Innholdsfortegnelse for 3-Sep-2024 i Woman's Weekly

Town mouse no more When I was a child, we lived in a classic British suburb, the likes of which surround most of our big cities. I loved it, as our home was on a friendly street with lots of other children around to play with, shops and my school nearby, and my grandparents just a short bus ride away. But what I didn’t know at the time was that my parents secretly dreamt of living in the country, and after I left school, that’s exactly what they did, enjoying many blissful years in their small Sussex cottage. And I’ve eventually done the same thing, so I was fascinated to read our story on page 24 of three women who have abandoned city life for a rural existence too.…

Due to be a lavish affair, Craig Revel Horwood’s wedding was set to take place at his countryside mansion, with Queen Camilla, Shirley Bassey and Alison Hammond all on the guest list. But the Strictly judge has now delayed the nuptials again – after having pushed back the ceremony a few times. Thankfully, it’s not that he or his fiancé Jonathan Myring have got cold feet. Craig, 59, reveals that they’re getting on ‘like a house on fire’. It’s simply that both of them are so busy they don’t have time to tie the knot, let alone plan the big day. Horticulturist Jonathan, 37, has decided to switch careers and is currently studying to become a paramedic, while Craig has show after show lined up, both for the remainder of…

What is protein? They are the building blocks of life, and every living cell in the body uses them for both structural and functional purposes. Proteins are made from smaller molecules called amino acids, which link together, a little like Lego. The amino acids that are produced by your body are called non-essential amino acids; the ones you cannot produce are called essential amino acids, and you must get these from your diet. Animal sources of protein tend to deliver all the amino acids we need to make new protein, but plant proteins don’t. So, if you are vegetarian or vegan, it’s important that your diet contains a wide variety of plant-based foods. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Protein ticks a lot of boxes and it’s a big deal for women, yet…

THE RIGHT TROUSERS A pair of wide-leg trousers made from breathable fabric is a warm-weather essential that can be styled in many ways. SHIRT TALE A classic striped shirt is great for a low-key weekend style. Wear with denim and soft neutrals for an effortlessly pulled-together feel. BOLD PRINT A linen-blend skirt with an eye-catching floral motif will add plenty of interest to your outfit. Finish with textured accessories and you’ll be all set. COLOUR POP Make a punchy yet wearable statement with a jumpsuit in a cheery shade. Offset the strong colour by layering over stripes and finishing with simple flats.…

Packing your meals with veggies is a nutritious and cost-effective way to cook Spicy stir-fried rice Chorizo packs a tasty punch and its paprika/chilli-spiced oil adds extra flavour to the rice. SERVES 3-4 READY IN 20 mins ✱ 1tbsp olive oil✱ 280g cooking chorizo (we usedUnearthed), half sliced, half crumbled✱ 1 onion, chopped✱ 1 garlic clove, chopped✱ 1 green chilli, chopped✱ 2 x 250g pouches microwaveable basmati rice (or see tip)✱ 2 medium free-range eggs, beaten✱ 3tbsp soy sauce✱ 2tbsp mirin (rice wine seasoning)✱ 300g frozen vegetable mix (ours contained peas, broccoli and sweetcorn)✱ Zest and juice 1 lime, plus extra lime wedges to serve (optional)✱ Small bunch coriander or parsley, roughly chopped, to serve 1 Add the oil to a large frying pan and cook the chorizo for 6-7…

3 WAYS TO... Fight a pollen bomb 1 TAKE REGULAR SHOWERS This helps remove pollen from your hair and body. Change your clothes after being outside and wash sheets regularly in hot water. Also, bathe your pets if they’re often outside. Vacuum your upholstery and carpets regularly too. 2 KEEP WINDOWS CLOSED Do this especially in the early morning and evening – peak pollen times. And when pollen levels are predicted to be high – visit metoffice.gov.uk to find out more. 3 TRY AN AIR PURIFIER They help remove pollen, dust and other small allergens from living spaces and bedrooms, where you spend most time. Try the Blueair Max 3250i Smart Air Purifier, £169.99, Currys. NEWSFLASH DIY smear tests on the NHS Women could be sent at-home smear tests under…

Code cracker Australian actress Nicole Kidman advised redheads to use the juice of what to enhance their colour? To find out, solve the puzzle. Fill in the grid. Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a number from 1 to 26. The shaded squares will spell out the one-word answer. We’ve given you five letters to start you off. Wordsearch When we have our photo taken we’re asked to say cheese. What are sitters asked to say, in their language, in Spain? The answer is the one missing from the grid. APPLECARAMELCHOCOLATECOOKIEHARICOT HERBMARMALADEMEATBALLNUTOMELETTE ONIONPAELLAPOTATORICETORTILLA Sudoku To solve the puzzle, each 3 x 3 box, each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9. Solve the puzzle and the numbers in the highlighted squares form the answer.…

Difficulty level SIZE 27cm tall YOU WILL NEED ✱ Access to a photocopier✱ Tracing paper and pencil✱ 50x40cm rectangle of ginger plush fabric✱ 25x25cm square of camel plush fabric✱ 40x30cm rectangle of 6cm pile fur fabric✱ Pair of 13.5mm black toy safety eyes✱ Matching sewing threads✱ Toy filling✱ Light pink stranded cotton embroidery thread STOCKISTS Solid cuddle plush fabric, £5.50 for 75x50cm, billowfabrics.co.uk; 13.5mm toy safety eyes, £2.75 per pair, celloexpress.co.uk; Autumn Leaves 60mm pile fur fabric, £7.20 for 50x34cm, mohairbearmakingsupplies.co.uk NOTE Take a 7.5mm seam allowance. Join pieces with right sides facing, matching alphabetical points, notches, dots and crosses. After stitching, release any fur caught in the seams with a pin. MAKING PAPER PATTERNS On a photocopier, enlarge the patterns by 240%. Trace the patterns on to tracing paper,…

Horoscopes ARIES 21 MAR – 20 APR You may be faced with many responsibilities. Think carefully before taking on anything new. Time to reflect will be beneficial. TAURUS 21 APR – 21 MAY The less personally you respond to every situation, the smoother your life will go. Soon you’ll be able to see the funny side and laugh about it. GEMINI 22 MAY – 21 JUN Do your best this week to see events from several different perspectives. You always have options if you are willing to look. CANCER 22 JUN – 23 JUL This is the perfect time for learning something new or for perfecting an existing skill. Regular and consistent practice will yield pleasing results. LEO 24 JUL – 23 AUG Financially, you may be doing some restructuring.…

BEN’S BACK The worst threat to humanity’s future lies in our own ‘authentic stupidity’, says author and comedian Ben Elton in his new stand-up show. Sharp-witted Ben’s stellar career includes TV hits The Young Ones, Blackadder and Upstart Crow, and a host of plays and novels. Authentic Stupidity opens in York on 1 September, and will tour all over the UK until 18 November. ✱ benelton.live Landmark rescue Corfe Castle, in Dorset, has a proud history stretching back to the 11th century. But in 1645, during the English Civil War, after the royalist castle was defended against a long siege by its commander, Lady Bankes, it was blown up with gunpowder, leaving the ruins that still stand. Its residents today include peregrines, ravens, adders and lizards. Recently, extreme weather conditions…

MISS JEAN BRODIE Glamorous, independent and utterly assured, the anti-heroine of Muriel Spark’s 1930s-set book The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie teaches in her own dramatic and unconventional manner at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, despite head teacher Miss Mackay’s dogged efforts to get rid of her. Jean cherry-picks favourite pupils to be the ‘Brodie set’. But her enthusiastic support for fascism leads to her downfall, after former pupil Sandy betrays Miss Brodie’s political leanings, and she is ignominiously sacked. ‘All my pupils are the crème de la crème’ From The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Did you know? The novel, published in 1961, was written by hand in spiral-bound notebooks. Professor Dumbledore At the age of 11, mistreated orphan Harry Potter at last…

At 19, I went Interrailing with three fellow students. Now two of them have asked if I’d like to reform the band. Hmm. All these years later, my jury is still out on the wisdom of a return journey – probably because the shine’s been taken off by decades of commuting. I’m sure that Interrailing has changed a lot in the interim. Over-60s, for example, are busy taking nostalgia trips thanks to a 10% reduction on the price of their ticket, which entitles the holder to train-hop across Europe, visiting up to 33 countries. This more mature traveller is known as a ‘silver railer’. At 19, I didn’t think twice, having spent the previous two months working as an operating theatre cleaner (‘You missed a bit, love’). ‘We fobbed them…

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Coping with... ANGIOEDEMA This is sudden, deep tissue swelling, which is often, but not always, caused by an allergic reaction Frequently affecting eyelids, lips and the mouth from a build up of fluid, and causing dramatic swelling, angioedema can be recurrent over several weeks. Sometimes part of an allergic reaction, the person who’s unwell usually also has urticaria (hives – a raised, itchy rash). The rash and tissue swelling is caused by substances, such as histamine released from skin mast cells. On occasions, the bowel is affected, causing stomach pain, or the throat swells, giving breathing difficulties, which is a medical emergency. Call 999 if lips, mouth, throat or tongue become swollen and tight, and the person is struggling to breathe or swallow, they become wheezy, or their skin, tongue…

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Difficulty level MEASUREMENTS Height Approximately 41cm/16in. MATERIALS 1 x 50g (145m) ball of King Cole Big Value DK (100% acrylic) in each of Pink (Fuchsia 4034), Orange (4028), Green (Lime 4049), Blue (Turquoise 4044), White (4020) and Yellow (Buttercup 4090); small amount of DK yarn in Black*. Pair of 3.25mm (No. 10) knitting needles; stitch holders; safety pins; toy stuffing; length of ribbon. Yarn is available from theknittingnetwork.co.uk TENSION 26 stitches and 32 rows to 10x10cm, over stocking stitch, using 3.25mm needles. ABBREVIATIONS B, through back of sts; dec, decrease; inc, increase; k, knit; p, purl; skpo, sl1, k1, pass sl st over; sl, slip; ss, stocking st (k on right side and p on wrong side); st(s), stitch(es); tog, together (dec by working as many sts together as stated);…

Books And So I Roar by Abi Daré (£16.99, HB, Hodder & Stoughton) Can you ever escape your past? Finally free from the troubles of her home village of Ikati, 14-year-old Adunni can’t wait to begin her new life in Lagos. With help from an empathetic and kind woman, Tia, she is enrolling at a school in the city. Adunni has always dreamt of an education – but a terrible surprise lies in wait. The night before Adunni’s first class, she is summoned back to Ikati. A harrowing chain of events unfolds that will force Tia to make an impossible decision, while Adunni must learn to use her ‘louding voice’ to save the young women of her village. Abi Daré powerfully weaves an earth-shattering tale celebrating resilience and perseverance. Lucky…

ROSEMARY Let’s begin with a controversial question, because we don’t flinch from that sort of thing on this page. Who was it who first suggested that men are reluctant to talk about their feelings? Whoever it was can’t have met many actual men. Certainly not recently. It might have been the case in the days of black-and-white films that chaps were a bit buttoned-up, and perhaps found it difficult to express their admiration for Celia Johnson and similar young women in nice summer frocks. These days it’s rather different. Celia would be beating them off with a stick. Men still pretend that they are reserved and unemotional, but the signs are obvious to anybody with the right training. And the right training is more technically known as Being A Woman.…

Letter of the week Memories of Mum As a child growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in Canada, I remember my mother, Marion, reading Woman’s Weekly. She frequently cut out the knitting patterns, and especially those for toys. She also knitted sweaters for my sister, herself and me, as well as dolls’ clothes. I have recently been given copies of the magazine to read, and they have brought back so many memories. I still have a few of the toys that she knitted and thought that you might like to see that your older patterns are still being enjoyed! Patricia Cocker, Ottawa, Canada GET IN TOUCH WE LOVE LETTERS Woman’s Weekly, Future plc, 121-141 Westbourne Terrace, London W2 6JR. P.S. It really helps when you put your details in…

British heathlands are an amazing mosaic of different habitats for wildlife, including large expanses of low-growing shrubs, scattered trees, boggy areas, grassland, bracken and scrub. These wide-open spaces help support some of our rarest, most exciting and often endangered species of flora and fauna. Silver-studded blue butterfly An exquisite and rare little butterfly that emerges in June and is on the wing until late August. The blue males have metallic spots on their hindwings, making them easier to identify than their female counterparts, which are brown and camouflage well against vegetation. The caterpillars of the silver-studded blue have a mutually beneficial relationship with ants. In return for a feed of a sweet, milky substance produced by the caterpillars, the ants help protect them from predators. Colonies are predominantly found in…

When Eileen Foster heard her doorbell ring one Friday morning in June 2023, she had no idea of the surprise that would await her. ‘I opened the door to the whole family,’ she says. ‘My daughter Hannah, 40, my son Daniel, 43, my twin daughters Ashleigh and Bethany, 34 – all with their other halves – and my five grandchildren! They were holding an envelope and all had enormous smiles on their faces. I thought, “What’s going on here?”’ ‘People could see what I was celebrating’ On opening the envelope – an early 70th birthday present – Eileen broke down in tears. ‘They’d bought me tickets to Love Supreme, a music festival in July… and although I’d lived for seven decades, I’d never been to a festival before! However, I’ve…

Is her wedding a ‘mockery’? Q My daughter had a humanist wedding at her elder sister’s house when her sister was, sadly, in the last stages of breast cancer. She had become unwell very quickly and this was arranged within days. It takes four weeks to get an official licence, so this was not a registered marriage. My surviving daughter now wants to formalise her martial status and is suggesting a register office wedding. Her late sister’s husband won’t come or bring his children as he says it makes a mockery of the ceremony held at their house. My daughter really wants her nieces and nephew there. Name and address withheld A Is your son-in-law aware that the first wedding is not recognised in law, and so an official ceremony is necessary? It sounds like it means a…

Pinwheel biscuits Swirly, irresistibly buttery goodies. MAKES 25 PREP 30 mins, plus cooling and chilling COOK 10 mins ✱ 200g unsalted butter, softened✱ 100g caster sugar✱ 1tsp vanilla extract✱ 300g plain flour✱ ½tsp baking powder✱ A few drops pink or red food colouring✱ 30g pistachios, very finely chopped or whizzed in a food processor 1 Use the paddle attachment on a stand mixer to beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. 2 Add the vanilla, flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt, and slowly mix until the dough starts to clump, then bring together with your hands. Shape half the mixture (about 300g) into a flat rectangle and set aside. Add the food colouring to the remaining dough, mixing until the colour is well distributed. Shape the dough into…

Knitting Difficulty level MEASUREMENTS 45x45cm/18x18in MATERIALS Cable cushion 3 x 100g (80m) balls of King Cole Timeless Super Chunky (90% acrylic, 10% alpaca) in Rose Petal (4450)*; cable needle. Moss stitch cushion 3 x 100g (80m) balls of King Cole Timeless Super Chunky (90% acrylic, 10% alpaca) in Vanilla Cream (4446)*. For each cushion Pair of 10mm (No. 000) knitting needles; 45x45cm cushion pad. Yarn is available from theknittingnetwork.co.uk TENSION 9 stitches and 13 rows to 10x10cm, over cable pattern, using 10mm needles. 7 stitches and 13.5 rows to 10x10cm, over moss stitch, using 10mm needles. ABBREVIATIONS K, knit; p, purl; st(s), stitch(es). NOTES Yarn amounts are based on average requirements and are approximate. Figures in square brackets are worked as stated after 2nd bracket. CABLE CUSHION With 10mm needles,…

Wordwise You have 15 minutes to find as many words as possible using the letters in the grid. Each word must contain four or more letters, one of which must be the central square. No proper nouns, plurals or foreign words are allowed. There is one nine-letter word in the grid, for which the clue is: Not productive. Average = 15 More than 35 = well done SUDOKU To solve this puzzle, fill in the grid so that each 3 x 3 box, each row and each column contains the numbers 1-9. LINKWORDS Fit 10 words into the grid so that each links with the end of the word on its left and the beginning of the one on the right. Then unscramble the letters in the shaded squares to…