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June 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
Anji's Interiors
It's a Florrie Thing
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Catherine Jordan
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Local produce
Pauline's hand made toys
Gill Thompson Jewellery
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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
Usher's veg
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Jam jar posies and bunches of sustainable locally grown seasonal cut flowers
Local enterprise ...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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Financial and Chair’s report from the Annual General Meeting on 20th May: Clearly the last year has been exceptional but in the case of the hall it is definitely a truism to say that every cloud has a silver lining. The closure of the hall has allowed for the refurbishment that we can all see the results of and I think all agree has been a success with feedback from the limited number of users who have seen it very positive. Our executive officer, David Cowell, has largely been the creator of this and in particular has been proactive in gaining the funds to follow it through so that work the has been completed AND we have a healthy balance in the accounts. So thank you David for all your hard work on this project. We can now look forward to the hall being used once again as a community hub and welcoming all our hirers. In this regard the Farmers Market remains the standout event at the hall – I was there last Saturday and was most impressed by the range of stalls and the quality of the produce. My thanks to Sue Cowell for all the work she does at the market. I think the principal issue which remains for the hall is how to make it wheelchair friendly – we now have a disabled toilet but access to the hall remains problematic. As David has highlighted in his report we are currently looking at the option of a lift and hopefully this proves to be viable. Finally, thank you to all the trustees for your support and a further note of thanks to David without whom our job really would be a job rather than the more modest role that we currently play.
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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. May bank holiday, June is now upon us and at last the weather is starting to improve. We were sorry to see that a large tree had fallen in Enbrook Park, always a sad sight; however we were assured that the tree had been suffering from Ganoderma (a fungus) for some years. We were lucky enough to benefit from some of the logs to make extra seats for the garden, and on the sunny Saturday morning session we spent a happy hour sitting on the logs sowing spring onion seeds and around 240 dwarf beans. The poor sick looking plants having spent too much time in their pots shivering and being blown about are finally getting into the soil. The courgettes are all planted as are the squashes and sweetcorn, plus the chard seedlings, a bit of sunshine and warmth should see them romp away. We have held back View of the garden at Enbrook from the pond end from planting the basil and the cucumbers just yet as they are really tender and could do with getting a little bit bigger and stronger. Whilst pottering about and planting at Enbrook this week, we came across a very interesting insect none of us had ever seen before. It was photographed (Picture below) so that we could find out if it was a friend or a foe to the garden. There have been several new insects and invertebrates to watch out for such as the marmorated stink bug, the harlequin ladybird, and the New Zealand flatworm, to name but a few. Happily, this fellow is a wasp beetle, and a friend, which seems to occupy most of the world except for Ireland and the Americas – most interesting and we shall now know to be pleased if we ever come across another. 5
We currently have plenty of fresh herbs as well as salad leaves. Mixing the two together in a variety of combinations makes for the most amazing salads you can imagine. The leaves range from bright green through to a deep dark red and various shades between, the herbs are parsley, coriander, dill and chervil which lift the leaves to another level. Add calendula petals, borage, and viola flowers, then you have something extra special which would cost a fortune in a posh restaurant. This week we also added pea shoots, a real taste of early summer before the peas arrive! Absolutely delicious! We are always pleased to share what we can, and often do with visitors to the garden, and we took a batch to the library for distribution too. However we were delighted to be contacted by the Kent Food Hub keen to Fallen tree after the high winds work with us and other groups in or close to Folkestone like the Incredible Edibles, on a new project to promote growing seasonal local food and to make fresh food accessible to all. We are looking forward to doing as much as we can to enable this to happen in the wider community and to make links and work together on common goals and interests. In the meantime we have plenty to be getting on with as we have heard that the judge for the RHS ‘It’s your neighbourhood’ scheme is visiting the Enbrook garden on 17th June, no pressure! The judge is coming in an advisory capacity, to evaluate our progress, and our Sheila has been working on the most amazing supporting statement to give to the judge as requested, because he only has an hour. The statement sums up our history and achievements so far. We have laboured hard on this, and Sheila has turned it into a work of art, but it is still early days and we continue to work on our progress. What’s next? • Keep up with the weeding • Keep watering the new planting for a few days until established • Pick the salads and herbs • Pull up the finished coriander to make way for the basil • Keep removing old and yellowing leaves around all plants • Start dead heading • Plant last of the summer bedding we have sown from seed 6
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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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