Living South - December 2011

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December 11 | Issue 218
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Good tidings
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Your guide to all things Christmas: the fizz, the feast,
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LOCALLIFE
10 Profile: Sebastian Peake
The son of Mervyn Peake pauses to
reflect on his father’s centenary year
13 Jenny Eclair
In panto? Oh, yes she is!
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Fun festive goings on for all the family
in south London
18 The London Lifestyle Awards
Brixton’s Hootananny wins
Live Music Venue of the Year!
LIFESTYLE
24 Fabulous party fashion
What to wear to all those seasonal soirées
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29 Top to toe
Glam party make up and how to stay
healthy through the celebratory season
inside
FOOD&DRINK
32 To market, to market
Getting a taste for Christmas
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37 Keston Kitchen
The Peckham cooks offer up their this month
top tips for dinner on the big day
39 A Christmas toast
Vinopolis’ Tom Forrest raises a glass
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41 Helen Lederer
It’s cocktail hour – all month!
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44 Ready, set... shop!
Living South presents the area’s
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HOMES&gARDENS
49 Time to decorate
Decadent decorations for fabulous festivities
51 Dig deep
Trees in the house? Matthew Wilson
contemplates peculiar plant procedures 29
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69 Property of the month
A Victorian project to tackle in Crystal Palace
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Delivering hot properties in
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“I was taken to kindergarten by
Dylan Thomas”
Sebastian Peake, Camberwell resident, wine
merchant, and son of celebrated artist and author
Mervyn Peake shares the secrets of his attic,
and his childhood, with Shannon Denny
For over 40 years, Sebastian poetry. On top of that he appearing everywhere from
Peake has had an exciting worked as a war artist, painter the British Library to the
career as a wine merchant. and illustrator, creating Cheltenham Literary Festival.
This is a man who’s shared rosé idiosyncratic interpretations On the day that we speak,
with Miles Davis; his clients have of classics including Treasure he’s packing his bags to open
ranged from rock stars to private Island, Alice’s Adventures in an exhibition in France.
clubs; and yesterday he secured Wonderland, Hunting of the His siblings Clare and Fabian
a new account with a soon-to- Snark and Bleak House. participated in the centenary
open restaurant in Denmark Hill. Consider that his life was cut too, helping to feed the public’s
ate But importing wine is not the hunger for their father’s
Est Camberwell resident’s only I’d come back and creativity. But as the eldest,
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