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Locally sourced Hampshire food from breakfast to dinner Two course menu for just £12 before 7.30 pm Monday to Friday Tel: 01962 779191 www.theploughitchenabbas.co.uk IT C H E N MOTOR Co. LONDO N ROA D, KINGSW O RT HY WINCHESTER, SO23 7QN MOT SERVICING REPAIRS TYR ES & TR AC K ING EXHAU STS BATTERIES AIR COND ITION ING DIAGNOSTICS Telep h o n e 01962 884 664 2 WELCOME to the valley news The new all-colour magazine makes the subject and we are job of the sub-editor much easier, now lucky to have some there is no need to ration the colour knowledgeable volunteers working pictures and make difficult decisions hard on this for us, note the public about which articles to allocate them meetings on 13th and 14th January. to. Thanks to those who have donated The letter in praise of our new to support the magazine and to our Ramblings feature from the walks advertisers who have made this supremo who has organised the affordable. Please mention the IVN splendid local walks for many years is when responding to advertisements. particularly welcome. This month’s You may notice several articles walk is again on the centre page so it focusing on local residents in this can be pulled out and kept, or the month’s edition. In addition to the Parish Council’s website hosts links to established Itchen Insight feature, we past editions of the Valley News. recently added Valley Volunteers, News of bright lights in the sky on organised by Ronnie Johns, and our Christmas Eve, a festive Yule Log and newest section is Entrepreneurs in the ten tips for the New Year will, I hope, Valley masterminded by Dionne brighten your Christmas and New Sanders and Lucy de Laszlo. The IVN Year. Best wishes from the IVN team. team feels that it is the people who Char l ot t e Appl eby make our community so special and It chen Valley News that the Valley News has a role to play Editor Vernon Tottle in introducing some of these talented Sub Editors Charlotte Appleby, Verity and interesting neighbours to us. Coleman, Tony Gaster, Fiona Please let us know if you have McIntosh, Lucy Wolfe, Advertising Sue Hitchen suggestions for people who could Sophie Jackson feature in any of these sections. Distribution Mima White However, you may think that the Jane Chichester buildings that surround us are also a Treasurer Andrew Kennedy valuable part of our Valley and you For editorial enquiries, please email: [email protected] might like to start a new thread - Valley For advertising enquiries, please email: Buildings perhaps - unless someone can [email protected] come up with an alliterative title! Postal address: Itchen Valley News, Hazeldene, Some of our regular contributors have Northington Road, Itchen Abbas, SO21 1BE Please send all contributions for February 2016 by taken a Christmas break, but we are the 15th of January. All material is published in good grateful to our council representatives faith and the Valley News cannot be held responsible and our MP, who have continued to for any information given or views expressed; neither keep us up to date with the many can it be liable for any loss arising from the use of any information or advertisements contained herein. The issues they deal with on our behalf. Editorial Team reserves the right to refuse or amend Broadband is a big problem for some of articles or advertisements submitted for publication. us - the worst thing about the Valley Cover photo A parent. Other photos from various according to this month’s Itchen Insight contributors. 3 Public meet ings - Br oadband What’s On Easton: Wednesday 13th Ja n u a r y in Easton Village Hall and Itchen Abbas: Carol Singing Thursday 14th Ja n u a r y in Itchen Remember you can come carol singing Abbas Village Hall Both starting at 8pm. in Itchen Abbas on 21st and/or 23rd See Page 13 for more details Dec, meet at the Dartnall’s house Easton T ea behind Itchen Abbas Church at 6pm. All residents of Easton are Also, Carols in Grace’s Barn (at invited to tea on Sunday junction of Easton Lane and B3047) at th 4pm on Sunday 20th Dec. Photo from 17 Ja n u a r y in the village last year. hall from 3pm to 5 pm. This is for all residents, however Char l ot t e Appl eby long they have lived in the village, to Hinton Ampner walks meet one another. Please put this in The Head Gardener will guide you on a your diaries and any offers of baking 4 mile walk around the estate, which is gratefully received. now open 363 days a year, taking in Judith Mezger 07834 831450 panoramic views of the Southdowns as ‘Come and Sing' Haydn's Nelson Mass well as the stunning woodland. You will in W inchester be rewarded with a glass of mulled Cathedral wine and mince pies on the walk. th Booking essential, ring 0844 249 1895 6 February : An or book online, £10, dogs on leads opportunity for all welcome. Boxing Day 11:00 - 13:30. who enjoy singing to New Year’ Day 13:00 - 15:00 join Waynflete Singers under the Little Red and the W olves direction of Andrew Lumsden, in the magnificence of the Cathedral. The Sat urday 9th Ja n u a r y : If you event starts at 2.00 pm for registration haven’t done so and handing out vocal scores, followed yet, please don’t by rehearsal and an evening forget to performance from 6.30 pm which will reserve your also feature student soloists from tickets for the various Music Colleges in London. Proteus Theatre More details from Tony Gaster, Company production based on the 779110 or [email protected] story of Little Red Riding Hood, which takes place in Martyr Worthy Village Easton & Mart yr W orthy Safari Hall on Saturday 9th January. Supper 2016 The show is suitable for all the family This year’s Safari Supper will be held on aged from 5 upwards. It starts at 6pm Saturday 5th March. Please make a and runs for about 2 hours, with a note in your diary. Full details and short interval. Tickets are £6 per adult application form will be included in the and £4 per child and are available from February issue of the Itchen Valley Sara Mason on 779169 or News. [email protected]. Terry and Anna McGowan 779350 Guy Green 4 Hilary Castle 779572 the residents were involved in Chilland, Itchen Abbas and Avington organising lunches, growing bulbs, Safari Supper 2016 making pepperpots and priests (the This will take place on Saturday 7th Rector was spotted buying one), May, again please STD (save the date, for those not familiar with this acronym). Char l ot t e Appl eby What has been happening Martyr W orthy Christmas Fair There are three vital components for any fund raising event – a lot of hard work, a lot of fun and a lot of money! The Martyr Worthy Christmas Fair certainly provided the first and last, and hopefully there was also plenty of fun to be had. It seemed that at least half 5 The Mould & Thompson Chestnut Horse Ltd Easton Easton Garage Real ales, great food. 2 course lunchtime & early evening m enu Servicing and Repairs to all fo r £ 1 2 . makes of cars and vans A la carte and blac kbo ard MOT and Bodywork arranged specials also available. Collection & Delivery Great atmosphere 24hr Recovery and and open fire for th o s e c h illy d a ys Breakdown Service and evenings 01962 779319 Karen We lls Tel: 01962 779257 The Old Forge Twyford SO21 1BF www.rogerwalkertravel.com 6 setting up stalls for gifts and food, weather is so much better in the organising a bran tub and a raffle, summer.” With a clear blue sky and inventing a Christmas quiz and making temperatures in the low thirties, Rebecca reckoned that most English seaside resorts would be over the moon if they had summers as good as Israel's winter. She was visiting Jerusalem as the placement module of her curacy training. Working for part of her time from a church just within the Jaffa gate of the old city walls, Rebecca soon appreciated the substantial differences between the sure all the essential elements of a successful event were in place. Just under £3,000 was raised, to be shared equally between the church and the village hall. Verity Coleman One man’s winter …. "Why have you come here in the off season?" the tourist guide asked. "The 7 Itchen Valley and life in an inner city parish. During her early December talk to an enthusiastic audience in Itchen Abbas church, Rebecca explained the difference between ethnicity and religion and why it is so important to the people who live in Israel. You can that can cause mental stress or worse be a Jew or a Palestinian, with all the for some visitors. The relative calm of historical baggage that this entails, but the Garden of Gethsemane or the at the same time you can be a Muslim placid waters of Lake Galilee does or a Christian regardless of your ethnic much to sooth the overactive origin. Those who discover faith in a imaginations of many a guest. The religion other than that in which they vicar of Rebecca’s church in Jerusalem were brought up are often regarded as was explaining to her one day that they traitors to a much greater intensity get several people each week who walk than would usually be experienced in into the church proclaiming themselves England.