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CONTENTS Recipe 04 Quinoa-Stuffed Peppers Family Days Out This issue we feature Seven Stories

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In the Garden Bring your garden to life with dead wood

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Game Releases Taking a look at new game releases

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Smoky Quinoa-Stuffed Peppers with Sheep’s Cheese INGREDIENTS 2 large or 3 smaller red peppers, cut in half lengthways, seeds and membranes removed 3 tbsp sunflower or light olive oil, for roasting and frying 1 onion, finely chopped 100g quinoa 1 garlic clove, finely chopped or crushed ¼–½ tsp smoked paprika, depending on how much you like it 1 x 400g tin chopped tomatoes, or use ripe, diced fresh tomatoes, peeled if you prefer 150g Wootton White or other salty vegetarian sheep’s cheese Small bunch of parsley, finely chopped Salt and pepper

Method: Heat the oven to 200C/Gas 6. Put the peppers in a baking dish, toss with a little oil to coat, and season with salt and pepper.

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Roast in the oven for about 20–30 minutes, depending on size, while you make the filling.

Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a medium-sized, heavy-bottomed saucepan. Add the onion. Fry on a low heat for 10 minutes, stirring now and then to stop it catching. Meanwhile, rinse the quinoa well in a sieve under cold water. After the 10 minutes, add the garlic and quinoa to the onion. Cook, stirring, for 2 minutes.

Add the smoked paprika, tomatoes and half a tinful of water. Season with salt and pepper.

Bring the pan to a low boil, then cook for 15 minutes, stirring regularly. Keep a good eye on the liquid and the heat; you want the quinoa to absorb the liquid so you’re left at the end with a risotto-like consistency, but not for the pan to boil dry – add a splash more water if needed. Once the quinoa has cooked, remove from the heat. Take the peppers out of the oven, fill their cavities with the quinoa mixture and return them to the oven for 5 minutes to warm through. Remove the dish from the oven. Divide the peppers between serving plates, crumble over some of the cheese and scatter over the parsley.

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This particular fusion was introduced into the UK by Hao’s friend and mentor Henry Mo who runs a similar establishment in Oxford and encouraged the Yang’s to follow suit.

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WHAT’S ON Join Polly Faber and Clara Vulliamy, the creators of Mango & Bambang in a special event for all the family on Saturday 21 November at 11am.

FAMILY DAYS OUT

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Seven Stories is The National Centre for Children’s Books. Everything we do celebrates the joy of a good book, sharing how stories are made, where they come from and how to enjoy them together.

Our Visitor Centre has something for everyone and families are invited to explore three exhibitions showcasing original artwork, drafts, scribbles, dummy books and everything that goes into creating a story.

Step into your favourite nursery rhyme and discover new versions from other cultures in our multisensory exhibition Rhyme Around the World. Explore Painting with Rainbows – A Michael Foreman Exhibition which includes stunning illustrations and

poignant stories in which Michael imagines a world without conflict and celebrates the importance of friendship. Enjoy story times, live performances and drop in activities, fancy dress and events as we bring stories to life.

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Hear about how they worked together as writer and illustrator, listen as Polly reads, whilst Clara draws the lovable new characters. There will be time for everyone to draw their own tapir too.

The Studio with be awash with vibrant colour as we welcome local artist Jayamini De Silva to celebrate Diwali - The Festival of Lights on Sunday 15 November.

Work with Jayamini to create your very own Mini Board using coloured ground rice in the traditional and unique style of Indian Rangoli Art. Perfect for little fingers, this effective artistic style is full of texture, colour and great fun for all the family.

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The more places you have dead wood, the greater the variety of bugs and minibeasts you’ll attract to your garden.

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You won’t see much going on at first, as these creatures like to hide in the dark. If you turn one of the logs over in the day, you can watch plenty of creepy-crawlies scurrying away out of the light.

At night, look for woodlice, snails and wood mice emerging from shady woodpiles.

You can build a log pile whenever the mood takes you. But you’re likely to have logs and sticks to hand in autumn and winter when you’re managing your trees.

1. Collect your dead wood.

It’s best to get your dead wood from your own garden each time you do any pruning or lopping.

You can also see if friends and neighbours have any going spare.

If you get really stuck, you can buy dead wood from a local tree surgeon. But don’t just wander into a local wood and help yourself!

2. Where to put it?

You can put it just about anywhere in your garden, but it will attract different wildlife in different places.

If you put it somewhere shady, it’s likely to rot more quickly.

Fungi are likely to arrive and mosses may grow.

Put the wood in the sun, however, and the wood will turn dry and hard.

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You can just pile the wood up, higgledy-piggledy, for that rustic look. Or stack it neat and tidily – nature won’t mind. Some creatures like dead wood that is buried. So you can dig a hole and start your pile underground, so that it’s like an iceberg with some hidden below the surface.

Get creative – there are endless possibilities for your designs.

Sprinkle with earth or brash. You can use the soil you excavated on the top or place small twigs to give reptiles somewhere to hide – they like the intricate maze this creates. And some birds, like dunnocks and wrens, will nest in the tangle.

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GAME RELEASES

RISE OF THE TOMB RAIDER Xbox One, Xbox 360 RELEASED 13/11/15, Featuring epic, high-octane action moments set in the most beautiful hostile environments on earth, Rise of the Tomb Raider delivers a cinematic survival action adventure where you will join Lara Croft on her first tomb raiding expedition as she seeks to discover the secret of immortality.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III RELEASED 0611/15, PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, PC Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is a dark, gritty future where a new breed of Black Ops soldier emerges and the lines are blurred between our own humanity and the cuttingedge military robotics that define the future of combat. Multiplayer redefines how Call of Duty is played, with the franchise’s deepest, most rewarding and

most engaging experience to date, with a new chain-based fluid movement system, as well as new ways to rank up, customize, and gear up for battle.

Need for Speed RELEASED 05/11/15, PS4, Xbox One With over 20 years of history in its rear view mirror, Need for Speed returns with a reboot that delivers on what Need for Speed stands for - rich customization, authentic urban car culture, a nocturnal open world, and an immersive narrative that drives your NFS game.

STAR WARS: BATTLEFRONT

PS4, Xbox One, PC RELEASED 19/11/15 Star Wars™ Battlefront™ lets you live out your Star Wars battle fantasies in a visually stunning Star Wars universe. Fight as the heroic Rebellion or the evil Empire in a variety of exciting, intense multiplayer modes.

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THE SEASON GRINDS TO A HALT SPORTS GUIDE: NOVEMBER 2015

The 2015 Forumla 1 Schedule concludes on 29th November at The Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi.

The Yas Marina Circuit is the venue for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The circuit was designed by Hermann Tilke, and is situated on Yas Island, about 30 minutes from the capital of the UAE, Abu Dhabi.

Yas Marina is the second Formula One track in the Middle East, with the first being in Bahrain.

This month also sees the return of the Mexican Grand Prix. A return to the F1 calendar was sealed for 2015 after an injection of both private and government money. The facility has been upgraded, while the entire track is to be resurfaced for the occasion, with changes also being made to a number of corners.

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SCHEDULE NOV 01: MEXICO

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NOV 29: ABU DHABI

Lap Record: 1:40.279 Sebastian Vettel, 2009 Last Winner: L Hamilton

12th -17th Nov: UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying play-offs The play-offs of the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying tournament will decide the final four teams which qualify for the UEFA Euro 2016 finals tournament.

Each of the four ties will be played over two home-and-away legs.

The four winners will be found according to

the standard rules for the knockout phase in European competitions, and the winners will qualify for the Euro 2016 tournament.

The highest ranked third placed team from the groups will qualify automatically for the tournament, while the remainder will enter the

playoffs. As most groups contain six teams but one contains five, matches against the sixth-placed team in each group are not included in this ranking.

As a result, a total of eight matches played by each team count toward the purpose of the third-placed ranking table.

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TEAM VALLEY PICTURE FRAMING BESPOKE FRAMERS TO THE PUBLIC SINCE 1988 WHAT DO WE OFFER? • Large Selection of Mirrors in store & online • Mirrors made to measure • Large Selection of Framing to choose from • Large Selection of Prints to choose from • Football, Rugby Balls, Football Boots, Boxing Gloves, Framed to hang on your Wall • Posters, Prints, Oils Etc • Needle Work Stretched & Framed • Certificates • Ordinance Survey Maps Framed 1 HOUR SERVICE AVAILABLE

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TMG Building & Gardening Supplies Millers Lane, Swalwell, Newcastle upon Tyne NE16 3AU Behind Swalwell Fire Station

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“The festival site was created over a two-year period, on 200 acres of derelict land”

The Gateshead Garden Festival The Gateshead Garden Festival was the fourth of the United Kingdom’s five National Garden Festivals.

Held between May and October 1990, in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, it lasted 157 days, and received over three million visitors.

Attractions included public art displays, a Ferris wheel, and dance, music, theatre and sporting events. Several modes of transport were provided around the site: a monorail which ran between Norwood and Eslington, a narrow gauge steam railway between Dunston and Redheugh, and a road train which covered the entire site. A ferry across the River Tyne, between Dunston Staithes and Newcastle Quayside, was also provided.

The festival site was created over a two-year period, on 200 acres (0.81 km2) of derelict land, previously the site of a gasworks, a coal depot and a coking plant. The cost of reclaiming and redeveloping the land was around £37 million. After the festival ended, much of the site was replaced by housing.

DID YOU KNOW: During the five months period of the festival over 25,000 hours of events and entertainment took place, 2,500 jobs were created, 200,000 ferris wheel rides taken, 50,000 gallons of tea drunk and 1 million ice creams were eaten.

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FRIENDS OF WHICKHAM LIBRARY GARDEN We are a sociable group of community volunteers who created the garden at the rear of Whickham Library and now look after it and organise activities and events using the garden as the main focus.

We welcome new members to help out on a small number of events and our “plant pampering days” which are held once a month between March to September.

There is also a knitting group which meets weekly at the library to make things for display in the garden.

If you’d like more information please contact us by: • Telephone at the Library 0191 433 6424 • Email: friendsofwhickhamlibrary@hotmail.co.uk Check us out on Twitter @FriendsWhLibGdn or www.ourgateshead.org/whickhamlibrarygarden

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WHAT’S ON: NOVEMBER 2015

The Suggestibles

MICHAEL McINTYRE: HAPPY & GLORIOUS 27th and 28th November, Metro Radio Arena

Michael McIntyre returns with his hotly anticipated brand new stand-up show Happy & Glorious.

Michael’s previous tour Showtime was the biggest selling comedy tour in the world in 2012, playing to over 640,000 people including a record-breaking ten-night residency at London’s O2 Arena.

DICK WHITTINGTON

The Theatre Royal’s pantomime is the unmissable Christmas show in the North East. Be sure to see Newcastle’s comedy trio of Danny Adams, Clive Webb and Chris Hayward in Dick Whittington.

And just announced, Charlie Hardwick (Emmerdale) will play Spirit of the Tyne!

Starts 24/11/2015 onwards Theatre Royal, Newcastle

THE SUGGESTIBLES IMPROV COMEDY SHOW

Like Whose Line is it Anyway?

You’ll LOVE the Suggestibles 2-hour improv comedy joyride.

Hilarious off-the-cuff and offthe-wall. Inspired by audience suggestions the Suggestibles team of 6 players and an improvising musician burst onto the stage with spontaneous sketches, skits and songs.

19/11/2015 8:30PM The Stand Comedy Club, NE1 1EW

TYNESIDE MODEL RAILWAY EXHIBITION 2015

GINO’S ITALIAN ESCAPE

Chef, TV personality and bestselling author Gino D’Acampo tours the UK with a live stage show which will blend his love of Italy, some delicious signature dishes and audience participation, in a typically lively theatre show.

06/11/2015 8PM Tyne Theatre & Opera House

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This year layouts will be on display covering all popular gauges which are modelling pregrouping, the big four period, BR steam and the modern diesel era.

Gateshead International Stadium 14/11/2015 - 15/11/2015 10AM

WINTER TRACKS AND SIGNS RAMBLE WITH A RANGER

Join a Gibside Ranger on a ramble to track down Gibside’s illusive winter wildlife, learn the tell-tale signs they leave behind and how to spot them.

19/11/2015 & 22/11/2015 10AM Gibside

FROST FAYRE A great chance to pick up something different for a Christmas gift. With lots of handmade crafts to choose from in a lovely setting it will be a perfect excuse to start your Christmas activities.

22/11/2015 11AM - 4PM Washington Old Hall

TALK TIME: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF MOLLY TREVELYAN

Join Lloyd Langley as he traces the life of Molly Trevelyan, the wife of Wallington’s donor, Charles Philips Trevelyan. Molly was a ‘modern superwoman’, travelling the country as a leading light of the WWII (dodging Hitler’s bombs!), supporting Charles’ political life, being a mother to six precocious children and playing hostess to 119 evacuees.

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INDEX:

WHICKHAM ADVERTISERS ACCOUNTS/FINANCIAL/LEGAL

Tony Turner Accountants ............9 First Mortgage (NE)..................15 M&R Property..........................15 Peter Ross ..............................34

BEAUTY/HEALTH/FITNESS

Whickham Chiropody ...............13 Orchid Beauty Salon ................17 Eve Beauty..............................18 Sam Grant Physiotherapy .........24 Village Dental / Chiropody .........29 Zest Physical Therapies ............36 Whickham Dental Practice ........44

CLEANING SERVICES

Lawson Carpet Cleaning .............8 Clean- A-Drive .........................43

CLOTHING SERVICES

Alterations Online ....................31

DECORATORS

Spot On Decorators ..................19 PA Painting and Decorating ......23

EDUCATION

Access Training .......................14

FLOORING

BUILDING SERVICES

Perfect Plaster.........................17 WH Building Services...............19 Pro-Block ................................25 Inside Transformations ......26 - 27 Paul Rippon Plastering .............30 MT Plastering Services .............32 EJB Joinery .............................44 TMG Building & Garden Supplies ...................45

CAR/VEHICLE

A1 Car Valeting .......................19 MJR Autos ..............................23 Revive ....................................29 Grande Tyres ...........................31

CARE SERVICES

PLUMBING/HEATING Whickham Plumbing .............6 - 7 Mr Plumber .............................19 CB Plumbing and Heating ........23 D. Fairless Heating Services .....31 Scotro ....................................39 ACB Plumbing .........................45

RETAIL

Baguette De Whickham ..............5 Pagoda Chinese .........................9 The Bank .........................10 - 11

Reclaimed Farmhouse Tables ....19 Foundations Furniture ..............36 Traidcraft Outlet Shop ..............42 Team Valley Picture Framing .....44

FUNERAL SERVICES

REMOVALS

Martin Rankin .........................18 Watsons Funeral Directors ........37

GARDEN SERVICES

Lintzford Garden Centre .............3 Great North Tree Services .........08 Lodge Tree Services .................17 Leaf It At Home .......................39 Friends of Whickham Library Garden.........................47 A + K Fencing .........................49

HANDYMAN SERVICES

Hillside Handyman ..................42 Poppy Calls .............................47

JEWELLERS

Dale Care ................................11 Arthritis Care ...........................29 Age UK ...................................48 Happy to Help .........................48 Macmillan...............................48 Teams and Bensham Community Care ......................48

Town and Country Dog Grooming .........................41

Floorstyle Carpets .............40 - 41

BLINDS/CURTAINS/INTERIORS FOOD & DRINK SERVICES Blinds Etcetera..................13, 33 D & P Upholstery .....................30 Angel Blinds ...........................52

PETS/VETS/PESTS/ GROOMING SALON

Whickham Jewellers .................19

KITCHENS/BATHROOMS/ BEDROOMS

Impact Bathrooms ............20 - 21 JonPye....................................33 Blueberry Kitchens and Bathrooms ........................38

Easy Lift Removals ..................24

TRANSPORT/MOTORING Whickham Blue Bus.................24

TV/AERIALS & COMPUTERS Pi-Tech Computing ..................13 Learn Comp ............................43

WINDOWS/DOORS/ CONSERVATORIES/ROOF LINE/ GARAGE DOORS & SECURITY Comet Garage Doors...................8 Denton Glass .............................8 LM Alarms ..............................17 I. Atkinson Roofing ..................23 Sermac Garage Doors ...............23 A. Kerry & Sons .......................24 Quality Home Solutions ............25 Prestige Roofing & Building ......29 J. Ramsay Roofing ...................30 PJS Home Improvements .........35

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