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Romsey & Wellow GazetteISSUE No. 215 JUNE 2012

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Welcome…

Angela

8 Forthcoming Shows at The Plaza Theatre, Romsey

10 Parking in Test Valley – Is There a Better Way? asks Angela Wilbraham

14 A Taste of Italy Comes to Romsey

20 Ben Harris talks about Urban Myths

26 Surinder Bellamy tells how to Lose Weight in Time for Summer!

28 Blood Brothers at The Mayflower, Southampton

30 Cooking with Ian – Pan-Fried Cod with Broad Beans and Pancetta

38 Coping with Bereavement says Francesca Mettam

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to the June edition of the Romsey and Wellow Gazette.

This month we have the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations which means we have a long bank holiday. There are events organised in most towns

and villages to include everyone. We just need to keep fingers and toes crossed for good weather!!!

As usual this month’s magazines has articles from The Anorak Man and Surinder Bellamy – both of whom have been contributing to our publications for many years now, for which we are extremely grateful.

Ben Hall is our latest regular contributor, and this month he is telling us about Urban Myths – see page 20.

The Romsey and Wellow Gazette is one of five in our series of publications – others covering the Andover, Eastleigh, Test Valley, Totton and Wellow areas. If you would like to see sample copies of any of our other magazines, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

And please keep sending us in all your diary dates and details and articles about local event.

Have a lovely June.

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In this issue…8 Forthcoming Shows

at The Plaza Theatre, Romsey

10 Parking in Test Valley – Is There a Better Way? asks Angela Wilbraham

14 A Taste of Italy Comes to Romsey

20 Ben Harris talks about Urban Myths

26 Surinder Bellamy tells how to Lose Weight in Time for Summer!

28 Blood Brothers at The Mayflower, Southampton

30 Cooking with Ian – Pan-Fried Cod with Broad Beans and Pancetta

38 Coping with Bereavement says Francesca Mettam

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Forthcoming shows at Romsey’s Plaza Theatre include the Footlights Youth Theatre’s presentation of Sweet Charity and a presentation of of Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus by The Romsey Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society (RAODS).

Sweet Charity, which will be presented from July 10th to 14th at 7.30pm each day, with a additional show at 2.30pm on July 14th, will give the audience the chance to discover the romantic misadventures of Charity Hope Valentine, the gregarious, gullible and guileless girl who repeatedly gives her heart and her dreams to the wrong men.

Accompanied by a host of outrageously colourful characters

and a show-stopping score featuring The Rhythm of Life, Dream Your Dream and Big Spender, this musical promises to be an evening to remember for all the family.

Twenty two years after RAODS first performed it, from July 17th to 21st they will be returning to Habeas Corpus, the hilariously entertaining, bawdy picture postcard comedy that combines the fast-paced fun of a classic farce with Bennett’s unmistakably dry Northern wit.

It’s a balmy summer afternoon, and a variety of upper middle class residents are certainly feeling the heat. The sex-mad Dr Arthur Wicksteed is caught in a compromising position with a gorgeous young patient. His wife, Muriel craves the reawakening of her passion – with anyone from a travelling salesman to her husband’s bitter rival. While Arthur’s

sister, Connie is obsessed with developing her flat chest and makes a plan to help nature along - and there are plenty of offers to give her a helping hand!

Will the doctor get away with his clumsy attempts at seduction? Will Canon Throbbing, the randy local vicar, still be left unsatisfied? Will Connie’s new extensive bust land her the man of her dreams? Will the despairing Mr Purdue finally pop his cork? There’s only one way to find out!

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Our recent article on Inspired Community about the problem with parking in Test Valley prompted a lot of discussion, including some very interesting revenue figures and a response from Test Valley Borough Council. This is the original article and if you want to see, or have your say in the discussion, go to blogs on www.inspiredcommunity.co.uk and look for the article.

It’s not something I noticed particularly until I started going into Andover and Romsey frequently for meetings about Inspired Community, but paying for parking is a pain!

What prompted my thoughts on this issue was getting a parking ticket a couple of weeks ago. I am not at all complaining about getting a ticket – I deserved it as I overstayed and those are the rules. What I am suggesting, however, is that the rules could be made to suit frequent visitors better.

As it is now you have to decide as soon as you park how long you are going to stay for, and you have to have the exact change otherwise you end up overpaying.

But I have had many times when I have decided an hour is long enough for my meeting and I’ve ended up having some great conversations that are difficult to cut short (or even to look at my watch to know what time it is as it’s easy to lose track) and so I find I overstay the time on my ticket. Or on other occasions I opt to pay for more time and find I’m only half an hour so I’ve wasted money. And because I can go in a couple of times a day several times a week, having enough change is a constant problem. So I end up overpaying but not getting any more time for it.

Suggestions for Test Valley Borough Council

So if Test Valley Borough Council were ever to reconsider its approach to charging us for parking, here are some suggestions that could make it easier for frequent visitors –

- Either provide change or give us longer based on the extra we pay when we don’t have the right change

- Even better, allow us to pay when we’re ready to leave so we don’t have to guess beforehand how long we’re going to be and we can pay for what we use

- Possibly harder to implement, let us pay with a card – like an Oyster card for the London Underground – where we can top up the balance on the card and when we leave the car park it deducts the correct amount

Now of course there are always reasons why things are done a certain way which aren’t always clear if you are not involved in the decision making. But it seems logical to me that if the pricing policy is not just about revenue generation but rather about providing a service to local tax payers, finding improvements to the way we pay for parking would be a worthwhile consideration.

What are your opinions? Do you have issues with parking or do you think the system works as it is?

For more local Test Valley articles, as well as local videos, event listings, and a groups section designed to help local organisations raise their profile and grow membership, take a look at www.inspiredcommunity.co.uk, or call Angela on 01264-710 033.

Parking in Test Valley – Is There a Better Way?asks Angela Wilbraham, Community Manager of inspiredcommunity.co.uk

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Carrots let you see in the dark, goldfish have a three second memory and the only man-made object visible from space is the Great Wall of China - all great trivia facts that everyone knows, right? Wrong! In fact none of these are true at all! They are what are known as urban legends, and are just a few examples of a long list of strange and quirky myths that we all accept as known truths.

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By definition an urban legend is a second hand story that is just plausible enough to be believable, but presented as truth. It is usually based on a statistic or ironic story that is so compelling you can’t help but memorise it and repeat it to your friends, and before too long they become viral.

The internet has certainly made it much easier to spread these fascinating untruths, and perhaps the best example of this is the fact that you accidentally swallow about eight spiders a year in your sleep. Is this true? Absolutely not! Spiders have a natural instinct to stay alive and crawling into a snoring mouth would be extremely unlikely. In fact, this non-fact was deliberately created by a journalist in 1993 to prove that you could make up anything on the internet and people would believe it – how right she was!

Finally here are few more popular urban legends that we can put to bed - sugar does not cause hyperactivity in children; shaving doesn’t make your hair grow back thicker; going out with wet hair doesn’t mean you will catch a cold; elephants are not the only mammal unable to jump, and, believe it or not, there is absolutely no truth whatsoever in the myth that lemmings voluntarily leap to their deaths from cliff tops. This particular one was actually created by Disney!

These urban myths are certainly unusual, funny and sometimes shocking. But what is amazing is that so many people believe them and pass them on. Perhaps the strangest thing is that I still want to believe them all!

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Olive oil

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Large handful of parsley, finely chopped

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Losing someone through death is something we all know is a fact of life, but that doesn’t mean it is always easy to cope with. Pain, embarrassment and not knowing what to say, make it a subject which people tend to avoid and when we are grieving, it can feel as if there is no one who understands what we are going through. When someone we love, know or care about dies, it can be a tremendous shock, even when we know it is about to happen. If the death is sudden and unexpected it can be even more difficult to accept. Furthermore if the relationship with the person who died was difficult, this can produce even more conflicting emotions.

We all have to experience the loss of people we care about at some point in our lives and that pain is the price we pay for loving and being loved. Those first weeks and months are difficult and emotionally exhausting but somehow we get through it. Sometimes though we can become stuck somewhere in the process of grieving; it can feel as if nothing is any clearer and the pain is as raw as it was the day we lost that person.

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June 10th Hampshire Farmers’ Market at Winchester (9.00am) (telephone 01420-588671 for details)

June 10th The New Forest Brass Band performing on The Memorial Park Bandstand, Romsey (3.00pm) (telephone 01794-514948 for details)

June 13th “A Ramble Round The Test Valley” with Hampshire Wildlife and Isle of Wight Trust from Testwood Lakes (10.00am) (telephone 023-8042-4206 for details)

June 15th Organ Recital by Armin Becker in Romsey Abbey (7.30pm)

June 16th East Tytherley Country Fayre, 12 noon ’til late, at Oaklands House, East Tytherley. ‘A countryside extravaganza with a garden party atmosphere’. All proceeds to St Peter’s Church, East Tytherley

June 16th/17th Southampton Dog Show at Royal Victoria Country Park, Netley Abbey ((11.00am each day) (telephone 023-8045-5157 for details)

June 16th/17th Custom and Hot Rod Festival at Beaulieu (10.00am each day) (telephone 01590-612345 for details)

June 17th “We’ll Meet Again” featuring music from the forties with The Swing Unlimited Big Band at Embley Park, Romsey (3.30pm) (telephone 01794-512987 for details)

June 19th “Wildflower Walk” at Swanwick Lakes with Hampshire Wildlife and Isle of Wight Trust (10.30am) (telephone 01489-570240 for details)

June 20th Woodley and Crampmoor Friendship Club meeting at Woodley Village Hall featuring a talk by Nick Thomas entitled “Life as a Comedy Writer”

June 21st Romsey Hospital League of Friends Bring and Buy Sale in the hospital gardens (2.00pm) (telephone 01794-513312 for details)

June 22nd/23rd NOMADS presentation of “Diamond Days on a Summer Night” at Woodley Village Hall (7.30pm) (telephone 01794-513860 or 01794-523578 for details)

June 23rd Michelmersh Silver Band in concert in Romsey Abbey (7.30pm) (telephone 01794-512987 for details)

June 24th Hampshire Farmers’ Market at Winchester (9.00am) (telephone 01420-588671 for details)

June 24th Flautissimo performing on The Memorial Park Bandstand, Romsey (3.00pm) (telephone 01794-514948 for details)

June 30th Summer Fayre at St Peter’s Church, Boyatt Wood (12.00noon) (telephone 023-8036-4176 for details)

June 30th “Downland Treasures at Broughton Down” with Hampshire Wildlife and Isle of Wight Trust (2.00am) (telephone 01962-864440 for details)

July 2nd Romsey Choral Society with The Academy of St Thomas Orchestra in concert at Romsey Abbey (7.30pm) (telephone 01794-512987 for details)

July 6th-15th Winchester Festival (telephone 01962-857276 for details)

July 4th Woodley and Crampmoor Friendship Club meeting at Woodley Village Hall featuring a talk by Clive Denton entitled “Rags To Riches”

July 4th Walk at Old Winchester Hill with Hampshire Wildlife and Isle of Wight Trust (10.30am) (telephone 023-9222-1361 for details)

July 4th South Hampshire Historical Aviation Society meeting at Romsey Conservative Club

July 5th Southampton Canal Society Annual General Meeting followed by cheese and wine at Chilworth Parish Hall (7.45pm)

July 7th Jubilee Concert with Romsey Choral Society and City of Southampton Orchestra in Romsey Abbey (7.30pm) ) (telephone 01794-512987 for details)

July 8th Hampshire Farmers’ Market at Winchester (9.00am) (telephone 01420-588671 for details)



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