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Hello Readers Here we are again, February! The weather has not been too wintery as I write this, but there could be worse to come. Keep warm and take care if is icy! Whether you are celebrating Valentine’s Day or Chinese New Year, have an enjoyable time. How are your New Year Resolutions going? Are they realistic? Advertising in your local magazine, A Berrylands Companion, can be a good start. Many of our advertisers have taken that step, and renew their package to keep advertising, as they know local advertising works!

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Advert copy can be emailed to: karen@berrylandcompanion.com If your ad is not available in an electronic format then we can produce it for you, from your own hard copy text, normally for a fixed price of just £10, although this may be higher if you have a particularly complex advert! (This is a one-off charge - the advert could then be re-used in subsequent issues free of charge.)

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The Companion will be published and distributed monthly, on or around the first weekend of the month. 10 editions a year. It will be delivered to over 12,000 homes in and around Berrylands and Surbiton over two months - guaranteed. In addition it is the first source of local information for anyone moving into the area.

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It is an A5 size booklet, stapled with colour plus black and white printed on quality paper. The Companion will be printed on 115gsm gloss paper giving it a very high quality feel. It will have ‘longevity’ and because of it’s size, content, look and feel it will be kept by the majority of households until the next issue arrives, thereby giving advertisers ‘immdiacy’ of access’ when their services are required.

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Let me know if you have any other comments. Best wishes, Karen

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Love a good browse in a second-hand book shop? You might want to keep an eye out for these books…

His Dark Materials – Phillip Pullman If you loved the BBC series but haven’t yet delved into the original books, what on earth is stopping you? Starting with the Northern Lights, this trilogy takes the reader on a journey with Lyra Belacqua. With her daemon Pantalaimon by her side, Lyra sets out on a quest to rescue her best friend and discover the secret of Dust. Along the way, she’ll befriend witches, Gyptians, an armoured bear and a boy from another world, while pitting her wits against the all-powerful Magisterium. Heroes and Villains – Angela Carter In a post-apocalyptic world, Marianne looks down from her ivory tower as her brother is murdered in the streets below. Years later, she helps the murderer to hide, runs away with him to his Barbarian tribe and is forced to become his bride. Dream-like, disquieting and beautiful, Heroes and Villains is one of Carter’s lesser-known books but my personal favourite.

Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin This series of nine books starts in the late seventies and centres around the inhabitants of 28 Barbary Lane, including the naive but ambitious Mary Ann Singleton, the matriarchal Anna Madrigal and the best-friend-you-wishyou-had Michael Tolliver (AKA Mouse). Maupin is a skilled storyteller and skilfully weaves together numerous plotlines and character arcs to create a stonkingly good series you’ll want to binge read your way through.

The Wee Free Men – Terry Pratchett Would-be witch Tiffany Aching sets out to rescue her brother from the fairies and stop them from invading her home. She’s only armed with a frying pan, but luckily she has help in the form of the Nac Mac Feegle – they may be tiny, but they’re fierce, fast and loyal. Technically, this was written as a children’s book, but don’t let that put you off – it’ll appeal to fantasy lovers of all ages.

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Planning to retire? Here’s a checklist of the essentials

If you’re thinking of retiring in the next few years it’s a good idea to organise your finances well ahead of time, so you can consider some of the big issues without feeling too much pressure.

So what steps can you take to prepare? Here are a few questions to think about and issues to consider that could help you enter retirement with greater financially stability, ready to enjoy this new and exciting stage of life. How much income will you have? When calculating your potential income you should include your state pension, occupational pension(s), and any savings and investments you hold. You can request the latest figures in writing from your pension provider, bank, building society, and investment companies with which you have an interest. Find out about the state pension As far as your state pension is concerned, you can request a pension forecast from the gov.uk website. When the time comes to retire you’ll

need to proactively claim your state pension as it’s not paid automatically unless you receive certain benefits.

Check your workplace pension Your workplace pension provider should have sent annual statements over the years showing your accrued pension at the time, plus a forecast of how much your pension might be when you retire. If you can’t find your latest statement, you’ll be able to obtain one by contacting your pension provider. Check for old and forgotten pensions If you’ve changed employers a few times during your career, you might have one or more ‘forgotten’ pensions. You can find out by contacting the Pension Tracing Service – it’s government-run and free to use. Will you have enough money to support your desired lifestyle in retirement? When you are still working it can be difficult to envisage life in retirement, and easy to underestimate how much you will need. Online pension

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Final copy must be submitted by the 16th of each month, for inclusion in the following months edition (which will be distributed during the first weekend of that month.)

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Acceptable Formats

Adverts can be submitted in the following formats: • MS Word • MS Powerpoint • MS Publisher • TIFF & JPEG Advert copy can be emailed to: karen@berrylandcompanion.com If your ad is not available in an electronic format then we can produce it for you, from your own hard copy text, normally for a fixed price of just £10, although this may be higher if you have a particularly complex advert! (This is a one-off charge - the advert could then be re-used in subsequent issues free of charge.)

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Forget ‘unreasonable behaviour’ – snoring is now recognised to be a top reason for divorce – along with fishing and becoming vegetarian! (Daily Express, January 2018)

20 million Brits claim they are sleep deprived by their partner’s snoring, reported The Sun in 2017. We may think snoring is funny, but this is hardly the case. Usually, the partner suffers the most. Sleeping on the sofa every night takes its toll, with ruined relationships and broken marriages. So what causes snoring? Is it bad for our health? What can be done about it? What Causes Snoring? Snoring is caused by something partially blocking your mouth and the back of your throat. While you are sleeping, and when you breathe in, this blockage causes that noise we all know so well – a snore. What can cause such a blockage? Excess mucus/ catarrh from smoking, alcohol, which causes the muscles and tissues of the palate to become floppy, and fat, in people who are overweight or obese, when pads of fatty tissue accumulate in these areas and literally wobble in the breeze! Allergies are also sometimes responsible. House dust mite, animal dander, pollens, yeasts and moulds are common allergens.

Snoring is associated with sleeping flat on your back and breathing in through your mouth, not your nose. Lying on your side and nasal breathing helps reduce snoring. Sleep Apnoea Snoring is dangerous if it causes ‘sleep apnoea’. In this condition, a severe blockage to airflow temporarily starves your brain of oxygen. You briefly stop breathing altogether, but then your breathing starts up again. This causes a strain on your heart, makes you feel constantly tired and can have life-threatening consequences. What Can Be Done to Reduce Snoring? Making lifestyle changes is the best long-term treatment. Stopping smoking, moderating or stopping drinking alcohol and losing weight are strongly recommended. Reduce the risk of allergy by regular vacuuming, damp dusting and keeping the bedroom petfree. Use hypoallergenic bedding. Products for Snorers and Snoring Sufferers First step? A pair of foam rubber earplugs for your partner! Anti-snoring products are readily

available. For example, nasal strips to hold the airways open or a ‘Neti pot’, which uses salt water to flush the airways before bedtime. Best results are likely with a mandibular device –a special type of gum shield that holds the tongue and jaw forward, keeping the airway open while you sleep. The Antisnoor device is an adhesive patch you wear on your forehead that detects snoring and vibrates to prompt you to turn over. Smart Nora is an anti-snoring pillow that listens out for snoring and inflates to encourage you to change your head position. The Importance of Sleep Getting adequate and good quality sleep is vital. Lack of sleep is associated with strokes, heart attacks, diabetes, cancer, and shortens our lifespan. Adults are recommended to sleep for seven to nine hours per night. Snoring it seems, is a serious business! Visit the British Snoring and Sleep Apnoea Association (BSSAA) website for advice and anti-snoring products www.britishsnoring.co.uk.

References Reasons for divorce: Snoring, Fishing and Going Vegetarian top the list. www.express.co.uk/life-style/ life/906621/divorce-reasonsUK-snoring-fishing-vegetariansmarriage-relationships Snore wars – couple reveal how snoring runs their relationships www.thesun.co.uk/ fabulous/4639767/snoringrelationship-partner-dating-ruined/ 75% of snorers have sleep apnoea www.webmd.com/sleepdisorders/features/easy-snoringremedies#1 Lack of sleep affects health healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/ need-sleep/whats-in-it-for-you/ health By Dr Daisy Mae

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Whatever happened to the story song?

When an equity release company recently made a TV advert featuring a song called Right Said Fred, it introduced at least two new generations to a popular hit from almost sixty years ago. The song may have been given new lyrics for advertising purposes, but for anyone who grew up in the Fifties and Sixties, the tune was instantly recognisable. Originally sung by the actor Bernard Cribbins, Right Said Fred conjures memories of a slightly odd but highly entertaining episode in our cultural history, when narrative songs were all the rage.

Right Said Fred is a simple but very catchy ditty, typical of others like Little White Bull, sung by Tommy Steele (1959), and Hole in the Ground, also sung by Bernard Cribbins and released the same year as Right Said Fred. However, while 1962 was clearly a peak year for these cheery Cockney narrative

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hits, it also proved to be their swansong: a distinctly darker tone was soon to emerge from across the Atlantic.

Narrative songs go gothic American songs that focus on the darker side of life are known as ‘Southern Gothic’ or ‘Gothic Americana’. Think Bobby Goldsboro’s Honey (about a wife who dies tragically young) and Jeannie C Riley’s Harper Valley PTA (single mum confronts small town hypocrites). Perhaps the best example is Ode to Billie Joe, a compelling tale about a young man’s suicide, released in 1968 by Bobby Gentry. Songs with a social conscience The Sixties ended with another narrative hit. A Boy Named Sue, sung by Johnny Cash, was an upbeat, quirky tale that concluded with an unexpected father/son reunion. It was a fitting end to a decade of songs that referenced life in rural or

By the end of the Seventies, story songwriters had ditched social issues in favour of unashamed glamour: in 1978 Barry Manilow’s Copacabana told the story of a showgirl who loses her lover in a jealous brawl, while the Human League’s Don’t You Want Me Baby stormed the charts in 1981 with a tale of a successful singer who dumps the manager/boyfriend who discovered her.

During the Eighties story song hits may have been thin on the ground, but Tracy Chapman’s wistful ballad Fast Car was enough to make up for almost a whole a decade without them. Another gritty narrative number reached number one in 2000: Eminem’s Stan was a modern American gothic tale of a crazed fan who murders his pregnant girlfriend because he feels rejected by his idol.

Nowadays rap and hip hop artists have largely taken over as pop music’s storytellers: the lyrics might be X-rated, but it’s good to know that the story song has found another home. While the songs mentioned above are now sadly out of fashion, we can still enjoy them online. So get comfortable with your laptop, smartphone or tablet, enter a search for your favourite song titles and prepare to enjoy a feast of musical storytelling. By Kate McLelland

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There are a number of products out there to help combat and reduce gum disease and tooth decay. For young animals, these products can be used to keep your pet’s mouth healthier for longer reducing the frequency of dentals required in their lifetime. For older pets some of the products available may not be enough on their own to solve the problem. In this instance, we would recommend starting again from scratch. A dental scale and

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polish would be advised to get rid of an exisiting problem and then your pet’s teeth can be managed with some of the simple but effect dental products, keeping their teeth whiter for longer. In February and March we are offering a discount on our dental scale and polish for cats and dogs with a good bag to go home with and if you are part of out Pet Care Plan you will be eligible for an extra 10% off on top of the discounted price.

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Ready in: 55 minutes | Serves 4

Ingredients 2 tbsp olive oil

1 large onion, peeled and roughly chopped 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed 350g small cauliflower florets

1 large courgette, roughly chopped 100g mushrooms, sliced

2 large tomatoes, roughly chopped

Large handful baby spinach leaves, chopped 1 tsp dried oregano

350g tub fresh four-cheese pasta sauce 150ml passata

100g Red Leicester cheese, grated

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Preheat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas mark 6. Heat the oil in a large ovenproof frying pan (see TIP) over a medium heat. Add the onion and cook for 4-5 minutes until softened. Stir in the garlic and cook for a further minute.

Add the cauliflower, courgette and mushrooms and cook, stirring, for 5-6 minutes, then stir in the tomatoes, spinach and oregano. Season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Pour over the pasta sauce and turn gently to coat the vegetables. Drop spoonfuls of the passata on top and scatter over the grated cheese. Bake in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes until golden and bubbling. Garnish with freshly chopped parsley and serve straight from the pan with toast or crusty bread, if liked.

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Ready in 45 minutes | Makes 8

Ingredients

100g plain flour Pinch of salt 1 large egg 300ml milk 25g butter

8 small bananas, peeled

4 tbsp ready-made chocolate sauce, warmed Icing sugar and cocoa powder, to dust

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Sift the flour into a large bowl, add the salt and make a well in the centre. Add the egg and beat with a balloon whisk, gradually drawing in the flour. Slowly pour in the milk, whisking all the time, until you have a smooth batter which is about the consistency of single cream. Cover the jug and leave the batter to stand for about 30 minutes to allow the starch grains in the flour to soften and expand – this will give a lighter pancake. Whisk in a splash of milk or water if the batter has thickened slightly.

Heat a knob of the butter in a medium sized non-stick frying pan until almost smoking then quickly ladle in enough of the batter to thinly cover the base of the pan, swirling the pan to give an even layer. Cook for 1-2 minutes until small air bubbles appear in the pancake then flip it over and cook for a further minute until golden. Repeat with the rest of the mixture to make 8 pancakes in total, adding more butter to the pan as needed. Wrap a warm pancake around each banana. Halve each wrapped banana and serve drizzled with warm chocolate sauce and dusted with icing sugar and cocoa powder. Decorate with a sprig of mint, if liked.

You can make the pancakes a day in advance. Stack on a plate, interleaved with baking paper. Cover and chill in the fridge. Reheat for a few seconds in the microwave.

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What’s more, all our other seven hard courts cater for winter play. Three of these courts are laid in synthetic clay and are first choice with many Members. Most are floodlit for tennis in the darker evenings. So, as with every winter, there’s still going to be plenty of outside tennis at the Club. With so many courts available throughout the year we can host an extensive tennis coaching programme. This can involve all ages from three to eighty! We have fourteen registered tennis coaches working at the Club, and they also regularly visit fourteen local schools. Altogether our coaching programmes involve nearly a thousand local school children. Indoors, the Club is buzzing, as usual. For instance, our four squash courts are all air-conditioned and heated. Squash Night on Saturday is always well-patronised and good fun for all abilities. There is also Racketball available and there are many leagues for all standards of play.

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Our Squash teams also play on a regular basis so why not come down and watch some World Class Squash?

Our Fitness Suite is a major attraction all year round, so when exercise outside is maybe less tempting why not drop in for a gym session? Our gym is on two levels, and offers some of the latest equipment, from Cloud-based cardiovascular aids to resistance machines and free weights. Why not come as our Guest for a free try? Alongside is our Studio, where we run regular classes in Zumba, Pilates, Yoga and Indoor Cycling, to name a few.

At Surbiton we’ve always been keen on social activities. Our events are very popular, and our regular Quiz Nights are usually over-subscribed. There are also theme nights and party sessions to keep everyone entertained. Overall, we offer a unique set of facilities for our Members, unmatched by any similar local Club. Central to our activities is the Clubhouse Bar, where you can make new friends and relax with a coffee or a drink. Cooked food can be ordered throughout the day from our

extensive Club Menu.

We’re always looking for opportunities to interact with the local Community. An outstanding example is our Community Parks Tennis Programme, planned specially to encourage family tennis, at three municipal parks in the Borough.

The cost is remarkably low. An annual fee of only £50 per household can provide a court booking per day for no extra cost or there is pay and play (£6 per hour). All ten park courts are bookable on the internet. This is fantastic value, and a breakthrough for tennis in the Community. Happy New Year! Roy

Roy Staniland is Director of Surbiton Racket and Fitness Club, Berrylands, KT5 8JT Club information: 020 8399 1594 www.surbiton.org or for the Park Programme www.parktennisinkingston. co.uk

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Sophisticated, intense and eye-catching – use black in your interior to create drama, interest and on-trend style.

To make an impact when designing a room, sometimes it pays to go against convention. This is why the use of black in an interior is so surprising and, when employed with thoughtfulness and flair, so successful. What could be more different to the typical room with all-white walls than one that uses a significant amount of black? This timeless colour is bold, luxurious and actually more

versatile than you might think. For a start, just as there is a huge variety of shades of white, so there are many different shades of black, ranging from cool, blueish blacks to warm, red-blacks. Looking carefully at paint swatches and then testing the paints out on your walls (examining them at different times of day and under various lights) will demonstrate their underlying tones and help you

Secondly, bear in mind that although black itself is dark, the room in which it is used doesn’t have to be. Yes, in a small room, such as a snug, WC or study, black can be used to emphasise a feeling of cosiness, but in a larger space it can help improve the sense of proportion and create a feeling of intimacy. To avoid a sense of gloom, ensure that any room in which you plan to use significant amounts of black has both large windows and plenty of reflective surfaces (glass, mirror and gloss paint) to provide daytime illumination, and include a good variety of artificial lighting – ceiling and wall lamps, floor and table lamps – to create gorgeous pools of warm, welcoming light at night.

If all-over black is a step too far, employing black as a strong accent within a room is an excellent compromise. This could mean covering a wall or two in black to provide a strong contrast to your furnishings, or perhaps painting around the room below the dado rail, creating a comfortable sense of grounding. Black can work exceptionally well for wall-towall bookshelves or as a run

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of kitchen cabinets. Or you might prefer simply to choose a selection of smaller accessories in black – picture frames, table lamps or a side table, for example – to give a crisp, graphic look.

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lime, fuchsia, yellow, emerald and mustard (though not so well with darker colours such as purple, navy or chocolate). The strongest contrast of all, of course, is black with white. This combination can be fresh, crisp and contemporary, though pure black and white may end up being a little simplistic, and best tempered with some greys (if you wish to stick with the monochromatic look) or other colours, and definitely with a variety of patterns in differing scales, and with textural detailing. Black with neutrals and naturals also works well – adding timber, stone, hessian, linen, sisal, wicker and wool, for example, in their natural range of beiges, browns, creams and

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The Elephant in the (Tower) Room A brief history of Britain’s love affair with the elephant

Last autumn there was huge excitement in Diss, Norfolk, when a ground-penetrating radar search of common land at Fair Green revealed the remains of an elephant buried deep under the ground. It must have been a fairly earth-shattering discovery for local residents to learn that the animal’s remains had been found in a spot better known for craft fairs and dog shows, but the news didn’t come as a surprise to everyone. The archaeological survey was carried out because some locals claimed the animal died there in the 1940s, while a touring circus was in town. Nowadays we might, with some justification, condemn people who made their living by exploiting elephants, but it was the nation’s insatiable interest in these gentle giants that made them such a big box-office

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attraction.

Invasion of the elephants The first elephants to arrive in the UK were brought over by the Roman Emperor Claudius when he invaded England in AD 43. A Greek author called Polyaenus, writing in the second century AD, tells an intriguing story about terrified Britons fleeing at the sight of an elephant sent to cross a river into their territory.

Twelve centuries later in 1256, King Henry III received an elephant as a gift from Louis IX of France and ordered his sheriffs to build a pen measuring 40 foot long and 20 foot wide in the Tower of London. Around the same period, an ancient Latin manuscript called the Physiologus Theobaldi – containing some wildly inaccurate elephant ‘facts’ – was translated into English. Some time later

An elephant-inspired folk tale from Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent has been passed down from generation to generation. It’s the story of a small town nervously preparing to receive an elephant as a gift from Queen Elizabeth I. The residents get to work creating a state-of-the art pen for the royal gift, but it turns out that in reading the queen’s letter, the semi-literate mayor of the town has mistaken the word ‘equivalent’ for ‘elephant’, and the long-anticipated creature never arrives. Sheppey’s story certainly bears all the hallmarks of myth. However unlikely the story may sound, Elizabeth I did actually visit Queenborough Castle (now demolished) in 1582, and to this day there is a small public park, the size of a horse paddock, which locals still call ‘the Elephant Park’. The British have known about elephants for over 2,000 years. We may fear them for their size and strength, but thanks to touchingly human characteristics such as dignity, patience and family loyalty, it’s easy to see why the nation has taken these magnificent beasts to its heart.

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Perfect Potatoes

It’s the time to think perfect potatoes and smashing spuds: mid to late February means time to get those seed potatoes bought and ready for planting. Home-grown potatoes are an incredibly good-value crop and you’ll soon find that the so-called humble-spud is actually a very variable and extremely versatile vegetable with a flavour and texture that will make you want to grow them year after year. On a patio, balcony or in a backyard, a special potato-planting ‘bag’ or a 45cm (18in) diameter pot can produce a useful crop of spuds, just from a single tuber. Make sure the container is well-drained, fill it about half to two-thirds full of compost, pop a tuber in the centre and add a further 5cm (2in) of compost. As the foliage appears, add more compost to cover it over and repeat until no more can be

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added. Keep the container well-watered and sit back and wait! Most potatoes produce a slightly earlier and somewhat heavier crop if the seed potatoes are allowed to ‘chit’ or produce small but sturdy sprouts before planting. Just stand the tubers, widest end uppermost, in a seed tray or old egg cartons and place these in a cool but frost-free spot with plenty of natural light. After a few weeks the sprouts will be about 1cm (½in) tall, perfect for planting. This is what you need to do with your newly purchased seed potato tubers as soon as they arrive. When you’re choosing which varieties to buy, start by thinking about how you most enjoy eating potatoes. Steamed potatoes are delicious, especially if you cook them the day you lift them. Many varieties taste

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selecting varieties which show some resistance to the infection can really help. Try Valor, Lady Balfour or Colleen; however, for the best resistance I’ve seen try Sarpo Mira and Sarpo Axona.

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works under the soil surface, it has a brilliant effect and Rates Advertiser’s Guide poses no threat to wildlife. If space in your garden is at a premium then it’s worth concentrating on growing earlies, as these varieties take up a lot less space and, as they are in the ground for less time, give you the opportunity to grow another fast-maturing crop such as lettuce or salad leaves in the soil after the potatoes have been lifted. Price List - Our Prices Haven’t Increased for 2 Years 1 Issue

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Creeping or trailing forms of herbs are a must for a basket, trough or window box, and thyme in particular is ideal for a container in a sunny spot. As it’s hardy it can be planted out at any time of year. Parsley, sage, tarragon, chives and basil all look good in wall baskets or window boxes and thrive in a sunny spot.

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High-Rise Edibles Use high-rise gardening to give extra space, with hanging baskets, wall troughs and window boxes as homes for vegetables, herbs and even fruit. So, what does it take to succeed?

Larger containers allow for more room for your crops’ roots and easier maintenance, as they will run out of moisture and fertiliser less frequently.

Use suitable supporting brackets and screws for hanging baskets, window boxes and wall troughs, as they must support the weight of fully grown plants laden with crops, which will be heavier after watering. Check walls, balconies and windows sills will not be overloaded and consider using lighter-weight loam-free or peatfree composts with lightweight containers made of bamboo, plastics or fibre glass. You’ll need to use good quality

compost and feed crops in high-rise planters regularly and, as they’re more susceptible to drying out, regular watering is essential.

The dwarf runner bean ‘Hestia’ is perfect for containers and can be sown directly into the compost in April, or raised in small pots or trays and then planted out into the high-rise planter. Dwarf French varieties such as ‘Duel’ or the purple-podded ‘Purple Tee Pee’ do well in a good sized window box

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Most oriental vegetables, such as the pak choi varieties ‘Red Choi’ and Mizuna (including the purple-veined ‘Mizuna Purple’) do well in a sheltered window box or wall trough. The two look stunning combined together, with the Mizuna positioned to ‘flop’ attractively over container edges. For a red and spicy theme use ‘Mustard Red Giant’. There are several varieties of tomatoes well-suited to containers such as hanging baskets, including the classic ‘Tumbling Tom’, available in both red and yellow varieties, and the red-fruited ‘Tumbler’. Raise them from seed sown now or buy plants to put into containers in late April or May. If you like tiny fruited tomatoes, consider ‘Hundreds and Thousands’. Chilli pepper plants such as ‘Super Chilli’ packed in a window box or wall trough will look stunning when covered in their glossy fruits. Chillies are tender so buy plants in May or June or sow seeds now.

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“Shall I sit with you Aunty Mae, or at another table?” Colleen dithered, looking around the café for the perfect spot. “Is he supposed to know I’m here or not?” “I don’t want it to look like I’ve brought a chaperone – I am a grown woman after all,” Mae said, pulling out a chair at a table by the window. “Perhaps I should sit over in the corner.” Colleen pointed to a table tucked behind a yucca. “If he looks like a weirdo I’ll initiate an exit strategy.” “You are good to come with me for this,” Mae said, reaching for her niece’s hand. “I must admit I’m feeling all of a flutter.” “You’d do the same for me,” Colleen said. “So who is this mystery date anyway?” “It’s funny actually. He’s a chap I used to go to school with. I thought he was wonderful, but he preferred another girl, so that was that.” “He’s your one who got away.” Colleen nodded in sympathy. “I had one of those.”

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“Really?” Mae checked her makeup in a compact mirror. “What was his name?” “Mark Harby.” Colleen blushed. “We were thick as thieves when we were kids. Then he moved down south with his parents and I was too shy to ask if he’d write.” Colleen straightened up and smiled. “So what’s your fella like?” “His name’s Walter Cornwell,” Mae said. “He was my woodwork teacher’s son, had lovely eyes. He got in touch on Facebook.” Mae reached for her phone. “Sent me his picture.” “Go on,” Colleen leaned forward, “let me see it.” “I ought to warn you – he’s changed a lot.” Mae showed Colleen the screen of her phone. “He looks handsome,” Colleen lied. Time had not been kind to Walter Cornwall. “What does he say about himself?” “He’s retired, has a son and two grandkids, likes renovating pine furniture and collecting antique

rasps.” “Retired already?” Colleen was surprised, and then a little suspicious. “They’re very woodworky hobbies, aren’t they?” “He must take after his dad,” Mae conceded. “What was the name of his dad?” Colleen asked carefully. “You know, the woodwork teacher?” “We never asked things like that.” Mae waved her hand dismissively. “It was just ‘Sir’.” “You don’t suppose it was Walter as well do you?” “Now I think about it, it could have been.” Mae frowned. Colleen grimaced. “Aunty Mae, I’ve got a horrible feeling that your date isn’t with Walter Junior – but with Walter Senior, your woodwork teacher.” Her aunt’s reaction surprised her. “It isn’t,” Mae winked, “because I haven’t got a date at all.” “You haven’t?” Colleen was confused. “I was just keeping you distracted,” Mae turned towards the café door, “until your date arrived.” “But I’m not here for a date,” Colleen stammered, her heart already thumping as a person she hadn’t seen for years walked towards their table. “I’ve been playing Cupid, don’t be cross,” Mae whispered, and made the unnecessary introduction. “Colleen, you remember Mark Harby don’t you?”

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As if flowers, champagne and dinners weren’t expensive enough, retailers would really like you to buy your beloved some technology for Valentine’s Day. That’s not necessarily a bad idea, but there are a few traps to avoid. We wouldn’t recommend anything overly practical unless the recipient really wants it and would be happy to get it as a Valentine’s Day gift: no matter how powerful the Dyson or scientific the scales, don’t give the gift of hoovering or weight-watching to someone who won’t appreciate it. Online gadget guides suggest power banks for smartphones and even charging cables, and while those are perfectly decent products they’re hardly going to make your partner’s heart sing. The second trap is the “pinkification” of products: even if your beloved likes pink they might not appreciate a perfectly good product that’s pink for no good reason. If your beloved is really into DIY then they’ll care much more about the quality of the product than its colour. So what presents do we suggest for Valentine’s day? Consider accessories – for example, if your beloved has an Apple Watch or an iPad you could buy good-quality straps or cases. The Apple Watch can be made sportier with a bright Sport Band or more formal with a genuine leather band (just avoid the faux leather bands from some big-name shopping sites, which don’t wear like genuine leather does). And of course if your partner doesn’t have an Apple Watch or an iPad and you’ve got the cash to spare, those items make really great gifts. Another good tactic is to think about what your beloved does. So if they have a long commute or TAV

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Why do we exchange cards, flowers and gifts with our loved ones on 14th February when the day’s patron saint was a Christian martyr? The origins of St Valentine’s Day are said to have begun as early as the third century and were possibly influenced by the Roman fertility feast of Lupercalia held on 15th February, whose themes and rituals were centred around coupling and new birth.

No one is entirely sure who St Valentine was. Valentine or Valentinus was a popular name in Rome and there are at least three Catholic saints known as Valentine who have been venerated over the centuries. Any one of them could have had the Feast of St Valentine named after him when Pope Gelasius turned Lupercalia into a Christian festival in 496 AD. One theory is that St Valentine was a Christian priest in the third century who defied Emperor Claudius II’s edict that no Roman soldiers could

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marry by performing secret wedding ceremonies for young lovers until he was captured, beheaded (allegedly on 14th February) and buried under a Roman road. It is also thought that St Valentine’s Day may have been merged with a Norman celebration that took place around the same time known as Galatin’s Day, meaning ‘a gallant’ or lover.

The link between Valentine’s Day and romance was solidified in the late 1300s with Geoffrey Chaucer’s poem Parliament of Foules (Fowls), said to have been written in honour of King Richard II’s betrothal to Anne of Bohemia. It contains the lines: “…For this was on seynt Volantynys day

Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his make.” (For this was on St Valentine’s Day when every bird comes there to choose his mate.) Royalty took the notion on board, and by the 1400s it

St Valentine’s Day was clearly established as a day for lovers by 1600 when Shakespeare referred to it in Hamlet during a speech by Ophelia.

By the eighteenth century, handmade Valentine’s cards had become popular and were very elaborate with flowers, ribbons and lace. They would often feature Cupid (whose name means ‘desire’), the mischievous winged son of Venus, Roman goddess of love. He also appeared in much romantic verse as the bringer of often unrequited love – hence a missive was necessary to let the object of your desire know of your affections!

With their sentimental notion of romance and the language of flowers, the Victorians elevated Valentine’s Day to the popular celebration it has become today. In 1858, The London Journal wrote of St Valentine’s Day that it was both “natural and proper that at the start of spring the predominating sentiment in the human mind should be the sentiment of love; and to this accordingly the anniversary of our saint is directed”.

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your favourite toiletries with you. If you’re only going for a long weekend, it’s worth decanting your toiletries into reusable travel bottles and jars. It’ll mean you pass the 100ml or less rule for liquids and creams in your hand luggage, and saves you lugging extra weight around the airport. You also won’t need to fork out for travel-sized toiletries, which are usually a lot more expensive per ml than their full-sized counterparts. Wilko’s new travel pots (www.wilko. com) start at just 50p and can be used time and time again. Dry shampoo bars are handy for travelling and an easy switch if you’re trying to reduce your plastic waste. Faith in Nature’s new shampoo bars have a lower PH level than most, making them better for your hair. Choose from Lavender & Geranium (one of the brand’s most popular fragrances) or the extra hydrating Coconut & Shea Butter. Both are 100% natural, packed with nourishing ingredients and fragranced with essential oils. And they’re just £5.79 each from www.faithinnature.co.uk.

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Exploding Kittens, ages 7+, 2-5 players A card game of strategy, luck and vendettas, Exploding Kittens is easy to learn and a whole heap of fun to play. It’s a bit like Uno, but with humorous illustrations and cards like ‘Deploy the thousand year back hair’ and ‘Don a portable cheetah butt’. It only takes 20 minutes to play so makes a great post-dinner, pre-homework treat. Find it at www.amazon. co.uk. Atlantis Escape, ages 8+, single player This puzzle game sees the player trying to find the quickest way to the boat before Atlantis sinks. There are 60 challenges to complete, which should keep the kids occupied for a little while at least. It’s single player and compact, so perfect for long journeys – see www. smarttoysandgames.co.uk.

Asteroid Escape, ages 8+, single player As with Atlantis Escape, the player needs to navigate their way through the board in this travel puzzle game. Again, there are 60 challenges to complete. It’s ideal for problem-solving space lovers. Also available from www. smarttoysandgames.co.uk.

Pointing Fingers, ages 12+, 3-6 players With this game, it pays to know your opponents. Who is most likely to have done, or consider doing, the action on the card? Pointing Fingers is a bit like Never Have I Ever, but with

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Bears versus Zombies, ages 10+, 2-5 players Players build monsters using cards to defend themselves against the marauding babies. The better the monster, the more likely it is to defeat the baby army and score the player some points. This quick-to-learn, quick-to-play game is bizarre but a lot of fun. While it’s recommended for players aged 10 and up, younger children should be able to master it with a little extra help. It’s available from www.amazon.co.uk.

Ticket to Ride, ages 8+, 2-5 players Ticket to Ride first came out in 2004 and has since released several spin-offs, including Ticket to Ride Europe. Players compete to claim train routes across the board. (It’s a lot more fun than it sounds.) Great for strategic thinkers, Ticket to Ride takes a few minutes to learn and can be played in around an hour. See www.amazon.co.uk. By Kate Duggan

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‘Health’ Service – or ‘Half’ Service? From 1st April 2019, the NHS stopped funding a range of treatments it regards as ineffective, possibly harmful and poor value for money. Moles (benign), simple cysts, warts, verrucas and varicose veins – to name but a few – are all on the list of treatments no longer covered. Now, however unsightly, embarrassing or irritating, the NHS is no longer responsible. So how did this come about? Which conditions are on the list?

Inappropriate Treatments Cash-strapped, and hardpressed, the NHS is continually struggling to maintain an excellent quality of service and to balance the books. Consequently, NHS management teams are regularly analysing the numbers and type of medical procedures, their success and complication rates. They consider carefully whether these interventions are beneficial for patients and whether they offer value for money.

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How Does the NHS Decide Which Treatments It Will or Won’t Fund? On behalf of the NHS, The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is a robust body that reviews all the available medical evidence about the safety, efficacy and value for money of NHS treatments and interventions. By law, if NICE recommends it, the NHS must provide it. If NICE doesn’t recommend it, the NHS has no obligation. What are ‘Inappropriate Interventions’? Inappropriate interventions are procedures that NICE has concluded have not been shown to be effective and may be associated with harm. For example, surgery to improve snoring carries risks: bleeding, infection, voice changes and swallowing problems. The cure rate from surgery is only 46%. However, similar improvements in snoring can be achieved by nonsurgical health interventions such as losing weight and stopping smoking. A Bitter Response Nobody wants any harm, risk or wasteful spending, but are

we being hoodwinked? What can a parent now do for a child with glue ear? It’s hard to believe that those with recurrent tonsillitis will no longer be offered surgery. These interventions are only the first phase of treatments cuts, with a second phase involving a list of other, more specialised procedures, set to follow. Doctors themselves are concerned. In a recent BMA survey, 75% of doctors said they believed that financial targets were overriding patient care. The BMA also views this NHS bureaucracy with disdain, saying “Rather than cut services, the government’s priority should be to stop the scandalous waste of billions of taxpayer money on the damaging NHS market in England, pointless fragmentation of NHS services and outsourcing deals that disrupt patient care,” to quote BMA chair and GP, Dr Chaand Nagpaul.

The Negative Consequences These conditions may be benign, but they still cause misery and this negatively affects our well-being, selfesteem and self-confidence. Other treatments may be effective, but these can be expensive and hard to access. Vulnerable people who can’t speak up for themselves or engage fully in their own care may suffer. Some patients may choose not consult the doctor, and serious diagnoses may be missed. Lifestyle interventions such as weight loss are beneficial for numerous medical conditions. However, weight loss is difficult and takes time. The Royal College of Physicians has recently declared obesity a disease, not just a lifestyle factor.

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There are long waiting lists for physiotherapy, and the other suggested treatment options such as endothermal ablation and sclerotherapy. Will more funding be allocated for these treatments? Has the ‘National Half Service’ really got this right? References - Evidence-based interventions: response to the public consultation and next steps Nov 2018, updated Jan 2019 Prepared by: NHS England Medical directorate and Strategy and Innovation directorate www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2018/11/ebi-consultationresponse-document-v2.pdf - NHS England to save £200m on 17 ‘ineffective’ procedures including tonsillectomy 2 July 2018 Elisabeth Mahase www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/ hot-topics/nhs-finances/nhsengland-to-save-200m-on-17ineffective-procedures-includingtonsillectomy/20036998.article

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are spending good money warming the planet. Whilst switching a fridge off doesn’t make sense, here are a few things that do:

According to MoneySuperMarket, the biggest standby power users are TVs, TV boxes (e.g. Sky/Virgin) and multiroom speakers. Chances are you only actually use them evening and weekends so waiting 60 seconds for them to restart isn’t much of a sacrifice.

Stand Aside, Standby. You aren’t needed. Comedian Michael McIntyre made fun of us all by pointing out that we often shut down appliances before going on holiday for safety reasons. Except the fridge because “we trust the fridge”.

He has a point on the safety aspect, but we should also be considering the environmental one, and not just when we are on holiday. Leaving your devices on standby means you

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When you unplug your mobile phone after charging it, the charger is still using tiny amounts. When you multiply that by the number of people in the house, it’s not so tiny. So switch it off at the wall when you aren’t using it. Your router is something you want to have available pretty much all the time. But if you are going on two weeks holiday, a little holiday of its own won’t hurt. It’s quicker to put your PC on standby than to shut it down, but we are only saving seconds here. And we all know that it sometimes your PC wakes up, all by itself. There’s a device not to be trusted!

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How do I get an electric car charging point installed at home? With the increase in electric car popularity, more people are going to need to charge at home. But how do you go about it?

Most manufacturers now produce electric cars, and demand will increase as both carmakers and government push to get more people into plug-in cars. More people will therefore need to charge their cars and home, and installing a wallbox makes the process a lot quicker than using a three-pin plug. Let’s take a look at how you do it.

Why do I need a wallbox charger? As well as delivering a faster rate of charge than a three-pin plug, a wallbox is also safer as they tend to be weatherproof. Many have built-in features to ensure safety should an error occur, and it won’t overload your house’s electricity supply, too.

How much is it going to cost me? Inclusive of the available government grant, it’ll cost from £279 to install a wallbox into your

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home and this covers installation by a qualified fitter – so the only additional cost after everything’s plugged in is the electricity itself.

Installation may be more expensive if you’re trying to place a wallbox in a particularly tricky place, or if more wiring than usual is required. How much will it cost to charge my car? This depends on the size of the car’s batteries, how much charge you’ve got left in it and the rate you pay for electricity. However, as a guide, the typical rate for electricity is 14p per kWh, or 8p per kWh for overnight, economy charging. For an average electric car, with a 60kWh battery and around 200 miles worth of range, it’ll cost around £8.40 to charge fully. Something larger, like a Tesla Model S, will cost around £14 – but remember that the Tesla offers a much greater range at around 300 miles.

Where will a wallbox be installed? A wallbox will be placed on an external wall either on the side of your house or on the side of a garage. Connected to the mains electricity by a secure connection, it’ll be ideally located close to where you park. This will only really work for people with off-street parking though —you’re not allowed to run cables across the pavement to a car parked on the street.

How long will installation take? It should only take around three hours for a wallbox to be installed at your home, depending on access and how tricky an area it is to fit.

Where can I buy a wallbox from? Plenty of suppliers of electric car charging points are available and an internet search should provide a multitude of local providers. Note that if you want to take advantage of the government’s grant, then you may have to prove ownership of the car and your home in order to qualify.

How long will it take to charge my electric car? A wallbox gives a charging rate

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Our local train servicea time for reckoning

he election may have come and gone, but our train services remain as bad as ever. Some passengers joked to me that they’d hardly noticed the recent strike action – the services just seemed as bad as ever. But it isn’t really a joke.

You’ve probably seen the speculation that things have got so bad that our local franchise – the south western franchise – may even be nationalised.

Filings to Companies House of the accounts of South Western Railway (SWR), the operator of the south western rail franchise, published in early January, contained a Directors’ Statement that there is “material uncertainty that may cast significant doubt on the company’s ability to continue as a going concern”. The accounts showed SWR lost £137 million in the year to March 2019.

And this has inevitably led to widespread speculation that SWR may go bust by the end of 2020, and that the Government may be making plans to renationalise this franchise. Press reports suggest the firm has been in talks with the Department for Transport (DfT) and the directors are reported as saying that there are two potential outcomes of the talks: giving the company a revised, short-term contract; or seeing it kicked out within the next 12 months in favour of a publicly owned operator. This came as no surprise to me.

After campaigning for improvements after SWR’s disastrous first year, and after

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many meetings and having formed a special cross-party group in Parliament to hold an inquiry, I published a report in December 2018, “Passengers Must Come First” – https://www. eddavey.org/passengers_must_ come_first

In it, I specifically warned that, in my opinion, having spoken to key insiders, the franchise was not financially viable. I wrote, over a year ago:-

SWR’s franchise bid was unrealistically low. Having underbid, SWR is now caught in a trap of having to put a floor under investor losses whilst needing funds to tackle basic investment needs. This is totally unsustainable. and

“Ministers have 2 basic choices for SWR.

Either they must decide to replace SWR, with a new operator. This would, at least initially, have to be a government-controlled company, before deciding on any future re-franchising.

Or they must impose a new contract on SWR, preferably performance-related, where SWR take a significant financial hit and can only begin to earn profits, once performance for passengers has improved.

The status quo is simply not acceptable: passengers have lost trust in the current franchise and the current management to deliver.”

I met the then Rail Minister early in 2019, and I handed him my report. He told me improvements were occurring and my

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So I’m back again, and making the same points – though this time, I think Ministers will have no choice but to listen. This rail franchise is collapsing before their eyes. WE ARE NOT AVAT REGISTERED, SO THE PRICE YOU SEE IS THE PRICE YOU PAY Contact us for package prices. Premium Pages 5 & 7: £10.00 extra Loose inserts can be delivered with magazine at £297 per 8,000.

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The simplest and best solution would be to ask Transport for London (TfL) to take over the franchise, at least for the next few years. TfL have a relatively positive performance running overground trains across London, with particular expertise in suburban networks like ours. I’ve discussed this idea with Siobhan Benita, and we have confidence TfL can manage the wider SWR service outside London too. Longer term, we need to see our franchise in the context of an industry-wide reform, as franchises across the UK have been failing – from Virgin’s East Coast mainline to Northern Rail.

The Williams Rail Review – a major study of the UK’s railway industry commissioned back in September 2018 – is due to be published soon, which should kickstart a proper debate about more radical reform of our railways. We may be about to start the next round of Brexit negotiations. They will no doubt dominate this year’s politics, just as they did in 2019.

But in 2020, let’s hope we see the beginning of the end of the shameful train services local people have endured for the last three years.

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