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Dear Reader, Here's hoping you had a wonderful Christmas and I hope you have been able to take some time out to relax and enjoy the festive season with family and friends. I would like to thank all our readers for supporting the local businesses that have advertised with us in 2016. Have you made any New Year’s Resolutions for 2017? I'm feeling quite motivated right now and I'm convinced that 2017 will be the year where I really get fit, eat more healthily and have a major declutter. Yes, I received the KonMari book for Christmas...! Don’t forget the Roses Theatre still has Robin Hood & The Babes in the Wood on until Saturday 7th January, so if you haven’t already, why not take the family along to watch this very funny pantomime. To see what else is on in January, have a look at our “What’s On” section towards the back of the magazine. Our monthly articles are always a great read and there are lots of puzzles for you to enjoy over the last few days of the holidays, so grab a cup of tea and that last slice of Christmas cake and sit back with your January issue of the magazine. Happy New Year from all of us at the Tewkesbury Magazine! Best wishes,
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Leanne transforms her life with Slimming World in Tewkesbury For mum of two, Leanne Exeter, Slimming World and her new attitude toward food were the key ingredients she needed to turn her life around. For many years Leanne, 32, has battled with fad diets but nothing seemed to work and when she had her first child, she was often tired and turned to food for comfort. She wanted the energy to run after her young son and feel good about herself again and that was when a friend recommended Slimming World to her. Her journey started in May 2014 when she joined her local class in Tewkesbury. Since then, she hasn’t looked back and now a working mum with two toddlers she has lost an amazing 4 stone and 9 pounds. Leanne said: “Slimming World was the opportunity to change my
lifestyle, get more active and be a healthy role model for my son. “The best part of joining the local group is “image therapy”. It’s a real eye-opener to hear what people have achieved. My mindset has changed. I now know how important it is to plan my food. I write meal plans, list my favourite free foods and work out the syn values for all my “treats”. The best thing about following Slimming World is that most recipes can be adapted to make them healthier and turned into a meal my family can enjoy too. I love to cook meals like BBQ pulled pork and share my ideas on my instgram blog.” Leanne added: “My life has changed more than I could ever imagine. I have tons of energy
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Bettie Ealand from Tewkesbury wins 'Over & Above' in the Lollipopper of the Year Awards 2016 Alison Hammond and Churchill Insurance recently celebrated the vital role of Lollipoppers across the UK with the Lollipopper of the Year Awards 2016. The five award winners and the highly commended runners-up across the award categories were announced in November. Alison Hammond opened the nominations, allowing parents and children across the country the chance to tell Churchill why their local Lollipopper should win one of four special awards: Over and Above – the dedicated Lollipopper that goes beyond the call of duty to help children, parents, their school and the local community. Bravest – for the Lollipopper that has shown courage and bravery on the crossing – Super Lollipopper! Entertainer – for the Lollipopper that always puts a smile on everyone's face – the life and soul of the crossing! Kindest – for the Lollipopper with the biggest heart –
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generous, kind, caring and always on the crossing with a smile! Lollipopper of the Year – the most prestigious award for the best all round Lollipopper. After a tough decision by Churchill's expert judging panel consisting of Alison Hammond, Churchie, Mike Bristow from the road safety charity Brake, Emma Williams, Executive Director at PTA UK, and Carrie Longton, Co-founder of Mumsnet, the winners and highly commended shortlisted Lollipoppers were announced. OVER AND ABOVE – The winner of the award was Bettie Ealand from Tewkesbury CE Primary School in Gloucestershire. The highly commended Lollipoppers in the category were Patricia Lunney, Linda Robertson and Sarah Gabriel. KINDEST – The winner of this award was Linda Robertson from Morley Newlands Academy in Leeds. The highly commended Lollipoppers in the category were Martin Smith and Carole Stokes.
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their hardworking Lollipoppers. I wish we could reward all of them for the time and effort they put into keeping our children safe on the school run!" Bettie Ealand, from Tewkesbury CE Primary School, has worked as a Lollipopper for forty-two years. She described receiving the honour of the Over and Above Lollipopper: "This is absolutely great, thank you so much! I've always enjoyed my time as a Lollipopper, it is so social and I love meeting all the different parents and children!" The National Lollipopper Awards are part of Churchill Insurance's drive to improve safety on the school crossing by deploying more of the iconic crossing wardens. The campaign follows research by Road Safety Analysis in 2016 that
over half (55%) of accidental child pedestrian casualties occur during the school run. Lucy Brooksbank, head of marketing at Churchill, said; "The first Churchill Alison Hammond presented the Churchill Lollipopper of National Lollipopper Awards the Year awards Lollipopper camping have been a huge and find out how you success with hundreds can become a Lollipopper, of nominations flooding please visit: www.churchill. in from across the country. com/lollipoppers/awards We hope this will help Share the Lollipopper love highlight the value on Twitter and Facebook by Lollipoppers bring following @ChurchillTheDog to our communities and and using #Lollipoppers or on the hard work these Facebook at www.Facebook. incredible people do." com/ChurchillTheDog To support Churchill's
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Change at the top for Tewkesbury Borough Council Tewkesbury Borough Council has appointed Robert Weaver as its new deputy chief executive. Robert will join Tewkesbury borough from High Peak Borough Council and Staffordshire Moorlands District Council, where he has worked since 2014 as head of regulatory services for one of the most successful shared service council alliances. Prior to this Robert’s 18 years of local government experience most recently included managing environmental service teams at Worcester City Council and Stroud District Council in Gloucestershire. He will take up his role as Tewkesbury Borough Council’s deputy chief executive this month. Robert said: “It’s a privilege to be appointed and I am delighted to be joining Tewkesbury Borough Council, an ambitious council with a strong and successful team. My priority will be to build on the council’s excellent track record of modifying services to improve outcomes for our residents, working
closely with elected members, colleagues and the people we serve. “It’s a really exciting time to be joining the council, with its vision to become more financially independent and maximising the benefits of growth by working closely with partners and using a more commercial approach to projects and strategies. By working together as a team and being ambitious in terms of how we fund services, there’s no reason why this vision can’t become a reality.” “On a personal level I’m really looking forward to returning to Gloucestershire – a fantastic county that’s always been close to my heart.” Tewkesbury Borough Council’s chief executive, Mike Dawson, said “We are pleased that Robert is joining the council. He’s an excellent local government professional with ambitions that match our own. He has leadership experience gained from an outstanding track record of success and he will be a great addition to our team.” Robert replaces Rachel North who, after three and a half years in the role, left Tewkesbury borough in the autumn to take up the role of director of communities at West Sussex County Council.
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Fussy Eaters by Kate Duggan
Ah, fussy eaters. Don’t you just love them? And don’t you just love those parents who gloatingly tell you that their child eats whatever they’re given, or goes to bed hungry? (Obviously these people have never been woken up at 3am by wails of, “I’m so hungry. Please can I have some porridge?”) Remember the days when your kids would eat most things, as long as it was blended with carrot? Or when you smiled smugly because your nine month old would happily chew on broccoli? It’s like they hit two and then develop taste buds that despise anything other than pasta, bread and sweets. Forget five a day, sometimes you wonder whether your child has eaten so much as a grapesized portion of fruit and veg all week. If you’re at your wits end trying to get them to eat some vegetables, these tips might just help. We know it’s winter, but there are few kids who’ll refuse ice-cream or lollies, even if it’s snowing outside. Try blending two small frozen bananas with a couple of handfuls of frozen raspberries or mixed fruit, and about a third of a cup of yoghurt. It makes a great Page 16
ice-cream and uses up those bananas the kids have been turning their noses up at. Or, even simpler, buy a readymade smoothie, pour it into lolly moulds and freeze. While too much fruit juice isn’t great for a child’s teeth, one glass is fine. Ideally, give it to them with a meal. Keep an eye out for mixed juices and smoothies too. (Some even have added multivitamins.) Contrary to popular belief, not all kids like tomato-based sauces. Most do however. Cooked tomatoes are even healthier than raw, so try whizzing up a batch of sauce with a few hidden veggies. Cook a couple of cans worth of chopped tomatoes, along with some salad peppers, carrots, leek and any other vegetables you have languishing in the fridge. You can add a tiny bit of sugar if you want. Blend until smooth if your kids are particularly fussy, then use it as a pasta sauce, or add it to mince to make bolognaise, or cottage pie. Freeze what you don’t use – it’ll keep for months. You can also disguise veggies in other ways. Cauliflower mixes well with potato for
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MARTIN LEWIS Money Sins
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Are you a sinner? Financially that is. There are a host of everyday money misdemeanours that millions of people do, costing them thousands, without being aware of it. These aren’t horrors like grabbing a payday loan, but the result of simple misunderstandings, bad habits or inaction. So having recently toured around the UK doing roadshows for the sixth series of my ITV show, I’ve collated five of the most common. 1. Saving while you’ve expensive debts Savings rates are depressingly low – the top easy-access rate is 1%. Credit card and other interest rates are depressingly high. So, £1,000 credit card debt at 18% costs you £180 a year, the same amount saved in top paying savings account at 1% interest only earns you £10. If you had both, pay the debt off with your savings and you'd be £170 a year better off. Many of you will be thinking, "but I want to keep my savings, what if the boiler packs up or the roof falls in?" However, that’s a sentimental strategy, not a logical one. Let’s carry on the £1,000 debt and £1,000 savings scenario to show you why. • If you don’t pay the debt Page 18
off with the savings and an emergency happens that costs you £1,000 to fix, you’d use all your savings and still have £1,000 of credit card debt. • If you do pay off the debt with the savings, and a £1,000 emergency happens, you’d need to pay for it on your credit card, meaning you still have no savings and £1,000 of credit card debt. The end result of them both is the same, yet by paying off the debt with the savings, you save in the meantime. The only exception is if the debt is at 0%. Then the financially savvy and disciplined can do what’s called stoozing, where you deliberately build up 0% debt only to save it and earn interest. Though with current saving rates so low, it’s not as easy as it used to be. Full help on that at www.mse.me/ stoozing 2. Not at least asking your energy firm if you are on its cheapest deal Most people in the UK are on their energy firm’s standard tariff, which typically means they’re overpaying by £300 a year. I’ve talked about switching until I’m blue in the face, and, of course, the best plan is to take five minutes to do a full market comparison via my www.CheapEnergyClub.com
or any www.Ofgem.gov.uk approved comparison site. Yet for some that doesn’t hit home. So, let me be plain. Even if you won’t do that, just pick up the phone and ask your current provider “Am I on your cheapest tariff?” and, if not, switch to that as there’s no change but the price! For example, as I write (it can change daily), on EDF’s standard tariff someone with typical usage pays £1,070/year. It also has a 12-month fix at £880/year - £190/year less. The British Gas’s standard tariff with typical use is £1,044/year, but it also runs Sainsbury Energy (i.e. it’s the same company but a different name), and its cheapest fix is £804/year – saving £240/year. This don’t ask don’t get saving works at all the big firms, so if you won’t do a comparison, at least do this. 3. Only making the minimum repayments on credit cards Credit card minimum payments are based mostly on a percentage of the balance, which only just covers the interest. So, you hardly clear any off. A 30-year-old with £3,000 debt on a credit card at 17.9% interest, who made only typical minimum repayments, would take 27 years to clear it. By then, they’d be 57 and have paid a
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total cost £4,000 in interest (see my minimum repayment calc at www.mse.me/minrepay to work out how long it’ll take you). Now you may be thinking ‘easy to say, but I can’t afford more than the minimum.’ Well, I have a solution. On £3,000 debt, the current minimum is around £70 a month. If instead of opting to pay the minimum, fix your repayment at £70. The debt will clear in five years at a total cost of £1,500 in interest, saving £2,400. Though if you’ve debt on more than one credit card, focus all spare cash on repaying the most expensive, making only the minimums on the others. That way you get rid of the most expensive debts first. 4. Don’t cover your home’s value on buildings insurance Your house price is the wrong figure; you only need to insure the usually much lower rebuild cost – literally how much it would cost to rebuild your
home should it get knocked down. This is often far less than the market value. There’s information and a calculator on this at http://abi.bcis.co.uk.
higher rate taxpayer”? An extreme example provides clarity. Imagine your child goes to uni and becomes a brilliant poet, who never earns above the £21,000 threshold. They would never repay a penny. So, if you paid the fees for them, you’d throw £27,000 away. Most of course will earn over the threshold. However only high earners will earn enough to repay in real terms what they borrowed within the 30 years. If not, again it means pay their tuition fees and you’re paying more than they’d need to repay. For most parents if you want to help them, a better thing to prioritise is building up a mortgage deposit. For far more on this see my mse.me/ dontpayupfront guide.
5. Saving or borrowing to pay your children’s tuition fees I’m often freaked out by parents telling me they’re saved up so their child won’t have to pay tuition fees at uni. Worse, some even extend their mortgage. My problem isn’t just that it’s actually students’, not parents’ responsibility to repay this… All new English full-time students can get a tuition fee loan and a living loan to help pay for uni costs. You’re eligible to start repaying in the April after leaving, but only if you earn over £21,000, and you repay 9% above that. Repayments stop after 30 years. In many ways, it acts far more like a tax than a loan, and how many would save “in case my child earns enough to be a
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A double fleece layer can be used on plants in beds and borders too, or to protect slightly tender wall shrubs. Much larger plants can be protected with a home-made ‘cage’ – wrap a framework of four stakes or sturdy canes with netting or chicken wire, then fill the central space around the plant with dry bracken, straw or leaves. Evergreens in containers and in open ground may suffer from drought as well as foliage or stem growth, so continue to water these, especially if they are in a sheltered spot or the weather has been dry. A deep mulch applied to the soil or compost surface before the ground freezes will help to keep water available. Although most fruit trees - like apples and pears, cherries and
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Cake and Bake Mulled Pears This is a lovely winter pudding that tastes just as delicious served warm or cold. Choose firm but ripe small pears, and use a vegetable peeler to scoop out the core from the base of each one.
Ingredients: • 450ml red wine (see Tip) • 150g caster sugar • 1 pared strip of lemon rind • 1 cinnamon stick • 2 whole cloves • 8 small Conference pears • 2tsp arrowroot • Softly whipped double cream or crème fraiche, to serve
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1. Pour the wine into a large pan
and add the sugar, lemon rind, cinnamon stick and cloves. Heat gently, stirring occasionally until the sugar has dissolved.
2. Meanwhile, peel the pears, leaving the stalks on.
Gently lower the pears into the hot liquid. Cover and simmer for 35-40 minutes until the pears are tender.
3. Remove the pears with a slotted spoon and
set aside in a heatproof serving dish. Blend the arrowroot to a paste with 1tbsp cold water and stir into the poaching liquid. Simmer gently for a further 5 minutes, stirring, until syrupy. Remove the lemon rind and cloves from the syrup.
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Choose a full-bodied red wine such as Merlot or Burgundy. If you prefer, replace half of the red wine with clear apple juice or cranberry juice.
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New Year – put your intentions into actions How was your festive time – did you manage to get your masterplan to work for you? Hopefully my tips for a calm Christmas helped you to have a more relaxed break. Now it’s time to think about what you would like to achieve in 2017. The headings I would suggest are: Friends & Family, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Travel, Education & Self-Development, Spiritual, Finance, and House & Home. Touching on the first heading - how many of us wrote in Christmas cards ‘must catch up in the new year’? I certainly did and my intention is to telephone those family members and friends by the end of the second week of January and to make a date to meet up. So often we have great intentions and then life takes over, we feel our diaries are sufficiently full and that we just don’t have time to go and see people – even if it’s just for a cuppa. Perhaps in House & Home you have an area that needs attention. Here is one client’s experience: “The bookshelves were overflowing and the walk-in cupboard was anything but walk in... As a busy freelance writer (and parent) I had ignored the chaos in my study for far too long. It was time to get help. Enter Louise England! Over several hours, Louise cheerfully and skillfully helped to restore order. Together we went through books and papers, turned out drawers and banished cobwebs. Louise helped decide what to keep and what to bin. She took things for shredding and charity, and organised the removal of a van load of recycling. I would highly recommend Louise to anyone who has an overwhelming task that they’ve been putting off. Her assistance turned a task I’d been dreading into a pleasure.”
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Home & Interiors Declutter for the New Year holding onto things that you really need and/or love.
What could be a better New Year’s resolution for your home than to eliminate mess, create space and generally have a good sort out? If too much mess and clobber has built up in your home over the past year, then it’s time to declutter your stuff and sort your storage, so that your home will be mess-free and super-stylish in time for 2017. First, grab some rubbish bags and a few boxes or baskets. Work methodically through each room and sort out obvious rubbish, things that can go to a local charity shop, items that could be sold second-hand, anything that needs mending, little-used things that can be put away in the garage or loft, and genuinely great stuff that you want to keep. Try to get rid of as much as possible, only Page 30
With what’s left, it’s now time to work out where it will go. Label your storage if necessary, and make sure the whole family knows what’s meant to go where. If you still need extra storage after your clear-out, look for all the areas where you could fit more in, whether built-in or free-standing: from backs of doors to under the stairs, tops of wardrobes to under the bed. Think racks, hooks and shelves as well as conventional cabinets and chests of drawers and, where possible, ensure they coordinate with existing furniture. You can also relocate some storage; for example by adding a storage unit in the living room to avoid having to tidy toys away upstairs every day. There are a few rules of storage that might be helpful. First, store like with like and match the size and shape of the container to what’s being kept inside (in other words, find small, lidded boxes for things like Lego and big squishy baskets for teddy bears). Store as much as possible near to where it’s most needed, but don’t store frequently used items below knee level or above shoulder height, especially if they’re heavy. Avoid storing things on surfaces such as tables or desks, and allow yourself
By Katherine Sorrell room to expand – but only within reason. If you have allowed extra space, and then filled it… it’s time to start all over again. Easy ways to banish clutter • Write a list of where you want to declutter. • Have an intensive declutter workout and spend five minutes clearing as much as you can in one area. You’ll be amazed at the difference you can make. Repeat as often as you can. • Hang your clothes up with the hooks all facing one way, and only turn the hook the other way when you wear something. After, say, six months, you can easily assess which items you never wear. You could try the same idea in the kitchen (turn mug handles in one direction, put glasses upside down, and so on), the playroom, the living room… • Make it a family competition with prizes. Who will be the fastest to find three things to throw away, three things to give away and three things to tidy away? • If what you need is some emergency decluttering, pop everything into a big box and hide it somewhere until you have time to go through it properly. Main Image: Mazeballs bed, £625, Loaf: 0845 468 0698; www.loaf.com
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Health
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Realistic Resolutions for a Happier, Healthier New Year
New Year resolutions sound like a great idea: a fresh year and a fresh start. So why do they often fail? Setting YourSelf up for failure At New Year, festive goodwill and New Year enthusiasm can entice us into making a multitude of overly ambitious resolutions, setting ourselves up to fail and often, give up completely on our goals. So let’s turn three popular, doomed-to-failure aspirations into realistic resolutions. More exerciSe Your resolution: I’ll go to Pilates, do my dance DVD and walk two miles every week! You didn’t manage any of these things every week last year - ask yourself why. Identify activities you enjoy and can most easily fit in. a Better resolution: I’ll do at least an hour’s exercise every week. Weather too bad for walking? Missed Pilates? Resolve to do your exercise DVD instead. Anything else is a bonus. Better to do some exercise consistently than none. leSS alcohol Your resolution: “I won’t drink Page 34
on weekdays/at home/EVER AGAIN!” Recent research shows that even alcohol intake under the recommended limits of 2-3 units daily and 14 units per week increases your risk of many serious conditions, including dementia and some cancers, so reducing your intake is great – but tough if you’re a regular drinker. a Better resolution: Think about when and where you drink alcohol, and reduce your intake gradually. Try: • Matching every alcoholic drink with a soft drink, or buying a large soft drink later in the evening to last until home time. • Finding other ways to relax if you always have a drink on returning from work (or make it a Friday-only treat). Feeling you ‘need’ a drink is a warning sign; consider if you need to make changes in your work life. • On alternate nights, swap that wine with dinner or beer with friends for low-alcohol or nonalcoholic versions. no SMoking Your resolution: “I smoke 30 a day, but I’m quitting for good at New Year!” It’s probably quicker to list conditions not aggravated or caused by smoking than to list those that are, and accepting you’re addicted to nicotine can be hard. But that twitchiness you
feel – the need for a cigarette to ‘calm your nerves’ - is nicotine withdrawal, which can occur very quickly. This can make smoking hard to kick, particularly for moderate or heavy smokers. While a few successfully go ‘cold turkey’, gradually reducing your nicotine intake is the most reliable and angst-free method. a Better resolution: Try the options below and keep going until you find a strategy that works. • Visit your GP. They can prescribe some nicotine replacement products and refer you to counselling. You can also buy nicotine replacement products; experiment and see what works best for you. • If you don’t already, make yourself smoke outside; it takes more effort. Toxins from your cigarette linger in the air (second-hand smoke) and settle on surfaces, where they’re re-released (third-hand smoke), so you’ll be improving the health of housemates and visitors too. • Smoke to a timed schedule and gradually increase the time between cigarettes. Even if you smoke 25 a day and only drop one daily cigarette per fortnight, you’ll still be a nonsmoker in under a year. • Keep nicotine but eliminate cigarette toxins like cyanide and arsenic by swapping to e-cigarettes or vaporisers. ‘Resolution’ has an array of scientific and historical meanings, including ‘reduction to a simpler form’. So keep your resolutions simple – and realistic!
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Tewkesbury Town Mayor's News
A Time for Resolutions
The New Year is traditionally a time to make resolutions for the coming year; but we often struggle to keep them until the end of January. Some resolutions, such as successfully giving up smoking or learning to swim can be life-changing and should definitely be pursued, but even if the intent to continue crumbles after a few weeks and the target set isn’t reached, any progress made towards losing a few pounds after Christmas, for example, has to be good and certainly makes clothes fit more comfortably! Tewkesbury has a great deal to offer so a resolution for 2017 could be to find a new hobby. This could be a physical activity; starting to run for a few minutes each day, swimming regularly and increasing the number of lengths swam, walking short distances instead of driving, etc. Or it could
mean joining a community group and increasing social engagement. My New Year’s Resolution is to start swimming 3 times a week. I now walk less than I used to, my waist is thicker than it should be and my bones are weakening. Somehow I need to make these facts strengthen my resolve! My son will mock me saying that I don’t like getting my hair wet, in fact that is only part of the problem, I don’t like getting cold and wet at all. So there is the perfect excuse to delay and wait until the weather is warmer. I also know that my breathing is not good enough to allow me to swim for very long, so is it worth all that hassle for a 10 minute swim? The answer is probably ‘No’, but the point is that you have to gradually build towards that 30-minute swim 3 times
a week; there has to be a starting point and it may be a pain but it is the first stumbling block that requires conquering. So that resolution will also involve finding some patience and persistence, it may be a struggle at first without any apparent reward, but give it time! The other big issue is belief, if we expected to succeed then we wouldn’t need to use a New Year’s Resolution. Is it really possible? The answer of course is ‘Yes, it is possible', you just have to persist. Whatever you decide will require strength of mind, willpower and a steely determination not to give up, because the easiest option is always to do nothing, but that it is not the most rewarding choice. So Happy 2017, I hope it brings in lots of good changes for you. - Karen Brennan, Tewkesbury Town Mayor
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A Fresh Start The start of a new year is often the time when we take a critical look at our lives and think about making some changes. Whether you want to take up a new hobby or start your own business, this month’s books are for you… The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying: A Simple, Effective Way to Banish Clutter Forever – Marie Kondo If you feel like you’re drowning in a sea of ‘stuff’, this book might help. Kondo encourages us to only keep those possessions that ‘spark joy’. There is some waffle in places, but stick with it. There are some great tips and tricks. Most importantly, Kondo helps the reader to think about the emotions connected to items, and the kind of life they could have if they lived in a simpler, less cluttered space.
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The Idea in You: How to Find It, Build It, and Change Your Life – Martin Amor and Alex Pellew If you’re fed up with the daily grind and thinking of starting your own business, this book could give you the kick start you need. It’s packed with advice and encouragement for turning ‘your daydream into dynamite’. There are case studies, exercises, and useful resources, along with plenty of practical information. And, unlike many other books in
The Great British Sewing Bee: From Stitch to Style – Wendy Gardiner Those looking to indulge their creative side in 2017 could find plenty to tempt them here. The companion book to the fourth series of the BBC2 show The Great British Sewing Bee, the book offers advice on everything from choosing fabric to altering designs. There are also more than 25 patterns included with the book, with projects ranging from a Babygro to a cocktail
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The Girl in the Garden – Melanie Wallace A single teenage mum, a grieving widow, a photographer, a recluse, a man trying to do what’s right. Characters with very different outlooks and lives, but their stories are all entwined. And their flaws, hopes and buried dreams are all too identifiable. They all need to allow themselves to heal and trust if they’re to take those first tentative steps towards a better life.
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Squash & Spinach Lasagne Serves 4
Ready in 1 hour 30 minutes
If you fancy a meat-free supper this week then try this delicious filling vegetarian lasagne. Serve with a crisp green salad and crusty bread.
Preheat the oven to 200C, Fan 180C, Gas Mark 6. Place the diced butternut squash, onion, garlic and oregano in a large roasting tin and drizzle over 2 tbsp of the olive oil. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper and toss to mix. Roast in the oven for 20-25 minutes until the squash is very tender. Cool for 10 minutes.
Ingredients: • 1 butternut squash, peeled and flesh diced • 1 onion, peeled and finely chopped • 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
Transfer everything from the roasting tin (including any pan juices) to a food processor and process until smooth, adding a little hot water if needed to give the mixture a spreadable consistency.
• 1 tsp dried oregano • 3 tbsp olive oil
Steam the spinach for 1-2 minutes until just wilted. Place the lasagne sheets in a large shallow heatproof dish and cover with boiling water. Leave for 3-4 minutes to soften then lift out of the water and drain on kitchen paper. Mix together the ricotta and cottage cheeses in a bowl along with half the mozzarella cheese.
• 200g baby spinach leaves • 250g pack fresh egg lasagne sheets • 250g ricotta cheese • 300g cottage cheese
Spread a third of the squash mixture in the base of a square medium-sized ovenproof dish. Top with a layer of wilted spinach followed by a layer of the cheese mixture and a layer of lasagne sheets, cutting them to fit if necessary.
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What's On in Jan/Feb The Roses Theatre Panto – Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood Ongoing until Saturday 7th Jan Morning, matinee and evening performances, Sun Street, Tewkesbury, GL20 5NX
Tewkesbury's traditional family pantomime is guaranteed to hit the mark. Robin Hood & The Babes In The Wood delivers everything you've come to expect from a Roses pantomime, and so much more; a gallant hero, a feisty damsel, a villainous baddie to boo off stage and plenty of comedy slapstick, dazzling costumes and fairy tale sets. Combine all this with non-stop music, dancing and laughter from start to finish and you're left with an unbeatable choice for a fun-filled festive outing for the whole family this Christmas. Sponsored by Peter Ball & Co. Tickets range from £13.00 £25.00. For more information and to book please call 01684 295074 or visit www.rosestheatre.org. Jack and the Beanstalk Ongoing until Sunday 8th January, Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, GL50 1HQ
Tweedy the Clown and William Elliott as Dame Trott return for what will be the Everyman's most
gigantic pantomime yet. Don't miss Jack's adventures in Cloud Cuckoo Land, packed with laughs, slapstick, a giant and even a comedy cow. Written and directed by Phil Clark. For tickets please call 01242 572573 or visit www. everymantheatre.org.uk. New Year’s Day at the Racecourse Sunday 1st January, 10.30am 4.00pm, Cheltenham Racecourse Celebrate the New Year in style! Whether it be with friends, family or colleagues, Cheltenham is the place to be on New Year’s Day. This hugely popular race meeting takes place on a Sunday, which means that the following day, Monday 2nd January will be a Bank Holiday – another perfect reason to come racing and round off the festive season! For more information and tickets, please visit www.cheltenham.thejockeyclub. co.uk or call 0344 579 3003.
Tewkesbury Battlefield Walk Sunday 1st January, 2.30pm The Crescent, Tewkesbury A 2-hour guided walking tour of Tewkesbury Battlefield. For more information please visit www.tewkesbury.org.uk. Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Events Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway, The Railway Station, Toddington, GL54 5DT Monday the 2nd of January will be the last chance to ride on the railway until March 2017. For further details and tickets please visit www.gwsr.com. Winchcombe Folk Night Tuesday 3rd January, 8.00pm - 11.00pm, The White Hart Inn,
High St, Winchcombe, GL54 5LJ A lively friendly atmosphere welcomes all – whether singer, musician or just a member of the audience. Free entry for everyone.
Brass Monkey Swim Sunday 8th January, 12.30pm - 2.00pm, Sandford Park Lido, Cheltenham Two races, two different distances (500m or 1km) and both are freezing cold! This event is for the most hard of swimmers only! Spectators welcome – come and support the swimmers! For more information, visit www.sandfordparkslido.org.uk Beyond the Barricade Friday 13th January, 7.45pm, Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, GL50 1HQ Beyond the Barricade has delighted audiences throughout the UK and mainland Europe for more than a decade, with its exciting concert portrayal of the greatest songs in musical theatre, all performed 100% live! Recreating original West End/ Broadway musical hit songs with amazing authenticity, this cast of past principal performers from Les Miserables, present a blockbusting two-hour show. Tickets cost between £20.00 and £25.00. For more information, please call 01242 572573. Sleeping Beauty at The Bacon Theatre Wednesday 18th - Sunday 22nd January, 7.00pm, with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2.30pm, The Bacon Theatre, Dean Close School, Cheltenham, GL51 6HE
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celebrity auctioneer Phillip Serrell, and a raffle (raffle and live music courtesy of Pelican Groove). Tables of 8 are required. Tickets: £100 per person. To purchase tickets or a table please contact Kelley on 07932 321757 or Jo on 07738 522470 or email elizabethsfootprintcharityball@ gmail.com. Elizabeth's Footprint supports The Wallace and Gromit Appeal.
...events cont'd Chase away that winter blues with Sleeping Beauty and be transported to a fairy tale world with a beautiful princess, a handsome prince, good fairies and one beastly fairy, plus all the crazy characters you expect to find in a pantomime. Can a kiss awaken the princess? Join in the fun and find out for yourself! Tickets start from £10.00, call 01242 224144. Festival Trials Day Saturday 28th January Cheltenham Racecourse Come to what's known as the best one day jump fixture in the UK, and get notable pointers of horses ahead of The Festival in March. For more information and tickets, please visit www.cheltenham. thejockeyclub.co.uk or call 0344 579 3003. Forever Jackson 30th Anniversary Tour Saturday 11th February, 7.30pm, The Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, GL20 5NX Saluting 30 years of Michael Jackson masterpieces. With supberb musicianship, stunning video projections, electrifying choreographies and jaw-dropping special effects this is an event not to be missed. To book tickets please visit www.rosestheatre.org or call 01684 295074.
Heidi's Heroes Mondays 11.30am - 12.30am and 8.00pm - 9.00pm, Cheltenham Ladies College Sports Centre, Malvern Road, Cheltenham Cancer patients past and present are invited to join a unique fitness class being run and funded by the Cheltenham based charity Heidi's Heroes. Classes are being held on Monday mornings and evenings and are open to patients with all types of cancer, irrespective of their prognosis. The classes are jointly run by Clare Lait, a Specialist Cancer Physiotherapist, and Brendan Ward, Senior Gym Instructor at Cheltenham Ladies College's Sports Centre. For more details please contact Clare on 07738 709072 or email clare.lait@cancer-physio.com.
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Elizabeth's Footprint Charity Ball Saturday 18th February, 7.00pm 1.00am, Cheltenham Town Hall Come along to this black tie charity event and enjoy a reception drink, live music from local band Swing From Paris and a 3-course meal with wine. There will also be an auction hosted by Page 48
Legend of a Band A tribute to The Moody Blues Friday 3rd March, 7.30pm, The Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, GL20 5NX Moody Blues fans are invited to enjoy the music of the Moody Blues in the company of a supergroup of legendary musicians, singers and songwriters. Drummer Gordy Marshall played with The Moody Blues for over 25 years and he is joined by gifted performers drawn from a pool of equally talented artists. You can experience impeccable performances of classic Moody Blues hits that include Nights in White Satin, Go Now, Tuesday Afternoon, Legend of a Mind and many more. To book tickets please visit www.rosestheatre.org or call 01684 295074.
you are interested in coming along. See more at www.parkinsons.org. uk/local-support-groups/regions/ south-west-england/tewkesburysupport-group
Tewkesbury Parkinson’s Group First Wednesday of the month, 10.45am - 12.15pm, The Boys' Brigade Community Centre Canterbury Leys, Newtown Tewkesbury, GL20 8BP We offer information, friendship and support to local people with Parkinson's, their families and carers. We also organise regular events and social activities, all are welcome to join us. Contact Jane Henderson, Volunteer Coordinator, on 0344 225 3694 or jhenderson@parkinsons.org.uk if
MARKETS Tewkesbury General Retail Market Wednesdays and Saturdays, 9.00am - 3.30pm, Spring Gardens Car Park, Oldbury Road, Tewkesbury, GL20 5DN Popular town centre retail market with a range of stalls. For more information please contact: Dave Joynes, Grenchurch Markets Ltd on 01386 840138.
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New Year, New Tech, New You The gadgets that can help you reach your New Year goals
It’s that time of year again: gym owners rub their hands together in glee as the entire world makes New Year resolutions to sort out their health, their fitness or their looks. But while many of those gym memberships will turn out to be expensive mistakes as the initial fervour fades, a few wellchosen gadgets could keep you on the right track all year round. Health and fitness tracking is huge in technology right now, largely because it’s still a relatively untapped market: even the best-known fitnesstracking smartwatch, the Apple Watch, has only sold a few million units. That means there are plenty of firms hoping to win over everyone from casual dieters to mountain explorers. For the latter category, outdoor watches such as the Casio Smart Outdoor Watch are built to military specifications for toughness and deliver accurate GPS, as well as recording your hikes and climbs. If that sounds like overkill, and for most of us it probably is, the £170 Garmin Vivosmart HR+ is one of the best all-round fitness trackers for monitoring your heart rate, recording your activity and tracking GPS. It’s pretty, too - and the Misfit Ray is prettier Page 52
still, resembling a bracelet rather than a watch. It’s half the price of the Garmin and offers good all-round fitness-tracking features. Over 2017 we’ll see a lot more wearable trackers, many of them odd: fancy a Welt, a sensor-enabled belt that tracks your steps for as long as you keep your trousers on? If you’re more concerned about what you’re putting into your body than what you’re sweating out, smartphone apps offer all kinds of diet and lifestyle tracking - and increasingly those apps tie in with platforms such as Apple Health, WiThings’ HealthMate, Microsoft Health, Jawbone UP and many more. Platforms are designed to enable data sharing from multiple trackers, so for example Apple’s Health app can get data not just from the iPhone it’s on but also from the Apple Watch, from wireless scales and from a wide range of wired and wireless health-monitoring devices. If you haven’t already committed to a particular health-tracking platform, it’s a very good idea to check out sites such as Wareable.com to find out the latest news and rumours about the different manufacturers. For example, at the time of writing Microsoft has announced
the end of its Microsoft Band tracking device, so if you buy one now you might not be able to get a repair for it or a replacement one if it breaks. It also means that if you want to upgrade from a Band 2, there won’t be a Band 3 to fulfil your wishes. Gadgets don’t just help you when you’re exercising or watching what you eat. They can help you when you’re asleep too. Many wearable devices such as the Fitbit Blaze and Surge, Fossil Marshal, Pebble Time and Apple Watch (via third-party apps) can monitor your sleep, gathering data to help you identify the triggers of a poor night’s sleep and the best times to set the alarm for, and the best times to head up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire. The data recorded does vary from device to device and some are more practical than others - wearing a smartwatch in bed all night means you’ll have to charge it in the morning - but the insights can be useful.
Images L to R: Casio Smart Outdoor Watch; Garmin VivoSmart HR+; Misfit Ray fitness tracker; Fossil Marshal smartwatch
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