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Whitstable Magazine Welcome to the third edition of

Whitstable CommunityAd Magazine, with its many articles and information which we hope you will find interesting.

This is your Community magazine and we would love to hear your views and thoughts on any issue relating to Whitstable and its residents, past, present and future.

Contributions for the next issue must reach us by Monday 5 January.

We would like to wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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Talking Therapies@Psicon Mental health affects us all. How we think and feel about ourselves and our lives impacts on our behaviour and how we cope in tough times. Whether we call it well-being, emotional welfare or mental health, it’s key to living a fulfilling life.

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Research indicates that 1 in 4 people experience common problems such as low mood, stress, worry, anxiety, phobia, panic or reliving traumatic events in any year, which can be triggered by work stressors, personal relationships, adjustments to new situations, losses or accidents – to name only a few. It can be difficult to know where to turn when experiencing these difficulties; talking to a GP can seem daunting, and often people find themselves suffering in silence. One of the biggest barriers to accessing support is that often people just don’t know where to turn.

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New Road Tax Laws British car owners are being urged to make sure they are aware of the new road tax laws which took effect from October this year. One of the new rules prohibits sellers from passing on the outstanding period of road tax with the sale of a car.

The DVLA has been advising UK residents that paper tax discs, which have been in use since 1921, will become obsolete for the last couple of years, with their total removal to apply from 1 October 2014. From that date, drivers can choose to manage their road tax online, through the Post Office or with Direct Debit payments. Enforcement will be via DVLA and police cameras with number plate recognition technology, which can check automatically whether a vehicle is currently taxed or SORN, rather than checking that paper tax discs are affixed to windscreens.

The DVLA believes the new system will not only make it more difficult for drivers to get away with driving untaxed vehicles but also cut down on administration costs to an estimated £10 million annually. The DVLA produced 42.2 million paper tax discs, with a total weight over 72 tonnes - more than a Challenger 2 tank.

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ownerships, and any unused tax cannot be transferred with the vehicle. Drivers, instead, will need to claim a refund for the remaining taxation period. Sellers who fail to notify the DVLA that their vehicle has been sold risk a fine of £1,000, in addition to being on the end of any speeding or parking offences incurred by the new owner, resulting in further fines and possible licence penalty points.

The DVLA is reminding car owners that it is the seller’s responsibility to return the V5C registration document complete with details of the sale, rather than relying on the new owner to do so, and owners who scrap their vehicles must be in receipt of a Certificate of Destruction, as given by an authorised facility.

Until the documents are sent off, drivers are likely to be held liable for any transgressions committed by the car’s new owner.

Motoring organisations, however, are concerned that drivers will unwittingly break the law if they do not know or understand the new rules. The DVLA has produced a short film called ‘Goodbye to the tax disc’ to help car owners understand the new scheme.

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Whitstable Castle Whitstable Castle has been central to the life of the town for many years. It is home to Whitstable’s only public park, which is open to the public free of charge seven days per week. Whitstable Castle reopened in autumn 2010 after a lengthy restoration project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Canterbury City Council.

The main building has an interesting history. It originated in 1790, the seaside holiday home of Charles Pearson, a London entrepreneur.

Pearson was involved in building the Canterbury to Whitstable railway (with George Stephenson). Pearson built a hotel close to the end of the railway line, which is today The Pearson’s Arms Public House.

Another colourful owner of Tankerton Towers (as it was then known) from 1836, was London millionaire businessman Wynn Ellis. He was a flamboyant and well-known figure and a Liberal MP. He installed his mistress, Susan Lloyd, at the house, while his wife remained at their London home in Cadogan Place.

Upon his death in 1875, Wynn Ellis’s possessions were sold by Christies and his ‘Old Masters’ bequeathed to the National Gallery. However, they were found to be skillful copies and relegated to the store rooms at the National Gallery, where they remain to this day.

His son (the Rev Arthur Graystone) later inherited the house and a huge fortune.

The family has an imposing mausoleum in the churchyard at All Saints Church.

In 1935, Whitstable Urban District Council bought the castle and used it as civic offices. In 1975, at the instigation of the Whitstable Society, it was cleaned up and reclaimed by the people of Whitstable for community use.

The Castle was the recipient of a Heritage Lottery grant in 2008, allowing £3m to be spent restoring this important community amenity.

The gardens are now open for the enjoyment of the public. The Castle hosts many classes, community meetings, parties, weddings and events. The Orangery tearooms are open to the public for coffees, cakes and lunches, with a wonderful view over the Whitstable Bowling Club Green to the sea beyond. welcome. Contact Kathy Moulton on 01227 281726.

Opening times and updates about events can be found online at www.whitstablecastle.co.uk

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Wedding Fair 20 November | from 7pm

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Wednesday 17 December | 7pm Christmas Carols under the Yew Trees with Whitstable Brass Just outside the church under the Yew trees.

Please bring a torch and wrap up warm. Followed by mince pies and mulled wine in the Church hall.

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Saturday 29 November | 10am - 2pm Christmas Fair All Saints Church hall, Church Street, CT5 1PG There will be lots of opportunities for buying Christmas presents. Stalls include Christmas cards, crafts, books, cakes, tombola, face painting, refreshments (including lunches etc) And Father Christmas will be there!

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At this time of year, enabling children to enjoy Christmas is one of the main considerations of Whitstable and Herne Bay Lions Club and every attempt is made by the Lions to provide activities which will not cost families anything more than a donation to the good causes the Lions support.

Each year nursery children are invited as guests of the Lions to the Canterbury Garden Centre in Herne where they can meet Santa, enjoy a story and receive a gift, followed by

The Lions also help at the Winter Wonderland organised by SNAAP, which provides an extensive range of services to children with every kind of disability, aged from 0-19 years.

Each year at Christmas the Lions are particularly busy with collections at local supermarkets, and you may see Father Christmas there accompanied by Rudolf or a Christmas tree. There have even been

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Lions at Christmas There will also be a grotto at the Garden Centre, manned by the Lions, every Saturday and Sunday from 22nd November to 21st December, from 11am to 3pm. Young visitors always have plenty of time for a chat with Santa and can then take home a small gift.

There is no set charge, just a donation to the Lions to enable them to continue with their work in the local community.

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Eddy Warn, Club President, said, ‘’On behalf of the Lions I would like to thank all the people who have supported us and wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.’’

The Lions respond to requests for help, not just at Christmas, but throughout the year.

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It can be said that a garden is another room - which just happens to be attached to your house.

To some the garden is a place for leisure with a backcloth of trees, shrubs and flowers, to others it can become a miniature scrap yard; an adventure playground in the making.

A more leisurely aspect could be a lone deckchair with dreams of places exotic - just one of the pleasures of the extra room.

However, to the grannies of old, the garden was an essential part of the food supply of fruit and vegetables, depending greatly on the skill and knowledge of the gardens.

The fancy explanation of what is good for us was not fully understood in bygone days.

Anti-oxidants, free radicals and five-a-day would have confused past generations of cooks and gardeners.

To add to the confusion, growing organically is still the normal process of the natural world and not any invention of some scientist who wanted his name in print, so therefore, the benefits of herbs, fruit and vegetables are still the same as they were in the distant past.

The complications of fertilizers and chemicals are only a convenience for farmers and lazy gardeners.

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The Pole of Cold Expedition The temperature was -51°C as the expedition arrived at the Pole of Cold. It had taken almost two months to get there from the UK, driving more than 20,000km in the expedition’s trusty red Land Rover Defender. On the way to this far northeastern corner of Russia, we’d travelled roads barely worthy of the name, including the infamous Kolyma Highway, the Road of Bones and frozen rivers transformed into ice highways.

The last 35km stretch had taken us over an hour of tortuous progress, the normally robust Defender feeling as fragile as wafer in the plummeting temperatures that were cold enough to turn steel as brittle as plastic and reduce rubber to dust.

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The Pole of Cold is the remote village of Oymyakon, which, having recorded a temperature of -71.2°C, is officially the coldest inhabited place in the world.

As we arrived everything appeared idyllically tranquil. The dense cold air means that winters there are utterly still.

Smoke rose in undisturbed puffs from dimly lit wooden houses and the few people we saw on the streets scurried from house to house well-wrapped in long fur coats and ample fur hats.

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As we were welcomed into the home of our host in the village, our first (and rather unsettling) discovery about life at the Pole of Cold was that none of the homes have central heating or running water – and all have outside toilets. Traipsing through the snow to a small back-yard hut in the middle of the night at -50°C was a winter experience none of us relished.

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Travelling across the most northerly regions of Siberia, we had learned that for the local people winter was all about preparation.

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It was also a very different attitude to the perspectives we had noted in the other cold places along our route. Already we’d travelled to the very north of Norway to regions within the Arctic Circle that experienced polar night. And yet we were told that winter did not mean darkness; but colour! The short winter days give rise to spectacular skyscapes caused by the low sun skimming the horizon, while the night brings skies striped with the green, red and purple of the northern lights.

In contrast, across the coldest regions of Finland we spent time with the Skolt Sami, for whom winter means reindeer.

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But perhaps my favourite perspective on winter was expressed by the extraordinary character of Chyskhan, Lord Keeper of the Cold, who appeared – unexpected – at the Pole of Cold monument in Oymyakon as we arrived. He wore a magnificent floor length coat of shimmering blue, trimmed with white fur and studded with colourful beading which tinkled like broken ice as he moved. He wore a tall headdress in the shape of entwined bull’s horns and carried a staff decorated with white horsehair.

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reindeer and was amazed by how silent it was. The only noise was the extraordinary clicking sound of a tendon in the reindeers’ feet as they move. Using a small hand-held audio device we recorded the noise - which resembled the spit of frying fat.

Chyskhan is a figure in Yakutian mythology responsible for distributing winter across the globe. Every autumn a dozen or so of the twenty-five official ‘Santa Claus’ equivalents from cultures around the world gather in Oymyakon to collect the symbol of cold from Chyskhan - and then come again in springtime to return it.

‘People shouldn’t be afraid of the cold,’ Chyskhan told us. ‘Cold keeps the balance. The cold brings people together. It binds communities. People should be smiling in the cold and taking cold as a friend not as an enemy.’

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Roll the lavender flower paste until it is about 2mm thick, roll the lemon flower paste to the same thickness Lay the lemon paste on top of the lavender paste and roll again until the pastes are blended together and approx 2mm thick. I find placing a stay-fresh mat over the top before rolling stops the pastes from distorting Cut a square of the two tone flower paste Use a cutting wheel to cut diagonally from a corner towards the centre. Repeat for each corner Paint a circle of edible glue in the centre of the square Fold the point of the corner to the centre and press down to secure. Repeat for the other three corners Paint a small dot of edible glue in the centre and secure an edible decoration such as a moulded button or sugar ball or edible pearl in place.

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Top tips ] Using flower paste (a strong icing available from specialist cake shops such as Annabelle Jane Cake School) ensures your windmills hold their shape. ] Use a light dusting of cornflour to stop your icing from sticking.

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The railway was the first in the world to carry passengers in trains drawn by steam power. Initially, along the hilly sections of the route, the trains were pulled by ropes reeled in by stationary steamdriven winding engines. Stephenson’s Invicta locomotive hauled the trains along the flatter Whitstable section.

Due to its seaside connections, the railway became popularly known as the Crab and Winkle Line. The railway company then contracted for the harbour to be built. It was officially opened two years after the railway was finished on 19 March 1832. The opening caused great excitement – 10,000 people were there. Many came by train from Canterbury for a fare of one shilling single in

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British Railways closed the railway line 1952.

Fortunately the track was initially left in place so the line could reopen for essential goods traffic during the 1953 floods, when the main line to London was closed.

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H e r n e B ay c a ke s c h o o l & store NOW OPEN

We are thrilled to be opening our second Annabelle Jane school in Herne Bay. Kellie and Spencer look forward to welcoming you, and sharing our knowledge and experience.

We have cake baking and decorating courses for everyone from complete beginners to professional level. Our fully stocked shop is brimming with all the equipment and inspiration you’ll need to produce your own wonderful cake creations, along with friendly, helpful sales advisors who will be happy to answer all your cake conundrums.

For full course info visit: www.cake-school.uk or call: 01227 652911 163 High Street, Herne Bay CT6 5AQ Tel:01227 652911