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The clocks have changed and summer is well on its way!

We hope you have/had a great Easter weekend - spring must be here as the clocks have now changed!

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Whitney Queen of the Night Civic Theatre, Chelmsford on Sunday 12th April 2015

A stunning celebration of the music and life of one of the greatest singers of our time. This award winning production features a stellar line-up with rising West End star Rebecca Freckleton delivering a powerhouse and breathtaking performance as Whitney.

highly awarded female artiste in the world ever!

Whitney’s one true legacy was her music, which has touched most of us at some time in our lives. Share her life and get ready for the greatest love of all in Queen of the Night! See our website: www. queenofthenight.co.

Dates & Times: Sunday, 12 April 2015 - 7:45pm Tickets: £24.00 Conc: £22.00

Taking us on a magical rollercoaster ride through three decades of classic hit’s that include: I Wanna Dance With Somebody, One Moment In Time, I’m Every Woman, My Love Is Your Love, So Emotional Baby, Run to You, Saving All My Love, I Will Always Love You, and many more, this show beautifully remembers the most

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Preparing for the Care Act in Essex From April, the introduction of the Care Act 2014 will fundamentally change how we receive and pay for any care and support we need.

Essentially, it means that we have more choice and control and for anyone who is a family carer looking after a loved one or friend, then you too have new rights.

Essex Cares is one local provider that is already shaping and restructuring its services to make sure it will meet the new demands

equipment that can detect things such as falls, inactivity, smoke or gas.

Keeping Active and Independent Did you know that across Essex there are 30 local Wellbeing & Activity Centres offering activities for older and younger adults with a range of needs, including those living with dementia? The centres offer a series of fun and inspiring things to do which are tailored to customer individual needs, aims and personal goals.

Work Based Training is another aspect of Essex Cares’ service, providing work experience opportunities to adults with learning

of the Care Act. It supports over 50,000 adults in the county who have learning and physical disabilities, mental health needs and hearing or sight loss and is committed to helping all its customers live active and fulfilling lives.

Living Longer One of the reasons behind the introduction of the new Care Act is that more of us are now living longer than ever before. To maintain a good quality of life, we need to keep active and independent in our own homes for as long as possible and this is an area in which Essex

disabilities in a fully functioning business. They gain knowledge, skills and confidence, enhancing their opportunities for employment in the future.

In the Community Essex Cares also offers Outreach services to customers aged 17 years upwards who struggle to get out and about, socialise and do the things they enjoy. Support Assistants can help customers to access local amenities such as libraries, the bank, shops and the supermarket, helping to combat loneliness and isolation.

Finally, Essex Cares’ Sensory Service supports adults with sight loss, hearing loss or both, helping to maintain their independence and dignity in every aspect of daily life. They help to develop daily living and communication skills, offer mobility training and environmental assessments and provide a Sighted Guide Service. Courses for companies and other health and social care providers who want to improve their awareness and understanding of sensory loss are also available.

Cares can provide a full range of support.

If you, or a member of your family, has a serious illness or a spell in hospital, then the Reablement Service will help you get back on your feet again by providing a support worker to help you with daily tasks until you feel well enough to do them yourself. The service helps thousands of people in Essex each year to regain their independence and potentially reduce the support they might need in the future.

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Metaphorically, it only seems like yesterday that we had the last General Election and yet, we’re 5 years on and about to start this year’s General Election.

Over the 28 years that I have had the honour of being the MP for Chelmsford, living in the heart of Old Moulsham, I have thoroughly enjoyed working for the people of the city. I find my casework extremely satisfying even though sadly there are times when I cannot obtain a satisfactory result because some of the problems that are brought to me are insoluble or can only be resolved through the courts.

I do thoroughly enjoy campaigning when I can get out of the Westminster bubble and meet people on the doorstep and listen to a variety of views and opinions sometimes it is challenging, sometimes it is amusing and even gratifying as people thank me for the work I have done on their behalf. But, it is always interesting.

Over the coming month, I will be spending all my time knocking on doors, meeting people and seeking to maximise my vote so that I can continue to work on behalf of my constituents, both down at Westminster and in the constituency.

Of course, it is not simply the General Election on the 7th May, but also the election of the whole of the City Council. So I will be campaigning in Old Moulsham with our excellent city councillors, Dick Madden, Sameh Hindi and Victoria Irwin, who I have worked closely with over the last five years on a variety of issues affecting Old Moulsham.

Obviously the next month’s campaigning will be arduous and hard fought, but I trust it will not denigrate into the gutter with personal attacks amongst the candidates. I very much hope that the hard work I have put into working for Chelmsford will see me re-elected so I can continue working on behalf of my constituents.

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Dan’s Update - You Can Follow Me at www.danskeates.com After 5 weeks of relaxing on the Thai island of Koh Samui, I got back on my motorbike and headed north to Bangkok to meet my son.

The ride was hot and tiring, but the prospect of meeting Olly kept a smile on my face. At the airport, Olly saw me first and when I saw him he was running towards me with a big smile on his face, I had prepared a welcome banner and was ready with my video to record the moment but the excitement and emotion got the better of me, I sort of got the banner out and had to scrap the video footage of the airport floor! The emotions flowed and we didn’t stop hugging for what seamed an eternity.

After a couple of days in Bangkok, we headed east by bus to Cambodia where we visited Angkor Wat. It was my second time in two months - I’ll return a third and fourth time if I get the opportunity.

Another bus journey to Phnom Penh, the capital, where Olly saw the mighty Mekong for the first time. We spent a day visiting The Killing Fields and S21 (security prison 21) - now Toul Sleng Genocide Museum, which was the largest of the holding prisons where under the leadership of Pol Pot. The Khmer Rouge killed around 2 million people (about 20% of the population) from 1975 to 1979 and Pol Pot was sentenced to death for the crime of genocide. Visiting The Killing Fields was very emotional.

while but we eventually got in and again, the locals welcomed us with a smile - the same as every country I’ve visited. We took a local bus to Can Tho in the middle of the Mekong Delta, where we left the tourist boat trip behind and found a local with a small boat to take us up the Mekong and into the back waters. What a wonderful experience. I’ve now followed the Mekong for over 1,000 miles through Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam where it now deposits the water that it collected on the Tibetan Plateau 2,700 miles away into the South Sea. Olly and I are now on the bus to Ho Chi Minh City, formally known as Siagon. Another crazy experience ahead of us I think.

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Travel at its best comprises many different experiences and emotions, so as Olly had spent so much time travelling, visiting the Temples of Angkor and The Killing Fields, it was time we found a beach and had a cold beer or two. We headed to the southern beaches and a few miles out Sihanoukville we found Otres Beach.

Wow, it was perfect; undeveloped, with fine white sand and blue sea.

It had a dirt road, wooden bars, restaurants and bungalows - nothing else. It reminded me when I was in Thailand 25 years ago prior to the days of mass tourism. Cool, chilled travellers and locals, cold beer and our bungalows literally on the beach. One evening, a few of us went by Tuk Tuk into the local town and played a 5 a-side football match with the locals, Europe beat Cambodia I think.

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Camping Now Available at The Fling Festival: After Hours On Saturday 4th July the unique summer festival of live music, cabaret and curiosity will again welcome adults of all ages to the glorious surroundings of Hylands Park.

Between 12 noon and 11pm, prepare to experience an intimate world of enticing entertainment with music, surreal theatre, fantastical storytelling and curious sideshows amongst a whole host of unique performances by great acts from far and wide. The Fling really is like no other and carefully put together with adults in mind; it’s a festival where curiosity is encouraged and a diversity of entertainment is celebrated.

The Fling: After Hours The seventh year of The Fling Festival also sees the exciting new addition of limited VIP camping.

If you’ve purchased a VIP ticket, for just £19 extra we invite you to bring your little tent and join in this very exclusive post-Fling event.

After everyone else has gone home at 11pm, you can carry on dancing with extended bar opening times and alluring activities literally on your (canvas) doorstep...

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people in this inaugural year! Luxury camping has already sold out.

From 11pm, grab yourself a drink from the VIP bar and groove the night away to The Fling’s famous silent disco, featuring some of the top DJs around. You could also mix with many of our lovely festival performers, from cabaret artistes to poets and dancers to stand-up comics, who will be ready to let their hair down and party in true Fling style.

Not in the raving mood? There are outside games or you could settle down with a scrummy midnight snack to enjoy a night of storytelling and acoustic music.

The Breakfast Club is open from early on Sunday to entice you out of your tent, or you could join The Fling Festival Yoga team, or why not go for a morning stroll or jog around the gorgeous park? Or just stay in bed if you’re a little worse for wear!

Tickets are available from the Festival Box Office on 01245 606 505 or via www.flingfestival.com.

For up-to-date festival info, visit www.flingfestival.com, like ‘The Fling Festival’ on Facebook and follow @FlingFestival on Twitter.

The Fling Festival is produced by Chelmsford City Council Cultural Events Team with support from Essex & Suffolk Water, High Chelmer Shopping Centre, The Printing Place, The Essex Chronicle, BBC Essex, 1159 Productions, The City Times, Sshhh Events, Dancing Giraffe, The Bassment, Bella Rose Events, First Group, The Comedy Club Ltd, Heybridge Creative, Global Local and The Association of Independent Festivals.

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MT Gardening Writtle College wins Gold and Best in Show at the Ideal Home Exhibition!

Staff and students have surpassed themselves by creating a garden in a 5.5m x 4m plot in the heart of the show at Kensington Olympia. The brief was reclaimed urban space, with the emphasis on the sustainable use of water and water harvesting. The contest, organised by TV Gardener David Domoney in association with the Prince’s Foundation for Building

Community, sees six of the UK’s leading horticultural colleges go head-to-head to create a show-stopping sustainable garden.

The team - Francesca Le Maistre Banham from Billericay, Jack Anderson from Basildon, Jack Elliott from Colchester, Joshua Kemp from Latchingdon, Adam Newson from Brentwood, Rob Band from Colchester, Sam Moore from Maldon, Martin Overton from East Mersea and Scott Downes from Bishops Stortford - are led by Writtle FE lecturers, Ben Wincott and Simon Watkins, to produce a stunning oasis and are well deserved 2015 Gold winners.

All that now stands in the way of a perfect hat-trick is the People’s Choice award that has yet to be bestowed, as it is based on a popular vote from the thousands of visitors to the show. I’ll let you all know how we get on!

For more details on the 2015 Ideal Young Gardeners Competition and the participating colleges, visit www. daviddomoney.com/appearances/younggardeners-of-the-year.

The Ideal Home Show London will open its doors for 18 days from 20 March to 6 April 2015 at Olympia London.

On another note, there’s plenty to get on with in our own gardens for real! In particular for those veg growers out there - it’s potato time…well at least new potatoes or first and/or second earlies to be more precise. Plant now and into April to give a moderate crop in June/ July… best eaten straight away.

First earlies should be chitted prior to planting. They may be planted under dark coloured plastic sheeting which eliminates the need to earth up the crop.

The plastic is laid over the soil prior to planting to warm the soil, and the seed potatoes are planted through an ‘x’ cut in the plastic sheeting. The potatoes can then be harvested by simply lifting the plastic sheeting.

Recommended first earlies: Maris Bard; a virus resistant oval shaped heavy cropping first early.

Pentland Javelin; an oval potato with white flesh, resistant to eelworm.

Arran Pilot; an old favourite - a kidney shaped potato with white flesh.

Second earlies are planted slightly later in early April and are harvested in July.

They also have to be chitted and may also be grown under plastic sheeting.

Second earlies are generally eaten straight away rather than stored.

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Recommended second earlies:

the drill with their shoots facing upward.

Estima; a blight resistant, relatively heavy cropper with pale yellow flesh.

Great Scot; a round potato with white flesh that is excellent for baking.

Wilja; an oval potato with pale yellow flesh that produces a good yield.

Take care; early crops will need protection from frost - this can be provided with the use of horticultural fleece, which can be left in place until all danger of frost has passed.

Chitting - this involves placing the seed potatoes in a seed tray (the end with the most eyes upward) and placing them in a dry, light and frost-free environment. This encourages shoots to grow, giving them a head start when planted. Chitting usually takes around three weeks,

Begin earthing up (pulling the soil up around the plants) when the plants are around 20cm in height. Always leave 10cm of leaf above ground to photosynthesise. Continue to earth up as the plant grows.

Earthing up encourages tuber production and prevents tubers near the surface turning green.

As soon as flowers appear, harvest - and for best results, eat fresh.

Good luck and happy gardening!

For any gardening tips, why not contact Tom Cole, Head of Faculty for Land & Environment, Writtle College, Chelmsford, CM1 3RR by post (including a SAE), or by email at tom.cole@writtle.ac.uk.

and the sprouts should be roughly 2cm in length when planted.

Potatoes are not fussy, but they do prefer an open site - particularly the early crops - which must be protected from frosts. They also prefer a neutral to slightly acid soil (pH 5 - 6 being the ideal). The crop should be rotated to prevent build-up of soil-borne pests such as eelworm.

Potatoes are a useful crop to grow when breaking in land as they help to develop a good crumb structure. Potatoes can also be used to impoverish a soil in preparation for sowing a wild flower meadow.

On a well prepared site, apply a base dressing of Growmore at 100g/m2 or blood, fish and bone at 70g/m2. Make a wide drill 10 - 15 cm in depth and place the tubers in the drill, pulling the soil back over them. Earlies are planted about 35cm apart and maincrop 40cm apart. Allow 45cm between rows of earlies and 75cm between maincrop varieties. Chitted potatoes need to be handled carefully so that the shoots don’t break off - place them in

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Intense Records, under the arches along Viaduct Road, are Chelmsford’s only remaining independent record shop and yet again will be taking part in National Record Store Day held on Saturday 18th April 2015. Record Store Day came into being in 2007 when independent stores came together to celebrate their unique culture.

This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day, and hundreds of artists across the globe make special appearances and performances.

As Record Store Day is fast approaching, this year’s list of exclusive releases has been revealed, and boy, do Intense Records have some treats in-store for you, reaching out to music fans like never before with an eclectic mix of both new and heritage material. Releases from The 1975, Chvrches, George Ezra, Gorgon City and Calvin Harris will all be enticing a younger generation of music fans to experience the joys of buying physical music for the first time, whilst David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and The Kinks help to rekindle the love of long-time vinyl fans.

Leading the way with new material, Mumford and Sons will be teasing fans with a 7” single. Foo Fighters will also treat us to an exclusive 10” of Songs From The Laundry Room and a very special 7” release comes from Johnny Marr as he takes on Depeche Mode’s I Feel You. Continuing the 40th anniversary of the 7” picture disc series, David Bowie returns to Record Store Day once again with an exclusive release of Changes. Other popular ones to put on your wish list include Biffy Clyro, J Dilla, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, The Prodigy, The Sex Pistols and Mark System.

To view the full list of releases, check www.recordstoreday.co.uk.

If you want to make sure Intense are stocking your favourites, email info@intenserecords.co.uk or call 01245 347372 now.

Intense Records will be holding a special in-store day for Record Store Day - open from 9am - 6pm, with live DJs, special guest appearances and local artists performing unreleased material. Plus competitions, free giveaways and a chance to win some of the RSD exclusive products in the Intense raffle. Make sure you take advantage of the refreshments and bbq to cure the hunger while you shop! We will also be stocking the full range of RSD merchandise produced by sister company, Get Customised, including limited edition slipmats, t-shirts, mugs and some lovely cotton shopper bags - be sure to check them out.

Special guests include Mark System, hot off the release of his debut album Final Approach on dbridge’s Exit Records. Mark will be appearing live in the shop for an exclusive mix to promote his album and a Record Store Day release courtesy of Drum & Bass Arena. We are also pleased to welcome an old friend, LSB, who has recently been signed to Soul:R, Shogun Audio and Spearhead Records, definitely one to watch. Local lad done good, Messy MC, will be in attendance, a regular host at Intense Records events. Now you can see him headlining festivals worldwide as the front man for DJ Fresh’s live tours. From just up the road in Ipswich, two up and coming producers will also be gracing the decks - none other than Villem & Mcleod who have had releases on some of the genre’s most www.moulshamtimes.com

prestigious labels, including Goldie’s Metalheadz, Samurai Music and many more.

Plus we have Danny Bounce from British Intelligence performing a Hip Hop Set, alongside a host of record labels and producers and not forgetting the Intense Records residents.

Following the celebrations at the Intense Record Shop, we will be continuing the party at Indigo (formerly Barhouse) on Victoria Road in Chelmsford. Our special guest Mark System from Exit will be our D&B headliner alongside more special guests to be announced. The Intense Records’ residents and other special guests will be warming up proceedings with a blend of Drum & Bass, Dubstep, Hip Hop & House.

The club will be open from 8pm - 3am. Advance tickets will be available from Intense Records.

For more info pop in to Intense Records, 33/34 Viaduct Road, Chelmsford CM1 1TS or call them on 01245 347372 alternatively check their website www.intenserecords.co.uk

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What’s not to love about Easter? Daffodils are everywhere, we get a bank holiday weekend and it’s the perfect excuse to stuff ourselves silly with chocolate.

For me, it’s an opportunity to get in the kitchen and bake some hot cross buns. I love hot cross buns almost as much as I love chocolate (and that’s a lot!) but the fact that you can buy them at any time rather spoils their specialness for me, but it’s testament to their popularity that they have become a year round purchase, yet mince pies haven’t - and surely they are to Christmas what hot cross buns are to Easter...

Maybe I’m just old, but I can still remember the excitement I felt as a kid when the first hot cross buns of the season appeared. Perhaps I was just looking forward to the school holidays and Easter egg chocolate, because that’s something else that tastes special. I don’t know if it’s just because it’s so thin and wrapped in pretty foil, but it’s the best.

So as much as I love hot cross buns, I resist the urge to buy them at any other time of the year but Easter, I love to bake my own. Honestly, there is no comparison between shop bought and homemade. But I’ll admit that bread is not particularly easy or quick to master.

This recipe serves up something a bit different from regular hot cross buns and is quite simple, as instead of making a dozen regular sized buns, it makes a single giant supersized one! Served fresh from the oven it makes quite a centrepiece and can be easily sliced for toasting.

As usual, feel free to adapt the ingredients to what you prefer. If you don’t like mixed peel feel, free to omit it and add more dried fruit instead. This can be a mixture of anything you fancy - sultanas, currents, raisins, throw in some chopped glace cherries or apricots if you like, just remember that the total weight of fruit should be 225g.

If you don’t like orange zest, leave it out, or swap it for lemon.

Back to the hot cross bun debate, and for a bit of fun I’ve run a straw poll amongst family, friends and colleagues - 47% said they should only be available at Easter, 50% said they like to eat them all year round and 3% said they didn’t like them at all!

So the verdict is still out, what do you think?

Giant Hot Cross Bun Loaf 425g strong white bread flour 1 x 7g sachet easy-blend dried yeast 50g golden caster sugar 50g butter, melted and cooled 200g mixed dried fruit 25g mixed peel 200ml milk 2 teaspoons mixed spice 1/2 teaspoon salt Grated zest of 1 orange 1 tablespoons plain flour 1 tablespoon water 1-2 tablespoons honey 1. Scald the milk by heating it gently in a pan over a low heat, stirring often, until steam starts to rise from it and small bubbles form around the edge of the pan. Immediately remove from the heat and allow to cool until lukewarm. Scalding the milk produces a softer bread, but do not overheat it or the yeast will fail.

2. While the milk is cooling mix the flour, yeast, salt, sugar, dried fruit, peel, orange zest and spice in a large bowl.

3. Whisk the melted butter into the lukewarm milk and add this to the dry ingredients.

4. Mix well until you have a soft moist dough.

5. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 10 minutes until smooth and springy.

6. Place the dough in a large lightly oiled bowl and cover with a clean damp tea towel. Leave in a warm place for approx 1 hour or until doubled in size.

7. Turn the risen dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 1 minute. Shape the dough into a round bun and place on a lightly oiled and floured baking tray.

8. Cover the bun loosely with oiled cling film and leave in a warm place to rise for about 30 minutes until almost doubled in size.

Preheat oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6.

9. In a small jug mix together the plain flour and water to make a thick paste. Spoon this into a piping bag (or use a food bag and then snip off the corner) and pipe a cross onto the bun.

10. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes until the bun is golden brown and sounds hollow when tapped on the base.

11. Brush honey over the bun whilst still warm and leave to cool.

I’d love to hear from readers with any suggestions and ideas, or what recipes you would like to see here. Drop me an email at: motleybakes@aol.com.

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The First Essex Delta Blues Day 21-3-15 Review

The First Essex Delta Blues Day was held on Saturday 21st March at the Bassment in Chelmsford and has been hailed as a massive success with at times, over 170 people in attendance.

from the beginning to the end. My big thanks go out to all of the acts for being so disciplined and keeping to the schedule and for playing great sets. I was so pleased that every act was so well received. The

A quote by Dave Williams, manager of the Bassment: “we had an amazing time at the Bassment Essex Delta Blues Festival yesterday. Hats off to Nick Garner (Blues in the City) for organising and programming such a great event. The line up was brilliant; Essex has some incredibly talented acts to offer. Big thanks to Jamie Williams, Kristan Polley, Janet Yeates and everyone else who made the day run so smoothly. Bring on the next one!”

From the beginning to the end, it all ran like clockwork.

With 18 acts playing nonstop, some said it wouldn’t work and stay on time, but it did! We started at noon with Jamie Williams and ended at 12.15am as planned, with the Roy Mette band. We ran it across two stages - one acoustic and one electric - which worked well and people moved freely from room to room packing each stage

feedback has been that every act was amazing, which is a testament to the incredible talent we have in our county of Essex.

People came not just from Essex, but from far and wide, which was great. For the first time we got the Bassment to put on real ale, which

came from Chelmsford’s own Round Tower Brewery and I am happy to say they put on two barrels, which sold out by 8pm. Thanks to Simon Tippler for being a great brewer (I know they are now going to stock more ale at the Bassment for special occasions).

I must thank everyone who helped me on the day as without them it would not have been possible Dave has named a few above and I must

thank him and as his team and Jenni for helping Jamie. I also want to thank Jon, Chuck and Marc for believing and letting us use their venue the Bassment and to all of the music lovers who came supported and enjoyed the first Essex Delta Blues Day Festival.

It was great to see so many young people come along and enjoy the blues, as predominantly it has generally been the older people.

Blues now seems to reaching out and grabbing a younger audience and it can also be seen with a lot of younger acts coming through and playing the blues. This is evident at my monthly Blues in the City nights at the Bassment and also at the Blues Jams with the young people wanting to join in and play.

In conclusion, it worked. It was a risk as to whether people would turn up with so much else going on that Saturday, but they did and they had fun and we all made new friends and yes, I will do it all again as we have so much great talent in our county yet to showcase.

My next Blues in the City night at the Bassment is on Wed 15th April, when we will have the amazing Cherry Lee Mewis (a hugely talented young lady) with support from the great Roy Mette - a night not to be missed, Doors open at 8pm and show starts at 8.30pm.

The Blues in the City festival takes place across Chelmsford from 2nd to 4th October and we are also running a blues stage at this year’s Brownstock Festival with It’s Your Music from 10th to 12th July. We have booked all of the acts for the three days and it is a great line up. It’s Your Music is also running a stage at the Fling on 4th July, which will host a blues jam and have a couple of other blues acts.Thank you all for supporting blues music and all other forms of live music as without you it will all be lost, which would make the world a sadder place to be in.

To find out more, go to the website: www.bluesinthecity.co.uk or Facebook: www.facebook.com/bluesinthecitychelmsford or Twitter: @bluesinthecity1.

All the monies raised on the day - after the advertising, printing and other expenses are taken out - will go towards funding the Blues in the City three day festival from 2nd to 4th October 2015. All profits from that will go to the Remus Memorial Horse Sanctuary, who need around £500,000 a year just to run. www.moulshamtimes.com

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Beat Generation Last of the series on the work of about American Women Beat Generation writers that began with Carolyn Cassady’s association with Chelmsford and Ingatestone due to the researches of the late Dr Chris Challis: Diane Di Prima Diane was born in New York in 1934 and corresponded with Ezra Pound and Kenneth Patchen at the age of 19. She didn’t take to college education and dropped out to live in Greenwich Village, where she could hardly fail to rub shoulders with artists, poets and musicians while she did various odd jobs. Leroi Jones and his wife Hettie published her first book in 1958. She also edited Floating Bear magazine with Leroi. She was arrested on obscenity issues by the FBI for some of her contributions, and claimed that she was harassed by them throughout her life. She was a co-founder of the Poet’s Theatre of New York.

In the late 1960s, she moved to San Francisco and became a bridge between the Beats and Hippies while raising five children and also living in communes. She also helped the Diggers provide supermarket throw-out as food, as well as collecting other resources for the poor and homeless - especially in the Haight Ashbury psychedelic era.

Back in New York in 1966, she was also part of Tim Leary’s psychedelic community at the Millbrook mansion, where she published the first two editions of Leary’s psychedelic version of the Tao Te Ching (which he called Psychedelic Prayers) in 1966 and 1969. She took the spiritual revolution seriously and became a follower of DT Suzuki Roshi from 1962 until he died, then Tibetan Tantrik Buddhist, Chogyam Trungpa, from 1983. She was founder member of the Poetics Programme at San Francisco’s New College and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

Twenty poems she evolved for her teaching at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics were collected as Revolutionary Letters, other poetry collections included Loba and her autobiographical work was entitled Recollections of My Life as a Woman. She was multi-talented and worked as a photographer, collage artist and watercolour painter in the ‘60s. She also collaborated on a film, The Poetry Deal, with Diane Di Prima. She fought to uphold Native American rights, and was one of the poets who read on the filming of The Band’s Last Waltz, which was so long that much never made it to the final cut. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry from the National Poetry Association in 1993. She was married/divorced twice.

Lenore Kandel (1932-2006) Lenore was originally from New York, then moved to Pennsylvania, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco of the ‘50s and ‘60s where she met Jack Kerouac. She worked variously as a choral singer, school bus driver, and belly dancer, before she took the road of ‘the ecstatic access of enlightenment’ and produced several volumes of poetry like The Love Book and Holy Erotica in a celebration of sexuality and the divine. The Love Book, with a Tibetan god and goddess in ecstatic union on the cover, caused an obscenity trial, like Ginsberg’s famous Howl trial - and likewise she was exonerated while the infamy served to increase sales. The poem Poetry is Never Compromise, began her Word Alchemy 1967 collection as a matter of valediction.

Kerouac called her Romana Schwartz when he modelled a character on her in the novel Big Sur. She was the only woman to speak at the legendary Human Be-In at the Golden Gates Park in San Francisco in

1967. She spoke alongside Allen Ginsberg, Tim Leary, and Michael McClure. She was another of the unseen poets who read for the film of The Band’s Last Waltz.

She married a Hells Angel and was involved in a motorcycle accident where she sustained spinal injury that left her in pain for the rest of her life.

Joyce Johnson Joyce was born in 1935 and had been a child actress. She a college had friend, Elise Cowan, who had a short relationship with Allen Ginsberg and he set up a blind date with Jack Kerouac for her, with whom she sustained a slightly longer relationship than the (sexually confused at that stage) Ginsberg couple in 1957. She was writing a piece called Come and Join the Dance at the time. She lived a few blocks from where William Burroughs and Joan Volmer, Kerouac and Ginsberg lived between 1944 and 1946. Her Minor Characters memoir, published as late as 1983, recalls the early Beat scene of Greenwich Village. It is so called because it refers to the female Beats who were only minor characters in Beat’s essentially male first ramifications. Gregory Corso, LeRoi Jones and Peter Orlovsky are also characters in her narrative. She also published her exchange of letters with Kerouac called Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters 1957-58, along with three novels and two other works of non-fiction. Minor Characters won the National Book Critics Award for Joyce in 1983. Work as an editor became a career for her and she worked on both Harper’s magazine and Harper’s Bazaar, so the Beat life was an interlude rather than a lifestyle for her. Her first husband was James Johnson, an abstract painter, who died in a road accident.

She was married and divorced again after that.

Joan Vollmer (1923-51) Joan’s first husband was Paul Adams, a law student who was drafted in World War II. When he returned he was not impressed by her drug use and social circle. That circle had grown when she was at New York’s Barnard College and met Edie Parker, who was to become Jack Kerouac’s first wife. The girls shared a flat that became a meeting place for the founders of the Beat movement, including their friend and intellectual inspiration, William Burroughs. When Paul divorced Joan, Burroughs became her common law partner from 1946.

Burroughs was on probation for drug and forgery issues and as a condition he had to live with his parents in St. Louis, Missouri. When he returned to New York he found that Joan had been admitted to Bellvue Hospital - host to few of the Beats at various times - after suffering drug psychosis from amphetamine use. After Bill retrieved her from incarceration, she began to style herself Mrs Burroughs. The ill-fated William Jnr. was born in 1947. Joan already had a daughter by Paul. The couple moved first to Texas then, after moral harassment, to New Orleans, and following further harassment, to Mexico.

Joan was viewed by the other Beats as Burroughs’ intellectual equal but was never to fulfil her true promise. This was not because of the drug use which made her age prematurely, but according to the first and best known story about her death, it was that when the couple had been drinking she tried to balance a glass on her head, and William who enjoyed target practice with guns, and recalling the tale of William Tell and the apple, went to shoot the glass from Joan’s head. But the gun fired low and instead hit her head, and she died later from the injury. With legal advice he said he was demonstrating the gun to someone who wanted to buy it when it misfired and the charge was dropped from culpable homicide to manslaughter, which remarkably got him only a two year suspended sentence. Or maybe not so remarkable, given the weight of the Burroughs family fortune

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behind the legal support. He later claimed that the incident caused him to take up writing as a form of exorcism to rid himself of the ugly spirit that had possessed him: personified guilt we might conjecture.

Other prominent ladies chronicling the Beat movement, like Anne Charters and Ann Waldman, emerged out of a second generation of academics who served the useful task of researching and recording the history of the literary and spiritual revolution. Waldman went on the Rolling Thunder Review with Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan and was one of the founder members of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in the Naropa Institute at the University of Colorado, but she was regarded as a second generation of the Beats. A younger generation chose music as a more ecstatic form to present songs of protest. and social commentary of the Hippie and Punk eras: Joan Baez and Buffy Saint-Marie typifying the former while Patti Smith and Debbie Harry (who’s fashionable good looks tended to make people overlook her song-writing skills) became foremost among the latter.

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MT Therapy by Jenny Hartill

In this article, I’ll move on to addiction to prescription drugs.

Many people wonder what causes this type of addiction, as they see prescription drugs as being somewhat benign compared to hard drugs.

However, this is not necessarily the case and the causes of addiction are varied anyway including having a genetic pre-disposition to addiction.

There are people out there who are addicted to eating drywall (commonly referred to as an eating disorder called ‘Pica’), so never underestimate the power of addiction in its many guises! Some people don’t recognise how dangerous prescription drugs can be, or how easy it can be to become addicted to them. The most widely abused prescription drugs can be broken down into three categories: Painkillers: commonly a type of pain killer called Opiod Analgesics - they are VERY strong and therefore a sense of euphoria can be achieved through the dramatic relief of pain.

Anti-Anxiety/Depressant Drugs: also called tranquillisers, these drugs produce an effect likened to the feeling of a warm blanket because of the calming, relaxing feeling they induce.

Stimulants: this class of drug increases brain activity and therefore alertness and energy. They can create the feeling of being ‘awake’.

Let’s have a look at a couple of examples in each category: Painkillers Oxycodone/Oxycotin: Oxycodone has been in use since 1916. it is used to treat many different types of pain from moderate to moderately severe, acute and chronic pain. It has been referred to as ‘the prescription version of heroin’ as some people experience euphoric effects from it.

Codeine: Codeine is used to treat mild to moderate pain, coughs and mild IBS induced diarrhoea. Co-codamol is Codeine and Paracetamol together and readily available over the counter - just because the warning on the packet says ‘do not take for longer than 4 days’ doesn’t mean someone in a lot of pain who doesn’t want to bother the doctor will take any notice!

Anti-Anxiety/Depressants Alprazolam: also known as Xanax, this drug is prescribed to treat panic attacks and severe anxiety. It calms the brain by depressing the central nervous system and has fast acting and sedating effects. For this reason the Drug Abuse Warning Network has called Xanax the most abused drug in the USA. Valium: like Xanax, Valium is a benzodiazepine. Other names include Clonazepam (previously Rivotril) and very commonly Diazepam. This particular drug is very widely used for many, many different things ranging from anxiety to epilepsy due to their sedative effects. A common effect of this drug is relaxation and talkativeness... sound familiar? Yep, many people report to feel ‘drunk’ on valium, and this can be interpreted as the initial ‘high’.

Stimulants Adderall: originally this drug was used to treat ADHD and a condition called narcolepsy (where people fall asleep seemingly at random).

These days the drug is most commonly abused by anyone that needs to keep awake, from studying students, late night drivers, even busy mothers trying to feel awake rather than constantly exhausted!

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Ritalin: this is probably one of the most well known prescription stimulant drugs in this country. This is also used to treat ADHD. It works by increasing dopamine production in the brain; the effect being heightened attention. Although this can be a fantastic drug for those that need it, again it is abused by those that feel they need to be more attentive to an activity, I remember reading an article where, in an American high school, a number of students were sold Ritalin after being told it would improve their ability to study and retain information. They became addicted and this spread throughout the school, unfortunately some of the side effects comprised of nervousness including agitation, anxiety and irritability, insomnia, decreased appetite, headache, stomach ache, nausea, dizziness and heart palpitations. The brain is a fantastic machine already, it doesn’t need any help, it just needs to be given the chance to work properly.

So, all of these drugs have something in common. When prescribed by a doctor, the insinuation and the presumption is that we NEED it. Humans are programmed to follow authority, doctors are highly trained and seen to be the authority figure tasked with looking after our health. Therefore when we’re prescribed something, usually we take it. Now, let me tell you a story...

Last year I was unfortunate enough to suffer from campylobacter, it’s a horrible stomach bug and I won’t go into detail but I ended up at the doctors. He prescribes me Loperamide. I didn’t take it.

‘Why???’ I hear you scream. Because at that time, my doctor did not know if I had a bacterial infection: you are not supposed to take Loperamide or Immodium or any similar drug if you have a bacterial infection. I know this from experience (oh my God the pain, seriously I cannot stress this enough) and I read the packet to make sure.

Well, thank goodness for free will - and that is my point.

I’m not saying ‘don’t listen to your doctor’, but rather ‘talk to your doctor.’ You have free will, if you don’t want to take anti-anxiety drugs, discuss with your doctor. What are all of your options? Funnily enough, counselling is EXCELLENT for anxiety issues! Don’t want to take those ridiculously strong painkillers? Talk to your doctor, could you try physiotherapy, massage therapy, accupuncture? Are there any other combinations of non-addictive pain relief your doctor could prescribe? For the record, hypnotherapy can be used for pain relief too, depending on what’s causing the pain. Do you really need to take that illegally procured Ritalin to ‘help you keep awake’?

Or could you look at re-organising your life so you get more rest?

Sometimes the best cure is prevention, but sometimes of course we do need these drugs and cannot help but take them. This takes me to my next point.

Mostly these drugs were developed to do amazing things, to help people temporarily. Even Ritalin, developed to treat ADHD, reportedly worsens symptoms of ADHD with long term use (according to medicaldaily.com). If you feel that you’re dependent on your drug and/or you need more of the drug, you need to speak to your doctor. Your doctor will be able to advise you of the best way to cut down. They will know places that offer specialist drug counselling and they may even be able to offer other help and advice - for example, alternative therapies. Counselling is excellent for helping come off prescription drugs, sometimes there are psychological and/or emotional reasons why you are dependent on them. I know it’s scary, sometimes the thought of being without them can be petrifying enough, never mind actually trying to stop taking them, but counselling can help you not only through the emotional turmoil of detoxing but also teach you the coping mechanisms you need to cope during this time and when you’re clean.

If I can be of any help, or if anyone has any questions, please feel free to contact me via my website: www.counsellinginchelmsford. co.uk.

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Spring into Craft by Chris Penhall Forget New Year Resolutions, April is the new January. Ask anyone, it’s obvious - when is it easier to make changes in your life? When you’ve had a month of eating, drinking, spending and dark, dark nights, or when the blossom is on the trees, the sun is shining with something approaching slight warmth and the sap is rising? I think the latter. I am of course a lover of flip flops and sarongs and sunshine and hammocks.

And April gives a whiff of all that to come, and therefore that is when I can actually get myself into gear and launch myself into new and exciting ventures.

So, what about making your New Year Resolution a crafty one? A tapinto-your-creative-side-and-make-something-unique one?

Radio presenter, singer/songwriter and music teacher, Bridget Metcalfe, has another string to her bow. She loves crafts and created her first Arts and Crafts Circle ten years ago. “I started making things when I was a child,” says Bridget. “I watched my mother make clothes for my sister and I was fascinated by how pretty dresses could be created from a flat piece of material. “Oddly enough,” she continues, “I still have and use that old sewing machine myself. It must be in at least its 5th generation of family use! As a child I also learned other sewing skills, including embroidery and loved the way embroidery could brighten, change and personalise a garment.”

But Bridget was learning other ways to express herself too. “From a very young age I was always drawing and painting as well,” she explains, “although no-one showed me how to do that, I just did it by myself. “The upshot of this is that I love creating something from scratch. I’m happy with that and it’s lovely when someone admires something I’ve made.

“For example, I once bought a handbag - but so had everyone else. The same bag was everywhere. I therefore covered mine with buttons, all kinds of buttons, every shape, colour and size and it changed what was rather a commonplace handbag into something individual and special.

Wherever I went, everyone commented on it and wanted to know where I’d bought it.”

Making and creating may sound like a solitary activity, but can be anything but. In fact, getting together with other people with similar interests can motivate and stimulate your imagination.

“In 2005, I decided that I couldn’t be the only person who loves making things so I started the first Arts & Crafts Circle,” says Bridget.

“The idea was for people to meet once a week and bring whatever it is they’re working on, be it knitting, cross stitch, crochet, beadwork, lace making, drawing, painting, card-making, whatever takes your fancy.

My philosophy was that we don’t need a teacher because there are so many different skills in the room already. I always say that if you drop a stitch, there’s always someone else who can pick it up for you!”

That one was in Ongar and still meets today, but when Bridget moved to Chelmsford she started her second circle, which meets every Wednesday at 1.30pm at Christ Church on New London Road.

“Everyone is welcome,” she says. “Just turn up with whatever you’re working on and enjoy the chat, arts and crafts and a cuppa.” You never know what this new hobby may lead to: “I’ve made jewellery for myself and it was so often admired that I started to take orders,” says Bridget.

“I now have a range of beautiful, beaded charm bracelets, every single one is an individual design and the summer 2015 collection will be available soon.”

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Wine Corner

Hello again. The weather is improving and the time for a couple of glasses of wine on the patio is getting nearer. Yippee!

This month, I thought I would explore Italian wine regions. Italy is generally the world’s top producer of wine, occasionally slipping to second place once in a while.

There are twenty wine producing regions spread throughout the whole country, including Sicily, with the smallest (Aosta Valley) in the north. Most of the wines produced here (75%) are reds, including Pinot noir and Gamay. The main white grape is Prie blanc and is grown almost exclusively in this area. Just south of Aosta we find Piedmonte, where the well known Barolo wine is made from the Nebbiolo grape. This wine is well known around the world and ideal for storage. It is also the home of sparkling Asti Spumante, made from the white Moscato grape. Turin is the capital of the area, famous for the shroud, car manufacturing and more significantly, the scene of Michael Caine’s hoist in the Italian Job. Lombardy is in this area, growing a range of grapes including Pinot noir and Chardonnay. Trentino is next, to the east. This region includes the South Tyrol, which produces German/Austrian - including Reisling - type wines. They also produce the famous Pinot Grigio or Gris, which means grey and is a common colour of the grape, although in fact it can be one of many colours.

We are now in the north east and reach the region of Veneto, which you probably gathered, includes Venice. Popular wines are produced here, including Soave white, from the Garganega grape. It also produces a number of reds, include a nice light Merlot. They also produce the light red Valpolicella, which is one of the reds from Italy that can taste good out of the fridge.

Tuscany is a bit further south. Chianti is produced in this region,

Montalcino and Montipulciano are made from the Sangiovese grapes.

Abruzzo is next. They produce lots of wine, some of which is Piedmont or Veneto for blending.

That’s the top half done, we will look at the rest soon.

I’ve been pondering again. Why do they put the stuff that you either love or hate into such awkward jars? No matter how much I try, I cannot get the last bit from the bottom of the jar. That little bit could last me another two weeks. Also, why are the bags in cereal packets so difficult to open? I try to tug them gently, but all of a sudden the bag splits, I’ve got cereals across the kitchen floor and a great big hole in the bag which means the contents become stale in a couple of days. If I was a cynic, I may just think that they do it on purpose. Surely they wouldn’t do that... would they? I’m on a roll now. Cans with ring pulls to save you getting out the tin opener. Am I just weak fingered or does anyone else nearly require medical treatment as the result of opening a tin of beans? I would be so embarrassed if I did end up in A & E, I think that I would make up a story and not mention the beans at all. Oh well, that’s progress I suppose.

Back to Italy. They do produce lots of wine and you can almost guarantee that there will be at least one red and one white Italian wine on any pub or restaurant wine list, albeit sometimes with ridiculous descriptions on the tasting notes.

English sparkling wines are still on the up. The vineyards are mainly in southern England but not exclusively - some is produced in Scotland! We do not have a great wine making history, but it was the English who invented the high-pressured bottles that are used for Champagne. Having said that about the history, the Romans introduced wine making to us, so I guess we do go back a bit. Some wines have been in the top ten sparkling wines in the world in France’s sparkling wines of the world competition. A lot of the grapes are those grown in Germany, as you might expect from the similar climates, but they do include Chardonnay and Pinot noir. I noticed too that the Queen used a bottle of English wine when she named the new ship Britannia recently, so it must be alright!

One final thing, I have recently tasted two blended wines (using more than one grape) that were very good. The first was an Argentinian Malbec/Shiraz, the other a Sauvignon Blanc/Semillian. Both very nice, so give them a try.

Bin end chuckles...

I refused to believe my road mending father was stealing from his work, but when I got home, all the signs were there.

The first time I was given a universal TV remote, I thought, this changes everything.

Keep calm and carry on drinking, in moderation.

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Austerity, What Austerity?

I was thinking the other day about all this austerity malarkey we are experiencing and my thoughts went back to the 1950s when rationing of certain commodities was still in place after the war. What about this, children? From 1950 to 1953, you could not just go in a shop and buy any amount of sweets, you were limited to how many you could buy. You were only allowed 350g, that’s about two bags - A MONTH! Imagine that. Sugar was rationed until 1953 (225g per week). Food rationing was not completely stopped until July 1954.

So, whilst I realise that that there a people who are struggling at the moment, it is a bit different to the austerity of the past don’t you think? If that was not bad enough, in 1956 came the Suez Crisis.

This was was caused by wars in Egypt and the closing of the canal that links the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, (built to shorten the voyage times between Europe and the Far East). This resulted in shortages of oil and therefore petrol, so off we went again, back to the early ‘50s.

Generally we did not have central heating, just a coal fire in the living room (didn’t call it a lounge then) and on cold mornings we lit the gas hob in the kitchen for a bit of warmth. On some winter mornings we woke up to ice on the inside of single glazed windows. Anyone crying yet?

Not many people had television. All the sets were black and white and generally had 12 inch screens - or 14 inch if you had a wide screen set. Families were closer then, at least they were when they were watching television as the picture could not be seen clearly more than about 3 feet away!

Initially there was one station, BBC, and programmes did not start until the evening and shut down early. On Sunday evenings, no programmes were shown in the early evening. Compare that to now, 24/7 programming with hundreds of channels. How many of you, like me, find that you still can’t always find something to watch?

Programme titles like Disaster Eyewitness don’t do a lot for me.

Later, in 1955, ITV started in the London area and spread across the rest of the country, but that took until 1962 to complete. It is still hard to imagine that early morning playground conversations about programmes started with ‘have you got a television?’ I don’t know how we managed without programmes like Big Brother and TOWIE. Hang on, yes I do!

Children’s television was a bit of a challenge. In a programme called Bill and Ben, two men planted in flower pots, spoke gibberish to a weed placed between them. No words were understandable and this went on for about fifteen minutes. Very educational, it’s a wonder that children of the day could speak proper English!

The arrival of our first fridge was a milestone.

So, if people think they are hard done by at present, think about the colour TVs, white goods, mobile phones, computers... we not doing so bad, are we?

Do you know the answers to these pop music questions? Some could be album tracks.

1950s 1. Who sang Johnny B Goode, a big hit in 1958?

2. Who released Peggy Sue in 1957?

3. Who sang the song that was mentioned frequently in Happy Days (TV)?

4. Which group released Shout in 1959? (Lulu had a later hit with a cover.)

5. Elvis had a hit with Blue Suede Shoes. Who sang the original in 1955?

6. Who sung When I Fall In Love in 1956? (there were lots, key is the year.)

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8. Who wrote and sang about a Freight Train in 1957? (This is a tough one.)

9. 9 Which group was At The Hop in 1958?

10. 10 Who sang about Diana in 1957?

1960s 11. Which group sang I’m Into Something Good in 1964?

12. Which group sang Bad To Me (A Lennon and McCartney song) in 1963?

13. Who had a hit with I’m A Wanderer in 1962?

14. Which group was Shakin’ All Over in 1960?

15. Which group were doing The Hippy Hippy Shake 1963?

16. Which group sang about My Girl in 1965?

17. Who wanted to Runaway in 1961?

18. Who Heard It Through The Grapevine in 1968?

19. Which group had Sympathy For The Devil in 1968?

20. Which group asked Be My Baby in 1963?

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Who sang about the Most Beautiful Girl in 1973?

Which group were The Sultans of Swing in 1979?

Who sang Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough in 1979?

Who sang about Heroes in 1977?

Which group sang Go Your Own Way in 1977?

Which group sang about The Rivers of Babylon in 1978?

Who had a Heart Of Glass in 1979?

Which group sang God Save The Queen in 1977?

Who had a Heart Of Gold in 1972?

Who were Making Plans For Nigel in 1979?

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Moulsham Lodge Community Trust - MLCT Community Fun Day - Saturday 30th May, 10.30am till 4pm we are asking if anyone would like to get involved in helping to design and to convert the front garden and turning it into a welcoming site as you approach the centre and shops. If you are interested you can contact us using the details below.”

We will be holding a Community Fun Day that will have something for everyone (and hopefully a special guest) to mark our official opening.

St Luke’s church have kindly offered their church and halls for us to hold the event and now that MLCT has The Community Station, we will be using this to extend the FUN even more. The really good news is that our local pub, the Eagle & Hind, is also offering to be part of the event, which will extend the FUN even more. Below is an initial programme to give you an idea of what we are hoping to have on the day. All subject to confirmation.

St Luke’s Church Main Church: Performances and demonstrations throughout the day from dance, keep fit, martial arts & New City Voices choir with a few new songs.

Middle Hall: Refreshments (cake & coffee) Main Hall: Table top sale - reserve your table for £5 Scout Hut: Moulsham Lodge & Tile Kiln Through the Ages exhibition, a display of old photos and artifacts, learn about your ancestors, old time photo portraits Community Station: Admin Office Live radio broadcast tbc, interviewing local organisations and local people.

Room 1: Craft station - we will be making community bunting and a flag that we can raise up the pole around 3pm. Hopefully a special guest will be raising the flag and cutting the ribbons.

Room 2: Photo booth - silly dressing up and a photo to keep.

Room 3: TBA Car Park: Climbing wall (tbc) and other outdoor activities.

Eagle & Hind: Bbq, guest beer, bouncy castle & karaoke evening - pay to sing or pay to keep them quiet.

We also would like volunteers to help on the day, so please get in touch if you would like to help.

Projects and Activities We have also obtained funding for a number of projects including a garden project - Lorna Fuller, one of our trustees, will be facilitating the project. She says, “it’s that time of year when the daffodils come out and the spring flowers appear, it gets you in the mood for better weather, it’s lovely seeing pretty gardens and if you ever visit a small village its always welcoming seeing a small display of flowers as you approach the village. This is where we got the idea of having a pretty garden of our own at The Community Station (in Gloucester Avenue)

One of our new activities is a ‘stay and play’ pre-school group called Station Tots. Jo Westram who helps run this new groups says, “Station Tots ‘stay and play’ group has been running for a month now and we’ve seen many lovely people - big and small - through our doors. Every week, we’ve had a mix of singing, music, stories and messy play including hand-printing to make Mothers Day cards.

Gemma Strange, from The Children’s Centre, will join us bi-weekly for arts, crafts and messy play activities. Gemma is a great source for asking questions relating to family support and services in the local area. She can also provide details of activities during school holidays.

Our group runs every Monday (term time only) from 9:45 - 11:45.”

On a bi-weekly basis we have The Naturally Happy Families drop-in support group. You can receive information regarding slings, natural nappies and other natural alternatives for your young family. The next drop-in session is on Tuesday 31st March. You can contact Carol on 07748 368 403 for further information.

Come along to meet other parents, carers, guardians in your community. We look forward to welcoming you.

We also have a knitting group that meet once a month at the moment where you can just come along and chat while you knit or help someone else to knit and of course, learn how to knit. This group meets on the last Sunday in every month from 12 noon till 2pm.

Future of MLCT In our immediate future, as well as funding for the garden project, we have funding for youth projects, sports projects, Neighbourhood Watch, disabled facilities and a number of other small budgets to make the building itself more usable.

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MoulshamFirst Is Changing to The Old Moulsham and Central Chelmsford Community Trust

We have applied to the Charity Commission for registration as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIC), so that we can apply for funds and secure a more recognised voice. You can read our draft constitution as agreed by members of Moulsham First on www. moulshamfirst.org.uk. As soon as we know more we’ll let everyone know.

In the meantime, here are some key issues we want to address:

1. Supporting the campaign to secure the Old Wireless Factory 2. in Hall Street for the community.

Check out www.marconichelmsford.uk.

3. Maintaining our community safety agenda, including Neighbourhood Watch.

4. Making sure Old Moulsham and Central Chelmsford has a voice.

There is lots to do so watch this space...

The Original Marconi Wireless and Telegraphy Works The trustees of Old Moulsham and Central Community Trust have started a campaign to save the ground floor of this iconic building - The original Marconi wireless and telegraphy works. It is the last Marconi heritage building that has not been sold for modern development so it is our one and only opportunity. The remainder of the building is being converted into apartments, but the developer is sympathetic to our mission. At this stage, we are not asking you to donate money, just simply click your support at www. marconichelmsford.uk so that we can demonstrate to Essex County Council and Chelmsford City Council the depth of feeling among Essex people for his pioneering achievements who came to Hall Street at the age of 23 in 1898. It is our intention to create a dynamic multi-functional space for STEM clubs (5 - 13) to nurture and inspire the next generation of Marconis calling it Marconi Science WorX as well as providing a space for exhibitions and seminars and the wider community.

Send your letters to editorial@ itsyourmedia.co.uk, we would love to hear from you.

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Kid’s Page by Alexander Aged 6.

Ami’s Diary

I’ve been really nervous waiting to see what part I have been cast for in our Theatretrain show at the Kenneth Moore Theatre in June. The senior group are performing the Lion King, the juniors are performing Annie and my group (the middles) are performing Oliver. We have been working on different roles in workshops over the past few weeks and I am so excited about the role I have been given - I am going to be Fagin and I get to sing You’ve Got to Pick a Pocket or Two. I had a call from my agent asking me to attend a casting in central London for a major feature film. I had to learn 3 pages of script in one night which was two scenes. I’m not allowed to say what film it’s for, but it was originally a book and then a film, so my grandad hired the DVD from the library so I would understand the story. The role is for a main character and it would be for a series of films as there were lots of books, so it is one of those ‘big break’ chances that don’t come along very often. I was with the casting director for 20 minutes and usually, castings are only a few minutes and there are loads of children up for roles. But there were only 5 of us chosen to audition for it. The casting director asked if I knew about the story and I said I had watched the DVD and I was able to talk all about the character. I had to act out the two scenes I had learnt which were filmed and the casting director said ‘wow, that was perfect’ to both the scenes, so I felt it went really well. I haven’t heard anything yet, but they have lots of different roles to cast, so I still have my fingers crossed.

Facts You May or May Not Know (All Sourced from the Web) The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants!

The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.

‘Rhythm’ is the longest English word without a vowel.

11% of the world is left-handed.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Honey does not spoil.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Deadlines for May Edition Articles 18th April Print ready art work 21st April Funnies What cheese is made backwards?

Edam!

What gets wetter the more it dries?

A towel!

What bow can’t be tied?

A rainbow!

What kind of button won’t unbutton?

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Chelmsford City Opera Chelmsford City Opera is a local charity, formed in 1971 to encourage and sustain local public interest in opera by staging operas, concerts and other musical performances. It provides a platform for amateur singers and also enables other people interested in opera to participate in social events, visits to opera performances and other activities.

The group usually presents two productions each year, as well as a Christmas concert.

It normally meets for rehearsals on Monday evenings at the United Reformed Church in Great Baddow, which is also sometimes used for smaller scale performances.

Last year, the main production was in partnership with Hylands House and 28

professional operatic singers from famous opera companies. It was an amalgam of scenes from Carmen, La Boheme and La Traviata, all blended into a seamless story-line making for a successful, if somewhat unusual, production.

This year the main production will be Die Fledermaus, by Johann Strauss II, which is to be performed on Saturday 28th April at 7.30pm at Christ Church, New London Road, Chelmsford. It will be sung in English as a concert performance - i.e. not acted - and will be accompanied by a twenty-five piece orchestra.

Die Fledermaus is properly described as an ‘operetta’, and is a joyful, lively and bubbly piece, quite different from the sad, dark operas which form so much of the operatic repertoire and which can so easily deter people from venturing into opera.

Amongst the soloists for this production will be several young people who are studying music at college for a singing career, along with older amateur soloists and a chorus comprising singers of all ages.

The musical director and also chairman of the charity is Gerald Hindes, who is well-known to many in Chelmsford musical circles.

Tickets for Die Fledermaus cost ÂŁ15 and should preferably be ordered in advance (telephone: 01245 260363) though they will also available on the door. No charge will be made for under 15s.

Rehearsals for Die Fledermaus are already well ahead, but there is always room for new voices in future productions.

Email us at: committee@chelmsfordopera.org or telephone: 07793 536077.

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Chelmsford Rotary Clubs Find Different Ways to Fundraise I wrote about the Community Showcase in a previous issue and now it has been and gone, but what a tremendous success it was. Held at the Chelmsford Civic Theatre, it was heralded as the best one so far!

All the acts performed tirelessly to a full house and showed us what amazing talent we have right on our doorstep. The show was attended by the mayor and mayoress of Chelmsford and hosted by Hal MacLean of Chelmsford Community Radio, who did a sterling job in presenting the acts. There were dance groups, choirs, solo singers, a guitar orchestra, and the grand finale was Rory Jackson, a Michael Jackson tribute act who brought the house down with his singing and dancing. Chief organiser, Gwyneth CalvertPainter, of the Rotary Club of Chelmsford Rivermead said: “this has been a brilliant example of individuals coming together and giving up their time to help Rotary help the local community”. She added: “Michael Jackson can rest in peace, as Rory Jackson has all his moves, his voice and more.” The mayoress was bowled over by the Kudos Lion Dance which sat on her lap! The proceeds from the show amounting to over £2,000 will be divided between the president’s charity for the year - Helen Rollason Cancer Charity, and End Polio Now. Walking the O2 Towards the end of January, Eddie Cassels of the Rotary Club of Chelmsford received an email about a walk over the O2 Millennium Dome to celebrate Rotary Day. The aim was to raise money for End Polio Now and Walk for Water by sponsorship. So he thought, well, why not?

Eddie arrived at Greenwich at his allotted time slot with about 20 others in the group, some having travelled from Herefordshire and Chester. After a briefing on what to expect they were then kitted out. This involved donning a sleeveless jacket with a small pocket for a camera/phone and a harness. They were also advised to wear special shoes for the climb.

attached to the continuous cable system which runs the length of the walkway. At the top there is a viewing platform which gave the walkers 360 degree views over London. It was possible to see the arch at Wembley Stadium and the Crystal Palace transmitters as well as a most unusual view of the Thames. Unfortunately, without an extremely expensive camera, it was not really possible to capture the views in photos.

The weather was dry and sunny throughout, but the wind was gusting at 25 - 35mph which made it a bracing outing! Nevertheless, it was a very interesting experience and Eddie would like to thank all the members for their support.

There is no final figure for sponsorship yet, but he thinks he managed to raise over £500 to be split between End Polio Now and Walk for Water. In total, 140 Rotarians made the climb raising a very considerable sum for the two charities.

Of course, there are Rotary events going on every day in one club or another and if you would like to find out more about being part of this wonderful organisation and the effect Rotary has to improve the lives of so many people, then visit the website: www.rotary1240. org, or phone me on 01245 260349. You will be assured of a warm welcome and don’t forget about the World’s Biggest Quiz on Saturday 6th June (www.rotarybogquiz.org). Let’s get Essex into the Guinness Book of World Records.

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Dusters at the Ready, It’s Springtime! By Bridget Metcalfe Spring has arrived. Its tones and notes are now definitely in the air (that’s the musician in me speaking).

What does spring’s arrival mean to you? To me it’s enjoying the lengthening, warmer days. It’s the sun on my face as I cycle around town and the resulting easier feel to life.

Spring’s arrival also means I won’t lose any more gloves for a while. How many odd gloves have I accumulated over the winter? Too many. I lose so many gloves over the winter months that by spring I’m left with several sole remaining partners. It’s usually the right handed one that does a runner.

I’m determined to never again reach the point in life where I have to attach a cord to each glove and thread one end (glove attached) up one coat sleeve and down the other. My mother did that to me for years while I was at school. I never lost any gloves though, so maybe it could catch on again as a fashion fad for autumn/winter 2015. It’ll be in all the glossy fashion magazines!

As far as new fashions go, selfie sticks have recently caught on. I feel sure we’ll be seeing plenty of those this summer. It’s a monopod for www.moulshamtimes.com

your mobile phone, so that you can take your own photo. It turns out that some selfie sticks have wrist straps for added security.

Security wrist straps are not a new idea; my gloves dangling from my coat sleeves were there first.

So, spring is here. Spring cleaning has arrived and I have some new dusters. They’re larger than most because they’re from my original homeland ‘up north’. They are the uniform bright sunflower yellow with the red stitching to stop the edges fraying. Who decided that dusters should be that colour? Who decided indeed that dusters from Yorkshire should be the biggest in the UK? If you know the answer to either of those questions, I’m sure the Moulsham Times would welcome your thoughts.

A nice memory of spring was my school’s Easter holiday homework to make a spring nature book. I was probably about nine years old. I remember pressing a leaf between two pages, squashing it flat to make the glue stick and writing the tree name in colourful handwriting at the foot of the page. One morning and for the first time that year, I heard a cuckoo calling. My mother suggested I write it in my book and I wrote: ‘Heard the first cuckoo on Thursday’ - and I won!

The best spring nature book award went to me!

Moral: sometimes the simplest things in life are the best.

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Volatile Descent: A Detective Carter Mystery by JR Blake - Part 4 Last time we saw DS Carter and DC Reid struggle to leave the crime scene as their car had broken down. Now in a taxi on the way to the station, we rejoin them as they arrive to discover what car they would be driving to Cardiff in and DS Carter prepares to meet her ex-husband for the first time since their divorce...

DS Carter and DC Reid arrived back at an empty police station to a sight that made DC Reid gasp and then produce some high pitched alien-like noises. Parked in front of them was a Bugatti Veyron 16.4 - the fastest legal street car in the world. DC Reid sounded as though he was hyperventilating. DS Carter walked round to the driver’s side and reached just behind the wheel. There she found what she needed to open and drive the car - her cousin always left the key there.

“You OK Reid?” DS Carter asked her partner, who was now touching the car gently as though it would melt. Reid replied with an exasperated “yeah..” and eventually managed to enter the car after being asked a few times by Carter.

Carter set the sat-nav to take them to St David’s Hotel and Spa in Cardiff and they set off. Four hours later, even though the sat-nav had indicated the journey to be 2 hours 52 minutes, they arrived.

It would appear the sat-nav was not all that good at navigating toll booths. Dr Looker was already there, wrapped in a cosy, fluffy white dressing gown and looking incredibly relaxed as an exasperated DS Carter and DC Reid arrived at reception.

“Oooh, decided to make an appearance did we?” Dr Looker exclaimed teasingly.

“Satellite navigation is not all it is cracked up to be...” DS Carter replied. “Anyway, how did you get here so quick?”

“Dated a forensics specialist consultant from Cardiff once. I’ve driven this way loads of times.”

“Loads of times? What’s that, at least 4 then?” Carter asked sarcastically.

“Five. Including today” Dr Looker replied. “By the way, an old friend is here already making enquiries.”

The last statement made Carter freeze to the spot. Diane was talking about her ex-husband Eric. Carter hadn’t thought much about seeing him again, between satellite navigation issues, Reid worrying about Dr Looker sneaking in on him having a massage and dodgy egg and cress sandwiches leading to nausea at the motorway services there hadn’t been much more room in her head.

But now she heard a familiar voice...

“Hello Erin...”

DS Carter turned to see her ex-husband approaching her and DC Reid. With dark, wavy hair and a shrewd smile, he stopped and put his hands into the pockets of his long raincoat - almost identical to the one DS Carter was wearing.

“DI Carter.” Replied DS Carter. She wanted to keep this as formal as possible.

“Oh come on Erin, we know each other better than to stick to the formalities!”

“I like formality.” DS Carter was not going to fall for his Prince Charming act. She’d already done that once and regretted it.

DI Eric Carter was grinning at his ex-wife. It had been too many years since he’d been relocated to Wales following his, ahem, exposure by Erin. He had no ill feeling towards her. In fact he admired her guts and determination, and when put together with that wavy blonde hair and perfect skin, he couldn’t resist chatting

her up. He knew she would act all impervious to him, but he liked the challenge. He hadn’t worked with her in a while but had always admired her detective skills and frankly, she was the best interrogator he had ever seen. Having the chance to work with her again, from his perspective, was great opportunity to see how she had evolved throughout the years. You never know, he might even learn something. They’d always made a great team, unfortunately that absolutely gorgeous PC had started working at the station and after wearing him down for a few weeks whilst they were both working a particularly complicated murder case that involved quite a few night shifts... lets just say they started pulling their own kind of all nighters. It was the stress of the job that led to the affair. At least, that’s how he saw it. What was he supposed to do when a beautiful PC was waving her DDs in front of him at 3am on a stakeout with literally nobody else around and nothing to do but watch a warehouse nobody was turning up to? It was that or die of boredom. And if there was one thing DI Carter hated it was boredom. Especially dying of it.

“Anyway, have your enquiries led to any fresh evidence yet since you started without us?” DS Carter asked DI Carter, she was determined to keep this strictly business.

“Not yet, I only got here a few minutes ago. Shall I help you up to your room? Get you settled in?”

“I’m pretty sure they have staff here to do that, but thanks.” DS Carter replied frostily. She knew what he was doing, he wanted to know what room she was in. She wasn’t stupid, she knew exactly what he was up to.

“I should probably know what room you’re in though, just in case…”

She knew it, she absolutely knew it! “Just in case what? If the building blows up, I’d rather you find my scattered body all over Cardiff than know my room number to rescue me.” DS Carter grabbed the room key from DC Reid, who had checked them in, and followed him into the lift. DI Carter continued grinning. Dr Looker made her way to the bar. She had a feeling a couple of bottles of wine would be needed this evening…

Tune in next time to find out how DS Carter and DI Carter manage to work together under a strained relationship and a stressful case that will push both of them to the limit…

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