Innholdsfortegnelse for 24-may-16 i Woman's Weekly

Those magical (and magically funny) moments when someone says something memorable My six-year-old daughter, Alice, has never been afraid of a challenge. Alice: ‘Daddy, what’s the tallest number in the world?’ Me: ‘Infinity. It’s so big you can’t count to it.’ Alice: ‘… I can.’ David Johnson, Sheffield Kids say the funniest things. A few months ago, I showed my three-year-old daughter, Libby, a photograph of my teenage self. Me: ‘Libby, do you know who that is?’ Libby (gasps): ‘It’s me when I’m bigger!’ Jane Edwards, Devon • Thanks for sharing your stories, David and Jane. We’d love to hear more, so do get in touch with your favourite family moments…

Rare Designs The bottom line with furniture is that it performs its function. But a little bit of invention never goes amiss. Take the mahogany wine table pictured here. Dating from the George III period (circa 1770), tables of this type often have the hinged, folding top (circular, square or rectangular) and an attractive stem (turned or carved in some way) with either three or four legs. The fact that this one has six is quite special. Tables like this are characteristically unstable, but this table’s six legs instantly improve its stability. Strange, really, that the idea didn’t catch on. Perhaps it’s because, if you look hard enough at all of the legs, you might think they’re about to crawl away like a spider! Good furniture design depends on a…

Amanda Sargent, 57 Tell us about your look… I like to look sophisticated and I love shopping for clothes – I go at least once a week. I wear anything and everything, and I don’t have a specific style I stick to. Today I’m wearing a Zara jacket, Jaeger top, Harvey Nichols culottes, and shoes from Hobbs. If I had to pick a favourite shop, it would be Zara. The stock changes constantly, so you can always find something new, and the quality is good for the price. And the best bit of your body? My eyes. You Wore It Well Joan Andrews (right) and friend Shirley Dunne, 1950s ‘This photo of my friend Shirley and I was taken at Pontins holiday camp in Jersey. We went into St Helier,…

I love meeting people. New ones, young ones, old ones; men, women, teenagers, neighbours, colleagues, people at events. Everyone’s got a story to tell, everyone’s a new book, issued free by the library of life. The only problem is when you meet a new, or newish, person again even two days later and the mind goes blank. Who’s this saying hello? I know him/her, but I can’t work out how. A desperate search for clues. Was it at that Women’s Day event? An interview? At my sister-in-law’s? The surgery? Actually, in my case it isn’t really the mind, more like the eye going wrong. Because the moment it clicks I remember everything about that person and our conversation. It’s the face that baffles me. There is a condition, affecting one…

Portuguese-Style Chicken 1 Slash chicken thighs several times. Place in a shallow dish and sprinkle over the peri-peri salt. 2 Add the oregano, garlic and olive oil. Secure each chicken thigh into a neat shape with a couple of cocktail sticks or small bamboo sticks. 3 Pour over the peri-peri marinade. Cover, chill and marinate for a couple of hours, to give a good flavour. 4 Cook over a hot grill for 20 mins, turning as needed, until the chicken begins to char and the juices run clear when a sharp knife is inserted. FELICITY’S TIP Buy a large disposable BBQ – it gives the food a lovely smokey flavour with none of the hard work at the end as you just throw…

• Easy-peasy • A Bit More Tricky • Hard–ish • Quite A Challenge YOU WILL NEED • Wooden utensils • Masking tape • Eggshell paint • Paintbrush • Crafter’s varnish 1 Mark off your stripes on the handles using masking tape, then paint the stripes using your choice of colours, letting each coat dry before you apply a second coat. 2 Carefully remove the tape just before the second coat is fully dry, as this helps to avoid cracking. Leave to dry and apply a coat of varnish to finish. Emily’s Tip Never paint the parts of utensils that come into contact with food…

Many people are unaware they have a condition called cardiomyopathy, that affects more than one in 500 of us. It can cause sudden death at any age, and is a leading cause of death in people under the age of 35, but treatment can lead to a normal life expectancy. Cardiomyopathy means damage to the heart’s muscular walls, which may become stretched, thickened, flabby or stiff, so the heart becomes less effective at pumping blood out to the body or lungs. The larger chambers (ventricles) are usually most severely affected. What goes wrong? In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), heart muscles become thickened, jumbled and scarred. It’s a genetic condition, with a 50% chance of passing it on to your children – broadcaster David Frost’s son, Miles, died of undiagnosed HCM at…

Because we’re always mindful of making sure your magazine is looking its best and filled with content that is as useful and inspiring as it is entertaining and enjoyable, we’re delighted to present you with our new, refreshed look. We’ve given the cover and the design inside a spruce up and, thanks to input from the marvellously honest readers in the research groups we ran, there’s a new travel feature for you to enjoy (page 53), new stars (in their new home on page 7) and extra reader content on the opening spread (pages 4-5), as well as more specialists on our Expert Q&A page (p55), who you’ll be hearing from in the coming weeks. The other new element in this issue is something we at WW HQ feel very…

Reader June Eames, from Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire, fell in love with our owl pattern, which was featured in WW over three years ago. She has since stitched over 150 of the quirky little birds using recycled material from charity shops. By selling them at fairs, she has raised over £1,250 for a greyhound rescue centre that is close to her heart, having adopted her greyhound, Millie, a few years ago. June keeps a row of her colourful owls in her front window, to help guests identify which is her house. • Have you made something gorgeous? Well, don’t be shy – we want to see it!…

48% of menopausal women don’t consult a healthcare professional about their symptoms, despite the fact that they have an average of six different symptoms. 51% of women say their menopause symptoms affect their home life, 46% their sex life, 38% social life, and 37% work life. Hot flushes affect four out of five of those experiencing symptoms, with 68% having night sweats. More online Find more health info at womansweekly.com/ health • Source: Ipsos MORI poll for the British Menopause Society…

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With sunshine and summer holidays just around the corner, now is the time to re-energise yourself so you can start the new season feeling good and looking great. However you’re planning to shape up – whether it’s with Pilates classes, jogging, cycling, or exercising at the gym – you won’t want to be anxious about bladder weakness, which affects up to half of the women in the UK.* It really is just one of those things – and fortunately help is at hand. Full confidence It’s now easier than ever to feel completely confident and secure with the new thinner TENA Lady Pants Discreet. The upgraded products are TENA Lady’s most underwear-like pants ever. They have an improved fit and a thin, cotton-soft fabric that is smooth and breathable and…

Emma Irving, Product Manager at Tor Coatings says: • If colours are fading or old paintwork has started to flake and peel away, try Rust-Oleum’s Universal Spray Paint, £13.99 for 400ml. It acts as a primer and paint in one, so can be applied to wood, metal and plastic with minimal prep. • Spray paint is perfect for rattan furniture, as it covers all of those hard-to-reach spots that a brush would struggle to access. •To avoid the natural greying process, go for a woodstain with a UV-stable pigment to make it last longer. Try Johnstone’s Quick Drying Woodstain, £8.30 for 750ml.…

Easy-peasy A Bit More Tricky Hard–ish Quite A Challenge Back and front (both alike) With 4mm needles, cast on 106 (122) (138) (154) sts. 1st rib row: P2, [k2, p2] to end. 2nd rib row: P4, [k2, p2] to last 6 sts, k2, p4. Repeat last 2 rows, 5 times more, then work 1st rib row again. Increase row: P4, up1, p2, up1, rib 42 (50) (58) (66), [up1, p2] twice, k2, [p2, up1] twice, rib 42 (50) (58) (66), up1, p2, up1, p4 – 114 (130) (146) (162) sts. 1st row: P2, k8, p2, for dmst k2, [p2, k2] 8 (10) (12) (14) times, p2, [k8, p2] twice, for dmst k2, [p2, k2] 8 (10) (12) (14) times, p2, k8, p2. 2nd row: P14, k2, [p2, k2] 7 (9)…

Fill baskets, window boxes and containers with colour all summer long with these fantastic-value hanging-basket plant collections. Each collection is packed full of colourful container and basket plants, including favourites such as begonias, petunias, geraniums and fuchsias. To enable us to offer these collections at such low prices, we can’t guarantee which varieties you’ll get, but each collection will be carefully selected to ensure you’re not disappointed. All plants will be named upon arrival. Height and spread: 30cm (12in). Buy 15 for only £9.99 (RRP £18.15) Buy 30 and for £14.99 (RRP £36.30) WW Gardening Magazine Editor Geoffrey Palmer’s Tip ‘Create an effortless display using our light and durable hanging baskets measuring 37.5cm in diameter. Then increase your flower power by up to 400% with Incredibloom fertiliser. See…

Keep On Running? US researchers say intensive exercise not only improves cardiovascular fitness but can stave off cognitive decline (deterioration in memory and thinking skills) for up to 10 years in people in their mid-sixties. But if you haven’t done vigorous exercise for some time, or have medical problems, I’d recommend checking with your GP first, plus building up gradually and slowing down or stopping if your body tells you it’s struggling. True Or False? Eating in front of a mirror reduces how much we eat and makes unhealthy food seem less tasty. True, according to US researchers, who say we feel uncomfortable when we actually watch ourselves eat something unhealthy or eat too much. Hot Flushes & Breast Cancer Adding acupuncture to ‘enhanced self-care’ can improve hot flushes and…

Perhaps your husband is being a bit obsessive Q My husband decided a few months ago that he was overweight and resolved to get fitter. He probably needed to lose a few pounds but he now seems too thin to me. He goes to the gym four or five times a week and has joined a cycling club and spends most of Saturday with them and a walking group on Sundays. He says he just wants to be fit and healthy but I’m worried about him. It’s also a bit lonely as he’s never here. Joanna, Leeds A It sounds like your husband may have become a bit obsessive about his fitness routine. I expect there’s an underlying anxiety possibly about ageing or illness that is driving this activity. It’s…

Our Experts • Appliances • Internet • Digital • Animals • Finance/ consumer • Legal Q How can I connect with other readers online? Reading is such a great pleasure, it’s natural to want to share the joy with other like minds; and, of course, the internet provides endless opportunities to do just that. Whether you want to get recommendations or debate the merits of your favourites, you can connect with lots of other bookworms in just a few clicks. First off, why not look up your local bookshop online? Its site is likely to have information about book clubs and other events you can attend (one of mine is the lovely Big Green Bookshop at biggreenbookshop.com). Then there’s Goodreads (goodreads.com), where you can share your own reviews and join…

Like the sun, I wouldn’t advise staring directly at Mrs Beasley Mrs Beasley, the manager of our charity shop, doesn’t seem very happy this morning. There would be no difficulty in distinguishing her from a ray of sunshine, should the need arise, even if you’d left your distinguishing spectacles on the bus. By the way, please remember that you should never stare directly at rays of sunshine, even when attempting to distinguish them from charity-shop managers. And, in her current mood, I wouldn’t advise staring directly at Mrs Beasley either. The correct procedure is to offer her a mug of coffee and ask: ‘Is everything all right?’ She will then fix you with an icy stare, take a sip of coffee, sigh deeply and say: ‘It’s not really working, is…

‘You have to seize the moment when it arises’ • Maggie O’Farrell is a Sunday Times bestseller and Costa Novel Award-winning writer from Northern Ireland. She is married to the novelist, William Sutcliffe. How do you take your tea? No milk, no sugar, no caffeine. Does that still count as tea? Who would you most like to have a cup of tea with? Aphra Behn, the Restoration writer, adventurer and spy, because she’d have some excellent stories. Also, I could tell her that I called my daughter after her. What inspired your new novel, This Must Be The Place ? The idea for a novel about a recluse had been lurking in my mind for a while: I had the character of Claudette, the actress who fakes her own…

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Some people can handle illness, while others run for the hills Jill, being left-handed, had always struggled using scissors. She’d fought to write neatly, too, since left-handers can smudge the ink of their own words. It shouldn’t come as any surprise, then, that it was her left breast that had caused her the most grief in life. The one she’d lost. ‘Only I didn’t lose it down the back of the sofa,’ she thought, as Tom sat back on the grass and heaved a contented sigh. Their platonic friendship hadn’t gone as deep as such personal confessions. Then again, she’d refused to confess to far less serious matters as well. She hunched her sore, stiffened shoulders caused by the rucksack she’d shrugged off minutes earlier, then flexed her aching foot.…

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He watches a lot of cop shows. He’s good at working out whodunnit Please!” I gasp, holding aloft my swollen thumb at A&E reception. “I’ve taken a painkiller, but it’s really throbbing!” The receptionist, unfazed, glances at my swollen digit. “It’s at overripe banana stage. Couple of stages to go before it turns black and drops off.” “How comforting!” “Please take a seat after you’ve filled out this form to recount details of the injury.” I take a deep breath instead, scrabbling for the form with my left, non-dexterous hand. Actually, I’ve taken two painkillers – industrial strength – and I’m feeling light-headed. “Well,” I say, peering at the form, “it all started when I was writing my profile for an online dating site. I’d been thinking about going online…

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Where I went Reykjavik, Iceland’s coastal capital. It’s home to around 122,000 Icelanders, about a third of the country’s population and is also the northernmost capital of a sovereign state in the world. The city was founded by Ingólfur Arnarson, a Norwegian fugitive who became the first official Icelander in AD 871. He named the city after the Icelandic for ‘Smoky Bay’ due to geothermal springs in the area. What I did My other half and I landed at Keflavik Airport on a weekend evening so, after boarding a bus to the capital and checking in at our hotel, our first mission was heading to the main shopping and bar street of Laugavegur for a few drinks. In particular, we loved sampling Brennivín, a traditional Icelandic schnapps. The next day…