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Recent research has found that just 10 rivers transport more than 90% of the plastic that ends up in the ocean. The rivers: two in Africa - the Nile and the Niger - and eight in Asia - the Ganges, Indus, Yellow, Yangtze, Haihe, Pearl, Meking and Amur, are located in heavily populated regions where littering is common. The Yangtze and the Ganges convey over 900,000 tons between them. The first plastic – Bakelite – was produced in 1907, but the real boom in plastic production didn’t begin until the 1950s. During the next 65 years the annual production increased nearly 200-fold to 381 million tonnes in 2015 – incredibly this is roughly equivalent to the mass of two-thirds of the world population, (calculated at 11 1/2 stone weight per person). By 2015, 7.8 billion tonnes of plastic had been produced, more than one tonne per person on the planet. Approximately 80 percent of ocean plastics come from 2
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Garlic, Leek and Mustard! By Lucinda Warner Now April is upon us and spring is finally bursting forth with exuberance. This is a lovely time to pick wild greens as they are fresh and full of nutrients as well as being generally cleansing and tonifying to our winter ravaged bodies. Ramsons, otherwise known as wild garlic (Allium ursinum) is one of many people’s favourite things to forage. Unlike some other wild greens, I didn’t start eating it just because it’s good for me,
but because it’s so delicious! As luck would have it, it also happens to be an exceptional food for promoting health and wellbeing. As part of the same family as onion and garlic, it exhibits many similar antibacterial properties, being useful to ward off infection and traditionally used to treat wounds in Scotland. As with normal garlic, Ramsons is a pungent remedy that aids the heart and circulatory system. It can help balance cholesterol and is therefore of use in preventing arteriosclerosis and
boosting the memory. Some people recommend adding it to soups, bakes, stews etc, but it loses its flavour quickly when cooked so I prefer to eat it raw, sliced thinly in salads, as a garnish or as a delicious pesto. To make wild garlic pesto just blend a couple of large handfuls of leaves with a 1/4 cup olive oil and a small handful of pine nuts or cashews. It’s pretty potent and intensely garlicy so I don’t recommend it before a first date! Mix it 50/50 with basil or parsley to tone it down a bit or with other wild foods such as nettle or chickweed. It’s so vital and green you’ll feel healthier just looking at it! The three cornered leek or wild onion is one of the most delicious additions to spring salads, tasting something like a spring onion, and the flowers make beautiful decorative additions to any meal, being also edible. From a distance it looks a little like white bluebells or even snowdrops but can be easily differentiated close up by the shape of the
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flowers and the distinctive triangular stem, hence the common name of three cornered leek. Also the smell of onion is a give away. Do be sure of your identification as both snowdrop and bluebell bulbs are poisonous. At the moment I’m also enjoying lacing my salads with the lovely JackBy-The-Hedge, Alliaria petiolata, also known as garlic mustard because of its distinctive taste of, yes you guessed it, garlic and mustard. Apart from sliced finely in salads and grain dishes like quinoa or millet, I have used it to make an
infused vinegar with other spring herbs like wild garlic and nettle. Garlic mustard is an important wildlife plant, being frequented by various pollinators and especially being the key food plant for the caterpillars of the orange tip butterfly. The leaves begin to taste bitter after flowering but the flowers themselves make an attractive garnish. Please remember to make sure you have a good guide book and are 100% sure on your identification before you pick and use wild plants.
Lucinda Warner is a Brighton based herbalist and plant lover. For more information on the herbs and preparations mentioned see whisperingearth.co.uk
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Milling about in 2019 Oldland Windmill was featured in the March edition of the magazine. The mill was built around 1700 and has been completely restored by local volunteers and now operates once more as a working Flour Mill.
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EASTER CAKE Seasonal Recipe by Valerie Hedgethorne Valerie Hedgethorne taught cookery & cake decorating for many years in Brighton before becoming a Home Economist and writing for the national magazine CAKE for 20 years. Valerie is a past president of the British Sugarcraft Guild & is a member of the local Guild Branch, which meets monthly in Rottingdean for demonstrations of all types of cake decorating. Anyone with an interest in cake decorating is welcome – for more information phone Valerie on 01273 505223.
This is a variation of a Simnel cake. It is a shallow rectangular fruit cake with marzipan pieces in the mix and topped with marzipan ready to be decorated for Easter. It cuts easily into slices. In this picture I have used mini foil covered eggs. You will need a rectangular tin measuring 12 x 30 cm (5 x 12 inches) which I obtained from Lakeland.
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EASTER CAKE METHOD:
INGREDIENTS: • 175g (6oz) margarine or butter • 175 g (6oz) golden caster sugar • 1 orange – grated zest • 4 large eggs • 200g (7oz) plain flour • 1 teaspoon mixed spice • 175g (6oz) currants • 175g (6oz) sultanas • 175g (6oz) raisins • 75g (3oz) mixed peel • 50g (2oz) glacé cherries • 500g (1lb) marzipan • 2 tablespoons apricot jam or glaze • Beaten egg to finish Decoration • Optional: mini easter eggs
Grease the tin and line with baking parchment paper. Heat the oven to Gas 2/ 160C. Cream together the fat and sugar and add the grated orange zest. Gradually beat in the eggs then fold in the flour and spice followed by the dried fruits and quartered cherries. Take 1/3 of the marzipan, cut into 1cm/½ inch dice and stir into the mixture. Spoon into the tin, smoothing the top with a slight hollow in the centre. Bake for 1 ½ hours approx until firm. Leave in the tin for 15 minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack and leave to go cold. It can be
wrapped in foil and kept for 2-3 days before finishing. Roll out the remaining marzipan to the same size as the top of the cake. Brush the top of the cake with heated apricot glaze then place the marzipan on top. With the back of a knife mark diamonds then pinch the edges with the thumb and fingers. Brush with beaten egg. Place under a moderate grill until golden, watching very carefully because it browns quickly. To finish: use the coloured eggs or yellow chicks etc to your choice. This mixture could be made in a 20cm (8 inch) square tin.
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Tattoos over Time By Jayne Shrimpton Today in Brighton tattoos are everywhere and we have several established tattoo studios. Although not always so fashionable as they are today, tattooing dates back millennia, both scar tattooing and primitive puncture tattooing being practised since Neolithic times. Early tattoos may sometimes have had a medicinal function: the mummified body of Otzi, ‘the Tyrolean Iceman’ (4th century BC) had multiple small markings apparently created by cutting the skin and rubbing in charcoal; concentrated around joints and the lower back, their locations suggest the relief of rheumatic pain, possibly an early form of acupuncture.
The shoulder and arm of the 2,500-year old ‘Siberian ice-maiden’ (‘Ukok Princess’) were ornamented with ornate animalistic tattoos typical of those identifying the Pazyryk people
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Puncture tattooing as we understand it today was also practised elsewhere, for instance in Ancient Egypt 4,000–6,000 years ago, where tattoos were associated with dancers and musicians, whose line of work involved visual display. Another Egyptian custom was a net-like pattern across women’s stomachs, perhaps a protective device safeguarding an unborn child, the net expanding as pregnancy advanced, symbolically securing the infant in the womb. In Europe, the ‘barbarians’ on the fringes of the Roman Empire, including the tribes popularly called Celts or Ancient Britons, knew how to make an impact. Britons used woad (a rich blue dye obtained by fermenting the leaves of the cabbage-like plant) to dye clothes, and paint or, quite likely, tattoo their skin. By the 3rd century AD the continuing British taste for tattoos was noted by late-Roman writers, their markings different to those of the tattooed Tracians of southern and southeastern Europe. Christian influence expanded in the following centuries and some historians assert that the Bible prohibits tattooing,
Etching of ‘Prince Giolo,” a tattooed slave captured from the Island of Miangas by William Dampier’s expedition in 1691
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The Japanese bandit Tanmeijiro Genshogo, portrayed in this woodblock print c.1823, was known for his striking tattoo and ability to stay under water for long periods of time
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several small archaeological finds are believed to be tattooing needles, including items from Sloinge in Sweden, dating to c.AD 400-1000. During the 11th-13th centuries reportedly soldiers from the Crusading armies when arriving in the Holy Land occasionally had crosses and other Christian symbols pricked, painted or otherwise marked on their arms, to ensure that if they died overseas their bodies were identified as Christian. Later, 17th century pilgrims to Jerusalem favoured similar markings, but otherwise there are no known references to tattooing throughout the developed world. The now-powerful medieval Church actively denounced the ‘barbaric’ practice of puncturing and permanently colouring the skin, tattooing becoming widely regarded in the Christian West as the sign of a heathen.
Olive Oatman, girl from a pioneering family travelling west, was captured by American Indians in 1851, traded to the Mohave and returned in 1856 bearing tribal tattoos on her chin although the usual citations are open to interpretation. Either way, the ‘pagan’ tradition of woad and conspicuous warrior display continued in early-Medieval Europe, various Norse, Teuton and Saxon tribes all using tattoos, along with abundant jewellery. As late as the 10th century, the Viking Rus - Scandinavian and Slavic peoples trading and raiding around the Baltic and Black Sea area - sported tattoos, the Arab Muslim traveller Ibn Fadlan observing that: ‘Every man is tattooed from finger nails to neck with dark green… or blue-black trees, figures, etc.’ Additionally, 18
Centuries passed before the ancient practice of tattooing was re-introduced into Europe, through advanced sea travel and exploration of distant lands. In 1691 explorer and navigator William Dampier brought to London a native of New Guinea who had a tattooed body, dubbed the “Painted Prince”. Between 1766 and 1779, Captain James Cook made three voyages to the South Pacific and when he and his crew returned from Polynesia, they recounted vivid tales of ‘tattooed savages’ there. In Tahiti, aboard the Endeavour in July
Philippine tattoo patterns recording war exploits and military status, as illustrated in The History of Mankind (1896)
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1769, Cook first formally noted the body modification characteristic of the local people, his observations being the first recorded use of the word ‘tattoo’ to describe permanent skin markings. In the ship’s log book he wrote: “Both sexes paint their Bodys, Tattow, as it is called in their Language. This is done by inlaying the Colour of Black under their skins, in such a manner as to be indelible.” Cook continued: “This method of Tattowing I shall now describe... As this is a painful operation, especially the Tattowing of their Buttocks, it is performed but once in their Lifetimes.” Deriving from Tahitian tatau, the word ‘tattoo’ in this sense was absorbed into the English language following Cook’s expedition. After one voyage Cook returned with a tattooed Raiatean man, Omai, whom he presented to King George III. Significantly,
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Cook’s Science Officer and Expedition Botanist, Sir Joseph Banks, and many crew members also came home with tattoos of their own. Georgian seamen and sailors had begun a tradition that rapidly spread to ports around the globe and tattooing now became popularly linked to men of the sea. Progressively, sailors’ tattoos gained a powerful symbolic language of their own: often souvenirs of places visited and experiences gained, recognisable pictures enabled foreign sailors to understand one another, even when speaking different languages. Some tattoos signified achievement, a swallow being earned for every 5,000 nautical miles travelled; others were lucky talismans, like the nautical star tattoo, always guiding a sailor home. During the 1800s, while still chiefly associated with sailors, tattoos were also becoming common in working-class communities and among
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Tattoos representing travel, the sea and various superstitions became associated with sailors. New cadets often received an initial tattoo, as seen in this late-Victorian engraving
Seasoned sailors often wore several tattoos and they gained heightened meaning during times of war. This iconic image shows crew members, USS New Jersey, December 1944
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