Dell Directory February 2022

February 2022

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elcome to the February issue of the Dell Directory, the first one for this year.

We kick off the Charity of the Month feature this year with Blood Bikes Scotland.

Run entirely by volunteers from our local communities, they operate throughout Edinburgh, the Lothians and beyond.

With the NHS still very much under strain, Blood Bikes Scotland provide it with an incredibly valuable support service. See what they do in the feature on pages 8-9 and please consider a wee donation. They also periodically have collections at local supermarkets.

The beginning of the year tends to be when we think about health and wellbeing, so in this issue check out the local businesses here to help you be the best version of you this year. The health and wellbeing section is on pages 12 - 15 With all our usual columns, I hope you find this issue inspirational, interesting and informative! As ever, let me know!

Thanks for reading the Dell Directory and supporting local businesses and organisations.

THIS ISSUE Charity: Blood Bikes Scotland...........................8 Ask your pharmacist: Pharmacy First.......... 12 Money Matters: Preparing for the financial year end.............................................. 19 I love food: Cooking is dangerous................ 22 Wine tasting: Raising a glass...or a flute?...................................................................... 23 Lynne’s column: Every Day is Good............ 34 Local Environment: The Elusive Water Rail............................................................. 36 Puzzles.................................................................. 37 Clubs & Classes................................................. 38

COVER IMAGE: Blood Bikes Scotland (BBS): Supporting the NHS. See P8-9

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BLOOD BIKES SC TLAND “Behind every journey made on the bikes, there’s a patient – someone is waiting for a critical test result, medication, equipment or urgent medical notes.”

I’m in Balerno speaking with Phil Dodsworth, one of the Trustees of Blood Bikes Scotland (BBS).

BBS is a voluntary organisation which supports the NHS by transporting, free of charge, blood and other test samples from wards to laboratories. They also deliver medication to patients’ homes, and support GPs, District Nurses, care homes and community hospitals with transport of small, urgent items.

“The bikes can get through traffic quickly – especially useful when the journey includes the by-pass during rush hours – so we can get pathology samples to labs quickly, or urgent medication to patients who need it,” explains Phil.

While speed is of the essence for much of their work, the biggest benefit is cost avoidance for the NHS. By being on-call to provide urgent transport free of charge, BBS saves the NHS a significant amount of money that would otherwise be spent on their own drivers, external courier services and taxis.

Blood Bikes Scotland cover the Lothians, Forth Valley, Borders, Fife and Tayside. Sister organisations support NHS Trusts elsewhere

in Scotland and the UK, and they all work together in relays when necessary to cover long distances. Recently, a sample had to be taken urgently from the new Sick Kids Hospital in Edinburgh to a specialist laboratory in Bristol.

In awful weather just before Christmas, BBS, Dumfries & Galloway Blood Bikes, North West Blood Bikes, Staffs & Shropshire Blood Bikes and Severn Freewheelers EVS all worked in relay and delivered the sample in 7.5 hours.

Whilst not blue-light vehicles, the incredible value of the service provided by blood bikes is formally recognised in that, like the emergency services, they are exempt from road tax. During the height of the first lockdown in 2020, blood bikes continued to deliver vital PPE and Covid test samples, and BP included them in their free fuel provision along with police, fire and NHS vehicles. Many of us know what it’s like to be anxiously waiting for a Covid PCR test result, and in Fife the NHS is currently using BBS to transport the huge number of PCR tests they are carrying out - getting them to the laboratories, helping to keep results turnaround time as short as possible, and reducing pressure on the trust’s own transport hub.

Other items needing transport include baby milk and, believe it or not, physical files of patient notes or x-rays urgently needed by medics.

The fleet of 14 motorcycles is supplemented by three cars for transporting larger equipment – although they have been known to strap a walking frame to the back of a motorcycle on one occasion when it was urgently needed!

Riders are out in all weather conditions, and the fleet of BMW bikes are modified to allow for ambitious load carrying, with panniers and a tray on most bikes. There are nine R1250RTs, two F750GSs and a couple of other bikes - including one Zero electric motorbike suitable for short fast runs.

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Volunteer riders, controllers and everyone involved provides the service completely free of charge. Operating in shifts 7 days a week, including public holidays, in 2021 they received 9881 requests for transport, and saved the NHS hundreds of thousands of pounds in fees – money that can be used directly for frontline services instead.

The monthly overhead for the charity of running the bikes 365 days a year (tyres, insurance, fuel, maintenance and repairs) is around £4,500. The service is entirely dependent on donations from the public and corporate sponsors, so they are grateful for every single donation. You can raise money for Blood Bikes Scotland while shopping online, completely free of charge to you – see the sidebox for details.

Phil was once called on to take a teddy bear to a distraught little girl in the Sick Kids who had left it behind and was unable to settle. Teddy promptly arrived by motorcycle (which was on its way anyway with other jobs for the hospital) to a happy little girl and great relief of parents and nurses. There are some things whose value you just can’t measure.

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Shop with a huge number of retailers via Give as You Live, and a percentage of your purchase value is donated to BBS. Please see www.giveasyoulive.com/join/ bloodbikesscotland

Direct donations are also welcome from the public and businesses. See ways to donate at bloodbikesscotland.co.uk/donate

VOLUNTEER! Volunteers are always welcome to join the current team of 120 motorcyclists covering the area including the Lothians, from Tayside to the Borders.

Riders need an advanced riding qualification.

Non-riding volunteers are also welcome; every shift needs a Controller, the point of contact between the NHS and the riders.

Please contact BBS at the details above.

For more information see: www.bloodbikesscotland.co.uk Blood Bikes Scotland is a charity registered in Scotland, No. SC042970.

This article was written by Helen-Jane Gisbourne after meeting Phil Dodsworth, a Trustee at Blood Bikes Scotland, in Edinburgh. Helen-Jane is the editor of Konect magazines and lives in West Lothian with her family. @KonectMagazines

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HEALTH

This month we answer some key questions to explain what you can expect from the new NHS service, Pharmacy First.

What issues can you help me with under this service, do I need an appointment and how much does it cost?

I and my trained team members can help you with minor health concerns, you do not need an appointment and there is no charge for the service. You will be asked for your name, date of birth and postcode, then you will be asked about your symptoms. This consultation can take place in one of our private consultation rooms.

What sort of health concerns can you help me with under this service?

The service includes a broad range of health concerns including acne, cold sores, cystitis, earache, eczema, headlice, impetigo, mouth ulcers, sore throat, coughs and colds, threadworms, thrush, verrucas and warts.

Do you only give advice or can you also give me medicines?

This will depend on the condition and what we think is most suitable for you. This may be some self-care for you to follow at home, or I, or one of the team, may give you appropriate nonprescription treatment, for which there will be no charge. Or, as a prescribing pharmacist, under Pharmacy First Plus I may be able to help you further with a prescribed medicine.

If you give me a prescription medicine will my Doctor know about this?

Yes, absolutely, I will set up a Patient Medication Record for you and write up a note of the concern we discussed and the outcome of that discussion including any medicines prescribed. Importantly, if I think that it is better for you to see your GP right away then I would refer you.

If you have any other queries about the service do please come and ask.

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This article was contributed by Juliette Paton, Superintendent Pharmacist, Colinton Village Pharmacy.

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MONEY MATTERS

Preparing for the financial year end Having welcomed in 2022, here are three tasks you should be considering in the runup to the end of the tax year in April.

1. Make the most of your ISA allowance ISAs can be a great way of making your money work harder for you, as any money you put into them is free of any further liability to Income Tax or Capital Gains Tax. You can put up to £20,000 per person into an ISA this tax year – this is a use it or lose it allowance.

2. Pay what you can into your pension Generally speaking, a pension is a tax-efficient way of saving for your retirement and due to greater choice and flexibility, it’s a more attractive option for retirement savers than ever before. It really is worth topping up your pension as much as you can and making use of any

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unused allowances from previous tax years.

3) Use your gifting allowances to avoid unnecessary IHT - Unfortunately, too many families are still getting a tax shock when their parents or grandparents die. Although the tax-free threshold of £325,000 per person may seem generous, the 40% rate of Inheritance Tax (IHT) is not. We all have annual gifting allowances; a financial adviser can tell you how to best utilise yours.

The value of an investment will be directly linked to the performance of the funds selected and may fall as well as rise. You may get back less than the amount invested.

The levels and bases of taxation, and reliefs from taxation, can change at any time and are generally dependent on individual circumstances.

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I  FOOD

How much of your day has to do with food? Thinking about it, buying it, preparing it, fretting about the fats or carbs in it, savouring it, dealing with leftovers, daydreaming about more food … I realised a long time ago that I was fairly consumed with what I consumed! Some people eat to survive. For others, like me, thoughts of breakfast get us out of bed in the morning!

Cooking is dangerous I’ve been cooking since I was 10 years old, so I’ve experienced most kitchen accidents.

I’ve burnt myself on hot pans, steam, and boiling water. I’ve cut myself with knives, choppers, and broken glass in the washing up bowl. I’ve handled chilies … and then rubbed my eyes. I’ve been clobbered by items falling out of a cupboard, and I’ve raised my head, forgetting I was under an open cupboard door. But my most traumatic kitchen memory is not of a cut, burn or even a bash. Rather it was a ferocious attack by a corkscrew as I attempted to make coq au vin.

Friends were coming to dinner and I was rushing to get the meal ready. Our children were 10 and 7 at the time, and I’d fed them before getting started on the coq au vin.

So I was hurrying, trying desperately to make up for lost time. The chicken was in the pan, cooking nicely and I’d come to the ‘add red wine’ bit.

We had one of those corkscrews that looks like a man doing jumping jacks. I screwed it into the cork, and somehow in my haste, I trapped one of my fingers in the device.

It pinched my skin and hung on fiercely.

I was attached to a corkscrew that was attached to a bottle of wine!

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my predicament, he realised that in order to free me he needed to turn the top of the corkscrew either to the right or to the left.

He made the wrong choice, and I screamed like a woman in labour. My eldest child ran into the room, glared at her Dad, and said, “What have you done to my mother?!”

Somewhat distraught, my husband said he would get something from his toolbox that would help. My imagination ran wild. I didn’t want to wait to see what he brought back.

I had to try turning the corkscrew again!

I turned it slightly. It didn’t hurt, so I kept turning in that direction. When my husband reappeared, I was free!

I was holding my hand under the cold water tap when the guests arrived. My skin wasn’t broken, but there was a small white ridge on the injured finger. Like a tiny mountain. I explained to them what had happened and that I was glad we didn’t have to ask them to babysit so my husband could drive me -- attached to a corkscrew, attached to a bottle of red wine – to the emergency room.

Dinner was a bit late.

I FOOD is contributed by Suzanne Green.

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WINE TASTING

Did you pop open a bottle or two of bubbly to celebrate Christmas or to welcome the New Year? We celebrated with a chilled bottle of Pol Roger ‘Pure’ Extra Brut non-vintage Champagne. A delicious treat and slightly different to the Brut Champagne I usually enjoy.

Champagne producers add a little ‘dosage’ sugar solution to Brut Champagne and while the resultant wines are not considered sweet, the ‘Pure’ label indicates this wine has zero additional sugar solution added and is therefore ‘Extra Brut’ or extra dry.

This results in an austere, refined, crisp, structured wine with a dry finish and pronounced acidity. The ‘mousse’ or bubble, was delicate yet persistent and made the Champagne refreshing and clean. The wine tasted beautiful! A bit like biting into a crisp Granny Smith apple.

A glass of Champagne served in gorgeous, elegant flutes showcases the bubbles and the colour of the wine. However, if I am appraising or critiquing a wine to give a professional opinion, I will use an ISO standard wine tasting glass. You may not believe it, but the shape, size and type of glass used can greatly influence how a wine smells or tastes! For example, the curve of the glass can shape how wine enters the mouth or may prevent an aroma rising from the glass. Industry standard tasting glasses are used by professional tasters around the world to taste all types of still sparkling and dessert wines regardless of price. So the cheapest to the most expensive wines in the world are judged on a level playing field.

The monthly wine tasting column is contributed by Joanne Frette. Joanne lives in Juniper Green with her husband and three children. For wine recommendations, reviews and details of future tasting events, please go to swirlsipsocialise.com @KonectMagazines

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Every Day is Good

On New Year’s Day I went for a walk to ponder how best to approach the coming year. I’d spent the morning exchanging greetings with friends and family via text messages and scanning memes on social media and I wanted to figure out what I hoped to achieve in 2022.

My head was full of weighing up the merits of making intentions rather than resolutions or embracing the whole “you don’t need a ‘whole new me’ – you’re already awesome” type vibe.

I agree that I may not need a whole new me but I could definitely benefit from an upgrade to a more cheerful, efficient, environmentallyfriendly model!

Almost two years of working from home have left my house looking like it’s been ransacked most of the time and my food cupboards generally looking like they belong to Old Mother Hubbard rather than Mrs. Beeton (showing my age with that last reference there!). So many areas to choose from in terms of selfimprovement!

Underpinning it all, though, was the feeling that for most of 2021 I just wasn’t as happy as I felt I should have been, given my

incredibly fortunate circumstances. If you have to navigate a path through a pandemic how fortunate to be able to do it with your family by your side in your cosy home and to be able to continue to work full time whilst never having to cross the threshold to commute. Surely living the dream? But the daily grind of dull yet necessary tasks coupled with limitations on social lives can make even the most charmed life sometimes seem like an endless loop on a fairly tedious treadmill.

As I walked past the entrance to the village a lovely man walking towards me smiled so we stopped and started to chat. We spoke about the unseasonable warm weather, how it was incredible that here was another year beginning and just about the plight of the world in general. He told me how a friend of his had once said to him “Every day is a good day if you’re able to get out your bed and go about your life”. How true and yet how often we forget this.

We ended our pleasant chat with best wishes for the new year and an agreement that we should enjoy and make the most of every day. What better way to embrace a new year than that?

Find at least one thing to look forward to every day – no matter how small. A break with a cup of tea or coffee in your favourite, best mug. Wear your best clothes even if you’re not going out. Eat something delicious, read gripping stories, listen to music that uplifts or relaxes you, watch TV and films that entertain you. Treat every day (and yourself) as if they were special – because they are.

Lynne lives in Colinton with her husband and two children. She dreams of being a freelance writer when she grows up but mostly just avoids growing up!

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LOCAL ENVIRONMENT

At the height of lockdown last winter, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I came across a gem of a reed bed only a few minutes walk from my house.

How could I have walked past this gold mine so many times?

There were stonechats, wrens, and a wellhidden snipe. One day I saw something move and couldn’t believe my eyes when I realised there was also a pair of very elusive water rail lurking in the reeds too.

I think people thought I was mad as I sat in the snow, staring intently in to this reed bed for hours at a time. Lots of people stopped to ask what I was looking at, and only occasionally would the bird break from cover before quickly going in to hiding again. After it did, I explained to everyone just how elusive the water rail is and their appearance tends to attract quite the crowd, as was the case in Linlithgow at the same time. I was keeping it our little secret though, one for me and the locals to enjoy as winter progressed and nature therapy was helping us through lockdown.

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They’re nearly impossible to see in summer thanks to the cover provided by the reeds but I’ve been told the birds have made an appearance in the same place, which is very exciting. There’s every chance if you see a blonde female sitting by a reed bed in Bathgate with a camera, it’s probably me!

This column is contributed by Clare Harte and Kate Stevenson, who grew up in Edinburgh and now live in West Lothian. Together they run Scottish Sisters Photography and travel around the country to watch and photograph amazing wildlife and scenic landscapes. Follow them on Facebook @ScottishSistersPhotography @KonectMagazines

PUZZLES

FEBRUARY CROSSWORD

Currie H rticultural Society FLOWERS | FRUIT | VEGETABLES BAKING | CRAFTS Our Society is hoping this year to be able to have their Annual Show on the last Saturday of August. We are planning to extend the boundaries to include the possibility of more people entering produce and crafts for competition at the Show.

To this end we would require to make alterations to our Constitution and wonder of the residents of Colinton, Ratho and Kirknewton would be interested in joining in.

^^^ Solution in the March edition of Konect ACROSS: 1. King’s title (7), 5. Herb (5), 8. Sprays water (9), 9. Curved line (3), 10. Sword (5), 12. Remote military camp (7), 13. Incendiary guns (13), 15. Highest noble rank (7), 17. Tests (5), 19. Concerned with the environment (3), 20. Raised area (9), 22. Give up (5), 23. Wandered (7).

Our website is www.currieshow.org and there is the facility to let us know if this would be of interest to your communities before we have our next committee meeting on 7th March.

DOWN: 1. Disguises (5), 2. Glass container (3), 3. Genuine, honest (7), 4. Colourful small birds (13), 5. Hat (5), 6. e.g. EastEnders (4,5), 7. Finds (7), 11. Region in space (5,4), 13. Nervous (7), 14. Outside (4-3), 16. Fear (5), 18. Church council (5), 21. Climbing plant (3).

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SOLUTIONS

SPORTS, HOBBIES, LEARNING, SUPPORT GROUPS & MORE...

DESTINATION JUDO @ CRAIGLOCKHART Craiglockhart sports Centre. Wednesdays 3.45pm (5-8 year olds) and 4.30pm (9+ year olds). Judo is a dynamic sport based on a combination of balance, co-ordinationation and reaction.

Most importantly judo helps children become more self aware, disciplined, and polite. Of course we teach all this in a fun way. For information please email callum@destinationjudo.com or call 0131 467 9043.

COLINTON LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY Want to know about local history? Visit: www.colintonhistory.org or Email: enquiries@colintonhistory.org

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COLINTON LITERARY SOCIETY Our talks are postponed until October 2022. Keep up to date with latest news about the Lit on the Church website www.colinton-parish.com

ACROSS: 1. Dock, 3. Diamonds, 9. Execute, 10. Agree, 11. Manufactured, 14. Nap, 16. Crude, 17. You, 18. Nevertheless, 21 .Adapt, 22. Pattern, 23. Everyday, 24 Lyre.

DOWN: 1. Dreaming, 2. Clean, 4. Ice, 5. Measurements, 6. Nursery, 7. Spew, 8. Sufficiently, 12. Count, 13. Nuisance, 15. Prepare, 19. Every, 20. Fake, 22. Pea.

COLINTON GARDEN CLUB Club members share their love of gardening, gardens and nature, and work together to preserve and add value to our quality of life here in south-west Edinburgh. Monthly meetings on a Monday currently via Zoom.

For more information see www.colintongardens.org.uk or Email: membership@colintongardens.org

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LUNCHCLUB Every Wednesday 1pm – 3pm, 3 courses £4. Spaces are limited, first come first served. Oxgangs Neighbourhood Centre, 71 Firhill Drive, EH13 9EU. Please visit: www.oxgangsneighbourhoodcentre.org.uk PARENT AND TODDLER GROUP Tuesdays, am session and pm session for two age groups (all under 5s). Oxgangs Neighbourhood Centre, 71 Firhill Drive, EH13 9EU. Contact for details Tel.: 0131 466 0678 or Email: oxgangsneighbourhoodcentre@gmail.com OXGANGS NEIGHBOUR CENTRE CAFE 10.00am to 1.00pm. Bacon rolls, baked potatoes, toasties, specials, teas, coffees and cake. Sit in or takeaway.

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