Spotlight Magazine for Mansfield South, Nottingham August 2017

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Contents

Anyone For Wine 6 You Could 3D Print That 8 Smokey Paws 10 A Good Read 12 Garden View 14 Tasty Recipe 16 Maggies Culture Crawl 18 Puzzle Pages 20 Left Handers Day 22 Beauty Tips 24 Achieve Your Goals 26 Make Your Own Slime!

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So.. August already! Everyone seems to be in a holiday mood. It’s probably my favourite month... warmer sunny weather (we hope) with warm evenings.

The kids are off school so the roads are quiet, the football season starts again, and we get a bank holiday thrown in for good measure.

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Anyone For Wine?

There has never been a better time...

To Be A Wine Drinker!

There are around 60 species of vine but only one bears the fruit which when fermented produces wine.

Evidence of grape pips at Palaeolithic sites indicates humans were eating grapes from around 7000BC.

We would be horrified now at what passed for wine in earlier ages. Makers preserved their wines with additions such as heavily sweetened date juice, honey and spices, and even pepper.

The first vineyard dates from 3200 BC when the Egyptians and Phoenicians began planting and tending vines.

By the Middle Ages people tended to prefer full-bodied fortified wines (more akin to our sherries and ports) which were stored in wooden casks.

At first grapes were grown only for eating. It is likely that wine was an accidental discovery. It would only have taken a few hours in full sun for ripe juicy grapes to begin fermenting (the process by which natural sugars are turned into alcohol) aided by the natural yeasts present in the ‘bloom’ on the fruit.

Before long wine was being made throughout the Mediterranean.

Ancient methods of viticulture (wine-making) bear a lot of similarities to those still in use today. In Egypt grapes were collected in wicker baskets then trodden in huge wooden vats to get the fermentation process started.

Over the course of the centuries wine-making evolved. Makers learned that vines grown on the thinner mountain soils seemed to produce superior wines to those grown on the plains.

All the European vines originated from the same species.

This made them vulnerable to pests and diseases (a problem affecting banana producers nowadays).

A highly destructive aphid called the grape phylloxera reached Europe at the beginning of the 20th century and wiped out

almost all of the Old World vines in just a few years.

Fortunately scientists stepped in and managed to develop healthy plants by grafting European varieties on to American rootstock, because the American vines were resistant to the aphid.

This helped the Americans too because their native vines produced inferior wine. All of today’s Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon wines are produced from ‘rescued’ vines!

There are now a huge variety of grapes for manufacturers to choose from and this, coupled with modern wine-making techniques have made wines more standardised and reliable.

But recently there has been a move back to artisan wine-making by passionate manufacturers who want more individuality, uniqueness or ‘terroir’. Truth is there has never been a better time to be a winedrinker. Cheers!

Once crushed the grapes, juice and skins were poured into loosely corked earthenware jars and left to finish the fermentation process. Finally the mixture was filtered, flavoured and poured into sealed amphorae.

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You Could 3D Print That!

What is a 3D printer?

And why would you want to buy one?

3D printing has come a long way in the last few years. What started out as an ultra-expensive development tool can now be bought as a desktop gadget for a couple of hundred pounds.

When you make an item usually you start with the material e.g. a big block of wood or metal and then cut bits off and shape it until you get to what you want.

Or maybe you start with a mould and a liquid substrate which hardens.

With 3D printing you start with nothing but gradually add layers of material to build up your object in an ‘additive manufacturing process’.

You design your item using computer aided design software (CAD) then feed it to a special ‘slicer’ program that cuts it into very thin layers which are then printed one on top of the other.

computer to make a solid, thin layer of plastic which forms one slice through your design.

the GO button you don’t always achieve success; you may need help to fine tune your system.

The process is repeated over and over until all the slices have been stacked up, leaving you with the finished object.

As for what you can do with a 3D printer? Really the only limit is your imagination. I’ve built a plastic case for my latest Raspberry Pi project; a vase, a music stand, several fidget spinners and a replacement part for a Lego set.

Price-wise you can pay anything from around £100 to a few thousand for a professional machine. At the cheaper end you tend to get 3D-printed kits (yes 3D printers making 3D printers!).

But for a few hundred pounds you’ll get fully assembled, metal framed (more rigid) examples.

There is a vast array of printers to choose from, but do your research and don’t under-estimate the importance of helpful online user support groups.

3D printing is not an exact science. When you press

My seven-year-old designed and made a glow-in-the-dark sword!

Take a look at www. thingiverse.com. One of the greatest bits of this technology is that you can share your designs and work and have anyone, anywhere in the world print their version of your creation.

So go get creating!

By Tom Hancock

The beauty of this is that it lets you create incredibly complex articles that you simply wouldn’t be able to make at home in any other way.

The most common home printers (FDM printers) use a reel of plastic wire. This is fed into a heated extruder where the material is melted and then forced out through a very fine nozzle.

This nozzle is then moved over a build-plate by

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Smokey Paws

Smokey Paws need your help to save more pets’ lives.

Smokey Paws is a not for profit organisation with a pet lifesaving mission.

Smokey Paws aims to supply specially designed pet oxygen masks to the UK Fire & Rescue Service to help them succeed in saving the life of thousands of pets and wildlife today and the years to come.

Each set of masks is just £90 and they are specially designed to fit around animals faces, giving 95%100% oxygen compared to only 5% if having to use human oxygen masks.

Smokey Paws is appealing to anyone within Nottinghamshire who would like to support Smokey Paws.

There are already a handful of stations that have been donated the masks, Worksop, Newark, Beeston and West Bridgford but there are about 20 stations still without these masks.

often, much like humans, require some form of oxygen therapy to assist in their immediate care and recovery.

Emma Johnson, Fundraiser at Smokey Paws said ‘It is wonderful to see so much public support for Smokey Paws so far.

Our crews always do the best job they can in these situations – however our equipment hasn’t previously been tailored specifically towards household pets.

“These new masks from Smokey Paws are specifically designed to fit the faces of small animals and mean we can go one step further when it comes to treating pets that have been involved in house fires.

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“I’m sure many people across the county will agree that pets can be an enormous part of a family, so I’m really pleased that we are now starting to see this life-saving equipment rolled out to fire engines across Nottinghamshire.”

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A Good Read doesn’t agree and this is where the novel starts.

Two parents battling to get the best for their son, and battling to communicate with each other. This is a brutally honest look at the highs and lows of parenting a child with autism. The author, Jem Lester, should know what it is like as he is father to a child just like Jonah.

Shtum by Jem Lester “I love you, Jonah, but sometimes I wish you had never been born.”

For most parents this would be an unthinkable phrase to utter.

But Ben is desperate. He doesn’t mean it, of course, but the thought is there, uttered only when his 10 year old son is asleep.

Even if Jonah heard he wouldn’t say anything.

Jonah doesn’t say anything. Jonah is nonverbal. He has autism.

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But it is also a story about an adult son trying to repair his relationship with his aging father. Geog is a Holocaust survivor and has kept his past hidden from Ben. It is his conversations with Jonah that allow him to open up and Ben has to come to terms with the fact that his father won’t open up to him.

It would seem that Jonah, who has the least to say, will be the one that teaches the adults in his life to live, love, and forgive.

But this is only the start of their troubles as they find themselves in one quest after another.

This is the eighth book in the Gladiator Boy series and it leaps right in where the previous book left off.

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Honeysuckle The Crown Prince Of Climbers

This month - Honeysuckle I know Wisteria is considered the king of climbers by many gardeners but surely honeysuckle must be the crown prince.

The fragrance is nothing short of heavenly. It grows wild in a wood near my home and the scent stops walkers in their tracks whenever they come across it.

Honeysuckle stems emerge from the ground and grow slowly upwards until they find something around which to twine. At this point they romp away, scrambling up frameworks or trees decorating them with spidery flowers and showering the air with that heady scent on warm summer evenings.

The most common complaint I get about honeysuckle is ‘failure to thrive’. People buy one, plant it and it struggles on for a couple of years before it turns up it’s toes and keels over.

‘Why did that happen?’ they ask imploringly.

Mostly it happens because although they are undemanding once established, honeysuckles are quite fussy about their situation.

This makes perfect sense if you think about the forest floor where it grows wild. And it likes its head in the sun to encourage prolific flowering.

I grow it like clematis - I place a couple of bits of paving over the soil that surrounds the roots to provide the cool shade they require.

Honeysuckle is not at all fussy about the support it needs. I have some growing over a pergola, and some over a wigwam in a border near a bench, just so I can get the benefit of the scent when I sit there.

I’m trying to establish one over the porch too. As it’s against a wall I am having to make sure that it receives enough water.

My father had one growing over an old tree in his garden. If you want to do the same I’d advise planting it near the extremity of the branch canopy rather than

near the trunk where root competition will be fierce.

Train the stems upwards along some garden twine into the branches and the result will be breathtaking.

There are lots of varieties to choose from. Our native honeysuckle, Lonicera periclymenum has early and late-flowering varieties and for scent they are difficult to beat.

I do have a lovely Italian honeysuckle, Lonicera caprifolium, which was recommended to me by Alan Titchmarsh at a Gardeners World event many years ago.

I wanted summer fragrance and I have not been disappointed with the great Mr. T’s suggestion.

Now is actually a good time to buy a honeysuckle as you can conduct a scent test at the garden centre. Happy sniffing!

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Season to taste, with salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Divide the mixture into six equal portions and shape into burgers.

It’s easier to do this if your hands are a little damp.

Heat the remaining olive oil in a frying pan and fry the burgers for 3-4 minutes on each side, until golden-brown.

You can finish cooking them for a few more minutes and serve them like this but I prefer to heat a griddle pan until smoking hot, then add the cooked burgers and fry for a further 1-2 minutes on each side, until there are clear deep char lines.

Serve the burgers in buns and add any extras of your choice, such as tomato slices, gherkins, chargrilled peppers, salad leaves, coleslaw or mayonnaise.

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Maggies Culture Crawl

Discover your city as the sun sets and help people living with cancer Maggie’s Culture Crawl Nottingham, Friday 29th September Maggie’s, the charity which provides free practical and emotional support for people living with cancer, is encouraging everyone across the East Midlands to walk together for an evening of fun, food and culture, all to help people living with cancer.

Maggie’s Culture Crawl Nottingham returns for the third year on Friday 29th September. The event gives participants a chance to see the city of Nottingham in a new light as they walk 8 miles and get exclusive night-time access to some of the city’s cultural icons.

Venues confirmed for this years walk include Lakeside Arts, Wollaton Hall and The National Justice Museum.

As the number of people living with cancer increases it is essential that they are able to find the practical and emotional support they need to cope with the changes that life after cancer brings.

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a space that enables them to meet other people who

understand what it means to be living with cancer too.

All of the money raised through Maggie’s Culture Crawl Nottingham will help ensure the Centre continues to provide free, professional support to all those living with cancer who need it across the region.

Kate Martin, Centre Head of Maggie’s Nottingham, who will be attending the event, said: “Discovering our city as the sun sets and taking in its sights and cultural gems is quickly becoming a calendar highlight.

As a charity Maggie’s Nottingham relies on donations to continue to develop our unique, high quality programme of support. I really hope the local community gets behind the event to help us support as many

people living with cancer, as well as their family and friends, across the East Midlands.

Nicola Burley, Commercial and Development Executive Director at The National Justice Museum said: ‘The National Justice Museum is delighted to be taking part in Maggie’s Nottingham Culture Crawl for the second year running.

As we are both charitable organisations we are pleased to support Maggies and our link with culture fits perfectly. We’ve got a tremendous amount of history in our museum and we look forward to taking part to help such a worthwhile cause.’

Maggie’s has a network of Centres across the UK and 11 Culture Crawls will be happening up and down the country in September with the aim to raise £500,000 to help support people living with cancer.

Registration for the event is £20 and participants are asked to raise a minimum of £80, a fundraising pack full of ideas to make sure each walker reaches their target will be available from Maggie’s Nottingham or online. An early bid rate of £15 is available which ends on 1st August 2017.

All Maggie’s Culture Crawl walkers will get a free t-shirt and a medal. Find out more and sign-up at www.maggiescentres.org/ ccnottingham

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International Left-Handers’ Day

The 13th of August is International LeftHanders’ Day. Launched in 1992, it is now an annual event where left-handers everywhere can celebrate their sinistrality (that’s the posh word for left-handedness).

Also to increase public awareness of the disadvantages of being left handed (ltake scissors for exampe…conventional scissors are made for righties, a fact which made my primary school years in the lessenlightened 1970s somewhat frustrating), and also the advantages, because there are quite a few.

In many sports for instance, we seem to have an advantage. Left-footed soccer players and tennis players find it easy to wrong-foot an opponent. A right-handed player is used to ‘like-handed’ opponents who play a similar game. A lefty will have faced more right-handers and thus be used to their “opposite” style of play.

We’re also more creative, possibly due to the way our brains are wired: The left half of the brain, which controls the right hand, is also responsible for speech, language, writing, logic and numerical thinking. The right half, which controls the left hand, is also responsible for music, art, creativity, perception, spatial awareness and emotions.

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Achieve Your Goals

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Make Your Own Slime For the kids of course!

During the long summer break it’s good to have a trick or two up your sleeve to entertain the kids on a rainy day.

One of my...erm sorry their favourites is making slime!

It’s fun and teaches them a bit of chemistry too.

What you need: White glue Sodium tetraborate (Borax) Water Sealable plastic bags A large spoon A jar with a lid A bowl for mixing Note: Borax is less easily available now than it used to be but you can buy it in good hardware stores, garden centres and online.

Borax substitute doesn’t work! You’ve been warned.

How to make the slime Place equal quantities of glue and water in the bowl, mix well with a spoon.

saturated.

Add a small quantity of the sodium tetraborate solution to the glue and water mixture, and stir rapidly.

The trick here is to add just the right amount of sodium tetraborate solution. Too little and there will be too much glue so the mixture will be sticky. Too much and it will be to liquid.

Add a small amount at a time and keep touching the mixture with your hand when it doesn’t look like liquid anymore.

If it feels sticky add a little more solution. If it feels too wet but not runny remove it from the bowl and knead it a little in your hands. It should gradually become more slimy as the excess sodium tetraborate evaporates.

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When you’re happy with your slime you can colour it with food colour and even add glitter or tiny plastic insects or tiny googly eyes.

Slime keeps for a long time in sealable plastic bags.

You can add a little more water if it starts to dry out.

The science bit!

The white glue and water mixture is a polymer.

Polymers are used in all kinds of plastics and some cloth fibres like nylon.

Sodium tetraborate is a cross-linking substance which binds the polymer chains together. This makes the glue solution thicker.

If the polymer chains get too bound together it becomes more difficult for them to move around and the mixture becomes more like putty.

In the jar combine a cup of water with a tablespoon of sodium tetraborate powder or crystals.

Screw the lid on tight and shake well. If all the sodium tetraborate dissolves add a bit more. You want a saturated solution.

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