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DECEMBER 2012

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Hello and Welcome Well, what a dull old November it has been.

It’s the month before Christmas so nothing has really got going yet for the celebrations (apart from the shopping: is it just me or do the shops feel like the government have just announced rations?). And the weather – squelch.

However as you read your Discover Hedge End this month it will be December and both literally and metaphorically someone’s turned the lights on. We’ve listed many of the local events on page 37. No doubt many of you will be attending Christmas parties and the schools will be holding their Christmas fairs. Yes, the true meaning has been overshadowed by commerce, but it does brighten up what would otherwise be a very long winter.

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If you really feel that the commercial aspect is over the top (and I admit I do) then a generous charity donation goes some way I find, to salve the guilty conscience. One local resident has gone further than most to raise money for charity by having her hair shaved off. You can

I’ll leave you to mull that one over! Have a great Christmas and here’s to 2013.

By the way, did you know that Camelot announced earlier this year that in the six months to 29 September 2012, ticket sales were a total of £3,528.8 million (up by a massive 8.1% on the corresponding period last year). That’s £135 million a week. Of course a significant proportion of the Lottery funds do go to charity but I doubt many people buy tickets purely for the charity element.

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Winter Warmers Even if you’re sure you’re not going to venture into your garden much this winter, make sure you have every possible encouragement by creating a winter planter or two. They will not only look gorgeous from the warm comfort of your house, but will also help to coax you outside from time to time.

Choose a larger container as it’s more likely to protect the roots on the plants due to the greater volume of compost. I’d avoid any container less than 30cm (12in) diameter if possible.

Any container will insulate the roots a little, but one made from thick wood (such as a wooden trough or window box, or a halfbarrel) will be very effective. Good quality, fairly chunky plastic also works quite well. Try to avoid metal as this tends to conduct cold.

Warm undergarments are all the rage for winter planters. A lining of bubble-wrap polythene or even a few layers of old fabric or carpet, sandwiched between the sides of the container and the compost will help to keep both compost and roots warm.

If you live in a particularly cold area, or simply want to decrease the risk of winter damage further, try to position winter planters out of the windiest areas. If possible place them fairly close to a house wall on the south or west side as this will help to provide a little extra warmth.

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At this time of year, garden centres may offer very tiny versions of shrubs such as skimmias, Pieris or hollies and many of the dwarf conifers. They will provide good colour and interest in a container for a year or two and can then be planted in your garden to reach their full size.

In warmer areas, you can add bright patches of colour to your display using the ‘winter cherry’ or solanum which has bright yellow and orange fruits. You could also use a few winter flowering cyclamen but these definitely need a very sheltered spot such as a window box on a protected wall.

Don’t forget to add in a few early spring flowering bulbs such as miniature narcissus, crocus and miniature iris. Hide them beneath the roots of your winter bedding plants; you’ll forget they are there until they burst out in spring.

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by Jackie Brewster December 1st Glen came back from hemming up our Sylvia’s curtains and asked me if I wanted the good news or the bad? The bad news was that he had ‘accidentally’ volunteered us to do the family Christmas dinner this year. Well, I had to sit down. Christmas dinner for 14 people. I don’t even own that many glasses. I said what’s the good news and he said turkeys are half price at the moment.

December 4th Glen measured up the dining table. There’s a foot per person at a push. I told him he’d have to move his knitting machine, and he said he’s using it to make homemade gifts. He said I should put up the gazebo and have Christmas outside. A gazebo in the middle of winter, I ask you!

December 6th Sylvia came round for a coffee and said these days we like everything organic and free range. Then she looked at me pointedly over the top of her varifocals. She knows some farm where the turkeys are all given names. I’ve had to pay out £50 for a turkey called Tim. December 10th I’d just got back from doing a big shop when our Gladys rang.

Her Melvin came over all peculiar in the lingerie department and now he’s being tested for coeliac. She said could I hang fire on flour until the results come in? Well, I’d just put five packs of short-crust in the freezer. I said, are you sure it’s that, didn’t the same thing happen at that tarts and vicars party?

She muttered something about bad vol-au-vents and hung up.

December 14th Good news. Sylvia’s Matt and his girlfriend have split up; apparently there was a misunderstanding over a photo on Facebook. So the girlfriend won’t be coming. That gives us an extra twelve inches to play with.

December 16th Glen decided to test his homemade crackers and caused an explosion that took the fairy off the tree. He said he might have to re-think given that his mum’s on tablets for angina. I said I think they’ll be fine.

December 18th Matt and his girlfriend are back on. He’s only gone and proposed. Sylvia says we should make Christmas a double celebration and have a champagne toast. I told Glen to buy that cheap Cava and serve it up in the pantry; they won’t know the difference.

December 21st They had to call the paramedics to Melvin’s works do. Apparently the girls from admin dressed as Sexy Santas and made him eat mince pies. Poor Melvin, he’s on complete bed rest and milky drinks until New Year. At least we’ll have elbow room now.

December 23rd Tim was delivered today, or Tiny Tim as Glen calls him. I said is it a turkey or a budgerigar? Glen had to hot foot it down to the supermarket for the last pick of the butterballs.

December 24th Disaster of Biblical proportions! Glen put the butterball turkey in the bath to thaw, and left the tap running. It was like Niagara Falls in the dining room.

Glen emerged from the mist like Rambo in marigolds and declared we’d be cancelling Christmas over his dead body.

December 25th We managed to salvage the day! Glen put the gazebo up. It was draughty but that made us all the more grateful for Glen’s homemade ponchos. And the sparks from the crackers gave off some warmth. I’ve put my feet up now with a well deserved sherry. I wouldn’t normally drink out of a vase, but we’re short on glassware. Merry Christmas everybody.

Cheers!

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Christmas with Dickens Charles Dickens is often credited with inventing Christmas, or at least reinventing it and giving it its modern form. A Christmas Carol must be one of the most-filmed books ever, and the name of its central character, Scrooge, has entered the language. Yet it is one of his shorter works – a novella rather than a novel – and was only written to recoup the author’s finances after the failure of Martin Chuzzlewit.

A Christmas Carol was an instant success, and Dickens followed it up with four more Christmas novellas between 1844 and 1848 (The Cricket on the Hearth of 1845, actually outsold A Christmas Carol), with 17 short stories published in the seasonal editions of his two magazines, Household Words and All the Year Round, between 1850 and 1867.

Christmas badly needed reinventing. In the countryside, the grand old midwinter feast of medieval and earlier times had been driven underground

by Puritan opposition before and during the Interregnum; and even after the Restoration it never really recovered its previous significance. And in the burgeoning industrial cities of the 18th and early 19th centuries, commerce allowed no pause for 12 days of ritual merriment. The shops didn’t even close.

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social evil. The traditional Christmas festivities had been communal events, and it was the sociable and communal side of Christmas that Dickens celebrated. Although privately he was a devout if unorthodox Christian, you will find little of the religious side of Christmas in his writings. Scrooge, frightened out of his miserly ways, does not rush out to church on Christmas morning but goes visiting. And at the heart of The Pickwick Papers is the Christmas Eve ball at Manor Farm, where Wardle hosts a blow-out of Lucullan proportions at which all comers, including the Pickwickians, are welcome.

It would be a wonderful but wholly impossible endeavour to seek to recreate that feast at Dingley Dell. For one thing the sheer quantity of alcohol consumed – hot punch, mulled ale, warmed claret, brandy and hot water for the coachman, the “something good” enjoyed

by Sam Weller and the Fat Boy at the Blue Lion at Muggleton, the “hot elder wine, wellqualified with brandy and spice” - would give your GP a fit. For another, even the most rabid “political correctness gone mad” merchant would have to admit that the game enjoyed by the partygoers (after the dancing to “the only harp in all Muggleton” and the blind man’s buff) was dangerous to the point of insanity.

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This was snap-dragon. The lights were extinguished, and a “ghost” in white sheet and wild wig presented a tray of raisins which had been soaked in brandy and set alight. These the players would have to grab without burning their fingers (hence the modern expression); and “when fingers enough were burned, and all the raisins were gone, they sat down by the huge fire of blazing logs to a substantial supper and a mighty bowl of wassail in which the hot apples were hissing and bubbling”.

More booze.

Perhaps, then, a truly Dickensian Christmas is too strong for modern stomachs. But one thing we might try is turning off the TV. No Queen’s Speech, The Great Escape, The Sound of Music or even A Christmas Carol. He believed in togetherness: friends, relations, neighbours, and stray Pickwickians all joining in one great joyous riot.

So, hide the remote and bring on the mighty bowl of wassail and the only harp in all Muggleton!

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Losing her Locks Becca Sellwood Stock has a lot to deal with at the moment with two close family members being seriously ill. You’d think the physical and mental toll of coping with that would be enough really, but some people in life put the rest of us to shame.

To raise funds for the charities related to her family members’ illnesses, Becca organised a charity shopping event in October, working with West End Councillor Anne Mortimer because of her recent battle with cancer. But Becca also did something few of us ladies would ever contemplate: she had her head shaved.

Becca tells us: “My sister and I are raising money for Alzheimer's Society and Cancer Research. Our mum has Alzheimer’s; she is only 64 and in a care home. And my father in law has lung cancer and has been told that he has just a few weeks to live. It is so sad to see, and I’d love to see these conditions being caught earlier and treated more successfully. The only way this will happen though is if there are more funds for research and support”.

Becca is a regular client at the West One salon in Hedge End and asked owner Karen Fox if she’d be prepared to do the head shave for her. So at the end of a really successful day at the shopping event on the 27th October, Karen armed herself with clippers and Becca’s lovely dark hair was all taken off.

Karen said “I’m looking forward to introducing Becca to some funky new hairstyles and colours as her hair grows back”.

It’s headline grabbing stuff (‘scuse the pun) but such a great cause. Having already raised over £800 through online and offline donations, the shopping event, and through support from West One and their clients, Becca is asking people to dig deep and just donate whatever they can for her charities. Even if all you can spare is £1 it all helps.

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A Very Vintage Christmas It’s mid December and your newly-bought Christmas tree is standing naked in the corner of your living room. So it’s to the loft, garage or shed to dig out that battered old box of decorations.

If your box is anything like mine, you’ll probably find a past-its-best fairy with drooping wings, some purple and silver baubles from the Millennium and two crushed crackers from last year’s Christmas lunch (couldn’t bear to throw them away) tangled together with swathes of tinsel, garlands, non-functioning fairy lights and springs of plastic holly.

Most of my hoard is cheap, garish and ultimately disposable. But there’s one very special part of the collection that I will never throw away. It’s a treasured set of old-style, hand painted tree decorations, made out of wafer thin glass.

Vintage tree ornaments are an evocative sight for those of us who were children in the 1950s and 60s: each year when I unwrap my collection it takes me back to a time when Christmas seemed truly magical and exciting. Although I understand the reasons why hanging delicate glass baubles on the Christmas tree – within grabbing distance of little hands - is no longer a good idea, it’s sad to think that such beautiful items are no longer readily available.

The tradition of making glass tree decorations dates back to 17th century Bohemia (the modern day Czech Republic) and Germany. Today’s familiar ball shapes had their origins at a place called Lauscha in Germany, where legend has it they were first created when glass blowers competed to see who could blow the largest sphere before the molten glass popped.

Those that survived were kept by the glassmakers’ wives, swirled with silver nitrate and sold at local markets as magic talismans, offering protection and blessing during the holy season.

In 1848 a picture of the young Queen Victoria’s

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Christmas tree, hung with decorations brought from her husband Prince Albert’s native Germany, was published in the Illustrated London News.

This sparked a copycat craze throughout Europe and soon whole families in the town of Lauscha were employed to mass-produce decorations – the menfolk blowing the glass and the women and children painting and finishing the ornaments.

Later that century, German immigrants brought the same passion for glass decorations to America. Thanks to entrepreneur Frank Woolworth - who bought millions for his popular chain stores - what began as a cottage industry in Lauscha became an international phenomenon.

By the mid-20th century new molding techniques had sped up mass production and reduced the cost of manufacture. In addition to the more conventional round and oval shapes, there were decorations shaped like musical instruments, stars, lanterns, mushrooms, snowflakes, snowy cottages and little figures of Santa Claus. My favourite ones were the exotic birds with silky fibre glass tails that clipped onto your tree and trembled like real birds every time the branches moved.

Nowadays most Christmas tree ornaments are made out of plastic, but if you do happen to find a Lauschan treasure lurking at the bottom of your decorations box, take good care of it.

Vintage tree ornaments are becoming highly collectable and you can find sets on Ebay and other online auction sites for between £15 and £30.

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Plates PCs The old butcher’s shop in the centre of Bishops Waltham has recently been taken over by IT Specialists, Plates PC. Wez Hall is the managing director, and heart and soul of the company.

From a young age Wez has always had the approach that to understand how something works, you must take it apart, assess it, fiddle and then rebuild it. This was not always popular, when relatives saw him taking apart expensive gadgets and gizmos they had chosen for him, but ideal in this industry. The perfectionist in him, has seen many a computer taken apart several times and rebuilt until he is satisfied, despite it being 2am! This approach is still with him in what is not only a business but a passion. For Wez, a typical day isn’t complete without a computer being dismantled, rebuilt and reinstalled. So you can understand why his wife is celebrating that this now takes place at the work premises and no longer at home.

Wez took the plunge to open up a shop/ office within the local community to raise the profile of the company and to meet the growing demands of the business. Having a base situated in the heart of the village has been great for business and the response from the community has been amazing, and the general feeling from Wez and his customers, is that they should have opened the shop years ago.

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The shop has a friendly approach and is very welcoming, with no question or enquiry from a customer too small. Call in and say hello next time you are in the town centre.

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what’s CHRISTMAS FAIR 1st Dec 10am to 1pm Hedge End Village Hall Butterfly Events will be holding a Christmas Fair in aid of charity. There will be a variety of tables including items for babies and children and adults. There will be a small entry fee, refreshments available and there will be a raffle all proceeds of which will be donated to Wave 105's Cash for Kids. If you are interested in having a stand call Tania on 07412058677.

DURLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL CHRISTMAS BAZAAR 1 Dec 10.30-12pm Christmas Bazaar fundraising for the school - visit Father Christmas and the cake stand. Tombola for children and adults, parents may enter the prize draw. Children free, adult entry 50p.

CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR 1 Dec 11am-4pm & 2 Dec 12noon4pm Making Space, Havant All resident makers will be in their studios, joined by guest makers offering jewellery, glass, fashion, illustration, photography, textiles and ceramic pieces for sale. Free entry/ free parking behind Making Space.

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SANTA CYCLE 2 Dec Royal Victoria Country Park Family cycle ride to raise money for Hampshire Austic Society. Open to all ages and dressing up encouraged.

Entry fee will help to raise funds but please raise sponsorship too. Contact Lucy Ward on 01489 880881 x208, or lucy.ward@has.org.uk.

WILDLIFE TOTS 4 Dec 10.30am-12noon or 1-2.30pm Swanwick Lakes Centre Christmas is coming and the creatures at Swanwick Lakes are finding ways to keep warm. Come and join us for our regular event for pre-school children. Contact Dawn Preston or Jess Daish-Miller on 01489 570240.

Bring warm outdoor clothing and wellies. Booking essential as places limited. Suggested donation £3 per child.

ELVIS CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 7 Dec 7.30-11.30pm Victory Hall, Warsash, SO31 9HW A charity performance in aid of Smile4Wessex Children's Neurosciences Centre Appeal, starring award winning tribute artist Craig Jefferson performing Elvis favourites.

Xmas Hamper Raffle & Elvis 'blackout', Music Quiz to test your musical memory. Bar until 11.00pm. Tickets £7.50 (£6.50 concessions) in advance only from Neil on 01489 582259 or email info@smile4wessex.org CHRISTMAS GIFT & CRAFT FAIR 8 Dec 1-4pm Swanmore Village Hall Raising funds for improvements to the Swanmore Village Hall.

ALRESFORD ART & CRAFT SHOW 8 Dec 10-4.30pm, 9 Dec 10-4pm Alresford Community Centre, West Street, SO24 9AG Crafts on display vary at each show but will include original watercolours, woodcraft, glasswork, papercrafts and others. Free entrance. Wheelchair friendly. Enquiries 01252 724968.

CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL 8–20 Dec Royal Victoria Country Park, Netley Abbey, Southampton SO31 5GA Visit the magical forest in our magnificent Chapel to see over 50 brilliantly decorated Christmas Trees. Also live Christmas music at the weekends. Adults £2, children £1 - under 3s free. Parking £1.50 for 1 hour (first hour only), £3 per day.

023 8045 5157 or email areasouth. countryside@hants.gov.uk WEST END SINGERS CHRISTMAS CONCERT Sun 9 Dec at 2.45pm Community Concert at Hedge 2000 Centre A range of traditional and popular music will be performed. Tickets/ reservations (£5) can be made with Di Cooper 07919847705.

WHITELEY ROTARY’S SANTA STROLL 9 Dec Whiteley Solent Business Park Entry includes Santa outfit and participant medal which can also be used as a Christmas tree decoration.

All sponsorship money raised by the Santa Stroll will be donated to Rainbow. Family (2 adults, 2 children) £30. Workplace team of 6 £60.

Adults £12, Children £8. Contact Jess Greenwood 01329 289500, email jessicag@rainbowcentre.org CHRISTMAS CONCERT 15 Dec 7.30pm All Saints’ Church, High St, Botley The All Saints church choir will be conducted by David Burgess. The concert will be followed by mulled wine and mince pies. Free entry but tickets must be ordered in advance from the Church Office 01489 782445.

YULETIDE YARNS 16 Dec 11am - 1pm Swanwick Lakes Centre, Sopwith Way, Swanwick SO31 7AY Come along to Swanwick Lakes for a session of stories, crafts and seasonal activities. For children aged 4-7.

Feel free to bring a packed lunch.

Booking essential on 01489 570240.

Please bring warm outdoor clothing and wellies. Suggested donation £3 per child.

SOLSTICE CELEBRATION 23 Dec 11am-1pm Swanwick Lakes Centre A walk around the woods followed by a story and hot drink around the camp fire. For children aged 6-12. Bring a packed lunch and warm outdoor clothing and wellies.

Suggested donation £3 per child.

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TREASURE ISLAND PANTO 23-26 Jan 7.30 (doors open 7.00) Sat matinee 2.30 (2.00).

Bishopstoke Memorial Hall, Riverside, Bishopstoke ‘Treasure Island, the Panto’ is a marvellous re-telling of the children’s classic adventure novel with all the fun of pantomime! There’s swashbuckling upon the high seas, treasure on a desert island, pirates and parakeets, a Dame with a vast behind and love and romance. Tickets £7 (£5 under 16s) from 023 8069 3032, e-mail bishplayers@btinternet. com, or link from website.

SALVATION ARMY FELLOWSHIP BAND CONCERT 25 Jan 7.30pm All Saints’ Church, High Street, Botley A concert given by the Fellowship Band of the Salvation Army. Free Entry. Retiring Collection.

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Conservatories: Pennington Jones (HI) Ltd Dentist: Acorn Dental Health Double Glazing Inst/Repairs: Pennington Jones (HI) Ltd RWS Windows Electrician: EEC247 Fencing: Colourfence Furniture: Deanes Interiors Swan Systems Garage Doors: Fix Quick Garage Doors Solent Garage Doors Garage Services: Independent VW Garden Design & Services: Arbor-Call Tree Surgeons Revitalise Gardens Woodleigh Landscapes Gas Services: See Plumbing Hairdresser: West One Hair & Beauty Health & Fitness: Curves Health Services: Hampshire Hearing Kitchens: Ashmore Kitchens Dream Doors Homeseal Re-Nu Locksmith: Winlocks Office Furniture: Haywood Office Svcs.

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Distribution - Discover Hedge End is published every month and distributed by local people to two alternating areas. In January, March etc it goes to homes and businesses in Botley, Hedge End South and the east side of Horton Heath. In February, April etc it goes to West End, Hedge End North and the west side of Horton Heath. Each distribution is around 7250 homes, meaning over the two month distribution we reach 14,500 homes.

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DOCTORS & HOSPITALS NHS Direct Botley Health Care Centre Hampshire Dental Helpline Hedge End Med Centre Princess Anne Royal South Hants Royal Winchester County Southampton General West End Surgery SCHOOLS Berrywood Primary Bitterne Manor Park Primary Bitterne Park Botley CE Cantell Freegrounds Kings Copse Primary Shamblehurst Primary St James CE The Gregg School Wellstead Primary Wildern School TRANSPORT Solent Blue Line Buses Bluestar Buses

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National Rail Helpline 0845 748 4950 Uni-Link 023 8059 5974 First Bus 023 8022 4854 SCHOOL HOLIDAYS All dates taken from - www3.hants.gov.uk/education/schools/ schoolholidays Christmas Holiday Mon 24 Dec 2012 to Fri 4 Jan 2013.

Spring term Spring Term: Mon 7 Jan 2013 to Thu 28 Mar 2013 Spring Half Term Holiday: Mon 18 Feb 2013 to Fri 22 Feb 2013 Easter Holiday Fri 29 Mar 2013 to Fri 12 Apr 2013 Summer term Summer Term: Mon 15 Apr 2013 to Tue 23 Jul 2013 Summer Half Term Holiday: Mon 27 May 2013 to Fri 31 May 2013

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