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Petersfield Edition Dist: 8,400

Rowlands Castle & Havant Edition Dist: 10,000

Clanfield, Horndean & Cowplain Edition Dist: 15,700

Since 2003, Movember has funded more than 1,250 men’s health projects worldwide. Movember fundraisers are making a difference in men’s mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. You can Grow your Moustache this November or “Move for Movember” and share your fundraising page far and wide, ask friends and family to donate and go hard on social media (Remember to tag us!). More moustaches mean more conversations, donations and lifesaving awareness. For more information, visit uk.movember.com.

I WILL BE WALKING 60 MILES DURING NOVEMBER TO RAISE FUNDS

If you would like to donate, contact our office on 01730 260746 or scan my QR Code. Many thanks.

As always, we send our thanks for keeping things local, and we wish you a happy and healthy November!

Denise Lloyd, Managing Director

Waterlooville, Denmead, Purbrook & Widley Edition Dist: 16,100

Farlington, Drayton & Cosham Edition Dist: 11,200

Hayling Island Edition Dist: 8,800

Emsworth Edition Dist: 12,600

Meon Valley Edition Dist: 9,500

Each year, The Royal British Legion encourages the nation to come together to honour and remember the sacrifices made by the Armed Forces community. The British Legion encourages everyone to 'Remember Together' to commemorate the service and sacrifice that many friends, allies, and Commonwealth nations made alongside Britain in defence of its freedoms, values, and way of life.

There are no restrictions on when you remember, but the main focus of Remembrance in the United Kingdom is in November, during Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday. The Armistice, an agreement to end the fighting of the First World War, began at 11am on 11th November 1918. “Armistice” is Latin for “to stand (still) arms”. To this day we mark Armistice Day with a Two Minute Silence at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month.

During November, millions will mark their remembrance with the Poppy symbol. This is because, during WW1, vast amounts of land was blasted, bombed and fought over repeatedly. Previously beautiful landscapes turned to mud, creating bleak and barren scenes where little or nothing could grow.

However, there was a notable and striking exception to the bleakness; the bright red Flanders poppies. These resilient flowers flourished in the middle of so much chaos and destruction, growing in their thousands upon thousands.

In the spring of 1915, shortly after losing a friend in Ypres, a Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote his now famous poem after feeling so moved at the sight of poppies growing in battle-scarred fields.

In Flanders’fields the poppies blow Between the crosses,row on row, That mark our place: and in the sky The larks,still bravely singing,fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead.Short days ago We lived,felt dawn,saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved,and now we lie in Flanders’fields.

Extract from‘In Flanders’Fields’,by John McCrae

This year on Sunday 13th November from 11 am, the National Service of Remembrance will be held at the Cenotaph on Whitehall, London.

Dreams Come True is a UK children’s charity based in Hampshire with a mission to enrich the lives of children living with a disability, serious illness, or life-limiting condition by making their dreams come true. We are the only UK wish-granting charity that solely focuses on supporting children living in the highest areas of deprivation.

Whether that is a break for a young cancer patient or adapted technology for a school class with additional needs, our Dreams create moments of magic with lasting impact and are personal to each child we work with – as well as their families, friends, carers, and communities.

The types of dreams we offer are:

• Home Makeovers: Bedrooms or gardens redesigned by our team of dream makers, inspired by each dream child

• Reimagined Community Spaces: Sensory rooms and outdoor playgrounds reimagined for children to access in their community

• Getaways: UK holidays and cherished experience days built to inspire a lifetime of memories

• Or something from our Small change, Big impact Programme: This programme aims to improve the daily lives of isolated children through access to vital equipment and technology.

Our Makeovers, Experience Days and Small change, Big impact Programme can all be delivered on an individual basis or as part of a Community Dream.

What is a Community Dream?

These projects deliver a dream benefiting a large number of children. This year we worked with Halton Lodge Children’s Centre to build a Sensory room benefiting hundreds of children in local areas living with a disability, serious illness or life-limiting condition.

The sensory room revamp includes specialist features providing improved cognitive function, stimulation, play, hand-eye coordination, relaxation, sound/ light interaction and many other benefits to the children.

Will you help make more Dreams Come True?

Right now, there are thousands of children who need our support. Donate now and help make dreams come true for children who have it tough.

Please visit: https://www.dreamscometrue.uk.com/ appeal/donate-now if you would like to

or find out more about us! You can

Tom Aikens’ Pro teroles

Introduction

There is something so contradictory about profiteroles that they keep me coming back for more. There is the sweetness of the chocolate against the plain cream; the dryness of the pastry against the moisture that spills from the middle; and a solitary, innocent-looking ball that ends up being filling and extroverted. What I love most about profiteroles is the fact they’re easy to make yet considered luxurious and even slightly opulent; so here’s a recipe that, in a similar way, is simple, yet sensational!

Method

1. Put the butter, sugar and salt for the profiteroles in a pan with 250ml of water and bring to a simmer. Add the sifted flour and stir for a good 5 minutes over a low to medium heat, until the paste comes away from the pan.

2. Transfer this immediately to a food mixer or processor with a beater attachment. Add the eggs, one by one, and beat to a smooth, shiny paste. Put this in a bowl, cover with clingfilm and leave to cool.

3. Preheat the oven to 190°C/ gas mark 5. Spoon the choux paste into a piping bag with a plain nozzle and pipe 2.5cm blobs onto a baking tin. Each one should stand up nice and high, and you should get roughly 30 profiteroles in total. Bake for about 15 minutes until golden in colour. Pierce each one to let out the steam and cool on a wire rack before filling.

4. To make the crème Chantilly, add the vanilla seeds, scraped

Ingredients

(serves 4)

For the profiteroles

- 80g unsalted butter

- 25g sugar

- ½ tsp salt

- 150g plain flour, sifted - 4 eggs

- 2 handfuls of chopped almonds, to serve

For the crème Chantilly

- 1 vanilla pod

- 250ml whipping cream

- 40g caster sugar

- ½ tsp vanilla extract

For the chocolate sauce - 50g unsalted butter

- 250ml double cream

- 180g sugar

- 1 tsp vanilla extract

- 100g cocoa powder

- 50g dark chocolate

from the pod, to the whipping cream along with the caster sugar and vanilla extract and whip until firm. Pipe into the choux buns.

5. To make the chocolate sauce, put the butter, double cream, 180g of sugar and vanilla extract into a pan and bring to a simmer. Add the cocoa powder and whisk while continuing to cook for 5 minutes at a slow simmer. Break up the dark chocolate and put it into a bowl. Pour over the hot chocolate mixture and stir until the dark chocolate has melted, then pass the sauce through a fine sieve.

6. Drizzle the choux buns with warm chocolate sauce and sprinkle with the chopped almonds.

Berry nice indeed

Warming those winter garden vistas with some bursts of festive colour.

In white, pink, yellow, red, blue and quite the most stunning copper tones, the berries from this deciduous tree will bring breathless colour to even the darkest corner.

With over 100 species of tree and shrub making up the family, you won’t be short of choice, with each growing to around six metres tall, and lasting for between 10-20 years.

HOLLY

A Christmas favourite, holly combines a burning red berry with that intensely detailed, beautifully curated leaf, using a combination of greens that offset its radiant bedfellow with a flourish of frosty finesse.

Perhaps the most resplendent winter berry that we know,

though for all its festive connotations, it’s sure to stick around for many months.

CALLICARPA

This shrub has purple jewel-like berries that look as if they’ve come straight from a safe deposit box in Hatton Garden.

An intensely rich shade, the plant goes into overdrive in autumn and winter, progressing from small pink flowers in midsummer to an exaggerated and extroverted array of striking, violet, bead-like berries as the months flick by.

COTONEASTER

This shrub is very much a winter

dweller, and boasts red or yellow berries that will keep birds in your garden even when the frost descends.

VIBURNUM TINUS

In its prime between the months of December to April, just when you think the golden pink buds of this characterful plant can’t offer anything more, the ends burst open offering a spray of white flowers.

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Providing Quality Residential Care

Winter can be a difficult time for everyone – especially the many families around us who struggle on a daily basis of ensuring their families have enough to eat.

this in mind at Hampshire Media Group we want to help… and we are hoping you would like to join in our quest to provide local families and food banks with food boxes this winter…

A reverse advent calendar is perfect to do as an individual, or as a family or group. What better way to demonstrate that you care this Winter…

How to take part? Firstly you need to grab a basket

box, and every day on the run up to Christmas, add something

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Coming to terms with the fact that your loved one needs constant care can be difficult. We’ve helped many families strike a better balance. Enjoy your time spent together and get back to being a family member and friend again, rather than being their carer.

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You know they still value their independence, but you worry about their safety when no one else is around. And as much as you want to, you just can’t be there 24 hours a day. They need constant support and supervision and you may have already considered the possibility of nursing or residential care, but you hate the thought of taking them away from their home comforts; familiar surroundings and routines. You worry about the number of people your loved one comes into contact with. You want a safe and consistent, high standard of care.

Live-in care provides a cost effective, minimally disruptive way of allowing your loved one to remain in their own home, supported and well looked after so that you can relax knowing everything is under control.

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