Discover Romsey April 2013

APRIL 2013

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Hello and Welcome We often entertain our teenage children with stories of how life was when we grew up. Their favourite topic is tales of the world without computers and mobile phones, and of great amusement is the thought that the phone wouldn’t fit in your pocket.

If you remember, because of the power they used, all mobile phones were fitted into cars.

The first one I used which was truly mobile had a battery pack which was the size and weight of a large shoebox filled with lead. And the first laptop computer I was given by my employers wasn’t really portable…so heavy, it was at best ‘transportable’.

So many people do say that it was a simpler world then, but having the ability to work from home, to stay in touch with friends and family, to buy online and have it delivered to my door and to find out almost anything I want to instantly is fantastic.

One of the other things I love about the internet is that we can have a team of people working on the magazines and it doesn’t matter where they live. Our designer Heather is in Scotland, our

administrator Lauren lives in Kent and Marina, our short story illustrator, lives in Serbia.

Still there is a limit. We all still need local tradespeople, gardeners, hairdressers, garages and – of course – someone to fix our computers when they go wrong. And that’s what this magazine is all about. A choice of services in one handy guide and two pages this month of events, for the days when you feel like interacting with the real world rather than just the virtual one!

Tania PS: Following on from my article in your last magazine, I have added more updates to my weight loss blog at www.discoveryourtoes.co.uk.

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Town Planning Advertiser Feature - Widenet Computer Services Ltd 10th April 1858 - Big Ben Cast At Whitechapel Foundry, London Short Story - The Easter Egg Hunt Advertiser Feature - Hampshire Hearing Centre

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Motoring - Porsche Cayenne GTS Advertiser Feature - Green Keeper Local Walk - Horsebridge & Kings Somborne Local Groups What's On Supermarket Opening Hours Useful Numbers

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DISCOVER MONTHLY FEATURE

Town Planning

By Ted Bruning Come April, the start of the new financial year, and everything goes up. Including, in many towns across the country, the price of parking.

Well, you may say, these are hard times and local councils have to fund their activities somehow.

But the cost of town-centre parking is more than just a nuisance: it’s slow poison for high street retailers whether they’re independent or branches of national chains.

Town-centre planning is an incredibly abstruse art with an infinite number of variables and nobody, not even the professionals, really knows what works and what doesn’t. A new supermarket in a Hampshire high street – was it responsible for killing off the independent traders, or did it increase footfall and keep them on life-support, allowing them to absorb high rents for a few years longer? A new Waitrose in a Cambridgeshire town centre: yes, the butcher and the greengrocer couldn’t compete, but on the other hand an independent wine merchant set up shop directly opposite because Waitrose people are his people too, and as a specialist he feels he can do the job better.

These two examples give just a hint of the complexities involved. But there’s one constant that separates all high street retailers whether chain or independent from all out-of-town retailers: free parking. And it’s not just Tesco and B&Q that have moved out of town centres and settled in car parks the size of small farms: why are franchises like Fired Earth and Cotton Traders generally sited in garden centres and farmyard malls? Plenty of free parking! A case in point: Beers of Europe is located in an old grainstore down a track outside King’s Lynn. It has unlimited parking. Shoppers can, and do, fill the boots of their cars with beer, and Beers of Europe is

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thriving. But town-centre beer shops in Bury St Edmunds and Lincoln went under because the most a customer could physically carry away was five or six bottles. And it’s worth remarking that nearly all of the spectacular retail collapses of recent years – Woolworth’s, HMV, Clinton Cards – were primarily high street operators.

Campaigns to ‘shop local’ are commonplace, but convenience is the order of the day. If in-town parking has limited availability and means shoppers must carry loose change, and may have to cut their shopping trip short for fear of a hefty fine, they will vote with their tyres and head straight to the big free car parks.

Persuading local councillors who need income that providing plentiful free parking is in their interest is a very hard sell. But a high street populated with charity shops isn’t good for the council either. Charity shops don’t pay business rates and they rely on volunteers: they don’t hire unemployed people whose housing benefit is funded by the council. Surely carting all the unpopular and inconvenient pay-and-display meters off to the scrapyard is a measure that would encourage local shopping.

The trouble is that so many town-centre independents have already gone to the wall that their political voice is very feeble. Many towns no longer even have a chamber of trade.

One answer to that would be to persuade the high street chains – Iceland, Boots, M&S Food, Costa etc – to permit and indeed encourage their store managers to get involved. A chamber of trade that represented more than just the last independent optician and the last independent jeweller would be an energetic and influential lobby group that local councils would have to listen to.

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Don’t lose those precious memories It used to be that the data held on our computers was fairly unimportant. If a disaster occurred and our hard disk failed or was wiped out by a virus, then we normally had a ‘hard copy’ or could re-create our address book and it didn’t matter that much.

Today though things are very different and the majority of us have a great deal more to lose should the worst happen and our letters, photos, e-mails and music library were to disappear.

It is often the case that our data is more valuable than the hardware it resides upon – we can purchase a new laptop or desktop computer for a few hundred pounds but our data (particularly for businesses) and memories are quite simply priceless.

Although we will probably never be 100% secure against data loss, we can certainly minimise the risk by being disciplined enough to keep our files in well-ordered and maintained folders and by making sure that we back them up.

Some people sign up for low cost or ‘free with your broadband’ data backup facilities. All well and good but did you know that many of these services offer limited recovery, with no ability to roll back to previous file versions if corruption or deletion occurs.

Think about that for a moment – you might have been backing up your files online for months but then your computer and files get corrupted and the backup simply backs up the corruption for you.

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protect yourself but you need to choose the right kind of package to ensure maximum protection. CD’s and DVD’s have a limited life, USB sticks and external drives can fail as well.

The answer is probably to spread the risk and maximise the chances of recovery by backing up and then backing up your backup!

If you are worried about the implications of losing your data then why not talk to one of the Widenet team. We can’t give you a 100% guarantee that you will never lose another file again but we can give you impartial and practical advice to at least reduce the risk.

If the worst comes to the worst though, we would send your failed drive away to our specialist partners who can retrieve a lot of the data by disassembling the drive. But prevention is a lot less expensive than cure and a little bit of safeguarding could save a lot of worry and heartache.

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10 April 1858

Big Ben cast at Whitechapel Foundry, London

What could be more British than Big Ben? You hear the bong of the 13-ton bell every time you watch ITN’s evening news or listen to the 6pm and midnight news on Radio 4. And even if you very sensibly try to avoid the news you’ll have heard the Westminster Chimes – played on the four quarter-bells that live with Big Ben in the Elizabeth Tower at the Houses of Parliament – probably more than any other piece of music.

Distantly descended from a tune in Handel’s Messiah, they’re in alarm clocks, doorbells, ice cream vans, possibly even ringtones wherever you go. When you finally arrive at the Pearly Gates and ring for admission, you’ll probably hear them then.

But there’s more to Big Ben’s Britishness than mere ubiquity. Because there’s nothing more British than a right old foul-up, and Big Ben started its career with not one foul-up but two.

One night in October 1834 the Houses of Parliament were burnt to the ground. Next day some fool decided to rebuild them and – shazzam! – a mere 24 years later they were rebuilt. The project was masterminded by Sir Charles Barry but the design of the Great Tower (only re-named last year to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee) was assigned to the great Gothic revivalist Augustus Pugin. Looks like stone, doesn’t it? Looks can be deceiving, though – the shaft of the tower is brick, and the bell chamber and spire are cast iron. The stone is only cladding, like Jack and Vera’s house in Coronation Street.

Naturally a great bell had been commissioned.

The 16-ton monster was cast in a foundry in Stockton-on-Tees and named after Sir Benjamin Hall, the worthy who supervised the rebuilding.

In 1856, before the Great Tower had been topped out, Big Ben was hung up in New Palace Yard and tested. It promptly broke. Whoops! Just time to order a new one, from the Whitechapel Foundry just across the City. Smaller this time, at a mere 13 tons; but still called Big Ben.

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It was cast on 10 April 1858 and took 18 hours to haul the 200 feet up to the bell chamber to be tested. And guess what? Yes – it broke too. The clapper, it turned out, was twice the recommended weight. It took three years to repair and, apart from 1916-18 when people thought Zeppelins might hear it, it’s been bonging almost uninterrupted ever since.

It didn’t even stop during the blitz, when the Luftwaffe totalled the chamber of the House of Commons but spared the Great Tower.

The Britishness doesn’t stop there, though. The design of the clock itself, a prestige project if ever there was one, was entrusted to a couple of amateurs. Edmund Denison was actually a lawyer, while George Airey was the Astronomer Royal. Theirs was a completely new and quite revolutionary design, which I’d explain to you if I understood it; but it was such a good one that the clock is accurate to a second a day and is regulated by a pile of pre-decimal pennies – adding a penny advances the clock by 0.4 of a second a day.

The movement, being more than 150 years old, has been a wee bit stop-start since the 1970s, but Big Ben itself, complete with the original crack, bongs on. It did chime 30 once – but that was deliberate, to announce last year’s opening of the 30th Olympiad. Either an inspired departure from convention or a shallow piece of political gimmickry, depending on your persuasion; but at least nothing broke this time.

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Short Story The Easter Egg Hunt Valerie waved as her daughter’s car pulled off the drive, leaving her with two pink overnight bags and a list of instructions which she knew she would ignore. In the lounge her granddaughters were pulling cushions off the sofa in search of the remote control.

“Margot, Bonny”, she called, “Mummy said no TV”.

The girls drooped visibly.

“Well, maybe later, but first”, she clapped her hands, “how about an Easter egg hunt?”

No chocolate had been second on the list.

The girls excitedly pulled on their coats.

“Here’s a basket each”. She opened the back door.

“Let’s see what we can find”.

Les, Valerie’s neighbour, appeared at the fence wearing a monocle and a fez.

“Hello Uncle Les”, Margot called. “Like your funny glasses”.

“I have a wobbly tooth”, Bonny added.

“Excellent.” Les replied. “Enjoy the hunt”.

The girls had keen eyes and soon found all the chocolate eggs hidden in the flower beds.

“Look Grandma”, Margot called from the vegetable patch. Valerie was just as amazed as her granddaughters to see a giant bean stalk. It was eight feet tall and made out of papier-mâché.

“I wonder how that got there?” Valerie asked.

“This must be where Jack planted his magic beans”, Margot said with authority.

“Look!” Bonny pointed under the rhubarb leaves. “A golden egg.”

“The giant’s goose laid it”, Margot announced as the girls rolled the egg onto the path. Something else glinted in the soil.

The girls knelt down and began to dig, unearthing a pile of golden chocolate coins.

“The giant’s treasure”, Margot whispered. The girls hurriedly filled their baskets, concerned that the giant might make an appearance.

“Can we go inside and eat our chocolate Grandma?”

The girls chimed together. “Pretty please?”

“Of course”, Valerie laughed. “Make sure you wipe the soil off first”.

“Thanks Grandma”. Bonny popped a coin into

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Valerie’s pocket and dashed after Margot into the house.

In the kitchen Valerie switched the kettle on.

Summoned by the sound like a genie in a lamp, Les appeared at the back door.

“East egg hunt was a success I take it?” he asked, settling himself down at the kitchen table and removing his fez.

“Thanks to you”, Valerie smiled.

“You’re welcome darling”. Les made a bow. “Those props from the pantomime were just gathering dust in my shed. I thought they might spice things up”.

Valerie put two mugs of coffee on the table.

“They certainly did. Your beanstalk, golden egg and coins mixed with a child’s imagination; what could be better?”

Les’s monocle popped out.

“I didn’t plant any coins”. They exchanged quizzical glances and Valerie fished the coin out of her pocket. Les wiped the soil from it.

“My dear”, he held it up to the light. “This is a real gold coin, possibly Roman”.

Valerie took the coin. It was heavy and gleamed as though it had been minted yesterday.

“How many did the girls find?” Les asked.

“I don’t know”, Valerie said feeling excited. “A dozen?”

“And where are they now?”

A sharp cry of pain shook the walls and made Valerie and Les jump. They searched for the girls and found them behind the sofa with their baskets.

Margot had her arm around Bonny who had tears rolling down her cheeks. In her palm Bonny held something tiny and white.

“She couldn’t get the foil off the coin so she bit it”, Margot explained calmly. “And now her wobbly tooth’s fallen out”.

“Do you think the tooth fairy will come to your house Grandma?” Bonny sobbed.

“My dear”, Les exclaimed. “I’d say she’s already been”.

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We like the GTS treatment given to most Porsches. The 997 911 really benefitted from the work over, and the Panamera GTS we tried after this Cayenne worked fantastically well too.

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Horsebridge & Kings Somborne Walk Walk Distance 4.7 miles A downloadable pdf of the walk and enlarged map is availabe at www.discovercommunity.co.uk

Historical Notes Horsebridge is situated on the old ‘Sprat & Winkle’ railway line that ran from Andover to Kimbridge junction in the south. Royal Assent was granted in July 1858 for the line to be built by converting a canal built earlier in 1792. The route was to run parallel to the rivers Test and Anton. A 14-gun salute celebrated the cutting of the first sod by Lord Palmerston in a field near his home at Broadlands, Romsey. The line opened to traffic in 1865 but was not a commercial success, closing in 1964.

The name Kings Somborne is probably derived from Saxon times in that the area was a ‘kings’ possession. Somborne relates to a stream associated with pigs. Remains of large stone buildings to the south of the churchyard are presumed to be the remains of a Saxon royal palace. The Doomsday book records the village as Somborne Regis.

• Horsebridge is situated just a short distance away from the main A3057 Romsey to Stockbridge road South West of Kings Somborne. On entering the hamlet, park on the grass verge at opposite the junction with the Broughton road, by the John O’Gaunt pub (SO20 6PU). Alternatively, turn into the Broughton Road and turn left opposite the pub onto a gravel track leading to the ‘Test Way’ public car park..

• Walk along the road in the direction of Romsey.

Follow the road as it bends around a large barn on your left and at the end of the barn turn left onto a signed bridleway.

• Climb slowly uphill along the boundary between two fields. At the top of the rise, pass to the right of a farm gate and emerge onto the main A3057 road.

• Cross the road diagonally left onto a lay-by. At the left hand side of a metal farm gate join a

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footpath running parallel to the main road.

• Continue straight ahead following the left hand fence-line heading towards Kings Somborne.

• Emerge into Palace Close and walk along the road straight ahead to a ‘T’ junction.

• Turn left along the road then walk through a cut-way into a close. Follow the road left to another ‘T’ junction.

• Turn right then left onto Furzedown Road. Walk down this road then turn right along the road signposted to the Sombornes.

• With Nutchers Drove opposite, cross the footbridge over a stream and turn left back towards the main A3057.

• As you near the main road, turn right to reach the main road. Cross the road and into Cow Drove Hill road.

• Walk uphill to a bungalow on your right named ‘Sunrise’. Turn left up some wooden steps onto the signed Clarendon Way. • Turn right and walk uphill following the field right-hand boundary. Near the top of the hill, emerge onto a metalled lane and turn left.

• Walk along the lane ignoring the path joining from your left. As the lane bears right, continue straight ahead along a tarmac and gravel track.

• At a crossing of tracks, continue straight ahead along a signed ‘Private Road’.

• Continue along the track as it passes through water meadows and over the various branches of the River Test. Walk to the left of a metal gate to emerge onto a road.

• Turn left and walk along the roadside verge ignoring the Clarendon Way turning on your right.

• Walk past Faithfulls Drove on your right to a ‘T’ junction. Turn right onto the Dunbridge road.

Continue along the road past the Broughton turning on your right.

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• Pass the shared entrance drive to Bossington Estate and its attendant lodge house on your left and the entrance lane to St James’ Church.

• As you reach some farm cottages on your right, turn left onto a signed track crossing the road and walk between two fields. Continue along the remains of this Roman Road that at onetime ran from Sarum to Winchester.

• Continue along this path as it crosses over the various branches of the river once more. At a stile, cross into a field.

• The path here is indistinct, but walk straight across the centre of the field bearing slightly diagonally left towards a hedgerow. Cross a stile to join the track bed of the redundant railway.

• Turn left and pass Horsebridge station to your right. At a fork in the path, bear left to continue along the track bed passing once more over the river.

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ROMSEY JOB CLUB Trying to find a job? If you live around Romsey, why not drop in to our Job Club on a Wednesday morning between 9.30 and 12.30? We can’t offer you a job, but we can offer you help in finding one. You can browse for jobs on our computers , prepare your cv If you need to brush up your IT skills, we can help you with that as well. All in an informal setting, with a cup of tea or coffee. We’re at Company House, Romsey School, Greatbridge, SO51 8ZB. Ring 01794 522106 for more information WELLOW TEA DANCE Wellow Village Hall from 3pm to 5pm every second Wednesday in the month except August.

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ROMSEY ARTHRITIS HYDROTHERAPY GROUP Help soothe Arthritic joints, helping to relieve pain in the ROMSEY W.I. Hydrotherapy Pool. Join us as a member for £5 per year.

The Crosfield Hall Annexe, Broadwater Road, Romsey, Weekly sessions are subsidised. Transport is not available, SO51 8GL but sessions are held locally. For further information contact Every fourth Wednesday in the month commencing Mrs Linda Hill 01794 323838 7.30pm. Visitors will be warmly welcomed. We have sections for Crafts, Darts, Walking, Scrabble and outings. We ROMSEY HEARING CONCERN 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month 2 to 4 pm also have trips to the theatre. alan.coltsrd@o2.co.uk Appletree Centre, Romsey (behind Romsey Library) The clubs’ programme has a wide variety of activities, ROMSEY MODELLERS, which includes speakers, social events and outings. Visitors Ampfield Village Hall, 3rd Wed in the month. 8pm – and new members are very welcome to visit this friendly 10pm We are a plastic modelling club catering for all club, whose aim is to minimise the restrictions of deafness. modelling genres and skill levels from beginners to well You do not have to be deaf to visit or join us, you just need seasoned gurus. For more information please see www. an empathetic approach to people with a hearing loss. We romseymodellers.co.uk are always looking for help, so if you are interested please ROMSEY SUB-AQUA CLUB. contact Anne Gale on 02380735858, alternatively email Club night is Tuesday evening at Stanbridge Earls School hearingconcernromsey@gmail.com.

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ART CLASSES Ampfield Golf Clubhouse, Monday mornings WOODLEY & CRAMPMOOR FRIENDSHIP CLUB Wendy’s Art classes work on promoting new thinking Woodley Village Hall, School Rd, Romsey skills in relation to art and creativity. 01794 523067 for 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of each month, 2pm more info.

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MEDITATION AS A WAY OF PRAYER Every Friday 11am to 12pm starting 4 May 2012.

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NEW ADDITION TO LISTINGS ROMSEY GOOD NEIGHBOURS We are volunteers who take elderly, inform or disabled people to attend hospital, doctor or other medical appointments. If you need our service or could volunteer call Barbara Harper, Secretary of Romsey Good Neighbours (01794 522803).

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what’s EGGS MARK THE SPOT 29 Mar and 1 Apr, 10am – 5pm Mottisfont House and Gardens, Mottisfont, SO51 0LP Complete the trail to win your chocolate egg! Appropriate footwear needed. Collect trail sheet in the Stable Block. £2 per trail. 01794 344020.

EASTER BUNNY AND CHICK WEEKEND 29 Mar – 1 Apr, 9.30am – 4pm Sparsholt College Hampshire, Westley Lane, SO21 2NF An ‘egg-stravaganza’ of fun-filled events and activities that’ll be ‘egg-cellent’ fun for everyone in the family! Arrive early to avoid disappointment. Refreshments available. Free Parking. Sorry, no dogs except assistance dogs.

9.30am – 4pm. Family tickets £15, Adults £5, Children £3.50. Contact 01962 776441 or catharine.potter@ sparsholt.ac.uk EGGCITING FUN 29 Mar – 14 Apr, 12pm – 4pm Manor Farm Country Park, Pylands Lane, SO31 1BH Can you complete our Easter Egg Hunt around the park? Details from the Kiosk in Barnfield. Free. Contact 01489 787055 BERNIE BUNNY’S EASTER TRAIL 30 Mar – 14 Apr, 10am – 4pm Royal Victoria Country Park, Victoria Road, SO31 5GA Help Bernie the bunny find some flowers to give to his mum for Easter. Complete this self-guided trail to win a prize. £1.50 per trail.

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WHOSE STORY IS IT ANYWAY? 30 Mar, 2pm Heritage Visitor Centre, Royal Victoria Country Park, Victoria Road, SO31 5GA Celebrating the power of human imagination, turning suggestions from the young audience into stories and scenes full of action and adventure. 5+. £5. 02380 455157 LITTLE COURT OPEN GARDEN FOR NGS 1 Apr, 2pm – 5pm Little Court, Crawley, SO21 2PU A tranquil country garden spectacular in spring, with carpets of bulbs, hellebores and snowdrops.

Fun for children with tree house, swings and alpacas. Adults £4, Children free. 01962 776365.

CRAFTY IDEAS FOR EASTER 1 – 4 Apr, 8 – 11 Apr, 10am – 3pm Royal Victoria Country Park, Victoria Road, SO31 5GA Choose your favourite(s) from a selection of craft packs in the shop and put your crafty skills to work in the Empire Room. Refreshments available. Packs from £1. Contact 02380 455157.

BIG EGG AND SPOON RACE 1 Apr, 12,30pm Mottisfont House and Gardens, Mottisfont, SO51 0LP Join us as we join in the National Egg and Spoon Race on Easter Monday!

Line up at the start and see if you can go the complete assault course without dropping your egg! Don’t forget to bring your spoon!

EASTER STORY WALK 2 Apr 10.30am-12noon or 1-2.30pm Swanwick Lakes Centre, Sopwith Way, Swanwick SO31 7AY Come for a wander at Swanwick Lakes and help us tell spectacular stories and tall tales. A hands-on event for families. Contact Dawn Preston or Jess Daish-Miller on 01489 570240. Please bring warm outdoor clothing and wellies. Booking is essential as places are limited.

Suggested donation £3 per child.

POND DIPPING 3 Apr, 10am – 4pm Testwood Lakes Centre, Brunel Road, Calmore Industrial Estate, SO40 3WX Drop in any time during the session.

Starting from the centre, follow the watery wildlife trail to our wildlife pond. Use a net and magnifying glass to get up close and personal with weird and wonderful pond creatures. Suitable for all ages.

Contact 02380 667929. Suggested donation £1. Sorry, no dogs.

BACK TO THE BRONZE AGE 4 Apr, 10 – 3pm Testwood Lakes Centre, Brunel Road, Calmore Industrial Estate, SO40 3XP Travel back in time 3500 years and find out what life was like for our ancestors. Dress like a Celt, investigate artefacts and then make yourself at home in the roundhouse after a short walk. Suitable for ages 7+, must be accompanied. Booking essential. Contact 02380 667929.

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BARBARELLA 4 Apr, 7.30pm Winchester Discovery Centre, SO23 8SB Kinky, kitch, funny and unforgettable, and that's just the opening credits. Barbarella is a wildly inventive and gloriously absurd trip into the year 40,000 which baffled audiences and critics on release but has since become a much loved cult classic. SFX Cert 15 £5.

BACK TO THE BRONZE AGE 4 Apr, 10am – 3pm Testwood Lakes Centre, Brunel Road, Calmore Industrial Estate, SO40 3XP Travel back in time 3500 years - dress like a Celt, investigate artefacts, take part in craft and survival activities and hear a Celtic tale. Suitable for children from 7 and must be accompanied by an adult.

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ALRESFORD ART AND CRAFT SHOW 6 Apr, 10am – 4.30pm Alresford Community Centre, West Street, SO24 9AG Crafts will include silk flowers, stained and leaded glasswork, beaded jewellery, pottery, turned woodwork, textiles and hand made notebooks, bespoke handcrafted cards, photography, cakes and chocolates, original watercolours and handcrafted memory books.

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DIS COV ER WHAT ’S ON DOWER HOUSE OPEN GARDEN FOR NGS 7 Apr, 2.30pm – 5.00pm The Dower House, SO23 7LD 5 ½ acres with easy paths, numerous seats, good views, colourful perennials, shrubs and mature trees. Adults £3.50, Children free.

GIRLS’ NIGHT IN 11 Apr, 7.30pm Winchester Discovery Centre, Jewry Street, SO23 8SB An evening of book related banter is on offer where three leading ladies of fiction celebrate the perfect escape - through reading. £5. 01962 873603 to book tickets.

EASTER HOLIDAY FUN Fri 12 – Sun 14 Apr, 10am – 5pm Manor Farm Country Park, Pylands Lane, SO31 1BH Spring time down on the farm, come and meet our new arrivals, have a go at our Easter trail and join in with our exciting daily activities. Normal farm admission price. Contact 01489 787055.

COME AND TRY IT ORIENTEERING EVENT 13 Apr, 10am – 12.30pm The Gregg School, SO18 2GF Ideal for families, beginners and the more experienced orienteers.

Coaching and guidance available.

Adults £4, Juniors £2. 07570 627716.

RAMBLERS GROUP WALK 13 April, 2pm Starting point Grid Ref: SU432206 Hampshire SO53 4SE Linear walk , Chandler's Ford Station to Romsey via Emer Bog board walk and Baddesley Common Nature Reserve, 7 miles. An interesting walk crossing Emer Bog Nature Reserve on a long board walk and then Baddesley Common (the original northern gateway to the New Forest) nature reserve. Start at Chandler's Ford Railway Station, plenty of free parking, bus or train back from Romsey. Rob - 01794 512999. Most walks for members but non-members are welcome to join us as guests on two or three walks to try it out.

HAMPSHIRE OPEN GARDENS 13 & 14 Apr 1pm to 5pm Swanmore For several years Swanmore has been throwing open many of its beautiful gardens to the public. We aim for 15 different gardens with 10 open on any one day, ranging from small cottage gems to large country house gardens. The cost includes parking and the use of a hop-on-hop-off minibus for those that do not wish to use their own cars. Refreshments and superb homemade cakes are available, plants are on sale at a number of venues and we operate a plant creche at The Paterson Centre.

Typical routes for walkers and cyclists are 3-4 miles and walkers can use many footpaths to avoid roads. If tired hop on the free minibus. To find us just follow the OPEN GARDENS direction arrows, Tickets from 12:30 at The Paterson Centre SO32 2PA . £6 per adult or £10 for weekend ticket Accompanied children (under 15) free. Enquiries: 01489-892750 or jsharpe@talktalk. net. stbarnabas.org.uk.

CHARITY THAI BANQUET IN AID OF SMILE4WESSEX APPEAL 18 Apr, 7pm – 11pm Kuti’s Royal Thai Pier, Gate House, Town Quay, SO14 2AQ A fabulous Thai Banquet to celebrate Songkran, the traditional Thai New Year, and to raise funds for the Smile4Wessex Children's Neurosciences Centre Appeal.

Tickets £19.95. Contact 023 8079 8882 or info@smile4wessex.org.

PHOTOGRAPHY ’PHOTOWALK’ IN SOUTHAMPTON 20 Apr, 11am – 2pm SO14 3JS A leisurely excursion with a camera looking at interesting buildings and streetscape – “Capturing British Heritage & History”. No previous knowledge required. Suitable for all types of camera. £14. Contact 07970034498.

DOG’S DAY OUT 20 Apr 2pm to 4pm Royal Victoria Country Park SO31 5GA How clever is your dog? Bring him/

her along to our Obedience Olympics and/or have a go at our agility course! Plus a selection of stalls and activities for all dog lovers. Free entry – but please register your dog, in advance, if you want to enter the competition. www3.hants.gov. uk/rvcp NEW FOREST PAINTERS SPRING EXHIBITION 20 - 21 Apr, 10am - 5pm Brockenhurst Village Hall, Highwood Road SO42 7RY Varied collection of over one hundred paintings depicting the unique character of the New Forest FREE WEEKEND AT MOTTISFONT HOUSE 20 – 21 Apr Mottisfont House and Gardens, SO51 0LP Free entry for all this weekend! Visit us and learn about the conservation work we do here.

WINCHESTER ART & DESIGNLED CRAFT MARKET 21 Apr, 10am – 4pm High Street, Winchester Over 70 stalls offering, paintings, illustrations, prints, glass, ceramics, textiles, jewellery, sculpture, leatherwork, vintage and more.

Free admission and parking. Contact Jackie Edwards 07515797878 or www.artdesignmarket.co.uk WINCHESTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2013 25 – 28 Apr Winchester Discover Centre, SO23 8SB Four-day celebration of chamber music and song with the acclaimed London Bridge Ensemble and this year features special guests awardwinning violinist Esther Hoppe, violinist/violist Krzysztof Chorzelski of the Belcea Quartet, and renowned cellist Richard Lester. www. winchesterchambermusic.com

available. Run round the course like a hare or walk around like a tortoise! Enjoy yourself in the lovely Hampshire countryside. Adults £4.

Juniors £2. 07570 627716. www. southampton-orienteers.org.uk ORIENTEERING EVENT 27 Apr 10am - 12:30 Pear Tree Green SO19 7RF Part of Southampton Orienteering Club's Summer Series. Ideal families, beginners and the more experienced orienteers. Coaching and guidance available. Run round the course like a hare or walk around like a tortoise! Enjoy yourself in the lovely Hampshire countryside. Adults £4.

Juniors £2. 07570 627716. www. southampton-orienteers.org.uk BRAMDEAN & HINTON AMPNER WI TABLE TOP SALE 27 Apr, 2pm – 4pm Bramdean Village Hall, SO24 0JN Local groups and craftspeople will be selling their wares. Tea and delicious homemade cakes served by the local WI. Free admission.

THE COTTAGE – OPEN GARDEN FOR NGS Sun 5, Mon 6, Sat 11, Sun 12 May (2-6).

The Cottage, Chandlers Ford Hampshire SO53 1ES ¾ acre. Azaleas, bog garden, camellias, dogwoods, erythroniums, free-range bantams, geraniums, hostas, irises, jasmines, kitchen garden, landscaping began in 1950, maintained by owners.

New planting, osmunda, ponds, quiz for children, rhododendrons, sun and shade, trilliums, unusual plants, viburnums, wildlife areas, exuberant foliage, yr-round interest, zantedeschia. £3, Children free.

02380 254521. Visitors welcome by appointment Apr to May. Open for charity.

ORIENTEERING EVENT 27 Apr 10am to 12:30 Pear Tree Green SO19 7RF Part of Southampton Orienteering Club's Summer Series. Ideal families, beginners and the more experienced orienteers. Coaching and guidance

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DISCOVER INDEX For Advertisers offering multiple property services look under Property Maintenance, otherwise see specific trade e.g. electrician, carpenter etc.

Aerials: Aerial Fix DJ Satellites & Aerials Appliance Repair: Advanced Appliance Care JP Appliances Bathrooms: See Plumbing Blinds: Waterside Blinds Cakes: Amazacake Carpet Cleaning: Abbey Cleaning Carpet & Flooring: GE Nicholls Premier Flooring Solutions Computer Services: Geek On Demand Home Computer Help Widenet Computer Services Ltd Conservatories: Britiannia Windows Homeseal Pennington (HI) Jones Ltd Counsellor: Marcus Gee Talking Therapies Domestic Appliance: Advanced Appliance Care JP Appliances Double Glazing Inst/Repairs: Britiannia Windows Penninton (HI) Jones Ltd Windowmenda

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Electrician: Ampfield Electrical EEC247 Romsey Electical Services Estate Agent: Jonathan Rees Fencing: Colourfence Garage Doors: Fix Quick Garage Doors Garage Services: Independent NB Service Station Pentagon MB Garden Design & Services: Adapt Landscapes Arbor Call Colourfence Davis Tree Care Elcombe and Son Green Keeper J.L. Tree Care New Forest Garden Machinery Gas Services: See Plumbing Hairdresser: A Touch of Class Health Services: Hampshire Hearing Centre Premier Health & Wellbeing Rosemary Conley Kitchens: Dream Doors Homeseal New Forest Stone Letting Services: Homestyle Lettings Locksmith: Lockright

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Office Furniture: Haywood Office Services Optician: Hampson Opticians Painter/Decorator: Different Strokes Plumbing Services (including bathroom installation and gas and boiler services) see also Property Maintenance: AK Heating & Plumbing Allan Grace Plumbing Services Aquatec Gair Gas Grahame E Jones Plumbing & Heating MLA Installations NHP (Romsey) Ltd Pegrum Home Services P & H South Coast Plumbing & Heating Printer: Warwick Printing Company Property Maintenance & Improvements: A.Wilmott DT Interiors Elcombe and Son S.G. Roofing Services The Flat Pack People Property Sales: Mildren Homes School: The Gregg School Security: TLS Security Soft Furnishings: Donna Nile Peck Interior Soft Furnishings Solar Panels: Energy My Way Tree Surgery: See Garden Window Cleaning: Clear Vision Window Repair: Windowmenda Worktops: New Forest Stone

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Supermarket Opening Hours Mon Asda, C.Ford

7.30am then 24hrs

Tues

Weds

Thurs

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24 hours

24 hours

Fri 24 hours

Sat

Sun

24 hours 10am-4pm until 10pm

Co-op, except Sevmore 6am-10pm 6am-10pm 6am-10pm 6am-10pm 6am-10pm 6am-10pm 7am-10pm Parade

Co-op Seymore Parade 7am -10pm 7am -10pm 7am -10pm 7am -10pm 7am -10pm 7am -10pm 7am -10pm Sainsburys Lordshill

7am-10pm 7am-10pm 7am-10pm 7am-10pm 7am-10pm 7am-10pm 10am-4pm

Tesco Tebourba Way

8.00am then 24hrs

24 hours

24 hours

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24 hours 10am-4pm until 10pm

8am -8pm

8am -8pm

8am -8pm 8am - 8pm 8am - 9pm

8am - 8pm 10am -4pm

Waitrose Romsey ALDI Romsey

24 hours

8am - 8pm 8am - 8pm 8am - 8pm 8am - 8pm 8am - 8pm 8.30am - 7pm 10am - 4pm

All opening hours are given as a guide only and are correct at the time of going to press Although every care is taken to ensure accuracy, the publisher cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage caused by error or omission in the printing of an advert. Discover Magazines Ltd does not officially endorse any advertisers included within this publication. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or transmitted in any form – electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise – without the prior consent of the publisher.

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useful numbers LOCAL DOCTORS NHS Direct (24hr helpline)

Abbey Mead Surgery Romsey SO51 8EN

Alma Road SurgerY Romsey SO51 8ED Lordshill Health Centre Lordshill SO16 8HY Nightingale Surgery Romsey SO51 7QN

North Baddesley Surgery Fleming Ave SO52 9EP

LOCAL CHEMISTS Lloyds Pharmacy 123 The Hundred, Romsey BootsThe Chemist Ltd 1 The Hundred, Romsey Alliance Pharmacy 7-8 Market Place, Romsey Lloyds Pharmacy 16-17 District Centre Lordshill Alliance Pharmacy 7 Rownhams Road, North Baddesley Wellow Pharmacy Lower Common Road West Wellow, Romsey, SO51 6BT DENTISTS Community Dental Clinic Winchester Hill Romsey Abbey Orthodontics 82 The Hundred Romsey Romsey Dental Care 1 Station Road Romsey Heatherstone Dental Practice 65 The Hundred Romsey Wordsworth House Dental Practice 15 Palmerston Street Romsey Rownhams Lane Dental Practice 30 Rownhams Lane North Baddesley R M Sherwin Lordshill District Centre Lordshill Mark Mawer Clover Dental Practice North Baddesley HOUSEHOLD WASTE RECYCLING Bunny Lane, Timsbury Winter (1st Oct - 31st March) 8am - 4pm Summer (1st April - 30th Sept) 8am - 7pm LOCAL LIBRARY Romsey Library Station Rd SO51 8DN North Baddesley 28 Wilis Ave SO52 9EN Lordshill Lordshill District Ctr, Southampton

0845 4647 01794 512218 01794 830888 01794 513422 02380 738144 01794 517878 01794 511513 02380 743401 02380 743400 01794 522716 01794 513143 01794 513193 02380 737161 02380 732438 01794 322554 01794 519589 01794 519589 01794 522222 01794 513100 01794 512319 02380 733324 02380 738916 02380 738787 01794 368548

0845 6035631 0845 6035631 02380 732845

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS All dates taken from - http://www.hants.gov.uk/education/schools/holidays.php Summer Term Half Term: Mon 27/5/13 – Fri 31/5/13 Summer: Wed 24/7/13 - Mon 2/9/13 Autumn Term Half Term: Mon 28/10/13 - Fri 1/11/13 Christmas: Mon 23/12/13 - Fri 3/1/14 LOCAL SCHOOLS Ampfield C of E Primary 01794 368219 Awbridge Primary 01794 340407 Braishfield Primary 01794 368359 Cupernham Infants 01794 514494 Cupernham Junior 01794 512702 Fairisle Infant & Nursery 02380 731199 Fairisle Junior 02380 733415 Halterworth Primary 01794 512028 North Baddesley Infant 02380 412412 North Baddesley Junior 02380 411100 Nursling Cof E Primary

02380 732289 Oakwood Infants 02380 733337 Oakwood Junior 02380 320360 Romsey Primary & Nursery 01794 512362 Romsey Abbey C of E Primary (aided) 01794 512047 Rownhams St Johns Cof E Primary 02380 736417 Sinclair Primary & Nursery 02380 736663 Wellow Primary 01794 322201 Oaklands Community School &Oasis Academy

Years 7 & 8 - 02380 393660

Years 9 -11 - 02380 771881 The Mountbatten School 01794 502502 The Romsey School 01794 512334 EMERGENCIES Police, Fire or Ambulance Services 999 Police (Incident Reports) 0845 045 45 45 Portsmouth Water - Fresh Water Supply 02392 499888 Portsmouth Water - Leaks to Report (Out of hours 24hr) 02392 477999 Southern Water - Sewage 0845 272 0845 Southern Water - Tech Support 0845 278 0845 Gas – National Grid (If you smell gas, then call us immediately) 0800 111 999 Electricity 0845 7708090

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