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Eye • May 2015 • 1 The local glossy that keeps on giving Christchurch - all month long
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contents Local History 6 What’s On 8 Peter’s Business Column 11 Clubs, Classes, Groups & Societies 12 Tucktonia 16 Christchurch Food & Wine Festival 17 Blue Plaque Trail 18 On the Water 21 Coffee Break 22 Christchurch Rotary 25 Adopt a Pet 27 Mindbenders 27 Kid’s Page 28 Win £25 29 AOK Rucksack Appeal 33 Christchurch Citizens Association 35 Queensmead Care Home 37 Garden View 38 Teen Column 41 Lupus Education Morning 41 Recipe 43 Coda Music Trust 45 Mum’s the Word 47 Puzzle Solutions 50 Regent Listings 51 Local Gig Guide 51 Index 53 Useful Contacts 54
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Dear Reader May is a fabulous month for Christchurch, as once the sun is out, the town is buzzing with not just the locals going about their day-to-day business, but Cheryl many tourists come to visit our beautiful town too. Tourism is vital to our town and helps pump money into the local economy. The town’s main event is the ever-growing Food & Wine Festival, which takes place throughout the whole month of May with many local restaurants, cafes, pubs, bars and hotels offering all sorts of excellent offers, special events and delicious menus. The main event – the Festival Food market takes place Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th May. The crowds are part and parcel of any great event, so just go with it and enjoy the atmosphere. You can try new cheeses, wines, beers & ciders, paellas, hog roasts, jellies & jams, sweeties, cupcakes; you name it, they’ve probably got it! There’s a lot to see and do for all ages so why not take the whole family? This year we have the added addition of the Highcliffe Revival Food Festival. Many members of Highcliffe Community have been working very hard to make this a great event too, so please show your support and pop along the following Saturday (16th) where you will receive a very warm welcome. Please don’t forget to pop into the local shops whilst you’re there. I challenge you to pop into at least one shop that you wouldn’t ordinarily go in, you might be pleasantly surprised with what they have to offer. Our local shops can often get overlooked at busy times like this but they are the life and blood of our town along with you, the community, so please show your support where you can.
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Local History
by Phil Tate
- Christchurch’s Earliest ‘High’ School?
For over 200 years St Michael’s Loft, high over the Lady Chapel at the east end of the Christchurch Priory Church, was a uniquely located schoolroom. It is thought that the Lady Chapel, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, was completed in the early 15th century and that its upper chamber was added slightly later. Accessed by octagonal turrets on both sides of the church, this medieval ‘loft extension’ was probably another chapel, presumably one dedicated to St Michael, an archangel commonly associated with hills and high places. It was perhaps originally used for the training of novice canons. When Prior Draper wrote to King Henry VIII in 1538, pleading for him not to dissolve Christchurch Priory, he detailed the benefits it brought to the town. These included ‘a master to teach grammar to children and scholars’. However, he did not specify exactly where these pupils were taught - nor was his plea successful, for in the following year the Priory was shut down by royal decree. In 1662 the Bishop of Winchester gave approval for the ‘great and spacious waste roome’, then known as St Michael’s Loft, to be used as a free grammar school. The boys would access the turret staircase to their schoolroom directly from the churchyard by way of a small door on the north side. One pupil at the school in the 1770s was Richard Warner, who became noted as the author of books on history, geography, and literary topics. In his autobiography, Literary Recollections, he describes how the elevated schoolroom had more than once granted the boys a view of the local smugglers in action as they trundled their contraband away from Hengistbury Head in processions ‘of twenty or thirty waggons, loaded with kegs of spirits... surrounded by a troop of two or three hundred horsemen’.
died in 1840 and was buried in Lymington Church. A 76ft Egyptian-style memorial obelisk erected near his home at Walhampton can still be seen. Another pupil destined for greatness upon the seas was Burton-born Edmond Lyons, who entered the Royal Navy at the age of ten in 1801 and served under Captain Harry Burrard Neale. He was soon engaging in adventurous exploits to rival those of the fictional Hornblower. In 1856, two years before his death, and a hero of the Crimea War, Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons returned to Christchurch to attend a grand reception held in his honour. He was conveyed into the town in an open carriage pulled from Purewell by a team of naval ratings. St Michael’s Loft continued as a public grammar school until a National School opened in the High Street (sited where the entrance end of Christchurch Library is now located) in 1829. It was then run as a private elementary school until that too closed in 1869 soon after a new school opened in Wick Lane (now the Priory Church of England Primary School). In the late 1970s the Vicar, Canon Basil Trevor-Morgan, decided that the many artefacts scattered throughout the Priory Church should be collected together and put on display. The result was the St Michael’s Loft Museum, which opened in 1980. Many people have since climbed the 75 steps to see the assorted exhibits, which include items from the schoolroom, rare medieval sculptures, a wall-sized map of Christchurch (created in the 1840s to record land-tithes), a model of the pre-dissolution monastic Priory, and much more - plus, of course, the splendid views over the town and Christchurch Harbour.
Perhaps inspired by their schoolroom’s splendid view of Christchurch Harbour and the sea beyond, at least two pupils at the St Michael’s Loft school became high-ranking officers in the Royal Navy. One such was Harry Burrard, a life-long friend of Richard Warner, who joined the Royal Navy in 1778. In 1790 he became the commander of the sloopof-war Orestes, which only a few years earlier had been involved in the Battle of Mudeford, a bloody encounter between the Revenue Service and local smugglers. He rose to the rank of Admiral, but was also a long-serving and well-loved MP for his hometown of Lymington. Admiral Sir Harry Burrard Neale 6 • Christchurch Eye • May 2015
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Tower & Bells - 176 steps, St Michaels Loft Museum - 75 steps, Roof Space - 103 steps, restricted spaces! Tickets £10 (£5 children over 8) in advance. Tel: 01202 485804, email vestry@christchurchpriory.org. Meet at Tower Door. Friday 8th May 6pm - 8pm & Sat 9th May 9am -10.30am Bransgore Horticultural Society Annual Plant Sale to be held at the Village Hall, Ringwood Road, Bransgore. Large selection of Bedding & Basket plants, perennials and vegetables, plus Society stall. Quality plants at bargain prices! Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th May 10am - 6pm The award-winning Christchurch Food & Wine Festival. The town centre will be buzzing with over 120 traders in the town centre selling an extensive range of high quality regional and international food and drink and food and drink related produce. www.christchurchfoodfest.co.uk for more information Sunday 10th May 7.30am to 12noon Christchurch Lions Charity Car Boot Sale, Stanpit Marsh. Full details at www. christchurchlions.org.uk or find us on Facebook. Wednesday 13th May 7pm Christchurch Arts Guild Welcomes back Chris Jones to demonstrate wildlife painting in acrylic. Chris is outstanding in this field and the occasion should not be missed. Commences 7pm, All Saints Church Hall, Mudeford, visitors welcome. Thursday 14th May 10.30am The Christchurch and East Bournemouth Branch of the RNLI will be holding a coffee morning at Christchurch Sailing Club starting at 10.30am with
coffee, biscuits and a raffle. Please come and join us - anyone and everyone welcome. Fundraising in aid of the RNLI. Saturday 16th May 11am - 1pm Highcliffe Scouts Plant Sale. Please come and buy our quality bedding and basket plants and support our Scouts. Sat 16th May 11am - 1pm at the Scout Hut in Chewton Common Road (next to Junior school entrance). Saturday 16th May 7pm Family Fun Quiz Night. Mudeford Wood Community Centre, Pipers Drive, BH23 4TR. Come along and test your knowledge, tickets cost £8 and include Fish & Chip supper, bring your own drink. Call 01425 272084 or visit: www. mudefordwoodcommunitycentre. co.uk for tickets. Saturday 16th May 10am - 12noon Spring Bazaar Don’t miss our exciting new Spring Bazaar held at Stour Surgery, Barrack Road, Christchurch. Raffle, refreshments, books, cakes, brica-brac, nearly new, DVDs, CDs, jewellery, tombola, plants, roll-a-coin, higher or lower? card game. Hosted by Stour Surgery Patients Circle. Saturday 16th May 10am - 5pm Highcliffe Revival Food Festival. The first to take place! Featuring demos from top chefs including Valentine Warner (BBC) and James Golding as well as music and entertainment for the entire family. It promises to be a great day for all. A celebration of food. Saturday 16th May 10am - 12noon Spring Sale at The Salvation Army, Stour Road (next to Bulstrodes) cakes, bric a brac, gifts and refreshments. Tuesday 19th May 7pm Autism Wessex Charity Quiz Night! Win fabulous prizes at the
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Following the latest craze for ways of selling bric-a brac, the Emporium is set Peter to become a large indoor market, following the model used by Molly’s Den in New Milton and other such venues in Bournemouth and beyond.
First you find a large empty warehouse or factory. In this case, the old Mostyns Factory in Bridge Street is the chosen site (near the Council buildings). You then divide it into small sections and then (and I suspect this is the difficult bit) you persuade a number of people to hire out those small sections to display their wares for sale. You, the owner, will collect the rents, handle the sales and sell tea and cakes to the public as they come to visit.
Those in favour will commend the imaginative use of a large empty property and will point to the employment created. Those less enamoured with the project will worry about trade diversion from the high street and the increased competition for those in the high street with their higher rents and business rates - and parking charges.
I suspect the public at large will enjoy the chance to browse somewhere new – although I know a devoted car-boot sale enthusiast who complains that the bargains that used to be available are now all bought by those who run the units at these new markets. The rents for units are not low and whilst the chance of finding something different and interesting is high, the chance of finding a bargain maybe slim.
Only time will tell whether this new Emporium will be viable, but at least it’s being set up by a family with local Christchurch connections, so we wish them well.
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Other Clubs, Classes & Societies Christchurch Trefoil Guild - 1st Monday of the Month 2.15pm - 4.30pm. A friendly welcome is extended to ex Brownies, ex Guides, and ANYONE with or without Guiding connections to join us at 2.15pm on the first Monday monthly at Portfield Hall, Portfield Road, Christchurch. Interesting speakers, activities, holidays/outings. Gill Aslett. 01202 485363 Highcliffe Horticultural Society - Monday 4th May at 7-30pm.Will be holding their May monthly meeting at St.Mark’s church hall Hinton Wood Ave, Highcliffe at 7-30pm when Eric Watson will give an illustrated talk on Wild Flowers at your doorstep. Visitors welcome. Contact 01425 272962 for details. Highcliffe Death Café - Monday 11th May 7.30pm - 9pm and Wednesday 20th 1.30pm - 3pm. Come and join this worldwide group to discuss a subject 70%
of us feel uncomfortable talking about. Today 1,639 Death Cafe’s have been run in 29 countries. Eat cake and drink coffee whilst talking about DEATH and our own mortality. Donations requested. Chess at Arcado Lounge Every Tuesday 2.30pm - 5pm. All ages and skills are welcome, even beginners. Just turn up! Chess is FREE over a drink and/ or food in a relaxed environment. 71 High Street, Christchurch, BH23 1AS. Contact John 01202 427523. Carbery Machine Knitting Club - 1st Tuesday of the month 7pm - 9pm. Meet on the first Tuesday of each month (except August) at St George’s Church Hall Annex, Jumpers Road, Christchurch BH23 2JR from 7pm - 9pm. We are a small friendly group and welcome new members. For more information, please call Joy on 01202 489614. Christchurch Probus Club 1st Tuesday monthly at 10.15am Meets at the East Close Hotel Lyndhurst Road, Christchurch. A very friendly welcome awaits all retired professional and businessmen. Interesting speakers and excellent lunches! Please contact the Secretary, Robin Haggett on 01202 4825428. Past Rotarians & Associates Club of the New Forest & District. 1st & 3rd Tuesday of each month. We are a dual gender, non-affiliated club whose membership is made up of both past Rotarians and non-past Rotarians (Associates). We meet twice monthly at Hoburne Park, Christchurch with a coffee
morning on the first Tuesday of each month and a lunch with a speaker on the third Tuesday. Contact Alan Clark 01590 641270 or more information. Mudeford Wood Tennis Club, Brabazon Drive, Mudeford. Tuesday & Thursday evenings 6pm - 8pm and Saturday afternoons 2pm - 4pm. Friendly social and match tennis, outdoor, all year round. Astroturf surface with floodlights. £60 per year. Contact Debbie 07592 014207 or Gail 07973 514036 Christchurch Central WI 1st Wednesday of the month 10a.m - 12.15pm. Meet monthly, Druitt Hall, off the High Street. Interesting talks, competitions, raffles and a sales table. We are a friendly group. Join us for a coffee. More information please call 01202 386813. Christchurch Arts Guild welcome demonstrator Chris Jones to All Saints Church Hall, Mudeford. Wednesday May 13th 7pm. Chris is a magnificent wildlife artist and will be producing a lifelike study in acrylics. Come early to get a seat! Guests welcome. Amberwood - Highcliffe. Afternoon Women’s Institute will meet at Methodist Church Hall, Highcliffe at 2pm on Wednesday 20th May. Speaker: Joan Roberts “Grandmother’s Workbox”. Enjoy tea, biscuits, raffle, sales table. Please come and join us. Further details: Marina 01425 271426.
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Christchurch Floral Society Meeting on May 1st at Priory Hall Princess Avenue. Demonstrator Pam Welch “Enigma variations” Come and see beautiful flowers in lovely arrangements and win one Plant Stall Doors open 1.30pm for 2pm start.
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TUCKTONIA: A SALUTE TO BRITAIN Written by Alex McKinstry
The grand opening of Tucktonia, the model village at the back of the Tuckton Golf and Leisure Park, took place on Bank Holiday Sunday, 23 May 1976, with Arthur Askey presiding. ‘We’d tried to get Bernie Ecclestone,’ recalls Harry Stiller, the exFormula 3 champion who came up with the idea for Tucktonia – and who stayed on, as consultant in the project, after selling the site to Grand Metropolitan in 1975. ‘I’d known Bernie for years, and of course he’s tiny, so that would have fitted with the model landscape. But it wasn’t his sort of thing. Then Ken James, the site manager, said “Why don’t you ask Arthur Askey?” – and he agreed to do it for one hundred quid, plus his train fare.’
The 200 or so models making up the village continued arriving till the last minute, some requiring urgent repairs after suffering damage in transit. As the landscape took shape, a security firm was enlisted to provide 24-hour surveillance: Sentinel Security, consisting of a father-and-son team, Ken and Tony Janes, and their German shepherd, Gretchen. Sue Good, who worked at the leisure park from 1974, remembers patrolling the site with them the night before the grand opening ceremony – ‘leash in one hand, torch in the other, ready to ambush any intruders waiting to blow up the Houses of Parliament!’ Just as the object of Tucktonia was to reproduce ‘the best of Britain in miniature’, the opening ceremony was dubbed ‘a salute to Britain’ and took the form of a carnival through Christchurch, celebrating the more colourful aspects of Britain’s heritage. It took off from the Bridge Street car park at 2 p.m., headed by the seventy-five-year-old Askey – having the time of his life aboard a 1909 open-topped Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, on loan from 16 • Christchurch Eye • May 2015
the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu. Accompanying him were ten-year-old ‘Tucktonia princess’ Sarah Ridout; the Mayor of Christchurch, John Morgan; and, bringing up the rear, brass bands, Scots pipers, majorettes, Beefeaters, commercial floats and other vintage vehicles. Amid crowds three deep, the procession trooped along Christchurch High Street, Sopers Lane, Willow Drive and into Stour Road, where, at 2.30, Askey raised the Tucktonia flag – a chirpy robin, with a Union Jack breast – and declared the model landscape open. Crowds then flooded in to view the new attraction while Askey signed autographs, having already posed for photographs with the models, some of which are reproduced here. There were teething troubles that day. The miniature trains showed an unfortunate tendency to crash into each other. The bascules of Tower Bridge got stuck in the ‘open’ position, while the cars on the Tucktonia motorway only moved in fits and starts. More portentously, as The Christchurch Herald reported on 29 May, residents in the flats overlooking the complex ‘were unhappy about the noise from all the merrymaking’. We shall look at these local objections further down the line, but in our next issue we will focus on the employees who smoothed over these initial difficulties, and helped make Tucktonia such a success.
Christchurch Food Festival Preparations are well under way for this year’s Christchurch Food & Wine Festival. The main Festival event, taking place on 9 and 10 May, is expanding to cover two sites. The traditional Festival Market will be in the pedestrianised High Street as usual but this year there will also be a Festival Village on the Quomps at Christchurch Quay. The Festival Village will include food and drink stalls and will also be the venue for the demonstration theatre where the headline act on Saturday 9 May will be the Jamaican chef famous for his Reggae Reggae products, Levi Roots. Appearing on Sunday 10 May will be TV chef Dean Edwards, currently a resident chef on ITV’s “Lorraine”. The Festival’s patron, TV chef Lesley Waters, will also be appearing on the Sunday.
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Christchurch Blue Plaques by Stephen Roberts No. 4 - Anyone fancy a cuppa?
So, this is the Court House that wasn’t a Court House and the Perfumery that’s not a Perfumery. Confused? Anyone fancy a cuppa? That’s handy as this is a rather nice tea room today and when confusion reigns it’s best to pop the kettle on (or let someone else do it). This is plaque 5 on our trail (the New Forest Perfumery). This is a Medieval, borough-owned property, dating partly from the 13th century, hence claims this could be the country’s oldest council house as well as Christchurch’s oldest inhabited dwelling. Suggesting the English Civil War wasn’t bad for everyone, the then tenants had their rent reduced on account of losing some garden when the castle moat was recut. There are also tales of smugglers’ tunnels somewhere under today’s café tables. The attractive carved façade in Castle Street is newer (Victorian), dating from the era when the building was famously a butcher’s. Meat hook racks can be seen above the window and there is the odd hook inside too. My wife, always fastidious in matters of food hygiene, would not have appreciated the onetime butcher’s nicknamed Dirty Gert’s. Anyone for a nice bit of pork scratching? The name, ‘The Old Court House’, seems to date from the 19th century, as a backroom was used to elect officials, including the Mayor, Hayward (whose jobs included a lung-busting Town Crier and gathering up stray animals), Bread-weigher, Inspector of Chimneys and Aletaster (nice work if you can get it).
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The real ‘Court House’ was next door though, over the entrance to the castle, sadly removed in 1888. Perhaps it was after that the Perfumery took on its court house moniker, continuing its functions up to 1920. The popular, Stephen sunny courtyard at the back has a small building, which looks suspiciously like an old lock-up, a relic maybe from those former days of law and order. The building has also been a booksellers (‘lovely jubbly’) and a shoemakers. The ‘Perfumery’ bit came about because New Forest flower perfumes were once mixed and sold here, a business which continued for some 50 years up to the mid-1990s. Today this venerable building is firmly on the Teapot Trail, with friendly staff replete in black and white uniforms recalling a more genteel England, that of the Lyons Tea House, when manners were king, the tea room quintessential and service smiled. Steve Roberts - www.steveroberts.org.uk / @ SRChristchurch (Twitter) References - Christchurch Blue Plaques Millennium Trail Lesser Known Christchurch (S Roberts, 2015- out soon!) Map by Mark Fudge, reproduced courtesy of Dorset Life Magazine
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Christchurch Rotary In the month of March 1950, Christchurch Rotary Club was chartered (established).
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Another highlight of the evening was Dave Crumpler being presented with a Paul Harris Award. This award represents one of the highest honours a club member can receive for exceptional service to the club/community. Dave (and his Team) have been responsible for the last 10 years in delivering a safe, family friendly Stanpit Annual Firework Display, not to mention raising over £180,000 for local good causes! So, I make no excuses for praising the club in this article as I, along with my fellow Rotarians are proud to be a member of this club with such a respected tradition. From our original formation to the present day the same ethic is evident “Service above Self”. But why hear it from me? Come along and see for yourself, the door is always open. I look forward to seeing you soon. Paul Lawton
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Christchurch Citizens Association Another month has flown by and it is the merry month of May, well let us hope so. With the General and Local Elections on there could be fireworks ahead!!! It is a time when many of us are in a quandary as to who to vote for and whether to vote at all. However if we do not vote we cannot complain when things do not go according to plan. The Druitt Hall re-vamp is still ongoing and the kitchen should be in operation for the May Food Festival. Having a working kitchen will be a great asset for the people who hire the hall. By now, many of the road works will be completed and hopefully traffic might flow more easily again. Unfortunately the Fairmile, Bargates and Barrack roads are continually congested especially with the numerous heavy trucks using these roads on a daily basis. If future plans for development and gravel extraction sites go ahead this will add to an already severe problem. The tourist season is only weeks away and although very welcome, generates even more vehicles. We can only keep stressing that CHRISTCHURCH needs a RELIEF ROAD. The bus stop outside Waitrose is still a bone of contention. Why when there is adequate room for a pull in to enable buses to stop without blocking the inner lane of the by-pass has nothing been done to address this problem? It was brought to our notice that a directional sign at the cross roads of Barrack and Stour roads was missing for some time, after several letters to DCC we are pleased to say that this has now been replaced. Due to the spring bank holiday our next meeting will be on Monday May 11th in Druitt Hall at 7.30pm. Contact email: christchurchcitizensassociation@hotmail.co.uk or phone 01202 388900 To advertise please call 01202 477214
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Christchurch care home bids fond farewell to loyal staff member Staff and residents at Care South’s Queensmead care home in Christchurch recently held a special celebration at the home, to bid a fond farewell to Senior Care Assistant, Rosita Foster.
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CODA INVITES NEW STUDENTS AFTER EXPANSION
Coda Music Trust, based in Highcliffe, completed its first phase of expansion over Easter and is now looking to recruit new students for the summer term. Based on a former Victorian farm, Coda has undergone phased development of its buildings in recent years in response to increased demand.
The disused piggery, last used for livestock in 1995, will ultimately provide five new spaces to deliver an ever-expanding instrumental tuition and workshop programme, as well as creating a new reception area and improved landscaping and access.
As of this May, two new teaching rooms have now been completed, which means Coda can both meet existing demand and offer places to new students in guitar, piano, drums, strings, woodwind and vocal tuition.
Coda is the only music centre of its kind in the region providing a range of music opportunities to people of all ages and abilities, with facilities dedicated to teaching, music groups, choirs, workshops, training, music therapy and music for health and wellbeing.
It’s never too early – or too late – to learn or benefit from music tuition. To support any students who may have difficulty affording the full cost of lessons, Coda also offers a bursary scheme. Contact Coda to find out more. Find out more about Coda Music Trust by visiting the website www.coda.org.uk or contact Coda on 01425 276161 or via email contact@ coda.org.uk
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Mum’s the Word Browsing the magazine aisle recently, a fitness magazine caught my eye. I stood and pondered, and stood some more before deciding, yes I would buy Natasha it because yes I will do all (or most of) the fitness regimes they tell me I can do. Plus the front cover had a caption of ‘I have three children and an athletes’ body...’ So I opened it excitedly ready to start getting fitter for summer!
However, what I first came across in the magazine was a whole two-page spread telling me how to take the best ‘selfie’. So, skipping past that one, I came across the mum who manages to workout with three young children. I found the secret! Are you ready? She has cleaners! Not just cleaners, but a cook, cleaners and nannies! I read how she takes the time when the children are napping to pop to the local yoga hub and how she and her husband enjoy rock climbing and kayaking three times a week together. So, slightly disheartened after trying to fathom how to attach three children in baby slings to me whilst I rock climbed, I gave up on that and had a look around at what I could do locally.
The first thing I found was this fab ladies paddle boarding group that’s starting here in Christchurch, you can find them on Facebook ‘Ladies that Paddle Christchurch’ to see their times and dates. Also, there is our new local gym ‘Urban Fitness’, right in the heart of town which is open until 10pm four nights a week, but, if like me you often struggle to get showered in the evening let alone out the house, I thought about all the brilliant local walks we have and better still, how I can take the children and let them burn off steam too.
I’ve now decided, for this summer, I’ll be sticking to fresh air, lots of beach and woodland walks and maybe just borrow one of my children’s scooters if I want to up my game a bit! Have fun getting active this summer!
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So, Buy To Let? Do you feel lucky?
Anyone a fan of Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry? Harry Callahan: I know what you’re thinking. “Did he fire six shots or only five?” Well to tell you the Jeremy truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you’ve gotta ask yourself one question: “Do I feel lucky?” Well, do ya, punk? Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed a huge increase in people calling into the office or phoning me, many are contemplating buying a property with a view to letting it out but are naturally nervous about the whole process. So why do they come and see me, what can I tell them that will put their minds at rest? To be blunt I cannot make them any promises but after 26 years in this business I can at least give them the reassurance that many have taken the plunge and have never regretted it. Getting it right is a balance, a balance of picking the right area, picking the right property, taking advice before you commit to spending money and then taking advice on how to maximise your investment. Finally of course the final piece to this jigsaw is selecting the right tenants. From this office we manage approximately 150 properties, all for private landlords like you. Since we opened Belvoir Christchurch in 2003 we have concentrated on giving good advice and as a result of that I can tell you that we currently have just 1 tenant in arrears. I don’t think therefore that the odds are that bad, just ask any of our current or previous landlords. So, if you’ve been reading the articles, been sitting on the fence feeling a bit nervous and maybe thinking about coming in to ask for advice; please feel free, we are open 6 days a week, if you call in unannounced and I’m not available I’ll come back to you. If you still feel a bit unsure then zip an email over to me Jeremy.clarke@belvoirlettings.com
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Local Libraries Christchurch 29 High Street Christchurch BH23 1AW 01202 485 938 Monday 9.30am to 5.30pm Tuesday 10am to 7pm Wednesday 9.30am to 1pm Thursday 9.30am to 7pm Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm Saturday 9am to 4pm
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Local Chemists The Grove Pharmacy 01202 484310 48 The Grove, Christchurch Mon - Fri 9-6 Sat 9-1 Wessex Pharmacies 01202 482197 186 Somerford Road, Christchurch Mon - Fri 9-1.15/2.15-5.30 Sat 9-1.15 Rowlands Pharmacy 01202 484840 136 Purewell, Christchurch Mon-Fri 8.45-6.30 Sat 8.45-1 Boots Pharmacy 01202 486276 2A Twynham Avenue, Christchurch Mon-Fri 8.45-1/2-6.15 Mudeford Pharmacy 01425 272798 94 Mudeford, Christchurch Mon-Fri 9-1/2-5.30 (Weds ‘til 1) Sat 9-1 Boots the Chemist 01202 483034 23 Saxon Square, Christchurch Mon-Sat 9-5.30 54 • Christchurch Eye • May 2015
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