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Contents hooze magazine issue 4, march 2015

Welcome Page Anna Kass

Seasonal Eating - Rhubard Jonathan Palmer

Diary of a Jacques Russel Hilary Bridewell

The Rise of the Personal Computer Jonathan Palmer

Feeding the Birds Hilary Bridewell

Child Safety for Blinds Where do the New Rules Apply Bushey Blinds & Awnings

5 Ways to Secretly Nap at Work Kazim Ladimaji

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e m o c Wel Welcome to the new issue of Hooze magazine. This month, as well as bringing you more news and information about local businesses, we have more features than ever before.

In this issue we begin a new series – Diary of a Jacques Russell, a story for children about a puppy with human thoughts. We hope you will enjoy following his adventures through future issues of the magazine.

We also begin our new guide to seasonal eating. Each month we will look at one ingredient you may have growing in your garden or on your allotment and find out about the different ways you can use it in your kitchen to maintain variety in a healthy and ethically conscious diet.

We also have an important article on child safety with blinds, we look back at the history of the personal computer, we find a humorous Five Ways to Take a Nap at Work and, as ever, we have a new recipe for you to try – but this one’s not for humans, this one’s for feeding the birds in your garden!

So enjoy the new issue, and do continue to offer your suggestions and contributions.

And if you would like to market or advertise your business in Hooze, just email us at hoozemagazine@gmail.com or call us direct on 01923 801 520.

Anna Director + Design Anna Kass Editor Steve Knight Sales + Marketing Fraydoon Ghadimi Kiran Dave Contributors Jonathan Palmer Kazim Ladimaji Hilary Bridewell

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here isn’t much growing in the kitchen garden yet, and nothing in the way of fruit, which is why the sight of pink rhubarb breaking through the winter soil is such a delight. Left to its own devices, we wouldn’t see a usable crop for another month or so, but by ‘forcing’ it – growing it in complete darkness under an upturned bucket or large flower pot, for example – we will have it in our kitchens already, and it will be a staple in the late winter diet of anyone eating home-grown produce right up until the first strawberries appear in May.

In a new series of features, we will be looking in our gardens for fresh, seasonal produce that is absolutely as locally produced as it can be!

First up on the chopping board is rhubarb…

Rhubarb isn’t, of course, a fruit: it’s a vegetable – though it is mostly treated as a fruit. Indeed, the first thing we think of when rhubarb arrives in our kitchens is that great English tradition: a rhubarb crumble – and there’s nothing wrong with that! But there are alternatives that will ensure you maintain a strong variety in your desserts until the strawberries do arrive.

The Danes have an interesting idea: they top a sponge cake with rhubarb that has been flavoured with cardamom and vanilla. Typically, they will include a layer of custard between the cake batter and the rhubarb topping before baking, though do be warned that this is a delicate art! (Trust us, we have tried!

It isn’t easy to get right!) In northern France, they will fry rhubarb in vanilla butter and eat it on top of sugary brioche – simple, but very effective, as the sweetness of the brioche contrasts with the tartness of the rhubarb. It also works well in flapjacks, but it can be used in savoury dishes too – it helps to balance out the iron taste of liver; its sweetness also makes it a great partner for pork; and it goes well with mackerel too, especially after it has been lightly pickled.

So there are plenty of ideas for rhubarb, sweet and savoury, to keep us going until the strawberries arrive. And when they do… Well, strawberries and rhubarb is a match made in heaven!

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a f o y Diar Jacques Russell

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My name is Jenny, and as I always knew, from the minute I was born, that I was going to be more famous than Lassie or that dog that won BGT, I thought it would be a good idea to keep a diary of my life.

So here it is, along with my thoughts on: cats, harnesses, cuddles and other things that I have learnt so far in my life. For example: to think I used to be concerned about the way I looked, but since it has started snowing I have discovered two important facts: • A Black cat is highly visible in a snow covered garden.

• A White Jack Russell puppy is not.

The horrible black cat, Min, from next door had tried to conceal herself in a bush, by the bird table, so she could pounce on any unsuspecting bird that landed on the ground to eat food that had dropped from the bird table. Camouflaged by the snow, I managed to sneak up on her, and I nearly had her by the tail. That cat can’t half shift, she must have been doing close on 50 km per hour!

May 26th 2014 10 days old my eyes open for the first time and I commence my journal. As I am a French puppy I wonder should it be the diary of a Jacque Russell or as I am a girl: the diary of a Jacqueline Russell.

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The lovey creature that I had snuggled up to, as we both fed from our dear birth mother, Havana, is my sister, Gypsy. Unfortunately my sister has very peculiar ears, they are different to our parents. At first I was very concerned that mine were like Gypsy’s, but the moment I looked at my reflection in the water bowl, I knew all was well and I too have proper ears, exactly the same as Mums and Dads. Our ears all point up but Gypsy’s flop down. Still I am sure that somewhere out there is somebody who will love the poor, disfigured, little puppy enough to give her a home.

June 2nd Gypsy and I now are the very best of friends, we play together all the time except when we are eating, sleeping or attending to our “calls of nature”. Our Dad is called Idefix, after Obelix the Gaul’s dog, he is great fun to play with. At first Mum was afraid he would eat us, and watched him carefully when he went near us, even now, she waits until he has eaten before she lets us play together.

Names are funny things I am called after Janna - the storm’s fury - after a character in a fantasy story, but why is Mum called after the capital of Cuba? Did she come from Cuba or did her Mum’s pets just like Cigars? Our pets are called Marie and Francois.

June 10th Mum explains to us all about pets. Pets are humans, they provide all the things we need in life: food, water, treats, cuddles, walks and love. You can have more than one set of pets, she had one set when she was born and then she left them when she was two months old, to live with Marie and Francois.

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I was really concerned to hear I would leave home, but Mum explained that it was normal, and the pets would only let me go to live with someone really lovely. I just hope that they have plenty of money, as they will never find anyone to take Gypsy with her sad, droopy ears off their paws.

June 16th Gypsy and I are one month old today (in human terms), and her ears still are droopy. I keep hoping that they will start to stand up as, tomorrow we have some prospective pets coming to see us.

June 17th Shock, horror, these people were rude about Gypsy. They ooahed and arrhed over us both, but then I distinctly heard one say to the other (pointy ears are so good for this). “We don’t want the one with weird ears.” Oh, my poor sister, how can she cope with these horrible comments?

June 18th Another set of pets arrive, let’s hope they will ignore Gypsy’s floppy ears. Marie explains to them that there is only one puppy left. Gypsy already has been chosen, but I am still available.

“What!” Marie must be mistaken. I definitely heard the first, would be, pets say that they didn’t want the puppy with the weird ears.

The new lady, prospective pet, picks me up, she strokes me gently, and kisses me on my nose.

“Ears don’t matter”, she says, “I just want a little dog to love.”

Sometimes it pays to be different after all.

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See you next month, wags and kisses.

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Xboxes, mobiles… We take them for granted. So much so that it can be hard to imagine that many people can remember a time when not only did none of these things exist, but when nobody had ever really imagined they would.

It is now just 40 years since the Homebrew Computer Club held its first meeting. This was the small group of Californian uber-nerds – their number included the founders of Apple – who first began to believe that computers would soon be small enough to sit on a table in the average home.

That meeting was an historic event. Okay, it wasn’t the kind of historic event you would have liked to have been at – it really was nerdy – but it was an historic event nonetheless.

And it is also almost incredible to think that it is now just 30 years since the first .com was registered.

The name, by the way, was symbolics.com, for the company Symbolics, who made… you guessed it: computers.

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My father is retired now, but he worked for most of his life as a statistician, compiling data for cancer research. This work, even in the 1960s, required computers. Ginormous computers. Computers that took up entire rooms – and large rooms at that. To operate them you had to insert punch cards, which you had to punch out yourself by hand. It was skilled work. I, as a very young boy, imagined it to be exciting work too – massive machines emitting vapours and light and all sorts of steam-engine type noises, and my dad there with his Casey Jones engine-driver’s hat on, dutifully feeding the beast with his punch cards: digital coal. Of course, they weren’t like that at all. But at the time, I had no idea what a computer looked like. I never saw one. My dad worked in town; I never went with him – and he certainly never brought one home. His Austin A40 wasn’t anywhere big enough. Not even with the roof rack on. And anyway, we wouldn’t have got it through the front door.

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From the bird table I dangle coconuts (cut in half), bird cake and feeders: both peanut and wild bird seed. Watching the birds gives me hours of pleasure, besides doing my bit to help conserve our wildlife. The first to venture onto the table are always Blue Tits, the most common visitors are Sparrows, both House and Tree, closely followed

by Robins, Black Birds, Green Finches, Chaffinches and Magpies. However I do have Jays and occasionally Woodpeckers. Very rarely I see Gold Finches and one time a pair of Bull Finches.

My family also enjoy watching the birds feed, although sometimes they look happier than others, especially when the birds readily eat up any disasters that take place in my kitchen when I am trying out new recipes. Unlike my family who regularly turn their noses up at such delicacies as my Rhubarb and Date Tart - the birds ate it with glee. Admittedly it was a freezing, cold, snowy day and mixed it with other tastier items in a bird cake.

Sometimes the birds seem to be the only creatures on this planet that appreciate my cooking!

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5 Ways To Secretly Nap at Work

Perhaps you were up late with the newborn, or maybe you just had a hard night on the town, or perhaps you’d stayed up all night watching the Super Bowl 2015. There are many reasons, both legitimate and not so legitimate, why you might amble into work, groggy, bleary eyed and ready for a long, hard nap.

Of course, your boss might not be so keen on you napping, as you are, and so we’ve set out a few ways you can sneak in a power nap without your boss knowing.

3. In the bathroom cubicle! This is tried and tested, according to an article in the Chicago Tribune who interviewed a lot of secret nappers.

Just go in a bathroom cubicle, lock the door from the inside and no-one will dare disturb you! Take a pillow as the cubicle wall can be cold and hard!

4. During a presentation! Remember how kids used to nap at the back of the lecture hall. If you’ve got a scheduled presentation or training session you may be able to park yourself at the back with a pair of heavily tinted glasses and get in a few 10 minute snoozes between questions.

5. Asleep at the wheel! Another popular stealth napping strategy is to nap in the car at lunch-time, but you might want to get some one-way glass so people can’t tell you are inside. Also, look for a car with full reclining seats or buy a VW camper van and park on site.

1. Fixing the computer. This one you can do in plain sight. Arrange a load of computer accessories and software around your computer and on the floor around your chair. Go and lie under the table with your head buried in the cables. You can have a wonderful snooze and onlookers will think you are fixing the computer.

2. The George Costanza! Made famous by George Costanza in an episode of Seinfeld. If you have your own office, you can lock the door and slot under the desk in a comfortable, foetal napping position. Bring a pillow, as the floor can be hard.

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