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www.beaulieu.co.uk/events DURMAST HOUSE 26 Jun, 2-5pm Durmast House, Burley BH24 4AT Designed by Gertrude Jekyll, Durmast has contrasting hot and cool colour borders, formal rose garden edged with lavender and a long herbaceous border. Many old trees, Victorian rockery and orchard with beautiful spring bulbs. Rare azaleas: Fama, Princeps and Gloria Mundi from Ghent. Admission £4, Children free. Cream teas.

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OPEN GARDEN (NGS) 3 Jul, 11-4pm A sympathetically restored railway station with wild flower garden in the former track. Established specimen trees, perennials, annuals and bulbs. Raised vegetable beds, greenhouse and a new orchard. Winston Churchill was based here before D-Day. Admission £4, Children free. Home-made teas. www.ngs.org.uk LET’S ROCK CONCERT 9 Jul Southampton Concert An action packed day of general 80s madness.

There will be plenty to do for everyone at this Family Friendly Festival! www.letsrocksouthampton.com UNI OPEN DAY 9 Jul, 10-4pm University of Southampton SO17 1BJ Get a feel for university life, learn about subjects, degrees and courses direct from our academics, join us for tours of campuses and facilities, and get tips for applying to study here.

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13 - 17 July larmertreefestival.co.uk Headliners so far: Jamie Callum & Jack Savoretti BisHop’s WaltHaM Music festival 16 July 3.00pm - 10.30pm £5.00 bwmusic.weebly.com Mutiny fontwell park race track 17 - 19 July www.mutinyfestivals.co.uk Dance festival curious - neW forest; an arts festival WitH live Music 22 - 24 July curiousartsfestival.com netley MarsH steaM fair 22 - 24 July www.nmscs.org.uk Live music in the evening sausage fest Martha’s Down, nr Hindon, Wiltshire 22 & 23 July sausagefestival.co.uk sWanage carnival Dorset 30 July - 6 august www.swanagecarnival.com

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Throughout the streets and in venues all around the town, the best of local musicians bring you an eclectic mix of folk, jazz, blues, soul, rock, bluegrass, classical and world music. Together with colourful dance displays and children’s entertainment there is plenty of entertainment on offer. From big bands on the Cornmarket main stage to intimate acoustic music in tranquil gardens, cheerful pub sessions and spellbinding storytelling there is something for everyone.

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In addition, Youth in Romsey will also be presenting a fantastic selection of young musicians at their Youth Festival in The War Memorial Park along with other family activities.

One of the original goals of the organisers in 1993 was “to create a new tradition for Romsey, involving musicians, dancers, entertainers and above all audience“. An event it certainly now is. A truly unique community festival and the busiest Saturday in Romsey all year.

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Tackling Troublesome Weeds

Why is it that weeds always seem to grow faster and more vigorously than pretty well anything you actually choose to plant in your garden? Top of my weed hate list is hairy bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta), which produces a little rosette of leaves topped with a short spike with tiny white flowers, and I despise it because it spreads so quickly. Weeds are typically described as ‘any plant which is growing in the wrong place’ such as your flowerbeds, your vegetable garden, your shrubbery or your lawn.

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Disturb the soil as little as possible when you weed to prevent dormant weed seeds from germinating.

Some people avoid anything other than an early weeding and a late weeding, as they find that regular weeding seems to bring more seeds to the surface and encourages germination.

Remove your weeds before they set seed.

Avoid composting any weeds which are setting seed, have set seed or have particularly pernicious and resilient roots (dock and dandelion are classic examples of these).

When removing deep-rooted weeds such as dock and dandelion, always make sure that you take out every fragment of root, as each piece left behind has the potential to form a new plant.

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• If you want to sow annuals or vegetable crops directly and minimise later problems with weeds, then try the stale seedbed technique.

Prepare the area you intend to sow well in advance of your proposed seed sowing date, which allows dormant weed seeds to germinate; remove the weed

seedlings and then sow or plant up as you wish. This should give you fewer problems later on.

• Many weeds can be kept at bay if you cover the soil surface with two to three inches (5 – 7.5 cm) of mulch.

• Use weedkillers with caution and ensure you choose one appropriate for the problem you have.

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Longer days mean it’s time to head out to the garden. However large or small your outside space, some careful planning will ensure that it is flexible enough for playing games, entertaining or simply putting your feet up and relaxing, writes Katherine Sorrell

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Today’s gardens are more like an outdoor room, used for playing, cooking, socialising and resting; they are multifunctional spaces that look good but also work hard for every member of the family.

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Are you ready to control everything in your house with a smartphone app?

In the 1930s, magazines predicted a really exciting thing called the smart home - a home where everything was automated and easy to control. It’s taken its time to turn up, but smart home technology is finally here.

From your boiler to your light bulbs, there’s an app for almost everything.

such as Google’s Nest and British Gas’s Hive, that can automate your heating and even turn the heater up and down when you’re away from home. There are smart bulbs, such as Philips’ Hue, that can completely change the colour of your room with a single tap of your phone’s screen. There are smart baby monitors such as BabyPing that stream video of your (hopefully!) sleeping child to your phone, and there is a whole selection of smart cameras that you can use to monitor your house.

Most smart home technology is designed to connect to your Wi-Fi network, either directly or via a little box called a hub. Once it’s connected you can then control it from your phone.

There are smart thermostats,

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Both Apple and Google have bet on home automation as one of the next big things, so they’re encouraging firms to make even more smart devices although inevitably, Apple

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and Google’s systems aren’t compatible with one another so you need to pick sides.

That’ll change in the longer term, because it’s in nobody’s interest to have rival, incompatible systems for such basics as light switches and heating controls, but at the moment it’s really important to check compatibility - so for example if you want to control smart home technology via an Apple iPhone or Apple Watch, you should look for devices that support Apple’s HomeKit. If you don’t, you could end up in a situation where you need a different app for each smart home product you buy, which is hardly making things simple.

If you’re wondering what’s so smart about smart home technology, the answer is that by connecting different things together you can make interesting things happen.

For example, Philips’ Hue bulbs work with Apple’s Siri voice recognition, so you can say “Hey Siri! Set scene to movie!” and the lights will change. Nest learns your habits to work out the best

times and temperatures for heating your home, and can talk to your phone, see that you’re heading home from work and make sure the house is nice and toasty for your arrival. Sky’s latest Sky Q system can send video including your recordings - from your Sky box to any other room in the house, or to your phone or tablet when you’re far from home.

There’s a catch, of course.

Because this is all brand new technology, it’s quite expensive - so if you fancy a Bluetooth-enabled DeLonghi coffee machine that you can command from the sofa, it’ll cost £1,500. Even relatively simple devices can be expensive, so for example smart plugs for remotely turning things on and off cost around £40, while a starter

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kit of three Philips Hue bulbs and a hub will set you back £149. Upgrading from Sky+HD to Sky Q costs from £99 to £249 and then comes in at £56 per month. As ever, being first on the block with new technology doesn’t come cheap - so maybe the really smart homes will wait until the technology gets cheaper before taking the plunge.

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INTERVIEW

Travis

Fran Healy and Andy Dunlop are one half of Travis. They spoke to Lucy Ambache on The Evening Breeze and talked comebacks, making movies and why they might be responsible for Coldplay.

Where have you been?

What’s been going on?

Fran: In the last six weeks I’ve been in Mexico City, Texas, Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, London, Glasgow, Milan and now here.

We’re just running around telling everyone we’ve got a record out! We hadn’t been played for a long time on the radio and I think that’s because we’d gone off to be dads. We were putting records out but we weren’t putting the ‘foot down’.

Now the kids are 8,9, 10 years old we can really concentrate on getting out there.

You scheduled dad time?

Blokes do that?

Fran: Before you have kids, people tell you that you’ll never get that time back with your kids and if you’re in a band, it’s not a normal job - you’re away for six months or so. So I think for us we were ‘nah, let’s be at home’ and we were lucky enough to be pretty successful 28

so we could buy that time with our kids. A lot of (other) people buy gold racing cars and ridiculous, stupid things but I think it was money well spent.

You’re credited for paving the way for the likes of Coldplay and Keane. That’s pretty amazing?

Andy: We invented Coldplay in a room.

Fran: We constructed them out of foam and bits of wires – and gave them our cast-off songs <laughs>. We were around at the end of the nineties, and we made the ‘Man Who’ album which was pretty incongruous with what was going around at the time and it was very successful – and I think when something like that happens, the record industry goes ‘let’s sign a bunch of this’ so for the next four years that was pretty much what you got.

It wasn’t our intention but that’s what happens.

A song like ‘Why Does It Always Rain On Me’. Do you still love it?

The simpler the song, the better - so I love it.

Your new single ‘Magnificent Time’ is so ‘your sound’.

Fran: Interesting story about that track is that it is a co-write between me and Tim from Keane. He sent me a text and said he’d written a song that sounded like him doing a bad impersonation of Travis!

You’re on tour throughout May. You’re looking forward to that?

Andy: Yeah. We’ve done one proper full show in Japan, and we had eight songs in the set and they sat brilliantly with all the old songs. It’s going to be an exciting show I think Fran: The thing is because we’ve done the album and the movie, we’ve done the visuals so they look great so we were like “we have to bring the live show up to that level as well”. So for the first time ever it’s a ’show’ show!

Andy: We get to play it every night and people still go mad to it so it’s still our touching point.

Fran: I like that song because it’s really easy to play – it’s super simple! When you’re playing songs in a gig, the more complicated chord structures and rhythms, and then you have to think about lyrics, they get in the way of enjoying the show.

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A team of uniformed players lined up to bowl on a perfectly manicured green is one of the most evocative sights of the summer.

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older generation. That view has recently been challenged by an upsurge of interest in Barefoot Bowls, a relatively new Australian variant of the game that has attracted more young people to play. Barefoot Bowls uses four players per team with a game length of between 30-60 minutes, although the main objective – to get your bowls as close to the jack as possible – remains the same.

Lawn Bowls is played in singles, pairs, triples and four player teams. Players use weighted bowls known as ‘woods’ that are heavier on one side, giving them a bias.

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Another more traditional variant of Lawn Bowls is Crown Green Bowls, which adds an additional level of challenge as it is played on an uneven surface. In France the game of Pétanque is played on a hard dirt or gravel surface, either in public parks or dedicated areas called boulodromes.

Hollow metal balls are bowled towards a ‘cochonnet’ (which translates as ‘piglet’), which is the Gallic version of the English jack. Pétanque is surprisingly popular in the UK too, and the English Pétanque Association website (www.englishpetanque.org.uk) lists 16 regions where the sport is played.

Despite its status as one of Great Britain’s most popular sports, up to now Lawn Bowls has had the reputation of being more suitable for the

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TOTTON ART SOCIETY New members always welcome.

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Youth Club Sessions Mon Wed Thur 6-9pm. www.garageyouthclub.net WARHAMMER CLUB AT TOTTON LIBRARY Held on alternate Thursdays during term-time. Free Club for 16 year olds and above.

WOODLANDS GARDENING CLUB Meets on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7.30pm at Woodlands Community Hall. Visitors and new members welcome.

02380 292953 BOYS BRIGADE Monday Evenings during Term Time, 5:30-9:30pm Cornerstone United Reformed Church, Hythe SO45 6BR For more information email office@cornerstonehytheurc.org.uk or call 02380 845005

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02380 865355 threescoreclub.hampshire.org.uk VOICES OF THE FOREST A choir in which the focus is on the joy and the inspirational quality of singing, and on sharing this joy with others through performance. Meets Tuesday evenings during term time at Emery Down village hall 7.30pm.

Contact Cathy via the website www.voicesoftheforest.co.uk THE CHAPEL WOMEN’S CRAFT GROUP Meets weekly on Mondays from midday to 2-2.30 at The Chapel Café, 12 Hammonds Green, Totton, SO40 3HG Just bring along whatever you are currently creating to join like minded people . Suggestions are knitting, crochet, embroidery, sewing and colouring.

0784 559 3672 WATERSIDE TABLE TENNIS CLUB Table Tennis England Club of the Year 2014 / 15 runner up Testwood Sports College, Totton SO40 3ZW Open Practice for all ages and abilities Mon & Fri 7.00 - 10.15pm Junior Coaching Fridays 6.30 - 8.00pm Everyone welcome.

02380 894403 chairman@watersidettc.co.uk NEW FOREST ART SOCIETY Meets third Wednesday of most months at Lyndhurst Community Centre 7.30-9.30 pm. newforestartsociety.weebly.com New members and guests welcome.

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