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Merry Christmas

Well it’s finally here everyone! Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat! Just like everyone I think, I love Christmas, it’s great seeing family and friends more than I usually would and exchanging gifts with the ones I love. I truly hope you all enjoy Christmas as much as possible. Try not to eat or drink too much and if the snow does finally come then drive safe! We have donated a half page to a local Christmas event in Canvey Island this month. They have arranged the event to raise funds for The Danny Green Fund, a fantastic local charity. It would be great to see as many of you there as possible supporting the charity. This month we have a fantastic article we have sourced from RSPB helping to give nature a home. If this does interest you there is loads more ideas on their website. One final thing I will say is please don’t forget about those that aren’t as fortunate as yourself this Christmas and if you can maybe just pop a Christmas dinner round to an older neighbour or offer a homeless person something from a nearby shop, it could really make their day! Merry Christmas everybody!

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1. CHOOSE WHERE TO DIG YOUR DITCH Make sure you’re not digging along the line of any services, like electricity, sewage or water pipes!It’s really up to you to decide where to put it. You could create it at the far end of your garden. Or be brave and put it alongside a lawn or flowerbed. Just be careful it’s not where someone could trip. 2. MARK OUT THE LINE

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of your ditch before you start digging. Make it as long as you can - a good minimum length is one metre. You can use tent pegs or piece of garden hose or small bag of sand to mark it out. 3. START DIGGING! It’s up to you how deep you go. About 30 cm (1 ft) is good, but make sure the sides are gently sloping (45 degrees is fine) so that creatures can get in and out and across your ditch.You can use the excavated earth as a bank on one side of your ditch - it uses your spoil and creates another microhabitat.

ideas and tips from RSPB. Here’s one from their extensive library on www.rspb.org.uk DIG A DAMP DITCH FOR DIVERSITY Many of our gardens are flat, unlike our rising and falling natural landscape. By adding a shallow ditch – (or what’s called a ‘rill’ on our nature reserves), you can create a wider variety of homes for nature. It will mimic natural undulations in our countryside, and give hedgehogs and reptiles a lush byway to travel along, and song thrushes a perfect hunting ground. If you have clay soil, your ditch may form a temporary pond during part of the winter. But don’t worry if it never holds any water, as it’s always likely to have a rather more humid microclimate than open, sunscorched, flat land around it. You can, of course, start digging when you like, and indeed in autumn the ground may not be so wet. But it’s in winter that you’ll be able to see most clearly where you are going.

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What’s Your New Year’s Resolution? It’s time to start thinking about what you’d like to achieve in the new year.

E ven if you haven’t made specific New Year’s resolutions this month, I bet that “hmm, I’m going to try to live healthier/get fitter/lose weight/exercise more this year” has crossed your mind at least once. Similar thoughts probably occurred to you last year as you wallowed in the post holidays slump dealing with the remnants of a cold, hangovers and excess weight. I also bet that around 80 per cent of you didn’t stick to that resolution. So why bother this year if it’s so difficult to make a change?

Yes, you have to know what you want to change, and the more specific you can make it the better. For example, “I want to lose 10 lbs” is better than “I want to lose weight” but “I will lose 1 lb per week by eating smaller portions, drinking water with each meal and taking a 20 minute walk every day” is even better. But also consider why it is important to you that you achieve this goal. If you understand your reasons for wanting to achieve a health goal, and the real underlying reasons may not be the obvious ones, then you will be closer to maintaining your motivation. If you examine your ‘whys’ you may even find that you end up with different goals or different ways of fulfilling those aims. You will probably find that a worthwhile, achievable goal is one that is connected to your core values that give your life meaning. So perhaps “I want to lose weight so I can fit into nice clothes” is really “I want to be healthier so I have more active years with my children and grandchildren”. I know what would motivate me more.

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