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JANUARY 2016

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What’s inside this month?

a natural facelift

Want a more fresh face for the new year?

Read how inside... by Melanie Morgan

WHAT IS SELF ESTEEM?

Steve Clifford explains and gives his 10 tips on self improvement Instead of buying ready-made ones, Tea Beside the Sea shares their recipe

Also LOOK out for: Gardening tips, Local News, Finances, Wellbeing, Events and much more!

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Photo Competition!

Would you like to see YOUR photo on next month’s cover?

Congratulations to: Judith Lawrence! You are our first front cover winner of the year, for January 2016. Thank you for sending in your calming seascape. Thanks to everyone for sending in their photos, they are much appreciated. If you’d like to enter into next month’s competition then email: samantha@bexhillianmag.co.uk on or before 26th January 2016 please; this is our deadline. Also ensure that you own the photo entered. 6000 Readers will see it, it’ll appear on our website and it’ll be shared in social media.

Good luck everyone!

Happy New Year!

Now that we’re looking ahead into a New Year, you may want to take advantage of our stories inside this month’s issue.

Maybe, self improvement and self esteem, to feel more positive? Or try the natural face lift, how about it? It all sounds intriguing to me, (she says with fresh looking photo, which in truth needs updating!) I’ve read Steve Clifford’s 10 tips to feeling good about yourself and I think they’re really uplifting as always, so thanks Steve.

I must say that fishcake recipe looks delicious as well and as Janet explains, you can use whichever fish combo you want, I am guilty of buying shop bought ones for quickness, so I’m going to give this a go but with mackerel. Let me know how you get on out there please?

As Ian, our resident gardening expert says, it’s still a bit too cold and wet for too much garden maintenance, but remember to keep the bird tables topped up. My Mum likes keeping her table topped up with nuts for the squirrels, she has a recognisable, frequent little visitor now!

Don’t forget to have a look at what’s going on locally at the back of the magazine and our events page on our website. Let’s hope that 2016 brings us all hope and happier times.

Samantha Hallam.

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Cover photo by: Judith Lawrence, Bexhill Marina Townswomen’s Guild.

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In the aim to help promote businesses, to raise awareness for local charities and to serve the local Bexhill community the Bexhillian works hard on being informative and relevant to readers of all ages. We send out to 6000 homes and businesses, pick-up-points and publish online.

Bexhill has 20,000+ homes, so it does mean that some areas will receive issues bi-monthly. But don’t worry though, the ‘Pick-up-Points’ are listed in the back and on our website, or you can email us your address and arrange a copy to be delivered right to your door.

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MAKING FISHCAKES Many people enjoy fishcakes but most end up picking up a pack of ready made ones rather than making their own. However, making your own fishcakes is simple and easy to do and uses many store cupboard ingredients. First and foremost you need to prepare mashed potato and leave to cool whilst you decide which fish and flavours you would like to use.

Salmon is a firm favourite with many people (including children) served with either a cream sauce or even just a simple bottled mayonnaise. Any fish (smoked or non smoked or indeed crab or prawns) can be used (simply replace the salmon with your chosen fish), if you do not like the capers in the recipe again you can replace them with your fresh herbs. For example if you enjoy Thai fishcakes then lemon grass, Chilli, coriander, spring onions and replace the mustard with fish sauce and voila a different dinner again! and serve with chilli sauce.

Once you have chosen your fish (do not cook crab nor prawns – chop these) place it in a bowl with a spoon of water cover with cling film and poach in the microwave for 3 minutes on high heat. Remove the cling film and leave to one side to cool.

Stir the mustard, lemon juice and salt and pepper to taste, crumble in chunks of your chosen fish, crab or prawns and mix well add two beaten eggs. Shape large spoonfuls into fishcake shapes. Roll in beaten egg and flour (Gluten free flour can be used).

Shallow fry in olive oil until brown and crispy then place on an oven proof dish in an oven at 180 for 10 minutes.

Make your sauce by adding all ingredients to a shallow pan and cooking over a gentle

heat until thick and creamy. Serve the fishcakes on a bed of spinach topped with the sauce and a large wedge of lemon.

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gardening advice for JANUARY With the warm glow of Christmas truly behind us and the tree nestling on top of the compost heap, many would think it is the seemingly distant call of Spring that allows us back in to the garden. However there are still a lot of important jobs to be done this month to see our efforts out in the cold, flourish later in the year. Pruning fruit trees are a great example of this and I have detailed the basics below.

Fruit Tree Pruning

When attempting to prune trees remember safety first, ladders, saws, loppers and secateurs all pose a much greater risk when at height.

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THE AIM: is to create an open goblet shape with a framework of 4 to 5 main branches. They will most likely not resemble ones in gardening magazines after you have finished, (unfortunately).

Apple and pear trees trained as free standing bushes are best pruned every winter to produce a good cycle of fruiting wood.

Trees that are not, become less productive and congested with old and decaying wood.

PRUNING: start simply by removing any crossing, rubbing, weak, and dead or damaged wood.

• Aim to take out 10 to 20% off of the overall canopy in any one winter and work around evenly.

• Shorten the previous year’s growth on each main branch by about a third back to a bud facing in the desired direction.

• Open the centre of the tree by removing larger branches at the point of origin.

• Pruning is not a 5 minute job and if it has not been done for years then spread it out over the next couple of months.

AVOID GIVING IT A HAIRCUT! I know this is tempting but resist, this will only stimulate rapid unproductive new growth that you will become unsatisfied with and end up chopping off every year.

Lawns

With 2015 being the warmest recorded year bringing mild and wet conditions through the Winter, the grass has kept growing whilst being near impossible to cut due to the sodden ground. Let’s hope we get some cold weather this month to halt the growth!

Gardening maintenance jobs • • • • •

Keep lawn damage limitation to a minimum by staying off, especially if it is frosty.

Keep the bird table topped up with food and water.

Ventilate the greenhouse on dry sunny days.

Sow sweet peas under cover to get a head start.

Start cutting back grasses and other perennials for Winter interest.

Too cold or wet to go out start planning for Spring it will soon be here!

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Ask most people “what is the time?” and they’ll look at their watch and tell you. Ask a photographer and they’ll probably mutter “1/125th second” while squinting through the viewfinder of their camera.

Like an eighties middle of the road tribute band, 1/125th second is the most inoffensive of time values in photography. Fast enough to capture movement, but not so slow as to introduce camera shake on all but the most non-standard of lenses.

It’s a useful starting point, but staying in the 1/125th second Goldilocks zone would be closing the door on one of the most creative aspects of photography; to be able to visually capture the passage of time in a single frame.

With longer exposures, waterfalls become cascading milky strands, and beach tides are transformed into a dense swirling muslin mist.

A moving object can be blurred, to stand out against a static environment, or instead, that same subject can be frozen against a blurred background. Within those seconds, time is relative.

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As a starting point, set your camera to 1/15th second, which is fast enough to capture a moving subject so that it is recognisable, but will introduce a sense of motion. An ordinary scene of people walking along the Bexhill Promenade will be enhanced by introducing movement. With longer exposures, (use a tripod), moving subjects will become increasingly ghostlike. A technique favoured by motorsports photographers; “panning”, can freeze a hurtling object against an impressionistic backdrop. Just keep the moving subject in the camera viewfinder during the exposure.

Digital cameras are a gift for photographic exploration, as each image contains the technical information for future reference, (it certainly beats a notepad and blunt pencil).

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what is self-esteem?

Welcome January 2016. The dawn of a New Year brings with it the possibility an exciting new start. It’s a time to think about making changes. I’m not talking about going on a diet, taking up exercise or other short term fix. I am talking about change at a more fundamental level – that of improving your self-esteem.

What is self-esteem?

Self-esteem is the way that you think about yourself. If your self-esteem is low, the thoughts you have about yourself are likely to be negative and you are likely to focus on what you think are your weaknesses.

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8. Make a list of your past successes, however small, like learning to ride a bicycle or playing a musical instrument.

Write these down.

9. Try to do more of the things you love, rather than the things you think you ought to do.

10. Finally, be true to yourself. Respect yourself, live your life, not a life dictated to you by others.

Begin to make these positive changes today - Good luck.

Having low self-esteem can affect every area of life including work, personal relationships and your ability to socialise. Tackling low self-esteem and boosting positive thinking can really improve your sense of wellbeing and your mental health.

Here are a few tips you might find helpful.

1. Stop comparing yourself to others.

You will nearly always home in on their strengths and that will make you feel worse about yourself.

2. Stop putting yourself down. Every time you that it will erode your self-esteem.

3. Listen out for compliments, learn to accept them and say “thank you.”

4. Find an affirmation, a statement such as, “I am confident and competent,” write it down and read it every day.

5. Read everything you can about selfesteem, devour books, blogs, websites, etc, and make improving your self-esteem your mission in life.

6. Avoid people who are negative and put you down, instead mix with people who are positive, confident and supportive.

7. What do you like about yourself, however small? Kindness, friendliness, reliability, etc. note these down.

Until next time

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EXTRA PENSION TAX RELIEF IS AVAILABLE NOW The recent Budget contained good news for pension investors. The amount of tax relief that can be received on pension contributions has just increased for some.

What is pension tax relief?

To encourage everyone to save for retirement, some pension contributions receive up to 45% tax relief: The government automatically pays 20% of your contributions, regardless of your tax rate and higher and top-rate taxpayers can reclaim more through their tax return, up to an extra 20% or 25% depending on individual circumstances.

Imagine you pay £8,000 into your pension, the government will add £2,000 to make it £10,000 in your pension. A higher-rate taxpayer can reclaim up to a further £2,000 and a top-rate taxpayer up to a further £2,500. £10,000 in a pension can in effect cost as little as £5,500. To receive the full 40% or 45% tax relief you must pay enough tax at that rate.

Who can now receive more pension tax relief?

A £40,000 maximum annual allowance untaxed usually applies to pension contributions each tax year, from all sources into your pension pot. Contributions over this allowance effectively do not receive tax relief.

In the budget, a new £40,000 allowance was introduced for contributions made from 9 July 2015 to 5 April 2016.

This means anyone who made contributions from 6 April 2015 to 8 July 2015 might be able to invest more this tax year as they have the £40k allowance starting again from 8th July 2015 and receive more tax relief. Anyone who hasn’t made contributions still has the same allowance – £40,000 for contributions up to 5 April 2016.

Contributions registered from 6 April 2015 to 8 July 2015 will reduce this new allowance, but only if they exceeded £40,000.

Pension contributions made in the previous tax year could also count; your provider should be

able to inform you. How this works is explained in the table below.

Qualifying for extra tax relief

To receive tax relief, the total value of your contributions this tax year should not exceed your earnings. For instance, to contribute £60,000 in total this tax year you should earn at least £60,000. If you wanted to invest more than your earnings in any tax year, you could ask your employer to make an employer contribution, possibly set off against future earnings.

If you decide to use your new allowance, remember money in a pension can normally only be accessed from age 55, rising to 57 from 2028, usually 25% of this pension pot is tax free and the rest taxed as income. Tax rules can change in the future.

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St Mary’s children write their own pantomime… …. Oh no they didn’t, oh yes they did!!

Pupils at St Mary’s school and 6th form college in Wrestwood Road Bexhill, wrote, produced and starred in their own Pantomime this year.

During the first term up to October the pupils learnt about the traditions of pantomime. They considered and improvised such ideas as the pantomime cow, goodies and baddies and booing and hissing.

The pupils learnt and rehearsed their part in lessons and came together for the dress rehearsal which was attended by people who have supported St Mary’s throughout the year.

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Are you getting caught by inheritance tax net?

Inheritance Tax (IHT) can appear to be someone else’s problem – an issue only for the very wealthy. However, while it may appear to be a rich person’s tax, once the value of someone’s house, investments, savings and articles of value such as jewellery or antiques is added up, the potential reach of IHT extends to many.

The idea that it’s just an issue for the wealthy might be understandable given that the most upto-date HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) figures available show that approx. 3.1% of all deaths in 2012-2013 led to an IHT charge, a figure comparable with previous years.

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The amount raised is also increasing, from £2.7 billion in 2010-2011 to £2.9 billion the following year and £3.1 billion in 2012-2013.

While it is not possible precisely to judge what has happened since then, it seems certain these numbers will have risen further still, especially when rising house prices are taken into account.

Inheritance Tax planning

Without the existence of widespread proper IHT planning, the numbers dragged into the IHT net would be higher still.

This is coming into sharper focus for more and more people thanks to rising property prices.

According to HMRC: “Residential property makes up approximately a third of the total value of taxpaying estates and the ongoing rise in property prices has contributed to a rise in the overall tax take.

“At the same time, as the average value of estates rises, an increasing number… will now be valued over the IHT threshold (or nil-rate band) which has been frozen at £325,000 since April 2009.”

House price rises bring more into tax threshold

More than that, the current government intends to keep the rate frozen until 2016/2017. Meanwhile, the rate of house- price increases is picking up speed. According to statistics from the Land Registry, the average house price rose by 4.2 per cent in the year to August 2015, With the average house price standing at £184,862.

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HOUSE CLEARANCE & COLLECTION SERVICE Items we collect include:

Clothing, Bric a Brac, Electrical items, selected Furniture, Toys, Linen, DVDs, CDs & Jewellery.

Alternatively items can be dropped off to our new Donation Centre in Bexhill: Unit 10, Wainwright Rd, Beeching Park Industrial Estate. Hours are: Mon, Wed or Fri 10am-1pm – Tel: 01424 272358

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The library is run by volunteers.

Everyone is welcome to call in and see the good range of books that we keep.

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What’s on in and around Bexhill?

Check out more events and clubs at www.bexhillianmag.co.uk/bexhill-events Little common horticultural society | 2nd fri monthly | 7.15pm The first meeting in the New Year is 8th January 2016 where there will be a talk by Michael Hoad - From Weald to Walland and on the 12th February we have talk by Charlie Bloom on Show Gardens and General Border Design. New members are always welcome. Visit: www.lchs.co.uk for more information or come along to the Community Centre, Shepherds Close at 7.15pm. rock and punk with the spiffing good eggs | 15th jan | 7pm One of the many live music events held at Café No.48 in Devonshire Road. Tel. 01424 736600 back to the 60s with mike nield | 22nd jan | 7pm One of the many live music events held at Café No.48 in Devonshire Road. Tel. 01424 736600 musical matinee club at dlwp | 12th jan | 7pm | free entry | book now “There’s No Business Like Show Business!” being shown at the De La Warr Pavilion. www.dlwp.com eddie izzard at dlwp | 15th & 16th jan | 7pm | tickets: £25 | book now Eddie Izzard: In Support of the De La Warr Pavilion. This show may contain strong and imaginative language, book a meal from our varied menu. For this and any more events visit www.dlwp.com

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Deadline for supplied artwork is 26th business day of each month. Payments MUST BE PAID prior to deadline.

Really Useful Telephone Numbers

A short directory of emergency numbers, helplines and local service numbers

EMERGENCY NUMBERS Multiple Sclerosis Society

0808 800 8000 NSPCC 0800 800 5000 (24 hour) ParentLine Plus 0808 800 2222 Red Cross Medical Loan 01424 213583 Samaritans (*24hr) 01424 436666/*08457 909090 Women’s Refuge 0808 2000 247 CHEMISTS Little Common Pharmacy 01424 843575 Lloyds Pharmacy 01424 220424 Marsh Pharmacy 01424 219516 Pebsham Pharmacy 01424 736135 HELPLINES Trackside Pharmacy Age UK 01424 212555 01424 426162 CHIROPODISTS/FOOT HEALTH Bexhill Caring Community Naomi Creasey MChS BSc(Hons) Podiatry 01424 215116 01424 215300 Bexhill Information Centre Philip Hurst MCFHP MAFHP 01424 773721 01323 724298 Rother District Citizens Advice Talbot Associates 01424 215055 and 01424 734549 01424 216488 Childline CHURCHES 0800 1111 All Saint’s Church (Anglican) East Sussex Cruse 01424 221071 01323 642942 Beulah Baptist Church Direct Debt Line 01424 730001 0800 587 0875 Bexhill/Hastings Jewish Society Domestic Abuse Project 07743 992295 01424 716629 Bexhill United Reformed Hastings and Rother Mediation Church 01424 213683 Service Sackville Road Methodist Church 01424 446808 01424 733137 Home Call - In and around Bexhill St Augustine’s Church 01424 717795 01424 210785 Home-Start St Peter’s Church 01424 443636 01424 734438 Kidscape St Stephen’s Church 08451 205204 01424 211186 Police, Fire, Ambulance and Coastguard 999 Bexhill-on-Sea Police Station 101 - non emergency calls Freephone Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 Conquest Hospital: A&E Dept.

01424 755255 Eastbourne District General Hospital 01323 411188 National Gas Emergency Service 0800 111 999 South East Water Company 0845 278 0845 Garage Door Emergency Repair 07730 5570119 Little’s Locksmiths 07702 849828

DENTISTS Eversley Road Dental Practice 01424 210610 Little Common Dental Practice 01424 845530 Precision Oral Design Ltd 01424 223293 Sussex Dental Design 01424 210777 DOCTORS Collington Surgery 01424 217465 Little Common Surgery 01424 847575 Old Town Surgery 01424 739420 Pebsham Surgery 01424 230399 Sidley Medical Practice 01424 230025 OPTICIANS & EAR HEALTH Green & Elliott 01424 212544 The Spectacle Hut 01424 213326 Bexhill Hearing Centre 01424 733030 PHYSIOTHERAPISTS & OSTEOPATHS Peter Butcher

MMACP, Mcsp, Grad Dip Physiotherapist Rebecca Lunn MCSP BSc (Hons) Tracey Butcher MCSP, Grad, Dip, Phys

01424 224164 Clare Kersley BSc (Hons) Osteopath 07954 327614 VETS Chase Veterinary Centre 01424 224818 Claremont Veterinary Group 01424 222835 Greenleaves Veterinary Centre 01424 212225 Bexhill & Hastings Wildlife Rescue 01424 225647/07837 958109