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Your Local FlyerHello Everyone my name is Emma and I am the community champion for Morrisons Leisure plaza.
Each week we work alongside schools, charities, businesses and local groups to help support our local community.
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Recently we have been working with Long meadow Primary school to help support them with the event they have going on, they are doing an online raffle to raise funds for the school.
Looking forward we have lots of things planned to help support those in need in these uncertain times. Some of the things we are helping and are greatly in need of your help are a reverse advent calendar, toy donation, and a raffle. We have been working with Milton Keynes council to get the children in care presents at Christmas, we will have a tree in-store with tags on which the children have written the presents they would like this year.
Over the coming weeks running up to Christmas we will be helping and supporting the community as much as we can, we will also be spreading Christmas joy in store.
With us in a national lockdown again don’t forget Morrisons offer a doorstep delivery for anyone isolating this includes elderly and vulnerable, students the number is 03456116111 option 5 and the team will take your order over the phone and you will pay for your shopping when we deliver to your door.
Emma
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Little is more welcoming at Christmas than a cheery wreath hanging on the front door. Using a floral foam ring will help to keep the foliage fresh for weeks.
You will need 30cm floral foam ring (soak the ring before you start) Fine and stiff florists’ wire Variegated evergreens Holly berries Crab apples Ornamental cabbage
How to..... Cut the plant material into short lengths. Aim for a range of leaf sizes and textures, from neat and spiky, to broad and floppy. Insert the sprigs all around the foam oasis, making sure that no foam is showing. Get an attractive mixed effect by varying the foliage and berries used each time you insert a new sprig, to avoid groupings of the same plant material.
December 2020 How To Keep Your Christmas
Tree Fresh For Longer
aring for a live Christmas tree is easy, but requires a few specific steps. If you take these steps, you can make a Christmas tree last longer through the season. Most Christmas trees travel to their owner’s home on the top of a vehicle. Without some kind of covering, the wind can dry the Christmas tree out. The first step to keeping your Christmas tree fresh is to cover the tree as you go home in order to keep the wind from damaging it. When caring for a live Christmas tree, remember a Christmas tree is essentially a giant cut flower. Unless you cut your own Christmas tree, chances are the tree you buy has been sitting on the lot for several days, possibly weeks. The vascular system that draws water up into the Christmas tree will have clogged up. Cutting off just a ¼ inch (0.5 cm.) of the bottom of the trunk will remove the clogs and open up the vascular system again. You can cut more off, if you need to for height reasons. Many people wonder if there is a special way to cut the trunk to help with keeping your Christmas tree fresh. A simple straight cut is all that is needed. Drilling holes or cutting at angles will not improve how well the Christmas tree takes up water. To keep a Christmas tree alive, it is essential that once you cut the trunk of the Christmas tree, the cut has to stay moist. Make sure to fill the stand immediately after you cut the trunk. If you want to make a Christmas tree last longer, just use plain water. Check the Christmas tree stand twice a day as long as the tree is up. A Christmas tree stand normally holds a rather small amount of water and a Christmas tree can quickly use up the water in the stand. Place the tree away from heating vents or cold drafts.
Merry Christmas
At the time of writing this, we are entering the new national restrictions for the month of November to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases. Hopefully, at the time of you reading this, we will be coming out of the lockdown and moving back to local/ regional tiers, with positive news that the number of cases have reduced.
Prior to the new restrictions coming into action, I visited a range of businesses to see how they have been faring in light of coronavirus and see how I can help as their local MP. the support and help offered here to continue once again. I am excited to return to the Bow Brickhill Community Hall once it www.eas has been completed.
St Mary’s Church in Bletchley has been chosen to become a Resourcing Hub, and it was great to visit and learn of their plans through this opportunity. The funding they will receive from the Church will help them to have an impact on the lives of thousands of people living in Milton Keynes and the surrounding area. I look forward to seeing their plans become a reality and see their revitalisation work expand.
I visited Divine Dog Groomers in Crownhill to see how they have been faring during the coronavirus outbreak. Whilst it was great to meet some of my furry constituents who were being groomed, it was just as great to learn that demand for their services had increased. Their growth in demand and customer base has led them to look to expand their premises, which will be great for their clients and the team.
The construction of the new Bow Brickhill Community Hall is underway, and I was invited to visit the worksite to see the progress of it. Once the building has been completed, this will be a huge asset to the local community by providing a space for groups, events and meetings to take place. Also, it will enable the original users of the hall to return, allowing On Sunday 8th November, in line with Government guidance, I visited Bletchley and Stony Stratford war memorials to pay my respect to the soldiers who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and liberty. I laid a wreath at each site as a token of my appreciation and gratitude for those who gave so much for us.
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How can I best support my teen during uncertain times?
Remember that your teen will one day make decisions over you. Independence is the best gift you can give to them but from beneath the larger stable family umbrella of truth, trust and love. Teens – young adults only know the truth of the bit of life they’ve been through themselves, and what they now believe formed from what they’ve seen, heard, felt, supposed or have been told. But as a parent you will know that life is wider, that what’s occurring now is off the ‘normal’ scale. Nothing can have prepared either you or them for this uncertainty / confusion. The best that you can do is to know that this will pass, regardless of live symptoms they’ll / you’ll be dealt. Not all is doom and gloom. Find the positives within what is occurring – more free time to re-think and re-choose. Life is taking a rest, albeit a forced one at that, but a rest still the same; we’re allowing the planet to catch up. Don’t believe everything you hear. Use your common sense. Don’t buy into conspiracies, you’ll find out if they are true soon enough. Allot of people are using these times as an excuse to scale back or to close family, long standing, failing businesses. Some have borrowed far too much; some have outgrown their demand or were greedy. Life will still go on. Things will re-shape – and you too will form your personal part of that. Silver linings are around - they do exist – so find them or even create one of your own. Life needs you to survive. You will want that too. Buckle down and choose the paths with the least resistance (life will help you there). Nothing will occur that can’t be overcome – by them or you. Be completely clear in mind and knowing that nothing is meant as personal – no matter what. Where we are is but a challenge of this timeframe. If we take this as just that challenge, our task is to grow and win, to be resourceful, to see beyond what’s happening (to self, others and to life), to work smarter, to not buckle and to employ our natural gifts of intuition / common If we have never been through times like this before, then those who make decisions haven’t either. They don’t have all the answers as the issues are still evolving; many tend to worry, fear its consequences, there’s always payback / backlash somewhere. Not because for their own sake these things are unacceptable, but because they carry with them a negative vibe. If life directly mirrors back what you first give out to it, negativity, anger, uncertainty, don’t care attitudes – is what will bounce
right back from those around you.
What is going on is bad and sad. There are other issues too in the greater world – that we’re not speaking of – like wildfires and destruction on
grander scale, and all the consequences of that – but the virus is alive, it’s presence now affecting us directly, but what will harm us more is our behaviour in
response if we’re not careful. As a young adult or a teenager you are still at the very start of your adult journey. You have your whole life unwritten ahead of you – so use this now time right. Have fun, explore as and where you can, but do all that you’ll do – responsibly. Learn
with subjects you enjoy. Squeeze every bit of knowledge and information out of everything that you can. You’re still gathering your strengths and gifts and talents, understanding who you are and what you like / don’t like… Use this time as though you’re treading water – it’s a gift (although a cloaked one). Get yourself in gear for how you want to be and stay ready for when life
changes and you’ll move forward. Nothing right now is certain, but that’s not always a bad thing. It means there will be room for you to reinvent new ways of living,
being, but with a fairer outlook – in your own style. Parents, give your teen the room to make mistakes. Allow them
to use the wisdom that you’ve fed to them for years. If they get things wrong, you’ll clean them up together, but from any mistakes good things will come and grow… They are your pride and joy. See them as they really are; rough edges, warts and all, help where help is needed, but allow them to become what they are meant to be. Nothing is forever. Everything will pass. They too will pass through growth and levels on their own way. They’ll be ok. They chose you as their parent for the reasons they needed most within this time frame. Let life come in to help you / them find their way.
Until next month; Remain safe, well and happy…
Be all you search outwardly for… – instead of having knowledge to adhere to / be guided by. It is up to each of us to build our future. To do that, we must be healthy, wise and strong. We must each do what is wise, right and responsible, not because we’re told to do it, but because we Stephanie King - Soulpreneur TM Published Author, Healer, Medium, Life Coach & Relationship Consultant www.stephaniejking.com 28 To advertise call 01908 850550know the best way to behave. Being reckless, lazy, bolshie, has
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