2016 Summer

Picture Perfect

PEOPLE PORTFOLIO Award-winning portrait photographer, Paul Wilkinson, continues to set the standard says Jim Sherwood. This year my daughter celebrated her 21st Birthday. It was a significant moment in her life and ours. It needed to be celebrated. Yes she received a special item of jewellery and yes, she had a party, but for me, I wanted to really capture …

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Garden Gold

TURN END TURNS 50 That garden of delights that is Turn End celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Martin Bygate, Chairman of Turn End Trust, tells us how this is to be celebrated. 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of Turn End, the “quintessential architect-designed house of the sixties” (RIBA Journal April 2016) in the heart of Haddenham, designed and built …

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Crisis Talks

IT’S GOOD TO TALK Psychotherapist, Jaqui Supple, is there for you when life gets difficult. Have you noticed how some people sail through life seemingly without a care in the world? Well they are a minority. Most of us experience a time when life is difficult, unfair, even unbearable. The woes of the world seem to sit permanently on our …

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Head Girl

HATS OFF TO HELEN Jane Dale meets designer Helen Nicholls a lady that simply loves hats and designer bags, and who doesn’t? Hats have a long history. One of the earliest known was worn by a bronze age man whose body (including his hat) was found frozen in ice on a mountain between Austria and Italy. Archaeologists believe he had been …

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The kids are alright

HAPPY FAMILIES Looking for a family friendly holiday this summer? Thame’s Spear Travels should be your first destination, says Duncan Sherwood. As a child my summer holiday in the seventies was very simple. A week, perhaps two in Cornwall or just to be different one year, Devon. If we managed to see some sunshine, it was a bonus. A tent …

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