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facebook.com/lovehousetalk YOUR MAGAZINE FROM hHaunteduse FOR RESIDENTS AND LEASEHOLDERS talkAUTUMN 2018 Ask Pam p10 Moneyp 12-15 Talk Out & About The p 28 Edition Pumpkin Why so Krispies serious? You could win tickets p 7 to Comic Con! p 17 Intro Hubble bubble, toil and trouble, bring me some Inside this issue: p 4 stories quick at the double! Welcome my Adventure Playgrounds p 7 macabre mortals to the Wickedly Witchy Perfect Pumpkin Pie edition of House Talk! This year’s Halloween p 8 issue we’ve summoned content from Pedal Portsmouth Glow Ride across the city and allowed it to p 9 materialise on these very pages. For Let’s get passionate about pumpkins! p 12-15 comic, cartoon and movie lovers we Money Talk have tickets up for grabs to p 17 Portsmouth Comic Con. There’s Win full weekend tickets to Comic Con! p 20 your usual features such as Money Kick the habit with Stoptober Talk, puzzles, Ask Pam and your p 20 horrorscopes, plus a crypt’s worth Food & Health p 21 of features for you to enjoy. Clear Sexual Health out your cauldron and concoct p 25 yourself a brew, settle down A brief history of Witches p 28 and rest your bunions, it’s time Out & About to relax. Privacy Notice: Portsmouth City Council is a registered Data Controller, registration number Z5578313 and aims to meet the highest standards when collecting and using personal information in accordance with data protection ResidentContact development us: team: law. Tel: 0800 032 1531 As your landlord we have a statutory responsibility to communicate to you Email: [email protected] information about your property, your rents, charges and associated facilities. 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They are not open to employees of PCC. you have finished with it. One entry per household. 2 house talk Alternative trick- or-treat ideas: Glow sticks make fantastic wizards Turn raisin boxes into ghosts for wands, with the added bonus that parents will be a healthy treat that will make kids smile! This fun able to more easily keep track of their children edible craft is a great one to make with your kids when they’re out trick or treating in the dark! earlier in the day to get them in the mood for trick or treating. Just wrap the boxes in some white Plastic bugs and spiders paper and draw on a spooky face! are fun to give out instead of chocolates. You can find them all over the place at this time of year; If you want to go really healthy, try the Halloween section of your local clementine ‘pumpkins’ are quick supermarket. and easy to make - all you need is a bag of clementines, a marker pen and some imagination! Or if you want something gross to make the Kids get thirsty when trick or treating too so children laugh, why not label up some yogurt mini-bottles of covered raisins or small packets of popcorn as cranberry juice look great when ‘Ghost Bogies’? re-labelled as blood juice! Bouncy balls, scary stickers and whistles make great little non-food gifts too. Why not mix it up a bit by throwing these different options into a bowl for a fun spooky dip! Also think about offering a bowl of non-food gifts in case a child with allergies stops by and then have a separate bowl for the fun food options! house talk 3 The only limit is their imagination Who do they want to be today? That’s the question It may not be Hogwarts, but there’s plenty to learn, awaiting Portsmouth young ones at our six free see and experience! Activities include cookery, adventure playgrounds across the city. sport, arts and crafts, discovering nature, making friends, day and residential trips and much more, Whether they’re a winning witch or a warlock in including a variety of indoor and outdoor activities training, there’s plenty to fuel their imaginations designed to challenge, delight and inspire. materialising at our sites. No two playgrounds are the same, with some boasting unique facilities like splash pools, gardens, games areas, wood workshops and a tree house. To check on general opening times and Each playground has a huge climbing structure locations, or to find out more simply visit designed to test kids’ agility, balance and portsmouth.gov.uk and search ‘adventure imagination, and many have been co-designed and playgrounds’. painted by the children themselves. Children are Opening times for each site vary so please check consulted and involved in decisions about their the website for details. playgrounds and are encouraged to make their own choices and take risks in a secure environment. 4 house talk A delicious summer of food and fun dished up Healthier options are the order of the day this year as we launched our Summer Food and Fun programme in partnership with Warburtons, Food Portsmouth, Food Cycle, Portsmouth Food Banks, and Fareshare Southern Central. The project provided families’ with a delicious healthy option meal throughout the holidays, and encouraged them to try new things. Summer Food and Fun is delivered across our six Adventure Playground sites and four Youth Clubs in Portsmouth and the surrounding area. The UK’s largest bakery brand Warburtons joined forces with the Portsmouth agencies to help support the scheme, providing an array of delicious bakery products for the children to enjoy. We want to ensure children and young people are out enjoying themselves, are engaging with new experiences, and eating a well-balanced meal. To encourage as many people in the area to benefit as possible, young people have also been invited to join the many clubs and groups on offer at the sites, in recognition that these offer a safe space for families to come together. house talk 5 Let’s get passionate about pumpkins! Carving out a pumpkin with your children to make Jack O’Lanterns can be a lot of fun, but all that delicious pumpkin fruit just gets wasted. Why not put your pumpkin to good use this year with our delicious recipes! Bake it! Perfect Pumpkin Pie Recipe Why not make a pumpkin pie or cheesecake with Method our recipes below, instead of throwing all that 1. Preheat oven to 200 C / Gas mark 6. pumpkin away! 2. Cut pumpkin into chunks. Heat in saucepan Serves 16 over medium heat to boil. Ingredients 3. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 30 minutes ʂ 500g pumpkin until tender. Drain and cool. ʂ 410g evaporated milk 4. Mash, drain and measure 500g of the mashed ʂ 2 eggs pumpkin ʂ 175g dark brown soft sugar 5. Prepare pastry by mixing the flour and salt. Rub ʂ 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon butter into flour, and add 1 tablespoon cold ʂ 1/2 tsp ground ginger water to mixture at a time. Mix and repeat until ʂ pastry holds together. 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg ʂ 1/2 tsp salt 6. Roll pastry out to barely a .25cm thickness. ʂ Transfer to pie dish, gently pressing pastry into 350g plain flour ʂ the bottom. Cut off any excess. Pinch pastry 1 tsp salt ʂ around the inner edge.