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Helping Hounds : Grayshott’s Dog Rescue Organisation

They stay with us for as long as it takes to get them ready to find their ‘FUREVER’ home. This time is not set, some younger dogs/ puppies are ready to go around two weeks after arrival, some it takes a lot longer, and they will stay with us until they are ready.

We pride ourselves on quality not quantity.

We will, where we are able, help any dog, recently due to a sudden loss of his owner a beautiful dog needed an immediate home. We were approached and said ‘yes’ straight away. Trying to avoid putting this dear dog into the kennels, a call went out to our team, and one of the volunteers stepped forward and took him straight away. Helping both the family and the dog.

We are just a group of volunteers, nobody gets paid, we give our time and love to the dogs, at a time when they need it most. We have to raise funds to feed the dogs and look after them………can you help? HOW? By volunteering, offering foster homes, adopting, raising funds for us, donating food, money, treats, dog related items etc………Would you like to know more? We have a website (under construction but functioning) at:

www.helpinghoundshampshire.com

or a facebook page:

Helping Hounds Hampshire and Surrounds

We want the best for all of our dogs, wherever they are from but the help of the local community is vital……..THANK YOU

Tina Wareham

As time goes by, life and our way of living does change. We are experiencing and living during a historical moment of in time. There will be light at the end of this long tunnel (The Pandemic), but we do not know when we will see that bright light. For this month, I would like to offer some golfing quotes from years gone by and why I have come to my options about these issues. Working in golf for over 40 years, I have gained experience, a willingness to continue learning, and a strong foundation of knowledge. One of these golfing tips that I would like to share with you this month, might help your golf game. If not, I hope it might open your mind to some new ideas. Here is a small list of some common historical quotes in golf.

Sit on a bar stool when addressing the ball

Keep your lead arm straight – when!

Keep the front heel on the ground at the top of backswing.

Keep your head down –when!

Follow through – where! Slow down – when and where! Picture 1

Hold the club like a baby bird!

This list can go on……. I will discuss the first 3 of the above list. This quote here, ‘sit on a bar stool’ or I have heard ‘stick your bottom out’, has caused long term damage to my lower back, hips, and knees. I was taught to do this when I was 13 years before my body had finished growing. As the picture shows (picture 1), there may be a small difference in position, but when sitting back there is a lack of muscle engagement to hold your body steady and firm at address and as you make your golf swing. Many years ago, I recall that David Leadbetter made a great quote, which went something like this ‘address the ball as though a basketball is being thrown at you with speed’. Would you sit back then? I know that I wouldn’t!

Each of us have different length limbs, muscle mass and body types/shape. This affects how we will look when we are in our own athletic position. Try standing on a step on the balls of your feet only, tilt your spine forward as though you were addressing a golf ball, then check what muscles you have engaged to hold you there.

Secondly talking about the lead arm in the set -up and at the top of the backswing position. The lead arm for most golfers is the left arm (right for left-handed golfers). One of my hate words in golf is ‘Straight’. The elbow from one human being to another has varying degrees of bend, some have negative bend at address or as Calvin Pete (Picture 2) shows here, his arms had approximately 25 degree of bend at address and then even more flex at the top of his backswing. Again, really insisting on that we are all different.

The elbow joint, is either extended or it is not. When I was 17 years old, I was able to keep my lead arm fully extended at the top of my backswing but now I have no chance at all. The triceps are responsible for extension of the elbow joint. When I was on a training course about 10 years ago, I learnt that women suffer a deterioration in the condition of our triceps muscle through menopause. It is now better for me to have a reasonable amount of flexion in my elbow to complete my backswing, so the club is consistently correct at the top. Finally, I would like to discuss the feet position at the top of the backswing and where the pressure should be. (picture 3). I will share with you, what Tom Watson wrote in his book of 2011, ‘Letting your left heel come up off the ground on the backswing can help you make a full turn as you get older or if you’re stiff in the trunk area’. This statement from Tom Watson is such a reminder to me, particularly when I am coaching, that each of our golf swings need to be unique to us and our unique physical make-up. Many golfers, like myself (over 50), must allow the body to dictate what will be the most efficient golf swing to make in the future.

Please contact Janice by Text 07866459360 or Email: jarnoldpgagolfpro@gmail.com or book online via my website www.janicearnoldgolfguru.co.uk

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The Arts Society Grayshott

Shauna Isaac has been active in World War II art restitution for several years having worked with families and government organisations to recover Nazi looted art. She also has a personal family interest in the subject. Her great aunt had been pressured to hand over Egon Schiele’s ‘Portrait of Wally Neuzil’ to an art dealer during the war in exchange for being allowed to leave Germany. After many fruitless efforts and extensive legal wrangling, her descendants finally recovered the painting in 2010 and received a settlement of $19 million in exchange for the portrait remaining at the MOMA exhibition in New York. With erudition and warmth Shauna traced for us the origins of why and how the Nazis looted art throughout Europe during the war and then looked at several well-known contemporary restitution cases. Hitler was refused entry twice to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, beaten by Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka, and this fuelled his anti -Semitism. The Nazis approved of classical and Renaissance art but abhorred the modern non-representational ‘degenerate art’ such as that of Picasso, Klee and Kandinsky. Enough was collected for a degenerate art exhibition in 1937 designed to show how much art had deteriorated during Jewish and Bolshevik involvement. Art became a major wartime commodity once it was realised it could be traded to raise money for the war effort Hitler planned a Führermuseum, to showcase German art. He commissioned Otto Kümmel to compile a register of German art now found in other countries in Europe and a highly systematic and organised ‘recovery’ of this lost art was instituted. Museums throughout occupied Europe took steps to guard their treasures but private individuals were less able to do so. It soon became not limited to just German art nor to what would grace the Führermuseum alone, and vast repositories were created e.g. in the Jeu de Paume in Paris and in salt mines such as at Althausee, eminently suitable as they were underground with constant temperatures, huge spaces and away from prying eyes. Over 1000 repositories were discovered. The allies realised that European art had to be saved from bombing raids and, later, Nazi looting. In 1943 the ‘Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section’ was set up, composed of artists, architects and historians known as the ‘Monuments Men’, supported by brave helpers in the occupied countries such as Rose Valland in France, 54 whose meticulous cataloguing of stolen treasures resulted in about stolen 3000 French works being saved.

After the war, it was agreed that art would be returned to its country of origin, to central points from whence agencies within the countries would then make efforts to find the rightful owners and return the art to them. Claims for restitution during the 1940s and 50s then receded until the 1990s when there was a resurgence of interest due to the fall of the iron curtain, 50 year privacy laws beginning to expire and the rise of the internet. At a conference in 1998 in Washington DC several principles of restitution were drawn up, essentially agreeing that every effort would be made to return the art to their owners or heirs.

By that time, much of the art in question had had several owners, was scattered in museums and art galleries Europewide and that all-important provenance has been a very difficult subject to investigate, document and prove. Several cases involving well-known paintings have taken years to settle e.g. the Klimt portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer. Lucas Cranach’s ‘Cupid complaining to Venus’ in London’s National Gallery has a huge gap in its provenance from 1909 to 1945 and the gallery maintains a list of its paintings whose whereabouts between 1933 to 1945 are unknown. There are still calls for information from museums to the public and entire departments of major auction houses exist to deal with Nazi looted art.

A conservative estimate of 20% of European art was looted by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945

Jackie Bearman Gabrielle Summerhays

On Thursday February 4th , Linda Smith will join us online to give her talk ‘William Hogarth 1697-1764’ and will track his career from humble copper-paint engraver to successful painter. For more information please contact Kathy on 01428 723565 or visit the website www.theartssocietygrayshott.org

Walking in Our Area

Are you fed-up with doing the same old walks? Walking in Hampshire www.walkinginengland.co.uk/hants is the website for you! With hundreds of walks to download and print, free, it also has books of walks, contact details for all the walking groups in the county and much more. Whether you want to walk on your own or with a group all the information is there in one place.

John said ‘There is so much walking information on the web but it is difficult to find. Walking in Hampshire (part of the Walking in England suite of websites (www.walkinginengland.co.uk) – one for each county in England) has brought it together in one place so whether you are walking from home, or away on holiday, you will be able to find a walk suitable for you’. With walks from half a mile to twelve miles plus long, and a note of suitability for pushchairs and wheelchairs, everyone can find a walk to e enjoy. So home or away, check out the websites and get walking! John Harris www.walkinginengland.co.uk email: john@walkinginengland.co.uk

Grayshott Today would love to write about some of the wonderful walks around the village. If you are a regular rambler, why not consider submitting your favourite walk to the magazine? You could use your phone to take some pictures along the way if you wanted to. Whilst we cannot use Ordinance Survey maps, one of our team could draw a map for you.

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