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The Knowledge: Colour choices
It's Friday – and our experts are here to tell you how to get the most out of your weekend. Jayne Dawson talks to them
Nest Building
American interior designer Van Day Truex once said; "Remember, colour is not just colour, but mood, temperature and structure." So choosing the right colours is key to how your room will turn out.
Red is associated with heat, energy and passion, yellow with sunshine and happiness, blue is calming and green symbolises hope.
The power of colour is often undervalued but picking the right one can make you feel more motivated, help you sleep easier or feel happier.
So next time your planning to decorate think what you will be doing in that room and which colour will work best.
Eat it
Salmon makes a good summer meal when simply grilled – but it's also worth cooking a large piece and using it for cold suppers too. Salmon is not as expensive as it was, and a wedge of it on a plate with mayonnaise, livened up with some chopped basil or tarragon, is delicious.
Having a piece of cold salmon in the fridge is also very useful when making summer sandwiches. Even a small amount will go a long way when mixed with light mayonnaise and peeled, chopped cucumber, parsley and a squeeze of lemon juice. Brown bread tastes best with this.
Get fit
Top trainer Richard Hill gives you his favourite exercise of the week to try.
Don't neglect your stretching:
Stretching after a hard session is essential to maintain your flexibility and joint health. Sessions such as yoga can give you some great ways to stretch out the body and feel great. Did you know that for every 30 minutes of strength exercise you do, you should aim to do 10 minutes of flexibility work. If you don't stretch out after a session, you are prone to injury and your performance won't improve. If you are looking to improve, then don't forget to stretch. Try to hold each stretch for 45-75 seconds to lengthen the muscle groups.
Please consult your GP before embarking on a programme of exercise.
For more info. visit www.richardhill.org.uk or www.funclasses.co.uk.
Read it
A Long Walk In The High Hills
Selina Scott
(Ebury 14.99)
Selina Scott's high-profile, thirty-year career in television broadcasting has always been balanced by a love of nature.
In 1996 she bought a small house in the Tramuntana mountains of Mallorca. This is a warm and witty memoir of her move to Spain to find a new, simpler way of life, only for a whole new batch of entanglement and one very strong-willed dog to turn life upside down again.
Listen to it
Hands
Little Boots
(679/Atlantic)
HYPED to the heavens long before its release, much would appear to be riding on Hands, the debut album from Victoria 'Little Boots' Hesketh.
The good news is this 12-song set largely justifies all the fuss.
Stuck on Repeat, Meddle and Earthquake are all pounding electro pop nuggets, modern equivalents of Giorgio Moroder's spangly disco floorfillers from the 1970s.
Producer du jour Greg Kurstin (Lily Allen, Britney Spears, Ladyhawke) adds his melodic nous to New In Town and Joe Goddard to Hot Chip chimes in with several co-writes, including Mathematics.
The obvious next single is Remedy but it may divide fans. Insanely catchy, it sounds like a Eurovision entry, even down to its chorus: "Move while you're watching me/Dance to the enemy/I've got a remedy/Oh, oh."
Then there's Tune into Your Heart and No Brakes, in which the 24-year-old University of Leeds graduate sounds uncomfortably like a Kylie Minogue clone.
Riding over the hill to save the day is Philip Oakey of the Human League. As his baritone booms "So tell me your dreams and I'll tell you all my fears" you'll be transported back to the heady days of Love Action – much like Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes.
The New Romantic revival? Bring it on.
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