Discover Winchester October/November 2015

Winchester OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2015

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Winchester Comedy Festival

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If you were born and bred in the UK (or have lived here for a long time) you sort of get used to the weather (although it doesn’t stop us moaning about it). But if you are a visitor it must be quite hard to understand how we tolerate it. We hosted a student from the south of Japan this summer who was doing a short course in English language and culture at the University of Winchester. He was actually quite surprised to hear that this is summer; he thought perhaps it was another time of year!

But when the sun does come out – as it did on a day trip – it’s simply glorious. Not so hot you have to find shade or keep retreating to air conditioned buildings, and everywhere so picturesque and green. So I’d say our good days are some of the best in the world, we just don’t have quite enough of them.

Our student had fun practising his pronunciation particularly with some of our town names. Bournemouth took many attempts to get right and his first attempt at Beaulieu had us in stitches (he guessed it would be something like Bowleeoo).

On the subject of studying, in October Barton Peveril are holding their open evening for future students (p39).

My son went to Barton and loved his time there. The environment and education was very supportive of him as an individual – you don’t have to be one of the ‘cool kids’ or to fit into a clique to be happy and to excel in your exams. If you have teenagers I’d really recommend considering Barton Peveril for their future education.

Tania Editor Front Cover: Katherine Ryan at the Winchester Comedy Festival, p22.

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Are you surrounded, engulfed and swamped with huge quantities of fallen leaves? Whether they come from trees in your own garden or from a neighbour, the deluge of leaves that falls in autumn is often enough to get level headed, treeloving gardeners eyeing up chainsaws!

At this time of year most of us are feeling as if we are being buried alive by falling leaves.

Yes, the vast majority of leaves that are dropping from our own and our neighbours’ trees are pretty enough, and for a while their bright reds, yellows and oranges look stunning both on and off the tree. The problem is that it seems as if there is a virtually endless supply of them and after that initial flurry of pretty colour, the positive feeling soon starts to diminish.

Leaves that are allowed to build up in your garden can cause problems - on the lawn they smother the turf grasses, often causing patches of die back, largely due to lack of light and oxygen. If the crowns of the less tough herbaceous perennials or alpines are covered in a soggy blanket of leaves, they too start to deteriorate. So, like it or not, you need to do something - and the sooner you get started the better!

A spring-tined rake is perfect for raking leaves off the lawn, and can even work quite well on a gravel drive (provided you don’t rake too deeply and end up ploughing up the stones too!). If you have a lot of lawn or a lot of leaves (or worse still, a big lawn and lots of leaves too) then the

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and then leave them be. If you can chop larger or tougher leaves (like horse chestnut) up first, they’ll rot down much faster - either mow them with the lawnmower or ‘chop’ them with a sharp spade. It is worth avoiding very spiky leaves (the spines seem to withstand rotting and get you later!), and any that are very leathery and tough - mainly evergreens such as holly, laurel and camellia, or those from sycamore and plane.

If you want to speed the process up you can add a leaf mould

activator, which is available from garden centres.

If space, time or money is short then you can also make leaf mould in a bin liner or other bag. Choose a good quality bin liner - not a really thin one - and cram it full of leaves, again adding water and/or activator if you wish. Then stab a few holes in the bag with a garden fork, loosely fold over the top and weigh it down with a brick.

Bin liners full of leaves can be hidden anywhere that you have the space - perhaps behind the

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shed, garage or greenhouse. If you don’t like the idea of black plastic, then there are now some lovely jute mesh bags which can be crammed full of leaves and act as a perfect container whilst the leaf mould is forming, but will eventually rot down and add to the useful material you produce. You can see these on my website www.pippagreenwood.com/products.

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Mika After a worldwide hit with ‘Grace Kelly’ back in 2007, Mika is back with a brand new album.

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Great to have you back. You have a voice that you recognise straight away. It’s that high singing thing that you do. How did that come about? Did you study operatics?

I did! I studied classical music and I went to music college - I wanted to be an opera singer.

So when you sing classically, you aren’t afraid of using all those different parts of your voice. But also I write at the piano but I’m a really simplistic piano player - I kind of use it as a percussion instrument. So to tell a story I had to use my voice - and that’s why I use those different areas.

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The company’s better in hell!

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by Tom Hughes Last Tuesday morning I drew back our bedroom curtains and watched bleary-eyed as the autumn wind sent plastic bottles, newspapers and Dominos pizza cartons swirling into my neighbour’s gardens. Cursing the litter louts who had blighted The Avenue, I turned to my slumbering beloved and said, “Sarah, what’s with all the rubbish outside? Should I ring the council?”

From under the duvet came the muffled reply, “What day is it?”

“Tuesday. Why?” My Dearly Beloved suddenly sprang from the matrimonial divan and stood frozen on our 80% wool twist, deep in thought.

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“Yes, why?”

The look of horror on Sarah’s face said it all. Clasping our hands to our faces, we both screamed together: “The bins!”

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“I’m er, looking for my other sock.”

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dressed?”

“Because... you are a man, you don’t care what people think. Now go! And don’t wake your little nephew.”

Heartened that my sartorial insouciance gave me licence to roam the streets half naked, I leapt quietly down the stairs, through the kitchen and out onto the patio where lay the dreaded recycling receptacles. Dropping the waste food bin (eugh) onto the cardboard bin, I stuck the one for plastic bottles under my arm and ran towards the front door.

I made it just in time to see the pink recycling lorry meandering away down The Avenue. Oh well, maybe we could just wait until next week? The bang from the window above told me that wasn’t an option.

and out of the open-sided van.

Eventually, I caught up with the happy band of council employees at the end of The Avenue.

Triumphantly, I dropped my containers at one of the Recycle Operative’s feet. Ignoring me completely, he joined up with his pals as the lorry trundled out of my road. And there I remained, standing in my pyjamas on the corner of The Avenue and Harrington Drive, smelling of stale milk.

Undeterred I pressed on, managing to barge my way past the lorry to dump my bins at the feet of a tattooed Hell’s Angel in a hi-viz vest.

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Along the road I limped, hitching the boxes up onto my shoulders as bottles and tins clattered down around me.

Giant Haystack’s surly half-brother gave me a stare and then with his massive paw began lifting up my receptacles. Thank goodness for that, now I could end this nightmare, go home and tweezer the gravel out of my feet. Wrong!

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The black bin crashed an inch away from my foot, un-emptied.

Mrs Murphy, aggressively sweeping her designated part of the pavement, shook her head as I staggered on, cursing my burden of domestic detritus.

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Up ahead, a swarm of tattooed bin men swung plastic boxes in

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“Did you know that in China, a new coal-fired power station comes online every six months, so I don’t think one tin…”

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The sky darkened, commuters stared. There was nothing left for it. The walk of shame awaited. I carried my still-full bins back home.

Mrs Murphy shook her head as Sarah opened the door, took one look at my burden, then turned on her heel and went back inside. We didn’t speak until lunch.

Billy, my little nephew, was sat at the kitchen table mashing his eggy soldiers as I shuffled mournfully towards the patio.

“Uncle Tom, when I grow up I want to be a bin man.”

“Why on earth would you want to be a bin man?”

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This month marks one hundred years since the first UK Women’s Institute (WI) meeting. As the WI celebrates its centenary, we look at its history and its role today.

1940 Wartime fruit preservation centre

As the twentieth century began, few branches of the new AOS (Agricultural Organisation Society) welcomed women, and female attendees were often too afraid of ridicule to speak. Yet in Canada, the Farmer’s Institutes had inspired women to found WIs to share knowledge on farming and raising a family. The movement spread throughout Canada and to the USA, Poland and Belgium.

However, in the UK, WIs weren’t established until the arrival of Madge Watt, a founder member of British Columbia’s first WI. Her speech about the vital contribution women could make to the war effort through working the land to grow food helped persuade the AOS to appoint her as founder of WIs in the UK. WIs would provide a hub for sharing knowledge about agriculture and home industries, and for social activities, but would initially focus on increasing food production to counter WW1 shortages.

The first UK WI meeting was held on 16th September 1915 in Llanfair PG, and by 1918 there were 99 WIs. Soon the WI became independent from

the Board of Agriculture; the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI) was formed in October 1917 and began publishing its Home and Country magazine in 1919.

With WW1 over, the WI urged members to become active citizens and stand for election at local and parliamentary level. In 1921 WI member Mrs Margaret Winteringham became the first English born female MP and the second woman in Parliament.

By 1924, when Jerusalem was adopted as the WI song, there were 3,223 WIs.

World War Two to Diamond Jubilee The WI had continued to support the League of Nations, and was preparing for war once again. Lady Denman, the WI chair, became Director of the Women’s Land Army in 1938 and WI Preservation Centres played a vital role, canning produce and making jam to turn over 5,300 tons of potential waste into food for the nation. Meanwhile, the NWFI’s 1941 report on evacuees, Town Children through Country Eyes, stimulated debate about families that ultimately resulted in the family allowances after the war. ...Continued on page 46

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1941 ambulance presented to the army Aby NFWI Queen Mary had become President of the Sandringham WI in 1919, and in 1943 her daughter Elizabeth joined the WI too. In 1945, the WI founded Denman College.

1975. At the AGM that year, the NFWI confirmed its belief in ‘the principle of equality of opportunity and of legal status for men and women’ and pledged it would continue to work towards it.

With the war over, the WI spread its wings, beginning the fifties with a national music festival.

Members also designed a house ideal for a working family for the Ideal home Exhibition (including a porch for muddy boots).

A Thoroughly Modern Institution

1965 was a significant year. The rule prohibiting the founding of WIs in places with populations over 4,000 was abolished, and representatives from 8,700 WIs celebrated the WI’s Golden Jubilee at a special garden party at Buckingham Palace. WIs also compiled Scrapbooks of the Countryside, now held in Local Record Office archives. The sixties ended with performances of The Brilliant and the Dark, an NFWIcommissioned musical following women’s lives throughout the centuries.

In 1974 the number of WIs reached an all-time high of 9,309, just in time to celebrate the institution’s Diamond Jubilee in 46

In the 1980s, the WI made its first appearance at the Chelsea Flower Show and launched a three year campaign to raise the profile of the WI, culminating in the WI Life and Leisure Exhibition at Olympia in 1984, opened by the Queen.

in 1999 the WI joined with the National Farmers’ Union to hold A Women in Farming conference, with an address given by The Princess Royal, but perhaps what most overthrew its ‘jam and Jerusalem image’ was the widely reported response of many members to the Prime Minister’s address at their Triennial General Meeting in 2000. Feeling his speech was becoming a party political broadcast, they rewarded him with a slow handclap.

However, the WI is still just as committed to preserving traditional skills as it is to addressing the issues of the day, as demonstrated by their Craft Spectacular exhibition in 2000.

Today, the WI is the largest voluntary women’s organisation in the UK, with 212,000 members and 6,600 WIs. It still strives to provide women with educational opportunities and campaigns on issues that affect all women and their communities, from equal pay and better midwifery to climate change and the plight of the honey bee, and over the last 100 years it has effected genuine change. So happy birthday, WI; thank you for all you have done, and long may you continue.

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Useful Numbers Doctors NHS 111 St Clements Surgery, Tanner Street Springvale Surgery, 40 Pound Rd, Kings Worthy The Friarsgate Practice St Paul’s Medical Practice, Alison Way Badger Farm Surgery, Badger Farm Road Gratton Doctors Surgery, Sutton Scotney

schools 111 01962 852211 01962 882957 01962 871730 01962 853599 01962 877222 01962 760394

CHEMISTS Springvale Pharmacy 18 Fraser Road, Kingsworthy, SO23 7PJ

01962 884848

Boots the Chemist 35-38 High Street, SO23 9BL.

01962 852020

Lloyds Pharmacy St Paul’s Surgery, Alison Way, Clifton Terrace, SO22 6EW.

01962 854725

Local Boots Pharmacy 01962 842180 Unit 1, Stockbridge Road, Weeke, SO22 6EL. Sainsbury’s Pharmacy 01962 868641 Unit 3, Sainsbury’s Complex, Badger Farm, SO22 4QB. Different to shop opening times Lloyds Pharmacy 155 High Street, SO23 9BA.

01962 854575

Lloyds Pharmacy Ltd Silver Hill, SO23 8AE.

01962 852701

RECycling www.integra.org.uk/recycling Bar End, Winchester Open daily 9am-6pm Summer, 9am-4pm Winter

01962 868523

LIBRARIES http://www.hants.gov.uk/library/ Winchester Lending Library: 0845 6035631 Winchester Discovery Centre, Jewry St, SO23 8RX, Open: Mon - Fri 9am-7pm, Sat 9am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm www.discoverycentres.co.uk/winchester Stanmore Library: 0845 6035631 Wavell Way, Stanmore, SO22 4EH Open: Mon 2pm-5pm, Tue Closed, Wed & Fri 5.30pm-7pm, Thur 2pm-5pm, Sat & Sun Closed

All Saints C Of E Primary School 01962 Compton All Saints' C Of E Primary School 01962 Harestock Primary School 01962 Henry Beaufort School 01962 Itchen Abbas Primary School 01962 Kings Worthy Primary School 01962 Kings' School 01962 Lanterns Nursery School &Children's Ctre 01962 Micheldever C Of E Primary School 01962 Oliver's Battery Primary School 01962 Osborne School 01962 Peter Symonds College 01962 Shepherds Down Special School 01962 South Wonston Primary School 01962 St Bede C Of E Primary School 01962 St Faith's C E Primary School 01962 St Peter's Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School, Winchester 01962 Stanmore Primary School 01962 Weeke Primary School 01962 Western C Of E Primary School 01962 Westgate School, The 01962 Winnall Primary School 01962

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USEFUL CONTACTS Hampshire County Council Winchester City Council Planning Applications Refuse Street Lighting Highways & Traffic Police (routine inquiries) Royal Hants County Hospital Dial-a-Ride Shopmobility Steve Brine MP 9 Stockbridge Rd, Winchester, SO22 6RN steve.brine.mp@parliament.uk

0300 555 1375 01962 840222 01962 848177 0845 603 5634 0800 506060 01962 848241 0845 0454545 01962 863535 01962 852602 01962 842626 01962 791110

EMERGENCIES Police, Fire or Ambulance Services Police (Incident Reports) Southern Water - Sewage Southern Water - Water Leak Southern Water - Tech Support Gas – National Grid (If you smell gas,call us immediately) Electricity

999 0845 0845 0800 0845 0800

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Regular meeting at Potters Heron Hotel,Ampfield Mondays at 7.30pm.

Come and see a friendly club in action.

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Discover What’s On EASTLEIGH FILM FESTIVAL 21-26 Sep, 7pm The Point, Leigh Road, SO50 9DE www.eastleighfilmfestival.com 023 8065 2333 @EastleighFF AUTUMN ART, CRAFT & GIFT MARKET 26 Sep, 11-3pm Colden Common Community Centre, St Vigor Way, SO21 1UU Crafts and Gifts by local artists and crafters and small independent businesses.

Tearooms with homemade treats and children’s crafting area, £1.50 per project. Free Entry to market.

023 9311 6749

WIGHTLINK WIGHT CHALLENGE 26 Sep, 8.30 to 5.30pm Jersey Camp, Isle of Wight, PO30 4PF Are you fit? Can you cycle 19 miles? Canoe 2 miles? Run 8 miles? Could you do this in a team of 3? Then sign up today for the Wightlink Wight Challenge. Takes place on mixed terrain. Event in aid of local charitiesCanoes provided and bikes are available for hire if required. Limited spaces available. More info www. wightchallenge.co.uk 07855 022429

THE TEST VALLEY IN AUTUMN & WINTER 29 Sep, 7.30pm-9.30pm Chandlers Ford Community Centre, Hursley Rd, SO53 2FT An illustrated talk on the Test Valley. Andy Lester, from the environmental charity La Rocha, will give an illustrated talk on the Test Valley in Autumn and Winter£2.50 includes refreshments. 02380 266786, Barbara Hillier WINCHESTER COMEDY FESTIVAL 1-4 Oct Various Winchester venus.

4 days, 5 venues, 26 shows. www.winchestercomedyfestival. co.uk GLUTEN FREE FOOD FAIR 3 Oct, 10.302.30pm Guildhall Winchester, SO23 9GH Major gluten-free food manufacturers, local suppliers, medical speakers, free samples (subject to availability). www. coeliac.org.uk/wessex JANE AUSTEN TOUR & CREAM TEA 3 Oct, 7 Nov, 2.30pm Winchester Cathedral The team of Cathedral guides, themselves great fans of Jane Austen, reveal Jane Austen’s links with the Cathedral. The tour will include a walk through the Cathedral’s historic Inner Close to the house on College Street where Jane and Cassandra stayed during their time in Winchester. Price £10 inc cream tea. 01962 857275 HARVEST WEEKEND AT WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL 3 & 4 Oct Winchester Cathedral, SO23 9LS A free family event celebrating the County’s food and farming. www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk

FAMILY NIGHT AT MOORS VALLEY COUNTRY PARK 4 Oct & 11, 18, 25 Nov, 6-7.30pm Ashley Heath, BH24 2ET A chance for families to have a go at night riding. Tickets £4.50 pp. Bike hire £2.50. www.moors-valley.co.uk/events/ at-moors-valley/ 70’S DISCO 9 Oct, 7.30-11.00pm Stockbridge Town Hall Dust off that 70’s gear at the back of your wardrobe and boogie on down for a great night out.

Featuring Storm Disco. Bring your own drinks. Tickets £10 from Stockbridge Country Market or Margaret 07784 773345. Raising money for Motor Neurone Disease Association.

JUMBLE SALE 10th October, 10am Methodist Church Hall, Spring Lane, Colden Common.

Donations of Jumble welcome at the Methodist Church Hall between 9am and 10.00am on the day or between 9.30am and 11.30am Thurs - Fri the week before. Please come along and grab yourself a bargain or two!!

COME AND SING 10 Oct, 7.30pm (2pm Rehearsal) Romsey Abbey Voices for Hospices 2015 present Come and Sing Faure Requiem and Gloria Vivaldi. £10 to sing or listen. All proceeds to Countess Mountbatten Hospice Charity. www.cmhcharity.org.uk/events 10 DAYS - CHALK 10 Oct to 7 Nov Around Winchester An interdisciplinary contemporary arts platform across the district. Venues include: City Museum, Winchester Cathedral, The Winchester Gallery, The Link Gallery and Theatre Royal Winchester. www.10dayswinchester.org

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TALKS AT CHAWTON HOUSE LIBRARY 12 Oct, 2-4pm Alton, GU34 1SJ Talk, Book Signing and Afternoon Tea. The First ladies of Gardening, an illustrated talk

by Heidi Howcroft and Marianne Majerus. Ticket prices £11, conc £8.50. 01420 541010

SOUTHAMPTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 15-18 Oct Various locations in Southampton. www.southamptonfilmfest.com WINCHESTER BOOK FAIR 17 Oct, 10-4pm Winchester Discovery Centre, SO23 8SB Founded more than thirty years ago the Winchester book fair attracts dealers from all over Hampshire. www. winchesterbookfair.com AUTUMN STEAM GALA 23-25 Oct Mid Hants Railway, SO24 9JG Fares: Adult £25, Adult 3 day pass £50. Child £13. Under 2 free.

Family (2 Adults & 2 Children) £63. 01962 733810 SALISBURY CARNIVAL 23 Oct, 7:30pm Illuminated procession. www. salisburycitycouncil.gov.uk HALLOWEEN AT FINKLEY DOWN 24 Oct to 31 Oct Finkley Down, SP11 6NF Fun and games with Silly Scott’s Halloween Show. www. finkleydownfarm.co.uk 01264 324141 HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL 24 Oct to 1 Nov Marwell Wildlife, SO21 1JH Design a pumpkin for carving and watch our animals explore and eat their pumpkin treats. Be enthralled by spooky storytelling with our resident witch, uncover the mysteries of Marwell 54

through our fact-packed talk and have bundles of fun on our scarecrow selfie. www.marwell. org.uk HALLOWEEN AT BIRDWORLD 26-30 Oct Holt Pound, GU10 4LD Halloween Grotto, spooky trail plus some fun but creepy arts and crafts. www.birdworld.co.uk A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE 29 Oct, 10-2pm Whitefield Moor car park, SU274027, SO42 7QD As part of this year’s Walking Festival learn more about the historic New Forest drifts, how livestock are managed and what commoning means in practice, during this moderate paced walk. 12 years +. Dogs welcome if kept on a lead. 6.5 miles. 50% discount for those arriving by bus, train, bike or foot. £5.50pp (B) 0300 068 0400 WIZARD WEEKEND AT THE WATERCRESS LINE 30 & 31 Oct Mid Hants Railway, SO24 9JG Watch the Watercress Line transform in to a place of magic and mischief on Halloween! For tickets visit www.watercressline. co.uk 01962 733810 WINCHESTER BONFIRE & FIREWORKS 7 Nov, 8pm Fireworks 6.30pm fire torchlit procession from King Alfred’s statue to River Park.

7.45pm bonfire lit. Winchester’s biggest annual gathering of people - come join approx 20,000 people to raise money for local good causes. Tickets winchesterbonfire. co.uk and in venues around the city from start of October. £3 in advance - £5 on the day.

ROUND THE HOME 50TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR 17-19 Nov Salisbury Playhouse, Malthouse Lane, Salisbury, SP2 7RA Take a step back

in time and re-live the classic 1960s radio programme Round The Horne live at Salisbury Playhouse. From 1965-69 this ground-breaking programme was Britain’s biggest radio show. With its movie spoofs and hilarious characters, Round the Horne was packed with fun and now, 50 years later, you can experience it live. www.salisburyplayhouse.com WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL ICE RINK 19 Nov - 3 Jan The Close, SO23 9LH Don your hat and gloves and head to Winchester’s Christmas ice rink.

Experience an exhilarating skate against the magnificent backdrop of Winchester Cathedral. With an adjoining café offering stunning views of the cathedral, there’s fun to be had on and off the ice. One-hour sessions include free skate hire and fitting.

WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL MARKET 19 Nov - 20 Dec Inner Close, SO23 9LS Recognised as one of the best in Europe and renowned for its spectacular location, the Winchester Cathedral Christmas Market brings high quality exhibitors, wonderful Christmas gifts and an abundance of festive foods.

BOOK OF GENESIS - TRIBUTE BAND 21 Nov, 7.30pm Plaza Theatre Romsey The Book of Genesis faithfully recreates the musical brilliance of England’s finest progressive rock band covering the Gabriel years and some of the best songs from the Collins period. Tickets £12.50 www. thebookofgenesis.co.uk

Cedar Lawn Nursing Home

This stately manor house sits in pleasant grounds 1 mile from the bustling market town of Romsey on the edge of the New Forest.

Standards which are maintained by selecting staff who complement their training and experience with patience and understanding.

Registered for general nursing care, respite and palliative care for residents over 50, the original house has been modernised and refurbished to retain

This ensures residents needs are met with sympathy and concern for their individuality and self esteem.

its comfort and character whilst incorporating the very latest equipment expected of a modern nursing home.

The result is a charming ‘country house hotel’ atmosphere coupled with the very highest standards of care.

They are in reality paying guests, and it is our intent that our residents receive the highest standards of care without ever having to ask.

Cedar Lawn Nursing Home, Braishfield Rd., Romsey, Hampshire. SO51 7US Tel: 01794 5523300 www.sentinel-healthcare.com 55

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