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Last year, we (well, my husband) built a wildlife pond in the garden and it looks lovely with a pump and a few plants and stones.

However, it hasn’t attracted any wildlife so it’s more of a bubbling large puddle than a wildlife sanctuary.

So, I was sent out to the local woods with a glass jar to bring back frog spawn to populate our pond. It was a long time since my last biology lesson so how do I know when frogs lay eggs or tadpoles hatch. Every time I peered into a still pool, glass jar at the ready, Dempsey leapt in with all four paws to help me find whatever I was looking for. Alas, I returned with an empty jar to be mocked by my neighbour that I was only two months late! So, if you have any baby frogs, newts, snails you’d like to rehome then all donations welcome. Our feature on water gardens (page 8) might even inspire you to build your own.

It’s a good time for outdoor events; the annual Solent Garden Fayre at Southampton University is on 1st June and there’s a list of local gardens taking part in the National Garden Scheme (NGS) in the What’s On page 12. And, of course, the sponsor of this month’s magazine is The New Forest Show taking place in July, so book early for the best priced Melanie Tinson & Tania Houston tickets!

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Realistic Revision for Students (and Parents!)

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This month, thousands of students will start study leave in preparation for exams.

Ideally, they’ve been revising as they go, so their parents are confident they’re well prepared.

But in reality, students and parents may be panicking; how do they structure all this ‘free’ time and how much revision is enough?

So here are some study leave survival tips:

StudentS Plan • Check the time, date, structure and content of your exam. Check revision books before purchase, ensuring they’re specific to your course – there are often several versions, each focussing on a different examining board, topic or text.

• Make a realistic timetable.

Vary subjects throughout the day and week, and concentrate initially on subjects with the earliest exam dates. Factor in commitments, longer breaks and unfinished work.

• Revise somewhere without distractions – remove your mobile, turn off the TV and laptop (or block social media sites).

• Pace your work, allowing for unexpected delays and particularly tough topics.

OrganiSe • Collate everything on a topic in one place.

• Mix old topics with new, and easy with difficult; revise easy, recent topics at the start of the day as a confidence boost, or the end, when you’re tired.

• Have a specific target for each session – ‘I’ll revise osmosis’ is woolly, but ‘I’ll summarise osmosis down to 1 A4 page’ ensures you’re achieving a measurable outcome.

• Keep sessions short - around 30 minutes – then take a short break. After four or five sessions, have a longer break for lunch or watching TV.

tipS fOr Better reviSiOn Passive reading does not work.

Effective revision is active; you must engage with the material.

Here’s how: Note-taking helps you to focus and make sense of your reading in words and ways you understand, and it’s great revision in itself.

Reducing notes to a card or A4 page makes them portable and easily digestible. Use colours, highlighting, underlining, tables, patterned notes, bullet points, mind maps or diagrams. Why? Read on.

Engage Your Senses You’re far more likely to visualise that fluorescent spider diagram you did, with underlined

keywords, than to a closely written page of one-colour, linear notes.

Try using post-it notes in eyecatching places, or make ‘washing lines’ across your room.

Make good use of your ears too - record key phrases and equations; march around first whispering facts, then increasing volume until you’re shouting.

uSe helperS Revising with friends can be more fun and help you fill gaps or understand tricky topics. Make question cards and ask parents or friends to play Trivial Pursuit with you.

Practice answering exam format questions Gather relevant facts and write an outline for essay answers, or design a multiple-choice quiz.

Beware the Internet Some websites feature worryingly inaccurate quizzes and facts uploaded by students. Stick to reputable ones with contributions from teachers, e.g. BBC’s Bitesize.

parentS & helperS Be interested and positive – ensure nagging isn’t your only input, and don’t impose your own anxieties and ambitions; they have their own. Don’t compare them to others. Listen to their worries and reassure them that exams are important, but not the end of everything; your affection isn’t dependent on exam results.

Don’t expect them to work every waking hour – brains need time to sort and assimilate information.

Ensure they get enough rest and relaxation.

Be an active helper – Test them, play quiz games or time their practice runs.

Pre-arrange an end-of-exams treat.

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Noticeboard For Children INDOOR CAR BOOT SALE 10 May & 7 June, 9:30am to 12 Noon Lockswood Community Hall Entry 30p per adult. Children free.

ST. PETERS CHURCH FETE 10 May, 1:30pm Church Street, Titchfield Adults £1, Children 50p.

COUNTRY MARKET Every Friday, 10 to 11:30am The Parish Rooms, Titchfield Fresh home produce for sale.

Call 01329 287856 PLANT SALE 10 May, 10am to 12:30pm Victory Hall, Warsash Warsash Horticultural Society PRIORY PARK FUN RUN 18 May, 9:30am Starts at Priory Park Community Hall, Locks Heath 5 or 10 miles.

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LEISURE & PLEASURE EXHIBITION 31 May, 10am to 1pm Lockswood Community Hall Swanwick Lions Club presents ‘What’s happening in your area?’. Free entry. Call 01489 575027 GOING WILD AGAIN 19 June, 1pm Allotment Road Recreation Ground. Sarisbury Green Free workshop will look at the meadow that has been sown at the Sarisbury Cricket Club ground in Allotment Road.

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Water, Water, Everywhere

by Pippa Greenwood

A water feature adds a truly magical dimension to any garden, large or small. The sound of tinkling water and the movement of light on its surface both works wonders, even on a less than perfect plot, and can be just the finishing touch you need for a patio or back yard or for a much larger garden.

A visit to your local garden centre or specialist aquatics centre, or a browse online, will reveal a plentiful choice of water features of all shapes, styles, and sizes; but before you commit yourself, just what are the main points to bear in mind?

First, position. If you want moving water, your choice of feature will almost certainly need an electric pump, so there has to be a powerpoint nearby – an obvious point perhaps, but one that people do sometimes overlook. Do you want an eye-catching centrepiece for a formal garden, or just the music of running water as the soundtrack to your barbecues or alfresco Sunday lunch? In either case, you need to carefully consider the appropriate position.

Any water feature from pond to delicate fountain can turn bright green in summer due to the build-up of floating algae.

You can go a long way towards preventing this pea-soup effect by positioning the feature away from the hottest direct sunlight.

Make sure it’s well away from overhanging deciduous trees, too, as falling leaves are likely to clog everything up.

For smaller spaces or patios you’re best off with a selfcontained and perhaps wall-mounted feature. There are lots of great self-contained water features available such as terracotta or glazed pot stacks with the water continuously circulated from one container to another by a hidden pump, so you would only need to top it up in the hottest weather to compensate for the effects of evaporation.

Spouts and fountains are great fun in a garden. A spitting fish, frog, or gargoyle can add a touch of art – or humour – while its water-jet will oxygenate a pool, reducing algae and keeping the pond-life happy. If you want moving water and the reflections it provides but perhaps have toddlers, a stone-effect millstone with a low centrally-positioned jet spreading ripples of water across its surface is both beautiful and safe.

Plants are integral to any pool or pond. Surface-floating plants

such as waterlilies not only look gorgeous but their large, nearcircular, leaves also shade the water’s surface – again, reducing any problems you might have with algae. Waterlilies need still water, though, so they are best avoided if you have a fountain; but a single spitting feature at one end of the pool shouldn’t create too much turbulence for them.

Make sure you plant them at the correct depth if you want them to flourish.

Plants grown around the edges of pools and ponds are called marginals and do best in shallower water or boggy ground.

Use plenty of them: they look gorgeous; they hide unsightly edges and signs of the liner; and they are a haven for wildlife.

For a more formal look you’ll want fewer marginals, but some shapely rushes or ferns or some yellow or purple bog-iris will add extra impact.

Marginals to consider include yellow-flowered marsh marigold (caltha palustris); white-flowered bog arum (calla palustris); miniature reed-mace (typha minima), perfect if you love bulrushes but don’t have the space for them; water forget-menot (myosotis scorpioides) with their stunningly pretty pale blue flowers; and water and bog iris

9 (eg iris laevigata) with their rich purple blooms. You’ll need about two plants per metre.

Water-features attract wildlife, and on summer days you may well be visited by beautiful, colourful dragonflies or mayflies.

If there’s any depth of water then many birds may also come to drink and bathe. And remember, even a small pond needs a safe exit-route in case wildlife such as hedgehogs pop by for a drink and inadvertently tumble in. A shallow beach of pebbles at one end should do the trick.

If your feature has a sizeable surface, it’s well worth netting it in the autumn to catch falling

leaves. Simple garden netting stretched taut over the surface is ideal. Remove it as necessary, tip off the leaves, and replace it until the worst of the leaf-fall is over. If leaves are allowed to accumulate in the water they’ll not only clog the pumps and reduce the depth of the water, but as they rot down they’ll produce methane gas which is toxic to pond life.

shed. Ponds with fish need to have an ice-free area maintained on the surface or the fish may be killed by toxic gasses such as methane building up under the ice. Floating an old football on the surface helps, or you could melt a hole in the ice using the bottom of a pan of very hot water (but don’t pour the water in), repeating when the surface re-freezes.

In winter, try to stop the water feature from freezing up. If the weather forecast predicts extremely cold temperatures, smaller features are best emptied out completely and the pump cleaned up and stored in the

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HAMBLE POINT BOAT SHOW 10 & 11 May Hamble Point Marina SO31 4NB The South’s premier new and used boat show featuring entertainment and products from over 50 leading marine companies. Over 250 boats for sale. Free entry and parking.

SPARKYS VINTAGE FAIR 11 May, Bursledon Brickworks, Swanwick Lane SO31 7HB Steam Engines.

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Fun for whole family. Adults £2. Call 07864528295 for times.

SOLENT BOAT JUMBLE 11 May Royal Victoria Country Park Netley SO31 5GA New and used boats, engines, chandlery, wetsuits, rope, fenders, electronics, clothing, life jackets, fishing tackle and more. Adults £4, Children free. www.boatjumbles.co.uk

‘ALLO ‘ALLO 14-17 May, 7:30pm Victory Hall, Warsash SO31 9HW Warsash Theatre Club production OPEN GARDEN FOR NGS 4, 17, 18 May, 16, 17 Aug, 11am to 5pm 67 Newtown Road, Warsash SO31 9GA Cross a bridge to a small secret sloping garden with ‘a little bit of everything’. Coastal walks along the Hamble path with D-Day Memorial. Adults £3, Children free. No Dogs Allowed. Proceeds to charity.

HAMBLE RIVER RAID 17 May Hamble Quay, Hamble SO31 4JB Annual spectacle on the River Hamble with a Pig Roast. All proceeds to Hamble Seascouts.

For more information call 02380 441007 GARDENS IN THE AIR 17 May, 10am to 1pm St. Margaret’s Nurseries, Titchfield PO14 4BL Free hands on session in how to create a sizzling summer display.

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WELLBEING FAIR 17 May, 11am to 2pm Locks Heath Centre Locks Heath SO31 6DX Everything you need for the mind, body and soul.

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Royal Victoria Country Park, Netley SO31 5GA Organised by the Southampton Athletic Club. Spectators welcome. For more details about

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WOLLY WEEK 24 May to 1 June, 10am Manor Farm Country Park Bursledon SO31 1BH A week of activities for young and old. Spinning, knitting and weaving. Sheep shearing. Normal farm admission applies. 01490 787055.

GALA DAY 25 May, 11am-4pm Bursledon Brick Works Swanwick SO31 7HB Cars, bikes and lots more.

Craft stalls and activities for children. Adults £6, Concessions £4, Family £15. www. bursledonbrickworks.org.uk RAMBLERS GROUP WALK 29 May, 10am Grid Ref: SU501079 Start Holly Hill Car Park SO31 9HW A fun 7 mile ramble.

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WARSASH BAND SUMMER CONCERT 7 June, 7:30pm Victory Hall, Warsash SO31 9HW A wide variety of high quality music. Tickets £7/£5.50. www. warsashband.co.uk

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Your guide to Professional and Amateur productions close to you

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GILBERT & SULLIVAN’s RUDDIGORE 7-10 May A production by the Eastleigh Operatic & Musical Society.

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PIPPIN 16-17 May Richard Taunton Sixth Form College present Pippin for your entertainment pleasure.

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SPITFIRE SISTERS 7 June Light buffet during Interval Commemorating 70th Anniversary of D-Day St. John’s Church, Hedge End

THE PRICE 10-17 May Arthur Miller’s 1968 moving play about family dynamics.

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THE FEATHER CATCHER 27 May A fun, playful story of friendship. For ages 3+.

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FAWLTY TOWERS 12-14 June There’s more trouble and fun at Fawlty Towers with the Fareham Musical Society.

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ANYTHING GOES 29-31 May Stage One Youth Theatre provides all the action to Cole Porter’s glorious songs which include: “I get a kick out of you” and “Friendship.”

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THE WIZ 14 June Theatretrain Southampton present this award winning Broadway musical.

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HIGH SOCIETY 13-17 May Winchester Musicals and Opera Society stages Cole Porter’s High Society, a witty and romantic show full of humour and classic songs such as “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”.

Theatre Royal Winchester THE ADDAMS FAMILY 14-17 May Music Theatre South present this magnificently macabre musical comedy.

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THE THRILL OF LOVE 2-7 June The story of Ruth Ellis in a play by Amanda Whittington.

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THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED 20 June Buddy Holly 55th Anniversary Tour A celebration of Buddy’s music.

Ferneham Hall, Fareham PEPPA PIG’s BIG SPLASH 18-19 June Songs, games and muddy puddles for all the family.

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WHAT’S ON ALL THE FUN OF THE SEASIDE 14 & 21 June, 10am – 12Noon GAF Centre, School Road, Old Bursledon SO31 8BX Children’s workshop. Make some of the things you find at the Seaside. info@gaf.org.uk HOME FRONT AT MANOR FARM 15 June, 10am Manor Farm Country Park Bursledon SO31 1BH Go back to the 1940s with civilian and military re-enactment groups and period vehicles. Great treat for Dad on Father’s Day weekend!

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PAUL HOLLYWOOD LIVE! 15 May, 7pm Portsmouth Guildhall PO1 2AB Join the Great British Bake Off Star for an evening of fun, demos and audience participation.

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STORY OF HMS ALLIANCE 15 May, 7pm and 9pm Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport PO12 2AS The conservation of HMS Alliance has been a once in a lifetime opportunity to study the A-Class submarine. Hear the story today.

Tickets £10. Call 02392 510354 DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL 17 & 18 May, 10am to 4pm Lakeside, North Harbour Cosham PO6 3EN Spectators welcome at this fun packed day. Refreshments.

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Hamble & Warsash Gold and overall winner large Tickets £24 each (£12 under 12s) Sporting extravaganza held on the back garden Fareham in Bloom. which includes 2 Course Chef’s river. Enjoy a full day of fun and Homemade cakes. Adults £3, Buffet. To book events@ageasbowl. serious competition. For a full Children free. com list of events and to register go to No Dogs Allowed. Proceeds to www.riverhamblegames.com charity.

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Hambrooks Winning Design for Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2014 Winning Design ‘Halo’

The Royal Horticulture Society (RHS) and the Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) have selected Hambrooks to build a garden for the annual RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in July for their ‘Your Garden Your Budget’ project.

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Landscapers across the UK are invited to submit designs and this is the third year that the RHS and APL have jointly sponsored this project.

It features four categories of gardens as part of a scheme to bring to the general public’s attention what can be achieved within particular budgets.

Hambrooks Garden Designer Stuart Towner, created the winning design called ‘Halo’, which was selected for the £13,000 budget category.

The Mediterranean themed garden with arid planting, traditional crazy paving and paths is based on the imagery of a classic Greek island with a contemporary interpretation of the Greek Orthodox Church.

A small courtyard garden that is almost theatrical in style, it is primarily for entertaining. Stuart Towner who is a student member of the revered Society of Garden Designers, is currently studying part-time for a BA in Garden Design at Greenwich University.

His idea materialised from a concept that takes in the

natural harmony of the Greek landscape and creates a modern interpretation of the classic Greek style that has been around for thousands of years.

Managing Director Norman Hambrook said, “This idea of presenting gardens that are within a certain budget to visitors at the prestigious Hampton Palace Court Flower Show, is an excellent way of demonstrating the fact you don’t have to spend a fortune on gardens to have something really quite spectacular – you just need great garden design!”

The RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2014 is being held from the 8th - 13th July.

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Hampshire’s Hands-On County Show The New Forest and Hampshire County Show is an annual agricultural show held for three days at the end of July at New Park, Brockenhurst in Hampshire.

hand at milking a cow, making a scarecrow, holding a day old chick, voting for your favourite feathered friend in the Poultry Tent and watching the amazing Jamie Squibb in action on his motorbike in our main ring.

The aim of the Show is to create a great family day our bringing together a celebration of traditional country pursuits, crafts, produce and entertainment. This year it is taking place on 29th, 30th & 31st July and there is an exciting line-up of events for all the family to enjoy!

BBC South are returning for another year and are bringing their fully operational television studio where you can record your own version of the daily news, including a weather green screen and autocue!

Watch close up how television programmes are made with the professionals and meet the local presenters!

The theme this year is ‘Hands On’ so come and live the country for a day. Roll up your sleeves, don your walking boots and get stuck in with all the hands-on activities that we have on offer! Try your

Visit the Forest Fun Factory which runs a full programme of events between 10am and 4.30pm and be entertained by clowns, choirs, dance acts and much more!

Head over to our Show Farm where the children can get up close and personal with all sorts of farmyard animals, pop in to our Countryside Area for Terrier and Ferret racing and sit in the incredible machines in the Old Time Farming section.

Perhaps one of the most visited places on the showground are the food tents offering top quality

items and the Local Food and Farming area where the county’s top producers can be found.

Here, not only will you find a huge variety of the best produce of Hampshire, but also lots of opportunities to have tastings from the cookery demonstrations held there. There are also over 600 trade stands providing one of the most varied and unusual goods and produce – from large commercial companies to small local businesses, for those of you looking to make that special purchase.

If it’s a countryside experience you’re after, the Show’s about to begin!

For more information about the Show, please visit our website www. newforestshow.co.uk where you can also take advantage of 10% off advanced tickets bought online before 21st July.

Want to keep up to date with news of the Show, details of the events taking place at New Park, exciting goings-on that are happening locally as well as competitions to win tickets? Then simply signup to receive our monthly e-newsletter by visiting our website: newforestshow.co.uk

29th, 30th & 31st July New Park, Brockenhurst

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Puzzle Page

The rules of Sudoku are that you should fill a number in to every cell in the grid, using the numbers 1 to 9. The restriction is that you can only use each number once in each row, each column, and in each of the 3x3 boxes.

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Property Watch Southampton

SHORT STORY

A selection of Planning Applications Submitted in April 2014 - Pending Consideration 181 Hunts Pond Road, PO14 Proposed demolition of existing dwelling and vacant retail shop to create development of 5 new flats.

Outline planning.

Coldeast Close (land to rear of 19-22 Sarisbury Green) Construction of 6 x 2 bed properties. Full planning.

Brook Lane – Land at Coldeast Hospital Erection of sheltered accommodation for 36 one/two bedroom flats. Approved.

Source: www.fareham.gov.uk

Dear Denise “We are looking to buy a puppy is there anything that we should be doing?”

Yes there are several things you need to look at:• Firstly, research the type of dog you are looking for as it needs to be suitable for your family and the environment. Such as, would it suit your lifestyle?

Does anyeone in the family, have allergies towards animals in which case get a dog that doesn’t moult.

• Look at the mother and if possible the father this will show you what size the dog is going to grow to and also the temperament.

• Ask the breeder for the Kennel Club registration form as you will need to sign this to change ownership to yourself.

• Ask the breeder what the puppy has been eating and keep to it for a few weeks and change later.

Check the puppy has received its first jab and also been wormed. Also make sure the puppy has been microchipped.

• When you get the puppy home and within 2 weeks take the puppy to the local Vet to have the puppy fully checked over.

• Buy some good toys, bed, cage, collar and lead and also a tag for his collar.

• Lastly enjoy.

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Gudge Heath Lane, 5 bed detached £340,000 Feb14 Collingworth Rise, Park Gate, 5 bed detached £325,00 Jan14 Source: Mouseprice.com

Puzzle Answers General Knowledge Crossword

Across: 1 Steamed, 5 Edged, 8 Rocks, 9 Vicious, 10 Perpendicular, 11 Easily, 12 Mourns, 15 Demonstration, 18 Economy, 19 Drink, 20 Steps, 21 Dragged.

Down: 1 Syrup, 2 Escorts, 3 Miscellaneous, 4 Divide, 5 Encyclopaedia, 6 Growl, 7 Disarms, 11 Endless, 13 Railing, 14 Stayed, 16 Moose, 17 Naked.

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Pat Staples Interiors

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Please phone for an appointment in the FREE studio or in your home 01489 892626 PARKING Email: sales@patstaplesinteriors.co.uk AT STUDIO Suppliers of Sanderson fabrics, wallpapers and paint

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FREE MEMORY CAFÉ A new service for local people with memory loss, Alzheimer's or other dementias and their carers

Live Local Think Local Buy Local . . .

WARSASH Held every 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month.

2pm to 4pm.

At Warsash United Reformed Church, 55 Warsash Road, Warsash, SO31 9HW If you care for someone with any kind of dementia and you would like to meet others for expert advice and support, please join us.

This is a café with a difference. Bring the one you care for with you to a relaxed setting where they can be supported by trained staff and join in with activities provided.

Please ask us about local transportation For further information about our café please call Home Instead Senior Care on 01489 559007 Visit our website www.homeinstead.co.uk/southampton

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*Based on comparing the savings for upgrading a G-rated to an A-rated condensing boiler with a full set of heating controls. Savings figure is illustrative and based on a gas heated three bed semi-detached house.

Savings assume a gas price of 4.49p/kWh. Source: www.enerysavingtrust.org.uk/in-your-home/Heating-and-hot-water/Replacing-your-boiler

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WIN ÂŁ100 Find the hidden symbol competition

All you have to do is find the Frog hidden somewhere within one of this issue’s advertisements.

How to enter Online: www.discovercommunity.co.uk Text: 07702 567811 You must state the following details: 1. Which advert featured the symbol 2. Your name 3. Your postal address 4. Your email address 5. And most importantly, when you received your copy of Discover

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Libraries Fareham: Osborn Road, Fareham, PO16 7EN. 0845 6035631 Mon 9am-7pm Tue 9am-5pm Wed 9am-5pm Thu 9am-7pm Fri 9am-7pm Sat 9am-5pm Sun closed

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Hedge End Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) Shamblehurst Lane, Hedge End, SO30 2AD. 01489 780028

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