Marlborough Living Jul - Aug 2021

Contents
A Note
from the EDITOR
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Amazing
A Culinary Journey through
slow cooker recipes
Northern Ireland
Isn’t it funny how quickly we can go
from loving the hot weather to doing
a rain dance - is there anything more
British? Day one sees us calling every
available neighbour into the garden
for a BBQ, making sangria and filling
up the paddling pool...but by day
three we are complaining about not
sleeping in the heat, getting sunburnt
and worrying about the grass dying
under said pool. At least the garden is
looking pretty happy though...
...and speaking of, we are a nation of
garden fanatics - never more-so than
when our patches of earth became
our social spaces, home gym or just
general respite from our four walls.
The amazing
competition page
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With that in mind, we’ve got a
wonderful garden feature to help
inspire you - and to show that no
space is beyond help! This plot really
was an eyesore and a challenge given
its slope and poor access, but the
owners have made something rather
special and given us some tips into
how they did it.
Time to refresh your
interior
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Editor Katie Thomson
e katie.thomson@minervapublications.co.uk
Publisher Sally Thomson
Pre-Press Manager Kate O’Connell
Contributors Rebecca Rose, Peter Thomson, Sue Cooke, Matthew Biggs
Angela Cave. Front cover courtesy of Kait Barker for Slow Victories by Katrina Meynink
Key Account Manager Angela Cave
e angela.cave@minervapublications.co.uk
d/l 01225 984498
twitter: @MarlboroughLive
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An amazing
garden glow up
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On the foodie front we have some
amazing recipes from a book all
about the humble slow cooker. Once
consigned as a product of a 70s Good
Housekeeping cookbook, the slow
cooker has had an image reinvention
in recent years - especially because
its low-cost and minimal fuss cooking
appeals to the modern, time-strapped
family cook. They’re as beautiful as
they are tasty, so we hope you enjoy
digging in.
Finally, we are bringing back our very
popular competition page - this issue
it has over £1,500 worth of prizes! You
can enter all the ones listed on the
page, plus some web-exclusives at
minervamagazines.co.uk - you can
also opt into being the first to hear
about new giveaways when they are
launched.
We are looking forward to seeing you
again in September - hopefully after a
long hot summer - we will be shining
our shoes ready for a new school year
and celebrating the best of autumn’s
amazing produce.
Katie
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