Chandlers Ford Directory July/Aug 2010

July/Aug 10

The Chandlers Ford Directory

Super summer edition!

Activities in Hampshire More Chandler’s Ford memories: picnics and living here during the war Hiltingbury Rd: rat run or rural retreat?

Another local walk on your doorstep

Dear Neighbours Well, what a busy time we’ve had since I wrote my last editor’s letter.

We were invited at the end of May to the reopening of The Bridge, a gastro pub in Shawford. It has been completely refurbished and is now light and open but still retains an intimate feeling. The food was wonderful ranging from traditional (fish and chips) to unusual (ox cheek pie) and the puds were enough in their own right to draw me back. Definitely somewhere I’d recommend and would visit again.

Onto June which in our house is birthday month with Kevin, our son Scott, my mother and my brother-in-law all celebrating (or not...) the passing of another year, closely followed at the beginning of July by my own birthday.

Kevin always goes away for a ‘lads’ trip’ in early June too, and was back home for just one day when we took a five day trip to Las Vegas as part of the birthday celebrations. I had been to Las Vegas once before, although it was some years ago but for Kevin and some of our friends it was their first time. It truly is a fantastic place quite unlike anywhere else on earth. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, although after five days you do need a break: from the assault on your senses by all the lights and sounds; the heat (39C when we left); and the battering that your wallet takes. The ‘wallet battering’ wasn’t helped by the fact that we didn’t take the children with us, but had to promise to return bearing gifts.

So as I write this month’s letter I’m jet-lagged, exhausted, fat and broke, but happy!

In our local history memories this month you will hear of a much simpler time when picnicking in (then) undeveloped Chandlers Ford fields and woods, and living off rations was the day to day reality for most people. There’s also a really good fun page for you to identify some local landmarks.

We have been so grateful for the local contributions this year and these features are really popular with our readers. We do get many residents calling and emailing to tell us how much they enjoy the magazine, which is really satisfying for us and for our advertisers.

On the subject of advertisers, with so many businesses in the directory I can’t mention them all by name. We do make a point of using businesses from the magazine however, as do many of my friends. I often say in January to book gardeners early before they become busy. The same this month for beauty treatments ladies—those appointments go quickly in July and August.

If you ever need a recommend I’m happy to take your call, or if you have a business whose service particularly impressed you, do please let us know.

My letters are getting longer each month aren’t they? Again I’m told that readers like my notes so it’s not an ego trip I promise, but at this rate I’ll be renaming the mag “The Tania Houston Directory” and demanding “do you know who I am?”! This is our double edition July/August magazine though meaning I have nowhere to publish my ramblings in August (except on our new website www.cfdirectory.co.uk) so I might as well get it out of my system now.

Until September then, have a great summer whether at home or away.

Tania

Editor Tania Houston 023 8027 6361, tania@cfdirectory.co.uk

Advertising Sales Kevin Houston, 023 8027 6396, Kevin@cfdirectory.co.uk

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CONTENTS REGULAR ARTICLES The Harvest Picnic The Way I See It: Traffic Intrusion Working from Home: Daytime TV Poets Corner: Are We Nearly There?

Books to Tickle Your Funny Bone St Swithun’s Day is Cider Day Local Landmarks Growing Up in Chandlers Ford During the War Garden Feature: Scented Pelargoniums Plant of the Month: Sunflower Motoring Feature: Chevrolet Spark Spice of the Month: Vanilla Bay Leaves Larder Recipe: Puy Lentil & Roast Pepper Salad En Vacances Regular Local Events Local Walk Local Events in July & August

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The Harvest Picnic

By Derek Spencer

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lice, my nine-yearold granddaughter, loves picnics. That’s what took me back over 60 years to the time just after the end of the Second World War when I was about Alice’s age. The time of my Gran’s harvest picnics.

Every year, my grandmother used to arrange a huge family picnic at harvest time. On the day before the picnic Gran would be busy all day, baking and preparing all sorts of goodies.

Although many foods were still rationed, she was skilled at making the best of what she had.

On the day of the picnic, we would all meet at Gran and Grandad’s house in Fryern Close.

Gran was like a mother hen with all her brood around her: Grandad, my mother and father, my sister, and various aunties, uncles and cousins. In my memory, it was always a hot day for the great picnic. The adults all had large hessian bags

to carry the picnic in, and I always took my ‘go kart’, which was really a pram frame pulled along on a piece of rope.

We’d set off in midmorning, along a farm track that led into Oakmount Road, near what later became an off-licence called The Cottage. From there we crossed the road into Peverells Wood. This was coppice woodland with many pathways running through it. In the springtime it was covered with primroses and, if you knew where to look, wild daffodils. The children would take it in turns to ride on the pram cart, sometimes careering into a ditch amid shrieks of laughter.

We reached a path that ran from opposite where the King Rufus now stands, through Boyatt Wood, to a lake formed from the clay pits of the Fryern Hill

Brickworks. This lake was home to moorhens, ducks and other wildlife. Then we continued eastwards along the path until we reached a large cornfield that was being harvested. This was our picnic site, though the farmers and their helpers were still busy harvesting.

The farmers were the two Mr Hedges who farmed the North End and Hope farms in Oakmount Road. Gran and Grandad knew them well, and when we arrived they would wave to us.

Gran would make herself comfortable on a large tree stump while we children ran into the cornfields to play hide and seek. The adults spread out the picnic on table cloths around Gran.

This was before the advent of combine harvesters. The corn was cut by a binder pulled by a tractor. It would cut, gather

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The Way I See It Traffic Intrusion

By Gordon Moore

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rivers living in Valley Park have been accused of spoiling life for people living in another part of Chandlers Ford.

The accusation centres on Hiltingbury Road, a onemile residential road linking Hursley Road with Winchester Road, via landmarks such as Andersons newsagents and Hiltingbury Cars.

Any driver following this mostly tree-lined route might think they were passing through a perfect place to live. There are glimpses of serene Hiltingbury Lakes and the rustic glen at Hocombe Reserve. I’ve always thought it an OK place to live myself but, believe me, not everyone on or near Hiltingbury Road is happy.

A leaflet through our front door first alerted me to the anger.

The A4 sheet advertised a May public meeting to discuss the effect increasing traffic is having on “road safety, pollution and the quality of life of residents in the Hiltingbury area.” I didn’t think many people would go but I was wrong. There were over 80 in the audience. For over an hour they took turns to complain about alleged danger, speed and number of vehicles.

A common enemy emerged, with many residents blaming Test Valley Borough Council for channelling cars through Hiltingbury. The thinking was

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Hiltingbury Rd on a Saturday afternoon

that TVBC had authorised so many hundreds of new homes in Valley Park in recent decades that traffic generated by the development was having to go through Hiltingbury - part of the Eastleigh council area - to reach the motorway network.

The meeting’s chairman, Conservative county councillor Colin Davidovitz, said that 2,000 more homes proposed for southern Test Valley would bring even more cars. One Hiltingbury woman told the meeting: “I’m fed up with Hiltingbury residents having to put up with all the weight of traffic from Test Valley.”

Concerns have been given impetus by a sudden increase in accidents. The only fatality mentioned was about 15 years ago, but there had been few injury accidents since then until last year, when there were five. Speakers outlined varied suggestions to reduce the problem: • Speed cameras • Revive plans for a lorry ban • Speed bumps • Make Hiltingbury Road and parallel Hocombe Road one way in opposite directions • A cycleway alongside Hiltingbury Road • Traffic lights at the Hiltingbury Road and Winchester Road T-junction • A bypass.

Inspector Patrick Holdaway of Eastleigh police told the

meeting that a census of vehicle numbers and speed was due.

County council road safety services manager Ernie Sage warned against improving the congested T-junction at the end of Hiltingbury Road: “What that does is attract more traffic.”

I was beginning to think anxious residents had a point, until I emerged from the meeting, at the new Hilt community centre, and saw hardly a car in Hiltingbury Road. And since then I’ve seen little of the congestion described at the meeting.

Outside rush hours and school times, it seems pretty quiet to me. Similar complaints could be made about most local distributor roads in Britain - and Hiltingbury Road has wider pavements, slower cars and fewer lorries than many.

The way I see it, only the angry turn up to protest meetings. For every one of them, there could well be 10 people staying at home because they’re happy with Hiltingbury Road. But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe, for every one upset enough to go to an evening meeting, there are 10 more people also upset, but just not upset enough to go.

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Working from home Daytime TV

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ne of the great temptations of working from home is to make a brew, commandeer a couple of Hobnobs, and simply veg out in front of daytime TV. This is especially the case if you’re an a.m. worker like me. Once the dog is walked, the wife and kids are shooed off to their respective schools, and the teeth are scrubbed, I hit the desk running. For a couple of hours I’m a human dynamo.

Emails are answered. Calls are made. Work is churned out in unstoppable torrents...

And then, around midmorning, everything goes into slow motion. The blood-sugar level sinks towards zero.

Emails and calls are put off.

Productivity dwindles to a trickle. I don’t know why this is, but if ever there were a time when the twin lures of the sofa and the remote might prove irresistible, this would surely be it.

Fortunately, the Lords of Television, those inscrutable Olympians who select the images that will grace our screens, have in a completely uncharacteristic flash of empathy for this weak-willed and, let’s face it, bone idle worker-from-home, made daytime TV unwatchably awful. (Of course, they have made evening TV unwatchably awful as well, but

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that’s another story).

I pass over such delights as Prank Patrol and the WotWots because these occur during my morning surge of energy. I have no idea what they might be about, but from their titles I infer that they are intended for the amusement of beings rather younger than myself. But post-surge daytime TV, however diverse it might appear, seems to be founded on a single immutable principle: it must be as cheap as humanly possible.

BBC 1 favours walkabout TV. A mid-range celebrity presenter – Pam Rhodes; Julia Bradbury; no-one too expensive – and a man with a microphone are let loose somewhere like the Chelsea Flower Show for a couple of hours. For BBC 2, it’s a black and white comedy, often with Norman Wisdom, followed by some people – again, no-one too expensive – talking in a studio. ITV 1 favours the people talking in a studio approach, the twist being that they’re all women and they can talk for two whole hours!

Award-winning stuff, surely.

Channel 4, when there’s no racing, shows endless repeats of American comedies from the 1990s. Some (Frazier) were brilliant first time round, but I’ve seen them all. Others

(Will & Grace) were limp first time round, and I’ve seen as much of them as I can bear.

Then there’s the awful fascination of exposé TV: Trisha Goddard, Jeremy Kyle, that sort of thing. I can add nothing useful to the oft-made observation that it’s utterly incredible that such dreadful people with such dreadful lives should queue up to have their dreadfulness so ruthlessly exposed. I can’t bear to watch them and I just want them to stop.

So, finally, to the ultimate television conundrum: that whole strand of shows, regurgitated throughout the day on most freeview channels, that strive to make entertainment out of perfectly normal, humdrum activities that are utterly without incident or the power to amuse.

Moving house to somewhere nicer. Taking your old tat to a car boot sale. Painting your living room. Cooking dinner for some friends. You know the shows; I won’t name them.

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by Gillian McKeith)? Driving to work, perhaps? Ah, now, as someone who hasn’t driven to work for four years, that’s a daytime TV programme I might actually watch...

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Books to tickle your funny bone As Edinburgh prepares for a month of laughter at the annual fringe festival, we’ve compiled ten of the best books to tickle your funny bone.

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome This fantastic Victorian novel describes three men and a dog’s voyage in an open boat up the River Thames. Featuring hilarious escapades, anecdotes, brilliant one-liners and deadaccurate observations of bizarre human behaviours, this is one of those treasures that will have you laughing out loud at three in the morning, because you just can’t stop.

Mrs Mills Solves all Your Problems All Sunday T i m e s readers out there will be familiar with the sharp and witty style of agony aunt Mrs Mills, as she delivers knock-out punches to those seeking advice about issues which range from what to feed obese guests to how to deal with cross-dressing boyfriends.

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Wilt by Tom Sharpe Henry Wilt is a demoralised lecturer who wastes his days attempting to bestow the wonders of literature upon uninterested construction workers.

After years of fantasising about killing his wife, Wilt ends up under investigation when she is actually murdered. Set in the 70s, this title takes a farcical look at British culture, ‘Mickey-Mouse’ academia and the comical ways of the middle-class.

A Pig with Six Legs and Other Clouds This lovely little book contains photographs from around the world of incredible clouds, accompanied by the photographer’s interpretation of the scene.

From duck-juggling dancing bears to the Michelin man robbing a bank, this sweet and entertaining title from the Cloud Appreciation Society is sure to make you chuckle.

Dawn of the Dumb by Charlie Brooker The master of insults, journalist Charlie Brooker’s rampages on the celebrity personalities of our era are both ingenious and hugely entertaining. Formed with a collection of his

best Guardian columns, Brooker’s Dawn of the Dumb may be one of a million ‘moan and groan’ books, but if you’re in the mood for a brilliantly executed rant, this is a must-read.

The Book of Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley Described by Richard Curtis as ‘Watership Down for the deeply sick’, this book is one of a series which depicts cotton-tailed efforts to end their plight on this earth.

Ranging from simple ideas to meticulously planned attempts, it’s Heath-Robinson meets a suicidal Bugs Bunny.

It may sound odd, but it’s hilarious – the perfect gift book for someone in need of a laugh (who doesn’t have a pet rabbit).

NEW RELEASE Fear of Hat Loss in Las Vegas by Brendon Burns In a bid to find their vision of happiness in the Nevada desert, Brendon and three friends pack up their issues and head out into the great unknown. What follows is a tale of debauchery, comedy, aliens, coincidence and, ultimately, friendship. From the winner of the if.comedy award 2007, this true story will have you howling with laughter.

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St Swithun’s Day is Cider Day

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verybody knows, of course, that July 15th is St Swithun’s Day, and if it rains on St Swithun’s Day it will carry on raining for the next 40.

But it’s not only the cricketers and barbecue enthusiasts of today who peer out anxiously on the morning of the 15th to see whether the rest of the summer is going to be a washout. The weather lore of olden days often had a serious point; and good weather in late July and then through August was of critical importance to the farmer. By that time the hay harvest should have been got in, but there were two more harvests to come, both of which preferred dry weather: the main grain harvests of wheat and barley, and the cider apple harvest.

Cider was for centuries an important component in the liquid portion of the working man’s diet, especially but not exclusively in the western counties. Beer, or ale before hops were introduced in the 14th century, was always the drink of the majority; but cider had its advantages. It was an antiscorbutic, for one thing, with enough vitamin C to ward off scurvy when fresh produce was not to be had; and thanks to its load of tannin and malic acid, it kept well. For those reasons a hogshead of cider was an almost universal item in ship’s stores (especially

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as the alpha seadogs of Elizabethan times – Drake, Hawkins, Grenville and Raleigh – were all Devon men).

But cider had its drawbacks, too. Chief among them was that picking clashed with the much more important grain harvest and the subsequent ploughing and sowing of winter wheat, when all hands were required in the fields and on the threshing floor. And harvesting appreciable quantities of apples is a time-consuming business for workers with pressing duties elsewhere: try gathering a ton or two of windfalls and you would soon realise that for yourself.

They got round that by developing cider apple varieties that cropped at different times of year, from July right through to December, thus spreading the tasks of picking, milling, and pressing to make them more manageable. The earliest cropper is the Morgan Sweet, which makes a light-bodied cider that can be ready in time for Christmas; and St Swithun’s Day was, traditionally, the first day of picking.

But why did they need good weather? You can see why a dry spell would help the grain harvest: imagine trying to mow a sodden crop in a field of mud. You want the ground underfoot to be good and firm,

and if the stalks are to yield easily to the scythe they want to stand stiffly to attention. But why must the apples be dry?

The answer to that is that after being harvested – either by being shaken loose from the tree with a long hooked “panking pole” or simply being let to fall and then picked up – the apples were generally “tumped” or left in heaps for anything up to a fortnight to soften, which made them easier to mill. And a tump of moist apples, all of them bruised or damaged to some extent by their fall from the tree, lying in the muggy damp of a wet summer, is paradise for mildews, moulds, and bacteria that will ruin the cider.

So if you want to know why St Swithun’s Day should be, meteorologically speaking, such an anxious time, it has nothing to do with camping holidays, or barbecues, or cricket, or topping up your tan prior to jetting off to the Med, and everything to do with ensuring a decent drop of cider!

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Comics and Cartoons 1. A sorceror called Gargamel is the arch-enemy of which group of characters, who first appeared in a comic in 1958?

2. The Itchy And Scratchy Show is a cat and mouse style cartoon that appears within the TV show The Simpsons, but which one of Itchy and Scratchy is the mouse?

3. Mr. Freeze, The Scarecrow and Two-Face are all villains of which comic book superhero?

4. Which cartoon character is the aunt of triplets called April, May and June?

5. In 1993, the character of Beryl the Peril joined the Dandy, but in which other comic did she originally feature?

6. What were the surnames of animation directors William and Joseph who founded the cartoon production company responsible for characters such as Yogi Bear, Tom and Jerry, and the Flintstones?

7. In the comic strip Peanuts, what breed of dog is Snoopy?

8. With which cartoon character would you associate the catchphrase “drat and double drat”?

9. By what name are Cuthbert, Danny, ‘Erbert, Fatty, Plug, Sidney, Smiffy, Spotty, Toots and Wilfrid better known collectively in a long-running comic strip?

10. Chart-topper Orville Burrell took his stage name from which cartoon character?

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Growing up in Chandlers Ford during the War

By Jean Easter

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was turning out recently and came across and old scrapbook of pressed flowers collected as a child in the meadows, woods and stream banks near my home in Castle Lane. It made me realise once more how lucky I was to have had a countryside childhood here, when Chandlers Ford was a pleasant village, not the housing and industrial estates and busy roads we have today; we could roam freely in those days.

We were a family of eight: I had three younger brothers and our grandparents lived next door. We could go through a gap in the hedge at the bottom of the long garden, straight onto the field. Very convenient except when the cows came through the gap and demolished poor Dad’s cabbages. He was a meticulous gardener and so of course very upset, as he also was when my brother (I forget which one) broke the greenhouse glass.

I well remember my mother and Grannie having a very worried discussion in

Grannie’s living room. War Tanks like these we had been re a common site during the war declared the day and mother had to and I was due to start walk into Eastleigh to fetch school, but which one? me as the buses stopped Kings Rd was closer but running during the raids. the preference was for Cranbury Rd Girls’ school in The night time bombing raids on Southampton were Eastleigh, a bus ride away. extremely frightening – the (Fare 2d single, 3d return drone of the planes, flashes, and 1d for children – child’s explosions and noise of fair less than half of 1p in shrapnel falling on the roof. today’s money.) Grannie Army convoys dashing up was very strict and had a and down the lane became big say in my upbringing a frequent occurrence. An – no games on Sundays American army unit were and no matter how warm camped in the field outside the weather in May, we my grandparents’ kitchen adhered to the old phrase window, much to Grannie’s “ne’er cast a clout till May fright and horror. be out” (no removing coats A tank testing pit was or cardigans). excavated next to the road I duly started at and we children were Cranbury Rd Girls’ School fascinated watching the and was there for the tanks driving in and out of duration of the war. I the water. Long convoys remember trooping out to of lorries, jeeps etc were the air raid shelters in the lined up all down the lane playground when the sirens where the housing ended sounded and the awful and under cover of the high gasmasks. hedgerows. I came home Sometimes the ‘all from school one day and clear’ had not sounded before school finished for

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they had all gone – to the docks and France I now realise. I also remember standing in our back garden and watching wave after wave of planes towing gliders over.

During the war we had to queue for hours at Maypole, Lipton’s Grocers, the butchers and other shops for our rations, and waiting in vain to see King George VI as he passed through Eastleigh.

I have fond recollections of formative years spent in our little Methodist Chapel – now the Age Concern Hall of course.

Also of Councillor Hoskins hardware shop of the corner of Leigh Rd and Bournemouth Rd. He ran S RY LL T A EC NT P E S P A AR C F O

a coal delivery yard next door to the shop and the family lived in the house on the corner. I went to school with the three girls – Betty the middle one and I were born on the same day.

So many of our foods and provisions were delivered. Besides the coalman, the baker with his huge covered basket for mother to choose what she needed, the milkman too. At first our milk was delivered in urns by horse and cart and the milk measured out into a clean jug covered by a beaded cloth. Then the paraffin man with supplies for lamps and heaters, the fishmonger and greengrocer – they all delivered on a regular

basis. Occasional callers were the rag’n’bone men and a gypsy lady selling ‘luck white heather’.

The most unwelcome visitor however was the School Inspector. I was often away form school with various ailments, some serious and she came to check up on me.

Poor mother, she was forever running to the door, sometimes at night when the ARP warden rang to say our blackout curtain was showing a light.

I still live in Chandlers Ford and am glad to live in a time of peace and with so many modern conveniences. But I do have wonderful memories of my simple childhood.

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Garden Feature Scented Pelargoniums

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veryone knows what a generally easy, rewarding and versatile plant the geranium (strictly speaking, Pelargonium) is.

It is capable of flowering all year round, if grown at the right temperature, and also tolerant of erratic watering, which is handy.

So attractive and full of variety are the wellknown Zonal, Regal, Angel and Ivy-leaved groups however, that the aromatic-leaved cultivars, which tend to have smaller, less ‘look at me’, flowers are easily passed over.

They are not as striking, on first inspection, but they give lasting pleasure, once you get to know them, especially if you like touching your plants. Much as I love my ‘Lord Bute’ and ‘Appleblossom Rosebud’ pelargoniums, I would never want to be without

Pelargonium Lord Bute

‘Attar of Roses’, ‘Lady Plymouth’, Pelargonium crispum or ‘Prince of Orange’, either. I especially appreciate them in the winter, when I recall the scents of summer simply by rubbing their leaves.

Scented pelargoniums are not highly bred, but instead are species or derive from species. Any pelargonium with hairy leaves is likely to be aromatic but not all have a pleasant odour, by any means. But there are plenty that have.

‘Big Apple’, for example, has smooth, round leaves, which are strongly apple-scented when bruised, and small white flowers. ‘Attar of Roses’ has heartshaped, grey-green, rose-scented leaves and pinky-mauve flowers.

‘Prince of Orange’, with orange-scented, glossy foliage, has particularly

large and showy flowers, consisting of pale pink petals, veined with purple.

‘Creamy Nutmeg’ has attractive cream and green variegated leaves and nutmeg scent. The wellknown ‘Lady Plymouth’ has deeply-cut, variegated foliage, and small mauve flowers, while ‘Islington Peppermint’ has most attractive flowers with deep red upper petals, and white lower ones. ‘Ardwick Cinnamon’ has masses of small white flowers held above silver-grey leaves.

All have an airy charm which is not always evident amongst the beefier Zonal geraniums.

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windowsill indoors. They can be planted out in containers or herb gardens in the summer months. It’s best to cut them right back to a few short stems in late summer or early autumn, so that they carry less leaf through Pelargonium Lady Plymouth the winter; this through the winter. If you reduces both the want them to flower all risk of botrytis (a fungal year, however, you need to disease, ‘grey mould’, make sure that the winter which thrives in damp, cold night temperature is 7 C or conditions) and the amount above, which means either of watering required. a heated greenhouse or Scented leaved conservatory or, more pelargoniums can get likely, a warm, light rather ‘leggy’, unless cut

back from time to time, anyway. The gardener should also consider re-potting the plants each year in the spring, preferably into a potting compost with some loam in it, such as John Innes No 2 potting compost. (The ‘soil-less’ ‘multipurpose’ composts, which are readily available tend to dry out more quickly, although they are suitable if you cannot find a loam compost.)

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But mathematicians? Yes! The sunflower is an impressive example of maths in nature. A sunflower head is actually made up of small florets with each floret angled towards the next by the ‘golden angle’, 137.5°. This creates two spirals running in opposite directions which when counted demonstrate a set of numbers known as the Fibonacci series.

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Although we think of sunflowers as tall plants, there are plenty of shorter species available for borders where their bright, cheerful faces bring sunshine to any part of your garden.

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and tie the corn into the sheaves, leaving them lying on the ground. The farm workers and other helpers had to pick up the sheaves and place them in stooks. When the whole field had been harvested and stooked, it was left to dry out for a couple of days. Then the sheaves were collected by tractor and trailer, and taken to wherever the rick was to be built - sometimes in the field, sometimes at the farm, ready for threshing later.

As for those picnics, Gran’s goodies included crusty bread, homemade pickles, bread and butter pudding, treacle tart, and, my favourite, lemonade

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and ginger beer to wash them down. The food always tasted marvellous in the open air, and there was never any left to take home.

After the picnic it was our job to go gleaning – going all round the edges of the field, picking up the ears of corn that had been left on the ground. They went into the hessian bags that had carried the picnic.

When the field was almost completely cut, Gran called us back because the farmers were ready to shoot the rabbits sheltering in the last standing corn. Normally about half a dozen rabbits were shot, and one of the farmers would bring a

rabbit over to Gran. It was a welcome bonus, extra food in hard times.

With the sacks full of corn, it was time to pack up and head for home, though on the way we would pick blackberries that Gran later made into jams and pies.

Once home, there was one more job to do: removing the grains of corn from the ears of wheat by rubbing the ears between our hands over a large bucket. The grain was then used to feed the chickens.

How we loved those harvest picnics. There was work to be done, of course, but what fun we also had.

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Fuchsias are happy in shade; flowering all summer long. Hellebores in a variety of colours, will give you winter flowers. For spring interest add Pulmonaria; a spotted leaf perennial which will often have blue flowers. For ground cover add yellow flowering Alchemilla mollis for summer interest. There really are a number of plants that will give you all round interest in a shady border. Why not take a trip to your local garden centre and take a look!?

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Motoring Feature

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ity cars for the past five years have been where it’s all been happening.

Exploding fuel prices, a desire to be more eco friendly and the credit crunch have all played a huge part in focussing the spotlight on the babies in carmakers’ ranges.

Throw in the cash conscious buyers the scrappage scheme funnelled into dealers and city cars became the bread and butter of most showrooms’ daily business.

But Chevrolet has set the stakes even higher for its Spark – not only is it charged with notching up sales from price-fixated buyers, but the manufacturer also hopes it’ll attract younger buyers into Chevrolet’s 93 UK retailers.

At first glance it certainly looks like it has the right credentials. That all important price starts with a six – and under the last of the scrappage deals, the network will be knocking them out for under £5k. That puts it in direct competition with Hyundai’s extremely competent i10, right at the sharp end of the list prices.

But remember the Spark has an ace up its sleeve – it’s got big screen pedigree. You may recognise it as one of the annoying twins from Transformers 2.

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blockbuster will do the city car no harm at all.

There’s little doubt it’s been styled to attract more youthful buyers.

Chunky bumpers, a cheeky ‘grin’ and smart headlights really make it stand out on the road. The back end isn’t as dramatic, but it’s tidy enough not to offend and the colour schemes are loud enough to match their target buyers’ taste in music.

Under the bonnet customers have the option of a 1.0-litre unit offering 68bhp or a larger 81bhp 1.2-litre petrol. Performance differences between the two aren’t dramatic – the former will hit 60mph in 15.3 seconds, the larger unit in 12.1 seconds.

But surprisingly it’s the baby of the duo that’s the better car to drive.

Both engines are a little unrefined with engine noise intruding at higher revs, but the 1.0-litre is peppy and good fun. There’s little low down grunt, but keep it singing and you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Those diminutive engine proportions do wonders for fuel economy and emissions.

The 1.0-litre returns 55.4mpg emitting just 119g/km and the 1.2-litre the same 119g/ km while managing identical 55.4mpg. With no plans for a diesel these are likely to be as good as it gets.

The Spark certainly handles

well and has been set up satisfactorily for UK roads. Our test route incorporated some badly potholed surfaces and it coped admirably considering its size and dimensions.

Steering is accurate and not badly weighted, but can lack a little feel at times.

Other complaints? Well, the gear stick is positioned a little too far back and it’s not the most precise shift. And you can tell where costs have been cut inside as the plastics are on the cheap side in the base model and a bit tacky in higher spec colour-coded models.

Plus, we really couldn’t get on with the dash that seems to have been modelled on a child’s flight simulator toy.

That being said, it’s comfortable for a budget car, has a reasonable amount of room inside and a number of handy extras included.

As standard on the Spark + model, buyers will get air conditioning, electric front windows and central locking, along with a USB compatible four-speaker stereo. And that’s for £6,945. Another bonus is that it’s got five doors, but has been styled to look like a three-door. This will appeal to the younger audience while not putting off older family buyers

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The Aztecs first used vanilla to flavour a chocolate drink. Mellow and warming, this comforting scent uplifts as well as calms and is added to fragrances as well as having many culinary uses.

Vanilla comes from the long, black seed pod of a climbing orchid, vanilla planifolia, a native of Mexico. It is one of the world’s most expensive spices because the growing, harvesting and curing process is long and complex. Plants are pollinated by hand, a tricky process as the flower only lives for one day. The pods are handpicked before they are fully ripe and at this stage have absolutely no flavour or aroma. It’s the extraordinary sun-drying method that produces the much loved scent and taste.

To use vanilla pods steep them in the hot liquid needed for the recipe, for example, in the milk

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Because August is holiday month – yay! – and holidays mean getting up early to load the car and head for the ferry.

I suppose I still get childishly excited, as I bash down the luggage in the back just enough to get at least some use out of the rear view mirror, because when I was an actual child we didn’t really go on holiday properly. My mother had a resolutely unmodernised cottage in North Wales where we used to spend two or three nights a week throughout the summer, and while it was lovely to be able to roam unfettered around the hillsides and play with the kids from the farm down the lane, there were no buckets and no spades. (No Dad, either – a man who cherished his comforts, he firmly refused to come with us. The world, he maintained, had moved on since people had to use a privy at the bottom of the garden).

So that’s why the early morning drive to the ferry port, despite having done it countless times, still gives me a thrill. And it’s always a ferry port, never an airport, because I hate modern airports – horrible gimcrack shops, no comfortable seats, a two-hour dawdle, and not

even any semiaudible tannoy announcements anymore, so you have to spend the whole time craning anxiously at a miniscule departure board while desperately trying to remember your flight number. And I hate going to countries where I can’t speak the language, too. (Let me qualify that claim. I can ask any question in French – directions, how much, that sort of thing. I just can’t understand the answer).

So it’s no to the Seychelles again this year.

I’m an obedient middle-class Guardian reader, and France will do me fine, thanks. It may not be cheap since they joined the Euro, but it’s still France. The wine! (But good is no longer cheap, and cheap is no longer good). The food! (Ditto).

The unspoilt medieval towns! (They might have been occupied, but at least they were never bombed).

The markets!

(Where environmental health officers fear to tread – but as no-one looks ill, maybe that’s good).

The motorways! (Beautifully engineered and eerily empty, but the tolls! The tolls!)

The only problem with France in August is – not unreasonably, perhaps – that’s when the French like to go on holiday too.

We once found ourselves staying in a gîte in a hamlet

where the entire population had decamped to Cannes - boulanger, boucher, bar owner and all. The only other people in the place were the Brits in the other gîte, so thank heavens that the check-out staff at the E LeClerc in town hadn’t disappeared for the grand congé as well, or we’d have starved.

Of course, this isn’t a problem if you go camping, as we used to when the kids were small. There are enough penniless students in France to staff the campsite shop, bar, and pool while the grown-ups are en vacances, but heaven help you if your fortnight straddles August and September. The moment August is over the students all go back to Uni, while the French families all shoot home for the beginning of the new school year. Overnight the site is deserted, and you feel more like a trespasser than a tourist.

Anyway, grizzling aside, August approaches and with it that little tingle as I try and cram my son’s guitar on top of the luggage in the back of the Vectra. Last year it was the Pyrenees; wonderful! This year, who knows? Burgundy, perhaps?

(My idea). Or St Tropez? (My wife’s).

St Tropez it is, then.

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The Otterbourne Flower & Garden Club Demonstrations,Speakers & Garden visits. Meetings at 730pm,in the Otterbourne Village Hall, on the fourth Tuesday of the month. New members Welcome.

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Art Group

4th Wednesday 7:30pm Chandler’s Ford Art Group meet at 7.30pm on the 4th Wednesday of the month except August and December in the Community Hall, Hursley Rd, next to St Boniface Church. We are approx 130 members strong at present, paying an annual sub of £18.00.

Visiting professional artists demonstrate their techniques or hold slide presentations. One day workshops take place over 6 winter months and there are exhibitions and other events/ outings during the year as necessary. www.chandlersfordartgroup.com 023 8026 1412

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his month’s local walk is fairly easy but mostly well away from the roads and starts from the car park at the shops in Pilgrims Close, Valley Park.

Walk to the traffic lights at the junction of Knightwood Rd and Pilgrims Close so that the shops and pub are behind you, and cross over into Skys Wood Rd with the leisure centre on your right. Take the first left into Hemlock Way and go straight up the slight hill.

At the end of the houses take the short path towards some woods and then turn

left down a path.

When you pass by the five bar gate you will be on the cycle path that runs along Castle Lane.

Turn right and after a few hundred yards you will see a gap in the hedge on your left. If you look across the road you’ll see a route through the trees. Castle Lane isn’t easy to cross so do take care.

Follow the woodland route and pass the fields until you can see a footpath sign and a small shed in the woods (5 to 10 minutes) at which turn left to walk between the field

and the woods. You will eventually reach a farm but just keep going straight (east) and up the hill. At the end you will reach the main road with Asda on the other side.

Turn left, walk down to the Asda roundabout and cross straight over. As the path ends, turn left with the electricity works on the right. Keep following this cycle path until you arrive back at the Pilgrim Rd shops.

There is a fuller version of this walk with map links on our website www. cfdirectory.co.uk

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Local Events Concert in Aid of Hampshire Fire & Rescue The Brook, Portswood 7 July evening Serving personnel in Hampshire Fire & Rescue Service have organised a concert on Wednesday 7th July at local music hotspot The Brook in Portswood Road, Southampton.

Featuring the much acclaimed local soul band Rufus Stone the evening promises to be a big hit.

Supported by two bands that include HFRS personnel called Snatch Rescue and Monkey Closet, the evening starts at 8 pm. All proceeds go to the James Shears and Alan Bannon memorial fund 02380 55 5366 to book.

Drag Racing Baker Barracks, Thorney Island Portsmouth 9-11 July 10am – 12:30pm Modified cars with drag racing, drift circuit, go karting, ride in a drift car, paintballing, camping, marquee, food and beverages. Raising funds for Help for Heroes. www.modifiedmadness.co.uk Romsey Beggars Fair 10 Jul, from 11am Music, dance and street entertainment in the streets, parks, pubs and churches of Romsey. The best music

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Barton Peveril Garden Party Barton Peveril College 13th July 5-8pm Former full-time and adult education students are invited to take part in The Great Comeback, a garden party-style event staged as part of the college’s weeklong Arts Festival. Proceeds to charity. www.barton-peveril.ac.uk Berts Big Bash 17 Jul 7:30 to 11:30 See page 81 What’s that tree?

Manor Farm Country Park 18 Jul, 11am A guided walk to help you identify some of the many and varied trees to be found in the Country Park. Places are limited and booking is essential.. Parking charge applies (£2). Adult £3 Child £1. 01489 787055 Southampton Play Day Friday, 23 July 10am-2pm Hoglands Park, Southampton Annual event. This is a chance for ALL children and their families / carers to come together and play for FREE. Organisations that work within the city come together to offer activities such as sand play, paint, collage, playdough making, water play and sports activities.

July and August Tour of Eagle Warehouse 88-90 French Street, Southampton 23 July 11am-12:30pm Explore the city’s archaelogy collections store and find out more about how archaeologists use finds to uncover the history of the city and its people. Free (B) 023 8083 4563 Annual open day The Aviary Children’s Centre, Blackbird Rd, Eastleigh 23 Jul, 10am Come and enjoy some of the Free fun activites happening at our annual open day.

We have: falconry display; sensory room; mobile farm; african drumming; balloon man; free resfreshments & ice cream; free raffle ticket for every child and lots, lots more! 023 8062 6960 Battle of Britain Centenary Flypast 24 July afternoon 3 short flypasts over the Southampton Water area, Eastleigh & Southampton.

Views along the Southampton Water from Weston Shore to Hamble Point. Marking the birth of aviation in the region 100 years ago this year. See the Hurricane, the UK’s only flying Lancaster and the Spitfire.

Sky Ride Sun 25 July Southampton will be opening up its streets to cyclists with a 6 mile route between 10am-4pm.

The event offers people, of all ages and abilities, the chance to dust off their bikes and enjoy the sights and sounds of Southampton on a traffic free tour of the city and its great landmarks. www.goskyride.com Blasts from the Past 7/8 Aug 11am -5pm Broadlands, Romsey A series of historical reenactments, providing an exciting and colourful pageant of English life and fun for all the family. Alongside battles, encampments and a WWII flypast, there will also be scenes of domestic life including an intriguing mix of medicine, knitting and the almost unknown British moonshot of 1939. £10 Adults £5 children Open Day at Southampton’s French Church Sun 29 Aug 10am-4pm St Julien’s Church, Winkle Street, SO14 Queen Elizabeth I granted a licence for the French community to build a church in Southampton. the church

is normally locked but by permission of Queen’s College Oxford the church will be open for viewing on the last Sundays of July and August. Local historian John Avery a member of the Huguenot Society will be available to answer questions.

NGS Gardens Open for Charity www.ngs.org.uk for more details or tel 01483 211535 A Selection of Open Days Crawley Gardens, SO21 2PU Tues 20 July 2-5:30pm Gilberts Nursery, Sherfield English SO51 6DT 28,29,30 Aug 11am-5pm Abbey Cottage, Itchen Abbas SO21 1BN 29 & 30 Aug 12-5pm Dean House, Kilmeston SO24 0NL 18 July, 1 Aug 12-5pm The Buildings, Broughton SO20 8BH 10 & 11 July, 8 Aug 2-5pm Meon Orchard, Wickham PO17 5AU 25 July 2-6pm Hinton Ampner(NT), SO24 0LA 17 July 11-5pm

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Supermarket Opening Hours Mon Asda

023 8026 8341

Park Road Stores SPAR (Hursley Rd)

023 8025 2380

7.30am then 24 hours

Tues 24 hours

Weds

Thurs

24 hours

24 hours

Fri 24 hours

Sat

Sun

24 hours 10am-4pm until 10pm

9am-8pm 9am-8pm 9am-8pm 9am-8pm 9am-8pm 8am-6pm 10am-4pm 5.30am 8pm

5.30am - 5.30am 8pm 8pm

5.30am 8pm

5.30am 8pm

5.30am - 5.30am 8pm 2pm

Somerfield

7am-9pm 7am-9pm 7am-9pm 7am-9pm 7am-9pm 7am-9pm 10am-4pm

Tesco (Ash)

7am - 11pm 7am -11pm 7am -11pm 7am -11pm 7am -11pm 7am - 11pm 7am -11pm

Tesco (V.Pk)

6am -11pm 6am -11pm 6am -11pm 6am - 11pm 6am - 11pm 6am - 11pm 6am -11pm

023 8026 6561 0845 026 9245 0845 026 9209

Waitrose

023 8026 0230

8.30am 8pm

8.30am 8pm

8.30am 8pm

8.30am 8pm

8.30am 9pm

8.30am 7pm

10am 4pm

Bay Leaves Larder is open 9:00 till 5:30 Monday to Saturday.

All opening hours are given as a guide only and are correct at the time of going to press CROSSWORD - Across: 1 Corpus Christi, 7 Edged,

8 Dracula, 9 Humerus, 10 Hyena, 11 Acreage, 17 Imago, 18 Trapeze, 20 Katydid, 21 Lille, 22 Demerara sugar.

Down: 1 Crèche, 2 Regime, 3 Udder, 4 Road hog, 5 Saucer, 6 Isaiah, 8 Dissected, 12 Chowder, 13 Winked, 14 Bantam, 15 Jet-lag, 16 Meteor, 19 Atlas.

QUIZ - 1. The Smurfs, 2. Itchy, 3. Batman, 4. Daisy Duck, 5. The Topper, 6. Hanna and Barbera, 7. A beagle, 8. Dick Dastardly, 9. The Bash Street Kids, 10. Shaggy (Scooby-Doo) CHILDREN’S PUZZLE PAGE - Riddle: A sponge Sums: 10, 44 (Sum should be calculated, 34+ (5X2). However you might want to do alternative solution of 78), 30

PICTOGRAM 1. A cut above the rest 2. He came out of nowhere 3. Office party LOCAL LANDMARKS - 1. Baroda Care Home, Merdon Avenue 2.Chandlers Ford station footbridge. 3. Kings Court Masonic Centre, Winchester Rd 4. Footbridge over Monk’s Brook near Sutherlands Way 5. Millenium Stone, St Martin’s church, Queens Rd

Advertising and Distribution

DISTRIBUTION: The Chandlers Ford Directory is delivered to two alternating areas of the SO53 postcode. This month and all the odd numbered months it goes to: Knightwood, Valley Park, North Millers Dale, South Millers Dale, homes south of Hiltingbury Rd to the Central Precinct, and Hursley Rd. On the even numbered months the directory goes to homes north of Flexford and Hiltingbury Rds, Scantabout, Peverells Wood, Toynbee/ Bodycoats Rd, Chalvington Rd areas also Hursley and parts of Otterbourne.

TO ADVERTISE: Please call or email Tania Houston Tania@cfdirectory.co.uk 023 8027 6361 or Kevin Houston Kevin @cfdirectory.co.uk 023 8027 6396 Whilst every care is taken to ensure accuracy, the publishers cannot accept responsibility for loss, damage or omission caused by error in the printing of an advert. All artwork is accepted on the strict condition that permission has been given for use in the publication. Adverts are accepted on the understanding that descriptions of goods and services are fair and accurate. The Chandler’s Ford Directory does not officially endorse any advertising material included within this publication. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or transmitted in any form—electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise - without the prior consent of the publisher.

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Doctor Numbers

Chemist Numbers

NHS Direct (24 hour helpline) 0845 46 47

Asda Pharmacy, Bournemouth Road Tel: 023 8026 0092.

The Brownhill Surgery 2 Brownhill Rd

023 8025 2188 023 8025 2414

Fryern Surgery Oakmount Rd

023 8027 3252 023 8027 3458

Knightwood Surgery (Parkside Family Practice) Pilgrims Close

023 8025 5118

Park Surgery (Chandler’s Ford Family Practice), Hursley Rd AND St Francis Surgery (Chandler’s Ford Family Practice), Pilgrims Close

0844 477 8957

Medcare (private doctors)

02380 274179

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(Emergencies press option 1) (Appointments press option 2)

School Numbers Ch/Ford Infant Fryern Infant Fryern Junior Hiltingbury Inf. Hiltingbury Jun. John Keble CE PS Knightwood Lakeside Merdon Otterbourne CE PS Scantabout Sherborne House St Francis St Swithin Wells Thornden Toynbee

023 8025 2655 023 8026 5931 023 8025 4155 023 8026 5414 023 8026 1808 01962 775241 023 8026 1900 023 8026 6633 023 8026 5255 01962 712020 023 8026 6892 023 8025 2440 023 8027 1178 023 8026 6210 023 8026 9722 023 8026 9026

Library Times http://www3.hants.gov.uk/library/chandlersford-library.htm Oakmount Road, Chandler’s Ford, 0845 6035631

Mon/Weds/Fri: 9:00 - 5pm Tues/Thurs: 9:00 - 7pm Saturdays: 9:00 - 4pm

Boots the Chemist, 4-5 Fryern Arcade, Winchester Road, SO53 2DP. Tel:023 8025 2751.

Opening hours/rota: Mon/Tues - 8.30am 6pm, Weds/Thurs/Fri - 8.30am - 6.30pm, Sat -8.30am - 5.30pm.

Day Lewis, 95 Hiltingbury Road, SO53 5NQ. Tel: 023 8025 3063.

Mon - Fri - 8.30am - 6.00pm, Sat - 9.00am 5.30pm. Closed Good Friday.

Falkland Pharmacy, 1 Falkland Court, SO53 3GA. Tel:023 8025 4344.

Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri - 9.00 - 1.00, 2.00 - 6.30.

Weds 9.00 - 1.00, 6.00 - 7.00 Sat - 9.00 -1.00, 2.00 - 5.30.

Lloyds Pharmacy, 21 Hursley Road, SO53 2FS. Tel: 023 8025 4252.

Mon - Fri - 9.00am - 6.30pm, Sat - 9.00am - 1.00pm.

Park Pharmacy, 3 Pilgrims Close, Valley Park, SO53 4TQ. Tel: 023 8026 3908.

Mon - Fri - 8.45am - 6.30pm, Sat - 9.00am - 1.00pm.

Last Post Times Ashdown Rd - Mon-Fri 5pm/Post Office Closes 5:30pm, Sat 11:30/Post Office Closes 12:30

Fryern Arcade Post Office Mon-Fri 9:00 to 5:30, Saturday 9:00 to 12:30 LAST POST IN CHANDLER’S FORD - Brickfield

Lane on The Chandler’s Ford Industrial Estate (near Hendy Truck) - Mon-Fri 6:30, Saturday: 11:45 No collection Sunday

Sustainable Transport For all rail, ferry, bus and underground information click on www.traveline.org.uk/index.htm or call 0871 200 22 33 or visit www.threeriversrail.com For all cycle routes in Chandlers Ford and neighbouring areas visit www. eastleigh.gov.uk/parking-travel--roads.aspx

School Holidays All dates taken from - http://www.hants.gov.uk/ education/schools/holidays.php

Recycling The two recycling centres closest to Chandler’s Ford are at Eastleigh and on the outskirts of Romsey. Both are open from April onwards between 8am and 7pm, 7 days a week.

Eastleigh Romsey (Timsbury)

Mon/Tues/Weds - 8.00am - 9.00pm, Thurs/Fri - 8.00am - 10pm, Sat - 8.00am - 8.00pm, Sun - 10.00am - 4.00pm. Bank Hols - 9.00am 6.00pm. Closed on Easter Sunday.

02380 644106 01794 368548

Summer term Summer: Mon 26/7/2010 - Fri 3/9/2010 Autumn term Half term: 25/10/2010 to 29/10/2010 Christmas: Mon 20/12/2010 to 3/1/2011 Spring term Half Term: Mon 21/2/2011 - Fri 25/2/2011 Summer term Half Term: Mon 30/5/2011 - Fri 3/7/2011

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For Advertisers offering multiple property services look under Property Maintenance, otherwise see specific trade e.g. electrician, carpenter etc.

14 Accounting: Accord Accountants Aerials: 18 Aerial Installer Ltd 64 DJ Satellites 69 Air Conditioning: ALB Electrical Appliance Repair: 75 Advanced Appliance Repairs 73 Premier Electrics 7 Architect: Andrew Johns 34 Auction House: Bonhams Bathrooms: See Plumbing Beauty Treatments: 20 Amazing Lashes 24 Caroline’s 26 Firvale Clinic 25 Mystique Beauty 32 Beauty School: Helen McGuinness Blinds & Curtains: 71 Designing for Style 8 Solent Blinds & Curtains Co Ltd 3 Waterside Blinds Boilers: See Plumbing Car Service/Repair- See Garage Svcs Carpenter: 11 Crown Carpentry 13 Kiwi Carpentry 44 Knightwood Carpentry Carpet Cleaning: 72 Abbey Cleaning 74 American Truckmount 11 Elliott Carpet Care 42 Carpet & Flooring: G E Nicholls Childcare: 78 Hiltingbury Kindergarten 76 Little 1 Nursery 78 Precious BB Children’s Tuition: 78 Bettermaths 76 Kip McGrath 5 Kumon Chiropractor: 31 Walk Tall Chiropractor Clinic Cleaning Services: 70 Cobwebs Complete Homes Cleaning Svcs 66 Computer Services: 71 Chandlers Ford Computer Care 68 Widenet Conservatories: G&H Windows & Conservatories 39 88 Live-in 6 Pennington Jones (HI) Ltd 59 Delicatessen: Bay Leaves Larder Dentist: 20/29 Fryern Dental 24 Hursley Road Dental Practice 22 Marlfield House Dental Centre 26 Smile 32 Vital Family Dental Care 4 Westfield Dental Practice Divorce Workshop: Divorce Recovery 60

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Domestic Appliance: Advanced Appliance Repairs Premier Electrics Double Glazing Inst/Repairs: G&H Windows & Conservatories Live-in Design Pennington Jones (HI) Ltd Windowmenda Driving Instr: Oak School of Motoring Education: Sherborne House School Electrician: AI Electrical Solutions ALB Electrical Ampfield Electrical DLE Electrical Services Ltd GJ Rhodes Electrical Hillcroft Electrical Services Imagine Electrial Services Tremlett Electrial Services Estate Agent: Jonathan Rees Fencing Services: Terry Flynn Fruit & Vegetables: Market Fresh Funeral Direct: Nigel Guilder Furniture: From Old to New Garage Doors: Fix Quick Garage Doors Garage Services: Auto Assistance Chandlers Ford Auto Repairs &Svg Chandlers Ford Body Repairs Independent VW Robinsons Vehicle Maintenance Garden Design & Services: Ace Liftaway Adapt Landscapes All In One C/Ford Garden Svcs Dragonfly Enviro Greenkeeper Ground Level Lakewood Tree Surgeons One Man Went To Mow Romsey Grass Romsey Stump Sue-perb Terry Flynn Valley Park Landscapes Whittaker Tree Care Gas Services: See Plumbing Gold Buyer: Phillips & Green Ltd Health & Fitness: Bodysound The Club The Italian Fitness Job Hairdressing: Hair at Monroe’s Hot Heads Health Services: Care Solutions Ltd Hampshire Hearing Centre Victoria Horne Walk Tall Chiropractor Clinic Holidays: Holiday Properties Kitchens: Abbey Kitchens Knightwood Kitchens Loft Conversions: Charrett & Sons Office Furniture: Haywood Office Svc Optician: Rawlings

75 73 39 88 6 7 66 77 18 69 7 73 10 37 70 39 45 48 58 33 62 68 56 55 55 57 56 53 47 49 50 49 49 49 50 51 47 47 51 53 48 51 53 34 23 27 20 21 25 34 35 29 31 63 19 10 17 14 33

Painter/Decorator (see also Property

Maintenance):

Darren Liggett M Fyall Design & Co Prestige Painting SJ Penney Tony Hart VHN Decorating Pet Services: Pet Pals Webbs Natural Pet Care Plasterer: A Y Plastering C B Plastering Services Plasterforce Plumbing Services (including bathroom

18 69 42 52 37 13

A* Plumbing Ace Plumbing Ltd Alpha Plumbing Aqualogic Plumbing & Heating Aquatec First Call Heating Ltd Gair Gas Gas Elite Graham Jones Plumbing & Heating JT Plumbing Services Mike Chivers Premier Bathrooms Tom Mitchell Plumbing TP Watts Podiatrist: Jon Callen Printer: Colourworld Property Maintenance & Improvements: All In One Apple Design CF Handyman Services CLS Property Management Complete Installations DLA Building Service Limited Fletcher John Builders Ltd MCC Ltd M Fyall Design & Co Mead Home Improvements R & S Building Services S & R Property Services The Handyman School: Sherborne House School Singing Lessons: Jan Skip Hire: Ace Liftaway Social Group: In-Sync Television & Audio Retailer: T.A.S.S. Tiling & Tile Supplier: Aidy Ceramic Tiling AT Ceramics KDP Tiles Premier Bathrooms & Tiles Timber Merchant: C.F. Timber Tree Surgery: See Garden Tuition (Children’s): Bettermaths Kip McGrath Kumon Upholstery: American Truckmount The Upholstery Workshop From Old to New Vegetables: Market Fresh Veterinary: The Village Vet Window Repair: Windowmenda

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