Dell Directory February 2024

February 2024

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

We’re delighted that Dynamic Earth are offering Dell Directory readers the chance to win a family day out at their wonderful planetarium in Edinburgh! See the Stargazing column and competition on page 37, I look forward to receiving your entries!

The walk feature takes us up to Balerno and Currie, where William Weir shares his observations on a short walk that takes in fields, the river and optional cafe stops to warm up! A lovely way to get out and get moving for a change of scenery without going too far.

Many of the local businesses advertising in this magazine have special offers and discounts for Dell Directory readers, to help out with everything from home and garden improvements to health and beauty. Look out for the special offers and mention The Dell Directory when you contact them.

Thanks as ever for reading Konect and supporting local businesses and organisations.

P8 Local Walk: Field & River....................................8 Health: Mental Health & Wellbeing............... 12 Recipe: Wok Star!.............................................. 22 Wine Tasting: Pairing across continents..... 24 Real Life................................................................ 28 Puzzles.................................................................. 36 Stargazing: Gaze upwards and explore..... 37 WIN! A family day out at Dynamic Earth..... 37 Clubs & Classes...........................................38-39

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THE LYMPHOY ROAD WATER OF LEITH LOOP Mid-winter. It’s time to shake off some of that January lethargy as we set-off on our walk – heading up the drive past the National Trust for Scotland’s Malleny Gardens and stepping onto the rough road at the top running east.

There is an air of dormancy over the world this afternoon to match our own of the past couple of weeks, and with a passive, overcast sky above it is cold yet not bitter. Fields on the high side of the road are ploughed and sown, ready and waiting for a new season.

It is not long, however, before we tune into signs of life. Blue tits are singing ‘si-si-chuwewewe’ in the bare boughs above and a pair of wrens alight, tails erect and twitching, on fence wire to our right before disappearing back, mouse-like, into the undergrowth.

Green shoots of new crops push through in the furrows and - easily missed at first glance – woodpigeons, hundreds upon hundreds – forage, cryptically camouflaged, among them. A couple of squadrons take to the air we pass, wings slapping loudly upon take off.

The steeper, less regular, fields which slope down towards the Water of Leith on the north side of the road are given over to pasture.

Here, horses and sheep munch hay from bales. They move little, other than the side-toside motion of their jaws, conserving precious energy. By one gate, a small black pony stands beneath a holly bush, peering dolefully through a long, bedraggled fringe. A sprightly robin appears, hopping through the mud from clod to clod before perching in the holly next to its equine friend, enchanting yet a little melancholy, like a Christmas card someone forgot to take down.

A slate grey cloud base hangs just clear of the Fife hills, but beyond, farther north and west, the sun is shining, illuminating the tops of snow-capped mountains as far as Schiehallion and the Ben Lawers group. As this inspiring view opens out, with the city spread out below, it feels an appropriate spot to ruminate upon the old year past - and to contemplate a new one now begun.

After half an hour or so walking through the fields, we emerge onto Currie’s Kirkgate.

We turn left and almost immediately leave the road again, taking a short access path between houses to join the Water of Leith walkway, which tracks the route of the former Balerno Railway line, for the second half of this needle’s-eye loop. From field to

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river we go, the water’s chatter now our constant companion.

In contrast to the stony Lymphoy Road, the walkway is newly surfaced, and we pick up our stride. I have reached that stage of my walk where, after a while, the slight friction of my feet within my boots has generated a gentle warmth and, for a minute or two, I simply savour this comfortable, comforting sensation and the meditative, metronomic rhythm of my steps beneath me. After a while I look up and see a cock pheasant, resplendent in racing green and bronze, on a grassy bank to my left. As if showing off that he can outdo my pedestrian effort, he suddenly breaks into a roadrunner-like sprint, making off down-slope. There are more birds here too, goldfinches twitter ‘tippit-tit tippit-tit

tiuu’ in the tops of trees river-side and we spot a delightful grey wagtail on the moss-covered bank by the water’s edge.

As we near Balerno again, at a meander where the river arcs close to Lanark Road, a wall of concrete reinforcements runs along by the path. I am transfixed by a group of small trees which have successfully taken root in cavities therein, trunks moulded around the hard edges of the concrete for maximum purchase. It is a reminder that, whether it is coping with the season’s extremes or the vagaries of human activity, life – as ever – finds a way.

With cafes at Balerno and Currie offering a half-way stop should you need it this walk can be started at either end and is a great way to help achieve your 10,000 daily steps.

This article was contributed by William Weir. William is a scientist and amateur writer/photographer who lives locally. In his spare time he enjoys exploring the trails and wild spaces of West Lothian and the Pentland Hills.

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HEALTH

Our mental health and wellbeing are important – they are things we need to value and look after. Statistics tell us that 1 in 4 or us will have a problem with our mental health this year.

This may be problems with sleeplessness due to the worry of a work deadline. It may be Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Dementia or Bipolar-disorder. There are many conditions that can affect our mental health and yet we remain reluctant to talk about them, such is the stigma attached. This means that many people with mental health issues do not get the information and help that they need and that their families do not get support either.

There are moves to change the way Society views mental ill health to encourage us to be more open and honest about the way we feel. Charities such as MIND do a great job at raising awareness of various conditions and how to get help, as they are determined that no-one should face mental ill health alone (www.mind.org.uk).

The statistics published by the National Records of Scotland show that in 2022 there were 762 probable deaths by suicide. Of these, 556 were men and 206 were women. Each one is a tragedy. The biggest threat to the life of a man under the age of 35 is himself. If you are concerned, please do

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Employers are now being encouraged to have a mental health first aider available in the same way as they are expected to have a trained first aider available for physical ill health problems or accidents in the workplace. Raising the awareness of mental health issues is a good thing.

Self-care is never selfish. You cannot continue to give your best to your work, family and friends if you do not consider what you need for yourself. One way of thinking about your well being is to think about yourself as a tank.

On the positive side, what fills your tank with joy and energy? On the negative side, what drains your tank? By writing this down, you may be able to see which activities such as walking your dog, singing in a choir, cooking or reading help your mental health. The negative things that add to your stress levels could be excessive work deadlines, caring duties, relationship issues or the feeling that you never have enough time to do things properly – that there never is an end to your “to do” list.

Once you can see what contributes to your own good mental health and what detracts from it, you can try to make sure that you keep your tank topped up – make the time to sleep well, eat regularly, exercise, meet friends and do the activities that give you joy. Remember, never be afraid to seek information and help for your mental health if you have any concerns. There is help and information out there – looking after your mental health and wellbeing is always worth it.

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FOOD & DRINK

Who better than award-winning TV chef and cookery book author Ching-He Huang to help you celebrate Chinese New Year – which this year falls on 10 February, starting a Year of the Dragon – with one of her favourite dishes for feasting?

Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp rapeseed oil • 1 clove garlic, crushed and finely chopped • 1 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped • ¼ red onion, sliced • 100g mini chicken fillets, sliced into strips • 1 tbsp Shaohsing rice wine or dry sherry • 2-3 raw or cooked tiger prawns, shelled and deveined, sliced in half down the middle • 30g bacon lardons, finely diced • 1 tsp dark soy sauce • 6 canned water chestnuts or 10 canned bamboo shoots, drained • 1 small handful of beansprouts • 1 tbsp oyster sauce • ¼ tsp chilli bean sauce • 1 tbsp low-sodium light soy sauce • 2 spring onions, trimmed and sliced on the diagonal To serve • Cooked rice

Serves 1

Preparation time 10 minutes Cooking time 6-7 minutes

Method:

1. Heat a wok over a high heat until smoking. Add the rapeseed oil and give it a swirl. Add the garlic, chilli and red onion and stir-fry for 5 seconds. Add the chicken strips and let them settle for 5 seconds, then cook, stirring, for 10 seconds.

2. Add the Shaohsing rice wine or sherry, and then add the prawns and bacon.

Toss for a further 5 seconds. Season with the dark soy sauce and stir to coat all the ingredients.

3. Add the water chestnuts or bamboo shoots plus the beansprouts. Season with oyster sauce, chilli bean sauce and light soy sauce. Toss and mix well until well combined and the chicken is completely cooked through.

4. Sprinkle over the spring onions. Serve with cooked rice of your choice.

Vegan Option Use smoked tofu instead of the chicken, prawns and bacon, and add sliced shiitake mushrooms.

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WINE TASTING

When we are in a restaurant in Italy or France, you usually find that the local food and local wine pair perfectly! This makes sense, it’s no coincidence that white wine and seafood from the same region are the perfect partner, or sauvignon from the Loire works incredibly well with goats’ cheese from that area.

Generations of trial and error, knowledge and experience make these combinations a no brainer. But what of food from regions without the western wine growing tradition?

Asian food, food from north Africa, or perhaps dishes from the islands of Barbados? How do you select a wine that pairs with food from these places? What wine pairs with Peking duck?

First, let’s think about the elements common in all food, regardless of where it’s from. You will find salt, sour notes, hot (heat), textured umami character and sweetness. In Asian food, these elements often conflated together, for example, sweet and sour, hot and salty. In addition, there many different plates of food on the table at the same time, lots of opportunity to try different foods each with different flavours and degrees of heat, spice or sweetness but this makes its hard to find the perfect wine pairing.

If you’d like a white wine with your meal, select a wine with less than 12% alcohol.

You don’t add alcohol to fire so avoid adding it to heat! Oaked wine exacerbates the saltiness of food so select an unoaked wine with a bright high acidity. A slightly sweet white wine or rose wine is often a good option with Asian foods too. I really enjoy a sparkling white wine with Asian food as the bubbles are very refreshing.

Perhaps you prefer a red wine. My advice is to avoid big full bodied, high alcohol wines. Again, avoid oaked wine and look for fruity, low tannin, lower alcohol, lighter styles of red wine like an unoaked Tempranillo, Pinot Noir or Dolcetto.

There are several dishes where wine just won’t work, these dishes are just too hot. When it comes to a vindaloo…… a refreshing yogurt Lassi might help!

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 24 | THE DELL

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I could clip on my walkman and listen to some great tunes!

Fast forward 12 or 15 years and I’m living in Balerno, Scotland – having moved from USA – and have a husband and two little girls. I know I need to get fit, but still have no interest in group exercise. I decide I must learn to swim, even though it means joining a class. Why? Because I’ve had a startling realisation: I live in Britain. It’s an island. And I can’t swim!

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or years I’ve avoided joining any sort of organised exercise class. I think this is because I remember doing a ladies’ aerobics class when I was younger.

I’d go there straight from work – a quick change from business suit to leotards. And then I’d try desperately to keep up, while the instructor screeched (yes, screeched) at us from the front: “Come on, ladies!

Ladies!” It was a kind of torture, and I only did it because my friend invited me, and I wanted to have some level of fitness.

It wasn’t just that I disliked organised exercise. It was that plus the screaming instructor, plus the fact that I’m not very coordinated. So I was always worried I wouldn’t do something correctly. It seemed to me that most of the time the rest of the class was moving smoothly into the next instruction, while I was still pondering what Screechy Lady had asked us to do.

Eventually I left that class, and started jogging. I was happy that I didn’t have to go to a class or join a gym, and

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With a lot of encouragement I learned to do the breast stroke, sort of – I’m still not sure if I do it correctly. Then I joined a friend once a week to do laps at the high school pool. (Actually, we did lengths, but she never managed to train me not to say laps.)

I felt good about the exercise, but then I started getting pain in my right knee. “Oh,” said the doctor, shaking his head, “Sounds like Breast Stroke Knee”. So I stopped swimming.

Fast forward again to today. Back and knee pain compelled me to sign up for a Pilates class. The instructor is encouraging, and she doesn’t screech at all. So far I’ve not done myself any major damage. The first week was kind of embarrassing, though.

I’d gone in with long, shaped nails that I’d managed to maintain for a couple of weeks.

As I lowered myself to the mat, one of them snapped! Looking down, I noticed blood filling in the area all around my cuticle! I tried to slip out as quietly as possible, and then had to do the rest of the lesson with a wet paper towel wrapped round my finger.

I’m still not very coordinated. I still think too hard about what exactly the instructor is asking us to do, and which body parts are involved. But hopefully one day the class will vote me “Most Likely to Improve”. real LIFE is contributed by Suzanne Green.

Suzanne, a freelance writer/editor. She is married to Andy and they have two adult daughters.

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STARGAZING

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GAZE UPWARDS & EXPLORE OUR STARRY NIGHT SKY

After the festivities and frivolity have passed, February and March are a great opportunity for exploring our wonderful night sky. That glorious starry curtain is all too often hidden by clouds, or competing with bright city lights, but here’s hoping that you manage to find time to go Milky Way surfing this year.

Very prominent in the south is the wonderful constellation of Orion, the hunter.

A bright hourglass of stars with three stars in a line making up Orion’s belt. Trace a line down using the belt and you’ll get to Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. Trace up and you’ll get to the prominent ‘V’ of Taurus, the bull. A little further leads you to the Pleiades, a wonderful open cluster of stars. Directly below the belt is the amazing Orion nebula, a star forming region visible as just a faint smudge.

Jupiter is still shining high and bright for us in the evening sky towards the SW. Some binoculars and a steady hand can reveal the four bright Galilean Moons in their orbital dance around their gassy host. Telescopes reward you with the ‘tiger stripes’, bands of fast-moving winds in Jupiter’s atmosphere.

On the evenings of the 14th/15th February, you’ll have a new crescent Moon, Jupiter and the Pleiades lined up nicely on the sky. Between Jupiter and the Pleiades lurks Uranus too, but you’ll need binoculars to observe this elusive planet. Happy stargazing!

The stargazing column is contributed by Dr Alistair Bruce, astronomer and planetarium manager at Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh’s world class science centre and planetarium, and the UK’s leading earth science engagement charity. dynamicearth.org.uk

We’ve teamed up with Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh, www.dynamicearth.org.uk, who are offering Konect readers the chance to win a family ticket. Valid for 2 adults, with up to 2 accompanying children, RRP £63.00.

Dynamic Earth is Edinburgh’s world-class Science Centre and Planetarium, situated at the foot of Arthur’s seat and telling the epic story of planet earth.

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Closing date for entries 23rd February 2024 Head to www.konect.scot/win or scan the QR code to enter your answer. The prize must be used within six months of the competition.

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

ST CUTHBERT'S PLAYGROUP - 10.00am 11.30am - Every Monday during school term time. £2 per family. Toys, snacks and a fun songs!

St Cuthbert's Church Hall, Westgarth Avenue, Colinton. Contact Rev Nicki McNelly for more information: stcuthbertsrector@gmail.com FORGET ME NOTES - The Forget Me Notes Project is a charity that uses music to build community and combat isolation in a variety of settings On the first and third Monday of each month - 2.00pm - 4.00pm in St Cuthbert's Church Hall, Westgarth Avenue, Colinton. Join us when you can, for an hour of music and memories, followed by refreshments. All welcome.

Please contact Rev Nicki for more information: stcuthbertsrector@gmail.com (www. forgetmenotes.org.uk) COLINTON FRIENDLY BRIDGE CLUB - Held in St Cuthberts Church Hall every second Tuesday afternoon between 2.00pm - 4.00pm. Please contact Ken McLeod on 0131 466 0888 for more information.

TEA AND TOTS - Stay and play for ages 0-5 with their parent/carer - all are welcome! Toys, crafts, refreshments, song-time and more. Every Thursday during school term time, 10am-11.30am at Redeemer Church, 64 Bridge Road, Colinton, EH13 OLQ. FREE. E: admin@redeemeredinburgh.org T: 0131 441 7327 ST CUTHBERT’S BADMINTON CLUB was created about 1946. It meets in the Church Hall in Westgarth Avenue, Colinton. It is non-competitive and meets on Monday evenings at 8.00pm between September and Easter. For details, call Archie Clark on 0131 449 4703.

PENTLAND BRIDGE CLUB - Come and play duplicate bridge in a friendly atmosphere. We meet in St Margaret's Court, Juniper Green on Thursdays at 7pm. Table money £3. Less experienced players made very welcome. For further information see www.bridgewebs.com/ pentland or email mthjkb@gmail.com COLINTON LITERARY SOCIETY - Meetings start with coffee, tea and wine at 7.30pm and are held at Dreghorn Hall, 22 Dreghorn Loan, EH13 0DE. Full programme details are at www.colintonparish.com/colinton-literary-society.html 38 | THE DELL

COFFEE, CAKE AND COMPANY - Drop in for a free coffee between 10.30am and 12pm on Mondays from 4th September at Redeemer Church Edinburgh, 64 Bridge Road EH13 0LT. We are mostly retired people, but all ages are welcome! More details at redeemeredinburgh. org/ccc THIS MUM RUNS - We are a small group of local women (not just Mums!) who support and empower each other to be healthier and happier.

We meet Wednesday’s at 7:30pm at the bottom of Thorburn Road, or Sunday’s at 8am in Spylaw Park for a quick warm up, 30-minute run at the pace of chat/your pace, and then a gentle cool down. We’d love to see you there! All free, run by friendly local volunteers www.thismumruns. co.uk/join-a-local-run WAVERLEY SPEAKERS CLUB - Meets in Morningside Parish Church (from 19th September), fortnightly on Tuesdays at 7.15pm.

Our aim is to improve members’ public speaking skills in a supportive atmosphere. Each evening has three prepared speeches of eight minutes, evaluated constructively by another member.

Eight impromptu short speeches follow, also evaluated. New members will be made most welcome. Contact i.wright237@btinternet.com LOCAL FLORAL ART CLUB - Sit back and enjoy relaxing evenings watching a floral demonstration with lively & interesting chat. You might even win one of the arrangements. Meet: Boroughmuir Rugby Club, Meggatland, off Colinton Road EH14 1AS. 7.30pm - 9.30pm on the 1st Monday of the month from September. Wine/tea/coffee available.

Contact: Joyce Rutherford on 0131 443 2536 or joyce.rutherford@btinternet.com COLINTON SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE CLUB - We meet fortnightly from September to end of March/beginning of April in St. Cuthbert’s Episcopal Church Hall, Westgarth Avenue from 7.45 - 9.15. We have an excellent teacher and live music so come and join us, with or without a partner, you’ll be made very welcome. Tel: 07751186359 or 07483814988.

PUPPY & ADOLESCENT DOGS GROUP CLASSES - A great way to socialise and learn all the basic obedience tricks for your pup.

Group classes take place in a puppy-proof

garden at 2 Woodfield Park. It’s a block of 5 classes spread over 5 weeks. Classes take place on either Saturday or Sunday morning and last for 45 min. For more information visit headstartdogtraining.com or call 07366 464040.

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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.

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