Sentinel
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Sandgate
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July 2021
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The Sandgate Market provides three types of produce offerings: 1. Local produce: veg, cakes, honey etc 2. Local made: jewellery, soft toys and furnishings etc
3. Local enterprise: local residents running a business but selling products not necessarily produced locally but that you might just like to buy for yourself or as gifts
Local made
Local produce
Catherine Jordan
Dutch cheese
There will not be a CAFE at the Market although the Dog House are offering Market attendees coffee or tea at £1. Please collect your voucher at the Market
Artisan bakery
Anji's Interiors
It's a Florrie Thing
Usher's fruit Pauline's hand Gill Thompson and veg made toys Jewellery Local enterprise Hand made clothing and greeting cards
...and a chance to win £20,000
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CREATIVITY AND COUNSELLING COURSES FOR YOUR DELIGHT AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT
Saturday 31st July, Chichester Hall , Sandgate 9.30-4.30 pm £70 A ‘taster’ day with Clay - for qualified therapists
This is a day for you to experiment with clay, plasticene and even slime! Get to grips with these mediums and feel its power for yourself! Only when you have experienced something yourself can you ask others to engage in this way. Some consideration will be given as how or why you may use it in the room with your clients - young and old.
Saturday 28th August Chichester Hall , Sandgate 9.30-4.30 pm £70 A ‘taster’ day using paint - for qualified therapists How do you feel about working with paint? Come to a day to get the ‘feel’, of using paint with brushes, sponges and even your hands and/or feet ! Enjoy using your favourite colours. Feel the freedom to express yourself fully. Have fun. Also begin to understand how your clients could perhaps benefit from using this medium?
Sunday 19th September, Chichester Hall , Sandgate 9.30-4.30 pm £70 Finding Balance A day of looking after you ! How much Joy and how much Challenge is there in your work arena ? We will look at your work/ Life balance and begin to see where and how your energy flows. What changes might you make ? Set an intention for the future and gently moves towards it. We will use mandalas and visualisation to help us find our way.
Sunday 24th October Chichester Hall , Sandgate 9.30-4.30 pm £70 Creative Supervision – for qualified Supervisors A day looking at some ways of bring creativity into your sessions. We will look at using the ‘fish tank’, metaphors, animal cards, plotting on the cycle of therapy, and visualisation techniques. This is an opportunity to co-create with your supervisee in a dynamic way. Of course, you would need to run by your own supervisor any new techniques you may wish to employ. All materials & handouts supplied. Please wear old clothes and bring a towel for your hands for the ‘messy’ days. Tea/ coffee and herbal gerbils/biscuits provided throughout the day. Please bring your own lunch. A Certificate of Attendance will be available at the end of the day. A deposit of £40 secures your place. Limited numbers.
A deposit of £40 secures your place.
Please go to CPD Workshops | Whitebeam Associates for bio details and a booking form.
Or please email lindsayjanethompson@hotmail.co.uk for booking form. Phone 0795 822 1260
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Our thanks to the Sandgate Parish Council and the Community Gardeners for allowing us to reproduce this diary page. We hope to make this a monthly feature in the magazine but you can read all the diary entries by clicking on this box. To continue with the bee news written by Chris and featured in last week’s newsletter, it seems that a new queen bee has been seen in the garden nucleus box. Named ‘Lilibet’, she is certainly a welcome addition. Chris came up to the garden Saturday morning with a local bee farmer to help her identify Lilibet, we managed to snap a quick photo of the inspection as we had to maintain our distance whilst the box was open. An industrious week as ever, more celeriac put in, and a new bed of lettuce planted where the pea shoots had just been removed. The sugar snap peas and the broad beans are giving up the last of their pods and will likely be removed next week to make way for new plants waiting in line to be planted out. Compost bins got turned, tomato plant side shoots pinched out, and the coriander removed as it was starting to flower and we need the space. Kale and cabbage seeds were sown, and more lettuce varieties pricked out. The first cabbage white butterfly was seen this week, so we know the whole brassica and caterpillar shenanigans are about to begin, but we have a master plan up our sleeve to try this year in the hope of doing better. We will be writing about it later once we start the battle! We have been holding our nerve as regards black fly. You have to suffer an invasion of pests before the cavalry in the form of ladybirds turn up. It makes sense as they need plenty to feast on before considering moving in. There has been plenty of evidence of ladybird larvae seen this week, and so they are already at work. The rain and warmer weather are New lettuce seedlings to contributing to make the whole park plant out continue to look stunning. Below is a picture of a pyramidal orchid discovered the long grass. What a treat it is to 5
see so many wild flowers and to observe the insects that rely on them. We have been trying to improve our planters on the sea front since they were battered and sprayed with salt water in the high winds a few weeks ago. Below is a picture to show how they have picked up, and many a bee has been seen dropping in to make the most of the floral display, which has been our objective all along as well as trialling plants that can take the strain of being right on the seafront. It will be a continuing story. Pyramidal orchid in Our friends in Cheriton, the Incredible Edibles, Enbrook Park are busy on a gardening project at All Souls Church. They have put in a bid for hot composters and large water rain collectors at the church hall where new edible beds have been planted. Kent County Council will support this project with a pledge of £1,000 towards the target but they must first reach at least 20 backers from the community by the 30th June pledging as little as £2 each. If you would like to support this local project by pledging just £2, click on the link below to take you to ‘Spacehive’ which is a crowdfunding platform for projects aimed at improving local civic and community spaces. Thank you https://www.spacehive.com/edible-all-souls-church-and-cheriton/ What’s next? Still got chicory to sow and maybe beetroot Clear the sugar snap peas and maybe the broad beans. Prepare beds for replanting Clear borage from overcrowded areas in the herb bed Prick out kale and cabbage seedlings Check on the Hythe hops growth Water all new plantings regularly until established
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The Sentinel magazine is pleased to support the Folkestone Regatta St Paul's Church, Sandgate are carrying out a service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving on Saturday 24th July at 3pm. This is a special service to welcome visitors into the church and to take time out of our busy lives to give thanks for our loved ones and remember those that have died in the last year. In the weeks leading up to the 24 July we would like to invite you to our Sunday service to leave names of loved ones that will be read out during the service and prayed for on the 24th. If you are unable to attend please email the administrator (administrator@trinitybenefice.com) leaving your name(s). We will also be offering visitors the opportunity to light a candle as a symbol of hope and peace. St Paul's is open every Sunday and everyone is most welcome. The service begins at 10.30am to 11.30am. We look forward to seeing you. 11
All now available in paperback and on Kindle Set in Folkestone in the heady days of the late 60s. They say if you can remember it, you weren't there!
Two plays. One an imaginary meeting between Dylan Thomas and Brendan Behan in a Fitzrovia pub. The other is Caitlin Thomas reminiscing after the untimely death of her husband.
This is the tale of Hana, a young girl who moves from where she was born in London, to the Kent coast. They discover a wonderful area called Prince's Parade which is full of amazing animals, has a beautiful canal and is right next to the sea too! By buying this book you will be helping to protect it. All profits from it will be donated to the Save Prince's Parade campaign which aims to halt plans to develop the area into a housing estate. Very funny, and surreal story about a man and a woman on their first date: Bolton Brady and Veda, set in London, November 2001. Bolton is forty, not into assets, has never lived with a woman and looked into the future and seen loneliness. So he decides to do something about it. He advertises in a lonely-hearts column, and receives six replies, but after experiencing one disaster after another only Veda remains between him and his sanity. As the day unfolds the line between reality and fantasy becomes blurred, building to a surreal, yet poignant, conclusion. 12
This walk through the history of Sandgate to the present day was first performed at the Chichester Hall a decade ago on Wednesday, 9th June. It is now available on Kindle or in paperback.
Now available on Amazon. Great evocative yarns of worldly travels.
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