Salisbury Life

Salisbury Life celebrates the best of city living. Published every three weeks, it includes the very latest on property, arts, dining and shopping, in Salisbury.

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THIS MONTH in salisbury

Issue 110

Green is the colour

As we sit here you and I, one of us writing this column, the other reading it (time and place being very fluid concepts in the mind of this editor at present, therefore allowing that sort of thing) it appears to once again be snowing/raining/foggy outside (delete as appropriate).

Now, if I was one of those wags who, when on holiday abroad and confronted by an unusual social trait mutters, sotto voce, “well this wouldn’t go down so well in Over Wallop, let me tell you” as if he were the worlds greatest wit, I would probably say something along the lines of, “so much for global warming”. But I’m not. So I won’t.

Instead, if, as it appears, Wiltshire is doomed to years of global wetting instead of warming then I’ll be the first to put my hands up and accept we probably only have ourselves to blame. Therefore, to atone for all our past misdeeds, we’ve put together the most environmentally friendly issue we can come up with, short of not printing this issue at all, and falling back on the oral tradition. So, on page 20 we offer tips for being greener in Salisbury, on page 48 we eschew the usual restaurant review for some advice on how best to grow your own veg (‘Dig for Victory’ and all that after all), while our Editor’s Choice (page 40) is as verdant as the green, green grass of home which, you will remember, once made such an impression on a young Tom Jones.

Just like Kermit once sang, “Being green can be cool and friendly-like”. And who wouldn’t want to follow the example of a small, towelling frog hey?

Cheerio

Joe

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LATEST ISSUE

Issue 110

In this issue...

• We bring you updates from Camp Bestival, The Salisbury Baby Show and a dance spectacular in Eastleigh
• If you’ve ever fancied the royal lifestyle, then what can be better than a house with its own moat?
• The Circus of Horrors gets ghoulish and Imogen Stubbs stars in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie
• Joe Woodward gives you his top ten tips to living the green life
• The latest from Salisbury’s eco-experts
• Fisherton Mill hosts this years’ Salisbury Life party
• With schools offering such varied sports as quidditch and trampolining, there really is no excuse for a sedentary lifestyle
• Lord Pembroke visits Wilton & Barford’s Day Nursery, and South Hills pupils take a walk on the wild side
• If it’s gorgeous, glamorous and green, we want it – and so will you
• It’s out with the trends and in with the timeless classics writes Kate Authers
• Emma Bond bestows upon us her guide to eating (and growing) your own greens
• William Spencer of The White Hart, tells us how to make the perfect lemon tart, and on page 54, our resident chef, talks us through the stages of a good stock
• It may still be chilly outside, but now is time to work on your garden says the green-fingered Emma Bond
• Deri Robins takes a well-earned break to a trendy Cornish eco hotel
• Find out what’s new with the city’s busy professionals
• Writer, Simon Crudeston tells us why he’d love to give Henry Fielding a tour of 21st-century Salisbury