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Welcome Welcome ttoo JJanuary anuary ... ... ... and a very Happy New Year to all our readers! Now the festivities are over, it ’s time to look to the year ahead. Many of us will make New Year’s resolutions, and if you’re looking for ideas, why not choose to help the environment? Annabel Laughton offers her advice on reducing our carbon ‘pawprint ’ and the impact keeping pets has on the environment in ‘Save the Planet’. Laura Nicklin takes a look at the new gadgets you may wish to purchase in the New Year in ‘Gadgets & Gizmos’. There’s a soft toy music speaker, a hot drinks machine, and the Nutribullet, which may help with those resolutions of eating (or drinking) more fruit and vegetables! After the huge success and popularity of our previous ‘TLA Charity’ competition last summer, we’re doing it again! We’ve teamed up with ten of our generous advertisers to donate an amazing £5,000 to a Gloucestershire-based charity or not-for-profit organisation. For more information, see the centre pages and get nominating now!
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P Piña iña CColada olada A sweet , rum-based cocktail made with rum, cream of coconut and pineapple juice, the Piña Colada’s origin is contested by three Puerto Rican bartenders. Ramón ‘Monchito’ Marrero Pérez claims to have first made the cocktail at the Caribe Hilton Hotel’s Beachcomber Bar in San Juan in August 1952, using the newly-available Coco López cream of coconut. Coco López was developed in Puerto Rico in 1948 by Don Ramón López-Irizarry, hence the Puerto Rican connection and the 1952 account of the drink’s creation. Some say the drink did not acquire its name until the 1960s. Ricardo García, who also worked at the Caribe, says that it was he who invented the drink , while Ramón Portas Mingot says he created it in 1963 at the Barrachina Restaurant. The restaurant stands by his claim to this day. National Piña Colada Day is celebrated on the islands on 10th July. Ingredients: Ingredients: Ice; 35ml white rum; 1 tbsp coconut-flavoured rum; 50ml coconut cream; 50ml pineapple juice; 3-4 pineapple chunks; pineapple slice and maraschino cherry to garnish. Method: Method: 1 Pour the two rums, coconut cream, pineapple juice and chunks of pineapple into a blender and blend until smooth. 2 To serve, pour into a cocktail glass and garnish with a pineapple slice and a maraschino cherry.
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Renting cottages like Oldfield House, Snelston, or Church Farm Cottage at Stanshope (pictured above) ensures perfect immersion in the area. Church Farm, north of Ashbourne, is a working farm (time your stay right and newborn lambs await). It epitomises beautifully appointed self-catering accommodation in the middle of the area’s scenic and cultural action. If you prefer hotels, try nearby Izaak Walton Hotel or Hillcrest House.
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RReducing educing oour ur ccarbon arbon ppawprint awprint When it comes to a greener lifestyle it ’s easy to forget our pets, but in reducing our impact on the planet, they have a part to play too. The estimated 16 million cats and dogs in the UK come with a sizeable carbon pawprint – it ’s been calculated that the average family pet in the UK generates more carbon than a person living in a developing country. So how can we reduce this? The biggest contributor to pets’ carbon emissions is probably what they eat, including the food itself, packaging and the carbon costs of transporting it. Thankfully, the pet food industry has moved on in the last few years and there are more choices out there.
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What will happen if the base rate falls even further and actually goes negative? Will they demand that we pay the banks to look after our money for us? Nothing would surprise me with the banks; that’s probably the one certainty for 2017 – more branch closures, bigger r e t u r n s f o r t h e s h a re h o l d e r s a n d m o r e r e d t a p e f o r those of us trying to operate, let alone open, a business bank account. Whatever 2017 brings, I hope it is kind and fruitful for you. Happy New Year!
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