Hoole Roundabout December 2014 by Talkabout Publishing

December 2014 Issue 78 Inside this month: Hoole Christmas lights six page special, Backyard, Hoole CE School, financial column and what’s on.

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Topped with homemade marzipan and royal icing, this twist on the traditional Christmas cake is made with no treacle and is lighter in texture and taste. You can vary the recipe by changing the amount and type of fruit and nuts you add. Unlike traditional Christmas cakes it doesn’t keep so long so should be made two to three days before serving. We hope you enjoy it

Ingredients

For the almond paste:

For the cake:

50g/2oz glace cherries 50g/2oz glace pineapple 150g/6oz butter 150g/6oz caster sugar 2 large eggs 150g/6oz plain flour ½ level tsp baking powder 75g/3oz ground almonds 50g/2oz shelled Brazil nuts

For the almond paste: 75g/3oz icing sugar 75g/3oz caster sugar 50g/2oz ground almonds 1 egg, beaten 1 teaspoon lemon juice

For the icing:

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• Wash the syrupy coating from cherries and pineapple in warm water and then pat dry. • Cut cherries in half, coarsely chop pineapple, halve the nuts and mix together. • Cream butter and sugar until light. Beat in the eggs. • Fold in the flour, ground almonds and baking powder then add the fruit and nuts. • Spoon into a greased and lined 18cm/7inch round deep cake tin, slightly hollow out centre. • Bake at 160ºC/gas mark 3 for 1½ hours. Leave to cool.

• Sieve the sugars into a bowl. Add ground almonds and mix well. • Add the egg and lemon juice and mix together well. • Brush the cake with lemon curd or egg white and spread the paste evenly over the cake.

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s bigger and brighter There was an enormous turn-out at the Hoole Christmas Lights switch-on. The event seems to get bigger and more popular each year with crowds thronging Faulkner Street and Charles Street on Saturday 15th November. This year, BBC Breakfast TV host Louise Minchin was the special guest invited to switch on the illuminations. Left: The Rev Andy Glover, from Hoole Baptist Church, and friends enjoyed the occasion. Below: The Songsmiths ladiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; choir provided musical entertainment.

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Above: Louise Minchin with Hooleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Police Community Support Officer Keith Bartlett Opposite page: Top left: Sophie Grant, owner of the Gift Box, with Darcy Vickers. Top right: Angela Rogers and Jane Forster from the Hospice Support Group Bottom: Jessica Forbes and Clare Barnes enjoy some mulled wine at the Scoutsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; stall, manned by Richy Hone and John Ball, who are raising money to send seven Chester Scouts to the jamboree in Japan in 2015 Pics by Sarah Kennett

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Above: St Columabaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choir and (below) the City of Chester Training Band

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Left: Louise Minchin switches on the lights and (right) Sasha and Anthony Audas

Pics by Hoole Sarah Roundabout Kennett and Yana Photography December 2014

Has fatherhood turned me I have become my father. Not only have I recognised the traits, I think I am upping the ante for grumpy old man status.

To be fair, I’ve still got a few years left to take the title to a whole new level. I’d like to blame the sudden dip in temperature or the poor attempts at one some call ‘parking’ but unfortunately I can only blame genetics. In much the same way that I blame them for the hair receding to half way down my back, the frown attempting to drag it back again, the beer became more expensive, the music - just a noise and technology making it painfully clear it is not my friend. I am destined to find discord in all that surrounds me.

The cliché ‘people person’ has finally fallen from my CV. My customer service role is now angled far from dealing directly with customers and where possible, I will avoid any form of human contact unless it is by prior appointment. My current role allows me to plug into my ipod and focus solely on my work. On those days I forget to charge it, I simply pop in the ear buds and tuck the unplugged cable into a 30 Tel 01244 350398

pocket so all small talk and interruptions are avoided. *top tip: Plug your headphones into a banana. Everyone will leave you alone twice as much as if it was plugged into an MP3 player - you can thank me for this later*

Weekends are most precious to me. If I’ve not made plans then I’m on total lock down. The door will go unanswered as will text messages and phone calls. Any voice breaking the silence is met with hostility. Who needs people interfering with your plans to sit around in your pants for 12 hours? No, people just clutter things up. Let’s be honest, the human is an inconsistent design. It’s noisy, leaks fluids, has zero protection from drop damage and can be killed by bees or peanuts.

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I nipped across the border to Tesco’s where they notoriously charge you for carrier bags. It was a quick shop. Just a basket’s worth. And I have nothing against the charging for plastic carrier bags for all the environmental issues and for the snobbery of saying, ‘no thanks, I remembered to bring my own’ and whacking out the Waitrose bags-for-

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life. I don’t need your bags. I have the crème-de-la crème of carriers right here. Bam. But I got home and I’d forgotten the Jamaican ginger cake! DIvine retribution? I’ve no idea how pregnant women dealing with cravings cope when forced to go cold turkey. I get a taste for something and I’m obsessed. My significant other thinks I have serial OCD.

“You need to get out more!” echoed from the front room and so I slump up to Sainsbury’s supposedly on that advise but really on the hunt for the illusive spiced loaf. The orange glow dimmed slightly. The shelf was empty. I headed to the Co-op but there seemed to be a sudden shortage of baked ginger goods in Notting Hoole and as a result, the grumpy old man ups his game.

“We have a malt loaf!” She says and points to the malt loaf. I can see it’s a malt loaf because it says ‘malt loaf’ on its bright yellow malt loafy packet. It does not, however, say Jamaican ginger cake and it does not contain Jamaican ginger cake. I thank her for pointing out the malt loaf and refrain from further communication. I exit the store. I do not purchase the malt loaf.

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I step out onto Faulkner Street and wander back in the direction of home. It’s late and the shops are shutting. A couple step out of the Brom and head towards me. They are one of those kind of couple. Not the sought that are confident and content, these are the insecure kind. The kind that cannot let go of each other.

The pavement is just wide enough for two people to pass but the couple are unable to move aside or even attempt a single file formation. Their faces convey their fears. If they let go, one of them will most certainly be swallowed up by the gutter and never been seen again and so they avoid eye contact, grip each other until their knuckles turn white and march on. I am forced to stand my ground and brace myself for the shoulder barge or step into the road and risk my own life at the hands of the infamous Notting Hoole traffic. They’re young and innocent and I am too old for this and I lose my nerve and step aside. A car misses my toes by an inch as it signals left and pulls in to the right. The pumpkins in the window of the neighbouring houses mock me. The black and white cat that

guards the entrance to the car park on Phillip Street eyes me suspiciously. He knows I crumbled. He can sense my disappointment but he knows me well enough to leave me alone.

The Vauxhall driver is crunching his gears as he parks in what he thinks is the tightest space on the street. She’s not there with the set square to assist him and he looks slightly bemused when he gets out and notices that the space could actually fit a small ocean liner. If it wasn’t so cold, I would have applauded that fact that he still managed to pack smack bang in the middle. I guess there are some things you can rely on. The little gripes are part of my bubble. They are part

of my routine. When the sun shines, Hoole can be picture postcard of wonder and when it’s throwing its damp leaves about and growing darker by the day it’s easy to focus on the negative.

To break through the doom and gloom I phone my Dad and catch up with the family news. I book a table at the Sticky Walnut and treat myself to some posh nosh with couples who can let go of each other long enough to use cutlery and I pop back to Tesco’s swinging my Waitrose bags to stock up on ginger cake. And, just to get that pep talk/reassurance, I park in the disabled spaces and loiter until a bunch of strangers start yelling that there is nothing wrong with me.

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