Choice Magazine - Stubbington & Hill Head - June edition
STUBBINGTON & HILL HEAD • DELIVERED MONTHLY
PICNIC IN THE PARK AN AFTERNOON OF FUN!
LOCAL EVENTS LISTED INSIDE FREE TENNIS LESSON ST EDMUNDS OPEN DAY
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Are you tug of war ready? I hope so! This is one of the things you can enjoy at the wonderful Picnic in the Park. It’s this month! Grab your picnic blanket, and enjoy an afternoon of fun! All the details inside.
St Edmunds have an Open Day this month. There is singing from Crofton Anne Dale Choir and the Odd Wednesday Men Singers, historical guided tours, a quiz, games and what really sells it for me is their popular plant stall! Details inside.
If you’re in need of a giggle then head to the Crofton Amateur Dramatics latest production ‘A Fete Worse Than Death’. It’s a comedy murder mystery by Richard James. More info inside.
Do you love tennis? Need to brush up on your game? You’re in luck! If you’re after a free tennis lesson then the Racket Shack have a fab offer running this month. Check out their ad inside.
CAN YOU HELP?
The Love Stubbington group are in search of someone in the area with a covered space - such as a garage - large enough to store the village Christmas lights and also Rudolph and Santa’s sleigh! Can you help? If so, pop in to the Holy Rood church office or call 01329 661154 or email office@croftonparish.co.uk
My garden thinks it’s summer. I’ve never watered it so much in May! Let’s hope June brings sunshine too! We’ve got the monthly gardening guide to help you know what to do when!
The strawberry theme continues for this months recipe. It’s for roast strawberries with lemon and black pepper. The photo isn’t great as I dropped the plate after only taking a couple of photos! But it is delicious!
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I’m making the most of our delicious English strawberries! This is super quick and super delicious, nice and light. The perfect dessert for this time of year. I couldn’t get hold of any halva so I broke up a good old Digestive biscuit and sprinkled over!
Prep 5 min
Cook 20 min
Serves 4
For the strawberries
• 500g strawberries, hulled
• 2-3 tbsp golden caster sugar
• 1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
• 2 tbsp extra- virgin olive oil
• Zest and juice of 1 lemon
To serve
• 250g thick Greek or coconut yoghurt
• A little runny honey (optional)
• 100g halva (optional)
• 1 pinch flaky sea salt
Method
Heat the oven to 210C (190C fan)/400F/gas 6½. Halve the larger strawberries, but keep the smaller ones whole, and put in a large roasting dish.
Add the caster sugar, pepper, oil, lemon juice and zest, give it all a good toss and roast for 20 minutes. Gently move the strawberries around halfway through cooking to make sure they don’t catch.
Remove the tray from the oven and leave to cool slightly.
Spoon the yoghurt on to four plates, ripple through some honey, if you like, then top with the strawberries and their roasting juices. Crumble a little halva over each bowl, finish with a pinch of salt and serve.
Recipe is by Anna Jones annajones.co.uk
Shoreline Church is a small friendly and informal non denominational Christian Church that meets at Stubbington Community Centre on Sundays at 10.15am.
Shoreline started in 1999 in a small building on Hill Head beach and then moved to the function room of the Crofton Pub and then the Youth Project building. Over the years we have grown in number and in April 2019 we moved to the main hall of the Stubbington Community Centre.
We have a leadership team that is headed up by Kevin and Julie Stares and we work closely with all of the other churches in Stubbington in offering local people an opportunity to come and hear more about the Christian faith.
Along with Sunday meetings we have 4 mid week small groups, children and young peoples activities and a monthly men’s breakfast. We welcome anyone and everyone. We strongly believe that the Christian message is relevant for today and has answers for our needy world. Why not come along and hear more, you would be most welcome. Tea and coffee available before and after our Sunday meetings.
Shoreline Church meets every Sunday, 10.15am, in the main hall at Crofton Community Centre, Stubbington
Please join us, everyone is welcome
Visit shorelinechristianchurch.com for more information or phone Kevin Stares on 07462 066104 or Julie Stares on 07531 856465
Waves meet every Sunday in Crofton Youth Project 10.45‐11.45am (adjoined to Crofton Community Centre)
Youth Alpha will continue on Thursday nights in the youth project from 6:30 to 8:30pm.
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JUNE IN CRESCENT GARDEN
If you do any cooking you have almost certainly used sage. You probably grow it in your herb garden as well. There is also some growing in Crescent Garden. The variety grown there is purple sage, Salvia officianalis Purpurescens; grown entirely for its attractive appearance in a flower bed near the fountain. The generic name, Salvia, is derived from the Latin, salveo, meaning I heal or I save, as it was used extensively by the Greeks and Romans as a healing plant. The specific name, officianalis, is derived from officina, the place in a monastery for storing medicinal herbs. Now it is mainly used as a culinary herb, but can be torn into pieces and have boiling water poured on it to make a tea used as a remedy for coughs or sore throats.
In Crescent Garden it is used for decoration only, its young purple leaves maturing to a
silvery-green, though the leaves stay on the plant all year round, giving interest at all times. From late spring and through summer it also produces spikes of bright blue flowers. These are not only attractive to look at, but, being rich in pollen, nectar and perfume gather pollinators like bees and butterflies and these can often be seen above the plants on warm, still days.
The plant is native to the Mediterranean area and, therefore, enjoys hot, sunny conditions. It is, in fact, very drought tolerant, helped in this by the leaves being hairy and tough. The hairs trap moisture and help to reflect sunlight. The plant also has a very deep root system and can, therefore, draw moisture from low levels in the soil and can be used to prevent erosion on slopes in dry sandy soil. Although the perfume and scent of both flowers and leaves attracts insects the smell of the leaves deters animals like rabbits or deer, which might otherwise eat them. So, as well as being very hardy the plant is rarely eaten by them or other pests.
Old plants become woody, which is the case with the one remaining bush in Crescent Garden. In the past there were several sage bushes, but all but one have been removed as they became very straggly. Maybe the one remaining sage bush will need to be removed and replaced by thriving young ones. It is possible to create new bushes by layering old branches; that is lowering them to touch the ground where they will take root and grow. Time will tell; keep an eye on the garden and see what happens.
Do you have important legal documents in place to protect your interests and make life easier for you and your family, whatever the future brings?
If you have received a diagnosis of dementia, or are concerned about becoming ill and unable to cope with paying your bills, wouldn’t it be helpful for a family member to be able to step in and deal with your finances? If your family member needed to make decisions for you, instead of just acting on your instructions, they would need your formal written authority to do this.
Formal authority can be given by creating a Lasting Power of Attorney. This document will allow your family member to take over managing your money, either temporarily or long term.
You can also create a Lasting Power of Attorney which allows your family member to make decisions for you about medical treatment, if you are unable for any reason to make your own decisions. This is not the same as an Advance Decision, which is a document which sets out your decision to refuse medical treatment in the future, under specific conditions.
If you are caring for an elderly relative, or are likely to be doing so in the future, a Lasting Power of Attorney will mean that you can provide the support your relative needs and access services on their behalf, without the difficulties, stress and resistance you would otherwise encounter.
Having a Will gives you peace of mind that your money, property and personal possessions will be going to the people you have chosen to benefit. An out of date Will can cause problems within the family or mean that a chosen beneficiary receives nothing.
If you have any unanswered questions about Wills or Lasting Powers of Attorney, Christine will be pleased to help, so do please get in touch for a free, no obligation, chat.
Call Christine Davies Solicitor on 07860 772274 or email: christine@winterbornelegal.co.uk
Christine is a Fully Accredited Member of Solicitors for the Elderly and a Dementia Friend. Christine will visit you in your own home and aims to provide a warm personal touch to every meeting.
Christine Davies Solicitor
DECORATIVE FOUNTAINSCAPES
Ideal for front gardens as statement pieces, or for smaller rear gardens where you want the sound of water without the footprint that a pond requires. There are a multitude of fountain designs to choose from and the configurations are endless. These are also really good for attracting birds to drink and wash.
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Ideal for and stre a hidden water is
Ideal for people wanting to enjoy it as a fishpond, and/or to use it as a recreation pond if the space allows, where your family sit and relax in the summer, but still enjoy the visual of a beautiful natural looking pond all year round. This is the oppos swimming pool which remains a covered over rectangle for most of the year with our English weather! Using the Ecosystem basis for natural chemical free filtration, underwater jets and larger wetland filtration systems can be incorporated to ensure and circulation. Waterfalls, streams and decorative fountainscape elements can be incorporated into the pond to suit your s ultimate outdoor living lifestyle.
I can also create and incorporate Rainwater Harvesting systems to use with any of the water features mentioned. All ponds and water features will periodically lose water due to evaporation, splash and wind. Manual top up is the simplest solution but requires regular checking for levels. Creating an underground water reservoir from collected rainwater for your feature to draw upon is the most environmentally friendly way
Contact Craig to arrange a consultation and design visit: 07787 562490
All other landscaping, pond cleaning and garden maintenance also carried out.
LESS WATERFALL
people wanting the impressive visual and sound of a waterfall am, but without the want for fish or pond maintenance. Using n water reservoir to give the illusion of disappearing water, the then pumped back up to the start of the waterfall to recirculate.
All water features can be enhanced with lighting to ensure 24 hour enjoyment of them.
y and friends can swim or site to a standard garden m Pond philosophy as the the highest water quality space and budget, for the
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Rear set colour coded: from £160
Front set colour coded: from £190 Both
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IN THE GARDEN
• Cut away spring bulb foliage once it dies back
• Sow annual flower seeds
• Clip deciduous & evergreen hedges
• Liquid-feed container plants
• Take softwood cuttings
• Sprinkle feed around roses
• Divide congested flag iris
• Spray aphids on lupins with soapy water
• Feed lawns
• Stake tall lillies
• Clear out ponds
• Snip off faded clematis flowers
• Water sweet peas regularly
• Pick fading flowers from rhododendrons
• Sow winter flowering pansies
• Now’s the time to trim your bay tree
• Trim Magnolias if they are outgrowing their space
GREENHOUSE
• Leave windows and doors open when nights are warm enough
• Pinch out developing sideshoots on tomato
stems that need pinching out. Check your seed packets as not all need pinching!
• Sow french and runner beans in pots to plant out for a late crop
• Keep on top of the weeds
• Protect your fruit
• Second sowing of courgettes can be done
Grinding
Shrubs:
Picnic in the Park
Sunday 8th June 12noon - 4.30pm
Stubbington Recreation Ground
FREE EVENT
ZORBS
FACE PAINTING TIN CAN ALLEY TUG OF WAR KIDS RACES AND LOTS MORE!
An afternoon of fun! Bring a picnic!
Organised by THE CROFTON LIONS
CROFTON AMATEUR DRAMATICS SOCIETY (CADS)
19th-21st June at 7:30pm in the Crofton Theatre Hall, Crofton Community Centre, Stubbington. Doors 7pm. ‘A Fete Worse Than Death’, a comedy murder mystery by Richard James. Tickets online using TicketSource, or from hotline 01329 661143, or from the Crofton Community Centre, or purchased on the door . Hope you’ll join us.
ST EDMUNDS (CROFTON OLD CHURCH) OPEN DAY
Lychgate Green on Saturday 7th June 10am-4pm
There will be something for everyone going on throughout the day – Crofton Anne Dale Choir singing at 11am; Historical Guided Tours at 12 noon and 2pm; the Odd Wednesday Men Singers at 1pm; our very popular Plant Stall; Games, a Quiz and a Prize Draw. Refreshments available. Admission is free. All welcome.
STUBBINGTON STITCH AND KNIT
GROUP
Friday afternoons 2-4 pm in the Foster Room, (next to Holyrood Church.) Our next sales will be at Stubbington Library, Saturday 7th June 9.30am-12pm.
We now have a stall at Fareham Community Hospital on Monday 9th June, 9.30am-12pm.
ST EDMUNDS (CROFTON OLD CHURCH)
Services 9.30am every Sunday.
1st & 3rd Sunday of month is Holy Communion (BCP). 2nd & 4th Sunday is Morning Service. Coffee served after. 18th June 10am-12pm The Church will also be open on for visitors/private prayer. We look forward to seeing.
STUBBINGTON BELLES W.I.
2nd Monday of the month 1.30-3.30pm Crofton Club, Titchfield Road. June meeting is members only. Visitors welcome to other meetings. Pal Hayre, Mayor of Fareham, joins us Mon 14 July to talk about her journey to becoming Mayor. Come along and give us a try email stubbingtonbellessec@hampshirewi.org.uk
INTERNATIONAL FOLK/CIRCLE DANCING
June 10th, 24th 10am-12pm
RC Church Hall, Bells Lane, Stubbington £7
Dances to beautiful music from around the World. No Partner or experience is required & all dances are taught. New members welcome. Contact Bob & Mary 01329 609589 Mobile: 07748009838 neal.bob61@gmail.com
SUMMER FETE & “THE GREAT LEE BAKE OFF”
Saturday 7 June 10am–2pm St Faiths Church, Victoria Square, Lee on the Solent PO13 9NF
Family Fun and our “Bake-Off Charity Cake Sale” in support of Gosport & Fareham Foodbanks. Donkey rides, bouncy slides, BBQ, Bar, Family Café, a variety of Stalls, Plants Sale, Bike Workshop. Gosport Shed “Ukuleles” Band. Coconut Shy, Ice Cream Parlour. FREE ENTRANCE
STUBBINGTON VILLAGE W.I.
Meet on the second Thursday of the month at the Methodist Church Hall at 7.15pm.
Popular and interactive group, currently full, but we welcome invited visitors to induction meetings in June and October, if we are the right group for you, you will go on a waiting list. Ring Chris, on 07970 826044.
CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT FELLOWSHIP
STUBBINGTON GROUP Second Thursday of the month 2pm at Catholic Church Hall, Bells Lane
All retirees are welcome. For info contact Peter Cornish 023 9234 5457 or visit csrf.org.uk/group/stubbington
ENJOY PLAYING BADMINTON
Tuesdays 6.30-8pm Crofton Community Centre. A social crowd of all standards and welcome anyone to join us (we cannot accommodate complete beginners). First session free. For info Jan Hooper 07501126196.
CROFTON PROBUS CLUB
Monthly social lunch at Lee-on-the-Solent Golf Club. For retired and Semi-retired professional/businessmen. If you miss the camaraderie and social connection of the workplace come along to a trial meeting before joining? 07508711299 or email: morton.wouter@gmail.com
CROFTON GARDENING CLUB
Friday June 27th Strawberry Tea The Wheelhouse Salterns Lane
STUBBINGTON & HILL HEAD WI
Wed 25th June 2pm, at the Baptist Church, Jay Close, Cuckoo Lane, Stubbington. Talk by Trevor Vidler on “A Different Type of Volunteering” from Hampshire Search & Rescue. Friendly group, visitors are warmly welcomed.
LEE PLAYERS - INTERACTIVE MURDER MYSTERY
Fri 18th & Sat 19th July. Doors 7pm curtain 7.30pm
Crofton Hall Theatre, Crofton Community Centre
Tickets £10 from 01329 662128 or the Crofton Community Centre. Three elderly ladies join the 'Twilight Dating Agency' and each meets the man of her dreams...
CROFTON W.I. BIRTHDAY MEETING
11th June Baptist Church Stubbington.
Our regular meetings are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month everyone is welcome. We have regular monthly coffee mornings, often at local nurseries, a lunch club in various venues, a craft club, book club and outings. Lifts can always be arranged. Please come along, you will be given a warm welcome.
PICNIC IN THE PARK
Sunday 8th June Stubbington Recreation Ground
Free event. Zorbs, face painting, tin can alley, tug of war, kids races and more! Afternoon of fun! Bring a picnic.
CROFTON BOWLING CLUB
Stubbington Lane. Located behind the tennis courts
A warm welcome to the new bowling season and to all members of Crofton Bowling Club. Opening Day was a great success, with the afternoons bowling session beginning with the ‘SPIDER’, where members cast a wood to see who can be the closest to the Spider, which is placed in the centre of the green. Sally Walton, from Coghlan Funeral Directors Gosport, cast the first wood of the season. A huge thank you to Coghlan Funeral Directors for their sponsorship of equipment this year. Come & Try Day took place 19th April & proved, yet again, to be a very successful event. On Saturday 7th June, 10 – 12pm, we are holding a Junior Come & Try Day, where younger members of the public (under 18yrs) are all welcome to come and try. Members of the public are very welcome to come and watch play & find out where we are. If you are interested in joining or would like any further information, please contact our Club Secretary Amanda Collins, phone number 07976 220662 or visit our website.
With 3 sites in the local area, all of our Garages are high ranking members of ‘The Good Garage Scheme’ and ‘Checkatrade’. Our Garages provide onsite MOT testing. Mon - Fri: 8.30 - 5.30 Sat: 8.30 - 12.30
All Makes and Models catered for.
0333 3585 999
Solent Airport MOTs, Unit il1-3, Illustrious Daedalus Park, Daedalus Drive, Lee on the Solent PO13 9FX (Stubbington Motors is now at Solent Airport MOTS) Elkins Motors, 99b Mays Lane, Stubbington PO14 2ED Locks Heath Garage, 212 Hunts Pond Road, Locks Heath PO14 4PG
HVR CUSTOMS
Specialists in VW’s, we also cover many other makes and models in the full or part conversion of camper vans, kombi vans and caddy’s. We manufacture and design custom built camper interiors for Volkswagens and other makes.
Full & Part Conversions
VW Transporters, Campers, Kombi’s and Caddy’s
0333 3585 999 (Option 3)
HVR Customs, Unit il3-4, Illustrious Daedalus Park, Daedalus Drive, Lee on the Solent PO13 9FX
CARS AND VANS ALWAYS IN STOCK FOR SALE!
Specialising in transporters and small low mileage cars. (The cars are ideal for first time drivers.)
Sat 7th & Sun 8th June 1-5pm
Adult - £10, accompanied children free Price covers both days
ADVANCE TICKETS
from Alverstoke Post Office, Alverstoke Village Hardware and Queen’s Parade News, Privett Road
TICKETS ON THE DAY
From 12.00 at the Parish Centre, Green Road, PO122ET and participating gardens
Sponsors
All proceeds to Alverstoke Parish Centre Regeneration Project Registered Charity Name - St Mary’s Alverstoke PCC No. 1130178
A COMMUNITY IN THE COMMUNITY
When did you last spend time socially with people of a different age or life stage?
It’s amazing how, in our modern, hyperconnected world, we actually spend less time with people of younger or older generations. There are a few places where generations mix – at the football, for example. But, apart from work and family, we increasingly spend our social time with people like us. We’re blessed in Crofton Parish to have a wide age range across our churches. One member of St Edmunds recently celebrated their 100th birthday and we have a couple of newborns at Holy Rood. From 0-100+, there’s something special about being in a multigenerational community.
If you have teenagers at home, ask yourself how many adults they have in their lives who aren’t authority figures - parents, teachers or coaches?
Hopefully your teenagers have amazing aunts, uncles or family friends, but many don’t have other safe adults that know them enough to have an encouraging conversation. All of the ‘adulting’ in their lives falls to their parents. Yet, each young person that comes to either of our churches interacts every week with adults outside their family that know them and support them. It’s impossible to measure the good that a supportive community does for a
young person. It’s so much better than being stuck in their bedroom.
Pupils from Crofton School sometimes visit our Young at Heart community for older people. They’re always a bit anxious at first, but almost every one of the young people comes away from the experience saying how much they enjoyed talking and listening with the Young at Heart members. The Young at Heart community love having them there too! It’s a safe space to talk across the generations and discover how much we have in common.
The children at Holy Rood are pretty noisy during the services and usually eat all the biscuits and run around like mad things afterwards. I love it, because it means they belong, they know the church is theirs too. A church with no children doesn’t just have no future, it’s lost something irreplaceable in its present too.
Our mission statement is that we want to be ‘the heart of God at the heart of our community’. We’re a community in our community, of all ages and life stages. Every generation enriches – and is enriched by – the others. Perhaps, in our modern world, that’s something we all need?
Rev Canon Richard England Vicar, Crofton Parish Area Dean, Fareham croftonparish.org.uk Office: 01329 661154
