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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 Local Info 24 Open Gardens 26 Think Few When You Chew 28 Index of Advertisers 30 Published by Spotlight Local Media Ltd Company No. 6841257 Tel: 0115 822 4995 Suite 104, 1 Hanley Street Nottingham NG1 5BL Graphic Design and Layout: Spotlight Local Media Distributed by Best Distributions Trusted Delivery Partner of the Spotlight Magazine

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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.

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.

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

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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.

Along with his cell-mates he is determined to escape and after a series of trials they manage to escape their captor Slavious Doom.

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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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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.

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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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What’s happening in your area

This is a free page to publicise your local events and information. We would love to hear from you if you know of any event in or around the West Bridgford area; copy deadline is the 25th of each month. Please email: info@spotlightlocal.co.uk West Bridgford Shopmobility is a charity which helps people with mobility problems to move easily around the shops and attractions of West Bridgford.

Not only that, but we also have a short –term hire scheme so that you can take a scooter or wheelchair away on a UK holiday, or help you if you are poorly, or just discharged from hospital, or if you have a guest with mobility problems. Call us on 0115 981 5451, find us on Facebook, or at www.wbshopmobility - or visit us behind West Bridgford library on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Insanity - West Bridgford every Friday night from 6.30pm - 7.30pm in West Bridgford Baptist Church.

All levels of fitness welcome. For more information, please contact Caroline on 07849 753300, email: carolinequarmby@hotmail.co.uk or Facebook: Insanity – West Bridgford.

Kickers and Stompers line dancing groups. Meet regularly each week in West Bridgford, Plumtree and Radcliffe on Trent. Suitable classes for all levels of dance. Come and have fun with us. Tel 01159140673 or e.mail p.brown633@ntlworld.com The Poppy Folk Club We have no meeting in August, but return on Sunday 10th September for a concert night with The Teacups. As usual we’ll be in the upstairs room at The Poppy & Pint. For tickets telephone Juliet and Tom 0115 9231513, Dave 07790 943893 or email phil@ poppyfolkclub.co.uk. More details and future events visit the website www.poppyfolkclub.co.uk.

Just Friends West Bridgford is a very friendly group for single, local people aged 55+.

25+ events each month including theatre, coach trips, holidays, pub nights, meals out, walks, darts, snooker, card/board games. Monthly club coffee morning.

Call Lillian 0115 8462225 or Irene 0115 8781905 or visit our website justfriendswestbridgford.wordpress. com for further information.

Nottingham Leander Swimming Club We welcome all swimmers but especially those who want to race ! Confident swimmers from age 6 upwards. All qualified coaches. Friendly and supportive ethos. Water Polo. Learn to swim classes for non-swimmers. ‘Masters’ swimming for all abilities.

See our website leandersc.com or contact our Secretary Sue at suedavis78@gmail.com Claire Mockridge Fitness/Pilates Mother and Baby Postnatal Fitness Classes Wednesdays 11am-12pm All Hallows Church Hall,

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Pierrepont Road, Lady Bay/West Bridgford - Come along from 6-10 weeks after birth. Phone Claire on 07747 656550, email claire@mummiesandbuggies. co.uk or see www.mummiesandbuggies.co.uk The South Notts Flower Club meets on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at Edwalton Church Hall, Edwalton. All visitors are welcome. £6.00 The Edwalton, Gamston and District U3A is going from strength to strength. it has a steadily growing number with new members at every meeting. w If you would like to join please contact Christine Shaw email : chrisshaw20038@hotmail.com or telephone 0115 974 5512. We meet every 2nd Thursday in the month from 2 to 4 p.m. at Gamston Community Hall.

Interested in learning bridge? Or want to return?

West Bridgford Bridge Club meets at Edwalton Golf Centre 7pm every Monday night, for duplicate bridge. For more details, contact Shiona Dawson at shionadawson@gmail.com The Photo Coach Club A new camera club based in Radcliffe-on-Trent Meeting every 1st and 3rd Thursday in the month from 7pm - 9pm throughout the year, membership to the club is just £5.00 and promises that the evenings will be fun filled and packed with top tips, projects, competitions, workshops and scheduled outings.

To book your place or for further information please call 07570 973 88107570 973 881 or email drew@drewsmithphotography.co.uk Trent Valley Sailing Club has an active junior fleet. Sailing takes place on Friday evenings between April and September for children aged 7 to 16. We have several places available this year for new junior sailors. Come and have a go on the water. All enquiries to Angela Clark@trentvalleysc. org Wilford Racquets Badminton Club welcomes new members. We play on Wednesday evenings in West Bridgford. For further information please contact Hazel on 0115 981 5184 or Richard on 0739 884 2647 The Nottingham Astronomical Society are a friendly group of amateur astronomers from all walks of life. Whilst providing regular guest-speaker events, we encourage active observing. The Society owns and operates an observatory near Cotgrave, which houses our 24-inch large reflector telescope.

If you are interested in astronomy, you are welcome to come along to our meetings. Most meetings include an illustrated talk by a guest speaker, and admission is free to occasional visitors. More information on the website at www. nottinghamastro.org.uk

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Lady Bay Open Gardens

This year’s Lady Bay Open Gardens held on the 8-9 July was a resounding success with a record 1555 adult visitors and hundreds of children attending over the two-day event.

A total of 25 gardens of all shapes and sizes took part with families enjoying the hospitality and entertainment.

The event raised a massive £9473 with all profits being donated to the Lady Bay Community Fund and various charities nominated by garden owners.

Dates for next year have been confirmed as 30 June and 1 July 2018.

The chair of the Open Gardens committee Keith Wright said: “I’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone involved in making this year’s Lady Bay Open Gardens an enormous success and thanks to all our visitors too!

It was another super weekend, with beautiful sunshine and fantastic gardens shown in their very best light.

Thank you to Winkworth for providing the fabulous sign posts to each garden!”

The committee will be holding an open gardens debrief at the Poppy and Pint in Lady Bay on Wednesday 9th August at 8pm with supporters invited to attend. “We are looking for committee volunteers to help run the event next year, please come along and say hello!”

For further information visit: www.ladybayopengardens.org.uk or on Facebook www.facebook.com/ ladybayopengardens .

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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!

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

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.

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!

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

By absorbing several times its own weight in water, fibre softens stools and adds bulk, preventing blockages in the colon.

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