Spotlight Magazine for Tuxford, Nottingham, August 2017

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Contents

Editors Message 6 Church Services in Tuxford 8 Vets Voice 10 Garden View 12 Make Your Own Slime 14 A Good Read 16 Veggie Burgers 18 Left Handers Day 22 Puzzles 24 Anyone For Wine 26 Smoky Paws 30 The Cat’s Whisker 32 Think Few When You Chew 34 Dates For Your Diary 36 Index of Advertisers 38

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Editors Message

Spotlight on Tuxford and surrounding areas will next month be celebrating our 1st birthday, gosh how time flies!

The glossy magazine is going from strength to strength and unlike some monthly magazines that are full of advertising Spotlight on Tuxford is a not for profit publication for the benefit of the local communities.

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VETS VOICE……

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Pet Care In The Summer Heat

As the nights are getting darker and we are all in the throws of getting ready for the lead up to the festive time, it is easy to overlook our pets when multi tasking…..

ThisUK wasisvery apparent a sodden, sad, shivering came the clinic........

The known for itswhen confusing weather So pup please beinto aware of any changes in your and this summer it is true to form! We have pets behaviour in the heat and contact your had coldhome wet weeks and vet for help information.

Thewarm ownerweeks, had rushed with a car full of shopping, gifts andand associated paraphernalia, today (at time of writing! ) thejobs weatherman obviously mindful of the many to be completed in a short time. Excited pup ran out of the has informed us we with will exuberance reach record one answer is was to adopt house, was greeted by owner, butI suppose in haste and rain the door shut toakeep temperatures...... as! they have the most efficient out the inclement weather........unfortunately so wascamel, the pup system to cope with heat and temperature Our with heat and some tolerance.

However ....there could Thepets pup struggle sniffing around the car had no idea he would be locked out for several hours untilbe theother common sense has to prevail . problems.........! next family member appeared.

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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!

Honeysuckle prefers its roots in damp soil, not too heavy, and enriched with plenty of leaf mould.

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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.

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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.

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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.

If it’s runny then you’ve probably ruined it! Try adding more glue but you may have to start again. I

suggest you make a small amount to begin with to get a feel for proportions and texture.

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.

Keep adding a little more sodium tetraborate and shaking until no more will dissolve.

Now your solution is

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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.

This is not your Rain Main depiction of autism where Jonah is a gifted child in at least one area. He has the mental age of a toddler and his parents have reached the end of the road.

He is about to make the transition to secondary school and Ben and Emma are convinced that he would be better off in a residential specialist school. The local authority

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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.

Decimus, Olu, Ruma, and Gladius are sailing across the seas to China to rescue their friend Teo. But when they arrive in Yelang they find none other than Slavious who challenges them to survive the water maze.

This is a great series for young readers and this instalment is no exception.

From attacks by Japanese Ninjas to a water filled maze with encroaching walls this is sure to be one that readers will not want to put down.

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Gladiator Boy vs The Raging Torrent by David Grimstone Decimus Rex, the hero of this series, was captured by slave-takers in Italy and taken to Rome to compete in the gladiator arena.

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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.

salt and freshly ground black pepper To serve 6 burger buns 6 tbsp ready-made mayonnaise (optional) 3 beefsteak tomatoes, thickly sliced 2-3 gherkins, sliced Method Heat half the sunflower oil in a pan over a low heat and fry the onions for 15 minutes, stirring frequently, until they are softened, translucent and beginning to turn golden-brown.

In a bowl, mix together the cooked onions, tofu, beetroot, mushrooms, carrots, smoked paprika (if using), garlic, thyme and kidney beans.

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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.

I’ve learned to embrace my lefthandedness over the years. It’s part of who I am and I’m pleased to announce that since I purchased a pair of left-handed scissors I can now cut out neat paper shapes with the best of them!

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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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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.

However, Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service need a lot more of our pet lifesaving masks.

“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.”

We are appealing to any members of the public, local businesses and community groups within the Nottinghamshire area who can help us to roll out the masks to those stations without them yet’ If you would like to find out more about our pet lifesaving mission or if you can help us raise funds and awareness in the Nottinghamshire area, please contact Emma on emma@smokeypaws.co.uk or call 07340754408.

Thank you.

Group Manager Damien West said “As a service we regularly attend incidents where pets are involved.

Once they’ve been rescued they

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The Cat’s Whiskers!

International Cat Day is an annual celebration of one of the world’s favourite animals. As a card-carrying dog-lover I admit I didn’t know much about our feline friends so I was fascinated to unearth some cool catfacts!

Cats only sweat through their paws A group of cats is called a clowder.

A cat has the ability to jump up to six times its length.

Cats are believed to have been domesticated in ancient Egypt.

Cats can detect higher frequencies of sound than dogs or humans.

Cats sleep for two-thirds of their lives.

They usually spend 13-16 hours of the day asleep. (I am definitely coming back as a cat!)

Cats have powerful, tightly controlled muscles and fast reflexes that allow them to move quickly – they skilled at stalking, running, jumping and climbing.

Adult cats ‘miaow’ to communicate with humans rather than each other.

Cats can see at one-sixth the light level required for human vision

Cats use their whiskers as sensors to find out how wide a space is – and whether they can fit through it.

Cats are believed to have been domesticated in ancient Egypt.

A cat’s tongue has rows of hooked scales that act like a comb to groom its fur.

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Think Few When You Chew!

We chew and then swallow our food, to launch it its long journey through our digestive tract. It is normal for it to linger a while in certain places but sometimes lingering turns to languishing and then to clogging…with unpleasant consequences!

Constipation is one of the most common medical complaints.

It is well known that fibrous vegetables, whole grains, beans, lentils and fruit, especially pineapple, sun-dried apricots and figs, provide the fibre needed to speed up the processing of food through the gut.

They are also rich in nutrients and are much better than relying on wheat bran alone.

If you are dehydrated, your body will resort to drawing back fluids from your bowel, which will not only cause constipation, and also headaches.

Drink plenty of still water at room temperature between meals If you suffer with irritable bowel you might benefit from taking probiotic supplement, as well as eating live yogurts. Exercise also keeps things moving.

As you chew, just think FEW : Fibre, Exercise, Water and there’ll be no hold ups in your system!

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