FEB / MAR ISSUE 31 2016
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NE W B ou t i qu e o p e n i n Carluke
Devine Dreams Boutique is a new ladies premier fashion store opened by Lynn Smith and Karen Logan, 12 Hamilton Street Carluke. The store brings up to the minute trends in fashion design to Carluke. Pieces are available in size 6 to curvy. In addition, a fantastic collection of coordinating bags, scarves and costume jewellery can be found in store to accessorise any outfit. With new stock arriving daily you must pop in to see their latest spring collections.
Phyllis: EDITOR
Feb / Mar 2016
It’s good to see new stores opening in the high streets of Lanark and Carluke, namely “ THE RE:store” in Lanark and “Devine Dreams” Boutique in Carluke. Please remember to always shop local and support the local high street. Check out our blog for information on the recent Paul Smith exhibition at the Lighthouse Glasgow. Vision magazine were invited along for a personal tour of the exhibition opening by Paul Smith. On ‘til 20th March
CONTENTS Fashion Fitness Scents and Sensuality Make up and Application Why Have Mother’s Day Caramelised Onion Soup Fairtrade fortnight Crossword & Puzzles Movie & Book Review
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Beauty & Fashion Editor
About Sarah Mcgough
Sarah McGough is a beauty and fashion writer from Wishaw. She is a highly experienced Makeup Artist, and creator of makeup brand SGC. www.sarahgcosmetics.com With over 10 years experience in the merging worlds of fashion and beauty, she has a strong knowledge of current trends and style, she has covered and worked on fashion weeks across Europe, as well as styling and directing fashion shoots and shows. Sarah will be bringing you all the latest must have beauty and fashion trends along with helpful hints and tips to have you looking fabulous all year long with Vision magazine.
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FITNESS FASHION
Every February is ‘Healthy Heart Month’ according to the British Heart Foundation. The charity puts extra emphasis on making small changes towards a healthier lifestyle during this month. You can visit their website for heart friendly tips you can do. Whilst on your healthy heart mission, fall in love with these gorgeous pieces of fitness fashion that will surely get your heart racing.
BOOHOO.COM crop £6,leggings £12,vest £6, leggings,£10.
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PRIMARK crop £3.50, leggings £7, top £6
Gone are the days where we threw on an old track suit and just got on with it. In case you haven’t noticed lately fitness is in fashion, in a big way. Sales of fitness wear have more than trebled in the past year with unlikely high street and online retailers now jumping on the sportswear band wagon. Primark and Matalan have launched fashion forward practical ranges and online stores like Boohoo and Missguided have upped the gym glam factor. So follow our fitness fashion guide to ensure you not only feel great at the gym but look great too.
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leggings £12
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leggings £16, top £14
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See by Chloe/Eau Fraiche Boasting hints of water hyacinth, apple blossom and jasmine.
DKNY/Pure DKNY A fresh mix of jasmine and basil
Nina Ricci/Nina Fantasy With sweet pear, brown sugar and cherry blossom this surely is a sweet one, plus the bottle is so cute and girly.
Valentino/Poudre Iris, tuberose and vanilla make for a sensuous mix.
Calvin Klein/CK2 The long awaited sequel to CK1, a mix of floral notes and spicy wasabi.
Paul Smith/Sunshine A spicy mix of grapefruit, black pepper and coriander.
S ce nts a n d S en su al i t y
There is scientific proof that humans can detect at least one trillion scents, that’s a pretty cool fact. According to scientists the most pleasurable scents are orange, cinnamon and freshly baked cookies. Women have a better sense of smell than men due to a more developed orbital pre frontal region of the brain perhaps to discern the best male. Ever wonder why a perfume you love the smell of on somebody else simply isn’t for you? This is because we each have our own individual scent that of course mixes with our fragrance, like fingerprints our distinct odour comes from the same genes that determine tissue type. Perfume is a proven aphrodisiac with vanilla, sandalwood and jasmine being some of the most popular to get you hot under the collar. Our olfactory sense is one of the most powerful at provoking memories, make memories by wearing that amazing scent, on your first date, wedding day or special occasion to instantly be transported when you wear again later on.
Glow,Glow,Glow. Look gorgeously radiant by faking a gorgeous glow. Apply a pearly highlighter to cheekbones, along the bridge of the nose and above the cupids bow for a youthful highlight to enhance your complexion. £2.99
Make Lips Kissable: Firstly make sure lips are flake free by using a lip exfoliator to get rid of any dry skin, next apply a nourishing balm, to add a flush of low maintenance colour apply a rosy lip tint for a truly kissable pout. Lush lip scrub £6.50, Rimmel 1000 Kisses £2.99
M ak e u p an d Ap p l i c at i on
The key to perfecting your makeup look, is to keep it light and show off your natural beauty! Enhancing your features adding subtle colour and highlight will ensure you feel confident and you can see the real you.
Flutter Those Lashes: For super fluttery lashes, first curl with lash curlers and then apply three coats of a do it all volumising and lengthening mascara using the wand to lift and separate the lashes. Max Factor False Lash Effect Mascara £10.99
Blushing And Beautiful. Fake the flush with a pretty petal shade of blush which will instantly enhance your skin tone. £23.50 To Contact Vision Magazine CALL 07957 358 355 or email sales@thevisionmarketing.com
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“Why do we even need Mother’s Day?” My 8-yearold daughter grumped as I suggested she might like to put some consideration into a card and flowers. Well Gracie, let me enlighten you...
WHY HAVE Mother’s Day 6th March
The full time job - No holiday. No time off for good behaviour. 24 hours, 365 days per year and no pay. If my boss at work tried to impose these conditions as the terms of my contract I’d have grounds to take him to court. The housework - It may surprise
you Gracie to know that the house does not clean and tidy itself. Clothing does not wash, iron and sort itself into drawers. There isn’t an army of cleaning fairies who pop out at night to dust and run the vacuum cleaner over the carpet. It is actually your Mum. Ok some of it is me, and you will do the odd chore (generally reluctantly) but mostly, let’s be honest here, it’s mum.
The food – Meal-planning, shopping, cooking. It’s just done,
sorted, no problems. I realise you and your brother clear the table and stack the dishwasher, mostly while grumbling about slave labour and the general unfairness of life, but I’m betting you’d miss the meals if they suddenly stopped
The taxi – How often do you use your mum as a fare-less taxi-service? What if she made you walk, catch a bus or cycle to your friends’ houses. What if she starting charging you? The organiser – Where are you supposed to be at 9.30am this Saturday? Or 4pm on Tuesday? Bet mum knows!
The therapist – That boy you like but who broke your heart? Mum will offer hugs and a shoulder to cry on. That nasty teacher who was making your life a misery? Who spoke to her on your behalf? Which subjects should you take at school? Should you choose hockey practice or clarinet lessons? Mum will advise. You may not like the advice or take it, but you know she cares. The banker - That school trip you forgot to tell us about? The night out at the cinema with friends you simply must attend? The new shoes you absolutely have to buy? Who stumps up for all this stuff? That’s right, your mum. So a card, a handwritten note, a hug, a kiss and a heartfelt ‘Thank you mum’ will go a long way toward making her feel special, and yes it does seem ridiculous we have to have a day set aside for it but that’s the point! In our busy lives for one day we stop, think and appreciate everything she does. So that Gracie darling is why we have Mother’s Day!
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Red Lentil and Caramelised Onion Soup Warming, nutritious and surprisingly filling, this soup is the perfect meal to come home to after a brisk winter’s walk.
High fibre lentils promote heart health, lower cholesterol, provide vegetable protein, stabilise blood sugar, and are rich in iron and B vitamins. We love combining these earthy gems with the deep, roasty, slightly sweet flavour of caramelised onion. This soup will gently warm your stomach and keep you satisfied. It’s an American recipe so uses cup measurements. An American measuring cup is one which holds 240ml liquid, so any cup in your cupboard which is about that volume will do!
Ingredients
METHOD Heat a medium-sized saucepan over medium-high heat and add 1 tablespoon of olive oil. When it dances, add the shallots, garlic, carrots, turmeric and cinnamon. Cook until the shallots soften and the mixture becomes aromatic, about 3-5 minutes. Add the beetroot and vegetable broth and bring the mixture to a boil. Add the lentils and reduce the heat to a simmer. Season with salt and pepper and continue cooking at a simmer for 15-25 minutes, or until the lentils are soft and the vegetables are tender. Prepare the caramelised onions while the soup cooks. If using cardamom pods, crush them (the bottom of a pan works nicely) and remove the seeds. Grind the seeds into a powder with a mortar and pestle.
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 3 shallots, diced 4 cloves of garlic, chopped 3 carrots, diced ½ teaspoon turmeric powder ½ teaspoon cinnamon 2 beetroot (yellow ideally), peeled and diced 6 cups vegetable broth/stock 1¼ cups of red lentils 1 teaspoon of sea salt, plus more to taste ¼ teaspoon of pepper, plus more to taste 1 yellow onion, thinly sliced 10 cardamom pods or 1½ teaspoons ground cardamom ½ teaspoon coriander powder
Serves: 4-6 Prep time: 25 minutes Cook time: 30 minutes
Heat a medium-sized saucepan over medium-high heat, add 1 tablespoon of olive oil, and heat until the oil dances. Add the onion, cardamom and coriander. Keep the heat high so the onions begin to brown, stirring continuously. If the onions start sticking to the sides of the pan, add a little water. Continue cooking for 10 minutes, or until the onions are caramelised and golden brown. Reduce the heat if necessary to keep them from burning. Season with a pinch of salt and pepper. Fill bowls with soup and top with a tablespoon of onions and serve, or simply stir the onions into the soup. 10
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Fair trade Millions of farmers and workers in developing countries work hard every day to grow the food we take for granted, but ironically they don’t always earn enough to feed their own families. In other words, they do not have food security. Fairtrade is about changing that. Its aim is to secure better prices, decent working conditions and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers. By being paid a fair price, they can have more control over their lives and less worry about how they will feed their families. Fairtrade means many farmers and workers are able to fulfil a basic human need – to put enough food on the table for the people they care about, all year round. When you buy products with the FAIRTRADE Mark, it means that the Fairtrade ingredients they contain have been produced by small-scale farmer organisations or plantations
What did you have for breakfast this morning? Maybe you enjoyed coffee from Kenya , bananas from Colombia , cocoa from Côte d’Ivoire, tea from India, sugar from Malawi or juice from Brazilian oranges.
FORTNIGHT that meet Fairtrade social, economic and environmental standards. These standards include protection of workers’ rights and the environment, payment of the Fairtrade Minimum Price and an additional Fairtrade Premium to invest in schools, transport, health care, sanitation, an improved environment and better business equipment and practices. There are over 4,500 Fairtrade products available in the UK: from coffee, tea and chocolate to beauty products, flowers and gold. One in three bananas bought is Fairtrade, and British consumers choosing Fairtrade sugar sent more than £5 million in Fairtrade premium back to sugar cane smallholders last
year. Choosing to buy food with the FAIRTRADE Mark really does make a huge difference to thousands of farmers, workers and their families. From 29 February until 13 March 2016 is Fairtrade Fortnight, during which ordinary people like you and me are encouraged to inspire a multitude of Fairtrade breakfasts in our communities – and wake others up to the challenges facing farmers and workers. There are three simple steps to get involved: 1. 2.
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Organise your own Big Fairtrade Breakfast Inspire others to host a breakfast (for example, in a school, workplace, town hall or individuals at home) Register your breakfast on the Big Fairtrade Breakfast totaliser to make sure it gets counted.
You can find everything you need at fairtrade.org.uk/breakfast. No one person can do everything to tackle the injustices that exist in the world, but harnessing the power of a Fairtrade breakfast is something we can all do. So, sit down for breakfast and stand up for farmers!
Puzzles to keep the brain fit and active
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Across 1. Situation comedy 4. Grew less 8. Disfigure 9. Make legal 10. Objects 12. Construct 13. Roster 14. Laziness 17. Marijuana 20. Serpents 22. Confronts 23. Language of European Jews 24. Memento 25. Overhanging lower edge of a roof 26. Averages 27. An Australian
Down 1. Writ 2. Decaying organic matter 3. Person who operates a mill 5. Cloth bag filled with beans 6. Version 7. Ward off 11. Containing soap 15. Use too often 16. Person that is no longer popular 18. Formal speech 19. Bring to a successful end 21. Mountain range 22. Rock clinging plant
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The RE:store is a not-for-profit venture established by Maggie Botham as part of The RE:organisation Clydesdale Community Interest Company. The aim is to help all members of the community to ‘Make the most of what you’ve got’ – by minimising the waste of available resources, whether that be your possessions, your skills or your environment. Making old items new, fashionable and desirable will also reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill every year. You can even sign up to one of the workshops offered and learn how to breathe new life into your wooden furniture using Frenchic chalk & mineral paint. Many more classes are planned for 2016, so keep your eye on the shop facebook page to find out more. The store also stocks beautiful vintage and retro items and hand-crafted homewares that are made by local people, often using recycled materials. Each item is unique and will add a personal touch to your décor whilst offering locally produced goods to the local marketplace. If you need some inspiration for an upcycling project, pop into the store to browse the shelves or ask to see practical examples from the many books in the useful resource library, or ask Maggie for some advice.
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Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Praise for this novel, first published at the beginning of 2015, has spread like wildfire and it has become THE book to read. So just in case you are one of the few that hasn’t succumbed to this thriller, why should you pick it up? Whether you are a regular commuter, like the central character Rachel, or not, you will easily be able to identify with the opening section. How many times have you sat on a train and looked out of the window into the garden or kitchen windows of the houses that back onto the tracks, as you speed past on your way to your final destination. As you catch glimpses into a life that you don’t know, do you wonder about the people that occupy those houses? Rachel doesn’t have to wonder. She passes familiar houses every day and purposefully looks for Jess and Jason, a young professional couple who live a perfect life. She knows them and is in many ways envious of their relationship. Seeing them in their garden is a moment of comfort as her own life is falling apart. But is all as it seems? On one day, as the train slows down at a signal by the house, Rachel notices that something is amiss. Suddenly she is sucked into a nightmare that seems destined to reveal everything, and that will shock you as her commuter journey turns out to be anything but normal. It’s a small world, but when that world comes crashing down around you, it becomes all too clear that this small world is a lot smaller than you first thought.
Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo It is now nearly a decade since the last Harry Potter book was published, and a new generation are quite rightly discovering this wonderful world of wizards and magic. Just like the generation before them, they are left with a void after reading them all, and so where do they turn? The Charlie Bone series of books may well be just what they are looking for. Published in 2002, Midnight for Charlie Bone is the first of this eight book series. Charlie is a fairly normal 10 year old boy. His father died when he was little, and he lives with his mum and two grandmas, and hangs out with his best friend Ben. One Friday Charlie hears voices coming from a photograph, and then his whole life changes. He learns that his three unmarried great-aunts, known as the Yewbeams, are going to fund his education and a private school called Bloor’s Academy. Charlie is not happy about this: he knows the school to be a stuffy place for geniuses, and he certainly won’t fit in there. But the Yewbeams are insistent: and besides, they pay for his mum’s living expenses and so he really has no choice. They explain to Charlie that he is ‘endowed’ and can read the minds of people in photographs. Everyone at Bloor’s Academy has a talent. Charlie’s father went there and he was a musician. But what is Charlie’s talent? Placed in the music department at Bloor’s, despite having no musical talent, it becomes clear that there is another group of children at the school who are all endowed with some mystical magical talent. Soon he finds that he was born into a world he never knew existed.
Release Date: Friday 26th February Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Billy Ray (Captain Phillips, The Hunger Games), and produced by Academy Award® winner Mark Johnson (Rain Man, “Breaking Bad”), Secret In Their Eyes is an intense, powerful, haunting thriller starring Academy Award® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Academy Award® winners Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts. A tight-knit team of rising investigators – Ray (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Jess (Julia Roberts), along with their supervisor Claire (Nicole Kidman) – is suddenly torn apart when they discover that Jess’s teenage daughter has been brutally and inexplicably murdered. Now, thirteen years later, after obsessively searching every day for the elusive killer, Ray finally uncovers a new lead that he’s certain can permanently resolve the case, nail the vicious murderer, and bring long-desired closure to his team. No one is prepared, however, for the shocking, unspeakable secret that will reveal the enduring, destructive effects of personal vengeance on the human soul. Interweaving past and present, this deeply layered mystery explores the murky boundaries between justice and revenge, and asks the question: how far would you go to right an unfathomable wrong? 13
Easing the Financial cost Of Bereavement One in ten people in the UK find it difficult to pay for a funeral. There are ways to ease the stress and bring the overall burden down. Many funeral directors now offer prepaid funeral plans. People on low incomes can apply to the governments Social Fund “Funeral Payment” to help meet the cost of a funeral. How much you can receive depends on your personal circumstances and if you qualify. You do not have to repay a funeral payment from the social fund although it can be recovered from the estate of the person that died. You qualify for the fund payment if you are on particular benefits. You must make the claim as soon as possible. The benefit office has to agree that you are the correct person responsible for the funeral costs. There is no fixed sum for a funeral payment. The payment would be paid directly to the funeral director. For further information contact your local Citizens Advice Bureau or visit www.gov.scot or http://www.crusescotland.org.uk Help line number 0845 600 2227
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