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April/May 18

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How EggEgg- straordinary Easter Traditions………………………..……....…….4 Emma's Tombola & Stall Fundraising for Oncology Dept. & Big C….…….…...5 Salvation Army Sunshine Café…………………………….……….....5 Declutter Your Life Spring Clean………………………..…………….…6 Norwich Cathedral Easter Funday………………………………..……..7 Hallswood Fundraising Events Dates………..……’’…..….……9 Maddermarket Theatre “Patience”………………….……….……’.…………9 Norwich Rivercare Looking after the Wensum………………………...10 Arthritis Research Fundraising for Arthritis Research….………....….....10 Go Go Hares Art Trail for charity……………………….……...12/13 Garden View Plant a Butterfly Garden……………………………16 Hellesdon Library Lego Library…………………………………..…….17 London Marathon Best Foot Forward…………….…...……….……….18 Community Pages……………………………..20/21 Pages Local Business Directory and Useful Telephone Numbers…………………..………………………..22 Numbers

"There there," said Piglet. "I’ "I’ ll bring you tea and honey until you do.” do. ” A.A. Milne, WinnieWinnie- thethe -Pooh There have been some nasty colds and even flu around recently. My mum was very poorly with flu, and I caught a nasty bug too. I watched some truly awful daytime TV whilst recovering, most unlike me. Thankfully my little (10 is little isn't it?) boy plied me with tea and honey which made me think if this quote.

The simplest things can make all of the difference and take little time to do.

Spring is on its way, its time to dust off the cobwebs and get your house and garden ready for summer. If you need some help, please keep things local and support our fantastic local tradespeople, businesses and retailers. If you are, or know of someone who needs to boost their local advertising please have a look at page 23 for some details.

If you are looking for a new hobby or activity do check the community pages for details of what’s on in Hellesdon. Do let me know of any other organisations/clubs that could be included. I'm always looking for more community content, particularly from our schools so do drop me a line so I can let the community know all about it.

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How EggEgg-straodinary!

It’s ironic that most of the traditions associated with the principle religious feast of the Christian year have no basis in Christianity at all.

The word ‘Easter’ comes from an Anglo-Saxon fertility goddess called Eostre, who was associated with spring and new beginnings. Both Easter and Passover centre around re-birth, and bond neatly with the Anglo-Saxon festival of ‘Eostre-monath’ – Eostre’s month.

Hot cross buns, traditionally eaten on Good Friday, are linked to the Jewish festival of Passover. Originally they were made from unleavened bread, an important Passover food.

Nowadays they are more palatably leavened and marked with a cross to serve as a reminder of the crucifixion.

As an aside you may notice they are more expensive this year due to a global shortage of raisins and sultanas!

The tradition of eating chocolate eggs stems from Eostre, when eggs were given as gifts to celebrate the end of winter and as a symbol of new life and fertility. Chocolate was an ingenious German addition much later.

The Easter bunny seems to have been a German invention

too, though it stems from Eostre again. The original association was the hare but rabbits look similar so they kind of hijacked the show.

German children made nests in the garden and good children were left coloured hard-boiled eggs over night as a reward.

Egg rolling on Easter Monday is an eccentric British custom.

As a child I was told the egg represented the rolling away of the stone blocking Jesus’ tomb, but research shows that the custom predates the arrival of Christianity here. It’s great fun though, whatever the history behind it.

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Declutter Your Life If you can’t lay your hands on items you need because they’re buried under piles of junk; if you’re constantly moving items from one pile to a new ‘temporary’ pile; if you find yourself thinking, “I can’t throw this away, it might come in useful one day,” you’re probably a clutter-victim.

Californian blogger Dave Bruno wrote The 100 Thing Challenge. He set himself a year-long experimental task of reducing his belongings to 100 items. Although it started as a challenge he actually chose to keep living by his new rules afterwards, saying he prefers the simplicity.

De-cluttering Tips

cluttering process continues.

Deal with one room at a time the task will seem less daunting. Stick with that room until it’s finished.

Replace everything that remains - The maxim ‘A place for everything and everything in its place’ is a good one. Keep small items in clear plastic boxes and store them in cupboards or wardrobes.

Choose a nice day - Take the room contents outside.

Psychologically it’s easier to sort and let go if you’re one step removed. It’s also less likely that the clutter will make it back inside.

Sort everything into three piles - Label them dump, donate and keep. Be realistic: if the item in question hasn’t been used for over a year it is unlikely you will ever use it.

When you’re done instigate a ‘one thing in: one thing out’ rule. It will make you think twice about acquiring something if you know something else must go.

Finally, once a week, take two bags and go through your home. One bag is for rubbish, the other for items in the wrong place. When you’ve finished throw the rubbish away and replace the misplaced items.

Deal with the dump and donate piles - Do this before It would be tough for most of anything comes back into us to emulate Bruno exactly, the house. It’s much harder to mess up your good work if Follow these small steps and but he has a point. Most of you too can de-clutter your us probably put far too much the stuff is physically gone. life. time, effort and money into Sort and label - Place the acquiring, keeping and remaining items in clearly storing possessions, and labelled boxes. sometimes it’s good to let Make sure there is go. one temporary box to house items If you’re ready to de-clutter, which really belong then we have a few simple in another room. As tips. If you feel you need help, there are experts in de each room is sorted -cluttering who will guide you those items can be through the process of letting replaced, and other misplaced items go. can be housed there while the de-

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Garden View Plant a Butterfly Garden Fascinating fact…Winston Churchill loved butterflies so much he had a garden designed specifically to attract them.

caterpillars, we need to address the feeding requirements of the adult His family home was the butterfly. beautiful Chartwell, but you really don’t need a grand The most estate to attract butterflies famous because they will happily butterflyflock to the tiniest plot if the attracting planting is right. plant is probably Buddleia davidii, hence its other name, When planting for butterflies the butterfly bush. It grows we need to consider their lifewell in most soils but needs to cycle, and of course they start be pruned back hard every life as caterpillars. year so the flowers, and hence Butterflies choose to lay their the butterflies, are kept at eye eggs where there is a good level. Don’t worry too much if food supply for their hungry you know very little about offspring. A patch of nettles in pruning, Buddleias are hard to a sunny spot is all you need to kill! attract the red admiral, the Sedum spectabile must be small tortoiseshell, the one of the easiest plants ever painted lady and the peacock. to grow and even thrives in If you want the common blue my poor soil. Its dusky pink (though sadly these are not flowers are always smothered that common now) plant in butterflies and bees when some birdsfoot trefoil, also they open in late summer. known as lady’s fingers and lotus Caryopteris clandonensis, or properly named to use its more romantic corniculatus. name, blue mist spirea is also A packet of sweet rocket a wonderful butterfly magnet seeds (hesperis matronalis) is and very easy to grow. a good investment. One pack You can now buy packets of produces flowers in all shades wild flower seeds and of lilac. They have a sweet butterfly mixes. Try some scent, which is more powerful among your borders and in the evening, and as a bonus you’ll be rewarded with they attract the orange tip fluttering, jewel-like visitors all butterfly. summer So, having satiated the Butterfly Essentials

Sunshine - plant butterflyattracting plants in the sunniest spots Shelter - the site needs to be out of the wind Roosting spots - Butterflies need somewhere to sleep.

They prefer to be high so plant climbers like honeysuckles and clematis.

Nettles and wildflowers - if space is at a premium try growing them in pots. It works really well.

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Best Foot Forward - London Marathon 22nd April 2018 What do Paula Radcliffe, SpongeBob SquarePants and a man in a diving suit have in common? Answer: They’ve all run, or in the last case walked, the London Marathon.

Will Dillard, a professional coach from Atlanta thinks it’s down to instinct.

“Our lives have become more comfortable,” he says, “We don’t have to worry about where our next meal is coming from; but something inside of us still It is an amazing achievement to wants to know if we can survive run a marathon but why do if confronted with that kind of people do it? The reasons given challenge: it wants to find out.”

I was thirteen years old in 1981, when the first London Marathon took place. I remember being awestruck at include: the sheer number of people · A get fit challenge willing to put themselves · The buzz of taking part in a through the agony of running massive organised event twenty-six miles, for charity, for · To raise money for a charity themselves or for their country. I close to their heart. cried when Norwegian Inge · To step out of their ordinary Simonsen and Dick Beardsley existence and chase a from the USA linked hands to momentous goal. finish in a dead heat.

The fact that I seem to lack this instinct does not stop me admiring anyone who has a go, so if you’re running on April 22nd, I wish you luck: I am unworthy.

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