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Get Puzzled
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Watering and Wellies
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Mum’s the Word
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Keep On Running
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Crofton Parish
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Recipe of the Month
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Home Focus
Test yourself with this month’s crossword
Information on Health Clinics, groups and a great crafty activity! Why does Colin want to be a Creme Egg?
How to transform your green space with containers
Take the Gosport Golden Mile challenge on Fathers Day! Slow Cooked Chicken Tikka Masala
Create seamless storage for an organised home
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Why? Because there are two bank holidays for a start! Who doesn’t love a long weekend off work, especially in May when the weather is starting to warm up! It’s about this time of year that as a family we start our ‘fish and chip Fridays’ down the beach. A quick walk to the local chippie and dinner on the beach, sometimes followed by an ice cream is the perfect way to finish a busy week at work or school. So much happens down on the waterside in the summer time we seem to forget how lovely it is in the colder months. My children can’t wait for the Splash Park to re-open on Stokes Bay and they are very excited to see what the new one in Lee will be like. As the weather warms up and you throw open the doors to let the fresh air in, you may start to think it is time to give the garden some TLC! Lucky for you there are some great businesses inside this lovely glossy mag that can help you. From big landscaping projects to smaller ‘tidy-up’ jobs, have a look through and give them a call. If you want to get out there and do it yourself, there’s the monthly ‘Watering and Wellies’ article to give you some hints and tips. We, however, are still working on the inside of our home and the final project is the bathroom! (why o why did we leave that to the end!!) It will commence in the next couple of weeks and although we are excited to finally finish the last room, as I look around the house I’m starting to see what needs decorating again! Does it ever end? I may just stay in the garden, with a G&T in the sun (fingers crossed!) and ignore it for a little while…
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Mum’s the Word Welcome to Mum’s the Word, an article containing helpful information, tips, advice & reviews. If you have any suggestions we would love to hear from you!
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Crafty Creations Club Bridgemary Library 3.30pm-4.30pm
** NEW GROUP ** Stay ‘N’ Play Toddler Group Baptist Church, Jay Close, Stubbington 1.15pm-2.45pm
** NEW GROUP ** Melody Makers Salvation Army Community Hall, Crossways, Gosport, 1.30pm - 2.30pm
£1 includes refreshments Baby area, puzzles, kitchen area, activity table & lots of toys to play with!
Cost is £1.00 including a drink and a biscuit. Come along for some singing, dancing and fun!
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Simply Dance The Crofton Club, Titchfield Road, Fareham 9.15am-10.15am 0-12 months 10.45am-11.45am 1-3 yrs
A new craft club for under 5’s. All under fives and their carers are welcome. Free, no need to book For details contact Ruth on 02392 523463
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Get creative and crafty with all sorts of papercraft! Suitable for age 5-10 yrs. Parents must remain in the library at all times. FREE, no need to book! Come along and make something fabulous!
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Get Crafty! FAIRY GARDEN
There’s something so satisfying about crafting at home. Whether you’re making cards for loved ones, gifts for friends or just something delicious for yourself. Children love crafting, so here’s another idea to try with them at home 1. Making a beautiful fairy garden needn’t be too challenging. Choose a smallish garden pot, a terracotta one will work fine. Fill it with some compost up to the top.
WHAT YOU NEED:
* Plant pot (plastic or terracotta) or a wooden barrel 2. Plant your chosen plants into the corners and allow room for * Small plants such as trailing lobelia, and other container or rockery plants. them to spread. * Fairy garden furniture of choice. This can be ordered online or why 3. You can fill any gaps with not try to recycle some old small pebbles. toys/dolls house furniture
4. Position your chosen ornaments and sit back and enjoy the magic!
MY MONTH AS A MUM By the time you guys read this, the Easter holidays will be drawing to a close but I wanted to share with you a new Easter tradition we created this year. If you are a follower of the ‘Small Talk’ (found at the beginning of the mag) you will know that I’m a huge fan of family traditions and memory making. When a friend mentioned ‘egg rolling’ to me, I had to give it a try! It’s so simple and best of all its practically free! We boiled up 4 eggs, decorated them with Sharpies and headed up Butser Hill. I’d like to say we didn’t spend an hour wandering around fields filled with sheep and cow poo looking for a perfect spot, but we did! After a few moans from the kids and my husband, we took our positions and released our eggs! They bounced down the hill, with bits of egg shell flying everywhere. Amelia’s stopped on a ledge suddenly half way and Judes rolled the furthest. The kids loved it and had a few more turns together and didn’t stop till the eggs were practically scrambled! Try it with your bunch, no need to wait for Easter! 13
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Crofton Parish
I JUST WANT TO BE A CREME EGG! The season of Easter seems to begin earlier and earlier each year and sometimes Easter Eggs begin to appear in the supermarkets even before Lent. For what seems like months the chocolate Easter eggs of varying sizes and prices line the shelves ready for us to pop into our trolleys as we pass by. Most major confectioners are represented, each box containing, besides the egg, a chocolate bar or two or a packet of sweets, all intended to promote the product even further. Eggs have long been associated with Easter and are wonderful signs of new life and fresh beginnings. Originally, they were painted hens’ eggs. The chocolate varieties first began to appear in France and Germany in the early 19th century, shortly after a suitable eating chocolate had been
invented. Initially they were solid and it wasn’t until 1875 that the first Easter egg, as we are now accustomed, was produced in Britain after developments in manufacturing allowed molten chocolate to be poured into a mould. At first, they were dark chocolate, filled with sugared almonds and decorated on the outside with chocolate piping and marzipan flowers. Milk chocolate eggs were introduced in 1905, with sales increasing so dramatically that they quickly became a seasonal best seller. Today, we can no longer think about Easter without Easter eggs and like the decorated hen’s eggs of the Middle Ages, they still remind us of that first Easter Sunday when Jesus rose from the dead and appeared, first to Mary Magdalene, and later to his disciples. Moreover, the hollow egg is a powerful symbol of the empty tomb. When the women and the disciples visited the grave, they found Jesus’ body had gone
and angels announcing that he was no longer there but had risen!
in Christ offers us a new life by filling us with his living, loving presence.
Easter eggs continue to speak to us of the Easter miracle and although they come in many varieties, they are all essentially the same – a lovely looking and attractive shell with a hollow centre. In many ways, we can be a bit like an Easter egg, with lives that can appear wonderfully attractive, and sometimes enviable to those on the outside but on the inside, if we are honest, we feel a bit empty and hollow, as if something were missing. That’s because each of us was created with a spiritual hole that only God can truly fill. Through Jesus’ death on the cross and his rising again, something of cosmic significance occurred, which has both altered the course of human history and can change us in the present. The Easter story is one in which we can know God personally, deal with our past mistakes and experience a fresh start, knowing that the risen Jesus is always with us. We need no longer be like a traditional Easter egg, hollow on the inside but more like the ones with the yummy, creamy centres. At Easter, God
If you would like to know more, why not come to an Easter service at a church near you. In Crofton Parish we begin Easter Sunday with a short service on the beach at 6am with bacon butties afterwards and end with a celebration at 6.30pm. For details of all our services, both at St Edmund’s and Holy Rood, visit our website. www.coftonparish.org.uk
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Home Focus
HOME FOCUS Conquer the Clutter
One of the keys to a beautiful home is seamless storage and organisation, ensuring that everything has a place, and that everyone knows how the home operates. Let’s face it, there’s nothing worse than spending time and money styling up your home to find that on a practical level it doesn’t work because you haven’t thought through where your day to day ‘stuff’ should live. Show homes are often guilty of smudging over the practicalities of life in favour of style. They design the space with gorgeous accessories and furnishings, but neglect the small, but hugely necessary requirement to store your hoover. Or they place a lovely ottoman at the end of the bed together with a TV on the wall but no-where in site is anything that resembles a wardrobe. But fear not! Here are some tips to get your home functioning beautifully and with great style. 1.
Declutter
Imagine you are about to move house. (It’s good to get into this mindset because it helps you to be really ruthless). Tackle one part of a room at a time so you don’t get overwhelmed. Go through your belongings and think about whether you really, really need the ‘thing’. Whether you adopt the fashionable Konmari method, or simply create three piles - keep, bin and charity - you can quickly filter your belongings and get them down to a manageable amount. Once you have less it’s far easier to find suitable storage solutions. 2.
Act on the declutter
It’s really easy, once you’ve gone through the above exercise, to leave the bin bags or boxes in a bit pile in the hallway and then not quite get round to moving them. Do this part immediately otherwise before you know it,
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Set up a family command centre those ruthless decisions you made earlier will 4. be undone and you’ll find yourself pulling bits This doesn’t have to be as scary as it sounds. out of the bags as you slowly change your A console table in the hallway is perfect for mind. this. You can store keys in small drawers, hang family planners on the wall to keep 3. Storage everyone on track and use the space Now comes the fun part. Assess what things underneath for slippers or shoes to ensure you’re left with and take a look at their the hallway stays tidy. You can have a post purpose. Do you actually need a kitchen tray here, and baskets to pop bits in like drawer full of screwdrivers and string, or are lunchboxes or sports kit to go in/out of the those things better off in the garage so that house. you can use your kitchen drawer for 5. Clothing storage teatowels and herbs? Treat yourself to new storage solutions. Do a stocktake of what If space allows, consider moving seasonal you have to store before you leave. Make clothes around so that your hanging and sure you measure the dimensions of shelving drawer space isn’t compromised by holding or cupboards first and always buy more all of your attire. If you are able to vacuum containers or baskets than you think you’re bag a whole season then you can pop it away going to need. Even if you don’t fill them in the loft and give the remaining clothes immediately it’ll save a trip back to the shop space to breathe. Rolling your clothes in your when you do need them (or worse, find that drawers is also another great way to save you can’t get matching items when you need space but also see what you’ve got, instead of them). Acrylic storage containers are the traditional ‘fold and stack’ method which particularly fashionable at the moment and always results in rummaging and subsequent you can home-create stunning labels for disorder. them that will be Insta-worthy in a flash!
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Watering and Wellies
SELF CONTAINED How to use pots and planters in your
garden to your advantage
Whether you have an acreage or a balcony, using containers in your garden can be a hugely practical, or cosmetic step and can transform your green space in a way that (in my opinion), no other garden ‘accessory’ can.
From a practical point of view, if you are limited on outside space, container gardening is perfect if you want to grow your own produce. Carrots and tomatoes will generally thrive happily in a grow bag or pot that has enough depth for the carrot to plough down, and if you have some canes or similar, tomatoes will wind their way up them and fill the air with that beautiful smell that only a tomato plant can throw off.
me. You can pretty much redesign your garden in an afternoon if you so choose. Just make sure that you use a trolley to move anything particularly heavy, or pop your pots onto wheels to trundle them around. We recently visited a café in London where they First of all, lets take a look at the practical had created a complete oasis in a courtyard aspects of using containers. Drainage is the with stunning ferns and palm trees in giant number one priority if you are planting up a pots that came up to our waists. The whole container (as opposed to using it for a water effect was tropical, private and yet not one feature etc) to prevent your plant roots from plant was in the ground. If you removed drowning. If your chosen pot does not come Siting your plants is important - just because everything what you’d be left with would be you can move a planter around doesn’t mean a plain patio. Imagine what you could do with holes, you can drill these fairly easily that the plant will be happy anywhere. Be yourself - 3 or 4 holes should be sufficient. with a small outside space and some mindful of the location required for the incredible pots! Next you may want to fill the base with some chosen plant and bear in mind that most Container planting is also good for those of us vegetables will be happiest with lots of shingle mixed with a few bigger stones. sunshine and a bit of shelter so that they who want instant gratification and can’t be Make sure that these are larger than the don’t get hit with cold winds. You can add a holes you have created so that they don’t patient enough to wait for things to grow. bamboo screen if you’re high up - not only drop through. There is an argument from You can get a tree or a bush already planted with this give you and your plants some those who are well-versed on soil science up from the garden centre. All you have to protection but it will look really stylish too. that adding crockery or other drainage do is get it in a car and bring it home. Bear in material is actually, (excuse the pun), potty. mind that this option is going to be more A watering regime is a must for container Without going into it too much, it’s all to do expensive because you’ve allowed someone with the way soil drains and the natural water planting as the plants won’t be able to draw else to do the nurturing for you, but the table. Water will drain out of the holes in the on the moisture available from the ground. advantage of this, particularly if you’re not In hot weather, give your plants a really bottom of your pots whether the additional very green-fingered, is that you’re likely to thorough water early in the morning or stones were there or not and it would seem purchase something that is good quality and before bed. It’s important to water more they make little difference to your plants. shaped well. All you have to do is get it back than you think to ensure there is sufficient to and continue tending for it! A Japanese Acer But it would be amiss of me to not include travel down to the roots. If you want to be a is a good example of a ready-made plant that this age-old step in our container process, bit quicker with the watering or know you’re works well in a container. Expect to pay simply because I know my grandad would probably turn in his grave if I decided to omit going away, pop in an irrigation system to do several hundred pounds for a good specimen them all in one go. They are easy to get hold it. but these will add a real focal point for any of now from most garden centres and not too outside space, particularly one made up of an Back to our containers. If you have a garden tricky to set up. Make sure you plan the array of gorgeous pottery. with questionable soil, a pot will give you the layout of your containers carefully so that you have good access for watering and opportunity to pick exactly the right type of Annie Gardner compost your plant will require, allowing you harvesting. to ‘mix and match’ around your garden. Without planters, you’re a bit more restricted I particularly like the flexibility of a container because, as I do inside my house, I like to with what you can successfully plant, and move things around when the mood takes maintain.
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Keep on Running
Running With Friends.... At the time of writing, we are in the midst of a strange pattern of weather. Having just returned from our annual running holiday in Cyprus, I can report that our European neighbours are ‘suffering’ too. After a very bouncy flight we arrived to what the locals reported as the second most severe winter on record, with high winds, thunder, lightning and torrential rain. Fortunately, by race day, temperatures had sorted themselves out and we basked in 20 plus degrees of sunshine, which made the free post-race beers taste even better. The week passed too quickly but as every previous year, we made lots of new friends and renewed relationships with old ones.
The Gosport contingent made a lasting impression on locals, other racers and officials with our very vocal and impassioned support for every runner. So much so, the corner on which we gathered to offer such support is to be named ‘Gosport Corner‘ and there is an invitation to Gosport’s Mayor to visit and share the experience of Cyprus during Marathon Week next year.
As soon as we arrived home, we immediately booked ourselves in for a repeat in 2020. I don’t like wishing my life away, particularly at my age, but it does give me something pleasant to look forward to. Meanwhile, back in GosVegas, plans are well under way for the annual Gosport Golden Mile at Stokes 24
Bay which takes place on Fathers Day (Sunday 16th June). This is a great event in which you can officially record your best time for a 1-mile run and there is always a great atmosphere and medals for participants. The event kicks off with the Junior Golden Mile and sees youngsters from local schools racing for school honours. Is your school involved yet? It’s very easy and a great family morning out. Any enquiries can be directed to me at the Alton Sports Gosport in Stoke Road, as I’m more than happy to help. Article written by Nick Carter GosVegas Running Alton Sports Gosport
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Recipe of the Month SLOW COOKED CHICKEN TIKKA MASALA
One of the many great advantages of the slow cooker is that there’s no need to marinate dishes that normally require it. This gentle lengthy cook enables avors to develop and mingle together naturally during the lengthy cook. This is wonderful to come back to after a hard day at work or play.
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Ingredients:
Equipment: Processor
4 chicken breasts, cubed 2cm fresh ginger root, peeled and grated 3 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed 1 small red chili, chopped and deseeded 1 teaspoon ground coriander 2 teaspoons garam masala 1 red bell pepper, deseeded and cut into chunks 1 medium sized onion, peeled and chopped 2 tablespoons sunflower oil 1 can plum peeled tomatoes 2 tablespoons tomato puree 100ml creme fraiche, or sour cream Good handful of fresh coriander, finely chopped ( garnish)
Method: In a processor place the ginger, garlic, chili, ground coriander, garam masala, red bell pepper, onion and sunflower oil. Process until you achieve a paste. Put the chicken in a bowl and add the paste. Stir and coat each chunk of chicken in the mixture. Mix the tomato puree with the canned tomatoes. Place the chicken into the crock pot and pour the tomato mixture over the top. Cook on a medium heat for 4 -5 hours until the chicken is beautifully tender and succulent When ready to serve gently stir in the creme fraiche whilst still in the slow cooker and serve on a bed of wild rice, garnished with the chopped coriander. Diane Johnson
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