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garden, you‘ll find all the help you need within these pages, hopefully this will make it that little easier and enjoyable. You can than sit back with your Easter Eggs at hand and enjoy the fruits of your labour.

I must start this month by thanking those of you that have been sending in jokes for the “Wit & Wisdom” page. Emails relating to a variety of different subjects have contained a contribution of wit tagged onto the end., and a special thank you goes to Mo Charlton for sending me numerous jokes and sayings, as well as adding me to his email circulation of witty repartee. Wit Have a great Easter ~ Enjoy! & Wisdom lives on!

As this magazine arrives we are about to head into Easter and our thoughts turn to time off from work (yippee), family get togethers and CHOCOLATE Easter Eggs! I’m sure that a very respectable period of time has now elapsed since Mother’s Day so I’m more than ready for my next chocolate fix.

Easter tends to be the first opportunity to get out into the open and enjoy the spring sunshine, I do so hope that the weather continues to be good through the holiday period, it’s such a tonic. For those of you planning to tackle the

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The Garden Shed April

By Jo Arnell

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pring is in full swing – the birds are shouting, blossom is blossoming and the garden has sprung into life. The tasks for the month are too long to list, but one of them – if tackled now will save you lots of

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time and effort as the season progresses, in fact if you leave it too long, you may go off gardening for life when you finally get to it.

I’m talking about weeding.

Weeding is one of the (many) onerous gardening tasks and the rate at which the pesky things grow is amazing. They spread while you’re not looking or while you’re too busy with the other growing pile of – insert pile of choice – ironing? Dishes? Clutter?

Paperwork? The thing about weeds is that they’re very competitive with anything else that grows; they’ve evolved over millennia to out-compete all the namby cultivated plants.

They’ve learned to germinate earlier, while the soil is still cold and wet, and to hang on in there, some of them re-growing from a tiny speck of root when you think you’ve pulled the blighters up.

There are two main types of weed – perennial (there forever) and annual (living for just one year, but spreading their seed around

the garden - forever). Perennials are tough and can spread quickly by sending out runners and underground roots that are hard to eradicate, especially when they grow among existing plants. Annual weeds seem easier to control, but some can germinate and set their own seed within 3 weeks. And each plant contains thousands of seeds that can lie dormant in the soil for years.

It helps if you can identify the seedling leaves of weeds – that way you can get rid of them before they start spreading (key in ‘weed seedling identification’ on the computer and lots of useful info pops up). If you can get to them early, you may just need a hoe (and a trowel for the tricky ones left over from last year). I try to pull up weeds whenever I walk through the garden (and then leave irritating little piles of them around the place). But weeding regularly will help you to stay on top of them.

So pick up your hoe, or choose an alternative weapon of mass destruction (but try to be kind to wildlife – skulls on the side of weedkiller packaging don’t bode well) and prepare for battle.

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Dymchurch Parish Council Chairman Cllr Roger Wilkins said “The Parish Council have felt for sometime that Dymchurch needed its own website focusing on the whole community and its visitors. Dymchurch has a lot of visitors during the summer and we would like to tell them about what Dymchurch has to offer them”.

If you run a business, club, society or similar organisation in Dymchurch and would like to have a free entry on dymchurch.org, please email the website Editor with your details.

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We have a truly exquisite range to offer you from the tried and tested to the more unusual. You will be making your selection direct from our growing beds!

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The Handy Household - New Ways With Newspapers While we all know that our daily newspaper is a source of news and entertainment, what you might not realise is that it is an extremely useful product to keep around the house. So, next time you’re about to recycle your old newspapers, stop for a minute and consider the following uses.

Newspaper is a very absorbent material - it has to be to absorb the ink that’s printed on it. But this means that it’s also fantastic at absorbing all sorts of moisture. One of the most useful ways of taking advantage of this characteristic is that of drying out leather shoes and bags. Simply place crumpled newspaper in the shoes or bag overnight and in the morning not only will they be dry, but there won’t be any water stains.

If you come home with wet wellies or snow boots, placing them on a pile of old newspapers will avoid creating messy puddles on the floor.

Newspaper will absorb any odours in shoes, lunch boxes or vegetable drawers.

Just place a balled-up piece of newspaper in the offending items and it will deodorise them in no time.

You can use newspaper for cleaning tough marks off mirrors and ss windows by using cleaning fluid on the paper. To clean antique glass that might be damaged by cleaning solutions, use the paper with a solution of one part white vinegar to one part warm water.

With all these versatile uses, let’s hope the digital age doesn’t signal the end for the newspaper, because it’s clearly not just for reading the news.

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Create the Perfect

Home Office Whether you have a dedicated room, a corner of the kitchen, a converted outbuilding or are simply looking to squeeze an office in under the stairs, our expert Katherine Sorrell’s guide will help you create a work space that’s not just efficient and functional, but also inviting and comfortable.

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Size matters Start by considering the size of desk you require. The bigger the better – you will never regret having plenty of space on which to spread out. Do you also need a table and chairs for meetings, or perhaps a sofa or chaise longue on which to recline and read or think?

And storage is vital, whether it’s a shelf above the desk, plan chests, filing cabinets, drawers or stacking boxes. Bear in mind that some things will need to be within arm’s reach, while less-used items can be stored on high shelves or deep cupboards, not necessarily in the same room. In awkward rooms, such as lofts, understairs or other small areas, built-in storage will make the most of the space; otherwise you may consider cheaper, free-standing options.

Get technical A good start is to count up your electrical appliances and ensure that you install enough plug sockets in the right places (about three inches above the work surface is good, plus some hidden lower down, too) to accommodate them all. Place electrical items together so you don’t end up with long stretches of cable between them, and clip trailing wires to backs of table legs where possible. Alternatively, going wireless eliminates some cables entirely, and gives you greater flexibility about where to site your equipment.

In this pretty home office, a wall shelf and natural, neutral storage boxes, baskets, bags and trays from The Holding Company (020 8445 2888; theholdingcompany.co.uk) provide a variety of storage for papers and other work essentials.

Light fantastic Good task and general lighting is vital to avoid eye strain when working at home. The more natural light the better – though beware glare from direct sun, and position your desk at right angles to a window if possible. For working on dim days and in the evenings, fit overhead lighting that doesn’t cast any shadows over your working area – track lighting, spots inset into the ceiling and wall lamps are all options. Desk lamps should ideally be adjustable. Alternatively, consider wiring one or two adjustable lamps into the wall above your desk.

Fabulous furniture Conventional office furnishings are great for efficiency, but tend to look out of place in a home.

While ensuring that your desk and chair are comfortable, seek out furnishings that suit your

the home home and your personality. Plenty of chain stores and independent shops sell home office furniture at a range of prices, but you could also consider hunting around junk shops, second-hand office furniture stores and salvage yards for interesting alternatives, such as old school lockers, a trestle resting on a pair of metal filing cabinets, a distressed kitchen unit or a desktop made from blackboard.

Add functional accessories that will brighten up your day, such as colourful waste bins or funky pen holders, and some finishing touches, such as plants, pictures and scented candles that will make this a space where you really want to spend time.

Shared spaces If your office space is shared with your dining room, kitchen, bedroom or living room, you will probably want to conceal it as much as possible when it’s not in use. Build a large cupboard in a recess next to a chimneybreast, for example, and behind the doors you should be able to squeeze in a desk with some shelving above. In a kitchen you might consider removing a unit. That said, think carefully about whether the room’s two purposes will conflict – if you need to work with the children running around, or when a partner wants to sleep, it’s going to be a problem. You might be better off converting the loft, or fitting an office under the stairs, on a large landing or even in the garden shed.

Top: This clever extendable letter rack can either be placed on your desk or mounted on the wall.

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Bottom: File away your work disks in plain and simple labelled boxes.

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Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas 4. Grease and line the base of a 20 cm round springform tin. To make the base, whisk the eggs and sugar together in a large heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water until very thick and pale – the whisk should leave a trail in the mixture when lifted.

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Sift over the flour and cocoa and fold in gently. Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 12-15 minutes until just springy to the touch. Turn out and leave to cool completely. Clean the tin and lightly grease and re-line the base. Place the cold sponge in the base of the tin.

To make the mousse, place the white chocolate, milk and vanilla extract in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering Salad Lettuce Radishes Rocket Sorrel Spring Onions

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water and leave until melted. Remove from the heat and stir until smooth then stir in 4 tbsp of the cream.

Dissolve the gelatine in 2 tbsp hot water. Cool for a few minutes then stir into the chocolate mixture. Softly whip the rest of the cream and fold into the chocolate mixture. Whisk the egg whites until stiff and fold in. Spoon the mousse over the sponge base and chill for 3-4 hours until set.

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Events April

CHALLOCK Challock Memorial Hall, Blind Lane.

1st & 3rd Friday of each month 1pm to 4pm Contact Pauline Hickson 01233 740979

ETVOS Clairvoyant Evening Dymchurch Village

THE BARN SHOP TRADITIONAL MARKET Challock - 2nd & 4th Saturday of each month

ETVOS has been in Dymchurch since 2007, and provides a service to the Spiritualist/Psychic community. None of the organisers or volunteers receive payment from the events. All proceeds go back into the charity. www.etvos.org.

10am – 2pm Contact 01233 740237

CHARING COUNTRY MARKET Charing Church Barn 9.30 -11.00 every Thurs morning Contact 01233 740176

EGERTON Every Friday 2 - 4.30pm Millennium Hall

ROLVENDEN - 01580 240763 Every Thursday 10am -12 noon St Mary’s Church and the Village Hall

RYE FARMERS MARKET Every Wednesday at Strand Quay 10am - 1 pm

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(12pm Oct - April)

RYE MARKET Every Thursday at the Cattle Market Car Park.

Hall, Organswick Ave, Dymchurch TN29 0NX.

Apr 3rd Chris Argent - Apr 17th Bill Baker

Sellindge Village Hall Restoration Fund There will be a tabletop on Saturday 7 April at The Village Hall from 10 - 4. There will be bric-a-brac, books, refreshments, raffle and lots more.Please come along and support this charity. Tables £5 or £8 on the day if there are any left.Please ring 01303.813475 for tables.

Aldington & Bonnington Gardening Society next meeting is on Thursday the 12th April when we will have a talk on “A Year in the life of a Honey Bee” by Mrs Mary Hill. We meet at Aldington Village Hall 7.45pm for 8.00pm. Visitors welcome. For further information contact Colin Evans 01233720618.

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Every Friday 9.30am -11.30am St Mildred’s Church Hall, Church road.

WANTED Old radio and audio valves, please call 02392 251062.

Early till around 3pm (depending on the weather)

RYE COMMUNITY MARKET Rye Community Centre, Conduit Hill. Every Friday 10am -10.45am

WAREHORNE Warehorne Village Hall 10am -1pm 4th Sunday of the month Tel: 01233 733718 or Mob: 07979 905600.

WITTERSHAM MARKET Every Tuesday Village Hall 9am. - 11am Tel: 01797 270757

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Easter Weekend

Garden and Children’s Play Area Open ( weather permitting)

Easter Sunday - Our famous Roast Dinners being served midday - 8pm Easter Monday - Aldington Point to Point Racing - Open as usual

Bucks Fizz Brunch served 11am-1pm £5pp (Full English Breakfast Plus a Glass of Bucks Fizz) Specials Menu and Full Menu Available Midday - 6pm.

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CLUBS & SOCIETIES

Dymchurch Active Retirement Association (Synara) Meet first Tuesday of every month at the Bowery Hall Dymchurch Contact Kay Walker (Secretary) 01303 873542

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Visit www.romneymarshfootpaths.co.uk for our Walks programme.

ST MARYS BAY SHORT MAT BOWLS CLUB Plays At The Village Hall Jefferstone Lane Sundays Morning 10:30/13:00 Tuesdays Afternoon 2:00/5:00 Wednesday Evening 7:30/10:30. Come Along And Try It. We Do Have Some Vacancies

Keep Fit for the 50 Plus Every Wednesday.The classes include a well balanced programme of low impact movement to music, free from injurious exercises with no floor work involved. Contact Vera Neaves Tel: 01303 261876 Venue: Romney Marsh Day Centre, Rolfe Lane, New Romney.

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Wednesday evenings at: Committee Room, St. Mary’s Bay Village Hall. Contact 01303 873984.Yearly subscription £30 plus 50p per meeting attended to help with hall hire costs and tea with biscuits.

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More information at www.contrafusion.co.uk or contact John & Karen on 01233 625 362 1940’s Dancing Lessons, Every Wednesday, incl. Lindy Hop, Charleston, Balboa & Collegiate Shag. For beginners and improvers, at St Mary’s Church Hall, Ashford Town Centre TN23 1QG from 7pm–9.30pm. Cost £6.00 Tel 01233 860564.

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The New Romney History Society meets at the Old School in New Romney on the forth Monday of each month, (except in Aug and Dec), most meetings involve a guest speaker and time for discussion and research.

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Romney Marsh Visitor Centre There’s more to see and do at Romney Marsh Visitor Centre than you might think and it’s all free!

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Run by Kent Wildlife Trust since 2004, and set in 23 acres of local nature reserve, this eco-friendly building was the first public building in the UK to be constructed of straw bales. It houses a permanent exhibition about the fascinating heritage and wildlife of Romney Marsh and there is an interactive display explaining how the area was reclaimed from the sea over thousands of years.

Temporary art exhibitions by exciting local artists take place regularly and this year a separate building on site is being renovated to house a dedicated art gallery. An opening exhibition will take place in June.

There are activities for children with self-led trails, craft activities and wildlife exhibits.

Organised family events, such as pond dipping, guided walks and stargazing also take place throughout the year (see our website for further information: http://www.kentwildlifetrust.org. uk/reserves/romney-marsh/romney-marshevents/) There is also a gift shop specialising in locally produced crafts, greetings cards and a great

range of books on wildlife and local history. A small café area serves freshly made fair-trade ground coffee, a variety of teas and local fruit juice and ice creams.

Outside there is a picnic area next to the wild flower meadow, and three walking trails taking you around the nature reserve. Last year a replica lookers’ hut was built allowing visitors to have a glimpse into the lives of Romney Marsh shepherds in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and their use of these unique and rapidly disappearing buildings.

Approximately three acres of the site are developed as demonstration organic gardens. So if you want tips on how to create a wildlife pond, design a natural garden or grow vegetables in a wildlife friendly way visit us this year. A Community Garden is now up and running so anyone can get involved and “grow your own”.

The centre is largely run by volunteers so if you want more information on visiting or even getting involved in the Community Garden or volunteering in general, contact Steve Humphreys, Romney Marsh Visitor Centre, Dymchurch Road, New Romney, TN28 8AY, 01797369487, steve.humphreys@ kentwildlife.org.uk

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His description of the circumstances suggested that the modem/router used for making said internet connection had been damaged by the power spike; so I went equipped with a test router as well as the usual bits and pieces of diagnostic equipment kept on the van.

After a short while on site it became apparent that there was more to this than met the eye.

His modem/router appeared to be perfectly fine, completely undamaged by the power problem, but to be doubly sure I exchanged it with the test unit to be greeted with the same issue. There was some ambiguity over the username and password required for the connection, which is often the case as its one of those things you need only when you set the system up and, barring problems, never need again. My client was fairly sure his was correct but we decided to check with the internet provider ‘just to be sure’.

After the usual wait in a queue we were put through to their support department, somewhere in Asia, and sure enough the username password combination we were using was correct. Now this is where it gets interesting. Armed with confirmed connection details we requested they check ‘their end’

I can only speculate as to the reason this happened, but I suspect the ‘helpful’ support chap I was talking to decided he’d better take a ‘proper’ look before handing over to his supervisor ‘just in case’ and lo and behold he found and resolved the problem Of course, I could be wrong….

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Keeping your body and mind stimulated will help you to get so much more out of your later years The changes to life that retirement brings can be quite a shock, even if you have been looking forward to it.

Losing the focus of going to work each day can be hard and it is easy to slip into a sedentary lifestyle. But research shows that those who keep active both physically and mentally enjoy a healthier later life. So what can you do?

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Regular exercise has a huge number of benefits: it strengthens your muscles, aiding mobility and reducing the risk of falls and conditions such as high blood pressure, heart disease and osteoporosis (brittle bones). It also helps to reduce the risk of other conditions, such as diabetes and stroke.

It improves coordination and balance and encourages a healthy appetite, regular bowel movements and means you are more likely to sleep well at night. It also stimulates the brain, so that you’re less likely to suffer from stress or depression.

Small amounts of regular exercise or activity is better for you than a big burst of energy one day and then nothing for the rest of the week. And exercise doesn’t have to mean going to the gym - there is plenty you can do at home and while you’re out and about to keep active.

At home you can tackle the garden - just a little weeding or pruning is using your muscles and keeping them flexible; and even housework is great for strengthening muscles. Try an exercise DVD at home - and ask a friend to join you to make it more fun. Walk as much as you can each day - to the local shops or library and take up some social activities that will encourage you to meet other people as well as

exercise, such as dance or arts & craft classes; or keep fit for the over 50s. And, if you have lots of energy, you could even try Zumba, which is fast-paced and fun. All these activities will keep your muscles moving and supple.

Age UK (formerly Age Concern) has a nationwide programme, Fit as a Fiddle, which supports people over 50 with physical activity, healthy eating and mental wellbeing. Find out more at www.fitasafiddle.org.uk

Keeping mentally stimulated Studies show that the more you use your brain the more mentally active you’ll remain. As well as slowing down memory loss (although you’re still likely to forget things!), you can also reduce the chances of conditions such as Alzheimer’s. As with physical exercise, keeping mentally active can also help to reduce stress and depression.

There are many activities that can help to keep your brain mentally agile. At home you can tackle crossword puzzles, Sudoku or chess. Maybe now is the time to start reading all those books you never had time for when you were working? It is also possible to ‘train’ your mind by using trigger words to jog your memory. Using sticky notes on the fridge will help to remind you of what you need to do that day.

Joining groups with common interests will encourage you to meet and interact with new people as well as keeping your mind occupied. Try bingo; learn a new language or how to use a computer; or enrol on a cookery course.

Your local council or library will have information on classes and activities for older people - just take your pick! www.ageuk.org.uk

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Working from home Spring is here at last, and with it comes the end of a dreadful dilemma that has been plaguing me since November – whether to turn on the central heating or not?

Our new house is a dreadful wind-tunnel.

An icy blast rips straight through it from the ill-fitting front door to the catflap in the kitchen. The dining room that serves as my office is right in the middle of the house and man! Is it cold! The fact that the ancient wooden sash windows are more gap than glass doesn’t help, but as the house is listed and in a conservation area they can’t be replaced.

The central heating comes on at 6.30am, the boiler coming alive with a rattle and a roar that served the entire household as an alarm-clock until we got used to it. By 7am the house is toasty – almost too toasty, in fact. Then one by one the family emerges, blinking and bleary, breakfasts, and departs for whatever quotidian joys await. Leaving me and my dilemma.

The heating is timed to go off at 9.30, and within a few moments the house has gone polar again. I could just turn it on again, but it seems wasteful to heat the whole house when I’m sitting on my tod in a single room.

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I no longer particularly want to go into my teenage son’s room. I’m sure some the old washing that’s strewn about the place is alive and could well be dangerous. Besides, then I’d have to do the same tour again and turn all the radiators on when the heating shudders back into life at 4.30. Could I be bothered? I most certainly could not!

The alternative is to make do with a single bar of the ancient electric fire in the dining room. This does the job all right – on one side of me, which gets char-grilled, while the other remains deep frozen.

But here’s the dilemma (and it’s one that we middle-class liberals get genuinely handwringing about, so don’t laugh): which alternative is the less destructive to Lifeboat Earth? Is it the carbon-rich fumes wheezing into the atmosphere from the flue of the gas boiler, or is it whatever eco-outrages are perpetrated in order to squirt a trickle of current into the electric fire? I really don’t know, and it’s doing my head in.

On a more prosaic note, I don’t know which alternative is the more expensive, either.

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There is, of course, a politically correct option, which would be to insulate the house properly. But how do you insulate a 17thcentury cottage without ripping out the entire interior and, effectively, starting from scratch? Cavity wall insulation? Don’t make me laugh! The windows we’ve already dealt with. As for loft insulation – well, the loft is the attic bedroom, my son’s sinister eyrie.

If you tried to clad the sloping ceiling with insulating foam and then put up the necessary plasterboard the headroom would be reduced still further and the poor boy would have to bend double to get in. And anyway, even if there are grants available towards the cost I have a feeling that persuading the landlord to make any additional investment that might be necessary would be about as easy as converting Iran to Wesleyan Methodism.

So there’s only one thing for it. Before next winter comes, I’ll have to buy a jumper.

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Aren’t they worth so much more than the same amount in pounds? Think about that, and always think of this: Enjoy every second of your life, because time races by so much quicker than you think.

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High Pressure Jetting Service and Repair to Sewage Treatment Plants

01233 840624 Ashford Volunteer Centre Age Concern

01233 647 422 01233 620 635

www.ageconcern.org.uk

CARM Doctors Surgery Brookland Village Hall Surgery 01797 223230

New Romney Oak Hall Surgery Church Lane Surgery

Dymchurch 30

Orgarswick Surgery Martello Medical Practice

National Train Enquiries 01797 321771

www.nationalrail.co.uk

01797 363177

Arriva Bus Enquiries Stage Coach East Kent

Parish Councils: Brenzett Brookland Burmarsh Dymchurch Ivychurch Lydd Town Council Newchurch New Romney Town Council Old Romney St Mary in the Marsh Snargate

Shepway District Council Citizens Advice Bureau Alcoholics Anonymous

Macmillan Cancer Support

W: www.forget-me-nots.co.uk 01797 362 106 0844 4773385 Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s UK, Ashford Branch Contact Robert Gurney 01233 666577 08444 773385 SE Kent Multiple Sclerosis Soc. 08453 970543 01233 620 167 08443 878343 Royal British Legion

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01233 758122 E: office@carmromneymarsh.org.uk W: Www.carmromneymarsh.org.uk

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