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We’re coming home I’m not much of a football fan, but when it’s a big event like the World Cup, like the rest of the country, I get swept along with the enthusiasm.

Clearly, supporting our national team didn’t demand much of my attention this year.

We think of ourselves as a footballing nation but a) we just don’t do well in international competitions and b) it’s definitely of more interest to men.

However something we are great at is music, and what’s more it’s equally appreciated by male and female, young and old alike. Whilst the internet has brought both its benefits and its challenges to this industry, the one part which has seen huge growth is that of live music, and particularly festivals.

In 1970 Michael Eavis opened his 150-acre farm to 1,500 people, each of whom paid just £1 to watch a handful of pop and folk performers. With that the Glastonbury Festival was born. But that was just the beginning and this year there are more events than ever, many of which feature lesser known names and showcase up and coming talent.

The good news is that although many venues are miles away and have a pretty hefty entrance fee, smaller festivals run locally and are more affordable. Also, of particular appeal for those of us long out of teens or who have young children, being driveable within an hour means you can come home to your own bed!

We’ve put together a page of the festivals we know about over the next couple of months, and included arts and film festivals too. Although not until October, I can personally recommend Austentatious at the Winchester Comedy Festival in October. We saw this at the Edinburgh Fringe a couple of years ago – so funny, and really really clever. I’ve booked my tickets already so don’t mind if it sells out now!

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In recent years baking has become a bit of a national obsession. With events such as the Sugarcraft, Cake Decorating & Baking Show visiting large conference venues in London, Birmingham and Manchester, new cake-craft shops opening in our high streets and countless community bakeoffs taking place all over the country, it would appear that the UK has been well and truly bitten by the baking bug.

Home baking has always featured heavily when it comes to local fundraising events: if you visit any school fete or village fair you are almost certain to find a stall heaving with homemade cakes.

But nowadays you won’t just see any old cakes displayed for sale: you’ll find creations made and decorated with real flair and passion.

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show, The Great British Bake Off, which features a team of amateur bakers (observed by expert judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry) taking part in progressively harder baking challenges over a period of ten weeks. The show promises to attract an audience of over eight million viewers when Series 5 is broadcast later this year.

The first episode of GBBO traditionally kicks off with “Cakes” and it’s fitting that this aspect of baking should open the competition, as cake making and decorating has become one of the most popular hobbies in Britain today.

Perhaps it is the combination of cookery and artistic skills that has captured the public’s imagination.

The current trend is to create specialist cakes that are not only delicious to eat, but beautiful to look at, and bakers are now using a range of specialist tools and equipment to help them achieve stunning effects for their cake creations.

A whole industry has sprung up around cake making and decorating and it’s easy to find a vast selection of professional cutters, paper cases, novelty cake tins, sprinkles, icing figures, ribbons, boxes and cake boards, either by shopping at specialist high street outlets or by searching for cake equipment suppliers

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Cupcakes are especially popular: decorated with butter cream icing, sprinkled with edible glitter and often topped with exotic decorations, they can easily be turned into individual, quirky masterpieces. These little cakes can even be displayed on a multilayered framework (a “cupcake tower”) in place of a traditional wedding cake.

The name “cupcake” first appeared in an American cookery book published in 1796. They were so named because they were baked in individual pottery cups, ramekins or moulds, the size of a small teacup. Their popularity was revived in the 2000s thanks to the US TV series “Sex and the City”, when lead characters Carrie and Miranda scoffed cupcakes from New York’s famous Magnolia Bakery as they discussed their love lives. The craze is still going strong today, with UK artisan bakeries getting in on the act, using ever more exotic ingredients and themes to tempt us.

These days you can buy special tin moulds for cupcakes and it’s possible to experiment with a huge range of recipes, from the ordinary (Raspberry Swirl Cupcakes) to the bizarre (Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting). Try them out on family and friends, or if you’re feeling ambitious

you can even enter the National Cupcake Championships. You can view the entry guidelines at www. nationalcupcakeweek.co.uk but hurry, as the deadline for entries is 15th August.

Although many people enjoy pottering alone in the kitchen, trying out new recipes and finding original ways to decorate their cakes, The Great British Bake Off seems to have inspired a real enthusiasm for communal baking, whether that’s about learning together or indulging in friendly competition.

It’s understandable to want to share your baking triumphs – and disasters – with someone else, and participating in a group can encourage you to try out different techniques and develop new skills.

You can look up cake decorating courses in your local area by going to www.cakedecoratingcourses. co.uk or alternatively visit your

local library to find out if they hold a list. If you fancy getting away from it all in order to really focus on your art, then there are a number of cake decorating short breaks and holidays available, with one day courses costing from around £100 (not including accommodation).

If you want a real holiday experience you could sign up for a cake-making course in France, with accommodation and meals included for £649 per person. See www.frenchcakebreaks.com for more details.

For those who simply don’t have the money to spend on courses (having already laid out a small fortune on gourmet sprinkles), there are a number of tutorials on YouTube (www.youtube.com) that will teach you everything you need to know, from creating a basic cake mixture to advanced piping techniques.

If you don’t enjoy learning alone, you can always invite a friend around to experiment with you, or get together with neighbours to create your own version of the Great British Bake Off. One thing’s for certain: there’ll be no lack of volunteers to help when it comes to tasting the results!

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If you can’t get away this year, how about creating your own Mediterranean hotspot in your garden? Even if you do manage to escape to the sun for a week or two this year, you’ll still have the rest of the summer at home and a little slice of Italy, France or Greece outside your back door will bring happy memories flooding back.

The first thing to do is to choose the sunniest spot available – it’ll not only make sitting out there more enjoyable, but will also mean that you can install some serious sun-loving plants too.

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Mediterranean gardens often make full use of the walls and any other vertical surfaces, so put up hanging baskets, pots and wall baskets and cram them full of plants.

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Sunny Summer Days... Or Not

By Ted Bruning

Ahhh, it’s sunny July at last; the sky is blue; the air is warm and your neighbourhood smells delightfully of sun-tan lotion and barbecue.

Of course, being British, we understand that our summers are never a glorious succession of hot dry days and long evenings of tennis and Pimms. Indeed, it has even been known to rain sometimes. But let’s forget about the weather for a moment and focus on the climate – the difference being that the weather is what actually happens to you, while the climate is what weather becomes when people start analyzing it.

The other difference is that climate is almost predictable but weather most certainly isn’t. The wedding planners, barbecue chefs, church fête organisers etcetera want to know when is the best time for the wedding/barbecue/fête/day-trip or whatever? But the best answer is – and it’s a truly British answer, this – none of them. And any of them.

So let’s narrow it down. Which is usually the least rainy month of summer?

It has to be July, surely.

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Wrong! July is usually the wettest, actually, with an average of 101mm over the five years 200812. Then – another big surprise – was August with 91.6mm, then September with 77.1mm, and taking gold by a healthy margin, was June with only 50.5mm.

Mind you, June 2012 was also the rainiest month of all five summers in the sample with a squelching 157.8mm, and the two biggest rain-induced flash floods in living in memory weren’t in July but August – Lynmouth in 1952 and Boscastle in 2004. This, of course, being the difference between weather and climate.

All right then, which is the sunniest, i.e. which has the best average of sunny hours per day (which we shall call SHPD for the sake of brevity)? This one has to be July, right? Uh-uh. The 10year average for July is 6 SHPD, better than August at 5.5 SHPD and September (when of course the days are shorter anyway) at only 5 SHPD; but the winner is once again June with 6.9 SHPD. Still, July 2013 racked up an average of 8.2 SHPD, which is a record in recent years.

July is, at least, the warmest month of summer, with average temperatures ranging from 13.723.4C over the past 20 years; but only just. August has been a close challenger, with an average

low just edging ahead of July’s at 13.8C but an average high just missing at 23.1C; so not much in it there. June and September, though, fall woefully short with ranges of 11.8-21C and 11.420C – it’s almost as if they aren’t even trying.

All this, of course, depends on where you are. The further north you go the colder it gets, right? Well, yes; but not directly because you’re north – England has vineyards at the same latitude that Canada has polar bears. The skies above us are a battleground where four sets of weather fight for supremacy: Western Scotland gets its from the Maritime Polar region (cold and wet); Eastern Scotland and the North of England get theirs from the Continental Polar (cold and dry); Wales and the West Country are at the mercy of the Maritime Tropical (warm and wet); and East Anglia and the South of England bask in the Continental Tropical (warm and dry). Hence the hottest day on record was 10th August 2003 in Faversham, Kent (38.5C), while the coldest was 30th December 1995 at Altnaharran, Sutherland (-27.2C).

Well, that’s me decided, then.

This year’s barbecues will be in Faversham. Which is handy, because that’s where my Mum lives.

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SPERANZO CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT 26 July, 7:30pm St. John’s Church, Locks Heath SO31 6LW A celebration of English Chamber Music York Bowen flute sonata, Williams cello sonata, Elgar violin sonata. Free entry with retiring donations.

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WORKING, WAITING & WEEPING 6 to 30 Aug, 11am to 4pm Bursledon Brickworks, Swanwick SO31 7HB Remembering the start of the Great War. What was it like not being allowed to join up ... or waiting behind to get that telegram ... or being a woman at work? Based on local memories an intriguing peep into what was happening in the Swanwick area in 1914. www. bursledonbrickworks.org.uk EASTLEIGH FUN DAYS 8,15, 22 & 29 Aug, 11am to 3pm Eastleigh Town Centre SO50 9DF Face painting, to free children’s craft activities, bouncy castle, free climbing wall (15th, 22nd & 29th Aug) and the popular farm returns each week. Bring your child’s bike along for a free health check. Many activities free of charge. www. eastleightc.co.uk FORT BROCKHURST – OPEN DAY 9 Aug, 11am to 3pm Gunners Way, Gosport PO12 4DS Explore this vast Victorian fort and learn its military/social history.

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