The Poole Directory - June 2013

In this issue...

Local businesses Local News

- Making the most of Meadows - Fun for free in the summer

Local Events

- Magic of Motown at Lighthouse - Sculpture in the Garden

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The Poole Directory Edition 28

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Stephen & Debbie Corney at Dorset Publications

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Copy deadline for the July 2013 edition: 25th June 2013

Disclaimer: Whilst every care has been taken to ensure that data in this publication is accurate, the publisher cannot accept any liability to any party to loss or damage caused by errors or omissions resulting from negligence, accident or any other cause.

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Dear Poole!

With the better weather we have had recently I am certainly hopeful that this summer we are encouraged to get out and enjoy our local countryside and places of interest, rather than looking to get on a plane to get away from it all!

One of our recent acquisitions has been a converted campervan, which not only enables the transportation of the magazines each month, but also gives us an excuse to get out and explore the local area. We will be making regular feature out of this and hope to share some of our adventures with you to give an idea of places that you might like to try yourselves.

See our latest exploits on page 20.

Inside The Poole Directory we do of course have our local trades and business people who would love to hear from you. Categories range from curtains and blinds to hearing aids, solar energy and tree care, car repairs and day nurseries, care homes and granite kitchen work tops. All can easily be found in our useful index on page 30. You will also find in this month’s edition local articles including the Magic of Motown at Lighthouse, free family fun in and around Bournemouth this summer, local events and how to make the most of meadow wildlife. This is an ideal little booklet to keep by the phone, after you have read it. You never know when you may need some help!

If you have visited somewhere local and would like to write a little article about your experiences, please feel free to email - we would love to see your photos too. We look forward to hearing from you!

Very Best Wishes,

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I’LL BE THERE – THE 2013 MAGIC OF MOTOWN TOUR CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF NUMBER ONE HITS

Let it fill your heart with joy and laughter, togetherness is what it’s after, just call its name... the Magic of Motown will be there.

Direct from the USA, The Magic of Motown returns with its I’ll Be There 2013 Tour featuring an all-new show, packed with 36 back-to-back massive Motown hits.

Show producer Michael Taylor says: “Fivestar performances authentically revive the style and sophistication of all the Detroit legends.”

Hits by the Temptations, Supremes, Four Tops, Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Lionel Richie and more feature in the hit concert show.

“There’s dazzling dance moves and glittering costumes galore,” says Michael.

“Plus the incredible Magic of Motown band, tighter than Motown’s house band the Funk Brothers in their prime.”

This year is a very special one as far as Motown is concerned, according to Michael.

“It marks 50 years of number one hits from the world’s favourite record label,” he says.

In 1963 Motown were regularly topping the charts in the States. Heat Wave by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, You Really Got a Hold On Me by The Miracles, It Should’ve Been Me by Kim Weston, Fingertips Pt 2

by Little Stevie Wonder and Can I Get a

Witness by Marvin Gaye paved the way for the label’s meteoric rise to become the most influential and successful record label of all time.

To mark the occasion, The Magic of Motown is preparing to sign, seal and deliver (with a nod to Stevie Wonder) its biggest production ever in its ten-year history with the planned tour taking in 100 prestigious venues from Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight and all points in between.

Male lead Andre Lejaune says that the cast has rehearsed an all-new arena show for 2013 to celebrate this golden anniversary.

“With many new numbers added to our already hit-packed show we needed to ensure the choreography was right on point,” says the talented Floridian singer.

“The show is called The Magic of Motown for a reason, it’s our job to ensure theatregoers have a truly magical night to remember.

“Don’t miss the show of the year and its I’ll Be There 2013 Tour. . . just call its name and you’ll be there.”

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Meadows are man-made havens for wildlife and have been an essential part of the British landscape for thousands of years. They contain a stunning mixture of dozens of native flowers and grasses, along with numerous species of insects and birds, creating a wealth of biodiversity. The variety of plants ensures food for invertebrates, which in turn feed the birds such as kestrels, skylarks and chiffchaffs. Butterflies, bees and ladybirds and even mammals like rabbits, badgers and voles are all denizens of this quintessentially British wildlife habitat.

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From Ward to Board Paula Shobbrook is Director of Nursing and Midwifery at the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch hospitals and will carry out this role in the new merged organisation, if approved.

Here Paula talks about how essential ward to Board reporting is to ensure quality of care for patients.

“My job is focused on providing the highest quality of patient care,” explains Paula. “Quite simply, we are judged by what happens at the bedside.”

And for Paula this means regularly getting back into her uniform and going out onto the wards.

As Director of Nursing and Midwifery, Paula sits on the hospital’s Board and having firsthand knowledge is crucial: “If we’re going to sit in a board meeting, making major decisions about patient care or what is happening in the hospital, this ‘ward to board’ connection is vitally important.”

Her interest in patient care started when she volunteered for the Red Cross as a youngster, and a colleague at the charity suggested she took up nursing as a career. Since then, she has built up a wealth of knowledge from working in various positions in the NHS. Paula has an important role in leading the new organisation and retaining that connection with nurses at ward level. “I’m at the centre of making decisions about issues that matter, but

it also allows me to keep in touch with life on the wards.

This connection will be vital if the merger b e t we e n t h e two foundation trusts is approved.

Continuing to provide quality Paula Shobbrook services locally is the driver behind merger. While the two organisations already provide excellent services, we want to retain that and together we can be even better.”

Patient feedback is important in helping any hospital provide high quality of care. “We carefully review feedback and if there are areas we need to improve we make sure we put it right. The merger is about ensuring we can continue to provide quality of care but also to improve and meet new standards.

“We need to be able to adapt and change so that we can provide the best care and services possible, and the proposed merger is another step towards meeting the challenges of the modern world.

“We already wor k very closely across Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch hospitals with many services complementing each other.

We will still have the same three hospitals, but the merger will allow us to address some of the challenges currently facing the NHS. “For me, the most exciting part will be the chance to share and develop best practices from both trusts to continue to improve our services.”

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Free Family Fun in Bournemouth this Summer!

Cashed-strapped families need look no further - Bournemouth’s seven miles of golden sands will provide the perfect backdrop to one of the UK’s biggest programmes of FREE family events this summer. From traditional candle lighting and carnivals to firework displays and the UK’s biggest aviation spectacular, the UK’s best beach destination* has it all this summer.

The Kids Fun Festival will run every day from the 29th July to the 25th August, between 11am and 5pm. This vibrant event is guaranteed to keep the whole family entertained with FREE kid’s shows in the award-winning Lower Gardens. With plenty of activities, including art workshops, magicians, jesters, puppet workshops, comedy, magic, party games and lots more.

Bournemouth Carnival Week takes place from the 29th July to the 4th August. This event offers the opportunity to enter sand castle competitions, watch dance performances on the Pier Approach or enjoy band performances in the Lower Gardens.

The famously enchanting Candlelight Nights will be returning to magically illuminate the Lower Gardens from the 31st July and the 7th, 14th and 21st August. One of Bournemouth’s oldest traditions, the candles will be lit at dusk - a charming custom the whole family can take part in.

The fantastic Friday Family Fiesta offers families the perfect combination of entertainment for a fun-packed Friday evening. This action-packed event runs every Friday from the 26th July to the 23rd August. It includes circus workshops and shows, fire performances, stilt walkers and much more. Spectacular firework displays will be returning to the Pier once again ending the evening with a bang! These dramatically dynamic displays can be seen from East and West of the Pier every Friday night from 10pm.

But this biggest show-stopper of all is the Bournemouth Air Festival, the largest FREE event of its kind in the UK, running from the 29th August to the 1st September. The impressive aviation spectacular is packed with top-notch entertainment including thrilling aerial performances, naval beach assaults, live music and superb seafront trading.

Event organisers are also delighted that the RAF Aerobatic Team the Red Arrows will make a return to the Bournemouth Air Festival, with displays across three days (Thursday, Friday and Saturday). The fun will also continue into the evening with Night Air entertainments, which includes live music from a seafront stage, street entertainers, fireworks and dusk air displays.

Please visit our website (www.bournemouth. co.uk) for more information, including a list of some of the best hotels, restaurants and entertainment Bournemouth has to offer.

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The Adventures of Nellie

The Dorset Publications Camper Van We recently invested in a dual purpose camper van. One that can not only carry all the thousands of magazines we produce each month, to our very own valuable 70 or so distributors, but one that also has a fridge, cooker, cupboards and (a very modest…) ‘upstairs bedroom’ for Hayden, as well as a ‘cozy’ bed for Stephen and I. Nellie, the black camper van, has quite an imposing character with long black skirts, silver wing mirrors and large silver grills at the front. If you ever see her when you are out and about, please give her a wave as she is rather fond of that! She got her name from the combined words, Nissan and Elgrand which is her make. You can see her in true style below!

We have designed these articles as a little fun to show you where Nellie gets to and maybe give you some ideas of where to go… in the Dorset area.

For those of you well travelled and seasoned camper van drivers, you will already have experienced the joy of getting outdoors and away from it all.

For us this is new and I have to say I love it. At a recent Caravan and Campers

The Thimble Inn, Piddlehinton Show we bought a years membership to Brit Stops, which is ideal if you are only wanting to stay somewhere for the night or you are on your way to somewhere much further away like Scotland or Northern Wales, or even aborad, and want to stop off on route.

Once you have your membership, which is a small £25 for the year, it is FREE to stay at the designated areas. You just need to call and make sure there is a space for you that night. These are usually pubs, farms and local, off the track places that don’t always have a lot of facilities and are certainly not the usual camp sites or tourist hot spots.

Quiet, off the road and a good meal can easily be enjoyed without the worry of not having a drink due to driving back home again.

Our first Brit Stop day and night was spent in the village of Piddlehinton at The Thimble Inn. It is a thatched roof picture postcard pub situated in a beautiful village in typical South Dorset rolling countryside. The food was really good and all three of us

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We have a games cupboard in Nellie, one at the ready for any time we want to stop and have a ‘friendly’ competition as a family. We get quite competitive at times and both Hayden and Stephen are not very good losers. Maybe it is a man thing! It is a great way to get Hayden off his computer games and interact with us. It can take quite some doing as many parents of young boys and girls may know. This seems to work for us…at the moment. The now old fashioned, real cards come out, we have bingo and dice games and all are really enjoyed in a relaxed, away from the phones, off the beaten track atmosphere. As I said - I love it!

We settled down for the night with Hayden in his ‘upstairs bedroom’.

Once we pulled our bed out we realised we couldn’t open the fridge to get the milk out! We are still learning as you can see… Then Hayden got too cold and by 3am he was ‘downstairs’ with us, lying on the front seat which conveniently turns into the van when we are stationary. A cozy, warmer night was had by all!

The next day we woke up to birds singing and the sun just about shining, well behind some greyish looking clouds anyway. We used the facilities in the pub and then set off for Cerne Abbas.

I have lived in Dorset for over 16 years and have never visited Cerne before!

Shocking but true. It is surprising what we have on our doorstep that we just don’t make the effort to go out and see. We took a wrong turning at one point and finished up on a dirt track to a local farm. Oh Oh Nellie was not at all impressed with that! But that is the fun of having a lazy day out and discovering the English countryside. The giant was there in all his glory as you can see here… We did have an article on this giant in a previous issue, so I hope you were able to read it?

We then went down into the local village of Cerne Abbas and had a lovely English coffee shop lunch at Abbots.

We were able to amble on home in a very happy Nellie. Hayden got back onto his computer games and we got back to work, all the happier for having spent some time together as a family and seeing some of beautiful Dorset.

Where will Nellie go next? See next month’s issue of… The Poole Directory!

By Debbie Corney

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New Jersey Nights Comes into Town

Direct from the USA the international smash hit show New Jersey Nights comes to the Bournemouth Pavilion as part of their world tour.

The show is a spectacular celebration of the music of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, and takes the audience on a nostalgic musical journey through the career of one of the biggest selling groups of all times.

From the back street studio in New Jersey where it all began, this vibrant production includes all of The Four Seasons greatest hits, Including Sherry, Rag Dolls, Big Girls Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Cry, Walk Like A Man and so much more.

If you like the music of Frankie Vali and the Four Seasons, you will love this show. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss Jersey Nights!

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The idea of what constitutes a good summer varies greatly according to one’s interests, and the average child or beach lover is happy with bright sun every day but gardeners and farmers crave a bit of moderation.

Perfection might be sunshine all day and rain at night but that rarely happens so we usually have to spend some time rescuing our water starved plants at some point through the summer. It is better to water heavily, soaking the soil occasionally rather than giving a light shower which will just encourage the roots to the surface and the water will never get down to where it is needed. Concentrate on salad crops to keep lettuce and radish etc. crisp and don’t worry so much about crops and plants with deeper roots. If you can catch rainwater in

a water butt or large containers, that’s all to the good but don’t be afraid to use washing-up water (we haven’t all got dish washers) and bathwater if it’s not too contaminated by bubble bath and suchlike. Don’t worry about the lawn - grass really is as tough as old boots and although it might look like the Gobi desert, it will all come back to life after a decent drop of rain. If the theories about global warming and warmer summers are to be believed, perhaps we should consider growing more plants that are happier in drier, more Mediterranean conditions rather than our traditional cottage garden varieties. Many grey or silver- leaved plants are a good example.

Think about lavenders, rosemary, cistus, many ornamental grasses, bamboo and herbs.

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Bedooms Garlen Kitchens & Bedrooms............................17 Beds The Bed Store................................................... 3 Blinds, Curtains & Shutters Ashley Blinds..................................................... 5 Broadview Blinds..............................................17 Tuscany Blinds..................................................19 Builders Excellence Homes.............................................19 Carpets & Flooring Carpet Barn...................................................... 3 Chimney Sweeps Oliver Chimney Sweep......................................19 Community News A Beginnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guide: Watering...................................26 Adventures of Nellie...................................................20 Dorset Wildlife Trust: Meadows...........................10 Free Family Summer Fun..................................18 Magic of Motown at Lighthouse...................... 6 New Jersey Nights at The Pavilion....................24 Sculpture in the Garden....................................28

Kitchens Dream Doors.................................................... 1 Garlen Kitchens & Bedrooms............................17 Portman Stone.................................................. 9 Landscaping Supplies The Stone Zone................................................. 3 Lofts Loft Services......................................................29 Metalwork EmmDan Fabrications......................................16 Painters & Decorators S & L Ashby....................................................... 8 Plumbing & Heating Accolade Building Care.....................................11 Bournemouth Plumbing Solutions....................22 Property Maintenance Excellence Homes.............................................19 Shoreline Property Maintenance......................22 Puzzles & Competitions Kids Page..........................................................12 Prize Wordsearch..............................................25 Sudoku..............................................................24

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Trademark Services Trademarkroom Ltd.......................................... 7

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Trading Standards Borough of Poole..............................................16

Electricians Power & Light Electrical.................................... 8

Worktops Portman Stone.................................................. 9

Garden Services JBM Garden & Property Services......................29 Jon Stokes Garden Services...............................23

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