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INSIDE THIS MONTH...

Spring is invigorating. Suddenly the energy is there for chores and repairs. Our imagination is set alight. New ideas, new plans. The wait is over.

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People think I’m crazy Just because I don’t complain When the weather is appalling, And we have a lot of rain.

But I enjoy a rainy day, It lets me stay indoors, Where I can sit and knit and read – This magazine of course.

I also have my crosswords And my television set, My radio and keyboard, So I don’t care if it’s wet.

In fact, to put it neatly, I quite like a rainy day, And I’ll be happy just as long As the rain’s not here to stay.

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Fox Hour WILDLIFE REFLECTIONS

By Alexi Francis. Alexi also drew the illustration. If you would like to buy the original or see other work, go to her website:www.alexifrancisillustrations.co.uk

Early in the year I heard the vixen’s harsh, rasping cry taunting the winter winds, above the rattle of the train heading into the night.

With March came cubs. Now it’s April, the sett beneath the bramble and overgrown elder stirs with new life. The vixen will be busy.

As I wander out at the day’s end I hope to encounter her in some twitten between the bins and chain link fence, out hunting for herself. In the grayscale gloom, a cat flees back to the buttery glow of an open window. A dog in a garden barks. He sees nothing, but senses a presence. Almost invisible, the fox slinks over the flint wall as car headlights send shadows up the house fronts and searchlights into rooms where televisions blink out worlds of cool, blue, eerie light.

Back at the sett, the dog fox waits. Five cubs, snug and safe, paw the air blindly, wrestling in dream.

of some other place and so close. Suddenly she’s across the avenue of trees, running, a quicksilver fragment of night.

In the street, she reappears, shapeshifting in the shadows.

I look on, sensing a touch of something untethered and free, something wild. Outlaw

A drowsy half moon snags on a chimney pot. Clouds shift over a gelatin-silvered sky.

More cars pass and then it’s quiet.

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The fox sees me and hesitates, shakes a leg. She watches without fear, daring me to come closer. I wait. By day, fire, by night, shadow, she burns, hunger driving her on. Now this is her street, her hour, Fox Hour.

Then she is gone.

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FISH PIE WITH CAULIFLOWER MASH Seasonal Recipe by Valerie Hedgethorne Valerie Hedgethorne taught cookery & cake decorating for many years in Brighton before becoming a Home Economist and writing for the national magazine CAKE for 20 years.

Valerie is a past president of the British Sugarcraft Guild & is a member of the local Guild Branch, which meets monthly in Rottingdean for demonstrations of all types of cake decorating. Anyone with an interest in cake decorating is welcome – for more information phone Valerie on 01273 505223.

Fish pie is very popular and so is cauliflower.

Here the cauliflower takes the place of potato on top. The addition of spinach not only adds to the taste but to the colour also.

You will need a pie dish approximately 1 litre capacity and a food processor.

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FISH PIE WITH CAULIFLOWER MASH CONTINUED INGREDIENTS:

METHOD:

• 1 large cauliflower (about 750g/1 ½ lbs)

Break the cauliflower in to florets and boil for 10 minutes or until quite tender. Drain well and allow to steam dry.

• 2 tablesp. half fat crème fraiche

Put in to a food processor with the crème fraiche and blitz to a puree. Add salt and pepper.

• 15g (1/2 oz) butter • 25g (3/4 oz) plain flour

Make a sauce: melt the butter, add the flour and stir over a low heat then gradually add the milk, stirring between each addition. Simmer gently for 2 minutes. Add the mustard and season to taste.

• 300ml (1/2 pt) milk

Pre-heat the oven to 200C/gas 6.

• 2 teasp. wholegrain mustard

Wilt the spinach in a little water, squeeze out as much water as possible then add to the sauce.

• 110g (4 oz) spinach

Cut the fish in to large chunks and add.

• 300g (10 oz) smoked haddock • 250g (8 oz) skinless fresh salmon • 15g (1/2 oz) parmesan cheese

Put in to the pie dish, top with the cauliflower mash, sprinkle with the grated parmesan.

Bake for 20 minutes. To get a crisp crust finish under a hot grill for 5 minutes.

Green vegetables go well with this.

Divine Water Dowsing/water divination appears to have started in the early 16th century in Germany, where it was used to locate metals for the mining industry. German mining skills were in great demand throughout Europe and German miners were licensed to live and work in Devon, Cornwall & Cumbria as well as for Elizabeth in the royal mines. German miners are also recorded as using dowsing to locate silver in Wales.

nonetheless. Study after study has failed to substantiate dowsing, it is considered pseudoscience. Despite this, it still has many practitioners – including engineers, water companies etc who claim to find it effective, even if it is not understood. Perhaps as Hamlet says: ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy’?

The most common dowsing tool is a Y-shaped branch, often of hazel or willow. The dowser walks slowly across the area being explored and a ‘find’ causes the twig to dip. Today, many dowsers use a pair of L-shaped metal rods. The short of arm of the L being the handle, the longer arm pointing forward. When something is found the rods two rods cross.

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Brighton Museum & Art Gallery to host exhibition by world renowned artists

Gilbert & George as part of ARTIST ROOMS

Gilbert & George are an artist partnership who have worked and shared their lives together for fifty years. As ‘living sculptures’ they challenge the distinction between art and life; sacrificing their separate identities and turning the notion of creativity on its head.

Playful and ambiguous, the works on show explore themes essential to humanity and contemporary society including sex, faith, and identity. The display of Gilbert & George comprises works ranging from 1969 to 1991 including bold-coloured works such as Existers created in 1984 and later works such as Hunger and Thirst, both created in 1992 and Family

Tree 1991. The works explore the artists’ own image, their place as misfits in society and their concept of ‘art for all’.

Many of the big, brightly coloured works are from the 1980s, a period of

huge energy and change for the artists, when Gilbert & George were also developing new and specifically modern techniques of photography and printing.

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Mackie Bowling Club Now that spring has finally arrived thoughts turn to being outdoors and what better way to appreciate the sunshine and fresh air than to play a game of bowls. Mackie Bowling Club was established in Patcham over 80 years ago and still enjoys its rural setting in Mackie Avenue, next to the tennis courts.

Bowls is a sport for all, regardless of age, is inexpensive and is an excellent way to obtain regular exercise.

We are a friendly club, open to men and women, boys and girls. For those that enjoy a competitive element to their sport the club has teams in two local leagues and is well represented at Sussex county matches.

Friendly matches against other clubs are played on most Saturdays throughout the season, which runs from the end of April to the middle of September.

There is a social side too, with occasional

events organised throughout the year, a highlight being the end of season BBQ followed by a candle-lit bowls match…

Why not give it a try this year? Membership details can be obtained from the club secretary, Stewart Penfound who can be contacted on 01273 506216, or come and enjoy our open evenings on Monday 30th April and 21st May, both from 4 – 7 p.m. and have a go.

Home Run In 2012 the HCSA (Horsdean Community Sports Association) was formed, consisting of 4 long established local cricket clubs, Brighton & Hove Crescent, Dome Mission, Belgrave Adelaide, St Matthias and Patcham United junior football club, all who regularly train & play their matches at Horsdean. Both Patcham United & St Matthias run large junior sections.

Every year since 2013 the five sports clubs come together in April to spring clean the park - clean, paint and tidy up the pavilion, litter pick and cutback trees/bushes as required.

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All park users are invited to turn up & lend a hand on the 14th April to keep this valuable community open space area in good shape.

Just bring a pair of gardening gloves– all dogs welcome!

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A History of Chocolate

By Jayne Shrimpton

South American Indians roasting and grinding cacao beans and mixing the chocolate: plate from Ogilvy’s America, 1671 As we indulge in our favourite Easter eggs these holidays, let’s consider the history of chocolate and how it became such a prominent aspect of our lives.

Origins of cacao The cacao (or cocoa) tree is native to South America and as early as 3,500 years ago the Olmec Mexican people were using the beans to make a chocolate drink. Throughout the region, powder from dried, ground cacao beans was combined with flavourings such as nutmeg, vanilla and 14

chilli for use in various forms, including drinks. The Mayans of Mexico and Central America identified the drink with the gods and the Aztecs used chocolate in religious rituals, crediting it with spiritual wisdom, high energy and enhanced libido.

A luxury drink When Spanish conquistadors invaded Mexico in the 16th century they too enjoyed chocolate and shipped some home, the first known cargo reaching Seville in 1585. The original bitter,

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Hot chocolate, once a luxury drink, became a firm favourite in Victorian Britain, as seen in this advert aimed at sportsmen, 1885

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peppery cacao drink was more acceptable to western tastes when combined with sugar and cinnamon and during the 1600s it became fashionable among the European aristocracy as a luxury beverage taken in bed in the morning.

Rapidly following the first public coffee houses, the earliest dedicated chocolate house opened in London’s Bishopsgate in 1657. The new establishments served a milky, sweet chocolate drink, more expensive than coffee but containing less caffeine, and therefore generally less popular with consumers. However, chocolate houses thrived as meeting places for wealthy men, the most decadent being White’s in St James’ Square (opened 1693), whose infamous gambling culture was pictured in Scene 6 of William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress (1733).

London chocolate houses serving the luxury drink were often the scene of gambling and other vices, as portrayed in A Rake’s Progress (Scene 6) by William Hogarth, 1733

Other chocolate houses were also linked to gambling, debauchery, even political rebellion (rebel Jacobites met there) but chocolate retained its elite reputation.

Preparing and serving the drink also required special utensils and this inspired the production of exquisite implements and table ware.

European merchants established cocoa plantations in the colonies initially using slave labour. This photograph taken in Surinam (formerly in Dutch Guiana) in the late-1800s 16

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Slave plantations Eventually, ambitious merchants wishing to expand their trade launched pamphlet campaigns publicising chocolate’s many alleged qualities, from boosting fertility to curing consumption. To increase supply, Britain, France and the Netherlands established cacao plantations in colonies in the Caribbean, Africa’s Ivory Coast and South East Asia, ruthlessly exploiting slave labour. In the early1800s British abolitionists worked to halt the slave trade: some prominent abolitionists were Quakers who went on to dominate the chocolate industry, like tea, coffee and cocoa dealers William Tuke & Co (associated with Rowntree), who donated £50 to William Wilberforce’s election fund in 1807. Abolitionist chocolate manufacturers refused

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Cadbury’s began operations as a tea, coffee and chocolate dealer in Birmingham in 1824, becoming a chocolate manufacturer in 1831 New manufacturers

This Cadbury’s trade card, 1880s, reflects the popularity of drinking chocolate as a healthy, unadulterated beverage to buy slave-plantation commodities, but only in the late-1800s did significant quantities of cocoa grown without using slave labour became available.

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During the 19th century advances in production techniques, cheap labour, improved communications, growing consumerism and lowering prices meant that chocolate, coffee and tea now extended to all social classes. Most ordinary people could now afford these drinks, the temperance movement actively promoting chocolate as a healthy and appetizing alternative to alcohol.

However, in Victorian Britain many foodstuffs were routinely adulterated, chocolate containing brick dust and wax often sold by disreputable retailers.

Quaker grocers, besides being committed to fairness, equality and social reform, were also renowned for their honesty and reliability and

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Continental drinking chocolate was also much in favour and inspired some beautiful art nouveau advertisements around the turn of the century

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manufacturing operations and eventually challenged Swiss hegemony by launching their first milk chocolate bars in 1897. Early Cadbury milk chocolate bars were made from milk powder paste, cocoa mass, cocoa butter and sugar, but being coarse-textured and dry, not creamy, weren’t initially a huge hit. However in 1904 George Cadbury Junior was tasked with developing a chocolate bar containing more milk than any other product on the market. Various names were mooted, including ‘Highland Milk’ and ‘Dairy Maid’ but a customer’s daughter suggested ‘Dairy Milk’ and the product with this now-familiar name was launched in 1905. Gradually becoming popular, Dairy Milk chocolate was sold in unwrapped blocks that could be divided up into penny bars and by WW1 it was Cadbury’s most successful line.

Wartime rations Small boxes of luxury chocolates had been available since the 1860s, but Cadbury’s Milk Tray, launched in 1915, was more affordable and aimed at ordinary families

Chocolate bars Another major British company, Fry’s of Bristol, developed the first chocolate bar in 1847: made from cocoa powder, sugar and melted cocoa butter extracted from the beans, the mixture was moulded into solid bars and blocks. Initially dark and bitter-tasting, nonetheless this innovation revolutionised the consumption of chocolate and confectionary in general. In 1875 a Swiss chocolate manufacturer, Daniel Peter, added condensed milk to his recipe, making the first milk chocolate bars of pleasing flavour and texture.

Further advances produced a smoother, more refined product and superior Swiss milk chocolate dominated the British market for the next quarter of a century.

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During the First World War, when servicemen received strict food rations, chocolate provided a delicious respite from the monotonous diet.

The British government placed vast orders for Cadbury’s Dairy Milk and Bourneville Cocoa (launched in 1906) for the troops throughout

The giving and receiving of chocolate Easter eggs became an established tradition from the late-1800s. This vintage photograph of a family at Easter dates to 1955

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the war, the company itself despatching additional parcels for soldiers, some arriving as welcome Christmas treats. During WW2, with raw materials scarce and manufacturers banned from using fresh milk, Dairy Milk was withdrawn from the shelves in 1941, being replaced with Ration Chocolate made with dried skimmed milk powder.

Easter Eggs

Continental confectioners and chocolatiers arrange striking displays at Easter, as seen from this shop window in Avignon, France

Easter eggs symbolising the start of life originated in pre-Christian times, but the first chocolate Easter eggs appeared only 200 years ago.

In the early-1800s French and German confectioners led the new art of making chocolate eggs, some early examples

being solid, others hollow, the egg simply wrapped in paper. In Britain Cadbury launched its first chocolate Easter egg in 1875. Early eggs used dark chocolate, had a smooth, plain surface and were filled with sugarcoated chocolate drops or ‘dragees’, but they grew more elaborate, their shells decorated with chocolate piping and marzipan flowers: by 1893 Cadbury’s boasted 19 different Easter egg lines.

The successful development of milk chocolate in the early-1900s also boosted the market for chocolate eggs, which became well established as seasonal bestsellers. www.jayneshrimpton.co.uk

Spring brings all sorts of new arrivals; do you know the babies’ names?

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April Baby Shower?

Most babies are born in September…so maybe most baby showers are in April?

Here is a fun quiz • Answers on page 41 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

When newborn babies cry they produce tears. Is this True or False?

What percentage of babies actually arrive on their due date?

Babies are born without which body part?

What is the first sense a baby develops?

When does a baby get its fingerprints?

What is the largest number of surviving babies from a single birth?

How much bigger does the uterus get during pregnancy?

How many bones is a baby born with?

The oldest woman to give birth defied the norm by becoming a mother at what age?

Newborns can recognize mum’s face while snuggling, but how far away can they see clearly?

When can a baby start to smile?

How long does the average newborn sleep each day?

How much did the heaviest baby weigh at birth?

What is the largest number of children to one mother in her lifetime?

How come babies can breathe and swallow at the same time?

Babies recognise their mother’s voice at birth. How long until they recognise their father’s?

What is the record for the most teeth a baby has ever been born with?

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Into every life, a little rain must fall

Detail from 2nd Century Ajanta Paintings The name umbrella comes from Latin - possibly ‘umbella’ which means a flat-topped flower but more likely ‘umbra’, meaning shadow…as they are descended from parasols.

The umbrella is relatively recent in northern Europe but have been in use in China for at least 3000 years and later in ancient Greece and Rome.

There is some evidence of umbrella type apparatus in Anglo-Saxon England but for some reason it was forgotten.

In 1580 Montaigne, the French essayist, remarked on their use in Italy. His observations may have had an effect as in 1637 several made of oil cloth were possessed by the King of France. Initially they were heavy contraptions (we did not have bamboo like the Chinese) - with spokes made of whalebone. They weighed 10lbs without the oil cloth cover! Nevertheless, they gathered popularity in Paris, 26

although not with the rather snobbish elite who considered them too cumbersome, and besides: “…an umbrella is a sure sign of someone who doesn’t have their own carriage”. Perhaps their unwieldiness led, in 1769, to the opening of the first shop in Paris offering them for rent to those caught in a downpour.

(They were dark green oiled cloth and carried a number so that they could be found and reclaimed if someone walked off with them.)

In 1808 there were seven shops making and selling umbrellas in Paris, by 1813 there were 42 shops and by 1848 there were 377 – employing 1400 workers.

The increasing expertise led to improvements and by 1826 the weight had been reduced to 1½ lbs. In 1856 the whalebone struts were replaced by steel.

Umbrellas remained uncommon in England though, which clearly bemused James Woolfe when he witnessed their benefits upon travelling to Paris in 1752. When they were described at all, it was as a screen used by women.

Jonas Hanway is credited with introducing umbrellas here in about 1850, which took grit. He was rarely seen without one, causing him to be publicly reproached for his sacrilege as it was thought using an umbrella was: “…defying the heavenly purpose of rain, which obviously was to make people wet”. He was also ridiculed for being effeminate and accused of being a Frenchman for not taking a coach by the cabbies waiting for custom in the streets. They regarded the new-fangled device a threat to their trade. The Duke of

Paris Street; Rainy Weather, by Gustave Caillebotte (1877)

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Wellington was a famous early adopter too, seldom seen without his umbrella – although his was also a sword stick!

As time went by the design was improved and varied – the first umbrella hats were fashioned in 1880! The first folding umbrella patent was issued in 1929 and the ‘working folding umbrella’ patent issued to Totes of Loveland Ohio as recently as 1969. Now Shangyu City alone has a thousand umbrella factories…so they have probably got it covered!

HERSTMONCEUX CASTLE & ASTRONOMY SCIENCE CENTRE Spring Outing Sunday 22nd April 2018

gardens and then we will see the Astronomy Science Centre where we will also have a conducted tour of the telescopes which are now Listed Grade II buildings.

These were installed in the 20th Century when the Royal Observatory was moved from Greenwich to Sussex, which has now been relocated in Cambridgeshire.

The first of our trips this year will be to explore Herstmonceux Castle near Eastbourne. The castle was built in 1441 on the site of a medieval manor by Sir Roger Fiennes. In the 19th Century it fell into ruin and was restored

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April Fool – A Month for Fun and Laughter

By Dr Sima Patel

“My Dad always knew I was going to be a comedian. When I was a baby he said, ‘Is this a joke?’” – Sir Kenn Dodd “So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me ‘Can you give me a lift?’ I said, Sure, you look great, the world’s your oyster, go for it.”

Tommy Cooper April Fools’ Day is a day to get enjoyment, fool around and have fun. Reflecting back to all the pranks that have been played over the years is in itself enough to make us laugh out loud. So how about starting just there for a warm up.

Can you think of a time when someone played a great prank on you or vice versa? Does it still make you laugh out loud now?

There is an increasing amount of research on why humour is good for us including having physical and mental perks (better memory, lower stress and even a reduced risk for heart disease). So, why not use April as a catalyst to have more fun in your life and boost your well-being.

A group of people who have dedicated themselves to analysing how science-based activities and games that generate humour and improve health have discovered the following:

• On average, people tend to laugh 18 times a day. If you are not one of these people, could you set yourself the challenge of laughing at least 18 times in one day?

• People who have a sense of humour generally have good mental fitness.

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• Having a penchant for dark humour (presenting distressing events

such as death and disease with humour) has been associated with high intelligence.

This can be seen at funerals for example when one moment people are sobbing with sadness and the next, laughing out loud as different memories are recalled.

• Processing puns requires both

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• Both sexes laugh a lot but females

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• Laughter in relationships declines dramatically with age. So set the challenge of aging gracefully with fun and laughter.

• A sense of humour improves health and enhances the chances of reaching retirement age.

• Laugher brings people together

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April Fool – A Month for Fun and Laughter Continued

“You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen. It said, ‘Parking Fine.’ So that was nice.”

– Tommy Cooper

• Humour is really important in hospitals for both patients and staff.

Research shows that humour in hospitals and care settings reduces tension, connects patients with staff and helps patients feel valued, allows patients and staff to distance themselves from difficult situations, reduces the indignity patients sometimes feel about themselves and reduces stress.

• Humour helps children and adults to learn.

• Great leaders use humour to foster better communication and enhance group cohesiveness.

• Humour is an essential element in romantic relationships. Those who reminisce about moments of shared laughter report more satisfaction in their relationships compared to those who recalled a positive moment.

• People who recall sharing a

humorous moment when they first met report increased closeness.

Given all those benefits above, how could you increase your ability to laugh throughout the fun month of April? How about trying some of the following and seeing what happens to your laughter levels and well-being.

• Think of a thought first thing

when you wake up and then turn that same

thought into a funny one as though you were going to tell someone a funny story about that thought or situation or event.

• Spend time with people who make you laugh and vice versa.

• Watch children and young people having fun and follow their lead in seeing the humour in everyday things.

• Have a joke book in lots of rooms in the house and tell someone a joke from it at least twice a day.

• Listen to funny programmes on the radio / podcasts.

• Watch funny television programmes and films.

• Go to live comedy gigs.

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Spring Herbal Teas

By Lucinda Warner

After something of an intermittent start, Spring is finally with us and I am very much enjoying the sight of green growth emerging from the newly warmed earth. It’s about this time of year when my body starts craving the fresh tastes of spring wild plants and, while there is still a nip in the air, one of my favourite ways to consume them is tea. Here are some of my most used spring tonic herbs which can all be made into lovely infusions, either in combination or alone.

Nettle: One of the best known and most popular of spring herbal teas, nettle is packed with nutrients and supports the whole body by helping to eliminate waste from the system and supplying nourishment and increased vitality at the same time. It supports the kidneys and the blood and helps to balance the endocrine system. Easy to find and full of goodness, pick the top few leaves of the nettles before flowering for use in tea or food.

Cleavers: Another plant most often considered a weed, cleavers is a wonderfully gentle cleansing and supportive remedy for the lymphatic system and makes a lovely spring tea with a fresh, green taste and aroma.

It can be infused into cold water for a few hours or into hot for a few minutes.

Dandelion root - One of my favourite early spring teas, dandelion root is both nourishing and cleansing so perfect for this time of year.

Dandelion has a long, thick tap root (one of the things that makes it a bane to gardeners) which stores nutrients to enable the plant to survive the winter. It is considered cleansing and toning to the liver and gallbladder due to its natural bitterness but it also has a lovely balancing sweetness due to its stored sugars.

Ground Ivy: Perfect for banishing phlegm and catarrh, ground ivy is a small, common plant of the mint family. It has a very distinctive taste and smell, like a mint but more musty, which some people love and others dislike!

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Article: Spring Herbal Teas Continued

Violet: One of the most delightful flowers, sweet violet (Viola odorata) has an ephemeral scent and is delicious in tea combined with nettle or primrose. Another great remedy for the lymphatic system it also helps to soothe dry coughs and sore throats due to it’s gently moistening qualities.

Primrose - The flowers of our native primrose (Primula vulgaris) make a lovely soothing, gentle tea which can help calm the nerves and ease feelings of restlessness. In the past they were used along with other herbs for

helping to ensure a good night’s sleep and were also popular used topically. Washing the face with primrose tea was said to brighten the complexion and reduce wrinkles!

Please remember to make sure you have a good guide book and are 100% sure on your identification before you pick and use wild plants.

Lucinda Warner is a Brighton based herbalist and plant lover. For more information on the herbs and preparations mentioned see whisperingearth.co.uk

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1 Find a quiet space where the telephone or

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2 Close your mouth and breath in slowly

through your nose. Count to four as you inhale. Hold your breath for four seconds. You are not trying to deprive your body of oxygen, but need to allow a few seconds for the air to fill your lungs. Allow the air to ‘enter’ your belly, notice how it moves across your chest.

3 Open your mouth slightly and slowly exhale to a count of four. After exhaling wait again for another count of four.

Ideally, you should repeat the exercise for four minutes, but two or three times will still help you to achieve a more relaxed state, relieve tension and settle your nerves.

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GREATER BRIGHTON CYCLE CHALLENGE for Brighton Housing Trust and the Living Coast

Andy Winter, Chief Executive of BHT said: “We are extremely excited about running an even bigger and more exciting event this year. We didn’t quite clock up the mileage around the world last year, but we were overwhelmed by the support of over 350 people on the day who raised over £15,000 to help people to move away from the streets and live independent and healthy lives.”

Sunday 1 July 2018 The ‘Greater Brighton Cycle Challenge’ on Sunday the 1st July is a celebration of cycling and the world-class environment that we live in. Local homeless charity, Brighton Housing Trust (BHT), has teamed up with The Living Coast to create a family event that all ages and abilities can get involved in.

throughout the day. Familyfun entertainment including a “Smoothie bike” and other refreshments will be available.

For more information and to register, please visit: www.bht.org.uk or www.facebook.com/ events/813131802204809/

Cyclists can raise money for BHT’s work to combat homelessness, including the First Base day centre, or for other good causes of their choosing.

Cyclists can enjoy the beauty of The Living Coast, a designated UNESCO World Biosphere Region, by cycling a 30 or 58 mile route out to the South Downs, starting and finishing at the Velodrome.

Or you can take the ‘Around the World Challenge’ at the velodrome anytime between 7am and 7pm. The aim is to collectively ride the distance around the world, 40,075km,

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The project has been orchestrated to make full use of the newly created interconnecting spaces where parts of this beautiful building will be used for a cacophony of creative and wellbeing endeavours whilst another part can be used as a place of informal worship and centre for spiritual enlightenment and contemplation.

We have a series of cleverly designed spaces for Brighton & Hove community and business members to meet whilst there are also several smaller optimised community halls and exhibition spaces for hire.

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April Baby Shower Answers 1 False. Babies’ tear ducts are not fully formed for their first month.

2 3-4% 3 Just one of the adorable things: No knobbly Kneecaps 4 Hearing 5 As a 3 month foetus 6 The largest number of babies at single birth is 8 7 Uterus gets 500 times larger during pregnancy 8 300 (206 in adults excluding teeth) 9 Daljindur Kaur of India gave birth to baby boy, Arman, in India – She claimed to be 70 but the IVF clinic had recorded her age as 72.

10 Newborns are near-sighted, they see 8-12

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11 Babies can truly smile at 5 weeks 12 Newborns sleep around 15 to 16 hours a day, including naps.

13 Weighing 22 lbs 8oz,the heaviest baby was a boy born in Italy 1955.

14 In the 1700's, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets for a grand total of 69 children.

15 Babies can breathe & swallow because the larynx is located in the nasal cavity until 3 months old.

16 Babies recognise their father’s voice at 14 days 17 Only 1 in 2000 babies are born with teeth.

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We are also a Brighton Fringe Festival venue so check out the eclectic mix of events that we will be running throughout May and beyond.

Over 90% of the furnishing, lighting and abstract artwork within the eclectic Rough Diamond Arts Café has been up-cycled from St Augustine's waste materials and other materials have been sustainably sourced.

We are located at the junction of Florence Road and Stanford Avenue, BN1 6EA. Buses 5/5A, 56 and 5B all stop nearby.

We will serve good, healthy, locally and ethically sourced food using seasonal ingredients.

The scheme is heavily influenced by the creative and performing arts and this is consistent throughout this unique communitybased development.

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Contacts: Rainbows, Brownies & Guides: 505906 Stanford Avenue Methodist Church: 554141 Girlguiding Preston Park on 505906 or prestonparkguides@googlemail.com.

St Matthias Church: 508178 Age UK Brighton & Hove - 29-31 Prestonville Rd: 01273 720603 Jubilee Library: 290800 W.I. - Mrs Sue Handley, County Federation Secretary 01323 442592 Cricket Practice Simon Coomber’s 07971 917524 City Gate Church / Centre: 693807 Scottish country dancing. Carol 564 963 One Church Brighton (OCB), Florence Road www.onechurchbrighton.org Preston Croquet Club - John Munt 562226 Shintaido: 07846752833 Brighton Cougars Sean at info@ brightoncougars.com Friday Club: Sue 01273700150

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Preston Croquet Club 0945 to 12.30.

BeginnersOK Badminton Club 7.30-9.30 pm, Brighton and Hove High School Sports Centre off Montpelier Road.

Toe Tappers Line Dance for 50+. 2-4pm.

Salvation Army, Park Crescent. 01273 607095

Tuesdays Bell ringing, Church of the Good Shepherd, weekly practice 555954 Stroke Club 10.30am 3rd Tuesday at Stanford Avenue Methodist Church Fellowship 2.45pm. Stanford Avenue Methodist Church. (Fortnightly) Feminine Focus 8pm, Stanford Avenue Methodist Church Scouts, Cubs & Beavers from 5pm at Stanford Avenue Methodist Church Knitting Group 2-3.30pm, 29-31 Prestonville Rd,720603

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Service - St Matthias 10am Stretch and Relax 50+, 12-1.30pm, 29-31 Prestonville Rd,720603 Holy Communion – 11am 2nd & 4th Wednesday in month at Stanford Avenue Methodist Church Caterpillars Toddler Group @ Calvary Hall (Preston Circus-next to Fire Station)1012pm (Term Time) Community Lunch Club 12.30 at Stanford Avenue Methodist Church Brighton Orpheus Choir Varndean High School in term time 7.30-9.30 Girls Brigades from 6pm Stanford Avenue Methodist Church Meditation/Music. 7.30pm 3rd Wednesday in month at Stanford Avenue Methodist Church Little Lambs toddler & baby , 1.30-3pm, Church of the Good Shepherd, Preston Coffee Pot 10.45am at St John’s Church Knoyle Road Parent and Toddler Group Calvary C. Hall, Viaduct Rd, 10-12 (term time) Preston Croquet Club 0945 to 12.30.

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Thursdays Prayer Break, 10-11 Stanford Avenue Methodist Church Brighton Chess Club 6.30-11pm C/O Avenue Bridge Club. 15 Third Avenue Tai Chi 50+ 11.45am-12.45pm, Age Concern. Prestonville Road Women’s Institute Meet 4th Thursday each month, 7.30pm City Gate at The Dip, Hollingdean Terrace Downland Quilters - Patcham CC. - 1st Thursday of the month. 7.30pm. Marie 624878.

Craft and Chat Group 2 – 4pm (fortnightly) at Stanford Avenue Methodist Church Dragonflies playgroup, 10am12pm, Knoyle Hall, term time only. dragonfliesbrighton@gmail.com Age concern Yoga 10.30 - 12. 30

Fridays Tai Chi 50+ (beginners), Friday 11am12pm Age Concern Prestonville Rd

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Coffee Morning at 9.30 – 10.30am , Stanford Avenue Methodist Church Music Group Practice. 7pm Stanford Avenue Methodist Church. 1st Fri in month Art of Living Group - 7pm 07723 089 676 Friday Club, (Social Snr Cits) 2.00pm in the Knoyle Hall

Saturdays Dad’s Breakfast. 9.30am, Big Sky Café £1 dad. Kids free.

10am Eucharist (1st Sat- healing service anointing with oils) Service, 7pm, St Matthias Church Lions Book Fair+ cds, videos etc. the deneway, from 10am - 12 1st of the month www.brightonlions.org.uk (1st of the month) Brighton Cougars City All Stars 9.30-10.45 am basketball coaching for girls & boys in school years 3-6 at Dorothy Stringer Gym, Loder Rd. Inclusion Play Club 9.30 -12.30 Term time.

Fiveways Nursery, Florence Road. Contact: Naomi 07843867626 Preston Croquet Club 0945 to 12.30.

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Sundays 9.30am Eucharist St Peter’s One Church Brighton Sunday Services at Florence Road 10.30a.m.

Stanford Avenue Methodist Church, serving the community. Sunday Services: 10.30 (weekly) & 6.30 (monthly - check website or Notice Board for dates).

Calvary Church Viaduct Road, 11.00am and 6.30, Rev. Philip Wells 687721 St Matthias Church. Family Eucharist Service 9.45pm Baha’i Centre, 19 Stanford Avenue. 505895.

5.30 to 6.30. ‘Open to all’ St John’s Parish Church Knoyle Road Sung Communion 10.00 am

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