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Feature PageSu-Doku Puzzle ..........................................................................................................................6Trivia Quiz - African Capitals ....................................................................................................8In The Garden - Cacti ...............................................................................................................10Trivia Quiz Answers .................................................................................................................12Late Opening Pharmacies ........................................................................................................14 Schools & Churches .................................................................................................................14Useful Phone Numbers ............................................................................................................14Index of Advertisers .................................................................................................................15

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that can live for 250 years, weigh up to 6 tons and has no leaves?! I use the words soft spot guardedly because what I’m talking about here are Cacti – those horticultural oddities that don’t really fit any of your usual plant stereotypes as they appear closer to sea urchins than Dahlias!

This article hopefully also serves as a fitting epitaph to my own spiny friend who followed me around the world but sadly took its final lungful of carbon dioxide earlier this year… Normally I don’t get sentimental about plants, but this one was somehow different and I always viewed it as more of a low maintenance pet than a plant! I brought it back from a school football trip to Germany a few light years ago

IN THE GARDENAnimal, Vegetable or Mineral?

since when it has sat on a multitude of windowsills – flowering w i t h o u t fail every summer. Out of all the t h o u s a n d s of plants I’ve had the pleasure of nurturing, perversely this is the one I have always treasured, even though it barely grew a couple of centimetres in all its 40 years. Good enough excuse, I thought, for taking my kids on their first ‘serious’ garden centre visit the other day to buy their own cactus, in the hope it might help spark the (as yet dormant) gardening bug……..

……..After diverting their attention from all the small furry animals, sweets, toys, interesting looking tools and other child attractors that are omnipresent in garden centres these days, we finally spotted the cacti in the plant comedy corner. I say comedy corner because it was more of a freak show than a plant display, with the cacti sitting alongside a fascinating arrangement of insectivorous plants (that’s another story) with some Cowboy and Indian figures to help set the scene.

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They were also quite taken by the ones covered in little flowers until yours truly spoiled the illusion by proving that they weren’t real flowers simply paper ones that had been cruelly stuck into the poor little cacti. After getting over this disappointment they chose, with much mirth and tittering, some plants which bore striking resemblances to little bottoms. Clearly they weren’t interested that these are actually better known as Living Stones or Lithops sp but at least it had the desired effect of generating a spark of interest. You can only imagine their amazement when some very pretty flowers appeared out of their little derrières - they still think I doctored them!

Whilst in this country we might think of cacti as little more than horticultural knick-knacks, elsewhere they are of immense commercial value. They are

widely used in landscapes in the States and Australia and also as cash crops for the product ion of cochineal and Tequila. But, as far as we are concerned, I think that global warming will see cactus and the rest of the succulent plant species being more commonly used as bedding plants. Personally I think they would make superb candidates for window box planting; imagine a box full of cacti outside all your downstairs windows – perfect anti-burglar devices.

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14SK LocalDecember 2010 Late & Sunday Pharmacies - Closing Times

School & Church Telephone NumbersSK Local

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homes and businesses. If you do business in or around Bredbury, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Chinley, Disley, Glossop, Great & Little Moor, Marple, New Mills, Offerton, Romiley, Whaley Bridge or Woodley then you can’t afford not to be in SK Local Directories.

Call Jayne on 07968 983 129 or by e-mail: [email protected] or Gary on 0161 449 5339 - [email protected] NOW.

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Lloyds, 242 Stockport Rd W, Bredbury, SK6 2AN 0161 430 2676 6:30 6:30 6:30 6:30 6:30 - -

Sainsbury’s, Hazel Grove 0161 483 3016 Closes at 10pm every day. Not bank holidays

Lloyds, 236 Wellington Rd, Stockport 0161 480 3371 Closes at 10pm every day. Including bank holidays

Emergencies: Police, Fire, Ambulance, Coast Guard, Mountain Rescue999 or 112

NHS DIRECT 0845 46 47

Useful Phone NumbersSK Local

School TelArden Primary School, Bredbury 0161 430 2675 Aquinas College 0161-483-3237 Bredbury Green Primary School 0161-430-3078Greave Primary School, Greave 0161 430 6318Harrytown Catholic High School, Romiley 0161-420-5277Marple Hall Secondary School, Marple 0161-427-7966 Romiley Pirmary School 0161-430-3101St. Christopher’s Primary School, Romiley 0161 430 4473 St. Marks C of E Primary School, Bredbury 0161 430 3418Werneth High, Romiley School 0161-494-1222Woodley Primary School 0161-430-6609Out of Area Schools:Brabyns Preparatory School 0161-427-2395Cheadle & Marple 6th Form College 0161-484-6600Ludworth Primary School 0161-427-1446Marple Hall Secondary School, Marple 0161-427-7966

Church TelC3 Stockport Creativity Groups 0161-612-3404Hatherlow United Reformed Church 0161-494-8817Our Lady & St. Christopher RC, Bredbury 0161-430-2704Romiley Methodist 0161-430-2964St. Barnabas Church, Bredbury 0161-406-6569St. Chads C of E, Romiley 0161-430-4652St. Marks Church, Bredbury 0161-406-6552St. Pauls C of E, Compstall 0161-427-1259Woodley Methodist Church 0161 430 2964Woodley United Reformed Church 0161-430-5772

Greater Manchester Police 0161-872-5050Crimestoppers 0800-555-111Stepping Hill Hospital 0161-419-5881Doctors: Bredbury (Auburn Avenue) 0161-426-5757 Doctors: Bredbury (Bents Lane) 0161-430-8708Doctors: Bredbury (Medical Centre) 0161-494-8884 Doctors: Romiley (Archway Surgery) 0161-426-5800 Doctors: Romiley (Health Centre) 0161-430-2573Doctors: Romiley (Bunkers Hill) 0161-430-3998Marple Clinic 0161-427-1806Woodley Health Centre 0161-426-9530 / 9494

Stockport MB Council 0161-480-4949Electricity - Power Loss 0800-195-4141Electrician 07976-893-528Gas - Emergency 0800-111-999Water - Faults (United Utilities) 0845-746-2200Plumber 07774-480-636Locksmith 07931-600-899BT Faultline 0800-800-151Bus & Train Enquiries 0161-228-7811National Traveline 0870-608-2608Manchester Airport 0161-489-3000

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Animal Care:DF Animal Care .................... 5

Car Sales & Services:Allan James Motors ......... FrontHarrison Motors Ltd ............... 8High Lane Garage ................... 7Romiley Motors ..................... 3

Furnishing Services:Mirror & Picture Factory ...... 13

Children’s Services:Kiddiwinks Nurseries ............ 16

Clock Repairs & Servicing:Marple Clocks. ........................ 4

Computer & Technical:ACS Computing .................... 11BLT ....................................... 15

Domestic Appliances:Appliance Repairs ................. 12

Electricians:TBG Inspection Services ........ 9

Estate Agents:Thomas Lardner ...................... 5

Garden Services:Mr. P’s Trees ......................... 10

Haberdashery:Knitters .................................... 7

Health & Beauty:Beautyfix ............................... 13Chic Petite ............................... 2

Home Security:Sure Locks .............................. 9

Joinery: Ian Tasker Woodworking ........ 6Johnston Joinery.................... 12

Painting & Decorating:Chris Perkins ........................... 4Painter Decorators ................... 7

Plumbing:JA Connor Plumbing ............. 12S. Jamieson External Plmbg . 11

Property Imprvmt & Repair:Advantage Flooring .............. 13Bathroom Design .................. 13Birchvale Developments ......... 4Halico Garage Doors ............... 7 Martin Quinn Bathrooms ........ 6

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