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The Range has slashed the price of a privacy screen to under £13 to help fence off your garden
The Range has slashed the price of a privacy screen to under £13 to help fence off your garden

The Sun

time25-05-2025

  • Business
  • The Sun

The Range has slashed the price of a privacy screen to under £13 to help fence off your garden

THE Range has slashed the price of a privacy screen ideal for creating your own back garden oasis to under £13. The retailer's artificial hedge screen now costs £12.74, down from £14.99, saving shoppers £2.25. 1 The Gr8 screen measures 50cmx300cm, so you might need to snap up a few if you're looking to get coverage across your whole garden. Shoppers currently can't order the privacy panel through Click and Collect but can via home delivery. When we looked at ordering to north east London, there was no delivery fee, but bear in mind this might not be the case for you. Of course, whenever buying something like this make sure you shop around and check you're getting the best deal possible. Compare prices on the same, or similar, products through websites like Price Spy, Price Runner and Trolley. We had a quick look to see how much other retailers are selling the same Gr8 privacy fence panel for to see if The Range has the best price - and it does. Amazon B&Q are also selling it for the same price. Debenhams is stocking it for £15.99 - £1 more expensive. In any case, it's worth keeping an eye out for other retailers selling privacy fences if this one doesn't take your fancy. B&M is selling a 100cm x 300cm Peeled Reed privacy screen for just £10 - making it bigger and cheaper than The Range's ivy one. Cheap ways to bring vibrant colours to your garden all year round How to spruce up your garden on a budget Those lucky enough to have a garden can spruce up their space with a few budget-friendly tips - starting with cheap flowers. A rose garden is an easy way to give your garden a lift and you can buy seeds from £2-£3 at most garden centres. Or, you can head to Lidl for lavender from £2.99. If you have the space, try creating your own compost pile to enrich your garden soil without having to buy it yourself. How to find gardening bargains Doing up your garden to enjoy on warm and sunny days needn't cost the earth. Sun Savers Editor Lana Clements explains how to get a top deal on items for the garden… You can bag big savings on plants, shrubs and flowers, as well as gardening tools and furniture. Many retailers have flash sales across entire seasonal ranges – often these promotions tie into payday at the end of the month or Bank Holiday weekends, so keep a lookout. Sign up to mailing lists of your favourite brands and you'll be first to know of special offers. It can be worth following retailers on social media too. Use a price comparison site to search out the best value items. And keep a close eye on the specialbuys at Aldi and middle of Lidl drops which drop a couple of times a week and usually mean great value seasonal items for your outdoor areas. If you are not in a hurry to buy an item, try adding it to the shopping cart online and leaving it for a couple of days. Sometimes big brands will try to tempt you into the sale by offering you a discount. And always check if you can get cashback before paying. It's especially worth using sites such as Topcashback, Quidco and app Jamdoughnut when buying bigger ticket items such as garden furniture as you'll get a nice kickback. Mix green and brown waste to make the perfect pile - green grass cuttings with dead twigs and leaves work as a combination. It should be ready to spread when it turns brown with a crumbly texture and has lost its unpleasant smell. If you're looking to give your patio a clean up, you don't have to spend a fortune making it look pristine either. One gardening expert previously told The Sun a bucket and warm water with a dash of washing up liquid works just as well as more expensive cleaning products. Mucky greenhouses and furniture can be cleaned with sugar soap and water too. .

In London, the Many Lives of Turkish Food
In London, the Many Lives of Turkish Food

Condé Nast Traveler

time17-05-2025

  • General
  • Condé Nast Traveler

In London, the Many Lives of Turkish Food

In a new series, Place at the Table, we look at diasporic enclaves around the world through their cuisines—and the people who, in trying to recreate a taste of home, have forged exciting food scenes that invite others in. Take a walk along Green Lanes, a seemingly nondescript stretch of main road that slices through northeast London, and the scent of smoky charcoal soon becomes intoxicating. It unfurls from within the many ocakbaşıs (grill houses) and kebab shops that occupy the street's small, brightly lit store fronts, where hulks of meat spin majestically on skewers and freshly-made pide is methodically slid in and out of ovens. This strip may look like a disorderly milieu of takeout spots best intended to serve late night drinkers. But any Londoner well versed in their city's cultural fabric knows that the burning of the mangal grills here is a piece of living, edible, history—and one linked to decades of Turkish and Kurdish migration to the capital. I first experienced this side of London at age 13, on New Year's Eve—an evening marked by the rich flavors of a lamb kebab my parents ordered and a rambunctious waiter who drank so much that he attempted to lift a table up with his teeth. We still talk about that waiter to this day, but otherwise nothing felt remarkable about being another Turkish-British family in London, bidding farewell to one year and optimistically raising our glasses to the next. My father is originally from Adana in the south, and like many children of a diaspora, it's taken me a long time to develop a curiosity about the side of myself I didn't feel rooted in. On recent visits to Istanbul, I've begun connecting the city's modern identity with that of my own, but time and distance from London have allowed me to see that cultural touchstones were never far from home. The Turkish community in London extends far beyond Green Lanes, too, down into Dalston—and now, a breadth of new flavors have emerged, thanks to a proliferation of contemporary Turkish restaurants in recent years. Cull yaw köfte with grilled apple sauce, sourdough pide, and grilled chickpea hummus at Mangal II. Edvinas Bruzas Chef Ferhat Dirik has been running family-owned Mangal II in Dalston since 2021. Edvinas Bruzas Ferhat Dirik, who runs Mangal II in Dalston, is another second-generation immigrant who has only recently begun forging a path to understand his own heritage—although his journey has been more pre-determined than mine. The son of Ali Dirik, a chef who moved from Anatolia in the 1980s and opened Mangal Ocakbaşı (named after the traditional charcoal cooking method) followed by Mangal II in 1994, Ferhat took over the operations of the latter in 2021 and began to enmesh himself with Turkish cuisine in a deeper way. 'For years I had traveled everywhere but Turkey,' he says. 'Maybe it was an age thing, maybe it was an identity thing. Then, of course, I learned that Istanbul is the best city in the world, and there are many Turks there who share the same values and ideals as Londoners. The more I realized that, the more connected I felt.' In a storyline that could have been ripped straight from The Bear, he and his chef brother, Sertaç, took on the challenge of reinventing a family-run restaurant cherished by locals for its consistency (artists Gilbert & George famously had dinner there every night, only switching to the original, now named Mangal 1, after the brothers 'installed a music system') and set out to create a more refined menu that reflected the new era of Turkish cuisine they were witnessing on their travels to Istanbul and other parts of the country. The menu still retains plenty of familiarity (pickles and smoked hummus in a pool of olive oil; red pepper dolma and yogurt) but tradition is now served with a pinch of innovation: cured mackerel, caught in British waters, is doused with peppery Anatolian flavors; mutton koftë sits atop grilled apple; cornish chicken is stuffed with garlic and Aleppo-spiced sausage. Mangal 1 introduced Turkish charcoal grilling techniques to much of London in the 1980s. Edvinas Bruzas Meat sizzles on the grill at Mangal 1 Edvinas Bruzas 'I think the Turkish population is increasingly open to displaying aspects of our cuisine that go beyond [kebabs]—which is a great thing when done right—because there is a lot more to Turkish culture,' says Ferhat. After decades of Turkish restaurants not being granted the same weight as other more Euro-centric counterparts—often considered more of a cheap eat than an elevated dining experience—Ferhat says, there is less of a need to prove their worth. Perhaps, in part, because the British palate has become more open-minded. 'It's an exciting moment for Turkish cuisine because the perception is changing,' he says. 'We no longer have to sell ourselves short by charging less to be hospitable and accommodating, which is part of our culture and our dignity, but also expected of us. You don't see Spanish restaurants offering free bread or free wine. We have to remain confident in our cuisine.'

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