Beautiful Breads

Romilla Arber has been baking bread for many years and is passionate about real bread, made traditionally. She firmly believes that good-quality bread doesn’t make you fat! Industrialised, mass produced bread is the perfect example of how our food culture has broken down. It is made with only profit in mind not what is best for the health of the customer.

On this course you will make a variety of breads (there will be plenty to take home) and enjoy a simple lunch with a glass of wine. You too can fall in love with the art of bread making and learn how to make exquisite artisan loaves in your own kitchen.

Romilla is the author or two cookery books and she has won the prestigious Gourmand Best UK Cookbook award for her second book. She is a passionate advocate of eating a balanced diet and in 2008 founded the Food Education Trust with the aim of working with schools to promote the benefits of home-cooked food.

Romilla is the founder and owner of The Honesty Group which includes the Crown and Garter at Inkpen and the Hartley Arms at Donnington.

8 people maximum.  All abilities welcome.

Learn to Crochet

Learn how to crochet with expert tuition and projects to work on each week. Bring your own yarn and you’ll be hooked.

This class is part of the Ageing Creatively programme, which delivers a wonderful array of creative workshops, classes and courses specifically tailored to the over 55s.

Lucinda Coldrey Fine Art Show 2022

Lulu Coldrey  is a British artist specialising in wildlife art, portraiture and landscape art. Extensive study of the fine arts in Florence and in London has helped her develop her own style in a variety of mediums, from oil paints and charcoal, to watercolour and pastels.

Lulu’s work has taken her all over the world, whether for portrait commissions, landscapes or wildlife pieces. Her ability to capture the complex mixture of character, emotion, form and textures whilst connecting with the personal nature of her subject, gives Lulu’s work a unique and special quality.

Her latest pieces combine the abstract shapes of nature with the grace and beauty of the animals world.

​​To commission work, please either email me or call me. We can then discuss what you are hoping for and work out how best to proceed.

Should you wish to proceed a 50% non-refundable deposit is required.

​I am happy to arrange framing, and have a very good framer local to myself. Please be aware it can take up to two weeks to get things framed.

​ “When you buy from an independent artist, you are buying more than a painting, a novel or a song. You are buying hundreds of hours of experimentation and thousands of failures, you are buying days, weeks, months, years of frustration and pure joy.

You are buying nights of worry about paying the bills, having enough money to eat, feed the children, birds, the dog. You are not buying a thing, you are buying a piece of heart, part of a soul, a private moment in someone’s life.

Most importantly you are buying the artist more time to do something they are truly passionate about; something that makes all of the above worth the fear and the doubt; something that puts life into the living”. Anon

Paolozzi InspiredSilk Painting

After visiting the exhibition, choose your favourite Paolozzi designs.

These will then be transferred on to silk using outliner (gutta), which will then be completed using iron-fix silk paints. You will be shown various techniques from stretching the silk, to painting, using tints and blends of the paints.

Creative Arts Club, Thatcham Library

Spanish Tapas

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Exploring Flavours Of South India.

Colline’s Kitchen is proud and excited to be collaborating with our friend Sasi Krishnan from Sasi Samyal for a special supper club Exploring flavours of South India.

Sasi is originally from Chennai, India, and now lives with her family in Thatcham. She started her business with delivering Indian cookery classes at Honesty Cookery School and working with children at Brockhurst & Marlston House.

She enjoys preparing and cooking, sharing recipes and conducting forums for those who also love good food.

Sasi’s passion is cooking delicious and healthy food and sharing the diverse flavours of Indian cooking celebrating the Southern region of the country.

The evening  will be an intimate supper club  and alternative to restaurant dining.  This supper club delivers delicious home made authentic Southern Indian food in a cosy friendly setting where we will be bringing people together to share a meal cooked by Sasi

The night will start off with a cocktail on arrival made with Bodha drinks. Guests will get the opportunity to sit down whilst enjoying Indian music in the background.

We will have other drinks and soft drinks throughout the evening and the food will cater for most dietary requirements

SAMPLE MENU

Starter

Prawn Varuval (roast)

Masala vadai

Mains

Chicken biriyani + boiled egg

Vegetable Kurma

Spinach Kootu (dal)

Potato varuval (roast)

Mixed vegetable poriyal (stir fry)

Cumin rice

Dessert

Sweet Pongal (sweetened rice made for auspicious occasions)

Accompaniments – mango pickle, yoghurt raita, poppadums/chapati

Please note that this is a sample menu to give you an idea of what you can expect. The final menu will be sent to guests 1 week before the event. 

With only 12 tickets available for each date, we recommend you book your ticket as soon as possible

Timings: 18:30 – 10:00pm

Investment : £75 per ticket

Location: Colline’s Kitchen Waterside centre Waldegrave Place, Northbrook St, Newbury RG14 1DS

One Night in Dublin

A glorious night of high-energy Irish music.

In their own inimitable style, multi-award-winning Irish band The Wild Murphys perform covers of classics including Galway Girl, Tell Me Ma, Dirty Old Town, The Irish Rover, Brown Eyed Girl, Seven Drunken Nights, Sally MacLennane, When You Were Sweet Sixteen, Whiskey in the Jar, Wild Rover and Molly Malone.

This is an evening guaranteed to have the audience’s hands clapping and toes tapping all night long.