Star Q&A: Gardeners’ World star, Adam Frost

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Round & About Editor, Liz Nicholls, chats to Gardeners’ World star Adam Frost about pets, plants and passions ahead of his extended spring speaking tour.

Q. Hello Adam! You and I always seem to chat in gloomy winter: how are you this time around?

“Good, thank you! We’re just back from Thailand and Vietnam, which was incredible. It was really special spending time with the family – proper time.”

Q. Your UK speaking tour has been extended – that must feel good?

“It does. I honestly wasn’t expecting it, but I love getting out there, meeting people, hearing their stories.”

Q. Life at home sounds busy – how many pets are we on now?

“We’ve added another dog! My daughter got another Labrador, Buster, so we now have Raven and Buster… plus cats. Ash the cat is still very much in charge, though. He keeps the others in line with the occasional whack, to remind them who owns the place.”

Q. You’ve always said you’re a cat man as well as a dog lover…

“I love them all, honestly. Animals bring so much joy and grounding, don’t they? Ash the cat especially has impeccable timing – if there’s a camera around, he knows exactly how to find it.”

Q. Your book, ‘For the Love of Plants’, celebrates joy over perfection. Is that where gardening is heading?

“I really think so. I don’t like talking about ‘trends’, but what’s gaining traction is the idea of backing off a bit. Leaving seed heads, not tidying everything away – it’s better for nature.

“Gardens don’t need to be perfect to be beautiful… I mean, having said that, it’s still an ongoing conversation in this house because, unlike me, Mrs Frost is a bit of a control freak, you know. So we just work our way to find a balance as every couple does.”

Q. You describe yourself as an ‘old romantic fool’. What does romance look like in a garden?

“It’s about how a space feels. Gardens are deeply personal. They’re for family, cooking, for sitting, being. It’s not just how something looks – it’s the atmosphere, the emotion.”

Q. You even link parts of the garden to music, including Louis Armstrong, Mumford & Sons and more…

“Music captures moments. A lyric, a mood, a feeling – and suddenly that becomes a planting idea. Bruce Springsteen’s song Secret Garden says it all really.”

Q. You’ve gardened all over the world – Japan in a monsoon must have been the hardest?

“It’s fascinating rather than challenging. Plants are plants, wherever you are – it’s the people that make it special. Working alongside local growers and teams is always the richest part.”

Q. What advice would you give to beginner gardeners feeling overwhelmed?

“Gardening is for everyone. Start small. Grow herbs in a pot. Test your soil and watch where the sun goes to help you start, and have a go. Once you nurture your first plant, you’re hooked.”

Q. What would improve life the most?

“A switch to slow time down. Time speeds up far too quickly as you get older. We all need to stop, breathe… and smell the roses.”

For more information or to book tickets, visit fane.co.uk/adam-frost

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Chesney Hawkes touring star Q&A  

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Liz Nicholls chats to musician & dad Chesney Hawkes who is touring the UK in March with his new album Living Arrows 

Q. You’re a devoted dad. Let’s start with your musical family! “My favourite subject: my kids! My three are all in their early 20s and late teens now. My youngest is 19 and he’s actually my lead guitar player. He’s on the road with me, which is one of my favourite things in life. My daughter is 22 and she’s just graduated from St Andrews in animal behaviour. I’m very proud — I feel like I’ve almost completed parenthood!” 

Q. You grew up around guitars and rock-and-roll. What has parenthood taught you? “I grew up in a very rock-and-roll household, very liberal, crazy, things that would make your hair curl. We didn’t have many rules, put it that way! My wife comes from a more strict background, so we meet in the middle. It works for us.” 

Q. You’re back from LA to Blighty, how’s that? “It’s really good to be back. My life in LA involved a lot of travelling, long-haul flights, being away from my wife. I got fed up with that. Now we’re all together in the UK and I couldn’t be happier. I’m pretty close to where I did my paper round in Surrey when I was a kid. So full circle.” 

Q. You went to school in Sunningdale; did it nurture your music talent? “Not really. I had one teacher who taught me a few chords early on, but the school didn’t run a music course because not enough people wanted to do it. So everything I learned came from my dad, his musician friends, and me locking myself away in the studio.” 

Q. Do you think schools should do more for creative kids? “Definitely. I don’t think the arts are taken seriously enough. Creativity moulds your personality and it’s therapeutic. Politicians don’t realise how important it is. If you don’t let a child be creative, it’s a huge missed opportunity, whether it’s music, art, or whatever, you have to have that, I think, it’s so, so important.” 

Q. Your new album Living Arrows sounds incredibly personal… “This album has been a labour of love. I produced it with my friend Jake Gosling; he discovered Ed Sheeran and has worked with One Direction, Sam Smith, Paloma Faith, loads of big artists. He created a safe space for me to bring songs I’d written that were very cathartic and therapeutic. You get to a certain age and think, ‘I need to write about that.’ Songwriting helped me through those things. Living Arrows comes from a Kahlil Gibran poem, On Children, about pulling your bow back and letting your children go. I’m definitely at that stage. But it also applies to songs; you put your life into them, then you let them go and find their own emotional connections.” 

Q. Has Big Brother brought you a new audience? “Definitely. I’ve had a lot of younger people coming to gigs since Big Brother. The range now is amazing, from 18-year-olds to 80-year-olds. It’s very eclectic.” 

Q. What’s the strangest fan request you’ve ever had? “I’ve signed a lot of body parts over the years! Plenty of odd requests — it’s just part of that world.” 

Q. What’s the most rewarding message you’ve ever received from a fan? “It’s usually about the songs. My latest single Loud is about loss; I lost my best friend this year. It was tough, and releasing a record about loss at that moment was… interesting. When it started doing well on the Radio 2 playlist, I got messages from people all over the country saying the song helped them with their grief. It felt like a collective hug. It helped me in my grief, made me realise we’re not alone. That’s the power of music; those emotional connections.” 

Q. What’s your first memory of music? “Growing up in that musical household. My dad’s friends were all musicians. They’d have jam parties. My dad would take me to gigs and I’d peek through the wings watching him in his leather trousers with knickers being thrown at him! I never wanted to do anything else. My dad always says I came out singing – there was never a backup plan.” 

Q. Do you remember the first album you loved? “The Beatles. My dad’s collection was about 70% Beatles. I remember locking myself in the lounge, putting on The White Album, and falling in love. That’s when I knew what I wanted to do.” 

Q. Who were your musical heroes? “John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Later on, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello, Fleetwood Mac, Nik Kershaw… there are so many. I’m a real music consumer – I connect with music in the same way people connect with my songs.” 

Q. What format do you listen to music on now? “I love vinyl. I’ve got a big collection and I’ve got my kids into it. We’ve got a record player in the kitchen. I’m always telling them off for not putting the Prince albums back in their sleeves!” 

Q. If you had a magic wand, what invention would improve your life? “Teleportation. I wouldn’t want to be the guinea pig, but it would be amazing. Touring means you’re away in far-flung places and can’t get home. To teleport home for breakfast with the kids? Perfect.” 

Q. If you could perform with any musician, living or dead, who would it be? “Prince. Not sure he’d let me onstage, but that would be the pinnacle.” 

Q. Are you tired of people asking about The One and Only? “I’m not. If you’d asked me in the mid-90s, the answer might’ve been different, but these days we’re friends – me and the song. As soon as that intro starts, the crowd’s energy lifts. I’m proud of it. It’s a great record and it’s stood the test of time. I like playing it! We’re friends with benefits now!” 

Q. Do you celebrate Valentine’s Day? “Krissy and I carve out our own dates because we’re both so busy. If we’re together on Valentine’s Day we’ll go out, but it’s just another day really. We celebrate our love in our own way.” 

Listen & buy music & book your gig tickets at chesneyhawkes.com 

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Maddy Prior star Q&A  

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Steeleye Span star in Farnham, Wantage & more in November & December. We chat to folk music superstar Maddy Prior 

Few bands can boast a career as enduring and influential as Steeleye Span. Together for an astonishing 56 years, the group transformed the face of folk music, taking it from village halls into the realms of gold discs, international tours, and mainstream recognition. Now, the legendary outfit are back with Conflict – their first full studio album in over five years – and a major UK tour to celebrate. 

The tour will feature the current line-up, led as ever by the inimitable Maddy Prior, alongside Andrew Sinclair, Roger Carey, Liam Genockey, Julian Littman, and recent recruit Athena Octavia. A member of indie folk band Iris & Steel and a classically trained violinist, Athena brings both youthful energy and technical brilliance to the ensemble. Fans can expect a rich setlist that journeys through Steeleye’s vast back catalogue, mixing classics and fan favourites with brand new songs from Conflict. 

Liz Nicholls chats to Maddy Prior… 

Hello Maddy! What can audiences expect from this tour? “We’ll be performing from our new album Conflict, but we always revisit our back catalogue which is vast. We mix it up with songs people might not have heard for a while – it keeps life interesting.” 

Q: Conflict is a very apt title. Can you tell us more about the album? 
Maddy: When we first thought of it, it became more relevant as time went on. Some songs are about war, some about our conflict with the planet and our place in it. We’re distracted by war from what might be the more important issue. Although, the world has always been “coming to an end” — let’s hope it’s just another story of that and not the real thing! 

Q. You often explore darker themes in your songs. Why do you think that is? “I think of the songs as meditations. We all have dark corners in our minds. They usually stay there, thankfully, though sometimes they burst out into the world, which can be confusing. Singing about these reduces stigma, shines sunlight into those corners and removes the shame.” 

Q. What’s your first memory of music? “Singing My Bow-legged Chicken, aged about eight or nine, in a Saturday matinee. The audience cheered for me – so I kept singing!” 

Q. Have you ever been starstruck? “Quite a few times. We worked with David Bowie once, when he came to play saxophone in the studio. He arrived with a small entourage, was utterly gracious and did exactly what was needed. He didn’t disappoint at all – he was delightful.” 

Q. Which artists influenced you when you were young? “Joan Baez, Bob Dylan – though I almost missed him! The first time I heard Dylan was in a record shop on a rainy day. At first, we thought ‘oh no, this guy…’ but then A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall came on, and we were floored. If it hadn’t been raining, we might have walked out and I’d have passed him by.” 

Q. What’s your favourite of own albums? “Probably Parcel of Rogues. By then we’d begun to establish what we were; that ’70s line-up became the blueprint for everything since. Of course, we always try to push boundaries too.” 

Q: Do you prefer working solo or as part of a band? 
Maddy: Always as part of a team. I’ve been lucky to work with brilliant musicians, making music I find really interesting. What’s not to like? 

Q. What music do you listen to? “I really admire The Dixie Chicks; their comeback after being cancelled for criticising President Bush was very brave. And Tom Waits – he brings an entire world with him. I also love Lady Gaga.” 

Q. What advice do you have for young musicians today? “Do what you love. Find people with the same level of commitment, whether that’s 24/7, once a week, or once a month. Don’t try to engineer it. Enjoy it.” 

Q. What’s on your rider? “Just a good glass of red wine. Luckily, our tour manager used to work for a wine merchant, so he always finds us something lovely.” 

Q. What would be your wish for the world? “Tolerance. It’s in short supply. We need to understand most people are doing their best, even if we don’t always perceive it that way.” 

Q: And finally — can anyone learn to sing? 
Maddy: “Yes. The only real problem is if someone can’t listen, because singing is about listening. But most people can. The worst thing is being told you can’t sing – it becomes your story, and then your children believe it too. Everyone remembers exactly when and who told them they couldn’t sing. It’s such a shame, because everyone can. 

Visit steeleyespan.org.uk for tour tickets. For the Wantage Beacon show on 29th November, doors open at 7:30 pm, and tickets are priced at £32pp; call 01235 763456 or email beacon.wantage@whitehorsedc.gov.uk  

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Ellie Sax the saxophone star on playing in Ibiza

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Liz Nicholls chats to Ellie Meredith, AKA Ellie Sax who will headline Summertime Live Windsor with Ministry of Sound Ibiza Anthems on 16th August, and star at Henley Festival on Wednesday, 9th July

Q. Hi Ellie! Mauritius, the Monaco Grand Prix… you play at some jaw-droppingly beautiful places! Do you have a favourite? 

“I’d pick Ibiza every time because the whole vibe of the whole place is amazing, especially at sunset. And we did a gig last week right on Heron Porth Beach down in Cornwall during sunset that was so special. And when we played a gig in New York in the PlayStation Theatre and when we’d finished and we just walked straight out to Times Square and I was like, I’d like this to be my life. This is cool.”

Q. I love your sparkly dopamine outfits! You and your husband Harry, AKA DJ Laser Boy Wonder, perform so much – do you go out a lot when you’re not working?

“No! I’m such a homebody. I’m literally the most boring human when I’m not working. I absolutely love my job, and travelling, but it’s definitely good to have breaks from it and then come back to it. It means you don’t burn out, you know, and you can appreciate both aspects of your life. When I’m not working, I’m mostly at home except for walking the dogs Mabel and Pippin.”

Where it started

Ellie Sax Saxophone

Q. How did you get into the saxophone?

“I was really lucky. My parents both love music so used to listen to lots of music around the house and lots of different types. My earliest love, and it’s really really nerdy to say, was Pavarotti. I used to love listening to opera and still do! My dad used to also listen to Dave Brubeck and that’s what got me into the saxophone, along with Lisa Simpson, if I’m honest! When we moved my elder sister, younger sister and younger brother and I all started on piano, which I’m really bad at – I have no natural ability! And then my piano teacher noticed I could sing. So I did classical singing and then picked up sax when I was about 11 – they’re quite heavy so you have to be quite big.”

Q. And when did you start to get into electronic and dance music then? Was that while you were at the Royal Northern College?

“Yeah so while I was at music college I used to sneak off and do Tiger Tiger at the weekend – my sax teacher was not happy with me! I’m really glad I have the classical training because it’s a really good musical foundation. But when I started doing dance music, I was like, oh, this is a bit more me!”

Q. Do you just have the one saxophone?

“I have a few, but I only have one that I use for professional performing now. I’m a Yamaha artist, so I’ve got a Yamaha 82Z custom which is absolutely beautiful and I love it. I’ve also got another Yamaha that I’m currently rebuilding. That’s the one my parents got me as my second saxophone. So I’m giving it a bit of TLC and trying to learn how to rebuild a saxophone, which is interesting. I’ve got an old vintage one and I’m just about to get a new baritone saxophone from Yamaha, which is a big bass saxophone, which I’m very excited about.”

Where to see Ellie Sax this summer

Q. Are you excited about playing at Henley Festival?

“Yes. My husband Harry’s DJing for me, so we’re doing the after party on the Wednesday and Thursday. I think that’s after Diana Ross and McFly – I would love to meet Diana Ross, so I’ll be hanging around in my dressing room area just in case I can say hi, but I’m hoping I can catch their sets before we start ours, at least.”

Q. Tell us about the show you’re bringing to Windsor!

“The Ministry of Sound, Ibiza Anthems show, as the name suggests, is full of Ibiza anthems from the 1990s onwards, all those iconic tunes that you might know as like Ibiza classics, and then some you’ll be, you’ll kind of have forgotten existed… But when you re-hear them you’re like oh yeah, I love that tune!”

Q. You’ve worked with so many amazing artists. Who would be your dream collab?

“There are a few. So I would love to make a track with Fred again, because I think he’s so clever in his kind of music creation, and I think it could be something really creative. And then also I’m really, really into Sammy Virji at the moment, so I feel like a garage sax track would work well.”

Q. What’s on your rider?

“So I have water, fruit, and some cashew nuts sometimes to give me a bit of energy. Harry has Haribo, Manuka honey and ginger beer but I’ve told him he’s getting a bit big for his boots with that! In countries like Spain and Greece, ginger beer is really hard to get hold of so I try to tell them not to bother in case some poor person’s been searching the supermarkets all day in search of ginger beer.”

“The nerds are the ones who end up doing the really cool jobs!”

Q. What are your favourite classical pieces?

“I generally like big romantic choral works, like big Handel or a big Bach choral work. I love Vaughan Williams, Prokofiev, Romeo & Juliet. It also has a saxophone in the orchestra, so that’s probably why I’m a bit biased!”

Q. Who are your up-and-coming musicians to watch out for?

“We’ve been supporting this amazing DJ, Taylor Shipley who produces her own tracks and I definitely feel like she’s got a future in music. She’s a lovely person, her parents are lovely and she’s got her head screwed on. For a 16-year-old that’s pretty amazing so yeah I’m really excited to see how she does with her career because I’ll be watching it every step of the way.”

Q. What would you say to any young girl, perhaps at school right now, who wants to play an instrument?

“I think sometimes music turns into a sort of a privileged hobby. I was really lucky that my parents decided to prioritise it for me, and for my sisters as well. It can be a really expensive hobby: lessons and sometimes the instrument.

What I’d say is you can always hire instruments from a lot of the shops, like Dawkes music. You know, I started out on piano and if I’d have continued just doing piano, I wouldn’t have ended up doing music. So I think once you find your instrument, then my main tip would be to play the music that you love, because then you’ll learn in a way what you are passionate about it. And number two, it’s OK a bit uncool in the first stages of learning! So at school I was massive nerd, really not cool at all ’cause I was practising all the time. I was in lots of bands; my life was music.

I’m really lucky that my really core group of friends still are from school and they all loved that sort of thing… And they’re all nerds as well. And you know what? The nerds are the ones who end up doing the really cool jobs! So be authentic to you and what you enjoy, because that’s what will come round to be, to serve you best in life.”

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Blenheim Food Festival – Star Q&A with Melissa Hemsley  

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Former private chef turned food columnist, bestselling cookbook author, real food activist and sustainability champion Melissa Hemsley chats to us ahead of Blenheim Palace Food Festival, 24th to 26th May 

Melissa Hemsley

Q. Hello Melissa! What’s your first food memory? “Sitting in my nappy with bare legs on a scratchy carpet in the living room of our army accommodation (Dad was in the Army) with my mum peeling prawns that she’d simply boiled. She was dipping them in vinegar and then using her fingers, grabbing a bit of hot white rice and then hand-feeding me these perfect bite-sized mouthfuls of prawn and rice. I also remember vividly going to a little farm with some little friends and eating fish paste sandwiches and then banana sandwiches for pudding!” 

Q. What’s the one first step you think families can take to “unprocessing” their diet? “One of my tips that I find helpful (and other people tell me they in turn found useful) is, when you’re at the shops or doing an online shop, challenge yourself to take one ultra-processed food out of the shopping basket and instead add one more real food or whole food. For example, a bag of frozen green beans, a tin of lentils, a jar of dried herbs or spices… so by the end of the year, you’ve bought 52 less ultra-processed food and have 52 more whole foods to eat! Find loads more tips and hacks in my Sunday Times bestselling cookbook Real Healthy.”  

Q. Congratulations on becoming a mum! What are the most surprising & rewarding lessons so far? 

“Thank you! Our little girl Summer turns two just after the food festival. She loved eating everything at first. Now at mealtimes she really wants to run around so mealtimes are definitely a little bit more challenging! One thing she loves is we have fridge magnets of lots and lots of types of fruit and veg and she can name them all which she loves doing. So I think that really helps her get new things when we put food down on the table. I’m in awe of all parents and caregivers and I think I was aware how tricky it was going to be to work and parent at the same time but the reality is, it’s even harder than I expected! I really struggle – I know similar for lots of families –  to find the time to work as much as I’d like to and I think now she’s almost two, I have realised that I have to sadly say ‘no thank you’ to a lot more things than I’d like, so I’m not running ragged and to protect my mental health and physical health. I struggle with that but, as we all know, there are never enough hours in the day.” 

Q. How do you take good care of your mental health? “I love walking and I can’t drive so both factors get me walking a lot! Summer and I like to walk as much as possible to activities in the playground and friends houses and i walk as much as i can to work appointments but I also try and have a 45-minute walk by myself every day which is my ideal type of meditation. My mantra is ‘if in doubt, walk it out’ and I really feel the difference if I haven’t had a chance to have a big walk a day. Eating well really supports my mental health especially when I’m busy. I count on meal prepping and batch cooking brackets which I’m sure we’ll talk about at my demo at the festival! I really count on the freezer and I think cooking yourself an extra batch of something you love that’s a comfort food and having it in the freezer is such a lovely gift to yourself for those times when you know you’re gonna be really busy or if as often happens you get run-down and then you need something nourishing and uplifting and home-cooked.”  

Q. Who was your foodie hero growing up? “I loved watching Ready Steady Cook after school and my mum is definitely a food hero for me. She has always had this knack – born out of resourcefulness –  for being able to create a delicious meal out of very little and quickly too. I think being able to flexibly come up with a meal is key which I think is the most important part of learning to cook, rather than strictly following a recipe. And I think Ready Steady Cook on the BBC was so good at that it made cooking fun and unintimidating. I would love to see more shows like that where it’s less competitive and more celebratory, showing quick thrifty cooking tips that busy people need.” 

Q. We’re all doing our best to make ends meet. What is your top tip for stretching the budget? “Even though I love writing cookbooks I don’t know if the world needs more and more cookbooks! I think we need more and more recipe templates and throw together ideas and meals plans and emergency pull together bases (which I love sharing) and what I like to do each week is to make three things – a soup, a frittata, and a fruit bowl cake. The soup is brilliant because you can take it in a flask if you’re on the move – it’s a fab way of using up every day odds and ends; half an onion, the last stick of celery, any less-than-fresh herbs and herb stems any salad items that are a little bit wilty like half a bag of rocket and then for satisfaction (as soups need to be satisfying) I cook all that down and then blitz it up with a tin of cooked white beans which makes it all creamy and hearty and we all know beans are really good for us. Sometimes I blitz in some frozen peas for sweetness too and then have it with croutons or sprinkle some feta cheese then for a frittata… A frittata is an amazing way of using up both cooked veg and raw veg, using up Sunday leftover roasted veg or I use a 50% mix of whisked eggs and 50% equal volume of uncooked veg like grated carrots, grated courgettes and some grated cheese. Then you can either put the batter into muffin trays for breakfast muffins or often snack frittata on the go or make one big tray and slice up wedges and have that for a quick dinner or Saturday lunch. Frittatas are also great cold the next day – they make an amazing sandwich filling too. And finally a fruit bowl bake is as good for a Sunday afternoon treat as it is for Monday morning breakfast. Lots of us end up having bananas or apples rolling around in the bottom of school bags or gym bags simply getting lost at the bottom of the fruit bowl. So the Fruit Bowl Bake was born out of me always having a bruised bananas or less-than-crunchy apples that no one wanted to eat so I mix them all together with porridge oats and a couple of eggs, some lovely cinnamon and a little bit of sweetness from maple syrup or honey and then you bake it up. So good!” 

Q. Is there any surprising food stuff you don’t eat? “I seem to have developed an allergy to crab which I’m devastated by because one of my favourite things is a crab sandwich sitting on a beach! I’m about to start the second year of my naturopathic nutrition degree and it’s fascinating and inspiring me even more to keep sharing real food recipes especially with the dominance of ultra processed foods in our diets these days! And it has truly hammered home to me (in the best way possible) how much importance there is in taking care of ourselves with food, stress levels and sleep quality!” 

Q. And anything you’re borderline obsessed with/ guilty pleasure? “I don’t think there’s anything I’m particularly obsessed by but in terms of a snack, rather than buy snacks on the go or the very much ‘health halo’ packaged expensive snacks, I always have some dark chocolate and a little old jar, normally an old mustard jar, and fill it with mixed nuts like Brazil nuts, walnuts and some dark chocolate squares. And they’re my dream snack and I have to replenish my jar often as whenever I get my jar out, I end up sharing them with everyone!”  

Q. What’s your favourite foodstuff to grow? “In my old garden in East London with very much my mom’s help, we were growing quite a few things well. Sadly, since parenthood, I’ve taken my eye off the ball but my herbs are still surviving. We just had a street party and I had 15 minutes to make my contribution so relied on foods from the cupboard plus my herbs. I made a massive bowl of chickpeas with crumble feta, olives, roasted red peppers and then tossed it all together with lots of olive oil and lemon juice and then big handfuls of chives and basil and parsley from my herb pots, which made the salad tasty and fresh and brought it to life.”  

Q. What’s your best meal ever? “My best meal at the moment anyway is my one-pan lazy lasagne with a huge avocado, basil, butter lettuce salad and then smashed dates with drizzled dark chocolate and pistachios and hazelnuts and a tiny sprinkle of sea salt.”  

Q. What’s your essential bit of kitchen kit? “A box grater. I love being able to easily add grated carrots and courgettes into frittatas or bolognese or chillis or stews and grated cabbage and beetroot into salads or slaws or to grate sweet potatoes or squash into a spiced fritter to serve with a garlic dipping sauce. Easiest way to up the veg content each day and delicious too.”  

Q. What are your favourite restaurants? “I love restaurants that welcome kids and dogs and so so appreciate that! I love Bingham Riverhouse in Richmond and Petersham Nurseries.“ 

Q. What’s your favourite summer produce to cook with & enjoy? “All the lettuces and salads, tomatoes fennel – love a raw fennel salad. Summer berries and stone fruits. Love being able to picnic with the above and some good cheese and olives and soak up outside time as much as possible.”

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Tom Kerridge chef Star Q&A

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Liz Nicholls chats to Tom Kerridge, the double-Michelin starred chef who opened The Hand & Flowers 20 years ago & The Coach 10 years ago

Hello Tom! What’s your first food memory?! “Oooh, I grew up in the ’80s, in a single-parent family on an estate in Gloucester. So Birds Eye potato waffles, Findus crispy pancakes, tinned corned beef… I still love it!” 

Q. Would you have imagined you’d be where you’re now 20 years ago? “My God, no! The idea was to set up and create somewhere where we loved the food that we cooked for people. I’m so proud of the team of people who have been around us for so long. Lourdes, our general manager, has been with us 18 years, and you’ve got Katie, who’s been there 15 years, Gabby who runs front of house, has been with us for another 14 years. And then you’ve got the likes of Tommo, who’s the head chef and Sarah, who’s the head chef of The Coach since the beginning. So it’s been this long, progressive journey of not just the businesses, but people, professionally and personally. And then we’re so grateful for the continued support of Marlow & everyone around here. We just wanted to create great food and relaxed, informal service. Two Michelin stars later, ending up on telly and doing books are added bonuses. We’ve gone with it. But it’s always been about great food and that’s down to continued hard graft that everyone puts in.” 

Q. We’re celebrating festivals this month! What are your favourite festival memories? “Well, Pub in the Park has been amazing and I love doing it every year. The energy, the buzz people get from it, and Marlow is very special because it’s my home town. The sun always seems to shine, we’re very, very lucky with that! I’m sure Dizzee Rascal will be great, bringing the energy and I love the brilliant cookery demos, the stuff on the fire pit.” 

Q. What’s your most rock’n’roll food moment? “We’ve had so many famous people in our restaurants, probably the most famous being Beyoncé and Jay-Z. They were great, warm, not divaish at all. And they loved their fish and chips!” 

Q. Cliche I know! But what’s your best ever meal? “For me it’s always about situation and place. So fish & chips on a beach in Brighton, in the winter when you have to wrap up warm, with loads of malt vinegar on. Some street food I had in Singapore, maybe eight or 10 years ago, was unbelievable, absolutely stunning. And awesome tacos from a shack in Tucson, Arizona. They’re some of the best food experiences I’ve had.” 

Q. What are the ingredients for a perfect pub? “A warm welcome, great beers and food done with care; it doesn’t have to be Michelin star food, just made with love. A great pub has this kind of unwritten rule of connectivity. The problem is everybody wants that on a Sunday. You need to have it on a Tuesday lunchtime as well, and we should support pubs this way otherwise they won’t be there on the Sunday.” 

Q. Who would be your dream dinner party guests? “I’m a massive Oasis fan so Liam Gallagher. I love rugby too, so maybe Joe Marler, oh and Lewis Hamilton, please! And we need someone extra funny so Katherine Ryan.” 

Q. Do you cook much with your son Ace? “Yeah, I try to make sure Sundays I’m about and present. This weekend he wants to do an apple crumble. We’ll normally do some sort of slow roasting in the morning because we’ll be off to rugby training, and then the afternoon when we get back, it’s all cooked and lovely.”  

Q. What kitchen gadgets or tools would you not be without? “Sharp knives and a good chopping board… Very simple!” 

Q. What are your favourite restaurants except your own? “I’m a fan of Malik’s in Cookham, which is absolutely outstanding. I was first introduced to Malik’s 20 years ago by Heston Blumenthal and still, to this day, it’s the best curry you’ll find.”   

Q. What foods are you borderline obsessed with? “I always have great cheese and grapes; that’s always a go-to snack. If I get in late at night cheese and grapes is always a winner.” 

Q. What about the worst? “I had one of the worst burgers I’ve ever had at a water park in Portugal. Like, so bad like that it stands out as one of the worst things ever.”  

Q  If you had a magic wand, what would you wish for? “That everyone understood and respected the food pyramid, the way it all works. Good food doesn’t come cheap. You know, there’s a lot of heart and soul and care that goes in producing as well as cooking. So I’d give a little bit more love to farmers.” 

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Star Q&A with Tim Rice ahead of tour  

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Liz Nicholls chats to the multi-award winning, internationally renowned lyricist Sir Tim Rice who returns to a theatre stage near you this spring with Tim Rice My Life In Musicals I Know Him So Well 

This incredibly special show which toured earlier this year has proved so popular that 33 new dates have been added. During the show, which visits Reading Hexagon, Guildford’s G Live, Aylesbury’s Waterside Theatre, Oxford’s New Theatre and Wycombe Swan in April and May, Tim reflects on his illustrious career at the heart of musical theatre. 

Tim, who is associated with writing the lyrics for so many of the world’s great musicals – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, as well as the Disney productions The Lion King, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast, will share anecdotes behind the songs –  the hits and the misses along with stories of his life. There will be live performances from his wonderful catalogue of songs with leading West End singers and musicians led by Duncan Waugh. 

Q. Hello.. How would you like to be addressed? “I think ‘my liege’… no only joking, Tim is fine!” 

Q. You were born at Shardeloes in Bucks, weren’t you? “Yes, not that I remember it! It was just at the end of the war… the second world war, not the Boer War! My mother had been in the WAF during the war, where she met my father; they got married in Egypt in 1942. Shardeloes is a wonderful stately home, a country house, and it was commandeered from the family who kindly gave it to the war effort so it became a wartime hospital. Quite a grand place to be born! Now I live in Buckinghamshire (just!), in the Hambleden Valley which is beautiful, with very nice pubs which I like going to. Not all on the same night, very often, I might add!” 

Q. What’s your first memory of music? “That’s an interesting question. Well, I was listening to Boom Radio yesterday from 1954, and I realised I knew every song, including the Winifred Atwell instrumentals. I would have been nine, and even ones I’d sort-of forgotten were in my brain, after all. These were songs I’d have heard on my parents’ radio.” 

Q. It’s Record Store Day this month; do you still love vinyl? “I do! I’ve got about 3,000 singles and probably 1,000 albums, and I’m still adding to that collection. I often dip randomly into my shelves and pull out a record by an act who’ve only had one hit and it’s very interesting listening to stuff from another time, either from the 1990s or even before I was born. If you play something on your phone it’s nearly always in the background, but if you’re playing a record, you stop, appreciate the cover, the artwork. When I was a teenager we’d get together for the sole purpose of playing records. We’d be very careful, if possible, not all to buy the same ones; we could probably only afford to buy one single a month. I’d check with a friend – ‘have you got Elvis’s latest? If you have I won’t buy it but I’ll buy Cliff’s instead’. It was a different era and playing a hit record was an event, something you shared.” 

Q. What was the first record you bought? “The first pop record I bought was Tommy Steele singing the blues which was a number one record, and a cover of Guy Mitchell, a really big American singer who used to sing pretty corny songs. In those days the big British acts – Marty Wilde, Cliff Richard, Billy Fury – would often cover American hits. Guy was a good singer but sang it very straight. Tommy was the first rock and roll singer Britain ever produced and I preferred his version, and still do!” 

Q. Did you enjoy school? “Yes I did on the whole. I was quite bright so I got by without doing too much work which is probably an appalling thing to say! I look back on my schooldays very warmly. I was part of a pop group, very much based on Cliff Richard and the Shadows; this was just before The Beatles and they were very big and influential. I used to enjoy concerts, classical stuff. Looking back, performing with friends was quite a formative experience and I wasn’t too bad at it. I was never going to be a pop star but I learned a bit about controlling an audience which was fun.” 

Q. You’ve worked with such legends. Have you ever been starstruck? “Yes, almost every time! When you’re working with the likes of Elton [John], Alan [Menken], Bjorn & Benny, you think, my God, I’m working with the best here, I’ve really got to pull my finger out! You have to be slightly in awe of their talent.” 

Q. You’re working with Andrew Lloyd Webber right now aren’t you? “Yes, on a fantastic comedy spoof called Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas written by two very talented writers; Humphrey Ker & David Reed, which premieres at the Birmingham Rep in November. They’ve written the piece and it works as a straight-forward comedy. They asked me to write some music, and I asked Andrew and he agreed. We speak a lot. I first met Andrew in 1965 when I was a failing law student trying to be a pop singer on the side.” 

Q. If you had a magic wand what would you wish? “Ooof. Well, I like to think you’d think of your family of course. But something else: I’d ban solar panels from covering beautiful green farmland. I go down to Cornwall a lot and it’s very depressing seeing fields covered in plastic. By all means, stick them on roofs, but if I had a magic wand, whoosh, they’d vanish from the fields!” 

Tickets for Sir Tim Rice’s show, My Life in Musicals – I Know Him So Well are on sale now and can be purchased via: www.sirtimricelive.com 

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Star Q&A exclusive with Tom Parker Bowles 

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The Castle Hotel, Windsor, will welcome British food writer and critic Tom Parker Bowles for an exclusive Q&A event on 6th March, following the release of his latest book, Cooking & The Crown. We caught up with him about our favourite subject… FOOD! 

Tom Parker Bowles will star in an intimate evening of food, drink, and storytelling on Thursday, 6th March, at The Castle Hotel, just steps from Windsor’s iconic castle. 

The Castle Hotel, Windsor

Ticket-holders can enjoy a sneak taste of Tom’s celebrated ninth cookbook, which draws back the curtain on the royals and their eating habits, from Queen Victoria to King Charles III.  

Following extensive research, including at the Royal Archives in Windsor, Tom has documented recipes from extravagant Victorian high teas to his mother Camilla’s simple yet delicious cooking…. 

Q. Hello Tom. Your new – ninth – cookbook Cooking & the Crown sounds fascinating. Whose eating habits did you find the most fascinating and why? “Edward VII was a world-class trencherman, and an inspiration too. It was not just the range of food he loved, from the starriest peaks of haute cuisine to great British classics like roast beef, game pie and potted shrimps. But the sheer volume of food he could eat. A vast breakfast (if he was racing or shooting, which was quite a lot), elevenses of a lobster cocktail, or flask of turtle soup; lunch ran to 14 courses, tea a mighty spread, and dinner another 14 or so courses of foie gras filled, butter and cream-soaked magnificence.” 

Cover of Tom’s new book

Q. Please could you tell us your first memories of food? “I grew up in the country, and my mother was a good cook, my father a great gardener. We ate very well. Classic British food – lamb chops, baked trout, roast chicken, shepherd’s pie in winter. Then in the summer we’d go for two weeks to the island of Ischia, just off Naples, and eat some of the most wonderful south Italian food. But despite all this lovely seasonal, local and organic eating, what my sister and me really craved was cheap white bread, Ice Magic, and Monster Munch from the Chippenham Sainsbury’s. That, for us, was the real magic.” 

Q. Do you still enjoy the simple, delicious cooking as cooked by your mother The Queen? “She no longer cooks, save occasionally scrambled eggs when we’re staying with her after Christmas. She makes very good scrambled egg.” 

Q. Which is your favourite meal of the day & why? “Lunch. As it is so full of potential and possibility. Dinner is finite, whereas lunch can lead into dinner and beyond. There is no finer meal than lunch. Brunch, on the other hand, is a horrible abomination. Urgh.” 

Q. Is there anything you don’t eat or drink, and why? “I’ve eaten pretty much everything over the past 25 years, from insects and cold blood soup to pig’s penis and dog stew. I really would not recommend that last one. But it’s goat’s cheese I really can’t bear. And it annoys me, as I love every other kind of cheese. But it tastes like licking the farmyard floor. I am, though, trying to love it. Without much success.” 

Q. Please tell us a little about your love for Windsor? “I spent five very happy years just over the bridge. I did seem to spend rather too much time in McDonald’s, as well as various pubs. The Crispin, when I was 14, was a favourite, as they would serve underage boys. It was a hell of a walk away, though. As we got older, the pubs we visited grew closer to the centre. In my final years, I loved The Two Brewers, at the entrance to the Long Walk. And The Old Trout, just over the bridge.” 

Q. Also, do you visit Oxford much, and if so what are your favourite pubs or restaurants? “Yup. Love Oxford. I was at prep school there, and university too. Brown’s is, sadly, a shadow of its former self. But Kopitiam, in Summertown does great Malaysian food. Bhoomi Kitchen in Headington does excellent Southern Indian, while Oli’s Thai [in Magdalen Road, East Oxford] is a cracking place for real Thai food. Then there’s the ever wonderful Pompette, in Summertown, for really classic French bistro cooking, And, of course, the magnificent Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, for some of the best food in the country.” 

Q. Is there a particular ingredient or foodstuff you’re borderline obsessed with? I’m thinking Pot Noodle or similar maybe..? “Hot sauce, and anything with chilli, I can’t live without it. I also love cheap ‘cheese’ slices and most brands of instant noodles, especially Indomie and Buldak 2 x Spicy.” 

Q. Who were your foodie heroes growing up? “Keith Floyd and Delia.” 

Q.  Have you ever been star struck? “Endlessly.” 

Q. What’s your essential bit of kitchen kit? “A good knife, a wooden spoon and a Netherton Foundry frying pan.” 

Q. What’s one thing about restaurant life behind the scenes you wish diners knew? “What hard work it is to run a successful restaurant. You have to do it for love, not the thought of making cash.” 

Q. If you had a magic wand what would you wish for? “My own taco stand, flown in from Mexico City. Oh, and world peace. Obvs.” 

*Tickets, £25pp, will include a welcome glass of fizz, canapés, a signed copy of Cooking and the Crown, and access to the Q&A session.  

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Star Q&A with gardening guru Adam Frost  

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Liz Nicholls chats to dad and Chelsea & Gardeners’ World star Adam Frost whose new book For The Love Of Plants is out on 13th March ahead of his spring UK tour

Q. Hello again Adam, lovely to talk to you again! Last time we spoke about mental health… how are you? “Hi Liz! I’m ok thank you. I always struggle those first couple of weeks at the start of January… Actually part of this tour is about what happened to my mental health. With me, I need to be out doing things, and I keep busy. As my old Nan would say: busy hands…” 

Q. How’s your garden now? “Yeah it’s all right; I was out over the weekend. The bulbs are about to pop up; the leaves on some tulips are coming , I’ve seen some Iris Reticulata. Things are just starting to push through the ground, so give it a few weeks and that first flush of bulbs will come alive. They provide a smile don’t they?” 

Q. Tell us how your grandparents’ allotment inspired your love of gardening… “I had quite a difficult childhood so my grandparents played a massive part in my life. I had Tidy Nan and Scruffy Nan. Tidy Nan had that a classic allotment, rectangular 1970s lawn, little rockery, concrete path, washing line. She was a bit of a control freak, so she’d tie everything up within an inch of its life. But it was a safe place to be. If I wasn’t with them, I was across the road with Scruffy Nan. They both had quite high-flying jobs: Grandad was a gun engineer. At the weekends they lived quite a bohemian existence, they were on the wild side, also never threw anything away. Nan had these Belfast sinks all over the place that were these little worlds, you know? There was freedom there; we were allowed to be out until dark. Mrs Frost says I’m scruffy but I’m always tidy in my head!” 

Q. Are you still on a mission to help youngsters get into gardening? I know you weren’t happy at school…. “Yes, I’m dyslexic. I was that kid; I was told you can join the Army, be a chef or be a gardener, because you’re not going to equate to a lot else. Horticulture is often sold to the less academic kids like me, the ones the education system has failed, which I find bizarre, in the sense that not only is it a career that you can go into and train as a horticulturalist and end up in the sciences, in the arts, in retail. But also why does anything that’s done with your hands have to be given to someone who doesn’t fit the system? I always say to young people: if you don’t know what to do, go and train in horticulture for a few years because you’re learning a skill set that’s going to lead you through life in various different directions. Saying that, it is getting better; we’ve got more people going into horticulture – interestingly – from geography. Biology in our schools is mostly animal-centric, whereas actually we don’t learn much about plants. I think it’s a great industry to get involved in. Let’s face it most of the young people leaving school are going to be working until they’re nearly 80; learn how to look after a garden, how to grow your own food. These are going to be of value in your life, even if you go and drift off to do something else. I keep shouting about it and keep spreading the word!” 

Q. Tell us about your book! “Well, I did the last tour, the first one (I thought it was like a big joke, I didn’t think anyone was going to turn up! Well, they did!) Anyway, that tour finished, and at that time we were going through a lot as a family. My wife had been poorly and one of my littl’uns had been poorly, then the wheels came off me. We moved house, and this moving house became quite a big thing in the media world; the papers were phoning up, asking ‘why are you leaving this big farmhouse with massive garden?’ The reality is, I got locked in a room with Covid, and I was sat with a psychiatrist, and he said you’ve got burn-out and depression. So I finished the last tour being honest with people on stage. We start the book locked in a room with the psychiatrist. Also I’ve got this huge connection with music: I’ve used music all the way through my life. The book really is about moving, creating a new garden, but each part’s got a song attached to it, and there’s 150 plants in it. I look upon them as old friends. It bounces about, the book, and that will become the stage show, with some naughty stories, places I’ve been, the pickles I’ve got myself into along the way. The book’s quite personal; I’m halfway through doing it as an audio, which is a bizarre experience… mate!” 

Q. What would young Adam say about you doing all this now, doing audiobooks, being on stage? “’You’re having a laugh!’ At school, in English, they’d be coming round the classroom asking you to read out loud…. At the time didn’t realise I was dyslexic, so all I was thinking was ‘how do I get out of this classroom?! I will do anything! I’d rather have the slipper from the headmaster than read out loud’. Fast forward 30 years and here I am doing this book, literally, reading out loud, thinking ‘what am I doing?!’ Ultimately, I finished the book eight months ago so it’s been a nice way to go back in, but it’s exhausting. Being dyslexic, your mind bounces about. It’s been crackers. That’s the other thing about me going into schools now, and even with my kids. One thing the psychiatrist said to me at one point was ‘I reckon statistically you don’t exist’. I said what? He said ‘think about your past, where you come from, what you’re doing now… if you were fired into a computer system, statistically there’s such a small percentage [of the old you] that you wouldn’t even show up on a graph!’ I don’t think the young me would have believed any of it. I never set out to do it. I left home at 16 and all I wanted was life to be a bit better than it was. And the harder I worked, the better life got. When I was ill, I learned that if you don’t change those survival habits you have as a youngster, by the time you get into your late 40s, early 50s, those habits start to unpick you. That’s been fascinating, understanding how the brain works, and how we are as human beings.” 

Q. You’re exploring your love of music in the tour too, aren’t you? What piece of music lifts your mood? “I asked the family group chat: ‘what’s one song that gets you going’ and they all came back with Mr Brightside by The Killers. We’ve seen them live, there’s pictures of us going absolutely crackers. Wherever my kids were, if they were at a party they’d be jumping up and down to that song. Mrs Frost, too. It’s a great song, for my family. Just for me? Probably an old one: Johnny Nash, I Can See Clearly Now. I’ve always loved the lyrics, how you can relate to parts of your life. But it’s endless, I get totally lost in music!” 

Q. Do you watch much telly? “Not loads but yeah. For us it’s that 9 o’clock drama, sit down and watch for an hour… well, whatever her ladyship, known as Mrs Frost, decides! She tells me. As you can see behind me is a picture of Peaky Blinders in our snug room… Mrs Frost loves a naughty boy!” 

Q. Do women still proposition you in the supermarket? “Yeah! And she just throws me under the bus, she finds it hilarious, while I’m [miming] ‘help!’ I come across as confident but I get so shy! One lady said something about me doing audiobooks that I can’t repeat! It was along the lines of how my voice did… certain things to her and she’d like to take the audiobooks to bed at night.. I came out with something like ‘oh that’s nice’ but I could feel my heart getting quicker. Life’s mad!” 

Q. Have you ever been star struck? “I’ve met loads of people who have blown me away and lots of talented people I class as friends now. But people are people! Apparently one of the reasons I get sent to do interviews, like The King, Adam Clayton from U2, is because I talk to everybody the same. Having said that, we went to Jools Holland’s Hootenanny and it blew my mind! So much talent in one room: Bob Geldof, Roger Taylor, Jungle, CMAT, Ruby Taylor – who I love – said she couldn’t believe she’d met her favourite gardener! (I asked her to repeat that for Mrs Frost). Now we’re going to Ronnie Scott’s later this year. Musicians are magical people.” 

Q. What’s your essential bit of gardening kit? “I got some secateurs while in Japan 10 or 15 years ago; they’re not expensive out there. Also a little Dutch planting trail which I always get asked about, as well as Ash the cat!” 

Q. If you had a magic wand what would you wish for? “Just to live in a nicer world. To put the news on and hear that all was good with the world…. I’d need some magic wand, wouldn’t I?! Hence going into the garden and losing myself.” 

You can win a copy of Adam’s book, For The Love of Plants here.

Adam is on tour; book your tickets at fane.co.uk/adam-frost  

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Chiltern Sound Spa’s Deborah Henderson Q&A

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Deborah Henderson, founder of The Chiltern Sound Spa, tells us what she loves most about life in Amersham & nearby

Q. Hello Deborah. Please tell us a bit about yourself!
“I work is social innovation, creating new services and social enterprises that address both social and environmental issues. I also run The Chiltern Sound Spa, a space where people can reconnect with themselves through holistic wellbeing experiences, such as sound meditation, forest bathing, shamanic drumming, and women’s circles around the Amersham area. Each of these practices offers unique benefits; sound meditation, for example, uses vibrations to reduce stress, while forest bathing is scientifically shown to lower cortisol and boost immune function. If you’re looking to relax and take some time for yourself, I’d highly recommend trying one of our events.”

Q. Where do you live & how long have you lived there for?
“I moved to Amersham from London 12 years ago, and I’ve never looked back. I love that feeling of arriving at Amersham Tube station after a busy day in the city, taking a deep breath, and feeling at home.”

Q. What pets do you have?
“We recently welcomed Jimi, our Old English Sheepdog puppy, into the family. He’s absolutely adorable and growing so quickly – he’s going to be big! He loves our Tuesday trips to Amersham Market, especially for the treats from Chiltern Pet Products.” 

Q. What are your favourite local shops or businesses?
“Amersham has so many hidden gems. After a game of tennis, I often stop by A Little Street Kitchen [in Sycamore Road] for a cuppa and a pastry with friends. Koyo [which has branches in Amersham and Beaconsfield] is also a local gem – perfect for a quick lunch or an evening out, especially if you’re a fan of Japanese cuisine. It has a quirky vibe.”

Q. Are you a member of any local groups?
“Yes, I’ve been learning to play tennis for the past six years and am a member of Chesham Bois Lawn Tennis Club. I’ve made great friends through it, and playing outside is such a bonus. A Danish study found that playing tennis could extend your life by nearly 10 years!”

Q. What do you love most about living here?
“I feel incredibly fortunate to live surrounded by such natural beauty. Whether it’s the trees, the gentle hills, or the wildlife, the Amersham area has a calming effect on the soul. Research supports the idea that time in nature lowers stress and improves overall health. In the summer, I’m really lucky to be able to host my sound spas in private gardens, including Chesham Bois House, which is a hidden treasure. I was recently invited by the team at Wendover Woods to lead forest bathing sessions, which is really special too.”

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