Innholdsfortegnelse for 20-Jun-2017 i Woman's Weekly

Ant And Dec Before becoming award-winning TV presenters, Geordie duo Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly appeared in children’s TV drama Byker Grove and as pop act PJ & Duncan. They are always filmed with Ant on the left and Dec on the right. French And Saunders Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders were one of the most successful comedy acts of the past 30 years – but they didn’t like each other when they first met at drama school. Wood And Walters The comedy duo first worked together in 1978 in a play. Their TV shows included Wood & Walters and Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV. Victoria once said they were very different and that’s why they got on so well together. Morecambe And Wise Comedy partners for over 40…

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The explosion of colour in this quintessential cottage-style border is provided by old-fashioned favourites all growing in a glorious muddle. The easiest way to achieve this looser, more natural scheme is to pick a colour theme, start planting immediately, so that both annuals like cosmos, nigella, calendulas and cornflowers, and sturdier perennials, begin to mingle and jostle for attention. Squeeze into gaps that appear along the way matching and contrasting plants such as blowsy peonies or Papaver somnifera poppies with foxgloves, Veronica spicata and verbascums. Put them close together, ignoring standard spacing, and allow taller plants to flop over and weave through each other. Over time, self-seeding plants will pop up randomly in unexpected spots, adding to the effect. Petal-packed blooms, such as compact dahlias, will give that romantic feel,…

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Every week we get together as a team to discuss and plan the content of the next issue of the magazine. I take it as a pretty good sign that a feature will interest, inspire and/or inform you if it does the same for all of us. Because every issue is as packed as we can make it with thoroughly researched information, meticulously checked and tested patterns and recipes, painstakingly sourced stories and a hefty helping of entertainment and fun, I always hope you’ll find it as useful and enjoyable as we do ourselves. This week, for example, I have sent the feature on page 14 to someone who I know will qualify for at least one, if not more, of the benefits it explains and who isn’t claiming what…

Aries 21 Mar - 20 Apr The New Moon brings new beginnings around the home. Good time for cleaning, painting, and refreshing your surroundings. Taurus 21 Apr - 21 May Venus is still in your sign, so make the most of it by being proactive about business and finances. Gemini 22 May - 21 Jun Dreams will give you important messages for your direction. Keep a journal and a pen by your bed. Cancer 22 Jun - 23 Jul The New Moon in your sign brings you an opportunity for a fresh start. It’s a good time for a makeover. Leo 24 Jul - 23 Aug Are you taking time out to relax and enjoy the fruits of your labour? The planets are encouraging you to do so. Virgo 24…

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Fiction Editor, Gaynor We loved this gorgeously atmospheric story The moon was up, washing silver over the dewy grass and throwing the trees and bushes into silhouette. Megan could smell the scents of that summer night so long ago – honeysuckle and sage. The ruins of the ancient chapel brooded against the starry sky, the place they ran to for shelter when the rain began to fall. There would be no rain tonight, no dancing; nothing but the silence and the memories of a time never to be recaptured. The house was behind her, down the path framed with rhododendrons: a burnt-out shell now, its skeletal rafters still standing like ribs picked clean. Megan suddenly longed for the ghosts of the past to reappear. “Your cousins have moved into Lerwethen,”…

Jazz up your crockery in colours to suit your home with this simple, fun technique Craft & Home Editor, Esme Easy-peasy A Bit More Tricky Hard–ish Quite A Challenge Time to make: 5 hours (including drying time) TeSTed BY uS So it works For You You will need ★ White bowls ★ Porcelain painter pen in blue SToCKiSTS Färgrik bowls, 80p each, Ikea (020 3645 0015; ikea.co.uk); Marabu gentian porcelain painter pen 3-4mm, £3, Hobbycraft (0330 026 1400; hobbycraft. co.uk). 1 Prepare the bowls for painting by cleaning with hot, soapy water and allowing to dry. 2 Protect your surfaces by covering with old newspaper. Place the bowls rim down on the paper. Shake the pen and push on the nib to make the paint flow. 3 Using the photo…

Forget colouring books, the mindfulness trend is hitting horticulture, where it is called ‘attentive gardening’, and focuses on ‘finding one’s way to oneself via gardening and growing flowers, and especially ones that attract wildlife’. Stop weeds invading from your neighbour’s untidy garden by digging a trench along your boundary and lay a strip of thick black polythene 45cm wide vertically along it to prevent the creeping roots of bindweed and nettles sneaking into your borders. Dig up pieces from around the edge of overgrown clumps of herbaceous perennials so that you can expand your planting schemes and maybe do a few swaps with friends or make some extra cash by selling them at your garden gate. Waste Not Want Not…

Surgery News Less-Trouble Travel If you live in, or you are visiting, the capital, Transport for London is offering free ‘Please offer me a seat’ badges and cards to people who have ‘hidden’ disabilities, such as hip, knee or back arthritis, that make it harder to use public transport. Three quarters of people who used them during a trial period said it made their journeys easier and almost all said they’d recommend them. No medical evidence is needed, and you can apply at tfl.gov.uk/transportaccessibility/ please-offer-me-a-seat True Or False? Turning up the air conditioning could benefit people with type 2 diabetes. True, according to Dutch researchers who say acclimatising to colder temperatures can make them 40% more sensitive to their own insulin, and boost their metabolism, even without shivering. Keeping It…

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Don’t underestimate the impact of divorce Q I moved away from my hometown when I divorced as I couldn’t afford to buy a place there. I didn’t know many people here, so contacted one of my children’s friends who lives locally. I’ve got to know them well and help her out when she needs babysitting. My daughter’s furious and says I’m betraying her by doing this. I don’t want to upset her, but I also don’t want to lose my new friendship. Gillian, address withheld A I wonder what’s making your daughter feel betrayed. It sounds like quite a lot has been going on. You’ve divorced her father, moved away and befriended one of her friends. I expect she’s missing you and wishes it was her you were helping and…

I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from Peru, but it didn’t take long to become captivated. It was the ancient cultures that got me, the diversity of its people, the intricacy of its history, the strangely familiar architecture of its cities, shaped by years of Spanish rule and blended with the remnants of the great Inca Empire. Then there were the landscapes: the soaring, snowy peaks of the Andes, the streams and valleys of the lowlands, the crashing waves of the Pacific. Peru goes far beyond Machu Picchu, and with a bit of planning it is surprisingly easy to explore. Cusco My journey began in Cusco, the capital of the Incas until the Spanish conquistadors arrived in 1533. The city itself is surprisingly cosmopolitan – a fusion of old…

Our Experts ★ Appliances ★ Internet ★ Digital ★ Animals ★ Finance/ consumer ★ Legal This Week FRANCES QUINN is a journalist who specialises in finance and consumer issues. She’ll answer your questions on everything from savings to shopping. Q I’ve got an EHIC card – do I still need travel insurance? The EHIC card is an EU scheme, which entitles you to the same level of statefunded medical care as people in the country you’re visiting. It applies when you’re visiting any EU country, or Iceland, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Norway. If the treatment you need is free in that country, you get it free, but if, as is often the case, people living there have to pay part of the cost, you will, too. The card is useful, because…

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Every so often you read in the papers about people who claim they’ve found an image of Christ on a piece of toast, or seen his face in a patch of damp. Lucky them. This morning I discovered Harold Wilson in my bedroom curtains. We’ve had the same ones for nearly 10 years now. They are a sort of beige colour, decorated with large purple flowers, possibly some kind of iris. For a decade, I have stared at these curtains on waking up with little thought other than, ‘Oh no, it can’t be seven o’clock already?’ and perhaps ‘Mmm, those curtains could probably do with dry-cleaning’. But this morning there was Harold, large as life and disguised as an iris, assuming they are indeed irises. He didn’t have his trademark…

A Cup Of Tea With Maggie Steed ★ Actress Maggie Steed, 70, is best known for the hit TV shows Shine On Harvey Moon, Pie In The Sky and Jam And Jerusalem. She has recently joined the cast of EastEnders, playing Joyce Murray. How do you take your tea? With milk and one sugar, but I also like making fresh mint tea. I enjoy going out in the garden and cutting the leaves. Who would you most like to have a cup of tea with? The Obamas. There was no one better to lead by example in terms of grace, intelligence and compassion. I was terribly sorry to see them go. What skill do you most wish you had? After working with young dancers on the musical On The Town,…

Sometimes things go far better than you thought they would. An old friend of mine, who I shall call Denise, was having a big birthday party to celebrate her upcoming 60th – but as the date drew closer so my heart grew heavier. Denise now lived miles away and we had grown apart in recent years, especially since she had chosen to marry a man who was dull when sober, obnoxious when drunk and unavoidable if you were in the same building as him. And then there was his long-winded brother, a man capable of speaking for hours about nothing in particular, without ever apparently finishing a sentence. Although my partner Beth was equally unenthusiastic about the event, she nobly agreed to accompany me. As it turned out, we both…

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COOKERY EDITOR, FELICITY Parma Ham & Fig Crostini ★ 1 walnut or olive bread, sliced into 12 ★ 3 small figs, cut into wedges ★ 1tbsp balsamic glaze ★ 125g log rinded goat’s cheese, thinly sliced ★ 6 slices Parma ham, halved ★ Micro herbs or cress, to garnish 1 Lightly toast bread. Mix the figs with the balsamic glaze. Season. 2 Top each toast with a piece of goat’s cheese, half a slice of Parma ham and a balsamic fig. Scatter with a few herbs or cress. Mint Sauce Strip the leaves from mint, sprinkle with a pinch of salt and chop. Put into a jug with 1tbsp caster sugar, 4tbsp each of boiling water and wine vinegar. Pour into a sterilised jar, seal, shake well and leave to…

TESTED BY US So It Works For you Knitting Editor Teresa This pinwheel crochet pattern, worked in a lovely cotton yarn, gives a contemporary look to a traditional baby blanket that’s fit for a 21st-century nursery Easy-peasy A Bit More Tricky Hard–ish Quite A Challenge measurements Approximately 70 x 100cm/ 27½ x 39½in. materials 9 x 50g (75m) balls of DMC Natura Medium (100% cotton) in White (01), 2 balls in each of Grey (12), Mint (137) and Coral (44)*. Size 5.00 crochet hook. this yarn is available from the Knitting network, see below right. tension 22 stitches and 23 rows, to 15 x 15cm, over double crochet, using 5.00 hook. abbreviations Ch, chain; st, stitch; dc, double crochet; slst, slip st; yrh, yarn round hook. note Yarn amounts are…

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Think back to any birthday party, wedding or get-together with friends. Almost certainly it involved cake, whether chocolate, carrot or a classic Victoria sandwich. But sugar-packed foods are no longer reserved for celebratory events or the occasional treat. Chances are you’re getting surprisingly high amounts of sugar from places you’d never expect – and are consuming far more than you realise. The big concern right now surrounds ‘added sugars’. Also known as free sugars, these are the sugars commonly added to food and drink by manufacturers. The NHS recommends we don’t exceed 30g of these added sugars a day (the equivalent of seven sugar cubes), but the latest research shows we’re consuming double this. That’s why, Public Health England has recently challenged food and drink manufactures to cut sugar by…

WELLBEING SOLUTIONS For your body and mind JILL GARDNER, 42, a weightloss coach, from Milton Keynes, was diagnosed with iBS when she was 18, having suffered with gut problems since childhood. All my life I’ve had bouts of feeling bloated, constipated and lethargic. During flare-ups, my clothes would feel tight (or wouldn’t fit!) so, combined with the discomfort and bloating, I didn’t want to go out. The constipation really had a knock-on effect on my general wellbeing – but I found it embarrassing to talk about. My symptoms and not being able to go about my day-to-day life not only made me feel stressed and downhearted, they left me with brain fog and overwhelming tiredness. I went to my GP regularly over the years, but he didn’t have much advice…

Dear Keren My mother’s always been demanding and needy, but it’s become worse as she gets older. She’s in her mid-seventies and perfectly able to manage her own life when she wants to. If she’s at a loose end, which happens more and more, she phones up to 10 times a day and wants me to go round. I work from home and she just doesn’t understand that, so gets weepy or cross when I say I’m busy. In the end, I can’t bear her being like this so I go round. My husband is fed up with her taking so much time. She does the same to my brother and he often visits in the evening or the weekends and it’s no good for him, either. We need her…

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