Totton Gazette - September 2011

Totton GazetteIssue No. 116 September 2011

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• • COPY DATE FOR THE NEXT ISSUE – 16th September 2011 • •

ContentsBowls - A Sport for All 3

Working Hard but Going Nowhere? asks Surinder Bellamy 4

Cooking with Ian - Wild Mushroom Tagliatelle 6

Competition: Win tickets to see All the Fun of the Fair at the Mayflower 8

Diary of a Fitness Centre 8

TheatreTrain brings West End Opportunities to Southampton 12

The Anorak Man talks about Floor Pie 16

Dates for your Diary 17

List of Advertisers 18

Useful Numbers 18

Business Directory 19

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Gazette Publications Limited reserve the right to accept or reject any article or material supplied for publication or to edit such material prior to publication. The opinions expressed or advice given in this publication are the views of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views or policies of the publisher.Every care is taken when compiling this magazine, however we cannot accept liability for misprints or mistakes. Dates and information quoted are believed correct at the time of going to press, but are subject to change and no responsibility can be taken for loss, damage or omission of material due to error.It is the client’s responsibility to ensure they have permission to use any artwork which they supply to us or request for us to reproduce. Unless prior consent of the publisher is given, no part of this publication is to be reproduced.

Contact Details:To advertise please call Angela Lodge on 07846-985065 or e-mail [email protected].

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Clients or agencies supplying artwork or images should send JPGs or PDFs, 300 dpi minimum if actual size, or at a higher resolution if smaller than the size required.

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Notes From The PublishersIf all goes to plan this could be the last Totton Gazette that are reading in this particular format! We issue six magazines on a regular basis, covering Andover, Eastleigh, Romsey and Wellow, Salisbury and the villages throughout the Test Valley in addition to this publication, and, as from the October issues, the plan is to standardize the formats – which means essentially making them all B5, a size a little smaller than the current size.

As reported in the August issue of the Totton Gazette, our website is now fully operational and offers a very cheap way of on-line advertising. Additionally, we now hae our franchise website (www.gazettefranchising.com) up-and-running, offering the opportunity to anyone interested in starting their own magazine under the guidance of Gazette Publications Limited, with our many years experience of producing local, community-type publications.

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As always, we welcome articles and diary dates for publication, and are particularly happy to support local charities. So, if you have an event coming up, please don’t hesitate to send your details to [email protected], or telephone us on 01794-516111.

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For advertising details contact Angela on Tel: 023-8025-5585, Mob: 07846-985065 or e-mail: [email protected]

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BOWLS - A SPORT FOR ALLThe Bowls Centre opened to the public in 1998. It is a great facility in a tranquil setting in West Totton.

The bowling green is an artificial surface which means the centre is open all year, seven days a week.

Beginners & experienced bowlers are all welcome• For pay & play bowls• Bowls and equipment• Available to hire•

The Centre likes to encourage everyone to have a go as it is a sport that is played by people of all ages and abilities.

It prides itself with good facilities for the disabled having obtained two special Bowls Buggies for use on the green.

Totton & Eling Bowls Club is very active at the Centre.

The Club is affiliated to play League Matches in the New Forest and the Southampton & District Area. They play friendly games with nearby clubs during the summer and also have an Indoor Short Mat Bowls Section (1st October to 31st March).

The Club also have a busy social calendar including holidays for leisure and some to include Bowls Tournaments

New members are always very welcome. See www.sites.google.com/site/tottonbowlsclub on the internet.

More information can be obtained by calling into the centre, telephoning 023 8086 8846 or by emailing [email protected]

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Working Hard but Going Nowhere?asks Surinder Bellamy

Slogging away in the gym, exercising hard and not seeing the results you want? Training hard but not making improvements or seeming to get anywhere is frustrating when, once upon a time, that same routine was getting you fitter and helping you to lose the weight that now refuses to come off.

This is what people refer to as being in a plateau, either in terms of your weight-loss or your fitness and it is very dispiriting when all your efforts seem to be for nought. The same things that used to work are now producing diminishing results and you’re wondering what else to do? However, to understand why you’re stuck at this same point, you need to understand how your body improves and adapts to exercise.

This is explained by something called homeostatis, which is the body’s ability to make physiological adaptations. The body’s ultimate aim is to protect you from anything that might be a danger to you, therefore anything that is a ‘stressor’ to the body in the sense that it forces the body to alter its temperature, oxygen consumption and PH levels, the body will react to by adjusting those levels if the stressor is applied frequently enough. In other words, it will learn to cope, for if it did not weight-loss would continue to a point of danger.

Using the heat and cold as examples, if you put your hands in very cold water, initially you will shiver as the body tries to raise your temperature, but eventually it will adjust and you will be able to

tolerate the cold more easily. Equally, constant exposure to heat will bring

adaptation and the body will sweat to adjust temperature, but you will better tolerate the heat.

Exercise is also a ‘stressor’ (though a stress-reliever),

because it is a process that forces the body to make

adaptations to temperature and oxygen consumption and

PH levels. The more you exercise, the more the body fights to cope and adjust, which it will succeed

in doing and the result of that process is called

‘fitness’. Therefore, you constantly

g e t f i t t e r and the

weight

comes off, which is great and then it a l l s l o w s

down and you stop making

improvements because you are no longer doing something with which the body cannot cope.

When the body no longer perceives the exercise you are performing as a new stimulus it will not change to adapt to the exercise. Your body will stay at the same level of fitness. At this point exercising will not produce any fitness improvements or further weight-loss, and you are said to be on a plateau.

So what can you do about it?The answer is to make the body keep on having to adapt by regularly making changes to your training programme. This is called periodisation and means switching your training programme regularly to ensure that the body does not become used to doing the same thing over and over again and get bored.

A simple example of this would be to change your training programme every four to six weeks. Another method would be to change the reps or weights you do or the level you use. For cardio, try introducing interval training or switching from spinning to running or vice versa. It’s all about changing intensity, duration and frequency. With an eating plan, change the food types you are having and vary the content and volumes.

It’s all about change and staying one step ahead, but view it positively because with each change your strength and fitness increase with the adaptation.

Surinder Bellamy is a personal trainer and life and performance coach based near Wellow and also covering Salisbury, Romsey and Totton areas. For fitness, weight-loss, nutrition, stress, pre/post natal, lifestyle/behavioural and wedding/holiday goals, she can be contacted by telephone on 01725-511795 or 07763-823699.

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Wild Mushroom TagliatelleFrom late summer until the first frost, wild mushrooms

are plentiful. If you are foraging for mushrooms yourself, then never eat fungi that you are unable

to identify absolutely as some are poisonous. Using pictures in a book may not be that reliable as there are subtle differences between the many varieties.

Either take with you an expert guide or of course, just buy them! For more information on wild mushrooms, I would recommend visiting themushroombasket.com.

This recipe serves two.

Cooking with IanIan Wooldridge,

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near RomseySeasonal & Local Produce

Recipe

Olive oil1 red onion, peeled & very finely diced2 cloves of garlic, peeled & minced or very finely diced

250gms of wild mushrooms (Chantarelles, Trompette, Oyster, Portobello, Ceps/Porcini)

Little salt250gms of tagliatelle or any style of ribbon

pasta

200ml of double cream (or low-fat crème fraiche, if you are counting the calories!)

Handful of fresh parsley, finely chopped¼ tsp of dried oregano½ tsp of dried basilPinch of dried red chilli flakes (optional)Freshly ground black pepper75gms of parmesan shavings

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Method: Heat a little olive oil in a large pan or skillet. Add the red onion & garlic and fry for about 2-3 minutes. Prepare the mushrooms. It is important not to remove the stems of the wild mushrooms as here lies a lot of the flavour. Keep any very small mushrooms whole and roughly slice the larger ones. Add the mushrooms to the pan and gently sauté them for about 4 minutes. Meanwhile, bring a pan of slightly salted water to the boil and cook the pasta for 5-6 minutes or to the packet instructions. When the pasta is cooked,

drain in a colander and keep warm by placing a lid over it. Now add the cream to the mushrooms, followed by the fresh parsley, dried herbs and chilli flakes if using. You can use as much or little of the chilli flakes as you like, but just a small pinch gives an interesting bite to the dish. Mix the pasta in with the mushroom sauce and season with freshly-milled black pepper to taste. Serve into warmed bowls and sprinkle over the parmesan shavings with maybe a separate side salad or garlic bread. This recipe serves two persons.

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Dodgems and motorbikes, crafty cons and candy floss, fairground horses and fights, along with romance and rock and roll bring out the carnival atmosphere, but beware… all is not always fun at the fair!

The Mayflower has kindly donated four pairs of tickets for the show on October 11th. For a chance to win a pair of tickets tell us the name of one of David Essex’s hit records.

Entries should be sent by post to Totton Gazette, Unit 9, Greatbridge Business Park, Budds Lane, Romsey, Hampshire, SO51 0HA or e-mailed to [email protected], to be received by 2nd October. Winners will be notified by 5th October.

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Diary of a Fitness CentreWhilst the centre is welcoming new and existing members through its doors, we are also busy daily out and about – here’s a snapshot of what happens when we take the mobile unit (otherwise our van!) out and about!!

Monday – Ian runs a circuit class in the local village at Lockerley – it’s very sociable and long term participants rub shoulders with new people each Monday. There is always great banter during the breaks, but Ian makes sure everyone works well during this energetic hour!

Tuesday – An elderly bed ridden client has seen great improvements since we started visiting him at home – he is now up and walking around, even to the point of gently coping outside down his quiet country lane with our support. Very satisfying for him and us.

Wednesday – Craig’s turn at circuits at Wellow Village Hall – Craig’s style is different to Ian’s, as are the exercises, so there are people who go to both just for the variety! Same sociable atmosphere and great for us to offer our services out in the community.

Thursday – A husband and wife team are building up their stamina and strength without coming to the centre! We have helped them buy equipment for their home and train them there. It suits their very busy lifestyle, so we do the travelling instead of them.

Friday – A very loyal member is recovering from a foot operation. She was very keen for us to help her put together a pre and post op programme, and now after a successful procedure, she is looking to progress slowly but surely to full recovery exercise wise within the next few months.

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Compare our prices

*Prices are correct at time of going to press and may be subject to change

Gair Gas Ltd £120 per yearBritish Gas HomeCare 200 £204 per year*Southern Electric £198 per year*

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The Anorak Man talks aboutFLOOR PIEMy wife has always made a point of

telling our friends that my cooking skills are awful. I’ve had problems tossing pancakes

when they either get stuck to the ceiling or come down in bits all over the floor. At times I’ve had to

scrape the bits off the ceiling and place them back into the frying pan before my wife found out.

So I was very pleased to see a poll commissioned by Italian pasta brand Giovanni Rana stating that many dinner party devotees have a nasty habit of serving their dinner guests food that has been cooked badly and often dropped on the floor. According to this poll of two thousand British consumers though, fifteen percent admitted to serving “floor pie” (ie. that’s food that had fallen on the floor, ten percent knowingly made feasts for guests using out of date food and thirteen percent said they had accidentally poisoned

themselves and their guests with their cooking. A few people also admitted defrosting food with irons, hairdryers and sun beds. At least my “ceiling pancakes” don’t poison anyone.

The study also found men to be marginally more experimental in the kitchen than women – twenty-six percent against twenty-four percent - but the male experimentation comes at a cost, with twenty-seven percent managing to set their kitchen or house on fire while on cooking duties and a further twenty-one percent admitting to having singed their eyebrows or burned off some hair in the process. The study also revealed that one third of Britons still can’t master basic techniques, like boiling an egg, while men pretended to cook food from scratch when they actually bought food ready prepared from the shop. Now come on you guys and own up if you’ve ever been guilty any this.

Perhaps my cooking skills are not that bad after all and my wife should give me more credit!

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Sept 3rd Alresford Agricultural Show at Tichborne Park, Alresford (telephone 9:00am) (telephone 01962 738748 for details)

Sept. 4th Hampshire Farmers’ Market at Romsey (10.00am) (telephone 01420-588671 for details)

Sept. 4th Lockerley Silver Band performing at the bandstand in Romsey Memorial Park (3.00pm)

Sept. 10th Romsey Show at Broadlands, Romsey (8.00am) (telephone 01794 517521 for details)

Sept. 10th/11th International Autojumble at Beaulieu Motor Museum (telephone 01590-514514 for details)

Sept 11th London to Southampton Bike Ride in aid of The British Heart Foundation (telephone 0808-100-2109 for details)

Sept. 11th Hampshire Farmers’ Market at Winchester (10.00am) (telephone 01420-588671 for details)

Sept 14th Space Lecture entitled “Collecting Rocks From Space” by Dr Matthew Genge at Intech Science Centre and Planetarium (6.30pm) (telephone 01962-863791 for details)

Sept. 14th Totton Art Society Working Evening at Totton and Eling Civic Centre (7.30pm) (telephone 023-8086- 4567 for details)

Sept 16th-25th Southampton Boat Show (telephone 0871-230-7140 for details)

Sept. 17th/18th Longdown Autumn Festival with The New Forest Vintage Tractor Club at Longdown Activity Farm, Ashurst.

Sept 17th Butserfest at Queen Elizabeth Country Park (telephone 023-9259-5040 for details)

Sept. 18th Hampshire Farmers’ Market at Andover (10.00am) (telephone 01420-588671 for details)

Sept. 22nd-25th Holiday Caravan Show at Beaulieu Motor Museum (telephone 01590-514514 for details)

Sept. 25th Hampshire Farmers’ Market at Winchester (10.00am) (telephone 01420-588671 for details)

Oct. 1st Hampshire Farmers’ Market/Winchester Cathedral Harvest Festival (10.00am) (telephone 01420-588671 for details)

Oct. 1st Lunar Imaging workshop with Ninian Boyle at Intech Science Centre and Planetarium (1.30pm) (telephone 01962-863791 for details)

Oct 8th Autumn Pumpkin Festival and Scarecrow Avenue at Royal Victoria Country Park, Southampton (telephone 023-8045-5157 for details)

Oct. 2nd Hampshire Farmers’ Market/Winchester Cathedral Harvest Festival (10.00am) (telephone 01420-588671 for details)

Oct. 9th Hampshire Farmers’ Market at Winchester (10.00am) (telephone 01420-588671 for details)

Oct 10th Southampton ‘Don’t Look Down’ Abseil at Canberra Towers (11:00am) (telephone 023- 8044-9108 for more details)

Oct. 15th NOMADS Table Top Sale at Woodley Village Hall (1.30pm) (telephone 01794-523578 or 01794-523947 for details)

Oct. 16th Hampshire Farmers’ Market at Andover (10.00am) (telephone 01420-588671 for details)

Oct. 16th Wilton Stride at Wilton House (2.00pm) (telephone 01794-884126 or 07845-449070 for details)

Oct 20th-28th Halloween Half Term Fun at Marwell Wildlife at Colden Common (telephone 01962-777407 for details)

Oct. 21st Age Concern Tea Dance at The Age Concern Hall, Linden Road, Romsey (2.00pm) (telephone 01794-518817 for details)

Oct. 23rd Hampshire Farmers’ Market at Bishop’s Waltham (10.00am) (telephone 01420-588671 for details)

Oct 28th Pumpkin Carving in Lyndhurst (telephone 023-8028-3444 for details)

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Helplines and Local ServicesAge Concern �� 023 8084 1199Childline �� 0800 1111Hampshire County Council �� 0800 028 0888Hospital Taxi �� 0845 602 4135National Blood Service �� 08457 711 711National Rail Enquiries �� 08457 484950NHS Direct (for Out-of-Hours advice) �� 0845 4647RSPCA �� 0870 55 55 999Samaritans �� 08457 90 90 90Southampton General Hospital �� 023 8077 7222Totton Citizen Advice �� 08448 269686


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