Big Voice in Lee on Solent June 2015 by Big Voice Directories

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Over the HEDGE Local gardens in print

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NEW FORD MONDEO

THIS MONTH..

13 20 MOTORING AND TRAVEL

CHILDREN, PETS & EDUCATION

Sensei Says…

Kids Page

New Ford Mondeo

Just a new toy for the field sales reps or something better? Tim Barnes-Clay gives us the low down on this new model from Ford.

… what’s the point of learning a martial art? There are more reasons than you might think….

HOUSE AND GARDENS

Immerse yourself in some Jungle Fun with puzzles and spot the difference.

Check out this months round up of planning applications in and around Lee on Solent

Planning Matters

COMMUNITY

In House Chat

Support your local bands and enjoy some fabulous live music at pubs in the area during May and June.

Our award winning local agent Mark Rowe imparts more house knowledge and tips.

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Martins Money Tips

Things they don’t want you to know. Read on to find out what they are! 4

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Gig Guide

St Faiths’ Church

We are surrounded by some wonderful residents in Lee on Solent who all play a very valid part in making our community what it is today. Alan reports...

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… if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden” said the late Eric Morecambe. Very funny but not very friendly though!

It seemed like an apt quote though to introduce you to a new monthly feature that we’re running called ‘Over the Hedge’. Don’t you just love mooching in estate agents windows, rightmove and the property pages of magazines to see how “other people” live? I know we do - it’s a harmless form of voyeurism that can often take you off into a dream world of how life could be if you lived in a different village/house/budget. So when we were watching the kids film of the same name we suddenly figured we could run a feature in our own magazines taking a look at people’s gardens. Whether they are big, small, unkempt, manicured, landscaped or hand crafted we want to see them! We have kicked it off with a little picture of our own garden take a look at page 23 for this special view of it! Don’t be shy - send us a snap of yours and you could be next! Much love until next month Coralie and Sean x

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Lee -on-the-Solent Horticultural Society Holds Three Shows a Year and a number of Social Evenings, also has a Trading Hut for Members opens 10 -12 Noon on Sundays and Thursdays. Contact Membership Secretary 02392 554363

planning permission involvement; the Christmas social event; fund raising activities; liaison with Lee Business Association (LBA).and organises a Monthly Table Top Event in Lee, contact the Secretary for more info 02392 551547 or visit the website www.leeresidents.org.uk

Social Evening 27 May 2015 with guest Speaker Brian Kidd at 7.30. p.m. in Lee Community Centre, Twyford Drive, Lee-on-the-Solent. Talk title " Colour all the year". Come along and join the Society, become involved and join the Horticultural Society Committee, contact the Secretary - Bruce Thomas 02392 551873 for more info.

Lee on Solent Residents Association Open Evening 26th May with guest speaker Jenny Watkins talking about British Divers Marine Life Rescue at 7:30pm at the Methodist Church, Lee High Street. For more information contact Pam Ingram on 023 9255 154.

Lee Players We meet in Crofton Hall Theatre Crofton Community Centre, Stubbington every Tuesday at 7.45pm. Whether you wish to “tread the boards” or help out backstage, please come along, you will be guaranteed a warm welcome. Please call Peter or Sally Appleton on Telephone: 02392 551010 Lee Residents Association Holds several Open Evenings with guest speakers a year, three up to date newsletters; joint events with other community groups,

Gosport Access Group and Disability Forum Meeting This is an informal gathering for people with mixed disabilities, carers and supporters. We have one or two speakers each meeting and time for discussing any access issues of concern in Gosport. Everyone is welcome to come along for a cuppa and join in, from 1.45pm for a 2pm start. Meeting dates for this year are:6th July (AGM) (11.30-2.30) in Council Chambers 7th September (1.45-4.00) in Council Chambers

9th November (1.45-4.00) in Council Chambers Maria Battley (Secretary) gosportaccessgroup@hotmail.co.uk Lee Historic Waterfront Walk and Talk Walks and Talks take place on the first Tuesday of the month from February to October, starting in Elmore Car Park next to the Fishing Club Compound at 10am. The route is along Lee Promenade to the old swimming pool site, returning back to the car park. Total time is around 90 minutes. Contact Ray Harding on 023 9255 1706. SING for FUN Starts the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month at St Faiths church, Lee on Solent 19.30 until 21.00 pm . £4. Aimed at young people and adults with learning difficulties, also all ages and abilities welcome. More details contact Phil 02392 360120

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Important Phone Numbers COMMUNITY Community Association 023 9255 2841 Crofton Secondary School 01329 664251 Family & Friends Lesbians & Gays 0845 6520311 Lee on Solent Parish Office 023 9255 6445 Lee on Solent Infant School 023 9255 1767 Lee on Solent Junior School 023 9255 0551 Local Councillor 023 9255 2177 Local Council Offices 023 9258 4242 Neighbourhood Watch 023 9258 3637 Police 101 or emergency 999 RSPCA 01329 667541 Tourist Information 023 9252 2944 Victim Support 0845 3899528 HEALTH Alcoholics Anonymous 0845 7697555 Dental Helpline 0845 0508345 Gosport War Memorial Hospital 023 9252 4611 Lee on Solent Health Centre 023 9255 0220 NHS Direct 111 NHS Smoking Helpline 0800 0224332

TRAVEL Coastguard 023 8032 9486 Dial a Ride Gosport 01329 223151 First Bus Service 023 9286 2412 Hampshire Highways 0845 8504422 IcanGo 07787 292666 National Rail Enquiries 08457 484950

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GIG GUIDE All gigs start at 9pm unless otherwise stated.

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Land Army. Not liking the idea of working with pitchforks she opted instead to join the WRENs as a cook and ended up at Stamshaw Camp where she met Bob. ‘I was her boss Bob and Rachael Jepson could hardly at the time,’ Bob told me, admitting have lived much further apart before that Rachael is now the boss! they met. Bob, the ‘baby of the On leaving the Navy Bob returned to family’ with an older sister and two brothers, was born in Sunderland in Sunderland and Rachael to 1923. After leaving school he worked Winchester where they took up the jobs they’d had before the war. They as a butcher until he was called up by the Royal Navy in 1942 (the year I kept in contact by letters and visits, Bob travelling to Lee and Rachael to was born!). He was sent to Sunderland – a city which didn’t Portsmouth and served as a cook impress her on first sight! She travelling to West Africa and Scapa remembers her first visit when Bob A few weeks later when I met them Flow before ending up at the arranged to meet her at Durham Stamshaw Camp prior to demob. at their home in Lee, I discovered station. On arrival there was no sign there was plenty of interest that Rachael was born in Winchester, the of Bob and she’d resigned herself to marked them out as an exceptional couple. With both approaching their eldest of two girls and, after leaving catching the next train home when Winchester High school, helped with he suddenly appeared and saved the 92nd birthdays they are still active day. the cooking in her aunt’s Guest and can claim to be amongst the longest-serving regular worshipers at House until she was asked to help The rest, as they say, is history. with the War effort by joining the St. Faith’s having attended and

‘They’d make an interesting couple to interview,’ a sidesman suggested as I arrived at St Faith’s for the 10 o’clock service having overslept and missed the 8 o’clock service which I normally attend. Keen to discover who they were, I strolled down the aisle, made myself known and asked if I could interview them sometime. Needless to say they were both bemused and assured me there was nothing of exceptional interest in their lives to write about but, tentatively, they agreed to a meeting.

served in the church for nearly 70 years. But what about their early lives, and how did they come to meet and end up at St Faith’s?

Rachael’s uncle owned a butchers shop in Pier Street, ‘S.F. Webb and Son’ (later renamed ‘R. Jepson and Son’). People living in Lee before it closed in 1984 might still remember it. Bob jumped at the offer to work there, moved to Lee and, six months later, married Rachael at Holy Trinity church, Winchester. They now have a son and daughter, Timothy and Anne (both Christened and confirmed at St. Faith’s), two grandchildren and four great grandchildren – all girls! Bob retired when the shop closed and has since enjoyed 30 years of retirement with Rachael. Apart from family, gardening and cooking (they both ‘wear the apron’) they’ve toured Britain in a camper van and made the most of their time together. The sidesman was right – they did make an interesting couple to interview. St Faith’s church, like so many others, owes much to its older

members like Bob and Rachael who, through the years, have played their part. My hope is younger people will fill the pews in the years to come and that, maybe, in decades from now, there will still be people to write about who, in their turn, have served the church for 70 years. Alan

Dates for your diary Summer Fete, Saturday June 13th, 10am - 2pm. St Faith’s Church Our wonderful St Faiths contributor, Alan Millard can be contacted via St Faith’s Church, Lee on the Solent. Parish Office Mondays - Fridays 10:30am - 12:30pm 023 9255 6445 alan.millard@talktalk.net

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We hope you are enjoying the sunshine and making the most of being out in your garden. When the weather is good we all like to invite friends and family round to enjoy a b-b-q, have a get together, or just do some gardening and why not. We all tend to open windows to let fresh air in. When you are in the back garden think security!! Please do not leave your windows open or your exterior doors unlocked especially if you are in the back garden! It only takes a thief seconds to enter your home and take what belongs to you. During this welcome hot spell burglars will be on the lookout for easy targets! Could this happen at your address??? Vehicle security is just as important as your home security. Lock all the doors, windows, boot and sunroof every time you leave your car - however briefly. Do not become a victim of crime-be safe be secure- think security!

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Trusting yourself to go for it Life is for living to the full and that means that in all areas of life you need to go for it! As we all know stretching out of your comfort zone can be both scary and exciting. And it should be! Any goal that is only exciting is too small and we will grow out it far too quickly. Any goal that is only scary is too big and we simply won’t go there. So the right kind of goal is the one that is both scary and exciting!

as many times as he could remember when he hit a challenge and what he did to overcome it. When he reported back the stress was all but gone from his face. He said that he had seen many times (and some he had forgotten about until he did this exercise) when he had indeed hit a challenge, and got himself through it successfully. Sticky situations where he had come up with a solution that until faced with the question he would So much for the theory, but what never had foreseen himself finding. He saw just how about the practise? When you resourceful he was in the face of are sitting in front of a big challenges. That information was stretchy goal often one of the enough for him to commit to challenges is “Can I trust myself to be able to handle this? Will I following his heart and trusting be able to handle the challenges himself that he would take care inherent in this, and succeed?” of whatever arose. Of course there are no guarantees that any decision we take will work out as we want. It’s par for the course that we might hit obstacles. It is these challenges that help us grow as human beings, they are a necessary part of our life. However if we feel we can trust ourselves it is so much easier to take that first step. I recently asked a client to take a walk through his life and identify

Sure he went on to make a clear plan of how he would achieve his goal and what contingencies he wanted in place to move on with it. However, that process of seeing that he could trust himself to take care of not only himself, but his family too, was a

key ingredient in the process. Use your past to give you the confidence for the future. When you are faced with a moment when you need to trust yourself that you will make this work, take a moment to look back through your life and see just how resourceful you are. Notice all those challenges and how you overcome them. Also see how each of those challenges taught you something important about yourself or even helped you clarify the direction you wanted to go in. Life is too short not to live it to the full, no one gets to their death bed wishing they’d played it more safe – you learn to trust yourself by playing the game of life full out – so, go for it!

Sensei Says

Sensei Rob Wood is a Fourth Dan in Goju-Ryu Karate and has taught children and adults for over 20 years in his dojo in the UK South Coast.

What’s the point of learning a martial art? A question that some may consider obvious you may ask however it does run deeper than face value. Many people take the Martial Arts path at various stages in life and for ever increasing reasons. I’ve found that there are three age group categories where students make the decision to give it a try. Firstly there are the Infants (4 – 8yr olds). Most are there as a physical activity however what should be taught at this age encompasses much more. Obviously there must be the “fun” element of involvement, after all, young children are no different than everyone else, If it’s not enjoyable then they’ll not want to pursue an activity. That said, classes need to maintain a level of discipline inherent of Martial Arts. No discipline in classes with children WILL result in poor standards and lesson anarchy. Therefore, skilled instructors should be able to find a balance between teaching a productive, enjoyable class without ruling it with an iron glove but I digress. Most of the infant students in my class are, as I say, there for an enjoyable time but, there are fundamental goals we aim to install before they reach graduation to the Junior class. We actively teach key skills that 14

will carry a student forward into a more Karate- orientated junior session. Balance, hand-eye coordination, confidence and dojo discipline are all primary objectives but these need to be coupled with the basic foundation skills of Karate. We need to ensure we have Infants at a level of competence involving basic punching, blocking, sparring & kicking skills that will stand them in good stead by the time they graduate. Juniors are a slightly different group altogether. Surprisingly there are not many in the dojo that are there for the self-defence aspect (some, but not many), mostly they’re in class because they enjoy the whole experience. Confidence, physical exercise, and discipline are the quick wins but breaking this down you’ll find that boys like to be boys. The whole rough side to sparring, groundwork and padwork go hand in glove (pardon the pun) with adolescent males. Girls, however, are different. They tend to excel in areas outside of brute force and all those male attributes that people associate with a fighting art, these things being Kata’s (preset routine of combined moves) – Girls are exceptionally better at this than boys in my opinion. Clearly, knowing that we’re

teaching young ladies how to look after themselves is great but they tend not to be as assertive as boys in most cases. Adults are a completely diverse group. Many of the seniors are parents of the children I teach so their point for training varies. Some are there to get fit whilst others are learning to support their offspring. All of them however are keen to learn the self-defence aspects which in turn encourages newcomers to join the dojo. In summary, the “point” of learning Martial Arts is a personal one. Whether it’s for fitness, confidence, self-defence or simply to inspire your children, find a personal reason, try a reputable dojo and see if it’s for you. If it is, set your goals and stick to them! Martial Arts is a personal challenge. Remember, a Black Belt is simply a White Belt student that never quit!

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Over the Hedge

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Over 800 estate agents filled the room and at this point it’s safe to say that we all felt as though we With this in mind, last year, I had no chance against some very decided to enter RPS into the The ESTAS was the only real way big names in the business. Then ESTAS Estate Agency awards. The we could not only gauge our own the moment came for our award scheme is one of the performance, but also what our category (Southern) and I’m very pleased to say that we were biggest in the UK and is open to customers actually think of our all estate and letting agencies. To service. announced as the winners for not only Hampshire but also After a year of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire! In complete shock, I customer feedback and nearly knocked over all the drinks on our table, luckily by this time anxiously they were mostly empty! waiting, we received the great news It felt great for the team to be that we had recognised for our customer been service and we are extremely shortlisted for grateful for all of our client’s an award! So feedback and comments over the last month off last year. So a big thank you from all of us here at RPS. we went, up to London for Don’t worry, I promise next the awards month I will return to more ceremony, presented by property related advice and not the very well- self-promotion but I thought this known snippet of news was worth reporting! property Receiving our award from Phil Spencer 29

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Showroom now open!! Monday-Friday 9am-2pm If you wish to visit our showroom between the hours of 2pm-5pm Mon-Fri or on a Saturday morning please call to make an appointment.

‘Solent Twist Promotion’

Stain Free Heavy Domestic Twist with 10 Year wear warranty, 4 colours, Cream, Beige, Brown, Dark Brown. Price Examples including VAT 3m x 4m £240 4m x 4m £320 5m x 4m £395

To include:- Fitting, 10mm underlay, uplift and disposal of old flooring, Grippers, Door bars, Doors eased, help to move furniture, we even hoover up. The full traditional service

Call today - FREEPHONE: 0800 9177 553 Jason: 07770 411734 John : 07812 132087 Jason@solentflooring.co.uk Vicky@solentflooring.co.uk Unit C1, Heritage Business Park, Heritage Way, Gosport, PO12 4BG Established 25 years. Company Reg 5813534.

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JOIN US FOR FATHERS DAY 21ST JUNE

3 courses Adults £8.50 Children £7.50 Ring 023 92502611 to book

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BINGO

Books on sale 6:45pm Eyes down 7:30pm

Southern Ostomy Group will be holding meetings at the Kingfisher starting 29th June. Meetings are held every last Monday of the month. Come visit us for a chat, advice and support.

8:30pm start