Kokova Magazine

Now in it's fourth year, Nigel Haworth's Fantastic Food Show is back in Blackburn on Sunday 19th May 2013 at Ewood Park. The show has attracted an array of celebrity chefs including Aldo Zilli, Tom Kerridge and Atul Kochhar - and is vast becoming one of, if not the largest food festival to take place in the region. 2013 promises to offer even more inspiration to food lovers, children and everyone who just loves to know where their food comes from, how it's produced, how it tastes, how to grow and how to cook it. So, if you are passionate about food then make sure this date is in your diary!

Fed up with mince pies and the Christmas crackers already? If so, why not take a break from the same old traditional festivities by heading to the Ripley's Alternative Christmas Festival in the heart of Piccadilly Circus. The capital's most bizarre attraction is playing host to a series of quirky Christmas events during December.

Pet vaccinations have dramatically risen in cost over the last few years, with quotes of up to £50 for a single annual dog booster. Unfortunately these rises in price have led to a number of owners skipping their pet's annual vaccination. Whilst the need for yearly boosters is still subject to controversy and many are still campaigning for this to drop to three yearly intervals, it is still a necessity to have a booster periodically, and essential that kittens and puppies get their initial inoculations, to stop the spread of life-threatening diseases. We discovered the Easipetcare Vaccination Clinics and think they may just have the solution to ever-increasing annual booster costs.

As the 'Foodie Coach and Healthy Eating Mentor for Busy Women', Karen Kennaby has the knack for helping busy women to realise they can eat healthy, and enjoy it, whatever their schedule involves. This knack is born from her own personal experience and a huge amount of training both in food and nutrition and in how the mind works.

When it comes to buying a new pair of glasses, what seems like a bargain can be the start of an accumulation of costs that sees those lovely frames becoming a very expensive completed pair of spectacles. SpeckyFourEyes (S4E) takes the stress of buying out of the equation and lets you select the glasses you want, with minimum effort, with transparent pricing throughout - and for fraction of the high street cost!

British cooker manufacturer Belling is celebrating its 100th anniversary this week with an eight-foot interactive cake and, for five days, social media users can add to the design by tweeting a birthday message. The 'tweets' will be auto-printed onto edible paper using edible ink and added instantly to the cake. The eight-foot high birthday cake has been created by quirky cake artist Connie Viney and the design - which shows historic British events from the last 100 years - was crowdsourced via Belling's Facebook community.