Lowton & Golborne - May & Jun 2019

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May & June 2019

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Get Summer Ready Wednesday evenings throughout May

Sunday 19th May

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Friday 7th & Saturday 8th June

Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th June

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Welcome

Hello lovely readers and welcome to the latest edition of our magazine, as ever packed full of lovely things to read and great suppliers on your doorstep.

What is not to love about this time of year?

The weather can be amazing, I always think it’s nicer than in the school holidays.

Everywhere is looking so pretty, the trees are fully green, gardens blooming, my first earlies nearly ready in the allotment. Even the weeds can be looked at in a different way, after all “A weed is but an unloved flower” (Ella Wheeler Wilcox). And lastly but certainly not leastly, TWO bank holidays!

Have you had your first BBQ yet this year?

We’ve had a few get togethers with friends and family at ours - there is something magical about eating outside. Even the humble banger tastes different.

‘Til next time, if we do get the promised good weather… as Baz Luhrmann advises, “If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it”.

Jody xx and the team

Contents Gardening P14 Make It Minimal

Home Interiors P20 The Modern Bedroom

Recipe P12

Fresh Cherry & Almond Cake

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Local Groups & Events Local Groups

Angers Town Twinning Association Every Month – 7.00pm Meetings alternate between Wigan & Leigh Town Hall. For more information call Chrisitne Doublet-Stewart 01942 678288.

Golborne in Bloom Fortnightly Welcome new members to join in gardening projects based in Golborne. Meetings held at Golborne Library. For more information contact Claire on 07719 645971.

Look-in Neighborhood Centre Community resources Centre, holding classes in; ballet, ju-jitsu, karate, old time dancing for pensioners, mums and toddlers, plus many more. For details contact Mr Worthington 01942 729885.

Monday…

Jigsaw Club 1st Monday of the Month – 7.30pm A network of support and social activities for anyone who is a widow/ widower or is alone after divorce.

Held at Leigh Miners Welfare Club, Kirby Road, Leigh, WN7 4DW. Contact Lynne Finney 01942 514953 or Jean Gavin 01942 514268.

Soroptimist International Leigh & District 2nd & 4th Monday 7.00pm to 9.00pm An International Women's Service Organisation which undertakes project work locally and Internationally, while offering 8

fun, friendship and fundraising activities. Meetings held; Holiday Inn Express, Leigh WN7 4JY. Tuesday…

Badminton Club Tuesday – 8.00pm to 9.30pm Club for ladies and gents of all standards except beginners. Held at Lowton High School. Contact Paula Williams 07866 056435.

Leigh Family History Group 3rd Tuesday (except July, August & December) – 7.30pm Held at the Derby Room, Leigh Library. Contact Glenys McClellan 01942 729559 for more info.

Lowton West Residents Last Tuesday of Each Month - 7.30pm Held in the Community Room at Manor Court.

North West Casual Classics 2nd Tuesday each month - 7.30pm A family friendly multi manufacture car club with over 100 active members with cars from 1920 through to 2000.

New members welcome! Held at the Penketh Conservative Club, Meeting Lane, WA5 2BG. For more info ring Bob 07749 100007.

Wednesday…

Golborne & District Townswomen’s Guild 4th Wednesday – 7.00pm Held at Northfield Court, Lowton Road, Golborne, WA3 3JA. Contact Avril on 01942 726033.

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Thelwall Morris Men Wednesday- 8.00pm to 10.00pm Traditional English morris dancing group. New members welcome - try this energetic activity. Call/Text 07479 266907for info. Held at Thelwall Parish Hall, WA4 2SX. Thursday…

Golborne & Lowton Art Group Thursday – 10.00am to 4.00pm A friendly mixed group with disabled access, fee taster sessions. Held at Lowton Social Club, Newton Road. Phone Jan 07930 397433 for more info.

Lowton WI 1st Thursday of each Month - 7.15pm New members and visitors welcome. Different speakers each month, trips organized. Held at Lowton Social Club, Newton Road, Lowton. Call Lin on 01942 207764 for more info.

Lowton, Golborne & Ashton Mencap Society 4th Thursday (except June, July, August & December) 7.45pm to 10.00pm A support network for people with learning difficulties and their families. Held at Broadmead Training & Development Centre, Golborne Road, Lowton, WA3 2EB. Saturday…

Wigan Ramblers First Saturday of Every Month Coach rambles. For more information visit www.wiganramblers.org.uk.

Sunday…

Leigh Music Society 1st Sunday of Every Month (September to March inclusive) 2.15pm to 4.15pm Amazing musicians from the RNCM, Cheethams etc. Held at Ven Derby room, Turnpike Centre, Market Street, WN71EB. Tickets - £10 Adults, £4 Children/ Students, tea & biscuits available in the interval.

Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life Sunday 2nd June 11.00am to 1.00pm You don’t need to be a superstar athlete to do it. Join hundreds of men, women and children at Pennington Flash, St Helen’s Road, Leigh, WN7 3PA for your local 5K this summer. Entry is £10, Contact: northwestteam@cancer. org.uk or call; 0330 123 0770.

Local Events

Leigh Carnival in Motion Sunday 9th June – 11.00am to 3.00pm Leythers of all ages are coming together again for the 2019 carnival, the parade will start from Spinning Gate car park area at 11am. Explore the carnival site on Spinning Gate, with local talent performing, lots of new things to see and try, learn all about the vibrant groups and activities taking place in Leigh all year round.

Lowton WI SECOND Thursday - 9th May - 7.15pm Note date change due to the club being used as a polling station.

The subject for the evening is “Dogs for Good.” Held at Lowton Social Club on Newton Road. For more info phone Lin Hayes on 01942 207764.

Bingo Tuesday 14th May -6.30pm to 8.30pm A friendly atmosphere, always looking for new members. Held at Northfield Court Communal, Room, Golborne, WA3 3EW. Story-Time Thursday 23rd May 2.00pm to 2.45pm Held at Tanners Lane, Golborne, WA3 3AW.

Card Making Thursday 13th June 2.00pm to 3.00pm Card Making Drop-In, held Tanners Lane, Golborne, WA3 3AW.

Let’s Hear the Music Thursday 27th to Saturday 29th June – 7.30pm All your favourite songs from stage performed by Lowton Operatic Society, all in in one show! Held at St Josephs Hall, Chapel Street, Leigh, WN7 2PR. Book now at www.ticketsource. co.uk/lowtonoads.

July…

Manchester to Blackpool Bike Ride Sunday 7th July In aid of Wigan & Leigh Hospice, entry is £25, which includes your T-shirt, refreshments, transportation and medal. For further information please contact the fundraising team: 01942 525566.

Soul All Dayer Sunday 14th July – 1.00pm to 10.00pm A Fundraiser proudly supporting Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity, held at Culcheth Sports Club.

Magnum - UK Rock Band Thursday 13th June - Doors 7.30pm Held at Parr Hall, Warrington.

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Recipe

Fresh Cherry & Almond Cake This delicious fruity cake can be served warm as a dessert or cold as a classic afternoon tea cake.

Makes 8 Ready in 1 hour 40 minutes, plus cooling time INGREDIENTS 225g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing 225g golden caster sugar 225g self-raising flour 4 medium eggs, beaten 300g fresh cherries, pitted and halved 100g ground almonds 150g icing sugar Extra fresh cherries, to decorate TIP The fresh cherries will mostly sink during baking but this is perfectly normal, giving a moist fruity layer at the base of the cake. It’s best eaten within 2 days of baking.

1 Preheat the oven to 170C, fan 150C, gas mark 3. Grease a

20cm round deep cake tin with the extra butter and line the base and sides with baking paper.

2 Place the butter and caster sugar in a large mixing bowl

and using a hand-held electric mixer beat together until very pale and creamy. Gradually pour in the eggs, beating well after each addition. If the mixture starts to separate slightly, stir in a spoonful of the flour.

3 Sift over the rest of the flour and fold in gently with a

metal spoon. Toss the cherries into half of the ground almonds, and fold into the mixture with the rest of the ground almonds. Spoon into the prepared cake tin and gently level the surface.

4 Bake in the preheated oven for 55 minutes to 1 hour

10 minutes, until the cake is risen, golden and a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack to cool.

5 Whilst the cake is still cooling make the icing: sift the

icing sugar into a bowl and stir in 2-3 tbsp warm water and mix to make a thin icing. Spoon the icing over the warm cake, allowing some to drizzle down the side.

Decorate with extra cherries and serve warm or cold.

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Gardening

Make it Minimal There is increasing enthusiasm for a more minimalist garden style, where fewer plants have greater individual impact in a more designed situation with straight lines aplenty, so here are some suggestions for achieving the eect you want.

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Decide on the plants you like and that will suit your garden but keep to as few different types as possible.

The biggest impact will be achieved if you are selective, for example concentrating on ornamental grasses.

Also key is clever use of straight lines, ideally with a few right angles too. Edges must be sharply defined, perhaps using sleepers, other timber or angled metal. Keep plants well back from the border edging so these lines are not interfered with.

Colours should fit your preferences and the surroundings but restrict the number of colours for a calmer and simpler effect.

Existing features such as sheds or fences can be recoloured or painted to fit in with the colour scheme – otherwise, their current colour will have to be included in that scheme.

A stunning minimalist effect can be achieved by using a single type of plant and container – for example, conifers in terracotta containers. The only variation is in the size of the conifer: all colours, textures and plants are the same. Buy different sizes of the same conifer type and clip regularly to maintain the size difference or buy one size and trim lightly to achieve the desired look.

Green, in the form of foliage, helps add a feeling of tranquillity to a minimalist garden so include it, perhaps

as a neatly clipped box hedging or as a few bay lollipops in angular containers.

Containers must be very plain, ideally straight-sided angular styles in a single colour. An evenly spaced trio of pots, each with a single central plant, provides a perfect choice of container planting.

If you like topiary stick to simple tightly clipped spheres or ‘lollipops’, cubes or at most spirals; there is no space for a fantastically sculptured creature if you’re going minimalist!

Plants with simple or angular shapes such as iris, alliums, conifers, clipped box, canna or palms are an excellent choice, but opt for personal (but simple) favourites available locally.

Grass alternatives such as gravel may feature highly.

Gravel needs less maintenance than grass, but keep it weed-free and easy-care by installing a weed-membrane (rather like woven, plastic hessian) on to the soil before putting down the gravel.

Thoroughly weed the area then firm and compact well before putting the fabric down. Don’t use cheaper plastic sheeting as rain won’t penetrate.

Opt for simple, classically styled garden furniture with as few colours and textures as possible and it won’t detract from the minimalist environment and look – now sit back and enjoy!

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The modern bedroom Does your bedroom look a little dated, or is it brimming with contemporary style?

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Your bedroom is your own personal space, and the ideal room in which to express your personality, so why not consider a top-to-toe makeover?

A pop of colour Bold colours are on trend this spring, often quite dark and moody, and where better than a bedroom to go for this dark décor? Use fuchsia, turquoise, emerald, orange, mustard or deep blue in arresting combinations or perhaps just cover one wall with a strong shade. Even the addition of a bright headboard, rug, throw or group of cushions can make a difference.

On the walls Experiment with paint colours by using a tester pot to cover a large sheet of card, then stick it to different walls at various times of the day so you can see how the colour changes.

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Golborne Parkside Bowling Section Community based initiative?

As you will see from the details below the volunteers (members) of our bowling club have done some tremendous work.

Early last year the clubs existing floodlights blew down by storm ‘Beast’. During the course of last year, they looked at several different options to achieve adequate lighting for the green. These ranged from having to pay £16,000 to £17,000 for the work to be completed by a contractor to having to carry out the work themselves. They opted for the latter and set out to erect the lights themselves. Keith Woodward the club’s secretary applied for a grant from the Bardsley Fund (through Forever Manchester) who granted them an amazing £1,000.

The fab team of club volunteers; Steve, Jake, Bill, Tony, Allan & Dave who currently work on the green and surroundings, have proved more than capable of carrying out the work. Especially as one of whom is a retired building surveyor who’s technical advice has been crucial.

By their volunteers doing nearly all of the work, they have saved more than £15,000 on contractor quotes. And as the club have a membership of 50plus there are plenty who will benefit from the extra opportunities of working floodlights.

Another huge thanks go to local councillors Yvonne Klieve and Susan Gambles who have kindly agreed through the Brighter Borough Fund to help the club with their final part of the installation.

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The original and the best classical cross over group of all time, Il Divo return to the UK in 2019 with their Timeless Tour, which will see them perform all their greatest hits live throughout June and July. They are visiting the Liverpool M&S Bank Arena on Thursday 27th June.

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