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4 January : New Year, New You!

5 Healthy Eating : Discover your toes, again

6 Short Story : The Resolution

8 Hampshire Walks :

Timsbury & Michelmersh

10 Homes & Interiors :

Get healthy with a home gym

13 Business : Do you know this man?

14 History : Burns Supper

16 Local Services

20 Technology : Beat the bills

22 Heritage : Rum’s Eg

24 Gardening : Wrap up for Winter

26 Recipes : Chocolate Pecan Pie

28 Puzzles

30 Advertisers Index

Dear Residents

During the months of September and January many

people return from holiday after lazing in the

summer sun or lazing on the sofa during the

Christmas break when they’ve had time; time to think, time to make

plans and make decisions. They might decide to look for a new job,

decorate, take up a hobby or get fit. With me, I can’t help mentally

re-organising the furniture in my house usually resulting in a trip

to Ikea!

However, if one of those decisions was to lose

weight then this is a great time of year to join

a gym, running club (see p16), or not go on a

diet, but change your diet. I’ve tried many diets

over the years but got fed up counting calories,

weighing food or following that diet sheet

stuck to the fridge door. At last, after watching

my best friend and co-publisher of Discover lose 2 stone,

I’ve changed what I eat, too. The core rule is avoiding carbohydrate

foods such as bread, pasta, rice, potatoes and also - surprisingly - grapes,

bananas, pulses and skimmed milk. I eat at much as I want and I’ve

lost about 10lbs so far but also the heavy feeling I get after eating

bread and I feel more energetic. If you are interested in trying it, Tania

has written an article about it on page 5.

Best wishes,

Melanie

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Like so many people – women particularly – i’ve always been veryconscious of controlling my weight. Despite this, every year i’ve gained anextra pound or two and no amount of exercise or cutting down ever seemedto make a difference. Following a routine health check, i was classified asoverweight and the obese grading was alarmingly close. Obviously, if icarried on as i was (ie dieting plus, i admit, a weakness for sweet food) i’djust continue to grow. i’m a methodical person in nature and loveresearching the internet so i set out to understand why so many in theWest have a weight and appetite control problem. What i discovered haschanged my eating pattern/relationship with food.

I began to eat more food, more frequently than I ever did, and week by week the weight just disappeared.This didn’t feel like a diet, it just felt good to eat healthy food, rarely feel hungry, and to be free of thinkingabout food all the time – it was so liberating. In 3 months, I’ve dropped two dress sizes and I’mconfident I’ll never be overweight again – a year ago I’d never had believed I couldever say that.

Of course everyone wants to know ‘what is it then?’ It’s best to understand why itworks but if I could sum it up in a couple of lines I’d say:

• Stop eating grains – rice, bread, pasta, leave out the potatoes, don’t eat sugar• Start eating more real unprocessed food, increase the fat in your diet

Make this your way of eating, not a diet to be given up as soon as possible.

As I was asked by so many friends and family for information on what I discovered I set up a websiteand blog. Want to know more? Go to www.discoveryourtoes.co.uk.

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Timsbury is situated on theA3057 Romsey to Stockbridgeroad a few miles north of Rom-sey. Park in Jubilee Hall car parkat Timsbury which is sign postedfrom the A3057. Alternatively,park in the small lay-by just pastthe hall on the right hand side ofthe road. The Jubilee Hall shouldnot be confused with the villagehall in Heron Lane shown on theOS 131 map.

Leave the car park and turn rightalong the road.

Turn right onto a signed footpathand walk along the gravel track.

At a fork in the track, keep rightand walk past Hunts Farm.

Emerge onto a road and turnright. Walk past the farm wherethe road is joined by anotherroad from the right. Keep straighton for approximately 50 yardsthen climb the bank on yourright onto a footpath runningparallel to the road.

The footpath descends to theroad again adjacent to a pair ofmetal gates either side of theroad. Continue straight on alongthe road.

As the road turns sharp right,cross over a stile onto a signedfootpath leading into a field.

Continue straight ahead follow-ing the fence line and ignoringany crossing tracks.

As the track bears left into a field,continue straight ahead onto asigned footpath through a wood-land fringe with a field to yourleft initially then a field on yourright.

Cross a stile into a field walkingalong the right hand boundaryon top of a ridge.

The path drops down off theridge to a stile. Cross the stile intoa copse.

Emerge from the copse into afield. Walk along the left handfence line.

Cross a stile at the field boundary,turn left and cross a second stileto follow the right hand fenceline of a field.

The track goes straight oninitially and then starts to veerleft away from the fence. As thefarm track starts to turn away left,look for a stile slightly diagonallyright in the far hedge line. It issituated some 100 yards from theright hand corner of the field.

Cross the stile onto a gravel track,then cross two further stiledirectly opposite to emerge intoa field.

The original footpath here hasbeen ploughed out, so follow theleft hand field boundary to thefield edge then turn rightkeeping the fence to your left.

At a ‘T’ junction of paths, turn leftonto a signed footpath across thecentre of the field.

Cross a stile into another fieldand follow the left hand fenceline to the opposite side of thefield.

Cross a stile onto a gravel trackand turn left.

Follow the track to its junctionwith a tarmac road. Turn right toManor Farm.

Walk through the farm goingstraight on along a gravel track asit rises slightly uphill.

At a pair of private dwellings, thetrack turns sharp right. Continue

straight on into what appears tobe the entrance drive to the lefthand bungalow. As you reach the

gates, cross a stile on the righthand side to walk between thetwo properties.

Cross yet another stile into afield. Walk across the field to asignpost located in the fieldcentre.

Ignore the path bearing leftfrom this post, continuestraight on to the fieldboundary.

Cross a stile into a copse.Follow the path through thewoodland and emerge into

Agincourt Field.

Follow the right hand fence lineand go through a kissing gateinto Mottisfont church grave-yard.

Cross the graveyard to a pair ofwooden gates. Go through thegates and turn left away from thechurch.

Go through another kissing gateand follow the path across thefield to its far boundary.

Follow the path through copseand emerge onto a grass andgravel track with gardens to yourright.

Follow the track to a kissing gatebeside a metal gate. Pass throughthe gate to emerge onto a road.

Turn right onto the road. At a ‘T’junction, turn left and then right.Follow the road back to your car.

Historical note... Timsburyderives its name from ‘timber +byrig’ meaning timber fort ormanor. Similarly, Michelmershderives its name from ‘micel +mersc’ meaning a large marsh. St Mary’s church at Michel-mersh is of 12th century origin.It is alleged that Henry V restedhis troops in Agincourt Field,situated just below the church,before their embarkation toFrance as part of the HundredYears War. These troops it issaid were fielded at the famousbattle of Agincourt in 1415.

Walk distance 3.9 miles

Timsbury & Michelmersh


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January always seems a bit of an anticlimax after December: theweather’s just as filthy and the days are just as glum, but the supply ofparties seems unaccountably to have dried up.

But if you feel starved of excuses to celebrate, don’t worry. You need onlywait until January 25th, when the same inventive Scots who gave you

Hogmanay and the first hangover of the year proudly present Burns Night.

Rabbie Burns (1759-96), pictured, came from a family of small-to-middlingAyrshire farmers who, although far from wealthy, made sure he got a good

education. Don’t let the vernacular folksiness of his poetry fool you: Burns was aproficient linguist and classical scholar with a sophisticated and well-stocked mind.

As a young man he seemed to be a solid citizen, working on the farm and joining theFreemasons. But already he was showing signs of what was to become his greatweakness: the lassies. In his mid-teens he was writing love songs – his earliest survivingwork, O Once I Loved a Bonnie Lass, dates from 1774 when he was 15.

After his father died in 1784 he went off the rails. In 1785 he made his mother’s maidpregnant; and in March 1786 an old flame, Jean Armour, gave birth to his twins. In Aprilhe claimed to have married her by folk custom; but in May he married Mary Campbell,again in a traditional ceremony of exchanging Bibles. In June he repudiated them both;and in October Mary, who was carrying his child, died of typhus. By then Rabbie hadalready set his cap at a married woman, Nancy MacLehose. They conducted a steamyaffair, but only by letter; so Rabbie consoled himself with her maid, who bore him a sonthe following year. By that time, though, he was back with Jean: they married inFebruary 1788 and Rabbie’s wild days were over.

While this was going on, his first book was published and was an instant hit. He wasbroke at the time, as well as romantically overentangled, and had secured a job inJamaica: indeed the book was meant to pay for his passage. But its success changedhis mind and after marrying he settled down as a customs official in Dumfries,continuing to turn out poetry and collections of folk songs. Alas, his health was poor,and on 21st July 1796, just as things seemed to be going right, he died.

His fame continued to spread posthumously, and his friends started holdingcommemorative dinners on the anniversary of his death. In 1801 the first Burns Clubwas founded and switched the date to his birthday. Actually they got the date wrong,so the first Burns Night was held on January 29th 1802. The date was subsequentlychanged to the correct one; but the format of a proper Burns Supper has remainedpretty much the same.

Here’s how you do it.

First you have whisky as an aperitif. Then you sit down and say the Selkirk Grace (Googleit!) before tucking into a traditional Scottish soup – cock-a-leekie or Scotch broth –accompanied by whisky. Then the piper pipes in the haggis which, after reciting theappropriate poem (again, Google it!), you toast with whisky. The haggis is eatenaccompanied by mashed potatoes, mashed parsnips, and whisky. Dessert should besomething like cranachan, a mixture of oatmeal, raspberries (optional), and creambeaten with whisky. Then you toast the Queen, the poet, the host and the lassies, inwhisky. Finally you each read out a Burns poem, fortified before hand with whisky.

You’re getting the idea, aren’t you? There’s an awful lot of whisky involved – morewhisky, in fact, than Burns himself probably saw in his lifetime. The spirit was onlylegalised in 1784 and remained a Highland speciality for many years after; as aLowlander, Burns would have seen far more brandy than whisky.

Anyway, if it’s all too much whisky for you, you could always substitute Irn Bru

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rOmSeyhas a new arts and crafts exhibition and saleroom.The light and airy gallery at 27 Bell Street iscrammed with ceramics, jewellery, sculpture andpaintings by local artists at prices ranging fromaffordable pocket money pieces to very reasonablypriced original artwork. if you want to buy animaginative gift then rum’s eg is the place to go –and unique wrapping paper and cards areavailable too. Of course, you could just treatyourself to something to cheer up a dull corner athome, or simply enjoy a cup of coffee in the artCafé.

The Hampshire Arts and Crafts Community InterestProject (CIC) was formed in May 2012 by DirectorsSiriol Sherlock (who is widely recognized as one ofthe world’s top contemporary botanical artists) andAnnie Jeffrey (a local sculptor whose work reflectsher interests in human, equine and botanicalshapes). As well as being a much needed permanent

showcase and sales point for Hampshire-basedartists, Rum’s Eg will run workshops for variousgroups within the community includingdisadvantaged children and adults with disabilities.Facilities will be provided for groups to learn from theskills and experience of artists and craftspeople whoare already showcasing their work in the gallery.

The opening night and first week of trading forthis brilliant venture was a roaring success and theGallery was able to extend the Christmas Exhib-ition opening into January instead of closing on22 December and reopening in February. They hadto restock with artworks! On the opening nightWaitrose donated £10,000 from their CommunityMatters Fund which will pay for the refurbishmentof the second floor of Rum's Eg to include TheLeckford Art Studio and Longstock Meeting Room.To find out more please look at the websitewww.hampshireartandcraft.org.

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