Courier Weekend Courier Weekend “Because your weekend matters” Courier Weekend personally speaking 3 26.04.2014 Content That’s Life by Fiona Armstrong Will this be the diet contents worth weighing for? House for Hire 4 Whether it’s renting out driveways, taking Over-indulgence is part and parcel of the Easter festivities — but in strangers or hosting a film crew, Courier readers are making money from their homes. now it’s payback time and there are calories to be counted . Firsts and Lasts 7 Playwright and actor Sandy Thomson on Helena Bonham Carter, terrible goulash, and why she got married dressed as Catwoman. Meet Your Maker 10 Helen Brown gets herself in a jam when she visits the woman behind Perthshire Preserves (see picture below). Restaurant Review 12 This week our crack review team has been dispatched to St Andrews’ Hotel du Vin. It’s a tough job but somebody’s gotta do it. Take a Hike t was a lovely warm Easter door the other day with a large box. It’s 32 Our writer-and-hiker in residence, James here — and time to catch up always the same: apart from the oldest Carron, goes yomping up Kenmore Hill at the with family and friends. Of cocker, Jack, who’s as deaf as a post, eastern end of Loch Tay. course we consumed too much the Naughties have keen ears. In chocolate and toasted too many fact they can hear a pin drop a 38 The Last Word spicy hot-cross buns, but who hundred yards away. so when Sometimes you feel like the world is out to I doesn’t? Now willpower someone comes lumbering up get you — and sometimes it really is, as is the watchword for the next the drive in a large lorry they Courier Weekend Rab McNeil finds out. few months. I’ve actually scream and holler and try to started the five-two, which, rush out to investigate. any if it works, could become a sensible van man normally permanent way of eating. stays safely inside his It’s the latest food fad and cab until I can get out to involves dining normally on reassure him that his only five days and semi-fasting danger is that of being brings the reader on the remaining two. I say licked to death by the part-fasting because you can terrible trio. still consume 500 calories this driver, however on the down days — and that — a lady no less — could mean some soup, a bit jumped boldly out, and of fruit perhaps, and buckets with a broad grin and a a quality Saturday of herbal tea . lot of enthusiastic head- I’m not generally a fan of patting, proceeded to diets. 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So much to say and so little time… lifestyle my view, celebrity interviews, style on the street, beauty box. Source: DCT Newspaper Insight Survey 2012 Courier Weekend Food & Drink £4.9m Courier readers spent on eating out in restaurants in the last month. Featuring a celebrity chef showcasing their recipes along Courier readers with reviews from account for 16% of restaurants and the total grocery spend in hotels across east Tayside & Fife central Scotland. Source: DCT Newspaper Insight Survey 2012 TGI Jan-Dec 2012 Courier Weekend The Great Outdoors £15m Courier readers spent on their garden in the last year. 74,000 Courier readers like to understand about nature. 59,000 Encompasses so Readers regularly many things to so participate in sports & leisure activities. many people… Source: TGI Jan-Dec 2012 Courier Weekend Holiday & Travel £94m Courier readers spent on holidays / short breaks in the last year. Showcasing the very best travel destinations at home and abroad. 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