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BEHIND THE BOOKFEST Inspiring Fiona Razvi

VINNIE’S BUST

By Frances Segelman

THE WINNERS ARE...

Merton Biz Awards

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Bridge with the Masters

BAD VIBES

The Perils of Wi-Fi

IT’S A BLAST

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editor’s letter Dear Darling Reader Is it just me or is our rustic patch of London really turning into a hub of culture and creativity to rival anything those uppity Northern Neighbours are wont to brag about?

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Michael Palin and Wayne Hemingway on the Common at the Bookfest, our triumphant International Music Festival, Christmas Carnival on the Piazza, carols in the Village stables, exhibitions of original art (Wimbledon Fine Art, Cannizaro House, Open Studios and S.J. Holden’s fab Aboriginal works). How about the exciting culinary events and fashion shows (organised by the tireless Kimberley Salmassian); and all those great West End shows at New Wimbledon Theatre and gems at our Polka?

Who knows what 2014 will bring? Hope you enjoy all the other news, views and who’s whos, packed into this issue!

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Contributors Kate Greenhalgh Paul Mendelson Photography Taylor Torr Editor Darling Cobham & Esher Philippa Hennessy 07772 633339 Design Director Talitha Minchin talitha@talithadesigns.co.uk Printer Aquatint/bsc jane@aquatintbsc.co.uk Distribution Three Colours Ltd info@3colours.co.uk Whilst every care has been taken to ensure that the data in this publication is accurate, neither the publisher nor its editorial contributors can accept, and hereby disclaim, any liability to any party to loss or damage caused by errors or omissions resulting from negligence, accident or any other cause. Darling Magazine does not officially endorse any advertising material included within this publication. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted in any form – electronic, recording or otherwise, without prior permission from the publisher.

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Fiona Razvi, the woman behind Wimbledon Bookfest Sculptress extraordinaire, Frances Segelman All-new Merton Awards Bridge Pro-Am the international ‘Night of the Stars’!

Christmas books by local authors Electromagnetics and the question of Wi-Fi Trumpeting success at Wimbledon High Capital Training - getting our young people into jobs King’s student climbs for charity On the Social Scene in Wimbledon - see the Who’s Who New season, new interiors with Kirsty McMorron Employment Laws – what every woman should know Dream Spaces with local builder, Jason Coetzee Tam Jackson on Social Media – Like, Know, Trust Paul Mendelson’s regular bridge column Helpful Wimbledon websites and important numbers Darling Hotspot collection points The Italian Corner – new ‘gastro lab’ Darling’s Diary for the Festive Season Darling Classifieds Kate Greenhalgh tackles Christmas head on darlingmagazine.co.uk | nov–jan 2014

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inspiring woman

All Booked Up The very full life of Fiona Razvi, Festival Director of Wimbledon BookFest and November’s Inspiring Woman.

Where did you grow up, and what were your childhood ambitions?

I grew up in Wimbledon; I went to Ursuline High School and then to university in Brighton. The arts have always been a great passion for me, but originally I started down quite a different path. In my heart I always wanted to be an editor of a magazine, and I was lucky enough to realise my dream before I began working on BookFest.

If I’m honest, I probably didn’t expect to be bringing up my own family here when I was growing up, but it turned out to be the perfect decision. I can’t think of a better place to bring up children.

You get all the benefits of being in the greatest city in the world but also the unique community environment of Wimbledon, as well as the beauty of being so close to Wimbledon Common.

How did the BookFest start and what are your ambitions for it in the future?

I went to the Hay Festival in 2006. I was blown away by it and came back and told my colleague Tony Kane. At the time, we were meeting and interviewing a lot of creatives and writers through our journalism, and we felt a book 6

festival was something that would work here in Wimbledon. When we held the launch party, huge numbers turned up and we knew then there was a real appetite for it and we could see how keen people were to connect with their local community. We also spoke to schools as education was always at the heart of what we wanted to do with the Festival.

We set up the charity, Wimbledon Arts, to run the Festival and worked on it in the evenings.

We held our first Festival in

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October 2007 in venues all across Wimbledon and Merton.

I left the magazine three years ago as the Festival was taking up so much of my time. We’ve grown in audience size year on year but we are still a very small team working hard to keep it running. There’s a huge amount of effort put in by people for free – such as our judges on our Young Writers’ Competition, and our stewards at events. The trustees of the charity are also very hands on themselves.

inspiring woman The most significant development for BookFest was being allowed to use the Common for our Big Tent venue 3 years ago. As for the future – we just want to keep things going and attract the best talent to Wimbledon, as well as offer opportunities for the community here to develop and expose their own talent too. The arts world is tough and to make it work financially we are dependent on getting more sponsorship to keep going – it’s not easy.

Do you agree with Helen Gurley Brown about ‘having it all’, and how do you juggle your family life with your work commitments?

‘Having it all’ is a difficult concept and it’s a subjective thing; I’m not sure if the pursuit of it is an attractive one, or one I’m aiming for. I’m incredibly fortunate in that I have a great family and I’m doing the most interesting job I can imagine. So yes, I’m happy. But life is always going to involve compromise to pursue your goals – it’s basic economics – ‘the opportunity cost’ of doing something means there’s going to be an expense of another; but I think to a large degree that life is what you make it!

Fiona with fellow BookFest trustee Mandy Mallen

For more information or to support BookFest 2014 visit www.wimbledonbookfest.org

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Model to Modelling Frances Segelman Sculptress to the Stars

By Simon Tarrant

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t’s funny how life comes full circle and for me that happened recently when I started representing sculptress to the Queen, Frances Segelman.

But first of all let’s go back in time to that momentous occasion when Wimbledon Football Club gave the FA Cup one of the biggest shocks in the history of the competition by making it to the FA Cup Final!

It has to be said that the muddy playing fields of my King’s College schooldays rather put me off football, however I, like the rest of Wimbledon, couldn’t resist the fever-pitch levels of excitement on that extraordinary spring day in 1988 – I recall my Mother trailing Wimbledon football flags from her car through the village – when, against all the odds, Wimbledon won the FA Cup final!

Roll on 25 years and I enter the Docklands studio of sculptress Frances Segelman, to be faced by a bust of Vinnie Jones, one of the stars from Wimbledon Football Club’s FA Cup dream team.

Known for her life-like renditions of her sitters, Frances’ roll call of subjects is like a who’s who of the 21st century. From royalty to rock

star, Frances has immortalised them all – Prince Philip, Sir David Frost, Dame Edna Everage, Jilly Cooper, Emma Bunton – the list goes on.

Inspired by the work of Michelangelo, Frances left modelling, and her hometown Sculptor Frances Segelman and her agent ex-King’s College Leeds, behind student, Simon Tarrant when she was 20. Self-taught, her sculpting soon caught the imagination of the stars. According to art critic Estelle Lovatt: ‘Segelman is as much a magician as a sculptor.’

Working rapidly and instinctively, often before a fascinated crowd of onlookers, Frances creates striking resemblances of her subjects in just two hours. another Royal commission might be forthcoming. But the person ‘I was always mad about art,’ she she would love to sculpt is none says, ‘and after my second child other than Wimbledon Tennis I bought loads of art and human Champion Andy Murray – what anatomy books. I started by better sports hero to join Frances’ sculpting my husband and it just pantheon of stars than the first took off from there.’ male British tennis player to win Wimbledon since Fred Perry!

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MERTON BEST BUSINESS AWARDS 2013 This year’s Winners and Runners Up Overall Winner Merco Medical Staffing Ltd Best Creative Sector Award Winner: Boggio Studios Runner up: Reflect Productions Best Enterprising Business Award Winner: STEM4 Runner up: mum2mum Market Best Innovation Award Winner: mum2mum Market Best New Business Winner: AquaPhysio Ltd Runner up: Mums on the Go Best Service Excellence Award Winner: Capital Training Group Runner up: Wimbledon Village Stables Best Young Business Person Winner: Nick D’Aloisio, Summly Limited Runner up: Robert Brinkley, Brinkley’s Estate Agency Limited

Mitcham Business of the Year Winner: Merton Community Transport Ltd Runner up: The Vine Project Morden Business of the Year Winner: The Training and Recruitment Partnership limited Runner up: Anderson Food Hygiene Limited

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Raynes Park Business of the Year Winner: Merco Medical Runner up: Art Division Ltd Team Development Award Winner: Clear Insurance Management Limited Runner up: Willows Pre-School

The Extra Mile Award Winner: Wimbledon Village Stables Runner up: Aztec Events Wimbledon Business of the Year Winner: Cannizaro House Hotel Runner up: Gina Conway Aveda Lifestyle Salon and Spa

Colliers Wood Business of the Year Winner: Gibbs Runner up: Charles Holden Pub Entrepreneur of the Year Winner: Cath Harrop, mum2mum Market Runner up: Ally Maughan, People Puzzles Ltd Award Finalists

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CALLING All Bridge Players The internationally acclaimed ‘Night of the Stars’ Pro-Am is back in town

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egularly written up in The Times, The New York Times, The Spectator and English Bridge, this good natured charity event is actually, two events. The first is the Auction Pairs, a great afternoon of bridge which

includes Paul Mendelson’s entertaining auction of the Stars during the tea break. This will be taking place at Coombe Hill Golf Club, Kingston, on Sunday 24th November. The actual Night of the Stars, when all the Stars join us to play with their lucky partners, will be held at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in Putney on the evening of Thursday, 27th February 2014.

The Night of the Stars is in aid of Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, Teenage Cancer Trust, West London Action for Children and Macmillan Cancer Support, with great assistance from sponsor Robert Holmes & Co. Everyone is most welcome and if one cannot attend the auction, it is still possible to bid. For more information about the events, booking, the Stars and bidding, please see the website www.nightofthestars.org.uk

Zia Mahmood explaining to Marsha Beresford

LITERARY Stocking Fillers From local authors Celebrate life this festive season with New Moon Rising, a beautifully crafted hard bound book of poetry by the local poet Anuradha Gupta. This is a stunningly simple yet beautiful collection of poems complemented by the author's original artwork.

Available at Waterstones Putney, The Barnes Book Shop and Amazon.co.uk. anuradha1@hotmail.co.uk

Snuggle under the duvet this Christmas with former Wimbledon resident, Fiona Cane’s new novel, The Gate. It’s a gripping story of pushy parents, teenage angst, cyberbullying and murder madness, and a moving account of grief, as a widowed career mother tries to reconnect with her sweet-child-turned-rebel daughter.

Available at Amazon.co.uk fiona@smashtennis.co.uk

Local writer Ekaterina Botziou is celebrating her new-found success as a published author after releasing her first book, Greek Expectations: The Last Moussaka Standing. Part memoir, part rant and part-survival guide, the book gives a hilariously witty insight into the trials and tribulations of being a modern woman faced with the demands of age-old Greek traditions. Available from Amazon in Paperback £7.99 greekexpectations@hotmail.co.uk

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WHY-FI? How can we protect against electromagnetic pollution?

By Alessandro Ferullo, Health Practitioner and Qigong teacher

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ankind has evolved over millions of years surrounded by the natural radiation from the sun and the magnetic and electric fields of the earth. Part of the earth’s natural electric field are “Schumann Waves”. These are very long waves of extremely low frequency, which are present everywhere in the atmosphere on this planet. Schumann Waves have been identified as part of the natural electromagnetic radiation which is particularly important for life on this planet. The human brain also resonates with these atmospheric waves.

Schumann discovered that an electromagnetic field oscillates at a resonant frequency of 7 to 10 beats per second. This is identical to the optimal functioning of human brain waves.

However, since man’s artificial electrification of our planet, our atmosphere is not only filled with natural Schumann Wave radiation, but also with unnatural radiation such as electromagnetic pollution.

All electronic appliances, computers, TVs, cell phones,

radios, digital devices, air conditioners, lighting, power lines, communication lines, air waves, radio waves produce damaging electromagnetic fields, which we can’t see but may feel in the form of stress, headaches, sleeplessness, and moodiness, among other more chronic and debilitating symptoms. These frequencies interfere with the body’s own electromagnetic operating system thus causing abnormal conditions and stress.

They have recently banned the use of Wi-Fi in schools in France until it is proven “safe for human consumption”.

Cell phones can be particularly damaging, because they are used and carried in close contact with the body and even the brain. Furthermore, the radiation emitted is of microwave frequency, which more and more research is showing to be particularly damaging to human health.

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Blow Your Own Trumpet in 2014!

Wimbledon High’s girl-power initiative

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ecently Wimbledon High School GDST started a drive to encourage their students to celebrate their achievements. ‘Blow Your Own Trumpet Week’ aimed to challenge the perceptions of girls in particular that acknowledging and talking about success is arrogant.

Headmistress Heather Hanbury explains: It’s not about being arrogant or conceited, it’s all about the girls recognising their own self-worth and being honest about what they are good at. We want to build their confidence so that they’ll try new things even when they know it might go wrong.

We are encouraging them to be brave enough to acknowledge their strengths and achievements.

Teenage girls are only too keen to focus on their weaknesses, as you all know well. We want them to embrace failure as a means to learning and so it is important that they recognise when they have successfully overcome any failures and achieved a goal. This is not boasting, it is not arrogance (both of which fail to acknowledge weaknesses altogether), it is appropriate confidence: confidence built on a true understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses

Heather Hanbury celebrating the A Level exam results with the girls

and an ability to verbalise this appropriately.

Being open about their skills and expertise doesn’t come naturally to most teenage girls (and indeed, to most women). Much research has shown that, in the workplace, women are often by-passed for promotion, or miss a possible pay rise, because they are afraid of self-promotion. Both men and women believe they may face a backlash from colleagues who consider them arrogant if they push themselves forward, but men overcome this fear more easily and go for it. Just as I don’t want WHS girls to miss opportunities for fear of failure, so I don’t want them to miss opportunities for fear of a backlash if they promote themselves and their true abilities.

“Teenage girls are only too keen to focus on their weaknesses” We are helping the girls to recognise appropriate ways to “blow their own trumpet” which are not arrogant and boastful.

We are also encouraging them to support one another in this – welcoming their friends’ and classmates’ achievements and congratulating them.

We are not encouraging boasting!

We are merely ensuring your daughters are appropriately proud of their very real achievements, gained through their own hard work and effort – and if you can’t be proud of this, what can you be proud of ?

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David Paul Gleeson Solo Exhibition 3rd November - 17th November

Wimbledon Fine Art

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A Christmas Feast of Fine Art 24 November - 8 December 2013

Norman Smith

Featuring the cream of British Painters, Fred Cuming, Peter Kelly, Bridget Riley, Norman Smith, Sculptor Helen Sinclair and Introducing Madeleine Floyd.

The Scottish Exhibition

26 January - 9 February 2014

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Changes of season often invite other types of change, including the trends for colours in our homes. Strong vivid colours such as burnt oranges, hot pinks and cobalt blues, as well as subtle, elegant neutrals, are featured in many of the new fabric and wall covering collections that were launched this autumn during the London Design Festival. Exotic prints and weaves from mysterious forgotten empires through to striking graphic prints are also strong this season.

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                                    

       

                                   

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                                                                                   

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The Devil’s Advocaat

By Kate Greenhalgh

T

he nights are drawing in, and so are all the bad winter habits.

Ooh, a mince pie and schooner of Harvey’s Bristol Cream… why not? Let’s keep a marzipan Stollen by the kettle, and a family tub of Quality Street by the TV! Too cold to walk anywhere – sit by the fire with a malted drink. So cosy! This time last year, amid the Yuletide bonanza of cholesterol and alcohol, not to mention musclewastage from so much lolling gormlessly in front of X Factor, my fascist children finally insisted on a well-woman check-up for

me. With my systems stalling on a toxic sludge of Warninks Advocaat and brandy butter, Christmas was the worst of times, and, sigh, yes, the best of times to press the point.

But I’d always resisted a wellwoman check-up furiously, shouting “La, la, la! Not listening!” every time they nagged. It’s never going to be good news; at worst you’ll be given an imminent date with The Reaper, at best you’ll be told to abandon all your beloved vices (see above.) So why would you do it? This mature attitude kept the

fusspots at bay for long enough, but with a big birthday looming for me, the onset of my twilight years apparently, the family were having no more of it. My pleas of “Can’t I just do loads of botox instead?” fell on deaf ears. In January, I finally manned up to well-woman. I was weighed. I was prodded. I was scanned.

The results were quite good. The doctor greeted me with, “You are a very lucky woman.” Certainly, it seemed time to count my blessings – relatively low blood pressure, splendidly normal cholesterol levels, not-too-bad BMI… unbelievable! What a relief ! Is this what she meant? Not quite. She went on wisely: “Women your age should have this check-up and I’m glad they made you. You obviously have a lovely family who care about you a lot.”

I’m a transformed woman. We do family yoga every Sunday. I have a meditation app on my phone.

I steam organic broccoli. At last, I appreciate that my body is not some Faustian trinket to squander on the altar of damnation.

But on the other hand, if the old bod has coped so well with Warnincks and brandy butter for this long, then maybe…

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