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From the sights and sounds of the cinema, through to the smell of fresh coffee and homemade biscuits in the café or simply just chatting with friends in our landscaped gardens, it’s all about living life to the full within our community of care.

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HEARING LIKE A DREAM I f you are an experienced hearing aid listener you will hear the difference straight away. Sounds seem richer more detailed and more well-rounded. You will start to take more pleasure in the world of sound around you.

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advantages never before experienced. Telephone signals can be received wirelessly directly into the hearing aid. TV and Hi-Fi reception can be heard with beautiful quality and clarity, arriving invisibly into the ear.

The Coventry and Leamington Hearing Centres are not new comers to the developing field of hearing help. The Leamington Centre opened its doors in 1985 (almost 30 years ago) whilst the Station Square, Coventry practice is witnessing the second Coventry Railway Station rebuild in its 65 year history.

Both Deborah and Michael have “hands on” experience of hearing impairment and conduct the whole range of hearing aid services on a full-time basis. “We provide 24/7 service to clients and include ear syringing, ear canal photography, audiometry, ear impressing and moulding for deep canal fittings every day”.

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Completely-in-canal hearing aids (CIC) The CIC is one of the smallest hearing aid models and is especially suitable if you have a mild to moderate hearing loss. It is a custom made shell that contains all the electronic components.

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FOR A CONFIDENT FUTURE

Have you come to a crossroads about your future? Are you wondering which way to turn? In today’s uncertain economic climate it’s more important than ever to choose the path that will best suit your talents, your experience and your personal qualities.

Pressures are all around us. Redundancy is a constant threat in an ever-changing jobs environment and brings with it a huge and indefinable sense of loss. Self-employment might offer a solution. Or there is the ongoing challenge of applying for jobs, writing an effective CV and then, if you’re fortunate enough, the trauma of facing interviews.

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Ruth Guy specialises in career guidance and coaching. Her consultancy, Career Confidence, is based in Leamington Spa and covers a wide range of Warwickshire offering guidance in all aspects of career development.

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BLUE DAISY’S GARDENING DIARY

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More snippets on design, plants and gardening! This month’s garden tour starts here…

Top 3 Gardening Jobs: 1. Check containers and hanging baskets daily to see if they need watering – even if it’s been wet, rain doesn’t always get into your containers, so keep an eye on them just in case.

2. You’ve hopefully got a fantastic display of flowers at this time of year so do try to deadhead them to maintain displays and encourage more growth.

3. Trim hedges (if you’re sure there are no nests or existing ones have been vacated, remember that some birds come back for a second brood though). If you’re unsure, you can wait a little bit longer.

Design Tip: Focal Points The purpose of a focal point in the garden is to ‘bring the garden into focus’ - and while it might sound pretentious what it’s really about is leading or directing the garden viewer’s eye to a particular point or points in a garden. It’s almost like a signpost that tells a viewer where to look and give their attention and in looking at the focal point the setting around it, the rest of the garden, suddenly seems to come into focus too. It’s a typical designer’s trick but we all tend to do it inside our homes without thinking – the fireplace, the coffee table with a striking ornament or flower arrangement, the large screen TV on the wall – all of these things are focal points, but they give balance and context to the rest of the room they’re in. The same principle applies to the outdoor space too.

The means of creating focal points in the garden are limitless – you can create them with sculptures, plant pots, colour, planting, structures, water, doorways, shapes, collections of things – the list does go on and on.

The trick to using focal points though is to limit them; you only want 1 per ‘viewing area’ or section of a garden otherwise they will compete with each other and the viewer’s focus of the garden will be lost.

Three plants that are looking great at the moment are:

1. Verbena bonariensis – these plants have a wonderful ‘see though’ and stylish quality and despite them being 1-1.5m tall they can be placed front, middle or back of the border. Having very small but tightly packed clusters of lilac flowers on tall narrow stems, butterflies love this plant. It prefers full sun and a slightly sheltered aspect. Looks great planted in drifts and with ornamental grasses.

2. Philadelphus ‘Belle Etoile’ is a compact variety of the mock orange shrub reaching only 1.2m in height, it has white flowers with a splash of purple in the centre and a delicious scent. A tough shrub that will grow in most soils even in polluted areas; it prefers full sun to part shade and is a great low maintenance addition to a mixed border.

3. Astrantia major – is an old cottage garden favourite but is making a bit of a comeback in some of the more contemporary settings. The flowers are like small pin cushions and it comes in a many varieties for example, ‘Claret’ is a deep rich ruby colour whereas ‘Pink Penny’ is a softer more pastel pink. The flowers peak at 90cms in height above the leafy base; it likes full sun to part shade and is happy in moist rich soil. A great addition to the mixed border and generally works well at the front of a border. © Nicki Jackson, Blue Daisy Garden Design Ltd.

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