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Supporting Marie Curie – Great Local Contributions

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Marie Curie is the U.K.’s leading end of life charity providing palliative care in people’s own homes through the famous Marie Curie nurses and support for all the family. This free service is for anyone with an illness of any kind that they are likely to die from.

They also provide bereavement support and financial advice, fund research into end of life care, and lead campaigns to influence government policy in this area.

Marie Curie can only continue to do all this by regular fundraising. Although a National Charity it is local people and their families who benefit. [Read more…] about Supporting Marie Curie – Great Local Contributions

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Speak Their Name Suicide Memorial Quilt – On Display at Chandler’s Ford Methodist Church

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Have you heard of the Speak Their Name Suicide Memorial Quilt?

The Hampshire and Isle of Wight ‘Speak Their Name’ Suicide Memorial Quilt is a beautiful ongoing piece of art, created with love in memory of people lost to suicide by their bereaved friends and family. This project has been inspired by the quilts made in Greater Manchester and Yorkshire.

Speak their Names Quilt on Display in Chandler's Ford November 2024
Speak their Names Quilt on Display in Chandler’s Ford November 2024
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Marie Curie and Thornden Hall

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The Eastleigh and Chandlers Ford Fundraising Group for Marie Curie were delighted to enter a partnership with Thornden Hall last year to raise much needed funds.

Volunteers collected at Movie Nights at Thornden Hall Arts Centre at Thornden School in Chandler’s Ford raising £809.47 in the last 12 months.

Thornden Presentation photo - Marie Curie
Thornden Presentation photo – Marie Curie

Photos show Neil Daykin, Manager and Nicolette Lock for Marie Curie at a presentation of our Certificate of thanks at a recent Movie Night. [Read more…] about Marie Curie and Thornden Hall

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Chandler’s Ford Methodist Church – an Out of the Ordinary Christmas

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Chandler’s Ford Methodist Church has many events on – craft, puppet show, Christmas concerts and Christmas services, and many more.

Chandler's Ford Methodist Church
Chandler’s Ford Methodist Church
Christmas at Methodist Church
Christmas at Methodist Church

From Monday to Saturday morning, the Dovetail Centre Café is open to all. It’s where you enjoy a nice cup of tea or freshly brewed coffee and breakfast, and you’ll find many lovely, friendly faces there. This is a place of friendship, kindness, and warmth. No one should feel lonely in the community.

A very welcoming Dovetail Cafe, of Chandler's Ford Methodist Church.
A very welcoming Dovetail Cafe, of Chandler’s Ford Methodist Church.

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Apostrophe Catastrophe

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How come the little apostrophe should become a headline in the National Press? Because Councillor Bronk asked the assembled Winchester Council about a road sign in Twyford:

St Marys Terrace

or

St Mary’s Terrace?

The assembled council, bless’em, got the answer wrong. Is it a terrace belonging to St Mary or a terrace named after St Mary? That gives you the answer.

St Mary's Terrace in Twyford
St Mary’s Terrace in Twyford

It’s the same with Chandlers Ford, the name of a suburb of Eastleigh, not a ford belonging to Mr Chandler. [Read more…] about Apostrophe Catastrophe

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Chandler’s Ford – Community Food Larder is Open to All

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Did you know there is a Community Food Larder in Chandler’s Ford? It is located by the front door to the Hall of the Methodist Church facing Winchester Road. There are basic food and toiletries for anyone who just need a bit of help.

The cupboard is unlocked, and is open 24/7. If you need anything, or if you know of anyone who may need some help, please come to the larder and help yourself.

This morning I saw several church members fill up the larder, so I took a few photographs to show you what’s inside.

Food and toiletries
Food and toiletries
Chandler's Ford Community Larder - outside the Methodist Church.
Chandler’s Ford Community Larder – outside the Methodist Church.

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Community Food Larder at Chandler’s Ford Methodist Church from 23 July

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Community Food Larder in Chandler's Ford
Community Food Larder in Chandler’s Ford

From the 23rd of July, Chandler’s Ford Methodist Church will be hosting a Food Larder at the front of the building.

This will provide basic food and toiletries in an emergency to anyone who needs them, 24/7.

Defibrillator - on the outside wall of Chandler's Ford Methodist Church, on Winchester Road. Image credit: Nigel Moorse.
Chandler’s Ford Methodist Church and Dovetail Centre, Winchester Road.

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How do you Define Chandler’s Ford? What does Chandler’s Ford mean to you?

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If you use Wikipedia today (24.07.3021), you may find the Featured Article today looks rather familiar:

Chandler's Ford featured in Wikipedia 24.08.2021 (screenshot 24.08.2021)
Chandler’s Ford featured in Wikipedia 24.08.2021 (screenshot 24.08.2021)

“The Chandler’s Ford shooting was an attempted robbery on 13 September 2007 in which two men were shot dead by officers of London’s Metropolitan Police while robbing a cash-in-transit van. The Met had been tracking a gang who had stolen an estimated £500,000 from security vans and learned that the gang intended to rob the HSBC bank in Chandler’s Ford.”

Not sure how often Chandler’s Ford gets the global attention like today.

However we don’t think the community is proud to be defined by “The Chandler’s Ford Shooting”. [Read more…] about How do you Define Chandler’s Ford? What does Chandler’s Ford mean to you?

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Our River, the Monks Brook

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We have two beautiful rivers in south Hampshire, the Test and the Itchen. Both chalk streams, in their upper reaches these are noted for their water quality. In fact, due to the chalk aquafer on the Itchen, which has excellent storage and filtration, we get our water supply from this river.

But here in Chandler’s Ford we know of another, less well-known river, the Monks Brook. ‘Fordians see it popping up here and there, through Hiltingbury Lakes, at the bottom of people’s gardens, under roads: sometimes pretty as in Flexford Reserve, sometimes business-like as it rushes down a manmade culvert under Hursley Road.

Monks Brook
Monks Brook

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Barclays Bank Chandler’s Ford Branch is Closing on Friday 30 July 2021

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Barclays Bank Chandler’s Ford Branch is Closing on Friday 30 July 2021.

The nearest branches are in Winchester and Eastleigh.

Barclays Chandlers Ford branch is closing on Friday 30 July 2021.
Barclays Chandler’s Ford branch is closing on Friday 30 July 2021.

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Dovetail Café at the Methodist Church: now open 9.30 to 12noon Tuesday to Friday and from 10-12noon on Saturdays

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Updated 11.12.2021

The Dovetail Café at the Chandler’s Ford Methodist Church is now open 9.30 to 12noon Tuesday to Friday and from 10-12noon on Saturdays.

I was there last Saturday and really felt life has started to feel a bit ‘normal’.

 

 

Dovetail Cafe at the Methodist Church in Chandler's Ford
Dovetail Cafe at the Methodist Church in Chandler’s Ford

What has changed?

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Fundraising for the 2nd Chandler’s Ford (Ramalley) Scout Headquarters

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2nd Chandler’s Ford Scout Group needs your help.

The Scouts are raising £8,000 to help complete their new building on Ramalley Lane, to make it an amazing new venue for Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Explorers and the resident pre-school.

Before - The 2nd Chandler's Ford Ramalley Scout Group
Before – The 2nd Chandler’s Ford Ramalley Scout Group
Old Hall vs New hall under construction - The 2nd Chandler's Ford (Ramalley) Scout headquarters.
Old Hall vs New hall under construction – The 2nd Chandler’s Ford (Ramalley) Scout headquarters.

The 2nd Chandlers Ford (Ramalley) Scout headquarters celebrated its 80th birthday in 2018. Over 83 years, it has enabled local children and young people to have fantastic opportunities, have fun, and develop new skills. They have learnt team work, problem-solving, resilience, independence, to name but a few. [Read more…] about Fundraising for the 2nd Chandler’s Ford (Ramalley) Scout Headquarters

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Great Daffodil Appeal – Supporting Marie Curie

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This year’s Great Daffodil Appeal will be one like no other. Thousands of Marie Curie volunteers will not be able to collect donations in exchange for a daffodil at local supermarkets, trains stations or town centres like they usually do each spring. However, you can still be a part of this year’s Great Daffodil Appeal by donating online

You couldn’t pick a better year to support Marie Curie Nurses. Like everyone, Marie Curie has been hit hard by coronavirus. Their Nurses and hospices have been on the frontline throughout the pandemic, caring for dying people and their families.

Picture of a nurse - Marie Curie charity

Marie Curie have also seen more people than ever calling their Support Line, looking for help because they are feeling isolated or have had to grieve for a loved one alone during lockdown. [Read more…] about Great Daffodil Appeal – Supporting Marie Curie

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Online Chinese New Year Celebration from Southampton: Sunday 14.02.2021 at 5pm

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You are invited to join the first online Chinese New Year event on Sunday 14/2/2021 at 5pm, organised by Southampton Chinese Association.

If you are unable to join Zoom, you can join using the YouTube Live link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_OkT9EdD6k

Programmes include: Lion dance, Martial Art display, Chinese dance and music, Chinese opera, and Dragon dance.

It is the Year of the Ox.

Chinese New Year celebration at West Quay.
Chinese New Year celebration (previously at West Quay, 2013)

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Another Pandemic, A Long Time Ago …

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Most of us have heard of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-20 – when ten times the number died of the virus than had been killed in the four years of the First World War. However, I confess I was a bit hazy on the details. So, with time on my hands during the lockdown, I thought I’d find out a bit more. I was quite surprised at some of the facts – but also at how many similarities there are between the earlier pandemic and the one we are currently living through.

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First of all, some facts about that pandemic

How long did the Spanish flu pandemic last? Just over two years – February 1918 to April 1920. [Read more…] about Another Pandemic, A Long Time Ago …

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O Tidings…!

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The title for this week’s post comes from the old Christmas Carol, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen of course and the moment I hear it or sing it, I automatically think of Dickens (and from there to his wonderful story, A Christmas Carol).

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Life in a Pandemic: Who am I?

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There is a story of a pompous man pushing into the front of and airport check-in queue. The check-in girl tells him to go to the back of the queue. ‘Do you know who I am?’ asks the man. The check-in girl asks the queue, ’can anyone help? This man does not know who he is.’

I sympathise with this man, not because of pushing into a queue, but because I am not known by my name any longer. The days when I heard people say, ‘Hello, Mike, nice to see you,’ have gone because, in COVID protection mode, no one sees me.

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Reduced to a Binary Digit

I am known to my computer but only as a string of digits. The screen wants to know my ID number, password, authentication code, admin password, username, wireless key, PIN, account number or registration key. Then there are numbers and codes sent to my phone which last only an hour or so. If I go to a bar or restaurant, my phone communicates with a QR code. I can text my order and someone brings drinks. [Read more…] about Life in a Pandemic: Who am I?

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#SaveOurTheatres – Plaza Theatre Romsey

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Romsey Plaza Theatre launched its first ever CrowdFunding event this Monday to raise money to cover its box office losses due to Covid.

#SaveOurTheatres – Plaza Theatre Romsey

 

Over the past 6 months, the Plaza has been closed and we have had virtually no income. We need your help to ensure that the Plaza is able to continue covering our basic overheads. In conjunction with the Theatres Trust and their #SaveOurTheatres initiative, we have started a crowdfunding campaign to raise the funds which will make sure that our theatre continues to operate safely through the lockdown and for years beyond. [Read more…] about #SaveOurTheatres – Plaza Theatre Romsey

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Shops Reopening – Support Local Businesses in Chandler’s Ford

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Yesterday I drove past the Fryern Arcade, and could see lots of people outside Costa Coffee.

Chandler's Ford Central Precinct: Keep Safe
Chandler’s Ford Central Precinct: Keep Safe

At the Central Precinct, I also saw a tent outside Up & Running running shop. I was quite pleased, so went to check if my trainers had arrived. I had ordered a pair of trainers a week before lockdown, so have been waiting for the shop to reopen.

Up and Running - running specialist at Chandler's Ford Central Precinct.
Up and Running – running specialist at Chandler’s Ford Central Precinct.

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Prosody

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It’s not what you say, it’s the way that you say it. The panel game, Just a Minute depends on it. My granddaughter (aged 6) wrote a performance poem about the programme. I have kept the original spelling:-

This is

Cklap, cklap, cklap

A game of

Cklap, cklap, cklap

Consontrashon

Clap, clap, clap

No repeets

Clap, clap, clap

Or hesetaison

Clap, clap, clap

I’ll go first

Clap, clap, clap

And I’ll go second

Clap, clap, clap

Subject is

Clap, clap, clap

Enithing.

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Jan 2020

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