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DARE I ASK? You know that feeling when you’ve spent hours, sometimes days preparing a special meal for family or friends? Weighing up different recipes, catering for the likes and dislikes of your guests, shopping for ingredients, sometimes going out your way to a favourite deli for that exotic item. Then, it’s all consumed in a flash! Appreciative diners pat their tummies and congratulate the chef … but do they really know how much effort went into getting it just right?

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complaining! What I know is that if you are reading this then our efforts as a team bringing Discover to you every other month isn’t wasted and for that it’s worth every late night and last minute panic.

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ENJOY A WILD TIME IN AND AROUND HAMPSHIRE THIS EASTER WITH THE NATIONAL TRUST AND CADBURY This year, the National Trust has teamed up with Cadbury, inviting families to unleash their inner explorers on Easter egg hunts through muddy woodlands, New Forest heathland, along nature trails and through spring gardens blooming with life.

There are no less than six Cadbury Easter Egg Hunts to choose from in and around Hampshire, guaranteeing a funfilled Easter for everyone. You’ll Here are our favourite Cadbury Easter Egg Hunts and events across Hampshire: Winchester City Mill Cadbury Easter egg hunt 14 – 17 April, 10am – 4pm, normal admission charge, plus £2 per trail sheet.

You’ll find lots of delicious chocolate fun at the Mill over the Easter weekend.

Winchester City Mill – Easter baking demonstrations and holiday trail challenge 8 – 23 April, normal admission Kids can have a go at completing the Mill’s Easter holiday trail challenge, in return for a special prize.

The Vyne Cadbury’s Easter egg Hunt 8 – 23 April 10am – 4pm, normal admission charge plus £3 per hunt.

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Every time you take part in a Cadbury Easter Egg Hunt, you’ll help the National Trust fund vital conservation work to protect our special places across the South East.

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Mottisfont Cadbury Egg Hunt 8 – 23 April, 10am - 5pm, normal admission charge plus suggested donation of £2 Pick up an Easter hunt sheet and follow the trail to discover the creatures that trot, scamper, crawl and wiggle around the grounds.

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TIME AND SANITY SAVERS Tips and tricks to make your life easier, from washable nail polish to a booster seat that can fit in a school bag.

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8-8.30am is often a rather stressful period in my house. Arguments over brushing teeth (my son) compete with tears over forgotten homework (my daughter). One thing I do have sorted is making it easy for them to find their uniform so they can get dressed. I use a rubber band to attach two clothes hangers together, one of which is the type with clips.

Pants get hung from one clip, tights or socks from the other, and the rest of the uniform goes on the other hanger. Simple. My next mission is to teach them to put their PJs under their pillow, rather than dumping them on the floor. We’ve been working on that one for a while now, with no luck.

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From emergency wees in the park to dropped dummies, children just attract germs.

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Children seem to have an innate ability to lose things. If you can’t be bothered to spend hours sewing on name tags, try Tinyme labels. They’re printed with your child’s name and a design of your choice. The Essentials Pack (from £24) comes with more than 200 labels, including iron-on labels for clothes, and different sized stickers for shoes, pencil cases and so on. They’re designed to stay on through washing, tumble drying and general day-to-day use. Tinyme also make personalised bags, books, drinks bottles and a ton of other items, handy if your child is particularly prone to misplacing their possessions.

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Couponing You may know couponing as cutting out discount vouchers from the local paper or supermarket magazines. But the practice has taken on a life of its own, with ‘extreme couponing’ hitting the headlines as shoppers save huge amounts on their monthly food bill.

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EATING DISORDERS Eating disorders affect over 725,000 people in the UK and one in five of those most seriously affected die prematurely through suicide or physical consequences. That’s why it’s essential we’re all aware of the dangers of eating disorders and our susceptibility to them.

Forget the stereotypical teenage girl starving herself. There are several different eating disorders that can affect people of any age, gender or ethnicity.

What Causes Eating Disorders?

Often, it’s a combination of genetic, psychological, environmental, social and biological factors. Risk factors are: • Bereavement or abuse.

• Being criticised about weight, body shape or eating habits.

• Intense stress.

• Family history of addiction, depression or eating disorders.

• Pressure to be slim from themselves, society or a career/hobby, e.g. dancing, sports.

• Underlying issues such as anxiety, low selfesteem, perfectionism or obsessive personality.

• Relationship issues.

Types of Eating Disorder Anorexia Nervosa Around 1 in 250 women and 1 in 2,000 men will experience anorexia, becoming preoccupied with weighing as little as possible via excessive exercise and/or starving themselves. It usually develops at age 16 or 17 but sometimes, as young as 7.

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Bulimia Bulimia sufferers alternate between binge eating and purging by inducing vomiting or using laxatives, and 90% are female. It’s more common than anorexia and usually develops at around 18 or 19.

Binge eating disorder (BED) BED affects around 5% of adults, compelling them to eat large amounts of food very rapidly.

It affects both sexes equally, usually developing between 30 and 40 years old.

Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS) Some people may have some but not all of the symptoms of a specific eating disorder, so they receive an EDNOS diagnosis.

Diagnosis and Treatment Doctors and healthcare professionals use internationally agreed criteria to diagnose eating disorders, normally using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) or International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

They ask patients about their weight, self-image and relationship with food. è

But how do you know someone needs to be referred for diagnosis?

Often, people with eating disorders will be in denial or try to hide symptoms, but they may: • Skip meals or claim they’ve already eaten/will eat when they’re out.

• Only eat tiny/low-calorie meals.

• Claim they’re fat when they’re a healthy weight/underweight.

• Repeatedly weigh themselves/study themselves in the mirror.

• Cook large family meals yet eat little themselves.

• Refuse to eat in public or become stressed when they do.

• Use ‘pro-anorexia’ websites.

Physical health is monitored while the disorder’s underlying causes are treated. This may involve: • Self-help books.

• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), aiming to change thinking and in turn, behaviour.

• Interpersonal psychotherapy: a talking therapy focusing on relationship issues.

• Dietary counselling.

• Psychodynamic therapy or cognitive analytic therapy (CAT), focusing on how personality and life experiences influence thoughts and behaviour.

• Family therapy, considering the eating disorder’s effects on them and their family.

• Medication: often SSRI antidepressants (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors).

If you suspect you or someone else has an eating disorder, get professional help immediately. Rapid treatment makes full recovery more likely and minimises the impact on the patient’s body and life. However, recovery can be lengthy and, like the disorders themselves, complex.

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Hi-Viz Help is at Hand Hamble Valley Rotary has never considered itself a ‘hi-viz’ organisation but they do try to make a difference locally in their own way. Pictured here are the good folk of Botley NeighbourCare looking very smart in their ‘Hi-Viz’ jackets which have been provided for them out of Hamble Valley Rotary’s charitable funds.

Hamble Valley Rotary’s Christmas 2016 events managed to raise a total of just over £4000 and they would like to thank the kind people of Hedge End, West End and Botley for their generous contributions.

Carey Blake, a committee chairperson told Discover: “We are always amazed by the happy faces we meet including this year a babe in arms who was at least 8 weeks old (and was doing rather better in the cold than the rest of us) and the lady

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It may have been different in the Seventies and Eighties, but these days you’ll find a real crosssection of ages browsing through the clothing rails.

feeling invisible, and that’s because they’ve lost confidence. Their body language says “don’t look at me, I’m not worth your attention”, so it’s hardly surprising that people no longer notice them.

Short skirts, revealing tops, body-hugging clothing and huge heels will still be out for me, but I’m giving myself permission to drop into some of the more youthful stores I used to shun, just in case there’s something that catches my eye.

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HAMPSHIRE HARDY PLANT SOCIETY TALK 21 Apr, 7.15pm St Boniface Church Hall, Chandlers Ford SO53 2FT “Life as a Gardening Editor” talk by Tamsin Westhorpe.

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GIPSY MOTH IV RETURNS TO BUCKLER’S HARD Fifty years ago, Sir Francis Chichester set sail on the Beaulieu River to become the first person to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe. Gipsy Moth IV is now on show again at the bottom of the High Street, where Sir Francis originally kept her before setting sail on his epic voyage.

Gipsy Moth IV will be open to Buckler’s Hard visitors between 10am and 4.30pm on 14 - 17 April 2017. It’s a rare opportunity to climb on board the famous yacht for a tour and learn more about her record-breaking history and amazing story.

More tales and artefacts from the voyage are on show in the attraction’s Maritime Museum, including a map, personal items from the adventure and records of the floodings and even a capsizing which put the journey at risk.

Plans to celebrate the anniversary of the homecoming to Buckler’s Hard in September 2017 are already underway.

“It is a beautiful spot and keeps her much more visible to the public as she is moored at the bottom of the ‘street’ between the old shipwright’s cottages. We all feel that this is a wonderful place for her to be, especially as this is where Sir Francis originally kept her before heading off on his circumnavigation.”

A RECORD BREAKING ADVENTURE Sir Francis Chichester, the son of a clergyman, set a number of world firsts and records through his successful voyage. He was the first person to sail solo around the earth and the fastest circumnavigator with his record of nine months and one day, which was almost twice as fast as the previous record.

To prepare for the voyage, Buckler’s Hard shopkeeper Mrs Rhoda Martin’s task was to preserve eggs by covering the shells with liquid paraffin and de-eyeing hundreds of potatoes to prevent them from sprouting. According to the provisions list he took 156 eggs and 30lbs of potatoes on the outward journey.

Sir Francis sailed from Buckler’s Hard on August 12th 1966 for trials on the Solent before finally leaving Plymouth on August 27th. After 226 days at sea, with only one stop in Sydney, the 65-year-old sailor and former aviator finally returned to Buckler’s Hard on September 17th the following year. He had travelled a staggering 29,630 miles in the 54ft ketch. Weeks after his circumnavigation, Sir Francis was knighted for “individual achievement and sustained endeavour in the navigation and seamanship of small craft”.

For the ceremony, the Queen used the sword which had been used by her predecessor, Queen Elizabeth I, to knight the adventurer Sir Francis Drake who was the first Englishman to complete a circumnavigation with his crew. Sir Francis was also later honoured on a postage stamp, which showed him aboard Gipsy Moth IV and he still holds a special place in maritime history. Asked why he undertook the journey, Sir Francis Chichester said simply: “Because it intensifies life.”

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I LOVE FOOD. PUBS. AND MY DOG, WHISKY And not always in this order. Which means that I like taking my very energetic 2-year-old cavapoo for walks all around the beaten tracks of Hampshire. That’s a treat for him. And then I like stopping on my way home via a pub for a drink – or two. That’s a treat for me.

There is even one pub I know that is sooooo crazy about our four-legged friends that they call themselves “the most dog friendly pub in the forest”. And oh my, Whisky would agree. The Compass Inn in Winsor is a true haven for dogs, where they get doggy meals and treats from the chef. They run monthly dog walks too!

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But do book, as the place gets fully packed. It’s THAT good. Watch out for their first Gin Festival on March 31-April 1, following the immense success of their annual Rum Festival. Do try it, with or without dogs, the place is amazing!

When in Southampton, I also tend to go to Highfield for a walk in the woods.

When Whisky’s little legs get tired (or when I huff and puff, whichever comes first), we head for the fabulous Brewhouse and Kitchen on Highfield Lane.

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