1 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:13,920 Hello and welcome to the Brentwood Buzz, a podcast 2 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:17,360 celebrating all that's good about the people and places in 3 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,640 Brentwood, Essex. I'm K Bellwood Navestock Show 4 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,560 took place in Navestock today with the village hall and 5 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:28,000 neighboring field packed with produce, crafts, stalls, 6 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,960 fairground rides and entertainment. 7 00:00:30,410 --> 00:00:33,250 The Brentwood buzz has been to meet some of those who took part 8 00:00:33,250 --> 00:00:37,450 today, beginning with Louise and her dog Ozzie, who was wearing a 9 00:00:37,450 --> 00:00:45,650 very special red rosette. He won the Golden Oldies Dog 10 00:00:45,650 --> 00:00:47,810 competition. Brilliant And And what kind of 11 00:00:47,810 --> 00:00:50,970 dog is Ozzie? Is it Tibetan Spaniel mix? 12 00:00:52,250 --> 00:00:53,930 I've never heard of a. I'm not quite sure, because he 13 00:00:53,930 --> 00:00:54,570 was. He was he. 14 00:00:54,570 --> 00:00:56,850 Was a rescue, so we're not quite sure, but Tibetan Spaniel 15 00:00:56,850 --> 00:00:59,400 mainly, And how old is he to be a golden oldie? 16 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:04,560 He's. 15 Yeah, he's 15, He doesn't look 50 Oh, you sniffing 17 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:08,640 my shoe And and so is this. Is this the first time he's 18 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:10,840 entered and won? It's the first time he's entered 19 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:12,360 the golden oldies. Yeah, probably. 20 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:15,920 Might be the last as well. Yeah. 21 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:18,960 It used to have the Waggies towel, but not so much anymore. 22 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:22,560 He looks very handsome. Well done. 23 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,650 Thank you very much. One of the people here at the 24 00:01:26,650 --> 00:01:30,810 Nave Stock Fair is Louise Barrett, who is from REACH. 25 00:01:30,810 --> 00:01:34,530 Now explain to me what reaches. Okay So Reach is a charity based 26 00:01:34,530 --> 00:01:37,570 in in Brentwood actually between Brentwood and Onga Kelton Hatch 27 00:01:38,010 --> 00:01:40,410 and We are Well. The Reach stands for 28 00:01:40,410 --> 00:01:43,210 rehabilitation, education, assessment and center of 29 00:01:43,210 --> 00:01:45,810 hippotherapy. So primarily we are a center 30 00:01:45,810 --> 00:01:48,890 that offers equine activities to people with physical 31 00:01:48,890 --> 00:01:51,330 impairments, intellectual impairments and mental health 32 00:01:51,330 --> 00:01:54,120 challenges. So we do a variety of activities 33 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,920 that consist of groundwork activities, so the horse human 34 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:01,520 interaction mainly based on help improving emotional well-being 35 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:06,360 and we also do ridden activities from teaching sort of lower 36 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:10,320 level competition children to people who just want to sit on 37 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:12,400 and walk. So the children who have autism. 38 00:02:12,820 --> 00:02:15,700 And just get the benefit of that regular rhythmic movement of the 39 00:02:15,700 --> 00:02:17,860 horse. One of the other activities that 40 00:02:17,860 --> 00:02:21,580 we do and I kind of the lead for is hippotherapy. 41 00:02:21,580 --> 00:02:25,420 I'm a physiotherapist by a profession and I set the charity 42 00:02:25,420 --> 00:02:27,820 up originally to perform hippotherapy and it's progressed 43 00:02:27,820 --> 00:02:31,580 since then and hippotherapy uses a three-dimensional movement of 44 00:02:31,580 --> 00:02:33,980 the horse in walk. So what we do is we have 45 00:02:33,980 --> 00:02:38,140 children and adults who sit on the horse, on a sheepskin and. 46 00:02:38,580 --> 00:02:40,620 It's the three-dimensional movement that actually 47 00:02:40,620 --> 00:02:43,300 challenges their balance, encourages their core muscles to 48 00:02:43,300 --> 00:02:46,180 work and we can work on different school movements, so 49 00:02:46,180 --> 00:02:48,540 changing direction, stopping, starting, which switches on 50 00:02:48,540 --> 00:02:51,420 muscles and we actually change the position of the smaller 51 00:02:51,420 --> 00:02:53,460 riders. So we might sit them sideways, 52 00:02:53,460 --> 00:02:56,100 we might sit them backwards to engage different muscles in the 53 00:02:56,100 --> 00:02:59,940 body and all this has the effect of improving function. 54 00:02:59,940 --> 00:03:02,980 So for particularly for people with physical impairment such as 55 00:03:02,980 --> 00:03:08,230 cerebral palsy, Down syndrome. By the bifida, lots of genetic 56 00:03:08,230 --> 00:03:10,510 disorders where you have low muscle tone and the children are 57 00:03:10,510 --> 00:03:13,230 very late starters, so they don't walk until they're about 58 00:03:13,230 --> 00:03:15,150 three or four. So they might come to me at sort 59 00:03:15,150 --> 00:03:18,150 of 18 months old and I will lay them on a pony, start working on 60 00:03:18,150 --> 00:03:20,990 their head control their shoulder girdle stability. 61 00:03:21,230 --> 00:03:24,150 And I work often with other physios in the area, private 62 00:03:24,150 --> 00:03:26,190 physios where they might be having rehabilitation. 63 00:03:26,470 --> 00:03:29,510 And we work to achieve certain physical, physical goals, 64 00:03:29,810 --> 00:03:32,290 because most physiotherapists would have like one of those big 65 00:03:32,290 --> 00:03:34,730 bouncy balls and maybe a mat or two. 66 00:03:34,890 --> 00:03:37,770 How did you come to have horses that you could do this with? 67 00:03:38,130 --> 00:03:39,890 Well, absolutely. That's what they do. 68 00:03:39,890 --> 00:03:42,610 They do exactly that in a more fun way so the children don't 69 00:03:42,610 --> 00:03:44,330 realize they're doing the hard work. 70 00:03:45,530 --> 00:03:47,610 I have been passionate about riding all my life. 71 00:03:47,610 --> 00:03:49,930 My father bought me a pony when I was 8 years old and I think 72 00:03:49,930 --> 00:03:51,730 that's where it started. And then obviously, I went to 73 00:03:51,730 --> 00:03:56,030 university and I stopped riding. And later on in life, my 74 00:03:56,030 --> 00:03:58,470 sisterinlaw was my inspiration. She passed away last year. 75 00:03:58,470 --> 00:04:01,430 Sadly, she had cerebral palsy. And when I met my husband, we 76 00:04:01,430 --> 00:04:03,990 used to go to the local riding for disabled Barrow Farm, which 77 00:04:03,990 --> 00:04:07,670 is just local to this region. And I was so inspired by seeing 78 00:04:07,670 --> 00:04:10,910 her and seeing the coaches work there, but I actually got 79 00:04:10,910 --> 00:04:12,670 involved. And that's how you get started 80 00:04:12,670 --> 00:04:14,310 in this business. You become a volunteer. 81 00:04:14,830 --> 00:04:16,149 And we're always looking for volunteers. 82 00:04:16,149 --> 00:04:18,430 And I volunteered there and then they said to me, oh, you should 83 00:04:18,430 --> 00:04:20,390 become a coach. So I was a volunteer coach. 84 00:04:20,769 --> 00:04:23,050 And I got all my qualifications through Barrow Farm. 85 00:04:23,130 --> 00:04:25,650 And then I went on and did my hippotherapy training as a 86 00:04:25,650 --> 00:04:28,890 postgraduate physiotherapist. And there's only one center in 87 00:04:28,890 --> 00:04:30,410 the country that does it at the moment. 88 00:04:30,410 --> 00:04:32,530 And I did that. And then I needed somewhere to 89 00:04:32,530 --> 00:04:34,810 work from. And sadly, all the RDA centers 90 00:04:34,810 --> 00:04:37,290 in the region were too busy with all their own activities. 91 00:04:37,690 --> 00:04:40,410 And I had my own ponies at that point for my my little girls. 92 00:04:40,410 --> 00:04:42,930 I've got three children. And so it was just a natural 93 00:04:42,930 --> 00:04:46,010 thing to progress my little lead rain ponies onto doing a job. 94 00:04:46,380 --> 00:04:49,300 To to work on the lead rain with with my my clients and my 95 00:04:49,300 --> 00:04:50,900 patients. And that's how it all happened. 96 00:04:50,900 --> 00:04:52,860 Really brilliant. Now if anybody wants to find out 97 00:04:52,860 --> 00:04:54,580 a little bit more about it, you've got an open day on the 98 00:04:54,580 --> 00:04:56,500 10th of September. We have, yes. 99 00:04:56,500 --> 00:04:58,460 So we've got an open day, Sunday, the 10th of September. 100 00:04:58,460 --> 00:05:00,860 We'll be showing off a couple of things that we do. 101 00:05:00,860 --> 00:05:03,220 Obviously you'll get a chance to meet the ponies on the yard, 102 00:05:03,220 --> 00:05:06,460 you'll meet our Shetlands. We'll be doing a display. 103 00:05:06,460 --> 00:05:09,420 So this year we were fortunate to take a lot of our riders to 104 00:05:09,460 --> 00:05:12,020 the Riding for Disabled National Championships at Hartbury 105 00:05:12,020 --> 00:05:14,450 College. Where many of them came back 106 00:05:14,450 --> 00:05:18,050 with lots of rosettes and in one particular little pair they did 107 00:05:18,050 --> 00:05:22,010 a musical dressage freestyle costume ride, which involved 108 00:05:22,210 --> 00:05:26,690 props and a musical kind of musical ride basically. 109 00:05:27,010 --> 00:05:29,490 And it was, it was beautiful and we're going to be performing 110 00:05:29,490 --> 00:05:31,210 that again this year. We've got the Metropolitan 111 00:05:31,210 --> 00:05:33,930 Police coming, the Mounted Police to do their little bit, 112 00:05:33,930 --> 00:05:37,370 and that's always fun to see. We had them last year and we've 113 00:05:37,370 --> 00:05:39,770 got a dog show in the afternoon. There's lots going on, we've got 114 00:05:39,770 --> 00:05:42,260 different stalls and things. And it would be just great for 115 00:05:42,260 --> 00:05:43,340 people to come down, see what we do. 116 00:05:43,340 --> 00:05:44,940 If you're interested in volunteering, if you want to 117 00:05:44,940 --> 00:05:47,460 bring your family, or if you're interested in finding out more 118 00:05:47,460 --> 00:05:50,740 about our services for anyone that you may know, do come down 119 00:05:51,380 --> 00:05:52,420 well. One of the people who's been 120 00:05:52,420 --> 00:05:55,700 entertaining the good people of the Nave Stock Fair today is 121 00:05:55,700 --> 00:06:00,380 John Pierce, who has an amazing operatic voice, and it's what 122 00:06:00,380 --> 00:06:01,980 brought you to the Nave Stock Fair today. 123 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:07,200 Yeah, so I was doing the summer fate at Mount Netting and yeah, 124 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:09,720 so I met one of the organizers who organizes this and he asked 125 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,440 me if I was available. So I said, yeah, I'll come along 126 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:14,400 and yeah, I've got nothing else to do. 127 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,000 So because you're a primary school teacher? 128 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:19,680 Yes, I'm a peripatetic teacher. Yes. 129 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:21,240 So you do music with the children? 130 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:21,960 Yes, I do. Yes. 131 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:23,440 I do a bit of piano and singing, yes. 132 00:06:23,970 --> 00:06:26,290 And you obviously are a very good singer. 133 00:06:26,290 --> 00:06:30,130 So how did you come to be a singer and and operatic in that 134 00:06:30,130 --> 00:06:32,810 way? My maternal grandmother, who was 135 00:06:33,890 --> 00:06:36,530 she was offered a place at the Guild Hall at the age of 13, but 136 00:06:36,530 --> 00:06:39,010 she never took it up. So when we're sitting around the 137 00:06:39,010 --> 00:06:43,170 piano, what's about 1617? And she asked me to sing a song. 138 00:06:43,370 --> 00:06:46,610 She advised me to go for an advice audition at the Royal 139 00:06:46,610 --> 00:06:48,010 Northern College Music Manchester. 140 00:06:48,170 --> 00:06:51,210 So I did seven years at the Royal Northern College Music 141 00:06:51,210 --> 00:06:54,850 followed by. Two years at the national 142 00:06:54,850 --> 00:06:58,170 studio, 2011. I represented Wales and Cardiff 143 00:06:58,170 --> 00:07:01,250 singer. And then after that I went on to 144 00:07:01,250 --> 00:07:03,730 sing at the Royal Opera House. English National Opera. 145 00:07:03,730 --> 00:07:06,130 Toured all over Europe and the Far East. 146 00:07:06,810 --> 00:07:11,050 And yeah, then over the years and times I've done many 147 00:07:11,050 --> 00:07:15,330 celebrity engagements. Sang for David Beckham. 148 00:07:15,650 --> 00:07:21,310 I also in 2009, I sang for. Prince Charles, he was at the 149 00:07:21,310 --> 00:07:27,110 time, but King Charles now and I sang for the late Queen 150 00:07:27,110 --> 00:07:28,230 Elizabeth. Yeah. 151 00:07:28,270 --> 00:07:31,430 So you're quite a coup to have in a field in Navestock. 152 00:07:31,750 --> 00:07:35,710 No, it's really a pleasure just to come out and share my passion 153 00:07:35,710 --> 00:07:39,470 of music to everyone. So yeah, and what What might you 154 00:07:39,470 --> 00:07:41,270 do next is? Have you got other musical 155 00:07:41,270 --> 00:07:44,350 things on in addition to obviously being a peripatetic 156 00:07:44,350 --> 00:07:46,470 music teacher? I've got a couple of engagements 157 00:07:46,470 --> 00:07:48,870 around Brentwood. I'm singing at Brentwood Golf 158 00:07:48,870 --> 00:07:53,270 Club in October, Also might be doing the Brentwood light switch 159 00:07:53,270 --> 00:07:55,270 on near Christmas. Yeah. 160 00:07:55,270 --> 00:07:58,150 So yeah, I've got a couple of things in the diary between now 161 00:07:58,150 --> 00:07:59,910 and then. Anyway, so yeah, so. 162 00:08:00,150 --> 00:08:01,830 And see what happens. And I got a couple of singles 163 00:08:01,830 --> 00:08:04,270 that will be releasing as well in the near future. 164 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:06,160 Hang on a minute. No, you can't just end on that. 165 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:08,200 So a couple of singles. What's being released? 166 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:09,720 Yeah, so I'm doing a couple of cover songs. 167 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:14,320 So one is Radiohead Creep and the other is Snow Patrol. 168 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:15,800 Run. Brilliant. 169 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:17,040 And when are they likely to come out? 170 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:19,720 Looking around about October, November time. 171 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:21,360 Brilliant. We shall keep an ear out for 172 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:22,480 them. Thanks very much indeed. 173 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:24,510 Thank you very much. I've come inside now to the 174 00:08:24,510 --> 00:08:27,350 navestock of Village Hall which is laid out with tables and 175 00:08:27,350 --> 00:08:30,670 tables of produce which have all been judged as part of the 176 00:08:30,670 --> 00:08:33,990 Navestock Village Fair. One of the organizers of this 177 00:08:34,030 --> 00:08:37,630 event is Councillor Chrissy Gilderbloom who is a parish 178 00:08:37,630 --> 00:08:40,470 councillor and also the borough councillor for for this area. 179 00:08:40,470 --> 00:08:42,590 But this is all been done with your Parish Council, Hatton. 180 00:08:42,590 --> 00:08:45,950 Hasn't it? And I'm a resident as well, so 181 00:08:45,950 --> 00:08:48,470 obviously I've got a got a huge interest in it. 182 00:08:49,110 --> 00:08:51,070 Yeah, no, it's a really lovely Village show. 183 00:08:52,060 --> 00:08:55,020 And there's lots of different classes, and they're judged by 184 00:08:55,020 --> 00:08:59,180 different judges. Some of them are residents, some 185 00:08:59,180 --> 00:09:01,980 of them are more official than that. 186 00:09:01,980 --> 00:09:04,460 And they come and they judge and they give first, second and 187 00:09:04,500 --> 00:09:08,540 third prizes. And sometimes someone's got the 188 00:09:08,700 --> 00:09:12,690 the highest points. Or the most commended commended 189 00:09:12,970 --> 00:09:15,050 prize. Then they then they get a cup as 190 00:09:15,050 --> 00:09:18,930 well and the cups are named after previous residents of the 191 00:09:18,930 --> 00:09:21,810 parish which it it's brilliant. The amount of organisation that 192 00:09:21,810 --> 00:09:24,290 must have gone into this is must be phenomenal. 193 00:09:24,890 --> 00:09:27,210 It it was. I mean, it's a lot of it is. 194 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:31,120 Put in place years and years ago, but obviously we're trying 195 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,760 to adapt it to to the new demands that are set upon us. 196 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:37,760 But it's and it's very nice traditional traditional show. 197 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:42,040 I think this Knavestock is a is a small village and yet you've 198 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:45,240 got, as I say, jaws of jam, Jaws of honey. 199 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:48,080 You've got jaws of flowers, You've got things that have been 200 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:49,920 knitted, things that have been drawn. 201 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:52,960 How do you manage to get so many people to take part? 202 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,750 We just keep on. Pushing, reminding people, you 203 00:09:56,750 --> 00:10:00,030 know, generally people remember it from the previous year and 204 00:10:00,030 --> 00:10:03,270 sometimes they actually chase us and say, oh, this is so still 205 00:10:03,270 --> 00:10:06,070 going on, you know, can we have the show schedule? 206 00:10:06,590 --> 00:10:10,110 Each resident gets a program delivered to their door so that 207 00:10:10,110 --> 00:10:12,670 we have a form in so that they can put their entries in. 208 00:10:12,870 --> 00:10:15,770 Yeah, and and the judges, obviously, I I did meet one of 209 00:10:15,770 --> 00:10:17,930 the judges earlier who was very cheery because I think he'd been 210 00:10:17,930 --> 00:10:20,690 doing the different bottles of alcohol that been invented. 211 00:10:20,890 --> 00:10:23,610 Yes, yes, he was quite merry. And funnily enough, he 212 00:10:23,610 --> 00:10:25,010 volunteers for that one every year. 213 00:10:25,810 --> 00:10:27,690 That's really funny. That I said, you sure you don't 214 00:10:27,690 --> 00:10:31,250 want to do the jams? And he went, no, And we, we've 215 00:10:31,250 --> 00:10:34,210 had them. The reverend, a local, local 216 00:10:34,210 --> 00:10:38,850 Vico, serves free parishes. She came and judged. 217 00:10:39,810 --> 00:10:44,930 The art section and then we also had the preschool organizer and 218 00:10:45,010 --> 00:10:50,650 she judges children's sections so so yeah and and one of the 219 00:10:50,770 --> 00:10:55,250 ladies who lives in in the parish, she judged the flowers 220 00:10:55,250 --> 00:10:59,330 and so it's it's a really nice nice community feel when the 221 00:10:59,330 --> 00:11:01,810 other lady she judged the cakes which is very nice. 222 00:11:01,810 --> 00:11:05,570 So we we all had a little bit of a what do you think on this? 223 00:11:07,210 --> 00:11:10,510 It is the archetypal English village fair, isn't it? 224 00:11:10,510 --> 00:11:12,750 It's there's somebody singing on the back of a truck. 225 00:11:12,750 --> 00:11:16,270 There's some children having rides on tractor trailers and 226 00:11:16,310 --> 00:11:18,270 and water pistols. I see they've been armed with as 227 00:11:18,270 --> 00:11:20,510 well. It's great every every year we 228 00:11:20,510 --> 00:11:24,310 do that and and it's it's great fun to see the kids, you know, 229 00:11:25,310 --> 00:11:26,830 they just love a track to what ride. 230 00:11:26,830 --> 00:11:30,430 And I think actually the tractor driver and the assistant enjoyed 231 00:11:30,430 --> 00:11:33,230 just as much as the children do. I didn't notice the tractor 232 00:11:33,230 --> 00:11:36,750 driver was wearing a hat in the shape of a Turkey, which was 233 00:11:36,950 --> 00:11:38,430 interesting. That's right. 234 00:11:39,150 --> 00:11:42,710 He's very fun loving and he makes a time every year to 235 00:11:42,750 --> 00:11:45,830 organize it and and also to bring the bar because we've got 236 00:11:45,830 --> 00:11:49,230 a bar here, he brings that down. So he's he's, he's really 237 00:11:49,230 --> 00:11:53,190 important part of our community, well done it's it's it's superb 238 00:11:53,230 --> 00:11:55,310 and just lovely to see as well now. 239 00:11:55,350 --> 00:11:57,710 Thanks very much. I hope everyone's enjoyed it 240 00:11:57,710 --> 00:12:00,910 just as much as much as we do and we can all have a nice rest 241 00:12:00,910 --> 00:12:03,230 tomorrow. Thank you. 242 00:12:04,260 --> 00:12:07,820 Thanks to all who've taken part and organized Knave Stock Show. 243 00:12:07,820 --> 00:12:10,940 It's been a wonderful day and here's hoping you've managed to 244 00:12:10,940 --> 00:12:13,940 tidy up all those cakes and fruit liqueurs. 245 00:12:14,420 --> 00:12:16,220 The Brentwood Buzz will be back next week. 246 00:12:16,380 --> 00:12:19,460 Like us and share us on Spotify.