The Brockenhurst Guide - March/April 2018

The Brockenhurst

Guide

March/April 2018

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Dear Brockenhurst, Beaulieu, Setley, East Boldre, Hill Top and surrounding villages,

Welcome...

The Brockenhurst Guide

Happy Mother’s Day to all our wonderful Mums, Grans, Nans and Carers! Easter is also early this year and very nearly upon us, so we do hope you get to spend some time with family and friends and that the weather is kind to us all and we can get out and about!

Spring officially starts on Tuesday 20th March which means we have daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, tulips and other delightful flowers to look forward to as well as (hopefully) a warmer, milder climate. Marvellous!

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Here’s to a great month of March.

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Community News

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Refill New Forest Refill New Forest launched last week with the aim of tackling plastic pollution in the New Forest by making it easier to locate free tap water. This is part of a larger, national campaign which to-date has over 1600 refill points in the UK.

The Refill App allows people to search for the nearest location to fill up their water bottles. Participating cafes, bars, restaurants, banks, galleries, museums, estate agents and other businesses simply put a sticker in their window – alerting passers-by to the fact they’re welcome to come on in and fill up their bottle – for free! By adding themselves to the app, the public can search for the nearest business which offers free tap water.

Gus Hoyt, Refill Programme Manager at City to Sea, was delighted to see the New Forest becoming part of the scheme: “We are over the moon that the New Forest is joining the Refill Family. As a child I spent many a happy summer camping in this beautiful part of the world which we all need to help protect from litter and pollution.”

the Refill New Forest Scheme, simply download the Refill App and add your business then contact Refill New Forest who will send you a sticker to put in your window. Alternatively, if you want help in adding yourself to the app, one of our volunteers will come in to help you. Refill New Forest can be contact by phone on 01590 675613 or email refillnewforest@gmail.com Refill New Forest is run by volunteers from New Forest Transition, and is partfunded by New Forest National Park Authority’s Sustainable Communities Fund. This fund is a grant scheme aimed at strengthening the well-being and sustainability of communities within the New Forest National Park.

Anyone who wants to know more about the national Refill scheme and getting involved should visit www.refill.org.uk

In the first week since launching in the New Forest, over 30 businesses have already signed up with one of the first being the Old School Café in St. Barbe Museum in Lymington. Refill are keen to stress that it’s not only cafes that can get involved – all kinds of business are welcome to join.

If any businesses would like to join

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Community News

Brockenhurst Football Club Is Brockenhurst Football Club the best kept secret in the village? Well maybe, but we would really like to do something about that.

We are a friendly sports and social club with a warm welcome and a lot to offer the local community. Whilst you are obviously able to watch our first team compete in the Sydenhams Wessex Premier League you can also enjoy the facilities of our club house . We have a well stocked bar with a big screen where you can watch live sport on Sky sports and BT sport the ideal environment for sports fans to enjoy premier league football or 6 nations rugby in a friendly, convivial atmosphere.

The club house is also the ideal party venue and is available, by prior arrangement, for private functions for as little as £50! So if you’re planning a party or celebration please bear us in mind. For enquiries about availability

please call Michael O’Mara (Paddy) on 07976 799067.

We are busy planning our annual beer, cider and music festival Brockstock - which has proved so popular over recent years. It will take place over the May Bank Holiday weekend, Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th. We have a great line up of bands for both days so keep a look out for further details as we guarantee you won’t want to miss it!

On the football side in addition to the first team we have junior teams down through the ages to under 6’s. We are very proud to report the success of our under 15 side who have just reached the final of the Bournemouth Youth Football League Cup to be played on Sunday 18th March.

As current holders it would be an amazing achievement if they are able to retain the trophy.

Club membership is available for as little as £20 which entitles you to a number of benefits including discounted bar prices and free clubhouse hire. If you haven’t visited us before we are open at weekends and on evening match days and extend a warm welcome to all.

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Community News

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Turners Sims, Southampton awarded £30,000 Arts Council England funding Turner Sims is delighted to announce that it has been awarded £30,000 from Arts Council England’s Catalyst Small Grants programme.

Turner Sims, part of the University of Southampton, is an internationally renowned concert hall and live music producing organisation, attracting worldclass musicians, both nationally and internationally, for over 40 years.

The funding will enable Turner Sims to launch a series of campaigns, to raise funds towards the organisation’s capital plans and delivery of music learning and engagement programmes for the community. A series of creative projects involving artists, bespoke fundraising training for staff and the development of a new Fundraising Strategy are also part of the plan to attract investment from new funders, donors and businesses.

Kevin Appleby, Turner Sims Concert Hall Manager, said of the award: “I am hugely grateful to Arts Council England for supporting Turner Sims in this way. The investment will strengthen our fundraising approach, in partnership with the wider University, and give us a range of exciting new resources to tell the story about the organisation’s achievements and our ambitions for the future.”

“The Catalyst funding will enable the organisation to take a more proactive approach to fundraising and build its fundraising capacity as part of a wider University-offering. Turner Sims is one of the excellent offers at the University within its wide ranging arts portfolio which reaches and engages with staff, students and the community.”

Phil Gibby, Area Director, South West, Arts Council England, said: “We are delighted to be supporting Turner Sims through our National Lottery funded Catalyst Small Grants programme to build their fundraising capacity and attract more private giving.

The Catalyst Small Grants fund is one of the measures we put in place to help create a more sustainable and resilient arts and culture sector. This grant is one of more than one hundred we are making across England and we look forward to seeing the impact this will have for Turner Sims and more widely across the country.”

The University’s Associate Director, Arts & Culture, Louise Coysh, commented:

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Starting School...

Choosing the right school for your child is an exciting but sometimes daunting process. Every child is unique, as is every school. Ultimately, the school has to feel right for you as a family but there are so many other considerations as well.

• Does the learning environment offer stimulation, wonder and challenge?

• Can the children freely explore, both indoors and outdoors?

• Are the children supported in developing positive friendships?

• Are the class sizes and staff ratios better than the national average?

• Is each child nurtured and cared for as a unique individual?

• Does a trained adult listen to every child read daily?

• Do even the youngest children have access to specialist teaching and facilities such as Forest School, Art, Sport and Music?

• Are staff committed to helping every child reach his or her full potential?

Investing in Independent education can be a sacrifice but given that Durlston can answer ‘yes’ to all of these questions, it is an option that many families choose to explore. Visitors to our Reception classrooms comment on the happy and purposeful atmosphere, the high levels of achievement and the tangible sense of joy. A positive attitude to learning is embedded at a young age; this gift stays with our children as they journey through their school careers.

If your child is taking his or her first educational steps, please do contact us.

I would be delighted to give you a tour of our happy and successful school.

Gilly Smith Head of Pre-Prep Department Durlston Court School

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Excellent in all Areas!

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“An amazing school with a family feel where staff provide a high standard of teaching across the curriculum and where they love and nurture your children as much as you do.”

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Becton Lane, Barton on Sea Don’t just take their New Milton, Hampshire BH25 7AQ Independent Day School word for it. Contact us to t: 01425 610010 for Boys and Girls aged 2-13 w: www.durlstoncourt.co.uk arrange a visit.

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Food & Drink

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Ingredients 1 joint of beef 1 -3 tsp coarse salt(generous amount) 1 -3tsp fresh cracked pepper 1 tbsp fresh rosemary 10 garlic cloves

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Settle the joint and let it stand at room temperature for at least 1 hour.

2. Mix the salt and pepper together.

3. Insert some of the rosemary directly into the skin of the joint, scoring with a sharp knife to help you insert it.

4. Preheat the oven to 375oF. 5. Now score the joint in 10 random spots for the garlic. Rub the meat with the seasoning mix. Place cloves into the slices.

6. Place the roast on a rack in the pan with the rosemary top side up.

7. Roast for 1 hour and then turn off oven.

8. Leave the roast in the oven but do not open oven door for 3 hours.

9. About 30 to 40 minutes before serving time, turn oven to 375 oF and reheat the roast.

10. Make sure not to remove roast or re-open the oven door from time roast is put in until 20 minutes before ready to serve.

11. Remove roast 20 minutes after heating.

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Brockenhurst Funeral Home Your local Funeral Directors in the village

Our promise is to help you arrange and plan a funeral with care, respect, clarity and reassurance. We are here to understand how difficult this can be and we will be with you every step of the way, helping to make the funeral for your loved one unique.

We provide you with the comfort of knowing that your loved one is resting in our private chapel of rest where you can visit as often as you like.

We can also assist with Monumental Masonry, Floral Tributes, Printed Funeral Stationery and offer you a full Memories Range.

Fully guaranteed funeral plans are available for peace of mind.

Call in for a coffee with Sharon for a chat and further information.

Serving families in Brockenhurst, Lymington, Lyndhurst and the New Forest.

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Celebrity Interview

Celebrity Interview:

Kiri te Kanawa

By Tim Saunders

Celebrated opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has announced that she will not sing in public again. Her last public performance was in Melbourne, Australia in October 2016. “Before I’d gone on, I said, right, this it. And that was the end,” the soprano recently revealed on the BBC’s Today programme. “I don’t want to hear my voice. It is in the past. When I’m teaching young singers, and hearing beautiful young fresh voices, I don’t want to put my voice next to theirs.”

Perhaps the greatest success for the New Zealand opera star was singing at the wedding of Lady Diana and Prince Charles at St. Paul’s Cathedral in 1981. A worldwide audience of 600m tuned in to watch this memorable occasion.

In 2013 she appeared in ITV’s Downton Abbey playing the Australian operatic soprano Dame Nellie Melba.

Te Kanawa has received accolades in many countries, singing a wide array of works in multiple languages from the 17th to the 20th centuries. She is particularly associated with the works of Mozart, Strauss, Verdi, Handel and Puccini, and has found particular success in portraying princesses, nobility, and other similar characters on stage.

Born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron in Gisborne, New Zealand she has Maori and European ancestry, but little is known about her birth parents. She was adopted by Thomas Te Kanawa, a Maori, and his wife, Nell. She had never made any attempt to contact her natural parents, but around this time, her half-brother Jim Rawstron contacted her. Initially, she was not willing to meet him, but later agreed. This episode ended in bitterness, and she has since reaffirmed her decision to have nothing to do with her birth family.

Educated at St Mary’s College, Auckland, she formally trained in operatic singing by Dame Sister Mary Leo. Beginning her singing career as a mezzo-soprano, she later developed into a soprano. Her recording of the “Nuns’ Chorus” from the Strauss operetta Casanova was New Zealand’s first gold record.

She met Desmond Park on a blind date in London in August 1967, and they married six weeks later at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Auckland adopting two children, Antonia and Thomas. The couple divorced in 1997.

In her teens and early 20s, Te Kanawa was a pop star and popular entertainer at clubs in New Zealand and regularly appeared in newspapers and magazines.

In 1963, she was runner-up to Malvina Major in the Mobil Song Quest with her performance of “Vissi d’arte” from Puccini’s Tosca, and in 1965 she won the same competition. As winner, she received a grant to study in London.

In 1966, she then won the prestigious Australian Melbourne Sun-Aria contest, which Major had also won the previous year. Both students had been taught

by Sister Mary Leo. Later that year, without an audition, she enrolled at the London Opera Centre to study under Vera Rózsa and James Robertson, who reputedly said Te Kanawa lacked a singing technique when she arrived at the school but did have a gift for captivating audiences. She first appeared on stage as the Second Lady in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, as well as in performances of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in December 1968 at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre.

She also sang the title role in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena.

In 1969, she sang Elena in Rossini’s La donna del lago at the Camden Festival; and was offered the role of the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro after an audition of which the conductor, Colin Davis, said, “I couldn’t believe my ears. I’ve taken thousands of auditions, but it was such a fantastically beautiful voice.”

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Unfold the history of the New Forest with this fascinating exhibition of maps Take a trip through the cartographical history of the New Forest at the New Forest Centre’s new exhibition, Maps: The New Forest Unfolded.

Launched at a special preview evening in January the exhibition explores the biography of the Forest through a specially chosen selection of maps from the Christopher Tower Reference Library, which is housed within the New Forest Centre in Lyndhurst.

It includes maps of large and small scale which illuminate not only the landscape but the individuals and institutions that have shaped the Forest as it is today.

Curated by New Forest Knowledge Project Officer Dr Katharine Walker and library volunteer and map enthusiast Patrick Keane, the maps exhibited range from geological surveys and maps of Naval timber to Drivers’ maps and route maps produced by organisations such as the Ordnance Survey, Forestry Commission and AA.

“I am delighted to see this exhibition come together. It has been an absolute pleasure to showcase some of the highlights from the Christopher Tower Library,” said Dr Walker. “Selecting favourites from around 6000 maps was challenging, but it gives a flavour of the quality and breadth of this exceptional collection. Putting on an exhibition is not just about the objects, it is about the team and we are very lucky to have some excellent volunteers working with us at the New Forest Centre.”

One of the volunteers (and exhibition co-curator) Patrick Keane was selected to open the New Forest Volunteer Fair at Lyndhurst Community Centre on Sunday 28 January after he was found to be the top volunteer with the New Forest National Park Authority’s Our Past, Our Future project for his work at the Christopher Tower Reference Library.

Maps: The New Forest Unfolded runs until 15 April in the New Forest Centre Gallery. It is open daily and admission is free.

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Farmers group together to restore nature across the local landscape A group of twenty farmers in west Hampshire are working together to improve the natural environment across 4550 hectares of farmland in the Wallop Brook river catchment area.

The Wallop Brook farmers are one of 37 groups to receive funding from DEFRA in the latest round of Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund awards, announced today.

This funding will allow the farmers to work with an experienced conservation expert and farm advisor from Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, in order to find the best ways to deliver environmental improvements on their land. The farmers believe that by coming together to manage the whole catchment from top to bottom, they can look after their natural assets and help make their farms more sustainable.

As well as producing food, the Wallop Brook farmers are managing a range of important natural, historical and cultural assets including the brook itself, floodplain meadows and pastures, ancient woodlands, flower rich grasslands, cornfield flowers, footpaths and bridleways and ancient hedgerows.

Their collective efforts will provide improved habitats for wildlife on a landscape scale to better aid conservation of important species, including water vole and brown trout, the rare corn bunting, grey partridge, brown hare, bats, rare butterflies and moths.

Alison Cross, of Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, who will act as farm advisor to the Wallop Brook group, said: “I’m

delighted to be working with this group of committed and passionate farmers.

I believe that together we can achieve significant results for wildlife and the wider environment.

“In this first year we will be taking a close look at soil health and how it can be improved. Getting the soil right is fundamental to the health of our crops, rivers and wildlife. We will also be starting a programme of detailed wildlife surveys to help us ensure that we are targeting our work in the right way.”

Speaking about the latest Facilitation Fund awards, Farming Minister George Eustice said: “This fund is contributing to an important step change in nature conservation by encouraging and supporting people who bring farmers, foresters and other land managers together to improve the local natural environment at a landscape scale.

“It is particularly encouraging to see how many high quality applications we received, which we hope to replicate across the Countryside Stewardship scheme due to simpler wildlife offers being introduced this year.”

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There is absolutely nothing like a carrot pulled fresh from the ground... ...that wonderful smell, which soon disappears and is never apparent in shop bought ones and the taste of that sweet orange root can only be achieved by growing your own.

They can be sown from March to July and can be grown in containers at least 12 inches deep.

Like any plant with a long tap root, carrots do not like being transplanted so should be sown directly into the soil where they are to grow.

They are happiest in light, rather sandy soil so if you have heavy clay, you should add plenty of sharp sand (not builders sand) Germination won't be so good if the soil hasn't warmed up and it's best to sow the seed into well prepared soil that has already been watered.

It is important to sow the seed as thinly as

possible, which isn't easy as the seed is so small. Try mixing it with a handful of sand which stops the seed from sticking together and makes it easier to see where they're going.

However careful you are, the seedlings will probably need thinning at least once to give the carrots room to swell. This operation is best carried out in the evening as carrot fly can be a problem, particularly in early summer when they lay their eggs around the roots) They are attracted by the smell of disturbed plants and thinning’s should be moved away immediately.

Try growing chives, onions or garlic around the carrots to mask the smell or you could put fleece (available from garden centres or some hardware shops) over the carrots after sowing.

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