August/September 2015
In this issue... Local businesses Local News - 90 year old blind man jumps for charity - Skydive with the Tigers raises £3,500 for JTYAF
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Regular Features
- Dorset Wildlife Trust: Keep Bees Busy - Martin Lewis: Childcare - It’s All Child’s Play: A Great Day for a Project - Adventures of Nellie
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We certainly have had a mixture of weather recently. Nellie, the Dorset Directories Campervan, took us all the way to The Ashdown Forest and we experienced out first camping trip in pouring rain! You can read all about it on pages 28-29. Whatever you have done, or are doing this summer, we do hope you enjoy yourselves. There is always such a lot to see and do at this time of the year, we are never bored which is great.
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Lighthouse writer in residence putting the word on the street Simon McCormack, writer in residence at Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts, is launching two new creative projects designed to provide a platform for new work created by the wider community. Film-Poems @ Lighthouse celebrates the relatively new art form that connects the apparently disparate worlds of the moving image and poetry. Film-Poems are typically short, usually just two or three minutes long, featuring a voiceover or talking head and images that support the text. “It’s about exploring new ways of presenting poetry, moving poetry away from people’s expectations and reaching out to the YouTube generation – something to have fun with,” says Simon. “Films can be lo-fi, shot on phones, or they might be packed with wild graphics. There can be a narrative flow or not, literal representations of the words, or something more abstract. As long as the films and words are all original, no more than three minutes and fit the theme, they are the only rules.” Starting in October, over the course of a year 24 film-poems will be screened as support features in the Cinema at Lighthouse. Simon is also planning to publish The Beacon, a literary magazine for new creative writing submitted by local writers. “It can be poetry, flash fiction, sketches, drama, an extract from a novel, prose poetry, anything as long as it is the written word,” he says. “The publication will be a printed journal, something tangible and lasting. My intention is to see the first one published and on sale at Lighthouse and after that it can take on a life of its own. “We are looking for poems that pull you in, short-stories that demand to be read, drama and flash-fiction that owns the page.” Submissions for The Beacon and for Film-Poems @ Lighthouse are invited on the theme of ‘Performance’. “The idea of performance runs through our everyday experience,” says Simon. “There’s the ballet dancer on stage, the paint applied to the canvas, the child carefully spelling a word, the lollipop man holding up traffic and music heard through an open window. Go to the people and places where you find performance and show them to us.” Simon is working as writer in residence at Lighthouse in conjunction with the Lit Up! literature development project
to raise the profile of literature in Poole and Bournemouth. He also teaches Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and his poems have been published in magazines including The Poetry Review, Under the Radar, The Interpreter’s House and The Rialto. His pamphlet A History of Scraps will be published by Erbacce Press later this year. Submissions guidelines: Film-poems must be no longer than three minutes and should be submitted as a link. If accepted we will ask you to send a good digital copy to us. Please include a paragraph or two about yourself in the main body of the email. By submitting you agree to Lighthouse showing your work in the Cinema. You retain full rights to the work. To be considered for The Beacon, poems must be no more than 40 lines; flash-fiction must be no more than 200 words and short fiction (stories or drama) must be no more than 2,000 words. Send no more than one piece of short-fiction/drama or four pieces of poetry/flash-fiction per submission on a single document. Please include a paragraph or two about yourself. Writing can have been previously published, as long as you retain full publishing rights to the work. Submit to submissions@lighthousepoole.co.uk stating ‘FilmPoems @ Lighthouse’ or ‘The Beacon’ in the heading, before Thursday 20 August.
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90 year old blind man skydives for charity Richard White from Bournemouth is one of 18 people jumping out of a plane on Saturday to raise money for Dorset Blind Association. Each jumper on average will raise enough to support one blind person for a year. Jumpers include five visually impaired people, four staff and five volunteers of Dorset Blind Association, will jump from a plane at 10,000ft over Old Sarum airfield in Salisbury to help fund the charity’s work. The charity works with individuals to help them lead a full and happy life; for some this can be providing a friend to take them out for a walk, for others it can be a little more exhilarating like jumping out of a plane! For the charity’s members sight loss doesn’t have to mean missing out in life, and visually impaired people of all ages are getting involved. The charity works with people from all over Dorset, to help them achieve their individual goals. For another of the skydivers Dan, 25, from Weymouth it is pursuing a career in the catering industry. For 90 year old Richard it is living an active and independent life even though he has sight loss.
There are an estimated 30,000 people with serious sight-loss in Dorset and Dorset Blind Association wants to help more of them, with the help of local fundraisers. It costs £325 per year to support somebody with sightloss with a support worker, social clubs and a befriender. These services are literally lifechanging for those who receive them. As with all of DBA’s fundraising events, the skydive includes people with sight-loss. There will be five visually impaired jumpers including Jean who is 83 and young couple Dan and Shani who met through one of the Dorset Blind Association’s young social clubs ‘Socialeyes’. Dorset Blind Association promotes exciting activities for those with sight-loss all around the county with the ethos that ‘losing your sight doesn’t have to mean missing out’. The impact of these activities goes further than meets the eye, with members reporting increased confidence to move forward with other aspects of their lives such as seeking employment - or in Dan and Shani’s case romance! www.dorsetblind.org.uk
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WALKER Holidays, hotels & travel – what to do if it all goes wrong We all hope that our getaways are a truly relaxing experience. Whether they’re long or short, luxurious holidays or bargain breaks, we want our time away to be as enjoyable and hasslefree as possible. Unfortunately, as many people who are on or have been on a half-term holiday will know, your time away often doesn’t go as smoothly as we’d wish. Travel disruption, flight or train delays, bad accommodation, poor service or terrible food can all conspire to put a dampener on your holiday experience. But what can you do about it? Well, you should always seek redress for any service that doesn’t live up to its promises or meet (reasonable) expectations. That’s why at resolver.co.uk this week we’ve taken a look at ways you can get some redress and sweeten the bitterness of a holiday gone bad. Flights If your flight is delayed by more than three hours, then you are potentially entitled to compensation depending on the circumstances. Flight delay compensation is based on how late after the scheduled arrival time your flight arrives. Flights that qualify for compensation • Any flight that has a UK or European departure and arrival airport • International flights departing from UK/Europe but longer than 3500km and delayed in reaching its destination by more than three hours • International flight arriving into UK/Europe with a UK-based or European airline, delayed in reaching its destination by more than three hours and for a flight longer 3,500km • You are only able to claim compensation if the delay was the airline’s fault, something within their control Ferries It can be hugely frustrating if your ferry is late. Thankfully, due to new EU regulations, you are now entitled to a refund in certain circumstances. You should also expect to be given refreshments if you have had to wait around. The ferry company is obliged to inform you of the cancellation within 30 minutes of the scheduled time of departure and to keep you informed of further arrangements. • Before your trip, ensure you have adequate travel insurance that includes cancellation and curtailment cover in case of an issue. • Monitor weather reports before your crossing and check to ensure there are no cancellations. • You are entitled to compensation if your ferry is delayed
unless it is caused by poor weather or other unforeseen circumstances • If you cannot resolve your issue with a ferry company then you can take your case to ABTA for independent assessment Hotels If you booked your accommodation in the UK, then you have protection under the Supply of Services and Goods Act. This means the service they give and the quality of the room must be reasonable and services delivered with reasonable skill. The key word in this is ‘reasonable’. Reasonable is based on a number of factors, but the key one is what you paid for your room. The higher the star rating or the higher the room rate, the higher your expectation of quality should be. As described The hotel should have the facilities that they describe so if they say they have a swimming pool then they should. If not available then you have a reason to raise an issue. Keep a record If you experience an issue then collate as much information as possible. Your smart phone is a great way to do this; take photos or videos at the time of the issue as well as any receipts or records of money you had to spend. If unresolved If you cannot resolve the issue while you are staying at the hotel, then you should raise the issue within 28 days of returning home. When you email the hotel through resolver, try to attach as much supporting information as possible such as your invoice, photos etc to help express your issue clearly to the hotel. Booked through a travel agent/website If you booked through a travel agent or website, you should still raise your issue with the hotel directly. They do need to ensure the information provided is accurate. If you feel the issue was caused by the website’s or travel agent’s mis-booking then you should raise the issue with them and not the hotel. Where the travel agent is a member of ABTA, if your issue cannot be resolved then you need to escalate the issue to ABTA. Paid by credit card If you paid by credit card even if it was only the deposit and you spent more than £100 on your credit card then you can make a claim against your credit card company. Under Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act the Credit Card company is jointly liable and you can make a claim from them. Consumer Champion – the man who helps you resolve your consumer complaints! www.resolver.co.uk/
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The Adventures of Nellie The Dorset Directories Camper Van Nellie took us to The Ashdown Forest! It would be a good school project for pupils to compare and contrast our wonderful New Forest with The Ashdown Forest. They are alike in so many ways, yet very different in others. Part of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Beauty, The Ashdown Forest is 30 miles south of London situated in East Sussex. Nellie was extremely excited to be going away, with her friends Roxy, Rocky and Mega, the bikes, as well as “Kombi”, otherwise known as …“The Tent”. When we set off the weather was wonderful, glorious sunshine and blue skies. We arrived at our destination around 8pm. We did get stuck in some traffic jams but nothing too horrendous. Stephen and I had booked a site in Crowborough at the Caravan and Camping Club. It is a very clean site, well kept, and certain spots have magnificent views over the hills. The facilities are small but very adequate. We set up camp…. with great anticipation.
Debbie relaxing with Nellie & Kombi
The view from Stone Farm Rocks The following day the rains started and it pretty much rained for the next 3 days! One evening we even had lightening and awful winds. It is quite something lying there wondering if the tent will hold or are we all going to be blown into the sky? What with that and the Gatwick Jumbo 747’s flying low above us, as they were about to land. It was all very exciting! There are other words I could use, but this is a family magazine… I was glad we had bought a decent air bed and had lots of bedding, so we were well wrapped up. The tent does have an inner section for the bedrooms, which did help with some of the leaking that occurred. With driving rain like that, hard for several days solid, it is hardly surprising that some drips do start to fall inside. One night Hayden wasn’t at all happy, but I told him we would all take refuge in Nellie, if the tent suddenly collapsed. That seemed to appease him. Good old Nellie. All in all I think we survived really well and I can
29 now say we are hardened campers! Nellie is also recovering well and is starting to smile again. Once the rains stopped we went to climb rocks (well actually I looked at them), that are deemed to be 135 million years old! Nearly as old as I felt with all that worry about the rain. “Stone Farm Rocks” they are called and it is a Site of Scientific Interest. It is owned by the British Mountaineering Council and there are 74 climbs for those adventurous to try. There is actually quite an ‘atmosphere’ around these rocks and I would imagine you could spend an interesting evening in the dark around the bonfire we saw, that had recently gone out. The huge, 5,566,000 cubic metres Weir Wood Reservoir covering a site of 280 acres can be seen from the top of the rocks and it is obvious why this region is known for its outstanding beauty. Awesome. Travelling back we found a lovely organic farm shop, called Plaw Hatch and just had to stop and buy some good, wholesome food. Camping has that effect on you, you suddenly have the urge to be more healthy. It must be all that fresh countryside air!
Hayden feeding one of the goats The Ashdown Forest itself has some wonderful walks, fantastic places to park the car (or van) and wonder at the expanse of picturesque English countryside rolling before you. There are sheep, cows and some fierce looking bulls, though I think they are pretty harmless, as long as you leave them alone. You know who is boss! There are plenty of trees, shrubs and heathland to gaze at. If you like animals, the Llama Park is a great day out. There are family walks that can be done with the Llamas themselves, pony rides for the children, wonderful reindeer, cute looking alpacas, peacocks, pigs, goats, a play ground and a lovely café / restaurant. Oh yes, there is also a fantastic clothes shop with some superb alpaca nightwear. A definite must for the ladies. Nellie loved her day there, and so did Hayden! Where will Nellie go next…?
Some of the cute alpacas at the Llama Park
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Brand new recliner chairs thanks to generous donors Thanks to the generosity of the local community, patients at Forest Holme Hospice in Poole are benefitting from the use of 12 brand new recliner chairs. At over £2,000 each, the riser recliner chairs are designed to promote independence and mobility whilst safeguarding against the development of pressure sores and ulcers. In addition, they can even be used by relatives as temporary beds when they stay at the hospice. The funding for six of the chairs was raised by the friends and family of the late Angie Simms who received care at Forest Holme in 2014. Angie’s daughter Emma said; “The final three nights of mum’s life were shared between myself, my sister and my father at the lovely Forest Holme Hospice. We watched dvd’s, laughed and chatted and felt blessed that we were given this opportunity to ensure that in the final hours of her life she was never alone.” Angie’s family slept on the reclining chair next to her bedside and whilst they were grateful to be able to spend quality time with their mum, they found that the wear and tear on the existing chairs had made them uncomfortable and did not reflect of the high quality care they had experienced at Forest Holme. “Once mum sadly died we decided we would like to give something back to Forest Holme to try and thank them for all they had done for us. So we raised
some money and specifically asked for this to be put towards buying the most comfortable chair they could find for families to sleep on when their loved ones are at Forest Holme. We are absolutely delighted to have actually raised enough money to buy six of these chairs and even more thrilled that they are so comfortable that the patients have now claimed then for themselves.” A further donation of £1,000 was made by Sainsbury’s Pitwines to help towards the £25,000 cost of the new chairs.
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Miss those Wagging Tails? Head to one of our beautiful local beaches at any time of day and you will no doubt see dogs and their human companions making the most of our fantastic location, come rain or shine. Many of these beaches now have designated dog-friendly stretches where a game of ‘Fetch’ can be enjoyed to its maximum and where keen swimmers (two-legged and four-pawed) can paddle or swim in the water together. The benefits of spending time in the company of a four-pawed companion are huge, ranging from improved general health, reduced levels of anxiety and enhanced social interaction with other dog owners. Health psychologist Dr June McNicholas agrees with this final point, observing that the opportunity for social interaction that comes with having a dog is a major reason for the increased health in dog owners while adding that, “For older people, an animal can fulfil the ‘need to be needed’, perhaps after children have left home. In some cases, the social support offered by an animal is greater than the support another human could offer.” Dog ownership obviously brings with it a large amount of responsibility and commitments something that many, for a number of reasons, are unwilling or unable to take on. You don’t necessarily have to own a dog to gain these benefits as many charities are often looking for puppy walkers or dog foster families.
Alexandra Brill took another route and joined dog boarding company Wagging Tails as a dog carer. She now welcomes guest dogs into her home for their holidays when their owners go away and in addition to the health benefits of having dogs around also receives a small payment for looking after her four-legged guests. “For me, dog ownership is not possible, so this is a great way of getting to enjoy all sorts of dogs for times that suit me. I have them at weekends and it works really well – it fits in with my lifestyle and allows me to get my doggy fix!” To find out more about becoming a Wagging Tails carer please visit: www.waggingtailsuk.co.uk/carers/bh
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This is an important warning for anyone who pays for childcare. There are major changes due to take place to the system this year – and you need to decide rather soon how they affect you. If you leave it too late, you could miss out on thousands of pounds. Are you eligible for childcare tax credits? The most important start point is to check if you’re entitled to what’s technically called the ‘Childcare Element of Working Tax Credit’ – this is NOT the same as Child Tax Credit. You can usually claim it for children up to age 15, provided you pay for approved (Ofsted or equivalent) childcare. Sadly the eligibility criteria are very complex. So I’ve tried to distil it in a simple rule of thumb: ‘if you’re a single parent working 16+ hours a week, or a couple BOTH working 16+ hours a week, and your total household income is under £46,000, you should definitely check out if you’re entitled.’ Please read this carefully – I’m not saying you are entitled, just that it is worth checking, as this is big money. The average pay out is around £60/week. That’s over £3,000/year. If you’re not entitled to tax credits, decide now which other scheme works for you This is where everything is changing. If you’re eligible for tax credits, you’re likely to be better off getting that. If not, there are other schemes to look at. This autumn, the new ‘tax-free childcare’ scheme launches and the current childcare vouchers scheme that lets many pay for childcare from their pre-tax income will close for new applicants. So if you’re eligible for vouchers, but won’t be for the new scheme, get in quick. - New tax-free childcare scheme: If you’re a single parent who works, or a couple where BOTH work, and you each earn under £150,000, for every 80p you put in a new childcare account, the government will add 20p on top which can be used to pay for Ofsted approved (or equivalent) childcare for under-12s. The maximum the Government will contribute is £2,000 per child per year. Most childminders, after-school clubs are Ofsted approved, as are many nannies. - Current childcare voucher scheme. Here you usually trade in your pre-tax salary for vouchers. For example, a basicrate taxpayer can swap £1,000 of salary, which after tax and National Insurance is only £700ish in your pay packet, for £1,000 in childcare vouchers. So you’re up £300 per £1,000.
The maximum you can get is £55/week per year per parent, which would be a gain of £930 for a basic-rate taxpayer. Any parent can do this, even if their partner doesn’t work, provided your employer offers it (many do, but many don’t). Yet if you’re not signed up to this by the time the new scheme starts, you can’t do it after. So if it’s right for you – sort it soon. - Tax-free childcare vs childcare vouchers. If you’re a couple where only one works, the vouchers win hands down, as you won’t be eligible for the new scheme. Plus, if your childcare costs are low, it’s likely vouchers win due to the tax and National Insurance savings. Yet for the self-employed, those whose firms don’t offer the vouchers, or those with more than one child and high childcare costs, the new scheme wins. This is just the tip of the iceberg – full analysis of which wins at mse.me/ childcare. What about free childcare for three and four year-olds? The Government have announced plans to give working parents with three and four-year-olds 30 hours of free childcare per week. If made law, pilot schemes will start in Sep 2016, though there’s scepticism about whether it’s deliverable. Yet already for at least 38 weeks a year (each week of the school year), if you’ve a three or four-year-old, you’re entitled to 15 hours a week of free childcare. Families with a low income may also get free early education for twoyear-olds. Contact your local council to check if your child qualifies at (a good place to start is gov.uk/find-free-early-education). If they do, go to finder.familyandchildcaretrust.org for info on which childcare providers you can use under the scheme. You then liaise directly with the provider to get the free childcare. Is there help for paying for summer schools? If you’ve got older children and work, check whether there are any summer schools in your area that they can go to. Some schools, community centres and youth groups have their own schemes. Most are Ofsted (or equivalent) registered, so if you pay for them, you qualify for childcare tax credit or you can use childcare vouchers to pay for them.
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It’s hard to remain excited when you’ve had courgette at every meal for a week, and marvellous though raspberries are there is a limit to just how many you can eat at once. Take a bit of time to store your harvest and you can be enjoying home grown right through the winter. Jobs for August:Water regularly - try to water either in the evening or early mornings. If you are growing main crop potatoes, watch out for signs of blight. Brown patches on the tops and edges of leaves are usually a first sign. Pinch out the tops of runner bean stems that are outgrowing their supports. Keep harvesting courgettes!
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Sow turnips and oriental salad plants such as Pak Choi and Chinese Cabbage Strawberry runners that were potted up in June to produce new plants can be planted out now.
If all has gone to plan (that’s a big if!) then August should be a very satisfying month on your plot, with your hard work being repaid by ample harvests of a good range of fruit and veg.
Blanching and then freezing works for loads of vegetables. Key to success is to cool quickly after blanching so have a bowl of cold water at the ready and don’t forget to label what you are freezing!
The reality tends to be that the excitement of seeing your crops grow and ripen is initially followed by much enjoyment of the first fruits of your labour which can soon be replaced by a panic stricken ‘What the heck do I do with all these’! Certain crops (courgettes and tomatoes spring to mind) can almost guarantee this sequence of events!
Another option, and one that can work well for all those tomatoes, is to find a good recipe that you can cook, freeze and use later (how about a wonderful pasta sauce with your own tomatoes and home grown basil?). Even ‘difficult to freeze’ veg such as courgettes can either be incorporated into a sauce, or blanched, frozen and then added to a stew at a later date.
Sharing with friends and neighbours is great but very often they will have a glut of exactly the same thing at just the same time. What is called for are some simple ideas for storing and preserving your produce. It may be a long time before you are harvesting fresh peas or raspberries again but that doesn’t mean that you can’t be enjoying your home grown produce throughout the winter - it just takes a little planning and now is the time to do it.
Cooking and freezing can work well for fruit too - apple or rhubarb are good stewed and frozen all ready for use in a crumble or pie. If you have a truly wonderful fruit crop then why not arm yourself with a good recipe book and get started on some jam making? It’ll be delicious on your toast in the morning, and what better gift than a pot of homemade raspberry jam?
Onions (and garlic) that have been lifted and left to dry can be plaited and hung in a cool, dry place. Net bags, or tights, also work if you don’t fancy plaiting. Potatoes can be stored in boxes or paper sacks in a dark, dry building but you should check them regularly, removing any that show signs of rotting. A good size freezer is a real boon for making the most of your produce.
It’s amazing how many books there are that tell you how to grow your fruit and veg, but how little information there is on just how to store it all! One wonderful little book, that deals with just this question is ‘How to store your garden produce’ by Piers Warren. It’s packed with information about how to store just about anything and a great addition to any gardeners library. Happy harvesting!
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Skydive with the Tigers raises over £3,500 for the John Thornton YAF Fourteen fearless participants took part in a ‘Jump with the Tigers’ early on Sunday morning at Airfield Camp Netheravon, raising more than £3,500 for the John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation (JTYAF). The JTYAF has a special link with the Tigers Freefall Parachute Display Team and the charity was privileged to be able to offer their supporters the opportunity to jump out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft at 13,000 feet safely attached to their highly experienced military instructors. Local celebrity ‘Stig’ (Chris Morson) was one of the first to take to the skies and he was followed by Arwel Jones, Mark McManus, Tasha Kenny, Hilary Khankashi, Alan Wherley, Jim Hall, Jo Collins, Jackie Doran, Honor Heath, Lewis Wilson, Vasco De Oliveira and Paul and Jake Waters. After landing from his 13,000 foot drop, an exhilarated Lewis said, “It was just brilliant, I absolutely loved it. If they would let me do it again I’d be straight back on the plane!” T h e J T YA F w a s extremely grateful to the ‘Tigers’ for making the whole day such
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Depending upon your outlook, the last week of the summer holidays tends to conjure up sadness or relief. If you, like me, have spent the 6 weeks multi-tasking as you try to be a good enough mum and businesses woman, then the end of the holidays signals a clearer demarcation in roles and the return of dreaded mornings with their rushed routines. For some this is a time of burgeoning costs as the price of childcare, activity clubs, fun (and expensive) days out, new schools and uniforms take their toll. And so, picture the scene, it’s the last day of the holidays – with one child back at school and the other on a non- pupil day - don’t get me started. You’re wondering what to do to keep your little darling happily occupied so that you can end the holidays on a positive note without costing the earth? Well the answer for me and my nine year old son was finding the perfect project. With a passion for all things engineering and discovering how things work and a desire to create a go-kart, the decision was easy. Child-led projects are the answer so there could only be one focus. My task was to facilitate this, a bit like a dedicated gardener, tending a tender young plant in the hope that given the right environment, it will yield flowers and fruit. With this in mind I set about providing optimal conditions for go-kart building – an extra pair of hands, muscle and brains, only if needed, plus possible construction parts to be used. This was his project and his design so crucial to my role was only supporting when needed, without taking over the process. It was important, therefore, to get the right balance between me being available and ‘on call’ for encouragement and support, but not being ‘on top’. With a shed bursting with rubbish and crying out to be sorted, this was the perfect way of being present without being in the way. It also created our very own mini scrapheap challenge, providing a wonderful source of go-kart parts, from reinforcing bars to brackets and wheels! While some things can seem hard work for children, like brushing teeth and tidying-up, others like computer games and TV come easy.
With children typically spending too much time indoors and not enough outdoors interacting with nature and peers, projects like these guarantee fresh air and focus, and this was definitely the case with my son’s go-karting construction. Up and out bright and early before 8 and working through a quick sandwich lunch until tea, he knuckled down with determination to create a base – made from a pallet he’d cut down, wheelbarrow wheels and reinforcing bars, seat and prop – to avoid crushing in the event of the kart flipping. Steering took the form of a series of ropes and pullies as he drew upon his knowledge of sailing and ideas gleaned from Scrapheap Challenge. Problem solving, mastery, focus and a growing confidence were plain to see as he hammered, sawed, prised wheelbarrow wheels off, applied WD40, attached ropes and his go-kart design took shape. Although blessed with the weather I can’t help feeling that my son would still have been as determined and focused on turning his vision into a reality in the rain, cold or snow. As for me and the shed, which looks amazing (fingers crossed it stays that way), I’m ashamed to say that this was a fair weather relationship. With different weather clearing through piles of rubbish, dust and spiders would have definitely lost their appeal, reminding us of course that just like children, us adults like a self-chosen project to get our teeth into. With the go-kart ready for its debut launch, my thoughts turn to the next holiday and project and what part of the house or garden I can clear out?
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