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Welcome Hi everyone, Happy New Year!

I do hope you had a wonderful Christmas, it came and went in a flash, didn’t it! I eased myself back into work on New Year’s Day, I thought I’d tackle my email and get one step ahead. I was pleasantly surprised, it was much easier than I’d thought it would be, but two days later I discovered why. There was a hidden email problem that had the effect of delivering all the junk but holding back the genuine business email. It was soon resolved, thanks to my clever husband, but I was then days behind and had to catch up fast. So much for my good intentions!

Don’t forget it’s Valentine’s Day this month!

Time to focus romantically on that very special someone in your life, or maybe even someone you hope will become a special part of your life! I have my plans in place but there’s a story attached... Just before Christmas I popped into Eastwell Manor to buy a couple of gift

vouchers as Christmas gifts. As the transaction was coming to a close I was aware that another member of their staff had arrived at the desk and was waiting. She then went on to announce that I was the lucky winner of a Golden Gift Card worth £1,000 to spend at Eastwell Manor.

An attractive box was placed in my hands and my photo taken, I was stunned! I’ve never won anything in my life, I returned to my husband, waiting outside, beaming from ear to ear. I couldn’t quite believe what had just happened, neither could my husband, it was wonderful. So Eastwell Manor will be seeing a lot of me for a while, thank you Eastwell Manor!

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Clubs & Societies FJ Dance Academy Ballet, Body conditioning, Dance and Movement for ages 3 years to adults.RAD Syllabus work, OFQUAL regulated and recognised by European Qualifications Framework at St Nicholas CE Primary Academy, TN28 8PB. Outreach classes also available by special arrangement. Contact Francine D’Souza Tel: 07984 970 262 or E: fjdanceacademy@ outlook.com Canine First Aid Qualified Fun and friendly American Squares. Enjoy this intriguing form of social dance in a relaxed and t: 07921 589077 e: redrufus2@hotmail.co.uk welcoming atmosphere. No prior knowledge or partner necessary. We meet most Thursdays at 7.30 www.redrufuspetportraits.com pm in Brenzett Village Hall. New Dancers always welcome but please check first that we are meeting Getting The Job Done before you come. Contact Geoff on 01797 222551 or No Matter How Big email sqdance@talktalk.net or Small Lydd Karate Club. Skinner Road, Lydd. Beginners www.kingspmkent.co.uk to black belts. 5+. Training times Wed 6.30 till • Handyman Services • Patios 8pm....7.30 till 9pm Friday’s 6.30 till 9pm......7.30 till • Decking/Pergolas • Kitchens 9pm Contact. Sensei Chris 5th Dan 07802 546 867.

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Cost £5 per week. For further details contact ANDREW and DEBBY on 01303 875542 The Hythe & Romney Marsh Branch of the R.A.F Association, meets on the second Thursday of each month at the Royal British Legion Club, St. Leonard’s Road, Hythe, 7 for 7:30. You don’t have to have been in the Royal Air Force to join us. More Info phone 01797 362303.

Keep Fit Have Fun Move to Music St, Mary’s Bay Village Hall, Jefferstone Lane. Thursday 10.15 11.15am. First class free then £4. Phone 01303 Free 264915 E-mail chrisjeffery2711@outlook.com Surveys The New Romney History Society meets at the Old School in New Romney, 4th Monday of the month, (except Aug and Dec), most meetings involve a guest speaker and time for discussion and research.

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Village Hall (opp. the Bailiff’s Sergeant pub). Anyone interested in all aspects of photography (including smartphones, point-and-shoot, 3D photography and image manipulation in computer software) is very welcome. Contact Paul Sanderson on 01797 458646, smbcc@onetel.com or visit the website at: romneymarshphotographicclub.co.uk Ivychurch Croquet Club - We are a small group of ladies and gentlemen who generally meet on Mondays and Wednesdays during the playing season to enjoy a game of either GOLF or ASSOCIATION Croquet. We are based on a farm where we have a small clubhouse and three lawns which are maintained by our members.

Our new season will be starting in April so if you would like to find out more about the game or give it a try by coming to play, (experience is not necessary) you will find we are a friendly bunch.

If you are interested please contact Ken Lennon on 01797 361052 or by email at lennonken@hotmail. com.

St Marys Bay Short Mat Bowls Club Plays at the Village Hall Jefferstone Lane Sunday Mornings 10:30/13:00. Tuesdays Afternoons 2:00/5:00 and Wednesday Evenings 7:00pm/9:00pm.

New Romney Bowls Club Come on out, the greens are great! Full Facilities available from coaching to playing to suit any level. Bar and social programme throughout the year. We have a regular Open Mic on the first Wednesday of the month. Enjoyable night out for all. Club contact 01797 362409 or www. newromneybowlsclub.co.uk Tai Chi For Health Monday Appledore Village Hall.

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Home & Interiors Small Space? No Problem!

By Katherine Sorrell the ceiling, adding some vital extra storage space? You just need to remember to plan for somewhere to store a ladder or step stool, too.

5. Get clever with colour. While pale colours appear to recede, and thus increase the sense of space, darker colours absorb light and therefore appear more enclosing. So, for a bright, airy, open look, opt for a unified, pale colour scheme. Paint built-in storage and radiators the same colour as the walls to make them disappear.

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Small may be beautiful, but living in a small space is not always easy. Our tips will help you make the most of every room, no matter what its size.

1. Are you making the most of every centimetre of your space? The best way to tell is by drawing a scale plan and checking for areas that could be improved. Ask yourself whether relatively simple changes such as repositioning a radiator, re-hanging a door or simply moving the furniture could make a big difference.

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2. Storage is vital. In fact, it is often the case that losing a little floor area to create built-in storage will actually make the room seem more streamlined and therefore larger. Think bookshelves and cupboards in the living room, wall-to-wall wardrobes in the

bedroom, floor-to-ceiling shelving in the study and a tall coat cupboard in the hall.

Add storage into any ‘dead’ space you can, whether it’s in chimney alcoves, around a bed head or above a doorway.

Wall racks and hooks on the backs of doors are invaluable.

3. Whatever storage you buy or build, don’t forget to design their interiors to make them incredibly functional. Adding internal drawers, shelves, baskets, hooks and so on will enable every bit of space to be put to good use.

4. Aim high. In a child’s bedroom, for example, a high-sleeper bed can include a desk, sofa or play area beneath. Why stop at the normal height when bookcases, kitchen cupboards and wardrobes can all be built right up to

6. Use mirror and glass to open up a room. Think about light sources – whether sunlight through windows or light fittings – and place mirrors so that they bounce the light around. And choose glass or acrylic when possible for furnishings or accessories so as to create that barely-there look.

7. While it is not always necessary to opt for smallscale pieces, select furniture carefully, avoiding deep, squishy upholstery, fussy details and bulky outlines.

Simple, lightweight styles have the least impact in a small space, and anything raised on slender legs will make the room seem larger (because there is more visible floor area). When appropriate, look out for compact, folding, wheeled, extending, dualpurpose or wall-mounted furniture, each of which can

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The only condition is that it must be comfortable, fulfil its function and suit your overall style.

8. Decide on one design style and make sure it is cohesive throughout. Employing complementary (pale) colours, interesting natural textures and subtle patterns will generate a sense of harmony and understated visual appeal.

9. If you are working on a renovation, then larger-scale alterations may be achievable, even if you cannot enlarge your square footage. Consider replacing bulky radiators with underfloor heating, going open plan, enlarging windows, replacing doors or

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At Track Accountancy Ltd, our aim is to help you focus on important business decisions, by simplifying compliance and proactively interacting with you on day to day finance matters.

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Kent Food Trails for Everyone On a beautiful sunny day in early November I was invited to experience the newly launched Kent Food Trails – www.kentfoodtrails.co.uk - by visiting some of the best food and drinks producers that Kent has to offer.

To keep travel to a minimum we were taken to several stops around the picturesque town of Tenterden, which gleamed in the sunshine like a jewel in Kent’s ‘Garden of England’ crown.

The first stop was Chapel Down, one of Kent’s biggest success stories since its planting in 1977

by Master of Wine Stephen Skelton. The setup of the tour and tasting was slick, on a par with the Champagne House tours one experiences in Epernay, the major difference being the price – rather than c. 40 euro per head – Chapel Down charges a very friendly £15 per head and includes a wine tasting.

Next stop we were taken into the centre of the town and across the quaint Kent and East Sussex railway line to The Old Dairy Brewery where the beer names - acknowledging the brewery’s

We also met with Sam from Nightingale Ciders who told us how his family farm had started out selling fruit by the side of the road with an honesty box and how it has grown into a farm shop and range of cider and juices. All are available from the Nightingale Farm Shop on the Appledore Road.

The lunch stop at Chegworth Café on the high street was a feast of charcuterie and cheese supplied by another Produced in Kent member, Curd and Cure. There we tasted Kentish Blue, Shaggy Beard, Winterdale Shaw, Ashmore Smoked and Bowyer’s Brie as well as Kentish chorizo from Moons Green. A beautifully salty olive bread made by Plaxtol Bakery and all the tomatoes, leaves and piccalilli came from Chegworth Valley Farm.

We wound the tour up at Silcock’s Organic Farmshop and excellent café where we tasted some excellent cheese and ice cream made on the premises by Hannah using milk from their own herd.

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fruiting raspberries, and if you choose a variety like ‘Fallgold’ you can even have yellow fruits.

Gardening Remarkable Raspberries Succulent, tangy, sweet, flavoursome and a lot better than any you can buy in the shops! I adore home-grown raspberries and if you are going to grow soft fruit then I would recommend them above everything else for value and reliability. Despite what you may imagine they are not a difficult crop to grow, and when you consider the price of a miniature (and often rather mushy) punnet of them in the shops, they’re really good value for money too. The rather unexciting looking canes, best bought bare root, are available now, so here are my top tips for planting and growing great raspberries.

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bulky organic matter such as garden compost, well-rotted manure, composted bark and composted bracken will all help.

Autumn fruiting raspberries will crop until the first frosts There are two main types of raspberry you can grow at home: the summer-fruiting ones that crop heavily in midsummer and the autumn fruiters that start cropping towards the end of summer and often produce plenty of gorgeous fruits right through until the first frosts. If you can spare the space, have a few of each – that way you can enjoy the longest possible period of raspberry-eating! There are several different varieties of both summer and autumn-

If your soil is really rather heavy and wet, and if it is alkaline or chalky, you may find that summer raspberries struggle. If this is the case, do as I do on my heavily alkaline, sticky clay soil and grow autumn fruiters, as they seem to put up with adverse conditions like this really well.

Choose a sunny, sheltered spot and make sure that you weed the area thoroughly before you get started, as the raspberry canes will do much better without weeds competing for moisture and nutrients. If your garden is very hot and sunny in the summer then the raspberries will enjoy a little light shade from a nearby tree; otherwise, they like sunshine.

Summer-fruiting raspberries need a support system – sturdy posts at a spacing of about 1.8m (6ft) and galvanized wires at a spacing of about 30cm (12in) will do the trick, as you need to loosely tie the canes in to this support system. Autumnfruiting raspberries do not need this sort of support, but you can tie them in if you wish, or – as the canes are inclined to flop downwards when full-sized – simply supply a few wires to keep them away from the soil.

The canes are available now from mail order suppliers and from many garden centres

The Garden too. They may look like a rather unimpressive bundle of sticks, but in this ‘dormant’ state they respond well to planting right now. The canes need to be spaced 40-45cm (15-17in) apart, and if you want more than one row allow about 2m (6ft 6in) between them.

Dig in plenty of well-rotted manure for extra soil fertility and then plant each cane at a depth of 5-8cm (2-3in), making sure that you spread the roots out well so they establish better. Once you have firmed the canes in, cut each one back to about 25cm (10in) above ground level and, if the ground is at all dry, water in well to re-settle the soil.

Once the weather warms up in the spring you will start to see growth on the canes as the buds come to life, but until then they’ll remain looking worryingly like a row of seemingly dead sticks!

Summer-fruiting raspberries fruit on the previous year’s growth, so plant now for only the tiniest crop in 2019 and a far bigger one from 2020 onwards. Autumn fruiters produce their crop on the growth produced that same year, so you should get a decent crop this autumn and an even heavier one from 2020.

To keep your raspberries in top condition, mulch each spring with well-rotted manure.

As soon as the summer-fruiting varieties have finished cropping, cut the canes that bore the fruit back to ground level and the newly formed canes can then be tied in to the wires ready for next year. With autumn-fruiting raspberries, just cut back the old canes at the end of winter and the new canes will appear in spring.

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T h e Fo l k e s t o n e J a z z C l u b At T h e To we r To B o o k C a l l : 0 1 3 0 3 2 7 7 1 7 5 All gigs start at 8pm ~ All gigs £12 admission Seat Bookings: 01303 277175 Email: twinklewood49@gmail.com Website: www.towertheatrefolkestone.co.uk Feb 7th Alan Barnes Quartet Feb 14th Julian Marc Stringle / Steve Waterman Sextet ..

Feb 21st Rob Barron Quintet..

Feb 28th Peggy, Duke & Benny with Pete Long & Georgina Jackson March 7th Craig Milverton Quintet March12th Theo Travis Quartet March 21st Sara Dowling Quartet March 28th Jazz ‘n Jolson April 4th The Clark Tracey Sextet April 11th HEXAGONAL April 18th The Derek Nash Band April 25th Gordon Campbell, Chris Dean Quintet April 30th Roger Beaujolais Quartet May 7th Jim Mullen Trio & Dave Lewis May 16th Mick Foster ( Mulligan ) Sextet T h e Fo l k e s t o n e J a z z C l u b i s a n o n p r o f i t m a k i n g j a z z c l u b. R u n b y & fo r p e o p l e w i t h a l i k e m i n d e d i n t e re s t i n OUR KIND OF MUSIC D e r i c k Wo o d l a n d 0 1 3 0 3 2 6 0 3 3 0

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Fe b r u a r y February 4th Biddenden Neighbourhood Watch is to hold a surgery in The Post Office Biddenden from 10am Monday for approximately 1hr. The purpose is to make contact with residents who may have concerns about crime in the village or surrounding area. If you have any issues which you wish to discuss please come along and speak to Adrian Lidgett, who is also one of our Parish Councillors, you can also sign up to receive email notifications about crime trends in the area and precautions that can be taken. The more members we have the better we will be able to help each other in the community to prevent and discourage crime. Please come along and support this initiative or just to say hello and introduce yourself. NHW can be contacted on 01580291931 February 4th Woodchurch Local History Society meets on the first Monday of the month at the Memorial Hall, Woodchurch at 7:30pm. On Monday 4th February the society meets for its AGM which will be followed by a short talk by Val Smith who will tell us about the Woodchurch Players (our local amateur dramatic society). Membership of the society costs £10 per year and visitors are welcome, paying £2 at the door. For information ring Geoff at 01233 860393.

February 6th Shadoxhurst Flower Club will be holding a demonstration at Shadoxhurst Village Hall at 7.30pm

by Billy Esler “A spring in our step”. Competition is first days of Spring. Flowers will be raffled at the end of the evening. Contact Mrs. Simm on 01233 732212 February 13th the Arts Society, Egerton meets on the second Wednesday of the month at the Millennium Hall, Egerton at 2pm for 2:30pm. We run a programme of monthly lectures and on February 13th we will hear a talk entitled ‘Anthony Gormley - a Body of Work’ by Rosalind Whyte BA, MA. Anthony Gormley is, of course, Britain’s foremost sculptor and Rosalind Whyte is a guide at the Tate Modern, Tate Britain and Greenwich.

Visitors pay £5 at the door and new members are always welcome. For information ring Geoff Turner, 01233 860393.

February 16th Green Hearts Day, Victory Hall, Hamstreet 10.30am - 2pm. Concerned about climate change and plastic? How can you help? Come and discover practical information and ideas about reducing and recycling locally. Non-plastic alternatives for sale, lots of ideas. Crafts for children all morning to create banners and costumes to use in a Parade around the Green at 1.15pm - prizes for different ages. Soup lunches available or bring your own. Organised by Orlestone WI Contact 01233 732720.

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February 17th Woodchurch Scouts will be holding a Quiz Night at The Bonny Cravat, Front Road, Woodchurch, Tn26 3QQ. Teams of 2-6 people, £2.50 per head. Grab some friends and turn up on the night, or just come along and we’ll aim to put you with a team. Monthly raffle (prize donations are always welcome)

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February 20th The Weald of Kent Computer Club meets at 7.30pm in the New Village Hall Biddenden. The subject will be ‘Discovering new features in Windows 10 with special focus on the Photos App’. Membership is £10 per year for 10 meetings but visitors are most welcome (£2 per meeting). Enquiries to secretary wkcc@yahoo. co.uk or visit the website or contact Adrian Lidgett (01580) 291931 February 21st New Romney Amateur Dramatics presenting Dick Whittington and His Cat at 7.30pm.

Extra dates are as follows: 7.30pm on Friday 22nd February, 3pm on Saturday 23rd February and 7.30pm on Saturday 23rd February.

February 27th The Biddenden Horticultural Society meets in the New Village Hall. Chris.

O’Donoghue, author and garden designer, is going to start our year with a talk entitled “Garden Design - Painting with Plants”. If you would like our events calendar for 2019 contact Lesley Lidgett on 01580 291931 or visit the website www. biddendenhorticulturalsociety.co.uk. Our usual fees for Village Hall meetings are Members £2, Non Members £3. Annual membership £5. New members always welcome

MUSIC & LYRICS STEPHEN SONDHEIM BOOK JAMES GOLDMAN Directed by Louisa Nelson Chambers

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Ma r c h March 4th Woodchurch Local History Society meets on the first Monday of the month at the Memorial Hall, Woodchurch at 7:30pm. On Monday 4th March we will hear a talk by Martin Lloyd entitled ‘Passports, Assassins, Traitors and Spies’.

Martin is a very experienced and entertaining speaker who often addresses NADFAS and Arts Society meetings. New members pay £10 per year whilst visitors, who are very welcome, pay £2 at the door. For more information ring Geoff at 01233 860393.

March 4th Biddenden Neighbourhood Watch advance notice of surgery in The Post Office Biddenden from 10am for approximately 1hr.

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1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month from 8.30pm Shaun and Gayna welcome you to the Shepherd & Crook, Burmarsh.

This charming pub has its own unique character and is a fascinating place to visit, and visit you must as the Shepherd & Crook is a hidden gem.

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What’s On March 6th Shadoxhurst Flower Club will be holding a demonstration at Shadoxhurst Village Hall at 7.30pm by Patricia Ellis “Out of the Box”.

Competition will be Box of Delights. Flowers will be raffled at the end of the evening. Contact Mrs. Simm on 01233 732212.

March 11th Hamstreet Bowling Club presents Travelling Trends Fashion Show in Aldington Village Hall, 7.00 for 7.30 start. Tickets £5.00 (includes refreshments) from Gwen 01303 872603.

An evening of fashion and fun. See, try on and buy this seasons fashion at greatly reduced prices.

March 13th the Arts Society, Egerton meets on the second Wednesday of the month at the Millennium Hall, Egerton at 2pm for 2:30pm. We run a programme of monthly lectures and on March 13th we will hear a presentation entitled ‘The Very Model of an English Entertainer - Gilbert and Sullivan and their Savoy Opera by Roger Askew. Whilst the topic is self-explanatory the speaker was a choral scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford and has combined a teaching career with professional singing. Visitors pay £5 at the door and new members are always welcome. For information ring Geoff Turner, 01233 860393.

March 21st Rich Rhythms African drumming (djembe) workshops from 2pm till 3pm, at Playden WI hall - TN31 7PL. Booking essential 07960 989246 or richrhythms@hotmail.com March 23rd Ashford Invicta Singers will be presenting a concert at 7.30pm for CARM which supports older people in rural areas including the Romney Marsh. It will be held in St Mildred’s Church, Tenterden. Tickets £10 from 01233 758122 or on the door.

April 19th Art Exhibition Ashford Airport Lydd.

19th 12 - 5pm, 20th & 21st 10 - 5pm, 22nd 10 - 4pm. Paintings framed and unframed, wood carvings, ceramics, cards and sundry items on sale created by local Artists. Free entry and car parking.

Commission on all sales will be donated to the Air Ambulance. Contact A Warden 01797 367734

MAGIC EVENING WITH ETIENNE PRADIER Another opportunity to see famous magician Etienne Pradier of The Magic Circle who will entertain us to an evening of tricks and surprises!

Tuesday 12 March 7pm AND 9pm at Wye Village Hall 10% off food at The Ticked Trout, on the night, for ticketholders

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PARENTING Ditching the 9-5: Flexible Working by Kate Duggan information for people who want to change their working hours.

See www.citizensadvice.org.uk.

Achieving a decent work-life balance can seem like the Holy Grail of parenting. But it doesn’t have to be…

DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT This may seem obvious (MORE TIME!), but it’s a good idea to set out exactly what it is you want to achieve, and what you’re prepared to do to get there. Do you want to pick the kids up from school more often, or have more time with your toddler during the day? Do you need more time off during the school holidays? Or do you just want to attend sports days, school plays and other activities without using your holiday allowance? How much of your salary can you afford to sacrifice?

MAKING YOUR CURRENT JOB WORK FOR YOU If you’re happy in your current job, could you reduce your hours? When you factor in childcare costs you might not be as out of pocket as you might expect. Or perhaps you could

work at home more often (saving time on the dreaded commute) or change the hours you work?

Starting work just 15 minutes earlier each day and cutting your lunch by 15 minutes might mean you could leave the office 2.5 hours earlier every Friday. If you want an extra day off, perhaps you could work longer hours but fewer days?

YOUR RIGHTS Most employees have the statutory right to make an application for flexible working and employers need a good reason to turn down such a request. ‘Flexible working’ covers everything from changing your hours to sharing your job with a colleague.

Parents are also entitled to take up to 18 weeks off work (up to four weeks a year) unpaid to look after their child, as long as they’ve been in the same job for at least one year.

LOOKING FOR A NEW JOB More and more employers are starting to wake up to the fact that happier employees usually leads to a better standard of work. You’ll find that a lot of job adverts now mention flexible working. According to the Office of National Statistics, more than 7 million people in the UK have some kind of flexible working arrangement with their employer.

If you’re struggling to find a suitable job and know someone in a similar position, could you apply for a job share together?

While it’s still not common place, job sharing is becoming more accepted by employers. The Civil Service, for example, states that it ‘positively promotes all forms of flexible working, including job sharing’ and offers guidance to managers on how to make it work.

There are several job search agencies and websites specialising in roles that allow flexible working, including job shares. Try www.capabilityjane. com, www.workingmums.co.uk and www.flexibleworks.co.uk.

COMING UP NEXT MONTH: Next month we’ll be looking at going self-employed: the highs and lows, and how to make it work for you and your family.

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Health & Lifestyle Are Ageing Lines a Good Thing? By Kate McClelland

Walk into certain Superdrug stores nowadays and you might come away with more than toothpaste, deodorant and bubble bath. Once you’ve filled your basket with all the usual health and beauty products, you can slip into a private room for a BOTOX® injection.

BOTOX® has been around as a cosmetic treatment since the early Nineties, when it was hailed as a miracle anti-aging procedure.

The procedure eases out ‘dynamic’ facial wrinkles (created by muscle contractions) by paralysing the muscle underlying the wrinkle, resulting in a smooth and more youthful appearance that can last up to four months.

BY PUBLIC DEMAND? Superdrug’s new ‘Skin Renew’ initiative, which brings anti-aging treatments to the high street, is part of a wider beauty marketing trend designed to persuade us that non-surgical cosmetic treatments such as BOTOX®, dermal fillers and chemical peels should be considered as part of a normal beauty routine. Caris Newson, Head of

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Superdrug’s Health and Wellbeing Services, insists that the firm is only “listening to what people are telling us they would like” following feedback from 10,000 customers, but the initiative has been criticised by the British Association of Aesthetic and Plastic Surgeons, who say that customers could suffer from skin infections or even permanent muscle paralysis if treatments are not administered correctly.

PREVENTATIVE MEASURES Controversially, Superdrug’s ‘Skin Renew’ service is available to customers over twenty-five, and this has led to accusations that the company is encouraging younger people to seek unnecessary treatment. Cost may be another factor that encourages consumers, old and young alike, to experiment with anti-aging treatments. Customers who would previously have expected to pay around £300 for BOTOX® injections at a beauty clinic can now book a Superdrug appointment from just £99.

While this may make non-surgical cosmetic treatments available to all (rather than just the rich and famous), it seems ironic that this high street roll-out has come at a time when many celebrities are resisting the pressure to stay young-looking for as long as possible.

CELEBRITIES SPEAK OUT Last year Marie Claire magazine asked a number of high-profile stars for their opinion about cosmetic treatments, and the results were surprising. Out of those in favour of BOTOX®, forty-five-year-old Broadchurch actor Olivia Colman admitted “I LOVED it” after having a course of injections, while plain-speaking film star Scarlett Johansson bluntly declared: “I don’t want to be an old hag!”

But a greater number of celebrities seemed to be against anti-aging treatments. Julia Roberts (star of movies such as ‘Pretty Woman’ and ‘Notting Hill’) has been a vocal opponent of cosmetic surgery in recent years.

She says: “Your face tells a story… and it shouldn’t be a story about your drive to the doctor’s office.”

Whether you love the fact that BOTOX®, chemical peels and fillers are becoming more affordable and easier to obtain, or you support Julia Roberts’ views on aging naturally, as our population steadily ages (we’ll see 8.6 million extra people aged 65 years and over in 50 years’ time) it’s likely that we’ll see more and more of our high street outlets promising to iron out our wrinkles and restore the glow of youth for less than £100.

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Books to get you talking The Silence of the Girls – Pat Barker The Silence of the Girls is a vivid retelling of Homer’s Iliad.

However, this time the focus is on the minor characters, namely the women taken as ‘spoils of war’. Queen Briseis is taken as a sex slave by Achilles when he destroys her city.

Through Briseis we hear of the other female slaves in the encampment – women who are forced to serve the men that killed their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons.

Roar – Cecelia Ahern Ahern’s latest book is a collection of satirical short stories. Each focuses on an unnamed female protagonist and is amost are a literal interpretation of a stereotype or saying. The trophy wife’s partner builds her a shelf to sit on, where she can be admired by his friends and family. The woman who feels invisible to society starts to slowly disappear. There are plenty of themes to digest and discuss and a lot of enjoyment to be had in each tale.

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Sunny Side Up – Susan Calman Comedian and Strictly star Susan Calman is on a mission to encourage ‘joy, kindness and community’ with her latest book. There are anecdotes from her own life and examples of random acts of kindness that have been shared by her fans.

Sunny Side Up is full of warmth, positivity and (of- course) plenty of humour.

Books that are perfect for discussing at your book club, dissecting over dinner and chatting about on social media.

This is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay From 100 hour weeks to moral conundrums and emergency operations, the life of a junior doctor is far from easy. Adam Kay reveals all through six years of diary entries. Surprisingly, This is Going to Hurt is an incredibly funny book, particularly the numerous footnotes explaining hospital lingo. However, Kay also gives us an insight into

the stark reality of life on the frontline of the NHS. Once Upon a River – Diane Setterfield A man stumbles into The Swan inn carrying the body of what appears to be a dead girl in his arms. A few hours later, the little girl stirs. But who is she? Part adult fairy tale, part folk tale, Once Upon a River celebrates the art of storytelling and weaves numerous stories into one rich tapestry. Thoroughly enjoyable.

Codename Villanelle – Luke Jennings If you loved the BBC’s Killing Eve, don’t miss the book it was based on. Villanelle is a coldblooded assassin, who you just can’t help but root for.

Eve is the woman tasked with stopping her. The storyline is quite different from that of the TV series and has less dark humour, but there’s still plenty of suspense to keep you reading.

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