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6 ASK BRUCE
Read Bruce’s column about Alabama Rot
13 TALKING NEWSPAPER 14 WHAT’S ON
See what’s on in and around Esher in March
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COMPUTER TIPS CLAREMONT FAN COURT GARDENING WITH SELINA MUSIC MATTERS WHAT’S COOKING?
From the Editor Welcome to our March magazine.
Isn’t it wonderful that the days are getting longer? It seems to have happened very suddenly, too. Early signs of spring can be spotted all over the place, although a little too early, I fear! This month, the Elmbridge & Runnymede Talking Newspaper celebrated a very special anniversary. We are very pleased to share some coverage from the day, and it seems that a great time was enjoyed by all who attended! On another note, we are delighted to have a very special Look Local Music Matters feature this month, written especially for us by David Jensen; he shares his personal experiences from the times he spent with the late great Mr David Bowie. What a lucky chap he is to have met this very talented man, who has left behind a totally amazing legacy. Thanks also to all of you who entered our book competition last month; winners have been picked from a hat and are listed within! Sorry to the unsuccessful entries, but I hope our winners enjoy the lovely prizes. A message for all dog owners now. Our new Q & A column is up and running, coming to you with the help of Bruce from Bruce’s Doggie Day Care. Bruce welcomes your canine questions, so please email them into me at ros@looklcoalmagazine.co.uk and I will pass them his way. We kick off this month with a question from a reader who is worried about a potentially dangerous medical condition….. well worth a read. A busy month ahead, with Mothers’ Day on 6th March and the early Easter weekend (25th – 28th ) to look forward to too. Let’s hope the sun shines and the Easter Bunny visits Esher! Wishing you all a great month,
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or so, commonly activated by opening an attachment in an email. Once it is activated, all your data files on your PC, back-up drives and connected devices become encrypted either immediately or at some designated time in the future. The user then receives a message stating that their data has become encrypted and that they should call a phone number within x number of days to have the data unencrypted, otherwise it will be lost forever. In January, Lincolnshire County Council was hit by a Ransomware attack. The demand was for £1m, and it closed the council for several days. Currently, there are only two ways to get your data back from this attack: 1: Recover your data from an unaffected backup 2: Pay the ransom Just remember - your data is probably more valuable to you than the equipment. With our Total Care Support Plan, we back up your data to our cloud. We have had some customers who have been subjected to Ransomware attacks and we have recovered all their data. In all cases, Action Fraud have been informed. Should you like further information on these issues or wish to discuss your own security, please do not hesitate to contact us or Action Fraud. Action Fraud can be contacted on 0300 123 2040 or www.actionfraud.police.uk
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GIVES SOME SPRING GARDEN ADVICE. Spring has sprung and the sap is rising and everything is growing fast. This is the time of year that I get those urgent phone calls “Help, my garden is a mess - I don’t know where to start and I want it all designed and built before summer!” My first advice is, don’t panic and don’t rush into anything. It’s in rushing that those expensive mistakes are more likely to occur and I have visited too many people who rushed into a patio, steps and walls, often at great expense, only to find they made a big mistake. Not many people have the money to start again and there is often little that I can do once the hard landscaping is done. As with everything, the best people may be too busy to help you immediately (landscapers and designers tend to be booked up ahead) and the design process takes time to firstly work out what the needs are and also what the garden already has to offer. The creative process of ideas and discussion is something to be enjoyed as ideas develop. It’s best if you are involved in the design process and your needs are listened to so the garden is what you want. It sounds obvious, but this process does take time. Also, if you want to invest in your garden, you want it to be a lasting investment and not something that doesn’t quite work and you don’t know why. A
designer will help ensure that the garden is what you want. In the meantime, do keep the grass mown and the bushes under control so you can still use the space as much as possible for the time being. There is no point chopping everything down and then realising that the chopped tree was vital screening and will cost a fortune to replace. My advice is to start now but not to rush/panic. Book in a design consultation and find out what
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Ferraris, Lambos, Aston Martins, Rolls Royces and Bentleys, all playthings of mega-wealthy Arab show-offs and oligarchs, diced in a madcap stampede, swapping the six lanes without bothering to signal their intent or apparently looking where they were going. And that brought me to my second memorable and thankful - reason to remember my visit to the Emirates. Sound a fanfare for the Range Rover, a luxurious bully of a 4x4, a veritable motorised barricade, my massive safeguard against the threatening and unwary onrush on the 50-minute hellfire journey... I was confident there would be only one winner if I was clouted by one of the flashy £200,000, 180mph supercars: my heavyweight and macho RR...more than two tonnes of it. If I’d had to dodge the madcap rush and take an alternative escape route over a rocky mountain, splash through a river up to 900mm or scramble over the most treacherous of tricky terrains, it would all have come as a pushover to this 3.0-litre romper just by leaving its Terrain Response offroad software in auto. And in sheer executive-class comfort with legroom in abundance. I sat throne-like, upright and all-seeing,
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Hub Words page 32 9-letter word - BEAUTIFUL Some other words of five letters or more containing the hub letter B: abet, able, abut, bail, bait, bale, bate, beat, beau, belt, beta, bile, bite, blae (Scot), blue, flab, flub, tabi, tuba, tube, beaut, befit, bleat, built, fable, table, tubal, albeit, albite, fibula, tubful, tubule.
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A W Sewell ........................................................ 34 Able Roofing...................................................... 26 AL Services......................................................... 39 Alexander Roofing ............................................. 35 AMG Osteo Clinics............................................. 6 Ashford Kitchens................................................ 25 Astek Dental...................................................... 15 Audi - Epsom....................................................... 4 Bathrooms Eleven................................................ 2 Besprak Architects & Interior Design................... 7 Bocketts Farm.................................................... 24 Book Keeping Services....................................... 41 Brightercare........................................................ 37 Bruce’s Doggy Day Care....................................6/7 Casey & Associates............................................. 23 Casselden’s Shoes................................................ 39 Chiropody – Melissa Bennett............................. 38 Claremont Fan Court School .......................18/44 Cleanability........................................................ 34 Cobham Village Stitchers................................... 41 DB Garden Services............................................. 8 Educate Secondary............................................... 5 Englishman’s Castle............................................ 19 Esher Tyres & Exhausts...................................... 43 Falcon Services .................................................. 24 Indiah Paige Beauty.............................................. 6
Lodge Brothers – Funeral Directors.................... 23 Lofts and Extensions ......................................... 10 MacDonalds Fencing & Sons Ltd...................... 31 Marks Plastering................................................. 33 MPS Garden & Estate Machinery ...................... 8 Music on the Green............................................ 34 Neighbourhood Watch ...................................... 21 Nick Ricks Decorating ...................................... 41 Ovenclean.......................................................... 41 PAN Accounting................................................ 19 Reynolds Cars ................................................... 35 Roofs of Esher.................................................... 31 Roxley Models.................................................... 29 Seasons Art Classes............................................. 11 Smith Pearman................................................... 12 Stepping Stones Nursary...................................... 9 Supergrass.......................................................... 33 Tec Res Computer Solutions ........................16/17 Wagging Tails..................................................... 35 Wentworth Design............................................. 29 WG Harper........................................................ 38 Yoga with Barbara Currie................................... 21 Zigger................................................................ 36
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