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Gardening with Selina What’s Cooking? Crossword Puzzle What’s On in February Kia XCEED Car Review Sudoku & Digi-Search Computer Tips Girl guiding in Surrey East Elmbridge Volunteers Music on the Green Music Matters Useful Numbers Esher Library Notice Puzzle Solutions Advertisers’ Index

Welcome to February

What a mixed bag of weather to start this decade! Such extremes reported from around the Globe. At the time of writing, Australia are awaiting a much needed ‘5 day rain storm’ which hopefully will extinguish the dreadful bush fires. What an awful time they have been having, it makes me stop and think before I complain about our damp weather here. A few muddy dog towels is really nothing to worry about ! This month we hear from Rebecca Webb who shares some information with us about Girlguiding in Surrey East; they are looking for inspirational leaders so do get in touch if you are interested in getting involved. There are many options, and groups include Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers to cater for a wide array of ages… If you’re fed up with the dark nights and you fancy treating yourselves to a little trip, why not pop along to The Surrey Cruise Show ! See page 21 for details. Or maybe if you’d prefer to spend some time helping others, take a look at our Volunteer Opportunities this month, and see how you can make a difference.. Finally, we have a lovely pussy cat in need of a loving home by the name of Benji - see our Cat’s Protection page - let’s get Benji his forever home! Wishing you all a good month and a Happy Valentines Day on 14th ! Best Regards,

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The influence of water By Selina Botham

Award winning local garden designer Selina Botham looks at the influence of water and how it can be interpreted through garden design. Enjoying the views from the airplane last summer I admired the curves of the land and considered the beauty of the natural world before me. Seeing how the river meanders along the valley floor and how each stream curves down from the mountains to meet the river. Each one is different in its flow but somehow balanced and complimenting its neighbour. I’m loving these shapes in my work at the moment and enjoying the flow of water and how this can be interpreted through my garden design work.

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The new ‘river inspired’ part of my own garden and another in a beautiful setting leading to the river Mole. There’s another garden overlooking a tidal estuary which I hope will be designed in 2020. In all these spaces, I am letting the design flow like water. Happy 2020 to all the readers. Selina Botham is an award winning garden designer based in Claygate. If you would like to improve and make the best of your garden and need some professional help contact Selina for an initial garden consultation on 07894 553 202 or see her web site for further ideas www.designsforallseasons.co.uk and her facebook page Selina Botham - Designs for all Seasons.

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tomato & spinach bucatini with prawns ingredients method 1 tbsp cold pressed rapeseed oil, plus extra to drizzle 2 garlic cloves, crushed 2 tbsp double concentrated tomato purée 1 tsp Cooks’ Ingredients Wild Oregano 400g can chopped tomatoes 1 tsp clear honey 150g Waitrose & Partners No.1 Bucatini (or spaghetti) 300g baby spinach 150g pack Duchy Organic Cooked King Prawns 3 tbsp freshly grated parmigiano reggiano (Serves 2)

1. Heat the oil in a wide pan, then add the garlic. Sizzle for 30 seconds until fragrant. Add the tomato purée and oregano and cook for 1 minute, or until the purée is turning burnished orange and smells sweet. Add the tomatoes, ½ a can of water and the honey; season. Simmer for 10-12 minutes until rich and thick. Taste; if it seems acidic, add a squeeze more honey. 2. Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil, then add the pasta. Return to the boil, then cook for 10 minutes or until al dente. Drain, reserving a cup of the cooking water. Meanwhile, put the spinach in a large colander, pour over boiling water from the kettle until wilted, then rinse with cold water. Squeeze out the excess water and drain on kitchen paper. 3. Add the prawns and spinach to the pasta sauce, then simmer until warmed through. Toss the pasta into the sauce, along with 2 tbsp water to loosen, and ½ the grated cheese. Transfer to warmed pasta bowls; finish with a little more cheese, serving a crispy green salad alongside, if liked.

cooking tip For even more flavour, add a handful of pitted olives to the recipe as the sauce is simmering.

Prep: 5mins. Cooking: 20mins Recipe & Photo reproduced by kind permission of Waitrose. Over 5,000 recipes can be found at www.waitrose.com/recipes

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Elmbridge U3a, Monthly Meeting at Claygate Village Hall, Church Rd KT10 0JP from 2pm. For more info or to join: 0208 979 2737 or members@elmbridgeu3a.org Pebble Rhymetime at Esher Library, Old Church Path, Esher KT10 9NS. Every Wednesday, at 10am. Every Thursday, at 10am. Every Saturday, at 10.30am This event is not ticketed, please turn up at the given times. Come along & join us for a rhyme with Pebble the penguin. https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/libraries Hersham Village Market, open every Friday from 10.30am - 12noon in All Saints Church Hall. If you’re looking to buy local food that’s delicious & fresh, high quality hand crafted gifts, or home grown plants, then you really should visit us! www.hershamvillagemarket.org.uk

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Noisy Oyster presents Dangerous Dave at Vera Fletcher Hall, 4, Embercourt Road, Thames Ditton KT7 0LQ from 2.30pm. Dangerous Dave, infinitely more ‘daft’ than ‘dangerous’, and his ridiculous sidekick, Herbert Lemon, present some of the most mind-bindingly silly stunts ever performed . . . ever! Cash bar. Tickets: £8.00. Box Office: www.verafletcherhall. co.uk/ 08456 528 529. www.noisyoyster.co.uk

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Half term trail: Colour Quest at Claremont Gardens, Portsmouth Rd, Esher KT10 9JG from 10.30am - 4pm. Head outside with an I-Spy trail to discover all the flora and fauna that make Claremont colourful. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/claremont-landscape-garden/

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Tuesday Tree Walk - Autumn Walk at Claremont Gardens, Portsmouth Rd, Esher KT10 9JG from 11am - 12.30pm. Join our expert tree guide Hilary for a guided walk around Claremont. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/claremont-landscape-garden/whats-on Cobham Band Presents “Brass Music from Around the World” at Vera Fletcher Hall 4, Embercourt Road, Thames Ditton KT7 0LQ, from 7.30pm. Conductor Steven Williams. Cobham Band invites you to relax and cruise the world of brass music & composers from across the globe. Get your ticket and off we go - no passport needed! Cash bar. Tickets: £13. Box Office: www.verafletcherhall.co.uk/ 08456 528 529. www.thecobhamband.org Kingston & District Civil Service Pensioners’ Alliance Group meet at Marion House, Girl Guides Hut, Tadworth Ave, KT3 6DJ, 2.00 - 4.00pm. In addition to our main function of keeping in touch with local & national issues concerning pensioners, we arrange a variety of speakers to entertain us. This month’s speaker: David Chave ‘Murderous Women’. Brenda Denby, 0208 398 6054/brendadenby@live.co.uk.

If there’s an event in March that you’d like mentioned, please contact Ros (details on p.3) before Monday 10th February. All entries appear on a first come, first served basis. Details of the above event are correct at time of print.

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Kia XCEED CAR REVIEW BY TED MACAULEY

The motor car market is awash with bargains galore, and yet another wee treat has arrived to excite those who enjoy being seen in the latest offering. It is Kia’s brand new Xceed - a funky looking SUV, a sporting crossover and a distinct challenger to reigning rivals without it breaking the bank or failing to give value for your lolly. The Korean car makers are so confident they have designed a winner with stamina as well as style, they back their invasion on to the SUV scene with a staggering, unrivalled and unprecedented 100,000 mile/seven year warranty. Wow wee!!! In a recent reliability survey Kia finished sixth out of 31 manufacturers - just behind Toyota, but better than Skoda and streets ahead of Ford and Volkswagen, with that record breaking warranty - the best on any car. So what do you get for your hard-earned? A real treat in my humble opinion...a kerbside beauty that is both a pleasure to walk up to and to drive, whether around town or on longer motorway journeys, both of which it manages with panache and economy with 50-odd plus miles to the gallon. It revels in a softer setting with clever dampers, but

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What is a Cookie? A cookie is a small file, often encrypted, which allow a website to recognise a user’s device. It is typically made up of letters and numbers and is downloaded on to your device when you access a website. Cookies are generally used to help users navigate websites more efficiently and perform certain functions. Since their core role is to enhance usability and improve processes, if you disable cookies you may find that the website does not perform as well as you would expect. When you load a particular website, a cookie is created. Every time you then revisit that specific website, the browser retrieves and sends this file to the website’s server. Computer Cookies are also being created by other websites when ads, plug-ins, widgets, or other elements on the page are being loaded. These cookies regulate how the ads appear or how the widgets and other elements function on the page. For more information see: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

Types of cookies Some Cookies will expire at the end of a browser session, while other are stored for longer. Types of cookies include: • Session cookies - these cookies are the ones which allow websites to track the various actions of a user during a browser session. They have a variety of purposes. For example, a session cookie would be working when the website you are visiting remembers what you have put in your shopping basket. Session cookies generally expire after a browser session ends. • Persistent cookies - these cookies are stored on your device between browser sessions. This is useful because it enables the preferences/actions of the user to be remembered across a website. Persistent cookies are also used for a variety of purposes, however they are most famous for being used by a website to perform target advertising. • First and third party cookies - first party cookies are the cookies which are set by a specific website visited by the user. Third party cookies are set by a domain which is not the one being visited by the user. For example, if you visit a website and a separate company has set a cookie through that website this would be a third party cookie. • Tracking Cookies are a specific type of cookie that is distributed, shared, and read across two or more unrelated Web sites for the purpose of gathering information or potentially to present customized data to you... Tracking cookies are not harmful like malware, worms, or viruses, but they can be a privacy concern. With aggressive tracking cookies, these companies can know your location, device information, purchase history, search queries, and so much more. Sometimes, you never even know this information is being collected. However, some countries, like the UK, have adopted laws that require websites to notify users about their data being collected through cookies.

Are these cookies secure? Cookies are not computer viruses, they cannot be executed nor are they self-executing, they also cannot replicate and spread to other networks to execute. Since they cannot perform these functions, they fall outside the standard definition of a virus. Because cookies store information about a user’s browsing preferences and history. Cookies can sometimes be used to act as a form of spyware. Many anti-spyware products recognize this and will flag us certain cookies for deletion, following a scan.

This guide was written by Les Beer, from Tecres in Leatherhead, who have been providing computer solutions since 1989.

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A local Citizens Advice are looking for a motivated individual to help support their vital fundraising work. This is a great opportunity to develop your fundraising expertise by organizing events, producing publicity material & attending meetings. Can work independently & as part of a team.

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Would you be able to visit local businesses & encourage them to become a member of a local dementia friendly community? If you would like to share your expertise or build on your experience in community events, this could be the role for you.

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Are you a caring & reliable person who enjoys the company of older people & would like to help get them to medical appointments? Drivers offer approximately 1.5hrs once or twice a month & choose which weekdays suit them. Would also suit term-time only drivers.

Interested in helping maintain local Woodland?

This is an ideal volunteer role if you enjoy the outdoors. It is flexible as you can dip in & out when it suits your schedule. Tasks involve removing ivy from the trees, cutting up old wood, & litter picking. No tools or experience required. Wednesdays 10am-1pm

Support your local youth club

A local youth club are looking for enthusiastic people who enjoy spending time with teenagers, have an understanding of some of the challenges they may face, are non-judgmental, empathetic & respect confidentiality. This is a very rewarding opportunity to be part of your community.

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Weds 15th February 2020 DRAMMA PER MUSICA

“BRITTONS GREATS” Performing both in the UK and Internationally and on BBC3 the Drama Per Musica’s goals are clear. The group seeks the drama which is only available through music, that confluence of emotion and reason through sound and language. Thomas Britton ran one of the earliest concert series in London championing music by composers from all over Europe. Our concert brings together some of Britton’s greats, including Handel and Purcell and will showcase the ensemble at their best. Free entry and light lunch from 12.30pm Concert from 1.10pm. Retiring Collection

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POEM CORNER “I only know Mozart”! That this beginner has a lot to learn! We meet at Ruth’s. - First, a short talk About the composer, his life, his work. For we take it in turns in finding out What made him famous and talked about, Then a seat at the “opera” as we watch TV, Get carried away-until it’s time for tea! Sub-titles, in English, help a lot In understanding a twisting plot. It’s all made clear, there is no doubt As to what exactly they’re singing about! For moral dilemmas occur all the time For crashing chords and music sublime. Opera can be tragic, comic or farce, Move us to tears, or make us laugh. We’ve been to cinemas to see operas beamed Direct from “The Met” onto great big screens, But nothing, of course, can really compare To a live performance, being actually there In the theatre and swept along By the drama on stage and the beautiful songs Whose melodies still go round in your head When you’re safely back home, and tucked up in bed! I’ve listened and learbed in this monthly class, But the opera repertoire’s so varied and vast It’s only been possible to study a fewBut at least I’ve added to the one I knew! (i.e. Mozart!!)

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Music Matters A BIT OF FUN FOR FEBRUARY QUESTIONS: 1. Who played Elton John in Rocket Man? 2. Who walked like an Egyptian on the Masked Singer? 3. What song won the Eurovision song contest in 1976 for Brotherhood of Man? 4. Gilbert O’Sullivan sang about Claire. Is she real? 5. Who went Halfway to Paradise in 1950? 6. Apart from Tony Christie’s hit record, what is Amarillo famous for? 7. Who heard Voices in the Sky in 1968? 8. Who was born Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien? 9. What does/did UB40 stand for? 10. What song did Astrid Gilberto make her own in 1964? Take it Easy with David Smith on Surrey Hills Community Radio every Wednesday 5pm - 7pm. PUZZLE SOLUTIONS PAGE 33

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Book Reviews FEBRUARY 2020

‘Your House will pay’ by Steph Cha (Paperback £12.99) Your House will pay is a remarkable book. It takes place along two time lines. The first begins shortly before the Rodney King riots when a panicking Korean shop owner shoots and kills a black girl. She’s convicted on manslaughter but serves no prison time. The second begins 27 years later when that woman is shot in front of the pharmacy her family now runs and a cousin of the girl killed years ago pleads guilty to the shooting. Nothing here is easy. Everyone carries anger, sorrow, resentments and excuses. Every character is flawed in a way that makes the novel ring true. This book stays with you.

‘The Water Dancer’ by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Hardback £16.99) This is a powerful and elegant work, the debut novel by an acclaimed essayist. Hiram Walker was fathered by the owner of the Virginia plantation where he has always lived in bondage. Gifted with remarkable memory and mimicry, but unable to remember his mother, Hiram has another extraordinary skill to master on his road to freedom. As he joins the underground war on slavery, their intellectual dexterity and courage is bolstered by hope of the power that Hiram may hold. Coates writes with great wisdom about love, justice, and finding a purpose in life.

‘Blue Moon’ by Lee Child (Hardback £20.00) In a town run by rival criminal gangs, an elderly couple in debt to loan sharks are running out of time. Fortunately, they meet Jack Reacher. Lee Child, a British author living in the USA, has written a timely novel driven by the swiftly widening cracks between company healthcare policies and the expensive urgency of illness. It’s also an irresistibly exciting adventure filled with Jack Reacher’s powerful brand of ethical certainty in action.

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ESHER LIBRARY: Old Church Path, Esher KT10 9NS. Situated next to the Elmbridge Civic Centre car park (pay & display).

OPENING HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday: 9.30am - 5pm Mon & Sun: CLOSED www.surreycc.gov. uk/libraries - Surrey Libraries App Available

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The 2019 Surrey Reading Aloud competition was won by Gemma Willcox. This year we received 38 nominations, shortlisted 9 finalists and received 1,158 votes. The competition was heavily promoted on Brooklands Radio with three interviews and two trailers, aired daily from September to December. Local author Malcolm Duffy will be in Esher Library on Saturday 8 February between 12-2pm. Malcolm’s first book, Me Mam. Me Dad. Me. won the Young Adult category of the Sheffield Children’s Book Award 2019, The Redbridge Children’s Book Award 2019, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Prize 2019 and was selected for World Book Night. He will be signing copies of his latest book Sofa Surfer, described as being a book written with humour and heart, looking at how it feels to be homeless and shows the healing power of true friendship. Malcom will be reading an extract from Sofa Surfer at 12.30pm and Me Mam. Me Dad. Me. at 1.30pm. His books are aimed at slightly older readers so please encourage those from Year 8 and upwards to come along and support Malcolm and the library. A reminder that local author, Mark Bisson, will be coming to Esher in the near future to read from and talk about his book, ‘The cat who lost his confidence’ As the book’s theme is children’s positive mental health, we are hoping to incorporate discussions/workshops with parents. Again, this is something new for us at Esher to organise. We are hoping this will take place in March so please express any interest in this event to any member of staff and keep an eye out for further details both in the library and on our website.

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