World's first sensory restaurant for BABIES - Opens in London

World's first sensory restaurant for BABIES complete with digital menus and interactive menus opens doors Weeny Weaning Restaurant opened doors today in Clapham  - Features sensory area, digital menus and interactive eating areas - Aims to encourage children to adopt healthy eating habits early on


The world’s first sensory restaurant for babies, which aims to encourage healthy eating from a young age, has opened its doors today.


With the aim of helping mothers and fathers introduce their little ones to healthy eating habits early on, the Weeny Weaning Restaurant aims to help families make mealtimes fun through sensory play and expert advice.

The restaurant in Clapham features a dedicated sensory area where mini diners are encouraged to play and explore before taking their seats to tuck in.

'If you can involve your little ones in the food preparation process, such as giving them veggies and fruits to play with, it will make them more engaged from the start,' explained Consultant Infant Nutritionist Claire Baseley.

'Letting them see, touch and smell the food will make them feel involved and in return they will be more likely to try new tastes.'

Babies are then encouraged to try new flavours, in order to encourage them to discover and accept new foods and tastes, in the 'taste zone'.


Little ones will be seated in highchairs at interactive tables, from which they will be able to choose from their very own digital menu, allowing them to select their own mains and desserts.

Creators say that the colourful interactive menu features state-of-the-art technology, designed to be ideal for little fingers to tap and touch.

'The interactive menu is another great way of generating that important sensory engagement, by using visuals of fruit and vegetables to introduce babies to the ingredients they are about to munch on.


'They are able to look at colours and shapes and engage their senses visually, which will make them more excited about new shapes, textures and foods they try,' said Claire.

Depending on the number of times they tap a particular food icon over a 30-second period, the digital menu responds accordingly and the waiters bring the children their selected choice of food, which has been developed with advice from child nutritionists.

Speaking about the new restaurant, Claire, who worked on the menu, added: 'We understand that mums and dads sometimes find mealtimes tricky, and that it can take quite a few tries to familiarise any hungry little ones with a new taste or texture.


'We also know that by introducing little ones’ taste buds to a wide variety of different and exciting tastes, it can help encourage them to grow up to be good little eaters.


'That’s why it’s super important to try to introduce little ones to new foods, especially savoury vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower, every day during the first weeks of weaning.


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Lavender fest

Cyherbia Herb Gardens are organising their third Annual Lavender Fest in Avgorou, taking place from the 14th till the 29th of June.

During the festival you can immerse yourself in the wonderful colour and fragrance of lavender in the herb gardens, and witness the extraction of essential oil of lavender.

Lavender craft workshops will be held on selected days, check out Cyherbia's website of facebook page for dates and times.

In the Tea Room there will be biscuits, ice tea, liqueur and even ice cream made with lavender for you to sample, all made on the premises.

 

In the herb shop you can find our own cosmetics, soaps, teas and many other organic lavender products.

 

Cyherbia park also  features the one and only Hedge Maze in Cyprus! Can you find your way out as well as the hidden items? The Woodland area in the park has been planted in the shape of the island. Here you can literally walk around Cyprus and discover the 7 wonders of the island.

 

During the festival, on June 21st, the Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment mr. Nikos Kouyialis will official open out new Essential Oil Distillation Unit.

 

More information on www.cyherbia.com orwww.facebook.com/cyherbia

 

Miranda Tringis
Herbalist Dip. HM (Inst. NH)
tel. +35799915443

Terry's Crepes

Terry's Crepes 

We specialize in Birthdays Christenings Special Ocassions & Other Events 

Tel: 99757844 

The plight of the little man - Paula Manoli-Gray

Everyone has their button, their Achilles heel; the one thing that sets them off or defeats them. For me it is injustice and being wrongly accused.

Something in particular that really sets me off in Cyprus is the way that somehow, I always get unfair parking fines. My husband and I are the kind of people who will turn back and go home if we can't find legal parking, rather than park illegally. We will always put money in the metre or send the text message, yet, somehow, we always (unfairly) end up on the wrong side of the law, or rather, Sods Law!

Last week I parked on a metre, sent my text to pay and went off to the shop I needed to visit. When I got in, I noticed that I hadn't received a text message back confirming my payment and remarked to the shop assistant that I was going to get booked for sure, then promptly resent the text. Said shop assistant was telling me not to worry, it wouldn't happen. Then after some time, two text messages came back confirming my parking; the one from earlier and the one that I resent. Phew I thought! Anyone else would have been okay, but I knew in the pit of my stomach that the parking curse would strike again, and of course it did! I returned to the car, found a ticket and tracked down the traffic warden who wrote it. She was very nice and told me that often the text messages delay and there is a crossover from the time the traffic wardens get sent the message and the time they are booking. Do not worry she assured me, happens all the time, go and talk to the traffic department and all will be resolved… but still I knew, 'I am parking cursed'.

When I went and explained, they were very nice but the computer had no record of the first text. I showed them the messages on my phone, they jotted it all down and said that they would look into it. The next day I got a call saying that my fine was valid, that the time on their system that the text was sent was later than the time of the fine. I won't bore you with the half hour that ensued of me shouting, pleading injustice, getting offended that they thought I was lying and would make a fuss over €8 for no reason, that I would be daft enough to send a text after I got a fine, and, and, and. The call concluded with the gentleman telling me he would put it to the committee. Well, I have no doubt that it will not rule in my favour and I will have to pay the fine.

When I worked in Nicosia, I had to park in residential streets as our office had no parking. I got three tickets on three separate occasions for parking outside people's houses where the entire neighbourhood parked its cars (but strangely no one else got a ticket). There were no yellow lines, no 'no parking' signs and when I went to contest them, I was told that technically, everyone who parks outside of their house is parking illegally. Apparently, just because there is nothing telling you that you cannot park, it doesn't that you can park; there has to be a sign giving permission to park. When I retorted with the fact that every single home owner would then be fined if that was the case, they told me that if they wanted to fine them, they could and if I tried to contest the tickets I would only incur a lengthy and expensive court case. I paid them of course (they were €45 each…) but knew that the real reason I had received those tickets was probably because I had parked outside the houses of various residents who had then called the police and told them I was parking outside of THEIR property and to fine me to teach me a lesson not to park there again.

So, I am left with this feeling of complete rage and helplessness when I am wrongly accused or treated unfairly. The fact that the little person can never go against the authorities and receive justice because it will always be their word against that of a person in power's scares me no end. That and the fear that these unfair parking fines will eventually bankrupt me!

Kataklysmos Fair

Kataklysmos

Friday 6th June 

In Cyprus, the celebrations also hark back to the Old Testament tale of Noah’s Ark, the Greek myth of Deukalion and ancient ceremonies in honour of Aphrodite and Adonis. Larnaka is particularly proud of the festivities it puts on for several days to celebrate Kataklysmos.

The sea front promenade takes on the appearance of an open-air fair with scores of stalls selling toys and traditional food. Traditional culture takes pride of place with a competition for chatista or rhyming songs in the Cypriot dialect. Other performers include popular Greek and Cypriot singers and dance troupes. In line with the spirit of the celebrations, events include competitions in the water.

Information Provided by :Cyprus Tourism Organisation