KL Magazine August 2015 by KL Magazine

ISSN 2044–7965

ISSUE 59 AUGUST 2015 PRICELESS

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WEST NORFOLK | NORTH NORFOLK | COASTAL

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Wells-next-the-Sea by Ian Ward

meet the team... MANAGING DIRECTOR Laura Murray MANAGING EDITOR Eric Secker DESIGN TEAM Amy Phillips Lisa Tonroe

PHOTOGRAPHY Ian Ward

CONTRIBUTORS Emma Barnard Alex Dallas Michael Middleton

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t’s one of the countryside’s most beautiful sights – and one that KL magazine photographer Ian Ward is particularly fond of. Although it was voted Britain’s favourite farmland bird by a recent RSPB poll, numbers of barn owls dropped alarmingly from the mid-1908s onwards, and where it used to be Britain’s most common owl species, today only one farm in about 75 can boast a barn owl nest. Happily, our local population of barn owls is now recovering, thanks in no small part to the efforts of places such as the Stow Estate, whose head gamekeeper Nigel Davies talks to Emma Barnard this month (page 48) about the Estate’s owl population and its efforts to protect the birds. Another natural wonder needing some care and attention is Norfolk’s justly-famed coastline, and the National Trust’s Neptune Coastline Campaign (which is now in its 50th year) is at the forefront of those efforts. You can read more about the work of the campaign and the challenges it faces on page 100 of this month’s magazine. Facing challeneges is nothing new to explorer Will Millard (page 40). You may have seen his recent BBC television series Hunters of the South Seas, and Will’s journey from Wisbech Grammar School to the other side of the world is a quite remarkable one. And while the wonderfully-vibrant work of Norfolk artist Amelia Bowman (page 110) is now starting to reach a wider audience, the American James Turrell has been creating stunning explorations of light and space for the best part of 50 years – and his current exhibition in the grand setting of Houghton Hall (page 16) has to be seen to be believed. Enjoy the magazine – and the rest of the summer! KL MAGAZINE

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Contents

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6-13 WHAT’S ON This month’s diary of forthcoming events

54-63 FASHION The latest looks from the local boutiques

8-10 A WORLD OF MUSICAL TREATS Previewing the North Norfolk Music Festival

68 A SMOOTHER FIVE A DAY The growing popularity of smoothies

14-15 KING’S LYNN CORN EXCHANGE Looking ahead to some great productions

70-77 FOOD & DRINK Reviews, recipes and recommendations

16-18 JAMES TURRELL AT HOUGHTON A world famous artist on a spectacular stage

78-80 A MAN AND HIS MACARONS... A proﬁle of Tim Kinnaird

22-24 THE STORY OF MARHAM ABBEY A medieval mystery in a back garden

84-91 EXPLORER: SWAFFHAM A special look at a very special market town

28-30 ROOTS OF AN AMERICAN ICON The Norfolk origins of Abraham Lincoln

94-98 A BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF NORFOLK Photographer Ian Ward takes to the air again

34 THE BIG INTERVIEW Richard Jessop of King’s Lynn Golf Club

100-102 SAVING OUR COASTLINE The National Trust’s Neptune project at 50

36 THEN & NOW The changing face of West Norfolk

104 BOOK REVIEWS August’s most highly-anticipated releases

40-42 FROM UPWELL TO THE PACIFIC Catching up with explorer Will Millard

106-108 A LOVE OF LOCAL MUSIC... The work of Twisted Melon Promotions

47 YOU AND YOUR PETS With local vet Alex Dallas

110-112 THE ART OF AMELIA BOWMAN A passion for colour – and for Norfolk

48-50 HELPING PROTECT OUR OWLS Talking to Nigel Davies on the Stow Estate

114 MICHAEL MIDDLETON Finding art in the most unlikely of places

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Sunday 16th CHARITY CLAY SHOOT Creake Abbey, North Creake, Fakenham NR21 9LF (10am-3pm) This year Christopher William Country Ltd will be holding their third charity clay shoot sponsored by Hayes & Storr at Creake Abbey in aid of East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH). There will be a variety of disciplines including a 40 bird sporting, 2 man ﬂush, pool shoot and ‘have a go’ stand for newcomers to the sport. Cash prizes for the hottest shots along with an amazing prize raﬄe, BBQ and refreshments. There is no need to book, you can just turn up on the day and join in the fun! For more information, email enquiries@christopherwilliamcountry.co.uk or call 01328 738983.

Sunday 23rd - Sunday 30th

ACTIVE FAKENHAM Fakenham Town Centre Fakenham is getting active this month and everyone’s welcome to join in! For the third year running Active Fakenham will be coordinating a week of activities and have-a-go sessions run by local clubs, organisations and businesses. These range from cycle rides and runs to Balkan dancing, a barn dance, yoga, open days, free gym sessions, health advice, women’s sword classes, writing workshops, Fakenham fair and food fair, a duck race and much more. All of the activities are either free or are available at a reduced price. The week starts with the runs on Sunday 23rd and ends with the Fakenham 50 on Sunday 30th (Bank holiday weekend). Details can be found on the Active Fakenham website www.activefakenham.org.uk, on Facebook and Twitter, or you can email Richard Crook at richard@activefakenham.org.uk for more information.

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372 YEARS AGO: On 28th August 1643, Parliamentarian forces began their three-week siege of King’s Lynn as a result of the town declaring its allegiance to King Charles I

Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd THE ANGEL CASK ALE & CIDER FESTIVAL The Angel, 41 School Road, Watlington, King’s Lynn PE33 0HA Join the locals at The Angel to enjoy some ﬁne locally-sourced cask ales, ciders and wines. Admission is completely free and there’s plenty of live music, hot food throughout the day and evening, and lots of fun activities for the whole family! The festivities begin at 4pm on Friday and there’s live music from Undercovered on Saturday evening and rounding the weekend oﬀ in style on Sunday night will be a live performance by Whole Lotta Hair. For further details and information, please contact The Angel on 01553 811326.

Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th SOUTH PICKENHAM ESTATE - VINEYARD TOUR & WINE TASTING EVENTS South Pickenham Estate, Home Farm, South Pickenham Swaﬀham, Norfolk PE37 8DZ (12-2pm) Looking for a trip to an impressive local vineyard? The South Pickenham Estate is hosting two delightful vineyard tour and wine tasting events this summer. Each event will consist of a 10 minute tractor trailer ride to the vineyard, followed by a hosted tour of the vineyard. You’ll then hop back on the trailer for a 10 minute ride back to the wine tasting event held at Home Farm. Tickets are £10 per person and you’ll be able to purchase some of the estate’s wine on the day. The group will meet at the Home Farm car park and the wine tasting will be held in the converted barn. For more information and to reserve a place call 01760 756376.

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Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th

BANK HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR Holkham Hall, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk NR23 1AB The fabulous setting of Holkham Hall will be playing host to two amazing evenings of music at the end of the month in a starstudded August Bank Holiday weekend. On Saturday 29th, you’ll be able to dust oﬀ your dancing shoes and enjoy a night of boogie woogie and hits with Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra. The show will also feature former Squeeze star Gilson Lavis along with Louise Marshall, Mabel Ray and the outstanding Ruby Turner. Special guest star will be singer Marc Almond (right), who rocketed to fame in the 1980s with Soft Cell and enjoyed a worldwide hit with a cover version of “Tainted Love”. Jools Holland OBE has sold millions of records worldwide, and enjoys enormous popularity with his TV series ‘Later with Jools’ and his annual New Year’s Eve ‘Hootenanny’ – his shows are always packed with stars and his passion for music has made him a true doyen of the music scene. The following evening (Sunday 30th) the mood will change to even more rousing and stirring levels, as Holkham Hall provides the backdrop to The Last Night of the Proms

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with the world-famous English National Philharmonic Orchestra. With such patriotic musical treats as Land of Hope and Glory, Rule Britannia and the theme from The Dambusters, it’s a great opportunity to pack a picnic and have your ﬂags ready to wave! Hosting the evening – which will conclude with a spectacular ﬁreworks display – will be broadcaster Fiona Bruce, the top BBC news presenter and host of the Antiques Roadshow since 2008. The weekend is presented by Live Promotions, and even they can’t wait for the shows to begin. “We’re really delighted to have two very contrasting evenings of music in such an impressive setting this Bank Holiday weekend, and with such big-name stars presenting them,” says Live Promotions Director Colin Ward. “I’m sure both Jools Holland and Fiona Bruce will be a big hit with the Bank Holiday revellers and it’s going to be a very memorable weekend.” Tickets for both evenings are still available and can be obtained either online from www.livepromotionsconcerts.co.uk or in person from both King’s Lynn Corn Exchange and Holkham Hall.

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What’s On

ABOVE: This year’s North Norfolk Music Festival sees the debut of internationally-acclaimed performers such as the Arcadia String Quartet and Benjamin Appl (opposite, inset) together with the return of Festival favourites such as Laura Samuel (opposite)

South Creake welcomes a world of musical treats Later this month, the 11th North Norfolk Music Festival will see the angel-studded roof of St. Mary’s in South Creake echoing to the sounds of some of the most talented performers in the world

ast August, the North Norfolk Musical Festival’s first decade came to a sun-drenched end with record audiences packing St Mary’s church in South Creake to the rafters of its beautiful angel roof, enjoying performances by the magnificent Floreat Sonus choir, pianist Melvyn Tan and four amazingly talented young singers from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. In thanking Festival Directors Simon Rowland-Jones and Barry Cheeseman for their work in organising the event over the previous ten years, many

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members of the audience left the concerts expressing their hopes that the artists they’d just enjoyed would be invited back the following year. “People were rather wistfully disappointed when we said ‘no’ but that’s not because we enjoyed the performances any less than the audiences,” says Barry. “It’s simply that by the time the Festival takes place, our plans for the following year have already been made for some six months!” Happily, several musicians will be making a return to this year’s North Norfolk Music Festival, which opens 9

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What’s On

ABOVE: The North Norfolk Music Festival 2015 includes highlights such as singer Jacqui Dankworth (presenting the event’s first jazz concert), the Lendvai String Trio (performing the complete Beethoven string trios) and the Russian concert pianist Yevgeny Sudbin

later this month. They include the Russian pianist Yevgeny Sudbin, recently described by the Daily Telegraph as one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century; four more pianists in the shape of Tim Horton, Gary Matthewman, Simon Lepper and Tom Poster; and one of the Festival’s most popular performers, British violinist Laura Samuel. The 12 Ensemble (a group of leading young string players without a conductor to get in their way!) also returns after last year’s brilliant performance and will be including Vivaldi’s famous Four Seasons in their programme. The concert on August 19th – which also features Festival Director Simon Rowland-Jones on viola – will be held at All Saints Church, Wighton, and will be the first time the Festival has included a performance at this wonderful church, which will be marking its 600th anniversary in 2017. As usual, the North Norfolk Music Festival will be bringing a host of new names to audiences, and 2015 will even see the event’s very first jazz concert, with singer Jacqui Dankworth and pianist David Gordon on August 17th. Five Romanian musicians will be 10

making their Festival debut, as will the Arcadia String Quartet, young pianist Daniel Ciobanu, German baritone Benjamin Appl, English tenor Joshua Ellicott, the Lendvai String Trio and two more string quartets, the Ruisi Quartet and the Marmen Quartet. “As always, we’ve tried to present a richly varied and well balanced programme for the Festival,” says Barry, “and we hope that whether it’s jazz, song or Schönberg, there’ll be something for everyone to enjoy – and hopefully encourage some people to take a step into the unknown and try something new!” The North Norfolk Music Festival opens in a fittingly grand manner at St. Mary’s church in South Creake on August 12th with the Marmen String Quartet, whose concert includes Bartok’s astonishing String Quartet No.1, a work described as having a “psychological unity – an intimate drama, a kind of ‘return to life’ of one who has reached the abyss.” The series of 2015 concerts then closes on Saturday 22nd August with a performance of work by Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart and Mendelssohn by the acclaimed Arcadia Quartet from Romania. They made a stunning impression at Holkham Hall last year,

and in the last three years have won two of the most prestigious music competitions in the world. “We’re really looking forward to welcoming people to this year’s Festival,” says Barry. “It’s only by people enjoying the performances and buying tickets that we can secure the event’s future. Even though we donated £2,400 to St. Mary’s last year in gratitude for our use of the church, we are a registered charity – and every single audience member is really helping us continue to grow and develop the Festival into something Norfolk can be truly proud of.”

THE 11TH NORTH NORFOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL 11th-22nd August 2015 For full programme details, booking information and recommendations for nearby accommodation (if needed!) please see the website at www.northnorfolkmusicfestival.com

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A trio of terrific shows! Looking for an excellent night out? You’ll be spoilt for choice this Autumn at the King’s Lynn Corn Exchange. BIZET - CARMEN

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Friday 23rd October | 7:30pm Seville comes to King’s Lynn with the hottest ticket in town! Opera & Ballet International proudly presents an Ellen Kent production with international soloists, a highly praised chorus and a full orchestra. One of the most famous and seductive operas of all time, Bizet’s irresistibly emotional Carmen guarantees an evening of passion and romance. This dazzling production features Bizet’s unforgettable melodies including the best known baritone aria of all, The Toreador’s Song.

G4-THE REUNION TOUR Monday 21st September | 7:30pm 2004 X Factor finalists and multiplatinum selling vocal quartet G4 celebrate their 10th anniversary at the Corn Exchange this September. Experience their trademark sound and hear the tunes that helped make them famous including My Way, Nessun Dorma and Bohemian Rhapsody, alongside some fresh takes on music of more recent years. With very special guests soprano Lucy Kay (Britain’s Got Talent 2014 runner up) and the Rock KLmagazine August 2015

BEN FOGLE CALL OF THE WILD Monday 19th October | 7:30pm Ben Fogle has rowed the Atlantic Ocean, crossed Antarctica on foot, run across the Sahara and crossed the Empty Quarter on camel. He has presented numerous hit programmes, written six Sunday Times bestseller books and is an ambassador for WWF, Medecins Sans Frontier, Tusk and many more charities. In Call of the Wild at the Corn Exchange, Ben will recount how a self-confessed urbanite became drawn to (and so enamoured with) adventure, travel and the harsh challenges associated with a life in the wilderness. All the way from his first adventures travelling across South America as a younger man to some of the toughest trials known to man. Coming Soon!

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For the full programme of what’s in store at the Corn Exchange, pick up a copy of our brochure or check out the ‘what’s on’ page of our website. Tickets for all shows are available from the Box Office on 01553 764864 or book online at kingslynncornexchange.co.uk @klcornexchange Alive Corn Exchange klcornexchange

“I saw the Mona Lisa when it was in LA. I saw it for 13 seconds and had to move on. But you know there’s this ‘slow-food’ movement right now? Maybe we could have a ‘slow-art’ movement, and take an hour...” – James Turrell

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PICTURES: IAN WARD / PETE HUGGINS / HUGO GLENDINNING

What’s On

ABOVE: The familiar façade of Houghton Hall has become a canvas for the world-famous American artist James Turrell (opposite) as part of a major exhibition celebrating his remarkable artistic career, which spans almost 50 years

Houghton Hall and a modern master of art... One of the most celebrated artists of modern times meets one the country’s finest buildings as Houghton Hall hosts a major exhibition celebrating the amazing work of artist James Turrell

or generations, artists have found inspiration under the skies of Norfolk – and now one of the most acclaimed artists working anywhere in the world today is using the county’s skyscape as a canvas for his dynamic modern lightworks. An eclectic range of the work of Texas-based artist James Turrell is currently on display in the hall, stables and grounds of Houghton Hall, and will be there until October 24th. The exhibition – titled LightScape: James Turrell at Houghton – features a collection of lightworks and is open from Wednesdays to Sundays and on Bank Holiday Monday at the end of this month. The centrepiece is a specially created illumination of the entire west façade of the hall, which takes place on

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Friday and Saturday evenings. Visible from dusk until an hour after dark, it provides a quite unique experience and forms a spectacular ﬁnale for visitors to the exhibition. Further highlights are two major Turrell works which are already in place at Houghton Hall. The skyspace ‘Seldom Seen’ is a wooden viewing chamber that rises into the canopy of surrounding trees with a square aperture open to the sky, while ‘St Elmo’s Breath’ is a thought-provoking space division construction, and is housed in an 18th century Palladian water tower. Other exhibition works include Turrell’s iconic light projections that he created in the 1960s, holograms, a series of prints and a ‘Tall Glass’ work, as well as a selection of photos

What’s On

ABOVE: The exhibition at Houghton Hall includes James Turrell’s ‘First Light’ etchings (above), the exterior Skyspace (right) and the fascinating 1968 work Raethro Red (right centre)

for the front of the house,” he says. “Visitors won’t need a deep knowledge of the arts to enjoy the lightworks as you react with pure emotion. All ages, from children to adults, can enjoy them.” As for the artist himself, he’s delighted to be staging an exhibition in a rural English setting. “It’s a treat, and it’s great to celebrate this part of England too,” says Turrell. “The history of collecting art here at Houghton Hall is extraordinary, and this exhibition is a continuation of collecting that is rarely done.” The new exhibition is a fascinating contrast to the hugely successful Houghton Revisited in 2013, which saw a stunning collection of paintings transported from Russia’s St Petersburg Hermitage reunited with their original surroundings. This is a rare opportunity to enjoy the work of a true master of modern art.

PICTURES: IAN WARD / PETE HUGGINS

illustrating Turrell’s breathtaking work at Roden Crater in Arizona – a 30-year project in which he’s transforming a natural cinder volcano on the edge of a desert into a large-scale artwork from which to view celestial phenomena. It’s one of the most ambitious artistic endeavours of modern times, running from 1979 to the present day, using the medium of light to relate to the surrounding universe of sky, land and culture. “It’s an area where you feel geologic time,” says Turrell. “You have a strong feeling of standing on the surface of the planet.” James Turrell is widely acknowledged as one of the most important artists in the world today. From the mid-1960s, his principal concern has been the way people experience light and space. His early series of projection pieces (which fool the eye into seeing solid geometrical objects using only a single light source) led to the creation of constructions allowing a radiant effusion of concealed light to create a variety of effects. For The Marquess of Cholmondeley, the owner of Houghton Hall, staging the exhibition has been the fulfilment of a long-held dream. “I’m extremely grateful to James for his active participation, and especially for creating an exciting new light piece

LIGHTSCAPE: JAMES TURRELL AT HOUGHTON Tickets are on sale now from www.houghtonhall.com or by calling (01603) 598640. There are several ticketing options, and adult prices range from £10-£19.50, with concessions for children, family tickets and group bookings. Please note the illumination of the exterior of Houghton Hall happens on Friday and Saturday evenings only.

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A Budget for stability? It received mixed reviews, but the first Conservative-only Budget for 20 years will affect everyone over the coming months. Stephenson Smart Partner Chris Goad examines the key points... elivering the first Conservative-only Budget in nearly 20 years on July 8th, Chancellor George Osborne announced a series of bold measures affecting business, tax and welfare in his 2015 Summer Budget. Heralding this second Budget as a “big Budget for a country with big ambitions,” the Chancellor unveiled his announcements with the stated aim of moving from a “low wage, high tax, high welfare economy to the higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare country we intend to create.” Acknowledging the ongoing risks posed by the global economy, the Chancellor reported that the Office for Budget Responsibility had revised down its economic growth forecast to 2.4% for 2015 and announced that a budget surplus will now be reached a year later than originally planned, in 2019/20. In a series of moves designed to incentivise UK businesses, the Chancellor

announced future reductions in corporation tax to 18%. The Annual Investment Allowance will be set at £200,000 from 1st January 2016, while the Employment Allowance will be increased by 50% to £3,000 from April 2016. Meanwhile, a new apprenticeships levy will be applied to all large ﬁrms. Key announcements on personal taxation include an increase in the basic income tax personal allowance threshold to £11,000 next year, and a rise in the basic rate limit to £32,000. The pensions tax relief annual allowance for the highest earners will be reduced from next year, and a new Green Paper will propose radical changes to the pension saving system. One of the most talked-about announcements was the introduction of a new, compulsory National Living Wage that will apply to those aged 25 and above from next April, while working parents will receive up to 30 hours a week of free childcare for 3-4 year olds from

September 2017. Changes to the inheritance tax rules will include a new main residence allowance starting at £100,000 and rising to £175,000 by 2021. This could allow families to pass on up to a total of £1m to their children without paying inheritance tax. Further measures to clamp down on tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance are expected to raise an additional £5bn and the Government will abolish permanent non-dom status from April 2017. Other measures announced include a freeze in fuel duty for the remainder of the year, a planned relaxation of Sunday trading laws for England and Wales, and a new Roads Fund which will be supported by Vehicle Excise Duty. It was an important Budget, and we’ll all be aﬀected in some way over the coming months. If you’d like any help and advice on how these measures are likely to aﬀect you and your business and/or family, please contact Stephenson Smart for a professional and personal service.

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Summer Budget 2015: the key measures... A new National Living Wage (compulsory for those over 25) to start at £7.20 per hour next April and expected to reach over £9 by 2020. An estimated 6 million people will see their pay rise. Tax-free personal allowances to be raised from £10,600 to £11,000 next April, as a step towards the target of £12,500 by 2020. Basic Rate taxpayers will be better off by £80. The threshold for 40p tax raised from £42,385 to £43,000 next April, as a step towards a target of £50,000 by 2020. Higher Rate taxpayers will be better off by £203. The current dividend tax credit system will be replaced by a new £5,000 tax-free dividend allowance and dividend tax rates will be increased by 7.5%. This reform will significantly impact ownermanaged companies where dividends have been used to remunerate business owners.

Corporation tax will be cut to 19% in 2017 and then to 18% from 2020. The rate is down from 28% when George Osborne took over as Chancellor in 2010, and at 20% was already the joint lowest rate of any country in the G20 group of the world’s major economies. A cut in small businesses’ National Insurance contributions, with a 50% increase in the employment allowance to £3,000. The Annual Investment Allowance which was due to drop to £25,000 from January 2016, is to be set at £200,000 permanently. Welfare spending to be focused on the elderly and disabled. Disability benefit will not be taxed or means tested. Those aged 18 to 21 must “earn or learn” and will lose automatic entitlement to housing benefits. The cap on benefits cut to £20,000 outside London. Working age benefits, including tax credits and housing benefit, will be frozen for four years. And tax credit support will be limited to the first two children from April 2017.

£175,000 in 2020, for those who leave their homes to their children or grandchildren, on top of the £325,000 standard inheritance tax allowance. The relief is tapered away for those with estates of more than £2m. Fuel duty is frozen for another year. There will be a consultation on extending the time allowed before the ﬁrst MOT of a car’s life from three years to four. And Vehicle Excise Duty is being reformed, in a move targeted at premium, low-emission vehicles.

Buy-to-let landlords will see tax relief on mortgage interest payments restricted to 20%, to be phased in over four years. Those earning more than £150,000 will have their tax-free pension contributions allowance tapered away from the current £40,000 to £10,000. From 2017 there will be an extra £100,000 inheritance tax allowance, rising to

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ABOVE: The evocative ruins of Marham Abbey today – but behind the grandeur is a strange tale of religious greed and corruption

A garden in Marham and a medieval drama... One of only two Cistercian abbeys for nuns in the whole country, Marham Abbey came to a rather inglorious end. Emma Barnard looks at the strange story of Sister Barbara and her robber nuns

aking sure our gardens are full of beautiful plants, water features and carefully-tended lawns becomes something of a priority at this time of year. But there can’t be many more impressive or more interesting features to have in your back garden than the ruins of an Abbey. Marham Abbey was once a sizeable Cistercian nunnery, but only the earthworks of the grass-covered buildings (including the cloisters), the south wall of the church and an outer parlour are the only remaining features. And they currently lie in the garden of

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the privately-owned (and aptly-named) Abbey House in the village of Marham. This listed building and scheduled monument was founded in 1249 by Isabel, the widow of Hugh D’Albini (the earl of Arundel) and was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and Saints Barbara and Edmund. Three years later, with the consent of the prior and convent of West Acre, and of Nicholas (who was the vicar of the churches of the Holy Trinity and St Andrews), Walter Suﬃeld, Bishop of Norwich licensed the community to have free burial in their own church by their own priests and gave them the right to say mass and perform divine services there. It was on

condition that none of the parishioners of the two churches were admitted to any sacrament or were buried in the convent church. Additionally, there was a special reservation for the right of the parish churches in cases of strangers desiring burial in the abbey church – the two parish churches had the convent and prior of West Acre as their rectors. On St. Bartholomew’s Day in 1252 Marham Abbey was formally incorporated into the Waverley Abbey, the mother house of the Cistercian order in England. It was one of only two Cistercian abbeys founded for nuns in England and was small in size – only

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ABOVE: A fragment of Marham Abbey from the ruins that are today scattered around the garden of a private home in the village.

nursed back to health by the nuns, the victim(s) and their families would think Sister Barbara was their saviour – and the Abbey became quite prosperous as a result of all the grateful gifts the families of the victims sent to her. It’s said that news spread across the county to the monks of Pentney Abbey and they weren’t particularly impressed with all the goings-on at Marham. The monks reported Sister Barbara after they kept watch on Marham Abbey and saw her paying the robbers, and her eventual fate was to be bricked up alive behind a wall! This is no doubt the origin of the local ghost story, which claims that if you go near the path leading up to Vinegar Hill, you may see a ghostly ﬁgure walking there, which is thought to be the spirit of Sister Barbara. The story of the nuns’ nefarious activities must have some element of the truth attached to it, as there’s no doubt the sisters’ behaviour caught up with them.

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housing between 10 and 15 nuns. The Abbess of Marham Abbey was a nun named Sister Barbara (she’s currently depicted on Marham’s village sign) and it seems she was prone to scandalous behaviour. Legend has it that Sister Barbara was rather ambitious and enjoyed the finer things in life, and she devised a plan to ‘secure’ some riches for herself. In the village of Marham is a narrow, rutted road which was the main route from Swaffham to King’s Lynn, and this runs along a hill named Vinegar Hill. Sister Barbara’s plan was to pay unsavoury characters to stop, rob and beat any rich merchant who passed Vinegar Hill and hand over the riches to her. This wasn’t the limits of the plot, however, as she planned to take the victims in and deceive them even further. When the casualties came round, the first people they’d see would be Sister Barbara and her nuns. After they’d been

In oﬃcial documents, drawn up in 1536, it’s alleged that Abbess Barbara Mason and four of her nuns confessed to ‘grave incontinency.’ The county commissioners visited the abbey at Marham and reported there were “religious persons of slanderous Reporte whereof iij [each] of them doue require ther Dispensacions, and the residue wyll continue in Religione.” The commissioners further reported that the house was “in sore decaye”, there were goods in the house worth over £32 owing to the convent, and there were twelve other people living there – notably one priest and three female servants. An inventory was carried out to identify all of the goods, and this was taken in August 1535. One of the main diﬃculties for the commissioners was understanding how church ornaments had found their way to the dormitories – the simple fact they were there indicated not all was well within the abbey. The inventory also found that in one dormitory there was a cross plated with silver-gilt, a cope (raincoat) of green satin from Bruges, various old altar cloths and hangings, and two candles. The goods of the house were sold, and a lease of the site of the abbey and its land was granted in 1537 to a Thomas Bukworth – and less than ten years later, the property was granted to Sir Nicholas Hare and John Hare of London. There’s no doubt that Marham Abbey has a strange and colourful past, and the ruins that remain today are a wonderful memory of what once was – and an extremely interesting talking point!

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Opening of the Gettysburg Address 19th November, 1863

ABOVE: The 19ft high statue of Abraham Lincoln at the centre of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. It was completed three years after a bronze bust of America’s 16th president was unveiled in the church of St. Andrews in Hingham (opposite), the Norfolk home of Lincoln’s ancestors.

The Norfolk roots of America’s greatest hero Had it not been for a church warden near Dereham changing his will 400 years ago, the course of history may have been very diﬀerent. KL magazine looks at the local origins of Abraham Lincoln.

t’s hard to believe, but had it not been for a relatively unimportant family dispute in the heart of rural Norfolk several centuries ago, America’s greatest ever President may never have been born and the history of the last two hundred years may have been very diﬀerent indeed. Exactly 400 years ago, the church warden of Swanton Morley just outside Dereham, a certain Richard Lincoln, changed his will and eﬀectively disinherited his eldest son Edward in favour of his fourth wife and her children. Understandably disgruntled, Edward duly moved 11 miles southwards to the

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small market town of Hingham, and struggled to make a living on some family land in the area – and it was here that his son Samuel was born on 24th August 1622. By the time he was 15 Samuel was apprenticed to a weaver in Norwich, and – possibly fuelled the family stories of their lost inheritance – decided to leave Norfolk and seek his fortune in the New World. Together with a number of other Hingham residents (including two of his three brothers) Samuel boarded a ship in April 1637 and crossed the Atlantic, settling in Massachusetts and founding a town they called (naturally enough) Hingham.

It was an experience shared by thousands of other people across Europe, but with Samuel Lincoln there’s a big diﬀerence, for on February 12th, 1809 (after the family had gradually moved westwards) his great, great, great, great grandson Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky. More books have been written on Lincoln – over 15,000 to date – than on any other person in history apart from Jesus. One of the world’s greatest ever statesmen, he’s universally accepted as the most important president in American history. His management of the Civil War was absolutely essential to the eventual

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ABOVE: The main street of Hingham, Massachusetts today, founded by the ancestors of Abraham Lincoln and named after the Norfolk village they emigrated from (below)

what happened – fighting broke out in April 1861. Lincoln always defined the Civil War as a struggle to save the Union, but in January 1863 he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in the areas still under Confederate control. It was an important symbolic gesture that clearly identified the Union’s struggle as a war to end slavery. In the effort to win the war, Lincoln assumed more power than any president before him, declaring martial law and suspending legal rights – and his difficulties in finding effective generals to lead the Union armies ended with the appointment of Ulysses S Grant as overall commander in 1864. On 19th November 1863, Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address at the dedication of a cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, a decisive Union victory that had taken place earlier in the year. It’s only 272 words long and took around three minutes to deliver, but it’s remembered around the world as one of the most important speeches ever made. In 1864, Lincoln stood for re-election and became President for the second time, making conciliatory gestures towards the southern states during his inaugural address. On 9th April 1865, the Confederate general Robert E Lee surrendered, effectively ending the American Civil War. It had lasted for more than four years and 600,000 Americans had died.

Less than a week later, Lincoln was shot while attending a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC and died the following morning. Lincoln’s impact was truly worldwide, and although only one of his four sons survived to manhood his family never forgot their Norfolk roots, and commissioned a bronze bust of their ancestor that was unveiled in Hingham’s church of St Andrews on 15th October 1919. It’s still there to this day, and if you’d like some refreshment after your visit there’s a charming tearoom opposite the church. It is, of course, named Lincoln’s.

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reintegration of the Union, and with a lesser leader the United States we know today may well have not included the southern states. Lincoln’s impoverished beginnings, self-education, oratory skills, humility and political genius have made him almost a legendary figure. He appears on both the United States penny and five dollar bill, and his speech known as the Gettysburg Address is considered one of the greatest ever made. Which makes it all the more surprising to learn that Abraham Lincoln had received less than a year of formal education by the time he was 21, largely schooling himself at home in subjects such as grammar, history, mathematics, and law using borrowed books and the Bible. In 1836, Lincoln qualified as a lawyer and went to work in a law practice in Springfield, Illinois. He sat in the state legislature from 1834 to 1842 and was elected to Congress four years later, representing the Whig Party for a term. In 1856, he joined the new Republican Party and in 1860 was asked to run as their presidential candidate. In the presidential campaign, Lincoln made his opposition to slavery very clear, and his victory provoked a crisis, with many southerners fearing he'd attempt to abolish slavery in the South. Seven southern states left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, and four more joined later. Lincoln vowed to preserve the Union, even if it meant war, which is exactly

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Small car. Big ideas. Citroën’s stylish new DS3 range gives you a lot of style for your money. KL magazine photographer Ian Ward puts it to the test he Citroën DS3 is a very stylish car and it’s clear a great deal of thought has gone into the design and look of the car. The two-tone paintwork gives it a distinctive look that makes it stand out on the road. I drove the DSire 1.6 BlueHDi 120 Diesel on the test – a model which is very economical on fuel, delivering 78.5mpg – making it hard to beat in terms of running costs, especially with its free road tax. The DS3 is a particularly safe car too, achieving a 5-star rating in the Euro NCAP crash test, thanks to the anti-lock brakes, electronic stability control and emergency braking assistance. The drive has the feel of a much larger car – with precise cornering helped by a slightly ﬁrm suspension. The road noise was also very well controlled, and much less than you’d expect from a smaller car. All of this leads to a very pleasant driving experience. The DSire version comes very well equipped with a leather covered steering wheel, electric mirrors, cruise control, chrome detailing and a height

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adjustable driver’s seat as standard with many other options available. The seats are very comfortable and the space in the front is generous, again making the car feel bigger than it really is. The dashboard layout is functional and clear with an upmarket feel, chrome-rimmed dials and a gloss ﬁnish across its width. The gear lever has a metal eﬀect and the pedals are drilled alloy. Attention to detail is evident right through this car and it’s full of nice touches. Three doors are standard throughout the DS3 range, the front doors being large and opening wide enough to allow easy access. The front seats move forward to allow entry to the rear seats, with grab handles on the B-Pillars to assist. The rear tailgate opens to reveal a large boot space (all 285 litres of it) which can be increased to 980 litres by folding down the rear 60:40 seats. I found the Citroën DS3 a real pleasure to drive and as the costs of owning and running the car are equally attractive, it makes it a very viable option for those in the market for a small car that thinks big.

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The Big Interview King’s Lynn Golf Club is almost 100 years old and the course itself – designed by Peter Alliss and Dave Thomas – is recognised as one of England’s very best courses. KL magazine talks to the club’s General Manager about golf, dancing and Nelson Mandela... KL MAGAZINE: Could you tell us a little about your background? RICHARD JESSOP: I was born in Huddersfield, and my interest in golf began when I was 14 years of age – I lived next to the school playing fields and one day purchased a second-hand club for 50p. Little did I know it was a 2-iron! During the school holidays I used to practice up to 12 hours a day, trying to hit golf balls over the rugby posts and across the tennis courts. My first golfing holiday was a week at the famous St Andrew’s in Scotland with my father, playing 36 holes every day. KL MAGAZINE: The course at King’s Lynn has been described as an ‘Augusta replica’ – is that a fair comparison? RICHARD JESSOP: The course here at King’s Lynn is a real gem. I’ve been involved in the industry for 38 years, both in golf club management and professional golf, and it’s certainly the finest course I’ve been associated with. I’d agree with the comparison to Augusta because of its challenge. King’s Lynn is a fabulous test for a golfer.

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KL MAGAZINE: What does your role of General Manager of King’s Lynn Golf Club entail on a daily basis? RICHARD JESSOP: On a daily basis, no two days are ever the same! I’m an early starter and am often in the oﬃce by 7am – checking e-mails, planning the day, and organising the various teams of greenstaﬀ, administration, hospitality, and the Professional’s team. KL MAGAZINE: What does the future hold for King’s Lynn Golf Club? RICHARD JESSOP: It’s going to be very exciting. Annual improvements to the course are planned, and we have an active membership who fully embrace

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and welcome change. I believe the future success of the Club lies within making golf a family experience. KL MAGAZINE: What’s the most rewarding part of your job? RICHARD JESSOP: Making sure members and visitors have an enjoyable experience at King’s Lynn Golf Club. I also really enjoy helping and assisting with any problems – I relish the daily challenges my job presents. Interaction with members and visitors is a very important part of my role. KL MAGAZINE: What do you consider to have been your greatest achievement? RICHARD JESSOP: I have two wonderful children who’ve recently graduated from university and have now embarked on successful careers. My son is working in London with a business consultancy company, while my daughter is a primary school teacher in Devon. KL MAGAZINE: What have you learned from your work? RICHARD JESSOP: When a problem arises, it’s essential to listen, think and plan a course of action. I’ve also learned that it’s vital to be able to

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delegate to other team members. KL MAGAZINE: What do you like best about Norfolk? RICHARD JESSOP: Having lived for many years in the North and the West Country, I love Norfolk’s never-ending skies and its wonderful sunsets. KL MAGAZINE: In your free time, how do you like to relax? RICHARD JESSOP: It’s not all golf! I can often be found running along the cliﬀ tops in Sheringham at 5am – it’s a great way to start the day, seeing the sunrise in the peace and tranquillity. I’ve also just taken up cycling.

KL MAGAZINE: What was the last book you read? RICHARD JESSOP: In His Own Words: From Freedom to the Future by Nelson Mandela. It’s a selection of Mandela’s speeches, charting his lifelong commitment to freedom, reconciliation and democracy. It’s a truly inspiring book. KL MAGAZINE: Tell us something about yourself that would surprise people... RICHARD JESSOP: I enjoy dancing! Ceroc, West Coast Swing, Ballroom, and occasionally (dare I say it) disco dancing!

KL MAGAZINE: Who’s your biggest inspiration? RICHARD JESSOP: My first boss was Ronald Weldon, an old-school professional golfer who taught me life skills as well as my golfing skills. I’ve always had a huge respect for him – he was a father-like figure to me, and helped me establish my first Professional shop at Elland Golf Club in Halifax. KL MAGAZINE: What’s the best piece of advice you've ever been given? RICHARD JESSOP: To always be honest and fair.

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RETURN TO RAILWAY ROAD... Many thanks to David Curtiss of Gaywood for e-mailing us this picture of Railway Road in King’s Lynn. The building to the right of the picture (beside the Bird & Varney garage) was the premises of the building company AF Foreman & Sons, but it seems the young girl in the foreground was more

interested in the photographer. Salt producer Cerebos is still going strong (the company uses the same logo today) although these days the bus to Hunstanton is the No.10! You can enjoy thousands of images of Norfolk’s unique history on the website at www.picture.norfolk.gov.uk or by visiting the Norfolk Heritage Centre at

the Millennium Library, The Forum, Norwich (or your local studies library). We’ll be taking another look back in time at the local area next month. IN ASSOCIATION WITH

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ECOnomy Windows and the local Italian Job a Capanna is a delightful Italian restaurant in Terrington St. John, and when Peter and Maureen Lantrua (who run the business with their daughter Lisa) wanted to replace the kitchen windows and French doors to the front and rear of the restaurant last year, choosing ECOnomy Windows for the work was an obvious choice. “We’ve known of them and heard good reports about them for many years,” says Maureen. “And as we’re one ourselves, we always like to support local family-run businesses whenever we can.” In fact, the Lantruas were so pleased with the results and the professional service they received that earlier this year they asked ECOnomy Windows to replace the windows and front door of their beautiuful Georgian home, which sits beside the restaurant. It was a project

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It’s been an amazing first year for Clean & Clare! This time last year, Claire King started her own cleaning business with a single vacuum and steam cleaner. Today, she oversees a team of 14 getting ready to celebrate an incredible first birthday...

or some people, cleaning is a necessary evil. For some it’s a regular and rather thankless task. But for Claire King it’s a lifelong passion that’s helped her establish her own business and see it through its ﬁrst amazingly successful year. For the best part of a decade, Claire worked in the NHS as a community healthcare assistant/phlebotomist, until forced organisational changes made her reconsider her career. “I felt that I was losing touch with my patients,” she remembers. “I’d always loved the face-to-face element of the work, building relationships with people

and helping them, and it seemed I was being moved in a different direction. I thought it was probably the right time for a change.” Although Claire’s the first to admit she had no firm future in mind, her experiences in healthcare gave her the germ of an idea. “I often used to visit patients at their home, and many of them would ask me if I know of a good cleaner,” she says. “I’ve loved cleaning and keeping things tidy all my life, so it seemed like the obvious thing to do!” Claire duly set about creating her own business, arming herself with an inexpensive Vax vacuum and steam

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cleaner, sending e-mails to local businesses and holiday home owners, and enlisting her family’s help in putting leaflets in local shops and post offices. “At that stage, I was really only looking for enough work for myself,” she says. “I never worried about making a success of it, because I knew I had the determination I needed. I knew that I could make it work.” But when Claire launched Clean & Clare at the beginning of August last year, she could never imagine how things were about to take off. “You should never underestimate the power of personal recommendations!” she says. “Almost before I knew it, I had enough work for two people – so I had to make the decision whether to stay where I was or expand by employing another pair of hands.” It was a decision Claire soon became used to, as word spread and her workload increased. Steadily adding more team members to the business as contracts and jobs required, she never gave a thought to just how big Clean & Clare was becoming. “It really is quite amazing!” she says. “After only 12 months, I’ve got 14 people working for me! It’s a great achievement, and it shows we must be doing something right – but I don’t think about it too much. I’m very levelheaded and I just get on with the work!” And don’t think there’s a chance of Clean & Clare standing still. The recent award for a major cleaning contract means that Claire’s now looking to double the size of her team in the very near future. Based at Houghton near King’s Lynn, Clean & Clare offers a comprehensive cleaning service that includes domestic and commercial work, end-oftenancy cleaning, holiday homes, hotels and wedding venues. The team works everywhere from Brancaster to the Woottons, from Burnham Market to Docking and for a range of commerical

standards – cleaning deeper and going beyond the surfaces you can see – are followed by the entire team. They descale kettles and clean the inside of fridges. They check smoke alarms and lightbulbs, they position cushions correctly, and they even leave behind chocolates with the Clean & Clare logo on them for the perfect finishing touch. “It’s not just a case of running a hoover over a floor or dusting a shelf,” says Claire. “It’s about helping people maintain a beautiful environment they can happily live or work in and paying attention to all the details – in every corner, and in every room.” So what does it take to be a good cleaner? “It is hard to find a good cleaner,” says Claire. “You might think that anyone can do it, but that’s not quite true. The needs of a hotel and an elderly couple are completely different. They need a different approach and a different set of skills. I’ve been really fortunate in being able to find such a brilliant team and I think that’s where Clean & Clare has made such a difference.” Despite an incredible first year in business and a workforce that’s grown beyond her wildest imaginings, Claire still finds time to do what she loves best. “Obviously I don’t do as much cleaning as I used to,” she says, “but I do still have my regular customers and I cover for sickness and holidays. I get so much satisfaction from it – from meeting people and helping them – and that’s why Clean & Clare started in the first place.” As Clean & Clare celebrates its first birthday and continues to go from strength to strength, there’s no doubt that Claire’s looking at a successful future – and it’s sure to be a bright and clean one too!

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CLAIRE KING customers from Jack Richards & Sons in Fakenham to The Lifeboat in Thornham. “We’ve even cleaned tree houses, and only recently I was asked if we’d clean someone’s helicopter!” says Claire. “It might sound odd, but it’s not that diﬀerent really. It’s still leather and glass and metal surfaces – and it’s still a case of taking a professional approach.” Indeed, if there is a secret to the success of Clean & Clare, it lies in the care and attention Claire and her everexpanding team brings to every single job. “Cleaning is all in the details,” says Claire. “How can you clean a bathroom from top to bottom and not fold the towels or wipe the taps so they dry shiny and sparkling? They may sound like small things, but they’re what really counts. You’d be amazed how many people think they’ve cleaned a room but they haven't even moved any of the furniture.” Claire’s tremendously high

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ABOVE: Will Millard during the ﬁlming of his recent BBC2 series Hunters of the South Seas – a very long way from his ﬁrst experiences of reporting on the school newspaper at Wisbech Grammar School

From Upwell to the other side of the world Today, Will Millard is a nationally-recognised explorer, writer and photographer – a far cry from his early ambition of becoming the local magician. Emma Barnard catches up with the adventurer...

rom a boy scout in the Fens to an expedition leader in West Papua and West Africa, Will Millard has made quite the journey from Upwell, but it was his time growing up in the Fens and experiences in the scouts as a young boy that formed the starting points for the nationally-recognised explorer he is today. “I’ve always been into the outdoors, ﬁshing, rafting and biking,” says Will, “and the scouts group in Upwell was great in giving me a real structure and a number of practical skills.” However, the idea of travelling the

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world to far ﬂung places wasn’t always at the forefront of his mind. “Life was very straightforward when I was younger,” he says. “I even said to my mum when I was about seven years old that I never actually wanted to leave the county – and that I wanted to be the local magician!” Real inspiration was to come when Will started at Wisbech Grammar School at the age of 11, and it was there that his Geography and English teachers helped to shape his current career. “Mr Gough and Mr Bradley were fantastic, and it was never just a matter

of going through a textbook,” says Will. “I remember Mr Gough bringing some of his slides from the Amazon to school – and we also went on a variety of field trips which gave us that allimportant physical access.” Meanwhile, Will’s English teacher for his GCSE and A-Level years also ran the school paper – which led to his first taste of journalism. “Mr King used to be a journalist himself which was brilliant – the school paper was my first taste for writing in that way and it really encouraged me to think outside the box,” Will remembers. Upwell is an extremely long way from

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ABOVE: Will Millard’s explorations have taken him from the whale hunters of Lamalera to the Bajau ﬁshermen (below) – and he’s found these isolated communities have an awful lot to tell us about ourselves and our own culture

the middle of the Pacific, but that’s exactly where Will’s most recent expedition has been – an adventure told through the BBC2 series Hunters of the South Seas, which aired earlier this year. The Coral Triangle (an area of the tropical marine waters of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste) has been the focus of much of Will’s attention during his career due to its incredible biodiversity. “One single reef has more life in it than the whole of the Caribbean,” he says. “New Guinea alone only represents 1% of the world’s land mass but it has 10% of the world’s species – which is really quite staggering.” Will spent time with three different communities: the Bajau nomadic fishermen from Sulawesi, the whale hunters of Lamalera, and he also visited the Trobriand Islands to learn about the Kula shell trade. “What I really wanted to learn is what these communities can tell us about ourselves – we can learn a lot from them,” says Will. “Many of the people we stayed with had contact with the outside world, but had still decided that their way was better.” One thing Will really noticed was the lack of a ‘waste’ culture – these are communities in which everything has a function. “The Bajau’s whole spear gun is made of pieces of wood and things he’s found floating in the sea,” says Will. “While we worry about the shapes and the colours of fruit and vegetables, the

Lamalera use every single part of the whales they catch. They use all the meat, they even use the teeth, and one animal can feed up to 2,000 people.” Surprisingly, Will feels the communities he visited on the other side of the world can find an echo in his home county of Norfolk. “The Fens is a vast landscape of water and fields and really isn’t too dissimilar to the South Pacific,” he says, noting that the Fens actually gave him his first contact with a self-sufficient community. “The Fen Tigers were an amazing group who lived from duck hunting, cutting reeds and fishing, and one of them was Ernie James – who lived until he was 99,” Will remembers. “My dad was his doctor and he let us fish on his

land in Welney.” Of course, Will hasn’t chosen the safest of careers to follow. “I’ve had some pretty hairy moments over the past eight years,” he says. For example, during a solo descent of the River Mano in Sierra Leone, Will fell ill with malaria. “I had to learn to cope under pressure and not panic,” he remembers. “I had to employ my evacuation procedures, get myself to the next village and walk out of the forest. No matter how ill I felt, I simply had to keep paddling or walking to the point of rescue.” Many of Will’s Norfolk connections have moved on since childhood, but whenever he’s back he likes to reconnect to his roots. “I love Well Creek, which was my playground when I was younger,” he says. “I can’t resist jumping out of my car and having a fish!” He also prepared for the Mano descent while living with his sister in Downham Market. “I used to train in my raft on the Great Ouse from Denver,” he remembers. “I’m really very fond of all these rivers!” As you’d expect, there’s a lot more to come from Will Millard, and he’s currently working on the River Taff in Cardiff for BBC television. We could also soon be seeing more from Will’s adventures in the Coral Triangle. “I’d really like to re-pitch to BBC2 and go back to Indonesia,” he says. “But this time I’d like to visit the communities living in the forest.” You can catch up with Will and his latest projects at www.willmillard.com

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“CWA is a very friendly and relaxed environment and it encourages you to do your best...” The College of West Anglia helped Dayna Kingshott realise her sporting ambitions...

ayna is currently studying the level 3 BTEC Sport and Exercise Science at the College of West Anglia (CWA) and is well on track to realising her dreams. “I chose to study at CWA because I’ve always enjoyed sport and have always wanted to become a sports science coach, working in football,” says Dayna. “The course is a great stepping stone to university, and the units covered have helped me expand my knowledge and move towards a career in sport.” Highlighting the college’s extensive facilities and equipment for students, Dayna’s experiences at CWA have been

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A life of dedication... hether we’re in our own town or on our travels, we see guide dogs wherever we go, bringing the gift of freedom and mobility to their owners. But how often do you stop to think about all the work and training that’s gone into creating the amazing partnership we see on our streets? The aim of the Guide Dogs charity is to help blind and part-sighted people enjoy the same rights, freedoms, responsibilities and quality of life as people who are fully sighted. This is, of course, where guide dogs prove invaluable – allowing their owners access to shops and buildings that otherwise would be very diﬃcult. In 2014 alone, 850 guide dog partnerships were created, which means there are now almost 5,000 people able to get out on their own thanks to their guide dog. The process starts with puppies being specially bred with a view to a future career as a guide dog, and these pups

are then fostered in a suitable home environment while they undergo basic training. They’re then given further special training and matched with a potential owner and individual-speciﬁc training is completed. All of this takes time, money and a lot of patience. Throughout my years in West Norfolk we’ve always looked after guide dogs and their owners. All dogs receive examinations every six months, and an annual vaccination to ensure they’re in good health and working well. The bond between owner and dog is palpably strong, and as a vet one inevitably tends to get very close to these animals. Over the years I’ve always found this work tremendously rewarding. Yes, it’s sometimes quite heartbreaking, but above all, and at all times, it’s an enormous privilege. If you’d like to help these incredible dogs on a local level, King’s Lynn and District Guide Dogs are holding a fun dog show at the Hunstanton Kite

hroughout July we’d been oﬀering free health checks for all pets aged seven years or older, and during that time we helped many pets and really improved their quality of life. Several have undergone dental treatment – it’s a common problem with older pets – which has transformed their activity levels. It’s improved their breath as well! Other pets have been assessed for arthritis, and with the help of either supplements or medicines they’ve regained mobility and have become pain free. It’s wonderful to see these older, well-loved pets go through these assessments, and it’s marvellous seeing how the necessary (and usually straightforward) treatment has helped them regain their vitality. In fact, due to the popularity of the health checks, we’ve extended them to the end of August. They’re still free and they’re still for all pets aged seven or older – so don’t forget to book your appointment soon!

Festival on Sunday, August 16th. They’re also having a quiz night at the village hall in South Wootton on Friday, October 23rd. For details, contact Gill Southgate on 07952 369847 If you can’t make either of those, take a look at the national website at www.guidedogs.org.uk – there are so many ways you can get involved with this wonderful charity, and it makes a huge diﬀerence to so many people’s lives.

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ABOVE: The elegant Barn Owl is one of the countryside’s most beautiful sights, and numbers of the birds are slowly recovering after a drastic decline. According to Nigel Davies, gamekeeper on the Stow Estate at Stow Bardolph, they do ‘nothing but good’.

On the Stow Estate, our owls are in safe hands... For gamekeeper Nigel Davies, it’s a real success story. Following a drastic decline during the 1990s, the local owl population is recovering nicely, as Emma Barnard discovers at the Stow Estate

tow Estate at Stow Bardolph just west of King’s Lynn is one of the prime locations in the area to see all forms of wildlife, and the elusive barn owl is one of the most magniﬁcent birds you could have the pleasure of spotting there. The barn owl population has declined drastically since the mid 1980s due in part to climate changes and the loss of the bird’s natural habitat, but in the last few years numbers have been on the rise. It’s great news for people such as Nigel Davies, gamekeeper for the Stow Estate. “It’s a lovely animal,” he says, “and

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they’re very important as they keep the numbers of voles down. Everyone wants to see them, and they really do nothing but good.” Around the Stow Estate, there are a number of owl boxes in place to help encourage the owls to set up a nest. Historically, they lived in barns and church steeples and they now (often by necessity) nest in holes in trees. “They may be lovely to look at, but have a horrible screech,” says Nigel. “You can easily imagine where lots of those old churchyard ghost stories have come from!” Like many animals, barn owls thrive when the food they eat is readily

available, and the barn owl’s preference is for voles and mice. The population of voles itself regularly goes up and down, which has a knock-on eﬀect on the owls, and there aren’t too many around this year. The Stow Estate itself had 32 birds last year, but at the time of writing not a single one has hatched from two nests this year – but Nigel isn’t too worried about that. “I’ve been working here for 43 years, and a generation ago you’d have been extremely lucky to see one barn owl,” he says. “This year hasn’t been as successful as some previous seasons, but it will go up again next year.”

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ABOVE: The charming Little Owl is a particular favourite of Nigel Davies (below), gamekeeper on the Stow Estate

Estate is absolutely perfect for owls, especially barn owls as they’re very changeable – they go wherever the conditions suit them best.” They also travel great distances, whereas tawny owls don’t, so it’s best to cater for various behaviours. “My advice is always to put up as many boxes as you can,” says Nigel. “The owls then have the choice of where they want to go.” Barn owls aren’t the only type of owl on the Stow Estate – it’s also home to healthy numbers of little owls (the birds were first introduced to the UK in the 19th century) and tawny owls, who are responsible for that distinctive ‘twittwoo’ call. “Little owls, which feed on mice and beetles, are my favourites,” says Nigel. “We have to be careful where we put their boxes because they’re in real danger of being killed by grey squirrels – so a tree in the middle of a field is much better for them than one near a hedgerow.” On one of Nigel’s popular August Deer Walks you’ll often see barn owls, and he’s happy to point them out if you’re having trouble spotting them. Naturally, they’re highly protected throughout the Stow Estate. “Everybody wanted a white owl of their own when Harry Potter was popular,” says Nigel, “and people were actually taking the birds, so they’re now heavily monitored for their protection.” Thanks to the efforts of people like Nigel and places like the Stow Estate, numbers of these magnificent birds are

now making a comeback. “We do everything we can for conservation on the Stow Estate and the numbers of all animal numbers are increasing quite nicely. It’s a real success story,” says Nigel. “The welfare of the animals always comes ﬁrst. We provide a home and food for them and in return we get to see them hunt and ﬂourish. It still makes me smile after all these years.”

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Barn owls are remarkable when it comes to hunting – they can catch prey in complete darkness. It’s because their ears are offset and one is actually higher than the other. “They can literally hunt with their eyes closed!” says Nigel. They’re also extremely forgiving, much more so than the tawny owl – the hen can be taken off her nest to ring her and her chicks (only people with a licence are able to approach a nest – it’s illegal to disturb them otherwise) and she’ll happily settle back down in no time. In contrast, a tawny owl wouldn’t cope with such an upheaval and probably wouldn’t return to her nest, rejecting her chicks. As far as Nigel’s concerned, barn owl chicks aren’t the prettiest of creatures. “Only a mother could love them!” he says. “They’re ugly and they smell, but when they grow up they’re beautiful. They’re the real world’s ugly duckling!” Barn owls will even come to you when you call them, a fact Nigel knows all too well. “I was driving around the estate one day with my windows open,” he remembers, “and one flew straight through and perched on the seat next to me!” In order to help the owl population from declining further, Nigel advises leaving old trees in place rather than cutting them down. “They love oak and ash trees with holes in for them to nest, and hedges are also popular,” he says. “The Stow

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MEET THE TEAM: The newly-expanded team of Heritage Tree Specialists comprises (back, left to right) directors Dan Ashton and James Hoddy, with Richard Constable and (front, left to right) Morigan Griﬃn and Simon Allman

The specialist team that’s branching out...

arlier this year, the team at Heritage Tree Specialists were dismantling a large and potentially dangerous old beech tree at Wisbech Cricket Club when they came across a rather unusual item (see the picture at right) – an old bullet that had at some point in time become embedded in the trunk! “Happily it’s not the sort of thing we come across every day,” says Director Dan Ashton, “but it does help show that every job we do and every project we complete has its own challenges and has to be approached on a totally individual basis.” Based in King’s Lynn, Heritage Tree Specialists is run by Dan Ashton and James Hoddy and provides a comprehensive tree care service throughout the region – and there’s a lot more to it than simply cutting down trees. From crown reductions and thinning to precision dismantling and stump grinding,

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Say goodbye to years of pain – in minutes! KL magazine talks to Terry Connolly of The Fitness Studios about a revolutionary new treatment that’s leaving people free from suffering – and lost for words! ecently, a man who’d been suffering with significant shoulder pain for around four years, and was seriously worried about the implications the problem could have on his career in the RAF, turned to The Fitness Studios’ Terry Connolly in amazement. “I can’t believe it,” he said. “You’ve done more for me in 30 minutes than anyone else has done in years.” Highly qualified and highly respected in the movement therapy community, Terry has trained under the best in the world – and has recently become qualified in the practice of Proprioceptive Deep Tendon Reflex (PDTR), a revolutionary discipline developed by international orthopaedic surgeon Jose Palomar. He’s actually one of only a handful of people in the entire world offering this form of treatment, which offers a fast – and lasting – solution to everything from neck and shoulder pain to the legacy of past injuries and the discomfort caused by genetic conditions. “There’s nothing wrong with using

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Nothing’s impossible if you put your mind to it! It doesn’t matter whether you want to stop smoking or reduce the levels of stress and anxiety in your life. Your brain is capable of quite amazing things, as local hypnotherapist Che Ballard explains...

he human mind is an incredible thing. Every piece of music composed and every story ever told, every city built and every endeavour achieved in the history of the human race ﬁrst began as an idea – a mere thought. Just imagine for a moment what wonders you could achieve if you could harness that incredible power. Well, guess what? You can! If your mind can conceive and believe it, you’re already well on the way to achieving it. It really is that simple. This body/mind relationship works just as well with negative beliefs as it does with the positive ones. If you believe you can’t sleep or can’t stop

smoking, chances are you’ll ﬁnd you’ll be tossing and turning all night or reaching for a packet of cigarettes. How many people have you heard saying that something is not possible before they’ve even attempted it? Before you proclaim something is impossible, it’s worth noting that experts maintained for many years that the 4-minute-mile was impossible until Roger Bannister proved them wrong. How strange that, within four years, twenty other people had also managed to achieve the ‘impossible’! I’ve been fascinated by the human mind since I was a child and, over the last decade or so, I have moved my passion and (dare I say it!) my natural talent for helping people onto a more

professional basis. I received my Diploma in Hypnotherapy over 10 years ago from the Cambridge College of Hypnotherapy. Since then I have continued to expand my knowledge and skills by working towards a National Guild of Hypnotists qualiﬁcation (NGH being the largest and oldest hypnotherapy membership organisation in the world). Hypnotherapy is an established and widely-accepted form of complementary therapy which began to develop into its present form in Victorian times. However, its roots go back as far as the Egyptian ‘Sleep Temples’ 4,000 years ago. Hypnotherapy utilises the use of suggestion to bring about positive

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PICTURES: SUPPLIED/OHM/MEDIA4 ABOVE: Tiger Woods, Matt Damon and Kate Middleton are just some of the high-proﬁle people who’ve successfully used hypnotherapy to deal with everything from improving sports performance to dealing with chronic morning sickness

changes in the subconscious mind. At this point it’s probably worth brieﬂy outlining the diﬀerence between the conscious and subconscious mind. The conscious mind could be considered the rational part and is responsible for logic and reasoning, while the subconscious mind is in charge of automatic functions (such as breathing and healing), emotions and storing memories. For the suggestions to take root and grow we need to gain access to the subconscious mind. This is achieved by using an hypnotic “induction” which, in a therapeutic setting, is quite commonly a progressive relaxation or calming visualisation (spirals and fob watches are not necessary!) This process allows the recipient’s conscious mind to drift into hypnosis (a pleasant trance-state), leaving the subconscious open to positive suggestions. Hypnosis or trance is a perfectly safe and natural state occurring often throughout a normal day. For example, when undertaking a familiar journey you arrive at your destination with no recollection of the actual journey – your conscious mind starts to drift and your subconscious takes you home on autopilot. By now you’re probably wondering how hypnotherapy may be able to help you – although, if you’ve been paying attention, you’ll already know the answer. It may help with whatever you want it to. Hypnotherapy is probably best

known for its success in helping people to stop smoking. This is possibly because it’s so effective and possibly because it’s often used by people who’ve tried everything else. There’s a lot more to hypnotherapy than that, though. It can work wonders for people struggling with high levels of anxiety and stress or from low levels of confidence. It works very well in the field of sports motivation – Mike Tyson and Tiger Woods are just two successful sportspeople who’ve admitted to using hypnosis to improve their performance. It also has a successful track record in dealing with IBS – the NHS actually recommends hypnotherapy as a treatment for the syndrome. In the last few years there have been several highprofile proponents of hypnotherapy, including Prince Harry, who used it to help him stop smoking; Matt Damon, who declared it “the greatest decision I

If your mind can conceive and believe it, you’re already well on the way to achieving it.

ever made in my life”; and Kate Middleton, who apparently resorted to hypnosis to deal with chronic morning sickness. There’s even a method specifically for childbirth – it’s called Hypnobirthing! In the past I’ve worked with clients who’ve wanted help with a wide range of things, from fibromyalgia to panic attacks and phobias. Whatever the problem, my focus is always on the solution. While some people may require more than one session, it’s equally possible that your problem could be alleviated in a single visit. For example, people wishing to quit smoking usually find one session is enough for them to walk out a non-smoker. I’ve even had clients book sessions simply because they enjoyed it so much! Over the next few months, I’ll be looking at some issues in greater detail and the way hypnotherapy can help you resolve them. Please feel free to email me at change@trance-fix.co.uk for more information. I’m always happy to chat and to answer questions, and I can also offer e-mail consultations in certain circumstances. I’ll leave you this month with a quick example of the power of suggestion. YAWN! Did you yawn? There’s a good chance you did, or at least you stifled one! See you again next month!

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ABOVE: Smoothies don’t just look good – they taste great, and they’re packed with nutritional ingredients that are beneﬁcial to your health

A much smoother way to get your five a day... There’s no better way to enjoy Norfolk’s ﬁnest fruit and vegetables. Emma Barnard oﬀers some summer smoothie recipes

he health-conscious among us are turning away from fizzy drinks and milkshakes in favour of the more refreshing and nutritiouslybeneficial smoothie – you’ll find them on the menus of many of our local cafes, and it’s becoming increasingly easy to find shops solely dedicated to them on our high streets. It’s easy to see why smoothies are very much the flavour of the moment – they’re healthy, they’re convenient and they’re portable. Smoothies are also extremely versatile – they’re great for breakfast, perfect as a snack or ideal as a tasty dessert. In the summer months we’re all

searching for a cool drink to quench our thirsts, and a smoothie is the perfect option – especially as they contain large amounts of protein, ﬁbre, vitamins and minerals. Smoothies can be as simple or as complicated as you’d like to make them. If you’re after a treat, simply blend some milk, a banana, nut butter and some chocolate powder for a delicious drink. If you’re after a fruitbased vitamin kick then blend whatever fruit you have around with a base of your choice. To give you a kick-start, give some of the recipes here a try for a delicious, refreshing and healthy accompaniment to the beautiful Norfolk summer!

X-TRA HEALTHY SMOOTHIE (serves 2) 125g chopped carrot 1 banana 1 kiwi fruit 1 apple - peeled, cored and sliced 170g chopped pineapple 1 scoop ice cubes Method Simply blend all ingredients in a blender until smooth. Easy!

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BLUEBERRY SMOOTHIE (serves 5) 2 frozen bananas, skins removed and cut in chunks 75g (3 oz) blueberries 225ml (8 ﬂ oz) orange juice (this can be any combination of juices, or even soya or nut milks) 1 tablespoon honey (optional) 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional) Method Place all ingredients in a blender and process until smooth. Use more or less liquid depending on the thickness you prefer for your smoothie.

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Perfect salad days... espite the fact that 200 years ago the Americans thought they were poisonous, tomatoes are a key ﬂavour in many, many recipes around the world. They’re incredibly good for you, and there are hundreds of varieties available, ranging from small cherry tomatoes to oval-shaped plum tomatoes and big beef tomatoes. Thanks to the rediscovery of ‘heirloom’ varieties and the development of new ones, tomatoes can now be yellow, orange, green, brown, pink, purple, black, white, and even stripy. Note that you’ll actually get more ﬂavour from good-quality canned tomatoes than from lacklustre fresh ones.

CHOOSING... Tomatoes actually improve as the summer progresses, so tomatoes bought towards the end of the season will have a more intense ﬂavour. The ﬂavour depends largely upon the variety and how the fruit has been grown and ripened. Cheap imported tomatoes are grown under polytunnels,

picked under-ripe, then artificially ripened with a plant hormone. Sun-warmed fruit picked straight from the vine is arguably the ideal way to enjoy tomatoes – they’re available to buy on and off the vine from supermarkets and farmers’ markets. When choosing tomatoes, pick them up, feel them and smell them. Choose tomatoes that feel heavy for their size as they’re more likely to be bursting with juices. Tomatoes with no smell will probably have no flavour, so opt for those with a pleasant aroma. STORING... You’ll get more flavour from tomatoes by removing any plastic packaging and leaving them in a bowl in a sunny spot to ‘breathe’ and ripen. Never put them in the fridge as this diminishes their flavour and damages their texture. Tomatoes don’t withstand freezing very well. Use under-ripe, green tomatoes for making chutney and over-ripe ones for soups or sauces – these can be frozen for up to six months.

PREPARING... For maximum flavour, it’s best to leave the skin, seeds and surrounding 'jelly' intact, as this is where most of the flavour is stored. If you’re cooking your tomatoes, use the whole lot and then sieve out the skin and the pips after cooking. Some recipes call for skinned and deseeded tomatoes, and it’s not as tricky as you’d imagine. To prepare tomatoes this way, use a sharp knife to make a small cross in the bottom of each tomato, place in a bowl and cover with boiling water. Leave for 15-30 seconds, drain and refresh in cold water. Use your fingers to peel away the skin (it should pull away easily) then quarter the tomatoes and push out the seeds. An easy way to improve indifferent tomatoes is to oven-dry them. Halve the tomatoes, sprinkle them with salt, sugar and pepper and dry them in a low oven (100oC/200oF) for two to four hours to intensify the flavour. Turn the oven off and leave the tomatoes overnight.

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Cromer crab with tomato gazpacho METHOD 1 Blitz all of the tomato gazpacho ingredients in a vitaprep (or similar), then pass through a chinois strainer, adjust seasoning to taste. 2 Pour the gazpacho into a cold bowl and spoon the crab meat on top. Then decorate with the herbs, nasturtium leaves and edible flowers. Enjoy!

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aving a great reputation is all well and good, but living up to it is another matter entirely. The Orange Tree at Thornham is renowned all over the county (and further afield) for the quality and imagination of its food, and it’s received a veritable cupboard full of awards – most recently, being voted Norfolk’s Dining Pub of the Year 2015. Which is why we were more than a little excited to be taking advantage of a sunny summer’s day and visiting The Orange Tree for a leisurely lunch. At the centre of Thornham, this stylish, contemporary dining pub impressed us from the outset. Both the bar area and beer garden were busy, with families popping in for a light bite and couples arriving after a coastal walk (with their dog in tow) looking for a relaxing drink. We opted to sit in the restaurant itself, which is modern and tastefully decorated, yet manages to maintain a comfortable and unstuffy feel. The menu choices included restaurant, bar and specials options, and were mouthwatering enough in themselves – and the staff were remarkably knowledgeable about the dishes when asked, clearly speaking from personal experience.

For starters my friend chose Simon Letzer’s hot smoked mackerel, which was served with crispy gnocchi, vanilla pickled kohlrabi, rouille, a raspberry and champagne espuma and rye crisps. For my part, I opted for the local asparagus with smoked salmon, with a poached egg and hollandaise sauce. Despite them being served in good time, they looked quite exquisite on the plate – and we couldn’t help but admire the presentation before starting. For my main course I chose (thanks to the enthusiastic recommendation of the staff) the Duo of Blythburgh Pork, which was a stunning combination of slow roasted belly, seared BBQ loin, smoked potato pie, wild mushrooms, a 62° degree poached egg, caramelised onion purée and a truffle jus. My friend, meanwhile, took the rare opportunity to try the pan-fried Arctic Char (a fish only available for a few weeks every year), which was accompanied by a summer truffle purple potato salad, spring peas and beans, a wild garlic, rocket and lemon pesto, and cuttlefish aioli. Again, the presentation was stunning, the dishes looking as beautiful as they tasted. Every item on the plate was perfectly cooked, and the tastes delivered by the mix of ingredients and

culinary techniques were simply incredible. With such strong acts to follow, we couldn’t resist trying one of The Orange Tree’s famous desserts! Far from offering a simple choice of ice creams and cheesecakes, the dessert menu was full of inspired and creative delights. The Fairground (for sharing) really caught our eye, with its clever array of funfair-related treats such as candy floss, toffee apple and a bubblegum panna cotta, but in the end we chose Rhubarb, Rhubarb (my friend is a big fan) and the Assiette of English Strawberry. Both were very similar in style, offering a beautiful mix of taste and texture variations on the fruit in question. I’m not even a great fan of desserts, but I have to say that mine was one of the best (in fact it was one of the best dishes!) I have ever enjoyed. And my friend was equally impressed with their choice. To say we enjoyed our lunch hardly does it justice. The service was faultless, the food was absolutely fabulous, and we were made to feel comfortable and welcome throughout our meal. Our bill totalled just over £75, which included three courses for two people, a beer and a large glass of a delightfully crisp Sauvignon Blanc – which we thought was excellent value since we’d been treated to such a wonderful and memorable dining experience.

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BOWERS BUTCHERS Gaywood, King’s Lynn First established in 1932, Bowers are justly-famed for their fabulous awardwinning sausages, but they also produce a delightful range of homemade pickles and chutneys. As you’d expect from this proudly familyrun buisness, they all have a special personal touch. Dickie’s Windfall Chutney and Jimbo’s Hot Tomato Chutney are both packed with ﬂavour, while Grandma Bowers’ Piccalilli is perfect for a summer salad. www.bowersbutchers.com CANDI’S CHUTNEY Foulsham Based near North Norfolk, Candi’s Chutney oﬀers a range of hand-crafted and award-winning chutney. Their Bramley Apple and Norfolk Ale Chutney uses local ale from Panther Brewery in Reepham – the ale used in this chutney is Panther’s highly-regarded Black Ale. www.candischutney.vpweb.co.uk STOKES Woodbridge Stokes make more condiments than you could ever wish for – from ketchup, traditional condiments and mayonnaise to dressings, jams, relish and chutney the choice is yours. Their Sticky Pickle is made of a blend of vegetables, sweet and spicy sauce, molasses and black treacle. www.stokessauces.co.uk

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CHILLIS GALORE Norwich Richard and Kathy from Chillis Galore make jelly, relish and sauces from their home kitchen in Drayton. Their Red Chilli Jam Relish is made with red jalapenos and red serenades giving a combination of heat and sweetness. www.chillisgalore.co.uk ESSENCE FOODS Reepham Essence Foods were launched in 2005 and are based at Salle Moor Farm in Reepham. They make pickle, chutney, relish, marmalade, jam, sugar and even dust to top cakes with! Their Norfolk Sweet Pickle is brilliant with cold meats and cheeses and Essence Foods say they are fabulous in toasted sandwiches! www.essencefoods.co.uk

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ABOVE: Tim Kinnaird outside the Norwich base of Macarons & More, the company he founded to showcase his amazing culinary skills

From waiting room to macaron masterclass Five years ago, a doctor from Norfolk reached the MasterChef final and moved from the consulting room to the kitchen. Tim Kinnaird talks to Emma Barnard about his love of macarons...

any people take the leap to change career at some point during their lifetime, but going from being a doctor to owning your own bakery and cooking school is one of the more interesting stories you’ll come across. Tim Kinnaird is this man – and his journey has taken him from consultant to MasterChef contestant and then to owner of the wonderful Macarons & More in the centre of Norwich. Raised in Norfolk, Tim attended the City of Norwich School and had the diﬃcult decision of having to choose between his beloved Sciences and Home

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Economics. “I was a bit nerdy,” he says, “and I chose to pursue Biology – mainly as no other boys chose Home Economics!” It was was a decision he never regretted, as he grew to love medicine, studying at the University of Birmingham and then at medical school. But despite his passion for medicine and career as a doctor, Tim never lost his urge to cook. “I liked making a Victoria sponge when my grandmother came for Sunday lunch,” he remembers, “and I’ve always used cooking to relax and wind down after a stressful day at work.” As a consultant with the responsibility

of managing other doctors, Tim hadn’t even considered a career change when he entered the BBC’s MasterChef competition in 2010, but describes it as “a lid I just couldn’t put back on.” “It was such a hard job, and MasterChef was so different, so satisfying and so absorbing,” he says. “Being able to be creative was like exploring a side of my personality I hadn’t looked into before – and it was so enjoyable I didn’t want it to stop.” Tim resigned from his job between the show’s filming in December 2009 and its screening in March 2010 – when viewers saw him beat off 136 other contestants to make it through to 79

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ABOVE: Tim Kinnaird with his fellow MasterChef 2010 ﬁnalists Dhruv Baker, who eventually won the competition (left) and Alex Rushmer (right). Tim’s literally masterful creations have included this geologically accurate cake version of an Icelandic volcano (above right)

the Final. As you may have guessed by now, Tim’s speciality is macarons, tarts, cakes and other delicious sweet treats. But what exactly is a macaron? “They’re a traditional French cake with two almond meringue shells flavoured with a sweet filling,” says Tim. “I think they’re so popular because they look so appealing – they’re like magic to me. Lots of cakes are delicious, but these are different.” Macarons are famed for being difficult and fiddly to make, and Tim admits this appeals to his ‘nerdy’ side – having to get everything right at the precise moment is like perfecting a delightful formula. The macaron towers that Tim and his team build are extremely impressive to look at and can take an amazingly long time to put together. The smallest take around 45 minutes, but Tim and his team have made ones as tall as six feet – which can take some 750 macarons and a whole day to assemble! Just a quick glance at Tim’s website and a click on his bespoke cakes

section will tell you all you need to know about just how intricate the work can be, and Tim admits there have been some challenges. “We’ve actually made a cake that was a geologically accurate version of an Icelandic volcano,” says Tim. “It had different layers which we made into big sheets and then cut into squares – it even had strawberry jelly lava and a meringue dust cloud!” Macarons & More’s first kitchen was based in Watton, and the company has since moved to a 3,500 square foot building in Norwich. The larger space has allowed Tim the room to open his first cookery school. “I taught at the medical school at the University of East Anglia and I really loved and missed it,” says Tim. “We were always being asked if we did classes to teach people how to make macarons, so it seemed the obvious next step to take.” The school started out just offering macaron classes, but Tim now offers a range of patisserie and cake decorating classes – and has even branched outside of patisserie, tapping into some of Norfolk’s finest

food producers. “Sarah Pettegree of Brays Cottage is coming along to the school to offer a class on making pork pies,” he says. “They’re a bit different from macarons, but they’re equally delicious!” The thing Tim loves the most about Norfolk is the food and fresh produce we have readily available. “The local food community is amazing, with the food and farmers markets, and I don’t think there’s anywhere better in the country,” he says. “Because of the sea we have incredible seafood and the fertile land offers great vegetables and meat – it really is a beautiful part of the world to live – and eat!” The future of Macarons & More looks to be expanding outside of the county, across the border to Cambridgeshire and even further afield. “Having this shop has been like having a child,” says Tim, “and while we were getting it off the ground I couldn’t think about setting up any others.” However, in the next year, Tim’s hoping to open another Macarons & More store in Cambridge and his sights will then turn to London. “What I love about some places is the ‘Paris – New York – Tokyo’ kind of tag on the shops. It would be great to see Norwich – Cambridge – London under Macarons & More, and Norfolk will always be the main focus of that for us.” For more details on Tim Kinnaird and the latest news from Macarons & More, visit his mouthwatering website at www.macaronsandmore.com

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ABOVE: The centre of Swaﬀham from the viewing platform at the top of the Green Britain Centre’s wind turbine (opposite top right)

Uniquely Norfolk: a portrait of Swaﬀham It’s everything you’d want from a market town. Independent, full of enterprising local traders, and always ready with a friendly welcome. Emma Barnard discovers the secrets of Swaﬀham...

here aren’t many towns you visit these days that can boast a long-standing traditional market, a plethora of independent retailers, and a refreshingly low count of chain stores – but the beautiful market town of Swaffham is definitely one of them. Adorned with Georgian buildings, Swaffham has a wonderfully rich history – a favourite of Lord Nelson, the home town of archaeologist Howard Carter, a magnificent medieval church and a fascinating legend in the story of the Pedlar of Swaffham – but what’s even more striking is the exciting present and bright future of this friendly town. Swaffham is home to the only wind

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turbine in the world you can climb, and when you reach the last of its 300 steps at the Green Britain Centre, you’re treated to an amazing bird’s-eye view of the town. “We’re here to educate people on the impact they can and do have on the environment through talking about energy, transport and food,” says the Green Britain Centre’s Paul Woodmin. The centre also has 5 acres of organic certiﬁed land. “There are no chemicals used in the gardens and we grow food there to use in the vegetarian café,” says Paul. Around 20,000 people from around the world visit the centre every year, but it also actively encourages local

involvement. “We allow local groups to use our rooms,” says Paul, “and we always like to recommend other local businesses when people come on overnight trips.” When Springwatch presenter Simon King carried out some filming at the centre recently, both he and his team stayed overnight at Strattons Hotel – on the recommendation of the Green Britain Centre. This local exchange of support from business to business seems to be a common thread running through the town. For example, Kay Wells from the town’s Market Cross Café is a real advocate of using all the resources that Swaffham has to offer.

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ABOVE: Treating people to the best that Swaffham has to offer are people such as the Market Cross Cafe’s Kay Wells (top left) and Sam Papworth (bottom right) of the town’s long-established J&D Papworth Butchers – who breed their beef and lamb on their very own fields

“The market is such an iconic part of Swaffham,” she says, “and it’s a great asset to the town. If we don’t use it, we’ll lose it!” This year, the town’s famous market is a staggering 800 years old and in July a medieval festival celebrated the milestone. Kay buys a lot of her eggs, fish and fresh vegetables from the stalls on the Saturday market, helping her café offer local flavours in addition to a friendly welcome, and it mirrors the community centred attitude of Swaffham. “We really want to make individuals feel they can come in on their own and have a chat with us and feel comfortable,” says Kay. “We might be the only people some of our elderly customers get to speak to in a day – and that’s really important to us.” Independent shops can only be kept alive by loyal customers, and with the rise of supermarkets local butchers need all the support they can get. J&D Papworth Butchers enjoy that support and have been based in Swaffham for over a quarter of a century. Rather uniquely, they breed all their beef and lamb on their own farm.

“We’re a traditional family butcher oﬀering all of the traditional meats,” says Sam Papworth, “and at this time of year all of our barbeque packs are really popular.” The Papworth family are very proud of their standing in Swaﬀham. “We’ve been trading here for over 25 years,” says Sam, “and it’s a lovely little

market town with wonderful and very loyal customers.” Talking of family-run businesses, Swaffham Carpet and Bedding Centre is the epitome of what the town has to offer. For some 35 years now, three generations of the Bowers family have been running the store, and Peter Bowers (the nephew of founder Christopher Bowers), is now the man in charge. “I took over from my uncle,” says Peter, “my father David worked in the shop and now my son Danny is a part of the team here – so when you visit us you really do get a friendly, family-run service. We really pride ourselves on that.” For a business that’s been in Swaffham for so long, the Bowers have seen some real changes to the town – and they’re nearly all positive ones. “It’s getting bigger each year,” says Peter. “There are lots more houses and that’s great for local businesses because there aren’t the big chain stores in Swaffham like there are in other towns.” The health of the people of Swaffham is also in the hands of a friendly,

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ABOVE: Swaﬀham is blessed with a wonderful range of family-run businesses such as D.A. Seaman Optometrists (top row) and the boutique hotel and restaurant Strattons, founded by Les and Vanessa Scott (centre) – and is full of exciting new ventures such as the town’s recently-opened Arts Lounge gallery (bottom row)

approachable and long-standing service with strong family values. D.A. Seaman Optometrists is now celebrating over three decades of eyecare in the town. “We haven’t just invested in the latest technology – we’ve invested in local people too,” says D.A. Seaman’s Andrea Coulson. “Dawn Mack, who’s been working here for several years, will soon be joining our team of qualified experts.” Dawn is almost at the end of three long years of study, and will become a Qualified Dispensing Optician at the end of the year. You really don’t have to look far to see local people putting back into the local community – and it’s working as a two way street. The welcoming touch of Swaffham runs throughout the town and is nowhere more apparent than at the aforementioned Strattons Hotel. With

its gorgeous bedroom suites, awardwinning restaurant (plus CoCoes, the hotel’s charming café deli) Strattons caters for the needs of locals and visitors alike. Owners Les and Vanessa Scott met at Great Yarmouth Art College – and they actually established Strattons so they could be together. “They spent lots of love, time and care getting the building back up to what it was and adding a very special and eclectic feel,” says their daughter Hannah Hughes, Strattons’ HR and Marketing Director. The rooms in the hotel all have separate themes and are all individually decorated with the flair and expertise you’d expect from two talented artists. The individuality of each room really reflects the spirit of Swaffham, and while Strattons offers a unique helping of luxury it’s never lost its family-run

and welcoming feel. “What we offer is accessible to local people and we really encourage people from the area to pop in for a cup of coffee or something to eat,” says Hannah. “Strattons isn’t just for the guests staying in our rooms.” Les and Vanessa Scott aren’t the only artistically-minded residents in Swaffham, as there’s a wonderful and exciting new gallery available for local artists to exhibit their work. The Arts Lounge opened in the Market Place last November and really is something quite special for a market town. It’s situated in a Grade II listed building (once home to the Tobacco Shop) and features an amazing and original 16th century brick fireplace. “The gallery is actually themed around the fireplace, which is where the name Arts Lounge came from,” says the gallery’s Elizabeth Mason. “The gallery exhibits some of the most stunning artwork available from some very talented artists and is constantly changing every month.” From August 4th through to September 1st, the Arts Lounge is hosting a Summer Arts Show, where 20 artists will be exhibiting – including internationally-acclaimed wildlife artist and paper sculptor David Cook, Kevin Turton, Richard Millington and many others. Such a unique and interesting business just adds to the appeal of Swaffham’s independent spirit, and there are many more wonders waiting to be discovered. None more so than The Gem Shop, which has been a family-run business

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ABOVE: Swaﬀham’s unique character is thanks to inspiring local traders such as the Gem Shop’s Jef Hill (top row, right); Carol Baker and Jayne Mahoney of Pedlars Gold (centre row); and Claire Dunne of the town’s charming Ceres bookshop (bottom row, second image, right)

for over 26 years. The shop contains a range of both gold and silver jewellery and also has treats such as diamond rings and other pieces set with gemstones from all around the world. “The shop is always packed full of eye catching things,” says owner Jef Hill. “It’s not just jewellery but gifts, crystals, watches and much more.” The Gem Shop even has its own onsite workshop, and has recently expanded to strengthen a growing local reputation for high quality jewellery repairs and alterations. It’s very rare that you can visit a town these days and not be faced with a chainstore bookshop, which is why it’s so refreshing to find the excellent and independent Ceres Bookshop and Tea Room in the heart of town. “Many people say this is how a real bookshop should be,” says owner Claire Dunne. “We have all the new bestsellers and thousands of second-hand books plus greetings cards and wrapping paper, and I like to think we really are different to what you’ll find elsewhere.”

As you’d come to expect from a charming and proudly-independent shop in Swaffham, the welcome you receive at Ceres is decidedly warm and the atmosphere friendly – a feeling which spills over into the bookshop’s gorgeous tearoom. “Our customers are welcome to take a book from the shelf and read and relax, or simply come in for a tea or coffee,” says Claire. “It’s become a real meeting place for people as it’s cosy and peaceful in winter and our flowerfilled garden is the ideal spot for a cream tea when the sun is shining.” In Swaffham you’re always reminded you’re in the centre of a creative community, and that’s no more present than at Pedlars Gold in the town’s Market Place, which sells cards and gifts and was opened by Carol Baker back in 1987. “Swaffham is a very old market town with a lovely community and she felt it was an ideal town in which to start her business,” says Jayne Mahoney, who works at the shop and is also Carol’s

sister. The shop’s range has widened over the years, especially since the store moved into the old Dewhurst Butcher shop, offering a much larger space for stationery, artists’ materials, cake decorating, baking and crafting. “We’ve always prided ourselves on customer service and feel we do have a certain edge on many of the larger chains,” says Jayne. “We all enjoy what we do, and hopefully that comes across with our wish to be as helpful and knowledgeable as possible.” Swaffham is a beautiful place to live, work and visit, packed with local, friendly and thriving independent businesses – and that doesn’t look to be changing any time soon. When Howard Carter first entered the tomb of Tutankhamen back in 1922, he was asked if he could see anything. “Yes,” he replied. “wonderful things.” He could well have been making a comment on the lovely Norfolk town of his childhood. Swaffham really is a unique local treasure, full of wonderful things. KLmagazine August 2015

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ABOVE: A more spectacular view of the Poppy Line than the one enjoyed by golfers at Sheringham Golf Club

Norfolk’s coastline from a new perspective The Norfolk coastline is beautiful enough when explored on foot, but from the air it’s spectacular. KL magazine photographer Ian Ward takes to the air again for a bird’s eye view of things...

he Norfolk coast has always held a great fascination for me for lots of reasons, not least because as a photographer the twists and turns of the coastline never ceases to create intriguing and ever-changing imagery – especially from a viewpoint that few will ever have the pleasure of witnessing. With my ﬁrst series of images earlier this year I concentrated on the area around Cromer, so this month I thought it would be good to work our way backwards along the coast towards King’s Lynn. The coast in this part of the county changes quickly, from wide sandy beaches to mazes of salt marshes, from delightful harbour villages to outstanding nature reserves. Together, it creates a rich tapestry of

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colour and diversity which is beautiful enough from the ground – but can be seen in a completely diﬀerent way from the air. These images have been taken from the window of a light aircraft, but I’m currently working on a piece of equipment that will allow us to capture images from the bottom of the aircraft, giving a ‘straight down’ view. The resulting images are very diﬀerent. They’re almost abstract, and it’s sometimes very hard to identify the location. Keep an eye out for some of these images in a later edition of this magazine. The Norfolk coastline is one of the best in the country, and I hope these images inspire you to go out and explore more of it for yourself.

OPPOSITE: HUNSTANTON It’s the quintessential seaside town, and its unique striped cliﬀs were recently voted 7th in Britain and Ireland’s top geological sites. This image shows everything that makes Hunstanton so special – from the cliﬀs themselves to the home of the Wash Monster. It’s a typical summer’s day, with families on the beach, jet skis in the water and a clear blue sky. ABOVE: SHERINGHAM The Poppy Line runs from Holt to Sheringham, keeping the steam tradition alive. The line runs past Sheringham Golf Club, which was founded in 1891 and gives golfers a unique view as the trains depart the wonderfully-preserved station.

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ABOVE: WELLS This image shows the town and its close relationship to the sea. However, the beach is now a mile from the town due to silting of the harbour. This shouldn’t deter you from visiting the beach as it’s one of the best in the area, with wide expanses of sand – and some very colourful beach huts too. LEFT: HOLME In my opinion, Holme has the best beach in the UK, with wide flat sands edged by totally wild dunes. It’s just what a beach should be. Holme has plenty of wildlife to enjoy, and if you walk to the mud flats you might be able to bag yourself a crab too. BELOW: THORNHAM Thornham Harbour is a well-trodden path by many, with the iconic Coal Barn and the stumps which stand like sentinels at the end of the car park. This image shows a very different view of the harbour and highlights the proximity of the salt marsh.

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ABOVE LEFT: CLEY Cley was once one of the busiest ports in England, and today it’s a very popular destination sitting in an area of outstanding beauty along Norfolk’s heritage coast. Overlooking the marsh and reed beds, the windmill is one of Norfolk’s most iconic images. ABOVE RIGHT: TITCHWELL Home to one of the best wildlife sites in the UK, Titchwell is blessed with a wonderful Norman church with a round tower and unusual spire. A closer view of the church was featured on the cover of KL magazine in July 2013. RIGHT: BRANCASTER Brancaster has a superb beach, with wide open spaces and big skies. The area around the old Roman fort is a scheduled ancient monument, and the beach area and some of the marshes are managed by the National Trust and is a Site of Special Scientiﬁc Interest.

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ABOVE: The beautiful beach at Holme is a perfect example of why Norfolk’s are considered some of the very best in the whole country

Celebrating 50 years of saving the coastline Since 1965, the National Trust’s Neptune Coastline Campaign has been safeguarding our beaches for the future. Emma Barnard talks to the Trust’s Claire Graves about the campaign’s success...

ne of the most beautiful features of our county is the fantastic coastline. It’s shaped the Norfolk’s history and culture. It has given rise to a remarkable maritime heritage that includes Lord Nelson, Richard Woodget (master of the Cutty Sark) and the Bounty’s John Fryer. Without it, we wouldn’t have seen the important Hanseatic port of King’s Lynn or the specially-designed resort of Hunstanton. Oh, and it was also the very ﬁrst part of Britain settled by early man – the earliest known settlement in the country was at Happisburgh. It’s a true national treasure, providing enjoyment and pleasure for thousands

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of people and millions of animals every year, but every one of its almost 100 miles is constantly (and naturally) at the mercy of the elements. Who better to look after it, then, than the National Trust? This year, the organisation is celebrating 50 years of the Neptune Coastline Campaign, which looks after 775 miles of coastline around England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The campaign was set up to protect the British coastline from developers, natural wear and tear and also to ensure the beauty of the coast is preserved for future generations to enjoy for years to come. Marking the anniversary, the National Trust is reﬂecting on 50 years’ worth of

hard work and looking forward to what lies ahead in the face of a rapidly changing climate and new economic and social pressures. When the tidal surge struck the Norfolk coast in December 2013, many local businesses and buildings were aﬀected with damage – including the National Trust’s own activity centre at Brancaster, which was featured in last month’s magazine. The beauty of the Neptune Campaign is that it’s in place precisely for times like these, and helped the visitor centre when they needed some much-needed support to get back on their feet. “Back in 1965, the National Trust launched something called Enterprise

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ABOVE: Claire Graves heads the National Trust’s Neptune Coastline Campaign, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2015.

Neptune,” says Claire Graves, the head of the entire Neptune project. “It was a fundraising campaign focused on protecting the coast and was inevitably named after the Roman god of the sea.” Over the last 50 years, the project has raised over £65 million (every mile of coastal footpath it looks after costs £3,000 every year) and it’s been the National Trust’s longest running and most successful campaign to date. These donations have enabled the project to buy and look after speciﬁc stretches of coast to protect them for everyone to enjoy. The Norfolk coast is rightly famed for its beautiful long stretches of beach, and it’s become a destination in its own right. “It’s not somewhere you just pass through,” says Claire. “This is Norfolk at its best – with big skies, rich coastal landscapes dominated by soft cliﬀs, farming on the edge, salt marshes and a myriad of creeks and golden sands.” But just like other parts of the British coastline, Norfolk is always under threat from climate change and whatever the elements can throw at it. “In some ways, there’s really not much between the North Pole and Norfolk!” says Claire. “Sea level rise and storm events will impact on this coast. Adapting to coastal change within an area so reliant on tourism whilst protecting the environment is probably our biggest challenge and greatest opportunity.” The Neptune campaign does important work to maintain our coastlines through regular beach clean-ups, the restoration of degraded areas, and the development of natural

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ABOVE: The stunning setting of Brancaster. For Ajay Tegala, the National Trust’s Coastal Ranger at Blakeney Point (right), everything is changeable when you live by the sea

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“I also love the wildﬂowers on the saltmarshes, especially the pinks and purples of thrift, sea lavender and sea aster which can be seen at so many places such as Brancaster.” Being able to experience these sights and sounds is just the kind of thing the Neptune Coastline Campaign is looking to safeguard for people to enjoy in the future. “We’ve got a Trust-wide focus on the coast this year, including a national marketing campaign,” says Claire Graves. “Although the campaign was originally established to acquire what remained of the pristine coastline of the country to save it from inappropriate development, we’ve evolved to include the restoration of degraded coastline, and the management of what we already own.” So what’s next for the Neptune Coastline Campaign? “For the last ten years, our focus has been on adapting to coastal change and sea level rise,” says Claire, “allowing natural processes to function and providing space for people and nature at the coast. This work remains a priority. We’ll always need to fundraise in order to manage the coast to continue helping people enjoy it – the Neptune campaign won’t be ending any time soon!”

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ways of dealing with rising sea levels. It also makes significant efforts to encourage wildlife and natural habitat and also continues to acquire surrounding land and coastline. You can volunteer to get involved in some of the campaign’s local projects such as the beach cleans and also by helping record as many coastal plants, animals and fungi as you can in a 24hour challenge. When you consider that wherever you are in the UK you’re never more than 75 miles from the sea, the work the National Trust does becomes even more important. Ajay Tegala is the National Trust’s Coastal Ranger at the beautiful Blakeney Point, and he explains why this coast is so important to him. “Everything is so changeable when you live by the sea, with tides altering the landscape every day and dramatic weather changing the atmosphere,” he says. “For me, you simply can’t beat the sight and sound of busy seabird colonies, and there’s nothing more revitalising than the splashing waves.” Stuart Warrington, the National Trust’s Nature Conservation Advisor also has a soft spot for this part of the world. “I get my fix from seeing the Sandwich terns nesting on Blakeney Point, preferably seen up close from a boat,” he says.

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Books

The colour of reading... This month’s bookshelf features killer kings, fallen heros, dragon tattoos and history-changing dogs

TERRY PRATCHETT Born in 1948, the brilliant and hugely-popular author published the first novel (The Colour of Magic) in his Discworld series in 1983. Now, five months after his death, the 41st and final Discworld book is about to be released.

THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB David Lagercrantz Stieg Larsson may have died over a decade ago, but his literary creation Lisbeth Salander (the girl with the dragon tattoo) is still going strong. She’s an uncompromising misﬁt whose burning sense of injustice and talent for investigation never respects the boundaries of state or status. Mikael Blomkvist is a campaigning journalist whose integrity and championing of the truth brings him time and again to the brink of unemployment and prosecution. When a late night call gives him the news that a superhacker has gained access to critical, top secret US intelligence, he knows there’s only one person who could have cracked the best security systems in the world. But things aren’t always that simple.

CHASE YOUR SHADOW John Carlin Before he shot and killed his girlfirend on Valentine’s Day 2013, Oscar Pistorius was known as an extraordinary athlete, the first amputee in history to compete in the Olympics. Journalist John Carlin followed the seven-month courtroom drama and provides a vivid first-hand account of Pistorius’ emotional breakdowns, the merciless interrogation to which he was submitted by the prosecutor, and the highly controversial judgment. This is a gripping portrait of a complex personality, whose story reveals extremes of courage and insecurity, ambition and vulnerability. Not since the OJ Simpson case has the world been more riveted by a sporting champion’s rise and fall.

THE TAMING OF THE QUEEN Philippa Gregory Why would a woman ever marry a serial killer? Well, maybe because he’s the King of England and she can’t refuse. Meet Kateryn Parr, a 30-year-old widow in a secret aﬀair with a new lover. When a man old enough to be her father (who’s already buried four wives) commands her to marry him, she has little choice – and she’s in little doubt of the danger she faces. The king’s last wife lasted barely 16 months. From a brilliant author who’s described all of Henry VIII’s queens comes a deeply intimate portrayal of the last. A leader of religious reform, the ﬁrst woman to publish in English, and a woman who longed for passion, power and education at the court of a medieval killer.

SIRIUS Jonathan Crown Germany, 1938. In Berlin, his owners christen the little fox terrier Levi. A good Jewish dog with a good Jewish name. When they ﬂee to America, he became Hercules, star of the silver screen in Hollywood’s golden age. Then he catches the eye of Hitler, who calls him Hansi. A pure-bred lapdog, he’s privy to all the Führer’s secrets – but to the Resistance, he’s known as Sirius, the insider who could bring peace to a world at war. Claimed by its author to be the ﬁrst ever novel by a dog (told to him by Sirius’ grandson), this is an intelligent, funny and brilliantly told story.

FISHBOWL Bradley Somer Even a little goldfish can dream of adventure. From his enviable view on a balcony on the 27th floor of an apartment block, Ian the Goldfish has frequent (if fleeting) desires for a more exciting life. The story begins with the fascinating and mysterious lives of the human inhabitants of Ian’s building, but then one day a series of unfortunate events gives him an opportunity to escape... This is a truly original, philosophically joyful and thoroughly charming novel with the unlikeliest of heroes. Think Maupin’s Tales of the City – but from the point of view of a goldfish.

THE SHEPHERD’S CROWN Terry Pratchett On March 12th it was announced that Sir Terry Pratchett had passed away at home, surrounded by his family, with his cat sleeping on his bed. Now, the 41st Discworld novel promises to deliver a fitting finale to the remarkable and hugely-popular series of novels. Witch (and skilled cheese maker) Tiffany Aching knows it’s coming. An old enemy is gathering strength, and as the fairy horde prepares for invasion, she must summon all the witches to stand with her to protect the land during a time of endings and beginnings...

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“I’ve learned so many new things at college; it has given me a very strong foundation I can build on...” How the College of West Anglia is helping Den Savicki achieve his long-held academic ambitions

hen Den was a child he had a dream – but it wasn’t the usual childhood ambition of becoming an astronaut or worldfamous footballer. Den’s dream was to study at an English university, and thanks to the College of West Anglia (CWA) he’s well on his way to achieving this. Den has completed CWA’s Access to Higher Education Diploma in Business, is currently studying the BTEC Enterprise and Employability course, and he’s already looking forward to the future. “Studying at CWA gives me the opportunity to go to university,” he says, “and I love everything about it. I’ve learned so many new things, and the

college has given me a very strong foundation I can build on.” Den chose to study at CWA after reading several glowing reviews, and his experiences have more than lived up to his expectations. “I’ve really enjoyed it,” he says. “I’ve met some great people and I’ve experienced so many new things. It’s so rewarding when you see your hard work turning into good grades.” Not surprisingly, Den wouldn’t think twice about recommending CWA for anyone wishing to improve their chances of future success. “If anyone is thinking about studying at CWA they should deﬁnitely go ahead and do it,” he says. “It opens so many

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Local Arts

ABOVE: According to Triston Finnis (opposite) the members of Kingdom Keys (left to right: Danny De Ara, Boﬀ Bareford, Simon Benefer, Sam Cook, Jay Harrison and Jake Graham) are some of the best musicians he’s ever worked with

Meeting West Norfolk’s own music impresario... The local music scene has never been brighter – thanks in no small part to the work of Twisted Melon Promotions. Emma Barnard talks to founder Triston Finnis about his work

ast month’s hugely successful Festival Too put live music back on the local agenda, and included the event’s ﬁrst-ever Sunday performances – with the help of the distinctively named Twisted Melon Promotions. The King’s Lynn based business is an event promotion and band management company founded by Triston Finnis, and shortly after all the applause had died down Emma Barnard managed to catch up with him to talk about his passion for the local music scene. Emma Barnard: Where did Twisted Melon Promotions start? Triston Finnis: I’ve always loved live music and I’ve attended gigs and

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festivals from my teens. But it was my time at the Glastonbury Festival in 1997 that took my love to another level, and from that moment I was determined to put on my own event. It took me ten years, but I managed to do it with the ﬁrst ever Watstock – which was held at Watlington. It lasted for three years but proved so successful that it unfortunately outgrew the village! It left me needing a new project, and with venues now asking me for bands and bands asking me for venues, the idea of Twisted Melon Promotions was born. EB: What does Twisted Melon do for local artists? TF: Twisted Melon looks to do

everything possible to help them be as successful as they can be. As it’s very diﬃcult for new and original acts to get stage time, we host our own nights giving both established and new acts a platform to showcase themselves. Most venues in West Norfolk book established cover bands as their regular clientele prefer music they know. We’ve tried to break that mould by hosting events with three or four acts incorporating a well-known headliner to keep everyone happy. We also work closely with local radio to give up-and-coming acts the airplay they need to raise their proﬁle, and we have an ongoing association with the North Lynn Discovery Centre. We’re currently working with them to

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ABOVE: Yve Mary B of Morganway and Philip Pearson of Addisons Uncle – two of the acts helping make the local music scene so exciting

build a studio and rehearsal room which will give much needed facilities to young kids starting out – as well as to more established acts. EB: What do you consider to have been your greatest success to date? TF: I suppose hosting events at such great music venues as the Norwich Arts Centre and the Waterfront, London’s Monto Water Rats, the Garage and the Hope and Anchor. I’m really proud to have worked with acts making real waves including Dry The River, Under The Influence, Lonely The Brave, Don Broco, Phoenix Calling, Ducking Punches, and Charlie Simpson to name a few. I’m currently working on projects with Tom Hingley, the glory days frontman of the platinum album selling Inspiral Carpets. Locally, hosting events at the fantastic King’s Lynn Corn Exchange has been massive for me. But my biggest achievement to date – and the one that means the most – has to be the fantastic honour of putting together the first-ever Festival Too Sunday as part of their 30th year celebrations. EB: What are your main creative influences and inspirations? TF: Actually, there’s a clue in the company’s name! It came from the Happy Mondays’ Step On, which includes the lyrics “you’re twistin’ my melon man.” I’m hugely influenced by the early 90’s ‘Madchester’ music scene, and I’m not ashamed to admit I listen to at least

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a track from the Stone Roses self-titled album every day – and I shed a tear at their comeback gig at Heaton Park in 2012! Worryingly, a massive influence for me is the late Tony Wilson, who founded Factory Records and The Hacienda. I just loved his charisma, his enthusiasm for music and his love of what he was doing rather than the profit he was making. EB: What’s the current state of the music scene in West Norfolk? TF: A couple of years ago there was a huge resurgence in the West Norfolk scene. I’d like to think a little of that is down to Twisted Melon as well as our Battle Of the Bands competition and local venues such as the Downham Market Club, The Maydes Head, and Bar Red. Our ‘Dirty Thirsty and Twisted’ nights at DT’s and our infamous Chicago’s Rock Nights also gave new acts a chance to shine. Unfortunately, some of these venues have fallen by the wayside – either by turning towards a different clientele, concentrating on food or dealing with noise complaints. The search is very much on again for new and exciting venues in the local area! EB: Do any acts really stand out for you at the moment? TF: Kingdom Keys is a collaboration of a number of musicians I’ve worked with closely over the last few years. They have a really dynamic and melodic sound, and individually are some of the

best musicians I’ve ever worked with. Morganway were the 2015 Battle Of the Bands winners, and have one of the best female vocals I’ve heard in a long while – a classic 80’s Fleetwood Mac sound that’s somehow still bang up to date. Then there’s Addison Uncle, who are the ultimate ‘real’ folk act. They manage to make folk music current and enjoyable for the masses without getting all Mumford & Sons. And finally, I need to mention Ducking Punches – who I listen to more than any other act at the moment. It’s a folk/punk fusion with real depth, feeling and incredible song writing. EB: What’s next for Twisted Melon Promotions? TF: Ultimately, I’d like to have my own live music venue so there are no constraints on what bands and music I host. However, next up is a weekend festival in 2016, pushing on with promoting and touring the bands I’m already working with as well as finding the next big thing. Then of course there’s Festival Too and my commitment to try and get more and more local acts on that stage – as well as a few slightly more leftfield artists. For more information on Twisted Melon Promotions and forthcoming events, you can follow Triston and his up-and-coming local acts on Facebook.

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ABOVE: Amelia Bowman’s distinctive and striking work reﬂects both her passion for colour and her enduring love of her native Norfolk

A love of colour and a passion for Norfolk... For hundreds of years, Norfolk has inspired generations of artists, and those born and brought up in the county make the most of it. Emma Barnard meets up with local artist Amelia Bowman.

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graduated in 2003. Her creative career has taken her from jewellery design to freelance illustration and graphic design – and she’s now based in her own studio in Wymondham, where she works on intaglio collagraph printmaking and digital pattern design. “I actually learned to print purely by chance and thought it was very interesting,” she says. “I converted a decrepit old mangle into a printing press and I’m still using it today!” If you’ve ever wondered what a collagraph actually is, Amelia’s the perfect person to ask. “Essentially it’s a collage made on a rigid surface such as thick card,” she explains. “It’s then varnished, inked up and rolled through a print press against

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orfolk is a hotbed of inspiration for so many talented artists, and none more so than Amelia Bowman. Describing her work as “bright and colourful, eﬀervescent and uplifting; fun with a hint of vintage,” her distinctive collagraphs are inspired by the British seaside, particularly the popular Norfolk settings of Wells and Cley – and they’re a ray of sunshine in themselves. “I’m a country girl at heart and have lived in Norfolk for 27 years,” she says, “and most of those were spent in a lovely old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere!” Amelia studied Textiles at the Norwich School of Art and Design, and

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Local Arts damp paper.” The edges and surfaces of the collage form the lines and textures of the print, which are transferred onto the paper on its way through the press. It’s a fascinating process, but then Amelia’s been creative for as long as she can remember. “Even when I was in my high chair I can recall being handed loaded paintbrushes and daubing away,” she says. “At the time it was possibly a way of keeping me quiet, but I do come from a long line of female artists – so I don’t think there was really any chance of me escaping!” Despite the distinctive nature of her striking collagraphs, Amelia admits her creative process was a gradual one. “I don’t think any artist would say they had a lightbulb moment about what their work should ultimately become,” she says. “The process is very organic, and the end product is a culmination of hundreds if not thousands of experiences, moments in time, happy accidents, and good old-fashioned practice and experience.” The one theme that clearly runs through Amelia’s work is colour, and she uses it beautifully. “Colour has always been central to everything I create,” she says. “I think my obsession with colour and my naturally simpliﬁed approach to imagery met up with my love of being out in the open, especially by the coast, and a never-ending drive to be creative in unusual and inventive ways.” Amelia’s work has such a stamp of individuality on it, you wonder what her creative inﬂuences are and unsurprisingly they are many and varied. “The world around me is a constant source of inspiration: landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes and all the related paraphernalia are constantly leaping out at me and giving me ideas,” she explains. “I also love the work of Christopher Wormell, Emma Williams and Serena Hall with their crisp and quirky shapes and colours.” Indeed, for Amelia, the world is always full of colour. “Flowers, gardens and botanical artwork are the main sources of inspiration for my patterns, while designers like Amy Butler and Orla Kiely are constantly fascinating me by the way they interpret these things,” she says. “Colour is probably the thing that inspires me the most in life. It makes me light up and it draws me in. Sometimes I think I overdo it but I suppose that’s a trademark in itself!” Her love of the coast and Norfolk in particular is something that really

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ABOVE: London Skyline (Floribunda) by Norfolk-based artist Amelia Bowman is currently being sold on greeting cards at Tate Britain, bringing her work to an international audience – but her favourite works depict her home county, such as the windmill at Cley (below)

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The future looks to be exciting for this Norfolk-based artist and Amelia has her sights set further aﬁeld for upcoming projects. “I’m working on more scenes from new places and new pattern designs to keep things fresh,” she says. “I’m also starting to work on some London scenes which has been fun.” More than fun, her London-based works have brought her to an international audience – her ‘London Skyline (Floribunda)’ print is now available on greetings cards stocked by the capital’s Tate Britain. “It’s very exciting!” says Amelia, “I’m also very keen to break into the interior design and home furnishings industries by licensing my designs as well as securing licensing agreements within the gift industry if at all possible.” It seems there’s plenty on the horizon for Amelia Bowman, and one thing’s for sure – it’s going to be a very bright and colourful horizon indeed. For more information and a closer look at Amelia’s work, you can see her website at www.ameliabowman.co.uk

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comes across in her strikingly unique work. Although she’s created collagraphs of locations as far aﬁeld as Cornwall and London, her Norfolk pieces remain her personal favourites. “Cley Windmill is my current favourite closely followed by my works of Wells, Fishing Boat [see previous page] and Boats at Rest,” says Amelia. Our gorgeous corner of the world has given artists inspiration for hundreds of years, but what’s so special about the county for Amelia? “I think Norfolk is one of those places that just inspires art and artists – and it’s my home as well, so I really do love it,” she says. “There’s something about coastal counties that seems to breed creativity, and of course Norfolk has around 100 miles of coastline. I think Norfolk is often pegged as being out of the way, but I grew up in the countryside and I’ve always enjoyed the peace and tranquillity of this place.” Not surprisingly, Amelia’s favourite spot in Norfolk is the beautiful stretch of coast and countryside between Brancaster and Cromer.

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couple of weeks ago, a friend and I visited the bus station in King’s Lynn – or the King’s Lynn Transport Interchange, which is how the powers-that-be seem to prefer the £1.6 million project be described. Not that we were taking the X8 to Fakenham or waiting for another friend to arrive on the 56 from Wisbech, you understand. Our better halves had taken advantage of a local beauty spa’s special weekend offer, and we simply went to admire the new station and see what all the fuss has been about, and the Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk will be pleased to learn that we were suitably impressed. One of the most attractive features of the new-look station (sorry, the newlook interchange) is the striking roof over the row of bus stops facing the entrance to the town. To me it looks very much like the sails of an old sailing ship, while my friend prefers to see an abstract representation of the sea’s undulating waves. Either way, we agreed that some echo of the town’s maritime heritage was probably the intention of the architect or designer or whoever was responsible and that it was a good example of finding a little touch of artistry in a largely functional public space. We continued our chat about finding art in the most unexpected of places as we wandered around King’s Lynn (you should try it some time) and I was reminded of a rather odd experience I had in Hunstanton last summer. I was sitting on a bench close to the Tourist Information Office, happily enjoying the one ice cream a year I’m allowed when I noticed a rather bizarre 114

scene on the ground a few feet away from me. Made of green plastic and standing about two inches high, two little soldiers (they looked like American GIs from the Second World War) stood either side of a plastic pig – which had probably come from a child’s farmyard set. The soldiers were aiming their guns at the unfortunate animal, and there seemed to be no escape for it – although I guess it could have made a dash for the precipitous edge of the pavement. I looked around me to see if there were any children nearby who looked as though they may be missing a couple of marines and a pig, but the only person in the vicinity was an elderly gentleman who was engrossed in a crossword puzzle. By now, a steady stream of ice cream was dripping down my hand and into my lap, so I beat a hasty retreat. And for all I know, the odd trio is still there. A while later I mentioned the strange tableau to my brother-in-law, who’d just returned from a trip to London, where he’d spent several hours in the Tate Modern admiring old pieces of cardboard and melted bits of polystyrene. “That’s really very interesting,” he said. “Have you ever heard of Slinkachu?” Luckily, I didn’t say the ﬁrst thing that came into my head, which was that he meant the cute yellow hamster with electricity coming out of its ears that used to appear in Pokemon cartoons. Sadly, however, I did say the second thing that came into my head. “Isn’t that some island in Indonesia or somewhere?” I asked. It turns out that Slinkachu is a mysterious and to date anonymous

London-based artist who creates ‘installations’ in urban situations using tiny figures from model train sets. Once the scenario has been photographed (and it can be anything from a skateboarder skating across a discarded orange peel to some people swimming in a puddle) they’re simply left where they are. It seems that Slinkachu (whoever they are) is becoming quite famous. He or she has exhibited around the world and already had a book published, all of which left me wondering. Had I found evidence of a local imitator of the artist, hoping to garner some attention with their ‘Pig Captured in Hunstanton’ installation? Or was it some form of small-scale protest by a local group of vegetarians, hoping to make a statement about the origins of one of our most popular foodstuffs? To be honest, I prefer to think that somewhere in the country there’s a youngster who’s recently returned from the family holiday in Norfolk and is currently wondering why his army isn’t as effective as it used to be and why his sister’s farm appears to be one pig short. You never know. It really is a funny old world.

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