Big Voice Alverstoke August 2015 by Big Voice Directories

August 2015 | Issue 117| £1.50 where bought

Grass Roots

Do you want to save the planet?

Over the HEDGE Local gardens in print! AUTO biographies

The New Mitsubishi Shogun

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FOOD AND DRINK

COMMUNITY

Lucy’s Recipe Corner

Life Matters

Join Lucy in the kitchen and create a batch of lovely A very topical, and thought provoking article this warm and gooey brekkie flapjacks. month from the caring and on the ball Rector of St Mary’s Parish.

HOUSE AND GARDENS 18

Planning Matters

Check out this months round up of planning applications in and around Alverstoke.

Over the Hedge

We’re peering over the hedge in Clayhall gardens this month. How beautiful are they?

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL 9

The Wealth Chef

If you’re not living, you’re dying. It might sound a bit morbid but Wealth Chef, Ann Wilson knows how to spin a yarn.

MOTORING 14

Auto Biographies

Tim Barnes Clay takes a look at the new Mitsubishi Shogun. Is it still a living legend? Read on…

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Habit is what keeps you going” said Jim

Ryun, an American Athlete. It got me thinking that many of us who have set our goals and wishes at the beginning of the year may be finding that now the summer is upon us, and willpower is lowering as we think of slipping into Autumn, that those things we fervently set out to achieve in January may be sliding from our grasp. And perhaps the reason is that we either weren’t committed to doing what we decided all those months ago, or we didn’t get into the HABIT of making that thing happen. Indeed a decision we made last year as a couple was to incorporate a fresh juice into our diet, at least once daily. We enjoyed blending fresh kale from the garden, including thick broccoli stems which would ordinarily end up on the compost, various fruit and other vegetables and chucking in copious amounts of ginger which sent Sean's hayfever packing (an unexpected, but very welcome result!). With the cleaning of the blenders and juicers, and the extra bit of organisation needed to make these each day it would have been easy to stop eventually. But once it became a habit it’s tough to break. So even when we have days out we make sure that we get our juice and do you know, if you look out for them there are juice bars popping up everywhere. So we grabbed one recently in Hyde Park at a festival, in a little street in Ibiza on a holiday and even the kids join in now, despite what can seem a very dubious mix sometimes! If there’s something you want to do, or your resolve has slipped, get started again and we’ll hear no more excuses! Much love until next month Coralie and Sean x

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Life Matters at St Mary’s

Would you recognise your old school today? which would have been unimagined by previous generations of teachers (speaking with 9 teachers in my family and an HMI). It is not wrong that the standard should be ‘excellent’ but the The summer break will soon be here pressure to deliver this on an for the children and staff in education. I hope that the staff of our individual basis for each and every child is huge on staff who are very local schools get a really good professional today and cannot ‘coast’ break. I want to applaud our schools in Alverstoke parish where there are 7 through lessons and a school day. The politicians now say that even infant and junior schools and our the schools which constantly deliver amazing Bay House School and VI Form. In my work I am a governor for ‘outstanding’ results are cruising and need to do better! Schools do deliver three of the schools. The schools do an excellent job for our children and all these days and there is no justification for any further erosion of the respect the staff truly do deserve a schools and staff need in order to tremendous applause and much thrive on behalf of the students. appreciation.

In order to support their strive for excellence a community must back it’s schools.

I’ve been a school governor for 18 years serving a variety of schools and am a member of the Diocesan Board of Education. Changes in education and in the school environment have been non-stop in all that time such that many Big Voice readers who might visit a school truly would not recognise it from their own childhood. Education is different today. Standards and the quality of education have markedly improved and with them have the expectations of society, government and parents to ‘deliver’. There is a pressure on staff 6

It is a privilege to serve local schools which arise out of our community and need our whole community to support and care for them. Our schools would love greater links with the communities in which they are placed - folks helping as volunteers, people to be governors, sponsors for events and equipment etc. Could that be you? Besides a number of school staff, as a parish church there are some 20 members involved as governors of local schools and others as classroom volunteers. One of my church staff has been helping as class volunteer

with weekly reading over the past year. Alverstoke Parish has started a new Assemblies Team of 6 folk who visit the primary schools to lead ‘collective worship’ and tell stories through the children acting or with puppets. For one school this even led on to some creative writing and drama whilst in another we’re creating a ‘Forging Links’ group to see how the parish can better support the school. Whether or not we get involved with our local schools let us afford the staff and volunteers the care and respect they need from their local community. It is by such wider support for them that they will continue to excel on behalf of the children.

Revd Andrew Norris

Rector, Alverstoke Parish

Please get in touch at stmarysalverstoke@tiscali.co.uk or 02392 580551Revd Andy Norris (Rector)

Important Phone Numbers COMMUNITY Gosport Community Association 023 9251 0012 Bay House Secondary School 023 9258 7931 Dog Warden 023 9254 5596 Dog Fouling 0800 019 8598 (Freephone) Family & Friends Lesbians & Gays 0845 6520311 St Marys Parish Office 023 9258 0551 Alverstoke Infant School 023 9258 2403 Alverstoke Junior School 023 9258 0450 Local Councillor 023 9252 2494 Local Council Offices 023 9258 4242 Neighbourhood Watch 023 9258 3637 Noise Nuisance 023 9254 5506 Police 101 or emergency 999 RSPCA 01329 667541 Rubbish Collection 0800 019 8598 (Freephone) Tourist Information 023 9252 2944 Victim Support 0845 3899528

HEALTH Alcoholics Anonymous 023 955 80776 Al Anon 023 9243 5047 Dental Helpline 0845 0508345 Environmental Health 023 9254 5506 Food Hygiene and Safety 023 9254 5507 Gosport War Memorial Hospital 023 9252 4611 Gosport Medical Centre 023 9258 3302 NHS Direct 111 NHS Smoking Helpline 0800 0224332

TRAVEL Abandoned cars 0800 019 8598 (Freephone) Car Parks 0800 019 8598 (Freephone) Coastguard 023 8032 9486 Concessionary Travel 0845 045 8355 Dial a Ride Gosport 01329 223151 National Rail Enquiries 08457 484950 Roads and Pavements 0845 603 5633 Traffic Lights 0845 603 5633

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Wealth Chef If you’re not growing, you’re dying

Do you dream of creating a successful business bringing in loads of money while you do what you love and live a rich juicy life at the same time? I ask this often, when I am speaking to budding Wealth Chefs around the world. Hands fly up, smiles spread across faces, and minds start to buzz with images of all the things they will do, have, and experience as a result of what this business will create. NEWSFLASH YOU ARE ALREADY THE CEO OF THE GREATEST BUSINESS AROUND. THE BUSINESS CALLED YOUR LIFE! When you step back and look at what are creating in this business, what do you see? Are you thrilled with the results? In any business, money, and how it flows through the business is one of the most important indicators of success. Money is the fuel, the ingredient needed to create, deliver, and expand.

I’m guessing your just survive but to do that you need called your life to profit and growing.

goal isn’t to Remember this is not your SELF thrive and to WORTH! the business be making a Clarity gives you power. You need to know where you are starting from in order to plan the Creating a success of the best route to your destination business called your life is about Financial Freedom, and you need consistently increasing both your to know what your past money profit and your value. actions have created to know what to keep doing, stop doing When it comes to the money side and start doing. of your life, you’ve got two vital tools which instantly tell you So strap yourself in, get excited whether you’re on the path to and get the most wonderful wealth heaven or money hell. wealth guidance system installed These are your income statement in your life. Create and maintain and your balance sheet. your own personal balance sheet Your balance sheet tells you and give the business called your exactly what your money actions life the tools it needs to make it are creating in your life. It tells rich, juicy and fun. you your net worth and whether it is growing or contracting - Prepare to be empowered and which is ultimately the most enjoy having these two vital important piece of information wealth tools supporting you in you need to know. making quality decisions that create the life you really want. Before we go any further - let’s Ann Wilson is a multi-millionaire with a difference. be clear… Today Ann is a woman with a mission and a big Your Net Worth is Not Your Self Worth!

If a business isn’t making a profit Paradoxically your Net Worth is each and every month it isn’t closely linked to your Self Worth. going to last long. Do you resist updating or even If a business’s isn’t growing in creating your own balance sheet? value it is dying and soon will Perhaps you don’t want to see a cease to exist or at best stagger negative net worth or are afraid along in survival mode. you may have gone backwards?

message for the World as ‘The Wealth Chef’. The Wealth Chef International works with people all over the world, bringing much needed wealth education and hope to thousands from every walk of life. Ann is a sought after money expert and speaker by large corporations. Get in touch with her @thewealthchef

Lucy’s recipe corner

Brekk Bre kkie ie Flap Flapjacks jacks INGREDIENTS 85g chopped mixed nuts 200g rolled oats 12.5g sunflower seeds 85g self raising flour 40g dried cranberries 70g demerara sugar 125g butter 3tbsp golden syrup 2 mashed bananas 1 egg

METHOD Put the oven on at 180°c (160°c fan), gas mark 4. Pop everything into a mixing bowl, except for the sunflower seeds, and mix it all up (make sure the butter is softened first so it’s easier to stir). Once it’s all mixed up, put the mixture into a 22cm square shallow tin. Bake the flapjacks in the oven for about 20 minutes. Allow to cool slightly and then slice up

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Auto biographies Naturally, the Mitsubishi keeps its go-anywhere, selfassured and powerfully built presence. This is characterised by its short front overhang, upright windscreen, strong high flanks, flared wheel-arches and rear-mounted spare wheel. These are all key Shogun styling cues that underline its mud-plugging aptitude.

The Mitsubishi Shogun is not only a giant of a 4x4, its cabin feels solidly screwed together and comes crammed with luxury features. As well as improved sound deadening, SG4 trim brings leather seats, Bluetooth, a tyre pressure monitoring system and a five-speed automatic gearbox.

Staying inside the cabin of the Shogun, its multifunction display has reams of information available. This includes a barometer and an Indeed, standing next to the altitude gauge, indicating that this is Shogun makes you feel pretty a vehicle that has motoring ability stretching way beyond a farmer’s small. The vehicle is field. enormous and looks rather intimidating to drive. But The seats are comfortable and once you haul yourself into the cabin, turn the key, select supportive, and the large glass area provides first rate views of the road ‘Drive’ from the automatic gearbox and get rolling, any or rugged ground around you. Rear FAST FACTS seat space is colossal, and load unease evaporates.  Price: £37,489 capacity seems immeasurably big.  Max speed: 112mph By no means is the brute PROS ‘N’ CONS  0-62 mph: 11.1 secs A third row of seats can be popped Pulls well √ always a delight to drive on  Combined mpg: 33.2 up too, turning the Shogun into a Off-road ability √ the road though. Sure, it’s Spacious √ easy to point the Shogun  Engine: 3200cc 4 cylinder 16 seven-seater. This is convenient if Visibility √ valve turbo diesel you’re taking a group of friends into down a motorway and stay On road  Max. power (bhp): 194 the rough or you’ve got a posse of there, but any cross winds do manoeuvrability X  Max. torque (lb/ft): 325 knock you about a bit. That’s children you need to drop off at school. no surprise as it’s a tall  CO2: 224 g/km vehicle – and because of that Away from the much commented you can also forget tearing around In 1982 Mitsubishi Motors bends on country roads, unless you luxury soft-roaders, heavy-duty Corporation launched a brand new workhorses such as the Shogun have like lots of lean. breed of vehicle: a 4x4 which was carved out a unique niche in the tough enough to go where others feared to tread, yet enjoyed the sort Instead, the new Mitsubishi Shogun market where ability and is about muscle and ruggedness. The dependability matter first and of sophisticated specification more foremost. top of the range Long Wheel Base normally associated with top end saloons. More than thirty years later (LWB) SG4 model, on test here, pulls Since a price decrease in July 2013 like a train with its 3.2-litre, the Shogun is a living legend. 194bhp,four-cylinder diesel engine. Shogun sales have gone from 0-62mph arrives in 11.1 seconds and strength to strength. With its new The 2015 Mitsubishi Shogun has a design and improved specification, bold new front end, distinguished by top speed is 112mph. More a deeper more integrated grille and importantly it has low-ratio gearing the Mitsubishi Shogun now offers chic LED daytime running lights. The and a differential lock to make sure even better value for money. you’ve got the best chance of design changes for this year represent a progressive evolution of getting it out of even the most the hard-hitting Japanese off-roader. challenging of non-tarmac situations.

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Over the Hedge

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Crescent Gardens, lovingly maintained by volunteers and friends. Thanks to David Mitchell for submitting this super image.

Grass Roots

By Sally Tierney, www.yorkshiregardendesigner.co.uk

If you want to save the planet, take up gardening There is a quote that goes along the lines of ‘If you want to save the planet, take up gardening’. I don’t know who said it, but it’s extremely good advice. I love gardening and helping others to enjoy their gardens too but it never occurred to me, until recently, that I was also contributing to the bigger picture, that of caring of our planet too. As a busy person, running my company, Yorkshire Garden Designer and caring for my own garden, I don’t stop to think about much beyond the immediate and the urgent. I’m sure you do much the same. So it came as a surprise to find that in actual fact I was doing quite a good thing, in my own little way, to boost the health of the whole planet. As a gardener, one of my primary goals is to keep the soil in my veg patch in good heart and by that I mean that I work quite hard to make ensure that I put a decent amount of organic matter in the soil every year which gives it good structure, keeps it moist, fertile and supports a wide range of soil born organisms. An easy way to check the condition and fertility of your soil is to do the worm test. To do this, just dig a hole in one of your borders, about a foot down (30cm) and as wide. Get a clean piece of plastic and put the soil 24

because the soil loses its organic matter (which happens for many reasons) and as a result becomes light and dry. So when the wind blows, the thin soil goes with it and without any soil, it is impossible to grow anything. You may think that this is a problem that only countries such as Ethiopia must deal with but you’d be wrong. Soil erosion happens in the UK too, and for There is an obvious benefit to the same reasons as in Ethiopia. keeping the soil in good heart. It Which is where us gardeners can actually make a difference, even will support healthier plants if it is only in your back garden. which are the basis of the food chain we all rely on, as well as For more info about this sort of thing, making a vital contribution to download the first chapter, FREE, of my keeping our environment clean forthcoming book ‘The Garden Equation. and viable. The less obvious How to have a garden you love that fits benefits of keeping our soil in beautifully into your lifestyle’ at good condition is that fewer man www.yorkshiregardendesigner.co.uk -made chemicals are needed to grow the crops we rely on, there is more bio-diversity and less soil blows away. that you dig out of the hole onto it. Once you have finished the hole, look through the excavated soil and count the number of worms you find there. If you have 8 or more, your soil is in excellent condition. If you have less, or even only one, you know that you need to get some wellrotted organic matter into it as quick as possible.

Soil erosion is a huge problem worldwide and whole populations have experienced devastating famines as a consequence. It comes about