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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.
FISH PIE AND CAULIFLOWER MASH
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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. - Alice Drury
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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:
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• 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’?
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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
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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.
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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
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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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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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Cadbury’s began operations as a tea, coffee and chocolate dealer in Birmingham in 1824, becoming a chocolate manufacturer in 1831 New manufacturers
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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. Cadbury’s Dairy Milk During this time, Cadbury expanded their 20
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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
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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
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• Processing puns requires both
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• Both sexes laugh a lot but females
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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.
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• 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. So go ahead and play that prank throughout the month of April (you know you want to). Dr Sima Patel Chartered Psychologist and Coach
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WESTDENE VILLAGE FAIR YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY FESTIVAL! After last year's barn-stormer, we are also set to repeat our Barn Dance in the Big Marquee again this year. Fancy helping us make it happen?
Thank you to those who supported last year’s Village Fair and other events, and to new friends and members who may be interested in getting involved in our annual Westdene Village Fair on Sunday 23rd September! We are ready to have a short review of last year’s event and start to put plans together for this year. We are holding an initial planning meeting at The Barn on Fri 20th April 6-8pm and hope you can join us. Last year, it worked really well to divide the Village Fair into do-able chunks or areas such as the Wellbeing Zone, Nature Area, Marketplace, ‘village show: cakes, veg, crafts’, performance area, Kids zone, info stand, cake stall, bar, food stalls. We also covered setting up/breaking down, waste management, video, photography, social media etc. We need to decide what we will do this year, find a coordinator responsible for each area, interesting activities and volunteers to help, so if you have ideas please do join us. The meeting is open to all, so please also tell friends and family who might like to get involved.
MUSICAL MIDSUMMER LIVE MUSIC ON THE GREEN! Hot News from Westdene’s Musical Midsummer at Westdene Green on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th June: Disco Dan and the Infernos will be headlining “Saturday Live!” from 7.30pm. Disco Dan is the alter-ego of local musical favourite Guy Garrett and he and his band will be playing classic disco tunes. ‘80s dress and dancing will be encouraged! Tickets £8 in advance. Musical Midsummer continues with "Lazy Sunday" from 1pm, our free event which will be bigger and better than ever with lots of musical variety, The Big Sing, bar and refreshments. If you are musically inclined and would like to find out about taking part or if you would just like to come along and enjoy the fun, we look forward to welcoming you! More on our website: westdenegreen.org.uk westdenegreen@gmail.com @westdenegreen
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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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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
Feeling Stressed? Here is a quick & simple way to recover a sense of control and relax. Exams and revision are a classic stressor and definitely don’t help. Try this:
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2 Close your mouth and breath in slowly
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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, 40
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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
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Into every life, a little rain must fall Continued
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!
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 inches clearly. 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. UK baby Sean Keaney was born with 12 teeth in 1990. 42
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