The Bristol Six - February 2015 by Andy Fraser

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4 The Editor’s Small Piece

I read recently that in an opinion poll the month least popular with the British public is February. In a way I can see why but I quite like February. It’s short, it feels as if the new year has started properly and when it is over we are into Spring, my favourite season. The name February comes apparently from the Latin word februum which means puri ication and Februalia, a traditional time period when sacri ices were made to atone for sins. I think I prefer the Old English names for the month ‐ Solmonath, which means mud month, and Kalemonath, the month of cabbages. Whatever you call it I hope you enjoy it. The March issue goes to print on 18th Feb so all entries in by 15th February please. It costs as little as £25 + VAT to advertise your business in The Bristol Six. And get your business details through nine thousand letterboxes. An advertiser wrote to me this month to say “Doing rather good business this month thanks to the mag! Would recommend it to small businesses trying to reach a local audience”. If you think it can help you do the same do please get in touch Right, off to enjoy some cabbage. Do Get In Touch andy@bcmagazines Cheers 0117 968 7787

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Redland church celebrates approval for new church and community halls

to create a highly lexible and sustainable, modern community space. "The new halls will revitalise our own community activities like Lantern Redland Parish Church is celebrating Preschool, our toddler groups and the after receiving planning permission to Redland Education Centre. And they will redevelop its church halls ‐ so creating also offer much improved facilities to the much‐needed community space in North many local people and community Bristol. groups that use our halls. The church's re:new project, which will "There will be other bene its too. The involve demolishing the dilapidated main new building will be much more hall on Redland Green and replacing it sustainable than the old hall, it will with three modern and versatile include renewable energy, and it will be interconnected halls ‐ was given the better insulated, so bene iting the thumbs‐up by Bristol City Council this environment and our nearest week. neighbours." Work is set to start in August next year Designed by Redland‐based architects and it is hoped that the new halls will O’Leary Goss, the development will: open in September 2016. A fundraising campaign to raise the £1.9m cost of the • create three interconnected halls ‐ development has almost reached the each capable of meeting a wide halfway mark and it is hoped that the range of needs proceeds of a wide range of fundraising activities being planned for the New Year • enable the three halls to be opened will boost funds signi icantly. up to form one large 280‐seater hall for church and community use • include a commercial‐standard kitchen, replacing the existing 1950’s kitchen The re:new project has already been backed by the local community. Redland May Fair chose the project as its charity earlier this year, raising £2,500. And Redland & Cotham Amenities Society has Rev. Mars Goodman, Associate Vicar of given the project its support. Redland Parish Church said: “We're really delighted planning "We irmly believe re:new will have a permission has been granted. We did very positive impact on the local think long and hard about trying to community," said Mars Goodman. repair the old halls, but in the end realized this was a fantastic opportunity

12 the young Small‐leaf Limes which are prominent today, but it is obvious that supplies ran out, and today there are Large‐ leaf Limes and Silver Limes as well. And one of The avenues on the Downs the Huntingdon Elms has survived, standing proud at the end of Ladies Mile. The Old Stoke It is not often recognised that there are seven Road was planted mostly with young Beeches, planted avenues on the Downs; the old Beech some of them Copper. But in every generation avenue on the Promenade, and the very young healthy trees that still existed from an older beech avenue on the Old Stoke Road, the avenue were retained, so that on the Old Stoke Chestnut/Lime avenues on the Stoke Road, Road there are old Limes, a veteran Ash where and the Westbury Road, the mixed lime the road crosses the parish boundary, even a species avenue on Ladies Mile, and the Plane and three Black Walnuts. Chestnut Avenues on Westbury Park and on Savile Road. They go back a very long way. The present Stoke Road has alternate Common Lime and Horse Chestnut and one or two Red The 1746 Wilstar map makes it clear that the Chestnut, mostly dating from c 1930 but at the three major routes across the Downs, Old southern end there are much larger and older Stoke road, Stoke road and Westbury road Common Limes which may go back to 1880. already had avenues, and presumably they The Westbury Road avenue is also alternate were there to ensure that, in the dark, in fog Chestnuts and Common Limes, but was and in snow, travellers could be certain where probably planted around 1900, and one or two they were, for even today it is easy to get lost of the limes are much older and may go back when walking across the Downs. We forget before 1850. that in the past roads were ill de ined tracks, and that only the very rich on horse‐back Westbury Park Road has a magni icent line of moved faster than ive miles an hour. The trees Horse Chestnuts with girths of around four on the Wilstar map were probably successors metres, implying a planting in about 1850. to trees planted centuries before, as we know They are succumbing to disease and three from the Millerd map of 1688 that Bristolians have had to be felled this year. The Chestnuts were even then planting trees around Queens on the part of Savile Road linking Upper Square. Parry’s Lane to the Westbury Road at the white tree roundabout, originally a cross roads But measuring marked by a painted tree, are of a similar age, the trees that and along the rest of Savile Road, created in exist today 1877, they are younger. makes it clear that the oldest The Promenade Beech avenue irst appears in is not more the Ashmead map of 1849, before many of the than 200 years great houses were built, but none of the trees old, so that in the avenue today are more than a century none of the old, and many of them, especially at the upper Wilstar trees end, have only become established in the past survive today, few years, so that it is probably a iner sight and these today than at any point in the past hundred avenues have years. been replanted by every generation including our own. Many of us remember the death of If you enjoy the Downs, or use if for your sport, the Huntingdon Elm avenue up Ladies Mile why not become a Friend? Membership is just and along the Old Stoke Road, great trees £10. Contact Robin Haward at planted in the 1880s destroyed by Dutch Elm robinhaward@blueyonder.co.uk 0117 974 Disease. They were intended to be replaced by 3385

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We are s ll at the mercy of the seasonal winter residen al market and that means rela vely few proper es for sale in BS6. Each new property garners lots of a en on but there is also a sense that many buyers are hanging on to see what might appear in the coming weeks. In the Le ngs market things are as buoyant as ever. New proper es are snapped up quickly by what appears to be a never ending supply of ‘would be’ renters here in Bristol. Poli cal canvassing will no doubt begin in earnest shortly, in fact many flyers have already dropped on mats. Whether a General Elec on will dampen people’s appe te for buying, selling or le ng this spring remains to be seen? Certainly my view is that many of us will s ll need to move (for work reasons, reloca on, growing family, shrinking family) and will con nue to do so regardless of the poli cs. We cannot help if you are undecided how to vote but we can help if you are considering a move. As always the team here at CJ Hole Cli on would be delighted to oﬀer you a FREE NO OBLIGATION valua on on your property whether you are considering selling or le ng. All you have to do is give one of the team a call on 0117 923 8238. Best Wishes Howard Davis, MD Cli on

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History Notes from BS6 - No. 89

½ or 3d. Thus explaining the price asked for Cure-alls before Beveridge Julian Lea-Jones FRAes the two sizes of Dr Robert’s remedies. The BMA’s caustic comment was that, “…a tax stamp on the packaging deluded the incautious buyer into thinking that the Some of our readers may have seen in the window of North View Pharmacy my display product was of icially endorsed”. They went on to say that “…the authorities do not as a I prepared for them featuring a nineteenth rule display any anxiety with regard to the century proprietary ointment sold as ‘The Poor Man’s Friend’ by Dr Roberts of Bridport. welfare of the public in the matter of the sale of nostrums, their efforts being con ined to the Claimed to alleviate “scalds, burns, bruises, collection of the duty…” The estimated sales ulcers and most skin complaints”.. I for the year ending March 1908 were in discovered these pots [Pic 1] during an excess of £2million.and that, “…a knowledge archaeological excavation of a Bristol of the causes of the disease for which the cure Pottery’s spoil tip. The two sizes of pots underglaze marked priced at one shilling and is promised is in no wise necessary for the composition of either the medicine or the a penny halfpenny or two shillings and nine advertisement”. pence. Hardly a ‘Poor man’s friend’, but perhaps they were compared to the cost of a nineteenth century doctor’s visit. A particular example of the charlatans cruel deception was ‘Tuberculozyne’ a Consumption cure costing £2 10s for a month’s supply, whereas the reality con irmed by the BMA’s analysis, was that it was nothing more than coloured lavoured water. But what else could you get for your 1s 1 ½d? Twenty tablets of ‘Oquit’. “Within ten minutes Oquit would cure Headaches, Nerve pains, Neuralgia, Gout, Sciatica, Rheumatism, Lumbago, In luenza, Feverish Colds, and even Sea Sickness. Estimated cost of ingredients? Three farthings! (3/4d) Since then friends have found these or similar proprietary remedies in backs of cupboards, or even being used for posy vases. An oddity was that irrespective of the supplier, or the wide range of ailments they would miraculously cure, many other pre NHS proprietary remedies were also priced the same as ‘Poor Man’s Friend’. The British Medical Association provided the answer. Quack medicines, or ‘Secret’ remedies, peddled to the gullible and desperate by charlatans became such a health issue that in 1909 the BMA carried out a thorough investigation into these secret remedies. The irst mystery solved was that of pricing. A Parliamentary amendment of 1812 introduced a size dependent stamp duty, of 1

Therefore if you have any of these little pots or medicine bottles at home, apart from souvenirs of an interesting aspect of social history, if still labelled they may even reveal the existence of a particular family medical problem. (The answers to last months clock recognition article can be found on page 60).

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24 07845 986650, phone 0117 968 7787 or tweet @BS9Andy. Entries must be received by midnight 28th February 2015. Here are the Italian cities you are looking for:‐ Pretty much every member of my family received a Christmas present bought from the Bari Bologna Verona very splendid Divino Deli on Worrell Road, just off Blackboy Hill. In case you’ve not discovered Brescia Catania it yet it is well worth a visit, whether you are looking for something to treat a loved one or Florence Genoa just yourself. One lucky reader will be walking off with a £20 voucher to spend at Divino Deli Livorno Messina if they are selected as the winner of this months prize wordsearch. Milan Modena Listed below are 21 Italian cities. Twenty of Naples Padua them are also hidden in the wordsearch grid and can be found by tracing the letters Palermo Parma forwards, backwards, up, down or on a diagonal. Perugia Rome Just discover which the missing city is and let Taranto Trieste me know to get your name into the hat. Entries please by post to 8 Sandyleaze, WoT, Turin Venice BS9 3PY, email andy@bcmagazines.co.uk, text Thank you to everyone who entered the December prize wordsearch where the prize donated by the team at The Beehive pub was dinner for four. The lucky winner to come out of the hat irst is Mrs S. Lajevardi. who correctly spotted the missing word was Dawn. Congratulations there, I’m sure you will have a great meal, and thanks as ever to everyone who had a go and entered the competition.

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26 evaluate whether or not the gi s are 'exempt' and no longer form part of your We thought we'd share with you some of estate. Your executors will need to look the ques ons frequently asked of us by into what the gi s were, when you made our clients… the gi s and to whom you made them.

Inheritance Tax ‐ your FAQs

Does everyone pay Inheritance Tax on death?

Generally speaking, HM Revenue and Customs consider that assets given away No. Not everyone pays Inheritance Tax. It over seven years before the date of death, no longer form part of your will only be paid if the value of your 'estate', at the date of death, exceeds the estate. value of the Inheritance Tax threshold However, many people do not realise (also known as the 'Nil Rate Band'). The that there are excep ons to this rule: if current Nil Rate Band is set at £325,000 you gave assets away over seven years (2014/15). before the date of death, but you s ll 'retained an interest' in the assets, HMRC may decide that the assets s ll form part What does my 'estate' include? of your estate. Your estate includes all assets held by you at the date of your death. This If I am married or in a registered civil includes your share of joint assets, partnership, do we each have our own including cash, property and any Nil Rate Band? investments. This also includes your 'worldwide' assets, such as property or investments overseas.

Yes. Every person has their own Nil Rate Band allowance. However, since October 2007 married couples and civil partners If you are a beneficiary of a trust, the trust assets and/or income may also form have the op on to 'transfer' Nil Rate Bands between them. This means that, part of your estate. on the death of the second spouse or civil partner, any 'unused' Nil Rate Band from the first spouse or civil partner can be What if I give away any of my assets during my life me? Will these assets s ll 'transferred' over and applied against the estate of the second spouse or civil form part of my estate? partner. It will be down to your executors to

27 In prac ce, this means that married couples or those in a civil partnership can eﬀec vely increase the Nil Rate Band available on the second death, to as much as £650,000 (as at 2014/15). When, on the second death, assets pass 'down the line' to children or other friends or rela ves, this increased Nil Rate Band may mean a significant Inheritance Tax saving.

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The Mystery of Printing Every month 100 boxes of BS6 magazines, weighing in at about a tonne and a half arrive on my doorstep, a week after I’ve uploaded a little computer ile to my printer’s website. They stink the house out with printers ink for a day or so, then get delivered out to you dear reader, then I start the whole process again. This month however I inally got round to thinking how the Bristol Six is actually produced and, after inviting myself down to my printers, I now know. It’s quite an interesting process so I thought I’d share it with you. I’ll try and keep this simple ‐ otherwise I’ll lose track of what I’m trying to say ‐ and I’ll focus on the interesting bits. Sam the studio manager, sitting at what looks like Mission Control, receives my magazine in electronic format and produces a digital proof of it (again on‐screen) for me to check for errors, omissions and mistakes. They are always there ‐ it’s just a question of whether I spot them! Once I sign the proof off as ready‐ to‐print the wheels start turning. The physical printing process is, in many ways, the same as it has been for centuries ‐ as Sam explained to me, “all printers potato‐print in pretty much the same way“ ‐ and involves the spreading of ink over a template of the page, slapping paper on top, squeezing the two together then peeling the printed paper off. Voila. But it is of course a bit more technical than that.

Like most commercial printing, The Bristol Six is printed using the CMYK four colour process ‐ in other words every colour you see on the page is made up of a combination of four colours ‐ Cyan (which is essentially blue), Magenta (which is reddish), Yellow (you can guess) and Black (which of course is black). i.e. CMYK where K is the black but actually stands for Key (I won’t bore you). Moving on, if you look very (and I mean very) closely at the inished article you will see that the coloured sections of the magazine are not swathes of solid colour but in fact are a series of tiny dots all closely huddled together. Don’t worry if you can’t see them ‐ you won’t with a naked eye because in the BS6 there are 300 dots to every inch i.e. they are absolutely tiny. As a rule the more dots (dpi) you get in per inch the crisper the picture will be, and the more realistic the colouring will be as there is a broader range of dots with which to portray graduated colour. You can see this on your own printer at home ‐ set it to print the same picture on economy mode (less dpi) and then on quality mode (high dpi), and compare the difference. Now each of those dots is in fact a combination of up to four colours ‐ the CMY and K ‐ one on top of another and in differing quantities. If you’ve ever had paint mixed at B&Q and watched it happen you’ll have seen a tin of white base have a squirt of red, yellow and/or blue in differing quantities added in and shaken to produce a resulting new shade. The magazine printing is pretty similar in a way, with each dot having a different combination of the four coloured inks. So a single dot might, for example, be 75% Cyan, 15% Magenta, 7% Yellow and 3% Black. The dot next to it might then be 75%C, 12%M, 11%Y and 2%K, making it (probably) a fractionally lighter shade. This process is repeated for all 300 dots on the inch ‐ in other words that’s a heck of a lot of coloured dots going on and being piled up. Needless to say the whole colour mixing and application onto the plates (see on) is computer controlled and happens very quickly. (ConƟnued on page 31)

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The colours are applied to the paper, which is huge (more on this later) one colour at a time. The standard sequence for this is to apply Black irst, then Cyan, then Magenta and inally Yellow ‐ although there is a lot of debate about this sequence amongst print academics. The paper passes between two rollers, one of which has a plate itted around it. This plate is made of lexible nickel, which is recyclable, and has a copy of the printed page etched onto it. Four plates are made for each print run ‐ one for each colour. So, very simplistically, the sheet of paper is squeezed between a pair of rollers, one with the plate on, on four occasions ‐ the irst plated roller applies all the necessary Black dots, the second applies the Cyan dots and so on until at the end the line the sheet pops out with the various shades of all four colours having been applied.

A Heidelberg 4‐colour litho press Before I get onto the interesting stuff about cutting and stitching, and the Krypton Factor‐ esque issue of page layouts, I need to address that perennially interesting question ‐ how heavy is a piece of paper? Actually it is more a question of how dense is a piece of paper? In printing terms, paper density relates to how much light can pass through a sheet and this is known as grammage. Stick with me, you’ll see where this is going. Grammage is measured as the

mass of the paper in grams per unit area, that unit area usually being a square metre, hence the term gsm. Typical photocopying paper is 80gsm (I’m sure you’ve seen it on the packets) and, given that a sheet of A4 is 1/16th of a square metre, a piece of photocopy paper is normally 5g in weight. If you are going upmarket and want a denser paper you should opt for a pack with a higher gsm rate ‐ as this means a heavier paper. The Bristol Six is printed on 115gsm paper whereas photo paper is typically 250gsm. Moving on let us now look at how the various pages of this multi‐page magazine are laid out, printed in the correct sequence then assembled. A couple of sheets of blank A4 will be useful here so you can follow me (and the kids might enjoy this)! Imagine, if you will, that you’ve been asked to print a four page lea let the size of this magazine. Chances are you eventually reach the conclusion that you would print two pages on one side of an A4 sheet, then take it out of your printer, reverse the paper and print the other two pages on the other side of the sheet. Then fold the A4 sheet in half and bingo! Look at what you’ve created and I bet some of you (as I would) would ind that page 1 isn’t on the front, it’s on the back and pages 3 and 4 are in the middle. Nope, to get it right you need to ensure that your pages are laid out correctly on the A4 sheet so that when it is printed and folded they miraculously appear in the right order. You’d actually need to print the pages 4 and 1 on the irst side and then 2 and 3 on the reverse. Oh, and make sure you feed the paper the right way up back into your printer after printing the irst side or your pages 2 and 3 will appear upside‐ down. Now, hold this thought for a moment and bear with me. Suppose now you have to create a 32 page A5 magazine. That would require 8 sheets of A4 as each would produce 4 pages per side. 8 pages to feed in, print, take out and reverse, feed in again, print again, take out and fold. You could do it as a one off, with a bit of (ConƟnued on page 34)

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thought and some wastage no doubt. But produce a 96 page magazine, as the BS6’s sister the BS9 usually is, and it would become commercially unviable, even if I had a team of unpaid interns. Which explains why printers operate on a much larger scale with, crucially, much bigger bits of paper. Sticking with the 32 page example, what actually happens is that the print presses can accommodate sheets of paper so large that you can it 16 pages of the magazine on one side of a sheet of huge paper. Print them, reverse the paper just the once and print the other 16 pages on the other side and, hey presto, 32 pages (i.e. a whole magazine) one sheet of paper. And much more cost effective too since the whole print process is quicker and far less labour intensive. All you have to do then is cut the big sheet up into A4 pieces and assemble it correctly. Ah, not cost effective. So here (simplistically, and as I understand it) is how it actually happens (and where it’ll all make sense if you play along with your sheet of A4). The big sheet with 16 BS6 pages on each side is then folded in half, then in half again, and again and again. Four folds reduces your 32 pages into a booklet the size of one page. Then the appropriate edges are guillotined off on three sides (not the side that will form the spine of the magazine) in a process called trimming, then opened out along the uncut spine edge to produce an un‐ stapled 32 page booklet. But there’s an added complication, and we need to go back to where we started. Having confused myself working out how to lay out 4 pages on two sides of an A4 sheet, the confusion is multiplied when trying to correctly lay out 16 pages on each side of a giant sheet, especially when you realise than as soon as you fold a sheet a second time you

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start getting individual pages appearing upside down as well as out of numerical sequence. I had a go at making a 16 page magazine by taking a piece of A4, folding it in half three times then writing the numbers 1 to 16 on the 16 faces I’d created (which will be your magazine pages) then opening the paper back out to it’s original A4 size to see where the numbers ended up. It makes interesting viewing, as you will see in the illustration.

The Mystery of Printing

Moving on, with a printing press that can accommodate paper large enough to have 16 sides of A5 on each side, printing on each side produces 32 pages of magazine. That’s great if that’s what you want. Suppose however you want to produce a 96 page magazine, as is often the case with the BS9. Either you need a press so huge it can accommodate a sheet of paper big enough to have 48 A5‐sides on each side (they do exist and they cost a fortune) or, as is more common, your 96 page magazine is printed in three 32‐page sections, as previously described, and these sections are then assembled together. This in itself produces a challenges, as I witnessed irst hand last month, and which I will look at in a minute along with the next problem which is how do you ix your three 32‐page sections together when you’ve correctly collated them? So, just to remind ourselves (me included as I still ind this confusing) 16 BS6 pages are (ConƟnued on page 35)

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printed on each side of a giant sheet of paper, and in a seemingly haphazard but in fact necessarily careful way, so that when that big sheet is folded in half, four times, you end up with a smaller folded wodge of paper which contains all 32 pages in the right sequence. All that is needed then is to cut off the appropriate edges ‐ three edges, not the main folded spine ‐ in a process known as trimming. This trimming process leaves you with a loose 32 page booklet, also known as a section. (why not have a go at this at home ‐ it is quite fun but do try and ind a responsible adult to help you with the scissors). Being, typically, a 96 page magazine the BS9 requires three sections. Section 1 will be pages 1‐16 and 81‐ 96. Section 2 will be pages 17‐32 and pages 65‐80, and Section 3 will be pages 33 right though to page 64 i.e. the centre section. So all the printer has to do is pop one section on top of another and bingo ‐ a inished 96 page Bristol Nine. The Bristol Six is a little simpler in that it is usually 64 pages so requires two sections—section 1 is pages 1‐16 and 49 ‐ 64, and Section 2 is pages 17 ‐ 48 inclusive. But before we inish off, a quick story from two months ago. I received a call from a nice lady who had received her Bristol Nine and found that some of the pages had been duplicated and some were completely missing. I nipped round to collect the offending magazine and, having just learned about the above process, surmised that during assembly the “collating machine” had picked up two section 1’s and a section 3 but no section 2. Thankfully the assembly line has sensors to detect if this happens and, if so, to stop the line accordingly. This takes a fraction of a second, and then the operator can then ish out the incorrect assembly and press “Restart”. Obviously the rogue one the nice lady received slipped through the net ‐ the irst time I’ve come across this in over 100 issues. So, what’s needed now is to pop a couple of

staples in to hold the sections together and the jobs a good ‘un. However as anyone with a Bambi stapler will know (remember them?) stapling anything more than 2 pages together is beyond the scope of this piece of simple of ice technology, so piercing what is now a stack of 48 pages of 115gsm paper requires something a little more industrial. Enter the stitching line where in effect a huge needle, threaded not with cotton but staple wire, is used to pierce the stack, doubling back then being snipped and folded to form the staple you see before you.

And that’s about it. Just fold the 9,000 copies in half along the spine, back into their inished form, load 900 copies into each cardboard box, pop all 100 boxes into the van and deliver them to a happy customer.

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Which record label did The Beatles found in 1968?

Ashmead’s Kernel, Blenheim Orange 13. and Gascoyne’s Scarlet are all English varie es of which kind of fruit?

What colour or colours are the sixth in this sequence ‐ red, blue, white, black, orange, and … ?

Name Henry VIII’s third wife.

What are pachyderms?

What families do these specific colours belong to ‐ viridian, cerulean and vermilion?

In which decades did these famous railway routes open ‐ the Stockton to Darlington railway, the Channel tunnel and the Orient Express?

14.

Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Chad are the top three countries in the world in terms of what?

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Which UK ar st is credited as being the first to have simultaneous number 1 hits in the UK and USA?

16.

Who had a hit record with the 1975 disco hit “The Hustle”?

Which of these is the odd one out ‐ bonsai, origami, taekwon‐do and sushi?

17.

In which bodies of water would you find the following islands ‐ Canvey Island, St Helena and Russky Island

How long is a standard cricket pitch (in yards), the Epsom Derby (in miles, furlongs, and yards) and one side of a C90 audio casse e (in minutes)?

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Name the six founder members of the EEC.

19.

Which sports teams would wear the following shirts?

20.

Hughie Green presented which television programme in the 1960’s and 1970’s?

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In which decade was the Great Exhibi on at the Crystal Palace? What is the literal transla on of “cul‐ de‐sac”?

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42 Sustainability Issues Hamish Wills from Sustainable Redland

track down the entire life cycle of a product from its biodiversity impact through to manufacture, sale and disposal. Using this tool it’s improved the sustainability credentials of its Botanics line by nearly one Business Sustainability Successes third. Well done for sticking so long with this We’ve all bought cheese that’s been produced sustainability column, and as a reward I’m at Wykes Farms at Bruton in Somerset. going to write about positive things some They’ve been given a Waste award because companies have been doing on the they use their own farm waste to power a sustainability front, starting off with Tesco. Yes, Tesco. And not just Tesco but King isher, methane plant to supply most of their energy needs. In the long term they want to make Boots, Wyke Farms and Paul Polman, CEO, themselves 100% Green. Unilever. If space permitted, there’s quite a few more I’d like to mention, but I’m stopping Paul Coleman, Unilever CEO was voted with these ive. Sustainable Business Leader of the Year. He believes that his company’s core values are They’ve all won Guardian Sustainable essential to address key sustainability Business awards of one sort or another, well challenges such as climate change and food worth a good trumpeting. Tescos won the security, and that executives must communication award for admitting how demonstrate that embedding sustainability much of their fruit and veg they throw away drives greater pro itability. each year. Their hope is to encourage others to do the same by triggering a national debate, Check out other 2014 winners at Guardian with the consequence of setting off a downward spiral of food waste reduction. Get Sustainable Business Awards. ready for the shock though – it’s 21%. If other supermarkets are about the same, it suggests they all chuck out nearly a quarter of their fruit and veg. All power to Tesco for getting the what to do about it debate going. Net positive companies leave the world better than they found it. King isher, B&Q’s owner, was given the award for this because of its pledge to ensure that it reforests more than it deforests. It manages to source 89% of its wood from sustainably certi ied resources and has new initiatives to combat illegal wood, revitalize undermanaged woodlands and open up new sources of sustainable timber. Boots won the Natural Capital award because it’s worked with the Royal Botanic Gardens and Central Science Laboratory to develop and pioneer its own in house Product Sustainability Assessment tool. This is designed to

43 Cohabitation agreements Alison Dukes Family Law Specialist with AMD solicitors considers the myth of the common-law spouse One of the hardest tasks for a family lawyer is advising a woman (or a man) at the end of a relationship, who believes they have rights as a ‘common-law spouse’. The reality is that the legal position of a spouse at the end of a marriage, and that of an unmarried partner at the end of a relationship, could hardly be further apart. Whilst at the end of a marriage the Court has wide powers to redistribute wealth to leave each spouse in a fair position, there are no such powers available if the couple have not married.

the partner with care of the children, or to order the payment of cash to provide a home for them. Such a home will only be given for the period whilst the(GWAAC4) children are in education, however, and on the children leaving home, the financial provision will end and the house would revert to the paying partner. Claims on death It is ironic that an unmarried partner has greater financial claims on his or her partner’s death, than they would have had during their lifetime. If a partner dies without making adequate provision for their partner’s maintenance needs, an application can be made to the Court for a share of the estate to be awarded to meet these needs if the partners had lived together for at least two years, or if they were being maintained by the deceased prior to their death.

The myth of the ‘common-law spouse’ However long an unmarried couple live together, if they do not marry, a financially dependent partner has no entitlement to maintenance or a cash sum from their partner on the breakdown of the relationship. In terms of the family home, if this is held in one partner’s sole name, the other can only claim an interest in it if they have directly added to its value by contribution. If one partner has promised the other a share of the property in the event that they split up, it may be possible to persuade a court that they are bound by this promise. Proving such a promise, however, is likely to be far from straight-forward. Where an unmarried couple have children, the partner who cares for them most of the time will have financial claims against the other for child support. If the children are at fee-paying schools or at university, an application can be made to the Court for the partner to contribute towards the costs. A Court may also be willing to transfer a house to

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It is particularly important for unmarried couples to draw up Wills in order to provide for each other in the event of death. This is because unmarried partners do not benefit at all from their partner’s estate under the ‘Intestacy rules’ which determine who inherits if no valid Will has been left. Given the severely inadequate protection currently provided by the law in England and Wales to cohabiting couples, taking specialist legal advice is essential. Cohabitation agreement A cohabitation agreement is a contract made by an unmarried couple setting out the agreement they have reached for their financial arrangements. Each partner should have received specialist legal advice, and neither should have been placed under undue pressure to enter into the agreement. The contract can also record how the finances are to be split, in the event of a separation. In conclusion, until the law is changed to provide adequate protection to unmarried couples, it is vital for all unmarried partners to seek specialist legal advice on their financial position. For advice on the legal issues arising from cohabitation contact AMD’s team of specialist family solicitors. email alisondukes@amdsolicitors.com or telephone 0117 9621205 to speak to Alison or one of her colleagues. Or visit www.amdsolicitors.com Copyright AMD Solicitors

44 In practical terms the re lexology session involves just the removal of shoes and socks and then recline gently in Kate’s special chair while she carries out a structured massage of Sometimes things don’t seem quite right do the re lex and energy points on the feet, with a they? They’re wrong ‐ but you take pleasure view to helping restore and promote health from that wrongness. Salted caramel in your and vitality. Firm but gentle pressure is the brownie. That’s not right but it’s brilliant. Contemplating driving a car that Renault have name of the game ‐ no tickling ‐ and I found it christened the Cactus. That’s not right either ‐ a genuinely enjoyable experience. Whether you buy in to the theory or not doesn’t really but it makes you smile. Watching someone matter because to my way of thinking the texting as they walk along then laughing as they walk into a lamppost. Shouldn’t give you opportunity to just switch off and relax brings bene its of its own. pleasure, but it does. Hearing the new One Direction single and secretly quite liking it. I Kate herself is cheery and personable, has a suppose they are all guilty pleasures and I bet special interest in the bene its of re lexology we all have them. in ante‐natal, parent & toddler and mental health areas, and provides a visiting Which brings me nicely on to re lexology. Why would I let a complete stranger loose on re lexology and footcare service across north my ticklish feet for 45 minutes ‐ and then pay Bristol. For an appointment or free discussion do call Kate on 01454 616 393 / 07811 619 for the experience? Surely that de ies logic. 860 or visit www.lotusre lexology.co.uk But no. Three quarters of an hour with my feet in the hands of Kate McEwan of Lotus Re lexology was no ordeal, rather a genuinely relaxing and pleasant time‐out from a busy day. And that would be my motivation to book another session. There was nothing “wrong” with me that I was hoping Kate might discover. As I have said in previous articles, sometimes it is enough just to have a bit of “me time” when I can switch off from the hectic daily routine and just relax and recharge.

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That’s not to say that re lexology is simply a way of unwinding. It is an ancient and relaxing therapy that can help improve circulation and help normalise bodily functions, by addressing the whole body rather than isolated symptoms (a holistic therapy I think they call it). In layman’s terms the feet are believed to mirror the whole body, with energy paths to parts or organs within the body emanating from the feet.

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Top Tips for February I’ve come in from the garden today looking like I came through a hedge backwards in the rain and wind ‐ wait a minute, I did! 1. Prepare your vegetable seed beds in advance so you are ready for seed sowing as soon as the soil warms up 2. Seed potatoes are available now. Chit them (allow shoots to form in advance of planting) by placing them in a light, cool, frost‐free place. 3. This is your last chance to plant bare root raspberries this month. (Autumn Bliss is my favourite and continues fruiting way into the late autumn) Currant bushes and gooseberries (usually container grown) can be planted up until late spring. 4.. Prune wisteria (cut back the whippy growth to 2 buds, to encourage a good display of lowers) and any winter lowering shrubs and climbers which have inished lowering eg winter lowering honeysuckle (Lonicera purpusii 'Winter Beauty'), Viburnum bodnantense, Cornus mas, Chimonanthes praecox, Jasminum nudi lorum (winter lowering jasmine 5. Also prune hardy evergreen hedges and renovate overgrown deciduous hedges 6. Prune clematis tangutica and take the leaves off epimediums to expose the beautiful lowers coming through 7. Towards the end of the month, divide snowdrops and plant any bulbs in the green eg snowdrops, bluebells, winter lowering aconite (Eranthis hyemalis) 8. Put up bird nesting boxes this month ‐ it's the last chance before tits start looking for a

suitable residence 9. Consider moving or replacing damaged, overgrown or badly placed shrubs. 11. This is the last month to plant bare root trees and shrubs, as long as the ground isn't frozen 12. Cut back deciduous grasses such as Miscanthus and Pennisetum 13. Trim winter‐ lowering heathers as the lowers fade. Shears are the ideal tool. This will prevent the plants from becoming leggy and bare. 14. After pruning (see above) do give your plants a good mulch to give them a good start to the growing season. Happy gardening!

53 Pet Page with the Animal Health Centre

being vulnerable, with fewer than 300 registrations per year. These include some delightful small breeds Best of British! such as the Dandy Dinmont terrier (below left) as well as the largest, the Deerhound Love it or loathe it, it’s that time of year again, Crufts, the worlds largest dog show is (below). The list of vulnerable breeds can be seen at www.thekennelclub.org.uk/ at the NEC in Birmingham from the 5th to getting‐a‐dog‐or‐puppy/ inding‐the‐right‐ 8th March. (www.crufts.org.uk) dog/vulnerable‐native‐breeds/. Aside from the dog showing at Crufts, many people do not realise that there is also a huge section of the event dedicated to Discover Dogs. Discover Dogs is an A to Z of over 200 breeds of dogs together with their knowledgeable and enthusiastic owners and breeders.(www.discoverdogs.org.uk/) If you are thinking of getting a new pet this is a fantastic opportunity to see for yourself the wide range of native British breeds of dogs and to discover what makes them so special. Whilst so many people are buying this years fashionable “must have mixture” Many wonderful spirited dogs feature on the vulnerable breeds list including the many of our traditional dog breeds have Norwich terrier (overleaf), the Lakeland become less popular and are declining in number. Twenty six breeds of British origin terrier, the Irish Water Spaniel and the have been recognised by the Kennel Club as Cardigan Corgi. Each of the vulnerable breeds has a unique personality, temperament and history, the only way to be sure which breed is right for you is to talk to those who know them intimately and to see them in the lesh. How much exercise do they need? Are they good with children? Are there any hereditary weaknesses? What they were bred for and why they are so special. (conƟnued overleaf)

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Books for Young Adults The Last Leaves Falling by Sarah Benwell reviewed by Lucy Shepherd Sarah Benwell’s dé but novel, The Last Leaves Falling, takes its young adult readers on a journey towards a fresh understanding of hope and courage in the face of certain death. Its seventeen year‐old protagonist, Sora, son of a single parent, suffers from an incurable, degenerative illness. Growing physical frailty makes him unable to attend school and, as his mother is out at work all day, social isolation becomes a mounting problem. Using social networks, Sora creates a physically‐ adventurous persona: the screen interaction opens a new world that he can experience from his wheelchair. As a result of his mother’s persistence, however, he is obliged to invite two of his cyber‐acquaintances to tea. Sora watches with embarrassment as Kaito and Mai attempt to square previous notions of their exciting online friend with the reality of this wheelchair‐bound invalid with the severely limited life‐expectancy. After this initial shock, the seed of friendship develops into a deep‐rooted desire to enable Sora – however brief his remaining time – to live his life to the full. He, in turn, helps Kaito and Mai value who they really are, equipping them to realise their future dreams. Through this friendship, Sora learns how to unleash

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