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February 2014 • ISSUE 47
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As I write, it’s raining outside.Yet again! It feels like it has been raining every day for weeks, if not months! Turn to page 6 to read our local history article written by Phil Tate, which seems very apt this month as he tells us about the floods here in Christchurch, back in the late 18th and early 19th century. With the magazine becoming more and more popular, it allows us to continue to grow; thus bringing you more local editorials making for an even more interesting read. Thank you everyone for your continued support by not only using the local trades and services within the magazine but also for the lovely emails and letters that you send in, it makes me so happy to know that you are enjoying the magazine and look forward to the next edition the following month. Using local business and services is so important to our local economy, not only that but those within these pages is how this community magazine is funded, printed and distributed around Christchurch & Highcliffe. Please help keep us all in business and support us where you can. Don’t forget to mention ‘The Eye’ when replying to adverts. Happy Reading,
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Local History by Phil Tate What's On Community Notices Mindbenders Peter's Business Column Clubs, Classes, Groups & Societies Win £25 An English Mum Recipe Citizens Association Free Parking in Highcliffe Fairtrade Christchurch Greyhound Rescue Christchurch Rotary RNLI Mudeford Coffee Break Pancake Race Purewell Electrical Kid's Page A Good Read CCC Poem Dorset POPP Garden View Shop Totally Locally Teen Column Theatre Review Regent Listings Advertisers Index Puzzle Solutions Useful Contacts
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Thursday January 30th – Thursday 27th February Christchurch Priory - Thursday Lunch Time Recitals - January 30th Jeremy Lloyd (Brompton Oratory), February 6th Jonathan Hope (Winchester Cathedral), February 13th Norman Harper (St George’s Cathedral, Southwark), February 20th Paul Carr (St Paul’s Birmingham), February 27th Sean Tucker (Wimborne Minster) Lunch and light refreshments available 10.30-1.30 Admission free; retiring collection. www.christchurchpriory.org Saturday 1st February CRAFT AND VINTAGE FAYRE, Bransgore Village Hall, Burley Road, Bransgore. 10am - 1pm, 30 stalls of local Crafts, Vintage finds, and Valentines gifts. Childrens craft table (supporting Julias House). Treat your loved one to a slice of homemade cake! Tuesday 4th February and Wednesday 26th February Stan’s Blues Jam at The Thomas Tripp, Christchurch BH23 1HX on Tuesday 4th February (and Every First Tuesday of the Month) and At The Avon Causeway, Hurn BH23 6AS on Wednesday 26th February (and Every Last Wednesday of the Month - Details at www.stansbluesjam.co.uk Tuesday 4th February Christchurch Strollers - Saxon Square. Meet outside Oswald Bailey at 10.30. This walk is easy level walking, mainly paved. Walks are free. For more info contact Wilbert Smith on 01202-495088 or wsmith@christchurchandeastdorset.gov.uk
Wednesday 12th February Christchurch Strollers - Mudeford Quay. Meet at lay by on Chichester Way at entrance to Mudeford Quay Car park at 10.45. This walk has some inclines and uneven surfaces. Walks are free. For more info contact Wilbert Smith on 01202-495088 or wsmith@christchurchandeastdorset.gov.uk Friday 14th February Christchurch Library, at 2.30 p.m. “Valentines Sweet & Sour” a reading of love poems, proposals, refusals .Cynical or Sentimental? There’s something here for you. Tickets from the library £2 including refreshments, Friends £1 Saturday 15th February RNLI coffee morning at Highcliffe Methodist Church Hall, coffee morning in aid of RNLI. Cakes bric a brac, souvenirs, jigsaws, books, jewellery. From 10-00 12.30. Admission free. Thursday 20th February Christchurch Strollers - Tuckton/Wick. Meet at car park by Wick Lane toilets at 10.30. Bus X1 to Christchurch then 1C. This walk has steeper slopes and slightly rougher terrain. Walks are free. For more info contact Wilbert Smith on 01202-495088 or wsmith@christchurchandeastdorset.gov.uk Saturday 22nd February Fun Quiz Night, 7pm at Mudeford Wood Community Centre, Piper’s Drive, BH23 4TR. Fun quiz night for all the family, bring your own drink. Tickets £7.50 including fish and chip supper. Call 01425 272084 www.mudefordwoodcommunitycentre.co.uk.
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Monday 24th February Christchurch Strollers – Meet at Civic Offices, Bridge Street at 10.30. This walk is easy level walking, mainly paved. Walks are free. For more info contact Wilbert Smith on 01202-495088 or wsmith@ christchurchandeastdorset.gov.uk
Every Monday - Christchurch Market (all year) Up to 100 traders selling a variety of food, clothes, household goods, plants and bric-a-brac in the mainly traffic-free High Street and Saxon Square.
Thursday 27th February Highcliffe Library, 2.30pm - ‘Literary Forest: Writers in the New Forest’, an illustrated talk by Georgina Babey, with readings. Refreshments. Phone 01425 272202 or call into the library for tickets. Library Friends £2, Non Members £4.
Christchurch Country Market. Everything homebaked, homemade and home-grown locally. Every Monday 9.30-11.30. Druitt Hall (behind library). Refreshments available.
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For the first two, just turn up; for the last two ‘phone the Kings on 01202 588933 to book. Alternatively go to our web-page (www. Christchurchbusiness.co.uk). The amazing fact is that membership is only £35 for a full year. Hope to see you soon.
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Clubs, Classes, Groups & Societies Fitness, Sport and Wellbeing Start the Week with a Song - Singing and vocal therapy group for people experiencing difficulties with the voice as a result of illness, Parkinsons or stroke. Mondays 10.15 - 11.45, led by a music therapist. £5 per session. Coda Music Centre, Highcliffe, BH23 5QL 01425 276161, contact@coda.org.uk or www. coda.org.uk Candlelit Hatha Yoga & Relaxation - Thursdays 7:208:35pm at The Wessex Health Network, Christchurch. Everyone welcome – mixed ability class suitable for all. British Wheel of Yoga Teacher. Please call (07966) 199875 or email becca@yogabee.co.uk for more information. £6.50 per week (£7 drop in if space available). Chi Kung Exercise Classes - Come and join us on Friday mornings 10.45 am -12.15 in the Studio upstairs at Wessex Health, 17 Stour Road, Christchurch BH23 1PL. Car park at rear. Fee £7.50 www.wessexhealthnetwork.co.uk Please call tutor Poppy 01202 735560. Yoga Classes - Every Monday 0915-1015 & Wednesday 0930-1030 at the Bay Tree, Saxon Square, Christchurch. Ideal for beginners, busy mums and those who prefer a gentler pace! Kindly text/call Elaine Rees 07504 823517 or email elainerees@ europe.com to book a class. Yoga and Chair Yoga - Thursdays at Highcliffe Methodist Church Hall -9.30-11am and 11.15-12.15 yoga for adults - stretch, relax, feel wonderful. 2-3pm Chair Yoga -gentle exercise, relaxing and breathing techniques to make you feel wonderful. With Gill www.thehealingplace.co.uk .01425 276792 Chair Yoga - A gentler class held every Wednesday 1pm - 2pm at Portfield Hall, Portfield Road, Christchurch. ALL WELCOME. New! Teens Yoga - Tuesdays at The Bay Tree - please contact Julia Silva-Perez for information. Tel. 07989 971928
Art and Craft Carbery Machine Knitting Club meet on the 1st Tuesday of each month at St George’s Church Annexe, Jumpers Rd, Christchurch BH23 2JR from 7-9pm. We have practical demonstrations and guest speakers. Knitters of all abilities are welcome. For further information, please contact Joy on 01202 489614 Jump in and Get Wet’ Watercolour Classes in small, friendly, informative classes - overlooking beautiful Christchurch Harbour. Contact Sue on 01202
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481099 or email susanknights@hotmail.co.uk www. susanknights.co.uk Monday 3rd February 2014 at St. Mark’s Church Hall, Hinton Wood Avenue, Highcliffe at 7-30pm, an illustrated talk on Hostas, Heucheras & Hellebores. Talk given by Martin Young from Nectar Nurseries. Visitors welcome. £1-00 Entrance. Plants for sale. Bransgore Horticultural Society lecture - ‘Plant Hunting - Sir Joseph Banks & Capt James Cook’. Meeting to be held at Resource Centre, Ringwood Rd., Bransgore commencing at 7.30pm on Thursday 6th February. Non-members welcome.
Children Mudeford Wood Active Kids - Established Holiday Club for children aged 4-11 years during February half term (17th to 21st February) packed full of sports and fun activities. Open 9am to 4pm at Mudeford Wood Community Centre, Pipers Drive, BH23 4TR. Call 01425 272084. www. mudefordwoodcommunitycentre.co.uk. Are you a young person that plays, or would like to play a brass instrument? If so, the Christchurch and District Band would like to hear from you for a FREE new Training Band in Christchurch. More info call 07974 320122. Sessions Music and Heritage Club for young people aged 11+ who love music. Every Tuesday from 6pm in The Back Room, Old School House, Lymington Rd, Highcliffe BH23 5ET See you there! e:Sessionsbh23@gmail.com tel/text: 07971472768 follow us on fb Creative Ballet Classes for children 3+ at The Portfield Hall, Christchurch, Dorset BH23 2AQ Thursday- from 3.30pm. The classes are fun and creative with an emphasis on building confidence and coordination as well as teaching poise, movement quality, musicality, spatial awareness, strength and flexibility. Call Sally on 07950459119 or email sally.burbage@gmail.com Award-winning, inspirational and educational music classes for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers. Monday mornings at the Regent Centre. Come and join the wonderful world of music, learning and fun! 0845 643 5025 heather.smith@musicalsteps.co.uk www.musicalsteps.co.uk
Clubs and Societies THE HEALING TRUST (established 1954) Over 20 years in Christchurch, Healing given on Tuesdays from 1.30 – 2.30 at Portfield Hall, Portfield Road, Christchurch. BH23 2AQ. No appointment necessary. Minimum Donation £4, for more information contact Steve on 01202 478479 anytime.
The local support group will meet Tuesday 4 February at 2pm, Howard Suite, Christchurch Hospital. Paul Lockyer, from Natural Elements, will talk about and demonstrate Tai Chi. Entry is £1.50, all welcome, Call 01425 275707 or visit www.nos.org/bournemouth for more details. CHRISTCHURCH PROBUS CLUB - Meets 10.15am on the 1st Tuesday monthly at the East Close Hotel, Lyndhurst Road, Christchurch. A very friendly welcome awaits all retired professional and businessmen. Interesting speakers and excellent lunches! Please contact the secretary, Robin Haggett on 01202-482528. Highcliffe W.I. February meeting - Safety at Home will be the Fire Service’s talk at Highcliffe W.I’s meeting on Thursday Feb 20th, 7.15pm in the Day Centre, Lymington Rd. A quiz, raffle and refreshments will follow and visitors are welcome to join us. Just ring 01425/271995 for more info.
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I am anticipating that this month will mostly be spent getting to know our new family member, mopping the floor and replacing chewed items! I am hopeful that the shoe mountain which currently resides in my hallway will quickly disperse to the respective owners rooms once their trainers/boots/slippers etc. have been sniffed, drooled over and generally chomped! I am equally hopefully that the enthusiastic promises to assist with walking duties will be adhered to. Just in case they should be conveniently ‘forgotten’, I am preparing a binding agreement (to be signed by all family members and stuck to the fridge door), containing the clause that if they should decide they no longer wish to walk/feed/poopy scoop the dog, then I in turn will no longer wish to taxi/feed/ clean up after them! Watch this space on that one! I’m very much looking forward to finding new places in and around Christchurch to take our little chap for a walk — so if you should spot me out and about chasing after a small poodley looking dog, do give me a wave! An English Mum x
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The free period, identified by local businesses as the best time, is from 1pm to 3pm each day from Tuesday 3 December to Monday 31 March. Cllr Trevor Watts, chairman of Christchurch Council’s Resources Committee, said: “We are very aware that the shopping centre in Highcliffe has been suffering from the recession with businesses closing and not all being replaced. Our figures also show falling usage of the Wortley Road car park, indicating that the village was attracting fewer shoppers. “The council decided to offer some help and asked some of the businesses in the village what would make a difference. Top of the list was two hours of free parking between 1pm and 3pm because that seems to be when trade falls away. “As part of our annual review of car parking charges, we have agreed to this request over the winter period and hope that business will pick up as a result.” Traders have also asked for the highway signage directing drivers to the car park to be improved. Discussions have been on going with Dorset Highways and initial indications are that improvements can be made. Councillors and officers are continuing to meet to look at other initiatives that will help existing and new businesses in Highcliffe as well as local residents and the wider community in the years to come.
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Christchurch Fairtrade Group
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aving won the support of the Council in July of this year, Christchurch Fairtrade Group has now applied to the Fairtrade Foundation for Fairtrade Town status. Keep an eye out this New Year for the launch of the new Fairtrade Directory, which will list all the places in Christchurch where Fairtrade products can be bought. The Directory will be available in many local shops, hotels and restaurants as well as the visitor information centre. The group is now getting ready for Fairtrade Fortnight when we will be holding a day of Fairtrade celebrations with lots of stalls selling exciting Fairtrade products (such as Lush) and samples galore. Make a note in your diary for Saturday 1st March at the Baptist church on Bargates from 10.30am to 2.30pm and come and try the free chocolate fountain! Children and adults alike will be able to dunk Fairtrade bananas in delicious Fairtrade chocolate It’s hard to believe but 2 out of 3 bananas sold in the UK are still “unfairly” traded. Being a Fairtrade banana grower makes a huge difference to the farmers and their workers in the industry – come and see for yourself.The prize for the 2014 raffle will be drawn on the day. The winner will receive a hamper of Co-operative Fairtrade products worth £200. Could it be you? Raffle tickets will be available in January 2014, costing £1 each. There will also be prizegiving for the Fairtrade Senior schools’ poetry competition. For details see www. christchurchcommunitypartnership.org.uk/fairtrade. For anyone interested in getting more involved, our group is seeking a treasurer and a secretary. We meet about 6 times a year, for an hour each time and our accounts just need checking once a year. Could you help? More information is available on CCP website, above and at www.facebook.com/christchurchfairtrade. Photo: Fairtrade day at Somerford School March 2013 with the chocolate fountain.
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ell the New Year resolutions are all history, dark nights and bad weather here for the next few months. But, I only have to look at my Rotary diary to see Christchurch Rotary Club is back in full swing with the Swimafun pending (Saturday 25th January at Two Riversmeet Leisure Complex), and the Club poised to give out some serious money. The Swimafun had to be re-scheduled due to technical difficulties and I know all will have a fun evening. This event has now become a regular fixture in the diary and raises thousands of pounds for local good causes.
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Two main capital expenditures have been given the green light by the club namely: Burton Scouts and Hope for Children. We were given a talk by Graham Markwick from Burton Scouts who advised us that the Scout movement is going from strength to strength. Their present building has served them well but action is now required, and Christchurch Club have pledged their support.
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hristchurch Food and Wine Festival will officially launch its new website and dates for the 2014 festival with the revival of a well-known event that originally was held in Christchurch for many years – a pancake race in Church Street. Shrove Tuesday, Tuesday 4 March 2014, will see teams of chefs, local businesses and local celebrities battle it out to win the golden frying pans! Relays will kick off at 11.00am and, after the result has been declared, spectators will have the chance to visit and support chefs at Splinters, Cheese and Alfies and James and White who will have made delicious pancakes especially for the occasion. These restaurants are adjacent to the pancake racecourse, in front of the Priory, in Church Street. This charity event, in aid of the Christchurch Food Festival Education Trust and Autism Wessex, will attract a business entry fee of £20 per team for a team of four people. Individual chefs will be entered for a modest fee of £5 per chef. A collection bucket to share between both charities will be circulated on the morning. Everyone is welcome to come along and give the event their support which promises to be a fun event with lots of thrills and spills. Chefs already participating include representatives from The Jetty, Christchurch Harbour Hotel, Kings Arms Hotel, Crooked Beam Restaurant, Captains Club Hotel, Lord Bute Hotel & Restaurant, Cheese and Alfies, Splinters and James and White. Any teams and chefs who are interested in taking part should contact Tim Lloyd (tim@captainsclubhotel.com) for an entry form.
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Gardens for play By February Christmas can seem like a distant memory: toys and games which were desired for months beforehand, are now no longer new. I’m sure I’m not alone in remembering how the excitement of a new toy soon faded, but for me the big box in which it was wrapped provided entertainment for a much greater length of time because it could be turned into a car, a bus, a den or a robot. Recently I was asked to apply this theory when designing a family garden: a fun outdoor space, with no obvious pieces of play equipment such as a big blue climbing frame; a bright red slide, or a plastic swing. Instead fun is designed into the garden space much more subtly, the key being to introduce elements which children can ‘accidentally’ find, and which stimulate thought and exercise their creative minds. Children love pretending, and creative play can include play sand, water and of course mud (surely you must have made mud pies or sloppy dosh when you were a child – for those who didn’t its mud and water mixed in a bucket or bowl with a stick then left to harden in the sun). Elements such as a mud kitchen, logs to jump off and a tree to climb are all much more fun (and cheaper) than modern play equipment. I love to see a garden which on first inspection looks like an adult space, but has elements for initiating play. Stepping stones through a border; a self contained water feature; bark areas under trees for den making; grass mounds for climbing up and rolling back down; paths to race bikes on; washing line poles to climb, and a small bridge to cross when escaping from trolls…the usual thing! Parents also often ask about child-friendly plants, and it’s a tricky question to provide a quick answer for. There are basically two ways in which children could be adversely affected by garden plants: ingestion, or contact. The majority of ornamental plants, roots, seeds and berries range from slightly to very toxic, but statistically (research shows) that the number of deaths is tiny. The vast majority taste so disgusting that your child probably would spit most of it out, and if poisonous then vomiting would most likely occur because it is the body’s natural defence mechanism (apple pips must surely be the most commonly eaten poisonous seeds!). Foxgloves, fungi and Delphinium seeds are the most commonly known plant poisons, but others less well known include Daffodils, which are planted in most gardens and public places without a second thought. The leaves of Rhubarb, green parts on tomatoes and potatoes are all harmful, but we still grow them in schools. I think garden education at a young age is the key, and given most under 3’s won’t be outside alone in the garden it shouldn’t be a problem … anyway, they’ll be too busy playing to eat the plants! Happy (and safe) gardening Lee 34 ChristchurchEYE
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