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LookLocal March 2016

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PROUDLY PRESENTED ‘THE SOUND OF MUSIC’ FOR ITS ANNUAL SENIOR SCHOOL PRODUCTION. The cast and crew of over 70 pupils, aged 11 to 18 years old, performed four sell-out performances in February.

Pupils not only acted on stage, they took up positions backstage, in the lighting and tech crews, in the wardrobe department and in the orchestra, thus immersing them in the full dramatic world.

Set in Austria during the Anschluss, this much-loved show includes musical numbers such as ‘Edelweiss’, ‘Do-Re-Mi’ and ‘My Favourite Things’. The story follows Maria as she becomes governess to a large family, falls in love with their

father and then flees Austria with her new family to evade the Nazis.

The full company has rehearsed diligently for over four months in order to present these outstanding performances.

‘It was a great pleasure to see pupils from so many year groups working together to produce such a high quality show. The commitment and perseverance needed to stage a performance such as this is testament to the school’s focus on building good character and co-operation in our pupils.’

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4 CLAREMONT FAN COURT 8 ASK BRUCE Read Bruce’s column about Alabama Rot

15 TALKING NEWSPAPER 22 WHAT’S ON

See what’s on in and around Cobham in March

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From the Editor Welcome to our March magazine.

Isn’t it wonderful that the days are getting longer? It seems to have happened very suddenly, too. Early signs of spring can be spotted all over the place, although a little too early, I fear!

This month, the Elmbridge & Runnymede Talking Newspaper celebrated a very special anniversary. We are very pleased to share some coverage from the day, and it seems that a great time was enjoyed by all who attended!

On another note, we are delighted to have a very special Look Local Music Matters feature this month, written especially for us by David Jensen; he shares his personal experiences from the times he spent with the late great Mr David Bowie. What a lucky chap he is to have met this very talented man, who has left behind a totally amazing legacy.

A message for all dog owners now. Our new Q & A column is up and running, coming to you with the help of Bruce from Bruce’s Doggie Day Care. Bruce welcomes your canine questions, so please email them into me at ros@looklcoalmagazine.co.uk and I will pass them his way. We kick off this month with a question from a reader who is worried about a potentially dangerous medical condition….. well worth a read.

TThanks also to all of you who entered our book competition last month; winners have been picked from a hat and are listed within! Sorry to the unsuccessful entries, but I hope our winners enjoy the lovely prizes.

A busy month ahead, with Mothers’ Day on 6th March and the early Easter weekend (25th – 28th ) to look forward to too. Let’s hope the sun shines and the Easter Bunny visits Cobham!

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ASK BRUCE: ALABAMA ROT In the first of our new ‘Ask Bruce’ columns, we discuss Alabama Rot, as requested by reader Sharon Middleton.

Alabama Rot is a serious disease affecting dogs of any age, sex or breed. It causes lesions of the skin and occasionally mouth, which look like bites, sores, wounds or stings, with some dogs developing kidney failure. It’s a relatively new disease to the UK, and so little is known about the causes.

As a doggy day care expert, my knowledge of this medical condition is limited, so I consulted our good friend and local vet Simon Felger of Weybridge Veterinary Centre.

Simon explained that CRGV (cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy – the full medical name for Alabama Rot) first appears as unexplained redness, sores or swelling of the skin, particularly around the feet and legs but also body, face, tongue or mouth. Signs of kidney disease, which can include vomiting, reduced appetite and tiredness, occur from 2 to 10 days after the skin lesions. He pointed out that even if they develop skin lesions, many don’t develop kidney disease and recover fully. Although Alabama Rot can be serious, the number of dogs affected remains very low, thankfully.

While the causes remain unknown, it’s difficult to give any specific guidance on how to avoid it. Following good animal husbandry, such as washing muddy dogs after a walk, will certainly do no harm.

Bruce Casalis is director & founder of Bruce’s Doggy Day Care, a multi-award winning business in Cobham.

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(Left) Cutting the cake - Cllr. Derek Cotty, Mayor of Runnymede, Cllr. Jan Fuller, Mayor of Elmbridge, Jonathan Fisher, Chairman of EaRTN and Mike Wood, Chairman of TNF. (top right) Mike Wood, Chairman of the Talking Newspaper Federation, presents a certificate of appreciation to Jonathan Fisher, Chairman of EaRTN (bottom right) Chairman Jonathan Fisher shows the certificate from the Talking Newspaper Federation

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t was celebration time for the Elmbridge and Runnymede Talking Newspaper (EaRTN) on Friday, as volunteers and guests marked the charity’s 40th birthday at St. James’ Parish Centre in Weybridge.

Cllr Jan Fuller, the mayor of Elmbridge, thanked the volunteers for what she called “their wonderful job” in bringing details of local news and events to the blind and visually impaired of the two boroughs. It was a great achievement, which kept up with the times to produce a user friendly lifeline to so many people.

Cllr. Derek Cotty, the mayor of Runnymede, said that he was proud to be associated with EaRTN and thanked everyone involved.

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Mike Wood, the chairman of the national Talking News Federation, presented Jonathan Fisher, the chairman of EaRTN, with a certificate in celebration of 40 years of production, and encouraged the volunteers to continue the good work, which is such an important source of news to the listeners.

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...AND SO OFF WE GO AGAIN WITH THE LATIN WORDS FOR THE SHAPE OF FLOWERS...

I would say that flower shape is a pretty obvious road to go down in an attempt to identify a plant, and there are many different shapes. Usually, it is the overall shape to be considered. One of the most frequently encountered is campanulatus, or bell-shaped, and if you know the word ‘campanology’, meaning ‘bell-ringing’, you will be on the right track of the shape of any plant with this in its name. Campanula is the obvious one – also known as the bellflower – but it can be seen too in names such as Agapanthus campanulatus and Rhododendron campanulatum.

If you are after something a little more showy, look out for anything with stellatus/stellata in the name.

This means star-shaped, and plants named thus can make a big impression: for example, Magnolia stellata, or star magnolia, has large, elegant, fragrant flowers in the shape of a star. Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata, also known as columbine and granny’s bonnet, comes in an assortment of colours, but the flowers, although quite small, are all double stars, very striking when placed amongst grasses or other cottage garden plants.

Similarly, flowers with tubiformis in their name will be trumpet-shaped. A well-known example is Fritillaria tubiformis, a fritillary with pendant, trumpet-shaped flowers on leafy stems.

Crucifer, meaning ‘cross-bearing’, comes from the Latin ‘crux’, meaning ‘cross’, and cruciferous vegetables are vegetables of the mustard family: various cabbages/ broccoli/ cauliflower/ Brussels sprouts. They take their name from the shape of their flowers, whose four petals are in the shape of a cross.

At other times, the name will refer to a distinctive feature of the flower. Flowers which are lipped will have the word cheilanthus in their name, such as Delphinium cheilanthum or Cheilanthus, the lip-fern, a hardy dwarf variety which is suitable for shade and goes very well in a rock garden. If they are two-lipped (but not tulips, hohoho), you will see the word ringens, such as Salvia ringens, or Mimulus ringens, which has a lavender-coloured flower which is divided into an upper lip and a larger, swollen lower lip.

Finally, sometimes it is not only the shape of the individual flowers that is described, but the shape of the whole flowerhead. So, Campanula glomerata and Convolvulus glomeratus have their flowers clustered together, glomeratus meaning ‘collected together’.

Well, I hope that has helped understand plant labels on flowering plants a little better. Next time, the shape of the leaves of plants as described in Latin. So little time for so much enjoyment....

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Funnily enough, he wasn’t actually consumed by rock and pop, but rather, he saw himself as an artist who just happened to be working in pop, and was just as interested in painting, film, fashion and literature.

I first met him in ’69 when he flew to Luxembourg to bring me a copy of his album, The Man Who Sold the World. It’s the one with him reclining on the front cover, wearing a dress. Subsequent releases of this album on different labels changed the cover art, as the original was deemed to be too controversial. A bit like the man himself when he arrived in the Grand Duchy with waistlength hair. He certainly confused the locals who hadn’t ever seen his like before in the sleepy capital. However, the attention he brought upon himself didn’t phase him and he seemed to thrive on the whispers and stares.

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In 1973, he invited me to join him, along with The Spiders From Mars, at a chateau in France where he was recording Pin-Ups. A very special occasion!

My favourite Bowie era though was 1975 when he toured with the awesome album, Station to Station.

Ironically, despite his energy and mesmerising artistry, it was a low point for his health and well-being, and propelled him to move and make music in Berlin and New York.

There’s just so much to say about this amazing artist and it was a fitting tribute that his final album, Black Star, topped the American chart, a feat he hadn’t managed in his lifetime.

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Gerrard Winstanley was a churchwarden at St Andrew’s and the leader of a 17th century group of revolutionaries from Cobham, known as the Diggers.

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A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler (paperback £7.99) This deceptively gentle book has a dignity and weight that steals over the reader, so that one cannot help but slow down and consider one’s own ‘whole life’. Following Andreas Egger from his boyhood to his death, through a life spent mainly in a small Austrian Alpine village, the novel still manages to encompass the major shifts of the twentieth century. Love, war, nature, work, community and home are themes that flow through the book in a style that does not over-dramatise. The events and experiences of Egger’s life are more powerfully felt through this skilled restraint, and this is one short novel that creates and fills a space in the mind.

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This is an engrossing novel in which Sarah Hall explores the tangled agendas and emotions around the reintroduction of wolves to the UK, weaving this interesting and timely subject into the lives of her vivid characters. The tentative and passionate ways in which people bond are beautifully evoked, and Hall writes powerfully about how we establish our pack, whether animal or human.

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Forgive my retrospection, but I’ve got two outsanding reasons to recall my latest trip to exotic Dubai ...well, three if you count the pleasure of seeing my trim Trophy Wife in her bikinis.

While I was covering the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix for my newspaper outlets here and in the Arab haven, I stayed over at the splendid beachside Royal Mirage Hotel in Dubai. And that blessed me with my first treat - a chance meeting with Carry On and Eastenders queen, Barbara Windsor - now dubbed “Dame” - and her utterly charming hubby Scott.

For the next five days, it was my and TW’s joy to share shelter from the rays with national treasure Babs who was anecdotally fascinating and funny and ever-so-revealing about her days in the iconic, smash-hit movie series for which she was paid a pittance. Regrettably, I had to break off our burgeoning friendship to attend the Grand Prix, 60odd miles away at the other end of the Sheikh Zayad road, probably the scariest stretch of highway on the planet.

My three journeys - for practice, qualifying and race - were more excitingly edgy than the crash-bang-wallop wheelto-wheel Porsche Supercup event around the tricky Yas Marina circuit.

Ferraris, Lambos, Aston Martins, Rolls Royces and Bentleys, all playthings of mega-wealthy Arab show-offs and oligarchs, diced in a madcap stampede, swapping the six lanes without bothering to signal their intent or apparently looking where they were going. And that brought me to my second memorable and thankful - reason to remember my visit to the Emirates.

Sound a fanfare for the Range Rover, a luxurious bully of a 4x4, a veritable motorised barricade, my massive safeguard against the threatening and unwary onrush on the 50-minute hellfire journey... I was confident there would be only one winner if I was clouted by one of the flashy £200,000, 180mph supercars: my heavyweight and macho RR...more than two tonnes of it.

If I’d had to dodge the madcap rush and take an alternative escape route over a rocky mountain, splash through a river up to 900mm or scramble over the most treacherous of tricky terrains, it would all have come as a pushover to this 3.0-litre romper just by leaving its Terrain Response offroad software in auto. And in sheer executive-class comfort with legroom in abundance.

I sat throne-like, upright and all-seeing,

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Only two of us, TW and me, trailed luxuriously to Abu Dhabi and back over three days and we had all the space you could possibly want with a 994-litre boot, more than ample for her walletbusting shopping spree in downtown Dubai’s magnificent and giant shopping mall on restful Day Four.

The melee of motors on that deadstraight road through the desert felt no threat at all from my lofty, all-seeing perch and the car’s cockpit innards were a total treat... first-class lounge comfy seats and easy-to-read instruments without a clutter of confusing buttons to press. But most and best of all was the feeling of absolute security, like a fortress on wheels. And the superb allround visibility from its cinemascopic windscreen. Snooty really, but far more importantly, as safe as houses.

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Walk Cobham The community is indebted to Cobham Conservation & Heritage Trust, Elmbridge Borough Council and Surrey County Council for the programme they are undertaking to refurbish local footpaths. It is now possible to walk to Leigh making Cobham healthier, Hill from Cedar Road in all weathers and there are further happier and more resilient applications in for CIL funding for improving linking paths.

Transition Cobham is dedicated to getting the community walking for a purpose. The Waste Group is organising a Litter-Pick walk for Saturday 5th March 2016 at 10am, meeting at the junction of the three footpaths where Cedar Road becomes Cedar Avenue (Grid Reference TQ110599). Equipment will be provided. Then the Footpath Group have arranged the annual Heritage Walk for Saturday 12th March 2016 at 10.30am meeting at the Leg O’Mutton entrance opposite Hollyhedge car park (Grid Reference TQ106599). Along with moderate exercise, understand how Cobham is a village richly endowed in history with many listed buildings and lots of interesting nooks.

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To report local incidents.......................................1 0 1 Surrey Bus Services.............................01483 506919 Train information..............................0845 748 4950 DENTISTS National Rail Enquiries.....................0845 748 4950 Dental Surgery of Cobham.......01932 863416 Beech House Dental Surgery.............01932 862290 SCHOOLS Hollyhedge Dental.............................01932 865888 ACS Cobham International School . 01932 867251 ABC Dental Surgery..........................01932 589888 Claremont Fan Court School...01372 473624 Danes Hill School....................... 01932 842509 VILLAGE HALLS Cobham Village Hall..........................01932 868905 Feltonfleet School........................ 01932 862264 United Reformed ..............................01932 864769 Notre Dame School.................... 01932 869991 Downside Village Hall.......................01932 865414 Parkside School........................... 01932 862749 Reed’s School.............................. 01932 869044 Stoke d’Abernon Guide Hut..............01372 843046 St Andrew’s Primary School........ 01932 863452 Stoke d’Abernon.................................01932 864166 St Matthew’s C of E Infant Sch.01932 863212 COUNCILS & SERVICE St Teresa’s Junior........................ 01372 452037 Elmbridge Borough Council..............01372 474474 St Teresa’s Senior........................ 01372 452037 Surrey County Council......................08456 009009 Yehudi Menuhin School of Music 01932 864739 Cobham Library.............................. 08456 009 009 Cobham Free School ............... 03303 300237 Local storage.......................................01372 457855 MEDICAL Citizens’ Advice Bureau.............. 01372 464770 Cobham Day Surgery ........................01932 588400 VETERINARY SURGEONS St Peter’s A&E....................................01932 872000 John Ball & Associates........................01932 868786 Royal Surrey Hospital........................01483 464002 Henderson Keywood & Ptners.....01932 864671 Non-emergency NHS Help.....................................111 Cobham Veterinary Centre................01932 868786 St John Ambulance .................. 01932 867606 Cobham Park Veterinary Clinic....01932 590022 CHURCHES Beech House Veterinary Centre.....01932 868688 Cobham Methodist Church..............01932 586988 CHEMISTS Cobham Presbyterian Church...........01932 429511 Lloyds Pharmacy................................01932 862113 Sacred Heart Catholic Church...........01932 862518 Rowlands Pharmacy (Med Cent)......01932 862965 St Andrew’s Church (C of E) ............01932 867883 Sainsbury Pharmacy...........................01932 866488 United Reformed Church..................01932 586988 All pages within are copyright of Look Local or its respective contributors. No part of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in any information storage or retrieval system without the publisher’s prior written permission. All material published in Look Local (including advertisements, editorials, articles and all other content) is printed in good faith. Whilst all reasonable care is taken, Look Local does not in any circumstances accept responsibility for the accuracy or otherwise of any material published, nor is any kind of warranty expressed or implied by such publication, and Look Local specifically disclaims all and any liability to advertisers, readers and users of any kind of loss or damage of any nature whatsoever and howsoever arising, whether due to inaccuracy, error, omission or any other cause. All material is accepted on the basis that its publication does not infringe any copyright and Look Local does not accept any responsibility for loss or damage of any kind resulting from claims of copyright infringement. ©Look Local Magazine 2016. All rights reserved.

SUNDAY

S E RV I C E S AT S T A N D R E W ’ S C H U R C H

COBHAM - MARCH 2016 TUES 1ST MAR

8.00pm PCC Meeting

WEDS 2ND MAR

10.30am Baby Talk 7.00pm 14+ Youth Club 10.30am 8.00am 10.00am 6.00pm

SUN 13TH MAR

8.00am Holy Communion 10.00am Parish Communion 12.10pm Holy Baptism

TUES 22ND MAR

7.00pm Spiritual Cinema

WEDS 23RD MAR

10.30am Baby Talk WEDS 16TH MAR 7.00pm 14+ Youth Group FRI 4TH MAR 8.00pm Creative Workship 10.30am Baby Talk Holy Communion 7.00pm 14+ Youth Club MAUNDAY THURS SUN 6TH MAR 8.00pm Holy Communion Holy Communion FRI 18TH MAR MOTHERING SUN 10.30am Holy Communion GOOD FRIDAY Family Service 12noon 3 Hr Devotion Service SAT 19TH MAR SAY IT’s Sunday 7.30pm Devotional Performace - Faure’s Requiem 10.30am Messy Church (at URC) TH

WEDS 9 MAR

10.30am Baby Talk 7.00pm 14+ Youth Club

THURS 10TH MAR

8.00am Prayer & Praise

FRI 11TH MAR

10.30am Holy Communion 12 noon Luncheon Club

PALM SUNDAY

8.00am Holy Communion 10.00am Parish Communion 6.00pm SAY IT’s Sunday

MON 21ST MAR

8.00pm Stations of the Cross

6.00am 8.00am 7.00am 10.00am

EASTER SUNDAY Alive@6 Easter Fawn Holy Communion Parish Easter Breakfast Parish Communion

THURS 31ST MAR

2.00pm Mother’s Union

Church Gate House, a lovely hall set in a beautiful garden by the river mole, is available to hire.

Contact the parish office (01932 867883 or parishoffice@standrewscobham.org.uk) for more details.

Further details available from: 01932 862109 er.jenkins@btinternet.com | www.standrewscobham.org.uk

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March

S O L U T I O N S Sudoku - page 32

Hub Words page 32 9-letter word - BEAUTIFUL Some other words of five letters or more containing the hub letter B: abet, able, abut, bail, bait, bale, bate, beat, beau, belt, beta, bile, bite, blae (Scot), blue, flab, flub, tabi, tuba, tube, beaut, befit, bleat, built, fable, table, tubal, albeit, albite, fibula, tubful, tubule.

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Able Roofing...................................................... 26 AL Services......................................................... 50 Andy’s Garden Services....................................... 12 Antrona Kitchens............................................... 14 Astek Dental...................................................... 13 Belly Dancing Carina Rose................................. 20 Besprak Architects & Interior Designers............. 23 Bob Mitchell Design.......................................... 31 Bocketts Farm.................................................... 18 Bonnie Dogs...................................................... 25 Book Keeping Service......................................... 48 Bookham Physiotherapy..................................... 47 Boyalls Ironmongery & Doors............................. 2 Brightercare........................................................ 17 Bruce’s Doggy Day Care....................................8/9 Casselden’s Shoes................................................ 48 CD Shelton – Carpets & Flooring..................... 20 Claremont Fan Court School............................3/4 Cleanability........................................................ 41 Cobham Beauty & Laser.................................... 18 Cobham Village Stitchers................................... 32 Computer Fix..................................................... 12 DB Garden Services........................................... 55 DPB Pristine Oven Cleaning.............................. 50 Educate Secondary............................................. 21 Englishman’s Castle............................................ 19 F&S Plumbing and Heating Svs......................... 49 Falcon Services................................................... 23 Green Carpet Cleaning....................................... 40 Head 4 Property................................................. 32 Hollyhedge Dental ............................................ 10 HRS Roofing..................................................... 30 James Thomas Funeral Directors ....................... 46 Lodge Brothers Funeral Directors....................... 45 MacDonald Fencing & Sons Ltd...................... 16 Mailboxes Etc…................................................. 43 MD Edwards...................................................... 33

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Meejana Lebanese Restaurant............................. 19 Michelle Davis Foot Care................................... 47 MPS Garden & Est Machinery Ltd.................... 55 Neighbourhood Watch......................................... 6 Nick Ricks Decorating ........................................ 8 Orchard Cottage Dental..................................... 27 Out on a Limb................................................... 30 Pullen Plumbing Services................................... 16 Roofs of Esher.................................................... 25 Roots & Shoots.................................................. 56 Rowlandson’s Jewellery......................................... 7 Run to Live........................................................ 20 Seasons Art Classes............................................. 11 Silver Arrows........................................................ 9 Skin Talk............................................................ 40 Smith Pearman................................................... 36 Steves Landscapes............................................... 26 Suddies Kitchen Appliances ............................... 49 Supergrass.......................................................... 41 Sykes & Sykes Decorating.................................. 16 Tec Res Computer Solutions.........................34/35 The Brigitte Trust............................................... 14 The Carpet Specialist............................................ 6 The Unattached Group....................................... 31 The Vineries .................................................28/29 TQ Cleaning........................................................ 8 Trestle Decorating.............................................. 47 UCM Courses.................................................... 39 Wagging Tails..................................................... 26 Wentworth Design Services................................ 31 Willow Ladscapes................................................. 9 Yoga – Barbara Curry......................................... 43 Zigger................................................................ 41

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