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Even the smallest garden can find space to grow vegetables. Start now and you can enjoy delicious home-grown salads all summer long.

Producing useful quantities of your own vegetables doesn’t take up as much space as you might imagine. There’s a lot you can plant out or grow from seed right now that will give you some super-tasty, succulent, and top-quality salads in just a few weeks’ time. And salad leaves grown in ornamental pots can be as decorative as they are nutritious.

Before you get sowing or planting, choose the right containers. Big ones are easier to maintain than small ones; and of course bigger pots mean more produce. Go for something of at least 30cm (12in) in diameter, larger if possible.

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As salad crops tend to be pretty short-term there’s no need to spend a fortune on compost. Ideally

choose a good-quality multi-purpose compost, but you can get perfectly acceptable results with the contents of a growing-bag. I find the quality of the compost in these isn’t all that brilliant, but for the time you need it – and provided you keep it well-fertilised – it’ll be adequate.

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If you grow your own salad leaves you can get precisely the mix you like best. There are plenty of eye-catching lettuces such as the frilly Lollo, either a gorgeous bright-green standard Lollo a burgundytinged Lollo Rosso or a mixture of both. Treat them as cut-and-come-again crops, snipping off the leaves as you want them but not cutting into to the base, then they’ll put out new shoots and keep cropping for longer.

Baby beet leaves are a popular salad ingredient, too.

Choose a variety like Bull’s Blood for the prettiest leaves or grow any of the standard varieties, and you’ll also get a great-tasting root crop later on. I generally harvest the young leaves a few at a time but let the plant produce a root too.

There are still plenty of tomato plants in the shops now, but hunt carefully to find the ones that are still in top condition. If you choose an outdoor variety it can be grown in a pot on its own, and if you have a big enough container you can grow some other salad ingredients around the edge of the container.

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If you’re after some fire in your cooking, a chilli pepper thrives in a pot in a warm and very sheltered spot as do sweet peppers.

Fresh herbs can make a salad more interesting too.

Choose your favourites and either grow them in a dedicated herb pot with extra grit in the compost for good drainage, or even consider popping a few in with your main crops.

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Vegetables, like most plants, do best in a relatively warm spot with plenty of sun, so site your containers carefully. You want them to be easily accessible from the kitchen, but it’s more important to ensure they’re sheltered from the wind yet still get enough sun.

You may prefer to raise some of your crops in pots and grow them on a bit before planting them out.

The garden containers will always be full and looking their best, even while you’re harvesting them. The new plantings will very quickly blend in with the old, and all summer long you’ll have a garden that’s as pleasing to the eye as it is to the tastebuds.

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Travelling to Europe with your Pet If you wish to travel with your dog or cat to Europe you will need a pet passport. This is a much more straight forward procedure following the harmonisation of rules across Europe.

The first step is to have your cat or dog microchipped. We advise microchipping for all cats and dogs, and from April 2016 it will be compulsory for all dogs in England to be microchipped. The Lady Dane Veterinary Centre is currently offering free microchipping for all DOGS in association with the Dogs Trust.

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The next step is rabies vaccination. Only one vaccination is required, but we feel that a course of 2 injections give your pet the best immunity. We normally do these 4 weeks apart.

A pet passport can be issued after the rabies vaccination and this will be required at any port as proof of vaccination (the photograph is optional). You are able to travel 3 weeks after the date of the first vaccination- this applies to travelling out of the United Kingdom.

On return to the United Kingdom you need to have your dog treated for tapeworm and this must be administered and signed in your passport by a veterinary surgeon at least 1 day (24 hours) and no more than 5 days (120 hours) before your return journey. This does not apply if you are travelling from the Republic of Ireland but a pet passport is now required.

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Furnishing Finesse Is your living room looking more drab than fab? Then it’s time for an image overhaul. One or two new items of furniture, some revamps or repairs, or simply a different layout, can make all the difference, says Katherine Sorrell.

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Firstly, take a long, hard look at what you already have. Most of us own a collection of family heirlooms and hand-me-downs, high-street buys, chain-store pieces and perhaps the odd junkshop find. Step one is to work out what you want to keep and what should be dispensed with and what could be revamped.

Then, assess your overall style – old or new, shabby chic or pristine, rustic or sophisticated, plain and slender or heavy and ornate? The key to mixing old and new is to ensure the overall look has coherence. Materials, scale and decorative style are all important, as are colour and texture. If things aren’t quite working, perhaps you can shift something that stands out to another room, or sell it on.

What’s your style?

• Antique Key styles are Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian.

Genuine Georgian pieces are expensive but beautiful, and mix surprisingly well with modern furniture. Victorian furniture tends to be heavier and on a larger-scale, while Edwardian pieces are a little plainer and lighter.

• Retro Furnishings from the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies in bright colours and unusual materials such as plastic or wire, they’re tricky to mix with other

furnishings but make an eyecatching focal point.

• Design classics Covetable chairs and other pieces by mid-20th century names such as Eames, Breuer, Le Corbusier, Aalto, Wegner, Day and Race. Originals are pricey; some reproductions are available.

• Country Anonymous, functional wooden pieces, generally from the UK or France (the latter is more decorative). New or old, these pieces are useful, pretty and tend to work well with most other furnishings.

Designing a living room layout Draw a plan (overhead view) of the room using graph paper, marking the positions of windows, door, fireplace, radiators, sockets and any fitted furniture. If using paper, cut out paper shapes, at the correct scale, to represent the proposed furnishings. Do they work as a whole, or can they be moved to create more floor space? Are there any ‘dead’ or crowded areas?

comfortable and practical.

Modular seating units in an L-shape (or even a U-shape) are a great alternative. In a small room, stools can double as mini-tables and be pushed out of the way when not in use.

A coffee table takes up a lot of floor space but side tables are another option, as is a long, thin console table pushed against the back of the sofa.

The living room also needs the right furniture in which to keep things such as DVDs, books and cables out of sight, as well as display areas for attractive possessions. Choose plain, inexpensive bookcases that can be painted the same colour as your walls, or go for a designer option such as a sleek sideboard or modular units or even Oriental and Indian-style pieces, in beautiful woods and with lovely detailing. Finally, add boxes and baskets to disguise awkward items that simply won’t fit anywhere else.

Choosing and arranging living room furniture It was once traditional for living rooms to be arranged with the fire as a focal point. These days it’s more likely to be the TV, but you can also have subsidiary focal points, such as a work of art or a view. Placing two sofas so they face each other is both

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The two are just a few hundred yards apart, one a delightful country cottage garden, the other an extremely pretty part-terraced garden and between them they offer a magnificent selection of herbaceous perennials, annuals, shrubs, roses and climbers, with the picture completed by kitchen gardens, cutting gardens, wildflower meadows, wildlife ponds and orchard areas.

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And as if that wasn’t enough, there is also an Animal Corner with goats, ponies, chickens, ducks and geese, and plenty of country stalls, including a plant nursery, crafts, cards, books, garden furniture, bric-a-brac, and a raffle. And when you’re ready to take a bit of a break, there will be cream teas, homemade cakes, and ice creams available.

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One of the organisers, Fiona Chapman, says: “This is the fifth year that we have opened up our gardens, and we love it. We enjoy meeting new people and it’s our way of raising money for a wonderful cause and sharing our passion for gardening and country life.”

Entry is by donation, with all the money raised going to help Macmillan and its vital work for people affected by cancer. There is also plenty of parking, but unfortunately no dogs or wheelchair access. It’s all happening from 1pm-6pm on 29 June 2014, at Little Mockbeggar Farm and Moonrakers, Mockbeggar Lane, Biddenden, Kent, TN27 8ES, so come and have a wander round these two lovely gardens and soak up the sun…

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D-Day 1944: Democracy 1 Tyranny 0

By Ted Bruning

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On 6 June we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the victory of democracy over tyranny. And while most of the coverage of this great day will rightly focus on the unflinching selflessness of the 50,000 Allied soldiers, it’s worth sparing a moment to contemplate why democracy won.

The young men confronting the Third Reich on D-Day may not have known it, but the soldiers opposing them had already been fatally undermined. A leadership that was corrupt, incompetent, divided, toadying and alternately swollen with pride and prostrated by fear, had made so many idiotic decisions over the past two years that no heroism on the part of its troops could redeem it. And at the heart of all the doubledealing, betrayal, and rottenness stood Adolf Hitler.

After the invasion of Russia, Hitler more or less retreated to his Eastern HQ, surrounded by a small cadre of placemen, yesmen, courtiers and cronies who told him only what they thought he wanted to hear. He governed via a maze of overlapping bureaucracies fighting for his favour. And despite his remoteness he insisted on making even the smallest tactical decisions himself.

This chaos effectively crippled the Germans defending Normandy. They had almost no armoured support. Rommel, the commander on the ground, knew

that tanks couldn’t move from rear to front because of Allied airpower, and wanted the armour right at the water’s edge. To the commander of Panzer Group West, Geyr von Shweppenburg, this was heresy. Hitler’s compromise was that the armour should be divided between them, but that von Schweppenburg couldn’t move without Hitler’s express orders – which, of course, came too late.

Then there were the mythical divisions in Kent and Sussex that appeared to threaten the Pas de Calais. Their existence was conjured up by Allied deception specialists, and 15 German divisions remained north of the Seine to meet them. But these divisions had been fabricated by German army intelligence as part of a plot to discredit Himmler’s rival intelligence agency.

There should have been a fleet of war-winning jet fighters overhead, for the Germans had been ahead of the Allies in the technology. But Hitler cancelled work on a feasible jet because a crony, Willi Messerschmidt, persuaded him to favour the Komet rocket-plane instead. As a result the Me262 didn’t appear until far too late.

The occasions on which Hitler accepted bad advice that chimed with his preconceptions and fantasies and ignored sound advice that didn’t, are too numerous to relate; but they cost

the Germans dear on D-Day, and they probably cost Germany the war.

And here’s the contrast between tyranny and democracy. Churchill wasn’t short of bad ideas himself, trying to stop Nazi bombers by dropping parachute mines on them being one. And the Allied leaders argued bitterly.

But Churchill and Roosevelt surrounded themselves with strong, capable advisers who weren’t afraid to argue their corners. Dowding, in charge of Fighter Command, threatened to resign in May 1940 when Churchill proposed to send more fighter squadrons to prop up the French. And Churchill bowed to his superior judgement!

The Allies made mistakes. But the reason that the 159,000 troops who landed in Normandy broke through with fewer than 5,000 killed was that their leaders weren’t driven by fear of a despot; laid rational plans based on professional expertise and sound intelligence; and represented a society that could bury its differences and make sacrifices in defence of shared values.

On D-Day, democracy proved to be strong and tyranny weak.

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Country Eye is a scheme led by Kent Police to benefit people living or working in rural communities. The aim is to help reduce crime by allowing the Police and communities to share information quickly and effectively.

Modern technology plays an important role in this.

After registering as a Member, information relating to crime in the local area is then conveyed by Kent Police using e-mail, enabling members of the scheme to be aware of immediate risks and to help keep an eye open for any criminal activity.

The scheme also provides a point of contact for information to be passed to the Police, and encourages the reporting of anything potentially relevant. The Police are keen to stress that they would rather have lots of calls that come to nothing, than miss the one call that assists them in their fight against crime. .

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Cake and Bake Lemon Curd Cookies Crisp and buttery with a tangy lemon flavour these delicious home-made cookies taste divine. You can change the flavourings if liked, try orange zest with fine shred marmalade or replace 1tbsp of the flour with cocoa powder and fill with chocolate and hazelnut spread for a moreish choc and nut version!

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Ingredients: • 50g butter, softened • 1 tsp finely grated lemon zest • 85g caster sugar • 1 medium egg, beaten • 175g plain flour, plus extra for dusting • 4 tbsp good quality lemon curd • Icing sugar, for dusting

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2 Gather the mixture together with your hands and knead on a floured surface until smooth. Flatten to a disc shape, wrap in cling film and chill in the fridge for about 45 minutes.

3 Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°F/gas mark 4. Line two baking sheets with baking parchment.

4 Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface to a 5mm thickness and using a 6cm round cookie cutter stamp out 16 circles, re-rolling the dough as necessary.

5 Place the circles of dough on the baking sheets.

Spoon about ½ teaspoon of lemon curd in the centre of each circle then pull up two sides of the each circle and pinch together tightly to seal. Chill in the fridge for a further 30 minutes.

6 Bake in the preheated oven for 12-14 minutes until pale golden. Cool for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire cooling rack and leave to cool completely.

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What’s On Sunday 1st June - The Annual Charing Village Picnic will take place on Clewards Meadow

Wednesday 18th June -The Weald of Kent Computer Club will meet in Biddenden New

(adjacent to The Church) 3pm-6pm.Musical entertainment by Mike Preisig’s “Elastic Band” and a free Bouncy Castle for the Children.This event is funded by Charing’s Ward Member Gerry Clarkson and supported by Charing Parish Council. For further details 01233 714068 or 01233 712081 see posters around the village.

Village Hall at 7.30 pm. The topic this evening will be:- “Tablet computing in the light of experience and new developments, also a chance to have hands-on experience with some tablets”. Annual membership is £10 plus £2 per meeting. Non-members are welcome (£3, but first visit is free) Full details: http:// www.wealdofkentcomputerclub.co.uk/Enquiries: secretarywkcc@yahoo.co.uk

Saturday 7th June The Friends of Bekesbourne Church Are holding a Concert in the evening

Saturday 21st June - The annual Charing Church Fete,Flower Show and Craft Fayre will take

featuring classical music by the Galliard Trio in St. Peter’s Church If you would like tickets would you please call Graham on 01227 830271 or Christine on 077101 70197 Tickets are £12.00 each to include light refreshments

place on Clewards Meadow,(adjacent to St Peter and St Paul Church) starting at 12.00 noon. Faversham Mission Brass,East Kent Morris Men,Charing Primary School Choir,Punch and Judy Show,Beer Tent,Tea Tent,Hot Dogs and Burgers,Ice Creams,Bouncy Castle,Children’s Roundabout,Village Stocks, Tombola,Grand Draw,Homemade Cakes and Savouries,Classic Cars,Dine Out,White Elephant,Plants,Produce and more.Enter a team for the Adult Tug o’War,the winning team will receive £100.For all of you with “green fingers” why not enter the Flower Show,categories are,Roses,Sweet Peas,Poppies and Clematis. One of the high lights is “The Pet Competition” which will be judged once again by Vic Reeves,his lovely wife Nancy and their adorable twin daughters.So do come along and enjoy a fun packed afternoon with maybe a few more surprises on the day !!! For further info please call, 01233 714068, 01233 714028 Or to book a place at the Craft Fayre 07889 289710 or email kevingiles@btconnect.com

Sunday 8th June - Hamstreet 17th Festival of Transport 10am-5.30pm We have Extreme

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include wine and light refreshments. More details from Hilary on 01233 637498. In aid of Charing Parish Church.

Falconry, Red Wheelies display team, Swinging Sixties Band and other arena displays, Bar and food Merlin Balloons, Ashford Model Aircraft and more.

Entrance fee Adults £3 Chi ldren (under 15) £2 Senior Citizens £2 Infants (under 5) FREE OF CHARGE

Weekends 7/14th & 8/15th June - Chris & Judy Older welcome you to their garden opening in aid of the :- National Gardens Scheme and St Rumwolds Church, Bonnington. The 16C cottage nestles in romantic seclusion at the end of a drive.

This enchanting garden (1 acre) is a mixture of small herbaceous borders, roses & unusual topiary. There is plenty of seating to enjoy the garden & extensive views across Romney Marsh to the sea. Some gentle slopes, limited access for wheel chairs. (Also private visits in June by appointment only.) Admission £4, children free. Ample off road parking. Plants for Sale.

Homemade cakes & teas available. WYCKHURST GARDEN Mill Road, Aldington, Ashford, Kent. TN25 7AJ. (4m SE of Ashford off A20) 01233 720395.

21/22 June Smarden Classic and Open Gardens 1-5 pm A spectacular weekend of Classic

7.45pm for 8.00pm at Aldington Village Hall. Visitors and new members are always welcome. For full details of our programme contact Jean Evans 01233 720618.

Cars and Open Gardens in the lovely village of Smarden TN27 8QD Ten gardens including a tour of a Hop Garden, a great Classic Car Show, Bar and food area with live music, Home-made Teas, mini bell ring, vintage clothing and other stalls, evening entertainment and, subject to fine weather Classic Aircraft and Hot Air Balloons Weekend tickets adults £8 on the day or £7 in advance from Smarden shops Children free. Proceeds go towards a new sports pavilion and church building works. Tel: 01233 770429

Friday 13th June 7pm onwards in Charing Church Barn. A Silent Auction of items and/or promises,

20/21/22 June - Woodchurch Art Society Annual Art Exhibition - We shall be holding our

Thursday 12th June Aldington & Bonnington Gardening Society talk on “Preparing for a Show”

with an interesting talk about restoration of small items in the middle of the evening. Admission £5 to

very popular Art Exhibition on June 20th 7pm-9pm; 21st/22nd June 10am-4pm at The Memorial Hall.

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whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on a go Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;; Raffle; Tombola; Cards. Delicious home What was life like in a Kent village in WW1? made cakes & refreshments. Everyone Welcome Charing in the First World War Exhibition FREE ENTRY

Wednesday 25th June - The Biddenden Horticultural Society meets for an Evening outing to Potmans Garden, Wittersham - owned by Drs. Lloydâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Smith. Wander round the garden with wine and canapĂŠs. Cost ÂŁ7.50 per person. If you would like to join us for the evening please contact Irene on 01580291777 or Lesley on 01580291931 as we will need to advise our hosts of numbers beforehand.

We will meet in Biddenden Village Car Park at 6pm in order to arrange the usual car sharing. (Our usual in house fees are Members ÂŁ1.50, Non Members ÂŁ2.50. Annual membership ÂŁ5 and new members are always welcome) Saturday June 28 - Warehorne Music Festival, Warehorne Village Hall (one mile from Hamstreet), outside the village hall from 2pm. There will be live music, a barbecue, tea and cakes, a licensed bar, family games and a wheelbarrow raffle. Fee upon entry: ÂŁ5 for adults, ÂŁ3 for children, ÂŁ15 for a family of 2 adults and 3 children. Bring blankets and chairs.

Saturday 12th July- Boot Fair, Charing Playing Fields,from 8 am.Pitches ÂŁ8 in advance or ÂŁ10 on the day.Refreshments available.To book your place,please call 01233 713035 or 01233 714068 All profit to The New Sports Pavilion Fund .

Open days June 14 -15; July 5-6 Saturdays 10am-5pm; Sundays 2-5pm

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The old adage says that “everyone has at least one novel in them” but for some inexperienced writers the thought of writing a novel is a bit like climbing Everest in carpet slippers with only a length of washing line to keep you from falling. For that reason many aspiring authors give up before they’ve even started, and that’s regrettable as these days there are so many other routes writers can take if they want to flex their creative muscles.

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Writing can be an isolating pastime so you may prefer to join a writer’s group. The National Association of Writers’ Groups (www.nawg.co.uk) can provide information on local meetings, or guide you to collaborate with other writers online.

Finally, it goes without saying that the best way to gain literary skills is to soak up the work of high quality writers such as Charles Dickens or Virginia Woolf. If you’re not sure where to start with contemporary authors then you could search through the lists of nominees for high profile fiction awards such as the Man Booker Prize. It may seem like an impossible dream now, but there may come a time when your own name features on that list!

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A Community’s Unflagging Support For WW1 VAD Hospitals In A Kent Village Patients on the front doorstep of the Parish Hall; photo courtesy of Chubby Carnegie

And a surprise cure after an accident with a lit cigarette

Lighting a cigarette and then putting the lit end in your mouth is not generally to be recommended. But in July 1916, in Charing’s VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) hospital in Kent, Sergeant Mahoney of the Royal Fusiliers, dumb from shell shock, accidentally did just that – and the shock from the burn restored his power of speech.

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This was probably the most unusual cure recorded in Charing’s two VAD hospitals but Sergeant Mahoney was far from being the only patient who had cause to be grateful for his time in the hospital. Nearly 1200 patients were treated in Charing’s hospitals during the First World War. A Quick Response To The Needs of War Charing, just north of Ashford with a population of 1,223 recorded in the 1911 census, was not slow to respond to the need for hospitals. On August 5th 1914, the day after the UK entered the war, the Parish Council agreed to establish a VAD hospital in the Parish Hall, close to the village’s railway station. Dr Littledale, one of the village’s two doctors who would be the hospital’s initial Commandant and its Medical Officer throughout the war, found no shortage of volunteers for nursing staff, cooks and general help, neither was there any shortage of offers of supplies and equipment. After training had been carried out and arrangements made the hospital opened with 12 beds in October, the first inmates being 10 Belgian soldiers. An 8-bed convalescent home was also established in the village.

Charing and the surrounding villages carried on supporting the hospital and convalescent home. Later the number of hospital beds was

increased to 20 and a second hospital in a formerly private house was opened in 1916.

Both hospitals were usually full or nearly so and there was little respite for the staff.

Volunteer Staff; food donations; 200 potatoes peeled a day Running the VAD hospitals was no small task for the community. The staff were all volunteers and appear to have been unpaid, often even supplying their own uniforms. This did not just apply to the nursing staff but also to the cooks (when both hospitals were operational 200 potatoes had to be peeled a day) and to other help.

The allowance granted by the government for food was usually inadequate, especially given the rapid inflation in food prices. The gap was filled by regular gifts in kind from people in Charing, surrounding villages and sometimes further afield (the Parish Magazine even mentions a donor in Australia). A typical month’s donations could include: Eggs (weekly), Fruit, Vegetables, Potatoes, Jam, Buns, Cakes, Butter, Rabbits, Pheasants, Joints (weekly), Tea and Coffee (weekly), Milk (daily), Rice, Flour, Cigarettes, Books and Magazines, Coal and Logs in season and at Christmas, Turkeys.

Food donations were given regularly throughout the war – even in 1917, the year when sustained attacks by German submarines on merchant shipping brought the UK’s food situation to crisis point and shortages were noted even in rural areas. And after rationing was introduced in 1918, the hospitals were still able to supplement patients’ official rations with continued gifts of fresh produce.

Fundraising and Washing Muddy Socks In addition to nurses, cooks and general help the community also ran regular fundraising events, provided furniture, sewed clothing and offered laundry services – one “laundress” never forgot the difficulty of cleaning soldiers’ socks caked with Flanders mud.

The hospitals were finally closed in 1919, their tasks completed.

Charing and District Local History Society’s research into the parish during the First World War has uncovered just how much volunteer effort there was from civilians to support the men at the front. The VAD hospitals are a noteworthy example of how communities rallied round.

Charing would not have been unique. Kent established over 80 VAD hospitals during the war and cared for around 30,000 men – 31% more than any other county.

leisure Smarden Short Mat Bowls Club We welcome new novice or experienced bowlers of all ages.

We meet every Thurs. morning at 9.45am and the first Tues. of month at 7.15pm, in the Charter Hall Smarden. Contact Malcolm 01233 770572.

Egerton Over 60’s Club If you enjoy stimulating speakers, enjoyable outings and eating out, then become a member of this Club.You don’t have to be over 60, we’ll welcome you what ever your age.

We meet in the lovely Egerton Millennium Hall on the 2nd Monday of each month at 2pm to enjoy a speaker, short Club business followed by sandwiches, savouries ,homemade cakes all washed down with a few cuppas.Example of speakers for 2014--High Sheriff of Kent, Ellen Terry and Smallhythe Place,Floral Clocks, Egerton Wartime Airfield and more. Outings include--a trip on the Bluebell railway, Belmont House, cruise on the Kentish Lady, Mill Museum and a Mystery Tour.. Contact David on 756544,Graham on 756260 or Sheila on 756294. You will be made most welcome--try us.!

Pilates Classes. Westwell Village Hall. Thursdays For further information, including details of 915am. £36 per 6 week block. Contact Victoria 07543543373/vsaker@hotmail.co.uk Charing’s WW1 exhibition this summer see: www.charinghistory.co.uk PILATES. Smarden Tuesdays 1pm, Wednesdays

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Little Chart Bridge Club Friendly duplicate bridge every Tuesday afternoon at Little Chart Village Hall. For more information please contact Carmen Gunther on 01233 840 395.

Kennington Badminton Club, play at the Norton Knatchbull School on a Wed evening from 7.30 p.m.10.00 p.m. Contact Mark Feeney on 01233 663030 or Shirley Mountford on 01233 610134.

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Charing Scottish Dancing Club Friday evenings, Charing Parish Hall 7.30pm – 9.30pm An enjoyable evening for anyone who might like to learn Scottish Dancing (not Highland Dancing!) We are a small very friendly group, all of whom had little or no experience before coming to the class but are now very enthusiastic, and they would welcome others who might like to learn. There is no charge for the first trial evening (afterwards £3.00 per person and a break for coffee, biscuits and a natter) Ring Evelyn or John Voller on 01233 713758 to discuss it more fully with no compulsion to attend.

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We are pleased to let you know that registered Osteopath Julian Diprose from the Sandgate Clinic has now moved to 3-4 Heath Cottages Maidstone Rd opposite Hothfield common.

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My Path to Wellbeing!

For some time now I’ve been trying to develop a healthy lifestyle for myself, something that works and suits me. I’ve seen various things work for different people but everyone is individual and what works for one may not work for another. I wanted something that will keep me healthy, help me to lose a little weight and suit my hectic daily routine.

The majority of my time is spent sitting at a computer and I do very little exercise, virtually none in fact! Exercise is not something I enjoy and I find it very difficult to fit it into my day. I’m rubbish when it comes to diets, the minute I tell myself I’m on a diet I immediately become obsessed with food and eat more than I usually would have done.

My life is hectic with eight magazines to run and it’s quite normal for me to skip breakfast and then grab whatever I find in the fridge for lunch if I’m hungry. I eat small main meals that are reasonably healthy and yet as I get older I continue to gain weight. The fact that I skip meals often

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results in hunger pains interrupting my concentration, this creates emotional turmoil when working on deadlines and results in high calorie snacking, that only keeps hunger at bay for short periods of time.

A few months ago I met Neil D’Silva, a nutritionist based in Great Chart. We discussed his wellness coaching and the machine that enables him to assess the body composition of his clients. The monitor not only indicates weight but also analyses the entire body makeup, the emphasis being on health rather than weight loss. Knowing your weight is one thing, but there are other health factors that can indicate, more accurately, how healthy we are on the inside. The body composition machine can give you accurate body weight and fat measurements, which can help to keep you motivated as you track your diet or fitness progress, or simply as you make basic changes to your lifestyle in order to eat right and exercise more.

This subject captured my interest so Neil offered me a full wellness evaluation and body composition scan, then suggested I try the Herbalife meal replacement program. Basically you have two nutritional shakes per day along with vitamin and fibre tablets, two healthy snacks and a healthy main meal. The emphasis

is on incorporating protein into every meal or snack whilst eating healthily i.e incorporating your 5-a-day. The shakes are high in protein, they taste delicious and give you everything your body needs to function at its optimum level, along with boosting your energy and aiding weight loss. The downside for me was to increase my water intake throughout the day and complete 100 sit-ups every day, not something I’m used to!

Herbalife, the world’s largest nutrition company, has been around since 1980 and yet I’ve never looked closely at it before. My assumption was that the products were probably expensive and I was skeptical of its success. The products actually compare quite favorably to their supermarket equivalents and have an emphasis on quality nutrition. Recently I ran out of shake mix so I popped into Tesco for a popular off the shelf product. It wasn’t great, in fact I threw half of it away, the protein content was also far less than my Herbalife shake.

Since starting on the plan I’ve lost approx 8lbs, I never skip meals, I rarely feel hungry. My hectic days are easier because I don’t have to think about what I will have for breakfast or lunch and I thoroughly enjoy every milk shake.

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health & Lifestyle a healthy amount of water every day and my weight loss has slowed down so I now need to increase my exercise a little to reach my goal weight - another challenge! Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing to think that by adding to my diet, rather than taking away, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lost weight and feel more energised, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely a lifestyle that suits me.

The Benefits of Protein Getting adequate protein in your diet can offer many health benefits. Studies have shown protein can help whether you are looking to lose weight, bulk up, improve heart health or boost your energy. Incorporating lean protein into your diet is a critical component of a healthy eating plan. Proteins are the bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s building blocks for: bones, muscles, skin and blood. After a tough workout, muscles are rebuilt and repaired by the proteins you eat.

When trying to lose weight, protein foods can help you feel full longer, likely reducing the total number of calories eaten per day; protein increases satiety, and may increase metabolism. Consuming protein will also help the body maintain lean muscle mass, which is critical for a healthy weight loss plan. A diet higher in protein may provide heart benefits, which can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease as well as reducing cholesterol levels and lowering blood pressure.

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business Wills: Fact and Fiction As part of our regular series on legal matters, Gill Snow of Tenterden law firm Pengelly & Rylands looks at common misconceptions about Wills.

There are many common misconceptions about Wills and believing the myths may cost you and your family dearly.

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The most obvious one is that you don’t need a Will, as everything will pass automatically to your spouse. This is not necessarily the case, as under the Intestacy Rules, which apply if a person dies without a Will, your spouse is only entitled to the first £250,000 of your estate and, for their lifetime, the income provided by investing half of the remainder, the other half being divided between any children in equal shares. If a couple own their property as tenants in common, then this may mean that the widow or widower does not receive even the whole of the spouse’s share of the home, if it is worth more than £250,000.

The Intestacy Rules also make no provision for friends or charities, so if you do not make a Will shares of your estate may pass to relatives you rarely see and your estate will be administered, not by Executors appointed by you but by administrators appointed by law. If you have minor children it is also advisable to appoint guardians to look after them in the event that both parents die. This ensures that someone you trust to bring up your children in the way you would have done can step into the role if the worst should happen.

Another common misconception is that you are free to leave your share of a jointly owned property to whomever you wish in your Will.

If you own your home jointly as tenants in common then this is the case but if, as many people do, you own your property as joint tenants your half share will automatically pass to the other owner. You can, however, change the way you own your property by ‘severing’ your joint tenancy to convert it to a tenancy

in common. This is a fairly simple procedure which involves one owner serving notice on the other and then informing the Land Registry of the change. Once this has been done you are free to leave your share of the property to your children or to anybody else. Other joint assets, such as bank accounts, pass automatically to the surviving joint owner, whatever your wishes may be.

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How Daddy is Doing With Fathers’ Day just around the corner we thought we’d put together a collection of books about dads and their offspring. Whether they’re doting or disastrous, destructive or departed, this is a day for celebrating the role of these most influential of men.

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The Road - Cormac McCarthy Although this book is set in a post-apocalyptic world and is, quite frankly, a bit terrifying, it’s a fantastic tale of a man who’ll do anything to protect his boy.

Together they walk through the battered remnants of America, heading to the coast and hoping for salvation, with only each other to rely on. The landscape is brutal, chilling and ash-ridden and father and son must find food and shelter where they can, away from the dangers that lie in wait.

Often described as a masterpiece, Cormac McCarthy’s novel is haunting and yet reassuring that the bond between parent and child can withstand anything.

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Show me the person who wouldn’t want Atticus Finch as their fatherfigure. Atticus is an attorney and is often hailed as being the personification of all that is moral and just. He’s adored by his two children, Scout and Jem who try to make sense of the happenings in the sleepy southern town of Maycomb, Alabama. Atticus must face the disapproving eyes of the town’s residents as he defends Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman.

Scout and her brother Jem aren’t allowed into the courtroom but they sneak in and hide out on the ‘coloured balcony’ to watch their father in action, and the trial that will change Maycomb forever.

Danny the Champion of the World - Roald Dahl

‘The most marvellous and exciting father a boy ever had’- you can’t do much better than that accolade. Nine year old Danny idolises his father and adores hearing his fantastic stories and tales of daring-do. Danny’s seemingly simple existence is his own personal bliss: growing up in a traveller’s caravan and tinkering with cars in his spare time. Then his dad comes up with a master plan in the form of a pheasantsnatching adventure and Danny’s world becomes that much more exciting. Roald Dahl’s story of a boy and his love and admiration for his dad is so heart-warming, you’ll want to start finding the extraordinary in the ordinary and realise that you too, can be the champion of the world.

Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller There’s no way that Willy Loman is winning any Father of the Year prizes anytime soon and yet his son Happy is determined to follow in his father’s footsteps. His other son, Biff has more of the measure of the man having once caught his father in a compromising situation. Whatever the dropout Biff and the hapless Happy decide to do with their lives, Loman himself is all washed up as a salesman and facing a precipice.

Arthur Miller’s play is set using a series of flashbacks as we watch this family and their own American Dream vaporise before our very eyes. Loman commits one final act of desperation for his sons, and the

reader is left to decide whether or not he was heroic in the end.

And When Did You Last See Your Father? - Blake Morrison In his memoirs, the author recounts his relationship with his own father, throughout his dad’s life and after his death. It raises questions as to whether or not we ever see our parents as adults in their own right, or simply as our parents. How do we deal with family secrets and is it destructive to reveal them? Do we ever really get to know our parents and how they view the world? It might be time to put the kettle on, call the folks and see if there are any skeletons in the closet.

Darth Vader and Son - Jeffrey Brown A bit of light relief comes in the form of Jeffrey Brown’s ponderings over Darth Vader’s propensity for fatherhood. What if Vader uttering the immortal words, “Luke, I am your father” opened the floodgates for some father-son bonding and making up for lost time across the galaxies. What if he was completely misinterpreted and it was a just a stern telling off from daddy? Brown’s comic illustrations reveal life as it could have been if he and Luke had been able to build a relationship and end up as allies rather than enemies, revealing what a handson dad Lord Vader could really have been.

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