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BBC News
2 hours ago
- General
- BBC News
Love of swimming rekindled by CamSight befriending service
A woman with a visual impairment who joined a befriending service has spoken about the boost it has given to her Zhang, 59, from Cambridge used local charity CamSight to get back into swimming with the help of Lucy, 25, a volunteer she was matched sight loss organisation aims to help blind and visually impaired people do the activities they swimming at the city's lido, Ms Zhang said: "All the people we meet using the facility have been friendly and it's made such a difference in this hot weather to get out and exercise somewhere I feel safe." Ms Zhang said Lucy's recent assistance at the Cambridge Lido helped her get back into swimming."The lido is fantastic for visually impaired swimmers and I feel safe, supported and free," she said."As the pool is 90m in length, I feel less anxious about doing full strokes and I'm not going to run out of room quickly to turn at the end."She added lido staff had been "so helpful and happy" for her to have her guide dog, Amber, sat poolside. The pair had also been to a yoga said: "I taught Jean some key poses for her to use at the next class when we go again. "The centre was incredibly accommodating and let Amber sit in the corridor while we had our class. I also helped Jean to outline the countries on some large maps in her study with a glue gun so she could learn geography of the world."I have learned so much about guide dogs and, of course, loved getting to know Jean too."Zoe Dunstan, a senior volunteer coordinator for CamSight, said: "When you match a befriending pair together, it's essential that you find out about lifestyles and interests. "Befriending is more than just conversations, though sometimes a good chat is all it takes to make a difference. "It's about enabling service users to reconnect with a hobby or activity they may have enjoyed before they became visually impaired and showing them how they can still try new ones." Follow Cambridgeshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
Daily Mail
a day ago
- General
- Daily Mail
Mark Watson: ‘I can't stand eggs. I don't like the taste or smell'
My first food memory was at nursery school in Bristol, aged about four. I remember having to eat leeks, and telling the teacher I didn't like them. She said 'tough' and I was outraged. I even went home and told my parents about this injustice. And these formative moments have a long-term effect on your taste. I still don't like leeks, and avoid them wherever possible. My mum did most of the cooking growing up. But we [Mark has twin sisters, Emma and Lucy, and a brother, Paul] would go to my grandmother's house every Sunday for a roast after church. It always struck me as a lot of effort, so much chopping and peeling and making sure all those components came together. When I started going round to other people's houses, I was amazed when they weren't having a Sunday roast. I thought it was compulsory. Secondary school food wasn't bad. There were two queues: one for burgers and chips and one for parent-friendly stuff. My dad would give me £1 every day and it was then a kind of moral reckoning whether I'd go for the chips or proper food. On Fridays there was always a dish called Kentish sausage, which was basically meatballs. I loved it and used to associate it with the freedom of the coming weekend. I imagined I'd have this a lot in adult life, but I never encountered it again. I can't stand eggs. I don't like the taste or smell. My mum would put eggs covertly in things like mashed potato. That made me all the more resistant. We used to have a chocolate bar on Sundays after the roast. And when we started getting pocket money, we'd go to Woolworths and get pick 'n' mix. With no Woolworths around now, I do worry that a generation of kids may be missing out. We never ate them in front of our mum, because she was worried about our teeth. Now we're all in middle age, we've done OK, teeth-wise. So she can relax. But even now, if I ate a Mars bar in front of her, she'd worry. At Cambridge, I prided myself on spending as little money as possible on food. Even by student standards, my diet wasn't great. I had a microwave in my room and would just do baked potatoes or pasta with stir-in sauce. My second-year roommate, Bennett, was an ambitious cook and would make curries and hotpots. His parents would record Jamie Oliver shows on VHS, send them to him and he would replicate the dishes. I scrounged off his culinary abilities and ate royally. Afterwards, when I was living on my own again, it was back to the jacket potatoes. My hangover cure is a fry-up. But as I've got older, the hangovers have become less extreme. Either I've got better at drinking strategically or the body's just given up. My partner [comedy producer Lianne Coop] is a good cook and plans two or three meals ahead, so our fridge is always well stocked. But there has to be a big pot of yogurt. Some people wake up in the middle of the night for a glass of water. I wake up craving yogurt. My comfort food is sausage and mash. My mum cooked it when I was under the weather. I would probably choose sausage and mash for my last supper. But not if I was on Death Row in America because I'm not sure if I'd trust them to do it well. Otherwise, I would mark the occasion with an enormous curry and all possible sides. That would be my final act of defiance. Mark Watson's latest novel, One Minute Away, will be published on 17 July by HarperCollins, £16.99. To preorder a copy for £14.44 until 27 July, go to or call 020 3176 2937. Free UK P&P on orders over £25. getty images, alamy, rex
Eater
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Eater
In ‘Materialists,' Restaurants Say Everything About Dating
is a born-and-raised New Yorker who is an editor for Eater's Northeast region and Eater New York, was the former Eater Austin editor for 10 years, and often writes about food and pop culture. What do L'Abéille, Joseph Leonard, Birdy's, Nobu, and Altro Paradiso have in common? The New York City restaurants and bars say volumes about the taste of the characters in the Materialists, a modern romantic dramedy from writer and director Celine Song, starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans. Materialists centers on a trio (Song is fond of exploring love triangles): matchmaker Lucy is caught between her paramour, debonair private equity partner Harry, and her ex, struggling actor-slash-cater waiter John. Her suitors' economic statuses are starkly different: one woos her with expensive peonies and takes her to omakases; the other intuitively knows her go-to drink order of a Coke and beer and prefers halal carts. Eater interviewed Song about her film, NYC restaurants, and dating culture. The economic contrasts between the two men are best seen through restaurants, Song explains. The perfect first date restaurant is somewhere conducive to talking, not necessarily the best new restaurant. 'I've been to hot, cool restaurants, but I've not enjoyed myself because I can't hear the person I'm there with, and we have to shout, and then my voice is gone,' Song says. 'It should be a place where you can have a conversation.' While the quality of the food is important, what trumps that is a setting conducive to connection. 'An ideal restaurant is where the food is fucking awesome,' she says. 'If you're on a first date, you might even want to sacrifice a little bit of the food for a quieter room.' That's why Harry and Lucy's first meal together takes place at Altro Paradiso, 'an amazing restaurant that's a great place to go on a date,' Song says. 'The vibe is important, but the more important thing is how good the food tastes. I don't care about restaurants where the food isn't good.' Lucy, for her part, is seen meeting clients at Joseph Leonard, an easygoing oyster bar in the West Village. Lucy walking in Manhattan. Atsushi Nishijima Those restaurant choices show a person's core: For Pascal's character development, Song knew he'd do so much research on knowing everything about dining out, especially because he can afford it. 'Harry's somebody who will read the New York Times best restaurants list or even Eater,' Song says. His predilections veer lavish, which shows in the rest of his dates, including French Japanese tasting menu L'Abeille, and the two-person omakase at Sushi Ichumura. On the other hand, Evans' character is more savvy and smart with his limited funds. 'John is somebody who will just know where he can get a really good meal for a certain budget level,' Song says. 'He'll know all of the deals in his neighborhood. There's a banh mi place where he can get something for 12 dollars, and it's awesome. He knows the places that are really delicious and very no-frills.' In one scene at the afterparty for John's play, the group, including Lucy and Harry, goes back to Birdy's, an if-you-know dive bar in Bushwick. She has her two love interests in one space, requiring her to navigate her two sides at the same time. During the shoot, Song and location manager Joseph Mullaney had to balance selecting restaurants that were good while also showing how luxe they were through film. 'Some restaurants are more photogenic, and some restaurants are better when you're just there in person,' she explains. 'You walk into some amazing space, but then you put a camera on it and it doesn't shoot well. It's because it's the energy that you can't feel in film. You have to feel the textures and the depth, or that color doesn't quite read in the way we want it. Some spaces are really photogenic. It just has to make sense as a character, but also has to look good.' One of Song's favorite places is Italian restaurant I Sodi, where she, Johnson, Pascal, and Evans had what could be called their first dinner date before rehearsals. 'It's an amazing restaurant,' she says, but 'you cannot enter into every shot and explain what the menu costs or what Eater said about it.' There have to be visual cues to show how fancy these places were. 'It's a balance of what photographs well and where somebody would taste would take you,' she added. Lucy and John (played by Chris Evans). Atsushi Nishijima So while the team didn't film at I Sodi, they selected high-end Japanese restaurant Nobu to film a scene that was crucial to Song. Lucy and Harry are having a conversation where she asks him if a romantic date needs to be expensive, and he answers, 'Doesn't it?' She breaks the fourth wall and looks at the camera, which then pans to the deluxe setting. To Harry, these four-dollar-sign category restaurants are an everyday occurrence, but Lucy is not used to it. s. The juxtaposition points out how out of place she inherently is because she's more practical. 'We needed something in a clear way to express luxury,' Song explains. 'Then that joke works because the interior is so spectacular. It's always a balance of what's actually a classy place that a rich person goes to and photographs well in a way that's going to be understood.' There's also the New York of it all, and needing a restaurant to read well in a high-level city way. 'I think about this all the time,' Song says. 'Because of The Bachelor and these reality TV shows, luxurious restaurants have a certain look that we're all used to: a lot of space, everything's a little shiny.' But that doesn't necessarily make for an interesting setting. She gives Italian restaurant Via Carota as an example. It's a well-known celebrity magnet that is widely known, but it doesn't show up well on camera. Dining and drinking together is a through-line in most romantic comedies, but the setting doesn't matter. 'Some of my favorite dates have been at diners, McDonald's, or bars,' Song says. 'The point is to eat together and talk and eat. That's really what the most romantic thing about it is.' Eater NY All your essential food and restaurant intel delivered to you Email (required) Sign Up By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
The Irish Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Leaked voicenote ‘reveals Lucy's savage Love Island plan' claim fans as Tommy recouples with her and Emily is DUMPED
A LEAKED voice note has revealed a Casa Amor girl's devious game plan, according to fans. The 37-second recording, which Love Island fans claim is the voice of Lucy Quinn, lays bare 4 Lucy's Love Island plan has allegedly been exposed Credit: Shutterstock Editorial 4 A leaked voice recording saw dumped Megan come in for criticism Credit: Instagram The person alleged to be Lucy says: "I've got a phone call today by the way, saying they want to fly me out on Tuesday or Monday. So they said to me on Sunday they'll let me know for 100 percent, but looks like I'm f**king going on one of those days. So they were like, get your stuff packed basically. "I was like, I'm already packed love. They asked me for my top three boys. And told them, I said, Tommy, I want Tommy. I feel like if I'm with Tommy I feel like I'll get all the way to the end. "Because everyone loves him. I don't know if you've been watching it but that Megan's being sent home and I'm f**king made up. "And she's being sent home because of the way she's treated Tommy. And do you know what, I'm made up that I've been watching it because I know how to act. READ MORE ON LOVE ISLAND "Because she's being a f**king little slapper in there. The public have voted her out. So I just need to be left a nice girl and just f**king stick with Tommy." The Sun has contacted Love Island for comment. Irish beauty The contestants then chose to evict her, along with Remell Mullins as the least popular boy. Most read in Love Island On Wednesday night, Lucy walked into the main villa holding hands with smitten Tommy, who In the most dramatic moment of the recoupling, Emily was left shell-shocked having stayed loyal to Tommy and given a heartfelt speech in which she said she couldn't wait to see him. Six Love Islanders axed in brutal cull as Maya Jama calls out Harry and Helena behaviour Tommy told the gathered Islanders how he had a better connection with Lucy; the pair had spent the past few days glued together sharing lots of kisses. Sheepish Lucy admitted it was difficult entering the villa in such a "s****y situation". When host The pair eventually went to the terrace to clear the air with Tommy admitting it hurt him to see her upset. They made up and hugged before Emily exited the villa. 4 Emily was dumped from the villa last night Credit: Eroteme 4 Tommy returned from Casa Amor with Lucy Credit: Eroteme
Scottish Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Leaked voicenote ‘reveals Lucy's savage Love Island plan' claim fans as Tommy recouples with her and Emily is DUMPED
A LEAKED voice note has revealed a Casa Amor girl's devious game plan, according to fans. The 37-second recording, which Love Island fans claim is the voice of Lucy Quinn, lays bare a plot to couple with popular Tommy Bradley as a surefire way to make the final. 4 Lucy's Love Island plan has allegedly been exposed Credit: Shutterstock Editorial 4 A leaked voice recording saw dumped Megan come in for criticism Credit: Instagram The person alleged to be Lucy says: "I've got a phone call today by the way, saying they want to fly me out on Tuesday or Monday. So they said to me on Sunday they'll let me know for 100 percent, but looks like I'm f**king going on one of those days. So they were like, get your stuff packed basically. "I was like, I'm already packed love. They asked me for my top three boys. And told them, I said, Tommy, I want Tommy. I feel like if I'm with Tommy I feel like I'll get all the way to the end. "Because everyone loves him. I don't know if you've been watching it but that Megan's being sent home and I'm f**king made up. "And she's being sent home because of the way she's treated Tommy. And do you know what, I'm made up that I've been watching it because I know how to act. "Because she's being a f**king little slapper in there. The public have voted her out. So I just need to be left a nice girl and just f**king stick with Tommy." The Sun has contacted Love Island for comment. Irish beauty Megan Forte Clarke was axed after her love triangle with Conor Phillips and Tommy led her to be voted one of the three least popular girls by the public. The contestants then chose to evict her, along with Remell Mullins as the least popular boy. On Wednesday night, Lucy walked into the main villa holding hands with smitten Tommy, who dumped Emily Moran to be with her. In the most dramatic moment of the recoupling, Emily was left shell-shocked having stayed loyal to Tommy and given a heartfelt speech in which she said she couldn't wait to see him. Six Love Islanders axed in brutal cull as Maya Jama calls out Harry and Helena behaviour Tommy told the gathered Islanders how he had a better connection with Lucy; the pair had spent the past few days glued together sharing lots of kisses. Sheepish Lucy admitted it was difficult entering the villa in such a "s****y situation". When host Maya Jama told the group that Emily was dumped from the Island, along with five other singletons, Tommy broke down in tears. The pair eventually went to the terrace to clear the air with Tommy admitting it hurt him to see her upset. They made up and hugged before Emily exited the villa. 4 Emily was dumped from the villa last night Credit: Eroteme
