HullMag Issue No.58 May 2019

May 2019

Issue No.58

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Editor’s note

Welcome to the May edition of HULLMAG. I hope you are all well and enjoying the fine sunny weather that we are enjoying at the moment. In This edition we have another wide and varied selection of articles and news stories to keep you informed and entertained. All our regular columns are here too - including Roy’s Wine, Rebekah’s Beauty Box, Fiona’s Food For Thought and Graham’s Antiques roundup.

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We would like to encourage anyone who has an interesting story to tell to contact us with it - as we are looking for local stories about Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire. It can be a local history article, or it may be about someone who deserves recognition - in fact anything that will make for an interesting and engaging piece for our readers to enjoy, be entertained by or just to keep them informed. So what are you waiting for!

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Local News

It’s Time To Get Your Skates On Come along to the Hull Arena, the Regions only Olympic sized Ice Rink.

We have a huge range of Ice Skating and Ice Hockey activities and events on offer for all of the family.

Why not take the whole family ice skating at our Public Skating sessions, with ice skating available throughout the week from only £5.45 (excludes skate hire), or have fun on the ice with friends at our Friday and Saturday Night Disco

Skate where our resident DJ plays all of the latest hits while you skate along to the music.

For the little kids, we have our Skate with Animals session every Sunday morning where children under eight can skate using one of our animal supports which is only £6.35 including skate hire.

For people who want to learn to skate or improve their skating skills we offer Group Learn to Skate and One to One Ice Skating lessons with

qualified Skate UK coaches plus we have our popular Junior Ice Hockey Academy for kids who want to get their children into Ice Hockey.

The Hull Arena is also available for Ice Skating Parties and event bookings with a range of options for Ice Skating, event and meeting room hire and catering options available so why not make a booking for a birthday party or a meeting.

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Dog restrictions on East Riding beaches Dog owners are being reminded that restrictions excluding their pets from certain parts of beaches along the East Coast came into force on Wednesday, 1 May this year.

The annual exclusion, enforced by East Riding of Yorkshire Council, will run until Monday 30 September and was brought in to help families and visitors enjoy the seaside without being bothered by nuisance dogs or fouling.

The four beach areas affected by the dog exclusion are: Bridlington north beach Bridlington south beach Hornsea beach Withernsea beach

Hull Independent Visitors Project The Hull Independent Visitors project has supported hundreds of children in care since 2001 but did you know that every child in care is entitled to an Independent Visitor? We are looking to recruit volunteers for this role which is crucial for a young person as it provides them stability and consistency despite the challenges they may be facing.

“I never realised how easy it would be to support a young person in need by just being there” “Having an Independent Visitor is ace, we do fun things such as bowling or playing football and he is there just to see me and no one else” All the staff at the Hull team are volunteers themselves and are 100% committed in supporting you regardless of your experience in working with young people.

Please call Rich or Erica on 01482 615780 for a chat about the role and how you can be involved.

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Small space hacks: the best flexible furniture and interior design tricks to maximise space in your home

Make the most of your compact home by choosing the right furniture and using some clever hacks...

The dilemma of how to furnish small rooms and awkward corners to make the space feel bigger is one of the most difficult interior design challenges to solve. And it’s a universal problem for flat dwellers and people downsizing.

However, compact living doesn’t have to mean compromising on style.

Here are five of the best small space hacks from our experts: 1. Slim down the sofa One of biggest challenges of moving into a small flat or any property with a narrow doorway is being able to actually get large pieces of furniture, such as beds, sofas and wall units, inside.

It’s not unheard of for entire window frames to be removed in order to squeeze in a bulky sofa.

“Sofas are one of the largest pieces of furniture in any home so if you’re limited on space, think carefully

about the style you’re going for,” says Imogen France, interior stylist and designer.

“One clever trick is to allow daylight to flow through a room — and easy access for awkward stairwells — is to invest in a sofa without any arms” 2. Flexibility is key Open-plan layouts in modern flats

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and studios mean living areas and bedrooms can share the same space, so there’s an art to ensuring these zones don’t merge together.

One way to minimise wasted space is to invest is in a bed which folds up against the wall, or a day bed which can double up as a sofa.

“Multi-functional designs that provide two functions in a very

small footprint will be your friend in a compact home. Dining tables are always space hungry, so if there are only two of you most days opt for a folding table design that will cater for you on a minimal footprint during the week but the can turn into a dinner party extraordinaire come the weekend,” says France.

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House & Home 3. Skinny frames The Scandinavian-inspired, midcentury modern look continues to be a key interiors trend.

Key characteristics of the muchloved timeless look include lowsitting designs, clean lines and classic appeal, which helps to create the illusion of a much larger room.

Opting for skinny framed or glass furniture allows all-important daylight to flow right through a room, while heavier set furniture can block out the light, punctuating a room.

Light woods, colours and metallic surfaces all help to reflect light, which opens up a room and adds a more spacious feel.

4. Use mirrors to add light - and space Mirrors add light to a room and make spaces look brighter and wider, so be sure to place them opposite a window to make the most of the reflections to brighten a naturally dark room.

Place your mirror strategically to act as a statement centrepiece, deflect sight lines from crowded areas or opposite windows to brighten a dingy area, suggests France.

5. Add vertical lines to create height Make the use of height to free up the floor space in open-plan spaces to eliminate clutter.

Put the belongings you don’t use to often at the top of a cabinet with the everyday items more easy to reach at the bottom.

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line away from the main body of the room to the emptier heights of the ceiling,” says France.

“Look for tall multi-functional furniture designs that incorporate multiple levels of shelving upwards, allowing the floor to remain clear and appear larger to the eye.”

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10 Tips for Choosing and Working Successfully with a Builder What is it that causes builders who were loved by one homeowner to be branded ‘cowboys’ by the next?

With horror stories about socalled ‘cowboy’ builders, budgets spiralling out of control and sites being left half-finished, it’s a wonder anyone builds anything. But the reality is that the vast majority of builders are both professional and capable, and you can do a great deal to avoid bad experiences simply through the way you choose, manage and communicate with them. Here’s why it’s worth laying the foundations for a good relationship with you builder – and how to do it well.

Don’t approach a builder too soon It might seem logical if you’re thinking of having some building work done to start by approaching a builder, but don’t be too hasty.

Builders are (generally) good at building – and at pricing – once they know exactly what is wanted, but asking for a price before there are any drawings or detailed information about the project is as good as inviting them to tell you simply what they think you want to hear.

My advice is only approach builders once you have a set of drawings and a list of what will (and will not) be included, often known as a ‘schedule of works’.

Otherwise, you might base the whole project on a figure that could be miles off the eventual cost.

Choose appropriately Find the right kind of building company for your project. The kind of building contractor suitable (for example) for a luxury retail project has to be highly organised, usually with multiple managers, a well-organised back office and teams who can work around the clock and produce exceptionally high-quality work at speed. Such contractors tend to be eye-wateringly expensive and (for most people) would be over the top for a kitchen extension or loft conversion.

At the other end of the spectrum, there are plenty of small owner/ manager builders who do a lot of the work themselves on-site and organise everything from a mobile phone on their hip. With such low overheads, a builder like this should be much cheaper, but

the level of service, organisation and speed may not compare.

You are looking for the most appropriate balance of low price, high quality and good organisation. You never get the best of all three, but here it’s key to decide what will be the best fit for you.

Establish whether you need a specialist company or just a general builder A really good general builder is, unsurprisingly, really good at building work and will be suitable unless the work in question is incredibly unusual.

For example, a good general builder is perfectly capable of building a loft extension or forming a basement. You can, of course, go to a loft or basement company and they, too, may do a great job. The most important thing is to find someone good who will do good work for the right price.

Similarly, you can use a staircase company to make a staircase or a door company to sell you doors – or just use a good joiner to make such things. With a clear design, a good builder will be able to coordinate the right people – joiners, electricians and so on – to source and build exactly what you want.

Aim for one point of responsibility Rather than using one main contractor, it might seem wise

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to try to save money by directly engaging separate tradesmen, such as plasterers, electricians, carpenters and so on.

While it’s true that a main contractor will take a small slice of cost from all the sub-contractors, I would argue that this money is very well earned. Managing and coordinating all of the separate trades on-site takes a great deal of mettle and experience.

I’ve seen lots of people who try to do this themselves get into a horrible mess and end up with a botched job that goes over time and over budget – not to mention the stress they’ve suffered.

While it can work to pull certain specific and well-defined parts of the work out (such as carpetlaying, for example), I strongly recommend using one main building contractor who will take responsibility for the project overall.

Let the builder project manage There seem to be many different definitions of exactly what project management actually involves, but in my view, the most important manager of a project is the main building contractor.

It’s the builder’s responsibility to make sure the right people in the right numbers are on-site at the right times and that they have the necessary materials to do their work.

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House & Home While an independent architect or project manager can play an important role acting as an expert to look after your interests, keeping an eye on progress and quality, it’s important the builder is allowed to run the project on a day-to-day basis. If not, there can be blurred responsibility if and when things go wrong. So choose a builder who’s professional and let them do their job.

Consider who will do the first and second fixes With a kitchen or bathroom, for example, the ‘first fix’ involves bringing the wastes, plumbing and electrical services to the right places. So pipes and cables are installed into walls and under floors and are left poking out.

Typically, walls are then lined and plastered and floors laid before the ‘second fix’.

Be specific I’ve mentioned it already, but I can’t emphasise enough how important it is to be absolutely specific.

The ‘second fix’ is where the units, appliances, sanitaryware, light fittings, tiling and so on is all done, connecting up to the pipes and cables that have been set in place before.

A set of drawings is a good start, but what about the structural detail – are you asking the builder to work this out? If so, make that clear or, alternatively (and in my opinion preferably), have the structural calculations all done by an engineer before you ask for a price.

Further than drawings, you need to make it clear exactly what the builder is being asked to include in the price. If the work involves fitting a bathroom, for example, who’s supplying the sanitaryware, tiles and taps? If

they are to supply them, exactly which ones? If you want to supply the tiles yourself, who’s supplying the adhesive and grout? Unless all such things are clear, there’s potential for misunderstandings and arguments over money once the work has already started.

Embrace tendering Competitive tendering is the process of getting alternative prices from different builders for the same work. Clearly, it’s crucial

the information against which they are pricing is absolutely clear and specific (otherwise how can two prices compare?)

I would generally send a project out to four or maybe five builders for pricing. This involves the builder in a great deal of work and it’s just not fair in my opinion to go to more than five. However, when the prices come back, it’s not at all unusual for them to vary between the highest and lowest by 100% or more, so it’s well worth going to at least three or four.

Understand the importance of a building contract A building contract is simply an agreement between a builder, who agrees to undertake a specific set of works, and a client, who agrees to pay a set amount of money.

There are many different forms of contract, but the one that I most regularly use for residential projects is called the JCT Minor Works Building Contract. The drawings and schedules are attached to the contract, so it’s clear what’s included and what’s not, and all of the payment terms and so on are agreed up front.

The important thing the contract does is set out all of the ‘what ifs’ – such as, what if the work is changed along the way? What if it takes longer than agreed?

Ideally, and, I’m glad to say, usually, once signed and filed, the contract is never needed again, because everything has gone smoothly, but that’s often because everyone knows it’s there in the background.

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It may be that you ask your builder to do both the first and second fix, but it’s not unusual for the second fix part to be done by whoever has supplied the kitchen or bathroom. This can work perfectly well as long as all parties completely understand in advance exactly what is (and is not) expected of them.

Make one, comprehensive snagging list More arguments happen at the finishing off stage than at any other time in a project, so it’s important to be ready for the common pitfalls.

When the main work is going full tilt, everyone tends to be happy, but towards the end of a project, there are typically a thousand small items to attend to, requiring an array of different tradesmen, and this can be both difficult and expensive for the builder to organise.

Combine with this the fact that the client can see it’s nearly there, and usually desperately wants their home back after a long wait, and often frustration boils over.

Again, my best advice is to be really organised. Communicate clearly with your builder on expected timescales and give them the space to do what’s needed. When it comes to ‘snagging’ at the end – ie, checking for works not completed, or not completed as requested, which the builder will rectify – go round with your builder and agree one comprehensive list. Of course, additional things may come to light, but equally it’s really not fair to keep coming up with ever more snags over a period of time.

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In search of the king of papier mache makers An unusual piece of Victorian black furniture prompts David Duggleby’s Beverley office valuer Graham Paddison to go in search of the Rolls Royce of Victorian papier mache makers.

A 19th century firm achieved an international reputation in the field of papier mache furniture, and its name on a piece will send the bidding soaring.

When we look at a papier mache piece, one of the first things that we do is take a good look to see if there is a maker’s mark. The name we are hoping to see is Jennens and Bettridge …. their name stamped into the material will instantly double or treble the value of the piece.

The papier mache process originated in the East, possibly ancient Persia. Paper pulp, glue, chalk and sometimes fine sand are combined, and by pressing, moulding and baking a very hard workable material is produced.

The process came to England from France towards the end of the seventeenth century at which time it was used for making imitation stucco and plaster decoration for ceilings and walls …. and picture frames. Anyone who has such a frame hanging on the wall is in the money in a big way as there are no known surviving examples.

From this basic beginning, papier mache went on to be used to make a variety of small decorative items such as snuff boxes, tea caddies, jewellery boxes and so on.

The trade was centred in the West Midlands, in the Birmingham and Wolverhampton area. Jennens and Bettridge were established in Birmingham in 1816 and within the matter of a decade or so had become the most important makers, establishing an international reputation for the quality of their work.

The practice of decorating pieces with inlaid mother-of-pearl was introduced by the firm in 1825, a development which enjoyed considerable success.

More than that they pushed the potential of the material to its limits. Production was on a large scale and they used papier mache to make almost everything: firescreens, chairs, settees, cabinets, secretaries, tables – even beds.

The firm also developed a considerable export trade, indeed for a time much of the factory’s output went directly to America and a New York office was opened to handle the American business.

The period 1825 through to the 1840’s is generally reckoned to be the best and there was – in the modern view at least – a deterioration in the 1850’s. Experts in the field say that the decline was apparent as early as the Great Exhibition of 1851.

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their pieces, which makes life considerably simpler for collectors – and for auctioneers!

In terms of the Jennens and Bettridge pieces that we see in our salerooms locally, whilst we have had the occasional larger piece, including several tripod tables with tilt-tops, smaller items such as boxes, tea caddies and ink stands are far more common. We have also seen a number of superb trays, decorated with landscape scenes and inlaid with mother-of-pearl; fabulous quality things worth a few hundred pounds each.

The table which we have pictured is not by Jennens and Bettridge and is rather plain and ordinary by their standards and suffering some damage. Nevertheless it gives us a chance to look at the impact of the name: this particular table was recently sold in one of our fortnightly Antiques and Interiors Auctions at the Scarborough saleroom along with another piece of occasional furniture and realised £60. If it had been a better quality piece in better condition and marked Jennens and Bettridge it would certainly have been sold as an individual lot and estimated at £150 - £200.

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Food & Drink back in business and just as versatile in the pudding department, while blueberries are just the thing for a summer fruit compote and also go down extremely well with a batch of homemade pancakes.

Another gamey option to consider is hare. With darker, richer and more flavoursome meat than rabbit, it’s perfect for roasting when young and can be slow cooked to perfection thereafter.

JUNE With things heating up for summer, there is simply no better way to enjoy the British sunshine than with a good old fashioned picnic.

A cornerstone of this time-honoured tradition is undoubtedly quiche, one of the most versatile additions to any picnic basket. Enjoyed hot or cold, this is an ideal vessel to cram with some of your favourite ingredients, from salty meats like ham and bacon to vegetables such as leeks, asparagus and mushrooms. With so many different fillings available, you’ll be spoilt for choice when deciding on the best way to include this dream dish in your sumptuous hamper.

Peas, as well as French and broad beans, also tend to make their mark this month, with a positively salivating selection hitting shops and markets across the country. While the former make a delightful soup, French beans are divine when fried up with a touch of garlic, complementing a number of hearty European dishes perfectly. Broad beans have the shortest seasonal shelf life, so are often preserved through drying, canning or freezing. With their sweet flavour and smooth, creamy texture, however, they are most popular at their peak of freshness and well suited to risotto. Additionally, mange tout are a favourite among stir-fry and chow mein aficionados, as the flat-podded pea bursts with an earthy essence that will have you growing your own in no time at all.

MAY Spring can be the most refreshing and healthy season for foodies. With winter well and truly behind us, you can ditch the comfort food that saw you through the colder months and reinvigorate your diet with some fresh seasonal produce. New potatoes will now be readily available, making the perfect accompaniment to any fish or meat dish.

Speaking of the greenery department, asparagus comes into its own this month.

Whether it’s a flavoursome side to a main meal or a starter in its own right, this delectable vegetable can be fried, boiled or steamed to each recipe’s unique requirements.

Equally, spring onions are an essential item for lovers of oriental cuisine, adding a wonderfully crisp texture and distinct flavour to a number of noodle based Thai dishes. The same can also be said for cashew nuts, which will be finding their feet once more and go decidedly well with any number of rice based recipes. For salads, rocket is always a clear winner, providing a luscious bed for roasted vegetables and just about any meat or fish topping you could wish for, particularly when teamed with balsamic vinegar and olive oil.

While you’re at it, why not go Greek with a sprinkling of feta cheese, which will enhance

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any salad with a rich, salty element and a brilliant, eye-catching white. On that note, a wide variety of goats’ cheeses will also be raring to go. Ranging from soft and spreadable to well matured and strong, you can indulge in this beautifully aromatic treat either hot or cold.

For meat eaters, spring is invariably lamb season. As one of the juiciest and most tender red meats on the market, it is packed full of flavour and makes a delicious main meal, be it stuffed cutlets, a seasoned shoulder or succulent slices. For fish fans, meanwhile, now is the time to load up on some gorgeously oily sardines. A classic on toast, these mouthwatering morsels can be pan-fried or barbecued to perfection, seeing you from spring into summer in truly tasty style. Furthermore, crab will be seen doing the rounds and is especially enjoyable in canapés, crab cakes or a linguine dish, while salmon will also go down a treat as foil-baked parcels or part of a traditional fish pie.

To round off your May menu, gooseberries are most certainly the order of business when it comes to dessert. These tangy fruits are incredibly flexible and can be used for fools, crumbles, tarts, cakes and jams, meaning you’ll be able to put a different spin on them with every dish served. Similarly, rhubarb is officially

Notably, things get fairly fishy from here on in, so don’t miss out on the mixture of seafood to be had. First up is mackerel, which is at the top of its game when shining with a rainbow hue and can be smoked, grilled, oven baked or even rustled up into a dead easy pâté. Prawns may well also take your fancy, especially if you’re a big fan of Thai curries or fish pie, where they are made to feel right at home. If you’ve got a penchant for Mediterranean meals, you’ll know how moreish squid can be when fried up as a lightly battered calamari dish and served with a traditional tartar sauce. It’s just as well, as this appealing appetiser will be practically jumping off the plate this month.

What’s more, things also get considerably fruitier around this time of year, with strawberries, raspberries and tomatoes in full swing. For lovers of light, summery desserts, strawberries and cream is a match made in heaven, while pavlova, shortcake and scones are also superb treats for a spot of civilised afternoon tea in the sun. If you’re ravenous for raspberries, what better way to indulge than by making your own cheesecake or jarring up a batch of homemade jam for breakfast? And of course, let’s not forget tomatoes, which can be stewed into a warming soup, poured over fresh pasta or whipped into an ice-cold juice on a hot summer’s day.

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How Much Does Gender Matter?

We are expert at training our children to be boys and girls. In fact, we’d have to work hard to get better at this!

From the moment a baby is conceived, its sex is determined and it will be exposed to an entirely different menu of hormonal influences, both in utero and beyond. It’s the balance of different hormones androgens (male hormones) and oestrogens and progesterones (female hormones) - which result in the differentiation of physical characteristics and genitalia between boys and girls.

Some people also use these sex differences to explain differences in behaviour. However, research suggests that the impact of sex differences on behaviour is massively exaggerated. Whilst it is tempting to attribute differences in behaviour between girls and boys to their biology, there is not good evidence to back this up. Christia Spears Brown, Professor at the University of Kentucky, studies sex differences.

She says “Of course, behavioural differences do exist. Boys, as infants, are a little more active and a little more impulsive than girls and throw a ball with greater velocity and power. In childhood, boys have better body image than girls, and more confidence in their maths ability (although they don’t differ in actual maths ability).

However, these differences may well be due to socialisation - to boys being encouraged to practise ballthrowing more and to girls picking

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up a message that “girls aren’t good at maths.”

If there aren’t major behavioural differences between boys and girls, then why do we think there are?We all have a natural tendency to see things that back up our existing beliefs: a confirmation bias. This makes it easy for us to see differences as related to biological sex, when they might just be individual differences in personality.

Importantly, society tends to train children from a very early age to behave in different ways depending on their biological sex. From birth, children are surrounded by messages from advertising, film and television and clothes and toys. There may well be differences in the way boys and girls behave, but they are often very likely to be influenced by what they have experienced as they grow.

Recognition of biological sex happens early. Even by the age of 1 year, children begin to have the ability to distinguish between male and female faces if there are gender-related cues. By age 3, girls and boys have a sense of their own gender identity. Between 3 and 6 years old, children develop the idea of gender constancy - the idea that someone’s biological sex doesn’t change and that you can’t be both a girl and a boy.

What can we do to help free children from gender constraints?

Professor Spears Brown thinks that there are three main things: Make gender less relevant to everyday life, (e.g. no need to say “hello boys and girls” - just say “hello everyone”).

Correct children and other adults when they fall into the trap of gender stereotypes, (e.g. how often do we praise girls for looking nice

and praise boys for being strong?)

Focus on buying children toys that foster the traits we want to encourage, rather than buying toys that are supposed to be for a particular sex.

It’s well worth thinking about our own ideas about gender, the scripts we have been given by our families and by society around us about what is “boy behaviour” and “girl behaviour.” If we can hold up our inherited beliefs to the light then there is some hope of us being able to challenge or champion them, to allow for curiosity about other cultures, families and ways of being. This might also create more space for our children to be able to do, say, feel and be what they are, whatever their biology.

Stereotypes about gender also form early: ideas about expected clothes, play and behaviour are already around before children reach age 6 years. One study showed boys tending to prefer assertive character traits and girls

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One thing to remember when preserving wines, is that all methods are improved by keeping the bottles upright (it reduces the amount of surface area that can interact with oxygen).

World of Wine Some people don’t manage to finish the whole bottle of wine once they’ve opened it (yes, I know, it surprised me, too!) Which begs the question, how long can I keep the remainder?

There are many gadgets out there that claim to do the former; either by using a small pump device and rubber stopper or by going the whole hog and buying an electric version. The latter’s the sort of thing you might find being used in a bar or restaurant but, quite frankly, at home it’s not really ever going to justify the cost.

The problem, of course, is that once opened, you are exposing the contents of the bottle to the “enemy” - oxygen - although initially, exposure to the atmosphere can improve how the wine tastes; hence those exhortations to “let the wine breathe”.

An effective bottle stopper that really does achieve a decent seal is probably the best bet and should ensure the wine will be drinkable for three or four days. But here’s an idea . . . if you plan on only drinking a small amount of wine occasionally then two empty half bottles with screw caps are perhaps the best and cheapest way of preserving wine.

Left too long, however, the oxygen will oxidise the wine, which is a chemical reaction that will affect how it looks, tastes and smells.

Red wines will probably look a deep brown colour, whites more a golden brown; it may smell and taste bit like sherry and certainly will taste stale.

The secret, then, is to keep the wine untainted, either by removing the air from the bottle or by stopping the air getting to the wine.

Take a typical 750ml bottle, pour it slowly and smoothly so as to minimise any oxygen getting into the bottle and fill to the brim.

Immediately seal the bottle with its screw cap. This wine will keep almost as well as the unopened larger bottle.

Now pour yourself the required glass. Pour the remaining wine into the other half bottle and close it off with its screw cap. You now have half a bottle that can be drunk anytime in the future, and a half bottle that can be drunk over the next few days.

Keeping an opened wine (red and white) in a fridge will slow down any oxidation reactions which means the wine will oxidise slower.

But try to avoid keeping the wine in the fridge door as you want to keep the wine as still as possible to stop mixing wine with oxygen. But don’t forget to take red wines out six to eight hours before drinking to warm up. * Pinot Noir sales rocketed following the release of the 2004 film Sideways, a gentle comedy about a near alcoholic wine-writer who takes his soon-to-be-married best friend on a road trip through California’s wine-growing region and introduces him to his favourite wine (Pinot Noir) along the way.

Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir has intense perfume and flavour and is incredibly food friendly.

Nothing better in my opinion than some of those classic French dishes, such as coq au vin and boeuf bourguignon, with a glass of Pinot - truly sublime. But it’s also one of the red wines that does work well with chicken and fish dishes, where perhaps we would normally be reaching for a bottle of white.

All of France’s great Pinot Noir wines come from Burgundy’s Cote D’Or although, in common with most French wines, you’re unlikely to see mention of the grape variety on the label. Instead they’ll be labelled according to the village or even vineyard of origin, which is daft in my opinion and has contributed to the growth in popularity of New World Wines over Old World.

We like to know what we’re drinking, after all.

I loved the film and always hoped for a sequel, but not as much as I love the wine. Pinot Noir makes some of the world’s greatest wines; after all it’s not only the principal red grape in the vineyards of Burgundy but also as one of the three main grape varieties used to produce the very best Champagne.

Because it is thin skinned and early to ripen, Pinot Noir is often regarded as a difficult to grow grape; therefore its wines are generally more expensive than the average. But they certainly repay whatever you’ve had to part with by delivering an immensely pleasurable drinking experience.

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Today, Pinot Noir has strayed far from its Burgundian roots and is planted in regions around the world - you’ll find it in California, New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Spain, Germany and Italy and, along with Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand has really become known for producing excellent examples of wine made from this grape.

Perhaps a little lighter and more fragrant than Pinot from Burgundy, these New Zealand wines are truly worth exploring. I just can’t get enough of them.

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Cruising….. touring made easy.

Perhaps a cruise has never appealed to you?

But you may well enjoy a touring holiday.

Just imagine on the first day of your tour, unpacking and not having to live out of your suitcase for the duration of your tour.

As with Ocean cruising, there is a ship on the rivers to suit everyone, from cheap and cheerful to stunning with everything included. How do you know? How do you compare? That is where I come in with my vast wealth of first hand experience! I adore been on the water and as I travel from port to port or city to city I always make the most of any opportunity to hop on board any ship I may not have previously visited. There can be a huge difference in quality, I am happy to guide you and ensure that you get the quality you are looking for or at least know what to expect for your budget ensuring you do not return disappointed.

If you have any phobia of water you do not have to worry, you will always have land in view on both sides of your ship. This is a wonderful way to travel, sat on deck in the fresh air watching the moving scenery. The Rhine is popular especially with first time river cruisers. You will get to enjoy wonderful views of the many castles as you sail along, not forgetting the Rhine Gorge such a narrow passage along with the mythical Lorely Rock.

There is a wonderful choice of waterways in Europe & further afield. One of my favourite rivers in Europe is the French River Rhone. A journey along this river offers such wonderful cities, Papal Avignon, Lyon, Roman Arles, an excursion to the Pont de Gard and the magnificent Camargue with its wild horses and pink flamingos.

The Danube is a classic, for a grand tour why not start in Amsterdam and sail down to the Black Sea following the trading routes of time gone bye. Saying this you will find that on the European Rivers these waterways are still used for the commercial movement of goods.

Moving to the West of Europe the Douro offers hillsides full of vines. Whilst cruising the Garonne visit the wonderful city of Bordeaux along with wine areas including St Emilion which not only produces excellent wine is very picturesque.

Most River ships take between 50 to 100 guests but if you like something smaller and more intimate or have exhausted rivers and looking for new territory then look no further than a modern barge. Note the word modern as there are some old converted ones that do not offer the comforts you may be expecting for the cost. There are seven little barges I have experienced, they are not cheap but offer lovely walk in showers, flat screen tv’s not too mention mouth watering gourmet dining and a super ambiance. For those less capable of walking you have no other ships to walk over when you are moored to get ashore and your open deck is on the flat accessed from the lounge.

They also have one disabled cabin on most of the vessels. My two favourite barge journeys are from Strasbourg enjoying the delights of the Alsace and the Loiret. The latter, covering many of the famous wine area’s, we where even wine tasting as early as 9am! That was a first for me. Sancerre and Pouilly Fume where just two of the famous wine areas mixed with the history of the region it was a wonderful experience creating many special memories.

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Beauty Box Whether your routine is brimming with lotions and potions or consists of a quick swipe of a wipe, most of us could take better care of our skin.

With warmer weather on its way, now’s a great time to get skin savvy.

There are many weird and wonderful days to celebrate on the beauty calendar, and this month, we’re being encouraged to pay more attention to our smiles with National Smile Month (13 May to 13 June). Like many, I’ve always had a fear of sitting in the dentist’s chair – perhaps after years of orthodontics. However, as an adult, I’ve come to realise that the methods and services available really have come a long way since I was in train tracks, and there are so many (less scary) options to help you improve your smile. In fact,

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writing this has prompted me to book a (overdue) dental check-up!

They say a smile is worth a thousand words, so what better way to celebrate this month than by framing yours with a new lipstick or trick? The first step should always be exfoliation, whether it’s your body, face or lips, it’s essential to create a fresh canvas, and I love the Lush lip scrub pots (£6.50, Lush, Lion Yard) available in a range of flavours. My personal favourite is Bubblegum, for a nostalgic taste.

“Now, I’m not talking Kardashianlevel chiselling, but applying smart art techniques adds a little oomph to your kisser” If you’re not up for needles, but fancy a bit of a boost for your lips, Wunderkiss from Wunder2 is an incredible lip plumping gloss (£17.95, wunder2.co.uk) that puckers your smile, adding volume and fullness. Available in five shades, I

prefer the clear option for a more natural look. Unlike many other lip plumpers, I find this one doesn’t make you want to instantly rip your lips off in tingly, hot fear, but still gives great results.

Another trick for giving the appearance of bee-stung lips is some clever contouring. Now, I’m not talking Kardashian-level chiselling, but applying smart art techniques adds a little oomph to your kisser. You need lipstick (or liquid lipstick) in two similar colours, one darker than the other (you can also use a lip pencil for this). Apply your darker shade over moisturised lips in narrow careful strokes where your pout naturally creases: the wide V shapes of your Cupid’s bow, and opposite, on the bottom lip.

The idea is to create shadow. Next, take your lighter shade and fill in, then blend together. My holy grail for lip products is Huda Beauty, which offers a Lip Contour Set (£29, cultbeauty.co.uk). This has every thing you need to create that million-dollar smile.

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Hull City Column - by Woody Mellor

Almost but not quite!

Hull City have finished the season in 13th position and 12 points adrift of the play-offs.

For a few exhilarating weeks between December and March there was the ambitious dream that a team defined as relegation certs during the summer could challenge for the Premier League once again.

Alas it wasn’t to be, City won six consecutive games between December and January but this couldn’t continue indefinitely.

The team rose from a relegation position to three points off the top six within a short while but this form could not be maintained and the team lacked the quality when playing the likes of Middlesborough, Norwich and Sheffield United.

One major problem was the loss of Tommy Elphick back to Aston Villa, his face didn’t fit with Steve Bruce and whilst on loan here the defence got tighter and more composed by the week, he also brought on De Wijs and Burke alongside him, but he was recalled at the end of January. De Wys and Burke began to look a solid partnership for a short while but as one or the other began to miss matches the defence slipped from the high standards from the turn of the year. Even

worse was the lack of squad strengthening during the January transfer window as Elphick wasn’t adequately replaced and the only other defensive signing Liam Ridgewell was a bit of a liability.

A 36 year old in semi retirement in American football was not up to the pace of Championship football and the defence began to crumble in matches against Rotherham, QPR and Brentford.

City were still capable of scoring but just as likely to concede a soft goal afterwards.

There have been several successes during the season with Jarrod Bown being our shining light. I still wouldn’t call him a particularly great winger but he has scored 22 goals from his wide position. He may actually end up in the central positions yet but this is something we are likely to see at a Premier League club as we would expect one of the many clubs linked with him to make a move over the coming weeks and all we can hope is that the club drive a hard bargain, not least he’s under contract, and he heads off for £15 - £20 million.

I’m not convinced he’s worth that or has the quality for the likes of Spurs as yet but we’ll take it if it knocks the owners asking price down considerably. If they want £50 million to go then the sales of

Bowen, Grosicki and Henricksen could half that figure, though whether there is still someone out there willing to buy a club lacking players to launch a promotion push next year for £20million or so?

A number of players who have done well this year are also likely to depart. Kamel Grosicki who many were happy to see go on loan to Turkey in August finally showed his quality on a regular basis, he got his head out of his backside and played both for his team mates and the fans rather that the occasional match near the transfer window. Henricksen played well during the winning run, Campbell led the line well and scored a dozen goals and Marsall was consistent in goal. All are likely to be leaving soon to recoup some funds or the cut the wage bill.

bubble for over a decade but the parachute payments have now ran out. From next year it’s back to self financing the club again and those ‘irrelevant’ people called fans are important once again. Alas the club has lost 10-15,000 of these over the past five years so the remains 6-8,000 passholders will be the biggest contributors to the club once again. This will give Hull City one of the smallest budgets in the division and we won’t have the resources of clubs like Derby, Middlesborough, Forest, Leeds or Villa and they cannot afford Premier League wages any more. Grosicki, Marshall and Henricksen for instance are likely to be on contracts of around a million a year but the club cannot afford this unless the current owners or new owners subsidise this. You cannot see the Allams contributing anything so unless a miracle happens there are a likely to be another dozen departures during the summer, the last remaining players with the Premier League era will move on and the players who almost achieved the unlikely this season will be sold off or released to save on the wage bill.

Hull City are poised to enter a period of severe austerity.

The club has lived within the Premier League/ Sky funded

Unless Nigel Adkins gets guarantees regards next year’s budget he is also likely to depart, particularly if any other clubs are sniffing around for managers.

Next year could be a new team once again but without the motivated quality players we have had in the squad this year, it could be lots of local youngsters such as Batty and McKenzie, free transfers, some lower division gambles and championship standard loanees. You never know maybe just maybe it will still be Nigel Adkins in charge with the transfer kitty of new owners but that currently appears to be slightly optimistic. Let’s hope for the best come August HullMag May 2019

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Independent broker moves with the times to reach 50-year milestone An independent insurance broker which has expanded throughout East Yorkshire is celebrating its 50th anniversary after moving with the times and seeing off tough competition.

Long-serving staff at Hedon Insurance have seen their sector dwindle to only a handful of current operators in the region compared with more than 200 when the firm started – before the introduction of direct selling through TV, telephones and the internet.

But as other brokers around the country have closed, Hedon Insurance has expanded. The business, which was started when a “man from the Pru” opted to set up on his own, now employs 24 people in four offices.

Anne Walters, who joined the business in 1993 and took it over in 2006, said the strategy is to continue to grow gradually by providing a personal service supported by technology and extensive knowledge of policies and pitfalls.

Anne said: “The internet has had an impact. People go online and think they can get their cover at a lower price but they often come back to us when they find out they can’t claim for something that’ s gone wrong.

“We have access to the same facilities as the direct companies – dynamic pricing, which can change on a daily basis, but you don’t see the real value of the policy until something goes wrong and you have to make a claim.

“It’s almost always the case that when people are claiming on a policy they are in a vulnerable position because something difficult has happened to them, their family or their property. That’s when they find out whether the policy is what they wanted and what they thought they had signed up for.

Our challenge is getting people to think about that when they take out the cover in the first place.”

Anne Walters, Managing Director of Hedon Insurance, outside the firm’s latest office which opened in Cottingham in 2017.

they know they can make money from a digital service, and with other firms closing we’ve never been so busy.

“We made a conscious effort to streamline the way we did things and to be better form a business point of view, maintaining that face to face service that other businesses have abandoned. We are local people, we enjoy that approach and we realise the importance of it. We are part of the same community.”

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Jeffrey Cladingbowl was well known to householders and small businesses as the local agent for the Prudential when he set up Hedon Insurance in 1969, a year when the Yellow Pages listed more than 200 in its insurance classification in the Hull area alone. Known to all his staff as Mr Cladingbowl, he opened and subsequently sold a second office in Barton on Humber, and he sold the business when he retired in 1987.

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The new owners ran the company for two years until it was bought by Mike Medforth, who had been looking to buy a local business after a long career with Smith & Nephew and Reckitts.

Under Mike’s ownership, Hedon Insurance expanded to Hornsea and as he moved closer to retirement Anne advanced to the role of Managing Director.

Mike said: “At the time I bought the business there were about 60 different independent insurance businesses as well as large firms and individual operators, but quite a few were closing by the time I left.

“There was also more competition from national firms selling direct by phone and advertising on TV, but the location of our offices encouraged people to call in deal face to face. We survived by being friendly with people and looking after them. The bigger firms didn’t look after their clients very well. Our business grew every year and it was down to customer service.”

Anne opened a Hull office in Holderness Road in 2007 and in 2010 opened a Cottingham office which relocated to larger premises in 2017. The bulk of the business is personal insurance – home, motor and travel – but the commercial side is expanding.

Anne said: “Over the years some competitors retired and there were a lot of mergers and acquisitions. The larger firms have left the high street because

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May: Summer’s on its way

As bulbs fade and herbaceous borders grow in leaps and bounds, it is now clear that summer is approaching. Sowing and planting out bedding can begin, depending on weather variations, and you can take softwood cuttings. It’s also time to get back into the lawn mowing regime, as the lawn will be loving the warmer temperatures this month brings.

Flowers Sowing and planting Plant out cannas and dahlias (such as Dahlia ‘David Howard’, right) when the danger of frost has passed. Tubs can be planted up with summer bedding in milder areas. In colder areas further north or at high altitudes, it is advised to wait until early June, or until all risk of frost has passed.

If you want to grow your own spring bedding for next year, many common choices (including wallflowers, pansies, and daisies,

Bellis perennis) need to be sown between now and July in order to flower next spring, as they are biennials.

Winter bedding plants can also be sown from now until July.

Remove faded wallflowers and spring bedding from beds and containers, to make space for summer plantings.

Cutting back, pruning and dividing Divide clumps of herbaceous perennials that you want to propagate. Bamboos and clumps of bulbs or rhizomes can be

divided in the same way. Cutting back clumps of spring-flowering perennials such as Pulmonaria and Doronicum can encourage a fresh flush of foliage.

Divide Primula (primroses) after flowering, planting them in a nursery bed until they are ready for planting out again in the autumn, for a display the following spring.

Divide hostas as they come into growth.

Spreading and trailing plants such as the annual Lobularia (sweet alyssum), and the perennials Alyssum and Aubrieta, can become tatty and patchy.

Trimming them back after flowering encourages fresh growth and new flowers.

Lift and divide over crowded clumps of daffodils after they have flowered.

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Deadhead tulips and daffodils.

Propagation Take softwood cuttings of tender perennials like Argyranthemum, Pelargonium and Fuchsia. They will provide new plants for display later this summer.

Perennials that are showing new shoots from the crown can be propagated via basal stem cuttings.

General maintenance Apply a liquid fertiliser to spring bulbs after they have flowered, to encourage good flowering next year, and help prevent daffodil blindness.

Allow the foliage of daffodils and other spring-flowering bulbs to die down naturally.

Gardening Lift clumps of forget-me-not once indoor sowings when they are the display wanes, and before too large enough to handle without many seeds are released. They can damage. become invasive if left unchecked.

Hoe borders to prevent annual and perennial weeds Put supports in place for herbaceous plants before they are from spreading and seeding too tall, or for those - like peonies themselves.

- that produce heavy blooms.

Sweet peas need training and Harden off plants raised from seed tying in to their supports to encourage them to climb and and cuttings by leaving them make a good display. outside for gradually increasing periods of time. Start with only Pinch out the leading shoots on the warmest part of the day, and plants such as Chrysanthemum build up to overnight exposure. and Helianthus to encourage Doing this for 10-14 days bushy plants. However, if tall before planting them outdoors thin sprays are preferred, they permanently (whenever the risk can be left un-pinched, perhaps of frost has passed), will reduce removing a few buds (known as any check to their growth while establishing in their final position. ‘disbudding’) to encourage larger blooms.

Thin out direct sowings of hardy Liquid feed plants in containers annuals and vegetables such every two to four weeks. as radishes. This is best done in two or three stages at fortnightly Keep tubs, hanging baskets and intervals. Final spacing should alpine troughs well watered. Use be between 10-20cm (4-8in), collected rainwater, or recycled using the upper limit for tall or grey water wherever possible. spreading plants, and the lower limit for smaller plants. Prick out Pot on plants showing signs of being root bound. You can tip out the root balls of unhappy looking containerised specimens, to see if they are indeed pot bound or if they are suffering from some other problem.

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Pest and disease watch Inspect lilies for red lily beetles (left) as the larvae can strip plants in days.

Vine weevil larvae can be a serious pest of containerised continued on page 48

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Gardening plants, and become active this month. Tip out the rootball of suspect plants, and inspect for the creamy, orange-headed maggots, which tend to curl up into a ‘C’ shape. There are various chemical and biological controls available.

Loosen any tree ties that are digging into the bark, or could do so soon as the trunk girth expands.

Propagation Take softwood cuttings of deciduous shrubs, including Forsythia, Fuchsia, Hydrangea macrophylla, Philadelphus and Spiraea.

Aphids can multiply rapidly during mild spells. Remove early infestations by hand to prevent the problem getting out of hand.

Protect sweet pea plants in particular, as they can get sweet pea viruses.

Layering is a good way to propagate climbers and laxstemmed shrubs. Layers should root by next spring, especially if attention to watering is given during dry weather. Examples to try include Philadelphus, Forsythia, Hydrangea and Lonicera.

Continue to protect lily, delphinium, hosta and other susceptible plants from slugs and snails.

Remove dead leaves from around the basal rosettes of alpine plants to prevent rotting.

Top dress spring-flowering alpines with grit or gravel to show off the plants and help prevent rotting around the neck.

Trees and shrubs Pruning and training Cut back tender shrubs and sub-shrubs such as Penstemon, Caryopteris and Fuchsia after the danger of frost has passed.

Clip evergreen hedges. If not too woody, shredded clippings can be added to the compost heap, ideally in combination with soft material such as grass clippings .

Prune spring-flowering shrubs such as japonica or Japanese quince (Chaenomeles - pictured above), Choisya and Ribes after flowering. Remove one stem in three from Kerria and Spiraea ‘Arguta’, and shorten the other flowered stems to a suitable sideshoot. Evergreens such as Viburnum tinus can also still be trimmed this month.

Prune overcrowded, dead or diseased stems of Clematis montana once it has finished flowering. Untangling the stems can be fiddly, but once you can see where you are cutting, you need not worry about pruning this plant - it will take even hard cutting back very well.

Late spring is a good time to coppice or pollard Eucalyptus.

Prune out frost damage from affected evergreen shrubs.

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Young mimosa trees (Acacia dealbata) can also be cut back now. Mature trees respond less well to pruning.

Remove any reverted green shoots on hardy variegated evergreens, to prevent reversion taking over.

Prune wall-trained pyracanthas, removing any shoots coming out from the wall, and shortening other new growth to about 8cm (3in). This encourages spur formation, and increased flowering relative to green growth.

Tie in climbing and rambling roses as near to horizontal as possible. This will restrict sap flow causing more side-shoots to grow along the length of stem.

Therefore more flowers will be produced.

Twining climbers (such as honeysuckle and Clematis) need regular tying in and twining around their supports.

General maintenance Ensure newly planted trees and shrubs do not dry out. Water with rainwater or recycled water wherever possible.

Pest and disease watch Viburnum beetle grubs start nibbling holes in the leaves this month, giving plants a tattered appearance. Inspect V. tinus and V. opulus regularly and spray or pick off the grubs by hand.

Check roses for signs of blackspot, aphids and leaf-rolling sawfly damage.

Inspect sick looking box and holly trees for signs of blight.

Phytophthora root rots can cause die back on mature trees and shrubs. Wet winter weather followed by a hot spring and summer can encourage this problem on susceptible woody plants.

Gardening Caterpillars, aphids and other fly pests can all be problematic at this time of year. Early infestations can be managed by hand removal, but approved insecticides are necessary for more serious attacks.

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FIONA’S FOOD FOR THOUGHT

By Fiona Dwyer, broadcast journalist, PR & media consultant, slave to 2 children and a husband.

ANTICS OF A PUPPY

Well, having never had a dog before I am now getting a crash course! Our new Springer puppy is finally with us and she is adorable! Even though she’s not quite house trained, even though she likes to bite us sometimes rather than her toys and even though she runs around the house with our socks! I can honestly say I didn’t realise how much we needed a dog until we got her. She is already part of the family and we can’t wait to take her out for walks at the very end of May when she will be fully vaccinated! She is both beautiful and bonkers! Fits in perfectly!

HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS AFFECTING OUR CHILDREN

It’s a hot topic – and rightly so – but it’s not just adults feeling eco-anxiety. More and more children are suffering mental health problems because they are so worried about climate change and they don’t think the grown-ups are doing enough to save the planet. Now that’s a really sad state of affairs. Symptoms can include panic attacks, obsessive thinking, loss of appetite and insomnia. If you’ve listened to the 16-year-old Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg, who started the school strike for climate movement last year, she says: “Adults keep saying we owe it to the young people to give them hope. But I don’t want your hope, I don’t want you to be hopeful, I want you to panic.” We know there are things we can all do to help save the environment.

If your child is worried about climate change, talk it through with them and help them develop a plan of action so they feel empowered. It might be as simple as finding out what they can do to help shape change, getting involved in a litter-picking activity along Hessle foreshore or on one of our beautiful beaches, it might be writing to our politicians, it might be looking at what you do at home or what you buy and making some changes that will be more beneficial to the planet. If everyone picks something we can save the planet together.

DOG STAYCATIONS?

I was out recently in the Humber Bridge Country Park asking dog owners whether or not they had changed the way they holiday because they have dogs. It was for a piece on the news. I wasn’t just randomly stopping people! Anyway, every single one of them said they had. They look for dog-friendly cottages or log cabins, one chap had bought a motorhome so he’d always be able to take his dogs with him and one retired couple, who were walking their daughter’s dog, said they shared dog care duties with the other set of grandparents! Has having a dog changed the way you take a family break?

Fiona x

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