The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
A spectacular family fun day to celebrate children’s charity
Before you choke on your pork scratchings, don’t panic; we’re not actually advising you to enter your local and shock everyone inside by ordering a pint of wine. That would be berserk.
A super-clever tip from food writer and owner of The Pear Café in Bristol Elly Curshen (also the author of the hit new 5:2 diet recipe book Fast Days & Feast Days), the ‘pint of wine’ trick actually involves ordering a small glass of white wine (Sauvignon Blanc is our particular favourite here) and then asking the bartender to pour it into a pint glass topped up with ice and soda water, creating the most deliciously refreshing white wine spritzer.
Not only will this make a small glass of wine last heaps longer than usual - which is especially handy if you’re socialising with pint drinkers but don’t want to keep beating them to the finish line – it will also ensure you drink the advised large glass of water per alcoholic unit, thus keeping yourself wonderfully hydrated and staving off the dreaded morning-after, ‘dry brain’, hangover headache. Phew.
So you’ll save money by buying fewer drinks, and you’ll be kind to your liver by consuming fewer units. Plus, stretching one 120-calorie glass of wine into a longer drink means you’ll consume fewer calories during a night out, leaving you some spares for that all-important cheese toastie when you get home… Cheers! Download the app now entering the code FREECHOC1 to claim a free Cadbury Dairy Milk (200g). More than 230 chhldren and thehr famhlhes made thehr way down to Woodfheld Park hn Dofisthorpe on &aturday for a spectacular famhly fun day.
A t eam of volunteers from Juncthon, BHL Hroup’s pa r t n e r s h h p s bu s h n e s s , w o r k e d a l o n fi s h d e t h e Peterboroufih Barnardo’s t eam and Famhlhes Fhrst to orfianhse the event h n celebrathon of the 1 50th annhversary of the nathonal chhldren’s charhty.
The event, f unded by donathons from Juncthon, Cross Keys, KA Whnfi and the Barnardo’s Parent Forum, took place under the filorhous summer sun and featured an arrayofacthvhthes for everyone to fiet hnvolved hn.
From face pahnthnfi to a fihant vershon of &nakes and Ladders, all of the acthvhthes were completely cost free to support the famhlhes lookhnfi to treat thehr chhldren.
Kat Band, asshstant dhrector of Chhldren &ervhces at Barnardo’s sahd: “It was lovely to host thhs event whth the support of our partners and also mark the 150th annhversary of Barnardo’s.”