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Hi there, Welcome to our September edition

Thank you for reading another edition of your Keep It Local Magazine. I'd like to start off by congratulating all the parents for making it through another 6 weeks holidays. It was touch and go for a little while but school is back and so is your free time!

Along with the start of the school term, September is also National Honey Month. In the spirit of this we have themed our front cover and have a honey based recipe waiting for you as well.

Anyone who struggles with our monthly Mindbenders, be sure to give them a try this month. We have taken it particularly easy on you. If you're still pulling your hair out the answers are at the back for you.

Call us crazy but this month's gardening article is all about preparation for .... SPRING. There's no such thing as being too prepared, and short of a September heatwave it appears Summer finished particularly early this year.

August's Quiz Winner was Chris Martin from the Rundells in Thundersley who won a Mr Tumble DVD. Well done to all those who got the correct answer!

In the kids quiz this month your little one has the chance to win a Disney's Dumbo DVD. Don’t forget you have to be in it to win it!

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Funny Face The Egremont Crab Fair Several years ago, while in the Lake District we stumbled on the small market town of Egremont.

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If you’re planting bulbs for the first time, or in a new area of the garden it helps to have a colour scheme in mind. In a boy-dominated house (three sons and a husband) I like to give some areas of my garden a more girly theme. Tulips are great for this purpose (and are some of my favourite flowers). Try ‘La Belle Epoque’, which is a frothy peony-flowered tulip with pale coffee petals flushed with pink. I would contrast the texture of its showier blooms with another more traditional tulip, Pink Diamond’ or ‘Apricot Beauty’. If you’d prefer less ‘pretty’ and more drama try the almost-black ‘Paul Scherer’, which should flower in late April or early May and makes a good foil to the aforementioned Apricot Beauty, which flowers at the same time.

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I like to plant up a few pots this month, for some late autumn and winter colour. I favour Rust-toned heucheras, paired with miniature grasses such as Carex buchananii; Oxblood-coloured ajuga, silverleaved thymes and small-leaved trailing ivies make great combinations too.

I have sempervivums shoved in crevices all over my garden. They are incredibly hardy and will survive all manner of frost and poor weather. We have a lovely sheltered sunny patio with a small table and chairs which is lovely to sit out on even in the winter. A few years ago, I started planting up shallow terracotta trays and a couple of old tin bowls with differing varieties of house leek. I mix one-part horticultural grit to one part peat-free multipurpose compost for the planting mix, and make sure any container has lots of drainage. Handy tip - top dress with grit or stones if you don’t want the birds to start digging around scattering your planting mix and unearthing your plants! I learned the hard way!

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