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Hi there, Welcome to our August edition Thanks for reading yet another edition of our little local magazine. I'm sitting here writing this quite late this month and its currently 30 degrees outside at 9am! I have to confess I am guilty of moaning about the heat; a couple of months after moaning about the rain. I suppose if we didn't moan about the weather we wouldn't truly be living in Britain. Enough about my moans and groans now and more about this month's magazine! We have a great movie preview this month of Quentin Tarantino's (apparently) penultimate movie called Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. We also have a great article this month in our garden section about recycling waste water. Some really simple ideas to use your 'greywater' for the garden. This could be a really good idea with the yearly worry about droughts just round the corner. For everyone cutting back on alcohol currently we have an article and recipe focused on mocktails to give you a tasty
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BEACHWEAR GUIDE
This summer many of you will be gravitating towards a beach where you can cool down in the sea and enjoy the sensation of grainy sand in between your toes. It could be a day out in Southend - on - Sea or somewhere slightly more exotic, but the premise is the same: you need to feel comfortable and confident. Although there are always trends when it comes to swimwear I’m going to insist that you just go with whatever style you feel most at ease with. I have a few tips to usher you in the right direction, but please express yourself and play with colour, detailing and cut…
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THE DATING GAME
Many of us have watched the drama of Love Island recently. We tend to think of blind dates, speed dating and computer dating as modern phenomena, but it seems humans have always dabbled with the dating game. When the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite, arranged a meeting between Paris and the lovely – but – married Helen, she may have been responsible for the first ‘blind date’, and as it resulted in the Trojan War, it probably doesn’t count as a terribly successful one! The world’s first proper ‘marriage bureau’ was founded by Henry Robinson in London’s Threadneedle Street in 1650, and inn July 1695 the very first ‘would like to meet’ advertisement was published in the somewhat drily titled magazine, Collection for the Improvement of Husbandry and Trade. The advert read:
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RECYCLE WASTE WATER I like to consider myself an eco-gardener. I use few pesticides and I recycle, upcycle and repurpose whenever I can. Like many people I own and use several water butts, which are a fantastic way to utilise all the lovely free rainwater nature provides. Over the past few years I’ve been reading and researching about other sources of water too. I’m talking about grey water. But what is grey water and how can gardeners make use of it? Grey water, for those not in the know, is any kind of household wastewater apart from toilet water, which is considered ‘black water’, and which should definitely not be recycled by the average gardener. You can reclaim water from your washing machine or dishwasher, but this can prove costly and time consuming. The best advice for us amateur eco-gardeners is ‘keep it simple’, especially in the first instance. Basically, this means water from the kitchen sink, the bath or shower, or paddling pool.
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IT'S MOCKTAIL HOUR People don’t drink alcohol for many reasons: pregnancy, medication, religious reasons, designated driver status…or because they just don’t drink alcohol (like me!). It used to bug me at social gatherings when people asked me what I wanted to drink, reeling off a whole list of possibilities: gin and tonic, vodka and orange, rum and coke, and I’d say, ‘Do you have anything non-alcoholic?’ and the choice would be tonic without the gin, orange without the vodka or coke without the rum! I became adept at creating my own nonalcoholic drinks which felt ‘special’. Here’s how to turn any cocktail into a delicious mocktail and delight your non-alcohol-drinking friends. The key element in most good mocktails is something sparkly. This elevates the drink and makes it feel more special than glass of juice. Any cocktail recipe which uses club soda, tonic water, ginger ale, or ginger beer will probably translate to a good mocktail. Some non-sparkly drinks translate well too. These tend to be the spicy ones like Bloody Marys, where you don’t miss the alcoholic component. Start with the syrups. Buy good quality ones (Bottle Green cordials work brilliantly and come in a range of amazing flavours - I love Rhubarb and Ginger). Try infusing your drinks with fresh fruit and herbs. A bunch of mint or basil, or a sprig of lavender or rosemary takes a mocktail to the next level, as does fruit. Layer on more flavour with the garnish. Dip the rims of glasses in flavoured salts or sugars, and use citrus slices, pineapple, olives or other fresh ingredients
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