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W elcome Welcome ttoo A pril April Gill Greenwell has all the Easter inspiration you need for decorating your home in her April Interior Design article – why not have a go at making our indulgent Delicious Dish to add to your Easter-themed tablescape?

Dorothy Glen shares some interesting facts about snakes in her Wildlife Matters feature, while Val Starr reminds us of the importance of sun protection as the weather starts to improve.

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the tin and press firmly all over. Chill in the fridge for 15-20 minutes.

4 Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of hot water or carefully in the microwave.

Stir until smooth then leave to cool for five minutes.

5 Put the cream cheese into a large mixing bowl and beat until smooth, ideally with an electric whisk. Add the cooled chocolate, the vanilla extract, malted milk powder and icing sugar and mix.

6 Drizzle the cream into the bowl and beat for a short

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7 Spread most of the mixture over the base, smoothing it with a spatula but leaving a big dollop to roughly swirl over the top.

8 Cover and leave to chill in the fridge overnight, along with the remaining maltesers.

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C Creating reating a no-excuse no-excuse culture culture Have you ever found yourself saying, “I need to be more disciplined”? Most people have, if they are honest. A good, simple definition of discipline is “to keep showing up and consistently following through with the things you want or need to do”. For example, work tasks, chores, studies, training, goals, diet, responsibilities, etc.

But there is simply too much going on and it’s hard to prioritise or stay focused/motivated.

Our positive and negative selftalk impacts our discipline, as it directly impacts selfconfidence, which then affects self-discipline.

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For those of you struggling with discipline in terms of regular exercise, here is a 20 minute challenge to get you through the next month. If you can’t make or find at least 20 minutes a day to invest in your health and wellbeing, you’re focusing on the wrong things!

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S Spring pring ssun un p protection rotection You may think it’s too early to be thinking about SPF and skin protection in April, but you should be protecting your skin from damaging rays throughout the whole year.

Unfortunately, many people only think about applying SPF products during the summer months, which is a huge mistake. Sun protection should be a non-negotiable daily routine for every member of the family.

I do appreciate that on a miserable, grey winter’s day it might be the last thing on your mind, but UVA rays can still seep through clouds and cause damage to your skin, even in dull weather. Up to 90% of skin ageing is caused by sun damage and this can easily be avoided with a little planning and preparation.

Products to help prevent these harmful rays have come a very long way from the heavy creams we used to apply that left a dreaded white residue.

Dermatologists who have incredibly long waiting lists are

seeing people of all ages with various sun damage to the skin; of course these can be from sun burns from years ago that are only now coming to the surface. Fortunately, we are better educated now, meaning with a little caution we can still enjoy the sun!

Staying ssafe Staying afe o on n holiday h oliday The sun’s rays are much stronger than you may imagine in the spring and while international travel might be back on the agenda for many, so are UK staycations. Whether you are planning a domestic holiday or simply playing in your garden, without applying protective products, you can be exposed to the same damaging rays that you would automatically protect against in hotter countries.

SPF SPF Sun protection factors range from as low as 2 to 50 plus.

The NHS recommends using at least factor 30, which is what I use during the winter months, but by March I have graduated to factor 50. The key thing to remember is that it is the UVA light that causes deep damage, so when you look at SPF products, ensure you have at least a four, preferably five, star UVA rating.

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I’m sitting in the cockpit of a 50-year-old Trident airliner, surrounded by period analogue instruments – including the pioneering blind landing system developed by locally-based Smiths Industries 60 years ago.

Later, I sit in the original red cabin seats, shut my eyes and I’m back on a 1970s BA Shuttle, landing in foggy darkness after a Belfast to Heathrow flight.

I’m 20 again, transported back in time and that flight could have been on this very aircraft…

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ing day out, packed with opportunities to ‘time travel’, as I did.

I’d lived in Gloucestershire for a decade before discovering this treasure, and appreciating its volunteers’ dedicated work to celebrate Gloucestershire’s aviation heritage and inspire youngsters to choose aviation careers. And all for the cost of a voluntary donation and a tasty snack in its cosy café.

From beautifully restored Gloster Meteors and the Trident fuselage, to a Vulcan bomber’s Smiths instruments and Hucclecote-built Gloster Javelin, the museum’s exhibits – original planes, models and interpretive displays – are sure to engage.

There’s even a duo of miniatures for young pilots to ‘fly’!

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I spoke with a former Vulcan pilot who now volunteers. That took me back to the early ‘60s and watching high-flying Vulcans cross childhood’s perfectly blue skies.

Inspiring Inspiring adults adults and and cchildren hildren alike alike Another time, I learned the fascinating story of the Trident’s history and painstaking restoration. If you’re very lucky, you might even meet someone who flew Gloster’s first jets in the 1950s. Who knows what’s possible on your day out? Or the aviation future a visit could inspire for the kids.

I waited years to discover the museum. It may not be as big or well-known as Brooklands or Duxford, but it’s on our doorstep and it’s an aviation gem. If you haven't visited yet, don’t leave it as long as I did.

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Back in the summer, we had a family holiday booked to Cornwall – along with most of the rest of the UK as it appeared. As usual, taking two kids on holiday with the standard barrage of equipment meant the family 5-door Mini wasn’t going to cut it. Enter stage left: the brand-new Toyota Highlander.

Toyota have always been good at making both tiny and massive cars – the Yaris has long been a stalwart for new drivers (and more recently, with the GR, which was incredible) and the likes of the Rav4 and Landcruiser for those who want something on the larger end of the scale.

Targeted T argeted at at families families The Highlander is therefore not technically breaking new ground for Toyota, but unlike the Landcruiser which is the closest large offering, this feels more targeted at families. The Landcruiser is more utilitarian, but the Highlander had genuine comforts on offer, and seven seats that still lefftt a decent boot space.

So a big, family-focused 4x4, with hybrid technology and enough space to pack the kitchen sink meets the notoriously narrow lanes of Cornwall. What could possibly go wrong?

As it happened, nothing did, but there were a few moments when I wasn’t sure if it was going to fit through gaps.

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the Highlander’s were very useful, especially in one particularly narrow Cornish seaside town where parking was at a massive premium. I took a wrong turn and ended up half a mile outside of the village before I could turn around! Certainly, without the sensors, parking such a large vehicle would have been a lot trickier.

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Good in any situation or weather condition, it is capable over pretty much anything (as you’d expect from the people who brought us the Landcruiser) but also incredibly comfortable to drive and be driven in.

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Glowing reviews all round from the whole family meant it had a clean sweep of appreciation.

IIncredibly ncredibly frugal frugal Being a Toyota, it’s also a hybrid. I’ve said before that Toyota’s hybrid system is one of the better on the market. This car measures almost 5 metres long, has a 2.5 litre petrol engine and weighs more than two tonnes before it’s loaded with a family-holiday worth of luggage, but it’s still incredibly frugal. I forget the actual MPG achieved, but it was surprisingly good, all things considered and much better than I expected.

To sum up, the Highlander is an incredibly versatile, comfortable and economical offering from Toyota and my only surprise is that I haven’t seen more on the roads. It is genuinely impressive and even given the £50k price tag, offers better value than most rivals I can think of.

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And while the 69-year-old says “it’s just a number”, it’s something that makes him very proud, justifiably so, because it’s been some career both on and off the pitch.

On the pitch he captained Gloucestershire for six-and-ahalf years in the 1980s when they twice went close to winning the county championship, was part of two Lord’s cup final-winning teams in the 70s and played alongside four of the county’s all-time greats – Mike Procter, Zaheer Abbas, Courtney Walsh and Jack Russell – while also taking almost 1,000 first-class wickets himself in a 20-plus year playing career.

Off the pitch he stepped seamlessly onto the international stage in 1997 when he was appointed England’s chairman of selectors, a position he held for 11 years and a period which embraced that never-to-be-forgotten Ashes triumph in 2005.

He was deservedly awarded an OBE for services to cricket on the back of that success but there’s been controversy for Graveney along the way too, most notably when he was part of Mike Gatting’s rebel tour to South Africa in 1990 when he was very much in the line of fire as the tour’s player/manager.

That was obviously a tough time for Graveney but it’s fair to say that over the years there have been many more highs than lows for the former leftarm spinner and he’s done an awful lot for cricket at all levels, particularly his support for former cricketers in his past role as chief executive of the Professional Cricketers’ Assoc-

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iation and his current role as president of the Professional Cricketers’ Trust.

Talk to Graveney for just a few minutes and it’s easy to see why he’s held so many highprofile roles over the years.

He’s obviously intelligent – he is a qualified accountant – and he’s a good, positive communicator, although even he admits that it was an awfully long time ago that he made his county championship debut for Gloucestershire at the age of 19.

That was on Saturday 5th August 1972 – a time when Ted Heath was Prime Minister, Leeds United were the best football team in the country and Donny Osmond was top of the UK singles charts with Puppy Love.

And it was something of an inauspicious start for Graveney because he finished wicketless in that game at Cheltenham against Lancashire, a Lancashire side that included the great Clive Lloyd.

A few days later he was centre stage again, this time against Derbyshire. Again it was at Cheltenham but this time he was the hero of the hour as he

took five second innings wickets to set up a winning run chase.

That got the 6ft 4in Graveney up and running. His tall, upright bowling action, extracting any spin and bounce that a wicket may offer, was already in evidence and he was offered a one-year contract at the end of the summer “for the princely sum of £900,” he laughed.

Almost half a century later, he continues to be a familiar face around the club because he was voted onto Gloucestershire’s Executive Board in 2020 and has played an important role not only in the recruitment of new head coach Dale Benkenstein, but also in attracting high-profile overseas players to the club such as Australian opening batsman Marcus Harris and Pakistan pace bowler Naseem Shah.

Graveney, of course, is the son of former Gloucestershire captain and seam bowler Ken, and the nephew of Tom, the majestic batsman who also captained Gloucestershire and played 79 Tests for England.

Tom Graveney had retired from county cricket a couple of years before David started playing for Gloucestershire, but although they never played against each other at first-class level, David does remember bowling to his uncle in one particular game.

“It was in 1986, my benefit year,” said Graveney. “We were playing a game at Sheepscombe. It’s a lovely ground.

“Tom was nearly 60 and hadn’t played for years and years. I was bowling at him from the pavilion end, he blocked my first ball and then the next one he hit high over the sightscreen, much to the amusement of all my team-mates. He did it so easily too.”

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Shopping around for the best deal is still available, but it’s a cartel between the providers and one energy company is going to charge the same unit price as the next one. Looking for a better tariff has been a popular alternative over the years, but there’s now an obligation on the energy providers to check you are on the best version for your usage, such that there is little mileage left here either.

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But cost is a combination of both usage and unit price. If we can’t do anything about the latter, perhaps we can cope better with the increase in energy costs by controlling usage?

I’m not suggesting we need to turn the heating off for large chunks of the day to the detriment of our well-being, but maybe more active management of switches in the house will reduce usage and compensate for the unit price increases? We can’t all simply afford to shrug our shoulders and pay the higher costs. We need to think about how we can manage usage downwards and then actually do something about it.

The government suggested that we should all have a smart meter for our gas and electricity consumption and that, as a result, our costs would go down. What a nonsense! A smart meter doesn’t save you money – it simply tells y ou h o w m uch you a re sp e nd in g . I f y o u w an t to save, you have to change your behaviour and then the smart meter will tell you how successful you have been. The concept of using modern technology to help control costs is good, but it’s not the solution on its own.

Will there be ‘winners’ out of the debacle? The energy companies for sure, but hopefully not manufacturers of woolly jumpers or hot water bottles as we resort to other means of keeping warm. Nobody wants that, but we have to think about how we manage our daily actions in the face of such an aggressive hike in basic prices.

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4.30am with the walk starting at 6am. nationalstar.org/get-involved/sunrise-walk 8 APRIL TWIRLYWOOS LIVE Join Great BigHoo, Toodloo, Chickedy, Chick and their friends as they discover the wonderful world around us! Expect mischief, music and plenty of surprises as they set sail in their big red boat. An enchanting introduction to theatre for all ages.

1.30pm & 4pm. Tickets £16 (children £14, family of 4 £56). 01242 258002. The Bacon Theatre, Hatherley Road, GL51 6EP. bacontheatre.co.uk 9 APRIL WHEN IN ROME WINE TASTING In Italy, wine lovers visit their local winery with a refillable container, fill them, go home, decant and enjoy! We are on a mission to bring this tradition to the UK. Come and enjoy a tasting session with us where you can discover the variety of different wines we have to offer and listen to the stories from our producers, all while learning a more sustainable way to drink wine. 4pm. Tickets £26.50. The Subscription Rooms, George Street, Stroud GL5 1AE. thesubrooms.co.uk FOCUS Warm up those tonsils – it’s time for a spot of yodelling! With their unique brand of progressive rock, Focus manifested themselves at the start of the ’70s as the most successful and appreciated of all the Dutch pop-rock exports. 7pm. £20. Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, GL1 1NS.

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Physical gags, silly jokes and true stories from the medical frontline combine with Stefania's own experience of being an Italian doctor in the UK. 7.30pm. Tickets £10. The Subscription Rooms, George Street, Stroud GL5 1AE. thesubrooms.co.uk 23 APRIL MEAT LOUD The Ultimate Tribute to Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman. Including a performance of the full ‘Bat Out of Hell’ album as well as songs from other Meat Loaf albums and other artists, penned by musical genius Steinman. 8pm. From £17.50. Sundial Theatre, Cirencester, GL7 1XA. www.sundial-theatre.co.uk

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2288 APRIL APRIL NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: HENRY V Kit Harington plays the title role in Shakespeare’s thrilling study of nationalism, war and the psychology of power. Fresh to the throne, King Henry V launches England into a bloody war with France. When his campaign encounters resistance, this inexperienced new ruler must prove he is fit to guide a country into war.

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Tickets £16.50 (concessions £14.50, students £12.50). 01242 258002. The Bacon Theatre, Hatherley Road, GL51 6EP. bacontheatre.co.uk FLEETWOOD BAC The world’s first and best Fleetwood Mac Tribute Band, endorsed by Mick Fleetwood himself. The show focuses on the ‘Rumours’ era of the band, as well as featuring several songs from the Peter Green days, plus some of Stevie’s biggest solo hits. 8pm. Tickets £21.50-£24.50. The Subscription Rooms, George Street, Stroud GL5 1AE. thesubrooms.co.uk 2299 APRIL APRIL THE UPBEAT BEATLES A rockin’ band with tight musicianship

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7.30pm. £22. Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, GL1 1NS. gloucesterguildhall.co.uk THE ELO EXPERIENCE The world’s foremost multi award winning tribute to The Electric Light Orchestra. With a sensational string section, a stunning light show and large screen projection to further enhance the experience, this incredible show accurately reproduces the songs and sounds and takes you on a magical musical journey through time. 7.30pm. Tickets £28. The Roses Theatre, Sun Street, Tewkesbury, GL20 5NX. 01684 295074. rosestheatre.org 30 APRIL APRIL 30 THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS Pack your picnics and join Ratty, Mole, Badger, and the fantastically irrepressible Toad as they embark on the adventure of a lifetime, culminating

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