Rosemary Shrager's rich California prune and fruit loaf Ingredients: • 460g strong flour • 1/8 tsp salt • 60g butter • 60g sugar • 2 eggs • 1 egg-yolk • 100-200 ml water • 42g fresh yeast • 500g CaliforniaPrunes diced • 110g walnuts, chopped • 30g ginger stem, chopped • 700gsultanas steeped overnight in water • 1 dessertspoon glycerine (optional to increase shelf life &moisture) Instructions: Oven 220°C Put the flour in a bowl, rub the butter in to...Read more

Papercutting The best in papercutting. Have you seen an advert for a new car company called CarWow, it looks like a great idea for buying a car but what struck us was their fabulous ad. The advert features a spinning wheel which revolves to take you through the most stunning papercutting art to explain how the company works: carwow.co.uk ‘Wheel-o-trope’Director: Richard Chaney Papercutting has evolved at an incredible rate over the last few years with arts ts now producing the...Read more

We can thank legendary French crooner Sacha Distel for the schoolyard favourite of the 1950s ‘Scoubidou’, the art of knotting plastic strips together to form colourful bracelets. Distel's hit song Scoubidou coined the name originally adapted from the US song  ‘Apples, Peaches and Cherries’. Scoubidou also know by other names including boondoggle ,gimp, lanyard, scoubi, scoobie, and rex-lace originated in France in the 1950s and became quite the fad in 60s Britain. The art is enjoying a renaissance however many of...Read more

Bingo boosting brain capacity for over 50s In light of Mental Health Awareness Week, did you know that bingo can actually help to boost your brain capacity? Research from the University of Southampton conducted in 2001 found that bingo is an effective way to slow and counter age-related decline in our thinking capacity. Experts believe the game has a positive impact on mental speed, the ability to scan information and memory. As well as being an awful lot of fun,...Read more

The-Boomers Arts & Crafts Forum and Showcase Here at The-Boomers we love all things art, join us on our Forum pages to discuss your favourite arts & crafts plus post your creations on our showcase.   The Arts & Crafts showcase may introduce you to outside websites and goods & services, though these our offered in good faith we take no responsibility for these links and their services, links, goods and content. The Boomers (MH Ltd) do not receive any...Read more

Don’t believe all the menopause myths Does smoking trigger an early menopause? Will HRT make you gain weight? Will you have a difficult menopause just like your mum did? And, most importantly, which menopause myths are true and which aren’t? In the Spring 2016 issue of The Menopause Exchange newsletter, advanced nurse practitioner Jan Brockie takes a look at some common menopause myths, including whether the menopause is linked to depression, whether or not HRT is natural and how long...Read more

Impartial opinion on the question ‘How old do I look’? Not wanting to become too age obsessed in our advancing years, but with an irreverent approach to that old question ‘How old do I look’? - our intrepid research team (Jemma & Charlie) decided to seek out websites of interest in this field. How Old .net Website: www.how-old.net Here those geniuses over at Microsoft have invented some gizmo which utilises facial recognition technology, some impressive software (most probably used by...Read more

Munich/Milan. The Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este is the world’s most exclusive heritage event for historic automobiles and motorcycles. The event has a long tradition extending back to the year 1929, when the first exhibition entitled “Coppa d’Oro Villa d’Este” was held in Cernobbio, Northern Italy, as a showcase for new launches in the automobile sector. This was followed by decades of changing fortunes. In 1999, the BMW Group became the patron, and since 2005, BMW Group Classic has joined forces...Read more

Mercedes-AMG GLC 43 4matic The mid-size SUV model series gains a particularly dynamic addition in the form of the new Mercedes-AMG GLC 43 4MATIC. The 270 kW (367 hp) 3.0-litre V6 biturbo engine, the automatic transmission 9G-TRONIC with shortened shift times and the AMG performance 4MATIC all-wheel drive configured with a rear bias form the basis for an especially dynamic on-road driving experience. The autonomous design and the specially tuned sports suspension on the basis of AIR BODY CONTROL with...Read more

Earl Grey or Builder's? Which one do you prefer? Though tea drinking seems to be on decline however we still look on ourselves as ‘a nation of tea drinkers’ . New research from Mintel finds that Brits may be losing their thirst for the Great British Tea Time. Indeed, whilst over two thirds (69%) of tea drinking Brits agree that drinking tea is an important part of social occasions, over the past few years sales of the beverage have been...Read more