Innholdsfortegnelse for 11-Jun-2019 i Woman's Weekly

My grandmother, born at the end of the 19th century, didn’t approve of women working. Yet in her own way she was a feminist. She was convinced the most important thing anyone could do in life was to run a home and build a family. Men, to her way of thinking, existed primarily to go out to work and provide women with the means to do that. So she believed women who worked and denied men jobs were, in effect, betraying the sisterhood. Of course, she was utterly wrong about women working – our growing female workforce has transformed the nation for the better – but I rather think she was right about the joy of family. Have a look at pages 10, 15 and 28, and see if you…

Sue Shaikh, 74 Tell us about your look… My tunic top is from Sahara. They have a wonderful selection but the linen tops are my favourite. I first discovered the brand when I spotted a woman at Heathrow airport wearing a gorgeous pink linen top. I had to ask her where she bought it and now rarely wear anything else. I always team them with silky wide trousers. I have lots of pairs in different colours – as well as various pumps to go with them. I like gold jewellery. I also love coloured glasses – these are my favourites! And the best bit of your body? My hair. Sharnay Money, 57 Tell us about your look… I enjoy wearing colour and usually go for long tops over skinny jeans…

...Watch Nevill Holt Opera Based in Leicestershire, Nevill Holt Opera recently opened a stunning 400-seat theatre. The summer festival (12 June-2 July) begins with a new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. ✿ For tickets visit nevillholtopera.co.uk ...Explore London Seafood Festival Returning to Battersea Power Station for five days (12-16 June) there will be plenty of seafood fun to delight the sole. There are masterclasses, live music, live cooking demos, street food, kids’ entertainment, pop-ups and much more, on the riverfront piazza outside the iconic London landmark. ✿ Visit londonseafoodfestival.com ...Enjoy South Tyneside Festival This festival brings three months of live music, family activities and entertainment to South Shields, kicking off on 6 June. One of the highlights is the carnival-inspired Summer Parade on 6 July. ✿ Visit southtynesidefestival.co.uk Important!…

Unrelated to the more common diabetes mellitus, DI is a serious condition which occurs when the brain doesn’t produce enough antidiuretic hormone (ADH, also known as arginine vasopressin or AVP), called ‘cranial DI’, or the kidneys don’t respond to normal levels of ADH called ‘nephrogenic DI’. There are 2 other types – DI in pregnancy, ‘gestational DI’, and problems with thirst regulation, ‘dipsogenic DI’. There are many causes of all types of DI, including infections, certain medications, blood disorders and head injuries or tumours, but for some the cause is unknown or may be genetic. It can occur at any age, affecting 1 in 25,000. All types result in an inability to concentrate urine, so patients pass very large volumes of dilute urine. The symptoms These include excessive thirst and…

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Ican’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be a gynaecologist. I was in my third year of medical school in Egypt when I saw my first baby delivered. Obstetrics and gynaecology is the perfect combination of medicine and surgery. And I loved the thought of helping women. That was more than 30 years ago and I’ve since moved to London, working at King’s College, Royal Free and Croydon Hospitals, before setting up my own private clinic and fertility centre (gynae-centre.co.uk). I’ve seen a lot of changes over the years. I was one of the first obstetricians to use ultrasounds and give epidurals in childbirth, which are now routine. I specialise in abnormal bleeding and a particular problem called vaginismus – involuntary contractions of the muscles around the vagina.…

YOU WILL NEED ✿ 38 x 100cm Palm Island fabric ✿ 32 x 90cm yellow fabric ✿ 32 x 65cm medium-weight fusible interlining ✿ Two 10in zippers ✿ Matching thread ✿ Scissors ✿ Pins ✿ Bias tape maker ✿ Sewing machine ✿ Zipper foot ✿ Buttonhole foot ✿ Small button ✿ Hand-sewing needle Time to make: 6 hours Stockists: Art Gallery cotton poplin in Palm Island Escape, £17.99 per m, Michael Miller painters canvas poplin in Mustard, £15.99 per m, YKK nylon closed-end dress zip in Aqua, £1.59, 50mm Clover bias tape maker, £15.99, all minervacrafts.com Washbag Cut out FOR THE FRONT: Two 16 x 25cm pieces from the Palm Island fabric and two 15 x 25cm pieces from the yellow fabric. FOR THE LINING: Two 25 x 29cm pieces…

Smarten up your home Use the latest tech to make life easier Recent findings from Smart Home Week has revealed that 43% of us own at least one smart product in our home. And this percentage is only set to rise, as more and more of us begin to rely on our clever gadgets. Ring Video Doorbell, £89 See, hear and talk to whoever is calling at your home from your phone or tablet. The doorbell’s motion detector and real-time video allow you to monitor your home when you’re away from the house. It’s the perfect device to deter unwelcome callers. Philips Hue White Personal Wireless Lighting LED Starter Kit, £59.99 Dim and turn your lighting off and on from your smartphone or tablet. Ideal if you’re out for the…

Anyone who read this much-loved book as a child will recall the feisty redhead’s vivid imagination, eternal optimism and preference for being called Anne with an ‘e’. An orphan taken in by an elderly brother and sister, she can’t keep out of trouble. But, despite her perceived failings, they can’t help but fall for her charms. As she makes bosom friends with Diana Barry and develops a tempestuous relationship with the handsome Gilbert Blythe, we watch Anne grow in character, showing herself to be intelligent, kind, empathetic and strong-willed. Our verdict The book has a lesson for every situation. No matter what life throws at Anne she meets it head on with a fighting spirit. It’s simply a sublime classic.…

Recipes to remember... I feel like I am writing to an old friend. Reading on your letters page of a treasured cookbook reminded me of how mine came to be. When newly married in 1965, I asked my mother-in-law for a cookbook, but I wanted an indexed notebook so I could organise my recipes. Many of them are from my copies of Woman’s Weekly at the time but some are written out by friends. Thank you for all the information and pleasure over the years. Elizabeth France, County Durham Witty words While on a bus recently, a passenger got on and asked for ‘a return, please’. ‘Where to?’ asked the driver. ‘Here,’ the passenger replied. Stefan Badham, Portsmouth Where I read mine Here I am reading my English Woman’s Weekly…

Margaret Carter, 1957 Sent in by her daughter Kate Leigh This is my mum and dad on their way to their honeymoon in Snowdonia. Mum wore a pink shantung fabric dress with a flat straw hat in the same colour and she’s carrying gloves also in the same colour, and a camel coat over her arm. We’d love to see how great you looked in any era up to and including the 1980s. Please send a good-quality photo with your name, address and daytime phone number clearly written on the back, to: Fashion Dept, Woman’s Weekly, 161 Marsh Wall, London E14 9AP. Photos will be returned.…

You may not be surprised to hear that I travel a lot. There is no way to hide or disguise the fact that, for up to 10 months of each year, I am living out of my bag. For eight of those months I am often far away from my family. It’s not ideal, but somehow it works. My wife Marina used to joke that it could be worse. I might be a soldier in a war zone facing danger every day. Like everyone, I have been forced to make compromises with my life, but adventure and travel are what I do. They’re all I know how to do. I have tried to be the sensible, risk-averse daddy, but it wasn’t much fun for any of us. I have missed…

Ploughman’s platter with homemade piccalilli Wrap up this pub favourite and enjoy as a luxurious picnic, served with a cool lager to complete the authentic experience! SERVES 6+ (FOR SHARING) For the piccalilli: ✿ 100g (3½oz) cauliflower ✿ 50g (1½oz) French beans ✿ ½ courgette ✿ 1tsp yellow mustard seeds, crushed ✿ ½tsp English mustard powder ✿ ¼tsp caraway seeds ✿ 1½tsp turmeric ✿ ½tsp ground ginger ✿ 2tbsp cornflour ✿ 250ml (8fl oz) cider vinegar ✿ 60g (2oz) granulated sugar ✿ 2 banana shallots, diced ✿ 1 garlic cloves, crushed For the platter: ✿ Cheddar ✿ Sourdough bread ✿ Pickled gherkins and onions ✿ Radishes ✿ Baby carrots 1 To make the piccalilli, wash and cut the cauliflower, French beans and courgette into small bite-sized pieces. 2 In a…

Research is increasingly showing that a cornerstone of a healthy life at any age is activity. Small regular amounts, totalling 150 minutes a week, of an activity which suits you – low impact exercise such as swimming, walking, cycling and dancing are best – continues to show benefits to the heart, bones and the brain. Maintaining core strength is vital in preventing falls. However, the research into whether exercise could reverse the ageing process remains debatable.…

AWarfarin is still used as an anticoagulant to reduce the risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation or after pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis or joint replacement surgery. It was the only treatment for 60 years but now there’s a new group, the ‘direct oral anticoagulants’ (DOACs). Warfarin is cheap but needs regular INR blood test monitoring and dose regulation to get the INR into the effective range. This costs time and money, yet it’s estimated that possibly only a quarter of patients stay in the therapeutic range. Diet, alcohol, lifestyle and other factors affect the daily levels. It’s debatable, however, whether a patient who is already stable on warfarin should be moved to a DOAC. The DOACs are more expensive but dosing is simple and blood tests aren’t…

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Cut out FOR BAG: Two 21 x 23cm rectangles from the Palm Island fabric, the yellow fabric and the interlining. FOR THE BRUSHES STORAGE FLAP: One 17 x 30cm piece from the Palm Island fabric, the yellow fabric and the interlining. Cut out four 10 x 15cm pieces from the Palm Island fabric. FOR THE BINDING: One 5cm x 1m strip. If you don’t have enough fabric, cut out shorter lengths and join them together at the short ends. Run the fabric through a binding tape maker. 1 Repeat Steps 2-5 from the washbag instructions (left), using the Palm Island fabric for the front and yellow fabric for the lining. 2 For the make-up bag flap, fuse the interlining to the yellow fabric piece. 3 To make the brush pockets…

Snapping her appointments book shut, Maddy heaved a sigh. ‘Roll on the weekend,’ she informed her assistant Jean, busy making last-minute adjustments to yards of pink silk. Jean removed a pin from her mouth to observe wryly, ‘Don’t tell me. Lots of rubbish telly and microwaved meals?’ Maddy smiled. ‘You’re just jealous because you have standards!’ ‘Well, I could do slobbing out, given the early onslaught of bridezilla syndrome this year,’ remarked Jean, rising on creaky knees. ‘For starters, it wouldn’t hurt Melissa Johnson to actually come in for a dress fitting. I’m flying without radar here. Her mother told me to take this dress in by half an inch, but last time I saw Melissa, she seemed to be gaining weight with nerves.’ ‘Poor Mel,’ observed Maddy. ‘I think…

✿ THE WALLED GARDEN at Mottisfont in Hampshire (nationaltrust.org.uk/mottisfont) is one of the most famous rose gardens in the world and home to the National Collection of old-fashioned roses. ✿ RHS GARDEN ROSEMOOR in Devon has two outstanding gardens. The Queen Mother’s Rose Garden featuring modern roses and the Shrub Rose Garden, which has traditional old roses. There will be a Rose Festival from 15 June to 21 July (rhs.org.uk/gardens/rosemoor). ✿ Another beauty is KIFTSGATE COURT GARDENS in Gloucestershire (kiftsgate.co.uk). Created by three generations of women gardeners, it has a stunning rose border, edged with pink-striped Rosa mundi. The scent in high summer is overpowering.…

On the day she meets Woman’s Weekly for afternoon tea in a private club in London’s luxury Langham hotel, a beautifully dressed Gloria Hunniford, 79, exudes youthful energy and looks years younger than her age. ‘I love to talk about Caron and I think of her constantly’ ‘What’s my secret?’ she smiles. ‘I love to keep busy. I use Charlotte Tilbury Charlotte’s Magic Cream, and my husband buys me La Prairie skincare every birthday and Christmas! ‘I enjoy pretty good health, too, and that is everything as you get older. ‘Yes, of course, I’d rather be 50. Who wouldn’t? But I don’t dwell on it and I don’t feel or act the age I am. I’m lucky that I’ve always had lots of natural energy.’ Decades after her career began,…

Q Can you recommend something to give my grey hair a lift? It’s looking a bit dull. A There’s been an explosion of shampoos for blonde hair on the market recently and the good news is that they work really well on grey hair, too, helping to accentuate those silvery tones in your hair. Try a purple-toned shampoo – once a week is enough as they can be a bit drying if you use them too much. We’ve tested a lot of these shampoos recently and love L’Oreal Professionnel Serie Expert Blondifier Cool Neutralising Shampoo, £12.99. Don’t be put off by the name ‘Blondifier’ – it works brilliantly on grey hair, too, to neutralise brassy tones. Massage in and leave it on your hair for a few minutes before rinsing…

‘Have a place you can escape to’ Growing up on Grundy Fold Farm in Bolton in the 1970s and 80s was pretty chaotic. There were five of us kids and it was around the kitchen table I found my voice – as the youngest, it was the best way of getting my parents’ attention. My dad, Len, is a farmer – a handsome man with crinkled eyes and tanned skin. He’s always working, which is why our farmhouse was never really the focus for us – it’s not somewhere you’ll find white lilies and 1,000-thread-count Egyptian cotton sheets! The photo here is me with Dad when I was about five, and we were halfway through house repairs. Our barn had burned down and we’d lost a year’s worth of cattle…

✿ If you feel constantly thirsty, pass over 3 litres of urine a day, or get up frequently in the night, you should talk to y our GP. ✿ The frail, elderly and children with DI who develop another acute illness are at high risk of severe dehydration, high sodium levels and cardiovascular collapse so should seek medical advice early. ✿ If you need surgery and have DI, you must have careful fluid balance monitoring befor e and after, and will be at risk of dehydration. ✿ Patients with genetic nephrogenic DI are more prone to bladder pr oblems and urinary back pr essure on the kidney.…

1 Tension headaches Common but not dangerous, consider how you can reduce your stress levels, take time out and use meditation or mindfulness techniques to relax. 2 Migraines Severe, throbbing unilateral pain with nausea or visual changes. Recognising and avoiding triggers, such as irregular sleep, stress, certain foods and caffeine, is key. 3 Medication overuse Can occur if you are constantly using painkillers such as aspirin, paracetamol, ibuprofen and especially codeine. You need a break from medication. 4 Serious headaches Rare but if your headaches continue or worsen, you wake with them or have sensory or strength changes, vision or speech loss, you should see your GP.…

Should I change my will? Q My son and daughter-in-law came to see me a few weeks ago to discuss my will. They have not been as successful financially as my other two children and asked if I would leave my house to them. But I’ve always said I would leave my money equally to my three children – it was up to them to make their way in the world. I’m 86 and healthy now, but I may use it all up anyway if I need care. Margaret, Bournemouth A There are two issues here. One is that it’s your money and your will. It’s not for anyone else to ask you or to decide how you distribute your assets after you’ve gone. The other is that your son…

MEASUREMENTS To fit chest 63.5 (67) (71) cm/25 (26.5) (28) in. Actual measurements 68 (73) (78) cm/26¾ (28¾) (30¾) in. Side seam 21 (23) (24.5) cm/8¼ (9) (9¾) in. Length to shoulder 35 (38) (41) cm/13¾ (15) (16¼) in. Sleeve length 26 (28) (30) cm/ 10¼ (11) (11¾) in. MATERIALS 2 (3) (3) 50g (116m) balls of Sirdar Snuggly Cashmere Merino DK (100% Merino wool) in each of Pink (Lipstick Pink 462), Green (Lime 466), Purple (Amethyst 468) and White (White 473)*. Pair each of 3.25mm (No. 10) and 3.75mm (No. 9) knitting needles; stitch holder; stitch markers; 9 buttons. Yarn is available from theknittingnetwork.co.uk. TENSION 24 stitches and 34 rows, to 10 x 10cm, over pattern, using 3.75mm needles. ABBREVIATIONS St(s), stitch(es); k, knit; p, purl; ss, stocking st…

Things in Jars  by Jess Kidd (£14.99, HB, Canongate Books) Bringing to life the Victorian obsession for the unknown and fantastical, Jess Kidd’s latest novel follows detective Bridie Devine who’s seeking to mend her tarnished reputation by solving the case of a missing child. But Christabel’s no ordinary child and her qualities are seen as the key to a golden future. Original and heart-wrenching, the investigative narrative works well within this historical context. Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow  by Lucy Worsley (£10.99, PB, Hodder) Marking the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s birth, Lucy Worsley brings our most iconic of monarchs to life with this intimate and sympathetic portrayal. Victoria was a formidable queen, but we also discover her other roles, from lonely child to reluctant mother, through letters, diaries…

Aries 21 Mar – 20 Apr This is a good week for sorting out and decluttering. When you make space, something new can come in. Taurus 21 Apr – 21 May What skills would you like to develop? This is a great time for enrolling on a course of study. Gemini 22 May – 21 Jun Your finances may receive a boost. This week holds great potential for negotiating a great deal. Cancer 22 Jun – 23 Jul Your energy can be high this week if you listen to your body’s needs. Make sure you get enough fresh air. Leo 24 Jul – 23 Aug It’s important to take time out to relax. Meditation, yoga and any healing arts would be beneficial. Virgo 24 Aug – 23 Sep Don’t take…

Here’s a warning to younger readers. There will come a time in your life when you think it’s probably safer to have a bath with the door unlocked, just in case anybody has to reach you in an emergency. And there will also come a time when, should you find somebody lying on the kitchen floor, your first thought won’t automatically be, ‘Well, that’s a fine place to practise yoga.’ ‘I’m not practising yoga,’ said Mr Dear, when this matter cropped up at Dear Towers last week. ‘I’m looking at the dishwasher.’ ‘Everybody has to have a hobby, I suppose, but why do you need to look at it from that angle?’ ‘I think it’s leaking.’ Our daughter, Juliet, who was visiting, followed me into the kitchen. ‘What’s Dad doing…