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NEXT ISSUE: DIARY DATES Editorial copy deadline: 183 May Advertisement copy deadline: 15 May Distributed: SO32 2 & PO17 5 w/c 2 June SO32 1 w/c 30 June
DISTRIBUTION Discover Meon Valley is published every other month and distributed by Royal Mail to two alternating areas. This edition goes to homes in the SO32 2 and PO17 5 sectors. In March it will be going to SO32 1. This is around 9200 homes over the two month distribution.
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The Iron Lady Although the period of Lent clearly happens every year, I’d never really paid much attention to it until this year. A number of my contacts were talking about what they were going to give up and I overheard an interview with food writer and television presenter Mary Berry saying she was giving up chocolate for Lent. How does Mary Berry stay so slim by the way? She says it’s because she has whatever she wants but just a very small amount of it. Sounds like a good approach, but she must have an iron will to taste all the delicious dishes she is presented with, and indeed that she makes herself, and yet be able to stop after one mouthful. Anyway, summer’s a-comin’ and the clothes are feeling tight, so I thought I’d go one better and give up anything containing sugar until after Easter. Clearly I’m not just a glutton for food but a glutton for punishment too. For the first week or so I found myself wandering into the kitchen every day, opening the cupboards and the fridge looking for ‘something’ and then walking away because what I really wanted was something sweet and nothing else in the cupboard would do. The craving did ease, although the cake on page 30 is in my plans for May (made it prediet, with pecans because I don’t like walnuts, delicious…too delicious in fact). In an effort to distract myself from my ‘firstworld problem’ I’ve been trying to fill my snacking time with other activities. I’m not much of a gardener, but thought now the sun was out I could start cultivating a mini Hillier’s Gardens. But after the winter we’ve had, the words ‘silk purse’ and ‘sow’s ear’ come to mind. Suffice to say I’ll be starting on page 6 of this month’s magazine and filling my time meeting the experts.
Tania
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