Spotlight Magazine for Mansfield North, Nottinghamshire January 2015

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Contents

Happy New Year To You All!

Happy New Year 6 Should We Diet?

8 In The Groove 10 Kelham Hall 12 Edwinstowe Lions Club 14 A Good Read 18 Puzzle Pages 20 January Recipe 22 24 Return To Sender Mobile Safety 26 On Sale! 28 Index 30

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So you survived another Christmas and New Year! I hope you all had a good time as we did here at Spotlight Towers.

Now we look forward to 2015 and all that it may bring. We have a general election on the horizon, and of course the Rugby World Cup is in the UK this year.

But whatever is in store, I hope that you all have an excellent year.

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A Happy New Year

New Year Traditions From Around the Globe

Amazing firework displays from around the world have become a familiar sight on New Year’s news programmes. Many countries also have traditional forms of celebration dating back hundreds of years.

In the UK many people observe firstfooting. This is traditionally done by a young, healthy, good looking male with dark hair. He carries gifts which include a piece of coal, money, bread and salt, and should be the first person through the front door after the New Year begins. This is believed to bring good luck.

luck, and a ship means a journey. People also leave a bit of every food eaten on New Year’s Eve on their plate until after Midnight, as a way of ensuring a wellstocked larder. Carp is also included, as it is thought to bring wealth.

Whereas in Brazil, lentils are seen as a symbol of wealth and prosperity and thus are traditionally part of a New Year’s meal.

Other customs include priestesses of the local macumba voodoo cult, dressing up in blue and white for a ceremony dedicated to the god of water Yemanja. In addition, a sacrificial boat laden with jewellery,

Auld Lang Syne is the familiar tune that many of us sing. This represents remembrance of old friends and times spent with them. Generally credited to Robert Burns, he actually said he was merely noting the words of an ‘old man’s singing.’ He set these words to the tune of a traditional Scottish ditty ‘Can Ye Labour Lea.’ In Denmark traditions involve smashing plates. People throw broken plates on to friends’ doorsteps. This symbolises good wishes for the year ahead. Another tradition involves leaping from chairs on the strike of midnight.

In Austria, New Years Eve is called Sylvesterabend which means Eve of Saint Sylvester. Suckling pig and peppermint ice cream are traditional food for New Year celebrations. Tables are often decorated with marzipan pigs, and good luck symbols made out of chocolate or marzipan in shapes such as chimney sweeps, coins, or horseshoes are exchanged.

Lead is considered to be auspicious in Germany so at New Year, they pour molten lead into cold water and see what shape develops. It is believed that this predicts the future, so: heart shapes symbolize marriage, round shapes denote good

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candles and flowers is pushed out from Ipenama beach in a bid to bring health, wealth and happiness.

In Greece, 1st January is also St Basil’s Day. He is remembered for his kindness and generosity to the poor.

Vassilopitta, or St Basil’s cake, is one of the special dishes that is prepared and contains a silver or gold coin. Whoever finds the coin will be lucky for the next year.

By Susan Brookes-Morris

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To Eat, or not to Eat!

Should We Diet?

The United Kingdom has the third highest level of obese and overweight people in Western Europe, with nearly a third of adults and more than a quarter of children fitting into this category. The statistics are worrying, especially as obesity increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer and other diseases.

So, what is making us fat and what can we do about it? Put simply, we put weight on when we consume more calories than we use. This could be due to portion size or the type of food we eat. Foods rich in sugar or fat contain the most calories and are most likely to make us gain weight.

It’s New Year, and many of us will make the decision to lose weight, but what is the best way to tackle it?

There are numerous diets, aids, supplements and slimming clubs out there, some promising amazing results. You’ve seen the adverts about people who have lost six stones in as many months and are feeling great! It’s tempting to want to shift the excess pounds as quickly as possible, to get the business of dieting over with, and get back to normal life again.

Over the years there have been various diets - the high fibre, high protein, high carb, grapefruit, cabbage soup and meal replacement diets to name a few. But increasingly, evidence suggests that the most effective way to lose and maintain weight loss is not to follow a ‘diet’ at all, but to simply make changes to eating habits that can be sustained for life.

Diets don’t generally work because they demand more of us than we can realistically give for a prolonged period.

Eating regimes that deny us all the things we enjoy, that leave us feeling hungry and a social outcast on nights out, will inevitably cause us to revolt at some point and turn back to old ways.

Becoming better educated, learning new habits, taking responsibility for our choices, continuing to live a normal life and losing weight gradually at around 1-2 lbs per week will, in the long run, produce the best chances of permanent success at the scales.

Good luck as you take the first step to becoming a slimmer and healthier you!

By Debbie Singh-Bhatti

The sad fact is that the vast majority of people who lose weight put it back on again, and this is because once the weight is lost, they do return to ‘normal’ by reverting back to the habits that caused them to gain weight in the first place. This is particularly true for people who lose weight quickly.

No doubt just about any diet can help you lose weight, but the real test is: which one can help you keep it off?

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In The Groove

Records are enjoying a revival

“Mum this stuff is awesome! You should totally listen to it!”

That was my teenage son ‘discovering’ my 80’s vinyl collection and my father’s collection of 78s. Because of course my dad and I know nothing about music while he and his friends are experts.

In the age of the strangely invisible digital sound file, I watched his burgeoning love affair with these solid pieces of sound history with some amusement. 78s in particular are very tactile: the thick, heavy shellac, the dust, the stiff card cover.

There’s a richness about them which time hasn’t dulled.

In the way of teens, Charlie began to google his latest obsession.

“Mum, did you know that in the early days they discovered that recording a piano while it was on the floor made it sound too tinny, so they suspended pianos in the air and made the pianist perch on an elevated platform? Cool?”

I had to concede that I did not know this!

Over the coming weeks I also learned that because there was no sound equipment early on, there was no way of modulating the volume of a singer to prevent distortion when recording. To get round this, someone stood behind the singer reading the score, and when a particularly high note or loud phrase was imminent they pulled the singer away from the mic! Wonder what Mariah Carey would make of being manhandled like that?

Our language even evolved to reflect our love of records. The phrase ‘In the groove’,

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‘Groovy’, ‘To groove,’ all relate to the grooves on a 78, LP or single.

In spite of all the studio shortcomings, collectors of old records swear the sound quality of 78s in particular has never been surpassed. The hiss and scratch caused by the patina and deterioration of old shellac discs appeals to them.

As Charlie’s interest deepened, he spent a lot of time in specialist record stores and at collectors’ fairs. A surprising number of people deal in vinyl or 78s or both, and most of them are friendly individuals with a wealth of knowledge they are happy to share.

It’s a curious fact that in the age of huge TVs and surround-sound, the sound quality of the music many of us listen to is going backwards, because often we listen through tiny earbuds or mobile phone speakers.

It is also curious that many young musicians, steeped in electronics, are rediscovering the joy of playing with sound on vinyl and shellac, in much the same way that the scratch and mix DJs of the seventies, eighties and nineties did.

Lots of us must have an old record player stashed in the attic along with our old vinyl LPs. We may even own a few 78s, inherited from our parents. The heyday of CDs lasted a mere 15 years, but there is more than 60 years’ of music recorded on to these older formats. Think about that.

Perhaps it’s time to get them out, dust them off, and introduce a new generation to the joy of tangible sound.

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Vintage Festival At Kelham Hall

March 14th 2015 sees a day long celebration of all things vintage in the North and Midlands come to the grand Kelham Hall, brought to us by Britain Does Vintage.

This wonderful Victorian venue will be positively stuffed with nostalgic delights from the very best in vintage fashion and beauty, homeware and furniture, entertainment and a shed load of tea and cake! Each room at Kelham Hall will offer something different, making sure that this will be a day that everyone will be able to enjoy.

As with all Britain Does Vintage fairs, the stalls are handpicked to ensure traders at this festival are the very best quality and variety. The vintage traders not only bring along treasure chests full of frocks, pearls and tweed jackets but a wealth of knowledge on their wares.

Buying that 50s dress will be made all the more special when you hear its story! And if you’re already the owner of a wardrobe bursting in 40s and 50s attire then you must dress your absolute best, will you be

crowned The Vintage King or Queen of Kelham Hall?

Live music will come from starlet Bexi Owen and others, Russell & Brown’s will be ready to create some pinup worthy hairstyles and there are even FREE dance lessons and demos all day from Major Swing!

This is set to be a long day, so recover half way through with some afternoon tea. The tea party will be set to look after the masses all day! “We’re really looking forward to it” says event co-ordinator Gina Walters. “This is an event for absolutely everyone, and in such a beautiful building too! We challenge you to not be singing In The Mood all the way home!”

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Dukeries Lions & U3A

Santa in January!!

Santa wanted everyone to know he had a wonderful time over Christmas and he is now looking forward to a little time off. During the rest of the year he will be repairing his sleigh, looking after his reindeers and preparing for Christmas 2015.

During December the sleigh was out in our community 16 times, visiting as many streets roads and avenues in our villages as possible.

The qualifications needed are: a willingness to help others, a friendly outlook on life and being a member of a great team. The Lions believe in mixing the effort of helping others and socialising in equal measure.

For more information please call Steve Scall on 01623 822976 or 07779 338887 To find out more visit the website: www.lionsclubs.co

Thanks to every person who made a contribution. The support and generosity of the community is the main reason the sleigh pull is successful Thanks also to TESCO at Ollerton who allowed Santa to collect outside the store.

Santa has counted the money, that was collected and the total is £6255.39.

Santa and the Lions thank everybody concerned. The Lions received help from organisations, groups, and individuals young and old. Without this help it would not be possible to raise the amount of money that was collected. THANK YOU. Every penny that is collected is used to support good causes, groups and deserving individuals. The Lions are continuing to support Bluebell Wood, the Notts and Lincs Air Ambulance, The Edwinstowe Pre School Playgroup and many others.

The Lions are preparing for their centenary in 2017 so there will be exciting times ahead. The Lions is the largest service organisation in the world and has helped fund many worthwhile causes on a national scale over the decades as well as individual clubs helping in their own communities.

The Lions are always looking for new members to further boost the efforts already made by a great group of likeminded folk. A few hours a month is all it takes to become involved.

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Kept – DJ Taylor

A Good Read

Billed as a Victorian Mystery, this novel

by DJ Taylor is a true page turner in the style of Dickens, Wilkie Collins and the like. With multiple narratives and a range of perspectives, Taylor weaves a web of intrigue around the life and death of Mr Henry Ireland and his wife, which surprises and delights the reader.

The novel begins with an arresting episode in which two men find themselves by a Scottish loch undergoing a series of challenges to steal rare birds’ eggs. This links them to the strange but eminent naturalist James Dixey, who in turn becomes the guardian of a strangely disturbed young woman.

At times the narrative thread is truly puzzling, and the reader must connect and theorize for themselves – but this is no bad thing, and at least we can read on at our own pace rather than having to wait, in the Victorian manner, for the next instalment.

There are plenty of potential heroes and heroines, and a smattering of particularly villainous villains, for us to engage with too.

To celebrate its 40th birthday recently, the Designer Paul Smith – a huge Scarry fan himself - was asked to redesign the work while retaining the charm of Scarry’s original drawings. There was also a boxed set which was limited to just 1000 copies and is already re-selling for hundreds of pounds a copy.

While most of us will never get the chance to own the boxed set, the new-look book is well worth seeking out. It has certainly impressed Scarry’s son Huck, also a children’s writer and illustrator, who said: “Paul Smith and his team have amazed me. It’s Richard Scarry seen with Paul Smith’s eyes.”

For those who don’t know the work, every manner of moving machinery is riotously depicted in a story which sees the pig family head to the beach for a picnic. On their journey they encounter every vehicle known, from the forklift to the locomotive, and many vehicles that are not known, from the pumpkin car to the broom-o-cycle.

Each detailed spread provides the opportunity to make up stories and describe situations. Will Officer Flossy catch Dingo? Will Rollo Rabbit catch his runaway steamroller? And can you find the goldbug on every page?

One for those dark winter nights in front of the fire – abandon the television and curl up with a good book instead. Although be warned – you may stay up later than you had intended, reading on to the finish!

Cars and Trucks and Things that Go! Millions of children have grown up with picture books written and illustrated by Richard Scarry.

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Puzzle Page

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Spaghetti Alle Vongole

lams are a good buy in January and make a terrific healthy supper with an Italian flavour.

Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 30 minutes Serves 4 Ingredients

500g/1lb very small fresh clams, or a small jar of clams in brine 3 tbsp olive oil 1-2 garlic cloves, finely chopped 1 tsp anchovy paste (optional) 2 tbsp finely chopped parsley 400g/14oz canned chopped tomatoes Salt and freshly ground black pepper 450g/1lb dried spaghetti

Add the chopped tomatoes and the strained clam juices (if you are using a jar of clams, you can use some or all of the brine from the jar, but be careful it doesn’t make the sauce too salty). Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 20-25 minutes.

Cook the spaghetti according to packet instructions and drain.

Just before serving add the clam flesh to the sauce and stir well.

Mix the sauce into the cooked spaghetti.

Serve garnished with parsley and any remaining clams in their shells.

Method If using fresh clams tap each one sharply and discard any which stay open. Scrub the remaining clams.

Add the clams to 2-3 tbsps water in a heavy-bottomed pan. Cover with a lid and cook over a medium heat for 3-4 minutes, or until all the shells have opened. If using fresh clams discard any which have not opened after five minutes.

Remove the clam flesh from the shells (you can leave a few in their shells for garnish) and dip them quickly into their cooking water to rinse off any sand. Strain the juices from the pan through a sieve lined with muslin or a sheet of kitchen paper and reserve the liquid.

Heat the olive oil in a pan over a medium heat. Add the chopped garlic and fry until it begins to turn pale gold in colour, then add the anchovy paste (if using) and parsley and stir-fry for 30 seconds.

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Return To Sender!

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Legally the contract is between the purchaser and the seller, so it is usually best if the person who bought you the gift goes back to the vendor with the receipt.

If the item was bought online, you have the same rights under the Sale of Goods Act. However, there are also a new set of Regulations which give further protection:the Consumer Contracts Regulations.

These mean that from the moment you place an order, you have 14 days after you receive the goods to legally cancel it.

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Of course with both sets of regulations there may be exclusions.

The good news is that many stores and suppliers go beyond the statutory requirements.

Some refund or exchange goods all year round, even when they are not faulty and you have simply changed your mind.

Many are even more generous around Christmas and offer a longer returns period with the opportunity to have a gift receipt which you can pass on to the recipient, so that they can change the item if required.

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Mobile Safety

Phone security is a serious issue

Nowadays it’s probably more worrying if someone steals your phone than your purse because of the amount of data stored on it: bank, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon accounts, are the tip of the iceberg.

Your first line of defence is to make it hard for thieves to get into the phone. Make sure you’ve got your phone lock turned on so that they have to enter your password. If you’re using a pattern or pin code to unlock the phone make sure it’s not something simple like 1234 or a rectangle.

SIM cards can be switched to another phone and used to run up bills of thousands of pounds. Notify your provider as soon as you realise your phone is missing. A delay may mean that you incur unnecessary charges.

Although phone companies are being exhorted to cap the amount of liability a customer incurs if their phone is misused, at the time of writing this is not commonplace. Make sure your SIM is locked, as well as your handset, and check with your provider to see if you can voluntarily place a cap on your usage; that way, the phone will cut out once the limit is reached.

Switch your location service on. Your phone will then be able to tell you where it is. Apple, Android and other major systems all have online phone location websites.

You can locate and lock the phone, make it ring or even wipe it.

Mobile phones, like laptops are open to hackers. In general phones are more secure from virus attacks, but you still need to be wary of criminals.

Virus attacks on phones mostly occur via dodgy apps. Apple are very strict about what is allowed into iTunes so virus protection isn’t an issue. On Android

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devices you need to be more careful.

Read reviews carefully and check the permissions the app requests when you install it.

If it’s a simple app asking for full access to your phone, it should ring alarm bells.

If in doubt don’t install. Most of the major security companies produce Android apps to give you an extra level of security. Install one of these to give you extra peace of mind.

Remember, when your phone connects to a Wi-Fi hotspot all the information it sends and receives passes through the computer controlling that hotspot. Always be aware of who owns the hotspot and how much you trust them. Most data, like bank logins and other major services, are highly encrypted so they can’t be stolen.

However, other websites you use will not be as secure and may allow your login details to be hi-jacked. Check that the website or app you are using is secure (look for a little padlock icon) before you type in your details, especially card details.

If in any doubt, don’t use it.

Phone security is mostly about being aware of the problem and using common sense. If you follow the steps above, then even if you do lose your phone, it shouldn’t cause you any serious issues.

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Make the most of the winter sales

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Decide what you need first.

Go through your wardrobe to check for gaps, scout through your cupboards, and think about what you actually use. There’s no point filling up with stuff just because there’s 70% off!

Do your research. Take a stroll down the high street or browse on line to see what

catches your eye. Try on where appropriate and make a list of everything you really want , so that when the doors open you can make a beeline for it.

Go early – or late. To be sure of getting what you really want, visit the sale in the first couple of days, but if you want the cheapest prices, wait until the end.

Stick to a budget. It’s easy to get carried away in the heat of the moment and compromise on what you are willing to pay.

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