Eastlife January 2019
There are no January blues here, just pages of inspiration to help you get out and about and make a few good changes; be it within your life, health or home. With a New Year, comes new beginnings and we have you covered. Start your New Year by giving your home a little TLC. From renovations and refurbishments to kitchen overhauls and interior trends, there’s no room we’ve left untouched. A promise to get fit and healthier is a great way to start the year, but if you’re beginning to struggle, then read our guide to maintaining the health kick on page 58. Perhaps this year you’re one of the thousands of people who are trying ‘Veganuary’ for the first time, if so, we’ve made eating out a little easier with our pick of the best vegan food trucks, plus there’s a whole community of support with our Vegetarian & Vegan Facebook group. Join the chat at www.facebook.com/groups/Veggieandvegan. If you need something to look forward to read our guide to the biggest 2019 events on page 19.
There are no January blues here, just pages of inspiration to help you get out and about and make a few good changes; be it within your life, health or home. With a New Year, comes new beginnings and we have you covered.
Start your New Year by giving your home a little TLC. From renovations and refurbishments to kitchen overhauls and interior trends, there’s no room we’ve left untouched. A
promise to get fit and healthier is a great way to start the year, but if you’re beginning to struggle, then read our guide to maintaining the health kick on page 58.
Perhaps this year you’re one of the thousands of people who are trying ‘Veganuary’ for the first time, if so, we’ve made eating out a little easier with our pick of the best
vegan food trucks, plus there’s a whole community of support with our Vegetarian & Vegan Facebook group. Join the chat at www.facebook.com/groups/Veggieandvegan. If you need something to look forward to read our guide to the biggest 2019 events on page 19.
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Say hello to Wendy Howes, our gardening columnist,<br />
who will be revealing the trials and tribulations of her<br />
garden restoration project every month…<br />
Today has been one of those interesting<br />
winter days where no matter how hard it<br />
tries, it just never seems to get light. It is also<br />
bitterly cold. Lamps have been left on all day,<br />
as has the heating and thoughts of pottering<br />
around the garden seem like a distant dream.<br />
Percy Cane at Imperial Gardens<br />
often wondered what happened to Percy’s original plans,<br />
drawn up in 1935. We considered ourselves lucky to even<br />
have a rather poor photocopy of them. So to find out<br />
they are literally just up the road from us is fabulous news.<br />
Liz has kindly promised to show us them in the New Year.<br />
It would be wonderful if we were able to obtain a high<br />
quality copy, which could be framed and hung on one of<br />
our walls overlooking the garden.<br />
By the time you read this I am hoping we will have our<br />
first glimpse of the snowdrops we planted in the autumn.<br />
For me they are always the turning point, hinting at<br />
longer days to come and new beginnings. It seems<br />
particularly poignant right now, living in a world where we<br />
are surrounded by so much change and unpredictability,<br />
that mother nature at least can be relied on to provide us<br />
with some certainty and routine.<br />
Wishing you a very prosperous and happy <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Read more on Wendy’s blog at<br />
www.wendyswholeworld.com<br />
So it was rather lovely to have the distraction of a trip to<br />
the Frinton & Walton Heritage Trust to look forward to.<br />
I found myself there with a completely different hat on;<br />
a quest to unearth some of Frinton’s Summer Theatre<br />
history. However, whilst chatting to one of the Trust’s<br />
archivists, Liz, I had the most wonderful surprise. Having<br />
not met Liz before, one thing becomes instantly apparent;<br />
there isn’t much this lady doesn’t know about Frintonon-Sea<br />
and its history. As soon as Liz became aware of<br />
exactly where in the town I lived, she gleefully told me<br />
that the trust is the proud owner of the original plans for<br />
the Percy Cane garden we have inherited!<br />
Suddenly this dull and dreary winter’s day had been<br />
turned into a joyous celebration. My husband and I have<br />
Percy Cane at Dartington<br />
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