Big Voice Stubbington July 2015 by Big Voice Directories

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CHILDREN

HEALTH, BEAUTY & LIFESTYLE

It’s all child’s play

Get involved in some messy play under the guidance of Sue Gascoyne. Enjoy!

HOUSE AND GARDENS 18

Planning Matters

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

Over the Hedge

Differences of Opinion

We are never all going to see the world in the same way and Jessica McGregor Johnson shows us how to manage disagreements with your partner.

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The Wealth Chef

The secret is out! Read on for some pearls of wisdom from Wealth Chef, Ann Wilson.

Continuing on from last month we’re delighted to feature another local garden from Stubbington.

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Mercedes Benz CLA

With a maximum speed of 149 miles per hour this striking Mercedes is fully loaded with a raft of safety features. See what Tim Barnes-Clay has to say about this new model.

If you’ve got a local Good News story we’d love to hear about it! Whether it’s kindly friends or neighbours going out of their way to help each other, children doing fab activities that make them smile, winning awards or just doing a good turn we’d love to know! Email your stories to us at editor@bigvoicedirectories.co.uk

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… of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear and not bothering” said (my favourite) Winnie the Pooh. I have got to the tender age of 40(ish) and I’m only just starting to appreciate the benefits of just stopping. That might sound completely ridiculous but when you’re an incredibly busy person there just isn’t the time to stop. With endless lists, children to sort and businesses to run where do you schedule a ‘stop’? After all, if I stop then that pushes things out of sync and then I’m even busier when I come to start again. That’s right isn’t it? Or not. We recently found ourselves child free for a day and with the weather being fairly miserable decided, uncharacteristically, to pack up some sandwiches and a few books and drive down to Titchfield Haven. We set up camp in the back of our Bongo (lovingly known as the fun bus to the kids) and sat for an afternoon doing very, very little. It seemed decadent, luxurious and amazing. And the best bit? It rejuvenated me and gave me more energy to do all the things I needed to the following week. OK so this seems a bit obvious but until you step out of your comfort zone and realise the world doesn’t fall apart if you take a little time out then you’ll never know how therapeutic it can be. Go on, try it.

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Wealth Chef The secret is out: How to beat the market The epicenter of financial activity for investors is the Stock Exchange. Be it in London (FTSE), New York (NYSE), Paris (DAC), Johannesburg (JSE), Sydney (ASX) or just about any country in the world - the stock exchange is where it all happens.

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So when it comes to helping That's because we have access to my family put their money to low-cost investing like never work, I do what I always do – I before. We also have access from turn to Expand Your Dough where ever we happen to be. Recipe in The Wealth Chef book. Sitting on the beach in On the corner of Wall and Broad Mozambique - a quick buy or sell I stick to the tried-and-true streets, the site of George via my online broker and back to wealthy approach to regular and Washington's inauguration, the living life. consistent investing, thinking of New York Stock Exchange is my stocks as businesses with true perhaps the most iconic of them That's pretty awesome – to be assets, competitive advantages, all. The famed Wall Street bull able to buy hundreds or and earnings power. I invest with statue standing proudly on the thousands of a stock, to become the intention of owning for years corner is snapped by thousands a part-owner (even just a - decades, even. of tourists sensing the energy and fraction) of great businesses for importance of this place. less than a six-pack of something And that's the huge difference Ironically, fewer than 24% of nicely chilled. between Wealth Chef investing these people actually own any and the kind of activity stock or invest in the stock One way (the best, in my mind) conducted by so many traders, market. to take advantage of it is to set whether they are on the floor of up an investing plan via an online the NYSE, FTSE, ASX or DAC; What pops out when you visit the broker in an index tracking fund sitting in a hedge fund office floor of the NYSE or the London or Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) suite; trying to catch the spread Stock Exchange is how few and commit to it for the long on the forex market; or people seem to be working at the term. Through the highs and the excessively trading a client's trading posts. This is always a bit lows. Get a plan and stick with it. account in Any Town, WORLD. of a letdown for me. I keep That's what I've been doing for Wealth Chefs are businesshoping to see crazy traders well over twelve years now and oriented, long-term investors. running around with tickets in what I’ve got my nieces and We know the value of being their hands like we see in the nephews doing. Each month they owners of great companies and movies Wall Street or Trading are setting aside some money to sharing in the value. Places. invest into businesses (as I prefer to think of it) that they plan to It has worked well for me and it But those days are long gone, hold for a long time. can work for you, too. replaced with electronic trading Ann Wilson is a multi-millionaire with a difference. from all over the world, and Not tickers. Not charts. Not Today Ann is a woman with a mission and a big that's a good thing for individual trading. Not “great tips” from the message for the World as ‘The Wealth Chef’. The Wealth Chef International works with people all over the world, investors like you and me. hairdresser bringing much needed wealth education and hope to Investing is more available, more Great Businesses + Investing + thousands from every walk of life. Ann is a sought after money expert and speaker by large corporations. Get in accessible, more transparent, and Long term. cheaper than ever before. No That's the Wealth Chef Recipe. touch with her @thewealthchef

It’s all Childs P lay Messy Play

If there was such a thing as a Messometer - a tool for measuring views on mess, I wonder where you'd put yourself? At the pristine end of the scale where everything has its rightful place and food is most definitely to be eaten rather than played with? Somewhere in the middle, where a good amount of carefree messy play is healthy, but only when balanced with a sense of order and boundaries? Or perhaps at the far extreme? The kind of house that when you walk in you’re not sure if it’s been burgled, in which case Cheerios and hamster food on the floor offer daily opportunities for messy play! With washing products now offering triple action cleaning the removal of stains is child’s play, yet an aversion to getting messy is sadly commonplace among parents and children. People watch in the rain and you will probably see children discouraged from exploring puddles with their whole bodies, feet or hands as, sidetracked by practicalities, us adults fail to see the age-old learning value, not to mention sheer fun.

to think I’m somewhere in the middle, much more tolerant than my husband and generally able to see the positives of mess! In fact I have always found myself drawn to messy and sensorial play, as well as making a business of it this has formed a key part of my own children’s childhood, be it offering sand, shredded paper, water, cooked couscous, dried lentils and rice, sandy paint or shaving foam. With adequate planning and preparation, messy play can provide a calm and enriching experience for all involved, but I’ve learnt the hard way that preparation and boundaries are key to ensuring that this is a stress free experience.

slowly. So dipping your toe in the world of messy play means leaving cooked couscous to the last! Most materials have the potential to be used for messy or sensory play but that is not to suggest that they are uniform in the way they perform, respond to touch or appeal to children. For a child with sensory processing issues, who can’t happily touch sticky wet substances, an awareness of the wealth of messy play possibilities may be key to including them. Far from being an issue just for special needs, growing numbers of children find touching wet sticky things particularly challenging.

I can still remember an episode of particularly messy play with cooked couscous. Heavily pregnant, my husband arrived home from work to find me under the kitchen table on all fours, scraping sticky gunge, sprayed by my creative 3 year old all over the kitchen! Taking a work call in the middle of the play taught me a hard lesson. Allowing my daughter to experiment Jackson Pollack style with couscous it left me close to tears with exhaustion reaping the consequences of messy play!

A good (and low cost) starting point could be a paddling pool or washingup bowl filled with shredded paper, sand or dried lentils. Simply add a few containers and spoons for pouring and filling, (recycled pots and funnels are great) and get stuck in. Best of all June is the perfect time for taking messy play outdoors, so what’s not to like? For more fun sensory play activities, Sue’s latest research, resources and training go to www.playtoz.co.uk.

If you’re not a natural lover of getting sue@playtoz.co.uk messy then it’s good to know that 01206 796722 there’s a wealth of research on the huge benefits of giving children a sensory education. Persuaded of its importance, the next step is making sure that we don’t inadvertently project our anxieties about mess and clearing up as children picking up adult vibes and this can affect their ability to explore and become truly immersed.

When trying something new or personally challenging, the best Returning to that messy scale, I’d like approach can often be taking it

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Differences of Opinion Anger shows its face up in many different scenarios particularly in relationships. We get triggered into anger by many different things but arguments can often flare up when in fact all it is, is a difference of opinion. We are never all going to see the world in the same way – and thank goodness because it would be very boring if we did. We all see the world through different glasses. For example a Greenpeace activist will look at what is done in the Amazon through their environmentalist mindset of it being a tragedy whereas a multi-national corporation will have other

priorities. Both would argue their point of view till the cows come home and neither will ever concede to the other’s opinion. This is just an example of the diversity of the world and they will always exist. We might not like them but each is entitled to their opinion. Trouble is that when you take those differing of opinions into relationships it often ends up being turned into a personal argument rather than seeing that it is just a conversation about two different viewpoints. It is all too easy to get into the place where you fight your ground and try to make the other person wrong,

feeling the need to be the one who is right. Without forethought it is virtually impossible in that adversarial moment to step back and agree to differ. Once we are in the feeling of wanting to prove our point, to be right how can we step back? One simple technique is to agree a phrase that brings both of you out of the illusion of needing to be right. It can wake you up and help you see that this topic is not worth creating a huge personal argument about it – that your relationship is actually worth more than this topic. The trick is to agree it beforehand. So in what I call a sober moment – when you are feeling very happy with each other and have no axe to grind – have a chat about wanting to preempt the arguments you have over a differing of

opinion. The reason you talk about it away from the argument is that you can both set an intention to use this method. You agree a wake up phrase, something either of you can say in the moment that wakes you up from the compulsion to win your case and helps you see that it is only a differing of opinion. It can be any phrase – either related to the situation or not. For example, you could say – “Hey this is one of those moment where we can agree to disagree”. Or if you feel that would not stop the flow of thoughts so easily you can use a silly phrase – mine is “the peas are green this summer” feel free to borrow it if it helps. The key is that this is an agreement between you, set an intention that when one of you uses the phrase it is time to agree to disagree and then – and this is so important - change the subject!

Over the Hedge

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P lanning Matters A monthly round up of planning applications submitted since 1 May 2015

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Book Review The Farm Beneath The Water, by Helen Peters This is a feel good story of young people who pull together and are able to influence the outcome of the local water project. This is the second book based at Clayhill Farm but it can be read alone (although I’ll probably read the first one now as I enjoyed this one so much). Hannah’s dad is behaving strangely – has he joined a dating agency? Is someone moving in with them? But it turns out that he is gathering evidence to show that the farm is in an important place historically and environmentally and it’s all to gather evidence as the farm is under threat as a water company wants to flood the valley to build a reservoir. Both sides of the argument are explored – one family losing their home versus the benefits to the whole community. All is not as it seems and Hannah and her friends pull together using the school play to present their arguments. This is a really good read which shows family and school life and the dilemmas that face us all.

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