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Contents
The Right Garden Furniture 6 Sweet Feet 8 Child Safety Week 10 Seasons In The Sun 12 Don’t Break Down 14 How Low Can You Grow 18 Asian Style Wings 20 Puzzle Pages 22 A Good Read 24 Business Focus 26 “The Stags” Season Roundup 28 Index 30
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Choose The Right Garden Furniture
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aving the right garden furniture can really enhance the hours we spend in our gardens in the Summer.
To help you decide what you need, consider how you will spend most of your time outdoors. Will it be daily alfresco dining with the family, weekend barbecues with family and friends, or just you relaxing in the sunshine with a good book? Knowing the function of your furniture can help you decide whether reclining padded beds, a sophisticated dining table and chairs, or relaxed informal seating is what you need. Of course it may be a mixture of all of the above, in which case you will need to look for versatile combinations. The amount of space you have available should also be taken into account. You might drool over a fantastic sofa with matching arm chairs in a catalogue, but do you really have the space to accommodate it successfully, or would smaller fold-away seats be more suitable? In addition to your outdoor space, think about where you will store your furniture in Winter. Whilst vinyl covers can protect your furniture from Summer showers, it really is best kept in a shed or garage during the worst weather. This is where fold-away pieces can be incredibly practical, or in some cases, you may be able to take pieces apart for storage too.
touch in the sun. Some colours of plastic furniture also become hot, and plastic may become brittle if left outside in all weathers. Wicker and rattan pieces will need greater protection from the wet and are more easily damaged. Cost of course will also be a factor. Plastic items are usually the cheapest, but it is generally true that you get what you pay for in terms of longevity. Several materials offer a variety of colour choices. Remember though that white and silver reflect the light so can be uncomfortable to look at in the glaring sun, and black absorbs the heat so can become very hot. The safest colours are therefore mid-greens, greys or natural wood. Many prefer muted tones, adding style and personality through bright cushions and tablecloths. Whatever you choose, don’t go on appearance alone. The most stylish items won’t get used if they are incredibly uncomfortable. So do try out your intended purchases in-store to ensure they will help you to enjoy the outdoors, and not leave you fidgety or stiff. By Susan Brookes-Morris
When considering the material of your furniture, consider durability and maintenance as well as appearance. Wooden furniture is popular and versatile, but needs regular weatherproofing. Metal items require less maintenance, but have the disadvantage of being hot to
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Sweet Feet For Summer
e’ve kept them hidden in shoes and boots all Winter, but when Summer comes it’s good to put on a pair of sandals or flip flops, or perhaps even walk around with bare feet. So, how can we make sure our feet are in tip-top condition and feel confident about showing them off to all around us?
If you have a lot of rough and hard skin, foot conditions such as athletes foot, fungal nail infection, an ingrowing toe nail, calluses, corns or verrucas, a session or a number of appointments with a chiropodist or podiatrist is recommended. The terms are interchangeable, but strictly in the UK, ‘Podiatrist’ is a reserved title meaning that it can only be used by those registered with the Health Professions Council.
to help you file hard and crusty skin to make it smooth. At home and at a beautician’s this is likely to be a pumice based product. A chiropodist is more likely to use a blade. • Apply moisturising cream daily and massage it in well, including between the toes. Let it dry before putting on socks or tights, as persisting dampness can cause fungus or athletes foot. • Once a week, gently push back your cuticles with a cuticle stick to keep your toes healthy.
Inside the profession, chiropody is used to suggest the routine processes of foot care, whilst podiatry is indicative of the higher skills and academic levels. Once any medical issues have been eliminated, you may wish to keep up the look and condition of your feet through pampering at home, or a trip to the beautician for a pedicure. Regular maintenance tasks should include: • Cutting your toe nails short. The use of clippers is generally recommended. Nails should be no more than a couple of millimetres over the edge of your toe. • Next, file your nails using an emery board. File them so they are smooth, neat and square. • It’s good to soak your feet in a bowl of warm water and use a foot scrub or lotion to get them clean and feeling smooth and silky. • Various tools and devices are available
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If you want to beautify too, you can apply polish to your toe nails. Some polishes have nourishing qualities. Make sure you remove traces of any previous polish with an appropriate remover. Toe separators can make the job of applying polish easier. Ongoing measures for foot health include putting your feet up after shopping sprees or long walks, and making sure shoes fit properly to prevent blisters or crushing of toes. By Susan Brookes-Morris
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Child Safety Week
id you know that accidental injury is the second biggest killer of children in the UK. Only childhood cancer accounts for more deaths. Every week in the UK one child dies in a preventable accident, and around 300 children end up in Accident and Emergency departments every day!
school (and again on their way home).
Children from the poorest UK families are 13 times more at risk, and are also more likely to be admitted to hospital with accidental injuries.
Make sure your child knows how to call for emergency help - they might save someone’s life!
Child Safety Week runs from 23rd – 29th June and is organised by The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT). They stress that although the number of children killed in accidents is shrinking due to everimproving emergency medical care, nearfatal accidents can leave lifelong mental as well as physical scars, and put families through hell. CAPT run awareness campaigns to explain how most accidents can be easily prevented. Parents often misunderstand the dangers their children face daily. For example, a child is hundreds of times more likely to be killed crossing a road than by a predatory kidnapper. But the media focus on paedophile scare-stories, so parents over-estimate the risk of stranger danger and underestimate the risks involved in more mundane scenarios. To put it in perspective, fewer than eight children per year are murdered in the UK, whereas nearly 400 are killed in household or traffic accidents.
Teach your kids about burn and scald risks: Don’t overfill the kettle, never use a knife to fish toast out of the toaster, take care with hair-straighteners, and always turn them off after use.
Check out CAPT’s website www.capt.org. uk. Remember: Most safety is just common sense. Children’s brains are their most important defence against accidents, so let’s teach them to THINK. By Louise Addison
As mornings can be a particularly stressful and accident-prone time, for this year’s campaign CAPT have enlisted the help of the Safety Superheroes, who will do battle with the villainous Morning Mayhem! Watch out for them in events this June. Here are three top tips to keep your kids safe! Make sure they STOP, LOOK, and LISTEN when crossing the road on the way to
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Seasons In The Sun
ith June nearly upon us, summertime is thankfully just around the corner. Inevitably, the changing of any season brings a fresh approach to fashion, and where better to embrace the new Spring/Summer 2014 trends than through our very own fingertips.
Although many designers opted for a minimalistic approach, bright and bold nail shades still made a huge impact on the catwalks. Ideal for those sun-soaked Summer days, the warmer months present the ideal time for you to amp up your nail colour volume.
From flirty florals to statement brights, the new seasons trends look set to inject some much needed colour into our lives. From barely-there beige to a hint of sweet pink, one of the biggest nail looks for 2014 is a return to natural beauty.
So, let loose and showcase your fun side with the cacophony of vibrant options available. Using a menagerie of tones such as minty greens, icy blues, lovely lilacs, cheeky peaches and sweetie pinks, these delicious candy colours are sure to tempt you.
Swapping staple pinky hues for polishes with a touch of mink magic or peachy/ coral undertones can instantly add a subtle swash of colour and transform your talons to fashionably on-trend.
For a truly fashion-forward approach, keep the look matte rather than glossy.
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Don’t Break Down!
hortly after taking delivery of a new-tome car, I absentmindedly started filling the fuel tank with petrol, until I suddenly remembered it took diesel! Fortunately, I immediately stopped refuelling and phoned for breakdown services who flushed the tank clean, thus avoiding serious engine damage and expensive repair bills. Fuel-related problems are one of the major causes of car breakdowns, with running out of fuel ranked in Green Flag’s top five. But many breakdowns can be avoided with a little forethought. For example, make a commitment to never let your car run on less than a quarter full, and you should never face the embarrassment of an empty tank! Most of us have had a flat battery. Sometime this occurs due to a genuine fault, but more often happens after leaving the lights or radio on, or because the terminals are dirty, or the clamps loose.
combines a conventional mechanical key with an encrypted electronic chip to prevent theft. Replacement is often available only through an authorised dealer and could take several days. Much better to keep a spare! Finally, there are a number of mechanical and electrical faults that might cause a breakdown, such as the starter motor or spark plugs. At the first signs of any problems (like difficulty starting the engine for example), get your car checked over by a garage to avoid further problems. Owning a vehicle is an essential part of life for the majority of us these days. Let’s keep them breakdown-free by carrying out good, regular maintenance, and by using a bit of common sense!
Regular maintenance and servicing can eliminate problems like this, but as we are all human and make mistakes from time to time, keep a set of jump leads in the car ‘just in case’! Also, if you tend to make only short journeys in your car, give it a good run every week or two to give the battery chance to recharge itself. Flat or damaged tyres are another common problem. Check your handbook to keep tyres at the correct pressure and be careful to avoid hitting the kerb, as the impact can damage tyre sidewalls and rims. A good practice is to check tyre pressure and tread every time you fill up, watching out for nails or glass in the tyres and paying special attention to the tread depth. If it is uneven, the tyres may be misaligned. Does your vehicle have a second set of keys? Keeping a spare bunch in a safe place will prevent big headaches should you ever lock yourself out of your car, or worse still lose your keys. Most modern cars now have a ‘transponder’ key which
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How Low Can You Grow?
ention the word ‘alpine’ to a garden designer and (in general) you’ll be given the same facial expression as a child who’s just bitten into an unwaxed lemon! Insignificant leaf growth with tiny flowers … what’s to love? Associated with badly designed 60’s rockeries, these low growing perennials really do get a raw deal. In the main, the poor little things can’t climb very far, can’t extend their roots to escape from water logged soil, and have not adapted to elongating their stems to reach the sunlight (because a naughty gardener planted the potbought specimen under the shade of a tree). Alpines, like other successful species, have adapted themselves to their native habitats, often found clung to the side of a windy rock face way above sea level.
When you observe them in the wild, you easily understand why they are so small. The exposed sites would quickly dry out large leaves, so many are small in size such as those of Hypericum olympicum, and others often silver in colour such as the very cute Artemisia schmidtiana ‘Nana’. Rather a mouthful to say and often not the most romantic sounding names either, take Pulsatilla vulgaris (the pasque flower) as an example. It might not win any prizes in the largest plant competition, but its ability to grow on nearly solid limestone rock is pretty impressive. So too are its beautiful flowers, delicate dissected foliage and crazy seed heads.
Until I saw a glasshouse full of alpine plants all in bloom at the same time I wasn’t a huge fan either, but seeing them up close and personal when displayed at waist height, you realise how wonderful these tiny creations are. Over recent years, alpines have really been appreciated for their versatility and employed in new applications. Take the humble Sempervivum ‘Othello’, famous for thriving on hot dry tiled roofs and now widely used on green roof schemes where it can adapt to the very shallow free draining soils. It’s quite a vigorous semp., with beautiful red tints in winter. Grow in shallow containers in full sun where it will quickly spread to around 30cm in width. If you are looking for a plant to cover an old dry stonewall or soften the corner of a raised bed, look no further than Campanula poscharskyana ‘Stella’. If happy, it does have a tendency to walk, but with its long flowering season and pretty purple flowers I’m sure your neighbours won’t mind if it starts appearing in their crevices too. May is a busy month in the garden, and as well as a good time to plant alpines, other jobs include: • Sowing salad leaves every 2 weeks for a continuous crop • Plant grasses • Tie up climbers • Earth up potatoes Until next time, happy gardening, Lee
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Healthy Asian-Style Wings
Makes about 8-16 chicken wings depending on size. Preparation time: 10 minutes plus 30 minutes marinating time Cooking time: 45 minutes Ingredients 1 kg/2 pounds chicken wings 2.5cm/1 inch fresh ginger, peeled and sliced 4 cloves garlic, peeled and roughly chopped 8 tablespoons soy sauce 3 tablespoons sake or dry sherry 2 tablespoons sugar 225g/8oz plain all purpose flour Method
First make the marinade. Mix the ginger, garlic, soy sauce, sugar and sake or cooking sherry in a bowl. Marinate the chicken wings in this sauce for at least 30 minutes. Make sure all wings are coated and turn a couple of times during the marinating process.
Preheat oven to 200C / Gas Mark 6. Cover a large tray with baking parchment. Place the flour into a shallow bowl then drain the wings of the marinade. Dip each wing carefully into the flour, shake off any excess then place the wings on the prepared tray. Bake skin side up for 15 minutes. Then turn the wings over so that the skin side is down and bake for another 15 minutes. Finally turn skin side up again and bake for a final 15 minutes to make sure they are crispy. Serve with salad on a bed of lettuce leaves.
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A Good Read
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel This is a book that I took some time ‘getting round to’, not being sure that historical fiction was what I felt like reading. However, from the moment I did get round to it, I was hooked. Mantel deserves the praise and awards heaped on this volume and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies: it is truly a remarkable book. The central character, introduced in Wolf Hall, is Thomas Cromwell – clerk to Cardinal Wolsey at the time of Henry VIII’s attempts to divorce his first wife. The fact that Cromwell stands out against the figures of Wolsey, Thomas More and Henry himself is testament to Mantel’s storytelling power. He is a compelling character – complex, brutal at times and yet always sympathetic: a far cry from other fictionalised accounts, and yet somehow definitive. The novel traces the rise of Cromwell, as first Wolsey and then More fall, seeing him become Henry’s chief adviser at the same time as the Boleyn family come to dominate the court. Anne and her sister Mary are probably the central female characters, each deeply involved in the life of the king and both fascinating in their own right.
This isn’t an easy book, and at over 600 pages it is a substantial read. But the minute I put it down, I picked up the sequel – and that fact speaks volumes. There’s A Dinosaur in My Bathtub – Catalina Echeverri Pierre is a dinosaur. He comes from France (you can tell by his name, and the moustache is a bit of a giveaway, too). And he lives in Amelia’s house – sometimes in the bathtub, but he can hide behind the shower curtains too. You see, no-one else knows he is there. Amelia and Pierre have wonderful adventures together – often involving marshmallows, ice cream and, of course, stinky cheese (remember, Pierre is French!). Each adventure is beautifully illustrated, with lots of little details and a smattering of French phrases just for fun. Sadly, by the end, Pierre has to go away when the autumn leaves start to fall – but surely, he will be back? This is a charming picture book which does what all the best picture books do, telling one story with words and another with images. Destined to become a bedtime favourite – oui? By Kath Bennett
The historical and political intrigues surrounding these events are well known to many, and Mantel uses them to structure the novel as she concentrates on her characters and the ways in which their lives are affected. Cromwell’s own family tragedies and triumphs are offset against events at court, developing the human side which makes this depiction so different.
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ichelle Williams M has been cleaning for as long she can remember, from keeping the house she lived in as child, to raising her own family of four children. In 2007 things got a little easier, when the not so little ‘angels’ flew the nest, and she decided to offer her passion for cleaning to other people.
Her new business was called The Domestic Cleaning Company, and it took off like a bush fire, and before long she was so busy that she needed help. At first her new employees were a litte hit and miss, well more of a miss than a hit, so she decided to start a training schedule where new employees are fully trained with all of her hand picked products, techniques and methods of delivering her top class cleaning. Once all of this was in place she was able to begin again, and started looking at what other cleaning services she could offer. She decided to include oven cleaning, adopting the same principles as before, testing, comparing and working to achieve the perfect result. When she was happy, this was then added into the training of her employees. Next on the agenda was carpets, rugs and upholstery. Michelle attended trade shows, saw live demonstrations and went on training courses. After much research, she bought what she believes is the best equipment available today - an extraction machine for shampooing carpets, rugs and upholstery, and she is still amazed by the results – as are her many customers. Equipped with her new cleaning expertise, she then decided to branch out and include end of tenancy cleaning to local letting agents. She started working with the biggest agent in the area and was able to offer even more services.
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They are now able to offer the complete package for letting agents. Armed with a decorator, handy man, gardener and a license to carry waste with the environment agency, they are able to take care of just about any cleaning or maintenance issues. She realises that none of this would have been possible without the help of her loyal and trustworthy staff, who she would like to thank. As of June 2014, Michelle has taken over an established cleaning business, and is looking forward to offering domestic and commercial cleaning in our area. “Look out Mansfield” she says... “Here We Come!” Michell can be contacted on 01773 713716 or mobile 07976 454330 or you can visit the website: www.domesticcleaningcompany.co.uk
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Mansfield Town Season Analysis
he Stags have almost concluded to what I believe has been a rollercoaster of a season, on returning back to the football league. Many Stags fans including myself were wary of what to expect on our departure of the dreaded ‘Blue Sq Premier’. People with higher expectations, hoped to do a Stevenage and leap frog through the leagues. Others, just with the common aim of surviving our first season back in the football league (as accomplished, all be it strenuous!). Overall; it’s been a mish-mash of a season, with our inconsistency letting us down. We didn’t get off to a bad start, picking up 18pts from a possible 27pts – propelling us up to 3rd spot, dare to dream? – I certainly did. Especially after beating local rivals Chesterfield at the Proact Stadium. A Calvin Andrew bullet header on 37minutes sent the 2000 travelling supporters into ecstasy. Let the gloating commence.
However, the celebrations were cut short as we received a 4-1 hammering against Hartlepool United a week later. The joys of beating Chesterfield seemed to be the catalyst to our poor run of form, as we only picked up 2 wins from 18 running up to the New Year, falling just above the relegation places in 19th place. The goals came from what I believe to be our player of the season – Sam Clucas,
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helping us tremendously to keep us above the relegation line. His weaving runs proved pivotal, as not only did he gain goals himself, but supplied the goals for fellow front man Matt Rhead. From the New Year onwards results picked up. At one point this gave us a glimmer of hope for the playoffs, quickly taken away by the impressive form of York City. Any Stags fans would agree that goals have been a key area we’ve missed out on this season, after last season’s departure of Matt Green the ball just hasn’t been hitting the back of the net enough times. I believe Paul Cox’s primary aim for the summer should be to lure a prolific striker to the One Call Stadium who is capable of finding the back of net with ease. The likes of Andre Gray, Lee Gregory and James Norwood come to mind. As seen from our first season back in the football league – results do fluctuate. Many teams tend to drop points all over the board, whether you are at the top or the bottom of the league. The word ‘consistency’ gets used frequently within Coxy’s vocabulary; I believe it’s now time to prepare for next season and achieve his aim of being ‘consistent’. Sam Dunville
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Aerials ADI............................................20 Beauty Alexsa.......................................12 East Midlands Laser...................9 Mansfield Electrolysis & Laser......19 Carpets & Flooring Carpet Bargain Centre...............7 Children White Post...................................1 Computer Iain Stendall..............................29 Estate & Letting Agents John Sankey..............................25 Fencing Steve Horsnall........................20 Funeral Directors W S Ingham.............................2
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Reusable Furniture Donations
We can collect household furniture, electrical items, bric-a-brac and clothing. These are then delivered to those in need and will help to turn a house into a home for single people and families.
Furniture or Household items NOT Re-Usable If you items are not suitable for re-use, we can for a charge remove them for Recycling
Excess Stock Sales We have a wide range of household furniture and Bric-a-Brac for sale in our warehouse, open Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm. Saturday 9.30 am to 2.30pm. We are situated at Unit 190, Road E, Boughton Industrial Estate, near New Ollerton on the Tuxford Road, NG22 9LD We also have an outlet in New Ollerton on Forest Road. All items are at affordable prices
Member of the Furniture Reuse Network Registered Charity No: 119360 Tel: 01623 836410 E: recycle@thefurnitureproject.net Web:www.thefurnitureproject.net
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