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Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart £8.99 Winner of the Booker Prize 2020, Douglas Stuart’sShuggie Bain describes a Glasgow beset by poverty seen through the eyes of Agnes Bain and her son, Shuggie. Agnes has always expected morefromlife. She dreams of greater things: ahouse with its own front door and alife bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children ﬁnd themselves trapped in adecimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, her children try their best to save her,yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is diﬀerent -the miners’ children pick on him and adults condemn him as no’ right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place. AworthyBooker Prize winner.

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Iloverailways. Givemeatrain over acar any town by some distance, the nearest railhead day(the problem with the latter being the being the optimistically named‘Christchurch knuckleheads who drivethem rather than Road’, which wasseven to eightmiles distant. the vehicles). Having got thatoffmychest, Christchurch needed atowncentrestation, I’mhaving ashout out this time forone of my and this duly arrived15years later, in 1862,a engineering heroes,ThomasBrassey,who was lightly engineered line burrowing down from borninCheshire, buttweaked the landscape in Ringwood,through Hurnand into Christchurch, our partofthe world. arriving at astation t’otherside of Bargatesfrom today’slate-Victorian station. Theengineerwas Thereare some fairly startling stats about our man Brassey. Brassey which makes one wonder whyhe’s not better known, although, having said that, Perhaps,most impressively,Brassey wasnot thereis‘Brassey Road’inBournemouth. He was averse to building arailway in awar zone.During responsible forbuilding much of the world’s the Crimean War(1853-56), the British forces railway network up to his untimely death aged were having endless problems transporting 65 (one-twentieth in fact) as well as contributing supplies from their harbour at Balaclava to the around one-thirdofthe UK’s railwaysby1847, frontatSevastopol wherethe Russians’Black Sea when he would have been in his early-40s.His portwas being besieged.Brassey wasinvolved overseas stake included ¾ofFrance’srailways, in building the Grand Crimean CentralRailway in lines in other European nations,plus some in just seven weeks during 1854, which helped the Canada, Australia, Indiaand South America. I Allied forces to take Sevastopol and win the war. hope you’re impressed. Thomas married MariaHarrison in 1831, But whatabout the local story? Well, fathering three surviving sons,all of whom Christchurch missed out on the new-fangled servedasMembers of Parliament, although railway to beginwith. When the Southampton- loyalties were divided with the twoolder Dorchester line snaked through the New boys serving as Liberals,whilstthe youngest Forest,opening in 1847, it bypassed the Priory defectedtothe Conservatives.There’salways one.Apparently,Brassey wasworth around £600 million in today’swonga when he died. Sadly,the railway Brassey built forusisnomore. It wasthe only line serving Christchurch, and Bournemouth, to which it wasextended in 1870, until anew line opened through Sway and New Milton in 1888. Theoriginal line from Ringwood became abit of aslow, secondaryrouteand closed in the 1930s.Brassey builtthe full panoply of structures accompanying railways, so bridges,viaducts,stations,tunnels,drainage and docks.Lots of his work remains around the countryand indeed the world. TheRingwood- Christchurch line is aghostly one todaythough, the hauntofcyclists and walkers,with Brassey possibly looking down wonderingwhere his railway went. By StephenRoberts www.steveroberts.org.uk Twitter:@SRChristchurch eMail: [email protected] Thomas Brassey, taken from‘Thomas Brassey, Railway Builder’, C. Walker,1969 S3

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Due to my interest in horology, machines that could craft achain Ihave always felt sympathy for with links so fine that they could the young children who, in the pass through the eye of aneedle. 1800s, worked in the Christchurch Fusee chain making was ajob workhouses producing the chain for for small fingers and sharp eyes. fusee driven clocks. History reveals Workhouses saw child labour as an that these unfortunate, homeless opportunity to swell their coffers. A youngsters led atough life resulting destitute small child (predominantly in damage to their eyesight, girls) was given modest food and malnutrition and, in some cases, boardinreturnfor six and ahalf even death. The child was only of days of gruelling work. use to the organisation if the quality Christchurch was the main of their work was sustained. The centrefor production of the fusee day that the young worker’sfingers chain in England. The three main grew too large to produce the workhouses wereowned by Robert tiny links or their sight failed, their Harvey Cox 1784-1870s, Henry employment ended and, for some, it Jenkins &Sons1823-1914 and was back to living on the dangerous William Hart 1845-1899. The Red streets of the seaside town that House Museum featured strongly we now see as picturesque and in the production of the chain and inviting. is an excellent source for learning As far back as the 15th century, moreabout the plight of the clockmaking industries developed a youngsters who wereput to method for improving timekeeping work there. by equalizing the uneven pull of the On apersonal note, Ihave been mainspring barrel of aspring driven fortunate to observe fusee chains clock movement. This became in fine clocks and my heart goes known as the fusee which is a out to those young people for the cone-shaped pulley with acoiling hardships they must have endured. groove that feeds afine chain to Having never written apoembefore, the mainspring barrel. In essence, it this prompted me to express my acts as aregulator to enhance the feelings on the subject, so here accuracy of the clock. it is … At the height of production of the fusee chain in the early 1800s, the DOWNSIDE was that therewereno Fingers that Grow

Workhouse making Fusee clock chain, Finely formed links in great demand, Clearly changed the face of time. Children’s work, so unkind, Only tiniest ﬁngers qualify. Boys and girls never out to play, Cuts, tears and tired eyes, Longing to just walk in the rain. Christchurch workhouse dishing out pain.

Red House gang, young and afraid, Used anvils, punches and dies. Tiny chains they made, Smallest link through needle’s eye. Damaged ﬁngers, diminished sight, Small hands needed, bigger denied. Seven days toil, health not the best. One poor boy died, In a box, laid to rest.

Important work the foreman says: Bread and bed, should be grateful. Painstaking way to go on living, Got to keep working to be fed. Could God be more forgiving? Another ten chains before bed, Pinching those ﬁngers, Weary hands in the dust, Carry on they must.

Young girl, seat not high enough, Bench lengthways to capture light, Needs to get faster, her life tough. Sight failing, ﬁngers too big and sore, Foreman shouts ‘nasty cut, Four ﬁngers can’t make chain no more, Your time is up, you can’t take the pace. Have to train another, on your way! Plenty more to take your place.’

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May 2021 Template, Inner Pages Thursday, 15 April 2021 12:30 page 9 Wine of the Month LA GUARDIENSE, CALVESE FALANGHINA SANNIO DOP, CAMPANIA, ITALY, 2019

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If thereisone birdthat most people The dove-sized Common Cuckoo – have heardbut rarelyseen, it must one of 147 cuckoo species –iswhat surely be the Common Cuckoo is known as abrood parasite, laying (scientiﬁc name Cuculus canorus) –a its eggs in the nests of other birds and long distance, spring/summer visitor leaving the ‘foster parents’ to raise from sub-Saharan Africa. its young.

Adult birds arrive in the UK in late March Explains the British Trust for Ornithology or April and generally depart as early (BTO): “Among the parasitic cuckoos, as July or August, youngsters leaving a the nest in which afemale will lay is month or so later. genetically determined (that of the same species in which she was raised) and Strictly speaking, therefore, the thereisacontinual ‘arms race’ between Common Cuckoo is really an African cuckoos and the host –bythe cuckoo birdthat has chosen to visit our shores to mimic the patternand colouration of just to breed and doesn’thang around the host’seggs, and by the host to spot for long after it has done so, heading the imposter.” south once it has ensured the continuity of its genes. Parasitic cuckoos have been recorded usingmorethan100 diﬀerent host The cuckoo captivates many of us, species globally.Inthe UK, host birds Isuppose, because its presence include Meadow Pipit, Dunnock and somehow conﬁrms that spring really Reed Warbler. hasarrived. The female cuckoo lays asingleegg in It is only male birds that produce the ahost’snest very quickly once it has familiar ‘cuck-oo’ song, females uttering been left unguarded. The resulting chick aless often heardbubbling sound. grows quickly and pushes all other eggs

Photo: Neil Calbrade /BTO Photo: Edmund Fellowes /BTO Photo: Edmund Fellowes /BTO Cuckoo tagging by Mike Toms /BTO and chicks out of the nest so that it gets One of the discoveries of the BTO Cuckoo all the food brought by its foster parents. Project is that many British cuckoos leave as early as June. Blink and you might Interestingly,lessthan half of the world’s miss them! One individual named Chris cuckoos arebrood parasitic, most of was found to have spent around 47 per them incubating their own eggs and cent of its time in Africa, 38 per cent on rearing their own young. migration and just 15 per cent in the UK!

Tragically,cuckoo numbers have “They aretruly African birds which make declined drastically in the UK, morethan ashort anddangerous excursion to half of all breeding birds having been northernclimes purely for the purposes ‘lost’ during the past 25 years. Precisely of breeding.” why is unclear. The Common Cuckoo is astriking, hawk- Until relatively recently,little was known like bird(themoreoften seen male has about whereUK-visiting cuckoos blue-grey upperparts and strongly barred went in central Africa or the routes underparts) with afascinating life cycle. they followed to reachtheir wintering See if you can spot as well as hear one quarters. this spring.

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May 2021 Template, Inner Pages Thursday, 15 April 2021 12:30 page 27 Nicholl’s Nibbles ApricotChicken

Ingredients: Directions:

• 600gramschickenthighs(boneless 1.Heattheoliveoilinalargefryingpan andskinned), overmedium-highheat.Seasonthe chickenthighswithsaltandpepperthen • 160mlchickenstock, addthemtothehotfryingpan.Cook approximately3-4minutespersideor • 4tablespoonsofapricotjam, untilgoldenbrown.Thechickenwon’t befullycookedatthispoint.Removethe • 2tablespoonsofDijonmustard, chickenfromthepanandontoaplate.

• 150gramsofdicedswede, 2.Whisktogetherthechickenstock, • 150gramsofdicedcarrots, apricotjamandDijoninasmallbowl andsetaside. • 150gramsofdicedpotato,

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