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LIFESTYLE – White Hart Studio, fitch & fellows Churchill Retirement and Lightfoots Solicitors.
Monument Valley, USA
Despite and throughout the Coronavirus breakout, Bryony Hordern has never shaken off her travel bug, as Steve Rogers discovered. Great times traveller
Bryony Hordern
In fact her desire to travel has Working from home in Oakley, Bryony never been greater than it is designs, plans and books luxurious, lifenow. Bryony has spent lockdown changing holidays. Naturally, last year was planning some wonderful great a disaster for the travel industry. Bryony escapes for her family and clients booked and then had to cancel all 15 alike to enjoy in 2022. holidays. It was back in 1982, that Bryony Her desire to get away is matched by established Tickets Anywhere her clients, so she is already planning for in a wooden shed in Royston in late 2021 and 2022. Hertfordshire, before relocating the Bryony specialises in first class travel business to Thame in 1987. experiences. Trips that are exclusive “My passion for travel began when and difficult to put I started working for Pan Am. I loved it at Pan Am,” she recalls. “It was just the coolest airline back in the 1960s and 1970s,” she adds. Now clients can benefit from Bryony’s 56 years experience in the travel Industry. There’s hardly a place on the planet that Bryony hasn’t visited. Retiring in 2015, you might have thought this seasoned traveller would simply cruise off into the sunset. But no, her passion for travel is too deep-rooted. As a result, Bryony has recently set up as a Travel Counsellor.
Machu Picchu, Peru
Palmyra, Syria
together on the internet. She offers a truly bespoke service. When she plans a trip for her family, she only wants the best and that applies to her clients as well. Booking a trip with Bryony means she is always at the end of the telephone. One couple had an issue when touring Australia and New Zealand, Bryony was able to help from this side of the world. People want different things from their holiday. You might want to simply flop on a beach in the Maldives and do nothing for 14 days, or tour Europe with a packed itinerary with something to see every day for a month. Whatever you are looking for in a break, Bryony can provide you with an unforgettable experience. Her work and passion for travel has seen Bryony experience many fantastic trips. Some favourites include the Canadian Rocky Mountains and a trip on the Rocky Mountaineer train from Bamf to Vancouver. A trip from Cusco to Machu Picchu or a 7 day journey on the Palace on Wheels in Rajasthan, India. Her most relaxing holidays, however, have been on water. A cruise is Bryony’s holiday of choice, and she has an extensive knowledge of the best cruises to take. “Put people on the wrong cruise and they’ll hate it, put them on the right cruise and they will cruise for ever,” says Bryony. Bryony has cruised around the globe. Highlights include sailing across the Atlantic from London to New York, across the Indian Ocean from Perth to Cape Town. The next cruise planned is from Lisbon to Rio de Janerio. As you can imagine, there are some excellent deals to be had on cruise holidays at the moment. Rest assured, all trips booked through Bryony are financially secure. Surely, there are parts of the world for Bryony still to explore I ask? “Not many, but Nepal is on my wish list, along with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Travel is a real adventure, and I look forward to my next one,” she says. However much travel has changed in its scope, in its expectations, in its diversity, one thing has remained constant for Bryony. And that is to ensure that each and every one of her customers enjoy a holiday – as smooth in its arrangement as it is pleasurable in its experience – to remember. Which probably explains why, after her many years of experience, Bryony is so successful at making dream holidays a reality. Bryony and her customers, are still going places.
Lake Louise, Canada
Terracotta Army, China
Royal Palace, Bangkok, Thailand
Puerto Montt, Chile
Twelve Apostles, Great Ocean Road, Australia
Bryony Hordern Travel Counsellor
bryony.hordern@travelcounsellors.com www.travelcounsellors.com/bryony.hordern 01844 660004
Rooms to improve
to improve Take a fresh look at your interiors by calling into White Hart Studio. Here One company that has been you will find four rooms of inspirational items for particularly embraced by Jane is Libra. Inspired by bygone eras and diverse cultures, Libra furniture is all about your home. statement design. A chance to add a spark of original character to any home. Namaste have a strong ethical policy at its core, and this is another company that Jane admires. They use
Just as the world starts to open largely natural materials and traditional up and we all head outside, techniques to produce beautiful and typically, Jane at White Hart Studio interesting items. Look out for throws bucks the trend. She wants us to and Rag Rugs hand crafted in India improve our interiors. and all Eco friendly. Jane is particularly excited by White Hart Studio is open from the items of vintage furniture and 10.00am - 5.00pm, five days a week . homeware currently instore. Closed Sunday and Monday. She has visited her contacts in the Naturally, as a result of the trade, especially clothing and furniture pandemic, some people will be a little traders. The furniture really caught her nervous, so with this in mind, Jane has designers eye. utilised the space and opened up the Vintage furniture fits perfectly door at the end of the shop where you with her ethical ethos. Recycling and can now enter. You can then leave by upcycling are a passion (any purchase the till at the opposite end. This totally from White Hart Studio will go home avoids any congestion by the till and in a paper bag made from recycled enables you to keep a safe distance newspapers) and these recently from other customers. purchased items really fit the bill. They Jane is always introducing new look great and are of course functional. items to the store. To keep abreast You will find desks, chairs, and folding of news and the latest additions, benches. These latest additions to please go to her Instagram page the Studio are proving very popular whitehartstudio or her facebook page. with customers as well. A pair of brass Jane is always on hand to help Victorian candlesticks were sold within customers with help and advice. two hours of being displayed. Why not improve your interiors by exploring White Hart Studio’s.
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Retirement living in style
Brighter days and a new lifestyle are just around the corner at Yeats Lodge.
hurchill Retirement Living’s brand new Yeats Lodge C development in Thame offers more than just a new apartment, it’s the key to a whole new lifestyle.
With like-minded neighbours, safety and security, and no more worries about maintenance, it could help you leave behind loneliness and isolation, and instead look forward to making new memories. You can still be fully independent, but with friendship and support on hand whenever you might need it. If you are considering a fresh start this spring, Yeats Lodge is open by appointment, so you can arrange to view a show apartment and find out more about the lifestyle on offer. In a new Yeats Lodge apartment you can sit back and relax with the peace of mind that there is a Lodge Manager to keep an eye on things and no more worries about maintenance. That means a real weight off your mind, giving you more time to do the things you want to do, and enjoy the retirement you deserve. Throughout the pandemic, Churchill Owners have enjoyed the benefits of community living and support. Some have formed support bubbles, while others have simply felt the peace of mind of having familiar friends and a trusted Lodge Manager nearby. If you would like to find out more, make an appointment now to visit either virtually or in person. The team at Yeats Lodge is looking forward to welcoming you as soon as you are ready to explore what a lifestyle with Churchill can be like.
Call 01844 319881 or go to
www.churchillretirement.co.uk. Sales Executive, Amanda at Yeats Lodge
Churchill Retirement Living
Yeats Lodge, Greyhound Lane, Thame, Oxfordshire OX9 3LY 01844 319881 www.churchillretirement.co.uk
Art and soul.
The world’s a better place when you have art to draw on. A visit to fitch & fellows is always an uplifting experience.
One positive thing that has come out of lockdown is the number of people that have re-discovered
their creativity. Isolation has seen some difficult days, and many have found the value in picking up a paintbrush or pencil and expressing themselves through art or crafting. Now, at long last, as the world is opening up again, fitch & fellows opens it’s door to bring you a selection of professional artists and makers and the products of their lockdown efforts. As much a gallery as a shop, fitch & fellows in Buttermarket, Thame is home to a celebration of contemporary creative craftsmanship. You will discover some wonderful examples of work made by some very talented artists. All from the UK, and some local. This is a very special time for the arts locally. We have just had Oxfordshire Art Weeks – fitch & fellows hosted Kate Wilkinson and her beautifully crafted jewellery and Graham Lester’s unusual bowls made of recycled materials. Their work, as well as the exhibition of Peter Keegan’s landscapes, still life and portraits are still available. From the 12th to the 27th of June it’s Buckinghamshire’s turn with Bucks Art Weeks. As Chair of the Bucks event, Susannah Fellows, owner of fitch & fellows, oversees the running of this annual event and exhibits the work of some of those taking part. This year she’ll be hosting jeweller, Kerry Newth, who will be demonstrating her jewellery making skills for visitors, and the watercolour painting of George Boyter, who will be exhibiting UPStairs@ fitch&fellows. This upstairs space has proved a valuable and successful extension to the shop and gallery downstairs. “As we don’t have much wall space on the ground floor, I decided to extend what we do up to the next level. The 3-weekly exhibitions seemed an obvious development and have proved very popular. Visitors often sit for ages, drinking in the paintings – a moment of quiet in a busy day,” says Susannah. The exhibitions carry on throughout the year and vary widely in style and technique. Art. Bringing some much needed joy and colour back into our lives.
George Boyter
Kerry Newth
Graham Lester Bucks Art Weeks 2021 will be taking place throughout the county from 12–27 June – put the dates in your diary!
In the meantime, explore the website (www.bucksartweeks.org.uk) and browse through all of this years participating artists and makers. Perhaps, start considering who you may wish to visit. The world is opening up again – and there’s so much to see. This year, the free Special Edition brochure has been designed to work in tandem with the website. Available at fitch&fellows as well as many locations in the area, its larger images are intended to aid your choice of who to visit. And it’s a wonderful keepsake beyond this years’ event. All contact details of each artist, and a fuller experience of their work, are on their pages on the website as well. Should you see something that you like, the exhibitors will be very happy to speak with you closer to the event, about their opening times, their work and discussing possible commissions. During the event this year, the social media pages on Facebook and Instagram, will be alive with artists posts, images of their work and of their events. So make sure you check in to see what’s happening throughout Buckinghamshire.
Graham Lester
Celebrating The Unusual
In Creative Craftsmanship
fitch & fellows
18 Butter Market, Thame OX9 3EP 01844 215099 www.fitchandfellows.com
