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Welcome to October ... Halloween is just around the corner so it’s time to get your house looking super spooky! Our Interior Design article has some great tips on decorating for Halloween whether you’re aiming for a simple look or going all out to impress your ‘trick-or-treaters’. If you’d rather not decorate your home with scary spiders and ghoulish ghosts, there may be a reason behind your fears. The Medical Health feature explains what phobias are and the different types, why we have phobias and how they affect us. Watch out for the terrifying tarantula! If you fancy a night with the Welsh National Opera, we have a fantastic competition for you to enter where you could win tickets to see ‘Sweeney Todd’!

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Delicious Dishes with Helen Kingscott

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Cocktail Time with Lois Kingscott

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Magically transform sour sloes As winter starts to rattle its sabre, hedgerow harvests become more scarce so it’s time to start preserving if you want a steady supply of free nosh to get you through to spring. I think you should prioritise and start by preserving some alcohol! During previous outings, you should have started to notice Blackthorn trees producing miniature plum like berries, called sloes, along roadsides or round the edges of fields. The Blackthorn can be identified by its long needle sharp spines and leaves, which are oval in shape and serrated round the edges. The sloes are a light blueish purple in colour and if you’re brave enough to bite into one your tongue will grow hair and your face will want to turn inside out! But soak them in gin and sugar for a couple of months and that astringent sourness transforms into something magical. Harvest sloes after the first frost of the year and, if you’re a fan of tradition, prick each sloe with the spine of the tree they were picked from. Failing that, a fork will suffice.

It should be ready at the end of January Half fill an old sterilised sauce jar with sloes, add about 100g of sugar per 1 pint of berries (pack as many as you can into a pint glass without bursting them to acquire that measurement) and pop in one or two cloves if you feel like it. Fill to the neck with gin and seal the lid on tightly. Store in a cool dark place, the under stairs cupboard for instance, and turn the jar over once a day for two weeks then once a week for about three months. It should be ready to drain into clean sterile bottles toward the end of January. Leave to stand for another month to let any sediment settle and carefully decant into some sterile decorative bottles, once more leaving the sediment behind for clarity. All that’s left to do is invite some friends round and enjoy your sloe gin! Please remember to drink responsibly. If you’re not 100% sure that the plant you’re picking is safe for human consumption, don’t pick it. If you’re prone to food allergies, or pregnant, always seek medical advice before consuming anything foraged in the wild. Page 6

Whiskey Sour The Whiskey Sour was first recorded in Jerry Thomas’ 1862 book ‘The Bartender’s Guide’, albeit being known for over a century prior. Back then, travel took forever, refrigeration was lacking and the concept of germs was unheard of. Sea travel wasn’t as easy as journeys over land – food and water would spoil over time, and water wasn’t considered safe due to the germs. Sailors suffered from scurvy, malnutrition and sea-sickness until an English bartender named Vice Admiral Edward Vernon mixed a few ingredients together to serve his crew. Within their rations sailors had lemons and limes to prevent scurvy and liquor for something to drink. The liquor, watered down with lemon juice, brought about an early version of the Sour. When brought to shore, this concept became popular and developed to the sour cocktail we now know. The egg white was added at a later stage as a creamy, frothy element to help the cocktail go down smoother and make it look better in the glass. This is sometimes called a Boston Sour. Ingredients: 60ml bourbon; 30ml lemon juice; 15ml simple syrup; egg white (optional); ice; maraschino cherry and ½ orange slice to garnish. Method: 1 Pour ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake well then pour into a rocks glass over ice. 2 Garnish with a maraschino cherry and half a slice of orange. 3 If using the egg white, dry shake (no ice) vigorously in a shaker to get it white and foamy. Then add ice and the other ingredients.

PLEASE DRINK RESPONSIBLY Why not have a Mocktail? For a non-alcoholic alternative, mix 25ml lime juice with 75ml Ginger Ale and pour over ice. Garnish with a wedge of lime.

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Holidays & Travel with Jamie Bending

Unique and utterly irreplaceable Think about it, picture the place – can you describe what you see? You could ask any number of people that question and most will simply stutter, confounded for a moment, as they try to picture some enigmatic haze of sunshine and lapping waves upon warming sand. Following on from Australia in the second of the series, we’ll be considering the sort of place Thailand truly is, brushing aside the commercial myths, and seeing what this South Eastern paradise can offer for the modern student.

Opulent palaces protrude Thailand is unique and utterly irreplaceable. For a country with barely more occupants than the United Kingdom, it offers a huge range of things to do and see! Where else can you step out of a first rate hotel or resort, campsite, eco-hut, bivouac, beach-side villa or apartment to leisurely stroll up to an elephant – your steed for the day – on an arranged elephant trek with Chiang Dao Elephant Camp?

Trot around contently as you admire the tropical beaches with white sand in abundance, palms swaying against a backdrop of turquoise and not a lot else. Amidst glowing backdrops, opulent palaces protrude. The 200 year old Grand Palace – residence of the Kings of Siam, and Wat Traimit – is a sacrosanct haven with a three meter tall Buddha statue, a glistening religious idol! Outside of history, find yourself emerged in a pulsing party scene, and whether you choose the night sky from The Moon Bar at 61 floors up, or the vibrant strobes of Ku De Ta, the hottest club in Bangkok, you’re bound to find yourself a light to guide you here. And if indoors can’t sate your party appetite then a single trip to Loi Krathong festival in November, with the esteemed floating lantern display, will likewise send your troubles floating towards the horizon. Shopping in Thailand is something pretty special, with the floating markets of Amphawa and Damnoen Saduak filled with

indigenous delicacies, and the street stalls of Chatuchak fulfilling all your budget designer needs! If city life begins to wear you down though, then you needn’t fear. The rural life – rife with Ancient Ruins and UNESCO national parks – will shatter the mundane daze! The Khao Sai Dao Waterfall and Phanom Rung Historical Park are without equal, and Kanchanaburi is number one on all backpackers to-do lists!

Flit between the islands Along the coast you’ll find the Golden Triangle – a confluence of the Burma/Myanmar and the Laos, and why not flit between the islands for some scuba diving in the Koh Phan Ngan, Koh Tao and Koh Samui areas when you’re there? The Bay of Bengal is famed for a reason – it’s one of the few places you may of heard of here. But the truth is, it’s all worthy of note. So the next time someone asks you about Thailand, wouldn’t you like to be able to tell them the truth? Pay it a visit, become one of the few. Grand Palace

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Motoring with Christian Tilbury

A part of the family With such a vast array of models to choose from, family car buyers have arguably never had it so good. But while the market is awash with suitable, quality cars, there’s one model that always figures near the top of many a family’s wish list – the Volkswagen Golf. In production for over 40 years, the Golf has been a mainstay in Britain’s top 10 best selling cars for seemingly forever, so what’s the secret of its success?

Unwavering popularity

propels the family hatchback from 0–62mph in a mere 4.9 seconds. It’s no wonder then that the newest MkVII version scooped the World Car of the Year 2013 award shortly after its launch and that Volkswagen has sold more Golfs than any other model. For anyone considering a family car, that’s more than enough to recommend it and goes a long way to explaining the Golf’s loyal following – for many owners it isn’t so much a family car, more a part of the family.

There’s no doubt that it’s a great car, but its unwavering popularity also stems from its rich history and haloed badge. Ford’s Focus sells more in the UK, but it can’t compete with the prestige that many associate with the VW roundel or match the Golf’s 30-year legacy of rock solid reliability. In fact, so dependable was the Golf that Volkswagen felt confident enough to engineer a TV advert around it – anyone remember Paula Hamilton ditching the fur and fancy jewels but hanging onto the keys to her MkII Golf GTi? Admittedly, many believe it all went a little bit wrong with the MkIII and MkIV variants that Volkswagen launched in the 1990s and early 2000s, but the latest MkVII version sees the Golf back at its best. Importantly, its extensive range includes something for everyone, the line-up spanning three- and five-door hatchbacks, a cabriolet version, spacious estate and even a MPV-esque model. Very few of the Golf’s so-called rivals can come close to offering such a variety of body styles, and it’s the same story when it comes to a choice of what powers it.

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What to ask yourself before choosing a letting agent You want to rent out your property and you’ve decided to get help from a letting agent rather than go it alone. The first decision to make is how much you want the agent to do for you. At the most basic level, you can opt to have the agent just find you a tenant, and then you take over from there. This leaves you with a lot to do. You’ll need to carry out the inventory, verify references, do credit checks, draw up legal documentation, secure the tenant’s deposit in a protection scheme, collect the rent, chase arrears, keep up with legislation, be the day-to-day contact for the tenant, and take care of organising maintenance and repairs.

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Pets eat the silliest things I’ve been working as a vet and in vet clinics for over twenty years so I’ve seen a lot cases of what we euphemistically call an “intestinal indiscretion”. Last week did seem to be a rather busy one with one dog having a sock removed from its small intestine, another having a corn cob extracted, a piece of cork in another dog and two more socks ingested one Saturday morning that fortunately we were able to retrieve by inducing a vomit rather than risking them getting wedged on their way through. Over the years I’ve seen all manor of items cause blockages – there is of course the occasional bone, stick or stone. Kids’ toys make an appearance from time to time and smallish balls are easy to swallow. I had a labrador once with half a dozen golf balls in its stomach – the owner brought it in because he could hear a clinking noise and thought its joints were arthritic! An engagement ring, chewed up bits of rubber dog toys, food skewers and underwear are just a few more examples!

Pets aren’t the only animals susceptible to eating foreign material One of the most dangerous blockages comes from stringlike obstructions, and cats are more prone to these as they like playing with string, cotton or tinsel. The ‘linear foreignbody’ stretches out through the intestine but as the gut contracts and tries to push the object through, the string-like object can cut through the side of the gut causing perforations. Sometimes the foreign body causes an ‘intussusception’. This is where one piece of bowel gets stuck inside a neighbouring piece. The foreign item stops the bowel contracting in one particular spot so that as the section of bowel immediately before it contracts, it ends up on top of the next bit and often the only solution is to cut out the affected area of bowel completely. But pets aren’t the only animals susceptible to eating foreign material. “Hardware disease” is a term used for cattle that munch down wire or similar metal objects that then get stuck and often perforate one of their stomachs. Captive animals aren’t immune either – tragically a hippo in a zoo in America in 1996 died after a racket ball thrown into its enclosure became lodged in its intestine and in 1993 a giraffe in a Shanghai Zoo died when plastic bags blocked up its digestive tract.

Retrieve the item if you can Young pets are more inquisitive so as pet owners we can reduce the risk of a gut tragedy by being mindful of a puppy’s desire to explore the world with its mouth. Don’t leave socks lying around, make sure rubbish bins are dog proof, only give dogs toys that are designed for them and if they start tearing chunks off them it’s time to bin them and get a less destructible version. Corn cobs and corks are particularly notorious so if you see your dog chewing on something they shouldn’t be, it’s best to retrieve the item if you can. In an ideal world your dog should be trained to leave objects on command... I’m still working on that one!

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Wildlife Matters with John Bromley

Creatures need home comforts too Summer is over and it’s time to tidy up the garden for the winter. Somehow it’s easy to visualise long, dark winter evenings keeping warm beside the fire listening to the wind and rain drumming against the windows. It’s even better with a nice mug of hot chocolate in hand to chase away those winter blues as you plan next year’s garden. However, spare a thought for the creatures stuck outside in the elements. They need home comforts as much as we do, and fortunately it is really easy to give them a helping hand and they will repay you for it. A pile of leaves in a quiet garden corner will provide winter protection for mammals such as hedgehogs and voles as well as frogs and toads. If you don’t have trees or shrubs in your garden producing leaves, take a plastic carrier bag with you when you next go for a walk and fill it with leaves from a park or from

under a roadside tree. Even when full of leaves it won’t weigh much and it will give you a genuine excuse to get outside for a stroll and a breath of fresh air. As always there are benefits to doing something positive for nature – even warty toads and prickly hedgehogs. For a start you will end up with a heap of leaf mold which gardeners call “black gold” because it is such a fantastic nutrient for your flower borders and potted plants. Meantime, the hedgehogs and amphibians you protect over winter will feed on nasty old slugs and snails in your garden, thus stopping them from munching your seedlings next spring.

Provide a little shelter for those important creepie crawlies Don’t worry if you don’t have space for a leaf pile because there are lots of other things you can do, be it in a garden or on a balcony. Any hollow plant stems from the likes of fennel, teasels or similar plants will provide a retreat for lacewings, ladybirds and earwigs. Break the hollow stems into 15cm lengths and tie them together in a bundle, then to a tree branch or balcony. These particular insects live on aphids so will be really beneficial in the garden next year. Again, if you don’t have a ready supply of hollow stems at hand go foraging

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Why you should resistance train Resistance training is classed as any form of training against a resistance, most commonly thought of as free weight training with dumbbells and barbells but also body weight training, resistance band workouts and resistance machine exercises. Forms of resistance training are used by physiotherapists, personal trainers, sports coaches and class based instructors, and can start from very basic movements with machines or rubber tubing, to more complicated movements such as the Olympic lifts. There are many benefits of resistance training for the whole population, moving past the simple ‘building muscle’ benefit!

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improving the ability to burn fat – especially in the 36 hours after resistance training. This does not mean you will get ‘bulky’! Training against resistance helps develop a lean physique and improves health.

Strengthens joints This form of exercise also helps in strengthening muscles, tendons, ligaments and cartilage. In turn this helps protect the body’s joints from injury. Having strong tendons and ligaments helps prevent any misalignment of joints causing poor movement or even dislocation. Resistance training improves balance and stability, leading to less falls in the elderly population and a decrease in sprains with the joints’ ligaments. This training is also generally less impact based, which helps prevent the joints’ wear and tear.

Training against resistance at any age helps to build our bone density, helping them remain strong and prevent break down. This also helps protect against injuries such as fractures, and prevents the onset of osteoporosis and certain types of arthritis that attacks weak bones, especially around joints. Decreases blood pressure Structured resistance training improves posture, helping hold bones in a secure Blood pressure is an epidemic at the position for optimal movement and moment. Structured resistance training has been shown to reduce high blood stability. pressure, decreasing the systolic Aids body composition reading enough to decrease the risk of Resistance training, especially heavier heart disease and strokes. Resistance load resistance training, can help with training also improves heart function, weight loss goals. Increasing the helping increase its strength and amount of type II muscle fibers has leading to better arterial blood flow and been shown to increase metabolic rate, improved pulse rate.

Improves endurance Contrary to popular belief, resistance training can help increase aerobic endurance. It also helps build muscle function and strength, improving the contractile abilities of the muscle, helping each contraction go further as well as preventing early fatigue and lactic acid build up in muscles.

How to begin resistance training If new to resistance training, a qualified personal trainer or coach is always necessary to learn the basics and avoid any injuries due to poor technique. If you suffer with any chronic conditions such as high blood pressure or arthritis you should consult your doctor first. Resistance training programs should begin with the basics and build up from there. Postural and muscular assessments should be performed before beginning a program to be sure of correct joint and muscle alignment.

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Nineties Halloween Revival Grunge. Not a word we hear and associate with ‘beauty’. However, back in the 1990s, this androgynous look crept its way into women’s (and men’s) grooming regimes. This was where you would purposely use your make up bag to create the ‘morningafter-the-night-before’ face of dark, smudgy eyes combined with nude lips and a pale skin tone.

Embrace the dark side The ultimate grunge statement was made with the eyes. All in all, it is the perfect look to recreate for trick-ortreating this Halloween season. Not all looks have to be horror – 90s grunge allows you to embrace the dark side whilst maintaining an ontrend edge! Here is where you would create heavily shadowed lids to achieve the desired effect. A dark – preferably black or dark coloured – palette is used to smudge onto the upper and lower lids accompanied with eyeliner and lashings of mascara. As we all know, eye shadow

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Keep your AW15 wardrobe alive and kicking This autumn faux fur is trending with force, but avoid playing it safe with your neutral browns and blacks, and instead follow designer Roksanda with bright, bold, block colours. This will certainly keep your Autumn/ Winter 2015 (AW15) wardrobe alive and kicking! Neo-Victorian is also trending – a mixture of Victorian and Edwardian inspired clothing with a modern edge. Take a look at Alexander McQueen and Givenchy AW15 collections – a great illustration of this trend featuring lots of lace leather and sheer fabrics. Fashionista FKA Twigs is great inspiration for how to wear this style on a day-to-day basis.

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Overcome your phobias Sometimes scary things can be fun – such as Halloween, which is associated with monsters and ghouls and things that go bump in the night. But when we fear ordinary things in our everyday lives, this anxiety can turn into a phobia. A phobia is defined as an irrational fear of something, which many people wouldn’t be afraid of, but for the sufferer it produces an automatic and overwhelming response. This anxiety can interfere with the person’s daily life – for example, going out to work or socialising – as they will try to avoid the object or situation (stimulus) that they are fearful of. Fear is a natural reaction to danger. When we feel afraid, we experience the ‘fight, flight or freeze’ response, where we react by facing the danger, getting away from it, or doing nothing. This fear may be due to something real or a perceived threat, and the response is the body’s way of protecting us from it. But if there is no real danger and the response is an over-reaction, this is when people are said to have a phobia. To a person with a phobia, there is nothing

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toys, games, books, etc. may be brought to the Baptist church on Friday 6th November between 1.30-4.30pm. Tombola, plus raffle drawn on Saturday 14th November – any donated prizes would be appreciated. 9.15am – 4.30pm every day except Sunday 8th. To be held at Charlton Kings Baptist Church. For further information call 01242 522559. 13 NOVEMBER THE KAST OFF KINKS Former members of The Kinks are back to play great music and re-live the good times. Expect hits, including You Really Got Me, Sunny Afternoon and many more. 7.30pm. £20 (£18). The Bacon Theatre, Hatherley Road, GL51 6EP. 01242 258002. 17-21 NOVEMBER THE THRILL OF LOVE Phoenix Players present The Thrill of Love by Amanda Whittington. Mysteries surround the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain. Amateur production suitable 14 years+. 7.30pm. Tickets £9 (£8 conc) available at Tourist Information Centre. Call 01452 396572 or 01452 522795. Kings Theatre, GL1 1QX. 3-6 DECEMBER CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL 40 trees decorated by schoolchildren, organisations and businesses illuminate

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Performances from a male voice choir and local primary schools, the promise of snow and a visit from Father Christmas. Tickets – www.meningitisnow.org/christmasconcerts. 0345 1204530. £10 nave seats, £5 aisle, £30 family ticket (2 adults, 2 children) in the nave, £15 family ticket in the aisle. 7.30pm. Gloucester Cathedral, GL1 2LX.

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HOLLYWOOD NIGHTS £29.95 4th, 5th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th December 9th January These Hollywood-themed parties let you feel like a star for the night, from the paparazzi on the red carpet to the walk of fame. Whether with friends, family or colleagues, you’ll enjoy a premier evening of delicious food and music from the resident DJ. LAS VEGAS CHRISTMAS BALL £38 4th & 5th December Transport yourselves back to the glitz and glamour of the Sands Casino in Las Vegas. Wearing your black ties and ball gowns, you will have the chance to meet some fabulous Vegas girls during the reception and then watch them perform some spectacular dance routines during your sumptuous threecourse gala dinner. Fantastic swing vocalist Gary Grace and his band are followed by a disco and gambling at the casino tables.

NEW YEAR’S EVE GALA DINNER £75 Enjoy the countdown with a magnificent six-course gala dinner, sensational 7 piece live band, resident DJ and casino tables. Black tie and cocktail dresses. Mercure Gloucester BOWDEN HALL Bondend Lane, Upton St Leonards, Glos GL4 8ED Tel: 01452 632 632 E: 077cs@jupiterhotels.co.uk

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Decorating for Halloween add candles and twigs for a natural display. The children will be excited by plastic spiders and witches hats added to a display. Perhaps you are not a fan of the typical orange and black Halloween colours? Try something a bit different with an alternative colour scheme. This can be easily achieved by Pumpkins spray painting pumpkins – An obvious choice is the trusted white painted pumpkins will pumpkin. If you want to add a few look smart, whereas gold and silver will layers and textures in a range of Halloween touches without going materials. Replace throws and cushions bring some sparkle. overboard, just concentrate on the with fur or knitted fabrics. Black doorway and entrance hall. Style a Soft Furnishing provides the traditional Halloween look table or dresser with pumpkins, and Create a sumptuous decor with multiple and autumnal colours offer an instant cosy feel. Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, providing the perfect opportunity to enter into the spirit of the season. Whether your home is the venue for a children’s trick or treat party, a formal party for friends and family, or you simply want to cosy up your home for autumn and beyond, here a few suggestions to inspire you further.

Candles An abundance of candles grouped together is one of the most effective ways to add atmosphere, whatever the occasion or time of year. For an autumnal effect, twist seasonal foliage around the base of large church candles or place them inside glass jars or lanterns.

Wall Art and Signs Instantly set the scene with spooky signs hung on your front door and dotted around your home. A more grown-up and long-term investment can be achieved by a large piece of appropriately themed wall art mounted in a prominent position – a great source of conversation.

Sophistication Decorating for Halloween can be elegant with a more ‘adult’ feel. Think about a few simple touches with a dark edge, such as serving drinks in black glasses or a decorative skull. Waterford Crystal offers a great range, which will add elegance and drama. For a more permanent fixture, quirky animal sculptures and rustic antlers can all add a spooky vibe to your home. Display them against a dark painted wall for extra spookiness. The Local Answer

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Just Fabrics’ cushion competition shortlist Just Fabrics have had a great response to their ‘Design a Cushion Competition’ based on the Cotswolds. They have shortlisted their 10 finalists and are in the process of selecting the overall winner who will be decided by their Facebook followers. The prize is a trip to Voyage Maison in Glasgow to work with a designer to finalise the cushion design, which will then be available to buy. Jane from Just Fabrics said: “The standard of entries was very high and it’s been a difficult choice for us to select the finalists!”. Here are the finalists’ entries.

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Provide a show through the winter Now is the time to plant wallflowers which will give foliage all winter and flower in the spring next year. You see the bundles of wallflowers in greengrocers and garden centres – choose fresh ones and plant out immediately. Orange wallflowers look brilliant with dark tulips such as ‘Queen of Night’ or ‘Havran’. October is a good time to prepare the ground for new fruit trees and bushes. If planting on heavy soil add plenty of grit to ensure drainage is adequate. Work in plenty of well-

rotted manure into each planting position and add a handful of slow release fertiliser when you plant the new trees. As mentioned last month you can now sow sweet-peas ready for next year. Soak them for a few hours in some water to help them germinate, then sow 1.5cm deep in seed compost in a 13cm pot, several seeds per pot. Cover with glass or polythene until the seeds germinate and then stand out in the garden in a cold frame or unheated greenhouse over winter. Now is also a good time to empty your hanging baskets and replant window boxes with winter pansies and primroses to provide a show through the winter into spring. It is good to clear away the excesses of the summer boxes and baskets that have gone over, and replace with something fresh and tidy – it always makes me feel very organised! Pop in a few dwarf daffodils like ‘tete a tete’ or ‘February

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Gold’, or perhaps some Iris reticulata. Add some fresh young ivy and maybe a small conifer or two. It is nice if possible to pick out the colour of your front door with the planting. Mulch is a term that is bandied about by garden articles, and it basically means a layer of material laid over the earth to keep moisture in and deter weeds. The composted leaves you make are perfect to lay down around Hydrangeas, and especially other plants which prefer an acidic soil (pH of under 7) like Azaleas and Camellias. Bark can also be used, as can gravel, slate chippings etc. The golden rule is to make sure the soil underneath is moist before you lay down the ‘mulch’, and to remove perennial weeds such as dandelions, etc. October is a good month to mulch as the soil is still warm, and it will improve the condition of your soil in the future.

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A living wage Chancellor George Osborne was not a popular man amongst many of my clients with the proposals outlined in his summer Budget, the first allConservative offering for nearly 20 years. Now George isn’t the most popular man anyway, so what was it about his announcements this July that created so much dismay?

Anti-small business measures It’s fair to say that his additional 7.5% tax on dividends drawn by small business entrepreneurs as from next April has hit at the very heart (and pockets!) of ownermanaged businesses. And his statement that interest on buy-to-let mortgages will be gradually restricted to standard rate tax relief went down particularly badly with those people holding property portfolios, many of whom see that as their pension provision. No, it was neither of those anti-small business measures. It was one that will affect businesses large and small – the idea of replacing the current ‘minimum wage’ with ‘a living wage’. It matters not the size of your business, the minimum hourly rate that you pay your staff is set to rise steadily over the next few years from £7.20 an hour to £9.35 for the over 25’s, a rise of around 30%. Bigger businesses will simply increase their sales prices to compensate and no doubt add a little bit more for themselves. Retailer Next has already forecast price increases of 6% per annum in the run-up to 2020 and other household name retailers will undoubtedly follow suit.

Expect to see an increase in small business failures

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But what chance does the small business, already burdened with the additional employee costs associated with pensions auto-enrolment, have of simply passing on this cost to its customers? None at all, so expect to see an increase in small business failures over the next few years. Whilst I support the principle of ensuring that the lower-paid receive a fair wage for a fair day’s work, we need to be a little careful of the potential consequences. What good is it going to be to them if it forces the hand that feeds them to shut down and £7.20 an hour suddenly becomes zero? The reductions in the rate of Corporation Tax and the increase in Employment Allowance, which Mr Osborne says will help to defray these costs, are nothing more than tokens. Come on George, what do you take us for?!

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Don’t give the baddies an inch Belt up or get fined! Did you know you can get a £100 fine for not wearing your seatbelt in the car? Police across the county have been targeting drivers this month in an attempt to raise awareness of the dangers of not belting up and it is estimated that 300 lives a year could be saved if people wore their seatbelts – that’s nearly one preventable road death a day. Seatbelts won’t prevent accidents but they do save lives. Drivers and passengers aged 17-34 have the lowest seatbelts wearing rates combined with the highest accident rate. Is this you? Do you have a loved one that age? Please let them know – no one wants the police knocking on the door to pass them bad news. If the police do stop you, you might not think it but they are trying to help you!

We start to see an increase in dwelling burglaries in October With the summer coming to an end, as well as dealing with the day job, we start planning for two events in the autumn months – the clocks changing in October and the race meet in November. Cheltenham is renowned for its Race Week, but the meet in November is a large 3-day event and the town will be busy with race goers. We will have extra police out and about to ensure everyone enjoys themselves and to make sure everyone gets home ok! Also, when the clocks change in October historically this has been a time when we have seen an increase in dwelling burglaries. Again we will have extra police out in the evenings and we will be highlighting crime prevention for the darker evenings. Please remember – don’t give the baddies an inch as they will take everything they can. The August Bank Holiday weekend passed in the town centre without many issues. “Super Sunday” is often a busy day for us – with no work the next day for most, the pubs and bars are often busy. With sufficient police and excellent support from the Special Constabulary there were no major problems and the only issue of note was a slightly drunk young man who veteran Sgt Andy White and I spoke to in Regent Street. We found a purse in his pocket, which contained cash and bank cards in a lady’s name – clearly it wasn’t his! The male claimed it was his girlfriend’s but, with 43 years police service between Andy and I, we weren’t to be fooled! We seized the pursue and returned it to the owner.

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