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Hello readers Alas, November and December Melanie Tinson & Tania Houston are the beginning of the “silly” season. The run up to Christmas has started in the shops (there should be a law to stop decorations going up too early!) urging us to find that special gift “for the one you love”. Our diaries fill up rapidly with church fairs, office parties and school concerts. It’s a hectic time of year but what I look forward to most is the family outing to pantomime. Since adulthood my father has lived in America and every year he visits preChristmas to host this annual outing; even now when the youngest of his “flock” is 18! Modern pantomime is a uniquely British tradition; with only a handful of English speaking countries left where you will find panto on the What’s On listing (Quebec, Canada being one). So, to a non Brit (namely, my American step-mother) it was a complete mystery at first; men dressing up as dames, ladies playing young boys, smutty jokes “at a family show?” and spontaneous audience participation, “How do they know when to shout back, Melanie?” she asks… duh! I love it and can’t wait till I can take my grandchildren (no pressure, girls).

So, in this issue, to help with all the pre-Christmas madness, I’ve compiled a list of local pantomimes on page 14 and the What’s On includes a focus on street shopping opportunities such as the Winchester Christmas market, local church fairs and community craft shows. For those with a partner who’s difficult to buy for there might be something on page 22 to solve that problem. And if you’re first time hosts of Christmas dinner, the roast turkey recipe on page 26 is something to tear out and keep!

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Ableworld Southampton is owned by local businessmen Jeff Newman, Steven Thompson and Chris Hewitt and is located at 42-46 Portsmouth Road, Woolston, Southampton, SO19 9AD. Ableworld is easy and convenient to reach with ample free parking.

From spacious premises, Ableworld offers customers a wide selection of quality mobility and homecare products. A local store, staffed by local people is often the place to go for the best service and that is certainly the case here, but Ableworld is also the place to find the keenest prices and enjoyable shopping experience.

The store stocks a very wide range of products including larger items such as mobility scooters, wheelchairs, adjustable beds and rise and recline chairs but also many smaller items to help with day to day tasks. They also hold a wide range of products to help with bathing, toileting and dressing as well as a range of continence care products.

Ableworld also installs stairlifts and service scooters. Whatever the product, the aim is to help people to lead easier, more comfortable and independent lives.

The directors of Ableworld Southampton are all local people who have significant

experience behind them. Jeff’s working history goes back over 35 years and includes retail, construction and hospitality.

His most recent role was as a local Franchised Milkman and was 2008 Southern area Milkman of the Year. Many of Jeff’s old customers are similar in age and needs to Ableworld’s core customers.

Steven and Chris have had a successful partnership for several years and bring their skills from construction and mechanical engineering into the business, something that will be particularly useful on the stairlift and scooter side of the business. All three directors have undertaken Ableworld’s extensive and rigorous training programme so that they can assess customers correctly and provide the

Jeff has a clear view how he and his fellow directors can help local people who need mobility equipment “Having had daily contact with elderly and disabled customers in my previous occupation, I witnessed several fall injuries and mobility complaints. With our store having good parking and being on several main bus routes I believe our highly visible and accessible superstore on Portsmouth Road, opposite the bus station, will fill a gap in the market and serve as a welcome benefit to the community.” Whatever your needs, you can be assured of a range of quality products from names you can trust.

Why not call in? Open 8.30 to 5.30 Monday to Saturday you can visit your new Ableworld store at 42-46 Portsmouth Road, Woolston, Southampton, SO19 9AD. Tel: 02380 440000.

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YULETIDE SHOPPING Your guide to fairs and markets in the run up to Christmas

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WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL CHRISTMAS MARKET 20 Nov - 21 Dec, 10am to 6pm Winchester With the unique location, high quality exhibitors and bustling atmosphere, this is one of the best markets in Europe.

The pretty wooden chalets are situated in the Cathedral’s historic Inner Close surrounding an open-air real ice rink. All the exhibitors have been hand-picked for their interesting, high quality and unique products many of which can’t be bought on the high street.

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING AND INDULGENCE SHOW 7 Dec, 10:30am to 4pm Norton Park Hotel, Winchester Spoil yourself, friends & family in the run up to Christmas. Enjoy all the trimmings of The All Woman Show with a festive twist.

Free parking. Supporting The Katie Piper Foundation for burns sufferers. www.allwomanshow.com ST. PETER’S CHURCH CHRISTMAS FAYRE 6 Dec, 1-3pm Shakespeare Road, Eastleigh Father Christmas, Raffle, Bottle Tombola, Gifts and Toys, Family Tombola, Bric-a-Brac, Books, Homemade cakes and refreshments. All very welcome.

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LIFE’S LITTLE LUXURIES 3 Dec, 6:30pm Guildhall Winchester Age Concern Hampshire and Little Forest Soap are hosting an evening of Christmas shopping and pampering. Arts and crafts gifts, local food products, luxury products and stands providing mini beauty treatments. www. ageconcernhampshire.org.uk.

01962 892449 CRAFTY WOMEN AT CHRISTMAS 6 Dec, 10am to 4pm Winchester Guildhall Local and contemporary handmade Arts & Craft Fair.

Swarovski Crystal Jewellery, willow work, handmade soaps, chocolates, cakes, ceramics, paintings and more. Raffle in aid of BOAZ. 07981134767 craftywomen.mail@gmail.com ART, CRAFT AND GIFT FAYRE 30 Nov, 10am to 4pm University of Southampton, Staff Social Centre Something for everyone with over 125 stands. Crafts and gift products, cards, jewellery, pottery, paintings, prints, wood carvings and more. £2.00 under 10’s free. 023 8059 2832 BITTERNE MARKET Every Wed, 9am till 4pm Bitterne Village Precinct Clothing, shoes, produce, books, flowers, pet supplies, fresh meat,

flowers, seasonal items and more. 02380 694843 YELLOW VINTAGE CHRISTMAS FAIR 30 Nov, 10am to 4pm The Ageas Bowl, West End Over 100 stalls selling a huge spectrum of vintage and retro items. Live music from The Cadettes, a war-time harmony trio and Lianna Haynes, a 50s and 60s songstress. Vintage caravans, Lambrettas and classic cars. Coles Funfair, Mucky Bucket Petting Farm, the Funky Playbus and vintage ice cream vans. £3 entry, under 12s free.

07515 175573 CHRISTMAS GIFT FAYRE 23 Nov, 10am to 3pm Careys Manor, Brockenhurst Shopping in preparation for Christmas or treat yourself from one of the exclusive stalls. £3. All proceeds to Autism Hampshire. 01489 880881 CHRISTMAS EXTRAVAGANZA 29 Nov, 10am to 2:30pm Underhill Centre, Hedge End Market on two floors. Lift available. Super gift ideas: hand painted china, preserves, Christmas produce, toys. Home cooked lunches available for purchase from 11.30am. Tea/ coffee/cake. Entry 50p, Under 12’s free. If you require transport call 01489 783192

9 WANDERING WITCHES’ FAYRE 16 Nov, 10am to 3pm Waterlooville Community Centre Artists, artisans and craftspeople showing and selling their beautiful work. Demonstrations, costumes, live entertainment, refreshments, bar open from 1pm. Free Entry.

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WICKHAM CHRISTMAS FAIR 7 Dec, 11am to 3pm The Wickham Centre, Mill Lane PO17 5AL With over 50 stallholders present, it will be a fun day for all! Refreshments on sale. Now selling tables for this event. Jules Bridger at www. wickhamcentre.org.uk

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SOUTHAMPTON QUITTERS - BITTERNE Every Friday, 9:30am to 12:30pm Bitterne Health Centre A free NHS Stop Smoking Service offering friendly support. This drop in session meets every Monday. 02380 515221 RED NIGHT 20-29 Nov Titchfield Festival Theatre PO14 4BG A gripping and deeply moving play to commemorate the Great War. Titchfield Festival Theatre.

01329 556156 GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF 22 Nov, 10am to 3pm Brookfield Community School, Sarisbury Green SO31 7DU £35.00. Contact 01489 480209 or www.brookfield.

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NEWTS IN BISHOPS WALTHAM 24 Nov, 7:30pm Church Hall, Free Street SO32 1AN Presentation by Clare May, Principal Ecologist with global consultancy WYG. Adults £2.50, Children free. 01489 890961 or janegentry@ btinternet.com PARK PLACE PIANO RECITAL 28 Nov, 7pm Park Place, Wickham PO17 5HA

In aid of The Rowan’s Hospice and The Hostel for girls in Tanzania. Laura Dickson of the Royal College of Music plays Bach, Brahms and Debussy. £10 (in advance) to include refreshments. £12 at the door.

02392 382433 / 02392 370647 BIRDING AT TITCHFIELD HAVEN 30 Nov, 10am to 3pm Titchfield Haven, Hill Head Join John Clark for a winter bird walk. Meet in the Yacht Club car park, Cliff Road (Map ref. SU 535 023).

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01962 864440. Refreshments available in the café or bring a packed lunch. Suggested donation £3. Sorry, no dogs.

CHRISTMAS AT THE BRICKWORKS 30 Nov, 11am to 4pm Bursledon Brickworks, Swanwick SO31 7HB Seasonal fair, live music lots of interesting craft stalls.

Father Christmas, and Traction Engines usually get steamed up (weather dependent). www. bursledonbrickworks.org.uk POND DESIGN 4 Dec, 7:30pm Droxford Village Hall, SO32 3PB Come along and find out about pond design and other features for your garden. Mrs Sandy Worth. 01489 877631 SARISBURY CHORAL SOCIETY CHRISTMAS CONCERT 6 Dec St. Paul’s Church, Sarisbury Green Delightful Christmas Concert.

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01489 572708 CHRISTMAS FLORAL WORKSHOP 6 Dec, 10am to 3pm Brookfield Community School, Sarisbury Green SO31 7DU

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FATHER CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 7 Dec, 11am to 4pm Bursledon Brickworks, Swanwick SO31 7HB A special visit to the museum to see Father Christmas in his workshop. The trip includes the museum, activities and refreshments. Booking is essential for this event - we want to make it really special for you. www.bursledonbrickworks. org.uk (B) TITCHFIELD’S CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL 12-14 Dec, 10am to 6pm St. Peter’s Church PO14 4AG Beautifully decorated trees, buy original Christmas gifts and goodies and hear seasonal music. Refreshments. Raffle.

Titchfield Puppets, West Hill Community Choir and pianist, Charles Timberlake perform.

The Festival ends with the Traditional Nine Lessons and Carols at 6pm on 14 Dec. 01329 846171 CHRISTMAS FABRIC BOWLS WORKSHOP 20 Dec, 10am to 4pm The d.@art Centre, Wildern School, Hedge End SO30 4EJ Design and create your own beautiful fabric bowl, ideal as a distinctive table decoration for Christmas and beyond. £20 each. 01489 779471 RAMBLERS WALK - BOXING DAY CIRCULAR – BISHOPS WALTHAM 26 Dec, 9:45am Park at Station Road to start by the railway gate SO32 1DP Moderate 11 mile walk.

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The Soundscape Project Brookfield Community School in Sarisbury Green has set up an incredibly exciting project and wonderful collaboration with Turner Sims Concert Hall and the University of Southampton.

The ‘Brookfield Soundscape Project’ has various phases in October, November, January, April and May. As part of Turner Sims’ 40th anniversary celebrations, Brookfield has devised a series of events and activities which explore sound in its widest context: from instruments, musical forms, workshops and concerts. The project will culminate in the Summer Term 2015 with a participatory project involving pupils from Brookfield and their six feeder primary schools.

The entire project is based around the concept of sound and embraces English, Maths, Science, Music and Technology and offers the chance of really strong learning outcomes for the Year 9 students. It is inspired by the famed acoustic properties of Turner Sims.

Phase One begins on 17 November with poetry writing about the ‘sound of place’ with students being inspired by Max West, the Southampton Poet Laureate.

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Dr Steve Dorney from the University of Southampton Engineering Department will

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“Oh yes it is! Oh no it isn’t!”

Pantos across the Region Image courtesy of Nuffield Theatre

THE SNOW QUEEN 27 Nov-4 Jan Nuffield Theatre, Southampton SO17 1TR A new, fun version of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, featuring new songs, spectacular set designs and an enchantingly humorous retelling of this timeless story that will melt your heart. Tickets £10£22. 02380 671771 SLEEPING BEAUTY 4 & 5, 10, 11 & 12 Dec, 7:30pm The Bench Theatre, Havant The classic fairy-tale as you have never seen it before... fun and laughter for all the family in a sparkling new Pantomime from the award-winning Bench team. 02392 472700 PETER PAN 6 Dec-4 Jan Bournemouth Pavilion BH1 2BU Blue Peter Presenter Barney Harwood will be playing Peter Pan, with Waterloo Road’s Mark Benton as Captain Hook. 0844 5763000 ALADDIN 9 Dec-4 Jan King’s Theatre, Southsea PO5 2QJ Traditional fun packed family panto! Antony Costa will be Aladdin while Marcus Patrick will star as the Genie of the Ring. www.kings-southsea.com

SLEEPING BEAUTY 9 Dec-4 Jan Theatre Royal, Winchester SO23 8SB Throw in live music, original songs and lots of audience participation and you have all the ingredients for another blockbusting family pantomime. £8.50-£21.50. 01962 840440

CINDERELLA – Pocket Panto 13-14 Dec Hangar Farm Arts Centre, Totton College A pocket-sized panto full to bursting with all the magic, mischief and mayhem you could possibly wish for from a family favourite fairy tale. 02380 667683

SNOW WHITE and the SEVEN DWARVES 11 Dec-4 Jan Princes Hall Theatre, Aldershot GU11 1NX An action packed pantomime that’s fun for all the family.

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CINDERELLA 13 Dec-4 Jan The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton SO15 1GE Brian Conley stars as Buttons, joined by fashion expert, award-winning TV presenter, author and all-round national treasure Gok Wan as The Fairy Gokmother. www.mayflower. org.uk

JACK 12-24 Dec The Berry Theatre, Hedge End SO30 4EJ Fee Fi Fo Fum! Giving this classic tale a contemporary twist, this enchanting family show serves up a cheeky does of fun. Perfect for ages 4 plus and their grown-ups. 02380 652333 SNOW WHITE and the SEVEN DWARVES 12 Dec-4 Jan Ferneham Hall, Fareham Stefan Booth (Hollyoaks & Eastenders) stars as Prince Simon in this classic tale of Snow White and the 7 Dwarves.

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The Christmas Truce

by Alison Runham

Christmas Eve 1914. The Western Front. Weeks of rain have ended and mud is becoming ice. Despite calls for a Christmas ceasefire, fighting has continued throughout December, although today it seems half-hearted in many places.

Staff Sergeant Clement Barker is in his trench with his comrades.

Across No Man’s Land, the Germans are decorating tiny trees sent from home with candles as they sing Stille Nacht (Silent Night). “The trenches were a blaze of Christmas trees,” one Tommy recalled, “and our sentries were regaled for hours with traditional Christmas songs.” In some places, English troops decide that they “ought to retaliate in some way.”

“So we sang The First Noël... they all began clapping; and then they struck up another favourite of theirs, O Tannenbaum.”

At Barker’s trench, a German soldier appears. “He said that if (we) did not fire, they wouldn’t in the morning,” Barker wrote later. Next morning, Barker’s men cautiously venture out to retrieve and bury their dead. No shots are fired. Soon they’re shaking hands with the Germans and exchanging gifts, and then “a football is kicked out of our trenches, and Germans and English play football.”

German soldiers of the 134th Saxon Regiment and British soldiers of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment meet in no man’s land, December 26

Henry Williamson, who later wrote Tarka the Otter, also recalled football matches, but behind German lines; if British and German troops played together, he made no mention of it. However, despite the myths surrounding Truce matches between both sides, some are well-documented in letters. Two soldiers of the 6th Cheshires described a huge, free-for-all match in Wulverghem, Belgium, where No Man’s Land was less damaged by shell fire.

Williamson recalled the Germans singing Silent Night, too, before inviting the English closer. His unit suspected a trap. “We crept out... expecting any moment to fall flat with the machine guns opening up. And nothing happened.” Both sides were soon exchanging gifts and greetings, and similar scenes were occurring at many points along the Front.

Cigarettes, rations, uniform buttons and even addresses were exchanged. One English trench received a German chocolate cake, together with a ceasefire request and an invitation to an impromptu concert. “Just think,” wrote one soldier to his family, “while you were eating turkey I was talking and shaking hands with the very men I had been trying to kill a few hours before!”

The truce at Williamson’s position held for four days before orders arrived to end fraternisation, while the Germans were warned to expect visits from senior officers; they sent a message across, explaining that they would have to fire their machine guns, but would fire high to avoid hitting anyone.

For Barker, peace lasted a little longer too. “Night came and still no shots. Boxing day the same, and has remained so up to now,” he wrote a few days later.

But gradually fighting resumed.

Captain J.C. Dunn’s account of resuming hostilities is poignant: “I fired three shots in the air and put up a flag with “Merry Christmas” on it, and I climbed on the parapet...[the Germans] put up a sheet with “Thank you” on it, and the German Captain appeared...

We both bowed and saluted... he fired two shots in the air, and the War was on again.”

Both truces (and football games) had occurred in earlier wars. So what makes the 1914 Christmas Truce especially memorable?

Perhaps because in a war that cost over 10 million lives, it was, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said, “one human episode amid all the atrocities.”

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A good place to start is with a case. You can spend hundreds if you want something from a name designer, but firms such as TuffLuv make really nice vintage leather Kindle cases for around £40.

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If he hasn’t already got a tablet, there are plenty of alternatives to the all-conquering iPad and iPad Mini. Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD (£89) is good for ebooks and movies, and a range of affordable Windows 8 tablets have been launched by the likes of Asus, Acer and Toshiba, all below £200.

If he fancies himself as the next Jamie Oliver, Belkin’s Chef Stand and Wand (£29) is a smart gift idea. It’s a tablet stand designed specifically for the kitchen, enabling him to see the recipe (or the tutorial videos if he’s using

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