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Mudeford
The February 2018
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February 2018
Welcome to
The Mudeford Mag
Welcome to the Mudeford Mag!
Hurtigruten Cruises —
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Assuming that you have partaken in ‘Dry
an amazing experience January’ you may now be looking forward
to a glass of your favourite tipple. If you
are an aspiring sommelier and would like
to try something different to tempt your
palette, then this month’s magazine might
be able to help you with a few ideas from
Priory Wines who have recommended 2
wines from the Languedoc region of
France on page 24.
Alternatively you may want to come along
to a wine tasting evening at Stanpit
Village Hall on Friday March 9th where
Graham from Bonafide Wines will be
introducing you to a selection of his
chosen wines and giving you the chance
to try them for yourself – for a fun evening
6. Craft Page—Maggie Makes and how to book tickets please turn to
10. Why Choose Acupuncture? page 22.
12. The Benefits of Hot Yoga
I wish you a happy Valentine’s Day
14. Red House Museum—What’s On
17. Tom’s Monthly Poem Best Wishes, Julie
19. Why Use a Letting Agent
Editor: Julie Smith
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24. Wines From the Languedoc Region Email: julie@themudefordmag.co.uk
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PHYSIOTHERAPY AND SPORTS INJURY CLINIC
CLAIRE VAN WINGERDEN MCSP
CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPIST REGISTERED WITH THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS COUNCIL
Acupuncture is a form of treatment that promotes healing. It involves the
insertion of fine needles into specific points in the body. It has been used for
thousands of years in China and since the 1970’s in Western Medicine.
Acupuncture stimulates the body to produce endorphins and oxytocin, its own
pain and stress relieving chemicals. It may promote sleep by stimulating the
release of melatonin in the body and may encourage a sense of well-being by
stimulating the release of serotonin. Acupuncture also stimulates nerve fibres
to block out pain signals and helps reduce the sensitivity of tender points in
the body.
To me, acupuncture and physiotherapy go hand in hand. I qualified as a
Chartered Physiotherapist (MCSP) in 1991 and as a qualified Acupuncturist
(MAACP) in 1994. I am regulated by the Acupuncture Association of Chartered
Physiotherapists and have to maintain regular CPD (continued professional
development) to remain a member of both.
As a Physiotherapist I have a deep understanding of the body in terms of anatomy and medical conditions that can
affect it across a very wide spectrum. Using acupuncture as a treatment with this broad and varied medical training
from being a Chartered Physiotherapist allows me to fully assess the condition or symptoms being presented. To have
a choice of treatments from conventional physiotherapy ‘hands on’ treatments such as joint mobilisation or soft tissue
massage, and to add the use of acupuncture alongside these other treatments to further aid pain relief and increase
range of movement and function, is of great value.
The needles I use are single use, sterile fine gauge that are applied via an applicator tube. They vary in length
depending on the area of the body they are being inserted into but are very easy to insert and acupuncture should not
be painful. Most commonly I use between 2 and 8 needles. You may feel a temporary pricking sensation and a feeling
of warmth, heaviness or mild ache around the needle may be felt during treatment. Needles may be used directly
around the injured or affected area or further along a limb. The needles may be inserted between 5 and 30 minutes.
The most common use of acupuncture for me is for very acute pain such as sciatica or whiplash or very chronic pain
such as joint arthritis. Acupuncture is also being used as a form of pain relief in cancer and neurological conditions as
the side effects are minimal. I often use acupuncture to aid sports injury recovery and will always discuss the
treatment options with you. I often find acupuncture can help when all conventional methods fail or simply are not
enough and often comment how I couldn’t do without it as a tool in my ‘physiotherapy toolbox’. My patients will vouch
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for it as a treatment but it won’t, like everything, cure everyone! One to several sessions may be needed depending on
the condition being treated.
If you feel that you would like acupuncture as a treatment please feel free to contact me to discuss. As a
Physiotherapist I will always assess and discuss treatment options and will generally combine any treatment I offer
with advice, exercises and other professional support.
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February This month there are signs of the approaching spring, with bulbs appearing and birds
and wildlife waking up as light levels and temperatures increase. There’s plenty to do
indoors this month, all in preparation for the season ahead. Outdoors, the garden is
coming to life again, and its time to prune shrubs
Essential jobs this month
1. Prepare vegetable seed beds, and sow
some vegetables under cover
2. Protect blossom on apricots, nectarines
and peaches
3. Net fruit and vegetable crops to keep
the birds off 1 2
4. Divide bulbs such as snowdrops, and plant
those that need planting ‘in the green’
5. Chit potato tubers
6. Prune hardy evergreen hedges and
renovate overgrown deciduous hedges
Other jobs to consider 3 4
- Prune wisteria
- Prune winter-flowering shrubs that have
finished flowering
- Prune conservatory climbers
- Cut back deciduous grasses left uncut over
the winter
- Prune trees and many summer flowering clematis
- Mulch beds and borders
- Improve your soil by digging in some premium 5 6
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The Languedoc region, covering the Mediterranean coastal plain west of the Rhone, produces a lot of
fairly ordinary red wine, much of it marketed as VDQS or Vin de Pays. Languedoc is the largest French
wine producing area in terms of volume.There are seven Appellations controlées in the area, the
best-known of which is Corbières, and possibly the best average quality of which is Fitou. AOC wines
account for some 10% of the region’s production, but the proportion is increasing as Languedoc
producers concentrate more on quality, rather than quantity, and strive to reposition their wines
higher up the market.
Thanks to the long hours of summer sun, grapes ripen well and quickly in this region, which means that
Languedoc wines are rich and full bodied, and often have high alcohol content. Rather different from
the rest are the sparkling wines produced in Limoux, near Carcassonne. “Blanquette de Limoux” is
reputedly the oldest sparkling wine in France. It is well documented that Limoux was already producing
sparkling wines in the 1540s, half a century before the technique took hold in Champagne.
Our 2 most popular wines from this region are:
Picpoul de Pinet Chateau Coulon (Organic)
Slightly perfumed, ripe melon A concentrated and savoury red.
fruit on the nose. The palate is This Corbières shows intriguing
weighty and ripe but remains savoury and herbal aromas of
fresh and saline. After a well-round- bitters and thyme. The palate is
ed attack, the palate is lifted up by full of morello cherry fruit and
a crisp note typical of the wines carries through more woody,
from this terroir. savoury flavours to the finish.
£9.55 £12.45
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T here is nothing more romantic than sharing a meal with your loved one and
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This recipe takes a simple chocolate sponge and then sandwiches it together
with a white chocolate ganache and then tops it with a rich dark chocolate
ganache. Ganache was invented in French patisserie in Paris in the 1850s and
is normally made by heating cream and blending with chocolate. Butter is then
usually added to give the ganache a shiny appearance and a smooth texture.
However you spend your Valentine’s Day this year, why not make this cake with
its indulgent topping. If you’ve no Valentine to share the cake with, never mind –
it just means more cake for you!!
Ingredients 5 eggs
200g (8oz) Rice Flour (available in most A few drops of vanilla essence
supermarkets in the “Free From” sec- For the filling & topping:
tion or from local health food shops) 150ml (1/4 pint) double cream
25g (1oz) cocoa powder 75g (3oz) white chocolate
225g (9oz) soft margarine 1 tbsp sugar
225g (9oz) caster sugar 15g (1/2 oz) butter
1 tbsp baking powder 75g (3oz) plain chocolate
3 tbsp of milk 300g (12oz) fresh raspberries
Method and stir into the
Preheat oven to 190C / Gas Mark 5 cream.Spread onto
Lightly grease and line 2 20cm (8”) a cooled half of cake
sandwich tins with baking parch- and place the other
ment. half on top.
Put all the cake ingredients into
a bowl and whisk with an electric For the topping:
whisk for 2 minutes. Heat the remaining
Pour into the tins. cream, sugar and butter in
Place in the oven and cook for ap- a pan until just boiling
prox 35 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the
plain chocolate until it has melted
To make the filling: Leave to stand for 5 minutes then
Whip half the cream until thick spread it over the top of the cake
Melt the white chocolate in a micro- Decorate by pressing the raspberries
wave (it takes about 30-40 seconds) into the warm chocolate.TAC K L I N G T HE HA RD L AND SCAPING
In this the second of my articles on how indoors to outdoors so when the patio
to ‘Create a beautiful garden‘ I am taking doors are pushed back you have a more
a look at the hard landscaping- that’s the open level access from lounge to garden
paving, pathways, steps and low retaining that catches the sun during most of the
or feature walls , that form the main day and early evening. The area is
infrastructure of any garden. It’s important approximately 20 sq metres, the size
to get this right first time as it involves of an average room, giving you plenty
the most work and expense, and where enough space for a table and chairs
mistakes can be costly. along with a barbeque or some relaxing
sun loungers.
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final plan pinned up on the wall with the list A low wall is constructed around the patio
of materials for the job and the right tools to create a sense of enclosure and steps
to do it. It doesn’t have to include all the to take you down to the main garden.
detailed planting at this stage just an This paved theme is continued with
indication of where they will eventually go. stepping stones set into the lawn that
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beyond anyone’s laun-
dering skills. His scuffed
Short Story By Mark Laming grubby trainers were ob-
viously once expensive
A lex ignored their
stares, heard the
unkind remarks and
their screwed up faces
as weak meaningless
apologies were made
designer footwear. Surely
the garments he wore
must have been ones the
continued to read his and soon forgotten. charity shop threw out.
newspaper. There were Then there were people This man’s thin sad
so many empty seats hanging on to the hard hollow face rocked from
on the London under- black ball attached to a side to side with the
ground train which taught spring that hung motion of the train. The
was unusual for the from the ceiling - the shaven head revealed
rush hour. The crowds traveller’s steadying scars from his everyday
were there, the only tool. Surely grasping battles probably from
difference today was that dirty thing with the leaning into bins to ex-
nobody was choosing million sticky fingerprints tract food and anything
to sit by the man who harbouring germs must of use to him.
was sitting next to have been far worse than
him. And who could sitting by the man next ~~~~~~
blame them, the smell to Alex. He was annoyed
was terrible. It was nobody appeared to feel Then the train came to a
enough to turn the any compassion for this sudden stop in a tunnel,
strongest stomach. man who was clearly go- resulting in a long wait.
However, the man they ing through a bad time. Silence hung heavy as
were avoiding Instead their silent dec- everyone listened to the
certainly wasn’t laration rang out loud announcement, a noisy
bothering Alex. as they gawped at his scratchy sound with an
clothes, frayed trousers apology about an inci-
He watched as fellow patched up crudely dent further up the line.
travellers went to great with a safety pin hold- An extra ten minutes de-
lengths to avoid the ing a just about zipper lay was to be expected.
stretch of seats they together. A leather belt The air was full of sighs,
occupied. They preferred engrained with remnants long drawn out tuts as
to become wedged of blue paint held up travellers checked watch-
between other passen- the trousers that were es and loosened ties as
gers bustling for a better too large for him. He the heat increased. With
position. Their clothes wore an old faded denim the noisy engine now
became crumpled as jacket that hung on his silenced the carriage no
they rubbed against small bony frame. The longer throbbed under
each other. He observed once white tee shirt was their feet. The sound wasreplaced with people ling to get him home to Alex was bringing him
moaning about the the family. home. It was going
poor service on London On that train journey ob- to be a difficult time and
Underground. The heat serving the cold-hearted the family would have to
saw passengers open the people Alex told himself be patient and give him
little slatted windows. that they knew nothing space. They’d all agreed
This brought in stale air, about Steven who’d not to complicate and
the smell of the tunnel fought in Afghanistan overcrowd his home-
that was quite overpow- and came back a broken coming with too much
ering. man. With shell shock love and affection. The
The stinky air increased and unable to come to main thing was he was
and Alex observed terms with killing other safe and everyone was
people now shutting the human beings, he went relieved he’d been found.
windows. The new crisis; to pieces. Sitting next to Steven
the revolting smell from When he returned to the on that train Alex felt
outside had overtaken UK and was discharged so proud of his brother.
any interest the travellers from the army he refused Most of the passengers
had in the passenger counselling and never had left the carriage,
next to Alex. Suddenly made the journey back taking their empty hearts
there was a worse odour home. He simply disap- with them and leaving
to avoid than him. Some- peared courting his cold the seats where the two
one even came over and dark depression. Alex’s brothers sat quietly alone
asked if they could close family were distraught as with their thoughts.
the vent above his head. they made enquiries on
Steven’s whereabouts, to
~~~~~~ no avail.
They continued to
Everyone on that tube search not knowing
train must have won- if he was dead or
dered just why Alex had alive. Then on
remained seated next to one wonder-
this man for the entire- ful morning,
ty of the journey. He a call
showed no signs of be- came
ing killed off or did they through
think he’d undergone an to say he
operation to remove his was safe
sense of smell? But then and living
again, why shouldn’t he in a
sit next to his brother hostel
Steven who he loved in North
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A s much as
15-20% of the Are you a Highly
adult population
can be categorised Sensitive Person?
as a highly The qualities of an HSP Norway says in EQUILIFE
sensitive person were defined in 1992 by the that “being highly sen-
(HSP); the same pioneering psychother- sitive basically feels like
percentage applies apist Elaine Aaron Ph.D., being born with your nerve
and it would be a signifi- endings on the outside of
to children (HSC). cant breakthrough if the your skin. It’s like the nerves
I came across this descrip-
tion almost twenty years
ago whilst studying Meta-
basic understanding of
HSCs were known by every
parent and teacher. We
touch people around you,
taking in their information
of emotions and physical
physical Counselling, and will all come across highly pains. Needless to say, it can
appreciating the qualities sensitive children at some be very tiring being around
of a HSC helped me enor- stage in our lives. These HSC other people. In addition to
mously in understanding may seem overly shy, fussy, this, you may be sensitive to
my first-born son. Later on, overwhelmed by “high smell, light and/or sound.
I realised both my husband volume” or large amounts You have a very rich inner
and I can be classified as of information in one go. A life and take everything
HSP – and also our second child may often be labelled to heart in a deep and
son, unsurprisingly, falls as a “cry baby”, “scaredy- profound way. You get
into this category. In terms cat”; be told, “don’t be a easily over-stimulated
of astrology, evidence of spoil sport” or even be told, and have no idea why you
HSP can be found in the “you’re just too sensitive suddenly have a need to
HSP rising moon for your own good”. Often, be alone when you have
Survival Tips constellations, children who are simply had a wonderful time with
1. Don’t be afraid to put
among others. highly sensitive might other people.” Having time
yourself out there. There is so be confused with having on your own each day is as
2. Don’t be afraid of your
strong feelings and emotions. much more to Attention Deficit Hyperac- essential to an introverted
3. Don’t try and change who
you are to please those explore about tivity Disorder (ADHD) or HSP as food and water – a
around you.
4. Do what you need to do
this subject. Asperger Syndrome. concept difficult for other
to survive. Not all HSP, “Elaine Aaron, the leading people to understand.
5. Do take time for yourself
when you need it. however, are scientist on the theme of Our Norwegian princess
6. Don’t be afraid of who
you are. quiet, intro- highly sensitive people, knows the trait gives you an
7.Do use your gifts as an HSP
to support others.
verted char- states that sensitivity is advantage of seeing peo-
8. Do embrace your high acters. Around equally divided between ple behind their masks. In
sensitivity.
9. Do take retreats alone to 30% of HSPs men and women and the some occasions, this is pos-
replenish yourself.
10. Do communicate your are extroverts same relates to animals.” itive for solving other peo-
feelings wit those around you.
11. Do not force yourself to do
(such as our Being an HSP herself, ple’s problems, but most of
what might hurt you. youngest). Princess Märtha Louise of the time, it is very confus-ing watching expressions
in the faces around you but Sensitive people should
getting a completely
different feeling. To quote
Princess Märtha Louise:
be treasured.
“Just saying the usual ‘“How They love deeply and think deeply
are you,’” makes the answer about life. They are loyal, honest
difficult, as it is very seldom
anyone answers truly to and true. the simple things
these questions. The face sometime mean the most to them.
of the respondent would
give me a big smile and They don’t need to change and
say, ‘“I am fine, thank you’”, harden. Their purity makes
but I was always very con-
fused wondering whether them who they are.
to trust the face or my feel-
ings – I felt much safer with Kristen Butler
animals.”
In many cultures, sensitivity one’s strengths and talents To find out more about
is highly esteemed; sadly, can be used to help the what makes a Highly Sen-
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yet value sensitivity as much ly. In addition, they can to http://hsperson.com.
as it could. Western cultures identify many of the pros You may even want to do
tend to be sensitive-phobic and cons when it comes to the self-test on the web-
(unlike Eastern cultures, decision-making. However, site. If you turn out to be
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