local life free community & lifestyle magazine FEBRUARY|MARCH 2019 celebrating 25 years in business! Premier Stove Dealers since 1992 Enjoy a fabulous new look for your home with the right fireplace... whether gas, electric or solid fuel & NoW Up to 20% off selected stock stoves • 25 Years in Business • Full Installation Team • Free Technical Surveys t: 01620 822000 • Free Extended e: [email protected] Manufacturers Warranties www.the-fireplace.com CONTENTS Look what we Found! 5 Fashion | Pretty in Pink 11 Interiors | Happy New You 15 Gardening | Shrubs for the February and March Garden 16 Stories in Stone | The Lodge, North Berwick 23 Your Local People | Alan Rae 24 Dates for your Diary, Useful Numbers & Tide Times 26 Food and Drink | Fit February 28 LOCAL LIFE this issue Food and Drink | Food with a View 30 Welcome to our first issue of 2019. The Food and Drink | Re-gin-eration 31 start of a new year brims with excitement, new trends, new beginnings and of course Williamstone Staycation 32 new year’s resolutions. Venture Outside 34 Ah, new year’s resolutions. Those things Mind, Body & Soul | Are the Planets Telling us to Slow Down? 36 you embark upon with such gusto, Mind, Body & Soul | Be More You 37 determined that this will be the year! Then, as always, life gets in the way. Late nights at Healthy Habits 38 work laugh in the face of that decision to Exercise Yourself Happy 41 run each morning. Friends are still throwing parties to soften the holidays-are-over And Finally 46 sting, so that’s the diet out the window. The list goes on, but you get the point – changing your habits, no matter how well- meaning, is hard. If you’re looking for resolutions you can actually stick to, well, you’re probably going to have to look past the big, giant, obvious ones and seek ones that may seem smaller, but will have a bigger impact in the long run. It all comes down to knowing how to go about it. And, this issue there are lots of features which tell us, how making small 32 changes can help build the foundation for a long, healthy, happy life. Don’t forget our regular features too – fashion, interiors, food and gardening. Until the next issue, enjoy Local Life 11 38 Kim x Local Life is designed, edited and published by Local Life Magazines Ltd, 45 Middleshot Road, Gullane EH31 2DG. Whilst every effort is made to ensure accuracy in the information contained in this To advertise in the April | May ’19 issue please contact [email protected] or magazine, Local Life Magazines Ltd cannot be held liable for any 07768 622 378. Inclusion in the events pages is free for local events and charity fund- errors or inaccuracies. Any opinions expressed in this magazine are not raisers. For the next issue, please email details of your event to info@yourlocallife. necessarily those of the publisher. relaxed living co.uk by 1st March 2019. Editor: Kim Williams | Contributors: Amanda Farnese-Heath, David Hicks, Hayley Flanagan, Joy Grey, Bernadette Petrie, Elaine Ramanauskas, Bernie timeandtidestores.co.uk Rowen-Ross. Distributed by: Johnson Distribution Services www.jdsdoor2door.co.uk www.yourlocallife.co.uk local life | 3 LOOK WHAT WE FOUND! A few things the Local Life team has seen and loved this month... different perspective Mind, Body and Soul Columnist Bernadette Petrie reminds us to take time out with simple pleasures With the winter sun shining on windy low tide beaches you can have fun discovering Mother Nature’s latest art works. This one made me smile and think about Dr Seuss! Have fun discovering your own favourite characters – it’s fun and will make you or the whole family smile on winter walks. bATH-licious Editor Kim Williams says nothing beats a good soak THRIVE “I am sure there are things that can’t be cured by a Food and Drink Columnist Amanda Farnese-Heath’s foodie find T HE PER FEC T good bath, but I can’t think of one” wrote the poet and novelist Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar. And, I for one, am in Settling nicely into 2019 and embracing Veganuary, I have total agreement. Taking a bath is not about getting clean started visiting all of the vegan eateries in Edinburgh and – that’s what showers are for! Baths are about calming first up was Thrive in Bruntsfield. VALENTINES GIFT your troubled mind and soothing your aches and pains, As you walk in there’s a great vibe about the place, and both physical and emotional. Try bathing in salt crystals – the lighting is just right. I am really sensitive to bright they stimulate circulation, detoxify and hydrate the skin, VOUCHERS AVAILABLE FROM JUST £50 lights and food – there needs to be a good balance of increase moisture retention and help heal irritated skin. light, a soft glow but not too dark you can’t read the I love Laura Thomas Co’s Lavender Bath Salts (£12.50) menu. And talking of which, the menu is varied, the which combine the wonderful cleansing and healing food is yummy and not over-priced, and the staff are just properties of lavender with the hydration, detoxification perfect. All in all a great first visit to this cosy find. and regenerative power of rock salt. Leaving me both uplifted and energised! Go and check it out if you’re in town and let us know what you think. 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