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Spotlight on The Dukeries Contents Health and Wellbeing Kids’ Winter Health 6 Recipe 8 Business Focus Focus Accounting

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Hello everyone, Happy November to you all. It is starting to feel like winter now that we have altered the clocks and the days are getting shorter. Plenty of good reading again this month. Great advice for keeping your kids healthy this winter in a natural way. We focus on 3 local businesses who are working hard to deliver quality local services. We have a mouth watering recipe, and the usual puzzles and features. Please help to support all our local business who are advertising each month. As always please feel free to comment or contribute by emailing to info@spotlightlocal.co.uk. Have a great month.

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Kids’ Winter Health - Naturally reduces immunity. Choose wholegrain cereals for breakfast such as oats, rather than refined sugary cereals. Soak overnight and then top up with honey and hot milk, preferably full fat and organic. Try goat or buffalo milk if your child is hyperactive and over-emotional, as this may indicate difficulties digesting casein, the cow protein. Add chopped nuts, seeds, fruit and live yogurt.

on’t let the bugs win the health battle this winter. We have an innate power to heal ourselves as long as we take care and prepare. We thrive in happy, stress and pollution-free environments, with sufficient healthy foods and drinks, fresh air, sunshine, exercise and sleep. However our immune systems can take a battering at this time of year and children are particularly vulnerable. Vegetables and fruit are essential eating, due to the antioxidants, vitamins and minerals they contain, especially vitamin C and the B vitamins that help deal with stress. They are also alkaline-forming, neutralising acids formed by fizzy drinks, additives and high sugar levels associated with junk food. If your children won’t go for the greens try hiding them by finely chopping and mixing with minced meat. Make smoothies and blend soups. They can even grow their own cress for egg and cress sandwiches. Sprouted seeds contain many more enzymes than just fruit or vegetables. Enzymes are destroyed in cooking so some food should be eaten raw. Try carrot, celery and cucumber sticks. Children need 3 meals and 2-3 snacks a day to sustain energy levels. Tiredness

Protein breakfasts will fill them up and aid the brain. Scrambled eggs or sardines on wholegrain toast are healthy options, with fruit for morning playtime. Muesli bars are useful standbys but check for excess sugar, which lowers immunity. Buy the homeopathic remedies, Aconite and Gelsemium 30c, helpful at the first signs of a cold. Give one Aconite pill if they come home chilled and can’t seem to get warm. Chills lower immunity so stock up on warming spices. In America cayenne was sprinkled in shoes, so lots of cosy orange feet! You may prefer to add it to stews and soups? Homemade chicken soup with drumsticks and extra onions is very nourishing. Add fresh garlic, sage and thyme to boost immunity. Lemon, ginger and honey tea will keep them warm and ease sore throats and coughs, as will Propolis lozenges. The herb Echinacea aids healing and regulates the immune system. Echinoforce by Vogel is suitable for children over 5 years of age. Give the maximum dose at the first sign of a cold and once a day as a preventative. A vitamin D supplement is also a good preventative. Always follow instructions for children and remember that any aspirin based cold treatments are unsuitable. Sue Blain Naturopath

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Katsu Stuffed Peppers A Warming Autumnal Recipe Ingredients Enough for four large peppers. Sauce 60ml tomato ketchup 4 teaspoons rice wine 4 teaspoons soy sauce 2 teaspoons sugar 2 teaspoons pureed apple or apple sauce 4 teaspoons rice wine vinegar 4 teaspoons mustard 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice 1/8 teaspoon ground clove 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder Place the ingredients in a sauce pan and bring to a boil, stirring all the time. Then reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

be large enough to make stuffing the peppers easy. Stuff peppers with the filling Sprinkle with Panko breadcrumbs Place in a greased, ovenproof dish and bake for 35-40 minutes. Serve with the sauce. Note: Panko is a Japanese crunchy breadcrumb topping, which can generally be found in the oriental aisle at the supermarket. If you can’t find them, use ordinary lightly- toasted breadcrumbs instead.

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Protect and Insure! You’d be forgiven if you thought this was an article about finance, but it’s important to protect tender perennials and take cutting material to over winter as a ‘plant insurance policy’. Although it’s now too late to take semi ripe cuttings (this should be done in July/August) the best way to protect your tender perennials such as Salvias and Pelargonium’s is to lift them and bring them into a greenhouse. If you have a heater, this should be set to the frost setting (or ideally around 5C) and if you bubble wrap your greenhouse for additional heat conservation, the heater will only need to kick in on those extremely cold days and nights. Tender bulbs and tubers such as dahlias should now be lifted (once the foliage has been blackened by the frost) and placed in a box of sand in a dry, dark, frost-free location. Borderline hardy perennials such as Agapanthus, which are generally happy to be left in the ground with a little protection, are best left undisturbed, but with a generous quantity of well rotted compost or bark mulch added to the top. This can be removed from directly around the crown of the plant in spring, and will help retain moisture throughout the spring growing season. Leaving plants like this outside after last winter is a risk, but short of moving the garden into the garage each winter, I figure the line has to be drawn somewhere! For those hardy horticulturalists who like me, enjoy working in the garden on a cold crisp day, November sees the beginning of the bare root planting season. Before the invention of the plastic pot, November to March was the only time in which plants such as roses, hedging and trees could be moved, and those planted in winter, in my experience do exceptionally well.

Jobs to do this month: Spring bulbs should now have been planted, however it’s not too late if you have them still to do. In particular, tulip bulbs are best left until this month, as the less time they are in the ground the less chance they have of getting a virus called tulip fire blight. Plant garlic cloves if you have a free draining soil. The general advice is ‘only if you live in a mild area’ but after mine survived last winter in a raised bed, I think it’s probably more to do with heavy wet soils than the temperature. Dig over the vegetable plot, leaving clods to break down over winter Finally, leaves should be regularly collected from lawn areas where they will deprive the lawn of what little light we have at this time of year.

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The Edwinstowe and Dukeries Lions Club were invited to the BLUEBELL WOOD HOSPICES OPEN DAY recently and were so moved by the experience that they donated £ 500 to help them continue their wonderful work . Bluebell Wood help young people who have limited life expectancy, their motto is LIVING WITH LOVE AND LAUGHTER you would think that Bluebell wood would be a sombre place, far from it its full of happiness and joy, the Lions were very touched by the experience and were more than delighted to help.

Autumn is now upon us, and the Dukeries U3A are busy planning Christmas lunches, parties and forthcoming events for 2012.

In the picture lion president John Whitlam presented the cheque to Helen Mower, they were surrounded by Lions members from left to right Lion Sylvia Pink,, Lion Tony Pink, President John Whitlam, Helen Mower of Bluebell Wood, Lion Mike Teale and of course Lion Leo Milner Yes you heard it right LEO the Lion .

The elfinstowe and dukeries lions club are now interviewing for elves to help santa in his annual sleigh run in the following areas, bilsthorpe, clipstone, ollerton, elfinstowe ( sorry edwinstowe ) wellow and the surrounding villages. If anyone is interested in the brilliant work that is done by the LIONS please call Jon Yarwood ON 07581 265531 OR E MAIL jon.c.yarwood@gmail.com IT COULD BE THE BEST CALL YOU HAVE EVER MADE !!!

The past two months have been very busy. Norah and Beryl organised a very successful trip to the ‘Back-to-Back’ houses in Birmingham, followed by lunch and an afternoon at Wightwick Manor. Tony and Val organised a trip to the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford upon Avon to see ‘Macbeth’. The Sunday Lunch Club dined at the Parish Oven in Thorpe Salvin, and the Weekday Lunch Club – hosted by Ann Pyper – had their annual treat of pie, peas, delicious puds and drinks, served by members, at the Jubilee Hall in Ollerton. The food was excellent and the gossip even better! All of our groups continue to thrive. Sue Winscomb has started a Theatre Group; The Book Club are into a Crime Novel season; Stitchcraft have been knitting peg bags from recycled carrier bags, and Cardcraft are producing beautiful Christmas cards ready for the festive season. There are too many other activities to mention here, so why not come along to one of our monthly meetings (third Monday of every month) at the Jubilee Hall, Wellow Road, Ollerton. Meet us at 1.30pm – you will be greeted at the door and made to feel very welcome. It’s only £1 for the initial visit! Ring (01623) 824789 for more details. Puzzle Solutions

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