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C o n t ent s 4 Editor’s Comments 6 Spring Motoring?

With A Smile!

7 Service Cloudy2Clear Windows

10 20 Year Anniversary

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Jazzercise

12 Hypnotherapy 4All 14 Indulge In The Light - Fit-ex.com 17 Fresh, Cool drinking water - Jaqua Solutions 22 Gardening in April 25 Buckingham Garden Centre Competition WIN £25

26 Index 27 Community What’s On

Go To Page 12 to see how to help with wieght loss

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Welcome...

APRIL ISSUE 2013

The aim of the monthly Buckingham In Business Magazine is to support businesses in order that the local community can flourish. www.inbusinessmags.co.uk inbusinessmagazines@gmail.com Office: 0844 6933228 Home: 01386 861478 Mobile: 07899 757473 ADVERTISING Kate Martin FEATURES EDITOR Jen Oakton NEXT ISSUE COPY DATE 17th April 2013

The sun has been out and shining on Buckingham (I definitely saw it!).

It’s time to get out in the garden, fill your lungs with fresh air and make a start on preparing the borders for summer colour. If you are feeling especially full of the joys of Spring and inspired by being outdoors, why not pop down to Buckingham Garden Centre.

If gardening is the last thing you want to do, consider employing a local gardener to do the hard graft for you. Look inside for contact details.

If, by the time this magazine hits the doormat, the sun has disappeared again, then treat yourself to a ticket to see Comedy Night with Hal Cruttenden! Sunday 7th April, Tickets for the performances on sale at Information Centre, Old Gaol.

Until next month…

© 2013. All artwork and copy appearing in this publication is copyright and may not be reproduced without written permission from the publisher.

All information published is correct according to those who supplied it and no responsibility is taken if it is not. Care is taken to ensure all advertisements are truthful and no liability is accepted for errors or emissions. The right to refuse advertisements is reserved. The use of this publication for canvassing, direct marketing or any other activity apart from sourcing local goods and services is strictly prohibited.

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Spring Motoring Now that the weather has turned a little warmer, it is time to give your car a little TLC. The harsh cold months may have taken their toll so start with a thorough clean to reduce the risk of any long-term damage. The underside of a car can become covered with mud and salt and this can cause corrosion if left.

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If your car is not yet due a service, it’s wise to have a seasonal check to make sure all is well. Local garages often offer a low cost springtime check that will highlight any immediate or potential problems, and offer reassurance that your vehicle is fully roadworthy for the months ahead.

Don’t ignore the inside of your car – this may have been damp throughout the winter months and needs some attention to ensure it stays in tip-top condition.

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PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING

PAT THOMPSON

MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling UKCP Registered Psychotherapist, MBACP. •I am a registered Psychotherapist with over 20 years experience, the last 16 years being in private practice in this area.

•I work with a broad range of people from many walks of life including: - Some who are deeply unhappy, without knowing why.

- Some who cannot break out of abusive patterns of behaviour which are damaging to themselves or others.

- Some who are overwhelmed with powerful feelings, thoughts and emotions and cannot make sense of them.

- Some who have lost their way and a sense of who they are.

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•I believe that people’s present day problems are often rooted in the past and can be ingrained, I can help to resolve these and put them into perspective.

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JAZZERCISE 20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY As a way of celebrating 20 years of teaching Jazzercise, Keri Donnellan has completed a tour of her class areas with a fabulous set of old routines hand picked as her favourites from over the years. Through the month of March, the special class took place in Aylesbury, Halton, Tring, Wilstone, Winslow, Pitstone, Milton Keynes & Buckingham.

In addition to celebrating such a fantastic achievement, Keri and her team also raised money for Comic Relief.

When she started teaching back in 1993, instructors used cassettes for their music and wore lovely thong leotards! iPods are now used and the thongs are long gone, but Jazzercise is still one of the best Fitness programs in the world, going strong after 45 years, ever evolving with the times and exercise fashions. For 15 years, she taught for other instructors, but finally took the leap to set up her own classes in 2007. Since then, she has gone from teaching 6 classes a week on her own, to running 29 classes a week and having a team of 12 instructors.

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“When I started the classes back in the Autumn of 2007, little did I know it would grow into such a fantastic team of instructors with an amazing group of customers. I have been lucky to make some great friends and meet some wonderful people in the last few years and am looking forward to the next 20!�.

Jazzercise offers a unique blend of cardio fitness, dance, strength training & stretch that is a lot of fun.

With classes running weekday mornings & evenings plus Saturday & Sunday mornings, there really is something somewhere for everyone. The 60-minute Jazzercise class includes a warm-up, high-energy aerobic routines, muscletoning and cool-down stretch segment. Jazzercise combines elements of dance, resistance training, Pilates, yoga, kick-boxing and more to a class for people of every age and fitness level.

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Health &Beauty

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During this programme you will learn how to: • think, feel and eat like a slim person • lose weight permanently • easily manage and reduce cravings • be in complete control of what you eat • feel better and more confident about yourself and how you look • develop permanently healthier eating habits

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We all know we should be drinking plenty of water everyday to maintain good health, but did you know how easy and economical it can be.

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With our flexible contracts we can supply water solutions for residential, commercial and all occasions like sports events, meetings and parties.

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The Garden in APRIL Are you plugged in to plug plants?

How impatient are you? Come on, be brutally honest now, asks Buckingham Garden Centre’s Chris Day. The way we garden and how much time we spend doing it really depends on our lifestyle but when those ever-so innovative nurserymen decided to market part-grown seedling and cuttings just a few years ago, they were onto a winner from day one.

Because, let’s be frank here, when it comes to germination, our patience can be stretched to the extreme! But please don’t get me wrong I still sow plants from seed, mainly vegetables but some flowers, but guaranteed results, especially with bedding (seasonal) plants, is what we want these days! That explains, perhaps, why vegetable seed sales are outstripping flower seeds, and that the popularity of all manner of plug plants are selling well at garden centres.

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• Easter Weekend is early enough to start off your plants. If you can’t plant them straight away grow them on a bright windowsill, spacing the plants out. Popular varieties can sell out quickly, so be savvy and don’t miss the boat. Seedlings, however, have a short shelf-life, so don’t hang about with these, move them swiftly into cell trays using good quality traditional potting compost or a multipurpose compost.

• Carefully water the seedlings and allow them to drain for half an hour. You must keep the compost damp, watering when the top surface starts to feel dry. It’s worth noting that more seedlings die through drowning in misplaced kindness.

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Written by Chris Day Buckingham Garden Centre 01280 822133

• Seedlings, like Lettuce, Begonias and Onions, benefit from being moved into individual compartment trays so they can be moved without any disturbance. Mesh and small 6cm thumb pots need to be moved into 9cm pots if you are planting straight into cropping bags in the case of greenhouse crops or hanging baskets or similar planters. Hanging basket plants such as Fuchsias, Pelargoniums and trailing Verbena may need pinching to help encourage a branching plant.

• Most compost contains sufficient food to last around six weeks from planting. You can still buy traditional peat-based compost, which is especially useful for potting up plug plants.

Commence liquid feeding with Phostrogen or Miracle-Gro after the 6 weeks from re-potting.

• You may need to adjust the regularity of weekly feeds if a slow release fertiliser such as Osmocote has been incorporated into the compost.

• Once your seedlings are ready for planting out then it is important they are gradually acclimatised to the garden. The process of ‘hardening off’ can be hastened by using cold frames, or simply bringing plants into cooler conditions and then fleecing at night if frost threatens. Vegetables plants like Lettuce, Cabbage and Carrots respond well to this.

Chitted Potatoes can be planted out from Good Friday onwards in well-prepared soil. The ‘earthing-up’ process will help protect the shoots through May when frosts can still do damage.

• Keep a note of the plants you’ve grown from seedlings, seed and net pots for future reference.

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The Garden in APRIL

FREE MARROW SEEDS UP FOR GRABS At our Potato Weekend back in February we launched a competition to grow the largest, heaviest or weirdest shape Marrow and we still have packets of free seeds available if you wish to take part.

Please ask at our Customer Service Desk when you next visit us.

Marrow seeds are very easy to germinate, sowing them into small pots is best and they can be planted out in May once the fear of frost has passed. We have produced a special fact sheet to help you grow Marrows, and we look forward to seeing your entries on our weigh-in day on Saturday 21st September as part of our Apple & Chilli Festival Weekend.

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Written by Chris Day Buckingham Garden Centre 01280 822133

Top Tip Attracting beneficial wildlife into the garden should be a priority this month – either by selecting and planting some established plants such as nectar-rich Buddleja (butterfly bushes), Thymes or Asters or by simply sowing some wildflower seeds ad hoc around the garden, along pathways, in unkempt areas or used as insect nectar banks around the fruit and vegetable garden. Seeds can be simply scattered - or broadcast to use the correct term - over the soil and carefully raked into the top 2-5cm of soil. Alternatively, sow them in cell-pack trays - fill with seed sowing compost and sow a pinch of wildflower mixture seed (pictured is the Suttons Annual Mix, which contains Field Poppy, Field Cornflower, Corn Marigold amongst others) and then lightly cover with sieved compost and water in. In 2-3 weeks time you will have a batch of healthy and vigorous seedlings, which can be planted out where they are to flower.

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Here’s a superb opportunity to give your garden a much deserved mini makeover or project by winning our easy-to-enter competition. To win simply answer the question and TWO lucky readers will have a chance to win a Buckingham Garden Centre Gift Voucher, worth £25 perfect for those new plants and seed purchases!

Question: Flowering cherry trees are great attractants for bees – the ‘Flagpole’ variety being hugely popular. However, which of the following is the correct Latin name for this spring beauty?

A: Prunus ‘Kanzan’ B: Prunus sargentii C. Prunus ‘Amanogawa’ Pop your answer A, B or C together with your name and address to: competition@buckingham-nurseries.co.uk Or by post to: Buckingham Garden Centre, Tingewick Road, Buckingham MK18 4AE

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Accountancy 2 Bathrooms 2,18,19 Beauty 9 Blinds 14 Brickwork 2,19,22 Builders & Supplies 2,18,19 Caravan Repairs 15 Car Services/Repairs/MOT’S 6,28 Car Dealers 28 Carpentry 18 Chimney Repointing 13,18 Coach Hire 5 Computers 1,5 Counselling 9 Dance 11 Dentist 11 Designers 16 Driveways 22 Education & Tuition 9 Electrician 21 Energy Performance Assessors 21 Extensions 2,19 Fencing 2,22,23,24 Flooring 19 Garage Conversions 2 Garden Centre 25 Garden Design 23,24 Garden Maintenance 22,23,24 Garden Supplies 25 Groundwork 19 Guttering & Fascias 13,18 Hairdressers 8 Holiday Cottage 13 Home Improvements/Refurbishment 18 Hypnotherapy 12 Jazzercise 10 Kitchens 2,18,19 Landscaping 2,22,23,24 Logs & Kindling 2,13 Motorhome Hire 15 Painting and Decorating 18,22

Patios & Paving 2,22,23,24 Plumbing/Plumbers & Heating 19,20,21 Printing 16 Property Maintenance 22 Psychotherapy 9 Re-Pointing 22 Reflexology 9 Roofing 2,13,18 ,19 Stonework 2 Skip Hire 18,25 Tiling 18 Therapist 9 Tree Surgeon 22,23 Turfing 22,23 TV Aerials & Satellites 20 Tyre Sales 15 Video Production 16 Water 16,17 Windows/Conservatories & Repairs 7,13,19 Wood Floors 18,19

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Wed 3 April Craft workshop for young people 10am-3pm organised by AVDC Buckingham Old Gaol more details from 01296 585206 Sun 7 April Comedy Night with Hal Cruttenden plus support 7.30pm organised by Buckingham Town Council Old Town Hall, Buckingham tickets on sale at Information Centre, Old Gaol £12.50 (over 18s only) Tue 9 April Children's activities - animal theme 10.30am-12.30 organised

by Buckingham Old Gaol Old Gaol more details from www.buckinghamoldgaol.org.uk or 823020 Wed 10 April Talk by Dan Allen on "Soldiers for the working day" 7.30pm organised by Buckingham Old Gaol Old Gaol more details from www.buckinghamoldgaol.org.uk Thur 11 April Family Fun Day organised by Buckingham Town Council Chandos Park more details from 816426 Tue 23 April Valuation Day by Bonhams 10am till 2pm Buckingham Old Gaol bring along up to three items for valuation Sunday 28th April Tingewick Patchers Patchwork Exhibition 10am till 4pm at Tingewick Village Hall Main Street, Tingewick, Buckingham, MK18 4NN Refreshments available.

Arthritis Research UK and Medical Detection Dogs

Bank Holiday Monday 6th May Thornborough Fun Run and 10 mile Race. A very popular event now in its 28th year attracting over 300 runners last year, 53 of whom ran in the 10 mile race.For further information, go the website of www.bucksinfo.net/tssc/ More info next month

Admission Free TOWCESTER RACECOURSE in APRIL

Tues 23rd 17.20 - 20.05 Mon 29th 14.00 - 17.05 Please check times for changes www.towcester-racecourse.co.uk

EVERY MONDAY Dance School Stepbystep Ballroom and Latin Dancing with Jean Conway Adults 7.30pm - 8.20pm Improvers Adults 8.30pm - 9.30pm NEW Beginners Buckingham School, Brookfield Lane, Buckingham MK18 1AT Call Jean on 07855546406 Jazzercise 7.30-8.30pm @ Winslow CofE Combined School, Winslow, 07900 987230 or jazzercise1@hotmail.co.uk Ceroc dance class 7.45- 10.45 at Buckingham Community Centre.

New members welcome every week. www.cerocbucks.com EVERY MONDAY/THURSDAY Buckingham & Stowe Running Club. Runners of all abilities welcome. Just turn-up. 6.45 pm at Swan Pool, Buckingham Simon 07968099751 or info@buckandstowerc.co.uk EVERY TUESDAY Zumba (Latin-inspired dance-fitness) class 7.30pm - 8.25pm Buckingham school, Buckingham 07919962307 or info@zumbabuckingham.co.uk Jazzercise 7.30-8.30pm @ Bourton Meadow Academy, Buckingham, 07900 987230 or jazzercise1@hotmail.co.uk EVERY WEDNESDAY Jazzercise 7.30-8.30pm @ Winslow CofE Combined School, Winslow, 07900 987230 or jazzercise1@hotmail.co.uk EVERY THURSDAY Zumba Gold (Latin-inspired dance-fitness) class for the older active adult, true beginner or people who are not used to exercising 14:10pm - 15.00pm Swan Pool, Buckingham (class is not on Swan Pool timetable) 07919962307 or info@zumbabuckingham.co.uk Jazzercise 7.30-8.30pm @ Bourton Meadow Academy, Buckingham, 07900 987230 or jazzercise1@hotmail.co.uk SATURDAYS/TUESDAYS Chrgd NRG Dance Classes at Calvert Green community hall for children 10am to 11am,Saturdays at Steeple Claydon Methodist Church for children 2:30 to 3:30 and 3:30 to 4:30pm Tuesdays Steeple Claydon Methodist Church 7 to 8pm for children Tuesdays 8 to 9pm for adults currently £2 per session per person for any more info, please phone Sheree Bird, artistic director, on 07754 870052 or e-mail chrgdnrg@btinternet.com SUNDAY (EXCEPT BANK HOLIDAYS) The Latin Lounge - welcoming everyone to discover dance, new friends and some tasty tapas! Trained teachers of Salsa, Kizomba & Bachata.

Classes from 7.30pm - social dancing till 10.30pm.

Tanlaw Mill, Hunter Street, University of Buckingham. MK18 1EG. Call David 07939 535 545 or go to Facebook.com/thelatinlounge

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