26 January 2023

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Life! Death! Prizes!

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Come On In!
Welcome to this week's Chat… Cutie of the week goes to comeback kid Ivy (p37). The joy in the photos of her first day of school is properly contagious and had us all beaming right back at her. No wonder her mum Gemma was in happy tears. Whereas when
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Chat To Us!
We pay £25 for any photos that we use on Chat To Us! EMAIL chat_magazine@futurenet.com POST Chat, 121-141 Westbourne Terrace, London W2 6JR Find us online at facebook.com/ChatMagazine LOCAL HERO WORDS: VERONIQUE HAWKSWORTH. PHOTOS MUST NOT HAVE BEEN
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Local HERO
MICHELLE SEARLE, 56, FROM BARNET, SAYS: Karen Goodman, from north London, is our fab local hero. Karen, 58, started volunteering as a reading helper for Coram Beanstalk in 2014. While searching for local volunteering opportunities, she wanted to find
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Nowhere To Run…
Gazing down over the rooftops and trees from the window of my new maisonette, I felt so content. ‘I'm going to like it here,’ I said to my daughter Emily, then 26. It was June 2015 and I'd just moved in. Eight months earlier, I'd been rushed to hospi
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Take Three
Which band first performed under the name Rocket Baby Dolls in Devon in the 1990s? To find out, solve the puzzle… The three answers in this puzzle read the same across and down. The clues are given, but not in the right order. Read down the shaded sq
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Number Jig
In December 2020, Nepal and China agreed that the official height of Mount Everest was how many whole centimetres? Fit these numbers into the grid. One number doesn't fit. This is the prize answer. 301 515 518 553 611 738 780 810 851 898 1147 4150 68
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Pieceword
Melomel is the name given to what drink when flavoured with fruit? The number next to the clue tells you which line the answer's in. We've put a section in to start you off! There may be two Across answers in one line. Down words fill themselves in.
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Just Genius Your Tips Are The Tops!
To clean your toilet without using nasty chemicals, sprinkle the top of a grapefruit with salt and scrub it around the bowl. It leaves a great smell, and is good for the environment, too! Geena Cooper, Finsbury Park, London My son was going to play h
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Prayers & prey
Waving at me from across the school play ground, the chaplain smiled. ‘Would you like a lift home after school?’ asked Father Francis Derriman, then 29. It was 1967, and all the girls thought that Father Derriman was quite cool. For a priest! He coll
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Supermarket Style
All sizes 8-24 The self-tie waist helps cinch you in, or swap for a black leather belt for a cool contrast. All sizes 6-22 Figure-hugging skinny jeans are the perfect companion to your oversized sweaters, helping to balance proportions. All sizes 8-2
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Dressed To Kill?
YOU'RE THE JUDGE! When the police arrived at the house in Florida, on 18 October 2019, the scene they walked in on was a gruesome one. Matthew Trussler was lying in a pool of blood, his body stabbed multiple times – his girlfriend Melissa Turner was
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Spot The Difference
WIN 10x £20 Puzzle 4 Look closely at these two pics – there's a difference in 5 squares. The 5 grid references (eg, 1A, 2B, 2C, 3C, 4D) is your prize answer. Your answer: TO ENTER Turn to page 56 for details PHOTOS: HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFI
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Playing By Ear
Sitting around the table with friends, I leant forward. Barely able to hear the person next to me, I gave up and sat back. With my friends talking, the clinking of glasses and the clattering of cutlery from the restaurant around me, I just couldn't m
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So Scared Of Mice
Q l'm terrified of mice, I even feel faint if I see one on TV! Is there a treatment that doesn't involve me holding one? Lu, Fishguard A An irrational and overwhelming fear of mice and rats is called musophobia and can lead to dizziness and panic att
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Are My Nail Spots A Worry?
Q My GP tells me the white blobs on my fingernails are leukonychia and wants blood tests. Are they serious? Mary, Batley A Leukonychia sounds fancy, but simply means white nails on some, or even all, of your fingers and toes. You might notice white s
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Ask Dr Martin
Q I'm going through my menopause and hot flushes are ruining my life. How can I stop them? Beth, Wimbledon A Most women experience menopausal flushes, although these vary from a mild blush every few weeks to severe flushing and sweating several times
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FOCUS ON… Taking care ‘down there’
Being dehydrated can make vaginal dryness significantly worse, so avoid drinking a lot of caffeinated drinks, such as tea and coffee, as well as alcohol. ‘Vaginal lubricants and specially designed moisturisers will offer a temporary solution for vulv
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The Biggie
What connects actors Rob Lowe and Millie Bobby Brown? To find out, solve the crossword then read down the shaded squares to find the five word prize answer. WIN £1,001 Puzzle 5 1 Mark _, author (5) 4 Cougar (4) 6 Agreeable, nice (8) 13 Creepy-crawlie
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Top Of The Class
Strolling through his cat flap, our ginger moggy tucked into his tea. ‘Busy day, Ziggy?’ I laughed. When my husband Kevin and I rescued Ziggy in May 2019, we fell in love with his outgoing character. He was totally bonkers. Every day, he'd head out –
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Over To You
Can you set a puzzle in this format? Send it, with a photo of yourself, to the address on p4. There's £20 for every one we use! This week's puzzle was compiled by Linda Keen, Sheffield, South Yorkshire WIN 5x £20 Puzzel 6 1 Price 2 Capable 3 Space in
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HALF & HALF
What part of some musical instruments has traditionally been made from the plant with the scientific name Arundo donax? Cross out a letter in each square to get a grid filled with words. The uncrossed out letters in the shaded squares give the prize
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Brick Trick
The sharpest bend on the Kent motor racing track Brands Hatch shares its name with what religious title? To find out, solve the puzzle… Enter the answers to the clues in the grid. Every word is an anagram of its neighbours, plus or minus a letter. Re
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Sick & Tired But Still Smiling
Gliding along the water, I rowed back towards the landing bay. Out with a friend, both of us in single boats. Had started rowing a year earlier, taking up the sport while studying at university, wanting to try something new. Meant lots of training, s
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Skinny One
The guillemet, solidus and interrobang are all examples of what? To find out, solve the puzzle… Add a letter anywhere in each of the boxed-off words to fit the clue, eg, Film = MOVE + I = MOVIE. Write the added letter in the space provided. Read down
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Strike a PAWS
We've had a sneak peek at some early entrants in the animal category of the CE Photo Award competition, and we had to share them with you. Surrounded by nature is clearly where this sweet dog prefers to spend her time. Photographed by Anita Papp in S
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Arrow Word
WIN 2 x £500 Puzzle 10 Byron Place is a shopping centre in which town, saluting the poet's marriage to Annabella Milbanke in a nearby mansion? Solve the puzzle by following the arrows and writing in your answers. Then read down the letters in the sha
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Sudoku
To solve the puzzle, each 3x3 box, each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9. Solve the puzzle and the numbers in the highlighted squares will give you the prize puzzle answer. WIN 2 x £30 Puzzle 11 Your answer: ■
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Wordsearch
WIN £40 Puzzle 12 The remains of the Biblical Three Magi have been reputedly housed in which city since being moved there in 1164? The answer is the one missing from the grid. BERLIN BONN BREMEN COLOGNE DRESDEN ESSEN HAMBURG HANOVER KIEL LEIPZIG LUBE
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Best doormats
BUDGET BUY ART DECO PRETTY AND PRACTICAL COMPILED BY: ESME CLEMO. PRICES CORRECT AT TIME OF WRITING ■
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Little One
The first restaurant in Iceland to be awarded a Michelin star is named after what culinary ingredient? Solve the crossword, then read down the yellow squares to find the prize puzzle answer. 1 Make an offer (3) 3 Final part (3) 5 Bread roll (3) 6 Unw
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Fill Me In
WIN £100 Puzzle 14 Florence Pugh played which role in a 2018 BBC adaptation of King Lear? Solve the puzzle by following the arrows and writing in your answers. Then read down the letters in the shaded squares to find the prize answer. Your answer:
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Burning Agony
Curled up in bed, I clutched my tummy as my mum Tracy came in with my trusty hot-water bottle. ‘This'll help love,’ she said, smiling sympathetically. And, sliding it under the duvet and pressing it against my skin, I found it did. Ever since I'd sta
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Circle Time
One of the largest rivers in Africa by discharge, the Ogooue, runs for the vast majority of its course through which country? Fit the words into the grid, then read down the letters in the shaded circles. GAS GEM GET INN KOI OBI SHE SKY SON VET EARN
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Ask Aunty Nelly
QI'm a very social person, but my husband spends his time gardening, reading or listening to the radio. When I suggest heading out with friends he just tells me to go alone. The time we spend together is so boring. How can I make him come out with me
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Code Cracker
WIN 2x £250 Puzzle 16 In which film did Christine Baranski have a dance scene with Robin Williams? To find out, solve the puzzle… Fill in the grid. Each letter of the alphabet has been replaced by a number from 1 to 26. When you've completed the grid
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30 Seizures In One Day
For most teenagers, the morning after a big night out is spent nursing a sore head and tucking into a greasy fry-up. But when Mari-Jade, then 19, woke up after a night out with her friends, she had much more than a hungry hangover to deal with. I'd h
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My Beanie Baby Full Of Beans!
Picking out a pink sleepsuit in the shop, I felt my baby kick. A sign? It was June 2018 and I was already mum to Kieran, then 14, and Joey, 11. This time though, my pregnancy felt different so I wondered if I was expecting a girl. At my 20-week scan,
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Meatless magic
Stirring the sauce releases the starch from the pasta, making it naturally creamier. With only one pan to wash up at the end of the meal, this quick and flavoursome pasta is sure to become a firm favourite SERVES 2 PREP 5 MINS COOK 15 MINS • 1 red on
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Word Jumble
The town of La Ciotat in France is one of the places that claims to have the world's oldest continuously operating purpose-built example of what type of building? Unscramble each group of letters to discover six words connected with the movies. Now f
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This week's TV
BBC2 • The Northumberlandborn star of ITV's Grantchester takes us on a tour of the North East in this new series which highlights how exploring the great outdoors can relieve stress, benefit mental health and improve our wellbeing. As Robson travels
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Your STARS
21 March-20 April Try to keep your emotions in check. Enjoy a walk with a friend to clear your head, so you can think more rationally about decisions you need to make. • Call 0905 817 0690* for more 21 April-21 May Security and protection are key con
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Meet My old Man
Catching up with friends at the local pub, I was surprised by an interruption. ‘This is for you, from the gentleman over there,’ said one of the bar staff, before handing me a glass of wine as she gestured to a man perched by the bar. I had a giggle
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Cash smart
SMASH YOUR 2023 MONEY RESOLUTIONS Looking to change the way you manage your finances? These expert tips will keep you on track 1 Set a realistic target When you're making money resolutions, be as specific as possible about what you want to achieve an
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The Big Quiz
WIN £500 Puzzle 18 The answers to all but one of these quiz questions can be found hidden in this wordsearch grid, reading forwards, backwards, up, down or diagonally. To help you, we'll tell you that the answers are in alphabetical order in each sec
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YOU LITTLE Beauty
Q My hair keeps snapping and breaking – are there any fixes you can recommend? Simone Mallon, Slough A Breakage can be caused by a few factors, but the most common causes are colouring, bleaching and heat styling. You can't ‘heal’ split ends – the on
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Tried And Tested
This is a brilliant, fuss-free moisturiser that's blended withsuper-hydrators including glycerin, avocado oil and squalane. It's the perfect everyday day cream. If you hate waiting for body creams tosink in, try this. You apply it in the shower, on w
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Bargain Buys
Poundland's #6 range is impressively affordable, and features hard-working ingredients. This toner is blended with vitamin C, as well as glycolic acid and aloe vera, to help brighten dull skin. Have dry, cracking hands? Use a hand cream daily to help
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What's The Answer?
Solutions to Chat issue 52 (29 December 2022) Puzzle 3 Lone Puzzle 4 Worked as Bricklayers Puzzle 5 1C,3A,4A,4B,4D Puzzle 6 Ease Puzzle 7 Star Puzzle 8 Gypsum Puzzle 9 Keanu Reeves Puzzle 10 Bristol Puzzle 12 Romanov Puzzle 13 Clare Puzzle 14 Raccoon
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A Letter To… Our social Worker
To Hannah, When our family decided to foster a child, we knew we'd be in for a roller-coaster ride, yet the support you gave us made us all feel at ease. As a mum to four healthy, happy kids, I'd always fancied giving something back. Fostering seemed
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We Won!
Chat winners issue 41 (13 Oct 2022) £1,001 CASH A Wickens, Watchet £500 CASH D Overton, Cwmbran C Beattie, Gretna A Hughes, Liverpool £250 CASH C Willmoth, Leeds P Brown, March £200 CASH C Henry, Egremont £100 CASH F Clarke, Stafford P Hales, Woking
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The perfect family
He was a former surfing champion, handsome and charming. She was a powerful real-estate mogul, running a business worth close to $80 million. It'd be hard to argue that Brad and Andra Sachs didn't have an enviable life. Their two oldest sons, Myles a
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Cancún
6 reasons to visit… 1 While the UK is shivering under grey skies, in January the daytime highs in Cancún hover at around 27C. Throw in bright blue skies and warm sea (around 26C!) and it's a brilliant place to head for a dose of winter sunshine. And

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