The Basildon Magazine's December 2016 Edition

BASILDON MAGAZINE December 2016 Edition • 20,000 Homes Monthly • 01268 330 271

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Hi there, Welcome to our December edition I know it’s early for a lot of you reading this but Merry Christmas everyone! I always love Christmas but for some reason this year I’m in an even more festive mood than usual.

I’m writing this mid-November and I’ve already got an urge to put on the Fairytale of New York. Sadly the rest of the office insist I wait till the 1st!

As much as the majority of us love this time of year, we must not forget about the older people that are feeling more vulnerable and lonely at this time of year. As busy as we all are simply offering to pick up something whilst doing your shopping or just popping in for a 15 minute cup of tea could really make their Christmas.

Every month, we have donated a half page to a local Charity to give them a bit of exposure. This month we have given it to the very hardworking and deserving Danny Green Fund.

We have a really tough riddle for you this month in amongst our headscratchers of the month.

We also have 3 nice and easy ones if you are feeling a bit delicate from your christmas party.

In this months quizzes we have a Finding Dory DVD up for grabs and a prize at the Delhi Spice Indian Takeaway. Remember you’ve got to be in it to win it! Last month’s quiz winners were Mrs. C Moore from Gun Hill Place, Basildon who won £50 voucher for the Akash Tandoori and Lucy Wright from Jade Court Basildon who won a party for Children at Stay & Play.

Congratulations, we hope you enjoy your party and meal!

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The Danny Green Fund! page 8 Headscratchers of the Month page 16 Christmas Kisses Recipe page 20 Make a Toad Abode page 24 Brain Exercise page 30 Rogue One Preview page 34 Lift it, Lock it or Lose it page 38 Win a Finding Dory DVD page 40 Meet Your Local Businesses page 42 Index page 44

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The Danny Green Fund will once again be taking Christmas presents to the children staying in Great Ormond Street Hospital and our local hospitals over Christmas this year. These special Christmas deliveries really do make a difference to the lives of the children who receive the gifts and to their families. We know from personal experience that staying in hospital over Christmas is very tough for the whole family and knowing that others are thinking of you really does make a massive difference at this special time of year. We would like to thank everyone who has donated a gift, we are very fortunate to live in such a great community who support this toy donation every year. This will be our 4th Christmas gift donation and we know that the gifts received are treasured by the children who receive them.

If you would like to donate a gift we ask that each gift is new and is under the value of £10 so that each child receives a gift of a similar value and can be for any age from a baby to 18 years of age.

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Now our warm up stretches are almost done, I hope you’re almost ready for riddle 4.

If there is a bungalow and everything is pink. The floor was pink, the cat was pink, the man was pink. What color are the stairs?

Definitely not the hardest riddle around but this final one will definitely get you thinking.

There’s no trickery in this text you simply need to use your wit on this one.

OUR HEAD SCRATCHERS OF THE MONTH We’re 3 months in now, so you should all be on the verge of getting your blackbelt in riddle solving. I have given you 3 easy ones this month to warm you up for the difficult fourth headscratcher. So lets get cracking.

What can you catch but not throw?

Thats one you’ll kick yourself for if you give up too easily. Now I will put the answer in the back for this next one but I strongly advise you don’t take a peak!

Miss Mary’s father had 4 kids: Joseph, John, and Jordan. What was the name of the 4th child.

You are a prisoner in a room with 2 doors and 2 guards. One of the doors will guide you to freedom and behind the other is a hangman - you don’t know which is which.

One of the guards always tells the truth and the other always lies. You don’t know which one is the truth-teller or the liar either. You have to choose and open one of these doors, but you can only ask a single question to one of the guards.

What one question do you ask so you can pick the door to freedom?

I hope you’ve enjoyed this months head scratchers, I’ve got a good one for you next month so be sure to check back. Don’t forget the answers are under the index at the back of the book.

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