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This month – Trees: Heroes of nature
most organisms on Earth. A mature leafy tree can produce as much oxygen in a season as 10 people inhale in a year. By cleansing the air, trees essentially act as the lungs of our planet.
Trees are formidable warriors in the battle against climate change. By absorbing and storing carbon dioxide, they mitigate the greenhouse effect, helping to cool our warming planet. Forests worldwide store more than 296 gigatons of carbon, acting as crucial carbon sinks.
Trees have graced our planet for over 370 million years, offering a range of benefits that render them indispensable to life as we know it. National Tree Week (25th November-3rd December) celebrates the many reasons why trees are the champions of the natural world and why we should all plant a tree today.
Every school student learns that trees play a pivotal role in the process of carbon dioxide reduction. Through photosynthesis they absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen, a vital element for
Forests, rich with trees of all kinds, are hotspots of biodiversity. They provide habitat, food, and protection to countless species, from the tallest giraffes nibbling on treetop leaves in Africa, to the smallest beetles burrowing in the bark of rainforest trees. Without trees, many of these habitats would be lost, leading to massive declines in biodiversity. Trees play an essential role in maintaining the health and integrity of our soil. Their root systems anchor the soil, preventing erosion, particularly in areas susceptible to landslides or during heavy rainfall. Furthermore, fallen leaves decompose and enrich the soil with nutrients, promoting a healthy ground ecosystem.
Trees significantly influence the water cycle. They absorb rainfall and produce water vapour through transpiration, which is then released into the atmosphere. This process not only aids in cloud formation but also ensures that water is recycled back into our environment through rain, maintaining a balanced ecosystem.
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In urban environments, trees act as natural air conditioners. Their shade cools down streets and cities, reducing the need for air conditioning in nearby buildings and lowering energy costs. Moreover, trees absorb and block sunlight, reducing the heat island effect common in urban areas.
Recent studies have highlighted the health benefits associated with trees. Proximity to green spaces with trees, has been linked to reduced stress, lower depression rates, and increased physical activity. Furthermore, trees filter out pollutants, providing cleaner air and reducing the rates of respiratory illnesses.
The multifaceted roles trees play in sustaining life on Earth means that we should be protecting them and planting more. In a rapidly changing world they are the stewards of our world and it is our duty to recognize their value, protect them, and ensure they continue to thrive for generations to come.
Happy gardening.
By Rachael LevertonDo you enjoy singing? Clevedon Gilbert & Sullivan Society are looking for singers
In May 2024 we will be performing G&S’ opera ‘The Mikado’ and we are looking for singers. Rehearsals start at 7:30pm, Friday 3rd November at St Peter’s Church Hall, Alexandra Road, Clevedon.
Come along and be part of this. You will be very welcome and… IT’S FUN!
For more information contact Dave Robinson on 01934 516502
Vegan Cooking Class in November (suitable for Non-Vegans)
Join a Vegan Cooking Class on Saturday, 4th November from 2:00pm - 5:00pm, and learn how to make tasty, easy vegan dishes. Have fun in a relaxed
group of 6-7 people and share a meal together. You don’t need any special cooking skills and nonvegans are especially welcome.
Where: The Other Place, 81-83 Meadow Street, WSM, BS23 1QL.
What does it cost? A small donation of £2-£3 is welcome.
To book and for any queries, please speak with Utah, mob. 07817 701031.
Back by popular demand, Inner Wheel Club of Clevedon present…
The Long Ashton Orchestra, 4th November, 7:30pm at Christchurch Chapel Hill, Clevedon BS21 7LL. Tickets £10 or £12 on the door. All profits to the ‘alive’ charity working with people with dementia.
Have you got your Lasting Powers of Attorney (“LPAs”) in place yet?
Have you been putting off getting your LPAs in place? Have you also phoned around and the costs have put you off? Not sure if these are right for you? Feel that you do not need them yet?
With Grove Wills, we offer:
• A friendly service, meeting you in the comfort of your own home.
• An advisory service, to ensure you completely understand LPAs and their importance.
• Full disclosure of fees involved including the Office of the Public Guardian (“OPG”) registration fees and whether you qualify for reduced registration fees.
• The full package of preparing the documents, overseeing the signing, posting to the OPG etc and keeping you advised along the way. We do everything for you.
• Complete peace of mind for yourself and your family.
Call Karen on 07498 948580 or email info@grovewills.com
Clevedon Cruse Support for Those Who Have Been Bereaved
Talking and listening to one another can help us make sense of our feelings.
Join us for our CRUSE ‘WALK AND TALK’ on Wednesday morning, 8th November.
Please ring 0117 926 4045, leaving your name and contact details.
You will also receive a warm and friendly welcome at our Clevedon area SUPPORT DROP-IN, which will be held on Friday 17th November from 10:00am to 12:00 noon at Clevedon Community Centre, Princes Road. You can bring a friend with you.
Trained Bereavement Volunteers are available to talk in confidence. Refreshments are provided.
Fibromyalgia Support GroupChristmas Craft Fair
Join us at our lovely Christmas Craft Fair on Sat, 18th November at St Mark’s Church in Worle from 11am to 2pm. Lots of crafts and unique gifts to choose from as the festive season approaches. Hot drinks and delicious home-made cakes will
be available too. Come along and do some shopping – And why not bring a friend or two along? An information stall of our Fibromyalgia Group will also be available on the day. Free entry, Cash only.
For more information, call Val 07411989478 or email wsmfibro@gmail.com
International Concert Pianist at Clevedon Music Club
On Tuesday 21st November at 7:30pm, Surrey-based star, Béla Hartmann makes a welcome third visit to the Club in the Teignmouth Room at the Community Centre, Princes Road, BS21 7SZ. He will be playing music by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner and also his own composition. Béla’s previous performances were spellbinding, so don’t miss this great event.
For details phone 01275 875262 or email andrea. argent@hotmail.co.uk. Admission costs £12 at the door, by cash or cheque.
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Fruit & Nut Bark – a great gift to make for Christmas
Ingredients
75g cup walnuts
450g good white chocolate, finely chopped
75g dried cranberries
75g medium-diced dried apricot
Directions
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Using a pencil, draw an 8-by-10-inch rectangle on a piece of parchment paper. Turn the parchment paper over so the pencil mark doesn’t get onto the chocolate and place it on a sheet pan.
Place the walnuts in one layer on another sheet pan and bake for 8 minutes. Set aside to cool. Place three quarters of the white chocolate in a heat-proof glass bowl and put it in the microwave on high for 30 seconds.
Stir the chocolate with a rubber spatula, return it to the microwave for another 30 seconds, then stir again. Continue to heat and stir in 30-second intervals until the chocolate is just melted. Immediately stir in the remaining chocolate and allow it to sit at room temperature, stirring often,
until it’s completely smooth. (If you need to heat it a little more, place it in the microwave for another 15 seconds.)
Pour the melted chocolate onto the parchment paper and spread it lightly to fill the drawn rectangle.
Sprinkle the top evenly with the cooled walnuts, the cranberries, and apricots. Press the nuts and fruit lightly so they will set in the chocolate.
Set aside for at least 2 hours until firm or refrigerate for 20 minutes.
Cut or break the bark in 16 pieces and serve at room temperature.
Great as Christmas presents – present in a small box or cellophane bag tied with a pretty ribbon. Enjoy.
PS If you need me to clean your cooker before Christmas, please call me Graham, OvenGleamers, on 01275 370571
How can Vitamin D help to prevent hearing loss?
Hello from Mia, Claire and Myself, Toby, at Meadows & Wood hearing specialists. We hope you are keeping well. With the days now being shorter and evenings longer, we might be forgiven for looking back fondly to the long sunny days of summer. It turns out that spending time outdoors could have been benefitting you more than you realised!
Vitamin D is a crucial nutrient that helps regulate the amount of calcium and phosphate in the body. Recent studies have shown that vitamin D also plays a vital role in maintaining hearing health. According to one study, vitamin D deficiency has been associated with higher rates of sudden sensorineural hearing loss as well as higher rates of hearing loss. Another study showed that the odds of bilateral hearing loss were increased by 45% in older adults when compared to their peers with normal vitamin D levels.
The good news is that higher vitamin D intake can result in reduced odds of hearing loss. In fact, studies have shown that adults who ate oily fish twice a week (e.g. sardines, salmon) had a 42% lower chance of facing age-related hearing loss than non-fish eaters. Vitamin D plays a vital role in promoting good hearing health. It is essential to maintain adequate levels of Vitamin D through proper diet or supplements to prevent hearing loss. So, make sure you get your daily dose of Vitamin D to keep your ears healthy and happy!
If you or your loved one is struggling with hearing, and you would like to know how we can help, please get in touch to book a consultation. We are here for you at home or in North Somerset’s only full time and fully independent audiology clinic. Our contact details are below.
Christmas Fair Saturday 25th November
Make sure to come along to The Clevedon Flower Show Committees popular Christmas Fair that will take place at The Community Centre, Princes Rd, Clevedon on Saturday 25th November.
Festivities will run from 10:00am til 3:00pm.
We will have lots of lovely gift and craft stalls, tombola, a seasonal raffle with food hampers prizes, great entertainment, Weston Brass band, Posset Singers and Stepping Stone Dancers. We also look forward to a visit from Santa himself.
We will be serving our usual popular range of hot food, cakes and refreshments.
Christchurch Christmas Tree Festival is back!
25th November, 10:00am – 6:00pm.
26th November, 1:00pm – 5:00pm.
The popular Christmas Tree Festival in Clevedon is back at Christchurch on Highdale Road. Lots of interestingly decorated Christmas Trees await you at this year’s festival celebrating all the brilliant things that go on in Clevedon. Local choral groups and musicians will play whilst you stroll around the trees provided by local community groups. A Festive Café will sell refreshments throughout the weekend. The festival is FREE to visit.
Any money raised will go to charities supported by Christchurch.
Christmas Wreath workshops in support of St John’s Church, Clevedon
We are holding two wreath making workshops on Saturday 9th December in St. John’s Church Hall, Clevedon. 10:00am - 12:30pm and 2:00pm - 4:30pm. There will be a range of fresh and dried materials to work with to create your own unique wreath. All tuition and materials included, coffee/ tea and cake supplied. Cost £25.00.
Contact SarahLewis@stjohns-clevedon.org.uk for details.
Is your metabolic health compromised?
Struggling with your weight and feel like you’ve tried everything and nothing seems to work? Do you feel like you no longer have control over your body and mind to make healthy food choices? Are you often lethargic and achy? Getting anxious about your long-term health? Or do you just want to feel and look better?
Chances are that your metabolic health is compromised. This is because so many of today’s foods are ultra-processed, which can seriously confuse our bodies. And eating too often and/or too much, as so many of us do, doesn’t help.
Metabolic Balance®, designed by German doctors in the 1980s, is a nutrition and hormone balancing programme that is based on food choices that work for your unique body chemistry. It is entirely food-based, meaning no fads, no shakes, and once completed, you are left educated and empowered about your future food choices. This means it’s sustainable in the long term, giving you a life-long framework that you can use to optimise and maintain good health in a changing world.
Chances are that your metabolic health is compromised.
Metabolic Balance® is a personalised weight management programme built around what your body needs. It’s not a diet but a hormonebalancing program that helps you naturally lose weight and keep it off!
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Support local food producers
This year it’s been hard to get away from news of rising food prices and the supermarkets have been quick to paint themselves as the heroes: ‘you need cheap food, and we can provide it for you.’
The reality is that everything we eat comes from the same Earth and if food looks cheap, the price must have come at a cost to the natural world or workers instead. Polluted waterways, damaged habitats, more greenhouse gases (Sustainable Food Trust, 2019) and 25% of farmers forced below the poverty line (Sustain, 2022) are the real cost of cheap food.
The good news is that we can do something about it. Every £1 we choose to spend with retailers who prioritise local producers and support their communities can generate £3.70 of social and environmental value (New Economics Foundation, 2021). This is so much better than the £1 of damage for every £1 spent in supermarkets (Sustainable Food Trust, 2019).
With more people being pulled back to the supermarkets in search of cheap food, many of the 40+ local food producers we work with across the South West have struggled to stay afloat. And so have retailers like us.
If you can, shop local. It’s a tired phrase on a tired planet but organisations like ours and the communities of people and wildlife that we support, need you more than ever.
The Community Farm is an organic farm that grows, sources and delivers climate-friendly food across the local area. We are community-owned and not-for-profit. Find out more at thecommunityfarm.co.uk
Weston-super-Mare Flower Club
St Georges Community Centre, BS22 7XF. 4th Monday of the month (not August & December). 2:00pm for 2:30pm.
Join like minded people for an enjoyable afternoon watching flower arranging demonstrations and try to win an arrangement in the raffle.
Visitors £7 entry. Raffle tickets £1 a strip. Tea/ Coffee and Biscuits £1.
Find us on Facebook. More details 01934 622152
Members wanted: Hard of Hearing Social Club
We are looking for members to join our hard of hearing social group. We meet once a month, usually the first Monday of the month at Vision North Somerset, Neva Road, WsM. 2:00pm4:00pm. Socialise, make friends, attend day trips and activities.
We are a fully inclusive group who hold meetings for the hearing impaired in WSM. £4 entry which includes tea, coffee, cake/biscuits. Please come along!
MS peer support group in Nailsea
The MS peer support group meets every month on the 2nd Monday from 2:00pm - 3:30pm at 65 the High Street in Nailsea. If you are living with MS and would like the chance to meet with others, share experiences and chat over a drink and biscuits then please come along - we would love to meet you. This is a very informal and welcoming group.
Come and Play with Portishead Concert Band
Portishead Concert Band welcomes new players. We rehearse every Tuesday 7:15pm until 9:00pm at St Nicolas’ Church, Nore Road, Portishead BS20 8EN. We have a mixture of ages and abilities. We are looking especially for clarinetists and flautists, although any Tuba player (rusty or not) would be very welcome too.
Contact Chris on 07790446188.
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You are invited to enjoy a happy afternoon
When distancing was required, we set up ‘Good News’ events for the local community on 2nd Wednesdays each month, sitting with two chairs between us. What a memory! Now more than 60 people sit anywhere, with friends or on their own. The programme develops a different theme each time with people’s stories, music, readings, video clips, songs, a thought from the Bible, all in 50 minutes before a cuppa and biscuits. No charge, no collection, no need to book. Clevedon Baptist, Queens Square 2:30pm - 3:20pm. Enquiries: talk to Judi 07762946560.
Beloved for women
Meets 12:30pm until 2.30pm on Thursdays, term-time only, at St Paul’s Church, Walliscote Road, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1EF. Begins with a thought for the day then light lunch (voluntary contributions welcome), followed by craft, etc. Come along and find company and friendship, a safe space where we hope you will find a sense of community where you can relax and connect with other women during the week.
Clevedon Music Club Concerts
November 2023 – April 2024
Clevedon Community Centre
Tuesday 21st November: 7:30pm; Béla Hartmann.
Tuesday 12th December: 7:30pm; Marcus Evans (baritone).
Sunday 28th January: 3:00pm; Bochmann String Trio with pianist Paul Turner.
Tuesday 20th February: 7:30pm; Zosia Dzimitrowicz (piano).
Tuesday 19th March: 7:30pm; Emily Heathcote and Jason Anderson (clarinet and piano).
Tuesday 16th April: 7:30pm or Sunday 21st April: 3:00pm t.b.c, Outstanding musicians from Bristol schools.
With the exception of September, all concerts take place upstairs in the Teignmouth Room, Clevedon Community Centre BS21 7SZ.
Admission to individual concerts £12; Subscription for all eight concerts £72; Subscription for half season £38. By cash or cheque only.
To receive programme details by email; Phone 01275 875262 or email andrea.argent@hotmail.co.uk
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Happy Balance… Supporting your busy life
We are passionate about re-cycling, re-housing and re-using items, working with many local charities we distribute your unwanted items on your behalf. We always offer a FREE 1hour consultation to introduce ourselves and to discuss how we can help you.
Our clients know that allocating time to work alongside Happy Balance provides the impetus they need to make a start. Through experience we understand the importance of working with you at your pace, listening to you and helping you put into action what you want to achieve.
These are all scenarios from clients we have worked with:
• ‘I don’t want to leave it for the kids to sort’ – Feeling mindful that you need to get your home in order? You don’t want the family having to sort through everything when you are gone? We will work with you to streamline your home, recycle unwanted items and organise belongings you may wish to distribute to family and friends.
• My partner/parent has died – You’re not only dealing with grief but also thinking about how you clear the house? We are NOT house clearance. We work with you sensitively, practically and confidentially to organise their affairs and clear the house for sale or other.
• I am embarrassed – It’s all got on top of me and I just feel overwhelmed – Are you buying too many items, storing them away and feeling like you may be hoarding? Claire and SJ are non judgemental and through experience can help you declutter and regain control.
• I’m moving and need to downsize – I can’t physically or emotionally cope with my move and I need help. We are hands-on in preparing your belongings ensuring that when your removal firm comes to move you that you have already sorted through, de-cluttered and made sure all your items, big and small will fit into your new home giving you peace of mind.
• ‘Our family space isn’t working for us’ –Who can help us? Happy Balance will give you guidance, ideas and hands on support to make the changes to make your home a living space and not a storage space.
Join in a great fun sing-a-long! Everybody welcome
We are a small friendly bunch of people (approx. 10) who enjoy singing songs primarily, but not only, from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, accompanied by a keyboard, guitars and a ukulele. Thanks to Sue, Julia and Paul for coming along for the first time last week.
WHERE: St Peter’s Church (in the hall behind the church), 1 Alexandra Road, Clevedon. BS21 7QH. Parking available off-road.
WHEN: Every other Thursday of the month, 1:30pm – 4:00pm.
FEE: Approx. £3.25 per session (depending on number of members.)
INFO: mike42bartlett@gmail.com
Get Strong and Steady with Age UK Somerset
Are you less steady on your feet than you used to be? A new exercise session has been launched in Clevedon for people experiencing more advanced mobility issues.
Get Strong Get Steady is a fun and friendly session, specially designed to help participants gradually build up the strength, stamina and balance to be able to progress from seated to standing exercises.
It’s the ideal precursor to Stay Strong Stay Steady, Age UK Somerset’s strength and balance class. Contact us to find the right class for you: 01823 345614 fallsprevention@ageuksomerset.org.uk
30th Anniversary Charity Event (30 years of the restaurant in Clevedon)
Junior Poon’s charity evenings for the hospital have been a great success especially the last event which celebrated the 30th Anniversary of Junior Poon Chinese restaurant in Hill Road, Clevedon.
From the sale of meals, raffle tickets and an auction, Junior and his wife Rena, managed to raise £7,805.00 to purchase two ECG machines for The North Somerset Community Hospital, one for the Minor Injury Unit and one for the Elton Rehabilitation unit.
Junior said, “We are humbled by the amount raised on the evening. My wife, Rena and I would like to thank all our staff who have worked tirelessly making the event special and our customers, friends, local businesses who have supported the fund-raising event generously. There were a few sleepless nights, lots of hard work and effort put into organising the evening but definitely worth it; all for a very good cause benefiting everyone in the local community!”
David Fife, the Chair of the Friends of the hospital said “The Friends thank Junior, his staff and Customers for the fantastic contributions they have made to the hospital over the years.
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