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food 

SCRABBLE 

it was invented in 1933 

Since 

150 million sets have been 

around 

Join millions of others 

sold! 

HOBBY 

MY 

regular My Hobby feature, 

Our 

this issue features cake 

which 

and decorating. Page 19 

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OCTOBER 

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Go! The board 

game played by 

millions! Have 

you heard of it? 

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You Heard Of These 

Have 

Hobbies? 

Unusual 

shaping certainly isn't a skill you can learn 

Tree 

and it can take many years for the end 

quickly 

to be finished! Tree shaping is known by 

result 

few different names but it involves growing 

a 

trees and other plants into different 

living 

and art.. 

structures 

practice was used hundreds of years ago 

The 

form bridges and houses but now tree 

to 

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shapers 

below. 

picture 

a look at the works of Axel Erlandson and 

Have 

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Peter 

examples of tree art. It's a 

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art of cutting, shaping and 

complicated 

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together 

you know someone who enjoys studying 

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gravestones and burial sites? Their 

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not as strange as it sounds. Graveyards 

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contain 

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mausoleums 

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and many people use the information 

ages 

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they 

ancestors. 

people enjoy researching certain 

Many 

where historical figures are buried. 

cemeteries 

good place to start your interest in 

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is in your local place of worship. 

taphophilia 

will find easy obtainable historical records 

You 

gravestones and often you will be able to 

of 

a 'rubbing' of the stone details. 

make 

placing art paper over the stone and 

By 

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rubbing 

are revealed on your picture. 

details 

written and photographic records of 

Make 

you visit and you will be on your way to 

places 

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becoming 

TREE 

SHAPING 

Tree Shaping Photo Courtesy Of:Blackash at English Wikipedia 

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TAPHOPHILIA - 

STUDYING 

GRAVESTONES 


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GO around the world 

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How 

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simple rules that is fun for all ages. 

few 

start with an empty board and 

You 

world. Its true origins are unknown, 

the 

it almost certainly originated 

though 

China some 3,000-4,000 years ago. 

in 

the absence of facts about the origin 

In 

the game there are various myths: 

of 

example that the legendary 

for 

In the last half of the 20th 

20th. 

Go became organised in 

Century 

Britain, America and around 

Europe, 

world; slowly Go in these areas is 

the 

has very simple rules and concepts, 

Go 

a complex strategy. You start with 

but 

on it. You try to surround 

stones) 

areas, whilst capturing your 

empty 

and taking them off the board. 

them 

as with a lot of simple 

However, 

it can take a little while to 

concepts, 

the concepts and a long time to 

grasp 

THE GAME GO IS 

ALSO KNOWN AS 

IGO OR BADUK OR 

WEIQI 

40 MILLION GO 

PLAYERS 

WORLDWIDE 

Go is one of the oldest board games in 

BY MARK EVE 

Go is one of the world's great strategy 

board games and originated over 

3,000 years ago in China. It is part of 

popular culture today in Japan, China 

Emperor Yao invented Go to enlighten 

and Korea, and known as Igo, Weiqi or 

his son, Dan Zhu. 

Baduk respectively in these countries. 

Go spread from China, through Korea 

Go is a game for two players with just a 

to Japan and the game has been 

played at a high level in these 

then place pieces alternately, vying to 

countries for more than 1000 years. It 

eventually spread to Europe at the end 

map out more territory. However, if 

of the 19th Century and started be 

you overstretch, your pieces can be 

captured and taken off the board. 

played in Britain at the start of the 

catching up the three oriental 

countries where the game has been 

played professionally for many years. 

an empty board. You alternately place 

pieces which don't move (called 

opponent's stones by surrounding 

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master them.

Each player has an effectively 

board. 

supply of pieces (called 

unlimited 

one taking the black stones, 

stones), 

other taking white. The main 

the 

vacant areas of the board. 

surrounding 

is also possible to capture your 

It 

on a vacant point at each turn, 

stones 

Black playing first. Note that 

with 

once played stones are not moved. 

and 

they may be captured, in 

However 

and kept by the capturing 

board, 

as prisoners. 

player 

Credits: 

Picture 

Donarreiskoffer , CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43383 

By 

from The British Go Association - 

more 

UK experts for Go. 

the 

HOW TO PLAY: 

THE RULES AND 

HOW YOU WIN 

A game of Go starts with an empty 

object of the game is to use your 

stones to form territories by 

opponent's stones by completely 

surrounding them. 

Players take turns, placing one of their 

YOU CAN PRACTICE 

ONLINE NOW.... 

Like most games in the world, there 

stones are placed on the intersections 

of the lines rather than in the squares 

are now online versions where you can 

practice your skills or play 

competitively with players from 

around the world. 

which case they are removed from the 

In Asia, where most of the leading 

experts in Go live, they are treated like 

VIP celebrities and earn big money 

prizes playing in televised 

tournaments. 

If you'd like to find out more about Go 

and how you can start playing, read 

WWW.BRITGO.ORG 

By Perline CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24964651 



Add a little bit of body text

the game we know as Scrabble. 

of 

determine how many tiles there 

To 

New York Times. 

The 

for example, Q is a letter that 

So, 

least often in any English text, 

occurs 

Alfred Mosher Butts decided that 

and 

Butts named his game Lexico, 

Mosher 

changed the name to Criss-Cross 

then 

His friend and eventual 

Words. 

partner James Brunot came 

business 

the game began to be produced 

rules, 

large quantities. 

in 

SCRABBLE 

BY TOBY SPENCER 

In 1933, New York City architect Alfred 

The game is sold in 121 

countries and is 

"PERFECT available in 29 FOR 

PARTIES languages; AND 

approximately 150 

CELEBRATIONS" 

million sets have been 

sold worldwide. 

Mosher Butts created an early version 

should be and how many points each 

letter should be worth, he calculated 

letter frequency on the front page of 

it should be a letter that there is only 

up with the name Scrabble in the late 

one tile of, and that one tile would be 

1930s. 

worth 10 points, 

Originally the game was turned down 

by many board game makers of the 

time but with perseverance and 

changing the name and some of the 

Scrabble was later produced in many 

foreign languages, Braille, and 

magnetic editions and continues to be 

one of the leading board-and-tile 

games . 

NEARLY HALF OF UK HOMES 

HAVE A VERSION OF SCRABBLE 

IN THEIR CUPBOARDS! 


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after each turn. 

supply 

in the bag and those of other 

Tiles 

their own. 

and 

player may give up his or her turn 

A 

for different letters, 

value 

corresponding to the 

approximately 

words. 

English 

are scored by adding up the 

Words 

be covered, such as double letter, 

may 

letter, double word, and triple 

triple 

value: 

Points - Blank tile. 

0 

Point - A, E, I, L, N, O, R, S, T and U. 

1 

Points - D and G. 

2 

Points - B, C, M and P. 

3 

Points - F, H, V, W and Y. 

4 

Points - K. 

5 

Points - J and X. 

8 

Points - Q and Z. 

10 

all tiles are gone from the bag 

Once 

Players draw seven tiles from a bag of 

tiles at the start and replenish their 

players are kept secret so that a player 

can see only those tiles on the board 

and exchange any or all of their tiles 

for those in the pool. There are 100 

letter tiles, each imprinted with a point 

frequency of occurrence of the letter in 

Players add the score up from the 

board and each letter has a different 

point values of their letters, multiplied 

by any of 61 premium squares that 

word. 

The name/logo and images of Scrabble remain the property of their 

respective trademark owners (Hasbro/Mattel) around the world 

and a single player has placed all of 

their tiles, the game will end and the 

player with the highest score wins. 

There are around 

4,000 Scrabble 

clubs around the 

world 


WANT TO FIND OUT MORE 

ABOUT SCRABBLE IN THE UK? 

The Association of British Scrabble 

Players promotes the playing of Scrabble 

in the UK, find out more at 

www.absp.org.uk

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the footpath is from the free house? 

"PERFECT FOR 

PARTIES AND 

CELEBRATIONS" 


THE EXPERT AT 

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ONCE A 

Remember.... 

H E L E N H A Y E S 

BEGINNER 


did you eat this week? 

What 

on your toast? Lunch - 

Breakfast-jam 

Dinner - pasta with a 

sandwich? 

sauce? 

tomato 

you needed bees to be part of all 

Well, 

this! When most people think 

of 

including most fruit and 

eat, 

vegetables. 

A world without our bees 

growing. 

be a very different place. 

would 

worldwide. 

bees 

is our bee population going 

Why 

down? 

of different things are affecting 

Lots 

things that are affecting us too. 

the 

of these are: changes in land use, 

Some 

loss, disease, pesticides, 

habitat 

practices, pollution, invasive 

farming 

plant and animal species, 

non-native 

climate change. 

and 

That all sounds bad for the bees 

Wow! 

us. What can we do? 

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HELPING OUR 

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BYJADE WINTER 

APPLES, 

TOMATOES,ALMONDS, 

ONIONS, LEMONS, 

CHERRIES, CARROTS 

AND MANY MORE OF 

OUR FAVOURITE FOODS 

DEPEND ON BEES TO 

POLLINATE THEM SO 

THEY CAN GROW 

an apple after your cheese and tomato 

There are 267 different species of 

bees in the UK but many species of 

about bees, they just think about the 

honey they produce but actually 

bee are declining, with two 

bumblebee species known to be 

they’re behind much of the food we 

extinct. 

Bees are crucial to our economy –the 

There are around 20.000 species of 

pollinate our crops and without them 

it would cost UK farmers £1.8 billion a 

year to use other methods of crop 

the bee population but they are also 

"BY UNDERSTANDING 

BEES, WE CAN HELP 

THEM" 


pollutants when producing honey, 

and 

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so 

Understand about bees and how 

bees! 

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Provide 

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schools 

This is not a real hotel! It's a 

hotel'! 

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about bees: 

Facts 

are able to extract heavy metals 

Bees 

honey in the city. 

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as 120 worker honey bees. 

Don't be frightened on bees! Honey 

bees only sting when they sense 

danger or to protect the colony. A 

What can we do to help bees? 

worker bee dies after it has stung. 

The best way to start is to learn about 

Harry Potter fan? Did you know that 

Professor Dumbledore’s name in Harry 

Potter comes from the Cornish word 

for bumble bee? 

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have one queen, hundreds of male 

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workers cooperating. 

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you can find such as wood and old 

wooden packaging. 

BEES USE SPECIFIC 

MOVEMENTS TO TEACH 

EACH OTHER ABOUT 

FOOD SOURCES THAT 

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pesticides on bees along with other 

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lifestyle 

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PLANET!" 

Understand about the effect of 


IF YOU CAN 

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Remember.... 

W A L T D I S N E Y 

DO IT 

CAN 


This edition it's U:bee Brand 

hobby. 

Emmaline O'Toole who tells us 

Ambassador 

MY HOBBY IS.... 

CAKE MAKING 

In our regular feature we hear about a favourite 

about cake making and decorating. 

"I'd always enjoyed making cakes and my 

favourite part of going grocery shopping when I 

was young, was getting to choose one of the 

cupcake mixes with the cartoon picture discs on 

the top! 

When I was 14 I started doing my Duke of 

Edinburgh's award and I chose cake making as 

one of the sections. I found a local cake shop that 

was running a 12 week course in making and 

decorating cakes and even though I was the 

youngest in the class, I really enjoyed learning 

about icing cakes. 

I decided to learn more about the subject and as 

part of my college studies, I enrolled on a City and 

Guilds Patisserie Course. It was really hard work 

but I learned so many tips and techniques. 

I thought about going into catering as a job but I 

wasn't sure it was something I wanted to do as a 

job - it was more as a hobby for me. 

Over the last eight years I've always kept baking 

and I've supported fundraising for a local children's 

hospice with bake sales. I've raised over £5000 

selling cakes at local events. 

I really enjoy cake making at home and even 

though I don't bake as much as I used to, I still get 

calls from my family and friends to make them a 

birthday cake!" 

ENJOY! 


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