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January 2014

THE DELL DIRECTORY

Your local community magazine & business directory.

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Further complimenting our existing Care Homes, Lorimer House and Struan Lodge, Lindemann Healthcare are proud to add Thorburn Manor.

Set amongst rich flora and fauna in The marriage between the Grade “C” the midst of the peaceful Colinton listed schoolhouse and our purpose built Dell – a pleasant stretch of greenery

extension provides the perfect setting to

nestled along the Water of Leith – is allow our dedicated team deliver the a picturesque, well-kept community. highest quality care to our residents.

Colinton village is a charming and

The home is registered to cater for 34 highly sought-after suburb of Edinburgh, residents set in luxurious single rooms a former former mill town which has has with en-suite shower wet room facilities. retained a quaint village feel and some quite historic buildings.

Residents can enjoy regular activities, relax in our library area, choose from

Located on the site of the former Bonaly

our quiet lounges or our stunning main School, Thorburn Manor, is a thoughtfully lounge which opens onto the beautifully designed care home to cater for older landscaped gardens. people with a range of care needs including dementia and palliative care.

Contact Us Thorburn Manor Nursing Home, 2a Thorburn Road Edinburgh EH13 0BQ Telephone: 0131 441 6984 Fax: 0131 629 2298

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WELCOME TO JANUARY 2014 Welcome…

I hope you all enjoy reading this new issue of 2014 time for us to set our New Year resolutions!

There are some really interesting articles on ‘Decluttering your ‘Home, always a good start to the New Year. We also have an article on ‘Detoxing and Fasting’ for those who feel like they’ve over indulged a little over the festive period or are just looking for a new health start! There are also some tips on ‘How to make Money from your home’ another way to make extra cash without having to go to work.

Please take a look at the ‘What’s On’ and ‘Clubs and ‘Classes Pages’ there are some new classes added. Also this month we have a great prize on our crossword competition from Kim O’Donnell Hairdressing to win a Hair voucher worth £35.

Congratulations to our crossword winner from last month Marion Nicholson who wins a Dee O’Donnell Massage gift voucher worth £40, well done Marion your voucher will be with you soon!

Thanking for reading The Dell Directory and supporting our Local Businesses.

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CONTENTS Life Begins: Reclaim Your Living Space

The Dell Directory is distributed in the following areas:Colinton Mains, Dreghorn, Redford, Bonaly, Campbell Park, Woodhall, Torphin, Spylaw, Pentland and Craiglockhart.

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Health: Detoxing & Fasting

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Gardening: Sowing Time

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Technology Review: Fit for purpose

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What’s On:

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Clubs & Classes:

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Homes & Interiors: Six ways to make money from your home: 26 Book Review: Tying the Knot

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Recipe: Red Onion Soup

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Prize Crossword:

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Index of Advertisers:

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Copies will also be available at our local Libraries Colinton and Oxgangs and some local shops.

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The Dell Directory accepts no liability for any subsequent copyright issues. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the consent of the publisher. Publisher: The Dell Directory. Editor: Ann Brydon. Please think of the environment when you have finished reading the magazine and recycle.

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Life Begins Reclaim your living space for 2014

We all love the festive season, but it can’t be denied that Christmas celebrations are a magnet for mess and clutter.

For a short period of time our living space seems to shrink under the sheer volume of seasonal items, including gifts (yours and theirs), food and drink, countless decorations – and of course, that huge pile of washing up that never seems to diminish from morning to night.

No wonder, then, that at New Year we take a certain pleasure in clearing out the festive junk we have accumulated in order to restore some domestic equilibrium.

But why stop there?

Traditionally the beginning of the year is a period when we want to embrace change, eliminating what has become outworn and unnecessary, so it makes sense to tap into that New Year energy by using the first weeks of January to reclaim your living space.

The psychological benefits are obvious: most of us feel better, calmer and more able to deal with daily stress when our home

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by Kate McLelland

environment is well ordered, so why does it always seem so difficult to make a start when clearing out the things we no longer need?

If it’s been a while since you sorted through your stuff, then contemplating a proper clearout may seem like a terrifying prospect. Here’s an easy, step-by-step guide to getting the job done: 1. One step at a time.

Don’t allow yourself to be overwhelmed by the prospect of reorganising your home; give yourself a set of different tasks and don’t start the next task until the last one is complete. For example, Task 1 could involve going through your kitchen cupboards, throwing away everything that’s past its sell-by date, Task 2 could be a thorough clear-out of your clothes drawers and wardrobes while Task 3 might call for a purge on your home filing system. Make a list and tick off the items one by one to give yourself a real sense of achievement.

2. Use the ‘three pile’ system.

One pile to keep, one pile to donate or give to friends, one pile to throw away. If some of the items in your ‘keep’ pile have previously been hanging around, gathering dust, this is the ideal time to buy some attractive boxes or baskets that will keep them all out of sight.

3. Make an audit of potential storage areas in your house. Are there any alcoves that could be filled with shelves? Is your loft being used to its full capacity? Do you have an under-used garden shed?

4. Cultivate a minimalist style. If your rooms are full of pictures and ornaments it becomes hard to appreciate the merits of any single object, so identify a few items that you really cherish and make sure they are properly displayed. If you love all your decorative pieces equally, you can always rotate them throughout the year.

If you don’t want to put up shelves or buy more storage options, sometimes it’s just a matter of rethinking the way your house is organised.

Moving a large item of furniture just a few inches can sometimes give a much more spacious feel to a room, so be creative and experiment.

However you choose to reclaim your space, you’ll have a whole year to enjoy the results.

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Detoxing & Fasting The Facts behind the Fads

By Alison Runham January. Dark days plus lots of ‘fancy food’ and alcohol have made us feel fat and sludgy. So, bombarded with more dietary information than ever we rush out to spend our gift vouchers on books about ultimate diets and detox plans. But will they really make us healthier or slimmer?

Detoxing

There are numerous ‘detox diets’ that either tell you to restrict or eliminate certain foods, or advocate eating just one type of super food to flush you clean. But many experts say that your body already has the tools it needs to detoxify itself.

The kidneys, liver, colon and skin all work together to remove unwanted substances from our body.

Much of the detox hype sounds seductively plausible. When we’re told that our bodies are full of undesirable substances that reduce our immunity, slow our metabolism and make us retain water and weight. But the British Dietetic Association has pronounced the concept ‘irrational and unscientific’.

The headaches, fatigue and other symptoms you may experience after a few days on a detox diet are not caused by toxins now released into your bloodstream. In reality, these symptoms are usually caused by your body reacting to sudden deprivation of a substance your body is a little too used to – such as caffeine, sugar or alcohol.

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Fasting

Intentionally going without food is not new. People have been fasting for religious purposes for thousands of years and there are long held beliefs that it can improve various medical conditions and general health.

Many of the recent trendy fasting schemes don’t really ask you to fast at all, just to restrict your food intake on certain days or for a short period of time.

Does it work? You may lose a lot of weight at first, but it can be hard to maintain as you are not fundamentally changing the way you eat. There does seem to be a connection between calorie consumption and lifespan but whether fasting gives the same results as daily moderation has yet to be proved.

However if having a couple of semi-fasting days a week doesn’t make you feel ill and you don’t compensate by eating unhealthily on the other days, there’s no harm doing it.

So what should I do?

Eat a healthy and varied diet • Choose natural foods not manufactured ones. Eat plenty of vegetables of different colours, moderate amounts of fruit and lean protein.

• Avoid sugar as it disrupts your natural appetite control and is known to be highly addictive.

Artificial sweeteners may have no calories, but it doesn’t help

you to break the habit.

• Watch your carbohydrates.

Potatoes, bread and cereal are pretty tasteless without added fat or sugar and that alone can cause you to take in more calories than you intended.

• Cut out or reduce alcohol.

Most experts agree that a little does no harm, but stick to the unit limits of 2 per day for women and 3 per day for men. Remember these are limits, not targets!

• Drink water. Hopefully we all now know this doesn’t mean drinking 8 glasses per day, but ensure your intake is not all caffeinated (if you usually drink lots of caffeine, reduce slowly).

Lose weight safely Most of us eat too much and there is evidence linking over-consumption of calories with reduced life-span and premature ageing, although the mechanism isn’t clear yet. Eat healthy ‘real’ foods, eat only when you are genuinely hungry and don’t eat too much.

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Sowing Time Now that January is here it’s a perfect time to start sowing seeds in trays and pots. But how do you make sure that yours germinate and produce seedlings and then plants which thrive and grow well?

by Pippa Greenwood A shopping list for first time sowers should be:

• Good quality seed and cuttings compost.

• Some seed half-trays, which are about 5” x 8”.

• A heated propagator, a clear propagator lid to go over the trays or a small unheated propagator.

• A dibber to make it easy to transplant the seedlings into a new home.

• Some small pots into which you can transplant the seedlings.

If you buy seed and cuttings compost it’s rarely necessary to sieve it as it has a very fine and even texture. However, if you’re using multi-purpose compost, you’ll need to either break up any lumps carefully with your hands or sieve it.

Depending on the types of seeds you have chosen, you will need to sow them at different depths. Some seeds are tiny and are best scattered over the surface. Other seeds are best sown in drills. Once they are in place, in most cases you need to cover them with compost to the required depth. However others germinate best if allowed access to daylight and should be sown on the surface. With these it’s advisable to cover the surface

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of the tray with cling film to stop it drying out too rapidly. I like to put the seeds in place and then moisten the compost. Place the seed trays in a sink or tray containing about 1cm of water and allow the compost to soak up the water. Once the compost is just moist you should stand the trays in a position where any excess water can drain off.

Then, if necessary, put the trays in a heated propagator.

When it comes to watering the seeds, use mains water as water butts may harbour some of the disease-causing organisms which cause damping off, the fatal condition where the seedlings appear to suddenly flop and keel over.

Always watch the seed trays carefully and check them regularly to ensure that the compost is adequately moist.

Once the majority of the seedlings have appeared, it’s usually not long before you need to prick them out. Generally this is carried out when the first true leaves appear. When the seedling first comes above ground you will see the ‘seed leaves’ which are relatively sturdy looking and rounded in shape. Then above this come the first true leaves which are typical of that particular plant.

When pricking out, handle the seedlings very carefully, never by their stems or true leaves, but always by the seed leaves. Before you start to ease them out, make sure that the compost is adequately moist, so that the roots move readily without damage and that you have already prepared pots for transfer. To avoid rotting, always transplant seedlings so that they are at the same depth as they were in the seed tray.

If you find that your seedlings have become rather leggy and drawn, this is usually because they’re not receiving enough natural light; move the trays onto a south or west facing windowsill.

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Fit For Purpose The gadgets that give you a handle on your health

A gadget a day keeps the doctor away: according to a recent survey, one-third of people believe that using health and fitness gadgets have made them healthier and reduced the number of times they’ve needed to visit the doctor.

Health and fitness gadgets are big business, whether it’s trendy fitness trackers such as the Nike FuelBand (£129) and the Fitbit Force (pricing tbc, but likely to be similar) or more serious devices such as blood glucose meters and body composition analysers. As tech becomes smarter, smaller and cheaper, DIY health monitoring has never been easier or more affordable.

Diabetics need to monitor their glucose levels regularly, and there are lots of gadgets designed to help, such as the Lifescan One Touch UltraMini (around £33) and the Bayer Contour NEXT USB (£29.99).

Both devices enable you to analyse your blood glucose levels and can store the results - 50 in the case of the UltraMini and 2,000 with the Contour NEXT. The latter device can also plug into your computer to create easy-to-understand charts and tables to help you spot patterns.

That’s not all you can monitor.

A trip to Maplin or Amazon uncovers all kinds of health monitoring gadgets, including blood pressure monitors that can upload data to your PC (around £39), finger pulse oximeters (£27) and fully digital heart rate monitors (around £29), and you can also buy bathroom scales that analyse your body composition: for around £30 you can pick up scales that can tell you not just how heavy or light you are, but what your BMI (Body Mass Index) is and what percentage of your body is made of fat. Scales such as the Omron BF508 also have a guest mode, so visitors won’t see your vital statistics.

Using health monitors has become something of a craze, and it even has a name: Quantified Self, or QS for short. Devotees use gadgets to monitor pretty much everything, so they’ll invest in Wi-Fi scales such as the Withings Smart Body Analyzer (£129), which monitors weight, fat, heart rate and even air quality, and which automatically uploads that data to your personal health website.

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you undertake and even your sleeping patterns. The accompanying software enables you to add additional information such as your food and drink intake, and it translates all of that data into graphs and charts so you can see how well you’re doing and track your progress towards goals, such as losing weight, running faster or just being out and about more. Many such gadgets also enable you to share your progress on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

Devices such as the Jawbone Up, Nike FuelBand and Fitbit Force are designed to work with smartphones, using lowpower radio signals to share data with compatible apps.

That’s a growing market, and stacks of firms are jumping on the bandwagon: 60beat offers the £29 BLUE heart rate monitor for iPhone and iPad users, AliveCore has a £170 heart monitor for iPhone 5 users and there are various connected blood glucose monitors, pulse monitors and fitness trackers for both iOS and Android. While the various devices differ, they all have the same idea in common: by recording the data, they enable you (or your doctor) to have a much better picture of your health.

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WHAT’S ON HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE! Start 2014 as you mean to go on. Get out and about and try a few new things, meet new people and visit places you have never been before. You never know you may well enjoy it! Happy New Year.

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A night of Scottish fare, Burns banter and stomping Ceilidh music. Hosted by the fabulous Karen Dunbar, this is one Burns Supper not to be missed!

Tickets £49.00. Table of 10 -£490.00. Tel: 0131 551 1381.

Colinton Literary Society Presents: 8pm Dreghorn Loan Hall.

15th January - How I became the Scotsman hill walking journalist and other stories.

22nd Jan - The Work of the Girl Guiding Scotland Archives 29th Jan - A Career in the German Foreign Service 5th Feb - James Hogg & Supernatural Scotland 12th Feb - Bartholomew, Maps & Edinburgh Colinton Local History Society Presents: 8pm Dreghorn Loan Hall 20th Jan - The Heriot Watt Archive 3rd Feb - Members Evening 17th Feb - Prepare for Battle - the Bannockburn Experience Colinton Garden Garden Club 27th Jan. 8pm Dreghorn Loan Hall Caring for your Tress by Mike Charkow, Tree Surgeon Colinton Food Market Every second Friday of the month.

4pm - 6.30pm. St Cuthbert’s Episcopal Church.

Fresh bread, fish, fruit and veg and organic eggs and more!

Colinton Market Place First Saturday of every month 2-4pm St Cuthbert’s Episcopal Church. An ever changing market place full of handmade goods and quality gifts.

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Hot Rocks, Holyrood Park 26th Jan .9am-12.Free.

Explore the fascinating geological history of Edinburgh’s biggest hill and find out how it inspired much of modern geology. Waterproof clothing, sensible footwear, a snack and a drink are strongly advised.

Email: hs.rangers@scotland.gsi.gov.uk or Tel : 0131 652 8150.

Edinburgh’s Free Walking Tours A knowledgeable guide takes you to Edinburgh’s old town.

30th and 31st Jan 11am and 2pm.

Hunter Square. EH1 1 QW Historical Embroidery – Scottish Portrait Gallery Thurs 30th & Fri 31st Jan 10.30am & 2.pm.

An introduction to the wide variety of stitching found on textiles and costumes in the Gallery collection, taught by Helen McCook, a teacher at Hampton Court Palace’s Royal School of Needlework. All materials will be provided.Free / 0131 624 6200 Homecoming Scotland- Dance 30th Jan- 2 Feb. Dancebase.14- 16 Grassmarket. Tel 0131 225 5525. 350 UK and international dance programmers and presenters hosting performances, talks, seminars and events which showcase the best professional dance of all styles.

Public Astronomy Evening Fri 31st Jan Hear about the history of the Observatory, journey through the solar system, observe the skies (weather permitting) and touch a real piece of outer space. Booking is essential. £4 (Concessions & children £3) / 0131 668 8404

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CLUBS & CLASSES EXERCISE & FITNESS AND CHILDRENS GROUPS Colinton Lawn Tennis Club 10 Westgarth Avenue.

Tel: 0131 441 1052 or 07779 010577 Colinton Bowling Club 49a Redford Road. Contact: 0131 441 2964 Colinton Mains Bowling Club 221 Oxgangs Road North (next to Colinton Mains Park).

Outdoor bowling, adults and juniors (age 9-16), April-September. Dominoes and Whist off-season.

Contact: 0131-477 4400 Badminton Club Monday 8pm-10pm. Sept- March.

Contact: Archie Clark on 0131 449 4703.

Location: St Cuthberts Church Hall. Westgarth Av. Colinton Baby & Toddler Group St. Cuthberts Church Hall, Westgarth Ave. Mon 9.30-11.15am www.colintontoddlers.co.uk. Katie Peer 07717 7743957 Scottish Dancing Alternate Thursdays. 7.45pm- 9.15pm Sept- March Contact: Ann Dean on 0131 441 3729.

Location: St Cuthberts Church Hall. Westgarth Av. StableRoom Playgroups Happy and stimulating playgroups from 2-5 years old.

Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Colinton Parish Church.

9.15am- 11.45am. Term Time. Contact: 0131 477 9494 Email: stableroom@hotmail.co.uk Zumba Fitness Classes For details go to: www.progressfitness.co.uk Freestyle Fitness Yoga Classes For details go to: www.progressfitness.co.uk Colinton Baby & Toddler Group St. Cuthberts Church Hall, Westgarth Ave. Mon 9.30-11.15am. www.colintontoddlers.co.uk.

Katie Peer 07717 7743957 Happy Faces Toddler Group Every Tuesday morning during term time- 9.30-11.30 am £1 admission. Drop in.

Colinton Parish Church. Contact Nichola on 441 9055

SOCIAL, LOCAL INTEREST & OTHER Friendly Bridge Colinton Cottage Homes. Every Tuesday. 2-4pm.

Tel 0131 4412962 Colinton Garden Club Meets 4th Monday of every month.

Dreghorn Loan Hall 8.00pm. September to April.

Email: membership@colintongardens.org.uk www.colintongardens.org.uk Colinton Amateur Orchestral Society Meets Tuesday 7.30pm- 9.30pm.

Location: St Cuthberts Church Hall. Westgarth Av. Email: secretary@colintonorchestra.org.uk

Colinton Townswomen Meets 2nd Thursday of every month from 2-4pm Location: St. Cuthberts Church, Westgarth Avenue.

Contact: 0131 441 6643.

Colinton Local History Society Meets 1st and 3rd Monday of the month at 8pm.

Amusing and Educational Speaker Programme.

Location: Dreghorn Loan Hall Contact: Derek Douglas: 0131 441 3335 Colinton Community Conservation Trust A registered charity aiming to preserve the natural and cultural heritage in and around Colinton.

For membership details write to the Treasurer.

42 Pentland Avenue EH13 OHY Colinton Literary Society The “Lit” meet Wednesdays (Oct-Mar) at 8pm.

Location: Dreghorn Loan Hall Contact: Ann-Marie West 0131 446 0150 Morningside & Newington Floral Art Meet 1st Monday of the month 7.30pm-9.15pm.

Boroughmuir Rugby Club (off Colinton Road.)

Contact Joyce Rutherford on 0131 443 2536 Military Wives Choir April - June. Free- no audition! Tues 6pm- 7.30pm.

Dreghorn Barracks Band Block. Tel 0131 310 2876 or email: edinburghmwc@gmail.com Edinburgh Popular Music Choir- Now Recruiting!

No experience needed. Need both men and women ages 18-80! Choir office Morningside School of Music 138 Comiston Road. Tel 0131 447 1117 Email: linda@polarflamemusic.com

COLINTON & OXGANGS LIBRARIES Colinton Library – Tel: 0131 529 5603 Teenage Book Club For S1-S3 will be held on the first Tuesday of the month 4pm-4.45pm Book Club Last Tuesday of every month 2-3pm.

Last Wednesday of every month 6.30-7.30pm Book Groups First Wednesday of the month at 10:15am and 6:30pm Learn Ebay Wed 6.30pm- 7.30pm Chatterbooks 8-10yrs. 3rd Tues of Month 3.45pm-4.45pm Childrens Arts & Crafts Last Friday of the month 2.30pm- 3.30pm 0-3 years Tuesdays 2.15-2.45pm & Fridays 10.30am-11am.

Oxgangs Library – Tel: 0131 529 5549 Chatterbooks 8-11yrs. 1st Mon of Month 4pm-5pm Share a Story Children 2-5 years. Mon 10.30- 11.00am Childrens Arts and Crafts Friday 2.30-3.30pm Book Bug! 0-3 yrs. Alternate Thursday and Friday at 11:00am.

Yap and Yarn Tuesday at 10:30am.

Sunday Funday for Children 2:30pm.

Baby and Me Bookgroup Tuesday at 1:15pm

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Colinton Private Nursery for children aged 3 months to 5 years Government funded pre–school places available.

Open Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm Part and full-time places available Experienced and Qualified staff Private garden and secure outdoor play area, well equiped to provide a stimulating and play learning environment For further information or to arrange a visit please telephone Judith McGuigan on 0131 477 7330 We also have nurseries in Colinton Village & Grange please contact...

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Lessons with STAT qualified teacher. Introductory lessons cost only ÂŁ15.00. For futher information or to book an apointment telephone: 0131 441 7401.

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Turn a spare room into a money-making space by taking in a lodger.

Shown here is the Eva Sofa Bed in Egret, £1,045, from sofa.com.

Forget cash in the attic – there’s money in every brick, stone or tile of your house, and even in the garden and garage.

1. Rent A Room One in ten homeowners now earns extra cash by letting a spare room to a lodger, according to Santander. You can also rent to commuters, Mondays to Fridays.

How much can I make?

Average weekly rent is around £90, says spareroom.co.uk.

Pros - You can make up to £4,250 a year tax-free under the Government’s Rent a Room scheme. A good lodger can be a friend, share the housework and keep an eye on the place when you’re away.

Cons - A bad lodger can be a nightmare – in your space, may not pay the rent and hard to remove. Home insurance may go up.

Need to know - Obtain references, and have a written agreement about rent, bills and how the house is shared. www. landlordzone.co.uk is a good source of information. You may need permission from your mortgage lender and, if you have one, your leaseholder. Tenants should obtain permission from the landlord.

2. Be A Host For Language Students Many English language schools, and some universities, need ‘host’ families for their students,

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to provide a bedroom and meals, and make them feel at home. It’s often just for a week or so, but sometimes longer.

How much can I make?

From around £100 per student per week, before expenses.

Pros - A great way to learn about other cultures, and they’re not with you for long.

Cons - Not a reliable, year-round income.

Need to know - Tell your home contents insurer. Obtain a written contract with the language school.

3. Run A B&B Worth considering if you have a spare room or two and live in a desirable area.

How much can I make?

Depends on location, number of rooms, quality of accommodation and food. About £35 per room per night is a minimum.

Pros - Meet interesting people.

Open for guests when it suits you.

Cons - Early starts, lots of cooking and cleaning. Upfront costs to convert your home, plus marketing, insurance and book-keeping.

Need to know - You may need planning permission, or alterations to meet building regulations. Tell your mortgage lender. Don’t be overly optimistic: start by aiming for a 35-40% occupancy rate.

4. Rent Your Parking Space Rent your drive or garage to a commuter people attending

By Katherine Sorrell the theatre or a sports event.

Advertise in the local paper or online.

How much can I make?

You could earn £200 a month, depending on your proximity to offices, train/tube stations, stadiums and so on, and the local parking and restrictions.

Pros - Extra money for very little effort.

Cons - Getting rid of someone who stops paying but continues to park could be tricky.

Need to know - You can’t rent out a resident permit holder space, and tenants with a parking space can’t rent it out. Draw up a simple contract, tell your home insurer, and check that the parker has insurance in case he damages your property.

5. Be A Movie Location

Your home could be a star. All sorts of properties are used, from council flats to country estates.

How much can I make?

From about £500 per day for stills photography to £2,500 for a bigbudget movie.

Pros - Interesting and excellent money.

Cons - Not a reliable source of income. Could be lots of disruption, and neighbours may object.

Need to know - Most demand is for large houses with good parking within the M25. Signing up with an agency is free, but you’ll pay a commission.

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KM Electrical

Electrical Specialists

KM Electrical has been established for 10 years, looking after both domestic and commercial customers in and around Edinburgh.

KM Electrical is a local business based in the Fairmilehead area, provides an excellent service across a wide range of areas including; house rewires, installing electrical heating systems, smoke alarms, home lighting, landlord certificates, security lighting and more.

All work comes with a cast-iron guarantee, giving peace of mind that you are in reliable hands.

KM Electricals is open 7 days a week, which also includes emergency call outs.

If you need assistance, call your local electrician on

07970 594 142 KM Electrical is a registered member of SELECT

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Tying the Knot

The Wife’s Tale, Lori Lansens It’s fair to say that forty-something Mary Gooch is a comfort eater.

She’s eaten her way through heartbreak and, on the eve of her 25th wedding anniversary, it looks like she’s going straight for the cookie dough once again.

When she receives a note from Jim to say he’s come into some money and is off to find what he wants, that’s when Mary Gooch becomes motivated. She sets off cross country to find her wayward husband, but more importantly, to recover what remains of the girl who’s buried within those acres of rolling flesh. You will love Mary Gooch and you will never want to leave her.

The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver The wife and daughters of evangelical Baptist Nathan Price tell the story of how the family is uprooted and moved from America, deep into the Belgian Congo at the end of the 1950s. This is not just the unravelling of a marriage but of a family and though it might sound all doom and gloom, it’s also a bit of a comedy of errors as they struggle to cope with life in Africa.

It’s widely reported that divorce rates sky-rocket in January, with more people citing irreconcilable differences in the first four weeks of the year than at any other time. We’ve put together some funny, tragic and heart-warming tales that focus on matrimony: how to get into a marriage, how to get out of one, or even, controversially, how to stay in one.

The Kitchen God’s Wife, Amy Tan Pearl Louie Brandt has a secret she wants to keep from her mother, Winnie. But Winnie has secrets of her own and to retell her story we must travel back to Shanghai in the 1920s, unravelling the story of how Winnie came to live in America.

The Kitchen God’s Wife is called ‘Lady Sorrowfree’, who has endured many things without credit or praise, but who remains strong. Here lies the message for all the generations of the family; how we live our lives and how we build our relationships affects those around us.

On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan It’s 1962 and newlyweds Edward and Florence are honeymooning at Chesil Beach in Dorset. They reflect on their differing backgrounds and upbringing and reveal insecurities, repression and regret ahead of their ill-fated wedding night. It’s so painfully English in a stiff-upper-lip kind of way and beautifully and tragically portrays this doomed couple at the beginning of their married life.

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The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy Nothing will end a marriage faster than getting drunk on rum and selling your wife. In fact, why not throw in your daughter too, for the fair price of five guineas. The trouble with wives, unless you’re a widower, is the fact that they then come back to find you some years later, and their presence threatens to sully the good name you’ve built up in their absence. Michael Henchard, hay trusser, has become the Mayor of Casterbridge, and gone tee-total in the process.

Can Henchard escape the mistakes made in youth?

Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn They say there are two sides to every story but we begin with a single narrator, Nick Dunne and his version of events after his wife suddenly disappears. The fact that his beautiful wife Amy vanishes on their fifth wedding anniversary is even more poetic. And then the questions begin. Can Nick Dunne’s version of events be trusted?

Was his wife afraid of him? This is a clever thriller that not only asks ‘whodunit?’ but also, ‘who done what?’

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• 15g butter

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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS A quick and easy reference guide to all services in The Dell Directory ARIEL & SATELLITE SERVICE Douglas S Mackay ARCHITECT Andy Ross MDA Studio Novo Design

GARDENING 12 27 17 7

BUILDER Colinton Building Services J M Builders

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RKB Home & Garden

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GAS HEATING & SERVICING Geoff Lennie

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Les Weir

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HAIRDRESSING Kim O’Donnell

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CARPENTER/JOINER Liberton Joinery SMC Joinery

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CARPETS James Erskine

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CHIROPODIST/PODIATRIST Colinton Chiropody Pentland Foot Care

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CLEANING SERVICES Fiona’s House Cleaning Scott’s Premier Cleaning COMPUTER SERVICES Capital PC Repairs Colinton PC Solutions Sortmy PC

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Bluebird Care

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LOCKSMITHS 1st Call Locksmiths

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MOBILE HAIRDRESSING Susan Vyse

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Colinton Private Nursery

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OVEN CLEANING The Clean Team

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OvenSmartz

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PERSONAL ASSISTANT Cliff Dalley

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DECORATORS Heritage Decorators Ian Hodgson & Co Kenneth Bayne Lamb

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DENTIST Colinton Dental Practice

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ELECTRICIAN Bryter Electrical Ltd D Sykes Electrical KM Electrical

HOME CARE SERVICES

NURSERY

COMPLIMENTARY THERAPIES Dee O’Donnell The Alex Technique

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PET SERVICES Kibbles Mill Edinburgh

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PLUMBING & DRAINS Alex Hunter Plumbing

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Shandon Plumbing

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RESIDENTIAL CARE Thorburn Manor

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FIREPLACE SUPPLIERS Susan Cockburn

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FISH MERCHANT Marc Horsburgh

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ROOFING & BUILDING SERVICES Edinburgh Quality Builders

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Edinburgh Roofing Services

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