Clubhouse Network Newsletter Issue 10

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Clubhouse Network Newsletter

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In This Issue Pixie Paints Parrot Fashion Our Clubhouses are now re-opening in a gradual and safe way.

Access is by appointment only, so speak to your support worker or call 01782 835 220 to arrange a visiting time for the American or twentyfourSEVEN.

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Newsletter EXTRA #10 Hello everyone and welcome to this issue of the Newsletter. This time, a quiz for fledgling ornithologists plus the regular general knowledge and Quick quizzes.

There are the usual mindfulness colouring pictures and a dot-to-dot in this edition to test out your artistic skill.

In local history, Howard takes a dip into the story of our local swimming pools both indoors and out.

MusicMan selects the Best Ever Cover Songs.

Spice, Boe and Pixie create expressionist paintings using their paws and claws.

In this issue: Where It’s At with Brighter Futures p3 Picture Quiz: Name These Birds p5 Mind Services p6 General Knowledge Quiz p7 Self-Harm Support and Recovery Service p8 Healing Horses p9 Colouring and Dot-to-Dot p10 Clubhouse Access Times p13 Word Search p14 MusicMan, Best Ever Cover Songs p15 Local History: Swimming p16 Quiz Answers p17 This Month’s Mindful Moments p17 Music: Think Twice sung by Toni Kalvans p17 My Best Ever Birthday p17 Ten Facts British Inventions p18 Riddles p19 City Snap: Broadway Cinema Meir p19 Jokes, Quick Quiz Answers, Fantasy Football p20 Clubhouse Arts EXTRA p21 Pets’ World: Spice, Boe and Pixie Paint p22 Healing Horses For Those Bereaved By Suicide p23 Support and Services Information p24 Sudoku Solutions p24 Knitted Bees p25 Mindful Colouring p27 Newsletter EXTRA is made by: Editor, Producer, Audio: Mark Gilbert Feature Writer: Howard Dexter Photographer: Charlotte Booth Contributor: Diane Goodstadt Braillist, Music: Toni Kalvans Approval: Sharon Fone Front Cover: Diane’s parrot patchwork

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The Green Gym at Silverdale Park Marjorie, Ben, Lee, Craig, Charlotte and Emma made these sustainable bird feeders

Charlotte and Mark took a trip to Arbor Low

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Spice, Boe and Pixie Paint See p22 Michelle's Diamond Art

Chinese New Year captured by our ace photo reporter Charlotte

Charlotte Joins the D-Day Darlings

No prizes for guessing who snapped this Yellow Wagtail to an SD Card Craig has a go at sewing for the first time

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Here are some birds that are quite easy to name and some that are curve balls. Kudos to anyone who knocks it out of the park.

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General Knowledge Quiz 1 After The Simpsons, what is the longest-running TV show? a) Law & Order c) Criminal Minds b) Grey’s Anatomy d) NCIS 2 Which Disney princess sings “A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes”? a) Belle c) Jasmine b) Cinderella d) Sleeping Beauty 3 How often does the moon orbit the Earth? a) Every 7 days c) Every 30 days b) Every 27 days d) Every 365 days 4 In Greek Mythology, who is the Queen of the Underworld? a) Pandora c) Helen b) Medusa d) Persephone 5 How many points is a try worth in Rugby Union? a) 5 c) 7 b) 4 d) 3

6 How many feet are in a mile? a) 1,037 c) 5,284 b) 5,280 d) 6,201 7 Where is the Oval Office located in the White House? a) North Wing c) East Wing b) South Wing d) West Wing 8 At what temperature (Fahrenheit) does water freeze? a) 32 degrees c) -10 degrees b) 40 degrees d) 0 degrees 9 Where in Pennsylvania is The Office based? a) Philadelphia c) Scranton b) Pittsburgh d) Lancaster 10 In the movie Good Will Hunting, which college does Skylar attend? a) Harvard c) Columbia b) Yale d) UCLA

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Here are some pictures for you to colour in. Never tried colouring since you were a child?

Give it a go, you might find it calming and fulfilling.

If you would like a paper copy of this newsletter speak to your support worker and they can surface mail one to you.

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If you have enjoyed colouring these images then why not get yourself a colouring book aimed at adults. Some of the books are very beautiful in themselves being made from fine paper and using high quality printing. You will find books at most newsagents, supermarkets or at The Works and The Range. There are prices to suit most pockets. Other crafts you will find in the shops include 5D Diamond Art, Scraperfoil and Artful Etching. All of these arts and crafts and more take place in Clubhouse. Go along and give it a go when we re-open, you will be made very welcome.

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The Clubhouse Network Temporary reduced opening times – walk in service

Times

Access by appointment only

Monday Meir group

09.30-12.30 Maggie Hunter

Monday The American

09.30-12.30 Angela Henshall

13.00-16.00 Chris Morgan

Tuesday Hillcrest 24/7

09.30-12.30 Jacqui Parker

13.00-16.00 Jacqui Parker

Wednesday The American

09.30-12.30 Maggie Hunter

Art/modelling The American

09.30-13.00 Chris Oldham

13.00-16.00 Chris Morgan

Thursday Hillcrest 24/7

09.30-12.30 Jacqui Parker

13.00-16.00 Jacqui Parker

Friday The American

09.30-12.30 Angela Henshall

13.00-16.00 Maggie Hunter

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Word Search Farm Animals

BEES TURKEY ANIMALS BUFFALO HORSE DUCK BIRDS DOG GOAT FISH| CHICKEN CALF LLAMA DEER GOOSE SHEEP BISON HEN GEESE LAMB

Safari Animals KUDU LEOPARD ELAND CROCODILE BABOON GIRAFFE ELEPHANT BUFFALO HIPPO RHINO WARTHOG GAZELLE ZEBRA CHEETAH CIVET HYENA LION

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Best Ever Cover Songs

A Clubhouse Cookbook online There is now a way to access online all the recipes that have featured in the Newsletter. To get access to the Clubhouse Cookbook Online just send an email with Cookbook as the subject to:

few years ago, You Were Always On My Mind by The Pet Shop Boys was voted the best ever cover; it is excellent. I find the Elvis Presley version slow mournful and rather boring.

Back in the sixties, blues singer Joe Cocker took the Beatles jaunty pop song With A Little Help From My Friends and

In 1994 American rockers Nine Inch Nails (aka NiN) wrote a song called hurt. The song was covered brilliantly by Johnny Cash in 2002. Cash sang it in a lower voice than the original and with lines like Everyone I know Goes Away In The End made it a tear jerking classic.

Adele had a big hit with Make You Feel My Love. However, did you know that the original was written and performed by Bob Dylan? I think it's fair to say that Dylan wrote many songs that bands did better, including a favourite of mine, Mr. Tambourine Man by The Byrds.

David Bowie wrote The Man Who Sold the World in the early 1970s. Then in the 1990s Nirvana brought this great song to a whole new audience.

The theme from The Bodyguard (I Will Always Love

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The Byrds turned it into a classic with great female backing singers.

The vocals were almost shouty and I wondered at the time what Ringo made of it?

You) was made famous by Whitney Houston, even though it was written and performed in 1973 by Dolly Parton. Dolly is known to have expressed the opinion that she

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preferred Whitney's version to her own.

In 2006 The Zutons had a hit with Valerie. A few years later Amy Winehouse took the song to a new level.

Finally, with some songs I like both the original and cover just as much. In 1983 Tears For Fears had a big hit with Mad World. American Singer Gary Jules then slowed it right down for the film Donnie Darko. The song took the Number One spot in Christmas 2003.

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Local History Swimming I was taught to swim at Hanley Baths in the 1960s.

We were ferried every week to the venue on the school bus.

Non-swimmers would be given a hand held float made from polystyrene. Swimming with two hands on the float wasn't difficult and so the instructors would encourage us to take one hand off before eventually moving on to the long pole.

The teachers would walk poolside with its end in the water for us to grab.

Meanwhile the potential swimmer would frantically splash around in doggy paddle fashion.

The system did work and most of us went on to acquire the coveted length certificate.

The open air pool at Trentham Gardens was built in the 1920s in the Art Deco style and had a seating capacity for one thousand people. Sadly the pool closed in the mid-1970s.

I remember the pool being

For fun swimming and flumes the city is lucky to have Dimensions in Burslem and Waterworld at Festival Park.

In Newcastle, Jubilee 2 pool is very popular. Back in the 1990s I had a friend, Dulcie,

Trentham very large though as an who worked there as a unheated pool it was swimming instructor.

My incredibly cold. Like many middle son, Rob was struggling locals of a certain age a day to swim but Dulcie had the out at Trentham would always patience to teach him. She include a swim. You could also also told me an interesting take a walk by the lake side story. Several times a year the woods but most used the pool would be hired out to a excellent miniature railway. local naturist club but because Fenton Manor is the place for some of the large windows

Jubilee 2 serious swimmers as well as were in view of the public, hosting national competitions blinds were installed to and events there is also a preserve their modesty. teaching pool.

intention; let it settle itself.”Tilopa

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a) Law & Order b) Cinderella b) Every 27 days d) Persephone a) 5 b) 5,280 feet d) West Wing a) 32 degrees c) Scranton a) Harvard

Last issue’s Quick Quiz Answers 1. d) Frankie Dettori 2. b) New York Yankees 3. a) Blue 4. b) Oats 5. d) Soup 6. c) Ketchup 7. a) Colourless 8. b) Apple 9. a) Almonds 10. d) Sausage

What is Mindfulness?

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indfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

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This Month’s Mindful Moments The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Eric Hoffer Have good trust in yourself not in the one that you think you should be, but in the one that you are.

Maezumi Roshi Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Alan Watts “No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no

This month in the audio edition: Celine Dion’s Think Twice sung by Toni Kalvans.

Recorded by Nomis Industria

My Best Ever Birthday Growing up my mum would always give me a good birthday. Like many small boys I could be naughty but everything was always forgiven on my special day.

I would have a party at home with my friends, having sandwiches and jelly and of course a birthday cake.

Party games were a must.

Favourites of mine were Pass the Parcel and Musical Chairs.

As I grew older fewer people would come to my parties and my friends said the same. Two of my best pals, brothers Steven and Melvin were offered an alternative. For Steven's birthday one year, rather than a party his mum said he could have a pound.

Split three ways that was 33p

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each. Not much now but in the sixties it enabled us to buy lots of sweets and goodies.

Anyway, I digress. This story is

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about my best ever birthday, which has to be my eighteenth.

People always say that you never forget your first love and at the time, mine was a girl called Sue. She had previously dated a mate, when they finished we had two splendid years together. We had been a couple for around a year when we both decided that it would be a good idea to organise a party as I would soon be eighteen.

We knew of a pub in Hanley called The Woodman. They had a room upstairs that could be hired out. On the day we did our own catering and I remember a trip to the local supermarket to buy a large chicken costing £1.00 that we used to make sandwiches. We had a good turnout and thankfully no one sang Happy Birthday or gave me the bumps!

The date was 14th December 1974. It was a Saturday and a

won 4:0, the biggest win of that season, moving us up to third in the table.

Maybe I'm easily pleased but I said on the day, having a great party with Sue and my many friends and also the bonus of a great Vale win could be the best birthday ever. Looking back now, I was right.

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Ten Facts Great British Inventions 1. Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1669.

His telescope allowed detailed observation of the solar system in ways literally never before seen.

2. The toothbrush as we know it was created by Willian Addis circa 1770.

Addis was an English entrepreneur who came up with the idea of a mass produced toothbrush.

3. Richard Trevithick built the first road going

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locomotive, The Puffing Devil. After this, the railway steam locomotive was developed and it was full steam ahead on the permanent way.

The seed drill was developed by Jethro Tull (He was Living in the Past) in around 1701. The seed drill was a critical advancement for agriculture, sowing the seeds at the right depth and equal distance, the seeds were then covered with soil, safe from the birds.

Most people like to nom on a chocolate bar. So we should all be grateful to J. S. Fry for inventing our favourite snack in 1847.

Most of us now enjoy the guilty pleasure of a block of chocolate Alexander Bell stumbled upon the idea for the telephone whilst experimenting with electro-magnets. He was the first to receive a patent for the telephone as we know it.

The hovercraft or, more correctly, air-cushioned vehicle (ACV) was devised

by Christopher Cockerell in 1953. Cockerell and his team were the first to develop the use of an annular ring to maintain the air cushion. They were also the first to devise the successful skirt and demonstrate a practical example of this technology.

8. Television was first demonstrated by Scottish inventor John Logie Baird in 1925. However Baird's system would ultimately prove to be an impractical dead-end. The designs of American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth and the Marconi Company were vastly superior to Baird's system in every way and when developed became the analogue TV system we all remember.

9. The automatic kettle was developed by Peter Hobbs in 1955. The kettles were very expensive in the early days. At the time most people knew their kettle was boiling when it started to whistle! Hobbs went on to found the familiar company Russell Hobbs.

10. Tim Berners-Lee left Oxford University with a degree in physics. After graduating he joined CERN as a computer scientist. He developed the ideas for the World Wide Web over a period of time with the first iteration appearing in 1989.

Famously the software was developed on a NeXT Cube computer, the operating system of which now powers Apple's Macintosh computers.

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8. I am lighter then what I am made of and more of me is hidden than is seen. What am I? 9. Forward it's heavy, backwards it's not. What is it?

10. Dirty when white. What am I?

Questions 1. You walk into a room and see a bed. On the bed are two dogs and three cats.

How many legs are on the floor?

2. I am beautiful, up in the sky. I am magical yet I cannot fly and some hope for riches. What am I? 3. A girl says to her best friend, 'I was born in 1955 and celebrated my 18th birthday last weekend'.

How is that possible?

4. A thief enters a bank and threatens the clerk for money but she says, ‘The code for the safe is different every day and if you hurt me you will never get the code’. However the thief manages to get the code. How did he do this?

5. Wednesday, Steve and Pam go to a restaurant to eat lunch. Afterwards they pay the bill. Steve and Pam don't pay; so who does?

6. What is the one thing everyone can agree on between Heaven and Earth?

Answers 1. Six: The bed's four and your two legs.

2. A rainbow 3. She was born in room 1955.

4. The clerk told him the code, it is Different every day.

5. Their friend Wednesday 6. The word And 7. Blew 8. An iceberg 9. The word Ton 10. A blackboard

Listen to the Newsletter You can listen to (and read) the newsletter using the web address below:

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City Snap This photo below shows the super cinema, Broadway in Meir. Built in 1936 it was closed and demolished in 1973 to make room for shops and flats.

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How to contact the Newsletter team You can contact the Newsletter team with content or ideas using this email address:

6 In whose reign was the great fire of London, 1666? a. Charles I b. Charles II c. James II

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Jokes My wife is leaving me because she thinks I'm obsessed with astronomy. What planet is she on?

I got a book at a charity shop titled A Guide to Surgical Procedures. I opened it up and the appendix was missing.

What did the inventor of the drawing board go back to when he had a problem?

I used to be in a band called Missing Cat. You probably saw our posters.

My wife told me she thought we'd have less arguments if I wasn't so pedantic. I told her, 'I think you mean fewer'.

To the person who stole my glasses, I will find you, 'I have contacts'.

I just spent £300 on a limousine and discovered that the fee doesn't include a driver. I can't believe I've spent all that money and have nothing to chauffer it.

I wrote a book on basements.

It made the best cellars list.

My neighbour keeps putting joss sticks through my letterbox. I'm incensed.

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean a mother.

Quick Quiz 1 Who won the Battle of Hastings in 1066? a. Harold b. William of Normandy c. William II

2 Where was Thomas Becket murdered in 1170? a. Westminster Abbey b. York Minster c. Canterbury Cathedral 3 How old was Victoria when she became Queen in 1837? a. 16 b. 18 c. 21 4 Who landed in Australia in 1770? a. James Cook b. Francis Chichester c. Francis Drake 5 In which year was the Magna Carta signed? a. 1215 b. 1251 c. 1512

7 Which king died in the Battle of Bosworth Field, 1485? a. Edward V b. Henry VII c. Richard III 8 In whose reign was the gunpowder plot of 1605? a. James I b. Elizabeth I c. Charles I 9 In which year did the English Civil War begin? a. 1542 b. 1642 c. 1742 10 What was the population of Britain at the time of the first census in 1801? a. 8 million b. 18 million c. million Answers in the next issue of Newsletter.

STOP PRESS STOP PRESS Fantasy Football Results 3022 Solar System Shield Stoke C 3-2 Phobos Fighters Titan Greeks 1–4 Port V Kerberos Dogs 0-1 Crewe A

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Clubhouse Arts EXTRA

Enjoy this selection of Diane’s textile art. We love this work, how about trying to produce your own textile based art?

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Pets’ World – Spice, Boe and Pixie Paint

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Support and Services Contact Information Groceries Freshview foods 01782 717806 Delivery within 10 miles of Wolstanton.

Walkers Farm Shop (near Whittle Court) 01782 274075 Order and pay over the phone, then collect outside the shop. www.heinztohome.co.uk 16 tins of beans, spaghetti hoops and soups. £14 plus £3.50 Hermes delivery. Delivered within 3 days.

Support Changeshere4u.org.uk - Zoom meetings or can phone in.

CALM Campaign Against Living Miserably - Hardship and Suicide Prevention to all, especially older males.

0800 58 58 58 5pm to midnight Samaritans 116 123 Bereavement Helpline 0800 2600 400 8am to 8pm.

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Knitted bees found at spots across Staffordshire, and this is why They have a special meaning

The bees have been spotted all over Staffordshire (Image: Staffordshire Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Champions) Knitted bees have been found left at venues across Staffordshire as part of a campaign to spread awareness of mental health issues The project has been organised by Staffordshire Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Champions, which is part of the #talksuicide campaign in the county that is part of the wider Suicide Prevention Partnership. It sees the knitted bees placed at locations, including nature reserves and even rail stations.

Sophie Henaughan, operations manager at Brighter Futures group with deals with homelessness and mental health, commented on the importance of the bees, as she said, ‘The subtle approach that you get from the bees most importantly provides a conversation starter which is, of course, the most important thing.’

The Suicide Prevention Partnership is a combination of Staffordshire County Council and Stoke-onTrent City Council, which together have commissioned Brighter Futures to deliver the community initiative.

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So far, more than 300 knitted bees have been scattered across Staffordshire, with the hope the initiative will continue well into the New Year for people to find.

Sophie said: ‘It was an idea that popped into my head and came about to try and spread awareness but also to encourage people and families to get outside because the benefits of getting out into nature are huge.

‘We've had a lot of elderly people that have crocheted and knitted these bees who are either clinically vulnerable or safely isolating and it's really given them a boost to their own wellbeing.’

The project began in April with a one-year guarantee of funding from the Together for Health organisation and has proved worthwhile having helped numerous people across the county.

Over the last four months in particular, the mental health organisation has seen an increase in people asking for support, directly helping more 30 people who have been experiencing suicidal thoughts.

‘I don't want this project to be corporate or clinical, it's about stripping it back and saying it's okay to have conversations and approach people who may be struggling with their mental health.’

‘So we have stripped things back, made them simple and are using our platform through our Facebook page and community champions as avenues for people to start a conversation which they may never have done before.’

She said more needed to be done to support people who have lost a loved one to suicide.

‘That is a really big area that I've wanted to focus on because there isn't a great deal of support for people that are bereaved by suicide.’

‘The Covid pandemic also hasn't helped people at all with their mental health or grief process with the ongoing uncertainties of potential new lockdowns, so I think it's massively important that these resources are always available to people.’

As the mental health awareness bees spreading a positive message to people across Staffordshire, Mrs. Henaughan said she had been, ‘blown-away really with how many people have contacted me as a result of finding one of the bees.’

‘We had someone find a bee at their local train station and tell me that it really put a smile on their face to someone who is going through divorce at the moment saying how much it's helped them.’

‘Kids are also finding them so it's opening their minds to the issues that people have so hopefully in the future suicide isn't a word to be afraid of.’

If you need help CALM (0800 58 58 58) thecalmzone.net has a helpline for men who are down and who need to talk or find information and support. They're open 5pm to midnight, 365 days a year.

Depression Alliance is a charity for people with depression. It doesn’t have a helpline, but offers a wide range of useful resources and links to other relevant information depressionalliance.org The Sanctuary (0300 003 7029) helps people who are struggling to cope - experiencing depression, anxiety, panic attacks or in crisis. You can call them between 8pm and 6am every night. There are other depression charities.

Havoca provides information to any adult who is suffering from past childhood abuse. https://www.havoca.org Samaritans (116 123) samaritans.org operates a 24-hour service available every day of the year. If you prefer to write down how you're feeling, or if you’re worried about being overheard on the phone, you can email Samaritans at jo@samaritans.org, write to Freepost RSRB-KKBY-CYJK, PO Box 9090, STIRLING, FK8 2SA and visit www.samaritans.org/branches to find your nearest branch.

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Mindful Colouring Express yourself in colour with this mindfulness colouring picture.

Colour this in and we will publish the ones we like in the Newsletter.

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