Spotlight Magazine for Tuxford, Nottingham, March 2017

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Contents

Editors Message 6 St Nicholas Church 8 Vets Voice 10 St. Patrick’s Day 14 Daylight Savings Time 16 Local Football News 18 The Lord Nelson 20 Mother’s Day 22 Puzzle Pages 24 Garden View 26 Dates For Your Diary 30 March Recipe 32 Food Review 34 A Good Read 36 Index of Advertisers 38

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Editors Message

Apologies are in order to all Weston residents! As I incorrectly called your lovely village Weston On Trent. Sincere apologies.

In this March edition we have some great articles on Mothers Day and with Spring time arriving, looking at our gardens and the clocks altering at long last. Maybe sunshine is just around the corner.

I was lucky enough to get some sun abroad at half term and a friend and her son kindly agreed to deliver the brochures in my absence. She was blown away by the great comments about the magazine and how readers are enjoying receiving it month on month.

My just giving page is still open for those final acts of kindness and details can be found on the back page. Many thanks in advance.

We are still awaiting our 1st pictures for the celebration page, whether its your child birthday, wedding anniversary or congratulations on passing your test.

These are all FREE to put in the publication so please send them we would love to share your celebration with you !

This said we are looking at extending our deliveries to include Carlton and Walesby, two lovely villages on the edge of our catchment area.

If you are a member of a club or society, please let us know when you have things happening, we are happy to advertise your events for free.

Two local residents have kindly offered to deliver in Milton and Eastfields Caravan Park which will be a great help, so thank you so much for that.

And of course please try and support our local businesses and trades that advertise in the magazine.

March is here and it is only 5 weeks until the big run, the Brighton Marathon. Yeek, its getting quite daunting now and the training journey has been one with ups and downs.

In our uncertain economy it is important to “keep it local”, and keeping our local economy bouyant is good for us all.

Have an amazing March !

Training was going fantastic up to the end of November when I injured my Achilles on a 14 mile run so that left me unable to train for about 6 weeks, Im slowly getting back into the training plan and hopefully will be in a good place when stood on that start line.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you that has sponsored me or bought and sold raffle tickets this this great cause, Mc Millan.

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Tuxford Success Gains Sponsorship for 2nd year running Long established since 1982 Retford Auto Electrical Ltd has sponsored Tuxfords local Triathlete Tyler Broome aged 10 years.

The business was taken over in 2013 and is now run by two Tuxford ladies Denise and Rachel Neill based on Hallcroft Road selling auto electrical components for domestic, agriculture, construction and commercial vehicles.

Tyler from Tuxford who attends Tuxford Primary Academy is an up and coming triathlete who started the sport just two years ago having great success and claims his swimming for Retford Swimming Club has helped him immensely in the sport as the first discipline is the swim so it gets him off to a good start in the enduring race.

We have total belief that Tyler will have an outstanding year this year and know he will go further in the sport and are delighted we are able to support him”.

Tyler states “I was very fortunate to be sponsored last year that helped me to get a specialised bike for the event so it helped me achieve a great season as I was racing against boys 2 years older yet I still achieved the podium most races.

To get sponsored again by another local Company is amazing and I cant wait for the start of the season in a few weeks as I am now the top age group”.

Business owners and Tuxford residents Denise and Rachel state “we have been watching Tylers achievements for his swimming, biking and running and are so pleased to see a local youngster so committed to achieving great things.

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As the nights are getting darker and we are all in the throws of getting ready for the lead up to the festive time, it is easy to overlook our pets when multi tasking…..

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Vets Voice

This was very apparent when a sodden, sad, shivering pup came into the clinic........

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I amhome an American I alsogifts heard I had aparaphernalia, comminuted owner rushed with a carCurl full of shopping, and that associated Cat, a delicious marmalade fracture oftime. the jaw which out with obviously mindfulshade of the of many jobs to be and completed in a short Excited puphe ransorted out of the even though I say it with myself, quite street operation. house, was greeted exuberance by owner, buta inlong haste and rain the door was shut to keep savvy. out the inclement weather........unfortunately so was the pup !

The cage with bars was most annoying.

However, I forgotaround to look both waysnoon a he would I was of tubes the monkeys kept The pup sniffing the car had idea be full locked out for: several hours until the dark night recently, managed to collide with poking, looking and chattering amongst next family member appeared. a big tin box and ended up feeling strange, themselves. I was fed up with a very hurt my mouth wouldn’t work properly and my mouth and decided not to eat. I knew it was Worried and owners appeared at theonly clinicaand of course webefore dealt accordingly with meow was allembarrassed over the place. matter of time my monkey the sorry little dog ! owners would appear. I also had decided I struggled to get back home and the with much swearing I would swat monkey If this happens, the reviving treatment should beginMark in the when home.the Firstly apply dry warm heat and monkeys who think they own me started cage door was opened..... towel dry, not hot water as this getting all hysterical about thecan redcause stuff 'after drop'… a temperature change which the animal leaking To make matters foil and Sure enough ‘owners’ with cannoteverywhere. cope with. Wrap in a blanket/silver hold the animalmy close to yourappeared own body to worse they a boxgradually and ferried prawns salmon.

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St Patrick’s Day An American Invention?

Shamrocks, leprechauns and gallons of Guinness – St Patrick’s Day is nearly here.

But why has this saint’s day become so popular? And who was Saint Patrick?

Well, it may surprise you to hear that Saint Patrick (or Padraig to use the Irish spelling) wasn’t actually Irish. He’s believed to have been born to Roman parents, in Scotland or Wales, in the fifth century AD. At the age of 16, Patrick was captured and taken to Ireland to live as a slave. For six years, he herded sheep on Slemish Mountain, until he managed to escape and flee Ireland.

A dream led Patrick to dedicate his life to converting people to Christianity. He returned to Ireland and began to spread his message.

Today, St Patrick is regarded as the founder of Christianity in Ireland.

It’s believed that St Patrick’s Day was first celebrated back in the 17th century.

Held to mark St Patrick’s death, it was a humble, religious celebration up until the 1920s.

respect, right up until the 1960s.

Across the pond, in America, it was a different matter. There St Patrick’s Day became a day for Irish immigrants to celebrate their heritage.

By the mid-19th century, parades and festivities were being held in major cities across the US. According to author and university professor Mike Cronin, ‘St. Patrick’s Day was a public declaration of a hybrid identity—a belief in the future of Ireland as a nation free from British rule, and a strict adherence to the values and liberties that the U.S. offered them.’

In the 20th century, corporations started to pay attention, and figure out how to take advantage of the celebrations.

Pretty soon, T-shirts with

embroidered shamrocks, inflatable bottles of Guinness, and even green McDonald’s milkshakes, started to become synonymous with St Patrick’s Day, at least in America.

As with most American exports, some of these products have now become popular in the UK (though not, thankfully, green milkshakes), and in other countries across the globe.

St Patrick’s Day is now celebrated in pubs, shops and student halls across the world.

This year, Greening the City will see iconic landmarks across Ireland, from Trinity College, to Donegal Castle, go green on 17th March.

If you’re lucky enough to be heading to Ireland for St Patrick’s Day this year, you’ll certainly have plenty of choices for where to

An annual military parade started in Dublin in 1931, but the day remained mainly a time for religious reflection, rather than painting oneself green and donning a funny hat. Bars were even closed on St Patrick’s Day, as a mark of

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Daylight Saving Time

Just Why Do We Change The Clocks It’s time to turn the clocks forward an hour at 1 am on 26th March.

This is the time when sunrise and sunset are one hour later on the clock and is is known as British Summer Time, or Daylight Saving Time.

longer and spend more money - an extra £6.34 million in Northern Ireland alone.

Some are not in favour though. For example, traditional dairy farmers claim Daylight Saving Time disrupts milking routines.

It is believed that the concept was first proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1784 in an essay entitled; ‘An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light.’

would be more fuel for the war effort. Britain followed shortly after in May 1916.

Ancient civilisations had already been adopting similar concepts however by adjusting their routines in accordance with the sun’s schedules.

Daylight Saving Time is now utilised in over 70 countries world wide although dates of implementation and clock adjustments vary.

The first official modern use of Daylight Saving Time was in Ontario in 1908, and several other Canadian cities followed.

The main benefits of Daylight Saving Time are said to be:

At around the same time MP Robert Pearce proposed a bill in the House of Commons based on work done by British Builder William Willett around moving the clocks eight times a year to achieve similar results. This was rejected.

Germany became the first European country to introduce Daylight Saving Time in April 1916. Its rationale was that the use of artificial light would be reduced and thus there

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The opportunity to make better use of natural daylight The ability to conserve energy that would otherwise be used on artificial light A decrease in road accidents because roads are naturally lit during the time when most vehicles are using them Some studies such as one carried out by the Belfast Telegraph also claim that the extra hour of daylight means that tourists stay out

This mainly affects developing countries as elsewhere milking is automated. Some research has also shown that there is a greater risk of people having accidents or being the victims of crime because they leave their houses in the morning when it’s still dark.

Some studies have suggested that in the first few days after the clocks go forward there are more heart attacks too.

Finally for those of us who struggle to remember when we turn the clocks forward and when they go back, this little phrase may help: ‘Spring Forward, Fall Back,’ as the time when clocks go back always happens in the Autumn.

This year in the UK, the date when Greenwich Mean Time will begin again is 29th October.

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Local Football News

5th February Grove 4 Laxton 1 Laxton suffered their 3rd defeat of the season against the top of the league Grove.

Laxton had the first chance of the game which saw Joe Gibson one on one with the keeper but his shot went just wide of the post.

Soon after Grove took the lead to go 1-0 up. Laxton levelled the game when Joe Gibson chipped the keeper making it 1-1.

Just before half time Grove got in front of the game again to make it 2-1.

Within 5 minutes of the second half Grove took a two goal lead after a mix up in defence which left the striker to fire the ball into the top left corner, goal keeper Paul Williams getting his finger tips to it but it just wasn’t enough.

Shortly after numerous chances, Laxton made it 2-0 with a brilliant strike from Scott Hennell.

Before the break Will Hammilton beat 3 men before slotting home his 2nd of the season to make it 3-0 at the break.

It didn’t take Scott Hennell long to get his brace with another great strike into the top corner.

Joe Gibson finally got a well deserved goal after his hard work.

Both full backs managed to get on the score sheet, Robert Denseley with a ‘header’ into the top corner leaving the keeper with no chance.

With only 5 minutes left Daniel Hempsall finished off the scoring with a wonderful striker from 25 yards straight over the keeper.

Laxton changed formation to three at the back trying to push for a goal which left it open for Grove to find a 4th finishing the game 4-1.

Laxton 7 Holy Trinity 0 Laxton got back to winning ways with a 7-0 win over Holy Trinity, despite the heavy rain the game went ahead.

Tony Davies grabbed the first goal of the game inside 5 minutes to get Laxton off the mark.

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Mother’s Day

This year we celebrate Mother’s Day on 26 March.

You may not realise, but Mother’s Day happens on the fourth Sunday of Lent and originally had religious traditions attached to it.

In the sixteenth century, it was a celebration of the ‘mother church’ and people would return to the church in which they were baptised or where they attended as a child. Thus families would be reunited.

This was known as going ‘a mothering ‘or Mothering Sunday. It was commonplace for the Lent fast which prohibited sweet, rich foods and meat to be lifted a little and for a Simnel cake to be shared.

Years later, youngsters working as servants were given an annual day off to visit their mothers and would take gifts.

This was called ‘Mothers Day.’ The celebrations of Mothering Sunday and Mother’s Day have generally combined into one annual occasion.

The first official Mother’s Day was organised by Ann Jarvis in 1908 in West Virginia as a memorial to her mum.

By the 1920’s however Ann had become disillusioned by the commercialism of the day and especially the common use of printed greetings cards.

Celebrating the day became less popular.

It wasn’t until the second World War when soldiers wanted to acknowledge their distant mothers, that the day grew in popularity once more.

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Garden View Spring Has Sprung

“A beautiful garden does not happen by pure chance.

It takes a bit of work and planning.”

The other day someone said to me, ‘You are so lucky… you have a beautiful garden.’

you can grow them even if you only have a balcony.

There are loads of varieties to choose from. Three bulbs fit nicely into an 8inch / 20cm pot and five fit into a ten inch / 25cm pot.

I thanked her of course, but I really wanted to say, ‘Luck has very little to do with it.

A beautiful garden does not happen by pure chance. It takes a bit of work and planning.’

As the spring equinox looms, the trees blossom and daffodils bloom. The garden is waking up from its winter sleep and is full of promise.

I am excited to be outside in it but I’m aware for nongardeners it can seem daunting when everything (including the weeds) starts growing at once!

So where to begin? There are three fairly simple tasks which will get you off to a flying start.

Pruning is the first task.

It’s time to hard prune late-flowering shrubs like Buddleia, Leycesteria and Lavateria, but only if the risk of hard frost is past.

Spring flowering plants such as Forsythia and Winter Honeysuckle should be pruned immediately the flowers fade.

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pruned your bush roses, now is the time. Leave about an inch of last year’s growth to encourage bushiness and lots of flowers.

Shrub roses don’t need such radical treatment but would benefit from losing a third of their old, thick, woody stems.

Then a bit of lifting is required. Lift congested clumps of snowdrops while they still have leaves showing.

Finally, stay on top of the weeds from the outset. If you leave them, weeding quickly becomes an insurmountable chore.

But of course gardening is about planting things and one of the best things to plant now is lilies.

If you have a bit of a slug problem like I do grow them in pots. Pots also have the advantage of protecting the bulbs. I hate slicing through them accidentally when hoeing. And pots mean

I’ve found terracotta pots best because lilies are tall and terracotta provides enough weight to prevent them tipping over.

Lilies need a well-drained open planting mixture so I use a mixture of potting compost plus a soil-less multi-purpose compost.

The bulb tips should be a couple of inches below the compost. Keep in a sheltered spot and water when the surface of the compost looks dry.

Once the buds have formed, feed weekly with dilute tomato food until late summer. When the blooms fade, cut the stems down and place in a sheltered spot.

Each spring, scrape away a couple of inches of compost and add fresh mixture, then repeat the instructions above. Treated like this your lilies will reward you for three or four years before they need repotting.

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Catch all the games!

The RBS 6 Nations Rugby Live at the Lord Nelson

Fixture List Rounds 4 - 5 Fixture List Rounds 1 – 3

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Round 4 10th March 20.00 pm Wales V Ireland th 11 March 13.30 pm Italy V France th 11 March 16.00 pm England V Scotland Round 5 18th March 12.30 pm Scotland V Italy 18th March 14.45 pm France V Wales th 18 March 17.00 pm Ireland V England All matches are being shown at

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Wednesdays Coffee Mornings 10-12

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Thursdays Tuxford Tots Playgroup 9-11am Fridays Forget-Me-Nots 12-3.30pm Saturdays – Coffee morning 10-12

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Garlic & Herb Prawns

A light and tasty supper Preparation time: 25 minutes + marinating time Cook ing Time: 5-6 minutes Serves: 2 Ingredients 12 Raw prawns in their shells Juice of half a lemon 2 Garlic cloves - crushed 3 tbsp Chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh dill 3 tbsp softened butter Salt and pepper

with salt and pepper and spread the paste over the prawns. Leave to marinate for 30 minutes.

Preheat a frying pan. Fry the prawns until cooked, tossing them several times to distribute the heat evenly.

Turn out on to warm plates and drizzle with the juices from the pan.

Serve with lemon wedges and crusty bread.

Method Rinse the prawns. Use a sharp knife to slice along the back of each prawn from head end to tail and remove the thin black intestine.

Mix the lemon juice with the garlic, herbs and butter to form a paste. Season well

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Food Review - Reeba Reeba

Want some thing a little less English to eat? Try Mexican and visit Reeba Reeba in Retford.

Saturday evening and the restaurant is a full house, buzzing atmosphere, attentive young waiters / waitresses and great food.

To sum up the evening, great food, great staff and very well priced. Some places you leave still able to eat more but not here at Reeba Reeba

With a vast choice to choose from and a large specials board it was hard to decide what to have.

Word of warning…. make sure you’re hungry as the portions were very generous and we struggled to finish two courses.

How To Write A Living Will The term Living Will is commonly used to refer to a document which expresses how you want to be treated or cared for in certain situations when you may not have the capacity to communicate your decisions.

However, for it to be valid, you must follow very specific instructions set out in the Mental Capacity Act 2005. This states what you must cover in the document and says that your wishes must be dated, signed and witnessed.

It gives your family, doctors and caregivers confidence that they are following your wishes at an emotionally fraught time.

Whilst legally doctors and solicitors do not need to be involved, it is wise to discuss options with medical professionals to ensure you fully understand all the consequences.

If you are over 18, you can use the document to communicate about types of treatment that you don’t want to undertake and give more general statements about how you want to be cared for in accordance with your beliefs and values.

You can find lots of advice via charities and legal organisations about how you may want to record these thoughts. If you wish to include an advance decision about not undertaking life sustaining treatments.

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A Good Read It addresses politics, animal rights, outcasts, fate, friendships, and the philosophical question of what makes us bad: are people born wicked or do they become wicked purely by living up to people’s expectations of them?

Elphaba Thropp was born with an unfortunate colour skin tone and right from the start felt rejected like an outcast.

Wicked

by Gregory Maguire We all know what happened when Dorothy arrived in the Land of Oz courtesy of a cyclone. She killed the Wicked Witch of the East and magically acquired her ruby slippers.

Helped by Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, she travelled to the Emerald City with three friends and asked the Wizard to send her back to Kansas. And of course, we know about her green enemy: The Wicked Witch of the West.

But do we really know the rest of the story? What DID happen in Oz before this little girl from Kansas carelessly ‘dropped’ in?

Wicked, is the story of the witches of Oz as imagined

by Gregory Maguire.

Familiar to many people these days through the hit West End musical of the same name, this novel is very different in tone to the musical with much more adult themes.

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She feels as if she has no place in the world but all that is set to change when she arrives at Shiz University. Here she meets her total opposite, Glinda, and despite an initial hatred of each other they do become best friends. But where will that friendship take them?

They are destined to follow separate paths: one of good and one of evil.

The Good Witch and The Wicked Witch.

It is how that happens and how they discover their true purpose and destiny that forms the heart of this immersive fantasy novel.

Clearly Oz is not just for children.

Amelia Jane is a big ragdoll and she is not just big, she is bad. And the other toys are generally scared of her.

Hardly surprising when she does things like throwing pints of milk over other toys on a regular basis!

These short chapters almost work as individual short stories which makes it a nice transition for readers to proper ‘chapter books’.

Each chapter sees Amelia Jane getting into trouble and being naughty but ultimately learning a lesson: one that she seems destined to forget despite her protestations that she ‘will be good from now’.

Lessons that demonstrate to the reader why it is important to be kind and considerate towards others.

In the words of Enid Blyton: “I do somehow feel perfectly certain that she can’t be good for long.”

By Willow Coby

Naughty Amelia Jane!

by Enid Blyton Some books never fail to entertain generation after generation and the Amelia Jane books by Enid Blyton are no exception.

At some point in childhood we all wonder what would happen if our toys were alive. Well in this nursery they are.

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