Thornham, the food and drink is actually extremely good.

If I need a spot of retail therapy then I will head to Burnham Market, it’s surprising how many lovely shops there are in the village, I love a nose round Gun Hill and I can always pick up some of my favourite low GI bread from Grooms and of course I have to mention Satchells wine merchants too, (Tracy will kill me if I don’t!) For my favourite smoked fish though it’s a trip to Cley Smokehouse every time.

All in all, I really never have to leave the coast, which is handy because where would I find the time?!

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ART

What do you mean you’ve never done Glass Sand Casting!!

Amanda Loose has…

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o I admit I was a little nervous about this assignment. My siblings who used to enjoy my feeble attempts at arts and crafts round the kitchen table, were to put it mildly, amused. My Editor was adamant – ‘pull yourself together!’

And boy am I glad I did. Arriving at SALT glass studios in Burnham Thorpe to try my hand at several of the courses on offer, I was reassured to meet the studio cats who luxuriate in the building’s warmth.

Run by Max Lamb and Dr Fiona Wilkes, SALT offers a variety of glass and print making courses throughout the year, designed for all ages (5+) and abilities, from taster to full day, as well as open studios with free demonstrations.

Max was my very patient teacher, and we began with Kiln Glass Fusing, available from a 30 minute taster course where you decorate a small glass panel, (great for children), to a full day course.

First up was learning to cut glass using an oil filled glass cutter, progressing to cutting coloured glass shapes which would be used in my ‘picture’. I plumped for a seascape and had enjoyed layering my waves and sky, adding shaped pieces of fibre paper to emboss the image. Max’s tip on what to do with my sun worked a treat.

Glass Sand Casting was enormous fun creating textures and impressions in sand. Preparing your sand is a bit like making a fine crumble mixture. I stuck with a seaside theme and made my shapes in the sand using shells then Max poured in the molten glass which looked rather like golden syrup, into my sand moulds.

On to Hot Glass Making, creating a glass paperweight. Max did the gathering of the molten glass on the blowing iron, which I then variously turned, added ground coloured glass to, patted, turned, shaped with a paddle and added bubbles to. I had to wait to see my finished creations, but I, and my doubters, were pleasantly surprised.

• For more information on SALT glass studios and the courses they run visit www.saltglassstudios.co.uk or call 01328 738873

BOOKS

…And here is the weather – Richard Mabey style!

Richard Mabey is a very special author as Amanda Loose finds out

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rought up in a fishing family, you quickly learn to be quiet during the weather forecast – especially the shipping. ‘Sssh! The weather’s on’ was a familiar cry in our house.

Even the more irrepressible members of the family knew they must stay silent between German Bight and Dover.

This preoccupation with the weather, although not always occupation driven, is not uncommon in Britain. Indeed, it is something of a national obsession, an icebreaker for strangers, as the title of bestselling nature writer and Norfolk resident, Richard Mabey’s recent book Turned Out Nice Again: On Living With the Weather suggests.

The author of some thirty books including Flora Britannica and Nature Cure, Mabey turns his attention to the incredible influence of the weather on our national and individual psyches.

We have, in Britain, he notes, more weather proverbs than the Inuit, proverbially, have descriptions for snow.

Mabey sets out to explore “how the weather enters and affects our daily lives in Britain, how we talk and write about it, make it the stuff of nostalgia and dreads and, in these uncertain

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times, how it changes the way we think and feel, about ourselves and the future.”

The reader is guided through tumultuous storms and halcyon days, exceptional weather like the ‘red rains’ where Saharan dust is blown north, ice-meteors and incredible moon-bows. Along with the science, Mabey explores the influence of weather on artists such as Constable, Turner and the Impressionists, as well as writers and diarists including Gilbert White, Richard Jefferies and Coleridge.

This is all lyrically interwoven with Mabey’s own weather memories and emotional responses; the sound of the wind in the rigging of moored dinghies at night on the Norfolk coast “sets… [his] skin tingling”. Our responses to the weather are mercurial. It affects our moods, our imaginations and gives rise to and perhaps reflects our uncertainty. When we are ill, as Mabey reminds us, we say we’re ‘under the weather’. Our climate as he rightly says is “whimsical”, “our meteorological lot is messy”.

But don’t we love talking about it?

• Turned Out Nice Again: On Living With the Weather by Richard Mabey, Profile Books, £8.99

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Offering an eclectic range of day-to-day fashion and accessories combined with a welltravelled collection of homeware. Nomad & the Bowerbird is nestled alongside ‘Bringing the outside in’, on the Main Road in Holkham.

Pop in when you’re passing by!

You can find us at: Main Road, Holkham, NR23 1AD. We’re open from 10:30 – 4:00 & closed on Tuesdays.

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Original ideas from the coast, to your home.

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